{"by":"user5994461","time":"1489944124","timestamp":"2017-03-19 17:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t know if this is still an area of opportunity but I remember having an at length conversation in regards to trying to become the go to devices firms that VCs and or startups could call in to help themselves or in the case of VCs the businesses they provide support to a leg up on this\u003cp\u003eYep. Definitely an area of opportunity. There are some contractors specializing in startup, charging them a lot at critical stages.\u003cp\u003eI think the biggest challenge with them is to get the money. Startups by nature don\u0026#x27;t have the money to pay thousands of dollars per day to contractors, there are only a very few who can afford it after a big funding round. That\u0026#x27;s a niche market. Unfortunately, startups usually have an abysmal business culture, they don\u0026#x27;t hire\u0026#x2F;don\u0026#x27;t understand contractors and they don\u0026#x27;t expect to to pay that much for a service.","parent":"13907740","id":"13908369"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1456372120","timestamp":"2016-02-25 03:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I respectfully disagree that it is a petty smackdown: the core feature of the app is this location-based business discovery, and \u003ci\u003eon the current production site you cannot even enter your location in the provided input box\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIf a person is trying to build a business in a very tight space (Yelp, Foursquare, etc.), then their product needs to be \u003ci\u003eon point\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIf it isn\u0026#x27;t, that\u0026#x27;s fine--but then they need to be honest when trying to review why the may not be raising funding. This article (and associated product) kinda fail in both ways, and I think my criticism is completely fair in that light.","parent":"11171029","id":"11172250"}
{"by":"md2be","time":"1516292547","timestamp":"2018-01-18 16:22:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Imagine if Amazon single handedly turned  Staten Island into Brooklyn","parent":"16177113","id":"16178282"}
{"by":"radley","time":"1214947811","timestamp":"2008-07-01 21:30:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.strombergschickens.com/products/basic_incubators.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.strombergschickens.com/products/basic_incubators....\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"233163","id":"233562"}
{"by":"pmontra","time":"1480694180","timestamp":"2016-12-02 15:56:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No because it\u0026#x27;s statically typed, too much work programming like that and it\u0026#x27;s not worth it for the kind of software I develop (backend of web\u0026#x2F;mobile apps), but thanks. Suggestions are always appreciated.\u003cp\u003eI found a defunct Ruby like language called Reia a couple of days ago \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tarcieri\u0026#x2F;reia\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tarcieri\u0026#x2F;reia\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;reia-lang.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;reia-lang.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s object oriented and runs on the top of the Erlang VM. It maps classes on gen servers, which is pretty natural and it spares the developer all the boilerplate of creating a gen server module. Unfortunately the language designer killed it because \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s pretty bad to have two competing niche languages with nearly identical features.\u0026quot; The other language was Elixir. However the two languages are very different. Elixir is 100% functional, Reia could have been the language to transition millions of OO developers to a functional and concurrent world. I could have used it instead of Ruby.","parent":"13088709","id":"13089613"}
{"by":"dmix","time":"1345248102","timestamp":"2012-08-18 00:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried loading my clojure project (\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/dmix/documeds\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/dmix/documeds\u003c/a\u003e) but I'm only getting a \"Connecting\" loading screen for 30min.","parent":"4397856","id":"4399536"}
{"by":"Already__Taken","time":"1430310307","timestamp":"2015-04-29 12:25:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree maybe not the best example, but it illustrates about problems than can come up from combining services in the market. Hypothetically if steam was _just_ a package manager and the mods payed to for the convenience of users to install it. It shouldn\u0026#x27;t matter about the content.\u003cp\u003eMaybe a better example is Red Alert 2, I still occasionally LAN play that and there\u0026#x27;s a community patch to replace the IPX stack with TCP\u0026#x2F;IP so it can still work. as IPX is completely gone from windows 8+ I think.","parent":"9457518","id":"9457746"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1524147390","timestamp":"2018-04-19 14:16:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don’t think fear of flying contributes to people choosing to drive?","parent":"16875824","id":"16876047"}
{"by":"meric","time":"1447897576","timestamp":"2015-11-19 01:46:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it really \u0026quot;truth\u0026quot;? Some call it mental disorder, but really, it\u0026#x27;s just another position on the bell curve and could just as well be labelled as another aspect of personality. When 11 percent of population have ADHD I can\u0026#x27;t say it\u0026#x27;s a disorder with a straight face.","parent":"10591849","id":"10592210"}
{"by":"offyourfacelook","time":"1256679663","timestamp":"2009-10-27 21:41:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We're trying to get bloggers.\nwww.offyourfacelook.com","parent":"902322","id":"906534"}
{"by":"auganov","time":"1462815048","timestamp":"2016-05-09 17:30:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just keep all my work-files (documents, downloads etc) in my desktop folder (it\u0026#x27;s the \u0026quot;top-level\u0026quot; folder in Windows when you Alt-Up, have it symlinked at \u0026#x2F;desktop\u0026#x2F; too).\u003cp\u003eMy default view is a detail view sorted by \u0026quot;date accessed\u0026quot; (descending) which is what I need 99% of the time. Especially handy when uploading random images, quick edits etc  from the browser.\u003cp\u003ebtw I highly recommend \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pathcopycopy.codeplex.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pathcopycopy.codeplex.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e for those that use a terminal and win explorer at the same time a lot.","parent":"11660492","id":"11661530"}
{"by":"Gracana","time":"1485398684","timestamp":"2017-01-26 02:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t mind using something like this to define bus connections and such, then import the netlist into my schematic editor and have it help me draw the schematic. That would be pretty useful.","parent":"13487994","id":"13488289"}
{"by":"VHRanger","time":"1510058988","timestamp":"2017-11-07 12:49:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The way to think about it is that the bigger the minimum wage, the closer you get to econ 101.\u003cp\u003eWhen you\u0026#x27;re below a certain threshold, the bargaining power effects of the firm hiring minimum wage workers having a monopsony of sorts can mean a MW with little-to-no disemployment effect. I could even see a $15 MW be reasonable in, say, the bay area. But it would be a ridiculous affair nationwide.","parent":"15642503","id":"15642901"}
{"by":"trophycase","time":"1520277619","timestamp":"2018-03-05 19:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually it can. The government is the only thing that enforces the notion of property in the first place","parent":"16523171","id":"16523586"}
{"by":"Pyxl101","time":"1435477536","timestamp":"2015-06-28 07:45:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was able to renew a domain recently specifying a PO Box address.","parent":"9792718","id":"9792790"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1289469922","timestamp":"2010-11-11 10:05:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe a bit unsanitary?  I toss out old Economists after a few weeks, but an ipad is something that's just going to sit there.","parent":"1893344","id":"1893436"}
{"by":"scoot","time":"1345237212","timestamp":"2012-08-17 21:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, got it (humble pie eaten, apologies tptacek).","parent":"4398680","id":"4398771"}
{"by":"diebir","time":"1533080326","timestamp":"2018-07-31 23:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Equaling remoteness with being a designated wilderness is not the best way to find the most remote spots. Get on Tarantula Mesa or Upper Stevens Canyon in Utah. It is not a wilderness, but a National Monument (the one shrunk by the orange piece of shit in white house, btw), but these places are exceptionally remote. Certainly more remote than Thorofare in Yellowstone.","parent":"17657142","id":"17658310"}
{"by":"Pewpewarrows","time":"1316457414","timestamp":"2011-09-19 18:36:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your argument might have some merit, except that you could apply it to almost anything and get non-sensical results. Django for example has close to half of the activity that Ruby on Rails does. Does that mean that Rails has severely worse documentation or APIs? Doubtful.\u003cp\u003eThe more developers use a piece of technology, the more that will have questions about said technology. Poor documentation will certainly lead to more questions, but you can't look at these graphs and have any real data to support your case one way or the other.","parent":"3014359","id":"3014698"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1484499833","timestamp":"2017-01-15 17:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So you\u0026#x27;d be willing to rent out your $50,000 car to complete strangers without even being there to act as a social deterrent to them making a huge fucking mess of it.\u003cp\u003eTotally. I\u0026#x27;ve even allocated investment capital for the sole purpose of putting a few Teslas into service as full time taxis on the Tesla Network.\u003cp\u003eI let people into my rental properties, why not other investment assets?","parent":"13403960","id":"13404909"}
{"by":"rhizome31","time":"1315578105","timestamp":"2011-09-09 14:21:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"However I found that 3rd party libraries often aren't very well documented. I found myself having to read the source more often that with other languages. Luckily though, Erlang is much easier to understand than those other languages.","parent":"2978146","id":"2978182"}
{"by":"zaro","time":"1503876024","timestamp":"2017-08-27 23:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Imagine, Facebook asking you to upload your passport before you do a live stream\u003cp\u003eNo need to imagine anything. Right after Facebook started their war on fake news, my FB acount was locked and the only way to unlock it is to provide  my ID\u0026#x2F;passport to prove the name of the account is my real name.\u003cp\u003eBtw same thing happened on G+ few years ago.","parent":"15110140","id":"15113362"}
{"by":"bugsy","time":"1299475448","timestamp":"2011-03-07 05:24:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do I understand this correctly? To comment on Techcrunch, one now has to become a customer of some other unrelated company, Facebook, whose main purpose seems to be tracking all of people's private activity across the entire web?\u003cp\u003eThat's like telling McDonald's customers that they can't buy a Big Mac unless they first carry a Sears credit card with an RFID chip. What does one have to do with the other? Nothing.\u003cp\u003eI should start telling my customers that they can only buy my software if they buy my favorite brand of peanut butter.","parent":"2295834","id":"2296132"}
{"by":"Swizec","time":"1317756839","timestamp":"2011-10-04 19:33:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you do this for long enough eventually all your friends will stop calling to see if you want to hang out ( \u003ca href=\"http://xkcd.com/710/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://xkcd.com/710/\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003eI've read somewhere that no other mathematical problem in history has wasted so much time of such brilliant minds. I wonder if it's true ...","parent":"3071892","id":"3072521"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1499287298","timestamp":"2017-07-05 20:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please read the entire context. I was originally responding to the statement:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026quot;The government has made pretty clear over the last few months that the reason for the ban was intelligence that jihadist groups had made progress towards developing a laptop bomb.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eA Washington Post article citing an anonymous source is not the government making it \u0026quot;pretty clear.\u0026quot; I\u0026#x27;m not being disingenuous at all. The US Government making it pretty clear would be via a press briefing or some other such official statement.","parent":"14705716","id":"14705920"}
{"by":"baldfat","time":"1462202833","timestamp":"2016-05-02 15:27:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing is another person was assigned the designation of inventor of the cash machine back in 2007 but has since died.","parent":"11611841","id":"11612187"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1464309345","timestamp":"2016-05-27 00:35:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why? A license is just a contract, no? Can\u0026#x27;t the clauses be arbitrary?\u003cp\u003eI mean, could you have a clause in a license that said \u0026quot;to distribute this work, you need to wear purple shoes on Mondays\u0026quot;? If so, why wouldn\u0026#x27;t you just be able to say \u0026quot;to distribute this work, you need to distribute works that link to it under the same license\u0026quot;, as as arbitrary condition?","parent":"11782077","id":"11782997"}
{"by":"jakebasile","time":"1424836974","timestamp":"2015-02-25 04:02:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been looking for something explaining how to work with Fireplace as I just couldn\u0026#x27;t wrap my head around it. Thanks for the information!","parent":"9102232","id":"9105217"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1407867599","timestamp":"2014-08-12 18:19:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Then the fact that we have powerful regulatory bodies like the EPA, and are much better off environmentally than countries like India and China is somehow just a fluke?\u003cp\u003eThe EPA does not exist to address global warming specifically. The claim I addressed was that \u0026quot;we as a country are trying to do something about global warming\u0026quot;, not \u0026quot;we as a country are trying to do something about environmental issues more generally\u0026quot;. Those are very different claims.","parent":"8169244","id":"8169261"}
{"by":"rocqua","time":"1544127558","timestamp":"2018-12-06 20:19:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How easy is it to target a play-store update? I doubt google allows binaries to be targeted to individuals, so you\u0026#x27;d need to push the update to a rather large set, and have the update only activate for the target.\u003cp\u003eThat isnt very covert.","parent":"18621671","id":"18621758"}
{"by":"code_duck","time":"1351107040","timestamp":"2012-10-24 19:30:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you mean 'News Feed', not 'wall'. Wall is the old name for your page. They are now called Timelines.","parent":"4694047","id":"4694616"}
{"by":"ivm","time":"1508505292","timestamp":"2017-10-20 13:14:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t suggest to learn it all before starting. But I wrote #1 in the \u0026quot;Marketing\u0026quot; part:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Have I solved a problem serious enough for people to bother to become my customers?\u0026quot;","parent":"15513987","id":"15515480"}
{"by":"Nycto","time":"1263515860","timestamp":"2010-01-15 00:37:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been a Prototype user for a few years now. I've always kept an eye on jQuery, but my knowledge of it is incredibly shallow. I have to say, I was shocked when I saw that they added the \"proxy\" method. This description makes it sound exactly like \"bind\" method in Prototype. Is that a valid comparison? If so, why did it take so long for this to appear in jQuery? At this point, I don't think I could write a snippet of javascript without relying on that method.","parent":"1053420","id":"1053953"}
{"by":"woodandsteel","time":"1544916431","timestamp":"2018-12-15 23:27:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My understanding is that the Chinese government is implementing this system because there has been a great breakdown in social norms of honesty and rule-following. For thousands of years the Chinese operated under an elaborate set of social norms from Confucianism.\u003cp\u003eBut then these were thrown away under Communism, and in particular during the Cultural Revolution period there was paranoid chaos, and a great loss of social trust. And then a further radical change with the capitalist industrial revolution under Deng Jiaoping.\u003cp\u003eThe consequence is that people don\u0026#x27;t trust anyone outside their immediate circles, and often feel no obligation to act in a non-harmful way toward them. The Government is trying to restore a sense of moral obligation to the members of the population. It will be interesting to see how well it goes.","parent":"18689796","id":"18690930"}
{"by":"jrkatz","time":"1384206230","timestamp":"2013-11-11 21:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t answer for everyone, but I can tell you why I have a cron job dropping my cache every several minutes:\u003cp\u003eThe application I develop consumes most of the ram on my machine when running, and takes several minutes to rebuild and start up to begin with. When most of my memory is being used for the cache, this process takes several minutes longer, because I\u0026#x27;m making millions upon millions of calls for more memory -- and each one has to get some of that cached memory back for itself. If I simply drop the cache all at once, every minute, it takes a split second. If I shrink it over a million increments, it takes around a minute.\u003cp\u003eEven typing that I feel I must be doing something wrong; and yet, it worked.","parent":"6713376","id":"6714280"}
{"by":"Jtsummers","time":"1281667020","timestamp":"2010-08-13 02:37:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has an API so people can develop new applications for it. I didn't find anything like that in my quick scan through it.\u003cp\u003eLink to their developer page:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/DeveloperOverviewPage\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/De...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1599730","id":"1599887"}
{"by":"PharaohTools","time":"1435074621","timestamp":"2015-06-23 15:50:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try to check out this cool website that pretty much has a solution to softwares and stuff. (www.pharaohtool.com)","parent":"9763870","dead":true,"id":"9765444"}
{"by":"leephillips","time":"1495284597","timestamp":"2017-05-20 12:49:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t doubt that this is your experience. Personally, I\u0026#x27;ve benefited greatly from buying used books from third parties on Amazon. Unusual books that are long out of print, useful for my research, for $5 shipped? It\u0026#x27;s great. And so far, they\u0026#x27;ve all been in near-perfect condition - usually books sold by libraries that have never or rarely been checked out.","parent":"14382069","id":"14382142"}
{"by":"hbien","time":"1206034602","timestamp":"2008-03-20 17:36:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"San Diego, California.  I'm moving back to Silicon Valley in a few months (my hometown).","parent":"141745","id":"141774"}
{"by":"chip","time":"1300007252","timestamp":"2011-03-13 09:07:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I put this together really quickly to keep up to date on the Japan earthquake situation from my Japanese friends.  They post in Japanese which I can't understand, so by adding the hashtag #en the translator will automatically translate and repost the translated tweet to their stream.  Hopefully this will help others out as well.","parent":"2318746","id":"2318758"}
{"by":"klodolph","time":"1330350161","timestamp":"2012-02-27 13:42:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that's the idea of monads -- you can see them everywhere because their original purpose is to express imperative programming mathematically.  It's like thinking that all numbers can be represented with digits; of course -- digits were invented to represent all numbers.\u003cp\u003eBut the thing that makes Haskell unique is not that you have explicit monads.  It's that you can (1) use monads other than the IO monad (like Maybe, [], STM, ST), and (2) that you can choose to use no monads at all in a given function.\u003cp\u003eTo put it another way, Haskell is unique because it allows you write functions without using monads, but in other languages you can't turn them off.  Like nullable types, which can't be turned off in Java (ever debug NullPointerExceptions?) or Python, but which have to be enabled on a case-by-case basis in Haskell.","parent":"3638692","id":"3638915"}
{"by":"andyl","time":"1364589650","timestamp":"2013-03-29 20:40:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's this: \u003ca href=\"http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5462834","id":"5462936"}
{"by":"jamesbritt","time":"1396918812","timestamp":"2014-04-08 01:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this better (or notably different) than doing\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     sudo apt-get update\n     sudo apt-get dist-upgrade\n\n?\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"7550742","id":"7550774"}
{"by":"BrianEatWorld","time":"1370021299","timestamp":"2013-05-31 17:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is really clever. I had to build my own chair and desk on my first day and didn't even give it a second thought as to why that was the case.","parent":"5798088","id":"5799927"}
{"by":"frou_dh","time":"1515095855","timestamp":"2018-01-04 19:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine most laptop and motherboard vendors have precisely zero interest in locating\u0026#x2F;dusting-off whatever toolchains are required to mint new BIOSes for long discontinued products.","parent":"16073139","id":"16073495"}
{"by":"TheNewAndy","time":"1324451057","timestamp":"2011-12-21 07:04:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But there are lots of places where these identifiers aren't keywords, and it is valid code (try writing a compliant stdlib without using them).\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that too many people assume that their usage of C is the same as everyone elses. I don't want to be writing a system library and fighting my compiler everytime I put something in the symbol table that isn't in the C spec.","parent":"3376048","id":"3376660"}
{"by":"qop","time":"1532115397","timestamp":"2018-07-20 19:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think very strict moderation will come into auto taxis. If I\u0026#x27;m paying a lease on a car, or better yet if I\u0026#x27;m lending time in my own autonomous car, I\u0026#x27;m going to exercise extremely judicious moderation. If it\u0026#x27;s not clean after UserABC rides, he never rides again. Simple.","parent":"17578189","id":"17578202"}
{"by":"perlpimp","time":"1369764225","timestamp":"2013-05-28 18:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a demo video available? I think you should make one if you don't. Most people I've talked to having videos that outline basic way of using a product give extra 10-15% bump in signups.\u003cp\u003eI am for one at this point is a bit tired and would like to watch a happy video about your product so I don't have to confront my doubts and insecurities while learning subtask.\u003cp\u003eMaybe I am wrong but thats the first thing I looked for on your site.","parent":"5779988","id":"5781536"}
{"by":"g10r","time":"1546987375","timestamp":"2019-01-08 22:42:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are you working on?","parent":"18838935","id":"18860504"}
{"by":"bigiain","time":"1336704180","timestamp":"2012-05-11 02:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Most of the (unstated) point of the bonus was employee retention. I was unretainable. Paying me a giant bonus was irrational.\"\u003cp\u003eThis is why I feel _some_ sympathy for Miso - they've got a scheme intended to improve retention. They then put in a set of requirements, goals, and milestones that didn't provide appropriate incentives for the behaviour they wanted to promote - they _weren't_ looking to reward guys who were going to bail after 12 months for hooking up their friends who were going to jump ship in 7 months. But they chose a set of metrics that means the OP had every right to feel entitled to his $10k.\u003cp\u003eBut Miso have handled it _very_ badly (on the assumption that the blog post is an accurate reflection at least of how the poster saw the situation unfold).\u003cp\u003eIf I could upvote your last sentence several more times, I would…","parent":"3956382","id":"3957289"}
{"by":"groovy2shoes","time":"1358123281","timestamp":"2013-01-14 00:28:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And I have a converse anecdote: after having had sex, I don't enjoy porn anymore.  Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.","parent":"5052355","id":"5052561"}
{"by":"willtim","time":"1513580612","timestamp":"2017-12-18 07:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with the word \u0026quot;generics\u0026quot; is that it already meant something else in programming language theory. If I used reflection to implement a serialisation function in Java or C#, it could be generic with respect to the data-type of the value passed in, but not parametric. A parametric polymorphic function strictly has the same behaviour for all types, a generic one has type-dependent behaviour. This matters of course when we want to reason about programs.","parent":"15948272","id":"15949970"}
{"by":"andylei","time":"1351314296","timestamp":"2012-10-27 05:04:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"correlations are aggregate data measures that are only meaningful on large datasets.  a high score on the SAT for one person does not imply that that person is smart.  it just means that if you had a large population of people and you wanted to predict their intelligence, you could use SAT scores and get pretty good results.","parent":"4705375","id":"4705418"}
{"by":"altotrees","time":"1458670997","timestamp":"2016-03-22 18:23:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I completely agree. I spent lots of time, especially after  the Paris attacks, reading about Daesh, and the origins of their beliefs. The Atlantic article you mention is a fantastic primer on this very complex and hard-to-digest topic.\u003cp\u003eMany people seem to view doing this kind of reading and learning as some kind of gesture that is sympathetic to those who commit such acts. I will never understand how wanting to be educated on the history of a group automatically means you are siding with them ideologically...but I am from the midwest and left quite a few beliefs I will never understand.","parent":"11338039","id":"11338685"}
{"by":"hiaux0","time":"1541870483","timestamp":"2018-11-10 17:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for laying out the pros and cons for you.\nOn their landing page, it seemed like they only support \u0026quot;their\u0026quot; charities?\u003cp\u003eThey run an extensive donation service, but looks a bit too extensive for me.\u003cp\u003eThank you nonetheless!","parent":"18420937","id":"18422264"}
{"by":"marvy","time":"1417939189","timestamp":"2014-12-07 07:59:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you read it, you\u0026#x27;ll see that things are much worse than that.","parent":"8711582","id":"8711617"}
{"by":"jackowayed","time":"1412578522","timestamp":"2014-10-06 06:55:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Per hour rate seems somewhat misleading given the split shift. There\u0026#x27;s 15 hours between the start of their work and the end of their work, and the gap in their day is short enough that they often can\u0026#x27;t make great use of their break. If you were to consider all of that hard-to-use time as time on the job (since the job is the reason it\u0026#x27;s being underutilized), it would cut their effective rate almost in half.\u003cp\u003eImagine someone hired you for a job where they wanted you 10 minutes out of every 20--10 minutes working, 10 minutes off, repeat. You might have a day where you clock 6 hours, but it would essentially be a 12-hour day at a job with a lot of stops and starts. Whatever rate they claimed to pay you would be inflated by two because they were only paying you for half of your time.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m guessing something that granular is illegal, but the split shift acts similarly; there\u0026#x27;s a big difference between working a 9-hour day straight (say with one 45-min meal break) than working a 9-hour day with a 6-hour gap in the middle, so the latter should be more highly compensated.\u003cp\u003eAnd so it\u0026#x27;s not necessarily an economic conundrum. There\u0026#x27;s no magical market law that says there is no bus-driving labor that could be worth more than $20 per active hour driving. Bus drivers want better compensation (or at least accommodations that make the gaps more useful to them, such as bunk beds). Facebook is surely willing to pay some amount more than they are now to continue the bus service (evidence: increased costs such as SF\u0026#x27;s new pickup fee have not stopped bus service from growing). So Facebook could pay more due to increased driver compensation or accommodation cost, the drivers could in turn be paid more or be better accommodated, and everyone would be getting more out of the economic deal than they\u0026#x27;re putting in.\u003cp\u003eThe union would do what unions always do--shift some of the economic surplus that the company is currently enjoying (paying less for the bus service than the value it provides) to the workers.","parent":"8414505","id":"8414595"}
{"by":"tempfs","time":"1496420640","timestamp":"2017-06-02 16:24:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excel is the appropriate tool for one-off adhoc analysis.\u003cp\u003eWhen something needs to be regularly produced, then and only then should it be moved to a formal BI solution.\u003cp\u003ePeople have a lot of questions and Excel is an approachable tool for small analysis that users can self-serve with.","parent":"14470700","id":"14471107"}
{"by":"latexr","time":"1527275871","timestamp":"2018-05-25 19:17:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’ve built Fog[1] which is an Overcast[2] wrapper for macOS. I started it because I wanted to listen to podcasts on the Desktop but also wanted to control playback via media keys. I’ve since added a few more features.\u003cp\u003eI’ve made SandwichTimer[3] because no other pomodoro timer did what I wanted — to be minimally controllable via the CLI (so I could do it from Alfred[4], without needing the mouse) and to show the remaining time just as minutes (seconds are distracting, and a pie isn’t accurate enough). Since I also frequently needed regular timers and needed to use the phone for those, I’ve baked that in as well.\u003cp\u003ePinPlus[5] because I wanted a simple app to add Pinboard[6] bookmarks that looked good and I could dismiss with ⎋.\u003cp\u003eSacar Musak[7] not for me, but for my friends that want to download videos from Youtube and kept downloading shady apps I did not trust.\u003cp\u003eI have a ton more in the form of CLI tools, but \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e apps I use most frequently are the Alfred Workflows I’ve made[8].\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;fog\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;fog\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;overcast.fm\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;overcast.fm\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;sandwichtimer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;sandwichtimer\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[4]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.alfredapp.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.alfredapp.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[5]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;pinplus\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;pinplus\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[6]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pinboard.in\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pinboard.in\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[7]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;sacar-musak\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;sacar-musak\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[8]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;alfred-workflows\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vitorgalvao\u0026#x2F;alfred-workflows\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17148959","id":"17156986"}
{"by":"bjoli","time":"1530266204","timestamp":"2018-06-29 09:56:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would say that schemes looping constructs are too limited for comfortable use, but that tail call elimination makes implementing your own constructs very easy. I have reimplemented racket\u0026#x27;s for loops for guile using named let loops [0] which was not only pretty easy, but it was also easily understood and optimised by the guile compiler. The end result is as fast as a hand rolled named let for almost all cases (I still haven\u0026#x27;t found one where it is measurably slower, but I have only tested it in the repl where the compiler can make lots of assumptions)\u003cp\u003eFor that reason alone I think tail call elimination is a must, especially in today\u0026#x27;s transpiling world.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bitbucket.org\u0026#x2F;bjoli\u0026#x2F;guile-for-loops\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bitbucket.org\u0026#x2F;bjoli\u0026#x2F;guile-for-loops\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17416276","id":"17423530"}
{"by":"brandur","time":"1494892591","timestamp":"2017-05-15 23:56:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t understand how (1) isn\u0026#x27;t a positive in your eyes.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI like testing as much as the next person and consider it very important, but your tests should be testing business logic rather than whether your syntax is correct. The problem with dynamic languages is that while you\u0026#x27;re certainly doing the former, you\u0026#x27;re also doing way too much of the latter. Until you hit runtime, you have no idea whether you misreferenced a variable or invoked a method that doesn\u0026#x27;t exist, so you end up writing an exaggerated number of tests that are repetitive, slow things down, and end up requiring considerable maintenance.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e(2) is true for pretty much every large statically typed codebase I\u0026#x27;ve worked on.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes, incremental deployment is always a good idea, but it\u0026#x27;s a matter of degree.\u003cp\u003eTake for example a case where I need to rename a method that\u0026#x27;s widespread throughout the codebase. In a static language, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t give this a second thought. If there\u0026#x27;s a problem my compiler will catch it, and that\u0026#x27;s the end of the story.\u003cp\u003eIn a dynamic one, this is a dangerous operation: the old method name may still be getting invoked dynamically in a non-obvious way, or another branch may have been merged _after_ I branched but _before_ I deployed that still has an invocation of the old name. Hopefully you have tests on these paths that will reveal the problem, but you might not, and to hedge against that possibility, you have to roll the change out to production carefully and slowly (because even there, it might be some time before some unwitting user inadvertently triggers the bad flow).","parent":"14345867","id":"14346266"}
{"by":"TekMol","time":"1500447388","timestamp":"2017-07-19 06:56:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting project, well executed!\u003cp\u003eAre you storing the recipes in Git repos or in the Postgres DB?\u003cp\u003eIf in Postgres, what is the format? Do you put each receipe in a single JSON field? If not, what does the data structure look like?","parent":"14799111","id":"14802441"}
{"by":"dsfyu404ed","time":"1537879984","timestamp":"2018-09-25 12:53:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dairy and small amounts of egg (usually added for it\u0026#x27;s chemical\u0026#x2F;material properties) in baked goods don\u0026#x27;t count as meat for discussions about food sustainability because they don\u0026#x27;t require raising animals for slaughter.  A dairy cow can produce many gallons of milk and a chicken can lay many eggs over its lifetime.  They\u0026#x27;re a drop in the bucket compared to the environmental impact of meat raised for direct consumption.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s like complaining about oil products used to patch roads in a discussion about the environmental impact of oil.","parent":"18065860","id":"18065892"}
{"by":"osrec","time":"1544189004","timestamp":"2018-12-07 13:23:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you!","parent":"18626020","id":"18627410"}
{"by":"gadders","time":"1414595714","timestamp":"2014-10-29 15:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my daily life, I use strenght more often than I use endurance. And typing takes care of my fine motor skills.","parent":"8522908","id":"8527595"}
{"by":"burkemw3","time":"1490810321","timestamp":"2017-03-29 17:58:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something I read long ago (and can\u0026#x27;t find) was that privacy is a relatively recent part of humanity. In the past, we lived in small groups where everyone knew each other very well.\u003cp\u003eNow we live in big groups, which provide pseudo-nymity.\u003cp\u003eOne of the things I keep coming back to in my head is a way to democratize the information collected about us. Right now, certain \u0026quot;people\u0026quot; (including companies and government organizations) have lots of access to lots of data and the rest of the population has very little access to that information.\u003cp\u003eDoes privacy matter as much if we share observations as humans likely did in the past?","parent":"13988558","id":"13988890"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1386044481","timestamp":"2013-12-03 04:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"David Kennedy, they guy who just admitted it on TV?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The botnets that continually, around the clock 365 days a year \u0026quot;poke and prod\u0026quot; nearly every IP address that responds to port 80 or 443?\u003cp\u003eIf you can find an operator that confesses it publicly. How many do it? Pretty sure if say Vasile Bogdan from Bucharest, calling CNN confessing he just broke into Bank of America CC processing center, he might find himself on Interpol\u0026#x27;s most wanted list.","parent":"6838414","id":"6838473"}
{"by":"wbl","time":"1416203959","timestamp":"2014-11-17 05:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Creditors can\u0026#x27;t raise rates on bonds. When you issue a bond, you get paid then, and the creditor gets paid later. They can raise rates on new issuance, but the inflation rate is determined by monetary policy, not so much fiscal policy.","parent":"8616802","id":"8617034"}
{"by":"nogridbag","time":"1517844497","timestamp":"2018-02-05 15:28:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Despite all the negativity around Google Glasses\u0026#x27; camera, that was actually the best feature. You could really capture some great moments directly from your eye\u0026#x27;s perspective at the wink of an eye. My mother recently passed and out of all the photos and videos, my favorite was a 10 second video of me handing her flowers shot from Google Glasses. It looks like she\u0026#x27;s staring right back into my soul.\u003cp\u003eI have a three month old daughter now and I find myself fumbling about with my phone trying to take photos of her. Just last night I dropped my Pixel phone while trying to capture a photo of her. Phone is fine, but she wasn\u0026#x27;t too happy with the loud noise of my phone hitting the wood floor :) I kind of miss Google Glasses simply for the camera feature.\u003cp\u003eInstead of a minimal heads up display, I would much rather have a minimal wearable camera without all the extra functionality Google Glasses offered. Google Clips seems to be an alternative hands-free camera with different pros and cons (+I can be in the photo. -Can\u0026#x27;t capture the same type of photos from my eye viewpoint).","parent":"16308522","id":"16309313"}
{"by":"acqq","time":"1528062657","timestamp":"2018-06-03 21:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That\u0026#x27;s very exaggerated and it might discourage people who would enjoy working at Google from applying.\u003cp\u003eBut it\u0026#x27;s irrelevant to what I wanted to point to: that somebody already accepted \u003ci\u003eKen Thompson\u003c/i\u003e to Google. Then some absurd bureaucracy decided that \u003ci\u003eKen Thompson\u003c/i\u003e has to pass the exams given to the young beginners. Probably reasoning something like somebody here \u0026quot;explained\u0026quot; \u0026quot;so that developers can be moved around.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhoever is not aware of these \u0026quot;details\u0026quot;, please see my another post for what Ken Thompson invented before coming to Google. Such \u0026quot;minor things\u0026quot; like the Unix OS, the language that preceded and inspired C and the currently used kind of regular expressions.","parent":"17221103","id":"17222454"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1385230178","timestamp":"2013-11-23 18:09:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the world is waiting for a new programming language.  It is about that time historically and we are going into a situation where cores have replace GHz.  Its not clear what the model will be.  I think a lot of the new languages are models for how the language designer is thinking (or not) about these new realities.  At the same time, the hop from PC to Post-PC like the hop from Mini to PC, brings new constraints (dammit, where\u0026#x27;d all my memory go) and a new environment to the programming (what do you mean the computer moves while my program is running).","parent":"6784279","id":"6786803"}
{"by":"mablap","time":"1469412683","timestamp":"2016-07-25 02:11:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Schrödinger equation alone predicts how a state evolves in time. Just not what the result of a measurement will be.","parent":"12154046","id":"12156044"}
{"by":"paul9290","time":"1370225021","timestamp":"2013-06-03 02:03:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are people using QR codes frequently here in the states or elsewhere?\u003cp\u003eTo me I see them everywhere, but curiously most phones don't have them built into their camera apps (iPhone's camera doesn't have built in scanner) or have some quick an easy way to scan QR codes.\u003cp\u003eRather you have to download an app and then later find that app, then fidget a bit too much to get the app to read the code.\u003cp\u003eNot the greatest user experience and I have found it frustrating!\u003cp\u003eWhat advances have been made and or are being made to make QR code scanning quick and painless?","parent":"5810742","id":"5810916"}
{"by":"diwank","time":"1333281010","timestamp":"2012-04-01 11:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. The way people evaluate the importance of \u003ci\u003eother\u003c/i\u003e people's information is so damn skewed. It's a social problem and it has nothing to do with just privacy.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eDoes it really affect my life? What benefit do I gain from knowing these things?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor instance, what harm is there otherwise? In fact if you come to think of it, a main reason why you would want to disconnect is the prevalence of people ready to take you for granted. This cannot be avoided entirely but we can atleast make sure things like \u003ci\u003eGirls Around Me\u003c/i\u003e don't thrive.","parent":"3783398","id":"3783426"}
{"by":"malloc","time":"1306418757","timestamp":"2011-05-26 14:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"minor correction: 20 clicks","parent":"2587626","id":"2587742"}
{"by":"drvdevd","time":"1480713748","timestamp":"2016-12-02 21:22:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great writeup! And actually a fun idea for an intro to rust compiler internals. I\u0026#x27;ll be stepping through this in detail later.\u003cp\u003eIt would be extra cool if you had a series and did this with Go as well :)","parent":"13092044","id":"13092396"}
{"by":"bluedino","time":"1447426242","timestamp":"2015-11-13 14:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is only for 19 buildings, and it sounds like they are all owned by Dan Gilbert who also is the investor behind the project.","parent":"10559945","id":"10560091"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1426067656","timestamp":"2015-03-11 09:54:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure a lot of what they make can\u0026#x27;t legally be marketed as chocolate in Europe.","parent":"9171128","id":"9183332"}
{"by":"ajanuary","time":"1319097503","timestamp":"2011-10-20 07:58:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dunno, the reliability of Intellisense static typing gives combined with a REPL would be even more useful for exploration.\u003cp\u003eThat aside, it's exciting to have the ability to have both.","parent":"3133461","id":"3133924"}
{"by":"mwilliamson","time":"1398255125","timestamp":"2014-04-23 12:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think a problem is that we tend to overgeneralise our own experience. When we try out ideas, such as TDD, we (hopefully) get a good feel for how they work (or don\u0026#x27;t work) for us. Reading articles or getting advice might help us to understand and use those ideas better, but the impression is still based on your personal experience. That\u0026#x27;s fine when you\u0026#x27;re talking about how you like to work, but I think it comes unstuck when you start trying to apply it to other people. Even if you read other people\u0026#x27;s perspectives, it\u0026#x27;s often tempting to consider those that disagree to be idiots (although you might not be so blunt), and those that agree with you to be sensible.\u003cp\u003eI think it\u0026#x27;s more productive to try out a technique, try out some variations based on others\u0026#x27; advice, and then share the experience: I found this technique useful in these situations, but not in these. Here are some tips that I found effective, and here\u0026#x27;s what didn\u0026#x27;t work for me. Then, people can try out techniques for themselves, and learn from your experience.\u003cp\u003eIf we want to generalise what\u0026#x27;s effective and what\u0026#x27;s not for software development overall, then I think we need a much rigorous approach then getting a vibe from the community. I\u0026#x27;ve only ever seen a handful of studies that try to be unbiased and somewhat scientific in assessing techniques like TDD.","parent":"7633254","id":"7633435"}
{"by":"grondilu","time":"1513684341","timestamp":"2017-12-19 11:52:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great parable, thanks!","parent":"15959192","id":"15959487"}
{"by":"ek","time":"1314843533","timestamp":"2011-09-01 02:18:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do they have to create a \"product\"? Reddit is open source, and you can download it if you like, from \u003ca href=\"http://code.reddit.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.reddit.com/\u003c/a\u003e .\nYou could literally build what you are describing on the Reddit platform right now.","parent":"2948396","id":"2948404"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1408676389","timestamp":"2014-08-22 02:59:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great, but had a hard time getting attention because posts without URLs get penalized.\u003cp\u003eI suggest that you post the API page using the URL you mentioned, then add your question as a first comment in that thread. Good luck!","parent":"8210532","id":"8210709"}
{"by":"dmitrygr","time":"1465588635","timestamp":"2016-06-10 19:57:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As sad as it is unsurprising.\u003cp\u003eBut this will continue until the justice system stops assuming cops are always right and everyone else is always guilty.","parent":"11877765","id":"11879519"}
{"by":"crb912","time":"1526637920","timestamp":"2018-05-18 10:05:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was moved by the Czench fable.","parent":"17090580","dead":true,"id":"17100154"}
{"by":"limmeau","time":"1295368450","timestamp":"2011-01-18 16:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Usenet is at least a decentralized thing owned by nobody and governed by a mixture of elected representatives and popular vote. Or was, back in the day. Therefore, usenet users weren't anybody's zombie army.","parent":"2116206","id":"2116357"}
{"by":"ccozan","time":"1499266985","timestamp":"2017-07-05 15:03:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember in movies about old times, you would arrive with your horse-powered cart at a such station, they changed the horses, and off you go.\u003cp\u003eI guess this is similar. Make batteries standard shape and size, just the power may vary. After all, the gasoline\u0026#x2F;diesel is the same all over the world and is made after some international standards.\u003cp\u003eI think we are looking wrongly at the energy source of an electric car. If we assume electric power as raw oil, then the battery is a refinement of this electric power in form of an chemical power. Then in this case the unit of \u0026quot;power\u0026quot; is not the electricity but the battery holding the power to run the car.\u003cp\u003eIf you look from this angle, then the battery is obviously the unit that you need to load\u0026#x2F;unload from the \u0026quot;gas\u0026quot; station.","parent":"14702573","id":"14702911"}
{"by":"imagetic","time":"1462212680","timestamp":"2016-05-02 18:11:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s interesting that you say it\u0026#x27;s not mainstream.  Most of the people I know currently studying for a Masters or PhD have told me it\u0026#x27;s what they plan on using once they no-longer have access to the University publication systems after they graduate.","parent":"11612948","id":"11613907"}
{"by":"cnp","time":"1446419896","timestamp":"2015-11-01 23:18:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This happened to me too!!!!! It took so long, and was so annoying, and i\u0026#x27;m still not even sure why they stopped coming.","parent":"10486476","id":"10488925"}
{"by":"maxlybbert","time":"1457218732","timestamp":"2016-03-05 22:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, Java doesn\u0026#x27;t live up to the hype?","parent":"11230532","id":"11231506"}
{"by":"Androsynth","time":"1353680510","timestamp":"2012-11-23 14:21:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Long after Steve Jobs is relegated to the dustbin of Past Industrialists and Apple has regressed to the mean, Stallmans work will still be moving both technology and our society forward in ways that are meaningful and positive.","parent":"4822214","id":"4822275"}
{"by":"WaiterZ","time":"1456853671","timestamp":"2016-03-01 17:34:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Location: China\n  Remote: OK\n  Willing to relocate: maybe\n  Technologies: Node.js, React, Postgresql, Docker, Java, Android\n  Résumé\u0026#x2F;CV:https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;goo.gl\u0026#x2F;NdTcEz\n  Email: waiter.james1991+hn@gmail.com\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"11202956","id":"11204384"}
{"by":"vhakulinen","time":"1513503988","timestamp":"2017-12-17 09:46:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally I\u0026#x27;m most existed about the remote UI api, along the other features, that neovim is offering. I think I\u0026#x27;ve used neovim since even the first release it had and just love it. It has been nice to follow the development and participate the discussion and experiment with the features neovim offers (notably the remote UI api).","parent":"15945012","id":"15945036"}
{"by":"RevRal","time":"1268318435","timestamp":"2010-03-11 14:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, I don't have the time to expand and, ultimately, we're talking about two different things.\u003cp\u003eIf you like, you may do further reading on singularities. Not the black hole kind.\u003cp\u003eI'll see you around.","parent":"1183621","id":"1183799"}
{"by":"JulianMorrison","time":"1472809438","timestamp":"2016-09-02 09:43:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apache should never have accepted this hot potato from Oracle in the first place.","parent":"12411747","id":"12411927"}
{"by":"edblarney","time":"1484075767","timestamp":"2017-01-10 19:16:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple is definitely a fashion brand  - and their marketing tactics and positioning are mostly aspirational - the underlying commodity is tech.\u003cp\u003eThis is why Apple hired Angela Andrents - who\u0026#x27;s background is 100% fashion (she re-built Burberry) and 0% technology.\u003cp\u003eThink about that for a moment: the hired their #1 marketing person with ZERO tech background :).\u003cp\u003eWho is the \u0026#x27;other\u0026#x27; most powerful person at Apple? It\u0026#x27;s Johhny Ive - a \u003ci\u003edesigner\u003c/i\u003e - who is very much in the vein of fashion\u0026#x2F;design, and understands that ethos.\u003cp\u003eTheir store layouts, marketing, pricing strategies - all from luxury fashion.\u003cp\u003eYes - the build \u0026#x27;quality\u0026#x27; products - I agree - and their products are not too far off the spec pricing for similarly \u0026#x27;quality\u0026#x27; gear.\u003cp\u003eBUT - I would argue that \u0026#x27;high end spec\u0026#x27; is just not relevant for most applications \u003ci\u003eeven for development\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eA decent, middle of the road PC would de-facto provide enough RAM\u0026#x2F;disk space+speed\u0026#x2F;CPU to do the job, so long as the form factor is robust enough (and there are a few) - I think they would do just fine.\u003cp\u003eThis is a pretty crude but not unreasonable comparison:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.digitaltrends.com\u0026#x2F;computing\u0026#x2F;apple-macbook-pro-13-vs-dell-xps-13-apple-macbook-dell-xps-13\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.digitaltrends.com\u0026#x2F;computing\u0026#x2F;apple-macbook-pro-13-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Macbook is 2x the price across \u0026#x27;mostly\u0026#x27; equivalent measurements. (I understand there\u0026#x27;s more to it, but pragmatically, they are pretty close).\u003cp\u003eFYI - Luxury brands specifically price on the high end no matter what, they don\u0026#x27;t ever go on sale - and unlike most other consumer goods - the perception of value goes down if they ever hit mass market appeal. For luxury goods, there has to be an element of \u0026#x27;status\u0026#x27; with the purchase, which is what Apple does very effectively, and obviously.\u003cp\u003eBut it\u0026#x27;s not clothing - so they have to keep up the \u0026#x27;wow\u0026#x27; factor, and be \u0026#x27;unquestionably the best\u0026#x27;, not just in benchmark measurements - but in aspirational terms.\u003cp\u003eCase and point: \u0026#x27;Siri\u0026#x27; - what a useless thing. But they packaged it and sold it in a manner that \u0026#x27;wowed\u0026#x27; the consumer market. \u0026#x27;It was the future!\u0026#x27;. So this needs to continue in order to hold their pricing model.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I don\u0026#x27;t think they\u0026#x27;re going to crash that far. I\u0026#x27;m stuck on Mac, I don\u0026#x27;t want to go through the pain of switching, and eventually I\u0026#x27;ll bite the bullet and buy a new Mac, but for the first time in a long while I\u0026#x27;m thinking of switching.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not doubting that Apple products are pretty good, and that they are not too-too far off given their specs.","parent":"13367602","id":"13367955"}
{"by":"jakebellacera","time":"1454355469","timestamp":"2016-02-01 19:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure what\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;crazy\u0026quot; about it. My family uses a private Facebook group and it works very well. We send events and keep each other updated on our lives. It\u0026#x27;s nice because there isn\u0026#x27;t a separate login to create or app to install.","parent":"11014621","id":"11014711"}
{"by":"sitkack","time":"1370603767","timestamp":"2013-06-07 11:16:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or it was leaked on purpose to let everyone know that they should, \u0026quot;shut the fuck up.\u0026quot; Or be watched?","parent":"5837323","id":"5838251"}
{"by":"jasonjei","time":"1429828108","timestamp":"2015-04-23 22:28:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SF is only 7x7 miles. Completely walkable if you have good, strong hips for those 42 or so hills ;) And when you\u0026#x27;ve decided to stop walking, make your way to House of Prime Rib for a hearty meal and 2000 calories...","parent":"9430143","id":"9430309"}
{"by":"to3m","time":"1350488124","timestamp":"2012-10-17 15:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you do about storing binary files in git? And is git not actually bothered by having a 400GB repository? I was under the impression that sort of thing was just not its intended use.","parent":"4664802","id":"4664889"}
{"by":"nemonemo","time":"1467015946","timestamp":"2016-06-27 08:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My undergrad university had the same issue, and the last glassblower retired 15 years ago founded a company and kept supplying the necessary equipments to the research cluster.[1]\u003cp\u003eThe glassblowers there seemed to think that the repair of broken glass equipments is potentially hazardous to the glassblower, and one of the founders who handled more repair requests had two cancer surgeries. It\u0026#x27;s only an anecdote, but it could be a reason why it is difficult to find a successor of this 71 year-old person.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;translate.google.com\u0026#x2F;translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hankookilbo.com%2Fv%2F62ea2d5f5a404979ab473302c20be9cc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;translate.google.com\u0026#x2F;translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ha...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11983716","id":"11984837"}
{"by":"thrownaway2424","time":"1445282492","timestamp":"2015-10-19 19:21:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s nothing wrong with the smart card system and the crypto protocols developed around them.  The problem is that the applications that have been bodged onto the smart card since it was invented (in the 70s) have all been garbage.  The banks and payment networks just aren\u0026#x27;t qualified to implement these things, and they don\u0026#x27;t have any reason to because they\u0026#x27;ve managed to externalize the cost of fraud onto the individual customers and the merchants.","parent":"10414785","id":"10415025"}
{"by":"aninhumer","time":"1496856074","timestamp":"2017-06-07 17:21:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; it\u0026#x27;s no less granular than NoScript.\u003cp\u003eSorry, to clarify, I wasn\u0026#x27;t comparing uMatrix to NoScript, merely commenting that it didn\u0026#x27;t seem particularly useful to me when I tried it.\u003cp\u003eI was considering trying NoScript at some point, but from what you\u0026#x27;ve said, it doesn\u0026#x27;t sound like it would be much better for my purposes?","parent":"14508071","id":"14508133"}
{"by":"GGBRW","time":"1508278829","timestamp":"2017-10-17 22:20:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Get out :p","parent":"15494699","id":"15495455"}
{"by":"Cpoll","time":"1490630109","timestamp":"2017-03-27 15:55:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who doesn\u0026#x27;t use Node: Do most of these arguments apply to Node? (Silent failures, callback hell, weak typing brokenness).\u003cp\u003eI acknowledge that most of these are very bad in the browser, although I have good things to say about Typescript.","parent":"13968506","id":"13968755"}
{"by":"paultopia","time":"1495577343","timestamp":"2017-05-23 22:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how many views there are for questions on exiting the numerous REPLs that are similarly unintuitive. (Node, Elixr, etc.)","parent":"14403036","id":"14405808"}
{"by":"zacharycohn","time":"1418522667","timestamp":"2014-12-14 02:04:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s a pretty hostile job in general.","parent":"8747142","id":"8747212"}
{"by":"cordite","time":"1405800633","timestamp":"2014-07-19 20:10:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I submitted a request and got absolutely nothing, as if a black hole.\u003cp\u003eI never followed up after 1 or 2 months.","parent":"8058459","id":"8058563"}
{"by":"jobu","time":"1332953427","timestamp":"2012-03-28 16:50:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally agree.  This article is e-drama and definitely not what want to see on HackerNews.  Unfortunately the title caught my eye, and I read most of it. (hard to not watch a trainwreck)","parent":"3766762","id":"3767145"}
{"by":"geoalchimista","time":"1531852396","timestamp":"2018-07-17 18:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Title is clickbait. Whatever you can learn from \u0026quot;drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting\u0026quot; is most likely not \u003ci\u003eadvanced math\u003c/i\u003e. (Otherwise professors in a math department would all be playing knitting and beach balls to get tenure.) Advanced math is hard. It is like toiling in the field under a scorching sun.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Didn\u0026#x27;t see that the author of the article is a math professor. This method seems to work in a liberal arts college, but I doubt it would work in a STEM curriculum.","parent":"17549099","id":"17551941"}
{"by":"aab0","time":"1466624837","timestamp":"2016-06-22 19:47:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Is this the basis of your statement?\u003cp\u003eNo, the basis of my statement is the lengthy sections of the article describing Gray\u0026#x27;s political power and obstructionism which was causing the district to decay and how his death lead to a vacuum in which the gentrification could happen. Describing it as execution was just gallows humor. They could also be bought off with grants.","parent":"11950051","id":"11956472"}
{"by":"jwr","time":"1300555301","timestamp":"2011-03-19 17:21:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Finally! I've been watching the news and wondering why they aren't using aerial drones to get up-to-date video feeds and robots to access the dangerous areas and at least _see_ what is going on there.\u003cp\u003eI mean, even the cheap (by military standards) Parrot AR.Drones could be used to get some imagery, assuming wi-fi relays are set up first.","parent":"2343718","id":"2344118"}
{"by":"qhoxie","time":"1222197267","timestamp":"2008-09-23 19:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A number of the 'heavier' (read: not barebones) frameworks have styles for elements like forms.  It sounds like you might be more interested in a template of sorts, which would probably make more sense for RP.","parent":"312700","id":"312708"}
{"by":"nader","time":"1390304089","timestamp":"2014-01-21 11:34:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pretty cool. how do you syndicate products? through amazon\u0026#x27;s API or by hand?","parent":"7094550","id":"7094626"}
{"by":"theogravity","time":"1505354473","timestamp":"2017-09-14 02:01:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a pretty neat product - unsure if the monthly pricing makes sense. Don\u0026#x27;t get me wrong - it\u0026#x27;s great value, but I can\u0026#x27;t see myself using the product for more than one month if the output quickly lands me opportunities \u0026#x2F; a job after I use it.\u003cp\u003eWould it make more sense to pay per generation of a resume to maximize potential revenue?\u003cp\u003eNote: I have not signed up. Only looked at the examples.","parent":"15240494","id":"15244469"}
{"by":"boris","time":"1527737334","timestamp":"2018-05-31 03:28:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, all valid\u0026#x2F;good points, thanks. We are packaging external libraries that we need ourselves (libmysqlclinet was \u0026quot;fun\u0026quot; -- it is actually a C-library with C++ implementation details). And getting some \u0026quot;critical mass\u0026quot; of packages done by us is also something we are considering.","parent":"17192264","id":"17193750"}
{"by":"anthonyb","time":"1286320271","timestamp":"2010-10-05 23:11:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Usually there'll be a reason for the police to kick your door down. I imagine that plus destroyed evidence would be enough to prove beyond reasonable doubt.","parent":"1761325","id":"1761981"}
{"by":"mixmastamyk","time":"1311617980","timestamp":"2011-07-25 18:19:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe you have to upgrade the package to Priority Mail or similar to get UPS-style tracking.  Otherwise you'll get simple delivery confirmation.","parent":"2803520","id":"2803845"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1488307461","timestamp":"2017-02-28 18:44:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Everyone promised the cloud would never go down, ever.\u003cp\u003eNo, they didn\u0026#x27;t. Large portions of AWS\u0026#x27;s documentation details how you, the developer, are responsible for using their tools to engineer a fault-tolerant, highly available system. Everything goes down. AWS promises varying amounts of nines everywhere, not 100%.","parent":"13756338","id":"13756449"}
{"by":"tcbawo","time":"1499735414","timestamp":"2017-07-11 01:10:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure if you are fighting procrastination.  But, in the last some of the things that help me is to have a keep a list and keep knocking off the #2 item.  A lot of times, when I introspect, I realize that I was procrastinating due to fear (sometimes failure, sometimes losing a purpose).  But, I think lists are habit-forming and will help you get and stay organized.\u003cp\u003eAlso, seek out a mentor, coach, or someone to be accountable to.  This will help keep you on track.","parent":"14739666","id":"14740886"}
{"by":"flavio81","time":"1508612681","timestamp":"2017-10-21 19:04:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Common Lisp is very nice, do take a look.\u003cp\u003eI think you could implement custom syntax for things like [] by using reader macros.","parent":"15522835","id":"15523077"}
{"by":"swecker","time":"1300308611","timestamp":"2011-03-16 20:50:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many people have a misconception about this.  An intern is a hired position (albeit temporary), and working for free is simply volunteering.  There are unpaid interns, but there are probably more misconceptions about that.  \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?_r=2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?_r=...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2333304","id":"2333846"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1466953574","timestamp":"2016-06-26 15:06:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how often people just type out the full password into the address bar or into notepad, and then start counting to find the nth digit.","parent":"11980075","id":"11981079"}
{"by":"namdnay","time":"1522077378","timestamp":"2018-03-26 15:16:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds logical at first, but combined with the single-ownership rule, it\u0026#x27;s actually a clever way to protect the \u0026quot;mom\u0026amp;pop store\u0026quot; model. Which is good for the owners, but bad for the consumers - no economies of scale, no competition, no supermarkets... Like being back in the early 50s\u003cp\u003eThat there should be a licensed pharmacist at all times in the store - fine. But why does the store have to belong to one? To take a stereotypically German example, we don\u0026#x27;t say that all garages have to be owned by mechanics :)","parent":"16678368","id":"16679502"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1443804792","timestamp":"2015-10-02 16:53:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The FSF takes the position that linking is derivative work; this may or may not be an accurate legal position, but it\u0026#x27;s a popular position from the licensed creator and an entity which owns a lot of software licenses under the GPL, and which is very influential with people who choose to use the GPL, so even if it is ultimately legally incorrect, the risk of litigation, whatever they outcome, from linking is going to be unacceptable to most significant users, so a GPL library is unlikely to see uptake in major software for which the creator had a significant reason for choosing a non-GPL license, whether it is permissive or proprietary.","parent":"10319225","id":"10319675"}
{"by":"k_sze","time":"1428364750","timestamp":"2015-04-06 23:59:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My feeling is that high tech Japan is a myth of the past, that never truly realized itself. Part of the myth probably originated from the futuristic anime that it produced in the 80s and 90s.\u003cp\u003eIf you look at Japan today, there is quite a bit of pretense of high-tech that I suspect to be nothing but pseudo-science and marketing crap to drive consumerism (Phiten for its \u0026quot;health\u0026quot; accessories, and a bunch of well-known brands like Panasonic jumping on the alkaline water bandwagon).","parent":"9330078","id":"9331350"}
{"by":"cdelb","time":"1486752201","timestamp":"2017-02-10 18:43:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It fooled me initially, until I saw the pricing. $299 a month for what the simplest of spreadsheets could track.","parent":"13617649","id":"13617771"}
{"by":"gopi","time":"1311543993","timestamp":"2011-07-24 21:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No self respecting rich guy paid that much...You have to talk about the effective tax rate (both personal and capital gain). This was always around 30% in the last 70-80 years!\u003cp\u003eSo the best thing to do is to abolish all deductions for the rich and reduce the top tax rate to something like 28% (which the new debt commission recommended)","parent":"2793038","id":"2800429"}
{"by":"nonbel","time":"1546637357","timestamp":"2019-01-04 21:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;The US GDP was $17.5 trillion last year. I don\u0026#x27;t think you\u0026#x27;re looking at the right numbers.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t follow. Why do you think GDP is the \u0026quot;right number\u0026quot; instead of tax revenue?","parent":"18827636","id":"18827807"}
{"by":"AndrewKemendo","time":"1450660616","timestamp":"2015-12-21 01:16:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome, thanks.","parent":"10768513","id":"10769050"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1386996112","timestamp":"2013-12-14 04:41:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do we care what Scott Adams says about any topic other than creating a successful and amusing comic strip?","parent":"6903954","id":"6904655"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1382900389","timestamp":"2013-10-27 18:59:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eNicotine, on the other hand, is harmful in its own right. It is less damaging to consume pure nicotine without the other harmful effects of smoking, but it is certainly a toxic substance, in the medical sense.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitation needed.\u003cp\u003eBefore responding, you might want to read \u003ca href=\"http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gwern.net\u0026#x2F;Nicotine\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"6622948","id":"6622998"}
{"by":"Symbiote","time":"1465043114","timestamp":"2016-06-04 12:25:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s quite right.\u003cp\u003eI think they require SEPA transfers (roughly, transfers to other euro countries) to cost no more than domestic transfers.\u003cp\u003eBanks charge around 5-75 cents to business customers for electronic transfers, depending on the customer.","parent":"11836007","id":"11836081"}
{"by":"noomerikal","time":"1378143701","timestamp":"2013-09-02 17:41:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cobol?","parent":"6310528","id":"6316187"}
{"by":"baggachipz","time":"1424958744","timestamp":"2015-02-26 13:52:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t agree with you more. To pile on here, I\u0026#x27;d like to add that when you force somebody to do an observed pair programming interview, several things still do not match what will most likely be the day-to-day process. First, and most obviously, their environment will not be what they\u0026#x27;re used to, at all. Any pair tools out there are most likely very different from their normal setup. This immediately sows discomfort, no question. Second, let\u0026#x27;s be honest here: We all use documentation and google extensively when programming. That\u0026#x27;s simply due to the fact that we can\u0026#x27;t possibly remember all syntax and available functionality. But we know where to look. Doing that during an observed interview is usually a no-no.\u003cp\u003eAs an example: I recently applied at Trello. I nailed their programming challenge to be able to submit the resume, and I gave a thorough explanation for my solution in the submission. I got a call from HR and they scheduled an online interview where I would be sharing a code window with the interviewer and I\u0026#x27;d have to solve a succession of problems. Shit. All of these teasers were easier than the initial problem I solved to get the interview in the first place, but with a spotlight on me and an implicit time limit that I could feel ticking past with the interviewer\u0026#x27;s silence, I went down in flames. I have no doubt that I\u0026#x27;d be perfectly capable for the job itself, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t matter because I couldn\u0026#x27;t dance the right jig.\u003cp\u003eI have since accepted employment with a company whose interview process cared more about what I have done and what I can do, rather than forcing me to participate in an unnatural process.","parent":"9112166","id":"9112450"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1327931439","timestamp":"2012-01-30 13:50:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to say that most of the time I've travelled into the US things have been perfectly fine. However, one time I got questioned about why I had travelled to Turkey so often and got questioned a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e about why I liked Turkey as a holiday destination - which afterwards seems a bit surreal but at the time was quite alarming.","parent":"3528687","id":"3528734"}
{"by":"newswriter99","time":"1526324363","timestamp":"2018-05-14 18:59:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;they are tapping in to renewable energy supplies that make us less dependent on the whims of middle eastern dictatorships\u003cp\u003eMiddle Eastern dictatorships like those in OPEC? OPEC doesn\u0026#x27;t have teeth anymore thanks to US shale.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.icis.com\u0026#x2F;resources\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;10078321\u0026#x2F;us-shale-rebound-impacts-on-production-cuts-opec\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.icis.com\u0026#x2F;resources\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;10078321\u0026#x2F;us-s...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIronically (or by coincidence) shale gas gets turned into plastics in the US Gulf Coast.","parent":"17068083","id":"17068390"}
{"by":"speeder","time":"1408382313","timestamp":"2014-08-18 17:18:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have Hashimoto\u0026#x27;s thyreoiditis\u003cp\u003eThe symptoms started when I was 14 years old, and my mother took me to a endocrinologist, back then as wild attempt to see what was going on (we had no idea what the issue was, my mom choose the medic specialty in a sorta random manner).\u003cp\u003eThe result was: medic refused to do any exams, told my mom that all my symptoms was because I was fat, and I was absolutely mad at my mother (because I told her that endocrinologists are medics for fat people, and I did not needed one, and then the medic tell me all my issues, including random pains are because I am fat, just made me offended)\u003cp\u003eFast forward some years, my health was getting slowly worse, with other medical specialties trying to stave off the effects (For example research shows that seemly one of the first symptoms, if not the first symptom that shows up, is cholesterol imbalance... I spent years going to cardiologists that tried their best to fix my cholesterol, until one of them suggested some heavy-weight drug, and I decided to give up on that and let it run unchecked).\u003cp\u003eUntil one day, a marketing director that was friend of my mother, saw me from afar, and told me mother I had a thyroid problem.\u003cp\u003eMy mother puzzled, told me that... And I asked her more about it, and she then remembered (and then told me) that my grandma had it, my great grandma had it too, and my aunt had thyroid cancer because of the same disease (hashimoto disease can lead to cancer if left unchecked)\u003cp\u003eI was kinda baffled, I mean, lots of people had the disease, she never wondered about it? In fact, she had symptoms too (much weaker than mine, to the point I don\u0026#x27;t realized), and never ocurred to her too... and indeed, she went to a doctor and promptly got diagnosed herself (she also had the disease).\u003cp\u003eNow the important part: after that, I spent 6 years going to medics, and as my information grew, the more they went into \u0026quot;shut down\u0026quot; mode and refused to cooperate, I had to threaten one to get the exams I needed (she was a elderly woman, I stood up, and I am very big for my country standards, and stared her down, and told her to sign the godamn request for the exam I wanted), and this was the only way to get results (the exam I wanted DID confirmed I had hashimoto), but still no doctor wanted to treat me...\u003cp\u003eIt was funny, I showed up, gave them ultrasonography showing my destroyed thyroid, and gave them my symptoms, and then they would ask for a blood test, that would give normal TSH, and then they would promptly tell me I was hypocondriac or something and my health was fine.\u003cp\u003eAs this went on I got more and more convinced that medics are just people with a crazy power trip, seemly saving (or not) people lives makes them think they are some sort of god or demi-god, with power of life and death...\u003cp\u003eSeveral went to tell me that I was wrong because they were right and I would never understand medical research and whatnot and that is not what the association said.\u003cp\u003eI went for some time to hate the association, they are involved in scummy stuff, and they were all the time cited as the reason why my normal TSH meant no treatment for me...\u003cp\u003eUntil I decided to read the association documents, and whoa, my own arguments, the same ones that I use to argue with the doctors, citing the exact same papers, are written down in the section that explain how to achieve diagnosis... in the end the association actually agrees with me, and is the medics that in their hubris don\u0026#x27;t even read it, or read it and ignore it, and lie to their patients.\u003cp\u003eThe only reason why I still go to a doctor, is to get the permission to get the blood tests (privately ordered blood tests cost like 2 month wages, and I need blood test every 4 months so...), because I am mostly treating myself with my own knowledge (and so far it is mostly working).\u003cp\u003eEDIT: \u0026quot;normal\u0026quot; TSH as in below 5.0 (it was 4.0), and my argument was that they are using the wrong baseline, the association use 5.0 for general case, but the association cite studies related to my specific symptoms and situation that suggest that TSH should be below 2.5 instead... thus my TSH is \u0026quot;normal\u0026quot; only for the \u0026quot;generic\u0026quot; most conservative case\u003cp\u003eEDIT2: I started treatment just some months ago, I am 26 now (meaning it took me 12 years to start the treatment)","parent":"8193126","id":"8193542"}
{"by":"brmj","time":"1327501820","timestamp":"2012-01-25 14:30:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's been a class war here for a long time. The difference is that it isn't one-sided any more.","parent":"3508736","id":"3509795"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1325177545","timestamp":"2011-12-29 16:52:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Submission is only one part of the problem.\u003cp\u003eA malicious script included on the same page - MITMed Facebook like buttons, poorly understood copy-paste minified code, a rogue developer - could easily access those fields and make a request to a third-party server with the credit card information as URL parameters.\u003cp\u003eI'd be interested in what the PCI Council has to say about Stripe's claim that using their service absolves you of all PCI compliance requirements.","parent":"3403984","id":"3404229"}
{"by":"bluefreeze","time":"1390797872","timestamp":"2014-01-27 04:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I build code sharing app called Climbi (\u003ca href=\"http://climbi.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;climbi.com\u003c/a\u003e) for my side projects, and I almost use it every day for give someone help by providing code example on forum and social media sites. And I love it :)","parent":"7126036","id":"7128863"}
{"by":"kristopolous","time":"1458198118","timestamp":"2016-03-17 07:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, the whole idea is about as plausible as this april fools joke: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Evil_bit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Evil_bit\u003c/a\u003e ... but it\u0026#x27;s been put forth and implemented too many times for comfort.\u003cp\u003eEach time these silly systems like DVD-CSS broke down and became worthless or like DIVX, were widely panned and rejected by the consumer.*\u003cp\u003eShowing how this will always and forever be the case at a more fundamental level to stop trying this deadbeat idea with different gift-wrapping would be great.\u003cp\u003e* Even in MP3, you have bits 29 and 30 which are for copyright.  What were they thinking? people would re-implement \u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;cp to look for that and fail if the bit is set?  Really?  AAC has something similar.  silly.","parent":"11302904","id":"11302930"}
{"by":"Zev","time":"1301126219","timestamp":"2011-03-26 07:56:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats not what Proteus' icon looks like. Here's a screenshot of it: \u003ca href=\"http://cl.ly/062u0R2G270o160A2x2u\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cl.ly/062u0R2G270o160A2x2u\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2371524","id":"2371615"}
{"by":"andreyf","time":"1253207587","timestamp":"2009-09-17 17:13:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eBBC HD has proved extremely popular\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#60;a picture of a swimming elephant in 226x170 pixels\u0026#62;\u003cp\u003eWaaah?","parent":"827899","id":"828401"}
{"by":"anuraj","time":"1336341470","timestamp":"2012-05-06 21:57:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"UCS-2 (2-byte Universal Character Set) is a character encoding that was superseded by UTF-16 in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard in July 1996\". Java adopted UCS-2 which was later supplemented with UTF-16 support.\u003cp\u003eThere are at least a few languages in this world which do not use roman letters and are better represented as multibyte sequences :). That is why Java added support for supplementary UTF-16 characters over and above UCS-2. That said, use of UTF-8 would have been optimal for western languages, but sub optimal for several other languages.","parent":"3936244","id":"3936473"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1512059173","timestamp":"2017-11-30 16:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhat bothers me about this whole thing is that I never bought it like a stock. I mined it YEARS ago when it was worthless.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow all of a sudden I have to pay tax on something I already own?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re subject to this ruling, aka you\u0026#x27;ve by \u003ci\u003ehappy accident\u003c/i\u003e suddenly realized $20k in profit- consider that whether or not you like how things are working, you\u0026#x27;ve still got nothing to complain about.","parent":"15816098","id":"15816989"}
{"by":"seven","time":"1297275752","timestamp":"2011-02-09 18:22:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They do grow back. Just destroy the chip, then there is no way to read them out again.","parent":"2198478","id":"2198602"}
{"by":"Nursie","time":"1352828784","timestamp":"2012-11-13 17:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they can get your system to tell them if a message is valid somehow, perhaps by making thousands of attempts to pass a message and noting where it says 'login failed' or '404' instead of invalid message (for instance) then there are all sorts of things that can be done to recover messages and keys.\u003cp\u003eI highly recommend Dan Boneh's crypto 101 on coursera for anyone that has the time.","parent":"4779300","id":"4779346"}
{"by":"MaysonL","time":"1302980878","timestamp":"2011-04-16 19:07:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out Mark Suster's interviews with Brad Feld:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/08/techzulu-interview-with-mark-suster.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/08/techzulu-interview-w...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agTpgSAmHiI\u0026#38;list=SL\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agTpgSAmHiI\u0026#38;list=SL\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2453917","id":"2454599"}
{"by":"iloveyouocean","time":"1222970177","timestamp":"2008-10-02 17:56:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So we match people based on demographics (age, ethnicity, children?, etc.).  \nWe also match based on the Media you include in your First Impression.\nAfter you have been through a MingleWeek, we have data about who you rated highly and so we can compose groups based on common affinity.","parent":"321957","id":"321961"}
{"by":"lojack","time":"1369342813","timestamp":"2013-05-23 21:00:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don't have insurance it can be quite expensive. The technical director for Ars Technica, I'm guessing has insurance. He probably didn't go to the hospital because of the potential absurd wait times.","parent":"5759333","id":"5759508"}
{"by":"dabockster","time":"1474419241","timestamp":"2016-09-21 00:54:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you had put it in the form of years, then more people would have caught on.","parent":"12541895","id":"12544629"}
{"by":"tboxer","time":"1415385031","timestamp":"2014-11-07 18:30:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.ezras.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ezras.com\u003c/a\u003e for the clickable link.","parent":"8573914","id":"8573923"}
{"by":"Shenglong","time":"1326441901","timestamp":"2012-01-13 08:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe it's a Canadian thing, and an international thing. To be fair, I suppose I haven't flown any purely domestic flights in the US.","parent":"3459383","id":"3459661"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1505323569","timestamp":"2017-09-13 17:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your message was interesting and I agree with it up to the point where you say we could be trapped by Bach. There is enough depth in Bach to still fascinate us 300 years later, if it doesn\u0026#x27;t it is a lack on our perception ability.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I wholly agree with innovation in composition - Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (+ many others) excelled in innovation and were sometimes considered downright weird for their time. Even Chopin was considered weird and his music is the easiest to listen to.\u003cp\u003eAs composers, is is\u0026#x2F;was their duty to be innovative, but us, as listeners, should try to assimilate all periods and styles, and the old ones have a depth of feeling that is rare today.","parent":"15225077","id":"15240488"}
{"by":"freyir","time":"1521016710","timestamp":"2018-03-14 08:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Time for Python 4.","parent":"16581552","id":"16583228"}
{"by":"DodgyEggplant","time":"1329027882","timestamp":"2012-02-12 06:24:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"techzing","parent":"3580367","id":"3581261"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1349324154","timestamp":"2012-10-04 04:15:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The larger \"government shouldn't pick winners and losers\" meme is idiotic in the context of alternative energy and green tech. It's basic economics that the market fails to pick efficient winners and losers in industries that involve large negative externalities.","parent":"4610710","id":"4610866"}
{"by":"taborj","time":"1539179774","timestamp":"2018-10-10 13:56:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was gonna say, this sounds like something ripe for others to join in on, thus negating any perceived weirdness.","parent":"18183642","id":"18184855"}
{"by":"klochner","time":"1355245000","timestamp":"2012-12-11 16:56:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But in practice people buy houses with heavy leverage (often only 20% down), meaning that price appreciations have the potential to multiply their capital and more than make up for the price gap widening.","parent":"4903905","id":"4905348"}
{"by":"meowface","time":"1410312638","timestamp":"2014-09-10 01:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Imagine the uproar if Dropbox started removing files from people\u0026#x27;s personal, private folders due to alleged copyright infringement.\u003cp\u003eThey could theoretically do this in a way that doesn\u0026#x27;t really invade privacy (by using only hashes), but the controversy would probably kill Dropbox.","parent":"8285856","id":"8294414"}
{"by":"manarth","time":"1486941236","timestamp":"2017-02-12 23:13:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Even if they have a warrant, you can plead 5th and just not give them the pin.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAnd then languish in jail for a year plus? \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13629728\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13629728\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13631327","id":"13631737"}
{"by":"westoque","time":"1527270166","timestamp":"2018-05-25 17:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I completely agree. But on the flipside, having that control gives you a more secure and robust environment (app store) _almost_ free of spam and phising apps (Windows app store anyone?)","parent":"17152464","id":"17156148"}
{"by":"siddhant","time":"1360235831","timestamp":"2013-02-07 11:17:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft has lost it. If \"scanning email\" is their only concern, they're doing it too, for the purpose of \"prioritizing my privacy\" or whatever. I don't get it why people make a big deal out of all this. As long as private emails are not being read by real people, I doubt most people (who know what \"scanning email\" is) care.","parent":"5181364","id":"5181507"}
{"by":"polyfractal","time":"1326375366","timestamp":"2012-01-12 13:36:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, what should be a simple thing has turned into a usability nightmare.  Why is Google limited the number of people I can add?  Why is there a hard cap of 5000 profiles that I can add total?\u003cp\u003eIf this is supposed to be a social network, why are these limitations in place?","parent":"3455715","id":"3456237"}
{"by":"cannam","time":"1507225953","timestamp":"2017-10-05 17:52:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a four-digit Slashdot ID and I don\u0026#x27;t remember friends and foes. Is it after my time, or is it just that I don\u0026#x27;t remember anything any more?","parent":"15410061","id":"15411063"}
{"by":"alex_hitchins","time":"1516785269","timestamp":"2018-01-24 09:14:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. While I believe their actions are disgraceful, it only adds fuel to their fire. My belief is we need to find a way to understand their concerns as best we can to show them their fears are un-grounded. Even if it was in jest which I fully appreciate, to the \u0026#x27;other side\u0026#x27; it looks like what it was.","parent":"16217497","id":"16221394"}
{"by":"Swizec","time":"1535826002","timestamp":"2018-09-01 18:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People still have personal websites, but they are rarely designed in any special way. Easier to use something that works.\u003cp\u003eAnd the distribution networks greatly penalize personal websites. Anything to stop your friends and followers from clicking away from The Platform. It\u0026#x27;s sad and I believe has killed many a promising blog.\u003cp\u003eAlso this joke has a lot of truth to it: Which of the 2 possible websites are you currently designing?\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;jongold\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;694591217523363840?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;jongold\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;694591217523363840?lang=e...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17892844","id":"17893214"}
{"by":"Noonespecial2","time":"1440995497","timestamp":"2015-08-31 04:31:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No sorry, haven\u0026#x27;t found one. Most articles are either written by Erlang or by Java evangelists. I would wish for a comparision from someone with experience in both and without an agenda.","parent":"10143509","id":"10145422"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1250718412","timestamp":"2009-08-19 21:46:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compare also Talkinator on the instant/free/no-frills end:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://talkinator.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://talkinator.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"773826","id":"773858"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1359427719","timestamp":"2013-01-29 02:48:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can't you just use bcrypt/scrypt and be done with it?","parent":"5131943","id":"5132069"}
{"by":"davidjnelson","time":"1457844794","timestamp":"2016-03-13 04:53:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, or better yet just use a saas ecommerce \u0026#x2F; blog \u0026#x2F;cms software package which gives you a lot of customizability without any programming like wordpress, wix, etc.","parent":"11271811","id":"11276281"}
{"by":"jonmc12","time":"1223681749","timestamp":"2008-10-10 23:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think my point came across as intended, and was probably not the best example either.  Just to be clear.. I ignore homeless people all the time and do not see it as a reflection on my character.\u003cp\u003eMost people that you meet with the ability to help you with your venture will do so - they will give you feedback, make intros, etc - often without the need for anything explicit in return.  Its human nature, and what I would consider a norm for moral character.  I think most people would say that given the resources, they would help anyone they could - everyone has a need for basic altruism.\u003cp\u003eHowever, when you introduce the need to capitalize on this same activity, it requires a change in behavior.  My point was that, the same guy who would help you out for no reason as a norm, the minute he starts doing the same thing for money he does not have the luxury to help you in the same way any more.  Now he has to make a business out of it and be efficient.\u003cp\u003eThat is what I was trying to illustrate.  This ability to be altruistic inherently declines when you have to take on the same role to make profit.  The ability to treat someone well 1) 'who can do you no good' or 2) 'who can not fight back' changes when the bottom line is profit.  It does change the nature of our character, and I think that is inherent to the nature of succeeding in a free market.","parent":"327650","id":"329360"}
{"by":"Fnoord","time":"1511463519","timestamp":"2017-11-23 18:58:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right, it seems not to be based on QEMU code (which is programmed in C) but a full-blown JavaScript implementation of x86-32.","parent":"15765453","id":"15767116"}
{"by":"zimpenfish","time":"1406730836","timestamp":"2014-07-30 14:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hopefully future scholars will quote this as \u0026quot;Peak Betteridge\u0026quot;.","parent":"8108158","id":"8108368"}
{"by":"cm3","time":"1459696574","timestamp":"2016-04-03 15:16:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t know Japan had limitless highways.","parent":"11416294","id":"11416380"}
{"by":"gress","time":"1440723138","timestamp":"2015-08-28 00:52:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely this matters only if Google\u0026#x27;s priority is to avoid criticism.  If you guys believe in keeping end-users safe, it\u0026#x27;s a straightforward decision.","parent":"10132142","id":"10133075"}
{"by":"tomphoolery","time":"1477358797","timestamp":"2016-10-25 01:26:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The start of World War II, how Adolf Hitler came to power in the Weimar Republic, why the Nazis gained power and what motivated them to do what they did. I\u0026#x27;m especially interested in the \u0026quot;unknowing participants\u0026quot; of the Nazi regime, like Wernher von Braun and Albert Speer. People who basically bought in to the ideal of a better German world and didn\u0026#x27;t really consider what that might cost in money, lives, and culture.","parent":"12778836","id":"12784465"}
{"by":"powertower","time":"1347305493","timestamp":"2012-09-10 19:31:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really? Having a centered logo is part of a trade dress? Is it supposed to be 2 inches to the right for everyone else?\u003cp\u003eAnd when you place that centerd logo on a thin form factor display/pc, that becomes a violation? Or is it when you make the keyboard silvery in color? Or is it when you make the frame as thin as possible given the technology and manufacturing capabilities you have at the time?\u003cp\u003eThat's like saying Ford violates Toyota's \"trade dress\" when they combine 4 tires on a car, with an engine somewhere inside, and paint the body red. And the vehicle weighs less that 2000 lbs.\u003cp\u003e4 or 5 standard design choices in combination with one another is not a \"trade dress\" when those choices are generic and have been done a million times before.","parent":"4501670","id":"4501720"}
{"by":"tvon","time":"1271132771","timestamp":"2010-04-13 04:26:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Damn, it's right there isn't it?  Thank you.","parent":"1260791","id":"1261150"}
{"by":"dunpeal","time":"1528779617","timestamp":"2018-06-12 05:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Easier said than done. Lots of people leave school without the faintest clue what they want to do.\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the startup game - building a product, pivoting correctly, building a team, overcoming oowerful rivals - is such a huge challenge, that gaining entry level experience before finishing school is perhaps the most straightforward piece of the puzzle.","parent":"17290769","id":"17290807"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1367063629","timestamp":"2013-04-27 11:53:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but you don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry to start photographing you either do you?\u003cp\u003eHow would you feel if where ever you went someone followed you with a camera pointed at you?","parent":"5617479","id":"5617515"}
{"by":"romeoEtJoliet","time":"1546699076","timestamp":"2019-01-05 14:37:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s more to skin-care than skin aging - some women struggle with acne for hormonal reasons and as a side effect, blemishes.\u003cp\u003eSunscreen is also incredibly useful to prevent sun damage, and moisturizers can prevent deep lines later in life.\u003cp\u003eNone of which is to say that people need to spend an arm and a leg on skin care products, \nbut finding skin-care that works for you might be costly\u003cp\u003e(e.g., finding a moisturizer that is light enough for daily use, a daily sunscreen that doesn\u0026#x27;t make your face look metallic from zinc, a non-prescription retinoid available in a container that won\u0026#x27;t oxidize readily).","parent":"18818350","id":"18831821"}
{"by":"thyrsus","time":"1491711842","timestamp":"2017-04-09 04:24:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The second paper mentions BLACKER and MLS, but nothing about perl.  The closest perl comes to MLS is \u0026quot;taint\u0026quot; mode, but that seems a stretch.  The first paper is pay-walled.  Are you sure you\u0026#x27;re not thinking of SELinux?","parent":"14069320","id":"14070454"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1395169162","timestamp":"2014-03-18 18:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We can also make it bash compatible, and have all the GNU tools available at the address bar... (find www.wikipedia.com --title GNU)... But I don\u0026#x27;t think most people will be able to use it.","parent":"7423478","id":"7424154"}
{"by":"mtarnovan","time":"1482851836","timestamp":"2016-12-27 15:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why was parent downvoted? I\u0026#x27;m seeing the same (503)...","parent":"13261419","id":"13263572"}
{"by":"james_s_tayler","time":"1546630226","timestamp":"2019-01-04 19:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Time enough to write a reply...","parent":"18826382","id":"18826956"}
{"by":"nolok","time":"1454528284","timestamp":"2016-02-03 19:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We also have a similar limit in France, 5000€ too I believe.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Imagine trying to sell a used car or other high asset items like fully loaded computers and Swiss watches. Who is going to take a check?\u003cp\u003eHappens a lot for houses, cars, ... Usually:\u003cp\u003e- Bank transfer\u003cp\u003e- A regular check and wait of the clearance time period before getting the good\u003cp\u003e- A \u0026quot;chèque de banque\u0026quot;, translated to \u0026quot;bank check\u0026quot; I guess, aka a check that is in the name of your bank rather than yours. The banks delivers those in limited amount and\u0026#x2F;or for a fee, and since the bank issuing that check is the one who owns the customer\u0026#x27;s account, they don\u0026#x27;t have a problem checking for the funds.\u003cp\u003eEg: you A want to use an account from you bank B to buy a car from C, instead of making a check marked \u0026quot;A pays C\u0026quot;, you go to your bank, ask them a bank check, they take the money from your account and give you a check \u0026quot;B pays C\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eHaving recently bought a slightly expensive car, that was the rule: either give us a check and wait 3 weeks, or give us a bank check and leave with the car immediately.","parent":"11029001","id":"11029075"}
{"by":"bawana","time":"1518898353","timestamp":"2018-02-17 20:12:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did retail ever deserve to live anyway? What kind of life and satisfaction does one get by selling someone else\u0026#x27;s work? It\u0026#x27;s easy, low skill and is just plain \u0026#x27;busy work\u0026#x27;. Perhaps we are entering the golden age where one\u0026#x27;s worth is more closely related to the value they add to other peoples lives through their real work as human beings - not as middle men (middle people?) The trades for example are thriving.  The food industry is burgeoning. Tourism is growing.Good riddance to mind numbing dehumanizing work - the assembly line, the stock clerk, the delivery person.","parent":"16389342","id":"16402463"}
{"by":"svag","time":"1281728932","timestamp":"2010-08-13 19:48:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just for fun, check this video about Hitler and P vs NP problems...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIodz9GWxc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIodz9GWxc\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1600068","id":"1602038"}
{"by":"mrtron","time":"1398911173","timestamp":"2014-05-01 02:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perfect linkbait title. The details matter tremendously, both companies get a lot of things.","parent":"7677625","id":"7677869"}
{"by":"melling","time":"1293538795","timestamp":"2010-12-28 12:19:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a little disappointing that we didn't get to 20 cores by 2009. We didn't even make it to 8.","parent":"2044949","id":"2045275"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1328620376","timestamp":"2012-02-07 13:12:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, SO is all on one single node? Or are there reverse proxies?\u003cp\u003eI guess the static content is CDN but all dynamic is coming from one machine?\u003cp\u003eOh wait, nevermind (10 Dell R610 IIS web servers)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3560386","id":"3561585"}
{"by":"gfodor","time":"1256671626","timestamp":"2009-10-27 19:27:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd avoid using the terms \"bombs\" or \"explosives\" anywhere within earshot of airport security. Maybe if you use \"Richard Reid\", most of the TSA employees probably don't know who that is.","parent":"906001","id":"906167"}
{"by":"ambition","time":"1217427055","timestamp":"2008-07-30 14:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair the article wasn't a light read.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds to me like they're taking Erlang concepts to the next level and baking them into the fundamental architecture of the OS.","parent":"261676","id":"261821"}
{"by":"infinity0","time":"1455885003","timestamp":"2016-02-19 12:30:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think you properly understood the article or FOSS in general. It is not about protecting a \u0026quot;sacred cow\u0026quot;, it is about protecting the principles without which there will be no FOSS in the first place.\u003cp\u003eWe FOSS devs rightly care less about market share because market share is not, and never has been, what sustains the FOSS ecosystem. What sustains it is the code content that attracts developers from all over the globe to look at it, learn from it, be interested and inspired by it, and the principles of freedom enables them to contribute to it and sustain this cycle.\u003cp\u003e(edit: downvotes are not for comments you disagree with. That\u0026#x27;s what responses are for. Stop abusing the system selfishly.)","parent":"11133060","id":"11133089"}
{"by":"user5994461","time":"1485618171","timestamp":"2017-01-28 15:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never understood why that should be separate people.\u003cp\u003eActually, dont understand how it could be separate people either.","parent":"13504458","id":"13506759"}
{"by":"jwbaker","time":"1344265334","timestamp":"2012-08-06 15:02:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess there's nobody left at Apple who believed in the spirit of this advertisement:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/articles/unixad.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www4.macnn.com/macnn/articles/unixad.jpg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow that the Apple no longer needs to be saved by dorks, the dorks are being thrown overboard.","parent":"4344984","id":"4345451"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1464499093","timestamp":"2016-05-29 05:18:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing in your link suggests they\u0026#x27;ve all given up on the concept.","parent":"11793865","id":"11794923"}
{"by":"craftyguy","time":"1510421450","timestamp":"2017-11-11 17:30:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve heard this several times, but have yet to see a credible source for the claim that \u0026#x27;everyone drank alcohol because it was safer than water.\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eAlcohol is a diuretic, if that was all you drank, you\u0026#x27;d succumb to dehydration.","parent":"15673778","id":"15677178"}
{"by":"JoBrad","time":"1500645002","timestamp":"2017-07-21 13:50:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I absolutely agree that Windows needs a better package manager. But it does have one: PowerShell comes with one, and the Windows Store is finally getting serious attention from major players now that MS has made it easier to port Win32 apps to it. \nThe huge advantage of the Mac and Windows app stores over Linux is that installing a Linux app allows an app to vomit files all over your PC, while MS followed the Mac model with packages that install into a single location. Much cleaner.","parent":"14819916","id":"14820501"}
{"by":"prodigal_erik","time":"1268942326","timestamp":"2010-03-18 19:58:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.\" - Tom Lehrer","parent":"1201576","id":"1202340"}
{"by":"mnutt","time":"1317011648","timestamp":"2011-09-26 04:34:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ExtJS is open source. (GPLv3)  Since Graphite is Apache 2.0, it looks like they're only able to use it due to some sort of exemption from Sencha.\u003cp\u003eI don't know of any total replacements for ExtJS but something like Sproutcore may come close.","parent":"3037468","id":"3037665"}
{"by":"tdubhro1","time":"1344932031","timestamp":"2012-08-14 08:13:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool. How about a bunch of these located in places like the Louvre, the British Museum, that become available to rent when the museums are closed to physically-present tourists?\u003cp\u003eThe timezones work out great for people in the US, and the museums have nothing to lose since it's all incremental revenue.","parent":"4379769","id":"4379908"}
{"by":"nexus123","time":"1413657394","timestamp":"2014-10-18 18:36:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me, 70kb on average looks too much to me if I am basing on Gmail’s statistics. Each page of Gmail is 50 individual email threads (that is, not counting the number of replies).\u003cp\u003eI have a total of 12,592 pages and according to Gmail\u0026#x27;s usage report, 2GB belongs to Gmail and 1.47GB belongs to Google Drive and Photos. So 2GB\u0026#x2F;(50\u003ci\u003e12592) is about 3KB per thread?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant\u0026amp;ion=1\u0026amp;espv=2\u0026amp;ie=UTF-8#q=2GB%2F(50*12592)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant\u0026amp;ion=1\u0026amp;e...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nLet alone the amount of attachments (some are a couple MB).\u003cp\u003eAnd Google said \u0026quot;Attachments sent and received in Gmail as well as your email messages use your storage.” [1]\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/settings/u/1/storage?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;settings\u0026#x2F;u\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;storage?hl=en\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo this number Gmail is showing would be the compressed storage space taken on their side?","parent":"8474035","id":"8475952"}
{"by":"Veratyr","time":"1423201530","timestamp":"2015-02-06 05:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think his point is that when he made the payment, that service did not exist. His payment was for other services (such as unlimited 2 day delivery).\u003cp\u003eNow, without exchanging any further currency or otherwise paying, he receives another service.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d agree that that constitutes free.","parent":"9007575","id":"9007859"}
{"by":"flatline3","time":"1340408192","timestamp":"2012-06-22 23:36:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn't even call it crappy. LinkedIn truly didn't owe them \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"4149274","id":"4149454"}
{"by":"luisp128","time":"1335113070","timestamp":"2012-04-22 16:44:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome idea","parent":"3875269","id":"3875308"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1451392653","timestamp":"2015-12-29 12:37:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, I don\u0026#x27;t mean to besmirch the quality of the \u003ci\u003econtent\u003c/i\u003e of their books. It\u0026#x27;s not the books that people dislike, it\u0026#x27;s the company and some of their business practices - epecially the journal publishing side of things.","parent":"10805083","id":"10806406"}
{"by":"poe876","time":"1530805121","timestamp":"2018-07-05 15:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple is an overrated shithole of a \u0026quot;tech\u0026quot; company.","parent":"17464052","dead":true,"id":"17464102"}
{"by":"teej","time":"1238671270","timestamp":"2009-04-02 11:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just wanted to note that Urban Dictionary actually does this.","parent":"542698","id":"543178"}
{"by":"jsonscripter","time":"1249068270","timestamp":"2009-07-31 19:24:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAfter using namespaces in 5.3 I'm more than sold, I'm in lust\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoah now, it's just a little syntax... relax a little. There's a whole world of programming languages out there with more variations on syntax than you can dream of. Then again, maybe I don't see what the big deal is?","parent":"735050","id":"735158"}
{"by":"kevin_thibedeau","time":"1514869631","timestamp":"2018-01-02 05:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simple rule: At least 50% of your domestic workers need to be citizens or green card holders.","parent":"16049685","id":"16050000"}
{"by":"dundun","time":"1348155621","timestamp":"2012-09-20 15:40:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple's decision to go with an in-house map app has been a long time coming. They've been acquiring mapping companies for the last few years and have been (attempting) to build that core competency so that these kind of issues were minimal when they made the switch.\u003cp\u003eAs far as Google giving them turn-by-turn capabilities-- that's really the special sauce that sets Android apart. It was probably available, but at a price that Apple didn't want to pay. Plus, Apple probably didn't like that they weren't getting their 30% on the revenue from local search in the Google Maps app.\u003cp\u003eSo, in the long run this will work out for Apple. Sure, the users will be affected in the short term and it may never actually be as good as Google Maps.... but hey look, shiny pictures of 3D buildings","parent":"4548313","id":"4549077"}
{"by":"jdsimcoe","time":"1456275187","timestamp":"2016-02-24 00:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you get access to it?","parent":"11159813","id":"11163651"}
{"by":"socratic","time":"1316563206","timestamp":"2011-09-21 00:00:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  I must hunt down and learn to use a QuickCheck-like library for my language.\n\n  If I can't find one, I should write one.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSo what's the (best) equivalent of QuickCheck in Ruby?  In other languages?","parent":"3019729","id":"3020132"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1388121476","timestamp":"2013-12-27 05:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s some really good stuff on this list... A few titles I was aware of, but just had not gotten around to, but there is quite a bit of material on this list that I was totally unfamiliar with as well.  I\u0026#x27;m definitely looking forward to digging into some of it.","parent":"6969455","id":"6969473"}
{"by":"otterley","time":"1477348856","timestamp":"2016-10-24 22:40:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ambiguity in this claim made me chuckle:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The amount of issues we\u0026#x27;ve addressed with Model X has fallen by 92% in the last 12 months...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eDoes that mean their ability to fix existing issues has fallen by 92%?  Or does it mean that the number of outstanding issues has fallen by 92%?\u003cp\u003eWords matter.","parent":"12783328","id":"12783547"}
{"by":"PhasmaFelis","time":"1528923126","timestamp":"2018-06-13 20:52:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe other side is that this \u0026quot;developer\u0026quot; made a game of questionable quality, which received a suspiciously good review\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is false. Details here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17306626\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17306626\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17306683","id":"17306832"}
{"by":"erikb","time":"1532076431","timestamp":"2018-07-20 08:47:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So there is one obscure metric \u0026quot;service is available, i.e. can do its job\u0026quot;, and this metric has different attributes: there are actual metric values (SLIs), there are internal goals (SLOs) and there are legally binding promises (SLAs) to users\u0026#x2F;customers. I would argue that this is not much content here.\u003cp\u003eContent, imo, would be something like this: We define \u0026quot;available\u0026quot; as \u0026quot;processor_load\u0026lt;99% and disk_load\u0026lt;99% and ram_load\u0026lt;99% and server responds with http 200 on port xyz\u0026quot;, because reason_a, reason_b, reason_c. But other people could argue that it is not as much about the node but about how service_x is experienced, so one could track the speed of http responses to user requests and they should be under 0.1sec over 95% of the time. etc...\u003cp\u003eThat you should track metrics, that you should set goals, and that you should define SLAs with your customers\u0026#x2F;users is standard business practice, not new knowledge.","parent":"17567693","id":"17573424"}
{"by":"hprotagonist","time":"1517867870","timestamp":"2018-02-05 21:57:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The good doctor murphy is a mad genius.\u003cp\u003eI laughed very hard indeed when I first read this and got to the last 30 seconds of the video.","parent":"16312317","id":"16312618"}
{"by":"schoash","time":"1349640986","timestamp":"2012-10-07 20:16:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The base is some non grid layout which I have to adapt to be mobile friendlier.\nNo option for using bootstrap I am afraid.","parent":"4621942","id":"4624314"}
{"by":"maxharris","time":"1358720434","timestamp":"2013-01-20 22:20:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"today's mixed economy\"\u003cp\u003eWhat you've written in regard to this point has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. See \u003ca href=\"http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mixed_economy.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mixed_economy.html\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\"The idea that a person's knowledge should be hidden behind paywalls\"\u003cp\u003eA person's knowledge is the result of his own mental and physical effort. The rest of the world, no matter their number, has no right to dictate that he shares his knowledge, nor do they have the right to dictate the terms that he proposes. This is because he has a right to his life. Anything less than that is slavery.\u003cp\u003eMorally speaking, a man does not owe another man a basket of picked cotton just because he happens to be black. In the same way, one man does not owe another man money, a job, a scientific article, or a movie just because he happens to be able. Need is not a valid claim on anyone's life.","parent":"5088425","id":"5088493"}
{"by":"anamax","time":"1242577121","timestamp":"2009-05-17 16:18:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're going to argue that Northern Basque communities near Southern Basques communities is diversity, then a \"little Korea\" next to \"little Manila\", each with more people, qualifies.\u003cp\u003eIt's not a \"monoculture\" so much as a dominant one.  Yes, one can live within the monoculture, but the ability to make that choice doesn't mean that one could choose to live in a large number of cultures within the US.\u003cp\u003eAnd, both monoculture and dominant culture overstates things significantly.  Even if one thinks that NYC is one culture, it's not the same as upstate NY's culture, let any of the ones in Texas.\u003cp\u003eYes, there are lots of places in the US where one can find very similar cultures, but again, that's a choice.  (Ever hear the term \"don't Californicate Colorado/Oregon/Arizona\"?)\u003cp\u003eYou'd think that folks who claim to value diversity would actually practice it given the choice.","parent":"613317","id":"613563"}
{"by":"bulatb","time":"1373536426","timestamp":"2013-07-11 09:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Voters said 63 - 25 percent [that X]\u0026quot; means that 63% agreed with X and 25% did not. I guess the other 12% had no opinion.","parent":"6025202","id":"6025217"}
{"by":"vanderZwan","time":"1482155107","timestamp":"2016-12-19 13:45:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In practice that\u0026#x27;s what I do most of the time anyway, because trying to cut off a car, truck or bus is a much worse idea.","parent":"13207634","id":"13211305"}
{"by":"avdempsey","time":"1293079470","timestamp":"2010-12-23 04:44:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On a personal note, I was raised in a Christian Science family. While devout, my parents were very attentive and I was lucky to have a healthy childhood (though I didn't even try aspirin until I was in college). A philosophy degree at SFSU cured me of that dogma :) but that's part of why I'm sympathetic; I love my dad even if he is a radical.\u003cp\u003eI think parents still have a legal obligation to not be negligent. There's a difference between not providing any care (while playing WOW all day) and doing your Christian Scientist damnedest for your children. A person espouses civil libertarianism not because they hate government, but because they trust people and hold others to the personal commitments they make.","parent":"2033529","id":"2033548"}
{"by":"interstitial","time":"1394442595","timestamp":"2014-03-10 09:09:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Laptop giving you problems, uninstall Skype. iPad giving you problems, uninstall Skype. Skype and the runaway supernode: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=skype+supernode\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=skype+supernode\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7371748","id":"7371928"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1316338240","timestamp":"2011-09-18 09:30:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the reasons why stuff is so much more expensive in Europe than US. The prices are higher, so cash margins per sale still high even if percentage margins might be lower.\u003cp\u003eNow Europe is obviously a place where there is a lot of scope for these businesses.","parent":"3009638","id":"3009864"}
{"by":"rguzman","time":"1348085239","timestamp":"2012-09-19 20:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"maybe i'm really missing the point, but once you attach a keyboard to an ipad you've are bound to have a sub-par user experience.\u003cp\u003ein terms of portability, i see no difference between ipad + kb and a macbook air. heck, i see very little difference between ipad + kb and ipad + macbook air, which is what i carry around. ipad for reading, macbook air for coding and writing.\u003cp\u003eiOS does not seem like an environment designed for people who spend most of their time writing and typing or otherwise creating. rather, it is an environment optimized for what most people do with their computers most of the time: consume information. that doesn't mean you \u003ci\u003ecan't\u003c/i\u003e create on the ipad. OSX, on the other hand, is such an environment. there is no reason to pick either or, you can have both at relatively low cost.","parent":"4543345","id":"4545314"}
{"by":"StreamBright","time":"1510261612","timestamp":"2017-11-09 21:06:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah it would be really bad and luckily never happened in Linux.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;information-technology\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;richard-stallman-calls-ubuntu-spyware-because-it-tracks-searches\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;information-technology\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;richa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15665016","id":"15665880"}
{"by":"rwmj","time":"1531830722","timestamp":"2018-07-17 12:32:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Deflection from Brexit most likely.  Chance of it actually happening, I would say around 0.1%.  There\u0026#x27;ll be no money for anything except airlifting vital food and medicines around once hard Brexit takes hold.","parent":"17549186","id":"17549201"}
{"by":"tokenizer","time":"1355493845","timestamp":"2012-12-14 14:04:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, everyone knows Marc Andreessen has extreme Randist views. I'd say it borders on a Machiavellian worldview, especially considering he's apart of the class which has the most influence, so it's not an evil view, but rather a pragmatic view that would benefit him.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately for him, the idea that the middle class doesn't exist is incorrect. I know because according to some sources, almost half of the world now fits in this class. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class#Recent_growth_of_the_global_middle_class\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class#Recent_growth_of_t...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you also factor in that more and more young people are viewing excess spending and wealth after meeting ones needs as excessive and look down upon it, then you could also point to a future where we actually shift from this purely capitalist view to a more social capital view point.\u003cp\u003eRegardless of what you think, it's all speculation.","parent":"4920878","id":"4920930"}
{"by":"twic","time":"1408659295","timestamp":"2014-08-21 22:14:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, if i understand you correctly, what you\u0026#x27;re saying is that the arrow of time is defined as the direction in which Oracle licenses expire?","parent":"8209919","id":"8209935"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1281496460","timestamp":"2010-08-11 03:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought the closest thing in Git to Mercurial queues was Git stashes.","parent":"1593454","id":"1593695"}
{"by":"bfioca","time":"1298586084","timestamp":"2011-02-24 22:21:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not easy to game in that a lot of the data relies on proportionate comparisons (i.e. time spent in .py files vs. time spent in .java files or on IM). Not only that, but there'll be a level of human interaction involved. If we were going to vouch for a candidate, I'd want to at least look at why we were vouching for them myself, or have someone else audit that conclusion. At this point we're pretty familiar with (and have a lot of reference points for) what a real human usage profile looks like. To your point about the lines of code problem, really the only thing we can do is provide a filtered list of people who we'd be sure spent a certain amount of their time in the technology areas companies are looking to hire in.","parent":"2259996","id":"2260088"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1398210995","timestamp":"2014-04-22 23:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Somewhere between 500-1000 is my gut sense. It may depend a bit on where you\u0026#x27;re located.","parent":"7630657","id":"7631244"}
{"by":"hannofcart","time":"1507867776","timestamp":"2017-10-13 04:09:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A shame really. VimFX is so critical for my workflow that I am not going to upgrade to FFv57 just because of this.","parent":"15462979","id":"15463219"}
{"by":"jede","time":"1391007578","timestamp":"2014-01-29 14:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, good point! It should be \u0026quot;a conference about JavaScript that\u0026#x27;s held in Stockholm\u0026quot; :)","parent":"7144013","id":"7144162"}
{"by":"savanaly","time":"1503594855","timestamp":"2017-08-24 17:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a passive business costs you $1000 on the free market to buy\u0026#x2F;sell (nevermind whether you own it already or not, the opportunity cost of acquiring\u0026#x2F;retaining it is the same for our decision making purposes either way), and it only returns $10 per year, that\u0026#x27;s a 1% return on your $1000.\u003cp\u003eThen you would wish to sell the business and spend the $1000 on a strictly better investment like a T-bill which returns more than 1% per year on a $1000 investment.","parent":"15091536","id":"15091974"}
{"by":"onetwotree","time":"1469465357","timestamp":"2016-07-25 16:49:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The `\u0026#x2F;run` command is pretty essential for debugging mods.  I think that it\u0026#x27;d be a wise idea to disable it by default, and allow an advanced user to change a setting in a file to turn it back on.","parent":"12159718","id":"12159893"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1519231165","timestamp":"2018-02-21 16:39:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My only thought is that there is more to advancing the science than just who starts the first trial.","parent":"16429660","id":"16430697"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1383847461","timestamp":"2013-11-07 18:04:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Yes, we\u0026#x27;re not \u0026quot;like the rest of the civilized world\u0026quot;: this country was founded on valuing individual rights above the whims of the majority.\u003cp\u003eThis is why we fail so badly as a country.\u003cp\u003eYour right to previously underpay for health insurance had ended. Externalized costs are now being internalized. That\u0026#x27;s how insurance works; to spread risk across everyone. Now, if you\u0026#x27;re unhappy with that, I suggest either leaving the country or simply not paying for insurance and paying the IRS-imposed fine. You can then self-insure and absorb any of your healthcare costs yourself.","parent":"6690802","id":"6691065"}
{"by":"dmschulman","time":"1366345358","timestamp":"2013-04-19 04:22:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"80% of life is just showing up.","parent":"5574423","id":"5574803"}
{"by":"kirubakaran","time":"1200414413","timestamp":"2008-01-15 16:26:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First comment? Welcome to YC Hacker News!","parent":"98564","id":"98716"}
{"by":"benchaney","time":"1511950484","timestamp":"2017-11-29 10:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have a better article, but I can try to answer your question.\u003cp\u003eEthereum contracts are executed everywhere that the blockchain is downloaded and verified. They are deterministic, so every execution should return the same result.","parent":"15805785","id":"15805812"}
{"by":"marknutter","time":"1396370442","timestamp":"2014-04-01 16:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could it be that VR has wider applications than just video games?","parent":"7509247","id":"7509584"}
{"by":"devendramistri","time":"1425883570","timestamp":"2015-03-09 06:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clickable: \u003ca href=\"https://dmistri.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/why-statue-maker-had-to-die/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dmistri.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;why-statue-maker-ha...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9169547","id":"9169555"}
{"by":"jared314","time":"1376094421","timestamp":"2013-08-10 00:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just like when I see a CEO start taking away the free soda, I believe he saw this coming. With the amount of money, people, and secrecy put into these programs, eventual scandal was the only possible outcome. Now he has enough political capitol to change things, for better or worse.\u003cp\u003eI expect to be down voted for my opinion, but what are fake internet points worth if you don\u0026#x27;t spend them on something you believe in.","parent":"6188919","id":"6189484"}
{"by":"jakerockland","time":"1484790409","timestamp":"2017-01-19 01:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it\u0026#x27;s nice to learn how to use new tools? Hadn\u0026#x27;t used LaTeX before and saw this as a good learning opportunity for getting started. I\u0026#x27;m confused as to what is wrong with writing this piece with LaTeX?","parent":"13431251","id":"13432271"}
{"by":"vinothgopi","time":"1386340669","timestamp":"2013-12-06 14:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well mac users do rant too. A lot actually.\u003cp\u003eIf not for the title, I think you do have a point here. I\u0026#x27;ve had a mac for close to 6 years now and after each installation\u0026#x2F;upgrade, it feels like I\u0026#x27;m back on my old laptop - nothing seems to have changed drastically. And that is a great thing. You get back to work faster knowing that things have been improved under the hood.","parent":"6860964","id":"6861195"}
{"by":"nyolfen","time":"1498849739","timestamp":"2017-06-30 19:08:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"defense contractor doesn\u0026#x27;t want to use the account where they post about flight control software","parent":"14672855","id":"14673002"}
{"by":"hynahmwxsbyb","time":"1407561966","timestamp":"2014-08-09 05:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a founder, and I get the sense that you\u0026#x27;re supposed to go down with the ship. Which likely means going into debt and declaring bankruptcy. If you\u0026#x27;re not the CEO it\u0026#x27;s probably easier to leave quietly, but make sure you give up most--if not all of your shares. If you\u0026#x27;re the lynchpin and you leave then it may haunt you. Future VCs are going to want to see that you can deal with adversity. Fail fast is only an option if you haven\u0026#x27;t taken external capital. If you have, the expectation is to swim until you hit land or drown.","parent":"8155253","id":"8156274"}
{"by":"xsmasher","time":"1355573593","timestamp":"2012-12-15 12:13:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All other news reports seem to indicate that this Facebook-Ryan is the brother of the killer.","parent":"4924804","id":"4925176"}
{"by":"throwaway5752","time":"1547241629","timestamp":"2019-01-11 21:20:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Source link: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fireeye.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;threat-research\u0026#x2F;2019\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;global-dns-hijacking-campaign-dns-record-manipulation-at-scale.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fireeye.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;threat-research\u0026#x2F;2019\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;global-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18886266","id":"18887163"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1287344075","timestamp":"2010-10-17 19:34:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well then, I'd consider that to be one of those extraordinary claims that demands extraordinary evidence. Something other than hearsay from a dodgy-sounding source.\u003cp\u003eI'm trying to find out about this George B. Leavitt guy. I assume it was this guy:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baker_Leavitt,_Sr\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baker_Leavitt,_Sr\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003ebut he wasn't a physician as claimed, he was a captain and it doesn't mention him having any medical training. Wikipedia also fails to say anything about him examining people for cancer -- if he were really doing so at the rate of one hundred and thirty six per day on average, in between his many other duties (like, say, captaining a whaling ship which would require quite a lot of time spent at sea) then one would think it would have been quite time-consuming.\u003cp\u003eOther googling for \"George Leavitt Cancer\" provides a few repetitions of the same claim (including this thread -- hi there!) but nothing that looks reputable. The original claim seems to come from a book called \"Cancer: Disease of Civilization?\" written by one Vilhjalmur Stefansson who travelled with Leavitt.\u003cp\u003eAlso, your stats aren't quite right. Even if he were examining that many people, he wouldn't expect to detect cancer at nearly the rates that modern medicine would.\u003cp\u003eAlso, that's the cancer incidence rate, not the rate at which you expect to find living people with detectable cancers, since people who do have cancer tend to die, especially in societies where they can't treat it. By the time a cancer becomes big enough to detect via a cursory examination with 19th century technology, it has probably already killed you.","parent":"1800160","id":"1801173"}
{"by":"mcmillion","time":"1423001134","timestamp":"2015-02-03 22:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Atom chugs even with small files, at least when compared to Sublime.","parent":"8992716","id":"8993759"}
{"by":"skmurphy","time":"1218438521","timestamp":"2008-08-11 07:08:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only one that seems to be available is \"The Law Complete\" which is worth reading. A couple of his key laws/observations:\u003cp\u003eWork expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.\u003cp\u003eExpenditure rises to meet income.\u003cp\u003eExpansion means complexity, and complexity decay.\u003cp\u003eDelay is the deadliest form of denial.\u003cp\u003eThe time spent on any item of a committee's agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.  [often short-handed as the \"bike shed\" problem]\u003cp\u003eInjelitance: mangers with incompetence mixed with jealousy ruin many organizations.","parent":"272371","id":"272834"}
{"by":"Aidan_Rushby","time":"1455544092","timestamp":"2016-02-15 13:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi, I agree we cant solve the supply and demand issue around renting a property but we can make it such more transparent, Personal and renter friendly. We are not an estate agent or an aggregation site. Movebubble is here to help and put renters first! we are building products that will enable to renters to have a much more efficient process to rent a property and help them waste less time during this stressful period.","parent":"11103271","dead":true,"id":"11103342"}
{"by":"codexon","time":"1415055501","timestamp":"2014-11-03 22:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"treefrog-thread\t223,033\u003cp\u003eI see a few other languages higher than that.","parent":"8553555","id":"8554124"}
{"by":"anon1385","time":"1363265686","timestamp":"2013-03-14 12:54:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pretty sure the Google brand is already heavily associated with killing products whenever they feel like it, as they did to Code Search, Google Search API (twice), Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Browser Sync, City Tours, Click-to-Call, Google Dashboard Widgets, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Google Mashup Editor, Google Directory, GOOG-411, Joga Bonito, Aardvark, Lively, Music Trends, Ride Finder, Google Shared Stuff, Sidewiki, FastFlip, Google Translate API, Writely, Google Health, PowerMeter, Google University Search, U.S. Government Search, Slide products (Disco, Pool Party, Video Inbox, Photovine, Slideshow, SuperPoke! Pets), Google Pack, Image Labeller, Google Dictionary and now Google Reader.","parent":"5374599","id":"5374625"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1480711986","timestamp":"2016-12-02 20:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The idea is that they were \u0026quot;settled\u0026quot; in a sense, they just didn\u0026#x27;t have agriculture (maybe).\u003cp\u003eImproving technology (e.g. archery, fishing) could have (albeit temporarily) given hunter-gatherers an overabundance of food which created a demand for increased storage and division of labor which might give you increased communication, trade and domination of nearby groups through force.","parent":"13090628","id":"13092185"}
{"by":"jasonvorhe","time":"1492949998","timestamp":"2017-04-23 12:19:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m rocking a Seiko SKX007. It was cheap, it\u0026#x27;s robust, it\u0026#x27;s not too big and it looks awesome on a NATO strap.\u003cp\u003eIn a few years it\u0026#x27;ll be joined by a Submariner 14060M, if I can find one in good condition at a good price point.","parent":"14177646","id":"14177870"}
{"by":"BoorishBears","time":"1478379856","timestamp":"2016-11-05 21:04:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A little off topic but I also got my start on graphing calculators (Ti 83 plus)!\u003cp\u003eAnd your experience mirrored mine as far as external interest, outside of games and in my case, programs that \u0026quot;did the homework for you\u0026quot;, no one really cared about the process of making them, it was all about if the end result was something they could use","parent":"12881817","id":"12881881"}
{"by":"grahamel","time":"1448283110","timestamp":"2015-11-23 12:51:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah sorry, only saw that after posting","parent":"10613780","id":"10614272"}
{"by":"awesomerobot","time":"1464376846","timestamp":"2016-05-27 19:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Car insurance providers discriminate against young drivers for similar reasons: you\u0026#x27;re more risky. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t entrust the care of my entire house to college students.","parent":"11788209","id":"11788256"}
{"by":"buckhx","time":"1480627592","timestamp":"2016-12-01 21:26:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GRPC requires http2 which is only supported by ALB and not ELB. Our services are mostly GRPC so lack of ALB means we can\u0026#x27;t use k8s out of ths box on AWS if that adds any fuel to the fire.","parent":"13083364","id":"13083671"}
{"by":"RubenSandwich","time":"1512748809","timestamp":"2017-12-08 16:00:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m also an engineer who has had to interview. My question to you is: how do you filter through 100 people each with 6 pages resumes? I\u0026#x27;d rather have 1 page, 2 max, because I have to filter through a bunch of people in a short amount of time.\u003cp\u003eI did the math once and for the initial filter which was the resume scan, I and another person gave about 1 1\u0026#x2F;2 minutes per applicant and it still took an hour! I doubt in the future I\u0026#x27;ll get any more time so please make it scannable in ~1 1\u0026#x2F;2 minutes.","parent":"15879527","id":"15879568"}
{"by":"grzm","time":"1479662244","timestamp":"2016-11-20 17:17:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;I would agree that they are distinct, but very much related.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSure. If they weren\u0026#x27;t, you wouldn\u0026#x27;t have put forth the example you did.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;how about this t-shirt of Mickey\u0026#x2F;Heart\u0026#x2F;Flag:\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t understand what you\u0026#x27;re getting at (nor am I interested in defining the working attire policy of GrubHub). My point was that there can be a meaningful distinction between nationalism and wearing a \u0026quot;I \u0026lt;3 America\u0026quot; T-shirt, which it looked like you were equating. If you have a point, please make it.","parent":"12999712","id":"12999860"}
{"by":"acjohnson55","time":"1414783036","timestamp":"2014-10-31 19:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a fair point. Being able to differentiate complex directives from attributes greatly helps separate the concerns visually.","parent":"8509287","id":"8540566"}
{"by":"mark_h","time":"1442555123","timestamp":"2015-09-18 05:45:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if it supports jupyter (I haven\u0026#x27;t used either in a while), but ein for emacs is pretty cool: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tkf.github.io\u0026#x2F;emacs-ipython-notebook\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tkf.github.io\u0026#x2F;emacs-ipython-notebook\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10235139","id":"10237664"}
{"by":"Metrop0218","time":"1384976359","timestamp":"2013-11-20 19:39:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They didn\u0026#x27;t \u0026#x27;cave\u0026#x27; on the YouTube app. Google wouldn\u0026#x27;t allow it and was using it as a means to wage ecosystem warfare.\u003cp\u003eIt was a pretty stupid\u0026#x2F;ugly fight that went back and forth: \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4624706/google-blocks-window-phone-youtube-app\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;4624706\u0026#x2F;google-blocks-wind...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6770298","id":"6770563"}
{"by":"roundsquare","time":"1268721686","timestamp":"2010-03-16 06:41:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone know a good book for non-introductory statistics?","parent":"1193352","id":"1195192"}
{"by":"magicalist","time":"1394055311","timestamp":"2014-03-05 21:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, that\u0026#x27;s interesting. I hadn\u0026#x27;t heard that before. It is a maximum size of 16383x16383[1], so it\u0026#x27;s more than practical for retina displays, but I can see the point about files in 20 years (for reference, jpegs can be 4x that in each dimension, 65535×65535).\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t heard that brought up as an objection to the format before, though. If it were really a fundamental stumbling block, there are likely ways to adapt the format around it.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#what_is_the_maximum_size_a_webp_image_can_be\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developers.google.com\u0026#x2F;speed\u0026#x2F;webp\u0026#x2F;faq#what_is_the_max...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7350049","id":"7350115"}
{"by":"twiss","time":"1423443026","timestamp":"2015-02-09 00:50:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In other words, to have a perfect forgery you must not know it is a forgery. If you could screen for knowing that a bill is a forgery, it would be useless to make one (since you could not spend it, since you knew it was a forgery). Bummer we can\u0026#x27;t. \u0026#x2F;s","parent":"9018677","id":"9019246"}
{"by":"dspillett","time":"1438867130","timestamp":"2015-08-06 13:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure \u003ci\u003eevery\u003c/i\u003e registrar does this. It is in their interest: they remind you to pay so they get your money instead of some other registra getting a poacher\u0026#x27;s money.\u003cp\u003eA key problem is people not seeing the reminders. Perhaps they get lost in a sea of spam. Perhaps they get accidently calssifed as spem themselves. Perhaps the contact information for the domain isn\u0026#x27;t kept up-to-date and the reminders end up in an email account that is no longer monitored.","parent":"10016108","id":"10016163"}
{"by":"hkmurakami","time":"1511713907","timestamp":"2017-11-26 16:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ideals over first principles seems to be their MO","parent":"15781155","id":"15781599"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1355464903","timestamp":"2012-12-14 06:01:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A solution to an accurate measurement of longitude for shipping was one of the biggest scientific problems of the time and involved some of the brightest minds in the world working over decades and centuries.\u003cp\u003eAfter losing almost 2,000 sailors and 4 Navy ships in an accident attributed to poor navigation, the British government offered the Longitude Prize - which was worth millions of dollars in todays money.\u003cp\u003eFrom Gallileo and his method of timekeeping by tracking the moons of Jupiter, through to John Harrison and his invention of the chronometer - which ended up winning most of the Longitude Prize - the effort that went into finding a solution had many side effects for science and the solution opened up the world to better navigation and the eventual colonization.\u003cp\u003eThe entire story is chronicled in the book 'Longitude'[0], which was a best seller in 1998. It is well worth a read. Wikipedia is also a good starting point for finding out more.[1]\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-Problem/dp/080271529X\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-P...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4919594","id":"4919818"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1489184327","timestamp":"2017-03-10 22:18:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if you could grab the center aisle life raft on the way out. If you could keep it under you after inflating it, not only would it provide more surface area and so a slower terminal velocity but it would also absorb energy when you hit by popping and create a wider deceleration profile so limiting the g-force of the impact.","parent":"13839177","id":"13842656"}
{"by":"PuercoPop","time":"1408648770","timestamp":"2014-08-21 19:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know about Swift but equating  a REPL to interactivity is a horrible disservice to Lisp (and Smalltalk).\u003cp\u003eFor example, Python has a REPL but it is not very well suited for interactive programming. For example Python does not handle you redefining a module after you import it without some voodoo. Nor it has forward references. For example in Lisp I can define a method that especialices on a class I haven\u0026#x27;t yet defined. Or define a function that calls function B which I will define later in the code. Nor have  I seen something akin the slime Inspector and presentations, which are not quite there as the Symbolics Genera environment for interactive programming","parent":"8207833","id":"8209093"}
{"by":"sordidasset","time":"1496951510","timestamp":"2017-06-08 19:51:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t get the finance degree. Everything they teach you will be theory that is literally from the 1950s and has been empirically proven incorrect. Almost all the jobs open to you will require you to be fundamentally dishonest.\u003cp\u003eGo for a math or CS degree.","parent":"14479814","id":"14516702"}
{"by":"leon_","time":"1302155987","timestamp":"2011-04-07 05:59:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"calls by function pointers can't be resolved at compile time and thus won't be optimized. depending on the program you're working on you might want to consider this.","parent":"2417864","id":"2418393"}
{"by":"drostie","time":"1359997463","timestamp":"2013-02-04 17:04:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given that they might not have very good CSS skill, you might embed a CSS comment or CSS properties which look like they do something but don't -- a would-be stealer probably wouldn't delete something which they didn't understand.","parent":"5165163","id":"5165281"}
{"by":"oldandtired","time":"1526620044","timestamp":"2018-05-18 05:07:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In that 40 years, you will have seen all sorts of things come to the fore and then fade back into the background as the next \u0026quot;big\u0026quot; thing comes along. What most have not seen is that these are tools that we can use to solve the problem-space problems placed before us. The point about abstraction and choosing the right abstraction for the problem at hand requires each of us to be able to communicate clearly with the problem domain subject matter experts and understand what they need from us.\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding what kinds of abstractions are available to us and how to apply is important. There is a proviso however, and this is where even though two problems may seem to be similar and could be usefully use the same abstraction, one must understand the problem space ramifications of those abstractions as the divergences can often come back and bite you.\u003cp\u003eOver the decades, many tools have been developed and each of them has some use in our toolbox, whether it be top-down design, bottom-up design, refactoring, objects, values, functional programming, assembly programming, static typing,  dynamic typing, etc., etc., etc.\u003cp\u003eThey do not have universal application, unless of course, your favourite is a hammer and everything is a nail. These tools allow us to solve different kinds of problems in a less laborious way.\u003cp\u003eIf anything, the last forty years has shown me that, as a whole, each generation of programmers is unable to learn from the previous generations. We get so caught up in our various wars over which languages or techniques are the bee\u0026#x27;s knees that we often forget that we are supposed to become craftsmen and craftswomen, able to solve the problems placed before us using whatever tools are available.\u003cp\u003eEach of us will have favourite tools, but we had all better be prepared to be competent and pick up whatever tools we are given and solve the problems before us.","parent":"17097652","id":"17098859"}
{"by":"AstralStorm","time":"1497457940","timestamp":"2017-06-14 16:32:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The latter is a lie for more advanced scripts like what OpenRC provides.","parent":"14553703","id":"14553853"}
{"by":"kuzmin","time":"1473807794","timestamp":"2016-09-13 23:03:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here :)","parent":"12492899","id":"12492954"}
{"by":"epi0Bauqu","time":"1217021133","timestamp":"2008-07-25 21:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel the same way about Y Combinator.  People like me are self-excluded because of our current life parameters/priorities, most notably family.  I also completely understand why it is set up the way it is, but nevertheless I have a hunch that there are significant missed opportunities on both sides (i.e., good investments passed up and good startups less successful because of it).\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, some of the structure seems more geared towards first time entrepreneurs. In the case of a more experienced entrepreneur, it would seem that a more relaxed structure might be acceptable (and in some cases even appropriate).  I don't need to get more material about the legal aspects of how companies work, for example.  But I'm sure I would benefit from focused conversations about my product offerings.","parent":"257019","id":"257116"}
{"by":"harold","time":"1371604941","timestamp":"2013-06-19 01:22:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just google \u0026quot;fiery car crash\u0026quot; and you\u0026#x27;ll see it is unfortunately fairly common.","parent":"5903009","id":"5903179"}
{"by":"prostoalex","time":"1319678388","timestamp":"2011-10-27 01:19:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People usually put an equality sign between high-frequency trading and algorithmic trading. One is a subset of another.\u003cp\u003eThere's also a subset of algorithmic trading that inserts large stop-loss orders (not much of an algorithm there, it's just done by computer program instead of an individual), which have been known to cause flash crashes.\u003cp\u003eHence the confusion and belief that by eliminating HFT we'll eliminate automatic stop-loss orders.","parent":"3160960","id":"3161223"}
{"by":"glhaynes","time":"1498071123","timestamp":"2017-06-21 18:52:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMO, the screenshots on your App Store page do a great job of progressively disclosing details on the app starting from its primary value proposition.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m enjoying the app, which is very nice! I think it, too, could make its bundled content a bit more upfront without losing the emphasis on DIY.","parent":"14606570","id":"14606823"}
{"by":"macintux","time":"1523002318","timestamp":"2018-04-06 08:11:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Re: \u0026quot;saloon\u0026quot;, by happenstance Jalopnik posted an article on the subject a couple of hours before your comment.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jalopnik.com\u0026#x2F;this-is-why-we-call-cars-sedans-limousines-and-saloon-1825025822\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jalopnik.com\u0026#x2F;this-is-why-we-call-cars-sedans-limousi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16769293","id":"16771744"}
{"by":"Reedx","time":"1531775616","timestamp":"2018-07-16 21:13:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m hoping there\u0026#x27;s a point where people are going to say, no... an old 1 bedroom apartment isn\u0026#x27;t worth $4k\u0026#x2F;mo. And where we collectively realize that maybe it\u0026#x27;s not great to be sending so much of our money to landlords.","parent":"17544985","id":"17545186"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1499957250","timestamp":"2017-07-13 14:47:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On July 27, you\u0026#x27;ll be able to buy an Alienware Area-51 with Threadripper.","parent":"14761443","id":"14761681"}
{"by":"qwertyuiop924","time":"1473629654","timestamp":"2016-09-11 21:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s pretty cool.\u003cp\u003eDo you think you can get it to support Manta? I think a lot of people in that ecosystem could benefit from it if you could. I\u0026#x27;d help, but I don\u0026#x27;t really know Java all that well :-(.","parent":"12474279","id":"12475857"}
{"by":"zimpenfish","time":"1518171860","timestamp":"2018-02-09 10:24:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know a database that\u0026#x27;s using InnoDB tables but also has no foreign keys and, indeed, JOINs are forbidden.\u003cp\u003e(And yes, the workflow does include actions that involve multiple tables in one go.)","parent":"16338565","id":"16339209"}
{"by":"rossgardler","time":"1478570448","timestamp":"2016-11-08 02:00:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no additional charge aver and above the normal Azure compute charges (I\u0026#x27;m the PM for this work in Azure)","parent":"12894877","id":"12897010"}
{"by":"braythwayt","time":"1434626360","timestamp":"2015-06-18 11:19:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  I don\u0026#x27;t want my home invaded by Google.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nBut think of the benefits!\u003cp\u003eThey can see what you watch on TV and use that to tailer offerings and discounts. They can see what brands you wear. They can see what you read. They can transcribe what you talk about.\u003cp\u003eAll of this is about to immensely improve their ability to offer you relevant brands and services. Yay!","parent":"9737809","id":"9737850"}
{"by":"rdouble","time":"1309117256","timestamp":"2011-06-26 19:40:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amsterdam is neat but the Dutch hackers I know all choose to live in California because of the weather.","parent":"2698246","id":"2698879"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1267923436","timestamp":"2010-03-07 00:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason for that is that advertising is market driven, those that make the most money off a user are the ones that will pay the most for a spot.\u003cp\u003eRebills and upsells are a way to make a lot of money from a single signup so that's why those advertisers pay top dollar.\u003cp\u003eAnd as long as the credit card companies allow scammers to operate this will continue.","parent":"1172585","id":"1172614"}
{"by":"mikekchar","time":"1435295109","timestamp":"2015-06-26 05:05:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As others have said, it isn\u0026#x27;t hard at all.  It\u0026#x27;s just Git.  You can host your Git projects anywhere you want.  To be fair, Github has reasonable prices and even though I complain about the strange UI, there is a lot of good functionality.  The strangely named \u0026quot;Network Graph\u0026quot; has saved my butt more than once.\u003cp\u003eI have been thinking, though, that I don\u0026#x27;t like the workflow associated with commenting out of band.  I would really prefer that people comment by making a branch and modifying my PR (either with code comments or just fixing the problems directly).  If I knew how to do that efficiently, I probably would have almost no attachment left to GH.","parent":"9776610","id":"9782595"}
{"by":"MrTonyD","time":"1502213701","timestamp":"2017-08-08 17:35:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was recently reading that there are estimated to be 6 billion people in the world who want jobs, and estimated to be 2 billion jobs. So advice to \u0026quot;leave your employer\u0026quot; reflects a very narrow world view - a view from those having privilege, and without empathy for those with different choices.","parent":"14957788","id":"14960248"}
{"by":"webmaven","time":"1405356267","timestamp":"2014-07-14 16:44:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should probably check out Kombu, Pika, carrot, QAM, Puka, etc.","parent":"8029478","id":"8031771"}
{"by":"kloncks","time":"1301932897","timestamp":"2011-04-04 16:01:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The copy on the re-direct page is bothering me a bit. Anyone else?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou're being shared Gumroad!\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the \"You're being shared\". Sounds confusing.","parent":"2406614","id":"2407086"}
{"by":"nn3","time":"1400431735","timestamp":"2014-05-18 16:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The exploits today are written for admin-rights account, because most people use that. But I\u0026#x27;m sure there are plenty of non-admin-\u0026gt;admin holes too. If running as non admin became wide spread the exploits would just need to add an additional step to become admin after they exploited the non admin user. Thus would be a short term improvement at best.","parent":"7763382","id":"7763511"}
{"by":"jeffdavis","time":"1456209830","timestamp":"2016-02-23 06:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t one \u0026quot;real\u0026quot; problem. You are talking about one problem, and rust solves another. I don\u0026#x27;t see any reason your comment needs to be framed as a contradiction to the OP.","parent":"11156172","id":"11157041"}
{"by":"tsotha","time":"1433393565","timestamp":"2015-06-04 04:52:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never?  No, not never.  Do we prop them all up like he implies?","parent":"9657450","id":"9657507"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1544492493","timestamp":"2018-12-11 01:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. If you\u0026#x27;d review and follow \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e, we\u0026#x27;d appreciate it.\u003cp\u003eCompensation is an intense topic for obvious reasons. There is a lot of variance in the data and it is anything but transparent. It\u0026#x27;s not surprising that people would create accounts to post sensitive information about it. I haven\u0026#x27;t seen examples of abuse in this area, but if you or anyone think you\u0026#x27;re seeing some, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate.","parent":"18646218","id":"18652720"}
{"by":"fluxxingMoron","time":"1530331893","timestamp":"2018-06-30 04:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And thus people have internet to check a status page.","parent":"17426867","dead":true,"id":"17429431"}
{"by":"Fricken","time":"1465323896","timestamp":"2016-06-07 18:24:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026#x27;Warlords of Draenor\u0026#x27; [1] cinematic Blizzard used to promote it\u0026#x27;s 2014 WOW update was badass. I mean, I conventionally dislike stuff of that nature, I\u0026#x27;m no WOW player, but the short got right what everybody else gets wrong.\u003cp\u003eSo I was accidentally excited for the feature film it inspired. The older I get, the less frequent appearances by my inner 12 year old become, so it\u0026#x27;s always refreshing when it happens. My worldview has never been so self-assured as it was the day before I hit puberty.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, when the trailer for the feature descended it revealed itself to be another cringeworthy iteration  of the sanitized pablum we\u0026#x27;ve come to expect from Hollywood. Once again the big studios just can\u0026#x27;t be trusted to resist the urge to bashfully position figleafs over the patriotic nerd-genitals that inseminated this monstrosity.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;TLzhlsEFcVQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;TLzhlsEFcVQ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11855598","id":"11856549"}
{"by":"mjcohen","time":"1523806835","timestamp":"2018-04-15 15:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then I think that you would enjoy \u0026quot;Last and First Men and Star Maker\u0026quot; by Olaf Stapeldon.\u003cp\u003eAvailable quite reasonably at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Last-First-Men-Star-Maker\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0486219623\u0026#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1523806615\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=last+and+first+men+and+star+maker\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Last-First-Men-Star-Maker\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;04862196...\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"16840712","id":"16843113"}
{"by":"Robin_Message","time":"1285567174","timestamp":"2010-09-27 05:59:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought you were inventing functional reactive programming, but then I saw it was relational. But I think, due to the relational aspect, you end up achieving the same thing. Anyone interested in this should also look at Jonathan Edwards paper, Coherent Reaction \u003ca href=\"http://coherence-lang.org/Onward09.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://coherence-lang.org/Onward09.pdf\u003c/a\u003e which takes a similar look at separating control, but achieves it in a more imperative looking language.","parent":"1730320","id":"1730868"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1483439711","timestamp":"2017-01-03 10:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But why recursive data structures?\u003cp\u003e(Both a recursion joke and a Zoolander joke)","parent":"13304487","id":"13308230"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1410714102","timestamp":"2014-09-14 17:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; P.S. Check out this Hacker News post to discuss and\u0026#x2F;or upvote!\u003cp\u003ePlease don\u0026#x27;t do this. It\u0026#x27;s against the rules (\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsfaq.html\u003c/a\u003e) and will get your story penalized, along with (in many cases) your account and\u0026#x2F;or the accounts who voted for it.","parent":"8315086","id":"8315611"}
{"by":"Fifer82","time":"1533344750","timestamp":"2018-08-04 01:05:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not 100% sure why people are discussing their individual styling preference. Keep what you have. Thank you for sharing.","parent":"17684757","id":"17684817"}
{"by":"jimbokun","time":"1236780490","timestamp":"2009-03-11 14:08:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond about this.  Ray buys his dad a really nice, new CD system along with CDs of his favorite music.  His dad hates it, they get in a big argument, and the episode ends with the dad in the basement listening to the scratchy sounds of his old record player with his eyes closed, obviously taken back to memories of his youth.","parent":"511631","id":"511754"}
{"by":"downandout","time":"1453805248","timestamp":"2016-01-26 10:47:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The flipside of that is having people with lenghty but minor criminal records doing life without the possibility of parole for drastic offenses such as being the middleman for a $10 marijuana transaction, or stealing a $160 jacket [1].  I would gladly accept a rise in petty crime to not live in a country where such barbaric sentences for nonviolent crimes are even possible.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aclu.org\u0026#x2F;report\u0026#x2F;living-death-life-without-parole-nonviolent-offenses\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aclu.org\u0026#x2F;report\u0026#x2F;living-death-life-without-parole...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10972694","id":"10972773"}
{"by":"rauhl","time":"1541772378","timestamp":"2018-11-09 14:06:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Like how is it in the interest of handset manufacturers to let you have a general purpose computer that could run unsigned (by them) code?\u003cp\u003ePerhaps naïvely, I imagine that selling me hardware is in their interest.  Is control of what runs on the hardware they manufacture really worth more than selling that hardware more widely?  Granted, there aren’t a whole lot of us who want to run our own OSes, but we \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e exist.  How much money do the manufacturers make by maintaining control?\u003cp\u003eOr do they keep it because of contracts (perhaps like HDMI or other copyright-monopoly-enforcing standards) requiring them to prevent users from owning their hardware?","parent":"18411251","id":"18414376"}
{"by":"Silhouette","time":"1440866104","timestamp":"2015-08-29 16:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eBecause in some devices, to restrict the baseband from interfering, you also have to lock down the OS to the point where the user can’t modify it.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think \u0026quot;My decisions have made it hard for me to comply with this reasonable regulation so I shouldn\u0026#x27;t have to\u0026quot; is a very good argument.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople should be punished for doing illegal stuff, not for being able to do illegal stuff.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is not much constructive use for something that would breach these regulations. Contrary to some of the FUD being posted in this thread, the regulations don\u0026#x27;t appear to be about custom firmware for the UIs or even signalling on a device. They\u0026#x27;re about the control software for the radio itself, to ensure it plays nicely with everyone else. That software is typically extensively tested and certified before being licensed for use, and any supplier whose software didn\u0026#x27;t work properly in the field could expect a very rapid and unsympathetic response from the authorities.\u003cp\u003eWhat a lot of people fail to understand is how disruptive a radio device that doesn\u0026#x27;t follow the standards can be. I worked for a radio network operator for a while. One day I got into work to find there were widespread reports of radios not operating properly across a major city. Someone was transmitting something out of spec and causing sufficient interference to effectively bring down the whole network. Do you know what happens at that point?\u003cp\u003eThis is what happened that day. Real people got into real vehicles and started moving around a search pattern with relatively crude sensors, trying to locate the source of the interference. And then when they found it, they had to figure out how to shut it off. That involved gaining access to premises where the rogue device was located. Ideally you do that with the consent of the residents, because the operator of the rogue device may not even realise that it\u0026#x27;s not behaving correctly. Worst case, you\u0026#x27;re looking at forcing entry, which means bringing in other public services who are allowed to do that sort of thing with the appropriate  authorisations, which in turn have to be sought from the appropriate authorities before anyone can move. And then once you\u0026#x27;ve got into the premises you still have to find the device itself, and then you have to figure out how to turn it off.\u003cp\u003eContrary to any movies you\u0026#x27;ve seen, this process can take a considerable time, probably at least several hours unless you\u0026#x27;re very lucky. During that time \u003ci\u003ethe entire system\u003c/i\u003e will be operating at reduced capacity, if at all. Think about the range of a modern cell phone, and consider that any device that can transmit over that range can also interfere with the control channel for any signalling system within its range. Also consider that we\u0026#x27;re talking about changes that might increase the power and therefore the range of the device, or might change the device so it\u0026#x27;s using different frequencies and disrupting other forms of transmission\u0026#x2F;communication, not just whatever it was designed to work with originally.\u003cp\u003eBottom line: even one small rogue device on a radio network can cause serious disruption over a wide area, and not all devices covered by these regulations will be small or have relatively low-powered transmitters. Imagine a whole city block or business park where wireless devices didn\u0026#x27;t work all day. Imagine a whole city where mobile\u0026#x2F;cell phones weren\u0026#x27;t reliable. Imagine a major incident where emergency services couldn\u0026#x27;t communicate properly to co-ordinate their response because their radios didn\u0026#x27;t work, or where the entire response was delayed by several minutes because no-one could find a landline to even call the emergency services in the first place. You get the idea. And just to be clear, this is not some paranoid fear of a hypothetical problem. It actually happens, just fortunately not very often, thanks in large part to the kind of regulatory regime we\u0026#x27;re talking about here.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s true that with any sort of government regulation you have limitations on individual freedom. Laws do that, and should never be made lightly. But at the risk of ending on an inflammatory note, consider that while people can hold strong views on whether private individuals should be allowed by law to own and shoot guns, and reasonable people can debate the pros and cons of that, no reasonable person thinks it\u0026#x27;s a good idea for anyone who wants one to be allowed a WMD where they can push a button and kill everyone in a city. There simply aren\u0026#x27;t any good uses for that kind of technology, and the damage one person can cause to others is wildly disproportionate to any personal freedom given up by someone who for some reason wants such a device even though they can never use it. Obviously I\u0026#x27;m not suggesting the threat from a rogue radio transmitter is comparable to the threat from a nuclear bomb, but it really is a significant risk and even potentially a matter of life and death.","parent":"10140199","id":"10140531"}
{"by":"kevin_thibedeau","time":"1492565177","timestamp":"2017-04-19 01:26:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As abhorrent as the situation is, the body shops are only taking advantage of a legal windfall that American corporate greed has lobbied for. The system has been rigged. You can\u0026#x27;t completely blame the actors taking advantage of it.","parent":"14144618","id":"14144696"}
{"by":"elad","time":"1213427641","timestamp":"2008-06-14 07:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not. You're looking for gigs, which means networking, interviewing etc. Marketing yourself essentially.\nVacation is when you don't work.","parent":"217376","id":"217425"}
{"by":"jalk","time":"1492872845","timestamp":"2017-04-22 14:54:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"audiopathic behavior","parent":"14172429","id":"14172819"}
{"by":"lalos","time":"1528149810","timestamp":"2018-06-04 22:03:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple\u0026#x27;s large chunk of revenue comes from hardware sales with huge margins. Around 10% would come from app store last time I checked. Google\u0026#x27;s large chunk of revenue comes from ads, also around the 90% mark.","parent":"17232874","id":"17233031"}
{"by":"Arnt","time":"1505817409","timestamp":"2017-09-19 10:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are two unstated assumptions here: 1) She had the organizational power to order patching and rollout (which is more than the power to prevent a rollout). 2) She didn\u0026#x27;t try.\u003cp\u003eYou may be right. But.","parent":"15283278","id":"15283312"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1361275058","timestamp":"2013-02-19 11:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That should be hard to believe, save for my honed cynicism.  Could you please elaborate?","parent":"5243701","id":"5243831"}
{"by":"Bradenski","time":"1529776278","timestamp":"2018-06-23 17:51:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve tried the take home mask, and it was very uncomfortable to sleep with. I did wake up once in a way I normally don\u0026#x27;t, so I felt the study was invalid at that point. Surely the technology has changed in 5 years, but for light sleepers like myself, sleep studies with equipment attached to your body don\u0026#x27;t feel like fair trials. MRI sleep studies can be an option, and if I had to do it again I think that would be optimal for me.","parent":"17381735","id":"17382392"}
{"by":"kenjackson","time":"1277841716","timestamp":"2010-06-29 20:01:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty much what you describe is my point.  That is why the common paradigm in HPC was that you used OpenMP on a node (shared memory model) and MPI across nodes.  It's not difficult to do MPI on a node, but nobody wanted to do that.  And there were several attempts to put OpenMP on clusters.  The most recent one I know of being Intel (\u003ca href=\"http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/28/58/285865_285865.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/28/58/285865_285865.pdf\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eI think it is still a little analogous.  The main takeaway is that message passing doesn't make things easy. I've spent many of days debugging message passing applications.  You often trade-in one type of problem for another.  If anyone is interested in more detail, I can go into an example or two.","parent":"1472016","id":"1472587"}
{"by":"lprubin","time":"1343404038","timestamp":"2012-07-27 15:47:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn't say you're an accomplice in that most likely you were raised to eat meat.  From the time you were a small child you've been conditioned to be OK or maybe even to love eating  meat.  You've also had the terrible conditions of the factory farming industry hidden from you.  Because of this I don't think anybody can be blamed for eating meat.  But I do think that once those conditions and factors are brought to your attention that people should have a long think about the situation and really spend some time deciding if they want to continue to support such practices.","parent":"4301445","id":"4301970"}
{"by":"rodgerd","time":"1427306342","timestamp":"2015-03-25 17:59:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  I\u0026#x27;m not aware there being other DB with something like flashback.\u003cp\u003ePostgresql had it long before Oracle, but it was dropped as being too much of a hassle to maintain somewhere in the 7-\u0026gt;8 transition IIRC.","parent":"9262275","id":"9264685"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1340730575","timestamp":"2012-06-26 17:09:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every society is \"democratic\" in the sense that the people with the power and desire to rule are the ones who make the rules. Of course, a person without a gun has less power than a person with a gun, and a person with a fighter jet is more powerful still. So, if by \"democratic\" you mean all individuals having an \u003ci\u003eequal\u003c/i\u003e voice, then I would say that fascism is by no means a demonstration of democracy working. Of course, if a significantly large and powerful group of people in a democratic society want to switch to fascism, it will almost certainly happen, and I guess the \u003ci\u003emorality\u003c/i\u003e of fascism is another argument altogether.","parent":"4161433","id":"4162956"}
{"by":"jaddison","time":"1265088625","timestamp":"2010-02-02 05:30:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have the opportunity to work with the startup on the side?  (I realize this might be hard with family and other commitments)\u003cp\u003eMaybe you can take on a reduced capacity role at your current place of employment in order to make time for the 'new' something?\u003cp\u003eI'd say you have a few options, but they all require some level of sacrifice - but you'll probably enjoy the startup life!  ;)","parent":"1094285","id":"1094379"}
{"by":"anngrant","time":"1484170301","timestamp":"2017-01-11 21:31:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Squarespace can be a good alternative to WordPress. Both have the potential to help you create beautiful and powerful websites. Though WordPress is more flexible \u0026amp; customizable especially with plugins. I\u0026#x27;ve just downloaded a cool WP theme for my website - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.templatemonster.com\u0026#x2F;wordpress-themes\u0026#x2F;monstroid2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.templatemonster.com\u0026#x2F;wordpress-themes\u0026#x2F;monstroid2....\u003c/a\u003e . It\u0026#x27;s a multipurpose theme that can be used for creating any website you need.","parent":"13300023","id":"13377660"}
{"by":"noetic_techy","time":"1522282983","timestamp":"2018-03-29 00:23:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about lack of super massive black hole singularity?","parent":"16703324","id":"16703428"}
{"by":"gtani","time":"1398299264","timestamp":"2014-04-24 00:27:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"also (I think OP linked the #cabal anchor to highlight sandboxes and other cabal hygiene) take note of the 1.20 release, Dependency freezing and no relinking by default\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23i6ih/announcing_cabal_120/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;haskell\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;23i6ih\u0026#x2F;announcing_c...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7637714","id":"7637850"}
{"by":"olgeni","time":"1361475092","timestamp":"2013-02-21 19:31:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Brilliant,\" thought Ender, \"Eibrahim was able to distill Drama without using Sexism or Rails. He might even be able to submit a 'white' paper to a Ruby conference!\"","parent":"5258863","id":"5259591"}
{"by":"dmritard96","time":"1418349831","timestamp":"2014-12-12 02:03:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice, I have been holding off on using rethinkdb for my web apps until there was a nice odm, i\u0026#x27;ll certainly give it a look although I must admit that postgres has been pretty great for us.","parent":"8737062","id":"8738244"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1525462075","timestamp":"2018-05-04 19:27:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no \u0026#x27;hold\u0026#x27; stage for luggage other than for stuff that is suspect, it is a pretty straight line from the plane to the belt in most airports. So you\u0026#x27;d have to redesign the airport to account for the person that wants to go and eat a steak in the taxfree zone until they exit the airport.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, good luck with your patents, I hope it works out for you.","parent":"16997271","id":"16997485"}
{"by":"danielhunt","time":"1336132613","timestamp":"2012-05-04 11:56:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Upgrading usually means you pay some fee (around the 100e mark, maybe 150e if the device is highly desirable), and then you renew your contract with your carrier for another 12/18/24 months (again, depending on your own situation)\u003cp\u003eAdding up the total cost of the bill is, in my eyes, the wrong calculation to make.\nA phone (particularly a smartphone), by itself, really isn't worth all that much. You need a data plan, and to a lesser extent, a call/text(sms) plan too.\u003cp\u003eIf you pay the (say) 360e for the Nexus on Amazon, how will you use it to receive calls while walking through Dublin city centre? How will you check your emails on it while on the bus?\u003cp\u003eYou'll need to take that 360e, and add the cost of a plan that will suit your needs. Lets say it's 20e per month (a common pre-pay plan in Ireland).\nThat's 20 * 12 (yes, I know, no obligation to stay for 12 months), which is 240e.\u003cp\u003eAdded to the 360e, you're looking at 600e for 12 months usage.\u003cp\u003ePlease, don't use the bill amount as the main part of an argument here - it really shouldn't be.\nThere's a \u003ci\u003emassive\u003c/i\u003e draw to specifically \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e spending 5-600e up front on a device.","parent":"3927782","id":"3927987"}
{"by":"L1quid","time":"1489671968","timestamp":"2017-03-16 13:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should be working now, sorry about that.","parent":"13875817","id":"13884915"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1511029155","timestamp":"2017-11-18 18:19:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This appears to be a recent development in English writing, perhaps related to Americans\u0026#x27; fondness for directness over pretense as well as accessibility to all socioeconomic classes. In the past, more words were often viewed as better; Charles Dickens, in particular, is sometimes singled out and mocked by modern writers for his tendency to ramble. It extended to the \u003ci\u003enames\u003c/i\u003e people chose for their characters; in Ian Fleming\u0026#x27;s time, long pretentious names like \u0026quot;Percival Aloysius Merriwether IV\u0026quot; and so forth were the norm in popular literature. Fleming looked down at a book of ornithology and saw just the sort of short, nondescript name his faceless hero needed: James Bond.","parent":"15728856","id":"15730022"}
{"by":"olavk","time":"1434018702","timestamp":"2015-06-11 10:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is \u0026#x27;a \u0026quot;packer\u0026#x27;s\u0026quot; mentality\u0026#x27;? I don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;ve heard that expression before.","parent":"9697052","id":"9698781"}
{"by":"Fjolsvith","time":"1482117178","timestamp":"2016-12-19 03:12:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...And it\u0026#x27;s not just for Communist regimes, either!","parent":"13208664","id":"13209283"}
{"by":"skellera","time":"1515291837","timestamp":"2018-01-07 02:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their support is horrible. I’ve gone 100% Lyft and haven’t looked back. The drivers are happier and the support is better.\u003cp\u003eMy Uber incident involved my driver running out of gas on the way to the airport. Like as a PROFESSIONAL driver, knowing how much gas you have is pretty important. Even asking me to stop for some would’ve been better.\u003cp\u003eUber support told me they were sorry and only refunded that ride, not the one I had to hail and pick us up on the side of the highway at 4am(which kept directing the driver to a road along side since they don’t expect you to need a pickup on the highway, the first car gave up after driving in a circle and the second I had to explain to what was going on and he was cool though.) in freezing Seattle weather while having to rush through the airport to get our flight.  Pretty much told me tough luck and it’s not their fault.\u003cp\u003eI hope Uber fails.","parent":"16087667","id":"16088726"}
{"by":"FireBeyond","time":"1521576120","timestamp":"2018-03-20 20:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Firemen came to my house they had a portable digital EKG with 2G data line to push the graph to a doctor remotely. The thing couldn\u0026#x27;t get cell reception, probably a weak modem\u0026#x2F;antenna. One of the guy hinted at 5000$ unit cost.\u003cp\u003eIf only. As someone in Fire\u0026#x2F;EMS, a moderately equipped LifePak 12\u0026#x2F;15?\u003cp\u003e$14,000 to $40,000 depending on configuration - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ogs.ny.gov\u0026#x2F;purchase\u0026#x2F;spg\u0026#x2F;pdfdocs\u0026#x2F;1260522835PL_PhysioControl.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ogs.ny.gov\u0026#x2F;purchase\u0026#x2F;spg\u0026#x2F;pdfdocs\u0026#x2F;1260522835PL_Phy...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut to also be fair, there\u0026#x27;s a fair amount going on beyond all that. Defibrillator, including pacing, non invasive measurement of carbon monoxide, certain drugs and chemicals, integrated printer, weather sealed (gotta be able to operate outside in the rain), ruggedized for drops.\u003cp\u003eBut still, $40K... oi.","parent":"16631544","id":"16632014"}
{"by":"baldfat","time":"1498050807","timestamp":"2017-06-21 13:13:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Robots have been in the operating room for several years now. People are just not aware they certainly aren\u0026#x27;t there to reduce cost as much as reduce risk from human error.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fortune.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;robots-medical-surgeons\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fortune.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;robots-medical-surgeons\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14602940","id":"14603428"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1362719836","timestamp":"2013-03-08 05:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting suggestion. One of the unintended consequences of some research my company conducted last year with a view towards bridging disparate settlement systems through objective description of their properties was the realization that existing financial services platforms rarely have redundancy; we would be adding this to resulting systems \u003ci\u003efor free\u003c/i\u003e. For some results on the open side of that research, somewhat stalled early this year but moving along soon, see \u003ca href=\"http://ifex-project.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ifex-project.org/\u003c/a\u003e ... thoughts/contributions very much welcome.","parent":"5341702","id":"5342184"}
{"by":"FooBarWidget","time":"1316340821","timestamp":"2011-09-18 10:13:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People don't thumbs up and smile at all. Have you not seen all the complaints on Reddit and Slashdot about Firefox lagging behind on ACID3 compliance?","parent":"3009862","id":"3009905"}
{"by":"jnbiche","time":"1392302964","timestamp":"2014-02-13 14:49:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;In the specific example above, however, I\u0026#x27;d try to reduce that overhead by going even more C-style and allocating an array or two so you avoid the overhead of individual instances and instead have one Python object for many elements.\u003cp\u003eHow exactly would you avoid the overhead of individual instances using a ctypes structure?  Sure, you can allocate an array very easily, using Point * 10 and then putting your instances in the array.  In fact, you\u0026#x27;d have to do this if you wanted a collection of these structs.  I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure that this array is stored continguously, but you still have the overhead of the Structure base class.  How are you proposing to avoid this in ctypes?  Or were you referring to cffi?\u003cp\u003eIf you really want to be serious about large, performance-intensive arrays in Python, it\u0026#x27;s time to pull out numpy.  It actually would fit well here.\u003cp\u003eRe: cffi, I do love luajit but I\u0026#x27;m not a huge fan of its C interface. I\u0026#x27;ve not used cffi, but it seems to be inspired by, or at least shares a lot with, luajit\u0026#x27;s C ffi.  Which means you have to basically paste all the C header files into a string in your Lua or Python code to use the corresponding shared library.\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful thing about ctypes is that you don\u0026#x27;t have to declare all the function prototypes and type declarations when you use a shared library.  You simply make sure to feed the functions the properly typed variables, and store the returned value properly, and it just works.\u003cp\u003eAs a result, I find ctypes a lot easier to use for simple optimizations.  YMMV.","parent":"7231411","id":"7231628"}
{"by":"glglwty","time":"1429097976","timestamp":"2015-04-15 11:39:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does x86_64 store GOT?","parent":"9378971","id":"9380221"}
{"by":"hkmurakami","time":"1388287391","timestamp":"2013-12-29 03:23:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Correct me if I am wrong, but if the govt pages continue to link to these newly reborn link spam pages, certainly these expired domains have higher link value than a brand new fresh domain?","parent":"6978085","id":"6978136"}
{"by":"qq66","time":"1443293074","timestamp":"2015-09-26 18:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that\u0026#x27;s the expectation, as it is with Facebook updates -- that most people who see your post will ignore it, but they will be generally aware of it in case they do feel like reading it.","parent":"10283642","id":"10284009"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1470172395","timestamp":"2016-08-02 21:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; capricious...\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t see any justification for this.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The judge presided over a trial during which a previous trial (that was OK to mention) was mentioned too many times? Maybe he should have just stopped that while he was presiding, rather than waiting until later?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;Maybe judges should never make mistakes\u0026#x27; sounds like a great plan but you might want a backup plan and one better than accusing them of capriciousness when they do make mistakes.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; It almost looks like he was surprised by the giant size of the verdict, and worried it might focus too much attention on the travesty that is East Texas, so he\u0026#x27;s looking to get out on a technicality?\u003cp\u003eIt almost looks like he fucked up and Apple\u0026#x27;s highly paid legal team had him dead to rights and rather than be reversed by a higher court he took the medicine himself.","parent":"12213215","id":"12213461"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1472056618","timestamp":"2016-08-24 16:36:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Imagine if all your insurance for your auto, home and life ended when you quit a job\u0026quot; squared: as a child, your health insurance is completely dependent on your parents\u0026#x27; jobs.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not really what happens in the US (and hasn\u0026#x27;t been for a while).\u003cp\u003eUnder the ACA, any involuntary loss of other coverage is a qualifying life event that entitles you to purchase individual or family coverage on the market, just as if it were during the open enrollment period. But even before the ACA, dependents could (and still can be) covered on the old insurance via COBRA for up to 18 months.\u003cp\u003eSo nobody\u0026#x27;s health insurance is really completely dependent on their job (or their parents\u0026#x27; jobs). Their ability to \u003ci\u003eafford\u003c/i\u003e the coverage they want may be dependent on their income and financial state, but that\u0026#x27;s already true of auto, home, and life insurance.","parent":"12351713","id":"12353254"}
{"by":"ashitvora","time":"1279336208","timestamp":"2010-07-17 03:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please check DHS's website. You can always work UNPAID.\nYou can not accept any sort of compensation on F1 visa if you dont have approval from DHS.\u003cp\u003eI was myself on F1 and I know many students working unpaid for experience.","parent":"1523021","id":"1523225"}
{"by":"astrojams","time":"1346201424","timestamp":"2012-08-29 00:50:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We need an app to stream movies from Usenet.  There is so much freaking bandwidth on Giganews and they have like EVERY movie ever made.  Instead of -\u0026#62; download -\u0026#62; par check -\u0026#62; combine -\u0026#62; unrar -\u0026#62; watch, it should just stream right from the rar files.","parent":"4442826","id":"4446583"}
{"by":"blacksmith_tb","time":"1526495757","timestamp":"2018-05-16 18:35:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are cases locked \u0026#x2F; glued shut? It seems like it would be easy enough to connect a new usb header...","parent":"17085019","id":"17085157"}
{"by":"pseudolus","time":"1546826301","timestamp":"2019-01-07 01:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the piece was supposed to run as a companion to Bloomberg\u0026#x27;s  other article on China\u0026#x27;s alleged discovery of some kind of \u0026quot;stargate\u0026quot; or faster than light drive that will allow them to bridge the distance with relative ease. Of course, that\u0026#x27;s just a rumour.","parent":"18841967","id":"18842161"}
{"by":"RA_Fisher","time":"1473270458","timestamp":"2016-09-07 17:47:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s so disappointing to see studies like these relied on when reported by news outlets. To start, we don\u0026#x27;t have the data or statistical code used to generate the results. Consider this a basic unit test. Of course we\u0026#x27;d want to further scrutinize the code and methodology, but we\u0026#x27;re not even there. :-(\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d suggest a marker for quantitative research posted to HN along the lines of: runnable?","parent":"12445261","id":"12445468"}
{"by":"troels","time":"1316180057","timestamp":"2011-09-16 13:34:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What does this provide that notifo doesn't?","parent":"3004254","id":"3004370"}
{"by":"resu","time":"1366741112","timestamp":"2013-04-23 18:18:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does this compare to kdb+?  This seems like a much less arcane competitor.","parent":"5596344","id":"5596941"}
{"by":"tired_man","time":"1451326268","timestamp":"2015-12-28 18:11:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s the marketing buzzword flavor for this period. Remember when everything was robust? Or resilient?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know what people think they\u0026#x27;re doing as they write this stuff. If technical documentation was written like, just imagine how long and flaky their docs would be.","parent":"10802388","id":"10802428"}
{"by":"prepend","time":"1513394179","timestamp":"2017-12-16 03:16:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The part that bothers and even scares me is that people (perhaps OP) do see how their chain of logic follows through your example. But they agree with and don’t find it morally wrong.\u003cp\u003eIt’s like there’s this bro-Catholicism where everyone has original sin of racism or whatnot and must be punished through ex-communication. And the whole moral system is understood and agreed to.\u003cp\u003eI only hope that some sort of racism\u0026#x2F;redeemer emerges who can wash away the sins of bigotry and allow the excommunicated to no longer cause racism and be allowed to work again within society.","parent":"15937167","id":"15937214"}
{"by":"rglullis","time":"1255206206","timestamp":"2009-10-10 20:23:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; More importantly, though, I'm a mountain guy, not a jungle guy.\u003cp\u003eWere you just trying to show how ignorant you are? Anyone going to Brazil would be going to Southeast/South of Brazil, far from \"the jungle\". Another option for tech people is in Recife (State of Pernambuco), in the Northeast and close to the beach.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, please let's stop with silly stereotypes. Saying that we are mostly \"jungle guys\" is no different than saying than Americans are about corn.","parent":"873542","id":"873791"}
{"by":"John_KZ","time":"1518962312","timestamp":"2018-02-18 13:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s no longer the problem. IoT manufacturers now worry about security, because they want exclusive ownership of your data and nobody turning their fridge cameras to a massive botnet (and PR hit). Encrypting all their traffic with device-specific and difficult to recover, hardware-based keys, will help them keep their devices safe. It\u0026#x27;s not a bad thing actually.","parent":"16405631","id":"16406094"}
{"by":"rebootthesystem","time":"1478905737","timestamp":"2016-11-11 23:08:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Freedom of speech does not mean one is free from the consequences of speech.\u003cp\u003eThis is something a lot of young folks don\u0026#x27;t seem to understand.  You can say anything you want.  Go for it.  And you will own the consequences of what you said, whatever they might be.\u003cp\u003eI offer this as a general comment.  Not taking sides on the issue highlighted by the post.  I simply think it is important to point out this reality in case it is lost in all the nonsense this election has managed to produce.","parent":"12934388","id":"12935325"}
{"by":"joshualedbetter","time":"1494268372","timestamp":"2017-05-08 18:32:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"lol you may want to pull your head out of the sand \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;deepmind.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-centre-cooling-bill-40\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;deepmind.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnbc.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;lawyers-could-be-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnbc.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;lawyers-could-be-replaced-by-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14208371","id":"14294278"}
{"by":"cesarbs","time":"1466537113","timestamp":"2016-06-21 19:25:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We need to tax those who\u0026#x27;re benefiting tremendously from the current economy\u003cp\u003eWhile I agree in part with the sentiment, I think this needs to be done carefully so as not to end up in a situation where everyone is at a disadvantage.\u003cp\u003eTake for example that a higher earner is able to afford a high deductible for his yearly health expenses. If you start taxing that person heavily to the point where they can\u0026#x27;t afford that deductible anymore, all you did was to increase the bucket of people who can\u0026#x27;t afford proper healthcare.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not just about taxing the richer, it\u0026#x27;s about adjusting the system as a whole.\u003cp\u003eAnother example, this one personal: my wife and I earn a high combined income. Because of that, we\u0026#x27;re able to afford a more expensive apartment in our city\u0026#x27;s Downtown (not luxurious by any standard, just a little above the average in our area). That frees us from having to use a car most of the time (we have one that we use sparingly and incurs minimal yearly costs), which 1) drives down car costs 2) is friendly to the environment 3) makes us happier thanks to not having a long commute and 4) somewhat (although minimally) helps local government revenue because we\u0026#x27;re paying for bus fares. If we were taxed to a point where we couldn\u0026#x27;t afford our rent anymore and were forced to move to the suburbs, we\u0026#x27;d see a dramatic increase in car costs (more gas, more frequent maintenance), we\u0026#x27;d be joining the ridiculous lines in traffic during our commute, which would likely lead to more stress and more health issues, and we wouldn\u0026#x27;t be part of the group of people providing revenue to the local transit authority. So it\u0026#x27;s not like high earners can be indiscriminately taxed and that would only help other people but not impact those being taxed.\u003cp\u003eThis discussion also comes down to the question, \u0026quot;who is a high earner?\u0026quot; I don\u0026#x27;t think people earning $100K+ (or couples earning $200K+) should be the target here, but executives earning millions upon millions every year, as well as the corporations they run.","parent":"11948200","id":"11948677"}
{"by":"graeme","time":"1527080441","timestamp":"2018-05-23 13:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I attribute my initial RSI to typing a large amount (live transcription) in a very air conditioned room on a table that was too high.\u003cp\u003eWithin three days I couldn\u0026#x27;t type without pain. The height and volume alone may have done it, but the cold felt like it was bad for my arms.","parent":"17133628","id":"17133758"}
{"by":"Houshalter","time":"1388880816","timestamp":"2014-01-05 00:13:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a not negligible chance you would have died as a child, or even an adult, from any number of diseases that used to be far more widespread. Certainly it\u0026#x27;s likely at least one person you know would have.\u003cp\u003eModern sanitary practices have saved literally millions of people. Not hand washing alone perhaps, but it is a significant factor.\u003cp\u003eHumans now live in populations of millions of other people that are constantly in close contact with each other, and people travel more and faster than ever before all across the globe. Be thankful we haven\u0026#x27;t had more plagues.","parent":"7013299","id":"7013690"}
{"by":"chubot","time":"1545157517","timestamp":"2018-12-18 18:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with your characterization of \u0026quot;pop\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;giant collections of studies\u0026quot; -- there are a lot of books like that turn out to not be very good.  I honestly felt that way about Dan Ariely\u0026#x27;s books, which are heavily recommended.  I found it hard to get through them.\u003cp\u003eFor writers with a pleasing style and are deep on content, I would recommend Michael Pollan\u0026#x27;s books and Jared Diamond\u0026#x27;s books.  Those are two of the authors that I\u0026#x27;ve read 4+ books from.  They are really synthesizing information and not just describing a list of studies.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve also read 4+ books from Jon Krakauer and Anthony Bourdain.  Although they\u0026#x27;re not about \u0026quot;synthesis\u0026quot;, I think books that are \u0026quot;narrative\u0026quot; are better than a lot of the pop non-fiction books you\u0026#x27;re talking about.  It\u0026#x27;s concrete and lets you draw the conclusions, rather than trying to force some canned conclusions upon you.","parent":"18707994","id":"18709071"}
{"by":"sant0sk1","time":"1223510610","timestamp":"2008-10-09 00:03:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not tough to heap together a few complaints out of a day's worth of tweets.\nThe fact is that many GitHub users, myself included, noticed GitHub was down and went on our merry way coding and working and doing whatever.\u003cp\u003eThis is a non-issue imo.","parent":"327085","id":"327263"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1500065379","timestamp":"2017-07-14 20:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"?\u0026quot;The only bad thing about the GitHub issue there is that a de-anonymization attack is possible as an SSH server will tell you if it accepts a given public key\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eCould you elaborate more on this specific attack?","parent":"14772992","id":"14773054"}
{"by":"andrew93101","time":"1416511365","timestamp":"2014-11-20 19:22:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it is relevant.\u003cp\u003eIf users generally dislike facebook, but continue to use it, it\u0026#x27;s a bad situation to be in for Facebook.  It indicates that people are using the product because of its network effects and \u003ci\u003edespite\u003c/i\u003e the product itself.\u003cp\u003eIt means that if anything begins to actually challenge the network effect of facebook, they will be in a very tough spot.","parent":"8637484","id":"8637523"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1381854619","timestamp":"2013-10-15 16:30:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My upvotes also don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;count\u0026quot; anymore best as I can tell.  I assumed it was either because A. I upvoted too much stuff and overflowed a counter somewhere, or B. accidentally getting flagged for spamming for upvoting too much.\u003cp\u003eThe thing is, since HN doesn\u0026#x27;t have a separate \u0026quot;save\u0026quot; feature, upvoting something is the only way to \u0026quot;save\u0026quot; a link for later.  And I\u0026#x27;m an obsessive bookmarker, so I upvote anything that looks even vaguely interesting, if I don\u0026#x27;t have time to read it right now.  \u003ci\u003eshrug\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"6552574","id":"6554294"}
{"by":"matt4077","time":"1536062355","timestamp":"2018-09-04 11:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Among dystopias, this one is remarkably well-argued...\u003cp\u003eIt is rather frustrating to see how illiberality and strive have come back. In the nineties, the \u0026quot;End of History\u0026quot; made for a convincing hypothesis: Market economies in functioning democracies had proven that they were capable of providing decent quality of life for everyone. Competition had moved on from natural resources to human ingenuity, rendering the supposed motivation for all the wars of history irrelevant. Contrary to orthodox left-wing opinion, poorer countries were not exploited; instead, they had a standing invite to this future of plenty, and Asia took them up on it.\u003cp\u003eBut China\u0026#x27;s economic rise didn\u0026#x27;t effect any democratic change. It seemed that democracy did not, after all, win the cold war. Communism merely lost it. Dictatorships can be as productive as open societies, as long as you don\u0026#x27;t saddle them with too much incompetence or self-defeating ideology.\u003cp\u003eSo we are now in this new battle of the systems, and too often, we\u0026#x27;re loosing: China and Russia are obvious. But Turkey, Hungary, the Philippines, and Poland are more recent converts to the prosperity gospel of strongman leadership. With Trump, Brexit, and several recent election results in Europe, the hits keep coming closer.\u003cp\u003eMaybe humans never actually liked democracy. They just enjoyed its spoils. Now that there\u0026#x27;s an option to both eat \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e hate, they\u0026#x27;re overjoyed.","parent":"17907979","id":"17908372"}
{"by":"davidf18","time":"1491139737","timestamp":"2017-04-02 13:28:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The $20K per year per pupil that NYC (and other large cities) spends is skewed because of the enormous costs of special education.  I don\u0026#x27;t know the numbers for NYC, but from an article I saw about Philly: cost to educate non-special need child: $10K, moderately special need: (7% of students) $20K, severe special need: (another 7% of students) $40K.\u003cp\u003eI suspect Salt Lake City has a much lower amount of special needs students.\u003cp\u003eStill, we spend an enormous amount of money on K-12 education in NYC and other large cities.","parent":"14016858","id":"14017092"}
{"by":"zem","time":"1464899616","timestamp":"2016-06-02 20:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there i definitely agree with you. before thiel intervened it was gawker who had the money and hogan who did not, and as you note, justice was equally for sale.","parent":"11825671","id":"11825788"}
{"by":"scurvy","time":"1421216571","timestamp":"2015-01-14 06:22:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll be brutally honest. Most of the early employees at most startups aren\u0026#x27;t very good engineers. In fact they\u0026#x27;re pretty mediocre. That\u0026#x27;s why we get the term of technical debt. Take your options and experience and move on to the next gig. Move aside so the better, more experienced people can clean up your mistakes without you fighting them every step of the way.\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s a psychological thing, but really good engineers are never employee #1-5 at a startup. They just aren\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"8881811","id":"8884661"}
{"by":"shutton","time":"1444786020","timestamp":"2015-10-14 01:27:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally get what you mean. It\u0026#x27;s really hard to prove that you\u0026#x27;re going to stick around and people are quite right to be scepicle about tech firms who seem to close stuff down as soon as the wind changes direction.","parent":"10384473","id":"10384512"}
{"by":"bkurtz13","time":"1413505536","timestamp":"2014-10-17 00:25:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In that same vein, the dotted pattern in background makes it subtly harder to read the text","parent":"8468700","id":"8468722"}
{"by":"RustyRussell","time":"1424310368","timestamp":"2015-02-19 01:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, that example scrolls across.  Makes more sense now!\u003cp\u003eWas on mobile :(\u003cp\u003eThanks!\nRusty.","parent":"9061389","id":"9072015"}
{"by":"yuhong","time":"1342199512","timestamp":"2012-07-13 17:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK Mozilla MemShrink was started around that time:\n\u003ca href=\"http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2011/06/22/memshrink-progress-week-1/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2011/06/22/memshrink-pro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4239495","id":"4240694"}
{"by":"xymostech","time":"1331237853","timestamp":"2012-03-08 20:17:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But that would probably ruin the scan from the other direction? There are two pictures, I thought because there is a scan from the front and a scan from the back.","parent":"3681328","id":"3681376"}
{"by":"headcanon","time":"1368734567","timestamp":"2013-05-16 20:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems to me that all the hyperbole is about raised expectations. Hell, the fact they can even get something like this to work, and are able to determine (somewhat) that it is working the way they intended is enough to get me excited. I don't care if the QC they built performs faster or slower than a classical algorithm, because that stuff will simply come with time as we understand more about how QC works. With classical computers, we had several decades of knowledge about how electromagnetism worked - it was easily observable, and applying those principles to a complex switching system (already implemented by some mechanical computers at the time) was relatively straightforward, at least from a physical standpoint.\nWith QC, it seems to me (I don't really know more about than anyone else here) that we are making all sorts of theoretical discoveries as well as attempting to build a computer with those discoveries at the same time. So D-wave is basically the modern equivalent of Tesla and Turing, etc. all wrapped up into one big package.  So the fact that this stuff is turning out not to be a complete fairytale is more than enough to get me excited.","parent":"5720258","id":"5720813"}
{"by":"douche","time":"1490153488","timestamp":"2017-03-22 03:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends on what you\u0026#x27;re buying. \u0026quot;Good\u0026quot; cuts of steak are expensive, but chicken breast is more expensive than hamburg, which is oddly more expensive than \u0026quot;lesser\u0026quot; cuts of steak or roasts. Chicken thighs tend to be dirt cheap, but so is pork.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t make a ton of sense to me, but that\u0026#x27;s how it is. I like the taste of chuck steaks and London broils, so I\u0026#x27;m glad those are some of the cheapest options.","parent":"13928234","id":"13928277"}
{"by":"jwoah12","time":"1509563700","timestamp":"2017-11-01 19:15:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BAMTECH Media | Software Engineer | NYC | ONSITE\u003cp\u003eBAMTECH Media is the technology and digital media company spun out of Major League Baseball, providing end-to-end video streaming solutions over web, mobile, and connected devices. In addition to baseball, our platform powers video and content for partners including HBO, WWE, NHL, Eurosport and more (soon to be Disney and ESPN). We operate at the cutting edge of digital media at a time when more people than ever are choosing to consume their media over the internet.\u003cp\u003eThe Content Engineering (CE) org builds the systems at BAMTECH that interface with content providers and enable internal and external consumers for all of our partner companies to access media content and metadata. From live and VOD media on HBO Now to team lineups and editorial articles on MLB.com to NHL team webpages, CE’s services and applications enable us to make content available to anyone that wants it.\u003cp\u003eAs a Software Engineer on CE, you\u0026#x27;ll be part of a collaborative group of developers who are serious about delivering quality software. You\u0026#x27;ll also be encouraged to spend some of your time each sprint on professional development: take an online course, experiment with a new technology, or work on an internal side project.\u003cp\u003eWe welcome candidates of all backgrounds and are actively working to foster a diverse team and organization.\u003cp\u003eThe interview process consists of a 45-minute online\u0026#x2F;phone interview followed by a 4-hour onsite interview consisting of 4-5 technical sessions with team members.\u003cp\u003eIf interested, please reach out to me directly (details in profile). Only candidates themselves, please.","parent":"15601729","id":"15604573"}
{"by":"chriskanan","time":"1477402851","timestamp":"2016-10-25 13:40:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a machine learning researcher and I also have a lot of experience analyzing eye movement data.\u003cp\u003eThere aren\u0026#x27;t large labeled datasets that are publicly available in this area. Just to classify eye movements into events, you would need images of the eyes or eye velocity to classify eye events into smooth pursuit, fixation, etc. That means someone needs to label all of those in ground truth. To actually determine what someone is looking at, you have to go beyond this to have information about the scene. When looking at a screen, this is usually done with calibration, but things get more complicated when trying to predict what someone is looking at with a mobile eye tracker and a fixed scene camera. Body and head movements complicate things further  (e.g., VOR) and many algorithms ignore them.","parent":"12787731","id":"12787839"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1385390519","timestamp":"2013-11-25 14:41:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If my employer\u0026#x2F;boss decide to screw me over, what\u0026#x27;s the worst that can happen?\u003cp\u003eSuppose exactly the day after a paycheck they decide to stop paying me. 15 days later I don\u0026#x27;t get a check, and 7 days later I stop working due to the paycheck issue not being fixed (maybe I gave them the benefit of the doubt, it\u0026#x27;s a minor snafu). At the worst, I\u0026#x27;m out 22 days of pay, assuming their high priced lawyer lets them get away with this (highly unlikely).\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t need insurance for low cost, low probability events.","parent":"6793614","id":"6794201"}
{"by":"roenxi","time":"1528894932","timestamp":"2018-06-13 13:02:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, this is an area where it is impossible not to have an agenda. Both being pro-status-quo or pro-something-here-should-change are relatively radical in the eyes of the other, and there isn\u0026#x27;t a lot of middle ground.\u003cp\u003eIdeally, more money would be sunk into raising the statistical literacy of everybody. Then we can all talk sensibly about the statistics involved here and take it for granted that Simpson\u0026#x27;s Paradox is being considered in all studies involving gender :P.","parent":"17302479","id":"17302614"}
{"by":"Scaevolus","time":"1421197634","timestamp":"2015-01-14 01:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should be corrected to the non-mobile link: \u003ca href=\"http://cacm.acm.org/news/181137-thats-traffic-up-next-weather/fulltext\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cacm.acm.org\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;181137-thats-traffic-up-next-weathe...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8880859","id":"8883660"}
{"by":"BrandonM","time":"1305507400","timestamp":"2011-05-16 00:56:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm renting a Ford Edge right now. After a few minutes, the radio will mute itself until you buckle your seatbelt. The car is configured to limit your speed to 80 MPH or under.\u003cp\u003eEven though I drive with my seatbelt on under 80 MPH anyways, it's really annoying for my car to tell me what to do.","parent":"2550973","id":"2551245"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1484850645","timestamp":"2017-01-19 18:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my experience most ethnic groups or countries have some quirky traditions and habits. Germans have weird\u0026#x2F;funny habits and beliefs, Austrians do, Hispanic people do and all other groups of people do. I have no problem with people asking me what\u0026#x27;s up with Germans running around naked in parks in Munich or how I feel about the Nazi time and I like to talk to Indians how crazy I think their traffic is or what the deal is with arranged marriage. To me that\u0026#x27;s showing respect because we treat each other like real people and not some fragile beings that are offended all the time.","parent":"13438032","id":"13438143"}
{"by":"arbuge","time":"1359413516","timestamp":"2013-01-28 22:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fascinating tool. Some other interesting ones:\u003cp\u003efinancial crisis in effect:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=repo+\u0026#38;l=\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=repo+\u0026#38;l=\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eno idea about this one:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=terrorist\u0026#38;l=\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=terrorist\u0026#38;l=\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eno idea about this one either:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=escort\u0026#38;l=\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=escort\u0026#38;l=\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5130753","id":"5131249"}
{"by":"aidenn0","time":"1339087603","timestamp":"2012-06-07 16:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed; I live in a fairly well-off area (Santa Barbara) and while there are more $100k+ exotic cars here than other places I live, there aren't that many.  Mercedes E class and BMW 5 series though are all over the place.","parent":"4079526","id":"4079955"}
{"by":"minibob","time":"1518171928","timestamp":"2018-02-09 10:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;downloadidm99.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;downloadidm99.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\nDownload IDM Full Version\u003cp\u003eThanks!","parent":"16338234","dead":true,"id":"16339213"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1287421232","timestamp":"2010-10-18 17:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please don't just detect, just allow selection. I always browse .com first because it has the most reviews. Tech books often have 0 reviews on .co.uk (which is idiotic but Amazon treats its different sites as entirely separate entities).","parent":"1803696","id":"1804225"}
{"by":"ianamartin","time":"1491211699","timestamp":"2017-04-03 09:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably so.","parent":"14021535","id":"14021564"}
{"by":"komali2","time":"1524077181","timestamp":"2018-04-18 18:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last time I went to one of the Bay Area node meetups, that given meetup was being sponsored by just such a company. Can\u0026#x27;t remember the name, unfortunately.\u003cp\u003eThe idea was though that you\u0026#x27;d feed them your package.json and they\u0026#x27;d let you know of any vulnerabilities, iirc. Or maybe they had a private repo of packages they\u0026#x27;d checked? Can\u0026#x27;t remember.","parent":"16869666","id":"16869885"}
{"by":"Poiesis","time":"1265848458","timestamp":"2010-02-11 00:34:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't \u003ci\u003estand\u003c/i\u003e exercise for its own sake.  I love playing sports (say, ultimate disc, the most pretentiously named sport invented), because there's stuff going on.  I love the feeling of exercise.  But just lifting, or jogging on a treadmill or something--I just can't do.\u003cp\u003eBut, man--if anyone else is like us three, you gotta try biking.  I bike commute to a day job, and it's quite sufficiently safe if you're not stupid.  For some reason, even though my brain can totally turn off in the car, in the bike I'm \u003ci\u003etotally\u003c/i\u003e engaged in a way that's quite enjoyable.  I've even tried listening to music/podcasts, but they're of limited utility because I'm not really paying attention to them.  It's all about going faster, and staying alive.  Really a rush; I recommend it for those who can arrange it.","parent":"1111519","id":"1116526"}
{"by":"stordoff","time":"1455942091","timestamp":"2016-02-20 04:21:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; D-wave claims 512 qubits today. I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s out of the question that NSA is far ahead of both of them.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t doubt that NSA have some techniques that are not public knowledge, but is it feasible that they are that far ahead of academia\u0026#x2F;industry? (IIRC, D-Wave cannot run Shor\u0026#x27;s algorithm, so is not particularly useful in breaking cryptography). Even if they are, I would expect them to be having these legal battles hoping to win - if there is a plausible, non-classified, way to access the data, maintaining secrecy of these techniques is much easier.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; that something as inevitable as letsencrypt and an iPhone passcode could make it all useless.\u003cp\u003eWidespread, well-implemented crypto is probably less inevitable than this makes it sound. letsencrypt etc. probably make the surveillance dragnet less useful, but sloppy implementations and unforeseen weaknesses (e.g. Heartbleed) probably render it still rather useful.[1] Encryption usage, through increasing, is also not a given for people who may be targeted by NSA et al.[2]\u003cp\u003e[1] In terms that it can be used to gather information. Whether it is actually useful from a security standpoint, and if it is price worth paying, is something I strongly doubt.\u003cp\u003e[2] See, e.g., \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;theintercept.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;18\u0026#x2F;signs-point-to-unencrypted-communications-between-terror-suspects\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;theintercept.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;18\u0026#x2F;signs-point-to-unencrypt...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11138745","id":"11138816"}
{"by":"emp_","time":"1518538255","timestamp":"2018-02-13 16:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Adding to an extensive reply list, violence seems to sprout when conversation ends, usually when people will protect ideas from being challenged is a big tell.","parent":"16365942","id":"16368197"}
{"by":"nomkaaoa","time":"1456702336","timestamp":"2016-02-28 23:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"touché","parent":"11187993","id":"11192908"}
{"by":"userulluipeste","time":"1384530764","timestamp":"2013-11-15 15:52:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The recited text:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Common Language of Science\u003cp\u003eThe first step towards language was to link acoustically or otherwise commutable signs to sense-impressions. Most likely all sociable animals have arrived at this primitive kind of conimunication--at least to a certain degree. A higher development is reached when further signs are introduced and understood which establish relations between those other signs designating sense impression. At this stage it is already possible to report somewhat complex series of impressions; we can say that language has come to existence. If language is to lead at all to understanding, there must be rules concerning the relations between the signs on the one hand and on the other hand there must be a stable correspondence between signs and impressions. In their childhood individuals connected by the same language grasp these rules and relations mainly by intuition. When man becomes conscious of the rules concerning the relations between signs the so-called grammar of language is established.\u003cp\u003eIn an early stage the words may correspond directly to impressions. At a later stage this direct connection is lost insofar as some words convey relations to perceptions only if used in connection with other words (for instance such words as: \u0026quot;is\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;or\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;thing\u0026quot;). Then word-groups rather than single words refer to perceptions. When language becomes thus partially independent from the background of impressions a greater inner coherence is gained.\nOnly at this further development where frequent use is made of so-called abstract concepts, language becomes an instrument of reasoning in the true sense of the word. But it is also this development which turns language into a dangerous source of error and deception. Everything depends on the degree to which words and word-combinations correspond to the world of impression.\u003cp\u003eWhat is it that brings about such an intimate connection between language and thinking? Is there no thinking without the use of language, namely in concepts and concept-combinations for which words need not necessarily come to mind? Has not everyone of us struggled for words although the connection between \u0026quot;things\u0026quot; was already clear?\nWe might be inclined to attribute to the act of thinking complete independence from language if the individual formed or were able to form his concepts without the verbal guidance of his environment. Yet most likely the mental shape of an individual growing up under such conditions, would be very poor. Thus we may conclude that the mental development of the individual and his way of forming concepts depend to a high degree upon language. This makes us realize to what extent the same language means the same mentality. In this sense thinking and language are linked together.\u003cp\u003eWhat distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? How is it that scientific language is international? What science strives for is an utmost preciseness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data. As an illustration let us take the language of Euclidean geometry and algebra. They manipulate with a small number of independently introduced concepts, respectively symbols, such as the integral number, the straight line, the point, as well as with signs which designate the fundamental operations, that is the connections between those fundamental concepts. This is the basis for the construction, respectively definition of all other statements and concepts. The connection between concepts and statements on the one hand and the sensory data on the other hand is established through acts of counting and measuring whose performance is sufficiently well determined.\u003cp\u003eThe super-national character of scientific concepts and scientific language is due to the fact that they have been set up by the best brains of all countries and all times. In solitude and yet in cooperative effort as regards the final effect they created the spiritual tools for the technical revolutions which have transformed the life of mankind in the last centuries. Their system of concepts have served as a guide in the bewildering chaos of perceptions so that we learned to grasp general truths from particular observations.\u003cp\u003eWhat hopes and fears does the scientific method imply for mankind? I do not think that this is the right way to put the question. Whatever this tool in the hand of man will produce depends entirely on the nature of the goals alive in this mankind. Once these goals exist, the scientific method furnishes means to realize them. Yet it cannot furnish the very goals. The scientific method itself would not have led anywhere, it would not even have been born without a passionate striving for clear understanding.\u003cp\u003ePerfection of means and confusion of goals seem--in my opinion-to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state. Even if only a small part of mankind strives for such goals, their superiority will prove itself in the long run.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"6731823","id":"6740065"}
{"by":"steelaz","time":"1319617978","timestamp":"2011-10-26 08:32:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a free checking account with TCF National bank (US). After getting hit number of times with overdraft fee, I went to my local branch, asked for a manager and explained that I want to disable overdraft protection on my checking account. Manager told me he can't do it and that I have to write a letter (they didn't have any forms for that) explaining things and send it to their HQ. Needless to say, I closed my account the same day.","parent":"3156729","id":"3157647"}
{"by":"magila","time":"1546710342","timestamp":"2019-01-05 17:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right some some applications are more effected than others. It sounds like you were dealing with business customers, \u0026quot;asked people to...forward a port on their NAT\u0026quot; is not a viable strategy when dealing with consumers.\u003cp\u003eI work on P2P applications, so NAT is the bane of my existence.","parent":"18832879","id":"18832983"}
{"by":"serg_chernata","time":"1477325858","timestamp":"2016-10-24 16:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no evidence that it caused any harm though. Can you explain why you feel that way or show some evidence?","parent":"12780151","id":"12780164"}
{"by":"gervase","time":"1518058803","timestamp":"2018-02-08 03:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m interested to see how this plays out. On one hand, this is obviously unambiguously good for consumers. On the other hand, Google is leveraging their market position to effectively serve as a corporate regulatory body, through the fact that freezing these sellers out of Google results will effectively tank their business.\u003cp\u003eIt reminds me of a conversation here about Google\u0026#x27;s behavior with regards to their upcoming Ad Blocker. It would be very easy for Google to guide their business decisions in a certain way, then say \u0026quot;This is how things should be\u0026quot; and use their clout to force everyone to behave in that way, except that everyone else will then be playing catch-up. They have the power to do it, and in this case, it\u0026#x27;s for a good cause (plus, they\u0026#x27;re not a ticket reseller, etc).\u003cp\u003eBut will that always be the case? Who decides which specific instance, if any, is \u0026quot;a bridge too far\u0026quot;? Is this something we even need to worry about, or should we let the market decide? Like I said, I\u0026#x27;m curious to see how these kinds of actions by Google (and other market leaders) evolve over time.","parent":"16329577","id":"16329846"}
{"by":"001sky","time":"1416599004","timestamp":"2014-11-21 19:43:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This data makes a mockery of your anectdotal evidence. The odds of me being exposed to violence on a tour of a prison are virtually nil. It does not follow that prison violence is virtually nil.","parent":"8642809","id":"8642977"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1337246796","timestamp":"2012-05-17 09:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u003ci\u003eGive me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year.\u003c/i\u003e //\u003cp\u003eDefine success.\u003cp\u003eIf one gets the best score but has no social skills, no friends, no fun and no creativity then is that success.\u003cp\u003eThis (only considering a test score) is like doing A/B testing but only looking at impressions and not at conversions, or only looking at conversion rates and not at conversion value. In web terms you can succeed by reducing both your impressions and conversion rates (by taking more money of less people and only attracting motivated customers).\u003cp\u003eSorry that's more destructive than constructive WRT what the right course of action is.\u003cp\u003eAre there [large scale] education systems that consider happiness of pupils, reduction in bullying, positive social interaction and such to be metrics to assess and improve?","parent":"3985894","id":"3986151"}
{"by":"Daniel_Newby","time":"1336598672","timestamp":"2012-05-09 21:24:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; ... how could it possibly be solved by creating an area that is dominated by a board of a few wealthy people ...\u003cp\u003eSome wealthy people want to tax a million prosperous citizens, not rule a million peasants. Not only do you get richer that way, it is safer.","parent":"3950087","id":"3950553"}
{"by":"travisp","time":"1268757127","timestamp":"2010-03-16 16:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with you, at least assuming it is a big feature. Squashing 30 commits into 1 loses a lot of information.\u003cp\u003eThe best approach I have found is to use merge --no-ff to merge the feature branch to the master branch. This lets you both keep the history and group the feature's commits together.","parent":"1196017","id":"1196063"}
{"by":"jtbigwoo","time":"1351613691","timestamp":"2012-10-30 16:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Steve Jobs was no Steve Jobs... until later anyway.","parent":"4717564","id":"4717982"}
{"by":"a3camero","time":"1321393171","timestamp":"2011-11-15 21:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook was once one of those startups.","parent":"3240123","id":"3240389"}
{"by":"gamechangr","time":"1503813938","timestamp":"2017-08-27 06:05:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It like saying you have to eat only at Mcdonald\u0026#x27;s and its unhealthy for you. Everyone would like to complain about that, unless there is no food and you\u0026#x27;re starving...then McDonald\u0026#x27;s seems like a more reasonable solution.","parent":"15109347","id":"15109369"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1518738261","timestamp":"2018-02-15 23:44:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s possible, but it requires the machine to enter some things for you. Since ( is syntactically incorrect, it has to be entered together with ).\u003cp\u003eWe do see small examples of this in GUI\u0026#x27;s with strict validation on inputs that is applied for each keystroke.\u003cp\u003eOne useful compromise is syntax highlighting that doesn\u0026#x27;t let you enter syntactically incorrect code without flagging the problem in a loud red color.","parent":"16386633","id":"16388793"}
{"by":"goleksiak","time":"1414421894","timestamp":"2014-10-27 14:58:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Charleston represent!","parent":"8515655","id":"8515818"}
{"by":"St-Clock","time":"1311503139","timestamp":"2011-07-24 10:25:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like this idea of basing your decision on the need to normalize or not. It certainly fits document-oriented databases and key-value stores, but I'm less sure about column-oriented databases (I have no experience with them, except many hours trying to understand them...).\u003cp\u003eThe single-purpose vs. multi-purpose that comes from denormalization vs. normalization would explain why certain companies stick to RDBMS for their main data and use NoSQL only for certain specific scenarios.","parent":"2799084","id":"2799112"}
{"by":"pistoriusp","time":"1265962483","timestamp":"2010-02-12 08:14:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only person that realised this is a joke?\u003cp\u003eAfter you've signed up:\u003cp\u003e\"Here's a handy little text file with your login credentials. Might be smart to save it somewhere...\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://csskillswitch.com/csskillswitch_pistoriusp.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://csskillswitch.com/csskillswitch_pistoriusp.txt\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeah, I got text Rick Rolled.","parent":"1119591","id":"1120057"}
{"by":"linead","time":"1276658185","timestamp":"2010-06-16 03:16:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"from: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?101713-About-Jack-Slocum..\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?101713-About-Jack...\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eA few people in the community have been asking about Jack and his whereabouts as of late.\u003cp\u003eWe're not entirely sure whether to respond to this with a 404 (not found), 301 (moved permanently) or a 307 (try again later at the same location.) After pretty intense work getting Ext JS established, Jack tapered down his involvement during the past 18 months. Although he may return in some capacity in the future, we wish him all the best.","parent":"1434015","id":"1434576"}
{"by":"gronne","time":"1546022376","timestamp":"2018-12-28 18:39:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True :) I know the strip. tbh I just felt like trolling the insecure “data hackers” crowd. Looking at downvotes: I think it worked.","parent":"18777369","id":"18778557"}
{"by":"wehadfun","time":"1460143439","timestamp":"2016-04-08 19:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like this is a hotel quality problem not a tech issue. Siris needs to grade hotels. Lets say a hotel does not have water that is a Siris grade F. Lets say it has water but no misquito nets its Siris Grade D. Hotels must pay to be graded by Siris. In return they get a sign that states their grade and Siris markets their hotel to potential guest.","parent":"11456969","id":"11457172"}
{"by":"dotBen","time":"1306188732","timestamp":"2011-05-23 22:12:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hi-res version is TOTALLY worth it, however.  Best $150 I spent, seriously, was the matte+hires screen","parent":"2577751","id":"2577801"}
{"by":"emilsoman","time":"1479509209","timestamp":"2016-11-18 22:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. The idea of marriage does not really apply in the relationship described. If you have a great colleague, you don\u0026#x27;t need to name that relationship with a term like \u0026quot;work husband\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;work wife\u0026quot; which btw puts gender into the equation where it isn\u0026#x27;t necessary. What\u0026#x27;s wrong with saying \u0026quot;work buddy\u0026quot; or something else that more accurately represents the relationship.","parent":"12986388","id":"12990704"}
{"by":"thurn","time":"1319739282","timestamp":"2011-10-27 18:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not like you can join two Facebook accounts you made with different emails either. That alone makes it clear that this is isn't \"basic functionality\".","parent":"3164479","id":"3164639"}
{"by":"steckerbrett","time":"1444699475","timestamp":"2015-10-13 01:24:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s going to be problematic, lots of people at conferences talk in low voice about confidential things. Surely there\u0026#x27;s better ways to combat harassment than pervasive surveillance.","parent":"10377889","id":"10377899"}
{"by":"vially","time":"1394474194","timestamp":"2014-03-10 17:56:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a list containing some of the more popular python libraries:\n\u003ca href=\"http://python3wos.appspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;python3wos.appspot.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7373892","id":"7374532"}
{"by":"maccard","time":"1418308327","timestamp":"2014-12-11 14:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s usually easier to get hold of obscure content commercially.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, your definition of osbscure depends on where in the world you\u0026#x27;re located. iTunes don\u0026#x27;t provide the same catalogue in the US and the UK or Ireland, Netflix don\u0026#x27;t provide the same catalogue. BBC documentaries are freely available in the UK online, but extremely difficult to get in Ireland without buying a physical copy, and up until last year, I didn\u0026#x27;t have a DVD or Blu ray player in my apartment","parent":"8734361","id":"8734871"}
{"by":"scott_s","time":"1531749318","timestamp":"2018-07-16 13:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mostly agree, except that for parts of the code that meet these conditions, I aggressively unit test as the default. To the point that if an end-to-end test uncovers a potential bug in this component, my first action is to write a new unit test for this component inspired by the end-to-end test. If that unit test fails, then I can focus on just the unit test, and not worry about the end-to-end test until the unit test passes.\u003cp\u003eAnother condition I would add to the list, which the component of mine I am thinking about meets is:\u003cp\u003e5) Failures in this component have cascading effects to multiple other components, causing seemingly \u0026quot;impossible\u0026quot; failures that are not obvious to others that they were caused by this component.","parent":"17540501","id":"17541244"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1515705081","timestamp":"2018-01-11 21:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds horrifying, but actually is kind of meaningless as written.\u003cp\u003eImagine two worlds:\u003cp\u003eWorld #1 (the horrible world): medical research neglects black people. They only bothered to develop an asthma treatment that works on white people.\u003cp\u003eWorld #2 (the reasonable world): medical research is careful to make sure they cover all groups. They developed several asthma drugs. None works well across all ethnic groups, but there is a good one available for each ethnic group.\u003cp\u003eIn both of these worlds the most commonly prescribed asthma drug will be one that works on the vast majority of white people and does not work well on black people.\u003cp\u003eWhat they need to include to make the point they are trying to make is how the less commonly prescribed asthma drugs do on different ethnic groups.","parent":"16125726","id":"16127901"}
{"by":"brandon272","time":"1536683347","timestamp":"2018-09-11 16:29:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, but the context of the person I was replying to implied \u0026quot;100% efficiency\u0026quot; of the dollars spent. Is the $30k per year per homeless person in San Francisco actually reaching those people? Presumably that\u0026#x27;s how we evaluate efficiency - what percentage of the money spent actually reaches the cohort being targeted and not eaten up in administrative costs.","parent":"17961084","id":"17961177"}
{"by":"endgame","time":"1424119775","timestamp":"2015-02-16 20:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Australia, to call the Rescue Coordination Centre on HF, you HAVE to use DSC: \u003ca href=\"http://www.amsa.gov.au/search-and-rescue/distress-and-safety-comms/amsa-hfdsc-network/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amsa.gov.au\u0026#x2F;search-and-rescue\u0026#x2F;distress-and-safety...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If a vessel wishes to conduct a radiotelephony communication with the network, it is necessary to make initial contact via a DSC call. For safety or routine messages a shift to a working frequency is normally required.\u003cp\u003eWhen I did my training, they pushed DSC very hard.\u003cp\u003eNit: You mention ch16 as being for distress traffic only, but my radio handbook also lists it for carrying urgency and safety messages, and as a routine calling channel (and then you move to a working channel and get out of the way).\u003cp\u003eAlso: What crazy part of the world plays clutters ch16 with music?","parent":"9058529","id":"9058912"}
{"by":"jakecarpenter","time":"1311456169","timestamp":"2011-07-23 21:22:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ignoring the obvious slant to the article (especially funny since the author is questioning a Forbes article) dictionary.com defines an entrepreneur as:\u003cp\u003een·tre·pre·neur\n   [ahn-truh-pruh-nur, -noor; Fr. ahn-truh-pruh-nœr]\n1. a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.\n2. an employer of productive labor; contractor.\u003cp\u003eSo, if the article really wants to know is Ms. Cohen is an entrepreneur, then I think the answer is yes. Also, how does an article with the phrase \"the end is near\" in the tagline make it to the front page for so long?","parent":"2797312","id":"2797873"}
{"by":"watersb","time":"1525904997","timestamp":"2018-05-09 22:29:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for both of these.\u003cp\u003eI thought XMLterm was going to catch on, but no one seemed to care. Almost 20 years, and now scientists seem happy with Jupyter Notebooks.\u003cp\u003eWolfram spent that time trying to get everything into a regular model, so any output could be used as a valid input argument. I have tried, and yet it seems only possible to use if your a priori model of the problem domain already matches the Wolfram Language.\u003cp\u003eWe need better terminals. But so far the seem very specialized.","parent":"17026961","id":"17034811"}
{"by":"iLemming","time":"1503037699","timestamp":"2017-08-18 06:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; even though that\u0026#x27;s not difficult\u003cp\u003eTurns out to be quite arduous:\u003cp\u003e- You ask for reasonable support for both object-oriented and functional programming, this already contradicts with the notion of state (that objects suppose to contain in OOP) and \u0026quot;stateless\u0026quot; ways of FP, let\u0026#x27;s ignore that for a moment\u003cp\u003e- FP means different things for different people - some would argue it has to have well thought type system, but what exactly that means? Is strongly but dynamically typed like in Clojure is okay (with added sugar like Clojure.spec)? Or it has to have static types? Does it have to have then type inference like in Elm? Or definitely it has to have algebraic data types like in Haskell? Or maybe dependent types like in Idris?\u003cp\u003e- Concurrency models vary too, for example: STM in Clojure and Haskell aren\u0026#x27;t exactly the same. Actor model in Erlang is a beast and sounds awesome on paper, but in real life process coordination may become a headache. Primitives based on CSP model are also known to have their own quirks. Concurrency in any language is never simple and straightforward.\u003cp\u003e- You\u0026#x27;re asking for an fast FP language - with immutable data structures and lazy\u0026#x2F;non-strict evaluation it\u0026#x27;s probably unrealistic to get it to run as fast as native code\u003cp\u003e- And \u0026quot;simple to learn\u0026quot; is also very subjective quality - for some Python is easy, but Clojure is hard. For some Haskell is not that difficult as people describe it. For some it feels like insurmountable mountain.\u003cp\u003eAs you can see - it\u0026#x27;s not that simple. And we probably not gonna get a \u0026quot;perfect\u0026quot; language that suits everyone anytime soon.","parent":"15043872","id":"15044017"}
{"by":"Zarel","time":"1435266045","timestamp":"2015-06-25 21:00:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You get a choice for OS X. You can put most apps wherever you want; just drag the .app \u0026quot;file\u0026quot; anywhere.","parent":"9779742","id":"9780877"}
{"by":"chisleu","time":"1432309125","timestamp":"2015-05-22 15:38:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"95% of the BTC aren\u0026#x27;t online, by their admission, which means 95% of the BTC might not even bet there. They could be using a 5% fractional reserve banking method and we wouldn\u0026#x27;t know unless everyone withdraws for a few days or so.","parent":"9588361","id":"9588947"}
{"by":"caustic","time":"1277479356","timestamp":"2010-06-25 15:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with software development is it is just a very broad field. When someone talks about programming, he/she usually talk about some specific kind of programming. You see, there are many programming worlds, like system programming, middleware/framework programming, multimedia/game programming, embedded devices programming, business applications development and so on. These are very different and require different skill sets. One will have hard time transitioning from writing dating sites in PHP to writing high-performant web servers, from writing SQL queries to designing database engines.\u003cp\u003eI am convinced that Agile is implicitly related to business application development, and when someone is saying he/she is using Agile methodology, they most likely develop web applications for enterprises. And probably this is the most widespread niche today. But frankly speaking, I don't think this is not the most challenging work for programmers. Been there, done that.\u003cp\u003eBut I am yet to see Agile evangelist who clearly states what kind of projects Agile is appropriate for. They all speak about software development in general without making distinction, as if Linux kernel or Java virtual machine or Ruby on Rails framework should be developed with their methodology. Certainly you can come up with many more examples of successfull hi-tech projects that didn't use Agile. Ironically, these projects is what makes Agile possible at all. Millions of man-haours were invested in development of operating systems, databases, virtual machines, libraries, middleware frameworks, programming languages, protocols and so on and on. Agile developers take all this as granted and try to teach everyone else how to do software development.\u003cp\u003eOr thise evangelists simply have too narrow scope, then this ignorance annoying. Does Agile work for software projects that require heavy engineering? I don't think so.","parent":"1460500","id":"1461006"}
{"by":"usbreply","time":"1411541017","timestamp":"2014-09-24 06:43:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The entire internet community came together to deride this\u003cp\u003ewhy the persecution complex ? Yes there was criticism, but there is always criticism of everything on the internet.\u003cp\u003eAnother proud Indian.","parent":"8360035","id":"8360192"}
{"by":"user812","time":"1537646867","timestamp":"2018-09-22 20:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Allowing third-party cookies wasn\u0026#x27;t a neutral decision to begin with, even though the implications only became clear later.","parent":"18047175","id":"18047736"}
{"by":"patrickg","time":"1379490141","timestamp":"2013-09-18 07:42:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK, thanks, I understand. (I hope we\u0026#x27;ll never read it in the news \u0026quot;thief cuts off finger\u0026quot;.)","parent":"6403922","id":"6404045"}
{"by":"blauditore","time":"1535134473","timestamp":"2018-08-24 18:14:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there any way to confirm this is actually legit? I mean, theoretically one could just make such things up, no?","parent":"17835760","id":"17836703"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1411951054","timestamp":"2014-09-29 00:37:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s no need to speculate. It\u0026#x27;s 500. Or, uh, 501: \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=7606199\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"8381238","id":"8381302"}
{"by":"meirelles","time":"1494270944","timestamp":"2017-05-08 19:15:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not quite sure if it\u0026#x27;s good practice. We have many elegant\u0026#x2F;flexible alternatives to do things like this.","parent":"14290847","id":"14294665"}
{"by":"tribesman","time":"1534148637","timestamp":"2018-08-13 08:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You are not a doctor.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s part of a diet for people in tibetian plateau. Recommending someone a specific food doesn\u0026#x27;t require being a doctor. Please put these low effort comments off hackernews.","parent":"17748348","dead":true,"id":"17748720"}
{"by":"joshdotsmith","time":"1359225980","timestamp":"2013-01-26 18:46:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's just how they named the plan: \"The Startup plan is perfect for businesses, side projects or individuals who get less than 500 brand mentions on Twitter each month.\"","parent":"5121224","id":"5121259"}
{"by":"anarazel","time":"1431061402","timestamp":"2015-05-08 05:03:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MERGE is actually a separate feature. We\u0026#x27;re still considering implementing it. But it\u0026#x27;s syntax is too cumbersome for many usages. There\u0026#x27;s also some unrelated complexity - so implementing merge support does get easier by the infrastructure in here, but a fair amount of work remains.","parent":"9510015","id":"9510047"}
{"by":"asnyder","time":"1248652841","timestamp":"2009-07-27 00:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NOLOH's been around since 2005 and has multiple patents pending. Perhaps you would like to talk sometime, we're always looking for talented developers to join our team.","parent":"724742","id":"725069"}
{"by":"ilogik","time":"1489680246","timestamp":"2017-03-16 16:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The actual words are archaic, lesser known synonyms.","parent":"13885818","id":"13886139"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1294154539","timestamp":"2011-01-04 15:22:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A 14 line article is too long to read?","parent":"2067161","id":"2067218"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1435656892","timestamp":"2015-06-30 09:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PVs can\u0026#x27;t be weaponized because they suck as an energy source compared to burning fuels. Any power source with enough energy density to be interesting is a weapon, just like any engine with enough power to give you reasonable interplanetary travel times is a weapon of mass destruction.\u003cp\u003eHumanity needs to find a way to deal with high-energy technology if we\u0026#x27;re to move forward as a species.","parent":"9802160","id":"9803960"}
{"by":"gherkin0","time":"1456622068","timestamp":"2016-02-28 01:14:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You once again missed my point\u003cp\u003eNo, I didn\u0026#x27;t.  I just think your hiring expectations are unreasonable and not at all indicative of any kind of real \u0026quot;skills shortage.\u0026quot;","parent":"11189243","id":"11189289"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1431448803","timestamp":"2015-05-12 16:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But it\u0026#x27;s possible that they\u0026#x27;ve lost some of their technology. Or that it\u0026#x27;s a punitive outpost - a space-jail, where they work off their debt to their society by mining, or performing astronomical observations, or something else.","parent":"9528223","id":"9532975"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1494793480","timestamp":"2017-05-14 20:24:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Using the correct login credentials has been defined as hacking for many years.\u003cp\u003eSee this clip from a 1983 film: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=U2_h-EFlztY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=U2_h-EFlztY\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14337349","id":"14337388"}
{"by":"rmason","time":"1449880632","timestamp":"2015-12-12 00:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dow is headquartered in Midland, Michigan.  Think of it as a one company town.  The worry in state is that this is going to destroy the town.\u003cp\u003eKind of like when Chrysler moved out of Highland Park (near Detroit) and they lost 80%+ of their tax revenue and never recovered.","parent":"10719718","id":"10721173"}
{"by":"frooxie","time":"1408193931","timestamp":"2014-08-16 12:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also keep several hundreds of tabs open for months on end. I use Firefox and have simply accepted that it will crash about four times per day, requiring me to wait a few minutes while it restarts and reloads the tabs.","parent":"8185914","id":"8186071"}
{"by":"JTon","time":"1392315020","timestamp":"2014-02-13 18:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Comcast could have been netflix\nNetflix offers incredible value. Don\u0026#x27;t you think it\u0026#x27;s irrational for Comcast to offer up this value at the expense of their own profits when they are not being threatened? They are going to milk it for as long as they can.","parent":"7229667","id":"7232970"}
{"by":"kmfrk","time":"1293815639","timestamp":"2010-12-31 17:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can do it in your .htaccess file. Define some extensions that are blacklisted and redirect referrers outside your own domain to a place of your choice.\u003cp\u003eCPanel allows you to do this directly (although you might want to back up your .htaccess file first).","parent":"2055620","id":"2055826"}
{"by":"newsat13","time":"1484973829","timestamp":"2017-01-21 04:43:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or wekan on cloudron, i guess","parent":"13363700","id":"13448858"}
{"by":"jsjohnst","time":"1479135669","timestamp":"2016-11-14 15:01:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe I\u0026#x27;m the exception to the rule, but I\u0026#x27;ve been able to consistently spot a CZ, even from a distance. I thought maybe it was just the average cut of a CZ, but doing a blind comparison between similar quality cuts of CZ and diamonds with a jeweler friend, I was able to pick out the CZ first try every time.","parent":"12948354","id":"12950171"}
{"by":"scholia","time":"1361234775","timestamp":"2013-02-19 00:46:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Partly tongue in cheek. However, we know that Google, Apple and Microsoft will do what is best for their companies, however they dress it up. Mozilla, being non-profit, does have a better ideological foundation for doing what is best for the web.\u003cp\u003eOf course, it does come down to individuals in the end, and \nopen source has pointless turf-wars, so nothing is guaranteed....","parent":"5235312","id":"5241859"}
{"by":"wglb","time":"1250686081","timestamp":"2009-08-19 12:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article, as several comments note, is kind of a non-story, but the referenced article that supposedly was the target of suppression is a good read: \u003ca href=\"http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6797859.ece?token=null\u0026#38;offset=0\u0026#38;page=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/ar...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"772420","id":"772592"}
{"by":"gfodor","time":"1381535786","timestamp":"2013-10-11 23:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He lifts his finger just as much in Portal play as he does in Civ. It\u0026#x27;s incredibly fast. The ergonomics of this thing make it pretty hard to say that it will be frustrating to track the cursor across the screen just because you have to lift your finger. Think about how you use a trackball. This is basically a trackpad device with the thumb ergonomics of a trackball.","parent":"6536485","id":"6536572"}
{"by":"rjf90","time":"1394215190","timestamp":"2014-03-07 17:59:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been looking for something like this.  Powtoons is ok but sucks for someone who wants a little more out of their animation tool.  Can\u0026#x27;t wait to try it out!","parent":"7360296","id":"7361692"}
{"by":"feelin_googley","time":"1514433986","timestamp":"2017-12-28 04:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I were an online advertiser or a company selling to online advertisers, I would be happy with these findings.\u003cp\u003eIf I were a user concerned with privacy and tracking I might wonder why the authors of the HTTP\u0026#x2F;2 standard did not make any efforts to address this type of fingerprinting.","parent":"16018343","id":"16020241"}
{"by":"Albright","time":"1447897759","timestamp":"2015-11-19 01:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Back when I first tried PC-BSD, I don\u0026#x27;t think GhostBSD existed yet. I\u0026#x27;ve tried it once or twice since then, though. GhostBSD is definitely more lightweight and simple in what it provides (no graphical package manager, for example), whereas PC-BSD is more kitchen sink; I guess whichever one works for you depends on what you\u0026#x27;re looking for.\u003cp\u003eBy all means, feel free to give both a try.","parent":"10592003","id":"10592227"}
{"by":"s73ver","time":"1494894712","timestamp":"2017-05-16 00:31:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lack of separation between personal and professional life. One of the things Silicon Valley companies have been working on doing for a while is blurring the lines between work and not work.","parent":"14346326","id":"14346471"}
{"by":"aw3c2","time":"1349341489","timestamp":"2012-10-04 09:04:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"for each pixel coordinate and color, output an offset and color. Not sure how it is impressive.","parent":"4611397","id":"4611495"}
{"by":"gesman","time":"1433025052","timestamp":"2015-05-30 22:30:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but it was enough to distract 99% of kiddies from copycatting it. 1% wasn\u0026#x27;t a threat to business. Just a sale that would never happen anyways.","parent":"9632014","id":"9632026"}
{"by":"davidgrenier","time":"1518873160","timestamp":"2018-02-17 13:12:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is going to be an interesting fiasco, chewing ever more on the shaky public trust. The layman still getting in on this stuff makes it so private investors can liquidate their worthless investment at a premium, the former won\u0026#x27;t learn before the later does.","parent":"16399161","id":"16400523"}
{"by":"roel_v","time":"1358243373","timestamp":"2013-01-15 09:49:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It just shows that the author is an intermediate-level programmer at best, if his main concern about the 'beauty' of code is in how it's formatted (spaces vs tabs! K\u0026#38;R vs Allman braces!) and whether it's const correct. Throw in a sprinkle of complaining about silly comments (because obviously there are armies of people out there defending documenting getter/setter functions...) and the obligatory 'templates are bad because I don't understand them', and you have yet another cookie cutter programmer link bait blog post polluting the general internets.","parent":"5056309","id":"5059472"}
{"by":"gibbonsd1","time":"1417372856","timestamp":"2014-11-30 18:40:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn\u0026#x27;t work for me either. However, I am using the Vimium plugin for Chrome which may also cause issues.","parent":"8677108","id":"8677588"}
{"by":"ken","time":"1522787395","timestamp":"2018-04-03 20:29:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This list includes the base model CPU in the 2009, 2010, and 2012 Mac Pros, as well as some of the BTO upgrades.  I\u0026#x27;m disappointed, but not surprised.\u003cp\u003eThe 2012 Mac Pros, in particular, were still being sold less than 5 years ago, so this means it\u0026#x27;s still officially supported by Apple.  I wonder if there\u0026#x27;s some awkward conversations happening between the two companies about that.\u003cp\u003eFortunately, it\u0026#x27;s possible to upgrade the CPU in a Mac Pro to a newer part which is still supported by Intel.","parent":"16747928","id":"16748794"}
{"by":"lettergram","time":"1446124825","timestamp":"2015-10-29 13:20:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That should be fine. Only the update was rejected","parent":"10470703","id":"10470731"}
{"by":"klochner","time":"1297966034","timestamp":"2011-02-17 18:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can't just equate Minsky's 'Ponzi Finance' with a 'Ponzi Scheme' just because they both have the word 'Ponzi' in them.  Minsky used the idea of a Ponzi scheme in creating his own technical term to describe speculative borrowing.\u003cp\u003eAlso, Minsky's theory of financial instability doesn't apply to all bubbles, it's a theory concerned with financial instability as a result of increasingly speculative debt and borrowing.  You can have a bubble without debt.","parent":"2231447","id":"2232015"}
{"by":"tristor","time":"1544140920","timestamp":"2018-12-07 00:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s actually exactly how the algorithm is supposed to work.  Negative emotions are far more catchy.  You see dumb boomer memes constantly, you constantly argue, but you\u0026#x27;re ENGAGED.  Which means you\u0026#x27;re a juicy user for ad targeting.","parent":"18623134","id":"18623807"}
{"by":"orf","time":"1434896086","timestamp":"2015-06-21 14:14:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn\u0026#x27;t the PyPy folks have some issue with the language shootout, which led them to make their own?[1][2]. IIRC a lot of the Python code wasn\u0026#x27;t that optimized at all compared to the C\u0026#x2F;C++ programs.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;speed.pypy.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;speed.pypy.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alexgaynor.net\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;apr\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;my-experience-computer-language-shootout\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alexgaynor.net\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;apr\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;my-experience-computer-la...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9753402","id":"9753513"}
{"by":"madmaze","time":"1363358637","timestamp":"2013-03-15 14:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"agree, also all around the same time of the post =P","parent":"5380719","id":"5380815"}
{"by":"rwhitman","time":"1291741085","timestamp":"2010-12-07 16:58:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Frustrating, sure. Something to be \"angry\" about? No.\u003cp\u003eIts a free service. With no advertising. When you use Tumblr you are consuming their resources which they are giving to you free of charge. Its not like they deliberately pulled the plug either. They can deal with the problem in their own way.\u003cp\u003eHonestly people need to get over this sense of entitlement to online services. We should feel blessed that Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook or HN exist, for free, in the first place.","parent":"1973119","id":"1979619"}
{"by":"shimon","time":"1501084332","timestamp":"2017-07-26 15:52:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there\u0026#x27;s a bunch of pretty strong cases for the value of HN. Look at what it does today: feeds people into YC programs, helps (especially YC) startups hire hackers, gives YC folks a megaphone to a massive and devoted technical audience.\u003cp\u003eThought experiment: imagine Techstars owned HN. How much would YC pay to avoid that fate?","parent":"14852354","dead":true,"id":"14857264"}
{"by":"kogir","time":"1332616018","timestamp":"2012-03-24 19:06:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is totally fine.  Live Messenger is a private service, and Microsoft can run it however they want.  Users will simply switch to competing services that don't suck.  Let the market decide.\u003cp\u003eAlso, as behavior like this increases in frequency, we'll finally be forced to address the current usability issues with point-to-point cryptography and adopt it more broadly.  Microsoft shouldn't be able to read anything you write unless you choose to share it with them.\u003cp\u003eA world where all communication is encrypted requires more software development effort, but ends up better for everyone in the long run.  Calls, emails, text messages - none of them should be intelligible to anyone other than the parties explicitly involved.","parent":"3749678","id":"3750365"}
{"by":"bricestacey","time":"1295035785","timestamp":"2011-01-14 20:09:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I wasn't familiar with PollDaddy, so know nothing about this market, but on their homepage, they don't have a poll. They don't show me what it is like from a user perspective.\u003cp\u003egopollgo doesn't have one on their homepage either. The link is actually one to an existing poll. Try \u003ca href=\"http://gopollgo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gopollgo.com\u003c/a\u003e and you'll see.\u003cp\u003eI do think you should add a poll on the homepage or at least a screenshot of one to draw users in.\u003cp\u003eI love the site though. The UX is fun and engaging.","parent":"2105037","id":"2105210"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1323366053","timestamp":"2011-12-08 17:40:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Newsflash:  Apple's design patents were filed before the iPad shipped, some as early as 2004.","parent":"3329894","id":"3330100"}
{"by":"neakor","time":"1386182920","timestamp":"2013-12-04 18:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why does it matter if it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;open\u0026quot; or not? Stop trying to break other people\u0026#x27;s stuff already. We all want things our own way, so why not respect other people\u0026#x27;s ways as well.","parent":"6847955","id":"6849127"}
{"by":"avilopro","time":"1527114823","timestamp":"2018-05-23 22:33:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"because you are amazing for doing that homeboy! get it","parent":"17134668","id":"17139034"}
{"by":"Arizhel","time":"1487713496","timestamp":"2017-02-21 21:44:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;A primary focus should be on overthrowing the military industrial complex, which seems to be the source of a lot of waste... If the US didn\u0026#x27;t have its fingers in so many other governments, then it would be safer to ignore this fact.\u003cp\u003eThe only problem I have with this idea is that, if the US weren\u0026#x27;t the superpower pulling strings, surely someone else (Russia or China) would be.  Would that be any better for the world?  How much waste was there during Soviet times, when so many nations had so little productivity under Soviet management, and their economies were closed to the rest of the world?\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I\u0026#x27;d rather see a more equal alliance among western nations, but for some reason that just doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be happening.","parent":"13699121","id":"13700341"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1415497243","timestamp":"2014-11-09 01:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know that\u0026#x27;s what a lot of people want, but I do not see how one can \u0026#x27;handle the extremes in reasonable ways\u0026#x27; without producing NaNs. I have heard people advocate 0\u0026#x2F;0 = 0, but IMO that is NOT \u0026#x27;handling the extremes in reasonable ways\u0026#x27;. What would you propose for 0\u0026#x2F;0?","parent":"8578736","id":"8578776"}
{"by":"lathiat","time":"1537969947","timestamp":"2018-09-26 13:52:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ZFS does have the option of storing 2 copies even on the same disk (zfs set copies=2), unfortunately it doesn\u0026#x27;t have an ECC-style option for the same disk you need to use multiple disks in which case it will transparently fix things in a RAID-Z if it can.","parent":"18073652","id":"18075901"}
{"by":"raphinou","time":"1398157923","timestamp":"2014-04-22 09:12:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why the \u0026quot;thankfully\u0026quot;? I\u0026#x27;m in a country where the ID card is mandatory and don\u0026#x27;t see any problem with it. Can you enlighten me?","parent":"7626508","id":"7626539"}
{"by":"redthrowaway","time":"1327952425","timestamp":"2012-01-30 19:40:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just ordered them shipped to Canada, so I'm guessing yes.","parent":"3529705","id":"3530303"}
{"by":"edraferi","time":"1395756031","timestamp":"2014-03-25 14:00:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe not in this incarnation, but when they roll out an API it could be baked into all kinds of things.\u003cp\u003eFor example, consider a multi-service contact managers like the Windows Phone People Hub or Contacts + on Android. They let you establish a database that represents people as collections of identities across various services. These services could add a feature that discovers public keys hosted with keybase.io for your contacts based on proofs offered by the identities you\u0026#x27;ve already mapped to each contact. This could be presented as a simple \u0026quot;have key yes\u0026#x2F;no\u0026quot; indicator, and symbols showing which service-identity pairs have vouched for that key, as well as warnings if any of the identities have vouched for a DIFFERENT key.\u003cp\u003eObviously client-to-client is always best, but you could extend this model to cloud services, even email. It could provide an organic authentication layer.\u003cp\u003eNow, you can argue that it\u0026#x27;s only as secure as your twitter \u0026#x2F; github \u0026#x2F; domain. Fine. But your twitter \u0026#x2F; github \u0026#x2F; domain ARE you on the internet. For most purposes, you\u0026#x27;re just \u0026quot;User X on Service Y\u0026quot;. It can be useful to be able to prove that outside of Service Y. In addition, it\u0026#x27;s really valuable to be able to have multiple \u0026quot;proofs\u0026quot;. An attacker would need to compromise four separate services to successfully spoof your identity (keybase, twitter, github, domain). That\u0026#x27;s not impossible, but it is hard and probably slow, especially if you\u0026#x27;re using two-factor authentication.\u003cp\u003eFinally, you can add additional out-of-band proofs. Hand-deliver a print out of your key to your associates, then they can pin that proof in the client and use keybase of on-the-fly verification, comparing everything to the key you provided them at your cypherpunk birthday party.","parent":"7465509","id":"7465859"}
{"by":"kqr","time":"1518347114","timestamp":"2018-02-11 11:05:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds like something one should ask people who do not write portable makefiles, rather than porters of Make, which has been standardised for quite a while now.","parent":"16351141","id":"16352178"}
{"by":"snailletters","time":"1545817536","timestamp":"2018-12-26 09:45:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The demo seems to be missing. I get a 404 on the link.","parent":"18745401","id":"18761435"}
{"by":"skookumchuck","time":"1487538264","timestamp":"2017-02-19 21:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has happened to me as well. What I do is go to the bank and sit down with the manager, and push until I get those fees reversed. Going in person is much more effective than calling on the phone, and the manager will just fix it to get you out of his hair.","parent":"13681523","id":"13681974"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1544427901","timestamp":"2018-12-10 07:45:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best is when the team delivers 100% what was specified on the Jira items, do the demo after several failed attempts to get feedback and then they state that \u0026quot;it is nice but not really what we want\u0026quot;.","parent":"18645730","id":"18645998"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1544266135","timestamp":"2018-12-08 10:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not the one downvoting you, I rather have discussions, even when I might not be right.","parent":"18634360","id":"18634726"}
{"by":"rch","time":"1474486626","timestamp":"2016-09-21 19:37:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s valuable feedback, thanks. I was really considering it.","parent":"12550989","id":"12551489"}
{"by":"rtpg","time":"1378213416","timestamp":"2013-09-03 13:03:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"most of this is just a discussion in the abstract. I\u0026#x27;m not aware of what citations he would need? Maybe cite the dictionary for definitions?\u003cp\u003eIt seems very much like more of a FQA than a FAQ though.","parent":"6315834","id":"6320645"}
{"by":"keeptrying","time":"1282199214","timestamp":"2010-08-19 06:26:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand that feeling and its not the real reason why I stated that indian managers are mostly bad. I also mentioned that there is an inherent selection bias.\u003cp\u003eMy friends and I have had many many managers and a good many were indian. Only one of them I would rate as good. Funnily enough I used to be his manager a long time ago. I've actually learnt a lot from his style of leadership though I've never worked under him.\u003cp\u003eHe (ie 1) is the exception who IMHO proves the rule.","parent":"1616363","id":"1616672"}
{"by":"saluki","time":"1415893388","timestamp":"2014-11-13 15:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keep in mind you can\u0026#x27;t force it on them . . . that said it starts with little things . . .\u003cp\u003eGrowing up all I heard was go to college and work for a company.  That\u0026#x27;s a good backup plan but keep being a founder in the forefront of their mind.\u003cp\u003eThe office I used to work at the owner brings his dog in the office on Fridays . . . my son and wife came by for a visit one Friday . . . even though my son was 6 when he left the office with me the first thing he asked was \u0026#x27;why can they bring their dog to work\u0026#x27; . . . I explained that he owned the company and could make the rules . . . and that he earned more money by starting and owning the company than any of the employees . . . basically just look for teachable moments to get the idea in their head that they can start their own business someday . . . my sons response \u0026#x27;I want to have my own business someday\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eI tell him about creating apps and products, being your own boss, that working for someone else you can only make so much money, having your own business can enable you to work flexible hours and make more money to provide for your family in the future and you make the rules and get to pick what you work on.\u003cp\u003eI also keep a running list of videos, podcasts and articles to share with them when they are older . . . things that will still be relevant in 10 years . . . and I\u0026#x27;ve shared my views with my wife, family and friends so they can point him in the right direction if something happens to me.\u003cp\u003eI know not everyone can be an entrepreneur but I think it\u0026#x27;s a good idea to groom this generation that it\u0026#x27;s an option if they are interested and groom them to have the skills.\u003cp\u003eGood luck . . .","parent":"8601695","id":"8602065"}
{"by":"clickme_zsh","time":"1525639097","timestamp":"2018-05-06 20:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have posted a video talking about this briefly on our YouTube channel.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;VdFx-OU31Hs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;VdFx-OU31Hs\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17004744","id":"17008383"}
{"by":"mineshaftgap","time":"1441546978","timestamp":"2015-09-06 13:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Europeans have a cartoon understanding of the US, which is why they actually worry that they will be carjacked when they visit.","parent":"10177563","id":"10177609"}
{"by":"dinkumthinkum","time":"1238905854","timestamp":"2009-04-05 04:30:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're right, lawyers use WordPerfect like nobody's business. I've met many lawyers that don't even know Microsoft Word exists.","parent":"546903","id":"547057"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1522585354","timestamp":"2018-04-01 12:22:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"s\u0026#x2F;China\u0026#x2F;humanity\u0026#x2F; # 差不多","parent":"16727289","id":"16727893"}
{"by":"omouse","time":"1256224003","timestamp":"2009-10-22 15:06:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Movable Type is great :D","parent":"896694","id":"896848"}
{"by":"BlackjackCF","time":"1485798221","timestamp":"2017-01-30 17:43:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I follow Julia on Twitter.\u003cp\u003eShe always has great drawings\u0026#x2F;hilarious stuff that she posts. It\u0026#x27;s really inspiring.","parent":"13521252","id":"13523275"}
{"by":"mlLK","time":"1243539405","timestamp":"2009-05-28 19:36:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your comment reminded me of this experiment where two groups of elementary students were asked to create a bowl for art class. [or vase or something] (I can't recall the specific object of the experiment)\u003cp\u003eThe first group was prompted to create one bowl with quality in mind. The second group was asked to create a finite number of bowls, for this case lets say 10 bowls, disregarding the quality of each bowl. In the end, the second group's 10th bowl turned out better from an aesthetic standpoint than the first group's single bow.\u003cp\u003eQualitative measurements are tricky, which is why I have a hard time listening [or believing] to any expert from any school that constitutes as a `social science`","parent":"630785","id":"630894"}
{"by":"cstejerean","time":"1205758560","timestamp":"2008-03-17 12:56:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes it does. The people buying shrink-wrap software don't typically go online and compile from source. The users that are capable of compiling their own version (and supplying their own artwork) based on GPL source code are likely to just use (or develop) free alternatives to commercial software. So releasing your software under the GPL, even when you're in the business of selling said software is not exactly a bad idea.","parent":"138836","id":"138879"}
{"by":"CamperBob2","time":"1528252734","timestamp":"2018-06-06 02:38:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something about \u0026quot;making no law abridging the freedom of the press.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhat other forms of speech would you, personally, like to see require government registration?","parent":"17243302","id":"17243968"}
{"by":"ogoldberg","time":"1520885188","timestamp":"2018-03-12 20:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here! We\u0026#x27;re really happy with it.","parent":"16569844","id":"16571038"}
{"by":"user5994461","time":"1480098109","timestamp":"2016-11-25 18:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMO. Amazon.com has became a poor ebay.\u003cp\u003eOn Ebay, it\u0026#x27;s clear that you\u0026#x27;re only buying from a 3rd party seller and you can see who it is and what\u0026#x27;s his reputation.","parent":"13037024","id":"13038774"}
{"by":"henley-cs","time":"1450389346","timestamp":"2015-12-17 21:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that\u0026#x27;s a lot of posturing on both sides.  FB had some severe vulnerabilities that the author certainly pointed out.  And the author could have read the bucket contents without downloading them.  FB clammed up.  The author overreached.  Neither ends up really winning anything here.  Tis a shame.","parent":"10754194","id":"10754857"}
{"by":"megaman22","time":"1528355465","timestamp":"2018-06-07 07:11:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The austro-hungarian war, and its futility is also incredible - I don\u0026#x27;t have the title now, but I\u0026#x27;ve read something outlining their mobilization plan up to Tannenberg. The whole Balkans region that started the conflagration is so confusing and bloody...","parent":"17253845","id":"17253887"}
{"by":"MandieD","time":"1496736237","timestamp":"2017-06-06 08:03:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems to be common practice here in northern Bavaria to only cool offices to about 5 C below outside temp - so if it\u0026#x27;s 35 C (95 F) outside, only cooling to 30 (86 F).\u003cp\u003eFortunately, wearing shorts to work on extremely hot (over 30 C) days is also more socially acceptable here.","parent":"14495473","id":"14495554"}
{"by":"hellotoby","time":"1257991087","timestamp":"2009-11-12 01:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.konigi.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.konigi.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.patterntap.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.patterntap.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"935997","id":"936914"}
{"by":"phrotoma","time":"1317838037","timestamp":"2011-10-05 18:07:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This fairly reeks of awesome. If the ones I don't recognize are as great as the ones I do, I'd say you have a damn fine site there!","parent":"3076522","id":"3076784"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1329153658","timestamp":"2012-02-13 17:20:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience far too many avowed libertarians are simply dilettantes. They do not fully appreciate the seriousness of the courses of action they advocate. To the degree that in many cases the ultimate outcome of their ideas would be despotism, not libertarian utopia, and are ultimately just as clueless and dangerous as folks advocating marxism. Which, I think, substantially undermines the whole movement.","parent":"3584980","id":"3586369"}
{"by":"cookiecaper","time":"1462205558","timestamp":"2016-05-02 16:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about neither? There are people who value sobriety.","parent":"11612325","id":"11612686"}
{"by":"OoTheNigerian","time":"1302911952","timestamp":"2011-04-15 23:59:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This case buttresses the point that if it is not signed, it does not exist. I hope they bounce back strong.","parent":"2452522","id":"2452712"}
{"by":"vikingcaffiene","time":"1531894071","timestamp":"2018-07-18 06:07:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose I\u0026#x27;d need to know what specifically you\u0026#x27;ve run up against to justify your distaste for the approach. I too prefer composition but I\u0026#x27;m not against another way if it works.","parent":"17555482","id":"17555857"}
{"by":"eurticket","time":"1519908071","timestamp":"2018-03-01 12:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you could say that by not advertising it, for risk of competition, you\u0026#x27;re missing out on potential revenue too?","parent":"16490029","id":"16491479"}
{"by":"dmunoz","time":"1410509722","timestamp":"2014-09-12 08:15:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hopefully some of the issues you\u0026#x27;re noticing will get fleshed out before the guide is officially linked from the rust homepage.\u003cp\u003eI do agree with you though. I felt the same way about the guide from the first time I read (parts of) it, and I know we\u0026#x27;re not alone. I\u0026#x27;ve commented before about how it\u0026#x27;s impossible to nail down the target audience, but it seems overly informal as a replacement to the current tutorials, especially compared to the \u0026quot;additional guides\u0026quot; that were linked to at the conclusion of the tutorial which really got down to business quickly.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve long been hoping that something like rustbyexample.com gets officially sanctioned and linked to from the homepage alongside the guide. As a small metric, the current tutorial is 942 to Hello World, the new guide is 1595 words, and rustbyexample.com is 239 words.","parent":"8306868","id":"8307045"}
{"by":"jackvalentine","time":"1302265652","timestamp":"2011-04-08 12:27:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; So, Aussies... is it working for you that child sexual abuse is being lumped together with \"gratuitous (by whose standards?) ... or offensive (to whom?) sexual fetishes?\u003cp\u003eFor the most part I have few problems with our classification scheme. If you're genuinely interested in what goes in to a rating, the guidelines are quite easily available. (1)\u003cp\u003eIt's interesting the attitude I find many foreigners, in particular North Americans have of a repulsion to any kind of censorship whilst simultaniously being ignorant of what our classification scheme actually does. The previous sentence was directed at your idea that the prohibition against the promotion of violence or illegal drugs would cause a hollywood film to be banned from Australian cinemas. It doesn't because context is a mitigating factor. Ignoring the issue of no 18+ rating for video games, the only thing that comes to mind that I wish hadn't been refused classification is 2002's Ken Park.\u003cp\u003eForgive me if my attitude comes off as hostile, but I am increasingly annoyed at foreigners decrying our classification scheme as uniformly bad. I guess it's just different people having different values.\u003cp\u003e(1) \u003ca href=\"http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2008C00126\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2008C00126\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2423366","id":"2423450"}
{"by":"mstolpm","time":"1476977251","timestamp":"2016-10-20 15:27:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My opinion might not be popular here, but when I studied computer science, there was a big discussion about the ethical aspects of our job. Especially, I had the opportunity to speak with Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum [1] a couple of times, who always remembered me that users don\u0026#x27;t know what we as programmers, technicians and scientists know about the limitations of a solution. So we have the duty to ensure that our solutions don\u0026#x27;t harm and don\u0026#x27;t fuel unreasonable expectations.\u003cp\u003eFrom the Wikipedia article [1] about Joseph Weizenbaum:\n\u0026quot;His influential 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason displays his ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out his case: while Artificial Intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions because computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo, asking \u0026quot;but what if ...\u0026quot; in a responsible way should always be a big part of any innovation. Just shouting \u0026quot;hey, we are hackers, lets innovate and be open\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t always responsible.\u003cp\u003eAs a bonus, there\u0026#x27;s a great archive [2] about Joseph Weizenbaum with audio and film clips for anyone interested. Most of the site and the documents are in german unfortunately, but some transcripts are available in english as well.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Joseph_Weizenbaum\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Joseph_Weizenbaum\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ilmarefilm.org\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;weizenbaum_archiv.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ilmarefilm.org\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;weizenbaum_archiv.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12752750","id":"12753142"}
{"by":"axlprose","time":"1529104429","timestamp":"2018-06-15 23:13:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you just quoted literally shows Graydon saying that strcat\u0026#x27;s views were often correct. I wasn\u0026#x27;t commenting on strcat\u0026#x27;s tone\u0026#x2F;delivery because that\u0026#x27;s a separate issue, I was saying that it shows nothing about dishonesty, and only backs up the notion that he\u0026#x27;s honest (if a bit emotional).\u003cp\u003eSomebody having less than perfect communication skills is no reason to be wildly speculating and throwing them under the bus when they\u0026#x27;re the victims of something much worse.","parent":"17324205","id":"17324516"}
{"by":"FussyZeus","time":"1477930108","timestamp":"2016-10-31 16:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was surprised the Macbook didn\u0026#x27;t have any Lightning ports to be honest. I figured they would use that for direct device connection.\u003cp\u003eAs it stands if you have a brand new Macbook Pro and iPhone 7 you can\u0026#x27;t connect the two without an adapter, which is just stupid.","parent":"12837867","id":"12838112"}
{"by":"rafaelferreira","time":"1465869720","timestamp":"2016-06-14 02:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do tell.","parent":"11898760","id":"11899262"}
{"by":"facepalm","time":"1401448157","timestamp":"2014-05-30 11:09:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for the offer. I only read it at 23:45pm because I am traveling. Too bad - but anyway, it\u0026#x27;s great that you organize it.","parent":"7809668","id":"7821135"}
{"by":"gkya","time":"1463375196","timestamp":"2016-05-16 05:06:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also his own markdown like text processor, and enough tools to ditch X for the framebuffer, all in very \u003ci\u003eneat\u003c/i\u003e C.","parent":"11704343","id":"11704356"}
{"by":"preek","time":"1469440892","timestamp":"2016-07-25 10:01:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking for a changelog, I found this interesting collection of blog posts: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;endlessparentheses.com\u0026#x2F;tags-expanded.html#emacs-25\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;endlessparentheses.com\u0026#x2F;tags-expanded.html#emacs-25\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12156511","id":"12157576"}
{"by":"krammer","time":"1413586852","timestamp":"2014-10-17 23:00:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disclaimer: I\u0026#x27;m cofounder of Hooks (gethooksapp.com), an alerts-for-everything ios app. We went public beta 2 weeks ago.\u003cp\u003eTalking about MVPs, I hate myself for not having started with something like this. \nInstead of creating an web form where you can ask the users what they want (and giving the service, if not its not mvp!), we waited until we had an stable good looking ios app (with 35 different types of alerts, dynamic forms etc etc) -4 months of hard work.\u003cp\u003eFYI, we used surveys (we did ~1000) for validating the idea and getting new alert ideas but that\u0026#x27;s nothing compared with real users feedback. That\u0026#x27;s something you can\u0026#x27;t get until you launch something that looks real (like getnotifiedapp.com does). In two weeks we\u0026#x27;ve learnt more about our app than ever before, including surveys, private testflights and so.\nLesson learned (and this is something we cannot say noone told us, its at every modern startup book)\u003cp\u003eGood luck with this project!","parent":"8472786","id":"8473873"}
{"by":"sjtgraham","time":"1493826231","timestamp":"2017-05-03 15:43:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! Founder here. Currently in private beta, but if you\u0026#x27;re with Santander, Nationwide, RBS, Natwest, Ulster Bank NI, or IOM Bank I can give you access - sg@teller.io.","parent":"14256639","id":"14256721"}
{"by":"runesoerensen","time":"1509591180","timestamp":"2017-11-02 02:53:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The product page is up now \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.razerzone.com\u0026#x2F;mobile\u0026#x2F;razer-phone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.razerzone.com\u0026#x2F;mobile\u0026#x2F;razer-phone\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15605679","id":"15607468"}
{"by":"salawat","time":"1547471417","timestamp":"2019-01-14 13:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a copout if I\u0026#x27;ve ever heard one.\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, there was a game some adolescents would play where they would run up to an unsuspecting person person and bludgeon them as hard as possible to knock them out. There have been variants of the same pattern of behavior except involving strikes to other areas.\u003cp\u003eIt is \u003ci\u003eabsolutely\u003c/i\u003e justifiable to hate a person for engaging in a \u003ci\u003egame\u003c/i\u003e that involves inflicting harm on others. This attitude to hate the game rather than those forcing it on everyone else just seeks to divest blame from the actors that perpetuate the malignant activity, to an assumption that \u0026quot;the game\u0026quot; is some mysterious standalone force that subverts the will of the participants and justifies their innocence.\u003cp\u003eIn short, \u0026quot;the devil made me do it\u0026quot; is not an excuse for poor moral choices.\u003cp\u003eLets take it even further.\u003cp\u003eI have a game.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m going to get all the lifesaving equipment I can, and open a facility. This facility is going to specialize in a particular type of highly asymmetric transactions, and I\u0026#x27;m going to do everything I can to inflict the greatest financial harm I can, because gee, the way we keep score mandates I do so to keep the game going.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a hard realization to come to, but as human beings and individuals, our \u003ci\u003ecollective\u003c/i\u003e behavior is dependent and a composition our individual choices.\u003cp\u003eAnd for a not insignificant portion of our population, we have succeeded in allowing it to scrape together a world around itself where maybe it takes a week to explain the technicalities, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t take a layman more than an a 15 minutes to come to the conclusion there is something seriously wrong.\u003cp\u003eThis is one of those cases where rationalization has been left unchecked or unquestioned for far too long.\u003cp\u003eTo wrap around to the true meaning underlying your aphorism, which is diluted without context:\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t hate the market participants for participating in the market; but feel free to call out the hypocrisy of dealing in grievous financial harm in trade for necessary care. If you can\u0026#x27;t question or shame the actions of the ones perpetuating the status quo, you\u0026#x27;ll never change a blessed thing.\u003cp\u003eMrs. Bloom in Accounting is still a part of it. Even if she\u0026#x27;d rather not think about it.","parent":"18901710","id":"18902659"}
{"by":"brighton36","time":"1434995655","timestamp":"2015-06-22 17:54:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like well-insured and managed Bitcoin businesses are a big opportunity.","parent":"9746732","id":"9759998"}
{"by":"scarface74","time":"1533967875","timestamp":"2018-08-11 06:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People don’t buy Android because it’s “open” - they buy it because it’s cheap. If people cared about open, the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” would have already happened.","parent":"17736173","id":"17738601"}
{"by":"piyush_soni","time":"1392234362","timestamp":"2014-02-12 19:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Health care in India has a lot of issues, but it\u0026#x27;s affordable for most part. And if you read my reply to plaguuuuuu below, I wrote that it\u0026#x27;s still not good - but going the US way of insurance lobbying is not a solution either (because certainly, it\u0026#x27;s not working). Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who don\u0026#x27;t even have money to pay food, understandably they won\u0026#x27;t have money to pay for medicines. They get free government treatment in many cases (though no free food). There is a new Food Security bill passed late last year which is made to tackle those 42% undernourished children and other poor people. Implementation of that, in a populous country like India will take time. Poverty is a complex problem to solve.","parent":"7216089","id":"7226790"}
{"by":"meepmorp","time":"1420688080","timestamp":"2015-01-08 03:34:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think (someone can correct me if I\u0026#x27;m wrong) that the Mercator projection doesn\u0026#x27;t represent the area of the map in a way that accurately reflects the proportions. So, the relative sizes of Texas and Maine shown in the map aren\u0026#x27;t accurate, relate to each other.\u003cp\u003eSo the projection would affect the information that the map is conveying, though not in a way you might find important.","parent":"8854732","id":"8854868"}
{"by":"Debugreality","time":"1297815499","timestamp":"2011-02-16 00:18:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can see a lot of publishers offering special deals for purchasing through their website instead of through the app store to offset the 30%. For example \"Subscribe via the web and receive 3 months free subscription.\"\u003cp\u003eAt least until Apple further restricts their terms...","parent":"2221195","id":"2224154"}
{"by":"mrtree","time":"1508988262","timestamp":"2017-10-26 03:24:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"M-o-r-o-n","parent":"15553778","dead":true,"id":"15556130"}
{"by":"crawfordcomeaux","time":"1485983602","timestamp":"2017-02-01 21:13:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok. And what\u0026#x27;s the harm in that?","parent":"13536376","id":"13545252"}
{"by":"wsinks","time":"1524931315","timestamp":"2018-04-28 16:01:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, I didn\u0026#x27;t realize my expectation was so different.  I\u0026#x27;ve always assumed people wouldn\u0026#x27;t contact my current employer, but why not my previous employers?  You\u0026#x27;re right that it\u0026#x27;s better to ask permission, then you gain more information about the relationship too.  Hm.. good food for thought.","parent":"16945893","id":"16948236"}
{"by":"ryanwaggoner","time":"1260166237","timestamp":"2009-12-07 06:10:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just a note: PDF's are not natively supported on the Kindle 2, just the DX.","parent":"980601","id":"980818"}
{"by":"kilian","time":"1285612071","timestamp":"2010-09-27 18:27:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I often did this to and from work on the train, it's an amazing quick fix for when you're feeling drowsy.","parent":"1732736","id":"1732764"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1427377039","timestamp":"2015-03-26 13:37:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could a rise in this sort of accidents (4 in 20 years, unheard-of before) mirror the rise in number of pilots, and the parallel loss of social status? As flying becomes \u0026quot;just another job\u0026quot;, you will naturally get a normalized number of whacko pilots.\u003cp\u003eRather than banning what we cannot see, maybe we should just start seriously considering scenarios where one pilot is a malicious actor.","parent":"9269244","id":"9269426"}
{"by":"est","time":"1450407010","timestamp":"2015-12-18 02:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"encrypt with a redundant parity data?","parent":"10756223","id":"10756305"}
{"by":"Widdershin","time":"1397542346","timestamp":"2014-04-15 06:12:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know some of the people involved in this project, and I\u0026#x27;ve recently started trying to contribute. It\u0026#x27;s really cool to see New Zealand open source software doing well in the wider community.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve also used it personally for a few things and I think the idea has really good potential. It ties open decision making into a discussion quite well. Try it out.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/loomio/loomio\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;loomio\u0026#x2F;loomio\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7590358","id":"7590533"}
{"by":"georgebarnett","time":"1545888698","timestamp":"2018-12-27 05:31:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your experience mirrors what I\u0026#x27;ve seen.\u003cp\u003eMany teams use clusters for stages because they work on underlying cluster components and need to ensure they work together and upgrade processes work (e.g. terraform configs comes to mind).  Theres no reason to separate accounts because the cluster constructs aren\u0026#x27;t there for security.\u003cp\u003eConsidering it deeper (I haven\u0026#x27;t had to think about this for a while), I think multi tenancy would cover almost all of the use cases I\u0026#x27;ve seen except for the platform dev where people use clusters for separation when testing cluster config-as-code changes.","parent":"18767478","id":"18767579"}
{"by":"VaedaStrike","time":"1427611160","timestamp":"2015-03-29 06:39:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mr Polad, my 8th grade US history teacher taught me this same lesson. It does seem tedium at first, but I\u0026#x27;ve never found anything better at retention.\u003cp\u003eGranted I think taking a lecture on the same topics is a major reinforcement.","parent":"9283797","id":"9284099"}
{"by":"bryanp","time":"1476758212","timestamp":"2016-10-18 02:36:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m always fascinated by how people choose to live while traveling, so thanks for sharing! Curious though how you handle food. Do you prepare your own or eat out? Judging from the lack of utensils, etc I imagine the latter.","parent":"12731349","id":"12731594"}
{"by":"mschuster91","time":"1523554764","timestamp":"2018-04-12 17:39:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This kind of company deserves to die, and the public record laws for highly personal data also. The obsession with \u0026quot;background checks\u0026quot; is a really huge part of why the US has extremely high recidivism rate.\u003cp\u003eWhen people can\u0026#x27;t find a job even flipping burgers or distributing newspapers, they have no choice other than to go back to the criminal life.\u003cp\u003eedit: as I got private feedback: it is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e my intention to disrespect people flipping burgers or doing other \u0026quot;low level\u0026quot; jobs. My post was meant to illustrate that these two jobs usually do not require education and especially not a \u0026quot;background check\u0026quot;, so it is entirely pointless to do these (or to not hire people with a... shady past).","parent":"16820699","id":"16823160"}
{"by":"PakG1","time":"1456968903","timestamp":"2016-03-03 01:35:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This reminds me of a funny story.  I was a tech manager for the Winter Olympics in 2010, allocated to the mountain venues.  We had this crazy test rehearsal day where we\u0026#x27;d test our systems and processes.  Proctors would actually walk around the various venues at the Olympics and just randomly create both big and small problems to see how we\u0026#x27;d respond.  Suddenly, our network connection to the primary datacenter went down, and we couldn\u0026#x27;t figure out why.  We later learned that a boat had somehow (I don\u0026#x27;t know how) cut a main underwater cable that connected the mountain areas to the city.  It was a stupid day.  :)","parent":"11213055","id":"11214459"}
{"by":"simonh","time":"1479377188","timestamp":"2016-11-17 10:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh come on. The virus situation on Windows XP was appalling. The system was wide open. It\u0026#x27;s the primary reason I mainly switched to the Mac in 2006. Sane security was the one truly good thing that\u0026#x27;s come out of the post-XP era of MS operating systems.","parent":"12976020","id":"12976065"}
{"by":"chollida1","time":"1313152883","timestamp":"2011-08-12 12:41:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think in any of your 3 cases, if Microsoft pays 85 million then they are already ahead.\u003cp\u003eI'll be willing to bet that winning 1% of the search market cost much more than 85 million, and they'll get a much larger share of the market than 1%, even under your most pessimistic scenario.","parent":"2876919","id":"2877007"}
{"by":"igvadaimon","time":"1427901081","timestamp":"2015-04-01 15:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"React has all these features already.","parent":"9304007","id":"9304230"}
{"by":"nicolaslem","time":"1546768356","timestamp":"2019-01-06 09:52:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In real life geoip blocking is terrible. IPs are traded from one organization to another all the time. It often takes months for services to update their databases mapping IPs to locations.\u003cp\u003eWhat is a user supposed to do when a random website blocks him because it uses an outdated database?","parent":"18837080","id":"18837518"}
{"by":"thomasf1","time":"1345886103","timestamp":"2012-08-25 09:15:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I´m personally quite conflicted in this case:\u003cp\u003eApple has a point that Samsung was copying them. Pure, simple, stupid copying, not using elements of it and turning it into something new and great.\u003cp\u003eOn the other side, the ways of protection with patents of tiny bits of it is silly and broken. They are trivial and regard the overall design and should not be allowed.\u003cp\u003eFamously the Mac itself is based upon the work of Xerox Parc. To the credit of Apple and Steve Jobs they put in a lot of work, made many concepts useable and re-developed the mouse to actually make a consumer product out of it.\u003cp\u003eFor me the morale right or wrong is the following:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e* make it your own: \nWhile heavily using concepts existing prior, you´ll re-combine them into something way better than the thing you copy: That´s ok for me, it has creative value.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e* copy: \nYou simply dumbly copy things line-by-line without even understanding the basic concepts of why something is great and throw it on the market at a lower prive: That´s wrong and ripping of the creative work of others.\nSamsung to me falls quite clearly into the copy category. I doubt that they have a deep understanding of UX design and the subtleties what actually made the iPhone great and delighted the users.\u003cp\u003eIt´s essentially all in the mostly miss-understood Picasso phrase \"Good artists copy, great artists steal.\". Although the phrase confusing most people more than it helps.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e* moral compass of creatives\u003cp\u003eIt´s got the basics though that has guided the moral compass of creatives:\nIf you take inspiration from me and turn it into something mind-blowing, it´s ok. I´m flattered to be a part of it.\nIf you just plain copy my stuff to make money with it, it´s not ok.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e* Legal System\u003cp\u003eThe Jury system in the US is actually well suited deciding complex moral questions and too much fine print hinders more than it heps, which was evident in this case.\u003cp\u003eTo me, instead of a patent office there should be a central online register to archive jury-understandable photos and descriptions or ideally videos of the stuff you do simply to have a validated reference of when you thought of it.\u003cp\u003eAnd then patent/IP Law may simply should read soething like this:\nIt is ok to base any creative work on the work of others as long as the result is something new and great in it´s own right.\u003cp\u003eIt´s not ok to copy the work of others without significantly improving it simply for making money.\u003cp\u003eDone. Plain Language.\u003cp\u003eEverything else, the moral right or wrong would be left to a Jury with guidance from a Judge.\u003cp\u003eWhich they basically did in the Apple case. All that patent BS aside, I guess they descided on the basic morale question and started the paperwork.\u003cp\u003e(That guess is based on the time it took them to come to the verdict. When actually reading all the paperwork produced they would have been there years.)\u003cp\u003eWhat´s your take?","parent":"4430341","id":"4431565"}
{"by":"theCricketer","time":"1493407613","timestamp":"2017-04-28 19:26:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related: Here is an interesting piece from Benedict Evans, where he argues that there are currently many reasons voice technology isn\u0026#x27;t ready to be the next platform.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ben-evans.com\u0026#x2F;benedictevans\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;2\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;voice-and-the-uncanny-valley-of-ai\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ben-evans.com\u0026#x2F;benedictevans\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;2\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;voice-and-the-u...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn excerpt:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;There\u0026#x27;s a set of contradictions here, I think. Voice UIs look, conceptually, like much more unrestricted and general purpose interfaces than a smartphone, but they\u0026#x27;re actually narrower and more single-purpose. They look like less friction than pulling out your phone, unlocking it, loading an app and so on, and they are - but only if you\u0026#x27;ve shifted your mental model. They look like the future beyond smartphones, but in their (necessarily) closed, locked-down nature they also look a lot like feature phones or carrier decks. And they\u0026#x27;re a platform, but one that might get worse the bigger the developer ecosystem\u0026quot;","parent":"14221587","id":"14222326"}
{"by":"nwh","time":"1384965814","timestamp":"2013-11-20 16:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3-5mm is standard, but if I remember this books rightly they\u0026#x27;re fairly cheaply bound (it\u0026#x27;s been a while since I\u0026#x27;ve seen my copy of the one in that post, saddle stitched or stapled). Assuming a 5mm bleed, you can have at most 1cm cut in from the edge, which is substantial.","parent":"6769015","id":"6769082"}
{"by":"armon","time":"1536769817","timestamp":"2018-09-12 16:30:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are some good suggestions in the replies here, but I\u0026#x27;d recommend looking at our secure introduction guide here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vaultproject.io\u0026#x2F;guides\u0026#x2F;identity\u0026#x2F;secure-intro.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vaultproject.io\u0026#x2F;guides\u0026#x2F;identity\u0026#x2F;secure-intro.htm...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEffectively, there are only two possible approaches. Platform specific integrations, such as AWS IAM, Kubernetes, Nomad, etc. Or Trusted Orchestrators, which help inject the initial \u0026quot;secret zero\u0026quot;.","parent":"17967985","id":"17970429"}
{"by":"johnsoft","time":"1363246138","timestamp":"2013-03-14 07:28:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are services out there that will absorb transaction risks for you. One example is \u003ca href=\"https://bitpay.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://bitpay.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5373518","id":"5373600"}
{"by":"robert_tweed","time":"1409081513","timestamp":"2014-08-26 19:31:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I stumbled on this after commenting recently about Stellar. Sqitch was mentioned, so I decided to search for similar tools. I plan on trying them out as soon as I have time, but would be interested to hear some pros and cons from those who\u0026#x27;ve used either or both.","parent":"8228411","id":"8229022"}
{"by":"csense","time":"1380929577","timestamp":"2013-10-04 23:32:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; prepend \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;\u003cp\u003eThen the technical people think it\u0026#x27;s a comment, not a web address.  Maybe :\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; would be better?  Wait, that looks like some weird emoticon...\u003cp\u003eI like \u003ca href=\"http://\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e because it\u0026#x27;s precise.  EDIT:  Wow, HN highlights that as a link.  It goes to about:blank (on my browser at least).","parent":"6498605","id":"6498721"}
{"by":"gear54rus","time":"1412983232","timestamp":"2014-10-10 23:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are correct, I am not an American citizen at all :) I guess what you said is true for any government but does it really matter? They get what they want in the end. Be it Alexander, FBI or someone from my country.","parent":"8440527","id":"8440557"}
{"by":"en4bz","time":"1459457798","timestamp":"2016-03-31 20:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interestingly enough American pets are more overweight\u0026#x2F;obese on average than their Human masters with more than 50% of cats and dogs being overweight or obese [1]. People care deeply about their pets and consider them to be part of their family. This is why people will spend thousands of dollars on vet bills and why pet insurance exists. If you can get people to care as much about their pets health as their own, which is already true, this could be a great investment. The problem is raising awareness that most pets are overweight and that they need to eat healthy and exercise just as much as people do. Mars just has to lead a pet health awareness campaign and then sales will take off.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.petobesityprevention.org\u0026#x2F;2012-national-pet-obesity-survey-results\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.petobesityprevention.org\u0026#x2F;2012-national-pet-obesit...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11400026","id":"11400498"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1306084534","timestamp":"2011-05-22 17:15:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The salt is a public value. It isn't a key; it's a randomizing nonce. Its sole purpose is to transform one hash (SHA-256 or whatever) into thousands or millions of hashes.\u003cp\u003eOf course, if you're using an algorithm that demands that you decide what to do with a salt, you're rearranging deck chairs on the titanic anyways.","parent":"2573606","id":"2573677"}
{"by":"0xFFC","time":"1495966587","timestamp":"2017-05-28 10:16:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems very good project. Because I am using fedora I couldn\u0026#x27;t use it though, I wish there were a rpm package too. or at least linux .run package would be great.","parent":"14431864","id":"14433784"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1407865615","timestamp":"2014-08-12 17:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eSexually frustrated neck beards\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSource that this is the typical YC investor? Pretty sure this is an inaccurate generalization.","parent":"8168687","id":"8169043"}
{"by":"mdekkers","time":"1529121280","timestamp":"2018-06-16 03:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eYou stick with your friends through the bad times.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou mean like Canada and the EU?","parent":"17322222","id":"17325737"}
{"by":"mheathr","time":"1379247788","timestamp":"2013-09-15 12:23:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lispworks is an excellent commercial IDE as well, however its editor is not as nice (but similar to Emacs) as using Emacs itself and the license is quite expensive compared to other IDEs\u0026#x2F;toolchains, but it offers greater code introspection than what is available in SLIME.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I use SLIME + Emacs as I do not do enough CL development to warrant dropping over a thousand USD for a license and I find SLIME good enough for my usage.","parent":"6388796","id":"6388845"}
{"by":"Fradow","time":"1463558734","timestamp":"2016-05-18 08:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When doing a school project, in 2009 or so, we had to record a lot of sounds, each linked to an image. The usual process of recording, cutting the ends of the sounds and saving with proprer file name was too cumbersome (we had multiple languages and some variants to record, bringing the total sounds to over 100).\u003cp\u003eInstead, I coded a small utility hidden within the program to show the image, and allow to record with a single keypress. It is precise enough that you don\u0026#x27;t have to cut it afterwards, and it auto-saves to the right file name.\u003cp\u003eTo this day, I didn\u0026#x27;t find a better way to record lots of small sounds, and since it was written in C# and XNA (which has been killed since then), I keep a Windows computer around just to run it, when I need it, about one or two times a year.\u003cp\u003eThere is little incentive to rewrite it until it stops working altogether, since the use is so infrequent, but each time it saves me several hours of boring work.","parent":"11718197","id":"11720446"}
{"by":"allendoerfer","time":"1481464438","timestamp":"2016-12-11 13:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; (TIL: Germans swear by saying \u0026quot;Fuck!!\u0026quot; in English)\u003cp\u003eThere were studies about this on HN. Has something to do with foreign words being stored\u0026#x2F;associated at different points inside the brain and therefor being less offensive to foreign language speakers.","parent":"13151009","id":"13151062"}
{"by":"Dowwie","time":"1463664424","timestamp":"2016-05-19 13:27:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bad title, yet an interesting story.  This article is an excerpt from the book, \u0026quot;Rust -- the longest war\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Rust-Longest-War-Jonathan-Waldman\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;1451691602\u0026#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1463664365\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=rust\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Rust-Longest-War-Jonathan-Waldman\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;1...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11729111","id":"11729990"}
{"by":"heartbreak","time":"1512330313","timestamp":"2017-12-03 19:45:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All of the universities I attended used MAC address whitelisting.","parent":"15838452","id":"15839125"}
{"by":"sray","time":"1419445767","timestamp":"2014-12-24 18:29:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I liked the article, but, as a game developer who does not specialize in graphics, I really liked one of the comments:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe Kilner - One extra issue with games is that you are outputting an image sampled from a single point in time, whereas a frame of film \u0026#x2F; TV footage is typically an integration of a set of images over some non-infinitesimal time.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is something that, once stated, is blatantly obvious to me, but it\u0026#x27;s something I simply never thought deeply about. What it\u0026#x27;s saying is that when you render a frame in a game, say the frame at t=1.0 in a game running at 60 FPS, what you\u0026#x27;re doing is capturing and displaying the visual state of the world at a discrete point in time (i.e. t=1.0). Doing the analogous operation with an analogous physical video camera means you are capturing and compositing the \u0026quot;set of images\u0026quot; between t=1.0 and t=1.016667, because the physical camera doesn\u0026#x27;t capture a discrete point in time, but rather opens its shutter for 1\u0026#x2F;60th of a second (0.16667 seconds) and captures for that entire interval. This is why physical cameras have motion blur, but virtual cameras do not (without additional processing, anyway).\u003cp\u003eThis is obvious to anyone with knowledge of 3D graphics or real-world cameras, but it was a cool little revelation for me. In fact, it\u0026#x27;s sparked my interest enough to start getting more familiar with the subject. I love it when that happens!","parent":"8793346","id":"8793904"}
{"by":"discardorama","time":"1388695285","timestamp":"2014-01-02 20:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aside from the hacking aspect, why would you build one using RPi and a small screen, when you could use a $50 tablet: \u003ca href=\"http://tinyurl.com/atablets\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tinyurl.com\u0026#x2F;atablets\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven motion detection is possible using the tablet\u0026#x27;s camera, no?","parent":"7001261","id":"7002123"}
{"by":"wikyd","time":"1285627572","timestamp":"2010-09-27 22:46:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of people here are referring to the iPad as a tablet computer, but I think that most consumers and Apple do not think of the iPad as a tablet, slate, or other terms that imply computer.  It's an appliance.  Apple doesn't highlight or easily make available the typical computer specs like RAM, chip speed, etc.  You buy an iPad and you know the software will just work.  You don't have to worry about if your iPad can run X program or Y program, etc.  Any stress that most people associate with computers aren't even concerns with the iPad.\u003cp\u003eWhat surprises me about the PlayBook is that BB can't seem to make up it's mind about how it's marketing the product.  They pretty clearly emulate the iPad in that the web, Flash, etc. just work, but at the same time they highlight specs that mark it clearly as a computer.  These specs really don't matter when competing with Apple, because only a very smaller portion of the market would even consider the specs when choosing between the iPad and the BB.  Even the name can't make up it's mind; Book really labels it as a computer, but Play makes it seem otherwise.  I sort of assumed that BB would be targeting mainly enterprise customers at first with their tablet, but naming it Play really conflicts with even that strategy.\u003cp\u003eIn short, the product seems like design by committee and I think it's identity crisis will be a problem for it.","parent":"1733332","id":"1733807"}
{"by":"nnq","time":"1426616668","timestamp":"2015-03-17 18:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can freely mix Hack code and PHP code on the HHVM, calling functions and classes defined in any PHP file inside you Hack app. Then you can slowly evolve the codebase to contain more and more Hack and less and less PHP.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s the \u003ci\u003ehuge point that nobody seems to see.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then again, considering how many other huge points PHP developers seem to miss in general, maybe it\u0026#x27;s better to just let Node.js eat the world :)","parent":"9217396","id":"9220113"}
{"by":"TimTimTim","time":"1406733550","timestamp":"2014-07-30 15:19:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things like BetFair let you place bets both sides (unlike some shops like Ladbrokes where you are betting against them). This allows you to track the current betting prices and create situations where no matter the outcome you can make money.\u003cp\u003eThere are a few places on the net explaining this in more detail.","parent":"8108484","id":"8108690"}
{"by":"djoehlman","time":"1390172815","timestamp":"2014-01-19 23:06:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks to a project that has been previously pointed out (node WebRTC bindings - \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;js-platform\u0026#x2F;node-webrtc\u003c/a\u003e) interop between a browser and node applications isn\u0026#x27;t too far away.\u003cp\u003eThere is this issue which is being worked on at the moment in the node-webrtc library:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;js-platform\u0026#x2F;node-webrtc\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce that\u0026#x27;s resolved data channel connectivity between a browser and command-line app, server, etc should be reasonably simple.  While this bug is outstanding, it is possible to fall back to Rtp data channels in the browser and if that is something that is of interest then we can look at putting together some examples with rtc.io if that would help you out.","parent":"7086280","id":"7086483"}
{"by":"zaidf","time":"1388699939","timestamp":"2014-01-02 21:58:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the problem here is as much poorly-trained sales people than the practice of not disclosing pricing on the website. Smart sales people should be trained to recognize different types of buyers. From the sound of it, you are a buyer who knows exactly what he wants and just needs the price. Sales at our company would recognize this very early on and get you the info that you need minus the typical sales pitch. We specifically train our reps spot out buyers like you and handle them differently.\u003cp\u003eFor example, if a buyer sounds highly technical from the beginning(or if they use certain buzz words), the sales reps will transfer to me so I can have a more nuanced conversation.","parent":"7002486","id":"7002614"}
{"by":"nikolasburk","time":"1542726273","timestamp":"2018-11-20 15:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disclaimer upfront: I work at Prisma.io :)\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very important to properly distinguish Hasura and Prisma (as well as AppSync \u0026amp; Graphcool while we\u0026#x27;re at it).\u003cp\u003eHasura, AppSync and Graphcool are all Backends-as-a-Service (basically \u0026quot;Firebase for GraphQL\u0026quot;). You get an instant GraphQL CRUD API with a database and some ways to configure authentication\u0026#x2F;authorization. This is great for simpler applications but typically comes with limitations when requirements become more complex. Speaking from experience after 2 years of running Graphcool, we\u0026#x27;ve learned from our customers that (especially larger) development teams quickly outgrow the capabilities of a BaaS and need more control and flexibility in their technology stack. This was exactly the reasoning why we\u0026#x27;ve moved to Prisma which now replaces traditional ORMs and makes it easier for developers to build GraphQL servers (but also other applications like REST APIs).\u003cp\u003eAnother point is that GraphQL was invented as a query language for \u003ci\u003eAPIs\u003c/i\u003e, not databases. Exposing a CRUD GraphQL API to client applications was never the purpose of GraphQL - clients should still be able to consume a domain-specific API that\u0026#x27;s tailored to their needs (you typically don\u0026#x27;t want to expose all CRUD operations to your clients in a production application).\u003cp\u003eWith Prisma, we\u0026#x27;re trying to create the \u003ci\u003eright abstraction\u003c/i\u003e™️ that helps people get started quickly but at the same time Prisma should remain the proper tool for them as their projects scale and grow in complexity.","parent":"18493764","id":"18494248"}
{"by":"psx2fakes","time":"1310916794","timestamp":"2011-07-17 15:33:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"even w/o any sources it's very clear that FB is in some trouble.\u003cp\u003eFB's USP was a few weeks ago that it was THE social network and everybody was on it. That's changing and FB is just another social network. And that's not a good base for an IPO.\u003cp\u003ebut anyway, the source this engineer sounds authentic -- fb uses so-called \"lockdowns\" to push product innovations","parent":"2773171","id":"2773447"}
{"by":"anoncoward111","time":"1530842313","timestamp":"2018-07-06 01:58:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the motivation behind  so many corporate-police partnerships, it\u0026#x27;s really sickening.\u003cp\u003eLike, if the bank forecloses on you, the police will be more than happy to evict you as soon as the bank demands it.\u003cp\u003eBut if the bank ever accidentally loses your money or something, be prepared for the police to laugh you out of the station if you ask for help getting your money back by force","parent":"17468303","id":"17468371"}
{"by":"lkbm","time":"1475615358","timestamp":"2016-10-04 21:09:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So who do we trust? Governments?\u003cp\u003eYourself? The idea that you have to either trust governments or corporations is very much a false dichotomy.\u003cp\u003eGPG, running your own mail server, etc. may not be for you (they aren\u0026#x27;t for me), but let\u0026#x27;s not pretend cloud-hosted mail is the only option, or that encryption is impossible.","parent":"12638444","id":"12639512"}
{"by":"yeukhon","time":"1381634541","timestamp":"2013-10-13 03:22:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually don\u0026#x27;t recommend \u003ci\u003epreparing\u003c/i\u003e. I believe in odds. I met a couple really interesting people at a recent hackathon. Guys were standing behind me and asked me and my friend question about our conversation.\u003cp\u003eAnd I feel like preparing yourself to find new people to talk to at a conference\u0026#x2F;meetup is kind of weird. I go to meetup to meet new people and learn new things, but I rather do this naturally by immersing myself into the atmosphere. If I don\u0026#x27;t have anything special to ask \u0026#x2F; to look for other than attending a talk, I\u0026#x27;d just go home. There is nothing wrong with that. It\u0026#x27;s perfectly fine.\u003cp\u003eThe best time to socialize is before the beginning of a talk and when you are in a line for refreshment like pizza. Haha","parent":"6540759","id":"6541366"}
{"by":"opless","time":"1444120812","timestamp":"2015-10-06 08:40:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi from the other Cambridge!\u003cp\u003eLooks like there\u0026#x27;s a lot of manual work there, unfortunately.\u003cp\u003eMost of the gov.uk info is the same, scans, pdfs, poorly formatted word and excel spreadsheets. :(","parent":"10337231","id":"10337488"}
{"by":"imrobotmaker","time":"1207775870","timestamp":"2008-04-09 21:17:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use curl, wget and links to retrieve data from sites and then I filter it with old sed and grep.\u003cp\u003eI created a mashup of AIM + Flicker.\u003cp\u003eIf you use AIM 6 or AIM lite send a message to MyPictureBuddy\u003cp\u003ethen send a message and enjoy.\u003cp\u003ebasically You type a keyword and it gots to flicker and retrieves image information to display pictures right inside your AIM chat session.\u003cp\u003eI also have another Bot that parses HackerNews XML and then display it on the chat session.  The bot name is\u003cp\u003eHackerNewsYC","parent":"158902","id":"159274"}
{"by":"miguelmota","time":"1542927198","timestamp":"2018-11-22 22:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would also like to see a list of Google services currently on life support; not yet dead, but struggling to survive","parent":"18509735","id":"18513081"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1274990659","timestamp":"2010-05-27 20:04:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He's not pointing out something subjective; he's giving you a heads-up on what the lawyers are going to say to ensure that their case against you comes with a preliminary injunction.","parent":"1384783","id":"1384789"}
{"by":"batbomb","time":"1466728053","timestamp":"2016-06-24 00:27:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Almost every unit was once luxury and priced accordingly\u003cp\u003eWhich units? There\u0026#x27;s plenty of old housing stock which most definitely was not built as luxury housing.","parent":"11965057","id":"11965343"}
{"by":"bbgm","time":"1257778969","timestamp":"2009-11-09 15:02:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven't seen the Android one, but there are a couple of EC2 management options for the iPhone that I am aware of\u003cp\u003eYlastic's console is designed to be iPhone ready \n\u003ca href=\"http://ylastic.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ylastic.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the one I use is this one from David Kavanagh\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.directthought.com/launch.html#directEC2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.directthought.com/launch.html#directEC2\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is another one called ElasticPod.  The webpage is down, but the app is there in the AppStore","parent":"930915","id":"930985"}
{"by":"tsotha","time":"1364348954","timestamp":"2013-03-27 01:49:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Its like the mailman argument. If I don't get any mail today, my mailman can't magically teleport past my house.\u003cp\u003eNo, but he can save a lot of time by not turning down your street at all.","parent":"5442726","id":"5447278"}
{"by":"bitL","time":"1529397016","timestamp":"2018-06-19 08:30:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do they even use git? Maybe they run some prehistoric CVS to save costs...","parent":"17343137","id":"17344713"}
{"by":"anon1094","time":"1506507908","timestamp":"2017-09-27 10:25:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a freelance web developer and I found that what has worked best for me when I\u0026#x27;m in a dry spell is finding people who are actively looking for freelancers on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.\u003cp\u003eNo one is going to show up to your website or Google you. You have to actively look for people who need someone now. I noticed that the ones who post on social media want to avoid terrible work that is generally associated with UpWork so you can negotiate good prices.\u003cp\u003eSend them a quick message to get the conversation started and see where it goes. It is a numbers game.","parent":"15346190","id":"15346369"}
{"by":"joshuacc","time":"1395318889","timestamp":"2014-03-20 12:34:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Bible was certainly written before the medieval period. The Biblical canon was pretty much set by the late 4th century. And all of the books included in the canon had been complete before that point.","parent":"7434314","id":"7435098"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1361310190","timestamp":"2013-02-19 21:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It has a time and a place, but you wouldn’t use Times New Roman on your startup’s website, would you?\u003cp\u003eOnly because I have a thing about using serif fonts in html, otherwise it might well be one of my fallbacks.\u003cp\u003eAnd besides, arguing that people should put more effort into restyling Bootstrap is different than arguing they should abandon it altogether. In terms of providing a framework for layouts, I think it does its job quite well, and that users will probably intuitively understand a Bootstrap site because they've encountered them a hundred times before. This in turn gives your site an implied sense of stability and trustworthiness since it \"looks like twitter/etc etc.\"","parent":"5247096","id":"5247256"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1311992861","timestamp":"2011-07-30 02:27:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're making the leap from \"every big problem we face is a marketing problem\" to \"and the solution is to track users in minute and excruciating detail\".\u003cp\u003eI can accept that there are ideas which are critical to the survival of the human race and/or modern civilization, which require mass education, and utterly reject your conclusion.","parent":"2824602","id":"2824661"}
{"by":"rpgmaker","time":"1458573253","timestamp":"2016-03-21 15:14:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Is the anti windows\u0026#x2F;.NET bias really that common?\u003cp\u003eI think it\u0026#x27;s less common now than it used to be but back in their heyday Java devs looked down \u003ci\u003ehard\u003c/i\u003e on .NET devs. I think it\u0026#x27;s because MS visual IDEs, going all the way back to vb6, made a lot of people think they were professional developers just because they could create a basic crud program with a functional GUI very easily. This ended up promoting a huge amount of \u003ci\u003eunusually bad\u003c/i\u003e code\u0026#x2F;coders to production environments and with that the bad rap .NET devs get to this day. The perception is that developers outside of the MS ecosystem usually have to be a little bit more erudite in the way they went about learning their programming language of choice.","parent":"11327053","id":"11328612"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1323204691","timestamp":"2011-12-06 20:51:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A much better approach might be to make a deal with the carriers and simply have app store purchases show up on your phone bill.  This way they get around the whole credit card problem and the phones come ready to shop right out of the box with the end user having to do anything.","parent":"3320812","id":"3320969"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1369577500","timestamp":"2013-05-26 14:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something in between $50,250 and $60,000. Loans earn interest. Investments 2-5x because they take a percentage of the upside of the company; loans don't do that.\u003cp\u003eWith no terms whatsoever, the obligation is probably just $50,000.","parent":"5769145","id":"5771110"}
{"by":"robg","time":"1525720872","timestamp":"2018-05-07 19:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rest and recovery is by definition the parasympathetic nervous system and the work on the glymphatic system is showing the often studied views of sleep don\u0026#x27;t account for the common cause of garbage removal.","parent":"17015393","id":"17015631"}
{"by":"Eliezer","time":"1392243459","timestamp":"2014-02-12 22:17:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; ... if you have the capital and do the paperwork and follow the regs, you can start a bank and get access to the discount window.\u003cp\u003eNot true.  There\u0026#x27;s this little extra step where first the regulatory authority gets to decide whether your state \u003ci\u003eneeds\u003c/i\u003e another bank.","parent":"7227607","id":"7227739"}
{"by":"enedil","time":"1527167435","timestamp":"2018-05-24 13:10:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s exactly the point of parent comment.","parent":"17142936","id":"17143590"}
{"by":"brentr","time":"1233013814","timestamp":"2009-01-26 23:50:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please spare me the RTFM comments; I am sick and not feeling well enough tonight to dig into some huge research project. I simply would like to know how a company like Youtube functions. Do they have to pay for the right to use their video software or is the software currently available for anyone?","parent":"451264","id":"451294"}
{"by":"guscost","time":"1429203876","timestamp":"2015-04-16 17:04:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great explanation, thanks for taking the time to write this up. A while back I figured that there had to be complicated structural reasons for the lack of progress on the notorious \u0026quot;issue 3434\u0026quot;, and I decided to go with native iOS for mobile audio projects rather than wait. Seems it will be quite a difficult problem to solve (although perhaps a library that is not totally backwards-compatible would be easier to optimize). But kudos for taking a crack at it, and good luck. I\u0026#x27;m interested to hear how it goes.","parent":"9386994","id":"9389253"}
{"by":"AndrewNCarr","time":"1510520702","timestamp":"2017-11-12 21:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some brief searching (\u0026quot;cooking rice with seawater\u0026quot;) indicates that at a minimum you can use seawater diluted with fresh water for cooking if your survival depends on it. Seawater is around 3.5% salt. For perspective, that is something on the order of a soup spoon of salt per soda can volume of water (12fl oz\u0026#x2F;355mL).\u003cp\u003eUndiluted seawater suitability seems to vary by food[1][2], my cursory search didn\u0026#x27;t provide any factual specifics for rice, oatmeal, and vegetables. Some comments indicate you can boil fish in straight seawater.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s all without considering pollution and natural toxins from algae blooms. The sources I skimmed mentioned commercially sourced culinary \u0026quot;sea water\u0026quot;, I would expect some amount of filtering and heat treatment.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chowhound.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;cooking-seawater-785862\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chowhound.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;cooking-seawater-785862\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quora.com\u0026#x2F;Could-seawater-be-used-for-cooking-e-g-potatoes-vegetables-rice-etc-or-is-it-too-salty\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quora.com\u0026#x2F;Could-seawater-be-used-for-cooking-e-g...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cooking.stackexchange.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;51729\u0026#x2F;can-i-use-ocean-water-to-cook-my-pasta\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cooking.stackexchange.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;51729\u0026#x2F;can-i-use-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15681397","id":"15682628"}
{"by":"acconsta","time":"1443727531","timestamp":"2015-10-01 19:25:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And... how would that be possible at compile time?","parent":"10313047","id":"10313960"}
{"by":"imglorp","time":"1520747599","timestamp":"2018-03-11 05:53:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s forced form over function, I guess: make simple things simple and complicated things not impossible.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is, it takes away from power usage, and now that\u0026#x27;s a lot of users alienated.  Another example is the three button mouse. Steve didn\u0026#x27;t want any buttons at all, remember, but settled on one.  So we have command-x\u0026#x2F;c\u0026#x2F;v instead of left click select and middle click paste like in X windows.","parent":"16560352","id":"16561865"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1364947101","timestamp":"2013-04-02 23:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From UK mailing lists run off a system I manage, for us Hotmail makes up about 50%, with Gmail and Yahoo fighting for the second spot, based on a (self-selected) sample of 1.5 million+ subscribers across the lists.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, these are mostly active users - we see no statistically significant difference in engagement levels between the major webmail services.\u003cp\u003eGmail only thoroughly dominates amongst techies. Regular users largely either don't care, or very often active prefer the \"Outlook style\" interface of Hotmail or Yahoo.","parent":"5480444","id":"5483092"}
{"by":"johnhenry","time":"1452073776","timestamp":"2016-01-06 09:49:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While looking through the documentation for reasons to use this, I stumbled upon some points regarding modularity in the \u0026quot;Why Nodal?\u0026quot; section of the readme. I think that this should be emphasised.","parent":"10849460","id":"10849553"}
{"by":"albinofrenchy","time":"1510420747","timestamp":"2017-11-11 17:19:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Rich Hickey pointed out last year that the convention of bumping the major version of a library to indicate incompatibility conveys no more actionable information than just changing the name of the library.\u003cp\u003eUnless, you know, you care about the purpose or authorship of the library.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think pinning dependencies at package levels is a bad idea - ubuntu does this for a lot of packages but this relies on properly followed semantic versioning to work.","parent":"15676691","id":"15677128"}
{"by":"zheng","time":"1343928481","timestamp":"2012-08-02 17:28:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's what I suspected. For those of us who work with computers for most of our waking hours, our bodies get use to focusing on what we are clicking on. Thanks for your feedback.","parent":"4328191","id":"4329867"}
{"by":"bowlofpetunias","time":"1375712244","timestamp":"2013-08-05 14:17:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If anyone here found his bank account empty, would he be ok with a top of 5 years of jail time for the culprit?\u003cp\u003eYes I would. Anything more would be completely disproportionate and not constructive. 5 years is a very severe sentence for a non-violent crime by someone who is not an acute threat to the safety of others.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t have any thirst for medieval revenge. I would be more interested in ways to get my money back.\u003cp\u003eAnd I would not want to be in any way responsible for the culprit to suffer the human rights abuse of the American prison system. If it were up to me, my country would never, ever extradite to the US.","parent":"6159793","id":"6160204"}
{"by":"rotw","time":"1538397733","timestamp":"2018-10-01 12:42:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I prefer having bearable temperatures where I live, sleep and have visitors,\u003cp\u003eWhat gives you the right to all that at the direct expense of the people who can\u0026#x27;t afford it?","parent":"18111975","id":"18112027"}
{"by":"vilmosi","time":"1489976182","timestamp":"2017-03-20 02:16:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We wasn\u0026#x27;t following Ramadan, he\u0026#x27;s Hindu.","parent":"13902212","id":"13911222"}
{"by":"tudorw","time":"1464018126","timestamp":"2016-05-23 15:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our schools, hospitals and housing have been under pressure since time immemorial, perhaps if the countries earnings from oil and other resources had been managed better, investment in social housing had been maintained at previous levels, if the lack of investment from the business world in the form of apprenticeships and on the job training had been addressed more pertinently, and if the earnings of the managing and owning class not risen at a faster rate than working class, then this would not be an issue.\u003cp\u003eBlaming a lacking in public services on migrants is not fair, while it\u0026#x27;s true to say that we have experienced a rise in immigration levels over the last decade, we are talking about a rise from 4 million in 1993 to 8 million in 2014, out of a population of 64 million, well under 10%.\u003cp\u003eTo blame all the failings of our state on that small section of society, migrants who are more likely to be of working age than our recumbent ageing population, and hence more likely to be adding to our GDP over the long term, is not only unfair, it\u0026#x27;s bad economic policy too, without immigration our country will fall to it\u0026#x27;s knees supporting legions of pensioners...","parent":"11754440","id":"11754561"}
{"by":"TheAdamAndChe","time":"1510077371","timestamp":"2017-11-07 17:56:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hear the same argument on this site every time poverty and homelessness in Silicon Valley is brought up, but I really don\u0026#x27;t understand it. Massive capital concentration is leading to only a few cities in the country experiencing economic growth, and your solution is to just build more housing in those few areas?\u003cp\u003eWhy not do something about the capital concentration? Why not do something to push some of those jobs into the Midwest? That would sure lower housing demand in those few cities, and would lead to a more equal country overall.","parent":"15645370","id":"15645730"}
{"by":"greyman","time":"1310733110","timestamp":"2011-07-15 12:31:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Yes, C++ is the language of the future. It has several strong points, which are still relevant. Namely:\u003cp\u003e1. cross platform\u003cp\u003e2. the programmer can choose from several levels of abstractions, as appropriate for a particular project: low-level c-style coding, OOP, templates, meta-programming.\u003cp\u003e3. even the very high level abstraction usually doesn't induce performance penalty.\u003cp\u003e4. not using some property of the language doesn't induce performance penalty (\"you pay only for what you use\" principle).\u003cp\u003e5. New ISO C++11 standard makes the language even stronger\u003cp\u003e6. Many design decisions can be expressed by using templates or multiple inheritance, and enforced during compilation.\u003cp\u003eFrom internet discussions, I noticed that quite a few people under-appreciate the points 2) and 3), or don't have good understanding about why abstractions are an important part of software design (especially in larger projects).\u003cp\u003eAlso, even in 2011, in a lot of projects the performance achievable only by native code is still very desirable or even required.","parent":"2766701","id":"2767143"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1519413526","timestamp":"2018-02-23 19:18:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Normally we\u0026#x27;d change it but since the author posted the medium.com link I assume he prefers that one.","parent":"16445722","id":"16448599"}
{"by":"dvcc","time":"1490382420","timestamp":"2017-03-24 19:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...MapServer?f=json does have JSON! It\u0026#x27;s just even when it errors it returns a successful response with the error page that\u0026#x27;s not JSON.","parent":"13951274","id":"13951382"}
{"by":"throwaway_374","time":"1486805426","timestamp":"2017-02-11 09:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simple. Shut down Breitbart.","parent":"13621372","id":"13621906"}
{"by":"ljd","time":"1337647248","timestamp":"2012-05-22 00:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand how the author can separate data from algorithms.\u003cp\u003eHe advocates stock piling data but apparently not doing anything intelligent with it?\u003cp\u003eI really have a hard time viewing this as a credible source on algorithms or data.","parent":"4005485","id":"4005681"}
{"by":"mikeyouse","time":"1440951270","timestamp":"2015-08-30 16:14:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where is your relative living? Typically the university hospitals have the best experts, ie UCSF and Stanford in the SF Bay Area (although for a GBM, I\u0026#x27;d recommend UCSF). There are various ranking sites that list the best hospitals and in my experience, they\u0026#x27;re a good place to start.\u003cp\u003eI know it feels productive to start reading as much as you can about the disease pathology and treatments, and it won\u0026#x27;t hurt to be more informed, but for a stage IV GBM, your time would be much better spent trying to get hooked up with the best docs in the country. It\u0026#x27;s a terrible thing to deal with and some doctors have spent decades immersed in the research and literature -- let them be the experts but make sure you find someone who can give your relative a chance.","parent":"10143485","id":"10143679"}
{"by":"zzzcpan","time":"1470684377","timestamp":"2016-08-08 19:26:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And it\u0026#x27;s unusable on small VMs, it takes like almost a gig of ram to install something and lots of time to figure out how to edit some config if it doesn\u0026#x27;t have an option for your needs. So, yeah, if they want users - they need to work on that.","parent":"12250147","id":"12250264"}
{"by":"jamesmcintyre","time":"1517352266","timestamp":"2018-01-30 22:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree it\u0026#x27;s probably just as much a warning to prevent overstated claims in general as it\u0026#x27;s harmful for numerous reasons.","parent":"16269713","id":"16269791"}
{"by":"QAPereo","time":"1508471355","timestamp":"2017-10-20 03:49:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Either way, people are getting fucked for someone else’s profit\u0026#x2F;amusement.\u003cp\u003ePoor Abi...","parent":"15512671","id":"15513432"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1411407442","timestamp":"2014-09-22 17:37:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is another oddity about the article\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;emerge in the age of hyper-local digital news brands such as Patch\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ePatch is closing down and firing people.  Ours closed.  It does not appear to be a survivable business model, although they gave it a good try and it was interesting reading while it lasted.","parent":"8348512","id":"8351546"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1504229107","timestamp":"2017-09-01 01:25:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NBA has been slowly working to cut out the NCAA from their development pipeline. There\u0026#x27;s no reason the NFL couldn\u0026#x27;t do the same if they wanted to.","parent":"15143253","id":"15145446"}
{"by":"illuminate","time":"1368290784","timestamp":"2013-05-11 16:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not much, really. Anything that scrapes the disk image should be able to recover the images. There's already a \"free\" open source application or three.\u003cp\u003eI don't work in the field, but I've had some classes with local forensics engineers. Forensics teams buy software almost solely because they are able to reliably cite the software's use in court, and the developers could be subpoenaed easily to explain the function if the defense decided to call its use into question. Open-source solutions likely will never be used for that reason.","parent":"5685126","id":"5691174"}
{"by":"Piskvorrr","time":"1483021127","timestamp":"2016-12-29 14:18:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"someone123@example.com is not amused. Might as well say \u0026quot;we throw out every e-mail that contains the letter \u0026#x27;b\u0026#x27;, because Reasons. Makes us feel warm, fuzzy and secure.\u0026quot;","parent":"13270567","id":"13277364"}
{"by":"mdasen","time":"1231254451","timestamp":"2009-01-06 15:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it's nothing like them in implementation.  MemcacheDB is like a giant hash table where your app server can figure out where something is based on what the key hashes to.  An individual item is stored on one server (no redundancy) and which server it gets written to is a matter of the hash.\u003cp\u003eGoogle's BigTable is a single-master, column based storage system with redundancy.  That's a huge difference. In fact, there's very little that is similar.\u003cp\u003eWhile Amazon hasn't published as much about SimpleDB, it's most definitely \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e a giant hash table.  It's likely either a column store like BigTable/HBase or a document store like CouchDB.\u003cp\u003eThey're completely different tools.  MemcacheDB isn't anything like the other two and for scalability purposes it's important to realize why so that you can choose the correct tool for the job.\u003cp\u003eIf you're interested in a tool like the App Engine Datastore or SimpleDB, there's HBase, CouchDB, and HyperTable which will all fit the bill.","parent":"421438","id":"421979"}
{"by":"duncans","time":"1439234198","timestamp":"2015-08-10 19:16:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thankfully they\u0026#x27;re not sanitising inputs but correctly encoding outputs.","parent":"10036097","id":"10036617"}
{"by":"panic","time":"1463819976","timestamp":"2016-05-21 08:39:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with you in general -- all this stuff Google is doing with data really weirds me out -- but VR is actually really cool!  You should try it sometime if you get the chance.","parent":"11743812","id":"11743821"}
{"by":"r0cky","time":"1519308767","timestamp":"2018-02-22 14:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What would be the best way to install JupyterLab on a fresh Mac?","parent":"16420142","id":"16437620"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1492544814","timestamp":"2017-04-18 19:46:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lol, thanks for this comment - I\u0026#x27;d just assumed it was that paper or the corresponding talk.  Off to RTFA...","parent":"14138456","id":"14142232"}
{"by":"crudbuster","time":"1393696683","timestamp":"2014-03-01 17:58:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try Taiwan then.","parent":"7325208","id":"7325276"}
{"by":"ConstantineXVI","time":"1345646443","timestamp":"2012-08-22 14:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes it sound like PayPal's proxying through Discover; building within their platform. I don't see any potential way this could backfire when Discover decides it wants to do it's own mobile payments. None at all.","parent":"4417169","id":"4417541"}
{"by":"lazyasciiart","time":"1524873851","timestamp":"2018-04-28 00:04:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tell me more about the Hessian soldiers you were talking about.","parent":"16944735","id":"16945376"}
{"by":"georgieporgie","time":"1332180230","timestamp":"2012-03-19 18:03:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I felt the same.  Having listened to yesterday's This American Life retracting the prior show, it seemed that he completely fabricated the story of the 12 and 13 year-olds.  Even according to his story, which doesn't make sense, he met an English-speaking 13 year old and simply \u003ci\u003eassumed\u003c/i\u003e that her friend was 12.\u003cp\u003eEverything else appeared to be merely stretching the truth, retelling factual events as if they were witnessed first hand, and other things for which I'd be willing to grant some artistic license, provided it were told with a disclaimer.","parent":"3725191","id":"3725257"}
{"by":"cscurmudgeon","time":"1475346064","timestamp":"2016-10-01 18:21:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google pays more to Apple to have their search as default than Yahoo pays Mozilla and Oracle.\u003cp\u003eBtw, can you point towards Yahoo paying for crapware to be installed?","parent":"12618677","id":"12619167"}
{"by":"bhickey","time":"1314811284","timestamp":"2011-08-31 17:21:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All fair points. Given the circumstances it was great, but it doesn't scale. The candidate worked as a contractor and wanted to transition to a full time position.","parent":"2946437","id":"2946520"}
{"by":"KiwiNige","time":"1210547935","timestamp":"2008-05-11 23:18:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The extra 16cm of Radius is lots compared to a golf ball, and nothing compared to earth. I have to scale these in my mind to be able to compare the two, and the relative gap is what I expected.\nBut I'm still surprised that the gap is exactly the same in both.","parent":"187065","id":"187105"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1382303898","timestamp":"2013-10-20 21:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If this was a proprietary database we\u0026#x27;d call that vendor lock-in and advocate an open source solution. 10gen is a company that earns it\u0026#x27;s revenue from selling support. They are highly incentivized to lure you in and trap you in a situation that requires a lot of consulting.","parent":"6581514","id":"6581537"}
{"by":"kristofferR","time":"1348954901","timestamp":"2012-09-29 21:41:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks really nice. I recently switched to Android (which, in my mind, with version 4.1 finally is able to compete with iOS in smoothness/stability while vastly surpassing it in features and usability), so I'm hopeful for an Android version.\u003cp\u003eAn Android version would also bring added benefits of smarter/less battery intensive background operation which could make this run all the time. Constant GPS-monitoring like Latitude or this seems to run way better on Android for some reason.","parent":"4590663","id":"4591004"}
{"by":"gress","time":"1391541442","timestamp":"2014-02-04 19:17:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What makes you think we\u0026#x27;re not in a Cold War?  There are plenty of countries that are each other\u0026#x27;s adversaries and are actively trying to undermine one another.  Perhaps we aren\u0026#x27;t in a bilateral Cold War, but it\u0026#x27;s not like we suddenly have world peace.","parent":"7178058","id":"7179649"}
{"by":"ben-schaaf","time":"1494826588","timestamp":"2017-05-15 05:36:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hanlon\u0026#x27;s Razer[0] seems appropriate here.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Hanlon%27s_razor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Hanlon%27s_razor\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14339279","id":"14339383"}
{"by":"dantillberg","time":"1371862357","timestamp":"2013-06-22 00:52:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could look at it as `limit of x\u0026#x2F;x as x approaches 0`, which would be 1.\u003cp\u003eOr you could look at it as `limit of -x\u0026#x2F;x as x approaches 0`, which would be -1.\u003cp\u003eOr you could look at it as `limit of x\u0026#x2F;0 as x approaches 0`, which would be +\u0026#x2F;- infinity, depending on which side you approach 0 from.\u003cp\u003eOr you could look at it as `limit of 0\u0026#x2F;x as x approaches 0`, which would be 0.","parent":"5921895","id":"5922045"}
{"by":"mpclark","time":"1440426263","timestamp":"2015-08-24 14:24:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not a joke to the media, but fundamentally their job is to report new things. Not to take a view on the things, or check them for truthiness or flawed methodology -- just to report them.\u003cp\u003e(Your choice of media will determine how much extra value in terms of checking, discrimination etc is added to the news you see reported)\u003cp\u003eBut they like telling you to forget what you know and take on board $newfact because it is easy copy (scientists say so!) and it gets pageviews\u0026#x2F;sells papers.","parent":"10109637","id":"10109954"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1430408688","timestamp":"2015-04-30 15:44:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was about to say—isn\u0026#x27;t this sort of thing (fine-granularity topographic surveying\u0026#x2F;GIS) exactly what the Professional version of Google Earth is for, marketed to governments\u0026#x2F;militaries\u0026#x2F;etc.?","parent":"9464762","id":"9465780"}
{"by":"mcv","time":"1473983181","timestamp":"2016-09-15 23:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;the many lawful avenues to express legal, moral, or ethical qualms with U.S. intelligence activities\u0026quot; don\u0026#x27;t exist. That\u0026#x27;s just talk. Previous NSA whistleblowers tried to use them and got nowhere. Thomas Drake had his life destroyed for trying to use these \u0026quot;lawful avenues\u0026quot;. All the previous NSA whistleblowers agree that Snowden did the right thing. He did the only thing he could, given the circumstances.","parent":"12510672","id":"12510810"}
{"by":"yuhong","time":"1425353945","timestamp":"2015-03-03 03:39:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think the option to disable Secure Boot is going anywhere at this point though.","parent":"9135967","id":"9135972"}
{"by":"jvdh","time":"1428820948","timestamp":"2015-04-12 06:42:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like I said, this changed my interests and career. I\u0026#x27;ve written several papers on this, including one analyzing the ethical aspects of violating users\u0026#x27; privacy to support a general cause.\u003cp\u003eAll papers are online at staff.fnwi.uva.nl\u0026#x2F;j.j.vanderham\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;articles.html","parent":"9361865","id":"9362399"}
{"by":"tomwrenn","time":"1480966900","timestamp":"2016-12-05 19:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m worried about how this will effect civictech, edtech, govtech story coverage which has been great in recent years on HN and are important for helping the community to be informed of how it\u0026#x27;s contributing and how individuals can contribute to addressing societal issues.","parent":"13108404","id":"13108610"}
{"by":"dbcurtis","time":"1474139283","timestamp":"2016-09-17 19:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would guess that it requires a phased array of transducers, and that the signal processing requirements are hugely compute intensive.  Until recently, that would have been a non-starter because of cost.","parent":"12521077","id":"12521898"}
{"by":"ikariot","time":"1466042410","timestamp":"2016-06-16 02:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sillysaurus3,\u003cp\u003eThanks for the comments and advice.  I like the idea of the landing page being the current day.  However, I want to use the pop up to give the option of emailing the article and to give a bit of info about the article before going to the content.\u003cp\u003eI certainly want to incorporate filters.\u003cp\u003eThanks again","parent":"11874425","id":"11913482"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1467334590","timestamp":"2016-07-01 00:56:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really, childish? You don\u0026#x27;t have to agree, but no way was that \u0026quot;childish.\u0026quot;","parent":"12012982","id":"12013109"}
{"by":"brbsix","time":"1460045713","timestamp":"2016-04-07 16:15:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Certain diets (the food and drink regularly consumed) make it much easier to decrease calorie intake. This is partially why it bothers me so much to hear \u0026quot;a calorie is just a calorie\u0026quot;. \u0026quot;A calorie is just a calorie\u0026quot; if you happen to be a calorimeter. The person consuming only unprocessed meats and vegetables is going to have a much easier time consuming 2000 cal\u0026#x2F;day in perpetuity than someone who\u0026#x27;s in an addictive cycle consuming sugary, processed foods like might be found at your average American buffet. I\u0026#x27;ve tried both and the former is a breeze.","parent":"11448049","id":"11448438"}
{"by":"dublinben","time":"1442245465","timestamp":"2015-09-14 15:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You would only be able to create new derivative works of the character as he was in Steamboat Willy.  Anything that we now recognize as being characteristic of Mickey Mouse would still be under copyright, because it was developed in later films.","parent":"10215372","id":"10215616"}
{"by":"taejo","time":"1406018597","timestamp":"2014-07-22 08:43:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;The reboot key\u0026quot; just sounds like a mistake waiting to happen.\u003cp\u003eIt already did happen: I\u0026#x27;ve used keyboards with shutdown and reboot keys, and yes, it\u0026#x27;s a terrible idea.\u003cp\u003eMy alma mater used to run programming competitions in a lab where the workstations had the reset button exactly at knee height. This wasn\u0026#x27;t a problem normally, when you\u0026#x27;re sitting under the desk next to the computer; but when you have three or four people gathered around the screen, kicking the reset button was a definite possibility. Eventually taping the cover of a calculator over this button became part of our regular routine.","parent":"8067257","id":"8067895"}
{"by":"rabboRubble","time":"1480183442","timestamp":"2016-11-26 18:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering that some people read zero books a year, the simple act of reading a book would be a huge improvement in ongoing literacy and attention span for some people.","parent":"13044847","id":"13044986"}
{"by":"bicknergseng","time":"1405791664","timestamp":"2014-07-19 17:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess Portland summers are warmish.","parent":"8058065","id":"8058135"}
{"by":"e40","time":"1476345469","timestamp":"2016-10-13 07:57:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve heard this from a lot of family and friends, and they almost always get the performance back when they reset the device and all the apps are reinstalled.  A friend just did it with his Note 4 (or 5, not sure which).","parent":"12699182","id":"12699206"}
{"by":"olegious","time":"1316283149","timestamp":"2011-09-17 18:12:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have 3 different experiences:\u003cp\u003e1.  We immigrated from Russia when I was 9- didn't speak a word of English (didn't know what \"who are you?\" meant on the first day of class).  Spent the first year in an ESL class, within a year I was speaking English freely, all my classmates were also recent immigrants from former Soviet republics so there was very little culture shock (at least in school). But because the class focused on English and little else, I lost the great math skills I had when I came from the Russian system. Took me a few years to get completely comfortable with my new language but by the 9th grade I was one of the top students in all my classes (except math, that skill or rather the interest in the subject never recovered).\u003cp\u003e2.  My cousin's son was born in the US.  The parents wanted to make sure his first language was Russian- they only spoke to him in Russian, he went to a Russian day-care, watched only Russian cartoons, had only Russian friends.  Then for kindergarden (around the age of 4 or 5) he got sent to a normal American school.  The first month or so he experienced what the writer's kids experienced- complete cultural shock, he spent the evenings at home crying that he didn't want to go to school because he couldn't understand anything, but little by little he adjusted and is now comfortable in his new environment.\u003cp\u003e3.  My wife and I met in Moscow last year, she moved to the US six months ago.  She's in her early 20s, very smart (finished her university with straight As), had a good job in Moscow and is used to always being the best at whatever she tries.  She's studying English full time, but is having trouble adjusting to an environment where she is not independent and has to rely on me not only financially but at least initially on simple things such as grocery shopping or explaining to the women at the nail salon how she wanted her nails done.   She's picking up English quickly but the first few months she was afraid of sounding dumb and refused to speak English with anyone outside of a classroom environment.  I won't even go into the cultural shock and how difficult the transition has been for her from a popular, successful woman to one with no job or friends in a new country (that's a topic for another post).","parent":"3008176","id":"3008620"}
{"by":"lubujackson","time":"1372214456","timestamp":"2013-06-26 02:40:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like an office bully.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to manage the situation, here\u0026#x27;s what I would say (or wish I would say) in your situation:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;You seem to want me to spend a lot of effort showing my commitment to the job (LinkedIn\u0026#x2F;hours) but that sort of babysitting is exactly what I want to avoid by working at a startup.  I\u0026#x27;ve been here 6 weeks and honestly I feel like I\u0026#x27;m still getting integrated into the team and familiar with the product.  If you want to get the best out of me you\u0026#x27;ll have to trust that I\u0026#x27;m capable of managing my time and energy to get my work done efficiently.\u0026quot;","parent":"5942912","id":"5943823"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1323901691","timestamp":"2011-12-14 22:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think ridicule is perfectly appropriate once the beliefs you are talking about get batshit insane. Ridicule is a powerful tool, not so much to convince those who already believe, rather to convince those thinking about believing or on the fence about whether to no longer believe. It’s also a powerful tool to remind everyone that batshit insane beliefs are still around and that it’s apparently easy for humans to believe in them.\u003cp\u003eMore specifically, I think it’s great to have both: People who painstakingly taken even the most batshit insane ideas serious and engage them on the same level and people who ridicule. That’s not a contradiction for me.","parent":"3353776","id":"3353989"}
{"by":"joelrunyon","time":"1498861808","timestamp":"2017-06-30 22:30:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes,\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a version that\u0026#x27;s hosted on ProductHunt - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;giveaway.producthunt.com\u0026#x2F;landing?promo_id=83848bb5-fc49-4e48-9c63-369c389044f7\u0026amp;campaign_id=1111\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;giveaway.producthunt.com\u0026#x2F;landing?promo_id=83848bb5-f...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecifically, you might be interested in this text right before the big \u0026quot;enter\u0026quot; button:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; By entering this campaign I agree and consent to recieve emails, communications and promotions from Product Hunt Inc., theSkimm (a daily email newsletter to stay in the know), Scott\u0026#x27;s Cheap Flights, Journy, The Wirecutter and Conde Nast Traveler.\u003cp\u003eYou can hate the promotion, but you\u0026#x27;re certainly not required to join it. And, it\u0026#x27;s certainly not the same thing as Scott selling addresses of people already on his mailing list.\u003cp\u003eAs for this:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; And you REALLY believe that using a search on a site suddenly is enough for your private data to be just given to any shady exploitative company on the planet?\u003cp\u003eUsing your words, can you show me the exact phrasing where that is happening anywhere in this example?","parent":"14673906","id":"14673946"}
{"by":"Andrex","time":"1298080890","timestamp":"2011-02-19 02:01:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're using Chrome, Gmail opens PDF's using Chrome's own viewer now.","parent":"2238049","id":"2238106"}
{"by":"scythe","time":"1310395669","timestamp":"2011-07-11 14:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is mostly because the visible portion of the Sun is not currently undergoing nuclear fusion. Fusion occurs only in the core, not in the outer layers. Also, you're ignoring feedback, which isn't intuitive to ignore -- the blackbody radiation produced by a kilo of 5000 K plasma is huge, enough to supply a person's daily energy and then some -- it just doesn't get emitted from the Sun, which is why that energy will last for another ten billion years. A layperson would probably (try to) count all of the thermal energy which is emitted by such a plasma whenever it's not totally surrounded by more of the same plasma. In that sense, the layperson would be correct -- a kilo of Sun-matter, \u003ci\u003eafter being removed from the Sun\u003c/i\u003e -- produces a massive amount of power.\u003cp\u003eThe density of the Sun is approximately 2 * 10^-4 kg/m^3 in the photosphere ( \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun\u003c/a\u003e ). We're ignoring the core for now, because that's at more like 15000000 K, so. A kilo thus takes up 5 * 10^3 m^3, which is a sphere with radius ~12 m, having a surface area of ~1.4 * 10^3 m^2. The power radiated by a kilo of plasma from the Sun's photosphere is thus is j' = area * sigma * temperature^4, where sigma = 5.67 * 10^-8 is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant ( \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbody_radiation#Stefan.E2.80.93Boltzmann_law\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbody_radiation#Stefan.E2.8...\u003c/a\u003e ), so j' = 1.4 * 10^3 * 5.67 * 10^-8 * (5 * 10^3)^4 = 4.96 * 10^10 watts, or well over a person's daily caloric intake \u003ci\u003eevery second\u003c/i\u003e (In fact, this is approximately the energy consumption of a small country).","parent":"2750604","id":"2750891"}
{"by":"alexeckermann","time":"1406600871","timestamp":"2014-07-29 02:27:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t been able to find definitive reports of this — I wasn\u0026#x27;t aware of it when it happened and am piecing together details I can find. If Radius Networks was producing commercial iBeacon products (SDK\u0026#x27;s) then Apple was within their rights to stop that.\u003cp\u003eTo be honest, I think that is fair. I can\u0026#x27;t imagine this is preventing Android from using iBeacons. My opinion would be that it is preventing profiteering from something Apple a) has a trademark on and b) might want available for free.\u003cp\u003eI assume AltBeacon is the fallout from this. It would be nice if Radius and Apple could work together on Android support. Could be likely that its happening in Android OS already?","parent":"8099654","id":"8100410"}
{"by":"huhtenberg","time":"1304267533","timestamp":"2011-05-01 16:32:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is just a tax deferral scheme. It has \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e benefits, but it is not dramatically different from paying all taxes upfront.","parent":"2503088","id":"2503298"}
{"by":"gamble","time":"1288052995","timestamp":"2010-10-26 00:29:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firefox has never looked or felt like a native application on the Mac. It didn't even have native form controls or pixel-perfect scrolling ala Safari until fairly recently.","parent":"1830924","id":"1832299"}
{"by":"duncans","time":"1349392650","timestamp":"2012-10-04 23:17:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... but an EXE that has a dependency on the .NET runtime","parent":"4614861","id":"4614921"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1531148429","timestamp":"2018-07-09 15:00:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As democratic as the US is or isn\u0026#x27;t, its government does not answer to me. China one also doesn\u0026#x27;t. So, what difference does it make?\u003cp\u003eIf I\u0026#x27;m developing some kind on tech, both have been caught using their state agencies to do industrial spying; if I\u0026#x27;m active in some push for some non-mainstream activism (like, abolishing copyrights), both have done out of jurisdiction enforcement of their policies, and there isn\u0026#x27;t much difference on means either.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I\u0026#x27;d imagine China spying on me is a smaller risk than the US, since my country is more under political influence of the US. But whatever you do, you will have to protect or subject yourself to government spying, thus there isn\u0026#x27;t any big difference.","parent":"17488823","id":"17490653"}
{"by":"nirvana","time":"1318576358","timestamp":"2011-10-14 07:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the pointer.  There's two advantages to what I'm doing over using Varnish in this way:\u003cp\u003e1. The component writer knows the needs of the component and can set the caching policy for it there.  Other developers can then just include the component without knowing what its needs are.  In a way, this means they don't have to design the page for caching.. they kinda get it for free.\u003cp\u003e2. There are several optimizations I can make using this method, and since it is intrinsic to the need to be able to run things in parallel (components have a clearly defined line between them another components) the caching ability is just a few extra lines of code and so relatively low cost for me to add.","parent":"3110089","id":"3110329"}
{"by":"rootuser","time":"1427381882","timestamp":"2015-03-26 14:58:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are the dumbest guy in the room! Rejoice!\nThis is the perfect environment for you and you should be thankful for it and here is why...\n1) You are the idiot so no one really expects anything good to come from you. It\u0026#x27;s just a job, if you are treated like a human resource then they are just a paycheck.\n2) Failure is a great teacher. Bu being the \u0026quot;dumb\u0026quot; one you can make mistakes and no one will make a big fuss. Your mistakes will likely never get committed because everyone will make it their mission to find all your errors.\n3) \u0026quot;keeps me silent for most of the meetings\u0026quot; \u0026amp; \u0026quot;By night I\u0026quot; have a quick dinner and bury myself in intense study.\u0026quot; --Boo HOO, it\u0026#x27;s about damm time! where have you been? If your parents knew that all they had to do to shut you up get you motivated to study is a bit of emotional abuse, then they would have started when you were a kid. I bet you a really regretting spending high school chasing after Mary Jane Rottencrotch.\n4) \u0026quot;Do all star\u0026#x2F;ninja\u0026#x2F;rock-star software developers have rotten attitudes?\u0026quot; No. These guys sound like total tools.Collect a paycheck until you are fired, cram as much information as you can into your head and remember in your next job what it was like to be the idiot in the room and don\u0026#x27;t abuse the next generation.\n5) \u0026quot;Is it normal to be hired as a junior and just being thrown to the lions, with no help or time to ramp up?\u0026quot; Yes.At the higher levels of code slingers this happens way to often. Graduating with a CS degree is just a license to ramp up the learning curve. I can say that I have honestly performed and written about 5 Dissertations in the last 5 years where the first one took me 3 years.\n6) \u0026quot;how should I act in order to maintain my dignity but also be humble enough to acknowledge the co-worker\u0026#x27;s knowledge?\u0026quot; - Don\u0026#x27;t be humble, you are not good enough to be humble. Be yourself. Study as hard as you possibly can and try to catch up. It is a \u0026quot;win win\u0026quot; for you. If you crash and burn, you might be able to find a job that is more suitable for you by riding the borrowed glory for you smarter team members. If you succeed, congratulations! You will be considered the nicest ninja rockstar developer in comparison to your a-hole co-workers.\u003cp\u003eThe pressure is off. The level of expectations is low and you are getting paid to learn. You will probably not be there long because you will quit due to the social situation or be fired for not cutting it.","parent":"9269221","dead":true,"id":"9270061"}
{"by":"fred_durst","time":"1407634185","timestamp":"2014-08-10 01:29:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those are valid points. I\u0026#x27;ll only address one point below, because I see a lot of your reasoning as being that all technological advancement is a net good, which I feel is often the divide between those who are for and against anti-aging.\u003cp\u003eAs for passing on to others. Its not memories or genetics. It\u0026#x27;s inertia. As we go through life we set other things in motion. Our interactions with each other and the world around us causes changes in direction and speed. Everything we do sets something else into motion, infinitely unique from what would have happened without us. No matter how small the action.","parent":"8158461","id":"8158550"}
{"by":"flamedoge","time":"1493423076","timestamp":"2017-04-28 23:44:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"how to become ant people","parent":"14223516","id":"14224088"}
{"by":"tapeman","time":"1472191385","timestamp":"2016-08-26 06:03:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Psh, no Prime delivery?","parent":"12361178","id":"12364517"}
{"by":"dirtyaura","time":"1335567006","timestamp":"2012-04-27 22:50:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not even about a choice, as companies from EU countries can't store store user identification data of EU citizens in US servers. So you are more or less legally forced to have (some) servers in EU.","parent":"3900128","id":"3901366"}
{"by":"octopus","time":"1392307855","timestamp":"2014-02-13 16:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AdBlock is in Chrome Store ... so it will keep running as before.","parent":"7231867","id":"7232085"}
{"by":"gonzo","time":"1411234484","timestamp":"2014-09-20 17:34:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed that you don\u0026#x27;t need to be an attorney to understand trademark law. I work with some of the best in the business, and they think my understanding is nearly as good as theirs.","parent":"8344701","id":"8345036"}
{"by":"majia","time":"1539624589","timestamp":"2018-10-15 17:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn’t say this is a reason to buy Huawei. I’m suggesting a side effect of security concern is improved security. To make secure software\u0026#x2F;hardware, it is really valuable to have people of different backgrounds to take a look. This is what many other venders do not have.","parent":"18221079","id":"18221710"}
{"by":"fiatjaf","time":"1428499338","timestamp":"2015-04-08 13:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can I chat with Google Talk users from this?","parent":"9340246","id":"9340543"}
{"by":"Twirrim","time":"1441486317","timestamp":"2015-09-05 20:51:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a hard call for service providers.  Sort of catch-22.  They have to support old ciphers because most of their possible customers are running old software or operating systems that don\u0026#x27;t support newer ciphers.  So to make money they\u0026#x27;re effectively forced to take a more insecure position.  They can care deeply about customer security, while effectively being forced to offer only the most secure that their customers will support, and having to accept that ugly compromise as a necessity of remaining in business.","parent":"10175893","id":"10176009"}
{"by":"thenduks","time":"1322861338","timestamp":"2011-12-02 21:28:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I started working on a bug tracker (who hasn't at some point, right? :)) because we were using Bugzilla at work and I absolutely hated it and didn't think it fit with our workflow at all.\u003cp\u003eAbout a year later I brought it to the team and we decided to switch to it. A few months of light iteration and polish after that and we launched it as it's own product (\u003ca href=\"https://bugrocket.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://bugrocket.com\u003c/a\u003e) for $20/month.\u003cp\u003ePretty happy with how it's going, too. It hasn't really interfered with the 'day job' at all besides the occasional email to answer or tweet to reply to. We have really flexible hours here so I shift my day around sometimes to accomodate both projects. Totally do-able.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eedit\u003c/i\u003e: Seems there is some interest in the 'family situation' of these success stories. I'm married (with kittens, no kids) and it generally hasn't been too difficult to keep a balance. It's helped me a lot having some people working with me (especially on non-technical bits), and not just alone as a single founder. It's hard to say how much time I actually put in because it's kind of a 'here and there' whenever there's the opportunity kind of thing. I'd probably estimate 3-5 hours during the week and then either a lot (8+ hours) or nothing on the weekends, depending on else is happening.","parent":"3303776","id":"3305769"}
{"by":"moron","time":"1338312982","timestamp":"2012-05-29 17:36:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, this is what he should have said in the first place. I don't see what's so hard, just be a big boy about it.","parent":"4038372","id":"4038664"}
{"by":"jazoom","time":"1499949328","timestamp":"2017-07-13 12:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But that doesn\u0026#x27;t go against my stated belief. If someone wants to offer you a time-limited or location-limited video they can do that. You don\u0026#x27;t have to pay for it. And I say this as an Australian who doesn\u0026#x27;t pay for Netflix because of stupid regional restrictions. Vote with your wallet and let people do as they please.","parent":"14760625","id":"14760721"}
{"by":"oppositelock","time":"1504388627","timestamp":"2017-09-02 21:43:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t a good, native method. I always begin by implementing a thread safe producer\u0026#x2F;consumer queue with non-blocking peek, which checks to see if there\u0026#x27;s something at the head of the queue. You can use something like this for other threads to block on, or to poll, etc. It\u0026#x27;s very useful.\u003cp\u003eFutures are somewhat useful if you spawn off a thread to do a single task and wait for it to finish, however, on many platforms, the thread creation overhead is high enough that you don\u0026#x27;t want to do that, you want to have existing worker threads being given work to do.\u003cp\u003eOnce again, this is something Go does really well. Go routines are almost free, so you can use them with a futures model very easily.","parent":"15158234","id":"15158369"}
{"by":"noarchy","time":"1447369666","timestamp":"2015-11-12 23:07:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;With Cable public-access, the government had to require cable companies to give access to communities to equipment such as a cameras, studios, video players, etc.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t even see why public access cable was forced on any company to begin with. The only reason that comes to mind that the public would even be entitled to free access to the company\u0026#x27;s facilities is the monopoly status that telecoms have often enjoyed in North America. In that case, a bit of give-and-take might be expected. But otherwise, I don\u0026#x27;t see much of a case for forcing a company to let people use its facilities for free.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Public access internet\u0026#x27;s needs are much closer to those of community access television than Citizen\u0026#x27;s band.\u003cp\u003eThis seems like a dubious \u0026quot;need\u0026quot;. I can rent a VPS for a few dollars a month and generally do with it whatever I\u0026#x27;d like. The barrier to entry is surprisingly-low, in that regard.","parent":"10555034","id":"10556847"}
{"by":"roenxi","time":"1512941564","timestamp":"2017-12-10 21:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a society, we have demonstrated a remarkably limited ability to coherently articulate what the problems are.\u003cp\u003eNow, if you can articulate a clear problem, I might be persuaded that engineers as  class will solve it a specific way. But my experience is that once a problem is identified anyone could do it. Identifying the problem is the part that generates friction.\u003cp\u003eIn the one-line example you came up with, you imply:\u003cp\u003e* Working is good\u003cp\u003e* Economic productivity is the end goal\u003cp\u003e* Possibly a link between morality and citizenship\u003cp\u003e* That \u0026#x27;replacement\u0026#x27; based on some unknown process will be legitimate\u003cp\u003eIf I am allowed to assume things like that, every human problem becomes easy and I can engineer it. But a \u0026#x27;landslide\u0026#x27; in politics is 60% agreement on a subject - assumptions like this do not fly. I, for example, disagree with at least 2 of those points.","parent":"15893443","id":"15893607"}
{"by":"semaphoreP","time":"1417455769","timestamp":"2014-12-01 17:42:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only that, but if you change the permittivity and permeability to that of any material, you get the speed of light in that material. And for all this to happen, you get the fact that light is an electromagnetic wave from Maxwell\u0026#x27;s equations.","parent":"8681925","id":"8682419"}
{"by":"tux1968","time":"1501244759","timestamp":"2017-07-28 12:25:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well they do mention in the description:\u003cp\u003eThe results of a scan can sometimes be difficult for the tools to automatically classify, and may require manual analysis. For help analyzing your results, feel free to send the .\u0026#x2F;data\u0026#x2F;log file to xoreaxeaxeax@gmail.com. No personal information, other than the processor make, model, and revision (from \u0026#x2F;proc\u0026#x2F;cpuinfo) are included in this log.","parent":"14873493","id":"14873703"}
{"by":"lowry","time":"1503561305","timestamp":"2017-08-24 07:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you say is closer to truth, but does not catch the eye as well the other statement.","parent":"15088300","id":"15088374"}
{"by":"amake","time":"1487053259","timestamp":"2017-02-14 06:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great. So let\u0026#x27;s just stick our heads in the sand and pretend that politics isn\u0026#x27;t relevant.","parent":"13641291","id":"13641609"}
{"by":"stevejalim","time":"1403709913","timestamp":"2014-06-25 15:25:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not familiar enough with them, or your product (obv), to know, but would user streams help in place of site streams?","parent":"7942983","id":"7944523"}
{"by":"goldenkey","time":"1544813268","timestamp":"2018-12-14 18:47:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;s probably on mobile. Google chrome on mobile loves to give AMP pages instead of normal ones.","parent":"18683327","id":"18683399"}
{"by":"justicezyx","time":"1399053512","timestamp":"2014-05-02 17:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I personally attribute your kind of mindset as one of the major reasons of US\u0026#x27; setback in RD \u0026amp; technology leadership...","parent":"7687107","id":"7687129"}
{"by":"LukeShu","time":"1379374110","timestamp":"2013-09-16 23:28:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the illusion though! Everyone playing the game thought it was slots!\u003cp\u003eA agree, from a game design standpoint, it doesn\u0026#x27;t make much sense to make it like slots; but that\u0026#x27;s the way it appears to the user.","parent":"6396565","id":"6396584"}
{"by":"Spearchucker","time":"1428478853","timestamp":"2015-04-08 07:40:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m 45, and have about 60 unfinished side protects in my \u0026#x2F;Dev folder. I\u0026#x27;ve also just reached the feature complete milestone on my first side project that will actually ship. After working on it, or a variation of it for SEVEN YEARS.\u003cp\u003eYour question made me smile. Are you having fun? I\u0026#x27;m having lots of fun, and have had throughout my career. There was a time in my 20\u0026#x27;s where I felt \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e the way you do.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t sweat it. Live life, and it will come to you. Focus instead on making memories that will make you smile when you\u0026#x27;re 80.","parent":"9337863","id":"9339227"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1282652258","timestamp":"2010-08-24 12:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think less like a technically savvy HN reader who does not pay for content online, and more like an info marketing huckster who has an email list of 50,000 people who have bought a similar product in the last six months.","parent":"1629514","id":"1629540"}
{"by":"davidbanham","time":"1478383367","timestamp":"2016-11-05 22:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to the docs, it gives you the option deep in the settings to add your own STUN and TURN servers. It seems like it doesn\u0026#x27;t ship with any preconfigured. That makes it a non starter for me.","parent":"12881806","id":"12882155"}
{"by":"bpm140","time":"1278814085","timestamp":"2010-07-11 02:08:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They've been profitable since their very first quarter and, according to the TC article, they will likely make as much in profit next year as they've raised in the last three years.\u003cp\u003eThe fundraising is almost exclusively used for acquisition, so what's the obnoxious part?","parent":"1504618","id":"1504759"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1283114654","timestamp":"2010-08-29 20:44:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; combined with being fascinated with eyes (possible hallucination or sensory distortion)\u003cp\u003eIn an artistic sense.\u003cp\u003eA sample of what she could do:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/eckart/dscf1836.jpg.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/eckart/dscf1836.jpg.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1644447","id":"1644505"}
{"by":"mkovji","time":"1524519847","timestamp":"2018-04-23 21:44:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmmm i guess facebook is the IDE that\u0026#x27;s used to program me and each post is a line of code.","parent":"16905664","id":"16907727"}
{"by":"austinz","time":"1415567477","timestamp":"2014-11-09 21:11:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought the explanation of how the Blight was going to render Earth\u0026#x27;s atmosphere unbreathable was sort of unbelievable. The Blight\u0026#x27;s metabolism excretes or produces nitrogen gas at such a high rate that the percentages of the atmosphere\u0026#x27;s constituent elements are going to change drastically within a single generation? (c.f. the scientist saying that the last people to starve would be the first to suffocate.) Is that even possible? I mean, we burn fossil fuels and emit CO2 like the dickens, but nobody is arguing that we\u0026#x27;re going to die of CO2 poisoning instead of being threatened by global warming.\u003cp\u003eAlso, near the beginning, the ersatz Predator was supposedly solar powered (hence being in the air autonomously for ten years), but when it lands it\u0026#x27;s just a metal plane.","parent":"8579909","id":"8580911"}
{"by":"ryangum","time":"1413298729","timestamp":"2014-10-14 14:58:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Feel free to share something you think is worthy.","parent":"8453394","id":"8453691"}
{"by":"Snhr","time":"1405043890","timestamp":"2014-07-11 01:58:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m 21 now trying to plan out my life and this is one of the major things for me. What do I want to do in life that is important to me and can I accomplish this within the timeframe I have. I don\u0026#x27;t have a second chance so I don\u0026#x27;t want to spend time doing something that I\u0026#x27;ll lose interest in, or end up being stagnant in some job that I can barely stand. I\u0026#x27;d rather do all that worrying now then when it could mean finishing something on time. At least now I can plan accordingly (do this before I\u0026#x27;m x years old) to how much time I\u0026#x27;ve wasted, instead of wasting time and not accomplishing a part of it before I need to.\u003cp\u003eAlso trying to figure out how \u0026quot;great\u0026quot; I am, or what I am \u0026quot;great\u0026quot; at. So I\u0026#x27;m not disappointed at myself . I\u0026#x27;ve already gone through that once on several levels when I went from being an old teenager to a young adult. One time is enough, and I bet it\u0026#x27;s so much worse when you\u0026#x27;re at the point where you can\u0026#x27;t accomplish the goal because you\u0026#x27;re not good enough (or even just questioning if its feasible, that has to drop you farther than where you should be and end up doing worse because of it.)\u003cp\u003eOr I may be just wasting time now and I should just jump in. I don\u0026#x27;t know, maybe I\u0026#x27;ll figure that out. I don\u0026#x27;t need much in life, just to feel like I\u0026#x27;ve done the best that I can at whatever I end up choosing. Not even in an idealistic way really, I want to give back what people have given to me (knowledge, ideas, materialistic things if any) so at most I don\u0026#x27;t leave the world knowing that I did less than nothing. If I leave doing more than I have taken then I can be happy in the fact that I\u0026#x27;ve made the world a little bit better. Not a lot but it wasn\u0026#x27;t a waste being alive.\u003cp\u003eMaybe I should just get a job.","parent":"8018358","id":"8018503"}
{"by":"bmelton","time":"1301959683","timestamp":"2011-04-04 23:28:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The metal harvested for your frame is also harmful to the environment in its manufacture and production.\u003cp\u003eThis ultimately gets back to the allegation that the dust-to-dust cost of a Prius is less eco-friendly than that of a HumVee, which is a meme that was running around few years ago, and which was ultimately debunked based on a number of faulty assumptions, some of which you make in your argument.\u003cp\u003e- There is no resale market for Prii\u003cp\u003e- A Prius won't last as long as a more standardly built vehicle\u003cp\u003e- The Prius uses an extraordinarily large amount of nickel, which is toxic and/or unrecoverable.\u003cp\u003eAs I said, these were ultimately proven false enough that no informed person can seriously believe that a gas guzzling Hummer is better for the environment.  I'd wager the same argument holds true for an F150 as well.\u003cp\u003eAs for the presence of radiation in neodymium, you probably have the same amount of radiation in your alternator, only your alternator isn't shielded, as it is in Prius batteries.  Pepto Bismol is also radioactive, and has a half-life longer than the age of the universe -- it doesn't necessarily imply that it's unsafe.\u003cp\u003eAlso, please, let's try to keep the drama down, pretty please?  There is a great deal of rhetoric and emotion in your post that needn't be there.","parent":"2408622","id":"2409027"}
{"by":"davidiach","time":"1478861270","timestamp":"2016-11-11 10:47:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recommend this article by Scott Adams: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.dilbert.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;152998516891\u0026#x2F;the-de-hitlerization-of-your-brain\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.dilbert.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;152998516891\u0026#x2F;the-de-hitlerizati...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12929487","id":"12929552"}
{"by":"xamuel","time":"1429448388","timestamp":"2015-04-19 12:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;And these practices are in a way unfair against the rest of us workers!\u003cp\u003eThis raises interesting philosophical questions about work in general.  If work is inherently valuable, isn\u0026#x27;t anything that enhances it a good thing (assume lack of side effects for simplicity)?  Is it \u0026quot;unfair\u0026quot; if a doctor\u0026#x2F;scientist\u0026#x2F;programmer uses a product to be more productive?  Very few of us are formally competitive athletes, and special rules apply to those of us who are.  I think it\u0026#x27;s unfair that some people can afford secretaries, accountants, editors, private schools, etc., those seem much less fair than ADHD medicine.\u003cp\u003eOne of my childhood heroes, the great mathematician Paul Erdos, was a famous amphetamine user, does that mean the wonderful contributions he made to our understanding of the universe are \u0026quot;unfair\u0026quot;?","parent":"9402799","id":"9402966"}
{"by":"lars_francke","time":"1515503183","timestamp":"2018-01-09 13:06:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As posted in another thread here the link seems to be \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;search.google.com\u0026#x2F;search-console\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;search.google.com\u0026#x2F;search-console\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16104911","id":"16105840"}
{"by":"P_rennes","time":"1337594195","timestamp":"2012-05-21 09:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"900 million users imagine!","parent":"3999301","id":"4002076"}
{"by":"tmikaeld","time":"1474653151","timestamp":"2016-09-23 17:52:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Plus, the owner of BeOS wanted more than the 125$ million that Apple was willing to pay for it. BeOS was eventually sold to Palm for a \u0026quot;tiny\u0026quot; 11$ million.","parent":"12566446","id":"12566576"}
{"by":"mettamage","time":"1520532733","timestamp":"2018-03-08 18:12:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My 2 cents on hugging.\u003cp\u003eTL;DR: have friends who hug, go to warm cultures and metta meditation\u003cp\u003eA friend of mine years ago went to an alternative school for a year. He transformed as a person and made it a principle to hug his friends. While I was skeptical at first, I quite quickly had the same principle. If I am within my circle of friends I always say beforehand that I am going to hug them if I don\u0026#x27;t know them well enough. When they refuse, fine, when they don\u0026#x27;t, I hug them. It is different when I am in other social circles, then I judge it more on a per social circle basis. If I meet someone by myself and had a good time, there is always a hug. If you want to get some \u0026#x27;practice\u0026#x27; in, I suggest going on vacation to Italy and make some Italian friends. Hugging is normal if you let it be normal.\u003cp\u003eWhat also might help is metta meditation. I remember that before metta meditation I did not hug my parents. But then I read the book Search Inside Yourself written by a Google employee. I took the instructions for metta there a bit too much on the intense side, since I was really putting myself in the shoes of my parents and I envisioned how their whole life must\u0026#x27;ve been like and kept asking myself what made them happy. After that I noticed that I wanted to tell them that I love them every time I saw them, but that\u0026#x27;s a bit too cheesy to my taste, so I decided to hug them instead. Interestingly, even after a few weeks my dad still felt a bit uncomfortable with it, so I dropped the practice with him. But I still hug my mom. For me personally, it has been a mini transformation because I never used to hug her, and now I hug her every time I see her.\u003cp\u003eReading this, I\u0026#x27;m quite surprised on how I transformed from a completely non-touchy person to a hugger. As a result, I am not experiencing a hugging crisis. I get my 2 hugs per day in :)","parent":"16544945","id":"16546283"}
{"by":"46Bit","time":"1357869659","timestamp":"2013-01-11 02:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, sorry. I saw the paragraph and the \"Show\" and clicked through to the first one.","parent":"5040902","id":"5040945"}
{"by":"partycoder","time":"1539948706","timestamp":"2018-10-19 11:31:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gandhi is usually associated with peaceful behavior because of his non-violent resistance ideas.\u003cp\u003eBut these romanticized portrayals of Gandhi often omit darker aspects of his persona like his racist quotes about Africans.","parent":"18233798","id":"18255907"}
{"by":"jkot","time":"1421749989","timestamp":"2015-01-20 10:33:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MB is not highest mountain in Europe, but in EU.","parent":"8916060","id":"8916295"}
{"by":"kaoD","time":"1371638843","timestamp":"2013-06-19 10:47:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk\u0026#x2F;uk\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;jun\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.guardian.co.uk\u0026#x2F;uk\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;jun\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;gchq-intercepted-co...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5898971","id":"5904775"}
{"by":"rodgerd","time":"1453945758","timestamp":"2016-01-28 01:49:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  it should be easy to learn\u003cp\u003eThat would be a significant upgrade.","parent":"10985089","id":"10985450"}
{"by":"jonnycombust","time":"1320029128","timestamp":"2011-10-31 02:45:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You need to focus on content marketing around your story - which, as I gather from your post, is the real estate opportunity in the middle east. Become an industry thought leader and champion.\u003cp\u003eWrite some great blog posts that have real insight and just a very light sales pitch, and get them syndicated on sites that appeal to the middle eastern real estate and emerging business market. If it's a niche opportunity, which it seems like, then there should be several relevant niche media who, like you, are aiming for growth in the market, and can mutually benefit from great content you can provide them.\u003cp\u003eBasically, you need to identify partners who are vested in the industry's growth like you are, and figure out ways to be an asset to them and not just an advertiser. And the easiest way to do this is to provide great content.\u003cp\u003e- @jonnystartup","parent":"3175801","id":"3176161"}
{"by":"aroch","time":"1391781702","timestamp":"2014-02-07 14:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OVH is the largest not the best French host. They\u0026#x27;re a budget host that vastly oversells. OVH has no such reputation for responsiveness, their \u0026quot;fair\u0026quot; prices are based on many fold overselling their network and holding onto and charging the same for hardware that\u0026#x27;s ten years old. They recycle disks even when they\u0026#x27;re about to die. They overload racks and cause power issues (Your whole rack rebooted? Sorry, one of the servers on it drew enough power under load to flip a breaker) . They randomly reboot servers as part of their DDoS protection. They think sending UDP packets is nefarious and will wipe your server for it.","parent":"7195618","id":"7196227"}
{"by":"acchow","time":"1532724934","timestamp":"2018-07-27 20:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; “Linux Kernel Networking Subsystem”\u003cp\u003eHow do they say this in Japanese?\nIn Chinese (Mandarin\u0026#x2F;Cantonese)?","parent":"17629138","id":"17629317"}
{"by":"singularity2001","time":"1472981575","timestamp":"2016-09-04 09:32:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You can walk around the globe in 10-20 years.\u003cp\u003eThis is an important footnote that many historians seem to overlook.\u003cp\u003eHowever a similar argument makes the seaborne theory plausible too, as it took less than three years to sail or row around the globe, probably ever since the invention of the sailboat (~4000BC?).","parent":"12423316","id":"12423531"}
{"by":"jscheel","time":"1493978127","timestamp":"2017-05-05 09:55:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, that\u0026#x27;s amazing that they were so willing to try and help others. However, reading this 7 days before I take my 4 year old and twin 1 year olds to Italy was not the best timing on my part.","parent":"14271597","id":"14272261"}
{"by":"hbien","time":"1232311278","timestamp":"2009-01-18 20:41:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand, why does it matter?","parent":"439610","id":"439635"}
{"by":"methane","time":"1322326981","timestamp":"2011-11-26 17:03:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it better than Ubuntu? Can I have a few workspaces? I think to leave Ubuntu as it became slow for me and Unity is really not cool at all. What do you think?\u003cp\u003eP.S. Can I transfer all my files from Ubuntu to Mint easily?","parent":"3279878","id":"3280161"}
{"by":"magnusgraviti","time":"1393148209","timestamp":"2014-02-23 09:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I noticed that too. They have demo video but the project is still work in progress.\u003cp\u003eThe other interesting thing here is that they use Go inside.","parent":"7284605","id":"7285403"}
{"by":"dylandrop","time":"1401544536","timestamp":"2014-05-31 13:55:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;I tried to be as objective as possible\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Finally what do you really care about: name brand or doing cool work?\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI did a lot of boring, mundane work during my time at some startups as well as interesting work at others. It\u0026#x27;s either subjective or not informed by enough experience to say that only startup work is cool work and you can\u0026#x27;t find cool work at a larger company.","parent":"7825818","id":"7826010"}
{"by":"chillax","time":"1315593646","timestamp":"2011-09-09 18:40:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's a good mix of english and norwegian videos. Lighting talks are also included.","parent":"2979312","id":"2979317"}
{"by":"grammaton","time":"1296160529","timestamp":"2011-01-27 20:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Captains of Crush.  Go get some of them and work with them relentlessly.\u003cp\u003eFarmer's walk.  Do it.  Do it with heavy weights.\u003cp\u003eDeadlift will certainly do wonders for your grip as well.","parent":"2148042","id":"2149348"}
{"by":"monokrome","time":"1411679006","timestamp":"2014-09-25 21:03:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That doesn\u0026#x27;t solve the original problem. It\u0026#x27;s just indirection from it... You still don\u0026#x27;t know what\u0026#x27;s going on in the background.","parent":"8368950","id":"8369731"}
{"by":"Boulth","time":"1539033759","timestamp":"2018-10-08 21:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"VS Code changelogs are really high quality and show how much effort do they put into each release.\u003cp\u003eI miss the default JSON settings editor though. The graphical interface for settings looks like a step backwards, although they\u0026#x27;ll probably improve it in no time...","parent":"18169224","id":"18171438"}
{"by":"aaronharnly","time":"1360637893","timestamp":"2013-02-12 02:58:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As many of you may remember, one of the earliest Apple forays into both skeumorphism and what the post terms \"realist visual design\" was QuickTime 4:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/1999/09/30/quicktime/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.salon.com/1999/09/30/quicktime/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"QT4, in contrast, presents a “player” that mimics the appearance of a real-world object — a high-tech Sony Watchman, say.\"\u003cp\u003eIt became notorious quickly, gaining the attention for example of Bruce Tognazzini[1] and of the Interface Hall of Shame[2]:\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.asktog.com/readerMail/1999-06ReaderMail.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.asktog.com/readerMail/1999-06ReaderMail.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/19991012163338/http://iarchitect.com/qtime.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://web.archive.org/web/19991012163338/http://iarchitect....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost notoriously, one controlled the volume not with a slider element, but with a rotating dial that appeared to require a circular motion to operate, not an easy feat with a mouse; only with experimentation did one learn that a linear motion also worked.","parent":"5204380","id":"5204963"}
{"by":"NAFV_P","time":"1399377762","timestamp":"2014-05-06 12:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fifteen.","parent":"7703805","id":"7703891"}
{"by":"reddit_clone","time":"1361939436","timestamp":"2013-02-27 04:30:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this Windows/VisualC++ only or is it portable?","parent":"5290310","id":"5290616"}
{"by":"captaincrunch","time":"1276260528","timestamp":"2010-06-11 12:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll be adding buy/sell to this over the weekend.  I'd appreciate some comments on the picks! :D","parent":"1423471","id":"1423645"}
{"by":"zwieback","time":"1377742628","timestamp":"2013-08-29 02:17:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well written article, enjoyed it although I also noticed the much-higher margin Walmart has.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very obvious that Walmart allows less wealthy people to buy more. Paradoxically, the very people suffering from stagnant blue-collar wages are Walmart\u0026#x27;s customers.","parent":"6293463","id":"6293883"}
{"by":"everdev","time":"1509289182","timestamp":"2017-10-29 14:59:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;extremely useful to anyone else looking to launch a Spectacles type device.\u003cp\u003eThat audience is tiny and has budgets to hire marketers with much better analysis than this article.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t use Snapchat, but take a look at all the anti-Snapchat posts in his Twitter feed: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;joshconstine\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;joshconstine\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt feels more like someone shorting stocks than providing thoughtful analysis.","parent":"15578388","id":"15579541"}
{"by":"simonbyrne","time":"1501082228","timestamp":"2017-07-26 15:17:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use it to turn my television on and off:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;simonbyrne\u0026#x2F;fauxmo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;simonbyrne\u0026#x2F;fauxmo\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14856277","id":"14856887"}
{"by":"icelancer","time":"1399359458","timestamp":"2014-05-06 06:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"acmlm is well noted for this, as well as speedrunning various games (mostly Dr. Mario and A Link to the Past). Google his name for more info or watch his stream (usually late at night US time) - www.twitch.tv\u0026#x2F;acmlm","parent":"7701847","id":"7703137"}
{"by":"deviltry","time":"1386229508","timestamp":"2013-12-05 07:45:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I rememver Overgrowth, I was looking at the development back when I was still using Linux... Still hasn\u0026#x27;t released. Nice credibility for OpenGL - use OpenGL for vaporware!","parent":"6852961","dead":true,"id":"6853145"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1264631419","timestamp":"2010-01-27 22:30:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps, but only because it would be the perfect platform for a visual/tactile development environment (think APL-flavored Squeak + \"fingerpainting\" flowcharts.) Might have to wait until it's jailbroken, though.","parent":"1081505","id":"1082164"}
{"by":"alternize","time":"1372706689","timestamp":"2013-07-01 19:24:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"translation implies \u0026quot;other language\u0026quot;. instead of still defining the page as being english, why not trying to define the page\u0026#x27;s language to the language the customer (allegedly) translated into?\u003cp\u003ein your case, non-translated \u0026quot;Account\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Password\u0026quot; texts in a french corpus are most probably much much more common than a wrongly-translated french \u0026quot;Connexion\u0026quot; in an english corpus...\u003cp\u003ethat said, i do not know if chrome is really considering the language or not, but i certainly would hope so. :)","parent":"5972865","id":"5972984"}
{"by":"Blackthorn","time":"1424240657","timestamp":"2015-02-18 06:24:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To some of you reading this who haven\u0026#x27;t been to graduate school, this mistake is not as large as you might think. A lot of graduate schools have the policy of overadmitting and then pruning out during the oral exam (which usually 1-2 years into the program). I do not know if CMU is one of those schools (I attended one which did not have this policy; also, this policy can vary by department within the same school).","parent":"9066878","id":"9067270"}
{"by":"mixmastamyk","time":"1370907649","timestamp":"2013-06-10 23:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This reminds me of Steve a bit... like the Next Cube 2013.  Must be why it is black.","parent":"5856410","id":"5858373"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1514329386","timestamp":"2017-12-26 23:03:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The question is not if it can be made perfect, but if it can be improved.","parent":"16011247","id":"16011618"}
{"by":"timdorr","time":"1335377428","timestamp":"2012-04-25 18:10:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How else would they know what credit report to look up and what questions to ask?","parent":"3887106","id":"3890275"}
{"by":"gurraman","time":"1318527489","timestamp":"2011-10-13 17:38:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't give me so many options when you can, with a little research, make the right decisions for me! :)\u003cp\u003e(the N % that do not agree with you can probably perform some magic to bend the site to their liking)","parent":"3107950","id":"3107986"}
{"by":"praptak","time":"1293921665","timestamp":"2011-01-01 22:41:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have a landline then there's a chance that your telephone exchange has an automatic wake-up call service. You just dial something like * 55*HHMM# and it calls you back at HH:MM.","parent":"2058521","id":"2058674"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1315561152","timestamp":"2011-09-09 09:39:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Raw milk has a lot the bacteria needed to make the cheese already in it. Cheesemaking is basically farming bacteria... You get more variability and a generally better product with unpasterized cheese.\u003cp\u003eI mainly eat cheese from unpasteurized milk...","parent":"2975459","id":"2977505"}
{"by":"thaumasiotes","time":"1538700370","timestamp":"2018-10-05 00:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s more than one developer out there. Developers do hate Apple.\u003cp\u003eOther developers may love it.","parent":"18144777","id":"18144842"}
{"by":"anonymfus","time":"1529257489","timestamp":"2018-06-17 17:44:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is not an age when adult supervision is harmful as a violation of child\u0026#x27;s rights for privacy lower than age when such content is harmful?","parent":"17333252","id":"17333372"}
{"by":"sandwiches","time":"1359354820","timestamp":"2013-01-28 06:33:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely going to this. Thanks!","parent":"5127007","id":"5127449"}
{"by":"myrandomcomment","time":"1497933233","timestamp":"2017-06-20 04:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So my wife and I are 20 days into the whole30 diet. Finding bacon with no sugar is hard. So at day 20 we both feel better. My ecezema has cleared up. We going to add stuff back slowly and see what changes. It could be in our head however. We will see. To be fair I am a cheater as I gave up everything required except wine with a meal. It will be interesting to see what adding back dairy does. Man do I want a pepperoni pizza. The junk however like candy, meh. Over it.","parent":"14591270","id":"14592222"}
{"by":"kpil","time":"1476104920","timestamp":"2016-10-10 13:08:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or do as the old dictum says;\u003cp\u003eIf you owe your bank a million, you have a problem.\nIf you owe your bank a billion, it has.\u003cp\u003e(Kenyes?)\u003cp\u003eThe essence is that you have to be big enough and have borrowed enough so that the credit losses hurts the bank if they turn on you... But I doubt it\u0026#x27;s a winning strategy for a small family business.","parent":"12676602","id":"12676845"}
{"by":"Perceval","time":"1261981008","timestamp":"2009-12-28 06:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some folks are already working on that: \u003ca href=\"http://stupidfilter.org/main/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://stupidfilter.org/main/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's supposed to identify \u003ci\u003eformally\u003c/i\u003e stupid comments, i.e. those that have bad spelling and txt abbreviations, etc.  It doesn't do anything about substantive stupidity, unfortunately ;)","parent":"1018149","id":"1018192"}
{"by":"blahi","time":"1479586910","timestamp":"2016-11-19 20:21:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s the tool\u0026#x27;s name?","parent":"12995322","id":"12995402"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1391406911","timestamp":"2014-02-03 05:55:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Based on the sexist replies in this thread, I would have a hard time distinguishing the two.","parent":"7166834","id":"7169084"}
{"by":"brongondwana","time":"1437117117","timestamp":"2015-07-17 07:11:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re hoping it automatically starts working for everyone - it did with our couple of test accounts and test devices, but we don\u0026#x27;t have everything from the test lab with us - we did this all very hush-hush while we\u0026#x27;re in the Bay Area.  We didn\u0026#x27;t even tell the gang back in Melbourne that we were working on it until about 15 minutes before rollout.","parent":"9901532","id":"9901578"}
{"by":"AutoCorrect","time":"1393652471","timestamp":"2014-03-01 05:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"notepad text document here, that opens whenever I login","parent":"7322096","id":"7323276"}
{"by":"aidenn0","time":"1518642474","timestamp":"2018-02-14 21:07:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I find that to be a weakness in libertarianism.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, one argument for it is that we have a lot of regulations; those regulations cost money.  Absent those regulations, some of that value would be captured by those who are poor (either directly because fewer regulations would allow more jobs, or indirectly because fewer regulations would reduce the cost of production).\u003cp\u003eAt least some regulations exist to prevent businesses from externalizing their costs; different libertarians disagree on the proper way to handle this (torts are one popular suggestion, something like cap-and-trade is another; a surprising number of libertarians are very comfortable with taxes on pollutants, provided the tax is tied to the approximate damages caused by the pollution).\u003cp\u003e[edit]\u003cp\u003eAnother way of saying this is that without the various welfare and social justice systems, walmart\u0026#x27;s workers would either need to be paid more to keep them healthy, or they would have to deal with constant turnover and people showing up to work sick (and thus with reduced productivity).  Both situations would impose costs upon walmart without any need of taxation.\u003cp\u003eIn addition, most schools of libertarianism are not opposed to workers unions as a contractual, free-market solution to workers rights.  Special government protections (e.g. NLRA) or restrictions (e.g. right-to-work) of union tend to be treated with equal suspicion (though there are schools of libertarianism that are more pro- or anti- union).","parent":"16378897","id":"16379373"}
{"by":"jack-r-abbit","time":"1337125921","timestamp":"2012-05-15 23:52:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't believe that radio stations do not a) compensate the music source in some way or b) have an agreement with the source otherwise authorizing them to broadcast it. If they don't, then that is between them and the source. You are not involved in that part.","parent":"3979561","id":"3979580"}
{"by":"shampine","time":"1432069080","timestamp":"2015-05-19 20:58:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that is a truthy assessment as I just got a recruiter email in my inbox at $140k for full stack node.js. I think you can easily find both ends of the spectrum. Average seems to be about around $80-115k for most devs in LA.","parent":"9573002","id":"9573086"}
{"by":"podperson","time":"1314130248","timestamp":"2011-08-23 20:10:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The problem is that this is completely divorced from anything that any sane person learning programming would want to do.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds to me a lot like a typical game-programming kind of design question. Games are pretty popular. Can you think of a more generally popular problem domain?\u003cp\u003eCertainly, one can imagine very similar examples (car / vehicle / truck etc.) which would bear directly on very popular game analogies.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; So, for a tutorial aimed at teaching someone their 12th programming language, use birds/ducks.\u003cp\u003eI think your point here is well-taken. If the student knows about conventional programming, introducing OO coding is a different task than otherwise. But the whole 'print \"quack\"' point is pretty silly -- of course you'll initially teach about inheritance using trivial functionality that doesn't distract from the teaching point. I've seen OO tutorials that talk about point, square, and circle classes that never actually draw a point, square, or circle. Is printing \"width = 100\" more profound than \"quack\"?\u003cp\u003eIn the end, you teach a topic by focusing on that topic, not adding a bunch of distracting detail. The distracting detail may be useful for motivation, but you need to get it out of the way to actually explain the point.\u003cp\u003eI might finally add that teaching a specific person you're talking to is a different task than writing a book. When you're teaching a specific person you can find out what they're interested in and use that as both motivation and example. But, if you're writing a book you want to find analogies that are are universally accessible and appealing as possible.","parent":"2917630","id":"2918194"}
{"by":"rcarmo","time":"1542387171","timestamp":"2018-11-16 16:52:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great, since I\u0026#x27;ve been meaning to do some stuff in Lua instead of JavaScript (mostly Functions-like stuff that require simple scripting). Having more options is always nice.","parent":"18469672","id":"18469902"}
{"by":"wheels","time":"1310507842","timestamp":"2011-07-12 21:57:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm, hate to knock the steam out of my own post, but it seems Lerdorf was only at WePay for one year and left in April:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/in/rlerdorf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.linkedin.com/in/rlerdorf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2756601","id":"2756794"}
{"by":"kennywinker","time":"1404530190","timestamp":"2014-07-05 03:16:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$5 Million. With an M. Hopefully that\u0026#x27;s a typo on your part ;)\u003cp\u003eCould be true. Not to say Canada\u0026#x27;s campaign financing is perfect.. it is not. But we don\u0026#x27;t have Super PACs, which is nice.","parent":"7990896","id":"7990914"}
{"by":"TorKlingberg","time":"1438764013","timestamp":"2015-08-05 08:40:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The unlicensed band was never dedicated to WiFi, and WiFi is not necessarily free. Carriers like AT\u0026amp;T has rolled out a lot of WiFi hotspots that their customers devices can connect to.","parent":"10008046","id":"10008564"}
{"by":"1123581321","time":"1330015250","timestamp":"2012-02-23 16:40:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title should be updated with a [satire] tag.\u003cp\u003eAs to its content, I would say that server administration as a craft has moved up a level. It is now developing programs like Chef, designing 'clouds', choosing hardware and so on.","parent":"3625298","id":"3625564"}
{"by":"AngryData","time":"1529904415","timestamp":"2018-06-25 05:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems incredibly stupid and irresponsible to use any \u0026#x27;modern\u0026#x27; hardware systems for fairly simple but critical functions. Like voting machines, you need a chip less powerful than a damn 30 year old scientific calculator to do something as simple as count votes, everything more is just layers of vulnerability. And I would say the same for any critical infrastructure, but money and profit is apparently more important than safety or security.","parent":"17386166","id":"17390071"}
{"by":"ryao","time":"1428676592","timestamp":"2015-04-10 14:36:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not a lawyer, but I have yet to speak to a lawyer who claimed you could not distribute a Linux kernel module under an \u0026quot;incompatible\u0026quot; license when the said module is not considered a derived work of GPL software. Any Linux port of ZFS is a derived work of OpenSolaris (in the legal sense), such that you can distribute ZFS with Linux as long as it is a separate kernel module. There are plenty of companies doing this. I have spoken to lawyers regarding this and I have yet to meet a lawyer who disagrees when asked if the GPL applies to a Linux ZFS kernel module. To be honest, I did encounter one attorney who thought that certain forms of advertising might be able to trigger the derived works clause, but he considered it to be an avoidable problem and his opinion was an outlier.","parent":"9352878","id":"9354584"}
{"by":"arkitaip","time":"1312806601","timestamp":"2011-08-08 12:30:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Prioritize school, especially since you are freelancing and not doing a startup.\u003cp\u003ePeople generally choose freelance work over employment because it means (1) more freedom, empowerment and power over their work and life (2) more money. If you get a job that offers you equal or acceptable levels of (1) and (2), go for the job. If you get the same amount of money, you need to decide how importance (1) is for you. If you by any chance happen to get the amount of (1) but less money, you need to think about how passionate you are about your work and how less money will affect your daily life.\u003cp\u003eNow, maybe you're really ambitious and still want some of the benefits of employment. If that's the case, get the job but make it clear that you will continue to do freelance work on the side, maybe during nights and weekends. The nice thing about this is that you keep building your portfolio, incredibly important for freelancers, and can pick projects and technology stacks that interests you.","parent":"2859763","id":"2859798"}
{"by":"framel","time":"1521366397","timestamp":"2018-03-18 09:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"electron is cancer","parent":"16611085","dead":true,"id":"16611160"}
{"by":"itsdrewmiller","time":"1438449619","timestamp":"2015-08-01 17:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Providing feedback is pretty hit or miss - if you give anything specific enough to be constructive you also end up with people often wanting to argue the particulars.  The feedback examples here are pretty bad.  \u0026quot;You don\u0026#x27;t have enough experience\u0026quot; - so you are going to hire him or her in two years once they have gained experience?  \u0026quot;You aren\u0026#x27;t a culture fit\u0026quot; - why not?  Is it because he or she isn\u0026#x27;t a 20-something white male who likes video games and beer?\u003cp\u003eThe feedback I have tended to give is along the lines of \u0026quot;Our process has a high chance of providing false negatives, so just because we are not offering you a position doesn\u0026#x27;t mean we are convinced you are not qualified.  On [Programming Problem X] we felt that your code involved too much deep nesting and the variable naming was poor; in an environment with many programmers that is one of the most important things to do well.  You also missed [Requirement Y] which, while not critical for the functioning of the program, did show a lack of attention to detail of the problem statement.\u0026quot;  And then they still argue.  :-)\u003cp\u003eIf they are really horrible they get rejected in real time, and if it\u0026#x27;s late in the process we have a conversation internally about how they managed to make it so far.","parent":"9987544","id":"9987799"}
{"by":"smarx","time":"1339016033","timestamp":"2012-06-06 20:53:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The subjunctive mood: if only it were that easy. :-)","parent":"4075730","id":"4076164"}
{"by":"geraldbaeck","time":"1373560723","timestamp":"2013-07-11 16:38:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are counting the per unique URL, which is currently not a big advantage for the popular sites, because they are hosting so many URLs. There no domain based factor in it right now.\u003cp\u003e-Gerald\nDisclosure: I am the CTO of archify\u0026#x2F;Blippex","parent":"6027122","id":"6027149"}
{"by":"bluthru","time":"1390945150","timestamp":"2014-01-28 21:39:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can already do what I\u0026#x27;m describing. It just requires that you have a computer with iTunes running or an iOS device.","parent":"7139897","id":"7139938"}
{"by":"geyang","time":"1448329841","timestamp":"2015-11-24 01:50:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m working on a real-time collaborative note taking app with math typesetting. (www.escherpad.com)\u003cp\u003eDo you think porting data over is something that people might be interested in paying for on a subscription plan?","parent":"10618506","id":"10618661"}
{"by":"olefoo","time":"1291389677","timestamp":"2010-12-03 15:21:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He also promised to take a principled stand against torture and to close Guantanomo, and restore due process; before being elected.\nSince being elected, none of those things have happened, and he has come out in favour of assassinating US Citizens living abroad without any judicial process whatsoever (The Al-Awliki case).\u003cp\u003eSo the failure of Obama to publicly condemn Lieberman's petty campaign of censorship and crude threats against Amazon is not at all surprising.","parent":"1965996","id":"1966108"}
{"by":"mmanfrin","time":"1455216562","timestamp":"2016-02-11 18:49:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  it makes it nearly impossible for even things like startups to thrive.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIncome tax is a tax on personal, individual income and should have no impact on startups.","parent":"11082020","id":"11082089"}
{"by":"toss1","time":"1521494605","timestamp":"2018-03-19 21:23:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What did it for me was well before the financial crisis, an earlier real estate crash.  The bank at which our software\u0026#x2F;network business had a credit line lost a bunch of money on bad real estate loans.  Their response was to turn the screws on all their customers.  Although we had literally never been late on a payment in years, and had run up and down the credit amount, we were literally days away from having our entire loan called, requiring us to suddenly come up with far more cash than we had on hand that week, which would have ended the business.  The only thing that saved us was the luck to have a relative that could co-sign for us.  Other local businesses didn\u0026#x27;t have such luck and were shut down.\u003cp\u003eThe banks do a lot of marketing telling you how much they are \u0026quot;friends\u0026quot; of business, \u0026quot;there to help you grow\u0026quot;, etc. It is utter nonsense.\u003cp\u003eNever mistake a banker as a friend.  If their incentives so dictate, it\u0026#x27;ll only take a New York Minute to stab you in the back.\u003cp\u003eEdit: typos","parent":"16623218","id":"16623318"}
{"by":"rahimnathwani","time":"1457149370","timestamp":"2016-03-05 03:42:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Off topic, but does anyone know why I get a \u0026#x27;403 Forbidden\u0026#x27; error when opening this site from China?","parent":"11226131","id":"11228315"}
{"by":"rjurney","time":"1237342608","timestamp":"2009-03-18 02:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vietnam Vet, quit his job as a truck driver to be a motivational speaker which didn't work out, girlfriend of 15 years left him, only part-time employed as a security guard.\u003cp\u003eLooks like it was the 'Nam.","parent":"520995","id":"521013"}
{"by":"awshepard","time":"1520529267","timestamp":"2018-03-08 17:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We did at my last place, an ad tech company. It replaced Cassandra as a KV store in some streaming pipelines.","parent":"16542498","id":"16545814"}
{"by":"jasonjei","time":"1457634707","timestamp":"2016-03-10 18:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t it kind of interesting that Google is pushing the lead for these projects? It reminds me when IBM took on the gusto of developing Chess AI when they had strong technical superiority. It\u0026#x27;s almost as if Google is taking the mantle from IBM to develop these renaissance projects.","parent":"11257928","id":"11261013"}
{"by":"PantaloonFlames","time":"1446035221","timestamp":"2015-10-28 12:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Europe seems like an interesting \u003ci\u003ecountry\u003c/i\u003e indeed\u003cp\u003eYes, indeed!","parent":"10463637","id":"10463996"}
{"by":"qwertyuiop924","time":"1464189024","timestamp":"2016-05-25 15:10:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny. Today is the day Pratchett fans wear the lilac. Actually, I\u0026#x27;m wearing one right now.","parent":"11768841","id":"11770311"}
{"by":"sammycdubs","time":"1545098581","timestamp":"2018-12-18 02:03:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if typography can exist within a writing system like this?","parent":"18703805","id":"18703977"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1477402037","timestamp":"2016-10-25 13:27:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mexican food can be spicy but it varies a lot from between individual cooks and individual dishes from the same cook, as well as regionally. I\u0026#x27;ve been to places where virtually everything on the menu was, at most, on slightly spicy--but they had one dish with, e.g., an intense salsa negra that was incredibly spicy. Mexican food is incredibly \u003ci\u003ediverse\u003c/i\u003e, and definitely included plenty of spicy, bury it\u0026#x27;s not uniformly or even mostly spicy.","parent":"12784956","id":"12787727"}
{"by":"Lngv","time":"1523750343","timestamp":"2018-04-14 23:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because you released it.","parent":"16836268","dead":true,"id":"16840294"}
{"by":"mhaymo","time":"1451868786","timestamp":"2016-01-04 00:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How are the issues you listed relative? How does Mark Zuckerberg being super-rich contribute to \u0026quot;huge swaths of our country do not have the ability to fully explore and develop their talents\u0026quot;?","parent":"10833119","id":"10833426"}
{"by":"drinian","time":"1259352406","timestamp":"2009-11-27 20:06:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I keep seeing all these comments from folks here that they \"can't be bothered,\" that \"it's too much trouble,\" and so on, and I really want to hear an explanation of why.\u003cp\u003eI mean, if I'm registering at a new website, it seems considerably easier to enter one item -- my OpenID identifier -- and then be immediately verified, rather than go through the \"enter email address -\u0026#62; get confirmation email -\u0026#62; click on confirmation link -\u0026#62; choose new password -\u0026#62; hope that the site is compatible with Firefox's password manager so I don't have to enter it every time\" treadmill for each site.\u003cp\u003eSo, explain to me, what makes you complain so much about using an OpenID?","parent":"963993","id":"964314"}
{"by":"poof131","time":"1451160152","timestamp":"2015-12-26 20:02:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI think if you want to become a CEO you have to first (critically!) a) figure out what makes a successful culture and then b) become a person who enjoys and thrives in that kind of culture.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don’t know if I see this as much value add.  Finding out what makes a successful culture doesn’t seem trivial, much less easily repeatable.  Different cultures can succeed in different circumstances and many different types of cultures can succeed.  I also believe cultures evolve more than they are created.  To me your argument sounds like saying “to succeed in starting a business you need to figure out what it takes to make a successful business and become a person who thrives doing that.”   Working at Google is no more likely to teach you how to start a business than to create a culture.  Sure you can learn things that worked there, but only some will work for you and some will likely work against you.  The best I’d say you can do is recognize culture is important, try to learn what decisions leadership can make that affect culture, and understand how those decisions impact the business both short and long term.  There’s no magic formula for business or for culture.","parent":"10794067","id":"10795068"}
{"by":"astrodust","time":"1444245836","timestamp":"2015-10-07 19:23:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If their \u0026quot;crime\u0026quot; was possession of marijuana and they\u0026#x27;re turfed from jail with no support or guidance, left to fend for themselves in a difficult economic period, then there\u0026#x27;s a very good chance they might engage in \u0026quot;criminal\u0026quot; activity to take the edge off a bad situation.","parent":"10345792","id":"10348368"}
{"by":"larsberg","time":"1342386632","timestamp":"2012-07-15 21:10:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use your faculty and alumni network. In particular, scan the alumni network for people who work at a company where you want to work and contact them --- even if they're not in your role. Take advantage of the fact that most people are quite nostalgic for their college days. Almost all of them will be delighted to help you get your resume into a hiring manager's hands.\u003cp\u003eAnd some of your faculty should have contacts. If you ask early enough (e.g. at the start of the school year instead of middle/end), particularly from a faculty member that you've done some work for, they may be able to help you get in touch with someone. But the alumni are usually a better bet unless you have faculty who came from industry originally.\u003cp\u003eBoth career services and blind job submission will have much lower acceptance rates. At least where I was, all resumes submitted through those mechanisms went into a sort of recruiting purgatory where they had to make it through non-technical screeners before I could even get a look at them.","parent":"4247808","id":"4248139"}
{"by":"ethbro","time":"1427388148","timestamp":"2015-03-26 16:42:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice addition! For context, other visualizations the author created also made HN.\u003cp\u003eParent link has the full selection:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.productchart.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.productchart.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Note: used the cell phone chart to decide on my current model)","parent":"9270341","id":"9270980"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1487623673","timestamp":"2017-02-20 20:47:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is interesting that some religions include fasting as part of their rituals and traditions.\u003cp\u003eSpecifically I am familiar with Eastern Orthodox \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;orthodoxwiki.org\u0026#x2F;Fasting\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;orthodoxwiki.org\u0026#x2F;Fasting\u003c/a\u003e some of it is just dietary restrictions no meats, sometimes not animal products, etc. And strangely it often includes vegetable oils and wine as well. Monastic communities would practice a total fast sometimes from what I remember.\u003cp\u003eWonder if somehow health benefits observed over the centuries ended up codified as religious practice somehow to benefit the followers.","parent":"13686671","id":"13690760"}
{"by":"horsecaptin","time":"1504547853","timestamp":"2017-09-04 17:57:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wind wars?","parent":"15169776","id":"15169788"}
{"by":"venturebros","time":"1325368591","timestamp":"2011-12-31 21:56:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love how Automattic runs \u003ca href=\"http://automattic.com/work-with-us/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://automattic.com/work-with-us/\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eI have been sifting through a lot of these posts and I think everyone is forgetting not everybody is a Software Engineer. There are other components to a business too. I can say as a front-end developer I certainly do not need to be tied to a desk 8 hours a day every single day to code up a mockup. Yet when ever I see a job I would be perfect for I get told they do not do remote work.","parent":"3410773","id":"3411990"}
{"by":"christofd","time":"1252051770","timestamp":"2009-09-04 08:09:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm... they have the capability of scientists: take  current financial theory, e.g. Journal of Finance... these guys are high caliber mathematicians and physicists...\u003cp\u003eAlso, the work done in Econometrics and Statistics in the field is totally solid. So, I wouldn't say they're not scientists. Or take Game Theory etc. - a lot of fields in Econ could just as well be in AI.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, macro's set of classical assumptions of modeling aggregate decisions based on rationality/ price-taking is too simple. Eventually we'll have to embrace more ideas out of complex systems analysis... but then all those neat macro formulas might not work out so well.\u003cp\u003eMy two cents.","parent":"804087","id":"804487"}
{"by":"GFK_of_xmaspast","time":"1399313639","timestamp":"2014-05-05 18:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How much did Target actually lose as a result of the breach, and how much of this talk is just post hoc ergo propter hoc?","parent":"7698528","id":"7700124"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1538799396","timestamp":"2018-10-06 04:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I support the last complaint:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; “Philosophers care too much about deep-sounding meta-questions, instead of sticking to what can be observed and calculated.”\u003cp\u003ePhilosophers are so lost in their consciousness\u0026#x2F;mind\u0026#x2F;body debates they can\u0026#x27;t appreciate the simple framework of reinforcement learning. RL would require simpler initial premises - no need to define consciousness or mind vs matter - just agent, playing in the environment, maximising rewards. All measurable and testable in simulation. Using RL AI\u0026#x27;s even bested humans at go, learned to walk and play complex computer games. But more importantly, RL covers all the aspects of mind vs body and consciousness. RL has more precise terms and they would benefit a lot from understanding this framework.\u003cp\u003eAmong the philosophers of today I mostly align with Daniel Dennett and Dawkins. So there are still a few with the right mindset.","parent":"18153345","id":"18153504"}
{"by":"jeffool","time":"1324876745","timestamp":"2011-12-26 05:19:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tab. The tab key should first take me to the most important clickable (or text-entry) part of your page. If you don't do this... It's not the \"I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed\" routine. It's both. I'm both angry AND disappointed.","parent":"3392141","id":"3392280"}
{"by":"Volpe","time":"1308018871","timestamp":"2011-06-14 02:34:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; how many successful companies have started with Rails only to end up with a patchwork of Java, Scala, C++, etc. after lots of downtime and growing pains.\u003cp\u003eSo how many? I've hardly heard of this as the 'norm' for growing companies on rails... ?  This sounds like 'Does Rails Scale' FUD.\u003cp\u003eGetting your app into production is not a pain point at all, services like heroku, or engineyard have made this as simple as 'git push'.  Which nirvana of release management are you coming from where this is a 'pain point' ?","parent":"2651433","id":"2651591"}
{"by":"zimzim","time":"1492783824","timestamp":"2017-04-21 14:10:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"they are common, people value communication. most of the phones are older models or very cheap Chinese brands.","parent":"14165555","id":"14165743"}
{"by":"lloyd-christmas","time":"1472065814","timestamp":"2016-08-24 19:10:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh, look at that shit on the ground. Might as well throw it!","parent":"12354448","id":"12354468"}
{"by":"samch","time":"1437681242","timestamp":"2015-07-23 19:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except that it doesn\u0026#x27;t appear as though new users can upload RAW images anymore [1].  Oh well.  It seemed like a good service for a minute there.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;help.smugmug.com\u0026#x2F;customer\u0026#x2F;portal\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;93324\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;help.smugmug.com\u0026#x2F;customer\u0026#x2F;portal\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;93324\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9937564","id":"9938071"}
{"by":"extension","time":"1303135861","timestamp":"2011-04-18 14:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I called this a Domain Agnostic Language:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://code.extension.ws/post/169602795/dal-rb\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.extension.ws/post/169602795/dal-rb\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't actually like the approach though. Ruby makes DSLs as easy as \"normal\" interfaces. Why not take advantage of that? Generating and parsing an AST is exactly the kind of extra complexity that Ruby lets you avoid.","parent":"2458902","id":"2459112"}
{"by":"PostOnce","time":"1339247307","timestamp":"2012-06-09 13:08:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, this is the second story in about a month about crazy sexist stuff going on at industry events in Scandinavia. The Dell thing I thought was beyond the pale; but this seems to be in good fun.\u003cp\u003eWhat's up with Scandinavia?","parent":"4087859","id":"4088004"}
{"by":"domfletcher","time":"1482401978","timestamp":"2016-12-22 10:19:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my reading of the article it seems like you had to be admin of the group in question because the exploit seems to take advantage of a bug with inviting users to that group. I don\u0026#x27;t think the vector you describe would work.","parent":"13235740","id":"13236257"}
{"by":"wbond","time":"1455207713","timestamp":"2016-02-11 16:21:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for letting me know about the fix in 10. Too bad it didn\u0026#x27;t make it into 8\u0026#x2F;2012.","parent":"11080830","id":"11081068"}
{"by":"1uio","time":"1489551436","timestamp":"2017-03-15 04:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can one conclude the culture is toxic? Because a few unconfirmed reports of unprofessional behavior were blogged about?","parent":"13873505","id":"13873773"}
{"by":"Ericson2314","time":"1476672580","timestamp":"2016-10-17 02:49:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So see \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Bride_price\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Bride_price\u003c/a\u003e which at least is practiced in some West African cultures that are otherwise very similar to dowry ones.\u003cp\u003eThis leads me to beleive that the transaction direction is somewhat arbitrary, and the main purpose is the ritual of negotiating with the other family and then establishing s financial bond to match the matrimonial one.\u003cp\u003e-----\u003cp\u003eSocial Psycologists would argue that men are more expendable because their low marginal contribution to the reproductive capacity of a society. Indeed there is genetic evidence that the distribution of children was less equal, with many kings with harems on one hand and childless low-status on the other.\u003cp\u003eColloquislly, we have memes of \u0026quot;\u0026lt;harmed\u0026gt; even women and children\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;women and children\u0026quot; getting on lifeboats. Male subcultures tend to emphasize competition and unequal outcomes rather than care and cooperation.\u003cp\u003eMany of the most dangerous jobs skew male, but that could do more with them requiring brute strength.","parent":"12721734","id":"12722407"}
{"by":"taeric","time":"1430757353","timestamp":"2015-05-04 16:35:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t realize I put forth that the bimodal should be eliminated.  Just that I don\u0026#x27;t think it should be taken as a natural fact.  It may be that eliminating it is meaningless.  It may be that keeping it is meaningless.\u003cp\u003eConsider, do you really care about having the best and brightest doing something.  Or just getting the best results.  Odds are high that those align at least somewhat with each other.  I don\u0026#x27;t know if it is a foregone conclusion, though.  Study will show.\u003cp\u003eIf you have experience that a normal distribution brings down the top end, I\u0026#x27;d be interested in seeing it.  If it is just a gut feeling, it is something that can be tested.  If it can\u0026#x27;t be tested...","parent":"9487070","id":"9487209"}
{"by":"gloverkcn","time":"1483468370","timestamp":"2017-01-03 18:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you really familiar with the industry?\u003cp\u003eI ask because in the steel industry the opposite happened.  Minimills started by making limited easier to produce steel goods.  They improved their process and mills to be able to offer  more difficult types of products and could compete against the larger mills.\u003cp\u003eMy assumption is that as the technology improves and gets cheaper, the ability for someone to enter the market will go down.  Getting higher yields with less expense will lower the cost, and will allow  smaller plots of land in\u0026#x2F;near the city to provide for a more local customer base.\u003cp\u003ePeople around the world have phones because the tech has become so cheap.  If micro-farming tech continues in that same path,  then around the world, micro-farms can be installed by local entrepreneurs at a much cheaper star-up cost with an higher yield.  Though I suspect government regulations will play a more limiting role in a lot of countries.\u003cp\u003eAs a side note one of the things I\u0026#x27;ve always wondered is how cheap does crop production need to get before the food can just be given away.  If it gets to where it costs $0.05 to produce a head of spinach on the city lot down the street, is there a point it\u0026#x27;s free.","parent":"13311141","id":"13311612"}
{"by":"GBwired122","time":"1525675764","timestamp":"2018-05-07 06:49:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This can be very helpful for me. GG","parent":"17010187","id":"17010801"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1386370647","timestamp":"2013-12-06 22:57:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eBut SS has the same problem as pensions: there\u0026#x27;s nothing to stop future politicians from eliminating it at any time to free up some headroom in the budget.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe same goes for salaries. There\u0026#x27;s nothing to stop them from offering them and enforcing slavery.\u003cp\u003eExcept, you know, the people that would be affected.","parent":"6864406","id":"6864425"}
{"by":"gtm1260","time":"1508929358","timestamp":"2017-10-25 11:02:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is horrible.Its just coverflow except portrait. Nothing \u0026#x27;Beautiful\u0026#x27; about it.","parent":"15548882","id":"15549049"}
{"by":"muppetman","time":"1308542041","timestamp":"2011-06-20 03:54:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The answer to you is no, I think it is.  It's a question at least, it's not it it _is_ a killer. That I think is misleading.  At least with this title you still have to come to your own conclusion.\u003cp\u003eBut yes, better article titles.","parent":"2672418","id":"2672773"}
{"by":"sleepychu","time":"1516998247","timestamp":"2018-01-26 20:24:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And who will abitrate the collateral? While it\u0026#x27;s smart wallets and crypto currency it can be enforced by cryptographic proof but when the collateral is USD then it\u0026#x27;s going to have to exist somewhere.","parent":"16242347","id":"16242574"}
{"by":"Sujan","time":"1458298147","timestamp":"2016-03-18 10:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the explanatin to you both!\u003cp\u003eSo removing this code would mean that all Ionic apps would display this thing here on all keyboards: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;clrung\u0026#x2F;PrevNextInputAccessoryView\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;README%20images\u0026#x2F;nativePrevNext.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;clrung\u0026#x2F;PrevNextInputAccess...\u003c/a\u003e Did I get this right?","parent":"11310914","id":"11310927"}
{"by":"jonsen","time":"1244011675","timestamp":"2009-06-03 06:47:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"and a reference mechanism. Providing contrast. You can't appreciate good if you don't know bad. Morbid jokes are also a subtle way of reminding us of the unthinkable.","parent":"639246","id":"639338"}
{"by":"philfreo","time":"1248216638","timestamp":"2009-07-21 22:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right now you're showing duplicate entries (the same entry of value 31 is showing from two people)","parent":"716944","id":"716995"}
{"by":"mncolinlee","time":"1410450517","timestamp":"2014-09-11 15:48:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I currently follow The Java Posse and Android Developers Backstage. Both have great hosts and are newish.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.javaposse.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.javaposse.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;androidbackstage.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8302430","id":"8303259"}
{"by":"paolomaffei","time":"1291547931","timestamp":"2010-12-05 11:18:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I currenty own a consulting web agency that also has its own revenue websites (what's the correct name for those? lot of smallish site that have revenues with either ads, subscription or e-commerce).\nJust as Google nowadays doesn't have a single idea but rather a lot of projects I believe this is a model that can work in a company that's doing 1/2 consulting and 1/2 its own smallish projects.\nThere's just 4 of us now but we're always looking for people, especially if they recognize themselves in a document like this one.","parent":"1969602","id":"1971444"}
{"by":"johndcook","time":"1322234291","timestamp":"2011-11-25 15:18:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that there has to be a balance to how much an organization documents. But I'm more concerned with how little organizations \u003ci\u003eread\u003c/i\u003e than how little they \u003ci\u003ewrite\u003c/i\u003e. If they wrote a little less, they might read more.\u003cp\u003eMaybe instead of voluminous meeting minutes, organizations should have a little notebook labeled \"Why we decided what we did.\"","parent":"3277189","id":"3277223"}
{"by":"darksuiyoken","time":"1387813413","timestamp":"2013-12-23 15:43:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cryptocurrency.","parent":"6954238","id":"6954779"}
{"by":"Ensorceled","time":"1456840440","timestamp":"2016-03-01 13:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a vast middle ground between tyrannical communism and libertarian capitalism, especially considering how similar those political systems are on many axes.\u003cp\u003eThe fallacy that there is a \u0026#x27;center\u0026#x27; is just as bad as the fallacy of there only being a left and a right.  Politics and economics are far more complicated than a continuum represented by a one dimensional line.","parent":"11202404","id":"11202547"}
{"by":"xor1","time":"1503647235","timestamp":"2017-08-25 07:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which courses are you doing at UCLA extension? I\u0026#x27;m hoping to get into the GA Tech Master\u0026#x27;s eventually, but I know it\u0026#x27;s extremely competitive, especially as someone who doesn\u0026#x27;t have a CS degree.","parent":"15096349","id":"15096883"}
{"by":"cremp","time":"1542306543","timestamp":"2018-11-15 18:29:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They just threw the words \u0026#x27;50k jobs, economy, and did I mention jobs?\u0026#x27; in there, and that\u0026#x27;s all it took.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d bet that the same thing would happen if Microsoft, Apple, Google, or any other number of big tech firms decided to \u0026#x27;branch out.\u0026#x27;","parent":"18461593","id":"18461860"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1528436280","timestamp":"2018-06-08 05:38:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or just use bithost.io, and get DO droplets for well-mixed Bitcoin. There\u0026#x27;s a premium, I admit.\u003cp\u003eBut even with all that, there\u0026#x27;s the risk of logging. I don\u0026#x27;t get how DO differs from whatever \u0026quot;no logging\u0026quot; VPN service, in that regard.","parent":"17262689","id":"17262869"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1315682279","timestamp":"2011-09-10 19:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, but maybe they're just treating this a warm-up/practice visit, and chance to scout their main competition for the rest of the country. The visits to other non-tech hubs will be the real outreach.\u003cp\u003eA direct appeal to founders and investors to start more ventures and offices in Texas, for the advantageous business climate, would make more sense.... but such an effort wouldn't be led by CEOs/recruiters from established firms... who probably \u003ci\u003edon't\u003c/i\u003e want the competition of more employers.","parent":"2982133","id":"2982249"}
{"by":"tekromancr","time":"1534524326","timestamp":"2018-08-17 16:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve lucid dreamed a few times, and every time I am able to summon a \u0026quot;debug menu\u0026quot;. Sort of a drop-down menu with all of the dream parameters. I can never think of anything more interesting to try than Physics\u0026gt;Gravity\u0026gt;moon.\u003cp\u003eI turned off collisions once, and spent like twenty minutes just putting my hands through walls and giggling.","parent":"17782665","id":"17784105"}
{"by":"jeffio","time":"1297481234","timestamp":"2011-02-12 03:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha, it looks like I registered this domain name a month after star.me in 2008. As I mentioned in the post, I have been using this for a couple of years with my son and only just now decided to open it up.","parent":"2208619","id":"2209179"}
{"by":"purplezooey","time":"1538614405","timestamp":"2018-10-04 00:53:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My current company uses MapR and I have to say their software is impressive.  It\u0026#x27;s much easier to use than CDH or HDP. I think they\u0026#x27;ll do fine.","parent":"18135093","id":"18136159"}
{"by":"FrozenVoid","time":"1496589433","timestamp":"2017-06-04 15:17:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;All that remains is a static C program.\nThat what i mean in \u0026quot;verbose cryptic C\u0026quot;. Machine-generated C is huge and hard to comprehend in its entirety, with recursion and continuations practically impossible.\nIt is just a step above from dis-assembled programs. C isn\u0026#x27;t some magic format that prevents bugs or ensures safety(in fact opposite of that, the larger the code the more bugs it will produce).","parent":"14481393","id":"14481964"}
{"by":"mmalone","time":"1490925122","timestamp":"2017-03-31 01:52:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t need to send a live person to ensure the survival of the species. I agree, it\u0026#x27;s not about that.","parent":"14000339","id":"14000644"}
{"by":"dschobel","time":"1271270015","timestamp":"2010-04-14 18:33:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's not the point. The point was that a large number of people thought it not HN worthy. Your individual dissent doesn't matter. Sorry, democracy sucks.","parent":"1265597","id":"1265704"}
{"by":"king_jester","time":"1377811059","timestamp":"2013-08-29 21:17:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The Black Panthers weren\u0026#x27;t doing themselves any favors within the establishment by being so militant. LBJ wouldn\u0026#x27;t have spent 5 minutes bowing to their demands but had no choice politically to negotiate with a preacher leading a peaceful, rights-driven resistance.\u003cp\u003eWhen you and your communities existence is under direct violent threat, you are under no obligation to be nice and to wait for the persons harming you to play nice. Even after the CRA, racism and violence, both individual and systemic, persists and is a problem of US society.","parent":"6297359","id":"6298675"}
{"by":"prospero","time":"1265070523","timestamp":"2010-02-02 00:28:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not saying they were dumb for thinking OOP was a great leap forward at the time, I'm just wondering how correct they were in retrospect. OOP is ubiquitous enough that it's hard to find a baseline for comparison.","parent":"1093763","id":"1093912"}
{"by":"emehrkay","time":"1350592960","timestamp":"2012-10-18 20:42:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Author doesn't seem to know about the Mac App Store (\u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/osx/apps/app-store.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.apple.com/osx/apps/app-store.html\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"4670719","id":"4670996"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1458402191","timestamp":"2016-03-19 15:43:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly this is why so many people like a person like Donald Trump. They crave an alpha leader: strong, unafraid, confident. Which he definitely is. He\u0026#x27;s 180 degrees from the thoughtful, intellectual, politically correct yet fundamentally dishonest and self-serving leaders we\u0026#x27;ve had for the past 30 years. It\u0026#x27;s in our primal pack psychology from when we all lived in tribes.","parent":"11318197","id":"11318923"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1288891676","timestamp":"2010-11-04 17:27:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026#62; That's rather the problem - asking every person\n  \u0026#62; who holds the rights can be genuinely difficult.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI think that he means that he would have sold all rights when they originally published the article for $120 instead of $100 for first serial rights. He's not talking about this after-the-fact contacting of the rights-holders that you're talking about.","parent":"1869738","id":"1869854"}
{"by":"drucken","time":"1335003806","timestamp":"2012-04-21 10:23:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the contrary, one could easily overlook:\u003cp\u003e1. the \u003ci\u003eintimidation factor\u003c/i\u003e of the US government willing and able to do anything to any company over \"intellectual property\", including foreign ones, even if it falls well outside the legal jurisidiction of \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e state.\u003cp\u003e2. forcing the hand of \u003ci\u003eforeign jurisidictions to expedite US government processes\u003c/i\u003e to carry out these types of activities on pain of economic issues, e.g. the infamous trade blacklists, or other on-going diplomatic relations.\u003cp\u003e3. the \u003ci\u003eacquisition of assets\u003c/i\u003e and resources for the federal governments budget (this runs into billions every year that is siezed).\u003cp\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eminimum total resource usage\u003c/i\u003e for highly effective results means that very little political or judicial capital risks being spent. Someone somewhere in government has likely benefitted greatly from this outcome or certainly will in future even just for the potential to recreate the same type of results.\u003cp\u003e5. the \u003ci\u003ecreation of precedent\u003c/i\u003e that causes jurisidictions formulating their own domestic rights and justice system around new technology to reconsider what is the norm or what is pragmatic based on global \"standards\" or actions. This is particularly strong pressure for English-speaking/Anglo countries.\u003cp\u003eAll this without judicial oversight and no domestic political repurcussions because of the accepted plutocratic culture of the US.\u003cp\u003eIf this had been the actions of China or Russia against a US company, e.g. against Google/Youtube, I wonder how people would have felt then...\u003cp\u003eTL;DR. One could say this is about as \"ideal\" as it gets: \"we, the US government, can get you anytime, anywhere, for anything with little effort or reason - laws are irrelevant\".","parent":"3870437","id":"3871446"}
{"by":"j_baker","time":"1297234817","timestamp":"2011-02-09 07:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you understand that a quicksort is faster than a selection sort at the core level without theory?  I mean, I see what you're getting at.  That \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c/i\u003e help you understand how to speed things up at a very low level and might be useful for embedded systems programming or kernel hacking.  But most programmers work on a much higher level and need to understand a lot more concepts than that.\u003cp\u003eFor instance, it takes a lot more to build a scalable and reliable system (especially one that must scale to multiple systems) than simply knowing how the circuits are designed.  You need to understand network protocols, how things are stored on disk by databases, a bit of graph theory, how caching works, and a whole slew of other things.\u003cp\u003eWould it be beneficial to learn this all from the ground up?  Probably.  But I doubt many college students would be thrilled by the idea of spending 20 years finishing their degree.","parent":"2196672","id":"2196699"}
{"by":"gggggggg","time":"1485724697","timestamp":"2017-01-29 21:18:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Got a 500 error. Google Cache View\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=cache:DZ2CzZpolQwJ:thebrotalk.com\u0026#x2F;entertainment\u0026#x2F;how-to-unlock-netflix-hidden-categories\u0026#x2F;+\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;ct=clnk\u0026amp;gl=au\u0026amp;client=firefox-b-ab\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=cache:DZ2CzZp...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13516488","id":"13516724"}
{"by":"piggity","time":"1415688682","timestamp":"2014-11-11 06:51:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shouldn\u0026#x27;t it be the service\u0026#x27;s responsibility to determine what you are rating as a median score and then recalibrate your scores to their drivers?\u003cp\u003ei.e. If I always rate 3, but sometimes rate 1; then that might be similar to someone always rating 5 but sometimes rating 1-3.","parent":"8588139","id":"8588629"}
{"by":"jmatt","time":"1261361710","timestamp":"2009-12-21 02:15:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slashdot used to be my goto location for tech news. If I go far enough back, I used to read and enjoy the comments.\u003cp\u003eThe beginning of the decline was the growth or maybe how they dealt with the growth. Meta-moderation was the nail in the coffin. The tags were never fine grained enough, at least for me. I quickly found out that my taste and what I appreciated in a comment were not the same as the masses. Then I found reddit and HN :) Where I still feel at home and often enjoy the commentary as much as the stories.\u003cp\u003eTo summarize it, after looking back. I think what killed it for me was the decrease in quality of stories and comments while there was an increase in stories overall.","parent":"1006605","id":"1006992"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1236208556","timestamp":"2009-03-04 23:15:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am surprised that Windows 7 doesn't have an inbuilt Twitter competitor (or does it?). With ICQ, lots of companies managed to grab a share, with Twitter nobody even seems to be trying. Weird.","parent":"502992","id":"503575"}
{"by":"eadlam","time":"1394965270","timestamp":"2014-03-16 10:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e2. Founder\u0026#x27;s wife physically inanimate Horvath, making her unwelcome and scared.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf someone inanimated me, I would quite right then and there. Thats some freaky x-men shit.","parent":"7408471","id":"7408899"}
{"by":"arebop","time":"1519509454","timestamp":"2018-02-24 21:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;inflation-adjusted terms\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;real terms\u0026quot; are the same thing. The author was trying to avoid repetition but the only contrast intended here is between the earlier decline and later rise.","parent":"16455487","id":"16455663"}
{"by":"vijaybritto","time":"1545895009","timestamp":"2018-12-27 07:16:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you all have any plans to test out flutter with desktop embeddings? I see that the productivity is as fast as javascript based stack. Flutter desktop seems to be consuming way less RAM than an electron app. Is there any POC ongoing at slack?","parent":"18763449","id":"18768004"}
{"by":"sweezyjeezy","time":"1497712320","timestamp":"2017-06-17 15:12:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your list of who uses what is kind of contaminated by who wrote the code, I don\u0026#x27;t think it proves anything.\u003cp\u003eObviously Google Brain use TF and Montreal use Theano - they wrote them.  Deepmind use TF, but they used Torch before the google takeover. Similarly Google and Toronto are deeply intertwined.","parent":"14575669","id":"14576215"}
{"by":"maneesh","time":"1496924471","timestamp":"2017-06-08 12:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It made me enjoy it more, and spend more time on the page.","parent":"14513500","id":"14513602"}
{"by":"tripzilch","time":"1308746552","timestamp":"2011-06-22 12:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just happened to wonder yesterday whether there actually was any scientific data on whether the golden ratio is actually significantly more pleasing than other ratios.\u003cp\u003eTurns out there isn't much data, and of what there is, it doesn't always point at a significant preference for certain ratios. And even where it does, and then where it actually points near the golden ratio, it's inconclusive whether people prefer 1.5, 1.618 or 1.666.\u003cp\u003eBut yeah they do turn up in nature over and over again.\u003cp\u003eThe \"aesthetically pleasing\" bit is just something that's been repeated for centuries, swallowed without thinking.\u003cp\u003eSo if there actually \u003ci\u003ewere\u003c/i\u003e a preference, that sounds like a good explanation. Doesn't really mean it works the other way around, though.\u003cp\u003ealso see: \u003ca href=\"http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/index\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/ind...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2665308","id":"2682830"}
{"by":"CyberFonic","time":"1416554120","timestamp":"2014-11-21 07:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trying to cross-compile with Clang v3.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.  Very little information available that is helpful.  EmbToolkit seems to be the recommended way to go, but why hundreds of small patches to binutils?  Whatever happened to the KISS (Keep It Stupidly Simple) principle??","parent":"8640139","id":"8640178"}
{"by":"bpyne","time":"1497636251","timestamp":"2017-06-16 18:04:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kind of interesting feedback I received recently. I worked with a recruiter on a couple of interesting opportunities. One opportunity led to a final interview that was horrid. Afterward, the recruiter said that over the past few years she had a higher success rate placing recent college graduates into senior software engineer positions than experienced software engineers. She believes that interviews are now biased toward instant recall of facts around the current slate of development technologies, which recent college grads would have an advantage in.\u003cp\u003eIn my experience and the experience of other senior engineers I\u0026#x27;m friends with, we\u0026#x27;ve taken on more operations and support for systems we built. So, our technology knowledge became \u0026quot;frozen in time\u0026quot;. Lost is the fact that we had to adapt to changing paradigms throughout our careers. For instance, I can\u0026#x27;t recall the state diagram for a request in Spring MVC. (That was an actual question on my interview.) But, a few years ago, I had to put together an app using Spring, never having used it before. As per usual in my IT shop, I never had to use it again.","parent":"14570179","id":"14571260"}
{"by":"antics","time":"1282242513","timestamp":"2010-08-19 18:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My mistake then. I apologize.","parent":"1615977","id":"1618114"}
{"by":"aragot","time":"1406652675","timestamp":"2014-07-29 16:51:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article uses few facts, or the facts aren\u0026#x27;t detailed. I admit doing that when I comment sometimes, but it\u0026#x27;s wrong and I expect a journalist to prove his point (and help us convince other people in turn). Example:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The deterioration of internet security as a result of the NSA stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities\u003cp\u003eNot quantified. It would be an awesome figure to reuse.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Brazil reportedly scuttled a $4.5 billion fighter jet contract with Boeing\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s been criticized on HN: Most people believed blaming it on the NSA was a PR move [4], whereas the real underlying reasons where certainly more complex and not related.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The CEO of the European firm reported that within a month after the first revelations of NSA spying went public, his company’s business jumped 45 percent\u003cp\u003eTotally irrelevant if the company is small.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has estimated that repercussions from the spying could cost the U.S. cloud computing industry some $22 to $35 billion over the next few years in lost business.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s the best fact of the article. However I\u0026#x27;m not sure Americans are impressed with it. In fact the country [1] doesn\u0026#x27;t mind spending $6 trillion for a war in Afghanistan [2], so they count those $35b as just another defense cost. Besides, the NSA itself was reported by Snowden with a budget of $14b in 2013 [3].\u003cp\u003e[1] I\u0026#x27;m aware that\u0026#x27;s not what most US citizen like, but as a country, US did spend this money.\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-wars-in-afghanistan-iraq-to-cost-6-trillion/5350789\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.globalresearch.ca\u0026#x2F;us-wars-in-afghanistan-iraq-to-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4672414/leaked-snowden-documents-reveal-details-of-surveillance-budget\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;4672414\u0026#x2F;leaked-snowden-doc...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[4] \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931035\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6931035\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8101819","id":"8103257"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1521997414","timestamp":"2018-03-25 17:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t you have to have them in your address book for this to work?","parent":"16669877","id":"16673110"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1238000340","timestamp":"2009-03-25 16:59:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Using try/catch does not imply that you must silently eat errors; in fact you get arbitrary control over what to do with them, which I have often put to good use. I would still prefer the try/catch solution, if it is browser-compatible, on the grounds that it makes more sense if you just read it.","parent":"532030","id":"532059"}
{"by":"courtneypowell","time":"1462736479","timestamp":"2016-05-08 19:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s an example of contractors requiring fingerprinting in a highly regulated environment pushing them to \u0026#x27;covered employee\u0026#x27; status.\u003cp\u003eThe requirement of fingerprinting does not in and of itself make some an \u0026#x27;employee\u0026#x27; or vice versa, but there are precedents in Texas, like this example, that could inch Uber even closer to this line.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newcaneyisd.org\u0026#x2F;cms\u0026#x2F;lib5\u0026#x2F;TX01918142\u0026#x2F;Centricity\u0026#x2F;Domain\u0026#x2F;60\u0026#x2F;Independent%20Contractor%20Guidelines.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newcaneyisd.org\u0026#x2F;cms\u0026#x2F;lib5\u0026#x2F;TX01918142\u0026#x2F;Centricity\u0026#x2F;Do...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11654268","id":"11655401"}
{"by":"khorwitz","time":"1429280054","timestamp":"2015-04-17 14:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There seems to be a booming market for Slack integrations lately.  This is great because Slack just = text, and so building prototypes can be fairly easy.  Our product (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;focusr.co\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;focusr.co\u003c/a\u003e) actually started purely as a Slack integration, and evolved into something else.","parent":"9391148","id":"9394391"}
{"by":"anotherjesse","time":"1221261949","timestamp":"2008-09-12 23:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm guilty of this.  Luckily the domains have worked out (either having a use or a friend who wants them).\u003cp\u003eI was thinking a good iPhone app would be a domain searching/purchasing - specifically because I've had friends call me to purchase names for them when they are out drinking.","parent":"302722","id":"302796"}
{"by":"seiji","time":"1287091656","timestamp":"2010-10-14 21:27:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, it's useful \u003ci\u003eif\u003c/i\u003e people use it.  You have the dating site problem.  You want tons of people not connected to each other using a single service.\u003cp\u003ePerfect ground for a Web 1.0 multi-million dollar marketing barrage, but kinda difficult otherwise.","parent":"1792679","id":"1792693"}
{"by":"skybrian","time":"1389841084","timestamp":"2014-01-16 02:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Preserving all the data is the logical endpoint but that\u0026#x27;s not what I was suggesting. I\u0026#x27;m just saying there\u0026#x27;s nothing special about keeping two points.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d rather not feed two points to my decision algorithm, whether it\u0026#x27;s machine learning or a human looking at the data. It makes more sense to make some attempt to preserve the shape of the graph unless you have strong reason to believe it\u0026#x27;s Gaussian, and even then the assumption should be checked.","parent":"7067295","id":"7067787"}
{"by":"adam-_-","time":"1270303611","timestamp":"2010-04-03 14:06:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Make things like stew, soup or chilli in large quantities and freeze individual portions for later.\u003cp\u003eFor a quick meal, try stir fry: quick, tasty and nutritious: \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/oriental-pork-with-noodles\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/oriental-por...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore importantly, learn to embrace/enjoy cooking.  I love taking half an hour to unwind and cook something really fresh and tasty (and I'm a student).  I'd recommend Jamie Oliver's website for recipe inspiration...\u003cp\u003eCooking with fresh ingredients ticks all the priorities and doesn't need to be slow, there are plenty of \"20/30 minute meal\" type books, might I suggest something by Nigel Slater: \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Fast-Food-Nigel-Slater/dp/0141029501/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;s=books\u0026#38;qid=1270303569\u0026#38;sr=8-2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Fast-Food-Nigel-Slater/dp/01410...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1237939","id":"1238628"}
{"by":"joelhooks","time":"1304443931","timestamp":"2011-05-03 17:32:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speaking of, this is a good time to re-up on my donation.","parent":"2510669","id":"2510872"}
{"by":"phaus","time":"1407258715","timestamp":"2014-08-05 17:11:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After allowances, they are making about 52-70k depending on which rank they hold. That\u0026#x27;s not bad for what they do, but if they were actual doctors it would be terrible.\u003cp\u003eIts also not a technical job in the traditional sense, 70Ds typically spend 8 years as a 70B (Even though a lot of them will be slotted as 70Ds much earlier than this) which is essentially a management position at a medical facility.\u003cp\u003eFrom the description of 70D, it could end up being a technical job depending on the particular assignment, but its more oriented towards healthcare management types.\u003cp\u003eIts not a bad deal at all if you are looking for a way to pay off your student loans.","parent":"8137892","id":"8138034"}
{"by":"netfire","time":"1432786311","timestamp":"2015-05-28 04:11:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t someone have to be suspicious in order for a police officer to have have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a search or make an arrest? [1]\u003cp\u003eI completely agree that police have to justify their suspicions and subsequent actions (searches, arrests and other actions), but saying that we, as citizens, should be okay engaging in suspicious behavior, just seems wrong.\u003cp\u003eWe should hold those in law enforcement accountable for their actions and the exercise of the authority given to them, but we should also respect what they do and not make their job unnecessarily harder than it needs to be.\u003cp\u003e- [1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Reasonable_suspicion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Reasonable_suspicion\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9615402","id":"9616027"}
{"by":"smhenderson","time":"1460655608","timestamp":"2016-04-14 17:40:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried Vim 8? One of the major updates is plugin package management. Can\u0026#x27;t say much about it, haven\u0026#x27;t upgraded yet, but the write up on it looks promising.","parent":"11498562","id":"11498812"}
{"by":"Bellspringsteen","time":"1521223734","timestamp":"2018-03-16 18:08:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hfahahahah","parent":"16602630","id":"16602676"}
{"by":"socratees","time":"1213311617","timestamp":"2008-06-12 23:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes it does. These kind of posts really bringdown the quality of the posts. HN used to be very informative - but these days, the quality of the content has gone down.","parent":"215164","id":"216375"}
{"by":"autokad","time":"1514997186","timestamp":"2018-01-03 16:33:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"as people mentioned below, theres \u0026#x27;sea salt\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003ei like how they are calling sugar \u0026quot;cane sugar\u0026quot;, as if the sugar everyone else is using is not coming from sugarcane.","parent":"16062069","id":"16062381"}
{"by":"tylercwilliams","time":"1483897589","timestamp":"2017-01-08 17:46:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK -- NYC + remote\u003cp\u003eNative mobile and web developer experienced in building applications from concept to launch on both iOS and Android.\u003cp\u003eI have spent the last couple of years helping people bring their mobile software ideas to life; helping them get their MVP together, building their small business solution, or porting their iOS app to Android.\u003cp\u003eReach out! tylerwilliamsc [at] gmail","parent":"13301833","id":"13350896"}
{"by":"jareds","time":"1484433007","timestamp":"2017-01-14 22:30:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please list the limitations you know so much about? Your sample size is far to small to make any generalizations about what blind people can and can not do just because you have not taught any blind students. Also read up on WSL, it\u0026#x27;s pretty good.","parent":"13400800","id":"13400957"}
{"by":"antfarm","time":"1480240598","timestamp":"2016-11-27 09:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The jargon file [\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.catb.org\u0026#x2F;jargon\u0026#x2F;html\u0026#x2F;H\u0026#x2F;hacker.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.catb.org\u0026#x2F;jargon\u0026#x2F;html\u0026#x2F;H\u0026#x2F;hacker.html\u003c/a\u003e] is a more appropriate source of definition here. It defines the term \u0026quot;hacker\u0026quot; as follows:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;hacker: n.\n[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]\u003cp\u003e1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users\u0026#x27; Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.\u003cp\u003e2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.\u003cp\u003e3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.\u003cp\u003e4. A person who is good at programming quickly.\u003cp\u003e5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in ‘a Unix hacker’. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)\u003cp\u003e6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.\u003cp\u003e7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.\u003cp\u003e8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.\u003cp\u003eThe term ‘hacker’ also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see the network. For discussion of some of the basics of this culture, see the How To Become A Hacker FAQ. It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic (see hacker ethic).\u003cp\u003eIt is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you\u0026#x27;ll quickly be labeled bogus). See also geek, wannabee.\u003cp\u003eThis term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the MIT AI Lab. We have a report that it was used in a sense close to this entry\u0026#x27;s by teenage radio hams and electronics tinkerers in the mid-1950s.\u0026quot;","parent":"13048037","id":"13048509"}
{"by":"drx","time":"1374150300","timestamp":"2013-07-18 12:25:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has gotta suck. Many cards have steep overdraft fees.","parent":"6062905","id":"6063074"}
{"by":"jbellis","time":"1398223162","timestamp":"2014-04-23 03:19:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obsolete advice.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Anchoring research helps clarify the question of whether to make the first offer in a negotiation: by making the first offer, you will anchor the negotiation in your favor. In fact, Mussweiler and I have shown that making the first offer affords a bargaining advantage. In our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offer. Specifically, when a seller makes the first offer, the final settlement price tends to be higher than when the buyer makes the first offer.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4302.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hbswk.hbs.edu\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;4302.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7631447","id":"7631892"}
{"by":"tenfingers","time":"1438519330","timestamp":"2015-08-02 12:42:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"USENET, was in my opinion, one of the best features\u0026#x2F;protocol of the initial internet. I loved USENET ever since I discovered it (91\u0026#x2F;92) and I still use today a news reader through gmane, looking down at forums (just like this one) like a \u003ci\u003esad\u003c/i\u003e evolution.\u003cp\u003eHaving an USENET server provided by your ISP used to be a \u003ci\u003estandard\u003c/i\u003e part of the package. They would probably not carry alt.bin, but in the end it didn\u0026#x27;t matter.\u003cp\u003eA truly P2P, \u003ci\u003eopen\u003c/i\u003e, messaging network, of the likes that you\u0026#x27;ll never see developed again due to commercial exploitation. USENET had \u0026quot;flaws\u0026quot;, but honestly they\u0026#x27;re minor.\u003cp\u003eThe store and forward protocol required quite some disk space at the time. This resulted in several nodes to drop bin\u0026#x2F;alt.bin from the network (which in my opinion was always a hack providing nothing really useful, with yencoding\u0026#x2F;par and the like). But by today standards, you could probably run a node carrying the entire network with just maybe a bit more than regular consumer hardware, since it\u0026#x27;s just text in the end, and the server is \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e simple: I used to run one server locally just for me.\u003cp\u003eHow big a today\u0026#x27;s network could be?\nSee for yourself: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gmane.org\u0026#x2F;stats.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gmane.org\u0026#x2F;stats.php\u003c/a\u003e\nOr: not big for any ISP to carry in full with just one sysadmin.\u003cp\u003eThe network relied on \u0026quot;control\u0026quot; messages to create\u0026#x2F;delete groups automatically (as opposed to manual subscription), which due to the lack of authentication\u0026#x2F;encryption in the protocol, were very easy to spoof. A gpg-signing mechanism was later put into place, so that nodes peering with each other could establish a chain of trust by themselves. This was pretty nice in retrospect (and awesome by today standards), but the main problem is that creating new groups was a slow and painful approval-based process: people often wanted small groups just for themselves, and mailing lists offered the \u0026quot;same\u0026quot; without any approval required.\u003cp\u003eHaving a large open network started to become a big attractor for SPAM, and managing SPAM in a P2P network without authentication is a harder problem to solve than a locally managed mailing list. For the same reason, trolls could be a nuisance at time.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome\u003c/i\u003e people claim that USENET became 1) too big 2) a receptacle for copyright infringement. Both claims are bullshit: by excluding binary groups (which was \u003ci\u003eubiquitous\u003c/i\u003e by 91\u0026#x2F;92 when I joined already), the network started in a consistent volume decline already in the late 90ies, so it \u003ci\u003ecannot\u003c/i\u003e be that hosting a node in 1998 became impossible in 2005.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s what happened: running a local server became so easy and cheap, that running mailing list offered local control and almost zero overhead. People that had niche groups started to create mailing lists with open access, and people migrated in flock. Why share your discussions in comp.programming.functional where you could create a mailing list just for your new fancy language? (it\u0026#x27;s pretty sad, because I \u003ci\u003eloved\u003c/i\u003e the breadth of the discussions).\u003cp\u003eDiscussions on general groups became less frequent as most of the interesting ones were on dedicated mailing lists. The trend worsened significantly as forums started to appear, which lowered the barrier to entry to people that didn\u0026#x27;t know how to use a mail client properly.\u003cp\u003eThe sad truth is that now most of the general discussions aren\u0026#x27;t openly shared anymore, and happen either on local websites (like this) or local mailing lists.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been using gmane.org to subscribe all open-access lists that I ever participated into. Most of the time, the list I\u0026#x27;m looking for is already there.\u003cp\u003eIn a certain sense, gmane.org offers the best of NNTP with the best of mailing lists: you can create your own lists without approval processes, and you can read any other list without having 1) to subscribe directly 2) having to store messages locally 3) see instantly the archive [as far as retention goes]. The mailing list administrator has still ultimate veto on what goes on the list, so that local authority is never undermined. On the other hand, NNTP clients are \u003ci\u003ebuilt\u003c/i\u003e to read massive volumes of messages, that would make reading reddit a breeze.\u003cp\u003eWhat gmane.org lacks though is the peering. One of the central NNTP features of the time was definitely killed.","parent":"9987679","id":"9990557"}
{"by":"jmathai","time":"1296969619","timestamp":"2011-02-06 05:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are plenty of services like that - which I'm not terribly interested in copying or spinning off as a \"photo\" version.\u003cp\u003eI do this myself for my own photos and thought others would enjoy and pay for a service that did the say. I love that my photos are backed up on S3 and it's not someone else's Amazon account. I own it and can do whatever I want with my photos.\u003cp\u003eI agree that it's a bit intimidating. My original idea was to see how many technical people were interested - hence posting the question on HN :).","parent":"2184837","id":"2185027"}
{"by":"Tloewald","time":"1427156342","timestamp":"2015-03-24 00:19:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple is competing with Samsung on Samsung\u0026#x27;s terms? If so it\u0026#x27;s doing a great job.","parent":"9253839","id":"9254169"}
{"by":"albertzeyer","time":"1281662052","timestamp":"2010-08-13 01:14:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the listed patent infringements (see other comment by  cscotta) and my non-expert understanding, I would say just the same.","parent":"1599673","id":"1599711"}
{"by":"jashkenas","time":"1330260807","timestamp":"2012-02-26 12:53:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice to see the \"official\" Node.js response to this change...\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026#62; \"Rails to use PATCH instead of PUT\" Http nerds annoy me\n \n    \u0026#62; \"it's actually doing is un-breaking HTTP caching \n    \u0026#62; and proxying semantics\" ... roll eyes\n\n    - ryah\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ryah/status/173683063371464704\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://twitter.com/ryah/status/173683063371464704\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ryah/status/173683909723291648\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://twitter.com/ryah/status/173683909723291648\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3634532","id":"3635517"}
{"by":"canadianwriter","time":"1535576221","timestamp":"2018-08-29 20:57:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh wow, when the dog started barking - amazing. This is dead on!","parent":"17850902","id":"17871950"}
{"by":"WorkLifeBalance","time":"1521457970","timestamp":"2018-03-19 11:12:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The threshold for most people is slightly lower than a quarter second, but it\u0026#x27;s certainly the case that above a quarter-second users will notice the delay[0].\u003cp\u003eHowever, people may be primed for longer delays still seeming instant. e.g. Smartphones for many years had a built-in 300ms delay on any click event, and even without that event typically still have delays on many \u0026#x27;instant\u0026#x27; actions.\u003cp\u003eSo while the delay will be registered as being present, it may not be registered as \u0026quot;this site is slow\u0026quot; but \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s just a natural delay\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;psychology.stackexchange.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;1664\u0026#x2F;what-is-the-threshold-where-actions-are-perceived-as-instant\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;psychology.stackexchange.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;1664\u0026#x2F;what-is-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16617364","id":"16617546"}
{"by":"tdicola","time":"1469822947","timestamp":"2016-07-29 20:09:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exercise, even simple stuff that doesn\u0026#x27;t require going to a gym or expensive equipment like pushups and squats.  I started doing those every day since the start of this year and I can\u0026#x27;t believe how much it has improved my fitness and health.  Squats in particular gave me a lot more stamina with running, climbing stairs, etc.  It takes less than 10 minutes a day to do a few of each (I worked up to doing 50 of each) too.","parent":"12186587","id":"12189587"}
{"by":"ferentchak","time":"1497557338","timestamp":"2017-06-15 20:08:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The huge mistake you really made was not taking those two dollars and buying a winning powerball ticket. Had you known then what you know now losing some cash on Bitcoin was the least of your lost opportunities.\n;)","parent":"14551069","id":"14563938"}
{"by":"Pharylon","time":"1486075573","timestamp":"2017-02-02 22:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think of \u0026quot;code editor\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;IDE\u0026quot; as two endpoints on a continuum. VsCode is less of an IDE than Visual Studio or Eclipse, but more of an IDE than Atom.\u003cp\u003eIt has has debugging and task running, after all. Sounds a lot like an IDE.","parent":"13554369","id":"13555674"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1455476645","timestamp":"2016-02-14 19:04:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Java\u0026#x27;s GC does not appear to be significantly better than Go\u0026#x27;s one.\u003cp\u003eJava\u0026#x27;s GC is generational, allowing bump allocation in the nursery. That is a huge advantage.","parent":"11099390","id":"11099492"}
{"by":"rlpb","time":"1369755354","timestamp":"2013-05-28 15:35:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; their latest move to first pretend to support Wayland\u003cp\u003eIn November 2010 [1].\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; and then mysteriously presenting Mir\u003cp\u003eIn March 2013 [2].\u003cp\u003eTechnologies change. The best path to follow can change. Switching paths over two years is surely acceptable and reasonable for any company. Claiming that Canonical \"pretended\" is false and misleading - or do you have any evidence of this?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Looking into the git contributions he is not even the one who contributed most!\u003cp\u003eOthers have already rebutted this: udev accounts for most other contributors, leaving Lennart for the vast majority of systemd.\u003cp\u003eDo you have anything to say that isn't deliberately misleading?\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcworld.com/article/210018/ubuntu_more_changes_bye_x_hello_wayland.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.pcworld.com/article/210018/ubuntu_more_changes_by...\u003c/a\u003e\n[2]: \u003ca href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/05/canonical_mir_announcement/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/05/canonical_mir_announ...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5779742","id":"5780619"}
{"by":"dec0dedab0de","time":"1522167849","timestamp":"2018-03-27 16:24:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m conflicted on this.\u003cp\u003eA. I don\u0026#x27;t like that APIs are copywrite-able.\u003cp\u003eB. I wish Google complied with the GPL anyway. I hate this anti-GPL sentiment that has been going around the last 10 years or so.\u003cp\u003eC. The android play store would probably go through a renaissance if all the apps had to be rewritten.\u003cp\u003eD. I don\u0026#x27;t trust Google, but I really really really don\u0026#x27;t like Oracle.","parent":"16688521","id":"16690033"}
{"by":"stinkytaco","time":"1483996327","timestamp":"2017-01-09 21:12:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. Of course, computers tell bad jokes, I\u0026#x27;m told.\u003cp\u003eVisual processing also comes to mind. Computers can \u0026quot;see\u0026quot;, but it\u0026#x27;s very difficult to understand the many rules humans use to parse their environment, thus computers are not yet at human level of visual processing.\u003cp\u003eMakes me wonder if those things aren\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;solved\u0026quot; by our brains, but we just don\u0026#x27;t quite know how. Another thing worth noting is that I know people who have no sense of humor. They simply do not understand jokes or sarcasm.","parent":"13359730","id":"13359839"}
{"by":"Androsynth","time":"1318788664","timestamp":"2011-10-16 18:11:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you're saying is that you spend money and it increases your luck surface area; but there are plenty of free ways to do this. You don't need to go on vacation, make extravagant purchases or even go to the coffee shop to meet new people, make contacts, etc.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like you need money to get outside of your social comfort zone. If that works for you, fine. But it's not necessary.\u003cp\u003eAlso, don't confuse using money to increase your luck surface area with blatant consumerism. Flying to a conference in Finland is much different than buying a new TV.","parent":"3117315","id":"3117862"}
{"by":"codeshaman","time":"1424342931","timestamp":"2015-02-19 10:48:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting and funny. Good to see I\u0026#x27;m not the only one in a similar situation.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re not sick, you\u0026#x27;re just a human being in a very competitive world which changes very fast. You\u0026#x27;re bombarded by an unlimited amount of information, entertainment, advertisement, scary news and adrenaline.\u003cp\u003eNo wonder we all have ADHD and OCD and whatnot.\u003cp\u003eSome tips:\u003cp\u003eYou need to force a little discipline upon yourself, limit your addictions, eat healthy and excersise.\nSocialize.\u003cp\u003eMake an imperfect thing, just a prototype, no database, no beautiful graphics, messy code.\u003cp\u003eShow it to the world and see what the world thinks of it. If they get as excited as you are, then find some money and focus on doing it right: TDD the shit out of it.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s the only way, just do it badly and see how it feels. It might not be as cool as you thought or it might actually be your Thing!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d write a longer comment, but I feel like I\u0026#x27;m taking time away from my next insane project that\u0026#x27;s going to change the world - and I need to write some code.\nGood luck.","parent":"9070488","id":"9073405"}
{"by":"sysk","time":"1418426214","timestamp":"2014-12-12 23:16:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point being made is that there are probably  predictors which have many orders of magnitude more predictive power (e.g. work experience, education, interview questions, programming exercise, available source code, etc.).\u003cp\u003eThe male gender is probably correlated to programming ability as well due to the fact that there are more male programmers but it\u0026#x27;s not a very useful predictor.","parent":"8742308","id":"8743297"}
{"by":"rnl","time":"1420889763","timestamp":"2015-01-10 11:36:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This changes everything. \nGood job","parent":"8866075","id":"8866603"}
{"by":"wskinner","time":"1538877098","timestamp":"2018-10-07 01:51:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We run the official Postgres docker image as a StatfeulSet. Very easy to setup, and we haven’t had any issues with it.","parent":"18157729","id":"18158443"}
{"by":"navjack27","time":"1496090486","timestamp":"2017-05-29 20:41:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Intermittent fasting and high fat diet.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t exercise really at all but just changing how I eat and keeping my calories up during times when I eat I went from 215 to 170-180. I feel great when I keep my grains and sugars down.\nI\u0026#x27;ve read tons of things and Jason Fung seems to be the best reminder I keep going back to when I forget.\u003cp\u003eEdit: might as well mention meds and supplements.\u003cp\u003eMagnesium glycate or another high bioavailability version\u003cp\u003e5k iu vit D\u003cp\u003eAmphetamine 30mg 2x a day for ADHD\u003cp\u003eClonidine 0.5mg at night for sleep","parent":"14440554","id":"14441306"}
{"by":"Canada","time":"1367198264","timestamp":"2013-04-29 01:17:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it would be nice to have all the internal communication inside of the RCMP, CSIS, and other government departments concerning that case. Then we would know if it was just a coincidence or if the entire investigation was motivated by a desire for expanded law enforcement powers.\u003cp\u003eEither way, we should be skeptical of claims that we've been saved from murderous terrorists whenever all of the funds, weapons, explosives, and so on are provided by the government itself.\u003cp\u003eWe should be extremely skeptical when politicians use such incidents to convince us that we should be afraid and that in order to be safe we just need to give the government more power to spy on us, detain and interrogate us without the right of habeas corpus.","parent":"5623527","id":"5623601"}
{"by":"lucasdailey","time":"1352157147","timestamp":"2012-11-05 23:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because Free! Plus T-Mobile is more expensive. You can do $70/m on AT\u0026#38;T (with sms only though Google Voice, etc).","parent":"4746320","id":"4746338"}
{"by":"mnicole","time":"1353434900","timestamp":"2012-11-20 18:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This comment just made my day, thank you.\u003cp\u003eRecently on a female subreddit, a woman wrote a huge rant about how if we want equality, we need to stop complaining about what we don't have. The idea being that complaining about it will just set us back further because people won't take us seriously. While I understand the sentiment, it backfires: awareness is the only way things are going to change. There are too many people that don't understand the day-to-day experiences of a[ny \"minority\"] to fully realize the extent of the differences in the ways we're treated both professionally and personally.\u003cp\u003eEven to say \"no one cares about your gender here, we build things to prove ourselves\" ignores that women are at a disadvantage in engineering to begin with. I'll cite again a local university professor that wrote adamantly that his natural expectations of the women in his courses were much lower and that he'd intentionally spend less time with them because they'd \"likely drop out anyway\". He stated that unless they came to him after class at some point, that he did not think they were serious about learning what he had to teach. Not only an ignorant way to view pupils, but an inappropriate way to approach education.","parent":"4809309","id":"4810272"}
{"by":"Nomentatus","time":"1437875203","timestamp":"2015-07-26 01:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s often thought that \u0026quot;fair use\u0026quot; covers any sufficiently short selection of another\u0026#x27;s words. But this is urban legend. There is no such principle in law. A creative joke is fully copyrighted and not subject to fair use even if it\u0026#x27;s just several words long.\u003cp\u003eEven the de minimis doctrine for music sampling has now collapsed.\u003cp\u003eMore clarity about what counts as publication would be pleasant. If three friends post something they heard at a comedy club and discuss it and six others read that; but hundreds could have found it - should that count as publication? So far, Facebook seems to be saying no. And the patent office? We don\u0026#x27;t know.","parent":"9948278","id":"9949792"}
{"by":"silentbicycle","time":"1296797269","timestamp":"2011-02-04 05:27:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No blame, but I'm curious \"why you don't Scheme much anymore\". Was it due to Python, Common Lisp, etc?\u003cp\u003eI switched from (Chicken) Scheme to Common Lisp (and, in parallel, from Python to Lua), and, having read a lot of old code of yours, I'm curious about your choices - you seem consistently sensible and pragmatic. (Sorry to put you on the spot.)","parent":"2177714","id":"2178478"}
{"by":"mtpark","time":"1244064063","timestamp":"2009-06-03 21:21:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Snowleopard release date at least.  I would be sad I've been waiting to be a new mac if this weren't true.","parent":"640360","id":"640449"}
{"by":"AnIdiotOnTheNet","time":"1544288138","timestamp":"2018-12-08 16:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was also going to say HyperCard, or a successor like HyperLook. For a brief moment in the 90s users were able to make their own tools in GUI form and the future of computing was bright. Then the programmers of the world abandoned the idea of enabling users with computing in favor of locking them into stores and subscriptions to line their pockets. Ok so the sales people and Steve Jobs in particular had a lot to do with it too.","parent":"18635856","id":"18636108"}
{"by":"ethbro","time":"1515174926","timestamp":"2018-01-05 17:55:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Give the entire case is about access to evidence (which Kansas denied previous request for), I\u0026#x27;m not sure how the story could have been written any other way.\u003cp\u003eIf election tampering were occurring, how would one discover that? How would one confirm it?\u003cp\u003eIf the answer to the above questions is \u0026quot;Trust us, vote tampering isn\u0026#x27;t happening,\u0026quot; then election laws in that state probably need to be changed.","parent":"16080076","id":"16080210"}
{"by":"code_sterling","time":"1445143639","timestamp":"2015-10-18 04:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m just curious, have we had an instance where a quadcopter has caused the crash of a commercial aircraft?  I\u0026#x27;ve seen birds filleted by tiny copters, and I can\u0026#x27;t help but feel this is more fear than anything.  But I honestly don\u0026#x27;t know.","parent":"10406261","id":"10407254"}
{"by":"dukerutledge","time":"1426279856","timestamp":"2015-03-13 20:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are two nice bullet points in the actionable part of this article. I wish they had been mentioned earlier because I feel many will not make it all the way through.","parent":"9199849","id":"9199955"}
{"by":"michaelbanfield","time":"1527615426","timestamp":"2018-05-29 17:37:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just tried \u0026#x27;passwordpassword\u0026#x27; and it was there. You can download the whole dataset at the bottom of this page\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com\u0026#x2F;Passwords\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com\u0026#x2F;Passwords\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts a losing battle trying to add byzantine rules to prevent users doing things like using their normal password * 2, so its probably a reasonable check to add.","parent":"17180790","id":"17181276"}
{"by":"justinfrankel","time":"1486146298","timestamp":"2017-02-03 18:24:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rendering the arrange view, which can change drastically in response to user edits. We\u0026#x27;ve tested using OpenGL to update, but as the texture needs to get uploaded each frame it\u0026#x27;s only marginally faster, and uses significantly more resources.","parent":"13558069","id":"13561939"}
{"by":"mansilladev","time":"1519167593","timestamp":"2018-02-20 22:59:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stride was designed and built from ground up (not just a rebrand). I work at Atlassian, and have been using to since alpha.","parent":"16423845","id":"16425084"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1462049085","timestamp":"2016-04-30 20:44:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;The solution is to make it extremely difficult\u0026#x2F;costly for them.\u003cp\u003eYou realize that it\u0026#x27;s you who pays for it in the end, right? It\u0026#x27;s called taxation.","parent":"11602809","id":"11603481"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1433397584","timestamp":"2015-06-04 05:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, we changed to that from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tmux\u0026#x2F;tmux\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tmux\u0026#x2F;tmux\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"9657487","id":"9657675"}
{"by":"jomkr","time":"1505728282","timestamp":"2017-09-18 09:51:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not OP but I\u0026#x27;m in the market and need:\u003cp\u003e- Windows based as I do mostly .Net\u003cp\u003e- =\u0026lt; £500","parent":"15274522","id":"15274530"}
{"by":"adelevie","time":"1296690259","timestamp":"2011-02-02 23:44:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My school, Penn State, has something called the Washington Program. You apply to the program, then the program coordinator makes calls on your behalf to his personal network of Penn State alumni and other internship sponsors from the DC area. The quality of these internships was incredible: students worked on Capitol Hill, for big name media outlets, and for public affairs firms.\u003cp\u003eThe program works so well because each year it can deliver students who have the \"Penn State Washington Program seal of approval\", so to speak. To an internship sponsor, the value proposition is simple: \"Liked last year's intern? Well here's another.\"\u003cp\u003eIt's definitely good that a site like InternMatch exists, but I think the best way for students to land a competitive internship is through some sort of social validation. The Penn State Washington Program provided this validation to students who otherwise might not have any connections in D.C.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps there is some business opportunity here: provide social validation for potential interns just like the Washington Program, but at scale (think Monster.com vs. TheLadders). Or maybe this is something best left to universities and their alumni associations.","parent":"2172197","id":"2172787"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1394911336","timestamp":"2014-03-15 19:22:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026quot;What\u0026#x27;s with this stupid title where you have to read the thing to have any clue what it is about?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI think you\u0026#x27;ve answered your own question. A lot of people will think it\u0026#x27;s a stupid title but be curious enough to click through.","parent":"7405846","id":"7405889"}
{"by":"markvdb","time":"1516044771","timestamp":"2018-01-15 19:32:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As countless other countries have been doing for ages. Even Belgium does it:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=be.Nextel.EmergencyApp112\u0026amp;hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=be.Nextel.Emer...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16152662","id":"16152792"}
{"by":"kirillzubovsky","time":"1370588335","timestamp":"2013-06-07 06:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how many big-name consulting firms are milking big-name banks for the research.","parent":"5837050","id":"5837653"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1426994085","timestamp":"2015-03-22 03:14:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There seems to be a movement to accept any and all behaviors of children on the spectrum,\u003cp\u003eI would be interested to see comments made by people who use the diagnosis to excuse poor behaviour. (Edit: I reworded this to be less confrontational and less angry. Sorry for original wording.)\u003cp\u003eI am aware of people struggling to get more acceptance of neuro diversity.  That\u0026#x27;s because they\u0026#x27;re fed-up of being mocked (if lucky) or murdered (less lucky) by police\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.inquisitr.com/1726930/alabama-police-officers-recorded-mocking-special-needs-children-at-a-local-learning-center/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.inquisitr.com\u0026#x2F;1726930\u0026#x2F;alabama-police-officers-rec...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-times-police-killed-people-mental-disabilities\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.alternet.org\u0026#x2F;civil-liberties\u0026#x2F;5-times-police-kille...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/29/37770.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.courthousenews.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;37770.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;      DAYTON, Ohio (CN) - Dayton police \u0026quot;mistook\u0026quot; a mentally handicapped teenager\u0026#x27;s speech impediment for \u0026quot;disrespect,\u0026quot; so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat him and called for backup from \u0026quot;upward of 20 police officers\u0026quot; after the boy rode his bicycle home to ask his mother for help, the boy\u0026#x27;s mom says.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not really surprising that neuro-atypical people are getting militant when they\u0026#x27;re faced with widespread discrimination that causes shorter, less good, lives.","parent":"9245285","id":"9245416"}
{"by":"gcr","time":"1476198991","timestamp":"2016-10-11 15:16:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any process can connect to a running Jupyter kernel, just like IPython\u0026#x27;s IDE support. Emacs uses this to inspect variables and provide autocomplete suggestions for variables inside a running Jupyter notebook, for example.","parent":"12684783","id":"12685144"}
{"by":"joshuapants","time":"1437671690","timestamp":"2015-07-23 17:14:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Are you suggesting humans will damage the planet that much?\u003cp\u003eYes. Now that the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, I would imagine that total human annihilation will happen sooner rather than later. The only way to guarantee survival of the species is to take to the stars and spread out.","parent":"9935172","id":"9937114"}
{"by":"mastazi","time":"1474432747","timestamp":"2016-09-21 04:39:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am like you. In the past I wouldn\u0026#x27;t pay attention to privacy issues and I would enjoy free services such as Google Drive or Facebook Messenger, but that recently changed. In my case, the trigger was exactly the thought that you expressed so effectively:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; All I see is a tool to make me the product.\u003cp\u003eI think you\u0026#x27;re right, and you\u0026#x27;re not paranoid at all.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m now using only open source tools both on PC and on Android (courtesy of F-Droid), switched from Gmail to Mailbox.org and from Chrome to Firefox with all privacy settings turned on (no tracking, no long term cookies etc.), switched from GDrive and Dropbox to my own private cloud solution (using a NAS + Owncloud), started using PGP for email, and currently trying to get my friends to use Signal for instant messaging.\u003cp\u003eFirst world problems? Maybe, but I don\u0026#x27;t like to be sold in exchange for free-of-charge services.","parent":"12545364","id":"12545445"}
{"by":"jamesgagan","time":"1313681743","timestamp":"2011-08-18 15:35:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"indeed, from his about page: \"An author, entrepreneur, speaker, and worldwide connector, Peter is recognized worldwide for radically new ways of thinking about Social Media, PR, marketing, advertising, and customer service.\"","parent":"2899093","id":"2899581"}
{"by":"tdoggette","time":"1225209885","timestamp":"2008-10-28 16:04:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remember when Longhorn had a whole new kernel, and WinFS, and was going to breathe new life into Windows?","parent":"346408","id":"346409"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1470913194","timestamp":"2016-08-11 10:59:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hehe,no but it looks like a cool weekend idea.","parent":"12267027","id":"12267244"}
{"by":"atom_enger","time":"1498672678","timestamp":"2017-06-28 17:57:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How did Docker jump from 1.x to 17 so quickly? Anybody have a link to this and the reasoning? Is it similar to what Elastic did w\u0026#x2F; their jump from 2.x to 5.x?","parent":"14656454","id":"14656510"}
{"by":"dirtyaura","time":"1345064901","timestamp":"2012-08-15 21:08:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the thing that they also missed is that most of the Top Grossing free IAP games don't have a ceiling for IAP spending. This is very important, as spending follows power law curve, which is very well known fact among free-to-play game developers (\"rich oil sheiks subsidizing the game for  poor kids\")\u003cp\u003eIt's requires a bit of a game design\ningenuity to make it work so that you can't just buy your way to victory, especially in multiplayer setting, but is doable.","parent":"4388055","id":"4388235"}
{"by":"petsos","time":"1378170915","timestamp":"2013-09-03 01:15:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is that different from \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t trust, verify\u0026quot;?","parent":"6317455","id":"6318160"}
{"by":"meri_dian","time":"1502161556","timestamp":"2017-08-08 03:05:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well said. The challenge is that good politics is not always nice.\u003cp\u003eAs a general principle, much of modern Western thought seems to be obsessed with minimizing any sort of discomfort in the present moment, regardless of whether that discomfort is a temporary and necessary phase one must pass through in order to reach a better future.","parent":"14953574","id":"14953670"}
{"by":"cyphar","time":"1512127353","timestamp":"2017-12-01 11:22:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It also makes me nervous that they\u0026#x27;re putting resources into phones when they obviously haven\u0026#x27;t solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops.\u003cp\u003eBy not using x86 (the board is going to use i.MX8), they remove a whole series of issues that plague modern laptops (no ME, no EMC, etc). They have a very long run-down on why they chose i.MX8, and the freedom status of the components[1].\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;puri.sm\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;puri.sm\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;librem-5-roadmap-to-imx8\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15819540","id":"15823210"}
{"by":"codygman","time":"1390278603","timestamp":"2014-01-21 04:30:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You almost had me with the \u0026quot;lot of never to use a racial slur...\u0026quot; part. Also, pasty-faced is the equivalent of ashy-faced (for black people) which is also not a racial slur.","parent":"7092817","id":"7093446"}
{"by":"greymeister","time":"1525276296","timestamp":"2018-05-02 15:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My current experience with just about any cashierless option at a grocery or department store is far from a minor convenience, it\u0026#x27;s almost entirely an inconvenience.  I now get to do what I did over 20 years ago and bag groceries, except then I was paid for it.\u003cp\u003eHowever, it allows the store to place one minimum wage employee over multiple lanes versus having to have one per lane (or even two if it was like the grocery store when I grew up that actually had backers AND checkers).\u003cp\u003eSo, like many innovations, it adds little to no convenience but is a very effective way of cutting labor costs.  By Grabthar\u0026#x27;s Hammer... what a savings.","parent":"16977930","id":"16978143"}
{"by":"ufo","time":"1506463958","timestamp":"2017-09-26 22:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do some countries encourage the use of suppressors?","parent":"15342777","id":"15342998"}
{"by":"quirkafleeg","time":"1476022883","timestamp":"2016-10-09 14:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone who visits your site (who are more likely to be interested in and knowledgeable about your niche than random people here) could copy it if they wanted to.\u003cp\u003eBy posting here you may increase your traffic\u0026#x2F;ad revenue, now and\u0026#x2F;or in the future (not everyone cares about or has the time to rip off every site they see), and you may get some constructive, helpful comments or advice.\u003cp\u003eTotally your choice, just giving possible benefits.","parent":"12670854","id":"12671291"}
{"by":"biotech","time":"1505408673","timestamp":"2017-09-14 17:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it absolutely matters what the charge is. In this case, we are talking about someone who murdered a 4 year old. I don\u0026#x27;t have too much sympathy for someone who does this.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to talk about people who are in jail for drug charges, that is a different discussion entirely.","parent":"15249581","id":"15250011"}
{"by":"nradov","time":"1244235000","timestamp":"2009-06-05 20:50:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We used systems Hungarian notation for LotusScript because older versions of IBM Lotus Domino Designer had limitation (b) along with some other problems. It was actually helpful in understanding and maintaining complex code. But we always understood that we were doing it to work around editor flaws rather than because systems Hungarian notation was a good idea in general.","parent":"642208","id":"643950"}
{"by":"masonic","time":"1546912918","timestamp":"2019-01-08 02:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  while saying yes to more jobs\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHow do local \u003ci\u003eresidents\u003c/i\u003e have any say in local job offerings?","parent":"18842474","id":"18852408"}
{"by":"shmerl","time":"1431468895","timestamp":"2015-05-12 22:14:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s only for the Windows version? In the Linux version that setting in about:config is enabled by default. I set it to false.","parent":"9534096","id":"9535335"}
{"by":"run4yourlives","time":"1216413899","timestamp":"2008-07-18 20:44:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest issue with that is that if you pay this bill, when someone else wife gets cancer, do you pay that bill too?\u003cp\u003eI do agree though that they should be doing something other than asking everyone else to fork over cash.","parent":"249505","id":"250191"}
{"by":"tmaly","time":"1459870998","timestamp":"2016-04-05 15:43:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am still using the Go framework Gin.  Echo has similar performance, but Gin was there first.\u003cp\u003eI do have to code a bunch of stuff myself as opposed to Django.  But if I really wanted to save time, I would just use WordPress.","parent":"11430232","id":"11431291"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1489191238","timestamp":"2017-03-11 00:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Few viable currencies do so.","parent":"13843017","id":"13843280"}
{"by":"M_Arrington","time":"1233179152","timestamp":"2009-01-28 21:45:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why we can't have nice things.","parent":"674","dead":true,"id":"455184"}
{"by":"steeve","time":"1509560235","timestamp":"2017-11-01 18:17:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very similar to Sketchfab","parent":"15602611","id":"15603986"}
{"by":"apcherry","time":"1365001983","timestamp":"2013-04-03 15:13:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sad news indeed.\u003cp\u003eIn keeping with his macabre sense of humour I hope he has a suitable Culture Ship names for the coffin. Dwindling Gravitas (VFP)?","parent":"5485236","id":"5486542"}
{"by":"syrak","time":"1512148884","timestamp":"2017-12-01 17:21:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So if they were to let the training go on for too long the network will produce an exact copy of the distorted input image.\u003cp\u003eIt won\u0026#x27;t. The objective (min (E(x, x0) + R(x)) they are trying to optimize (over output images x) amounts to a combination of:\u003cp\u003e- The output image x should \u0026quot;look like\u0026quot; the input image x0, this is the error term E(x, x0);\u003cp\u003e- The output image x should be \u0026quot;regular\u0026quot;, this is the regularization term R(x).\u003cp\u003eThe latter term prevents overfitting: R should be chosen such that noisy images for example are considered irregular (high R(x)).","parent":"15820994","id":"15825379"}
{"by":"stanmancan","time":"1464834480","timestamp":"2016-06-02 02:28:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Salesforce has its \u0026quot;server\u0026quot; side language APEX which is sort of kinda based on Java, then they have SOQL which is their own, limited and akward version of SQL, and Visualforce which is their front end. So many limitations that make no sense. Documentation rarely tells you the whole picture. The whole thing is full of gotchas that you only learn through experience. Ugh.","parent":"11819157","id":"11819943"}
{"by":"Scaevolus","time":"1501887667","timestamp":"2017-08-04 23:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. If you have a struct, getters\u0026#x2F;setters are somewhat pointless, since member visibility control is only package level (protected\u0026#x2F;public depending on variable name capitalization).\u003cp\u003eFor interfaces, you can only invoke methods, so getters\u0026#x2F;setters are required.","parent":"14933060","id":"14933074"}
{"by":"olliesaunders","time":"1316567147","timestamp":"2011-09-21 01:05:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A related talk: \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/27192476\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://vimeo.com/27192476\u003c/a\u003e (video)","parent":"3019729","id":"3020299"}
{"by":"maxcan","time":"1444623767","timestamp":"2015-10-12 04:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think the comment meant that dispassionately and sensibly pointing out the double standard is problematic but that one runs the risk of facing a large, internet backlash for pointing out certain classes of double standards of which the one above is one.","parent":"10372461","id":"10372541"}
{"by":"cel1ne","time":"1485505176","timestamp":"2017-01-27 08:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just write together what I need to know and combine into a single email or phone call.","parent":"13496312","id":"13498443"}
{"by":"MalcolmDiggs","time":"1418768340","timestamp":"2014-12-16 22:19:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re entering the realm of RFPs. Government agencies issue Request For Proposals when they need something tech-related done, you prepare a fairly hefty proposal and send it in. Then you wait and wait and hopefully hear something at some point.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s potentially lucrative but it\u0026#x27;s a long sales cycle and those kinds of contracts tend to be lowest-bidder kind of things (so your opportunity to turn a profit is based on your ability to outsource the work very cheaply).\u003cp\u003eCheck online for RFP listings services to get a taste of what that system is like.","parent":"8758823","id":"8759946"}
{"by":"freerobby","time":"1310406272","timestamp":"2011-07-11 17:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand your last paragraph. Of course we should make good on what we can but if Medicare and/or Social Security (mostly the former) need reform to remain solvent, then why is it stupid to make the cuts that keep them solvent? A working less-than-ideal program is better than a not-working ideal program, no?","parent":"2751581","id":"2751681"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1296242351","timestamp":"2011-01-28 19:19:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Realpolitik got you Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bin Laden, 9/11, Noriega and a whole slew of other problems.\u003cp\u003eMakes you wonder if it is really worth it.","parent":"2152712","id":"2153110"}
{"by":"jsdalton","time":"1232505708","timestamp":"2009-01-21 02:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lawyers doing something useful with their time, for a change.","parent":"442486","id":"442682"}
{"by":"crdoconnor","time":"1376735497","timestamp":"2013-08-17 10:31:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many of them read your email?","parent":"6228657","id":"6228709"}
{"by":"Traster","time":"1546458087","timestamp":"2019-01-02 19:41:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have so many problems with this article, and of course Warby Parker in general. First off, it seems they\u0026#x27;re going to commit the cardinal sin of every Silicon Valley company - completely ignoring anyone who isn\u0026#x27;t in the head office. Balloons on every desk - let\u0026#x27;s just ignore the vast majority of employees are sales staff who don\u0026#x27;t have desks.\u003cp\u003eThe more major problem I have with WP is that their product is entirely generic and their entire business model is just to sell the same thing everyone else does but invest in a different style of woke signalling marketing. Which is exactly what this article is. The whole thing just reads as a \u0026quot;Isn\u0026#x27;t it great that we\u0026#x27;re in the growth phase so we can completely ignore our costs!\u0026quot;. Tell me about when your sales \u003ci\u003edropped\u003c/i\u003e and you kept your staff motivated and happy - that\u0026#x27;s what I want to know. I don\u0026#x27;t want to know staff like free stuff - I already know that. It\u0026#x27;s kind of easy to keep retention rates high when all your staff are so knew that there\u0026#x27;s no legacy systems to deal with and they haven\u0026#x27;t been at your company long enough to grow out of their jobs.\u003cp\u003eThis article brings literally nothing knew to the table. But to be fair, it\u0026#x27;s literally an article on an e-mail marketting website.","parent":"18808077","id":"18809377"}
{"by":"interfixus","time":"1496227210","timestamp":"2017-05-31 10:40:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"May I humbly suggest a basic course of reading comprehension?","parent":"14447354","id":"14451489"}
{"by":"exikyut","time":"1531700507","timestamp":"2018-07-16 00:21:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have any suggestions, but I am \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e curious what sorts of job positions would require a K\u0026amp;R policy, just to better understand the requirement. Vague\u0026#x2F;loose handwavy explanations welcome.\u003cp\u003eThinking about it, perhaps it\u0026#x27;s to do with the location a person is in, and the reputation that location may have.\u003cp\u003eShipping comes to mind (the \u0026quot;actually being in location XYZ\u0026quot; part of the transportation process), along with the fact that perhaps some at the destination may want to hinder the receipt of whatever\u0026#x27;s being shipped\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t come up with much else right now, although I\u0026#x27;m very sure there are many other reasons.","parent":"17536272","id":"17537877"}
{"by":"RobertoG","time":"1470326046","timestamp":"2016-08-04 15:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure who are you answering to..\u003cp\u003eI will try again (a last time).\u003cp\u003eIf the GDP per capita is bigger that 40 years ago, it\u0026#x27;s obvious that we have the resource to sustain the population.\u003cp\u003eWhat I was trying to express, unsuccessfully it seems, is that the economy should work for all the members of society, specially when there are more than enough resources.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I was trying to criticize the framework that is sold to us continuously, where the people is in the service of the economy, instead of the opposite.","parent":"12226124","id":"12226372"}
{"by":"orbyt","time":"1251438161","timestamp":"2009-08-28 05:42:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd ask him what it was like to start bloomberg, how he did it, and when he knew he was succeeding. An old friend of mine was employee #60 at bloomberg, and he said it was a great - but very intense - place to work.","parent":"790357","id":"790828"}
{"by":"saganus","time":"1499203881","timestamp":"2017-07-04 21:31:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True. It\u0026#x27;s a bad habit I guess.","parent":"14697052","id":"14698424"}
{"by":"whiterabbit2","time":"1399397729","timestamp":"2014-05-06 17:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where those women \u0026quot;to protect\u0026quot; are treated like babies who have no say of their own.","parent":"7635794","id":"7705917"}
{"by":"josegonzalez","time":"1288047767","timestamp":"2010-10-25 23:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm interested in seeing applications that submit themselves :)","parent":"1832012","id":"1832018"}
{"by":"ThomPete","time":"1510436241","timestamp":"2017-11-11 21:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where does this tribalism and polarization take place if not online? Do you have any evidence of changed patterns in \u0026quot;real life\u0026quot; with that regard? So if Facebook keeps people in bubbles so they never get exposed to other views how do you know they are more polarized if not using social media.","parent":"15677488","id":"15678316"}
{"by":"dabeeeenster","time":"1287390407","timestamp":"2010-10-18 08:26:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great - we've been looking for a scheduling app to replace an Excel sheet that we've been using, and this is close to what I had in my head.\u003cp\u003eOne thing we'd happily pay for would be the ability to have finer grained resourcing. So instead of just saying who is working on what project, say precisely when they are working on it.\u003cp\u003eThe goal would be for every person in my team to look at this in the morning to see what they need to work on that day or week.\u003cp\u003eIs this something you had planned?\u003cp\u003eGreat start for 2 days work though!","parent":"1801964","id":"1802718"}
{"by":"ZoeZoeBee","time":"1456849584","timestamp":"2016-03-01 16:26:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I\u0026#x27;m often amazed how many people like zanny are incapable of seeing the likely future for societies who\u0026#x27;s economic and social models are dependent upon constant expansion.  At this point in time it is simply too late for most of the EU and Asian nations, it is not a question of if but how the population will react when things begin to unravel.  The Demographics of said nation\u0026#x27;s give us a very good idea of when.","parent":"11203659","id":"11203730"}
{"by":"oranja","time":"1454583648","timestamp":"2016-02-04 11:00:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;fisherman\u0026#x2F;fisherman\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;69\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;fisherman\u0026#x2F;fisherman\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;69\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11033171","dead":true,"id":"11033174"}
{"by":"jrgv","time":"1461311099","timestamp":"2016-04-22 07:44:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But if we take it to mean code point, then if the value is a surrogate… what should happen?\u003cp\u003eSurrogates are code points. The spec does not say what should happen if the surrogate is invalid (for example, if only the first surrogate of a surrogate pair is present), but neither does the JSON spec.\u003cp\u003eJava internally also represents non-BMP code points using surrogates. So, simply appending the surrogates to the string should yield a valid Java string if the surrogates in the input are valid.","parent":"11547552","id":"11547621"}
{"by":"justherefortart","time":"1526567484","timestamp":"2018-05-17 14:31:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used Network Solutions when they were the only game in town. Switched to Register in the late 90s. Just stuck with them because I didn\u0026#x27;t have any issues.\u003cp\u003eIn the last 5-10 years the issues started growing. Finally, I hit a wall and transferred everything off their service.\u003cp\u003eI now get spam emails of them trying to trick me into switching my domains back. The vitriol their helpdesk people receive is about as shitty as I get. Maybe they don\u0026#x27;t deserve it in their role, but hopefully the angry emails will get them to find a better job asap.","parent":"17085954","id":"17091526"}
{"by":"tapirl","time":"1429253615","timestamp":"2015-04-17 06:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, JavaScript, ActionScript3 and TypeScript are all an implementation of ECMAScript. :)","parent":"9391196","id":"9392596"}
{"by":"yan","time":"1278525848","timestamp":"2010-07-07 18:04:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MINIX is a fantastic kernel to practice kernel hacking on and see how operating systems function without the real world cruft of performance and portability hacks.","parent":"1494386","id":"1494882"}
{"by":"dsfyu404ed","time":"1543351779","timestamp":"2018-11-27 20:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;WTF!? I am from Europe, is this really a thing?\u003cp\u003eIn some places, particularly wealthy places built up after WW2.  Some people like it because \u0026quot;muh property values\u0026quot;.  Just as many hate it because \u0026quot;muh freedom\u0026quot;","parent":"18544155","id":"18546532"}
{"by":"jasonlotito","time":"1488145681","timestamp":"2017-02-26 21:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have both the Rift and PSVR.  I\u0026#x27;m happy to have both. Of the two, Rift is technically superior, but not enough that I feel like the PSVR is a let down.  In fact, the PSVR is much more comfortable than the Rift, hands down.  If you already have a PS4, and want to get into VR, the PSVR is a solid choice.","parent":"13739598","id":"13740121"}
{"by":"DanAndersen","time":"1516464157","timestamp":"2018-01-20 16:02:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was surprised by the apparently high per capita homicide rate in Nunavut, Canada, but apparently it\u0026#x27;s mostly due to just how low the population is there:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vice.com\u0026#x2F;en_ca\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;ppvx8g\u0026#x2F;a-closer-look-at-nunavuts-notoriously-high-murder-rate-324\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vice.com\u0026#x2F;en_ca\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;ppvx8g\u0026#x2F;a-closer-look-at-n...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16193709","id":"16193787"}
{"by":"danpalmer","time":"1497382118","timestamp":"2017-06-13 19:28:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the link, very useful!\u003cp\u003eI would say that the cryptic watch app was \u0026#x27;obvious\u0026#x27; in my mind though. Watch faces are a well defined concept on the watch, and the lack of third party watch faces was about as explicit as one can expect from Apple. I\u0026#x27;m not surprised at all, and ignoring the fact of whether they should be allowed, I feel they were skirting too close to the boundary to be able to complain about being removed, but that\u0026#x27;s just my reading of the situation.","parent":"14536374","id":"14547831"}
{"by":"nlte","time":"1445936751","timestamp":"2015-10-27 09:05:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackedit.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackedit.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e is my markdown editor of choice. You can sync your documents with Google Drive, Dropbox, publish to GitHub. Really not easy to beat, in my opinion. However, there\u0026#x27;s no live collaboration feature currently in Stackedit so I\u0026#x27;m interested to see what Classeur has to offer in this respect. (Now I see that Stackedit and Classeur are related projects, apparently both authored by \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;benweet\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;benweet\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"10456758","id":"10456928"}
{"by":"throwaway4000","time":"1543262559","timestamp":"2018-11-26 20:02:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i think we\u0026#x27;ll look back a decade from now and realize 90% of the start-ups from 2008 to present were small businesses in disguise with MUCH MUCH smaller markets than forecasted by founders.\u003cp\u003ei think hopping to a startup and back to a big tech company is fine. i\u0026#x27;ve done it for career advancements, but it was grueling.","parent":"18536187","id":"18536314"}
{"by":"adamredwoods","time":"1489449618","timestamp":"2017-03-14 00:00:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought in the article the father did attempt to go to a program to learn something new.\u003cp\u003eAnyhow, demands of family and health can take a lot of free time away. You need kids to understand this, hopefully some of you do.","parent":"13862707","id":"13863748"}
{"by":"j7ake","time":"1542135330","timestamp":"2018-11-13 18:55:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Get a piano teacher. Injuring yourself because of bad posture or habits is not worth it.\u003cp\u003eThese habits and postures are easily picked up by teachers but not easy to notice by yourself.","parent":"18440091","id":"18443670"}
{"by":"function_seven","time":"1470818414","timestamp":"2016-08-10 08:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If my wallet contains 10 bitcoins, and I somehow end up with a Satoshi bitcoin, don\u0026#x27;t I now have 11 bitcoins that are all alike? When I go to spend one bitcoin, how do you know if it\u0026#x27;s the Real Satoshi one or if it\u0026#x27;s one of my others?","parent":"12259931","id":"12260319"}
{"by":"kingofspain","time":"1338762218","timestamp":"2012-06-03 22:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a decent BBC documentary from last month which covered the mechanism and the attempts to decipher it. On my phone now so this is the closest link I can find: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17989915\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17989915\u003c/a\u003e but you can get to it from there :)","parent":"4061866","id":"4061912"}
{"by":"jimktrains2","time":"1525179292","timestamp":"2018-05-01 12:54:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  This guide does not clarify one important question: Does a company in the EU have to apply gdpr guidelines for none European users.\u003cp\u003eYes, the GDRP applies to anyone \u0026quot;in the Union\u0026quot;. Someone on vacation from the US would be covered _while they are in the EU_.\u003cp\u003eIf your company is based in the EU, then you must comply for all users, regardless of their current country or citizenship.","parent":"16966415","id":"16966593"}
{"by":"domador","time":"1326987748","timestamp":"2012-01-19 15:42:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ham's Big List (\u003ca href=\"http://drmichaelham.com/?p=25\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://drmichaelham.com/?p=25\u003c/a\u003e) is very appealing.  I hope he stays true to it if elected.  May he not make moral compromises as he raises money for his campaign.","parent":"3483966","id":"3484906"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1459954302","timestamp":"2016-04-06 14:51:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eGiven the issues with Tazers, how much worse can the dart gun be?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet me change into my swim trunks, and we can go slip\u0026#x27;n\u0026#x27;sliding down this slope together.","parent":"11437498","id":"11439134"}
{"by":"ColinWright","time":"1525723928","timestamp":"2018-05-07 20:12:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah - like CarolineW I have a random collection of scripts that I use in an \u003ci\u003ead hoc\u003c/i\u003e manner.  Some time ago I automated the entire process and people got very unhappy, so now when I do it, I do it \u0026quot;by hand\u0026quot; (to steal the phrase).\u003cp\u003eI suspect a lot of people have similar scripts, none polished, all just held together with spit and baling wire.","parent":"17015061","id":"17016089"}
{"by":"Ono-Sendai","time":"1439986065","timestamp":"2015-08-19 12:07:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure thing.  I\u0026#x27;ll write a blog post about it later tonight (am on work time right now)\u003cp\u003eBrief summary however: The point of a crypto hash function is that you need to try on the order of 2^n inputs (n being length in bits of digest) to find a collision.  (greater than polynomial time)  However you can check any input in polynomial time.  This makes it in NP.  (decision problem is computable in polynomial time).  I\u0026#x27;m probably missing some details which I will think about later :)","parent":"10084872","id":"10084900"}
{"by":"GigabyteCoin","time":"1389217356","timestamp":"2014-01-08 21:42:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t this cafe eventually be filled with freeloaders who pay 9 pounds per day in order to get gourmet coffee and food all day long? That\u0026#x27;s a pretty good deal if you\u0026#x27;re a cheapskate living in london. Sandwhiches can be 9 pounds by themselves.","parent":"7026851","id":"7026931"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1453930930","timestamp":"2016-01-27 21:42:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re right it doesn\u0026#x27;t help those who don\u0026#x27;t have a culture of education.  I.e. people who \u0026quot;are first in the family to attend college\u0026#x2F;uni\u0026quot; of which many are minorities but also a great many are poor whites.\u003cp\u003eBut.... It does help a lot of kids who find it hard to afford college\u0026#x2F;uni while also having other responsibilities.\u003cp\u003eThose people who sell a pint here and there to afford gas to get to class, etc.  It\u0026#x27;s not an insignificant amount of people.\u003cp\u003eSo chip at this first, then chip away at the abjectly poor or who simply don\u0026#x27;t think they have a chance at college\u0026#x2F;uni.\u003cp\u003eOf course there is always the danger of human nature wanting to claim, I went to uni as told but still can\u0026#x27;t get a job.  That is it\u0026#x27;s not just a rite of passage, you have to show personal progress.","parent":"10983580","id":"10983691"}
{"by":"ridruejo","time":"1317173590","timestamp":"2011-09-28 01:33:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can give it a quick try  using Bitnami  (its free, I am one of the developers) \u003ca href=\"http://bitnami.org/stack/piwik\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bitnami.org/stack/piwik\u003c/a\u003e  It includes Piwik and all of its dependencies (Apache, MySQL, PHP) into a single, easy to use installer, vmware vm or amazon machine image. In particular the AMI is very popular together with the Amazon free tier because you can have a free micro instance running all the time with Piwik (which you want if you are using it to run analytics on your production servers)","parent":"3045898","id":"3046043"}
{"by":"SamReidHughes","time":"1433848840","timestamp":"2015-06-09 11:20:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool.  But let me warn you:  Your method of code organization won\u0026#x27;t scale to anything whose #include graph doesn\u0026#x27;t form a tree.  You should learn how to put your declarations into include-guarded header files and your implementations into C files.\u003cp\u003eAlso, abs has signature int abs(int x).  I think you want to use fabs.\u003cp\u003eEdit:  Also, it is quite peculiar to have the program print out null characters.  The output for .\u0026#x2F;calc \u0026#x27;2\u0026#x27; is four characters:  {\u0026#x27;2\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;\\0\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;\\0\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;\\n\u0026#x27;}.  In places where you\u0026#x27;re using %c and printing \u0026#x27;\\0\u0026#x27;, you could use %s and print \u0026quot;\u0026quot; instead.","parent":"9684997","id":"9685164"}
{"by":"Implicated","time":"1422657852","timestamp":"2015-01-30 22:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I feel like sports culture deprives lots of regular public high school students of an education, and I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s elitist at all to dislike professional sports for their contribution to this mess.\u003cp\u003eWhile I respect your position I feel that you really don\u0026#x27;t understand the perspective of sports from the athletes side.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re completely glossing over the positives that sports bring to the lives of people involved in them, especially those who take it serious. I\u0026#x27;ve been writing code since I was 13-14 years old, but I\u0026#x27;ve been testing myself physically and mentally since I was 8, thanks to a life long \u0026#x27;career\u0026#x27; of playing baseball. Nothing in my life has taught me more about who I am and what I\u0026#x27;m capable of, both mentally and physically, than my time spent in team sports. And that\u0026#x27;s saying nothing of the social growth and life long friendships and connections made.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m just a middle class white kid who had far better options in life than to pursue professional sports...but for those less fortunate, the education they get from their sports teams\u0026#x2F;coaches\u0026#x2F;careers my very well be the best \u0026#x27;real life\u0026#x27; education they\u0026#x27;ll ever get.\u003cp\u003eCalling sports destructive to society seems so completely asinine to me that it\u0026#x27;s comedic. Then again, my perspective is quite different than yours.","parent":"8974703","id":"8974981"}
{"by":"zorkerman","time":"1286844872","timestamp":"2010-10-12 00:54:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree it would be great, I've gotten letters from Amazon that it is hipaa compliant but not PCI, and from rackspace that it is pci compliant but not hipaa.","parent":"1780833","id":"1781883"}
{"by":"th3iedkid","time":"1432706912","timestamp":"2015-05-27 06:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Long time back i was studying Asset Backed Commercial Papers (ABCP) as a special purpose vehicle conduit and its effects on market runs during the financial crisis.\u003cp\u003eFor those who want to understand it , these might possibly help(These are only personal notes.):\u003cp\u003e[part 1]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;finance-and-economics-studies\u0026#x2F;read-note-on-asset-backed-securitization-special-purpose-vehicles-and-other-securitization-issues-a715f980bb1c?source=latest\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;finance-and-economics-studies\u0026#x2F;read-note-o...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[part 2]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;finance-and-economics-studies\u0026#x2F;asset-backed-securitization-special-purpose-vehicles-and-other-securitization-issues-98e7ad3231f9\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;finance-and-economics-studies\u0026#x2F;asset-backe...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9608347","id":"9609587"}
{"by":"johnminter","time":"1442675549","timestamp":"2015-09-19 15:12:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Udacity (and Coursera, edX, MIT OpenCourseware) can and do teach very helpful skills to large groups of self-directed learners. I have benefited from Coursera. I suspect that most who come here fit into that group. One problem is that a large proportion of the population do not have the personality\u0026#x2F;skills\u0026#x2F;drive to do this. I would note the Udacity pilot with San Jose State University. They started with a remedial math course, a college algebra course and an introductory statistics course. The pass rate of the stats class was about 50%, the two other courses much lower - 27 and 25% if I remember correctly.\u003cp\u003eOne approach that has worked better is a partnership with a Community College (e.g. Bunker Hill in Massachusetts). Here they use a flipped classroom approach. The students watch online lectures and come to a lab session where they have an instructor to help when they get stuck and are encouraged work in groups. This seems to help many get past the hard parts and complete the work. This approach is obviously more expensive. Very few people work \u0026quot;for free.\u0026quot; Self-motivated, disciplined individuals will always do well with systems that focus heavily on independent study. Others will have to pay more to access more personalized support.","parent":"10243420","id":"10244462"}
{"by":"slug","time":"1335359952","timestamp":"2012-04-25 13:19:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That giganourmous prompt takes too much screen space. Having a few characters left to type at the end without switching lines doesn't seem very appealing to me. At least put a \\n somewhere. For the directory name I'm also a fan of \\w and PROMPT_DIRTRIM","parent":"3887727","id":"3888971"}
{"by":"ewillbefull","time":"1348355218","timestamp":"2012-09-22 23:06:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's fair to say libertarians do not support right-to-work laws on principle, because the freedom of contract is used to justify dozens of other positions in their ideology. You cannot logically be a libertarian and support right-to-work laws.\u003cp\u003eCan you find a single local libertarian party or recognized libertarian organization that supports right-to-work laws? Can you find enough to challenge my \"blanket statement\"?","parent":"4559265","id":"4559302"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1445907050","timestamp":"2015-10-27 00:50:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Non-falsifiable argument is non-falsifiable.","parent":"10455264","id":"10455500"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1505242888","timestamp":"2017-09-12 19:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you may have some technology terminology confusion. There are 4K panels that really can display colors that are physically impossible for other panels to display.\u003cp\u003eIt is true that these systems ship with fake-o postprocessing to take conventional content and smear them into these new colors, but that\u0026#x27;s a stopgap, and you aren\u0026#x27;t actually obligated to use them, you know. Just like TVs tend to ship in what I call \u0026quot;claw your eyes out mode\u0026quot; for display, but it\u0026#x27;s the work of just a few seconds to turn them back to something sane for any decent quality panel. (There are certainly panels that have no decent quality setting, no matter how much you fiddle; if you care, do some research. I do and did.)\u003cp\u003ePer what I see of your other comment, whether you like it or not, there are standards being called \u0026quot;HDR\u0026quot; that includes true expanded gamut support: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;High-dynamic-range_video#Standards\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;High-dynamic-range_video#Stand...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15230504","id":"15230582"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1540431956","timestamp":"2018-10-25 01:45:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t it great to have a world full of tolerance? :)","parent":"18297868","id":"18297975"}
{"by":"saidajigumi","time":"1434918352","timestamp":"2015-06-21 20:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only is the headline tired, it\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003ewrong\u003c/i\u003e per the author\u0026#x27;s own analysis (emphasis mine):\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Finally I checked the optimization flags. \u003ci\u003eThe problem seems to be reproducible with code generated without optimization\u003c/i\u003e (-Onone) for ARM (because for x86 it is OK). At the same time, \u003ci\u003eresult is right with optimized code\u003c/i\u003e (-O, -Ounchecked) - this is rather strange to me, I\u0026#x27;d expect unoptimized code free of errors like this, rather that optimized one.\u003cp\u003eThat is, there\u0026#x27;s an outright correctness bug in Swift, or at very least a huge break in the principle of least surprise.","parent":"9754728","id":"9754871"}
{"by":"burkaman","time":"1499785363","timestamp":"2017-07-11 15:02:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  I cannot recall ever reading about them ever blaming any experience on people just being baseline terrible\u003cp\u003eI mean, that\u0026#x27;s not really newsworthy. \u0026quot;I experience a lot of racism, but today someone was a dick to me for a racially neutral reason.\u0026quot; It\u0026#x27;s hard to imagine someone being motivated to write this story, since it\u0026#x27;s such an obvious fact of life. I hope you don\u0026#x27;t think that people who talk about racism believe that every negative event in their life was solely caused by racism.\u003cp\u003eHave you discussed this stuff with any women or non-white people? I find it\u0026#x27;s a lot easier to understand when you\u0026#x27;re having a friendly conversation rather than reading an angry blog post.","parent":"14741918","id":"14744745"}
{"by":"cocoflunchy","time":"1494448570","timestamp":"2017-05-10 20:36:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Under \u0026quot;costs and expenses\u0026quot;:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    General and administrative\n    Q1 2017: 1,174,476 \n    Q1 2016: 24,011\t\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAm I reading this right? $1.2B? Is this because of the IPO?","parent":"14311176","id":"14311440"}
{"by":"weston","time":"1497024740","timestamp":"2017-06-09 16:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s called Gonzo journalism and Hunter S. Thompson popularized the style in the 1970s (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gonzo_journalism\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gonzo_journalism\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"14522350","id":"14522371"}
{"by":"oijaf888","time":"1376240253","timestamp":"2013-08-11 16:57:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are all the codecs that VLC ships with freely redistributable? I was under the impression that many required licensing agreements even to distribute for free which impedes open source projects without a corporate backing from doing so.","parent":"6195251","id":"6195402"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1506962285","timestamp":"2017-10-02 16:38:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My intent was to critique the sort of \u003ci\u003eviral content farm plus paywall\u003c/i\u003e approach that the NYT and WaPo are moving toward.\u003cp\u003eThat approach increases the percentage of people who clicked on a viral headline only to find a paywall.  The problem is not a fee for subscription, it\u0026#x27;s shoving the wall in the face of the reader while spending money to create and market clickbait viral headlines.\u003cp\u003eI realize that from the marketing perspective it\u0026#x27;s just a funnel, and the first step in the funnel is the headline copy.  So none of the later steps (article engagement, etc.) matter unless the first step \u0026quot;succeeded\u0026quot; in generating a click.\u003cp\u003eBut this doesn\u0026#x27;t work with news, which is probably why the NYT and WaPo are moving more toward marketing to a tribe of people with specific beliefs rather than writing news and analysis that can be relied upon for its consistency and objectivity.\u003cp\u003eThe WSJ on the other hand has been running the same kind of news coverage and analysis for years, and has not really changed its approach to fit with a viral marketing strategy.\u003cp\u003eNews and analysis used to be judged by consumers\u0026#x2F;subscribers for the overall information value it provided. Now, that step is being skipped and individual headlines and stories are being judged by how effectively they rise to the top of Facebook\u0026#x27;s news feed algorithm.  It\u0026#x27;s a fundamentally different game and the WaPo and NYT are able to very effectively get stories into news feeds, and my guess is that the people responsible for that are getting praise and financial rewards for making it happen, yet the consistency and reliability of the publications is suffering tremendously.\u003cp\u003eNews feed aggregation is biased by the people who like\u0026#x2F;click\u0026#x2F;engage with content, so content that does well might not be better quality than content that does poorly, it\u0026#x27;s just content that works better in that marketing channel.\u003cp\u003eAnalogously, imagine if we evaluated food quality by how well it slid through a series of pipes, rode along a belt, and was then shoved by a robotic foot onto a plate.  Some foods would work very well in that machine and end up on the plate reliably.  Others would not.\u003cp\u003eWhat we\u0026#x27;re seeing is news orgs fundamentally changing how they report on events simply in response to the characteristics of news feed algos, which are simply crude machines just like the tube and belt contraption described above.  It\u0026#x27;s a very hard to understand system, but more importantly there is tremendous dimensionality reduction going on in the cause\u0026#x2F;effect analysis. Dimensions like journalistic quality, consistency, and civic value are washed out by tribe affiliation value and the amount of dopamine generated when the viewer first reads the headline.\u003cp\u003eFrom the perspective of finding entertaining content to keep people logged into Facebook it works fantastically, but something is definitely lost in the process :)","parent":"15385086","id":"15385318"}
{"by":"pascal_cuoq","time":"1409168412","timestamp":"2014-08-27 19:40:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For nearly all of the last 10 years, I have been working on the specific topic of how to better predict what a C program can do (and in particular, correctly predict that a C program will behave well). This is a shorter time than 17 years, but it is more focused than using C as a tool for actually achieving something else, where you aren\u0026#x27;t thinking about the specifics of C most of the time, hopefully.\u003cp\u003eDespite this, a fortnight ago I was caught off-guard by GCC 4.9\u0026#x27;s choice of compiling the program in \u003ca href=\"http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fRbGfQ6p\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;raw.php?i=fRbGfQ6p\u003c/a\u003e to an executable that displays “p is non-null” followed by “p:(nil)”.\u003cp\u003eThere has to be a way out of this. Seriously. Most C programmers neither asked for nor deserve this.","parent":"8233929","id":"8234293"}
{"by":"blowski","time":"1428951895","timestamp":"2015-04-13 19:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; cognitive dissonance\u003cp\u003eOff-topic, but why can\u0026#x27;t people say \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m not sure\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;I can see both sides of this argument\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s just an overused geek cliche.","parent":"9369122","id":"9369671"}
{"by":"tongxiang","time":"1407429648","timestamp":"2014-08-07 16:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TL;DNR: don\u0026#x27;t ask whether or not a bootcamp is worth it; ask whether not you\u0026#x27;re considering the RIGHT ONE. Bootcamp \u0026gt; online courses.\u003cp\u003eI went through Fullstack Academy in NYC and received five job offers. (Full disclosure--worked as a teaching fellow at Fullstack shortly afterward, so I was on the payroll.) Had one of the best learning experiences of my life there. Absolutely worth the cost of tuition--there are real tangible pedagogical differences between distance\u0026#x2F;online learning like One Month Rails or Lynda and a physical classroom. You\u0026#x27;ll be a stronger coder, by an order of magnitude, from an in-person bootcamp.\u003cp\u003eThe signal-to-noise ratio in the bootcamp space is currently EXTREMELY low. Currently, there are really only two data points prospective students can act on 1) the name-brand value of the first-to-market bootcamps, like App Academy and Hacker School, and 2) testimonials and hiring experiences of former students.\u003cp\u003eNeither of these data points are reliable. Plenty of students fall through the cracks at the oldest, most well-established bootcamps, and anecdotes (like this one, incidentally) can\u0026#x27;t represent the average experience.\u003cp\u003eEven though I had a wonderful, incredibly-high-leverage experience at Fullstack, I\u0026#x27;ve known students who have gone through other bootcamps and have had HORRIBLE experiences--lackadaisical instructors working on side projects, courses exclusively by recent grads of the bootcamp with no industry experience, etc.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re considering bootcamps, COLLECT AS MANY SIGNALS ABOUT INSTRUCTION QUALITY AS POSSIBLE. This means speaking to former students, speaking to instructors and co-founders (if they\u0026#x27;re a bootcamp of any quality, they\u0026#x27;ll allow prospective students to chat with co-founders), sitting in on classes, visiting the school.\u003cp\u003eThe bootcamp space is lucrative, and becoming increasingly crowded. Before someone comes along with a method of ranking them, DO YOUR RESEARCH.","parent":"8148345","id":"8148668"}
{"by":"gtirloni","time":"1403010918","timestamp":"2014-06-17 13:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the exact same question pop up in my mind after seeing the emoji\u0026#x27;s. I understand all characters can be considered nothing but pictures, but a thermometer, really? Is this used in any widespread language to be of significance to Unicode? Is Unicode trying to also offer some kind of clipart capability?\u003cp\u003eI think we\u0026#x27;ve seen our fair share of derailed projects in IT. Unicode is certainly a very critical project, which makes its focus even more important.","parent":"7903877","id":"7904193"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1377706622","timestamp":"2013-08-28 16:17:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m broadly in favor of any technology which increases the number of firms which are able to make A\u0026#x2F;B testing a routine practice at their organizations.  This solves an issue which occurs in some deployments.  It being available as OSS is therefore unmitigated good news, though I probably won\u0026#x27;t use it myself.","parent":"6290877","id":"6290943"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1424815660","timestamp":"2015-02-24 22:07:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can influence the front page by visiting new and upvoting the good submissions.","parent":"9100103","id":"9103872"}
{"by":"chooseaname","time":"1537291196","timestamp":"2018-09-18 17:19:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really want the ISPs to define exactly what my monthly fees are paying for.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;ll clearly tell you that faster is better:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Indulge in super speed and have a great online experience, whether you\u0026#x27;re browsing the Web, shopping, or streaming your favorite movies and shows.\u003cp\u003eBut I want to know what my money is actually paying for.","parent":"18013764","id":"18017198"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1402675824","timestamp":"2014-06-13 16:10:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m glad you replied as someone else got in touch and expressed interest. I said I\u0026#x27;d wait until a week had elapsed or you\u0026#x27;d got back to me. So it\u0026#x27;ll be going to a good home, regardless... :)","parent":"7889272","id":"7889537"}
{"by":"alecco","time":"1236343940","timestamp":"2009-03-06 12:52:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK, I clicked on the advogato.org link, and I confirm it is the \u003ci\u003esame\u003c/i\u003e entry as the OP of this thread gave. It is a rant on Git, it is very shallow, it compares Git with an operating system family and filesystems.\u003cp\u003eI stand by my comment, in fact it probably was very tame. This is shallow crap linkbait trash without any real substance.","parent":"505147","id":"505421"}
{"by":"rbcgerard","time":"1418658920","timestamp":"2014-12-15 15:55:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that\u0026#x27;s a pretty good idea -\u003cp\u003etwo quick thoughts:\u003cp\u003e1.as a consumer its hard to do more than \u0026quot;technical analysis\u0026quot; on a chart of the ticket price to figure out where to set your limit order\u003cp\u003e2. What are the odds that the company doing this doesn\u0026#x27;t share their order book with the airlines?\u003cp\u003estill like the idea","parent":"8752293","id":"8752575"}
{"by":"murukesh_s","time":"1504660066","timestamp":"2017-09-06 01:07:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wondering if the radiation tech could work in sending the heat generated from other sources like clothes dryers etc as well?","parent":"15177478","id":"15180399"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1372282321","timestamp":"2013-06-26 21:32:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m just waiting for performance to finish improving. It is better than it used to be (used to take 20-30 seconds to zoom on a modern computer), but still not great.","parent":"5948334","id":"5949247"}
{"by":"SZJX","time":"1528736961","timestamp":"2018-06-11 17:09:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Foxconn and similar manufacturers are always the favorite topic for western media. But the reality is complicated. The bottom line is that in most cases there\u0026#x27;s no slave labor taking place and nobody forces those workers to stay there. I have a relative who works in a Foxconn factory in Sichuan. She had a lot of other jobs before. She works there not because he\u0026#x27;s being forced like a slave or whatnot, but simply because Foxconn pays very good salaries compared to other options that she has (this manufacturer in Hengyang might be underpaying but this does not automatically mean that every factory does the same).\u003cp\u003eYeah, the hours are very long compared to western standards. I also much prefer the way the Europeans find work-life balance. But that is because you are already a very rich society and you can afford that. Also there is also a cultural and historical difference. In China, or Korea, or Japan, wherever in East Asia, working long hours is very normal, be it for low-level workers or high-level executives. This is just a part of the culture. Without it, how could China which was so poor 40 years ago become rich and powerful again this fast? Even the US is much more workaholic than Europe, without the mandatory one-month holiday etc. If you imagine that Foxconn workers are subjected to slave-like treatments as if they were in a plantation or a mine, you can\u0026#x27;t be further from facts. Yes, I personally prefer to have a better work-life balance, but that\u0026#x27;s because I can already make the choices. For many underprivileged populace in China, working for Foxconn is the best possible opportunity they can get.\u003cp\u003eOf course I also do acknowledge that even though there\u0026#x27;s no essential slavery the work conditions can and shall be improved, especially now that China has got a lot richer already. In a sense the industrialists during the industrial revolution can also argue that they were not really forcing workers into \u0026quot;slavery\u0026quot;, but the workers had actually no choice whatsoever since every workplace was the same (the modern Chinese factories are definitely much better than those places in the 18th century though). Anyways just wanted to offer a different perspective here. If you actually go there and talk to most of the workers I believe you\u0026#x27;d hear a similar answer to that offered by my relative, i.e. they just want to save up some money when they can and this opportunity is as good as it can get under the current social circumstances. They\u0026#x27;ll likely return to their hometown to start something else after working such a job for a while. I do also believe that the accelerating social inequality in China is a problem that has to be addressed and there should be many more opportunities for the poor. But that\u0026#x27;s in a way similar to what\u0026#x27;s happening in the US and not something fundamentally\u0026#x2F;qualitatively different.","parent":"17276059","id":"17286251"}
{"by":"kelnos","time":"1316207688","timestamp":"2011-09-16 21:14:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would downvote myself for this comment that I'm making, but:\u003cp\u003eI generally dislike this sort of meta-discussion on HN.  I believe the guidelines have something to say about this, as well: if you disagree with a posting, don't comment about it, just flag it and move on.  Adding a comment saying \"this doesn't belong on HN\" does not at all add to the discussion.  \u003ci\u003eThat\u003c/i\u003e is why I (and many others) will downvote you for your initial comment.  It's not because we disagree, it's because the comment is extraneous noise.","parent":"3006042","id":"3006350"}
{"by":"stefs","time":"1457563618","timestamp":"2016-03-09 22:46:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s a pattern that \u0026quot;moves forward\u0026quot;, i.e. recreates itself at another position.","parent":"11256156","id":"11256239"}
{"by":"marknutter","time":"1413289844","timestamp":"2014-10-14 12:30:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps it correlates with Americans\u0026#x27; obsession with youth? Everyone wants to stay young and working out is the most obvious and effective way of doing that.","parent":"8452754","id":"8453085"}
{"by":"meh01","time":"1358557307","timestamp":"2013-01-19 01:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that this is a link to DataStax. :)","parent":"5082054","id":"5082102"}
{"by":"MPSimmons","time":"1339849434","timestamp":"2012-06-16 12:23:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tragedy of the commons.\u003cp\u003ePlus greed on the part of ICANN. You can only sell one .google TLD, but there are thousands of relevant words in the dictionary for anyone with a deep enough coin purse.","parent":"4120322","id":"4120480"}
{"by":"Bob_Sheep","time":"1406483619","timestamp":"2014-07-27 17:53:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is more data available here:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bmreports.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bmreports.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/additional/soapserver.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bmreports.com\u0026#x2F;bsp\u0026#x2F;additional\u0026#x2F;soapserver.php\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts pretty much real time data that can be used for trading on the electricity market.","parent":"8092431","id":"8093413"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1443482213","timestamp":"2015-09-28 23:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Similarly for pdftk:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIt can perform lots of other functions on pdfs (hence the name!) during the process like setting printing permissions and quality, and performing encryptions.","parent":"10292804","id":"10293810"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1434277849","timestamp":"2015-06-14 10:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can get these things as plugins for Vim and Emacs, too.","parent":"9713478","id":"9714431"}
{"by":"X4","time":"1375049798","timestamp":"2013-07-28 22:16:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you, that\u0026#x27;s cool! I have been looking for Deca for hours in my Bookmarks and the Web, didn\u0026#x27;t remember the name. (I have collected some languages to study too)","parent":"6117456","id":"6118309"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1325159020","timestamp":"2011-12-29 11:43:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given that you can get anything AWS does cheaper elsewhere I don't think argue that.\u003cp\u003eAWS's advantages are many, but price isn't really a critical one.","parent":"3403236","id":"3403347"}
{"by":"kenmazy","time":"1341001122","timestamp":"2012-06-29 20:18:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's funny, I interpreted what he said a bit differently for \"impatience\" and \"hubris\".  To me, impatience and hubris go hand in hand for a good hacker.\u003cp\u003eImpatience: Why is this code taking so long?\u003cp\u003eHubris: I could write code that is way faster/better than this!","parent":"4178561","id":"4178846"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1360896374","timestamp":"2013-02-15 02:46:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Loses right? They never had it to begin with in Brazil. Also, I may not remember it accurately, but didn't Apple have to buy the rights for the iPhone name in US from Cisco, too? I don't think it was publicized that much back then, but I think I remember something along those lines.","parent":"5224045","id":"5224122"}
{"by":"socmag","time":"1474498734","timestamp":"2016-09-21 22:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry to see you got downvoted for voicing your opinion. Remember, Stockholm Syndrome is a disease.","parent":"12552526","id":"12553024"}
{"by":"geodel","time":"1483060245","timestamp":"2016-12-30 01:10:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go has much lower memory usage, high throughput, std ssl\u0026#x2F;tls\u0026#x2F;http libraries, high performance GC and produce fully static binaries. I do not think Python\u0026#x2F;Ruby can provide required performance for containers, cluster scheduling, orchestration etc. Even Java with much higher perf compared to Python\u0026#x2F;Ruby is not suitable because of high memory usage.","parent":"13280375","id":"13281731"}
{"by":"vladimiroff","time":"1382356531","timestamp":"2013-10-21 11:55:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bulgaria","parent":"6582647","id":"6584845"}
{"by":"antinitro","time":"1366102216","timestamp":"2013-04-16 08:50:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1","parent":"5555437","id":"5557031"}
{"by":"batiudrami","time":"1527828147","timestamp":"2018-06-01 04:42:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know but for iPhone users it\u0026#x27;s more or less seamless other than that they know they have fewer features if the bubbles are green.","parent":"17202401","id":"17202640"}
{"by":"rmc","time":"1357426511","timestamp":"2013-01-05 22:55:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But what if the goal is ideological uniformity? r/lgbt or r/transgender is about LGBT or trans issues. They want to make a Safe Space where people don't have to justify trans 101?","parent":"5013695","id":"5014359"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1515176936","timestamp":"2018-01-05 18:28:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only in regards to things where the federal government has authority to begin with.  There are very good reasons (the Enumerated Powers clause, the 9th and 10 amendments, etc.) to question if the federal government \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c/i\u003e has all the authority it claims for itself.","parent":"16078010","id":"16080491"}
{"by":"weavejester","time":"1365800600","timestamp":"2013-04-12 21:03:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, again, not exactly, because a bitcoin-like network can potentially enforce rules in a way that a physical commodity cannot do.","parent":"5540740","id":"5540987"}
{"by":"ironic_ali","time":"1543049256","timestamp":"2018-11-24 08:47:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something I\u0026#x27;ve found works well over the years has been, \u0026quot;so, what do you like to do when your not working\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m fairly introverted and it gets the conversation going well in every case so far.","parent":"18520909","id":"18521137"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1432160301","timestamp":"2015-05-20 22:18:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which pretty much maps to my comment.","parent":"9579659","id":"9579722"}
{"by":"bitmapbrother","time":"1507668311","timestamp":"2017-10-10 20:45:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;My dream device would be iPhone HW with Android software\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s called the Pixel 2.","parent":"15443739","id":"15445179"}
{"by":"seehafer","time":"1446848525","timestamp":"2015-11-06 22:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s rare to see anyone favoriting a tweet to \u0026quot;reference\u0026quot; it later.\u003cp\u003eA lot of broad statements being thrown around by both the author of this article and the people in this thread. I used favorites in exactly this way, and I\u0026#x27;m not a marketer.","parent":"10522307","id":"10522462"}
{"by":"analog31","time":"1391648885","timestamp":"2014-02-06 01:08:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect that of equal importance to the schematic view, for electrical engineers, is the dataflow programming model. Another dataflow based programming tool, albeit non Turing complete, is Excel.","parent":"7187476","id":"7188042"}
{"by":"crystalis","time":"1278999317","timestamp":"2010-07-13 05:35:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why are you being upvoted?\u003cp\u003eFrom your link: \"The equivalent dose for 365 bananas (one per day for a year) is 3.6 millirems (36 μSv).\"\u003cp\u003e500 bananas is 5 millirems. Try 500k.","parent":"1509766","id":"1510465"}
{"by":"Cthulhu_","time":"1525873680","timestamp":"2018-05-09 13:48:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And you think this bank (re: the article) falls outside of those? You won\u0026#x27;t be able to get your btc out quickly in this one either. Same with online exchanges for that matter.\u003cp\u003eThey also have much lower transaction fees.","parent":"17029606","id":"17029747"}
{"by":"jon_dahl","time":"1219255515","timestamp":"2008-08-20 18:05:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I wish the criteria was more like \"anything of interest to hackers in their capacity as hackers\". I'm interested in politics, religion, lolcats, and baseball, but I'd prefer not to see these things overrun Hacker News.","parent":"281709","id":"281769"}
{"by":"cletus","time":"1279468500","timestamp":"2010-07-18 15:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How ironic is it that an article about the abject failure of a paywall is hidden behind a registrationwall, which has proven to be almost as much of a barrier?","parent":"1525706","id":"1525957"}
{"by":"stefanfisk","time":"1532251600","timestamp":"2018-07-22 09:26:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"does it have any use cases that are not covered by \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.charlesproxy.com\u0026#x2F;ios\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.charlesproxy.com\u0026#x2F;ios\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e?","parent":"17585624","id":"17585988"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1389332105","timestamp":"2014-01-10 05:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is already a demo for the Rift where you are placed in a virtual cinema complex (multiple screens, a patron walks past, the dorky carpet, etc). From the main hall, you can enter a cinema to watch an existing movie or choose one from your hard drive to play. It enables you to choose whichever seat you want which is a funny gimmick.","parent":"7034496","id":"7035280"}
{"by":"bemmu","time":"1473918556","timestamp":"2016-09-15 05:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me it\u0026#x27;s impressive how fast he still responds after losing consciousness. If you\u0026#x27;ve ever fainted, there\u0026#x27;s this period where you don\u0026#x27;t know where you are or even WHO you are, let alone being able to fly a plane.","parent":"12503530","id":"12503746"}
{"by":"TheNewAndy","time":"1473591145","timestamp":"2016-09-11 10:52:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t ever check for (signed) overflows in C - you can only prevent them. I\u0026#x27;m not sure if I\u0026#x27;m drawing a distinction you weren\u0026#x27;t intending to make (if so, then my apologies).\u003cp\u003eWhen you are adding signed integers in C, you need to prove that doing so can\u0026#x27;t overflow - knowing the exact width doesn\u0026#x27;t really help you here - just prove it for the narrowest possible width and you have proved it for all of them. In practice this isn\u0026#x27;t hard because either it is trivial to prove (e.g. incrementing a variable which is known to be small, or just plain modifying the code to put in explicit saturation\u0026#x2F;other logic for the cases where things get hairy)\u003cp\u003eOf course an 8-bit compiler is going to allocate 32-bits for a long int - the language requires that a long is at least 32-bits wide. If you had a compiler that didn\u0026#x27;t do this, then it isn\u0026#x27;t a C compiler.","parent":"12472704","id":"12472812"}
{"by":"johns","time":"1316046860","timestamp":"2011-09-15 00:34:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest difference is that Metro IE doesn't support Flash/Silverlight/plugins and desktop IE does. This is, I suspect, why they put a 'switch to desktop IE' feature into Metro IE. Site's broken? Just flip to the full version.","parent":"2997666","id":"2998420"}
{"by":"kurlberg","time":"1528871451","timestamp":"2018-06-13 06:30:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An interesting point made in \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.math.princeton.edu\u0026#x2F;~kollar\u0026#x2F;FromMyHomePage\u0026#x2F;fm-essay.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.math.princeton.edu\u0026#x2F;~kollar\u0026#x2F;FromMyHomePage\u0026#x2F;fm-ess...\u003c/a\u003e is that getting a fields medal is good for longevity, but bad if you \u0026quot;nearly got it\u0026quot;: +8 yrs if you get it, -6 for \u0026quot;just missed\u0026quot; (see p. 6.)\u003cp\u003eThe main point of the article is not about longevity, but rather: does the award lead to better or worse research? (It is awarded relatively early.)","parent":"17298372","id":"17300747"}
{"by":"BackWhackBeaner","time":"1444409964","timestamp":"2015-10-09 16:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ergo, why projects that provide encryption tools are so important.","parent":"10361336","id":"10361502"}
{"by":"jrs95","time":"1541455574","timestamp":"2018-11-05 22:06:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would probably make more sense for them to support Android\u0026#x2F;Linux applications on Windows rather than trying to make Windows applications work on Linux. Especially since they\u0026#x27;re continuing to work on slimming down Windows and getting to run efficiently on ARM, I don\u0026#x27;t see why they would invest any resources into Linux on the desktop.","parent":"18378936","id":"18386403"}
{"by":"nosuchthingtm","time":"1516768608","timestamp":"2018-01-24 04:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other chains are cheaper because they have fewer users or higher trust\u0026#x2F;censorability.","parent":"16219700","id":"16220349"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1368976930","timestamp":"2013-05-19 15:22:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only actually, Mussolini's trains ran even less reliable.  See \u003ca href=\"http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5733048","id":"5733095"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1541504965","timestamp":"2018-11-06 11:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NYC is also big in film and television, which could interest Amazon.","parent":"18388298","id":"18390131"}
{"by":"sanctuslibre","time":"1393964574","timestamp":"2014-03-04 20:22:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are falling into a predictable fallacy. Predictable in that this comes up all the time when people talk about the government. The fact that the government provides a service does not imply that the service would not exist if the government did not do it. We could absolutely have cabs without the TB problem without the government. In fact, in areas where the government does not enforce its own monopoly, you see competition with government-provided services flourishing. UPS, FedEX, and DHL versus USPS. Private college loan providers. Private universities. Private schools. On and on. The idea that without the government doing it, we are going to have rampant TB-infested taxi drivers is just silly. No one wants to use such a taxi and they do not need the government to tell them that.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;This is the big problem I have with the libertarian free market ideal: it\u0026#x27;s fundamentally reactive, not proactive.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI do not know if I should take that statement seriously. I expect if you think over that statement for even 30 seconds you can see why it is both a complete non sequitur and insane.\u003cp\u003e1) Laws are obviously reactive. I would bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that TB testing was put in effect as a reaction to an event in which a taxi, bus, or train driver was spreading TB.\u003cp\u003e2) The free market is exactly as reactive or proactive as people are. This is its virtue. People providing other people what they want is the whole point, both of markets and, it is claimed by those who believe in the State, the government. No organization, government or otherwise, can get away from being reactive to human needs unless it provides things people do not want or need, and in what way would so doing be good?\u003cp\u003e3) It does not matter anyway. The point of all this is that people should be free to pursue their desires, regardless of the considerations of people who think they know better and are worried about things being \u0026quot;reactive\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;proactive\u0026quot;. These concerns are simply petty against the moral position of freedom.\u003cp\u003eLook, I enjoy a good discussion on the internet as much as anyone. I have learned a lot from reading comments on HN. But I get the impression that you have not read any of the good arguments against your position. I am a poor substitute for any of the major thinkers in the libertarian tradition. If you want to save yourself reading, you can even watch videos of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, or Thomas Sowell on YouTube. I recommend Stefan Molyneux\u0026#x27;s show, Free Domain Radio. He discusses these issues often. You could even call into his show and have a long discussion with him on the topic. He entertains such calls often.","parent":"7341823","id":"7342848"}
{"by":"dchichkov","time":"1395715422","timestamp":"2014-03-25 02:43:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be precise, according to that link, their sample size is n = 1. Not even two.\u003cp\u003eSad.","parent":"7460830","id":"7463468"}
{"by":"informatimago","time":"1435627329","timestamp":"2015-06-30 01:22:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why?  :-)\u003cp\u003eAssuming it\u0026#x27;s a question asked by a doorknob manufacturer, we actually want to count the \u0026quot;real\u0026quot; doors that have doorknobs, not the moral doors that you may conceptually have at the entrance of some shack.  We could also evaluate entrances and such.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s take the population per continent:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ecology.com\u0026#x2F;world-population-continent\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ecology.com\u0026#x2F;world-population-continent\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Current World Population by Continent\n    Population estimates as of 2010. \n    Source: Population Reference Bureau\n    Asia             4157300000\n    Africa           1030400000\n    Europe            738600000\n    North America*    461114000\n    South America     390700000\n    Australia**        36700000\n    Antarctica***             0\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nNow, we\u0026#x27;ll estimate the number of houses per person, for each continent (related to family size, existence of work office and administration buildings), along with the number of doors per house\u0026#x2F;office.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  #| Asia           |# (+ (* 4157300000 (+ 1\u0026#x2F;4 1\u0026#x2F;12) 4)\n  #| Africa         |#    (* 1030400000 (+ 1\u0026#x2F;6 1\u0026#x2F;30) 4)\n  #| Europe         |#    (*  738600000 (+ 1\u0026#x2F;3 1\u0026#x2F;2)  6)\n  #| North America* |#    (*  461114000 (+ 1\u0026#x2F;3 1\u0026#x2F;2)  6)\n  #| South America  |#    (*  390700000 (+ 1\u0026#x2F;4 1\u0026#x2F;12) 4)\n  #| Australia**    |#    (*   36700000 (+ 1\u0026#x2F;3 1\u0026#x2F;2)  6)\n  #| Antarctica***  |#    (*          0 (+ 1\u0026#x2F;6 1)    8))    \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWhich gives an estimated total  of 13,070,390,000 doors, about 1.9 door per person.\n(The number of doors in Antartica is grossly underestimated, sorry).\u003cp\u003ePS: If you want to know if I\u0026#x27;m right, you\u0026#x27;ll have to pay USD 2200.00 ;-) :\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chinamarketresearchreports.org\u0026#x2F;report\u0026#x2F;global-and-china-door-knob-industry-2014-market-research-report.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chinamarketresearchreports.org\u0026#x2F;report\u0026#x2F;global-and-...\u003c/a\u003e \n(don\u0026#x27;t forget to divide the number of doorknobs by two to get the number of doors (ignoring revolving doors)).","parent":"9802132","id":"9802260"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1393355552","timestamp":"2014-02-25 19:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for replying. I am trying to understand what benefit there is to studying the frequency and strength. How is that information used? What good does it do you to know?\u003cp\u003eI am sorry if I sound obtuse. I am genuinely trying to understand this. I have a serious medical condition which causes extreme acidification. Reversing the acidity has reversed a lot of my symptoms. I did not need a fancy test to do that. So I am trying to understand ... why people do this sort of thing, I guess. It makes no sense to me but what I do makes no sense to other people. I don\u0026#x27;t know how to cross that communication gap right now. I am trying to figure it out.","parent":"7295171","id":"7299723"}
{"by":"rootw0rm","time":"1519180221","timestamp":"2018-02-21 02:30:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can hear these sounds too.  Earplugs definitely make it worse.  I grew up in a small town right next to a huge military base and aircraft flyovers were a very frequent occurrence.  To me the sound sort of reminds me of a really faint helicopter or really faint jet engine in the distance, just on the edge of hearing.","parent":"16425296","id":"16426381"}
{"by":"smt88","time":"1466064273","timestamp":"2016-06-16 08:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No one forces you to use any particular browser, and you\u0026#x27;re getting some incredibly complicated, useful software for free.\u003cp\u003eIf you find that Chrome updates come with unwanted changes, you might want to try Firefox or Opera.","parent":"11914519","id":"11914692"}
{"by":"arrrg","time":"1387117871","timestamp":"2013-12-15 14:31:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice victim blaming you got going there. Always the same bullshit on HN. Like clockwork.","parent":"6909442","id":"6909479"}
{"by":"hyperpape","time":"1498838593","timestamp":"2017-06-30 16:03:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The issue is that with the string\u0026#x2F;regex issue, there\u0026#x27;s a good reason that the string operation should be faster. Maybe a \u0026quot;sufficiently smart compiler\u0026quot; could optimize it in some cases of static regexes, but it\u0026#x27;s at least complicated. In cases where the regex is dynamically determined, even the sufficiently smart compiler probably can\u0026#x27;t optimize away the regex.\u003cp\u003eIn contrast, the case in this article seems like table stakes for an optimizing compiler. It\u0026#x27;s just not eliminating common subexpressions. There\u0026#x27;s no reason to contort your code around something that should automatically happen.","parent":"14671457","id":"14671582"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1351554802","timestamp":"2012-10-29 23:53:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Crying that something is on HN should really be a bannable offense.  I have a feeling these are the same people who are constantly trying to delete relatively popular wikipedia articles over \"notability concerns\".","parent":"4715134","id":"4715222"}
{"by":"nkozyra","time":"1373687736","timestamp":"2013-07-13 03:55:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see even that intended purpose as benign in any way, though.","parent":"6034506","id":"6036613"}
{"by":"jevinskie","time":"1361910661","timestamp":"2013-02-26 20:31:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are roads not man made objects? Those are visible from very high altitudes!","parent":"5287737","id":"5288373"}
{"by":"th0ma5","time":"1409761184","timestamp":"2014-09-03 16:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know with Android you can, but can you develop for I devices without a license? I understand you\u0026#x27;re talking government licenses, and that one could jailbreak an iDevice, but can you develop legally without an Apple license?","parent":"8263395","id":"8263742"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1272465411","timestamp":"2010-04-28 14:36:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try asking for the bonus Wall St style: \"Hey boss, you know I am worth a lot. Pay me more or I quit. \"\u003cp\u003eYour boss may find the money, or your new job will pay more.","parent":"1301442","id":"1301620"}
{"by":"ronaldx","time":"1393202742","timestamp":"2014-02-24 00:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; it\u0026#x27;s not a sustainable way to fund anything, let alone the massive expenditures required for UBI.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m open-minded but not convinced that printing money for UBI is an awful idea.\u003cp\u003ePrinting money and sharing it out equally results in inflation, very likely, which affects people with existing wealth\u0026#x2F;savings more. The result is that money is very effectively redistributed, in a way which the existing income-based taxation system is unable to. Isn\u0026#x27;t that exactly the goal?","parent":"7287766","id":"7288485"}
{"by":"peterjmag","time":"1348619518","timestamp":"2012-09-26 00:31:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see that you already have it on your to-do list to fix browser navigation, so here's a related request: Don't hijack my browser's \"open link in new tab\" functionality. Right now, your pager buttons' href attributes are \"javascript:void(0)\", which breaks middle click (or Ctrl+click, etc) behavior.","parent":"4573000","id":"4573576"}
{"by":"OnlyRepliesToBS","time":"1533140850","timestamp":"2018-08-01 16:27:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PDF link?","parent":"17662864","dead":true,"id":"17664022"}
{"by":"lusis","time":"1303099643","timestamp":"2011-04-18 04:07:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The electoral college ONLY applies to the president. The president can't (despite best efforts) unilaterally make laws. The role of president has very little legislative power (IMHO) as it should be.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that people blindly use the word \"democracy\" (something that the founding fathers warned against) and attempt to \"spread\" it in other countries only highlights the need for better education.\u003cp\u003eWe are under a rule of law, not a rule of mob:\u003cp\u003e\"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.\" - Benjamin Franklin.","parent":"2454231","id":"2457907"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1545575922","timestamp":"2018-12-23 14:38:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you give an example of what kind of programming challenge or task that you recently had difficulty working on? I think part of your problem is thinking that programming is a mostly monolithic, easily quantifiable kind of skill.","parent":"18745575","id":"18746269"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1370815698","timestamp":"2013-06-09 22:08:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A warrant that applies to everyone, and is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e based on probable cause, quite clearly violates the Fourth Amendment.","parent":"5850860","id":"5850889"}
{"by":"derobert","time":"1300400850","timestamp":"2011-03-17 22:27:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Technically, the theorem doesn't apply. Actually built computers aren't Turing machines: their memory is finite.\u003cp\u003eThe algorithm to answer if a program running on a deterministic finite-memory machine is trivial: Run until it either halts or repeats a state. Halting means it halts (duh); repeating a state means it doesn't halt. This algorithm is, of course, not implementable.","parent":"2336918","id":"2338429"}
{"by":"acangiano","time":"1286555414","timestamp":"2010-10-08 16:30:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; But in this case it's clearly wrong, because the two-syllable \"Xiaobo\" must be a given name because it's got two syllables.\u003cp\u003eAnd it's confirmed by the fact that his wife is Liu Xia.","parent":"1772085","id":"1772194"}
{"by":"tel","time":"1393601211","timestamp":"2014-02-28 15:26:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Constant, even.","parent":"7318968","id":"7319195"}
{"by":"devmonk","time":"1290430420","timestamp":"2010-11-22 12:53:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't believe that the interviewer is asking the interviewee to implement a sorting algorithm \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e is making fun of candidates online. That certainly is not a place that I'd want to work.","parent":"1929529","id":"1929597"}
{"by":"bananaoomarang","time":"1337766669","timestamp":"2012-05-23 09:51:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seem to work well here (under Arch Linux, Chrome dev channel, nVidia proprietary drivers)","parent":"4008512","id":"4012354"}
{"by":"wizard_2","time":"1245422852","timestamp":"2009-06-19 14:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This will help you, it's a windows implimentation of zero conf, which mac's use for that host name.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/download/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/download/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"665170","id":"665203"}
{"by":"philfreo","time":"1365021553","timestamp":"2013-04-03 20:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there's no reason for this","parent":"5485951","id":"5488906"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1470750510","timestamp":"2016-08-09 13:48:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the company has no idea of whether the person being hire is as good as he pretends to be. This uncertainty goes both ways.","parent":"12254396","id":"12254432"}
{"by":"mbrock","time":"1547218828","timestamp":"2019-01-11 15:00:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I sounded more judging than I really am. The contrast between virtue as perceived by one’s peers and global utility is a fascinating problem. Few people appreciate the virtue of someone like Norman Borlaug, but if you personally abstain from eating meat you can score pretty highly.","parent":"18883480","id":"18883951"}
{"by":"peteysd","time":"1294089049","timestamp":"2011-01-03 21:10:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was interested until I read this: \"... the movie is in three parts, each separated by approximately a year ...\"\u003cp\u003eReally? 3 parts? Sounds like they are really milking this for all it's worth (a-la Harry Potter 7). Is it in 3D too?\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I would have liked to see a single, longer movie. I think you could distill the essence of the book into a movie 2-3 hours long.","parent":"2064522","id":"2064685"}
{"by":"zeman","time":"1385936927","timestamp":"2013-12-01 22:28:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting to see the monitoring tools in place... New Relic, Mixpanel and Chartbeat. Would like to have seen more detail included from these, seem to be focused on backend. Where\u0026#x27;s the real user monitoring data or front-end performance via tools like \u003ca href=\"http://www.webpagetest.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.webpagetest.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"http://speedcurve.com/demo/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;speedcurve.com\u0026#x2F;demo\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6829431","id":"6829706"}
{"by":"grumpyfart","time":"1275677514","timestamp":"2010-06-04 18:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish I could believe this, but this is totally bullshit.\u003cp\u003eCan you explain what your job is?\u003cp\u003eSituation in Turkey is just smaller version of China's Big Firewall that's it. It's not about bandwidth :)\u003cp\u003eHave you checked how many small websites already blocked in Turkey? Numbers are about 6000. At least 5000 of them not even in the Alexa 1000 I can assure you. Youtube is just one of them because there is constantly some random video in it which Turkish government doesn't like, or some imbecile from \n Turkey doesn't like and sue.\u003cp\u003eSo let me clarify, it's not about BANDWITH. Take a look : \u003ca href=\"http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2009/09/22/at-least-6000-websites-censored-from-turkey/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cyberlaw.org.uk/2009/09/22/at-least-6000-websites-cen...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1404235","dead":true,"id":"1405219"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1330607936","timestamp":"2012-03-01 13:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, there is, but it feels oddly familiar, for those raised in the ancient era of ISAM, IMS and Total, to once again need to worry about consistency.\u003cp\u003eNoSQL databases (and not all of them are hierarchical) solve problems Codd wouldn't dream of having, but that doesn't mean they solve every current problem. I've seen people abusing them in horrible ways.","parent":"3651861","id":"3651937"}
{"by":"access_denied","time":"1312224608","timestamp":"2011-08-01 18:50:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. Example: Tumblr.  It's all psychological needs.  It's not a better CMS than Wordpress.","parent":"2833253","dead":true,"id":"2833782"}
{"by":"mentos","time":"1398691100","timestamp":"2014-04-28 13:18:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Curious to know what you see the future for 3D printing to be?\u003cp\u003eI was flipping through Thingiverse and came across this RC car \u003ca href=\"http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:83024\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thingiverse.com\u0026#x2F;thing:83024\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a kid I used to build RC car model kits but they were very expensive so I only ever got to make one a year. If I could have downloaded one every few weeks (about the time it took me to construct one) I\u0026#x27;d have built and learnt so much more. So I see 3D printers as having an amazing application as a learning tool\u0026#x2F;toy for kids.\u003cp\u003eBeyond that I could see it taking a secondary role as a support tool around the house allowing you to print out odds and ends.\u003cp\u003eBut I don\u0026#x27;t see the big problems that 3D printing will hit the ground solving that will change the world? I can see them doing so in a latent way - by having an enormous impact on our children - but I don\u0026#x27;t see the immediate active applications?","parent":"7658375","id":"7659672"}
{"by":"syncontrol","time":"1360083397","timestamp":"2013-02-05 16:56:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but I try to recommend a best practice (I never said Vundle was required, in fact the full Installation Guide mentions Pathogen as an option).","parent":"5170284","id":"5171674"}
{"by":"tombh","time":"1531216352","timestamp":"2018-07-10 09:52:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can! It can just be hard sometimes to find where to click the mouse :\u0026#x2F; I need to find a better way to provide visual cues for input boxes.\u003cp\u003eThanks :)","parent":"17496026","id":"17496664"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1539813646","timestamp":"2018-10-17 22:00:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it most certainly does suck for an assertion claiming it\u0026#x27;s a norm and \u0026quot;hella [sic] expected\u0026quot;.","parent":"18244056","id":"18244241"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1306969405","timestamp":"2011-06-01 23:03:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; How long will it last?\u003cp\u003eAs long as qualifying as a WP7 integrator reduces the extor^H^H^H^H^Hlicensing fees for their Android phones.","parent":"2609715","id":"2609792"}
{"by":"personlurking","time":"1399186266","timestamp":"2014-05-04 06:51:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few Idea Sundays ago I suggested an idea [1] for a location-based city guide for tourists (with comment voting and based on discoverability).\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617048\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=7617048\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s another such idea (based on finding answers)...\u003cp\u003e____\u003cp\u003eA clean, dead-simple search engine that connects to information from Q\u0026amp;A data about the city you\u0026#x27;re in. So it\u0026#x27;s a Q\u0026amp;A site (again, with comment voting) regarding tourist-type questions and answers. The user can ask a new question ahead of their trip and hope for answers but the real use case is where the Q\u0026amp;A database is extensive enough that most questions are asked and answered already.\u003cp\u003eEx. - Enter the Paris section. Type in the search field \u0026quot;hours Louvre\u0026quot; and the first and best answer would be the opening and closing times of the famous museum. No other clutter on the page.\u003cp\u003eEx. 2 - If GPS-enabled, type in \u0026quot;bus Louvre\u0026quot; and it\u0026#x27;d bring up the most relevant answer. \u0026quot;Take the 765. Every 30 min. Next one at 9am.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eShort, sweet and simple. Only thing is, it\u0026#x27;d need a Wikipedia-style editor allowing for corrections when answer is no longer current.","parent":"7693262","id":"7693558"}
{"by":"flyinglizard","time":"1391108943","timestamp":"2014-01-30 19:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think an ideal balance point (for all companies, not just GH) is one where someone can make a very comfortable living finding and reporting security flaws. You simply don\u0026#x27;t do that with $100-$5k bounties.\nGitHub, more than nearly every company out there, is entrusted with trade secrets that are the livelihood of their customers. Paying top money to get security bugs found is not an option, but something that should be regarded as a \u0026quot;cost of doing business\u0026quot;.","parent":"7152523","id":"7152689"}
{"by":"akulbe","time":"1529366103","timestamp":"2018-06-18 23:55:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the meantime, find projects on GitHub that are written in languages you know and fix bugs.\u003cp\u003eThat may help give you cred, where you have a dearth of it, otherwise.","parent":"17341526","id":"17342633"}
{"by":"codyrobbins","time":"1264285743","timestamp":"2010-01-23 22:29:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People realize that the negotiations of the United States Constitutional Convention were secret, right? There’s a difference between a ‘secret treaty’ and a treaty merely negotiated in secret.","parent":"1072407","id":"1072529"}
{"by":"kagamine","time":"1432637338","timestamp":"2015-05-26 10:48:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The instant you entered the black hole, reality would split in two.\u003cp\u003eFrom the 3rd paragraph. However, yes the alternate universe comes into existence when you reach the singularity.\u003cp\u003eStill, if you can exist both inside and outside, then your ashes can exist in both places alongside living you without causing a paradox because you simply will not exist in the same space as you ashes that will arrive very much later anyway as time slows at the edge of the black hole. You are more likely, having read the article, to have a post-life crises knowing that outside the black hole you are dead.","parent":"9603814","id":"9603878"}
{"by":"driverdan","time":"1423771330","timestamp":"2015-02-12 20:02:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Staring at the circles had a very odd mental effect for me. After playing a few rounds other websites I look at seems very square, straight, and ridged.","parent":"9038873","id":"9041020"}
{"by":"Operyl","time":"1523996910","timestamp":"2018-04-17 20:28:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it really is, I’ll gladly start poking at it! That’s the only issue (licensing that is) that’s been pushing me away from Oracle these days.","parent":"16861974","id":"16862012"}
{"by":"Elisernt","time":"1469298572","timestamp":"2016-07-23 18:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hehe... keep shipping !!!","parent":"12150227","dead":true,"id":"12150466"}
{"by":"imtringued","time":"1467803923","timestamp":"2016-07-06 11:18:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don\u0026#x27;t want the parenthesis then why not use reverse polish notation?","parent":"12041999","id":"12042356"}
{"by":"alphabettsy","time":"1495392042","timestamp":"2017-05-21 18:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just looking to be a dick today? They built a city by hand without heavy equipment or government because they had no choice. Recognizing their resolve doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be praise.","parent":"14388427","dead":true,"id":"14388506"}
{"by":"blihp","time":"1541879905","timestamp":"2018-11-10 19:58:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course.  But you can see three switches on the side of dev boards which would seem to indicate that this part of the plan hasn\u0026#x27;t changed. (yet)","parent":"18423117","id":"18423165"}
{"by":"hbcondo714","time":"1499733500","timestamp":"2017-07-11 00:38:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The data is voluntarily submitted by as many as 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the country that participate in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. This is an open data project to improve the nation’s crime data and promote transparency in the criminal justice system\u003cp\u003eMy take is yes since it\u0026#x27;s coming from \u0026#x27;law enforcement agencies\u0026#x27; but maybe it\u0026#x27;s not as comprehensive as it could be since it\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x27;voluntarily submitted\u0026#x27;","parent":"14740625","id":"14740780"}
{"by":"arzugula","time":"1400786940","timestamp":"2014-05-22 19:29:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"s\u0026#x2F;men\u0026#x2F;any other group\u0026#x2F;g\u003cp\u003es\u0026#x2F;oppressing\u0026#x2F;any other negative behavior\u0026#x2F;g\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Having to point out that not every black steals allows for robbery to continue because having to say “some blacks are thieves” gives blacks peace of mind. \u0026quot;","parent":"7785617","id":"7785883"}
{"by":"bwindels","time":"1458214096","timestamp":"2016-03-17 11:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty clever, but I\u0026#x27;m wondering how this would be exploited. To insert an XSS attack on facebook.com, he would have to be able to change the extension in url in the facebook page of an uploaded image to .html, right? Don\u0026#x27;t see a way of doing that.\u003cp\u003eAm I missing something, or the attack assumes you can convince a victim to go to the given URL through other means? Like spreading through IM, E-mail...","parent":"11300395","id":"11303695"}
{"by":"pron","time":"1395860012","timestamp":"2014-03-26 18:53:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I often find that the people deriding the \u0026quot;gatekeepers\u0026quot; have never been gatekeepers themselves. Obviously, every developer should do whatever the hell \u003ci\u003ethey\u003c/i\u003e find most productive, because developers are known to have such incredible foresight, they never just pick tools they feel like using for no good reason, and they always consider the grand-scale effect of their decisions on the organization as a whole.","parent":"7474133","id":"7475544"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1459308436","timestamp":"2016-03-30 03:27:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is quite a fascinating historical exploration of market-cornering, with ways and means (and limits) to same.\u003cp\u003eIt comes only a decade after Adam Smith\u0026#x27;s possibly infamous, and much-misrepresented book on the question of Nations and their Wealth, Inqueries therewith as to cause and nature.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also notable that the \u003ci\u003esingle and solitary\u003c/i\u003e mention of \u0026quot;free market\u0026quot; in Smith comes as a counterpoint to similar such commercially-initiated market constraints (here: woollens trade in England, with cheap imports of raw wool and prohibitions on finished goods imports) favouring woollens manufacturers.","parent":"11386665","id":"11386767"}
{"by":"CiPHPerCoder","time":"1461255985","timestamp":"2016-04-21 16:26:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not always.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;293930\u0026#x2F;problematic-php-cryptography-advice-in-popular-questions\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;293930\u0026#x2F;problematic-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11543243","id":"11543344"}
{"by":"schoen","time":"1458604875","timestamp":"2016-03-22 00:01:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there other areas you or other readers can think of in which a technology that was previously available or in use went away entirely with no replacement?","parent":"11330816","id":"11333313"}
{"by":"wsinks","time":"1478471981","timestamp":"2016-11-06 22:39:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So far you have the most levelheaded comment I\u0026#x27;ve seen (out of 4... not a big sample size), but just wanted to agree.\u003cp\u003eWe all need to get off our high horse and be more specific, at the risk of smaller readership.  For global teams that are making software, GMT \u0026#x2F; 24 hour clocks are great.  But lets not project our reality onto the rest of the world.  I love that comment!","parent":"12887414","id":"12887507"}
{"by":"edanm","time":"1393172356","timestamp":"2014-02-23 16:19:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That doesn\u0026#x27;t really explain anything. Do you have a specific reason?","parent":"7284298","id":"7286326"}
{"by":"Semiapies","time":"1287768833","timestamp":"2010-10-22 17:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It actually \u003ci\u003ekinda\u003c/i\u003e made sense as a system meant to be used quickly, but only for brief periods of time, by completely able-bodied people.\u003cp\u003eFor any extended period time, or for anyone with even minor physical disabilities, it's wretched.","parent":"1820530","id":"1820574"}
{"by":"vfclists","time":"1400231459","timestamp":"2014-05-16 09:10:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Predictable","parent":"7753577","id":"7754540"}
{"by":"bpellin","time":"1316644149","timestamp":"2011-09-21 22:29:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for putting the location (or in this case lack of location) of the position right at the top.\u003cp\u003eI'm amazed at how many postings make this hard to find or leave it out entirely.","parent":"3023390","id":"3023971"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1357697334","timestamp":"2013-01-09 02:08:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Concrete supporting example, deodorants: \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advertisers-Convinced-Americans-They-Smelled-Bad-164779646.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advert...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5028044","id":"5029719"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1385935568","timestamp":"2013-12-01 22:06:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True.  Alf Garnet is another example of very uncomfortable viewing.","parent":"6827729","id":"6829607"}
{"by":"hprotagonist","time":"1473267637","timestamp":"2016-09-07 17:00:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"in part this is because whenever something relevant comes up, it gets a name that is not philosophy.\u003cp\u003eAlso because we\u0026#x27;re still shaking off perception of philosophers as useless navel-gazing victorians; post WWI, the field has become substantially more akin to formal math and logic.","parent":"12442531","id":"12445049"}
{"by":"randallsquared","time":"1437410788","timestamp":"2015-07-20 16:46:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Humans being humans, one year is not nearly as shocking, which could contribute to people actually considering the possibility.","parent":"9915858","id":"9917243"}
{"by":"phildougherty","time":"1427216170","timestamp":"2015-03-24 16:56:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it multi-tenancy of various Joyent customers on the same hardware? So you get containers placed somewhere in their data center on shared hardware with other customers? Or do you already need to have dedicated hardware provisioned at Joyent to launch containers on? I\u0026#x27;m still unclear on that point, which makes me question how it\u0026#x27;s saving the end user money.","parent":"9257702","id":"9257789"}
{"by":"ollysb","time":"1408823083","timestamp":"2014-08-23 19:44:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The killer feature for me would be able to \u0026quot;expand\u0026quot; method implementations at a call site e.g.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    class UserController\n       def create\n         ...\n         UserMailer.send_invitation(user) # expanded line\n           def send_invitation(user) # implementation from UserMailer\n             ...\n           end\n       end\n    end\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThis way you could unfold the entire call stack in place i.e. you can see all the code you\u0026#x27;re working on at once.","parent":"8216305","id":"8216676"}
{"by":"eternauta3k","time":"1335732409","timestamp":"2012-04-29 20:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like DuckDuckGo for some uses, mainly those that let me specify the context of the search term (for example \u003ca href=\"http://duckduckgo.com/?q=firefly\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://duckduckgo.com/?q=firefly\u003c/a\u003e ). However it's inferior to Google search for local content (from my country) or understanding strange error strings I get while programming.","parent":"3906849","id":"3907045"}
{"by":"EStudley","time":"1380917685","timestamp":"2013-10-04 20:14:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wouldn\u0026#x27;t have been mentioned if it wasn\u0026#x27;t already the main discussion going on about the video. News outlets love to jump on that kind of controversy, and I saw that comparison as them trying to quell the argument.","parent":"6497627","id":"6497651"}
{"by":"scrollaway","time":"1488320370","timestamp":"2017-02-28 22:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We would definitely \u003ci\u003eseriously\u003c/i\u003e consider switching to GCS more if your cloud functions were as powerful as AWS Lambda (trigger from an S3 event) and supported Python 3.6 with serious control over the environment.","parent":"13758088","id":"13758705"}
{"by":"int_19h","time":"1488598601","timestamp":"2017-03-04 03:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think GPLv3 anti-DRM clauses would kick in here. They would if 1) someone was distributing a combination of a Secure Boot-only machine with your software installed on it, and 2) the loader (which is the only thing really validated by Secure Boot) would actually try to continue the chain of trust, and validate all the other bits, such that the user cannot run a modified version of your software.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure that neither of those is the case, however. Once the system boots using the signed loader, it\u0026#x27;s really just Linux, and you\u0026#x27;re free to replace the kernel and any bit of userspace as usual.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, I seriously doubt that anyone is selling machines with Linux preinstalled that have Secure Boot which cannot be turned off - simply because that would become known pretty fast, and even aside from licensing issues, would elicit a very hostile reaction from the community (and hence many potential buyers).","parent":"13788833","id":"13789066"}
{"by":"mikeleeorg","time":"1286053958","timestamp":"2010-10-02 21:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To answer #1, three books I would consider must-reads are:\u003cp\u003eCrossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore\nHe discusses the Technology Adoption Lifecycle and hi-tech marketing.\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Geoffrey-Moore/dp/0060517123/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Geoffrey-Moore/dp/00605...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen\nThis Harvard business professor discusses what makes a disruptive innovation.\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business-Essentials/dp/0060521996/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuerrilla Marketing by Jay Levinson\nHe discusses some scrappy techniques for promoting your businesses. Not all are applicable to web or hi-tech companies, but it can still spark some great ideas.\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Marketing-4th-Inexpensive-Strategies/dp/0618785914/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Marketing-4th-Inexpensive-St...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1750936","id":"1751366"}
{"by":"theon144","time":"1510072012","timestamp":"2017-11-07 16:26:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has nothing to do with choosing the right tool for the job, but with performance, which this discussion is about. Practically all JS frameworks, having multiple levels of (near-inscrutable) abstractions naturally degrade the performance and certainly contribute to the trend the submitted twitter thread is talking about.","parent":"15644396","id":"15644703"}
{"by":"yuhong","time":"1325717210","timestamp":"2012-01-04 22:46:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea I suggest cooperation with engineering before: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3148143\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3148143\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso consider equity or profit sharing in the company too.","parent":"3426201","id":"3426324"}
{"by":"cscotta","time":"1256750829","timestamp":"2009-10-28 17:27:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, jashkenas - this is fantastic.\u003cp\u003eI spend most of my day as a Ruby developer, but when I'm doing frontend work, the thing I miss most in Javascript is Ruby's incredibly simple, powerful list operations.  While most of these have existed in some form for awhile now, I've never seen such a comprehensive implementation in just 5.2kb (minified) of very clean, simple, well-commented code.\u003cp\u003eThis is probably going in every project I work on from here on out. Thanks for putting all of this together.","parent":"907780","id":"908288"}
{"by":"ac29","time":"1519316939","timestamp":"2018-02-22 16:28:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a good analogy, because there are a lot of different biochemical pathways that can play roles in mental health. To add add to that, here\u0026#x27;s a good image of 4 of the ways a drug can effect activity at certain sites (not mental health specific, general pharmacology principles): \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;File:Inverse_agonist_3.svg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;File:Inverse_agonist_3.sv...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16436714","id":"16438734"}
{"by":"jemmons","time":"1247315459","timestamp":"2009-07-11 12:30:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clearly misleading. By this definition, Windows \"scales\" an order of magnitude better than OS X — a statement that, when considered in the classical sense, is, at very least, up for debate.","parent":"698996","id":"699112"}
{"by":"alsetmusic","time":"1445437108","timestamp":"2015-10-21 14:18:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I watched someone get out of jury duty by articulating his view of the prison system as a for-profit enterprise a couple years ago. He spoke brilliantly and was immediately dismissed.","parent":"10425341","id":"10425540"}
{"by":"everbanned","time":"1315279470","timestamp":"2011-09-06 03:24:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With great frequency and very little forethought.","parent":"2963569","id":"2963986"}
{"by":"nicholassmith","time":"1334072905","timestamp":"2012-04-10 15:48:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was also successful in getting a better rate, but I invoiced very high (£1k) and negotiated down to a reasonable rate for both parties, but I was told afterwards I could probably have pushed my luck.","parent":"3815422","id":"3822718"}
{"by":"shrikant","time":"1547570072","timestamp":"2019-01-15 16:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure if you\u0026#x27;d call them \u0026quot;far right\u0026quot; exactly, but the tech-bro super-libertarian (think \u0026quot;taxes are theft\u0026quot;) types also tend to complain about the TV licence fee and the NHS...","parent":"18910231","id":"18912369"}
{"by":"lukifer","time":"1285794808","timestamp":"2010-09-29 21:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That arrow drives me nuts. The formerly used crosshairs icon implies a specific target, and is intuitively associated with a precise location. Arrows, on the other hand, are used for all sorts of things in lots of different contexts, and implies a direction rather than a specific spot.","parent":"1740107","id":"1741174"}
{"by":"manigandham","time":"1525527818","timestamp":"2018-05-05 13:43:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At that point, why not just use ublock origin which is both faster and blocks more?","parent":"16999886","id":"17001756"}
{"by":"cookiecaper","time":"1293962327","timestamp":"2011-01-02 09:58:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't remember them all anymore -- I keep only loose tabs on Wikipedia these days. I was a very active editor and a founding member of a WikiProject in the 2004-2005 timeframe. I thought the blanket removal of most fair use images and the policy banning them was inappropriate and one of the least pragmatic things from an editorial quality perspective that could have been done.\u003cp\u003eThat's the only big policy change since I quit that I can remember right now, though I know there have been several other that I felt were misguided or inappropriate. When I browse talk pages these days, I see very many new policy links, and that's part of the problem. Wikipedia has a pretty steep learning curve just to format an edit in a way that won't be reverted under a cavalcade of acronyms from the WP pagespace.\u003cp\u003eEdits on controversial topics are nearly impossible, primarily because articles will often be locked in the first place, or if they're not, each member on each side exhausts his/her three reverts, someone complains to an admin, and the page is locked so that it can all pick back up in a few days. It becomes especially difficult on pages that are hand-sanitized by a politician's staffers or other editors paid to keep WP articles favorable, because they literally have all day and they make their money by being combative, intimidating opposing editors, and otherwise staving off legitimate unfavorable edits.\u003cp\u003eAnd that's part of what makes this all so frustrating. Wikipedia has no real conflict resolution mechanisms. Open-source software is supposedly an inspiration for WP, but OSS has very clear, authoritarian project leaders that don't tolerate silliness. WP is an absolute free-for-all; there are policies, but in general they just mean you have to avoid specific phraseology and can still do whatever you want. As such, editing WP is very inconsistent but almost universally frustrating and it's often clear even to readers which group has established turf over a given article or set of articles.\u003cp\u003eOn top of all of this, Jimmy Wales has an extreme aura of arrogance and ethical pliability. See the incidents around \"co-founder\" and \"founder\" of Wikipedia for just one example; there have been some other good ones over the years. Wales misappropriated Wikipedia, really the brain child of Larry Sanger, for his own and hasn't known what to do with it since. Sanger, meanwhile, started another wiki-based site that evolved on the Wikipedia model with approved revisions and a few other small tweaks (Citizendium, I don't know if it's still alive or not).\u003cp\u003eIt also seems to me that Wales has been trying to carefully straddle the community line regarding policies, etc., (except a few cases where lawyers specifically said \"this part is not optional, sorry\") because he doesn't really know what's good for WP. It's all some kind of anomaly to him and he's just trying to keep a light touch so he doesn't scare it away. As such, WP yet languishes in its morass of \"whoever-is-the-most-obsessed\" methodology for resolving editorial conflict and lacks any serious drive or leadership.\u003cp\u003eWP is already like a big corporation because it already has a CEO that got there through business school instead of innovation. That's always the sign that you shouldn't expect many interesting advances from a given group anymore -- they are interested in maintaining their model and milking it for money until someone comes around and obsoletes them. Hiring a chief executive trained in milking money out of existing infrastructure instead of a chief executive trained in contributing something new is a huge red flag from every non-financial perspective (though the finances usually languish along with the invention and research).\u003cp\u003eBasically, it boils down to frustration over the lack of conceptual or procedural improvement in Wikipedia and the general belief that Wales is blatantly unqualified in almost all relevant respects and sort of wandered into his position accidentally. I don't necessarily blame him for that (though I do blame him for the morally dubious stuff, like Bomis, Sanger, and that girl), it just doesn't bode well for the organization.\u003cp\u003eAnd, as I'm sure we all know, it's generally a pretty bad thing when confused people get a whole bunch of money, as Wales just procured for himself. Wikimedia already emanates these astonishingly corporate vibes, I think we should only expect those to increase.","parent":"2059789","id":"2059820"}
{"by":"dba7dba","time":"1454834454","timestamp":"2016-02-07 08:40:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well I know this may be off topic but Mr Danilo\u0026#x27;s rant against US military seems narrow minded. It\u0026#x27;s BECAUSE we have US military that US citizens are not exposed to exposure, hunger, fear, rape.","parent":"11051807","id":"11052206"}
{"by":"DonHopkins","time":"1424384074","timestamp":"2015-02-19 22:14:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope one of your side projects you finish is to clone yourself many times, because you\u0026#x27;ve got a rare talent, finishing things you started!","parent":"9071800","id":"9077486"}
{"by":"haberman","time":"1497892992","timestamp":"2017-06-19 17:23:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why on earth isn\u0026#x27;t the industry moving away from per-site passwords?  They are terrible.  The fact that you need your own app to \u0026quot;manage\u0026quot; them is just evidence of how terrible they are.\u003cp\u003ePeople should be able to use their phones, Yubikey, TouchID, etc. as their authentication, without needing a password (except a master password for the phone\u0026#x2F;Yubikey\u0026#x2F;TouchID).\u003cp\u003eAnd yet I see no movement towards this from the industry.  Are we stuck in this terrible state forever?\u003cp\u003eIf I could see into the future I would dearly hope that in 10 years we are not seeing HN front page articles about the newest innovations in password managers.","parent":"14585958","id":"14588624"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1462108179","timestamp":"2016-05-01 13:09:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The US government also wasn\u0026#x27;t exactly paying market rates for what they bought during the war, and the Manhattan Project also had the highest priority call on materials, after the super-Mulberry we were building for the invasion of the Kanto plain in Honshu, the main island island in Japan and where Tokyo is located (look up Operation\u0026#x27;s Downfall (the general one) and Coronet for more details).","parent":"11605922","id":"11606022"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1543193482","timestamp":"2018-11-26 00:51:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least in my country, there are two forbidden concepts in traffic law of \u0026quot;excessive speed\u0026quot;: one is driving over the defined limit, another is driving at an inadequate speed for the conditions. If you get into an accident because you couldn\u0026#x27;t stop, but could have if you had been going slower, you\u0026#x27;re guilty of the latter (that\u0026#x27;s the gist, exceptions apply).","parent":"18529069","id":"18530129"}
{"by":"obstinate","time":"1498444160","timestamp":"2017-06-26 02:29:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In fact, what performance oriented devs need to be taught about these days is how to \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e use hash tables, or, more generally, dictionaries. They are a super-easy data structure to reach for, but often it is possible to arrange your data such that their use is unnecessary.\u003cp\u003eOne example that was brought up elsewhere in the thread is the way python looks up variables in successive scope dictionaries. This is obviously terrible for performance, and that\u0026#x27;s a big part of why Python is slow.\u003cp\u003eBut how are other languages fast? Doesn\u0026#x27;t every language have to resolve variable names to memory locations? Well, yes, but fast languages do this mostly at compile time. How? Well, I\u0026#x27;m not an expert in this, but at a high level, each variable is assigned a location in memory or registers, and then future references to that variable are rewritten to refer to the memory location by register name or memory address. This takes the whole \u0026quot;looking up a name\u0026quot; issue out of the path of work that has to get done at runtime. And you\u0026#x27;ve switched from looking up things in tables to operating directly on registers and memory locations.\u003cp\u003eBTW, this has nothing to do with high-versus-low level. It\u0026#x27;s more about how mutable the process of name resolution is after program compilation. One could theoretically write an assembly language where memory locations are names, not numbers. If reflective features like runtime scope editing are available, this would be a very low-level language that still requires some kind of dictionary lookup at runtime.","parent":"14633499","id":"14633624"}
{"by":"Volpe","time":"1374132940","timestamp":"2013-07-18 07:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So if I decide to put someone on a kill list, there is no burden of proof on me to explain why, by killing that someone my action is righteous, legal and moral?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure the US constitution disagrees with that premise, and should protect any US citizen from such a situation.","parent":"6062104","id":"6062320"}
{"by":"cbhl","time":"1345745122","timestamp":"2012-08-23 18:05:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to admit that I didn't think about this much myself -- most of the videos are on YouTube, and I hadn't thought about how the rest of the site was run. For all I knew, it was RoR or static webpages or something.","parent":"4423891","id":"4423909"}
{"by":"turk184","time":"1506432694","timestamp":"2017-09-26 13:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does that not consider all the sulfuric acid or is that not a problem at the 1 Bar altitude?","parent":"15336549","id":"15338437"}
{"by":"hashkb","time":"1448730681","timestamp":"2015-11-28 17:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This implicit assumption is what the bad actors notice and capitalize upon.  Before you realize it, they are consolidating power and it\u0026#x27;s too late to oust them because they are writing your review.","parent":"10641124","id":"10641617"}
{"by":"DenisM","time":"1384540095","timestamp":"2013-11-15 18:28:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s nice to see fellow Seattleites growing a real business here. The more success stories happen in Seattle, the more confident the new founders and investors will be. Giving up is too easy when you think everyone else already did.\u003cp\u003eOn that note, I encourage everyone with startup aspirations to hang out in one of the coworking spaces or incubators, like HUB or SURF (which I\u0026#x27;m posting from).","parent":"6740927","id":"6741146"}
{"by":"daniel-cussen","time":"1201058358","timestamp":"2008-01-23 03:19:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is blog post is the first time a YCer posts something that sounds like a press release.  I guess that's cuz it was a summary, but it still weirds me out.","parent":"102511","id":"102585"}
{"by":"aaronblohowiak","time":"1263878387","timestamp":"2010-01-19 05:19:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"And I'm telling you, even then, convincing managers is not easier than convincing any other investor\"\u003cp\u003eYou should know your manager much better than you know your investor. If you know someone, you should be better equipped to share your vision with them.  Then, three things can happen a) your vision is rejected because it has a flaw you did not see b) your vision is rejected because it does not match your manager's situation (you should put more effort in getting to know your manager's situation!) or c) your idea is accepted.  Of course, (b) is really hard. Then again, most programmers I know don't evaluate their corporate structures and people as thoroughly as they evaluate code.","parent":"1060845","id":"1061554"}
{"by":"nickbauman","time":"1432825506","timestamp":"2015-05-28 15:05:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Old story now but still an amazing one.","parent":"9617710","id":"9618617"}
{"by":"richardwhiuk","time":"1487821180","timestamp":"2017-02-23 03:39:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is doesn\u0026#x27;t say in that is that they every contributed to an open source project.","parent":"13706521","id":"13711432"}
{"by":"abgriff","time":"1515517199","timestamp":"2018-01-09 16:59:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SingleOps | Fullstack Engineer | Atlanta, GA | REMOTE, Full-time | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;singleops.com\u0026#x2F;contact\u0026#x2F;join-our-team\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;singleops.com\u0026#x2F;contact\u0026#x2F;join-our-team\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\nSingleOps is a rapidly growing, Atlanta based, SaaS platform for mobile field workforces like tree care services, landscaping, pest control, healthcare — anyone who regularly coordinates employees in the field. The platform combines estimates, scheduling, time tracking, CRM, invoicing, and QuickBooks syncing with a mobile-first interface for teams on the go. Think of it as a cloud-ERP solution like NetSuite, but much easier to use and geared towards field service companies.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve found or niche in the Green space and are looking to scale and double our entire team this year. We use a Ruby on Rails stack, and this year we\u0026#x27;re transitioning to React as well as hopefully React Native for mobile.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re looking for a Fullstack Web Application Engineer, as well as other sales, marketing and customer success positions. You can fill out the form at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;singleops.com\u0026#x2F;contact\u0026#x2F;join-our-team\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;singleops.com\u0026#x2F;contact\u0026#x2F;join-our-team\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e or email me directly at adam@singleops.com","parent":"16052538","id":"16107591"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1435925146","timestamp":"2015-07-03 12:05:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As we say on my home country, one gets what he pays for.","parent":"9823789","id":"9824979"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1507919483","timestamp":"2017-10-13 18:31:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That doesn\u0026#x27;t work for the reason above: I don\u0026#x27;t want my grandma imprisoned, but zero imprisonment is also impractical. [1]\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A society is judged by how it treats its weakest\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;would I want $GOOD_PERSON to fall victim to this\u0026quot; -- those sound nice, but don\u0026#x27;t translate into a practical metric for appropriately navigating real moral dilemmas.\u003cp\u003e[1] I know the lectures about the evils of mass incarceration; those don\u0026#x27;t prove that no one should be imprisoned.","parent":"15468088","id":"15468160"}
{"by":"dep_b","time":"1529015057","timestamp":"2018-06-14 22:24:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The transistor count of an A11 is 4.3 million, the Ryzen has about 4.8 million depending on the type. And x86 is a bit wasteful in terms of what it does effectively with those transistors because the front-end required to translate x86 instructions.","parent":"17315069","id":"17315964"}
{"by":"jkestner","time":"1440386462","timestamp":"2015-08-24 03:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  4 - China\n  2 - Boston\n  2 - Chicago\n  2 - India\n  1 - Berlin\n  1 - London\n  1 - South Africa\n  1 - Virginia\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"10107686","id":"10107721"}
{"by":"CanSpice","time":"1401406561","timestamp":"2014-05-29 23:36:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Forgiving works when the other person has expressed regret for their actions and doesn\u0026#x27;t repeat them. Neither apply in this case. I too voted to keep him banned.","parent":"7819255","id":"7819276"}
{"by":"peterjancelis","time":"1339735716","timestamp":"2012-06-15 04:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heroku is back up.","parent":"4114846","id":"4115052"}
{"by":"delinquentme","time":"1296730874","timestamp":"2011-02-03 11:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool code, some perspective top to bottom might give it some additional \"3d pop\"","parent":"2173542","id":"2174331"}
{"by":"Jabbles","time":"1341870112","timestamp":"2012-07-09 21:41:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":":x is virtually the same as :wq, except vim won't write the file if you haven't changed it.","parent":"4220112","id":"4220693"}
{"by":"zajd","time":"1475434907","timestamp":"2016-10-02 19:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;d probably feel less silly if you were able to appreciate the context of posts.","parent":"12623657","id":"12623708"}
{"by":"domwood","time":"1338866013","timestamp":"2012-06-05 03:13:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that we're largely missing the point here. He's worried that his fundamentally harmless research will end up powering horrific weapons of mass destruction, enabling them to attack even more precisely and with more devastation. And quite frankly, I share his concerns that if those weapons were developed, we would use them without thought or care. And apologies to my fellow American Hackers, but America's got the rep for it, what with that one time they dropped a couple of nukes on hundreds of thousands of unarmed men, women and children, killing hundreds of thousands and levelling a couple of cities.\u003cp\u003eBut, I digress, he's talking about androids sneezing us to death. I'm not going near a shop mannikin ever again.","parent":"4066722","id":"4067130"}
{"by":"romeisendcoming","time":"1545144633","timestamp":"2018-12-18 14:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article illustrates amateur hour in many \nways.\u003cp\u003eThe whole can\u0026#x27;t manage my environment and don\u0026#x27;t \nunderstand how to manage the python thing at all\nhas my sympathy. Python is messy at that level.\u003cp\u003eWith the organizational \u0026#x27;control\u0026#x27; sysadmin deprecated \nby devops and containers\u0026#x2F;automation becoming the \nnew norm these types of complaints have to be \ndealt with by people who have no idea of what\nthey are doing in generalized context.","parent":"18706174","id":"18706696"}
{"by":"tomohawk","time":"1492171087","timestamp":"2017-04-14 11:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Arizona - the state that elects McCain over and over again.  Yep, must really be working well.","parent":"14113693","id":"14113924"}
{"by":"ScottWhigham","time":"1261142502","timestamp":"2009-12-18 13:21:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is this article about? Eventually, in the 10th paragraph, Costco is mentioned but I can't figure out why. Here are the final three paragraphs:\u003cp\u003e\"Speaking of my newspaper — please, it’s the holidays, a time for indulgence in all things — they recently discovered a newsworthy item from the Mountain West: Jews in Montana. Imagine!\u003cp\u003eOne more bit of news on this front: the nation’s first elected Jewish governor was a Western man. And a Democrat. In Idaho. Moses Alexander governed the land of famous potatoes from 1915 to 1919.\u003cp\u003eAs a longtime Western representative of The New York Times, which is well read in these provinces, I feel the rub of faux-rube pandering both ways. Here, people are amazed I can find Twitty, Texas, on a map, and — more surprising, can vouch for the peach cobbler. There, the wonder is that I know which side of the plate to keep the salad fork. Sort of.\"\u003cp\u003eWhy are people upvoting this article? Truly - and I am not being sarcastic here - I don't get it. I read it but still don't understand it.","parent":"1002289","id":"1003058"}
{"by":"bajsejohannes","time":"1479184477","timestamp":"2016-11-15 04:34:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found myself doing the same just a few days ago when my local server suddenly had a new ip address. I made a simple script to scan IP addresses in the range: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;johshoff\u0026#x2F;bed463ce8a122123e60bbc84bd1b1129\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;johshoff\u0026#x2F;bed463ce8a122123e60bbc84bd1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are probably faster ways, but none that I could think of a the time.","parent":"12955445","id":"12955596"}
{"by":"jplayer01","time":"1532782479","timestamp":"2018-07-28 12:54:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s about saving cultural goods. The worst thing about the modern age is how transient and impermanent data is. In 100 years, the past 30 years will be effectively a big black hole for anybody interested in studying our culture and civilization.","parent":"17632892","id":"17632943"}
{"by":"TillE","time":"1437239468","timestamp":"2015-07-18 17:11:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This kind of reflexive cynicism is annoying and pointless. Especially because we can just as easily flip it around and accuse Microsoft of cherry picking and optimizing for specific benchmarks.\u003cp\u003eNeither of these accusations are in any way constructive. I\u0026#x27;d be much more interested in real world examples where one browser or another is noticeably slow.","parent":"9907881","id":"9908110"}
{"by":"0942v8653","time":"1468029653","timestamp":"2016-07-09 02:00:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related: is it possible to use ClamAV without the daemon, etc.? I would like to run it manually on specific files\u0026#x2F;dirs, but I don\u0026#x27;t know if I can.","parent":"12059529","id":"12059735"}
{"by":"francasso","time":"1537770805","timestamp":"2018-09-24 06:33:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TLDR?","parent":"18052923","id":"18055487"}
{"by":"aasarava","time":"1370558932","timestamp":"2013-06-06 22:48:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So can we freak out now? ::\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5835484","id":"5835718"}
{"by":"jnordwick","time":"1498109636","timestamp":"2017-06-22 05:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All they do make a regression analysis and say that two traders traded on days the market went up. Given you can actually track every transaction you would think they would be able to point to size of the transactions, percentage of daily volume, or something more interesting. Instead they simply tell you the average amount the rate increased in days these guys traded.\u003cp\u003eWeak.","parent":"14609525","id":"14610286"}
{"by":"nolepointer","time":"1447028149","timestamp":"2015-11-09 00:15:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article is from 2012.","parent":"10528844","id":"10530691"}
{"by":"CKKim","time":"1351260858","timestamp":"2012-10-26 14:14:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, this was a good recommendation - I did enjoy Telepath a lot more!","parent":"4702037","id":"4702206"}
{"by":"fizzbatter","time":"1477925145","timestamp":"2016-10-31 14:45:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what i\u0026#x27;m planning on. It\u0026#x27;ll be another ~year or so before i care, but i hope to find a very highend laptop that compares with Apple MacbookPro quality. Great keyboard, touchpad and very high PPI monitor. Then, put linux on it.\u003cp\u003eThis Apple announcement really lost me. Luckily i don\u0026#x27;t care about the OS \u003ci\u003e(i dislike it, infact)\u003c/i\u003e, i just want really nice hardware because i use this laptop for ~10h a day.","parent":"12837055","id":"12837163"}
{"by":"niels_olson","time":"1369842442","timestamp":"2013-05-29 15:47:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article should be stapled to the top of Hacker News, next to\u003cp\u003enew | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit | \u003ci\u003eto-do\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"5782704","id":"5786916"}
{"by":"si2","time":"1244576412","timestamp":"2009-06-09 19:40:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you sure it was just because of that one photo and not the story line or anything else?","parent":"649663","id":"649790"}
{"by":"Ar-Curunir","time":"1450210844","timestamp":"2015-12-15 20:20:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am pretty sure that most CS students don\u0026#x27;t have the algebra background to understand what\u0026#x27;s going on in this algorithm. I\u0026#x27;ve taken a year\u0026#x27;s worth of algebra and the algorithm still relies on stuff that I don\u0026#x27;t get.\u003cp\u003eEdit: and most CS programs do not emphasize traditional math anyways. No analysis, some linear algebra, very very little abstract algebra, and that\u0026#x27;s pretty much it.","parent":"10740143","id":"10740196"}
{"by":"natfriedman","time":"1355337341","timestamp":"2012-12-12 18:35:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some of our competitors have done this and we've received very negative feedback from their customers about per-app, per-user, and royalty-based pricing.\u003cp\u003eAlso not sure it makes sense to create a price incentive to bundle a bunch of functionality into a single app.\u003cp\u003eWe like having simple, fair, obvious pricing. Even if it means leaving some money on the table.","parent":"4911622","id":"4911695"}
{"by":"ndesaulniers","time":"1403290841","timestamp":"2014-06-20 19:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that \u0026quot;FirefoxOS will host Safari \u0026#x2F; Chrome apps, before iOS will allow a Firefox.\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t lead to \u0026quot;Open FTW.\u0026quot;  I think Open still wins, for other reasons I\u0026#x27;ve been trying to document. [0]  Firefox OS is still young, and if it can establish meaningful marketshare, it puts Mozilla in position to change the industry.\u003cp\u003eFor example, what if Mozilla had leverage over device manufacturers to say \u0026quot;no locked bootloaders\u0026quot; and device manufacturers complied?  I\u0026#x27;m not sure Mozilla has that leverage today, but what other ways could Mozilla affect the industry for good once it does?\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/What-Open-Source-Means-To-Me\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;nickdesaulniers\u0026#x2F;What-Open-Source-Means-To...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7922016","id":"7922253"}
{"by":"xerophyte12932","time":"1465197981","timestamp":"2016-06-06 07:26:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your comment\n\u0026gt; Cost of living, specifically real-estate, is silly low\u003cp\u003eClashes with another comment\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11845054\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11845054\u003c/a\u003e:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Portland is \u0026quot;expensive\u0026quot; for rent (you\u0026#x27;re very lucky to get a nice 1br for 1400\u0026#x2F;mo, with rents on the rise due to out-of-state purchasing of condos for rental-income or airBNB\u0026#x2F;subsidizing owner-seasonal housing)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Housing costs are steeply on the rise\u003cp\u003ePlease explain","parent":"11844906","id":"11845180"}
{"by":"usernum3hundred","time":"1523379914","timestamp":"2018-04-10 17:05:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How to improve productivity in doing things that you don\u0026#x27;t care about?  For various reasons lot of people don\u0026#x27;t have the liberty to work on things they love or care about or delegate the work they don\u0026#x27;t care about.","parent":"16802530","id":"16802953"}
{"by":"jacobkg","time":"1538187539","timestamp":"2018-09-29 02:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really liked the positive tone of this article and also found it be very informative.","parent":"18098353","id":"18098357"}
{"by":"walleee","time":"1459111063","timestamp":"2016-03-27 20:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, this helps.","parent":"11371053","id":"11371448"}
{"by":"8873872782","time":"1455843184","timestamp":"2016-02-19 00:53:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the wisest people I know said, you never get a raise unless you have another job offer in hand.\u003cp\u003eSeed salary is usually 65-80% of salary at a well-funded startup. You\u0026#x27;re getting 50%.\u003cp\u003eRead Ramit Sethi\u0026#x27;s stuff on how to negotiate this.","parent":"11130608","id":"11130697"}
{"by":"msoad","time":"1384272297","timestamp":"2013-11-12 16:04:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice app. I would recommend it to anyone who gets tons of notifications.\u003cp\u003eI want to suggest a design like Degrees app[1] if you want to do a redesign.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/degrees/id430173763?mt=12\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;degrees\u0026#x2F;id430173763?mt=12\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6718405","id":"6718529"}
{"by":"Arceliapfa","time":"1351089931","timestamp":"2012-10-24 14:45:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you look hard enough, anything can offend you.","parent":"4693100","id":"4693139"}
{"by":"joeyspn","time":"1486734121","timestamp":"2017-02-10 13:42:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; OP, you might be interested in Quantopian\u0026#x27;s Zipline algorithmic trading library, which is also in Python: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;quantopian\u0026#x2F;zipline\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;quantopian\u0026#x2F;zipline\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr backtrader (backtesting and live trading with Oanda and IB)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;mementum\u0026#x2F;backtrader\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;mementum\u0026#x2F;backtrader\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13615007","id":"13615259"}
{"by":"sesqu","time":"1332983655","timestamp":"2012-03-29 01:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unity does have an experimental plugin for Linux systems, running on NaCl. It's fairly functional, provided your graphics drivers play nice. I definitely wouldn't recommend it for Facebook games, but for teenaged kids it may well suffice.","parent":"3768694","id":"3769175"}
{"by":"cschmidt","time":"1449858002","timestamp":"2015-12-11 18:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even $100k doesn\u0026#x27;t do much for you if you live in Midland, MI and just left the only chemical company in town.  You\u0026#x27;ll have to move, probably out of state, and be competing with thousands of other newly unemployed folks chasing a few jobs in a mature industry.  (Disclaimer: I grew up in Midland, and my family all worked for Dow.)","parent":"10718660","id":"10718814"}
{"by":"gech","time":"1488649037","timestamp":"2017-03-04 17:37:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; the free money\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not free. It\u0026#x27;s what patriots pay their taxes for.","parent":"13790804","id":"13791909"}
{"by":"ropman76","time":"1418828834","timestamp":"2014-12-17 15:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While Cryto is interesting, it is also very easy to get wrong.  Hence the high interest but low comments.\nThe comments on password hashing in article illustrate that \n\u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/12/ars-was-briefly-hacked-yesterday-heres-what-we-know/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;staff\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;ars-was-briefly-hacked-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8762411","id":"8762482"}
{"by":"bberrry","time":"1395232980","timestamp":"2014-03-19 12:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That does sound nice. Did you start your own consulting company or are you employed?","parent":"7427768","id":"7428194"}
{"by":"slenk","time":"1519226996","timestamp":"2018-02-21 15:29:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like it, but I am not sure all the neighbors\u0026#x2F;children are helpful in a large deployment. We\u0026#x27;re running about 100 instances but have 1800 connections.","parent":"16423408","id":"16430097"}
{"by":"smoyer","time":"1518982601","timestamp":"2018-02-18 19:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might want to look into the theory behind fiber optics a bit ... I left out the deviation due to path length (bouncing) as that obviously has a lot of variations (including wavelength).  I\u0026#x27;ve also ignored SBS and other unrelated sources of scatter.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s pretty common to hear people refer to the \u0026quot;speed-of-light in a vacuum\u0026quot;.  If the speed of light were a constant, why would you need to specify the vacuum?  It\u0026#x27;s also worth noting that electrons don\u0026#x27;t move through conductors at the speed-of-light either - in the cable television industry, the best hard-line coaxial cable was about 0.85.","parent":"16406214","id":"16407809"}
{"by":"jodrellblank","time":"1529817121","timestamp":"2018-06-24 05:12:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"a turn off to the industry of .. illegally accessing other people\u0026#x27;s computers?\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not really an industry.\u003cp\u003ePen. tester is, security researcher or implementer or auditor is, crime committer isn\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"17384745","id":"17385047"}
{"by":"ConnorG","time":"1442598502","timestamp":"2015-09-18 17:48:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The name of that emulator coinciding with the word testicle was on purpose right?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m just glad I wasn\u0026#x27;t the only one who thought this back then.","parent":"10240218","id":"10240794"}
{"by":"rbarooah","time":"1330075796","timestamp":"2012-02-24 09:29:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ad consumers experience an externality to the transaction between google and the publisher.  The sum of the game may be negative or positive.  Which do you think it is, and why?","parent":"3627443","id":"3628571"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1277546329","timestamp":"2010-06-26 09:58:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\"What it doesn't do is make it easy for you to understand which section of the cover your actually editing\"\u003cp\u003eHope he proofread.\u003cp\u003eFWIW I make these mistakes (homophones) at a depressingly increasing rate; I blame it on dying neurons.","parent":"1462982","id":"1463418"}
{"by":"pchal","time":"1518358083","timestamp":"2018-02-11 14:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hello -- forestry.io looks great, but I had a big problem with it -- there is no support for MathJax within my markdown posts. \nI had math equations within double-dollar signs and the forestry.io editor removed them, making my math-based post render badly. Looks like there is no support for MathJax. I find it hard to see why forestry.io should mess with the MathJax in my markdown file -- why not leave it as raw text that I can edit?","parent":"16347122","id":"16352730"}
{"by":"tomjen3","time":"1321654005","timestamp":"2011-11-18 22:06:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your honor, it has been more than six months since I was arrested and I can no longer remember the encryption key. All I can remember is that it twenty random letters/numbers.\u003cp\u003eEven if you lie in court it is very difficult to prove it.","parent":"3253559","id":"3253673"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1455029234","timestamp":"2016-02-09 14:47:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The device seems like it\u0026#x27;s a lot more than a piece of filter paper and an air intake - surely there\u0026#x27;s much more going on in there than just particulate collection.","parent":"11061238","id":"11065572"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1264509763","timestamp":"2010-01-26 12:42:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The naive belief that users will wait at least 6 months to get a simply-installed version of a software update that other platforms already have is laughable. Especially when that hardware could run two other OSs that don't have that requirements.\u003cp\u003eNobody's sure whether this is Firefox's problem or each Linux distro's problem. But since some distros seem to advocate themselves as desktop OSs, I suggest they take responsibility for solving it - and produce up to date packages of Firefox and other essential desktop tools.","parent":"1077553","id":"1077580"}
{"by":"nvais","time":"1485215304","timestamp":"2017-01-23 23:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, indeed. Cofounded with Ann Johnson and fellow ex-Facebooker, Bobby Johnson, who led the infrastructure team for many years.\u003cp\u003eInterana draws much of it\u0026#x27;s inspiration from Scuba combined with learnings of analyzing massive amounts of data at scale.\u003cp\u003eMany high-growth companies use Interana for behavioral analysis of their event logs (Asana, Reddit, Imgur, Nextdoor, Bing, Azure, Tinder, SurveyMonkey, Sonos...).","parent":"13463937","id":"13467414"}
{"by":"mattmillr","time":"1283184546","timestamp":"2010-08-30 16:09:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(1) Dropbox has a web interface where you can upload and download files. It's pretty easy to use.\u003cp\u003e(2) Their app adds a huge value, in that it automatically uploads any changes to files in your local Dropbox folder. It is convenience, and hardly nefarious. Everything that can be done to make backups easier and more automatic is a good thing, IMHO.\u003cp\u003eIf you don't want the automation, then yes, another solution is probably better.","parent":"1646253","id":"1646588"}
{"by":"lucidlife","time":"1396407969","timestamp":"2014-04-02 03:06:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My initial reaction was surprise that so many people still use IE, then I remembered that my dad still uses it. I\u0026#x27;ll blame him.","parent":"7513167","id":"7513301"}
{"by":"jedc","time":"1392287563","timestamp":"2014-02-13 10:32:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This talk\u0026#x2F;interview of Keith Rabois is great when it comes to talking about what a COO does: \u003ca href=\"http://firstround.com/article/Keith-Rabois-on-the-role-of-a-COO-how-to-hire-and-why-transparency-matters\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;firstround.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;Keith-Rabois-on-the-role-of-a-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7230363","id":"7230598"}
{"by":"stolio","time":"1421700930","timestamp":"2015-01-19 20:55:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If anything, you\u0026#x27;re making an argument that female football players have a more \u0026quot;pure\u0026quot; reason behind playing football. (Though I would never make that claim, so as to insult our male counterparts that are just as passionate about the game\u003cp\u003eThis is -exactly- what I\u0026#x27;m saying.  Exactly. But I would add that for males struggling for social status is a very old and pure pursuit in and of itself.","parent":"8913524","id":"8914008"}
{"by":"stefantalpalaru","time":"1365253143","timestamp":"2013-04-06 12:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find the fact that an intelligence agency does not understand Wikipedia scarier than the actual bullying. These are people allowed to circumvent the law in order to protect the country. People who do counter-espionage and counter-terrorism it what amounts to a police state. If they can't figure out this, how are they dealing with the serious stuff?","parent":"5503354","id":"5503454"}
{"by":"goldmab","time":"1310832661","timestamp":"2011-07-16 16:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand what you're saying. What do you mean by \"nested function calls,\" and how is that antithetical to both lists and callbacks? In what way is WSGI anti-callback?","parent":"2770970","id":"2771000"}
{"by":"applecrazy","time":"1542390620","timestamp":"2018-11-16 17:50:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don’t think many people outside of the tech industry know that Ubuntu is a Debian-based operating system.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Changed Debian-based to Debian-derived","parent":"18470376","id":"18470434"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1467115072","timestamp":"2016-06-28 11:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Now, a research group [...] has developed a brand new exploration approach. The first use of this method has resulted in the discovery of a world-class helium gas field in Tanzania.\u003cp\u003eHm... One try, one hit. Maybe it\u0026#x27;s not \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e rare after all?","parent":"11992431","id":"11992966"}
{"by":"vowelless","time":"1512154876","timestamp":"2017-12-01 19:01:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;the-fix\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;mike-pence-doesnt-dine-alone-with-other-women-and-were-all-shocked\u0026#x2F;?utm_term=.8cea1de563c1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;the-fix\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;mi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15824874","id":"15826305"}
{"by":"dpatrick86","time":"1537647443","timestamp":"2018-09-22 20:17:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It really sounds like a software issue to me. If the watch is causing atrial fibrillation to be detected too often, then you can either make the software meet some greater threshold before alerting the user.. or, even better, determine more fully formed diagnostic criteria to be applied.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that medicine hasn\u0026#x27;t studied whether or not healthy hearts are regularly doing this because sensors were inconvenient previously, doesn\u0026#x27;t mean we need to get rid of the sensors. It means that both the presentation of the software should have some sort of feedback loop from clinical research that should emerge as a consequence of that data now... existing.","parent":"18047537","id":"18047768"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1522204727","timestamp":"2018-03-28 02:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because you\u0026#x27;re demanding jail time, and the burden of proof goes the other way.  I don\u0026#x27;t need to know whether the mistake was reasonable, \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eyou\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e need to prove it wasn\u0026#x27;t if you want to argue someone should go to jail.","parent":"16694756","id":"16694788"}
{"by":"tintin","time":"1327577234","timestamp":"2012-01-26 11:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And ofcourse there is a car-less suburb of Freiburg: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html?_r=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.htm...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3513600","id":"3513669"}
{"by":"Eridrus","time":"1519877257","timestamp":"2018-03-01 04:07:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We can enact laws to prevent the practices we as a society decide are unacceptable.\u003cp\u003eThere are people here who are fatalistic and think that politics is unwinnable and politicians are in people\u0026#x27;s pockets, but laws can take away unions\u0026#x27; power too, so I don\u0026#x27;t see politics as avoidable in any case.\u003cp\u003eI think framing a union as a monopoly is odd, but they become institutions in their own right, and theirs interests diverge from the wider group\u0026#x27;s fairly quickly.\u003cp\u003eThe UPS union seems to want to force UPS to not invest in drones or self-driving trucks at the expense of everyone who would benefit from significantly cheaper delivery, and this isn\u0026#x27;t exactly an isolated incident.\u003cp\u003eThe construction unions in NYC have secured themselves a deal where the government must use union labor, and unions negotiate a contract with their employers, who have no incentives to keep costs down because they pass all these costs on, and we get subways that are 10 times more expensive than anywhere else in the world.\u003cp\u003eWe have a similar situation with construction unions \u0026amp; housing in NYC leading to increased costs and .: more expensive housing for everyone in NYC.\u003cp\u003eAnd the list goes on forever.","parent":"16489038","id":"16489597"}
{"by":"aanm1988","time":"1501296746","timestamp":"2017-07-29 02:52:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There has to be huge barriers to entry, for it to work\u003cp\u003eyou mean like billions and billions in revenue from a variety of other sources?","parent":"14877816","dead":true,"id":"14879235"}
{"by":"jf","time":"1355336537","timestamp":"2012-12-12 18:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, removed. (\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jpf/wikigifs/commit/7568a938942b1ce37ac4059ff0d3d237602c68bc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/jpf/wikigifs/commit/7568a938942b1ce37ac40...\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"4911536","id":"4911625"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1399223597","timestamp":"2014-05-04 17:13:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting to note that Franken is\u0026#x2F;was both a strong proponent of net neutrality and a strong proponent of SOPA.\u003cp\u003eWe tend to conflate these issues in the tech community, but politicians tend to look at things differently (see: Lamar Smith on patent trolling as well).","parent":"7694678","id":"7694953"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1269818638","timestamp":"2010-03-28 23:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That contrapositive isn't quite accurate, because it indicates a different time-order than the original.  \"If you don't have a non-mainstream opinion, then you can't be successful\" implies that you must have non-mainstream opinion \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c/i\u003e you become successful.  \"If you're successful, then you have a non-mainstream opinion\" indicates that you have a non-mainstream opinion \u003ci\u003eafter\u003c/i\u003e you become successful.   It's fairly likely that your non-mainstream opinion before becomes the mainstream opinion afterwards.  After all, isn't that almost the definition of \"successful\"?","parent":"1225325","id":"1225411"}
{"by":"DamonHD","time":"1506759591","timestamp":"2017-09-30 08:19:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Without watching the video ... I can tell you in the olden days when RCS still stalked the Earth and our dev teams were in London, New York and Tokyo, and bandwidth was thin ...\u003cp\u003eWe very simply tried to divide the work and the functionality along geographic lines so that you were likely within shouting distance of anyone that could break the immediate stuff you were working on.\u003cp\u003eLater we added some central coordination of the stack of things as they went together since there often were ugly issues about getting new features integrated all in one go through the whole stack for example.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, the lesson here was that while there are no complete answers, for us refactoring functionality coarsely along team lines worked.  It may seem backwards, but we got a lot done.\u003cp\u003e(This in a world where branching was very painful, so at most we had it for production bug-fixes as I recall.)","parent":"15371783","id":"15371866"}
{"by":"chairmanwow","time":"1506161259","timestamp":"2017-09-23 10:07:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure that I buy the logic of \u0026quot;Winner take all\u0026quot; in the TNC space. The service is intrinsically localized. There were competitors in NYC that I had never heard of before after living in SF, and SF companies that New Yorkers had never heard of. Furthermore, their is little efficiency to operating such a business at scale. The marginal cost of each ride is the same. I can see some strong network effects from travelers, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t prevent a service from cropping up in a local market that can compete with Uber.\u003cp\u003eAll of the scenarios that I see where Uber can grind out competitors is by continually operating at a loss? I would imagine that eventually investors would tire of such a position.","parent":"15318889","id":"15319048"}
{"by":"efdee","time":"1372774458","timestamp":"2013-07-02 14:14:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about curl \u003ca href=\"http://domain.com/attemptlogin?username=[aaaaa-zzzzz]\u0026amp;password=[aaaaa-zzzzz]\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;domain.com\u0026#x2F;attemptlogin?username=[aaaaa-zzzzz]\u0026amp;passwo...\u003c/a\u003e, followed by curl \u003ca href=\"http://domain.com/admin/wipeeverything?username=x\u0026amp;password=y\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;domain.com\u0026#x2F;admin\u0026#x2F;wipeeverything?username=x\u0026amp;password=y\u003c/a\u003e ?","parent":"5977182","id":"5977895"}
{"by":"antr","time":"1387911526","timestamp":"2013-12-24 18:58:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although I don\u0026#x27;t agree that \u0026quot;What Rapgenius is doing is very innocent\u0026quot;, I do have to agree on the general (black) SEO tactics that startups do, and even blue chips do.\u003cp\u003eThis is my first hand experience: I was contacted by an \u0026quot;SEO Consultant\u0026quot; who wanted to publish an article in one my sites for $40. I went along, exchanged a few emails, and managed to get the \u0026quot;article\u0026quot; this company wanted to publish.\u003cp\u003eBottom line was that they wanted to place link\u0026#x27;s to Tesco\u0026#x27;s LED bulbs site:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Text: decorative and useful living room accessory\n    URL: http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tesco.com\u0026#x2F;direct\u0026#x2F;home-garden\u0026#x2F;lighting\u0026#x2F;cat3376614.cat\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"6960472","id":"6960621"}
{"by":"droithomme","time":"1324883407","timestamp":"2011-12-26 07:10:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your understanding of the term affordance, as inferred from your usage of it, is not the standard use. You use it as if it means the reason for something. Affordance is a clue something gives regarding its use. Doors with handles are pulled, with plates are pushed. Just seeing the interface component intrinsically describes its use. This is not possible for invisible components, therefore they have no affordance at all. Saying they have a reason in the designer's mind, to declutter an interface and make it all pretty and clean, is not related to saying they have an affordance, which is that they show the user how to use them. Buttons look pushable. Scroll bars look draggable. Invisible elements don't look anything.\u003cp\u003e\"Your brain is able to predict that if you don't see it, it might very well be rollover-only.\"\u003cp\u003eThis statement is so wrong I don't even know how to react to it or steer you away from this sort of thinking. I'm just completely taken aback. Not trying to be argumentative or anything, but no no no no no. No, the user is not going to intuit that the function must be invisible because he can't see it. Arg.\u003cp\u003eHere is the proof. Usability testing.","parent":"3392310","id":"3392439"}
{"by":"Svip","time":"1487688316","timestamp":"2017-02-21 14:45:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you read the article, it\u0026#x27;s clear the user limit was a technical limit and not a freemium limit.  So even if they did pay, Slack would still not have been able to accommodate all their users.\u003cp\u003eWhich leads me to my old-timer question:  What\u0026#x27;s wrong with IRC?","parent":"13695797","id":"13695824"}
{"by":"andretti1977","time":"1457872427","timestamp":"2016-03-13 12:33:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with the author with some exceptions: when you are working as a contractor or freelancer for someone else\u0026#x27;s project maybe 3h\u0026#x2F;day is not acceptable. When you\u0026#x27;ve got externally imposed deadlines 3h\u0026#x2F;day may not be sufficient.\u003cp\u003eBut i agree that working less than 8h\u0026#x2F;day could be really more productive. I also liked the \u0026quot;less stuck for coding\u0026quot; topic as \u0026quot;...it is sometimes hard to go bed without solving some unknown issues, and you don’t want to stop coding in the middle of it...\u0026quot; so maybe forcing themselves to stop could be a solution.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, i would really like to work 4 or 5 hours a day but keeping holidays and weekends free from work and i think this can only be achieved if you can pay your living with products of your own such as your apps and not by freelancing (i am a freelance and i know it!).\u003cp\u003eBut i enjoyed the idea behind the article and i will try to achieve it one day.","parent":"11277033","id":"11277458"}
{"by":"badsock","time":"1466788151","timestamp":"2016-06-24 17:09:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I found surprising is how close it was in places that are being cast as representing one side or the other.  Scotland, which is portayed as wanting to remain in the EU so much that independance is now likely, still had 38% wanting to leave.  Wales, which is being painted as being in solidarity with (non-London) England, still had 47% wanting to remain.","parent":"11970856","id":"11971549"}
{"by":"frankc","time":"1492016620","timestamp":"2017-04-12 17:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is people outside the field of whichever cert pile into them as a means to break in, so the median cert holder winds up being inexperienced and overall unqualified.  The cert itself then becomes associated with that.  You\u0026#x27;re not wrong that its silly to be biased against, in the larger context of someones qualifications, but only certs that are sufficiently exclusive will get any respect and that probably isn\u0026#x27;t going to change.","parent":"14099294","id":"14099560"}
{"by":"sudshekhar","time":"1482844231","timestamp":"2016-12-27 13:10:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi!\u003cp\u003eLots of good advice already given out here. But I would like to add some of my own view points\u003cp\u003eAbout me : 23, ex-WalmartLabs, currently working on my own startup.\u003cp\u003eThere are many ways to become a software developer, it all depends on what kind of role you\u0026#x27;re aiming for.\u003cp\u003e- Software Developer (SDE)\u003cp\u003eTypically the job offered to most young grads at the bigs cos (google\u0026#x2F;linkedin\u0026#x2F;walmart etc). They want to test your algorithm and programming skills. Check out [0], [1], [2] . It should take you 1-2 months to go over most of this stuff and several more to get really good. Start applying once you have a grasp of the basic principles, perfection only comes with practice.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re serious about such roles, I recommend spending at least 3-4 hours a day doing these problems.\u003cp\u003e- Technology specialist roles (IOS\u0026#x2F;Android\u0026#x2F;Node\u0026#x2F;Python\u0026#x2F;PHP etc)\u003cp\u003eThese also require some programming knowledge. Use the above resources and at least do the basic Data Structure questions. Apart from that, showcase your projects, contribute to other libraries and\u0026#x2F;or roll out your own.\u003cp\u003e- Devops\u003cp\u003eAnother cool field to get into. I am not well versed with the requirements myself but AFAIK, you need lesser DS and algo skills here and more tech domain knowledge.\u003cp\u003e- Freelance\u0026#x2F;Consulting\u003cp\u003eJust keep doing what you\u0026#x27;re doing right now. Find some consulting firm to market your skills for you. The monthly HN thread might be a good way to find leads\u0026#x2F;contacts. Can also consider bidding for projects on upwork\u0026#x2F;freelancer\u0026#x2F;others.\u003cp\u003e=========\u003cp\u003eAll in all, only thing I can say is that there\u0026#x27;s no need to be disappointed. You \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e get a job. You just need to prepare with a proper plan.\u003cp\u003e0 - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.geeksforgeeks.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.geeksforgeeks.org\u003c/a\u003e (Recommended at least basic linked list, trees, arrays,  graphs and greedy algo questions)\u003cp\u003e1 - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leetcode.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leetcode.com\u003c/a\u003e (Do all these questions)\u003cp\u003e2 - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.spoj.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.spoj.com\u003c/a\u003e (can also use topcoder for this. Use this to level up your skills and land the high paying jobs )","parent":"13261486","id":"13262902"}
{"by":"joshcarr","time":"1475520266","timestamp":"2016-10-03 18:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aclima - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aclima.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aclima.io\u003c/a\u003e - San Francisco, CA\u003cp\u003e==========\u003cp\u003eHello, we’re Aclima. We design and deploy distributed sensor networks for environmental quality. Our sensor networks generate billions of data points to reveal actionable insights about buildings, cities, and communities. In collaboration with partners like Google and the EPA, Aclima applies these insights to improve human and planetary health. Aclima’s mission is to use this new body of knowledge to create a more resilient, healthy and thriving world. We are looking for smart and passionate engineers to help build, scale, and improve our platform.\u003cp\u003eSome of the tools we use: Python, Git, MariaDB, Cassandra, Nginx, NSQ, Redis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, React, ES6, Webpack, D3.js\u003cp\u003ePositions:\u003cp\u003e* Senior Backend Software Engineer\u003cp\u003e* DevOps Engineer\u003cp\u003e* UX Designer\u003cp\u003e* Interface Developer\u003cp\u003e* Data Visualization Specialist\u003cp\u003e* Embedded Systems Engineer\u003cp\u003e* Product Managers\u003cp\u003e* Data Scientists\u003cp\u003e* And more... \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;boards.greenhouse.io\u0026#x2F;aclima\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;boards.greenhouse.io\u0026#x2F;aclima\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12627852","id":"12630166"}
{"by":"danielor","time":"1542259806","timestamp":"2018-11-15 05:30:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the truly remarkable thing about the story was how optimistic Facebook employees were at the end of 2017. A company of that size is bound to make mistakes. Even in the most rosy of scenarios, a complete reorganization of human society around a few social networks was bound to have severe consequences. Facebook is not immune to it. Once you have a large percentage of humanity on your platform, then you will get the best and worst of it.","parent":"18450058","id":"18457076"}
{"by":"MarkMc","time":"1519177217","timestamp":"2018-02-21 01:40:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Conversion rates of low-touch SaaS trials with credit card not required:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; 2%+: extremely good\u003cp\u003eI think that is the percentage of website visitors who eventually become paying subscribers. Eg. 10% of visitors sign up for a trial and 20% of \u003ci\u003ethose trial users\u003c/i\u003e pay for a subscription at the end of their trial period.\u003cp\u003ePatrick - can you confirm this?","parent":"16423496","id":"16426113"}
{"by":"rocqua","time":"1506377485","timestamp":"2017-09-25 22:11:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d guess that authorities would also have issues with situations where one purposely encrypts a hard-drive and disables decryption until later \u0026#x2F; confirmed safe by a third party. At the very least, that is what \u0026quot;Possession of encrypted data whilst being unable to decrypt it\u0026quot; sounds like.\u003cp\u003eIt then becomes a grey area between having been sent encrypted data, and having used the previously mentioned scheme to avoid decryption.\u003cp\u003eI also wonder how this interacts with the new 5-tap SOS function on iPhones.","parent":"15334229","id":"15334622"}
{"by":"aidenn0","time":"1537800243","timestamp":"2018-09-24 14:44:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They do see government surveillance as a greater threat than private surveillance, particularly if the private surveillance is disclosed.  This makes sense as it is much harder to opt-out of your government than a contract with a private company.","parent":"18057492","id":"18058104"}
{"by":"gizmo","time":"1378477999","timestamp":"2013-09-06 14:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Day trading and HFT are not for the common man. But regular long term investing is.\u003cp\u003eGetting a part time job is only a good idea if you have very few assets. Suppose you have 50k in salary and 50k in assets, then it\u0026#x27;s much easier to earn an extra 5k per year than it is to get an extra 10% return on your investment.\u003cp\u003eHowever, if you have 50k in salary and 500k in assets the story is the other way around. Investing 500k for 10 years with 6% interest instead of 3% interest leads to gains of 395k and 172k respectively. In this case making an effort in investing your money sensibly will lead to an extra 22k every year. A substantial difference. And as your assets increase your investment strategy only becomes more important.\u003cp\u003eThen there\u0026#x27;s the issue that not investing your money simply isn\u0026#x27;t a viable option. Inflation will chip away at your money at 3% per year, so you lose 25% of your money every 10 years if you stick your money in a checking account. Then there\u0026#x27;s the issue of employer-based 401k matching. You pretty much have to invest here, otherwise you lose out on free money. And if you just pick some investment funds at random you\u0026#x27;re going to do very poorly indeed (because many 401k funds are basically scams)[1].\u003cp\u003e[1] See \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement-gamble/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pbs.org\u0026#x2F;wgbh\u0026#x2F;pages\u0026#x2F;frontline\u0026#x2F;retirement-gamble\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6340446","id":"6340609"}
{"by":"rtegx","time":"1483988100","timestamp":"2017-01-09 18:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Havelang is an attempt to implement full blown generics (among others) for Go, and is getting close to being usable.","parent":"13358288","id":"13358726"}
{"by":"akbar501","time":"1425266710","timestamp":"2015-03-02 03:25:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on the person.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t use video calls much, but my younger daughter considers video calls to be the default.","parent":"9130050","id":"9130169"}
{"by":"meshr","time":"1439468821","timestamp":"2015-08-13 12:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a question, why not to solve the bitcoin issues another way: by decreasing the amount of transactions by changing the way of paying with bitcoins.  I suggest using bitcoin wallets as a cash banknotes and send bitcoin private keys (i.e. the wallet itself) instead of paying from the wallet to transfer money.  So everyone should have a set of bitcoin wallets with different bitcoin amounts instead of using one bitcoin wallet.\nThis method has some advantages: instant transactions, zero fees and anonymity. \nThe disadvantage that I can see is the necessity of development the mechanisms of having “the change”, probably specialized bitcoin fork, or  it can be solved by using hybrid method: usual transaction + bitcoin wallet private keys sending.\n“The change” is not necessary for some types of payments: like gifts, balance replenish, or periodic payments which bitcoin has lack of support now. It’ll definitely help to decrease amount of transactions here.","parent":"10047417","id":"10053578"}
{"by":"kannanvijayan","time":"1468940370","timestamp":"2016-07-19 14:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Note: I worked on SpiderMonkey\u0026#x27;s JIT and various optimization-related things)\u003cp\u003eIn general the accepted \u0026quot;best practice\u0026quot; approach is always to use the length of the compiled bytecode as a heuristic.  This is what we use basically everywhere in the JIT for \u0026quot;function size\u0026quot; heuristics - inlining logic being the biggest user.\u003cp\u003eV8 doesn\u0026#x27;t have a bytecode (although I\u0026#x27;ve heard they\u0026#x27;re adding a bytecode interpreter now), but even there, they can use AST-weight (i.e. the count of all vertices in the AST for a function) as a measure of the function size.\u003cp\u003eCounting bytes, characters, or any sort of raw source-related metric is a bad idea.\u003cp\u003eThese things happen because it\u0026#x27;s easy to use an easy heuristic that\u0026#x27;ll work most of the time.  The size of a function in source-code bytes is easy to get, and always available.  You may not be able to guarantee that bytecode or AST info is available when you want to use it (e.g. if the function has been lazified due to lack-of-use and all the compiled bits thrown away).","parent":"12120133","id":"12122150"}
{"by":"dexcs","time":"1423285524","timestamp":"2015-02-07 05:05:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Casino. All on Red. :)","parent":"9012989","id":"9013137"}
{"by":"j_s","time":"1516648542","timestamp":"2018-01-22 19:15:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let end users provide their own third party site email credentials.","parent":"16206927","id":"16207040"}
{"by":"tasoeur","time":"1392881099","timestamp":"2014-02-20 07:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I would say $19B is cheap for what its worth in this context.\u0026quot; =\u0026gt; This is hilarious.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a quick comparison: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jure/status/436391177026142208\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;jure\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;436391177026142208\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou still make some good points in your blog post though.","parent":"7269275","id":"7269415"}
{"by":"jdiez17","time":"1527524688","timestamp":"2018-05-28 16:24:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can\u0026#x27;t most (or at least, many) of these BLE fitness bands act as music controls for smartphones already? I know that every smartwatch under the sun does this, and since it\u0026#x27;s just a software feature, I feel it\u0026#x27;s such low-hanging fruit that every off-brand manufacturer must have implemented it a long time ago. But maybe I\u0026#x27;m wrong?","parent":"17173182","id":"17173250"}
{"by":"zacinbusiness","time":"1386251944","timestamp":"2013-12-05 13:59:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree here - there\u0026#x27;s no universally \u0026quot;good\u0026quot; sleep pattern. Some people thrive on pushing their minds and bodies to the limit, while others thrive on the downtime that allows their minds to reflect on their own thoughts.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I get a much greater sense of accomplishment when I can look back at a marathon 27 hour work session and see that, through it all, I did good work. But, more often than not, my work is riddled with errors that I don\u0026#x27;t see until later. So, I take naps and rest when I can, and try to get work done on an even, if not boring, timeline.","parent":"6853706","id":"6854359"}
{"by":"lorrit","time":"1517278314","timestamp":"2018-01-30 02:11:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is not \u0026quot;Apple\u0026#x27;s AAC\u0026quot;. Apple did not have any part in the development of AAC. It was actually developed by Fraunhofer as a successor to their MP3 encoding.","parent":"16261863","id":"16262377"}
{"by":"vezzy-fnord","time":"1448638787","timestamp":"2015-11-27 15:39:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty sure it\u0026#x27;s a reference to The Prodigy.","parent":"10637612","id":"10637683"}
{"by":"longerthoughts","time":"1546560135","timestamp":"2019-01-04 00:02:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;He discounts immediately the obvious solution for the problem houseless people face: providing them homes.\u003cp\u003eKeep reading. He leads by highlighting flaws of the commonly proposed strategies for addressing homelessness but later goes back and proposes a solution tying several things together, including providing housing.\u003cp\u003eHe essentially says 1) build housing, 2) enforce laws against low-level offenses associated with homelessness (e.g. littering, vandalism), 3) provide services for addiction and mental illness, 4) create a jobs program.","parent":"18820553","id":"18820676"}
{"by":"chrisseaton","time":"1535155687","timestamp":"2018-08-25 00:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How are you measuring outcomes? Just salary? Because how would you empirically measure anything else?","parent":"17838705","id":"17838741"}
{"by":"mcantor","time":"1290018165","timestamp":"2010-11-17 18:22:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't really have a huge problem with it.  I dislike Rails in general because it's a 500-pound gorilla that people use instead of understanding what's actually going on in their app, and I'm frustrated that it's the first point of contact most people have with Ruby.  Rails has a lot of sorcery in its code, which is trivially exemplified[1] by the inflector, and Ruby doesn't have to be that way.\u003cp\u003eFor example, let's say you have a Big Giant App with fifty database tables, each with a corresponding model object.  You can use the Rails inflector, which is God-knows-how-many lines of code by now.  Or, you can have a 50-line file that looks like this:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  model_table_map = {\n    User =\u0026#62; 'users',\n    Shark =\u0026#62; 'sharks',\n    Lazer =\u0026#62; 'lazers',\n    Antenna =\u0026#62; 'antennae',\n    ...\n    Locus =\u0026#62; 'loci',\n    Species =\u0026#62; 'species'\n  }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n(Don't ask me what kind of screwed up, terrifying app you could possibly be writing that requires these classes, 'cause I don't know!)\u003cp\u003eThis has numerous advantages over using the Inflector:\u003cp\u003e- The conversion from singular class name to plural table name is \u003ci\u003eunambiguous\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eself-documenting\u003c/i\u003e, so if you come back to the code in 6 months, or if you are working with someone for whom English is not their primary language, you don't have to wonder, \"Hmmm... is 'locus' one of those words with an irregular plural inflection?  If so, does the Inflector know about it?\"\u003cp\u003e- It's one less dependency you need to trust.\u003cp\u003e- Memoization makes this already-minuscule point nearly moot, but calling model_table_map[obj.class] is faster than inflecting it.\u003cp\u003eLike I said: It's really not a big deal, and probably counts more towards personal preference than anything else.  I simply prefer to be as explicit as possible until it would simply \u003ci\u003ehurt less\u003c/i\u003e to use magic.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Design is the successive application of constraints until only a unique product is left.\"\u003c/i\u003e - Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things\u003cp\u003e1. Can something non-trivial be \u003ci\u003etrivially\u003c/i\u003e exemplified? I dunno. :-/","parent":"1908124","id":"1915119"}
{"by":"bayesianhorse","time":"1423043385","timestamp":"2015-02-04 09:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Touting these unemployment numbers as a \u0026quot;big lie\u0026quot; is equally misleading. Especially when comparing this number to a past situation of which we don\u0026#x27;t know the disappointing details.\u003cp\u003eJust saying \u0026quot;only 44% of adults have a good job\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t sound like a good number either. This doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to count mothers, \u0026quot;house wifes\u0026quot; (if they choose that occupation voluntarily and gladly), college students and probably not even grad students.","parent":"8991866","id":"8996029"}
{"by":"rectangletangle","time":"1432713268","timestamp":"2015-05-27 07:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought that at first too, but even then the exception seems spurious. It would be more inline with existing Python behavior to evaluate it as undefined\u0026#x2F;indeterminate assignment order (though this would be pretty useless).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; a, b, c, d = {1, 2, 3, \u0026#x27;a\u0026#x27;}\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; a\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;a\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eRegardless, it shouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprising when writing insane code, that the language starts acting insane. Python as a whole is pretty decent when it comes to handling syntactic edge cases.","parent":"9609920","id":"9609947"}
{"by":"cgrubb","time":"1459733865","timestamp":"2016-04-04 01:37:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep.  In LA Large empty lots are hard to come by.  A 6k square ft lot might be 100k for an undesirable location in an undesirable nbhd, but 400k is probably typical. Not sure how much cost \u0026quot;zoning and permitting\u0026quot; really adds on top of that.","parent":"11418707","id":"11418860"}
{"by":"derekja","time":"1327045371","timestamp":"2012-01-20 07:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you're in the bay area. Check out biocurious (\u003ca href=\"http://biocurious.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://biocurious.org\u003c/a\u003e) It's filled with folks in the computer industry who are all infatuated with biotech. I bet you'd find people you could trade skills with!","parent":"3486059","id":"3488725"}
{"by":"dekhn","time":"1436966430","timestamp":"2015-07-15 13:20:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every possible bit of useful stuff already exists in pi; you just need to know the bit index to retrieve it (in O(n) time, O(1) space).\u003cp\u003eThis is because pi is almost certainly unbiased and irrational, thus it repeats at random forever, which means that all possible finite subsequences are eventually generated.","parent":"9890748","id":"9891080"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1260660856","timestamp":"2009-12-12 23:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"15 minutes by rowing boat anywhere in lake Huron near the Sault border.\u003cp\u003eBut this guy was trying to \u003ci\u003eleave\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eOn top of that there is a much easier way to get a bomb in to the US, buy it in bits and pieces in the US, assemble it there. No point in taking it across the border.","parent":"991270","id":"992115"}
{"by":"drakonka","time":"1450864730","timestamp":"2015-12-23 09:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A friend\u0026#x2F;ex-coworker of mine recently got a job at an AI company with no previous AI history as a software engineer. AI researchers need tools, systems, etc, that a programmer with little specific AI experience can contribute. Aside from also learning the topics etc in your spare time it seems like a good way to get into a relevant company early and work to a more AI-involved position from there.","parent":"10779053","id":"10782698"}
{"by":"IsaacSchlueter","time":"1310844489","timestamp":"2011-07-16 19:28:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026#62; theoretically compiler could have inlined slice\n    \u0026#62; and looked one level deeper to see that.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI'd suspect that optimizing Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, n, m) at the v8 level would yield pretty significant gains, even if no other arguments-object abuse was supported intelligently.\u003cp\u003eFor almost any complicated operation on the arguments, your first step is to convert it (or part of it) to a true Array.  Most libraries do that using Array.prototype.slice, in my experience.","parent":"2771141","id":"2771503"}
{"by":"sqs","time":"1472387714","timestamp":"2016-08-28 12:35:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sourcegraph CEO here. Go to \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sourcegraph.com\u0026#x2F;beta\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sourcegraph.com\u0026#x2F;beta\u003c/a\u003e to get early access and to vote for your favorite language. We hear you and are rapidly adding support for new languages. :)\u003cp\u003e(BTW: Passionate about a language and want to help us build Sourcegraph support for it, or know someone who\u0026#x27;d be interested? Email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com. We can sponsor you. The latest requirements for adding a new language are not yet publicly documented, so contact us before getting started.)","parent":"12375732","id":"12376248"}
{"by":"tombrossman","time":"1389692821","timestamp":"2014-01-14 09:47:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any idea how to mount and open additional encrypted drives automatically, just like an encrypted \u0026#x2F;home partition at user login? I asked this ages ago on AskUbuntu \u003ca href=\"http://askubuntu.com/q/103835\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;askubuntu.com\u0026#x2F;q\u0026#x2F;103835\u003c/a\u003e and by the time I got a good answer I\u0026#x27;d already moved to a more complex set-up that was incompatible.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m okay with setting up rsync and grabbing everything I want backed up, then pointing it to a target drive. My issue is having to manually intervene by clicking on the drive (in Nautilus) to mount it - or having to type the password at boot.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m still looking for a good solution to \u0026#x27;automagically\u0026#x27; mount encrypted drives at user login.","parent":"7055738","id":"7056187"}
{"by":"ZeroGravitas","time":"1357250378","timestamp":"2013-01-03 21:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are they trying to emulate a walkie-talkie style synchronous communication link?","parent":"5004757","id":"5004945"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1329169986","timestamp":"2012-02-13 21:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://coloradoindependent.com/111645/pro-marijuana-montana-legislator-investigated-by-dea\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://coloradoindependent.com/111645/pro-marijuana-montana-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eApparently she hasn't been charged yet, she's currently being investigated, but it seems that RICO is the framework that they are considering using to charge her.","parent":"3586981","id":"3587489"}
{"by":"user24","time":"1288599120","timestamp":"2010-11-01 08:12:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know how to say this without sounding self-promotional, but there are a few points here which agree with my post on why Diaspora won't kill facebook - \u003ca href=\"http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/09/why-diaspora-wont-beat-facebook/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/09/why-diaspora-wont-beat-fa...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecifically, we agree on the fact that many friends=problem. Dave doesn't really suggest a solution to that problem - I think it's something which can be solved technically. Dave also brings out a great argument as to why privacy matters to facebook, which I hadn't spotted before.","parent":"1855677","id":"1855748"}
{"by":"mosfet9","time":"1355593739","timestamp":"2012-12-15 17:48:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks great! The two-cursor feature would also be extremely useful when two mice are connected to one computer. We do pair programming at work and I could see a tool that allows two people sitting at one machine to each have their own cursor totally transforming the way we work.  Is this a feature you plan on developing?","parent":"4924763","id":"4925774"}
{"by":"realityking","time":"1447764099","timestamp":"2015-11-17 12:41:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s crystal clear that the population there wants and supports Assad.\u003cp\u003eDo you have a source on that? From what I\u0026#x27;ve read there are plenty of opposition groups still fighting Assad (and ISIS).","parent":"10580498","id":"10580661"}
{"by":"jimjimjim","time":"1520624524","timestamp":"2018-03-09 19:42:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Role models. He was a rock star at being an asshole. This encourages others who were maybe unsure of their assholeness to feel free to be more assholish.\u003cp\u003eThe world need more good role models and less bad ones.","parent":"16554019","id":"16554333"}
{"by":"mansr","time":"1298898319","timestamp":"2011-02-28 13:05:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For writing portable scritps, I strongly advise against using anything not in the POSIX spec.  No matter how many shells you've tested it in, there will always be one somewhere that doesn't implement it.  Conversely, if a POSIX feature is found to be broken in at least one moderately common shell, it should be avoided or worked around if at all practical.","parent":"2270357","id":"2271061"}
{"by":"pepr","time":"1352935117","timestamp":"2012-11-14 23:18:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience (coming from former communist country, now living in US) it's a bit amplified by the fact that these competitions are significantly more popular in those countries than they are for example in US or Western Europe. It just means more in practical terms like getting a good job. I happen to work for the ACM ICPC and if you look at participation (number of contestants) from Western Europe it's much less than countries like China, India or Russia. From what I heard, scoring in such a competition in these countries is really prestigious. Not that it doesn't matter in US or Western Europe, but it's not \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e important.","parent":"4785272","id":"4786149"}
{"by":"georgieporgie","time":"1329502531","timestamp":"2012-02-17 18:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll not allow you to invalidate my statement by dismissing me as hypersensitive.  That's a lousy tactic you're trying to use.\u003cp\u003eAddressing an adult human using a child's label is condescending, period.  I certainly don't appreciate being called a boy, and I haven't referred to a female colleague as a girl since I was in my teens.  Further, if you haven't noticed the consistent way in which comments here have used the words \u003ci\u003emen\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003egirls\u003c/i\u003e then I think you're not reading very closely.","parent":"3603396","id":"3604341"}
{"by":"xorgar831","time":"1473659365","timestamp":"2016-09-12 05:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love to know too, are there any frameworks that are at least more straightforward than React and Angular? One where you\u0026#x27;re not passing anonymous functions into functions with all sorts of confusing syntaxes, where you can just express what you want to do without having balance three types of punctuation that require the shift key to type.","parent":"12477190","id":"12477465"}
{"by":"ra","time":"1317934664","timestamp":"2011-10-06 20:57:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Essentially, your OS provider, if it uses this database, will likely choose to cease distributing tzdata until the disputed data is removed / replaced.\u003cp\u003eVery short term, no big deal. Longer term, it could be a big deal if this leads to fragmentation and inconsistencies in tzdata.","parent":"3081616","id":"3081625"}
{"by":"asimeqi","time":"1394473881","timestamp":"2014-03-10 17:51:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would love to, but I think I would look like I am namedropping. Also I probably would need his permission to mention his name.","parent":"7374136","id":"7374485"}
{"by":"pluma","time":"1496576746","timestamp":"2017-06-04 11:45:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seemed shocking as I thought SIMD was still on track for inclusion in the next ECMAScript release as the proposal was on stage 3 the last time I checked (stage 4 means \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s in the spec\u0026quot;, so stage 3 generally means \u0026quot;shipping ASAP\u0026quot;). I first thought Google had single-handedly decided to violate the spec.\u003cp\u003eHowever it turns out the SIMD proposal has been dead since at least April: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tc39\u0026#x2F;ecmascript_simd\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;c6ca655dcbfc014d82f3ec500c2e41db34a1dee8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tc39\u0026#x2F;ecmascript_simd\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;c6ca655dcbfc0...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo this isn\u0026#x27;t really \u0026quot;Google kills SIMD\u0026quot; but \u0026quot;Google kills implementation of dropped proposal\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s still surprising to see proposals get canned this late into the process. The only other example of a late-stage retraction I can think of is Object.observe, which was originally expected to become part of the 2016 edition: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;esdiscuss.org\u0026#x2F;topic\u0026#x2F;an-update-on-object-observe\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;esdiscuss.org\u0026#x2F;topic\u0026#x2F;an-update-on-object-observe\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14479166","id":"14480898"}
{"by":"rahimnathwani","time":"1404975888","timestamp":"2014-07-10 07:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The Moto E is really a low-end device, with a relatively weak CPU\u003cp\u003eYes.  Low-end CPU I can handle, as it\u0026#x27;s still turing-complete :)\u003cp\u003eIt hadn\u0026#x27;t occurred to me that I would soon want to use apps that require a compass and gyroscope :(","parent":"8013940","id":"8013982"}
{"by":"bryanh","time":"1280588207","timestamp":"2010-07-31 14:56:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I keep bringing this up (I keep my drum on me 24/7), but I run \u003ca href=\"http://EveryMentor.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://EveryMentor.com/\u003c/a\u003e and we're trying to be something like that but for folks that are looking for a more business aspect. Basically, its a place where you get a workout buddy for work in general. Kinda aimed at startups or single entrepreneurs that don't have lots and lots of contact as is.","parent":"1563671","id":"1563786"}
{"by":"notatoad","time":"1321299433","timestamp":"2011-11-14 19:37:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"have you used an e-reader?  it's not really anything that needs fixing.  when you see it on youtube the flicker looks annoying, but when you're actually reading a book you don't notice it at all.","parent":"3233266","id":"3235335"}
{"by":"ValentineC","time":"1369774248","timestamp":"2013-05-28 20:50:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you mind elaborating on #3? I would like to learn more about how abundant natural resources and a lack of freedom produce wealth.","parent":"5782468","id":"5782687"}
{"by":"nextweek2","time":"1467274507","timestamp":"2016-06-30 08:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is almost a dupe from last year:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9546609\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9546609\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eReally you need to create a start-up which offers value to someone, the fact you have 1 year of hosting is nice but it should only be a small part of a larger business plan. Look for ideas [1][2] but most importantly, look at what you are good at.\u003cp\u003eLastly, go as fast as you can. A year is a very short time.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;old.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;ideas.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;old.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;ideas.html\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+ideas\u0026amp;t=ffcm\u0026amp;ia=web\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+ideas\u0026amp;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12003519","id":"12007214"}
{"by":"chvid","time":"1409470625","timestamp":"2014-08-31 07:37:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article says:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A tendency toward underestimation of effort is particularly present in price-competitive situations, such as bidding rounds. In less price-competitive contexts, such as inhouse software development, there are no such tendencies - in fact, you might even see the opposite. This suggests that a main reason for effort overruns is that clients tend to focus on low price when selecting software providers - that is, the project proposals that underestimate effort are more likely to be started. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIs that really correct? Are there studies that shows that inhouse projects (or not fixed-price projects) do not underestimate systematically as opposed to fixed-price client projects?","parent":"8246921","id":"8248695"}
{"by":"qznc","time":"1368707347","timestamp":"2013-05-16 12:29:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why don't they support a mechanism which works with plain text emails? E.g. put the JSON stuff into a header field.\u003cp\u003eBtw how would one suggest something like this officially? There seems to be no issue tracker or anything for gmail.","parent":"5717577","id":"5718233"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1430407830","timestamp":"2015-04-30 15:30:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that for some it will seem strange; for many, though, it feels normal.\u003cp\u003eI love my books, but I lend books out pretty much at the drop of a hat because there\u0026#x27;s a joy in sharing. If somebody willfully destroyed one of my books and handed me back urine-soaked shreds, I would still feel violated. And if somebody then said, \u0026quot;Well duh, what do you expect lending out your books?\u0026quot; I would think that person an asshole. Because what I expect, what most people would expect, is what generally happens: the book gets returned with appreciation. One can always seize upon the rare bad outcome to sound smart in hindsight, but as far as I can see it\u0026#x27;s just kicking people when they\u0026#x27;re down.","parent":"9463391","id":"9465665"}
{"by":"koenigdavidmj","time":"1471288339","timestamp":"2016-08-15 19:12:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are able to check online to see that it has in fact been processed, and you sign the outside of the envelope to indicate that you are in fact the person named on the envelope. And they do check those and call you if your signature is too far off the recorded one, which is about the same level of verification as signing your name on the roll at a polling place. (Since, of course, doing anything more stringent than that is apparently a Racist Republican Conspiracy To Disenfranchise (TM).)\u003cp\u003eThe one thing that\u0026#x27;s now possible is coerced voting, but apparently Washington believes that this is outweighed by the benefit of improved turnout.","parent":"12292009","id":"12292685"}
{"by":"comex","time":"1478844689","timestamp":"2016-11-11 06:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The claim is not \u0026quot;climate science isn\u0026#x27;t (real because it has science in the name)\u0026quot;, but \u0026quot;(climate science isn\u0026#x27;t real) (because it has science in the name)\u0026quot;.  That is, the name is being used as a reason to discount it.","parent":"12928088","id":"12928404"}
{"by":"chwahoo","time":"1280865437","timestamp":"2010-08-03 19:57:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry protomyth - yours is not the message I was replying to.  I'm not sure what happened there!?!","parent":"1572528","id":"1572535"}
{"by":"jhuckestein","time":"1474374530","timestamp":"2016-09-20 12:28:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work at Monzo.\u003cp\u003eI agree that using microservices and kubernetes is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e what allows us to provide a good user experience. We could provide the same user experience if we had built everything on rails and postgres. In fact, that would have been much easier.\u003cp\u003eThe reason we are investing so heavily in a rock solid platform is that we want to still be able to offer the best possible user experience in 10 years time. This is what we mean when we say we want the platform to be \u0026quot;extensible\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eMany large banks IT systems are not extensible, in the sense that it is very expensive to make changes. Take, for example, the ability to freeze a card in the app at the tap of a button. A friend at RBS told me that they considered this feature many times, but it took a long time to work out which 20 IT systems would need changing and some of them had been under change freeze for a few years. So eventually the idea was discarded as too expensive.\u003cp\u003eThe freeze card feature would be easy to implement for a startup, regardless of their stack. The key is to still be able to implement such a feature easily in 10 years time :)","parent":"12538687","id":"12538939"}
{"by":"auganov","time":"1438272893","timestamp":"2015-07-30 16:14:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as you get introduced\u0026#x2F;meet in the right place, pretty much every non-famous VC will. A lot of people don\u0026#x27;t even have prototypes. And honestly, they\u0026#x27;ll only care about seeing the prototype if it\u0026#x27;s the sort of thing that you can use on spot or they really get your vertical.","parent":"9971768","id":"9975982"}
{"by":"cafard","time":"1408008878","timestamp":"2014-08-14 09:34:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tuning is one thing. What if you have a lot of business logic in a few ten or hundred thousands of lines of PL\u0026#x2F;SQL.  What will it cost you to rewrite that in Pg\u0026#x2F;SQL or T-SQL?","parent":"8176452","id":"8176683"}
{"by":"ivankirigin","time":"1318971044","timestamp":"2011-10-18 20:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dropbox doesn't post much to the YC listing, but we are hiring for basically everything: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dropbox.com/jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.dropbox.com/jobs\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can email me directly if you have any questions too: ivan@dropbox.com","parent":"3126379","id":"3127114"}
{"by":"anotherbrownguy","time":"1500121768","timestamp":"2017-07-15 12:29:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What IP theft? Are there instances where Chinese Patent Office failed to act against IP theft claims?","parent":"14774880","id":"14776337"}
{"by":"c54","time":"1373128404","timestamp":"2013-07-06 16:33:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some sort of filter-by-country, or even just more than 10 results would be a nice addition.\u003cp\u003eAnd a \u0026#x27;minimum population\u0026#x27; control.","parent":"5999068","id":"5999245"}
{"by":"jibiki","time":"1248660133","timestamp":"2009-07-27 02:02:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article mentions it in passing:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=533743\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=533743\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We know roughly when and where farming began, because of the archæological evidence: domestication is a shock to the physiology of man and beast. The skeletons of people change, they temporarily grow smaller and less healthy, as the human body adapts to a protein-poorer diet and a more arduous lifestyle. Likewise, newly domesticated animals get scrawnier at first.\"\u003cp\u003eI'm sure some google wizardry could find a real source.","parent":"725166","id":"725202"}
{"by":"symesc","time":"1262718043","timestamp":"2010-01-05 19:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love the approach here: unsubsidized or subsidized, your choice.","parent":"1032923","id":"1032961"}
{"by":"magduf","time":"1529592945","timestamp":"2018-06-21 14:55:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with this is: how do you know what the tax rate is for the product you\u0026#x27;re selling?  For instance, if you\u0026#x27;re in New Jersey and you\u0026#x27;re selling a clothing item like a pair of socks, then there\u0026#x27;s no tax.  But if you\u0026#x27;re selling a fur coat, then there\u0026#x27;s full sales tax.  There\u0026#x27;s different tax rates for different products, and it varies wildly across almost 10,000 different jurisdictions in the US.","parent":"17365613","id":"17365710"}
{"by":"abecedarius","time":"1430187027","timestamp":"2015-04-28 02:10:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you say how the reading changes in light of the videos? I skipped the vids because I\u0026#x27;m hard of hearing, but \u003ci\u003emaybe\u003c/i\u003e it\u0026#x27;d be worth the trouble to look again with auto-transcription.","parent":"9449022","id":"9450250"}
{"by":"acuozzo","time":"1393604986","timestamp":"2014-02-28 16:29:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Today a girl was raped by his grandfather.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYou either meant s\u0026#x2F;girl\u0026#x2F;boy or s\u0026#x2F;his\u0026#x2F;her.","parent":"7315230","id":"7319711"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1225142528","timestamp":"2008-10-27 21:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you read it? They were not powered by the reactor. They just carried a reactor on board.\u003cp\u003eActually powering a jet from a reactor is a lot more complicated.","parent":"345460","id":"345607"}
{"by":"AtomicOrbital","time":"1490155714","timestamp":"2017-03-22 04:08:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most Americans have never eaten beef grown on a family farm where its grass fed, no hormones nor antibiotics ... even store bought expensive organic beef pales in comparison ... family friends own such a wholesome farm and I can say their beef is incredible and its not even beef cattle its Swiss Brown and Jerseys which are milk cows ... even beef from high end restaurants is no match for beef from such a caring gentle farm ... the quality of beef has suffered greatly in the name of profits due to industrial scale multinationals who dominate the mass market","parent":"13928140","id":"13928396"}
{"by":"lodi","time":"1501185293","timestamp":"2017-07-27 19:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First result for \u0026quot;rockefeller net worth\u0026quot;:\n  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;carlodonnell\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;the-rockefellers-the-legacy-of-historys-richest-man\u0026#x2F;#727cdd703c26\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;carlodonnell\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;the-roc...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e($340B in 2017 USD)","parent":"14868454","id":"14868826"}
{"by":"unclebucknasty","time":"1483164957","timestamp":"2016-12-31 06:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. But it seems our gracious host has disappeared.\u003cp\u003eOn the plus side, if you order now, you\u0026#x27;ll get a bonus Pavlok free. Just pay shipping and handling.","parent":"13286994","id":"13289789"}
{"by":"justaguyhere","time":"1518543834","timestamp":"2018-02-13 17:43:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is my problem with these so called courses - if someone has figured out to time the market, why would they sell it for $47 (or whatever the amount)? It doesn\u0026#x27;t make any sense, unless that person is a college kid with no money of his own to invest (in which case, he wouldn\u0026#x27;t have the know how or be in a position to teach).\u003cp\u003eDo you do day trading?","parent":"16368708","id":"16369031"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1492100209","timestamp":"2017-04-13 16:16:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14093970\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14093970\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14107958","id":"14108318"}
{"by":"snogglethorpe","time":"1366412228","timestamp":"2013-04-19 22:57:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that gcc's C++11 support was feature-complete as of about two weeks ago... :]\u003cp\u003e[Seriously]","parent":"5578983","id":"5579085"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1443286250","timestamp":"2015-09-26 16:50:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;dense\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;high-rise\u0026quot; are not the same thing.\u003cp\u003eAnd \u0026quot;not very high rise\u0026quot; is more like \u0026quot;medium-rise\u0026quot;, not \u0026quot;low-rise\u0026quot;.","parent":"10281557","id":"10283571"}
{"by":"Atropos","time":"1436083056","timestamp":"2015-07-05 07:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Greece supporters do not seem to care about facts at all. Same for the GDP numbers, they always use the graph from 2008, whereas the graph from 1999 is much more enlightening: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;jmackin2\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;615576571890565121\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;jmackin2\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;615576571890565121\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven in the boom years, the numbers of Greek patents granted per year is ridiculously low, the number of Greek universities in the worlds top-500 is ridiculously low and Greece\u0026#x27;s rank in the world banks Doing Business report is still the worst of any OECD country - after 5 years of \u0026quot;reforms\u0026quot;!","parent":"9832490","id":"9832884"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1471996134","timestamp":"2016-08-23 23:48:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhat I alluded to is that most of the people who casually joke about prison rape, would never joke about female rape or teenage rapes.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sentiment is worded much better that way. The other wording could too easily be interpreted as implying that the rape of men is better than the rape of women and children.","parent":"12343051","id":"12348688"}
{"by":"checker","time":"1327933589","timestamp":"2012-01-30 14:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn't have to be either/or, too. A combination of both might make him even more productive than one or the other. However, if diet and exercise are proven to be effective, they will likely have better long term health benefits than consistent stimulant dosing.","parent":"3527154","id":"3528899"}
{"by":"justherefortart","time":"1525527272","timestamp":"2018-05-05 13:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You need capital. Everything else is far less critical.","parent":"17000574","id":"17001720"}
{"by":"jarek","time":"1348599786","timestamp":"2012-09-25 19:03:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These days I have no problem with sites who don't want to support some users, that's their call. I wouldn't recommend suggesting the users must not use the internet very often though.","parent":"4571895","id":"4572063"}
{"by":"aceofspad3s","time":"1514838268","timestamp":"2018-01-01 20:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firefox is much slower than Chrome on Android, at least on my (reasonably powerful) Qualcomm 625","parent":"16047669","id":"16047846"}
{"by":"silverlight","time":"1458169101","timestamp":"2016-03-16 22:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congratulations to everyone involved in this tremendous achievement, both the engineers who created AlphaGo and the Go community for being such gracious hosts.","parent":"11300892","id":"11301334"}
{"by":"ChristianMarks","time":"1327176593","timestamp":"2012-01-21 20:09:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good question. There are some institutional pressures--the person who lobbied for your appointment happens to be an editor of a paywalled scientific journal publisher. It's also a way to learn about the literature. But increasingly I'm turning down requests to referee for such publishers, in favor of open access journals and conferences. The opportunity cost in refereeing a paper is a subsidy to publishing companies--one I can't afford to pay.","parent":"3494309","id":"3494430"}
{"by":"fungi","time":"1476957780","timestamp":"2016-10-20 10:03:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shouldn\u0026#x27;t the Japanese industry be more worried? They don\u0026#x27;t have the same prestige to shrink back into. Only Casio is having a stab at the smartwatch category and its not exactly anything more then an also ran.","parent":"12749836","id":"12750977"}
{"by":"petra","time":"1465608092","timestamp":"2016-06-11 01:21:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m curious what happens if we would design a parallel web, ruled by a benevolent dictator that really wants to help humanity, in the wide and deep sense(and we\u0026#x27;re lucky and it doesn\u0026#x27;t turn into a bloodbath) - how would that internet look like ? and is it even a possible goal for a niche of the population ?","parent":"11881193","id":"11881473"}
{"by":"spacemanmatt","time":"1490029443","timestamp":"2017-03-20 17:04:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am also saying I agree strongly with the law\u0026#x27;s straight-forward stipulation that abstract material is ineligible. There\u0026#x27;s no justification for letting someone patent things just because they went to a lot of trouble to find or create something obscure, if it is entirely imaginary (abstract) or part of nature.","parent":"13915444","id":"13915770"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1327058734","timestamp":"2012-01-20 11:25:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't get too hung up on this.\u003cp\u003eTechnologist love to think through the technical implications of something, and assume these implications will be carried through legally.\u003cp\u003eThe law doesn't work like that. Provided Dropbox adheres to both the letter and the spirit of the DMCA - or works with complainants to develop an arrangement both are hppy with the technical details DO NOT MATTER.","parent":"3488082","id":"3489116"}
{"by":"hisham_hm","time":"1388454082","timestamp":"2013-12-31 01:41:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately it\u0026#x27;s not a popular pastime as it used to be.","parent":"6988147","id":"6988402"}
{"by":"malnourish","time":"1396678953","timestamp":"2014-04-05 06:22:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m seconding the notion that \u0026#x27;earn\u0026#x27; is cumbersome copy here.\u003cp\u003eI think something like \u0026quot;that\u0026#x27;s an extra x with InstaMotor\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;Make X more than the average\u0026quot; It\u0026#x27;s hard to restrict it down to just one word -- don\u0026#x27;t do it if you don\u0026#x27;t have to. I was very confused by earn at first.","parent":"7534010","id":"7536168"}
{"by":"InitialLastName","time":"1523045445","timestamp":"2018-04-06 20:10:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s OK to burn yourself, just wear eye protection when you solder upside-down.","parent":"16775906","id":"16776941"}
{"by":"robmil","time":"1373364293","timestamp":"2013-07-09 10:04:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Youth Defence are, in case anyone doesn\u0026#x27;t know and given that the defacement is now gone, a fairly unpleasant, far-right, anti-abortion group in Ireland:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.conorfarrell.com/wordpress/social-issues/the-problems-with-youth-defence-hate-2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.conorfarrell.com\u0026#x2F;wordpress\u0026#x2F;social-issues\u0026#x2F;the-prob...\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?14529-Youth-Defence-and-the-Far-Right\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.politicalworld.org\u0026#x2F;showthread.php?14529-Youth-Def...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6011665","id":"6011884"}
{"by":"dekhn","time":"1543433386","timestamp":"2018-11-28 19:29:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, because the black side has the camera and that would be front-facing.","parent":"18554486","id":"18554799"}
{"by":"microcolonel","time":"1469082997","timestamp":"2016-07-21 06:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only XML-related bug I see in this group is the SceneKit Collada one; and as far as I\u0026#x27;m aware, it\u0026#x27;s not the XML parser which fails in this case, it\u0026#x27;s SceneKit itself. All of these bugs are the sole responsibility of Apple Inc.\u003cp\u003eDid you even read any of these advisories before saying Apple didn\u0026#x27;t do it?","parent":"12134091","id":"12135156"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1377116280","timestamp":"2013-08-21 20:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re assuming there\u0026#x27;s nothing in the spray besides caffeine. Any number of other ingredients could affect the rate of absorption.","parent":"6251705","id":"6253053"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1369168034","timestamp":"2013-05-21 20:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, judging from just the quote, that strikes me as decent wordplay worth at least a minor chuckle. Lighten up, folks.","parent":"5744879","id":"5746598"}
{"by":"larsberg","time":"1315663045","timestamp":"2011-09-10 13:57:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And Peter Hallam, original J#/C# compiler dev lead, IIRC.\u003cp\u003eIt's like an ex-MSFT .NET party over there!","parent":"2981082","id":"2981576"}
{"by":"GHFigs","time":"1256060660","timestamp":"2009-10-20 17:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The features page only specifies that it can be used as a monitor.","parent":"892844","id":"892865"}
{"by":"azsromej","time":"1277251340","timestamp":"2010-06-23 00:02:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like Starbucks Pike Place roast","parent":"1453353","id":"1453644"}
{"by":"golergka","time":"1512850543","timestamp":"2017-12-09 20:15:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the theory \u0026quot;he changed his opinion\u0026quot; a simpler one?","parent":"15887780","id":"15887838"}
{"by":"elcritch","time":"1528089534","timestamp":"2018-06-04 05:18:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought Phnom Penh was overall a much cleaner city than SF...  Lots of people and haphazardness in PP, but mostly cleanish. I’d agree with your statement based on where I’ve been too. Also poor doesn’t always equate to \u0026quot;squalor\u0026quot;.","parent":"17224625","id":"17224878"}
{"by":"politician","time":"1328718145","timestamp":"2012-02-08 16:22:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does Tribler contain countermeasures for the Sybil attack?","parent":"3566305","id":"3567113"}
{"by":"codecrusade","time":"1365231829","timestamp":"2013-04-06 07:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are a good guy. But there are bad guys too. You dont want them watching every move your government makes :)\nAnd Sorry, Google cant make out good from bad yet.","parent":"5502896","id":"5502898"}
{"by":"kuschku","time":"1482461687","timestamp":"2016-12-23 02:54:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s not just a skill. If you’ve been mostly around people of the upper class, and in such schools as well – as the article says – you might be able to hold small talk with people from other countries, but not with people from your own country’s lower class.\u003cp\u003eThere’s an entirely different way of life there, entirely different life experiences, which lead to entirely different priorities, things you think about, and so on.\u003cp\u003eI’ve been in both circles due to family, people from the very bottom, and people from the very top, and you can’t just say \u0026quot;making small talk is just a skill\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAnd the other things you mention are also artifacts of this education: You only see this one perspective of life, which is so very different from what many other people experience, that you never even consider what their life might look like.\u003cp\u003eSmalltalk, like any communication, requires that you have a mental model of the person you talk with, but if you share none of their experiences, you can’t build such a mental model.\u003cp\u003eAlthough I wouldn’t recommend skipping college, I definitely recommend people to at least try to find a way with which they can experience the life through the eyes of a person of another social class at least once.","parent":"13242172","id":"13242435"}
{"by":"anilgulecha","time":"1471349397","timestamp":"2016-08-16 12:09:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mean google will show a lightning icon next to pages that follow the AMP standard (and plausibly use it as a positive signal in their ranking algorithm). A competing standard would not have these benefits.","parent":"12296852","id":"12296865"}
{"by":"hccampos","time":"1401911130","timestamp":"2014-06-04 19:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Original blog post: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.goocreate.com/post/87681768299/webgl-support-for-mac-os-x-10-10-and-ios-8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.goocreate.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;87681768299\u0026#x2F;webgl-support-for...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7847669","id":"7847704"}
{"by":"skwirl","time":"1404737269","timestamp":"2014-07-07 12:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see this anywhere in that thread.  The one person who mentions being helped says they did help.","parent":"7996943","id":"7998487"}
{"by":"abakker","time":"1516117362","timestamp":"2018-01-16 15:42:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Add some more - anything built by the CCC or WPA. I\u0026#x27;ve enjoyed many things built by this kind of labor, and I\u0026#x27;ve always wondered why we couldn\u0026#x27;t bring it back or make it permanent. We certainly need more of this kind of work done than we currently have people doing it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Civilian_Conservation_Corps\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Civilian_Conservation_Corps\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Works_Progress_Administration\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Works_Progress_Administration\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16158816","id":"16158938"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1441814743","timestamp":"2015-09-09 16:05:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish every Bart employee were required to travel to Hong Kong and spend a week riding their train systems around. Clean, fast, efficient, cheap, robotic.\u003cp\u003eHong Kong has the best subway system I have experienced.","parent":"10188581","id":"10192248"}
{"by":"jorgem","time":"1295475085","timestamp":"2011-01-19 22:11:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You want thumbnails?","parent":"2121460","id":"2121476"}
{"by":"cloudhead","time":"1280954161","timestamp":"2010-08-04 20:36:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good idea, it's something I've been meaning to improve.","parent":"1575585","id":"1575786"}
{"by":"microcolonel","time":"1531063291","timestamp":"2018-07-08 15:21:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThere is no reason that domain providers will be incapable of providing a contact point and you were always able to put a separate email inbox on WHOIS.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe registrars have an interest in not delivering requests for sale or even abuse reports, because it\u0026#x27;s likely that they will result in the domain either being decommissioned or moved to another registrar.","parent":"17483983","id":"17484189"}
{"by":"torpor","time":"1209118481","timestamp":"2008-04-25 10:14:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been a programmer since I was 12 years old, and have over 30 years experience with technology companies - and yes, startups too .. I helped get a few major 90's-era dotcoms up and running and many of them are still at it today.\u003cp\u003eMy experience is this: either you waste a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of time futzing around with computers, or you make them do the work they need to do and get on with your life.  It has nothing to do with how old or young you are, or how many kids you have.  I am a very happy Father now - in fact, this is the greatest startup, with the most rewards, I've ever been involved in - and I'm still applying the same fundamental policy to myself as a programmer: get things done, don't futz around with computers, make them actually do the work they're supposed to do.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't matter what \"kind\" of person you are, it matters only what kind of things you make.  I know 50-year old grandfathers who can kick royal Assembler ass and still leave early at the end of the day, and I know 18 year old kids who put the keyboard down after 8 hours and go do something else instead, as well.\u003cp\u003eIMHO, this over-generalization about 'types of people' is a real curse.  I would say, don't do it.  There are no 'types' of people in the computer world, no matter how the ycombinator cultists want to pitch it to the world: there are people who get things done, and people who don't.\u003cp\u003eGet things done.  Get your code written, working, tested, and in the hands of people who will actually use it.  If you can't do this, then you will fail.  If you can, then rock on .. may your kids, now and in the future, always appreciate this aspect of you as a person.","parent":"172915","id":"173447"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1513845881","timestamp":"2017-12-21 08:44:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this really a risky bet? I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if we hit $50k within a few months.","parent":"15975997","id":"15977366"}
{"by":"eva1984","time":"1460756782","timestamp":"2016-04-15 21:46:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For marketing purpose. This is the only thing I can think of.","parent":"11507757","id":"11507865"}
{"by":"jononor","time":"1484935163","timestamp":"2017-01-20 17:59:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that there is nothing at all in the semver spec about bugs.","parent":"13439538","id":"13445557"}
{"by":"neuromantik8086","time":"1539808797","timestamp":"2018-10-17 20:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d agree with that.  Whenever people cite Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg as college dropout successes, they tend to overlook the substantial cultural and social capital these leaders had already accrued as students at Lakeside, Homestead, and Phillips Exeter.","parent":"18242697","id":"18243575"}
{"by":"suraj","time":"1296738249","timestamp":"2011-02-03 13:04:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If an efficient approach to convert hydrocarbons into electricity had been invented, we all would be driving electric cars today.","parent":"2173188","id":"2174551"}
{"by":"Mistone","time":"1207590558","timestamp":"2008-04-07 17:49:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i can't help but feel like this is an odd fit (auctomatic + communicate.com). Of course I know nothing beyond what I've read, and auctomatic sounds like a group of talented folks with savvy advisers - but the synergies between the two companies just aren't clear to me.\u003cp\u003eMaybe communicate (like many small google acquisitions) is buying for talent which would makes sense from their perspective, but they are not quite google so the allure from the founders side is a bit less shiny.  Hard to second guess 5 million though.","parent":"156825","id":"157032"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1506075947","timestamp":"2017-09-22 10:25:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quite strange this was posted considering it was just announced the license will not be renewed further. [1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15310664\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15310664\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15310665","id":"15310764"}
{"by":"Raphael","time":"1276156187","timestamp":"2010-06-10 07:49:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's just a marsh, dude.","parent":"1419143","id":"1419416"}
{"by":"shams93","time":"1413815275","timestamp":"2014-10-20 14:27:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Down here in Los Angeles the talent pool is very shallow, now we are starting to see the first companies offering equity down here that is meaningful since 1998, seriously. If I hadn\u0026#x27;t had to go the last 14 years without equity I wouldn\u0026#x27;t still be coding pushing 43, I\u0026#x27;d be an angel investor, basically making a living helping to fund companies. With no equity life is a kind of living hell, no ability to have the normal human experiences of say starting a family, instead its a twilight world of paycheck haircuts and forced unpaid overtime, that leaves you feeling permanently like a zombie as everywhere you turn, its the same demand, everyone here wants 100-140 hours a week, offers you 40 hours pay then tries to haircut you back to 20 hours pay, management through extortion is common down here, either work 100 hours for free or you don\u0026#x27;t see your next check.","parent":"8481930","id":"8482281"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1389329068","timestamp":"2014-01-10 04:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI think the thing that you\u0026#x27;re missing is that success breeds success.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoesn\u0026#x27;t this strengthen the argument that luck matters? Consider the careers of hollywood actors. They tend to be jump started by the \u0026quot;big break\u0026quot;, rather than being a smooth linear promotion.\u003cp\u003eBut LA is stuffed to the gills with actors who never got that big break. The entire city is notoriously oversupplied with good looking waitstaff.","parent":"7034809","id":"7035147"}
{"by":"murbard2","time":"1408032690","timestamp":"2014-08-14 16:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s easy to forget that - perhaps for most people - there are ads on the web, and, yes, browser toolbars that open pop up ads.","parent":"8178068","id":"8178132"}
{"by":"danielweber","time":"1418154401","timestamp":"2014-12-09 19:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could do an unauthorized documentary about JK Rowling without her permission, and I could show the Harry Potter book covers in that movie without getting her permission.\u003cp\u003eNixon sure didn\u0026#x27;t approve all the movies that got made about him.","parent":"8725081","id":"8725185"}
{"by":"neurotech1","time":"1380064896","timestamp":"2013-09-24 23:21:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The F-16C is a multirole strike fighter, although retaining the air-to-air capabilities of the earlier versions.\u003cp\u003eThe F-22A is the USAFs Air Superiority fighter[1]. The F-14 and F-15 were the Air Superiority Fighter of the Navy and Air Force although they also became strike aircraft (F-14D and F-15E versions)\u003cp\u003eA single F-22 could down 4+ enemy fighters without even being seen, and the pilot coming back alive. The F-22 can also close for a gun kill. A Suicide squad of 4 F-16s would be hard pressed to beat that.\u003cp\u003eJust because a jet can dogfight does not make it an Air Superiority Fighter.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_superiority_fighter\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Air_superiority_fighter\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6440819","id":"6441507"}
{"by":"crazygringo","time":"1330729882","timestamp":"2012-03-02 23:11:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the same experience -- it's so simple and beautiful to use, BUT every time I encountered a merge conflict it somehow wouldn't accept my resolutions, and kept re-generating the same conflict. I'd tried it both in \"sync\" mode, and in normal push/pull mode, and both of them kept corrupting my repository somehow.\u003cp\u003eAfter this happened three times, I switched to SourceTree, which I haven't had any problems with. I think the #1 priority for GitHub for mac is to get the Git functionality itself actually working flawlessly.\u003cp\u003e(Plus the constant random \"empty dict\" bug messages, etc., that pop up at random times during the day, even when I've just left it in the background!)","parent":"3658106","id":"3658755"}
{"by":"jaggederest","time":"1443648328","timestamp":"2015-09-30 21:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I deeply enjoy when recruiters are convinced that I\u0026#x27;ll move to SF for \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c/i\u003e company, even though I haven\u0026#x27;t over the past decade. They also balk when I ask for the cost of living adjustment to make the move (+180%, give or take).","parent":"10307172","id":"10307375"}
{"by":"jasode","time":"1433115083","timestamp":"2015-05-31 23:31:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree with the letter\u0026#x27;s approach even though the author says it works based on his experience.\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ebest\u003c/i\u003e template for getting a raise is something like this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Boss\u0026#x2F;CEO,  I will be resigning my position at the company to take advantage of a new opportunity.  Regards,\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter that email is sent, you\u0026#x27;ll then know if the managers will woo you with a salary increase to keep you, or laugh and tell you not to let the door hit your ass on the way out.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re a superstar, you can leave and make more money.  The superstar programmers at DEC left and jumped shipped to Google Inc.  The superstar engineers at Lockheed \u0026amp; Boeing got lucrative offers from SpaceX.  You\u0026#x27;ll also get bigger raises than a measly 5% raise.  More like 20% to 100%\u003cp\u003eNow, if you\u0026#x27;re not at all interested in actually switching jobs, your options for leverage are severely handicapped.  Even in that case, I recommend a different approach than the author\u0026#x27;s suggested text:\u003cp\u003eIf you can\u0026#x27;t leave the job, you have to \u003ci\u003eexplain\u003c/i\u003e your \u003ci\u003evalue\u003c/i\u003e in concrete terms and why it\u0026#x27;s not being properly compensated.\u003cp\u003eOption 1:  An example of leveling up the salary to your \u003ci\u003eactual duties\u003c/i\u003e that management has overlooked:   \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Since the end 2014, I\u0026#x27;ve been tasked to manage the Linux server reliability team in addition to delivering new web apps functionality...\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e  You then ask to talk about market rate compensation for \u003ci\u003emanagement work\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eOption 2:  An example of leveling up to \u003ci\u003enew tasks\u003c/i\u003e and asking for the increased compensation to go with it:  \u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been doing web app here for 2 years but I\u0026#x27;ve noticed many inefficiencies with the Linux reliability team.  I feel I\u0026#x27;m the right person to take additional responsibility and make the team effective but I\u0026#x27;d like to talk about compensation...\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;   -- Basically you\u0026#x27;re being proactive about fast-tracking a promotion to a \u003ci\u003emore valuable\u003c/i\u003e role within the company.\u003cp\u003eThe 3rd option outlined by the author is the worst situation to be in:  Doing what exactly you\u0026#x27;ve been doing while simultaneously asking for a ~5% raise to \u0026quot;match market surveys\u0026quot; is a position of weakness.  The boss responds, \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;ok, thanks for bringing your concerns to our attention, we\u0026#x27;ll get back to you\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e ... and then they don\u0026#x27;t bother giving you a raise.  You\u0026#x27;ll be secretly branded as a fool if you don\u0026#x27;t resign.\u003cp\u003eLastly, some stylistic choices on author\u0026#x27;s wordcrafting I disagree with:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;I have no desire to work anywhere else, but lately I have been getting lots of recruiters and people I know at other companies reaching out to me to see if I\u0026#x27;d be interested in making a move. I tell them I am not interested of course, \u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis text is an example of \u0026quot;trying too hard\u0026quot;.  You don\u0026#x27;t need to write any of that \u0026quot;social proof\u0026quot; stuff at all.  If your managers are intelligent, they will \u003ci\u003einfer\u003c/i\u003e this without you explicitly mentioning it.  It\u0026#x27;s like you ask a girl out on a date by prefacing, \u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been approached by lots of girls and I\u0026#x27;ve been fighting them off but I really like you so will you go to the prom with me?\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAnd this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Now that I have been married for a couple years, I am starting to make plans for a family, \u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo not put personal reasons into business correspondence.  It looks weak.  Yes, you have a family, or a mother with cancer treatments, or a daughter that needs a college education fund.  The problem is that  \u003ci\u003e_everyone_\u003c/i\u003e has personal goals that require employment salary so mentioning it just triggers a \u0026quot;yeah so what?\u0026quot; reaction.   I suggest for folks to watch[1] the Jack Lemmon \u0026amp; Kevin Spacey\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;But my daughter\u0026quot; \u0026#x2F; \u0026quot;Fuck you\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e scene 100 times to rid themselves of the idea to put personal touches into business discussions about raises.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;55wIwwmrHxk?t=3m54s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;55wIwwmrHxk?t=3m54s\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9635244","id":"9636030"}
{"by":"abrichr","time":"1368488674","timestamp":"2013-05-13 23:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.coursera.org/course/progfun\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.coursera.org/course/progfun\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5697453","id":"5702168"}
{"by":"hjay","time":"1365464827","timestamp":"2013-04-08 23:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is definitely a lot of talent in Vancouver, though many of the people I know have their eyes set on SV/the U.S. Investors here are very hesitant to open up their wallet (much like areas like Australia). Some big companies have development located here, but I would not say the startup scene is very big at all.\u003cp\u003eThere are accelerators like GrowLab (since 2011), but nothing like the valley. I definitely agree with the overall premise of the article though, people here see a lot of the \"money-throwing\" over in the valley and feel it's often way overblown/hyped.","parent":"5515156","id":"5515494"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1506350467","timestamp":"2017-09-25 14:41:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the worst kind of what-aboutism. You should be ashamed.","parent":"15330592","id":"15330847"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1469370286","timestamp":"2016-07-24 14:24:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Guess you didn\u0026#x27;t read my comment at all.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s really getting old, right along with \u0026#x27;did you read the article\u0026#x27;.","parent":"12153363","id":"12153388"}
{"by":"randomdata","time":"1359352261","timestamp":"2013-01-28 05:51:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't see it that way. Anecdotes are not data, certainly, but the article really only uses those anecdotes to disprove the premise that education == success. Anecdotes are more than sufficient to accomplish that. Just one success story would have been enough.\u003cp\u003eHe does go on to question if a degree could even be a liability, but I would suggest that the wording acknowledges that he doesn't have sufficient data to form any hard conclusions. I didn't take it as an argument, just a tangent on something that would be interesting to measure in the future that relates to the rest of the story.","parent":"5126797","id":"5127346"}
{"by":"adventist","time":"1504635217","timestamp":"2017-09-05 18:13:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah I was impressed.","parent":"15177688","id":"15177728"}
{"by":"Quarrelsome","time":"1389272461","timestamp":"2014-01-09 13:01:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; In what freezing fucking hell is a dual-core, 1 GHz computer with gigabytes of RAM and tens of gigabytes of storage and 3D acceleration that can fit in my pocket memory-starved and CPU-starved?\u003cp\u003eSounds to me like you\u0026#x27;ve never developed seriously on an ARM chipset. These devices are worlds apart from your standard desktop, there is a reason that both Android and IOS dropped Adobe flash. It\u0026#x27;s partly the hardware and partly shitty ARM code, its not really much to do with the specs. I can do things much more easily on an underpowered x86 than an overpowered ARM.","parent":"7029958","id":"7030174"}
{"by":"SmellyGeekBoy","time":"1541513034","timestamp":"2018-11-06 14:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something something freedom. Humans should be free to destroy the planet without meddling from them pesky guvments dagnabbit!","parent":"18389585","id":"18391013"}
{"by":"hardwaresofton","time":"1420700678","timestamp":"2015-01-08 07:04:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"good (but difficult) read, good reminder that not everywhere is SV, and not everywhere is the USA, and the old \u0026quot;1 in 10 succeed\u0026quot; pseudo-statistic is true.\u003cp\u003eI do my own side projects from time to time, and seeing what they went through is a real eye opener, maybe I\u0026#x27;ll be a little less naive when I do launches from now on.\u003cp\u003eI am glad that they got back to a lean startup model towards the end though, selling someone an idea is such a shaky way to do business (despite the fact that it\u0026#x27;s used so much), it makes so much more sense to bootstrap at least a little bit (even if it\u0026#x27;s just drumming up non-paying clientele).","parent":"8852391","id":"8855317"}
{"by":"ldd","time":"1430238661","timestamp":"2015-04-28 16:31:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The handmaid\u0026#x27;s Tale\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;038549081X\u0026#x2F;ref=sr_1_1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0385...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9443897","id":"9453473"}
{"by":"ballenf","time":"1507646251","timestamp":"2017-10-10 14:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;addconnectionssettlement.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;addconnectionssettlement.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were pioneers in the field!","parent":"15442026","id":"15442128"}
{"by":"edwhitesell","time":"1443241283","timestamp":"2015-09-26 04:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, the Hopeless Diamond (F-117 model) was 15 years _after_ this plane. This plane clearly had some of the early thoughts on lowering RCS though, similar to the SR-71 Blackbird.\u003cp\u003eThere were no facets on this plane because that really only came about after Ufimtsev\u0026#x27;s paper described how to calculate RCS. Computers at the time of the Hopeless Diamond\u0026#x2F;Have Blue\u0026#x2F;F-117 couldn\u0026#x27;t run those calculations on curved surfaces. Which meant Ben Rich\u0026#x27;s team used the flat surfaces (I don\u0026#x27;t recall exactly who suggested it, but it\u0026#x27;s in the book).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d also be curious if Boeing had any thoughts in the areas of radar absorbtion\u0026#x2F;dispersing paint in the 60s. I recall the SR-71 Blackbird had some of those properties in it\u0026#x27;s paint (though the paint was mainly used for cooling).","parent":"10281748","id":"10282089"}
{"by":"iends","time":"1392324188","timestamp":"2014-02-13 20:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re setting the bar way too high.","parent":"7232838","id":"7234167"}
{"by":"myhf","time":"1490668027","timestamp":"2017-03-28 02:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nonsense. The promise of natural death for ultra billionaires is the only thing protecting them from the guillotine.","parent":"13973531","id":"13973561"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1382638683","timestamp":"2013-10-24 18:18:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;uk-england-london-23930675\u003c/a\u003e\n\u0026#x27;Walkie-Talkie\u0026#x27; skyscraper melts Jaguar car parts","parent":"6605791","id":"6606901"}
{"by":"russdpale","time":"1508001647","timestamp":"2017-10-14 17:20:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nicehash as a source? Really?","parent":"15471636","id":"15473136"}
{"by":"GarethX","time":"1427807990","timestamp":"2015-03-31 13:19:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry about that, we\u0026#x27;re trialing some new software which will help improve future videos. For now, hopefully, the transcript will fill any blanks.","parent":"9295897","id":"9295906"}
{"by":"kibwen","time":"1382540227","timestamp":"2013-10-23 14:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know about Bill Gates, but this quote from Linus Torvalds sprang to mind:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://lwn.net/Articles/193245/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lwn.net\u0026#x2F;Articles\u0026#x2F;193245\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6598333","id":"6599096"}
{"by":"ghaff","time":"1492373851","timestamp":"2017-04-16 20:17:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not just China. A lot of websites, event signage, ads, etc. in much of eastern Asia look to my Western eyes like something someone\u0026#x27;s kid put together for a school project. The script may be part of it--it doesn\u0026#x27;t lend itself to the sort of clean sparse design that\u0026#x27;s in vogue in a lot of the West. But, as you say, there\u0026#x27;s also just a lot of clutter and generally cheesy art work, stock photos, etc.","parent":"14125915","id":"14127296"}
{"by":"burfog","time":"1523901384","timestamp":"2018-04-16 17:56:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was a mode switch.\u003cp\u003eTurning backlight brightness all the way down was the mode switch as presented in the UI. Very old versions of the UI made it explicit. At the MMIO level of course, there was a bit that got toggled.","parent":"16851122","id":"16851147"}
{"by":"vsviridov","time":"1336981780","timestamp":"2012-05-14 07:49:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kinda reminded me of Pleix's E-Baby, circa 2003 - \u003ca href=\"http://pleix.net/filter/film/E-Baby\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://pleix.net/filter/film/E-Baby\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3969653","id":"3969967"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1493213507","timestamp":"2017-04-26 13:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Something Wonderful has Happened\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;SCA_(computer_virus)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;SCA_(computer_virus)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14201908","id":"14202755"}
{"by":"gberger","time":"1479955832","timestamp":"2016-11-24 02:50:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like the Boston marathon bomber?","parent":"13027389","id":"13027636"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1536709937","timestamp":"2018-09-11 23:52:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not all cars have hand operated emergency brakes.","parent":"17964005","id":"17964452"}
{"by":"hackerjam","time":"1417792469","timestamp":"2014-12-05 15:14:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"right on the nail. i consider myself part of the silent majority and would prefer to keep my head in the sand and ignore what is going on around me. just doing my thing.\u003cp\u003ebut can i afford to?\u003cp\u003ebut the day is coming, sooner than most of us (in what used to be the middle class) would like, when we are going to have to take stand and start clawing back rights, privileges, and injustices that were hard-fought by previous generations.\u003cp\u003ewitness the demonstrations going on in fergusson and most recently, nyc. these flashpoints are just the beginning.","parent":"8704451","id":"8704886"}
{"by":"film42","time":"1529496283","timestamp":"2018-06-20 12:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been sponsoring a channel for a few months now but still find that youtube runs ads on their videos. I guess the perks are for exclusive live chats and stuff. Still, it\u0026#x27;s better than not having a sponsorship system.","parent":"17352805","id":"17354544"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1387210630","timestamp":"2013-12-16 16:17:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The government is a collection of a lot of different entities with different views, resources, and goals. It doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense to me to say that e.g. the FDA and the NSA are part of the same entity.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, what\u0026#x27;s being discussed involves non-government actors too. Exxon, doctors, and defense contractors are entities outside the government.","parent":"6915521","id":"6915664"}
{"by":"sanxiyn","time":"1346161878","timestamp":"2012-08-28 13:51:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relevant: \u003ca href=\"http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Canada\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.swpat.org/wiki/Canada\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4443137","id":"4443641"}
{"by":"Helianthus","time":"1309021071","timestamp":"2011-06-25 16:57:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;The guillotine certainly went a long way toward securing the freedom of countless peasants\u003cp\u003eUh, I disagree.  (What did you read?  Are you being sarcastic?)\u003cp\u003eThe French Revolution and accompanying Reign of Terror were symptoms if wild political instability, in which hundreds of people were wrongly killed at the same time the government troubled itself with renaming every month (for lulz?).\u003cp\u003eThis instability was seized upon by Napoleon, who restored the rule of law at the cost of dictatorship and many _extremely_ costly wars.\u003cp\u003eThe effects of the _idealism_ of the French Revolution reverberated around Europe, yes.  But the effects of the blood and turmoil did, as well.","parent":"2695603","id":"2696027"}
{"by":"GW150914","time":"1531082588","timestamp":"2018-07-08 20:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s a matter of insufficient drugs being used, not a feature of the drugs themselves.","parent":"17484898","id":"17486085"}
{"by":"marton78","time":"1545749761","timestamp":"2018-12-25 14:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Boldog karácsonyt!","parent":"18757028","id":"18757619"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1405461869","timestamp":"2014-07-15 22:04:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both of those statements are untrue. The nymwars took place \u003ci\u003eon Google Plus\u003c/i\u003e as much as they did anywhere else.","parent":"8039257","id":"8039364"}
{"by":"eddyb","time":"1404386638","timestamp":"2014-07-03 11:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"traceur-compiler can preserve ES6 syntax (without desugaring it), it\u0026#x27;s only missing automated feature detection at runtime (which I wanted to add more than an year ago, but was busy with other things).","parent":"7982391","id":"7982434"}
{"by":"proc0","time":"1519154307","timestamp":"2018-02-20 19:18:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe you can expand on that, and\u0026#x2F;or show me something more abstract than category theory. Programming = abstracting information processing. Category theory = the mathematics of abstract functions (or morphisms a.k.a. changing something)... so it makes sense that CT captures something very fundamental about computation.","parent":"16422530","id":"16423178"}
{"by":"femto","time":"1441677604","timestamp":"2015-09-08 02:00:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A similar feat in Sydney, Australia, by an old codger who was walking to keep fit.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.walksydneystreets.net\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.walksydneystreets.net\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10182526","id":"10183859"}
{"by":"theophrastus","time":"1425238385","timestamp":"2015-03-01 19:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This useful reference says \u0026quot;GNU Guix1 is a functional package management tool for the GNU system\u0026quot;, so it\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e a \u0026quot;Distro\u0026quot; as the title here declares? but rather, it\u0026#x27;s an aptitude replacement via guile?  It\u0026#x27;s always nice to get from protracted video, and odd headline, to: \u0026quot;ok, but what is it?  what\u0026#x27;s its function?\u0026quot;","parent":"9128447","id":"9128512"}
{"by":"eof","time":"1285871561","timestamp":"2010-09-30 18:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How?  Will messages really disappear out of inboxes?  Or is it just an embedded image that gets deleted from the server eventually?","parent":"1744276","id":"1744298"}
{"by":"Karunamon","time":"1329248152","timestamp":"2012-02-14 19:35:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Why did you invite the person (and take their precious time) if you obviously don't want them there?\u003cp\u003eI don't know, why couldn't they have made the effort to show up on time?","parent":"3591311","id":"3591416"}
{"by":"kbart","time":"1473425406","timestamp":"2016-09-09 12:50:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also RSR232 \u0026lt;\u0026gt; USB adapter, but we don\u0026#x27;t say that modern laptops have RS232 and that\u0026#x27;s not the point anyway.","parent":"12461612","id":"12461640"}
{"by":"SkyMarshal","time":"1506463740","timestamp":"2017-09-26 22:09:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve often wondered what effect, if any, the higher information density of Chinese\u0026#x2F;Japanese\u0026#x2F;Korean has on peoples\u0026#x27; minds and the way people think.  Anyone ever heard of any studies on this?","parent":"15342486","id":"15342969"}
{"by":"s73v3r_","time":"1529514578","timestamp":"2018-06-20 17:09:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except you are asking that pharmacist to break the law. If they got fired afterward, would you be the one to take them and their family in?","parent":"17353241","id":"17357268"}
{"by":"rhabarba","time":"1489413046","timestamp":"2017-03-13 13:50:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, the Floodgap guy has its own Android client available on his website. Sadly, it follows the design conventions from Android 1.5 or so.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gopher.floodgap.com\u0026#x2F;overbite\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gopher.floodgap.com\u0026#x2F;overbite\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13857685","id":"13857785"}
{"by":"zbyszek","time":"1281694887","timestamp":"2010-08-13 10:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think of a sentence containing \"at the end of the day\".  Now remove that phrase.  Does your sentence convey any less information?  Unless the time of day is actually germane to what you are saying something (e.g. \"At the end of the day I draw the curtains and have a cup of cocoa.\") then it is just superfluous verbiage.  And that's bad because it obscures the message.\u003cp\u003e\"Boilerplate\" is jargon, but conveys some information, so I think that's OK.","parent":"1600170","id":"1600552"}
{"by":"johnward","time":"1413919696","timestamp":"2014-10-21 19:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it matters but chances are it\u0026#x27;s HFCS.","parent":"8489182","id":"8489294"}
{"by":"candiodari","time":"1489800789","timestamp":"2017-03-18 01:33:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gravity is a conservative force, so bringing the metal down with a space elevator will release exactly the same amount of energy as just crashing it into the surface. The rate may be different (though how would you dissipate that energy ? Note that there is essentially zero thermal contact with the athmosphere or anything else on a space elevator except at the bottom 20km or so)\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s one of the reasons why space miners are proposing to just crash the asteroids into desert areas.","parent":"13899355","id":"13899399"}
{"by":"mwpmaybe","time":"1458583595","timestamp":"2016-03-21 18:06:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;postmaster.comcast.net\u0026#x2F;block-removal-request.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;postmaster.comcast.net\u0026#x2F;block-removal-request.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey respond quickly.","parent":"11329274","id":"11330231"}
{"by":"raintrees","time":"1361690755","timestamp":"2013-02-24 07:25:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jeez, they're still leaking?  I wrote about this place for a high school class in '82... Had nightmares for weeks afterward.","parent":"5269481","id":"5273258"}
{"by":"kedean","time":"1482849161","timestamp":"2016-12-27 14:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. The biggest thing I look for when interviewing new developers isn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;how much do you know about X framework\u0026quot;, it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;could you implement all of that without the framework?\u0026quot;. Knowing bootstrap won\u0026#x27;t do you that much good if you don\u0026#x27;t understand how\u0026#x2F;why it does what it does.  Similarly, I demand that Java developers are able to describe the underlying \u0026#x27;how\u0026#x27; of Spring, rather than regurgitating tutorials from the Internet.","parent":"13261403","id":"13263307"}
{"by":"CaptainZapp","time":"1512544743","timestamp":"2017-12-06 07:19:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe some clarificatio on that: While it\u0026#x27;s true that heroin is distributed to hardcore addicts (at cost and paid by health insurance) it is in no way readily dispensed.\u003cp\u003eThe conditions to enter those programs are rather strict. Depending on age, attempts to kick the habit and other factors.\u003cp\u003eThat said. I\u0026#x27;d say that the program is very successful for two main reasons:\u003cp\u003eIt massively raises the health of the addicts and lets them actually conduct a normal life despite being addicted.\u003cp\u003eIt also totally changed the image of the drug from something around hero mystique (as it had in the 80s and partially 90s) to a total loser drug. While there certainly still is a problem for a lot of addicts uptake has seriously declined.","parent":"15858723","id":"15859204"}
{"by":"kcorbitt","time":"1542225098","timestamp":"2018-11-14 19:51:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Optimizing the algorithm for greater “equity\u0026quot; also meant many of the planned changes were \u0026quot;biased\u0026quot; against families with privilege.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure what this means, and I wish the article had gone into more detail. If it means \u0026quot;the preferences of families in higher-income neighborhoods were weighed the same as those of those in lower-income housing\u0026quot;, that seems great, and uncontroversial. Those families probably had an outsized voice in the old scheduling process and so will do relatively worse in the new one, but oh well, that\u0026#x27;s life.\u003cp\u003eIf instead it means \u0026quot;the preferences of families in high-income neighborhoods were intentionally given less weight than those of low-income families [to discount their privilege],\u0026quot; that\u0026#x27;s rather more ethically questionable.","parent":"18432079","id":"18453220"}
{"by":"imaginenore","time":"1468488583","timestamp":"2016-07-14 09:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While you\u0026#x27;re right, Krita publishes checksums for their downloads:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;krita.org\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;krita-3-0-released\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;krita.org\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;krita-3-0-released\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12092438","id":"12092568"}
{"by":"timmm","time":"1352837958","timestamp":"2012-11-13 20:19:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good information and generally an awesome review ha.","parent":"4780317","id":"4780352"}
{"by":"lazaroclapp","time":"1487324218","timestamp":"2017-02-17 09:36:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a note, the later is very seldom considered childish in some cultures and some economic backgrounds. I have known people for which the request to their friends is not \u0026quot;will you help me move?\u0026quot; but \u0026quot;will you help me build my house?\u0026quot; (think bricklaying and setting up a tin or wooden roof). They would definitely return the favor, as well.","parent":"13666704","id":"13667060"}
{"by":"adventured","time":"1427034718","timestamp":"2015-03-22 14:31:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, people keep saying \u0026quot;private equity\u0026quot; - most investment in the US is private equity (eg every time an angel invests into a company, it\u0026#x27;s a private equity investment).\u003cp\u003eI will assume what is being referred to here, is LBO or more aggressive acquisition type firms like Bain.\u003cp\u003eThe parent is right however, if Bain comes knocking on your private business, it\u0026#x27;s up to you as to whether you take their money. They do not use force to make you take their money or terms. I don\u0026#x27;t think the parent is making an argument in favor of these companies being saints, rather, that they function on a voluntary basis.","parent":"9246567","id":"9246837"}
{"by":"corysama","time":"1452033620","timestamp":"2016-01-05 22:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BTW: WebVR is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightly\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;WebVR\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;3zmclh\u0026#x2F;webvr_enabled_by_default_in_firefox_nightly\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;WebVR\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;3zmclh\u0026#x2F;webvr_enabled...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10835758","id":"10846664"}
{"by":"simonh","time":"1499768499","timestamp":"2017-07-11 10:21:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except it doesn\u0026#x27;t do that. In an open auction if someone bids higher you know you won\u0026#x27;t get any shares unless you raise your bid.\u003cp\u003eIn a Dutch auction if you keep your bid low there\u0026#x27;s always a chance you will get your shares and at a good price. As actually happened in the Google case. Yes you\u0026#x27;re risking you might not get any shares, but bidding higher risks unnecessarily pushing the price higher for yourself and everyone else.","parent":"14742732","id":"14742921"}
{"by":"steve120818","time":"1354042547","timestamp":"2012-11-27 18:55:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, to post my question here. I am new to HN.\u003cp\u003eHow do you post your questions to 'Ask HN:' my questions landed up in 'new'. Your help is very much appreciated.\u003cp\u003eThanks!","parent":"4829453","id":"4838177"}
{"by":"partiallypro","time":"1444186442","timestamp":"2015-10-07 02:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The simple answer is, yes.","parent":"10342156","id":"10343952"}
{"by":"hammock","time":"1301766911","timestamp":"2011-04-02 17:55:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;that wahwahwah sound\u003cp\u003eThat's a good way to describe it, I know exactly what you're talking about haha.","parent":"2400487","id":"2400497"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1459638105","timestamp":"2016-04-02 23:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eschews certain labels, then proceeds to compare himself to a scientist, artist, and carpenter.","parent":"11413603","id":"11413989"}
{"by":"cthalupa","time":"1542786398","timestamp":"2018-11-21 07:46:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The GRB starts, from my understanding, when the core collapses - and that only takes seconds. And then travels at light speed. The shockwave making its way through the rest of the star can take hours, and you might see the explosion take months. But the GRB would hit us before we would see the shockwave, or explosion.\u003cp\u003eWithout the ability to accurately determine when a supernova will occur, we will effectively have no real warning we\u0026#x27;re about to be hit.\u003cp\u003eProtecting ourselves from it is also well beyond our current technology. We\u0026#x27;d either need to build enough physical shielding to block it from hitting earth, or we\u0026#x27;d need to leave our solar system.","parent":"18497946","id":"18500873"}
{"by":"101001010111","time":"1321991846","timestamp":"2011-11-22 19:57:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not a cypherpunk, but can/should we differentiate between 1. encouraging those running OpenSSL/TLS servers to use a. sane defaults that allow forward secrecy and b. ephemeral TLS session ticket keys, 2. using Google's in-house EC cipher implementations and 3. doing 1. and 2.?\u003cp\u003eWe could do 1. only and still reap some benefit, correct?","parent":"3266885","id":"3267073"}
{"by":"dammitcoetzee","time":"1475991953","timestamp":"2016-10-09 05:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh. If this works I should be way more aggressive about finding a ME\u0026#x2F;EE oriented product design engineer job in SF.","parent":"12669585","id":"12670042"}
{"by":"Kudos","time":"1347479617","timestamp":"2012-09-12 19:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In some cases short and readable ends up as \"more secure\" by virtue of being implemented correctly.","parent":"4512683","id":"4512758"}
{"by":"rebelidealist","time":"1301523383","timestamp":"2011-03-30 22:16:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I absolutely loved the interview. It taught me to be patient, create an enjoyable workday, and work on things to solve real problems. Learning that the first version of Basecamp took 6 month is refreshing. The most time I spent on a  project is 5 months. It shows we should not be caught up on expecting results to come so quickly.\u003cp\u003eHowever, there is one thing about the interview that bothered me. DHH said your are not a product company but just a consultant if you don't create products for yourself.\u003cp\u003eThere are tremendous opportunities in industries that don't have as many talented technologists. For example, I am interested in industries that I don't make a living professionally such as retail business and health care. Just because I didn't study medicine, shouldn't stop me or anyone else from trying to make a product to help the health care industry.\u003cp\u003eThis route of emersing yourself with customers from another industries is much harder. However, as geeks, we already have too many products made for geeks. There are plethora of important problems in less tech savvy sectors waiting for us to solve.","parent":"2388222","id":"2389469"}
{"by":"heedlessly2","time":"1514854242","timestamp":"2018-01-02 00:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People are too busy \u0026quot;playing boring  politcian\u0026quot; on Facebook. But Reddit allows you to geek about certain topics without getting judged. If i make 50+ posts on FB about my favorite tv show on Facebook, i get called \u0026quot;obsessed\u0026quot; or get defriended","parent":"16045441","id":"16048999"}
{"by":"uxp","time":"1323122120","timestamp":"2011-12-05 21:55:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point was that some organisms on earth exhibit traits of intelligence, like Dolphins, and that there could be Alien organisms that are like Dolphins that also show signs of intelligence. But just as humans and dolphins on earth cannot live together socially, that intelligence is either too primitive for them to travel to other planets to seek out life alien to them (have you ever seen a Dolphin craft material into a structure that could be used for interplanetary travel?), or is too complex for us to recognize that it is actual intelligence.\u003cp\u003eAlthough science fiction has been littered with thousands of stories of alien life visiting us, we humans only know of the fact that humans from Earth are the only organisms looking for life on other planets that we know of. I don't think anyone would doubt that any organism with the capacity to travel to other planets, let alone other solar systems and possibly other galaxies, is un-intelligent. Although we might be biased, we're a pretty intelligent species, as long as the metric is ourselves.","parent":"3316071","id":"3316693"}
{"by":"ZoFreX","time":"1377176103","timestamp":"2013-08-22 12:55:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things that go wrong with Google searches for me on a weekly basis:\u003cp\u003e* I search from Firefox and my browser spends 30 seconds in the middle of the redirection from .com to .co.uk\u003cp\u003e* I click a search result and my browser spends 30 seconds waiting for the redirection\u0026#x2F;click tracking script, and there\u0026#x27;s no easy way to get the actual URL you are going to any more, so you have to wait\u003cp\u003e* I type in a query and the auto-refresh kicks in, but it lags, and I (unnecessarily, because I am not used to the auto-search feature) hit enter on the keyboard as well, which leaves Google in a completely broken state where updating the query and hitting enter or the search button has no effect\u003cp\u003e* I make a new search from Firefox and then perform a second search from inside that page, and the whole page locks up in the greyed out \u0026quot;I am loading more results\u0026quot; state. I hit refresh but the URL is still that of my original query, so I end up looking at that again instead\u003cp\u003e* The search-as-you-type feature is enabled, despite me having disabled it over a dozen times now (and yes, I am signed in)\u003cp\u003eFor one reason or another, I have to wait several seconds to see my Google search results multiple times per day. That\u0026#x27;s a pretty low barrier for complaining, but it\u0026#x27;s also enough time to open a new tab, go to Bing.com, type in my original query again, and click the results - all before my Google query finishes loading.\u003cp\u003eOther than issues with the unnecessary number of HTTP requests between my clicks and actually getting to the page I want, the obvious sticking factor is the search-as-you-type feature: It\u0026#x27;s reimplementing too much of the normal browser cycle, but isn\u0026#x27;t implemented well enough to not fall over, and these types of solutions don\u0026#x27;t integrate well with the tools I have to control page loads (the stop and refresh buttons).\u003cp\u003eEdit: Also as a programmer I realise I am not in their 99% use case, but it is incredibly difficult for me to find the information I need these days. The auto-correct feature is in overdrive compared to how it worked a few years ago, and frequently \u0026#x27;corrects\u0026#x27; technical terms to totally useless queries. Aggravating the issue is the removal of the \u0026#x27;+\u0026#x27; operator, and the fact that even quoted search terms now allow synonyms and corrections. There are lots of other issues with the search results in recent times, such as the predilection to give me 10 results all from the exact same website, but I drilled down on the technical issues because frankly the search results are still better on Google than their competitors. But the technical implementation and user experience? They are falling behind in those areas.","parent":"6254579","id":"6256784"}
{"by":"tambourine_man","time":"1365441893","timestamp":"2013-04-08 17:24:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope, it's worse than that.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024491.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024484.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5512912","id":"5513073"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1332790570","timestamp":"2012-03-26 19:36:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can't, but you can make a phone that is easier/more practical than the competition for a couple common use cases. When you have a product that can stand on its own, then you make a campaign like this one. Whatever you do, you don't open yourself up for this kind of accusation.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_windows_phone_challenge_but_lost_just/c45037b\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3757915","id":"3758284"}
{"by":"ecspike","time":"1304737084","timestamp":"2011-05-07 02:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't we see one of these posts every year? Just like \"Year of Linux on the desktop.\"","parent":"2522028","id":"2523113"}
{"by":"binspace","time":"1281387953","timestamp":"2010-08-09 21:05:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are some good points, however the emphasis needs to be on how green regulation is applied.\u003cp\u003eThe article seems to be complaining about \"green\" regulations (which are outdated and inane), not against the idea of the necessity of sustainable technology.\u003cp\u003eOne quibble, more offshore drilling will not solve the problem, and causes problems, as in the Gulf of Mexico. It's also a drop in the ocean of energy demand. It solves nothing.\u003cp\u003eYou only need to look as far as global rising energy consumption (especially China) and the supply/demand curve. Basic economics. This means the sustainable energy problem \u003ci\u003eneeds\u003c/i\u003e to be solved, and what better place to solve it than in California?\u003cp\u003eWe need solutions without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. For example, make it easier for entrepreneurs and relieve the tax burden to encourage businesses. Provide an environment where technology (even green technology) can thrive. Create incentives for people to adopt more environmentally friendly approaches to living, etc. I think there are plenty of examples where sustainable living \u0026#38; and strong economic fundamentals can coexist.","parent":"1588934","id":"1589389"}
{"by":"mdasen","time":"1261479780","timestamp":"2009-12-22 11:03:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm really hoping that Google opens VP8 up.  From what I've seen, VP8 provides better image quality while requiring less CPU power to decode.  If Google hopes that the \u0026#60;video\u0026#62; tag is going to take off, we'll need a freely available video codec that also has a company behind it that can sell patent guarantees.  Firefox can't redistribute a non-free codec and Apple and Microsoft won't distribute something that leaves them open to potentially huge liability.","parent":"1009525","id":"1009731"}
{"by":"AdrianRossouw","time":"1398687119","timestamp":"2014-04-28 12:11:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"straw man if I ever saw one.\u003cp\u003enot liking an orm doesn\u0026#x27;t mean putting sql in a template is acceptable.","parent":"7659082","id":"7659390"}
{"by":"sant0sk1","time":"1242237403","timestamp":"2009-05-13 17:56:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Love the fact that the current \"review our app\" submission is notably higher on the \"classic\" view. These are some of the most interesting/important posts imo, and it appears other \"older\" HN users feel the same.","parent":"607271","id":"607290"}
{"by":"awinter-py","time":"1494695773","timestamp":"2017-05-13 17:16:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish this were an article about some hot new documentation tool instead of another misguided psalm to slack \u0026amp; kanban.\u003cp\u003eMaking docs sexy would be a big quality of life boost for programmers and the people who love them (i.e. project managers and users of software).","parent":"14330842","id":"14331944"}
{"by":"intralizee","time":"1534125881","timestamp":"2018-08-13 02:04:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m happy I never put in the hours studying algorithms to work at Google. Whatever happened to following their slogan?","parent":"17746066","id":"17747571"}
{"by":"barrowclift","time":"1527883748","timestamp":"2018-06-01 20:09:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, it’s not fair to say it sucks. However, there is something to be said for having a Unix-based OS without having to sacrifice first-party apps. While Ubuntu and some other flavors have certainly gotten increased support from big players over the years (like Steam), for lots of people there’s still no substitute for the immediately available first party apps on Windows and macOS.","parent":"17209573","id":"17209644"}
{"by":"jrs235","time":"1360526375","timestamp":"2013-02-10 19:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having a non-diverse gene pool increases the likelihood of a species getting wiped out.\u003cp\u003eHow does have a large majority of our food coming from the same gene pool help secure our future?\u003cp\u003eIf anything it puts us all at greater risk. While in the short term GMO seeds might help, in the long term it appears we are increasing unnecessary risks. Typical current day view: shortsightedness and sacrificing the future for gaining today.","parent":"5196185","id":"5197583"}
{"by":"rms","time":"1265876058","timestamp":"2010-02-11 08:14:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article says one of her influences was a chef that did this with chicken.","parent":"1117181","id":"1117194"}
{"by":"immad","time":"1331003469","timestamp":"2012-03-06 03:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We have a monthly hack day where everyone can work on what ever they want. It was done in one day by Micah.","parent":"3669427","id":"3669476"}
{"by":"pythonuser","time":"1363871765","timestamp":"2013-03-21 13:16:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cry me a river. No excuse for being a cyberbully.","parent":"5402903","dead":true,"id":"5414765"}
{"by":"filereaper","time":"1511905857","timestamp":"2017-11-28 21:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SPECjvm98 is an outdated measure of both system and JVM performance, the benchmark to look at is SPECjbb2015 which very aggressively taxes JVM subsystems like the GC and the JIT.","parent":"15801901","id":"15802163"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1327652834","timestamp":"2012-01-27 08:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess this practice is clearly illegal if employees are not aware of this when they are hired. This is like a secret clause to their hiring contract, and that restricts their freedom to move to other positions. Even if California does not consider the practice illegal, there is a clear \"abuse of power\" case here.","parent":"3516314","id":"3517578"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1545427892","timestamp":"2018-12-21 21:31:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Belarus, Costa Rica, small as they are, contrast significantly with Germany and Singapore.","parent":"18736619","id":"18736835"}
{"by":"snissn","time":"1263165046","timestamp":"2010-01-10 23:10:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i've had a pretty easy time integrating www.sphinxsearch.com w/ a few cakephp applications","parent":"1043708","id":"1043866"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1446232611","timestamp":"2015-10-30 19:16:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Effective immediately we are suspending the publication of Grantland.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e... however, I just went to grantland.com and it works just fine and has new content as of today ...","parent":"10479409","id":"10479903"}
{"by":"Gigablah","time":"1428067789","timestamp":"2015-04-03 13:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; OS X blows Windows UI out of the water.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sorry but this just isn\u0026#x27;t true. I\u0026#x27;ve used a MBP the last few years for my webdev work and spend most of my time in terminal, Chrome and ST3 avoiding the OSX interface whenever possible. Because the moment I open Finder and try to navigate, I wish I were using File Explorer instead.\u003cp\u003eThen I give a presentation, detach the HDMI cable, leaving my MBP screen unresponsive until I am forced to reboot, and I sigh.","parent":"9315638","id":"9315718"}
{"by":"sshykes","time":"1465410910","timestamp":"2016-06-08 18:35:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please get rid of the annoying \u0026quot;this will only take a second\u0026quot; popup, I was reading but closed the window immediately when that shit started.","parent":"11863753","id":"11864456"}
{"by":"henrik_w","time":"1349352624","timestamp":"2012-10-04 12:10:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From codinghorror, on the subject of working as a programmer \"Programming: Love It or Leave It\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/programming-love-it-or-leave-it.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/programming-love-it...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4611337","id":"4611900"}
{"by":"true_religion","time":"1303378116","timestamp":"2011-04-21 09:28:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your analogy is flawed here. Brothel workers presumably own their own bodies, and can charge for sex. They would be justly annoyed if someone came and \"appropriated\" their sex for free for example via rape or more comparable to the situation at hand---via living vicariously through illegally distributed video tapes of them.","parent":"2469467","id":"2469906"}
{"by":"harlanji","time":"1497284977","timestamp":"2017-06-12 16:29:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you talk about what software packages, perhaps data structures and algorithms you use? Any shortcomings \u0026#x2F; low hanging fruit? I see the domain as an invaluable tool for a few applications... any particularly strong ones you can see?","parent":"14538398","id":"14538533"}
{"by":"michael_dorfman","time":"1214321512","timestamp":"2008-06-24 15:31:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's great that the CACM decided to run these excerpts in print form, but for the full experience, you really ought to check out the videos at the People's Archive: \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesarchive.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.peoplesarchive.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"225993","id":"226285"}
{"by":"pklausler","time":"1482431507","timestamp":"2016-12-22 18:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e recruiters out there that concentrate on very specific technical areas, keep in touch with senior people, and still fulfill a necessary function pairing up qualified people with new opportunities.  These folks can save all kinds of time and risk when you\u0026#x27;re looking for somebody with very specific skills.  Some are pretty well known in the industry (e.g., you call Julia when you need a compiler writer) but I wonder whether they\u0026#x27;re eventually going to go the way of the professional high-end travel agent.","parent":"13235474","id":"13239261"}
{"by":"thangalin","time":"1287924740","timestamp":"2010-10-24 12:52:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Architecture in a nutshell:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/IZ52u.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.imgur.com/IZ52u.png\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA list of 10 moves from 30 different machines, even using a heavy-weight protocol like SOAP, would be nearly instantaneous. I would favour a light-weight format such as JSON, though. For other applications, I agree, network bandwidth would be a possible bottleneck.\u003cp\u003eMy initial idea was to have each engine return ten moves, in sequence, with the first move being most important. The moves need not be delivered simultaneously. The Master selects the lowest scoring move that was picked by multiple engines. Other ideas include weighting (the fuseki engine's input is not very important in chuban or yose), and imperative moves (death engine forces a play to save a 30 point group).\u003cp\u003eThe Master would send requests for moves by submitting a board position and whose turn to play.\u003cp\u003eWhat I really like about the idea, though, is that anyone could develop an engine (in any language) that adheres to the protocol, and add it to the AI network. At any time.\u003cp\u003eP.S.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/jigo/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/jigo/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1825925","id":"1826023"}
{"by":"mpdehaan2","time":"1379972754","timestamp":"2013-09-23 21:45:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Matt did a pretty good job of showing how they were at about the same level of complexity for a new audience, but one of the things you don\u0026#x27;t see is that\u003cp\u003e(A) there\u0026#x27;s error handling,\u003cp\u003e(B) the system will only run commands as needed\u003cp\u003eand of course using things like \u0026#x27;with_items\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;notify\u0026#x27; ends up making it a lot shorter.\u003cp\u003eBut yeah, most of Hacker News already has a read on that :)","parent":"6434109","id":"6434380"}
{"by":"tisme","time":"1348946864","timestamp":"2012-09-29 19:27:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$150 or $1000 might be enough to swing the decision about where to incorporate for some instances but for most that is a rounding error. And anyway, all expenses that you are going to have should be part of your businessplan when you're at the go/no go stage. If $800 scares you then you're not doing business.","parent":"4590540","id":"4590579"}
{"by":"marcoperaza","time":"1502912684","timestamp":"2017-08-16 19:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re seeking the identities of the rioters on January 20th. Over 200 people were arrested but many more have yet to face the consequences for what they did.","parent":"15030302","id":"15030584"}
{"by":"happy_dino","time":"1360611269","timestamp":"2013-02-11 19:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting article which asks the right questions.\u003cp\u003eThese days, nobody should need to use Java to reap the JVM platform's benefits.","parent":"5200240","id":"5202758"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1534902393","timestamp":"2018-08-22 01:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facilitating adult prostitution \u003ci\u003eis a crime\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"17815196","id":"17815589"}
{"by":"lomereiter","time":"1498536156","timestamp":"2017-06-27 04:02:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They might not care, but in that case this question essentially tests if a person understands what \u0026#x27;GHz\u0026#x27; means and can think logically, which is not that much to ask.","parent":"14642411","id":"14642493"}
{"by":"jordan0day","time":"1394559984","timestamp":"2014-03-11 17:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re not wrong, but like many of these sorts of things, how much is your time worth?\u003cp\u003eThis sort of \u0026quot;I could do it myself, cheaper\u0026quot; reaction is pretty common for a lot of things posted on hn. I think it\u0026#x27;s natural for people (and especially hackers) to have this sort of reaction, I think we must be a lot better at analyzing dollar figures than time investments.\u003cp\u003eAnd frankly, it\u0026#x27;s not a \u003ci\u003ebad\u003c/i\u003e impulse to have. We\u0026#x27;re not all generating income every waking moment. People \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e have free time they can use to build things for fun.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not even really that big a fan of this design (doesn\u0026#x27;t really seem to have the ability to switch to sitting without disassembly), but I just don\u0026#x27;t like seeing things pooh-pooh\u0026#x27;d because they cost more than something some of us could do ourselves.","parent":"7380606","id":"7380879"}
{"by":"GhotiFish","time":"1376858196","timestamp":"2013-08-18 20:36:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People did not catch that joke. I think the issue was that you didn\u0026#x27;t go far enough. The internet has people who would say something like that and mean it. It wasn\u0026#x27;t absurd enough to be dismissed.","parent":"6233799","id":"6234122"}
{"by":"runeks","time":"1543768455","timestamp":"2018-12-02 16:34:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; [...] but the lack of explicitness about casting exact types (Integer, Rational) to inexact types (Int, Float) has led to many bugs and confusions for me.\u003cp\u003eWhat do you mean? As far as I\u0026#x27;m aware, you always have to explicitly convert exact types to inexact types in Haskell (using \u0026quot;fromIntegral\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;realToFrac\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Coupled with the fact that so many standard functions (like length, for example) want to return an Int rather than an Integer, it just leads to me spewing ((fromIntegral ___)::Integer) all over my code.\u003cp\u003eIndeed this is rather annoying. It\u0026#x27;s this way because of legacy reasons (see \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;haskell\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;60u10b\u0026#x2F;do_functions_like_length_return_int_for\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;haskell\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;60u10b\u0026#x2F;do_function...\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"18566319","id":"18582982"}
{"by":"mrfabbri","time":"1296122364","timestamp":"2011-01-27 09:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"he definitely meant Rhino, as in Rhino on Rails \u003ca href=\"http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2145229","id":"2147294"}
{"by":"0bfusct3","time":"1279877078","timestamp":"2010-07-23 09:24:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People that have all this \"talent\" is nothing more than a drive for something - the talent in x, y, z is a side effect. My drive is for a distributed, vm based operating system and a language to go with it, subsequently I'm versed in mathematics, computer science, etc.","parent":"1537461","id":"1540761"}
{"by":"itships","time":"1317063424","timestamp":"2011-09-26 18:57:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, being able to see multiple variations of the logo simultaneously would be nice.\u003cp\u003eI could see myself paying somewhere between $1-$5 for a zero-effort placeholder logo like this.","parent":"3040110","id":"3040234"}
{"by":"xer0","time":"1324316230","timestamp":"2011-12-19 17:37:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If UPS existed 110 years ago: \"After years of horse drawn cartage, we're going petroleum first, and we're very excited about it.\"\u003cp\u003eOf course digital first should be the first inclination. Succeed where the success is, not where the past has died.\u003cp\u003eGood for the Atlantic.","parent":"3369684","id":"3370307"}
{"by":"thepumpkin1979","time":"1323220634","timestamp":"2011-12-07 01:17:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. I understand you perfectly, in fact, JSONScript is not a replacement for Javascript, it just make it easy to develop server side API's without having to dealing with Javascript. I found it perfectly suitable for those Android and iOS developers that have to use persistence services like parse.com or stackmob.com just to persist simple server side data. As the number of ignitable modules(node.js modules designed to be used by the fire.js Runtime) grow up, then less javascript those developers have to write.\u003cp\u003eI'm also improving the error reporting for the stable version, it's kinda hard to figure out where the error occurred in this alpha version.\u003cp\u003ebtw, you can develop without the IDE, there is a command line utility called 'firejs' that you can use to launch the apps. If you want to know more, check the tutorials. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/firejs/fire/wiki/Tutorials\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/firejs/fire/wiki/Tutorials\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks for your comment jim :)","parent":"3321951","id":"3321981"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1429408633","timestamp":"2015-04-19 01:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it does not say that. It says that you should not be compelled to feed your kid. If you read the passage in context, you\u0026#x27;ll find Rothbard is explicit that you cannot kill the kid, nor stop the kid from leaving if the kid is not happy with the support you are providing.\u003cp\u003eOf course as a practical matter, if the kid is young enough, or you live sufficiently far from other people, the kid cannot exercise its right to leave, and so effectively you can kill it by not providing food.","parent":"9401731","id":"9401770"}
{"by":"andrewfromx","time":"1481930064","timestamp":"2016-12-16 23:14:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"really good advise to wanna-be execs that don\u0026#x27;t _really_ have anything new to say on a subject, but want to be considered an expert. And then at the end, it kind sounds like the author is saying you MUST divulge at least 1 secret, 1 thing that supposed to be internal only but you will leak.","parent":"13197011","id":"13197772"}
{"by":"DavidMcLaughlin","time":"1228679278","timestamp":"2008-12-07 19:47:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you're passing parameters to a subroutine in Perl, all you're doing is passing a list. Not an array, but a list. The foo subroutine you posted, just wouldn't be written in Perl.\u003cp\u003eBesides, have you seen the syntax for passing arrays in PHP? Zend Framework is fugly:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    protected static function _assembleRoutes()\n    {\n        $routes = array();\n        $routes['entry']  = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex(\n            \"[0-9a-z._!;, \\=\\-%]+-(\\d+)\",\n            array(\n                'module' =\u0026#62; 'default',\n                'controller' =\u0026#62; 'entry',\n                'action'     =\u0026#62; 'view'\n            ),\n            array(\n                'id' =\u0026#62; 1\n            )\n        );\n        return $routes;\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n10 lines to create an object = foo($bar);","parent":"389003","id":"389047"}
{"by":"apatters","time":"1472495784","timestamp":"2016-08-29 18:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, he\u0026#x27;s right. If you abandon the notion that there\u0026#x27;s anything which possesses an intrinsic or higher meaning, it\u0026#x27;s almost inevitable you\u0026#x27;ll end up gratifying your most basic instincts first because they\u0026#x27;re the strongest. At least until they\u0026#x27;re sated.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing I don\u0026#x27;t get is why more people don\u0026#x27;t do it. People walk around with all sorts of hangups and narratives about why they\u0026#x27;re denying themselves and they take these to the grave with them. I\u0026#x27;d much rather overindulge until I\u0026#x27;m bursting at the seams and then having learned where my limit is, dial it back from there. Much fewer regrets in the long run.","parent":"12383569","id":"12384093"}
{"by":"CapitalistCartr","time":"1364492473","timestamp":"2013-03-28 17:41:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can have your cake and eat it, too, with open-source publication.  A Google-style search engine can give you a custom search of papers to allow bot good filtration, and cross-pollination.  The key is for the papers to be open.","parent":"5456114","id":"5456383"}
{"by":"strey","time":"1206142046","timestamp":"2008-03-21 23:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Windows has had the ability to categorize files for awhile.  If you look in a file's properties, you can add custom properties to any file.  I don't know if there is a way to use these properties in the file system, though.","parent":"142773","id":"142913"}
{"by":"lukifer","time":"1317880523","timestamp":"2011-10-06 05:55:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Steve gave massive credit to the talent and sweat of Apple's engineers and designers in nearly every keynote. He was as humble as you could expect of a CEO.","parent":"3078931","id":"3079202"}
{"by":"joaodlf","time":"1484734845","timestamp":"2017-01-18 10:20:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still think this is a dividing topic.\u003cp\u003eI personally enjoy working in an open office. I think I would have a hard time working from home or in a singular office... I need people around me, I like being able to get up and communicate with colleagues. Yes, it can get annoying, but the pros outweigh the cons for me.\u003cp\u003eThis isn\u0026#x27;t the trend in tech, I have a lot of developer colleagues that would prefer to stay at home, or at the very least isolate the tech department from the rest of the company.\u003cp\u003eA while ago my company moved developers into their own office. It didn\u0026#x27;t last for a long time (for a number of reasons), I saw no benefits in it and was very happy when the decision to move us back in was made.","parent":"13425159","id":"13425326"}
{"by":"deminature","time":"1542396788","timestamp":"2018-11-16 19:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; A lot of us software engineering types lack integrity\u003cp\u003eThis is pretty insulting, working at Facebook doesn\u0026#x27;t necessarily mean you don\u0026#x27;t have integrity. The majority of the company is engaged in development efforts that aren\u0026#x27;t related to the odious part of the business to do with brokering personal data.\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, I\u0026#x27;m sure Facebook would move away from that if there was a viable way to get people to pay directly for social media. It\u0026#x27;s not like they\u0026#x27;re selling data because they\u0026#x27;re moustache twirling villains, they\u0026#x27;re doing it because it\u0026#x27;s the only business model anyone can make work for social media.\u003cp\u003eFurther, it\u0026#x27;s interesting how Google is in exactly the same business at Facebook, yet receives a small fraction of public hatred for it.","parent":"18468094","id":"18471333"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1276101310","timestamp":"2010-06-09 16:35:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1)  Ask people to comment.  This is simple and stupidly effective for a few seconds of work.  (As always, A/B test if you don't believe me.)\u003cp\u003e2)  Engineer it such that the experience of commenting fills a need for people.  People use comments to be validated, to mark out tribes, to cast other people out of tribes, to get  questions answered, to form relationships, to blow off steam, to demonstrate expertise, etc etc.  Figure out what motivates the users, then figure out how giving them what they want advances your interests.\u003cp\u003e3)  Consider carefully whether getting twice as many blog comments as you do currently would improve your life in any way.","parent":"1417112","id":"1417447"}
{"by":"Semaphor","time":"1544602114","timestamp":"2018-12-12 08:08:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used something similar to the k120 (no idea about the apple one) over the years. I get feedback and I don\u0026#x27;t have those huge valleys between the keys.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t do 10 finger typing and I don\u0026#x27;t write long texts, so that might be the reason.","parent":"18662106","id":"18662203"}
{"by":"imglorp","time":"1530100287","timestamp":"2018-06-27 11:51:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They launched a couple of test articles 4 months ago.  One might expect they\u0026#x27;re taking data and iterating.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16438716#16439996\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16438716#16439996\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17405414","id":"17407412"}
{"by":"richardw","time":"1480821686","timestamp":"2016-12-04 03:21:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. How does a drug do worse than a placebo? Surely those who a placebo works on will also benefit from the drug, since the placebo doesn\u0026#x27;t disappear when the drug is real?\u003cp\u003eSo an ethical doctor can just prescribe medicine. It should work through its intended action + placebo :)","parent":"13096700","id":"13098632"}
{"by":"aliguori","time":"1322848408","timestamp":"2011-12-02 17:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Android SDK is based on QEMU.  This is what lets you develop and test ARM binaries for Android on your x86 PC.\u003cp\u003eThere are many examples of embedded development environments like this.","parent":"3304842","id":"3304899"}
{"by":"ropiku","time":"1473269189","timestamp":"2016-09-07 17:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"@Apple account accidentally leaked it on Twitter, it hasn\u0026#x27;t yet been announced in the keynote.","parent":"12445228","id":"12445299"}
{"by":"rm_-rf_slash","time":"1473120965","timestamp":"2016-09-06 00:16:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a fair point. That\u0026#x27;s like saying \u0026quot;we have the best medical facilities in the world for any treatment imaginable, but the hospital is five miles away. How will we carry you there in time to be treated?\u0026quot;","parent":"12432695","id":"12432935"}
{"by":"sangnoir","time":"1457001096","timestamp":"2016-03-03 10:31:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If we can just make it so that AI gets our jobs first, then maybe the AI will take care of us\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not how \u0026#x27;Capitalism\u0026#x27; (as currently practised) works - the owners of the AI reap the benefits and avoid paying taxes while certainly \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e taking care of you, why would Walmart AI or Disney AI care about plebs like you?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Globalization is coming for all of our jobs\u003cp\u003eAs a 3rd worlder, I say it\u0026#x27;s about time. It\u0026#x27;s unjust to have the world as your market without having to compete against everyone else. Maybe you should hire whoever is lobbying for American farmers because their subsidies are destroying farming elsewhere.","parent":"11213331","id":"11216028"}
{"by":"eikenberry","time":"1494223084","timestamp":"2017-05-08 05:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Instead of a vacancy tax you have a homestead exemption. If you live in your home, you get a tax exception. So instead of having to find the vacancies, people who are residents will sign up for the exemption. Same effect.","parent":"14289371","id":"14289543"}
{"by":"SketchySeaBeast","time":"1543599284","timestamp":"2018-11-30 17:34:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; When you’re weighing yourself every day you need to understand that you’re creating a weekly\u0026#x2F;monthly average. What you ate yesterday isn’t going to show up on the scales the next day. If you ran around the park yesterday, don’t expect to have lost weight today.\u003cp\u003eI only weighed myself once a week for this reason.  Every day can be demoralizing if you have a bloat day, but once a week gives enough to have a pretty regular drop.  Whatever behaviour you do can\u0026#x27;t be considered on a day by day basis, it needs to be considered as a week of good behaviour, and then weeks and then months. You gotta stay consistent every day over the long term to expect results.","parent":"18570673","id":"18570718"}
{"by":"YeGoblynQueenne","time":"1457472949","timestamp":"2016-03-08 21:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; First of all no one ever expected machines to beat humans at Imagenet.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not contesting the fact that it\u0026#x27;s surprising and overall a sign of progress. I\u0026#x27;m contesting the claim that it demonstrates \u0026quot;superhuman\u0026quot; performance.\u003cp\u003eBy analogy, a good student at a bad school is \u0026quot;superhuman\u0026quot; because he or she got a good mark in an exam that most other pupils _in that school_ failed. You gotta go a lot further than that before you put on the red cape.","parent":"11245764","id":"11248887"}
{"by":"AlgorithmicTime","time":"1487079246","timestamp":"2017-02-14 13:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just hire an American. There are people in the NYC area who can do that job at $160k.","parent":"13643021","dead":true,"id":"13643359"}
{"by":"make3","time":"1546916877","timestamp":"2019-01-08 03:07:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"doing the hackerrank bash series helped me quite a bit","parent":"18852611","id":"18852767"}
{"by":"RileyJames","time":"1545682411","timestamp":"2018-12-24 20:13:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was in high school, this was MySpace. I remember all my friends learning HTML, or at least enough to copy and paste sufficiently, to build out their custom profiles.\u003cp\u003eIt was a constant process of landing on a friends profile, being amazed by some feature or design and then going back to work on your own.\u003cp\u003eIt also felt more like people’s profiles expressed through design, or music, or gifs, or other media, rather than what they had to say or any form of posts.  I don’t really remember “posting status updates” at all, but I’m sure it was a feature.\u003cp\u003eAnd then at some point Facebook wiped it all out.\u003cp\u003eI can’t see people wanting to manage their own homepage. But then again, I remember we all did in high school for MySpace... maybe we will again.","parent":"18752506","id":"18754041"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1506874340","timestamp":"2017-10-01 16:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eCloudflare set up a limit to what they allow or not so now they will have to fight where that limit is. It can become death by a thousand papercuts.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwitter also enforces its policies very selectively, and seems to be getting away with it so far, but they are walking a tightrope. E.g. now violating the ToS is OK if it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;newsworthy\u0026quot; etc. Or how \u0026quot;Kill all X\u0026quot; will get you banned for some values of X but not others.","parent":"15377546","id":"15378458"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1307282794","timestamp":"2011-06-05 14:06:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The new investor money was overtly premised on paying old investors. The new investors were buying the risk from the old investors, who had just been asked to turn down $6bn. I think you're oversimplifying a bit.","parent":"2621377","id":"2622014"}
{"by":"randomdata","time":"1485235106","timestamp":"2017-01-24 05:18:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; This land by the way will cost you approximately $7,183 per acre.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s surprisingly cheap. A farm near me, with similar production capabilities, recently sold for $25,000\u0026#x2F;acre. Around here, you won\u0026#x27;t find anything really worth farming for much under $15,000\u0026#x2F;acre on the low end these days.","parent":"13468939","id":"13468999"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1478273186","timestamp":"2016-11-04 15:26:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can\u0026#x27;t you send an email on a timer? Say a day or two after your birthday or some holiday. Every year on your birthday you reset the timer. It could take some time after you disappear for the info to arrive.","parent":"12872577","id":"12873301"}
{"by":"brown9-2","time":"1512177232","timestamp":"2017-12-02 01:13:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Be careful with comparisons here, “security” is a super broad label.","parent":"15828516","id":"15829422"}
{"by":"sim0n","time":"1312224084","timestamp":"2011-08-01 18:41:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The majority of Interstate (YCS11) is PHP and our codebase is well structured and the code is pretty.\u003cp\u003ePHP is a fine language if you write code properly.","parent":"2831907","id":"2833742"}
{"by":"slv77","time":"1496408217","timestamp":"2017-06-02 12:56:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Effectively your arguing that productivity growth will effectively bail us out of our high levels of debt and pension obligations (which are another form of debt) and there are more than a few that have argued the same.\u003cp\u003eThe challenge is that productivity gains have been slowing. Computers and the internet are now fairly mature technologies and aren\u0026#x27;t driving the productivity gains we saw in the 80\u0026#x27;s and 90\u0026#x27;s. Also as people age the economy is shifting from goods and services that can be highly automated (entertainment) to those that cannot (nursing home care).","parent":"14469216","id":"14469485"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1266150077","timestamp":"2010-02-14 12:21:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(July 2007)","parent":"1124483","id":"1124496"}
{"by":"bluedanieru","time":"1341734459","timestamp":"2012-07-08 08:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dave McClure doesn't care about effective communication. Maybe his ideas are shit? I'll never know.","parent":"4213482","id":"4214045"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1271334916","timestamp":"2010-04-15 12:35:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No amount of message board geekery is going to get you around the fact that a core tenet of the Catholic church is that sex is appropriate only in marriage.","parent":"1267520","id":"1267638"}
{"by":"apazzolini","time":"1521726659","timestamp":"2018-03-22 13:50:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he was alluding to the fact that although there is a legal way to make guns illegal, it won\u0026#x27;t actually get rid of guns, in much the same way making alcohol illegal didn\u0026#x27;t prevent people from drinking.","parent":"16647921","id":"16648599"}
{"by":"adrinavarro","time":"1391602087","timestamp":"2014-02-05 12:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The talent and know-how?\u003cp\u003eI thought we were already past the \u0026quot;why buy it if you can copy it\u0026quot;.","parent":"7183041","id":"7183264"}
{"by":"bernadus_edwin","time":"1505886178","timestamp":"2017-09-20 05:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Finally, gson \u0026#x2F; json.net for swift. Before this, every json static schema type must use generator or do manually","parent":"15290384","id":"15291104"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1505575862","timestamp":"2017-09-16 15:31:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We should write him about the miserable state of science. And tell him how a few CEOs and shareholders of large companies reap most of the financial benefits of his work.","parent":"15256034","id":"15265054"}
{"by":"glimcat","time":"1312941649","timestamp":"2011-08-10 02:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The major issues are avoiding confusion and SEO. They don't need to be identical, but there needs to be a strong mapping.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-na...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2865839","id":"2866388"}
{"by":"btown","time":"1535688134","timestamp":"2018-08-31 04:02:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine if any of these people were an EU citizen and actually asked in paper writing to be removed, they would be. GDPR does not require that companies make this process electronically initiated, nor that deletion be the default.","parent":"17876650","id":"17882867"}
{"by":"pron","time":"1501143821","timestamp":"2017-07-27 08:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting how you enjoy being clever about millions of women being humiliated and hurt.","parent":"14855703","id":"14863530"}
{"by":"erikb","time":"1487924279","timestamp":"2017-02-24 08:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, it may be more of a society problem than a corp problem.","parent":"13719962","id":"13721981"}
{"by":"occamrazor","time":"1481018515","timestamp":"2016-12-06 10:01:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In which countries is it legal to install a DIY actuator system like this one?","parent":"13112653","id":"13113506"}
{"by":"Osmium","time":"1373284285","timestamp":"2013-07-08 11:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this looks great, but it does strike me a bit of re-inventing the wheel, i.e. if we take this to its logical conclusion, we\u0026#x27;ll have just reinvented the GUI ;)","parent":"6005857","id":"6006275"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1373810103","timestamp":"2013-07-14 13:55:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Helium is non-renewable and in limited supply.","parent":"6040033","id":"6040875"}
{"by":"JepZ","time":"1520525740","timestamp":"2018-03-08 16:15:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, you are right, didn\u0026#x27;t see that. So one is exactly 1ms and the other just 0.625ms.","parent":"16544910","id":"16545253"}
{"by":"Keyframe","time":"1356981561","timestamp":"2012-12-31 19:19:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That I should pay taxes first and invest later, not vice versa.","parent":"4990059","id":"4990463"}
{"by":"tssva","time":"1475813249","timestamp":"2016-10-07 04:07:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Usually the big tax gain for the locality is property tax on the equipment located within the data center.","parent":"12657629","id":"12658096"}
{"by":"freakwit","time":"1275249874","timestamp":"2010-05-30 20:04:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But in the sale of the gift cards/credits, at a 1:1 exchange rate, your assets would increase as well as your debt, surely?","parent":"1390921","id":"1391023"}
{"by":"obituary_latte","time":"1449240584","timestamp":"2015-12-04 14:49:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s the talk: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=O1YP8QP9gLA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=O1YP8QP9gLA\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10676421","id":"10676578"}
{"by":"rigid_airship","time":"1398117798","timestamp":"2014-04-21 22:03:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"incredible, thanks!","parent":"7623178","id":"7624258"}
{"by":"dejb","time":"1275276009","timestamp":"2010-05-31 03:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His bias shows clearly in my view. He complains about large scale epidemiological studies (in the links you provided) and then uses what seems like a relatively small study to back up his claims (in the parent story).\u003cp\u003eLarge scale epidemiological studies may have problems but they are enough to tip the burden of proof towards those who would disagree with them. It is certainly better than relying on some notions of the diet that our primitive ancestors may have had - especially considering that our current circumstances are very different and our life spans are already greater. To me this is a case of naturalistic fallacy.","parent":"1391463","id":"1391703"}
{"by":"geofft","time":"1433472207","timestamp":"2015-06-05 02:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It means you go from some level of privilege (which could be none at all) to more privilege. For instance, \u0026quot;a WordPress author can get a shell on the server\u0026quot; would be a privilege escalation, even though being able to write blog posts is quite privileged on its own.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I\u0026#x27;m not particularly convinced that (unvirtualized) ring 0 to SMM is really a violation of a security policy... it\u0026#x27;s not like SMM really tries to confine what ring 0 can do, it just wants things like interrupt priority.","parent":"9663405","id":"9663578"}
{"by":"dasloop","time":"1373967885","timestamp":"2013-07-16 09:44:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was cynical in a general way. A no sense without any evidence. Apologies for that.","parent":"6046538","id":"6050795"}
{"by":"jfoster","time":"1522634518","timestamp":"2018-04-02 02:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Arguably might be a win for Amazon too.","parent":"16731709","id":"16731747"}
{"by":"hobarrera","time":"1432485923","timestamp":"2015-05-24 16:45:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pass[1] is a pretty good choice. But you also have to make sure your provider really follows decent security practices.\u003cp\u003egandi.net is a pretty decent provider not full of BS (as their slogan states).\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zx2c4.com\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;password-store\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zx2c4.com\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;password-store\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9596556","id":"9596729"}
{"by":"EdSharkey","time":"1487626600","timestamp":"2017-02-20 21:36:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, truly over the long haul, the fittest survive - helpful mutations account for all survival thus far.\u003cp\u003eI just envy what I interpret as an intragenerational bolstering of genetic traits that females have, assuming the EXITS thing is truly what\u0026#x27;s going on.  They don\u0026#x27;t have to wait a generation to perhaps select out the bad, they get to do it on the fly.","parent":"13690427","id":"13691179"}
{"by":"Qantourisc","time":"1405357055","timestamp":"2014-07-14 16:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also this burns a lot of CPU cycles :(","parent":"8031450","id":"8031853"}
{"by":"eric_cc","time":"1404156114","timestamp":"2014-06-30 19:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never had a problem falling asleep but I kicked my daily morning cup of coffee and I can\u0026#x27;t believe how much energy I have.  I used to feel a little fuzzy when I first woke up until I had my coffee but now I wake up so full of energy and feel great.  I never realized just how negative caffeine is on your energy level.","parent":"7965695","id":"7967043"}
{"by":"dingdingdang","time":"1547372297","timestamp":"2019-01-13 09:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We need something that even senior citizens can use to replace Windows XP on a system they can\u0026#x27;t afford to upgrade.\u003cp\u003eMy personal experience from large scale transition from Windows 7 to Linux Mint at work indicates that people ABSOLUTELY can use Linux - the UI is (unlike Win10) stable and things do not move around, settings don\u0026#x27;t change themselves on upgrades. And, importantly, updates can be set to be silent and automatic.","parent":"18895470","id":"18895931"}
{"by":"Finbarr","time":"1370465917","timestamp":"2013-06-05 20:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No I have no intention of raising any money. You need to set your sights a bit higher if you think this is a startup.","parent":"5828506","id":"5828571"}
{"by":"97s","time":"1409619774","timestamp":"2014-09-02 01:02:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am on a computer all day long, I still have a flip phone, and people look at me like I am crazy. They all know I am a tech type guy, but question why I have a flip phone. Thing is, when I am off the computer. I dont want to think about more computer things. Glad others are finally realizing how terrible this is. You go out in public and everyone is sitting down at dinner with their friends surfing the biggest social media site at the moment.","parent":"8251498","id":"8255289"}
{"by":"jquery","time":"1336712221","timestamp":"2012-05-11 04:57:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Yes, ask any Facebook/Google new grad.\u003cp\u003eWhat percent of new grads work at Facebook/Google, do you reckon?","parent":"3957712","id":"3957747"}
{"by":"crag","time":"1462368643","timestamp":"2016-05-04 13:30:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nahh... that\u0026#x27;s probably part of it. But in many cases, it\u0026#x27;s the family insisting that you \u0026quot;drag it out\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI remember at NY Hospital, this guy (in the next room) was VERY sick (AIDS) - he was at end of life. Had 105+ fever they could not get down. He was laying on a bed of ice, and the nurse was pouring ice water over him - all at the insistence of his sister.\u003cp\u003eI remember thinking how could she torture her brother so much? I know she loved him. And it was a vain attempt too save his life. He wasn\u0026#x27;t conscious though most of it, but I think he would\u0026#x27;ve preferred to die in peace and quiet rather then laying on a bed of ice.\u003cp\u003eHe lasted till the morning. What a way to go.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s why Living Wills and Medical Directives are so important.","parent":"11628103","id":"11628151"}
{"by":"ohwp","time":"1377088731","timestamp":"2013-08-21 12:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they didn\u0026#x27;t know they wouldn\u0026#x27;t destroy Guardians\u0026#x27; hard disks but would take them with them to check out the data.","parent":"6249543","id":"6249735"}
{"by":"mamoswined","time":"1458094235","timestamp":"2016-03-16 02:10:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah I ignore jobs that ask for these screens. I\u0026#x27;ve spent a lot of time on them and then not heard anything.\u003cp\u003eWhen I\u0026#x27;m adding to my own team I would rather talk to them about code than have them do these screens. It\u0026#x27;s more holistic and I get more of a sense of how they think. If I\u0026#x27;m going to give them a code challenge like this I wait until after the phone screen so I don\u0026#x27;t waste people\u0026#x27;s time.","parent":"11293721","id":"11294502"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1462649516","timestamp":"2016-05-07 19:31:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Glib provocations are a form of trolling. That\u0026#x27;s bad for discussion quality in the long run. Please don\u0026#x27;t do this here.","parent":"11649405","id":"11651007"}
{"by":"pixcavator","time":"1286121617","timestamp":"2010-10-03 16:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u003ci\u003epopularity\u003c/i\u003e is surprising; the success is still to be proven (how?). But you are right, its popularity can’t be ignored.","parent":"1752893","id":"1752917"}
{"by":"fthssht","time":"1523446478","timestamp":"2018-04-11 11:34:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It applies to all these transactions:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;coin.dance\u0026#x2F;volume\u0026#x2F;localbitcoins\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;coin.dance\u0026#x2F;volume\u0026#x2F;localbitcoins\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16807451","id":"16810065"}
{"by":"ash","time":"1499758035","timestamp":"2017-07-11 07:27:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t say I know how to do it. And I didn\u0026#x27;t say it\u0026#x27;s easy. Yes, currently we have fast browser and slow compilation. Just let\u0026#x27;s not assume situation can\u0026#x27;t be improved at all.","parent":"14736299","id":"14742216"}
{"by":"tripngroove","time":"1260320728","timestamp":"2009-12-09 01:05:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FYI: This video vastly understates the volume and variety of delicious microbrews available in the city.","parent":"985028","id":"985036"}
{"by":"billmalarky","time":"1385326387","timestamp":"2013-11-24 20:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scott wants what he believes his father wants (since his father can no longer make decisions Scott must decide in a way he believes his father would want him to decide for him) and is best for his father. To kill his own father and risk prison (not to mention the devastation it would cause to Scott\u0026#x27;s immediate family) is simply not an option.\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of man would want his own son to risk life in prison in order to end their own suffering?","parent":"6790464","id":"6791075"}
{"by":"Blankwood","time":"1299162070","timestamp":"2011-03-03 14:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Part of the reason they don't join forces more often is that the IP lawyers often are kept busy by looking at other large company portfolios.  Their business is both offensive and defensive.","parent":"2283635","id":"2284034"}
{"by":"Kliment","time":"1292267188","timestamp":"2010-12-13 19:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The current one can do that already, with a sharpie. It has managed to replicate its own electronics in this way.","parent":"2001376","id":"2001579"}
{"by":"rimliu","time":"1490250635","timestamp":"2017-03-23 06:30:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does it sacrifice the open web again? Is there a law being passed that entire web should be DRMed?","parent":"13933931","id":"13937765"}
{"by":"pkroll","time":"1515475865","timestamp":"2018-01-09 05:31:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Extra virgin olive oil has a low smoke point, 320F. \u0026quot;Light\u0026quot; olive oil has a high smoke point, 460F.","parent":"16098042","id":"16103852"}
{"by":"rowsdower","time":"1363282645","timestamp":"2013-03-14 17:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My brain first parsed 'TPB' as 'Trade Paperback.'  SimCity: The Novel sounds like a horrible idea, but I wouldn't put it past EA to try and milk the franchise that way.","parent":"5375432","id":"5376451"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1354901488","timestamp":"2012-12-07 17:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Metro North does my commuting for me, and it doesn't cost me $50,000.","parent":"4885906","id":"4888018"}
{"by":"IpV8","time":"1533561894","timestamp":"2018-08-06 13:24:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Distributed power electronics are inherently dangerous.  If you have a surplus of power and your neighbor has a deficit, it is desirable for the two systems to communicate to send power from you to the neighbor.  If a bad actor can leverage this system to tell everyone to send all of their power to the grid, they could easily damage the infrastructure in a very costly way.","parent":"17697254","id":"17697307"}
{"by":"notjustanymike","time":"1516124822","timestamp":"2018-01-16 17:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tsunami warning: Everyone seeks high ground.\u003cp\u003eMissile warning: Everyone flees to basements.\u003cp\u003eRight next to each other, no way that\u0026#x27;ll go wrong.","parent":"16159391","id":"16160180"}
{"by":"drzaiusapelord","time":"1358039006","timestamp":"2013-01-13 01:03:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; and didn't totally understand the technical aspects of what Swartz was accused of doing.\u003cp\u003eShe had the resources to hire the types of experts who are what I call \"executive whisperers.\"  She doesn't need to know what a perl script is to understand what happened at JSTOR.\u003cp\u003eOn top of it, when the \"victim\" JSTOR is saying \"what the hell, why are you prosecuting this guy?\" Then its pretty obvious we're looking at political motivations here. Sorry, but you have way too much faith in people if you think what just happened was one big 'honest mistake.'","parent":"5049297","id":"5049536"}
{"by":"codexon","time":"1284606665","timestamp":"2010-09-16 03:11:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMichael Phelps was born with his flipper-like feet, does that make him any less of an Olympian?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, but it makes the victory tainted by circumstance rather than hard work. Who would you be more receptive to in a lecture about hard work: Yao Ming at 7\"6' who barely has to stick his hand out to make a block, or Charles Barkley who is an entire foot shorter?\u003cp\u003eAnd if Michael Phelps didn't exist, someone like Cavic would have won by an insignificant 0.01 seconds less. By the same vein, it is inevitable that someone else would have stepped up had Microsoft not existed.\u003cp\u003eSo why is it a problem to worship these people that have had all these advantages?\u003cp\u003eThe biggest excuse why these people are against taxation is because they feel their wealth was earned 99% by hard work rather than circumstance. Conversely, many of them feel people on welfare don't deserve it, and it is 99% due to their personality.\u003cp\u003eIt is a classic case of the fundamental attribution error.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1694971","id":"1696701"}
{"by":"slashclee","time":"1283418503","timestamp":"2010-09-02 09:08:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congrats on the release, Zed!","parent":"1655534","id":"1655659"}
{"by":"bdunbar","time":"1395884263","timestamp":"2014-03-27 01:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is why Amazon AWS is available in Europe.\u003cp\u003eWhich is _great_ because we\u0026#x27;re going after the EU market in a little bit.","parent":"7473817","id":"7478006"}
{"by":"justin66","time":"1487038682","timestamp":"2017-02-14 02:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re saying the phase-out is really happening and widespread, that\u0026#x27;s great. Nothing could make me happier. Partially hydrogenated oils are basically poison. I\u0026#x27;ve noticed them falling off the ingredients list of some of the junk in the store.","parent":"13636666","id":"13640662"}
{"by":"notlisted","time":"1462797459","timestamp":"2016-05-09 12:37:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It all depends on where you live Maarten. I\u0026#x27;m from Holland. Moved to a \u0026#x27;burb\u0026#x27; three years ago after nearly 20 years in NYC. We picked a town where some of the things you mention are still a reality (spontaneous play, kids walk to school in groups, biking is difficult because... hills). Meanwhile, I know that the situation you sketch isn\u0026#x27;t the reality anymore in large parts of Holland either (many more cars, fewer new developments, not enough kids, many old people).\u003cp\u003eThe article brings up many good points, but the suburb outlined in the article describes a very specific kind. Having lived in a metropolitan US area for 19 years, I relish the lack of noise, the extra space (1 acre) and suburban life in general.\u003cp\u003ePS It\u0026#x27;s a little disingenuous to mention the bus\u0026#x2F;snow situation. Snow days here (5 max) are rare and typically well-warranted. You really cannot compare a 5cm \u0026quot;snowstorm\u0026quot; in The Netherlands with the 1+ feet (40cm) that fell overnight last winter.","parent":"11656720","id":"11659301"}
{"by":"andersonmvd","time":"1453765885","timestamp":"2016-01-25 23:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but there are better alternatives in some situations, e.g., bbcode or markdown processing rather than stripping tags. The point for such scenarios is that whitelist is better than blacklist.","parent":"10970790","id":"10970942"}
{"by":"uniclaude","time":"1393505166","timestamp":"2014-02-27 12:46:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should have a look at how Line does it. You \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e use a login and password, but you can also use Line on another device through some QR code scanning. No password required IIRC.","parent":"7311415","id":"7311798"}
{"by":"ariwilson","time":"1471973332","timestamp":"2016-08-23 17:28:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"10s of billions of requests per second sounds like it needs a new term compared to 10s of billions of requests per day.","parent":"12345486","id":"12345533"}
{"by":"Confusion","time":"1248118766","timestamp":"2009-07-20 19:39:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We can't always keep our cool and merely explain factually what is wrong. We get angry and indignated and need to vent that. I don't think it's wrong to show that, as long as you \u003ci\u003ealso\u003c/i\u003e make the point using the proper arguments.","parent":"714549","id":"715003"}
{"by":"ainiriand","time":"1535027342","timestamp":"2018-08-23 12:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"100\u0026#x2F;site seems a bit steep for hobbists. Good work in any case.","parent":"17826618","id":"17826644"}
{"by":"otempomores","time":"1500184912","timestamp":"2017-07-16 06:01:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could curing be improvrd by leaving small drying vents? Could rebar rust be returned to metal with a coating and electrolysis?","parent":"14690329","dead":true,"id":"14780727"}
{"by":"ossreality","time":"1412373116","timestamp":"2014-10-03 21:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re worse than scum.","parent":"8398985","dead":true,"id":"8407839"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1288983254","timestamp":"2010-11-05 18:54:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People love open proxies, especially if those people also like terrorism, porn and cracking.","parent":"1874252","id":"1874366"}
{"by":"ufmace","time":"1404705829","timestamp":"2014-07-07 04:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not that those things haven\u0026#x27;t happened, but this sounds overly cynical to me. Yeah, the bad part is that the system tends to be dirty, and sometimes does very dirty things to people who don\u0026#x27;t have the money or influence to fight it. On the other hand, if you have money for lawyers, or any influence with the media or politicians, then dirty tricks like that tend not to fly.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;d have to ask a lawyer, probably one who practices federal criminal law, how such a thing would actually work, but I\u0026#x27;m going to guess that if your problem is that the BOP keeps transferring you endlessly, then a lawyer could make a case for filing some kind of suit in almost any jurisdiction, and so you can take your pick of judges and courts.","parent":"7996408","id":"7997008"}
{"by":"ttul","time":"1533229149","timestamp":"2018-08-02 16:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how Google determines that an attack is government-backed? They must have some incredible intel.","parent":"17672182","id":"17673117"}
{"by":"hoboon","time":"1434594826","timestamp":"2015-06-18 02:33:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did that last year. No bootcamp guarantees placement.","parent":"9736414","id":"9736520"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1397668392","timestamp":"2014-04-16 17:13:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s fine for email, but services like Instagram thrive on literal word of mouth with people saying it over the phone or over TV or radio. Watch some TV and see how many adverts include the Facebook logo or a hashtag (implying Twitter, although a competitor could steal that market overnight). It\u0026#x27;s not just about clickability, it\u0026#x27;s also about having an identity easy enough for people to remember to check out. \u0026#x27;I haven\u0026#x27;t looked at Joe_Blow\u0026#x27;s Instagram in a while\u0026#x27; is an easy thought to form, having to perform a search to find the random string of the actual account name, which is unrecognizable for most people if the search returns more than one result - that\u0026#x27;s a pain.","parent":"7598965","id":"7599053"}
{"by":"Ardit20","time":"1246672534","timestamp":"2009-07-04 01:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn't actually get the point of this whole piece. It sounds like some fiction of course, but fiction which distorts reality and that is called illusion I believe.\u003cp\u003eWell in all truth it sounds like propaganda, propaganda by definition I use it, namely using language to change perception and that is what this article does. It seems to suggest that Einstain was a human, not perfect, not entirely knowledgeable or fully functioning person. Fine in his logic of course, but lacking all common sense.\u003cp\u003eEinstaine lived amongst us however, not even half a decade ago. We have stories of him, we have myths about him. We do not know if he was gullabile, I mean, he objected against the german-anglo war, which shows that he had some practical understanding of being a human and performing his tasks with common sense.\u003cp\u003eSo my question, what is the purpose of this article? To suggest that he was not perfect, to suggest that his mind only understood logics but nothing else, to make us feel good that we have not achieved his heights for aftrall why would you want to if you would not be able to perform on a basic common sense level?","parent":"686779","id":"686792"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1251722584","timestamp":"2009-08-31 12:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really tried to understand your question but it wouldn't click so I did some googling:\u003cp\u003e\"SPOJ – Sphere Online Judge – is a problemset archive, online judge and contest hosting service accepting solutions in many languages.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.spoj.pl/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.spoj.pl/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The UVA On-line Judge is an on-line programming trainer created in 1995 with the aim of training users who participate in worldwide programming competitions. Currently this tool has approximately 64,000 users from many different countries and more than 2,000 problems.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://uva.onlinejudge.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://uva.onlinejudge.org/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, the answer (for me at least :) ) is no, never used any of these, but interesting stuff and I'll definitely have a look (time permitting...).","parent":"795769","id":"795792"}
{"by":"soroso","time":"1437586629","timestamp":"2015-07-22 17:37:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Technically it didn\u0026#x27;t fail. If you do not mind losing your vesting opportunities, just look for greener pa$ture$.","parent":"9931032","id":"9931069"}
{"by":"sykh","time":"1525650289","timestamp":"2018-05-06 23:44:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a bit odd that you criticize the author for not considering biological\u0026#x2F;evolutionary factors when you can\u0026#x27;t come up with any too.  Isn\u0026#x27;t it possible then that these factors (if indeed they exist) don\u0026#x27;t provide convincing enough evidence to merit being written about in the article?  It seems the burden is on you to demonstrate that your criticism is justified and that the article has a glaring omission.  Otherwise, what is your basis for criticism?  How can you criticize an article for a deficiency that hasn\u0026#x27;t been established as being one that exists?","parent":"17009298","id":"17009325"}
{"by":"16s","time":"1345551583","timestamp":"2012-08-21 12:19:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003egoal\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e of the attack may be to lockout the accounts, not guess the passwords. That's often overlooked.","parent":"4411013","id":"4412330"}
{"by":"trevyn","time":"1501249651","timestamp":"2017-07-28 13:47:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possibly not able to carry enough chemical fuel to lift the fuel into space and return and do a controlled landing without refueling? That seems more plausible.\u003cp\u003eFuel is heavy, and most of it is spent on... lifting fuel.","parent":"14874052","id":"14874227"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1462976067","timestamp":"2016-05-11 14:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not like it\u0026#x27;s a unilateral \u0026quot;price increase\u0026quot;.  My bill, for example, will be going down as a result of this.  Personally I\u0026#x27;m pretty stoked about this change.  YMMV.","parent":"11673812","id":"11675441"}
{"by":"robgough","time":"1303393516","timestamp":"2011-04-21 13:45:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for posting the instructions. After doing this, it's easy to see that the tracking data is way off base quite a lot. And interestingly, places I visit a lot but never use my location for it has very few data points for. In fact, there's only one even \u003ci\u003enear\u003c/i\u003e my office, which I visit nearly 5 days a week. Every week.","parent":"2470248","id":"2470570"}
{"by":"hesarenu","time":"1505741804","timestamp":"2017-09-18 13:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the people i know nobody keeps their bluettoh devises on for extended period of times. Its used usually to transfer images\u0026#x2F;videos. But it will be a hassle though.\u003cp\u003eWhat else are there which would affect users very hard?","parent":"15275717","id":"15275771"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1503696022","timestamp":"2017-08-25 21:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Noticed besides US, Australia and Sweden and Norway have high rate of file sharing? Wonder why is that? Taxes \u0026#x2F; tariffs on media?\u003cp\u003eConclusions are interesting as well:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;File-sharing reduces total revenue of the motion picture industry from box-office by $ 90 million in total, 1.4% of the current box-office\u0026quot;, and that\u0026#x27;s a lower estimate from what the industry claims.","parent":"15101203","id":"15102364"}
{"by":"systematical","time":"1515690788","timestamp":"2018-01-11 17:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I certainly agree with the hypothesis of this article. I\u0026#x27;d like to see how this compares with languages and not just frameworks overtime. How does this curve compare with mature\u0026#x2F;in-demand languages such as Java, PHP, JavaScript, .Net, Python etc. Do we find a similar graph with languages?","parent":"16123915","id":"16125573"}
{"by":"colemannugent","time":"1532102012","timestamp":"2018-07-20 15:53:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e...the average employee is only productive for 2-3 hours per day\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sounds true to me, so let\u0026#x27;s assume that it is. If the average employee was unproductive for most of their day it stands to reason that employers would have a great incentive to only employ workers during their productive hours. Assuming the average employee is only productive for three hours a day, the employer is overpaying their employees by about 60%.\u003cp\u003eThe problem seems to be how to eliminate the unproductive hours in a way that also benefits the worker. The way I see things working out is employers asking more of their employees for a smaller amount of compensation. Great for the employer, but I really don\u0026#x27;t think this is the kind of worker empowerment people are hoping for.","parent":"17571952","id":"17576041"}
{"by":"icegreentea","time":"1475773434","timestamp":"2016-10-06 17:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Practically no one in the time period you care about thought that the Earth was flat.","parent":"12653854","id":"12654068"}
{"by":"ENOTTY","time":"1311385226","timestamp":"2011-07-23 01:40:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you do that, I'd imagine that the phone would not be able to pull updates from those services while the phone is locked.","parent":"2795683","id":"2795849"}
{"by":"mbrt","time":"1480962037","timestamp":"2016-12-05 18:20:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"blog author here. Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate that! I\u0026#x27;m gonna edit the post with it. And don\u0026#x27;t worry about your code... it\u0026#x27;s the best crate I\u0026#x27;ve seen so far ;)\u003cp\u003eBy the way, shouldn\u0026#x27;t msys_tty_on_handle be marked \u0026#x27;unsafe\u0026#x27; too? I\u0026#x27;m wondering if what happens I pass in some garbage as a handle...","parent":"13097556","id":"13107769"}
{"by":"imroot","time":"1541653486","timestamp":"2018-11-08 05:04:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve just dealt with it (K4IMW), but, I use my PO Box for my FCC ULS information.  If the FCC or anyone else wants to get in touch with me, it\u0026#x27;s probably quicker to email me, but, I understand that there are times where a paper letter is more \u0026quot;formal,\u0026quot; (also, QSL cards).","parent":"18403198","id":"18404436"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1374223137","timestamp":"2013-07-19 08:38:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But as Bradley says if this was the reason for the license change why did they not switch to eg BSD? Something that would solve the problem definitively.","parent":"6067648","id":"6068932"}
{"by":"mrkurt","time":"1301592683","timestamp":"2011-03-31 17:31:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's \u003ci\u003eharder\u003c/i\u003e to do limited roll outs, but not impossible. It's feasible to have all the code in place and only trigger it based on a server response, for instance. That's basically how they handle the web app.","parent":"2392531","id":"2392572"}
{"by":"adventured","time":"1403051924","timestamp":"2014-06-18 00:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cab drivers can protest their own backwards industry instead, which is exactly what they should have done a long time ago.\u003cp\u003eThen their existing industry can choose to compete in an actual market, instead of using the government to protect them from competition.","parent":"7907727","id":"7907932"}
{"by":"gamesbrainiac","time":"1418916470","timestamp":"2014-12-18 15:27:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hopefully live streams will also pop up :)","parent":"8767628","id":"8767653"}
{"by":"dkarapetyan","time":"1399959728","timestamp":"2014-05-13 05:42:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really thought the part about embedded developers was a joke.","parent":"7736477","id":"7736700"}
{"by":"DrStalker","time":"1540957787","timestamp":"2018-10-31 03:49:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Quartz crystals used to be hermetically sealed.\u003cp\u003eAre they sealed against helium though?  It can get through a lot of materials that more common gases can\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"18340986","id":"18343198"}
{"by":"mrinterweb","time":"1440024751","timestamp":"2015-08-19 22:52:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;chimpanzees have been using stone tools in the rainforests of Ivory Coast for at least 4300 years.\u0026quot; So is this a news title from 2315BC? I would have expected the article to be written in hieroglyphics. Would have been a nice touch if \u0026quot;Breaking\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;This just in\u0026quot; were prepended to the article title.","parent":"10087186","id":"10089094"}
{"by":"jstandard","time":"1505535610","timestamp":"2017-09-16 04:20:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On what basis do you expect to see 1500?","parent":"15262392","id":"15262849"}
{"by":"ddingus","time":"1537410237","timestamp":"2018-09-20 02:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Current authors oulling the ladder up behind them.\u003cp\u003eThe Brothers Grimm works helped Disney, who refuses to allow another Disney in like kind.\u003cp\u003eFREE THE MOUSE\u003cp\u003eI had that as a bumper sticker for over a decade.  Lots of people asked!  Was the best sticker ever.  I told the Disney story many, many times.\u003cp\u003eInterestingly, most people were engaged, asked questions, mostly understood.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;So, that is why we get Terminator 2, 3, 4, 13...?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhat makes sense?\u003cp\u003eBalance of benefit of author and the public.\u003cp\u003eAuthors need material to work from.  Without that, everything will need a clearance of some sort.  It is extremely difficult to make entirely new works and have them be compelling enough to reach greater relevance.  No public works = tepid new works.\u003cp\u003eThe public wants and benefits from a robust, rich culture.  Everything owned = stale, managed culture formed in boardrooms.\u003cp\u003eAuthors need to eat and benefit from their works.  These benefits can and should be substantial, depending.  No copyright term = dubious value in creative works = starving authors.\u003cp\u003e0 years breaks creation.  Infinity years breaks culture, dilutes overall value to everyone.\u003cp\u003e100?\u003cp\u003eIt is better than infinity, but where is the sweet spot?\u003cp\u003eThe Brothers Grimm worked under 24 year terms.  Disney used those works, once public, only to object and deny others what they got to build from.\u003cp\u003eAnd here we are today.\u003cp\u003eI personally think 40 is pretty great.  Others want 0, others want hundreds of years.\u003cp\u003eI also believe overly long terms will result in counter, protest culture.  Won\u0026#x27;t be easy to monetize,  will ignore DRM, law, and will exist to deny the established scheme, because fuck them and their greed.  Or something along those lines.","parent":"18028689","id":"18029295"}
{"by":"dominicr","time":"1537949336","timestamp":"2018-09-26 08:08:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me it\u0026#x27;s the same. I don\u0026#x27;t have much time to listen to podcasts so general chat or low density talk just isn\u0026#x27;t efficient.\u003cp\u003eI like some conversational podcasts like After On where they tend to stick to discussing the topic at hand but I couldn\u0026#x27;t get into Stuff You Should Know or Joe Rogan as there was a lot of general chat in there or not high enough information density.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t want to hear 5 minutes of why somebody thinks something is worth doing a podcast on: just tell me the interesting stuff and I\u0026#x27;ll judge for myself.","parent":"18073261","id":"18073798"}
{"by":"RexRollman","time":"1307552577","timestamp":"2011-06-08 17:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I currently own a PC running Windows 7 and I really enjoy using it. For the most part, Mac OS X and Windows computers can both perform the same tasks, so it really comes down to user preference.\u003cp\u003eHaving used both Windows and Mac OS X, it is funny the little things you miss from one or the other. For example, on Mac OS X, I really missed Foobar2000 (I simply detest iTunes) and Exact Audio Copy. On Windows, I lament that there doesn't seem to be any equivalent to Filemaker's Bento.\u003cp\u003eIn the end, I feel that we need to stop acting like for Windows or Mac OS X to succeed, someone has to fail. There are enough users in this world for both of them (as well as Linux and BSD).","parent":"2630350","id":"2633967"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1490775659","timestamp":"2017-03-29 08:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been following the Edwards projects for years; I find them (and his views) mostly very interesting, but they move extremely slow. This one seems the most interesting by far, but me too would be very interesting to see a repository \u0026#x2F; download. Maybe it is there somewhere, but...","parent":"13983605","id":"13984324"}
{"by":"jcampbell1","time":"1378219854","timestamp":"2013-09-03 14:50:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MySQL and Postgres.  You can use the source tables, anything in the select statement, or an ordinal position in the select statement.  In the example \u0026quot;GROUP BY 1\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;GROUP BY wkday\u0026quot;, and \u0026quot;GROUP BY WEEKDAY(created_at)\u0026quot; are all the same.","parent":"6321193","id":"6321279"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1229099926","timestamp":"2008-12-12 16:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real self-contained incubator:\u003cp\u003eSave up 30 or 40k.  Quit your job.  Take 6 months out to build your app.","parent":"394757","id":"395790"}
{"by":"dcgudeman","time":"1476815983","timestamp":"2016-10-18 18:39:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhen a native Promise incurs a rejection but there is no handler to receive it, a warning will be printed to standard error.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eProbably the most important change other than improvements in es2015 support.","parent":"12737328","id":"12737382"}
{"by":"gizmo","time":"1253388983","timestamp":"2009-09-19 19:36:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, I see. That definition doesn't fit the situation though. I was using the dictionary definition, and the original article used the word esoteric in the same context as I did.","parent":"832160","id":"832259"}
{"by":"escoz","time":"1314729959","timestamp":"2011-08-30 18:45:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with what you said about developers understanding what does on under the curtains, but regarding the NewRelic statement, I couldn't disagree more with this.\u003cp\u003eSpending time early on in the project on things that don't matter and that don't really impact the system, like the example given in the post, is exactly the kind of thing that ends up creating projects that are expensive to maintain and just bad.\u003cp\u003eFocusing on solving large performance bottlenecks, that can easily improve things 1000 times more than fixing that simple example is a much better use of your time, and is what newRelic shows you.","parent":"2941656","id":"2942692"}
{"by":"moultano","time":"1296951589","timestamp":"2011-02-06 00:19:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is unfortunate. The google toolbar opt-in was one of the things that most impressed me about the company when I first joined.","parent":"2184304","id":"2184471"}
{"by":"chrischen","time":"1522106409","timestamp":"2018-03-26 23:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looked like a brilliant move but they bought out quite a few social networks.\u003cp\u003eBut Instagram can\u0026#x27;t save facebook (the website), though it may save Facebook the company.","parent":"16683474","id":"16683625"}
{"by":"zwegner","time":"1361900585","timestamp":"2013-02-26 17:43:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The gap between CS majors and software jobs is misleading. You don't need a CS degree to become a decent programmer.\u003cp\u003eConversely, you don't need to be a decent programmer to get a CS degree. It's a shame that in the age of the internet and self-directed learning, degrees are so heavily weighted in the job market.","parent":"5286126","id":"5287075"}
{"by":"rgrove","time":"1539366221","timestamp":"2018-10-12 17:43:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi! I\u0026#x27;m the guy behind RawGit.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve actually never accepted donations. I paid the meager cost of the $10\u0026#x2F;month DigitalOcean droplet for the origin server, and StackPath (formerly MaxCDN) sponsored the CDN, which handled the majority of RawGit\u0026#x27;s traffic.\u003cp\u003eOnce, I worked out how much the CDN bill would have been if StackPath hadn\u0026#x27;t sponsored me and my head nearly exploded. So yeah, I definitely couldn\u0026#x27;t have done it without them!","parent":"18202726","id":"18203179"}
{"by":"JorgeGT","time":"1445121684","timestamp":"2015-10-17 22:41:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003egiving poor families money, on top of the benefits they already receive, improves their children’s behavior\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think anyone questions that \u003ci\u003eextra\u003c/i\u003e money does good. The big question in the fight against poverty is: given X available welfare dollars per family, what is the optimum allocation between giving them as benefits or giving them as hard cash?","parent":"10406253","id":"10406459"}
{"by":"eslaught","time":"1483216597","timestamp":"2016-12-31 20:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; no non-scientist can evaluate the claims of [...]\u003cp\u003eTo be more precise:\u003cp\u003eNo \u003ci\u003enon-expert\u003c/i\u003e in field X can evaluate claims with respect to field X.\u003cp\u003eThe phenomenon you\u0026#x27;re talking about is with respect to lay people. But there is a parallel phenomenon that happens with intelligent people with expertise in unrelated fields. It\u0026#x27;s relatively easy to read a handful of papers in a field other than your own and convince yourself that you are qualified to pass judgement. But how can you be sure you\u0026#x27;d see a problem in the methodology of a paper, even if it existed? And the larger problem: how do you know the set of papers you read is representative?\u003cp\u003eIn the worst case, there could have been a shift in the field that no one bothered to document (perhaps because the shift was due to a lack of publishable results). This is my number one gripe reading old papers in computer science: sometimes an idea just disappears from the literature because frankly it didn\u0026#x27;t work, but you can\u0026#x27;t cite a paper that just says that outright, even though everyone (who works closely in the field) knows it to be true.\u003cp\u003eIn my experience, both problems take time and experience to solve. Which means that if you don\u0026#x27;t have those, you\u0026#x27;re better off finding an expert you trust and asking them---in person---what papers are worth reading.","parent":"13292352","id":"13293011"}
{"by":"talmand","time":"1426772415","timestamp":"2015-03-19 13:40:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a similar notion in a sci-fi show, I believe it was Babylon 5, of a alien probe that would promise superior technology if you could prove your species\u0026#x27; intelligence; only to destroy you instead if you passed the test.","parent":"9228960","id":"9231780"}
{"by":"maratd","time":"1338858192","timestamp":"2012-06-05 01:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You, me, and every single one of their customers. Who doesn't want lower prices? I wish they had a 128MB option!","parent":"4065828","id":"4066815"}
{"by":"koolba","time":"1528393660","timestamp":"2018-06-07 17:47:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn’t that require not being end to end encryption as well?\u003cp\u003eThey can’t stitch and re-encode the video streams if they can’t decode it server side.","parent":"17258236","id":"17258286"}
{"by":"mrtron","time":"1332711399","timestamp":"2012-03-25 21:36:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find I have two modes.  Producer or consumer.\u003cp\u003eProducer mode is tougher to get into, breaking the ice with an easy task in the morning is quite useful.","parent":"3753874","id":"3753910"}
{"by":"Gibbon1","time":"1544061838","timestamp":"2018-12-06 02:03:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the context of heavily subsidized roads and freeways, free public transit makes sense on pure balance sheet economics. It costs the state more for someone to drive than the cost for them to take a bus for free.\u003cp\u003eAlso I think free buses potentially means you can design buses for very quick entry\u0026#x2F;exit.","parent":"18614722","id":"18614752"}
{"by":"soc88","time":"1327191093","timestamp":"2012-01-22 00:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The EPFL owns it, especially the logo he is also using. And no, registering is not always a requirement.","parent":"3495093","id":"3495122"}
{"by":"RyanMcGreal","time":"1366123343","timestamp":"2013-04-16 14:42:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; A big, modern brick house (NOT a modern, big brick house)\u003cp\u003eNot unless it's a modern house with big bricks, anyway.","parent":"5558023","id":"5558355"}
{"by":"rorykoehler","time":"1523689971","timestamp":"2018-04-14 07:12:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neither Gmail or Chrome were exceptionally innovative ideas. More iterative technical executions which Google are exceptionally good at imo.","parent":"16836260","id":"16836288"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1505159964","timestamp":"2017-09-11 19:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So GM engineering got the hardware integrated with the vehicle and engineered it for assembly line production.  That\u0026#x27;s what GM engineering does.  Whether the Cruise software is good enough for self-driving without driver attention remains to be seen.\u003cp\u003eVolvo is doing well with their self-driving car, but admits the hardware cost is over $100K per car at present.","parent":"15220760","id":"15221756"}
{"by":"13of40","time":"1454197569","timestamp":"2016-01-30 23:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, a lot of the \u003ci\u003evideo\u003c/i\u003e from the first Apollo mission was low quality because they had to convert it from SSTV to NTSC by pointing a video camera at a monitor playing the live transmission.\u003cp\u003e[\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Apollo_11_missing_tapes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Apollo_11_missing_tapes\u003c/a\u003e]","parent":"11003712","id":"11004384"}
{"by":"omh","time":"1345046947","timestamp":"2012-08-15 16:09:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eTargeting iPhone is like supporting a cable company's set top box, so highly prized because it's straightforward; whereas targeting Android is like supporting a myriad of smart TVs.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's certainly true for supportability. It's easy to test and confirm that it works on the 2 or 3 iphone models, less so for all the Android devices. That's potentially bad from a PR point of view.\u003cp\u003eFor drm-esque security it makes little difference though. The 'attack' in this case was from people running a script and pretending to be an iPhone, not from people running unauthorised software on iPhones themselves.","parent":"4386314","id":"4386639"}
{"by":"atomical","time":"1508640883","timestamp":"2017-10-22 02:54:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After Stalin died his letters were released and he was denounced. His letters confirm that China and Russia did have a problem with democracy and that it was the impetus for their support of Kim Il Sung during the Korean War.","parent":"15524894","id":"15524908"}
{"by":"ctdonath","time":"1381499605","timestamp":"2013-10-11 13:53:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every time I help the poor up close \u0026amp; personal, I observe behaviors which clearly lead to destruction of wealth and\u0026#x2F;or avoidance of opportunity. No, it\u0026#x27;s not scientific, but personal anecdotes can be personally persuasive.\u003cp\u003eThe real eye-opener was when I spent an afternoon helping a poor family a variety of ways. I was repairing their couch, a bit puzzled at the damage thereto but continued fixing it; when almost done, the early-teen girls came to me and asked for a large sheet of plastic. \u0026quot;Uh, don\u0026#x27;t think I have any...what do you need it for?\u0026quot; \u0026quot;We just tore out the screens in the bedroom.\u0026quot; I don\u0026#x27;t know if that means anything to you, but I was startled at the notion that these kids were \u003ci\u003edeliberately destroying their home\u003c/i\u003e. I realized, with plenty of confirmation in other poverty-assistance encounters, that much of poverty can be linked directly to ongoing patterns of self-destructive behavior.\u003cp\u003eYes, many poor are there as a result of \u0026quot;not their fault\u0026quot; circumstances (abuse, IQ, financial\u0026#x2F;medical disaster, etc.). But many of them will overcome poverty precisely because, whatever their condition\u0026#x2F;situation, they still embody self-improving behavior. Yes, they need help\u0026#x2F;food\u0026#x2F;money, and I try to provide it as possible.\u003cp\u003eNow, with those points in mind, it\u0026#x27;s pretty obvious that if you give everyone the same wealth and income, some will squander it unto poverty, and others will make wise choices - with financial results reflecting their personal choices.","parent":"6528640","id":"6533062"}
{"by":"notauser","time":"1219521011","timestamp":"2008-08-23 19:50:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Avoiding GPL code is a great way to make your startup less likely to succeed as you spend more than you need to reinventing the wheel or buying some in.\u003cp\u003eEven if you are planning to distribute end user software (or you want to use AGPL software) the trade offs are more complex than you state.\u003cp\u003e- GPLed products can be a selling point, as your customers can feel secure even if in reality they come to you for support.\u003cp\u003e- They can earn you valuable community relation points.\u003cp\u003e- Dual license business models may be viable. Non-free plugins to free products is how Aptana makes money for example.\u003cp\u003e- You can still charge for GPL software as you only have to give it to your customers, although this is mainly true if your customers are unlikely to pass it on to anyone. (Custom business logic embedded in a GPL application server wouldn't be cheerfully handed out by customers for example.)","parent":"284668","id":"284790"}
{"by":"goodness","time":"1221968356","timestamp":"2008-09-21 03:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first I saw this feature was in a 1992 paper:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://smg.media.mit.edu/classes/SocialVis03/editWear.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://smg.media.mit.edu/classes/SocialVis03/editWear.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"309514","id":"310207"}
{"by":"EthanHeilman","time":"1520018028","timestamp":"2018-03-02 19:13:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I believe the distributed ledger is public, so anyone (incl. Govt.) can see which wallet address has how much coins \u0026#x2F; funds in it.\u003cp\u003eNot only is the wallet address public you can see entire transaction history of each address. Keeping a Bitcoin address separate from your true name is exceedingly difficult.\u003cp\u003e1. When you trade Bitcoins into fiat money with an exchange you reveal your true name.\u003cp\u003e2. When you purchase something with Bitcoin you reveal the mapping between your Bitcoin address and your mailing address.\u003cp\u003e3. Unless you are using TOR when you announce a transaction on the network you reveal the mapping from IP address to Bitcoin address.\u003cp\u003e4. When someone sends you Bitcoins they can track how those Bitcoins and spent and what Bitcoin addresses they are moved to.\u003cp\u003e5. Companies have large databases of known identity to Bitcoin address mappings allowing process of elimination or guilt by association privacy attacks.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Bitcoin offers privacy—as long as you don\u0026#x27;t cash out or spend it\u0026quot; - PC World\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I do Bitcoin privacy research.","parent":"16504610","id":"16504711"}
{"by":"Dirlewanger","time":"1529437373","timestamp":"2018-06-19 19:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sad that people are already downvoting you, and sad that more people don\u0026#x27;t know about other options than medication\u0026#x2F;surgery.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a link to Dr. Fung\u0026#x27;s article specifically on reversing type 2 diabetes (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;idmprogram.com\u0026#x2F;reverse-type-2-diabetes-the-quick-start-guide\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;idmprogram.com\u0026#x2F;reverse-type-2-diabetes-the-quick-sta...\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eKeep downvoting me too, Big Pharma.","parent":"17349674","id":"17349705"}
{"by":"markkat","time":"1300629781","timestamp":"2011-03-20 14:03:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I deleted my account a couple of months ago. After a few years, I got nothing out of it. My gmail serves as a better contact list. My day job is research, and linkedin doesn't serve our type of networking very well. It's more business-oriented.\u003cp\u003eAs for my work outside of research, I don't want to cross-advertise in one place.","parent":"2345483","id":"2346287"}
{"by":"nomel","time":"1532469755","timestamp":"2018-07-24 22:02:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PR and branding exists to make the consumer think that the product is aligned to the consumer in some way, and can even drive product design (think of the \u0026quot;healthy choices\u0026quot; now available at McDonalds). Projecting some morality in your brand isn\u0026#x27;t too much different, is it?","parent":"17605258","id":"17605322"}
{"by":"gcheong","time":"1259955060","timestamp":"2009-12-04 19:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"reforms should be praised and encouraged\"\u003cp\u003eWhich is just what this article does but this one experience is not necessarily evidence of any general reform. When the reforms truly lead to a better experience for all developers, there will be more praise - or at least not as much criticism. Both ends are necessary for progress to be made.","parent":"976958","id":"977007"}
{"by":"ice_man","time":"1242241938","timestamp":"2009-05-13 19:12:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another approach: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA\u0026#38;hl=en\u0026#38;v=ipzR9bhei_o\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA\u0026#38;hl=en\u0026#38;v=ipzR9bhei...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"607340","id":"607447"}
{"by":"ryanwaggoner","time":"1287682960","timestamp":"2010-10-21 17:42:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What?! Wait, was this an interview for Google? How did this guy get to this stage? I've always assumed I probably couldn't get an interview at Google, but geez...","parent":"1816540","id":"1816584"}
{"by":"sabbakeynejad","time":"1542210859","timestamp":"2018-11-14 15:54:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really nice! Might be a good idea to think a little bit about how to communicate your brand.\u003cp\u003eMany users will have no idea if they ever used your product or not. You should use the network effect of group calls to advertise your product. Maybe just stick your logo in the top right corner?","parent":"18447957","id":"18450784"}
{"by":"tugberkk","time":"1438778849","timestamp":"2015-08-05 12:47:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not about censoring Kurds, this is about censoring Anti-Turkish and anti-Ataturk insultments.\u003cp\u003eIn Turkey, it is a crime to insult Ataturk; you may like it or not, but this is the case. If this happens, Turkish government will probably ban Facebook, as I recall this was done before.\u003cp\u003eFacebook here is protecting an investment here, because it has really lots of people connecting from Turkey.\u003cp\u003eOn top of it all, I am against \u0026quot;any\u0026quot; insult, on \u0026quot;any\u0026quot; people, on \u0026quot;any\u0026quot; grounds.","parent":"10005009","id":"10009317"}
{"by":"danielrhodes","time":"1282181968","timestamp":"2010-08-19 01:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wolfram Alpha did. Apparently nobody told them they were launching a website, not a spaceship.","parent":"1616219","id":"1616226"}
{"by":"elecengin","time":"1449516367","timestamp":"2015-12-07 19:26:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;We don\u0026#x27;t own your data - Your emails never leave your phone.\u0026quot;","parent":"10691905","id":"10691964"}
{"by":"shakna","time":"1493994204","timestamp":"2017-05-05 14:23:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FBI demands access to baby bath photos! Promises that they will be used for justice.","parent":"14269962","id":"14273635"}
{"by":"r3bl","time":"1422729484","timestamp":"2015-01-31 18:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that it is important to emphasize is that the reason why they want to see it dead is because they want the community to build something new and better instead of relying on an over 10 year old service. They want to see some innovation.\u003cp\u003eFurther reading (by Peter Sunde himself): \n[1] \u003ca href=\"http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.brokep.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;the-pirate-bay-down-foreve...\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-12/11/peter-sunde\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;2014-12\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;peter-sunde\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8976913","id":"8977542"}
{"by":"defen","time":"1405391040","timestamp":"2014-07-15 02:24:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; fixing the brain chemicals seemed to have benefitted your stomach.\u003cp\u003eHow do we know the drugs didn\u0026#x27;t fix the stomach chemicals (enteric nervous system) directly, resulting in better brain function?","parent":"8033812","id":"8034398"}
{"by":"johnson","time":"1480827145","timestamp":"2016-12-04 04:52:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ModbusTCP can be routed over ethernet,\nas can the video (h.264\u0026#x2F;h.265). Video over Canbus\ncan be a challenge. Only use modbus, if you\nalready have modbus(TCP) or intend to set up a traditional SCADA system.","parent":"13085282","id":"13098831"}
{"by":"stagger87","time":"1421952985","timestamp":"2015-01-22 18:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The idea of \u0026quot;assortative mating\u0026quot; is covered in depth in\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Markets-Inequality-Remaking-American/dp/0199916586\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Marriage-Markets-Inequality-Remaking-A...\u003c/a\u003e\nI have no affiliation with the book, I just read it recently and thought someone might be interested in the topic.","parent":"8930360","id":"8930927"}
{"by":"randomdata","time":"1505350344","timestamp":"2017-09-14 00:52:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I expect you are suggesting that small parcels of land that are far away from large fields are not worth the travel expenses? I\u0026#x27;m not sure that robots really improve on that, as fuel, wear and tear, etc. going field to field remain a big detractor. There are plenty of farmers who do it for fun. They\u0026#x27;d be happy to spend the time in the machine if labour costs were the only reason to avoid those fields.\u003cp\u003eI already farm a field that is one acre in size and one that is three acres because they are near to a large field that does justify the travel costs. Any that fit that description are likely to be already in production.","parent":"15244028","id":"15244100"}
{"by":"GrinningFool","time":"1386128882","timestamp":"2013-12-04 03:48:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you can pay more (\u0026quot;Preferred Access\u0026quot;) to get into shorter security lines and get through security more quickly, that just serves to underscore how little actual \u0026#x27;security\u0026#x27; is really present. And I say  this as someone who has stood in both the slow line and the fast line - this isn\u0026#x27;t me being grumpy because \u0026quot;those people\u0026quot; go through the line faster while I\u0026#x27;m stuck.\u003cp\u003eAnd now \u0026quot;Pre-Check\u0026quot; is letting us get back to the level of actual security we had pre-911: reasonably effective and not in the way.  Only now it\u0026#x27;s a privilege that must be applied for and paid for.\u003cp\u003eQuite the racket.","parent":"6844348","id":"6844920"}
{"by":"opportune","time":"1512739265","timestamp":"2017-12-08 13:21:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is true, but then again Walmart gave up on anything more than being a supermarket (except for being an online store, but that\u0026#x27;s just them addressing their competition). Walmart isn\u0026#x27;t scary because they\u0026#x27;re not reinvesting their profits much compared to their competitors, which tells you they really aren\u0026#x27;t in \u0026quot;growth mode\u0026quot; anymore. Amazon hasn\u0026#x27;t given up yet and we\u0026#x27;ll see how long that takes. It could be the next Walmart, or it could be the next Enron, or even the next East India Company.","parent":"15878335","id":"15878447"}
{"by":"bbctol","time":"1489584460","timestamp":"2017-03-15 13:27:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2016 was the first year I\u0026#x27;ve lived through where I thought to myself \u0026quot;This is a year people will list in the history books.\u0026quot; In the same way people know dates like 1929 or 1848; I don\u0026#x27;t necessarily think things will turn out that consequential in the long run, but I can envision children asking me \u0026quot;So what was it like to live through that?\u0026quot;","parent":"13875114","id":"13875898"}
{"by":"daydream","time":"1302975347","timestamp":"2011-04-16 17:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author is \"is a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles.\"  Not a reporter.","parent":"2454332","id":"2454386"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1438307429","timestamp":"2015-07-31 01:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why does that count employee social security contributions, but not employer contributions? Both ultimately come out of your paycheck.\u003cp\u003eEmployer contributions don\u0026#x27;t come out of your paycheck though; for the business, its a cost of doing business.","parent":"9979443","id":"9979480"}
{"by":"larrys","time":"1344917711","timestamp":"2012-08-14 04:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757504575194502882068296.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870375750457519...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lobbyists-lining-pockets-of-both.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can find examples here of the same individual supporting people in both parties:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4379317","id":"4379379"}
{"by":"heretohelp","time":"1332156149","timestamp":"2012-03-19 11:22:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm 100% serious, the deviation between the highest and lowest metabolisms save for people with specific conditions like hypothyroidism is not a significant contributor to obesity.","parent":"3723268","id":"3723390"}
{"by":"aasasd","time":"1546411381","timestamp":"2019-01-02 06:43:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty sure \u003ci\u003ecurrent\u003c/i\u003e architecture (≥2000s) is indebted to modernism for its entire look, but also incorporating ideas of Scandinavian\u0026#x2F;German\u0026#x2F;Swiss industrial design (which itself is derived from modernism)—thus mixing utilitarian cleanness with ‘humanist’ shapes. And ‘after-modernist’ design in general builds on modernist ideas for materials but dispenses with pure geometry, returning to more pleasant contours instead.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s no need to go overboard with ornamentation when you just want to get away from concrete. And notably, modern web and app design turned into a continuation of current publishing design—which played with geometric Swiss layouts for a while back then but left them behind, just borrowing good ideas.","parent":"18803665","id":"18804618"}
{"by":"yeukhon","time":"1452096249","timestamp":"2016-01-06 16:04:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree and disagree. As an operation person, I think we need to make an argument for why X can\u0026#x27;t be done right away, but we must have a plan Y for migration. I know for a fact there is still some ancient database server running in our data center serving our critical business but there\u0026#x27;s a plan to migrate that to modern databases. While re implementing everything is costly, company has to hire specialist from a specific consulting firm to support such ancient database, and how long can we retain such talent without spending extreme amount and caution? \u0026quot;I am scared if I did this will screw everything up.\u0026quot; There will be a point they have to migrate such database to something modern, and the cost is still several million plus.\u003cp\u003eThe same argument that corporate world doesn\u0026#x27;t allow Python 3 or has a hard time to migrate to Python 3 because machines are running on some ancient RHEL servers or because of some security requirement. I get it and I don\u0026#x27;t get it. First, let\u0026#x27;s ditch RHLE. Fuck that. I really don\u0026#x27;t see reason to use RHLE; fine, YMMV. But it is people\u0026#x27;s job to do work. Some pieces can die, and some pieces will have to evolve, either from scratch, or slowly. No one said software development and operation support are easy, see \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;CWC74tOVAAAsls0.jpg:large\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;CWC74tOVAAAsls0.jpg:large\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"10850943","id":"10851192"}
{"by":"marssaxman","time":"1428361827","timestamp":"2015-04-06 23:10:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What does salary negotiation have to do with engineering skill? Why should a company reward some employees more than others just because they happen to have superfluous skills they will never use in their daily work?","parent":"9331089","id":"9331218"}
{"by":"grey-area","time":"1459538077","timestamp":"2016-04-01 19:14:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What they do at present appears to be to assign long term reputation to tor nodes, but if instead they assigned reputation over a few minutes and reset it soon after, wouldn\u0026#x27;t that work better and avoid being overly broad? More load for them obviously but could possibly be done just for tor nodes.\u003cp\u003eThe token scheme looks interesting though as long as it was truly anonymous and tokens were different on each request to avoid tracking.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;gtank\u0026#x2F;captcha-draft\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;captcha-plugin-draft.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;gtank\u0026#x2F;captcha-draft\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;captcha-p...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ei wonder if they could do a plugin for the tor browser so that they don\u0026#x27;t have to wait for tor?","parent":"11407461","id":"11407680"}
{"by":"phoobot","time":"1464613557","timestamp":"2016-05-30 13:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could lower the current score by one cent every x seconds","parent":"11801092","id":"11801105"}
{"by":"goshx","time":"1398293243","timestamp":"2014-04-23 22:47:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I bought a Fitbit Flex about a month ago. I am totally disappointed.\nIt has lots of bugs. The sleep tracking (which was the main reason I bought it for) is just a very subjective\u0026#x2F;guess-like tracking mechanism. I wake up many times during the night but if my arm doesn\u0026#x27;t move much, according to the device I was sleeping. Not sure how they can improve that part.\nNow it simply stopped reporting my sleeps. I tell it I\u0026#x27;m going to sleep, then in the morning I tell it I am awake and when I sync the data it has nothing in the sleeping log.\nThe steps also seem very inaccurate. Sometimes I wake up with hundreds or thousands of steps (maybe I am a sleepwalker?)","parent":"7637343","id":"7637423"}
{"by":"presidentender","time":"1455993093","timestamp":"2016-02-20 18:31:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The dissonance is accepted in this case because of the repulsive nature of the crimes, as determined by our current social consensus.\u003cp\u003ePhilosophical purity is very appealing, but ultimately the justifications we use for why the law is the way it is only have to stand up long enough to convince most interested parties that we\u0026#x27;re doing the right thing.","parent":"11141039","id":"11141221"}
{"by":"walterbell","time":"1408502597","timestamp":"2014-08-20 02:43:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unclear that anything will protect against nationstate attacks.\u003cp\u003eQubes is one of the less-insecure alternatives, \u003ca href=\"http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/03/computer-security\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.economist.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;babbage\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;computer-secu...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntro to Tails\u0026#x2F;Tor: \u003ca href=\"http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tails-above-rest-installation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linuxjournal.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;tails-above-rest-install...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndroid hardening (non-trivial effort): \u003ca href=\"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.torproject.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;mission-impossible-hardenin...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8200758","id":"8200874"}
{"by":"smosher","time":"1360531201","timestamp":"2013-02-10 21:20:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lately, the biggest complaints about PL design seem to be that they didn't take enough inspiration from ML-family or Erlang.","parent":"5196840","id":"5197955"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1456105895","timestamp":"2016-02-22 01:51:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny you should ask....\u003cp\u003eIf I\u0026#x27;m looking for something to buy:\u003cp\u003e1. I\u0026#x27;ll search for it directly.  In particular, I\u0026#x27;m interested in solid reviews.  This quite often means \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e giving much credence to review mills -- CNET, Yelp, etc., -- where the nature and intentions of reviewers are quite often suspect.  Amazon have this problem as well, though to a very slightly lesser extent.\u003cp\u003e2. Map-based systems (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps) are often what I use when seeking a specific option \u003ci\u003elocally\u003c/i\u003e.  I suspect thes are underappreciated.\u003cp\u003e3. Classifieds systems.  There\u0026#x27;s a reason Craigslist took off like it did, though its quality\u0026#x2F;relevance have been lagging for some time.  It\u0026#x27;s still ground zero for housing ads.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh quality recommendations mean a lot.\u003c/i\u003e  I happened to be reading a blog through one of my rare unfiltered browsers, and realised it included book recommendations on the sidebar, for which the blog editor was highly qualified to offer assessments and endorsements.  The state of advertising is \u003ci\u003eso bad\u003c/i\u003e that I had missed these previously.  The blog would be better off putting those recommendations into posts or other content less likely to be filtered.  First time in quite literally \u003ci\u003eyears\u003c/i\u003e that I\u0026#x27;d had the least sense of missing something.","parent":"11147318","id":"11147839"}
{"by":"ndaiger","time":"1524697093","timestamp":"2018-04-25 22:58:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I live in Los Angeles near a lot of the construction going on for the new subway line running down Wilshire Blvd.\u003cp\u003eMy neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through traffic. There are days that seem particularly \u0026quot;Waze-y\u0026quot;, when it\u0026#x27;s basically just gridlock on our little streets for an hour. I imagine it\u0026#x27;s due to apps re-routing people.\u003cp\u003eBut I don\u0026#x27;t really think it\u0026#x27;s any faster for the commuter. I\u0026#x27;m reminded of this article (seemingly now password-protected, so I\u0026#x27;ll link to a summary) that Waze chronically underestimates your travel time, while Apple Maps chronically overestimates (and therefore overdelivers):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;appleinsider.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;18\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;informal-testing-finds-apple-maps-arrival-times-are-intentionally-conservative-to-provide-a-good-user-experience\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;appleinsider.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;18\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;informal-testing-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom my anecdotal experience, Waze does vastly overestimate the benefits of a crazy route, like making a left turn from a stop sign across 6 lanes of rush-hour traffic.","parent":"16926524","id":"16927147"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1315910462","timestamp":"2011-09-13 10:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Not that that makes it right.\u003cp\u003eBut it is. Every once and then you should start off a clean slate. You should throw away old code, even if it works, and rewrite it in better ways than possible when it was originally written. You have to incorporate what you learned into it.\u003cp\u003eThe fact Windows probably contains code written for release 2.x is a weakness, not a strength.","parent":"2990723","id":"2990797"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1376368774","timestamp":"2013-08-13 04:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand what your concept of \u0026quot;bias\u0026quot; is. A review on a review site is a person taking the device out for a test run, and seeing how it works. This personal blog post is a guy taking a device out for a test run, and seeing how it works.\u003cp\u003eIt would be biased if he worked for Google, or if, at any point, he expressed a disproportionate favour for Android without backing it up. But he didn\u0026#x27;t. Why is it biased?","parent":"6200713","id":"6204014"}
{"by":"philip1209","time":"1359000747","timestamp":"2013-01-24 04:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Cloudflare's 404 pages feature, which incorporates possible intended destinations. I haven't had a chance to make a custom 404 page (e.g. with Google's 404 widget), so this gets the job done.\u003cp\u003ee.g. \u003ca href=\"http://www.philipithomas.com/does_not_exist\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.philipithomas.com/does_not_exist\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5106380","id":"5107207"}
{"by":"MikeVanBike","time":"1495539950","timestamp":"2017-05-23 11:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook is bad platform to layout your social life... I hope people understand to get out of it asap.","parent":"14393991","id":"14400432"}
{"by":"Riverheart","time":"1544278189","timestamp":"2018-12-08 14:09:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perl6\u0026#x27;s use of sigils seems excessive to me but I do like sigils for variables. It acts like a namespace between similarly named constructs. I know for instance WebClient is a class and $WebClient contains an instance of it. I also like how it makes it easy for syntax highlighters to identify variables from classes and keywords.","parent":"18633777","id":"18635265"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1463514802","timestamp":"2016-05-17 19:53:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a rare operation that most people don\u0026#x27;t ever do, and so receives little testing. Certainly little testing in a real, deployed, messy system, and not just a pristine, vanilla QA image in some Microsoft Windows test bed.","parent":"11712840","id":"11716795"}
{"by":"rogerchucker","time":"1342648640","timestamp":"2012-07-18 21:57:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My sentiments exactly and I don't plan to invest in Samsung's ecosystem either...","parent":"4262867","id":"4263203"}
{"by":"trapper","time":"1242297712","timestamp":"2009-05-14 10:41:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can run them through all manner of tests. Sense tests, logic tests, math, philosophy, reading, every experience can be compared and contrasted.\u003cp\u003eNow, assuming a large number of tests have been performed and there is a consensus they have no practical difference, why would you conclude that consciousness is not derived from brain structure?","parent":"608508","id":"608519"}
{"by":"mrow84","time":"1453026657","timestamp":"2016-01-17 10:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Simple supply and demand dynamics are not at work here.\u003cp\u003eI think that in this case simple supply and demand is a pretty major factor. There has been consistently limited supply of new houses in the UK (policy driven, as I understand it), and at the same time there is a healthy buy-to-let market, where the buyers are both \u0026#x27;big\u0026#x27; investors and relatively ordinary people (often from older generations who rode the wave of increasing house prices and so can afford second homes).\u003cp\u003eThese two factors together reduce overall supply, pushing prices up further and making younger people stay renting for longer, thus reducing their available capital even more (relatively speaking).\u003cp\u003eGovernments of all stripes are utterly dis-incentivised to address the issue in any comprehensive way because driving down house prices would completely screw over a large section of the voting public (i.e. almost anyone who currently has a house).\u003cp\u003eMortgage prices are ridiculously lower than rents in this country - you could easily pay half as much in mortgage repayments as you do in rental costs for the same home, at least in the south.","parent":"10916238","id":"10919054"}
{"by":"romanovcode","time":"1537781923","timestamp":"2018-09-24 09:38:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep.","parent":"18055651","id":"18056235"}
{"by":"beenpoor","time":"1422553833","timestamp":"2015-01-29 17:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just installed it. Love the UX! How do you plan on monetizing it ?","parent":"8965890","id":"8967697"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1427504994","timestamp":"2015-03-28 01:09:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks!","parent":"9276612","id":"9280050"}
{"by":"jcranmer","time":"1450125524","timestamp":"2015-12-14 20:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;ve managed to miss a few of the biggies I\u0026#x27;d count:\u003cp\u003e- the charset parameter is nowhere near as correct as you\u0026#x27;d like it to be\n- many RFCs are not followed in practice. In particular, RFC 2047 is literally more often incorrectly implemented than correctly implemented.\u003cp\u003eI also once recall trying an admittedly weird message (a message whose body is of type message\u0026#x2F;rfc822) on 4 different IMAP server implementations and getting 4 different answers for part numbering.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d say building an email client is harder than building a web browser because at least the people who write the specifications for the latter have been trying to thoroughly document all the idiosyncrasies and how to handle them.\u003cp\u003eAlso, screw CFWS.","parent":"10732512","id":"10733657"}
{"by":"entee","time":"1463693044","timestamp":"2016-05-19 21:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Absolutely. Humans aren\u0026#x27;t mice. That doesn\u0026#x27;t mean mouse studies aren\u0026#x27;t enormously helpful, but it does mean that we should take things with a grain of salt. The complexity of even a mouse is pretty enormous, and humans are that much more confusing.\u003cp\u003eAs for gut to brain transmission, the first thing that comes to mind is being hangry but that\u0026#x27;s probably a different thing :)","parent":"11733631","id":"11733990"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1394731891","timestamp":"2014-03-13 17:31:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More than 50% of the federal budget is for social programs.  You\u0026#x27;re saying those only go to the rich?","parent":"7392644","id":"7393290"}
{"by":"baybal2","time":"1485186167","timestamp":"2017-01-23 15:42:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trophy white C-level ran away","parent":"13461387","dead":true,"id":"13462915"}
{"by":"qznc","time":"1516455305","timestamp":"2018-01-20 13:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There certainly is a grey area. For example, there are esoteric architectures which LLVM does not support but a C compiler exists. Emitting C is probably easier than developing a few LLVM backends.\u003cp\u003eStill, my simple opinion is: If you are serious, use LLVM. It is not that much harder than outputting C and has clear advantages like debug information.","parent":"16192819","id":"16193269"}
{"by":"BenSS","time":"1402674360","timestamp":"2014-06-13 15:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same thing I thought about! Strategically it was a terrible decision. Why build a native OS\u0026#x2F;2 app when a win app will run on both.","parent":"7888921","id":"7889387"}
{"by":"mnw21cam","time":"1544614496","timestamp":"2018-12-12 11:34:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;By clicking continue below and using our sites or applications, you agree that we and our third party advertisers can:\u0026quot; break EU law and screw us over.\u003cp\u003eNo thanks.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;outline.com\u0026#x2F;36cJVa\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;outline.com\u0026#x2F;36cJVa\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18661400","id":"18663016"}
{"by":"gorrillamcd","time":"1354838336","timestamp":"2012-12-06 23:58:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, it's a pretty far-fetched idea anyways, but, a few things to consider:\u003cp\u003e- I never said you have to use wifi. You're right that radio would have a much greater range.\n - The main advantage I can think of for a system like this would be speed of deployment. In an area with poor line of sight, they could be used to bridge the gap until a proper base-station can be positioned.\n - They're more versatile. For example, they could be used as a mobile PA system.\n - Of course, it's all hypothetical. Nevertheless, it'd be fun to implement and more useful than the Pirate Bay's idea of a flying datacenter.","parent":"4884446","id":"4884599"}
{"by":"mynameisvlad","time":"1485985905","timestamp":"2017-02-01 21:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Source? C# and VB have been constantly updated, with a new release practically every VS release.","parent":"13545581","id":"13545655"}
{"by":"vessenes","time":"1477374644","timestamp":"2016-10-25 05:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a very awkward date there once; at least I thought it was a date -- she brought a friend.\u003cp\u003eThat and what I remember to be uncomfortable cafe chairs and super sweet Turkish coffee, (and possibly egregiously large mediocre hummus plates) will live on in my memory for a bit longer apparently. Makes me so nostalgic!\u003cp\u003eThis also reminds me of the watch store by the Harvard Square T main exit closing suddenly -- the owners were reportedly spotted on planes to another country with large suitcases of watches.. So in the canon of Harvard Square shop closings, Algiers is probably not in the top 10. Still, an institution.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: The Handa family story is pretty interesting. Boston Globe had an update in 2012: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bostonglobe.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;21\u0026#x2F;return-alpha-omega-family\u0026#x2F;7BOANnSsJboKCS638a8F0K\u0026#x2F;story.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bostonglobe.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;21\u0026#x2F;return-alpha...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12784236","id":"12785613"}
{"by":"jcsalterego","time":"1261234884","timestamp":"2009-12-19 15:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A while back I read Michio Kaku's _Hyperspace_, which makes mention of this short story but not by name. Thanks!","parent":"1004617","id":"1004805"}
{"by":"transfire","time":"1381458178","timestamp":"2013-10-11 02:22:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Syrian Electronic Army\u0026quot; Seriously? Oh, obviously it must the Syrians. I mean, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be the \u0026quot;Lithuanian Electronic Army\u0026quot; now would it? They\u0026#x27;re not in Evil Doer Fashions 2013. So clearly it must be the Syrians trying to... well to do what exactly? Change the weather reports in the Times weekend edition? Frailing hogwash.\u003cp\u003eFar more likely is the old middle school tort: He who smelt it, dealt it.","parent":"6531036","id":"6531142"}
{"by":"yoo1I","time":"1457640346","timestamp":"2016-03-10 20:05:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That technology has been commercially available at least since 2003 \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=xj8jQy4nqLA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=xj8jQy4nqLA\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11261022","id":"11261869"}
{"by":"Mithaldu","time":"1434988494","timestamp":"2015-06-22 15:54:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It only shows if you have google search selected.","parent":"9759098","id":"9759181"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1309463915","timestamp":"2011-06-30 19:58:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I have just one criticism of google+ so far, it's that the look-and-feel is just a bit too white and sterile at the moment. It feels like hanging out with your friends in a hospital waiting room.\u003cp\u003eOf course that's partially just that there's not much going on there yet, compared to facebook... but the other part is a page design issue. Facebook feels more intimate partly because of the use of colour, but partly because of the small fonts and lack of white space and photos everywhere.\u003cp\u003eAside from that, the \"Circles\" feature is precisely the right functionality. Why yes, I \u003ci\u003ewould\u003c/i\u003e love to be able to sort my \"friends\" into \"people I've met at least twice\" vs \"people I actually like\" vs \"people I actually like who \u003ci\u003ealso\u003c/i\u003e live locally\" and so forth.\u003cp\u003eedit: Oh, and one other major criticism: it's picky about browser, and won't work on either of my work machines. I can understand it not liking the Firefox 2.0.0.12pre that I have on my desktop machine, but the Firefox 3.5 on this laptop can't be \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e out of date, can it?\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, that could be a feature too. If \u003ci\u003efacebook\u003c/i\u003e didn't work on my work machine I'd probably be more productive.","parent":"2715478","id":"2715510"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1449776873","timestamp":"2015-12-10 19:47:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty cool. One of the more interesting things about fusion research is how the expansion of the ability to do complex fluid dynamics has helped design plasma flows. Such designs were computationally infeasible before. The inter-related requirement of computation and understanding on the delivery of viable fusion solutions has been, in my opinion, the unseen anchor of fusion.","parent":"10710670","dead":true,"id":"10712925"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1434971657","timestamp":"2015-06-22 11:14:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just wish they could try once at least.","parent":"9757336","id":"9757488"}
{"by":"lucastheisen","time":"1362671588","timestamp":"2013-03-07 15:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are using 'set -o vi', then you can just use 'ESC' -\u0026#62; '/\u0026#60;somePartOfCommand\u0026#62;' then use 'n' to iterate in reverse order through the commands that match the vi regex.  really powerful and useful.","parent":"5337961","id":"5338276"}
{"by":"krick","time":"1455399444","timestamp":"2016-02-13 21:37:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; OS\u0026#x2F;system package manager (SPM): this is not why we are here today\u003cp\u003eArguably, this might be already a wrong approach. Whatever you say, but this \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a problem (and \u003ci\u003eis causing\u003c/i\u003e problems) that I can do both `apt-get install python-mutagen` and `pip install mutagen`. But what I cannot do for sure at this point: get rid of one and only one of these tools. So before speaking about how can I fuck up writing some language-specific PM it might be fair to admit that pretty much nothing actually \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e language or project-specific when talking about computer systems, and consider why somebody might write another such tool when we\u0026#x27;re done with our task.","parent":"11088125","id":"11095777"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1247932967","timestamp":"2009-07-18 16:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are useless vestiges of an age in which search didn't work, and maintaining a website for a project or product (and handling the bandwidth demands that entails) was harder than it is now.\u003cp\u003eThey are the wrong tool for the job on the modern web, and they were never very good at it even when they did provide a tiny bit of value.  In short, they're a waste of space.","parent":"711817","id":"711858"}
{"by":"cchooper","time":"1232753320","timestamp":"2009-01-23 23:28:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have completely misunderstood the point about debt. They were paying interest before, but the onset of deflation means that the real value of that interest has increased beyond what it was. The creditor charges interest either way, but gets even more real value in a deflationary period than if the deflation had not happened.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; Natural resources stay in the ground and people enjoy time off\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnemployment is not time off, nor is it delayed gratification.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; My point about electronics is that people delay purchases, but don't stop altogether\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes, they delay their purchases, causing a contraction of the economy that creates real suffering, hence a loss of wealth that otherwise could have existed. Consequently most of the purchases never happen, and are therefore not 'delayed' but lost.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; Prudence is healthy; instant gratification consumerism is not.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is prudent for the individual and destructive to total economic output. Are you trying to deny that recessions reduce people's wealth?","parent":"447346","id":"447376"}
{"by":"kelukelugames","time":"1452136811","timestamp":"2016-01-07 03:20:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay I\u0026#x27;m home now. Let\u0026#x27;s dissect the most famous example.\u003cp\u003e1) Adams compares women to children and people with mental disabilities.\u003cp\u003e2) Claims he didn\u0026#x27;t and that everyone who thinks that has bad reading comprehension. Also plays the victim card anytime someone accuses him of misogyny.\u003cp\u003e3) Writes article about hypnosis. Adams says he can convince people that two things are related without doing it directly. Gives example similar to the time he did with women and children.\u003cp\u003e4) Praises Trump for being a master wizard, whatever that means. Gives example where Trump associates two things without stating it directly.\u003cp\u003e5) Claims everyone is an outragist for thinking that Trump associated Mexicans with rapists.\u003cp\u003eAnd a quote: \u0026quot;They [Gawker] love me. And I love their hate-traffic, so everyone wins.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;ScottAdamsSays\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;669004328326172673\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;ScottAdamsSays\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;669004328326172673\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10854699","id":"10855753"}
{"by":"intrasight","time":"1438195045","timestamp":"2015-07-29 18:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would expect there to be a requirement for an independent parachute system on such drones - independent power, sensing, etc. If it senses that it\u0026#x27;s falling, it deploys the chute. That module would have to be FAA certified.","parent":"9970496","id":"9970669"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1544287147","timestamp":"2018-12-08 16:39:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Liero. Fun game. Apparently the source code has been lost.","parent":"18635010","id":"18636012"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1477684013","timestamp":"2016-10-28 19:46:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not quite. Regulatory capture doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you like the big companies, it means you like the industry you regulate. So if you regulate coal mines, you probably think coal mines are good, whether they\u0026#x27;re large or small. If you\u0026#x27;re a highway regulator, it probably means you think highways are pretty awesome, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you think only Detroit muscle cars should be allowed on the highway.","parent":"12819501","id":"12819957"}
{"by":"bradfa","time":"1318014177","timestamp":"2011-10-07 19:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few options include: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3085329","id":"3085383"}
{"by":"johns","time":"1238982231","timestamp":"2009-04-06 01:43:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have one for my service in case I need to remove content or close an account for some legal reason (copyright infringement, illegal activity, etc). As far as proving someone agreed to it, you can't sign up for my service unless you check the box saying you agree which should be proof enough. I am not a lawyer though.","parent":"548002","id":"548075"}
{"by":"xirium","time":"1203801403","timestamp":"2008-02-23 21:16:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the book Eat That Frog! - 21 Great Ways To Stop Procrastinating And Get More Done in Less Time: Doing something is better than doing nothing. Make a list of five tasks. Order the tasks by strict priority. Work your way through the list, skipping as you get stuck. If your list has more than five items then you're spending too long making lists.","parent":"122135","id":"122205"}
{"by":"tieTYT","time":"1374771740","timestamp":"2013-07-25 17:02:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s what I want: A link that I can click on that will add a google calendar event to notify me with the list of representatives to vote AGAINST when voting season comes.  I\u0026#x27;m pissed now, but like all americans, I\u0026#x27;ll probably forget about this come election.","parent":"6102754","id":"6103456"}
{"by":"pnevares","time":"1426806873","timestamp":"2015-03-19 23:14:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was surprised to see Las Vegas as such a tiny blip, before remembering its history is still very recent. Founded in 1905, incorporated in 1911 (and was still decades away from its boom).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Las_Vegas\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9233016","id":"9235213"}
{"by":"barnaby","time":"1309360333","timestamp":"2011-06-29 15:12:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a perfect world you would be correct.  But answer me this:\u003cp\u003eHow many Java backend engineers know how to unit test javascript, how to make modular templates (e.g. writing their own tags, or nesting/tiling their JSP's), how to systematically minify their code in production and use CDN's ... or even how to use any design patterns in Javascript?","parent":"2709603","id":"2709739"}
{"by":"xer0","time":"1323623095","timestamp":"2011-12-11 17:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Be a solution, not a problem.","parent":"3338522","id":"3340404"}
{"by":"nocman","time":"1343510629","timestamp":"2012-07-28 21:23:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your analogy is flawed.\u003cp\u003eTo make it complete, the fictional fire alarm company would not come to you at all.  While at your house originally installing the fire alarm, they would grab the key to your house from where it hangs by the door, make a copy (without your knowledge), then hang it back on the wall.  Later, when the defect in the alarm was discovered, they would use that copy of the key to let themselves in to your house while you were at work.  Then they would replace the fire alarm without your consent or your knowledge of them doing so (well, of course, until you returned from work and figured out what happened when you were gone -- assuming that you noticed the new alarm).\u003cp\u003eI don't have a problem with companies and other development organizations updating their software.  In fact, I \u003ci\u003eencourage\u003c/i\u003e them to do so (especially in the case of security issues).  However, I \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e have a problem with said companies/organizations making such updates without first informing me that they are doing so, and getting my consent to do so \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c/i\u003e performing the update.\u003cp\u003eIt's not your computer.  It's \u003ci\u003emy\u003c/i\u003e computer.  I paid for it.  I get to control it.  Period.  If I am subject to security vulnerabilities because of the browser version I'm using, that is my responsibility.\u003cp\u003eI detest software where automatic updates are turned on by default, without ever presenting the user the option of turning them off (without having to go hunt down said option after the program is installed).  Automatic updates have ramifications.  They can screw up working installations.  I get tired of having to go and disable automatic updates from applications, browsers, java runtimes (and that stupid Java system tray icon in Windows).\u003cp\u003eI'm not against being \u003ci\u003eable\u003c/i\u003e to turn on automatic updates.  There are plenty of users who don't want to fool with it, and that's their business.  I just think users should be given the choice up front.  We shouldn't have to go looking for it after installation.  I am still mildly irritated by having an option for automatic updates being checked on by default at installation time, but I could live with that irritation if all applications were explicitly giving users the option then.  However, the trend of late seems to be updates turned on automatically, without even informing the user that there \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e automatic updates.\u003cp\u003eI like to know when software is being installed on my computer.  I want to be asked before it is installed.","parent":"4306433","id":"4306551"}
{"by":"0xABADC0DA","time":"1336120627","timestamp":"2012-05-04 08:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; But that is precisely what copyrighting APIs will achieve, a monopoly on computer languages, because without the APIs, as one witness told the court in Oracle v. Google, Java is blind and deaf. It can't be used for much, if anything. Even \"Hello World\" requires APIs\u003cp\u003eThat's just not true.  You can create your own classes for IO, or anything else, implemented as native methods.  The only problem you have is if you want to \u003ci\u003ecopy\u003c/i\u003e the whole structure, sequence, and organization of \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c/i\u003e's API that \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c/i\u003e designed.  For instance if you want the use the C library functions to implement your new Java classes, that's fine since you aren't copying the SSO of them.\u003cp\u003eI think a lot of people have to jump to these 'sky is falling' 'it'll break the internet' arguments because they refuse to accept that Google is the bad apple here.  Google copied Sun's work, didn't pay Sun for it, and at the same time destroyed Sun's future revenue from Java licenses (as everybody just used Android for free).  This was probably a significant factor in the decision to sell Sun (the Schwartz mentioned for instance that some companies were not renewing their Java license).\u003cp\u003eBut this is capitalism not morality, and when somebody else creates something you want you pay them for it.  That's really the issue here, Google used Sun's work and didn't pay.","parent":"3926130","id":"3927581"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1447201646","timestamp":"2015-11-11 00:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a better idea:\u003cp\u003eGet rid of electronic voting entirely.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s an incredibly hard security problem that hasn\u0026#x27;t been solved. Making the software open-source is putting lipstick on a pig.\u003cp\u003e(Somewhat reassuringly, a slim majority of the readers of the article agree with me: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;k5OZ7vB.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;k5OZ7vB.png\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"10534685","id":"10543814"}
{"by":"tallanvor","time":"1342725358","timestamp":"2012-07-19 19:15:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, it can be true at the beginning of the process, but only if your team has everyone within a given set of levels.  But I don't think that's normal.\u003cp\u003eThis year's review process was the worst I've seen, though, and really showed that only manager feedback is considered, at least in my area.","parent":"4267367","id":"4267602"}
{"by":"krakensden","time":"1332283681","timestamp":"2012-03-20 22:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The flipside is that as time goes on, this benchmark becomes less impressive. The server in question had 24GB of RAM and two CPUs with 12 cores each.","parent":"3731956","id":"3732093"}
{"by":"NeedMoreTea","time":"1537183029","timestamp":"2018-09-17 11:17:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"win2k \u0026quot;Windows Classic\u0026quot; or Win 7 Aero glass are the only decent UIs MS has ever offered.\u003cp\u003eSo of course they remove classic from Windows 10 and force the issue.","parent":"18004396","id":"18004822"}
{"by":"kuschku","time":"1516282724","timestamp":"2018-01-18 13:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes! The most interesting part is that I bought the collectors edition of some Ubisoft games back when they were released, the DRM servers were shut down, and now they won’t work – but I bought them on GOG again, and the GOG version, without DRM, works just fine.","parent":"16176657","id":"16176940"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1537113545","timestamp":"2018-09-16 15:59:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think he was that much of a visionary but he was very good at seeing potential in others\u0026#x27; work and then being able to sell it.","parent":"17999415","id":"17999526"}
{"by":"latchkey","time":"1376490511","timestamp":"2013-08-14 14:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WePay has had this for years, the title is a bit sensational.","parent":"6211422","id":"6211671"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1533623850","timestamp":"2018-08-07 06:37:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eMoving slowly enough for whom to step off? The 90 year old lady with a walker? The toddler? Stephen Hawking in his wheelchair?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy not? Don\u0026#x27;t they use moving floors on airports already? (Also, do toddlers walk alone on the busy streets?)\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a design I just sketched in Factorio for a belt system with 3 speed levels, and an entry\u0026#x2F;exit for moving onto the belt system, and then between speed levels.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;c51pTnP\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;c51pTnP\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(For those who don\u0026#x27;t know Factorio - the blue belts are the fastest, the yellow ones are the slowest.)","parent":"17703265","id":"17704289"}
{"by":"pmontra","time":"1460546105","timestamp":"2016-04-13 11:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are 4 of them. 3rd, 10th on the right, 11th on the left and 3rd to last on the right. It\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;medico\u0026quot; in Italian, it could be \u0026quot;dottore\u0026quot; but it\u0026#x27;s a more general term.","parent":"11486481","id":"11487212"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1318192846","timestamp":"2011-10-09 20:40:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All of those years spent trying to educate my family and non-technical friends on the difference between RAM and HDD and explaining how it is confusing when they tell me they couldn't install a program because their laptop was \"out of memory\".... wasted!","parent":"3089412","id":"3091272"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1506532912","timestamp":"2017-09-27 17:21:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hmm... I like your insight - thank you.","parent":"15341164","id":"15350053"}
{"by":"mastazi","time":"1490224885","timestamp":"2017-03-22 23:21:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I have quite a few data points\u003cp\u003eShow us the data points or it didn\u0026#x27;t happen.\u003cp\u003eI am highly sceptical about your statement and am convinced that most people are willing to pay in exchange for ease of use and convenience.","parent":"13935788","id":"13936006"}
{"by":"mixmastamyk","time":"1539966290","timestamp":"2018-10-19 16:24:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And you can avoid virtualenvs as well until you need to ship a large app.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;pip install --user pkg\u0026quot; is good enough for beginners and writing libraries with few deps.","parent":"18248686","id":"18257810"}
{"by":"K2h","time":"1336571121","timestamp":"2012-05-09 13:45:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Article doesn't give one solid example.","parent":"3948299","id":"3948505"}
{"by":"ve55","time":"1534966284","timestamp":"2018-08-22 19:31:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chik-Fil-A is not an arbiter of LGBTQ rights. Their small 6-figure donations to organizations that focus on other issues do very little in the grand scheme of things.\u003cp\u003eDo you really think Chik-Fil-A is directly causing more suffering by donating to a few charities in amounts this small than by raising in captivity and then killing billions of chickens? I see no way to reasonably argue that.","parent":"17821260","id":"17821330"}
{"by":"npsimons","time":"1507228951","timestamp":"2017-10-05 18:42:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026gt; Slashdot was awesome right up until the point that they forced the redesign on everybody and drove away all the users that made it great.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The redesign wasn\u0026#x27;t what killed it. The constant astroturfing and (what I assumed to be) collusion between astroturfers and site maintainers killed it real dead.\u003cp\u003eAgreed; I remember the day they started advertising the Apple marketing conventions and thought \u0026quot;who put Apple on my Linux site? This isn\u0026#x27;t \u0026#x27;news for nerds; stuff that matters\u0026#x27;\u0026quot;. The influx of microsoft apologists and apple shills soon after is what killed it for me, and I had been there for a long time (not since the beginning, but still user 32752; \u003ci\u003eso\u003c/i\u003e close to a power of two!).\u003cp\u003eStill, I\u0026#x27;m eternally grateful to Rob Malda. Great community, great moderation system, and a site that was unique. I\u0026#x27;ll wager we shall not look upon it\u0026#x27;s like again soon.","parent":"15410814","id":"15411552"}
{"by":"Confusion","time":"1351416784","timestamp":"2012-10-28 09:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Downvoted for unwarranted ad hominem sneering, which does not address the point made at all.\u003cp\u003eBTW, she's hired by reputable publications to write music reviews, because \u003ci\u003ethey\u003c/i\u003e feel she is capable of expertly writing music reviews.","parent":"4708396","id":"4708522"}
{"by":"Finnucane","time":"1511634031","timestamp":"2017-11-25 18:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m going to guess that what the question is referring to is not random charitable donations, but large projects in the old Rockefeller\u0026#x2F;Carnegie mold. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have done this, but not too many others. Eli Broad has dedicated major funding for medical research. Peter Thiel seems to be determined to destroy society. I guess it depends on how much the feel themselves to be a part of society, and want to keep it going.","parent":"15776802","id":"15777107"}
{"by":"dschobel","time":"1264982022","timestamp":"2010-01-31 23:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh? share price is determined by one thing and one thing only, market demand.\u003cp\u003eAs twitter has shown, valuation does not need to correlate to any traditional financial metric whatsoever. Twitter is worth 1 Bn becomes someone decided to pay for a stake at that valuation. No other reason.","parent":"1091319","id":"1091367"}
{"by":"robryan","time":"1265928985","timestamp":"2010-02-11 22:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Arguably the best place for that though is a startup where your first employee with a large stake?\nThere's no doubt there would be many very interesting positions at Google, but I'd imagine there would also be some very boring positions for developers straight out of college.","parent":"1118182","id":"1119015"}
{"by":"gwern","time":"1346273347","timestamp":"2012-08-29 20:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fulltext: \u003ca href=\"http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2012-mattison.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2012-mattison.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4450308","id":"4451101"}
{"by":"chronic6l","time":"1477859208","timestamp":"2016-10-30 20:26:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Furthermore, Overleaf has a history of occasionally losing people\u0026#x27;s data. That\u0026#x27;s bad for college and university folks.","parent":"12831668","id":"12832045"}
{"by":"jpk","time":"1507832901","timestamp":"2017-10-12 18:28:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or managed into finding another job, most likely.","parent":"15460054","id":"15460091"}
{"by":"moocowtruck","time":"1513872457","timestamp":"2017-12-21 16:07:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"as much as i want bitcoin i think it would be premature for the us govt to embrace bitcoin at this point.. the tech around all this stuff needs to seriously bake and be refined before seriously considering it","parent":"15979523","id":"15979817"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1413383974","timestamp":"2014-10-15 14:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not really expressing a complex type in JavaScript, its expressing a complex (such as it is) runtime constraint -- which you can do easily in Haskell as well. JS doesn\u0026#x27;t give you anything Haskell doesn\u0026#x27;t there.\u003cp\u003eIts true that to make that a proper, statically-enforced type in Haskell takes some complexity, but if you aren\u0026#x27;t willing to do that, you could make it a runtime-enforced constraint on a statically-enforced type of \u003ci\u003eintegers\u003c/i\u003e as easily in Haskell as, in JavaScript, you could make it a runtime-enforced constraint on a value that is not statically enforced to be anything more specifically than a valid JS value.","parent":"8458225","id":"8458632"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1483643094","timestamp":"2017-01-05 19:04:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So the alternative is tyranny of the minority?\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t reassure me that we give much more weight to a minority of voters just because they live in less densely populated areas. That\u0026#x27;s completely arbitrary.","parent":"13330119","id":"13330278"}
{"by":"jbrown","time":"1434999112","timestamp":"2015-06-22 18:51:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It feel like you are pushing a specific aspect to the detriment of the whole.\u003cp\u003eMaybe.  What detriment are you thinking of?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m just observing that since monogamy restricts us to this 1:1 gender ratio, and since in some cases one of those 1s is taken off the table (either literally or if not literally, maybe effectively due to low quality) this drastically restricts society\u0026#x27;s ability to meet a basic human need one a wide scale.  To make matters worse, situations like China\u0026#x27;s gender imbalance add to the challenges that already exist when the gender split is close to 50-50.  Wouldn\u0026#x27;t you agree that these kinds of challenges might be reduced if a many-to-one structure was just as socially acceptable as a one-to-one structure?  Could the pigeonhole principle have something to do with the demand for sex trafficking?  If this is an unreasonable line of thought, I\u0026#x27;d love to understand why.","parent":"9759999","id":"9760394"}
{"by":"commenter55","time":"1489242724","timestamp":"2017-03-11 14:32:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I posted in the other Waymo thread on the front page.\u003cp\u003eGo read the actual court filings. All the news articles are leaving out important details. Techcrunch has them linked at the end of their article: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techcrunch.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;waymo-files-for-an-injunction-against-ubers-use-of-its-self-driving-tech\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techcrunch.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;waymo-files-for-an-injunct...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eImportant bits:\u003cp\u003einjunction page 23 line 12-14: Waymo is not seeking to enjoin Defendants from pursuing self driving cars in toto. Waymo merely asks that Defendants not be allowed to use Waymos trade secrets in doing so.\u003cp\u003ePage 24 8-9: Moreover, Defendants would be free to use non-infringing alternative components in their business, such as the same third-party LiDAR system that they had previously used before switching to Waymos patented technology.\u003cp\u003e(Fun fact) From the Gary Brown testimony, page 4 lines 6-8 (Paraphrasing) The \u0026quot;database\u0026quot; was an SVN server, and the specialty software installed was TortoiseSVN.","parent":"13845406","id":"13845507"}
{"by":"sageikosa","time":"1504207188","timestamp":"2017-08-31 19:19:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Protected in that you cannot be prosecuted for it perhaps.","parent":"15142946","id":"15143035"}
{"by":"cheeko1234","time":"1385838082","timestamp":"2013-11-30 19:01:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is it so difficult to have the motivation to finish MOOC? That\u0026#x27;s the main problem with online education, and we need to figure out what is causing so many people to quit halfway.","parent":"6822481","id":"6824101"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1503253109","timestamp":"2017-08-20 18:18:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I sort of had the same problem happen to me: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;kubernetes\u0026#x2F;kubernetes\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;19596\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;kubernetes\u0026#x2F;kubernetes\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;19596\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15057889","id":"15059548"}
{"by":"ebiester","time":"1376920662","timestamp":"2013-08-19 13:57:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":".NET is a fine alternative in 80% of the use cases. Honestly, in half of the projects I see coming through, the only reason java is a requirement is because everything else is already in java; the only hang up is DB2\u0026#x2F;MSSQL\u0026#x2F;Oracle drivers.","parent":"6236197","id":"6237220"}
{"by":"bkor","time":"1352466373","timestamp":"2012-11-09 13:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was part of the decision. I'm not sure if you get the concept of volunteers. My influence and decision abilities is not based on \"company ideas\" as you seem to think.\u003cp\u003eMeaning: I wasn't hired, I cannot be fired.","parent":"4762558","id":"4762579"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1530293102","timestamp":"2018-06-29 17:25:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How long do you think that we will have a quantum computer that will out compete traditional computation?\u003cp\u003eWhat do you think about Topological Quantum Computation?\u003cp\u003eHow do you think we can solve the problem that many people getting their PhD are vastly underpaid and also adjunct professors?","parent":"17425377","id":"17425974"}
{"by":"eridal","time":"1427474806","timestamp":"2015-03-27 16:46:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"my point was using some common word on purpose, expecting it to produce a low entropy result\u003cp\u003eMy thinking was that \u0026quot;Correct Horse Battery Staple\u0026quot; had more entropy than: \u0026quot;go go go go go go go go go go go go go\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e.. which, apparently, is not","parent":"9277368","id":"9277393"}
{"by":"oldmanjay","time":"1441834901","timestamp":"2015-09-09 21:41:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, no one can make you buy an Apple TV that doesn\u0026#x27;t have the features you want, so I feel like maybe you look at the world a little differently than it actually works. Given that, there\u0026#x27;s not much more I have to contribute.","parent":"10194805","id":"10194824"}
{"by":"pgisaweenis","time":"1306100250","timestamp":"2011-05-22 21:37:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I let my younger sisters use it as a quick and fast way to get on Khan Academy and other places online. My mother uses it in the evenings to watch lectures for classes. I originally used it in dual-boot mode after partitioning it and ran a screen instance to a Linode box for quick and fast hacking on the fly.\u003cp\u003eThe only disappointing things are the relative slowness from several tabs being open, 3G from Verizon never working at all or starting up, and the annoying blue sad face if you're in dev mode.","parent":"2572581","id":"2574286"}
{"by":"nevi-me","time":"1487612763","timestamp":"2017-02-20 17:46:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or Tile38 \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tidwall\u0026#x2F;tile38\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tidwall\u0026#x2F;tile38\u003c/a\u003e, I want to try it out, it looks awesome","parent":"13689061","id":"13689241"}
{"by":"Orangeair","time":"1408577985","timestamp":"2014-08-20 23:39:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#x27;Logical extension\u0026#x27; would have been a better phrase, I think. And \u0026#x27;logical\u0026#x27; is clearly tongue-in-cheek.","parent":"8204900","id":"8205256"}
{"by":"fareesh","time":"1539722349","timestamp":"2018-10-16 20:39:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does MongoDB still suffer from data loss related issues? I checked out their website and it seems to be fairly ubiquitous in usage","parent":"18229452","id":"18233033"}
{"by":"adrianN","time":"1466428023","timestamp":"2016-06-20 13:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fundamental limits on computation [1] that we can prove with current physics are so fantastically far from what we can achieve with current engineering that we might as well say that there are no limits.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s like saying that I can sort any list you can give me in O(1) time, because there is only a constant number of bits encodable in the visible universe, so the length of your list has a constant upper bound. While it\u0026#x27;s a true statement, it\u0026#x27;s also rather boring, which is why we typically ignore such limits in casual speech.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.arturekert.org\u0026#x2F;miscellaneous\u0026#x2F;physical-limits.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.arturekert.org\u0026#x2F;miscellaneous\u0026#x2F;physical-limits.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11937593","id":"11937709"}
{"by":"citation_please","time":"1534839466","timestamp":"2018-08-21 08:17:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mildly high isn\u0026#x27;t equivalent to stoned, and I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s a stretch to consider that the might be some issues with everyone self-medicating for motivation and concentration with caffeine all day.","parent":"17802123","id":"17807956"}
{"by":"cmmartin","time":"1533016695","timestamp":"2018-07-31 05:58:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grain is quite different. Grain is more functional (no classes or context, tuples). Dart compiles to Javascript. Grain compiles to web assembly. Dart requires you to define types. Grain provides type safety and zero runtime errors without ever defining types manually.","parent":"17650577","id":"17650870"}
{"by":"z92","time":"1343803124","timestamp":"2012-08-01 06:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; J.C. Penney shares right now are around $22.55, Facebook shares are around $21.75\u003cp\u003eI find it ok when some online commenter says it [he might be a fifth grader]. But I find it surprising that a leading financial newspaper publishes such statement.","parent":"4320926","id":"4321487"}
{"by":"philiphodgen","time":"1394719789","timestamp":"2014-03-13 14:09:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am an international tax lawyer and this stuff is my day job.  Consider this comment an AMA.\u003cp\u003eFor smaller companies, the bureaucratic cost of international tax systems is insane. For US citizens abroad ... I will just say that my biggest area of growth is helping people shed their US citizenship and tax paperwork\u0026#x2F;penalties is the number 1 reason.\u003cp\u003eAnyway. If you are in a position like The One and Only Netai -- or don\u0026#x27;t want to be -- AMA.","parent":"7390736","id":"7391853"}
{"by":"e324809234","time":"1483035322","timestamp":"2016-12-29 18:15:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who had cosmetic surgery, it took a good amount of changes to be tagged as a \u0026quot;different\u0026quot; person by Facebook and the Photos app. One operation that altered the frontal view of the jaw seemed to have finally done the trick (many common operations like rhinoplasty mostly affect your side profile.)","parent":"13278285","id":"13278911"}
{"by":"vasilipupkin","time":"1437950243","timestamp":"2015-07-26 22:37:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"facebook.  Thought it was the dumbest idea in the world to replicate what livejournal and myspace did early on","parent":"9952261","id":"9952445"}
{"by":"greggarious","time":"1445195518","timestamp":"2015-10-18 19:11:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you define \u0026quot;stupid people\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t feel particuarly intelligent - I often meet people with my IQ who have all sorts of illogical views, but according to an IQ test, I\u0026#x27;m smarter than 95 out of a 100 people.\u003cp\u003eIf you accept that \u0026quot;stupid people\u0026quot; create bad reviews, then your argument falls apart pretty quickly.","parent":"10408229","id":"10409349"}
{"by":"spankalee","time":"1486741696","timestamp":"2017-02-10 15:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m always shocked at how reluctant sites are to actually ship less code, and I think some of this comes down to a needed shift thinking in what an application is, what modules are and how to use imports.\u003cp\u003eOne thing I\u0026#x27;ve heard recently is \u0026quot;My app is big, so it has a lot of code, that\u0026#x27;s not going to change so make the parser faster or let me precompile\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with this is thinking that an app is a monolith. An app is really a collection of features, of different sizes, with difference dependencies, activated at different times. Usually features are activated via URLs or user input. Don\u0026#x27;t load them until needed, and now you don\u0026#x27;t worry about the size of your app, but the size of the features.\u003cp\u003eThis thinking might stem directly from misuse of imports. It seems like many devs think an import means something along the lines of \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ll need to use this code at some point and need a reference to it\u0026quot;. But what an import really means is \u0026quot;I need this other module for the importing module to even _initialize_\u0026quot;. You shouldn\u0026#x27;t statically import a module unless you need it _now_. Otherwise, dynamically import a module that defines a feature, when that feature is needed. Each feature\u0026#x2F;screen should only statically import what it needs to initialize the critical parts of the feature, and everything else should be dynamic.\u003cp\u003eIn ES2015 this is quite easy. Reduce the number of these:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    import * as foo from \u0026#x27;..\u0026#x2F;foo.js\u0026#x27;;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nand use these as much as possible:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    const foo = await import(\u0026#x27;..\u0026#x2F;foo.js\u0026#x27;);\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThen use a bundler that\u0026#x27;s dynamic import aware and doesn\u0026#x27;t bundle them unnecessarily. Boom, less JS on startup.","parent":"13614504","id":"13616136"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1352663305","timestamp":"2012-11-11 19:48:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your observation might be valid empirically without too many exceptions.  (Thought there are corrupts democracies, too.)  But it's rubbish as a definition.","parent":"4770315","id":"4770372"}
{"by":"jasode","time":"1524835230","timestamp":"2018-04-27 13:20:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;In the North American melting pot it\u0026#x27;s crude and racist to put blunt preferences in a dating ad,\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs that really true?  I\u0026#x27;ve never heard of the common phrase \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;swf looking for swm\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e[1] -- being called out in mainstream circles as \u003ci\u003eracist\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eUnlike employment or assigning bus seats in Alabama, the domain of romance was given the latitude for racial preferences without being demonized as \u0026quot;racism\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=\u0026quot;swf+looking+for+swm\u0026quot;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=\u0026quot;swf+looking+for+swm\u0026quot;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16940513","id":"16940568"}
{"by":"gressquel","time":"1492710313","timestamp":"2017-04-20 17:45:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rome wasnt built in 15-hours :-)","parent":"14152819","id":"14158993"}
{"by":"SOLAR_FIELDS","time":"1506230592","timestamp":"2017-09-24 05:23:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My boss has a Purple and loves it. I just bought a mattress and had considered getting one. I shopped quite a bit before I made my decision, but after doing hours of research I’m of the opinion that mattresses in general are overpriced and pretty easily fall victim to marketing hype. I looked at Casper, Tuft \u0026amp; Needle, Purple, and several others and finally decided on a $350 CoolGel king from WalMart. Works perfectly. I’d bought a Contura queen, also from WalMart for $275 6 years ago and it’s sitting in our guest room right now working gloriously and we always get compliments on how comfortable it is. We went with the CoolGel because the Contura sleeps a little bit hot and we live in a warm climate. The Contura is fantastic in the winter, but we really only get about two months of winter here.\u003cp\u003eBottom line takeaway, and many might disagree, you can get a perfectly sleepable great mattress for less than $500 and anything more than that is straight up marketing cost or at the very least severe diminishing returns on your value.","parent":"15322395","id":"15323446"}
{"by":"ChicagoBoy11","time":"1503626702","timestamp":"2017-08-25 02:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, but in a market, if loans allowed to fluctuate with propensity of it being paid off, the student who\u0026#x27;d be about to enroll in a good-for-nothing school would be facing far, far higher rates... which would tighten that feedback loop.","parent":"15087419","id":"15095589"}
{"by":"prostoalex","time":"1488518379","timestamp":"2017-03-03 05:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A single share of stock has historically bundled a few things:\u003cp\u003e1) A right to a pro-rata dividend\u003cp\u003e2) A right to vote on board, current executives, and strategic matters\u003cp\u003e3) A right to a pro-rata share of proceeds in case of a liquidity event, be it acquisition or a bankruptcy sale\u003cp\u003eIt seems that current Snap shares come with (3) and only (3), so my guess would be that those investors are betting on growth and nothing but growth.\u003cp\u003ePrice difference between GOOG and GOOGL provides some empirical insight into the value of a voting vs non-voting share.","parent":"13776242","id":"13780920"}
{"by":"hussein1147","time":"1533656961","timestamp":"2018-08-07 15:49:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you consider Junior Devs?","parent":"17669045","id":"17707690"}
{"by":"EamonnMR","time":"1539442341","timestamp":"2018-10-13 14:52:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really enjoy how this piece captures the sheer joy of programming.","parent":"18206463","id":"18208197"}
{"by":"robinhood","time":"1496759769","timestamp":"2017-06-06 14:36:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Damn it, I broke it. I\u0026#x27;ll fix it today, or remove it entirely, I still don\u0026#x27;t know about it. I like the idea of being able to quickly log in, but it\u0026#x27;s yet another feature to maintain, so...","parent":"14497491","id":"14497504"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1208479992","timestamp":"2008-04-18 00:53:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me how when searching for Linux fixes, it is never clear what version they apply for. They might describe some elaborate hacks that have been irrelevant for years, because there are easier ways in newer versions, but it is often impossible to know. I wish I could find only the answers that still apply to my version of Linux.","parent":"166019","id":"166848"}
{"by":"sethg","time":"1278463028","timestamp":"2010-07-07 00:37:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have definitely built something that I would want, if only my favorite restaurants would be willing to sign on.\u003cp\u003eAlso, as a Nokia employee, I hope that your pages are compatible with our phones....","parent":"1492184","id":"1492909"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1354839943","timestamp":"2012-12-07 00:25:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The justice system is not supposed to be driven by the market. In theory, they could have done this entirely \u003ci\u003ewithout\u003c/i\u003e paying any lawyers: I doubt the paperwork by itself would have cost too much for a normal company.\u003cp\u003eIn practice, the problem with the justice system is that it's too large to navigate without lawyers, and lawyers must be paid. That's an indictment of the market's inability to force lawyer fees down to a reasonable level, not the justice system.","parent":"4881357","id":"4884696"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1437054228","timestamp":"2015-07-16 13:43:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice! I like the visualizations of the current, power, etc.\u003cp\u003eI was looking at the astable multivibrator, and I\u0026#x27;m just wondering why the transistors turn \u0026quot;red\u0026quot; when there is no current flowing through them (when the visualize-power option is on).","parent":"9896436","id":"9897083"}
{"by":"cmroanirgo","time":"1534498533","timestamp":"2018-08-17 09:35:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A 3D RTS I worked on in the mid 90\u0026#x27;s used A* in a couple of ways to do pathfinding.\u003cp\u003e1. First generation was to use a series of \u0026#x27;way points\u0026#x27; that was created with the landscape\u0026#x2F;level generator itself. They were the basic \u0026#x27;paths of best flow\u0026#x27; in a very broad sense. It was used when a player sent troops from one side of the map to the other. There was only 20-40 of these on a map.\u003cp\u003e2. Second generation used a much finer granularity that was a lookup of preprocessed surface normals on the terrain.\u003cp\u003eSo, the tank\u0026#x2F;unit would look at the waypoints to know generally which way is the \u0026#x27;best ish\u0026#x27; way, and use a finer grained one for the first and last mile.\u003cp\u003eWe also used collision avoidance schemes so you could pass one group of vehicles \u0026#x27;thru\u0026#x27; another and they\u0026#x27;d miss one another in a logical way (ie small deviations left\u0026#x2F;right based upon own vs. other speed).\u003cp\u003eWe ended up not using the \u0026#x27;one vehicle per square\u0026#x27; technique that may RTS used at the time -- we didn\u0026#x27;t need to.","parent":"17776739","id":"17781472"}
{"by":"s73v3r_","time":"1521479241","timestamp":"2018-03-19 17:07:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The group behind them would like to \u0026quot;reform\u0026quot; the system by getting rid of it.","parent":"16619470","id":"16620221"}
{"by":"tzakrajs","time":"1544836980","timestamp":"2018-12-15 01:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe it is a self correcting problem. Perhaps the moment Elsevier is so out of vogue that you can’t find a library or peer at another university with access is also the inflection point where Elsevier loses its network effect. Why would you license your work to a journal for which your peers and their institutions have no direct access?","parent":"18686253","id":"18686414"}
{"by":"AsyncAwait","time":"1486666156","timestamp":"2017-02-09 18:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  for no good reason.\u003cp\u003eThere was good reason, to move to the latest version of a particular software, since that\u0026#x27;s kind of the whole philosophy of Arch, in fact the reason I originally switched to it in 2011 was because I had enough of me not being able to use the latest software on Ubuntu.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Why should users of older distros have to add a symlink, when before Arch everyone could be sure that \u0026#x27;\u0026#x2F;usr\u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;python\u0026#x27; if present would be python2\u003cp\u003eIf you made no effort to detect the actual version, it\u0026#x27;s wrong to assume that. It could\u0026#x27;ve just as well been python 1.","parent":"13609491","id":"13609647"}
{"by":"TrevorJ","time":"1386029040","timestamp":"2013-12-03 00:04:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real killer app here would be to get info \u003ci\u003eout\u003c/i\u003e of an airgapped terminal.","parent":"6837224","id":"6837550"}
{"by":"singularity2001","time":"1490785667","timestamp":"2017-03-29 11:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have some ssh server somewhere (who hasn\u0026#x27;t), you can very easily use \u0026#x27;VPN over ssh\u0026#x27; by calling:\u003cp\u003esshuttle -r user@remote_host 0.0.0.0\u0026#x2F;0 --dns","parent":"13983235","id":"13984968"}
{"by":"stanleydrew","time":"1479145368","timestamp":"2016-11-14 17:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I wasn\u0026#x27;t claiming that there is a perfect voting system. Just that IRV seems strictly better for pretty much all voters than FPTP.\u003cp\u003eI am also seeing several comments that try to take into account the preferences of the candidates themselves, or their parties. Why? Aren\u0026#x27;t we talking about efficiency from the perspective of the electorate? To the extent that the candidates are themselves members of the electorate, and can vote for themselves, shouldn\u0026#x27;t we ignore them in this analysis because their preferences are inherently biased?","parent":"12951131","id":"12951619"}
{"by":"wellpast","time":"1509122092","timestamp":"2017-10-27 16:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re missing my point. In your example, \u003ci\u003esomewhere\u003c/i\u003e you have to express your types. So just move my example over to that point in your code.","parent":"15569888","id":"15569945"}
{"by":"thecabinet","time":"1537582058","timestamp":"2018-09-22 02:07:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it’s not unfair to treat it as bad without any other evidence.  When all you know is “Mexican restaurant” you judge by that.  You can’t live your life only making judgements once you have “all” the facts, as if that’s even possible.  There seems to be this unspoken assumption that the thought process must be stereotypes leading to death camps.  It is possible to say, “Based on my life experiences thus far I do not enjoy the company of black people\u0026#x2F;Mexican food\u0026#x2F;whatever” without thinking “and therefore we should kill all those people”.","parent":"18043939","id":"18044074"}
{"by":"QuinnyPig","time":"1525204793","timestamp":"2018-05-01 19:59:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that this was about to break in any case: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;security\u0026#x2F;enhanced-domain-protections-for-amazon-cloudfront-requests\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;security\u0026#x2F;enhanced-domain-protec...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16970199","id":"16970897"}
{"by":"paulfreeman","time":"1421147405","timestamp":"2015-01-13 11:10:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome! Love your take on piracy. Maybe put off potential pirates by stating that customers that have purchased get put on a mailing list with regular software updates and pinegrow ready templates. A user submitted portfolio of templates for sale\u0026#x2F;free could be a nice addition as well.","parent":"8878381","id":"8879072"}
{"by":"x5n1","time":"1435866900","timestamp":"2015-07-02 19:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I personally think Telsa\u0026#x27;s car business is bound to fail when the majors decide to compete. But that\u0026#x27;s a more long term strategy.","parent":"9821134","id":"9821207"}
{"by":"jimminy","time":"1503379360","timestamp":"2017-08-22 05:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From their standard billing option section.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; * Billing is dependent on amount of meaningful change per month. $9 per user per month for static analysis.\u003cp\u003eI agree it still sounds far fetched that their at the $136 million ARR, but it\u0026#x27;s not infeasible they\u0026#x27;re somewhere near the the low-to-mid 8-figures, with their enterprise solutions as well.\u003cp\u003eIf it was $9\u0026#x2F;user, for all those companies that figure would require the average team size to be 2,800 people. Which is extremely unlikely.","parent":"15069824","id":"15069921"}
{"by":"click170","time":"1330732928","timestamp":"2012-03-03 00:02:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The same way Bush was elected. Apathy.","parent":"3658819","id":"3658856"}
{"by":"Silhouette","time":"1375797430","timestamp":"2013-08-06 13:57:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eFlagging is for stuff that\u0026#x27;s inappropriate for this site\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think almost completely content-free promotional material \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e appropriate for this site, whoever writes it and whatever it is advertising.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t flag many submissions, and following the FAQ, I don\u0026#x27;t normally comment at all when I do. However, I don\u0026#x27;t know what actually happens when something gets flagged, so in this case I made an exception because I\u0026#x27;m aware that Patrick himself is wary of submitting pieces like this. I didn\u0026#x27;t want anything to imply a personal attack, nor general criticism of links about A\u0026#x2F;B testing if they do offer new\u0026#x2F;interesting material.","parent":"6166266","id":"6166569"}
{"by":"20years","time":"1509739817","timestamp":"2017-11-03 20:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would not consider working for a company that required a 2 minute slack response time, especially for a role that required uninterrupted focus. Different story if you are in a \u0026quot;put out fires\u0026quot; role\u003cp\u003eIs it more important to actually get stuff done or to be available for every distracting slack message that comes through?\u003cp\u003eIf you need people to respond within 2 minutes to every message, that is lack of organization imo unless it is an emergency.\u003cp\u003eGood remote teams are very organized, prioritize documentation, have weekly and sometimes daily kick off meetings and then for the most part get out of the way for their team to get stuff done.","parent":"15618436","id":"15621885"}
{"by":"magic-chicken","time":"1544200125","timestamp":"2018-12-07 16:28:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TL\u0026#x2F;DR\u003cp\u003eTesla ADS is the best on the market but it is marketed as an autopilot, which is wrong and caused some overconfident owners to die.","parent":"18628325","id":"18629001"}
{"by":"patch_cable","time":"1533060786","timestamp":"2018-07-31 18:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"X-plane is an excellent choice. It has a pretty generous demo and also works on Linux.","parent":"17655424","id":"17655576"}
{"by":"fizx","time":"1228793804","timestamp":"2008-12-09 03:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wordpress has web analytics built into the main blog dashboard.  It's nice.  I could drop code into a theme, but I kinda like the ease of use there.","parent":"390731","id":"390901"}
{"by":"sjwright","time":"1525309700","timestamp":"2018-05-03 01:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having it seem like a bug would be an effective way to block it intentionally. The timing of such an unusual regression is suspicious. The fact that 1.0.0.1 is also blocked is also suspicious.","parent":"16982493","id":"16982559"}
{"by":"danpat","time":"1416434101","timestamp":"2014-11-19 21:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eFrom there it\u0026#x27;s a short hop to having these helmets (by then no longer optional at all) administer other kinds of signals, directly to the soldier\u0026#x27;s brains: to relay orders, identify targets... and to tell them when to pull the trigger.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t radios with earpieces already do that?","parent":"8632800","id":"8632874"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1438772638","timestamp":"2015-08-05 11:03:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah but it sits on the largest border in Europe: the Mediterranean Sea :) that was a Cold War front too, and a big one at that.","parent":"10008795","id":"10008917"}
{"by":"atavkpatel","time":"1526632302","timestamp":"2018-05-18 08:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is metatables?","parent":"17099515","id":"17099645"}
{"by":"wahsd","time":"1411074313","timestamp":"2014-09-18 21:05:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I missing something? I don\u0026#x27;t see an indication that they will be laid off. It really doesn\u0026#x27;t make any sense to have that kind of staff in Silicon Valley anymore. In reality, it makes no sense to have people in expensive locations like Silicon Valley \u0026#x2F; SF or NYC at all.","parent":"8337300","id":"8337622"}
{"by":"light3","time":"1377315456","timestamp":"2013-08-24 03:37:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is already a myriad of mini keyboards on ebay, although I haven\u0026#x27;t used any but some of them look sufficiently good to use along side a smartphone. In the future I think they will improve to the point where people who want a physical keyboard will just buy it separately.","parent":"6255963","id":"6267506"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1446517501","timestamp":"2015-11-03 02:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$30 Raspberry Pi (2) reboots itself when exposed to strong light. The RPi line is also totally unreliable, it tends to bug up and\u0026#x2F;or crash after running for too long.\u003cp\u003eThe car components are made to different spec than consumer electronics (for starters, there are several types of component, depending on what \u0026quot;range of temperatures\u0026quot; you need to operate them in; e.g. the stuff that goes into the traffic lights in northern parts of Europe is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e something you buy off Farnell for your hobby project), and they also need to be reliable and tested. Add, of course, the usual graft and overhead.\u003cp\u003eAnother thing is that a engine controller \u003ci\u003edoesn\u0026#x27;t need\u003c/i\u003e a near-GHz quad-core chip and shit ton of RAM. It\u0026#x27;s not meant to stream HD videos or run Python, it has to run a bunch of feedback loops \u003ci\u003efast enough\u003c/i\u003e. Less powerful chips tend to be cheaper and more reliable.","parent":"10496941","id":"10496981"}
{"by":"jackmaney","time":"1480875042","timestamp":"2016-12-04 18:10:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Either corporations are people--and will therefore be taxed as such--or they\u0026#x27;re not--and thus have no rights.\u003cp\u003eWhich is it?","parent":"13045048","id":"13100955"}
{"by":"jwilk","time":"1488112619","timestamp":"2017-02-26 12:36:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the HN guidelines:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlease don\u0026#x27;t insinuate that someone hasn\u0026#x27;t read an article.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"13736067","id":"13736931"}
{"by":"jasonkostempski","time":"1490797858","timestamp":"2017-03-29 14:30:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ve been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI made an FF add-on for myself for that exact purpose, here\u0026#x27;s a comment thread about it from the other day: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13949693\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13949693\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13945156","id":"13986529"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1269345271","timestamp":"2010-03-23 11:54:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmn, good point. I remember wanting to see how top got some of it's stats a while ago and wandering through the C source. Something simpler would be pretty quick.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efetches the coreutils source\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks.","parent":"1212682","id":"1212690"}
{"by":"nzmsv","time":"1295902571","timestamp":"2011-01-24 20:56:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Put in \n  \u003ca href=\"https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2136621","id":"2136714"}
{"by":"buu700","time":"1334688970","timestamp":"2012-04-17 18:56:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, so I'm not allowed to fork it unless the new project uses ass-lakes? Shit, there goes my startup idea.","parent":"3854147","id":"3854358"}
{"by":"mikhailt","time":"1434826179","timestamp":"2015-06-20 18:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TestFlight improved this a lot last year and even more so this year with the bump to 6 external builds per day support and 2000 testers.\u003cp\u003eNote that only the initial major version will be reviewed on TestFlight but once that gets approved shortly, minor builds can be pushed without the reviews 6 times a day. It worked really well for us. Once we\u0026#x27;re happy with the build, it\u0026#x27;s one smooth process to push it to the app store.","parent":"9750401","id":"9750697"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1240287574","timestamp":"2009-04-21 04:19:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Alex was happy enough to talk about his frequent use of Adderall at Harvard, but he didn’t want to see his name in print; he’s involved with an Internet start-up, and worried that potential investors might disapprove of his habit.\"\u003cp\u003eDoes this sound to all of you like how start-up investors would react to this issue? Is it a plus or a minus to be known as a start-up founder who uses Adderall to perform?","parent":"571686","id":"571896"}
{"by":"tjmc","time":"1369103795","timestamp":"2013-05-21 02:36:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he was referring to a yacht so large that you can land your helicopter on it (ie. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynvdeg6uWw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynvdeg6uWw\u003c/a\u003e) in which case it's not the helicopter that's expensive...","parent":"5740379","id":"5741579"}
{"by":"jcelerier","time":"1503335814","timestamp":"2017-08-21 17:16:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what would be the simpler way to translate any string in a given DSL in an expression at compile time in C++ ?","parent":"15065829","id":"15066017"}
{"by":"swalsh","time":"1383929331","timestamp":"2013-11-08 16:48:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was going to mention this, the site engaged me really quickly.  There are 4 tabs open currently... which is rare for me.\u003cp\u003eExcept I took a different take away, if they were intelligent enough to use their advice for their own practical matters, their advice must have some relevancy to it.","parent":"6690159","id":"6697279"}
{"by":"BoorishBears","time":"1512515044","timestamp":"2017-12-05 23:04:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is kind of useless. Once you’ve spent 100k on a car it’s a lot harder to give an impartial review.\u003cp\u003eWhat would be more useful is having the site test drive with its own writers.","parent":"15856909","id":"15856947"}
{"by":"kahnpro","time":"1482259113","timestamp":"2016-12-20 18:38:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And without a massive war? The USA has had 151 years of uninterrupted peace.\u003cp\u003eJust as an example---because the old rivalry was USA vs USSR---Russia has endured two devastating and traumatic world wars, a revolution, a civil war, and Stalin. And they \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e rivaled US power throughout the cold war.\u003cp\u003eI think Americans really overstate the effectiveness of their economic and political system, and understate the huge advantage they have geographically.","parent":"13221119","id":"13222592"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1470997932","timestamp":"2016-08-12 10:32:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s always some uncertainty.  What do you want it to return when it can tell the location is Springfield, but no further?  Will your suggestion actually stop devs from blindly converting into coordinates?","parent":"12274358","id":"12274470"}
{"by":"Gibbon1","time":"1474540574","timestamp":"2016-09-22 10:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect that modern languages try and fix some of this by making the syntax unambiguous. Means you only need to tokenize each file exactly once. Compare with older languages where if you change a header\u0026#x2F;module\u0026#x2F;etc you need to reparse the whole shebang.\u003cp\u003ePossible with rust that moves a bunch of the grant work into the code generator. AKA where as in C\u0026#x2F;C++ by the time you\u0026#x27;re generating code all your type information is set in stone, possible in rust a bunch of stuff isn\u0026#x27;t resolved yet.","parent":"12555213","id":"12555846"}
{"by":"alangpierce","time":"1546393955","timestamp":"2019-01-02 01:52:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like here\u0026#x27;s the original announcement, which has more background on motivations and has a comparison with regular Courier:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;johnaugust.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;introducing-courier-prime\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;johnaugust.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;introducing-courier-prime\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18802628","id":"18803649"}
{"by":"nchuhoai","time":"1480617842","timestamp":"2016-12-01 18:44:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wellframe | Healthcare | Boston, Ma | Onsite\u0026#x2F;Fulltime \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wellframe.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wellframe.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Wellframe, we are building an intelligent care-management platform that allows health plans and care-delivery organizations to better manage large populations of complex patients. Because the most clinically complicated cases in a patient population tend to drive a majority of the costs, even seemingly small improvements in these patients’ well-being have dramatic benefits for the care provider. Wellframe focuses on improving patient health by providing personalized and adaptive care programs for people trying to recover from or manage serious health problems. We use the health data we collect in order to intelligently allot care resources to the specific needs of patients, paying special attention to the most-critical patients. Through clinical studies and working with large healthcare payers, we have seen that our platform improves patient outcomes, increases the capacity of care management teams and reduces costs of the care provider.\nWe have a relatively small engineering team at about 10 engineers. What makes us unique is that we have a full time clinical team of doctors that work with us to break down clinical science so that we can build it back up into personalized and adaptive care programs.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re currently looking for several mid\u0026#x2F;senior engineering positions (android, iOS, frontend, infra\u0026#x2F;platform, sre) across our engineering team. More descriptions can be found on our jobs page (below). If you\u0026#x27;re in the area I\u0026#x27;d love to just grab coffee regardless of whether or not you\u0026#x27;re actively looking to move -- I love talking to other passionate, driven people about what they do.\u003cp\u003eOur stack is native Android (Java) and iOS (Objective-C), our API is served in a Ruby on Rails monolith and Scala services, on top of MySQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Spark. We are especially focusing on expanding our frontend team as we see significant growth on that side of the product. We are mostly Backbone + React, although some more complex state we are moving to Redux. It\u0026#x27;s a very exciting time for the frontend, as we are planning to grow both in scale in terms of patient populations, as well as product use cases that require diverse interactions. It is super rewarding to see our product affect real people\u0026#x27;s lives and the opportunity to reinvent this massive industry is enormous.\u003cp\u003eJobs: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wellframe.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wellframe.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e Also feel free to reach out to me at nam@wellframe.com!","parent":"13080280","id":"13082151"}
{"by":"bwoj","time":"1462464620","timestamp":"2016-05-05 16:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why everyone is downvoting. You may not go on a list, but you could be targeted by the FBI if they can produce \u0026quot;probable cause\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\u0026#x2F;constitutional-rights\u0026#x2F;fbi-labled-tor-browser-users-criminals\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\u0026#x2F;constitutional-rights...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11636285","id":"11637314"}
{"by":"pedalpete","time":"1227574399","timestamp":"2008-11-25 00:53:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've often thought something like this would be useful, but I'm missing a few things (and you have a bug, I can't leave my e-mail blank because it says that e-mial is already taken).\u003cp\u003e1 - I can't figure out how to add a bookmarklet. I can only add you page\n2) I wouldn't go to a page to enter in the sites to save, that is too much of a pain in the ass - a browser plug-in would be much better.","parent":"375617","id":"375765"}
{"by":"iaml","time":"1511348607","timestamp":"2017-11-22 11:03:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK even if you use LineageOS, gapps will still phone home and there is nothing you can do about it. MicroG\u0026#x2F;yalt is the most user unfriendly thing in this combo, far worse than just flashing custom rom, but it gets rid of it.","parent":"15751474","id":"15755914"}
{"by":"labrador","time":"1487631904","timestamp":"2017-02-20 23:05:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends. If we were short-handed, we did 6 hours on, 6 off, which didn\u0026#x27;t allow much extra time for study.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Submarine","parent":"13691190","id":"13691837"}
{"by":"tapiwa","time":"1292684198","timestamp":"2010-12-18 14:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The one good thing to take out of this is that Facebook made a measured decision, and ran with the best technology.\u003cp\u003eSo easily (as many companies do) they could have taken a 'not invented here' decision and run with Cassandra.","parent":"2019026","id":"2019563"}
{"by":"jwilliams","time":"1376221393","timestamp":"2013-08-11 11:43:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is definitely a phenomenon of caffeine tolerance, but it seems complex and varies a lot with the individual.\u003cp\u003eCaffeine is largely self-administered, so there is also situational tolerance. Even if you have some effect, you\u0026#x27;re conditioned to expect it.\u003cp\u003eThe two combined means perceived tolerance varies quite a lot.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eis there any advantage in the habit compared to me never drinking any?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is the enjoyment of it.","parent":"6194693","id":"6194739"}
{"by":"joelthelion","time":"1355005899","timestamp":"2012-12-08 22:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as the car does, on average, a better job than human drivers, I don't see where the problem is. Sure, there will still be accidents, including some that could be avoided with an alert backup human drivers. But as long as the number is lower than the number we have today, I just don't see where the problem is.","parent":"4887405","id":"4892927"}
{"by":"crcarlson","time":"1281043932","timestamp":"2010-08-05 21:32:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a great point.  We currently import from MS Proj but we don't yet fully export.  I agree with you that it would lower the friction to starting up if it was guaranteed painless to transition back or work with other tools.  This feature is on our near term roadmap.","parent":"1579391","id":"1579436"}
{"by":"jstewartmobile","time":"1453499187","timestamp":"2016-01-22 21:46:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of people call themselves \u0026quot;data scientists\u0026quot; these days, even though their methodology is neither published nor peer-reviewed.\u003cp\u003eIn most cases, map-reduce DBA would be a more accurate title.","parent":"10955180","id":"10955793"}
{"by":"fouc","time":"1537672945","timestamp":"2018-09-23 03:22:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried using Firefox Quantum since Safari 12 closed off most extensions.  Firefox Quantum is laggy in comparison, particularly the UI (web page rendering is fine).  For example, dragging tabs to other windows is jittery.  Launching preferences page is a bit delayed.","parent":"18048059","id":"18049214"}
{"by":"henrik_w","time":"1422365724","timestamp":"2015-01-27 13:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, I\u0026#x27;ve been programming for about as long as the OP, and I still enjoy the creativity very much [0]. I also think that those of us who enjoy SW development are incredibly lucky in that we can get paid quite well doing what we love [1].\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;henrikwarne.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;why-i-love-coding\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://henrikwarne.com/2014/12/08/5-reasons-why-software-developer-is-a-great-career-choice/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;henrikwarne.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;5-reasons-why-software-dev...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8952800","id":"8952895"}
{"by":"kalleboo","time":"1343206512","timestamp":"2012-07-25 08:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; In this case, approval was not given to Anymode for the accessory to feature this official designation. We are working with Anymode to address this oversight and the product has already been removed from the Anymode sales website. The product has not been sold.\"\u003cp\u003eDid you read your own link?","parent":"4289893","id":"4290023"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1343888758","timestamp":"2012-08-02 06:25:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In which case you'd have to pierce the corporate veil.\u003cp\u003eIV scare the shit out of me.","parent":"4326678","id":"4327577"}
{"by":"bgutierrez","time":"1224272668","timestamp":"2008-10-17 19:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know about \u003ci\u003ecommon\u003c/i\u003e sense.","parent":"335842","id":"335928"}
{"by":"elliottkember","time":"1311754423","timestamp":"2011-07-27 08:13:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hear you on this one. I think it's fashionable to not have to know anything. Look at our role models, for example - celebrities. Not so many scientists or mathematicians, mostly glitterati or athletes. It's a bit worrying.","parent":"2809835","id":"2811271"}
{"by":"Raphmedia","time":"1481658977","timestamp":"2016-12-13 19:56:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is this unreadable? Are you unable to read after a certain size?\u003cp\u003eI am not a fan of their design but it\u0026#x27;s not really unreadable.","parent":"13169738","id":"13170310"}
{"by":"6stringmerc","time":"1452200952","timestamp":"2016-01-07 21:09:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent bit of reflective writing and I\u0026#x27;m certainly in agreement. For a moment I thought this might be the basic gist of an article I\u0026#x27;m working up (re: message boards vs. article\u0026#x2F;content comments and notions of \u0026quot;community\u0026quot;) but glad to see it\u0026#x27;s a different angle, and complimentary. Guiding over to Pinker\u0026#x27;s article is an immense help as well, because I\u0026#x27;m really digging the term \u0026quot;intellectually unscrupulous\u0026quot; as a nice description of some behaviors I\u0026#x27;ve seen online that are maddening.","parent":"10859383","id":"10860774"}
{"by":"freefouran","time":"1418595195","timestamp":"2014-12-14 22:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This project is still in it\u0026#x27;s infancy, so if you want to help contribute, feel free to send a pull request :)","parent":"8748769","id":"8749751"}
{"by":"newman314","time":"1425413578","timestamp":"2015-03-03 20:12:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK, syncthing still does not support the use case of shared 1Password.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/220\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;syncthing\u0026#x2F;syncthing\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;220\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBTSync seems to be handling this for now.","parent":"9139185","id":"9140369"}
{"by":"wilde","time":"1527231442","timestamp":"2018-05-25 06:57:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tesla repeatedly claimed that the car drives itself in marketing.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailydot.com\u0026#x2F;debug\u0026#x2F;tesla-self-driving-car-video\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailydot.com\u0026#x2F;debug\u0026#x2F;tesla-self-driving-car-video\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17151172","id":"17151259"}
{"by":"reificator","time":"1513966919","timestamp":"2017-12-22 18:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And at the same time receive keys to their front doors","parent":"15989630","id":"15989641"}
{"by":"blumkvist","time":"1435322304","timestamp":"2015-06-26 12:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 on the name...","parent":"9783236","id":"9783873"}
{"by":"ChuckNorris89","time":"1540967106","timestamp":"2018-10-31 06:25:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bachelor\u0026#x27;s degree 2012\u003cp\u003e1) 2012-2014: Firmware engineer in Romania for Automotive sector $14K\u003cp\u003eMaster\u0026#x27;s degree 2014\u003cp\u003e2) 2014 - 2016: Firmware engineer in Austria for Semiconductor sector $50K\u003cp\u003e3) 2016 - 2018: Firmware enginner in Austria for IoT in Retail electronics $59K","parent":"18342996","id":"18343704"}
{"by":"rspeer","time":"1436218744","timestamp":"2015-07-06 21:39:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reddit has had several CEOs, which the typical user rarely knew by name.\u003cp\u003eThe idea that the CEO of Reddit has anything to do with the average user\u0026#x27;s experience has come about very recently, and I believe it\u0026#x27;s being propagated by the fatpeoplehate crowd (she sure affected \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c/i\u003e experience).\u003cp\u003eThe mishandling of IAmA seems to have been done by Alexei Ohanian, but he\u0026#x27;s not being photoshopped onto Hitler.","parent":"9842198","id":"9842349"}
{"by":"nandemo","time":"1421484707","timestamp":"2015-01-17 08:51:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like tinco said, above TCP\u0026#x2F;IP it\u0026#x27;s pretty much the same as on your desktop. If you want to know about TCP\u0026#x2F;IP and below, I suggest this title: \u0026quot;From GSM to LTE-Advanced: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/From-GSM-LTE-Advanced-Introduction-Broadband/dp/1118861957/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;From-GSM-LTE-Advanced-Introduction-Bro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8902939","id":"8903906"}
{"by":"d0mine","time":"1350149916","timestamp":"2012-10-13 17:38:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GIL or no GIL, threads run concurrently in Python.  The difference might be in performance:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - IO-bound tasks: GIL is released\n  - CPU-bound tasks on N-core on a single host. To exploit multiple CPUs: \n\n     a) no GIL (hypothetical): N times speed up (optimistically)\n         (it suggests weak data dependency i.e., \n          multiprocessing can be used to the same effect)\n\n     b) option a) with multiple processes (shared memory or communication-based approach)\n         Code complexity is the same on average (except on Windows)\n\n     c) C extensions (existing or new): speed up 10*N or more on numerical code\n         Cython makes it easy to write new extensions.\n         Currently due to dynamic nature of Python, GIL or no GIL, \n         C extensions might be necessary to exploit hardware fully\n         (though C extensions might not be an option in some projects)\n\n  - scalable to multiple hosts tasks: different processes i.e., GIL is not a problem\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nBenefits of GIL:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - C extensions (and the interpreter) are simpler to write correctly. \n     Multithreaded programming is not trivial we need all the help we can get.\n  - no performance penalty for single-threaded code\n  - it encourages a synchronization through communication concurrent model (builtin in Go)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nDisadvantages:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - some applications have no localized performance bottlenecks. \n    So writing a small C extension won't help to get possible \n    performance benefits of running on multicore in parallel.\n    If performance is critical; Python might not be the right tool in this case\n  - there are pathological cases when performance suffers greatly due to GIL\n    (though other approaches would have their own pathological cases)\n  - a (non-informed) perception that Python can't benefit from multicore\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"4648544","id":"4649107"}
{"by":"lisivka","time":"1480028061","timestamp":"2016-11-24 22:54:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;You know, comrades,\u0026quot; says Stalin, \u0026quot;that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOriginal in Russian:\u003cp\u003eКаменев.  стараясь снизойти до уровня  Сталина,  говорит:  \u0026quot;А  вот  по\nвопросу,  как завоевать большинство в партии\u0026quot;.  - \u0026quot;Знаете, товарищи, -\nговорит Сталин,  -  что  я  думаю  по  этому  поводу:  я  считаю,  что\nсовершенно  неважно,  кто и как будет в партии голосовать;  но вот что\nчрезвычайно важно,  это -  кто  и  как  будет  считать  голоса\u0026quot;.  Даже\nКаменев, который уже должен знать Сталина, выразительно откашливается.\u003cp\u003eНа следующий день Сталин вызывает к себе в кабинет  Назаретяна  и\nдолго с ним совещается. Назаретян выходит из кабинета довольно кислый.\nНо он человек послушный.  В тот  же  день  постановлением  Оргбюро  он\nназначен заведующим партийным отделом \u0026quot;Правды\u0026quot; и приступает к работе.\u003cp\u003eВ \u0026quot;Правду\u0026quot; поступают отчеты о собраниях партийных  организаций  и\nрезультаты  голосований,  в  особенности по Москве.  Работа Назаретяна\nочень проста.  На собрании такой-то ячейки за ЦК  голосовало,  скажем,\n300 человек, против - 600; Назаретян переправляет: за ЦК - 600, против\n- 300.  Так это и печатается в \u0026quot;Правде\u0026quot;.  И так по всем  организациям.\nКонечно,  ячейка,  прочтя  в  \u0026quot;Правде\u0026quot;  ложный  отчет о результатах ее\nголосования,  протестует,  звонит  в   \u0026quot;Правду\u0026quot;,   добивается   отдела\nпартийной   жизни.  Назаретян  вежливо  отвечает,  обещает  немедленно\nпроверить.  По  проверке  оказывается,  \u0026quot;что  вы   совершенно   правы,\nпроизошла досадная ошибка,  перепутали в типографии; знаете, они очень\nперегружены;  редакция \u0026quot;Правды\u0026quot; приносит  вам  свои  извинения;  будет\nнапечатано  исправление\u0026quot;.  Каждая  ячейка полагает,  что это единичная\nошибка,  происшедшая  только  с  ней,  и  не  догадывается,  что   это\nпроисходит по большинству ячеек.  Между тем постепенно создается общая\nкартина,  что  ЦК  начинает  выигрывать  по  всей   линии.   Провинция\nстановится осторожнее и начинает идти за Москвой, то есть за ЦК.\u003cp\u003e(Stalin faked election by printing reverted votes in «Pravda»).","parent":"13033090","id":"13033307"}
{"by":"paulryanrogers","time":"1455563844","timestamp":"2016-02-15 19:17:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The premise does align with my experience. Skilled people can adapt to and comprehend the business needs better than packaged tools. That said, well made tools can include lessons learned that could be expensive to develop in house. Often though those are only technical corner cases.","parent":"11105198","id":"11105265"}
{"by":"AstralStorm","time":"1496244814","timestamp":"2017-05-31 15:33:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At the core JS combines dynamic and weak typing.\u003cp\u003eIt is not even object oriented, so instead it is commonly used with the prototype approach.\u003cp\u003eIt is not a functional language either as functions can define global variables, therefore they aren\u0026#x27;t actually functions.\nAnd defining global state is the default behaviour.","parent":"14451975","id":"14453290"}
{"by":"PanMan","time":"1262107553","timestamp":"2009-12-29 17:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While S3 storage is fairly cheap, bandwidth still isn't. I did some math for a video clip I'm working on. And 1.000.000 views (a lot, but not unfeasible for a popular music vid. Some rank 5+ million) still costs a few thousand $... Hard to make that back on ads.","parent":"1020128","id":"1020802"}
{"by":"obiefernandez","time":"1542342461","timestamp":"2018-11-16 04:27:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"November of last year.","parent":"18466267","id":"18466410"}
{"by":"davidiach","time":"1454678618","timestamp":"2016-02-05 13:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I often think about that. What would a solution to this problem look like?\u003cp\u003eWill interstellar communication really be almost as difficult as interstellar travel?","parent":"11041007","id":"11041188"}
{"by":"flukus","time":"1476924889","timestamp":"2016-10-20 00:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lately that social pressure has been pushing me away from the people that I would otherwise broadly agree with politically. I\u0026#x27;d be more likely to vote trump (not American anyway, just a hypothetical) now than I would have been a few years ago because I\u0026#x27;m sick of the identity wars SJW\u0026#x27;s are fighting.","parent":"12748627","id":"12749106"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1412715745","timestamp":"2014-10-07 21:02:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Volition is a huge part of deciding how we want to punish someone and even whether a specific act was criminal at all. If you did something bad of your own free will, the law probably wants to have a word with you. If you were forced into doing something bad against your will, you very well might not be punished at all, and instead the person who forced you to commit the act might be culpable because it was \u003ci\u003etheir volition\u003c/i\u003e that caused the law to be broken.","parent":"8423934","id":"8423993"}
{"by":"barrkel","time":"1317574945","timestamp":"2011-10-02 17:02:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting that apologising for not replying in more detail, yet hinting at where to find previous discussion of that detail, is treated with such hostility! I'll simply not reply at all in future, in such cases.","parent":"3062264","id":"3063321"}
{"by":"paulsingh","time":"1286404675","timestamp":"2010-10-06 22:37:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, I \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c/i\u003e to design for my mom -- I built my latest niche product for notary publics. :)\u003cp\u003eThe funny thing is that I knew she was doing notary stuff on the side for a long time now. I simply didn't realize she was using spreadsheets to manage it all.\u003cp\u003eThe UI is \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e clunky still but most of that is a casualty of releasing something \"ghetto, but useful\" ASAP. I'm in the process of rebuilding it right now and it'll have a much prettier/useful interface rolled out in the next 3 weeks or so (though, mom's account is running the latest version of the UI). :)","parent":"1765983","id":"1766137"}
{"by":"simcop2387","time":"1405833324","timestamp":"2014-07-20 05:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently it\u0026#x27;s done through controlling the MTRR registers on the CPU:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://rere.qmqm.pl/~mirq/cache_as_ram_lb_09142006.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rere.qmqm.pl\u0026#x2F;~mirq\u0026#x2F;cache_as_ram_lb_09142006.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8059328","id":"8059641"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1341611139","timestamp":"2012-07-06 21:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PD seems like something that you could measure at home with a pretty high degree of confidence.","parent":"4209330","id":"4209805"}
{"by":"martyhu","time":"1220643882","timestamp":"2008-09-05 19:44:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This guy's interested in drinking, cars, and football.\u003cp\u003eHis job status is professional detailer. Nuff said.","parent":"295560","id":"296222"}
{"by":"stonogo","time":"1446757761","timestamp":"2015-11-05 21:09:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;d find not many BBSes required ~2.5MB of transfer to display a handful of extremely short articles.","parent":"10516054","id":"10516128"}
{"by":"malikNF","time":"1521464310","timestamp":"2018-03-19 12:58:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This reads like something out of \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;insanepeoplefacebook","parent":"16617930","id":"16617983"}
{"by":"jonknee","time":"1352473545","timestamp":"2012-11-09 15:05:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not great UX on a site priding themselves on UI.","parent":"4760118","id":"4763068"}
{"by":"eurleif","time":"1328171488","timestamp":"2012-02-02 08:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you sure people wouldn't have an easier time finding the nav links on your site if they were in a bar? They look a lot like body text to me now, which might be the issue. Have you done any testing?","parent":"3539757","id":"3541953"}
{"by":"pc86","time":"1510598915","timestamp":"2017-11-13 18:48:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ICO tokens obv","parent":"15688269","id":"15688928"}
{"by":"nawitus","time":"1393787884","timestamp":"2014-03-02 19:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use IRC daily at work and also at home (these days I only frequent 1-2 channels at home). IRC is still pretty popular here in Finland among certain people.","parent":"7329907","id":"7330332"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1536758651","timestamp":"2018-09-12 13:24:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read it more softly than that. Of course we get \u0026#x27;paid back\u0026#x27; for making the Thanksgiving turkey - by goodwill. I\u0026#x27;m paid for moral acts by a reinforced self-image and satisfaction. There are lots of forms of payment.","parent":"17968357","id":"17968392"}
{"by":"paradoja","time":"1372594683","timestamp":"2013-06-30 12:18:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At one point you can build a steelworks and produce steel from iron and coal.","parent":"5965218","id":"5965511"}
{"by":"bduerst","time":"1449870649","timestamp":"2015-12-11 21:50:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To anyone reading the comment above, I would be \u003ci\u003eextremely\u003c/i\u003e careful with this.\u003cp\u003eWhile owning an LLC doesn\u0026#x27;t violate the H1B visa work conditions, working on an LLC does, even if there isn\u0026#x27;t any reported employment or income to the IRS.\u003cp\u003eYour current H1B employer probably won\u0026#x27;t care, but if USCIS ever caught wind of it (even years later) you will likely lose your H visa.  USCIS recently closed the loophole where F-1 students would work unpaid internships without using OPT, and are completely unforgiving about visa workarounds.","parent":"10719737","id":"10720340"}
{"by":"s73ver_","time":"1505260851","timestamp":"2017-09-13 00:00:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t this now Mastodon? If it\u0026#x27;s not actually connected to the site in question?\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;My advice in this case would be to create a moderator stream that the end users can subscribe to.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat sounds like a pretty complex thing to do, which doesn\u0026#x27;t solve the problem of, \u0026quot;The comments on my site are overrun with people posting racial slurs.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In this case the site owners would be able to moderate comments through voluntary cooperation with its users, but it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be able to censor opinions that it didn\u0026#x27;t agree with, because the end users would always be in control of how its stream is filtered and would always be able to verify that on-topic posts aren\u0026#x27;t censored.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t believe that\u0026#x27;s actually a problem, though. You can always go make your own site if you want your voice heard.","parent":"15233642","id":"15234192"}
{"by":"Chris2048","time":"1462900781","timestamp":"2016-05-10 17:19:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Roman Catholics are pro-celibacy? You mean the priests?","parent":"11668655","id":"11668842"}
{"by":"mark_l_watson","time":"1271169136","timestamp":"2010-04-13 14:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that the article was largely factual except the amount of defense spending quoted in the article seems really low. Some (or a lot) of defense spending is non-essential (depending on your view of which is the greater threat: war/terrorism or a collapsing economy with an ensuing \"Road Warrior\" life style). I think that it would be more honest to add interest costs to all spending that is not absolutely required to \"keep the lights on.\"","parent":"1261702","id":"1262078"}
{"by":"chrisseaton","time":"1546668746","timestamp":"2019-01-05 06:12:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you’re allowed to turn right while lights are red for pedestrians that only means one lane can cross your path if you’re a pedestrian - the lane your sidewalk runs alongside.","parent":"18830241","id":"18830265"}
{"by":"zalew","time":"1348392074","timestamp":"2012-09-23 09:21:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; And even programmers, the audience who would most need all the power and flexibility of laptops, are switching to tablets.\u003cp\u003eprogrammerS? the link is the only guy I heard of so far, and I even know die-hard ipad fans who laugh at the idea of a tablet being a serious workstation.","parent":"4560423","id":"4560465"}
{"by":"gghh","time":"1426010143","timestamp":"2015-03-10 17:55:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nice! What game engine did you use?","parent":"9179052","id":"9179335"}
{"by":"rndmize","time":"1357762365","timestamp":"2013-01-09 20:12:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh man, does that petition start by comparing taking someone's life and livelihood to constructing a new building? Honestly now.\u003cp\u003eThe Bay Area feels like a typical tragedy of the common scenario - no one likes the absurd housing prices, or endless traffic, but no one is willing to allow high density housing/construction in their area. So the burden increases on everyone, bit by bit.","parent":"5033125","id":"5033218"}
{"by":"scrrr","time":"1303898695","timestamp":"2011-04-27 10:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would speculate that this will not help Accenture to acquire new development talent. After all, who would want to work with an expired technology?","parent":"2488898","id":"2488945"}
{"by":"jdleesmiller","time":"1355593204","timestamp":"2012-12-15 17:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, that's on our TODO list. Thanks for the feedback!","parent":"4925734","id":"4925743"}
{"by":"skookumchuck","time":"1540959478","timestamp":"2018-10-31 04:17:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Holocaust denying is a crime in many countries:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Laws_against_Holocaust_denial\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Laws_against_Holocaust_denial\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18342397","id":"18343319"}
{"by":"the_jeremy","time":"1545424999","timestamp":"2018-12-21 20:43:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most people mean \u0026quot;alien spaceship\u0026quot; not \u0026quot;something I can\u0026#x27;t make out\u0026quot; when they say UFO, despite the literal meaning of the acronym.","parent":"18735081","id":"18736469"}
{"by":"hackuser","time":"1430935715","timestamp":"2015-05-06 18:08:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A guess: Lenovo is trying to differentiate the experience of using their computers from that of competitors.\u003cp\u003eWhen all vendors sell products running the same OS, with essentially the same keyboard, screen, processor, etc., their products become commodities and margins disappear; consumers will buy whatever costs least.\u003cp\u003eIf consumers associate a special experience with your product, you might be able to charge a little more or at least have some brand loyalty.","parent":"9499696","id":"9500608"}
{"by":"happyguy43","time":"1518330234","timestamp":"2018-02-11 06:23:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why did you shadow ban me?","parent":"16349811","dead":true,"id":"16351469"}
{"by":"brylie","time":"1521703859","timestamp":"2018-03-22 07:30:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a good opportunity to join and\u0026#x2F;or recommend friends to join decentralized networks, like Mastadon:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;joinmastodon.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;joinmastodon.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;instances.social\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;instances.social\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16639926","dead":true,"id":"16646545"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1428243575","timestamp":"2015-04-05 14:19:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is with the post-indictment actions of prosecutors rather than the way grand juries are set up though.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s certainly within the realms of possibility to introduce legislation which limits the scope of plea bargains though (most likely by preventing prosecutors from pursuing charges and sentencing options they have indicated a willingness to drop in return for a guilty plea for a significantly lesser offence)","parent":"9323950","id":"9324084"}
{"by":"baran1","time":"1412913357","timestamp":"2014-10-10 03:55:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Open question: couldn\u0026#x27;t peer discovery be coordinated over a bitcoin like network?","parent":"8435841","id":"8436192"}
{"by":"verystealthy","time":"1439955115","timestamp":"2015-08-19 03:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And, to expand on that, applying for my EB.","parent":"10081430","id":"10083535"}
{"by":"german","time":"1190301609","timestamp":"2007-09-20 15:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"About the concept, can you please tell me what is wrong with it so we can think about changing.\u003cp\u003eThanks.","parent":"56829","id":"57429"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1287045286","timestamp":"2010-10-14 08:34:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems to fall victim to the classic \"if we only get X tiny % of some big market worth Y, then...\" fallacy. The real question is how strong their product offering is and what a realistic estimate of their popularity would be.","parent":"1788429","id":"1790259"}
{"by":"arantius","time":"1238470181","timestamp":"2009-03-31 03:29:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"gzip + chunked encoding = works\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://arantius.info/gzip-chunk.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://arantius.info/gzip-chunk.php\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotice headers:\nContent-Encoding\tgzip\nTransfer-Encoding\tchunked\u003cp\u003eAnd also notice the 10 second delay between the two paragraphs appearing in your browser.  (At least it does for me, in FF3.  In IE6, it only happens on the second-and-on load (F5).)  It's perfectly possible, for a compliant browser, to download, and render, the page incrementally, even with gzip compression applied.","parent":"538326","id":"539566"}
{"by":"deciplex","time":"1433235225","timestamp":"2015-06-02 08:53:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Uh, you\u0026#x27;re both really missing the important part:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If it turns out that you\u0026#x27;re objectively wrong, the clash will focus your attention \u003ci\u003eand you\u0026#x27;ll learn\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eYeah, if you have a bunch of ill-informed wrong opinions and, out of some stubborn ignorance, you refuse to update them when the conflicting evidence comes crashing in all around you, then you will be a stupid person. However, if you have a bunch of wrong opinions which you then turn into \u003ci\u003eright\u003c/i\u003e opinions after reality keeps kicking you in the ass, then you are on the road to being a smart person.\u003cp\u003eBut if you\u0026#x27;re apathetic, you won\u0026#x27;t even notice reality kicking you in the ass. Reality won\u0026#x27;t even bother with you. You\u0026#x27;re right that having wrong opinions \u003ci\u003eas a steady state\u003c/i\u003e is worse than having no opinion, but the whole point of GP was not to be in a steady state in the first place.","parent":"9644230","id":"9644660"}
{"by":"dgut","time":"1537689363","timestamp":"2018-09-23 07:56:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah, that\u0026#x27;s funny. As an anecdote, I was having a nice trip back from holidays when a security guard body-searched my then 2-year-old kid at Amsterdam airport on arrival. The shock-realization of what sort of society we\u0026#x27;ve become threw me off the track.","parent":"18049699","id":"18049958"}
{"by":"eeeeeeeeeeeee","time":"1450295630","timestamp":"2015-12-16 19:53:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve always thought that if you rent your place out on Airbnb, your neighbors should get a cut too.\u003cp\u003eThe logistics are difficult, but maybe it could work like this:\u003cp\u003e- Airbnb stores landlord info for each rental (where applicable)\u003cp\u003e- A certain percentage is set aside for the other tenants in that building and paid directly to the landlord of that building\u003cp\u003e- The landlord then distributes the amount they received from Airbnb to tenants via deductions in their monthly rent\u003cp\u003eAs much as I love Airbnb, I still feel like i\u0026#x27;m doing something sketchy when I use it and i\u0026#x27;ve had some awkward run-ins with landlords because it\u0026#x27;s clear the person doesn\u0026#x27;t have permission to sublet. So I would definitely like to see the service become more legitimate and move out of the shadows.","parent":"10744964","id":"10746803"}
{"by":"amalag","time":"1470684784","timestamp":"2016-08-08 19:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have line of site you AND you can cut some deal with a person within line of site you can easily do a nice wireless connection with high bandwidth with 5Ghz. Ubiquiti products are nice and can do very high bandwidth. The key is line of site.","parent":"12248272","id":"12250303"}
{"by":"xirium","time":"1207180283","timestamp":"2008-04-02 23:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the article: Even the 3ds Max 9 and POV-Ray rendering tests seem slower in 64-bit mode.\u003cp\u003eRendering using many instances of many data structures. This requires a large number of address pointers. When you move from a 32 bit environment to a 64 bit environment, those pointers grow from four bytes to eight byte each. That can reduce the effectiveness of a processor cache by 15% or more. Switch to 64 bit only if you're squeezed.","parent":"153321","id":"153461"}
{"by":"yjftsjthsd-h","time":"1537208439","timestamp":"2018-09-17 18:20:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remember the cardboard cutouts that sat over the F-keys and listed what each did? Used by ex. Wordperfect.","parent":"18007637","id":"18008488"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1508022430","timestamp":"2017-10-14 23:07:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;I wonder how much value modern financial innovations actually add to the economy.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eMoney market funds and mutual funds are innovations which have helped people save for retirement. Venture Capital funds have enabled many tech companies to flourish. The Commercial paper market has made payroll at large corporation much more efficient. Securitization of debt although it can obviously be abused is what allows people to get financing to buy homes and get car loans. These were all innovations. I am no defender of the banking industry but to say that there hasn\u0026#x27;t been value added by any of these innovation seems pretty silly.","parent":"15474705","id":"15474819"}
{"by":"the-dude","time":"1488293997","timestamp":"2017-02-28 14:59:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was raised on a single income and so was the majority of my peers in urrr, the 80s!\u003cp\u003eThis baffles me the most.","parent":"13754038","id":"13754152"}
{"by":"lrm242","time":"1274193655","timestamp":"2010-05-18 14:40:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don't need anywhere near 5-10mm. You need about 50k.","parent":"1356280","id":"1357576"}
{"by":"lachlanj","time":"1296177566","timestamp":"2011-01-28 01:19:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"specifically we are held up at the final sign off.\u003cp\u003eFor example, we have a set process in place from initial wireframe through to website launch. We are typically held up during the final sign off process where endless design changes are requested. Some the same element being changed back and forth.\u003cp\u003eThis is despite the fact that we have gotten sign off at the both the initial wirerfaming stage and then again at the design concept phase (this is the PSD version of the website, so what they see in the PSD is what will be converted to a website)\u003cp\u003eI point to the fact that they are making changes to a design they have already approved, to it becomes difficult to draw a line for what are further changes and need to be charged, and what are small changes that one would assume come with the initial website design?","parent":"2150272","id":"2150384"}
{"by":"kashkhan","time":"1490054277","timestamp":"2017-03-20 23:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"because the miscreants are too stupid to wait 96 hours.","parent":"13918658","id":"13918689"}
{"by":"subwindow","time":"1274901113","timestamp":"2010-05-26 19:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIn other words; you really need to find a high functioning heavy pot smoker to give the theory credence - and I don't think that is going to be easy.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Sagan. Richard Feynman. Steve Yegge. Thousands of others.\u003cp\u003eIf you're involved in a creative profession, of which I think that software development is one, then smoking marijuana boosts your ability to function.","parent":"1381179","id":"1381297"}
{"by":"Pobe","time":"1326145768","timestamp":"2012-01-09 21:49:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Je vais me rappeler de Signsquid justement à cause de la pieuvre. J'aime l'idée et le personnage est très bien choisi. Le lien se fait automatiquement avec l'encre.\u003cp\u003eLa question prend de sa pertinence en fonction de la clientèle que vous visez.\u003cp\u003eVotre style est jeune et dynamique alors j'assume que vous vous dirigez vers ce même genre de clientèle. Les start-up par exemple. Dans l'autre sens si vous souhaitez faire affaire avec le gouvernement ou des entités reconnus pour leur image complet cravate professionnel vous misez à côté de la traque à mon avis.\u003cp\u003eFaut pas oublier que votre service est vendu par le client qui l'a acheté. Alors si pour ma compagnie je dois aller voir un client sérieux (et imposant) je me sens gêné de lui présenter une grosse pieuvre gentille.\u003cp\u003eEnfin, c'est très subjectif, il n'y a pas de bonne réponse. C'est qui votre clientèle cible au fait?","parent":"3443982","id":"3444448"}
{"by":"SODaniel","time":"1324149702","timestamp":"2011-12-17 19:21:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, it's 100% OK to not know how the Internet works. What is NOT OK is to have no idea, but still vote on Internet exclusive issues.\u003cp\u003eTHAT is just outright stupid!","parent":"3362779","id":"3364886"}
{"by":"chrisfarms","time":"1400606903","timestamp":"2014-05-20 17:28:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We always play a scrabble rule where you can challenge someone to give a definition of the word they \u0026quot;claim\u0026quot; is real ... and if the definition is not in the chosen dictionary, then they are not allowed it ... even if it\u0026#x27;s a real word.","parent":"7773410","id":"7773858"}
{"by":"Maxious","time":"1363217953","timestamp":"2013-03-13 23:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These seems to be the most short sighted bit - they had the techarati 1% visiting a Google social media property multiple times a day and yet they neutered it (rather than integrating properly) to work more on Google+.","parent":"5371805","id":"5371908"}
{"by":"madmaze","time":"1307844236","timestamp":"2011-06-12 02:03:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is where the discussion comes in about whether or not to abolish software patents. It is disgusting that patent trolls go after OpenSource.","parent":"2645315","id":"2645448"}
{"by":"svisser","time":"1427586067","timestamp":"2015-03-28 23:41:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is also this Chinese concept train that never stops at a station: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Ig19gYP9o\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=p9Ig19gYP9o\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9282974","id":"9283230"}
{"by":"jasongullickson","time":"1306169408","timestamp":"2011-05-23 16:50:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e(think of the Newton, his first attempt to create an iPhone-like device)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFWIW, Jobs didn't create the Newton, he killed it. You don't have to look to hard to know this - \u003ca href=\"http://www.pencomputing.com/frames/newton_obituary.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.pencomputing.com/frames/newton_obituary.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs long as native apps have access to parts of the platform off-limits to web apps there will be a place for them.","parent":"2576429","id":"2576578"}
{"by":"HappyTypist","time":"1448789374","timestamp":"2015-11-29 09:29:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DMCA certainly does not restrict the ability of service providers to proactively screen and remove content (see: YouTube\u0026#x27;s content ID).\u003cp\u003eUdemy can hire one full time employee to quickly Google the name of all new uploaded courses, and this will catch the vast majority of plagiarism.","parent":"10644216","id":"10644229"}
{"by":"ben1040","time":"1394720620","timestamp":"2014-03-13 14:23:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope.  I got a free trial in late 2005, but realized I didn\u0026#x27;t buy enough from Amazon to justify the $79 at the time.\u003cp\u003eThen about six years ago I took a job that was really travel-heavy (gone M-Th every week).  My weekends became precious and I didn\u0026#x27;t want to waste them shopping, so I started using Prime for everything, including the things I\u0026#x27;d have otherwise bought at Target or a drugstore, like shampoo.  I\u0026#x27;d place my order Wednesday morning and it was at my house Friday when I was home.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve since quit that job and don\u0026#x27;t travel so much anymore.  But between me and my wife, we still get shipments from Amazon probably 2x\u0026#x2F; week.","parent":"7391792","id":"7391941"}
{"by":"zepto","time":"1453849536","timestamp":"2016-01-26 23:05:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Revenue estimates are made by people who don\u0026#x27;t actually know how the business works or what the facts are.  Why do you put such faith in their meaning?","parent":"10976690","id":"10976950"}
{"by":"semanticist","time":"1297814876","timestamp":"2011-02-16 00:07:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. I would be surprised if people working on WebKit for Apple weren't involved in those kind of discussions, and would fully expect Mobile Safari to support a workable device API.\u003cp\u003eI wonder how long before iOS development is like WebOS development?","parent":"2224099","id":"2224110"}
{"by":"pfisch","time":"1387103500","timestamp":"2013-12-15 10:31:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks much worse than symcalc.\u003cp\u003eSymCalc has pretty much all the functionality of a TI-89 including solving calculus and algebraic equations.\u003cp\u003eTydlig looks like it has a nice ui but it doesn\u0026#x27;t even seem to support variables....","parent":"6908648","id":"6908962"}
{"by":"modeless","time":"1447650260","timestamp":"2015-11-16 05:04:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Caltrain needs these.","parent":"10568736","id":"10572706"}
{"by":"nine_k","time":"1424798063","timestamp":"2015-02-24 17:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#x2F;* spelling\u0026#x2F;autocorrect: it\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x27;pore over\u0026#x27;, not \u0026#x27;pour over\u0026#x27; *\u0026#x2F;","parent":"9101696","id":"9101972"}
{"by":"WeiliNgo","time":"1464974796","timestamp":"2016-06-03 17:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t it a bit weird that he could just wander onto a military base? Aren\u0026#x27;t these surrounded by some kind of fence?","parent":"11831486","id":"11831726"}
{"by":"eagsalazar2","time":"1419192694","timestamp":"2014-12-21 20:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, while I get where people are coming from who recommend plain js, really learning how to do good front end development is only in part about knowing js itself.   The OP would also benefit a lot from learning some high level concepts you won\u0026#x27;t get from doing vanilla js - routing and components in particular - so keep that tradeoff in mind when deciding.","parent":"8780734","id":"8780779"}
{"by":"weberc2","time":"1474984010","timestamp":"2016-09-27 13:46:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who is using libraries to reduce error handling boilerplate? I rarely see `go generate` used for things that don\u0026#x27;t require static code gen (e.g., automatically generating bindings to C libraries). Sounds like you\u0026#x27;re inventing problems...","parent":"12567413","id":"12589526"}
{"by":"andybak","time":"1471430595","timestamp":"2016-08-17 10:43:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; They, apparently, have a problem acknowledging that they do not value privacy and security as much as they value novelty.\u003cp\u003eBelittling the contribution of scripting to the web as mere \u0026#x27;novelty\u0026#x27; is rather disingenuous. I could list other benefits but I suspect you\u0026#x27;re already aware of them and discount them because they don\u0026#x27;t apply to you.","parent":"12298657","id":"12303621"}
{"by":"evandena","time":"1317787490","timestamp":"2011-10-05 04:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My gut says Sprint will announce the iPhone 5 soon.","parent":"3073106","id":"3074147"}
{"by":"unclebucknasty","time":"1418833641","timestamp":"2014-12-17 16:27:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just had a mental image of an Echo in the embodiment of the Elf.\u003cp\u003eThe makings of a truly terrifying horror movie.","parent":"8762606","id":"8762840"}
{"by":"randomdata","time":"1533742110","timestamp":"2018-08-08 15:28:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Historically, part of college was to help an individual grow personally and intellectually, to learn not just what to think, but how to think clearly, in order to better engage with civil society as an active participant.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo you mean elementary school? Historically, that is the level of schooling that was provided to all citizens to learn how to think and allow them to become active participants in a civil society. Although it is debatable of how successful it has been at that in modern times.\u003cp\u003eHistorically, college was reserved as a finishing school for the wealthy to learn the social graces of upper-class society. It was only after people started noticing a correlation between wealth and completion of a college degree that the lower members of society started pushing for affordable access, believing that they would also be able to join the upper-class with that experience.","parent":"17713477","id":"17716717"}
{"by":"mwcampbell","time":"1443882180","timestamp":"2015-10-03 14:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out Avian (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;oss.readytalk.com\u0026#x2F;avian\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;oss.readytalk.com\u0026#x2F;avian\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e). You can use it with the OpenJDK class library. You can even run your application plus the class library through ProGuard, then AOT-compile the whole thing to generate a boot image for fast startup.","parent":"10323956","id":"10323980"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1496949329","timestamp":"2017-06-08 19:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Hayek says that central planning of an entire economy results in dictatorship\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWith some corporations becoming bigger and global we have to be a little careful that they don\u0026#x27;t turn into de-facto dictatorships either. Internally they already behave like one.","parent":"14516119","id":"14516407"}
{"by":"wutbrodo","time":"1493174350","timestamp":"2017-04-26 02:39:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Most Doctors are not grossly negligent, but if you find one that is what are you gonna do? There is no one to complain to without professional orders.\u003cp\u003eUm, the legal system? Have you honestly never heard of the legal concept of malpractice?  \u0026quot;Gross negligence\u0026quot; is very much included in it.","parent":"14199085","id":"14200050"}
{"by":"snakeanus","time":"1500899508","timestamp":"2017-07-24 12:31:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Such companies are usually extremely shady and unethical, I would not consider it evil at all to delete all of their recorded debts via tor or something.","parent":"14837708","id":"14837866"}
{"by":"mc_","time":"1510605663","timestamp":"2017-11-13 20:41:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2600Hz has an API-driven platform, Kazoo[0], built on FreeSWITCH and Kamailio. You can use the APIs to start calls, modify in-progress calls, and more. Multiple commercial offerings[1] depending on your needs are provided by 2600Hz as well.\u003cp\u003eSource: work there building Kazoo\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;2600hz\u0026#x2F;kazoo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;2600hz\u0026#x2F;kazoo\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.2600hz.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.2600hz.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15688306","id":"15690022"}
{"by":"leif","time":"1299131650","timestamp":"2011-03-03 05:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wasn't me, but why make gzip do the work when you can do it once, easily, yourself?  Sure it \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e do it, but their servers \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e serve the closing tags, and google strips those.  The discrepancy is weird is all.","parent":"2282857","id":"2283004"}
{"by":"techer","time":"1502438722","timestamp":"2017-08-11 08:05:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vaping? Edibles? Do they drink alcohol as well? More research is needed!","parent":"14986044","id":"14987554"}
{"by":"antiismist","time":"1242839467","timestamp":"2009-05-20 17:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Time of course has to be a factor in the sorting of the search results. But that doesn't mean that it has to be the only factor.\u003cp\u003eOther possible (negative, antispam factors): ratio of following to followers, number of duplicate or near dupe posts, etc.","parent":"618832","id":"618877"}
{"by":"nsomaru","time":"1374049858","timestamp":"2013-07-17 08:30:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not to mention his salary, too","parent":"6055584","id":"6056709"}
{"by":"jff","time":"1376285556","timestamp":"2013-08-12 05:32:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When people start reflecting on how it\u0026#x27;s so amazing that 8th graders were once expected to describe the Battle of Quebec, I think about this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;v.cx\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;feynman-brazil-education\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe math questions? I could have answered them in 8th grade. They\u0026#x27;re not hard, and they\u0026#x27;re the only part that\u0026#x27;s not just memorization.","parent":"6197561","id":"6197815"}
{"by":"aaronbrethorst","time":"1376380219","timestamp":"2013-08-13 07:50:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Discount codes shouldn\u0026#x27;t be highly usable.\u003cp\u003eedit: downvoted, sigh. ok. I\u0026#x27;ll elaborate. When you give me a discount code field on your checkout page, I automatically open up a new tab and Google around for \u0026quot;your site name discount code\u0026quot;. If I can find one that works, you\u0026#x27;re just losing money for absolutely no good reason. I would\u0026#x27;ve happily checked out without ever thinking of saving 5% on my $50 purchase. (c\u0026#x27;mon, $2.50? That\u0026#x27;s not even a latte!) But, now, I\u0026#x27;m obsessed, and I go back into \u0026#x27;bargain hunter\u0026#x27; mode. If you\u0026#x27;re really unlucky, I\u0026#x27;ll find another site that undercuts you without a discount field, and just use them.\u003cp\u003eSave yourself the trouble. Apply a coupon via a cookie from a special landing page. I\u0026#x27;ll feel excited and grateful if one is applied for me at checkout and I won\u0026#x27;t even think of shopping around any more if I don\u0026#x27;t have one.","parent":"6204485","id":"6204494"}
{"by":"mprovost","time":"1410278460","timestamp":"2014-09-09 16:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even on Solaris, ZFS doesn\u0026#x27;t have a great reputation for performance.","parent":"8290694","id":"8290820"}
{"by":"dahdum","time":"1538272928","timestamp":"2018-09-30 02:02:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it was his plan to tank the stock 14% on Friday, thinking it would pop back up and beyond Monday to hurt the shorts he’s been smoking far too much.\u003cp\u003eAfter hours trading is only up .5% from close, Friday morning it was already down like 12% when the market opened.","parent":"18103446","id":"18104072"}
{"by":"rpgmaker","time":"1401413447","timestamp":"2014-05-30 01:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He apparently didn\u0026#x27;t read your post. I don\u0026#x27;t understand why the hate. Your post was very clear on why you did what you did.\u003cp\u003ePS: I would suggest you get additional DNS addresses that are easier. I mean, google\u0026#x27;s are so conveniently easy: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I can readily add them without giving them much thought after any installation.","parent":"7819474","id":"7819661"}
{"by":"Estragon","time":"1318350373","timestamp":"2011-10-11 16:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3099180","id":"3099187"}
{"by":"martingordon","time":"1332277623","timestamp":"2012-03-20 21:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he may be referring to the fact that Sqoot, the event organizer, is based out of NYC (and Chicago) but:\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Sqoot was founded in 2010 at DreamIt Ventures, a startup incubator based in Philadelphia \u0026#38; NYC. We're a scrappy team in beautiful Chicago \u0026#38; NYC.\u003cp\u003eFrom: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sqoot.com/about\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sqoot.com/about\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3731525","id":"3731578"}
{"by":"janjongboom","time":"1448876218","timestamp":"2015-11-30 09:36:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends on how they communicate between each other. I\u0026#x27;m doing some stuff around LoRa [1] for long range communication, and my base station is a Rpi, the end nodes can be any type of microcontroller. E.g. [2] which comes with ARM\u0026#x27;s mbed, which even allows me to program them from the browser. For Bluetooth pick anything based on nrf58122, e.g. [3]. For WiFi pick ESP 8266 [4].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.link-labs.com\u0026#x2F;what-is-lora\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.link-labs.com\u0026#x2F;what-is-lora\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e  \n[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.multitech.com\u0026#x2F;brands\u0026#x2F;multiconnect-mdot\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.multitech.com\u0026#x2F;brands\u0026#x2F;multiconnect-mdot\u003c/a\u003e  \n[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nordicsemi.com\u0026#x2F;eng\u0026#x2F;Products\u0026#x2F;Bluetooth-Smart-Bluetooth-low-energy\u0026#x2F;nRF51822-Bluetooth-Smart-Beacon-Kit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nordicsemi.com\u0026#x2F;eng\u0026#x2F;Products\u0026#x2F;Bluetooth-Smart-Blue...\u003c/a\u003e  \n[4] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.espruino.com\u0026#x2F;ESP8266\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.espruino.com\u0026#x2F;ESP8266\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10648469","id":"10648556"}
{"by":"skilesare","time":"1332180138","timestamp":"2012-03-19 18:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this a joke?  Mike Daisey is not a radio journalist.  He isn't a journalist.  He does theater.  NPR picked up part of one of his show.","parent":"3725146","id":"3725243"}
{"by":"hiram112","time":"1471111548","timestamp":"2016-08-13 18:05:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. I run Fedora as my main VM and it has been pretty damn solid. I tried dual booting and had some NVidia problems, but otherwise it was okay.\u003cp\u003eIt is 80% there, and if I didn\u0026#x27;t just get a MBP from work, I\u0026#x27;d probably spend some more time with Fedora outside the VM.\u003cp\u003eEither way, if MS doesn\u0026#x27;t clean up their act, I\u0026#x27;m done with Windows after a long time of daily use.","parent":"12276137","id":"12282386"}
{"by":"Pacabel","time":"1404099977","timestamp":"2014-06-30 03:46:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reddit and Digg are\u0026#x2F;were far more general, however. So I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s a very valid or useful comparison to begin with.","parent":"7963589","id":"7963607"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1228664747","timestamp":"2008-12-07 15:45:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Higher than IT, but not higher than MIS or Computer Science. \"IT\" can mean a lot of things - much of the pure IT sector covers everything from being someone who plugs in the cables through to authorizing multi-million dollar purchases of equipment - not necessarily development or engineering.","parent":"388700","id":"388915"}
{"by":"sten","time":"1520436918","timestamp":"2018-03-07 15:35:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you PM me the names of the books. My wife does a lot of that stuff and she\u0026#x27;d either be very interested or insulted that I gave her more work to look at.","parent":"16536508","id":"16537054"}
{"by":"dylanrw","time":"1372362502","timestamp":"2013-06-27 19:48:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure it\u0026#x27;s a matter of being able to meet in person without the need for pricey flights,  having the ability to come in with some sort of frequency.","parent":"5954190","id":"5954329"}
{"by":"dnautics","time":"1376605746","timestamp":"2013-08-15 22:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;No contests, raffles, coupons, or lifetime memberships.\u0026quot;","parent":"6220418","id":"6221006"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1383890697","timestamp":"2013-11-08 06:04:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to be careful there.\u003cp\u003eTwitter is valuable because of the huge audience. Making everyone pay will lose that.\u003cp\u003eBUT, there is an important subset of people who will easily pay hundreds for a subscription.\u003cp\u003eLinkedIn is a good example: free for everyone, but recruiters pay for extra access. It\u0026#x27;s easy to imagine brands paying Twitter for a similar model.","parent":"6694646","id":"6694712"}
{"by":"visakanv","time":"1408016302","timestamp":"2014-08-14 11:38:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I think procrastination, like laziness, might be better described as \u0026quot;work aversion\u0026quot;. Procrastination and laziness both imply that the \u0026quot;problem\u0026quot; is with the individual who\u0026#x27;s afflicted with it, and it also almost implies that the environment has little-to-nothing to do with it. But there are many \u0026#x27;procrastinators\u0026#x27; who actually work really hard at certain things. (World of Warcraft strikes me as one of those things that actually requires a lot of hard work.)\u003cp\u003eSo again, for the people who do struggle with procrastination in their own lives, figuring out how to do something about it (if they want to do something about it at all!) requires a very thorough self-examination.","parent":"8176954","id":"8176973"}
{"by":"theunraveler","time":"1350478532","timestamp":"2012-10-17 12:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I'll take the first one because I have other shit I need to do.\u003cp\u003eUhh, what's so hard about making an array?","parent":"4663999","id":"4664160"}
{"by":"philfreo","time":"1247840815","timestamp":"2009-07-17 14:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So the world's third most popular database system acquires the second.  So much for competition!\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"709069","id":"709921"}
{"by":"talideon","time":"1463596150","timestamp":"2016-05-18 18:29:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Addendum: in case anybody\u0026#x27;s wondering what I meant when I wrote \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;d be strange if they weren\u0026#x27;t the same\u0026quot;, I was referring to the high probability of them being coincidentally the same or at least very similar.","parent":"11722875","id":"11724447"}
{"by":"rsy96","time":"1443878758","timestamp":"2015-10-03 13:25:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That would only be fairer if everyone has the same level of access to education up to that point.\u003cp\u003eSo it is the socioeconomic difference that should be addressed, not racial difference.","parent":"10323693","id":"10323794"}
{"by":"brettnak","time":"1270491476","timestamp":"2010-04-05 18:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who does, I'm still way more excited about this than any iPad news.","parent":"1242434","id":"1242608"}
{"by":"leke","time":"1411285438","timestamp":"2014-09-21 07:43:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What advantage does ello have over a popular and established ad free SN like diaspora?","parent":"8346429","id":"8346605"}
{"by":"qubyte","time":"1407544302","timestamp":"2014-08-09 00:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve attempted to use atom full time a few times. Each time it\u0026#x27;s eventually slowed to a crawl, and switching tabs takes seconds. I really want to like it, but it\u0026#x27;s just not as fast as sublime (yet).","parent":"8155808","id":"8155822"}
{"by":"electromagnetic","time":"1231875423","timestamp":"2009-01-13 19:37:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, the statistics seem to show that divorcees should have a huge failure rate, however all evidence seems to indicate that their judgment improves after they've been divorced, as the second marriage rate is surprisingly close to first marriages to say its composed almost entirely of people who failed the first time.","parent":"432384","id":"432555"}
{"by":"acomjean","time":"1402336385","timestamp":"2014-06-09 17:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was involved in a lot of state landfill construction (my Civil Engineering days).  That Bond was a big deal for a lot of companies.\u003cp\u003eThe owners (county and village) were good and wouldn\u0026#x27;t release payment for work that didn\u0026#x27;t meet the spec. The prospect of payment or lack thereof is a great motivator. Contractors knew the rules up front and it made our lives as inspectors for the owners much easier.  Not that they didn\u0026#x27;t test you continually to see what they could get away with.  These things start at the top.\u003cp\u003eOragne County landfill Expansion (a landfill they built and then had to stop and restore wetlands) was before my time but companies lost a lot of money on it and it was a good cautionary tale. Google seems to have very little knowledge about it.","parent":"7869210","id":"7869537"}
{"by":"striking","time":"1435795990","timestamp":"2015-07-02 00:13:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have a year\u0026#x27;s worth of code with you as well as another employee. It sounds like you\u0026#x27;re pretty valuable.","parent":"9816060","id":"9816143"}
{"by":"yen223","time":"1502683819","timestamp":"2017-08-14 04:10:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just knowing which fields are nullable, that\u0026#x27;s already a surprisingly huge productivity boost.","parent":"15005379","id":"15006536"}
{"by":"X4","time":"1388775894","timestamp":"2014-01-03 19:04:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So much details on a note makes me wonder, if a message could be steganographed within notes.\u003cp\u003eSomething like: \u003ci\u003eIf you can see this: Call 1-800-FED\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"7006848","id":"7007342"}
{"by":"ballard","time":"1380073217","timestamp":"2013-09-25 01:40:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea: s\u0026#x2F;encryption\u0026#x2F;hash function\u0026#x2F;\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;encryption\u0026#x27; -\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;hash function\u0026#x27; for those that dont grok sed","parent":"6441642","id":"6442142"}
{"by":"mustardhamsters","time":"1374169721","timestamp":"2013-07-18 17:48:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This still had a bunch of issues when I tried it: The user I connected with saw many instances of my user because I was trying to connect with Sublime Text, and couldn\u0026#x27;t give permission to all of them. The system didn\u0026#x27;t sync well from ST to the browser, but it worked the other way around. At some point we began typing over each other entirely. Screenshot here: \u003ca href=\"http://grab.by/oAgS\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grab.by\u0026#x2F;oAgS\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eReally want to see this working well!","parent":"6064608","id":"6065239"}
{"by":"dccoolgai","time":"1398190518","timestamp":"2014-04-22 18:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find most JS written functionally (at least if it\u0026#x27;s done the right way) to be a lot easier to follow if you think of each functional \u0026quot;step\u0026quot; in the chain like columns in a spreadsheet.  E.g. when I see something like _(array).filter(...).map(...).reject(...).reduce() I like to think of taking a value and following it the way you would across a spreadsheet and think of filter, map and reject as \u0026quot;columns\u0026quot;.  I don\u0026#x27;t know if that will help, but it does for me.","parent":"7629302","id":"7629347"}
{"by":"talltimtom","time":"1544227027","timestamp":"2018-12-07 23:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“touch interfaces are ubiquitous.”\u003cp\u003eI feel old, but honestly this was just, what? 10years ago?! does nobody remember how everyone in the entire mobile industry proclaimed Apple would fails because touch interfaces weren’t tactile. yet today every single phone is basically a copy of the first iPhone just with better chips and random stylistic touches to differenciate?","parent":"18632213","id":"18632786"}
{"by":"89a","time":"1358358072","timestamp":"2013-01-16 17:41:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK GO are a joke","parent":"5067379","dead":true,"id":"5067956"}
{"by":"revelation","time":"1464299311","timestamp":"2016-05-26 21:48:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course they can. But appeals typically have little chance of success, and a case that has already gone all up the appeal chain once and had a complete retrial?\u003cp\u003eNo way.","parent":"11781927","id":"11781956"}
{"by":"andimm","time":"1479286820","timestamp":"2016-11-16 09:00:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use \u0026#x27;firefox.exe -p \u0026quot;test\u0026quot; -no-remote\u0026#x27; to open a second window with a different profile.  \nor do you require to have it in the same window ?","parent":"12962617","id":"12965463"}
{"by":"gsibble","time":"1353117099","timestamp":"2012-11-17 01:51:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bought the same exact stuff from the same guy at the same mall.\u003cp\u003eActually works really well.  But damn do they have the tactics down.","parent":"4795139","id":"4796810"}
{"by":"axod","time":"1289567292","timestamp":"2010-11-12 13:08:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \"...and there were probably hundreds of thousands of users on it\"\u003cp\u003eI'd be \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e surprised if usage was that high. I'd believe there being maybe a few thousand using it regularly.","parent":"1897267","id":"1897490"}
{"by":"rijoja","time":"1485459796","timestamp":"2017-01-26 19:43:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow had no idea. But isn\u0026#x27;t TCP good enough? I guess I could google for a benchmark but I am to lazy.\u003cp\u003eBecause it\u0026#x27;s made for speed issues right?","parent":"13494490","id":"13494585"}
{"by":"barking","time":"1460334333","timestamp":"2016-04-11 00:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that is an accurate thing to say. There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding of the word bailout which leads people to believe that what was given was a gift rather than a loan with a lot of strings.\u003cp\u003eAnd a lot of the motivation was self interest in order to prevent contagion and also to allow the banks with loans in bailout countries to recover their money. Much of the money that went in went straight out again in loan repayments and a lot of debt was transferred from private debtors onto the shoulders of the taxpayers in those countries.","parent":"11468650","id":"11468903"}
{"by":"oneeyedpigeon","time":"1446384046","timestamp":"2015-11-01 13:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there are a lot of factors that go into what makes a \u0026#x27;reasonable minimum requirement\u0026#x27;, and since I\u0026#x27;m not an OSX developer, I\u0026#x27;m not as well placed as you are to judge all of them. However, as a user, I would certainly want the following to be considered:\u003cp\u003e* Install base. Judging by this [1] and some very rough back-of-the-envelope calculations, 10.6 has ~7% of the OSX share, and 10.9 has ~13%. To exclude at least 20% of your market seems unreasonable, to me. It certainly seems unwise if you\u0026#x27;re in the business of selling a product. Although that\u0026#x27;s obviously not the whole story; that 20% almost certainly represents less-than-average potential value.\u003cp\u003e* Nature of the product. Of course, an app that absolutely must use a feature of El Capitan will have to set the requirement there. What on earth is there about a file finder that requires Yosemite, though? This is where your expertise as an app developer can add some value to my opinion: can you guess what APIs we\u0026#x27;re talking about here, and isn\u0026#x27;t it possible to program in a backwards-compatible way to avoid them if they\u0026#x27;re not available? In fact, if we were talking about the web, it would be bordering on unforgivable to fix on a specific release of a specific browser because it supports a specific feature. The Right Way (TM) to do it would be to feature-sniff and act accordingly, not reject use of the application altogether. Isn\u0026#x27;t that possible in the world of OSX development?\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.netmarketshare.com\u0026#x2F;operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10\u0026amp;qpcustomd=0\u0026amp;qpsp=201\u0026amp;qpnp=2\u0026amp;qptimeframe=M\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.netmarketshare.com\u0026#x2F;operating-system-market-share...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10485698","id":"10486320"}
{"by":"anticensor","time":"1541969514","timestamp":"2018-11-11 20:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAaaand, your locomotive will not move unless your CBTC reports to Alexa network, enabling precise location tracking of these trains\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"18407673","id":"18428512"}
{"by":"dlokshin","time":"1331239635","timestamp":"2012-03-08 20:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They're \"fighting up\" as a marketing tactic. And it seems to be working pretty well so far. Countless of other startups have done the same thing like Paypal (fighting Ebay), Handspring (fighting Palm), Runkeeper (fighting Nike), etc.","parent":"3681450","id":"3681538"}
{"by":"Hondor","time":"1480164868","timestamp":"2016-11-26 12:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What makes Americans more deserving than Mexicans? Do Americans contribute something during their childhood which is repayed as wages in adulthood? Or is it the same factor that makes whites more deserving than blacks - i.e. membership of the same in-group?","parent":"13043234","id":"13043270"}
{"by":"Sharlin","time":"1547486816","timestamp":"2019-01-14 17:26:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And other companies are free to sign non-competes with other people. There\u0026#x27;s no single \u0026quot;one\u0026quot; company separate from the rest except perhaps from the point of view of a single employee. As has been said by others, non-competes are primarily a weapon in corporate warfare, where the actual natural persons are just pawns.","parent":"18902860","id":"18904606"}
{"by":"trentnelson","time":"1480020690","timestamp":"2016-11-24 20:51:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s the biggest clearing house of US dollar transactions per day, for one.  Chase is just the retail banking side of things.","parent":"13032371","id":"13032674"}
{"by":"loup-vaillant","time":"1255427542","timestamp":"2009-10-13 09:52:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Anything evaluating lambda expressions then has to deal with that or you'd have to expand the syntax of the calculus to contain a termination function which 'magically' decides that enough is enough.\u003cp\u003eThis isn't so magic. I don't know all the details, but it has been proved that:\u003cp\u003e* If some expression can be reduced to normal form, this normal form is unique (modulo variable naming —alpha conversion).\u003cp\u003e* There is a systematic (mechanic) strategy which guarantee to reach normal form, if it exist at all : normal order reduction.\u003cp\u003eNormal order reduction reduces the outer-most redex in an expression (instead of the inner-most one when you do eager evaluation —call by name). This is why you don't need `if`.\u003cp\u003eA small example:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    true  = \\t f. t\n    false = \\t f. f\n\n    if = \\b t f. b t f\n\n    nt = something_that_doesn't_reduce_to_normal_form\n    id = \\x. x\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nNow, trying to reduce this expression (in normal order):\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    if false nt id -- outer redex = if X X X\n    false nt id    -- outer redex = false X X\n    id             -- normal form = \\x. x\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nNow, without using definitions (except for `nt`):\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (\\b t f. b t f) (\\t f. f) nt (\\x. x)\n    (\\t f. f) nt (\\x. x)\n    (\\x. x)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nFinally, the outer-most thing may not be a redex. (but you can still reduce inner-redexes). This is the weak head normal form. For example:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \\x. ((\\x. x) x) -- weak head normal form. Outer redex = (\\x. x) X\n    \\x. x           -- plain normal form\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nYou can decide whether weak head normal form is enough, or go to normal form.","parent":"876515","id":"878746"}
{"by":"diminoten","time":"1392251255","timestamp":"2014-02-13 00:27:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A judge can and will hold someone in contempt of court for not producing documents they haven\u0026#x27;t even been shown to possess?\u003cp\u003eThat doesn\u0026#x27;t sound right...","parent":"7228128","id":"7228518"}
{"by":"s73ver_","time":"1509736130","timestamp":"2017-11-03 19:08:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be comfortable agreeing to that statement.","parent":"15621396","id":"15621539"}
{"by":"sebcat","time":"1519591073","timestamp":"2018-02-25 20:37:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Well, it\u0026#x27;s not really a thing. In a browser (the only kind of UA that\u0026#x27;ll really run any scripts in an SVG), SVG basically gets treated as SGML, all the DOM stuff is the same. If you include it as an image tag, the scripts don\u0026#x27;t tend to run, AFAIK\u003cp\u003eIt breaks expectations. I havn\u0026#x27;t looked at it recently, but it used to be the case that hosting user submitted SVGs on your domain could yield JS-execution in the origin context. Embedding or iframing without sandbox isn\u0026#x27;t\u0026#x2F;wasn\u0026#x27;t secure either.\u003cp\u003eA quick google search on SVG XSS gives:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hackerone.com\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;148853\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hackerone.com\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;148853\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;phabricator.wikimedia.org\u0026#x2F;T85850\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;phabricator.wikimedia.org\u0026#x2F;T85850\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16459881","id":"16461044"}
{"by":"petra","time":"1481065780","timestamp":"2016-12-06 23:09:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not use c\u0026#x2F;c++ based actor systems , in a size more fitting small microcontrollers , like [1]  ?\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.state-machine.com\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;concepts.html#Active\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.state-machine.com\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;concepts.html#Active\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13118484","id":"13119085"}
{"by":"Gravityloss","time":"1337508756","timestamp":"2012-05-20 10:12:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely the best comment. By looking at it this way, the mystery almost vanishes!","parent":"3996724","id":"3998425"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1513049377","timestamp":"2017-12-12 03:29:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eand our linker prints out a slightly strange string in the help message.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrange, or actually helpful? It would\u0026#x27;ve been more devious if the message it was looking for actually contained more... potentially copyrightable content; here\u0026#x27;s one recently-mentioned example:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dacut.blogspot.ca\u0026#x2F;2008\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;oracle-poetry.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dacut.blogspot.ca\u0026#x2F;2008\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;oracle-poetry.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis also reminds me of \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sega_v._Accolade\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sega_v._Accolade\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Lexmark_International,_Inc._v._Static_Control_Components,_Inc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Lexmark_International,_Inc._v....\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eAnyone who has experimented with Hackintoshing may also recall the \u0026quot;SMCDeviceKey\u0026quot;, a \u0026quot;magic cookie\u0026quot; that serves a similar purpose of attempting to use copyright as a blocker to compatibility.","parent":"15902433","id":"15902796"}
{"by":"jmilloy","time":"1351000437","timestamp":"2012-10-23 13:53:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My sense is that \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e time a company issues a statement or response about a customer service issue, someone will dislike the tone and comment about it. This gives an inflated appearance of dissatisfaction with statements by large companies and over-perpetuates the corporate PR-speak meme. That's not to say that companies never dodge key issues, refuse to own up, or spin things in their favor.\u003cp\u003eBut in this case, it sounds like someone at Amazon simply fixed the mistake, admitted the mistake, and clarified their position. Just because they didn't use profanity and an informal tone doesn't change the content.","parent":"4687879","id":"4688077"}
{"by":"michaelbuckbee","time":"1404942401","timestamp":"2014-07-09 21:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CA\u0026#x27;s don\u0026#x27;t provide this security, but there\u0026#x27;s a new security mechanism called HTTP Strict Transport Security - [1] HSTS  - which (along with some certificate pinning [2]) would.\u003cp\u003e1 - \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 - \u003ca href=\"http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29988/what-is-certificate-pinning\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;security.stackexchange.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;29988\u0026#x2F;what-is-ce...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8012366","id":"8012416"}
{"by":"librvf","time":"1441546654","timestamp":"2015-09-06 13:37:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think we disagree very much about the likely level of subject-specific due diligence these publishers will do\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich publishers?  If this is a real problem, there might be real solutions but those won\u0026#x27;t be found if we are busy debating narratives without digging down into the details.","parent":"10177206","id":"10177586"}
{"by":"mathnode","time":"1309512142","timestamp":"2011-07-01 09:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shake was the king. But now the industries have Nuke. The king is dead long live the king!","parent":"2716398","id":"2717621"}
{"by":"gradschool","time":"1472173136","timestamp":"2016-08-26 00:58:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if it\u0026#x27;s possible with FreeNAS, but on an ordinary Debian box nothing stops you running ZFS on LUKS encrypted devices. I\u0026#x27;ve been using this configuration without issues for about a year on a home file server.","parent":"12362847","id":"12363619"}
{"by":"dspillett","time":"1474909084","timestamp":"2016-09-26 16:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Behaviours of StartCom and its owner WoSign that are against the accepted rules of the industry they work in, in industry for which trust if key, is killing StartCom.\u003cp\u003eBeing popular does not give you the right to expect transgressions to be ignored.\u003cp\u003eI used to use StartCom and even recommend them (it was an inexpensive way to get wildcard and multi-domain certificates). Since LetsEncrypt they have far less relevance, and since recent behaviours I wouldn\u0026#x27;t trust them if they were still relevant to my needs. The one wildcard I still use (because lazy mainly) I paid for a new version of elsewhere, my other SSL needs LetsEncrypt does the job.","parent":"12583364","id":"12583476"}
{"by":"jaybaxter","time":"1394121832","timestamp":"2014-03-06 16:03:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Test questions like the SAT are designed to have wrong answers that look like they are right at first glance, so people who think they have a better than average chance by guessing often don\u0026#x27;t because they were baited by one of the wrong answers without thinking it all the way through.","parent":"7350759","id":"7354498"}
{"by":"nimbix","time":"1479732547","timestamp":"2016-11-21 12:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s only a matter of time before Google starts fighting back and asks ad blockers to allow AMP ads or face being kicked from the Chrome extensions store. AMP ads are relatively lightweight, built from a short list of approved components, and signed by a validation service, so all the usual arguments about why people are blocking ads go out the window. And Google certainly is in a position where they can start demanding a change like this.","parent":"13004221","id":"13004932"}
{"by":"superuser2","time":"1435618125","timestamp":"2015-06-29 22:48:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Non-US IT infrastructure companies are \u003ci\u003eguaranteed\u003c/i\u003e to have been pwned by US intelligence. That is explicitly what we pay it to do.\u003cp\u003eIt might help \u0026quot;send a message,\u0026quot; but it certainly won\u0026#x27;t make you safer.","parent":"9801174","id":"9801679"}
{"by":"nkrisc","time":"1462211587","timestamp":"2016-05-02 17:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think what\u0026#x27;s interesting is they\u0026#x27;re forcing her to verify that it is in fact her phone or that she had access to it. Now, in the case of a phone it likely wouldn\u0026#x27;t be hard to prove that other ways, but what if it was an otherwise unidentifiable device? It would force her to effectively testify she owned it when the police might otherwise not be able to prove that.","parent":"11612673","id":"11613749"}
{"by":"palidanx","time":"1407948149","timestamp":"2014-08-13 16:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good points.  Might there be sticker shock on the renewal of a $2,200 product?","parent":"8172303","id":"8173761"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1470190293","timestamp":"2016-08-03 02:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read the order before I made my comment, thanks.  The order makes clear note of why these mentions were prejudicial in this case.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Apple consented to the consolidation\u003cp\u003eIANAL but seems like you don\u0026#x27;t understand the difference between \u003ci\u003econsent\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eobjecting to but preferring consolidation to trying the cases out of order\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; there is nothing in this order to justify a new trial\u003cp\u003eThe judge goes into detail on how mentions of the earlier trial were used in the consolidated one to \u0026quot;gratuitous\u0026quot; prejudicial impact, including the repeated mentions to infringement by FaceTime 1.0 when that finding had been reversed. He quotes several of these at length, goes on to cites multiple precedents, then goes into detail why VirnetX\u0026#x27;s cited precedent doesn\u0026#x27;t apply to this case.","parent":"12214421","id":"12215084"}
{"by":"ralfn","time":"1502711984","timestamp":"2017-08-14 11:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The honest answer -- Microsoft has a lot of people with experience in building these things, so they aren\u0026#x27;t making the typical mistakes that Atom made with their architecture. For example: Atom was rendering dom nodes for your whole file -- not just the parts that were visible. Using the DOM as a stateful container of all that could be visible does not scale really well.\u003cp\u003eCompare to something like the ACE editor (an OSS editing component that you can plug into any website) which is lightning fast -- it only renders what you see though -- but the filesize is not at all relevant to the performance.\u003cp\u003eThese are all techniques that people who ever wrote complex UI toolkits are incredible aware of. I don\u0026#x27;t think that describes anybody who worked on ATOM ever, which means they just have to relearn and re invent this stuff until they get it right.\u003cp\u003eGenerally, these days a lot of developers get a lot of experience combining existing technologies. Proper engineering skills, or even being aware of the data structures you are using and their algorithmic complexity, how cache friendly it is -- all of this is prioritized much less now.\u003cp\u003eSo Atom answers a simply question. Has hardware become significantly fast to not care about proper engineering? No, not really and it never will. If your datastructure is structured in a such a way that inserting a line all the way at the top requires a relayout of every line below that, for example, you will run into real limits.","parent":"14961929","id":"15008034"}
{"by":"adyio","time":"1363573270","timestamp":"2013-03-18 02:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Alex,\u003cp\u003eHad a look and some quick comments:\u003cp\u003e* If you want to work as a UX Designer, then I think you need more UX portfolio pieces, showcasing your design thinking and how you solved various design problems. Most of your work seems to be campaign or brochureware related, I couldn't see anything transactional or application related for example, so try to get more experience in that area too.\u003cp\u003e* If you've done anything in the mobile or app space include it in your portfolio. If not find a sideproject you can work on and create a case study which you can include in your portfolio, similar to \u003ca href=\"http://www.repeattimerapp.com/how/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.repeattimerapp.com/how/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e* One of your designs (under construction) looks like it's a Wordpress template - try to avoid showing unfinished work\u003cp\u003e* Lorem ipsum is verboten, try to avoid it \u003ca href=\"http://37signals.com/svn/archives/001083.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://37signals.com/svn/archives/001083.php\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou might also want to review the following pages, to give you an idea what companies like Google, Apple, etc expect.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cooper.com/careers/interaction-designer.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cooper.com/careers/interaction-designer.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cooper.com/careers/visual-designer.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cooper.com/careers/visual-designer.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.quora.com/What-do-clients-employers-recruiters-look-for-in-a-UX-portfolio\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.quora.com/What-do-clients-employers-recruiters-lo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.quora.com/User-Experience/What-are-the-best-UX-Design-portfolios\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.quora.com/User-Experience/What-are-the-best-UX-De...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA great blog by Simon Pan - also from Australia - \u003ca href=\"http://www.simonpan.com/how-ux-found-me/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.simonpan.com/how-ux-found-me/\u003c/a\u003e - maybe email him, I'm sure he's got other tips...\u003cp\u003eIn summary, judging from your portfolio only, I think you need to get more experience (agency / startup) before applying as a UX Designer at Google \u0026#38; Co.\u003cp\u003eNice cookie rendering btw ;)","parent":"5391808","id":"5392033"}
{"by":"adrianN","time":"1537263060","timestamp":"2018-09-18 09:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If only Space X had asked the experts on the Internet before pouring so much money into building reusable rockets...","parent":"18013724","id":"18013759"}
{"by":"scirocco","time":"1490811980","timestamp":"2017-03-29 18:26:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really cool solution! All the best to the team, hope this goes well","parent":"13986729","id":"13989149"}
{"by":"mindsetalex","time":"1521088724","timestamp":"2018-03-15 04:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for your feedback, glad you liked it!\u003cp\u003eThat’s one of the reasons we put that introductory session in; to help get rid of some of the misconceptions surrounding hypnosis.\u003cp\u003eWe know it can be a bit difficult to fit in but think of it as the same amount of time as short tv ep but instead of draining your productivity you’re actually improving yourself.\u003cp\u003eCheers! We believe that in order for hypnosis to be successful it needs to be packaged beautifully and intuitively (have you seen any of he other apps out there)","parent":"16589953","id":"16590432"}
{"by":"doorhammer","time":"1393984555","timestamp":"2014-03-05 01:55:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you haven\u0026#x27;t read it, you should check out Hallucinations, by the neurologist Oliver Sacks.  His books in general are super fascinating, but there\u0026#x27;s a really interesting section on drugs in that one, and specifically mentions psychedelics a number of times (which isn\u0026#x27;t a shock considering it\u0026#x27;s a book on hallucinations).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Hallucinations-Oliver-Sacks/dp/0307957241\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Hallucinations-Oliver-Sacks\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0307957...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7341905","id":"7344727"}
{"by":"stevenklein","time":"1431355871","timestamp":"2015-05-11 14:51:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey HN -- happy to answer any questions you have. Would love to hear your feedback!","parent":"9524887","id":"9525146"}
{"by":"elahd","time":"1466344190","timestamp":"2016-06-19 13:49:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t, but that\u0026#x27;s fine for my risk profile. I use LastPass, as well, with different passwords for every site and 2FA where available.","parent":"11926653","id":"11932958"}
{"by":"transfire","time":"1379886209","timestamp":"2013-09-22 21:43:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would use my fp and a pin.","parent":"6428099","id":"6428151"}
{"by":"mjstahl","time":"1437146371","timestamp":"2015-07-17 15:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The current link points to a page that doesn\u0026#x27;t exist.\u003cp\u003eHere is the updated URL:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.voxxed.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;akka-streams-and-http-1-0-final-release-is-here\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.voxxed.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;akka-streams-and-http-1-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9903034","id":"9903136"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1471880258","timestamp":"2016-08-22 15:37:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s probably less work than duplicating the cases, and ideally you can give a more meaningful name to the whole \u0026quot;isA or isB\u0026quot; construct - especially when you have a lot of constructors!","parent":"12336980","id":"12337068"}
{"by":"eliaspro","time":"1479645879","timestamp":"2016-11-20 12:44:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, at least in Germany there\u0026#x27;s virtually no homelessness due to a lack of resources. The government has to provide sufficient housing. \nThe reasons for homelessness around here are most of the time different ones than \u0026quot;can\u0026#x27;t afford to pay rent\u0026quot;. In many cases mental health issues and bureaucratic hurdles which might be too high to tackle for those stuck in a difficult situation. \nIt\u0026#x27;s mostly down to having Street Workers which are able to connect to those people and help them doing the first steps into the right direction.","parent":"12998437","id":"12998579"}
{"by":"rlonstein","time":"1484064400","timestamp":"2017-01-10 16:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently had good luck with the Dell Inspiron 5565 with the AMD A12 APU I got for my son though I knew it might be a crap shoot. Everything worked out of the box on Ubuntu 16.10 including sound and sleep but I had to blacklist, iirc, `i2c-hid` so the touchpad would work consistently.","parent":"13361812","id":"13365839"}
{"by":"wccrawford","time":"1313433822","timestamp":"2011-08-15 18:43:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, we're definitely disagreeing.  Because a mess -can- be cleaned up, and it can be chosen consciously.  In fact, it always is.\u003cp\u003ePeople like to think they didn't make a decision like:  \"I know this code is shit, but I'm going to push it live anyhow.\"  But they DO.  Every time.  They just lie to themselves about it being shit.\u003cp\u003eI'm even going to argue that there IS a time and place for shitty code.  Startups are a great example of this.  Get some barely working code up and going (incur debt) and then fix or rewrite it (pay the debt off).  This gets the business earning money and moving forward as quickly as possible, and there's time later (if you don't put off the debt too long) to clean things up.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that it doesn't have a $ amount attached to it, so many business types can't see it.  They just see a working system and can't imagine why you want to spend more time and money on it.  (Not that I really blame them...  They can't see it.)","parent":"2887980","id":"2888135"}
{"by":"Tistel","time":"1492270059","timestamp":"2017-04-15 15:27:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not sure if they still teach it, but, when I did CS 15 years ago they told us about computing in the 70\u0026#x27;s (maybe 60\u0026#x27;s too ? not sure) when every computer manufacturer had proprietary languages\u0026#x2F;OSs\u0026#x2F;systems on there platform.  Once a company had invested years and millions of dollars they basically had you in a trap.  They raise the price, you had to pay up.  Everyone saw that this was a terrible trap and they started standardizing the languages (hence ANSI\u0026#x2F;ISO C\u0026#x2F;C++ etc) that could run on multiple OSs.  Woo Hoo, great job guys.\u003cp\u003eNow what RMS did with open source took this to the next level.  Now there is so much control in the hands of the programmers and end users.  You can keep stepping into functions until you hit the metal while debugging.  Its fantastic and so much better than the previous opaque proprietary libraries of old.  Any kid can modify whatever they want.  I feel the young people today using npm, pip etc don\u0026#x27;t really appreciate how different a world we program in thanks to RMS.  Had the dev world stayed on the 70\u0026#x27;s path we would be in a very different place that would have a fraction of the apps we see today.\u003cp\u003eNow, this lack of history is starting to come back around and bite us.  I year and half ago I was on a project that brought on a new manager.  He announced that the company was  switching everything to Salesforce.  He based his decision on the fact that Salesforce throws good parties and he had been invited to one.  I looked into it and at the time you had to develop using a language called lightning that was a strange mix of java and sql that, surprise surprise, only ran on their proprietary platform.  Because I am now the old guy on every team I spoke my mind and told them this was an obvious trap and once we go down this very expensive road it will be very difficult to get off.  The manager guy looked disappointed and said he understood what I was saying.  In an effort to get me on board, and missing my point entirely, he got me invited to one of their parties (which had half decent wine and great food and I did not say the phrase \u0026quot;this is an obvious trap\u0026quot; even once, I swear (but I did think it)).  Long story short, I quit the job in disgust at their tech choices.  (in fairness to SF, I heard near the end that they were switching to javascript, so they may know they need to be more open source)\u003cp\u003eRMS should be very proud of the fact that no sane programmer in this day and age would ever use anything other than open source.  We need to teach tech history to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.","parent":"14119644","id":"14121121"}
{"by":"lsc","time":"1447489224","timestamp":"2015-11-14 08:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We all sometimes have the urge to do or say inappropriate things, no?   A big part of what makes you, you know, you is the degree to which you have a \u0026quot;filter\u0026quot; that screens out those inappropriate urges before they turn into inappropriate actions.\u003cp\u003eThis filter is rather different in different situations, because what is appropriate (and what has consequences) is different in different situations.   In a very real way, I would argue that changing that filter enough (and pesudoanonymity is usually \u0026#x27;enough\u0026#x27;) makes you, essentially, a different person.\u003cp\u003eMost people, in a pseudonymous situation,  have much less of a filter, in part because bad behavior is more acceptable, and in part because bad behavior has fewer negative consequences, both to themselves and others, than it does in a real life situation.  (I\u0026#x27;m not saying that there are no consequences;  people are hurt.  But usually not as much as people would be hurt if the same people removed the same filters in real-life interactions.)","parent":"10564744","id":"10564938"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1513563417","timestamp":"2017-12-18 02:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That last link seems like cherry-picking. Why a screenshot? Why not a link to the comment on HN? Likely it was flagged and\u0026#x2F;or downvoted, which is how the community signals that a post is unacceptable. In other words your example, correctly examined, probably indicates the opposite of your claim.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s impossible to prevent everyone from ever posting awful things to HN in the first place. This is a public, anonymous internet forum. Of course people are going to post such things, and of course it takes time for the community immune system, including downvotes and flags and moderation, to react. But it usually does. You can\u0026#x27;t judge HN fairly without taking that into account.\u003cp\u003eI know that people capture these screenshots and pass them around on Twitter and whatnot. I also know that when the original posts eventually get flagged or otherwise dealt with, the people passing the screenshots around never mention that, never update, and most of all never apologize for publicly claiming that HN—and even we personally—endorse the most horrible stuff. That\u0026#x27;s how political battle works: concede nothing, correct nothing, distort every available data point for maximum effect. It doesn\u0026#x27;t seem very compatible with intellectual honesty to me, but that is for each person\u0026#x27;s conscience to decide.","parent":"15948523","id":"15948923"}
{"by":"bmj","time":"1430437801","timestamp":"2015-04-30 23:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except that kids will need access to VS2013 or 2015, which, unless they have a parent who works on the MS stack.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I do agree this is really a neat thing from MS.\u003cp\u003eAlthough it is not necessarily cheap, Youth Digital\u0026#x27;s Mod course[0] is really quite good.  You get an instance of Eclipse ready for Minecraft mod development.   While it covers some basic programming skills, it really about simply learning how to manipulate the code in order to do neat things in the game.  My older boy loves it, and enjoys \u0026quot;exploring\u0026quot; by modifying parameters.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youthdigital.com\u0026#x2F;minecraft-mod-design.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youthdigital.com\u0026#x2F;minecraft-mod-design.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9467269","id":"9468363"}
{"by":"adamjleonard","time":"1322062759","timestamp":"2011-11-23 15:39:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, it's definitely appreciated!","parent":"3270289","id":"3270342"}
{"by":"billpatrianakos","time":"1325110145","timestamp":"2011-12-28 22:09:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, I didn't even realize it. I guess the lesson is we should all stop commenting as none of seem to be able to cut it out. It's funny how you can be totally well meaning and believe you're above it all yet somehow fall into the same trap you strive to avoid. Like me!","parent":"3401194","id":"3401618"}
{"by":"confounded","time":"1538591205","timestamp":"2018-10-03 18:26:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone know anything about the underlying tech? Is it related to E911, e.g. any privacy implications?","parent":"18133119","id":"18133187"}
{"by":"byuu","time":"1397696699","timestamp":"2014-04-17 01:04:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it\u0026#x27;s definitely causing me discomfort to look at them. I see the blurred area, and try and fail to focus on it. 3D effects really don\u0026#x27;t translate well to a 2D display. I get what they\u0026#x27;re going for, but I\u0026#x27;m personally not a fan of the effect. I\u0026#x27;d rather have the nuanced little details in the background, in case one day I want to see that too. The effect is lovely for \u003ci\u003eextreme\u003c/i\u003e close-up pictures (of insects, flowers, water drops, ...), though.\u003cp\u003eI like the idea of storing the depth information (and preferred focal point) inside the image, and allowing the viewer to decide whether they want depth of focus effects, and if so, how strongly they want them enabled.","parent":"7599754","id":"7601487"}
{"by":"dregitsky","time":"1363377530","timestamp":"2013-03-15 19:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We might not need the government to fully subsidize healthcare to improve things though. Prices are set so high that hospitals - even nonprofit ones - have huge profit margins (this is better stated in the original [now-paywalled] TIME cover story: \u003ca href=\"http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136864,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136864,00....\u003c/a\u003e). So even without the government paying for everything, there could be regulation to control prices set by healthcare providers.","parent":"5382466","id":"5382637"}
{"by":"gnicholas","time":"1507914414","timestamp":"2017-10-13 17:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI wonder how \u0026quot;Wall Street is not your friend\u0026quot; would play in the NY Times.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTalking to friends in NYC, they say that the \u0026quot;Silicon Valley is evil\u0026quot; trope plays well there because New York is heavily finance-based, and finance has been slammed while tech has ascended.\u003cp\u003eAlso note that Amazon is included in \u0026quot;Silicon Valley\u0026quot;, even though they have never been headquartered in CA.","parent":"15466674","id":"15467436"}
{"by":"joeclark77","time":"1401463063","timestamp":"2014-05-30 15:17:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the \u0026quot;what did you wish you did\u0026quot; category, think about joining the military.  They will pay you more than some minimum-wage job would, give you training and possibly an exciting tech job like cyber-warfare.  (Not to mention the uniform and the physical training that\u0026#x27;ll help you attract a good woman!)  Maybe you don\u0026#x27;t have any sense of duty or patriotism (most of us didn\u0026#x27;t at your age)... but you probably will in 15 years, and you\u0026#x27;ll thank yourself!  There are a lot of us old guys who wish we had served, but I\u0026#x27;ve never met an old veteran who wishes he \u003ci\u003ehadn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThink about the other stuff you\u0026#x27;re probably planning to do with the next decade: work some entry-level jobs, live with your parents, sit on the sofa, play a lot of video games, etc.  Why not drive a submarine or work with satellites or something instead?","parent":"7820503","id":"7822237"}
{"by":"djmollusk","time":"1432474849","timestamp":"2015-05-24 13:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome, but they forgot to do text only 404 pages. Quick fix though.","parent":"9593410","id":"9596196"}
{"by":"udp","time":"1321374892","timestamp":"2011-11-15 16:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't agree -\u003cp\u003eYou look at the CPU and GPU specs to see how fast a \u003ci\u003egame\u003c/i\u003e will run, not something like Siri. You look at the storage to see how many MP3s you can fit on there, not how many calendar entries.\u003cp\u003eSure, a lot of the applications are moving to the cloud, but I never really expected the specs to make much difference to the speed of simple applications anyway (well, if they do in this day and age, something is seriously wrong).","parent":"3238208","id":"3238804"}
{"by":"blasdel","time":"1246991015","timestamp":"2009-07-07 18:23:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely you mean 32-bit RGBA PNG?","parent":"691976","id":"692068"}
{"by":"snorkel","time":"1462918296","timestamp":"2016-05-10 22:11:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s no specific law or regulation referenced in the complaint. This is just grandstanding. Facebook PR flaks will gladly reply with a generic corporate non-answer and that will be the end of it.","parent":"11670842","id":"11671098"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1465078898","timestamp":"2016-06-04 22:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re probably mistaking pedophilia with child molesters; the former is a sexual orientation, just like being a homosexual is - not something an individual can control; the latter is a crime, like rape.","parent":"11838247","id":"11838429"}
{"by":"saturdaysaint","time":"1373998533","timestamp":"2013-07-16 18:15:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I swear I recall (probably on the excellent createdigitalmusic.com) a quote from an Apple engineer around the release of Logic 9 saying that musicians consistently rate skeutomorphic plugins as \u003ci\u003esounding\u003c/i\u003e better than flatter counterparts.","parent":"6052515","id":"6053667"}
{"by":"mrfusion","time":"1473625853","timestamp":"2016-09-11 20:30:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"makes me wonder what\u0026#x27;s going on with radar detectors these days?  Are they just 100% false alarms with all the cars using radar?","parent":"12475027","id":"12475516"}
{"by":"lawn","time":"1512821265","timestamp":"2017-12-09 12:07:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Segwit isn\u0026#x27;t a a block size increase. It allows for a tiny amount more transactions but it\u0026#x27;s very clear it\u0026#x27;s not enough. An actual block size increase (say to 8MB) would solve the current problems.\u003cp\u003eLN is years from being actually usable by the masses. This is from their developers themselves.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Maybe it\u0026#x27;s more proof that no one cares?\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a pretty idiotic thing to say. The technology isn\u0026#x27;t ready yet despite the developers being aware of the problem for, as you say, years.","parent":"15884787","id":"15885460"}
{"by":"DevAccount","time":"1346097094","timestamp":"2012-08-27 19:51:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Names are hard! In Britain \"tout\" means something, slightly negative; \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4439330","id":"4440485"}
{"by":"chad_strategic","time":"1438877151","timestamp":"2015-08-06 16:05:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s amazing how fast people forget the past. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tulip_mania\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tulip_mania\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt happens every time, if there a way to make money speculators will come into the market, take advantage of it. Or in the case of index funds, it will become overcrowded and inefficient and the market will move on to the next big thing. Just ask LTCM. It\u0026#x27;s the invisible hand of the market...\u003cp\u003eHonestly, anybody that down voted me is probably invested heavily in index funds because they heard something on a blog and listened to Warren Buffet once.","parent":"10011454","id":"10017415"}
{"by":"joelhaasnoot","time":"1509095420","timestamp":"2017-10-27 09:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re probably right for modern\u0026#x2F;default use cases, but I\u0026#x27;ve seen C++ for Windows Mobile fail terribly too (Android Studio supports NDK\u0026#x2F;Native C++ code also).","parent":"15562642","id":"15566799"}
{"by":"NotKrisKelly","time":"1514910158","timestamp":"2018-01-02 16:22:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK Seattle, WA or Remote\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: iOS, tvOS, Swift, AVKit, MapKit, EventKit, React Native, React, JavaScript, ES6, Objective-C, Cocoapods, Fastlane, GraphQL, Postgres, Ruby, Rails, Java, node.js\u003cp\u003eRésumé\u0026#x2F;CV: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;kristopherbkelly\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;kristopherbkelly\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail: kris@kriskelly.me\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a developer with 11+ years of experience on both web and mobile platforms. Lately I\u0026#x27;ve been doing tvOS apps in Swift, but I also have quite a bit of JS experience and am very comfortable with React Native. In past years I did a lot of server-side development, so I\u0026#x27;m also happy to work on your app\u0026#x27;s API, but I don\u0026#x27;t specialize in front end web development. I\u0026#x27;m also an easy person to work with and I try to be an active listener who understands what clients and customers want and need.","parent":"16052539","id":"16052793"}
{"by":"pohl","time":"1254938650","timestamp":"2009-10-07 18:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's worth noting, though, that Google's implementation of Wave is written in GWT.  Since GMail predates the invention of GWT, it's likely that it would be a GWT application if started today.","parent":"866781","id":"867254"}
{"by":"greeneggs","time":"1463420979","timestamp":"2016-05-16 17:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, the way OkCupid works, you can answer questions either privately or publicly.  Even when you answer a question publicly, it is still only visible to other users who have answered the same question.  Privately answered questions are never visible, but are used in calculating the \u0026quot;percent match\u0026quot; between two users.  So I would presume that they started their scraping bot with fake answers to every single question.\u003cp\u003eThis is of course a kind of \u0026quot;privacy by obscurity,\u0026quot; and it is not at all secure.  For example, if you want you can probably figure out people\u0026#x27;s answers to all questions, even the private ones, by having a separate bot for every question.  Then the percent match between the bot and a user reveals the user\u0026#x27;s answer to that one question.  (Possibly OkCupid introduces some noise in the matching algorithm to make this harder, but it can almost certainly be circumvented.)","parent":"11706698","id":"11708091"}
{"by":"Symbiote","time":"1452755766","timestamp":"2016-01-14 07:16:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was a child in, my parents had a mechanical thermostat with a timer. So did my grandma, and her system was even older.\u003cp\u003eYou could set two pairs of heating times, and control which (or both\u0026#x2F;none) were used.  There was an override until the next set point.\u003cp\u003eThis was 1980s stuff, or maybe even earlier.\u003cp\u003eThe interface was far easier to use than any digital one I\u0026#x27;ve seen.","parent":"10899303","id":"10900043"}
{"by":"justdep","time":"1266583192","timestamp":"2010-02-19 12:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your gravatar is tied to your email address.","parent":"1136514","id":"1136746"}
{"by":"dkarapetyan","time":"1414522587","timestamp":"2014-10-28 18:56:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well in this instance the master did not have on-disk persistence turned on because of latency issues but the slaves did have it turned on. What would you call that kind of setup? Volatile or not?","parent":"8522797","id":"8522819"}
{"by":"kyllo","time":"1412199298","timestamp":"2014-10-01 21:34:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you\u0026#x27;re saying is that performance constraints are often part of the business requirements.\u003cp\u003eBusiness requirements are not the same thing as program correctness.","parent":"8396859","id":"8397907"}
{"by":"defrex","time":"1299526280","timestamp":"2011-03-07 19:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know of anything in reverse (iOS for Android developers)?","parent":"2297902","id":"2298338"}
{"by":"tsenkov","time":"1433188616","timestamp":"2015-06-01 19:56:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I meant I know what latency is as a notion, just haven\u0026#x27;t measured it and I don\u0026#x27;t know how-to.\u003cp\u003eI feel a bit lame for misleading you in writing this whole thing. Sorry. :(","parent":"9641579","id":"9641675"}
{"by":"dubcanada","time":"1394471124","timestamp":"2014-03-10 17:05:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found that smashing the arrow keys was the most effective way to play this game.","parent":"7373566","id":"7374139"}
{"by":"perfmode","time":"1485462440","timestamp":"2017-01-26 20:27:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Content addressing of data is one of my favorite ideas in the field.","parent":"13494674","id":"13494977"}
{"by":"rpedroso","time":"1491231092","timestamp":"2017-04-03 14:51:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I primarily write python web-based APIs for a web application + 2 mobile apps. Just the other day, I was dealing with an endpoint that had to update hierarchical data (i.e. a collection of trees).\u003cp\u003eDue to the circumstances, normalization wasn\u0026#x27;t an efficient option. I ended up throwing together a barebones tree with a 5-line DFS implementation to traverse it. It handled inserts, updates and deletions (for my use-case) in linear time.\u003cp\u003eThe details aren\u0026#x27;t so important as the fact that adding a dependency would have been overkill for my needs. This isn\u0026#x27;t to say that efficient graph implementation libraries should not exist or be used, but I was able to produce this code faster by having that basic CS knowledge.","parent":"14022952","id":"14023130"}
{"by":"meerita","time":"1432937118","timestamp":"2015-05-29 22:05:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m so amazed with the new wave of projects Google are working on. Definetively, the sensation I had about Apple as a innovation company has changed once I seen these new projects. This is innovation, this is a nice approach to future and not iphone and iwatch iterations.","parent":"9625641","id":"9627783"}
{"by":"badcede","time":"1531465679","timestamp":"2018-07-13 07:07:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s status signaling, a way of saying that you\u0026#x27;re better than other people. Same as acting superior to the masses who like a popular band.","parent":"17520833","id":"17521035"}
{"by":"teh_klev","time":"1440057514","timestamp":"2015-08-20 07:58:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, but you can have a community of AirBnB users that help each other out. Doesn\u0026#x27;t always necessitate direct involvement from the company.","parent":"10090397","id":"10090481"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1457021641","timestamp":"2016-03-03 16:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was in 2003 or 2004","parent":"11214819","id":"11217768"}
{"by":"wglb","time":"1248131599","timestamp":"2009-07-20 23:13:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, but in higher-level languages comments are bugs.","parent":"715406","id":"715417"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1408991756","timestamp":"2014-08-25 18:35:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;d help get there is, an object store instead of a file system. We continue to hang files on the ceremonial file tree like xmas ornaments and call it an OS feature. But nearly zero real apps are happy with that. Everybody implements an object store inside a file, and keeps all their crap organized in there (email folders; docx files; project databases and on and on).\u003cp\u003eWhen will we get an OS that lets me persist my objects, uniquely identify them with a uuid plus arbitrary attributes (print date??? give me a break), migrate and cache them anywhere and sign them for authenticity? That would be a real OS feature.\u003cp\u003eSure all that can be cobbled together on one machine with different libraries. But to be an OS feature, I need servers that understand and respect all that.  Object browsers that let me create a relation to view pertinent objects. Security managers that limit access to apps with digital authority etc.  All on the network.","parent":"8223225","id":"8223259"}
{"by":"waterlesscloud","time":"1265344710","timestamp":"2010-02-05 04:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Link to a paper on arxiv about the idea.  \u003ca href=\"http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1102687","id":"1102737"}
{"by":"fzltrp","time":"1405434177","timestamp":"2014-07-15 14:22:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The insight there is that one should always try to wrap criticism with praises: people don\u0026#x27;t like being told that they suck at their job, even if it\u0026#x27;s true. If instead of showing themselves as destructors, they\u0026#x27;d adopted an image of mentors or teachers, things would\u0026#x27;ve gone way better. Hopefully Google\u0026#x27;s Project Zero will be wiser than the IBM team on this point.\u003cp\u003eNote that this is even truer when criticism comes from an outsider, and Google\u0026#x27;s team will be doing exactly that. If they also deal with companies whose culture is very much reputation based (like in Asia), they\u0026#x27;ll have to be even more cautious.","parent":"8036139","id":"8036568"}
{"by":"icambron","time":"1386638593","timestamp":"2013-12-10 01:23:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In general, I\u0026#x27;m sympathetic to the claim that SF\u0026#x2F;SV is too expensive, particularly with respect to housing, and this represents a legitimate drain on the economy, and that better public policy would go a long way towards fixing that.\u003cp\u003eWith that out of the way, though:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; after paying for housing, food, transportation, insurance, utilities, sundry expenses, and student loans--there\u0026#x27;s not a whole lot of that $100K\u0026#x2F;12 left!\u003cp\u003eThat says, \u0026quot;after I spend all my money, I don\u0026#x27;t have any money left!\u0026quot; Is it really that there isn\u0026#x27;t enough money or is that your cost base is too high? Millionaires can go broke too, but it isn\u0026#x27;t because they\u0026#x27;re not rich.","parent":"6878174","id":"6878374"}
{"by":"snowwrestler","time":"1390605635","timestamp":"2014-01-24 23:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that she wants to be there, wants to meet all these people, wants to be accepted as a fellow bitcoin enthusiast, wants to make a good impression, wants to maybe make some friends, or maybe just some connections.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s hard to do any of that when 5 minutes in, you\u0026#x27;re shoving somebody and chastising them publicly.\u003cp\u003eThe groper is not going to react well to that. They\u0026#x27;re not going to think they did anything wrong (if they did, they wouldn\u0026#x27;t have done it in the first place). So they\u0026#x27;ll see her as the aggressor and complain loudly.","parent":"7118446","id":"7118899"}
{"by":"zupatol","time":"1368477966","timestamp":"2013-05-13 20:46:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; At one point, the psychologists thought of designing a mobile app, a sort of electronic nagging mother, to help people break bad social habits. (You’d check an item off the list, say, if you remembered to talk to anyone that day—a store clerk or a librarian.) But they didn’t get funding for the software, so now they’re focusing on a simpler and more low-tech fix.\u003cp\u003eThis mobile app sounds like something that would be really easy to write.","parent":"5700562","id":"5701289"}
{"by":"snitko","time":"1385568271","timestamp":"2013-11-27 16:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I spent bitcoins on many things and intend to do so in the future. The thing is, if you need something, you\u0026#x27;ll buy it, either with USD or Bitcoin. If you buy it with USD, then that is the amount of Bitcoins you haven\u0026#x27;t bought instead. So it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter. Bitcoin in no way stops you from spending it when you really want.","parent":"6808704","id":"6808817"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1355855794","timestamp":"2012-12-18 18:36:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure.  I learned a bunch of things I didn't know.  I had no idea Spotify's valuation was so high, for example, and I didn't know people were using location in cryptography.\u003cp\u003eAnd sure, I'm happy to see YC alumni in the list.  It's nice for them to get some recognition.","parent":"4936452","id":"4938806"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1450382182","timestamp":"2015-12-17 19:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But why did you want plugin free Netflix to begin with?\u003cp\u003eBecause Flash (and Java) are massive ongoing security concerns. Flash is too complex and has too much surface area, this new plugin even aside from being sandboxed, is simpler and with less surface area.\u003cp\u003eI am not saying that exploits won\u0026#x27;t be found here. I am just saying it may not be as bad as the continuously dripping tap that is Flash.","parent":"10753917","id":"10754035"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1292468932","timestamp":"2010-12-16 03:08:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Almost) All car failures are perfectly safe if you assume they occur when the user is otherwise safe. It's the failures that occur in conjunction with other failures and run you out of safety margin you have to worry about.","parent":"2010744","id":"2010965"}
{"by":"prklmn","time":"1505878920","timestamp":"2017-09-20 03:42:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what the hospitals have been doing recently through consolidation of both hospitals and private practices. Not reducing their costs overall per se, but trying to grow as much as possible to increase buying power. I\u0026#x27;m of the opinion that this is a bad road to go down, one with a lower degree of competition and choice compared to what we had 15 years ago.","parent":"15290551","id":"15290635"}
{"by":"fwn","time":"1541151152","timestamp":"2018-11-02 09:32:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the headline is slightly misleading.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; [...] the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions.\u003cp\u003eIt appears to actually be hacked browsers, or compromised browsers for that matter.","parent":"18361044","id":"18361673"}
{"by":"heysunshine123","time":"1481475282","timestamp":"2016-12-11 16:54:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, there\u0026#x27;s a difference between going out of fashion and being revealed as something that shouldn\u0026#x27;t be used (like Angular and Ember).\u003cp\u003eMaybe Vue is just becoming the new shiny.","parent":"13151846","id":"13151876"}
{"by":"tthayer","time":"1420663659","timestamp":"2015-01-07 20:47:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use the Clearly browser plugin for pages like this. Works like a charm.","parent":"8853080","id":"8853203"}
{"by":"dvirsky","time":"1374608474","timestamp":"2013-07-23 19:41:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried the recommended vim plugin. it was okay, nowhere near as powerful as intellij\u0026#x27;s plugin - and still didn\u0026#x27;t solve my gdb issue.","parent":"6092271","id":"6092422"}
{"by":"roblabla","time":"1491697087","timestamp":"2017-04-09 00:18:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Been doing some research about my problems with qt. I found some interesting stuff.\u003cp\u003eIn qt6, there will be \u0026quot;native components\u0026quot; that use the actual underlying OS widgets[0]. They\u0026#x27;ll be less stylable, but will integrate better with the native look and feel. That should take care of the annoying cross-platform problems.\u003cp\u003eThe other problem left is how big it actually is. As it turns out, it\u0026#x27;s possible with the LGPL to statically link your program and still comply with the license[1]. Basically, you just need to provide a way to download the .o files so they can be relinked against a different version of Qt.\u003cp\u003eThanks to this, it should be possible to create (relatively) lightweight, statically-linked binaries of Qt software.\u003cp\u003eAs far as the C++ is involved... There are qt bindings for just about every other language out there. Just today, bindings for go were released[2].\u003cp\u003eThe future is bright for qt and cross-platform apps.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.qt.io\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;native-look-feel\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.qt.io\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;native-look-feel\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=4302517\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=4302517\u003c/a\u003e\n[2]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14068525\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14068525\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14068328","id":"14069794"}
{"by":"MarkMc","time":"1417391653","timestamp":"2014-11-30 23:54:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can add Windows and OS X to that list.\u003cp\u003e(Although the Google Inbox team didn\u0026#x27;t produce a Windows or OS X native client, there\u0026#x27;s no doubt that such a client could have run the java code shared between Android, iOS and Web)","parent":"8678026","id":"8678763"}
{"by":"edanm","time":"1324556769","timestamp":"2011-12-22 12:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"[Hebrew] only has 22 letters, after all. [...] Reduce your alphabet (alephbet?) from 26 to 22. Note that of these letters, 5 are only special versions of other letters and replace those in the last position of the word\"\u003cp\u003eThat's incorrect. All 22 letters are actually letters, the special versions of letters for the ends of words are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e counted towards the full 22.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I think Hebrew words tend to be shorter because they lack vowels. There are ways to add something similar to vowels to words, by adding pronunciation guides to each letter. These are usually \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e included in most Hebrew writing, but this trusts that the reader already knows how to pronounce the word.\u003cp\u003eI'm not a linguist, so I'm not sure this vowel thing matters, but that's my guess as to why Hebrew words are shorter.","parent":"3381211","id":"3381310"}
{"by":"ticviking","time":"1480102105","timestamp":"2016-11-25 19:28:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You\u0026#x27;d think that social media would expand peoples\u0026#x27; knowledge, open mindedness, etc, but clearly we have a ways to go.\u003cp\u003eOhh how I wish...","parent":"13038828","id":"13039216"}
{"by":"SquareWheel","time":"1517744882","timestamp":"2018-02-04 11:48:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026quot;pattern\u0026quot; attribute on an \u0026lt;input\u0026gt; can do that using regex.","parent":"16301677","id":"16302395"}
{"by":"potatolicious","time":"1284153436","timestamp":"2010-09-10 21:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Individual income vs. government borrowing/spending are not the same thing.\u003cp\u003eYour analogy, corrected:\u003cp\u003eToday Bob's parents borrowed $100 from Alice and Bob earned $5 on his own. Bob thinks he became $5 richer, Alice is owed $100, and Bob's parents now have more debt.","parent":"1680039","id":"1680256"}
{"by":"points","time":"1284547932","timestamp":"2010-09-15 10:52:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fine with me. As long as it's my right not to work with/hire anyone who takes it.","parent":"1693709","id":"1693862"}
{"by":"aray","time":"1382264134","timestamp":"2013-10-20 10:15:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well if you have spotify they\u0026#x27;re posting the emerging charts again on it (still really miss the discovery engine though): \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wearehunted/status/381496704052129792\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;wearehunted\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;381496704052129792\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6578450","id":"6579458"}
{"by":"paulpauper","time":"1501917334","timestamp":"2017-08-05 07:15:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People have been making these predictions since 2011. You have no way of knowing your prediction is any better then the thousands of other failed predictions.","parent":"14934437","id":"14934574"}
{"by":"devs1010","time":"1323967327","timestamp":"2011-12-15 16:42:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree to an extent but they do need someone to basically take all the crap from the \"stakeholders\" and it may be better to not waste that on someone with technical knowledge","parent":"3346613","id":"3356820"}
{"by":"fjsolwmv","time":"1513531999","timestamp":"2017-12-17 17:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Making the pattern even stronger: \u0026quot;number of times\u0026quot; is average 0th-power of distance,\u003cp\u003eAnd \u0026quot;distance\u0026quot; is \u0026quot;the 1st power of distance\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAnd \u0026quot;squared\u0026quot; is \u0026quot;2nd power\u0026quot;","parent":"15946297","id":"15946671"}
{"by":"herdrick","time":"1192083325","timestamp":"2007-10-11 06:15:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A culture of social egalitarianism (as opposed to the material kind) seems important to encouraging and developing new ideas.  Here's Tom Wolfe on the culture of the places the founders of Silicon Valley came from: \u003cp\u003e\"Back East, engineers, no matter how gifted, ranked below doctors, lawyers, Army colonels, Navy captains, business executives, and professors of English, history, biology, chemistry, and physics. This piece of European snobbery never reached Grinnell, however, nor did it turn up in many of the thousands of small towns in the Midwest and the Far West. An extremely bright student, the one possessing the quality known as genius, was infinitely more likely to go into engineering in Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, or Wisconsin than anywhere Back East.\"\u003cp\u003eThat's from this: \u003ca href=\"http://members.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/102.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://members.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/102.html\u003c/a\u003e .  It's great.","parent":"65815","id":"66164"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1381567401","timestamp":"2013-10-12 08:43:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is different about non-American alcohol culture?","parent":"6537709","id":"6537900"}
{"by":"chriswarbo","time":"1486030499","timestamp":"2017-02-02 10:14:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The way I see it, st is trying to replace xterm.\u003cp\u003exterm is a de facto standard, in that you can sit down in front of a machine which appears to be running some flavour of Unix, it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter if it\u0026#x27;s Gnome, KDE, TWM, CDE, etc., GNU or BSD or Solaris or whatever, you\u0026#x27;ll probably be able to find xterm and work out the rest from there.\u003cp\u003eMany devs\u0026#x2F;hackers use xterm as their day-to-day terminal, and seem to approximate ANSI control code compliance with \u0026quot;works in xterm\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with this situation, as mentioned on the st page, is that xterm is unmaintained and \u003ci\u003eunmaintainable\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003est is trying to be a maintainable replacement, making improvements like vector fonts, and not being shy about ignoring legacy\u0026#x2F;niche\u0026#x2F;solved-elsewhere features.","parent":"13547949","id":"13549443"}
{"by":"CydeWeys","time":"1515878672","timestamp":"2018-01-13 21:24:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right that people don\u0026#x27;t understand what they\u0026#x27;re buying.  $200 new, modern Windows laptop is a market segment that cannot exist -- it\u0026#x27;s like a $5K new automobile in the US.  Except there are standards in the automotive market in the US, so no one is allowed to sell the kind of trash that would be a $5K car.  You can buy such a thing in, e.g., India, but it\u0026#x27;s exactly as bad as you\u0026#x27;d think it would be, with terrible emissions and crash performance.\u003cp\u003eAs for hardware endurance, I don\u0026#x27;t think you\u0026#x27;re giving quality hardware enough credit.  I\u0026#x27;ve owned a lot of computing hardware in my lifetime, and the only failures I\u0026#x27;ve ever experienced have been fans going bad (which is easy to fix) and spinning hard drives crapping out.  Oh, and I dropped a laptop really badly one time and broke it that way, but that\u0026#x27;s not really the hardware\u0026#x27;s fault.  Solid state components last quite a long time.","parent":"16141322","id":"16141491"}
{"by":"seasonalgrit","time":"1505601416","timestamp":"2017-09-16 22:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Smokers infringe on my health by exposing me to second-hand smoke and forcing me to ingest nicotine, a known carcinogen. This absolutely needs to be made illegal as far as I\u0026#x27;m concerned.","parent":"15266709","id":"15267133"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1231295934","timestamp":"2009-01-07 02:38:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"The co-creators of R express satisfaction that such companies profit from the fruits of their labor and that of hundreds of volunteers.\"\u003cp\u003eThat's an interesting reaction from the first designers of the program.","parent":"422813","id":"422856"}
{"by":"pestaa","time":"1327237881","timestamp":"2012-01-22 13:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eYou'll know when to stop.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnless you really don't know what you're doing and run without schedule and training plan. Have observed it several times among female teenagers exposed to too much social media.","parent":"3496382","id":"3496491"}
{"by":"a3n","time":"1422833941","timestamp":"2015-02-01 23:39:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And these are the people who are trying to police our moral profiles wrt file downloading.\u003cp\u003eIt works because they can. They do it because they\u0026#x27;ve figured that out. It\u0026#x27;s that simple.","parent":"8982092","id":"8982134"}
{"by":"RiderOfGiraffes","time":"1281015068","timestamp":"2010-08-05 13:31:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really a conference, but the Gathering 4 Gardner is fantastic.  The mix of people is astonishing, and everyone is there to share stuff they know.  everyone knows they'll came away with plenty to think about, but no one has that as their reason for being there.","parent":"1577896","id":"1577982"}
{"by":"easytiger","time":"1406627169","timestamp":"2014-07-29 09:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The parent comment.","parent":"8079025","id":"8101389"}
{"by":"antonvs","time":"1510514963","timestamp":"2017-11-12 19:29:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Advertising is very much beset by the mindset of being \u0026quot;so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn\u0026#x27;t stop to think if they should\u0026quot; (Jurassic Park.)\u003cp\u003eTracking and microtargeting just seem too attractive for advertisers to pass up. Same goes for large size, autoplay, multimedia ads.\u003cp\u003eThese mechanisms would have to fail to perform in obvious ways (not long-term, subtle, whole-market ways) before people will stop using them.","parent":"15682082","id":"15682180"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1339514292","timestamp":"2012-06-12 15:18:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like 250 million iOS users out of 365 can't use 2 of the biggest features of iOS - Siri and the 3D Maps (and also turn by turn I believe). How is that for fragmentation?\u003cp\u003eYes, Apple does port an iOS version to most devices, and yes manufacturers have been very slow with ICS, but Apple doesn't push all the features when they port the OS to older hardware either, and sometime they are major features.","parent":"4100557","id":"4100866"}
{"by":"pmiller2","time":"1442716624","timestamp":"2015-09-20 02:37:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I\u0026#x27;m not missing the point at all.\u003cp\u003e* Signing bonuses, I\u0026#x27;ll give you; they are trivial to value and probably should have been included.\u003cp\u003e* I would doubt that most companies are offering shuttles, day care, or any of these other benefits.  Of that list of more esoteric benfits, my company offers yoga and Pilates classes.  I\u0026#x27;d value them about as highly as catered lunch (if I took advantage of them), because that\u0026#x27;s about what it would cost me to go do that stuff on my own.\u003cp\u003eI guess I\u0026#x27;d go even farther on health insurance, then, and say that for a valued professional employee, \u003ci\u003egood\u003c/i\u003e health insurance should be a basic requirement.\u003cp\u003eYou know what the most common tech company \u0026quot;benefits\u0026quot; have in common?  They allow people to stay at the office longer.\u003cp\u003e* Finally, stock and stock options.  Ok, if you\u0026#x27;re going to give me straight up liquid stock, I\u0026#x27;m going to value that as a part of my compensation.\u003cp\u003eBut, options are literally worth the paper they\u0026#x27;re printed on until they\u0026#x27;re exercised.  And after that, unless the company has gone public, they\u0026#x27;re still hugely illiquid.  Exercising them can be an issue in itself, depending on the strike price.  And, then there are the taxes to contend with.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s just say I don\u0026#x27;t put a lot of value in stock options, in general.","parent":"10246299","id":"10246377"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1398060506","timestamp":"2014-04-21 06:08:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cooperation of competitors is not necessary — that\u0026#x27;s an excuse for inaction. As with \u0026#x27;Safe Browsing\u0026#x27; (or CRLSet), one browser could lead the way, letting the others follow the same model or improve later.\u003cp\u003eSimilarly, CA buy-in is not a blocking prerequisite for a better approach — it\u0026#x27;s just another excuse for inaction. Exactly as with CRLSet, the browser vendor can say, \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;ll scrape your revocations where we can find them, or you can provide them this way\u0026quot;. Then, if an incompetent or recalcitrant CA hides their revocations, it\u0026#x27;s an issue between the CA and their harmed customers.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s great you, me, and Adam Langley all agree that revocation is broken, including Google\u0026#x27;s stopgap proprietary solution. But hasn\u0026#x27;t everyone understood that for 15+ years? Why isn\u0026#x27;t there a fix?\u003cp\u003eThe browser makers absolutely own responsibility for this, because they\u0026#x27;re the ones that show end-users a security indicator. They\u0026#x27;re shipping the software that creates a risk, they can unilaterally fix this on their own initiative, and they\u0026#x27;re not so poor or stupid that fixing it should be beyond their capabilities.\u003cp\u003eYes, Google has done a lot for security. Their \u0026#x27;web security karma\u0026#x27; is very net-positive. They still deserve a demerit, along with Mozilla and Microsoft, on this particular issue.\u003cp\u003eReferring this to the IETF for standardization is just another way of excusing more inaction and delay.","parent":"7619697","id":"7620012"}
{"by":"SixSigma","time":"1415610027","timestamp":"2014-11-10 09:00:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For actively developed  plan9 tools on unix see Russ Cox\u0026#x27;s (now of the Go project) work.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://swtch.com/plan9port/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;swtch.com\u0026#x2F;plan9port\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is also the 9vx project which virtualises x86 using vx32 and then uses plan9 as an example - \u003ca href=\"http://swtch.com/9vx/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;swtch.com\u0026#x2F;9vx\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlan9 also works in vm\u0026#x27;s such as qemu","parent":"8581865","id":"8582605"}
{"by":"Balgair","time":"1545416952","timestamp":"2018-12-21 18:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately (though with a heavy dose of schadenfreude), I fear the Banks are not just \u0026#x27;too big to fail\u0026#x27;, but have become \u0026#x27;too big to \u003ci\u003esave\u003c/i\u003e\u0026#x27;. It\u0026#x27;s been nearly a decade that they have been operating under the implicit assumption of \u0026#x27;too big to fail\u0026#x27; and (without any evidence) I feel that they have taken on bets that they know are bad ones only because they know that Uncle Sam is there to bail them out. Unfortunately, even Uncle Sam isn\u0026#x27;t going to be able to save them on this one, I fear, as the bets have just gotten to lush over these years since 2008. The SEC has become completely neutered\u0026#x2F;captured and has let the leashes off.\u003cp\u003eI fear that the coming bear market is going to be very very bad for all of us.","parent":"18733975","id":"18735356"}
{"by":"Kalium","time":"1472350387","timestamp":"2016-08-28 02:13:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s easy to diregard IP when you don\u0026#x27;t own any, but if IP didn\u0026#x27;t exist the big, bad, evil corporations could steal ideas from people with no recourse.\u003cp\u003eIn practice, they already can, because enforcement is ruinously expensive for individuals. The big, bad, evil corporations abuse IP to shut down individuals and smaller companies. Or just things they don\u0026#x27;t like competing with them. Witness Samsung and Apple.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Sure, IP can be abused, but like the majority of laws, was created with good intentions.\u003cp\u003eA lot of things start with good intentions. However, we have to concern ourselves with results rather than intents.","parent":"12374626","id":"12375019"}
{"by":"olegkikin","time":"1287017428","timestamp":"2010-10-14 00:50:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keep a counter of friends for each user. Most users will have zero friends, no need to look them up.\u003cp\u003eAlso, if that's such a bottleneck, create a separate webserver in C++ and keep friend relationships in RAM in some sort of an efficient data structure, something like Map [UID]-\u0026#62;[set of friend UIDs]. Queries should be lightning fast (even if you pass a thousand UIDs in one query).","parent":"1789109","id":"1789436"}
{"by":"dlokshin","time":"1311169679","timestamp":"2011-07-20 13:47:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Second that. Also been using the 13\" since early Jan as a dev machine and am absolutely in love with it. These upgrades will only make it better.","parent":"2785443","id":"2785489"}
{"by":"jfim","time":"1532882111","timestamp":"2018-07-29 16:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Most people aren\u0026#x27;t stupid enough to sign up for things they won\u0026#x27;t use.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s the gym model, sign up people in January for a yearly gym membership, have 90% of those people not visit past the end of the month.","parent":"17636521","id":"17638939"}
{"by":"Rayne","time":"1400204505","timestamp":"2014-05-16 01:41:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, so would I. The spoon doesn\u0026#x27;t cure the symptoms.","parent":"7753120","id":"7753310"}
{"by":"aet","time":"1373428250","timestamp":"2013-07-10 03:50:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wishful thinking..","parent":"6008988","id":"6017350"}
{"by":"thevtm","time":"1508525759","timestamp":"2017-10-20 18:55:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even in that case I believe it should be the user choice not the admin.\u003cp\u003eAnd communities should be instance independent the same way mailing list works.","parent":"15517746","id":"15518310"}
{"by":"marijn","time":"1437747898","timestamp":"2015-07-24 14:24:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The single comment below is exactly the self-indulgent whining against feminism in general I was expecting (as are some of the comments on here on HN)","parent":"9941965","id":"9942163"}
{"by":"pg_is_a_butt","time":"1504068957","timestamp":"2017-08-30 04:55:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the post communicates a high level of readability and humanity of an individual dealing with \u0026quot;authority\u0026quot; that is ostensibly worse than the nazis.\u003cp\u003ethe government and the hospital both need to remove people from the planet.  drugging people in psych hospitals was \u0026quot;obviously the right way to do it\u0026quot;, so the decision was made a long time ago.\u003cp\u003eyou\u0026#x27;re all idiots.","parent":"15128638","dead":true,"id":"15129806"}
{"by":"deelowe","time":"1525097825","timestamp":"2018-04-30 14:17:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Weedkiller, pesticides, fossil fuel emissions, food additives, preservatives, industrial run off and on and on. Does anyone look at all this at scale? With all the crap we\u0026#x27;re pumping into the air, water, and our food, I really wonder.","parent":"16958539","id":"16958714"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1238797648","timestamp":"2009-04-03 22:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our interns aren't \"billable\", but there's always plenty of work to be done to support the people doing billable work. Last year, one of our UIC interns wrote (in what I believe to be his first ever actual start-to-finish \"program\") a programmable symbolic process debugger for OS X, in Ruby:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  http://bit.ly/13kxv3\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nNobody paid us to do that, but that debugger work is now Ragweed, our house debugger, and we've got it working under Win32, Linux, and a couple embedded platforms. It's extremely useful. And we scored an excellent blog post out of it.\u003cp\u003e(Timur works for us full-time now, of course).\u003cp\u003eI don't have to compromise the work we deliver for our clients to put interns on useful projects. And we're a special case: we do hard core programming work on a billable basis. Most of the companies people talk about on HN don't have that problem. There's a million useful things an intern can do without jeopardizing product quality.","parent":"545713","id":"545769"}
{"by":"hkmurakami","time":"1373879416","timestamp":"2013-07-15 09:10:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A random Joe employee isn\u0026#x27;t going to know the details of a government backdoor (at least I\u0026#x27;d hope so)","parent":"6044437","id":"6044451"}
{"by":"bhouston","time":"1494853357","timestamp":"2017-05-15 13:02:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My daughter uses our tablet every day in car rides and to play various games.  Was using a 3 year old Andriod tablet until recently when its Andriod 4.x didn\u0026#x27;t allow for the latest games to install (required Andriod 5.)  Tablets are the best device for young children for sure -- especially if they do not yet need a phone (which in our neighbourhood seems to be occuring around 12 years old.)","parent":"14341174","id":"14341198"}
{"by":"samstokes","time":"1310762337","timestamp":"2011-07-15 20:38:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assumed it meant something like a corporation using regulatory loopholes to get their bonds rated as risk-free (and thus desirable to own) when they would more accurately have been rated risky.  Put more simply, borrowing money more cheaply than their creditworthiness should allow.\u003cp\u003eHis point was about the \u003ci\u003eprevalence\u003c/i\u003e of AAA-rated products, not their existence.","parent":"2768935","id":"2768990"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1537294674","timestamp":"2018-09-18 18:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Musk won\u0026#x27;t be banned from tweeting ideas about hyperloop or whatever, so other ceos can still build those things after analyzing the cost.","parent":"18017460","id":"18017764"}
{"by":"chrisseaton","time":"1502301813","timestamp":"2017-08-09 18:03:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So why does Wikipedia use the \u0026#x27;pension\u0026#x27; terminology?","parent":"14970461","id":"14971913"}
{"by":"notgood","time":"1489536315","timestamp":"2017-03-15 00:05:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That book was created before many alternatives came out; now if you are working in a team project you should look at JavaScript the same way you look at assembler, you know it will be the final thing but you shouldn\u0026#x27;t be creating it directly, but instead \u0026quot;compiling\u0026quot; from TypeScript, ELM, etc. (langs with no implicit conversions, strong typing, etc)","parent":"13870355","id":"13872730"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1483798553","timestamp":"2017-01-07 14:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Should we give up on programs with millions of threads because someone in the 1970\u0026#x27;s never foresaw that use case?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not that simple. I think there\u0026#x27;s a reasonable first-principles argument to be made that scheduling belongs in the kernel, which has a global view of the system and is better equipped to make those decisions.","parent":"13344091","id":"13344225"}
{"by":"EddieRingle","time":"1494623836","timestamp":"2017-05-12 21:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I discovered this back in March. This is pretty exciting!\u003cp\u003eNow all we need is to have Google distribute the framework over the Play Store instead of relying on OTAs, and all will be right with the world.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13928385\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13928385\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14326512","id":"14328005"}
{"by":"tomphoolery","time":"1422111075","timestamp":"2015-01-24 14:51:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; lsd was and is a mythological drug in every sense of the word. Nothing you know about it is true either to the good or to the bad.\u003cp\u003eThis is false, LSD is the most researched psychedelic of them all and while we\u0026#x27;re not entirely sure of the mechanics of its actions (nor do we know of \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e of these kinds of brain mechanics, that\u0026#x27;s why the prescription of anti-depressants seems to be more of a guessing game than a science), we\u0026#x27;re definitely sure of a few things that occur.\u003cp\u003eLSD is not a unicorn.","parent":"8939628","id":"8939704"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1208908104","timestamp":"2008-04-22 23:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to agree.  If they can solve the pay per view concept for niche live events, they'll make money.  If they can make partnering with live bands, seminar presenters, etc. seamless and profitable for both parties, it could be a big market.","parent":"171057","id":"171121"}
{"by":"dbaupp","time":"1439445699","timestamp":"2015-08-13 06:01:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re 100% pedantically correct, passing a NULL pointer as the corresponding argument to %p is fine... But that\u0026#x27;s really missing the point, since we\u0026#x27;re discussing %s and the only sensible general interpretation of this discussion presumably includes a \u0026quot;(when the other arguments mean the NULL is actually UB)\u0026quot; on everything.\u003cp\u003e(E.g. the assertion for non-NULL-ity would go on the branch of printf that handles %s.)","parent":"10052297","id":"10052469"}
{"by":"Retra","time":"1421001035","timestamp":"2015-01-11 18:30:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve always said that language development should follow library development. Think about what your standard libraries are going to do, then write the language for doing those tasks consistently and elegantly.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m always disappointed when I see a language with syntax and semantics but no real library. You have no way of knowing if it is a good design. It\u0026#x27;s like buying building parts out of a catalogue and hoping the architect will be able to build you something great with what you\u0026#x27;ve ordered.","parent":"8870498","id":"8870723"}
{"by":"MrLeap","time":"1532445862","timestamp":"2018-07-24 15:24:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what happened to my father about thirty years ago. While he was naive about a lot of things and didn\u0026#x27;t have good legal representation, he knew enough to refuse to plead guilty.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;compromise\u0026quot; that prosecutors arrived at was to threaten him with a massive prison sentence, and mislead him about what an Alford plea is. \u0026quot;We\u0026#x27;re not asking you to plead guilty, and you wont spend any time in jail! Just sign this!\u0026quot; My father avoided jail time but was branded a felon.\u003cp\u003eEvery couple of years since I was little I\u0026#x27;d see him spend a few thousand dollars on attorneys trying to rewrite history or fix a new fire resulting from that plea. It took the whole family 30 years, unspeakable amounts of money and a really empathetic journalist but we managed to convince the governor of Missouri to pardon him a few years ago.\u003cp\u003eA regular person who doesn\u0026#x27;t have the inhuman qualities my father does would have been ground up and destroyed. He managed to work 35 years at the same company even though a  population of \u0026quot;vigilantes\u0026quot; wanted to find any reason they could to get him fired or just make him miserable.\u003cp\u003eEvery once in a while he\u0026#x27;d let a story leak about how someone had rubbed grease on his work steering wheel or we\u0026#x27;d have to go to the DMV to get new license plates because someone managed to get past his locking screws. My dad responded to this shit in a dispassionate way that still impresses me to reflect on. Someone might break into his locker and cut up his boots. If he said anything about it, it would be like \u0026quot;I should have known better than to use my locker.\u0026quot; Then he\u0026#x27;d treat going to the shoe store like going to the post office. It\u0026#x27;s just part of the chores one deals with.\u003cp\u003eIf I were in his shoes I wouldn\u0026#x27;t have made it.","parent":"17601468","id":"17601842"}
{"by":"juliusseizure","time":"1256074816","timestamp":"2009-10-20 21:40:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope people realize that these costs are embedded in the final price of the product. The only person who wins is Mr.Gowder.","parent":"893331","id":"893416"}
{"by":"newhouseb","time":"1261627916","timestamp":"2009-12-24 04:11:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Colocated with large ISPs so you get some good protection against cache poisoning attacks\"\u003cp\u003eAh yes, that's not something I factored into my equation.  Thanks!","parent":"1013336","id":"1013378"}
{"by":"michaelmior","time":"1522428000","timestamp":"2018-03-30 16:40:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought NXDOMAIN responses indicated that the domain doesn\u0026#x27;t exist and there wasn\u0026#x27;t a way to actually direct the user anywhere. Your resolver could of course lie and return an IP instead of NXDOMAIN however. Perhaps I\u0026#x27;m wrong.","parent":"16717356","id":"16717613"}
{"by":"nagrom","time":"1280515660","timestamp":"2010-07-30 18:47:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've always wanted somewhere that would serve a decent salad reliably for £5. I've yet to find that place. If they existed, they'd have me as a customer at least 3 times a week.","parent":"1561791","id":"1562146"}
{"by":"JamesLeonis","time":"1327112138","timestamp":"2012-01-21 02:15:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would like to tack on money management things that are learned when failure is not harsh.","parent":"3491495","id":"3492308"}
{"by":"docgnome","time":"1299133342","timestamp":"2011-03-03 06:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But... how do I know it's worth the \"price\" before I've seen it? Or am I missing something?","parent":"2282969","id":"2283079"}
{"by":"lstroud","time":"1499536480","timestamp":"2017-07-08 17:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The question is how long you can maintain a pace (hours worked) before that pace begins to impact performance. Usain Bolt can\u0026#x27;t run his 100m pace for the duration of a 400m race.","parent":"14724912","id":"14726390"}
{"by":"gwenhwyfaer","time":"1189104900","timestamp":"2007-09-06 18:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(I probably should have put that as \"women clubbing \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c/i\u003e apes\"... oh well.)","parent":"51044","id":"51205"}
{"by":"learc83","time":"1343848338","timestamp":"2012-08-01 19:12:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there is a demand for guns, manufacturers will make them, they aren't very hard to produce.\u003cp\u003eThe iPad analogy doesn't work because there isn't much a of a demand in poorer countries for iPads. There is a huge demand in these countries for guns, which again, aren't very hard to make.\u003cp\u003eLook at the kind of guns found in the third world (that could find there way into your country). When is the last time you saw a warlord running around with an M-16. They all have AK-47s for a reason, they are cheap. The AK-47s you still see running around weren't manufactured for the American market they were manufactured for war and no American gun control measures will help.\u003cp\u003eIf America banned guns, at best you might see a reduction in expensive American market guns, but again those aren't the guns used in poorer countries--they would still be made.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;I guess a lot of people (me included) would sleep better in a world that had less guns.\u003cp\u003eGuns are what enabled the radical equality of the modern age? The reason that we don't have a dominant warrior class controlling everything.\u003cp\u003eA gun allows a 110 pound woman to stand up to a 200 pound man, a poorly trained peasant to stand up to a feudal knight, an old man to a young one.\u003cp\u003eWithout guns modern society wouldn't have been possible. If you could magically wish away all the guns, how long do you think it would take for our society to stratify around a martial class again?","parent":"4322504","id":"4324976"}
{"by":"jbob2000","time":"1538670032","timestamp":"2018-10-04 16:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don’t care about the assholes who tailgate. I watch them tailgate me and also the sports cars racing up on the passing lane. Rushers are going to rush, let them get frustrated and do their thing. I am relaxed, safe, and happy.","parent":"18137367","id":"18141279"}
{"by":"Steltek","time":"1455903099","timestamp":"2016-02-19 17:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have manufacturers previously added dedicated countermeasures to prevent physical car modding and were those countermeasures legally mandated?  What made software especially highlighted for protection?\u003cp\u003eIt seems like your counterexample simply highlights yet another discontinuity in US law.","parent":"11134343","id":"11134913"}
{"by":"brannon","time":"1393171621","timestamp":"2014-02-23 16:07:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My understanding of all of this is beginner level at best, but isn\u0026#x27;t that more or less what waterline does? \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline-docs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;balderdashy\u0026#x2F;waterline-docs\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7286197","id":"7286262"}
{"by":"trevorcreech","time":"1378489092","timestamp":"2013-09-06 17:38:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey pg, the date on the apply page (\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/apply\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;apply\u003c/a\u003e) is still from the summer term.  Cheers.","parent":"6341568","id":"6341615"}
{"by":"beardicus","time":"1447507221","timestamp":"2015-11-14 13:20:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve seen lots of free photos and icon sets released. And typefaces. Often this is a good strategy to build a portfolio and get attention. It\u0026#x27;s certainly not done to the same extent as in the programming world.","parent":"10565522","id":"10565560"}
{"by":"wyclif","time":"1374264723","timestamp":"2013-07-19 20:12:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s actually not a worthless comment. Norwegian ownership makes absolutely no difference to the privacy equation wrt the NSA if Fastmail\u0026#x27;s servers are colocated in the US.","parent":"6070091","id":"6072648"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1348342672","timestamp":"2012-09-22 19:37:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point, I should have mentioned Asus.  I own and love an original Transformer (TF101), but I still believe it is Microsoft who is likely to push the concept into the mainstream.\u003cp\u003eHaving control of the OS gives Microsoft a lot of power Asus doesn't have with their Android hybrids.  Also, as cool as the Transformer is, it still doesn't feel quite like a true hybrid device because ultimately you're still running mostly software that was designed with touch-only in mind, at least assuming you're using it to run Android and haven't installed Ubuntu/ARM or something.","parent":"4558754","id":"4558768"}
{"by":"andyfleming","time":"1485494802","timestamp":"2017-01-27 05:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As far as the current interface for concurrency, it has fibers, channels, and futures.","parent":"13497817","id":"13497951"}
{"by":"Casseres","time":"1525220560","timestamp":"2018-05-02 00:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Companies usually play that disclaimer via robot.\u003cp\u003eDoes the law say I have to give notice when I think there\u0026#x27;s an actual human on the other end, or can I give notice when the robot pauses?  The robot isn\u0026#x27;t verifying that there\u0026#x27;s an actual human on my end.","parent":"16969487","id":"16973033"}
{"by":"rcthompson","time":"1342286435","timestamp":"2012-07-14 17:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, you don't know that the algorithm got the right answer for the letters on the bottom row. You'd have to try it on an image where you already knew the answers. Other comment threads note the there are lots of errors on that last line in the eye chart. Again, you can't recover more information than is in the image. When multiple characters look identical when scaled down, no algorithm can recover them reliably.","parent":"4244636","id":"4244750"}
{"by":"deep_concern","time":"1509030662","timestamp":"2017-10-26 15:11:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suggest applying, then laugh in their face and scold them once you get an offer.","parent":"15558694","id":"15559522"}
{"by":"flatline3","time":"1343851764","timestamp":"2012-08-01 20:09:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is the unavoidable end-game if padmapper is successful.","parent":"4325298","id":"4325340"}
{"by":"valleyer","time":"1537755957","timestamp":"2018-09-24 02:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Safari shows favicons in tab titles in macOS v10.14 Mojave.","parent":"18054588","id":"18054602"}
{"by":"ithkuil","time":"1398265762","timestamp":"2014-04-23 15:09:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"majority out of an odd number of runs?","parent":"7633660","id":"7634398"}
{"by":"zerr","time":"1379359290","timestamp":"2013-09-16 19:21:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think his talks [that I\u0026#x27;ve watched] are more about the \u003ci\u003etaste\u003c/i\u003e. So the fact that I mostly agree with him, i.e. have a similar taste, doesn\u0026#x27;t necessary correlate with a superficial understanding.","parent":"6395126","id":"6395235"}
{"by":"gregjwild","time":"1453456183","timestamp":"2016-01-22 09:49:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anecdotally speaking, in the past month or so I\u0026#x27;ve seen people ask doctor friends about their maladies, lawyers asked to look at contracts and accountants asked about mortgages - all off the clock and without pay. It\u0026#x27;s not just a tech thing.","parent":"10949844","id":"10951786"}
{"by":"FiveDegrees","time":"1500253816","timestamp":"2017-07-17 01:10:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wizards of the Coast was bootstrapped from a basement.\u003cp\u003eCuriously, they\u0026#x27;re now a wholly owned subsidiary of Hasbro, which was also bootstrapped -- in 1923.","parent":"14769854","id":"14785012"}
{"by":"nextmoveone","time":"1198868016","timestamp":"2007-12-28 18:53:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everyone needs critics, it helps create drive. IMO.","parent":"93254","id":"93283"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1461453755","timestamp":"2016-04-23 23:22:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, and that\u0026#x27;s problematic for mailing cash anonymously. It\u0026#x27;s not so easy to accumulate large denominations, and may attract attention. When possible, I like to mail gold. It\u0026#x27;s easy to clean, too.","parent":"11555503","id":"11557855"}
{"by":"rsaarelm","time":"1280558426","timestamp":"2010-07-31 06:40:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, there's a dissonance. People stay from being messed up physically and mentally by moving around and keeping their surroundings varied. On the other hand, you keep your mainframe CPU in a nice stable server room, not rolling around on the factory floor where it gets crushed when a bot slips and drops an airplane engine block on it.\u003cp\u003eWhat I'm thinking about this is what will it look like 50 or 100 years on, if it catches up. People becoming physically and mentally unwell from staying still is mostly a mechanical problem beyond the lack of changing stimuli and surroundings, and the telepresence rig would provide those.\u003cp\u003eThe low bandwidth thing can get gradually better. The ultimate solution would be some kind of direct neural interface which would give pretty much the same sensory bandwidth as you get from your biological senses, but that would require an entirely new and really difficult to develop technology stack. What we can do now is develop VR and augmented reality technologies. At the operator end, a VR headset or some kind of CAVE environment to give 360° view of the bot's surroundings. At bot end, you could use augmented reality to project an image of the human operator captured from multiple directions as a 3D avatar that shows the operator's body language to people wearing headsets around the bot.\u003cp\u003eI'm not seeing intrinsic value in people moving around in person, though of course lots of instrumental value which would need to be patched in with technology. There is, on the other hand, value in many people not moving long distances much, in the massive amounts of transportation fuel it would save.","parent":"1563230","id":"1563340"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1395009077","timestamp":"2014-03-16 22:31:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really?!?\u003cp\u003eModula-2 was created in 1978! Just to cite one memory safe systems programming language.","parent":"7411507","id":"7411695"}
{"by":"freedomben","time":"1506702396","timestamp":"2017-09-29 16:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome example, thanks.  We\u0026#x27;ve been starting using different Dockerfiles for prod and dev.  For prod we want tiny images, but for dev the caching of layers is more important for frequent rebuilds.  Such balance all the time :sigh:","parent":"15364139","id":"15366683"}
{"by":"brandonbloom","time":"1497859805","timestamp":"2017-06-19 08:10:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1 \u0026amp; 2) Read my comment again. My remark about functors (in the ML sense) addresses this point. I\u0026#x27;m quite well versed in how type abstraction works. Your comment about being aware of underlying type details is completely non-sensical with respect to nesting. The problem you\u0026#x27;re worried about applies to non-disjoint union types, ie dynamic typing, not Go\u0026#x27;s typical use of type-safe pointers. Nil is type-safe in Go, there\u0026#x27;s no risk of confusing:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    a nil *Foo with a nil *Bar\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n3) You say \u0026quot;meh\u0026quot;, but abstraction for the sake of abstraction is exactly what drives working programmers away from so called \u0026quot;better\u0026quot; languages.\u003cp\u003e4) Meh.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I\u0026#x27;m done with this thread.","parent":"14585120","id":"14585296"}
{"by":"angstrom","time":"1328389532","timestamp":"2012-02-04 21:05:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was my thought. I curl requests like this all the time. This is like a tire obstacle course, not a high jump bar.","parent":"3545712","id":"3552145"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1449783428","timestamp":"2015-12-10 21:37:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e(I see \u0026quot;it would seem that my writings have touched a nerve\u0026quot; as provocation.)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, for one thing, are you asserting that it\u0026#x27;s not self-evident that he was incensed? It\u0026#x27;s pretty evident that he is. If the gentleman is indeed in a state of cognitive distortion driven by hate and groupthink, it could be useful to point it out to him. Getting him to at least the point where he acknowledges his hate, then has to justify having that hate is a step in the right direction.\u003cp\u003eAlso, pointing such out for 3rd party readers may be beneficial for related reasons. He has at least admitted openly that he is in a state of anger and is in the process of justifying why he is right to be ruled by this mindstate.","parent":"10710726","id":"10713679"}
{"by":"kaushalmodi","time":"1535423799","timestamp":"2018-08-28 02:36:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found it confusing too. You were supposed to use interrobangs (‽) instead of \u0026quot;?\u0026quot; :)","parent":"17856097","id":"17856227"}
{"by":"dd9990","time":"1460762857","timestamp":"2016-04-15 23:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I really mean is morally good. Call me naive but I think the majority of employees at Mozilla do want to make the world a better place. Mozilla doesn\u0026#x27;t sell your data or undermine your privacy unlike its main competitors. It doesn\u0026#x27;t want to lock you into their ecosystem and hold you or your data prisoner. They have a core mission to bring people access to the web and not have it controlled by a few select companies. I think they\u0026#x27;re fighting the good fight.\u003cp\u003eI disagree about power users to a small extent. Rust has to be one of the best things Mozilla has ever been involved in. Servo looks really promising. e10s has actually worked out and Web Extensions will finally make addons secure. It\u0026#x27;s not an easy path or transition. Constantly modernising such an old codebase is a huge challenge I don\u0026#x27;t envy. I think the criticism levelled at Mozilla is too harsh some times. They\u0026#x27;ve taken risks and sometimes it doesn;t always work out, like FirefoxOS phones.","parent":"11508253","id":"11508390"}
{"by":"diego_moita","time":"1359169172","timestamp":"2013-01-26 02:59:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These pictures are part of a huge collection assembled by the banker Albert Kahn: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther pictures (about 1200) from the Albert Kahn collection, from other parts of the world: \u003ca href=\"http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete/mappemonde/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are some wonderful pictures in that collection. My preferred are the ones with people living in a way that doesn't exist anymore like the ones from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Ireland, Benin and South East Asia.","parent":"5118439","id":"5119041"}
{"by":"beefman","time":"1300086818","timestamp":"2011-03-14 07:13:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The decay heat is about 5% of full reactor power at shutdown, but decreases exponentially thereafter, to about 1% at 4 hours, etc.  Daiichi units 1 \u0026#38; 3 are about 1.4 and 2.4 MW(th) respectively.","parent":"2321434","id":"2321623"}
{"by":"woodruffw","time":"1485717572","timestamp":"2017-01-29 19:19:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; All of the virtue signaling and moral feather preening surrounding this issue is something to behold.\u003cp\u003eSpare us the rhetoric, please. The only purpose it serves is to confirm your alienation.\u003cp\u003eBusiness mixing with activism is nothing new, although \u003ci\u003eprogressive\u003c/i\u003e businesses engaging in activism is. You\u0026#x27;d do well to remember the recent fracas over churches and resorts choosing not to host gay weddings. That\u0026#x27;s conservative activism.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Or perhaps the Republicans, though new federal liability laws, should render Airbnb\u0026#x27;s business model non-viable at the national level.\u003cp\u003eSuch laws would be a stunning display of hypocrisy from a party that claims to be \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c/i\u003e federal interference in markets. It would also normalize (or continue the trend of normalizing) political punishment for companies that don\u0026#x27;t agree with the current administration\u0026#x27;s (non-legal) policies. Regardless of who\u0026#x27;s in power, that\u0026#x27;s not a good road to go down.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The left has been engaging in total war against the right for about a decade.\u003cp\u003eI hear this sentiment often. While liberals (such as myself) have benefited in terms of visibility from the last 8 years, I see no signs of \u0026quot;total war\u0026quot; on my college campus or in my neighborhood back home. There is general agreement that conservative (and Trumpian) policies are \u003ci\u003ecategorically bad\u003c/i\u003e for all Americans, but this doesn\u0026#x27;t reflect a contempt for conservatives or Trump voters \u003ci\u003eas people\u003c/i\u003e. More than anything, there\u0026#x27;s a feeling of bewilderment stemming from the \u003ci\u003econservative\u003c/i\u003e party\u0026#x27;s unconservative choice of candidate.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I realized that I forgot to add this in the last paragraph:\u003cp\u003eThe idea of the left engaging in \u0026quot;total war\u0026quot; is discomforting for another reason - it doesn\u0026#x27;t accurately reflect the facts of this past election. Over the last 12 months, only \u003ci\u003eone\u003c/i\u003e party selected a candidate who hasn\u0026#x27;t made \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e attempts at bipartisanship. Whether or not you agreed with HRC\u0026#x27;s policies (I didn\u0026#x27;t, on many occasions), she made a conspicuous effort to appeal to both liberals and conservatives. The more progressive contingent mocked her for this, but it\u0026#x27;s still a showing of good faith. No such good faith attempt was made by the Trump campaign.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s worth noting, however, that Trump\u0026#x27;s campaign isn\u0026#x27;t really to blame for the aforementioned. He merely tapped into a talking point that the GOP has been brewing since the Watergate scandal - that the media can\u0026#x27;t be trusted, and that the \u003ci\u003eparty\u003c/i\u003e must be the source of facts. Combined with Gingrich\u0026#x27;s 1996 Contract With America and the reactionary appearance of the Tea Party in response to the Obama administration, the claim that it is the \u003ci\u003eleft\u003c/i\u003e that has waged war looks, at best, shaky.","parent":"13515687","id":"13515998"}
{"by":"charleslmunger","time":"1519542079","timestamp":"2018-02-25 07:01:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose the difference is that people who know about cryptography think that the iota team obviously don\u0026#x27;t know what they\u0026#x27;re doing, and people who don\u0026#x27;t understand cryptography and have a financial stake in iota not being worthless feel differently.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve taken some cryptography classes and a graduate level cryptanalysis course, and I could immediately tell that the people on the iota side clearly don\u0026#x27;t know what they\u0026#x27;re doing. For example, this should trip anyone\u0026#x27;s bullshit detector:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;IOTA was created to be immune to quantum computer attacks, today I have revealed that it was also created to be immune to attacks from an AI\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;Iota\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;70ya29\u0026#x2F;time_for_a_paradigm_shift_has_come\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;Iota\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;70ya29\u0026#x2F;time_for_a_par...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16457535","id":"16457593"}
{"by":"kiwidrew","time":"1492232513","timestamp":"2017-04-15 05:01:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And in typical PC hardware fashion, switching to\u0026#x2F;from this A20 compatibility mode was handled by the \u003ci\u003ekeyboard controller\u003c/i\u003e.  What in the world?  Turns out that the 8042 chip that handled the keyboard had an unused pin which could be \u0026quot;borrowed\u0026quot; to implement the \u0026quot;A20 gate\u0026quot; latch...","parent":"14117332","id":"14119477"}
{"by":"jamescostian","time":"1495242203","timestamp":"2017-05-20 01:03:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAICT using async defer, one cannot express \u0026quot;you need to load X.js and Y.js before running Z.js, and you need to load X.js and A.js before running B.js\u0026quot;. It looks like fetchInject allows you to express that type of thing.\u003cp\u003eBut how is this different from RequireJS? I think RequireJS uses XHR and I don\u0026#x27;t think it supports CSS, but aside from that, what\u0026#x27;s new? I feel like this is just reinventing AMD.","parent":"14380394","id":"14380444"}
{"by":"freehunter","time":"1400609566","timestamp":"2014-05-20 18:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still can\u0026#x27;t believe that a hung program means the Task Manager can hang as well. I don\u0026#x27;t know how many times I\u0026#x27;ve had a game freeze and had to wait on the Task Manager. Ctrl+alt+del brings up the \u0026quot;lock, log off, task manager\u0026quot; screen pretty quick, then Task Manager doesn\u0026#x27;t load until I go make and finish eating dinner.","parent":"7773906","id":"7774176"}
{"by":"peatmoss","time":"1526307261","timestamp":"2018-05-14 14:14:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They’ve got some infrastructure such as “Packrat” that helps a little. You can at least be sure you have the correct version of each dependency stored away with your sources.\u003cp\u003eYou still need the right interpreter version. And of course if you have any exotic dependencies, you’d need to figure out what to do there.\u003cp\u003eI’d say the major difference is one of disposition. The R community seems more on board with the premise that this is a problem worthy of solving. I suspect that that may be a function of the R community having a longer \u0026#x2F; deeper academic history than the Python community.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I should mention that the R community maintains some documentation about the issue as well. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cran.r-project.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;views\u0026#x2F;ReproducibleResearch.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cran.r-project.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;views\u0026#x2F;ReproducibleResearch.ht...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17064388","id":"17065689"}
{"by":"mtmail","time":"1463000640","timestamp":"2016-05-11 21:04:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MapBox on-premise map infrastructure \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mapbox.com\u0026#x2F;atlas\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mapbox.com\u0026#x2F;atlas\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11676350","id":"11679253"}
{"by":"cpks","time":"1457840438","timestamp":"2016-03-13 03:40:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) I really like this, for transparency, clarity, and design.\u003cp\u003e2) The actual numbers there are a little bit scary. 0.03% equity grant? That\u0026#x27;s tiny. It\u0026#x27;s basically worthless.\u003cp\u003eWhen did startup equity get so tiny? I\u0026#x27;m not singling eShares out here -- just broadly speaking. That means that if eShares exits past a billion dollars, those shares won\u0026#x27;t even buy a house in the area....","parent":"11275838","id":"11276080"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1320449413","timestamp":"2011-11-04 23:30:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhen I look around at other companies hiring Ruby on Rails developers, I see them focusing on three major traits: Super-smart; Large community following; Deep Ruby knowledge.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI definitely agree with the thrust of the article, but I run community sites and have run Ruby job ads for a few years and I can't recall seeing anyone looking for a hire with a \"large community following.\"\u003cp\u003eIn aggregate, across all the listings I've run, companies are most usually looking for experience, team working skills, familiarity with Agile practices, TDD experience and, sadly, the ability to commute to a certain location.","parent":"3198087","id":"3198193"}
{"by":"bootload","time":"1191566028","timestamp":"2007-10-05 06:33:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"... Would you recommend getting a residential apartment and working from home, or getting an office and sleeping on the couch/cot at night? ...\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou mean you get a choice? Apartment every time. Why? \u003cp\u003eUnless you can get a good office, your apartment is going to be more comfortable, close to the essentials fridge, terminal, bed (not needed if you fall asleep at the terminal) and kitchen. A determinant factor is also access to a internet connection.\u003cp\u003eYour time is only 3months. By then you will have created something and require a new office.  Then again if you do get an office make sure it is just a bit better than home so you (and others) stay there. Read Joels article which comments on Phill Greenspuns, \"Managing Software Engineers\" ~ \u003ca href=\"http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/fog0000000170.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/fog0000000170.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"63403","id":"63478"}
{"by":"nwienert","time":"1423249321","timestamp":"2015-02-06 19:02:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why wasn\u0026#x27;t this explored more before going full out with React Native? I feel like this would be smart to compare the two: web + webworkers vs native.\u003cp\u003eThere was a lot of hype about hybrid apps \u0026quot;sucking\u0026quot;, but I bet it doesn\u0026#x27;t once you get off the thread.","parent":"9010786","id":"9010840"}
{"by":"fidotron","time":"1349215041","timestamp":"2012-10-02 21:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would argue MS needed to disrupt the laptop space more than the phone one. The disparity in quality between Apple and the MS ecosystem is more pronounced in laptopland than with the phones, but that does say more about how bad most PC laptops are.","parent":"4604253","id":"4604598"}
{"by":"csmuk","time":"1385376610","timestamp":"2013-11-25 10:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the sort of ignorance that is promoted.\u003cp\u003eThe big deal is that JSA which is the only paid amount is £56.80 a week. For a 40 hour standard week that is £1.42 an hour.\u003cp\u003eThe national minimum wage is £6.31 an hour.\u003cp\u003eNot only that, the jobs in question can be literally 20-30 miles from your residential address so travelling is not even possible.\u003cp\u003eAlso, we end up paying the JSA for the business. The business sees this as another expense avoided rather than an investment in the business. This should not be promoted!!","parent":"6793398","id":"6793407"}
{"by":"corry","time":"1452712738","timestamp":"2016-01-13 19:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;...in the coming year\u0026quot;. They\u0026#x27;ve been claiming that the Canada datacenter is coming for awhile now... disappointed there are no details on launch date.\u003cp\u003eAnyone have insight into the timing?","parent":"10894823","id":"10896727"}
{"by":"socillion","time":"1318543475","timestamp":"2011-10-13 22:04:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to chip in with why I personally refuse to use Chrome:\u003cp\u003e-A window begins to be unwieldy at 15 tabs, and is impossible to navigate at 20\u003cp\u003e-Occasional Flash problems render the browser utterly useless for several minutes before it asks whether I am interested in continuing what I was doing\u003cp\u003e-Not visiting a tab for a while results in a ridiculous wait for it to load\u003cp\u003eMy screen size makes having multiple rows of tabs simply take up too much screen space.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, I just haven't had any complaints with firefox (beta channel) apart from the recent interesting decision to change dragging tabs to bookmarks to require hitting ctrl - \u003ca href=\"https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/322ee2ffce987fe0/99293c9c10e592a5?pli=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/bro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3108821","id":"3108979"}
{"by":"tezza","time":"1375884182","timestamp":"2013-08-07 14:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mazel Tov! I have a happy 2.5 y\u0026#x2F;o son, code and hack on sideprojects.\u003cp\u003eThe good:\u003cp\u003e* Having a child is wonderful!\u003cp\u003e* Get a nappy changing table that is the right height for both of you to stand straight\u003cp\u003e- Put two shelves up above the baby changer, keeping nappies and wipes reachable with \u003ci\u003eone hand\u003c/i\u003e. The other hand will often be contaminated \u0026#x2F; busy pinning down something.\u003cp\u003eThe Bad:\u003cp\u003e* The first 9 weeks is crazy intense. Then it eases off.\u003cp\u003eThe Ugly:\u003cp\u003eHaving a baby is a very vulnerable time for new parents. Quite sadly, companies, governments, health-care professionals and deluded individuals try to exploit this vulnerability. They do not hesitate to use what is a powerful new tool: Guilt.\u003cp\u003eYou are very succeptible to guilt when your little baby comes into your life. You will both be tired and never sure you are doing the right thing by your screaming bundle.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ll get advice from all quarters and it will be confusing and often directly contradictory. I say, ignore all the advice and do what feels right for both you and your wife. Babies are delicate and precious, but they thrive without best practice guides.","parent":"6167746","id":"6172855"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1439239785","timestamp":"2015-08-10 20:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; A benevolent dictator externally motivated by serving his subjects is a much better government.\u003cp\u003eNot sure that\u0026#x27;s generally true; a perfectly benevolent, non-omniscient dictator could be quite bad.\u003cp\u003eNot that \u0026quot;perfectly benevolent dictator\u0026quot; is a real option as a long-term form of government.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; for example, Jesus.\u003cp\u003eJesus may have been perfectly benevolent, but isn\u0026#x27;t much of an example of benevolent dictatorship as a better form of government.","parent":"10036947","id":"10037190"}
{"by":"grillvogel","time":"1463764664","timestamp":"2016-05-20 17:17:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m convinced we are going to reach a point where people trust what the computer tells them more than their own eyes.","parent":"11739078","id":"11739642"}
{"by":"jlgreco","time":"1384554690","timestamp":"2013-11-15 22:31:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I think it is you that does not understand:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;The actual group of Anonymous [...]\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no such thing.  Not in any traditional sense.  Talking about \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Anonymous, the group\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e is like talking about \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Kilroy, the GI.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"6742375","id":"6742601"}
{"by":"johnsonlong","time":"1346003109","timestamp":"2012-08-26 17:45:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there people so blessed to have unsolicited recruiting emails on behalf of triple A engineer employers like MS? What I would give for that.","parent":"4434048","id":"4435637"}
{"by":"DiabloD3","time":"1347709424","timestamp":"2012-09-15 11:43:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why did they choose colors that make it look like a Metriod? Seriously, I can't unsee no matter how hard I try.","parent":"4521134","id":"4525910"}
{"by":"Neliquat","time":"1492003708","timestamp":"2017-04-12 13:28:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Adding another convenient flag to monitor for when to snarf your password doesnt seem all that forward thinking securitywise...","parent":"14089427","id":"14097429"}
{"by":"jason_at_orly","time":"1405642309","timestamp":"2014-07-18 00:11:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Banking systems use limited availability rather than tolerate inconsistency. Banks are pessimistic.","parent":"8050971","id":"8050983"}
{"by":"dkersten","time":"1307192348","timestamp":"2011-06-04 12:59:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've also taken part in the IOI - twice - and like you, am a self-taught programmer (I was when I took part in the IOI, I've since also studied computer science). In my opinion the IOI problems, at least for a competition, are pretty good as they focus on using correct algorithms and data structures as opposed to hacks or mathematical tricks. Brute force solutions almost never produces good results for IOI problems. Edge cases must usually be considered as the test cases used to grade the solutions try to be varied and cover as many cases as possible.\u003cp\u003eIOI does nothing to teach good software architecture and I don't think any similar competition could ever hope to do that. It does, however, teach algorithmic thinking, use of data structures, understanding of time and space complexity and coding under pressure. (Well, all of these to a degree - like you said, recursion, branch pruning, trees and graphs and the like. more to be desired? Sure! But not a bad start, especially for high school students who are unlikely to have much exposure to problems which would otherwise have forced them to learn these things - I know people even now who, having only ever done business applications, would fail miserably at solving any IOI-like or algorithmically-heavy programming problem because they were never sufficiently introduced to the things the IOI focuses on.) All great lessons, even if there is more left to learn to become a great programmer.\u003cp\u003eI personally dislike PE because the problems I attempted seemed like they could often be better solved by employing a mathematical trick or insight as opposed to clever use of algorithms, data structures or programming ingenuity. My programming skills are much greater than my math skills, so I guess ultimately, because of that, PE just doesn't do it for me.","parent":"2618647","id":"2619424"}
{"by":"alexgartrell","time":"1259071828","timestamp":"2009-11-24 14:10:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you really think that Michael Jackson will have the permanence of Shakespeare or Jefferson?  Young people mostly don't care about [him] or for his music, and he is unlikely to make the history books.\u003cp\u003eI agree  with the spirit of your comment though, in believing that the linked article was elitist beyond reason.  Anyone who would describe western society as contemptible because the \"intellectuals\" don't watch PBS needs to pick up a book (just like the \"intellectuals\" have done).  The information density is way too low for someone with real stuff to do, which is why television is relegated to relaxation time, where bandwidth is a non-issue.\u003cp\u003e[Edited]","parent":"959168","id":"959204"}
{"by":"jasode","time":"1511179481","timestamp":"2017-11-20 12:04:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;ecosystem is incredibly big \u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wasn\u0026#x27;t talking about the \u003ci\u003esize\u003c/i\u003e of cpan because it\u0026#x27;s not relevant to my point.  I was talking about Perl not being at the forefront of everyone\u0026#x27;s minds and being used as a 1st-class environment as computing entered new domains.  E.g. instead of Sun or Microsoft taking an existing language like Perl and giving it a canonical IDE to let programmers write data entry GUI applications, they create Java \u0026amp; C# instead.  When Google\u0026#x2F;Android decided on a development language for their smartphone SDK, they chose Java instead of Perl.  It doesn\u0026#x27;t matter if cpan has mobile phone libraries \u003ci\u003enow\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eYou seem to be taking my observations about Perl as some sort of veiled attack.  I\u0026#x27;m just reporting why and how Perl got to the state of being \u0026quot;disliked\u0026quot; today in programmer surveys.  It\u0026#x27;s not about the \u0026quot;undecidability\u0026quot;.","parent":"15739241","id":"15739326"}
{"by":"frisco","time":"1523837960","timestamp":"2018-04-16 00:19:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The short version is: retain a competent wealth manager to advise you.\u003cp\u003eThis is not good advice. \u0026quot;Wealth managers\u0026quot; are totally useless and exist just to charge you fees and create complexity. I really like mgummelt\u0026#x27;s comment above; it doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be more complicated than that!","parent":"16845763","id":"16845819"}
{"by":"ableal","time":"1272134632","timestamp":"2010-04-24 18:43:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The piece itself is not bad, and has food for thought, but I was surprised at the good quality of most opposing comments (now up to 16).","parent":"1291357","id":"1291360"}
{"by":"clementmiao","time":"1516215831","timestamp":"2018-01-17 19:03:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The counter argument there is that hunger still existing is not so much a product of there not being enough food as much as the food not properly being allocated. There is easily enough food produced in the world to feed everyone as is.","parent":"16170647","id":"16170711"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1394963551","timestamp":"2014-03-16 09:52:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What fallacy would that comment even be? It\u0026#x27;s just a factually incorrect statement.","parent":"7408176","id":"7408828"}
{"by":"jtchang","time":"1370029304","timestamp":"2013-05-31 19:41:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the idea of this. I know there was a post recently about a guy selling 24 hour chunks of data about himself.\u003cp\u003eIs there an opportunity here to create a secure data store for your own structured data hosted securely somewhere else and that providers would pay YOU to access?\u003cp\u003eOf course you'd give free access to it for your doctor who needed to pull some info. But what if you had total control over your own API. This is a kind of like Facebook but I would never let facebook hold some of my most personal data. I would like to control authorization to my own data though to certain people.","parent":"5799706","id":"5800902"}
{"by":"pedalpete","time":"1469522365","timestamp":"2016-07-26 08:39:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry to disagree, but I don\u0026#x27;t see where you\u0026#x27;re going that you think you\u0026#x27;re an \u0026#x27;email client killer\u0026#x27;. Again, I would still need an email client for everything outside of comptify.\u003cp\u003eNeither of the apps you pointed to suggest they are killing email or email clients.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d suggest that if you\u0026#x27;re going to be a collaboration tool, focus on that. Note that Fleep is a messaging platform and front seems to be organized group emails. Neither of these guys are claiming to be a collaboration app.\u003cp\u003eWhat are you trying to do? Figure that out, and do it. But only one thing, or else the market is going to get confused as to what they are supposed to use your product for.","parent":"12163876","id":"12164172"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1457795342","timestamp":"2016-03-12 15:09:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect tomschlick is correct (I\u0026#x27;ve said similar things here before) but I also agree with you.  I would feel so much better if he would come out and say, \u0026quot;When I was campaigning I said X- but now that I\u0026#x27;ve learned more about it I\u0026#x27;m breaking my promise and am going with !X.\u0026quot;","parent":"11273031","id":"11273105"}
{"by":"V-2","time":"1476106934","timestamp":"2016-10-10 13:42:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003ePerhaps a library covers only 95% of the requirements\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e95% isn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;only\u0026quot;. That\u0026#x27;s pretty darn high. I\u0026#x27;d wish that in-house code covered 95% of requirements more often.\u003cp\u003eIf we\u0026#x27;re talking about open-source (I can\u0026#x27;t see why not), you can just fork the library in question and adjust it to fulfill the missing 5%.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eBeing available in a package manager, being downloaded by thousand of people, or having a fancy web page, are no indications of a good product.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Being used by thousands of people isn\u0026#x27;t by itself a guarantee that it\u0026#x27;s good, but it surely makes it more likely.\u003cp\u003e2. Obviously noone sane would pick third party libraries based on how fancy some web page is. That\u0026#x27;s a strawman argument.","parent":"12675321","id":"12677001"}
{"by":"ptrptr","time":"1490909619","timestamp":"2017-03-30 21:33:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is possible use case for this?","parent":"13995869","id":"13999074"}
{"by":"lhnz","time":"1357485185","timestamp":"2013-01-06 15:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what code would look like on an e-ink display. I would like to code outside in the sun.","parent":"5015897","id":"5016475"}
{"by":"umanwizard","time":"1512584056","timestamp":"2017-12-06 18:14:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Results in places like France and the UK are known within a few hours.","parent":"15863331","id":"15863405"}
{"by":"blhack","time":"1323395090","timestamp":"2011-12-09 01:44:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well obviously the author is just speculating on how it \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e have been done.\u003cp\u003eMy point is that it's not totally out of the question that Iran took hold of this drone via the LoS landing controls, \u003ci\u003eif\u003c/i\u003e those landing controls are vulnerable to replay attack.\u003cp\u003eThis whole post is just speculation.  It happens to be interesting, which is cool, but I don't think anybody is making the claim that this author knows exactly what happened.","parent":"3332095","id":"3332116"}
{"by":"Piskvorrr","time":"1450105796","timestamp":"2015-12-14 15:09:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hm. I do have a candidate fitting this description. \u0026quot;But \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c/i\u003e you want to update to W\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e*s Nein, even though you have declined the popups, disabled the GWX Clippy abomination and disabled the specific updates; I will kindly reenable all of that for you. Oh, and I\u0026#x27;ll also suck down 6 gigs of install data, it\u0026#x27;s not like you are using your metered pipe for anything useful anyway. Admit that you want it.\u0026quot;","parent":"10730004","id":"10731376"}
{"by":"sudhirj","time":"1383558091","timestamp":"2013-11-04 09:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone care to explain the DES misuse to laypeople? And why do some passwords have a salt(?) and some don\u0026#x27;t?","parent":"6667567","id":"6667721"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1515736655","timestamp":"2018-01-12 05:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;intel-warns-its-patches-for-chip-flaws-are-buggy-1515715212\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;intel-warns-its-patches-for-chi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16130436","id":"16130711"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1358139096","timestamp":"2013-01-14 04:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about people that are like-minded band together and dedicate one person to research all of the issues and present them, or an issue per person (or something else)?","parent":"5053263","id":"5053338"}
{"by":"tehwalrus","time":"1385557829","timestamp":"2013-11-27 13:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like to think that programmers are better than most at seeing the assumptions behind ideas, and testing them where possible (or taking the ideas less seriously if not.)\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s rarer than I thought to apply this to ones own social ideas, though. Shame.","parent":"6807404","id":"6807826"}
{"by":"speleo","time":"1536295694","timestamp":"2018-09-07 04:48:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;For example, the fastest distance between two points is not a straight line, it\u0026#x27;s the cycloid, specifically the Brachistochrone curve [2]. This is the path light follows.\u003cp\u003eYou may be conflating [Bernoulli\u0026#x27;s solution to the Brachistochrone curve](\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.math.rug.nl\u0026#x2F;~broer\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;ws-ijbc.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.math.rug.nl\u0026#x2F;~broer\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;ws-ijbc.pdf\u003c/a\u003e) with the optimal path for light. [Fermat\u0026#x27;s Principle](\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fermat%27s_principle\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fermat%27s_principle\u003c/a\u003e) states that, when traveling between two points, light will always take the path that minimizes the time taken from the first point to the last. In a medium of constant refractive index (which includes free space), this results in a line.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;So if you\u0026#x27;re looking for ways to distribute partitions or encode invariants in your models, data or otherwise, the geometrical aspects of elliptical and cycloidal curves are a good place to explore.\u003cp\u003eHow do you mean? What sort of data can be encoded this way and how?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; NB: Consider this, two seperate impulses of light beginning at different distances away from the observer, both impulses of light traveling along the optimal path at the optimal speed, and both arriving at the observer simultaneously, without bending time. And as shown above, on a cycloidal curve, this phenomenon is not unique to light.\u003cp\u003eTwo separate impulses of light beginning at different distances away from a stationary observer will necessarily arrive at different times, otherwise you violate the basis of special relativity: the speed of light is constant and invariant of reference frame.","parent":"17928605","id":"17931948"}
{"by":"michaelt","time":"1498209585","timestamp":"2017-06-23 09:19:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  The NSA hoards vulnerabilities for the same reason\n  the military has guns.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nVulnerabilities are fundamentally unlike guns.\u003cp\u003eBecause vulnerabilities can be independently discovered or accidentally released, then reproduced in vast quantities and used against the public and civilian infrastructure of both us and our allies - largely with impunity.\u003cp\u003eIf wannacry was a gun, it\u0026#x27;d be a gun that fired backwards and sideways at the same time as forwards, and you can\u0026#x27;t stop it firing once it\u0026#x27;s started, and sometimes it starts firing on its own.","parent":"14617832","id":"14617920"}
{"by":"taybin","time":"1400783484","timestamp":"2014-05-22 18:31:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, burst my bubble and call me Slim.","parent":"7785428","id":"7785441"}
{"by":"lgeek","time":"1322771729","timestamp":"2011-12-01 20:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They won't be selling unpopulated PCBs, only assembled boards.","parent":"3301268","id":"3301285"}
{"by":"jclarkcom","time":"1418949870","timestamp":"2014-12-19 00:44:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read someone was able to \u0026quot;remove\u0026quot; the click sound by playing the same click sound phase shifted when taking a photo - so when the OS sound mixer adds the two waveforms together it results in silence.  Clever idea - it is the same as noise canceling headphones, except it all happens in software.\u003cp\u003eAs others have mentioned, if you put your iphone in silent mode there is no click sound except in Japan. I\u0026#x27;m not sure if  a) phones sold in Japan have disabled this feature or b) the phone knows when it is located in Japan and then disables silent mode.","parent":"8770011","id":"8770568"}
{"by":"efreak","time":"1518798472","timestamp":"2018-02-16 16:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Was thinking about this ... I reflexively hate bots, but it might be a UX thing -- maybe it\u0026#x27;s the popup. The pop diverts my attention from where I was looking on the site and feels like an intrusion. Same as if someone comes to your desk and grabs your mouse. So .. maybe an improvement would be to have a status-line or ticker-like text field that doesn\u0026#x27;t pop up or obscure any part of the underlying page design.\u003cp\u003eI almost entirely agree with this. Chat pop-ups are _incredibly_ annoying. Many websites have a livechat tab at the bottom, or at the side of the screen that you can click to initiate a chat, and that\u0026#x27;s fine, but the chat should _never_ be initiated automatically (or appear to be). Once the page loads, any change in the main area of a website should _only_ be initiated by user interaction, such as clicking the \u0026#x27;chat\u0026#x27; tab at the bottom. Otherwise, for the interruption it generates in my thought process, you might as well just load another page entirely.","parent":"16392331","id":"16393453"}
{"by":"shortstuffsushi","time":"1417754296","timestamp":"2014-12-05 04:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess I can\u0026#x27;t add an edit to my post, but ironically, a day later, a friend of mine posted on Twitter about having his dog at work. So maybe I am the one with the unusual office.","parent":"8697637","id":"8703028"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1470164964","timestamp":"2016-08-02 19:09:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those were smart pipes though.","parent":"12212426","id":"12212439"}
{"by":"voltagex_","time":"1447877813","timestamp":"2015-11-18 20:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s always LeanPub \u0026#x2F; Gumroad","parent":"10589066","id":"10590415"}
{"by":"atwebb","time":"1382729060","timestamp":"2013-10-25 19:24:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not saying the valuation is justified but naughty pictures have proven to be a very, very profitable industry.","parent":"6613888","id":"6613910"}
{"by":"morganvachon","time":"1507759784","timestamp":"2017-10-11 22:09:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003ethe leasing company actually has limited leverage\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis can be true even at the SMB level. My employer sees only a couple of million in revenue yearly, we lease our warehouse\u0026#x2F;office space and we have more or less free reign to make any non-structural changes. If we decide to clear out a corner of the warehouse to put in more office space, we can (and we have). We just have to pay for the materials and labor. We\u0026#x27;ve actually had our lease renewed on better terms over the years for being good tenants.","parent":"15453875","id":"15453956"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1434472461","timestamp":"2015-06-16 16:34:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll be darned. Yes, hiring innovators is a great innovation tactic. ;)","parent":"9725143","id":"9727026"}
{"by":"august2017","time":"1496364188","timestamp":"2017-06-02 00:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"August Home | San Francisco | Full-time, onsite\u003cp\u003eAs a backend software engineer working on August’s backend applications and infrastructure, you will ensure that August’s REST API services are always fast, available, scalable and engineered to scale.  You will work in collaboration with the iOS, Android, web development and embedded development teams to optimize our users experience with the August Smart Lock.\u003cp\u003eStrong analytical and troubleshooting skills.\nDevelopment, maintenance, and debugging of back-end services\nManage availability, security, scalability by engineering reliability into our services\nMonitoring operational services and responding to problems when necessary\nPreemptively work on improving the performance of our REST API\nParticipate in service capacity planning\nReview and influence ongoing backend designs and architecture\u003cp\u003eInterested?  Please ping:  dina@august.com","parent":"14460777","dead":true,"id":"14466483"}
{"by":"acidx","time":"1452371202","timestamp":"2016-01-09 20:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My web server, uses the same pattern.  There\u0026#x27;s an article explaining it in details here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tia.mat.br\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;life_of_a_http_request.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tia.mat.br\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;life_of_a_http_request.ht...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10872458","id":"10872736"}
{"by":"acchow","time":"1499731731","timestamp":"2017-07-11 00:08:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, and Cheerios sets their price to compete with other cereal providers. The consumer picks the company keeping the price in mind.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s how IPO pricing works too. The banks compete against each other and the company chooses their underwriter.\u003cp\u003eThis is how markets work. I fail to see how an IPO is \u0026quot;rather than using a market-based mechanism for price discovery, they pick a price to sell at\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI think davidw is making some strong claims without understanding how the IPO process really works","parent":"14740636","id":"14740663"}
{"by":"antidaily","time":"1275004741","timestamp":"2010-05-27 23:59:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"the more I practiced the luckier I got\" - golfer Ben Hogan.","parent":"1384767","id":"1385280"}
{"by":"eevilspock","time":"1444866850","timestamp":"2015-10-14 23:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;If a business model wouldn’t work if users had to opt in, it deserves to fail.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e (last line of the article)\u003cp\u003eSince the invisible hand of the free internet appears to be arthritic, a more visible hand (fist?) is necessary. And we have it in the way of request blockers such as uBlock Origin, wich can compleltely block Facebook\u0026#x27;s and Google\u0026#x27;s tracking in their tracks. As more and more people turn to subversive solutions such as privacy oriented request blockers and ad blockers, we may finally turn things around.\u003cp\u003eMy hope is on an open source browser that is entirely privacy oriented, easy to use and adopt by non-technical users.","parent":"10390123","id":"10390384"}
{"by":"sklivvz1971","time":"1304020621","timestamp":"2011-04-28 19:57:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I so wholeheartedly and completely agree with Joel. Things that really \"make\" a team:\u003cp\u003e1) Having lunch together\n2) Having booze together\n3) Going out together regularly","parent":"2494398","id":"2494865"}
{"by":"cpach","time":"1501694529","timestamp":"2017-08-02 17:22:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks interesting. How well does this app prevent weird\u0026#x2F;disturbing\u0026#x2F;bad videos?","parent":"14912269","id":"14912617"}
{"by":"Ollinson","time":"1427019563","timestamp":"2015-03-22 10:19:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In New York City there is an agency called \u0026quot;The Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThere is a fascinating article about how this agency has resisted changing their name.*\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;The debate over erasing the term “retarded” illustrates the issues that can arise as language shifts. Terminology was important to the parents who fought on behalf of children who until the 1950s were labeled “moron” or “imbecile.” For them, the initial popularizing of the term “mentally retarded” was a victory. A once-hidden population now had a name and a state agency.\u003cp\u003e*\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/nyregion/08name.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;nyregion\u0026#x2F;08name.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9245376","id":"9246252"}
{"by":"piotrkaminski","time":"1476075669","timestamp":"2016-10-10 05:01:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I expect that cities will heavily subsidize it, to bring it down to about the level of public transport (but far more convenient).  I\u0026#x27;ll admit it\u0026#x27;s just guessing at a very nebulous future, though.","parent":"12675110","id":"12675137"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1421243746","timestamp":"2015-01-14 13:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, so when there\u0026#x27;s a crew larger than that they leave two docked.","parent":"8886176","id":"8886196"}
{"by":"yason","time":"1253190341","timestamp":"2009-09-17 12:25:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really can' t imagine why this forcefully pre-segmented market exists at all -- except for to keep the carriers from beating themselves to death. Then again, completely free markets rarely exist but this is bordering a cartel.\u003cp\u003e\"Psst! Hey, I won't sell X and will offer only Y, if only you won't sell Y and offer only X.\"\u003cp\u003eI like to buy the best phone that suits my needs, and choose the best carrier that suits my needs. If those two are coupled, I am given suboptimal selection of choices as soon as I want a phone I can't get from one carrier or I want a certain carrier that doesn't deliver the phone of my choice.","parent":"827533","id":"827837"}
{"by":"kareemm","time":"1454384949","timestamp":"2016-02-02 03:49:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK Vancouver or remote\u003cp\u003eMy partner and I build three types of apps for companies:\u003cp\u003e1. SaaS apps\u003cp\u003e2. Internal apps (workflow automation, team communication, etc)\u003cp\u003e3. Web apps to generate leads for your company (think \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;website.grader.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;website.grader.com\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve been building apps online for 25+ years combined for companies like ESPN, MySpace, and Predictable Revenue.\u003cp\u003eWe focus on helping you get a good business outcome.  We\u0026#x27;ve both built and run profitable SaaS apps so you\u0026#x27;re getting business partners who happen to be able to code.\u003cp\u003eSome recent work:\u003cp\u003e1. Most recently we helped take Chimp.net from zero to $85M in revenue. We also created a mini-product on Chimp to generate a 25% increase in traffic.\u003cp\u003e2.  We\u0026#x27;re helping Predictable Revenue grow their B2B SaaS app.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re both \u0026quot;product engineers\u0026quot; - we focus on building a great product.  We can do customer development, etc, if you need us to.  We use Ruby on Rails, Postgres\u0026#x2F;MySQL, jQuery, are exploring React on a couple of projects, write automated tests, and know how to ship quality software.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re based in Vancouver, but work with companies around the world.\u003cp\u003eEmail: reemer+hn@gmail.com\u003cp\u003eKeywords: development, product, UX, Vancouver, Canada, remote, rails, react, ruby on rails","parent":"11012045","id":"11017540"}
{"by":"notadoc","time":"1500186841","timestamp":"2017-07-16 06:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or just look around on Google Maps in Satellite view.","parent":"14778952","id":"14780827"}
{"by":"sparknlaunch12","time":"1335951164","timestamp":"2012-05-02 09:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's strange that Microsoft would want to off load Bing. I know Facebook supposedly have some decent search capability already. Maybe Bing would complement a Facebook type OS?","parent":"3918122","id":"3918223"}
{"by":"scotty79","time":"1467658874","timestamp":"2016-07-04 19:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The limiting factor is no longer knowledge. It\u0026#x27;s the ability to absorb knowledge.\u003cp\u003eI get your point that from all experiments we performed so far and bothered to write down and digitize there might be few tricks left to squeeze out, but vast majority of our current progress comes from new experiments.\u003cp\u003eI agree that AI could very well write stuxnet or mess with our security so I\u0026#x27;m hoping we get bit more tight in that department before we manage to build AI. I\u0026#x27;d definitely prefer first artificial consciousness to be built before robots are as popular as cars or smartphones.\u003cp\u003eWe will eventually develop AI and it\u0026#x27;ll be definitely challenging to orchestrate it running most of our civilization and not killing us in the process.\u003cp\u003eWhat I\u0026#x27;m not afraid is AI taking what we know so far and secretly turning itself into miracle making god in matter of weeks. We will have few years or decades of existence before AI becomes vastly more powerful than the rest of us and till then we will have ability to align our priorities.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Human brains run at maybe 100 hz. AI\u0026#x27;s built out of silicone could work thousands of times faster. Doing the same work, just in much shorter time.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not work. It\u0026#x27;s just thinking. AI can create philosophical theories or build new optimal JavaScript frameworks at blazing speed and still not make any progress in physics that would make it more powerful than us. It needs new data. It needs to run experiments to get anywhere beyond what we achieved so far. If we maintain transparency and caution in what AI is given and allowed to do then we may have safely transition from current world to AI world. Besides, at some point our civilization will encounter others it\u0026#x27;s better to bring our own AI to the table. Alien one might attach much less sentimental value to us.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If you went back in time to Blaise Pascal, if you took the right books and plans from the future, you could get them to CPUs in mere years.\u003cp\u003eNo, you couldn\u0026#x27;t. Do you know how long it takes to build a fab with current infrastructure available? You\u0026#x27;d have to bring half or their industry into XX century before you could have a CPU.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  If you can predict prices 1% more accurately than anyone else, then you can make a huge amount of money in the long run.\u003cp\u003eYes. The thing with stock market is that you can\u0026#x27;t. It\u0026#x27;s not because you are not smarter than other traders. It\u0026#x27;s because interaction between all the traders creates pretty much perfect chaotic random process that no-one can predict.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Stock prices aren\u0026#x27;t random. They are determined by real events, mainly how much profit the company makes.\u003cp\u003eSame way random generator driven by unknown algorithm is predicted by its seed.","parent":"12030707","id":"12032387"}
{"by":"train_robber","time":"1300101089","timestamp":"2011-03-14 11:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please show more love to us laptop users. I have had problems due to poor hardware support. I'm not able to use a lot of accessories that come in standard on my laptop like -\u003cp\u003e* Bluetooth support - It sometimes works, sometimes won't.\n* Soundcards - A pain to make it work properly\n* WebCam - Again, works on and off\n* Graphics Card - Works perfect on my present laptop, but had to go through a lot of trouble setting one up for my friend.\u003cp\u003eThough I love the O/S and would continue to use it despite these issues, I think this is one major drawback that prevents a lot of people from switching to Ubuntu. It should work, out of the box with little twitching of buttons.","parent":"2321838","id":"2322028"}
{"by":"gxs","time":"1386807827","timestamp":"2013-12-12 00:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Business Idea: Make it easy for Joe Schmoe\u0026#x27;s like myself to take action against issues like this.\u003cp\u003eI hate the monopoly the cable company has in my area. I hate that my parents were paying AT\u0026amp;T $50\u0026#x2F;mo. for a 1Mbps connection because we hadn\u0026#x27;t looked at their bill in a year and because getting cable in their building is a pain in the ass. I hate these new early upgrade programs the wireless carriers are rolling that are a plain rip off (give us your phone and pay full price for your upgrade but in payments). I hate that if my phone miscalculates my usage and I go over by even 1MB, Verizon charges me $15 that month.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m all for free market enterprise, but recognize (much like Adam Smith) that it doesn\u0026#x27;t work for all sectors of the economy.\u003cp\u003eWith that said, I am a busy working professional trying to make it in this dog-eat-dog world. I\u0026#x27;m well educated, have the means, but even for me, I haven\u0026#x27;t a clue as to what to do about all the things I just ranted about.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t have the solution, but I hope someone finds a way to make it easy for me to contribute to the democratic process.","parent":"6891352","id":"6891936"}
{"by":"benatkin","time":"1358211599","timestamp":"2013-01-15 00:59:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"rdl is saying that they don't want to solve that use case at all. It's a bit hard to parse but if you just pay attention the \"aimed at business/group use\" phrase and ignore the rest of it, it's clear. It's a single sentence that would be better as two sentences.","parent":"5057768","id":"5057786"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1323362405","timestamp":"2011-12-08 16:40:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Most people aren't evolved to resist serious strains of flu, but when an epidemic happens the next generation will be those who were.\u003cp\u003eIt's true because diseases \u003ci\u003ekill\u003c/i\u003e unprepared and leave only the (more-less) adapted. So far neither obesity nor computer games were successful in killing people on the mass scale fast enough. Also, we're actively engineering the computer games to be as immersing as possible. If a 'resistant generation' pops up, it'll probably at some point engineer addicting games for itself.","parent":"3329677","id":"3329784"}
{"by":"p0ckets","time":"1392740816","timestamp":"2014-02-18 16:26:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is this different from qmv? \u003ca href=\"http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/renameutils\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;community.linuxmint.com\u0026#x2F;software\u0026#x2F;view\u0026#x2F;renameutils\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7258308","id":"7258980"}
{"by":"monksy","time":"1415851001","timestamp":"2014-11-13 03:56:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand why you\u0026#x27;re pro-scrapping. ( I did write a blog post on this, and I believe that I posted it to HN before: \u003ca href=\"http://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2012/07/how-to-get-rid-of-screen-scrapers-from-your-website/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;theexceptioncatcher.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;how-to-get-rid-o...\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003eBut, wouldn\u0026#x27;t it be more beneficial to get websites to open up an API to you, communicate to them to do so, or even offer consulting services to build an API?\u003cp\u003eI know that there are a few cart\u0026#x2F;store offerings out there. it seems to me that they would have an API.\u003cp\u003eMagneto: \u003ca href=\"http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/checkout/checkout.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.magentocommerce.com\u0026#x2F;api\u0026#x2F;soap\u0026#x2F;checkout\u0026#x2F;checkout.ht...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpenCart Propretary API: \u003ca href=\"http://opencart-api.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;opencart-api.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrestashop API: \u003ca href=\"http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS14/Using+the+REST+webservice\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;doc.prestashop.com\u0026#x2F;display\u0026#x2F;PS14\u0026#x2F;Using+the+REST+webser...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8597980","id":"8599822"}
{"by":"tzahola","time":"1514307221","timestamp":"2017-12-26 16:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh boy. This reminds me of the utterly failed attempts of the last 30 years to eliminate programmers. You know, when companies were telling us that creating business software will be as simple as connecting a few boxes on a flowchart, and their intelligent snake oil-driven framework will automatically translate that into working software. Even \u003ci\u003emanagers\u003c/i\u003e will be able to do that, right?!\u003cp\u003eFunny how we ended up needing more programmers than ever.","parent":"16008462","id":"16009391"}
{"by":"knz","time":"1482353483","timestamp":"2016-12-21 20:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Australia as well.","parent":"13230870","id":"13232520"}
{"by":"zachkatz","time":"1512277677","timestamp":"2017-12-03 05:07:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Camera-equipped glasses that automagically capture the most AI-determined artful stills from your vision as photographs","parent":"15835851","id":"15836063"}
{"by":"euyyn","time":"1454024650","timestamp":"2016-01-28 23:44:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not really relevant; after all, Bin Laden himself didn\u0026#x27;t pilot the planes into the towers.","parent":"10991359","id":"10992451"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1345813781","timestamp":"2012-08-24 13:09:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Goodness, that's some fairly shoddy logic for point two! I could equally phrase this as \"No religious group have committed genocide in the name of extraterrestrial aliens, but atheists have been known to justify genocide\".\u003cp\u003eIn other words, the first assertion includes everyone, including ALL religious people, and the second premise doesn't follow from the first anyway. Furthermore, the argument doesn't even answer the question between the differences between aliens and deity, because you are focussing on the religious movements and not the omniscient god!\u003cp\u003eAll around, a poor effort.","parent":"4420487","id":"4427400"}
{"by":"zokier","time":"1517864538","timestamp":"2018-02-05 21:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Take down\u0026quot; feels bit dramatic; ultimately CF discontinuing service leaves the sites to same position that they would be without CF in the first place. The operators are still free to continue running the site as they see fit, just not with CFs service. Sure, there is a (short) interruption for the site as the operators need to reconfigure systems, but I feel like that is fairly minor issue in the scale of things.","parent":"16310988","id":"16312151"}
{"by":"rada","time":"1276708039","timestamp":"2010-06-16 17:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All brokers have Series 7:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Securities_Representative_Exam\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Securities_Representati...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1436163","id":"1436187"}
{"by":"casualtech","time":"1513378649","timestamp":"2017-12-15 22:57:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really Odd. I don\u0026#x27;t hate it man.","parent":"15935854","id":"15935959"}
{"by":"thwarted","time":"1290716764","timestamp":"2010-11-25 20:26:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Part of how things play on the 6 o'clock news is that things are not transparent enough, and there's a lot of opportunity to re/misinterpret things that the populace doesn't have any documentation for.\u003cp\u003eSomehow, I don't think politicians are being more honest when it comes to what's good for their constituents when they have conversations behind closed doors.  I'm sure closed door discussions do allow the capability to be \"more honest\" about backscratching and payola with the other people in the room.","parent":"1940919","id":"1940941"}
{"by":"VonGuard","time":"1477345249","timestamp":"2016-10-24 21:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gallery of US Nuclear tests. Lots of info at this site, beyond just American tests.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nuclearweaponarchive.org\u0026#x2F;Usa\u0026#x2F;Tests\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nuclearweaponarchive.org\u0026#x2F;Usa\u0026#x2F;Tests\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12778836","id":"12783160"}
{"by":"paulhart","time":"1277514344","timestamp":"2010-06-26 01:05:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Real estate agents are in business for themselves (the companies they work for are really providing a federation-like environment, with shared services). I suspect many of them see themselves as entrepreneurs too.","parent":"1461648","id":"1462759"}
{"by":"justinclift","time":"1497601978","timestamp":"2017-06-16 08:32:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Damn.  Yeah same here.\u003cp\u003eWhen 10 came out, there was mention of a newer major version of Samba being included.  I\u0026#x27;m not sure what version is included in this 11.0 release, but if it\u0026#x27;s a major release or two higher than that in 9.10, then I\u0026#x27;m kind of hoping it\u0026#x27;ll help.\u003cp\u003eThat being said, upgrading my NAS isn\u0026#x27;t a high priority task.  It\u0026#x27;s working \u0026quot;well enough\u0026quot; for now as is. :D","parent":"14560798","id":"14567448"}
{"by":"lazaroclapp","time":"1495155433","timestamp":"2017-05-19 00:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That the wealth of a more educated society compounds, likely in super-additive fashion. Basically, the idea is that a society full of educated people is wealthier as a whole and thus in your own interest. In the short term, it  is easier to be well off if people around you are well off than if not (e.g. is way easier to be an entrepreneur or to find a well paying job if you are surrounded by other educated people). In the long term, your society gets richer and, since countries that have public education also have things like public healthcare and social security, a richer country is also very directly in your benefit when you are nearing retirement.\u003cp\u003eNote that the U.S. already buys this argument when it comes to primary and secondary education. It only seems to mostly ignore it when it comes to the university or trade school level.\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. gets by without public higher education, but that might be in significant part for two reasons: accumulated private wealth in a large middle class that got rich from globalization with one of the few intact industrial bases in the post-war environment (now dwindling), immigration of educated workers from all over the world (brain drain from other countries).\u003cp\u003eAlso, note that many countries with public higher education see it as a system where each individual \u0026quot;pays it forward\u0026quot; for the education of the next generation, at a moment in their lives where they have significant more economic safety than they would in their late teens. Simply put: \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ll pay for the education of the next generation, because the previous generation paid for mine\u0026quot;. This is something which the U.S. does within families anyways, but some other countries do collectively, resulting, again, in compounded gains from a more educated society \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e cheaper education costs due to collective bargaining. Things like fancy dorms and millionaire school administrators are hard to justify when they are paid out of the paystub of your average nurse and construction worker...\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t get me wrong, I did my undergrad in a (developing) country with public higher education and my graduate studies in the U.S. (on school support). There are definitely benefits to the U.S. system if you have the money or are in the top percentile for talent\u0026#x2F;luck. But overall, for the majority, the lack of a strong free public education option is a huge disadvantage, it seems to me, even after six years here, that this is one of those things where the U.S. does well despite of it, rather than because of it. Like private healthcare and lack of public transportation.","parent":"14372190","id":"14372295"}
{"by":"DeepDuh","time":"1350134957","timestamp":"2012-10-13 13:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, I fear for NVIDIA's HPC market as well. Kepler 2 in my eyes is not well suited for GPGPU, they've rather optimized it for the gaming market in order to go after AMD. I.e. they introduced much more cores, but those cores now have less cache and register resources available to them. Less registers, especially, is deadly - this has already been a limiting factor for many HPC applications.\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile Intel pushes out their Xeon Phi boards with huge memory bandwidth and OpenMP support. If there's not some kind of surprise in terms of performance either on Intel's or NVIDIA's side I see dark clouds coming for them.","parent":"4648372","id":"4648549"}
{"by":"rudolf0","time":"1478198299","timestamp":"2016-11-03 18:38:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think YC\u0026#x27;s brand has been criticized much more than it has in the past. I think the Thiel drama is the worst they\u0026#x27;ve had to deal with in the past year or two.\u003cp\u003eWhere have you seen more YC promotion?","parent":"12866603","id":"12866688"}
{"by":"poulsbohemian","time":"1394548617","timestamp":"2014-03-11 14:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds like a lot of fun, can you explain the process you went through to catch your own? How did you ensure you were catching something useable and not something you didn\u0026#x27;t want in your bread?","parent":"7378214","id":"7379393"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1482430867","timestamp":"2016-12-22 18:21:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you detect modified photos of authentication certificates?","parent":"13238453","id":"13239179"}
{"by":"moron","time":"1335831380","timestamp":"2012-05-01 00:16:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They would have gotten slimed with the \u003ci\u003eevil\u003c/i\u003e moniker if they had decided to trash Groupon in the press. Damned if they [do|don't]. Adopting that slogan was one of the dumbest things they ever did, people love to bash them over the head with it.","parent":"3912197","id":"3912291"}
{"by":"saturdaysaint","time":"1333025366","timestamp":"2012-03-29 12:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My first reaction was to scoff, but this actually improves e-readers in a few critical ways.  E-ink screens have been so easy to break that they all but require a (usually) cumbersome case to survive a trip in a backpack or, say, accidentally rolling over on it in bed.  This should improve that, and it sounds like the weight savings aren't negligible either.  Amazing that we're close to being able to carry a library in something barely heavier than a sheet of paper.  This will also make larger format readers more practical.","parent":"3770599","id":"3770832"}
{"by":"lukev","time":"1320269552","timestamp":"2011-11-02 21:32:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know people who are compulsive about having a clean Gmail inbox, and who derive lots of value from tags. I also know people (like me) who are perfectly ok having 10k messages in their inbox, and searching for stuff as required.\u003cp\u003eThe nice thing is, Gmail supports both of these use patterns equally well.\u003cp\u003eIdeally, that's how every product should treat it's more advanced features. If a user spends the time creating taxonomies they'll never use, well, that's more the user's fault than the software's...","parent":"3188971","id":"3189031"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1395852808","timestamp":"2014-03-26 16:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably not, as they currently offer no OSX-backed instances.\u003cp\u003eEven if they did, Apple restricts OSX to Apple hardware. There are a few companies out there that offer this, but typically you\u0026#x27;ll pay $25-40 for a fairly anemic setup (say 1-1.5 GB). This is likely a direct product of the hardware cost, as opposed to the ability to use commodity hardware for Windows\u0026#x2F;Linux.","parent":"7474537","id":"7474663"}
{"by":"Lewisham","time":"1320608122","timestamp":"2011-11-06 19:35:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is true, but I think everyone would be aware that fighting a court case as a recent grad will be far too expensive, and doing that from outside the country adds even more on top.","parent":"3203523","id":"3203566"}
{"by":"thatthatis","time":"1387732655","timestamp":"2013-12-22 17:17:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It shouldnt be exactly neutral, it should be risk adjusted neutral.","parent":"6950714","id":"6950835"}
{"by":"HillRat","time":"1386792284","timestamp":"2013-12-11 20:04:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Starting from scratch, sure (everyone always seems to think of DNA and RNA as super-Legos; I blame Hollywood), but I think it\u0026#x27;s worth being at least slightly afraid of things like lab-engineered influenzas, given that flu is a very small, well-studied, and easily mutated RNA virus. Cooking up a more deadly (and, yeah, I recognize that we haven\u0026#x27;t proven that the Unholy Grail of \u0026quot;high mortality, long incubation, and ease of transmission\u0026quot; even exists in any single wild-type bug) influenza -- even if we don\u0026#x27;t necessary know the methods of action -- isn\u0026#x27;t a big lift as far as major bioengineering projects go.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re not trying to create a \u0026quot;supervirus,\u0026quot; but just shotgun a series of viruses to create maximum health disruption, then (as you know!) it\u0026#x27;s already within our technical grasp. Expensive, time-consuming, and probably failing 90% of the time, but accessible nonetheless. Considering how bad our hit rate is on the trivalents, I could see a plague of multiple, high-lethality strains with a wide variety of hemagglutinin and neuramidase antigenic shifts as a plausible bioterror scenario.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a doomsday scenario, since we have such good reporting and analysis infrastructure, and much of the heavy engineering on the problem (like alternate vaccine production methods) was done during the earlier bird flu outbreaks, but it would be a very nasty kind of terror attack.","parent":"6890060","id":"6890276"}
{"by":"gdonelli","time":"1399892206","timestamp":"2014-05-12 10:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does it use lib MailCore?","parent":"7731687","id":"7732012"}
{"by":"nine_k","time":"1498607255","timestamp":"2017-06-27 23:47:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nuclear is! The problem is that the minimal feasible size of the whole system is too big for an airplane. Nuclear airplanes were actively designed in 1950s, but proved to be excessively heavy and unsafe.","parent":"14650557","id":"14650619"}
{"by":"michaeldunworth","time":"1473271869","timestamp":"2016-09-07 18:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good points all round!\u003cp\u003eThank you.","parent":"12440505","id":"12445653"}
{"by":"general_ai","time":"1485676386","timestamp":"2017-01-29 07:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t say it\u0026#x27;d necessarily be less expensive (although it might end up being that once you factor in the costs of crime needed to obtain expensive drugs in the first place). I said it\u0026#x27;d be better for the addicts, which to me seems pretty certain. I know if I had something that was slowly killing me and I couldn\u0026#x27;t afford treatment, I\u0026#x27;d want help at some point. And by help, I mean forced rehab, preferably without a felony charge which will make it impossible for me to find decent work afterwards.","parent":"13512848","id":"13512897"}
{"by":"saynsedit","time":"1477923029","timestamp":"2016-10-31 14:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only if you release it.","parent":"12836733","id":"12836805"}
{"by":"elpocko","time":"1486036047","timestamp":"2017-02-02 11:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just can\u0026#x27;t relate, I guess. I never wanted to reach a certain kg number; whenever I wanted to alter my weight, I just did it until I reached a state I was content with. I\u0026#x27;ve gone from ~15 kg under to ~15 kg over, back to normal and maintained that. It took some time, but it was effortless.","parent":"13549798","id":"13549832"}
{"by":"DarkKomunalec","time":"1495466536","timestamp":"2017-05-22 15:22:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh the irony of invoking the slippery slope fallacy in a post stating \u0026quot;if it exists, it\u0026#x27;ll be used\u0026quot; :)","parent":"14394154","id":"14394309"}
{"by":"nullstyle","time":"1520531904","timestamp":"2018-03-08 17:58:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, it hasn\u0026#x27;t been a fork for a long time.  Disclosure: I work for stellar and took part in the big rewrite.","parent":"16546055","id":"16546181"}
{"by":"urda","time":"1533237686","timestamp":"2018-08-02 19:21:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love how the first comment is from a \u0026quot;guru\u0026quot; with nothing better to say than:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Do you really think it is going to make much difference to the final answer?\u003cp\u003eDoesn\u0026#x27;t matter, it should work.","parent":"17670644","id":"17674637"}
{"by":"kasterma","time":"1271248143","timestamp":"2010-04-14 12:29:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Site does not work for me, but I have been using foxclocks for a long time:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1264554","id":"1264776"}
{"by":"cookiecaper","time":"1492709730","timestamp":"2017-04-20 17:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unit tests are a completely inadequate replacement for typing even if they actually do exist, which, as you stated, is pretty rare.\u003cp\u003eI think the best compromise is optional typing. The language should encourage it by default, but allow some variables to be declared as dynamic\u0026#x2F;untyped. This greatly simplifies things like parsing of JSON data, which should essentially all be considered a string until there\u0026#x27;s some reason to consider it something else, but enforces consistency and safety through most of the application. Haxe does a pretty OK job with that.","parent":"14156707","id":"14158898"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1527921302","timestamp":"2018-06-02 06:35:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is Microsoft different exactly?\u003cp\u003eDo they not engage in patents racketeering?\u003cp\u003eDo they not spy on users of Windows 10?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003elike most (all?) other big tech companies\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The other children are doing it\u0026quot; and then you\u0026#x27;re mother would say \u0026quot;that doesn\u0026#x27;t make it right\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s a child\u0026#x27;s defense no doubt.\u003cp\u003eBut anyway, it\u0026#x27;s also factually not true.","parent":"17210039","id":"17213103"}
{"by":"TempleOS","time":"1372086458","timestamp":"2013-06-24 15:07:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no GPL code in TempleOS.\u003cp\u003eStrCpy is built-in.  Until recently MemCpy and MemSet were built-in, but I got rid of 3 argument compiler codes.\u003cp\u003eYou are in denial on God or you wouldn\u0026#x27;t question His chosen.\u003cp\u003eGod says...\nunhealthiness turmoiling some character reclaim female World \nannounce hey_Mikey_he_likes_it restraint -what represent \nsmiling recalled minds beaten zip\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e* Name weakest \nchosen kindled selling recent Burp stealing intently spiritually \nalluring elders Pay canst wrath apprehend look_buddy never-failing \nfatigues greedily","parent":"5933211","dead":true,"id":"5933386"}
{"by":"cozzyd","time":"1428908952","timestamp":"2015-04-13 07:09:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Look at what RHEL acquires","parent":"9366241","id":"9366307"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1458235850","timestamp":"2016-03-17 17:30:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; most JS developers write shonky code and interpreting JS is not fashionable any more\u003cp\u003eInterpreting JS is so \u0026quot;fashionable\u0026quot; that most browsers (all but Chrome\u0026#x2F;V8) keep around their interpreter, and \u003ci\u003emost code runs in it\u003c/i\u003e. That\u0026#x27;s because, contrary to popular belief, most JavaScript code is cold and not performance critical.","parent":"11305858","id":"11305981"}
{"by":"hhjinks","time":"1540532331","timestamp":"2018-10-26 05:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do my best to get 8 to 9 hours in bed, and hopefully sleep, every night. I should\u0026#x27;ve started doing that much earlier. It\u0026#x27;s a bummer to jump in bed at 9PM sometimes, but not feeling tired through the day and easily falling asleep is a great tradeoff.","parent":"18306538","id":"18307022"}
{"by":"mayneack","time":"1395283862","timestamp":"2014-03-20 02:51:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they\u0026#x27;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they\u0026#x27;d cover it on TV news, it\u0026#x27;s probably off-topic.\u003cp\u003eThis sounds like an interesting phenomenon in that I assume this wasn\u0026#x27;t the case at other recent major sporting events.\u003cp\u003eAs for TV news: \n\u003ca href=\"http://www.msnbc.com/search/world%20cup\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.msnbc.com\u0026#x2F;search\u0026#x2F;world%20cup\u003c/a\u003e (nothing)\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=world+cup\u0026amp;submit=Search\u0026amp;ss=fn\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.foxnews.com\u0026#x2F;search-results\u0026#x2F;search?q=world+cup\u0026amp;sub...\u003c/a\u003e (nothing) \n\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=world%20cup\u0026amp;sortBy=relevance\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;search\u0026#x2F;?query=world%20cup\u0026amp;sortBy=relevanc...\u003c/a\u003e (nothing)\u003cp\u003eI almost didn\u0026#x27;t even bother with CNN because it was obviously nothing due to the missing flight.","parent":"7433231","id":"7433504"}
{"by":"stretchwithme","time":"1535436258","timestamp":"2018-08-28 06:04:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good to know.\u003cp\u003eBut....\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thelocal.de\u0026#x2F;20170411\u0026#x2F;germany-has-second-biggest-tax-burden-worldwide-report-shows\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thelocal.de\u0026#x2F;20170411\u0026#x2F;germany-has-second-biggest-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17856577","id":"17856846"}
{"by":"lcedp","time":"1381334466","timestamp":"2013-10-09 16:01:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t compiler complain about assignment in condition?","parent":"6520678","id":"6522079"}
{"by":"TootsMagoon","time":"1433526934","timestamp":"2015-06-05 17:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Id\u0026#x27; love to see a score card on all non profits for effectiveness, transparency, equality, etc.","parent":"9665499","id":"9666895"}
{"by":"kalleboo","time":"1500536011","timestamp":"2017-07-20 07:33:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The IRS has this interesting FAQ on their webpage\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.irs.gov\u0026#x2F;publications\u0026#x2F;p17\u0026#x2F;ch12.html#en_US_2016_publink1000172108\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.irs.gov\u0026#x2F;publications\u0026#x2F;p17\u0026#x2F;ch12.html#en_US_2016_pu...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllegal activities.   Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity.","parent":"14808717","id":"14810651"}
{"by":"xtreme","time":"1339042084","timestamp":"2012-06-07 04:08:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't think of any reason not to salt passwords at this age.","parent":"4075761","id":"4077557"}
{"by":"cosmie","time":"1503332284","timestamp":"2017-08-21 16:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yahoo search is basically a white-labeled version of Bing, and has been since 2009[1].\u003cp\u003eAnd Siri also uses Bing by default[2].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;hi\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;8174763.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;hi\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;8174763.stm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;searchengineland.com\u0026#x2F;apple-makes-bing-the-default-search-engine-for-siri-162736\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;searchengineland.com\u0026#x2F;apple-makes-bing-the-default-sea...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15065586","id":"15065612"}
{"by":"ars_technician","time":"1380167099","timestamp":"2013-09-26 03:44:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People wouldn\u0026#x27;t be connecting to the website using HTTPS if it didn\u0026#x27;t have a certificate in the first place, so why does it matter if \u0026#x27;bar.org\u0026#x27; doesn\u0026#x27;t have a certificate?","parent":"6448293","id":"6448821"}
{"by":"majani","time":"1501093226","timestamp":"2017-07-26 18:20:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The tech middlemen are simply way more efficient than their brick and mortar counterparts. Surely this argument was put to rest years ago.","parent":"14858484","id":"14858735"}
{"by":"quinnchr","time":"1376449701","timestamp":"2013-08-14 03:08:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah so if you think you have the right to the fruit of your labor, I assume that means you\u0026#x27;re a communist?\u003cp\u003eThat seems pretty in step with the GPL.","parent":"6208961","id":"6209738"}
{"by":"DLWormwood","time":"1229088158","timestamp":"2008-12-12 13:22:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with that.  (I'm a long time Mac user all the way back to the 68k era.)  It's just that ever since Steve's return, there seems to be a subtle disregard for the history of the platform and a willing forgetfulness of the R\u0026#38;D effort expended by the company over the last few decades...","parent":"395272","id":"395627"}
{"by":"SkyMarshal","time":"1385056971","timestamp":"2013-11-21 18:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also b\u0026#x2F;c anytime you visit Google.com on any non-Chrome browser, it tells you to install Chrome for faster browsing.  Google.com is so sparse that Chrome ad sticking out on the side is quite effective.","parent":"6775806","id":"6776230"}
{"by":"necro","time":"1317060010","timestamp":"2011-09-26 18:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps the most obvious difference is that with siege you can specify a list of URLs that you want accessed ( some could cause reads and others writes) and in so more realistically load your website as a whole.\nTesting a single url with ab gives you different kind of information that is more artificial compared to the overall function of a site, but sometimes it may be the data that you are looking for.  You can achieve this also with siege.  Older versions of siege seem to keepalive connections not working...from the man \"# TRIPLE CAUTION: don't use keep-alives until further notice\" and if you find that you need to test with keep-alives you are back to ab.  NOTE: the trunk of siege seems to have keep-alives functioning.\nThese are at least a couple of differences.","parent":"3039715","id":"3040009"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1526052429","timestamp":"2018-05-11 15:27:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The end of your comment sounds exactly like the guys who defend communism arguing that it’s never really been tried. I think this is capitalism but that that recognition leads to the understanding that it comes in more and less healthy varieties. The U.S. version has oscillated over the years and we can see the results of the better and worse eras.\u003cp\u003e(This is similar to the way some people use “socialism” to mean something like the Cultural Revolution and completely ignore the existence of e.g. European and especially Scandinavian examples)","parent":"17047877","id":"17047987"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1486673500","timestamp":"2017-02-09 20:51:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which demographic likes large images that are not necessary for the task at hand?","parent":"13602391","id":"13610837"}
{"by":"elemeno","time":"1328292667","timestamp":"2012-02-03 18:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't see anything in there which refutes the statement that refined sugar from cane and beets isn't significantly different to HFCS in terms of their effect.","parent":"3548087","id":"3548168"}
{"by":"aheilbut","time":"1360025173","timestamp":"2013-02-05 00:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"40,000 students are demanding their money back.","parent":"5167195","id":"5168323"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1547235349","timestamp":"2019-01-11 19:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was absolutely all business 15 years ago.","parent":"18885498","id":"18886153"}
{"by":"pdimitar","time":"1505740251","timestamp":"2017-09-18 13:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why does that sound exactly like what most online media do nowadays?","parent":"15275440","id":"15275504"}
{"by":"tsunamifury","time":"1331875076","timestamp":"2012-03-16 05:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aside from the ridiculously crass comparison to Hitler, you are patently wrong.\u003cp\u003eHitler was a liar to the core.  He framed the Invasion of Poland as a 'defensive war' which he convinced many Germans into believe Poland was actually invading Germany!\u003cp\u003eHe spun deceptions regularly and was known for his ability to convince or make others look the other way while he planned military actions and genocide.  Just because he was outspoken about his hate for the Jewish people does not at all make him 'sincere'.","parent":"3711952","id":"3712105"}
{"by":"cjhanks","time":"1532801403","timestamp":"2018-07-28 18:10:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the problems that the Ruby community seems to have focused on is bridging the gap between code and ideas.  I say this as a non-Ruby-programmer.\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day, computers simply read language and convert that into some basic operations.  But still, the average non programmer feels like software is this black box of mystery which takes years to comprehend.  And that\u0026#x27;s not true!\u003cp\u003eI know plenty of people programming synth\u0026#x27;s on Ableton, mostly using their mouse to point and drag.  And I suspect a lot of them suffer from \u0026#x27;click and drag fatigue\u0026#x27;.  Most of them would be able understand all of the parameters being exposed here.\u003cp\u003eHelping bring practical programming to non-programmers is a noble goal.  And I hope they succeed... because what programmers want to keep re-writing the same boilerplate for the next 20 years?","parent":"17633994","id":"17634257"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1314508480","timestamp":"2011-08-28 05:14:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anti-corruption bodies work well in countries with a strong history of rule of law and stable democracy, because there's a pool of incorruptibles to draw from, and the elites have a mutual interest in appointing them. Here in Australia we have a bunch of them at state level: ICAC, CCC, OPI etc.\u003cp\u003eSometimes they turn out to harbour bad apples; but eventually those people too are discovered and removed. Recently a former manager in the National Crime Commission (a powerful anti-organised crime body) was charged, tried, convicted and imprisoned for colluding with criminals to import drugs.\u003cp\u003eThe problem might be that the people with the power to appoint the guards are themselves only going to appoint their friends. It's a chicken and egg dilemma, but worth struggling with. Eventually there's a tipping point where corruption becomes the abnormality and everyone accepts independent arbitration. It can unleash enormous prosperity, which Indians deserve as much as anyone.","parent":"2931966","id":"2933351"}
{"by":"emeraldd","time":"1332537586","timestamp":"2012-03-23 21:19:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if it is a \"reflexive\" view point on how to manage a worker.  If you don't have the \"employee\" in front of you, how do you know that they are working?  Of course, there are advantages to collaboration and access with a developer on site.  Then again, those kinds of needs can be met technologically if an employer is willing . . . Which leaves me back a \"That's the way it has always been done.\"","parent":"3747276","id":"3747361"}
{"by":"pdknsk","time":"1436758487","timestamp":"2015-07-13 03:34:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the announcement of the diagnosis. He only survived a year.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nintendo.co.jp\u0026#x2F;ir\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;stock\u0026#x2F;meeting\u0026#x2F;140627\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nintendo.co.jp\u0026#x2F;ir\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;stock\u0026#x2F;meeting\u0026#x2F;140627\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9876072","id":"9876226"}
{"by":"cptskippy","time":"1457459219","timestamp":"2016-03-08 17:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To Microsoft it is.  Vulkan and DX12 set out to achieve many of the same goals but DX12 has the added benefit of momentum and market lock-in.  DX12 has been available since July where as support for Vulkan is spotty at best.  Why drop DX12 for Vulkan besides warm fuzzies?","parent":"11246522","id":"11246947"}
{"by":"cdr","time":"1478125246","timestamp":"2016-11-02 22:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I recall this is largely why eBay started charging the seller fees on the shipping cost (boy was that a loophole) and then heavily pushed sellers to move to free shipping.\u003cp\u003eOn the flip side, as an eBay seller it\u0026#x27;s kind of painful to know that if I sell something for $X, shipping is eating $3+ of that - on top of the 10% cut for eBay and the 2% for PayPal. It makes it not worthwhile to me to list anything below $10.","parent":"12857654","id":"12859932"}
{"by":"sverige","time":"1489299818","timestamp":"2017-03-12 06:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One is a genius of entertainment.  He\u0026#x27;s on TV five times a week.  TV doesn\u0026#x27;t do him justice -- he\u0026#x27;s much more interesting in person.  He always knows exactly what to say in any given situation.\u003cp\u003eOne is a genius of memory.  He memorized the entire Norton Anthology of Poetry when he was a child.  (I\u0026#x27;m not even kidding.)  In college we all played a game where we would give him the first line of a poem.  He would then supply the title of the poem, the author, the year it was published, and generally the rest of the poem, or at least the rest of the first verse.  He\u0026#x27;s a college professor.  You\u0026#x27;ve never heard of him, but his students invariably love him.  He changes people one at a time.\u003cp\u003eThere are others in this group who are very accomplished in publishing, acting, comedy.  I also know a guy whose name is associated with the creation (\u0026quot;discovery\u0026quot;) of several elements.  (I suspect he glows in the dark from all the radiation he has absorbed, but I haven\u0026#x27;t actually confirmed that.)  Tough crowd if you\u0026#x27;re in a mood to compare yourself.","parent":"13849303","id":"13849392"}
{"by":"blisterpeanuts","time":"1460333987","timestamp":"2016-04-11 00:19:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2099?  Maybe my daughter (b. 2004) will live to see it; in fact there\u0026#x27;s every reason to believe she and her cohort will live well into the 22nd Century, barring accidents, apocalyptic wars, terrorism, etc.\u003cp\u003eI would hope they could get from 20% of light speed to 40%, and get one of those Coke cans to A. Centauri twice as fast, so more of us will live to see it.\u003cp\u003eIf you can send one such object, you can send a swarm of hundreds, and when they get there, those that survive will be able to do some interesting imaging and data gathering work for those eagerly waiting back home.\u003cp\u003eOf course, by 2100 it\u0026#x27;s possible that vastly superior propulsion techniques (or the highly desirable wormhole technique described in the article) will have been developed that will blow right past these primitive tin cans.\u003cp\u003eBut you have to crawl before you can walk, and walk before you can run.  The bottom line here is that humanity, or at least some significant and affluent chunk of it, needs to \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e to do this badly enough to commit the resources.  If not Euro-U.S.-Japan, perhaps eventually China or India.\u003cp\u003eOr our robotic successors....","parent":"11466357","id":"11468882"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1274522959","timestamp":"2010-05-22 10:09:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know two iPhone owners who carry two phones for just that reason.  An iPhone for for all the app and internet goodness and an old phone, which can easily go at least a week without needing to be recharged, for when they actually have to make calls.","parent":"1369754","id":"1370096"}
{"by":"lxdvs","time":"1359151000","timestamp":"2013-01-25 21:56:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thats totally sweet. Actually had not seen that, which is surprising considering the research I've been doing for this project. Thanks for the heads up!","parent":"5117869","id":"5117914"}
{"by":"oscardelben","time":"1331149873","timestamp":"2012-03-07 19:51:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to point out that this is not a rails vulnerability, but a mistake Github engineers made, which happens to the best of us. Mass assignment is a feature and I guarantee the problem has been know for years and Github engineers were probably well aware of it.","parent":"3676635","id":"3676820"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1503254973","timestamp":"2017-08-20 18:49:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eif the editor is aware of the type inference\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes any actual editor do that?  Few text editors for programs are even aware of definitions in other modules.","parent":"15059644","id":"15059691"}
{"by":"hoschicz","time":"1494627176","timestamp":"2017-05-12 22:12:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesnt involve only pdf.js file, the key is a bug in samba that means that all you need to get infected is to connect to an infected network.","parent":"14328227","id":"14328332"}
{"by":"lazyant","time":"1396375856","timestamp":"2014-04-01 18:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we don\u0026#x27;t know what\u0026#x27;s really wrong with a website it\u0026#x27;s no good to answer \u0026quot;use another CMS\u0026quot;, it can be wrong and it\u0026#x27;s not helpful at best, it would be better to give some pointers on where to start figuring out what\u0026#x27;s wrong.\u003cp\u003eAlso the pompous \u0026quot;design patterns\u0026quot; comment; a lot (30% ?) of web sites in the Internet run on spaghetti code (Wordpress, Drupal) and many are fine, if I had to I\u0026#x27;d bet the CMS and its code is not the problem.","parent":"7510199","id":"7510417"}
{"by":"pepon","time":"1397323967","timestamp":"2014-04-12 17:32:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed...","parent":"7578466","id":"7578484"}
{"by":"e15ctr0n","time":"1458599569","timestamp":"2016-03-21 22:32:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So right here is the mysterious reason why perfectly qualified people don\u0026#x27;t get hired at Google - \u003ci\u003ethey didn\u0026#x27;t spend hours reflecting on the relationship\u003c/i\u003e!!!","parent":"11332639","id":"11332725"}
{"by":"denzil_correa","time":"1372009630","timestamp":"2013-06-23 17:47:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This a very good hack. Kudos for it!","parent":"5928254","id":"5928526"}
{"by":"ianhawes","time":"1526492251","timestamp":"2018-05-16 17:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IIRC GCLID and DCLID parameters can\u0026#x27;t be queried except by Google Analytics.","parent":"17083740","id":"17084482"}
{"by":"jld89","time":"1456409632","timestamp":"2016-02-25 14:13:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What happened with that promo? I\u0026#x27;d like to have it too if possible!","parent":"11149018","id":"11174491"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1396112750","timestamp":"2014-03-29 17:05:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand. Why is this game over?","parent":"7492754","id":"7492923"}
{"by":"fritzo","time":"1509728826","timestamp":"2017-11-03 17:07:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Edward: like Edward, Pyro is a deep probabilistic programming language that focuses on variational inference but supports composable inference algorithms. Pyro aims to be more dynamic (by using PyTorch) and universal (allowing recursion).\u003cp\u003ePyMC, Stan: Pyro embraces deep neural nets and currently focuses on variational inference. Pyro doesn\u0026#x27;t do MCMC yet. Whereas Stan models are written in the Stan language, Pyro models are just python programs with pyro.sample() statements.\u003cp\u003eOne unique feature of Pyro is the probabilistic effect library that we use to build inference algorithms: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.pyro.ai\u0026#x2F;advanced.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.pyro.ai\u0026#x2F;advanced.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15619942","id":"15620657"}
{"by":"the_dave_santos","time":"1525408337","timestamp":"2018-05-04 04:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Any password based upon any dictionary word, even with a few extra bits tacked on like this approach suggests, is incredibly weak in the face of a JackTheRipper or HashCat attack. The scheme proposed here would fall quickly from a leak of the password hashes to a HashCat GPU dictionary attack.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t get the point of making it\u0026#x27;s unique. Even if the password is shown because of the advanced bruteforcing, the password can\u0026#x27;t be used to other services. Hackers will try the password to other services and when it\u0026#x27;s not working, it\u0026#x27;s going to ignore it and just try another password.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very unlikely that the hackers will try to guess how to reconstruct your original password from the one that he already has.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; .. a weak password being reused ..\u003cp\u003eThe password is not re-used, it\u0026#x27;s unique for each website.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Which is much less likely...\u003cp\u003eAgain, you should trust the manager. You should trust the software where you install the manager. and on and on..\u003cp\u003eWhat worst is that probably people will use again a weak password for the manager thinking that it\u0026#x27;s safe.","parent":"16992146","id":"16992208"}
{"by":"christefano","time":"1186687962","timestamp":"2007-08-09 19:32:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's great seeing erowid as a cited source. Thanks for the info.","parent":"40833","id":"40992"}
{"by":"vixen99","time":"1520252211","timestamp":"2018-03-05 12:16:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"imperceivable - \u0026#x27;i before e except after c\u0026#x27;","parent":"16520263","id":"16520497"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1346201252","timestamp":"2012-08-29 00:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm annoyed that the study does not go into details about what the \"physical activity\" consisted of. The only thing it says is \"self reported level of physical activity (≤1, 2-3, ≥4 days per week, with at least 30 minutes of moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity)\" which does not mean much.\u003cp\u003eAnecdotally speaking, lifting heavy weights vastly improves my mood. This is in contrast to, say, cardio, which simply makes me feel tired. I wish the study had accounted for this too.","parent":"4446400","id":"4446575"}
{"by":"djohnston","time":"1546894441","timestamp":"2019-01-07 20:54:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"in my experience regret is never something I can reason my way out of. it is sort of an intimate and reptile-brain oriented sadness that is initiated by high level thoughts but is then quite difficult to erase.","parent":"18849189","id":"18849944"}
{"by":"colkassad","time":"1356726768","timestamp":"2012-12-28 20:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also have a toddler and I have no ideas for you. I love my daughter more than anything in the world but my free time has all but disappeared. I thought it was difficult when I was in my 20s and had nothing to my name, but this is by far the hardest time of my life. At least then I had spare time to learn things and be creative. I know it will pass but...damn.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I just read over my post after a minute and it seems really pessimistic. I should qualify it by saying that I would not change anything even if I could. When my daughter gets scared at night and calls for me, I come and save her. It's those times when it is all worth it.","parent":"4979315","id":"4979355"}
{"by":"dgzl","time":"1541322612","timestamp":"2018-11-04 09:10:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another fun feature with Gmail is that you can add arbitrary text to the end of your email addresses.\u003cp\u003eThis can be helpful if you\u0026#x27;re interested in tracking the origins of where your received emails come from. For instance, if you sign up your address at a website and start recieving sketchy emails with a destination for myemail+thatwebsite[at]gmail, you can easily find out where the leakage occurred.","parent":"18373791","id":"18374978"}
{"by":"justinhj","time":"1371146152","timestamp":"2013-06-13 17:55:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like this project because for me one of the most impressive things about emacs is the way that it can be extended and the self-documenting nature of those extensions. I\u0026#x27;ll be interested to see if the same principals will be useful in applications other than text editing.","parent":"5866479","id":"5875478"}
{"by":"iamdave","time":"1305728273","timestamp":"2011-05-18 14:17:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Will someone pull these assholes aside, slap them a couple of times and remind them that they're messing stuff up for the rest of us?  Call of Duty multiplayer be damned, every time this happens they're giving those knee-jerk, reactionary geniuses in Washington more rope to hang us all with when it comes to the Internet.","parent":"2560201","id":"2560207"}
{"by":"jcbmllgn","time":"1344799957","timestamp":"2012-08-12 19:32:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, besides reloading the page it's also doing some very simple ranking in the background.","parent":"4373219","id":"4373364"}
{"by":"lacker","time":"1537808095","timestamp":"2018-09-24 16:54:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Boston public schools don\u0026#x27;t operate on the principle that you go to your local school. Kids get sent to quasi-random schools so that you don\u0026#x27;t have the good school in the rich neighborhood and the bad school in the poor neighborhood. Instead you get a whole bunch of medium quality schools. Also, this means that children are very likely to not live near their school at all.","parent":"18058502","id":"18059238"}
{"by":"rpearl","time":"1532410006","timestamp":"2018-07-24 05:26:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Car manufacturers are perfectly free to not sell cars in California. Turns out, they want California business.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s no \u0026quot;more fair to other consumers\u0026quot; here, nor is there any \u0026quot;imposition\u0026quot; by California on \u003ci\u003econsumers in other states\u003c/i\u003e. There is, however, an imposition on car manufacturers who wish to have their vehicles operated in California. Not seeing the problem here.","parent":"17598263","id":"17598328"}
{"by":"noreasonw","time":"1435851022","timestamp":"2015-07-02 15:30:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that the \u0026quot;quick\u0026quot; adjective in the title is purposeful misleading. You are supposed to learn quickly the most general rule, but that is not so easy because there are many possible rules that could fit such a pattern. It seems that you should be rewarded for solving the puzzle quickly and then you fall in the trap.\n  I propose to change the title to \u0026quot;A puzzle to test your Generalization Abilities\u0026quot;, and state clearly that you should try to find the most general rule that satisfies all patterns you can think of. In that case, I would expect the  conclusion and results of the experiment to be completely different. So to summarize: the so \u0026quot;quick\u0026quot; adjective in the title has a very strong anchor effect.\u003cp\u003eEdit: changed for grammar and to express more clearly what I think.","parent":"9818310","id":"9819533"}
{"by":"bri3d","time":"1444696936","timestamp":"2015-10-13 00:42:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Low speed electric bicycles are federally limited to 750W and 20mph as well, which probably helped guide this regulatory process. I personally think a 20mph speed limit is very reasonable when regulating the use of motorized products on infrastructure shared directly with other uses (paths and bike lanes).","parent":"10377768","id":"10377795"}
{"by":"technomancy","time":"1293063870","timestamp":"2010-12-23 00:24:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://p.hagelb.org/csb.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://p.hagelb.org/csb.gif\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2032743","id":"2033071"}
{"by":"techiferous","time":"1274277289","timestamp":"2010-05-19 13:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks.  I'd like to have more certain info on the link between SpamHero and this spam.\u003cp\u003eI don't think it's a \"joe job\" because I had to do some digging to find the connection to SpamHero.  What I suspect is that they are sending out a bunch of spam, then collecting email addresses from those who opt out, then following up sometime later by sending them an email advertising their service.  That's my guess.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the SpamHero company site does not display anyone's name, which is a little shady, but they claim to have a team of \"real people\".","parent":"1360903","id":"1360923"}
{"by":"mattblalock","time":"1358625329","timestamp":"2013-01-19 19:55:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hrm, I use Spaces and Chrome with no problems. This isn't the case for everyone.","parent":"5084246","id":"5084525"}
{"by":"rgarcia","time":"1268846648","timestamp":"2010-03-17 17:24:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are lots of markets with high barriers to entry.\u003cp\u003eDoes the fact that Kinkos invests millions in fancy printers make the photocopying business unfair?","parent":"1199017","id":"1199092"}
{"by":"BonoboBoner","time":"1492965050","timestamp":"2017-04-23 16:30:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Instantly had me hooked again. The game does not move on after the city of vilcabamba, though :-\u0026#x2F;","parent":"14177826","id":"14178831"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1474350340","timestamp":"2016-09-20 05:45:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By \u0026quot;high-temperature\u0026quot; superconductivity, physicists mean liquid nitrogen temperature, not room temperature.  It\u0026#x27;s progress, but cheap maglev is still a ways off.","parent":"12536934","id":"12537357"}
{"by":"ad93611","time":"1362561963","timestamp":"2013-03-06 09:26:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is just a geeky experiment. We can turn it off if needed, ofcourse.","parent":"5330254","id":"5330269"}
{"by":"dandare","time":"1526648773","timestamp":"2018-05-18 13:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The other day I had an argument with a proponent of online voting. As a non-techie, he could not understand my security concerns. In his laic view, we all use internet banking every day and nobody stole all the money yet, right?","parent":"17099969","id":"17101101"}
{"by":"freditup","time":"1512506470","timestamp":"2017-12-05 20:41:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, this article would\u0026#x27;ve been much better off using medians instead of means. High earner outliers tend to skew stats like these.\u003cp\u003eSecond, it\u0026#x27;s interesting to see people who were in favor of tax increases suddenly change their mind when it hits them. While I agree that tax cuts for the rich seem unnecessary, some tax hikes for the upper middle-class aren\u0026#x27;t out of line compared with a Democrat led tax plan. I wonder how much our own personal interests in our money affects how we view tax plans? Most people, no matter how rich they are, seem to want those just richer than them to be taxed more.\u003cp\u003eFinally, although the removal of the SALT deduction will cost me significantly, I\u0026#x27;m not sure I understand how the deduction makes sense. Why should a state raising their taxes mean you have less of a federal obligation? It only makes sense to me if states with higher taxes use less federal resources.","parent":"15855321","id":"15855641"}
{"by":"Pitarou","time":"1458601904","timestamp":"2016-03-21 23:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In many cases, it really is that hard.","parent":"11332902","id":"11332961"}
{"by":"digitalzombie","time":"1384258390","timestamp":"2013-11-12 12:13:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elasticsearch or Solr would be better than Mongodb for Logs.\u003cp\u003eHell if you actually care about your log and want to search it use Solr or Elasticsearch NOT Mongodb.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to store even more data just use Cassandra and index it with Solr or Elasticsearch.\u003cp\u003eCassandra have faster write than read, it\u0026#x27;s perfect for logs.\u003cp\u003eYou can decentralize logging system too, there are architecture layout out there with elasticsearch and such (example: \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/e855bc08975d\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;what-i-learned-building\u0026#x2F;e855bc08975d\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eMongoDB is a poor choice, in general for anything in my personal opinion.","parent":"6717125","id":"6717285"}
{"by":"cynicalkane","time":"1268292020","timestamp":"2010-03-11 07:20:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm interested in hacking, startups, and also the OP article. Why do you claim I don't exist?","parent":"1182635","id":"1183259"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1499475916","timestamp":"2017-07-08 01:05:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Academia only worries about getting results for publishing. Testability, maintainability, clean design, all take a back seat because once the paper is done the author will likely never touch the code again.","parent":"14723399","id":"14723461"}
{"by":"ruswick","time":"1356805064","timestamp":"2012-12-29 18:17:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But what practical purpose does breaking down your income serve to readers? Will it help them increase conversions, save time, or increase efficiency? Even if it did yield some practical value, expenses and income are so idiosyncratic as to not be applicable to almost everyone.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I wasn't just referring to you. For instance, in Nathan Barry's \"year in review,\" he intricately discusses his travels, personal relationships, etc. This stuff is clearly superfluous to a business-minded audience, and I can only read it as pretention.","parent":"4982812","id":"4982854"}
{"by":"ajdecon","time":"1281749613","timestamp":"2010-08-14 01:33:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would love to be rich, but I'm starting to realize that it's not what I need to be happy.  What I need, personally, is a life in which I can work on things which I think are fun and interesting, and which pay me enough to live, save a little, and spend time having fun with my girlfriend.\u003cp\u003eThe definition of that changes.  At one point I thought the only way to do that was to get a PhD and find my way into academia; later it was found a company and make an obscene amount of money.  Both of those goals were great, but the first one chewed me up and the second is one I don't know how to do yet.  Right now... the goal is to find a job where the I can work on fun data-based problems.  A startup would be fun, but so would a big company, or a government agency like the CDC.  I don't need to be rich, but I do need to find satisfaction in my work.\u003cp\u003eAnd we'll see what happens next.","parent":"1601281","id":"1602755"}
{"by":"icelancer","time":"1516623752","timestamp":"2018-01-22 12:22:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;No amount of gifted skill is a threshold for crossing that behavior barrier.\u003cp\u003eSure there is. You would rather have Linus in your life who yells at people than not. Linus being an asshole is something you have to deal with to get access to his intelligence. I suggest you make peace with this understanding, as it applies to far more people than Linus.","parent":"16203647","id":"16203828"}
{"by":"dpc_pw","time":"1540335904","timestamp":"2018-10-23 23:05:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t change the name. It\u0026#x27;s awesome. Every time a request like that is honor, the world becomes a little bit more riddicolous place.","parent":"18287567","id":"18288279"}
{"by":"ernst_klim","time":"1518937664","timestamp":"2018-02-18 07:07:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go’s dependency management story is not just “not pretty” it is a total disaster as recent story with hijacked repo had shown. It does not allow proper versioning, repo management, total garbage. And how is making packages is a problem? You jast add opam file and that is all. You can do versioning, pin any opam or git repo, or even some fs resource.\u003cp\u003eYes ocaml compiler is light years ahead Go’s one in terms of optimizations and code analysis (and even correctness [1]). It is still not as great as haskell’s one, but very good, especially with new lambda middle end. Go compiler is straightforward as hell and can’t do much inlining or optimizations that ocaml can.\u003cp\u003eWindows support was always tier 1 in compiler. Jbuilder also supports windows and even cross-compilation with windows as a target. Opam now compiles on Windows was too.\u003cp\u003eAs for libraries opam now have thousands of these and ocaml libraries’ quality is often much higher than the quality of libs of this other imperative language due to quality of language.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;go standard library\u003cp\u003elol no math for ints, no data structures beyond map, but crappy http and Json serialization.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.janestreet.com\u0026#x2F;proofs-and-refutations-using-z3\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.janestreet.com\u0026#x2F;proofs-and-refutations-using-z3\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16402426","id":"16404872"}
{"by":"alva","time":"1502134281","timestamp":"2017-08-07 19:31:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Here\u0026#x27;s just one example of a fake Breitbart headline\u003cp\u003eBut it starts to get a bit confusing when you actually look at the accusations and rebuttals, especially when you look at the fleshed out indy article [0]\u003cp\u003eAccusation : \u0026quot;The right-wing American website, which enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence in 2016, claimed a 1,000-strong mob chanting “Allahu Akbar” set fire to the country’s oldest church in Dortmund.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRebuttal :\u0026quot;Mr Bandermann on the other hand, in a Q\u0026amp;A-style response published the following day, said that from between 6.45pm and 1.30am, groups of young foreign men formed a large group of 1,000 people.\nHe said the fire at the church only set light to netting surrounding the building and lasted just 12 minutes.\u0026quot;\n...\n\u0026quot;He said that saying Allahu Akbar is as normal as saying ‘Amen’ in church,\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo which is fake news? On the facts, the Independent agrees (although through semantics \u0026quot;church netting on fire, not the church\u0026quot; \u0026quot;group\u0026quot; not \u0026quot;mob\u0026quot;) with the Breitbart article.\u003cp\u003eIf they both agree on the facts, but spin them different ways, how do you determine which is \u0026quot;fake news\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.independent.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;europe\u0026#x2F;edited-1038-headline-works-well-a7512636.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.independent.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;europe\u0026#x2F;edited-1038-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eedit: They did actually issue a correction for something they got wrong in the article\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Correction: This article states St. Reinold’s Church is the oldest in Germany. We are happy to clarify that accolade belongs to the Trier Cathedral.\u0026quot;","parent":"14950063","id":"14950487"}
{"by":"liquidcool","time":"1315602102","timestamp":"2011-09-09 21:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Completely agree on The Shockwave Rider, which I feel is a great precursor to cyberpunk. Extremely prescient book considering it was published in 1975.","parent":"2979180","id":"2979838"}
{"by":"unalone","time":"1224627110","timestamp":"2008-10-21 22:11:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't don't use Anywhere.FM for that. I use it to index all my music, and to send playlists to my friends. Lala doesn't do either.","parent":"338663","id":"339438"}
{"by":"jwilliams","time":"1374822443","timestamp":"2013-07-26 07:07:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Agree that\u0026#x27;s handy in dev. For development a container is probably a good choice - in other environments virtualization or physical hardware may make sense.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;More consistent\u0026quot; dev\u0026#x2F;test\u0026#x2F;prod is great, but I don\u0026#x27;t need nor want identical. My needs in dev are different from production - e.g. Everything from basic settings, URLs, networking, reloading behaviour to performance tuning. My needs for my dev DB are quite different from those in production.\u003cp\u003e2. Agree, but this isn\u0026#x27;t unique to containers (which is probably what I was aiming at).\u003cp\u003eLow footprint is somewhat irrelevant to \u0026quot;configure once\u0026quot;. You can manage this on physical hardware if needs be.\u003cp\u003eLow footprint is great when you\u0026#x27;re resource constrained, somewhat irrelevant at scale. Plus a VM gives you other features\u0026#x2F;tradeoffs in return for that cost. Different circumstances will tend to favour one over the other.\u003cp\u003eI find Docker useful. Containers and Standardised Workloads are great. I see the utility in both, my argument is I see them as orthogonal. Particularly referring to the \u0026quot;alternatives\u0026quot; at the end of the deck, which seemed unnecessary distinctions for me.","parent":"6106896","id":"6106982"}
{"by":"asyncwords","time":"1415904091","timestamp":"2014-11-13 18:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This submission (and several others) were all merged into one big post here [1], along with all of the comments.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8595905\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8600885","id":"8603210"}
{"by":"k__","time":"1493047313","timestamp":"2017-04-24 15:21:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did they sell it that way?\u003cp\u003eOr did they simply sell something like \u0026quot;of our 100000 users, 30% bought Lyft rides.\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eI mean, I still think it\u0026#x27;s wrong, but selling who bought what is a bit different than selling how much of a group bought how much of an item.","parent":"14184580","id":"14184968"}
{"by":"aragot","time":"1421415788","timestamp":"2015-01-16 13:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I, French, once chatted with a German and a Russian guy. We\u0026#x27;ve all been students in excellent universities\u0026#x2F;schools.\u003cp\u003eThe German said: \u0026quot;My studen room was so small, like 16sqm, you could just fit a desk, a bed, a shower and a sink.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI, French, said, believing I had a tougher experience: \u0026quot;I know what it looks like: We were 2 per room for the same size. In winter, heating was on and off, we had to pay attention not to touch the walls while sleeping, otherwise the dew would wet our blankets.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThen the Russian guy came... They were 3 people in the same surface. Heating was optional. At the coldest of the winter, the whole building\u0026#x27;s electricity would cut off for the night because it couldn\u0026#x27;t sustain the student\u0026#x27;s heating units. They didn\u0026#x27;t have showers at all. They had three common \u0026quot;bathrooms\u0026quot; for the building with sinks only. They could use them at will in the evening, but they had to take turns for the mornings. As in, Mondays and Thursdays. It was a reputated school in Russia.\u003cp\u003eVisiting a campus in Australia is surrealistic. I\u0026#x27;m so speechless to describe the difference in living conditions that, when I want people to imagine the life in Sydney, I tell them to imagine banknotes falling from the sky. That\u0026#x27;s what the living conditions feel like \u003ci\u003ecompared to the old continent\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"8898172","id":"8898808"}
{"by":"ntsplnkv2","time":"1538620128","timestamp":"2018-10-04 02:28:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who cares?\u003cp\u003eIf it benefits more people then what difference does it make as to why it was done?","parent":"18136610","id":"18136648"}
{"by":"dsfyu404ed","time":"1517250851","timestamp":"2018-01-29 18:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;And according to something I read from the US Dept of Energy, one of the big reasons for that is reckoned to be over-regulation.\u003cp\u003eYes.  This is non-negligible part of the problem.  There\u0026#x27;s lots of regulation and that plays right into the hand of the incumbents (utility companies) who can use that regulation to make it harder to compete.","parent":"16259130","id":"16259532"}
{"by":"lowboy","time":"1342503573","timestamp":"2012-07-17 05:39:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exposure to different subjects is good, but there are better, cleaner languages to use for introducing concepts of programming such as variables, functions, algorithms, and data structures without taking up students' attention with syntax and boilerplate that has nothing to do with the lesson being taught.\u003cp\u003eCompare these hello world programs for instance:\u003cp\u003eJava:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    public class HelloWorld {\n         public static void main(String[] args) {\n              System.out.println(\"Hello, world!\");\n         }\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nPython:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    print \"Hello, world!\"\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nRuby:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    puts 'Hello, world!'\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"4252480","id":"4254267"}
{"by":"yboris","time":"1532303925","timestamp":"2018-07-22 23:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems achievable, though would add complexity. Currently all screenshots are standardized (because they are extracted via the same process) and app requires exactly 10 per video with specific file name convention. Seems easier to just re-scan for images.\u003cp\u003eAs for metadata - currently Video Hub App doesn\u0026#x27;t keep anything other than file size, time length, and resolution. One very-requested feature is to allow tags and that may be the first large addition to the app in the future.\u003cp\u003eBut I\u0026#x27;m unsure if I\u0026#x27;d work on any automated import of metadata at this time.","parent":"17589510","id":"17589551"}
{"by":"qopp","time":"1459998391","timestamp":"2016-04-07 03:06:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you plan to mostly focus on urban centers?","parent":"11441625","id":"11444401"}
{"by":"raganwald","time":"1327616677","timestamp":"2012-01-26 22:24:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI'm guessing that the only reason CoffeeScript embraces Javascript is for debugging.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wonder whether CoffeeScript embraces JavaScript is because its author, jashkenas, likes JavaScript’s semantics. he has created several extremely useful JavaScript tools and has described JavaScript using words like “gorgeous.\"","parent":"3515969","id":"3516252"}
{"by":"sh87","time":"1494485283","timestamp":"2017-05-11 06:48:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking for acronyms is a waste of time, let alone save you time. Just make enough mistakes fast enough to learn from them. And Let The Acronyms Be Alone. ALTABA.","parent":"14311884","id":"14314236"}
{"by":"supernovae","time":"1536808361","timestamp":"2018-09-13 03:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"She was criticized for being female regardless of her misconceptions on military spending and how many jobs people have. A huge chunk of the world doesn\u0026#x27;t give equal forgiving or demands of females as they do males - they demand more and forgive less.  Ever looked at PolitiFact for just about every other politician? Just look at Serena Williams.. she blabbed and it may be the end of her career (or a lingering black eye)yet for other males in the sport, it just means the front page on the newspaper and nothing else the next day... We can\u0026#x27;t ignore this. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t want AI to shape the views of women any worse than they already are just as we shouldn\u0026#x27;t use targeted bias in user comments to make her look unique in light of her male counterparts than ran against her - of which they all have\u0026#x2F;had faults and screw ups themselves.","parent":"17975419","id":"17975672"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1280278084","timestamp":"2010-07-28 00:48:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excuse my language, but that's bullshit, and it makes me angry.\u003cp\u003eFirstly, vitamin D deficiency is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e the most common medical condition in the world. I don't know what the most common medical problem is, but of serious diseases Hepatitis B affects around 2 Billion people (\u003ca href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903696.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903696.html\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eSecondly, even if you believe vitamin D deficiency is a serious problem then you may be surprised to learn about places such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria etc etc, all of which have very very large populations well south of the 33rd parallel. In fact, by far the majority of the worlds population lives south of the 33rd parallel north.\u003cp\u003eThirdly, where I live (Australia) one of the major causes of death is cancer, specifically skin cancer. I know at least one person who sends her kids out to play in the sun in summer after hearing this (without sunscreen).\u003cp\u003eIn my view Vitamin D deficiency is a minor problem, easily fixed which affects a small number of people. Blowing it up into a major issue has the potential to cause a much bigger problem (skin cancer) in a similar way to how vaccination scares caused public health risk.","parent":"1551922","id":"1553195"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1401207140","timestamp":"2014-05-27 16:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are afraid of sites like Stack Overflow? That\u0026#x27;s all they are - people exchanging information for little more than popularity.","parent":"7804940","id":"7805193"}
{"by":"AlexCoventry","time":"1526621463","timestamp":"2018-05-18 05:31:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the chrome extension also vulnerable to this?","parent":"17096022","id":"17098955"}
{"by":"proofofconcept","time":"1365715628","timestamp":"2013-04-11 21:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That sort of movie was pretty popular in the early days of film: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_ride\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_ride\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5532029","id":"5534921"}
{"by":"brandoncordell","time":"1360948098","timestamp":"2013-02-15 17:08:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's true, but he's looking for under $50/mo, so he could get a very nice box from DigitalOcean for $20/mo+.","parent":"5227076","id":"5227124"}
{"by":"salient","time":"1387039931","timestamp":"2013-12-14 16:52:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t be evil\u0026quot; mantra is going to be an order of magnitude more important in the future, than it has been so far - that is if Google still cares about following that mantra.","parent":"6904793","id":"6906170"}
{"by":"golergka","time":"1482849223","timestamp":"2016-12-27 14:33:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We don\u0026#x27;t live in a society where we get to design the future after considering all positive and negative sides. It\u0026#x27;s been tried, and results were disastrous.\u003cp\u003eInstead, we live in a society which is shaped by comleting self-interests. You\u0026#x27;re asking of freight NEEDS scale - for whose benefit? Ubers? Yes. His small scale competitors? No. Customers? We\u0026#x27;ll have to wait and see their verdict. All of us together? We don\u0026#x27;t have enough interests in common for this virtual entity to have any real meaning.","parent":"13263074","id":"13263314"}
{"by":"asclepi","time":"1522176511","timestamp":"2018-03-27 18:48:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"iPhones are generally sold through carriers with the phone locked to that specific carrier. The main point of the Apple SIM - the ability to switch between short-term mobile internet contracts across multiple carriers - would be pretty moot in this scenario.\u003cp\u003eNote that the Apple SIM isn\u0026#x27;t new, nor tied to the release of the new iPad model today. It\u0026#x27;s been around since at least 2014. I remember going to an Apple Store back then to pick one up. The associate at first didn\u0026#x27;t know what I was talking about but eventually found them somewhere stashed in the back-office.","parent":"16691476","id":"16691569"}
{"by":"loudmax","time":"1546009490","timestamp":"2018-12-28 15:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with your sentiment, but I think you should look at the bigger picture.  Subarus have a reputation for being easy to repair, a testament to thoughtful engineering.  But most other brands are not that accessible, whether they\u0026#x27;re electric or ICE.  So you might as well say you\u0026#x27;ll only buy Subaru rather than you wouldn\u0026#x27;t buy electric or hybrid.\u003cp\u003eNext, long range electric cars are a new technology and the tools and parts needed to repair them are still exotic.  This is likely to change as electric cars become more common.  Ideally, I\u0026#x27;d recommend selecting electric cars that use standard components so they can be easily swapped or repaired.  I don\u0026#x27;t know that these standards will ever arise, and that\u0026#x27;s not really how it worked out for ICE cars.  But if the ability to repair and maintain your vehicle is a priority, that\u0026#x27;s a quality you should be looking for.","parent":"18776843","id":"18777086"}
{"by":"doczoidberg","time":"1520939080","timestamp":"2018-03-13 11:04:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"does anybody know something similar for .NET (WPF) applications?","parent":"16571827","id":"16575146"}
{"by":"code_duck","time":"1312147192","timestamp":"2011-07-31 21:19:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you were gathering documents for an identity theft ring, would you go on a juvenile and pointless rampage in the houses you pilfered? Probably not, since that would only tip off the person being targeted to lock their credit. This is absolutely small time amateur shenanigans.\u003cp\u003eImagine how the whole deal sounds from the angle of a drug addicted person who is comfortable committing petty/medium property crimes to fund their lifestyle. Unsuspecting urban/suburban dwellers will let you in their houses, unmonitored, for days or weeks, leaving them full of valuables and personal information, in exchange for a small fee that will never even be paid? Sounds like a criminal paradise to me.","parent":"2829613","id":"2829639"}
{"by":"jawee","time":"1287838605","timestamp":"2010-10-23 12:56:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, bookstores around me had the $40 to $50 behemoth tech books with an installer in the back. Redhat looked the simplest, or it the cheapest.. I don't recall which.","parent":"1822487","id":"1823369"}
{"by":"castis","time":"1473282882","timestamp":"2016-09-07 21:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not that I condone the usage of them but if they don\u0026#x27;t call that item a lightning rod I\u0026#x27;ll be sorely disappointed.","parent":"12446842","id":"12447767"}
{"by":"norea-armozel","time":"1475851647","timestamp":"2016-10-07 14:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest problem I think is that they constantly add features that don\u0026#x27;t improve the core functionality. For example, Moments really don\u0026#x27;t help with hashtag filtering, conversation searching, and the like. All they need to do is make it easier to filter conversations, basically. It\u0026#x27;s not that hard to see why that would get more people on board since they could make sense of their time line. But it seems Dorsey and company would rather just pile on stuff that\u0026#x27;s not related to that. I don\u0026#x27;t get their motivation for this. Can someone can explain it?","parent":"12653164","id":"12661054"}
{"by":"pacificleo1","time":"1346356325","timestamp":"2012-08-30 19:52:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This post perfectly explain how i feel about the way an interface should be done . however this seems unlikely in near future . more and more services are going free and by doing so they have to slap an advertisement somewhere and to slap an advertisement they will have to keep the user inside the container so they will need an Interface .","parent":"4454004","dead":true,"id":"4456416"}
{"by":"dmils4","time":"1328327635","timestamp":"2012-02-04 03:53:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"work fast and break things.\" with \"things\" being.. the entire internet.","parent":"3550075","id":"3550158"}
{"by":"Piskvorrr","time":"1530003442","timestamp":"2018-06-26 08:57:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shooting the messenger, that\u0026#x27;s what. People tend to confuse \u0026quot;X might have your password\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Y tells me \u0026#x27;something X something password\u0026#x27;, therefore Y hacked me\u0026quot;.","parent":"17398894","id":"17398916"}
{"by":"spectrum1234","time":"1497157919","timestamp":"2017-06-11 05:11:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"uhh in most industries its given out way too liberally.","parent":"14521902","id":"14530730"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1424434459","timestamp":"2015-02-20 12:14:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, we already know that the current form of capitalism isn\u0026#x27;t perfect either. So I don\u0026#x27;t think there is a need to prove anything for every possible case. Also, we can make exceptions when we get there (even though I don\u0026#x27;t believe they need to be made).","parent":"9077709","id":"9080083"}
{"by":"arctica27","time":"1519229530","timestamp":"2018-02-21 16:12:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it would be that easy to hide. It would be easy to dragnet and find suspects by getting Amazon to report % of purchases by gift card by author, and then following up manually with a few customers should be enough to filter out any false positives and snare the scammers.","parent":"16429113","id":"16430479"}
{"by":"moomin","time":"1340626238","timestamp":"2012-06-25 12:10:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the record, T needs to implement IComparable\u0026#60;T\u0026#62;.  I think there are special rules for anonymous types for convenience.\u003cp\u003eAnd do bear in mind that C# supports both idioms.  So you can handle hard cases any way you want.","parent":"4154106","id":"4156105"}
{"by":"qwertyuiop924","time":"1475431622","timestamp":"2016-10-02 18:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s all a major advantage. As is the infrastructure and friendliness.\u003cp\u003eSadly, I doubt I\u0026#x27;d be able to contribute meaningfully: I am unskilled and out of practice in C\u0026#x2F;C++.","parent":"12623493","id":"12623502"}
{"by":"hardwaresofton","time":"1484202361","timestamp":"2017-01-12 06:26:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes -- to clarify, it I\u0026#x27;m saying that it would be easier (for me at least) to write with haskell\u0026#x27;s semantics\u0026#x2F;paradigm than it would be for me to write with lisp\u0026#x27;s semantics\u0026#x2F;paradigm in haskell.\u003cp\u003eI think the statement is almost axiomatic. Lisp is multi-paradigm, by way of simplicity\u0026#x2F;choices not being made for you. Haskell is decidedly functional (which is something I love about it). Making a more specific thing into a less specific thing (while possible in this case), seems like a more difficult task than molding the clay that is LISP to look like haskell.","parent":"13380159","id":"13380202"}
{"by":"trustfundbaby","time":"1301328854","timestamp":"2011-03-28 16:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the non-tech founder can't even learn enough code to get anything built then I would be concerned for their level of dedication for their own idea.\u003cp\u003e---------------------\u003cp\u003eI think thats a little much.\u003cp\u003ePart of being a good business man is knowing where you weaknesses lie, and knowing how to plug those holes in your game. So why would you waste valuable time trying to pick up a skill that you're probably not interesting in having and will probably not put to use, when you can spend that time raising money to hire a developer or get one to come in with you and handle the development?","parent":"2378828","id":"2378884"}
{"by":"nasredin","time":"1513375415","timestamp":"2017-12-15 22:03:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where does \u0026quot;MSN\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Passport\u0026quot; fit in this orgy?\u003cp\u003eHotmail-\u0026gt;Live-\u0026gt;Outlook\u003cp\u003eHotmail - young rebellious teenager with 2 MB of storage\u003cp\u003eLive - \u0026quot;experimenting\u0026quot; phase, \u0026quot;monopoly conviction? I do not recall!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOutlook - Older YUP, approaching middle age, quite cynical, but still might change, albeit with reluctance and complete lack of enthusiasm","parent":"15932269","id":"15935613"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1542735350","timestamp":"2018-11-20 17:35:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason they all look sort of alike is due to energy efficiency and safety laws making cars indistinguishable due to a global optima.","parent":"18495450","id":"18495679"}
{"by":"de1978st","time":"1439998036","timestamp":"2015-08-19 15:27:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just dont use it.  I never have, and guess what?  I still keep in touch with friends in family, because, those are the people who categorically won\u0026#x27;t disappear from your existence.","parent":"10085564","id":"10086116"}
{"by":"amcrouch","time":"1475135729","timestamp":"2016-09-29 07:55:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me the senior title should be applied depending on the way you approach your role and not how you code.\u003cp\u003eAs others have mentioned as a senior you can be left to implement changes without guidance, you will clean up issues as you come across them instead of leaving it to others, you suggest improvements, you make time to mentor and guide more junior members of the team, you know how to relate to muggles and you act like a team captain.\u003cp\u003eKnowing lots of different hosting environments and languages comes with experience.  The approach you take to your role show\u0026#x27;s your all rounded skill set.","parent":"12603303","id":"12603868"}
{"by":"jasonkostempski","time":"1459521950","timestamp":"2016-04-01 14:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are we sure these stories aren\u0026#x27;t the actual joke? Did anyone here actually see this feature in person?","parent":"11404115","id":"11405111"}
{"by":"igouy","time":"1531415476","timestamp":"2018-07-12 17:11:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Folders date-labelled when the files were moved from camera to computer 20180712 and files date \u0026amp; sequence labelled 20180712-005.ARW 20180712-005-1.tif as variants are created\u003cp\u003e2) Edit mostly via RawTherapee (with special help from MS ICE \u0026amp; photoFXlab masks \u0026amp; Silver Efex Pro)\u003cp\u003e3) Distribute \u0026amp; Share with Google Photos (jpgs down-sized below 16MP) [upload with web browswer interface avoids all the confusion around auto backup and deletes]","parent":"17515618","id":"17516621"}
{"by":"fcarraldo","time":"1515275924","timestamp":"2018-01-06 21:58:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yikes! yes, fixed. my default autocorrect language is not English, so I’ll just blame that.","parent":"16087495","id":"16087709"}
{"by":"sushumna","time":"1300957834","timestamp":"2011-03-24 09:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really don't understand why it needs $41M in funding. Its just another photo app...I think its more of hype than the actual useful content.","parent":"2362190","id":"2363354"}
{"by":"henryaj","time":"1444337683","timestamp":"2015-10-08 20:54:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s incredibly exciting to think that an end to global poverty could be in sight.\u003cp\u003eShameless plug: GiveWell [0] and Giving What We Can [1] are non-profits that evaluate the effectiveness of development and global poverty charities. Some are hundreds or thousands of times as effective as others when it comes to saving and extending lives.\u003cp\u003eThose groups help you decide where your money should go to maximise your impact.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.givewell.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.givewell.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;givingwhatwecan.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;givingwhatwecan.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10352189","id":"10356137"}
{"by":"lsiunsuex","time":"1438254306","timestamp":"2015-07-30 11:05:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe not so much writers block as periods of indecisiveness - sometimes theres soooo many ways to do something, it can be hard to decide the best way or the easiest way to do it. Or if a problem is complex, it can be hard to pull the trigger and commit to a way to do something.\u003cp\u003eIf I find myself starring at the screen for more then 10 minutes and not writing a single line, I try to walk away - don\u0026#x27;t open a news site and waste time - literally walk away and go do something completely different. Take a walk, go for a bike ride, clean the house, take a shower, make something with your hands, whatever you do. Your mind will work on the problem in the background - it helps me often.","parent":"9974124","id":"9974172"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1404248022","timestamp":"2014-07-01 20:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that the parent was referring to the fact that it is it\u0026#x27;s own language with its own VM\u0026#x2F;runtime. The idea is to create a new language with JavaScript as a compile target. Things like CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc are much more conservative approaches to dealing with the issues JavaScript has.","parent":"7973231","id":"7973442"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1475872951","timestamp":"2016-10-07 20:42:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Poor D\u0026#x27;agata: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;keegan.regaind.io\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;4ez2sHM5QDOT4nR6rzqU2g\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;keegan.regaind.io\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;4ez2sHM5QDOT4nR6rzqU2g\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Autio: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;keegan.regaind.io\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;qzqjM1CPRxGtkL1GQ4KL0g\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;keegan.regaind.io\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;qzqjM1CPRxGtkL1GQ4KL0g\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I get it.  It\u0026#x27;s a great tool for beginners to see their rookie faults and address the basics [1]before they can foray into more intermediate photography. And then break the basics [2] in order to know why breaking the rules work and sometimes don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eSemi-related (to the optics\u0026#x2F;mechanics) is this tool[3]\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.flickr.com\u0026#x2F;photos\u0026#x2F;msc72\u0026#x2F;3184463442\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.flickr.com\u0026#x2F;photos\u0026#x2F;msc72\u0026#x2F;3184463442\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.flickr.com\u0026#x2F;groups\u0026#x2F;1271834@N25\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.flickr.com\u0026#x2F;groups\u0026#x2F;1271834@N25\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3]\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;camerasim.com\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;original-camerasim\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;camerasim.com\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;original-camerasim\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12661391","id":"12663768"}
{"by":"ue_","time":"1484122355","timestamp":"2017-01-11 08:12:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it sucks, but that\u0026#x27;s because I\u0026#x27;m a Communist.","parent":"13370589","id":"13372507"}
{"by":"kmfrk","time":"1520895968","timestamp":"2018-03-12 23:06:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would absolutely love a flow chart library that used this with decent text alignment.\u003cp\u003eI used to prefer mermaid.js, but it silently fails in ways the don\u0026#x27;t work that well for me: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mermaidjs.github.io\u0026#x2F;mermaid-live-editor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mermaidjs.github.io\u0026#x2F;mermaid-live-editor\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"16571827","id":"16572497"}
{"by":"greendestiny","time":"1318066315","timestamp":"2011-10-08 09:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great, I wondered how the Atari stint really fitted into the Jobs story. Sounds like a crazy kid who just stuck at his dream of making computers until it worked out.","parent":"3087492","id":"3087566"}
{"by":"meira","time":"1425999710","timestamp":"2015-03-10 15:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought this was about the continent. What a pretentious title.","parent":"9177404","id":"9178054"}
{"by":"gozman","time":"1326296152","timestamp":"2012-01-11 15:35:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks dholowiski!\u003cp\u003eHere's a few ways that we stand out:\n * Our apps can be distributed on the app store like all other native iOS apps. You can even charge for these apps and we won't take a penny.\n * We support push notifications. You can send messages to users of an app as long as they have it installed on their phone. \n * All content is available offline, even when the phone is in airplane mode.\n * Our architechture opens up the possibility of more interesting native features (text-to-speech among other things)\n * You can preview your app on your phone and get a really good feel for how it will look and operate once deployed.\n * When your app is deployed, you can change its parameters and branding at any time. Changes are updated across your installed base instantly.","parent":"3452076","id":"3452157"}
{"by":"paul","time":"1209769542","timestamp":"2008-05-02 23:05:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, the vast majority of the feedback is very positive.\u003cp\u003eWhat I've noticed that is that a lot of the stories getting voted up here are just bashing something popular, such as Twitter, or Facebook.","parent":"179810","id":"180008"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1309701753","timestamp":"2011-07-03 14:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Insane entitlements?\u003cp\u003eI just don't get people.","parent":"2723609","id":"2723701"}
{"by":"fulafel","time":"1478854404","timestamp":"2016-11-11 08:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like a security bug in Safari and\u0026#x2F;or OS X, anyone know if Apple offers bounties like Chrome and Mozilla?","parent":"12929020","id":"12929038"}
{"by":"qubitcoder","time":"1421006455","timestamp":"2015-01-11 20:00:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both my MacBook Pros have outlasted the MagSafe power supplies. As nice as they are--and even with careful usage--the cord has split at the base twice leaving the inner wires exposed.\u003cp\u003eI only discovered the issue when I felt a mild tingling sensation on my leg. Apple has let this issue slide for some time; there\u0026#x27;s over 2,000 1 star reviews on the Apple Store site [1]. This stands in stark contrast to the superb build quality of the MacBook Pro itself.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC461LL/A/apple-60w-magsafe-power-adapter-for-macbook-and-13-inch-macbook-pro\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;store.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;product\u0026#x2F;MC461LL\u0026#x2F;A\u0026#x2F;apple-60w-magsaf...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8870838","id":"8871058"}
{"by":"0db532a0","time":"1544028896","timestamp":"2018-12-05 16:54:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It really isn\u0026#x27;t interesting at all. It\u0026#x27;s actually quite banal at this point. I suppose you\u0026#x27;re one of the types that thinks that the word \u0026quot;blackboard\u0026quot; is racist too. People like you make the internet experience and life in general an absolute ball-ache to be a part of. Seeing a racial issue in words like \u0026quot;blacklist\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;blackboard\u0026quot; is like seeing an issue of decency in a woman breastfeeding, the commonality being that it is your problem alone.","parent":"18609595","id":"18610038"}
{"by":"Arizhel","time":"1489696339","timestamp":"2017-03-16 20:32:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Short answer: NO.\u003cp\u003eThis question seems to come up every time there\u0026#x27;s a discussion like this about low-voltage power.  The whole reason we use high voltages in the first place is to reduce resistive losses.  Ohm\u0026#x27;s Law (V=IR) plus the formula for power(P=VI) tell you everything you need to know, which is that power is related to current and resistance by the equation P=R*I^2.  So for a given amount of power, if you increase the voltage by a factor of 2, you then decrease the current by a factor of 2, and you reduce the resistance by a factor of 4, so the power lost in transmission is 1\u0026#x2F;4 as much.\u003cp\u003eIf you tried putting 5V USB ports in your house, you wouldn\u0026#x27;t be able to use wire to connect them to the central power supply; you\u0026#x27;d need to use massively-thick copper bus bars.  The cost would be astronomical, and you\u0026#x27;d need huge channels on the walls to hold them.","parent":"13888249","id":"13888898"}
{"by":"codejoust","time":"1325899550","timestamp":"2012-01-07 01:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Official demo: \u003ca href=\"http://codejoust.github.com/session.js/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://codejoust.github.com/session.js/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3435726","id":"3435839"}
{"by":"ericd","time":"1311659150","timestamp":"2011-07-26 05:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hear hear. Also, besides that, there is still a fairly widespread (if minor) stigma to making less than one's wife. It's not necessarily the writer making that judgement.","parent":"2806123","id":"2806136"}
{"by":"trollhammeren","time":"1299536644","timestamp":"2011-03-07 22:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book\u003c/a\u003e\nis what I use. Another one which you might wanna use is: \u003ca href=\"http://railsforzombies.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://railsforzombies.org/\u003c/a\u003e\nbut I'd advice you to learn by making some small project. That's the best way","parent":"2298950","id":"2298965"}
{"by":"arkadiytehgraet","time":"1519831844","timestamp":"2018-02-28 15:30:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless this is a some kind of deeply sarcastic\u0026#x2F;ironic answer, I love it as a prime example of how interviewers do not actually know what they are looking for, and most of their questions are just there to reinforce their initial gut feeling about a candidate.\u003cp\u003eHow can points 2 and 3 even remotely co-exist? They are like completely opposite of each other! You \u003ci\u003eby definition\u003c/i\u003e cannot be a self-starter and get work done without oversight, if you require to ask a lot of questions to do anything. Yes, it is always helpful to ask clarifying questions whenever you are not sure about something (and sometimes even when you are sure), but this is like the very opposite of a lack of oversight.\u003cp\u003eNow you may try to clarify whatever you meant, but, oh no, that would mean that you yourself cannot communicate effectively about what you are actually looking for and what you mean, which makes the first point very vague as well.","parent":"16483459","id":"16483578"}
{"by":"ksec","time":"1542831527","timestamp":"2018-11-21 20:18:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still remember there were papers claiming News is even more addicting than Porn. Your porn time only last so long, but you could spend hours reading news. From technology to music, fashion, industry news, gossip, Anime, politics, or ever growing interest you have.\u003cp\u003eAlso the anticipation of wanting something to happen, but still hasn\u0026#x27;t happen yet, things where you cant really do it yourself. Nuclear Fusion breakthrough, Solid Battery breakthrough, MicroLED breakthrough ( So we can throw away those awful PWM OLED ), collapse of property pricing. etc.","parent":"18505117","id":"18505704"}
{"by":"DTrejo","time":"1247003930","timestamp":"2009-07-07 21:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't forget that there are a few \"highest purposes.\" In no particular order:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    kids\n    providing well for your kids\n    healthy relationship with your (future?) spouse\n    successful startup, etc\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHave you discussed with your girlfriend that your startup is not entirely for you?\u003cp\u003eIf you feel like you could live the rest of your life with her, then your startup is \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e much for her, your children, and your families in the long run.\u003cp\u003eThis isn't meant to answer your question, just to provide more food for thought.","parent":"692131","id":"692649"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1436478798","timestamp":"2015-07-09 21:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Greed?","parent":"9860741","id":"9860961"}
{"by":"homakov","time":"1497473277","timestamp":"2017-06-14 20:47:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just checked, indeed no origin on same site. It sucks, this makes origin barely reliable.","parent":"14553716","id":"14556005"}
{"by":"scintill76","time":"1413784147","timestamp":"2014-10-20 05:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you talking the Chrome omnibar suggestions, or google.com search bar?  I\u0026#x27;m not sure the difference matters.  Anyway, a thoughtful person can probably tell that means their partial queries are being sent to Google (\u0026quot;knowledge that it\u0026#x27;s happening\u0026quot;, as I said above), and adjust it if that bothers them.\u003cp\u003eWith this Safari thing, it sounds like your queries are silently sent to Apple, in addition to Google or whoever your preferred search engine is.  So, not only are they being sent somewhere without explicit consent, they are sent \u003ci\u003esomewhere other\u003c/i\u003e than the place you explicitly consented to, in a way you won\u0026#x27;t see unless you dig into config dialogs\u0026#x2F;manuals and\u0026#x2F;or packet sniffers.  Am I factually wrong on how this behavior works?\u003cp\u003eAm I being too flexible in ethical gymnastics to avoid condemning Google, while condemning Apple?  It was hard to articulate the difference, so frankly maybe it\u0026#x27;s just that I like Google more.  But I think it\u0026#x27;s fair to say that for me personally, Google Instant is more transparent and fair than how this Apple behavior sounds.\u003cp\u003eAlso, to be honest, I haven\u0026#x27;t used Yosemite.  I don\u0026#x27;t know if that invalidates my opinion.  Maybe I should at least not form an opinion in this flame-fest of half-baked arguments from both sides.","parent":"8480819","id":"8480857"}
{"by":"Cthulhu_","time":"1502197117","timestamp":"2017-08-08 12:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve never tried to work less tbf; I\u0026#x27;m 31 years old and if I was given more free time, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t know what to do with it. I\u0026#x27;m not the hipster adventurous type, traveling somewhere exotic doesn\u0026#x27;t appeal to me (I\u0026#x27;d be more afraid of getting robbed and scammed), I\u0026#x27;m not very social, etc. I prefer my 9-5 life so far. Just bought a house too.","parent":"14953732","id":"14957313"}
{"by":"seattleeng","time":"1518753450","timestamp":"2018-02-16 03:57:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Property-based testing seems to be an interesting idea and fairly easy to trial and then recommend to my teammates. The js library I stumbled upon even has TypeScript support and plays nicely with mocha, both of which are directly relevant to my work (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jsverify\u0026#x2F;jsverify\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jsverify\u0026#x2F;jsverify\u003c/a\u003e)!","parent":"16387734","id":"16389739"}
{"by":"meric","time":"1425254887","timestamp":"2015-03-02 00:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI\u0026#x27;d like to see how you analyzed the race of github contributors. I\u0026#x27;d also like to know what \u0026quot;plenty\u0026quot; means. Personally, I strongly suspect that you\u0026#x27;ll see fairly small set of race\u0026#x2F;location\u0026#x2F;income combinations.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy, me and my friends and colleagues, Chinese and South African and Ghanian and Kenyan are on github. I\u0026#x27;m very offended you suggested only white people can afford to be on github.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiven that we\u0026#x27;re not really talking about color, per se, I seriously hope that you don\u0026#x27;t honestly believe that statement.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou specifically mentioned \u0026quot;white males\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIt takes half a day to write something you can put on github. If anyone can\u0026#x27;t do that it\u0026#x27;s because they\u0026#x27;re not as experienced as those who can. It\u0026#x27;s not much more effort than writing a resume. The point of github is so people who aren\u0026#x27;t interested in brain teasers can demonstrate their ability to write good code.\u003cp\u003eYou can argue people who aren\u0026#x27;t good at programming enough to be able to write something in half a day should be hired anyway, and I\u0026#x27;ll tell you the communism experiment is \u003ci\u003eover\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eYou, sir, are racially biased.","parent":"9127618","id":"9129537"}
{"by":"greglindahl","time":"1443630516","timestamp":"2015-09-30 16:28:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I found Apple and Tesla\u0026#x27;s employees to be about the same in attitude.","parent":"10304488","id":"10305083"}
{"by":"mhb","time":"1408323231","timestamp":"2014-08-18 00:53:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For other readers, like me, who are not doctors, I will share that I have discovered that EMR means Electronic Medical Record.","parent":"8190959","id":"8191033"}
{"by":"infinitone","time":"1386962384","timestamp":"2013-12-13 19:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There may be truth to this.  I only recently finally decided to get AdBlock... and man... I can\u0026#x27;t imagine a world without it.  Then again, whats to stop Chrome Store from removing the extension?","parent":"6902117","id":"6902311"}
{"by":"l0gicpath","time":"1383954091","timestamp":"2013-11-08 23:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be all black and white.\u003cp\u003eOver praising your tech talents, saying nothing about them or saying something that isn\u0026#x27;t particularly good in nature are just all extremes.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s really not a two side of a single coin, either this or that.. No, it\u0026#x27;s more of a spectrum.\u003cp\u003eHumility has never demoted a person nor has it affected their odds of succeeding in their endeavor. I think the real issue at hand here is the line of thoughts that \u0026quot;My company just got itself a VC round, I must be the BEST\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eWell, maybe they are good, maybe they are even really good. But by all means with 7 billion humans on this planet, I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure someone else is better out there.","parent":"6698716","id":"6699862"}
{"by":"Neil44","time":"1510918982","timestamp":"2017-11-17 11:43:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think of it this way, if some server or database came out claiming incredible benchmark numbers you’d say okay now show me some real world workloads. Same here. 0-60 is an artificial benchmark, a circuit time is a real world workload.","parent":"15720320","id":"15721186"}
{"by":"chris_p","time":"1345313733","timestamp":"2012-08-18 18:15:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A wall with posters. Well, a virtual wall with posters.","parent":"4401766","id":"4401794"}
{"by":"llimllib","time":"1326576601","timestamp":"2012-01-14 21:30:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love deadlifting, if I wasn't in the offseason training for a sport I might be able to get up into your realm :)\u003cp\u003eThere's something so basic and satisfying about picking up something really heavy.\u003cp\u003eIt seems (from my reading) that once you reach weights like yours, progression gets much harder. There's lots of tricky assistance work you need to figure out, you need to eat like a friggin animal, and you need to work just hard enough to not overtrain.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, good luck!","parent":"3465342","id":"3465373"}
{"by":"bayareaguy","time":"1243704540","timestamp":"2009-05-30 17:29:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, I use a browser which trivially allows me to only enable executable content for sites I trust and until you're one of them no javascript for you.","parent":"633860","id":"633881"}
{"by":"thaumasiotes","time":"1489168402","timestamp":"2017-03-10 17:53:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given their existing positioning of \u0026quot;the interview process is broken and we\u0026#x27;re here to fix it\u0026quot;, I see no reason to credit them with the opinion that client company interviews are optimized for finding people who will perform well. There is no way to reconcile \u0026quot;the current interview process is broken\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;our goal is to find people who do well under the current interview process\u0026quot;.","parent":"13839774","id":"13840525"}
{"by":"jcowans","time":"1523308440","timestamp":"2018-04-09 21:14:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Broadway Technology | NYC, London, Austin, Toronto, Waterloo Ontario, Raleigh | Full-Time | \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.broadwaytechnology.com\u0026#x2F;careers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.broadwaytechnology.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroadway Technology is a leading provider of advanced high-performance financial trading solutions for electronic fixed income markets. Our proprietary software platform is an open, flexible, complete solution for screen and automated trading operations of any size and complexity. We\u0026#x27;ve delivered some of the world’s most advanced trading systems to premier global banks, proprietary trading groups, and hedge funds. Our software manages billions of dollars in transactions across five continents daily.\u003cp\u003eHiring professional services consultants and software engineers in all above locations. Trading application support in London, Christchurch, NZ, and Tokyo.\u003cp\u003eTo apply, please email jcowans@broadwaytechnology.com, or apply via the link above.  Please reference Hacker News!","parent":"16735011","id":"16797062"}
{"by":"wallace_f","time":"1481584990","timestamp":"2016-12-12 23:23:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok, let me make you aware that carbon-based energy is still the cheapest energy source.","parent":"13157551","id":"13163042"}
{"by":"IncRnd","time":"1528663370","timestamp":"2018-06-10 20:42:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this just an LCG that feeds into a markov chain?  This seems more like marketing material than any new technical material.","parent":"17278617","id":"17280051"}
{"by":"thezoid","time":"1369133376","timestamp":"2013-05-21 10:49:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes because the rest of the competition is completely coming up with new games and characters all the time.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_(series)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_(series)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's nothing wrong with using a franchise.  The characters are memorable, and perhaps even people really like them. As long as they are putting the characters into new worlds/levels it's all that matters.\u003cp\u003eYes, Nintendo is notorious for re-releasing their older games, but it's not like the other companies don't do the same thing either.\u003cp\u003eJust look at the re-release of Combat Evolved, or SquareEnixs constant re-release of their older Final Fantasy games (with cheesy 3D added to them)\u003cp\u003eEdit: Don't know how to use HN markdown or something.","parent":"5742662","id":"5742844"}
{"by":"darawk","time":"1541717491","timestamp":"2018-11-08 22:51:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eOf course\u003c/i\u003e the countries we invade will have more terror attacks. We\u0026#x27;ve put targets there for them to hit. This does not prove that US intervention causes terrorism. What it proves is that when you move their targets thousands of miles closer to them, terrorists will attack them more frequently.","parent":"18410602","id":"18410799"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1471997075","timestamp":"2016-08-24 00:04:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know I read it back in 2000. It must have been a misprint given the sources I\u0026#x27;m seeing are saying something different. Thanks for catching that! :)\u003cp\u003eBtw, as a thanks, here\u0026#x27;s you one that\u0026#x27;s still pretty amazing but not production:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=0CtHpt05gLc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=0CtHpt05gLc\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12348498","id":"12348751"}
{"by":"warfangle","time":"1315670095","timestamp":"2011-09-10 15:54:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the few truly interesting articles on Smashing Magazine about optimizing pngs for their filters. It shows that yes, the filters are really a huge part of how pngs get compressed:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2977379","id":"2981760"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1535489651","timestamp":"2018-08-28 20:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Discussion about a similar question 3 years ago: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9030531\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9030531\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eImportantly, you\u0026#x27;re going to need Apple to support this in the baseband hardware of iPhones to perform tower discrimination (some vendors exist that have proprietary software and\u0026#x2F;or baseband firmware to perform this functionality on Android).\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Maybe this could be done with bunnie and snowden\u0026#x27;s introspection engine? \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tjoe.org\u0026#x2F;pub\u0026#x2F;direct-radio-introspection\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tjoe.org\u0026#x2F;pub\u0026#x2F;direct-radio-introspection\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17862720","id":"17862786"}
{"by":"Havoc","time":"1400861764","timestamp":"2014-05-23 16:16:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Have you been in such situations?\u003cp\u003eSimilar - not coding though.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt;How do you get in the zone and get it done\u003cp\u003eI treat it as an optimization problem. Specifically because I have a problem with this too:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt;I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible\u003cp\u003eSo I consciously aim to force that compromise between quality \u0026amp; time more towards the time side. That goes against my fundamental nature, but I\u0026#x27;ve come to the conclusion that I must learn this...and as a result it feels more like a learning \u0026amp; personal development challenge rather than me doing something I don\u0026#x27;t want.","parent":"7789014","id":"7789964"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1377076330","timestamp":"2013-08-21 09:12:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fascinating.","parent":"6248053","id":"6248961"}
{"by":"phil-opp","time":"1451695047","timestamp":"2016-01-02 00:37:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Steve\u0026#x27;s goal is it to make OS development more accessible to newcomers. Even people from dynamic languages who never heard of stack\u0026#x2F;heap should be able to follow it. It\u0026#x27;s a really great project that dispels the myth that OS development is too hard for the average programmer.\u003cp\u003eAFAIK it will roughly follow the first posts of \u003ci\u003eWriting an OS in Rust\u003c/i\u003e, but at a much slower pace and with more extensive explanations. After the \u003ci\u003eSet Up Rust\u003c/i\u003e post, it will diverge from the series and explore keyboard input instead of memory management.\u003cp\u003eSteve is a dang awesome writer (he wrote most of the Rust book) and intermezzOS looks pretty great already. I think it will bring new people with new ideas into OSdev and thus I\u0026#x27;m really excited about it.","parent":"10823493","id":"10824343"}
{"by":"Dowwie","time":"1505215257","timestamp":"2017-09-12 11:20:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"References:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;electricbookworks\u0026#x2F;electric-book\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;electricbookworks\u0026#x2F;electric-book\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;fire-and-lion\u0026#x2F;how-we-made-the-economy-a8707b3c093e\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;fire-and-lion\u0026#x2F;how-we-made-the-economy-a87...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15225086","id":"15226387"}
{"by":"viscanti","time":"1356839738","timestamp":"2012-12-30 03:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SoMa is the only neighborhood with any 20+ story residential buildings going up.  It's hard to say why so many of the other neighborhoods are against building up.  The geography of SF lends to some beautiful views from atop the hills.  Residents living on those hills are unlikely to welcome tall buildings to crop up and block their view.\u003cp\u003eSoMa probably ends up being the big-city, tall building part of SF in the future.  It would take a big mind-set change for many other neighborhoods to build up anytime soon.","parent":"4984515","id":"4984547"}
{"by":"deelowe","time":"1434816859","timestamp":"2015-06-20 16:14:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not overblown anymore than \u0026quot;cloud computing\u0026quot; is overblown. Misreported, maybe, but there is a huge shift happening in the industry right now.\u003cp\u003eIf not, why else would this exist \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nvidia.com\u0026#x2F;object\u0026#x2F;tesla-supercomputing-solutions.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nvidia.com\u0026#x2F;object\u0026#x2F;tesla-supercomputing-solutions....\u003c/a\u003e?","parent":"9749978","id":"9750303"}
{"by":"VOLT_SE","time":"1448381765","timestamp":"2015-11-24 16:16:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A visual search engine for electronic component selection. The site contains 28 million documents, over 29,000 manufacturers, 18 million component images.","parent":"10582021","id":"10621574"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1237053187","timestamp":"2009-03-14 17:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; 1. The key shouldn't be kept in the closet outside the safe\u003cp\u003eHow do you lock up the 'impossible to duplicate key' - by definition you would need a lower-level security key to secure it?","parent":"514634","id":"516020"}
{"by":"chx","time":"1518379450","timestamp":"2018-02-11 20:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I went WSL last year and wrote up how I made Windows familiar to my old Linux setup somewhat. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;chx\u0026#x2F;chx.github.io\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;How-I-set-up-my-Windows-10-(coming-from-Linux)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;chx\u0026#x2F;chx.github.io\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;How-I-set-up-my-Wi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have been using Linux on servers since 1993, dual booting on my desktop 2000-2004, then went full Linux on my desktop\u0026#x2F;laptop and now WSL.\u003cp\u003eThe only really annoying aspect is the slow filesystem \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wpdev.uservoice.com\u0026#x2F;forums\u0026#x2F;266908-command-prompt-console-windows-subsystem-for-l\u0026#x2F;suggestions\u0026#x2F;13386252-filesystem-slow-compared-with-native-ubuntu-system\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wpdev.uservoice.com\u0026#x2F;forums\u0026#x2F;266908-command-prompt-con...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16351716","id":"16354452"}
{"by":"jeffesp","time":"1235586088","timestamp":"2009-02-25 18:21:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The business model of \"We are going to create X for Y\", where X is a service like YouTube, never works. After viewing the intro video I saw that you can do things like create private communities and invite people to join, and I thought that this is the same way I share photos with the family on flickr. But wait, doesn't flickr also support video? And so does Facebook, and I am sure there are others.\u003cp\u003eMaybe I am just misunderstanding their business model, but I don't see the value of this service.","parent":"494624","id":"494676"}
{"by":"mythrwy","time":"1502162466","timestamp":"2017-08-08 03:21:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And... no one is surprised.\u003cp\u003eYou can be \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; all you want, but then there is politics. It\u0026#x27;s been going on since at least the days of Socrates.\u003cp\u003eEvery big org does plenty of silly stuff from perspective of rank and file. Sometimes it truly is silly, sometimes there are reasons that aren\u0026#x27;t obvious at that level.\u003cp\u003eI suppose Google made the rational decision. We\u0026#x27;ll have to see if it produces a martyr which is often the longer term outcome of these kind of situations. Doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like being a rallying point in the cultural war is a situation Google would want to be in at the moment, but who knows.\u003cp\u003eThinking it may have been wiser to state publicly that every one is entitled to their opinion, but the official policy of the company was XYZ not open for debate. And then quietly send legal with a bag of cash and a stack of \u0026quot;zip your lip\u0026quot; forms and after the hoopla dies down a bit, an uneventful departure to \u0026quot;pursue other opportunities\u0026quot;.","parent":"14952787","id":"14953783"}
{"by":"danielweber","time":"1357850510","timestamp":"2013-01-10 20:41:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's only because we couldn't find yet another use for \"static\".","parent":"5038576","id":"5039605"}
{"by":"danweaver","time":"1459543263","timestamp":"2016-04-01 20:41:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exosite | Minneapolis, MN | UI Lead | onsite\u003cp\u003eExosite provides a platform for the internet of things, primarily targeted at industrial automation and white goods product developers. Our bread and butter is helping old school hardware manufacturers connect their product to the internet.\u003cp\u003eYou are a front end dev with experience delivering single page apps with an element of real time behavior. You help guide other UI devs toward good development practices-- that\u0026#x27;s the \u0026quot;lead\u0026quot; part of the job.\u003cp\u003eThis position is in our products group building developer tools, so experience with any of these is a plus: 1. hardware hacking 2. building developer-facing tools 3. building SaaS products. Our UI stack is React\u0026#x2F;Redux and Node.\u003cp\u003eIf this sounds like you, please contact me at danweaver at exosite dot com.","parent":"11405239","id":"11408424"}
{"by":"zaroth","time":"1484278766","timestamp":"2017-01-13 03:39:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a great infographic showing the UX of playing a DVD vs playing a pirated video. Exactly this.","parent":"13386702","id":"13388229"}
{"by":"jpz","time":"1528522026","timestamp":"2018-06-09 05:27:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"She should do something in the crypto space, looks like a perfect fit.","parent":"17269314","id":"17271680"}
{"by":"sfx77","time":"1473616349","timestamp":"2016-09-11 17:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool game","parent":"12470921","id":"12474606"}
{"by":"bradleyjg","time":"1375736693","timestamp":"2013-08-05 21:04:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you really trying to justify genocide on the basis that people who live in a community have no moral obligations to anyone outside their community?\u003cp\u003eI would have thought that reasoning went out of fashion circa September 30, 1946.","parent":"6162990","id":"6163027"}
{"by":"runholm","time":"1455270047","timestamp":"2016-02-12 09:40:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Linux solve that by allowing users to add repositories. I don\u0026#x27;t see why that would not work for Microsoft as well.","parent":"11085896","id":"11086150"}
{"by":"Aoyagi","time":"1435743210","timestamp":"2015-07-01 09:33:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Spooks are making progress as well, and they are very well funded.","parent":"9810750","id":"9810825"}
{"by":"technoslut","time":"1326725360","timestamp":"2012-01-16 14:49:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree somewhat.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;Bill Gates is extremely charitable.\u003cp\u003eThis is following two decades of Bill Gates being extremely selfish.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;Einstein was extremely intelligent.\u003cp\u003eThis is something different. Einstein was extremely intelligent in some areas but not all of them.\u003cp\u003eIt's been said that for anyone to become great at anything that it requires 10,000 hours of practice. This does take dedication and there is nothing wrong with doing what you love. That said, caring too much or being too emotional can affect rationalization.","parent":"3470218","id":"3470782"}
{"by":"cowb0yl0gic","time":"1543946849","timestamp":"2018-12-04 18:07:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it has per-site configuration from the toolbar; also, a couple of different modes to choose from if one doesn\u0026#x27;t work quite so well for a given site (invert, CSS, simple CSS). I\u0026#x27;m pretty happy with this extension (I switched away from Dark Reader). Also, open source: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;m-khvoinitsky\u0026#x2F;dark-background-light-text-extension\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;m-khvoinitsky\u0026#x2F;dark-background-light-text-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18600368","id":"18601950"}
{"by":"nodata","time":"1291657197","timestamp":"2010-12-06 17:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the \"S\" stands for Samsung.","parent":"1975681","id":"1976044"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1429680498","timestamp":"2015-04-22 05:28:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there any animals that develop Alzheimer\u0026#x27;s?","parent":"9417912","id":"9418786"}
{"by":"kenjackson","time":"1321681650","timestamp":"2011-11-19 05:47:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sarah has written a few pretty decent articles.  And a BUNCH of really bad articles.  Next to MG Siegler she seemed like a genius, but outside of TechCrunch she's probably a below-average tech reporter at best.  A much better fit for TMZ than Wired or Ars Technica... seriously.","parent":"3254589","id":"3254706"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1372671280","timestamp":"2013-07-01 09:34:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mozilla is working on it. Firefox OS for example no longer uses XUL and they\u0026#x27;ve got an awesome research project called Servo - a Gekko replacement that addresses its short-comings.","parent":"5969575","id":"5969591"}
{"by":"averagewall","time":"1508546427","timestamp":"2017-10-21 00:40:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That might be a problem, but it\u0026#x27;s not democracy or civil society. Maybe they\u0026#x27;ll get a worse deal on some international agreements or whatever else could be caused by not enough diplomacy, but there\u0026#x27;ll still be democracy and as much safety for the people.","parent":"15489239","id":"15520039"}
{"by":"DanielBMarkham","time":"1268254888","timestamp":"2010-03-10 21:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. If you wander, by definition you'll always have a difficult time learning any language. Whereas if you're able to focus -- perhaps by writing an app that you find compelling, perhaps by simple willpower -- then you'll actually master whatever language you're attempting, which will naturally lead you to learning more difficult concepts.","parent":"1181916","id":"1181970"}
{"by":"iampims","time":"1531278255","timestamp":"2018-07-11 03:04:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"mixpanel is neat but gets very expensive very quickly.","parent":"17499241","id":"17504161"}
{"by":"fdsfsafasfdas","time":"1491510811","timestamp":"2017-04-06 20:33:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Conversely, after the initial struggle getting the ideas behind it, examples are worthless and documentation is king.","parent":"14054284","id":"14054318"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1345464752","timestamp":"2012-08-20 12:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's with the domain? Why not link directly to \u003ca href=\"http://tehula.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://tehula.com/\u003c/a\u003e ?","parent":"4407150","id":"4407187"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1360787386","timestamp":"2013-02-13 20:29:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All points well taken. It is difficult to be sufficiently skeptical about topics on which one doesn't have enough background, especially when one is surrounded by \"experts\". There's another dynamic at play here as well: many of us on HN grew up wanting to learn and know as much as we could about a wide range of topics. This motivation is an aspect of curiosity, and it is a good attitude for children, but it leads us astray when we're adults. We can seek all possible knowledge about our narrow areas of specific expertise, at least until we can develop a sense of what to retain and what to ignore. However, for the broad sweep of general human knowledge that we can't carefully study ourselves, we ought to cultivate an attitude of intentional, studied indifference. It's fine to pay a bit of attention to everything that catches the eye, and it's fine to slowly add to the set of topics about which we're truly knowledgeable, but most of what we \"learn\" we should consider a form of entertainment.\u003cp\u003eThat goes double for what I learn on HN! Update your priors, but at a steady, slow rate.","parent":"5215313","id":"5215474"}
{"by":"drcoopster","time":"1310605501","timestamp":"2011-07-14 01:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fresh out of school?  Are you qualified?","parent":"2761304","id":"2761311"}
{"by":"EdwardDiego","time":"1404086664","timestamp":"2014-06-30 00:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah cool, that\u0026#x27;s good to hear (so long as flows are sustainable, unlike some of our proposals for \u0026#x27;harnessing all that wasted water\u0026#x27;)","parent":"7962169","id":"7963008"}
{"by":"slr555","time":"1506606541","timestamp":"2017-09-28 13:49:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed","parent":"15355743","id":"15357078"}
{"by":"derivagral","time":"1525317314","timestamp":"2018-05-03 03:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For what it is worth, I had a fun college project for a class doing exactly this (\u0026quot;distributed filesystem\u0026quot;.)\u003cp\u003eBack before github and dropbox took off, anyway.","parent":"16982915","id":"16983101"}
{"by":"vinniejames","time":"1509564087","timestamp":"2017-11-01 19:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Asana is hiring! Checkout available engineering positions in SF, NY, and Dublin. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;asana.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;asana.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eRated one of the top places to work by Greenhouse, and Fortune \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fortune.com\u0026#x2F;best-medium-workplaces\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fortune.com\u0026#x2F;best-medium-workplaces\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail if you’re interested vincentdepalma@asana.com","parent":"15601729","id":"15604645"}
{"by":"stock_toaster","time":"1414975432","timestamp":"2014-11-03 00:43:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah. Just saw that recently too. Good news!\u003cp\u003eASLR is apparently around the corner+ as well.\u003cp\u003eDidn\u0026#x27;t OpenBSD get ASLR in 2008 or something like that? It only took 6 years for FreeBSD to get it.... \u0026gt;_\u0026lt;\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  +for some definition of corner.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"8548745","id":"8548802"}
{"by":"zzzeek","time":"1340306517","timestamp":"2012-06-21 19:21:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; But we're not in a system that's unfettered from regulations, transparency and oversight. At least not in the sense that we don't have a \"government\" that purports to provide those things. But the current system obviously doesn't work, so I'm not sure how more government, bureaucracy, rules, regulations, etc. are going to fix anything, when it's clear that certain groups that break the law with (near) impunity.\u003cp\u003eThey break the law with impunity because prosecutors know that, due to out of date and/or weakly stated rules and legislation, they would never get a conviction - an indictment and trial would waste everyone's time, money, and reputation.   Because the laws are still not worded well enough to overlap perfectly with the crimes being committed.  Hence more legislation and rules.","parent":"4143427","id":"4143745"}
{"by":"ISL","time":"1364261077","timestamp":"2013-03-26 01:24:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone else getting 404'ed?","parent":"5440412","id":"5440847"}
{"by":"RachelF","time":"1501534668","timestamp":"2017-07-31 20:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A good article. There is way more to it than a Mac vs PC debate. Path dependence is something that is worth understanding, but seldom thought of.\u003cp\u003eTo his examples, I\u0026#x27;d add these:\u003cp\u003e- The way modern computers and their operating systems are designed reflects 1960\u0026#x27;s hardware with different tiers of storage speeds for RAM and HDD. Cache and flash are now tacked on.\u003cp\u003e- The width of cars and railways is determined by the fact that they needed to use existing roads, which are as wide as two horses.\u003cp\u003e- The entire political, tax and legal system has evolved and is not optimal.\u003cp\u003e- The human body is a hack of previous organisms, made with small incremental changes. Take the spine, which in humans is structurally a tower, but most animals use as a suspension bridge.\u003cp\u003eWe have to put up with systems and things that are \u0026quot;good enough\u0026quot; and all their previous versions were also \u0026quot;good enough\u0026quot;.","parent":"14891191","id":"14895833"}
{"by":"dhmholley","time":"1422617817","timestamp":"2015-01-30 11:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; once you experience healthy, constructive, no-judging, be-yourself community with other Christians\u003cp\u003eThese qualities are neither exclusive to, nor always found in, Christians.","parent":"8971424","id":"8971551"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1435749276","timestamp":"2015-07-01 11:14:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GHC is considerably more sophisticated than that. It can do weird and wonderful things C programmers might only dream of.","parent":"9811071","id":"9811111"}
{"by":"Zombieball","time":"1489738715","timestamp":"2017-03-17 08:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great explanation!\u003cp\u003eI think it\u0026#x27;s also interesting to point out this is also the explanation for the trend of adding winglets to the tip of the wings.\u003cp\u003eThey help reduce the wingtip vorticies, and in turn, reduce parasitic drag and improve fuel efficiencies.","parent":"13891190","id":"13892379"}
{"by":"epx","time":"1520291862","timestamp":"2018-03-05 23:17:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I get a house I will craft fountain pens.","parent":"16513941","id":"16525476"}
{"by":"hsitz","time":"1460309312","timestamp":"2016-04-10 17:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which politician is more likely to take steps helpful for climate change:  (a) one who \u0026quot;claims\u0026quot; to be eco-conscious, or (b) one who thinks climate change is a hoax?  Are you seriously telling me that a person who wants to do what they can for climate change should consider candidates (a) and (b) as equivalent, so far as climate change is concerned?  Boggles my mind.","parent":"11466839","id":"11467178"}
{"by":"nnq","time":"1481616448","timestamp":"2016-12-13 08:07:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; these types of courses and projects (non-CRUD, more challenging) will help set you apart from the waves upon waves of Rails\u0026#x2F;Angular bootcamp grads\u003cp\u003eyes, but the question is more like whether \u003ci\u003ethis particular course\u0026#x2F;nanodegree\u003c/i\u003e, which is priced like \u0026gt;4x as much as other courses in the fields, \u003ci\u003eis really worth it?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI mean, they did kind of a poor job explaining its contents and why it\u0026#x27;s better than maybe getting a similar thing by combining much cheaper or free resources from them and their \u0026quot;competitor\u0026quot; MOOC platforms... even the backers, IBM + Amazon Alexa + Didi... are not exactly the most transparent and \u0026quot;leading\u0026quot; entities in their field, it\u0026#x27;s not like they have a \u0026quot;backed by Google\u0026#x2F;Facebook\u0026quot; that would inspires 10x more trust.\u003cp\u003eI will definitely continue learning more and trying to get a career in this field... but my question is \u003ci\u003eabout this particular learning resource: do you think it would be really worth the price?\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"13165094","id":"13165316"}
{"by":"peckrob","time":"1543937071","timestamp":"2018-12-04 15:24:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hello fellow Huntsvillian! Don\u0026#x27;t let the secret out! :P\u003cp\u003eI also live in Huntsville and I live very, very well here. A 50+% pay raise to move to a \u0026quot;tech center\u0026quot; (SF, SV, NYC, etc.) looks nice on paper until you really start to work the numbers and realize that you would actually come out worse off in many ways.\u003cp\u003e* A mortgage on a 3,500 square foot house, on a 1\u0026#x2F;3 acre lot in a very nice neighborhood runs me a hair over $1,200 a month. Including taxes and insurance. Everything except the HOA, and that\u0026#x27;s an extra $30 or so a month.\u003cp\u003e* I live in a nice family-oriented area with great schools (my kid\u0026#x27;s school even has an app, and I get daily progress reports!). Don\u0026#x27;t have to worry about violent crime. My biggest annoyance is the teen with the loud scooter.\u003cp\u003e* Utilities are dirt cheap thanks to TVA.\u003cp\u003e* Property taxes are dirt cheap. Income taxes are on the low side. Sales tax is a tad on the high side, but it\u0026#x27;s not bad.\u003cp\u003e* I have a 20 minute commute to and from the office every day, maybe 30 on a bad day. I\u0026#x27;m home every night for dinner with my family.\u003cp\u003eAnd while Huntsville won\u0026#x27;t win any awards for high culture (although there is actually a surprisingly vibrant arts scene here considering its size, not really what I was expecting to find), Nashville and Birmingham are only 90 minutes away in either direction - great for a day trip (we do Nashville day trips fairly frequently). Atlanta or Memphis are weekend trips of a few hours away. And I can be on great beaches in a few hours as well.\u003cp\u003eWith my extra income, I can afford to save and do fun things. After our daughter was born, we needed a larger car, so we bought one and paid cash for it. We go skiing in West Virginia during the holidays. We did two weeks in Hawaii for our honeymoon, a week in London a few years, a week in Jamaica, a week in Costa Rica, 10 days at Disney World, etc. A lot of this is possible because my cost of living here is so low that it allows me a large amount of discretionary income.\u003cp\u003eWe have our problems, sure. No place is perfect, but every time I go to look at the trade offs, the math always works for me to stay put here. Even if I were to change jobs, it would probably be something remote unless it was to a city of not-crazy cost of living. No one has yet shown me that I can live the equivalent lifestyle in SF or SV that I live here on an average developer\u0026#x27;s salary.","parent":"18599480","id":"18600185"}
{"by":"taf2","time":"1417099397","timestamp":"2014-11-27 14:43:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t believe it\u0026#x27;s necessarily the wrong tech for illustration... but SVG is maybe a more natural fit for graphing simple shapes like lines, bars, and circles...  Also, Adobe Illustrator exports vector graphics which easily map to SVG and can even be exported directly to SVG.  Additionally, the SVG makes it easier to attach event handlers to nodes within a graph so you can support mouse\u0026#x2F;touch interaction simply using the addEventListener... \nThat said, canvas is closer to the pixel so you could implement vector graphics in canvas.","parent":"8667266","id":"8667435"}
{"by":"talles","time":"1504541876","timestamp":"2017-09-04 16:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; we as computer scientists, do understand much better than anyone else the complexity of the human mind.\u003cp\u003eDo we?","parent":"15168262","id":"15169166"}
{"by":"a3n","time":"1432489090","timestamp":"2015-05-24 17:38:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If we could all come to an agreement on its objectives\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If we could all come to an agreement ...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFor something that touches everyone, and that people have widely different views and motivations, starting from that goal will likely fail. The trick is to come to some way of working that allows most people to benefit, or not be overly harmed, and be able to move forward productively. Like marriage and politics.\u003cp\u003eSome objectives that I\u0026#x27;ve seen for education:\u003cp\u003e- So that citizens can read and understand propaganda.\u003cp\u003e- To prepare people for the 21st Century.\u003cp\u003e- To prepare people to understand \u0026quot;the news,\u0026quot; so that they can make sensible choices in their days and in elections.\u003cp\u003e- To give them marketable skills, for jobs.\u003cp\u003e- To promote the state religion.\u003cp\u003e- To promote a particular religion.\u003cp\u003e- To promote \u0026quot;values.\u0026quot; These values can be anything: tolerance, intolerance, discrimination, inclusiveness, being on the \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; side of gay marriage, etc.\u003cp\u003eThis is why education is so important at an early age, we can get to people and shape their world view to the \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; way, so that they use Apple computers, smoke cigarettes, view gay marriage the \u0026quot;correct\u0026quot; way (which way is that again?), etc etc.\u003cp\u003eYou will never get an agreement on objectives, we all hate each other too much. (If you don\u0026#x27;t believe that last, consider that insulting politically opposite people is about the last acceptable openly expressed prejudice, among all sides.)\u003cp\u003eBetter to figure out how to move forward with a huge difference of opinions, and a huge variety of people. One way to do that is to ensure that there are plenty of options in education, so that one powerful group is not overly motivated to make education the same for everyone.","parent":"9596818","id":"9596894"}
{"by":"sokoloff","time":"1508418401","timestamp":"2017-10-19 13:06:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But why take their first good offer when they\u0026#x27;re almost surely prepared to pay you \u0026lt;good offer\u0026gt; + $5-10K\u0026#x2F;yr?","parent":"15505325","id":"15507500"}
{"by":"sixtofour","time":"1311022757","timestamp":"2011-07-18 20:59:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An unclosable banner ad at the bottom of the page. Wonderful.\u003cp\u003eFF5, Linux.recent.","parent":"2777241","id":"2778221"}
{"by":"hutzlibu","time":"1517245639","timestamp":"2018-01-29 17:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or what are you arguing for?\nTo reduce or ban  nuclear warheads?\nYeah well, I am all for it. But the topic was powerful and therefore dangerous technology in general.\u003cp\u003eAnd the more technological advanced a society becomes, the easier it will also get, to just make new nuclear bombs, viruses, killerrobots ect.\u003cp\u003eSo my argument is, we just have to learn to deal with that power. And I believe we are not doing so bad, because there was no nuclear war. Despite all the tensions.\u003cp\u003eAnd your point is?","parent":"16257825","id":"16258776"}
{"by":"MichaelSalib","time":"1302274791","timestamp":"2011-04-08 14:59:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAs such, it's his job to invest based on fundamentals and deliver solid returns for his portfolio. Apple not being forward with investors about Jobs turned out to not be a good reason to dump the stock.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's only true if you think fundamentals are only about short term return on investment. But if you think fundamentals include risk-adjusted returns, then his decision may be perfectly sound. Dishonest companies are risky investments; even if they have great returns, they may have awful returns after adjusting for the increased risks associated with an untrustworthy company.","parent":"2423666","id":"2424046"}
{"by":"xmnr","time":"1478375199","timestamp":"2016-11-05 19:46:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been thinking about this in the past few days, and decided to make a petition about it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wh.gov\u0026#x2F;iervT\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wh.gov\u0026#x2F;iervT\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003etl;dr lets develop public-domain voting systems so we can audit them.","parent":"12872685","id":"12881519"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1508085399","timestamp":"2017-10-15 16:36:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or you could just order delivery? Sometimes I miss living in china for this reason.","parent":"15476613","id":"15477860"}
{"by":"teslabox","time":"1482631152","timestamp":"2016-12-25 01:59:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interest is the largest single expense of any debt-financed infrastructure project. Ellen Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eWeb of Debt\u003c/i\u003e [1], has advocated a public infrastructure bank for several years now.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.webofdebt.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.webofdebt.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13252096","id":"13252486"}
{"by":"manigandham","time":"1538122534","timestamp":"2018-09-28 08:15:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, you\u0026#x27;re from Rancher. Great product, but isn\u0026#x27;t this exactly the problem space you serve?\u003cp\u003eHow many of the K8S vendors are selling distributions vs support plans? Or are they always entangled? And if the community did do LTS, isn\u0026#x27;t that just shifting the work to open-source maintainers rather than focused and paid vendors?","parent":"18091596","id":"18091759"}
{"by":"MaysonL","time":"1272639900","timestamp":"2010-04-30 15:05:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Evil Plans are best!\"\n\u003ca href=\"http://gapingvoid.com/2010/04/22/daily-bizcard-03-david-brain/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gapingvoid.com/2010/04/22/daily-bizcard-03-david-brai...\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://gapingvoid.com/ep\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gapingvoid.com/ep\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1307853","id":"1308322"}
{"by":"aetherson","time":"1504446071","timestamp":"2017-09-03 13:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve used WhatsApp for years and have never been charged a dime.","parent":"15161268","id":"15161362"}
{"by":"FooBarWidget","time":"1372867297","timestamp":"2013-07-03 16:01:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"event_mpm is only partially evented. Thanks to the Apache module API, which assumes blocking I\u0026#x2F;O, it\u0026#x27;s impossible for Apache to be fully evented. That said, event_mpm handles a lot of the important cases where evented I\u0026#x2F;O is desired.","parent":"5985318","id":"5985420"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1544818959","timestamp":"2018-12-14 20:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Their search index was great back in the 90s simply because it was so localized to a specific interest, location, theme, etc. Wayfinding was a hell of a lot nicer back then, but didn\u0026#x27;t scale in the face of Google.\u003cp\u003eTo be fair, it didn\u0026#x27;t even scale in the face of DMOZ (née GnuHoo), which was similarly structured and human curated, but Wikipedia to Yahoo’s Britannica.","parent":"18682504","id":"18684330"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1423178128","timestamp":"2015-02-05 23:15:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was legitimately surprised when the FBI actually stood behind their NK assertion with the Sony hack. Normally when the US randomly points their finger at some government, when they\u0026#x27;re challenged they back down or when you dig into it it is an unnamed source in US state\u0026#x2F;intelligence.\u003cp\u003eSo maybe in the Sony hack case it was NK, however I\u0026#x27;d love to see the US\u0026#x27;s evidence. If they have two dozen proxies, one of which happened to come from NK thus that \u0026quot;proves\u0026quot; it was NK, then sorry, but no. However if they can prove that one connection was not proxied somehow and originated from NK then fair call.\u003cp\u003eI doubt they\u0026#x27;ll ever release technical information however.","parent":"9006649","id":"9006812"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1394491241","timestamp":"2014-03-10 22:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ScienceDaily is just a press release recycling service, nothing more. Many, many submissions to HN are based at bottom on press releases, and press releases are well known for spinning preliminary research findings beyond all recognition. This has been commented on in the PhD comic \u0026quot;The Science News Cycle,\u0026quot;[1] which only exaggerates the process a very little. More serious commentary in the edited group blog post \u0026quot;Related by coincidence only? University and medical journal press releases versus journal articles\u0026quot;[2] points to the same danger of taking press releases (and news aggregator website articles based solely on press releases) too seriously. Press releases are usually misleading.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.phdcomics.com\u0026#x2F;comics.php?f=1174\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/related-by-coincidence-only-journal-press-releases-versus-journal-articles/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\u0026#x2F;index.php\u0026#x2F;related-by-coi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticipants on Hacker News have been commenting for years that there are much better sources for stories than ScienceDaily.\u003cp\u003eComments about ScienceDaily:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992206\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=3992206\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Blogspam.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Original article (to which ScienceDaily has added precisely nothing):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/abundance-of-rare-dna-changes-following-population-explosion-may-hold-common-disease-clues\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washington.edu\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;abundance-of-rare-dn...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Underlying paper in Science (paywalled):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/05/16/science.1219240\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;early\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;science.1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Brief writeup from Nature discussing this paper and a couple of others on similar topics:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/humans-riddled-with-rare-genetic-variants-1.10655\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nature.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;humans-riddled-with-rare-genetic-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108603\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=4108603\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Everything I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen on HN -- I don\u0026#x27;t know about Reddit -- from ScienceDaily has been a cut-and-paste copy of something else available from nearer the original source. In some cases ScienceDaily\u0026#x27;s copy is distinctly worse than the original because it lacks relevant links, enlightening pictures, etc.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot; . . . . if you find something there and feel like sharing it, it\u0026#x27;s pretty much always best to take ten seconds to find the original source and submit that instead of ScienceDaily.\u0026quot;","parent":"7371906","id":"7376154"}
{"by":"cm2012","time":"1444139814","timestamp":"2015-10-06 13:56:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am surprised they allowed those pictures to be taken.","parent":"10338316","id":"10338878"}
{"by":"a-ve","time":"1541863355","timestamp":"2018-11-10 15:22:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A similar project: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ventusky.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ventusky.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrevious HN discussion: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13559581\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13559581\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18416850","id":"18421647"}
{"by":"elai","time":"1240457483","timestamp":"2009-04-23 03:31:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The big draw of netbooks is cheapness, and apple likes avoiding cheapness.","parent":"575024","id":"575028"}
{"by":"yellowapple","time":"1481578548","timestamp":"2016-12-12 21:35:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neat idea, but I ain\u0026#x27;t exactly keen on paying $50\u0026#x2F;month for \u0026quot;typical Craigslist job listing as a service\u0026quot;","parent":"13144196","id":"13162144"}
{"by":"fanf2","time":"1307063457","timestamp":"2011-06-03 01:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the Apache bureaucracy will kill that branch of the project and development will continue on the LibreOffice branch.","parent":"2611378","id":"2614763"}
{"by":"ljf","time":"1402818323","timestamp":"2014-06-15 07:45:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is more likely that you are down voted as you went on a rant about fat to a parent who was talking about consumer tastes I the 80s and 90s. It would feel that both these replies are likely noted as off topic to the general conversation going on here.","parent":"7894606","id":"7894690"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1459376769","timestamp":"2016-03-30 22:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think my cofounder already did, I\u0026#x27;ll check.\u003cp\u003eThe basic issue we were encountering is that when selecting text via force touching and then dragging the selection, the text selection object was empty. (Though you can still hit Copy in the Safari UI.)\u003cp\u003eThere wasn\u0026#x27;t any issue when selecting text via regular press or long press.","parent":"11393238","id":"11393524"}
{"by":"lomnakkus","time":"1490407283","timestamp":"2017-03-25 02:01:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure I must be missing something, but can you give a concrete example?\u003cp\u003eOf course instances of classes (not \u0026quot;classes\u0026quot;, as you say, classes are an entirely compile-time construct in C++) must be allocated, but I mean... there\u0026#x27;s still heap storage. You know, shared_ptr\u0026lt;T\u0026gt; and all that...\u003cp\u003eWhat am I missing?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; You can have destructor like behavior in Lisp as well, just register a file handle cleanup action by giving a cleanup lambda when creating the map instance.\u003cp\u003eWell, except you don\u0026#x27;t know exactly when the \u003ci\u003emap\u003c/i\u003e is going to get cleaned up...? And it could get reused across various sections of the program... Do you see what I\u0026#x27;m talking about?\u003cp\u003eEDIT: That, and if the map exists for the entire duration of the program, but it\u0026#x27;s really important that entries have prompt cleanup when removed... what then?\u003cp\u003e(Btw, I \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e understand that in the general case with weak_ptr, shared_ptr, unique_ptr, etc. that things get decidedly less deterministic[1], but RAII is pretty well defined by scope or referenced-to-scope.)\u003cp\u003e[1] Basically almost as unpredictable as a general purpose GC. I can\u0026#x27;t recall the paper title, but I\u0026#x27;m sure there \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a paper out there detailing this.","parent":"13939296","id":"13953683"}
{"by":"Multicomp","time":"1530126106","timestamp":"2018-06-27 19:01:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve used this since last October. It\u0026#x27;s pretty slick for a Microsoft mouse.\u003cp\u003eThe movement is precise and snappy, but I\u0026#x27;m no gamer so I cannot speak to that. For SysAdmin work, it is a joy to use, WAAAY more fun to use than the provided el cheapo computer mice that register your movement just after you stop moving them.","parent":"17408690","id":"17410826"}
{"by":"wyaeld","time":"1454983081","timestamp":"2016-02-09 01:58:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to disagree here.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;fancy names == people think bulletproof\u0026quot; is not a credible criticism.\u003cp\u003eNow \u0026quot;Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control\u0026quot; is a fancy name!!!  Pretty sure no-one with a clue thinks a product named like that is bulletproof, and its probably got significant logic\u0026#x2F;nodes etc\u003cp\u003eI apparently have the opposite experience to you.  I\u0026#x27;ll often find complex distributed systems that are painful to troubleshoot when they misbehave, and find it refreshing on the other hand when someone is just using Redis, because typically THAT system is working a lot more predictable.\u003cp\u003eIf people are too inexperienced to realize that ALL systems have tradeoffs, and not read up on what those are (because apparenly the name is fancy) then they\u0026#x27;ll get burned.  Antirez does a pretty good job of explaining and documenting where he sees Redis limits to be.\u003cp\u003eArguing that everyone should be home-baking their own failovers until of learning the limits of well-known ones our there doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like responsible advice.","parent":"11062049","id":"11062522"}
{"by":"andysinclair","time":"1444150636","timestamp":"2015-10-06 16:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like the CSS hasn\u0026#x27;t loaded, leave it a few more seconds and it will look fine.","parent":"10340283","id":"10340299"}
{"by":"Pxtl","time":"1522896742","timestamp":"2018-04-05 02:52:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"E-inks respond too slow for good touch feedback though so you\u0026#x27;d want to have it be clicky or vibrate or something, which adds a moving part.","parent":"16759684","id":"16761381"}
{"by":"Raphmedia","time":"1475846992","timestamp":"2016-10-07 13:29:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Not sure this is what OP is getting at, but CSS is getting a bit bloated and yet is still unable to fulfill many simple tasks without extra divs and\u0026#x2F;or JavaScript.\u003cp\u003ePart of my work as a front-end dev. is taking pages from CMS softwares that are already done and add styles to them without changing any line of code on the markup.\u003cp\u003eI never, ever, had any issues.\u003cp\u003eYou \u003ci\u003edon\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e need to add extra divs to do anything.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, when we learned to do CSS at college, the teacher teased the bad students. He would say that they had DIVitis. The great disease of our generation. Divs would keep popping up all over them and their work.\u003cp\u003eWe currently support IE9+ without any issues. We used to support IE8+ without any issues.","parent":"12655951","id":"12660483"}
{"by":"tammer","time":"1521644904","timestamp":"2018-03-21 15:08:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone compared this to Azure AD?","parent":"16638253","id":"16638642"}
{"by":"benjohnson","time":"1328029143","timestamp":"2012-01-31 16:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My Dad had a folder labeled 'Deadbeats' at this small consulting firm. It was in the conference room - anybody was free to look at it. In the field he was in, word got around quickly so there was a few tardy clients that paid but stipulated that he remove their transgressions from the 'Deadbeats' folder.","parent":"3533256","id":"3534072"}
{"by":"ewjordan","time":"1257353912","timestamp":"2009-11-04 16:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Quickly grok\" to \"test things out\" - it just isn't going to happen like that, even if you know the math behind it (FWIW, for that paper you're going to need a lot about statistics and Markov chains, but you may be able to get pretty far just by Googling the terms you don't know).\u003cp\u003eComp sci is notorious for having a huge gap between published work and working implementations.  It often takes heroic efforts to put together a working version of the algorithms described, sometimes so much work that nobody has ever done it (Chazelle has some algorithms that have never been implemented in code).  Even if it's plausible to do, don't be surprised if it takes weeks to get it working right.  The more \"on the edge\" the algorithms are, the more difficult it tends to be, and it's not really likely that you'll be able to quickly experiment with new methods unless the authors have published code.\u003cp\u003eThis happens far less often than it should, because simple possession of a working algorithm is often enough to squeeze several more papers out of a topic, so authors have no particular incentive to share theirs, or even make it easy to create one from scratch.  Computer graphics papers are particularly bad on that front, often omitting so much detail that even with significant study and effort you could never reproduce their results without researching the problem on your own anyways.\u003cp\u003eOther people have offered good advice: go through it in excruciating detail, think about every equation as its own sub-problem, and make sure you understand what's happening at each step.  These papers are meant for detailed study, not quick reading, even if the reader already knows a lot about the field.  Google should help you through most of the math stuff, and try going to book search or the papers search if you're not finding anything online, which will give you good keywords to look for books on.","parent":"921877","id":"922023"}
{"by":"jacobr","time":"1328601044","timestamp":"2012-02-07 07:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also sincerely wonder if it's not possible to just slow down a bit? If there's no parental leave where you live, take time off and then return to your job after 1 year or so, at 80% speed?","parent":"3559713","id":"3560915"}
{"by":"hqc","time":"1469204016","timestamp":"2016-07-22 16:13:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah it\u0026#x27;s pronounced as \u0026quot;work\u0026quot;.","parent":"12144166","id":"12144447"}
{"by":"kendallpark","time":"1435601222","timestamp":"2015-06-29 18:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, what a sad story. :(","parent":"9798450","id":"9799797"}
{"by":"cpfohl","time":"1491516118","timestamp":"2017-04-06 22:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s a more complex issue than either medicine, insurance, or the legal system can address alone.","parent":"14054693","id":"14055075"}
{"by":"Encosia","time":"1437517935","timestamp":"2015-07-21 22:32:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IE11 has been doing automatic updates for at least a couple years now, by default.","parent":"9926226","id":"9926342"}
{"by":"hhandoko","time":"1495965627","timestamp":"2017-05-28 10:00:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMO the ProcessBuilder class is not a very good example, as the operators are designed to match the existing shell \u0026#x2F; bash ones (e.g. `#\u0026gt;\u0026gt;` is similar in behaviour to bash\u0026#x27;s `\u0026gt;\u0026gt;`).","parent":"14433041","id":"14433746"}
{"by":"wolfhumble","time":"1280826499","timestamp":"2010-08-03 09:08:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are right, that looks pretty dramatic.\nMust be some kind of lense distortion as\nother posters are pointing out.","parent":"1567696","id":"1570579"}
{"by":"fishnchips","time":"1463947120","timestamp":"2016-05-22 19:58:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you just call JavaScript a research project? I seriously hope you meant Node.","parent":"11749853","id":"11750011"}
{"by":"borne0","time":"1512781942","timestamp":"2017-12-09 01:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does one look up what patents Shazam has? or is this a situation where it\u0026#x27;s possible but any patent worth a penny obfuscates the owner?","parent":"15883227","id":"15883549"}
{"by":"joeycfan","time":"1266350669","timestamp":"2010-02-16 20:04:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The website is dead, that's for sure.","parent":"1129540","dead":true,"id":"1129681"}
{"by":"spangry","time":"1491456760","timestamp":"2017-04-06 05:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The situation sounds remarkably similar to auto-manufacturers building cars that can only be services by \u0026#x27;licensed technicians\u0026#x27; (usually their dealer network). I wonder if that is the bigger issue the ACCC has in mind (and is trying to discourage): manufacturers who sell a product that creates a subsequent and artificial \u0026#x27;captive market\u0026#x27;.","parent":"14048092","id":"14048192"}
{"by":"xorcist","time":"1500331007","timestamp":"2017-07-17 22:36:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not that simple. Exchanges and custodial wallets hold other people\u0026#x27;s funds, so they are not allowed to decide arbitrarily which chain is \u0026quot;Bitcoin\u0026quot;. That would be regulatory suicide.","parent":"14791348","id":"14792824"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1337774415","timestamp":"2012-05-23 12:00:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"thanks\u003ci\u003e.php\u003c/i\u003e\"?!","parent":"4011068","id":"4012629"}
{"by":"Fando","time":"1344144869","timestamp":"2012-08-05 05:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whoever designed Git was both a skilled programmer and a crappy designer.","parent":"4340047","id":"4340698"}
{"by":"lispm","time":"1395581179","timestamp":"2014-03-23 13:26:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how stupid companies are that they use Microsoft\u0026#x27;s cloud service for email, document exchange, etc...","parent":"7452660","id":"7453223"}
{"by":"saagarjha","time":"1528061163","timestamp":"2018-06-03 21:26:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t consider that to be a major operating system.","parent":"17222152","id":"17222244"}
{"by":"CamperBob2","time":"1425952990","timestamp":"2015-03-10 02:03:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eLooks like I picked the wrong side project now this team is working on it.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompetition is a signal that you picked the \u003ci\u003eright\u003c/i\u003e field.  Just about everybody gets this backward.","parent":"9174293","id":"9175553"}
{"by":"Aqwis","time":"1307280959","timestamp":"2011-06-05 13:35:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I first encountered IRC at the age of 9 or so, when I installed Linux for the first time and randomly opened X-Chat, which took me to Freenode. By the time I was 13, I had engaged in screaming competitions with GNU fundamentalists in #gnu, asked hundreds of stupid questions in ##linux, and provided support to countless others in #pearpc and #distrowatch, and obviously grown a much thicker skin.","parent":"2619787","id":"2621974"}
{"by":"Harj","time":"1233000693","timestamp":"2009-01-26 20:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"we didn't \"start off with such good cards\". we worked hard to build up a network and get those people on board, just like we worked hard to get into a good school.","parent":"449286","id":"450947"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1411751849","timestamp":"2014-09-26 17:17:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google might add you to some anonymized dataset, but I doubt they would track you like that if you didn\u0026#x27;t opt-in. (Facebook, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t even trust that far.) But you have to opt-in to this to access certain Google services, so people might not realize how much location data Google is using. You can\u0026#x27;t just turn it on for certain apps, it\u0026#x27;s all or nothing.","parent":"8373193","id":"8373668"}
{"by":"justinator","time":"1527017982","timestamp":"2018-05-22 19:39:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That, sometimes a huge, throw the baby out with the bathwater, rewrite by a separate team (via MetaCPAN) is the correct way to go to move forward?\u003cp\u003eOr, that CPAN\u0026#x27;s greatest worth is the modules themselves and not the search engine of the modules?\u003cp\u003eWhat\u0026#x27;s it tell you?\u003cp\u003eAnyways, thanks for all the search.cpan.org memories. I feel that I have memories pre 2002 of the site (maybe I\u0026#x27;m wrong?)","parent":"17128450","id":"17128782"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1544706651","timestamp":"2018-12-13 13:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given that they need a certain amount of fuel to cross the Atlantic, this makes sense - I suppose that disposing of it otherwise would run the risk of running out of fuel.","parent":"18672009","id":"18672018"}
{"by":"addstructure","time":"1501600955","timestamp":"2017-08-01 15:22:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AddStructure - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;addstructure.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;addstructure.com\u003c/a\u003e - Chicago \u0026#x2F; NYC \u0026#x2F; Remote\u003cp\u003eAddStructure is building the future of voice-driven commerce for some of the world\u0026#x27;s largest retailers. We pride ourselves in providing a great work\u0026#x2F;life balance, and if you\u0026#x27;re interested in the future of natural language technology, you\u0026#x27;ll love the problems we\u0026#x27;re solving. You can be onsite or remote but must be located in the domestic United States (no visa sponsorship available).\u003cp\u003eIf interested, please email jobs@addstructure.com.\u003cp\u003eCurrently seeking:\u003cp\u003e* Senior full-stack developer - significant experience with any of: Node, Java, C#, AWS, Azure, Postgresql","parent":"14901313","id":"14901629"}
{"by":"talmand","time":"1376344289","timestamp":"2013-08-12 21:51:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wasn\u0026#x27;t too long ago that there were classic conspiracy theories about the NSA that would get you labeled as a crackpot which have recently been shown to be true.","parent":"6201489","id":"6202329"}
{"by":"rafaelm","time":"1455806491","timestamp":"2016-02-18 14:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s precisely the problem. The govt decides who gets dollars at rate #1 (Bs.10\u0026#x2F;$) and who gets the other rates. Of course, only govt officials and friends get rate #1.\u003cp\u003eThey establish a company in say, Panama. Their venezuelan company imports food from Panama at rate#1. They claim they imported 1 ton of food, for example, while they only actually bring in half a ton. Or they buy the food at a certain price and they overbill the govt. Expand that to every facet of an economy where EVERYTHING is imported: food, medicine, appliances, cars, tires,etc.\u003cp\u003eThe black market rate is at Bs.1000 per dollar. That\u0026#x27;s a Bs.990 difference. It\u0026#x27;s practically a money printing machine! Buy dollars at Bs.10, sell them at Bs.1000, restart the process. Over and over until there\u0026#x27;s no money left, which is our current situation.","parent":"11125911","id":"11126011"}
{"by":"wushupork","time":"1254205416","timestamp":"2009-09-29 06:23:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tend to agree with this user. I don't think there is a startup culture or mentality here in Chicago. Most people who want to start tech startups move out to CA.","parent":"848809","id":"849931"}
{"by":"goldenkey","time":"1406201653","timestamp":"2014-07-24 11:34:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even with that, the amount of information is reduced from 1000s of pixels to less than 100. It\u0026#x27;s possible to extract some information but not enough to do a reversal","parent":"8079021","id":"8079042"}
{"by":"freehunter","time":"1442441371","timestamp":"2015-09-16 22:09:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as you can synthesize illegal drugs, as long as you can synthesize patented drugs, there will be no open consumer market for chemical printers.","parent":"10230183","id":"10230263"}
{"by":"Joakal","time":"1309940635","timestamp":"2011-07-06 08:23:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Client side validation is good for speed, however should not be trusted when sent to server. Server side validation is for validating such information to prevent issues. eg SQL injections.","parent":"2732947","id":"2732994"}
{"by":"kyro","time":"1408771376","timestamp":"2014-08-23 05:22:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rachel Maddow, popular American talking head, mentioned this project and your site on her show tonight.","parent":"8213656","id":"8215084"}
{"by":"_prometheus","time":"1444001266","timestamp":"2015-10-04 23:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(IPFS dev here) I think subresource integrity is an _awesome_ thing that needs to be implemented and spread all over asap. (Actually, if you work on this, please ping us! we\u0026#x27;d love to help!)\u003cp\u003eHowever, this is very far from \u0026quot;many of the claimed advantages\u0026quot;. I think it covers a few, but take a look at all the other stuff we can do, like making offline\u0026#x2F;disconnected webapps work! Think of IPFS like git or bitcoin, not just bittorrent.","parent":"10329202","id":"10329225"}
{"by":"fratlas","time":"1494215067","timestamp":"2017-05-08 03:44:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually would agree with that, I\u0026#x27;m just answering why it might be construed as a problem. Women\u0026#x27;s voices are also clearer in high noise environments.","parent":"14289092","id":"14289099"}
{"by":"epsylon","time":"1416771713","timestamp":"2014-11-23 19:41:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t tax the fat people, you tax the unhealthy food. As far as I\u0026#x27;ve noticed, this is another very US-centric problem: portions are much larger and the food is much more carb-heavy in the US (compared to other developed countries). There\u0026#x27;s a strong cultural aspect to that.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_tax\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Soda_tax\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8648525","id":"8649646"}
{"by":"incision","time":"1365253777","timestamp":"2013-04-06 13:09:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not a much of a developer, but I use OSS in my work extensively and I've shared the scripts and simple tools when I think they'll be useful to someone else.\u003cp\u003eI use because:\u003cp\u003e- I feel much more confident supporting something which I know I can dig into and observe the function of. This can give me and understand of what I'm doing wrong, allow me to work around it or possibly patch it entirely. Contrast this with the helplessness of troubleshooting the black box of closed software.\u003cp\u003e- It's cost effective. Money not spent on expensive licenses and implied support contracts can be applied elsewhere. Since much of my work deals with public funds, I feel particularly obligated to maximize value.\u003cp\u003e- I feel what I learn using OSS is more transferable, and applicable to other systems and problems than closed software.\u003cp\u003eI contribute because:\u003cp\u003e- I think sharing discovery and tools and building on the work of others is key to our success as a species. It feels completely natural.\u003cp\u003e- It opens the door for symbiotic improvements. Personally, I seem to be pretty good at find a novel perspective on a problem, but have little knowledge of how to code it efficiently. Sharing my code with someone who knows how to do those things benefits us both.\u003cp\u003e- To learn by practice and example.","parent":"5503256","id":"5503486"}
{"by":"grogenaut","time":"1495814449","timestamp":"2017-05-26 16:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t you need something like 40 NICs to do that?","parent":"14424786","id":"14424958"}
{"by":"Erazal","time":"1427743192","timestamp":"2015-03-30 19:19:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article was very interesting - I find the whole idea of \u0026quot;innovation tokens\u0026quot; very compelling.\nHowever, I didn\u0026#x27;t understand how Rumsfeld came into play here. Did somebody understand this point ? I feel like I\u0026#x27;m missing something out here.","parent":"9291215","id":"9291885"}
{"by":"Etheryte","time":"1482751057","timestamp":"2016-12-26 11:17:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Overcast for Android is rubbish, though, anyone have any alternative recommendations?","parent":"13256167","id":"13257853"}
{"by":"autokad","time":"1500890288","timestamp":"2017-07-24 09:58:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"your country of origin shouldn\u0026#x27;t matter.  I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure he\u0026#x2F;she was concerned about health related medical risks, and just because the insurance \u0026#x27;covers\u0026#x27; it, provides little solace","parent":"14837036","id":"14837117"}
{"by":"omouse","time":"1215535463","timestamp":"2008-07-08 16:44:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We can't understand that. It doesn't look like Arc, or any other Lisp!","parent":"239825","id":"240034"}
{"by":"mikebay","time":"1479500516","timestamp":"2016-11-18 20:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why all this sudden google news outburst? Why?","parent":"12986649","id":"12989783"}
{"by":"neuralzen","time":"1514197824","timestamp":"2017-12-25 10:30:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is in essence what Vajrayana buddhism uses as its locus. Instead of seeking to destroy desires, as early Buddhist traditions do by working on breaking them apart and inspecting them, reductio ad absurdum, they seek instead to reshape desire to become a vehicle itself to enlightenment. There are intense and lengthy practices which aim to slowly shift the way the practitioner thinks and perceives, to be more aligned with an \u0026#x27;enlightened\u0026#x27; perspective, and therefore shift into that modality, and eventually have insight.","parent":"15976848","id":"16003570"}
{"by":"Raphael","time":"1336058320","timestamp":"2012-05-03 15:18:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your custom URL ending also works for signing in to Facebook.","parent":"3922900","id":"3924184"}
{"by":"jere","time":"1410489615","timestamp":"2014-09-12 02:40:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;In my line of work, in the investing side, you just see a lot of the same old stuff or a slight little variation... you see a lot of crap.... Hats off to them for trying something different.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e-Kevin Rose, talking about being impressed by a video sharing app\u003cp\u003eThis was from a podcast posted 3 weeks ago. I thought it was a bit of a silly comment then and even more so now, but I guess that\u0026#x27;s what he finds interesting. More power to him.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/08/22/the-random-show-episode-25-gut-bacteria-meditation-startups-and-more/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fourhourworkweek.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;the-random-show-episo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8306308","id":"8306362"}
{"by":"GrumpyNl","time":"1500286878","timestamp":"2017-07-17 10:21:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To bad it\u0026#x27;s from CNN, i have to do to much fact checking .","parent":"14787064","id":"14787101"}
{"by":"cryptofile","time":"1508442422","timestamp":"2017-10-19 19:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SPF+DKIM+DMARC = much improved email.  Awesome!","parent":"15509737","id":"15510992"}
{"by":"rqebmm","time":"1481582031","timestamp":"2016-12-12 22:33:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which raises an interesting corollary: is there such a thing as an \u0026quot;indiscriminate\u0026quot; leak?\u003cp\u003eRecent events have shown that WikiLeaks\u0026#x27; practice of leaking anything they have has instead created an opportunity for targeted leaks by selectively passing information to them.","parent":"13162379","id":"13162632"}
{"by":"jongold","time":"1350771965","timestamp":"2012-10-20 22:26:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What the hell is that about?","parent":"4678358","id":"4678362"}
{"by":"ggchappell","time":"1250618050","timestamp":"2009-08-18 17:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, he is saying that the time required for an arithmetic operation is proportional to the number of bits operated on.\u003cp\u003eThis is true, and it is applicable to other concepts besides hash tables. Can you sort n numbers in O(n log n)? Well a comparison is not really constant-time, in the wall-clock sense of time. If the n numbers are distinct, then each is going to need at least O(log n) bits. So a comparison is O(log n) by the clock, and our sort becomes O(n log n log n).\u003cp\u003ePart of the solution is to be more precise. For example, when we say that Merge Sort is O(n log n), we usually do not mean that it takes that long to run; we mean that it can require \u003ci\u003ethat many comparisons\u003c/i\u003e. Counting primitive operations can be useful, even if those operations are not constant-time from a wall-clock point of view. And as long as we are clear on what the primitive operations are, everything is fine.\u003cp\u003eBy the way, there is another problem with the statement that hash-table insertion is amortized constant-time: what if all the keys end up being in the same bucket? The true statement is that HT insertion is amortized constant-time \u003ci\u003efor average data\u003c/i\u003e. (So it's constant-time on average on average. :-)","parent":"770942","id":"771015"}
{"by":"abledon","time":"1523202886","timestamp":"2018-04-08 15:54:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say most \u0026quot;non-technical\u0026quot; users dont even look at the email address it was sent to. They just assume that since it landed in their inbox, the magic \u0026#x27;computer\u0026#x27; knows what its doing and they just need to read their email and reply appropriately.","parent":"16784720","id":"16786667"}
{"by":"brenschluss","time":"1455896815","timestamp":"2016-02-19 15:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; At the moment the problem in the US is labor scarcity. Robots haven\u0026#x27;t replaced these jobs, these jobs just don\u0026#x27;t get done.\u003cp\u003eLabor scarcity is another word for \u0026quot;there aren\u0026#x27;t enough people who want to work for less,\u0026quot; and you describe it as if it\u0026#x27;s a good thing for society as a whole.\u003cp\u003eWe have minimum wage for a reason, because with wages low enough to make a neighborhood chai-seller a possibility, it means that the lower limit of a societal standard of living plummets.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that you present India, with its extreme income inequality, as an example of a country that provides an ideal lifestyle for you is indicative.","parent":"11133814","id":"11134115"}
{"by":"buster","time":"1403009608","timestamp":"2014-06-17 12:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, putting poo into unicode is just the same as hieroglyphs? Or hebrew or arabic or chinese characters? Still don\u0026#x27;t agree.","parent":"7904015","id":"7904072"}
{"by":"kisielk","time":"1298679490","timestamp":"2011-02-26 00:18:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but those were the early days of the whole mobile platform craze. Today Apple and Google have a huge lead and RIM is trying to play catch-up. RIM's offerings have to be competitive with what the other players have \u003ci\u003enow\u003c/i\u003e, not what they had three years ago.","parent":"2264131","id":"2264371"}
{"by":"yters","time":"1264033724","timestamp":"2010-01-21 00:28:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His point is the important thing about people is themselves, not their qualities.  If the relationship is based on \"quality\" and not on love, he (and myself) thinks it is missing something much more deeper.","parent":"1065527","id":"1066242"}
{"by":"_xander","time":"1461953779","timestamp":"2016-04-29 18:16:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ProtonMail might be up your street. It fulfils points 1-4. See: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Comparison_of_webmail_providers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Comparison_of_webmail_provider...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs I side note, I agree that the most popular email providers are sorely lacking the friendliness that they used to have. So many of them require mobile phone activation and expire early, which is super unhelpful if you want a throw-away account.","parent":"11595863","id":"11597619"}
{"by":"jlukic","time":"1433881815","timestamp":"2015-06-09 20:30:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is really beautiful, but have to say it, the iPhone animation is just an mp4 file. Kudos though to their motion guy.","parent":"9686779","id":"9688343"}
{"by":"ktizo","time":"1336731817","timestamp":"2012-05-11 10:23:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More an ability to be exceptionally stupid when drunk.","parent":"3958324","id":"3958515"}
{"by":"ChrisClark","time":"1375281540","timestamp":"2013-07-31 14:39:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope you are planning a Linux release too.  So many companies leave us out, even though we\u0026#x27;re even more willing to work past bugs and set things up correctly.","parent":"6133906","id":"6133964"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1376050941","timestamp":"2013-08-09 12:22:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t understand this. Presumably there\u0026#x27;s nothing stopping Website X sending both: a) my email address; and b) Website X\u0026#x27;s URL.\u003cp\u003eYes, but there\u0026#x27;s nothing stopping them from doing that \u003ci\u003etoday\u003c/i\u003e. Persona doesn\u0026#x27;t help you if the site you sign into can\u0026#x27;t be trusted with the identity you give them. But nothing requires you to give  them your normal e-mail address - you could just use  throwaway if you find that a concern.\u003cp\u003eThis is not what Persona tries to fix.\u003cp\u003ePersona is single sign-on where the identity provider does not know which site you sign in to, unlike current solutions where e.g. Google, Twitter or Facebook knows where you sign in whether or not the site you sign into is trustworthy or not.","parent":"6182757","id":"6185148"}
{"by":"stevenwoo","time":"1496424552","timestamp":"2017-06-02 17:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If someone wants to steal something, they aren\u0026#x27;t going to steal what they just delivered (mostly they are not that stupid) - people already do that just cruising neighborhoods that they do not live in - it\u0026#x27;s enough of a problem that vids pop up every month on reddit.  Real thieves would be casing houses and figuring out which one would be worth burglarizing.","parent":"14471427","id":"14471759"}
{"by":"jrmurad","time":"1269893634","timestamp":"2010-03-29 20:13:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've seen several MBA beancounters drive software companies into the ground. A few of them, I was surprised to learn, had engineering degrees. I thought that, maybe, they just didn't cut it as engineers and went into \"business/management\" as an alternative.","parent":"1226786","id":"1227441"}
{"by":"ng12","time":"1539819679","timestamp":"2018-10-17 23:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but this is not a problem money obviously solvable by throwing money at it. San Francisco already spends over $300m\u0026#x2F;year for helping the homeless, is Prop C going to be any more effective?","parent":"18244718","id":"18244777"}
{"by":"jhallenworld","time":"1446391613","timestamp":"2015-11-01 15:26:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked on a router with multicast and we avoided packet copying with an interesting reference counting scheme:\u003cp\u003eWhen a packet arrives, its handle gets 64K references and its 16-bit reference counter has 0 references.\u003cp\u003eWhen we are done with the handle (packet transmitted), the references in the handle are added to the counter.  If the result is 0, the packet can be freed.\u003cp\u003eWhen we duplicate a packet, always it\u0026#x27;s the case that there is a parent handle which gets split into children.  So what do you do? You divide the references among the children: so now you have two handles with 32K references.  First one is done, counter will have 32K.  Second one is done, counter will have 0 and packet can be freed.\u003cp\u003eThe advantage of this scheme is that there is only exactly one ADD to reference counter per duplicated packet.\u003cp\u003eFor large packets this scheme will be faster than copying.  For small packets, maybe not.  Even the single ADD is probably a miss and involves moving a cache-line.  (anyway, usually you want packet header to be in the handle, so small packets fit in the handle, large packets use buffers).","parent":"10485421","id":"10486643"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1475241158","timestamp":"2016-09-30 13:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, LinkedList is of very limited use.  I can\u0026#x27;t think of a scenario I\u0026#x27;d use it in beyond an LRU cache.","parent":"12611672","id":"12612214"}
{"by":"justabystander","time":"1430186024","timestamp":"2015-04-28 01:53:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for the time spent in creating it and sharing it. It looks like you\u0026#x27;ve been working on the project for nearly nine months, and that\u0026#x27;s a significant amount of effort.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been interested in one of these for a long time - a StatsD-compatible server in .NET. Considering that many competing implementations are written in Node.js or Python, a .NET should be able to outperform it significantly.","parent":"9393629","id":"9450197"}
{"by":"neverland","time":"1390868078","timestamp":"2014-01-28 00:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Once, \u003ci\u003emaybe\u003c/i\u003e twice.\u003cp\u003eEach time no more than a few days. Generally to visit family.","parent":"7129649","id":"7134331"}
{"by":"simonebrunozzi","time":"1521652535","timestamp":"2018-03-21 17:15:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have done a lot of extensive read and thinking on the subject for my startup (we\u0026#x27;re now doing digital real estate transactions leveraging the Blockchain, but months ago we were exploring the idea of a platform to create\u0026#x2F;fund communities). [0]\u003cp\u003eThe pioneer in this field has certainly been Adriano Olivetti in the 1940\u0026#x2F;1950s, back when Olivetti was an amazingly successful company. They were market leaders in typewriters, so much that they bought the US-based Underwood, and they were pioneering computers in the 1960s.\u003cp\u003eOlivetti built a \u0026quot;quasi-socialist\u0026quot; company campus in Ivrea (outside Turin, Italy), which was really innovative for its time. Kindergarden, schools, services, etc, all available to Olivetti workers and their families. Think of it as a combination of a Google or Facebook campus, with an Italian, pragmatic, honest twist.\u003cp\u003eNow, let\u0026#x27;s get back to Facebook\u0026#x27;s proposed \u0026quot;campus\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;community\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI see a few problems here:\u003cp\u003e1) providing rent to FB employees is a form of employee retention - you have a strong incentive not to leave Facebook, or you will lose a rent likely more affordable than outside the campus, and your neighborhood friendships.\u003cp\u003e2) Most of these campuses are done to project an image of an amazing, cool company. Therefore, expensive architects plan expensive buildings in a way that cannot be easily replicated elsewhere. When building costs are \u0026quot;subsidized\u0026quot; by the need of \u0026quot;grandeur\u0026quot; of a company, it\u0026#x27;s the wrong incentive at play. Look, for a counter example, at the Nightingale project [1].\u003cp\u003e3) Many architects and thinkers have written about the subject. In particular, Christoper Alexander and Leon Krier, among others. The short summary of their conclusions is that \u0026quot;top down\u0026quot; almost never works; \u0026quot;bottom up\u0026quot; does. In essence, you have to plant the seed, provide initial resources, and get out of the way, letting people and communities figure out how they want to organize their life. A good counter example? The planned city of Brazilia. I studied it, and visited it, and it\u0026#x27;s an urban design nightmare. [2] - so much so that, to cite just one metric, Brazilia has 4 to 5 times the number of pedestrian accident (in proportion of the population) of other Brazilian cities.\u003cp\u003eI could go on and on, but let me just conclude with this: most of these company-driven initiatives are dead from the start, and they are set to produce only aberrations. I hope I\u0026#x27;m wrong, and I hope to see something different emerge over time.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fabrica.city\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fabrica.city\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nightingalehousing.org\u0026#x2F;nightingale-village\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nightingalehousing.org\u0026#x2F;nightingale-village\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;magazine-20632277\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;magazine-20632277\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16638237","id":"16640251"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1461584052","timestamp":"2016-04-25 11:34:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I think there\u0026#x27;s an awful lot of \u0026quot;floor the accelerator to get back up to the speed limit\u0026quot; as well \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;\u003cp\u003eWhen I took my UK driving test (quite a few years ago) my instructor informed me that I needed to accelerate hard on a [uphill] dual carriageway section in order to not be perceived as \u0026quot;failing to make progress\u0026quot; (ie. keeping up with traffic). I wonder if modern tests take account of safer aspects of fuel economy, such as slower acceleration, or if it\u0026#x27;s still penalised?","parent":"11563284","id":"11563568"}
{"by":"retube","time":"1489678552","timestamp":"2017-03-16 15:35:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"right. so basically a greasemonkey script is scoped to the current page? Is there any scripting solution that is not scoped to current page? In chrome maybe?","parent":"13885638","id":"13885866"}
{"by":"idoivri","time":"1480513223","timestamp":"2016-11-30 13:40:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very good. The Israeli government is light years away from the private sector - most of their sites still require IE \u0026lt; 9 to provide data to citizens legibly. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t trust them with my biometric data if my life depended on it, and it could...","parent":"13070447","id":"13070527"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1396059915","timestamp":"2014-03-29 02:25:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote a workshop paper last year, but it wasn\u0026#x27;t very deep. Actually, incremental parsing, at least the way I do, doesn\u0026#x27;t really involve any special algorithms, here are the three points:\u003cp\u003e* making your lexer incremental first, memoize tokens between edits so you have something to attach trees to that will still be there after the next edit!\u003cp\u003e* Match braces (or determine indented blocks) separately before you even bother parsing. This makes incremental parsing more robust, and it is really easy to do without parsing information (unless your language overloads brace lexemes, like Java generics do! Scala didn\u0026#x27;t have this problem however). Also, autocomplete braces even if your users really hate that, because otherwise you won\u0026#x27;t have anything nice to reason about 99% of the time (indented languages are really better here for obvious reasons). Tell them to just use emacs if they don\u0026#x27;t like it.\u003cp\u003e* The last thing to do is just memoize parse trees (by attaching them to your memoized tokens) and then replay parsing on trees whenever their parses could have changed. So if their is an edit, invalidate the inner most tree, or multiple trees if the edit occurs at a boundary. If a child tree parse changes, invalidate its parents. Log your symbol table additions so you can undo them when they are no longer done on a parse (or the parse tree is deleted); trace your symbol table references if the symbol binding for the name being looked up changes, and don\u0026#x27;t worry about type checking in a separate pass, because you can just replay the parse multiple times if necessary.\u003cp\u003eThe last point is quite fascinating and something I\u0026#x27;m working on right now to turn into a more general programming paradigm. Check out:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=211297\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;research.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;pubs\u0026#x2F;default.aspx?id=2112...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7491087","id":"7491164"}
{"by":"marknadal","time":"1467737509","timestamp":"2016-07-05 16:51:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I too haven\u0026#x27;t seen anything on Loki\u0026#x27;s sync ability. Obviously would be a very nice feature but difficult to do right.\u003cp\u003ePouch, Firebase, and GUN[1] (disclaimer, I work there) are examples. If you bake permissions into the system itself, you get monoliths like Meteor. But you can still achieve granular permissions by rejecting\u0026#x2F;accepting network requests (like with ExpressJS or Hapi, etc.), which gives you the balance of using whatever backend you like.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;amark\u0026#x2F;gun\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;amark\u0026#x2F;gun\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12036119","id":"12037770"}
{"by":"Apocryphon","time":"1458785223","timestamp":"2016-03-24 02:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s hope that this Silicon Valley chauvinism accidentally builds new SVs in places around the country, who can pick up once this one crashes.","parent":"11349823","id":"11350069"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1532638244","timestamp":"2018-07-26 20:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, but when something like Crysis with minimum requirements for a DX 10 class GPU, yes.\u003cp\u003eFeel free to update example to Fortnight or something similar more recent.","parent":"17620937","id":"17620977"}
{"by":"brinker","time":"1429888172","timestamp":"2015-04-24 15:09:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was the textbook in my file systems class a couple years ago. Great book that really does a good job of explaining how file systems work.","parent":"9430838","id":"9433839"}
{"by":"projct","time":"1388091983","timestamp":"2013-12-26 21:06:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To cancel it, you can just hit escape when the correction is displayed.","parent":"6966192","id":"6968041"}
{"by":"zepolen","time":"1263893994","timestamp":"2010-01-19 09:39:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Computers were still a niche tool 40 years after their invention.\u003cp\u003eI think that once people realise applications that apply to the mainstream they will become as cheap and as widespread as inkjet printers.","parent":"1061438","id":"1061819"}
{"by":"JohnLBevan","time":"1309461545","timestamp":"2011-06-30 19:19:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey Miahi, I agree with what you, but I think Ifran's question is about why the light had to travel so far in the first place.\u003cp\u003eIf you assume(?) that the maximum speed anything can travel is the speed of light, and ignore factors such as space expanding (redshift / inflation) then at .77bn years the radius of the universe would be .77bn ly, so the maximum distance between two objects (A \u0026#38; B) is 1.54bn ly.  Now if light leaves A it has to travel that 1.54bn ly to point B; it shouldn't take 12.9bn ly to do this.  \nHowever, A and B aren't fixed points - so though the light from A is heading towards B, B is trying to run away (albeit at a slower pace).  Here, Ifran's calculated the minimum average speed at which B would be running from A as .88c (if we assume that light from B is moving at c and not influenced by any interference, and that both A and B moved at c for the first .77bn years).  That seems to be moving too fast, given at this stage in the universe's life the known/current laws of physics apply.  Redshift can account for some of this, and Inflation means that the starting distance can also be much larger than the assumed 1.54bn ly, which hopefully explains the rest?","parent":"2715028","id":"2715374"}
{"by":"Zenst","time":"1486369338","timestamp":"2017-02-06 08:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m tending to agree for the mass\u0026#x27;s at least, for me CDE was and still is a great desktop, least for somebody who just wants to pull up lots of terminals and have multi-desktop panels - just works.  Simple, basic and sure lacks eye candy beyond Xeye\u0026#x27;s but then I own a lava lamp.\u003cp\u003eYes mass basic users like their eye candy, and the diversity which is a strength in many area\u0026#x27;s is equally a weakness when it comes to desktops.   GUI\u0026#x27;s and the overhead add so much in complications to code that if they keep changing then they tend to get ignored or badly utilized and that gives the user a mixed half-baked experience.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  This and they tend to be the epitome of feature-creep.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"13573072","id":"13577553"}
{"by":"pmikal","time":"1259718326","timestamp":"2009-12-02 01:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wireless terminals have been available for a long time. Verifone has sold thousands of wireless terminals with a built-in GPRS and ethernet. You can easily find them for less then $200 and are purpose built for retail.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.verifone.com/countertop/vx510.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.verifone.com/countertop/vx510.aspx\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last thing I want to do is to hand my $699 iPhone over to a customer, especially with a usb attachment or delicate accessory in it's headphone jack....","parent":"970250","id":"971301"}
{"by":"yongjik","time":"1458332911","timestamp":"2016-03-18 20:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Echoing other comments, the importance of \u0026quot;proof\u0026quot; in math has not been universal even in West.  For example, the rigorous definition of derivatives[1] was not given until 1817, 130 years after Newton\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003ePrincipia\u003c/i\u003e was published.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of_limit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;(%CE%B5,_%CE%B4)-definition_of...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11314220","id":"11314698"}
{"by":"sly_foxx","time":"1454116655","timestamp":"2016-01-30 01:17:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just look at programming jobs ads. When it comes to degree requirements, ads can be divided into 4 cases:\u003cp\u003e1) No degree required (not mentioned).\u003cp\u003e2) Stated that you need either a degree or show some code you\u0026#x27;ve created.\u003cp\u003e3) Stated that a degree is required. Here you could contact them, show them samples of your work, list all of your experiences and offer to do additional tests if you don\u0026#x27;t have a degree.\u003cp\u003e4) Stated that a degree is required and they will only hire you if you got a degree.","parent":"10999924","dead":true,"id":"10999965"}
{"by":"SkyMarshal","time":"1319443662","timestamp":"2011-10-24 08:07:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Light-on-dark was also for CRTs that bombard your eyes with an electron gun, iirc.\u003cp\u003eMy opinion on this is based on anecdotal evidence only, but my eyes feel less strained with light-on-dark, even to this day, on high res LCDs.\u003cp\u003eEveryone else, experiment for yourself.  Hold all other factors equal, and try one each straight for a few weeks, see if you can feel any difference.","parent":"3146068","id":"3148693"}
{"by":"gpvos","time":"1451128156","timestamp":"2015-12-26 11:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have a point there, although temporary\u0026#x2F;ephemeral only holds for utmp. wtmp (and btmp) are more like logs; so they are temporal, but that\u0026#x27;s really not the expected meaning of `tmp` in Unix. utime appeared in V7, while utmp appeared in V6, so that is no excuse either (unless the name was already used internally).","parent":"10792767","id":"10793870"}
{"by":"mehrdada","time":"1441092055","timestamp":"2015-09-01 07:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I stand by what I said. AES (Rijndael) block cipher operates only on 128-bit blocks, \u003ci\u003enot on data that\u0026#x27;s divisible by 16-bytes\u003c/i\u003e. This is an important distinction. Calling \u003ci\u003eAES used in CTR\u0026#x2F;CBC\u0026#x2F;etc. mode without mentioning it at all\u003c/i\u003e, \u0026quot;AES\u0026quot; speaks much about the sophistication and cryptographic quality of the guide. That\u0026#x27;s what I was alluding to.","parent":"10151103","id":"10151121"}
{"by":"padenot","time":"1392874838","timestamp":"2014-02-20 05:40:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha, it works for me both in Firefox and Chrome.\u003cp\u003eAlso, on Firefox, there is still this delay problem I have to fix [1].\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932400\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=932400\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7269076","id":"7269091"}
{"by":"taude","time":"1337634748","timestamp":"2012-05-21 21:12:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ember is probably more comparable to something like AngularJS (But I don't now 100% because I've never used Ember, just looked at their site for a few minutes).   Backbone and Spine are much lighter-weight infrastructure frameworks.","parent":"4004853","id":"4004963"}
{"by":"sketerpot","time":"1234860155","timestamp":"2009-02-17 08:42:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like therbligs are back. After 90 years, and without the ridiculous name.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"484241","id":"484283"}
{"by":"dtf","time":"1291200214","timestamp":"2010-12-01 10:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, once the big guns of the media and those opportunists in government find out, Amazon will be forced to make a statement one way or another. Do they support this kind of thing or not? I can even imagine calls for a boycott from some sectors - not a great thing for Amazon at this time of year.","parent":"1956981","id":"1957467"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1427750103","timestamp":"2015-03-30 21:15:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out \u0026#x27;byobu\u0026#x27;. Stupid name, but it\u0026#x27;s built on screen and can use the screen commands. Byobu has F2 for new terminal tab, F3\u0026#x2F;4 to shuffle between them.","parent":"9290826","id":"9292662"}
{"by":"e1ven","time":"1340658032","timestamp":"2012-06-25 21:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interestingly (to me), this is Technically GPL incompatible, since it adds additional restrictions beyond what the GPL requires.","parent":"4158352","id":"4158718"}
{"by":"DigitalJack","time":"1507949876","timestamp":"2017-10-14 02:57:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Propofol would do the trick (in a clinical setting).","parent":"15470392","id":"15470438"}
{"by":"spacefight","time":"1405494324","timestamp":"2014-07-16 07:05:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be interesting to learn what the cost of CPU overhead vs. additonal cost of 5% cold storage is - but I bet the FB folks did that calculation.","parent":"8040607","id":"8040906"}
{"by":"ww520","time":"1290501981","timestamp":"2010-11-23 08:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've just developed a website using Java, for the HN November \"Launch an App Month.\"  It's a Javascript-heavy frontend plus Java backend app, with a whole separate background processing pipeline done in Java.  I'll do a show and tell in couple days once it's ready.\u003cp\u003eJava is great for rapid development once the development process is set up correctly.  I've actually ported the app to Google App Engine in the middle of development once I learned of its generous hosting plan.  Java is one of the two languages supported by GAE.  I did use Python for quick scripts in import/export and building up data sets from dev environment to production servers.","parent":"1932821","id":"1933058"}
{"by":"marcelo-br","time":"1279221323","timestamp":"2010-07-15 19:15:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no real central repository for open source contributors. In fact, most help comes from real users with real needs.\u003cp\u003eTo get started, first choose a project that you use and like. Think as a user, what would you do to make it better. What features do you miss?\u003cp\u003eIf you can't find any, go to their bugzilla and search for possible easy fixes to get started... Don't contact their developers before you have some code/patches in hand (lots of people talk about helping, but few do).","parent":"1518619","id":"1518811"}
{"by":"twic","time":"1493413131","timestamp":"2017-04-28 20:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Not really, you\u0026#x27;ve identified something where the compiler spots a special case pattern and rewrites it\u003cp\u003eWhich, string handling being specifically optimised by the compiler, is exactly what was being discussed upthread?","parent":"14218266","id":"14222996"}
{"by":"akshayB","time":"1473963678","timestamp":"2016-09-15 18:21:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People make mistakes all time but having said that there are level of how bad things can be.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I feel this is the worst thing you can do to co-worker.","parent":"12502937","id":"12508488"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1387940862","timestamp":"2013-12-25 03:07:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be interesting to see this as part of an app where you take a photo of someone and it sends you a feed of every photo of them it could find anywhere on the web (and any accounts it was attached to.)\u003cp\u003eAnd by interesting I mean creepy and probably inevitable.","parent":"6961973","id":"6962026"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1519250772","timestamp":"2018-02-21 22:06:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but because they look at the entire network as a whole and conclude that it was this network that caused the rise in pirating, which is technically true.\u003cp\u003eBut at the same time, ISPs were also profiting from the pirating (in fact, but this is beside the point, they were financially profiting, while the users were just getting movies).\u003cp\u003eIn the case of IPFS, the ones running the infrastructure are not actually profiting directly from the distribution of content in their caches. I.e., the IPFS users are more \u0026quot;innocent\u0026quot; than ISPs in the BitTorrent case.\u003cp\u003eSo if BigMedia wants to sue anybody, they should sue the ISPs, OR the people who placed data in the cache in the first place.\u003cp\u003eFinally, if this is all insurmountable, then there is still a solution. All users of IPFS transfer ownership of their harddrives (or parts thereof) to the IPFS foundation. That way, the users are not liable.\u003cp\u003ePS: With IPFS, users are at the same level as ISPs. So if users are getting sued, they can say \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m an ISP, and I got my data from that ISP, sue them!\u0026quot;","parent":"16433219","id":"16433417"}
{"by":"reirob","time":"1439501911","timestamp":"2015-08-13 21:38:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for sharing!\u003cp\u003eIt shows with :java the produced Java code.","parent":"10056694","id":"10057380"}
{"by":"xavierJohnson","time":"1507982068","timestamp":"2017-10-14 11:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any subject matter experts in reporting? How long is 500 errors considered not a major outage? How many companies define a SLA and \u0026quot;cook the books\u0026quot;","parent":"15471766","id":"15471769"}
{"by":"drinian","time":"1284548514","timestamp":"2010-09-15 11:01:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not a heavy video watcher, so --\u003cp\u003eYouTube: \u003ca href=\"http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62634\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62634\u003c/a\u003e\nVimeo: \u003ca href=\"http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56677\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56677\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither of these scripts requires a third-party site.","parent":"1693324","id":"1693880"}
{"by":"fiatjaf","time":"1521549167","timestamp":"2018-03-20 12:32:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For code I have on my machine, right?\u003cp\u003eWell, I guess it\u0026#x27;s better than nothing.","parent":"16626208","id":"16627934"}
{"by":"Thiz","time":"1390190597","timestamp":"2014-01-20 04:03:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So we could use a browser extension to listen in the background to a central phone server for incoming calls while we happily surf the web and then get the \u0026quot;ring\u0026quot; opening the url in a tab for the incoming call to take place?\u003cp\u003eInteresting...","parent":"7085629","id":"7087487"}
{"by":"bemmu","time":"1326570697","timestamp":"2012-01-14 19:51:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope, since I am not the one importing them. Recipients do not need to pay either, since the envelopes are small and fall under the customs limits.","parent":"3464745","id":"3465114"}
{"by":"Symbiote","time":"1484758942","timestamp":"2017-01-18 17:02:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3 miles? You could easily walk that in an hour, I\u0026#x27;d probably walk it in 45 minutes.","parent":"13427668","id":"13427927"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1473624825","timestamp":"2016-09-11 20:13:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One problem is that when the bank fails to adequately bet whoever they gave a loan to, it becomes your problem until you can convince them that they made a mistake (hope you can afford a lawyer). A standard ID card with a photograph would help if it meant that nobody would accept anything else (utility bills, etc. are much easier to steal or forge) and it would transform online banking if we had something like OpenID\u0026#x2F;U2F which would work online.\u003cp\u003eThe other problem is that without a reliable primary key, it\u0026#x27;s much easier for correct information about different people to be incorrectly mixed. While this is not as bad as, say, when it hits a sex offender database or terrorist watch list but it does happen and would go down dramatically if everyone could just use something like a SSN as the link instead of trying various fuzzy heuristics and hoping for the best.","parent":"12474347","id":"12475421"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1477398816","timestamp":"2016-10-25 12:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;We can now go to a museum to see the future\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e-Jeremy Clarkson","parent":"12785998","id":"12787326"}
{"by":"tomclancy","time":"1468325633","timestamp":"2016-07-12 12:13:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly! The nerve of that webmaster!","parent":"12078268","id":"12078374"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1491003486","timestamp":"2017-03-31 23:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s perhaps worth remembering that Putin is from Leningrad, and that his older brother died in the German siege. Also, he was close to Yeltsin, and watched him die from alcoholism, after relentless humiliation by the US and allies.\u003cp\u003eSo it\u0026#x27;s a fair bet that he has \u003ci\u003eissues\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"14003863","id":"14009389"}
{"by":"cjrp","time":"1544191696","timestamp":"2018-12-07 14:08:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Affected some other things too, like bus stop \u0026quot;next arrival\u0026quot; signs (which apparently use O2\u0026#x27;s 3G network).","parent":"18622748","id":"18627726"}
{"by":"brutos","time":"1484903159","timestamp":"2017-01-20 09:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bill Gates is a good example for OP\u0026#x27;s lot and luck point:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In 1980, [Mary Maxwell Gates] discussed her son\u0026#x27;s company with John Opel, a fellow committee member and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other IBM executives. A few weeks later, IBM took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.\u0026quot; [1]\u003cp\u003eJust an anecdote, but I like OP\u0026#x27;s point with lot and luck.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mary_Maxwell_Gates\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mary_Maxwell_Gates\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13442150","id":"13442508"}
{"by":"icey","time":"1231884432","timestamp":"2009-01-13 22:07:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is something that's becoming more common in the US - \"personal time\" replaces sick and vacation time. Ostensibly, it's to encourage people scheduling time off than feeling like they need to \"burn through\" their sick time every year. However, I think it may have to do with paying out accrued vacation time for employees. I'm not well enough versed in HR stuff to speak to that though.","parent":"431878","id":"432799"}
{"by":"RickJWagner","time":"1520855858","timestamp":"2018-03-12 11:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Boring.","parent":"16560942","id":"16567559"}
{"by":"pencildiver","time":"1466014735","timestamp":"2016-06-15 18:18:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool, thanks for the github repo. I think the key here is to get developer\u0026#x27;s imagination going and walk them through where scaphold fits into that :)","parent":"11910742","id":"11910964"}
{"by":"ohjeez","time":"1481933472","timestamp":"2016-12-17 00:11:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is to please say something _interesting_. Or unique. Or at least non-obvious.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ve no idea how many execs say things that essentially come down to, \u0026quot;Our product is really cool\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;Security is important.\u0026quot; And they (or their PR people) sincerely are astonished when they are not quoted.","parent":"13197772","id":"13198092"}
{"by":"bayesianhorse","time":"1428077014","timestamp":"2015-04-03 16:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say kivy makes for a relatively good cross-platform UI for games. But for mobile games, kivy has the issue of producing very large download sizes, which may be a problem in selling it to a large audience.","parent":"9316447","id":"9316609"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1410193955","timestamp":"2014-09-08 16:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The SHA1 vulnerability being contemplated here affects only the establishment of an HTTPS connection; the attack scenario involves obtaining a forged certificate.","parent":"8285623","id":"8285674"}
{"by":"rocqua","time":"1529103196","timestamp":"2018-06-15 22:53:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the case of physical labor justified? Here I refer to where the article states that pregnant women doing physical labor often face discrimination upon asking not to lift too much weight.\u003cp\u003eThis is an example where pregnancy directly makes someone less able to do their job. That seems like a valid reason to want to pay them less, or to no longer hire them.\nUnlike the more general call of equal pay for equal work (regarding the wage gap) here the demand is essentially equal pay for worse work. I assume the argument is that affirmative action is needed to get more women at the top.\nHowever, not taking affirmative action is rather different from active discrimination.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d like to qualify that I tend to support affirmative action, but I do not think that forced affirmative action works. If we force companies into such action by law, they have every reason to follow the letter to the least amount possible, and totally ignore the spirit of the law.","parent":"17320739","id":"17324396"}
{"by":"flyinRyan","time":"1370262866","timestamp":"2013-06-03 12:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The startup you work for will probably go down no matter what you do.  It should be pretty obvious where your loyalties should lie, at least to me.","parent":"5809923","id":"5812830"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1509946505","timestamp":"2017-11-06 05:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eView a discussion as solving a math problem. No, that\u0026#x27;s not entirely accurate but I do think the parallels are solid. Would you prefer threaded or chronologically linear? Why? The answer is almost unarguably the chronologically linear.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, I would prefer threaded, of course. That\u0026#x27;s because it is natural way I, and I would imagine most people, think - by breaking down problems into parts, recursively, and solving them in isolation. Note that, whenever you write stuff like:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  1.\n  1.1.\n  1.2.\n  2.\n  2.1.\n  2.1.a.\n  2.1.b.\n  2.2.\n  3.\n  3.1.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nyou\u0026#x27;re creating a threaded model, albeit with limitations of a static medium.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eHowever, I\u0026#x27;d estimate 80% of the comments are saying the exact same thing in a variety of different ways\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;d be wrong :).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eAnother major issue here is that as time elapses the number of people seeing any given comment rapidly approaches 0. Chronologically ordered systems enable lengthier discussion. Threaded systems all but ensure any discussion is dead after \u0026lt; 24 hours and often much sooner.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI disagree. My experience with boards using chronological ordering is even better at ensuring \u0026quot;the number of people seeing any given comment rapidly approaches 0\u0026quot;. When you have 200 comments in a chronological system, most people aren\u0026#x27;t going to bother reading anything but the last few. In threaded systems like HN, it\u0026#x27;s much easier to handle, because you can skim the structure and zoom in on the subdiscussion that interests you.\u003cp\u003eAs for discussion being dead after \u0026lt; 24 hours, that\u0026#x27;s most likely caused by HN stories being short-lived on the frontpage, and people being reluctant to engage once the story falls off it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eAnd lastly, I think chronological systems also deter pointless nitpicks.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you call pointless nitpicks I call interesting tangents, which are often much more valuable that the original, primary topic, and they can grow on the side pretty much \u003ci\u003ethanks to\u003c/i\u003e threading.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe only reason I\u0026#x27;d discuss this is because of this personalization\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t understand what you mean by \u0026quot;personalization\u0026quot; and why you keep bringing it up. There is nothing personalized on HN itself, sans the top bard color (and showing dead posts).","parent":"15629885","id":"15633621"}
{"by":"roseburg","time":"1445640946","timestamp":"2015-10-23 22:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d always heard that from customers, but I so rarely came across them, that I never really looked into them for myself. Makes sense though, commercial laundromats aren\u0026#x27;t going to mess around with poor quality machines. Speed Queen could be the ticket.","parent":"10441625","id":"10441669"}
{"by":"weberc2","time":"1539088817","timestamp":"2018-10-09 12:40:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Found out yesterday that even with async in Python someone can sneak in some sync code and totally ruin your day. All you know is your performance is plummeting all across your system and CPU is spiky as hell. Took me most of the day to realize the issue. From now on I’ll start every performance investigation with ‘grep requests’. Problems like this simply don’t exist in Go.","parent":"18173128","id":"18175405"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1449249275","timestamp":"2015-12-04 17:14:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the reason I am not so much interested in this field. It is too much \u0026quot;let\u0026#x27;s try this and see what happens\u0026quot; rather than really engineering a solution.\u003cp\u003eI guess more people feel that way, and I guess that is a good thing, otherwise everybody would now be working on AI, since it is such a promising field.","parent":"10672276","id":"10677541"}
{"by":"megablast","time":"1273794656","timestamp":"2010-05-13 23:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It start to make sense when he talks about the people in China.","parent":"1345271","id":"1346083"}
{"by":"tixocloud","time":"1441205817","timestamp":"2015-09-02 14:56:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hugely interesting concept but still with a bit of rough edges. I do see the value but I think by using a graph visualization, it\u0026#x27;s still a bit too complexed.\u003cp\u003eCurious to know if you guys have already had customers who\u0026#x27;ve mentioned that they are interested in paying. I can imagine that there are still a few steps to go before actually getting to the point of lead generation (i.e. strength of partnerships, contact information, etc.)","parent":"10155156","id":"10159636"}
{"by":"avh02","time":"1535701293","timestamp":"2018-08-31 07:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMO - only flown the A380 a few times, but never felt turbulent (may just be my luck). A350 is quiet AF compared to the 787 (flew them back to back on a flight through Qatar)\u003cp\u003eOne thing I do love about the 787 though is the big windows - tall people get a (edit: lol not 360) very good view around the aircraft if it\u0026#x27;s not too full.","parent":"17883396","id":"17883690"}
{"by":"flyinghamster","time":"1481656119","timestamp":"2016-12-13 19:08:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve had cold feet about Linksys ever since Belkin acquired them.* I\u0026#x27;m still running a couple of refurbished D-Link DIR825-C1 units (dual-band N300) with DD-WRT on both, and they work beautifully. I don\u0026#x27;t see any great need at this time to switch to 802.11ac.\u003cp\u003eSince I bought them specifically to run DD-WRT, reflashing them wasn\u0026#x27;t a big deal for me, though it wasn\u0026#x27;t quite as easy to do as reflashing a classic WRT54G.\u003cp\u003e* Belkin has been on my \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t buy anything of theirs except cables, and even then look for an alternative\u0026quot; list ever since their 2003 router spam fiasco. Sure, they backed off, but the fact that they even considered doing such a thing in the first place is asinine. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk\u0026#x2F;2003\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;help_my_belkin_router\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk\u0026#x2F;2003\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;help_my_belkin_route...\u003c/a\u003e (sorry for the Reg link, they weren\u0026#x27;t that bad in that era)","parent":"13167506","id":"13169714"}
{"by":"stinos","time":"1411544040","timestamp":"2014-09-24 07:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eit is usually highly stripped version\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWouldn\u0026#x27;t this be the main reason C is predominant, combined with historical reasons a la \u0026#x27;predecessor used C as well\u0026#x27;? I find it hard to believe one wouldn\u0026#x27;t be able C++ which is as efficient as C. Afaik the preprocessor features are exactly the same. Also I\u0026#x27;ve seen the virual function overhead card being played too much and it doesn\u0026#x27;t make too much sense: one can benefit from goodies like templates\u0026#x2F;lambdas\u0026#x2F;STL without using virtual inheritance. And all those goodies mostly appear when writing the code, i.e. make for faster cleaner development: after the compiler went over it they are all optimized away and turned into what looks a whole lot like assembly generated from plain C.","parent":"8360264","id":"8360297"}
{"by":"chillacy","time":"1464840555","timestamp":"2016-06-02 04:09:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tech is less and less the everyman\u0026#x2F;underdog and becoming the establishment. It\u0026#x27;s no surprise to me that it begins protecting itself and its interests. I actually think it\u0026#x27;s not a case of entrepreneurs becoming greedy and protective once they make it, but the flock of people from wall street and other \u0026quot;big businesses\u0026quot; into tech.","parent":"11818745","id":"11820303"}
{"by":"hkjgkjy","time":"1469870385","timestamp":"2016-07-30 09:19:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A very happy way to live as a Javascript coder is to avoid the `this` keyword, in my experience. You really don\u0026#x27;t need it. Instead write this function as\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (x, y) =\u0026gt; Math.sqrt(x*x + y*y)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThat can never have any state bugs, because it\u0026#x27;s a pure function (just like you can never have type errors with a sufficiently good type system).\u003cp\u003eAnd you might be interested in the native JS function (since ES6) called Math.hypot. Happy hacking :-)","parent":"12191828","id":"12192278"}
{"by":"iagooar","time":"1516696222","timestamp":"2018-01-23 08:30:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I\u0026#x27;m sure he or she is exactly that kind of person.","parent":"16211778","id":"16211930"}
{"by":"akiselev","time":"1446577099","timestamp":"2015-11-03 18:58:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re quite right, the language I used does not quite hold up in a literal interpretation. I was willing to take this shortcut primarily because I assumed that Truman\u0026#x27;s political capital limited his ability to attack the FBI\u0026#x27;s power as was dictated by the FBI\u0026#x27;s power over him and his supporters in Congress, whose support he would need to be effective as executive and commander in chief.\u003cp\u003eThis is tin foil hat circular reasoning but given the historical evidence for Hoover\u0026#x27;s abuse of power, I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s much of a stretch","parent":"10501303","id":"10501701"}
{"by":"czbond","time":"1418576255","timestamp":"2014-12-14 16:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The skills and positions are drastically different. You\u0026#x27;re probably looking at Silicon Valley \u0026quot;chosen\u0026quot; startups as examples. In those cases, the technical cofounder didn\u0026#x27;t need to actually perform the REAL duties of a CEO - they relied on venture money and VC firms to do the heavy work. A real CEO, in a non-VC rocketship needs to be fairly different from a technical cofounder - especially if you\u0026#x27;re B2B.","parent":"8748652","id":"8748748"}
{"by":"cmdr_shprd5280","time":"1402592232","timestamp":"2014-06-12 16:57:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kind of a niche offering, but Metrowax records (www.metrowax.com) has been incredible in my experiences.\u003cp\u003eIn one instance, the owner of the shop actually reached out to let me know that the condition of the record was such that track 1 didn\u0026#x27;t play. While this was mentioned in the description, I didn\u0026#x27;t notice at first and he revised my order for me and gave me some good turntable advice.","parent":"7884498","id":"7884530"}
{"by":"a-priori","time":"1250515044","timestamp":"2009-08-17 13:17:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could probably get away with one if you duct the cold air into each compartment, with a valve on each one. The valves would be opened and closed as needed to maintain the temperature in each compartment. When at least one is open, the compressor turns on; when all are closed, it shuts off.","parent":"767993","id":"768022"}
{"by":"xsmasher","time":"1520661580","timestamp":"2018-03-10 05:59:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cars are a tremendous waste of space in cities; they waste space on the road and waste more space for parking. They also destroy the roadway and (non-electric ones) pollute the air.\u003cp\u003eEven if you like driving, you should be happy when other people walk, cycle, or use public transit; it reduces traffic for you.","parent":"16557057","id":"16557329"}
{"by":"korzun","time":"1411709311","timestamp":"2014-09-26 05:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If large numbers of people were to start using Javelin\u003cp\u003eIf.","parent":"8369751","id":"8371478"}
{"by":"seanc722","time":"1383194011","timestamp":"2013-10-31 04:33:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Responsible drivers, even those wearing glass, would only use it for driving related tasks, if use it at all.\nThe irresponsible drivers, the ones who would watch movies, would do it whether it is legal or not. Same people who text and drive even though it is illegal.","parent":"6642882","id":"6645245"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1544721728","timestamp":"2018-12-13 17:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree. And that pretty much sums up the banking system.","parent":"18673796","id":"18674046"}
{"by":"rms","time":"1190610101","timestamp":"2007-09-24 05:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you think stars metafeel? The universe as a whole?","parent":"58757","id":"58761"}
{"by":"captainmuon","time":"1392969115","timestamp":"2014-02-21 07:51:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has \u0026quot;Kit Kat\u0026quot; in it, so people might think it\u0026#x27;s about Android. And it has conspiracy in it, which sounds like N S A. Predictably, it gets upvoted ;-)","parent":"7275816","id":"7275889"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1508948609","timestamp":"2017-10-25 16:23:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you make the charitable assumption that the letter\u0026#x27;s writers are not lying, this relationship is clearly spelled out at the top of the second paragraph:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Over the last couple years we have been courted by you, worked closely with you on promotion, creation, and even website features, and have been assured by you that Patreon was a home for all types of creators – including those that make adult content.","parent":"15550549","id":"15551484"}
{"by":"sageikosa","time":"1358345205","timestamp":"2013-01-16 14:06:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Challenge accepted.","parent":"5066325","id":"5066781"}
{"by":"im2w1l","time":"1452852508","timestamp":"2016-01-15 10:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my entirely unqualified opinion, that\u0026#x27;s a very well done redesign; it looks the same, only better.","parent":"10908273","id":"10908289"}
{"by":"taeric","time":"1410901095","timestamp":"2014-09-16 20:58:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m one of those people, actually.  To the point that I now just use emacs at work.  Have slowly started using it for all things.  Email, irc, im, etc.  Is very very nice.  Always amusing to hear folks talk about how limited it is.\u003cp\u003eBut, I still can\u0026#x27;t deny that the modern IDE has gone a long way to advance what can be done outside of emacs.  To the point that I just can\u0026#x27;t bring myself to think the difference between the LISP world and any other is as large as it is often made out to be.","parent":"8325174","id":"8327085"}
{"by":"Izkata","time":"1528046641","timestamp":"2018-06-03 17:24:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; evaluated according to a standard research measure that notes, for instance, the number of books that researchers observed in the home and how responsive mothers were to their children in the researchers’ presence\u003cp\u003eNumber of books?  Seriously?  This is the stupidest...\u003cp\u003eAlmost all the books in my childhood home belonged to me.  My parents and one of my brothers never read for fun, and and my other brother only rarely.  One of my friends was similar, his siblings didn\u0026#x27;t read almost at all (though I think he got most of his books from the library, so there were few in the house).\u003cp\u003eCounting just the \u003ci\u003enumber\u003c/i\u003e of books tells you almost nothing about any given individual family member.\u003cp\u003eSomeone, please, tell me this journalist is incorrectly simplifying the actual standard practice...","parent":"17218250","id":"17220570"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1461760354","timestamp":"2016-04-27 12:32:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, that\u0026#x27;s why it\u0026#x27;s called rocket science\u003cp\u003eThe answers there are very insightful","parent":"11579749","id":"11579770"}
{"by":"blauwbilgorgel","time":"1313656480","timestamp":"2011-08-18 08:34:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was alluding to a popular notion of AI that: It isn't AI if it doesn't feel like a human to us. I agree there is valuable knowledge to be gained in brain simulation and DNA computing.\u003cp\u003eAI press coverage has a tendency to \"humanize\" all AI research. (So your neural network is on par with a rat brain? Can we add such chips to our brain and create androids?)\u003cp\u003eI understand why this happens -- to make it more accessible, get more PR and to get more research grants -- but I do think it is silly. It makes people ask \"When will we have AI?\" when AI is already here, but they don't accept it, because it lacks human emotions. By taking it \"too far\", some make human intelligence a prerequisite for AI, when true AI could be just as well alien. Some AI researchers have no qualms in playing along with this notion.","parent":"2898409","id":"2898439"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1325224787","timestamp":"2011-12-30 05:59:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since the fee is easily avoidable I would guess it's not \"material\" in that sense.","parent":"3406527","id":"3406782"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1412056236","timestamp":"2014-09-30 05:50:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Once you have the pointer (which includes the decryption key), can\u0026#x27;t you then send a normal DMCA takedown?","parent":"8386915","id":"8386924"}
{"by":"bramen","time":"1461204420","timestamp":"2016-04-21 02:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The joys of the information age...","parent":"11538926","id":"11539159"}
{"by":"CivilEngineer","time":"1525020095","timestamp":"2018-04-29 16:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"France is a terrible country. I was forced to leave France three years ago after my family has been living there for several hundred years. It was no longer safe for us to walk the streets. We now live in Tel Aviv.","parent":"16952186","dead":true,"id":"16952720"}
{"by":"arbitrage","time":"1444337039","timestamp":"2015-10-08 20:43:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very simply, drugs make you feel awesome.  That\u0026#x27;s about all there is to it.\u003cp\u003eThe problem comes in when you want to maintain the level of awesome ... and can\u0026#x27;t.  That\u0026#x27;s when the detrimental side effects hit.\u003cp\u003eYou can be quite a high functioning, normal member of society with a drug habit.  As long as you can pay for it, and as long as it doesn\u0026#x27;t interfere in the aspects of your life you don\u0026#x27;t want it to, one can make a rational case for continuing drug use.\u003cp\u003eThink about coffee.  It\u0026#x27;s great.  It makes you feel great.  It\u0026#x27;s socially acceptable.  It\u0026#x27;s also highly addictive, and the withdrawal symptoms can be nightmarish for some people.  But it\u0026#x27;s not viewed as a bad drug.","parent":"10356006","id":"10356056"}
{"by":"starbeast","time":"1541408108","timestamp":"2018-11-05 08:55:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have heard plenty of call for equal treatment and calling for appreciation of personal perception, range of experiences, etc.\u003cp\u003eIf someone was arguing that genders are identical, rather than making an argument about societal treatment of people by others, which is what the actual argument seems largely to be about, they\u0026#x27;d be effectively arguing that gender doesn\u0026#x27;t exist.","parent":"18380564","id":"18380844"}
{"by":"b3n","time":"1276455743","timestamp":"2010-06-13 19:02:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simply sending \"AB; \u003ci\u003ecommand\u003c/i\u003e\\n\" to the IRC server will execute \u003ci\u003ecommand\u003c/i\u003e on the server. Does nobody check checksums anymore? Taking six months to detect this is ridiculous.","parent":"1427936","id":"1427939"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1460842905","timestamp":"2016-04-16 21:41:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate you doing that. This article is phenomenal work as it\u0026#x27;s so thoroughly researched with so many perspectives and details published. It\u0026#x27;s such a void of a topic to most despite the fact that it actively shapes democracy, innovation, and evolution of human culture. I might have to re-read it a few times to let it all sink in haha.","parent":"11511521","id":"11512372"}
{"by":"baxident","time":"1264679501","timestamp":"2010-01-28 11:51:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can print wirelessly on my MacBook, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to on an iPad.","parent":"1083295","id":"1083558"}
{"by":"mad44","time":"1379430973","timestamp":"2013-09-17 15:16:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why? (I mean, why in JavaScript?)","parent":"6399382","id":"6399752"}
{"by":"brianwawok","time":"1455381365","timestamp":"2016-02-13 16:36:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends a lot on the style of Scala you write. If you write \u0026quot;Scala is a better Java style\u0026quot; (which is more what I do), it is not bad. If you write it as \u0026quot;functors and mondads are cool\u0026quot;, it can be very hard for the other people to intelligently code review.","parent":"11093393","id":"11094573"}
{"by":"mattl","time":"1532380465","timestamp":"2018-07-23 21:14:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your field of endeavor has nothing to do with a free software license. A piece of free software cannot say nobody using proprietary software cannot use it, however proprietary software is against the wishes of the original developers of what is best described as GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux.","parent":"17595986","id":"17596071"}
{"by":"dschuetz","time":"1543427962","timestamp":"2018-11-28 17:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another Amazon Ad?","parent":"18553387","dead":true,"id":"18553840"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1427571882","timestamp":"2015-03-28 19:44:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why print such a warning?  For most projects, make -j65536 will be effectively equivalent to make -j, both of which are perfectly fine.  Suppose you\u0026#x27;re on a system with more CPUs than you have build rules in your build system; you shouldn\u0026#x27;t print a warning just because someone does make -j$(nproc).","parent":"9282511","id":"9282525"}
{"by":"grannyg00se","time":"1336398691","timestamp":"2012-05-07 13:51:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"OOP (when done properly) enables us to focus at any time on a sub-part of the system containing five entities or less\"\u003cp\u003e...\u003cp\u003e\"I like benefits of the functional programming too, but ...\"\u003cp\u003eYour response makes it sound as though you believe OOP is the magic that allows encapsulation or modularization.\u003cp\u003eFunctional programming also enables us to focus at any time on a sub-part of the system.  You don't need OOP for that.  In fact, you don't even need functional programming for that.  For example, you could get by with nothing more than subroutines and functions (whether they be first class or not).","parent":"3937438","id":"3938954"}
{"by":"scoot","time":"1545229772","timestamp":"2018-12-19 14:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;screenshots.firefox.com\u0026#x2F;JFHWK8P7YT19BaEK\u0026#x2F;sh-meet.bigpixel.cn\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;screenshots.firefox.com\u0026#x2F;JFHWK8P7YT19BaEK\u0026#x2F;sh-meet.big...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18714169","id":"18715794"}
{"by":"jaclaz","time":"1521967614","timestamp":"2018-03-25 08:46:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;* Spanking is forbidden in France by law and most parents do not spank.\u003cp\u003eTo be fair, while I believe most French parents do not spank their children, nor did it in recent years, the Law is rather new:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;entry\u0026#x2F;france-bans-spanking-kids-with-new-law_us_5873ccc1e4b02b5f858a39ff\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;entry\u0026#x2F;france-bans-spanking-ki...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eand is not a crime, as said in the above article is more a symbolic act to make clear that it shouldn\u0026#x27;t be done than anything else.\u003cp\u003eBut, let\u0026#x27;s set aside France and french kids, more widely mosr European countries have a percentage of diagnosed ADHD that is a fraction of those in the US, and even if the numbers of diagnoses tend to increase, it is IMHO largely because of the US influence (not only in psichology and psichiatry, also in \u0026quot;way of life\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003eSome reference:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;menzonius.nl\u0026#x2F;index.php\u0026#x2F;article-review-the-impending-globalization-of-adhd-notes-on-the-expansion-and-growth-of-a-medicalized-disorder\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;menzonius.nl\u0026#x2F;index.php\u0026#x2F;article-review-the-impending-g...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16671266","id":"16671352"}
{"by":"kmrd","time":"1430513802","timestamp":"2015-05-01 20:56:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nano Magnetics | Toronto Area, ON | Rails, Android, generalists\u003cp\u003eNano Magnetics is at the cutting edge of magnet innovation. Driven by a mission to enhance people’s interaction with magnets, Nano is pioneering new ways to merge magnets and technology.\u003cp\u003eWe are a small team of people who have to wear multiple hats every day. Everyone is expected to have an opinion, contribute and be accountable for what they do. You take charge of your time, your knowledge and your work. We encourage transparent communication and asking questions.\u003cp\u003eIdeal applicants should have a passion for technology, interactive and web trends, and a general curiosity for magnets.\u003cp\u003e- Full stack engineers, Rails\nYour first project will be rewriting one of our social media style platform sites from the ground up in Rails. You will should be versed through the full stack and handle the front and back ends. A sense of design would also be helpful.\u003cp\u003e- Android Developer (drivers, application)\nYour first project will be working with the android kernel and drivers to accommodate specific features for hardware we are developing internally. Your work will introduce new functionality that will be exposed to the application level. Familiarity through the entire software stack will be invaluable.\u003cp\u003eEven if you don’t fit into any of these roles, please get in touch. We are actively searching for general talent to build out our team.\u003cp\u003eShoot me a line to discuss at david@nanomagnetics.com and mention you saw this on HN.\u003cp\u003eREMOTE would be considered for the right candidates with an office drop in schedule.","parent":"9471287","id":"9474459"}
{"by":"brightsize","time":"1495216767","timestamp":"2017-05-19 17:59:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s one avenue for doing that: \n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.donorschoose.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.donorschoose.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14375693","id":"14377977"}
{"by":"nuclear_eclipse","time":"1305048734","timestamp":"2011-05-10 17:32:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like exactly what I would love to use, but do you have any plans to support Linux?","parent":"2533159","id":"2533358"}
{"by":"GuiA","time":"1387745503","timestamp":"2013-12-22 20:51:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on your project.\u003cp\u003eFor most things, as soon as one feature is functional. In some edge cases (i.e. games), when you think it\u0026#x27;s ready for primetime :)","parent":"6941510","id":"6951691"}
{"by":"patrickmay","time":"1414697498","timestamp":"2014-10-30 19:31:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I think the federal govt should pay for it.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ePlease have the decency to be explicit about what you are saying.  No government, federal or otherwise, has any means to pay for anything.  All money comes from taxes.  All taxes come from individuals.  What you are really saying is \u0026quot;I think all of the taxpaying individuals in the United States should pay for women\u0026#x27;s maternity leave.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOnce you recognize that, I can do no better than quote P.J. O\u0026#x27;Rourke:\n\u0026quot;...remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody\u0026#x27;s head.\u003cp\u003eNot paying taxes is against the law.\nIf you don\u0026#x27;t pay taxes, you\u0026#x27;ll be fined.\nIf you don\u0026#x27;t pay the fine, you\u0026#x27;ll be jailed.\nIf you try to escape from jail, you\u0026#x27;ll be shot.\u003cp\u003eThus I -- in my role as citizen and voter -- am going to shoot you -- in your role as taxpayer and ripe suck -- if you don\u0026#x27;t pay your fair share of the national tab.\u003cp\u003eTherefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, \u0026quot;Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo, would you kill your mother to pay for someone else\u0026#x27;s maternity leave?","parent":"8533713","id":"8535274"}
{"by":"klodolph","time":"1347634241","timestamp":"2012-09-14 14:50:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you think of processors as plumbing, shuffle operations are like pipes: they put the data in the right place for other operations.  General shuffle operations let you do things like convert RGB data to RGBA data without trouble.  Shuffling is a more flexible version of the more common pack, unpack, and bytewise shift operations.","parent":"4521633","id":"4521877"}
{"by":"snowwrestler","time":"1343173131","timestamp":"2012-07-24 23:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This really shows a fundamental misunderstanding of not only the background of \"net neutrality\" regulation, but also of the very structure of the Internet itself.\u003cp\u003eIn your analogy to a printing press, you've misplaced the Internet layer. Time Warner is not the \"printing press\", Hacker News is the printing press. Time Warner is UPS--shipping the pamphlets, periodicals, and books to the end users.\u003cp\u003eAnd in case you didn't know, shipping companies ARE regulated by the federal government in how they are allowed to decide what to carry. There is a set of rules called \"common carrier\" that specifies how shipping companies may advertise their rates, accept or decline customers, etc.\u003cp\u003eIt's a legal system that dates back, in the U.S. at least, to before the railroads, when stage coaches and barges were the best means of getting pamphlets from one town to another. The goal of common carrier law is ensure that members of the public are treated fairly--so that UPS does not sign a side-deal with Barnes and Noble to \"accidentally\" deliver all of Amazon's books 4 days late.\u003cp\u003eThis impetus for fair delivery is what is behind the push for net neutrality. Understand that without regulatory protection, it would be legal for Time Warner to (for example) sign a deal with Microsoft by which TW would deny passage of Linux files across the TW network. Or Verizon could sign a deal with Apple to block access to Google Play.\u003cp\u003eNow--the opponents to net neutrality make a very good point that generally speaking these sorts of things have not actually happened. So one could argue that a compelling need for net neutrality has not yet been demonstrated. But your analogy is flawed.","parent":"4288222","id":"4288648"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1403435270","timestamp":"2014-06-22 11:07:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the other hand, if the competition is with other leagues, where is the cartel?\u003cp\u003eMaybe the problem is lack of competition in the market. It isn\u0026#x27;t easy to turn a basketball fan into a football or ice hockey fan, for example.","parent":"7926879","id":"7927537"}
{"by":"AnIdiotOnTheNet","time":"1513277043","timestamp":"2017-12-14 18:44:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I believe the reason it does not happen by default is that binaries go to \u0026#x2F;usr\u0026#x2F;bin, and no .so files should appear there. Also it breaks when hardlinks are involved.\u003cp\u003eI other words, nobody uses it. So many conflicts could be easily solved if applications dropped this retarded insistence on spreading files over the hierarchy by type, but they just keep doing it because they mistake tradition for wisdom.","parent":"15853407","id":"15925311"}
{"by":"dhughes","time":"1297055194","timestamp":"2011-02-07 05:06:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's odd how you look at that and go \"hunh\" but then realize, wait a minute who took the picture of the Milky Way Galaxy?\u003cp\u003eIt's a graphic of course but still you forget what you're looking at and how far away and how big it is.","parent":"2185773","id":"2187720"}
{"by":"burkaman","time":"1483987605","timestamp":"2017-01-09 18:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All ethics are entirely manmade, so this is not particularly helpful. Are you ok with torturing criminals, as long as they seem like they\u0026#x27;d be willing to torture you?","parent":"13357894","id":"13358655"}
{"by":"vfarcic","time":"1461610770","timestamp":"2016-04-25 18:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My intention was to send the same message. That\u0026#x27;s why I put Docker DNS as \u0026quot;potentially useful but still in its infancy\u0026quot;.","parent":"11566193","id":"11566450"}
{"by":"hagbardgroup","time":"1400848687","timestamp":"2014-05-23 12:38:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a dollar, you can get a ton of chaff social shares. All of these systems are thoroughly pwned.","parent":"7786565","id":"7789038"}
{"by":"marquis","time":"1292424889","timestamp":"2010-12-15 14:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my experience, and I may be incorrect, if you invite someone from Gmail they do not need to verify the account via an SMS message.","parent":"2007688","id":"2008264"}
{"by":"boredguy8","time":"1221856674","timestamp":"2008-09-19 20:37:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At some point users are responsible for their password info. If it's their only e-mail account, hopefully they use it regularly enough that they don't forget.","parent":"309410","id":"309448"}
{"by":"manifold","time":"1248348014","timestamp":"2009-07-23 11:20:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand the connections the article is trying to make. It seems to be about improving prescriptions based on metabolic profiling, which makes sense. However, I've never had a doctor take my fingerprints in order to prescribe medicine, and I'd surely walk out with haste if they tried to.\u003cp\u003eI thought that the point of taking fingerprints was that they are something people can unintentionally leave behind at a crime scene. I don't imagine that many criminals urinate over everything just before they scarper, so I remain clueless as to why fingerprints are mentioned at all.","parent":"719315","id":"719327"}
{"by":"scrumper","time":"1456435868","timestamp":"2016-02-25 21:31:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those things aren\u0026#x27;t really comparable. One is a pre-emptive action taken by government before the commission of a crime, the other is a reactive investigation tool. I also suspect your gun example might actually generate more outrage at governmental overreach.","parent":"11177859","id":"11177971"}
{"by":"robertdimarco","time":"1373402056","timestamp":"2013-07-09 20:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://magnets.firebase.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;magnets.firebase.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6015216","id":"6015258"}
{"by":"wheaties","time":"1373487857","timestamp":"2013-07-10 20:24:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ugh, when I said \u0026quot;have\u0026quot; I meant \u0026quot;hate.\u0026quot; Sorry.","parent":"6021646","id":"6022537"}
{"by":"laumars","time":"1363087261","timestamp":"2013-03-12 11:21:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Normally I'd agree with you, but the last 12 months have seen some pretty disruptive changes (the glibc update caught me out more than systemd had).\u003cp\u003eArch is far from perfect, and I'm not convinced I like the direction it's heading in (re systemd), but that's a plauge for the wider ecosystem than an Arch-specific issue. However Arch definitely find a nice balance between \"hands on\" and \"lazy administration\" for desktop users.\u003cp\u003eSadly though, systemd was the last straw that saw the start of my migration away from Arch on the servers (now a balance of FreeBSD and Debian; depending on the requirements of that server).\u003cp\u003eAs with everything though, it's all personal preference. So I expect plenty of people to have a different opinion (and different experiences as well).","parent":"5360940","id":"5361168"}
{"by":"8bitsrule","time":"1520652840","timestamp":"2018-03-10 03:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bach is the \u0026#x27;ultimate composer\u0026#x27; in the same sense that Pleistocene Ogg is the ultimate tool-maker, Robert Goddard the ultimate rocket-maker.\u003cp\u003eBach did many wondrous things, added a lot to the vocabulary, staked a viable claim on a couple of mother lodes. But this sort of argument (though eternally engaged in) is futile. While classical is a favorite of many (including me), music has moved far, far onward.","parent":"16555717","id":"16556941"}
{"by":"tyrmored","time":"1291775271","timestamp":"2010-12-08 02:27:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've found trying to make your websites faster is kind of a drug. They can just never be fast enough. You start with Google Page Speed, and before you know it you're profiling your CSS for slow rules in Safari ...\u003cp\u003eFor most database-driven applications though the real latency is almost always in the database. You really need something like memcached to totally remove the bottleneck. I think oftentimes frontend speed demons are trying to answer the wrong question.","parent":"1981480","id":"1981610"}
{"by":"metaphorm","time":"1485286632","timestamp":"2017-01-24 19:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NYTimes reliably notices trends 10 years late, and gets the analysis wrong \u003ci\u003eeven with\u003c/i\u003e the benefit of hindsight.","parent":"13473416","id":"13474705"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1506199585","timestamp":"2017-09-23 20:46:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Most injection attacks are due to this; if html used length-prefixed tags rather than open\u0026#x2F;close tags most injection attacks would go away immediately.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHow so? If you allow the user to send arbitrary data, and your handling of that data is where the problem lies, it isn\u0026#x27;t going to matter whether the client sends a length-prefixed piece of data. You still have to sanitize that data.\u003cp\u003eHTML, and whether it uses closing tags or not, is pretty much irrelevant to the way injection attacks work, as far as I can tell. Maybe I\u0026#x27;m missing something...do you have an example or a reference to how this could solve injection attacks?","parent":"15321587","id":"15321615"}
{"by":"sktrdie","time":"1373318038","timestamp":"2013-07-08 21:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where\u0026#x27;s the HTML data? Search engines aren\u0026#x27;t going to be able to crawl any of your content:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $ curl -l http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;monocle.io\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;this-is-you-on-smiles\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"6008227","id":"6009339"}
{"by":"ivan_gammel","time":"1478015380","timestamp":"2016-11-01 15:49:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best thing with local and short-term effects is that eventually someone finds the way to extend the space and time boundaries a bit, then a bit more and then we are talking about astronomical scale.\u003cp\u003eCan be a nice story plot for a sci-fi book, in which science finds the way to defer the rise of enthropy to some almost infinitely distant moment in future (that end of time, we\u0026#x27;ve always being expecting) and move the boundaries of locality to the observable universe. What a world that would be.","parent":"12845995","id":"12846837"}
{"by":"RainFlutter","time":"1307649176","timestamp":"2011-06-09 19:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fundamental point underlying science and basic research is that it's generally not possible to know the value of knowledge before you, well, know it. Your perspective is extremely shortsighted.\u003cp\u003eIf humanity only invested in projects of \"measurable value,\" there would be no computer programmers, because there would be no computers, because we would not understand physics, because physics requires esoteric mathematics, and what good did fiddling with numbers ever do for anyone? No measurable value whatsoever!","parent":"2638375","id":"2638566"}
{"by":"daphneokeefe","time":"1527279576","timestamp":"2018-05-25 20:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A cookie is such a transient data source. Some people regularly purge them all. Some people use more than one device.\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t bother changing any preferences that disappear every time I clear out my cookies. For starters, I\u0026#x27;d have to figure out where on the website the preferences are set -- and if it\u0026#x27;s in the user profile, well, just save my preferences there.","parent":"17153958","id":"17157542"}
{"by":"Yetanfou","time":"1454889920","timestamp":"2016-02-08 00:05:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t that clear yet? They were told that by the hordes of smugglers who make untold amounts of money ferrying these people into Europe. To lure them in, they tell them of the golden mountains just waiting for them, the girls who can\u0026#x27;t wait for supposed \u0026#x27;real men\u0026#x27; - there are those who claim that women in Sweden demonstrate out on the streets to \u0026#x27;get real men\u0026#x27; - and all the other good, free stuff.\u003cp\u003eOnce here they should notice that they\u0026#x27;ve been duped, but many don\u0026#x27;t seem to be able to accept this and go on a rampage to get whatever is is they expected. Which, of course, is not forthcoming - not even in Sweden, even though the level to which this country goes to accommodate so-called \u0026#x27;refugees\u0026#x27; is beyond the pale (claim to be 16 and you\u0026#x27;re set as long as you don\u0026#x27;t look older than 40...).\u003cp\u003eIt is going to take a long time, and cause a lot of trouble for both the affected European countries as well as the migrants who chose to come there to solve this problem. It could break the EU. It will topple governments.","parent":"11055579","id":"11055667"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1288651879","timestamp":"2010-11-01 22:51:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s somewhat amusing and nice to see that Aubrey de Grey who is one of the few people on this planet seriously working on immortality and who always had to fight for acceptance is the skeptic in this article.","parent":"1858234","id":"1858556"}
{"by":"rrmm","time":"1438888375","timestamp":"2015-08-06 19:12:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like it\u0026#x27;s going on there more because it is conducive to talented\u0026#x2F;idea people being there in a big group rather than about tax structure.\u003cp\u003eBoeing though just built a new facility in another state because of union issues (apparently).\u003cp\u003eBottom line is that it\u0026#x27;s a part of the business decision, but not the only part and maybe not even the biggest part.","parent":"10018628","id":"10018677"}
{"by":"idm","time":"1475849561","timestamp":"2016-10-07 14:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think they are demonstrating discovery within-company.  That feature will be huge.  It potentially eliminates meetings that would have had to occur \u0026quot;between silos\u0026quot; - which are extremely difficult meetings to begin with.\u003cp\u003eIf somebody from team A (on campus 1) can watch a video from team C (on campus 3) without needing their team leaders to coordinate a meeting, this will be extremely valuable to businesses.\u003cp\u003eBut why would team A ever find out about team C?  That\u0026#x27;s where this discovery feature comes in.  See what\u0026#x27;s trending within-company.","parent":"12660728","id":"12660765"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1498498971","timestamp":"2017-06-26 17:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The lowrisc project has something like that.  They call them minion cores.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lowrisc.org\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;memo-2014-001-tagged-memory-and-minion-cores\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lowrisc.org\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;memo-2014-001-tagged-memory-and-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14638183","id":"14638744"}
{"by":"Klinky","time":"1349028920","timestamp":"2012-09-30 18:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seagate has demoed HAMR a tech which might allow them to get to 60TB and may start showing up in 6TB consumer drives within a few years. Other research is being done on adding sodium chloride to platters and IBM is researching magnetic storage at the atomic level. So long as magnetic storage can stay ahead of semiconductor fabrication then it will have it's place.\u003cp\u003eAs far as someone making a decision to build a factory for commodity hardware manufacturing, that same issue occurs with NAND which is quickly seeing profit margins plummet. E.g. a 50nm NAND plant 4 years ago is no longer competitive today. This is probably why Intel jettisoned their NAND manufacturing.","parent":"4593276","id":"4593537"}
{"by":"dustingetz","time":"1474289133","timestamp":"2016-09-19 12:45:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is all about to change, think of Github as a database, with a server side rendered page hooked up to it. There exist databases that work like git, and React\u0026#x2F;virtual dom does server-side rendering, so coming soon are frameworks that give you proper database apps, coded in javascript, that are CDN compatible. I\u0026#x27;ve actually built this already but we haven\u0026#x27;t launched it publicly yet. If interested, you can give us your email at \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hypercrud.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hypercrud.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12529607","id":"12530955"}
{"by":"hh3k0","time":"1522522445","timestamp":"2018-03-31 18:54:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hm -- the website of Mayo Clinic says that you should avoid Ibuprofen if you might have a concussion, as they may increase the risk of bleeding.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Avoid other pain relievers such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) and aspirin, as these medications may increase the risk of bleeding.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSee: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mayoclinic.org\u0026#x2F;diseases-conditions\u0026#x2F;concussion\u0026#x2F;diagnosis-treatment\u0026#x2F;drc-20355600\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mayoclinic.org\u0026#x2F;diseases-conditions\u0026#x2F;concussion\u0026#x2F;di...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16723756","id":"16724562"}
{"by":"HeyLaughingBoy","time":"1297267488","timestamp":"2011-02-09 16:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While it's technically possible to get signal into the country, the larger problem is that people using it can more easily get in trouble if it's prohibited.\u003cp\u003eRadio receivers are passive devices. They do emit a small amount of RF, but it's limited and easily shielded. Worst case, you can build a completely passive receiver like a crystal radio. (NB for the EE pedantics: yes, I know I'm simplifying. I don't mean passive vs. active as in component definitions; I mean intentional vs unintentional radiators)\u003cp\u003eWiFi and other networking technologies are active transmitters and are quite easily detected. The same tech that's used to sniff out unsecured hotspots can be used to detect \"dissidents connected to the internet.\"","parent":"2197404","id":"2197880"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1459151487","timestamp":"2016-03-28 07:51:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The warrant would tend to be targeted at a specific person. \u0026quot;Tell us what you have on Bob Jones\u0026quot;, and not a population \u0026quot;Tell us what you have on everybody named Jones\u0026quot;","parent":"11372841","id":"11373172"}
{"by":"Evbn","time":"1364674459","timestamp":"2013-03-30 20:14:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a protection against typos, because people are lazy and error-prone and it matters because getting it wrong means email delivery fails, whereas a misspelled name is no big deal.\u003cp\u003eSo, elegantly, two different issues use the same simple solution.","parent":"5466367","id":"5466528"}
{"by":"jpic","time":"1540344098","timestamp":"2018-10-24 01:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i thought the minimum was the equivalent of a month of gross salary","parent":"18241902","id":"18288940"}
{"by":"duaneb","time":"1389635861","timestamp":"2014-01-13 17:57:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would argue that rust is both simpler and more consistent than either C or C++. No preprocessor, no pre\u0026#x2F;post increment, a real type system (instead of templates)—there\u0026#x27;s just not the mountain of undefined parts of the language that tends to be a large problem. Scala, in spite of being on a VM, is far closer to C++ IMHO in terms of attitude.\u003cp\u003eI actually find golang harder to read without parametric types (sans built-in slices and maps).","parent":"7052121","id":"7052152"}
{"by":"enkiv2","time":"1442344386","timestamp":"2015-09-15 19:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing is, Xanadu \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c/i\u003e implemented -- twice, at autodesk, prior to 1990. (It wasn\u0026#x27;t released for political reasons until 1999.) Please check your facts before saying something clearly untrue like \u0026quot;Xanadu couldn\u0026#x27;t be implemented\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eEven if it wasn\u0026#x27;t -- being a first mover by sacrificing quality can get you greater adoption over superior competitors. Compare the Mac, released in 1984, with the Amiga 1000, released in 1985. By being delayed by a year, the Amiga was able to have all the features that the Mac team wanted but were told that they couldn\u0026#x27;t have -- color graphics, multitasking, and an actually usable amount of RAM, at about half the price of the Mac. The Mac, on the other hand, was the follow-up to the Lisa, which was technically superior feature-wise but too slow to be usable. Both the Amiga and the Lisa lie forgotten, and people come to believe that the Mac was the first consumer GUI machine or the best consumer GUI machine of its time -- or that its limitations were unavoidable. In reality, a combination of luck and good PR warped our sense of history.\u003cp\u003eThe reality is that the web was not the first hypertext system, or the best, and the features that it lacked were implemented and functional in its competition. The web gained a following through a combination of being free (at a time when most hypertext systems, including Xanadu, were proprietary and commercial) and stupid enough that it could be reimplemented poorly by beginner programmers -- which, of course, was its aim.\u003cp\u003eThe Web was designed as a model to teach non-programmers the concepts behind Enquire, Tim Berners-Lee\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;real\u0026quot; hypertext system. The fact that the web escaped and Enquire didn\u0026#x27;t is a tragedy.\u003cp\u003eLots of crappy things become the basis of culture, commerce, and communications. Quality doesn\u0026#x27;t particularly matter when it comes to being the basis of things, and nuance and complexity work against you if you want wide adoption. But, when something crappy becomes so widespread, its flaws become far more dangerous.\u003cp\u003eLack of permanent stable addressing made possible the DMCA safe harbor provision (and thus systems like ContentID that delete your content at random on the off-chance that you were quoting somebody famous). Lack of bidirectional links caused the monetization system for the web to be based on advertising. Embedded markup created the need for complex javascript kludges to navigate deeply hierarchical DOM structures in order to perform simple transformation.\u003cp\u003eThe web is a long series of poorly thought out decisions, all of which in the end led to both the grey hairs, premature heart attacks, and hefty wallets of people on this site. We\u0026#x27;re stuck with it now, because we\u0026#x27;ve created a broken system and added structure on top of it to keep it from being fixed. And we, as an industry, profit from its brokenness. But, it would be intellectually dishonest to pretend that it isn\u0026#x27;t broken -- or that the ways in which it was broken were unavoidable. They were avoidable, and they were avoided; it\u0026#x27;s sheer bad luck that the web was adopted over its superior brethren.","parent":"10191555","id":"10222570"}
{"by":"tomphoolery","time":"1371320040","timestamp":"2013-06-15 18:14:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t say that on Wikipedia, did I miss something? Looks to me like they\u0026#x27;re just shifting Bell Labs\u0026#x27; focus from basic scientific research and focusing all research into computer science aspects. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Bell_Labs#2000s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Bell_Labs#2000s\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5884097","id":"5885816"}
{"by":"ColinWright","time":"1387483137","timestamp":"2013-12-19 19:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some discussion:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933579\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6933579\u003c/a\u003e (drive.com.au)\u003cp\u003eOther submissions:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933924\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6933924\u003c/a\u003e (engadget.com)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932885\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6932885\u003c/a\u003e (gizmodo.com)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932820\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6932820\u003c/a\u003e (theidler.org)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6926804\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6926804\u003c/a\u003e (youtube.com)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6925534\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6925534\u003c/a\u003e (superawesomemicroproject.com)","parent":"6937314","id":"6937390"}
{"by":"Zikes","time":"1490054913","timestamp":"2017-03-21 00:08:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I expected I would find it in \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;golang.org\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;faq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;golang.org\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;faq\u003c/a\u003e but I\u0026#x27;m not seeing it there, so I have no reliable sources for that statement at this time.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s something I hear often, though. That Go is intended to be a \u0026quot;modern\u0026quot; language, with the definition of \u0026quot;modern\u0026quot; being that the opportunity that a blank slate provides allows for the application of the best features and learnings of the languages of the past.","parent":"13918714","id":"13918753"}
{"by":"anotheryou","time":"1488277126","timestamp":"2017-02-28 10:18:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"haha. But both sides allways fight for the good side. Well at at least the death-star might be out of question.","parent":"13751873","id":"13752668"}
{"by":"middlef","time":"1474546392","timestamp":"2016-09-22 12:13:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Truth hurts eh?","parent":"12556107","id":"12556243"}
{"by":"ChrisSD","time":"1529579252","timestamp":"2018-06-21 11:07:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be honest, this sounds like an issue with search engines. Why are \u0026quot;garbage\u0026quot; tutorials getting high rankings in search engines? Why aren\u0026#x27;t good quality tutorials rising above them?","parent":"17363600","id":"17363897"}
{"by":"semanticist","time":"1290459324","timestamp":"2010-11-22 20:55:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So how do you explain recruiters who strip candidate contact details from all CVs?\u003cp\u003eI work in this industry, and it is absolutely all about preventing employers and candidates from contacting each other without giving the recruiter their cut.","parent":"1930727","id":"1931251"}
{"by":"Theodores","time":"1500296208","timestamp":"2017-07-17 12:56:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the days when I used VMS it was common for applications to be tied into the hardware. Therefore you only really ran a fairly bespoke set of applications that were specific to your business. Therefore it is never possible to eulogise fully about the cool wonders of VAX VMS as everything was domain specific.\u003cp\u003eI worked in remote sensing at a time when UNIX workstations were taking over the show. Again applications were tied into the hardware so if you needed an SGI for your code, that was what you had and again it was hard to fully explain the merits of a given platform in a way that makes sense to a Windows user.","parent":"14786051","id":"14788018"}
{"by":"larsbrinkhoff","time":"1529316953","timestamp":"2018-06-18 10:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking forward to see these PDP-6 or PDP-10 applications:\u003cp\u003e* TECO\u003cp\u003e* DDT\u003cp\u003e* Spacewar\u003cp\u003e* Dazzle Dart\u003cp\u003e* Game of Life\u003cp\u003e* MacHack VI\u003cp\u003e* Stanford University Drawing System\u003cp\u003e* SHRDLU\u003cp\u003e* Logo turtle graphics","parent":"17337003","id":"17337018"}
{"by":"then","time":"1540924490","timestamp":"2018-10-30 18:34:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"scanning over the article \u0026gt; \u0026quot;clean\u0026quot; in the headline and \u0026quot;green\u0026quot; first paragraph leaves me confused, also the two following paragraphs are titled \u0026quot;clean and green\u0026quot; and then talks about fines...followed by \u0026quot;a \u0026#x27;fine\u0026#x27; city\u0026quot; (pun intended?). So in what way does punishment affects \u0026#x27;green\u0026#x27; solutions? What solutions are you looking for? In what way would incentives work? \u0026#x27;Mentality change\u0026#x27; is also an interesting one...Too many questions","parent":"18339709","id":"18339945"}
{"by":"mhurron","time":"1420653534","timestamp":"2015-01-07 17:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  It will not lead to layoff.\u003cp\u003eIt will if they think they can blame it on the Mayor. NYPD appears to be throwing a temper-tantrum, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t exactly expect nothing but rational actions from them.","parent":"8851626","id":"8852022"}
{"by":"tagabek","time":"1372893957","timestamp":"2013-07-03 23:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently started forwarding my old MyFullName.me domain to my company\u0026#x27;s MyCompany.com domain and have noticed my traffic tripling during the day.\u003cp\u003ePatrick McKenzie has a very informative post on SEO. It\u0026#x27;s worth the read: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;24\u0026#x2F;startup-seo\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5984703","id":"5988169"}
{"by":"spo81rty","time":"1503414671","timestamp":"2017-08-22 15:11:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except when it comes to wealth there is no limit. Ones success does not mean another\u0026#x27;s demise. If I mine for Bitcoin and make millions, who did I steal wealth from to get mine?\u003cp\u003eYour Skittles analogy does not work.","parent":"15072875","id":"15073150"}
{"by":"dcosson","time":"1474838825","timestamp":"2016-09-25 21:27:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just curious, what Postgres features are you missing on MySQL?\u003cp\u003eI had only used MySQL until a year or two ago, and wondered what I was missing since Postgres seems to get more love\u0026#x2F;hype from the developer community for whatever reason.\u003cp\u003eNow using Postgres in production, there are few if any features that I notice our team using which don\u0026#x27;t exist in MySQL (maybe Json landed in Postgres first is one big one?). One thing I have noticed is I find the user\u0026#x2F;permissions model for Pg less intuitive. It\u0026#x27;s as if it\u0026#x27;s designed for use in a computer lab or something where there\u0026#x27;s one human who is the owner\u0026#x2F;dba and some things can only be done by them, which doesn\u0026#x27;t map well to a web app trying to follow \u0026quot;principle of least privilege\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThis combined with the fact that we\u0026#x27;re on RDS where MySQL\u0026#x2F;Aurora is the clear first class citizen makes me wish we were using MySQL.","parent":"12577243","id":"12577548"}
{"by":"sytse","time":"1464398952","timestamp":"2016-05-28 01:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In our product GitLab we a the reporter role to view issues but not the code, see \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gitlab.com\u0026#x2F;gitlab-org\u0026#x2F;gitlab-ce\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;permissions\u0026#x2F;permissions.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gitlab.com\u0026#x2F;gitlab-org\u0026#x2F;gitlab-ce\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;perm...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould that solve your issue?","parent":"11789908","id":"11790216"}
{"by":"MLR","time":"1446648803","timestamp":"2015-11-04 14:53:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never understand this viewpoint, I read the BBC for online news and the Telegraph at home, it\u0026#x27;s very easy to see which one is pro government\u0026#x2F;pro Tory.\u003cp\u003eThe BBC is basically going to be gutted by the current government, I don\u0026#x27;t buy into this world where they\u0026#x27;re pro government, I find they\u0026#x27;re fairly neutral while a lot of the people criticising it are almost certainly anti Tory.","parent":"10505866","id":"10506936"}
{"by":"drzaiusapelord","time":"1386877143","timestamp":"2013-12-12 19:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay then someone starts up some other crypto coin. It doesn\u0026#x27;t ever have to end. Boom, bust, and hopefully cash out before the bust. GPU shortages and breathing in extra coal emissions continues.","parent":"6896329","id":"6896560"}
{"by":"ezy","time":"1272588561","timestamp":"2010-04-30 00:49:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is depressing.  How can you work for Microsoft, see that, and not be depressed?  Whatever you think of the company's technology over the years, you have to wonder how old timers feel about starting a career at a software company and ending it at a company that exists solely as charity for office workers.","parent":"1306187","id":"1306724"}
{"by":"beardyw","time":"1544008627","timestamp":"2018-12-05 11:17:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks as if even in temperature zero is a bit problematic. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Zero-point_energy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Zero-point_energy\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18606983","id":"18607305"}
{"by":"OpenWebU","time":"1205350799","timestamp":"2008-03-12 19:39:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"also, i'd like to comment is that you are doing 'market analysis' third-hand -- the products that companies offer are a combination of their opinion of what the markets need, and their own response to customers.\u003cp\u003eIMHO, true market analysis is going to the real end-customer (the customers of the hosting vendor).  If it is obvious what the very they need and what they are willing to pay for, then no need to do this.  But let's say as an example, the true end-customers are large IT departments.  I'd look around and find someone in that IT department to interview and find them across industries, and see what they are willing to buy. Often these customers are listed as references on their website.","parent":"135238","id":"135417"}
{"by":"r00fus","time":"1495049480","timestamp":"2017-05-17 19:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Channeled professionally by the corrupt complicit media.","parent":"14359554","id":"14362005"}
{"by":"mrslx","time":"1357797464","timestamp":"2013-01-10 05:57:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... imagine the reference check...","parent":"5034896","id":"5035713"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1444536846","timestamp":"2015-10-11 04:14:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would partially solve this problem (it\u0026#x27;s far rarer to see bare excepts or `except BaseException`), but could cause others.  The question there should be what is (or should be) intended when someone says `except Exception` - it\u0026#x27;s not clear to me whether that should or should not include AssertionError.\u003cp\u003eA more direct solution might be to have a means of storing off every assertion failure into a (clearable) list.  The test harness could then check that list at the end of each test.  If a particular test should succeed after triggering an assertion failure, it can check the list to make sure it triggered exactly the expected failures and then clear it.","parent":"10367784","id":"10368017"}
{"by":"asimjalis","time":"1357151781","timestamp":"2013-01-02 18:36:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this make it substantially easier to get Python on the phone?","parent":"4998235","id":"4998307"}
{"by":"tlogan","time":"1460056147","timestamp":"2016-04-07 19:09:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent article.\u003cp\u003eThe solution is that we need more housing.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that politicians do not allow that - and that is not going to change. Why? Because existing rich people do not want that.\u003cp\u003eNot sure what we can do here...","parent":"11448400","id":"11449766"}
{"by":"Sataysfied","time":"1362214131","timestamp":"2013-03-02 08:48:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you","parent":"5308830","id":"5308988"}
{"by":"duke_sam","time":"1306530581","timestamp":"2011-05-27 21:09:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; from decimal import Decimal\n  \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; 2 * Decimal(\"3.1\")\n  Decimal('6.2')\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"2592695","id":"2593080"}
{"by":"robryan","time":"1273808682","timestamp":"2010-05-14 03:44:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends if you have also used other languages, I mainly code in PHP, but also have experience in other languages. I would say though you would develop a stack of bad habits if PHP was first and only language someone used.","parent":"1345623","id":"1346485"}
{"by":"keyle","time":"1485240913","timestamp":"2017-01-24 06:55:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a perfect example of UX side effects! Was never designed to be used that way but somehow through humans every day use it\u0026#x27;s become a thing. There is ample opportunity to make this better. And sadly in 10 or so years, you will be fined for using the wrong side...","parent":"13469240","id":"13469357"}
{"by":"felipemesquita","time":"1476232205","timestamp":"2016-10-12 00:30:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every app by the Omni Group is incredibly well made and even more incredibly maintained. They really have it together when it comes to implementing new iOS features. Also they have, by far, the most impressive watchOS app I\u0026#x27;ve ever used in it\u0026#x27;s balance of the system\u0026#x27;s limitations and the app\u0026#x27;s complexity (OmniFocus). \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.omnigroup.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.omnigroup.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12688975","id":"12689595"}
{"by":"sanderjd","time":"1406248636","timestamp":"2014-07-25 00:37:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re completely right, but it\u0026#x27;s worth noting that removing barriers to entry into existing businesses is a very viable business model. Even \u0026quot;buying and reading books customized to your state\u0026quot; is a barrier to entry that a company like AirBnB could help with (though they don\u0026#x27;t seem to want to go that direction).","parent":"8083107","id":"8083204"}
{"by":"snowwrestler","time":"1492742066","timestamp":"2017-04-21 02:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not sales, it\u0026#x27;s mentoring. A lot of established business folks like to do a bit of it.","parent":"14162147","id":"14162706"}
{"by":"gregorymichael","time":"1539303323","timestamp":"2018-10-12 00:15:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A risk calculation that\u0026#x27;s easier for us, seeing the aftermath, and having nothing at risk.","parent":"18198045","id":"18198108"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1279156904","timestamp":"2010-07-15 01:21:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tests don't make code work. The problem I've experienced with the Ruby commumity is a constant belief in \"this can't be that hard, I'll just throw one together\". One day I traced a major bug in a client's app to their Ruby webserver not handling HTTP 100 Continue correctly... that simply should not happen. Pulling apart the server I found that most of the behavior was hardcoded for common clients, and certainly no one had bothered to read the HTTP spec. That wasn't an isolated problem, either, but I feel like I need not go into every single library bug I've run into. I simply did not get that feeling from the large number of Java libraries I used to use, many of which were actually the official reference implementation for the specification. ;( Bugs, yes; completely misunderstanding the problem domain and thereby not really being worth using, no.","parent":"1516535","id":"1516564"}
{"by":"andjones","time":"1302626385","timestamp":"2011-04-12 16:39:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previous discussions:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733089\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733089\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799700\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799700\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2437576","id":"2437939"}
{"by":"LaPingvino","time":"1275582555","timestamp":"2010-06-03 16:29:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mi estas administranto de la tradukteamo de Ubuntu en Esperanton en Launchpad.\u003cp\u003eMi provu kontakti vin persone.","parent":"1401718","id":"1401740"}
{"by":"quotemstr","time":"1535682159","timestamp":"2018-08-31 02:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Business permits should be shall-issue: if an applicant adheres to a set of rules known in advance, the city ought to have no power to deny its permit application.\u003cp\u003eWant to limit the number of something? Fine. Auction off medallions or something in a transparent, open way. Don\u0026#x27;t pick and choose businesses the way SF busybodies do.\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco has severe and worsening problems primarily due to rampant interference in the operation of the free market. The city keeps doubling down on this interference every time someone, somewhere, tries to find a way around the city\u0026#x27;s thicket of rules.","parent":"17882345","id":"17882417"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1237408780","timestamp":"2009-03-18 20:39:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethese days it's pretty much impossible to get into the Ivies without a campus visit on record (or two, preferably).\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI doubt that completely, as I know plenty of counterexamples. The eight colleges in the Ivy League\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003emostly don't have any policy at all of tracking student interest when making admission decisions. All eight of those colleges know that they will get a good yield out of the smallish number of students that they admit.","parent":"522237","id":"522312"}
{"by":"WalterBright","time":"1473877487","timestamp":"2016-09-14 18:24:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any organization relying on a 0.5% return on investment is going to go bankrupt due to inflation, taxes, and expenses. Hoarding money is not a viable business plan.","parent":"12497469","id":"12499838"}
{"by":"grzm","time":"1521821125","timestamp":"2018-03-23 16:05:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not the intent of my question. I\u0026#x27;m asking \u0026quot;how\u0026quot; in the sense of explain (as opposed to just a \u0026quot;yes\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;no\u0026quot; answer). I\u0026#x27;m asking you to apply those same criteria to the system you\u0026#x27;re using with the same critical eye and see how it stacks up. I don\u0026#x27;t know you system and I want to learn more about it.","parent":"16658769","id":"16659488"}
{"by":"binarymax","time":"1486491096","timestamp":"2017-02-07 18:11:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;translate.google.com\u0026#x2F;#de\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;Wenn%20ist%20das%20Nunst%C3%BCck%20git%20und%20Slotermeyer%3F%20Ja!%20...%20Beiherhund%20das%20Oder%20die%20Flipperwaldt%20gersput\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;translate.google.com\u0026#x2F;#de\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;Wenn%20ist%20das%20Nunst...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13589455","id":"13591272"}
{"by":"BenjaminTodd","time":"1493154007","timestamp":"2017-04-25 21:00:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, it seems like industry hubs are more dominant than ever, despite the rise of remote work and the internet. So if you\u0026#x27;re trying to get the top of an industry, the arguments for moving still exist. But it certainly doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense for everyone.","parent":"14197509","id":"14197955"}
{"by":"finid","time":"1478274222","timestamp":"2016-11-04 15:43:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author made some really good points, but \u003ci\u003eCoreOS is made by Docker for Docker\u003c/i\u003e is not one of them.\u003cp\u003eCoreOS is the company behind a competing container tech called rkt (rocket) and CoreOS Linux.","parent":"12872304","id":"12873446"}
{"by":"vertex-four","time":"1487596038","timestamp":"2017-02-20 13:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not necessarily really a blacklist, but when the court case comes up when the employer googles your name... companies like to claim to be pro-equality since they get good press for it, but they\u0026#x27;re not actually going to put that to any sort of test. Much easier to hire somebody who\u0026#x27;s not proven themselves willing to stand up for their rights.","parent":"13686842","id":"13686872"}
{"by":"brianbreslin","time":"1462553713","timestamp":"2016-05-06 16:55:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this happens in miami ALL the time. tens of thousands of empty apartments owned by foreigners parking their cash.","parent":"11645066","id":"11645176"}
{"by":"dariobarila","time":"1347185261","timestamp":"2012-09-09 10:07:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very very awesome. Thank you for sharing :)","parent":"4494496","id":"4495459"}
{"by":"dietrichepp","time":"1450593398","timestamp":"2015-12-20 06:36:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of source control systems don\u0026#x27;t offer that level of verification.  Even Git, with SHA-1 hashes everywhere, lets you claim to be anybody when you write a commit.  The only thing you can verify the origin of in Git is the author of a tag signature, for tags that are signed with a PGP key.","parent":"10766240","id":"10766273"}
{"by":"goodJobWalrus","time":"1455283355","timestamp":"2016-02-12 13:22:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; However, for some reason, this is not easily understood regarding people with 25 points over the average.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure how accurate this is. All the exceptionally talented kids\u0026#x2F;young people I knew growing up were nice and well-liked, well-adjusted people. All the weird kids I knew were just weird, not really especially talented.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d like to see the numbers behind those anecdotes. There was recently an article here that discussed why extremely academically gifted children rarely become grown-up geniuses and people who move their fields forward. They stated that it\u0026#x27;s not because they are troubled, most of them are socially well-adjusted, but I can\u0026#x27;t find that article now for the lie of me.","parent":"11086916","id":"11086961"}
{"by":"alexasmyths","time":"1508037329","timestamp":"2017-10-15 03:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Journalism is hard.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re not paid a lot, and they have to churn out stories.\u003cp\u003eThey don\u0026#x27;t have the resources to hire PI\u0026#x27;s and do interviews, follow people around.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s just a dude (or dudette) who might have time to ask a few questions, and then put out a story.\u003cp\u003eSo that\u0026#x27;s it.\u003cp\u003eI wish it could be more, but what they\u0026#x27;ve done is within reason, so long as it\u0026#x27;s valid and they\u0026#x27;re not making it up.","parent":"15472662","id":"15475702"}
{"by":"mafribe","time":"1432394840","timestamp":"2015-05-23 15:27:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     men can take equal paternity leave as women. And it is used sometimes, actually.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nBut that is missing the point. Paternity leave should be split in half, so commercial risk of pregnacy falls on both sexes in the same way.","parent":"9593050","id":"9593174"}
{"by":"danielha","time":"1175110793","timestamp":"2007-03-28 19:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His name is Victory Darwin. Holy crap.","parent":"6954","id":"7009"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1248377472","timestamp":"2009-07-23 19:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those statistics are from Wellesley, a women's college. It would be more fair to see statistics from a coeducational college.","parent":"719687","id":"720179"}
{"by":"thekenwheeler","time":"1396363599","timestamp":"2014-04-01 14:46:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I took the mouse leaving the slider bounds as a cancel. So you are saying that if you drag outside of the slider area, that the slide should still progress as long as the minimum swipe tolerance has been achieved?","parent":"7508541","id":"7508567"}
{"by":"malandrew","time":"1493937038","timestamp":"2017-05-04 22:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In light of this observation, Google\u0026#x27;s current lawsuit could be viewed as an attempt to deter employee defection by signaling liabilities for potential acquirers, which will suppress the valuation of any acquisition.\u003cp\u003eGoogle was already at the center of the high-tech employee wage-fixing earlier this decade, so filing lawsuits to create deterrence wouldn\u0026#x27;t be that surprising.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14267003","id":"14269460"}
{"by":"corysama","time":"1466715293","timestamp":"2016-06-23 20:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shameless plug: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;TheMakingOfGames\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;TheMakingOfGames\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11963829","id":"11964238"}
{"by":"dublinclontarf","time":"1272268832","timestamp":"2010-04-26 08:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually I'm British/Irish so the only issue is country (culturewise I'm very Americanised).","parent":"1292918","id":"1294379"}
{"by":"kawera","time":"1439825163","timestamp":"2015-08-17 15:26:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hbr.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;what-you-miss-when-you-take-notes-on-your-laptop\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hbr.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;what-you-miss-when-you-take-notes-on...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10073228","id":"10073603"}
{"by":"ryguytilidie","time":"1338569894","timestamp":"2012-06-01 16:58:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"San Francisco, CA. Full time.\u003cp\u003eAcademia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.\u003cp\u003eIt's widely held that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. We believe that faster sharing of research will lead to an acceleration in research innovation: faster innovation in medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and other fields. Faster sharing in biology and medicine, for example, could lead to cancer being solved 12 months before it otherwise would have been, which would lead to millions of lives being saved.\u003cp\u003eAcademia.edu has over 1.3 million registered users, and over 3.7 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics tripled in 2011. Over 4,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,000 academics join each day.\u003cp\u003eWe need talented engineers to come and help us accelerate the world's research. We believe that there is a chance to make a big impact.\u003cp\u003eWe just raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812\u003c/a\u003e. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).\u003cp\u003eWe have a strong engineering culture. We're a 10 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.\u003cp\u003eFamiliarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at \u003ca href=\"http://academia.edu/hiring\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://academia.edu/hiring\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThe kinds of things you would be working on include:\u003cp\u003e★ building new features (a conference feature, a discussion feature for papers)\u003cp\u003e★ enhancing existing features (News Feed, Profile page, paper upload tools)\u003cp\u003e★ building back-end infrastructure to scale the site\u003cp\u003eWhat we're looking for are:\u003cp\u003e☀ 2+ years of web development experience\u003cp\u003e☀ Experience with the full engineering stack\u003cp\u003e☀ Passion for engineering\u003cp\u003eAll the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture. There is more information here \u003ca href=\"http://academia.edu/hiring\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://academia.edu/hiring\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eH1B candidates are very welcome. We will take care of the visa process.\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu","parent":"4053076","dead":true,"id":"4054410"}
{"by":"throw2016","time":"1478098003","timestamp":"2016-11-02 14:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I regularly use Windows, OSX and Linux and I think Ubuntu Unity in 16.04 is by far the most polished Linux desktop and for people switching to Linux that would be the best first experience.\u003cp\u003eIn many ways I even prefer Unity. OSX is becoming a bit stagnant and bloated of late. The Unity UI is fast, the effects are polished and not gimmicky, the launcher and search across apps and file is near instantaneous, driver detection and configuration is streamlined and everything looks well put together.\u003cp\u003eMost Linux users have put up with some pretty awful apps, UIs and configs over the evolution of Linux and I am glad how far Ubuntu has come.\u003cp\u003eElementary is decent but at the moment both Gnome and Unity have moved ahead and offer a more consistent and professional user experience for first timers.","parent":"12853531","id":"12855261"}
{"by":"gustaf","time":"1335816802","timestamp":"2012-04-30 20:13:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason they're at the top of the app store is because they built a great product that millions of people love. Video is a core technology on mobile devices and until now it's been really hard to record and post a video to Facebook/Twitter.","parent":"3911166","id":"3911191"}
{"by":"andrewchambers","time":"1427927676","timestamp":"2015-04-01 22:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you are confusing anonymity with something else. Bitcoin is entirely anonymous, but all transactions are public. You can create as many wallets and keys as you want, and you don\u0026#x27;t have to tell anyone you own them.","parent":"9307404","id":"9307450"}
{"by":"ConfusedDog","time":"1531763418","timestamp":"2018-07-16 17:50:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have seen PureVPN\u0026#x27;s advertisement quite often now. Contrary to PureVPN\u0026#x27;s business statement.  It does log users\u0026#x27; IP addresses.  Be caution using their service!","parent":"17543313","id":"17543314"}
{"by":"tutysara","time":"1321852723","timestamp":"2011-11-21 05:18:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"getting spoiled with the choices...what to say","parent":"3259773","id":"3260098"}
{"by":"nkassis","time":"1255754372","timestamp":"2009-10-17 04:39:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is worthy of a 5 hour drive.","parent":"886591","id":"886645"}
{"by":"RyanZAG","time":"1407062602","timestamp":"2014-08-03 10:43:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If only Apple could just implement this simple fix in xcode itself...","parent":"8127318","id":"8127606"}
{"by":"TerryADavis","time":"1445377143","timestamp":"2015-10-20 21:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1 Corinthians 14New International Version (NIV)\nIntelligibility in Worship\u003cp\u003e14 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. 2 For anyone who speaks in a tongue[a] does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. 3 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. 4 Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. 5 I would like every one of you to speak in tongues,[b] but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues,[c] unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified.\u003cp\u003e6 Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction? 7 Even in the case of lifeless things that make sounds, such as the pipe or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being played unless there is a distinction in the notes? 8 Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle? 9 So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air. 10 Undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning. 11 If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker is a foreigner to me. 12 So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church.\u003cp\u003e13 For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 15 So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding. 16 Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer,[d] say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? 17 You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.\u003cp\u003e18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.\u003cp\u003e20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 21 In the Law it is written:\u003cp\u003e“With other tongues\n    and through the lips of foreigners\nI will speak to this people,\n    but even then they will not listen to me,\nsays the Lord.”[e]\u003cp\u003e22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers. 23 So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind? 24 But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, 25 as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”","parent":"10419828","dead":true,"id":"10421991"}
{"by":"yubin","time":"1477923497","timestamp":"2016-10-31 14:18:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, the convnet is applied on 2d pixels instead of on 3D point clouds. If one have labelled 3D points (e.g. if a point is part of a car or not), one can train a network for recognition directly on 3D points.","parent":"12836767","id":"12836876"}
{"by":"the-dude","time":"1455129319","timestamp":"2016-02-10 18:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Spot on. I have heard it explained like this ( by Smeets, a Dutch reporter, whom I dislike ) :\u003cp\u003eMy recollection:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The riders define \u0026#x27;doping\u0026#x27; as going over the limit of detection. They all use \u0026#x27;forbidden\u0026#x27; substances but below the limits. That is why they can say with a straight face on TV they are \u0026#x27;absolutely clean\u0026#x27;. And two weeks later be caught because of a dosing mistake.\u0026quot;","parent":"11074149","id":"11074826"}
{"by":"spudlyo","time":"1268284399","timestamp":"2010-03-11 05:13:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My guess is that he tried to transition from finance into IT, but didn't pick up a ton of IT experience.  Perhaps finance isn't hiring, and IT isn't going to pay 6 figures for somebody without serious chops.","parent":"1182974","id":"1183060"}
{"by":"Yuioup","time":"1546921917","timestamp":"2019-01-08 04:31:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you still run UT2004 on the current version of, say, Ubuntu?","parent":"18848490","id":"18853160"}
{"by":"imanaccount247","time":"1417891111","timestamp":"2014-12-06 18:38:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Varnish is an engineering masterpiece\u003cp\u003eNo, it isn\u0026#x27;t.  That\u0026#x27;s very much the point.  They have spent all this time realizing that doing it wrong is bad and rewriting it to actually work.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;do you have any data to prove this?\u003cp\u003eNo, that was 2 jobs ago.  I\u0026#x27;m sure you can get a hold of the source code of old varnish and test it out yourself.","parent":"8708905","id":"8709820"}
{"by":"JudasGoat","time":"1532344719","timestamp":"2018-07-23 11:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have much personal insight but CBD is appearing in the news lately and other people have said it lowers their ability to \u0026quot;\u0026quot;give a shit\u0026quot; about stuff.","parent":"17589482","id":"17591908"}
{"by":"trevor99","time":"1323763587","timestamp":"2011-12-13 08:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"anyone know how long this might take to pass and become legislation?","parent":"3346439","id":"3346861"}
{"by":"chengiz","time":"1419169622","timestamp":"2014-12-21 13:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Talk of a misleading title. This is not even the journalistic principle, which says if a question is posed in the headline, the answer is \u0026quot;no\u0026quot;. The title question is \u0026quot;not even discussed\u0026quot; in the article. Which is ironic, considering the \u0026quot;Not Even Wrong\u0026quot; criticism of string theory and multiverses.","parent":"8779532","id":"8779734"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1408620306","timestamp":"2014-08-21 11:25:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also some big venue built entirely from denim, I heard.","parent":"8202619","id":"8206794"}
{"by":"nxc18","time":"1529811004","timestamp":"2018-06-24 03:30:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clearly it\u0026#x27;s exaggerated bullshit.\u003cp\u003ePeople put themselves through hell all the time; I\u0026#x27;d be dead if you could \u0026#x27;never repay the sleep debt\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eThey should focus on how miserable sleep deprived people become - that\u0026#x27;s a real, un-repayable cost.","parent":"17381484","id":"17384782"}
{"by":"zxcvvcxz","time":"1515444306","timestamp":"2018-01-08 20:45:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is exactly why I believe Basic Income would be a Big Joke.","parent":"16099333","id":"16100332"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1453285366","timestamp":"2016-01-20 10:22:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I expected them to become weaker on privacy the moment they partnered with Microsoft anyway. If you\u0026#x27;re still expecting Cyanogen to care about your privacy, you can forget about it. Time to move on to something like Copperhead OS, once it gets supported on more devices.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;copperhead.co\u0026#x2F;android\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;copperhead.co\u0026#x2F;android\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, and fun fact. Copperhead OS was initially built on CyanogenMod for device compatibility purposes, but they eventually dumped it for AOSP because CM\u0026#x27;s code became too complex\u0026#x2F;insecure.","parent":"10936794","id":"10937112"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1450358887","timestamp":"2015-12-17 13:28:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not exactly a fine line between altruism and price gouging, there is a \u003ci\u003ehuge\u003c/i\u003e scala of options in between. I find your comments in this thread hard to rhyme with your recent post about medical tourism. After all, if not for generics and your ability to move temporarily to a country where medical care is affordable you\u0026#x27;d be out a very large amount of money over and beyond what you paid for your treatment. Clearly - for you - medication and care where you live is too expensive and you too would have benefited from more affordable medication and care.","parent":"10751295","id":"10751313"}
{"by":"rvense","time":"1463138271","timestamp":"2016-05-13 11:17:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But those probability models are really far removed from real world\u0026#x2F;human experience. No human is going to claim a leopard skin sofa could be an actual leopard for example. Not gonna be even a little confused.\u003cp\u003eMhm.\u003cp\u003eWhen humans see a jeopardy answer looking for the name of an ancient king, they might give the wrong name, because quick, did Hadrian rule before or after Caesar?\u003cp\u003eIf Watson gets it wrong, its answer is something like \u0026quot;What are trousers?\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIt seems quite obvious that different things are going on there.","parent":"11689565","id":"11689726"}
{"by":"kawera","time":"1390968701","timestamp":"2014-01-29 04:11:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Been with gandi.net for a few years now; excellent service and 2-factor auth.","parent":"7141778","id":"7141820"}
{"by":"jaysonelliot","time":"1534112899","timestamp":"2018-08-12 22:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a pretty neat hackathon idea, but as an actual business, I\u0026#x27;m afraid it falls into the vanishingly large set of services aimed entirely at well-paid young urbanites who haven\u0026#x27;t matured into basic life skills yet.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve probably seen enough startups aimed at people who don\u0026#x27;t want to cook, do laundry, shop for clothes, manage their budgets, go grocery shopping, or other life skills that everyone has to learn after you leave home.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a nice alternative interface to Yelp. As a business, though, I\u0026#x27;d look for a bigger problem to solve.","parent":"17746497","id":"17746806"}
{"by":"Scaevolus","time":"1423878607","timestamp":"2015-02-14 01:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fun for interview questions: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/examples/strings.k\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;JohnEarnest\u0026#x2F;ok\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;gh-pages\u0026#x2F;examples\u0026#x2F;str...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9048046","id":"9048386"}
{"by":"iworkforthem","time":"1346000936","timestamp":"2012-08-26 17:08:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- start a blog -\u0026#62; blog about your experience, hits \u0026#38; misses while working on your 2 projects.\n- share your codes via github. lookout at the monthly hiring thread for job offers.\u003cp\u003emost importantly look around you to find issues/problems that people are willingly to pay a tiny $5-$20 to get it solve. build mvp, reiterate...","parent":"4425831","id":"4435519"}
{"by":"JoachimSchipper","time":"1285753541","timestamp":"2010-09-29 09:45:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, the OS must assume the common case. However, by the time one node has 90% of its memory in-use and the other node has 1% of its memory in use, it's clear that this is not the common case, and this should be handled more gracefully.","parent":"1738655","id":"1738796"}
{"by":"mgkimsal","time":"1336134336","timestamp":"2012-05-04 12:25:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've run a conference for freelance web devs 2 years in a row, both times at a loss (though the loss is shrinking each year) but have tried to keep the ticket prices down, but also try to cover some expenses for speakers (hotel or travel for speakers from out of the area, primarily).\u003cp\u003eTried to keep tickets at a max of $99 the first year.  Bumped up to $149 second year (with cheaper 'early bird' tickets both years).  Bigger issue was trying to get sponsors to help defray costs.  Given the nature of our conference - freelance web professionals (devs, designers, etc) - surprisingly a lot of companies weren't interested because we weren't 'targeted' enough.  I may have just been getting polite brush offs, but I'd contacted 45 companies - many of whom sponsor other tech conferences - and had 3 sponsors the first year.  A few only want to send a speaker and schwag, but no money.  Conference venues and catering staff don't like to be paid in bobbleheads and cup holders, unfortunately.\u003cp\u003eA note on schwag - I basically hate it.  I think it's wasteful, and going to conferences where I've paid hundreds of dollars, then given a bag with a bunch of plastic crap made in and shipped from China just gets my goat.  So we don't do 'bags of crap' at my conference.  I don't think too many people have missed it so far.\u003cp\u003egentle plug - \u003ca href=\"http://indieconf.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://indieconf.com\u003c/a\u003e is setting dates for this fall in North Carolina.  I remember inviting Amber to come speak at our first conference two years ago, but the timing didn't work out - perhaps we can get her to come this year.  :)","parent":"3927858","id":"3928050"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1479668706","timestamp":"2016-11-20 19:05:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We don\u0026#x27;t have similar qualms about voluntary mass blocking of ads.\u003cp\u003eI think the reverse assumption - that everything should be considered a valid information source until conclusively proved otherwise - is probably a more dangerous bias than assuming that some media does add nothing to the world.","parent":"13000204","id":"13000490"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1462563968","timestamp":"2016-05-06 19:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of omitted details there. A kite can pull its tether from one location to another location of lower potential energy, but how does it get back to the higher-energy location? If we\u0026#x27;re talking about a circular train on a circular track, half of the kites must continually have either a lower-drag configuration or a lower-wind altitude. That\u0026#x27;s plausible, but that\u0026#x27;s a lot of additional mechanisms, plus a lot of \u0026quot;cancelled-out\u0026quot; wind traction, plus a lot of friction as the train rolls around the track. Will there be power left over for electricity generation? Probably, but it isn\u0026#x27;t clear that it will be worth all the trouble. If a reasonable prototype exists, it should have been in the video.","parent":"11644411","id":"11646285"}
{"by":"DennisP","time":"1320763237","timestamp":"2011-11-08 14:40:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Latency matters sometimes. I'm an old-fashioned guy who still subscribes to a lot of blogs, and for that, a few days of latency is irrelevant to me.","parent":"3207689","id":"3210858"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1393640978","timestamp":"2014-03-01 02:29:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The competition should not be in the critical software. That much needs to be standard. The competition should be around fluff, construction quality, body design, brand, perks, horsepower, etc.\u003cp\u003eCould you explain your reasoning for this claim? Does competition lead to better\u0026#x2F;more efficient products, or doesn\u0026#x27;t it? Why do you desire to leave non-critical parts to competitive forces, but not the critical parts?","parent":"7322745","id":"7322824"}
{"by":"aw3c2","time":"1293617121","timestamp":"2010-12-29 10:05:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Downloading from P2P networks does not fall under that law. That law \"only\" allows you to copy from closest friends.","parent":"2048396","id":"2048405"}
{"by":"epage","time":"1497967213","timestamp":"2017-06-20 14:00:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know about OP but you don\u0026#x27;t even need to go to the level of checked exceptions, with their pain.\u003cp\u003eIn Python, you are encouraged to follow Easier-to-Ask-Permission-than-Forgiveness and catch specific exceptions.  Doing either \u0026#x2F; both requires you actually know what exceptions to catch so you don\u0026#x27;t hide bugs.  The problem is that the docs rarely mention the expected exceptions.  You have to resort to discovering them experimentally and hope that that exception was an intended part of the API contract and not an implementation detail.","parent":"14594565","id":"14594661"}
{"by":"dnr","time":"1444077784","timestamp":"2015-10-05 20:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a non-twitter-using software engineer, when I land on a twitter page, I still find it fairly intimidating and requiring special knowledge. For example, why is there a dot before the @ in your example? (I actually know the answer to that because I looked it up once, but it\u0026#x27;s totally not obvious.) What\u0026#x27;s with all the slashes in numbered lists?\u003cp\u003eBecause of the character limit, people use a lot of abbreviations and shorthand that I can usually figure out with some puzzling, but I shouldn\u0026#x27;t have to do that.\u003cp\u003eI still see url-shortener urls all over on twitter, when I should just see regular urls.\u003cp\u003eThese may be minor points, but it adds up to giving off the feeling that there\u0026#x27;s an in-crowd and I\u0026#x27;m not invited. It is much better than it was a few years ago, though, so maybe it\u0026#x27;ll get there.\u003cp\u003e(I\u0026#x27;m not even getting into the difficulty of actually following a conversation on twitter! Reverse-chronological order plus the lack of linking replies to their parent messages make it nearly impossible, but that\u0026#x27;s a well-known issue.)","parent":"10333777","id":"10334779"}
{"by":"brianbreslin","time":"1478014246","timestamp":"2016-11-01 15:30:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My longest travel was MIA-DOH-BKK-Chang Mai 33 hours of travel due to layovers etc. MIA-DOH was fairly pleasant on the qatar a380.","parent":"12845174","id":"12846611"}
{"by":"mackwic","time":"1368396076","timestamp":"2013-05-12 22:01:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a cs student, I must say that I'm very impressed. A dev kernel from the era where while(true); was absolutely forbidden cause of the lack of preemption in windows. Seems like a piece of History for me.\u003cp\u003eWould you accept to tell us more about what your team did, what were the goals and concerns about your system ?","parent":"5694242","id":"5696040"}
{"by":"EdwardCoffin","time":"1385153320","timestamp":"2013-11-22 20:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You believe that single atoms of the most reactive element (fluorine) will not be quite as difficult as carbon monoxide molecules [1] to push around?\u003cp\u003e[1] The pixels in the first of the two videos you linked to, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/madewithatoms.shtml#fbid=I5iCfOIIvqF\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.research.ibm.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;madewithatoms.shtml#fbi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6782156","id":"6783627"}
{"by":"rdiddly","time":"1513931385","timestamp":"2017-12-22 08:29:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does not, in fact, reveal why they\u0026#x27;re removing usernames. \u0026quot;It\u0026#x27;s time to keep up with the times\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t a reason. You are admonished that your real name is very good; shame on you, your parents spent effort on it! Which isn\u0026#x27;t a reason either. Don\u0026#x27;t hide behind \u0026quot;another\u0026quot; (i.e. the last and only) layer of mystique! Not a reason either.\u003cp\u003eThey are all peripheral arguments and appeals to emotion, which might help sell it to you but none of them explain it. That means the real reason is something that will fuck you over in some way.","parent":"15985368","id":"15986048"}
{"by":"Tom4hawk","time":"1504002423","timestamp":"2017-08-29 10:27:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Short answer: yes\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;gadgets\u0026#x2F;2009\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;intel-sues-nvidia-over-chipset-license-agreement\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;gadgets\u0026#x2F;2009\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;intel-sues-nvidia-ov...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.extremetech.com\u0026#x2F;extreme\u0026#x2F;57766-update-intel-sues-via-over-p4x266-chipset\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.extremetech.com\u0026#x2F;extreme\u0026#x2F;57766-update-intel-sues-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15122205","id":"15123321"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1511470929","timestamp":"2017-11-23 21:02:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not just have a canned response ready that you\u0026#x27;re happy to review pull requests and integrate them if they make sense. I\u0026#x27;ve never in my life asked an open source maintainer to implement a feature for them. I just send them a patch (pull request nowadays). If they like it they merge it, and if they don\u0026#x27;t they don\u0026#x27;t and I keep my own branch.","parent":"15765732","id":"15767767"}
{"by":"aphextron","time":"1499517850","timestamp":"2017-07-08 12:44:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The recent drone footage from Mosul is some of the most mind blowing, surreal stuff imaginable. God help anyone trapped in that city.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=IW_F2ntQOcQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=IW_F2ntQOcQ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14724767","id":"14725230"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1540097432","timestamp":"2018-10-21 04:50:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That crosses into personal attack. I assume you didn\u0026#x27;t mean it that way, but we ban accounts that do this on HN. Please make your points without resorting to it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18266458","id":"18266794"}
{"by":"tadruj","time":"1353953356","timestamp":"2012-11-26 18:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We're thinking subtitling might help with dubbing efforts but we won't go in subtitles direction for now. Amara has this field covered really good.\u003cp\u003eLong term goal is to become a YouTube for non English speaking users :)","parent":"4833028","id":"4833073"}
{"by":"tempestn","time":"1372411216","timestamp":"2013-06-28 09:20:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Absolutely agreed with this.  Opened the comments just to mention that while I agree with most of the article, Sqwiggle would be a huge no-go for me.  And that\u0026#x27;s essentially why.  Even aside from the big brother aspect, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t want it for the same reason I hate those setups where you put two desks back to back and get to stare at your buddy across the table from you while you\u0026#x27;re trying to concentrate.  It just doesn\u0026#x27;t make for a productive work environment.  I don\u0026#x27;t want to have to think about what I look like while I\u0026#x27;m coding.  I don\u0026#x27;t want to have to worry about how it looks if I walk around while I\u0026#x27;m thinking instead of sitting at my desk, or if I go to the bathroom too often or \u003ci\u003ewhatever\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eGoogle is actually doing away with online status as they move from Talk to Hangouts, and while it originally bothered me, I realized that I leave my status set to away all the time anyway! Having it advertised when I sit down at my computer - the exact time when I\u0026#x27;d prefer people not bug me unless necessary so I can focus on what I\u0026#x27;m doing - is counterproductive and useless anyway since I\u0026#x27;ll get their messages just as easily on my phone, and if they\u0026#x27;re important enough I\u0026#x27;ll answer them whether I\u0026#x27;m busy or not.","parent":"5955729","id":"5957000"}
{"by":"Eyas","time":"1457113712","timestamp":"2016-03-04 17:48:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like the real complaint is that Windows Store lock-in is bad (which might be the case for distributers, jury is out for me whether its bad for gamers).\u003cp\u003eUniversal Windows Platform, however, is an API that is strictly better and safer in many cases. It means an app can run on phone and PC, be sandboxed, offers power and lifecycle management features which the Win32 API does not, and a generally saner API.","parent":"11222919","id":"11225457"}
{"by":"oneeyedpigeon","time":"1499980218","timestamp":"2017-07-13 21:10:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use an app called bitbar which is very basic but allows you to display the output of a program in the menubar. I\u0026#x27;m sure there are similar apps if it doesn\u0026#x27;t exactly suit you, but give it a try!","parent":"14764961","id":"14765278"}
{"by":"Capira","time":"1459622156","timestamp":"2016-04-02 18:35:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right it does not use the HTML5 Geolocation GPS. It uses Google\u0026#x27;s Geolocation API to locate the user without asking for permission.","parent":"11410693","id":"11412676"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1372536761","timestamp":"2013-06-29 20:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you dislike their service so badly, why would you continue to use it?","parent":"5963538","id":"5963616"}
{"by":"thebigshane","time":"1340893771","timestamp":"2012-06-28 14:29:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is email a \"soulless money making machine\"?\u003cp\u003eYou have control over email: providers, client applications, encryption.  Sure, many many people use gmail and gmail isn't too different to facebook in this regard, but email itself is an open protocol where you can use a competing service and still integrate with others.","parent":"4171126","id":"4171835"}
{"by":"mpweiher","time":"1506679696","timestamp":"2017-09-29 10:08:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, the paper says it does.  It doesn\u0026#x27;t display inline content, I think by default.\u003cp\u003eThe paper goes on to say that then you don\u0026#x27;t get to look at those e-mails.  Yes.  That\u0026#x27;s OK.","parent":"15363751","id":"15364025"}
{"by":"caser","time":"1473948016","timestamp":"2016-09-15 14:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brewpublik is a curated craft beer delivery service to your home or office. They\u0026#x27;re a 500 Startups company:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.brewpublik.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.brewpublik.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12505316","id":"12506159"}
{"by":"SturgeonsLaw","time":"1437220035","timestamp":"2015-07-18 11:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve found this script to be a huge timesaver when setting up an OpenVPN server:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;Nyr\u0026#x2F;openvpn-install\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;openvpn-install.sh\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;Nyr\u0026#x2F;openvpn-install\u0026#x2F;master...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can also confirm it works just fine on the Raspberry Pi.","parent":"9907241","id":"9907318"}
{"by":"nkkollaw","time":"1536189598","timestamp":"2018-09-05 23:19:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These clickbaity, overdramatic headlines are getting kind of tiring.","parent":"17922205","id":"17922680"}
{"by":"xyzzy_plugh","time":"1459320843","timestamp":"2016-03-30 06:54:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A language is pure-software. The language isn\u0026#x27;t entangled in some proprietary hardware features. The language isn\u0026#x27;t their kernel drivers.\u003cp\u003eWhy would Apple care what you do with their language? You can\u0026#x27;t bring any harm to their business with it.","parent":"11387378","id":"11387418"}
{"by":"dump121","time":"1510568624","timestamp":"2017-11-13 10:23:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dara, the new CEO has said they are targeting a 2-3 year time frame for IPO.","parent":"15685177","id":"15685480"}
{"by":"Fricken","time":"1471038796","timestamp":"2016-08-12 21:53:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I climbed back down the same way I came up. This was early in the season in the Alberta rockies, and the crack I climbed was full of ice, and quite slippery.\u003cp\u003eThere was a ledge to the right of where I got hung up that led safely out of the danger zone, but it was just out of my reach, I tried traversing over to that ledge about 30 times before deciding my only option was to go back down the sketchy crack I came up.\u003cp\u003eNo one would have rescued me, I was in the middle of nowhere.","parent":"12278981","id":"12279053"}
{"by":"the8472","time":"1483468055","timestamp":"2017-01-03 18:27:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Carbon Taxes, EPA regulations, etc\u003cp\u003efew countries have effective carbon taxes. the EU emissions trading system isn\u0026#x27;t doing its job for example because they handed out too many credits which deflated their price.\u003cp\u003eRegulations also apply to renewables. especially wind and the necessary cross-country powerlines suffer from nimbyism.","parent":"13311061","id":"13311558"}
{"by":"amichail","time":"1303840905","timestamp":"2011-04-26 18:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you think such an approach would work with adults?","parent":"2486390","id":"2486410"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1465263781","timestamp":"2016-06-07 01:43:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My talks on ECC are an interesting example, as they\u0026#x27;re talks on research that I didn\u0026#x27;t myself do (Sean Devlin wrote the challenges for them, and we got the ideas for those challenges from lots of other people).","parent":"11851483","id":"11851861"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1473505243","timestamp":"2016-09-10 11:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, but no-one will switch because no-one wants to start their lens collection again.","parent":"12467581","id":"12468658"}
{"by":"salman89","time":"1346262287","timestamp":"2012-08-29 17:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article is pretty off. This is not the \"feature\" of PadMapper. PadMapper made it easy to locate aggregate postings on Craigslist, along with the ability to filter those postings by attributes. Additionally, they provide some auxiliary information, such as pricing vs median pricing, WalkScore, etc. Craigslist just added an embedded map on the page - something that wasn't already too far away with a click to \"google map\".\u003cp\u003eMore of the same sensationalist journalism.","parent":"4449365","id":"4449973"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1269487224","timestamp":"2010-03-25 03:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Half Life in particular strikes me as a surprising gap in the hall of fame list.  And if you look carefully at what little is exposed, there's a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of information that's implied, and a lot of mysteries that will (hopefully) be revealed in later games.  You can practically play the game on instinct alone, and it's intriguing if you look at it carefully, it's brilliant.  Heck, the whole series is like this, though HL2:E1 is a bit gimmicky gameplay-wise.\u003cp\u003ePortal \u003ci\u003eoozes\u003c/i\u003e design-awesome, it probably belongs in the list too.  The biggest detractors I can see is that the world is pretty small, and thus the story and characters are pretty narrow (though done very well), and the puzzles take away from that world somewhat (they're just sort of \"there\", they're only part of the story because you have to go through them).","parent":"1217369","id":"1217616"}
{"by":"jaredsohn","time":"1331458107","timestamp":"2012-03-11 09:28:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;That includes the Bay Area.  As much as everyone wants to believe it isn't true, it's true.\u003cp\u003eSource?  Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (or at least some.)  There is plenty of evidence that counters your claim.  (To start with, craigslist.org/sof has 90 listings on Friday while in 2004 I remember when it had like 8.)","parent":"3689975","id":"3690032"}
{"by":"coliveira","time":"1514489526","timestamp":"2017-12-28 19:32:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; typical undertone on HN of \u0026quot;regulation is bad by definition\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis is pure ancap, \u0026quot;Austrian school\u0026quot; ideology. They define regulation as bad by definition, because supposedly it goes against \u0026quot;freedom\u0026quot;. This works as a clutch so that if you say anything bad against capitalism they will retort \u0026quot;it is regulation\u0026quot;, even thought nobody ever saw (and never will see) an economic system without laws and regulations.","parent":"16023348","id":"16024257"}
{"by":"zmw","time":"1536513800","timestamp":"2018-09-09 17:23:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To add a little bit to my UI complaints: I recall that one of the original designs goals of Chrome was to reduce the chrome (ref: 2008 Chrome comic book). Over the years I’ve had a number of UI complaints with Chrome too and actually switched to Opera multiple times, but overall I think they did a good job at hiding the chrome and presenting what really matters. On the other hand, Firefox UI elements and cues stand out and intrude even after disabling everything I can find. Maybe some people prefer that for “usability”, but I personally prefer minimal UIs (hint: Apple user) and find them perfectly usable.","parent":"17944743","id":"17946842"}
{"by":"malisper","time":"1409582621","timestamp":"2014-09-01 14:43:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Chicago\u003cp\u003eRemote: Yes\u003cp\u003eWilling to Relocate: No\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: Common Lisp, Emacs, Scheme\u003cp\u003eResume: My Resume is available in PDF and in Org Mode.\u003cp\u003ePDF: \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw9be9U3doKBVnE5d1FxZEtQWkE/edit?usp=sharing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;file\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;0Bw9be9U3doKBVnE5d1FxZEtQWkE...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrg Mode: \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw9be9U3doKBeTllcU5sbW9LdEE/edit?usp=sharing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;file\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;0Bw9be9U3doKBeTllcU5sbW9LdEE...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary: I am a 17 year old, looking for real world experience.\u003cp\u003eEmail: michaelmalis2@gmail.com (I trust spam filters)","parent":"8252732","id":"8253068"}
{"by":"rasz_pl","time":"1447866162","timestamp":"2015-11-18 17:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"for truly impressive look up Bleemcast!, Playstation emulator running on Dreamcast.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=5-tQX-XZhX0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=5-tQX-XZhX0\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10587159","id":"10588976"}
{"by":"lifeguard","time":"1368045184","timestamp":"2013-05-08 20:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google Timothy Ferriss, he has written a lot about this topic.","parent":"5676710","id":"5676725"}
{"by":"Xcelerate","time":"1450294486","timestamp":"2015-12-16 19:34:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, indeed.  I forgot the part where he mentions that he doesn\u0026#x27;t like living alone.  You sure about the P though?  His thoughts on his projects include lots of specific plans and he seems rather certain about his decisions (whereas P types tend to get caught in a quagmire of possibilities).","parent":"10746528","id":"10746651"}
{"by":"hrkristian","time":"1388501265","timestamp":"2013-12-31 14:47:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find there\u0026#x27;s some truth to his philosophy, though. There doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to go even a week between my having said or thought something, and then realising I\u0026#x27;ve been a fool or at best not quite correct in my reasoning.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m 25 years old, and it\u0026#x27;s been one of -if not \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e- most important discovery of my life so far that compared to those older than me, I know hilariously little about (all aspects of) life.\u003cp\u003eOf course young people add value, we do after all make our own world by our subjective views, but those older than you generally have had more time to explore more of those views, and have a much richer notion of how things are and can be.","parent":"6988959","id":"6990643"}
{"by":"err4nt","time":"1390790855","timestamp":"2014-01-27 02:47:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Get an agent, if you\u0026#x27;re that in demand you can hire somebody else to handle your recruiting and opporunitites for you?","parent":"7128343","id":"7128427"}
{"by":"pault","time":"1542655509","timestamp":"2018-11-19 19:25:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lately Netflix has been trying pretty hard to get me to come in for an interview. They don\u0026#x27;t seem to understand that because I make $200k\u0026#x2F;yr doing contract work in Austin, they would have to pay me $500k\u0026#x2F;yr to not take a relative pay cut. I know they pay well, but no company in CA will be able to offer me the same income to cost of living ratio that I have here.","parent":"18487450","id":"18488940"}
{"by":"busterarm","time":"1473811154","timestamp":"2016-09-13 23:59:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...Are you sure?  I was pretty sure that it gets it from the same place as xmalloc...wouldn\u0026#x27;t that be in libc?","parent":"12493130","id":"12493247"}
{"by":"jdright","time":"1499695150","timestamp":"2017-07-10 13:59:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best solution today for distributed build is: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastbuild.org\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;home.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastbuild.org\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;home.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is faster than IncrediBuild, even faster than SN-DBS and has multi-platform support, the only problem is that it requires its own build script.","parent":"14734631","id":"14735934"}
{"by":"afpx","time":"1541358578","timestamp":"2018-11-04 19:09:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is this a bubble? Unlike previous bubbles, the current technology surge is actually funded by real value, real demand, real revenues, and gigantic profits.","parent":"18377466","id":"18377510"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1353016294","timestamp":"2012-11-15 21:51:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You think that almost every Android user uses a third party browser? Seriously?","parent":"4790350","id":"4790970"}
{"by":"dominotw","time":"1436994090","timestamp":"2015-07-15 21:01:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I threw mine out couple of months ago totally convinced that noone can ever make it useful.","parent":"9893439","id":"9894058"}
{"by":"orasis","time":"1464314046","timestamp":"2016-05-27 01:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can think of two top of mind.\u003cp\u003eA deer crossing the road in icy conditions.  Its better to hit the deer than lose control.\u003cp\u003ea large tumble weed blowing across the road with someone tail gating you.","parent":"11774032","id":"11783357"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1509321182","timestamp":"2017-10-29 23:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it\u0026#x27;s probably just some hashing function mapped to words.\u003cp\u003eBut they do map the entire earth, including oceans.","parent":"15582174","id":"15582260"}
{"by":"onion2k","time":"1460008241","timestamp":"2016-04-07 05:50:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eVideos that you like are discoverable by your friends even if it is not viral\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eVarious startups have tried to do that for traditional content (getglue being the best known example), and, while quite fun, they\u0026#x27;re not good for surfacing independent or \u0026#x27;unpopular\u0026#x27; content. They tend to just confirm what\u0026#x27;s already popular. If this feature is going to help with discoverability it\u0026#x27;ll need to do more than \u0026quot;likes\u0026quot;.","parent":"11444813","id":"11445015"}
{"by":"kqr","time":"1438925980","timestamp":"2015-08-07 05:39:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, the [unordered-containers](\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tibbe\u0026#x2F;unordered-containers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tibbe\u0026#x2F;unordered-containers\u003c/a\u003e) library is based on that IIRC, as is the [hash map in Clojure](\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clojure\u0026#x2F;clojure\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;src\u0026#x2F;jvm\u0026#x2F;clojure\u0026#x2F;lang\u0026#x2F;PersistentHashMap.java\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clojure\u0026#x2F;clojure\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;src\u0026#x2F;jvm\u0026#x2F;cloju...\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"10019632","id":"10021057"}
{"by":"hdhzy","time":"1496947859","timestamp":"2017-06-08 18:50:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Currently? Lack of multiprocess tabs [0] and native U2F (available though third party addon, not on Android). Personally I also like how Google deals with Symantec issues.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;Firefox\u0026#x2F;Multiprocess_Firefox\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;Firefox\u0026#x2F;Multiprocess_Fir...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14516056","id":"14516223"}
{"by":"manarth","time":"1483790770","timestamp":"2017-01-07 12:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the point of welfare programmes: to provide the basic life-sustaining means to those who don\u0026#x27;t have them. Food, housing, warmth, and sanitation.\u003cp\u003eSo yes, many societies do use taxes to provide free food (or food-stamps, or a welfare cheque) to those in need, to stop us having to starve in the streets.","parent":"13343671","id":"13343710"}
{"by":"magnetic","time":"1531672417","timestamp":"2018-07-15 16:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did 300M people live in that village? Isn\u0026#x27;t scale one of the things at play here?","parent":"17535654","id":"17535908"}
{"by":"tonyztan","time":"1524940460","timestamp":"2018-04-28 18:34:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It should be the government\u0026#x27;s responsibility to ensure you\u0026#x27;re not a citizen, but until they do this reliabily, you can get a U.S. passport card. It proves citizenship and is credit card sized.","parent":"16945826","id":"16948900"}
{"by":"ludicast","time":"1377093997","timestamp":"2013-08-21 14:06:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree almost 100%. I do use vim mode for bash and it works great because lateral motion is most of what I\u0026#x27;m doing there.\u003cp\u003eBut Sublime\u0026#x27;s vintage mode actually was the breaking point for me, and made me go whole hog back to vim. Close enough to cause problems when it fails, like faux amis in a foreign language.","parent":"6247849","id":"6250321"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1538456889","timestamp":"2018-10-02 05:08:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Making patents even slower to approve, and even more big-corp-only focused.\u003cp\u003eYou win some, you lose some.  I\u0026#x27;m not even sure which I\u0026#x27;d prefer.  It\u0026#x27;s all just fairly terrible.","parent":"18118943","id":"18118958"}
{"by":"dewey","time":"1426529504","timestamp":"2015-03-16 18:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, indeed. My bad, that\u0026#x27;s good to know  - It seems that I misread that code review section where they were talking about GitHub issues.\u003cp\u003eThanks!","parent":"9213142","id":"9213182"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1213788297","timestamp":"2008-06-18 11:24:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But you do not have to be the very fast, yet.","parent":"220498","id":"220673"}
{"by":"zosima","time":"1363292172","timestamp":"2013-03-14 20:16:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Religious schism had little to no bearing on the sudden development of trade and exploration in the renaissance, both of which opened the New World.\u003cp\u003eThe spanish fight against the moslems was certainly immediately temporally connected. That fact is definitely relevant. But the most important part of the argument is not that the struggle between elites were of religious origin, but that there was an \u003ci\u003eintense\u003c/i\u003e struggle between elites. In fact Columbus' travels were probably supported by Isabel of Spain exactly because Spain had made an agreement with Portugal of not sailing in the southern atlantic waters.\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the Americas did likely not have a great impact before much later. I don't know if Luther's exact words ever were very important. I don't think so. But the excuse they gave many small kings to separate from the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic church and to go on crusades \u003ci\u003einside\u003c/i\u003e of Europe certainly put fuel to the fire of european history. The thirty year war had much greater impact on european philosophy in the 17th century than America did.","parent":"5375415","id":"5377431"}
{"by":"ioeu","time":"1440439328","timestamp":"2015-08-24 18:02:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your abstract visual debugger is really cool! I was thinking about pursuing something similar for my bachelor thesis but ended up doing something much different.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m curious to learn more about your insights regarding the subject, where can I find more information?\u003cp\u003eAlso curious to learn what made you go from thinking \u0026quot;this was you\u0026quot; to thinking another lifestyle could make you happier, which lifestyle? Why?\u003cp\u003eEdit: Going through your submissions now (:","parent":"10111598","id":"10111778"}
{"by":"idlewords","time":"1267074630","timestamp":"2010-02-25 05:10:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neither of those chemicals is particularly dense, and as a bonus HS is incredibly poisonous.  Just so you have something to worry about in both propellant tanks.\u003cp\u003eThere are propellants that give you more zing per gram than a gasoline/air mixture, but the improvement is not that great.   Gasoline is near the limit of energy density for practical chemical fuels - see \u003ca href=\"http://physics.info/energy-chemical/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://physics.info/energy-chemical/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1149702","id":"1150060"}
{"by":"styfle","time":"1542396037","timestamp":"2018-11-16 19:20:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s a good point. The Pi is really meant for quick prototypes or teaching students, not enterprise work.","parent":"18460781","id":"18471228"}
{"by":"trustfundbaby","time":"1307033426","timestamp":"2011-06-02 16:50:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see your point but I think that's a bit different, mozilla and webkit do that as a way of providing css features that \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e eventually make their way into standard CSS ... Microsoft has this bad habit of doing things totally different and trying to force them on everybody.\u003cp\u003eThe html5/javascript thing sounds \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e exciting though. Lets see what happens.","parent":"2612674","id":"2612747"}
{"by":"SandB0x","time":"1258279224","timestamp":"2009-11-15 10:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Monopoly?","parent":"942783","id":"942800"}
{"by":"argonaut","time":"1362023805","timestamp":"2013-02-28 03:56:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless these camera geeks are also software developers that actively follow open-source projects, I doubt they actually care. The intersection between those two groups, multiplied by the very slight amount of trust that is gained (teyc was right in that users don't care about your code, they care about other users), while non-zero, is not substantial enough to warrant open-sourcing and all the hurdles that come with it.","parent":"5294636","id":"5296883"}
{"by":"ocschwar","time":"1445895477","timestamp":"2015-10-26 21:37:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s historical precedent. The reason the American Revolution was in Massachusetts was that Boston was full of apprentices sent in from the countryside. Young men, barely paid, under pressure, and fully aware that of 7-8 apprentices in a house, only one can succeed the master. And at the age when men think with their dongs.","parent":"10452173","id":"10454668"}
{"by":"gvx","time":"1502986066","timestamp":"2017-08-17 16:07:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks very nice. By the way, why didn\u0026#x27;t you make a landing page for Appster with Appster?","parent":"15037218","id":"15038009"}
{"by":"thirdsun","time":"1541514528","timestamp":"2018-11-06 14:28:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s about 138 ppi which is rather close to non-HiDPI displays and shoudl be noticeably less crips than an iMac 5K (at 217 ppi).","parent":"18391161","id":"18391241"}
{"by":"d2","time":"1301505115","timestamp":"2011-03-30 17:11:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good tips. Ask for more than you think you'll get. Throw out a price before the buyer does that is high as it will create the perception of value. [Google \"Price Anchoring\"]. If they throw out a price first, flinch. [It sounds silly, but it works. Read The Art of Power Negotiating for more tips]","parent":"2388076","id":"2388160"}
{"by":"r00fus","time":"1406136932","timestamp":"2014-07-23 17:35:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://allthingsd.com/20130510/elon-musk-and-david-sacks-depart-fwd-us-mark-zuckerbergs-political-action-group/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;allthingsd.com\u0026#x2F;20130510\u0026#x2F;elon-musk-and-david-sacks-dep...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuying influence can look dirty, especially when it runs opposed to your stated goals.","parent":"8073295","id":"8075654"}
{"by":"fantasticsid","time":"1467390183","timestamp":"2016-07-01 16:23:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never learned \u0026#x27;all conventions\u0026#x27;. There are countless cases where I had to dig into source code to find out how a certain feature is working\u0026#x2F;how it works with another feature\u0026#x2F;when the abstraction does not work the way I want\u003cp\u003eI guess being implicit just makes it harder to find out which part of abstraction is leaking when it happens..\u003cp\u003eBut again I\u0026#x27;m not a good rails programmer. I was just never a fan of how conventions play such a big part, and was not well documented.","parent":"12014147","id":"12017453"}
{"by":"sedachv","time":"1410232819","timestamp":"2014-09-09 03:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m in the minority, but that\u0026#x27;s something that annoys me about Scheme. Lisp-style list processing code is more concise when nil is false. I also think array-processing or Haskell list style code is better than Lisp style list code, so IMO most Scheme code ends up with the worst of both worlds.","parent":"8287455","id":"8288587"}
{"by":"l33tbro","time":"1469524012","timestamp":"2016-07-26 09:06:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Got it.  I\u0026#x27;m a hobbyist stand-up, so this will be helpful.","parent":"12157859","id":"12164281"}
{"by":"Double_a_92","time":"1541404991","timestamp":"2018-11-05 08:03:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; people who installed our news reader app were 4-8 times more engaged\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s maybe because people that are engaged with something could be more willing to install the app. Also once the app is installed there is an icon on your phone constantly reminding you to use it.","parent":"18380641","id":"18380652"}
{"by":"noir_lord","time":"1453984671","timestamp":"2016-01-28 12:37:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was big into lifting in my twenties, was very healthy.\u003cp\u003eThese days I have a rare spinal condition that limits me to lifting 25lbs Max, so I\u0026#x27;ve had to exercise differently, I run and cycle (cycled for years) and have started Pilate\u0026#x27;s, the Pilate\u0026#x27;s made a massive difference to quality of life, its amazing how back pain over a long period causes postural changes your arent aware off as you instinctively restrict your own motion to minimise pain.","parent":"10987754","id":"10987787"}
{"by":"chongli","time":"1537034327","timestamp":"2018-09-15 17:58:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think your confusion arises from the fact that this discussion is about two different thought experiments: the \u003ci\u003ebrain in a vat\u003c/i\u003e [1] (a la \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c/i\u003e) and proper solipsism (which implies no real world at all, not even a vat). [2]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Solipsism\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Solipsism\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Brain_in_a_vat\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Brain_in_a_vat\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17994225","id":"17995296"}
{"by":"puzzle-out","time":"1229723475","timestamp":"2008-12-19 21:51:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I downloaded a relatively successful IT company's accounts today. Been going for 12 years, profitable for 11, innovated product (now ecommerce platform developer) and brand, creating stable employment - 68 staff, doing 12million sterling turnover and two million profit after tax. Respect.","parent":"403720","id":"403898"}
{"by":"kragen","time":"1344121515","timestamp":"2012-08-04 23:05:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps it refers to the crash of Knight's own stock price.  I do vaguely remember a FT headline that day (Wednesday) about market prices falling due to the problem.","parent":"4339838","id":"4339974"}
{"by":"RossM","time":"1537522849","timestamp":"2018-09-21 09:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A \u0026quot;population explosion\u0026quot;.","parent":"18030827","id":"18038403"}
{"by":"saagarjha","time":"1527785570","timestamp":"2018-05-31 16:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; its incredibly easy to install system wide adblockers on Android\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t call acquiring root access so that I can install a adblocking app \u0026quot;incredibly easy\u0026quot;.","parent":"17197853","id":"17197876"}
{"by":"mars4rp","time":"1503116943","timestamp":"2017-08-19 04:29:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every developer that spent a year developing an app does so on the hope of  $millions. No body create a band to perform in their garage, everybody do so in the hope of being Beatles!","parent":"15049499","id":"15051681"}
{"by":"alanwatts","time":"1457101266","timestamp":"2016-03-04 14:21:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is assuming those increased sales and profits are disproportionately attributable solely to the executive. In reality it is the army of sales reps and engineers which do the vast majority of this.","parent":"11221415","id":"11223812"}
{"by":"wdewind","time":"1422938922","timestamp":"2015-02-03 04:48:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with your overall point, but keep in mind how much low hanging fruit there is to truly improve people\u0026#x27;s lives here.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a story: I had a small mix up in my taxes that caused the government to think I owed them over $10,000.  I called the IRS over and over again and was unable to ever get to speak to anyone.  It literally took 5 phone calls to figure out how to get into a queue, and then it had a two hour wait, and it\u0026#x27;s only open 9-5 so it could only be done during the work day.  I\u0026#x27;m lucky: I have enough money that I just hired an accountant to tell me what to do and the result was that the government ended up giving me \u003ci\u003eback\u003c/i\u003e over $1000.  Alternatively if I hadn\u0026#x27;t responded within 90 days I would\u0026#x27;ve forfeited my right to appeal it at all.  For so many people they need to take an entire day off of work just to wait in line, either on phone or in person, just to figure out what the issue is.  Hopefully they can fix it on the same day and it doesn\u0026#x27;t end up costing them another day off which can put their job at risk.  There is so much mind boggling inefficiency and it really ends up hurting the poorest people the most.  So don\u0026#x27;t feel like you have to be some kind of NSA supporting, jingoistic jerk to work for the government.  There\u0026#x27;s important, non-politically-controversial stuff to be done there that can have a big positive impact on peoples\u0026#x27; lives.","parent":"8988874","id":"8988897"}
{"by":"buboard","time":"1546536118","timestamp":"2019-01-03 17:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s happening is that it\u0026#x27;s been too long  since they introduced something that was not an incremental upgrade.","parent":"18816813","id":"18816874"}
{"by":"barry-cotter","time":"1486998364","timestamp":"2017-02-13 15:06:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Georgia has not had control over South Ossetia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. While it\u0026#x27;s still part of Georgia under international law it\u0026#x27;s never been under the control of the modern Georgian state. Said state invaded South Ossetia because they thought NATO (the USA) would back them up and the Russians crushed them.","parent":"13635665","id":"13635724"}
{"by":"tlb","time":"1393637735","timestamp":"2014-03-01 01:35:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The value of a finished battery pack is about $20 \u0026#x2F; lb. Truck transport across the US costs about $0.35 \u0026#x2F; lb. So indeed, proximity to installation locations makes less than 2% difference.","parent":"7322606","id":"7322697"}
{"by":"nordsieck","time":"1535483204","timestamp":"2018-08-28 19:06:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a bit of survivorship bias there. There was a very real chance that Python would get replaced by another language in the same way that Ruby and Python replaced Perl.\u003cp\u003eIf that had happened, you\u0026#x27;d probably still be in the \u0026quot;what a horrible rollout\u0026quot; frame of mind.","parent":"17860333","id":"17861869"}
{"by":"ggreer","time":"1434882666","timestamp":"2015-06-21 10:31:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are many practical uses for drones, but this is not one of them.\u003cp\u003eFirst, the drone must be outside to be able to escape quickly. That\u0026#x27;s a problem, as consumer drones aren\u0026#x27;t designed to spend weeks sitting outdoors. Even if a drone was weatherproof, it would need its batteries topped-up from time to time.\u003cp\u003eSecond, you will not have access to your phone or other signaling devices if you are getting busted. It would be very hard to trigger the drone surreptitiously.\u003cp\u003eLast, police are going to notice a drone flying away during a bust. And they won\u0026#x27;t be happy about it. For all they know, the drone could be carrying a bomb. This escalates the situation and makes a bad outcome much more likely.\u003cp\u003eIf you want a better use of drones, here\u0026#x27;s one: First response. Place drone \u0026quot;nests\u0026quot; every 500 meters in urban areas. Cell towers might be convenient locations. When ShotSpotter[1] detects gunfire, dispatch the closest drone to the scene. It can arrive within 20 seconds, record footage, and relay it to police. Currently, police and medics wait for backup before going to the scene of a shooting. But with drones to send the all-clear, they could treat victims sooner, saving lives.\u003cp\u003eFuture upgrades could even allow tracking of suspects. This would make it much harder to get away with firing a gun in a city.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gunfire_locator\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gunfire_locator\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9752457","id":"9752878"}
{"by":"mechanical_fish","time":"1214852026","timestamp":"2008-06-30 18:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, no. I've never had to fight that battle.\u003cp\u003eGood luck, and I hope some of the more experienced folks here (or elsewhere on the Web) can be of more help than I.","parent":"232205","id":"232284"}
{"by":"cocoflunchy","time":"1361114112","timestamp":"2013-02-17 15:15:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OP should really consider writing larger and \u003ci\u003eallow zoom!\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eLuckily there's still Readability...\u003cp\u003eEdit: well I'm not sure what just happened, but the whole layout has changed... everything is good now.","parent":"5235019","id":"5235409"}
{"by":"shedside","time":"1473156048","timestamp":"2016-09-06 10:00:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In what way are you not fine if you\u0026#x27;re using Stripe? Do you contend that you still need PCI Certification even if you\u0026#x27;re only using Stripe?","parent":"12434683","id":"12434743"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1419871507","timestamp":"2014-12-29 16:45:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667877/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pmc\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;PMC2667877\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The current evidence in persons who participate in elite sports activity, particularly in sporting groups susceptible to joint injury, suggests that these groups are at increased risk for OA as a result of their participation, but it is unclear whether participation in the absence of injury is harmful. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWeight and other health issues are a massive and hard to control for Confounding variable in most of these studies.  Osteoarthritis causes (weight, injury, bone misalignments etc.) are also likely to inhibit running.  At the same time running increases the risk of injury.\u003cp\u003eNote: Most of these studies are also talking about jogging not running as running is shown to cause damage.\u003cp\u003eHowever, from your link \u0026quot;Researchers22 found a significantly higher incidence of osteoarthritis in men (aged 20–49 years) who were involved in high levels of physical activity (ie, walking or running more than 20 miles per week). \u0026quot;","parent":"8810425","id":"8810489"}
{"by":"dododo","time":"1277251030","timestamp":"2010-06-22 23:57:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what are these guarantees you refer to?  most pass a battery of tests e.g., diehard:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/\u003c/a\u003e\nbut if you give a PRNG x bits of entropy, then it can produce at most x bits of entropy over its entire output.\u003cp\u003eall PRNGs have cycles: that is, they'll produce random numbers x[1], x[2], ... , x[n], then random number x[n+1] = x[1], x[n+2] = x[2], .... often n isn't as big as you'd like, and sometimes there are correlations among x[i] and x[i+k] you really don't want (linear congruent generators have this problem).","parent":"1453441","id":"1453628"}
{"by":"timr","time":"1229903778","timestamp":"2008-12-21 23:56:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really wasn't targeting my comment toward you.  This rant was a long time coming.","parent":"405846","id":"405877"}
{"by":"MBCook","time":"1395973227","timestamp":"2014-03-28 02:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But, Threes does have some \u0026quot;issue\u0026quot; - one is really poor startup times. It\u0026#x27;s slow enough that I am more likely to play 2048 in my browser, than bother firing up Threes on my iPhone. The piece assignment in threes, is also somewhat less pleasing to my experience than in 2048, for whatever reason.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll admit that still puzzles me. I\u0026#x27;m not sure what Threes is doing but it does seem to take an inordinately long amount of time.\u003cp\u003eAdding a \u0026#x27;loading\u0026#x27; spinner just emphasized that I was being forced to wait.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s actually effected my playing. If I go to open Threes and it pops straight up (it was still in memory) I\u0026#x27;ll play a quick game. But often if I get that \u0026#x27;startup screen\u0026#x27; I\u0026#x27;ll immediately exit the app and do something else like check Twitter or Safari.","parent":"7484610","id":"7484925"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1406481985","timestamp":"2014-07-27 17:26:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d argue that \u003ci\u003eParis\u003c/i\u003e actually represents the epitome of what the OP detests in cities because they actually replaced narrow, winding alleyways with broad boulevards aimed at road transport.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also a clear example of why the author\u0026#x27;s theory that street width is all important is wrong: central Paris is still very walkable with an incredibly strong sense of \u0026quot;place\u0026quot; because of the broad boulevards rather than despite them, whereas plenty of the \u0026quot;walkable\u0026quot; streets he highlights are either cul de sacs in suburban areas or pedestrianised zones in town centres usually accessed by car.","parent":"8092685","id":"8093340"}
{"by":"philco","time":"1330114705","timestamp":"2012-02-24 20:18:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes - TechCrunch is over.","parent":"3630805","id":"3630808"}
{"by":"dmoney","time":"1316660180","timestamp":"2011-09-22 02:56:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only developer who thinks this looks like their own job (albeit with different technology and health insurance)?\u003cp\u003eMy job breaks down to something like 25% tech support, 65% fixing other people's bugs, 10% developing new features.  Maybe I'm just bad at managing my career or something.","parent":"3024451","id":"3024663"}
{"by":"michaelchisari","time":"1502080656","timestamp":"2017-08-07 04:37:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re mixing topics up in order to muddy the discussion.  There\u0026#x27;s a conversation about power, amplification, human rights, etc at play in both Chomsky\u0026#x27;s positions and valid criticisms of his positions.\u003cp\u003eBut that doesn\u0026#x27;t address what we\u0026#x27;re discussing, it distracts from it.","parent":"14945280","id":"14945347"}
{"by":"pbiggar","time":"1438979593","timestamp":"2015-08-07 20:33:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was true in the early days. Now we have toooooons of Docker customers, so this thing is right at the top of our TODO list (and would be done already if it wasnt architecturally hard).","parent":"10024336","id":"10024832"}
{"by":"mLuby","time":"1502438025","timestamp":"2017-08-11 07:53:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless specific sexual organs are required for a job (eg surrogate mother, wet nurse), there should be no appreciable skew in any industry.","parent":"14987437","id":"14987502"}
{"by":"exacube","time":"1435561750","timestamp":"2015-06-29 07:09:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The craziest part of Project Fi is that phone calls and network connections do not drop at all while it is switching carriers\u0026#x2F;WIFI underneath -- there is a lot of low-level networking magic happening here, and the crux of this tech.  I hope some day Google will release some code or white paper on this.\u003cp\u003e- I\u0026#x27;d love to read a more indepth analysis about how \u0026#x2F;well\u0026#x2F; this interface\u0026#x2F;service provider-switching works.\n- I want to know if the signal\u0026#x2F;coverage is comparable or better than Verizon (which IMO has the best quality+coverage in the parts of the US that I\u0026#x27;ve travelled;  all over the west coast \u0026amp; hawaii).","parent":"9795085","id":"9796768"}
{"by":"sighlent","time":"1369804472","timestamp":"2013-05-29 05:14:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd also look at Mathias Bynens dotfiles repo.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5784452","id":"5784718"}
{"by":"klbarry","time":"1281923060","timestamp":"2010-08-16 01:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even in NYC, this is true. The majority of coders are not the mythical hackers of the valley, just as most businessmen aren't amazing. Just partner with people who work hard and are great, as there's enough work to go around in a start-up.","parent":"1606493","id":"1606516"}
{"by":"mod","time":"1422727622","timestamp":"2015-01-31 18:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did mean that, yes.\u003cp\u003eI would not be afraid to return if I was forbidden to speak Spanish.","parent":"8976121","id":"8977419"}
{"by":"srazzaque","time":"1485568557","timestamp":"2017-01-28 01:55:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d agree with this. Whilst 9-5mac and its readership will be focussed on what Apple is doing right\u0026#x2F;wrong, this may be ignoring the fact that competitors are offering genuinely compelling products.","parent":"13502592","id":"13504352"}
{"by":"tomjakubowski","time":"1480527420","timestamp":"2016-11-30 17:37:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"disclaimer: I am not a security expert. Reader beware!\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re using ssh-agent, maybe you could bind-mount your host\u0026#x27;s $(dirname $SSH_AUTH_SOCK) into the container, and then set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable to point at it when you run the Docker container.  That way you\u0026#x27;re not even sharing the private key with the container.\u003cp\u003eI imagine you could do the same with gpg-agent, too.","parent":"13072283","id":"13072744"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1355737552","timestamp":"2012-12-17 09:45:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Automatic vs semi-automatics is brought up frequently. The simple fact is that for killing a bunch of people in an enclosed space a semi-automatic is the 'right' kind of weapon, full-auto would actually be a lot less efficient. You'd run through your ammo quicker and you'd put many rounds into the walls and the ceiling.","parent":"4931557","id":"4931603"}
{"by":"PancakeAH","time":"1438359631","timestamp":"2015-07-31 16:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty much every city, that I\u0026#x27;ve ever been to or lived in is \u0026quot;on the cusp\u0026quot; of a tech boom. SF is actually in a tech boom. I understand the holds ups especially with the housing prices, and what not. I think there are other alternatives like San Diego, and Seattle that aren\u0026#x27;t quite as saturated but still tech heavy. I\u0026#x27;m not sure I would want to gamble with \u0026quot;This might be a tech hub in the future\u0026quot;","parent":"9979063","id":"9982624"}
{"by":"zyb09","time":"1346428207","timestamp":"2012-08-31 15:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nobody linked xkcd yet? Relevant Alt-Text: \u003ca href=\"http://xkcd.com/903/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://xkcd.com/903/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4459826","id":"4460184"}
{"by":"outworlder","time":"1519978379","timestamp":"2018-03-02 08:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Getting a push alert any time there is an error helps us respond to issues as soon as they come up. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOh god no.\u003cp\u003eMaybe if this system is not expected to ever grow in complexity. Otherwise this will become a big source of frustration really soon. And even if it does not, it\u0026#x27;s very easy to get a flood of non-actionable alerts for a transient condition.\u003cp\u003eIt would be better to collect error rates and alert on that. Also the other golden signals.","parent":"16497447","id":"16499915"}
{"by":"candiodari","time":"1525938966","timestamp":"2018-05-10 07:56:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but they only need to figure out which subscriber it is and start replacing his screen with content that is sure to infuriate their customers.\u003cp\u003eOf course this requires people who actually have the technical capability to do this. These are in VERY short supply in the middle east, so likely this company is purely a financial construction that outsources all it\u0026#x27;s technical stuff to the lowest bidder, which itself is a company that bought the system long ago from someone else.\u003cp\u003eSo it is simple, or at least straightforward with no unknowns, provided you can work with the technology you\u0026#x27;re using.","parent":"17036994","id":"17037094"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1305304418","timestamp":"2011-05-13 16:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not surprising, since the US has in general a much broader notion of freedom of speech and freedom of the press than Canada does.","parent":"2545085","id":"2545180"}
{"by":"qrbLPHiKpiux","time":"1546178658","timestamp":"2018-12-30 14:04:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why there are coders and why we have graphic artists. Outsource the job to them. I\u0026#x27;ve tried to do it myself, it\u0026#x27;s not worth it. This is why those jobs exist. We can\u0026#x27;t do it all.","parent":"18788244","id":"18789210"}
{"by":"nilsocket","time":"1541736764","timestamp":"2018-11-09 04:12:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn\u0026#x27;t they review badger from dgraph.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;dgraph-io\u0026#x2F;badger\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;dgraph-io\u0026#x2F;badger\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the comparison back in 2017: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.dgraph.io\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;badger-lmdb-boltdb\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.dgraph.io\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;badger-lmdb-boltdb\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt supports concurrent ACID transactions with serializable snapshot isolation (SSI) guarantees.","parent":"18410597","id":"18412275"}
{"by":"GoToRO","time":"1524382614","timestamp":"2018-04-22 07:36:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And you can use it as a washing machine \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=akJ9Zo5hhM8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=akJ9Zo5hhM8\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16891441","id":"16895147"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1477801110","timestamp":"2016-10-30 04:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Discussion of the original ProPublica article: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12820412\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12820412\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12818002\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12818002\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12827799","id":"12828138"}
{"by":"blunte","time":"1509103994","timestamp":"2017-10-27 11:33:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lack of paper ballots or other audit trails is the case for many voting regions in the US.\u003cp\u003eWhether it\u0026#x27;s that way to make election fraud easier to hide or just because officials are naive is up for debate...","parent":"15563426","id":"15567397"}
{"by":"sama","time":"1426875721","timestamp":"2015-03-20 18:22:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still want to fund a lot of AI companies.","parent":"9239377","id":"9239586"}
{"by":"thethirdone","time":"1489032119","timestamp":"2017-03-09 04:01:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.moertel.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.moertel.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e does a decent job of explaining some practical aspects for de-recursivying, but I\u0026#x27;ll give you a basic explanation of that plus a more theoretical answer showing that any computatble function can be written using only while loops and a stack.\u003cp\u003ePractical:\nIf we right all of are programs and tail-recursive (returning a recursive call or constant at the end of the prgram) programs they are easy to transform into simple while loops with no stack. The idea is instead of calling another function just restart the current one with the updated arguments.\u003cp\u003eEX:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    f(n,x)=f(n-1,x+1)\n    f(0,x)=x\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\ngoes to\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    while(n \u0026gt; 0){\n      n--;\n      x++\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nOther techniques such as trampolining and continuation passing style also help translate recursive functions into iterative ones.\u003cp\u003eTheorectical:\nThink about Brainfuck or Turing machines, these computing frameworks can compute any computable function using only what amounts to while loops and infinite memory.\u003cp\u003eGiven then that we can produce arbitrary control flow using only while loops, we can reproduce how recursive calls are computed in computers with stack frames (provided by our stack).","parent":"13825850","id":"13826866"}
{"by":"jiojfdsal3","time":"1533538116","timestamp":"2018-08-06 06:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my area, I have access to Comcast, Verizon, AT\u0026amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile and many other smaller ISPs. Since there is no ISP monopoly in my area, should these ISPs be allowed to block content?","parent":"17695571","id":"17695576"}
{"by":"choward","time":"1467232688","timestamp":"2016-06-29 20:38:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I shouldn\u0026#x27;t have to read a book in order to understand a \u0026quot;simple\u0026quot; build tool. And I\u0026#x27;m for damn sure not paying for it. Make something overly complex and sells a book for it. Great business model!!!","parent":"11953146","id":"12004635"}
{"by":"MartinCron","time":"1305325853","timestamp":"2011-05-13 22:30:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I don't disagree with this statement:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere are people who think that depression means 'feeling low', and that if you try hard enough, you can 'snap out of it'. These people are idiots. It's not a matter of being strong enough or dedicated enough. For me, like most people with depressive illnesses, there will be times when I just plain can't. In my worst states I can barely remember what a for loop does, let alone code one. Accept that there will be times when you can't work, and make the most of the times when you can.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an approach called \"behavioral activation\" that my psychiatrist taught me. Basically, instead of saying \"I'll do it \u003ci\u003ewhen\u003c/i\u003e I feel better\", you say \"I'll do it \u003ci\u003eso\u003c/i\u003e I'll feel better\".\u003cp\u003eDoing things I didn't feel like doing, that felt almost impossibly difficult (like putting on real clothes and going outside) was probably the most effective tool I've ever had with dealing with depression.","parent":"2546269","id":"2546454"}
{"by":"morgante","time":"1488172804","timestamp":"2017-02-27 05:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Care to provide a citation for people being asked hard algorithmic questions by CBP before?\u003cp\u003eTo be clear, I don\u0026#x27;t think Trump is directly responsible for this. But I think he\u0026#x27;s sent a signal to fascists and racists around the country that America is for white people and it\u0026#x27;s okay to throw your weight around. He\u0026#x27;s a bully, so he\u0026#x27;s emboldened other bullies (which, unfortunately, dominate law enforcement).","parent":"13741976","id":"13742066"}
{"by":"mkr-hn","time":"1379786646","timestamp":"2013-09-21 18:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is very subjective. I live in the hollowed out shell of a once so-so city. I\u0026#x27;ve also lived in a lively city with big buildings. I liked the latter much more.","parent":"6423805","id":"6423822"}
{"by":"ern","time":"1280936619","timestamp":"2010-08-04 15:43:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have read that breast milk tends to be deficient in Vitamin D: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/recommendations/vitamin_d.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/recommendations/vitamin_d.h...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1574259","id":"1574745"}
{"by":"lispm","time":"1452359663","timestamp":"2016-01-09 17:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Common-Lisp as a specification doesn\u0026#x27;t require garbage collection.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t mention it. Practically GC is required and almost all implementations provide one or more versions of garbage collection.\nAdditionally there are small language subsets with manual memory management.\u003cp\u003eThere are\u0026#x2F;were some Lisps with reference-counting-like memory management.","parent":"10871796","id":"10871975"}
{"by":"bcl","time":"1334926654","timestamp":"2012-04-20 12:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like a good way to make your code harder to read and harder to debug.","parent":"3867499","id":"3867646"}
{"by":"devindotcom","time":"1393526633","timestamp":"2014-02-27 18:43:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The promise of future profits amounting to more than what they would walk away with today, gained in a somewhat more respectable fashion. If they become the leading wallet in the world, they\u0026#x27;re sitting on a goose laying golden eggs. Doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense to slaughter it today for dinner.\u003cp\u003eThese guys are known — like the guys at Mt Gox. They\u0026#x27;re not anonymous, and they would run a real risk of bodily harm by such a public crime.","parent":"7313986","id":"7314049"}
{"by":"SkipHeadJr","time":"1320712788","timestamp":"2011-11-08 00:39:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"None of the information listed is private.","parent":"3208734","id":"3208909"}
{"by":"nlabs","time":"1269006376","timestamp":"2010-03-19 13:46:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to take the long shot odds, go for it.","parent":"1192481","dead":true,"id":"1204090"}
{"by":"ahoyhere","time":"1233528333","timestamp":"2009-02-01 22:45:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The OP was not talking about murdering a race or stealing from a bank.\u003cp\u003eIt's porn, people. Porn is pictures of people having sex. Consensually. Over minority age.\u003cp\u003eYou can say \"BUT NOT ALWAYS!\" but if the dude's worried about his rep enough to hide himself on HN, do you really think he's gonna do that?","parent":"461374","id":"461537"}
{"by":"flukus","time":"1486625262","timestamp":"2017-02-09 07:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. We\u0026#x27;ve had tools like firebase for since at least the late 80\u0026#x27;s and probably much earlier. The one thing they all have in common is that while they may make simple things simple (many even fail at that), they make hard things either much harder or impossible. I\u0026#x27;ve seen enough come and go that I won\u0026#x27;t even look  at firebase.\u003cp\u003eRemember when COBOL was created nearly 60 years ago it was intended to be simple enough that programmers wouldn\u0026#x27;t be needed.","parent":"13605205","id":"13605303"}
{"by":"nilved","time":"1472579060","timestamp":"2016-08-30 17:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Yes. If you are paid to advertise something, it is an ad.\u003cp\u003eGood luck with that definition.  Is a person wearing sponsored designer clothing on the red carpet obligated to declare that the didn\u0026#x27;t pay for it?  Or does that obligation only arrive when someone takes a photo of them?\u003cp\u003eI do think that sponsored posts are a big problem, but it\u0026#x27;s exactly as much of a problem as the product placement that buffets us elsewhere in life, and equally as impossible to prevent.","parent":"12390755","id":"12392199"}
{"by":"kyzyl","time":"1365798726","timestamp":"2013-04-12 20:32:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do 3/4 of my points presume an industrial setting? (1) Specifically says otherwise, and why would quickly getting something in hand have anything to do with your setting?\nI suppose (2) varies from person to person, but I've definitely done a heck of a lot of hardware browsing where I ended up with some crappy part from china that was the only thing they had that fit what I wanted. And then it broke, and then I went back and returned it, etc., etc., etc. There is something to be said about designing your hardware to fit your job, not the other way around.\u003cp\u003e(3) Also doesn't presume anything. Yes, most people do not have CNC machines (although I know several who do), but you might surprised how many people have wood/metal shops in their garages or basements. One of the other comments on this very story has someone talking about how having a buddy with a metal shop and a dump is just as good a FDM machine.\u003cp\u003eAgain, (4) has absolutely nothing to do with setting. How does being able to cheaply whip off multiple variations of a model having anything to do with industry? Aside from the fact that such methods are often used in industry, because it's a smarter way to do things. Most home-hacking happens one part at a time for exactly the reason I mention.","parent":"5540662","id":"5540823"}
{"by":"dtegart","time":"1306876623","timestamp":"2011-05-31 21:17:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The website appears to have been created in response to the inability of the police to bring the person, allegedly responsible, into a courtroom to explain why he is in possession of a stolen laptop.","parent":"2604463","id":"2604644"}
{"by":"thejteam","time":"1382470022","timestamp":"2013-10-22 19:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My daughter (age 7) used Microsoft Kodu at summer camp this year and really liked it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects/kodu\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fuse.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;kodu\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t had time to play with it, but I loaded it onto a computer for her and she occasionally plays with it still.","parent":"6593182","id":"6594251"}
{"by":"theBobMcCormick","time":"1263154482","timestamp":"2010-01-10 20:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think a desire/plan to stay in one place for an extended period of time \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a good reason to purchase a home.  The best reason really.  But I think if you're pretty uncertain about whether you'll want to spend 10+ years in 1 house it makes more sense to rent.  And I really don't understand so many people have bought into this meme that renting is \"throwing money away\".  The facts just don't seem to support that conclusion.","parent":"1042881","id":"1043571"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1418782964","timestamp":"2014-12-17 02:22:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  from a purely theoretical point of view. But the real world doesn\u0026#x27;t always work this way.\u003cp\u003eI have implemented practical running systems that work like that so it is practical not just academic papers.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; But the real world doesn\u0026#x27;t always work this way.\u003cp\u003eSure, sometimes you don\u0026#x27;t have choice. You get a 3rd party library\u0026#x2F;service\u0026#x2F;db that will shit the bed if something pulls the plug on the machine. You can try to identify those parts and eliminate them or mitigate it as much as possible. But sometimes you can\u0026#x27;t. Then try to characterise their behavior. Maybe have some external cleanup logic if you care to ensure data doesn\u0026#x27;t get corrupted. And live with it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Not every software in the world has the amount of testing for hard kills as an ACID compliant RDBMS - I\u0026#x27;d say all the contrary.\u003cp\u003eWell but it is something to strive for. If you write the software it benefits to understand what happens to the data.   Knowing a bit about file syncing, what kernel does with dirty pages, how\u0026#x2F;if\u0026#x2F;when to use O_DIRECT, using append-only modes, a write-ahead log. Think about using checksums in your persistent data, take advantage of atomic file system operations (renames),  etc.\u003cp\u003eWell I certainly saw the benefit and the return from running a better, well tested, well designed service that operates that way.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Let processes cleanup after themselves,\u003cp\u003eThink about that statement for a bit. How do you guarnatee processes \u0026quot;cleanup up after themselves\u0026quot;. Say a junior tech trips over the power cord of the server, how does the process \u0026quot;clean up after itself\u0026quot;?","parent":"8760104","id":"8760762"}
{"by":"Jabbles","time":"1370868754","timestamp":"2013-06-10 12:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is interesting, but it\u0026#x27;s a standard way of demonstrating normal modes, or the applications of eigenvectors. I would think most physics and engineering undergraduates have studied this.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not to say you shouldn\u0026#x27;t watch it, but just to put it in perspective - this is a topic studied in the 1st\u0026#x2F;2nd year of university, not a poorly-understood topic for research.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Normal_mode\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Normal_mode\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5853599","id":"5853973"}
{"by":"frabcus","time":"1378983495","timestamp":"2013-09-12 10:58:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really don\u0026#x27;t think either Windows 98 or IE4 were \u0026quot;first to market\u0026quot;. OS\u0026#x2F;2 and Netscape were available and better at the time.\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft\u0026#x27;s skill was other aspects - really building the whole products that businesses needed, and building a complex channel of services companies for delivery of installation, customisation and training.\u003cp\u003eMy hunch is that\u0026#x27;s still their advantage, above say the Google Apps team, and it\u0026#x27;ll come back into play as quick wins of Internet and mobile wear off and it needs deep integration into businesses.\u003cp\u003eHope I\u0026#x27;m wrong!","parent":"6373123","id":"6373298"}
{"by":"acc54321","time":"1432139786","timestamp":"2015-05-20 16:36:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m more bothered by Python\u0026#x27;s lack of homoiconicity (thus no good macro facility) and poor performance when compared to Common Lisp.\u003cp\u003ePython feels a bit like a toy Lisp with all the adult parts hidden.","parent":"9576717","id":"9577473"}
{"by":"archagon","time":"1540612821","timestamp":"2018-10-27 04:00:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In what sense? What kind of power do you suppose they had to do this?","parent":"18313543","id":"18314282"}
{"by":"hernan7","time":"1307474022","timestamp":"2011-06-07 19:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cringely: \"consumers have been leading the IT market for the last decade\"\u003cp\u003eMore like for the last 3 decades (the IBM PC came out in 1981).","parent":"2629576","id":"2630458"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1483555269","timestamp":"2017-01-04 18:41:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s plenty of discussion of cultural barriers to males becoming nurses...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=nursing+school+culture+males\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=nursing+school+culture+males\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI guess there is no one suggesting ways to \u0026quot;macho-fy\u0026quot; it, but more sensible discussions are occurring.","parent":"13320751","id":"13320885"}
{"by":"p_alexander","time":"1304285378","timestamp":"2011-05-01 21:29:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Palo Alto, CA - Stanford University - Full Stack Software Engineer\u003cp\u003eApply: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/hve1AT\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/hve1AT\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe're looking for a junior/mid level software engineer with an ability to work on front and back end code. We have a Rails/Javascript UI that uses a RESTful service built with Java (Spring, Hibernate, RESTlet) as its datastore.\u003cp\u003eOur team runs as closely to a startup as you can in the academic environment. We're responsible for building BioPortal: \u003ca href=\"http://bioportal.bioontology.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bioportal.bioontology.org\u003c/a\u003e. This isn't one of those research projects that produces a ton of theory but nothing usable. We're responsible for a full production environment that gets tens of millions of hits a month and have a full team of developers, including proper managers and even some QA (this is huge in academia). The project is well-funded by the NIH and we're halfway through year one of a five year grant.\u003cp\u003eYou'll have a huge say in how things get implemented. We're not scared to incorporate new tech and definitely appreciate what people have to bring to the table. You'll be encouraged to get things done with minimal supervision, but everyone on the team is excited about talking through problems as needed.\u003cp\u003eStanford Pros:\u003cp\u003e* Competitive compensation. Stanford likes to hire the best and we know we're competing with Google, Facebook, and everyone else. Salaries are competitive, obviously no access to options, bonuses, or profit-sharing :)\u003cp\u003e* Awesome benefits. This makes up for the lack of compensation to me. We get three weeks of vacation plus sick time plus PTO plus holidays. There's a two-week closure every December. Amazing health plans,. Free Caltrain and VTA. Alternative transit compensation. Healthy living incentives. Access to classes, gyms, libraries, and anything else the Stanford community has to offer.\u003cp\u003e* The work is incredibly meaningful and not profit-driven. Nothing wrong with profit, but if you're interested in just jumping into challenging work without worrying about money it can be a benefit.\u003cp\u003e* You work with people who are the best in the world at what they do.\u003cp\u003e* Travel opportunities for conferences on occasion.\u003cp\u003eQuestions: palexander@stanford.edu\u003cp\u003eedit: formatting","parent":"2503204","id":"2504138"}
{"by":"odonnellryan","time":"1462279601","timestamp":"2016-05-03 12:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You definitely make a good point. A lot of profit and productivity isn\u0026#x27;t driven back into doing what would make the most sense: making everyone\u0026#x27;s lives better.\u003cp\u003eBut, as a consequence of whatever we\u0026#x27;re focusing on (what is it really, anyway?) lives have gotten better overall, for everyone.\u003cp\u003eI think everyone would rather live in a Star Trek world. I would. Maybe we could.","parent":"11619941","id":"11620066"}
{"by":"JMCQ87","time":"1499953531","timestamp":"2017-07-13 13:45:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would say it\u0026#x27;s a general education bubble in the US that is still build on the claim that the system can work for everyone - as long as you just try hard enough.","parent":"14758983","id":"14761126"}
{"by":"reubano","time":"1469115871","timestamp":"2016-07-21 15:44:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just read about dask earlier today, very neat project! riko already handles parallel processing [1] but adding distributed processing sounds tempting. TBH though, distribution isn\u0026#x27;t high on the priority list. But I\u0026#x27;ll be happy to accept a PR if you are so inclined :)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;nerevu\u0026#x2F;riko#parallel-processing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;nerevu\u0026#x2F;riko#parallel-processing\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12137402","id":"12137591"}
{"by":"omouse","time":"1235593562","timestamp":"2009-02-25 20:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, we can admit that correlation but can you improve that it's only illegal downloads? But what about iTunes, Amazon, etc. and their DRM-free software? Don't those encourage supposedly illegal sharing?","parent":"494609","id":"494885"}
{"by":"blazespin","time":"1474756665","timestamp":"2016-09-24 22:37:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s wrong with doing pure research as a Startup?  Why does pure research have to only be the domain of Universities?  I think it was a great experiment that failed, but that probably goes for something like 95% of great experiments.\u003cp\u003eLots of pure research goes nowhere.  It\u0026#x27;s not like Geordie is defrauding the old and disabled.  He\u0026#x27;s working with really really really smart people with lots of money.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, we need more of this and less of SnapChat startups.","parent":"12572133","id":"12572951"}
{"by":"001sky","time":"1349584576","timestamp":"2012-10-07 04:36:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eQuality of life- the Bay Area has unrivaled weather\u003c/i\u003e: It sounds like you've never lived a whole year in SF weather! Although its nicer certain times of year in palo alto or berkeley, etc. =] To answer your question, though: consider specialty niche.\u003cp\u003eSV - For pure tech or big-blue-sky-idea-ish. Also, anything HW (viz apple, chips, tesla etc) or hands-on engineering.\u003cp\u003eNY -Doesn't have the \"tinker in the garage\" culture traditionally, due to high-rent and lack of garages ;). But for Finance/BigCo, Avertising/ad-tech, Data Analytics, Specialty Retail/fashion/etc, or Old Media (copyright/music/publishing), and EMAE facing international markets it's very competitive.\u003cp\u003e[ex-us]\u003cp\u003eLondon - Similar to NY for specialty. Lacks the VC and start-up bench-depth of talent to some extent. Similar to SF weather, better nightlife and public tranist. More $$$.","parent":"4622468","id":"4622614"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1292506657","timestamp":"2010-12-16 13:37:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One problem we're seeing is Sweden at least is that it turns out that offering world class education is simply not a cost effective way to attract lots of students.  Offering free laptops, no homework, lots of high tech gadget for students to play with and free trips to Spain turns out to be a far more effective way to attract customers.\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day most of their potential customers aren't that interested in education, and as such it doesn't make financial sense to spend too much on that aspect of the business.","parent":"2011907","id":"2011936"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1397569753","timestamp":"2014-04-15 13:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We have a free plan, but its limited. Ours is a communications product (sococo.com) and the free plan supports a small number of simultaneous users. Paid plans increase that limit.\u003cp\u003eWe track plans carefully. A certain fraction stays in the free plan, keeps using it regularly, and that\u0026#x27;s fine.  But another predictable fraction moves up. We can pretty much tell which fraction that will be - there\u0026#x27;s a critical mass of usage that takes off.\u003cp\u003eSo our free plan is a money maker - every month it grows our revenue stream. We\u0026#x27;ll never get rid of it.","parent":"7591024","id":"7591762"}
{"by":"rue","time":"1274731488","timestamp":"2010-05-24 20:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just out of curiosity, how do you \"clearly\" detect measles?","parent":"1374720","id":"1375552"}
{"by":"lookfwd","time":"1457348118","timestamp":"2016-03-07 10:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"=\u0026gt; \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gephi.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gephi.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e + log aggregation\u0026#x2F;tracing - see \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;opentracing.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;opentracing.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zipkin.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zipkin.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11238113","id":"11238185"}
{"by":"jjoonathan","time":"1424114419","timestamp":"2015-02-16 19:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would love to believe that the service sector will be able to absorb the displaced labor without creating insane, poisonous power dynamics that put large sections of the population into an unnecessarily horrible position. For the very reason that I would love to believe this, I am cautious. Do you know of any other reasons why I should let myself hold this belief? I don\u0026#x27;t find these very convincing:\u003cp\u003e* Faith\u003cp\u003e* Optimism\u003cp\u003e* Vague comparisons to historical events that differ in every detail imaginable","parent":"9058475","id":"9058645"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1358879596","timestamp":"2013-01-22 18:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Which raises an interesting question - how do you make money on a platform like this?\u003cp\u003eTraditionally you sell a development environment. You release a command line compiler for free, and a full development GUI for money.\u003cp\u003eThen you make some useful (but non core) libraries and sell those as addons.","parent":"5098085","id":"5098729"}
{"by":"ecma_horse","time":"1494723081","timestamp":"2017-05-14 00:51:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You absolutely should have knowledge of your target platform and whether it does TCO (and whether it kicks in for your code).\u003cp\u003eOtherwise, you may decide to just use recursion everywhere and then your stack overflows when your N is bigger than expected.\u003cp\u003eWhen in doubt, don\u0026#x27;t use recursion and don\u0026#x27;t expect that you get TCO.","parent":"14333483","id":"14333705"}
{"by":"illume","time":"1222135837","timestamp":"2008-09-23 02:10:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a webpage that's supposed to evoke feelings of 'what is this', draw attention, and also to provide a slight grin feeling -- for ninja appreciators.","parent":"311895","id":"311924"}
{"by":"zzzcpan","time":"1541778415","timestamp":"2018-11-09 15:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; since the OSI says a license should not discriminate against intended use\u003cp\u003eAnd why would an opinion of some organization funded and supported by unethical corporations even matter here? Of course they want you to make software they can use. You shouldn\u0026#x27;t though.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very reasonable to discriminate at least against unethical corporations. You probably don\u0026#x27;t want your software to be used in organizations that kill people or that sell censorship solutions.","parent":"18414930","id":"18415234"}
{"by":"vijaydev","time":"1284205190","timestamp":"2010-09-11 11:39:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I too got that quite a lot.","parent":"1681390","id":"1681393"}
{"by":"the_af","time":"1431957819","timestamp":"2015-05-18 14:03:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my own (very limited!) experience, Scala code is way harder to read than Haskell\u0026#x27;s. Even type signatures of Scala functions are harder to understand, and more verbose. Scala brings OOP to the table, but I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say this makes it a \u0026quot;higher level of abstraction\u0026quot; either. It \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c/i\u003e make it more complex, though.","parent":"9564396","id":"9564442"}
{"by":"ramanujan","time":"1317949258","timestamp":"2011-10-07 01:00:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, they \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e incredibly cheap relative to the value they provide. They aren't yet NetSuite but $50/month is not going to break the bank (and that's for a deluxe plan). There are plenty of upscale restaurants and successful businesses (like Salesforce, Oracle, or even Google/Facebook) that don't front page the price.","parent":"3081839","id":"3082220"}
{"by":"colinbartlett","time":"1391610148","timestamp":"2014-02-05 14:22:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would not take some offhanded remark from an outsourced, minimum wage, offshore worker as confirmation of anything.","parent":"7183682","id":"7183807"}
{"by":"nitrogen","time":"1447783771","timestamp":"2015-11-17 18:09:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is your alternative explanation for the claimed isotope imbalance?","parent":"10582863","id":"10582871"}
{"by":"sytelus","time":"1509313169","timestamp":"2017-10-29 21:39:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, \u0026quot;markets would work it out\u0026quot; argument doesn\u0026#x27;t work here. ISPs are monopolized businesses in USA. There are only so many cables you can lay out and only so many players who have capital to invest all that money. When one player succeeds in this game they buy off appropriate amount of politicians to close doors for others. All the ISP \u0026quot;choices\u0026quot; in USA you see is just an illusion where some re-sellers re-brands exact same bandwidth under their fancy names and ads.","parent":"15580535","id":"15581568"}
{"by":"rahoulb","time":"1517677950","timestamp":"2018-02-03 17:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There are real issues with non-annoying ads, like tracking, but I don\u0026#x27;t think most people know or care very much about that.\u003cp\u003eI speak to a lot of people who find \u0026quot;retargeting\u0026quot; deeply creepy.  The awareness of the problem is there. However, they don\u0026#x27;t understand what causes it, how it works or that it\u0026#x27;s even possible to stop it.","parent":"16298190","id":"16298435"}
{"by":"marijn","time":"1438693006","timestamp":"2015-08-04 12:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just commenting to say I (author) am here this is a good place for feedback or pointing out relevant references.","parent":"10002553","id":"10003067"}
{"by":"citricsquid","time":"1375969489","timestamp":"2013-08-08 13:44:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are downsides and pensions are not right for everyone, that much is true, however to describe them as \u0026quot;significant downsides\u0026quot; is misleading and is the sort of claim that has led to a lot of people now approaching retirement having nothing[1]. Pension rules \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e be changed by any government (as they have been a couple of years ago) however there is little incentive for this to happen in any impactful way: private pensions are what reduce the dependence individuals have on the state at retirement and the more individuals with pensions then the less the state (through taxes) has to pay out, this is good for the government, this is why the government provides tax incentives to contribute to a pension[2]. There\u0026#x27;s no difference between the government stealing from pensions and stealing from bank accounts or taking back property, if you were concerned about the government stealing from your pension wouldn\u0026#x27;t you have other concerns too?\u003cp\u003ePensions are certainly not a magic bullet that is perfect for everyone, they are however something that should be seriously considered by \u003ci\u003emost people\u003c/i\u003e. You don\u0026#x27;t have to make the decision between saving for a house or having a pension, if you can afford to save for a house then it\u0026#x27;s very likely you can afford to contribute towards a pension too!\u003cp\u003e[1] During the 80s and 90s a lot of people looked upon pensions with suspicion and opted out, now personal finance forums are full of people regretting this and blaming the media for the hysteria that has left them penniless. Most people didn\u0026#x27;t opt out of contributing to a pension to instead invest in stocks or property, they opted out to spend an extra £100 a month on luxuries.\u003cp\u003e[2] For every £60 I put into my pension the government matches it with £40 (roughly).","parent":"6178753","id":"6178822"}
{"by":"bos","time":"1316650336","timestamp":"2011-09-22 00:12:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It's worth noting that QuickCheck is used with functional code only.\u003cp\u003eThat's actually not true. You can use QuickCheck with \"normal\" code that has side effects, too, and it's every bit as useful there.","parent":"3021506","id":"3024233"}
{"by":"rahimnathwani","time":"1388196655","timestamp":"2013-12-28 02:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first few chapters of The Theoretical Minimum.  There is a book and also a free set of online lectures.","parent":"6973114","id":"6973548"}
{"by":"ptaipale","time":"1462114517","timestamp":"2016-05-01 14:55:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Financial institutions also advertise job openings for \u0026quot;senior COBOL developers\u0026quot;. They don\u0026#x27;t bother to look for \u0026quot;junior\u0026quot; ones.","parent":"11604995","id":"11606394"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1279038016","timestamp":"2010-07-13 16:20:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're probably right that this isn't localized to S.F. I have to imagine a capitol of the publishing world like NYC has more literary heft but even there I've heard that life tends toward the superficial.\u003cp\u003eS.F. \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a great city to just hang out in. Amazing food, great weather, and a generally laid back attitude make it very pleasant in many ways. I think the .com boom did a lot of damage to the city's culture by driving out everybody that couldn't afford to keep up with the rent increases. I spent a summer here in '92 and it seemed a lot more alive.","parent":"1511743","id":"1511813"}
{"by":"mojuba","time":"1177449103","timestamp":"2007-04-24 21:11:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can't really vary the price of your product to carry such experiments, so Joel found a way to do it indirectly. Just great.\u003cp\u003eThe results are pretty much predictable though.","parent":"16414","id":"16445"}
{"by":"ww520","time":"1286165293","timestamp":"2010-10-04 04:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might just need to discuss it with someone.  What is the technical problem?","parent":"1754101","id":"1754569"}
{"by":"andr","time":"1479325245","timestamp":"2016-11-16 19:40:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It could be useful to have \u0026quot;horizontal\u0026quot; episodes around a problem, e.g. three companies that survived a founder leaving.","parent":"12969562","id":"12970666"}
{"by":"jaclaz","time":"1526668432","timestamp":"2018-05-18 18:33:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok, still seemingly the trick Stuxnet used was looping a good copy of those fancy panels and (still through windows) changing (slightly) the operating parameters of the machine, so in this case Windows (directly or indirectly) was capable of monitoring the device and change its operating status.","parent":"17101943","id":"17103810"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1274739989","timestamp":"2010-05-24 22:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many people would say the hours where you are productive in order to rake in some money are – in some sense – wasted.\u003cp\u003eTime in which you can do whatever you like is what life is all about. You are truly lucky if you can make money with that but most people cannot.","parent":"1375691","id":"1375849"}
{"by":"philfreo","time":"1313721260","timestamp":"2011-08-19 02:34:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering Outlook and Gmail block them by default, it's extremely unreliable","parent":"2901771","id":"2901988"}
{"by":"kevbo","time":"1314915649","timestamp":"2011-09-01 22:20:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Evanston, IL\u003cp\u003eJunior Python Test Engineer at Leapfrog Online\u003cp\u003eWe're the leading independent digital direct marketing firm in the country, developing programs for Fortune 500 marketers to find and convert the right customers. We build complex app ecosystems with frameworks like Django and Rails sitting on top, with a mound of open source software supporting them.\u003cp\u003eWe're looking for a junior-level Python Developer to join our Test Engineering team, writing functional, integration, and unit tests in Python for our Django-powered business platform. As part of the Ops team, we also do light system administration and help write monitoring tools.\u003cp\u003eRequirements: an intense attention to detail, a love of learning, a passion for problem-solving, and a good attitude and sense of responsibility. You should also have experience with Python (or be willing to transition from another dynamic language like Ruby or PHP); be comfortable working on a *nix command line; and have general knowledge about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.\u003cp\u003eWe're committed to agile and open source; we use packages like mechanize, twill, Selenium, nose, and PyQT every day.\u003cp\u003eInterested? If so, we offer a competitive salary plus an incentive and benefits package, and a close-knit team who likes what they do and has fun doing it. If you think you're a good fit for this position, apply with your resume and salary history. kboers (at) leapfrogonline.com","parent":"2949787","id":"2952048"}
{"by":"jazzyk","time":"1439213711","timestamp":"2015-08-10 13:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can enjoy wonderful, flavorful food (including fats, etc) and be healthy and look like a model.\u003cp\u003eJust ask the French.\u003cp\u003eI visit France every year and I am always amazed how well they eat while staying slim. They don\u0026#x27;t obsess over health as much, they obsess over food quality.\u003cp\u003eAs a result they are ranked 8th in life expectancy vs the US 34th.","parent":"10034248","id":"10034442"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1458751595","timestamp":"2016-03-23 16:46:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m reminded that health freaks have recommended supplements containing phosphatidylcholine and precursors \u003ci\u003efor many years\u003c/i\u003e. It does make sense, in that phosphatidylcholine is a bipolar lipid, and plays important roles in cell membranes.","parent":"11345549","id":"11346060"}
{"by":"pritambaral","time":"1459347018","timestamp":"2016-03-30 14:10:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haven\u0026#x27;t used PS much – only used DuckDuckGo to find what each PS command meant, so it\u0026#x27;s possible I have misuderstood some, but – these are the bash alternatives, I think:\u003cp\u003e| :PowerShell | Bash: |\u003cp\u003e|Tab completion | built-in, OOTB|\u003cp\u003e|Get-help | `help`|\u003cp\u003e|get-command | `apropos -s \u0026lt;section\u0026gt; .`|\u003cp\u003e|show-command | `\u0026lt;command\u0026gt; --help` or `man \u0026lt;command\u0026gt;`|\u003cp\u003e|get-member | Inapplicable; text has a structure. Use `head -1` to find out, given structure is printed on first line |\u003cp\u003e|get-alias | `alias`|","parent":"11389119","id":"11389360"}
{"by":"AgentME","time":"1535478216","timestamp":"2018-08-28 17:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if they knew the site was static, \u0026quot;not secure\u0026quot; would still be valid. An ISP or malicious wifi network may be recording their browsing history, downsampling images, injecting or replacing ads, replacing executables with backdoored versions, adding fake login forms or popups to get the user to give a password of theirs, etc.","parent":"17858336","id":"17860952"}
{"by":"jasode","time":"1410962609","timestamp":"2014-09-17 14:03:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It just makes it easier to read the \u003ci\u003emagnitude\u003c/i\u003e of a number and get that extra visual reassurance that it\u0026#x27;s correct.  It\u0026#x27;s not easy to (quickly) tell the difference between 1 billion and 100 million unless you count zeros (1000000000 vs 100000000).  On the other hand it\u0026#x27;s very easy to discern 1\u0026#x27;000\u0026#x27;000\u0026#x27;000 vs 100\u0026#x27;000\u0026#x27;000.\u003cp\u003eThe standard can\u0026#x27;t use commas as a separator because using commas vs periods to demarcate components is locale specific.  Apostrophes look like a reasonable compromise because lots of calculators already use apostrophes to separate digits:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=14+digit+calculator\u0026amp;source=lnms\u0026amp;tbm=isch\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=14+digit+calculator\u0026amp;source=l...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8329898","id":"8329967"}
{"by":"amai","time":"1478706563","timestamp":"2016-11-09 15:49:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We don\u0026#x27;t have democracy. What we have is called \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Oligarchy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Oligarchy\u003c/a\u003e . And the solution to this problem was already know to the ancient greek:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sortition\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sortition\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election. (Aristotle)\u0026quot;","parent":"12907776","dead":true,"id":"12911023"}
{"by":"shifte","time":"1487235061","timestamp":"2017-02-16 08:51:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure what the point of this is, Material Design is built on solid design principles which create well spaced and easy to understand interfaces, none of which are goals of Bootstrap.\u003cp\u003eCombining Bootstrap with Material is like putting salt in coffee, and hiding with some sort of identity crisis. You\u0026#x27;ve named expansion panels; accordions, which sure, they do follow a similar pattern, but which library are you basing the naming on?\u003cp\u003eAs a front-end developer and designer, this makes me cringe.","parent":"13644311","id":"13658526"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1300914108","timestamp":"2011-03-23 21:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Solaris also replaced Samba with in-house code: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sun.com/amw/entry/cifs_in_solaris\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.sun.com/amw/entry/cifs_in_solaris\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIIRC this is a lot easier than it used to be now that MS has to publish protocol specs.","parent":"2360994","id":"2361445"}
{"by":"adventured","time":"1526594745","timestamp":"2018-05-17 22:05:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can dodge the new Bloomberg paywall with an incognito tab, for now. I assume they might change that later, however for now it always works. I believe they give you ten free articles (per month?).","parent":"17094013","id":"17096452"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1451672771","timestamp":"2016-01-01 18:26:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another article about this in English: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10822642\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10822642\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10822517","id":"10822705"}
{"by":"exDM69","time":"1475422573","timestamp":"2016-10-02 15:36:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well that was a bit light hearted but that\u0026#x27;s highlights the big difference: tup works bottom up, make works top down.\u003cp\u003eThe paper linked there provides a more thorough explanation.","parent":"12622519","id":"12622805"}
{"by":"misnome","time":"1462448651","timestamp":"2016-05-05 11:44:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  all kinds of crazy DRM\u003cp\u003eLike? I feel that we\u0026#x27;ve reached the stage where it\u0026#x27;s pretty easy to pay for digital music\u0026#x2F;streaming at this point. As far as saying that it\u0026#x27;s almost entirely easier than pirating music.","parent":"11635139","id":"11635238"}
{"by":"pclark","time":"1455660857","timestamp":"2016-02-16 22:14:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this sounds very inline with what my growth team is building at adroll.\u003cp\u003ewould love to chat: plc@adroll.com","parent":"11112091","id":"11113543"}
{"by":"tbrownaw","time":"1503317261","timestamp":"2017-08-21 12:07:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eNobody is ever actually offended by science\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people trying to get evolution banned from schools probably are.\u003cp\u003eSome of the responses I saw to the Damore memo, seemed to boil down to that some things \u003ci\u003eshould not be said\u003c/i\u003e regardless of truthiness.\u003cp\u003eAttempts to even look for differences in intelligence or I think personality by race tend to get shouted down rather quickly, because historically they\u0026#x27;ve been used to justify some seriously nasty shit.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe offence is manufactured to meet an end goal: the punishment of those who do not bow to the power of the ideology.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI really don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s all that calculated. There are things that people want to believe, or feel it is \u003ci\u003enecessary\u003c/i\u003e to believe, and they get upset if you tell them they\u0026#x27;re wrong (evolution), if you tell them they\u0026#x27;re only partly right (Damore), or sometimes if you even look like you might be thinking about questioning them (race).","parent":"15062943","id":"15063927"}
{"by":"eliaskg","time":"1406023586","timestamp":"2014-07-22 10:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I prefer \u0026quot;responsive\u0026quot; over \u0026quot;things that change when you resize them\u0026quot; because it\u0026#x27;s way shorter.","parent":"8068110","id":"8068142"}
{"by":"cribwi","time":"1395264518","timestamp":"2014-03-19 21:28:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny to see a new player entering the game to start button bashing and ruining the playing field in a matter of seconds :)","parent":"7431913","id":"7432012"}
{"by":"BinaryIdiot","time":"1429022844","timestamp":"2015-04-14 14:47:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So this reads to me that they\u0026#x27;re simply not going to update the ability to use GIT. Right now you can point to a repo or specific branch \u0026#x2F; tag but it doesn\u0026#x27;t read any of the versioning like bower does, so it can\u0026#x27;t handle versioning properly. If they updated the use of GIT you could completely eliminate the need for this feature.\u003cp\u003eThat kinda rubs me the wrong way; it feels like they\u0026#x27;re trying to force this monetization as they\u0026#x27;ve had plenty of us from the community wanting better GIT support for this very reason.\u003cp\u003eHonestly npm isn\u0026#x27;t a very complex piece of software, you could even replace it with bower if you want git with versions. I wonder if any competitors are going to spring up who can simply iterate faster. I won\u0026#x27;t even get started on their login system, ugh.","parent":"9373240","id":"9374637"}
{"by":"pilif","time":"1418920574","timestamp":"2014-12-18 16:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I say \u0026quot;code archeology\u0026quot;, I mean the equivalent of \u0026quot;git blame\u0026quot; without assigning blame - just finding out why stuff is the way it is and not who\u0026#x27;s responsible because that would be totally pointless, especially years after the incident.\u003cp\u003eI do like your spin however :-)","parent":"8767909","id":"8768083"}
{"by":"hdx","time":"1266031695","timestamp":"2010-02-13 03:28:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did lol, beautiful site though!","parent":"1122337","id":"1122471"}
{"by":"philtar","time":"1400739497","timestamp":"2014-05-22 06:18:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last I checked it was thousands of dollars a month.\u003cp\u003eSomething around the tune of $25k a year. Anyone actually paying for this now and can provide pricing?","parent":"7779146","id":"7782393"}
{"by":"npsimons","time":"1358044605","timestamp":"2013-01-13 02:36:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do regret the ad hom, and I don't have time right now for a proper rebuttal with links to far better programmers than I who have come down on the side of spaces and no lines longer than column 80, but I'll give you this: your basic premise (the one on the end of the title and the article) are true, and is a point I fully emphasize with. To be honest, I don't really care too much what formatting is used (and I can configure my editor of choice for anything you can think of, natch), but I insist that it be consistent.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, we don't all get to choose who we work with or that they use a decent editor, and either one or the other are usually lacking, therefore: no tabs, only spaces. Also, if you have a line of code longer than 80 characters, consider that that's an indication that it's too complex, and not so much that it's breaking some arbitrary line length rule. Does a function really need more than three arguments? Why not put them each on a line for better readability? Do you really need to put 15 operations on one line, when the compiler can inline them for you, and you can give more meaningful names to constant temporary variables?\u003cp\u003eAs for putting all code in one function (or even one file), I thought it was fairly obvious: you can make things hard to read by using too long a line of code, just as you can make things hard to read by dumping them all in one unbroken file (line after line with no reuse and no compartmentalization of functionality).","parent":"5045207","id":"5049759"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1409255976","timestamp":"2014-08-28 19:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t answer the question though; maybe OP just doesn\u0026#x27;t like to work in that environment regardless of its merits.","parent":"8238895","id":"8239362"}
{"by":"wereHamster","time":"1428424202","timestamp":"2015-04-07 16:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use RethinkDB as the backing database for a API server written in Haskell. So I have pretty strong guarantees that the data which enters the database is sane, and when I read it out Haskell automatically validates it against a very strict schema.\u003cp\u003eSQL schemas are not expressive enough to describe the data types which I want to store in the database. The argument SQL vs NoSQL becomes moot when any database is degraded to essentially pure blob storage. What matters to me is ease of use, administration\u0026#x2F;maintenance burden, and of course speed. How strictly the database verifies the schema isn\u0026#x27;t even on the picture.","parent":"9334898","id":"9335171"}
{"by":"fredBuddemeyer","time":"1244749451","timestamp":"2009-06-11 19:44:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"actually played this card even further once with billboards of bush \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigredwire.com/images/photos/bush_sign.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.bigredwire.com/images/photos/bush_sign.gif\u003c/a\u003e and a quote we put in his mouth. some newspapers balked but nary a word from w. everyone else loved it.","parent":"653169","id":"653443"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1398260560","timestamp":"2014-04-23 13:42:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow that\u0026#x27;s an interpretation I guess. I think of profanity as the untutored attempting to communicate, and substituting powerful but meaningless words in place of the right word.\u003cp\u003eThe Gettysburg address contained no profanity, and it was written by a sitting President. How does that fit into this social theory?","parent":"7633846","id":"7633864"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1402477774","timestamp":"2014-06-11 09:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So they\u0026#x27;re huge numbers, but still pretty small in comparison to YouTube which claims to have 100 hours of video uploaded every minute [1] - meaning they probably have at least several \u003ci\u003emillenia\u003c/i\u003e of stored video...  wow.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;yt\u0026#x2F;press\u0026#x2F;statistics.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7872056","id":"7877060"}
{"by":"Aloisius","time":"1346039305","timestamp":"2012-08-27 03:48:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to love libertarians and their utopian fantasies. It is often a surprise that any of them have become (or remain) wealthy without government support, regulations or laws. Oh wait.\u003cp\u003eSeriously though, someone must see the irony in libertarians starting an ocean commune.","parent":"4435994","id":"4437348"}
{"by":"calvinbhai","time":"1535973279","timestamp":"2018-09-03 11:14:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My anecdotal evidence is not acceptable but your generalized statements (without even an anecdotal evidence) is acceptable?\u003cp\u003eI agree it was a shock to the system in the short term, and that it wasn’t as effective as everyone expected it to be. But it has certainly brought many many people into the tax fold. This means better tax compliance and more money available for infra.","parent":"17900091","id":"17901871"}
{"by":"benregn","time":"1315156712","timestamp":"2011-09-04 17:18:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with you on the site's looks, very uninviting... And that damn animated button in the right corner drives me crazy.","parent":"2959781","id":"2959805"}
{"by":"Aelinsaar","time":"1466884763","timestamp":"2016-06-25 19:59:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Evergreening needs to be regulated, it\u0026#x27;s such an obvious abuse of the existing system.","parent":"11977226","id":"11977734"}
{"by":"mnicole","time":"1335890501","timestamp":"2012-05-01 16:41:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This. I recently sent a screenshot to them after 2-3 people were booted for disagreeing with the way a mod was handling the room. I'd been visiting that room on and off for nearly a year, and had never seen this person before.\u003cp\u003eThey sent me a really nice response (thanks Jessica), but ultimately their inability to control what becomes an ego-based platform is going to kill them faster than the complete lack of redesigning their product since launch.\u003cp\u003eI'd even initially thought about applying for a designer role when they first launched, and had done a mock-up of the landing page that did a better job of promoting rooms and users, but they don't seem interested in hiring remotely.\u003cp\u003eGlad to find plug.dj, but I'm not finding the type of room I want and being at work, I don't have time to dink around the interface and figure it out. My main complaint with services like these is the cartoon trend. I'd much prefer a text-only view, especially at work.","parent":"3912674","id":"3915194"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1465993358","timestamp":"2016-06-15 12:22:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I spent the better part of the last few years working on my own audio apps. It\u0026#x27;s definitely the most difficult programming domain I\u0026#x27;ve worked in. Real time requirements + threading + low level code makes for a very challenging environment. But it\u0026#x27;s also a lot of fun. Using the tools the author describes here can save you a lot of headaches and let you focus more on the fun part though.","parent":"11907887","id":"11908825"}
{"by":"astura","time":"1530231811","timestamp":"2018-06-29 00:23:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon has had drug problems in the past...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.slate.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;health_and_science\u0026#x2F;medical_examiner\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;amazon_illegal_drugs_muscle_relaxants_steroids_prescription_drugs_delivered.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.slate.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;health_and_science\u0026#x2F;medical_exa...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;abcnews.go.com\u0026#x2F;amp\u0026#x2F;Health\u0026#x2F;amazon-prescription-drug-problem\u0026#x2F;story?id=24095588\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;abcnews.go.com\u0026#x2F;amp\u0026#x2F;Health\u0026#x2F;amazon-prescription-drug-p...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone knows pharmacies are highly regulated, however Amazon has somehow managed to flaunt regulations so far without much consequences.","parent":"17420591","id":"17421522"}
{"by":"brc","time":"1342064250","timestamp":"2012-07-12 03:37:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IKEA is still essentially this concept to this day, only the customer picks their own goods.\u003cp\u003eIn the UK there is a big chain called Argos which still does this, right down to the employees fetching the goods.  This might be related to the fact that big-box retail space in the UK is much harder to come by.","parent":"4232756","id":"4232860"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1459728583","timestamp":"2016-04-04 00:09:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That vontradicts the reported justifications for their selection and interviewing processes. He\u0026#x27;s telling us they can handle all that but not learn Rust like many average programmers are doing successfully? Does. Not. Compute.","parent":"11418321","id":"11418527"}
{"by":"jfim","time":"1435254241","timestamp":"2015-06-25 17:44:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;We’ve built our own super-efficient servers, invented more efficient ways to cool our data centers, and even used advanced machine learning to squeeze more out of every watt of power we consume. Compared to five years ago, we now get 3.5 times the computing power out of the same amount of energy.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m probably missing something, but isn\u0026#x27;t that just brought by the usual performance improvements between CPU generations?","parent":"9776912","id":"9779579"}
{"by":"ACow_Adonis","time":"1491642690","timestamp":"2017-04-08 09:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a friend who worked the front-desk of several hotels during university in Canberra.  He gave the impression that he was not only aware of the prostitutes, but was on pretty good terms with the regular ones.\u003cp\u003eAlbeit, granted I\u0026#x27;m sure the regulars weren\u0026#x27;t generally in the practice of wrecking the rooms... but cleaning up after the horrible things people do in their rooms is pretty stock standard for the hotel industry...\u003cp\u003eNo one \u0026quot;likes\u0026quot; it, but no one likes cleaning toilets either, and that still needs getting done and people do it and its stock\u0026#x2F;standard of being a cleaner...\u003cp\u003eAnd if you\u0026#x27;re not hiring a cleaner to clean your rooms and doing it yourself, you can bet 100% you\u0026#x27;ll be cleaning up some pretty horrible stuff in the accommodation industry.  If they leave the room in a bad state, that just makes them bad customers...","parent":"14066025","id":"14066085"}
{"by":"sigsergv","time":"1514342812","timestamp":"2017-12-27 02:46:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;t.co\u0026#x2F;x7QwmhkWO7\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;t.co\u0026#x2F;x7QwmhkWO7\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16012219","id":"16012485"}
{"by":"jjkk0101","time":"1513779516","timestamp":"2017-12-20 14:18:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Came here to say that, fellow Dane. You don\u0026#x27;t need to bypass regulations to provide a quality service.","parent":"15968479","id":"15969650"}
{"by":"breckenedge","time":"1370811637","timestamp":"2013-06-09 21:00:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Canadians too: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.law.ualberta.ca\u0026#x2F;centres\u0026#x2F;ccs\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;japaneseinternment.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.law.ualberta.ca\u0026#x2F;centres\u0026#x2F;ccs\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;japaneseintern...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5849908","id":"5850582"}
{"by":"7952","time":"1383258513","timestamp":"2013-10-31 22:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose you could implement a browser plugin that maintains separate cookies for separate combinations of sites.  So that buzzfeed + facebook would be put in one bucket, and cnn + facebook in another bucket.  You could then ask the users permission to use real cookies.","parent":"6648008","id":"6650462"}
{"by":"gatehouse","time":"1422153776","timestamp":"2015-01-25 02:42:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You won\u0026#x27;t know in advance who is going to rob you, in this case it was the FBI but for this attack it could be anyone, even a reasonably organized group of 13 year olds could probably pull this off. For example the situation could be the same but DPR is a tech CEO working in a coffeeshop in Asia, and someone has just ran off with a copy of his email and financials. He chases them out of the door, gets hit in the face with a bike chain, and wakes up in the hospital, not even knowing if they were just aggressive petty thieves, or if he was targeted and someone knows all this plans.\u003cp\u003eI think that \u0026quot;lock and wipe\u0026quot; might be too much though, and locking only would be more practical, wouldn\u0026#x27;t constitute destruction of evidence (as far as they know), wouldn\u0026#x27;t punish mistakes so much. Right now, off the shelf, a computer will lock up on screensaver, or sleep\u0026#x2F;poweroff. For a high paranoia user, you could add headphone unplug, power cord in\u0026#x2F;out, any usb in\u0026#x2F;out, even monitor the mic for certain codewords to trigger the lock. And if it happens it isn\u0026#x27;t such a big deal, just re-authenticate.","parent":"8939235","id":"8941886"}
{"by":"larrywright","time":"1542118980","timestamp":"2018-11-13 14:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on the model, quality and features. The one that came with my current house was very finicky and needed a fair amount of handholding (including pouring water into a little tube at the start of the season - something about a proper vacuum). I replaced it a few years ago with a new, near-top-of-line Trane with an air filtration system and a whole house humidifier. This one only needs to have the filter vacuumed monthly (three-stage electrostatic filter), and to have the humidifier water panel replaced once a year. Otherwise it’s basically no maintenance.\u003cp\u003eAny forced-air system has ductwork, however, and that can get filthy over time and need cleaning.","parent":"18440895","id":"18441108"}
{"by":"wilfra","time":"1363700478","timestamp":"2013-03-19 13:41:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, that's why they're both badasses (was, in the case of Dr Buss. RIP)","parent":"5400668","id":"5400783"}
{"by":"ismarc","time":"1267516888","timestamp":"2010-03-02 08:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hearing you describe this had me envisioning the following shrink wrap product:\u003cp\u003ebuy \"Secured home router\"\u003cp\u003eplug in cables\u003cp\u003eturn on\u003cp\u003elaunch web browser\u003cp\u003ecaptive portal configuration screen\u003cp\u003econfiguration goes through common steps, advanced options buttons for those who know what they're doing, one of which is an option for 1 month free software upgrade/virus/malware/firewall administration, 3/6/9/12 month subscription rates and sign-up process.\u003cp\u003eActual functionality is: firewall provides reasonable QoS parameters for a shared internet connection and prioritizing traffic in a manner that benefits user-interactive applications (HTTP(S) over p2p, etc.), dns blackhole for known malicious domain names, updating firewall rules for blocking known bad IPs (stolen abandoned blocks, etc.), captive portal style page hijacking for sites known for malicious content (with an ignore this warning button), software updates, configuration backup to a central server.\u003cp\u003eThe main issue I can think of is that the end user wants to feel like they're completely uninhibited on the internet.  The problem is that to protect against most real threats, there's trade-offs and you'll have a 5-10% error rate for blocking traffic the user really wanted.  This means that support would be a difficult cost to overcome, but I think a url on the system that resolves locally to the router to provide a \"what problem are you having yes/no\" style troubleshooter could help prevent a large number of complicated call ins.\u003cp\u003eAll in all, this sounds like a really interesting problem with two sales domains: target the consumers directly and target ISPs looking to have another value-add to their internet products.","parent":"1160670","id":"1160869"}
{"by":"bsbechtel","time":"1430925631","timestamp":"2015-05-06 15:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, this seems to speak volumes about the viability of Uber\u0026#x27;s business model in the long run. If they can\u0026#x27;t compete because additional background checks and insurance are needed, is it really a $40B company?","parent":"9498785","id":"9499298"}
{"by":"rayhano","time":"1325959847","timestamp":"2012-01-07 18:10:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://angel.co/wigwamm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://angel.co/wigwamm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3437591","id":"3437599"}
{"by":"thebluesky","time":"1341856069","timestamp":"2012-07-09 17:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the info. I would probably take another look at it if they provided official binaries compatible with RHEL/CentOS 5. A fix or mitigation for the 32 bit memleak would be good too.","parent":"4218623","id":"4219351"}
{"by":"frankydp","time":"1332816342","timestamp":"2012-03-27 02:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stock room inventory/management for the small and large business.\u003cp\u003eMust include Point of Sale recipe management/tracking.  Counting is worthless without knowing what is leaving the store.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with current \"disruption\" is that they think the cash register is the problem.  The ability to scale and integrate back of the house management with front of the house interfaces is the only real way to disrupt the POS industry.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is an industry outsider that will never really break in.  aka Taking credit cards on an iphone is not disruption.","parent":"3759589","id":"3759759"}
{"by":"blackguardx","time":"1231874724","timestamp":"2009-01-13 19:25:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clinical depression is not different.\u003cp\u003eClinical depression is defined as being depressed for 6 months or more. Most doctors wouldn't prescribe anti-depressants to someone who has been depressed less than that.\u003cp\u003eIf your wife leaving you resulted in a 6-month depression, you should go on anti-depressants. You would be clinically depressed, regardless of the cause.","parent":"432255","id":"432533"}
{"by":"Silhouette","time":"1481814268","timestamp":"2016-12-15 15:04:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. One of the reasons that I, for one, tend to be very critical of that sort of advocacy is that one day someone less wary will read it, and they will think it is good advice because it looks convincing and comes from someone with a reputation in the industry, and then they might become the next junior developer I have to mentor or the next ex-senior-developer whose code I have to fix before I can get on with doing some real work. It\u0026#x27;s happened before, and no doubt it will happen again.","parent":"13184838","id":"13185016"}
{"by":"tdmule","time":"1485058669","timestamp":"2017-01-22 04:17:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just found out that Alexa has a funny response to this sentence.","parent":"13451399","id":"13453559"}
{"by":"gohrt","time":"1448226767","timestamp":"2015-11-22 21:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a narrow view of cooking and ejoyable.","parent":"10611496","id":"10611507"}
{"by":"brent","time":"1223851853","timestamp":"2008-10-12 22:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree about compound statements, but I think most people will use the tuple assignment style, especially when its simply initializing variables.  There is no reason to expand it beyond one line.","parent":"330464","id":"330542"}
{"by":"matterhorn","time":"1363278613","timestamp":"2013-03-14 16:30:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Capitalism also means DDT, which kills mosquitoes that are vectors for malaria. However, statist intervention bans DDT and allows mosquito populations to thrive, thus killing large numbers of people in places like Gambia where...wait a minute! Places like Gambia where malaria rates are in free-fall! And why? Because of the use of insecticide treated netting...(kinda makes you wonder what kind of drop in malaria rates could be achieved through DDT, huh?)\u003cp\u003eSee: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030203243.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030203243.ht...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, socialism and enviro-wacko statist intervention gets people killed by malaria through bans on insecticides, which turn out to be the most effective counters to malaria.","parent":"5374794","id":"5375949"}
{"by":"Datsundere","time":"1398535138","timestamp":"2014-04-26 17:58:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like a right path to take down comcast.","parent":"7652174","id":"7652212"}
{"by":"1010011010","time":"1335875870","timestamp":"2012-05-01 12:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice witch hunt you have there.","parent":"3913016","id":"3913998"}
{"by":"Talyen42","time":"1535475786","timestamp":"2018-08-28 17:03:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":".","parent":"17859897","id":"17860535"}
{"by":"sillysaurus2","time":"1387980550","timestamp":"2013-12-25 14:09:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If Telegram had hired any decent security company to go over their design, then this bug would have been caught, because this is a rookie mistake. One of the most basic security requirements for any app is that all network traffic is protected via SSL, so that would\u0026#x27;ve been one of the first things that a decent appsec company would\u0026#x27;ve checked.\u003cp\u003eTelegram could hire an appsec company to analyze their design, but they\u0026#x27;re choosing not to.","parent":"6962880","id":"6963011"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1427209250","timestamp":"2015-03-24 15:00:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I wonder if it would be possible to institute basic income as a policy without significant social unrest.\u003cp\u003eProbably. But it depends on what it replaces, how it is funded, and how it is sold.","parent":"9256418","id":"9256986"}
{"by":"labcomputer","time":"1544206000","timestamp":"2018-12-07 18:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Planes can absolutely land themselves.\u003cp\u003eNo. They can’t. Not unless you have a IIIc approach and autopilot.  Those things are not common.\u003cp\u003eIf you don’t have both of those things, the pilot must, at minimum, fly the flare (for a IIIb approach, which are somewhat common at large airports).\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEven if\u003c/i\u003e you have a IIIc approach, the pilot still monitors systems, deploys high lift devices and landing gear, makes the go\u0026#x2F;no decision.  There is no reasonable interpretation of “planes can absolutely land themselves” which is in any way true.","parent":"18629094","id":"18629985"}
{"by":"exit","time":"1376526557","timestamp":"2013-08-15 00:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if 5 minutes is a signal, how wide is your normal variation interval?","parent":"6214470","id":"6215411"}
{"by":"kken","time":"1388519516","timestamp":"2013-12-31 19:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Graphene is interesting, but nobody in the industry believes that it will be the holy grail:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.techdesignforums.com/blog/2013/12/10/graphene-gets-reality-check/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.techdesignforums.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;graphene-get...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(This is pretty different from what academia tells you...)","parent":"6992201","id":"6992476"}
{"by":"xxdesmus","time":"1412016366","timestamp":"2014-09-29 18:46:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah, no.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve offered SSL for 4 years now.  This is entirely different. Cloudfront, for example, doesn\u0026#x27;t give you SSL for free.","parent":"8383480","id":"8384451"}
{"by":"nickstinemates","time":"1375974305","timestamp":"2013-08-08 15:05:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the article. While I disagree with your conclusion, getting a clear view of the the misconceptions that exist allow for more pointed documentation and focus.","parent":"6178051","id":"6179337"}
{"by":"Florin_Andrei","time":"1449005570","timestamp":"2015-12-01 21:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eSouth Asian languages routinely employ plurals to refer to\u0026#x2F;call a person with added respect.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFairly common for some Eastern European languages, too.","parent":"10658812","id":"10658953"}
{"by":"ianferrel","time":"1478216951","timestamp":"2016-11-03 23:49:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I bought a Dell XPS 13 the day after the announcement.\u003cp\u003eAs shipped, it had flaky wifi and the audio clipped both through the speakers and headphones.\u003cp\u003eThinking of trying another brand after I get my refund.","parent":"12868849","id":"12869195"}
{"by":"jccooper","time":"1402945795","timestamp":"2014-06-16 19:09:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the paranoia is mostly due to the practice being so illegal for so long that nobody has any idea how it works or contact with it, and now assumes that there must be some good reason other than \u0026quot;we forgot to fix that after Prohibition\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAnd perhaps the authorities encourage this view to protect tax revenues (which are substantial.)","parent":"7899970","id":"7900867"}
{"by":"Afforess","time":"1513320726","timestamp":"2017-12-15 06:52:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am always impressed by the number of motte and bailey commentors here. The WSJ cravenly lets the most hated corporations write featured Op-eds and that\u0026#x27;s normal? Ho-hum? Business as usual!?\u003cp\u003eWe need to seriously reconsider what we want out of journalism. I don\u0026#x27;t want to live anywhere where this sort of media is okay. I\u0026#x27;m not sure why anyone else is suddenly okay with this either. The \u0026quot;Free Market\u0026quot; was supposed to be a tool to more efficiently organize labor and capital, not \u003ci\u003eenslave us\u003c/i\u003e. It is supposed to work \u003ci\u003efor us\u003c/i\u003e, it is \u003ci\u003eour tool\u003c/i\u003e. But if \u003ci\u003ereaders\u003c/i\u003e are now _okay_ with \u003ci\u003eliteral\u003c/i\u003e shilling in media, then that\u0026#x27;s it. We\u0026#x27;ve been captured by our own tools, slaves to our own machines.\u003cp\u003eI keep questioning my decision to have a Washington Post subscription, but I\u0026#x27;ll sleep better tonight knowing it goes towards something that at least _tries_ to be journalism.","parent":"15929504","id":"15930108"}
{"by":"alphaalpha101","time":"1516863890","timestamp":"2018-01-25 07:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It isn\u0026#x27;t, though.","parent":"16228164","dead":true,"id":"16229312"}
{"by":"jsalit","time":"1428501366","timestamp":"2015-04-08 13:56:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, there\u0026#x27;s mention of it on an old blog post [1], but you can verify for yourself on the Enhancements page when editing any video - there\u0026#x27;s a \u0026quot;Revert to original\u0026quot; button.\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtube-global.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;edit-your-videos-with-youtube.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtube-global.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;edit-your-videos-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9336101","id":"9340762"}
{"by":"macspoofing","time":"1489853229","timestamp":"2017-03-18 16:07:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Still, refusing to give him a glass of water was not necessary,\u003cp\u003eOK. Sure. I suppose if you\u0026#x27;re held for 3 hours, you should have a right to water. Is the big problem here? If you\u0026#x27;re detained for more than 1 hour you should get a bottle of water?","parent":"13901796","id":"13901888"}
{"by":"ipapikas","time":"1449499332","timestamp":"2015-12-07 14:42:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for letting us know! We will fix those links as soon as we have the documents ready. We just added a more explanatory text!","parent":"10689558","id":"10689709"}
{"by":"hatsunearu","time":"1466117276","timestamp":"2016-06-16 22:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does it beat a decent modern thinkpad?","parent":"11918898","id":"11919501"}
{"by":"akhilcacharya","time":"1537912956","timestamp":"2018-09-25 22:02:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I grew up in the American south and was also dumbstruck. Heck I’m pretty sure the man himself was.","parent":"18067696","id":"18070905"}
{"by":"bfung","time":"1287344558","timestamp":"2010-10-17 19:42:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what makes a company 'Dead'?\u003cp\u003ebuxfer might or might not fit into this category, the site is still up and functional, but it doesn't seem like it's actively maintained:\n\u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/buxfers-founders-both-work-for-facebook-who-works-for-buxfer/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/buxfers-founders-both-work-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://getsatisfaction.com/buxfer/topics/is_buxfer_dead\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://getsatisfaction.com/buxfer/topics/is_buxfer_dead\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ea simple yes/no from one of the founders would be simple enough.","parent":"1800640","id":"1801209"}
{"by":"beaumartinez","time":"1372701739","timestamp":"2013-07-01 18:02:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or, absolute trolling. Especially since you can target specific boards.\u003cp\u003eI remember when someone spammed the ending to LA Noire on \u0026#x2F;v\u0026#x2F; for a whole day.","parent":"5972090","id":"5972446"}
{"by":"Fifer82","time":"1493230477","timestamp":"2017-04-26 18:14:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is just such utter bullshit. \u0026quot;fight on terrorism\u0026quot;. This is why I just don\u0026#x27;t do political news.  No one reports on \u0026quot;huh fight on terrorism you say, can we shine some light on this claim? How useful has Twitter been to home security...\u0026quot;.  Why isn\u0026#x27;t that the story?\u003cp\u003eI keep seeing stories build on just bullshit.  The BBC will say \u0026quot;And what about housing Mrs May\u0026quot; and she will say \u0026quot;My government has created a white paper...... and councils are pissed about planning permission.....\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThere is no answer. Over and over and over again. There is no point in the BBC reporter existing, no point in anyone\u0026#x27;s time being wasted. Just report nothing.\u003cp\u003eGiving Governments access to public data has totally changed the dynamics of politics and the public is losing everything as a result.\u003cp\u003eGovernment just fabricates an internal memo leak, waits 12 hours to get some data back on public opinion and then depending on that, will deny it, or will go ahead.\u003cp\u003eTime and time again you see this. Our old Chancellor had no experience with finance, and during his term, it was found that he had dodged tax.... the day after he had given a statement that he was serious about tax evasion. Then, something about an old Veteran having cake was the main story that day across the whole media board.  Forgotten.\u003cp\u003eDavid Cameron said one evening after a COBRA meeting \u0026quot;Lets send dogs, and fences to Calais to stop the swarm of immigrants\u0026quot; - That got bad data results, so by 6am the next morning he adapted it to \u0026quot;We will take 10000 and send aid\u0026quot;.  By 9am, it was all forgotten.\u003cp\u003eWhat is happening?? Where is reality?? Is no one responsible for anything any more?? Is this a result of the fragmentation of media outlets?? Like, I grew up with 4 channels. Now I don\u0026#x27;t want TV.  Therefor there is no cross reference at all.  You can say what you want and like 10% of the populace will hear it. That means government has never had it so easy.","parent":"14204878","id":"14205519"}
{"by":"meowtaxi","time":"1403759083","timestamp":"2014-06-26 05:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only one that finds it hillarious (or troubling) that the SSL cert for this site is for a different host name?","parent":"7947898","id":"7948202"}
{"by":"jarjoura","time":"1535851954","timestamp":"2018-09-02 01:32:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t surprise me that a British publication would note that loneliness is on the rise as American culture norms are being spread around the world through our media and technology.\u003cp\u003eThere are thousands and thousands of books and papers written on American individualism at the root of our very superficial friendships since the early 20th century. A quick Google search returns books that date to the 1970s on the very topic.\u003cp\u003eHow many of your friends have only been along for a part of your life journey and then you lose touch and grow apart? We are driven to pursue our dreams and passions and become as successful as we can in whatever we think that means for us.\u003cp\u003eI mean, we\u0026#x27;re the country that invented the nursing home, complete with the expression, \u0026quot;you\u0026#x27;re born alone and you die alone.\u0026quot;","parent":"17891212","id":"17894973"}
{"by":"andrewvc","time":"1311207946","timestamp":"2011-07-21 00:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm wondering if this has the refs, agents, and atoms that make concurrent clojure so awesome. If not, it would feel.... strange.","parent":"2787851","id":"2788028"}
{"by":"NamTaf","time":"1381192076","timestamp":"2013-10-08 00:27:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"15Mbps? LUXURY.\u003cp\u003eNice write-up. I wonder if there\u0026#x27;s any market in spec-breaking routers that can accommodate smaller inter-frame gaps, etc.? What use is there for this that is not covered by jumbo frames?","parent":"6511952","id":"6512222"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1448978710","timestamp":"2015-12-01 14:05:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This post over-stimulation systemic thin spread is not limited to such chemicals. I think it\u0026#x27;s the reason for porn websites, and even some consumerist unbalances. The sad part is the memory of the high persists and that leads you to sick for a way to reach that state again. If the imprint was capped at 20x the last known maximum, 1000x being seen as absurd and harmful by the system, people wouldn\u0026#x27;t repeat the cycles.","parent":"10654165","id":"10655350"}
{"by":"nagnatron","time":"1316465890","timestamp":"2011-09-19 20:58:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. Maybe better advice for a novice would be to stay the fuck away from companies that micromanage how you look.","parent":"3014549","id":"3015174"}
{"by":"puredanger","time":"1282485299","timestamp":"2010-08-22 13:54:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Make sure to check out the followup to this article re Perl 6: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.perl.org/users/tyler_curtis/2010/08/age-discrimination-in-perl-6-using-subsets-and-multiple-dispatch.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.perl.org/users/tyler_curtis/2010/08/age-discrim...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the HN discussion:\n\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624027\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624027\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1623279","id":"1624614"}
{"by":"peterzakin","time":"1307470355","timestamp":"2011-06-07 18:12:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not practical to write an essay on an iPad. Edit: without an external keyboard.","parent":"2630192","id":"2630253"}
{"by":"markup","time":"1234810425","timestamp":"2009-02-16 18:53:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you were to start a web application from scratch, how would you deal with important database backups?","parent":"483320","id":"483394"}
{"by":"abrowne","time":"1545054320","timestamp":"2018-12-17 13:45:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WebKitGTK+ is active. QtWebKit was replaced by an embedded Chromium (Qt Web Engine) sometime after Nokia sold Qt. There are attempts to revive QtWebKit, but I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s up to date, even on security patches only.","parent":"18698102","id":"18698859"}
{"by":"jcoffland","time":"1499278275","timestamp":"2017-07-05 18:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s what\u0026#x27;s in warnpush.h: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ensisoft\u0026#x2F;newsflash-plus\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;newsflash\u0026#x2F;warnpush.h\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ensisoft\u0026#x2F;newsflash-plus\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;newsf...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14704094","id":"14704819"}
{"by":"daveloyall","time":"1412614881","timestamp":"2014-10-06 17:01:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, every time I\u0026#x27;ve gone vigilante, I\u0026#x27;ve logged the ever lovin\u0026#x27; shit out of myself, just in case.  Nothing interesting ever happened, though.\u003cp\u003eThere was one time when I used a CnC channel to issue uninstall commands against a couple hundred bots.  That was only after trying to contact a user or two to suggest that they uninstall the malware themselves...  Those conversations went SO poorly! :)\u003cp\u003eAnyway, the only way to find a user\u0026#x27;s contact information via a piece of malware like that is arguably an invasion of privacy...  Which brings us full circle.\u003cp\u003eCould we establish a metric for Good Samaritanism?  Could we design a metric that is restrictive enough to prevent misuse but inclusive enough to allow unrequested, benevolent cleaning and patching?","parent":"8416801","id":"8416915"}
{"by":"kalleboo","time":"1479363955","timestamp":"2016-11-17 06:25:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can also just go straight into the app menu and there\u0026#x27;s a \u0026quot;Show manual installation instructions\u0026quot; item there that pulls up the same dialog","parent":"12973951","id":"12974893"}
{"by":"pi18n","time":"1327276840","timestamp":"2012-01-23 00:00:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They could use a new book, they've finished reading Brave New World a while ago.","parent":"3496735","id":"3498347"}
{"by":"edanm","time":"1359460912","timestamp":"2013-01-29 12:01:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're suggesting that this won't work because the numbers don't make sense, then I think a better way to go about it is to do exactly what forrestthewoods did in another comment - talk about actual numbers.\u003cp\u003eMuch more convincing than making analogies which most people can dismiss pretty easily.","parent":"5133113","id":"5133502"}
{"by":"gamekathu","time":"1443169584","timestamp":"2015-09-25 08:26:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nice! I know python at a beginner level, i can work on it. Yes i am also interested to collaborate and learn, will mail you shortly! :)","parent":"10276881","id":"10276924"}
{"by":"AnthonyMouse","time":"1510929575","timestamp":"2017-11-17 14:39:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds a lot like you\u0026#x27;re proposing enshrining that sort of corporate serfdom in the law and prohibiting the situation where the customer actually owns their own property.","parent":"15719749","id":"15722263"}
{"by":"steamer25","time":"1446060548","timestamp":"2015-10-28 19:29:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related CollegeHumor\u0026#x2F;truTV info-tainment spin-off: Adam Ruins Everything - The Real Reason Car Dealerships Are the Worst\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=uMWmYJOa-BM\u0026amp;list=PLZxWJ6CTr63Z4OYR3gdMEEog5Zju5ihyu\u0026amp;index=6\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=uMWmYJOa-BM\u0026amp;list=PLZxWJ6CTr6...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10463205","id":"10466719"}
{"by":"jeremiep","time":"1511361371","timestamp":"2017-11-22 14:36:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been using spacemacs for nearly 2 years now and autocomplete has mostly always worked right out of the box after installing the corresponding layer. I rarely even need to reboot Emacs.","parent":"15756698","id":"15757027"}
{"by":"leejoramo","time":"1493303567","timestamp":"2017-04-27 14:32:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The description of \u0026#x27;Textalyzer\u0026#x27; sounds dishonest. I can\u0026#x27;t tell if this is a fake product being sold to unsophisticated police agencies, or deceiving the public about what is really happening.\u003cp\u003eThe only way I can see it working is for the owner of the phone to login and allow a full backup via USB. This requires much more than \u0026quot;tap one button\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;90 seconds\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eEven then I am not sure that iOS or Android will provide all of the data they are claiming to collect.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;They can simply just tap one button ... and it will process, about 90 seconds or so, and it will show what the last activities were — again that could be a text message and so on — with a time stamp,\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The device would display a summary of what apps on the phone were open and in use, he says, as well as screen taps and swipes. \u0026quot;For example, if it was a WhatsApp message, or a call, it will indicate what the source was, the time stamp, and then what the direction of the communication was — so if it was an outgoing call versus an incoming call.\u0026quot;","parent":"14211198","id":"14211714"}
{"by":"barrkel","time":"1544670858","timestamp":"2018-12-13 03:14:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is simply not my experience with exceptions. Exceptions are frequently thrown and almost never need to be caught, and the result is easy to reason about.\u003cp\u003eMy main use case for exceptions is in server code with transactional semantics. Exceptions are a signal to roll everything back. That means only things that need rolling back need to pay much attention to exceptions, which is usually the top level in jobs, and whatever the transaction idiom is in the common library. There is very little call to handle exceptions in any other case.\u003cp\u003eGC languages make safe rollback from exceptions much easier. C++ in particular with exceptions enabled has horrible composition effects with other features, like copy constructors and assignment operators, because exceptions can start cropping up unavoidably in operations where it\u0026#x27;s very inconvenient to safely maintain invariants during rollback.\u003cp\u003eMutable state is your enemy. If you don\u0026#x27;t have a transaction abstraction for your state mutation, then your life will be much more interesting. The answer isn\u0026#x27;t to give up on exceptions, though, because the irreducible complexity isn\u0026#x27;t due to exceptions; it\u0026#x27;s due to maintaining invariants after an error state has been detected. That remains the case whether you\u0026#x27;re using exceptions, error codes, Result or Either monadic types, or whatever.","parent":"18669018","id":"18669601"}
{"by":"sixQuarks","time":"1460149023","timestamp":"2016-04-08 20:57:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m embarrassed to say I was screaming and cheering like a little school girl upon landing.","parent":"11457263","id":"11457875"}
{"by":"jackschultz","time":"1503666838","timestamp":"2017-08-25 13:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, I talked about this below, but really the main thing is just knowing the which of the 16 labeled directions the wind is coming from, and then checking back every few holes if possible, and then make arrows on the course map with that overall direction.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, trees and hills totally have an impact, but the main impact is the difficulty of having a very in tune knowledge of where the wind above the trees and hills is blowing. If you\u0026#x27;re hitting a normal full shot, the ball flight will be (usually) only affected by the standard wind direction.\u003cp\u003eAgain of course, there are gusts that make that difficult to time a shot, and ball flight and shot type make a difference as well, but knowing and trusting the overall direction would be really helpful.","parent":"15098069","id":"15098150"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1287774196","timestamp":"2010-10-22 19:03:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So far siblings seem to work well.","parent":"1820985","id":"1820999"}
{"by":"starkfist","time":"1278040168","timestamp":"2010-07-02 03:09:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's interesting to hear this from Andy Grove. Intel of the 1990s was constantly being called out as an abusive workplace, exploiting H1B and \"home grown\" engineers, then laying them off when they got too old and sending their work overseas. Although I agree with most of his essay, I'm not sure I would want to be an employee in whatever scheme he is envisioning.","parent":"1479687","id":"1480031"}
{"by":"chasedehan","time":"1539104927","timestamp":"2018-10-09 17:08:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would anyone care about an OS (probably Android) that specifically limited the ability to use the time-suck apps (like snap\u0026#x2F;gram\u0026#x2F;tube), but still left the ability to use other things (like music\u0026#x2F;maps\u0026#x2F;camera\u0026#x2F;texting\u0026#x2F;etc)?\u003cp\u003eI tried disconnecting a while back, but felt like those were the things i was lacking because I was using a flip phone and was really frustrating.  I have actually been considering picking back up this idea to focus on modifying to allow for curated list of allowable apps.","parent":"18175119","id":"18177745"}
{"by":"kevinconroy","time":"1406158594","timestamp":"2014-07-23 23:36:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can also fund supplies directly to a local NGO that\u0026#x27;s responding here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-stop-the-ebola-epidemic-in-sierra-leone/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.globalgiving.org\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;help-stop-the-ebola-epi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8077314","id":"8077550"}
{"by":"jarmitage","time":"1451517734","timestamp":"2015-12-30 23:22:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First ever bit of Python - not very tidy, improvement suggestions welcome!\u003cp\u003eThe results are cool though as it updates every 10 minutes.\u003cp\u003eAnyone else do\u0026#x2F;see anything fun with scripting wallpapers?","parent":"10815062","id":"10815063"}
{"by":"ohyoutravel","time":"1478115960","timestamp":"2016-11-02 19:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that\u0026#x27;s not the point. The point is they didn\u0026#x27;t acknowledge that I submitted anything at all, and didn\u0026#x27;t acknowledge me after a follow up email a couple weeks later. That is always annoying, but in especially poor taste when you ask the applicant to complete a coding challenge before submission.","parent":"12857157","id":"12858591"}
{"by":"masterzora","time":"1306901309","timestamp":"2011-06-01 04:08:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that I don't want to see confirmations in my GitHub, but you are incorrect about them being equivalent.  The optimal way to use confirmations is often not hitting \"Reject\" to requests you don't want.  Just do nothing.  In most well-designed systems, as long as there's an outstanding request, they can't bug you any more.","parent":"2605804","id":"2605910"}
{"by":"wheaties","time":"1277742875","timestamp":"2010-06-28 16:34:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks.  I don't speak the same English that is found within those legal documents.","parent":"1468433","id":"1468447"}
{"by":"smaili","time":"1444749126","timestamp":"2015-10-13 15:12:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If anyone who\u0026#x27;s part of the layoff is around SF and is looking for a new opportunity, let me know --  me [at] smaili.org","parent":"10379948","id":"10380985"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1498075107","timestamp":"2017-06-21 19:58:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWith an anti-globalist Democratic candidate, there would have been be no substantial Perot support.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe so, but then the Bush argument would have been \u0026#x27;did I not just defeat Communism and win a great victory in Iraq? Your labor provincialism would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eBeing a resident of California I think the country would have been better off with Jerry Brown, but his expression of support for Jesse Jackson at the wrong time put paid to that.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve got to say as a Euro that while I support that sort of pro-labor welfare state agenda on a \u003ci\u003epolicy\u003c/i\u003e level, I feel Democrats in the have a bad habit of overestimating its popularity at the strategic level where elections are won. There large currents of irrationality and historical animus at play in the American electorate that the Republicans have been better at leveraging into electoral results even though those same factors are a disadvantage in governance.\u003cp\u003eThis discussion is sort of getting into the weeds and I have other stuff I want to do today, but I\u0026#x27;d be delighted to follow up if you wanted to drop me a note via gmail.","parent":"14606748","id":"14607334"}
{"by":"nitrogen","time":"1432590030","timestamp":"2015-05-25 21:40:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf what you described is what it\u0026#x27;s really like out of the box then there should be a lot more scathing reviews. I have a feeling you probably installed some third party software from some random website.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe parent comment mentioned a Thunderbolt monitor.  That\u0026#x27;s a more likely explanation for glitching issues.  Linux users generally don\u0026#x27;t install random software from random websites.","parent":"9601754","id":"9601848"}
{"by":"austincheney","time":"1521602880","timestamp":"2018-03-21 03:28:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#References\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Russian_interference_in_the_20...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is enough evidence to substantiate beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia deliberately interfered with the 2016 presidential election.  It is hard to determine the degree with which that interference influenced voters.","parent":"16635088","id":"16635144"}
{"by":"marcusf","time":"1320241884","timestamp":"2011-11-02 13:51:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really don't want to argue the point too much. We've obviously got different views on this, and differing experiences with the swedish judiciary system. PM Reinfeldt would not sign anything in to law regarding this, and parliament would never approve it. There's no basis in history for assuming anything like remotely like that would occur.\u003cp\u003eAlso \"Julian Assange är en våldtäktsman\" returns 360 hits, not 1.5 mil, where most of them are the suffix of the meaning \"If Julian Assange is a rapist...\", so your interpretation is a bit off. As others have stated, the verdict is still out. Swedes are not smelling blood, and I resent that interpretation of Swedes as a collective and the accusation that he would not get a fair trial in Sweden.","parent":"3186442","id":"3186621"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1345039968","timestamp":"2012-08-15 14:12:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely the difference between a functioning democracy and a totalitarian regime is trapping people in a bind (otherwise called one law for all).\u003cp\u003eI am just saying that yet another threat to functioning democracies is coming round the corner, and weirdly, speeding cameras are the canary in the mine.\u003cp\u003eWait till the iris scanner that lets you in the office building also does blood alcohol / cannabis testing.","parent":"4385928","id":"4386006"}
{"by":"spyder","time":"1456363431","timestamp":"2016-02-25 01:23:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;article-2203114\u0026#x2F;Pregnant-wife-inspires-engineer-build-affordable-hand-held-baby-scanner-save-thousands-lives.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;article-2203114\u0026#x2F;Pregnant-w...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;49436607\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;49436607\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooks like they use one or just a few transducer and move it manually to reduce the cost.","parent":"11156288","id":"11171724"}
{"by":"codezero","time":"1406912037","timestamp":"2014-08-01 16:53:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You live on a boat? That\u0026#x27;s pretty awesome! What do you do for reliable Internet access?","parent":"8121223","id":"8121389"}
{"by":"mooism2","time":"1322820357","timestamp":"2011-12-02 10:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Repost from original thread.)\u003cp\u003eTax legislation is the domain of national parliaments, not the EU (except for aspects of VAT, anything else?). Tax harmonisation requires a treaty change and agreement from all 27 member states.\u003cp\u003eOn unfriendly legislation --- is this national legislation or EU-wide legislation?\u003cp\u003eOn terrible payment gateways --- why do you think that is? Imperfect implementation of the common market (e.g. unharmonised regulations)? Insufficient competition generally? Something else?","parent":"3303323","id":"3303420"}
{"by":"001sky","time":"1350368961","timestamp":"2012-10-16 06:29:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eNote [2] This depends on (or implies) a certain elemental/relative triviality of the task.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think you missed that note [2] above. I'm not necessarily supporting or defending the position. The point was it was not as simple an argument to dismiss as was suggested in the Parent. Couple of points to consider, more generally: (1) Its not clear that the condition of footnote 2 holds, \u003ci\u003eper-se\u003c/i\u003e; That being said (2) its also very far from clear that decisions of Merit (in the context discussed) are ever/always \u003ci\u003efully informed\u003c/i\u003e.[#]  Ironically, the further away you get from footnote 2 in some areas, the less informed the key gatekeepers are.\u003cp\u003eIn other areas that might not be the case. These would be characterized by non-trivial skill obviously required, easily, cheaply, and repeatedly observable/measurable by multiple parties, etc. Timed running in 100m, would be an example of the latter.[##] But this is circumventing the actual argument by changing the relevant context. So its sort of a valid counter-argument, but its not quite-central to the point the Author was trying to make.\u003cp\u003e________\u003cp\u003e[#] see comment\u0026#62; \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4658045\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4658045\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[##] Still, this might not be the most diverse group if the olympics are your benchmark. But its non-trivial but highly specialized, and we can presume uneven native talent distrubution cannot be ruled out.","parent":"4658631","id":"4658656"}
{"by":"marmaduke","time":"1503763717","timestamp":"2017-08-26 16:08:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Darcs is interesting but not same system as Git.","parent":"15106001","id":"15106025"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1411094764","timestamp":"2014-09-19 02:46:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t that because stronger companies have more access to a Series A?  I thought the point that\u0026#x27;s being made by other commenters on this article (grellas et al) is that convertible notes are frequently used for bridge financing to keep the company going when they don\u0026#x27;t yet have the product\u0026#x2F;traction milestones needed to justify a Series A.  In this case, the alternative is going out of business.  It\u0026#x27;s quite possible for the average convertible debt startup to be worse than the average Series A funded startup, and yet for taking that note to be a good move for \u003ci\u003eany one single startup\u003c/i\u003e that happens to be in that position.  The averages are bad because it allows more marginal startups to be funded; the specifics are good because it allows more marginal startups to be funded.\u003cp\u003eI suppose one take-away for founders could be to beware the signaling risks of taking convertible debt if you are, in fact, good enough to raise a Series A.  Another might be to do everything possible to get traction before running out of money.  Both of those are fairly well-known already, however.","parent":"8337177","id":"8338770"}
{"by":"PrgsvThgt","time":"1509043964","timestamp":"2017-10-26 18:52:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Water boils at 212F, melts at 32F. It is a sufficient model of evcaporation. For dicamaba to have a sufficient concentration to harm (even targeted plants) it must be rather concentrated, compared to what one might find in concentrations produced by condensation (one field over). Having a degree in organic chemistry and thousands of hours of bench chemistry, I can speak with some authority on the matter.","parent":"15560297","id":"15561867"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1477772652","timestamp":"2016-10-29 20:24:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not just the politicians: home owners---which are the majority of landowners---vote more than renters.","parent":"12825764","id":"12826141"}
{"by":"LokiSnake","time":"1322011834","timestamp":"2011-11-23 01:30:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, 50% of users, but from various posts with statistics of actual web use, it iOS is still heavily favored. Same can be said about actual app purchases. iOS users seem to use the smartphone more than Android, at least for now.","parent":"3268256","id":"3268327"}
{"by":"_mrmnmly","time":"1510336163","timestamp":"2017-11-10 17:49:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 from me for mentioning Arunoda. He has done a lot to Meteor.js (and many others) community.","parent":"15625345","id":"15671579"}
{"by":"zanny","time":"1357990392","timestamp":"2013-01-12 11:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll consider it enough when I no longer get light headaches reading subpixel-rendered text on a desktop LCD at 18 - 24\". My 1080p 22\" display has ~100 PPI and that makes my head ache. That 27\" 4k resolution display would have 160 PPI, which might be enough for me. But the 1440p 27\" display only has 120 PPI and I still get headaches off that.\u003cp\u003eIt is the same thing as FOV in FPS games. Some people get really bad headaches with narrow FOV on widescreens, some don't. If the 1440p 27\" display is good enough for you, then just don't buy a more expensive 4k display at that resolution. Or get a 32\" 4k display and get more space. I'm gonna get the 27\" one because it feels easier on my eyes, probably at a price premium. I'm fine with that, I just want the pixel density.","parent":"5044377","id":"5047504"}
{"by":"bowlofpetunias","time":"1384428791","timestamp":"2013-11-14 11:33:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As usual, the working culture in Norway is most likely heavily overstated to contrast with the (counter productive) Anglo-Saxon way of doing things.\u003cp\u003eI cannot speak for Norway, but since my country, The Netherlands, is known for working even less hours, I seriously doubt the situation in Norway is very different.\u003cp\u003eAlthough those hours may be normal for the ordinary office and factory worker (and thank god for that), there is absolutely nothing abnormal about entrepreneurs, self-employed and people at start-ups working different and\u0026#x2F;or longer hours. (And even then most of them actually don\u0026#x27;t.)\u003cp\u003eWe are neither lazy nor anti-entrepreneur. We just have decent labour laws to protect those for whom a job is just a job, which is 90% of the population.\u003cp\u003eBut nothing is stopping the other 10%. Please note that this article suggestively heads a paragraph with \u0026#x27;Golden handcuffs\u0026#x27; (including the quotation marks), but fails to reproduce any such quote, or any evidence of any kind of limitation.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s just the typical desperate attempt to suggest that there must be something wrong that needs to change about prosperous countries where people work considerably less on average, and are happier and healthier.","parent":"6731361","id":"6731751"}
{"by":"trb8","time":"1457636392","timestamp":"2016-03-10 18:59:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Precipice - A java library providing monitoring and back pressure for task execution\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tbrooks8\u0026#x2F;Precipice\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tbrooks8\u0026#x2F;Precipice\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrecipice allows you to plug in a variety of metrics to collect result and latency information about tasks (http requests, runnables, writes to a socket, etc) that your application executes. You can pick mechanisms of back pressure (rate limiters, semaphores, circuit breakers, etc) that can pause execution depending on what your metrics indicate is going on.\u003cp\u003eThere are no assumed threading or execution models.","parent":"11259746","id":"11261283"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1497719531","timestamp":"2017-06-17 17:12:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.\u003cp\u003eWhich was the right change. It prevents data loss for negligible added complexity.","parent":"14575468","id":"14576700"}
{"by":"philfreo","time":"1248273087","timestamp":"2009-07-22 14:31:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And it also only includes tokens that are short enough to be bruteforced, essentially in JavaScript.  And it would only work for tokens that haven't already expired (isn't it pretty common practice to only let a token be used once?).\u003cp\u003eAll in all, it seems like most developers who know enough security to try to stop CSRF with tokens in the first place would create an implementation where the hack is useless.  Still an interesting idea though.","parent":"717881","id":"717909"}
{"by":"jaysonelliot","time":"1383940498","timestamp":"2013-11-08 19:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading The Onion every Saturday morning at the diner was one of my favorite habits. Their brand of satire works so well in the context of a traditional newspaper.\u003cp\u003eSince they shut down print in New York City, I missed that a lot. I tried looking at the web site on a tablet over breakfast, but the presentation ruined it for me.\u003cp\u003eWhile I was an avid reader of The Onion since college in the \u0026#x27;90s, I\u0026#x27;ve moved on. The web site just isn\u0026#x27;t as funny—partially because their writing has deteriorated, partially because it\u0026#x27;s just a web site.\u003cp\u003eI guess they\u0026#x27;ll continue to show up in my Facebook feed as friends from high school forward their stories with lots of emoticons and LOLs all over them. Maybe I\u0026#x27;ll look now and then, like I\u0026#x27;d look at something from Cracked, The Chive, The Oatmeal, or whatever. Shame to see them go out with a whimper.","parent":"6697995","id":"6698692"}
{"by":"bdr","time":"1279304828","timestamp":"2010-07-16 18:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhat does this borderline-sexist generalization even mean?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you asking rhetorically? It means \"the average woman would want more experience in a field before starting a business in that field than the average man would.\" I'm not saying I agree, but why not address it on whether it's true or not than with borderline-namecalling?","parent":"1521203","id":"1522003"}
{"by":"gkoberger","time":"1281122022","timestamp":"2010-08-06 19:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're right, it is.  The whois info matches up.\u003cp\u003eHowever, look when that site was registered: \"May 03, 2010\"\u003cp\u003eTimGobble, on the other hand, was registered on \"May 21, 2008\"\u003cp\u003eAnd it's barely ranked on Google.  Seems like the official version is right, since the company was created very recently.  Looks to me like a shakedown due to a volunteer-based relationship gone bad.\u003cp\u003e[Note: Person below me might be onto something.. and if he is, it makes the argument that its a \"fake\" company even stronger]","parent":"1582017","id":"1582046"}
{"by":"jere","time":"1355791963","timestamp":"2012-12-18 00:52:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In your link, their first attempt at breaking reCaptcha seemed to yield a 17.5% success rate. I was referencing wikipedia, which stated a 60% success rate against Microsoft's captcha and a 30% success rate against Google's catpcha: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha#Computer_character_recognition\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha#Computer_character_reco...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose papers may be a few years old and  the state of the art may be different. But after an initial look I'm missing the reason that, compared to these captchas, you think that \"3% is awful.\"\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;If a CAPTCHA can be solved or guessed in an automated fashion then attackers can just throw more (likely compromised) machines at the problem at little cost.\u003cp\u003eI'm not ready to buy this. I would think \u003ci\u003eevery\u003c/i\u003e captcha is going to have some failure rate, even if it is extremely low. If attacks were absolutely free, then it wouldn't matter what the attack success rate was. Computers are fast, but not infinitely fast. Bandwidth is cheap, but not infinitesimally cheap.","parent":"4935091","id":"4935476"}
{"by":"dmckeon","time":"1486161244","timestamp":"2017-02-03 22:34:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone reading \u003ci\u003eStarship Troopers\u003c/i\u003e may also want to read\nJoe Haldeman\u0026#x27;s \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Forever_War\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Forever_War\u003c/a\u003e\nof which Heinlein apparently said [it] \u0026quot;may be the best future war story I\u0026#x27;ve ever read!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHowever, given its fairly pessimistic view of war,\nit may not appear on many military reading lists.","parent":"13560973","id":"13563942"}
{"by":"6t6t6t6","time":"1482714144","timestamp":"2016-12-26 01:02:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Get a Spanish or Latin American boyfriend\u0026#x2F;girlfriend. It\u0026#x27;s, by far, the best way to learn languages.","parent":"13255993","id":"13256325"}
{"by":"realpeopleio","time":"1525417182","timestamp":"2018-05-04 06:59:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;We\u0026quot; the people that don\u0026#x27;t want a few big social media companies dominating the internet, \u0026quot;support\u0026quot; is use and pay for them if needed.","parent":"16992677","id":"16992719"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1519843543","timestamp":"2018-02-28 18:45:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Silicon lithography has to hit a wall way before single atom sizes. For a start, silicon semiconducting is a probabilistic effect and only happen on populations.\u003cp\u003ePhotons at usable frequencies are much larger than atoms. Just notice that lithography is currently moving into what they call \u0026quot;extreme UV\u0026quot; (and most people call X-rays) because the UV photons are much larger than the features of current top of line chips.","parent":"16482157","id":"16485530"}
{"by":"kqr","time":"1461926148","timestamp":"2016-04-29 10:35:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All things have a constant speed in spacetime: the speed of light. If you stand completely still, you travel through time at \u0026quot;the speed of light\u0026quot;. If you start moving faster in space, you\u0026#x27;ll lose a similar amount of speed in time. Go fast enough, and your life will pass in slow-motion. Go at the speed of light and your time stops. Go faster than the speed of light, and your time will start going backwards.\u003cp\u003eSince you can\u0026#x27;t get out of a black hole normally, the only way to get out is by reversing time. I.e., going faster than light might be an option to get out of a black hole.\u003cp\u003eOf course, doing so is nonsense, but the maths work out.","parent":"11594708","id":"11594801"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1534227733","timestamp":"2018-08-14 06:22:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s intended to run without maintenance for five years. That\u0026#x27;s been tried before. InfoSeek did it in the early days of search engines. They didn\u0026#x27;t repair machines; the entire module of some number of racks was replaced at end of life. But that idea seems to have fallen out of fashion. That Microsoft is trying this again is significant.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s running in dry nitrogen. That has advantages over air. No corrosion, for one.","parent":"17747719","id":"17755935"}
{"by":"graeme","time":"1543368935","timestamp":"2018-11-28 01:35:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure I follow. Once the UK is out, it\u0026#x27;s out. In that case, to rejoin it would have to follow the process to join, no?\u003cp\u003eI mean, if it was 3 weeks later and no laws had changed maybe not, but past a certain point regulations would have diverged etc","parent":"18548293","id":"18548555"}
{"by":"aalleavitch","time":"1531758612","timestamp":"2018-07-16 16:30:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There’s something more there: a desire for community and interaction.","parent":"17542102","id":"17542575"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1495481846","timestamp":"2017-05-22 19:37:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Communism\u0026quot; may be a distracting term, but I\u0026#x27;m just going to throw this out for a fictional reference along the same general lines:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.p2pfoundation.net\u0026#x2F;Infosocialism\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.p2pfoundation.net\u0026#x2F;Infosocialism\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14392047","id":"14396327"}
{"by":"knownothing","time":"1495202289","timestamp":"2017-05-19 13:58:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right. Which is exactly what I said. Production has been on the rise since 2001.","parent":"14375595","id":"14375661"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1494270300","timestamp":"2017-05-08 19:05:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The content likely was not attractive\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s our assumption. But all we can do is assume; nobody seems to have a way to verify those assumptions. It appears that the content creators can\u0026#x27;t even see what category their content has been assigned to, WRT advertisements, to make changes to regain their revenue.\u003cp\u003eContent creators are the ones feeling the pinch now, but we\u0026#x27;ll all be poorer in the long run.","parent":"14294455","id":"14294549"}
{"by":"bonestamp2","time":"1517357911","timestamp":"2018-01-31 00:18:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I realize this is an op-ed, but a good op-ed will still be based on well researched facts, otherwise the opinion is naive and useless. This reads like Krugman read a shitty blog from some 12 year old who doesn\u0026#x27;t know how to do independant research and simply copied some terribly uninformed social media arguments.\u003cp\u003eFor example, the US Dollar is valuable not because that\u0026#x27;s the only accepted currency for paying taxes but because it\u0026#x27;s the only currency that nearly every retailer in the country accepts.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; much actual Bitcoin use seems to involve drugs, sex and other black-market goods\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a big difference between bitcoin use in general and bitcoin use on the dark web. You can\u0026#x27;t cite an article about bitcoin use on the dark web as a source for how all bitcoin is used. That\u0026#x27;s like saying hot dogs are only sold at baseball stadiums when your source is just about hot dog sales at baseball stadiums.\u003cp\u003eI could go on but I think it\u0026#x27;s fair to say there is no need -- Krugman has gone full retard.","parent":"16269190","id":"16270300"}
{"by":"tosseraccount","time":"1448313964","timestamp":"2015-11-23 21:26:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Denny\u0026#x27;s doesn\u0026#x27;t need government bailouts to stay open.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=elon%20musk%20survive%20on%20government%20subsidies\u0026amp;t=ffsb\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=elon%20musk%20survive%20on%20gover...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.\u003cp\u003eAnd he\u0026#x27;s built those companies with the help of billions in government subsidies.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.latimes.com\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.latimes.com\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncle Sam would have been better off investing in Denny\u0026#x27;s.","parent":"10617220","id":"10617418"}
{"by":"azernik","time":"1534670532","timestamp":"2018-08-19 09:22:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As you point out, Facebook targeting is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e anything qualitatively new; it\u0026#x27;s the same old tools, just cheaper and more fine-grained. And the law was written to prevent those same tools from being used to discriminate.\u003cp\u003eAccording to Code of Federal Regulations 109, for example, your hypothetical would indeed be discriminatory (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hud.gov\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;DOC_7781.PDF\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hud.gov\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;DOC_7781.PDF\u003c/a\u003e, search for \u0026quot;Selective use of advertising media or content\u0026quot;)\u003cp\u003eQuoting the relevant section:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The following are examples of the selective use of advertisements\nwhich may be discriminatory:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; (a) Selective geographic advertisements. Such selective use may involve the strategic\nplacement of billboards; brochure advertisements distributed within a limited geographic area by\nhand or in the mail; advertising in particular geographic coverage editions of major metropolitan\nnewspapers or in newspapers of limited circulation which are mainly advertising vehicles for\nreaching a particular segment of the community; or displays or announcements available only in\nselected sales offices.\u003cp\u003e(The rest refer to selective use of the \u0026quot;equal opportunity\u0026quot; slogan and logo, and to selective choice of human models to e.g. exclude children in housing ads.)","parent":"17790353","id":"17793447"}
{"by":"tw1010","time":"1519825832","timestamp":"2018-02-28 13:50:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool project! But I have a hard time shaking the feeling that a lot of the content and comments are bots or are paid for.","parent":"16481112","id":"16482914"}
{"by":"fiatjaf","time":"1457446476","timestamp":"2016-03-08 14:14:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This tagline isn\u0026#x27;t making justice to this awesome idea (I had a very similar idea some time ago, so I will say this)!\u003cp\u003eI hope people start using it. Also, I want the answers for brudger\u0026#x27;s questions too.","parent":"11244878","id":"11245292"}
{"by":"vardump","time":"1522161166","timestamp":"2018-03-27 14:32:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another reminder never to do business with Oracle.","parent":"16688521","id":"16688759"}
{"by":"kplex","time":"1397912852","timestamp":"2014-04-19 13:07:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More Mythbustery goodness.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/testedcom\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;testedcom\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7609584","id":"7613339"}
{"by":"Apofis","time":"1416116404","timestamp":"2014-11-16 05:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another problem,is that they need to have a 3D model ready of whatever it is you\u0026#x27;re trying to manipulate. Have a slightly different chair or different car make? Tough cookies.","parent":"8612853","id":"8613536"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1454381614","timestamp":"2016-02-02 02:53:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think maybe I\u0026#x27;ve mis-communicated somewhere along the way. I\u0026#x27;m not saying containers are a bad idea; they\u0026#x27;re a good deployment strategy for many use cases. What I\u0026#x27;m saying is that there are a lot of slapped together tools out there trying to provide a declarative\u0026#x2F;atomic infrastructure that are doing it poorly...but, are quite popular. NixOS seems like an ideal tool for the task; as you note, one could readily build your containers with NixOS (and I think it\u0026#x27;d be the ideal choice for that). And, in fact, that\u0026#x27;s primarily what I was thinking of.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve been working on Docker support in our products lately, so it\u0026#x27;s on my mind, and the way that so many lessons that have been learned in the past couple decades of systems management are kinda thrown overboard in the Docker (and other containers) community. As above where there\u0026#x27;s a sort of belief that \u0026quot;containers\u0026quot; makes the problems package management solves irrelevant. Likewise, there\u0026#x27;s a lot of throwing security out the window; a tremendous level of trust is being given to container builders.\u003cp\u003eI could rant all day about stuff like this, and there\u0026#x27;s always the risk of turning into Grandpa Simpson. So, I\u0026#x27;ll stop ranting after a summary:\u003cp\u003eContainers are cool, but a lot of people are making a lot of mistakes in their use of containers. NixOS is cool, and might remedy some of the problems I see in the way people are using containers (while also solving a number of other problems of reliable deployments, not just with containers).","parent":"11017305","id":"11017391"}
{"by":"tom_wilde","time":"1490801904","timestamp":"2017-03-29 15:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shout out to the author, I\u0026#x27;m enjoying this content thankyou!","parent":"13986124","id":"13987301"}
{"by":"xdef","time":"1307211269","timestamp":"2011-06-04 18:14:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The Bahamas pretty much do not give a fuck about FBI requests\u003cp\u003eAnd how exactly do you know this?","parent":"2619509","id":"2620051"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1344792639","timestamp":"2012-08-12 17:30:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I understand it, Gates funds \u003ci\u003ehealth\u003c/i\u003e related research, e.g. clean drinking water or malaria. Your parent was discussing the simple provision of free food.","parent":"4372838","id":"4372981"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1498158358","timestamp":"2017-06-22 19:05:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The question isn\u0026#x27;t if it will, the question is when \u0026amp; how.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very easy to predict a bubble popping, it\u0026#x27;s a lot more difficult to predict when.  \u0026quot;The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent\u0026quot; - Keynes\u003cp\u003eAnd the other question is how.  Sometimes bubbles deflate slowly, for example in our market house prices in $ terms were basically flat between the late 80s and the late 90s.   That\u0026#x27;s a definite decrease in real dollars, but nothing like the chaos that the same decrease would cause happening instantaneously.\u003cp\u003eThe third question is whether just Toronto \u0026amp; Vancouver will pop, or whether it will affect the rest of the country.","parent":"14608918","id":"14614484"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1505400944","timestamp":"2017-09-14 14:55:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I very briefly skimmed this, and it seems like it\u0026#x27;s using a pretty standard Von Neumann architecture, right? RAM, ROM, ALU, etc.\u003cp\u003eI understand that it\u0026#x27;s easier to build Tetris, or anything, using something we understand well, but I wonder what other approach would be better for building in GoL.","parent":"15246348","id":"15248630"}
{"by":"exstudent2","time":"1471359808","timestamp":"2016-08-16 15:03:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Correct, but the OP was about middle class people where both parents work. That\u0026#x27;s new.","parent":"12297751","id":"12297902"}
{"by":"rafaeljesus","time":"1496315494","timestamp":"2017-06-01 11:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You mean synchronous communication using request-reply\u0026#x2F;rpc like?","parent":"14456814","id":"14459339"}
{"by":"rocqua","time":"1478214416","timestamp":"2016-11-03 23:06:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So should the response to a troll be to ban and chastise him?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d argue its better to start offering counter arguments. If they engage reasonably, have discourse. Otherwise, start ignoring \u0026#x2F; saying \u0026#x27;here\u0026#x27;s that guy again\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eYes, someone who remains reasonable and yet seeks to defend racism is probably slightly harmful. As he might move a few people, and keep others on the fence. And yet, I\u0026#x27;d give most people more credit than that. I also care more about free expression of ideas. Finally, I care about convincing those on the other side, rather than confirming those who are on my side.\u003cp\u003eIf you start dismissing everyone with a non-progressive view point, that won\u0026#x27;t convince them. Heck, it\u0026#x27;ll probably make them think all progressive are oversensitive people; people who defend their believes because they can\u0026#x27;t stand the very though of disagreement. Instead, we should look to express confidence truth seeking and reason. That is a lot more likely to get them to consider us.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, if the non-progressives are essentially unwelcome in progressive circles, we are just strengthening the divide and increasing tribalism on both sides. Heck, non-progressives basically aren\u0026#x27;t welcome in higher education. That can\u0026#x27;t be good and isn\u0026#x27;t what we should want.","parent":"12868765","id":"12868897"}
{"by":"2bluesc","time":"1488492952","timestamp":"2017-03-02 22:15:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I owned the previous 14\u0026quot; 1080p Haswell powered Galago Ultra Pro built by Clevo.  Build quality was terrible and battery life was horrific when compared to Dell Precision 15 (aka XPS).  I quick quickly sold it and haven\u0026#x27;t missed it.","parent":"13778696","id":"13778778"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1383291408","timestamp":"2013-11-01 07:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because they require less performance effort to get a nice sound, not because they have a soul.\u003cp\u003eYour argument is like saying \u0026quot;chefs use better ingredients in their restaurant then at home because those ingredients have a soul, while the ingredients they use for home cooking does not\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eYou are utterly divorced from any reality and live in a trite pedantic fantasy world. Please stop talking to me.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re simultaneously tiring, limited and boring.","parent":"6651915","id":"6652365"}
{"by":"ionised","time":"1436260901","timestamp":"2015-07-07 09:21:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The English Civil War, which was a form of revolution was arguably a positive thing. Without it Britain would have remained a tyrannical monarchy for long afterwards. This event led to a democratic parliament actually being useful.\u003cp\u003eThe French revolution was bloody but ended immense corruption and repression on the part of the aristocracy. Again, this led to France being declared a constitutional  Republic.\u003cp\u003eEven the Bolshevik revolution. It was corrupted later but it began positively.\u003cp\u003eNobody is saying revolutions are clean or even desirable. I\u0026#x27;m definitely saying that they seem inevitable at a point though. People can only take so much shit before they snap.","parent":"9844317","id":"9844337"}
{"by":"pixl97","time":"1424357530","timestamp":"2015-02-19 14:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;(there\u0026#x27;s a quote by Plato in Plato\u0026#x27;s Republic where he talks about how while you can create conditions for people to learn, the actual learning is a sort of madness) describe how their performance is something almost out of their control. They control the practice schedules, they do the hard training. The actual performance is something they surrender to.\u003cp\u003eThe conscious mind is like writing code, it\u0026#x27;s not easy to do, and takes a lot of thinking to get anything done.\u003cp\u003eThe subconscious mind is like the execution of compiled code.","parent":"9072993","id":"9074251"}
{"by":"dao-","time":"1529591507","timestamp":"2018-06-21 14:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NaCL is more like Google\u0026#x27;s ActiveX. wasm directly builds upon the experience and success Mozilla had with asm.js.","parent":"17364472","id":"17365475"}
{"by":"mbostleman","time":"1534352627","timestamp":"2018-08-15 17:03:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here. It\u0026#x27;s interesting how that distinction is often non existent.","parent":"17767618","id":"17767668"}
{"by":"bsder","time":"1439073683","timestamp":"2015-08-08 22:41:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There\u0026#x27;s a good reason why they were about eighty columns. It\u0026#x27;s because the eye can\u0026#x27;t comfortably scan much further.\u003cp\u003eExcept that you are wrong.\u003cp\u003eOne of the links in the comments here has research that shows that reading speed increases significantly to at least 90 characters and may increase further than that.","parent":"10025987","id":"10028855"}
{"by":"lugg","time":"1496880130","timestamp":"2017-06-08 00:02:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If they were a company, it could serve as a recruitment tool or as an example of why clients should do business with you. Either way, remaining anonymous is odd.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re assuming that someone, or some group, with the ability to pull this off needs this as a portfolio piece.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t imagine this is their first rodeo, and I would assume whomever it is already has a solid resume. Why blacken it with something so dark?\u003cp\u003eSure it could be a state sponsor, or, much more likely, its just someone having some fun.","parent":"14509893","id":"14510866"}
{"by":"forgottenacc57","time":"1484018757","timestamp":"2017-01-10 03:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a message to Microsoft protesting the Surface.","parent":"13360339","id":"13362314"}
{"by":"hhw","time":"1427982737","timestamp":"2015-04-02 13:52:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because Intel destroys anything ARM has to offer in terms of price\u0026#x2F;performance or performance\u0026#x2F;watt, even on microservers since the Avotons came out. We\u0026#x27;re also going to see Xeon D\u0026#x27;s and Denvertons before proper ARM based server solutions come to market.","parent":"9309541","id":"9310635"}
{"by":"michaels0620","time":"1314912386","timestamp":"2011-09-01 21:26:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While not flimsy, they do not need much pressure to deform and flex. If you type heavily the table may bounce a bit. Not much, but enough to be distracting. Keeping your laptop closer to the side with support might help.","parent":"2951819","id":"2951836"}
{"by":"Nadya","time":"1532537226","timestamp":"2018-07-25 16:47:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To which browsers will warn the user that the certificate is invalid. Something that, if it was an HTTP site, the user would \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e be made aware of. The user would then need to ignore the certificate warnings at which point you\u0026#x27;ve done your job by having HTTPS - the rest is up to the user to not ignore security warnings, you can\u0026#x27;t control that part. Having to generate false certificates at scale for an attack on a number of websites is unlikely - even with the Comodo\u0026#x2F;DigiNotar blunders of the past. \u003ci\u003eEspecially\u003c/i\u003e when arguments against these attacks are \u0026quot;nobody would attack me anyway\u0026quot; (you\u0026#x27;re only making it easier for them to target your visitors by not requiring them to jump through a hoop to get a fake cert).\u003cp\u003eIf they send your user to \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dvfjsdhgfv.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dvfjsdhgfv.com\u003c/a\u003e (malicious server) instead of \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dvfjsdhgfv.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dvfjsdhgfv.com\u003c/a\u003e (your server) the browser will yell at them about the site being insecure. If they try to use \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dvfjsdhgfv.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dvfjsdhgfv.com\u003c/a\u003e your user can see that it isn\u0026#x27;t secure. They would need a fake certificate for dvfjsdhgfv.com to serve with their malicious version of the site. Arguing against the increased security theoretical attacks exist is a bit misguided - especially when certificates have been revoked or CA\u0026#x27;s been blacklisted\u0026#x2F;go out of business for this behavior. It\u0026#x27;s extremely uncommon - there have only been a handful of instances of it occurring\u0026#x2F;being caught (an important distinction I\u0026#x27;m sure you\u0026#x27;d bring up). Because of the difficulty in getting an invalid cert signed by a CA they tend to only go after the big fish (Google\u0026#x2F;Alibaba\u0026#x2F;Facebook) and hope they don\u0026#x27;t get caught quickly.\u003cp\u003eIf fake certificates were as common as having an unlocked bike left in central L.A stolen, the argument would be a lot stronger.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;It encrypts traffic between the two endpoints, that\u0026#x27;s it.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is why it is important. The attack is called \u0026quot;man in the middle\u0026quot; and not \u0026quot;man at the ends\u0026quot;. Also \u0026quot;mass propaganda\u0026quot;? Propaganda from who exactly?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t understand the refusal to implement https, even on static sites. It takes literally minutes and provides additional security to your readers\u0026#x2F;users. Refusal to do so is laziness at best and maliciousness at worst. I have a personal file host that receives \u0026lt;5 unique views\u0026#x2F;day, mostly only by friends, and 99% of all traffic only comes from me - I still took the time to set up TLS [1]. It took me under 10 minutes to implement and it was my first time ever doing so. If you expect to have 0 visitors ever why not just use localhost?\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techgenix.com\u0026#x2F;understanding-man-in-the-middle-attacks-arp-part2\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techgenix.com\u0026#x2F;understanding-man-in-the-middle-attacks...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kimiwo.aishitei.ru\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kimiwo.aishitei.ru\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17609678","id":"17610663"}
{"by":"tghw","time":"1520011920","timestamp":"2018-03-02 17:32:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That logic is inherently flawed because luck plays a part in each of those aspects, too. To have learned the \u0026quot;relevant skills\u0026quot; means you need to have been fortunate enough to have been provided an education. To build a network that matters you need to have access to the right people. Looking for new business opportunities is only possible if you have the resources to do.\u003cp\u003eEventually, it all goes back to who you were born as and who you were born to. Your odds of \u0026quot;success\u0026quot; are much higher if you\u0026#x27;re born as a white male in the US than if you\u0026#x27;re born as an female in rural India. No amount of effort can change those odds.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not to say that effort doesn\u0026#x27;t play a part, it absolutely does. But a significant amount of success is supported by good fortune layered on more good fortune.","parent":"16503535","id":"16503698"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1259432714","timestamp":"2009-11-28 18:25:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn't look like anything more than a sexp reader; very limited (I am guessing a 1-2 day hack.)\u003cp\u003eAll it has are: atom, eq, car, cdr, cons, cond, lambda, define (for variables!) and defun.","parent":"965163","id":"965354"}
{"by":"LyndsySimon","time":"1503496263","timestamp":"2017-08-23 13:51:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep.\u003cp\u003eI drive a 2000 Jeep Wrangler, and while I don\u0026#x27;t ever plan to sell it at some point it will get too expensive to keep on the road to justify using it as a daily driver. I expect that will be somewhere around 300k miles, since I just put in a new engine at 160k.","parent":"15077209","id":"15081507"}
{"by":"itg","time":"1289781881","timestamp":"2010-11-15 00:44:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The idea of living in NJ/working in NYC sounds nice and lots of people with families do it, but as as 20-something in NYC (Brooklyn for me) I thought about it but can't imagine actually doing this. It is nothing to do with appearing \"cool\" to other people but for practical reasons. Don't underestimate the importance of having a social life and all your friends/co-workers/other connections living in the same area as you. Plus who wants to take the train after every time you go out drinking instead of just walking back to your place.\u003cp\u003eAlso, it doesn't seem like the people in the article are looking for any sympathy.","parent":"1904602","id":"1904742"}
{"by":"bluejekyll","time":"1504652671","timestamp":"2017-09-05 23:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be zero sum. We don\u0026#x27;t need to choose between safe and unsafe. Safety should be a default, with unsafety being something you opt into.\u003cp\u003eC\u0026#x2F;C++ are both unsafe. Rust is safe by default, and for the cases where you want\u0026#x2F;need the C\u0026#x2F;C++ level of access to the system, you can opt into unsafe. I believe Rust is more safe than Go and Java as well, because of the type safety in the threading model.\u003cp\u003eThere are existing applications in C out there, there will be for a long time. Personally I frown upon anyone starting a new project in C or C++, or any unsafe language, especially when you have such a strong language in Rust that exists with a very healthy and growing community around it.","parent":"15179782","id":"15179824"}
{"by":"zerealshadowban","time":"1536603122","timestamp":"2018-09-10 18:12:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"tajen, the vast majority of your comments are marked [dead] and thus invisible -- it looks like you were shadow-banned two months ago.","parent":"17950906","id":"17953733"}
{"by":"cozzyd","time":"1426398435","timestamp":"2015-03-15 05:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Instead of Spotify, I just listen to \u003ca href=\"http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.ogg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gnu.org\u0026#x2F;music\u0026#x2F;free-software-song.ogg\u003c/a\u003e on repeat","parent":"9203394","id":"9205518"}
{"by":"sergiotapia","time":"1493322326","timestamp":"2017-04-27 19:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a mistake on your part to assume my parenting style based on 4 paragraphs.","parent":"14213784","id":"14214139"}
{"by":"kriro","time":"1444211375","timestamp":"2015-10-07 09:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone should implement a Duke Nukem Forever clone in Perl 6.\u003cp\u003ePretty excited about Perl 6. Haven\u0026#x27;t used Perl in a long time but there seems to be quite a bit of cool stuff and I\u0026#x27;m very excited to see what a language where Larry had more free reign will be like. Xmas reading\u0026#x2F;coding here we go (how fitting)","parent":"10341832","id":"10345045"}
{"by":"burkaman","time":"1499272043","timestamp":"2017-07-05 16:27:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason I ask is that it seems like you might be using a circular definition here. You say \u0026quot;the left likes to use labels to stop free speech\u0026quot;, but have you just defined \u0026quot;the left\u0026quot; in your head to mean \u0026quot;anyone who uses labels to stop free speech\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eI do think using such vague terms in general is at best useless, but it\u0026#x27;s especially pointless when you redefine labels to fit whatever you\u0026#x27;re trying to argue against.","parent":"14703651","id":"14703787"}
{"by":"Eliezer","time":"1376888726","timestamp":"2013-08-19 05:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well those numbers sound wildly low.","parent":"6235681","id":"6235714"}
{"by":"mobiuscog","time":"1403525683","timestamp":"2014-06-23 12:14:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Absolutely. I\u0026#x27;m surprised that having to work around no \u0026#x27;div\u0026#x27; is seen as painful compared to writing the rest of the game using 3D in assembly !\u003cp\u003eLearning on 6502\u0026#x2F;Z80 meant most everything was from first principles, and although I\u0026#x27;d hate to regress so far today (head would hurt) it really was a great way to start.","parent":"7927494","id":"7931463"}
{"by":"hexadecimated","time":"1506115215","timestamp":"2017-09-22 21:20:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Before Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste, the usual method was Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins (and Shift+Del for cut), so this key did have a lot of use back in the day. These key combinations still work in most Windows software.","parent":"15312211","id":"15315908"}
{"by":"scanr","time":"1399031596","timestamp":"2014-05-02 11:53:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It really depends on what you\u0026#x27;re optimising for. If you\u0026#x27;re aiming for being able to build features quickly \u0026#x2F; elegantly using higher level abstractions, these benchmarks may be less interesting.\u003cp\u003eIf on the other hand, you\u0026#x27;re building an application where performance is key, it\u0026#x27;s useful to know how much overhead your framework is adding. We have a real time bidding application which falls into this category, so these benchmarks quite interesting to me.","parent":"7681766","id":"7685132"}
{"by":"fergyfresh","time":"1510161993","timestamp":"2017-11-08 17:26:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not that its computationally hard to say is this a naked person (#notahotdog from silicon valley). It\u0026#x27;s more along the lines of show me all naked pictures of ME on the internet, is probably more computationally hard.","parent":"15654405","id":"15654562"}
{"by":"zeroonetwothree","time":"1453005072","timestamp":"2016-01-17 04:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have two kids under two, and I\u0026#x27;ve built two PCs in that time. It takes a few hours, but I enjoy it. It\u0026#x27;s relaxing to do stuff like that at the end of the day. My alternatives are watching TV or reading Hacker News, and I don\u0026#x27;t see how that\u0026#x27;s any better :).","parent":"10917925","id":"10918287"}
{"by":"Helianthus","time":"1316639524","timestamp":"2011-09-21 21:12:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That had a very specific meaning in context.  He was asking if Google used Yelp's content to build its Places content, in which case Google would be using its capacity as a Search company in order to grant its Places division a competitive (anti-competitive?) advantage against Yelp.  If simultaneously it can be shown that Search was favoring bringing attention to Places over Yelp, there might be an anti-trust case.\u003cp\u003eThere's a lot of posts on here about how uninformed the politicians seem to be.  We seem to forget that _we're_ the ones who are uninformed of the vast technicality that is anti-trust law and the oceans of oratorical precision required in order to establish a legal case.","parent":"3023544","id":"3023712"}
{"by":"sireat","time":"1450792556","timestamp":"2015-12-22 13:55:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since the amount of Bitcoins introduced into world daily is near constant (except for the scheduled halving of the rewards every few years), SOMEBODY is selling most of the freshly mined coins without disrupting the market.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t really matter how high the difficulty is or who the miner is the coins are mined and most of them sold.\u003cp\u003eThere might be a small fraction of coins which are still mined in pools using outdated miners and those people don\u0026#x27;t bother selling them coins(fractions of coins that is).\u003cp\u003eIt has been accepted wisdom that most mining operations sell most\u0026#x2F;all of their mined coins.","parent":"10775048","id":"10777738"}
{"by":"carussell","time":"1457030464","timestamp":"2016-03-03 18:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s no such thing as the electron editor.  Electron is just a framework for making desktop apps using the client-side layers of the Web stack.  It\u0026#x27;s basically a a little bit more than a glorified Chromium install, minus the browser chrome.\u003cp\u003eThe editors in VSCode and Atom are completely different implementations.","parent":"11218447","id":"11218891"}
{"by":"thatmatt","time":"1392844700","timestamp":"2014-02-19 21:18:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whipped up and released last night because we wanted it. Feedback and bugs much appreciated!","parent":"7266289","id":"7266295"}
{"by":"alpha_squared","time":"1489448332","timestamp":"2017-03-13 23:38:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can\u0026#x27;t find info on Argo (not looking properly, most likely), but Cruise raised over $18m before being bought (for ???). It looks like a solid effort to launch a product\u0026#x2F;startup that was snatched up. Otto was ~6 months and bought for $680m. I think there\u0026#x27;s a pretty large delta of strangeness there.","parent":"13861846","id":"13863618"}
{"by":"eklavya","time":"1479232566","timestamp":"2016-11-15 17:56:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I think those \u0026quot;fanatics\u0026quot; were right all along. Ignorance is bliss.","parent":"12958492","id":"12960375"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1457430628","timestamp":"2016-03-08 09:50:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I do think this is a good thing, I\u0026#x27;ve run very good MySQL servers (well, in so far as MySQL is ever very good) on Windows, so it was already possible to do that kind of migration.","parent":"11243331","id":"11244369"}
{"by":"pearjuice","time":"1375746287","timestamp":"2013-08-05 23:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Running Ubuntu was never hip to begin with. Arch is where it is at.","parent":"6163838","id":"6163948"}
{"by":"thrwawayinc","time":"1429946442","timestamp":"2015-04-25 07:20:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Failure to file tax returns.","parent":"9437539","id":"9437558"}
{"by":"VonGuard","time":"1361843273","timestamp":"2013-02-26 01:47:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Derp, yer totally right.","parent":"5281643","id":"5283324"}
{"by":"collinmanderson","time":"1498655858","timestamp":"2017-06-28 13:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t it more like a \u0026lt;number of pending transfers\u0026gt;-out-of-65536 chance of getting it right? If there are 256 pending transfers, then it\u0026#x27;s more of a 1 in 256 chance of stealing someone\u0026#x27;s information?\u003cp\u003eThe more popular this program gets, the easier it is to steal people\u0026#x27;s information?","parent":"14650337","id":"14653776"}
{"by":"siquick","time":"1470613491","timestamp":"2016-08-07 23:44:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re not a DJ without the D","parent":"12243130","id":"12244425"}
{"by":"dsims","time":"1238794200","timestamp":"2009-04-03 21:30:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used this \u003ca href=\"http://decafbad.com/2009/01/twitter-friend-faves-opml/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://decafbad.com/2009/01/twitter-friend-faves-opml/\u003c/a\u003e to create an OPML file, and then edited it so it contained status feeds instead of favorites.\u003cp\u003eI just stumbled up on this too, which is probably a better idea: \u003ca href=\"http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=408\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=408\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"545395","id":"545648"}
{"by":"sklogic","time":"1442911356","timestamp":"2015-09-22 08:42:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Comefrom is a mainstream now, not a joke any more. See the phi nodes in SSA.","parent":"10253628","id":"10257401"}
{"by":"Symbiote","time":"1522688703","timestamp":"2018-04-02 17:05:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The UK is the 4th, 5th or 3rd safest country in the world for road fatalities, depending which metric you prefer (per capita, per vehicle, by distance driven).\u003cp\u003eMaybe you aren\u0026#x27;t used to concentrating while driving? (I\u0026#x27;m only half joking, an American friend one made a similar remark when he visited me.)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...\u003c/a\u003e (I ignored microstates when counting.)","parent":"16735573","id":"16736502"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1393293312","timestamp":"2014-02-25 01:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Part of the letter is: yeah, that billion dollar Boeing contract? We\u0026#x27;re giving it to Sweden. I see the vowels \u0026quot;o\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;e\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;i\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-boeing-brazil-insight-idUSBRE9BJ10P20131220\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reuters.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;20\u0026#x2F;us-boeing-brazil-i...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7293435","id":"7294709"}
{"by":"charonn0","time":"1375320625","timestamp":"2013-08-01 01:30:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the problem, and that\u0026#x27;s why these programs should be terminated. An un-auditable spy agency answerable only to the President is manifestly unconstitutional, dangerous, and wrong.","parent":"6137892","id":"6138052"}
{"by":"roganartu","time":"1537196797","timestamp":"2018-09-17 15:06:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Counting paper votes is a solved problem, and nations that use entirely paper ballots don\u0026#x27;t have slow preliminary counts. Australia, for example, has a somewhat complicated preferential voting system and relies entirely on paper ballots, and yet they are generally able to provide a conclusive result the night of an election (with televised tracking of counts throughout the country).\u003cp\u003eThis may not make sense intuitively, but counting paper scales quite well by being distributed to the polling locations and physically sorting the paper ballots. The Australian Electoral Commission documents the counting process quite thoroughly [0].\u003cp\u003eThe only time counting paper takes a long time to get a win\u0026#x2F;lose result is when results are close enough that every vote needs to be counted. This is surprisingly rare in practice.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aec.gov.au\u0026#x2F;Voting\u0026#x2F;counting\u0026#x2F;index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aec.gov.au\u0026#x2F;Voting\u0026#x2F;counting\u0026#x2F;index.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18006440","id":"18006594"}
{"by":"acheron","time":"1394577667","timestamp":"2014-03-11 22:41:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh, that\u0026#x27;s a lot of downvotes. Sorry for, you know, mentioning an event that occurred that provides context for the article.","parent":"7380753","id":"7382710"}
{"by":"randallsquared","time":"1234216973","timestamp":"2009-02-09 22:02:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an argument for mandatory crime/injury insurance. :)","parent":"474219","id":"474238"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1460487643","timestamp":"2016-04-12 19:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure.  But it\u0026#x27;s just funny that Google\u0026#x27;s approach is to mark these sites with big red warnings when Google itself is the source of the actual problem.","parent":"11482377","id":"11482503"}
{"by":"kweks","time":"1537828089","timestamp":"2018-09-24 22:28:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love namecheap - customer for over 10 years - but a recent incident has me rethinking my patronage.\nWe recently received a \u0026quot;lawyer DDOS\u0026quot; - where a law firm sent multiple letters claiming \u0026#x2F;alleged\u0026#x2F; trademark infringement. Without proof of identity, proof of subpoena, judge\u0026#x27;s order - whatever - namecheap rolled over on their WHOIS protection.\nThere was no dialog, no email from legal, nothing.\u003cp\u003eI was dismayed to see that someone can literally send one email, get your personal info, and impact your company.\u003cp\u003eVery disappointed in namecheap.","parent":"18061151","id":"18062029"}
{"by":"crisnoble","time":"1404800412","timestamp":"2014-07-08 06:20:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does something like the rights auctions your linked to exist for books?","parent":"8002832","id":"8003240"}
{"by":"eli_gottlieb","time":"1382955681","timestamp":"2013-10-28 10:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, well, Keynesianism is an important piece of the neoclassical synthesis.  To be droll: \u0026quot;mainstream theory is mainstream.\u0026quot;","parent":"6625192","id":"6626139"}
{"by":"sdegutis","time":"1469391451","timestamp":"2016-07-24 20:17:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is the driver support? In my experience with Apple laptops, Linux drivers are awful to the point of draining the battery much faster than macOS would, and using the hardware becomes flaky, e.g. sporadic wifi access, issues with video playback or plugging into a projector, etc. Are these issues solved with GalliumOS for Chromebooks?","parent":"12154378","id":"12154667"}
{"by":"muddi900","time":"1443282950","timestamp":"2015-09-26 15:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People have been saying this about Dropbox since iCloud came out, but what has changed? Have usage statistics changed? Have Google Drive and One Drive come close in feature set? Has Office dropped support for them?\u003cp\u003eI mean the linked article suggests that this is the case without ever showing us the bases for the assumptions. As far as I know, if we are looking at major players in the field, iCloud should worry the most, since it is something that nobody uses.","parent":"10282856","id":"10283406"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1373751134","timestamp":"2013-07-13 21:32:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks Ben - have both dropped you a line \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e ordering tax books.\u003cp\u003eAnd of course wasting no time plugging the Open Source campaign - \u003ca href=\"http://www.oss4gov.org/manifesto\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.oss4gov.org\u0026#x2F;manifesto\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCheers","parent":"6037801","id":"6038848"}
{"by":"zeppelin_7","time":"1343838434","timestamp":"2012-08-01 16:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tapjoy is a mobile advertising and publishing platform whose unique Mobile Value Exchange model allows users to select personalized advertisements with which to engage for virtual currency or premium content.  Tapjoy helps unlock mobile joy by empowering more than 500 million mobile users who choose to watch videos, subscribe to services, install applications and participate in other types of advertisements in exchange for virtual currency they can use in their favorite apps.  Tapjoy’s turnkey in-app advertising platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users and monetize their applications, while its powerful advertising marketplace lets brand advertisers reach a global mobile audience spanning more than 20,000 applications. Tapjoy is backed by top-tier investors including J.P.Morgan Asset Management, Rho Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, InterWest Partners and D.E. Shaw Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, London, Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.tapjoy.com.\u003cp\u003eMultiple Locations including:\nSan Francisco, CA\nAtlanta, GA\nCambridge, MA\u003cp\u003eNon engineering positions also in China, Korea, Santa Barbara, Chicago, Los Angeles etc.\u003cp\u003eWe sponsor H1B. \nList of open positions:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/tapjoy/list\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.jobscore.com/jobs/tapjoy/list\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eApply online or email me at inderpreet.singh at tapjoy dot com","parent":"4323597","id":"4323851"}
{"by":"stestagg","time":"1456303875","timestamp":"2016-02-24 08:51:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x27;truly logic-less\u0026#x27; but with functions and components...","parent":"11163438","id":"11165393"}
{"by":"spitx","time":"1348532136","timestamp":"2012-09-25 00:15:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\"I'm talking about those of us who live in China (you know, the place with 1.3+ billion people and the second-largest economy in the world).\"\u003cp\u003eThis claim is preposterous. There are 1.241 billion in India and Hindi is not even supported in the ios6.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://i.cubeupload.com/kTSpGM.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.cubeupload.com/kTSpGM.jpg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs others have pointed out, the granularity on Google Maps is not one bit poorer.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://i.cubeupload.com/3Dj8kk.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.cubeupload.com/3Dj8kk.jpg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoogle seems to be using AutoNavi as well, for this region.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://i.cubeupload.com/EqvYMX.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.cubeupload.com/EqvYMX.jpg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't know what your're talking about.\u003cp\u003eMake an effort to be elaborate.\u003cp\u003eAs the late Richard Holbrooke used to say: \n\"Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.\"","parent":"4566999","id":"4567811"}
{"by":"YouAreGreat","time":"1516695569","timestamp":"2018-01-23 08:19:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Likely, the rich will set up charities that sponsor gene mods for the poor.\u003cp\u003e(Only a cynic would call it beta testing.)","parent":"16210699","id":"16211885"}
{"by":"anc84","time":"1466588602","timestamp":"2016-06-22 09:43:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who says that it is his laptop?\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;article\u0026quot; does not really add anything for the HN audience. So to save you a click, here is the image: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;ClfR1BDUsAEMBm2.jpg:orig\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;ClfR1BDUsAEMBm2.jpg:orig\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11952255","id":"11952562"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1342210602","timestamp":"2012-07-13 20:16:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are planes in the habit of carrying much more fuel than they need, just in case they will weigh too much when landing, in which case they dump the fuel? No. In the inverse example, we don't put extra load on servers in anticipation that load goes up, just so we can dump the extra load and put it back to where it would have been had we not had extra load. The idea is moronic. It is literally the same as putting lead in your servers until you have to dump it, just because you can. Real admins have alerts on their servers to tell them when they will need additional capacity.\u003cp\u003eIncidentally, fuel dump systems were initially added due to a rule by the FAA that a plane's structural landing weight not be exceeded by its takeoff weight. Many commercial planes never had this problem, so dumping systems were not installed. As a result, most planes just circle until they've burned up enough fuel, or land anyway overweight. You could dump fuel to lessen the chance of explosion, but only if your plane is equipped with a fuel dump system, and such incidents are so rare it's not even a safety consideration.","parent":"4241233","id":"4241651"}
{"by":"adwn","time":"1447851329","timestamp":"2015-11-18 12:55:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OOP should be thought of as a way to structure your code, not as a way to model the problem domain. When used properly, it can give pretty good results, yet introductions to OO usually start with objects\u0026#x2F;classes representing real-world entities.","parent":"10586998","id":"10587388"}
{"by":"rodgerd","time":"1429423890","timestamp":"2015-04-19 06:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But extrapolating that to say that they\u0026#x27;re unwilling to pay for content is a bit of a stretch\u003cp\u003eNot to anyone who\u0026#x27;s watched it become axiomatic that musicians who expect to make money from their work are talentless hacks who should be pleased to work for free, that HBO Go is \u0026quot;too expensive\u0026quot;, that gamers who plow $500+ into a video card \u0026quot;can\u0026#x27;t afford\u0026quot; $20 games, or indeed that people in creative industries in general should make money from something other than their main endeavour and that nicking their stuff and passing it on is \u0026quot;exposure\u0026quot; more valuable than mere money.\u003cp\u003eNo matter what writers, musicians, et al produce, their is a constant insistance that any price above $0 is brigandry.","parent":"9402172","id":"9402196"}
{"by":"basseq","time":"1529341580","timestamp":"2018-06-18 17:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, I\u0026#x27;m not even talking about other revenue streams. In other words, what % of content creators on YouTube earn more than $10k\u0026#x2F;yr, even including other revenue sources? I bet it\u0026#x27;s less than 3.5%.","parent":"17339521","id":"17339813"}
{"by":"sametmax","time":"1522857840","timestamp":"2018-04-04 16:04:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He already did:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coindesk.com\u0026#x2F;mt-gox-trustee-sells-400-million-bitcoin-bitcoin-cash\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coindesk.com\u0026#x2F;mt-gox-trustee-sells-400-million-bi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe market was recovering from the crash when this happened, and it went down the toilet again right after that.\u003cp\u003eFunnily it recovered (to die soon after again), but we have seen the Mt Gox weight in action already.","parent":"16755885","id":"16756024"}
{"by":"anmol","time":"1325903089","timestamp":"2012-01-07 02:24:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A founders perspective on this:\u003cp\u003eI think such negotiation tips are great because they helps engineers, many of whom are not the best negotiators, get the fair market value they deserve. This is a real concern when recruiters are involved, or its a big company, or even a large startup (e.g. 50+ people).\u003cp\u003eHowever, as a technical founder for a smaller team, its not really in my interest to mis-align employee incentives, especially engineers.\u003cp\u003eThe people we hire are at the top of their game. If they're are not treated fairly, they will eventually find out, and someone will feel bad or be de-motivated or eventually leave. Every instance of lack of transparency or apparent \"unfairness\" will breed resentment and impact the net productivity of a team that's trying to run at its 110%. Even if/when we do get things wrong occasionally, quarterly/annual reviews are a great way to correct for decisions made with limited initial data.\u003cp\u003eTl;Dr : Founders don't get rich by cutting corners on someone's salary/benefits.","parent":"3434399","id":"3435988"}
{"by":"ymse","time":"1460902278","timestamp":"2016-04-17 14:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11496947\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11496947\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11514518","id":"11514529"}
{"by":"gregwebs","time":"1333979431","timestamp":"2012-04-09 13:50:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think this comparison is accurate at all. I suspect the author has only used Snap and not Yesod. Actually I don't know if there is a single Haskell programmer that has seriously tried all three web frameworks.","parent":"3816890","id":"3816918"}
{"by":"edwinyzh","time":"1382357527","timestamp":"2013-10-21 12:12:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow! This almost exactly what I feel about html editor and why I\u0026#x27;m working my live html\u0026#x2F;css editor (\u003ca href=\"http://liveditor.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;liveditor.com\u003c/a\u003e) !\u003cp\u003eCan I quote your response somewhere on my website to explain the idea of LIVEditor?!","parent":"6581430","id":"6584931"}
{"by":"adrianhoward","time":"1432540282","timestamp":"2015-05-25 07:51:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eWhile you lose out on some of the benefits in the short term, in the long term you get the benefit that previously hard-to-decompose monolithic legacy setups can be sliced and diced gradually until you have units that are reasonable to start rebuilding cleanly. This one of those areas where layers etc. really are quite useful.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo. Much. This.\u003cp\u003eI work with very view greenfield projects. I work with a lot of existing, complicated, annoying monolithic architectures. Approaches that let me start refactoring those into something vaguely sane are a godsend.","parent":"9598982","id":"9599061"}
{"by":"brohee","time":"1309529486","timestamp":"2011-07-01 14:11:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I really out of my mind or is this not a lambda at all but just an anonymous function?","parent":"2718252","id":"2718382"}
{"by":"tommccabe","time":"1377701938","timestamp":"2013-08-28 14:58:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Suggestion for the Shopify folk-\u003cp\u003eThe site doesn\u0026#x27;t say that the POS supports a barcode scanner, but the video says that it does (and shows it in use). As a retailer, not having a barcode scanner would be a prompt deal breaker[0]. It should be featured somewhere on the microsite.\u003cp\u003e[0] lack of a barcode scanner isn\u0026#x27;t bad if you have 16 products. Once you\u0026#x27;re managing any serious level of inventory, especially with unique size\u0026#x2F;color combinations, there\u0026#x27;s so much risk for error if each item isn\u0026#x27;t being scanned. Then there\u0026#x27;s speed of service to the customer; it\u0026#x27;s just quicker.","parent":"6289665","id":"6290389"}
{"by":"marknutter","time":"1366052341","timestamp":"2013-04-15 18:59:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How on earth then are so many illegal immigrants making enough money to both survive and also send money back to their families in their native countries?\u003cp\u003eAlso, anecdotally, and since you brought it up, I was in a situation where I lived for many years at or below the poverty line, but I made due by living in inexpensive apartments I split with other people in the same situation. I think most young adults who aren't given a trust fund or financial help from their parents go through a period like this in their lives, usually while developing more marketable skills or working their way up a company's hierarchy.\u003cp\u003eThe point is, you learn to make do, and you learn to survive, just like everyone else on this planet does. And if you want to increase your standard of living beyond sharing a dingy apartment with other people then you make yourself more valuable to employers somehow or accept your lot in life.","parent":"5552850","id":"5553453"}
{"by":"3am","time":"1417617766","timestamp":"2014-12-03 14:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A resume is a list of qualifications, and to see how a candidate frames themselves. They also set expectations for me, the interviewer for the questions I would like to ask (they say they\u0026#x27;re a Node and Clojure expert? I will tailor my questions to verify that).\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also a way (in addition to the cover letter) to quickly judge their communication skills.\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t hire someone without 1) a cover letter 2) a resume 3) a phone screen 4) review of their projects (ie github) 5) a team interview 6) references. Granted, I don\u0026#x27;t have to do it at scale.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s time consuming, but not as much as a bad hire.","parent":"8691340","id":"8693931"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1487439095","timestamp":"2017-02-18 17:31:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except people will probably stick to a few common ones and do a pattern. Love eyes x2 heart heart, thumbs up -- just like people don\u0026#x27;t pick words uniformly.","parent":"13675586","id":"13675646"}
{"by":"todd8","time":"1395759033","timestamp":"2014-03-25 14:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be a more useful graphic if the axis were actually capacity and cost (as labeled).  As it is now the Y-axis is showing us the capacity\u0026#x2F;cost.  When looking for drive I\u0026#x27;m usually not trying to maximize capacity for a certain budget (say by buying several 8G drives).  More often I want a drive that doesn\u0026#x27;t cost too much that has a certain capacity.","parent":"7465980","id":"7466180"}
{"by":"redorb","time":"1212778844","timestamp":"2008-06-06 19:00:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"he is really a smart man, but reminds me too much of my old GM that had me write a paper for 6 hours to spend $130 on advertising. (seems like a microsoft kind of issue)...\u003cp\u003emedia as we know it is always changing; but so is everything else cars, tv's, change is constant. of course its going to change and perhaps even turn upside down.. but to say there will be no print media - will our computers not have printers? of any sort? ... will graffiti artist no longer tag walls?","parent":"211063","id":"211083"}
{"by":"shard972","time":"1421905266","timestamp":"2015-01-22 05:41:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Might as well get them on this after they have control of the internet. Could make some cash.","parent":"8927539","id":"8927731"}
{"by":"iamelgringo","time":"1214266933","timestamp":"2008-06-24 00:22:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good ideas, thanks.  I'll look into the Mono libraries.","parent":"225638","id":"225760"}
{"by":"egberts","time":"1534557519","timestamp":"2018-08-18 01:58:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wut?  Go to Github and cobble a MitM proxy.","parent":"17785616","id":"17786498"}
{"by":"qwerty456127","time":"1541681637","timestamp":"2018-11-08 12:53:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there some lisp that has offers nearly as powerful and fast data processing and tensor algebra facilities like Pandas and Numpy of Python? I would love to use a lisp but am not sure how well are they going to manage with huge 2-3D arrays.","parent":"18402567","id":"18405888"}
{"by":"wastedhours","time":"1541162021","timestamp":"2018-11-02 12:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope, but a box of Jenga and some small stuffed toys would suffice ;)\n(And actually, my brother and I played a paper version of Worms when we were kids - with the map drawn in pen, and our movements and attacks plotted in pencil - was fun)","parent":"18359571","id":"18362515"}
{"by":"mythrwy","time":"1490822710","timestamp":"2017-03-29 21:25:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3-4 articles per day.\u003cp\u003eProbably split equally between tech things I think might be helpful (\u0026quot;Python, Bash, SQL how tos\u0026quot; etc.) and non-tech things which are novel.\u003cp\u003eLike \u0026quot;Guy frozen in ice brought back to life after 600 years\u0026quot; (which wasn\u0026#x27;t a real article but if it had been you bet I would have read it).\u003cp\u003eI avoid most article from major news source (I keep up with the news anyway) and most Medium stories and anything with a social justice type slant (nothing wrong with that, it\u0026#x27;s just not of interest and not why I\u0026#x27;m here). Also skip most \u0026quot;Our startup is doing XX or shutting down or whatever\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eSkim comments for many more articles (~20) and if they look interesting read more in depth.","parent":"13984842","id":"13990710"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1173069053","timestamp":"2007-03-05 04:30:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blog design is a lot different than social systems design. When designing a blog you mainly have to worry about useability and aesthetics. Once you get the design of your blog just the way you like it, you never have to change it. \u003cp\u003eWhereas when you are designing a community you are trying to get maximize the quality of discussion, which is a function of both the people and the way they interact because of the systemic design. Once everyone knows what everyone else thinks the community begins to get stale, and to fix that (if seen as a problem) you need to redesign your site with the goal of either changing the mix of participants or changing the way they interact. \u003cp\u003eWhile news.ycombinator may visually look the same as Reddit, it changes both the people and the way they interact (through different algorithms). That is probably why I've almost completely stopped reading Reddit since this site launched, even though at first glance they seem similar.","parent":"2268","id":"2271"}
{"by":"hilljgo","time":"1494992076","timestamp":"2017-05-17 03:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s an earthquake like when you are on the 12th (or is it -12?) floor of an underground building?","parent":"14355416","id":"14355436"}
{"by":"jboggan","time":"1478107177","timestamp":"2016-11-02 17:19:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because hardly any of them know how to cook.","parent":"12856730","id":"12857118"}
{"by":"infinite8s","time":"1348842514","timestamp":"2012-09-28 14:28:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's the common usage of the word 'theory'? Maybe it's because I'm a former scientist, but I can't imagine how the public's definition would be different from the common dictionary definition:\u003cp\u003ea proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation","parent":"4584688","id":"4585664"}
{"by":"unakravets","time":"1445996498","timestamp":"2015-10-28 01:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey! This is the library author :) I wrote a bunch of blog posts about blend modes, filters, and gradients on \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;una.im\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;una.im\u003c/a\u003e if you wanted to learn more about them. I also did a conference talk on the subject (its linked in the page for CSSgram)\u003cp\u003eThanks for checking it out :)","parent":"10461836","id":"10462401"}
{"by":"earless1","time":"1421861738","timestamp":"2015-01-21 17:35:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"11.5 + 15 != 25","parent":"8924128","id":"8924240"}
{"by":"lucb1e","time":"1359730014","timestamp":"2013-02-01 14:46:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They deleted the topic. Nice way to treat your customers...","parent":"5148957","id":"5150932"}
{"by":"tmorton","time":"1476129096","timestamp":"2016-10-10 19:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see Conway\u0026#x27;s Law as a statement about the world, not a class of problems.  Team size is capped by human nature, and systems will develop to mirror team sizes.  The only solution is to find lower-communication \u0026quot;seams\u0026quot; for both your team boundaries and your system boundaries.\u003cp\u003eAbstraction layers around teams sounds like a good thing, as long as they abstraction layers make sense.","parent":"12678616","id":"12679367"}
{"by":"AndrewDucker","time":"1417084810","timestamp":"2014-11-27 10:40:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup.  And by the time you\u0026#x27;ve done all of that, it\u0026#x27;s not vastly smaller than the code in the original example.\u003cp\u003e(Also, your setup is spread across every class registering itself, rather than in one central XML file that tells you all of your routing.)","parent":"8666692","id":"8666726"}
{"by":"Laaw","time":"1444424802","timestamp":"2015-10-09 21:06:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think shame is an effective tactic, because it has no real \u0026quot;stick\u0026quot; component.  People will always do what they can.\u003cp\u003eThe only way to stop someone from doing something is to make them unable to do it.  That\u0026#x27;s not solved through shame or appeal to emotion, because the people doing the bad things aren\u0026#x27;t going to express emotions.\u003cp\u003eKeep trying to shame them, and you\u0026#x27;ll simply fail.  We need to build something they can\u0026#x27;t break.","parent":"10362322","id":"10363285"}
{"by":"api","time":"1466022055","timestamp":"2016-06-15 20:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see this mentality at work in the Internet decentralization and OSS communities when they discuss the growth of closed platforms like Slack vs. open ones like IRC. They totally don\u0026#x27;t get it for exactly the reason you describe-- Slack\u0026#x27;s UX is infinitely better than IRC (especially on mobile which is almost nonexistent for IRC), yet that\u0026#x27;s totally ignored and glossed over.\u003cp\u003eMarx had a few insightful criticisms of capitalism but Marxist ideology buries those in a substantial amount of poo. Of course most Ideologies(tm) have a similarly poor BS ratio and require a lot of deliberate ignorance to swallow whole cloth.","parent":"11911699","id":"11911876"}
{"by":"scatters","time":"1523533188","timestamp":"2018-04-12 11:39:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Purebred dogs suffer a host of genetic diseases resulting in considerable suffering.","parent":"16819602","id":"16819794"}
{"by":"internDC","time":"1421240409","timestamp":"2015-01-14 13:00:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is due to the fact that bitcoin is not widely accepted yet. An in order for it to be widely accepted, more people have to want it. In order for people to want it, it has to be widely accepted.\u003cp\u003eThis is why bitcoin is doomed to fail.","parent":"8885255","id":"8885922"}
{"by":"beachstartup","time":"1482475779","timestamp":"2016-12-23 06:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"almost everyone is doing that.","parent":"13243203","id":"13243318"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1276343502","timestamp":"2010-06-12 11:51:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some of the loaders I've seen (Coke's sites in particular, in my experience) have \u003ci\u003eridiculous\u003c/i\u003e system requirements to appear smooth.  Add in that they're using Flash, which pretty much allows you to do \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e... and they're examples of what the \u003ci\u003eremoval\u003c/i\u003e of limitations has spurred.  Google's pacman is a good example of creativity within limitations, given that it's a bunch of divs and even works on IE6, instead of something more capable like \u0026#60;canvas\u0026#62;.\u003cp\u003eNot that I'm denying limitations spur creativity.  There are some \u003ci\u003eawesome\u003c/i\u003e things in the Demoscene, and older hardware, and more power can often result in less focus.","parent":"1425842","id":"1425869"}
{"by":"droopyEyelids","time":"1375716549","timestamp":"2013-08-05 15:29:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t there be evidence that doesn\u0026#x27;t ever become public?\u003cp\u003eThe idea was the NSA discovers a bunch of information about someone, then gives the DEA tips on where to look for evidence of lawbreaking. That way evidence \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e secret, because when the time comes to share evidence, the DEA has only looked in places to find inculpatory evidence. The superset of all evidence discovered remains \u0026#x27;off the record\u0026#x27; with the NSA, and out of the hands of the defense.","parent":"6160470","id":"6160656"}
{"by":"thought_alarm","time":"1299803018","timestamp":"2011-03-11 00:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OS X ships with XCode.  Apple has never released a major XCode upgrade in-between OS releases until now.","parent":"2311449","id":"2311458"}
{"by":"ajays","time":"1293416822","timestamp":"2010-12-27 02:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to understand: Spam is about economics. It's not about morals or freedoms or anything else. It's purely about money.\u003cp\u003eIf the amount it costs a spammer to spam is strictly less than his earnings from spam + profit, then he'll continue spamming. Every time Balsam wins a judgment, it goes in the cost column, thereby eating into the spammers' profits. Enough such judgments, and their profits evaporate, prompting a search for a new means of livelihood.\u003cp\u003eWhile I may or may not agree with his methods, his actions are taking money out of the pockets of spammers; which, given their model, can only be a good thing.\u003cp\u003eIf more people did what he's doing, we would definitely see much lesser spam.","parent":"2041296","id":"2041655"}
{"by":"engi_nerd","time":"1458835803","timestamp":"2016-03-24 16:10:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;If you don\u0026#x27;t have time to do it right, you will be forced to make time to do it again.\u0026quot;","parent":"11349099","id":"11353965"}
{"by":"jpatokal","time":"1547604085","timestamp":"2019-01-16 02:01:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t and very rarely do, but there are narrow lanes on many Sydney arterial roads well outside the city, like Parramatta Rd.","parent":"18917658","id":"18917663"}
{"by":"pkaeding","time":"1473870906","timestamp":"2016-09-14 16:35:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think \u003ci\u003ethey\u003c/i\u003e would have a problem with people signing this. It lets the people blow off steam with no real effect. Once you sign it, you think \u0026quot;well, I\u0026#x27;ve done my part. I signed the online petition, and changed my Twitter\u0026#x2F;Facebook icon.\u0026quot;","parent":"12495376","id":"12498690"}
{"by":"ActVen","time":"1366311369","timestamp":"2013-04-18 18:56:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are interested in working with/through Kaggle on a longer-term basis, finding some solution outside of a lawsuit would be something to think about. You are getting a chance to interact with them and maybe build contacts that could be useful down the road. If the offer was insulting and/or you don't want to work with them down the road, that is another matter. When you start bringing in lawyers on both sides it becomes an entirely different matter than what it \"right\". It becomes a costly legalese/terms/courtroom issue. Good luck either way.","parent":"5571982","id":"5572332"}
{"by":"AlexTes","time":"1470497839","timestamp":"2016-08-06 15:37:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Beautiful, thank you for your story.","parent":"12228062","id":"12238431"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1480450848","timestamp":"2016-11-29 20:20:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a free market for special item \u0026quot;drops\u0026quot; that you get in game, that have specific drop rates (rare items end up being worth something to collectors).  It\u0026#x27;s no different than people paying for Diablo inventory back in the day, except that a) Valve controls it all so they get a cut of the market, and b) they are purely cosmetic, so people can\u0026#x27;t pay to be better, breaking the game mechanics.\u003cp\u003eIt actually has very little to do with the question at hand because the wow factor in this case, the price, is user defined, and also doesn\u0026#x27;t really affect gameplay at all (AFAIK).","parent":"13065756","id":"13065928"}
{"by":"axaxs","time":"1533956112","timestamp":"2018-08-11 02:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.  I think the entire southwest in general from El Paso to Tuscon to ABQ is lacking in this area.  It\u0026#x27;s what kept me from moving to an otherwise beautiful area.","parent":"17738000","id":"17738013"}
{"by":"kotach","time":"1456599373","timestamp":"2016-02-27 18:56:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Comparison on a task that is generating text.\u003cp\u003eIt also depends on how the HMMs are trained. Are they trained by reducing the loss over each document, or are they trained by just taking the frequency of all the needed transitions?\u003cp\u003eTraining using joint loss will be much more effective for this problem, training conditional random fields and then sampling them will also be extremely good for this problem and allows arbitrary features for each letter.\u003cp\u003eRNNs do have a great representational power but the lack of training jointly makes them as linear as CNNs. This representational power saves the day but will never really catch long distance dependencies.\u003cp\u003eBoth approaches have the so called label-bias. (if HMM is trained by frequency)\u003cp\u003eCRFs wouldn\u0026#x27;t have that problem, and RNNs somehow seem to avoid it by great representational power although the training does say that label bias exists there.","parent":"11187545","id":"11187992"}
{"by":"Sujan","time":"1334010442","timestamp":"2012-04-09 22:27:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate the stock images on the front page. Should these be webcam video streams?","parent":"3819389","id":"3819577"}
{"by":"eloisant","time":"1400764121","timestamp":"2014-05-22 13:08:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first one is not a mis-measurement. They knew some of the platforms were not to the norm, and that they had to be adapted by RFF. The person who started the info to blame on the SNCF is linked to a region that doesn\u0026#x27;t want to pay for the normalization of the platforms.","parent":"7783334","id":"7783602"}
{"by":"SonicSoul","time":"1484943962","timestamp":"2017-01-20 20:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the post is not so much about most convenient way to remove spaces, but about efficiency of such an operation.","parent":"13446696","id":"13446714"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1329258457","timestamp":"2012-02-14 22:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How high is the lunar orbit?\u003cp\u003eWhat about some people drifting shipwrecked on the ocean?","parent":"3591745","id":"3592078"}
{"by":"bradharper","time":"1320413404","timestamp":"2011-11-04 13:30:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"There is no loss when something is copied, or the loss is radically different from losing something like your bike...\"\u003cp\u003eThe question is not about tangible loss, it's about property rights, and the forceful encroachment thereof.\u003cp\u003eBeing semantically picky about the concept doesn't alter the fact that the property of one individual is interacted with apart from their prerogative, i.e., their right to property is being violated - by force.\u003cp\u003eThere is a loss when something is copied by force, the loss of one's right to private property.  Call it theft or not, the legal repercussions should be the same.","parent":"3195651","id":"3195946"}
{"by":"tgarma1234","time":"1514611805","timestamp":"2017-12-30 05:30:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In this sentence the word \u0026quot;unilaterally\u0026quot; is used incorrectly in a way that raises a red flag for me:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I would say the people who are the most confident about self-identifying as data scientists are almost unilaterally frauds.\u0026quot;","parent":"16033911","id":"16033990"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1522412483","timestamp":"2018-03-30 12:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16710891\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16710891\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16711788","id":"16715506"}
{"by":"whichdan","time":"1314211115","timestamp":"2011-08-24 18:38:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you know if PowerBoost factors into the speed?","parent":"2918331","id":"2921979"}
{"by":"Terretta","time":"1375872692","timestamp":"2013-08-07 10:51:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On all my devices this was defaulted off. I didn\u0026#x27;t turn it on via settings screen, but in response to an early alert box asking if OK to keep track of usual locations to help compute travel times.  Agreeing turned this on.","parent":"6171833","id":"6171929"}
{"by":"JoshMnem","time":"1504024686","timestamp":"2017-08-29 16:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article is an example of one reason why AMP is bad. I\u0026#x27;m on a laptop and still seeing the AMP (restricted) version. I just saw a blank screen and it took about 4 seconds for any content to appear. The publisher was prevented from displaying their full website to me, because someone linked to the AMP version.","parent":"15124906","id":"15125511"}
{"by":"j45","time":"1546037458","timestamp":"2018-12-28 22:50:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For as good as Canadian universities are at research, they often are just as poor at commercialization.\u003cp\u003ePart of the cause is universities wanting to own the IP for themselves (turning off industry partners), and part of it is researchers don\u0026#x27;t often enough live in the real world of applying said research.\u003cp\u003eMost academic collateral like this.. is in part easier to understand thru the lens of cash flow: any PR is better than no PR, because it can be used to seek further funding \u0026#x2F; grants from government and try to push social proof on industry partners.\u003cp\u003eRead this article again thru the lens of including in a funding request from government... :)\u003cp\u003eThis is a nice experience for the student, whether the ingredients were there already or not. I\u0026#x27;m happy for her having the opportunity for experience. Learning about how the world works and how you might want to change it is really important.","parent":"18779894","id":"18780135"}
{"by":"runeks","time":"1480021852","timestamp":"2016-11-24 21:10:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Do you guys think something like this could be patented \n \u0026gt; and\u0026#x2F;or commercialized?\u003cp\u003eI would definitely be interested if it\u0026#x27;s general purpose and open\u0026#x2F;verifiable.\u003cp\u003eI think it would make sense if you teamed up with an insurance company. That way, you could prove your technology once, to the insurance company, and sell devices with insurance against compromise. So all your potential customers wouldn\u0026#x27;t have to audit your technology, since this has been taken care of by the insurance company.","parent":"13031391","id":"13032786"}
{"by":"JohnHammersley","time":"1428850102","timestamp":"2015-04-12 14:48:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also a lot easier to get started with LaTeX than it used to be -- e.g. with cloud-based compilers such as Overleaf (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.overleaf.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.overleaf.com\u003c/a\u003e) which remove the need to get everything installed and working locally before you can try it out.\u003cp\u003e(Note: I\u0026#x27;m one of the co-founders of Overleaf, so any feedback is appreciated, thanks. My co-founder has also put together this free introductory course for anyone that\u0026#x27;s looking to give LaTeX a try: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.overleaf.com\u0026#x2F;latex\u0026#x2F;learn\u0026#x2F;free-online-introduction-to-latex-part-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.overleaf.com\u0026#x2F;latex\u0026#x2F;learn\u0026#x2F;free-online-introductio...\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"9363053","id":"9363500"}
{"by":"wnevets","time":"1517329995","timestamp":"2018-01-30 16:33:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Rogers’s record on the classic Atari arcade game Centipede, for example, had been listed on the Twin Galaxies site as being 65,000,000. The second-highest score, 58,078, barely comes close\u003cp\u003eWow and nobody thought that was a bit suspicious?","parent":"16263143","id":"16266601"}
{"by":"rotrux","time":"1473289331","timestamp":"2016-09-07 23:02:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I correct in assuming that this paradigm would make it possible for hardware to, via encryption, arbitrarily segment\u0026#x2F;obfuscate any of the software sitting on top of it?","parent":"12444018","id":"12448756"}
{"by":"nkabbara","time":"1277081794","timestamp":"2010-06-21 00:56:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great advice Jason. Thank you.\u003cp\u003eDrawing energy from people and specially your customers is a much underestimated ingredient for success.\u003cp\u003eAfter a couple of years of being a machine, you need an oil change and you need to replace the wear and tear components.\u003cp\u003eI found taking one week a day and cold-visiting our customers brings back the much needed spark that makes you feel like taking over the fucking world!\u003cp\u003e-Nash","parent":"1447467","id":"1447566"}
{"by":"timf","time":"1275663626","timestamp":"2010-06-04 15:00:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saying ideas are \"worthless\" is a hyperbolic way to put things.  Why can't people say \"an idea's \u003ci\u003erelative\u003c/i\u003e importance is not as big as many people think.\"\u003cp\u003eI think Derek Sivers puts it nicely, it is a multiplier (but yes you need to execute in the first place): \u003ca href=\"http://sivers.org/multiply\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://sivers.org/multiply\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1404298","id":"1404478"}
{"by":"folletto","time":"1314881814","timestamp":"2011-09-01 12:56:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, that's a huge collection of communication problems, great. Exactly on spot. :)","parent":"2949760","id":"2949791"}
{"by":"stingraycharles","time":"1330462720","timestamp":"2012-02-28 20:58:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Premium advertisers generally avoid these kind of practices; basically they don't do business with agencies that use flash cookies and/or browser hashing.\u003cp\u003eTypically, an ad network wants to conform to the guidelines set by the IAB [1], which explicitly recommends against flash cookies, calling them illegal [2].\u003cp\u003eSo, all in all, if something can hurt a brand's reputation among consumers, advertisers generally don't spend their money there. Shady practices like these are among them.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.iab.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.iab.net/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.iabeurope.eu/news/iab-europe-condemns-%E2%80%98re-spawning%E2%80%99-as-an-illegal-marketing-practice.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.iabeurope.eu/news/iab-europe-condemns-%E2%80%98re...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3644428","id":"3644948"}
{"by":"Tiktaalik","time":"1264096691","timestamp":"2010-01-21 17:58:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope this results in a renaissance for interactive fiction (text adventure games).","parent":"1066667","id":"1067842"}
{"by":"Xylakant","time":"1413558952","timestamp":"2014-10-17 15:15:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The systemd developers don\u0026#x27;t decide that. They offer capabilities. Obviously the value proposition is attractive to other developers, thus they\u0026#x27;re using it. It\u0026#x27;s not like they\u0026#x27;re forcing others at gunpoint to adopt their tech. If you don\u0026#x27;t want to use it, don\u0026#x27;t. Pick software that doesn\u0026#x27;t rely on systemd capabilities. Or advocate that that software gets written and maintained. Or write it yourself. Or stop complaining. Just don\u0026#x27;t tell somebody to not offer a capability.","parent":"8471252","id":"8471366"}
{"by":"stickperson","time":"1489693991","timestamp":"2017-03-16 19:53:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really enjoy Discord\u0026#x27;s blog. Their Cassandra write up was excellent as well. A couple of thoughts and questions:\u003cp\u003e- Having many clusters and assigning messages to a specific cluster seems like an interesting solution.\u003cp\u003e- I\u0026#x27;m curious how they managed to lazily index messages.\u003cp\u003e- Since only message, channel and server ids are stored in ES, have there been any problems reindexing data after an index fails?","parent":"13887401","id":"13888565"}
{"by":"bryang","time":"1406314254","timestamp":"2014-07-25 18:50:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; A third approach is find somebody you want to learn from and work with them. Any project you pick will never be as important as what you learn from the project.\u003cp\u003eFinding a good teacher for whatever skills or traits you want to develop is incredibly hard but easily one of the most rewarding things you can do for yourself","parent":"8085294","id":"8086910"}
{"by":"alistproducer2","time":"1501860043","timestamp":"2017-08-04 15:20:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read the article and no where does it make a case for why a blockchain makes any sense in the application. I read a comment by a person claiming to be associated with the project saying that \u0026quot;blockchain enabled\u0026quot; makes sense because the payment are p2p but that doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense either. Blockchains are good for pretty much one thing: a distributed ledger that parties can trust to be immutable. I can confidently say they\u0026#x27;re only inserting a blockchain here because it gets the idea more buzz.\u003cp\u003eSide note: I had no idea people paid so much to charge they\u0026#x27;re EVs. the article mentioned that a electric bill in Cali can be upwards of $1000\u0026#x2F;yr.\u003cp\u003eEdit for clarity: the $1000\u0026#x2F;yr figure is the marginal cost of charging the EV, not the entire bill","parent":"14926380","id":"14929340"}
{"by":"taeric","time":"1518293588","timestamp":"2018-02-10 20:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there is any higher praise of that ecosystem, I haven\u0026#x27;t seen it.","parent":"16348666","id":"16349325"}
{"by":"eatonphil","time":"1535978389","timestamp":"2018-09-03 12:39:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s the product of whipping together some basic examples for proof of concept in a few weeks. :)\u003cp\u003eTo some degree it will always be \u0026quot;messier\u0026quot;. 30-60% of generated code will just be converting between C++ and V8 types.\u003cp\u003eBut really, I just need to prioritize using more tmp values so I\u0026#x27;m not shoving crazy amounts of logic in one line.\u003cp\u003eIt can definitely be difficult to debug. Things would be easier if I were generating C++ ASTs and pretty-printing it (I should probably do this in the future) but for the PoC I\u0026#x27;m just emitting strings of C++.\u003cp\u003eChicken Scheme\u0026#x27;s generated C is more along the lines of what I\u0026#x27;m aspiring to.","parent":"17901578","id":"17902248"}
{"by":"georgrwasington","time":"1527030743","timestamp":"2018-05-22 23:12:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m actually not going to do this. If you want to have this conversation go read up on it. Not trying to be rude but your question makes it sound like you\u0026#x27;ve never heard the idea before. Given that, I feel like you\u0026#x27;re not ready to have this conversation. ...I\u0026#x27;m trying not to sound rude but it isn\u0026#x27;t working. I am not expressing malice towards you.","parent":"17130221","id":"17130245"}
{"by":"jnaour","time":"1458558039","timestamp":"2016-03-21 11:00:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Made me thinks of the last season of House of Cards. Really a good one, really neat and engaged in some aspect like Reign by Terror, Manufacturing consent using search engine, relation with Russia...\u003cp\u003eOne of other HN article is about Facebook data used for social studies. If you are not paying for it, you\u0026#x27;re not the customer; you\u0026#x27;re the product being sold.","parent":"11326870","id":"11327255"}
{"by":"web007","time":"1495120076","timestamp":"2017-05-18 15:07:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is my read too, since they\u0026#x27;re citing Judge et al versus the characters or the characters\u0026#x27; papers. Its the same vein as when Dropbox\u0026#x27;s Lepton article cited middle-out as a humorous attempt at self-promotion.","parent":"14367406","id":"14367851"}
{"by":"crm114","time":"1333908456","timestamp":"2012-04-08 18:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you want a cookie or something?","parent":"3809539","id":"3814410"}
{"by":"GameOfTrolls","time":"1364171039","timestamp":"2013-03-25 00:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bullshit scam by her mom.","parent":"5434496","dead":true,"id":"5434531"}
{"by":"Accacin","time":"1502450157","timestamp":"2017-08-11 11:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Arch Linux is bare-bones...etc\u003cp\u003eNo, it isn\u0026#x27;t. But I get the general idea.","parent":"14988404","id":"14988442"}
{"by":"sjs382","time":"1238794569","timestamp":"2009-04-03 21:36:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it's a \"startup\", then no: monetization should not be an afterthought.\nIf it's just a project (even if its a very involved project) that you'll benefit from in other ways, then maybe.\u003cp\u003eRight now, I'm (barely) working on a (project|potential startup) that I \u003ci\u003eknow\u003c/i\u003e that me and a few friends will have a ton of use for.  I have a few ideas re: how to monetize it, but it's less of a concern for me right now.  Right now, I'm just building a killer project for less than 100 people to use.  If other people find it useful, awesome. If they don't, my goals will be reached with the project anyways.","parent":"545010","id":"545662"}
{"by":"LusoTycoon","time":"1432929834","timestamp":"2015-05-29 20:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t that what the Chicago School of Economics does?","parent":"9614067","id":"9626927"}
{"by":"anotheryou","time":"1433445890","timestamp":"2015-06-04 19:24:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"plans on midi yet?\nwith chrome it\u0026#x27;s possible (though you have to set some flags)","parent":"9659666","id":"9661465"}
{"by":"kevinburke","time":"1491874863","timestamp":"2017-04-11 01:41:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"70% of SF\u0026#x27;s homeless had homes in SF before they were on the street, and there\u0026#x27;s good evidence that high housing prices correlate with high homelessness. Decreasing home prices will probably help with homelessness.","parent":"14083953","id":"14084207"}
{"by":"cd34","time":"1391579877","timestamp":"2014-02-05 05:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://testflightapp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;testflightapp.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7182046","id":"7182151"}
{"by":"thinkingemote","time":"1525807849","timestamp":"2018-05-08 19:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The implication is that as a company you will eventually pay google to rank higher in the recommendation listings. Listings are advertising.","parent":"17023551","id":"17024016"}
{"by":"kefka","time":"1490215120","timestamp":"2017-03-22 20:38:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how long it will be for newsprint media companies to use this to \u0026quot;secure\u0026quot; their websites so that Adblockers cannot process the \u0026#x27;encrypted but you can\u0026#x27;t see\u0026#x27; data?","parent":"13933931","id":"13934687"}
{"by":"vram22","time":"1468441746","timestamp":"2016-07-13 20:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I was the first full time engineer, and the company already had 20+ millions of monthly visitors and ~2m facebook followers.\u003cp\u003eYou mean they got to that level of visitors and followers without a full time engineer to help make it all work?\u003cp\u003eOr was it something like multiple part time engineers?","parent":"12088002","id":"12089418"}
{"by":"wyldfire","time":"1526484379","timestamp":"2018-05-16 15:26:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; IMO the best solution is to just mute the autoplaying media until the user interacts with the page\u003cp\u003eThis seems like a good compromise but doesn\u0026#x27;t sound like enough on its own.  Sometimes I just open pages and look at the resulting video and it would be puzzling for it to be muted.  Or does \u0026quot;interacts with\u0026quot; include merely viewing the tab?  Even though it\u0026#x27;s religion for me, lots of people never or rarely ever \u0026quot;open in new tab\u0026quot;.  So this design change would eliminate the benefit.","parent":"17082759","id":"17083146"}
{"by":"cjrp","time":"1451910675","timestamp":"2016-01-04 12:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say that level of personal detail is normal for British press. Perhaps it\u0026#x27;s to show that the group\u0026#x27;s not just made up of 60+ year old, single men.","parent":"10833888","id":"10835216"}
{"by":"hmm_really","time":"1524035189","timestamp":"2018-04-18 07:06:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which no \u0026#x27;modern\u0026#x27; web developer would go anywhere near!","parent":"16865271","id":"16865288"}
{"by":"aabalkan","time":"1390861619","timestamp":"2014-01-27 22:26:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess I hit the API limit very quickly after 20-30 tries. Map does not refresh anymore.","parent":"7130192","id":"7133777"}
{"by":"nerdponx","time":"1499276795","timestamp":"2017-07-05 17:46:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re missing the point. The point is that the effect sizes in question are large enough that people should notice them in their day to day lives, because the proposed mechanism of action should not only apply to judges, but should apply to everyone everywhere. But we don\u0026#x27;t see this big obvious affect in other places.","parent":"14703348","id":"14704592"}
{"by":"fuzz579","time":"1281645208","timestamp":"2010-08-12 20:33:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was anybody else bothered by how every other sentance was in bold?","parent":"1598513","id":"1599151"}
{"by":"eldavido","time":"1352625332","timestamp":"2012-11-11 09:15:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They do (have friends in the shell team @ MS). It's just really hard for them to hit the right balance between compatibility, which is _super_ important to their bread-and-butter enterprise customers, vs. providing a clean crap-free experience to consumers.\u003cp\u003eFor better or worse, the \"consumer\" user of Windows -- a person at home, without an IT support desk, who purchased his computer himself at a store -- captured a lot of attention inside Microsoft for this release.\u003cp\u003eI'm not at all surprised to see more Apple-like behavior from them, e.g. (1) restricting what Windows RT can run to the software available in the windows app store, (2) completely breaking app compatibility for older (WinForms) apps on WinRT, (3) getting way more draconian about hardware requirements for the Phone (specification of button counts/sizes, etc.), (4) having a \"Signature\" edition of windows.\u003cp\u003eMS has been fighting this battle for decades -- most blue screens were caused by crappy hardware drivers; they knew this but couldn't fix the problem without hugely breaking compatibility.","parent":"4768917","id":"4769126"}
{"by":"citricsquid","time":"1339245706","timestamp":"2012-06-09 12:41:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think it's styled after GLaDOS, there's a few genres of music that include a high pitched voice like that. I would suggest that this song is actually just a happy hardcore song with new lyrics, listen to the band Scooter (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(band)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(band)\u003c/a\u003e) and you'll see the similarities in the majority of their songs. The songs normally feature an announcement (with the \"distant\" sound) and then a high pitched voice.\u003cp\u003eI'm Lonely - Scooter \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTTSIvePSY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTTSIvePSY\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4087920","id":"4087962"}
{"by":"bri3d","time":"1415218267","timestamp":"2014-11-05 20:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, but in a typical combustion engine there is also a comparable amount of stress on connecting rod bearings and the typical design of a crankshaft also puts a lot of side-force on the entire piston and rod assembly.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t find enough information on their \u0026quot;reciprocator\u0026quot; to see how it differs from other swash\u0026#x2F;wobble-plate based axial engine designs.","parent":"8563819","id":"8563984"}
{"by":"slackstation","time":"1432058274","timestamp":"2015-05-19 17:57:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wake me when they have a device that supports 4k@60fps smoothly. I have yet to see one do so on Kodi.","parent":"9571337","id":"9571908"}
{"by":"ivankirigin","time":"1254713369","timestamp":"2009-10-05 03:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some names of people confirmed to be idiots from their comments pop out. I wish I could just hide them.","parent":"860789","id":"861114"}
{"by":"unono","time":"1378139630","timestamp":"2013-09-02 16:33:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good comment, but I have to disagree with it.\u003cp\u003eThe web and app stores are extensions of google\u0026#x2F;apple etc. There\u0026#x27;s people making money across the country and around the world.\u003cp\u003eThe difference between auto workers and programmers is that programmers are not workers, but \u0026#x27;inventors\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eA better comparison is mechanical engineers in the 50s and programmers today.\u003cp\u003eGood mechanical engineers designed or started factories, and there was so much work that the backlog has still not been filled even today. The same can be said for programmers today.\u003cp\u003eThere is the \u0026#x27;creative class\u0026#x27; and everyone else. The true creatives never had a problem finding work, and that\u0026#x27;s the real \u0026#x27;education crisis\u0026#x27;. Far too many \u0026#x27;creatively illiterate\u0026#x27; being churned out by our failed education system.","parent":"6315767","id":"6315869"}
{"by":"wyclif","time":"1314890362","timestamp":"2011-09-01 15:19:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if GOOG will allow users to petition for these namespaces. Unless they do, it's doubtful that I'd ever use Blogger.","parent":"2950041","id":"2950349"}
{"by":"ajtaylor","time":"1317033739","timestamp":"2011-09-26 10:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is indeed good news, but I made the switch to vim a couple of months ago.","parent":"3038247","id":"3038299"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1505062652","timestamp":"2017-09-10 16:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Were a blockchain used to replace this industry, how would we compensate the miners? Would this be a good use-case for Etherium and Gas?","parent":"15212868","id":"15213057"}
{"by":"Canada","time":"1433267096","timestamp":"2015-06-02 17:44:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve found the CBC comment moderators like that as well. The moderation policy is essentially, \u0026quot;Don\u0026#x27;t be vulgar or threatening\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYet comments that violate the policy but agree with CBC writers views are allowed while polite, ad-hominem free dissenting comments are removed.\u003cp\u003eWhen there\u0026#x27;s too much dissent comments are simply closed.","parent":"9647330","id":"9647573"}
{"by":"ra","time":"1306233583","timestamp":"2011-05-24 10:39:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Non subscription alternative links:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3558809c-8557-11e0-ae32-00144feabdc0.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3558809c-8557-11e0-ae32-00144feabd...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-yandex-idUSTRE74M3BS20110524?feedType=RSS\u0026#38;feedName=internetNews\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-yandex-idUSTRE7...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/in-a-sign-yandex-raises-ipo-price/437326.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/in-a-sign-yan...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2578948","id":"2579349"}
{"by":"garyrichardson","time":"1303742468","timestamp":"2011-04-25 14:41:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like the exact sort of place I wouldn't want to work at. Sounds way too much like kindergarden to me.\u003cp\u003eI'm a programmer. I need quiet. Give me an office or let me work at home. If I need to collaborate, I can go to a meeting room or use my phone.","parent":"2481191","id":"2481366"}
{"by":"eob","time":"1357351973","timestamp":"2013-01-05 02:12:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is very true.\u003cp\u003eBut if you buy into the \"browser will become the runtime for most things\" argument, you'll be able to do this within your browser-based HTML editor, too, one day.","parent":"5004905","id":"5011123"}
{"by":"ZeroGravitas","time":"1337599317","timestamp":"2012-05-21 11:21:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My point is that it's worse than nonsense, it's actually arguing the opposite of the truth. The \"copying\", rather than speeding up Android development to Google's benefit, actually slowed Android development in an attempt to help OpenJDK/Oracle.\u003cp\u003eThat this is the only direct copyright infringement they could find is highly ironic, but I guess either the lawyers didn't understand the subtleties here, or thought the jury wouldn't as this argument wasn't made (except obliquely in Bloch's statements).","parent":"3991288","id":"4002290"}
{"by":"rurban","time":"1495001773","timestamp":"2017-05-17 06:16:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, the ground water level is ~2m. This is a swamp, tunnels would be too expensive. And Houston is too big.\u003cp\u003eHouston had a working public mass transport system, but big automotive pressure\u0026#x2F;corruption destroyed it. That\u0026#x27;s why Houston is unique. The mayor is elected every two years, because corruption is so rampant.\u003cp\u003eThe now widest highway worldwide, the I10 to Katy once had a railroad track in the middle. They even had a star system and park \u0026amp; ride before WW2.","parent":"14355921","id":"14356050"}
{"by":"0xmohit","time":"1469091507","timestamp":"2016-07-21 08:58:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wish it was possible to zoom \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;redmonk.com\u0026#x2F;hist-rankings-full.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;redmonk.com\u0026#x2F;hist-rankings-full.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12133820","id":"12135621"}
{"by":"lolwutreddit","time":"1350987562","timestamp":"2012-10-23 10:19:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no way they can achieve that uptime claim, nor should they try to say they have 99.9999% aka \"six nines\".  That's 31.5 seconds a year, and even a well-designed network is going to have that much at some level.  I mean, the VPSes might be distributed across hardware, but a failure of some component might mean that it's still \"up\", but \u003ci\u003eseriously\u003c/i\u003e degraded during the transition.  How useful is that for \"uptime\"?  It becomes a bragging right.  How about if all routes to a large provider, like Level(3) are down for a reset period, or are re-routed through Cogent, which is maxed out on all peering with L3 at 99% packet loss levels?  Is that really uptime?  Sure, that's out of their control, but the situation with their own website being down for some people right now underscores that lofty claims are meant to be broken.\u003cp\u003eNow that they're beating that Joyent drum a little more: watch them fall down under a DoS attack that Amazon could bat away at this point.  I'm by no means supporting Amazon, but Joyent is still a small company with big claims.  I predict they will fall apart when Sun stops making hardware, and when their engineers argue over whatever trendy \"wrong way to do it\" Node-type technologies that they're jacking off over next.","parent":"4687184","id":"4687390"}
{"by":"dharma1","time":"1455026547","timestamp":"2016-02-09 14:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wouldn\u0026#x27;t it make more sense to focus on AWS offerings for Unity3D\u0026#x2F;Unreal Engine instead?","parent":"11065220","id":"11065275"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1471728441","timestamp":"2016-08-20 21:27:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with communism is that, in order to work, it requires a version of humans that would render communism redundant.\u003cp\u003eAt least capitalism works with the nature of humans and proposes kind-of, sort-of okayish incentives. Unfortunately, you are right, ultimately no system will save us.","parent":"12326836","id":"12328362"}
{"by":"pwg","time":"1328118799","timestamp":"2012-02-01 17:53:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Is there any way to make a website that has no central location, that lives on hard drives and internet connections of citizens and self replicates and adapts when the government wants it to just disappear?\u003cp\u003eMaybe not completely as \"decentralized\" as your request, but take a look at I2P:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.i2p2.de/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.i2p2.de/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3537960","id":"3539077"}
{"by":"joshlemer","time":"1499735607","timestamp":"2017-07-11 01:13:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, my comment probably did come off a bit strong, I should have worded it as \u0026quot;This just sounds like a position against explicitly planning the process of making friends in general.\u0026quot;","parent":"14739502","id":"14740896"}
{"by":"theaccordance","time":"1462203764","timestamp":"2016-05-02 15:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You shouldn\u0026#x27;t assume that your app is equal in its architecture to those you deem as competitors unless you\u0026#x27;re acquainted with their codebases.  Focus on how you can improve your own codebase first to address the rejection issues.","parent":"11611774","id":"11612369"}
{"by":"mcjiggerlog","time":"1543935360","timestamp":"2018-12-04 14:56:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The results are really impressive, but any large page is very noticeably slower to load.","parent":"18599200","id":"18599887"}
{"by":"stonemetal","time":"1263415442","timestamp":"2010-01-13 20:44:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Animation.  Easy to work in parallel but output is very constrained stylistically.  Multiple author books tend to have stylistic constraints as well otherwise the book suffers from an uneven feeling.","parent":"1014035","id":"1051082"}
{"by":"trevyn","time":"1516312953","timestamp":"2018-01-18 22:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if negative emotions are largely driven by pessimistic interpretations of reality, which then create a self-fulfilling cycle.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps one way to break the cycle is to demonstrate and maintain empirical results well beyond expectations, decreasing the validity of the pessimistic interpretation.","parent":"16180681","id":"16181937"}
{"by":"JackuB","time":"1537128286","timestamp":"2018-09-16 20:04:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup there are tons of them in all price points. Read this a while ago \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;message\u0026#x2F;uber-for-art-forgeries-2c9c8bf41608\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;message\u0026#x2F;uber-for-art-forgeries-2c9c8bf416...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18000651","id":"18000806"}
{"by":"minitech","time":"1506807523","timestamp":"2017-09-30 21:38:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh… I wouldn’t call this phenomenal. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;X8g7J1D.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;X8g7J1D.png\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design extends about as far as “blur the background of everything”. Beyond that, the choices are not so good. The file explorer’s sidebar was nice, at least.","parent":"15374787","id":"15375106"}
{"by":"iSnow","time":"1541065930","timestamp":"2018-11-01 09:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, that feels more like a hidden contract. Giving away for free a software only to require the user to do the same.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s why I prefer BSD-style licenses - when they write \u0026quot;free\u0026quot;, they mean \u0026quot;free\u0026quot;.","parent":"18352335","id":"18352400"}
{"by":"pfarnsworth","time":"1519442846","timestamp":"2018-02-24 03:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do people keep quoting Mark Cuban? He got lucky by selling his company to Yahoo just before the dotcom crash. I don\u0026#x27;t know any other worthy thing he\u0026#x27;s done since then. I really wish reporters weren\u0026#x27;t so lazy and just keep parroting things from people that they\u0026#x27;ve heard of without qualifying how useful or effective the source is.","parent":"16451244","id":"16451477"}
{"by":"twiceaday","time":"1392137212","timestamp":"2014-02-11 16:46:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tv is a social experience, not a personal one like those covered by the iPhone. Is everybody in my house going to need a watch to watch the tv? Plus it would make no sense for them to reduce the target audience for the new Apple Tv. At best there will be a Remote app on the watch.","parent":"7217110","id":"7218499"}
{"by":"pthor","time":"1355857952","timestamp":"2012-12-18 19:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There really should be a better way to subscribe to people.  I don't want to miss out on major life events of old friends, but don't want to hear about their political views all the times.","parent":"4938176","id":"4939007"}
{"by":"aw3c2","time":"1353265147","timestamp":"2012-11-18 18:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now you are trolling. Or do you have a source for that? It seems highly unlikely that a programming community would have such a high percentage of women.\u003cp\u003eI would link to wikipedia for some verification of that feeling but all I could fine were biased feminist articles on that topic.","parent":"4801200","id":"4801208"}
{"by":"dropit_sphere","time":"1403361312","timestamp":"2014-06-21 14:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had to engage with the Roberts quote because it made me think.\u003cp\u003eI think he\u0026#x27;s making a false equivalency.  A jump from believing in one god to two gods seems much less significant than a jump from zero to one. (\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_One_Infinity\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Zero_One_Infinity\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eFurther, I\u0026#x27;m not sure that \u003ci\u003eRoberts\u003c/i\u003e understands why the religious reject other gods.  Like most things people do, there are a variety of reasons:\u003cp\u003e- Both Judaism and Islam have explicit commandments or statements of faith that reject other gods\u003cp\u003e- Suspicious of foreigners?  Deride their religion as unreasonable and obviously contrafactual\u003cp\u003e- Wary of talk of the divine being used as justification for a mortal power play?  (And you should be)  Add a bias for rejection into your calculations\u003cp\u003e- And of course, extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence","parent":"7924966","id":"7925081"}
{"by":"hwijaya","time":"1240759060","timestamp":"2009-04-26 15:17:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have the same problems. There are two tricks that i find quite helpful:\u003cp\u003e1. Find a team partner - and you will be cornered to start \"get things done\". Otherwise, you can't keep show up everyday without any progress\u003cp\u003e2. Have a weekly team target - we have it as weekly iterations. Always release something out every week.\u003cp\u003eWell, the good news are, you realize your problems and looking for solutions.\u003cp\u003eBill Gates seems to have the same problem with procrastination, early on in his career: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ic1Ro4LkKw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ic1Ro4LkKw\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"579979","id":"580018"}
{"by":"kabdib","time":"1459346367","timestamp":"2016-03-30 13:59:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did some spot checking. Found a race condition in the dictionary code in less than five minutes of poking around. Ugh.\u003cp\u003eEdit: code to add an entry to the dictionary releases its lock, whereupon you can wind up with duplicate NV pairs.","parent":"11388196","id":"11389286"}
{"by":"AsymetricCom","time":"1387982483","timestamp":"2013-12-25 14:41:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How else are we going to sell the next trendy bullshit to investors?  Get your head in the game!","parent":"6963054","dead":true,"id":"6963067"}
{"by":"ransom1538","time":"1531415519","timestamp":"2018-07-12 17:11:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry I am missing something here.\u003cp\u003eI just looked up my laptop\u0026#x27;s info: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 from 2012.  So you are telling me 6 years later, I can get a 2.9GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 processor for ~$2800.  So Moore\u0026#x27;s law was incorrect?","parent":"17513943","id":"17516629"}
{"by":"franciscop","time":"1458805530","timestamp":"2016-03-24 07:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For everyone who doesn\u0026#x27;t know it, there\u0026#x27;s a project called \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;140byt.es\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;140byt.es\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e compiling many code snippets that fit in a tweet (;\u003cp\u003eThere was also a clever trick to compress\u0026#x2F;uncompress ascii text by using base[huge number] or something like that (full unicode) so it could be uploaded to twitter, but I don\u0026#x27;t remember the exact number","parent":"11350458","id":"11351204"}
{"by":"abrahamsen","time":"1388170760","timestamp":"2013-12-27 18:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is an opinion piece, and marked as such. I can\u0026#x27;t imagine being willing to pay for an opinion, certainly not from an author I don\u0026#x27;t know.\u003cp\u003eBut people will donate to an author or organization that consistently publish (freely) arguments for opinions they happen to agree with.\u003cp\u003eNRA or ACLU would be examples of such organizations.","parent":"6971625","id":"6972044"}
{"by":"sideshowb","time":"1496185457","timestamp":"2017-05-30 23:04:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Private cars only account for a small slice of oil demand, so I\u0026#x27;m afraid oil spills will still be a thing. The co2 savings are worthwhile though.","parent":"14449148","id":"14449287"}
{"by":"mikeyouse","time":"1474392276","timestamp":"2016-09-20 17:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Derek Lowe -- Of the fantastic \u0026quot;In The Pipeline\u0026quot; blog with Science  disagrees with the FDA approval;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;pipeline\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;20\u0026#x2F;sarepta-gets-an-approval-unfortunately\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;pipeline\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;20\u0026#x2F;sar...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe\u0026#x27;s an excellent read if anyone wants to keep up with things in the Pharma and regulatory world. He\u0026#x27;s probably more famous for his \u0026quot;Things I Won\u0026#x27;t Work With\u0026quot; series that I\u0026#x27;ve seen linked to a few times on HN.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  And he’s just getting warmed up, if that’s the right phrase to use for something that detonates things at -180C (that’s -300 Fahrenheit, if you only have a kitchen thermometer). The great majority of Streng’s reactions have surely never been run again. The paper goes on to react FOOF with everything else you wouldn’t react it with: ammonia (“vigorous”, this at 100K), water ice (explosion, natch), chlorine (“violent explosion”, so he added it more slowly the second time), red phosphorus (not good), bromine fluoride, chlorine trifluoride (say what?), perchloryl fluoride (!), tetrafluorohydrazine (how on Earth. . .), and on, and on. If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;pipeline\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;23\u0026#x2F;things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;pipeline\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;23\u0026#x2F;thi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12540155","id":"12541228"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1394830690","timestamp":"2014-03-14 20:58:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t think that profit is his motivating factor.\u003cp\u003ePeople are allowed to have multiple motivations.","parent":"7401517","id":"7401822"}
{"by":"galactus","time":"1309960780","timestamp":"2011-07-06 13:59:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I lived in France I loved Free. Best ISP I have ever used","parent":"2733407","id":"2733911"}
{"by":"wdstash","time":"1443963157","timestamp":"2015-10-04 12:52:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting concept, but the UI is a little confusing, or maybe it\u0026#x27;s just that features aren\u0026#x27;t functional yet. The primary navigation is not apparent to me.","parent":"10320691","id":"10327393"}
{"by":"alexwebb2","time":"1482930459","timestamp":"2016-12-28 13:07:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not. I think the poster may be confused about how the Echo works - it\u0026#x27;s not constantly streaming audio or transcripts back to Amazon, just when it\u0026#x27;s directed to do so via the \u0026quot;Alexa\u0026quot; trigger word.\u003cp\u003eYou are absolutely not consenting to send full transcripts of your conversations to Amazon. If they are in possession of it, it\u0026#x27;s entirely illegal, and the third party doctrine doesn\u0026#x27;t apply.","parent":"13267881","id":"13270204"}
{"by":"DrScump","time":"1490573027","timestamp":"2017-03-27 00:03:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blogspam of\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.physoc.org\u0026#x2F;press-release\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;why-do-we-develop-high-blood-pressure\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.physoc.org\u0026#x2F;press-release\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;why-do-we-develop-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith author credit stripped out.","parent":"13960542","id":"13964154"}
{"by":"samdk","time":"1287501448","timestamp":"2010-10-19 15:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's possible to do, but you need to differentiate yourself from browser keyword search and DuckDuckGo-like !bang searching more in order to get me to use it.\u003cp\u003eIn Firefox (and I'm assuming other modern browsers) I can right-click on a search field to make it a keyword, and then do essentially (as far as I can tell, at least) the same thing as you're doing.\u003cp\u003eDuckDuckGo makes this easier for me because I can just use its !bang search syntax (\u003ca href=\"http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://duckduckgo.com/bang.html\u003c/a\u003e) to do the same thing. I now much prefer using DDG's method over manual keyword searches since I don't have to set them up and they work on all of the computers I use.\u003cp\u003eI understand that you having the keywords all set up already is a convenience, but (at least for someone who already uses things that do this) I think that the added value is not immediately obvious.","parent":"1807127","id":"1807392"}
{"by":"Schoenrock","time":"1232937421","timestamp":"2009-01-26 02:37:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interview with Mike Levinson discussing starting DreamIT.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/10/06/y-combinator-recombined-talking-with-philadelphia-startup-incubator-dreamit-ventures/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/10/06/y-combinator-recomb...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis might answer some of the communities questions regarding similarities and differences between YC and DreamIT.","parent":"448290","id":"449919"}
{"by":"kaonashi","time":"1376370594","timestamp":"2013-08-13 05:09:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026#x27;default\u0026#x27; (and I\u0026#x27;m not sure how now declaring your variables with var qualifies) depends entirely on what\u0026#x27;s bound to \u0026#x27;this\u0026#x27;.","parent":"6200584","id":"6204102"}
{"by":"ahoyhere","time":"1238757963","timestamp":"2009-04-03 11:26:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yahoo! couldn't resist fucking with Flickr, though. Or delicious. Think about the damn tying it to freakin Yahoo! accounts, which look like they're out of the stone age, and the \"you have to log in every 2 weeks to save a bookmark\" feature they added to delicious, etc., etc. etc.\u003cp\u003eIf people fuck with Twitter like that, it'll be gone. Service instability is one thing. A  dding so much friction is another.","parent":"544606","id":"544765"}
{"by":"tumult","time":"1276490706","timestamp":"2010-06-14 04:45:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The panel used on the Droid is of the TN kind, so the viewing angle is nowhere near as good as the iPhone 4 -- the perspective difference between your left and right eye is also enough to make the screen appear different to each, which makes it harder to look at and resolve detail. The iPhones up until 4 are all like this, too, which is one of the reasons why the difference between them is so striking.\u003cp\u003eThe Droid is a cheap plastic gizmo. Two of my friends have had theirs slowly break from everyday use. If you have to baby your gadget, it will never really break into the mainstream and make a difference.\u003cp\u003e(I still like AMOLED more.)","parent":"1428871","id":"1428922"}
{"by":"fbuilesv","time":"1349985751","timestamp":"2012-10-11 20:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eImplement a “useless” algorithm like a bloom filter or a skip list...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis a hundred times! The majority of us are probably working on web-related stuff that usually does not need a lot of CompSci on a daily basis. \nPicking out an fancy algorithm or a niche data structure and implementing it in a language you're just dabbling with can be a great way to learn a bunch of new stuff in a couple of hours. Set two hours to do this once a week and you'll be amazed at how fast you end up understanding new concepts.","parent":"4642289","id":"4642488"}
{"by":"Mordor","time":"1320316229","timestamp":"2011-11-03 10:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heard they're parking this near the ISS so they can get Chinese carry-out.","parent":"3190817","id":"3191094"}
{"by":"96","time":"1478319226","timestamp":"2016-11-05 04:13:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Story time. I build an app and I got interviewed by a local newspaper:\u003cp\u003eI built a web app and got interviewed by a newspaper too. The article wasn\u0026#x27;t factually wrong, but it was poorly written and the tone was bizarre at a few points. The journalist chose to take many long quotes directly from my response emails. I didn\u0026#x27;t know I would be quoted verbatim so heavily, otherwise I would\u0026#x27;ve written more formally. He also interviewed a professor about my app (a professor in a related field), but the professor hadn\u0026#x27;t heard of my app and clearly didn\u0026#x27;t even bother to check it out.\u003cp\u003eSo a little disappointing, but all in all I was happy to get the press. Unfortunately this newspaper also had a policy of not printing links \u0026#x2F; URLs in their online articles, so anybody reading would have had to search for my site on their own via keywords.","parent":"12877485","id":"12878133"}
{"by":"tryitnow","time":"1321041768","timestamp":"2011-11-11 20:02:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Course selection is an asymmetric information problem.  You're only interested in a course if you desire to learn more about the subject matter, but you need a certain amount subject matter knowledge in order to make an informed decision about which course to take.\u003cp\u003eIt's actually quite a difficult problem and one of the many solvable problems that are undermining the education system.\u003cp\u003eI think a lot about disruptive innovations in education and the \"course selection process\" is an area ripe for change.\u003cp\u003eMy top of head thoughts on this:\u003cp\u003eThe groups and individuals who are most likely to influence this decision are \n1) the student himself\n2) his classmates, friends, peers, etc. who have already taken the course\n3) the educational institution: i.e. professors, authors of course catalogs, career development offices, etc\u003cp\u003eThese three groups should have less say in course selection for the following reasons:\n1) because they don't know what they're doing \n2) same as (1) and the ones who have taken the course may be irrationally biased one way or another\n3) they have a vested interest in perpetuating the status quo\u003cp\u003eOne group that is missing in course selection is relevant outsiders: e.g.\n1) for purely academic class this includes communities of interest as embodied in academic associations, online fora, relevant periodicals, etc.\n2) for practical classes this includes: employers, practitioners, professional associations, etc.\u003cp\u003eThe lack of input from outsiders in the education process and its subprocesses like course selection is one reason so many students are poorly prepared for the real world.","parent":"3225438","id":"3225932"}
{"by":"rogerbinns","time":"1330723725","timestamp":"2012-03-02 21:28:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I just stated fact that the numbers are falling\u003cp\u003eExcept Google says they are climbing and Alexa says they are about the same, and as Raldi pointed in his link for stats of Reddit (a somewhat similar site) the numbers these services report are essentially fiction.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; representative consumers in US that use hackerNews website declined\u003cp\u003eAccording to Quantcast they are climbing (almost 50% increase).\u003cp\u003eThe only people who know the actual traffic figures are the admins.  Why not ask them for the real numbers instead of considering one cherry picked report as a fact?","parent":"3647893","id":"3658462"}
{"by":"beagle3","time":"1469421629","timestamp":"2016-07-25 04:40:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Mark was smart and bought puts to protect his stake and then sold it so that he wasn\u0026#x27;t tied to Yahoo. In retrospect he was really smart.\u003cp\u003eAlso questionably legal. There\u0026#x27;s this little thing called SEC Rule 144 [0], which forbids this kind of action (attempting to preempt pump-and-dump IPOs and mergers). I have no knowledge of the specific details involved, but I find it unlikely that Cuban was not subject to Rule 144 - especially since you say \u0026quot;bought puts to protect his stake\u0026quot;, which indicates he couldn\u0026#x27;t sell Yahoo shares at the time, and thus was almost surely subject to said rule.\u003cp\u003eSEC enforcement was a joke (and possibly still is), but illegal actions are only ever smart in retrospect, post \u0026quot;statute of limitations\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sec.gov\u0026#x2F;investor\u0026#x2F;pubs\u0026#x2F;rule144.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sec.gov\u0026#x2F;investor\u0026#x2F;pubs\u0026#x2F;rule144.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12156262","id":"12156504"}
{"by":"agwa","time":"1407441709","timestamp":"2014-08-07 20:01:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be free, but not necessarily easy, as it would still entail configuring your web server to use SSL, and that might not even be an option if you\u0026#x27;re using shared hosting.\u003cp\u003e(Aside: self signed certs don\u0026#x27;t protect the connection from active attacks unless CloudFlare pins the cert.  I\u0026#x27;m mainly concerned with passive eavesdropping though.)","parent":"8149809","id":"8149835"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1538328233","timestamp":"2018-09-30 17:23:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you strip out all performance optimizations from modern computers they will be a lot more secure but they will run slow as molasses. Starting with the hardware caches and ending with optimizations like these we are not talking \u0026#x27;minor gains\u0026#x27; but likely orders of magnitude difference between optimized and non-optimized. And all of those have security trade-offs.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a tough call, the mantra used to be \u0026#x27;get it right, then make it fast\u0026#x27;, but in practice whoever ships the fastest stuff will win the race, even if it is incorrect. As long as it is correct long enough to run the benchmarks I guess.\u003cp\u003eThis is yet another reason why I love microkernels (real ones), they are a lot easier to reason about and to get right to the point that you can really rely on them not to suddenly exhibit some weird behavior due to the complexity of their execution context.","parent":"18107124","id":"18107142"}
{"by":"dannyr","time":"1229115681","timestamp":"2008-12-12 21:01:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If your tweets are of their interest, they will find you. I search twitter all the time for topics that interest me such as Django.","parent":"390220","id":"396072"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1396428990","timestamp":"2014-04-02 08:56:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Under the \u0026quot;every one of you knows what we\u0026#x27;re doing, we know that you really, realy need us, so let\u0026#x27;s not talk about this out loud, shall we?\u0026quot; category ;).","parent":"7513093","id":"7514316"}
{"by":"michael_h","time":"1369336348","timestamp":"2013-05-23 19:12:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure. The operative part of that sentence is: \u003ci\u003eif the way you agree to measure size is diagonally \u003c/i\u003e","parent":"5758795","id":"5758818"}
{"by":"planetguy","time":"1336267295","timestamp":"2012-05-06 01:21:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, in Handel's day, only Handel and other rich important folks dressed like Handel.\u003cp\u003eFast forward to 1900 and everyone from lords to labourers is walking around wearing a plain suit. You can still tell the difference between the two, but it's subtle rather than ostentatious.","parent":"3933514","id":"3933816"}
{"by":"batbomb","time":"1488386915","timestamp":"2017-03-01 16:48:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It runs Cray Linux (based on SUSE) and assuredly somebody is running Fortran on it in some form.\u003cp\u003eMany people think these large machines are intended for a small handful of users that run extremely large jobs. That\u0026#x27;s typically not the case; they typically have tens of users per day up to hundreds per week, depending on institution. With diverse users comes diverse software and the challenges based on that.","parent":"13765155","id":"13765375"}
{"by":"spenvo","time":"1302761233","timestamp":"2011-04-14 06:07:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I \u003ci\u003elove\u003c/i\u003e the hell out of the GUI and I'm a tapbot fan.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I've found myself swiping for conversations only to find there were none.\u003cp\u003eIt's especially true of high volume tweeters like @acarvin because it splits the conversation up.\u003cp\u003ePossible Solution?: If it could pre-load ahead and save me the multiple instances of finding nothing.","parent":"2445516","id":"2445821"}
{"by":"jononor","time":"1493718015","timestamp":"2017-05-02 09:40:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably you do find something, and then presumably go on to dig out the interesting bits and then present it.\nBut it would not surprise me one second if students on an assignment stop when they have a tool for exploring with some dataset loaded.\nThat would be problematic. Exploration is a means, a starting point. Not the final thing.","parent":"14243715","id":"14245144"}
{"by":"dchest","time":"1453927787","timestamp":"2016-01-27 20:49:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you please point out where the XSS issues are?","parent":"10979902","id":"10983189"}
{"by":"proverbialbunny","time":"1526544706","timestamp":"2018-05-17 08:11:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The brain physically changes in response to life\u0026#x27;s experiences.  To dismiss life experience and believe genius is exclusively innate is a hard pill to swallow.\u003cp\u003eBy understanding how a thing works, the more power one has to change it.  Therefor, the better one understands their own intelligence, the more power they have to change their intelligence.  However, being able to tease apart intelligence requires a high prerequisite intelligence, muddying the water between innate and not. In whole, I do not think intelligence is exclusively nature or nurture.\u003cp\u003eAsking someone, \u0026quot;When about do you think you became a genius?\u0026quot; is a great question.  I might have to steal that one next time I bump into a genius offline.","parent":"17089424","id":"17089643"}
{"by":"tonytpa","time":"1514499140","timestamp":"2017-12-28 22:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think the doctor comparison is very appropriate to what I\u0026#x27;m describing. There is a very prescribed path to becoming a doctor. You go to school, pass some exams, become a resident, etc. You know exactly what you need to do to be successful.\u003cp\u003eThe same is not true as a startup founder. You can read about what other people have some, but you can\u0026#x27;t do exactly what they did. Your idea will be different, market will be different, timing will be different, team will be different, etc.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I\u0026#x27;m looking for other people who want to work on side projects\u0026#x2F;startups but aren\u0026#x27;t sure how to get started\u0026#x2F;want to meet other people in the same boat.","parent":"16024460","id":"16025409"}
{"by":"monocasa","time":"1488385503","timestamp":"2017-03-01 16:25:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;ve always been underpowered, that\u0026#x27;s part of their shtick.  Just some generations all of the competitors are underpowered too.","parent":"13764983","id":"13765041"}
{"by":"giancarlostoro","time":"1456793874","timestamp":"2016-03-01 00:57:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you sure? It always looked like MonoDevelop (before it looked like Xamarin) to me... Guess I thought wrong then, but it\u0026#x27;s interesting both are in C# at least.","parent":"11198836","id":"11200074"}
{"by":"farwind","time":"1547266676","timestamp":"2019-01-12 04:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I remember playing these maps! (or else confusing my shades of grey) I\u0026#x27;ll need to boot up that computer and see if they\u0026#x27;re on there.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t find the website I used to download maps and skins from. It must be gone by now.","parent":"18886497","id":"18889616"}
{"by":"akiselev","time":"1465950909","timestamp":"2016-06-15 00:35:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m curious if Australia is a special case because of the drought [1]. It began in earnest in 1995 and was named record setting by 2003 so I can imagine the farms had to do a lot more borrowing and refinancing at unfavorable terms in order to make it through more than a decade and a half of very low rainfall. According to [2] the Australian government provided $4.5 billion in exceptional circumstance assistance which included monetary payments and interest rate subsidies. Even with that assistance I would imagine that the drought hit Australian farmers really hard. I tried looking at the agriculture.gov.au site for import statistics but couldn\u0026#x27;t easily figure out if agricultural imports grew during that time period, and whether that hurt the domestic farms as well.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;ll be interesting to see if California farms\u0026#x27; debt balloons like this too as they have to borrow more and more to pay for water rights and infrastructure like wells. California is basically the US\u0026#x27;s fertile crescent so maybe there will be a lot more subsidies and federal assistance just to maintain food security as a national strategic goal.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2000s_Australian_drought\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2000s_Australian_drought\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theage.com.au\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;breaking-news-national\u0026#x2F;minister-declares-end-of-drought-20120427-1xpgi.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theage.com.au\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;breaking-news-national\u0026#x2F;minister-de...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11906369","id":"11906464"}
{"by":"kdsudac","time":"1341034062","timestamp":"2012-06-30 05:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disclaimer: I've been a long time apple hater so take what I say with a grain of salt.\u003cp\u003eI get particularly annoyed when people describe Apple as an innovator.  They're really just a mainstream cross over hit, while the real innovators never get the spotlight.\u003cp\u003eApple is:\nincredible at business; \nexcellent at marketing;\ngreat at product design;\nmediocre at innovation;\u003cp\u003eHow much of a MacBook Pro is Apple innovation? and how much of it is doing a great job of pulling together supplier's innovations with some great design and system integration?  Even OSX and iOS are derivatives of BSD.","parent":"4180706","id":"4180781"}
{"by":"kg","time":"1236005924","timestamp":"2009-03-02 14:58:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree it seems weird the guy has been blogging since 1994 (per his Blogger about page) with a whopping 2 posts, yet somehow ends up here on HN?  Kinda fishy... also, isn't Azure the polar opposite of the technology spectrum from AppEngine?  I would of expected \"EC2 here I come\" instead.","parent":"500020","id":"500136"}
{"by":"gwern","time":"1339772999","timestamp":"2012-06-15 15:09:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oddly enough, this is the \u003ci\u003esecond\u003c/i\u003e game theoretic analysis of toilet seats I've seen in my life; the first was \u003ca href=\"http://www.urticator.net/essay/4/482.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.urticator.net/essay/4/482.html\u003c/a\u003e which in some ways seems to be better.","parent":"4115514","id":"4116876"}
{"by":"kstenerud","time":"1437600455","timestamp":"2015-07-22 21:27:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And this is why I maintain my own music collection, in FLAC, stored on a machine I control, in my house, with ZFS and backups and scripts to generate lossy versions of any part of my collection in whatever format I choose.\u003cp\u003eMy phone has plenty of space to store compressed music, my car has a usb port that I can plug a flash card into, and I have a portable wristwatch mp3 player for when I go running.\u003cp\u003eI can go anywhere I want by car, bus, train, airplane, boat, or foot, and never lose my tunes to bad reception or buggy software because my music is ALWAYS in my physical possession, with backups in a lossless format. I can even connect to my home machine from remote to stream or download if need be.\u003cp\u003eReally, what use would I ever have of these silly walled cloud or streaming services?","parent":"9931552","id":"9932414"}
{"by":"valentinu","time":"1462202398","timestamp":"2016-05-02 15:19:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Leeruniek | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | full-time | on-site | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;leeruniek.recruitee.com\u0026#x2F;o\u0026#x2F;technical-lead\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;leeruniek.recruitee.com\u0026#x2F;o\u0026#x2F;technical-lead\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeeruniek is hiring one or two experienced engineers to help building tools that empower educators to deliver excellent education in the schools from Netherlands. This is an exciting opportunity for a proven leader with strong technical chops to evolve into a CTO role.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re using python(django-rest-framework) and js(react). DB wise we\u0026#x27;re postgres and we use ansible to provision the servers. We\u0026#x27;re currently 2 devs: one with the team in Amsterdam plus one dev working remote. We\u0026#x27;re running on Azure as BizSpark members but there is a strong preference to diversify on AWS in the near future.","parent":"11611867","id":"11612082"}
{"by":"teapot01","time":"1497149080","timestamp":"2017-06-11 02:44:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go to python repl\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; import this","parent":"14528922","id":"14530351"}
{"by":"1024core","time":"1514999248","timestamp":"2018-01-03 17:07:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Because Safeway has enough manpower to do that.\u003cp\u003eI can assure you, the cashiers at Safeway make \u003ci\u003esignificantly\u003c/i\u003e less money than the USPS staff. And accounting for guaranteed pensions, even more so. Most are minimum wage employees with no job security.\u003cp\u003eAnd to answer your speculation: there are employees at the Post Office. You can see them through the doors.\u003cp\u003eAnd finally: why isn\u0026#x27;t the office staffed properly, given that these holidays like Christmas aren\u0026#x27;t exactly new and unforeseen?","parent":"16061852","id":"16062724"}
{"by":"phuff","time":"1322072081","timestamp":"2011-11-23 18:14:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon usually has really good customer service all the times I've called.  It seems like this really is a fell through the cracks thing.  I'm glad venues like Consumerist exist to publicize this kind of thing.","parent":"3270841","id":"3270974"}
{"by":"csa","time":"1525658515","timestamp":"2018-05-07 02:01:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I largely agree with your sentiment, quite a bit of the problems with contracting that the US government has is because they don\u0026#x27;t do contracting well. Specifically, they are understaffing many offices, and they are putting not-so-qualified people in lead roles. Writing a good contract is hard. It\u0026#x27;s harder when the right staff are not in place to do it -- this is the current state of most US government contracting.","parent":"17009387","id":"17009884"}
{"by":"alexchamberlain","time":"1420366525","timestamp":"2015-01-04 10:15:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very interesting overview. It shows that the majority of a (Q\u0026amp;A) site can be run on \u0026quot;just\u0026quot; 9 servers - we\u0026#x27;re not talking scaling to thousands of servers here.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d be interested to know what DBMS they\u0026#x27;re running, and it\u0026#x27;s very interesting that they\u0026#x27;ve moved the tag \u0026quot;indices\u0026quot; out to their own cluster. I\u0026#x27;d also be interested to know whether they run out of 1 datacentre and how\u0026#x2F;if they mitigate that risk.","parent":"8833636","id":"8833994"}
{"by":"melling","time":"1473389016","timestamp":"2016-09-09 02:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then spend $9 and get an extra adapter.","parent":"12453933","id":"12459332"}
{"by":"ubernostrum","time":"1444176193","timestamp":"2015-10-07 00:03:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. I spent far too long trying to figure out what sequence would start \u0026quot;1, 2, 4\u0026quot; and then have 232 be the 32nd item.","parent":"10343269","id":"10343295"}
{"by":"rebootthesystem","time":"1448559116","timestamp":"2015-11-26 17:31:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds wonderful, yet the truth is that carpool lanes are a farce.  Nobody carpools in Los Angeles.  Or very few for that matter.  The lanes remove a significant percentage of road capacity.  They are also abused by single drivers, trucks, empty buses, etc.  It\u0026#x27;s a complete joke.  The net result is to reduce road capacity and aid in creating congestion due to the constriction they create.\u003cp\u003eI see it every day across hundreds of miles of roadway cris-crossing Los Angeles.  I am willing to concede that there might be a magical place in the US where people wake up every morning and say \u0026quot;what a beautiful day, I think I will carpool with my neighbor because we both work for the same company\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eNot in Los Angeles.  That\u0026#x27;s just not the nature of this city.  This isn\u0026#x27;t a \u0026quot;factory town\u0026quot; where there are three destinations for the bulk of the population and carpooling makes sense.  If I go down my block the distribution of destinations is probably as random as you can get.  And these destinations are random in vector form.  In other words, direction and distance.  Carpooling is actually impossible.\u003cp\u003eAnd then there\u0026#x27;s the question of infrastructure and schedules.\u003cp\u003eAlso, people are too spread out.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s on person I know I could consider carpooling with.  Here\u0026#x27;s the issue:  I would have to drive 15 miles out of my way every day to go pick him up.  He would have to drive 30 miles out of his way to pick me up.  Meet in the middle?  No can do.  There is no infrastructure to support that.  You\u0026#x27;d have to leave a car at some random parking lot illegally in order to do this.  And this isn\u0026#x27;t a solution that scales.  Oh yes, our schedules are very different, which means that 95% of the time we couldn\u0026#x27;t carpool even if we wanted to.\u003cp\u003ePeople have kids, family, responsibilities.  Who wants to get a call from school to go pick up their kid who just threw up, be 50 miles away and not be able to respond because they carpooled with four other people.\u003cp\u003eThe whole thing is one big joke perpetrated on us by stupid politicians.  Who know what the payoff may have been.  It\u0026#x27;s certainly not helping anyone at all, just like the high speed train they want to build (what a joke).","parent":"10633128","id":"10633889"}
{"by":"escherize","time":"1456304504","timestamp":"2016-02-24 09:01:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really, I think Hiccup is the best solution in this space.\u003cp\u003ePrefer logic-less functions to output html strings? Hiccup has this use case covered. This is all stock Clojure[script], not a templating language:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (def foo [:h2 \u0026quot;something cool\u0026quot;])\n    (hiccup.core\u0026#x2F;html foo) ;;=\u0026gt; \u0026quot;\u0026lt;h2\u0026gt;something cool\u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;h2\u0026gt;\u0026quot;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nPlus there\u0026#x27;s plenty of ways to quickly build up a bootstrap (, etc) page.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (defn bootstrap-page [hiccup-form]\n     (hiccup.page\u0026#x2F;html5 \n      (hiccup.page\u0026#x2F;include-js \u0026quot;link-to-jquery.js\u0026quot; \n                              \u0026quot;link-to-bootstrap.js\u0026quot;)\n      (hiccup.page\u0026#x2F;include-css \u0026quot;link-to-bootstrap.css\u0026quot;)\n      hiccup-form))\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nBTW, there are some interactive examples at \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hiccup.space\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hiccup.space\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11163438","id":"11165434"}
{"by":"jgalvez","time":"1498269790","timestamp":"2017-06-24 02:03:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t Weex that\u0026#x27;s backed?","parent":"14621726","id":"14624025"}
{"by":"fpgeek","time":"1423095782","timestamp":"2015-02-05 00:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Apple Maps experience is evidence against that, though. We know that they were working on maps for years and things like PoI search were among the biggest issues. I find it hard to believe they would have done that badly if they had an in-house search team (if only because such a team would have been good at flagging problems and suggesting solutions).","parent":"9000760","id":"9000997"}
{"by":"Pxtl","time":"1384800491","timestamp":"2013-11-18 18:48:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My problem with conflating search and URL is\u003cp\u003e1) 1-word searches\u0026#x2F;domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off.\u003cp\u003e2) cluttering my typed-URL history with search keywords.","parent":"6755837","id":"6756023"}
{"by":"alexc218","time":"1230972235","timestamp":"2009-01-03 08:43:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nearly all of the sites out there that you trust with your username/password are susceptible to this. you just have to trust that all of them will protect your privacy, as they indicate in their policies. facebook and google harvest much more personal info on you than this site, btw.","parent":"417999","id":"418253"}
{"by":"Joky","time":"1423589778","timestamp":"2015-02-10 17:36:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Imagination just released their IR.\nLLVM has a backend for AMD GPUs.\nIt\u0026#x27;s moving, slowly but it\u0026#x27;s moving...","parent":"9027758","id":"9028588"}
{"by":"toothbrush","time":"1526303025","timestamp":"2018-05-14 13:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just stumbled across a reference to a study about recidivism in Massachusetts last century while reading \u0026quot;Against Empathy\u0026quot; by Paul Bloom, perhaps it\u0026#x27;ll interest you.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m much too lazy to type out the entire quote, but the author references the case of Willie Horton, convicted murderer, who was let out on furlough, who went on to reoffend.  This caused outrage and the book doesn\u0026#x27;t go into more detail on whether the furlough program was suspended, but the author does reference a study at the time affirming that:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; the program may have reduced the likelihood of such incidents.  A report at the time found that the recidivism rate in Massachusetts had dropped in the fifteen years after the program was introduced and that convicts who were furloughed were less likely to go on to commit a crime than those who were not.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Paul Bloom, Against Empathy (2016), chapter 1, pp. 34–35.  See also: Massachusetts Department of Correction, \u0026quot;The Massachusetts Furlough Program\u0026quot;, May 1987, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;static.prisonpolicy.org\u0026#x2F;scans\u0026#x2F;MADOC\u0026#x2F;Furloughpositionpaper.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;static.prisonpolicy.org\u0026#x2F;scans\u0026#x2F;MADOC\u0026#x2F;Furloughposition...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis example is used in the context of a chapter where it is posited that rationally, we might best continue the net-positive furlough program, whereas our empathy with the victims might lead us to abolish it after a statistical outlier causes atrocities to happen.  I\u0026#x27;ll avoid commenting further on the book as i haven\u0026#x27;t yet read it completely.\u003cp\u003eOther than that very specific reference off the top of my head, i\u0026#x27;d recommend looking at anything published about the Norwegian justice system.  I believe it is quite progressive and mainly focussed on rehabilitation instead of punishment.","parent":"17064921","id":"17065095"}
{"by":"littlestymaar","time":"1520931542","timestamp":"2018-03-13 08:59:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Safety is a zero sum game after all.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s what we thought before Rust came, that you could only have safety if you sacrificied speed. But now we know it was wrong ;)","parent":"16573630","id":"16574637"}
{"by":"wattjustin","time":"1336027382","timestamp":"2012-05-03 06:43:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anecdote: A professor once told me he read that whole essay after I referenced it in a paper for an addictions Psych class and he loved it.\u003cp\u003eBut yes, I agree, I am leaning towards what PG is saying there for sure as I think it speaks to a lot of the mockery of the original article as many see the issues for what they really are.","parent":"3922665","id":"3922685"}
{"by":"kafkaesq","time":"1491520700","timestamp":"2017-04-06 23:18:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not a oversight - it\u0026#x27;s their way of signaling to you that you\u0026#x27;re not \u0026quot;hot\u0026quot; enough for HotJar.  And how insignificant you are as a human being, generally.  By making you sit around and wait, wondering what the hell is going on.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s just how they roll.","parent":"14026969","id":"14055617"}
{"by":"icelancer","time":"1459107349","timestamp":"2016-03-27 19:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How people use Wordpress without a caching plugin today... sigh.","parent":"11371010","id":"11371169"}
{"by":"suninwinter","time":"1298665197","timestamp":"2011-02-25 20:19:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought a bit bias was when a coin predictably landed on heads more than tails.","parent":"2263383","id":"2263633"}
{"by":"lholden","time":"1397225665","timestamp":"2014-04-11 14:14:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RSA was patent encumbered at the time the clause was made to the OpenSSH license. This very likely qualified RSA as \u0026quot;restrictively licensed\u0026quot;. RSA was released from its patent in 2000 (just weeks before it expired).\u003cp\u003eDSA I believe is still patent encumbered.","parent":"7572800","id":"7572931"}
{"by":"bonzi_buddy","time":"1505944185","timestamp":"2017-09-20 21:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 had it at kronnerburger and thought it was great. They said it\u0026#x27;s easy to screw it up and end up with a crappy burger.","parent":"15297961","id":"15298645"}
{"by":"amenod","time":"1467915582","timestamp":"2016-07-07 18:19:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. However he did go to some lengths to make it look like it wasn\u0026#x27;t suicide... It is difficult to judge given the (lack of) facts, but it\u0026#x27;s a sad story whichever way one looks at it.","parent":"12051083","id":"12051146"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1368436368","timestamp":"2013-05-13 09:12:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"The tax exemption for 501(c)(4) organizations applies to most of their operations\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis means they can have pretend massive markup on everything and write it off. It's a dodge, just like many church \"leaders\" drive crazy expensive cars.\u003cp\u003eJust eliminate it, no tax exemptions, everyone on the same level.","parent":"5697703","id":"5697809"}
{"by":"Grue3","time":"1500150338","timestamp":"2017-07-15 20:25:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The worst one I\u0026#x27;ve seen, a man named Hitler Mussolini: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=G_ZuetUzxFI\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=G_ZuetUzxFI\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14778186","id":"14778741"}
{"by":"mercer","time":"1481284627","timestamp":"2016-12-09 11:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; In someways we\u0026#x27;ve digressed significantly and made it ridiculously more complicated to build a modern web app in contrast to what jQuery gives you out-of-the-box with a simple script include.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s true, but I find that things are complicated because either 1) the complexity \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e higher because we\u0026#x27;re dealing with a proper app, in which case jQuery wouldn\u0026#x27;t be much simpler (you\u0026#x27;d probably use Backbone.js at the very least, and that gets messy quick), or 2) people use a lot of \u0026#x27;state of the art\u0026#x27; stuff that they don\u0026#x27;t really need.\u003cp\u003eIn regards to 2: if what you need to do can be done with a script tag and jQuery, you probably wouldn\u0026#x27;t need anything beyond \u0026#x27;plain\u0026#x27; React and it would still be a benefit. And if you go for something like Preact, the download size is smaller than jQuery, so you could even consider using both at the same time; preact for dom updates, and jQuery for everything else.\u003cp\u003eMore and more I find myself opting for (p)react even for simple things like a slideshow widget or a tabbed element. I find it nicer than jQuery and if you avoid using all the \u0026#x27;cool stuff\u0026#x27; (redux, etc.) it\u0026#x27;s simpler too.","parent":"13137068","id":"13138233"}
{"by":"chailatte","time":"1289419988","timestamp":"2010-11-10 20:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just wait until 1.) unemployment extension running out this month (no way it gets extended again) 2.) the holiday temp hiring fading in December 3.) government spending cuts in next January, and 4.) the economy collapsing further.\u003cp\u003eThen we'll see if these millennials are still talking about needing 'social network access' at work, when they can't mooch off their parents or keep from getting laid off.","parent":"1891501","id":"1891647"}
{"by":"shimfish","time":"1354807529","timestamp":"2012-12-06 15:25:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it the terms you object to or do you fundamentally reject the premise?","parent":"4881749","id":"4882058"}
{"by":"freditup","time":"1517373097","timestamp":"2018-01-31 04:31:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In addition to large amounts of surveillance, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has regularly been featured on Cops and Vegas Strip [0]. So pretty much the exact opposite of the Las Vegas slogan.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Vegas_Strip_(TV_series)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Vegas_Strip_(TV_series)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16265680","id":"16271325"}
{"by":"eterm","time":"1456140027","timestamp":"2016-02-22 11:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which environment are you working in that doesn\u0026#x27;t have a string search as part of the standard library?","parent":"11149951","id":"11150045"}
{"by":"ithipster","time":"1479070311","timestamp":"2016-11-13 20:51:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is the only link on the entire ycombinator that is worth reading. i am lucky to encounter it here!","parent":"12945483","dead":true,"id":"12945588"}
{"by":"acgourley","time":"1244692966","timestamp":"2009-06-11 04:02:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah it seems like ruby would be a better fit here, as much as I like python.","parent":"652234","id":"652251"}
{"by":"kingkilr","time":"1379392692","timestamp":"2013-09-17 04:38:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am emphatically not a lawyer, but while I served as a board member of the DSF, I did speak with one about this! We didn\u0026#x27;t spend a lot of time on it, but the one think he noted was to avoid using the word \u0026quot;scholarship\u0026quot;, because there are some regulations around those.","parent":"6397545","id":"6397597"}
{"by":"brezina","time":"1184871630","timestamp":"2007-07-19 19:00:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I talked to Andrew about Ashton Kutcher's involvement a few weeks ago.  He pretty much said Ashton doesn't get credit for how smart he is because of the character he played in that 70's show.  Ashton RAN punk'd and built up a ton of PR and buzz for that show; I expect he'll help do the same for ooma.","parent":"35247","id":"35360"}
{"by":"abredow","time":"1303175742","timestamp":"2011-04-19 01:15:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can change that. Like the iPhone, the signature just defaults to a promotional message.","parent":"2461314","id":"2461337"}
{"by":"samelawrence","time":"1393963984","timestamp":"2014-03-04 20:13:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the issue is that because of the DVR capabilities, users can now skip commercials. Also, because people won\u0026#x27;t be watching as much TV live in the future, the Nielsen data will get wonky. As we move towards an age of streaming, advertisers will pay more or less for placement in shows based on viewership data... but if Aereo controls the stream, then CBS \u0026#x2F; NBC \u0026#x2F; ABC would have to pay them to get that data to their advertisers.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s about control and antiquated business methods. This too shall pass.","parent":"7342760","id":"7342789"}
{"by":"fapjacks","time":"1439480753","timestamp":"2015-08-13 15:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, your perspective is absolutely the right one: It is critically imperative that we separate warzones from domestic law enforcement in \u003ci\u003eevery\u003c/i\u003e way possible. I personally believe that combat vets should not be allowed to serve as police officers. Security guards? Sure. Bodyguards? Sure. Law enforcement? No. That\u0026#x27;s my personal opinion, because it \u003ci\u003eshould not be normal\u003c/i\u003e to flashbang a building, kick the door in, and rush inside with weapons drawn. But that\u0026#x27;s how American police departments are beginning to serve warrants for \u003ci\u003etraffic violations\u003c/i\u003e. And it doesn\u0026#x27;t end there, but in particular that distinction is incredibly important. You hit the nail on the head and I could not possibly agree with you more.","parent":"10054599","id":"10055040"}
{"by":"andrewkkirk","time":"1318314706","timestamp":"2011-10-11 06:31:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's the solution to this problem? Google search makes the extremely complex problem of finding content a simple text search. Have they oversimplified it to a system which can be scammed?","parent":"3097381","dead":true,"id":"3097436"}
{"by":"stonemetal","time":"1303484514","timestamp":"2011-04-22 15:01:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing in the definition of Garbage Collection says it must be a separate post processing step.  Therefore reference counting is in fact a garbage collection mechanism.  Just because it is an eager algorithm rather than the usual lazy one doesn't change what it does, collect garbage in the system.","parent":"2474168","id":"2474258"}
{"by":"atrudeau","time":"1466165215","timestamp":"2016-06-17 12:06:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like inet.d, or CGI behind a webserver.","parent":"11921997","id":"11922114"}
{"by":"blinkingled","time":"1365650518","timestamp":"2013-04-11 03:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Care to list your sources? Thanks!","parent":"5529733","id":"5529781"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1482511980","timestamp":"2016-12-23 16:53:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It happens.","parent":"13245514","id":"13245699"}
{"by":"marcus","time":"1204791070","timestamp":"2008-03-06 08:11:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Multitask in classes that are a waste of your time, I used to review contracts, write code, go over the finances of the biz and do homework in classes.\u003cp\u003eCondense your school work to a single day in the week or two consecutive days, I juggled my class schedule so all the courses I wanted to attend or had to attend were in a single day, I did all my homework assignment for the week the same evening and had the rest of the week free to work on my startup. It was an exhausting day but very rewarding and empowering.\u003cp\u003eTry to cast everything you learn in the context of your startup. This way your learning is more focused and powerful, it will improve your performance both in school and with your startup as it forces you to tackle the material head-on.","parent":"130405","id":"130438"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1311026584","timestamp":"2011-07-18 22:03:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With enough flags it is possible. I've seen stories with 50 points become [dead].","parent":"2778452","id":"2778498"}
{"by":"cossatot","time":"1504953178","timestamp":"2017-09-09 10:32:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"moonka is describing a theory called the \u0026#x27;elastic rebound theory\u0026#x27; that has been the dominant theory of earthquake mechanics since it was proposed by Harry Reid in 1910 after studying the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It basically states that the earth\u0026#x27;s upper crust is an elastic material, and (as they said) stress builds as the different sides of the fault move with respect to one another, but the fault remains \u0026#x27;locked\u0026#x27;, i.e. it\u0026#x27;s not slipping, usually from the surface to 10-20 km depth.\u003cp\u003eThis produces both shear stress (i.e. stress that promotes sliding on the fault) and normal stress (i.e. stress that resist sliding on the fault due to friction).\u003cp\u003eOne common manifestation of the elastic rebound theory says that there is some relatively fixed stress ratio at which the shear stress overcomes the frictional resistance to slip and the fault slides rapidly in an earthquake. The basic assumption (which is supported by data for some well-studied faults such as the San Andreas) is that the rates of strain accumulation are generally constant through time, and therefore earthquakes on a fault are quasiperiodic in time and have more or less similar magnitudes. These are called \u0026#x27;characteristic earthquakes\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eIn this situation, then the likelihood of an earthquake on a given part of a fault does increase with time since the last earthquake.  I wrote a blog post quantifying this for the southern San Andreas Fault [1], using data from the geologic record and only a few assumptions (basically just that the geologic record contains all of the earthquakes).\u003cp\u003eHowever, though very few researchers disagree with the fundamental principles of elastic rebound theory, there is an ongoing scientific debate over whether earthquakes are periodic and characteristic, or more or less random. Many statistical seismologists believe that they are the common form of \u0026#x27;random\u0026#x27;, i.e. that the likelihood of an earthquake doesn\u0026#x27;t change with time since the last earthquake. Some faults (and especially larger fault systems) seem to behave in this fashion, but for an individual fault this implies very different earthquake physics.  There are huge fights in places like California between senior scientists over this topic when doing seismic hazard modeling. Additionally there are other statistical distributions than either characteristic\u0026#x2F;quasiperiodic and random (Poissonian) that produce different behavior [2,3]--with some models, the longer it\u0026#x27;s been since the last earthquake, the longer it will be until the next, and with others after some time for stress to renew on the fault, it becomes basically random.\u003cp\u003eFor storms, floods, etc. the likelihood of a big event happening in a given year is more or less equal every year and therefore \u0026#x27;random\u0026#x27; with the exception of some multiyear cycles such as El Niño. However, over shorter timescales, they aren\u0026#x27;t. Big storms are more likely to occur during rainy seasons rather than dry seasons, and big floods are more likely soon after previous big floods (i.e. days to weeks) because the meterological conditions that generate them may be persistent and the groundwater is still high, which means that it takes less rain to get the same river levels.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rocksandwater.net\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;wrightwood-recurrence\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rocksandwater.net\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;wrightwood-recurrence\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n[2]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org\u0026#x2F;3071\u0026#x2F;de51c5abc4f770b0b11ede9f3b4d204c16aa.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org\u0026#x2F;3071\u0026#x2F;de51c5abc4f770b0b11ede...\u003c/a\u003e\n[3]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;windofweef.jp\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;o_m\u0026#x2F;disaster_prevention\u0026#x2F;img\u0026#x2F;10.1.1.133.9909.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;windofweef.jp\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;o_m\u0026#x2F;disaster_prevention\u0026#x2F;img\u0026#x2F;10....\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15206012","id":"15206430"}
{"by":"closeparen","time":"1537548895","timestamp":"2018-09-21 16:54:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NYC public transit is not \u0026quot;fully functioning\u0026quot; anymore.","parent":"18040499","id":"18041020"}
{"by":"qiqing","time":"1437689454","timestamp":"2015-07-23 22:10:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a sense of perspective, it\u0026#x27;s about the signal to noise ratio. Recruiter spam can be as bad as any other kind of spam if it gets to a high enough volume to overwhelm your inbox, especially when you aren\u0026#x27;t looking, or when they\u0026#x27;re way off base. For instance, if you\u0026#x27;re an architect who designs buildings and the recruiters are trying to offer you software architect positions. Not sure why these recruiters think they\u0026#x27;re adding value here.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I set up gmail filters to auto-archive all emails from LinkedIn.","parent":"9938637","id":"9938817"}
{"by":"thebouv","time":"1455227053","timestamp":"2016-02-11 21:44:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"147 open, 2915 closed. First page of issues is 25 in past 8 days.\u003cp\u003eNot sure what determines an onslaught, but just so the numbers are clear.","parent":"11083480","id":"11083511"}
{"by":"throwawaymsft","time":"1396377603","timestamp":"2014-04-01 18:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A decision to invest in Microsoft needs to be compared against the opportunity cost: investing in an unbiased sample of companies (you can invest in the Russel 2000 if you want), for much less risk.\u003cp\u003eTaking a job to work at McDonalds is a bad decision when the alternative (picking a random job available to you, essentially) pays more. Even if you \u0026quot;get paid\u0026quot; while working at McDonalds, it wasn\u0026#x27;t a worthwhile decision.\u003cp\u003e(By the way, stocks are absolutely compared against the average market to see if they are a worthwhile decision. Why do you want to invest in an underperformer when you can invest randomly and do better? It\u0026#x27;s like testing a drug against a placebo.)","parent":"7505488","id":"7510656"}
{"by":"icey","time":"1259787525","timestamp":"2009-12-02 20:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What does Google have a monopoly over?","parent":"972930","id":"972935"}
{"by":"quietmonkey","time":"1489039007","timestamp":"2017-03-09 05:56:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or just... education?","parent":"13826466","id":"13827315"}
{"by":"xg15","time":"1496518747","timestamp":"2017-06-03 19:39:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(To clarify: I think it\u0026#x27;s important but to stop \u003ci\u003ediscussing\u003c/i\u003e and acknowledge which other views exist and are widespread and why they are. That doesn\u0026#x27;t mean I share all views or think they are all equally valid. I personally think Trump was the worst that could happen and the climate action was once again proof of that.)","parent":"14468704","id":"14478071"}
{"by":"bartl","time":"1265544295","timestamp":"2010-02-07 12:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Example of a small error on YouTube's part: \"more info\" and \"less info\" shows exactly the same info text.\u003cp\u003eThat is something they might want to detect.","parent":"1106523","id":"1107587"}
{"by":"danwolff","time":"1427337464","timestamp":"2015-03-26 02:37:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not talk to people who would nearly immediately appreciate your app\u0026#x27;s utility?","parent":"9265494","id":"9267501"}
{"by":"GalacticDomin8r","time":"1380743503","timestamp":"2013-10-02 19:51:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he was paraphrasing and sensationalizing.","parent":"6484738","id":"6484810"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1444829837","timestamp":"2015-10-14 13:37:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I noticed eventually, but I figured my message served just as well to reinforce yours as it did to argue against what you weren\u0026#x27;t actually trying to say.","parent":"10386327","id":"10386505"}
{"by":"kbouw","time":"1517929420","timestamp":"2018-02-06 15:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OP here - this was a personal collection I had been keeping up to date and decided to make it public given the number of people that have asked me how to get started with VR.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a lot going on in the space so if I missed an important resource, would be happy to know.","parent":"16316599","id":"16316609"}
{"by":"Steuard","time":"1422461681","timestamp":"2015-01-28 16:14:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who regularly assigns the question you asked as homework (in an advanced physics course, mind you), let me put in a word of advice: don\u0026#x27;t think of what you\u0026#x27;re aiming for as \u0026quot;learn[ing] the formulas\u0026quot;. In my experience, that mindset (which fits so very well in most high school science classes) is the single most common stumbling block for college-level physics students.\u003cp\u003eEquations and formulas exist purely in service to concepts. If you can\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003etell a story\u003c/i\u003e about \u0026quot;what\u0026#x27;s really going on\u0026quot; (qualitatively) without reference to the equations, then (in most cases) you probably shouldn\u0026#x27;t try to use the equations, either. I see student after student try to solve complicated problems via \u0026quot;equation hunting\u0026quot;, where they just dig through their notes or the textbook looking for formulas that have the right variables in them, and then look for ways of combining them to find an answer. (Sometimes their thinking is a step more sophisticated than that, but it\u0026#x27;s a characteristic pattern.) Students start to become \u003ci\u003eexperts\u003c/i\u003e in physics once their mental model of the subject transforms from a jumbled pile of independent equations into a network of concepts with equations like little neurons binding them together.","parent":"8960057","id":"8960664"}
{"by":"ireadqrcodes","time":"1369489914","timestamp":"2013-05-25 13:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he got the \"You’re constantly logged into Facebook ...\" wrong. It will be google plus or something completely different","parent":"5767152","id":"5767275"}
{"by":"Udo_Schmitz","time":"1478191010","timestamp":"2016-11-03 16:36:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Reinheitsgebot is more of a myth though:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=th-f1ztar_U\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=th-f1ztar_U\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12855535","id":"12865496"}
{"by":"whatever_dude","time":"1514951894","timestamp":"2018-01-03 03:58:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What the current White House administration is doing right now is akin to the short-term-gain-focused changes one would do in a company to please investors who want to short:\u003cp\u003e* Remove or shrink employee (citizens) benefits\u003cp\u003e* Stop investing on R\u0026amp;D (education), just ride on what you currently have\u003cp\u003e* Alienate potential customer base and partners (other nations)\u003cp\u003e* Drive away top performing employees (citizens, entrepreneurs)\u003cp\u003e* Make sure your company is not attractive to new hires (alienate immigrants)\u003cp\u003e* Increase long term debt by giving bonuses to already rich people (tax breaks to millionaires)\u003cp\u003eThis is going to come back to bite the country back in a decade or so, and it. Is. Not. Going. To. Be. Pretty.","parent":"16058181","id":"16058241"}
{"by":"efnx","time":"1344960944","timestamp":"2012-08-14 16:15:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This same repo was posted here in November of 2010. I started following it, but the owners quickly got overwhelmed with other projects, or work, and it all lost steam. I deleted my google group membership yesterday. Funny this pops up now.","parent":"4381256","id":"4381657"}
{"by":"theseatoms","time":"1437481934","timestamp":"2015-07-21 12:32:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not even \u0026quot;sensitive\u0026quot; in a security or corporate strategy sense. Their bottom line is just sensitive to this information remaining private.","parent":"9921678","id":"9921725"}
{"by":"rosstex","time":"1481579318","timestamp":"2016-12-12 21:48:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Finally! This is excellent news.","parent":"13162096","id":"13162233"}
{"by":"armooo","time":"1319005824","timestamp":"2011-10-19 06:30:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://db.tt/M5Zbe5Jr\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://db.tt/M5Zbe5Jr\u003c/a\u003e thanks","parent":"3126478","id":"3129008"}
{"by":"magicalist","time":"1371866975","timestamp":"2013-06-22 02:09:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even leaving behind the arguments that Apple was incorrect on iMessage history being inaccessible to them, what about the rest of Apple\u0026#x27;s services (like all your icloud email, your contacts, calendar, etc) that certainly can be turned over with a warrant?\u003cp\u003eYour conclusion does not follow.","parent":"5921891","id":"5922263"}
{"by":"programminggeek","time":"1450061604","timestamp":"2015-12-14 02:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a terrible idea, and will destroy Drupal, but other than that, sure why not?","parent":"10722350","id":"10729167"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1422728426","timestamp":"2015-01-31 18:20:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got to use Visual Works at the university during 1995, then as you say Java came out and Smalltalk became history.","parent":"8977207","id":"8977473"}
{"by":"lchitnis","time":"1383591181","timestamp":"2013-11-04 18:53:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Goodness I just saw your comment. I don\u0026#x27;t know how to upvote? Does this news list work like reddit?","parent":"6660956","id":"6670373"}
{"by":"ra","time":"1278573301","timestamp":"2010-07-08 07:15:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"agreed","parent":"1496710","id":"1496712"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1456908366","timestamp":"2016-03-02 08:46:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; However it is generally agreed in the Go community that the sync\u0026#x2F;atomic is to be avoided in favor of the sync\u0026#x2F;mutex for this type of problem.\u003cp\u003eWhy? Concurrent data structures are extremely useful.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The code is more readable and you don\u0026#x27;t offload any work to the GC.\u003cp\u003eYou shouldn\u0026#x27;t write concurrent data structures yourself; you should use a library. And the amount of time spent in the GC for this is going to be negligible assuming writes are infrequent compared to reads. It\u0026#x27;s rare in a GC\u0026#x27;d language that your write operation won\u0026#x27;t be creating garbage somewhere along the way, so it ends up being amortized.","parent":"11206969","id":"11208806"}
{"by":"surfmike","time":"1486142433","timestamp":"2017-02-03 17:20:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More expensive cars. Also, competition in other markets have made cars safer and more efficient. A monopoly doesn\u0026#x27;t have those incentives.","parent":"13561051","id":"13561393"}
{"by":"JohnTHaller","time":"1463856885","timestamp":"2016-05-21 18:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2 redirect minimum.  I\u0026#x27;ve seen quite a few more.  The most I\u0026#x27;ve seen in my history was 3 or 4, though.","parent":"11745536","id":"11745715"}
{"by":"melvinram","time":"1213577353","timestamp":"2008-06-16 00:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"lol - I couldn't resist :-P","parent":"218260","id":"218305"}
{"by":"WalterBright","time":"1489262917","timestamp":"2017-03-11 20:08:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an unintended side effect of the drugs being illegal. Make them legal, and addicts will have a safe, predictable and inexpensive access to the drugs.\u003cp\u003eAddicts are already punished enough just by being addicts. I doubt any of them want to be addicts. Making it illegal, heaping on more punishment, does not help and just makes it worse.\u003cp\u003eGovernment policy on addictive drugs should be focused on treatment, not punishment.","parent":"13846824","id":"13846970"}
{"by":"noodle","time":"1227125775","timestamp":"2008-11-19 20:16:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"as a society within my lifetime, yes, probably.\u003cp\u003eas a society in the indefinite future, no, probably not.\u003cp\u003eas an individual, hell no.","parent":"369836","id":"369859"}
{"by":"phkahler","time":"1416858123","timestamp":"2014-11-24 19:42:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup. There is nothing there in terms of hardware that can\u0026#x27;t be simulated on a regular computer in polynomial time.","parent":"8654261","id":"8654305"}
{"by":"josteink","time":"1527264409","timestamp":"2018-05-25 16:06:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Regulations tend to favor incumbents, decreasing competition\u003cp\u003eExcept in Europe where it has done the exact opposite for telecom, especially compared to the unregulated US.","parent":"17154471","id":"17155055"}
{"by":"yardie","time":"1256033062","timestamp":"2009-10-20 10:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My mom is still kicking herself for not buying Apple when it was trading for $2 (~'97).  I knew as soon as Steve Job's stepped in things could only get better.\u003cp\u003eIt's the same feeling you get when you forget to buy the lottery ticket the day they call your number.","parent":"891083","id":"892120"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1494469130","timestamp":"2017-05-11 02:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14311176\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14311176\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14312620","id":"14313442"}
{"by":"profquail","time":"1366484443","timestamp":"2013-04-20 19:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was an good discussion on this topic earlier today, but somehow it disappeared from the front page of HN:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5580972\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5580972\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5582130","id":"5582433"}
{"by":"danielnicollet","time":"1291099759","timestamp":"2010-11-30 06:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This post is an ad and at the same time an effective demonstration of the usefulness of advanced multivariate A/B tests.  This dual purpose content/ad is very relevant to this community because we care about usability and good UIs.  So while being a self-promoting piece it is also a well written tutorial of sorts.","parent":"1952151","id":"1953361"}
{"by":"thisone","time":"1535789921","timestamp":"2018-09-01 08:18:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"one way to prevent the accident during a downtime panic at 2am is to NEVER be in the habit of doing it anyway.\u003cp\u003eIf you never put credentials in your code, then even during panic mode you won\u0026#x27;t do it.","parent":"17887553","id":"17890882"}
{"by":"raiph","time":"1430933877","timestamp":"2015-05-06 17:37:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Edited to say \u0026quot;regular folk\u0026quot; instead of just \u0026quot;folk\u0026quot; in the last paragraph to make it clear I\u0026#x27;m talking about non-expert coders who would much prefer that stuff like converting mixed case text to all lower or upper case, or making sure some text visually fits in a fixed length field, be a reasonably simple operation, like it already is when handling most Western languages.)\u003cp\u003e----\u003cp\u003eWould you agree that you are saying that you think it\u0026#x27;s OK that:\u003cp\u003e* The appropriate long term solution is to use library code when doing character or substring level operations on arbitrary Unicode text;\u003cp\u003e* Language implementors have generally not yet written said library code;\u003cp\u003e* The built in character and substring operations in mainstream languages unpredictably misinterpret and corrupt international text such as Thai, Chinese, etc.;\u003cp\u003e* The current solution for correct, non-corrupting character and substring handling of arbitrary Unicode text is to hand build custom code to do things like get the length of a string or replace a substring.\u003cp\u003eIf you disagree with the above, then I\u0026#x27;m confused.\u003cp\u003eIf you agree, then you\u0026#x27;re in agreement with most folk and I think you and they are blind to the needs of regular folk who need to handle, say, Chinese text, and these latter folk will find the simple and correct built in character and substring handling in Perl 6 to be one of its killer features.","parent":"9497422","id":"9500370"}
{"by":"stock_toaster","time":"1511949179","timestamp":"2017-11-29 09:52:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t cloudability help optimize cloud usage?","parent":"15802066","id":"15805731"}
{"by":"onemoreact","time":"1328821570","timestamp":"2012-02-09 21:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His comment is that as long as the supply and demand for dollars remain in balance the value of the USD does not change.  The reason the dollar maintains value is because people and companies need to pay trillions of dollars a year in taxes and loans in USD.  Which is why despite the fed dumping a lot of money into the economy we have see so little inflation over the last few years.","parent":"3572832","id":"3573067"}
{"by":"whichdan","time":"1338742189","timestamp":"2012-06-03 16:49:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't Heroku a mediocre option for a static site unless you're paying? If the site isn't accessed for a while they spin down your EC2 instance, and it takes a few seconds to get it back online.","parent":"4060491","id":"4061168"}
{"by":"ArtB","time":"1334948986","timestamp":"2012-04-20 19:09:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You'd never find it since it was Steve Yegge on Credit Card buckets :P : \u003ca href=\"http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2009/04/have-you-ever-legalized-marijuana.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2009/04/have-you-ever-legaliz...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3869086","id":"3869326"}
{"by":"trollsalad","time":"1435254844","timestamp":"2015-06-25 17:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like it\u0026#x27;s basically Rust without the ownership, borrow checking, and a few other things. Think of C\u0026#x2F;Go(?) with a rust syntax, and a few more higher level things like boundary checking, unicode support, etc (I\u0026#x27;m aware Go has unicode support, I mean C).","parent":"9779567","id":"9779662"}
{"by":"gasull","time":"1371397016","timestamp":"2013-06-16 15:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you explain more about this?\u003cp\u003eEven if my disk wore off faster, I\u0026#x27;d still use full-disk encryption.  What if laptop is lost or stolen with financial info in it?","parent":"5888497","id":"5888758"}
{"by":"zavulon","time":"1325012315","timestamp":"2011-12-27 18:58:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's definitely very possible. There are US-based contractors who successfully charge $40-50/hour and get lots of business. The competition is steep though, I wouldn't recommend this as a way to get business if you're based in US.","parent":"3396585","id":"3396872"}
{"by":"Elmphn","time":"1404233751","timestamp":"2014-07-01 16:55:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK - Remote\u003cp\u003eHello there! If you\u0026#x27;re looking for a web developer, you\u0026#x27;re in the right place. Whether its long term or short term, I deliver clean and scalable code. I also specialize in creating beautiful user interfaces and experiences coupled with responsive, semantic, and cross-browser friendly front-end code.\u003cp\u003eSkills\u003cp\u003ePHP, AJAX, XML, MySQL: I write clean and scalable back-end infrastructures using industry standard design patterns (object oriented), MVC frameworks, and latest web conventions.\u003cp\u003eUI\u0026#x2F;UX Design: I create stunning and modern user interfaces that don\u0026#x27;t sacrifice functionality for beauty. I also work to design interfaces optimized for customer conversions and retention.\u003cp\u003eHTML, CSS, JavaScript: I can translate mockups and wireframes to fully responsive front-end code using cross-browser friendly HTML\u0026#x2F;CSS and JavaScript with scalable design patterns.\u003cp\u003eInterested in finding out more information and seeing some examples of my work? Visit my portfolio at \u003ca href=\"https://www.gerardrovira.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gerardrovira.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7970372","id":"7971951"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1547565888","timestamp":"2019-01-15 15:24:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hopefully this will increase the number of seeders on bittorrent ...","parent":"18911296","id":"18911750"}
{"by":"bkor","time":"1389978543","timestamp":"2014-01-17 17:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of Uncertainty and Doubt you\u0026#x27;re raising there... I\u0026#x27;m wondering if you actually used systemd?","parent":"7076481","id":"7076913"}
{"by":"gizmo686","time":"1368220251","timestamp":"2013-05-10 21:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read the Court opinion [1] (which is a fairly easy read).\u003cp\u003eThe situation is that \"Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) grants Virginia citizens \naccess to all public records, but grants no such right to non Virginians.\" [1]\nThe plaintiffs claimed that this law violated their constitutional rights. The court disagreed (and cited precedent).\u003cp\u003eIt is not the job of the court to decide weather or not a law is a good idea. It is only their job to decide weather or not it is constitutional.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-17_d1o2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-17_d1o2.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5682246","id":"5688703"}
{"by":"juiceandjuice","time":"1297812934","timestamp":"2011-02-15 23:35:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some of the things they don't support aren't new, and are important for an \"immersive experience\"\u003cp\u003ePerfect example:\nCSS transitions.  It's been around a while... like 3 years.\u003cp\u003eHaving no support and nothing to show for, in respect to something with an Editor's draft out from the W3C, (css transitions, for example), just proves you're really good at dragging your feet.","parent":"2223884","id":"2223963"}
{"by":"willyt","time":"1393847027","timestamp":"2014-03-03 11:43:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It used to freak people out, others would flash their headlights at you if you had them on in the daytime. Now all new cars automatically put sidelights on during daytime anyway, I think its a (pretty sensible) EU regulation.","parent":"7333047","id":"7333216"}
{"by":"revetkn","time":"1263871016","timestamp":"2010-01-19 03:16:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neat stuff - scroll clock's another fun one: \u003ca href=\"http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1061291","id":"1061395"}
{"by":"hackula1","time":"1380211343","timestamp":"2013-09-26 16:02:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You can\u0026#x27;t leave your brain at work if your job is mostly mental work.\u003cp\u003eTrust me, you can. I simply ignore emails after 6pm. I will look at them first thing at 8am the next day, but not after 6. If someone presses you on it and they won\u0026#x27;t take \u0026quot;I have a life\u0026quot; for an answer, just lie and say you didn\u0026#x27;t see it or that you were at your kid\u0026#x27;s baseball game. I suspect that the frequency of someone\u0026#x27;s boss actually getting pissed that they did not respond right away to a 9pm email to be extremely low.  In the unlikely occurrence that you actually work in an environment like this, I suggest polishing up the resume, because there are plenty of jobs out there that do not require your brain 24\u0026#x2F;7.","parent":"6450077","id":"6451653"}
{"by":"kmano8","time":"1508939612","timestamp":"2017-10-25 13:53:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At a past apartment in the city, I gave a key to the front mud-room area to my UPS guy. It was the best thing ever.\u003cp\u003eThat said, Amazon subcontractors routinely leave packages on my front stoop in the city in spite of the sign I have the asks for packages to be dropped over the side fence. A number have been taken -- and I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say it\u0026#x27;s not their fault packages get stolen in cities, but it\u0026#x27;s common sense leaving something on a stoop probably isn\u0026#x27;t a great idea.\u003cp\u003eUPS\u0026#x2F;Fedex seem to always drop over my fence.\u003cp\u003eNo way I\u0026#x27;d trust amazon to execute this well in the first few years.","parent":"15549479","id":"15550111"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1258141109","timestamp":"2009-11-13 19:38:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would support a decision by Wikipedia to run ads, so I'm disappointed they've decided to declare themselves \"Ad-Free Forever\".\u003cp\u003eNever say never, I'd say: there could be a tasteful model, perhaps with community review and liberal opt-out, that would help magnify the project's impact many times over.\u003cp\u003eSee also:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/01/02/wikipedia-advertising/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/01/02/wikipedia-advertisin...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Maybe someday they'll decide they mean \"forever so far\", and it will become like PBS -- ads in all but name.)","parent":"940497","id":"940611"}
{"by":"danmaz74","time":"1314619134","timestamp":"2011-08-29 11:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be very interesting to see how this approach will work with dictated speech.\u003cp\u003eAlso let's not forget that the word-level error rate can be reduced by using statistical data about words sequences.","parent":"2936818","id":"2936846"}
{"by":"kyssetoremotd","time":"1491505680","timestamp":"2017-04-06 19:08:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;pulse\u0026#x2F;totalhd-boss-baby-2017-online-movie-highquality-onemovie-story\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;pulse\u0026#x2F;totalhd-boss-baby-2017-online...\u003c/a\u003e\nThe Boss Baby full Movie Online Free","parent":"14051232","dead":true,"id":"14053582"}
{"by":"mhurron","time":"1434460898","timestamp":"2015-06-16 13:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"166 is a nicer number?\u003cp\u003e200lb doesn\u0026#x27;t have a 1960\u0026#x27;s equivalent to compare it to in a headline?","parent":"9725495","id":"9725500"}
{"by":"hansy","time":"1400023852","timestamp":"2014-05-13 23:30:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Square isn\u0026#x27;t soliciting reviews for the small business, but instead private feedback. Should the customer subsequently go out and write a review (anonymous or not), the thought process is that the review may be influenced (hopefully positively) by the customer service.\u003cp\u003eThis is a proactive approach to customer reviews as opposed to a reactive one.","parent":"7740563","id":"7741251"}
{"by":"borkt","time":"1516660300","timestamp":"2018-01-22 22:31:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We need a comment section","parent":"16208578","id":"16208646"}
{"by":"lsanger","time":"1416698875","timestamp":"2014-11-22 23:27:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Wikipedia for news\u0026quot; might be a brief statement of the purpose of Wikinews, but it isn\u0026#x27;t an attempt to solve the problem I\u0026#x27;m concerned to solve. Wikipedia made encyclopedias better by making a giant encyclopedia. Wikinews didn\u0026#x27;t make news better...in any way. What we want to do is actually organize the news, including the \u0026quot;long tail\u0026quot; of citizen journalism, into \u0026quot;small pieces, loosely joined\u0026quot; in the form of one-sentence fact summaries. The result will enable a scalable community to co-author a truly useful, complete, and giant selection of the news, without the noise and confusion that besets the news today. So that\u0026#x27;s the difference.","parent":"8646756","id":"8647060"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1368830312","timestamp":"2013-05-17 22:38:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; And he understood\u003cp\u003eYou mean \"ze\"?","parent":"5726489","id":"5727029"}
{"by":"GFischer","time":"1323275787","timestamp":"2011-12-07 16:36:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can also sign up for the BizSpark program.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3324361","id":"3324483"}
{"by":"musage","time":"1507404687","timestamp":"2017-10-07 19:31:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; we gain richer insights when we take both into account\u003cp\u003eIf there really were fundamental differences, that would not be possible. When I take someone elses viewpoint or way of thinking or anything else that is fundamentally different from what I know \u0026quot;into account\u0026quot;, what I really take into account what \u003ci\u003eI\u003c/i\u003e imagine that other viewpoint to be, cobbled together from the things I do know. I don\u0026#x27;t say this to contradict, I think empathy goes a long way and is a very real thing, even though it doesn\u0026#x27;t mean we magically see things how others do. And luckily we have communication. We can make our own viewpoints and feelings clear, and encourage others to be open about theirs.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m wary about fundamental differences and all that.. spectra, maybe (I\u0026#x27;m not sold on mutual exclusivity at all), but even then certainly not with one dimension and two poles -- but assuming it were literally that way, then there would be \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e halves, and nobody with an overview. Just abstractions about the other, which are useless, realize the self and let the other self self-realize, communicate, done. Sorry for sounding like a hippie, no dig against hippies intended. It\u0026#x27;s really hard to talk about this stuff, but not for political correctness and not for the assholes who take all sorts of things and misuse them anway, just in general.","parent":"15424937","id":"15425286"}
{"by":"prodigal_erik","time":"1386552299","timestamp":"2013-12-09 01:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really, a smiley face? Dissent is how civilization fixes bad ideas, and suppression of it is not to be taken lightly.","parent":"6871476","id":"6872397"}
{"by":"parenthesis","time":"1239141531","timestamp":"2009-04-07 21:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dupe:\n\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=320852\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=320852\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I'm glad it's got some attention this time.","parent":"551475","id":"551764"}
{"by":"hackuser","time":"1473713994","timestamp":"2016-09-12 20:59:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with the general point, and I believe it\u0026#x27;s well-established, that aid can have second-order and higher order effects that are counter-productive. On the other hand, in this case it\u0026#x27;s merely FUD and an argument for inaction; we would need specific information about Moolenaar\u0026#x27;s charity. I\u0026#x27;m not going to stand still and do nothing just in case.\u003cp\u003eSecond-order effects also can make donations to the Free Software Conservancy counter-productive.\u003cp\u003eAs an aside, I wonder if the Free Software Conservancy would want to be seen telling people not to donate to Ugandan AIDS victims and to redirect the money to themselves. My guess is they would not like to see their name here.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; emotional appeal\u003cp\u003eLife and death has appeal beyond \u0026#x27;mere\u0026#x27; emotion. It\u0026#x27;s more important than free software, and I say that as an avid fan of, and occasional donor and contributor to FOSS projects.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: A rewording or two","parent":"12481922","id":"12483634"}
{"by":"Can_Not","time":"1445200636","timestamp":"2015-10-18 20:37:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thadd is either an obvious troll or terribly selfish and delusional on what constitutes fairness. I would much rather the government rob me by mail in the spring than be stabbed year round by the poor. This attitude of \u0026quot;not my problem\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;but that\u0026#x27;s my money\u0026quot; is being taken to a really socially destructive extreme and is basically (incoming hyperbole) a type of crowd sourced genocide.","parent":"10407298","id":"10409685"}
{"by":"ignifero","time":"1308923392","timestamp":"2011-06-24 13:49:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A combination of incompetence, byzantine bureaucracy, under qualified personell, uncooperative subsystems and obscure security here in godforsaken greece","parent":"2692032","id":"2692172"}
{"by":"Guvante","time":"1502910364","timestamp":"2017-08-16 19:06:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is assuming the constant end up being in the realm of reasonable. `O(2^N)` and `O(N^1000)` are no different for any useful values of `N`.","parent":"15030030","id":"15030200"}
{"by":"warp_factor","time":"1539354048","timestamp":"2018-10-12 14:20:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Acton was not fired, he tweeted #deletefacebook after he already quit:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Brian_Acton\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Brian_Acton\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18201523","id":"18201581"}
{"by":"excuse-me","time":"1335381716","timestamp":"2012-04-25 19:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"100 years ago patients died because of doctor's neck ties. He would lean over one patient with the tie dragging on their wound, then go to the next patient transferring the infection\u003cp\u003eOf course we are far too advanced to do anything so stupid today.\u003cp\u003eNow we examine a patient, go to the computer at the nurses station and type up the results, then the nurse comes along and rubs their hand over the keyboard and mouse, then you go the next patient ....\u003cp\u003eYou can get washable waterproof medical keyboards but they are expensive, and get broken and replaced with whatever IT have on the shelf. Funnily enough I have never seen a waterproof mouse.","parent":"3890525","id":"3890562"}
{"by":"SFjulie1","time":"1447952118","timestamp":"2015-11-19 16:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes let\u0026#x27;s give more incentive to be black hats.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, IT has still not proven positive impact on the real world economy...\u003cp\u003eIT startup are fed up with cash since 20 years and every benefits seems to be sunk into a fast obsolescence sink.\u003cp\u003eIn terms of engineering it is like comparing the F16 now from 40 years ago:\u003cp\u003enew F16 has a lot of electronic devices, BUT costs more to operate, lose in dogfight vs its former self and former Mig\u0026#x2F;Suckhoi, it is 9 tons heavier, it costs way more to build...\u003cp\u003eNowadays, IED are costing peanuts, and russia is frigthening europa with planes that should be in museums loaded with nuclear missiles.\u003cp\u003eIn economics as in war, costs matters. And at one point for making financial transaction, the costs of security will matter. Given a point of distrust, people may revert back to old tech like faxes and unplugged networks and notice they are more competitive this way.","parent":"10595395","id":"10595840"}
{"by":"notastartup","time":"1411773398","timestamp":"2014-09-26 23:16:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this arguing that developers shy away from the forced OOP, and Patterns, instead relying on simple to read, step by step, functions?\u003cp\u003eOne of my biggest gripe about OO programming was that you had no idea what the other components were doing unless you investigated each component directly. Sometimes the dependencies and the chain would get so large and complicated, you\u0026#x27;d spend more time figuring out how to wrap your head around the whole thing than doing things that result in direct business benefit.\u003cp\u003eBut every interview you go to will tell you otherwise, inflating technical debt is a great thing to keep managers keep their job and for sales team to boast about six digit LOC = Obviously state of the art.","parent":"8374345","id":"8375391"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1346108729","timestamp":"2012-08-27 23:05:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's weird. Often times you'll hear people saying they ate an apple for desert instead of that chocolate souffle the waiter recommended, when their main meal was a 2000-calorie monster full of breaded chicken, onion rings and french fries. And then they will tell you their dietitian told them to eat more fruits, so they are following his/her advice!","parent":"4441232","id":"4441330"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1376939639","timestamp":"2013-08-19 19:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has nothing to do with NTP.","parent":"6237734","id":"6239066"}
{"by":"brooks8970","time":"1378021677","timestamp":"2013-09-01 07:47:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He was making the point in the context of an american business making the decision not to accept tips. No server in their right mind would work for minimum wage and no tips when they could receive $1\u0026#x2F;hr + tips at a busy restaurant down the street.  My guess is that most service industry jobs in European countries attract people with lower financial needs relative to their fellow citizens.","parent":"6309415","id":"6309450"}
{"by":"herendin2","time":"1477030518","timestamp":"2016-10-21 06:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The md5 hash in the document matches an Android .apk, fqrouter2.11.5","parent":"12758308","id":"12758491"}
{"by":"us0r","time":"1498573496","timestamp":"2017-06-27 14:24:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I might be in a minority here\u003cp\u003eNope.  It\u0026#x27;s crazy. You don\u0026#x27;t go to the most popular restaurant in town and have them tell you to go get desert across the street because the superior food and experience hurt their sales.\u003cp\u003eEven looking at the commissions fact sheet (Search Engine market share) [0].  3 of the 4 other companies are billion dollar enterprises. Microsoft decided to make it difficult to switch to Chrome\u0026#x2F;Google in Windows 10 (no more 1 click).  With this consumers are still switching back.\u003cp\u003eOut of all the bad shit google does, this shouldn\u0026#x27;t even be on the radar.\u003cp\u003eFor the other end of the story this is an interesting read [1].\u003cp\u003e[0] - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;europa.eu\u0026#x2F;rapid\u0026#x2F;press-release_MEMO-17-1785_en.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;europa.eu\u0026#x2F;rapid\u0026#x2F;press-release_MEMO-17-1785_en.htm\u003c/a\u003e\n[1] - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.foundem.co.uk\u0026#x2F;Foundem_Google_Timeline.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.foundem.co.uk\u0026#x2F;Foundem_Google_Timeline.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14645044","id":"14645639"}
{"by":"ghola2k5","time":"1439915780","timestamp":"2015-08-18 16:36:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With the \u0026quot;Weave Ready\u0026quot; comment, I think it might be a smart home hub, too.","parent":"10080172","id":"10080188"}
{"by":"gregpilling","time":"1437800159","timestamp":"2015-07-25 04:55:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the Men\u0026#x27;s Health article linked above:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Officer Jimmy sees the matter differently. Although he professes to feel conflicted about juicing--it is, after all, a felony to take anabolic steroids without a prescription--he thinks \u0026#x27;roids made him a better cop. \u0026quot;What law enforcement needs is a little testosterone,\u0026quot; he says. \u0026quot;Every cop should do a cycle a year.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYeah, Jimmy. What could possibly go wrong with that idea?","parent":"9946440","id":"9946609"}
{"by":"sloppycee","time":"1502209408","timestamp":"2017-08-08 16:23:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A public \u0026#x27;bed car\u0026#x27; sounds gross.","parent":"14958904","id":"14959431"}
{"by":"kazagistar","time":"1405557816","timestamp":"2014-07-17 00:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t have to write extensive software or have a deep interest in type systems to use ML languages. You just have to know enough of the syntax to understand the API and write some functions to work with provided DSLs.","parent":"8044993","id":"8045420"}
{"by":"typicalrunt","time":"1411774093","timestamp":"2014-09-26 23:28:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about \u003ca href=\"http://weworkremotely.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;weworkremotely.com\u003c/a\u003e ?","parent":"8375296","id":"8375422"}
{"by":"fh973","time":"1535868357","timestamp":"2018-09-02 06:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Serious question: what are the \u0026quot;obvious benefits\u0026quot; (from the consumer perspective)?\u003cp\u003eI can just think of insane acceleration (which is irrelevant for actual use).","parent":"17894730","id":"17895836"}
{"by":"tempestn","time":"1476854581","timestamp":"2016-10-19 05:23:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This literally just happened to me today, and it was a bit of a pain, but it only took half an hour with last month\u0026#x27;s statement and a web browser to update all my regular payments.\u003cp\u003eThe one thing I would recommend is having a secondary card with a different provider kept as a backup, just to deal with the couple of days between cancellation and receiving the new card.  Even better is if it\u0026#x27;s a different card type (Visa if you have a MC or whatever) for that once in a blue moon situation when a merchant doesn\u0026#x27;t accept that card.  Finally, if you do this, put some regular, low value monthly payment on the backup card so it doesn\u0026#x27;t get cancelled for inactivity.  Netflix is good.","parent":"12741138","id":"12741292"}
{"by":"vrodic","time":"1292433475","timestamp":"2010-12-15 17:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"related:\u003cp\u003eRSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce \n\u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/13852158\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://vimeo.com/13852158\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2008438","id":"2008870"}
{"by":"mneorr","time":"1366789683","timestamp":"2013-04-24 07:48:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you mkdir -p ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/   , does it work then?","parent":"5599665","id":"5600350"}
{"by":"hw","time":"1419620570","timestamp":"2014-12-26 19:02:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not exactly sure what problem standupmail is trying to solve, or if it\u0026#x27;s artificially creating one. Sending out automatic reminders for status updates and a daily digest doesn\u0026#x27;t justify the pricing IMO, as it\u0026#x27;s something that can be done easily via automatic email reminders \u0026#x2F; calendar events.\u003cp\u003eStandupMail seems to want to replace daily standups for teams, which I don\u0026#x27;t think is a good idea.\u003cp\u003eFirst of all, standup meetings are essential to start the day. It\u0026#x27;s the team\u0026#x27;s huddle before heading out into the field. It\u0026#x27;s to provide updates on yesterday\u0026#x27;s play, but also to discuss briefly any topics of importance, making sure everyone\u0026#x27;s on the same page for the present day. Replacing that with a one-directional email update would hinder all that.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY\u003cp\u003eI would argue that taking the time to write an email, read each other\u0026#x27;s update etc actually reduces productivity overall. It\u0026#x27;s much easier to go to a 5-10 minute standup and hear everyone\u0026#x27;s update as well as verbally provide your own update. In fact, if I need more clarification from someone\u0026#x27;s update, I\u0026#x27;d have to interrupt that person after I\u0026#x27;ve read the email, or write out more emails.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Avoid time-consuming status meetings and interrupting the team from accomplishing their tasks.\u003cp\u003eStandups and status meetings are supposed to be brief. They usually happen at the end of day or beginning of the day where it provides a lot more value (as a wrap up or an anchor to the start of the day) than interruption (if any). If your status meetings are taking a long time, you\u0026#x27;re doing it wrong.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; NO MICROMANAGEMENT\u003cp\u003eIf a regular standup = micromanagement, then how is an email reminder for standup updates not micromanaging? Keeping the team on the same page about what needs to be done is easier with a verbal standup. IMO whether there is or isn\u0026#x27;t any micromanagement in regular standups, it wont change with email updates. It\u0026#x27;s more of a team dynamic than a process\u0026#x2F;tool issue.","parent":"8798937","id":"8799799"}
{"by":"ilyak","time":"1253389446","timestamp":"2009-09-19 19:44:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like it to be a stand-alone article.\nThis way it would be a first-class citizen on HN.\u003cp\u003eI mean, more meat, examples, and soon quite a few more people know how to prototype a language in SML.","parent":"832260","id":"832263"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1254862355","timestamp":"2009-10-06 20:52:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should read \"A Deepness In The Sky\" and \"A Fire Upon The Deep\"; the topic is actually covered fairly well.","parent":"863858","id":"865218"}
{"by":"pg_bot","time":"1528733343","timestamp":"2018-06-11 16:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the point of the scooter to carry you around ;)\u003cp\u003eRemembering to charge isn\u0026#x27;t a big deal. I do it for my phone and my car. I would buy a second charger and keep it at work to keep down on the hassle. A lot of offices have bike storage, why not scooters?","parent":"17284908","id":"17285463"}
{"by":"pollitos","time":"1465514728","timestamp":"2016-06-09 23:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the link on JSON and your packages, great work as always. I should clarify when I said we-client, I meant websockets client to consume feed. The last time I tried, the only R package (r-websockets) just crashed my Linux box and not maintained for several years. httr doesn\u0026#x27;t do websockets, as I understand. Seems likely a fundamental way to engineer\u0026#x2F;wrangle data into R.","parent":"11871522","id":"11873149"}
{"by":"JupiterMoon","time":"1470087214","timestamp":"2016-08-01 21:33:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is paid really the same as worth?","parent":"12206168","id":"12206202"}
{"by":"aswanson","time":"1528725008","timestamp":"2018-06-11 13:50:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I want to take the devils advocate position here and ask: why shouldn\u0026#x27;t a vendor be allowed to charge more for tiered service?  With FANG and other tech companies sitting on so much cash, why cant they build out competing networks if the prices get too high or the services they want to deliver require them? Wont the consumer benefit from this?","parent":"17283420","id":"17284136"}
{"by":"wybiral","time":"1512446362","timestamp":"2017-12-05 03:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a big difference between state censorship and news companies being biased in what stories they promote.\u003cp\u003eI think you\u0026#x27;re distorting the lines between the internet as a communication network and the news industry who uses that network to distribute content.","parent":"15849556","id":"15849607"}
{"by":"lsc","time":"1273998620","timestamp":"2010-05-16 08:30:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"obviously it's worth it to the merchant, or the businesses wouldn't be accepting credit cards at all.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that there are two payment processors that matter, visa and master card, and both charge quite a lot more than it costs to provide the service.\u003cp\u003eNow, normally, this would just mean another competitor would come in with lower prices.    The problem here is first that the person who pays for the service (the merchant)  is not the person who decides what processing network to use (that's the consumer, deciding which brand charge card to get. )  This is further distorted because the fees that the payment processors charge are partly given back to the issuing banks who then give some of that back to the consumer.\u003cp\u003eso... as a merchant, either you pay exorbitant fees to a credit card processor, and essentially give a discount to every one of your credit card customers (but not your cash customers; the visa agreement states you can't discount your product for not using visa)  or you turn away the charge card sales.     That's what this law is trying to address.","parent":"1351047","id":"1351681"}
{"by":"1337p337","time":"1308083799","timestamp":"2011-06-14 20:36:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that it's much nicer than ERB for HTML, but I still use ERB for, e.g., config file generation.\u003cp\u003eHAML, though, shares the same fundamental problem with ERB:  it's straddling the code/template fence.  I wrote the Hoshi ( \u003ca href=\"http://github.com/pete/hoshi\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://github.com/pete/hoshi\u003c/a\u003e ) gem to address this, and used it in the last Rails application I wrote (still in production), and still use it for HTML when I need that.  (It's still in the \"personal itch\" phase, so it's only maintained when I notice that W3C doesn't like something or when I'm missing a feature.  For example, I haven't done any HTML5, so I haven't put any in.)\u003cp\u003eFor anything requiring a wall of text (in HAML, ERB, Hoshi, whatever), I think it's a mistake to put it into your view code.  Make a place where copy goes, decide on a markdown format, and write a helper that pulls in and processes that text.  Even if the coders are writing the copy, it's helpful to have the text seperate, and easier to edit besides.  And if it turns out that you need the text editable via a web UI or something, it makes the change easier:  modify the helper to fetch text by name from the database rather than the filesystem, and import all of the text into the database.  Everything is easier all around; I'm at the point where it looks like a code smell when I see walls of text (or frequently edited text) in a template.","parent":"2654468","id":"2654647"}
{"by":"coolmitch","time":"1461187401","timestamp":"2016-04-20 21:23:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah -- perhaps there\u0026#x27;s a lot of negative things to be said about node, but the fact that they\u0026#x27;ve released multiple versions? really?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;clojure.org\u0026#x2F;community\u0026#x2F;downloads_older\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;clojure.org\u0026#x2F;community\u0026#x2F;downloads_older\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.scala-lang.org\u0026#x2F;download\u0026#x2F;all.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.scala-lang.org\u0026#x2F;download\u0026#x2F;all.html\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.python.org\u0026#x2F;downloads\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.python.org\u0026#x2F;downloads\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eetc...","parent":"11537401","id":"11537854"}
{"by":"tomgagnier","time":"1375291502","timestamp":"2013-07-31 17:25:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slide deck is good idea - but does not work with swipe on OS\u0026#x2F;X - a clue to click on the right side would be nice.","parent":"6134075","id":"6135344"}
{"by":"panabee","time":"1399489700","timestamp":"2014-05-07 19:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so higher miner fees would not be a viable incentive? thanks for the information, very helpful in understanding blockchains better.\u003cp\u003egiven your analysis, how will miners be compensated once we hit 21M bitcoins? others have asserted higher miner fees. if they are right, this seems to negate one of bitcoin\u0026#x27;s supposed benefits -- negligible transaction fees -- precluding certain applications like microtransactions.\u003cp\u003enot attacking bitcoin, just trying to understand its true applications.\u003cp\u003ethanks for your help!","parent":"7705590","id":"7712088"}
{"by":"regnet","time":"1463511572","timestamp":"2016-05-17 18:59:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What a time to be alive. Microsoft IE shipping modern features! Well done.","parent":"11715307","id":"11716327"}
{"by":"merpnderp","time":"1531247725","timestamp":"2018-07-10 18:35:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"East Germany, West Germany? North Korea, South Korea? Case studies in extremely similar starting points which both tried to industrialize from nearly the same starting point, only differing in how the markets were regulated, with wildly differing outcomes.\u003cp\u003eI imagine if someone could accurately answer your question they\u0026#x27;d win a Nobel Prize. But there is little doubt free market economies vastly outperform centralized economies. Plus free markets are about exercising freedom over how your labor and assets are used. So yay freedom.","parent":"17498956","id":"17500910"}
{"by":"bargl","time":"1529526183","timestamp":"2018-06-20 20:23:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you hourly?  Do you get vacation?  Do you get medical, 401k?\u003cp\u003eI have done both, and I typically factor it all in for pay.  If you\u0026#x27;re hourly that means that you get paid for what you work, which is great if you\u0026#x27;ve ever worked a salaried job and put in 50 hours a week.\u003cp\u003eBut it also means that you won\u0026#x27;t get vacation (most likely) so you either have to make up for that or factor in the amount of days you don\u0026#x27;t want to work into your schedule.  So if you want to take 3 weeks off a year, factor that into your pay and reduce it accordingly.\u003cp\u003eIf you get paid overtime, then factor that in as well.  This all sounds like a lot but my rule of thumb is as a contractor I should be making at least 20% more than as a FTE.  This isn\u0026#x27;t the case based on my last job of 50+ hr weeks.\u003cp\u003eThat isn\u0026#x27;t even to start into how you approach the team and your code.  As a Individual Contributing contractor (non-contract to hire), you probably won\u0026#x27;t be doing maintenance, setting schedule, or a lot of other project planning like activities.  You\u0026#x27;ll be laying tracks down how they want.  That isn\u0026#x27;t to say you can\u0026#x27;t make suggestions, and make the code more maintainable but that\u0026#x27;s not your primary focus once you\u0026#x27;re on site, it\u0026#x27;s to fit in to the team and support them.  To make them better where they\u0026#x27;ll accept advice and to follow coding standards where they won\u0026#x27;t.  While this is also true of FTE in a lot of cases, you aren\u0026#x27;t going to be maintaining this beast so if you bring it up (typically a few times) and they shoot you down then you did your best.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t go rogue, if you see a better way to do something and you want to show them, it\u0026#x27;s OK to work up a POC but I typically don\u0026#x27;t charge for that if they don\u0026#x27;t take it.\u003cp\u003eThis is ALL my opinion, I\u0026#x27;ve seen so many different types of contractors, some don\u0026#x27;t care, some go rogue and do whatever.  The whole point is that at the end of the day you have a set time on the project and you have to keep that in mind.\u003cp\u003eEDIT:  I use pomodoros to justify to myself the hours I\u0026#x27;m billing.  This is a personal technique I really like, but it helps me identify when I\u0026#x27;m going over and under what I should be doing in a day and to have a justification to myself (meetings or other such things).","parent":"17359145","id":"17359402"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1276847464","timestamp":"2010-06-18 07:51:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He answered his own question -- by scraping the bottom of the barrel for projects that should have been outsourced to China for three cents an hour.","parent":"1441434","id":"1441609"}
{"by":"mixmastamyk","time":"1468339175","timestamp":"2016-07-12 15:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It also does look like a laundry list of buzzwords and techspeak.\u003cp\u003eThanks, interesting.  I\u0026#x27;ve tried to define difficult terms, and it is aimed at a technical audience, but there is definitely room for improvement.  If there are any readers having trouble, I\u0026#x27;d appreciate hearing where.  Will take a look myself as well.","parent":"12080010","id":"12080131"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1369772993","timestamp":"2013-05-28 20:29:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \"self\" in \"self-determination\" refers to the people, not individuals.","parent":"5782528","id":"5782535"}
{"by":"derleth","time":"1343923608","timestamp":"2012-08-02 16:06:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias (at least Bavaria, Palatinate and Northern Germany).\u003cp\u003eDifferent varieties of English \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e do that, but English tends to center on an American/Commonwealth divide with only the two prestige dialects everyone else sees as the only 'valid' ones.","parent":"4328954","id":"4329373"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1397049672","timestamp":"2014-04-09 13:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; open source has been spectacularly successful generating other public goods (linux and others).\u003cp\u003eNo one doubts that some open source software has been very successful.  What I\u0026#x27;m not sure of is whether levels of open source provisioning are \u003ci\u003eoptimal\u003c/i\u003e: maybe there should be 10X what there is now.  Maybe Linux should dominate the desktop world, but does not due to lack of funding.  This is Bastiat\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;what is not seen\u0026quot; - what we have now is good, but perhaps it could be better.  Maybe a lot better, under different circumstances.\u003cp\u003eAlso, that link mentions Coasian solutions, and privileged goods, which between them explain a lot about open source software, no?","parent":"7559036","id":"7559063"}
{"by":"freshhawk","time":"1451073790","timestamp":"2015-12-25 20:03:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve done a fair bit of integration with handsontable from clojurescript. It has been excellent so far. Clojurescript isn\u0026#x27;t really a pure language, it just makes some types of purity the default. If you need to get dirty and mutable then that\u0026#x27;s simple, still simpler than plain js in my opinion.\u003cp\u003eClojurescript and Clojure have very good interop with their host language, integrating 3rd party libs is very simple. To be fair, you will have to write the glue code more often than when working in js since there is a smaller user base.","parent":"10791486","id":"10792186"}
{"by":"emu","time":"1353436348","timestamp":"2012-11-20 18:32:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a problem with the blanket term \"Intellectual Property\". Intellectual property consists of many things, e.g. copyrights, patents, and trademarks.\u003cp\u003eYou can be in favor of some without being in favor of all.","parent":"4810297","id":"4810428"}
{"by":"zackattack","time":"1335042736","timestamp":"2012-04-21 21:12:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if paul were more of a gangster he would get it tattooed, but i guess he has a right to change his opinion, which probably makes him more calm and rational~ VC gangster // in org-mode (I've been listening to Rap GEnius0","parent":"3872613","dead":true,"id":"3873019"}
{"by":"mberning","time":"1372103289","timestamp":"2013-06-24 19:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"24 Hours of Le Mans is generally regarded as one of the greatest motor races in the world. It is considered part of the \u0026#x27;triple crown\u0026#x27; (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Motorsport\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Triple_Crown_of_Motorsport\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eIf you think Le Mans is not one of the most competitive and prestigious races in the world you are sorely mistaken. To say it is any more or less prestigious than winning Monaco is a purely subjective manner. The idea that the opinion of motorsport fans in the southern US has any weight is laughable. They are generally the most ignorant of other forms of motorsport and least well informed motorsport fans.\u003cp\u003eIt is worth pointing out however that DHH does not compete at the highest level in Le Mans. He is one class below.","parent":"5935190","id":"5935220"}
{"by":"zwieback","time":"1314633285","timestamp":"2011-08-29 15:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking at the history at the beginning of the article I noticed how much I miss the original File Manager. Maybe I should get a third-party Explorer replacement. However, I like the ribbon in general although I prefer using the command line or right-clicking.\u003cp\u003eBig plus for the \"command-line here\" addition. I've been using a registry mod to get that into my context menu but it's good to see it in the mainstream.","parent":"2937444","id":"2937570"}
{"by":"geerlingguy","time":"1408847669","timestamp":"2014-08-24 02:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;d like to compare the GitLab and Gogs, I have a couple vagrant VMs you can clone and \u0026#x27;vagrant up\u0026#x27; to kick the tires:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;geerlingguy\u0026#x2F;ansible-vagrant-examples\u0026#x2F;tree\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;gitlab\n  - https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;geerlingguy\u0026#x2F;ansible-vagrant-examples\u0026#x2F;tree\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;gogs\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nRight now I still have a very basic git server for personal use with a bunch of bare repos and no UI, but I\u0026#x27;m sorely tempted to start using Gogs or GitLab. GitLab wins for polish so far, but Gogs has caught up very quickly, and feels slightly faster.","parent":"8217286","id":"8217491"}
{"by":"ThrustVectoring","time":"1513127535","timestamp":"2017-12-13 01:12:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t underestimate the propensity for doing absurd stuff. Like, I know of a software developer who urinated on a coworker\u0026#x27;s keyboard.","parent":"15910872","id":"15911134"}
{"by":"axod","time":"1220177531","timestamp":"2008-08-31 10:12:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm talking about the initial registration of a domain name. Not the renewal fee.\u003cp\u003eStifle innovation??? How would you stifle innovation?\u003cp\u003eThe current situation gives away names to anyone who wants them, when their market price is way above that. It's a land grab with no limits on how much land you can grab, which I don't think is a fair way to be doing things. Many of the good domain names are just held by a few people who happened to be around at the right time.\u003cp\u003eI'd say $1k was a good start on making domain names fair.\nOr, wait until enough people are interested in a domain name, and auction it.\u003cp\u003eeg I see that foobar.com is unregistered, register my interest, that goes public, other parties have say 30 days to register interest, then after those 30 days it goes up for auction, at which time the market decides a price for it. Profits to go to the eff or something :/","parent":"291299","id":"291311"}
{"by":"Majestic121","time":"1444825102","timestamp":"2015-10-14 12:18:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The issue is not really about how to share the link, it\u0026#x27;s about why such a link is blocked","parent":"10385825","id":"10386154"}
{"by":"lquist","time":"1396242187","timestamp":"2014-03-31 05:03:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry to hear about your situation. For what it\u0026#x27;s worth, my advice:\u003cp\u003eStop trying to build a startup. Build a business instead. A bootstrapped, makes cash today business. Maybe it\u0026#x27;s a consultancy specializing in bank software or maybe it\u0026#x27;s something else that you have expertise in, but stop trying to build an all or nothing startup.","parent":"7499035","id":"7499739"}
{"by":"scottporad","time":"1503623284","timestamp":"2017-08-25 01:08:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I slightly disagree.  \u0026quot;Networking\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t often yield amazing results because, as the author says, simple networking is transactional.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I would state that \u0026quot;having a network\u0026quot; is priceless.\u003cp\u003eIn part, the author\u0026#x27;s only talking about people who are trying to \u0026quot;network up\u0026quot;.  The way to build a network is laterally -- to find people facing similar challenges, compare notes and learn from each other.","parent":"15095293","id":"15095387"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1470495364","timestamp":"2016-08-06 14:56:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Link returns 404.","parent":"12237582","id":"12238300"}
{"by":"mcguire","time":"1457151013","timestamp":"2016-03-05 04:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is also an abandoned book on implementing Scheme by Paul Wilson:\u003cp\u003eftp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ftp.cs.utexas.edu\u0026#x2F;pub\u0026#x2F;garbage\u0026#x2F;cs345\u0026#x2F;schintro-v14\u0026#x2F;schintro_toc.html\u003cp\u003eYes, an ftp url.","parent":"11227254","id":"11228376"}
{"by":"calvinbhai","time":"1539221926","timestamp":"2018-10-11 01:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t noticed that in the US stores (NJ specifically). Is this specific to some countries where Uniqlo operates?","parent":"18189703","id":"18190449"}
{"by":"Swizec","time":"1521013651","timestamp":"2018-03-14 07:47:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My biggest source of complaint is that my focus is not in fact razor-sharp and I spend too much time fumbling around unsure of what I should be doing to advance the agenda.","parent":"16578020","id":"16583045"}
{"by":"milesokeefe","time":"1516143514","timestamp":"2018-01-16 22:58:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know that the sportiness and novelty of a car drives up the insurance price but it doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to as much as I thought, my friend recently got a new WRX and pays very very little in insurance for it considering he\u0026#x27;s a 22 year old male.\u003cp\u003eBut yeah it being a beater makes sense, I just got quotes for a 1981 Honda Civic in Seattle and some are even less than $700\u0026#x2F;year.","parent":"16163539","id":"16163606"}
{"by":"smhx","time":"1484803550","timestamp":"2017-01-19 05:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the biggest hindrance to do this are language constructs that cannot be or are inconveniently expressed in the symbolic graph, such as python\u0026#x27;s if vs tf.if and for vs theano.scan, or conditioning on some python-code (not tensor operations). So to build an eagerly evaluating symbolic graph framework that is allowed to do arbitrary things would mean that you would (to an extent) reimplement the language you are working with.","parent":"13432843","id":"13433259"}
{"by":"nknight","time":"1318849128","timestamp":"2011-10-17 10:58:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it doesn't. OS X has several crucial behavioral differences.\u003cp\u003e* OS X does not launch a second window if the application icon is clicked twice. Some like this (I do), some don't, but it's how the Mac UI works, and is a critical part of the window management paradigm in use.\u003cp\u003e* OS X displays each individual minimized window separately in the dock, and lets you choose a single window to un-minimize with a single click.\u003cp\u003e* Just clicking the main application icon will not simply un-minimize all windows at once.\u003cp\u003e* If there are no un-minimized windows, it will un-minimize the oldest.\u003cp\u003e* If there are un-minimized windows, it will bring them all to front in relative stack order, focusing the topmost, but will not un-minimize anything.","parent":"3119628","id":"3119987"}
{"by":"nness","time":"1393372181","timestamp":"2014-02-25 23:49:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has got to be either low priority or technical limitations. I guess a Linux port of Portal 2 isn\u0026#x27;t likely to provide returns anywhere close to PC sales, so it may not have been approach furiously by Valve.\u003cp\u003eI also wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if there were some DirectX specific stuff in there that wouldn\u0026#x27;t easily make the transition to OpenGL either. Not to mention all that driver testing they would have to do...","parent":"7301596","id":"7301626"}
{"by":"VintageLight","time":"1543523625","timestamp":"2018-11-29 20:33:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a Canadian who moved to the US for work, I\u0026#x27;ve felt many of the same things you\u0026#x27;ve mentioned about your move to Canada!","parent":"18562773","id":"18563701"}
{"by":"taeric","time":"1480910776","timestamp":"2016-12-05 04:06:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is exactly like a rotation.  Think of it this way.  You have a file.  Contents \u0026quot;this is the start\u0026quot;. You copy it to memory.  (Or map it. Doesn\u0026#x27;t matter.)\u003cp\u003eNow the cursor just after the word \u0026quot;the\u0026quot;.  How do you get the gap you did there?  You likely started with: \u0026quot;this is the startGAP\u0026quot;. You want \u0026quot;this is theGAP start\u0026quot;.  Look at only \u0026quot; startGAP\u0026quot; and see that getting \u0026quot;GAP start\u0026quot; is just a rotation.\u003cp\u003eCould you see this another way?  Almost certainly.  However, as a mutable algorithm, probably tough to beat using this way.\u003cp\u003eFinally.... Where did I say this was an interview question?  Might be a fun discussion.  Terrible fact based question.","parent":"13103262","id":"13103301"}
{"by":"taeric","time":"1505226953","timestamp":"2017-09-12 14:35:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They would benefit from a funded government.  Schools and other public services cost money.","parent":"15227522","id":"15227580"}
{"by":"shkkmo","time":"1452224907","timestamp":"2016-01-08 03:48:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"T-mobile automatically opts their customers into a plan that throttles bandwidth for specific usage, then claims they are not throttling anything and publicly bashes the EFF for exposing them. You don\u0026#x27;t see any problem with that?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m glad we have consumer advocates such as the EFF that pay attention to this. I appreciate all of the other things that T-mobile has done to move the US Carrier industry forward, but they got this one wrong.\u003cp\u003eThere isn\u0026#x27;t anything wrong with trying to innovate, but T-mobile should have not opted customers in by default, especially without being upfront about the throttling.","parent":"10862370","id":"10862799"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1378177575","timestamp":"2013-09-03 03:06:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not if you are prepared to buy more RAM (or disk space for swapping) as the program is running.","parent":"6318236","id":"6318507"}
{"by":"MrKurtHaeusler","time":"1315244632","timestamp":"2011-09-05 17:43:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The description doesn't match the poll options. Or perhaps the term \"first person\" is ambiguous. I think you mean the \"last\" person, as in most recent right? As in looking for the smallest number of generations back before one ancestor immigrated.\u003cp\u003eIt seems by the comments people are focusing more on the the \"chronologically first known\" immigrant in their family trees.\u003cp\u003eI answered 0, but in my known family tree the first (as in least recent) immigration occurred around 30 generations ago, (have to dig out the papers to get the exact number).\u003cp\u003eI suggest rewording it so instead of \"first\" you say \"most recent\" or \"least recent\" depending on what you actually mean.","parent":"2962242","id":"2962854"}
{"by":"knowtheory","time":"1321366038","timestamp":"2011-11-15 14:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, because you can't deviate below the x axis this is really that much less useful?","parent":"3237739","id":"3238191"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1473875323","timestamp":"2016-09-14 17:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The pardon itself could undermine \u0026quot;business as usual\u0026quot; at NSA, because it would embolden others with knowledge of NSA crimes to alert the public.","parent":"12495097","id":"12499466"}
{"by":"alan_cx","time":"1379851237","timestamp":"2013-09-22 12:00:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. And to be fair to governments and spies, we don\u0026#x27;t know if any of this info is really dangerous to national security. Well, I certainly dont.\u003cp\u003eYes, I am a very heavy critic of US spying and so on, over reaching, but equally, the info released \u003ci\u003emust\u003c/i\u003e have some filtering so that stuff that is relevant to the general public is released and stuff that is really, genuinely, dangerous is held back. If an independent journalist\u0026#x2F;lawyer team say something should be held back, I think we have to, even if reluctantly, accept that. So, exactly like the Guardian people are behaving.\u003cp\u003eI want intelligent considered leaks, not dumps like this. And in some ways, this is not too dissimilar to the NSA slurping data. Mass dump, mass slurp. Neither are good.","parent":"6426308","id":"6426491"}
{"by":"numair","time":"1238045928","timestamp":"2009-03-26 05:38:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Human nature is not subject to Moore's Law.","parent":"532895","id":"533077"}
{"by":"ljlolel","time":"1418166136","timestamp":"2014-12-09 23:02:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9585\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;docker\u0026#x2F;docker\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;9585\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8726392","id":"8726444"}
{"by":"bherms","time":"1398464614","timestamp":"2014-04-25 22:23:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which company?  From Indy originally and worked for Matchbook Creative and then iGoDigital before making the jump to SF.  Love working at the Speakeasy when I\u0026#x27;m in town.","parent":"7649355","id":"7649419"}
{"by":"jenntoda","time":"1386645492","timestamp":"2013-12-10 03:18:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mailbox icon (4th icon from top right). Either check the drop down list or if you click through, look for the invitations tab.","parent":"6877857","id":"6878787"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1382912913","timestamp":"2013-10-27 22:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently this isn\u0026#x27;t a surprise to most within the intelligence community [1].\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;France spies on the US just as the US spies on France, the former head of France’s counter-espionage and counter-terrorism agency said Friday, commenting on reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) recorded millions of French telephone calls.\u003cp\u003eBernard Squarcini, head of the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI) intelligence service until last year, told French daily Le Figaro he was “astonished” when Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was \u0026quot;deeply shocked\u0026quot; by the claims.\u003cp\u003e“I am amazed by such disconcerting naiveté,” he said in the interview. “You’d almost think our politicians don’t bother to read the reports they get from the intelligence services.”\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarcini-dcri-hollande-ayrault-merkel-usa-obama\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.france24.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarc...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6623536","id":"6623908"}
{"by":"jblz","time":"1515100747","timestamp":"2018-01-04 21:19:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This list linked at the bottom is pretty insightful for Google products \u0026amp; relevant mitigations:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; You can learn more about mitigations that have been applied to Google’s infrastructure, products, and services here[1].\u003cp\u003eConfirms the `chrome:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;flags\u0026#x2F;#enable-site-per-process` flag is useful here \u0026amp; sure enough, the 2018-01-05 SPL was waiting for me on my Pixel when I looked.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;faqs\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;7622138\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;faqs\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;7622138\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16073874","id":"16074191"}
{"by":"wglb","time":"1542053284","timestamp":"2018-11-12 20:08:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, and every now and then, one slips out before the someone actually dies.","parent":"18435106","id":"18435254"}
{"by":"social_quotient","time":"1545470528","timestamp":"2018-12-22 09:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In case anyone wants to know more about the “hammer” expression. I looked it up one day and found it to be interesting\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Law_of_the_instrument\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Law_of_the_instrument\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18738814","id":"18739785"}
{"by":"ef4","time":"1469462102","timestamp":"2016-07-25 15:55:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The explanation for that behavior is that instead of a cursor, emacs has a mark and a point. If you want to view something else without losing your place, you can leave the mark behind and then jump back.\u003cp\u003eThe main benefit of this is that you get to find the \u0026quot;something else\u0026quot; quickly using the full suite of normal search and movement commands. It\u0026#x27;s also nice that you can jump through the stack of past marks, not just one.","parent":"12159081","id":"12159493"}
{"by":"moonchrome","time":"1438213438","timestamp":"2015-07-29 23:43:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure but we are talking about Bell labs organizational structure - I haven\u0026#x27;t heard Microsoft doing such a thing in their R\u0026amp;D - I\u0026#x27;d be interested to know if I\u0026#x27;m wrong on this actually.","parent":"9971087","id":"9972417"}
{"by":"steerpike","time":"1542780262","timestamp":"2018-11-21 06:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First time encountering a Maciej idlewords post, huh? He doesn\u0026#x27;t even take himself seriously. That also doesn\u0026#x27;t stop him from being an excellent and thoughtful writer.","parent":"18500473","id":"18500500"}
{"by":"aidenn0","time":"1461257548","timestamp":"2016-04-21 16:52:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is IBM involved in PyPy at all?  Seeing PPC64 and s390x on a list of supported targets is unusual for a language runtime.","parent":"11541744","id":"11543550"}
{"by":"gafferongames","time":"1501399842","timestamp":"2017-07-30 07:30:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is demonstrably not true.","parent":"14860395","id":"14884874"}
{"by":"buro9","time":"1376234684","timestamp":"2013-08-11 15:24:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never really buy into the idea that just because there is some tracking (for any definition of `some`) that we should accept all other tracking.\u003cp\u003eAnyone with a credit\u0026#x2F;debit card has been tracked since the day they got it, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that every subsequent intrusion should blithely accepted.","parent":"6195146","id":"6195155"}
{"by":"aston","time":"1239994808","timestamp":"2009-04-17 19:00:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mere coincidence that the Python's gem-like packages are called eggs?","parent":"567314","id":"567422"}
{"by":"gcb0","time":"1507236180","timestamp":"2017-10-05 20:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"context is everything.\u003cp\u003eyou were lucky to be doing an online gig. the rest of \u0026#x2F;. audience was probably in desktop software. most of the people there were ruthlessly crushed by Microsoft business tactics.\u003cp\u003ethey mostly had a very good reason to attack Microsoft.","parent":"15411403","id":"15412441"}
{"by":"mapster","time":"1447358526","timestamp":"2015-11-12 20:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider basic business insurance. I don\u0026#x27;t have an LLC (sole proprietor), but keep professional business insurance ($27\u0026#x2F;mo) through major insurance firm. I pay quarterly taxes - so easy.","parent":"10553746","id":"10555691"}
{"by":"Fifer82","time":"1493137498","timestamp":"2017-04-25 16:24:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t know about that (the pods bit!), thanks for the link.","parent":"14194906","id":"14195048"}
{"by":"dbg31415","time":"1483259598","timestamp":"2017-01-01 08:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a dupe.  This story was posted like 20 times in the last few days.  Here are the most popular discussions...\u003cp\u003e* Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case | Hacker News || \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13263894\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13263894\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Amazon refuses to let police access US murder suspect’s Echo recordings | Hacker News || \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13269930\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13269930\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13264633","id":"13295113"}
{"by":"saulhoward","time":"1280209094","timestamp":"2010-07-27 05:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There had been a donation drive the week prior to that, which was very well supported. I think people were saying that they thought the idea of 'paid accounts' just wasn't going to work as well as the donation drive had. The idea being that once people are paying for a actual service they expect more for their money.\u003cp\u003eAfter all, they're aiming for 2% of the userbase subscribing. That's a large number when they're offering basically nothing of value in return. I know other 'freemium' business get 1-2% subscribers, but surely that's when they're offering a real improvement in the service, such as Dropbox's 2GB -\u0026#62; 20GB.","parent":"1550069","id":"1550337"}
{"by":"exodust","time":"1540962658","timestamp":"2018-10-31 05:10:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;mobile OS apps and hardware have really democratized content creation\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e?\u003cp\u003eDemocratized? Is that because you perceive mobile devices as more affordable? Have you checked the price of a new iPad Pro?","parent":"18343231","id":"18343508"}
{"by":"vbuterin","time":"1384898484","timestamp":"2013-11-19 22:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Customer USD -\u0026gt; Customer BTC: 1% + $0.15 (Coinbase)\u003cp\u003eCustomer BTC -\u0026gt; Merchant BTC: $0.06 (transaction fees, currently abnormally high due to price spike)\u003cp\u003eMerchant BTC -\u0026gt; Merchant USD: 0.99% (Bitpay)\u003cp\u003eTotal: 1.99% + $0.24\u003cp\u003eCompare: credit cards and Paypal (2.9% + $0.30)\u003cp\u003eSo even there it works out fine.","parent":"6764105","id":"6764815"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1460976947","timestamp":"2016-04-18 10:55:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More and more I\u0026#x27;m starting to think that intentions don\u0026#x27;t\u0026#x2F;shouldn\u0026#x27;t matter. If someone\u0026#x27;s asking for special treatment or their own laws, does it really matter whether the reason for it is sincere belief or not?","parent":"11518787","id":"11518916"}
{"by":"agoandanon","time":"1362695163","timestamp":"2013-03-07 22:26:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had an interview recently. In this interview, I was told that 9/10 of people interviewing for the position for which I was interviewing couldn't write a simple loop to reverse a string. I'd like to attribute that to performance anxiety, but I had office hours for Computer Science students. I know that isn't what it is.\u003cp\u003eNote that this was for a position asking for between 1 and 3 years of experience.","parent":"5340644","id":"5340775"}
{"by":"kec","time":"1541095360","timestamp":"2018-11-01 18:02:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microwave ovens also typically transmit around 1kW, at the resonant frequency of water.\u003cp\u003eBy comparison most cell equipment is either not at this frequency or a harmonic if it, limited to \u0026lt;\u0026lt;50W, or both.","parent":"18356339","id":"18356664"}
{"by":"coreymgilmore","time":"1402669381","timestamp":"2014-06-13 14:23:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was wondering when OpenTable would be bought up.  They were kind of under the radar versus other big name companies (Uber, Snapchat, etc...) yet they supply a widely used and profitable service.\u003cp\u003eI believe Priceline\u0026#x27;s global reach will help OpenTable extend past the US market.  The service is great!","parent":"7888618","id":"7888965"}
{"by":"bluecalm","time":"1463824786","timestamp":"2016-05-21 09:59:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;If you\u0026#x27;re arguing this position from the perspective of breastfeeding, please see: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11744030\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11744030\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is more to breast-feeding than milk. There is bonding, warmth, strengthening of immune system (which requires a child actually sucking on a nipple to work).\nI am sure we will be able to raise a child without any human intervention in not so distant future but it doesn\u0026#x27;t change the biology. Children wouldn\u0026#x27;t survive without women in natural settings but can survive without men. While we are able to substitute a lot what women are equipped with using technology it doesn\u0026#x27;t change the fact that they are better equipped than men.","parent":"11744037","id":"11744060"}
{"by":"nonbel","time":"1448479281","timestamp":"2015-11-25 19:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a very common, but dangerously wrong, interpretation of p-values. Others in this thread have expressed the same misconception, see the paper linked here:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10628860\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10628860\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10628259","id":"10628995"}
{"by":"AndrewKemendo","time":"1412088003","timestamp":"2014-09-30 14:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of the only articles I have read that keeps Musk\u0026#x27;s Mars vision in check with doses of reality throughout:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Mars, the best we can expect is a crude habitat, erected by robots...US colonies from Roanoke to Jamestown suffered similar social breakdowns, in environments that were Edenic by comparison...For all we know, revolutions in energy, artificial intelligence and materials science could be imminent. Any one of them would make human spaceflight a much easier affair.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only thing that makes me feel better is that Musk seems to not be thinking through it all the way...and I mean that in the best way possible. At this point, from what I can tell he\u0026#x27;s still an evangelist and isn\u0026#x27;t putting resources to solving the minutiae of how to live on Mars.\u003cp\u003eHe is so laser focused on the logistics that he likely wants to leave practicalities of the biology problem to someone else.","parent":"8388156","id":"8388381"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1391628367","timestamp":"2014-02-05 19:26:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That argument seems isomorphic to demanding that all software design and feature innovation happen within the W3C commitee process.  Certainly that\u0026#x27;s not how most successful features have worked historically...","parent":"7186040","id":"7186139"}
{"by":"_djo_","time":"1470677740","timestamp":"2016-08-08 17:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"China operates a number of armed drones, whether they\u0026#x27;ve been used in any actions is unknown.\u003cp\u003eNigeria operates armed CH-4 drones from China.\u003cp\u003eSouth Africa has armed versions of its Seeker 400 drone, though it\u0026#x27;s not clear if those acquired by Defence Intelligence are armed yet.\u003cp\u003eIran\u0026#x27;s Shahed-129 drone is armed with the Sadid-1 air-to-surface missile and is in active service.\u003cp\u003eIsrael has armed drones, even though present policy prevents them from being used in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.\u003cp\u003eThe UK and Italy both have armed Reapers.\u003cp\u003eSaudi Arabia has also acquired armed drones from China.\u003cp\u003eIn short, nearly 25 countries either have or are actively developing armed drones. I expect that number to go up dramatically in the next ten years, as armed drones become as common exports as unarmed drones.","parent":"12244069","id":"12249458"}
{"by":"fumar","time":"1346772489","timestamp":"2012-09-04 15:28:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are correct, sacrifices should be made to achieve something meaningful. Could I trade any sort of work for a class? (ie: administrative, janitorial, chef)","parent":"4474829","id":"4474946"}
{"by":"codygman","time":"1483380113","timestamp":"2017-01-02 18:01:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In regards to WordPress in haskell, I wish for the same! I\u0026#x27;ve been following clckwrks off and on for a few years, I wonder if it\u0026#x27;s secure plugin API was ever finished...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clckwrks\u0026#x2F;clckwrks\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clckwrks\u0026#x2F;clckwrks\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clckwrks\u0026#x2F;web-plugins\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clckwrks\u0026#x2F;web-plugins\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13300487","id":"13302945"}
{"by":"goplusplus","time":"1537891025","timestamp":"2018-09-25 15:57:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Stockholm Syndrome is strong with this person","parent":"18066799","id":"18067472"}
{"by":"techpeace","time":"1357833170","timestamp":"2013-01-10 15:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wasn't a simple code review, it was a vulnerability that existed in code unnoticed for a number of years. It required skilled security researchers to unearth it. Vulnerabilities exist unnoticed in a number of foundational OS projects like this, and it's only when a CVE is released that people realize it had been there for quite some time.","parent":"5037233","id":"5037541"}
{"by":"xisnextbigthing","time":"1491248722","timestamp":"2017-04-03 19:45:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK - Istanbul, Turkey \u0026#x2F; REMOTE\u003cp\u003eHi, I\u0026#x27;m a full-stack developer with 8 years of experience. Freelancing from the beginning. I worked on a wide range of projects with clients from mostly English speaking countries. Currently available.\u003cp\u003e- MSc in CompSci\u003cp\u003e+ PHP (Laravel, WordPress, Symfony)\u003cp\u003e+ JS (React, MobX, Vanilla ES5+)\u003cp\u003e+ HTML5 (Offline Apps), CSS (Sass, CSS Modules)\u003cp\u003e+ Python (Data Wrangling, NLP, Scrapy) Conversion Optimization, UX, App Performance, Solr, Selenium, RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL, Software Architecture, Docker, Rancher, DevOps\u003cp\u003eFeel free to email: gasoved [at] gmail","parent":"14023199","id":"14026408"}
{"by":"momotomo","time":"1288319704","timestamp":"2010-10-29 02:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can relate, I work in the arts so theres always a 1:1 cap on the production / profit aspect of it (excluding soft copies like prints and digital editions). Though, given, that's completely discounting the return of the enjoyment of the craft itself.\u003cp\u003eYou could very well do both, produce and sell the originals, shell out a second business that mass produces the more popular designs, etc.","parent":"1845808","id":"1845825"}
{"by":"ahf","time":"1365517635","timestamp":"2013-04-09 14:27:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is an IRC term for a \"kill line\". If your host tuple (nickname, username and hostname) somehow matches the kill line, your connection to the server will be closed with a message on why it was closed.","parent":"5518194","id":"5518235"}
{"by":"rabble","time":"1320755537","timestamp":"2011-11-08 12:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know this sounds over the top, but 500 Startups hires \u003ca href=\"http://www.micro-documentaries.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.micro-documentaries.com/\u003c/a\u003e to shoot for them all the time. I'm sure at some point it's cheaper to hire a full time person than constantly be hiring out to a shop.","parent":"3210135","id":"3210463"}
{"by":"intelliot","time":"1393318019","timestamp":"2014-02-25 08:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if they were sent into the void, bitcoins are highly divisible. Just shift the decimal point over a few places and you\u0026#x27;ve got convenient units once again.","parent":"7296316","id":"7296392"}
{"by":"JonnieCache","time":"1304424661","timestamp":"2011-05-03 12:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I didn't mean to criticise anything you're doing. There's no such thing as bad data mining, only bad analysis of the results :)\u003cp\u003eI just worry that people in our governments and security services will sieze on work like this which is largely being carried out for the amusement and satisfaction of academics and general geeks, and decide that it is appropriate to make specific judgements about specific people based on the data.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't help that I read this article just after I woke up this morning:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/03/protester-sue-police-secret-surveillance\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/03/protester-sue-polic...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombine it with this recent episode: (the guy was eventually convicted and fined)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/18/robin-hood-airport-twitter-arrest\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/18/robin-hood-airpo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e...and with all the recent hype over 'cyberwar,' I start feeling a bit chilly.","parent":"2509615","id":"2509643"}
{"by":"quickConclusion","time":"1509411917","timestamp":"2017-10-31 01:05:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just wanted to say good luck!!\u003cp\u003eI always wanted to start my own thing, thought about many ideas, started a couple just for fun, not full speed, because they were not great ideas.\u003cp\u003eI was a bit where you are.\u003cp\u003eThen I met someone with a great idea needing help, and I was ready to jump. I did, it worked. So it\u0026#x27;s possible, so good luck!!","parent":"15588361","id":"15590396"}
{"by":"md224","time":"1497920332","timestamp":"2017-06-20 00:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And yet you still choose. You\u0026#x27;re trying to dissect your agency, but it\u0026#x27;s too fundamental to be analyzed like that. It isn\u0026#x27;t a decision-making process: it is the decision itself.\u003cp\u003eWriting that reply to me required a series of decisions on your part. Do you feel like your words are under your control? Communication requires choice... if we have no free will, then we\u0026#x27;re mute prisoners. I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure I\u0026#x27;m not a mute prisoner, and if I am, then whoever is controlling my typing is making a cruel mockery of my plight. :(","parent":"14591446","id":"14591519"}
{"by":"stevencorona","time":"1401607028","timestamp":"2014-06-01 07:17:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just moved to San Francisco and got Webpass (about 800mbps symmetrical). It has wildly changed my perceptions about how I use the internet. For example, instead of buying a $1000 Raided NAS, I just use arq to push my backups straight to S3. It\u0026#x27;s fast enough (~70MB\u0026#x2F;s to AWS NorCal Region). Uploading a 2GB video to YouTube? That\u0026#x27;ll take 45 seconds.\u003cp\u003eIt has really changed the fundamental way I use the internet.","parent":"7828311","id":"7828433"}
{"by":"sampo","time":"1467850241","timestamp":"2016-07-07 00:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; page 139 of the Unix Hater\u0026#x27;s Handbook \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;~simsong\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;ugh.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;~simsong\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;ugh.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor quick access, put page 177 in pdf reader to get to printed page 139.","parent":"12046239","id":"12046722"}
{"by":"rficcaglia","time":"1510871289","timestamp":"2017-11-16 22:28:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it gets me paid in a timely fashion, without human emotion from either party mucking things up. isn\u0026#x27;t that the goal?\u003cp\u003etraditional: send PDF quote, go back and forth on quoted terms and cost 1..n times, wait for signed PO, call 1..n times reminding them to sign the PO, eventually get signed PO, do work, (at this point client is your BFF and calls you every 5 minutes asking if the work is done yet!), deliver product\u0026#x2F;service, get at least 100 bug reports on things that differ from the original approved spec\u0026#x2F;quote but should have been \u0026quot;implied\u0026quot;, fix \u0026quot;bugs\u0026quot;, send PDF invoice 1..n times, call buyer to remind them to pay invoice 1..n times, get runaround and sent to various accounting people most of whom are on vacation 1..n times, finally get told check is in mail 1..n times, wait 30 days per cycle, sacrifice chicken, call back and find that check was never sent and invoice is lost so repeat steps again, finally check arrives, deposit check in bank\u003cp\u003eeth: seller defines contract in solidity with various Oraclized callbacks for spec acceptance, delivery of work product(s), final acceptance test execution, and various failure modes that return eth back to the buyer\u0026#x27;s wallet if necessary, buyer funds contract with eth, acceptance events (e.g. signed PDFs in dropbox, or some git commit, etc) triggers  payment to seller\u0026#x27;s eth wallet, OR on failure cases returns money back to the buyer\u0026#x27;s wallet\u003cp\u003elots of hand wavy stuff here but since we\u0026#x27;re just discussing ideas...so, in all sincerity, what does this not get you that you are looking for?\u003cp\u003eEDIT: fix typo","parent":"15716574","id":"15717270"}
{"by":"nullnilvoid","time":"1510388911","timestamp":"2017-11-11 08:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The data in your link is for 2016. It\u0026#x27;s the end of 2017 now. Alibaba Cloud is growing definitely much faster than Microsoft (126% vs 61%) and Google and bigger than Google. It is very close to Microsoft in terms of revenue if not bigger right now.","parent":"15675480","id":"15675505"}
{"by":"click170","time":"1405717895","timestamp":"2014-07-18 21:11:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not legal advice.\nMy understanding of Canadian law is that discussing your pay for the purposes of preventing wage discrimination is explicitly legal. This information is from a senior colleague who helped me stand up for myself (them along side me) to a previous employer regarding a pay dispute.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Typo","parent":"8055522","id":"8055657"}
{"by":"Micand","time":"1294090607","timestamp":"2011-01-03 21:36:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brad Templeton delivered a superb talk on robotic cars at the Singularity Summit 2009 (\u003ca href=\"http://www.vimeo.com/7337628\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.vimeo.com/7337628\u003c/a\u003e). It expounds on the technology's implications, supporting Maroon's assertion that even a small slice of the market will easily eclipse Google's stake in search. Of particular interest:\u003cp\u003e* Transportation is more dangerous than we think, and this is largely due to human factors. (Driver inattention is a factor in 80% of crashes; alcohol in 40%.)\u003cp\u003e* The purchase of private vehicles forces us into a \"one size fits all\" model. If someone goes skiing only once a year, he will purchase an SUV; if someone spends 90% of his mileage traveling alone to work, he'll still purchase a five-person sedan so he can haul around friends occasionally. By moving to a grid-like service that provides cars to us on demand, we will be able to choose the vehicle best suited to the type of trip we're making.\u003cp\u003e* Robotic cars could eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Energy usage would be dramatically lower due to people using a vehicle only as large as they need for a given trip. Vehicles powered by alternative energy have a chicken-and-egg problem -- no one wants to build the infrastructure to deliver energy until people buy the vehicles, but no one wants to buy the vehicles until a ubiquitous energy infrastructure is in place. Robotic cars, however, would have no qualms with traveling halfway across a city to refuel, nor with waiting two hours in a lineup before refuelling.\u003cp\u003e* The transportation infrastructure will also become substantially more efficient, as cars will be able to travel much closer together without compromising safety. As a consequence, energy usage can be reduced another 30% by having cars draft one another.\u003cp\u003e* Before robotic cars would be accepted by the public, they'd have to meet much more stringent safety standards than we apply to human drivers. No one would accept a robotic car that killed a human, even if robotic cars on the whole were twice as safe as human drivers. Templeton figures we'll need cars on the order of 100 times safer than human drivers before they will be widely accepted. To convince people of the cars' safety, Templeton proposes the \"school of fish\" test -- imagine walking out onto a track swarming with cars travelling at 40 miles per hour, and having every car swerve around you no matter how hard you try to make them hit you.\u003cp\u003e* Robotic vehicles will record video everywhere they go, for this will prove invaluable in determining the cause of accidents. Any modifications to the driving software will then have the ability to be tested on the \"trillion mile road test\" -- they will have a corpus of testing data composed of the recorded footage of every trip ever made. New software will be tested against every vehicle accident that has ever occurred.\u003cp\u003e* The privacy implications of this universal recording are disconcerting. Templeton raises the spectre of a situation like that in Minority Report, where police can remotely override your control of a vehicle, locking you inside and transporting you to a destination of their choosing.","parent":"2064060","id":"2064776"}
{"by":"hackuser","time":"1488013992","timestamp":"2017-02-25 09:13:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Bringing people to a foreign land does not really help them that much\u003cp\u003eWhat is this claim based on? It\u0026#x27;s very hard to believe that Somalis or Syrians, for example, or any of the hungry, tired and poor who emigrate to the U.S. aren\u0026#x27;t far better off.\u003cp\u003eIt helped my ancestors immensely; our family is immeasurably better off than those left behind, who probably are wiped out and almost certainly not up to our standard of living.","parent":"13728904","id":"13730762"}
{"by":"3825","time":"1385173038","timestamp":"2013-11-23 02:17:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you mean like typing prop and hitting tab?","parent":"6784541","id":"6784931"}
{"by":"thephyber","time":"1458609201","timestamp":"2016-03-22 01:13:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some of those are derivative fields from fields listed in the spreadsheet.\u003cp\u003eNon-pay benefits are a function of your employer.\u003cp\u003eDistance to work is a function of where you live and where you work.\u003cp\u003eCost of living is generally able to be eyeballed based on the location.","parent":"11331903","id":"11333682"}
{"by":"jdp23","time":"1302713753","timestamp":"2011-04-13 16:55:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article's title \"The VC Presentation Grader\" is more accurate; the elevator pitch is just the first of 16 items on the list ending with \"is this greed-inducing\".\u003cp\u003eIt's a good list of the kinds of questions most investors will have in although in practice there range of answers is a lot more nuanced than a yes/no.","parent":"2442614","id":"2443114"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1250772550","timestamp":"2009-08-20 12:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.  Strangely even arithmetic can get interesting again.","parent":"774349","id":"774898"}
{"by":"marssaxman","time":"1481932414","timestamp":"2016-12-16 23:53:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what is noteworthy. Google had really good PR for a long time about how great it was to work there. Well, it turns out they have feet of clay after all, and many of the attributes that used to make them a better place to work than other tech giants were really just consequences of not having grown quite as much yet.","parent":"13185405","id":"13197989"}
{"by":"quantumhobbit","time":"1469188269","timestamp":"2016-07-22 11:51:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well yes, you can with more earthquakes. Theoretically assuming the build up of tension energy is constant, you could trade many smaller earthquakes for a big one. Ex 30 mag 6\u0026#x27;s instead of a mag 7 to get the same amount of energy released. Whether that is a good idea or not is debateble.\u003cp\u003ePractically we have no control over earthquakes (except maybe with fracking) and no way to really forecast them.","parent":"12142944","id":"12142994"}
{"by":"joh6nn","time":"1295985246","timestamp":"2011-01-25 19:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it's actually been a while since i tried chrome, so for all i know, the things that held me back before, are available now.  i know that before i sorely missed some of my FF extensions.  when i get home this evening, i'll take another look and see how it compares now.  if i'm still not satisfied, i'll follow up here with a list.","parent":"2140467","id":"2140553"}
{"by":"jebronie","time":"1433418723","timestamp":"2015-06-04 11:52:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is a nice refutation of evolution","parent":"9658000","dead":true,"id":"9658597"}
{"by":"namelezz","time":"1458179601","timestamp":"2016-03-17 01:53:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Kernel is a Scheme-like programming language by John N. Shutt in which all objects are first-class.\u003cp\u003eOk, but what problems are this programming language trying to address?","parent":"11300693","id":"11302102"}
{"by":"danbruc","time":"1425141147","timestamp":"2015-02-28 16:32:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In which way is the USA defending Germany and against whom? Besides local businesses profiting from the presence of US soldiers people either don\u0026#x27;t care about these military bases or want to see them gone because of drone strikes from there or the opportunity to have spying equipment there. Getting rid of the US military bases would not really hurt anyone, losing access to US IT technology would hurt a lot.","parent":"9124042","id":"9124118"}
{"by":"cgearhart","time":"1443536377","timestamp":"2015-09-29 14:19:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eGetting a C...is basically impossible to do these days anyway...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepends where you go. A great many respectable schools can be brutal depending on your major. I had an undergrad class that had a 50% failure\u0026#x2F;drop rate, and I\u0026#x27;ve had two graduate courses with 50-60% failure\u0026#x2F;drop rates.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003ethe proper response is not for a student to raise holy hell about how unfair the world is and how the professor smells bad and how they should totally be given a special exemption to re-do things until they get the grade they desire\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very interesting that this comes up so often with regard to Millenials. I\u0026#x27;m a Millenial, and have been a TA in graduate courses targeted at working professionals. I have \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e seen anyone argue like these folks do. (Average age is late-30\u0026#x27;s to mid-40\u0026#x27;s.) Here\u0026#x27;s a sample exchange:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;I have been developing software longer than you\u0026#x27;ve been alive! Your tests must be wrong - there is absolutely no way that my code failed.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSorry, but everyone else seemed to pass just fine. Look, the bug is right there in your code.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Well, that\u0026#x27;s not fair! You didn\u0026#x27;t include that edge case in the problem statement, and my solution works fine for everything else. Besides, I only need to add a two-line `if` statement to handle it, so give me half credit.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Aside, I am stunned by how often I\u0026#x27;m _told_ how to grade by Boomers \u0026amp; Xers.) You were already given partial credit; your final grade is consistent with the grading guidelines for the assignment.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Well, are you going to curve at least? My employer won\u0026#x27;t reimburse if I don\u0026#x27;t get at least a B.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grading criteria are covered in the course syllabus.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t get me wrong - Millenials are a pain in the neck, too. But fragile egos, demanding personalities, and pouting over poor marks are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e unique to the young.","parent":"10293294","id":"10296448"}
{"by":"SnakeDoc","time":"1398553635","timestamp":"2014-04-26 23:07:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are at the point where you are contemplating building your own dev-tool-everythings... then you\u0026#x27;ve gone very wrong. Let the dev-tool guys make dev-tools, they are much better at it (it\u0026#x27;s all they do). Instead figure out how to make them work in your business environment. Facebook may have one of the largest sites on the web, and perhaps the most users... but their codebase itself is nothing special and does not warrant \u0026quot;special\u0026quot; tools. That\u0026#x27;s just BS and a measuring contest.","parent":"7648991","id":"7653093"}
{"by":"alexknowshtml","time":"1344917342","timestamp":"2012-08-14 04:09:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Movement, ha.","parent":"4379351","id":"4379356"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1454529893","timestamp":"2016-02-03 20:04:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It isn\u0026#x27;t binary. Something can both be a puff piece and be interesting. An aware reader adjusts for bias, and finds what\u0026#x27;s useful, in any kind of propaganda.","parent":"11029231","id":"11029314"}
{"by":"AJ007","time":"1348278919","timestamp":"2012-09-22 01:55:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd argue that people do suffer material damage by being blocked from using Facebook.","parent":"4556755","id":"4556832"}
{"by":"simiano","time":"1472768274","timestamp":"2016-09-01 22:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keep in mind that Heap collects a huge amount of data and has a huge dataset. I like this[1] talk, it gives you an overview of their architecture. Great post though, thank you for sharing.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=NVl9_6J1G60\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=NVl9_6J1G60\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12408634","id":"12409289"}
{"by":"pasta","time":"1496499758","timestamp":"2017-06-03 14:22:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The app store can be found at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;harbour.jolla.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;harbour.jolla.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also possible to develop Android apps that can run on both systems.","parent":"14476422","id":"14476494"}
{"by":"sandov","time":"1540391059","timestamp":"2018-10-24 14:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"4chan","parent":"18292360","id":"18292646"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1536149229","timestamp":"2018-09-05 12:07:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably not. Your phone is old. 4GB is the new minimum.","parent":"17916766","id":"17917149"}
{"by":"drudru11","time":"1512804630","timestamp":"2017-12-09 07:30:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"John Walker is awesome. Founder of Autocad and good guy to the hacker community when he was in the Bay Area.","parent":"15882683","id":"15884724"}
{"by":"vhost-","time":"1436726515","timestamp":"2015-07-12 18:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do handle configuration? Your program starts up, generates some settings, then those need to be shared across all threads to avoid incurring the cost of regenerating during every call to a function.","parent":"9874130","id":"9874426"}
{"by":"tzahola","time":"1531122179","timestamp":"2018-07-09 07:42:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not insulting anyone. \u0026quot;X for dummies\u0026quot; is a book series.","parent":"17488342","id":"17488589"}
{"by":"gamblor956","time":"1534271590","timestamp":"2018-08-14 18:33:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are superior in every way except the one that matters: diesels are much dirtier than gasoline engines, especially with respect to particulate emissions.\u003cp\u003eDiesels are only good for limited purposes, like buses and trucks, that need the higher efficiency.","parent":"17760548","id":"17760609"}
{"by":"khuey","time":"1460067889","timestamp":"2016-04-07 22:24:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How exactly do home owners get pushed out?  Who is making them sell their properties against their will?","parent":"11449543","id":"11451183"}
{"by":"essayist","time":"1518807786","timestamp":"2018-02-16 19:03:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article confuses a variety of perspectives.\u003cp\u003eFirst, how do I, an individual, use convenience in my life, without getting drawn down bad paths? I commute by a McDonalds on the way home, when I\u0026#x27;m hungry and exhausted. Perhaps I make alternatives easy (yummy leftovers I can pop in the microwave), perhaps I fortify myself to resist temptation (eat an apple at my desk so that cheeseburger doesn\u0026#x27;t seem as tempting), perhaps I remind myself that cooking with my spouse is part of the fun and imagine her smiling as I wield that frying pan.\u003cp\u003eSecond, and different, how do I as a benevolent dictator manage convenience for those I\u0026#x27;m responsible for? For instance, as a teacher, I want to make certain things easy (access to the right texts and helpful videos) and other things (problem sets) just the right amount of \u0026quot;difficult\u0026quot; to keep students engaged, learning, and successful.\u003cp\u003eWe actually know how to do this, in general. Intensive care units are there to make everything \u0026quot;easy\u0026quot; for really sick people, but few people get trapped forever in the ICU.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;tyranny of convenience\u0026quot; is a sexy title, but people always are drawn to what\u0026#x27;s easier, even before the washing machine arrived. There\u0026#x27;s probably a general cycle - we go nuts on the easy alternative, and then discover that there\u0026#x27;s more to life. E.g. \u0026quot;slow food\u0026quot;, custom-configured PCs, \u0026quot;back to the land\u0026quot;, etc.","parent":"16394027","id":"16394903"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1383242474","timestamp":"2013-10-31 18:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI worked in canada for a year and was offered to stay\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter 5 years in the US\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf I am reading this correctly, you came to the United States even though you had an opportunity to stay in Canada. What was the appeal of coming to the United States?","parent":"6648091","id":"6648469"}
{"by":"eevee","time":"1396639098","timestamp":"2014-04-04 19:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t do anything illegal, either.  Yet you seem to have some unspoken set of rules beyond mere law that govern what is acceptable behavior.  I\u0026#x27;ve got some of those, too.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t want him to not have a job.  I want him to not have \u003ci\u003ethis\u003c/i\u003e job.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m curious why it\u0026#x27;s okay for him to pay money in an attempt to enforce his opinions on others via law, but I\u0026#x27;m a bigot and a pox upon civilization for talking on Twitter.","parent":"7532487","id":"7533675"}
{"by":"powatom","time":"1284547240","timestamp":"2010-09-15 10:40:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree absolutely with this. A bad hiring process is responsible for so many problems that companies have. Lots of places which 'require' \u0026#60;insert trendy language / framework\u0026#62; experience hire someone who ends up being in way over their head because they have no real programming ability, just 'knowledge'. Tons of people 'know' how to play a guitar, right? It doesn't mean they're any bloody good at it. Someone who can play a guitar WELL, can probably also play a bunch of instruments, and I'm willing to bet that they'll be able to pick them up fairly quickly too. So they can't play a keyboard right now - I'd put money on it that they'll pick it up pretty quickly if they have to.\u003cp\u003eThe problem companies face is that the real traits of good developers are difficult to evaluate in the interview process. This is why tests (both generic programming tasks and a few 'real-world' problems) during the interview are important. Yes, I hate having to do them, but I recognise their importance. I'm very wary of an interview for a development position that doesn't involve a test at some point.\u003cp\u003ePeople hiring for development positions: languages (particularly the new trendy ones) aren't particularly important - a good developer will be able to learn enough in a short time to essentially hit the ground running. Hiring a bad developer who knows (or at least manages to convince you that they know) your favourite language / framework is going to cause you endless headaches.","parent":"1688253","id":"1693842"}
{"by":"alexwebb2","time":"1493303141","timestamp":"2017-04-27 14:25:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Anyone who has been farming for years already makes pretty close to optimal decisions based on the available data about crop prices, weather, soil status, labor rates, etc.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure if you\u0026#x27;re including software analysis in your notion of \u0026quot;based on the available data\u0026quot;, but if not, then this would absolutely not be true - unaided humans, even veteran growers who\u0026#x27;ve been managing the same fields for decades, do not make anywhere close to optimal decisions. They make good ones, generally, and can be long-term profitable with relative ease, but it\u0026#x27;s absolutely not even close to what you get when you bring intelligent software into the mix.","parent":"14209226","id":"14211657"}
{"by":"ameen","time":"1487983135","timestamp":"2017-02-25 00:38:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t one monolithic \u0026quot;American culture\u0026quot;. For example just because I\u0026#x27;m part of the hacker culture doesn\u0026#x27;t mean I have to sip IPAs. There can and will be cherry picking of aspects they like, what matters is how their outlook changes and the love for this land. They might appear to be outwardly disinterested, but many sort of enjoy the culture in their own ways. Giving up on their citizenship and applying for a new one is no easy decision.","parent":"13729225","id":"13729287"}
{"by":"taneq","time":"1492606052","timestamp":"2017-04-19 12:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will always be a race between recording technology and image generation technology. Low-rez, low-dimensional images (small black-and-white photos, say) will be easy to fake rapidly. High-res higher-dimensional images (full 3D movies of an area at sub-millimeter precision, say) will be much harder to fake within a reasonable time frame. You\u0026#x27;ll never be certain, but the higher the quality of the recording, the more confident you can be that it\u0026#x27;s legitimate.\u003cp\u003e(Ian M. Banks touches on this in his book, Player of Games, where a drone blackmails a character by making a recording of that character misbehaving that is high-enough resolution that it couldn\u0026#x27;t be faked in the time available.)","parent":"14145407","id":"14147317"}
{"by":"bazookaBen","time":"1302975021","timestamp":"2011-04-16 17:30:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i used to play around a lot with Akihabara (free \u0026#38; opensourced). The lack of a good map editor made me switch to ImpactJS","parent":"2454115","id":"2454370"}
{"by":"diiq","time":"1296498347","timestamp":"2011-01-31 18:25:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that the timing of meals probably doesn't affect weight much. I do not hope to gain or lose weight by making this change; I've modified my behavior (not my diet) in order to improve my lifestyle (not my health).","parent":"2161724","id":"2162568"}
{"by":"partycoder","time":"1507460571","timestamp":"2017-10-08 11:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In that case I just use voice over ip or a messaging app.","parent":"15427692","id":"15427763"}
{"by":"biokoda","time":"1453551709","timestamp":"2016-01-23 12:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably the best key handling method is employed by Biocoded app. It uses the same encryption protocol as signal (Axolotl ratchet) and it only stores half of the decryption key locally. The other half is on the server.","parent":"10958081","id":"10958141"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1470516894","timestamp":"2016-08-06 20:54:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s hardly irrelevant. My claim is that the Indian, Bangladeshi or Chinese will better themselves and move up in the world, while the American refuses to do so.\u003cp\u003eThat implies that it\u0026#x27;s the American\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003echoices\u003c/i\u003e, rather than his \u003ci\u003ecircumstances\u003c/i\u003e, which cause him to be poor. How is that irrelevant?","parent":"12239833","id":"12239884"}
{"by":"ifewalter","time":"1339001407","timestamp":"2012-06-06 16:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Impressive.\u003cp\u003eOn point 5, thing is as a programmer (any career actually) with years of code experience, you just know the possible cause for any bug, and what function/class is at fault.","parent":"4074433","id":"4074806"}
{"by":"myth_drannon","time":"1504118698","timestamp":"2017-08-30 18:44:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"natural changes like ice ages take thousands of years. What we see now is a rapid in front of your eyes change.","parent":"15134659","id":"15134792"}
{"by":"stared","time":"1434718953","timestamp":"2015-06-19 13:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And GPL source: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.roguetemple.com\u0026#x2F;z\u0026#x2F;hyper\u0026#x2F;download.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.roguetemple.com\u0026#x2F;z\u0026#x2F;hyper\u0026#x2F;download.php\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9744353","id":"9744362"}
{"by":"niix","time":"1434034400","timestamp":"2015-06-11 14:53:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently got into watches and have been following the company they merged for a the past year or so.  It\u0026#x27;s been an awesome resource for learning about the community and the craftsmanship behind mechanical watches.  I recommend them to anyone who has an interest in watches, or just wants to see what the fuss is all about.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re right about the passion relating to that of computer hardware.  The first thing that really intrigued me about watches is the amount of craftsman ship and engineering that goes into making a complicated mechanical watch.  As a software engineer, I find similarities in the watch engineering world - so I believe thats why it pulled me in so easily.  It truly is an amazing example of human engineering at its best.","parent":"9699982","id":"9700045"}
{"by":"nreece","time":"1247641540","timestamp":"2009-07-15 07:05:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  If we only posted things that companies gave us permission to post\n  this would be a press release site and none of you would be here.\n  News is stuff someone doesn’t want you to write.\n  The rest is advertising.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n-- Michael Arrington\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox-hundreds-of-confidential-twitter-documents/#comment-2857013\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox-hundreds-o...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"705269","id":"705301"}
{"by":"leetty","time":"1492580453","timestamp":"2017-04-19 05:40:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a series by  Walter Greiner... english translations are also available.","parent":"14141693","id":"14145703"}
{"by":"yegg","time":"1409768762","timestamp":"2014-09-03 18:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Co-author here.\u003cp\u003eI actually started exploring this book topic in late 2009 through an initial series of open-ended interviews that involved a lot of people from HN and were discussed on HN quite extensively (when it was much more startup focused). Here is that set: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6r4nAnkQO3VpddRSVwUVDg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;channel\u0026#x2F;UC6r4nAnkQO3VpddRSVwUVDg\u003c/a\u003e (e.g. patio11 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuzNs-LhC_8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=wuzNs-LhC_8\u003c/a\u003e, Alexis \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEqAq1x9UQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=enEqAq1x9UQ\u003c/a\u003e, Garry Tan \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Win0moC4cA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=8Win0moC4cA\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eI started angel investing around the same time and I quickly came to the conclusion that the pursuit of getting traction needed much more structure akin to product development frameworks. I also got increasingly busy with DuckDuckGo, and so it took finding a great co-author and many years to actually get this book across the finish line.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s the announcement post from my blog: \u003ca href=\"http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2014/08/get-traction-today.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gabrielweinberg.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;get-traction-tod...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHappy to take any questions.","parent":"8263560","id":"8264477"}
{"by":"ocfx","time":"1391640252","timestamp":"2014-02-05 22:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is Alison single?","parent":"7187025","dead":true,"id":"7187402"}
{"by":"pavornyoh","time":"1445393312","timestamp":"2015-10-21 02:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The verified that he was an employee, apologized for waking him up, and left him be.\u003cp\u003eThank you for pointing that out to me.","parent":"10423176","id":"10423190"}
{"by":"ThomPete","time":"1496507903","timestamp":"2017-06-03 16:38:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. It\u0026#x27;s really as simple as that. only the US allow for this.\u003cp\u003eEdit: To all the down-voters. The article isn\u0026#x27;t about private healthcare which in the US is more the rule than the exception. It\u0026#x27;s about a layer on top of private healthcare.\u003cp\u003eOf course private healthcare exist in other countries. But this concierge layer for \u0026quot;normal\u0026quot; rich people you will be hard pressed to find many other places I ma pretty sure off (but could be wrong of course). Unless you are a politician or royal or something.","parent":"14477113","id":"14477147"}
{"by":"pentae","time":"1481397336","timestamp":"2016-12-10 19:15:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reset your SMC - took me from 5 hours up to 9 1\u0026#x2F;2","parent":"13143440","id":"13147326"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1227617594","timestamp":"2008-11-25 12:53:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some food storage containers, water bottles, and the like are advertising \"BPA-free.\"","parent":"375179","id":"376307"}
{"by":"novaleaf","time":"1384226815","timestamp":"2013-11-12 03:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i use the combination of assert-driven development + UI\u0026#x2F;UX testing.  (manual, but that could be a valid candidate for automation in my projects)\u003cp\u003eso I\u0026#x27;m not saying there are no scenarios, but they all end up being the customer facing scenarios, and verifying those meet expectations.    Also just developers making sure the functionality \u0026quot;works\u0026quot; naturally catches the technical bugs (because asserts in production code would cause the app to crash)","parent":"6706030","id":"6715672"}
{"by":"runjake","time":"1537312148","timestamp":"2018-09-18 23:09:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Back in the day, Google walked the walk, too. Until they stopped.","parent":"17988561","id":"18020100"}
{"by":"dayjah","time":"1519945583","timestamp":"2018-03-01 23:06:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What might not be super clear to most folks is that this is one of the last areas that medallion owners make bank. Typically, in many US cities local taxi operators have deals with the govt to ferry the elderly around. So this in effect is uber putting the final nail into the taxi company coffin. I\u0026#x27;ve spoken to taxi drivers which have resisted switching to the gig economy because they made enough from this government tie up to not have to move; I guess that all changes from here on out.","parent":"16493617","id":"16497241"}
{"by":"KrishMunot","time":"1527253783","timestamp":"2018-05-25 13:09:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ever heard of FB start?","parent":"17138795","id":"17153284"}
{"by":"jeeva","time":"1516280749","timestamp":"2018-01-18 13:05:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;nintendolife\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;953941301023707138\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;nintendolife\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;953941301023707138\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Nintendo Life: Nintendo Will Freely Provide Cardboard Design Patterns For Labo \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;t.co\u0026#x2F;jGmyE4CZTR\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;t.co\u0026#x2F;jGmyE4CZTR\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16172869","id":"16176761"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1472770165","timestamp":"2016-09-01 22:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my case it was more like my employer was resentful and started curtailing all the aspects of the job that made me want to stay (suddenly becoming very strict about never working from home and being in at exactly the appointed hour when this had never previously been an issue, for instance).","parent":"12409092","id":"12409444"}
{"by":"jamesk_au","time":"1410709068","timestamp":"2014-09-14 15:37:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The notion of \u0026quot;walling off\u0026quot; information apparently also extends to court testimony and the prosecution brief:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;However, when the mention of Hemisphere data in official documentation or court testimony is unavoidable ... Hemisphere analysts might advise the investigator on issues such as report writing, presentation to the prosecutor, and the trial phase.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e (p14)\u003cp\u003eJust extraordinary.","parent":"8315354","id":"8315404"}
{"by":"carlob","time":"1395255267","timestamp":"2014-03-19 18:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried it with a song I knew had a very simple chord structure (C A- F G7) and it gave some pretty weird results…\u003cp\u003eThen I tried it with \u003ci\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t think twice it\u0026#x27;s alright\u003c/i\u003e and it pretty much nailed it. I wonder if it was tuned on Dylan. :)","parent":"7429282","id":"7430868"}
{"by":"andy_ppp","time":"1494472970","timestamp":"2017-05-11 03:22:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I really enjoyed it!","parent":"14309196","id":"14313638"}
{"by":"susam","time":"1540558852","timestamp":"2018-10-26 13:00:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now we have \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;susam\u0026#x2F;mdme\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;susam\u0026#x2F;mdme\u003c/a\u003e too (a stripped down fork of TeXMe), thanks to a suggestion on this thread.","parent":"18308202","id":"18308761"}
{"by":"morgante","time":"1458586031","timestamp":"2016-03-21 18:47:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That interpretation of his words is taking the principle of charity to the point of distortion.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; those useless Github projects that we all know are nothing but publicity stunts to appeal to recruiters.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s impossible to interpret this as anything but an attempt to indict open source projects as mere publicity stunts.","parent":"11330543","id":"11330662"}
{"by":"terabytest","time":"1379687234","timestamp":"2013-09-20 14:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is going to take care of those people who like to use big meaningless words. It brings an entirely new meaning to what they\u0026#x27;re saying.","parent":"6417383","id":"6417879"}
{"by":"sargun","time":"1477986867","timestamp":"2016-11-01 07:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find Postmates competing primarily on food delivery quite odd. When I originally started using Postmates, it was for pretty much for everything but food. When I ordered food from it, it was for the likes of food trucks, where I just needed to dispatch a courier and make a free form order. Unfortunately, Postmates discontinued support for these features.\u003cp\u003eThe kinds of things I ordered before the modernization of Postmates were USB-to-Ethernet adapters, Macs, soldering irons, and more. These were typically high priced goods that I needed in a short period of time to keep up some service.","parent":"12843244","id":"12844062"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1523855138","timestamp":"2018-04-16 05:05:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, there you are right.","parent":"16846179","id":"16846761"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1517172330","timestamp":"2018-01-28 20:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People who own planes generally report it being fun to fly; it is just also extremely expensive to do often and there is a massive element of risk if you don\u0026#x27;t know what you are doing or your luck with the weather runs out for you and your small plane that you are flying with your limited skills. I don\u0026#x27;t be know many people who report \u0026quot;going into the military was extremely fun and I would do it constantly if I just had access to enough sufficiently-evil enemies to kill\u0026quot;.","parent":"16252957","id":"16253355"}
{"by":"sabat","time":"1179496593","timestamp":"2007-05-18 13:56:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PATIENCE, grasshopper. Give yourself longer than two weeks to build up 'traction'. The more stuff that builds up on your site, the more people will want to go there. And that takes time.\u003cp\u003eI would not worry about yelp or any other sites people are comparing you to. Google emerged after the problem of internet search was 'solved', and Flickr appeared and succeeded after photo sites had been around for years.\u003cp\u003eYou might want to concentrate on (and emphasize) what differentiates you.\u003cp\u003eIf you have not already, use every channel you have available. Tell everyone you know, and remind them. Link to other food sites (even competitors?) and post on restaurant forums and sites.","parent":"22959","id":"23058"}
{"by":"bluedino","time":"1394559060","timestamp":"2014-03-11 17:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026quot;person who\u0026#x27;s had white-collar job for years doesn\u0026#x27;t get how difficult service jobs are\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOr, sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day is really, really easy compared to having to actually DO something at a service job.","parent":"7380522","id":"7380762"}
{"by":"lurkinggrue","time":"1365550031","timestamp":"2013-04-09 23:27:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; #4 Bitcoin is destructable\u003cp\u003eWe can probably expect a Trojan to infiltrate a exchange and destroy the wallets and backups at some point just for the lulz.\u003cp\u003eSecurity is hard and I don't see expect of these exchanges to handle security right.\u003cp\u003eOk,I'm being cynical.","parent":"5518725","id":"5522174"}
{"by":"fsniper","time":"1423551979","timestamp":"2015-02-10 07:06:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider Çeşme. It is near Izmir and cheap, especially in the winter it would be a heaven for a nomad. High temperatures than normal winter conditions. Un crowded and peaceful.","parent":"9022822","id":"9025782"}
{"by":"dogma1138","time":"1536801215","timestamp":"2018-09-13 01:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some have notches and a chin some do not, just as some are completely edge to edge with no chin with a pop out camera and in screen fingerprint sensors.","parent":"17973553","id":"17975091"}
{"by":"eps","time":"1391680468","timestamp":"2014-02-06 09:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can tell it\u0026#x27;s going to be an excellent article when a flight to Sochi takes 75 hours.","parent":"7188756","id":"7189549"}
{"by":"mk","time":"1230684060","timestamp":"2008-12-31 00:41:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article that this article is responding to is useful in understanding as well.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://sgillies.net/blog/858/how-to-decorate-python-gis-code/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://sgillies.net/blog/858/how-to-decorate-python-gis-code...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one as well.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240845\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240845\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"414781","id":"414910"}
{"by":"frik","time":"1400257178","timestamp":"2014-05-16 16:19:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"System wide metadata and tag support is great. Sadly, both Win and Mac are lacking in this discipline.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s ironic that Windows XP exposed the ADS in the file property dialog \u0026quot;summary\u0026quot; tab: \u003ca href=\"http://www.infosecwriters.com/texts.php?op=display\u0026amp;id=53\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.infosecwriters.com\u0026#x2F;texts.php?op=display\u0026amp;id=53\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eVista onwards one can only view (also in XP) and edit metadata for supported file formats like jpg, doc, docx, mp3, etc. Such formats have its own metadata format like ID3 for mp3 and EXIF\u0026#x2F;IPTC\u0026#x2F;XMP for jpeg that explorer.exe and windows media player support.\u003cp\u003eOSX uses ADS or sidecar files (on FAT\u0026#x2F;NTFS\u0026#x2F;network) but only supports 7 colors that can be mapped to tags (mean on every PC different things; similar to MS Outlook tags). \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_file\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sidecar_file\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeing the OSX sidecar files is really annoying (beginning with a dot and have otherwise the same name as the original file) on Windows. (a bit similar to the thumbs.db) The same goes for WinNT6+ that creates multi GB preview cache-database files in the users directory instead of one \u0026quot;thumbs.db\u0026quot; per directory - ultra annoying :(\u003cp\u003eIt would be great, if Microsoft and Apple could agree on a new metadata sidecar standard (like XMP from Adobe, now ISO standard: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Extensible_Metadata_Platform\u003c/a\u003e ).\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy proposal:\u003c/i\u003e One zip file containing all XMP metadata sidecar files and file preview pictures of the current directory.","parent":"7755851","id":"7756244"}
{"by":"Aunche","time":"1538426801","timestamp":"2018-10-01 20:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When has Google succeeded in doing this? To me, it seems like Google burns a lot of money on a project just to deprecate it a few years later.","parent":"18116204","id":"18116675"}
{"by":"thinkpad20","time":"1387175676","timestamp":"2013-12-16 06:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like I said there are tricks to get around it. I was referring to a C-style array. I think it\u0026#x27;s still accurate to say that immutability does not always mean less copying.","parent":"6912828","id":"6913233"}
{"by":"n09n","time":"1395504976","timestamp":"2014-03-22 16:16:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is important to encourage new users to comment? That, too, seems to be solving a problem that doesn\u0026#x27;t exist.","parent":"7448482","id":"7449607"}
{"by":"uptown","time":"1266001082","timestamp":"2010-02-12 18:58:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree.  I'm guessing that's exactly what they're planning.  Enterprise microsharing.","parent":"1121358","id":"1121385"}
{"by":"pantag","time":"1322534285","timestamp":"2011-11-29 02:38:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My app uses a server backend to process images, so yes, pirated apps are a pain. I already have a free, less-featured ad-supported version. I could implement some sort of account authorization in the servers, but I think that would make the app more difficult to use.","parent":"3288685","dead":true,"id":"3288708"}
{"by":"Y7ZCQtNo39","time":"1543454736","timestamp":"2018-11-29 01:25:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you review feedback collected (in any situation analogous to what you mention), you take that into account.\u003cp\u003eWhat if the feedback also said the doctor wasn\u0026#x27;t personable? Maybe the doc could be a bit warmer with his patients... and a patient would be absolutely qualified in determining whether or not that bedside manner is present.","parent":"18557111","id":"18557366"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1341956361","timestamp":"2012-07-10 21:39:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it is a bit more nuanced than that.\u003cp\u003eThere are clearly differences between people who embrace the fact that they aren't perfect and thus are open to learning, and those who feel shame at not succeeding at something they consider themselves competent at.\u003cp\u003eClearly its in the same genus as problems with addiction or habituated behavior but its a more easily overlooked.","parent":"4224170","id":"4226361"}
{"by":"kmfrk","time":"1409264131","timestamp":"2014-08-28 22:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find just trying to sleep for twenty minutes can be rejuvenating enough for a powernap. I can\u0026#x27;t fall asleep on a whim either.","parent":"8239842","id":"8240034"}
{"by":"onemoresoop","time":"1540489712","timestamp":"2018-10-25 17:48:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also can you think about shareable blacklists similar to how AdBlock works? And easy enable and disable. I\u0026#x27;m thinking that if I don\u0026#x27;t get any good search results I could compare with a search without blacklisting. Thanks","parent":"18302649","id":"18302856"}
{"by":"pmorici","time":"1427268910","timestamp":"2015-03-25 07:35:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real barrier to an individual representing themselves in a Realestate transaction has little to do with the MLS.  Listings are available for most areas on sites like Zillow. Redfin, or trurila.  The pain comes when it is time to write the offer contract.  Standard real estate contracts and the software (zip forms) that fills in the forms is controlled by the realtor associations thought a company owned by the California realtors association.  A non realtor can\u0026#x27;t get access to the standard contracts unless they get their realty license and join their sate association.","parent":"9261460","id":"9261667"}
{"by":"pyabo","time":"1459267888","timestamp":"2016-03-29 16:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like the old way, I may be old fashion!","parent":"11382015","id":"11382511"}
{"by":"skc","time":"1392126475","timestamp":"2014-02-11 13:47:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But your apps still worked.\u003cp\u003eHuge difference.","parent":"7214180","id":"7217560"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1501272946","timestamp":"2017-07-28 20:15:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Parent comment was referring to off-topic comment about regulating prices, not the article.","parent":"14877126","id":"14877187"}
{"by":"tmikaeld","time":"1426944749","timestamp":"2015-03-21 13:32:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having been burning Ketones more than Carbs for more than 2 years now, i can absolutely attest to that.\u003cp\u003ePreviously i had to use Caffeine and occasionally Ephedra to stay properly focused on programming tasks. But the people around me often thought i was angry and annoyed easily, that is completely the opposite now that i\u0026#x27;m \u0026quot;on\u0026quot; Ketones.","parent":"9242580","id":"9242682"}
{"by":"CalRobert","time":"1495527032","timestamp":"2017-05-23 08:10:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it a foregone conclusion that we need to be producing this much protein?","parent":"14396854","id":"14399689"}
{"by":"mikeocool","time":"1361573750","timestamp":"2013-02-22 22:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Added this tool to my suite of monitoring tools last time an outage caused by an expired cert popped up on hacker news: \u003ca href=\"http://prefetch.net/articles/checkcertificate.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://prefetch.net/articles/checkcertificate.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuns on  a daily cron job and emails if any of the certs it's monitoring are within 30 days of expiration.","parent":"5266947","id":"5267473"}
{"by":"mef","time":"1474821868","timestamp":"2016-09-25 16:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His hn profile:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;user?id=ca98am79\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;user?id=ca98am79\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther projects, including what appears to be an initiative to start a new religion? (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;consciousness.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;consciousness.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;humb.ly\u0026#x2F;projects.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;humb.ly\u0026#x2F;projects.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12575665","id":"12576056"}
{"by":"technomancy","time":"1359572554","timestamp":"2013-01-30 19:02:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On a related note, we are working on adding this requirement to Clojars, the Clojure equivalent of Rubygems. It's a lot of work and requires significant community buy-in, but would really pay off in moments like these.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://groups.google.com/group/clojars-maintainers/browse_thread/thread/77c1cd77e478bb0f\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://groups.google.com/group/clojars-maintainers/browse_t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5140012","id":"5141078"}
{"by":"revorad","time":"1289685999","timestamp":"2010-11-13 22:06:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does that affect your buying process? Does it get in the way of looking for what you need?","parent":"1901719","id":"1901841"}
{"by":"jcromartie","time":"1283299074","timestamp":"2010-08-31 23:57:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ivan Illich predicted \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e this sort of thing in his 1970 book Deschooling Society. He basically predicted an Internet-led revolution in learning.","parent":"1647801","id":"1651303"}
{"by":"lrizzo","time":"1314172073","timestamp":"2011-08-24 07:47:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is yet another web-based presentation tool. Compared to other similar tools, the two major advantages are:\ni) a simplified syntax for slides, similar to reStructuredText \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText\u003c/a\u003e, and ii) a simple server-side backend so that multiple \"listener\" can have their slides move in sync with those of the speaker.\nResizing using the browser's controls (ctrl +/-) generally works well to adapt to different screen resolutions, and i am trying to add support for tablets and phones and similar devices.\nThere is also a simple \"edit\" mode in which you can modify, still within the browser, the textarea that contains the presentation, and rudimentary support for plotting, and some simple transition effects.\u003cp\u003esttp shares the disadvantages of this family of solutions: if you have images or other embedded content the presentation is not a standalone file; export-to-pdf is weak; no math; etc. - but it can do the job for small presentations, and especially it really enforces you to have a consistent slide style across the presentation","parent":"2919816","id":"2919842"}
{"by":"lizmat","time":"1516887073","timestamp":"2018-01-25 13:31:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, an apology was later issued:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nntp.perl.org\u0026#x2F;group\u0026#x2F;perl.perl5.porters\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;msg248693.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nntp.perl.org\u0026#x2F;group\u0026#x2F;perl.perl5.porters\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;m...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16229806","id":"16230612"}
{"by":"mjn","time":"1390845941","timestamp":"2014-01-27 18:05:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026#x27;legacy\u0026#x27; mode is pretty nice, thanks! Does what I want for the HN-browsing (vs. searching) use-case, no real complaints.\u003cp\u003eMinor bug: the results highlighting seems to break links. For example try this search: \u003ca href=\"http://hn.algolia.com/legacy#!/comment/forever/0/algolia\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hn.algolia.com\u0026#x2F;legacy#!\u0026#x2F;comment\u0026#x2F;forever\u0026#x2F;0\u0026#x2F;algolia\u003c/a\u003e.  The link in the first comment ends up being turned into \u003ca href=\"http://twittersearch.\u0026lt;em\u0026gt;algolia\u0026lt;/em\u0026gt;.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twittersearch.\u0026lt;em\u0026gt;algolia\u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;em\u0026gt;.io\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7128411","id":"7131920"}
{"by":"jamesbritt","time":"1287768589","timestamp":"2010-10-22 17:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow.  That's amazing.  I knew that  IP protection on fashion was weak/difficult, but was unaware of the reasoning.\u003cp\u003eWhat's bizarre is that people have been making music for a long time, too, yet courts have no trouble locking it down with copyright.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if this is a notational thing.  There's an established and (somewhat) robust notation for music allows it to be \"fixed in any tangible medium of expression\", as required by US copyright law.  Is there even such a thing for fashion?","parent":"1820110","id":"1820554"}
{"by":"edkennedy","time":"1288984454","timestamp":"2010-11-05 19:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A victory for musicians and visualists alike. Musicians have been using touch screens ever since the several thousand dollar Lemur[1], now access will be available to all with iPhone.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1874289","id":"1874447"}
{"by":"ifdefdebug","time":"1452446063","timestamp":"2016-01-10 17:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope it doesn\u0026#x27;t warn for things like\u003cp\u003eif(0 != (i = getValue()))","parent":"10876010","id":"10876045"}
{"by":"nkkollaw","time":"1543259579","timestamp":"2018-11-26 19:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t have to swear because of a typo, English is not my first language.\u003cp\u003eYou look much dumber than the person you\u0026#x27;re correcting by acting like that.","parent":"18533421","id":"18535957"}
{"by":"wladimir","time":"1299832636","timestamp":"2011-03-11 08:37:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, many. It's a huge challenge. Not impossible. If we'd set it as goal, we could develop the technology and science as we go. I'm sure humanity is inventive enough. I mean, we did go to the moon with 60's technology...\u003cp\u003eBut even thinking ahead more than 2 years seems impossible these days, everything is focused on the now and short-term profit. Anyway, rant over, it's nice to think big instead of small once in a while :)","parent":"2309500","id":"2312688"}
{"by":"leeoniya","time":"1363709508","timestamp":"2013-03-19 16:11:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you may have to check for null if you want to use a default arg2 while providing an explicit arg3. i guess you can always do:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    myfn('a',undefined,'b');\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"5401687","id":"5401737"}
{"by":"cortesoft","time":"1516382297","timestamp":"2018-01-19 17:18:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also in SoCal, I get a mix of both. Usually two days, sometimes one, sometimes it says it is out for delivery on that second day but then they end up not delivering it.\u003cp\u003eFrom what I understand, the Amazon delivery people are contractors who are paid to deliver as much as they can. If they can\u0026#x27;t get to everything that day before 9pm, you don\u0026#x27;t get your package.\u003cp\u003eIt has only really hurt me a couple of times where I ordered something for a trip, and it didn\u0026#x27;t arrive in time.","parent":"16187830","id":"16187880"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1448138540","timestamp":"2015-11-21 20:42:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Children should suffer as little as possible for their parents\u0026#x27; mistakes.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t always see such intelligence and compassion on HN. Thanks for your comment.","parent":"10606517","id":"10607951"}
{"by":"endersshadow","time":"1393445299","timestamp":"2014-02-26 20:08:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems to me like another case of the all-too-common, \u0026quot;We don\u0026#x27;t understand basic trademark law, so we\u0026#x27;re going to be petulant children about it.\u0026quot; This attitude has also run amok in the craft beer world, too. It\u0026#x27;s rather disheartening.","parent":"7307245","id":"7307310"}
{"by":"wfunction","time":"1489733918","timestamp":"2017-03-17 06:58:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;d think so, but from now on do you think planes are going to stop flying under each other or try to maneuver out of the way when this happens inadvertently? I really wish they do, but that\u0026#x27;s not the impression I got from the article. All I saw was \u0026quot;ATC all around the globe have recently been instructed to exercise particular care with A380s crossing above other aircraft. The Aviation Herald \u003ci\u003ehad already reported\u003c/i\u003e a number of Wake Turbulence Encounters involving A380s before\u0026quot;, which is kind of vague and doesn\u0026#x27;t quite give me the impression they\u0026#x27;re necessarily (literally) going to go out of their ways for this if it has a chance of happening.","parent":"13892073","id":"13892103"}
{"by":"stdbrouw","time":"1354201468","timestamp":"2012-11-29 15:04:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The machine learning behind Google's translations uses a corpus that consists of texts that have already been translated into many different languages. But if some of those documents start off with, say, \"this is the \u0026#60;language\u0026#62; version of this press release\" that's exactly the sort of thing that would confuse an algorithm that can't distinguish between translation and localization. Pure conjecture of course. I'm just not sure if anything is being special-cased.","parent":"4847626","id":"4848022"}
{"by":"ben_h","time":"1272686770","timestamp":"2010-05-01 04:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, that's cool—pretty tempting to start using that reference retrospectively. Maybe a few canvas-animated butterflies on the website? :)\u003cp\u003eCheers!","parent":"1310065","id":"1310089"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1382115334","timestamp":"2013-10-18 16:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; No, GDP growth and unemployment are better measures.\u003cp\u003eGDP alone is a sufficient statistic, since the definition of a recession is very precise, and is based on GDP growth.","parent":"6571985","id":"6572407"}
{"by":"rsanchez1","time":"1322510451","timestamp":"2011-11-28 20:00:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My suggestion: put it on the webOS App Catalog. You'll just need to package it up and it's ready to go. Easy way to get more money.","parent":"3276687","id":"3287357"}
{"by":"Udo","time":"1391015168","timestamp":"2014-01-29 17:06:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the hope expressed here was that more education could result in a reduction of ridiculous religious ideas that currently take up the same space where the will for social and economic reforms should be.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a theocracy, but it\u0026#x27;s still a militaristic country run by the religious right. Leading to all the things you complained about, and more.","parent":"7145083","id":"7145138"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1511647127","timestamp":"2017-11-25 21:58:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, there are reasons that\u0026#x27;s not good enough. It\u0026#x27;s not simply that you have to be careful what phone you pick, but also that you have to do things differently on Android phones, including Google\u0026#x27;s phones.\u003cp\u003eAt-risk nonspecialists should avoid all Android phones, and standardize on iPhones.","parent":"15778206","id":"15778226"}
{"by":"bobjordan","time":"1479997099","timestamp":"2016-11-24 14:18:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I certainly didn\u0026#x27;t get Zed\u0026#x27;s article, like maybe I\u0026#x27;m not familiar with the superior toolings of other languages, but whenever I\u0026#x27;ve used python2to3 I found it helpful enough to get real work done. For example, two years ago, I fell squarely in beginner segment skill wise, and I filed an issue with a repo owner to request to update to be python 3 compatible (an ORM for RethinkDB - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;linkyndy\u0026#x2F;remodel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;linkyndy\u0026#x2F;remodel\u003c/a\u003e). The obviously talented repo owner initially responded he feared it would be complex and take a long time. I then spent a weekend to learn the library, used 2to3 to get 95% there, fixed the remaining small issues, and updated the repo to be compatible with Python 3, passing all tests. Sometimes these python2 programmers just do not want to change.","parent":"13027481","id":"13030403"}
{"by":"wang_li","time":"1512613324","timestamp":"2017-12-07 02:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hotair.com\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;oh-by-the-way-obama-just-quietly-suspended-obamacares-individual-mandate-until-2016\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hotair.com\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;oh-by-the-way-obama-j...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15867079","id":"15867092"}
{"by":"oddthink","time":"1520950039","timestamp":"2018-03-13 14:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Me, I long for the days when I could just download a tarball and be done. :-)\u003cp\u003eSeriously, as a mostly C++\u0026#x2F;python\u0026#x2F;R developer, maven was a PITA to set up for experimenting with Java, and I still don\u0026#x27;t feel like I entirely understand the npm\u0026#x2F;bower\u0026#x2F;yarn ecosystem. (Will they install globally or locally? What permissions do I need? etc. etc.)\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s certainly not something that I can\u0026#x27;t learn, or something that\u0026#x27;s really all that complex, but it\u0026#x27;s another barrier to just messing around with a new project. It\u0026#x27;s better for the frequent-users than the infrequent.\u003cp\u003eAs an infrequent user of Java\u0026#x2F;Javascript, I\u0026#x27;m fine with just downloading a tarball or cloning a single all-inclusive repo, and dealing with it being harder to update or to push a change back to the source project.\u003cp\u003eEven in python, I just maintain a local global install and occasionally update numpy\u0026#x2F;scipy manually. I\u0026#x27;m not saying it\u0026#x27;s the best setup, but it\u0026#x27;s pretty easy to download verson X.Y.Z, config\u0026#x2F;make\u0026#x2F;make install, and done.","parent":"16575289","id":"16576181"}
{"by":"zerocrates","time":"1488609131","timestamp":"2017-03-04 06:32:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well if you count the Switch as a portable, they\u0026#x27;ve done at least one revision\u0026#x2F;refresh of almost every generation: Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, GBA SP, Game Boy Micro, DS Lite, DSi, 3DS XL, 2DS, new 3DS. They\u0026#x27;ve actually really gone to town on revisions lately with handhelds.\u003cp\u003eTV consoles are a different story. The NES and SNES had later variants, and there\u0026#x27;s the afterthought Wii Mini, and that\u0026#x27;s all I can think of.","parent":"13789485","id":"13789637"}
{"by":"vigna","time":"1447612135","timestamp":"2015-11-15 18:28:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nah, come on, ne is obviously better! :-P","parent":"10569960","id":"10570485"}
{"by":"geofft","time":"1481785623","timestamp":"2016-12-15 07:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that \u0026quot;GodBolt\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t some clever Zeus-inspired service name, \u0026quot;Godbolt\u0026quot; is just this fellow\u0026#x27;s last name.","parent":"13182726","id":"13182991"}
{"by":"pavlov","time":"1513621226","timestamp":"2017-12-18 18:20:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with your general sentiment, but Array.isArray() has been standard since about 2010. It’s even in IE9. Anyone using an npm package for this feature deserves the beating.\u003cp\u003eIMO the problem with npm is that it makes no distinction between snippets, libraries, frameworks and scripted command line tools. An npm package can be any of these. I feel there perhaps should be separate namespaces and package managers for all four — e.g. an inlining minimal “node snippet manager”, a standardized framework installer for things like create-react-app, and so on.","parent":"15953681","id":"15953858"}
{"by":"Nrsolis","time":"1288892234","timestamp":"2010-11-04 17:37:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We could call it MinesSQL.","parent":"1869150","id":"1869893"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1513611306","timestamp":"2017-12-18 15:35:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;Currently, a successful hash must start with approximately 17 zeros, so only one out of 1.4 x 10^20 hashes will be successful.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eCan someone elaborate on the math here? How do we get to 1 in 1.4 x 10^20 ?","parent":"15950599","id":"15952277"}
{"by":"provemewrong","time":"1452007325","timestamp":"2016-01-05 15:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I only use one though, so I can\u0026#x27;t say for sure but judging by their blog posts they offer to choose which monitor Ubersicht runs on, but I believe it can\u0026#x27;t be displayed on multiple monitors at the same time. That\u0026#x27;s true about the menubar icon, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t bother me.","parent":"10842734","id":"10843639"}
{"by":"john255","time":"1501715872","timestamp":"2017-08-02 23:17:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"who cares","parent":"14911467","dead":true,"id":"14915557"}
{"by":"joshstaiger","time":"1205933759","timestamp":"2008-03-19 13:35:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you have a leader like Steve Jobs, who understands the business on such a fundamental level, you can afford to be a bit heavy handed to make that leader's vision a reality.\u003cp\u003eProblem is, there is only one Steve Jobs and vanishingly few who come close.\u003cp\u003eI think most companies would do well to avoid Apple's tactics.","parent":"140718","id":"140788"}
{"by":"MaysonL","time":"1273716420","timestamp":"2010-05-13 02:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I saw the \"share this on Facebook\" button on this page, I was overcome by the shadenfreulich irony, and had to click it - not quite the first web page I've ever shared on Facebook, but pretty close...","parent":"1342633","id":"1343016"}
{"by":"khrm","time":"1489973594","timestamp":"2017-03-20 01:33:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, demonetisation isn\u0026#x27;t as big issue as action against Human rights organizations like Amnesty International or Environmental groups like Greenpeace. Trump isn\u0026#x27;t going to ban them or choke their funding directly. \nAlso Steve Bannon is tame in comparison to Yogi Adityanath, the newly appointed CM of UP (a state with 204.2 million population). \nThis Adityanath guy:\u003cp\u003e1. Said that he will put hindu idols in every mosque.\u003cp\u003e2. Said that Shah Rukh Khan(one of the greatest Bollywood) actor is a terrorist(Hafiz Sayed).\u003cp\u003e3. Distributed arms for rioting.\u003cp\u003e4. Has a person on his organization stage who said they should rape dead Muslim women in graves.\u003cp\u003e5. Said those who don\u0026#x27;t want to do yoga should leave India and should drown.\u003cp\u003e6. Will kill 10(100 in another)  muslim for 1 hindu(killing anyone is wrong).\u003cp\u003e7. His organization (Hindu Yuva Vahini) engages in nonviolence during valentine. \nThis guy has been chargesheeted but no action.\u003cp\u003eWhat I have noticed is that during Bush time, Cheney was boundary of fringe for right in US. Now in Trump\u0026#x27;s time, Bannon is the boundary of fringe.\u003cp\u003eSimilarly in India during vajpayee time, Advani was the boundary and Modi was fringe. Now during Modi\u0026#x27;s time, Yogi is becoming boundary. And mark my word,  next boundary will be more direct oppression and removal of minority identity.","parent":"13910896","id":"13911031"}
{"by":"ianstallings","time":"1443229821","timestamp":"2015-09-26 01:10:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering how some politicians want to raise the eligibility age for social security and medicare, this might be more accurate than they think.","parent":"10280512","id":"10281692"}
{"by":"bulkan","time":"1462491003","timestamp":"2016-05-05 23:30:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Except node of course, because they have no idea what they\u0026#x27;re doing.\u003cp\u003eNPM and node are two different things.","parent":"11639852","id":"11640510"}
{"by":"wfunction","time":"1502481678","timestamp":"2017-08-11 20:01:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Safety concerns?","parent":"14993400","id":"14993592"}
{"by":"lotsofmangos","time":"1418579431","timestamp":"2014-12-14 17:50:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, if they end up at the Hague, there\u0026#x27;s always The Hague Invasion Act - \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;American_Service-Members%27_Pro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8747788","id":"8748924"}
{"by":"keppy","time":"1424399105","timestamp":"2015-02-20 02:25:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As other people have stated here, security is a justified means to an end to those who practice it.\u003cp\u003eI cringe a little bit whenever someone starts on the \u0026quot;first they came for...\u0026quot; monologue. Not because it isn\u0026#x27;t true, but because it first was used talking about the Jews in WWII Germany. You\u0026#x27;re effectively playing the Hitler card in a debate that isn\u0026#x27;t about Hitler.\u003cp\u003eThe US was built in part by this type of security. Chances are things would be very different here if the security professionals over the years made decisions based on moral qualms.\u003cp\u003eI am playing the devils advocate, but when you look at the senate, it\u0026#x27;s hard to actually point a finger at the intelligence agencies. This is the world we have made, fear mongering hardly fits into this argument, and certainly adds nothing of substance.","parent":"9078174","id":"9078551"}
{"by":"vickihectora","time":"1543163720","timestamp":"2018-11-25 16:35:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real deal and the future is here. You should contact a reliable and professional private investigator for all sort of hacking, spying and data retrieval services. Contact lucidionysus at gmail.com today and thank me later.","parent":"18525534","dead":true,"id":"18527503"}
{"by":"vanni","time":"1369259222","timestamp":"2013-05-22 21:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Me too! Well... it's because we are Italians, so the \"JIF\" pronunciation sounds much more natural to us.","parent":"5753910","id":"5753980"}
{"by":"exabrial","time":"1499031555","timestamp":"2017-07-02 21:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t formic acid a main ingredient in wasp or bee venom?","parent":"14669753","id":"14684496"}
{"by":"Klathmon","time":"1525338888","timestamp":"2018-05-03 09:14:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No your parent company needs to stop abusing that IP.\u003cp\u003eCloudflare is using a conventional IP, you are the one that isn\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"16983137","id":"16984448"}
{"by":"derrickdirge","time":"1489849266","timestamp":"2017-03-18 15:01:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Best short term economic interests, maybe.\u003cp\u003eBut building a reputation as brilliant whitehat surely confers significant economic benefits as well.","parent":"13900608","id":"13901541"}
{"by":"Ar-Curunir","time":"1501199864","timestamp":"2017-07-27 23:57:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The companies do not recompense the reviewers or editors meaningfully. They ride only on the coattails of prestigious venues, with all the work done by volunteers.","parent":"14868602","id":"14870860"}
{"by":"disordinary","time":"1513655803","timestamp":"2017-12-19 03:56:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WASM is 80-90% native performance and you can do a lot of the grunt work in web workers.\u003cp\u003eI think you\u0026#x27;d be surprised just how fast a web browser is.","parent":"15927812","id":"15957621"}
{"by":"ec109685","time":"1458017800","timestamp":"2016-03-15 04:56:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be true. Amazon or one of their competitors could provide a discount by locking into multi year discounts (e.g. reserved pricing).\u003cp\u003eThe cloud providers are in a cut throat business (mitigated somewhat by value added services), so the price will bob along near cost (though they may eak out more profit on some work loads compared to others).","parent":"11283653","id":"11287533"}
{"by":"EdiX","time":"1445763034","timestamp":"2015-10-25 08:50:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t believe this is correct.\u003cp\u003eDid rust find a way to defeat the halting problem and push all the array bound checks to compile time? How well does rust deal with memory bank switching where an instruction here makes that pointer there refer to a different area of memory?","parent":"10445136","id":"10446382"}
{"by":"davidjhall","time":"1359122376","timestamp":"2013-01-25 13:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article mentions to install the 32-bit offline installer but what if you are 64?  I know 32-bit will work but are there disadvantages to using it over 64-bit?  Or can you just download the 64-bit and uncheck the shovelware?","parent":"5115058","id":"5115389"}
{"by":"gwern","time":"1330718394","timestamp":"2012-03-02 19:59:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always enjoyed microcentury = ~53 minutes. Something to think about in class.","parent":"3657029","id":"3658093"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1412060151","timestamp":"2014-09-30 06:55:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; A little disappointed that neither the article nor comments have made much of the argument that any species which has made it through billions of years of evolution is intrinsically a thing of value.\u003cp\u003eWhen you dabble in evolutionary determinism, you run into problems, because humans seem to have free will but also seem to be the result of evolution. So when it comes to decisions by humans, it\u0026#x27;s hard to say which choice is \u0026quot;interfering\u0026quot; with evolution. I would say that, by definition, no human action is interfering with evolution, assuming that humans are the result of evolution. If we do decide to eliminate mosquitoes, well, that just means humans evolved to eliminate mosquitoes, and mosquitoes didn\u0026#x27;t evolve to survive such attempts.","parent":"8386726","id":"8387042"}
{"by":"coretx","time":"1525527529","timestamp":"2018-05-05 13:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although uBlock does a fine job at fighting most symptoms,AdNauseam ( banned by google. )does a better job at fighting the cause by clicking on ads in the background, providing some financial incentives to advertisers.\nTo fight back and undermine value \u0026amp; business models seems more effective than just docile ad-blocking.\nLink: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;adnauseam.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;adnauseam.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16997474","id":"17001741"}
{"by":"zarkov99","time":"1546639328","timestamp":"2019-01-04 22:02:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel. From what I know all the people who had accidents failed to do this. The challenge seems to be how to overcome the false sense of security drivers get, precisely because the thing works so well most of the time.","parent":"18827634","id":"18828094"}
{"by":"hwillis","time":"1501796498","timestamp":"2017-08-03 21:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s weird and not usually reported like that.  Possibly it is a typo, but either way it\u0026#x27;s relatively closely coupled to storage capacity: li-ion is typically used around 1C, so ~1.3 GWh of capacity was deployed, within a factor of two or so.","parent":"14920539","id":"14924156"}
{"by":"robin_reala","time":"1504791737","timestamp":"2017-09-07 13:42:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep. The field is called dendrochronology: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Dendrochronology\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Dendrochronology\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15191360","id":"15191735"}
{"by":"thatfrenchguy","time":"1465242694","timestamp":"2016-06-06 19:51:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has a terrible environmental impact. For 1000€ you could have bought a car in any European country (but you\u0026#x27;d have to learn how to drive a manual, hard for a \u0026#x27;merican)","parent":"11848497","id":"11849767"}
{"by":"stollercyrus","time":"1497137515","timestamp":"2017-06-10 23:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found this post super helpful. For anyone doing rails development, I wrote a gem to make this really simple. I\u0026#x27;d love feedback.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cyrusstoller\u0026#x2F;public_primary_key\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cyrusstoller\u0026#x2F;public_primary_key\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14523523","id":"14529810"}
{"by":"n8agrin","time":"1251219712","timestamp":"2009-08-25 17:01:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also official homepage: \u003ca href=\"http://testswarm.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://testswarm.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"785202","id":"785206"}
{"by":"foldr","time":"1424057459","timestamp":"2015-02-16 03:30:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;For the philosopher physics is a bridge to reality,\u003cp\u003eThe claim that physics plays that special role within philosophy is itself a philosophical claim. If you want to justify it you\u0026#x27;ll have to study some philosophy!\u003cp\u003eMore generally, your attitude is one that\u0026#x27;s typical of physicists these days, who tend to approach the philosophical literature with a huge superiority complex. That\u0026#x27;s not an attitude that was shared by the 20th century\u0026#x27;s greatest physicists.","parent":"9054396","id":"9055184"}
{"by":"godot","time":"1500917105","timestamp":"2017-07-24 17:25:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your text is grey and you may be getting downvoted and I\u0026#x27;m not sure why. You are absolutely right and anyone who has ever been to ER will agree. I was in ER a couple of months ago, and it wasn\u0026#x27;t even a life-threatening issue, but I felt terrible. I went to the closest hospital with ER department (thankfully, it was in-network), and I was going to get their treatment no matter what price quote they hand me (not that I asked). When you\u0026#x27;re deeply, physically unwell, nothing else matters to your mind.\u003cp\u003eI think you may be getting downvoted for your last sentence, but the points you\u0026#x27;re making are very real.","parent":"14840144","id":"14840549"}
{"by":"dguaraglia","time":"1481399618","timestamp":"2016-12-10 19:53:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Decompiling isn\u0026#x27;t the hard part, it\u0026#x27;s providing all of the infrastructure the code depends on.","parent":"13147265","id":"13147545"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1497742173","timestamp":"2017-06-17 23:29:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The logistics were impossible without a kitchen remodel, because they cooked the eggs and the burgers on the same grills, but at different temperatures. The remodels included new equipment and a completely new kitchen workflow.","parent":"14577827","id":"14578184"}
{"by":"snprbob86","time":"1254379141","timestamp":"2009-10-01 06:39:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, you could have verified this trivially:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $ curl http://terminalcast.com | grep jquery\n    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current\n                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed\n  100  4006  100  4006    0     0  18017      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 39242\n      \u0026#60;script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://static.terminalcast.com//js/jquery-1.3.1.js\"\u0026#62;\u0026#60;/script\u0026#62;\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"852691","id":"854447"}
{"by":"omginternets","time":"1440815989","timestamp":"2015-08-29 02:39:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;A \u0026quot;survivable\u0026quot; term isn\u0026#x27;t the criteria I personally use for choosing presidents. :)\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s fair enough, but I would counter that:\u003cp\u003e1. We\u0026#x27;ve been settling for \u0026quot;survivable\u0026quot; terms for the past 10 years\u003cp\u003e2. Some people will take a hit for the greater good.  I really wish you would be willing to do that too.  That said, maybe you don\u0026#x27;t think Lessig\u0026#x27;s agenda would be serving the greater good, in which case I\u0026#x27;d be interested in knowing why.","parent":"10138812","id":"10138831"}
{"by":"chrislomax","time":"1331647803","timestamp":"2012-03-13 14:10:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now I am going to get killed for saying this but it's almost like you are referring to Microsoft Expression Web or something to that effect.\u003cp\u003eWhen we were doing work in Silverlight (god rest its soul), there was the facility to have designers working on the design and developers working on the code.\u003cp\u003eNow, what you are referring to may be the actual Expression Web product they offer. I don't know, but it sounds very familiar to the Silverlight version.\u003cp\u003eNo, I am not suggesting everyone moves to PC to use this software, I am just bringing to light the possibility the software may already exist!\u003cp\u003eWe personally have no issue mocking up our sites in Photoshop then them being sent over to the developers to be sliced and used. We have never really felt this process to be in-efficient either. I think so long as the designer has a clear understanding about what the developers need then it's fine. When you have print designers getting used to web development for the first time, that's when you have problems.","parent":"3698357","id":"3698475"}
{"by":"lxmorj","time":"1427935664","timestamp":"2015-04-02 00:47:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clothes and shoes have a high turnover (fashion) and multiple variants per SKU. I can see a manufacturer not providing perfect or accurate weights for every shoe size for every style.","parent":"9307667","id":"9308013"}
{"by":"garethsprice","time":"1434552881","timestamp":"2015-06-17 14:54:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re standing on the corner trying to hail a cab and a black car (or random sedan) will pull up, wind down the window and ask if you need a taxi. It\u0026#x27;s usually off-meter so the rate is negotiated\u0026#x2F;paid in cash. If you sound foreign (as I do), the rate is usually pretty high unless you argue it down. It\u0026#x27;s risky, tiring and makes you thankful for industry regulations that make licensed taxis a fair and predictable commodity service.","parent":"9731741","id":"9732136"}
{"by":"saosebastiao","time":"1428083237","timestamp":"2015-04-03 17:47:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I too am very much like the author. I have always done well on tests, but never had much patience for tedious school work. And yes, I have felt the same disrespect for me that the author has felt.\u003cp\u003eBut the author completely missed the point of silly word problems in math homework. They aren\u0026#x27;t silly because educators are disconnected with the real world, and they aren\u0026#x27;t disrespecting you either. They are silly precisely to convey the point that the words \u003ci\u003edo not matter\u003c/i\u003e...much in the same way that the name of an algebraic variable does not matter.\u003cp\u003eThe Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem, the Chinese Postman problem, and the Traveling Salesman problem are all silly word problems with a seeming disconnect from reality. And yet huge and seemingly insurmountable problems can be solved using them by employing a technique that is often called Projection: You take a problem you know but can\u0026#x27;t solve and project it onto a similar problem you know and \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e solve.\u003cp\u003eUsing this technique, not only could you take an NP-Complete production scheduling problem and project it into a basic integer linear program that can be solved trivially using the simplex algorithm with cutting planes and column generation...but you could also develop the simplex algorithm itself, just as Dantzig did.\u003cp\u003eMath teachers that formulate their homework problems in terms that are immediately applicable to the real world may be more successful in getting people interested in mathematics, but if they reduce their homework problems to just those that are \u0026quot;real world\u0026quot; enough to be interesting to wandering minds, they risk destroying the creativity to solve real world problems that are \u003ci\u003eactually hard\u003c/i\u003e. That would be a much bigger disrespect to the student than anything the author has ever experienced.","parent":"9314114","id":"9317272"}
{"by":"johngossman","time":"1461164288","timestamp":"2016-04-20 14:58:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quote: In large part, the interest stems from realization that one can hardly take a military commander or a corporation president away from his work to teach him to type.","parent":"11534637","id":"11534856"}
{"by":"bigiain","time":"1525741508","timestamp":"2018-05-08 01:05:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That might work ok for Clearbit\u0026#x27;s customers - who can send an IP address and either get back a company name or nothing, but I suspect Clearbit have to have some solid legal advice for answers to questions like \u0026quot;What if a customer sends you a home\u0026#x2F;residential IP address?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI live alone - my ip address is (and has been for a decade or more) static. It without doubt will qualify as Personally Identifying Information.","parent":"17017253","id":"17017959"}
{"by":"monksy","time":"1429283200","timestamp":"2015-04-17 15:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love Gitlab but the biggest issue I have with it is that I\u0026#x27;m a major version behind and on the minor version of .8 or soemething.\u003cp\u003eFor me to migrate I\u0026#x27;ll have to upgrade to the minor versions until I get to the latest. Thats a huge pain. Is there any other way?","parent":"9394402","id":"9394754"}
{"by":"ash","time":"1491986165","timestamp":"2017-04-12 08:36:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; React Native already requires Babel.\u003cp\u003eCould you elaborate on that please? Is it impossible to skip Babel when using React Native?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Not at all. Installation is very fast and easy.\u003cp\u003e(Last time I checked Flow npm package gives you binaries.)\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure Flow installs fine in \u0026quot;standard\u0026quot; environments, like an OSX laptop. I was thinking about more weird places, like CI servers where you can\u0026#x27;t fully control the environment. I was burned enough about stuff like that in the past.","parent":"14095823","id":"14095856"}
{"by":"kqr2","time":"1244228199","timestamp":"2009-06-05 18:56:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Followup to:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642677\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642677\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"643720","id":"643723"}
{"by":"mattmaroon","time":"1214196405","timestamp":"2008-06-23 04:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're absolutely correct. I have a friend who works for a company that does nothing but launch franchise changes, and they've had a few monster scores. They do it in a few ways. One is by, as you mentioned, taking a pre-existing successful restaurant and using the name and some of the menu.\u003cp\u003eSome times they will simply develop concepts (often 4 or 5 at a time) start one of each, and see what sticks.\u003cp\u003eI've studied the restaurant industry quite a bit and can only think of a few chains that stumbled into it.","parent":"173044","id":"224778"}
{"by":"GunlogAlm","time":"1382931521","timestamp":"2013-10-28 03:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Warrant_canary\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6624665","id":"6624973"}
{"by":"pllbnk","time":"1498710840","timestamp":"2017-06-29 04:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What community would gain: competing browsers getting more traction due to larger share in the browser usage, better web standards support in the long run (remember Internet Explorer?).\u003cp\u003eWhat you would gain: be less dependent on Google, use open source (e.g. Firefox, Chromium, Iridium), better extensions as Chrome doesn\u0026#x27;t support third party, better performance.\u003cp\u003eYour argument about dev tools is the same as all others are saying. But everybody comfortably ignores the fact that dev tools are built into Chromium and Chrome just happens to use the same, so it is not special in that space.","parent":"14658462","id":"14660797"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1401796181","timestamp":"2014-06-03 11:49:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given that analytics really does let the authors fix problems and inefficiencies that users are having I would imagine people \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e \u0026quot;be cool\u0026quot; with it.","parent":"7838140","id":"7839484"}
{"by":"tomsthumb","time":"1487058731","timestamp":"2017-02-14 07:52:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jiu Jitsu is very concept oriented to boot. Strategy and understanding run deep. Honestly it would surprise me if jiu jitsu black belts weren\u0026#x27;t intellectually on the level of chess masters (obviously translated into the physical domain).","parent":"13641618","id":"13641975"}
{"by":"dec0dedab0de","time":"1535806382","timestamp":"2018-09-01 12:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is how SQL injection makes a comeback.  No thank you, I\u0026#x27;ll stick with my orm.","parent":"17890760","id":"17891606"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1441209961","timestamp":"2015-09-02 16:06:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eOf course it also allows real DRM\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think thats\u0026#x27;s the scariest part. 16 years ago people strongly oppposed the processor serial number in the P3( \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10106870\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10106870\u003c/a\u003e ), something that seems almost harmless compared to what (anti-user) \u0026quot;security\u0026quot; features are in today\u0026#x27;s hardware. It\u0026#x27;s not only DRM, but no doubt other ways of taking control away from the user will be found for it.\u003cp\u003eWith performance not being all that much better, I\u0026#x27;m personally going to stay on older, \u0026quot;more free\u0026quot; hardware for a while.","parent":"10159703","id":"10160162"}
{"by":"masak","time":"1279006637","timestamp":"2010-07-13 07:37:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference isn't more subtle than the difference between $x + $y and $x - $y.","parent":"1508934","id":"1510678"}
{"by":"froo","time":"1233212550","timestamp":"2009-01-29 07:02:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Australia, we have a phrase for this kind of attitude.\u003cp\u003eIt's called \"Tall Poppy Syndrome\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"455464","id":"455975"}
{"by":"jjobi","time":"1486127612","timestamp":"2017-02-03 13:13:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BTRFS has so many drawbacks using it as storage driver for docker.  See the bottom of the page \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.docker.com\u0026#x2F;engine\u0026#x2F;userguide\u0026#x2F;storagedriver\u0026#x2F;btrfs-driver\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.docker.com\u0026#x2F;engine\u0026#x2F;userguide\u0026#x2F;storagedriver\u0026#x2F;btrfs...\u003c/a\u003e.\nPrimary drawback being each container creates unique copy of the data in kernel page cache and taking away system resources from applications.","parent":"13556691","id":"13559547"}
{"by":"crdoconnor","time":"1427026578","timestamp":"2015-03-22 12:16:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So explain, in your own words, then, how you think Ares is more efficiently allocating capital now that they\u0026#x27;re in charge of GC.\u003cp\u003eBecause it sure seems to me that all they are doing is squeezing their employees and vendors ever harder as per the Bain \u0026quot;how to run a company into the ground\u0026quot; handbook.","parent":"9246343","id":"9246475"}
{"by":"pooriaazimi","time":"1328920784","timestamp":"2012-02-11 00:39:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why '302 Moved Temporarily'? Wouldn't '301 Moved Permanently' serve hacker's purpose better?","parent":"3578132","id":"3578143"}
{"by":"varjag","time":"1372370074","timestamp":"2013-06-27 21:54:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A scrambler can be used in audio band, although I\u0026#x27;m not sure how well it will mate with a GSM codec. Still it\u0026#x27;s an inferior solution to purely digital P2P VoIP systems (like e.g. Skype before the supernodes).","parent":"5954353","id":"5954968"}
{"by":"chewxy","time":"1359506609","timestamp":"2013-01-30 00:43:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was really cool. The office is having internet connectivity problems right now, and after we fixed it, this page loaded, and for a brief moment, I felt like a hacker from the movies :D","parent":"5136849","id":"5137395"}
{"by":"SonOfLilit","time":"1502022666","timestamp":"2017-08-06 12:31:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Submitter here. I twitted the creator in the hope that he\u0026#x27;ll answer this great question, because I have no idea.\u003cp\u003eIn the meanwhile, seems like the Steam page has some more info?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;store.steampowered.com\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;473950\u0026#x2F;Manifold_Garden\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;store.steampowered.com\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;473950\u0026#x2F;Manifold_Garden\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14940847","id":"14941035"}
{"by":"johannes1234321","time":"1545262474","timestamp":"2018-12-19 23:34:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Java\u0026#x27;s predecessor Oak was created by  13 guys (among them Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan, James Gosling and Bill Joy) over 18 months a different then relatively quickly grew to a larger team. (While that project didn\u0026#x27;t include the language spec itself only, but also runtime and library)\u003cp\u003eC++ wasn\u0026#x27;t designed by Stroustrup alone. It\u0026#x27;s based on C\u0026#x27;s design.\u003cp\u003eSure sometimes you have cleared leaders (see also Perl\u0026#x2F;Larry Wall) but having a larger group has benefits to see more edge cases (with the risk of committee issues)","parent":"18716121","id":"18721033"}
{"by":"bungle","time":"1475560201","timestamp":"2016-10-04 05:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Light bulbs have not improved, they have become worse, and are designed to fail.","parent":"12633191","id":"12633543"}
{"by":"colemannugent","time":"1512287445","timestamp":"2017-12-03 07:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, I do conflate the two. But the article was about hashrate, and you do need enormous hashrate to modify even one past block. Attacks of that kind are fairly unreasonable, even on the scale of the Chinese govt.\u003cp\u003eWould I be wrong to think that every miner (or at least every entity who is mining, not nessesarily every computer that is mining) would have a vested interest in running a full node as well? That would put control of the nodes in roughly the same hands as those who control the miners right?","parent":"15836490","id":"15836520"}
{"by":"fiaz","time":"1239910046","timestamp":"2009-04-16 19:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Especially given the fact that all of those MagLev claims went up in smoke...","parent":"565551","id":"565707"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1528288855","timestamp":"2018-06-06 12:40:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was clear to me as well as some other commenters here that the point in this library is to practice algorithms on binary trees and pretty print their output.\u003cp\u003eStudying algorithms while using a library for the implementation of the underlying data structure is still very much \u0026quot;learning by doing.\u0026quot; This assumption being that you already understand how to implement that data structure and would like to concentrate on studying algorithms on that data structure.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very odd that you have chosen to declare this \u0026quot;improper\u0026quot; and discredit it as a result of your own misunderstanding. The documentation clearly states the author\u0026#x27;s intentions:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;It allows you to skip the tedious work of setting up test data, and dive straight into practising your algorithms.\u0026quot;[1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;binarytree.readthedocs.io\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;binarytree.readthedocs.io\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17246433","id":"17246551"}
{"by":"apohn","time":"1543519849","timestamp":"2018-11-29 19:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I agree that this is bad advice. I\u0026#x27;m 35. I\u0026#x27;ve got a wife, two kids, and a weird house with tons of maintenance projects. My parents live five minutes away, and I spend most weekends at Home Depot or hanging out in my parents\u0026#x27; living room with the kids. I work too much and don\u0026#x27;t sleep enough. And I\u0026#x27;m blissfully happy.\u003cp\u003eSomething that seems to come out in what you\u0026#x27;re saying is personal growth.  To be a decent spouse, to be a decent parent, to work through home maintenance projects, and find new ways to interact with your parents as you both age, all of these require you to push yourself to learn and grow.  It may not seem like it over 3 months, but over years of ups and downs you realize you\u0026#x27;ve changed and grown a lot, hopefully with purpose.\u003cp\u003eWith jobs and moves, it\u0026#x27;s easy to change jobs and places just because you get bored.  But change isn\u0026#x27;t equal to growth.  Sometimes it\u0026#x27;s just change and it feels meaningless.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t mean to say family is better than career or vice versa.  But lots of people (me included) can wander through different jobs without feeling there\u0026#x27;s any thread of continuity or purpose to those changes - it\u0026#x27;s just a change.  Maybe it\u0026#x27;s easier for people who can actively manage their career and always have their next move\u0026#x2F;job be another way for them to grow.","parent":"18562916","id":"18563136"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1438022836","timestamp":"2015-07-27 18:47:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There have been relatively successful bans on chemical and biological weapons, why do you suspect we can\u0026#x27;t successfully ban the proliferation of autonomous weapons? These things don\u0026#x27;t appear out of thin air, they still have to be manufactured, sold and stored. If you can find them you can remove them, and deal with those who created them.","parent":"9955953","id":"9957183"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1334557864","timestamp":"2012-04-16 06:31:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The better question is, why are people wasting their time trying to invent a federated Facebook instead of a federated Google? People already have lots of ways to share pictures of their cats. But they only have one way to find information on the internet, and if the people running that monopoly did something like compromise the quality of that service to promote their sharing-cat-pictures product, we'd be screwed.","parent":"3846159","id":"3846185"}
{"by":"lutorm","time":"1263393343","timestamp":"2010-01-13 14:35:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes but how do they get the \u003ci\u003eother\u003c/i\u003e IP addresses that had been accessed without having that traffic go through Google?","parent":"1050093","id":"1050173"}
{"by":"qwepoiru","time":"1499413655","timestamp":"2017-07-07 07:47:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apps are the \u0026quot;1-800-cheesy-mnemonic\u0026quot; for the new generation.\u003cp\u003eit is 100% the same formula. Start by hiding your real cost in weird price schemes. Advertise like crazy. ???. Profit.\u003cp\u003eIt is a proven method. And it revamped for every generation. 1-800, app, \u0026quot;as seen on tv\u0026quot;, catalogs, etc. And now you have subscription services of tangible goods for the millennials.","parent":"14714220","id":"14716793"}
{"by":"dzenn","time":"1344450782","timestamp":"2012-08-08 18:33:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"its funny how most people here dont know anything about design .. i totally agree never use black .","parent":"4357002","id":"4357226"}
{"by":"ics","time":"1411801439","timestamp":"2014-09-27 07:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve never heard of a company paying an employee\u0026#x27;s wife directly (except after a death), but it is common for married salarymen in Japan to turn over their finances to their spouse. In return they are given \u003ci\u003ekozukai\u003c/i\u003e or \u0026quot;pocket money\u0026#x2F;allowance\u0026quot; as a percentage as a way of curtailing unnecessary expenditures.","parent":"8376183","id":"8376329"}
{"by":"marcidale","time":"1327945005","timestamp":"2012-01-30 17:36:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At POPVOX, our first investor was Tim O'Reilly.\nLegislative advocacy is a huge market -- and one in great need of disruption.","parent":"3529221","id":"3529673"}
{"by":"ansible","time":"1446131049","timestamp":"2015-10-29 15:04:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That they started out with such a board of directors in the first place tells me they were more about image than technology.\u003cp\u003eNothing less than a full reconstitution of the board plus top management, as well as a thorough third-party review of their tech would convince me they\u0026#x27;re legit moving forward.","parent":"10471152","id":"10471532"}
{"by":"bravura","time":"1299535536","timestamp":"2011-03-07 22:05:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.\" -Howard Aiken (the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer)","parent":"2298303","id":"2298909"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1340816216","timestamp":"2012-06-27 16:56:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the screens are off and you're only allowed to see the front, I presume. Which seems kind of artificial.","parent":"4167801","id":"4167869"}
{"by":"jcrawfordor","time":"1462662242","timestamp":"2016-05-07 23:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think a lot of people are misreading this article. It appears that the device is standalone and runs some embedded OS, but as a feature logs data to the doctor\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eexisting\u003c/i\u003e computer. So it\u0026#x27;s not so much that they built the tool on windows as it is that they built the tool on the operating system they expected doctor\u0026#x27;s to be using.\u003cp\u003eI still think this was a poor decision, but it\u0026#x27;s a different kind of poor decision","parent":"11650334","id":"11651772"}
{"by":"cicero","time":"1302290412","timestamp":"2011-04-08 19:20:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks great; thank you! It will be nice to be able to put this on my Kindle and have it next to my MacBook as I work through examples. Flipping between the book and dev environment on a laptop screen is not as good.","parent":"2419943","id":"2425241"}
{"by":"heavenlyblue","time":"1532100609","timestamp":"2018-07-20 15:30:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, I can see that this is a WIP library and I can also see how people actively working on an academic project don\u0026#x27;t really bother (or do not have enough experience with the package system quirks) to package it well for a variety of systems.","parent":"17575628","id":"17575789"}
{"by":"t_j_m","time":"1350480072","timestamp":"2012-10-17 13:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One thing that can be a bit silly but really works to a degree. Is to dress and act a little bit geeky, do not be shy to walk around with a t-shirt or a hoodie with the python,ruby or some linux logo on it. Talk about software and computing with people you meet. Market your self as a guy that know a lot about software and the word will come around.\u003cp\u003eI have met several people for example in the gym that have offered me a job or some consulting work because they have seen me with a linux t-shirt on. Of course they did not threw me a job because of the t-shirt but it led to a small chit-chat and then it escalated from there.","parent":"4655661","id":"4664252"}
{"by":"umanwizard","time":"1463186545","timestamp":"2016-05-14 00:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; the largest ratings and reviews company worldwide\u003cp\u003eSo, Amazon? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by this?","parent":"11693124","id":"11694052"}
{"by":"fauigerzigerk","time":"1504281029","timestamp":"2017-09-01 15:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;The argument you are making is essentially: as a society we make rules, therefore we can enact rule x.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, I was responding to this very general question by thecrazyone: \u0026quot;Why should anyone be restricted in their actions because of your opinions?\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI was interpreting this question in the sense in which libertarians are often framing it: \u0026quot;What gives society the right to get involved in voluntary agreements between individuals?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo I was merely explaining my reasoning on why society has a legitimate role to play and why my opinion as a citizen counts for something.\u003cp\u003eOnce that is out of the way, we can go on arguing about what specific rules are good or bad.\u003cp\u003eAnd on that point I have one key disagreement with some libertarians. I do not accept the absolute priority of private property over all other interests and freedoms that people value.\u003cp\u003eI find this primacy extremely contradictory given that there can never be a level playing field and libertarians keep arguing against levelling the playing field where that would be possible to some degree (inheritance tax)\u003cp\u003eI also question whether private property is sufficiently well defined or definable without taking into account other considerations of what it means to be human.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;Just because person A depends upon the services of person B doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that person A can make outlandish demands on the way person B provides said services.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know what outlandish demands you are talking about.","parent":"15149132","id":"15149524"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1504847384","timestamp":"2017-09-08 05:09:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We could easily do it with a dyson sphere then. Seriously, we still pale in comparison to the energy nature can leverage.","parent":"15197970","id":"15198000"}
{"by":"Matt_Cutts","time":"1344309446","timestamp":"2012-08-07 03:17:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the answer is that you can print out one-time codes on paper and put them into your wallet.\u003cp\u003eI would also recommend putting an unlock pattern on your phone to protect in case your phone is stolen.","parent":"4348478","id":"4348526"}
{"by":"dhritzkiv","time":"1505850630","timestamp":"2017-09-19 19:50:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also remember this in Canada in the late 90s. ESSO had such a device. I think other stations (Shell, Petro Canada) also did.","parent":"15286649","id":"15288177"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1347451819","timestamp":"2012-09-12 12:10:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The unfortunate truth is that some of these dictators and their military was all that was keeping their countries from turning into bastions of religious intolerance. To a zealot anything is an offense and any offense is an excuse.\u003cp\u003eEgypt isn't exactly improving, if anything they are moving backwards at the hands of religious zealots. Algeria is in a better state as its government is still in place.","parent":"4510152","id":"4510225"}
{"by":"dfc","time":"1397090296","timestamp":"2014-04-10 00:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Before I saw your comment I made a top level comment about a book but wanted to repeat it here so that you saw it. If you are interested in ants take a look at Ants by holldobler and wilson.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Ants-Bert-Holldobler/dp/0674040759\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;The-Ants-Bert-Holldobler\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0674040759\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7560663","id":"7563519"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1496859030","timestamp":"2017-06-07 18:10:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing I\u0026#x27;ve built has ever needed anything more than a $5 Digital Ocean droplet and one of my services gets around a thosand requests a second at peak. Purely anecdotal and I\u0026#x27;m not doing anything CPU intensive but I really feel startups are overdoing their infrastructure.","parent":"14508264","id":"14508566"}
{"by":"mestudent","time":"1308943468","timestamp":"2011-06-24 19:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven't had any trouble with AUR any time I've used it, most of the time a simple makepkg -s does the trick, but maybe it is just similar enough to slackbuilds for me not to mind.\u003cp\u003eTo be honest though Arch moves too fast for me and there are quite a few advantages for not, I use ubuntu though because it is easy.","parent":"2693035","id":"2693529"}
{"by":"crmd","time":"1482465691","timestamp":"2016-12-23 04:01:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m perfectly fine with this.","parent":"13241754","id":"13242736"}
{"by":"psss","time":"1392277922","timestamp":"2014-02-13 07:52:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the good illustrations how app stores (itunes, play) limits us: try to find any usable porno app. In contrast with Web where you can find anything you want and nobody cares what are you doing here, in stores we are hardly limitated to \u0026quot;morally acceptable\u0026quot; apps. It looks like digital Pakistan.","parent":"7229284","id":"7230054"}
{"by":"IpV8","time":"1468942233","timestamp":"2016-07-19 15:30:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I too have a system 76.  It is overall pretty solid.  It has trouble with 2 external monitors though (more a ubuntu issue then the company). I also wouldn\u0026#x27;t want to travel with it too much as the chassis is all plastic and pretty flexible.  I would worry about accidentally bending the screen or something.  I love the company though, and hope that they can keep improving their stuff.","parent":"12121426","id":"12122300"}
{"by":"joelandren","time":"1386220781","timestamp":"2013-12-05 05:19:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what news organizations do. They find newsworthy information and provide it to the public. TechCrunch or the Wall Street Journal would do the same thing.\u003cp\u003eThe press doesn\u0026#x27;t exist to cheerlead (in most cases). There\u0026#x27;s no arguing that Uber\u0026#x27;s numbers are newsworthy, so I don\u0026#x27;t see anything wrong with Valleywag\u0026#x27;s coverage in this instance.","parent":"6851155","id":"6852835"}
{"by":"zzz157","time":"1471900031","timestamp":"2016-08-22 21:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah but I think Big Pharma would rather make the money themselves. That\u0026#x27;s all it\u0026#x27;s ever fucking about.","parent":"12334585","id":"12339449"}
{"by":"ktRolster","time":"1456422526","timestamp":"2016-02-25 17:48:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the teammates respect each other, and feel respected, then they will feel safe, there will be a safe zone created by the respect.\u003cp\u003eIf the teammates don\u0026#x27;t respect each other, they will ignore what the others are saying, even if they are forced to listen to them.","parent":"11174399","id":"11176156"}
{"by":"malandrew","time":"1358797525","timestamp":"2013-01-21 19:45:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All the contracts of some form or another in the jurisdiction of California that I've reviewed recently include some language to that effect, usually at the end among the warranties and disclaimers.","parent":"5092076","id":"5093295"}
{"by":"lordcorvin1","time":"1541033573","timestamp":"2018-11-01 00:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honeypots take care of most basic bots.\nIf you need captcha, you can use Math Question like in \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;random.irb.hr\u0026#x2F;signup.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;random.irb.hr\u0026#x2F;signup.php\u003c/a\u003e\nYou can also add extra security with time elapsed between loading the page and form submission, if it\u0026#x27;s less than 5 seconds it\u0026#x27;s most likely a bot.","parent":"18350329","id":"18350588"}
{"by":"synchrone","time":"1487673307","timestamp":"2017-02-21 10:35:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While this would be a perfect solution, there is one caveat:\u003cp\u003eMost apps (e.g Signal until today) rely on Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) service for push-notifications. \nWithout GCM, many apps simply crash.","parent":"13691734","id":"13694642"}
{"by":"fizzbatter","time":"1478222179","timestamp":"2016-11-04 01:16:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the right answer would be to force reboots at the right time, but - and this is the technical challenge - ensure that you can bring the users environment mostly \u003ci\u003e(almost entirely)\u003c/i\u003e back to normal. Eg, store memory states, bring everything that the user wants back as it was before the reboot.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s likely a pipe dream, as apps do a bunch of complicated things - but it seems like a merger of security and UX. I\u0026#x27;m not saying it\u0026#x27;s possible.. just that it seems like the best compromise.","parent":"12867173","id":"12869633"}
{"by":"nreece","time":"1510622567","timestamp":"2017-11-14 01:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Contrary to trends \u0026amp; general opinion, RSS usage for content aggregation \u0026amp; monitoring is on an increase, specially in the business world and niche industries.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m speaking from our own experience running a little startup, Feedity - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;feedity.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;feedity.com\u003c/a\u003e, that helps create custom RSS feeds for any webpage.","parent":"15673430","id":"15691815"}
{"by":"ghurlman","time":"1288964827","timestamp":"2010-11-05 13:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lawyers.  Sooner or later, someone will plug it in while it's open.","parent":"1872429","id":"1873115"}
{"by":"danilocampos","time":"1336709577","timestamp":"2012-05-11 04:12:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Self-correcting.\u003cp\u003eAny employer who would have a beef with this is probably not worth working for anyway. Honest people have little to fear from public disclosure of their behavior.","parent":"3957585","id":"3957594"}
{"by":"sanoli","time":"1384387623","timestamp":"2013-11-14 00:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m from a country that has zero football and soccer is the king of everything. Some time ago I started watching football and really enjoyed both the physical tactical aspects of it. Been very busy though (had kids!), and never got to really study and learn more about the game (read a for dummies book and that was it - still have last year\u0026#x27;s superbowl game on media player to be watched). What would be a good, practical way (book\u0026#x2F;video\u0026#x2F;documentary) to learn about the game? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!","parent":"6728821","id":"6729570"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1291812968","timestamp":"2010-12-08 12:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can also go to a static language like OCaml.  They don't blow up your code size, but are also fast.","parent":"1980391","id":"1982744"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1386342271","timestamp":"2013-12-06 15:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eTo me the most interesting point in the future is 120 trillion years: when all the stars in the universe have exhausted their fuel, and the Universe has gone dark.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSorry, but doesn\u0026#x27;t that sound like the LEAST interesting point in the universe?","parent":"6861128","id":"6861357"}
{"by":"weishigoname","time":"1422855517","timestamp":"2015-02-02 05:38:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"do the thing you really like, I like to start a project, private, or open-source, I spend on it full-time, never worry about someone will disturb you, that is wonderful, and I think it will helpful to you next career","parent":"8981425","id":"8982869"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1446160213","timestamp":"2015-10-29 23:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What Windows licensing are you talking about? Windows 10 is licensed the same as ever.\u003cp\u003eOn missed calls and SMSs, with my iOS device I get both SMS messages and phone calls through iMessage and Facetime on my MacBook. With my Android device I do the same for SMS messages, plus all the notifications I\u0026#x27;m interested in with PushBullet.","parent":"10474726","id":"10475084"}
{"by":"swayvil","time":"1383933289","timestamp":"2013-11-08 17:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In nature, the animals will push for all they can get - red in tooth and claw etc.\u003cp\u003eNo thanks, we are above that shit.","parent":"6694589","id":"6697812"}
{"by":"tckr","time":"1470069164","timestamp":"2016-08-01 16:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING FREELANCER, Berlin, Germany (only REMOTE)\u003cp\u003eCall for contribution: Design at Resourceful Humans.\u003cp\u003eWe are looking for a contributor who creates a compelling\ndigital identity for us and our tools.\u003cp\u003ePlease have a look at \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;design.resourceful-humans.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;design.resourceful-humans.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\nand propose your contribution to info@resourceful-humans.com\n(include the word \u0026quot;Contribution\u0026quot; somewhere so you proposal\ndoes not get buried in SPAM).\u003cp\u003eYou can PN me via Twitter @coderbyheart …","parent":"12202866","id":"12203749"}
{"by":"jpatokal","time":"1456053778","timestamp":"2016-02-21 11:22:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve worked a fair amount in Saudi Arabia, and yeah, even by (low) Gulf standards it\u0026#x27;s a deeply fucked-up place and definitely a ticking time bomb.  A few things people don\u0026#x27;t realize until they\u0026#x27;ve actually been there:\u003cp\u003e- Not all Saudis are rich.  Quite the opposite, there are destitute beggars on the streets of Riyadh.  The women were the saddest side, kneeling by the roadside begging for alms in their all-enveloping pitch-black abayas in the scorching 45-degree heat (110+ F).\u003cp\u003e- The extent of the sex segregation.  If you\u0026#x27;re female, you\u0026#x27;re \u003ci\u003eliterally\u003c/i\u003e a prisoner of your own family, as you can\u0026#x27;t go anywhere in Saudi without a car, women aren\u0026#x27;t allowed to drive, and women also aren\u0026#x27;t allowed to enter the \u003ci\u003evast\u003c/i\u003e majority of shops, restaurants etc on their own.\u003cp\u003e- Riyadh\u0026#x27;s population is projected to hit 10 million by 2020.  It was originally a dinky oasis in the middle of the desert, with enough resources to support \u003ci\u003emaybe\u003c/i\u003e 500 people.  If anything ever disrupts the constant stream of imports paid for by oil money, the results will be apocalyptic.\u003cp\u003e- The state is \u003ci\u003edeeply\u003c/i\u003e corrupt.  Want a business visa?  You can wait forever for the Chamber of Commerce to rubber-stamp your invitation letter...  or you can pay a \u0026quot;facilitator\u0026quot; several hundred bucks and have it the next day.  This repeats at every level, only with the sums going up an order of magnitude every time.\u003cp\u003e- \u0026quot;Hypocritical\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t begin to describe the opulence of the Sauds (the ruling family; yup, Saudi Arabia is the world\u0026#x27;s only country named after its rulers).  For example, the massively lucrative alcohol smuggling racket is generally acknowledged to be run by one of the princes (of whom there are hundreds; Ibn al-Saud was such a horny old goat that he had \u003ci\u003e45\u003c/i\u003e sons who survived to adulthood and had children of their own).\u003cp\u003e- Unless you belong to the 0.01% with enough \u003ci\u003ewastah\u003c/i\u003e (connections) to flaunt the rules, there is \u003ci\u003efuck all\u003c/i\u003e to do in Riyadh.  No cinemas, no clubs, no bars, not even shisha shops (they\u0026#x27;re banished beyond city limits).  Can\u0026#x27;t drink a coffee with an unrelated woman at Starbucks without risking arrest, can\u0026#x27;t even go to the shopping mall on the weekends if you\u0026#x27;re a \u0026quot;bachelor\u0026quot; (unamrried male).  So people either play a lot of Playstation and drive dangerously, go to the mosque, or go nuts.\u003cp\u003e- The education system is completely useless.  \u003ci\u003eAll\u003c/i\u003e companies in Saudi are operated almost entirely by imported labor.  I was working to set up a new mobile phone operator, with a motley crew of American, Europeans, Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians, Sudanese etc, all hard-working and competent.  And then there were the token Saudi dudes, who generally both had no idea about technology \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e couldn\u0026#x27;t speak more than few words of English...  but each company had to hire a few to fulfill their \u0026quot;Saudification\u0026quot; quota.\u003cp\u003eRandom stories if you\u0026#x27;d like to read more: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;driftingclouds.net\u0026#x2F;tag\u0026#x2F;saudi-arabia\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;driftingclouds.net\u0026#x2F;tag\u0026#x2F;saudi-arabia\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11143588","id":"11144097"}
{"by":"drblast","time":"1524497015","timestamp":"2018-04-23 15:23:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Often when you\u0026#x27;re living month-to-month without savings it\u0026#x27;s feasible to buy a new car but not a used one.\u003cp\u003eThe loan terms on new cars are usually more favorable and you don\u0026#x27;t have to worry as much about something expensive on the car failing and leaving you without transportation.\u003cp\u003eI was a couple months out of college when the old car I owned needed about $3000 in repairs that I didn\u0026#x27;t have. My options were payday loan, buy a new car, or buy a much cheaper used car and hope that it didn\u0026#x27;t end up needing $3000 in repairs.\u003cp\u003eNew car was the easy choice, and I fully understood at the time that if I could scrape together $3000 it would be much better to repair the car I owned.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s like buying cheap sneakers from Walmart that you know won\u0026#x27;t last. Doesn\u0026#x27;t matter if it\u0026#x27;s a bad decision if that\u0026#x27;s all you can afford.","parent":"16902174","id":"16904196"}
{"by":"notadoc","time":"1498244625","timestamp":"2017-06-23 19:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK so through the chain of reblog web vomit, the \u0026quot;source\u0026quot; study minus any of the garbage and very legitimate sounding \u0026quot;fathead-movie\u0026quot; which is a regurgitation of a nypost article, is this\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;circ.ahajournals.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;early\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;CIR.0000000000000510\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;circ.ahajournals.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;early\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;CIR.000...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14621597","id":"14621834"}
{"by":"MWil","time":"1387382633","timestamp":"2013-12-18 16:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"oh the whole inside is silica and paper towels which are changed (probably should be more frequently)","parent":"6927915","id":"6928261"}
{"by":"dmortensen","time":"1421069473","timestamp":"2015-01-12 13:31:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree and I could easily see myself use something like that. However, I want something (naively perhaps) which my Mom can use. My worst nightmare is one where early users inadvertently create some sort of \u0026quot;syntax\u0026quot; which my mom use to discard this as a service for her. Like she discarded the idea of twitter, because people created a RT, MT $bla #bla etc. \u0026quot;syntax\u0026quot;.","parent":"8872671","id":"8873754"}
{"by":"tasty_freeze","time":"1393217346","timestamp":"2014-02-24 04:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few days ago I was at a Half Price Books store.  Something which struck me at the moment was that while there were probably 20 Perl books (some of them duplicates), there wasn\u0026#x27;t a single Python book.  I took it as in indication that Perl is in decline and people are unloading their personal perl library and nobody is buying the used ones; meanwhile, people are holding on to their Python books and ones which show up get snapped up.\u003cp\u003eThe alternate interpretation is that Perl needs a LOT of books to explain things due to its quirky syntax and myriad coding idioms, so there are simply more Perl books in circulation.","parent":"7288884","id":"7289144"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1308884634","timestamp":"2011-06-24 03:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C/C++ exists for a purpose. There are places where features like that are powerful and useful.\u003cp\u003eIf you chose C/C++ for a project that requires security, and you accidentally left a vulnerability, it's not C/C++'s fault.","parent":"2688359","id":"2690802"}
{"by":"tomcam","time":"1448483279","timestamp":"2015-11-25 20:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re smart not to work there. Lousy place for someone who wants a decent wage and a 40-hour week.\u003cp\u003eAs for their ignoring your problem... I\u0026#x27;m afraid I might do it too. This comes from a formerly idealistic person. If they admit to a problem, they open themselves up to lawsuits. I have been sued before and I learned that telling the truth was not in my favor. Feel a little bad to admit this, but there you are.","parent":"10629180","id":"10629456"}
{"by":"wavefunction","time":"1388264145","timestamp":"2013-12-28 20:55:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I should note that a pool of audio tags allows you to play multiple sounds at once.  I\u0026#x27;ve tested my lib with up to 200 simultaneous samples playing at once on a lark, since I don\u0026#x27;t need anywhere near that sort of coverage.","parent":"6976486","id":"6976530"}
{"by":"twism","time":"1277553696","timestamp":"2010-06-26 12:01:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in the same boat as you before, but it is now my \"go to\" language. It happened when I started using django. Just humor yourself and go through this tutorial:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't copy and paste the code in the tutorial and when they ask you to type something in the REPL, do it.\u003cp\u003eThat's when it all started for me.","parent":"1463425","id":"1463558"}
{"by":"pvaldes","time":"1546991647","timestamp":"2019-01-08 23:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is a neverending, emotional and often really messed-up rabbit hole. Closing eyes when is not convenient for the discurse, and rejecting any logical reasoning or fact against.\u003cp\u003eWe can see people on tv acussing other people of being torturers and organising harassment plans against them, whereas happily showing their \u0026quot;baby\u0026quot; toy-dog in their arms.\u003cp\u003eThe same dogs selectively breeded to keep cute deformed craneus, jaw bones like an acordion, popping eyes, crossed teeth, deformed humerus and femurs, no tail, chronic fatigue, all sort of health problems. Dogs feeded with \u0026quot;vegan dog food\u0026quot; for years... and castrated of course. All for human entertainment. How this is not an extreme evil form of torture for them?\u003cp\u003eMaybe they should give example and kill those pets humanely as soon as possible to end their endless life of suffering?","parent":"18859205","id":"18861005"}
{"by":"hinkley","time":"1527621646","timestamp":"2018-05-29 19:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been thinking a lot lately that we are trying to solve class of XY Problem.\u003cp\u003eUniversal time is in part about trying to order events in a strict order. Probelm is, nobody observed that order. Later we infer things about the system based on this chronology but it’s completely fictitious and we have to stretch our brains to explain the state of the system.\u003cp\u003eThe Java Memory Model, and subsequently several other languages, agreed on “happens before” semantics. We don’t care what order certain things occurred in as long as these key events happen in the right order. Because those events \u003ci\u003ecause\u003c/i\u003e the other events or are \u003ci\u003ecaused by\u003c/i\u003e them. Some transactional models have a flavor of this as well. This write happened based on a decision made by observing all of the transactions up to N, which may or may not result in a rollback because N+1 overwrote a read value.\u003cp\u003eI can’t help thinking that our logs should show something like “customer saw their balance was $102.75 and withdrew $100, and on another server a payment for $55 was honored around the same time, which is why they are now overdrawn”. The two events were independent, and maybe we should remember them the way the distributed system experienced them.\u003cp\u003eOr maybe that’s even harder to reason about than the fiction we use now...","parent":"17181046","id":"17182174"}
{"by":"shawndrost","time":"1388268438","timestamp":"2013-12-28 22:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shoutout to the gents at codecombat -- this is what hustle looks like.","parent":"6976284","id":"6976850"}
{"by":"danieltillett","time":"1470104668","timestamp":"2016-08-02 02:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes this is true.\u003cp\u003eOne other thing to look at is fence lines. If you line up a old fence line by eye and look down the line you can see quite small ground shifts. If you do use this make sure you crosscheck with other fences close by to make sure that any deviations are not just due to incompetent fencing.","parent":"12206689","id":"12207481"}
{"by":"mnutt","time":"1309123386","timestamp":"2011-06-26 21:23:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only problem is that someone can MITM your connection to the http page and send you back javascript that steals your password.","parent":"2699048","id":"2699131"}
{"by":"woodandsteel","time":"1490728443","timestamp":"2017-03-28 19:14:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;But on specifics, it would be good to get a clear answer to the question - how come CO2 concentration was much higher in several past periods and it didn\u0026#x27;t turn the Earth into a desert?\u003cp\u003eSo are you saying that if you got a persuasive answer to that question, you would then be persuaded that human activity is causing global warming, at least to a considerable degree?","parent":"13979154","id":"13979701"}
{"by":"fennecfoxen","time":"1334950560","timestamp":"2012-04-20 19:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Technically, you don't usually do wifi \"triangulation\". With triangulation, you measure direction - not something most wifi sensors and antennas are capable of. You'll use trilateration, which involves distance (you have a signal strength measurement) and turning that into circles.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateration\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateration\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3868477","id":"3869434"}
{"by":"Karunamon","time":"1502423292","timestamp":"2017-08-11 03:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes they did. The post was on an internal board which, if I understand right, was in response to a question by Google management about their diversity practices.","parent":"14979934","id":"14986458"}
{"by":"Crake","time":"1390728909","timestamp":"2014-01-26 09:35:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Feminists told me that their movement fights for equality for everyone, despite the fem- in their name. Am I to understand that this is no longer the case? All these feminists keep telling me different things. Talking to a feminist about gender equality is like talking to a christian about marriage equality. They all think they have the divine truth, but divine truth never seems able to agree with itself.","parent":"7124317","id":"7124575"}
{"by":"superqd","time":"1395936357","timestamp":"2014-03-27 16:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly.  I felt the same way when I watched their most recent videos.  I kept thinking that there were things like GSAP which were already available that produce kick ass fluid animations for HTML.  IIRC, their founder also said things like their framework wasn\u0026#x27;t easy to work with, but if you learn it and stick with it you can do great things.  That\u0026#x27;s true of Javascript\u0026#x2F;WebGL, etc, already, so why bother with their framework at all?","parent":"7480373","id":"7481209"}
{"by":"pawelmurias","time":"1545332277","timestamp":"2018-12-20 18:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most open source codebasesfor things that don\u0026#x27;t suck aren\u0026#x27;t trash (and if they are that would be a disappointment).\nAlso I\u0026#x27;m disappointment freeware things still exist.","parent":"18726448","id":"18727870"}
{"by":"_emacsomancer_","time":"1526536825","timestamp":"2018-05-17 06:00:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even better: submit an article about getting to the front page of Hacker News.","parent":"17087540","id":"17089093"}
{"by":"cylinder","time":"1543518153","timestamp":"2018-11-29 19:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what was your motivation for choosing NZ? I think NZ could be a very lonely place for a newcomer without an ethnic immigrant community. Your best bet is picking up a trade. You\u0026#x27;ll not find a large enough white collar economy in NZ.","parent":"18562362","id":"18562839"}
{"by":"arca_vorago","time":"1462485456","timestamp":"2016-05-05 21:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To the user the dev and the vendor is indistinguishable. Also, Nuremberg defenses aren\u0026#x27;t usually the most solid, but I see what you mean.","parent":"11638765","id":"11639948"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1394472073","timestamp":"2014-03-10 17:21:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You do not have to become an \u0026quot;X who programs\u0026quot; when you hit 40. I\u0026#x27;ve worked with plenty of talented developers over 40, all whom see themselves as developers, not as \u0026quot;VPs who happen to develop\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI think you\u0026#x27;re getting confused by the other phenomenon involving roles, which is that once you accept the management track, you start losing dev mojo; cf. the CTO who loses their commit bit.","parent":"7373465","id":"7374266"}
{"by":"wfjackson3","time":"1279038926","timestamp":"2010-07-13 16:35:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a few EE's lurking around here, myself included.  Can you elaborate on what you are trying to build?","parent":"1510447","id":"1511876"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1343031488","timestamp":"2012-07-23 08:18:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's hard to take those graphs seriously when they are not logarithmic, but I see your point.\u003cp\u003eAlso, comparing to oil is terrible - they should compare to electricity instead which has hardly changed in price.\u003cp\u003eAnd if the price is really falling so well, why are we pushing things? Let the price keep falling and people will naturally switch, with no need to subsidies.\u003cp\u003eSpeaking of - does that price take into account subsidies?","parent":"4279820","id":"4280065"}
{"by":"cyphar","time":"1495868087","timestamp":"2017-05-27 06:54:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s quite crude, since all I needed was the current branch name and the hash. git internally does a bunch of cache warming and verification that make it slower, so I just don\u0026#x27;t do that. The code is in my dotfiles[1].\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been meaning to update it to include more information but I really don\u0026#x27;t want to have to touch packfiles in shell.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cyphar\u0026#x2F;dotfiles\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;acbd9096a1daead80ba50ebef3fa1b6fdb5a89a2\u0026#x2F;.zsh\u0026#x2F;prompt#L49-L153\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cyphar\u0026#x2F;dotfiles\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;acbd9096a1daead80ba5...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14429025","id":"14429204"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1297860477","timestamp":"2011-02-16 12:47:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I don't disagree with you, I wonder how much of this is a function of Apple not being able to figure out how to monetize the Internet to the profit percentages they want and/or use the Internet to constrain people to the Apple ecosystem (which I suppose it just another path to monetization).","parent":"2223777","id":"2226154"}
{"by":"xyzzy4","time":"1473429097","timestamp":"2016-09-09 13:51:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do front-end engineers like to use the word \u0026quot;fuck\u0026quot; so much? Just something I\u0026#x27;ve noticed over time.","parent":"12460640","id":"12462159"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1535489970","timestamp":"2018-08-28 20:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eHaving generics isn\u0026#x27;t related to excessive abstractions.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve seen the situation in C++ where templates led to excessive templates, simply because they were \u0026quot;neat.\u0026quot; As a result, I found myself debugging code that had no source code whatsoever.","parent":"17862651","id":"17862831"}
{"by":"mistercow","time":"1391275119","timestamp":"2014-02-01 17:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I glumly pulled all my truffle oil from the restaurant shelves and traded it to a restaurant down the street for some local olive oil.\u003cp\u003eSo this chef stopped using an ingredient, not because it is unsafe, not because it tastes bad, or doesn\u0026#x27;t work well in recipes, but because what? It\u0026#x27;s synthetic? It\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;full of chemicals\u0026quot; (unlike other ingredients, I suppose, which are made of ectoplasm, luminiferous æther, and the wishes of children)? Because it\u0026#x27;s (allegedly) changing public perception of truffles?\u003cp\u003eHe \u003ci\u003eliked\u003c/i\u003e the way this ingredient tasted, even describing it as \u0026quot;expressive\u0026quot;, but as soon as he found out it was \u0026quot;fake\u0026quot;, he started assigning attributes like \u0026quot;one dimensional\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThis just seems completely absurd to me.","parent":"7161877","id":"7162245"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1373234753","timestamp":"2013-07-07 22:05:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our society is built to promote fear. We\u0026#x27;re heavily, heavily individualistic and isolationist. Our cultural prime directive is, \u0026quot;Never again!\u0026quot;","parent":"6003645","id":"6003750"}
{"by":"Scoundreller","time":"1462759855","timestamp":"2016-05-09 02:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things that GPS\u0026#x2F;Waze still don\u0026#x27;t do a good job of handling:\u003cp\u003e1. Toll roads - You can either choose to avoid, or choose to take. But I want to avoid toll roads when it will cost me \u0026gt; $x \u0026#x2F; saved hour. Or how about some optimization between fuel use and the value of my time? Paying $2 to save 30 minutes makes sense, buy not $15 to save 2 minutes. Where\u0026#x27;s the in-between setting\u0026#x2F;dial?\u003cp\u003e2. High-Occupancy Vehicle lanes.\nThe highway may make a lot of sense with 2 people, but not while being a solo driver.\u003cp\u003e3. Traffic levels and when to wake up. I wish Waze could integrate with my alarm clock to wake me up extra early when major roads are closed, and I\u0026#x27;d be majorly late for work without giving me an extra margin.\u003cp\u003e4. I\u0026#x27;m not a trucker, nor an SUV driver, but something to account for high-height vehicles could be useful for many.","parent":"11655910","id":"11657173"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1380607942","timestamp":"2013-10-01 06:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine it\u0026#x27;d be pretty similar to the adoption curve SPDY has seen. First Chrome implemented it to talk to Google\u0026#x27;s servers, then a few other websites, and now nginx will do it for you \u0026quot;for free.\u0026quot;","parent":"6473558","id":"6474439"}
{"by":"thenomad","time":"1437730770","timestamp":"2015-07-24 09:39:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;a mobile greenhouse where you can grow your own coffee beans\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d be \u003ci\u003efascinated\u003c/i\u003e to learn more about the tech behind this. Last time I looked into growing your own coffee, the summary was \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t\u0026quot;.","parent":"9938917","id":"9940918"}
{"by":"bfung","time":"1369187855","timestamp":"2013-05-22 01:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A request for those who might go on the Soylent diet, starting in july (a month before the estimated shipping date), during your Soylent diet:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  1. Record your current height\n  2. Record daily: weight + timestamp, sleep start time, sleep stop time, \n     food consumption (http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/ perhaps to help \n     or alternatives), exercise, \n     and how you feel physically (tired, energetic, sleepy...).\n  3. Blog about your experience and contribute the data to science.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nNo point in bashing or hyping this up, we'll have some data points in a few months.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I will not be participating in this experiment, but am interested in the results. =D","parent":"5745707","id":"5748336"}
{"by":"LesZedCB","time":"1413484205","timestamp":"2014-10-16 18:30:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, I was excited to be upgrading to a 4k monitor soon, and before I even get one I\u0026#x27;m obsolete. I can\u0026#x27;t wait to try out the new display. Hopefully DP1.3 will be out soon with good video card support as well.","parent":"8466407","id":"8466478"}
{"by":"ansible","time":"1435088346","timestamp":"2015-06-23 19:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see that a battery-powered device is going to have sufficient energy density and turn-around time for military use.  I suppose one option would be to have a gas or kerosene powered generator instead of batteries.","parent":"9764830","id":"9767196"}
{"by":"chrisconley","time":"1198864789","timestamp":"2007-12-28 17:59:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you will spend more time managing them than if you do it yourself","parent":"93208","id":"93247"}
{"by":"jaegerpicker","time":"1465346443","timestamp":"2016-06-08 00:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe if you are taking Java the language in isolation but if you consider the JVM ecosystem than I\u0026#x27;ll absolutely say the JVM does concurrency better. While the JVM offers something like quasar (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.paralleluniverse.co\u0026#x2F;quasar\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.paralleluniverse.co\u0026#x2F;quasar\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) which can match go\u0026#x27;s goroutine and channels plus an actor interface or the really excellent Akka (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;akka.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;akka.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) for a non blocking async actor framework. Offering a lot more choice than golang\u0026#x27;s single concurrency pattern. I\u0026#x27;ve written major applications with both go and Akka using Java (and scala) and while both were successful stable and performant it\u0026#x27;s hard to argue with the JVM\u0026#x27;s concurrency story.","parent":"11857595","id":"11859205"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1503395063","timestamp":"2017-08-22 09:44:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience there is only little money to be made in scientific software. Perhaps it depends on the field (I worked in design-automation for electronic circuits). Scientists often have difficult budgets (depend on funding), and they often expect software to be free (it\u0026#x27;s not budgeted for). I\u0026#x27;m curious about the experience of others.\u003cp\u003ePS: I couldn\u0026#x27;t read the article, presumably because of some anti-adblocker mechanism.","parent":"15070110","id":"15070884"}
{"by":"moe","time":"1266933693","timestamp":"2010-02-23 14:01:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea, because all testers are capable of writing software tests and because all bugs warrant the effort to write a test...\u003cp\u003eNot sure what this is doing on HN, really.","parent":"1145316","id":"1145360"}
{"by":"gamegoblin","time":"1424574287","timestamp":"2015-02-22 03:04:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine if this thing sticks around, they\u0026#x27;ll eventually be able to automate simple things like the pizza ordering and whatnot. I imagine it could call back to a human in case of issues, such as:\u003cp\u003eRequester: \u0026quot;I want two pepperoni pizzas, one with extra cheese.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAI Response: \u0026quot;I can have 3 pizzas, two pepperoni, and one cheese (with extra cheese), delivered from Dominos for $24.15\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRequester: \u0026quot;No, I wanted two pepperoni pizzas, with extra cheese on one of them\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHuman steps in after the \u0026quot;no\u0026quot; is detected: \u0026quot;Sorry, I misunderstood your request, I can get two pepperoni pizzas with extra cheese on one of them for $16.50 from Dominos\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRequester: \u0026quot;Yes, thanks.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e======\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;ll just be a matter of time as the automation spreads to less and less mundane topics.","parent":"9087960","id":"9088030"}
{"by":"mattkrea","time":"1436957771","timestamp":"2015-07-15 10:56:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Omnigraffle works fine but I prefer this solely because of the ASCII output","parent":"9890065","id":"9890660"}
{"by":"Jach","time":"1495656700","timestamp":"2017-05-24 20:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is very telling. Google has a cloud supercomputer doing nothing but building code to support their devs. I don\u0026#x27;t know about Facebook. (I really don\u0026#x27;t -- I\u0026#x27;m constantly amazed that they have as many engineers that they do, what do they all work on?) Where I work (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;salesforce-engineering\u0026#x2F;monolith-to-microservices-the-first-peel-6ff3484e3fb4\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;salesforce-engineering\u0026#x2F;monolith-to-micros...\u003c/a\u003e) there\u0026#x27;s a big monolith but with more push towards breaking things up, at the architecture level and also on the code organization level. We also use and commit to open source projects (that use git), so to integrate those with the core requires a bit more effort than if they were there already but it\u0026#x27;s not a big burden and the benefits of having their tendrils being self-contained are big.\u003cp\u003eWhich brings me to the point that in the open source world, you can\u0026#x27;t get away with a single-repository approach for your large system. And that also is telling, along with open source\u0026#x27;s successes. So which approach is better in the long run? I\u0026#x27;d bet on the open source methods.","parent":"14412712","id":"14413059"}
{"by":"dheera","time":"1505317377","timestamp":"2017-09-13 15:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree! I do almost everything in VIM for file-efficient languages and environments (NodeJS projects, Python projects, HTML, C++ ROS packages, most things that promote DRY coding, etc.)\u003cp\u003eFor file-inefficient environments (e.g. Java\u0026#x2F;Android -- 79 files for a \u0026quot;hello world\u0026quot; Android app!) I have to grudgingly use an IDE because I have no idea how to update the 78 other manifest\u0026#x2F;gradle\u0026#x2F;workspace\u0026#x2F;resource\u0026#x2F;etc. files based on the 1 file I change and the IDE takes care of the magic, as much as I hate that way of working.","parent":"15239182","id":"15239364"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1303937937","timestamp":"2011-04-27 20:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a consumer this is slightly annoying. When I see a \"user-posted\" review on a website, I like to know that it's \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c/i\u003e what the user posted. Things like typos and grammatical information are useful bits of information to help me decide how reliable the reviewer is.","parent":"2490763","id":"2491082"}
{"by":"esmi","time":"1503717909","timestamp":"2017-08-26 03:25:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only that but you don’t want to have to redo analysis and verification on blocks that have been already mapped, placed and routed.  Especially as one does minor bug fixes towards the end of a design. It’s like refusing to use libraries.","parent":"15103325","id":"15103892"}
{"by":"credo","time":"1304040485","timestamp":"2011-04-29 01:28:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've seen this issue with external-link-posts as well. So my guess is that that other factors besides (self-post dampeners) are involved.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I should confess that I haven't attempted to read the ranking code for HN.\u003cp\u003eRegardless, since the upvote count is being displayed, it seems like it will be a good idea to display the downvote/flag count as well.","parent":"2495971","id":"2495982"}
{"by":"mikes25","time":"1439324258","timestamp":"2015-08-11 20:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can the user upload a spreadsheet and run it? Or is the setup\u0026#x2F;bootstrap more complicated?\nIs there any custom coding required to get it working?","parent":"10043294","id":"10044057"}
{"by":"collyw","time":"1528057846","timestamp":"2018-06-03 20:30:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Selective breeding is genetics, just the old school way of doing it.","parent":"17220972","id":"17221665"}
{"by":"dfc","time":"1321066316","timestamp":"2011-11-12 02:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hard not to be cynical given that the Rainbow Warrior...what? More generally what is there to be cynical about? Should we be cynical about the integrity of the french court?\u003cp\u003eIn France are damages related to the cash flow of an organization? If not what is the connection between the fine and the cash flow?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://m.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/78f3b452-0c70-11e1-8ac6-00144feabdc0.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://m.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/78f3b452-0c70-11e1-8ac6-00144fe...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3226934","id":"3226970"}
{"by":"gervase","time":"1534176387","timestamp":"2018-08-13 16:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this really depends on your motivations. Are you trying to convey the information to the community? Trying to build a reputation as a researcher? Increment your citation count?\u003cp\u003earXiv is a pretty good option for disseminating information, but most papers published there don\u0026#x27;t receive as much consideration as those that have gone through a peer review. Therefore, only the most obviously-groundbreaking papers end up accruing a lot of citations there.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to build a reputation, you\u0026#x27;ll need to target peer-reviewed conferences, and probably those that have a double-blinded process. This will allow your work to stand on its own, although you\u0026#x27;ll need to ensure that it conforms to the structures\u0026#x2F;patterns\u0026#x2F;shibboleths of the academic community. They best way to learn these, if you don\u0026#x27;t already know them, is to read as many papers as you have time for in a domain as close to yours as possible, and then replicate those formats.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re looking to increase your citation count, this is difficult to do without really groundbreaking research. Some manage it by doing \u0026quot;citation sharing\u0026quot; with collaborators, but this is (A) frowned upon, and (B) difficult to get going if you\u0026#x27;re not in academia.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, you\u0026#x27;ll probably want to learn LaTeX if you haven\u0026#x27;t already; this is a pretty necessary first step for publication, either at arXiv or an IEEE\u0026#x2F;ACM conference. Edit: This is because most conferences have a template that you must follow, and these templates are provided in LaTeX format.","parent":"17750861","id":"17751128"}
{"by":"msla","time":"1531940462","timestamp":"2018-07-18 19:01:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Emoji is a trash writing system\u003cp\u003eNo more trash than any other.\u003cp\u003ePlus... I\u0026#x27;m amused at your use of \u0026quot;trash\u0026quot; in that way, given your horror of signifiers changing significance.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; There is plenty of free software that can give you pixel-level control over your output, you don\u0026#x27;t need to rely on the unicode consortium or any other organization of any kind to determine what you express.\u003cp\u003e... the whole point of having a writing system is having a standard writing system, at least \u003ci\u003ede facto\u003c/i\u003e, and without the Unicode Consortium, there would be some other standards body because that\u0026#x27;s how computer software works. That other standards body would be worse than the Unicode Consortium by virtue of \u003ci\u003enot being\u003c/i\u003e the Unicode Consortium, and therefore being either irrelevant or an agent which destroys cross-platform compatibility.","parent":"17560594","id":"17561147"}
{"by":"crankylinuxuser","time":"1525123928","timestamp":"2018-04-30 21:32:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the unmoderated spaced of before don\u0026#x27;t exist any more (Usenet), because companies didn\u0026#x27;t make money on it. Or worse, because it violated some company\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;right\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eNow, in order to speak, you nearly have to go through one of \u003ci\u003eTheir\u003c/i\u003e gateways. If you piss off FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon), you\u0026#x27;re gone off the net. Some of those gatekeepers are big scripts with no human intervention for your level. If you fall between the cracks, then you have no recourse, other than find a place like HN and beg publicly - lest you get shitcanned by the HN gatekeepers.","parent":"16962193","id":"16962597"}
{"by":"fazalul92","time":"1510090517","timestamp":"2017-11-07 21:35:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Copyrighting photos is something thats done regularly by photographers, I see nothing being \u0026quot;abused\u0026quot; there. How else are they supposed to make money?","parent":"15646981","id":"15647876"}
{"by":"_pmf_","time":"1441268759","timestamp":"2015-09-03 08:25:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; obsession of living in suburban\u003cp\u003eWell, you want to be able to afford it, not have to drive more than 45 minutes to work and not get killed on the way from the car to your house. That kind of narrows down the viable alternatives.","parent":"10163830","id":"10163848"}
{"by":"hal9000xp","time":"1516778770","timestamp":"2018-01-24 07:26:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you think that all ICOs are scam, then you are absolutely stupid or die hard conformist who thinks all finance and money should be tightly controlled by politicians.","parent":"16219359","id":"16221004"}
{"by":"usernam","time":"1487599467","timestamp":"2017-02-20 14:04:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a similar situation for a company that purchased it\u0026#x27;s accounting software way back in the first 90ies, which tied the software to an hw dongle.\u003cp\u003eIn spite of the old system, the software works absolutely fine and there were no reasons to upgrade or change. In fact, the hardware it was running on was upgraded several times. Until one day, the dongle broke (a bump by the cleaning staff cracked it apparently). The company behind the software went bankrupt years ago, and there was no way to either obtain a new dongle or extract the data from the software (custom db as well).\u003cp\u003eThe software was easy to crack by just nop\u0026#x27;ing a couple of bytes, but the owner of the company was absolutely shocked by the experience as they reverted to paper archives for about a week with no easy way out.\u003cp\u003eI was quite young at the time and it served me as a life lesson. Since then I never used or considered anything with DRM, remote licensing or SaaS for exactly that reason. I never had trouble finding alternatives either.","parent":"13684684","id":"13687266"}
{"by":"JohnTHaller","time":"1395962422","timestamp":"2014-03-27 23:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a great article.  And it does highlight some of the reasons why I enjoy both 2048 and Threes.  I bought Threes on Android the day it was released and started playing with 2048 a few days later.  Threes is great when you want to really sit and plan out a game, thinking a few moves ahead.  2048 is more for quick semi-brainless fun with the patterns and numbers.  It requires less mental focus, which is why people keep making one-offs to keep it fresh.  I packaged up the original 2048 as a portable app over at PortableApps.com using node-webkit and am doing an update to it tomorrow.  I wish I could package and sell a portable version of Threes on PortableApps.com as well so more people could enjoy it.","parent":"7484053","id":"7484191"}
{"by":"sritch","time":"1420739452","timestamp":"2015-01-08 17:50:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of hardware manufacturers offer their own SDKs for interacting with their beacons, not letting you get the UUID of the beacon itself. Are you interacting with all providers\u0026#x27; SDKs?","parent":"8852132","id":"8857671"}
{"by":"fooandbarify","time":"1348421827","timestamp":"2012-09-23 17:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's awesome Roman (it's Roman, right?), I'm looking forward to it! And yes, Black Chair is going to be my full-time gig, although the website is a major work in progress right now :)","parent":"4561453","id":"4561469"}
{"by":"waterlesscloud","time":"1331685012","timestamp":"2012-03-14 00:30:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that you're selecting the topics.  The value of a physical encyclopedia is that they've selected the topics and you're browsing them at random.","parent":"3701025","id":"3701115"}
{"by":"danteembermage","time":"1193702522","timestamp":"2007-10-30 00:02:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"[Steve Jobs] did Breakout, one of my favorite games. I had the original concept, and he did the execution of it, together with Steve Wozniak.\"\u003cp\u003eWow! Is that common knowledge? That's as surprising to me as Orson Scott Card writing the sword-fighting insults for The Secret of Monkey Island.","parent":"73823","id":"74019"}
{"by":"iamwil","time":"1199672131","timestamp":"2008-01-07 02:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wasn't just the fact you can change it that was neat, but that the block was represented as a traversable structure (which you can then modify).\u003cp\u003eAlternatively, you can write blocks of code that get functionality added to them on the fly, that don't really belong in that block of code.  Say you process some data, and you want to send an email notification before you process, and then log the activity after you've finished.  But notification and logging don't really have anything to do with processing the data, and especially when they're scattered everywhere, it's a pain to manage.  It'd be nice if we had it all in one place.\u003cp\u003eTraditionally, we've used observers to do this sort of thing.  Observe some change in the processor or data, and then we log or send notification.  Some people use Aspects, though it's not widely used.\u003cp\u003eI can see using this to change a processing block by adding on notification and logging code before and after.  Or, if the processing block has a couple stages of processing, and you want to change one directly through metaprogramming, instead of building up structures to support it.","parent":"95346","id":"95495"}
{"by":"jimnotgym","time":"1516468829","timestamp":"2018-01-20 17:20:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; forgive misdemeanors\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; clearly not misdemeanors\u003cp\u003ePlease don\u0026#x27;t read this to mean misdemeanors in the US legal sense of \u0026#x27;not a felony\u0026#x27;. In the UK (where the trial is) misdemeanor would normally be understood to be \u0026#x27;something some people consider wrong\u0026#x27; [0]. There is no concept of felony and misdemeanor in English law. I meant this in its ordinary English sense and I am sure we can both agree that this was a misdemeanor, as in \u0026#x27;not the right thing to do\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.collinsdictionary.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;english\u0026#x2F;misdemeanour\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.collinsdictionary.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;english\u0026#x2F;misdeme...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16193853","id":"16194182"}
{"by":"klodolph","time":"1405240450","timestamp":"2014-07-13 08:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.  To elaborate, this construction is called the \u0026quot;surreal numbers\u0026quot;, and it is the largest ordered field.  All ordered fields are isomorphic to subsets of the surreal numbers.","parent":"8026898","id":"8026959"}
{"by":"Rannath","time":"1445349000","timestamp":"2015-10-20 13:50:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Set aside time for your side projects. If they\u0026#x27;re that attractive then use them as a reward. Pavlovian Training works on humans and we can self implement.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t forget to socialize, while you focus on that your mind will do its thing without you even realizing.\u003cp\u003eMusic helps some people.\u003cp\u003eForce yourself to stay disciplined, habits take a while to form. You can have a friend help. Friends are good at telling you when you\u0026#x27;re being dumb\u0026#x2F;lazy\u0026#x2F;distracted.\u003cp\u003eYour college might have a workshop to help you with vital skills. Take advantage of it. When I did my grades went from Bs \u0026amp; Cs to As.\u003cp\u003eWork in 25 minute blocks with a 5 minute break. Studies suggest this is an effective time split.","parent":"10417899","id":"10419075"}
{"by":"cc439","time":"1547351023","timestamp":"2019-01-13 03:43:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I see the \u0026quot;Escape Room\u0026quot; boom as something akin to the \u0026quot;Fondue Party\u0026quot; craze in the 70\u0026#x27;s. It\u0026#x27;s a fun social outing... once. Eventually there won\u0026#x27;t be enough new customers to sustain the business model and they will disappear almost as quickly as they arrived.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure there are better example, particularly ones from the entertainment industry booms of the 1920\u0026#x27;s and 1950\u0026#x27;s but I just can\u0026#x27;t think of any off the top of my head.","parent":"18894840","id":"18894909"}
{"by":"lell","time":"1477078588","timestamp":"2016-10-21 19:36:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn\u0026#x27;t help me, heroku is still unreachable with DNS servers changed to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.","parent":"12763835","id":"12763877"}
{"by":"S_A_P","time":"1448807003","timestamp":"2015-11-29 14:23:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know. I\u0026#x27;ve been writing c# for years and I still go to SO for things. Sometimes it\u0026#x27;s even stuff I should know, like creating a text file. However I don\u0026#x27;t do some of these tasks often enough to remember by heart and it\u0026#x27;s not an exciting problem to figure out so I go for SO. I don\u0026#x27;t see a problem with that at all. I also don\u0026#x27;t get the sentiment that you\u0026#x27;re not a real coder if you use SO and copy paste code. I don\u0026#x27;t always have the luxury to figure out which sorting algorithm is fastest for the dataset I\u0026#x27;m working with. Sometimes I have to meet a deadline. A great developer is one who writes easy to parse code that is as bug free as possible in the alotted time frame. \nThere are times when it\u0026#x27;s important to do some r\u0026amp;d and learn more, but there are also times when you need to ship. It really depends on what the task is. You can\u0026#x27;t paint the whole thing with broad strokes.","parent":"10642068","id":"10644616"}
{"by":"dominiquelevin","time":"1316116340","timestamp":"2011-09-15 19:52:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha ... I have the opposite problem: no lack of ideas, but a lack of my ability to execute (on my own).  I think it's because I am a customer facing (marketing/bizdev/sales) person at heart though my forte is product (management).  Anyway, my ideas all come from customer interaction. And I have heard it from many others: just pick something as long as it gives you an excuse to interact with real customers. This is a bit easier in the enterprise market where you can engage with real customers. Partnering with somebody who has credibility with those guys and can get you meetings also helps.","parent":"2990234","id":"3001848"}
{"by":"kylemaxwell","time":"1307892418","timestamp":"2011-06-12 15:26:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The links include a pretty good explanation of functional programming. When somebody describes something as \"the opposite of object-oriented\", my ears perk up. I've done procedural programming since the early 80s and never quite got comfortable with OOP in any form. But I like this concept of functions taking only inputs, producing only outputs, and minimizing (or eliminating) any other side effects.","parent":"2646439","id":"2646615"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1254228481","timestamp":"2009-09-29 12:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; ... if the market is big enough and the competitors are good enough, there's plenty of room.\u003cp\u003e... and if there are no big huge network externalities creating a winner-takes-all market.","parent":"850229","id":"850247"}
{"by":"w_t_payne","time":"1392717564","timestamp":"2014-02-18 09:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love to see some brain-storming on what those techniques might be; together with civil-society countermeasures.","parent":"7257205","id":"7257291"}
{"by":"spynxic","time":"1509665799","timestamp":"2017-11-02 23:36:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This issue is hosted by developers making apps unavailable for installation lest agreeing to every requirement.\u003cp\u003eDevelopers get away with this because, 1) individually selecting permissions is growing rare and 2) there\u0026#x27;s no pressure to explain why a permission is needed, nor specific contracts to agree upon on how the general permission may be utilized.","parent":"15615218","id":"15615367"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1358660215","timestamp":"2013-01-20 05:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand if this post was supposed to be negative or positive.  IMO it's positive -- if they got a lot of press/hn/etc. attention over some of their advertisers being less than ideal, and a privacy policy that was overly broad, and they're now fixing it, that's great news.\u003cp\u003eFrom looking at this, it looks like maybe some of their advertisers did cross the line, but I don't think desktop app install monetization is inherently evil.  It's slightly annoying that Oracle/Sun bundles the Ask Jeeves toolbar with Java, for instance, but it's not any more annoying than having to pay $6 to cross the bridge.","parent":"5086043","id":"5086117"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1342743378","timestamp":"2012-07-20 00:16:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been using AngularJS too.\u003cp\u003eWow, it is nice...","parent":"4267685","id":"4268747"}
{"by":"ramidarigaz","time":"1272510505","timestamp":"2010-04-29 03:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that's true. However, at my parents' cabin in the Rocky Mountains, the pipes still blow if they aren't drained properly (they're at surface level). It's only happened twice that I can remember, but it's quite impressive to see a steel pipe with a crack running the entire length.","parent":"1303378","id":"1303472"}
{"by":"erikn","time":"1343942379","timestamp":"2012-08-02 21:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coffee is great.\u003cp\u003eGuess what? They have it in NYC, Boston and everywhere else there are amazing entrepreneurs doing interesting things.","parent":"4330042","id":"4331057"}
{"by":"mediocrejoker","time":"1540773717","timestamp":"2018-10-29 00:41:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not trying to nit pick but I am among the group who did not realize there is a distinction between sysV init and RC files.\u003cp\u003eIs it possible to use one without the other?","parent":"18323034","id":"18324146"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1531238106","timestamp":"2018-07-10 15:55:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don’t understand this deal. What’s in 1Password that isn’t in iCloud Keychain or easily added to it? Windows and Linux support? Is that worth much to Apple? If so, why?","parent":"17498681","id":"17499201"}
{"by":"caw","time":"1339728567","timestamp":"2012-06-15 02:49:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One way to do this is to show someone 3 ideas, that are slightly different. Draw a XYZ coordinate set, and plot your ideas on those continuums, where each X, Y, and Z are benefits you think it has. How automatic vs manual is it, how heavy vs light it is, etc.\u003cp\u003eShow your potential customers your 3 ideas. With a baseline to compare, they'll give you better feedback. It might have something to do with the fact that they can say \"Idea 1 is better in this way, and Idea 2 is better this way.\" With no reference point, how can they say an idea is anything but \"good\"?","parent":"4078197","id":"4114709"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1430104479","timestamp":"2015-04-27 03:14:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eWith all that said, I\u0026#x27;m not convinced that people \u0026quot;should\u0026quot; read long form books. I read all those books because I personally enjoyed it. I just can\u0026#x27;t say with confidence that others should do the same or they will be \u0026quot;missing out\u0026quot; on some unquantifiable intellectual nirvana.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u0026quot;unquantifiable intellectual nirvana\u0026quot; was used to be called \u0026quot;civilization\u0026quot;.","parent":"9443321","id":"9444220"}
{"by":"adregan","time":"1421211173","timestamp":"2015-01-14 04:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Homebrew asked me to overwrite my node symlink with the iojs symlink. I decided to link iojs to iojs on my own. I hope I\u0026#x27;m not spinning myself into some technical debt here, but for now, I\u0026#x27;d like to maintain both.","parent":"8884225","id":"8884383"}
{"by":"DrScump","time":"1447486575","timestamp":"2015-11-14 07:36:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10551210\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10551210\u003c/a\u003e\nsame article, but earlier posting used an altered title","parent":"10564458","dead":true,"id":"10564870"}
{"by":"Swizec","time":"1415540360","timestamp":"2014-11-09 13:39:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; after the startup there is a bleakness to a \u0026quot;normal\u0026quot; lifestyle I could never quite shake off\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Running a company would make you perfect for any conceivable job were it not for the fact you\u0026#x27;ll never want one again.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNot sure where I read that, but it sounds true. I am being gently pushed into job life by circumstance after 5 or 6 years of independent life (startup ~2 years, school ~1 year, freelancing ~2 years) and getting hired, even just talking about the possibility of a job job, feels like losing.\u003cp\u003eBut alas, freelancers do not get visas so I will just have to suck it up.","parent":"8579756","id":"8579869"}
{"by":"Freak_NL","time":"1521206518","timestamp":"2018-03-16 13:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ethical nit-pick: In degrees of \u0026#x27;evilness\u0026#x27; it shouldn\u0026#x27;t matter whether or not the person being tortured is convicted or not — unless you subscribe to the rather unenlightened notion that condemned criminals by default deserve worse than what the judge handed down as a sentence in a fair trial.","parent":"16600154","id":"16600431"}
{"by":"judge2020","time":"1529529927","timestamp":"2018-06-20 21:25:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relevant discussion regarding Activision\u0026#x2F;Blizzard\u0026#x27;s use of the domain \u0026quot;localbattle.net\u0026quot; (pointing to 127.0.0.1) for localhost communication with the agent:\u003cp\u003eReddit: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;heroesofthestorm\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;7lb8vq\u0026#x2F;hey_blizzard_whats_the_deal_with_this_sneaky_root\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;heroesofthestorm\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;7lb8vq\u0026#x2F;he...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlizzard response: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;us.battle.net\u0026#x2F;forums\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;bnet\u0026#x2F;topic\u0026#x2F;20760626838\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;us.battle.net\u0026#x2F;forums\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;bnet\u0026#x2F;topic\u0026#x2F;20760626838\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17358339","id":"17359931"}
{"by":"CyberDildonics","time":"1538839254","timestamp":"2018-10-06 15:20:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve done that, but it can be very error prone and therefore time consuming.\u003cp\u003eInstead of relying on serialization of existing data structures I actually try to use more general data structures that already exist in a single span of memory.\u003cp\u003eThen serialization is just a matter of writing them out from start to finish, or allocating them in a memory mapped file.","parent":"18152337","id":"18155561"}
{"by":"mark-r","time":"1496691768","timestamp":"2017-06-05 19:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The idea was that you\u0026#x27;d see the image get progressively better as each pass was completed, thus the term \u0026quot;progressive\u0026quot;. But in practice the browsers decided not to display anything until the image was finished loading anyway.","parent":"14490426","id":"14490840"}
{"by":"ogrisel","time":"1340586027","timestamp":"2012-06-25 01:00:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author of the blog post has promised more extensive tests with other datasets in future posts. Also there is an ongoing GSoC project for setting up a systematic benchmark infrastructure + performance optimizations for the scikit-learn project. So let's wait and see. We will soon have more meat for finer analysis.","parent":"4154588","id":"4154699"}
{"by":"nazgulnarsil","time":"1266938742","timestamp":"2010-02-23 15:25:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the gist of it is that people use difficult to understand things as a way of both signaling competence and of intimidating others into not questioning them.  think mutual funds who leech off their clients with worse returns than the S\u0026#38;P500.  over time the best ways of doing this have been refined, think of the way media outlets use statistics that, while not exactly lies, are at best not the whole truth.  and not 1 person in 100 has the competence to debunk the nonsense.","parent":"1145427","id":"1145534"}
{"by":"alberich","time":"1346727085","timestamp":"2012-09-04 02:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;So, we believe Qubes OS represents a reasonably secure OS.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;(...) But then again, I'm biased, of course ;)\u003cp\u003eAt least, they are honest heh","parent":"4472403","id":"4472841"}
{"by":"Patrick_Devine","time":"1376760368","timestamp":"2013-08-17 17:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use a Mac with Fusion for my linux VMs.","parent":"6229596","id":"6229691"}
{"by":"Arkeus","time":"1379319687","timestamp":"2013-09-16 08:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have the same issue with no text after the logo. My \u0026quot;GPU compositing on all pages\u0026quot; was set to the default, but after changing it to \u0026quot;enabled\u0026quot; I still see no text. Version 31.0.1626.5 dev-m Aura SyzyASan","parent":"6392081","id":"6392173"}
{"by":"drewg123","time":"1468351873","timestamp":"2016-07-12 19:31:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an Xoogler, I think this is great news.  By the time I left a year ago, there were far too many far-flung buildings in Sunnyvale, with new ones opening all the time (and my group was -- and still is -- slated to move into exile in Sunnyvale).\u003cp\u003eThese were the worst of both worlds -- you still had to deal with a Bay Area cost of living and commute, but you were too far to easily collaborate with other groups, or take advantage of events \u0026amp; resources on the main GooglePlex (TGIF at Charlies, author talks, various events, picking up dogfood hardware, etc.)   Not to mention fragmented bus routes.","parent":"12081394","id":"12081704"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1474380818","timestamp":"2016-09-20 14:13:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe what they considered visual includes abstract spatial (mentioned) areas, and abstract distances (n-dimensional differences) are the bread and butter of reflection.","parent":"12538067","id":"12539619"}
{"by":"Zuider","time":"1440270752","timestamp":"2015-08-22 19:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SPITBOL is an enhanced version of the SNOBOL language.\u003cp\u003eFrom Wikipedia:\u003cp\u003eSNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;SNOBOL\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;SNOBOL\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTkS*LIDE is a Tcl\u0026#x2F;Tk based IDE for SPITBOL (along with SNOBOL4). Binaries for SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL are included with the IDE, along with a tutorial and sample programs.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rms.republika.pl\u0026#x2F;slide.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rms.republika.pl\u0026#x2F;slide.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSNOBOL is also distinguished by being described in Guy Steele \u0026amp; Richard Gabriel: 50 in 50 speech as one of the three languages worth knowing:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;25958308\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;25958308\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10103276","id":"10103392"}
{"by":"coredog64","time":"1473823483","timestamp":"2016-09-14 03:24:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll trade you a BBB for an RPi.","parent":"12491314","id":"12494049"}
{"by":"mmmeff","time":"1546288596","timestamp":"2018-12-31 20:36:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ghost in the Shell touched on this really well.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s the potential for bad actors to plant dangerous training into these algorithms. Hypothetically, someone could turn an entire fleet of self-driving taxis into an assassination mechanism. Every vehicle can wait until a specific individual is spotted crossing the street and fail to stop at a light. The corporation that owns this taxi then will say there was a software failure with the one specific taxi, take it out of commission, and move on with business as usual. A few deaths a year is still less than the death toll of human-operated cars, after all.","parent":"18796746","id":"18796836"}
{"by":"wbl","time":"1505678728","timestamp":"2017-09-17 20:05:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are free to move to cities any time.","parent":"15271291","id":"15271435"}
{"by":"andreyf","time":"1435953877","timestamp":"2015-07-03 20:04:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, German intelligence can\u0026#x27;t spy on Der Spiegel legally, so getting tips from a friendly intelligence agency as to who is leaking info to the press seems to make a lot of sense.","parent":"9827327","id":"9827650"}
{"by":"BoiledCabbage","time":"1516916124","timestamp":"2018-01-25 21:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The American view of human rights is that your fundamental rights are endowed by your creator, and not given to you by man. In other words, no person is needed to provide a right to you.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not arguing that you are necessarily wrong, but I am arguing that your point and the actual execution of our government are contradictory.\u003cp\u003eNotable contradictions to the above, the 2nd, 18th \u0026amp; 21st amendments. Let\u0026#x27;s go with the 2nd since is wonderfully controversial. Via the above definition and a loose modern interpretation of modern state of the law: People have the right to own guns. The government doesn\u0026#x27;t have the right to stop it.\u003cp\u003eBut relying on the quoted above, and if we\u0026#x27;re discussing rights given via a creator, and not rights given by another man, there is no constitutional right to be able to buy a gun. A person can own a gun, and create a guy and form a militia of gun owners, but the government is well within it\u0026#x27;s rights to ban the sale of all guns in the country without any violation of the 2nd.\u003cp\u003eNow we\u0026#x27;re all reasonable people here, and know that\u0026#x27;s not the contemporary interpretation. And no-one (certainly least me) is arguing that it should be. But what it does point out that that we can\u0026#x27;t use the concept of \u0026quot;rights given by a creator\u0026quot; as a necessary criteria for supporting or judging contemporary interpretation of rights and law. Not that it hasn\u0026#x27;t happened.\u003cp\u003eSo again I\u0026#x27;m not saying you\u0026#x27;re wrong, I\u0026#x27;m just saying that it\u0026#x27;s a contradictory argument against healthcare. If we say we cut out healthcare for that reason, then we also have to also cut out everything that has the same lacking reason.","parent":"16234621","id":"16234902"}
{"by":"fauigerzigerk","time":"1261938217","timestamp":"2009-12-27 18:23:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes the Netherlands is probably an option. But settling in Paris without being a native french speaker is notoriously difficult. That's what people tell me anyway, I never tried.","parent":"1017247","id":"1017368"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1315087888","timestamp":"2011-09-03 22:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a social convention to support your arguments when debating.","parent":"2956666","id":"2958247"}
{"by":"zhengyi13","time":"1511300610","timestamp":"2017-11-21 21:43:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;d hope so, but I distinctly remember when Deep Throat died in 2008, there were a lot of people who came out of the woodwork to re-eulogize Nixon, and specifically re-condemn Deep Throat as either someone who should have worked within the system, or even an outright traitor.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s pretty clear from more recent history that whistleblowers are not treated well.","parent":"15748531","id":"15751881"}
{"by":"TheOtherHobbes","time":"1427982703","timestamp":"2015-04-02 13:51:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Could you get to near-perfection by simply increasing the number of microphones used?\u003cp\u003eNo. Ears are (kind of) point sinks. Which is why dummy head stereo works so well on headphones - it\u0026#x27;s literally recording the sound that would usually go into your ears, as opposed to normal stereo, which records something that\u0026#x27;s usefully but rather distantly related to what goes into your ears.\u003cp\u003eTwo microphones are enough for that.\u003cp\u003eA side point is that everyone has a slightly different HRTF, so it would be interesting to hear what you\u0026#x27;d get with a neutral point sink recording convolved with \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c/i\u003e HRTF.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Also, could using cheap microphones be compensated by using more of them?\u003cp\u003eNo again. Cheap microphones add non-linear distortions and have a limited and inaccurate frequency response. If you use more cheap microphones you just get more of the same.","parent":"9309561","id":"9310632"}
{"by":"aphyr","time":"1280352890","timestamp":"2010-07-28 21:34:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e...run through a Perl script that removes all 'final' keywords except those required for hacking around the 15-year-old Java language's \"fucking embarrassing lack of closures.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis guy feels my pain! :)","parent":"1555688","id":"1555747"}
{"by":"dragontamer","time":"1421944285","timestamp":"2015-01-22 16:31:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026quot;harm\u0026quot; is in misinformation, and damage to the brand.\u003cp\u003eThe Hitachi 5K3000 and Hitachi 7K3000 are amongst the most reliable hard drives in the report. Those drives are 3 years or more old and yet have some of the lowest failure rates in the study.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, Hitachi doesn\u0026#x27;t exist anymore. Hitachi as a company was split and sold in pieces. It is either HGST (owned by WD) or Toshiba.\u003cp\u003eI want to buy the 7k3000 today. Which hard drive manufacturer is making the modern equivalent? Is it the Toshiba DT01ACA300, or is it the \u0026quot;HGST Deskstar\u0026quot; ??\u003cp\u003eDespite sharing the same branding, I don\u0026#x27;t think HGST Deskstar is in fact from the same factory as the Hitachi Deskstars. When you look at the HGST Deskstars, they have WD Technology in them (\u0026quot;Coolspin\u0026quot; RPM).\u003cp\u003eThe Toshiba DT01ACA300 has very similar performance characteristics to the old Hitachi 7k3000 drive.\u003cp\u003eSo its a confusing situation. Which is why I\u0026#x27;d like clarification. I bet that the Toshiba DT01ACA300 is actually the super-reliable hard drive that I want, but I admit that I\u0026#x27;m a bit ignorant on this front.","parent":"8927187","id":"8930012"}
{"by":"mcphage","time":"1537843395","timestamp":"2018-09-25 02:43:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  I realized that imperative programming is so much more difficult than functional programming that in a way, it\u0026#x27;s the majority of the work of programming. Anyone can learn to use a spreadsheet, but it takes years of dedication to master debugging enterprise software.\u003cp\u003eAnyone can learn to program spreadsheets, because spreadsheets realize that state is the most important thing, and puts it front and center—hiding the calculations.  Most programming paradigms are about manipulating the calculations, and the state is only visible when the program is running.  As long as programming tries to avoid state, it\u0026#x27;ll be hard for most people to learn.","parent":"18061483","id":"18063172"}
{"by":"mutaaf","time":"1478015578","timestamp":"2016-11-01 15:52:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Dallas TX\u003cp\u003eRemote: YES\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: NYC, SF\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: C#, JS, Java, Android, iOS, Xamarin, AngularJS, NodeJS, WebAPI, MVC, ASP.Net, RabbitMQ, MSMQ, Swift, Objective-C, JIRA\u003cp\u003eRésumé\u0026#x2F;CV: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;6y0mzzq2kpp47g5\u0026#x2F;Mutaaf_Aziz_resume_1016.pdf?dl=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;6y0mzzq2kpp47g5\u0026#x2F;Mutaaf_Aziz_resume...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinkedIn: linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;mutaaf\u003cp\u003eEmail: mutaaf.aziz@gmail.com\u003cp\u003eABOUT ME: I have experience being an integral part of many successful start-up and enterprise teams. I have 5+ apps in the iOS App Store and am currently CTO over 3 start-ups.","parent":"12846146","id":"12846883"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1461640389","timestamp":"2016-04-26 03:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or how they transitioned so quickly from Hunan (red chili pepper dominates) to Sichuan (more competition, old-world ma peppercorn is just as important, maybe even more so, as new world la chili pepper).","parent":"11569158","id":"11569173"}
{"by":"haileyr","time":"1418830377","timestamp":"2014-12-17 15:32:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nice","parent":"8761539","id":"8762587"}
{"by":"agibsonccc","time":"1403291282","timestamp":"2014-06-20 19:08:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s fine. I do this full time. Despite it being new, I\u0026#x27;m coming at it from a stand point of providing a platform for newer users and apps around it. You would be surprised the demand for industry.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re right about this which is why I started a company around it.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve already talked with andrew ng and yoshua bengio. My incentives are different from there\u0026#x27;s, however, I do have their blessings to continue doing this.\u003cp\u003eI walked in to this expecting skeptics. That being said, I love deep learning as a field and will be implementing every possible neural net I can. Since my incentives are different, I can explore the different use cases with customers and help further the field in different directions that might not make sense for say baidu, facebook ,or google.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.skymind.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.skymind.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7922271","id":"7922296"}
{"by":"JanisL","time":"1535340756","timestamp":"2018-08-27 03:32:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for your time and effort making this!","parent":"17848359","id":"17849277"}
{"by":"robtoo","time":"1309803941","timestamp":"2011-07-04 18:25:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"The passwords appear encrypted so there is little threat that others can abuse this account information.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is nonsense, of course. Several of the hashes are googleable.\u003cp\u003eSometimes I feel like web app security is still where unix security was 30 years ago. Before /etc/shadow.\u003cp\u003e(edit: and before setuid programs realised they should do privileged operations early then drop privs asap.)\u003cp\u003eAlso, pastebin link because it's not included in the article: \u003ca href=\"http://pastebin.com/tkmZDG9m\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://pastebin.com/tkmZDG9m\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2727121","id":"2727337"}
{"by":"blueben","time":"1273525713","timestamp":"2010-05-10 21:08:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is DDG engaging in some sort of grassroots campaign to make sure they get a link on HN at least a few times a month? I get it. DDG is out there. They're an alternative to Google. Great. How about some articles with merit rather than yet-another-link to the search engine front page and a bunch of people gushing about it?","parent":"1334720","id":"1335940"}
{"by":"TD-Linux","time":"1462402181","timestamp":"2016-05-04 22:49:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be clear, you\u0026#x27;re comparing this to the Bitcoin script used by this website?\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   OP_RETURN \u0026lt;hash of document\u0026gt;\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"11631986","id":"11632594"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1470238716","timestamp":"2016-08-03 15:38:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Which man has not caught himself in momentary doubt: “Do I really have the right to enter GENTLEMEN? Am I really a man?”\u003cp\u003eHonestly, I never had this thought. Am I strange?","parent":"12218253","id":"12218714"}
{"by":"jstimpfle","time":"1535741331","timestamp":"2018-08-31 18:48:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not about the code, but about choice of data structure. Unfortunately that has to be planned ahead to some degree. You can\u0026#x27;t really optimize it after the fact. Typically a choice affects more than a single line of code, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean \u0026quot;microoptimizing every line of code\u0026quot;, which is obviously a bad idea.","parent":"17887832","id":"17887897"}
{"by":"yardie","time":"1272653576","timestamp":"2010-04-30 18:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have to use the same rules as the standard multiplication method then how is this anymore elegant than  doing it the old fashioned way. So instead if counting numbers now you count dots, how revolutionary","parent":"1308614","id":"1309049"}
{"by":"mynameishere","time":"1210300294","timestamp":"2008-05-09 02:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e$280 billion on outsourced call-centre services\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is greater than the GDP of Washington State. I call bullshit.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/gspnewsrelease.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/gspnewsrelease.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"185092","id":"185155"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1399468748","timestamp":"2014-05-07 13:19:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; US infrastructure is woefully behind compared to other nations\u003cp\u003eReconcile your claim with Akamai\u0026#x27;s State of the Internet, which shows the U.S. ranked #10 globally, at 10 mbps average connection speed: \u003ca href=\"http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_id=soti_Q413\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.akamai.com\u0026#x2F;dl\u0026#x2F;akamai\u0026#x2F;akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_i...\u003c/a\u003e (page 23). That number would put at about at #6 in Europe (see page 29), ahead of the U.K., Germany, and France, and not far behind Sweden and Ireland.","parent":"7709510","id":"7709948"}
{"by":"anaphor","time":"1391458726","timestamp":"2014-02-03 20:18:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, as Rob Pike said, just write everything by hand. Ken Thompson also recommends writing your lexers by hand as well! I also agree about the temptation to make it too complex just because how powerful writing it by hand is, I\u0026#x27;ve found myself succumbing a bit to the temptation by adding in the ability to change the behaviour of the lexer in the source itself.","parent":"7173153","id":"7173190"}
{"by":"simias","time":"1511462062","timestamp":"2017-11-23 18:34:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was just my knee-jerk reaction to the insightless french-bashing comment. I don\u0026#x27;t have a strong opinion on the matter. Mall culture was never as prevalent in Europe as it is in the US so it\u0026#x27;s hard to compare directly.","parent":"15766634","id":"15766954"}
{"by":"dwc","time":"1465476937","timestamp":"2016-06-09 12:55:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, well, we did a lot of things our own way. We tried some things. Some of them stuck, some of them we adapted to suit us, and other things we dropped.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The person typing should not be driving.\u003cp\u003eWhat\u0026#x27;s the reasoning behind this? My guess is that it\u0026#x27;s to prevent pair programming from turning into lone programming with an observer. If that\u0026#x27;s the case it wasn\u0026#x27;t a problem for our specific situation. No matter who had the keyboard, there was collaboration. Why separate the keyboard from the person who can fastest\u0026#x2F;best get the code on screen for consideration?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Also, if you are not the person currently at the keyboard, you are not allowed to just take over. We used strict time boxes at first to make sure that this didn\u0026#x27;t happen\u003cp\u003eWhy? Of course you shouldn\u0026#x27;t snatch the keyboard out of someone\u0026#x27;s hands, but such behavior should be addressed in other ways than by making rules. I suspect it\u0026#x27;s not that, but something else. Even so, I have to wonder if it\u0026#x27;s a social issue that would still be better addressed in other ways than by imposing rigid structure.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, switching when we wanted did not seem to pose any problems. If we missed out on some benefits then I\u0026#x27;d like to know about them.","parent":"11860446","id":"11869015"}
{"by":"aestra","time":"1385868071","timestamp":"2013-12-01 03:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would suggest not using a toothbrush on your tongue, those are designed for teeth. Get a dedicated tongue cleaner. You\u0026#x27;ll be glad you did; everyone should clean their tongue.","parent":"6825778","id":"6825922"}
{"by":"Frondo","time":"1444267312","timestamp":"2015-10-08 01:21:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re so right!  I read \u0026quot;burning flags\u0026quot; and my brain swapped in \u0026quot;burning crosses\u0026quot;!  You\u0026#x27;re absolutely right, my bad!","parent":"10350248","id":"10350302"}
{"by":"skuhn","time":"1413075839","timestamp":"2014-10-12 01:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s always hard to be absolutely certain about what goes on at a company, but I\u0026#x27;m pretty confident about Dropbox not participating in PRISM (defined as a government system that automatically collects considerable data from within a company\u0026#x27;s private systems).\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t been at Dropbox for a year now, but for most of the time I was there I was one of only two SREs that ran the production infrastructure. I knew every piece of server hardware in every datacenter, and what services ran on them. It was my job to qualify and deploy hardware, do the systems level automation, and run the user facing frontends. There is literally no way that something like PRISM could be put in place without my knowledge except by what would amount to sabotage.\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that while Dropbox is large for a startup, it only recently surpassed 1,000 employees (150 when I joined). The vast majority of those people are in customer service, and the number of people with access to production is likely still well under 100. For the first five years of the company\u0026#x27;s life there was one datacenter manager and network engineer (the same person), one SRE up until I was hired, and so on. In operations, we did more with less.\u003cp\u003eHowever, this shouldn\u0026#x27;t make you feel like your data in Dropbox is guaranteed to be safe from prying government eyes. Dropbox can and does comply with government requests -- every company operating in the US does so, or they would not be operating anymore.\u003cp\u003eI agree with your distaste towards Condoleezza Rice joining the board. It doesn\u0026#x27;t look good, but I also doubt that she has any day-to-day authority or responsibilities whatsoever.","parent":"8443838","id":"8443942"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1421379136","timestamp":"2015-01-16 03:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That sucks but it\u0026#x27;s not relevant to google having released a new version and carriers ignoring it.","parent":"8897077","id":"8897114"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1544979514","timestamp":"2018-12-16 16:58:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is about complexity; state, not necessarily shared, is the main source of complexity addressed but the fundamental point isn\u0026#x27;t specific to state. Sequentiality, often, especially, for example, for things which can be conceived of as set operations, adds unnecessary complexity which complicates reasoning.","parent":"18693406","id":"18693857"}
{"by":"davexunit","time":"1471267594","timestamp":"2016-08-15 13:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.  Keybase is trying to make a walled garden for itself.\u003cp\u003eI got really frustrated by this a couple weeks ago when I needed to get a key from a contractor but it was only on Keybase, which at the time I thought could be used as a GPG keyserver.","parent":"12289586","id":"12290235"}
{"by":"netheril96","time":"1426389451","timestamp":"2015-03-15 03:17:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess many has changed since I last looked at CommonMark and perhaps the developers are pragmatic after all. I stand corrected and will try out their implementations now.","parent":"9204912","id":"9205225"}
{"by":"jeff-nelson","time":"1361151301","timestamp":"2013-02-18 01:35:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Peter Kasting tracked down the original company-wide email.  It was actually from May 2007 and titled \"Guppy needs testers\" - for those of you working for Google who would like to look it up.  Since I left Google in January 2008 and had to turn over all of my records, I'm working from memory here.\u003cp\u003eThe entire experience of having work that I did 6 years ago  questioned, has been interesting.\u003cp\u003eHowever, the invention, the communications, the meetings, and the OS itself are all very well documented both inside and outside Google.  Further, I'm fairly confident in the integrity of Google management.\u003cp\u003eI hope I have responded in an entirely professional manner, and I'd like to assure everyone that I hold no grudges and, particularly for those Googlers who weren't aware of my work, I'd welcome the opportunity to buy you a beer sometime and fill you in on everything that happened in 2007.","parent":"5229528","id":"5237619"}
{"by":"rwallace","time":"1530419541","timestamp":"2018-07-01 04:32:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never heard of a grad student program that pays you to do \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c/i\u003e research project. The ones I\u0026#x27;ve seen, always offer a choice between paying you to work on someone else\u0026#x27;s research project, or you get to work on your project but you don\u0026#x27;t get paid; you do get access to facilities, but you have to pay an exorbitant fee for this. Am I missing something?","parent":"17433417","id":"17434109"}
{"by":"ue_","time":"1490735102","timestamp":"2017-03-28 21:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have little sympathy for those who decide they need to impose unjustified rule, taxation, force and protection private property against the workers. There\u0026#x27;s a third side to the chasm, if such a thing could exist.","parent":"13976293","id":"13980696"}
{"by":"Pamar","time":"1529805629","timestamp":"2018-06-24 02:00:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Extremely recommended!!!","parent":"17381995","id":"17384540"}
{"by":"Simulacra","time":"1499817941","timestamp":"2017-07-12 00:05:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t use Facebook with all the ads and noise. I\u0026#x27;ve blocked mine down to just the news feed, everything else goes away. Much cleaner and easier to use.","parent":"14748372","id":"14749145"}
{"by":"ryanmarsh","time":"1504795097","timestamp":"2017-09-07 14:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of the most likely locations I\u0026#x27;ve read of so far. Minneapolis, Austin, Boulder in that order.","parent":"15192116","id":"15192225"}
{"by":"trekkin","time":"1345983673","timestamp":"2012-08-26 12:21:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not implying in any way that self-taught developers are unable of anything. I know a lot of great self-taught developers. However, many developers without formal CS training learn one or two technologies (e.g. ruby or another web framework) and believe this is enough; they even call themselves \"hackers\". That last approach surprised me.","parent":"4434926","id":"4434945"}
{"by":"lap42","time":"1489701461","timestamp":"2017-03-16 21:57:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wrong.\u003cp\u003eIf he pays 50% because he wants, OK.\u003cp\u003eBut he is FORCED to pay.\u003cp\u003eThis is confiscatory payment, it\u0026#x27;s theft.\u003cp\u003eOpportunities as a young person costs 50% of what he makes?! Please don\u0026#x27;t pretend to be naive.\u003cp\u003eI thought it was common sense by now that this tax money goes to highly payed politicians, corruption, bad public administration, bad public programs, lazy people, etc.\u003cp\u003eA 10% tax should be the maximum a citizen should pay in any country.\u003cp\u003eAnd it will be in the future, distant future, but you can be damn sure that it will be.","parent":"13885588","id":"13889578"}
{"by":"wybo","time":"1380383956","timestamp":"2013-09-28 15:59:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It may not be from a business perspective. But in terms of whether the market is working its wonders, I\u0026#x27;d say it is perfect. Consumers benefit because there is a lot of fierce competition.\u003cp\u003eExactly the way it should be for a hardware product like this.","parent":"6462070","id":"6462101"}
{"by":"dzhiurgis","time":"1532222060","timestamp":"2018-07-22 01:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are missing working holiday schemes - typically one of the easier ways to get a chance of moving abroad. Caveat is they are mostly under 30-yo type of deal, but its quite feasible to gain citizenships before that.","parent":"17577386","id":"17584747"}
{"by":"anantzoid","time":"1437760108","timestamp":"2015-07-24 17:48:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Minifying your JS and CSS files is a very good practice as it\u0026#x27;s not only secure, but also is compact. Grunt is a very powerful tool that does this.","parent":"9943556","id":"9943823"}
{"by":"fleitz","time":"1433463837","timestamp":"2015-06-05 00:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being the fastest VM doesn\u0026#x27;t make a VM fast. It\u0026#x27;s just faster than other slow things.","parent":"9662608","id":"9663120"}
{"by":"denkmoon","time":"1526602450","timestamp":"2018-05-18 00:14:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why are dev boards that much more expensive in general? I can\u0026#x27;t believe that it costs 10x as much to \u0026quot;just\u0026quot; put the chip on a pcie board.","parent":"17096551","id":"17097493"}
{"by":"arbesfeld","time":"1452631207","timestamp":"2016-01-12 20:40:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The AppHub client is also open source [1] and can be configured to point to any backend [2]. We also support asset updates, and the client has been tested in many production apps.\u003cp\u003eWith CodePush, AppHub, and this, it would be nice to have the community converge on a shared auto-updating client. Perhaps down the road we could see this functionality integrated into React Native itself.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;AppHubPlatform\u0026#x2F;apphub-ios\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;AppHubPlatform\u0026#x2F;apphub-ios\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.apphub.io\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;self-hosting\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.apphub.io\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;self-hosting\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclosure: I created AppHub","parent":"10889815","id":"10890194"}
{"by":"ye","time":"1387573003","timestamp":"2013-12-20 20:56:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The irony of your comment only emphasizes how little you understand that NONE of it is techies\u0026#x27; fault.\u003cp\u003eIs it their fault they thought about the future and picked tough but useful majors?\u003cp\u003eIs it their fault that hipsters chose art, history, women studies and other (financially) useless stuff, just because that\u0026#x27;s what they liked to do?\u003cp\u003eIs it their fault that hipsters feel entitled to a high paying job?","parent":"6943900","id":"6943962"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1406899679","timestamp":"2014-08-01 13:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t too futuristic, but it\u0026#x27;s very practical and better than jeans: \u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/the-technical-pants-that-replaced-my-jeans/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;gadgets\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;the-technical-pants-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor something with more tech in it, you could build a northskirt \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UktOOIK_6nU\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=UktOOIK_6nU\u003c/a\u003e or a light-up dress \u003ca href=\"http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2014/01/15/adventures-in-wearable-electronics-light-up-dress/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ofbrooklyn.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;adventures-in-wearable-...\u003c/a\u003e or add TRON-style EL wire to anything \u003ca href=\"https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/10/11/tron-ify-anything-electronichalloween/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.adafruit.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;tron-ify-anything-e...\u003c/a\u003e :)","parent":"8119502","id":"8119650"}
{"by":"nunwuo","time":"1463068633","timestamp":"2016-05-12 15:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If there is one feature I wish PG had, it is recognizing old format db and offering one command that can in place upgrade damn db, without me googling it every time.\u003cp\u003eSo your having to Google for five minutes when doing a major version upgrade is the biggest flaw in modern postgres?  Oh come on now.\u003cp\u003eP.S. pg_upgradecluster in Debian would probably do this for you without googling","parent":"11684284","id":"11684328"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1329869356","timestamp":"2012-02-22 00:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eSecond, let's get definitions straight. Agile is best practices around iterative and incremental development. The word is a marketing term and can cover all sorts of different (and contradictory) concepts.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I hear the term \"Agile\" I think of no more or less than the principles from the Agile Manifesto.  \u003ca href=\"http://agilemanifesto.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://agilemanifesto.org/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know some people translate \"Agile\" to a specific instance of Agile (Scrum, XP, Crystal, what-have-you) but I feel like that's a mistake.  If somebody wants to criticize Scrum, I wish they'd criticize Scrum directly, not \"Agile.\"  Same for Crystal or XP or whatever.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWould I do pair programming all the time? Shit no, but does that mean I should make fun of it? Not unless I want to sound like an idiot in ten year's time.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr, if you're anything like Steve Yegge, if you like engaging a lot of hyperbole to \"stir the pot\" and elicit discussion, or to make a point.  I don't know if you read a lot of Steve's stuff or not, but his writing style is often loaded with hyperbole and is somewhat inflammatory.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgile adoption has generated a lot of hate. That's a shame, because as Steve points out, there's good in there too. (Although he's not hitting on a lot here, the article is nicely done)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thing with Steve is, you have to look beyond a lot of the specific things he says, and try to generalize to the overall point.  That's not always easy and not everybody gets it.  I know this well, as I tend to use a lot of hyperbole as well, and I often find people get hung up on the details and skip the more abstract bits.  Whether using that style or not is a Good Thing is an exercise left for the reader.  :~)","parent":"3616637","id":"3618585"}
{"by":"jere","time":"1375404423","timestamp":"2013-08-02 00:47:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a corollary to Betteridge\u0026#x27;s law of headlines that talks about completely self evident and obvious headlines?","parent":"6144609","id":"6144716"}
{"by":"bb88","time":"1487086443","timestamp":"2017-02-14 15:34:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No.  I\u0026#x27;m not.  That\u0026#x27;s why I bought mine on amazon.  :)","parent":"13636384","id":"13644173"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1322513102","timestamp":"2011-11-28 20:45:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This effect is often true for people whose native language is math :-) But to be fair most disciplines have their own jargon, math happens to have its own keyboard too.","parent":"3287038","id":"3287537"}
{"by":"huffpopo","time":"1516660571","timestamp":"2018-01-22 22:36:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you mean Samuel Brannan, then you make money by diverting church funds to pay violent gangs to establish and maintain a shovel monopoly. Then you lose it all to a real estate crash and a divorce.\u003cp\u003eSo the real lesson is be immoral, break the law, diversify and don\u0026#x27;t get married.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not like he is the only one who thought of selling shovels with huge markups.","parent":"16208310","id":"16208698"}
{"by":"carsongross","time":"1477183157","timestamp":"2016-10-23 00:39:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can go further than that.\u003cp\u003eAnd wider.","parent":"12771275","id":"12771281"}
{"by":"tom_mellior","time":"1529938745","timestamp":"2018-06-25 14:59:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; As soon as we start cutting calories from our diet, the number of calories our body expends begins to fall. \u0026quot;It literally starts happening on the first day,\u0026quot; said Hall. \u0026quot;And it continues to mount as you lose weight.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis is also discussed in the Hacker\u0026#x27;s Diet (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Hacker\u0026#x27;s_Diet\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Hacker\u0026#x27;s_Diet\u003c/a\u003e \u0026#x2F; \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch\u0026#x2F;hackdiet\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch\u0026#x2F;hackdiet\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e, free ebook and accompanying software). There seems to be a plateau around your \u0026quot;normal\u0026quot; lifestyle on which the body adjusts to small differences in calories in and out. You have to push the difference beyond a certain threshold to actually make a difference:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If you eat a little too much, the body cranks up the burn rate a little: you feel warmer and more inclined to run up a flight of stairs rather than walk. If you eat a tad less than ideal, you may feel chilly and inclined to curl up with a book under the blankets and get a little extra sleep. [...] To achieve weight loss, you have to reduce what goes in below your capacity to adjust by banking the metabolic fires, forcing your body to tap its reserves[.]\u0026quot;","parent":"17392017","id":"17392897"}
{"by":"inglor","time":"1420124553","timestamp":"2015-01-01 15:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relevant HN thread: \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8351773\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8351773\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8823063","id":"8823091"}
{"by":"gkafkg8y8","time":"1480774938","timestamp":"2016-12-03 14:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;This 4\u0026#x2F;6 MAC issue was well documented in BCP128 back in 2007. The control-word drafts mentioned that there would be dragons related to 4 and 6 back in 2004.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis reminds me a little of what Mr. Prosser said to Arthur Dent in the Hitchhiker\u0026#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy about the demolition notice for Arthur\u0026#x27;s house: \u0026quot;It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t make the assumption that engineers will be able to keep all of this in their heads. The IEEE is not going to review every document and put together a compendium of bear traps awaiting them in the future, and they aren\u0026#x27;t going to review every historic document before every decision, either.\u003cp\u003eIf the few that knew what would happen made an incorrect assumption of prior knowledge, then they dropped the ball in reminding those that needed to know.\u003cp\u003eSince nobody remembered, they should have just been informed of the mistake and a possible solution or assistance provided.","parent":"13090945","id":"13095756"}
{"by":"computer","time":"1396401131","timestamp":"2014-04-02 01:12:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a site where you can monitor the sea level live:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org/station.php?code=pisa\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org\u0026#x2F;station.php?code=pisa\u003c/a\u003e\n(as long as the site is up. Multiple measuring stations available there)\u003cp\u003eFor now the highest is 2 meters. If the site is not working, here\u0026#x27;s a screenshot from right after it began:\n\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/severestudios/status/451151233739288576\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;severestudios\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;451151233739288576\u003c/a\u003e\nAfter that it went wildly up and down.\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that a tsunami can have wildly different heights and properties in different places.","parent":"7512824","id":"7512939"}
{"by":"supersan","time":"1467646254","timestamp":"2016-07-04 15:30:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is one more point that can really get you motivated. I call it the cliff-hanger approach. I use it mostly for programming but you can use it for other aspects too.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, it goes like this. Whenever you\u0026#x27;re leaving work, make sure to leave at least one thing \u003ci\u003enearly\u003c/i\u003e done.\u003cp\u003eLike one failing test which you know how to fix, a function that you\u0026#x27;ve just started writing but haven\u0026#x27;t completed.\u003cp\u003eThis way you have a starting point the next day and it really helps to get the ball rolling.\u003cp\u003eOn a related note, another approach is to make things easier for yourself. I think it\u0026#x27;s all about getting over the static friction (time before you get the ball rolling). This approach is to prepare for the next day in advance. Like have your running shoes and socks ready by your bed, have a glass of water and a lemon (+knife) on your kitchen cabinet before going off to sleep.","parent":"12030931","id":"12031298"}
{"by":"tahssa","time":"1451353789","timestamp":"2015-12-29 01:49:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Complaining when getting something for free? Is this 2015?","parent":"10804156","id":"10804679"}
{"by":"moocowduckquack","time":"1387961022","timestamp":"2013-12-25 08:43:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So that would be a yes to both questions then.","parent":"6962442","id":"6962612"}
{"by":"AznHisoka","time":"1330720906","timestamp":"2012-03-02 20:41:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that's great, but when Google has already indexed the original content and has it ranking high, you able to download the content is an empty victory. They already got the cash","parent":"3657538","id":"3658277"}
{"by":"eurleif","time":"1368728262","timestamp":"2013-05-16 18:17:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, this API has been submitted to WHATWG: \u003ca href=\"http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RequestAutocomplete\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RequestAutocomplete\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5720049","id":"5720095"}
{"by":"tyng","time":"1288782307","timestamp":"2010-11-03 11:05:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I think Arrington is justified to express his views on the matter, he should certainly start a personal blog that's not affiliated with TC to do it. Lately he is bringing too much of his personal and company dramas (CrunchPad, Angel Gate, Jason Calacanis) to the TC world and it's hard for people not to think he is leveraging TC to his own advantage.","parent":"1864038","id":"1864408"}
{"by":"rdouble","time":"1318536229","timestamp":"2011-10-13 20:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The payoff in medicine might be worse from a total possible payoff standpoint, but definitely the best from a stability standpoint.\u003cp\u003eA mediocre doctor can throw a dart at a map and still make $150K-200K per year. In fact, with the strange renumeration structure of modern medicine, a doctor in the sticks can make more money than a doctor in a desired suburb.\u003cp\u003eWorst case scenario in medicine is working as a GP in Montana for \"only\" $150K a year.\u003cp\u003eWorst case scenario in investment banking is you are out on your ass in 2 years with skills applicable nowhere outside of downtown Manhattan.","parent":"3108426","id":"3108553"}
{"by":"hessammehr","time":"1525891568","timestamp":"2018-05-09 18:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah you beat me to it! :)","parent":"17032460","id":"17032648"}
{"by":"abuckenheimer","time":"1544723204","timestamp":"2018-12-13 17:46:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes HFT buys trade flow from robin hood because they make more money executing against it but that\u0026#x27;s not actually to the detriment of the people on the robin hood app. The main way HFT firms make money is by making a market, they offer to buy and sell stocks cheaper than anyone else and get paid by people crossing the spread and sometimes exchange fees. The reason robinhood trade flow is valuable to HFT firms Isn\u0026#x27;t because they are trading against \u0026quot;dumb\u0026quot; millennials but because they know millennials aren\u0026#x27;t likely to move the market playing around on their smartphone. HFT firms can collect a small rent sitting in between millenials trading with one another without the risk of being on the wrong side of a trade that materially moves the price of a stock.\u003cp\u003eMatt Levine does great write ups on this stuff, would highly recommend: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;opinion\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2018-10-16\u0026#x2F;carl-icahn-wants-to-fight-dell-again\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;opinion\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2018-10-16\u0026#x2F;carl-i...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18673853","id":"18674316"}
{"by":"gfodor","time":"1504810395","timestamp":"2017-09-07 18:53:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used to think like you, until I started a company to work on something because I felt like it was a \u0026quot;useful problem\u0026quot; and it crashed and burned quickly because I was not truly motivated: I was thinking with the head not the heart. Then I started working on a problem space I enjoy out of sheer technical fun (VR) and have been amazed to discover that it has massive potential for helping solve some of the more \u0026quot;useful\u0026quot; problems you mention.\u003cp\u003eThe truth is, when you are working on a project you care about, nobody really knows where it will lead you. Big things start out small and usually with humble ambitions. Usually the things that end up impacting the world start out as being considered \u0026quot;useless\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;toys.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI say, work on interesting problems that you feel good about working on but most importantly enjoy working on. Feeling like the thing you are working on is an important problem to solve is a necessary but insufficient condition to ensuring you will get through the tough parts.\u003cp\u003eRichard Hamming once wrote that he asked his peers the question: \u0026quot;Are you working on the most important problems in your field? If not, why not?\u0026quot; And I think this is a valid question and not a leading one at all. But it also is fair to answer \u0026quot;No\u0026quot; to this question if you are able to clearly answer \u0026quot;why not?\u0026quot; to yourself in a way you can live with.","parent":"15182095","id":"15194706"}
{"by":"hnal943","time":"1521583634","timestamp":"2018-03-20 22:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That level of judgment is actively discouraged and labeled \u0026quot;profiling\u0026quot;.","parent":"16633149","id":"16633181"}
{"by":"sytse","time":"1461137506","timestamp":"2016-04-20 07:31:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for your post spdustin, I greatly appreciate it.","parent":"11531508","id":"11532815"}
{"by":"jeffbr13","time":"1502906546","timestamp":"2017-08-16 18:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not been on Tinder in a while, but a year ago there was definitely the option to add a \u0026#x27;favourite track\u0026#x27; to your profile, as an extra bit of information on top of your Facebook likes.","parent":"15028639","id":"15029639"}
{"by":"canoebuilder","time":"1502177617","timestamp":"2017-08-08 07:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve devised methods to construct a temperature record going back millennia that shows a more or less constantly fluctuating temperature. Wouldn\u0026#x27;t it be weirder for that to come to a complete standstill?","parent":"14955045","id":"14955382"}
{"by":"meri_dian","time":"1505533700","timestamp":"2017-09-16 03:48:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How are you going to anonymously trade gold online? Bitcoin gives the anonymity that criminals need.","parent":"15262708","id":"15262742"}
{"by":"insertnickname","time":"1482228648","timestamp":"2016-12-20 10:10:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Xubuntu still exists.","parent":"13218256","id":"13218688"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1447893482","timestamp":"2015-11-19 00:38:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many people are waiting in a TSA checkpoint at busy times, unprotected? And yet, we haven\u0026#x27;t seen those groups of people massacred.","parent":"10591750","id":"10591885"}
{"by":"kinger","time":"1386017342","timestamp":"2013-12-02 20:49:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks to all those sitting and playing against me! Its been so much fun chatting with you all. I will keep creating games until 5pm Pacific time, so feel free to join and play me! My username is ziebac.","parent":"6835449","id":"6836412"}
{"by":"gcp","time":"1427156769","timestamp":"2015-03-24 00:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ironically, ironically...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Lotus_1-2-3\u003c/a\u003e (Decline)\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The inability to fit the larger code size of compiled C into lower-powered machines forced the company to split its spreadsheet offerings, with 1-2-3 release 3 only for higher-end machines, and a new version 2.2, based on the 2.01 assembler code base, available for PCs without extended memory. By the time these versions were released in 1989, Microsoft was well on its way to breaking through Lotus\u0026#x27; market share\u0026quot;","parent":"9254060","id":"9254193"}
{"by":"MIKarlsen","time":"1446998551","timestamp":"2015-11-08 16:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My field of study doesn\u0026#x27;t include anything but analytical skills. Which means I would have to become a consultant.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m the first in my family to go to university, and frankly, I thought that it would prepare me for a job. The last two years however, I\u0026#x27;ve found out that that\u0026#x27;s not the case. I\u0026#x27;ve since then done a lot to try to make up for this \u0026quot;naivity\u0026quot;, but so far I haven\u0026#x27;t been able to position myself any better. Also, I\u0026#x27;m all alone in figuring these things out as university doesn\u0026#x27;t provide any feedback during the first many years because of cutbacks.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m optimistic that I\u0026#x27;ll find a job, but I\u0026#x27;m also painfully aware of the fact that other educations hold much greater value for society than mine.","parent":"10528788","id":"10528821"}
{"by":"Wingman4l7","time":"1345073845","timestamp":"2012-08-15 23:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm a little surprised there aren't already insurance premium discounts for installing a \"black box\" to record accident data.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEDIT:  Apparently there already are, both in the US and elsewhere -- see below comments.  Next time I'll Google this before posting, I promise!  =D\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"4388965","id":"4388997"}
{"by":"slurgfest","time":"1344868837","timestamp":"2012-08-13 14:40:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they don't need this litigation to stay competitive, I think it is natural to ask why they did need it.","parent":"4375667","id":"4376082"}
{"by":"kibwen","time":"1458988717","timestamp":"2016-03-26 10:38:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not trying to dispute that a problem exists, only that semver is a red herring here. It seems like the problem that you describe doesn\u0026#x27;t have to do with semver, rather that it has to do with npm lacking something like lockfiles.","parent":"11365111","id":"11365176"}
{"by":"garysieling","time":"1482353955","timestamp":"2016-12-21 20:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you know how the filtering works with https in the URLs? I tried this against my own site (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;findlectures.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;findlectures.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e), but I don\u0026#x27;t get results unless I take the \u0026quot;s\u0026quot; out, despite Google displaying it that way.","parent":"13230973","id":"13232570"}
{"by":"charlesju","time":"1258515685","timestamp":"2009-11-18 03:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is the most important thing about the book. The basic motivation for all people is to feel important, you can influence people by making them feel important.","parent":"947683","id":"947738"}
{"by":"iamelgringo","time":"1238249337","timestamp":"2009-03-28 14:08:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Theres nothing interesting to read here....  move along.","parent":"536394","id":"536452"}
{"by":"demallien","time":"1429509678","timestamp":"2015-04-20 06:01:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not at all what that report says.  The graph in the report is talking about the energy usage and production of one household, not global demand.  Peak global demand of energy in Australia is very much in the middle of the day as offices and other workplaces run aircon \u0026#x2F; lighting \u0026#x2F; computers \u0026#x2F; industrial processes.","parent":"9405829","id":"9406411"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1493492813","timestamp":"2017-04-29 19:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LinuxKit is not based on Alpine - earlier versions before open sourcing were. We build our system containers from Alpine though, so there is still a connection. (I work on LinuxKit).","parent":"14227870","id":"14228172"}
{"by":"jwatte","time":"1467511510","timestamp":"2016-07-03 02:05:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not buying clutter is great, and will generally improve life and the environment. (And I\u0026#x27;m a gen X, so no millennial connection there :-)\u003cp\u003eNot having to buy things because your relations are rich is something else.\u003cp\u003eTaking a feminist angle on that particular issue seems too miss the main point, though. Yes, you \u0026#x2F;can\u0026#x2F; view everything in a feminist (or Christian, or Marxist, or whatever) light, but people who \u0026#x2F;do\u0026#x2F; end up seeming lacking in nuance.\u003cp\u003eThe point that buying less is liberating, once basic needs are met, should neither be missed nor ridiculed IMO.","parent":"12024257","id":"12024542"}
{"by":"Fricken","time":"1507572412","timestamp":"2017-10-09 18:06:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vogt did an interview with Forbes earlier this summer, in which he implied that the Lyft investment was done on the initiative of some other arm of General Motors, and that Cruise doesn\u0026#x27;t need no stinking rideshare partnership. I guess we\u0026#x27;ll see how that plays out.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=beaaidqx4vA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=beaaidqx4vA\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15435955","id":"15436073"}
{"by":"carbocation","time":"1385571458","timestamp":"2013-11-27 16:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That implies that they\u0026#x27;re not talking about scrapping the welfare state. That\u0026#x27;s fine, but it implies that they are not speaking plainly, and it also eliminates the basis for my question.","parent":"6809284","id":"6809294"}
{"by":"PaulHoule","time":"1505839335","timestamp":"2017-09-19 16:42:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Click on my user link and send me an email and I can help you out.","parent":"15285166","id":"15286236"}
{"by":"paxys","time":"1539977125","timestamp":"2018-10-19 19:25:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t see a problem that the government is infringing on my right to post literal facts online?","parent":"18258392","id":"18259269"}
{"by":"codesurgeon","time":"1209538116","timestamp":"2008-04-30 06:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The gist of what he is saying for people he'd most likely want to reach but can't for the very same reason he's adressing with his lengthy post: \nWhen reading a long, carefully arranged cohesive body of (text)work, it does not help to be distracted. With ubiquitous access to seemingly useful resources, it is very easy to give into such and deviate from the intended reading material. Book publishers don't seem to get this when devising their solutions for the declining book readership problem.\u003cp\u003eAnother note by me: Good writing is very similar to good programming/programming language design/engineering: a system/text does not get better by adding more to it, but when you can't remove anything from it anymore without changing your intent/its purpose.\u003cp\u003ePetzold could have done with a shorter post ;)","parent":"177214","id":"177336"}
{"by":"piramida","time":"1276238526","timestamp":"2010-06-11 06:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then again, git is not a consumer software. Developer should spend some time and learn 5 commands to be productive.\u003cp\u003eBut I find this interface interesting, even knowing all command line git this makes browsing history for reviews easy, nice tool.","parent":"1422997","id":"1423055"}
{"by":"bunderbunder","time":"1547570264","timestamp":"2019-01-15 16:37:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His real belief was not exactly that the PR broke it, it\u0026#x27;s that the root cause of the break was isolated to his code changes. This is evident from the debugging procedure he described. And that distinction is very important, because that detail, and not some abstract piece of philosophy, is also the real source of the challenges that motivated describing the situation in a blog post in the first place.\u003cp\u003eWhat I\u0026#x27;m really trying to say is that the article isn\u0026#x27;t describing a situation that relates to Gettier\u0026#x27;s idea at all. Gettier was talking about situations where you can be right for the wrong reasons. The author was describing a situation where he was simply wrong.","parent":"18912225","id":"18912399"}
{"by":"oblio","time":"1487363266","timestamp":"2017-02-17 20:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SVN is still quite popular. I\u0026#x27;d definitely not bundle it with Arch, Darcs, Quilt or Bazaar, in that regard ;)","parent":"13670143","id":"13671421"}
{"by":"fluxquanta","time":"1451406212","timestamp":"2015-12-29 16:23:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I currently work in this industry and the only thing I see that\u0026#x27;s drastically out of line with the real world is this:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;All the cars you see on the lot? They are owned by the dealership itself.\u003cp\u003eThis, at least for the dealerships I work with, is almost never the case. For independent dealerships the only cars on the lot that they actually own are previous trade-ins. The majority are bought at auctions on credit (called \u0026quot;floor planning\u0026quot; in the industry). These are short term lines of credit that usually mature in 90 or 180 days. If the lot is productive, the unit will be long sold by then and the line of credit paid off, only to be used again. Depending on the number of sales made in the past year, the credit line with the floor plan company fluctuates.\u003cp\u003eOften, the same company (like Manheim in the US) owns the auction AND the floor plan financier. Cox Enterprises (Manheim\u0026#x27;s parent company) and KAR Auction Services in particular seem to be buying up smaller businesses in the industry left and right not unlike your big players in Silicon Valley. My company has fielded offers from both in the past, but our owner won\u0026#x27;t budge.\u003cp\u003eBut I digress...the only other thing in the article that seems off to me is the emphasis on Certified Pre-Owned vehicles. Almost every dealer I work with will budge on that price. Making the sale is more important than a few extra dollars, in most cases. Plus, independent dealerships have a harder time with even getting vehicles certified, as opposed to the franchise stores that already have certified mechanics on site.","parent":"10803860","id":"10807395"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1373470833","timestamp":"2013-07-10 15:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The bullying by Apple of publishers was generally about fixing the price caps lower than the publishers wanted ($12.99 for NY Times bestsellers rather than $14.99.)\u003cp\u003eApple didn\u0026#x27;t have to bully the publishers in general, because this deal was a big win for them.","parent":"6019776","id":"6020459"}
{"by":"ridiculous_fish","time":"1418315288","timestamp":"2014-12-11 16:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work in manufacturing test, so I can speak to this.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a difference between design\u0026#x2F;development test and manufacturing test. Thermal, drop, vibration, interference, etc. tests are design tests: they verify that units built according to spec are sufficiently reliable. None of the devices you buy have undergone these tests, because the tests are destructive. You wouldn\u0026#x27;t want to buy an iPhone that had been baked in an oven, or dropped on a concrete floor. It\u0026#x27;s best to perform these tests near where development happens, to enable fast iteration and easily involve the hardware engineers.\u003cp\u003eManufacturing tests verify that individual units have been built according to spec. For example, that there\u0026#x27;s no electrical shorts, missing connections, cosmetic defects, etc. All of the devices you buy have undergone a large battery of manufacturing tests, which exercised all of the hardware features of the device. These tests are performed at the factory, because it\u0026#x27;s better to catch these failures early in the assembly process. For example, if a camera module is busted, you want to know before it\u0026#x27;s installed into an iPhone.\u003cp\u003eOf course Apple isn\u0026#x27;t unique in this way. This is just how manufacturing is done.","parent":"8731676","id":"8735609"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1501824330","timestamp":"2017-08-04 05:25:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is why the *BSDs have a bigger amount of contributions than GPL-licensed  operating systems.","parent":"14926104","id":"14926511"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1458500090","timestamp":"2016-03-20 18:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We changed it. Submitted URL was \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;daniel.haxx.se\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;20\u0026#x2F;curl-17-years-old-today\u0026#x2F;?oldisnew\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;daniel.haxx.se\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;20\u0026#x2F;curl-17-years-old-tod...\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"11323029","id":"11324117"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1436208968","timestamp":"2015-07-06 18:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you can\u0026#x27;t think of buyers for Googles secret sauce you should think again, just about every two-bit SEO guru would be willing to pay for that (assuming they could understand it) to be able to better game the system. Obviously this has value.","parent":"9839653","id":"9841368"}
{"by":"xelxebar","time":"1546159762","timestamp":"2018-12-30 08:49:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems this only really matters in function prototype declarations that contain multidimensional arrays. Compare:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    int foo(char [][*]);\n    int bar(char [][]);\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe second declaration should give an error.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m getting this from just reading the spec now, but it looks like the reason has to do with \u0026quot;incomplete\u0026quot; versus \u0026quot;complete\u0026quot; types.\u003cp\u003eSomething like \u0026#x27;int arr[]\u0026#x27; is an \u0026quot;incomplete type\u0026quot;, \u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c/i\u003e an array of ints with unspecified size. While \u0026#x27;int arr[*]\u0026#x27; is a complete type for an array with variable length. I\u0026#x27;m guessing that array elements must have a complete type, which is why the above snippet gives an error.","parent":"18787671","id":"18788160"}
{"by":"sirgawain33","time":"1410384105","timestamp":"2014-09-10 21:21:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We don\u0026#x27;t eat bananas anymore in our house, largely for the reasons outlined in the article.\u003cp\u003eThe thumbnail summary: bananas only started being widely consumed in the 1960s because of heavy marketing efforts by Central American railroad builders (they had to do something with the land along the sides of the newly built railroads, and bananas happened to fit).\u003cp\u003eThey are heavily chemically treated, more than any other fruit. They\u0026#x27;ve been a monoculture almost since Day 1.\u003cp\u003eOh, another fun fact, those little stickers on bananas? They were one of the first examples of \u0026#x27;branding\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eI didn\u0026#x27;t find this article all that well written or informative. I recommend Chapman\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eBananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI also happened to read John McPhee\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eOranges\u003c/i\u003e at the same time. The contrast between the orange (an ancient fruit, widely consumed, hardy, with a rich literary tradition) and the banana is stark.\u003cp\u003eBoth books, by the way, are great little studies in technology business. Techno-optimism, marketing, PR, globalization, manic CEOs; it\u0026#x27;s all there.","parent":"8296326","id":"8299265"}
{"by":"skmurphy","time":"1273209815","timestamp":"2010-05-07 05:23:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the target audience will be put off by:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   o no information whatsoever about who is behind the site. \n   o no way to evaluate what it would be like to use, just an option \n     to enter a credit card. \n   o \"early beta\"\n   o no success stories or references from at least a few \n     people who have used it to build an application.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"1326749","id":"1326787"}
{"by":"zwieback","time":"1506103559","timestamp":"2017-09-22 18:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seismic exploration of new oil fields requires both accurate geographic and, maybe more importantly, accurate time synchronization. If you place a ton of sensors in the ground and then pound the ground or set of explosives you need to know exactly where and when the echoes of the sound waves were picked up.","parent":"15309848","id":"15314352"}
{"by":"thomaslutz","time":"1363277196","timestamp":"2013-03-14 16:06:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you tell what the problem was? I still haven't got the followup email.","parent":"5375730","id":"5375814"}
{"by":"almost","time":"1252925964","timestamp":"2009-09-14 10:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It just seems so bizarre that there's so much worry over a company releasing some code. It's a good thing!\u003cp\u003eYou can argue all you like about whether they made good technical decisions but be angry that they released some code for free is just odd.\u003cp\u003eSometimes people re-write already existing things, sometimes it's a good idea, sometimes it's a bad idea, sometimes it seems like a good idea at the time. Sometimes it works out quite well so it doesn't matter either way :p","parent":"821379","id":"821445"}
{"by":"ringaroundthetx","time":"1505174259","timestamp":"2017-09-11 23:57:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slater\u0026#x27;s argument, from what I read, was that he did enough to the photo to own the copyright.\u003cp\u003eLooking for the court documents, in any case.","parent":"15223575","id":"15223590"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1499646747","timestamp":"2017-07-10 00:32:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only thing I\u0026#x27;m aware of that Red Hat sort of locks away is their documentation and knowledge base, as well as the binary builds. It contains specific information about patches that backport CVE fixes, bugfixes, etc. The kernel sources are maintained in an internal revision control system and pushed out as a tarball (which is then integrated into CentOS and other RHEL derived distros).\u003cp\u003eThere is a wealth of knowledge in there if you\u0026#x27;re looking to solve specific enterprisey problems, but it\u0026#x27;s not necessary to have access to any of it to track what changes Red Hat makes to their kernels and to reproduce them from freely obtainable sources. I don\u0026#x27;t think you\u0026#x27;re even prohibited from sharing what you learn from their customer portal resources; though copy-pasting the whole thing into the wild is certainly a copyright and\u0026#x2F;or license violation and might get you some sort of trouble.\u003cp\u003eBut, the premise of the comparison that Red Hat will somehow penalize someone for distributing RH sources (which has also been alleged in this thread) is just wrong. You can get and copy and modify and redistribute the kernel sources from RH; whether you get it as a paying customer in the form of RHEL or from CentOS for free. Red Hat will not penalize you for doing so, nor will they end any contracts you have with them.\u003cp\u003eThe change to a mashed together tarball rather than a mainline kernel with patches applied was a direct response to Oracle rebuilding RHEL from sources and calling it Oracle Linux. It\u0026#x27;s unfortunate (I used to maintain a bunch of kernel RPMs, and it was nice having all the independent patches), but it\u0026#x27;s not a violation of the license, and it\u0026#x27;s still entirely possible to distribute custom RHEL-based kernels; you just have to actually know what you\u0026#x27;re doing to do so. There\u0026#x27;s no more copypasta-custom kernel building, in the general case. If you follow their kernels, maybe keeping your own revision control of them, you can see what changes between each revision, and it would be possible to parse out the specific patches in a lot of cases with relative ease. But, none of that is necessary to be compliant with the GPL.\u003cp\u003eThe GPL requires you make the source code available to anyone you distribute to, and under the same terms as the kernel itself. Red Hat does exactly that (and then some, by maintaining CentOS).","parent":"14732446","id":"14732569"}
{"by":"spooneybarger","time":"1279228086","timestamp":"2010-07-15 21:08:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what would you get out of doing that?","parent":"1519186","id":"1519195"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1254233067","timestamp":"2009-09-29 14:04:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is that the feedback loop for Microsoft for, say, Excel is that they want to sell 50,000-seat site licenses to accounting firms and will do what they need to do technologically and commercially in order to do that. As an aside, Excel becomes a superset of what other users need. The feedback loop for Google's spreadsheet is... what?\u003cp\u003eRemember Google's users are not its customers, they're its \u003ci\u003eproduct\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"850355","id":"850381"}
{"by":"Torn","time":"1415885509","timestamp":"2014-11-13 13:31:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s easy to host a pdf on it. Most file sharing sites have countdowns \u0026#x2F; ads \u0026#x2F; gates to entry instead of just showing the content.","parent":"8601334","id":"8601377"}
{"by":"lotharbot","time":"1306335517","timestamp":"2011-05-25 14:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More simply stated: upvotes imply that it's worth discussing.","parent":"2583952","id":"2584164"}
{"by":"benburton","time":"1347493104","timestamp":"2012-09-12 23:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who writes the occasional userscript in a github gist, I find this to be really annoying. I understand the security perspective, but I think it should be a bit easier to install your own scripts when you know what you're doing.","parent":"4513027","id":"4513887"}
{"by":"emiliobumachar","time":"1513937220","timestamp":"2017-12-22 10:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I highly recommend the online Cybersecurity Specialization of the University of Maryland on Coursera.\u003cp\u003e(disclaimer: I didn\u0026#x27;t pass the Capstone project, and never got around to trying it again)\u003cp\u003eBack then it was free if you didn\u0026#x27;t need a certificate, may still be.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coursera.org\u0026#x2F;specializations\u0026#x2F;cyber-security\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coursera.org\u0026#x2F;specializations\u0026#x2F;cyber-security\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15986100","id":"15986405"}
{"by":"hinkley","time":"1511887756","timestamp":"2017-11-28 16:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s better when the punchline comes at the end.","parent":"15797620","id":"15798872"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1354613926","timestamp":"2012-12-04 09:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can be, and it is for me. I'm against all of it.","parent":"4868268","id":"4870147"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1438882355","timestamp":"2015-08-06 17:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the funny part. One of the principle arguments for \u0026quot;legit\u0026quot; piracy is that the increased exposure is actually good for business. So combined, these two arguments amount to \u0026quot;you should pirate from these terrible, evil companies in order to increase their profits.\u0026quot; Huh.","parent":"10017718","id":"10017999"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1433453873","timestamp":"2015-06-04 21:37:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Logic and set theory are intertwined.","parent":"9662268","id":"9662283"}
{"by":"meddlepal","time":"1521727650","timestamp":"2018-03-22 14:07:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Contract work, entrepreneurship, specialization and management are all options as you get older.","parent":"16648666","id":"16648744"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1297865995","timestamp":"2011-02-16 14:19:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like what \u003ci\u003eGrendel\u003c/i\u003e is to \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c/i\u003e, which is a good thing.","parent":"2223647","id":"2226391"}
{"by":"lucian1900","time":"1359581335","timestamp":"2013-01-30 21:28:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a terrible name. It has nothing to do with apps.","parent":"5141789","id":"5141863"}
{"by":"wolfgke","time":"1485432177","timestamp":"2017-01-26 12:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It does when those Bay Area hackers are the ones who decide whether or not they will port their app to your phone.\u003cp\u003eThe mistake is rather that for closed protocols you are dependent on the Bay Area hacker to port the apps instead of \u0026quot;everyone can implement the open protocol\u0026quot;.","parent":"13488971","id":"13490637"}
{"by":"jcsalterego","time":"1246459094","timestamp":"2009-07-01 14:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hat tip to John Nack on Adobe: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/07/super_cool_video_stabilization_technology.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/07/super_cool_video_stabil...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"682682","id":"682690"}
{"by":"seibelj","time":"1447620920","timestamp":"2015-11-15 20:55:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote a long argument but deleted it all in favor of this. Everyone needs to toughen the fuck up and stop being offended so easily. Someone insults you for being different? Welcome to real life, get some thicker skin.","parent":"10569532","id":"10571159"}
{"by":"vibrunazo","time":"1334177132","timestamp":"2012-04-11 20:45:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also funny is the #usesforwhitespace tag\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23usesforwhitespace\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23usesforwhitespace\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3829432","id":"3829554"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1509967688","timestamp":"2017-11-06 11:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a BYTE magazine interview where he talks about it:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;apple2history.org\u0026#x2F;museum\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;byte8501\u0026#x2F;#diskdrive\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;apple2history.org\u0026#x2F;museum\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;byte8501\u0026#x2F;#diskdriv...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15632834","id":"15634755"}
{"by":"gnaritas","time":"1318965098","timestamp":"2011-10-18 19:11:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Don't hate the player, hate the game.\u003cp\u003eOr hate anyone who repeats this meme.","parent":"3126282","id":"3126632"}
{"by":"MartinMond","time":"1323123718","timestamp":"2011-12-05 22:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, we're currently in the process of making a screencast, submitting 1.1 and writing our email list. We haven't yet had much time to work on the homepage.\u003cp\u003eSilkscreen is for designers who design for retina devices and need a retina density preview on the real device.","parent":"3316739","id":"3316792"}
{"by":"absconditus","time":"1322852598","timestamp":"2011-12-02 19:03:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article does not actually prove anything. For all we know there are twice as many artists now.","parent":"3304638","id":"3305206"}
{"by":"betterunix","time":"1364246269","timestamp":"2013-03-25 21:17:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Knives are among the oldest and most versatile tools known to man.  I have, on occasion, used my pocket knife as a gardening tool, screwdriver, box cutter, prying tool, wire stripper, wire cutter, torque wrench, and hammer.  It is not the best tool for any of the above, but sometimes you just lack the time needed to go back to your garage and get your toolbox.\u003cp\u003eNothing about \"assisted opening knives\" makes them \"clearly intended to be used as weapons.\"  It is a convenience, just like my pocket knife conveniently locks open.  Why should a tool not be convenient?\u003cp\u003eFinally, the important distinction here is that Google is not refusing to advertise these knives, they are only refusing to allow this one, small company to advertise those knives.  That is a key detail -- Google has no problem with the knives when Amazon is selling them.","parent":"5439176","id":"5439752"}
{"by":"binarysolo","time":"1334358138","timestamp":"2012-04-13 23:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about /r/games, /r/kickstarter?","parent":"3838803","id":"3839201"}
{"by":"krschultz","time":"1241391549","timestamp":"2009-05-03 22:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the US we exclude energy costs as well, so the giant inflation in gas prices was completely excluded from the inflation numbers of the last 10 years.","parent":"591037","id":"591507"}
{"by":"jbarnette","time":"1384462198","timestamp":"2013-11-14 20:49:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We use PRP in any situation where someone explicitly takes responsibility for an outcome, no matter whether the outcome is some software or a clean office or an accurate tax return.","parent":"6734922","id":"6735453"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1508172040","timestamp":"2017-10-16 16:40:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This will be presented at the Live programming \u0026#x27;17 workshop next Tuesday (10\u0026#x2F;24 in Vancouver @ Splash). For a complete program see: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;2017.splashcon.org\u0026#x2F;track\u0026#x2F;live-2017#program\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;2017.splashcon.org\u0026#x2F;track\u0026#x2F;live-2017#program\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15471954","id":"15484554"}
{"by":"btown","time":"1450244479","timestamp":"2015-12-16 05:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A good comparison that hasn\u0026#x27;t been mentioned much in this thread is Salesforce\u0026#x27;s Salesforce1 Fund, which launched with $100M in 2014 to encourage people to build around the B2B app-creation platform it had launched a year earlier [0]. As the parent post mentions, it\u0026#x27;s important to make the case \u0026quot;compelling\u0026quot; for building best-in-class integrations with a relatively-recently-launched platform (whether or not that platform is sponsored by a historically huge corporation or not).\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s an interesting point that bringing multiple sources of external capital to bear on an ecosystem via a multi-sponsor fund, rather than into the business itself via an IPO, allows the business to grow at a natural rate, and avoids Slack contributing to a \u0026quot;bubble\u0026quot; in which companies race to go public to launch their own platforms. I think we\u0026#x27;ve learned from the last time around that the public markets aren\u0026#x27;t the best place to manage expectations in technology.\u003cp\u003eAs for why the sponsors made this investment, there\u0026#x27;s a very good case to be made that (a) efficient free-form communication within agile teams at small and large companies is a pattern as crucial to developing modern businesses as a CRM, and (b) Slack is perfectly poised to capture and \u003ci\u003ehold\u003c/i\u003e this new market in the same way that Salesforce was. Certainly worth a $13mm commitment that\u0026#x27;s diversified amongst companies whose teams could still pivot should Slack not work out.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.salesforce.com\u0026#x2F;company\u0026#x2F;news-press\u0026#x2F;press-releases\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;140908.jsp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.salesforce.com\u0026#x2F;company\u0026#x2F;news-press\u0026#x2F;press-releases...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10742516","id":"10742602"}
{"by":"BrandonM","time":"1283117735","timestamp":"2010-08-29 21:35:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you feel the need to change her life? Did you even consider that she might actually enjoy a life that is so alien to your experience?","parent":"1643481","id":"1644644"}
{"by":"ritchiea","time":"1366221792","timestamp":"2013-04-17 18:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aha. Thanks for the info! Good to know.","parent":"5565727","id":"5565975"}
{"by":"bdunbar","time":"1392403905","timestamp":"2014-02-14 18:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re not a terrible nerd.  Star Trek just isn\u0026#x27;t that great a show.\u003cp\u003eI blame Roddenberry.  He sold the network \u0026#x27;Wagon Train to the Stars\u0026#x27; but what he deliberately _produced_ was an episodic morality play.\u003cp\u003eGood fiction and a consistent universe were just not going to happen in that kind of a deal.","parent":"7238460","id":"7240246"}
{"by":"jwdunne","time":"1358352511","timestamp":"2013-01-16 16:08:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It comes down to time. My employer pays me money with the understanding I will dedicate a slot of time to working solely on the projects he needs me to work on.\u003cp\u003eYes, he's paying me to deliver. If he was paying for my time and I wasn't delivering then there's a problem. If I deliver, however, I can't just get up and walk out in the middle of the day.","parent":"5067232","id":"5067387"}
{"by":"filterfish","time":"1482499903","timestamp":"2016-12-23 13:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(You didn\u0026#x27;t)","parent":"13243671","id":"13244601"}
{"by":"fecak","time":"1391739254","timestamp":"2014-02-07 02:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article does a good job to demonstrate ways to attract and retain talent. The only thing I\u0026#x27;d disagree with is that they won\u0026#x27;t come to you. If you do the other things listed, and become known as a shop that does things right and treats employees well, they will come to you. Reputation of several companies makes their recruiting efforts much easier.\u003cp\u003eThe article doesn\u0026#x27;t really address the alleged developer shortage referenced in the title. Even if every company did these things, and did them well, would they still all be able to meet their hiring needs?","parent":"7193921","id":"7194417"}
{"by":"nabla9","time":"1540284962","timestamp":"2018-10-23 08:56:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; getting really stiff\u003cp\u003eDo you stretch?","parent":"18281480","id":"18281817"}
{"by":"Shank","time":"1366929486","timestamp":"2013-04-25 22:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unrelated to the article, but Marco \u0026#38; a couple others now run a different podcast: \u003ca href=\"http://atp.fm/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://atp.fm/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5610239","id":"5610398"}
{"by":"jbrun","time":"1204343923","timestamp":"2008-03-01 03:58:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pretty good talk about talks. maybe an update with projectors and graphics would be good. Does Al Gore's Inconvenient truth talk or some of Steve Job's talks not contravene many of these items?","parent":"122756","id":"126545"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1490574098","timestamp":"2017-03-27 00:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect it\u0026#x27;s really day by day, not minute by minute. They probably only update overnight.\u003cp\u003eHow would they even have data to justify minute by minute?","parent":"13963970","id":"13964220"}
{"by":"tedks","time":"1434848673","timestamp":"2015-06-21 01:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With respect, I think that it\u0026#x27;s best for people to find these things on their own. The crimethought comes to you naturally at that point, without your being able to distinguish it as crimethink until it\u0026#x27;s too late.","parent":"9751355","id":"9751664"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1423758846","timestamp":"2015-02-12 16:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right, she should probably be executed for that joke. \u0026#x2F;s","parent":"9039514","id":"9039587"}
{"by":"walkingolof","time":"1495191543","timestamp":"2017-05-19 10:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Article in English, by a Swedish newspaper, about the why \n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dn.se\u0026#x2F;nyheter\u0026#x2F;sverige\u0026#x2F;swedish-prosecutor-drops-case-against-julian-assange\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dn.se\u0026#x2F;nyheter\u0026#x2F;sverige\u0026#x2F;swedish-prosecutor-drops-ca...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14373951","id":"14374418"}
{"by":"BurningFrog","time":"1468282766","timestamp":"2016-07-12 00:19:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know, one could argue I should read the article before opining!\u003cp\u003eThat makes much sense for the 1.0 version, but I have to think my GPS vision is on the 2.0 roadmap.","parent":"12075781","id":"12075821"}
{"by":"quarterto","time":"1386102877","timestamp":"2013-12-03 20:34:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure you\u0026#x27;re running a \u003ca href=\"http://xkcd.com/1288/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;1288\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e browser extension.","parent":"6842832","id":"6842993"}
{"by":"learc83","time":"1432806662","timestamp":"2015-05-28 09:51:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, there are plenty of apartment complexes for lower income people.\u003cp\u003eTrailer parks are a thing mostly because they allow for more privacy than an apartment--no upstairs neighbors.","parent":"9616887","id":"9616998"}
{"by":"mantas","time":"1504804570","timestamp":"2017-09-07 17:16:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why literally anybody can volunteer and there\u0026#x27;re lots of people from different backgrounds counting the ballots and checking each other.","parent":"15192617","id":"15193844"}
{"by":"gonzoflip","time":"1462300937","timestamp":"2016-05-03 18:42:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the rate of GDP growth, the person you replied to specifically stated that they would have made more money on the SPX. Granted the S\u0026amp;P 500 is not guaranteed to go up, but historically it does.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;...first, up to about 1975, the world\u0026#x27;s economic growth rate was higher than 3%, due to the Second Industrial Revolution; second, up to about 1975, the US\u0026#x27;s economic growth rate was higher than the world\u0026#x27;s, because it was taking over the markets previously supplied by the bombed-out economies of Europe (especially the UK) and Japan.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eDo you read the posts you reply to? Because the chart I linked starts in 1970. And you are discussing GDP when the post you were replying to specifically was talking about investing in the market.","parent":"11623093","id":"11623151"}
{"by":"digaozao","time":"1435379021","timestamp":"2015-06-27 04:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi, I don\u0026#x27;t know if it fits what you want. But there is something like that for clojure[0] . I liked the language a lot. I didn\u0026#x27;t have the chance to use it in production yet. Another option is hacker rank with challenges [1]\n[0]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.4clojure.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.4clojure.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n[1]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hackerrank.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hackerrank.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9788749","id":"9789094"}
{"by":"seejohnrun","time":"1322593081","timestamp":"2011-11-29 18:58:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fixed sorry, temporary bug","parent":"3291430","id":"3291632"}
{"by":"dinkumthinkum","time":"1484863111","timestamp":"2017-01-19 21:58:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re just committing the same flawed reasoning I\u0026#x27;m talking about. Human behavior is complicated, your view is, and I don\u0026#x27;t mind stating this absolutely, is very naive, if well intentioned.","parent":"13437038","id":"13439832"}
{"by":"peter303","time":"1431526888","timestamp":"2015-05-13 14:21:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Engineers have been doing this since the 1950s with a data structure called the Finite Element Mesh, ar arbitrary shaped computation grid.","parent":"9537009","id":"9539087"}
{"by":"Avshalom","time":"1503171994","timestamp":"2017-08-19 19:46:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ll part of it is that what doping really let\u0026#x27;s you do is recover fast and thus train more. So in a lot of contexts it just reveals the limits of training more than the physical limits.","parent":"15055121","id":"15055205"}
{"by":"chronicx0","time":"1490734039","timestamp":"2017-03-28 20:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I can\u0026#x27;t think of any product I\u0026#x27;d rather have than a Tesla.\u003cp\u003eJesus Christ, you really bought into the Tesla hype.","parent":"13980252","dead":true,"id":"13980526"}
{"by":"sswaner","time":"1414373524","timestamp":"2014-10-27 01:32:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could replace every instance of Epic with Siebel and find hundreds of similar quotes when Salesforce prepared to take out the leader in enterprise CRM.\u003cp\u003eAs a consumer, the EHR space seems ripe for revolution.   5 years from now, they may not be the leader, but I expect they will own a sizable share of the market and introduce a serious competitive threat to existing players.\u003cp\u003eI would count the following in their favor:\n1- Their cloud design makes rollout easy compared to a data-center installed product.\n2- Their existing and growing mobile offerings could be a disruptive option for both health care providers and consumers. \n3- The AppExchange Marketplace allows a wide spectrum of 3rd parties to easily integrate into the core platform. This has proven to be a very powerful added benefit in other markets (disclosure: I presented on this topic at Dreamforce earlier this month).\n4- Low overall cost of adoption.  It is very easy to develop custom solutions on Salesforce.  I could see some potential customers opting for a small pilot that proves the value of Salesforce over an existing install.\n5- A provider still adapting to changes from ACA could use this as an opportunity to make a change.  Ideally, Salesforce would have done this a few years ago, but there may still be enough Obamacare disruption to gain traction.","parent":"8513192","id":"8513327"}
{"by":"Pent","time":"1293123982","timestamp":"2010-12-23 17:06:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kittens","parent":"2034280","id":"2034988"}
{"by":"mikejb","time":"1541315944","timestamp":"2018-11-04 07:19:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fun fact: A not entirely equivalent, but comparable starter was used on the Titan II ICBMs and Gemini launchers, specifically the LR87-5 and LR87-7 rocket engines (which used a hypergolic fuel\u0026amp;oxidizer combination)\u003cp\u003eA simple (read: I don\u0026#x27;t understand it better yet) explanation is this: A starter cartridge was placed in the turbopumps of the engine, that ignited and spun up the turbopumps (technically, the turbine of the TPA which then turns the pumps), which then fed fuel and oxidizer into a) the gas generator to sustain operation, and b) into the combustion chambers. The cartridges burned for about a second, and you can hear the screeching sound they made in this launch video [1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;E87deQMLHoQ?t=185\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;E87deQMLHoQ?t=185\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18369497","id":"18374696"}
{"by":"NumberCruncher","time":"1476217069","timestamp":"2016-10-11 20:17:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only because women and men are equal as human beings and should be treated accordingly it does not mean they are identical. Not so long ago everybody said that we need more women in [paste a well paid white collar job]. You wanted positive discrimination. Now you have it.\u003cp\u003eIronically nobody wanted to have more women on construction sites, in the military service or as a surgeon...","parent":"12686398","id":"12688149"}
{"by":"dagheti","time":"1240926660","timestamp":"2009-04-28 13:51:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't the time for measurement usually after the code has been mostly written? Not prematurely optimizing means getting to the measurement point as soon as you can, then using actual profiling numbers to focus your attention on what needs to be changed.","parent":"582936","id":"583101"}
{"by":"fhaifhruh","time":"1459878546","timestamp":"2016-04-05 17:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the meantime, the Chinese government censors every piece of news about Panama Papers and \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eunelected\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e officials keep corrupting, manipulating and abusing human rights.","parent":"11431369","id":"11432652"}
{"by":"jeresig","time":"1304465549","timestamp":"2011-05-03 23:32:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Hopefully the iPad is just a kickoff point.\"\u003cp\u003eThat's precisely it. Being who I am, I'm going to be building everything with Open Web technologies and most likely built on top of jQuery Mobile. The iPad is just serving as a good initial platform to target and test on before expanding massively.\u003cp\u003eI wouldn't be surprised if much of the work that happens on the tablet version of the site gets back-ported to the main site itself (as things like tablets and mobile devices tend to encourage minimalist UIs and a larger emphasis on what the user is attempting to achieve).\u003cp\u003eI did work for the One Laptop Per Child project in the past, I'm a strong advocate for getting useful resources out to as many people as possible - regardless of their means.","parent":"2512074","id":"2512122"}
{"by":"neilwilson","time":"1502465341","timestamp":"2017-08-11 15:29:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this mean a full stack developer hasn\u0026#x27;t got one?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll get my coat.","parent":"14989846","id":"14990642"}
{"by":"mseebach","time":"1385406924","timestamp":"2013-11-25 19:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have hard data, but I would suspect the effort going into Bitcoin mining is orders of magnitude less than the effort going into securing traditional monetary systems, even systems comparable in financial size to Bitcoin.","parent":"6796118","id":"6796211"}
{"by":"MBCook","time":"1339463199","timestamp":"2012-06-12 01:06:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But isn't that factored into the 30% cut they take \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c/i\u003e the delivery charges?\u003cp\u003eI love my Kindle and I really like Amazon, but this is the first I've heard of the delivery charge part. Considering that it's around 25% of the price of the book... it really does seem like a rip off on their part.","parent":"4097996","id":"4098103"}
{"by":"Joeboy","time":"1392825541","timestamp":"2014-02-19 15:59:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title makes sense if you interpret \u0026quot;Bitcoin Exchange\u0026quot; as singular, although my initial instinct was also to not do that.","parent":"7263861","id":"7264191"}
{"by":"ujjwalg","time":"1251407395","timestamp":"2009-08-27 21:09:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WOW! this is a big breakthrough. I have friends working in my collaborators group using STM and AFM at UHV (Ultra High Vacuum) and ULT (Ultra Low Temperatures), and know second hand how difficult/near to impossible it is.","parent":"790036","id":"790060"}
{"by":"roschdal","time":"1537694060","timestamp":"2018-09-23 09:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GPL v3.","parent":"18048369","id":"18050203"}
{"by":"oneeyedpigeon","time":"1404822618","timestamp":"2014-07-08 12:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although, admittedly, this [1] doesn\u0026#x27;t do what I\u0026#x27;d expect it to.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://duckduckgo.com/?q=regex+%2F%28%5Cw%2B%29+%5Cs+%28%5Cw%2B%29%2F+hacker+news\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=regex+%2F%28%5Cw%2B%29+%5Cs+%28%5C...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8004159","id":"8004167"}
{"by":"metachor","time":"1270753178","timestamp":"2010-04-08 18:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is a use case for multi-tasking on a phone that you want/need that could only be covered by full preemptive multi-tasking of third party apps?","parent":"1250379","id":"1250561"}
{"by":"tmikaeld","time":"1510738449","timestamp":"2017-11-15 09:34:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if it where open source, it just as well be abandoned if the company tanks (Like Rubedo CMS).\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s an open source headless CMS here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;getdirectus.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;getdirectus.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t have all of the batteries of Sanity and uses normal SQL for data backend, but it\u0026#x27;s a good way there.","parent":"15701562","id":"15702569"}
{"by":"mpweiher","time":"1546626292","timestamp":"2019-01-04 18:24:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eA Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ietf.org\u0026#x2F;rfc\u0026#x2F;rfc1149.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ietf.org\u0026#x2F;rfc\u0026#x2F;rfc1149.txt\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;There is persistent delivery retry, until the carrier drops.\u0026quot;","parent":"18826164","id":"18826353"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1458836515","timestamp":"2016-03-24 16:21:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; They ultimately closed my bug and reopened it STATING it was a new valid bug, then closed it again.\u003cp\u003eSo what was the reason they closed it again? Seems like that\u0026#x27;s the most important part here and it\u0026#x27;s left out.","parent":"11353287","id":"11354077"}
{"by":"dTal","time":"1499812545","timestamp":"2017-07-11 22:35:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For anyone who thinks this is a silly idea, this a pretty close description of the average UK police officer.","parent":"14748642","id":"14748668"}
{"by":"reeses","time":"1376150692","timestamp":"2013-08-10 16:04:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are you using beyond Chrome?  The Open Sans web fonts render much better on my Mac with Chrome Version 30.0.1588.0 dev.\u003cp\u003eNot that I\u0026#x27;m a big fan of the font (too close to Arial, especially the \u0026#x27;R\u0026#x27; for my antiquated tastes), but I would say it\u0026#x27;s a well-rendered font of a typeface I do not like. :-)","parent":"6190599","id":"6191527"}
{"by":"iEchoic","time":"1489922544","timestamp":"2017-03-19 11:22:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"React and Vue are both great, well-supported libraries. I\u0026#x27;d personally recommend React, especially as someone new to frontend development, in part because React is much more broadly used and as a result it\u0026#x27;s often easier to google for errors\u0026#x2F;suggestions\u0026#x2F;help.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t need a framework for \u0026quot;backend glue\u0026quot; necessarily - I prefer not to use one at all. If your app is communicating w\u0026#x2F; your backend through REST\u0026#x2F;graphql and returning JSON, the client logic to query the server is really simple - just query your backend endpoint using a library like fetch or axios and get your data back. Your \u0026quot;layer\u0026quot; can just be a .js file that contains your queries.","parent":"13906416","id":"13906456"}
{"by":"onurozkan","time":"1445925484","timestamp":"2015-10-27 05:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can convert your small app to \u0026quot;suggestion engine\u0026quot; to make your analysts work easier. Maybe some review-tracking for their performance report, which is win-win for you, your company and making 80 people life easier.","parent":"10456290","id":"10456512"}
{"by":"eropple","time":"1491086376","timestamp":"2017-04-01 22:39:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be clear, I\u0026#x27;m not saying that the government should suppress reprehensible speech.\u003cp\u003eBut I \u003ci\u003eam\u003c/i\u003e saying that elements of the public choosing to protest it and no-platform it should not be criticized by the (maybe-)well-meaning peanut gallery on \u0026quot;free speech\u0026quot; grounds \u0026#x27;cause \u003ci\u003ewe\u0026#x27;re exercising ours\u003c/i\u003e. The easy (wrong (dumb)) rhetorical answer trotted out around here becomes \u0026quot;oh, delicate snowflakes!\u0026quot; because of the inexplicable unwillingness to wait until one\u0026#x27;s head is put to the curb and the boot is raised before resisting.","parent":"14014532","id":"14014562"}
{"by":"munchbunny","time":"1468543262","timestamp":"2016-07-15 00:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not a good comparison because there\u0026#x27;s much more range in instrument quality than cable quality.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Audiophile speaker cables\u0026quot; carry the stigma that they do because the luxury versions aren\u0026#x27;t better than the \u0026quot;minimum viable product\u0026quot; versions in appreciable ways. Instruments, violins included, see a massive range in quality between the things you would consider functional violins and very well-made violins.\u003cp\u003eThe complaint about audiophile speaker cables is that they don\u0026#x27;t produce a difference in result that even trained sound engineers would be able to reliably identify. Whereas any reasonably experienced violinist or even any reasonably experienced musician would be able to tell you about the difference between a bad and a good violin by listening to them. The differences between the best violins might be hard to identify, but there\u0026#x27;s still a substantial range of quality levels.","parent":"12093844","id":"12098271"}
{"by":"thristian","time":"1361700111","timestamp":"2013-02-24 10:01:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, the only versions higher than 2.01 listed on that page are 2.50 (which adds the ability to store all metadata on a separate partition... not that useful) and 2.60 (which adds support for \"partial overwrites\" on sequentially-recorded media).\u003cp\u003eNeither of those seem terribly useful for the \"UDF filesystem on a shared hard-disk partition\" use-case we're talking about, so I don't think Linux's limit of UDF 2.01 is very important in practice.","parent":"5273367","id":"5273637"}
{"by":"pmichaud","time":"1264687930","timestamp":"2010-01-28 14:12:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Synopsis for those without an hour to burn?","parent":"1083504","id":"1083809"}
{"by":"minipci1321","time":"1543045731","timestamp":"2018-11-24 07:48:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; ... when you pass NULL to a varargs function. Instead of passing in a null pointer, the compiler may instead pass in an integer zero.\u003cp\u003eHow can that happen? If I recall the standard, variadic functions have default promotion of non-declared args: integral promotion for integral types, floats to doubles. Why would the compiler want to convert a pointer (which (void*)0 is) to an integer?","parent":"18520857","id":"18520980"}
{"by":"azim","time":"1308070521","timestamp":"2011-06-14 16:55:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In some cases, yes depending on the state. If you buy an item in state Y and pay y% sales tax on it, then when you return to state X, sometimes you are required to pay the difference x%-y% in tax.\u003cp\u003eI am not a tax expert, but here are some examples I know of:\nA buddy of mine recently purchased a car while living in Texas, then moved to California a few months later and was required to pay the difference in sales tax on it before registering it.\u003cp\u003eNew Hampshire doesn't have sales tax. The state of Massachusetts assumes people who reside in border towns will be purchasing goods there and automatically bills a yearly flat rate.","parent":"2653476","id":"2653756"}
{"by":"konschubert","time":"1520497914","timestamp":"2018-03-08 08:31:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He said it\u0026#x27;s a surgical \u003ci\u003etraining\u003c/i\u003e startup so I think it would have been fairly okay.","parent":"16543043","id":"16543148"}
{"by":"WheelsAtLarge","time":"1542503679","timestamp":"2018-11-18 01:14:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just a tip for all dys\u0026#x27;ers. As you disassemble, it\u0026#x27;s always good to take photos so you have reference points as you reassemble.","parent":"18477387","id":"18478327"}
{"by":"Peroni","time":"1332761940","timestamp":"2012-03-26 11:39:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're right. We spotted that bug a bit too late last night (3am to be precise) and implemented an ugly work-around.\u003cp\u003eJon (my co-founder and lead dev on the site) will be tackling that particular issue this evening.","parent":"3756142","id":"3756163"}
{"by":"jorangreef","time":"1278177143","timestamp":"2010-07-03 17:12:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, VCard import exists. Outlook import coming. Let me know what you need.","parent":"1483693","id":"1484053"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1460383847","timestamp":"2016-04-11 14:10:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, must be wild having all those celebrity friends.","parent":"11469954","id":"11471570"}
{"by":"knightofmars","time":"1495717729","timestamp":"2017-05-25 13:08:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the flashbacks of supporting failing services at 3:00 AM. :D  Even today, I am amazed at how absolutely terrible this type of decision making was and still is. The idea that you can \u0026quot;save some money\u0026quot; by having your engineers supporting your infrastructure \u0026quot;part time\u0026quot; is always going to cost your more in the long run.  Because of the long-term effect of having an unskilled (in the area of question) individual attempting to do the job of a system admin (bad security practices, etc) and the turn-over you end up with due to burn-out.","parent":"14416273","id":"14417036"}
{"by":"nbadg","time":"1466298121","timestamp":"2016-06-19 01:02:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The reason for this fundamental conclusion is as follows. All instances of smart contract theft or loss – in fact, the very definition of smart contract theft or loss, is fundamentally about differences between implementation and intent.\u003cp\u003eThis is, I think, to its core the fundamental problem with any kind of rigid language in contracts. It\u0026#x27;s nice to see an acknowledgement of its existence, but disappointing to see \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eno\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e acknowledgement of its severity. We see this all the time, not just in code, but in law and policy as well: an overly-prescriptive law can be just as problematic as an overly-vague one. And imperatively written smart contracts are about as prescriptive as you can get.\u003cp\u003eThis is of course in addition to another critical shortcoming for smart contracts: they are capable only of interacting with informational assets (of which \u0026quot;money\u0026quot; is a subset). You can\u0026#x27;t possibly create a smart contract to purchase a house, because at the end of the day the person that physically occupies the house is in the position of power. Any smart contract enforcement mechanism would necessarily rely upon some outside system, which defeats the whole purpose of the thing in the first place.\u003cp\u003eI have high hopes for cryptocurrencies, in no small part because they inherently deal with only information (again, money is a subset thereof). But I\u0026#x27;ll be honest: I remain extremely skeptical that smart contracts \u003ci\u003eas we currently understand them\u003c/i\u003e will ever see general adoption. It strikes me as an emotionally understandable, but rationally ill-advised, radical departure from hundreds of years of political philosophy and sociology... not in a way that inspires the term \u0026quot;disruption\u0026quot;, but rather in a way that evokes \u0026quot;out of the frying pan, and into a boiling pot of lava\u0026quot;. I\u0026#x27;m all for \u0026quot;a better contracts system\u0026quot;, but given that a contract (even one with a non-human entity) is by its very definition a social instrument, I just fail to see a reasonable way forward for what is essentially contractual bytecode.","parent":"11931181","id":"11931382"}
{"by":"monsieurbanana","time":"1484669896","timestamp":"2017-01-17 16:18:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could download that in about 3 hours at home with fiber internet, not that big of a window.\u003cp\u003eAt work we use google cloud storage, so if someone had gained access and were downloading stuff we would have absolutely no idea, no without already setup alerts.","parent":"13417908","id":"13418732"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1436157107","timestamp":"2015-07-06 04:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Url changed from \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ibtimes.co.uk\u0026#x2F;mongolian-shipwreck-kublai-khans-13th-century-invasion-japan-discovered-by-archaeologists-1509319\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ibtimes.co.uk\u0026#x2F;mongolian-shipwreck-kublai-khans-13...\u003c/a\u003e, which points to this.","parent":"9834088","id":"9836787"}
{"by":"coffeejunk","time":"1291581287","timestamp":"2010-12-05 20:34:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll be there.","parent":"1971409","id":"1972591"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1364837352","timestamp":"2013-04-01 17:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I remember reading a book in 2004 discussing what percentage of medical industry profits went towards research and development, verses what percentage went towards marketing.\u003cp\u003eThat doesn't even make sense. Neither R\u0026#38;D nor marketing come out of profits. Otherwise they wouldn't be profits...\u003cp\u003eIronically, I can't get at that article because of a paywall, but my guess would be that HuffPo is defining \"basic research\" in a way that excludes most of the R\u0026#38;D spending (which undoubtedly goes to \"applied research\") and is defining \"promotion\" in a way that includes not just advertising, but things like the sales network.\u003cp\u003eThe fact is that say Merck spends much more on R\u0026#38;D than on advertising: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/7-merck-top-15-r-d-budgets\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/7-merck-top-15-...\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fiercepharma.com/special-reports/merck-top-13-advertising-budgets\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.fiercepharma.com/special-reports/merck-top-13-adv...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5472861","id":"5474521"}
{"by":"svarrall","time":"1477657972","timestamp":"2016-10-28 12:32:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flash was this for me. Started with the animation tools and slowly started writing action script to make it interactive. Try Interface Builder in XCode it allows you to do all of the layout side, but you quickly need to start writing snippets of code to do things like round corners and change border colours.","parent":"12810043","id":"12815093"}
{"by":"Fradow","time":"1454490338","timestamp":"2016-02-03 09:05:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks a lot for this comment!\u003cp\u003eFor me, this really underline how an already optimised website won\u0026#x27;t benefit much from it (especially the image recompression bit), and it may even be harmful.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, it could work great by being properly configured for small websites that don\u0026#x27;t get much optimisations, and could really benefit from generic optimisation.","parent":"11023320","id":"11025516"}
{"by":"cloudwalking","time":"1452105598","timestamp":"2016-01-06 18:39:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, and I do think the Tesla analogy is accurate. This is a first-gen device aimed towards early adopters who are willing to pay more. Next generations will be progressively cheaper.","parent":"10852483","id":"10852561"}
{"by":"taytus","time":"1435330369","timestamp":"2015-06-26 14:52:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it all depends on the context. A comedy show is a comedy show. People are always looking for ways to feel offended.","parent":"9784743","id":"9784799"}
{"by":"JonFish85","time":"1420576521","timestamp":"2015-01-06 20:35:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My guess would be that it starts with the assumption that \u0026quot;China is cheaper\u0026quot;, and that makes for an easy story to tell to investors \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;re making XYZ in China!\u0026quot;.  The second you say \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;re making it in Texas\u0026quot;, it opens you up to questions of \u0026quot;isn\u0026#x27;t that expensive?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOn the face of it, I\u0026#x27;m sure the up-front quote from a Chinese manufacturer is cheaper than something in the USA.  Where costs skyrocket is when something goes wrong:  the parts are wrong, the products aren\u0026#x27;t ready on time, something was done incorrectly, etc.  If you don\u0026#x27;t have a manufacturer you can trust, one of those will happen, and is almost impossible to diagnose from the US.\u003cp\u003eEven if all of that works out, there are other things to consider:  costs (and time) of shipping.  Want it in a week?  Well, get ready to pay.  Even if you ship it air freight consolidated, it\u0026#x27;s still not cheap.  If you want it on a boat, there\u0026#x27;s a good chunk of time to think about.\u003cp\u003eOn top of THAT, there are all sorts of fun import tariffs and such to deal with (at least on the US side).  Get ready to front money for an import bond, for starters!  And there may already be some hidden costs of importing into the US:  if you use some TI parts that have to be imported into China, you\u0026#x27;re going to be paying taxes twice.\u003cp\u003eA lot of those things are likely not looked at in the low quote from a Chinese manufacturer.  They\u0026#x27;re costs that can\u0026#x2F;will show up later along the line.","parent":"8846601","id":"8846913"}
{"by":"mechanical_fish","time":"1238340221","timestamp":"2009-03-29 15:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think this subject can be generalized about. Every person is different, every one of that person's partners are different, and you're a different person today then you were six months ago. That is a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of variation. Some people's relationships are \u003ci\u003eliterally\u003c/i\u003e torture. Others can carry on two or three happy relationships \u003ci\u003eat the same time\u003c/i\u003e and still get things done.\u003cp\u003eAll you can do is follow your nose. Local optimization is your friend. If you think to yourself \"gosh, my plan to live like a celibate monk is making me cranky and depressed\", perhaps you need to change something in your life. (Get out of the office!) It doesn't matter whether or not (e.g.) \u003ci\u003eother\u003c/i\u003e people are happier and more productive as celibate monks, or whether there is some Grand Unified Theory of Productivity that prescribes monkhood. Those people are not you, and that theory may not apply to you. Even the best theories of human behavior can only describe averages, and it's unlikely that you are average in every respect. Just because the average human walks on two legs doesn't mean that one-legged humans can't walk.","parent":"537346","id":"537414"}
{"by":"th0waway","time":"1456340532","timestamp":"2016-02-24 19:02:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it may not be the ultimate, conscious aim, but I am convinced that there is a sort of \u0026#x27;social emergent behaviour\u0026#x27; that will move us more and more toward that state of serfdom unless we actively fight against it.","parent":"11159769","dead":true,"id":"11169227"}
{"by":"DevFactor","time":"1425915845","timestamp":"2015-03-09 15:44:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possibly that you have to pay for them, and typically don\u0026#x27;t get any time with the instructor. Also, many MOOC\u0026#x27;s just move the lecture online - this doesn\u0026#x27;t help with retention. You need interactivity.\u003cp\u003eThat was my goal with: \u003ca href=\"http://www.devfactor.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.devfactor.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e - to provide a better learning environment for free. Once the app launches, I\u0026#x27;m hoping the additional interactivity will make it much better for retention.","parent":"9171462","dead":true,"id":"9171523"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1237488974","timestamp":"2009-03-19 18:56:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very impressive - it's a good thing large sheets of plastic with ridges are so expensive.","parent":"523696","id":"523790"}
{"by":"stephenr","time":"1522708641","timestamp":"2018-04-02 22:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Breaking news: An OS with a limited set of drivers for the hardware it\u0026#x27;s specifically designed to be used on, doesn\u0026#x27;t work very well on hardware it was never intended to be used on. Full story at 11.","parent":"16739587","id":"16740094"}
{"by":"jasonlotito","time":"1302468405","timestamp":"2011-04-10 20:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mentioned this in another comment.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://groups.google.com/group/php-standards/web/psr-0-final-proposal\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://groups.google.com/group/php-standards/web/psr-0-final...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas 'ratified' by some of the bigger framework developers out there a while ago.","parent":"2429909","id":"2430366"}
{"by":"benwad","time":"1542370959","timestamp":"2018-11-16 12:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To clear things up for confused people like me, when she says the IRA she means the Internet Research Agency, not the Irish Republican Army.","parent":"18466642","id":"18468241"}
{"by":"norswap","time":"1262042804","timestamp":"2009-12-28 23:26:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Theorically speaking, you could recreate youtube whitout the ads juste by running a crawler that would create an html page embedding each video it finds. Of course the API facilitate that - but if the website doesn't have some solid added value, then it's no use at all (you're better off installing Adblock).\u003cp\u003eBesides, \"inline\" video advertisement has it's purpose.","parent":"1019609","id":"1019634"}
{"by":"coliveira","time":"1477112491","timestamp":"2016-10-22 05:01:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most people in Venezuela never had access to pharmaceuticals. And, while any difficulties in health care are deplorable, lack of medical resources is the norm on third world countries. So it is difficult to assess how much of this was due to the regime policies or to the bad shape of the economy. The problem in doing this assessment is that all coverage of Venezuela is ideologically tainted. Any perceived problem in Venezuela is taken as the direct result of socialist policies, when in fact the country was poor longer before Chavez came to power. But for example, few newspapers will talk about the fact that the GDP of Venezuela has almost tripled since socialists came to power.","parent":"12767180","id":"12767281"}
{"by":"boomboomsubban","time":"1497147714","timestamp":"2017-06-11 02:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His quote comes from an interview about a 2006 book he published, Grandin loved the book and spoke highly of it around then, and then her quote comes from her 2008 book.","parent":"14529644","id":"14530291"}
{"by":"Tharkun","time":"1494929347","timestamp":"2017-05-16 10:09:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might enjoy reading Michael Moorcock\u0026#x27;s Elric of Melniboné series. It\u0026#x27;s in part about a society that spends most of its time high as a kite, and its inevitable downfall.","parent":"14347576","id":"14348503"}
{"by":"ColinWright","time":"1314222638","timestamp":"2011-08-24 21:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simply putting the title into Google gave this as its second hit:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/nver-tse.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/nver-tse.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2922567","id":"2922611"}
{"by":"vegabook","time":"1417305246","timestamp":"2014-11-29 23:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is Julia seriously targeting the R user base? Or, if it is honest with itself, is it going after the matlab people first. My sense is that engineers (Matlab users) and to a certain extent scientists (Python rules) will be drawn in, but the stats crowd requires subtly different priorities, that seem to be alluded to here. Graphics are one such priority. The excellent ggplot2 gets all the glory, but base graphics are mega-fast, extremely robust, and deeply customizable, and there is the unsung hero of grid graphics which provides an extraordinary set of abstractions for building things like ggplot2 and\u0026#x2F;or Lattice. My point is that so much graphical quality speaks \u003ci\u003edirectly\u003c/i\u003e to one of the key requirements of statisticians, where at the end of the analysis, \u003ci\u003ecommunication\u003c/i\u003e is usually required. This is much less the case for engineers or financiers (big matlab users) for example, where correct and fast answers are the endpoint. Where is Julia on graphics? Last time I checked it was still trying to interface to R and\u0026#x2F;or Matplotlib.\u003cp\u003eThe other thing that intrigues me is Julia\u0026#x27;s scalar computations being \u0026quot;at least\u0026quot; as important as vectors. This has the whiff of For loops (an immediate eye-roller for R people) accustomed to vectorization everywhere and essentially, exclusively. I am not suggesting that Julia doesn\u0026#x27;t do vectors well, just that, like any set of priorities, it is not catering \u003ci\u003efirst\u003c/i\u003e for statisticians, whose requirements are often quite different from those of scientists and engineers who use Matlab and Python.","parent":"8675280","id":"8675458"}
{"by":"superk","time":"1278437149","timestamp":"2010-07-06 17:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem I see, is that if you change a single line in the stylesheet, the client has to re-download all images - nothing is cached.","parent":"1491165","id":"1491633"}
{"by":"phyller","time":"1521818665","timestamp":"2018-03-23 15:24:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The more I think about this the more it makes sense in a horrible way. The important thing for Uber is that they are first to market. If they are first to market there are two outcomes:\na) they are successful, they make more money with lower fares because they don\u0026#x27;t need to pay drivers anymore. They basically take over the market that they are already dominating, beating competitors into bankruptcy. The market explodes as it is cheaper to get on demand cars than to own your own. $$$$$\nb) they are not successful. They kill a hundred people in a month or two. The self-driving car industry gets shut down, and for the cost of a few hundred million dollars in settlements they keep their current market dominance in the current industry, but have to keep paying drivers. $$\u003cp\u003eThe alternative, they are not first to market, someone else is and immediately replaces Uber with a network of cheaper self-driving cars:\na) Uber goes out of business\nb) They can somehow convince someone to license the tech or sell them the cars at a reasonable price, making them vulnerable and less profitable, with no market advantage.","parent":"16655889","id":"16659058"}
{"by":"wvenable","time":"1513717942","timestamp":"2017-12-19 21:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally agree.  There are tools for beginners but those are just \u003ci\u003efor beginners\u003c/i\u003e -- you have to transition to something else to do real work.\u003cp\u003eDevelopment is so complex right now but I suspect most programmers in their 20\u0026#x27;s have no idea how easy it used to be.  Now certainly some tasks themselves (like cross-platform development) were near impossible in those times but that\u0026#x27;s somewhat orthogonal to the point.","parent":"15961686","id":"15964314"}
{"by":"parsnipsumthing","time":"1498915936","timestamp":"2017-07-01 13:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seriously? Why? Do they expect young supermodels to date them?","parent":"14676213","id":"14677033"}
{"by":"orf","time":"1488925146","timestamp":"2017-03-07 22:19:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; easy... just do this thing I have no idea about nor any clue how it would implemented\u003cp\u003elol.","parent":"13813585","id":"13815607"}
{"by":"macmac","time":"1273213763","timestamp":"2010-05-07 06:29:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Code here: \u003ca href=\"http://code.google.com/p/gource/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.google.com/p/gource/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1326860","id":"1326861"}
{"by":"mpdehaan2","time":"1452614821","timestamp":"2016-01-12 16:07:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are saying your branch is reliable, and I\u0026#x27;d agree, most are.  There are some bad ones out there where they prefer to hide behind the system and dodge complaints, no matter how nicely brought.  Basically Newman from Seinfeld is an accurate descriptor.","parent":"10883925","id":"10888148"}
{"by":"diogenescynic","time":"1456447037","timestamp":"2016-02-26 00:37:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s installed. They even got a new cable box with it. Really odd strategy at AT\u0026amp;T.","parent":"11178942","id":"11179061"}
{"by":"gmack","time":"1399579954","timestamp":"2014-05-08 20:12:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pinboard.in + Delibar = done.","parent":"7714863","id":"7717390"}
{"by":"jandrese","time":"1527108534","timestamp":"2018-05-23 20:48:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t that make it basically impossible for Apple, Microsoft, or Google to make a \u0026quot;platform\u0026quot;, because what platform is going to exceed a trillion dollars or whatever they are worth this week?","parent":"17136744","id":"17138126"}
{"by":"chrischen","time":"1254244680","timestamp":"2009-09-29 17:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He does seem a little harsh. I've never encountered a professor that harsh.","parent":"850737","id":"850802"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1450502397","timestamp":"2015-12-19 05:19:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;\u0026quot;White Hat\u0026quot; is effectively equivalent to government contractor now. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e... so the el8 guys were right all along ?","parent":"10759533","id":"10762741"}
{"by":"mpyne","time":"1402893278","timestamp":"2014-06-16 04:34:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s exactly this.\u003cp\u003eCongress in front of cameras is far, \u003ci\u003efar\u003c/i\u003e different than Congress behind closed doors.\u003cp\u003eThe thing people sort of gloss over for politicians is the Cantor Effect: These guys normally actually need to get re-elected, or elected in higher offices. They have to appease their base, even if that means asking stupid questions they already know the answers to.\u003cp\u003eFDR had a saying which I\u0026#x27;m probably misquoting, \u0026quot;I like your idea, it\u0026#x27;s the right thing to do. I want to do it. Now go \u003ci\u003emake\u003c/i\u003e me do it.\u0026quot; You make politicians do stuff by convincing their base of support.","parent":"7896652","id":"7897435"}
{"by":"waytogo","time":"1520355531","timestamp":"2018-03-06 16:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"12 °F \u0026#x2F; -11 °C.\u003cp\u003eOn my bike.\u003cp\u003eListening to Gorillaz on my Powerbeats 3.\u003cp\u003eThey shut down after 5 minutes every time.","parent":"16529452","id":"16530067"}
{"by":"wooster","time":"1278569913","timestamp":"2010-07-08 06:18:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- They charge for bank integration.\u003cp\u003e- The only good version is on Windows. It's the only app I run on Windows.\u003cp\u003e- The data entry is slow and error prone. Unbelievably so, for an app centered around data entry.","parent":"1496284","id":"1496644"}
{"by":"bob_situmorang","time":"1412079878","timestamp":"2014-09-30 12:24:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s just an example to illustrate that an AI won\u0026#x27;t do what you want it to do if you program its motivations incorrectly.","parent":"8386659","dead":true,"id":"8387751"}
{"by":"adorable","time":"1500024506","timestamp":"2017-07-14 09:28:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would also recommend a curated newsletter with AI \u0026#x2F; ML news and resources:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aiweekly.co\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aiweekly.co\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14764700","id":"14768604"}
{"by":"Terretta","time":"1325197960","timestamp":"2011-12-29 22:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know a single person that wants to look under their hood any more (though living in greater NYC area, I realize this is not representative of most communities).  When I was in high school (mid 80s), everyone did.  But even the grease monkeys aren't interested any more.\u003cp\u003eIt's kind of like late 80's ricers versus today's German cars.  I myself auto-crossed a Honda CRXsi.  Today I'm just as into performance, but have other things to do with my time.  I can honestly say I have not \u003ci\u003eever\u003c/i\u003e seen the engine of my car which Car \u0026#38; Driver recently named the Best Handling Car in America.  It's a Boxster, and ... \u003ci\u003ethere is no hood to open\u003c/i\u003e.  I'm okay with that.\u003cp\u003eThat \"sizable community\" is dwindling fast, as computing becomes an appliance technology.  Your opinion is disproportionately represented here because HN is much more like the late night parking lot full of ricers in San Bernardino than it's like an arbitrary quarter mile of LA's I-10 rush hour traffic.\u003cp\u003e// Note: iphone-dev's redsn0w[1] has an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 on everything but the iPhone 4s and iPad 2.  And saurik's Cydia[2] is doing just fine, with plenty of souped up suspensions or new stereo systems if you want to get your hands dirty.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.iphone-dev.org/?0b08b320\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.iphone-dev.org/?0b08b320\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http://cydia.saurik.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cydia.saurik.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3404693","id":"3405697"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1297275667","timestamp":"2011-02-09 18:21:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Adobe's CS products were 64-bit only on Windows for a while as well, due to Apple's last minute decision to drop 64-bit support for Carbon and force developers into Cocoa use for 64-bit apps.   While Adobe addressed the situation with CS5, not every company out there has the same resources available for such a rewrite of their Mac-specific layer on multiplatform software.\u003cp\u003etl;dr -- Apple is at least partially to blame for the slow move to 64-bit apps on the Mac platform.","parent":"2198410","id":"2198595"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1319439236","timestamp":"2011-10-24 06:53:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess you missed his irony.  \"Pointless\" was a straw man of his injection to make his argument seem stronger.\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day most of Google's non-search products have lacked great design, this is well publicized and not very controversial and Google has made some great strides recently towards better design (Matias Duarte's work on ICS most famously).","parent":"3148545","id":"3148555"}
{"by":"oc852","time":"1535287216","timestamp":"2018-08-26 12:40:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Graduated near the bottom of his class and achieved far more than most.","parent":"17844366","id":"17845682"}
{"by":"yupferris","time":"1424614290","timestamp":"2015-02-22 14:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"also to anyone who wants to hear more about this stuff, I\u0026#x27;ll be giving a talk about it at NVScene\u0026#x2F;GTC next month :D\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://nv.scene.org/2015/speakers/#ferris\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nv.scene.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;speakers\u0026#x2F;#ferris\u003c/a\u003e for more info ^^","parent":"9087037","id":"9089467"}
{"by":"AlexCoventry","time":"1526625479","timestamp":"2018-05-18 06:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he\u0026#x27;s demonstrating some important coding skills, but the changes he makes are very local, and it\u0026#x27;s also important to think about overall structure and interaction between program components The methods he\u0026#x27;s ridiculing have some utility for that kind of work.","parent":"17090319","id":"17099178"}
{"by":"nanna","time":"1467496561","timestamp":"2016-07-02 21:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Without disrespecting his memory, we should not forget that Wiesel lent serious support to the occupation and, what is effectively, the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem. Haaretz touches on this:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In April 2010, he took out advertisements in four major newspapers, criticizing the Obama administration for pressuring the Netanyahu government to halt construction in Jewish neighborhoods located across the Green Line in East Jerusalem.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFor me, as an Israeli Jew, I find him too compromised by nationalism to bother with. I\u0026#x27;d much rather read Primo Levi or Paul Celan.\u003cp\u003eMore info: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Elie_Wiesel#Opinions_about_Jerusalem_and_the_Holocaust\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Elie_Wiesel#Opinions_about_Jer...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12023618","id":"12023921"}
{"by":"thomasmallen","time":"1226174465","timestamp":"2008-11-08 20:01:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course, but I never said that. One thing I don't like about all of this is the treatment of college students as anything but grown men and women trying to get an education. There is a strong contingent, if not a majority, that wants to treat college-aged adults as if they're still children (note alcohol and gun laws). This and its consequences are the main reasons that I left college.\u003cp\u003eImmediately following high school, I began work as a web designer/front-end developer. After over a year of that and taking night classes, I transferred to a good university in my state. I'd had enough after a semester, and more than enough after two, so I went back to front-end development.","parent":"357595","id":"357779"}
{"by":"ece","time":"1502855918","timestamp":"2017-08-16 03:58:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes by definition, and I did define it as a presidential election flipping because of 3rd party voters in a handful of swing states.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re ignoring that Trump on the ballot meant any Libertarian was going to get a bump. Any other republican, and their winning margin would\u0026#x27;ve been bigger, or Hillary would\u0026#x27;ve won and we wouldn\u0026#x27;t be having this conversation.\u003cp\u003eIt shouldn\u0026#x27;t have been close, but the last few elections have been, with the popular vote winner losing the electoral college twice and Kerry coming within ~30 EVs. Do you have a solution for divided media, inequality, climate change, and citizens united, that is simpler than vote trading or making people realize voting for their 2nd preference might just be worth it to hack the electoral college? I\u0026#x27;d love to hear it.","parent":"15024741","id":"15024847"}
{"by":"AstroJetson","time":"1422541506","timestamp":"2015-01-29 14:25:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No they didn\u0026#x27;t.  If you read the document, at the bottom of the page is a footnote that talks about the request.  it says until the commissioners decide, the enforcement bureau will continue to act in this manner.\u003cp\u003eSo its up to the Comi$$ioner$ to decide.  And as we\u0026#x27;ve seen, in lots of cases money talks at the FCC.","parent":"8964470","id":"8966253"}
{"by":"jdefr89","time":"1467742318","timestamp":"2016-07-05 18:11:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is sort of explains why I have chosen OS X. Its a UNIX operating system that makes for a great modern desktop machine. I don\u0026#x27;t need to worry about poor and or glitchy hardware support. Its 2016, I don\u0026#x27;t have the time to play around with finding WiFi drivers or graphics drivers that can hardly support 3D-acceleration. Everything has always worked out of the box. Having had two MacBook Pros, I haven\u0026#x27;t had one hardware or software issue to date. They (OS X\u0026#x2F;Apple) have the advantage of being unified. People aren\u0026#x27;t constantly arguing over stupid shit as they seem to with Linux. FreeBSD\u0026#x27;s development on the other hand is just too slow for my desktop use. Despite what the article says, I have found that there is usually a support gap somewhere after an install; with drivers or whatever else. This isn\u0026#x27;t to say I dislike Linux, I do love Linux. I just wish they would get their shit together on a few issues. As for FreeBSD, it still has a strong spot for secure, stable servers. I suppose it\u0026#x27;s all a matter of preference. At the end of the day however I will always choose a UNIX system for my day to day use.","parent":"12034277","id":"12038326"}
{"by":"afaqurk","time":"1390757309","timestamp":"2014-01-26 17:28:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly my intention: get feedback and then iterate towards a more viable product. I have quite a few more ideas for the interface and options. Definitely going to pursue it.","parent":"7125295","id":"7125852"}
{"by":"stonesixone","time":"1490182294","timestamp":"2017-03-22 11:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; A team consisting of four people.\u003cp\u003eI count thirteen: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lbry.io\u0026#x2F;team\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lbry.io\u0026#x2F;team\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13929973","id":"13930068"}
{"by":"Lazare","time":"1332760727","timestamp":"2012-03-26 11:18:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You realize you're talking about the 20th wealthiest country in the world?  And most of the countries above them are either tiny, have oil, or both?","parent":"3756090","id":"3756104"}
{"by":"ekpyrotic","time":"1270378440","timestamp":"2010-04-04 10:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flagged. This should not be on HN.","parent":"1239980","id":"1240024"}
{"by":"gohrt","time":"1389402756","timestamp":"2014-01-11 01:12:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your comment is insinuating that Asian, Indian, etc women and men have corrupted it for their own beefit, and that this corruption somehow benefits a mutual-aid society of white males. Is that what you intend to claim?","parent":"7040687","id":"7040926"}
{"by":"djsla","time":"1384019365","timestamp":"2013-11-09 17:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A sure way to kill several hours coloring old family pics :)","parent":"6702345","id":"6702365"}
{"by":"chongli","time":"1364835846","timestamp":"2013-04-01 17:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's exactly what I'd call a born leader. These types of people do not show any weakness and refuse to compromise on their vision.","parent":"5471997","id":"5474341"}
{"by":"creddit","time":"1529545361","timestamp":"2018-06-21 01:42:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Especially on YouTube where I believe there’s an issue with Firefox not using the most efficient encoding on the videos.","parent":"17361377","id":"17361388"}
{"by":"michaelhart","time":"1289443703","timestamp":"2010-11-11 02:48:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But when it's actually leaked and posted, it'll most definitely be trimmed.","parent":"1892646","id":"1892680"}
{"by":"jessedhillon","time":"1302485289","timestamp":"2011-04-11 01:28:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, this argument is about the successfulness of the WordPress internal architecture. If you haven't looked at the internals WordPress, or written something against their PHP API, then you're arguing from ignorance.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; I sense a lot of idealism in you.\u003cp\u003ePlease do your best to limit yourself to relevant statements.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;  I work for a company that uses Coldfusion extensively, and we succeed just fine...\u003cp\u003eThis is just intellectual dishonesty: you don't reveal at all whether or not the core of your business depends on Coldfusion, which would be important in order to make an apples-to-apples comparison.\u003cp\u003eYou work for Linode, a company that provides VPS hosting. If you make a poor choice of technology on which to base your website, the core of your business is not impacted. Maybe some customers gripe about your dashboard, but your competitors will compete mainly on the superiority of their servers. If you work for a company like MySpace (which depends on its website entirely) and Facebook enters your market, you will not be able to find enough talented CF programmers to fend them off. Talented programmers would not ordinarily elect to use CF, for many reasons.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; It sounds pretty useless except for people who are molding Wordpress into something it wasn't envisioned to be.\u003cp\u003eNow you're simply being a contrarian. I don't think you even understand what this feature is or how it works. And yet again, I have to remind you of the point was: \u003ci\u003ea feature that they wanted\u003c/i\u003e took a lot of time and effort to implement, when it could have been had trivially \u003ci\u003ewith a better architecture.\u003c/i\u003e In other words the technology decisions created inflexibility when implementing a product feature.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Proper code is a misnomer. There is no such thing as proper.\u003cp\u003eFirst, your college professor might have an objection here.\u003cp\u003eSecond, I said \"proper MVC principles\", as in, \u003ci\u003ehad they properly implemented MVC principles\u003c/i\u003e. I would be happy if they implemented any sort of architecture. This is one area where, if you had knowledge of the internals of WordPress, we could have a productive conversation, instead of simply negating what I said in the abstract.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Also, MVC doesn't apply to all use cases, and it certainly isn't a prerequisite to \"proper\" or \"well-designed\" as you imply...\u003cp\u003eNot implied at all. Had you any knowledge of the internals of the WordPress architecture, it would again be useful to assert that knowledge so we could discuss whether or not it conforms to \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e notion of design. Unfortunately, you don't seem to want to discuss the actual point of the argument, preferring instead to deal with (ironically) ideal notions.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Wordpress continues to dominate. Why is that, you think?\u003cp\u003ePast performance is not indicative of future results.\u003cp\u003eThis kind of argument can be constructed for every company which currently leads its market, but may in the future be overtaken by a competitor. The relevant question is not \"why does it dominate now\" but \"is it threatened by X\".","parent":"2430593","id":"2430953"}
{"by":"amerine","time":"1532286776","timestamp":"2018-07-22 19:12:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fraud? Come on. I see Tesla’s all over town, I see solar city vans, I hear about boring co digging tunnels, I see video of giant rockets mostly landing on barges in the ocean to be reused again and again.\u003cp\u003eFraud?\u003cp\u003eI don’t know the man, or own any of his products, but he’s definitely not a fraud.","parent":"17588226","id":"17588322"}
{"by":"394549","time":"1537198934","timestamp":"2018-09-17 15:42:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If Senator Sanders et al want to target all companies who pay below a certain wage or offer\u0026#x2F;don\u0026#x27;t offer a certain benefit or whatever broad category of social\u0026#x2F;economic ill that the legislature wants to end, have at it. Just so long as you don\u0026#x27;t torture a combination of such factors that, low and behold, it happens to only apply to the individual \u0026#x2F; company that you have it in for.\u003cp\u003eSorry, but what you\u0026#x27;re advocating for a is a barrier towards fixing these problems.\u003cp\u003eIf the legislature only talks in terms of abstract situations, all of it will feel \u003ci\u003etheoretical\u003c/i\u003e and will be far less likely to spur real action.  On the other hand, if you have concrete examples of problems, that makes the problems feel \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e. Real problems motivate real action.\u003cp\u003eRest assured, whatever bill Sanders writes will target the broad problem at all companies, because he\u0026#x27;s forbidden from writing a law that would only target Amazon explicitly.","parent":"18006519","id":"18006945"}
{"by":"testuserrrr","time":"1360011404","timestamp":"2013-02-04 20:56:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am wearing a fake stash, of course!","parent":"5167051","id":"5167064"}
{"by":"codeglomeration","time":"1298638311","timestamp":"2011-02-25 12:51:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree. While it's great to have a demo available if it pops up in a conversation, power pitching can be annoying. Especially if it's done by somebody who exhibits the traits of poor salesmen.","parent":"2261920","id":"2261983"}
{"by":"jsmthrowaway","time":"1502563698","timestamp":"2017-08-12 18:48:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All of those are now routine, though. This is weird.","parent":"14999166","id":"14999301"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1248810533","timestamp":"2009-07-28 19:48:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would probably be easier and cheaper to make hardware for any given person to wear. It's not like they'd have a shortage of volunteers.","parent":"728464","id":"728673"}
{"by":"wickedchicken","time":"1304043567","timestamp":"2011-04-29 02:19:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A little outdated but always good to see how far linux has come (although to this day I still have to compile sound card drivers)...","parent":"2496033","id":"2496087"}
{"by":"barry-cotter","time":"1257819604","timestamp":"2009-11-10 02:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the love of God, take your time.\u003cp\u003eUnder no circumstances do an MBA with less than two years of work experience. You won't get into a top ranked programme and  if your programme isn't top ranked you'd be better off doing it by distance education while working. If you were going to do a second entry degree a J.D. would be a much better idea.\u003cp\u003eAn M.Sc. in CS probably has a better ROI than most MBA programmes, and it'd let you compete for jobs that wouldn't be available to you fresh out of a Bachelors. The thing is you might be able to get enough real world experience in the time that you'd be doing a Masters that you'd be at the same level in the same time, but you'd have been earning and making contacts in that time.\u003cp\u003eIf you love what you're doing keep doing it until it palls.\u003cp\u003eDon't pay to do an M.S. get in as a Ph.D. and bail once you've got what you want. Alternatively come to Europe where education is dead cheap. Karlsruhe in Germany has a fantastic CS programme, and it's a beautiful, beautiful city.\u003cp\u003eFor an MBA, consider INSEAD. It's highly ranked and it only takes one year.","parent":"932203","id":"932264"}
{"by":"raganwald","time":"1332331968","timestamp":"2012-03-21 12:12:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thinking about how others may react before speaking is part of our DNA, it's not some new idea. What we think about evolves, but the basic principle is as old as humanity. I call it \"being considerate,\" as in considering the effect our choices may have before we make them.","parent":"3733911","id":"3733981"}
{"by":"hyperknot","time":"1471432428","timestamp":"2016-08-17 11:13:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is absolutely brilliant! One thing what I would love to see, next to the timezone info is the actual timezone in UTC+2, etc. format. That way you could for example immediately see why does Portugal and Spain have a one  difference in sunsets the western parts, for example.","parent":"12298681","id":"12303786"}
{"by":"personjerry","time":"1461962052","timestamp":"2016-04-29 20:34:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it depends on the person reading. The article ran on a  tad long for me, with too much backstory; I was more interested in the technical story and I appreciated the tl;dr.","parent":"11597115","id":"11598571"}
{"by":"Symmetry","time":"1492803564","timestamp":"2017-04-21 19:39:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A SR-20 has a single engine at the front of the plane rather than 36 scattered over the wings.  They claim, at least, that that makes a big difference in aerodynamic efficiency.","parent":"14168534","id":"14168723"}
{"by":"DenisM","time":"1539108287","timestamp":"2018-10-09 18:04:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thirded. Half-decent earbuds plus dense foam tips like Comply and I couldn’t care less about a crying baby in the next row on the plane. Cheap, compact, and effective.","parent":"18177124","id":"18178323"}
{"by":"rimantas","time":"1367785806","timestamp":"2013-05-05 20:30:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, the first thought after seeing that stone arc was \"Baraka\".","parent":"5659552","id":"5659627"}
{"by":"superkuh","time":"1524658524","timestamp":"2018-04-25 12:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or a solution like hash based domains that Tor uses. I know a lot of commercial sites balk but it really is more secure. And instead of just leasing a domain on the whims of a company easily swayed by politics and lawyers you actually own your domain on the Tor network.","parent":"16920086","id":"16920782"}
{"by":"wdanilo","time":"1498161663","timestamp":"2017-06-22 20:01:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are open to suggestions here. We know that Luna brings a great power to Data Scientists but there have to be a good way to show this power to them. I don\u0026#x27;t know currently what way would be the best and we\u0026#x27;ve got a little time until we do it. For now, the first milestone for us is to build community around good programmers (including good programmers from the data science field) and later target less technical people. Any suggestions however, are very important to us!","parent":"14614827","id":"14614875"}
{"by":"gammateam","time":"1545066419","timestamp":"2018-12-17 17:06:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; its not like without this, they would not be able to acquire more users\u003cp\u003eThe “personal financial independence” crowd avoids this stuff like the plague, although seemingly ironic, those crowds primarily cater to people that lack the most basic understanding of a bank account who need to repair and control horrible financial situations\u003cp\u003eThey are steered clear from capital markets, aside from managed ETFs and retirement plans\u003cp\u003eBut add .25% interest rate improvement in a bank account and these people will salivate over it\u003cp\u003eRobinhood going above competitors, even at the expense of going above market rate, would have gotten there attention\u003cp\u003eThey would park their money in that account and have easy access to stocks and cryptocurrencies, allowing Robinhood to continue their big data\u0026#x2F;market sentiment\u0026#x2F;payment for order flow selling business with greater efficacy","parent":"18700099","id":"18700226"}
{"by":"scorxn","time":"1210819312","timestamp":"2008-05-15 02:41:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait a minute, the Southeast produces ~5x more than the Northeast? Please tell me it's not about (Golf Coast) oil.","parent":"190184","id":"190208"}
{"by":"jamespo","time":"1427190613","timestamp":"2015-03-24 09:50:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah yes, like good old DSA-1571-1","parent":"9255349","id":"9255624"}
{"by":"rrock","time":"1508042362","timestamp":"2017-10-15 04:39:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, zero is the right number to start an offset, not an enumeration. No one starts counting from zero in real life.","parent":"15475580","id":"15475914"}
{"by":"modfodder","time":"1342027464","timestamp":"2012-07-11 17:24:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also imagine, as $7500 is higher than most people spend on vacation, that it can lead to broader life/world experiences by employees on vacation that hopefully can lead to great new ideas.  It never hurts to have employees with wide world views and experiences.","parent":"4229853","id":"4230199"}
{"by":"ArkyBeagle","time":"1467440435","timestamp":"2016-07-02 06:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$DEITY knows I have tried, but we all walk a different path.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing I like better than teaching is being taught. But both have a quantum of pain.","parent":"12021298","id":"12021608"}
{"by":"polygotdomain","time":"1535735239","timestamp":"2018-08-31 17:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;tests that run like shit off a shiny shovel, because everything is mocked, meaning that nothing is actually tested.\u003cp\u003eCan you expand on this a bit?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve always worked under the impression that tests should be focused on testing a narrow slice of code.  So if my SUT has some dependencies, those will be mocked with the expected result from the dependency, and possibly even with the expected parameters in the arguments.  The asserts will check the result from the SUT, but also that the expected method on the mock was called.  This way, I\u0026#x27;m just testing the code for the SUT, nothing more.","parent":"17885611","id":"17887178"}
{"by":"aw9994","time":"1325297598","timestamp":"2011-12-31 02:13:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Learning the basics of any (within reason...brainf\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003ek,etc not included) is within easy reach of a beginner.  The difficulty with languages and C++ is the more complicated features like templates and such.\u003cp\u003eEvery minute you spend researching and trying to decide which language to use is time wasted.  You shouldn't be learning languages at all, you should be learning concepts.  Figure out concepts like what linked lists are, recursion, inheritance, etc. \nThen learn the details of some language, then go back to the fundamentals and realize how little you knew before.  Rinse, repeat.\u003cp\u003eThis advice is for someone interested in CS as opposed to just programming.  Yes, there is a huge difference.\u003cp\u003eStop wasting your time and start something.","parent":"3409725","id":"3409888"}
{"by":"wbc","time":"1446238182","timestamp":"2015-10-30 20:49:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s continuously making requests to \u0026#x2F;totalHits\u0026#x2F; if you check the network, is that intentional?","parent":"10479082","id":"10480465"}
{"by":"ahmad19526","time":"1381952329","timestamp":"2013-10-16 19:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree..","parent":"6561195","id":"6561678"}
{"by":"d4rt","time":"1310631973","timestamp":"2011-07-14 08:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use GNU Screen for similar purposes (on Mac OS X)","parent":"2760887","id":"2762182"}
{"by":"lou1306","time":"1501849399","timestamp":"2017-08-04 12:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an aside... For those not in the know, the \u0026quot;author\u0026quot; of said book is a member of funk group Vulfpeck, which I highly recommend listening to.","parent":"14928040","id":"14928136"}
{"by":"davewiner","time":"1369170693","timestamp":"2013-05-21 21:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd love to hear the true story behind why this guy has such a thing for me. As far as I know we've never met. Something is bothering him. It sure as hell isn't this blog post. Not enough there to make such a big deal about.","parent":"5745676","id":"5746866"}
{"by":"oelmekki","time":"1516659057","timestamp":"2018-01-22 22:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve stopped using torrents since I subscribed to Netflix and Spotify years ago, but I can see myself very well returning to it if that scattering trend continues.","parent":"16208230","id":"16208464"}
{"by":"cynusx","time":"1405720520","timestamp":"2014-07-18 21:55:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the product and you are clearly targeting regular gym-goers that care about measuring improvement.\u003cp\u003eYou have the customer segment nailed down and that allows you to build a marketing strategy around the target audience their behaviours.\u003cp\u003eI am close enough to your target audience to comment, I do not measure my gym performance though.\nI can see the value to optimise for ease of data-entry and it is a clear differentiator.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Observations from my gym experience:\n  - the guys who do free weights seem to know each other and some only train in groups\n  - lots of couples go together to the gym\n  - personal trainers know a lot of gym members but they also market themselves to them\n  - I know of several running apps because friends of mine shared their highs on Facebook\n  - many apps use \u0026quot;races\u0026quot; or compare yourself with others as a way to get through to your users\u0026#x27; friends.\n  - my gym holds \u0026quot;challenges\u0026quot; where you can grab one of the trainers to time you on e.g. plank and then they have a public board.\n  There are often 20+ participants per challenge but I don\u0026#x27;t think there\u0026#x27;s a reward for it so I have not participated so far.\n  --\u0026gt; people are curious to see how they compare to others in the same gym.\n\n  Suggestions:\n  1. How did you find out about the other fitness apps you know of?\n   -\u0026gt; I think I only know apps of Facebook and Apple store search\n  2. leverage the competitive aspect, e.g. allow people to become the king of leg press for their gym and brag about it on social media.\n   There are several ways you can slice who they compare themselves with\n    - people in their gym\n    - their friends\n    - everybody else in the world\n  3. find a way to reach active gym members (aka, define which channel you want to work with)\n   I can think of three obvious channels\n    - gyms themselves (B2B sales)\n    - personal trainers\n    - social media (sharing)\n  4. ranking good on the apple store search is dependent on a lot of good reviews I think, you can look up what the ranking factors are for the app store (if they are known)\n  5. mobile advertising to get more installs targeting keywords that your target market would use\n\n  Other observations:\n  1. your business model requires a lot of volume to work, why not build something for personal trainers and charge a monthly fee?\n  2. Gyms can use some relationship management tools actually, the only time I talked to employees of my current gym was when I joined or when I forgot something.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"8054136","id":"8055811"}
{"by":"webmaven","time":"1532276903","timestamp":"2018-07-22 16:28:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider Facebook\u0026#x27;s news feed experiment on user\u0026#x27;s emotions:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;facebook-tinke...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17586706","id":"17587527"}
{"by":"ehsanu1","time":"1341991668","timestamp":"2012-07-11 07:27:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think konstruktor was talking about iOS.","parent":"4228206","id":"4228216"}
{"by":"nuclear_eclipse","time":"1300319640","timestamp":"2011-03-16 23:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On any version of Android, dating back to the introduction of the virtual keyboard in version 1.6, long-pressing on the menu button will pop up the keyboard, which allows you to, for instance, bring up the keyboard in applications without needing a specific textbox to select.  This allows you to have applications like ConnectBot, where the entire screen is a terminal emulator, and you can pop up the keyboard at any point and start typing without having to type into a textbox and then \"send\" the text to the terminal.  On the home screen, you can bring up the keyboard and just start typing a search query without needing to press (or even have) the search button or widget.\u003cp\u003eAnd for the record, when the virtual keyboard is shown, pressing the back button will always dismiss it without sending the back action to the current activity, so in your case you could have pressed back to dismiss the keyboard, and then pressed the button to receive the call.","parent":"2334107","id":"2334494"}
{"by":"bitsweet","time":"1406832361","timestamp":"2014-07-31 18:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is actually a shared inbox that a team can use to offer customer support for their product\u0026#x2F;business. There is an embeddable \u0026quot;contact us\u0026quot; form but having your customers send support requests to your support email address seems to be more popular.","parent":"8116066","id":"8116133"}
{"by":"angrybits","time":"1418069683","timestamp":"2014-12-08 20:14:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure I\u0026#x27;d be dead or locked in a jail cell if not for my four years in the USAF--second to last option indeed.  Your point about the selection not being random could not be more spot on.\u003cp\u003eI feel like we were largely just misfits who somehow managed to find our way to a place where misfits can have one last shot at getting somewhere.  Not all of us made it, but we who did were grateful that the opportunity was there.","parent":"8717146","id":"8718865"}
{"by":"thingie","time":"1277230060","timestamp":"2010-06-22 18:07:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can take any content published on the web and use it as your own… Sure, it's a very good idea to have some kind of verification (like \"post this code on the site\"? some kind of email verification? or at least send a mail to some contact on the copied site to inform the legitimate owner?), but still… you can just use copy\u0026#38;paste anyway. People are very skilled in it.","parent":"1452577","id":"1452641"}
{"by":"corresation","time":"1381007691","timestamp":"2013-10-05 21:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eFinding Go performs well at this shouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprising.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo doesn\u0026#x27;t do SIMD at all (see note 1). Personally I leverage Go coupled with the Intel Compiler (Go happily links with and uses very high performance C-built libraries, where I\u0026#x27;m rocking out with SSE3 \u0026#x2F; AVX \u0026#x2F; AVX2).\u003cp\u003eTo respond to something that Ptacek said above, many of us \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e expect Go to achieve C-level performance eventually. There is nothing stopping the Go compiler from using SIMD and automatic vectorization, it just doesn\u0026#x27;t yet. There is nothing about the language that prohibits it from a very high level of optimization, and indeed the language is generally sparse in a manner that allows for those optimizations.\u003cp\u003e*1 - For performance critical code you are supposed to use gccgo, which uses the same intermediary as the C compiler, allowing it to do all of the vectorization and the like. Unfortunately for this specific code gccgo generates terrible code, yielding a runtime that is magnitudes slower (albeit absolutely tiny). Haven\u0026#x27;t looked into why that is.","parent":"6501926","id":"6502102"}
{"by":"dewey","time":"1530731801","timestamp":"2018-07-04 19:16:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe they also cut and edit the trailer? I don\u0026#x27;t know how they work internally.","parent":"17458943","id":"17458972"}
{"by":"powvans","time":"1527886537","timestamp":"2018-06-01 20:55:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They seem to have gotten the racist freak outs under control in my area. In the last year we’ve moved on to animal welfare freak outs.\u003cp\u003eA couple of weeks ago there was a thread condemning jogging with your dog. The OP was pretty upset about someone jogging with their dog during the heat of the day. There’s plenty of validity to the concern that someone could overheat their dog, but the crazy just exploded from the woodwork. A flame war erupted and several of the commenters stopped just shy of calling for dog joggers to be stoned.\u003cp\u003eNextdoor seems to bring out a special brand of crazy.","parent":"17209680","id":"17210182"}
{"by":"yoster","time":"1371952423","timestamp":"2013-06-23 01:53:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Peaceful protesting will not do anything. This is why many countries have violent protests as the government will feel the majority might. We as Americans are too damn compliant as the previous and current administration has clearly trashed our rights to the point we just complain and complain.","parent":"5924472","dead":true,"id":"5925947"}
{"by":"factsareright","time":"1521728270","timestamp":"2018-03-22 14:17:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are definitely prepared for voat, but for the others reading this, make note that voat is like 4chan; part of their defense mechanism is to get people who use words like \u0026quot;racist\u0026quot; upset and make them leave (and then go tell their friends how bad voat is). The crowd of people who just care about freedom of speech, transparency, and corruption, have been chased from platform to platform.\u003cp\u003eusers like go1dfish are a good example, he is known on reddit and voat, but he is an example of someone who was forced off reddit for having the wrong thoughts. We were chased off of digg way before digg4 came out and we went to reddit where people like swartz cared about transparency and no censorship. Then we were chased off the main subs of reddit, then our subs got subverted, then shit started disappearing, and now we are on voat.\u003cp\u003eRemember that many prominent progressives and socialists are also blacklisted by the bulk of NPR\u0026#x2F;reddit types. Kucinich is a prime example, Ed Shultz is another; their crime is to tell their followers to think rationally about the situation. This is where people like me, and I guess you, find themselves.","parent":"16643496","id":"16648829"}
{"by":"UncleSlacky","time":"1517484647","timestamp":"2018-02-01 11:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just like they already do with \u0026quot;lie detectors\u0026quot;, then?","parent":"16281001","id":"16281081"}
{"by":"jeffbax","time":"1516053038","timestamp":"2018-01-15 21:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you should take a look at their looming pension crisis... California is already taxed to hell, and their balance sheet is not something to be optimistic about.","parent":"16153703","id":"16153759"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1379136253","timestamp":"2013-09-14 05:24:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I agree that words have meanings for a reason. Please read my comment again and you\u0026#x27;ll see that that\u0026#x27;s the main thrust of what I\u0026#x27;m getting at.","parent":"6384278","id":"6384751"}
{"by":"frankiewarren","time":"1317975386","timestamp":"2011-10-07 08:16:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pretty sure he meant that Steve deserved the respect that the community is showing for him.","parent":"3083085","id":"3083111"}
{"by":"cptskippy","time":"1460562082","timestamp":"2016-04-13 15:41:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably not.  Apple only joined after Chrome started supporting H.264.  Without Chrome support for H.264, Apple would have had to support VP8 to be inter-operable with Chrome.","parent":"11488594","id":"11489119"}
{"by":"odonnellryan","time":"1534788010","timestamp":"2018-08-20 18:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People will struggle with addiction for literally anything you can be addicted to, substances or not. Can be generally positive things like exercise, more neutral things, or negative things like very-damaging drugs (alcohol is here certainly).\u003cp\u003eWhere does weed fall on that line? I don\u0026#x27;t really know. But saying we should ban something because it\u0026#x27;s possible to be addicted to it is fairly silly.","parent":"17801492","id":"17802200"}
{"by":"UK-AL","time":"1457345827","timestamp":"2016-03-07 10:17:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What the hell are you on about? Libertarians definition freedom stops at the point you start infringing on the freedom of others. It\u0026#x27;s a core concept. You would not find a single libertarian who agrees with your statement.\u003cp\u003eThey would probably stick to that concept more than any other ideology would.","parent":"11238020","id":"11238061"}
{"by":"winter_blue","time":"1344371659","timestamp":"2012-08-07 20:34:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's really good that you're thinking of paying back India / helping the country. India definitely needs more of its best talent to go back there are start new companies and really improve the country. Most of the best minds leave the country for elsewhere, and it's understandable why. But perhaps you can change the environment and perhaps more people will stay there then. (maybe - this will probably take years)","parent":"4351936","id":"4352128"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1384358571","timestamp":"2013-11-13 16:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of them are good old (noun).com.  Those seem valuable at first, but is that still the case?  It used to be that people would build a brand around something like pets.com, but now it seems much more popular to create a brand name that is more identifiable and trademarkable.","parent":"6725784","id":"6726050"}
{"by":"LeoNatan25","time":"1542528905","timestamp":"2018-11-18 08:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It existed before but much more prevalent these days than before. Or maybe I wasn’t as cranky or prone to eye rolling 15 years ago =]","parent":"18479309","id":"18479357"}
{"by":"rjbond3rd","time":"1298643314","timestamp":"2011-02-25 14:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Poor engineering in the auto industry was not caused by unions. The unions are basically assemblers -- how does the assembly line create engineering problems? I have no love for unions but what you say is way off-base.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, if you want to look at excessive compensation and benefits in the auto industry, look a little higher.\u003cp\u003eAnd at any rate, they only got what they negotiated, so if you want to blame anyone, blame management for poor negotiating, poor planning and just generally screwing up.\u003cp\u003eFinally, if unions ruined the auto industry, why is Ford doing well relative to GM and Chrysler? I drive a foreign car at the moment, but my next car will be a Ford because they did not take bailout money, and they make excellent, reliable cars (nowadays).","parent":"2262093","id":"2262207"}
{"by":"zach","time":"1248899637","timestamp":"2009-07-29 20:33:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My college friend worked on an electric skateboard that looked cool like that:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://frankschmitt.org/projects/powerboard\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://frankschmitt.org/projects/powerboard\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has strain gauges that let you control it by shifting your weight.  Looks cool yet there is no visible effort so it's a little surprising.","parent":"730755","id":"730970"}
{"by":"011011100","time":"1383440838","timestamp":"2013-11-03 01:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;If the purpose of taking the exam is to demonstrate you know the material\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWell, the parent doesn\u0026#x27;t actually agree that that\u0026#x27;s the point of the exam:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The exams were not to demonstrate you are certified in a subject, but rather to show your ability and limits.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBut yeah, I think jcampbell1 is exaggerating and a little too proud.","parent":"6660708","id":"6661651"}
{"by":"cgtyoder","time":"1383666160","timestamp":"2013-11-05 15:42:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t you know Apple doesn\u0026#x27;t allow complaining about their decisions?  They are listening!  IT KNOWS.","parent":"6675280","id":"6675623"}
{"by":"chalettu","time":"1399059639","timestamp":"2014-05-02 19:40:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi dgraunke.  I am working on some projects and really anxious to try out famous-angular integration.  Do yall have any alphas or betas of your angular integration js available yet?  I\u0026#x27;d be more than happy to be a tester for it.","parent":"7663791","id":"7687683"}
{"by":"Justsignedup","time":"1368016457","timestamp":"2013-05-08 12:34:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TSA tends to protect it's employees allowing them to get away with almost anything.\u003cp\u003eThey are really on a power trip. And they are in a position where if you resist you will loose lots of money. Its brilliant and fucking evil.","parent":"5673080","id":"5673752"}
{"by":"jarek","time":"1417595727","timestamp":"2014-12-03 08:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The big problem is scale. You can replicate the capacity of a smaller bus route with efficient self-driving cars, but bigger routes and higher-capacity transit move tens and hundreds of thousands of people per day to a destination, and loading\u0026#x2F;unloading capacity near those destinations is just not going to fit.\u003cp\u003eDemand is already centralized both geographically and time-wise, with business districts, downtowns, rush\u0026#x2F;peak hour. Self-driving cars might replace feeder networks but they\u0026#x27;ll only strengthen the case for high-capacity trunk transit.","parent":"8692384","id":"8692529"}
{"by":"gedy","time":"1452019384","timestamp":"2016-01-05 18:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh this is beautiful, nice work.  Many (wow 12 already) years ago I did something related with iterated function systems and custom code.  It was extremely tedious however, and used POV-Ray as renderer:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;105317159\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;105317159\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain, lovely work.","parent":"10840543","id":"10845074"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1507237207","timestamp":"2017-10-05 21:00:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a hospital ship in San Juan:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.defense.gov\u0026#x2F;News\u0026#x2F;Article\u0026#x2F;Article\u0026#x2F;1334349\u0026#x2F;usns-comfort-arrives-in-puerto-rico-to-aid-maria-relief-efforts\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.defense.gov\u0026#x2F;News\u0026#x2F;Article\u0026#x2F;Article\u0026#x2F;1334349\u0026#x2F;usns-co...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;d be interesting to see a real analysis of the difficulties. Among the first things that come to mind is efficient use of personnel. There is need for medical care there, so there is a decision between having medical people available locally and having them transporting patients.","parent":"15412476","id":"15412547"}
{"by":"luhn","time":"1476045597","timestamp":"2016-10-09 20:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have any experience with large-scale sites either, but here\u0026#x27;s my view:\u003cp\u003eIt is a function of complexity, but complexity is often necessitated by scale.  More users means more problems with scale, which leads to increased complexity to address the problems, which leads to a larger team needed to maintain the software.\u003cp\u003eThat being said, 50 engineers seems enough to me for maintenance.","parent":"12673289","id":"12673340"}
{"by":"echoneptune","time":"1440308989","timestamp":"2015-08-23 05:49:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would have helped me tremendously when I was studying complex numbers for signal processing. I guess I\u0026#x27;m a visual learner. I find that to be helpful in some field in math, but held me back when I was studying statistics.","parent":"10103083","id":"10104799"}
{"by":"epc","time":"1364182027","timestamp":"2013-03-25 03:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the NYC area we have \u003ca href=\"http://www.ctoschool.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ctoschool.org/\u003c/a\u003e\nAm not sure it's useful outside the region, is mostly f2f meetups.","parent":"5435092","id":"5435240"}
{"by":"IkmoIkmo","time":"1534976308","timestamp":"2018-08-22 22:18:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re not wrong in that the land value often isn\u0026#x27;t in line with the shacks.\u003cp\u003eBut a few things to consider:\u003cp\u003eOne is that shacks tend not to be built by the owners on their own land. i.e., they\u0026#x27;re not paying for the land, therefore the value of the land plays does not prohibit them from building a shack there. Instead, they\u0026#x27;re occupying the space illegally. A shack only costs a little in bricks (these lowgrade ones are probably about 10 cents a piece) and some metal roofing.\u003cp\u003eSecond is that shacks in some countries are built in high-demand locations as a political and economic instrument by poor people. In Morocco for example, those who live in slums often get bought about for about 25k per family by a public-private investment project aimed at building luxury apartments. They then take this money to build\u0026#x2F;buy-into a low-quality apartment building in the city\u0026#x27;s poor periphery. They\u0026#x27;re often staying illegally and refusing low-ball offers. If you kick them out by force, you have a moral and socio-political problems and the problem only relocates (waterbed effect). Further, local politicians will often cater to these people for their votes, when the majority of the country is below middle-class, that\u0026#x27;s who you pander to. In essence, these slums and the related buyout acts like a sort of earmarked social-housing tax on luxury housing projects.\u003cp\u003eSometimes the slums are actually owned by those who live there (unlikely, usually it\u0026#x27;s based on forged documents). But even then, no developer will buy a small plot in the middle of a slum for luxury apartments. You need to be able to buy-out families consisting of hundreds of people before you have a large enough plot of land to develop in. That isn\u0026#x27;t easy and people know they can fetch a high-price. They also know they have to, finding another place to live isn\u0026#x27;t cheap.\u003cp\u003eAnd lastly, there actually are tons of shacks being sold every day, replaced by apartments due to the value dynamics you described. It just doesn\u0026#x27;t happen overnight to the entire stock.","parent":"17814330","id":"17822742"}
{"by":"__alexs","time":"1338375003","timestamp":"2012-05-30 10:50:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the imitations have movement in the stick it's self (and even a dead zone in the center sometimes) while the Thinkpads one is totally static and has only a rubber moulding to provide a little play.","parent":"4041907","id":"4042241"}
{"by":"arfar","time":"1438146165","timestamp":"2015-07-29 05:02:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t think that the OS X license let you run it anywhere other than Apple hardware. That\u0026#x27;s just something I\u0026#x27;ve heard though, never actually investigated it.","parent":"9964360","id":"9966308"}
{"by":"PuffinBlue","time":"1488311144","timestamp":"2017-02-28 19:45:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To do this you\u0026#x27;d create a \u0026#x27;Page Rule\u0026#x27; that specifically tells Cloudflare to \u0026#x27;cache everything\u0026#x27; for a URL pattern like \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;examplesite.tld\u0026#x2F;*\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;examplesite.tld\u0026#x2F;*\u003c/a\u003e .\u003cp\u003eYou can set a cache invalidation time too.\u003cp\u003eAlways online is a slightly different feature I believe.","parent":"13756233","id":"13757157"}
{"by":"president","time":"1461710419","timestamp":"2016-04-26 22:40:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like they copied K5? \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.paloaltoonline.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;robots-deployed-to-protect-and-serve\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.paloaltoonline.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;robots-deploye...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11575750","id":"11576354"}
{"by":"jonmrodriguez","time":"1379036986","timestamp":"2013-09-13 01:49:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If your notions of \u0026quot;vibe or culture\u0026quot; include race, it\u0026#x27;s illegal and wrong.\u003cp\u003eIf a white guy and a black guy are dressed the same, and the black guy gets turned away...","parent":"6377363","id":"6378087"}
{"by":"silentbicycle","time":"1296839638","timestamp":"2011-02-04 17:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I initially wrote the parser for a (proprietary) query language compiler using LPEG, and keeping track of lexical issues (whitespace, etc.) along with the grammatical structure complicated things. When I broke it apart and wrote a quick FSM-based lexer and a recursive descent parser, it became much simpler. Perhaps I could have factored the PEG grammar better, but with every PEG grammar I've had grow beyond a certain point, I've wished I could separate the lexing and parsing stages.\u003cp\u003eI much prefer working with LPEG to regular expressions for small to midsized stuff, though.","parent":"2179994","id":"2180171"}
{"by":"tonystubblebine","time":"1230057462","timestamp":"2008-12-23 18:37:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More irbrc files on dotfiles.org\n\u003ca href=\"http://dotfiles.org/.irbrc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dotfiles.org/.irbrc\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"407854","id":"407911"}
{"by":"pkolaczk","time":"1399372449","timestamp":"2014-05-06 10:34:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if this implementation got it right (I don\u0026#x27;t have a spare month to prove\u0026#x2F;disprove its correctness)but my advice would be: be very, very careful with lockfree code in C++. This the area where dragons live.\u003cp\u003eLet me cite Herb Sutter:\n\u0026quot;Second, it\u0026#x27;s hard even for experts. It\u0026#x27;s easy to write lock-free code that appears to work, but it\u0026#x27;s very difficult to write lock-free code that is correct and performs well. Even good magazines and refereed journals have published a substantial amount of lock-free code that was actually broken in subtle ways and needed correction.\u003cp\u003eTo illustrate, let\u0026#x27;s dissect some peer-reviewed lock-free code that was published here in DDJ just two months ago [2]. The author, Petru Marginean, has graciously allowed me to dissect it here so that we can see what\u0026#x27;s wrong and why, what lessons we should learn, and how to write the code correctly. That someone as knowledgable as Petru, who has published many good and solid articles, can get this stuff wrong should be warning enough that lock-free coding requires great care.\u0026quot;","parent":"7703342","id":"7703622"}
{"by":"dotBen","time":"1385570019","timestamp":"2013-11-27 16:33:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;More options are better for the consumer:\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e not if you consider fragmentation.  While this runs Android apps, it\u0026#x27;s not clear if it\u0026#x27;s fully\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot;acid\u0026quot; compliant and the risk is Sailfish\u0026#x27;s flavor of Android is a black-sheep stepchild of Android that doesn\u0026#x27;t always run Android apps properly.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;BTW you can call any product vaporware\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e - not really. The iPhone wasn\u0026#x27;t vaporware as it was never officially mentioned before it was released.  Android was launched pretty early on with the G1, etc.","parent":"6808963","id":"6809074"}
{"by":"johnlbevan2","time":"1417913258","timestamp":"2014-12-07 00:47:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hadn\u0026#x27;t realised what the content was, my argument\u0026#x27;s more one of general censorship.  \nGiven the content It\u0026#x27;s hard to take seriously (not meaning to be disrespectful to anyone affected by suicide)...\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - What sort of person looks up how to commit suicide on the internet?  \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI\u0026#x27;d guess anyone wanting to commit suicide would know how; the only reason to research would be presumably be morbid facination rather than actual intent.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - Will blocking content alter the outcome of someone\u0026#x27;s decision.  \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAssuming it\u0026#x27;s purely instructional I doubt it.  If it includes content aimed at lowering or raising the person\u0026#x27;s self esteem then perhaps it may (negatively or positively) have some influence..\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - Will blocking content benefit anyone in some other way?  \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nPerhaps; if the article proposed jumping in front of a train over taking an overdose it will lead to a train driver having to live with someone else\u0026#x27;s bad decision on their conscience, and to a number of passengers experiencing disruption (which may lead to further impacts down the line).\u003cp\u003eHowever, I\u0026#x27;d say GitHub are still right to allow countries\u0026#x27; authorities to block content...\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - If the content is beneficial to the country and they block it, they lose out.\n  - If the content is detrimental to the country and they block it, they do well.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIn both cases the country lives with the consequences of its decisions.\nThe only place where that argument breaks down is where the countries and their citizens interests aren\u0026#x27;t aligned.  For example, an article on how to overthrow your government.  In such cases citizens would look for ways to avoid being discovered reading such content anyway (e.g. using Tor to avoid monitoring, which would also get them around any such blocking) - but I admit that\u0026#x27;s bypassing the debated point.\u003cp\u003eHere the debated point becomes should a government say what content its people should be able to see, should a platform owner have the responsibility for content on their platform, should it be down to the content\u0026#x27;s creators, or to those choosing to access the content.  To that, I suspect there isn\u0026#x27;t a good answer; or at least, I don\u0026#x27;t know.","parent":"8704199","id":"8710790"}
{"by":"kingkilr","time":"1276809163","timestamp":"2010-06-17 21:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So pretty technical question about the svn support.  It's my understanding that the way svn does certain operations basically requires massive responses, and svn doesn't support chunked responses; how do you guys not blow up on RAM serving those?","parent":"1440073","id":"1440372"}
{"by":"cygwin98","time":"1303227874","timestamp":"2011-04-19 15:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is recur kind of workaround? Any performance penalty?\u003cp\u003ePlease bear with me as I'm not familiar with Lisp family languages. I'm interested in ML languages. There is a project to port OCaml to JVM, but I don't see any sign of progress, so I thought it may be something on JVM to hold them back.","parent":"2462873","id":"2462936"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1324218354","timestamp":"2011-12-18 14:25:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, either I'm going crazy, or this wasn't a link before...","parent":"3366525","id":"3366665"}
{"by":"mstijak","time":"1533941414","timestamp":"2018-08-10 22:50:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CxJS is designed having desktop-like, data-intensive applications in mind and offers a full set of UI components and charts out of the box. \n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cxjs.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cxjs.io\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I\u0026#x27;m the author.","parent":"17736479","id":"17737256"}
{"by":"IshKebab","time":"1481060529","timestamp":"2016-12-06 21:42:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know what permission it is, but I know that there is no permission that Play Store apps can have that allows sending raw packets. There\u0026#x27;s an open bug about it on the AOSP bug tracker.\u003cp\u003eSystem apps can obviously do it - hence the \u0026quot;(mediaserver)\u0026quot; comment.","parent":"13114213","id":"13118584"}
{"by":"roc","time":"1262109480","timestamp":"2009-12-29 17:58:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's easy.  Terrorists seize/destroy planes with weapons or explosives.\u003cp\u003eSo to the extent that the TSA can efficiently and effectively scan for weapons, explosives and known terrorists, they should.  To the extent that they \u003ci\u003ecan't\u003c/i\u003e detect certain explosives (the theoretical binary liquid concern), it's reasonable to take measures to mitigate risk. (E.g. limit quantities when feasible)\u003cp\u003eBeyond that? Nothing.","parent":"1020827","id":"1020885"}
{"by":"pmtarantino","time":"1408976961","timestamp":"2014-08-25 14:29:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should post it on \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;Scotland on Reddit!","parent":"8221353","id":"8221886"}
{"by":"profeta","time":"1448711125","timestamp":"2015-11-28 11:45:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why the spam to a closed group buy?\u003cp\u003ealso, the mouse has 3 physical buttons, but one is hardwired on the controller to a scroll modifier. you cannot, even with new firmware, make that a third button. So it is a two button mouse forever.","parent":"10640804","id":"10640816"}
{"by":"hnhg","time":"1484479412","timestamp":"2017-01-15 11:23:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, you might as well complain that you never asked to be born.","parent":"13402959","id":"13403538"}
{"by":"Nat0","time":"1330111968","timestamp":"2012-02-24 19:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, I love my S4s. They are the perfect in-ear headphones for the office and gym. Not to mention a great deal at ~$80.","parent":"3630078","id":"3630615"}
{"by":"wwweston","time":"1542319397","timestamp":"2018-11-15 22:03:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ability to have the browser request markup for inclusion via URL in the same way it does images is a longtime wish of mine. There are some potential security issues... most of which we have anyway with the approach that requires JS in order to import content from another URL, and having a simple way to pull in document fragments would do away with a good chunk of the things we\u0026#x27;ve had to have a CMS or site generator to do.","parent":"18463271","id":"18463873"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1530182938","timestamp":"2018-06-28 10:48:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why \u003ci\u003ewouldn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e you include health care costs in inflation figures? Seems to be something that most people have to pay one way or another?","parent":"17414508","id":"17415736"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1467979633","timestamp":"2016-07-08 12:07:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook\u0026#x27;s deletions are surely soft-deletions, at least initially. You and I can\u0026#x27;t undo it, but Facebook undoubtedly can. Maybe it\u0026#x27;s purged for real after 90 days or something, but I\u0026#x27;m sure they can provide deleted death threats against the President to the Secret Service and whatnot.","parent":"12054834","id":"12054890"}
{"by":"InfinityX0","time":"1301704083","timestamp":"2011-04-02 00:28:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the developer job market, I think this is OK - because they are in such high demand. If this compared jobs as entry-level marketing associates, I would've felt more dissonance towards what you mention - but in this situation, I think it was OK and not too ego-driven.","parent":"2398694","id":"2398705"}
{"by":"GFischer","time":"1457540877","timestamp":"2016-03-09 16:27:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, someone should market this for parents. Definitely an opportunity for some company.","parent":"11253464","id":"11253848"}
{"by":"melling","time":"1478733475","timestamp":"2016-11-09 23:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s good to hear.  I\u0026#x27;ve spent a lot of time explaining to people that global warming is real.  I even created a wordpress site so I can point people to a \u0026quot;faq\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;2cco2.wordpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;2cco2.wordpress.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust read the comments of any Wall Street Journal article on solar, coal, or even Elon Musk.  People don\u0026#x27;t want electric car rebates or carbon credits.","parent":"12915772","id":"12915847"}
{"by":"urubu","time":"1543771347","timestamp":"2018-12-02 17:22:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s still very much alive on shortwave. \nHere\u0026#x27;s a US ham demoing it:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;ZB1Fz294aLw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;ZB1Fz294aLw\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18583196","id":"18583255"}
{"by":"megaman22","time":"1510860373","timestamp":"2017-11-16 19:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Amtrak Downeaster runs right outside my window.  During a 24 hour period, about fifty cars go by, almost empty, usually six or less cars per train.\u003cp\u003eEvery single freight train that goes by has at least fifty cars, and they roll all night....","parent":"15714223","id":"15715690"}
{"by":"jebus989","time":"1398114594","timestamp":"2014-04-21 21:09:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Please don\u0026#x27;t slander me further as I try to move on with my life\u0026quot; ?","parent":"7623801","id":"7623901"}
{"by":"grzm","time":"1479409012","timestamp":"2016-11-17 18:56:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, and I often find myself going out of my way to qualify forum posts in an attempt to prevent misinterpretations. It takes effort, though, and as you note, it\u0026#x27;s compensation. It can help, but I don\u0026#x27;t think it can full make up for it. I\u0026#x27;m glad others are thinking about this, too.","parent":"12976373","id":"12980271"}
{"by":"higherpurpose","time":"1421868593","timestamp":"2015-01-21 19:29:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;holographic\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;cinematic reality\u0026quot; - all just words used to describe augmented reality.","parent":"8924882","id":"8925058"}
{"by":"DavideNL","time":"1463682829","timestamp":"2016-05-19 18:33:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. i even use FF despite its terrible terrible \u0026quot;pinch to zoom\u0026quot; functionality - which works perfectly in other browsers (Safari, Chromium, Chrome).\u003cp\u003eZooming is such a basic thing... i don\u0026#x27;t understand why they implement it in such a crappy way. Certainly doesn\u0026#x27;t attract users.","parent":"11730925","id":"11732494"}
{"by":"falsedan","time":"1499286599","timestamp":"2017-07-05 20:29:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThey are finding the best female developers. There just aren\u0026#x27;t that many (for whatever reason)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sounds like you think companies don\u0026#x27;t have an obligation to improve their environments so that women feel included. Consider a developer that you would say is among the best: would she accept a position at your company? Why not?","parent":"14705245","id":"14705842"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1430457132","timestamp":"2015-05-01 05:12:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep. I had electric water heater (60A @ 120v) and still use a small electric AC unit (12A). And I still can\u0026#x27;t find anything that matches incandescent or halogen lights (I\u0026#x27;d pay a lot for real, bright, warm lights, not the ugly yellowish fluorescent, or the weird off-white LED stuff - some LEDs are getting close, but not good enough for residential). Electricity costs were over $480 some months.\u003cp\u003eThis is Guatemala, where I don\u0026#x27;t trust the grid much. I ended up buying ~$1000 worth of portable battery backups (UPS) and plug them in wherever I need it, but they need replacing every couple of years.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;d be much simpler to have a simple battery pack, although I\u0026#x27;m not sure this would handle the load.","parent":"9469550","id":"9469603"}
{"by":"glaze","time":"1489933666","timestamp":"2017-03-19 14:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. Mantle, on which Vulkan is based on, was AMD only. AMD gave it to Khronos and it evolved into Vulkan.","parent":"13907136","id":"13907245"}
{"by":"ForHackernews","time":"1538407511","timestamp":"2018-10-01 15:25:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...it\u0026#x27;s not your brain, it\u0026#x27;s a fancy electronic notebook.","parent":"18113168","id":"18113468"}
{"by":"tuna-piano","time":"1505107695","timestamp":"2017-09-11 05:28:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or why don\u0026#x27;t the women band together and setup their own firm? They can charge 20% less and still earn double.\u003cp\u003eDiscrimination exists, but markets are usually pretty good at squeezing it out and punishing it.","parent":"15216148","id":"15216162"}
{"by":"ollin","time":"1520981532","timestamp":"2018-03-13 22:52:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed on points in the article.  Would be good to note that using thinner stroke for interior details (and thicker strokes for \u0026quot;important\u0026quot; lines that represent large depth discontinuities) is also a reasonable design choice (example: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\u0026#x2F;shots\u0026#x2F;1324699-Icons\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\u0026#x2F;shots\u0026#x2F;1324699-Icons\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\u0026#x2F;shots\u0026#x2F;1329630-More-Icons\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\u0026#x2F;shots\u0026#x2F;1329630-More-Icons\u003c/a\u003e )–this is pretty common in non-icon illustrations as well.","parent":"16577687","id":"16580594"}
{"by":"pork","time":"1318358942","timestamp":"2011-10-11 18:49:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Good old Microsoft trash browser stats, just like the old IE is the safest browser one.\u003cp\u003eIn fairness, running IE6 is soon going to be like running Firefox with NoScript, so it might actually be more safe, just like Lynx.","parent":"3099633","id":"3099807"}
{"by":"tokipin","time":"1375586768","timestamp":"2013-08-04 03:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obama\u0026#x27;s calculus there probably involves the fact that drones can accomplish things without putting our soldiers at risk. not that i\u0026#x27;m taking sides here. i don\u0026#x27;t like drones either.\u003cp\u003ehere is a recent speech the president gave regarding drones and \u0026quot;the war on terror\u0026quot; in general: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnUbwXAof0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=fEnUbwXAof0\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6154463","id":"6154512"}
{"by":"uncleamerica","time":"1532380406","timestamp":"2018-07-23 21:13:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stop putting the responsibility of defense on the state, and defend yoursel- oh wait, IN THE UK LOL.\u003cp\u003eEnjoy your bans on firearms pussies","parent":"17595570","dead":true,"id":"17596067"}
{"by":"Newky","time":"1309345536","timestamp":"2011-06-29 11:05:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope the idea of circles catches on, and that they are very expendable, I would like to have for instance a Circle called Music where I could add those friends which I share music with and that it would become a central hub which we could all update. I like this idea, rather than the mess that is the Facebook news feed.\u003cp\u003eAdoption will be slow I reckon as people don't have a huge reason to move this, but thanks to its integration, we will see a number of people use it almost unknowingly.\u003cp\u003eI like Google's full on approach here, and feels more complete than buzz and even wave.","parent":"2708758","id":"2709036"}
{"by":"acranox","time":"1511615486","timestamp":"2017-11-25 13:11:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The models without the touchbar have fewer USB ports.  That’s why it’s questionably optional.  My work setup uses two external monitors and wired Ethernet.  So I’d like three ports and no touch bar. If I want enough ports for my setup, I have to take the touch bar too. I don’t like having to make that kind of choice.","parent":"15775766","id":"15775847"}
{"by":"tayl0r","time":"1347535085","timestamp":"2012-09-13 11:18:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The performance is terrible. Have the developers ever heard of smooth scrolling? How can any self respecting developer release this?","parent":"4514151","id":"4515586"}
{"by":"bigfudge","time":"1295123122","timestamp":"2011-01-15 20:25:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really? All criminals? I'm not a big fan of developments in surveillance, but it's crazy to think that some criminals won't be caught. The fact that they're petty criminals or benefits cheats makes the exercise of debatable value, but not for the reason you state.","parent":"2107602","id":"2107711"}
{"by":"grondilu","time":"1491843687","timestamp":"2017-04-10 17:01:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some people prefer cash to share holdings.  It is, by all means, a \u003ci\u003epreference\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"14080253","id":"14080305"}
{"by":"cbdfghh","time":"1481438324","timestamp":"2016-12-11 06:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s also true.\u003cp\u003eSometimes I suspect the main programmers for Apache2\u0026#x2F;BSD\u0026#x2F;MIT licensed works actually hope their works get used by the big guys so they can get employment there.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s why I\u0026#x27;ve never heard any BSD guys getting upset at MS for ripping off their work, while getting upset at Linux for doing the same.","parent":"13149867","id":"13149903"}
{"by":"lclarkmichalek","time":"1362062319","timestamp":"2013-02-28 14:38:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does slightly seem like some typedefs might have helped. Particularly the `func` type signature.","parent":"5298761","id":"5298804"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1316510729","timestamp":"2011-09-20 09:25:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to note that you can have \"left\" leaning views without having any relationship to the ideas of Marx. The co-operative movement arguably demonstrates that you can have very succesful businesses that have a social component:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_cooperative_movement\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_cooperative_move...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3016679","id":"3016907"}
{"by":"fla","time":"1437685516","timestamp":"2015-07-23 21:05:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"s\u0026#x2F;server-side OSS\u0026#x2F;server-side software","parent":"9937328","id":"9938506"}
{"by":"crpatino","time":"1479932350","timestamp":"2016-11-23 20:19:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, perhaps.\u003cp\u003eBut if you bear with me, you can stretch the \u0026quot;violence\u0026quot; argument a long way.\u003cp\u003eIf you have a no government at all, you have this \u0026quot;Mad Max\u0026quot; scenario. The strong take from the weak until the only way to survive is to pledge allegancy to one Warband or another.\u003cp\u003eIf you have a government that \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e concerns itself with protection against foreight invasion, you will have the semblance of order and institutional life, but underneth the organized crime will rule. They will not limit themselves to illegal business like drugs (though they will exploit it in a monopolistic way), but will quickly develop extensive protection rackets that will be a burden to the whole economy.\u003cp\u003eThen, if you have a government that only concerns itself with foreight defense and internal defense or property rights, you will have the robber barons scenario. The rich will do as they may, and anyone that opposes their interest will face a weaponized law enforcement at their doorsteps. That, or will be victim of paramilitary groups like the pinkertons, who enjoy the unofficial protection of law enforcement.\u003cp\u003eAnd so it goes...\u003cp\u003eI agree it comes to a point where giving more responsibilities to government causes more problems that it solves, but to despise every and all regulatory oversight in the name of liberalism and (idealized) anarchy is an oversimplified model.","parent":"13024943","id":"13025524"}
{"by":"invisible_dust","time":"1434118975","timestamp":"2015-06-12 14:22:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I honestly think the last thing anyone needs is more sociologists. I would prefer studies oriented around the humanities.","parent":"9705853","id":"9706022"}
{"by":"rwieruch","time":"1515503487","timestamp":"2018-01-09 13:11:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2017 was full of web development with JavaScript and React for me [0]. It was time to peak into another subject. That\u0026#x27;s why I started to learn about machine learning in the last months of 2017 and want to continue this endeavour in 2018. My desire is to spread the knowledge for web developers and JavaScript enthusiasts [1]. Maybe I can give people coming from web development the opportunity to hop on the machine learning train by using JavaScript instead of having to learn another programming language (Python) for it. At the moment, I learn ML myself by implementing the learned things in JavaScript [2].\u003cp\u003e- [0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;roadtoreact.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;roadtoreact.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- [1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bri.im\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bri.im\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- [2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;javascript-machine-learning\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;javascript-machine-learning\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16092204","id":"16105871"}
{"by":"random28345","time":"1485887380","timestamp":"2017-01-31 18:29:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false \u0026quot;truth\u0026quot; (\u0026quot;Muslim Ban\u0026quot;). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this!\u003cp\u003eWell, if you\u0026#x27;re going to try to build a mechanism to hold the mainstream media accountable, you\u0026#x27;ll really need to create a standard on when a summarization is inaccurate.\u003cp\u003eIf the media was reporting on, \u0026quot;a ban on travelers from majority Muslim countries by a president who has promised his supporters a ban on Muslims\u0026quot; would that still be misleading? And if opponents of the ban called it a \u0026quot;Muslim ban\u0026quot;, would media outlets be allowed to report on that fact?\u003cp\u003eFor the record, I\u0026#x27;ve seen NYT and BBC call this a \u0026quot;travel ban\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Trump\u0026#x27;s ban\u0026quot; and in quotes designed to indicate attribution \u0026quot;\u0026#x27;Muslim ban\u0026#x27;\u0026quot;. All of these seem reasonable and factual.\u003cp\u003eYour thoughts?\u003cp\u003e== EDIT ==\u003cp\u003eA headline that reads simply \u0026quot;muslim ban\u0026quot; shouldn\u0026#x27;t be considered \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003efake news\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e (in my opinion), so long as it provides a full explanation of the ban and who is affected.\u003cp\u003eIt is an editorializing title, but there\u0026#x27;s a massive difference between editorializing and fabrication. I believe calling something \u0026quot;fake news\u0026quot; should be reserved for publications that create falsehoods out of whole cloth. (e.g. \u0026quot;warehouse full of votes cast by illegal immigrants found\u0026quot;)","parent":"13533464","id":"13533581"}
{"by":"neutronicus","time":"1310059888","timestamp":"2011-07-07 17:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks kind of like Hulu.","parent":"2739288","id":"2739398"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1435426370","timestamp":"2015-06-27 17:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree it\u0026#x27;s challenging to create small molecule treatments for oncology.  That said, there have been some recent, massive successes recently.  Look at Imbruvica which is a massive jump forward in treating MCL and CLL.\u003cp\u003eEven if you drop small molecules and focus on antibodies, it\u0026#x27;s not like it\u0026#x27;s all that easier.","parent":"9790672","id":"9790857"}
{"by":"M_Grey","time":"1475170290","timestamp":"2016-09-29 17:31:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When there is nothing constructive to add, especially when an ideological nerve is struck, pedantry and semantics take over.","parent":"12607053","id":"12607128"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1512208183","timestamp":"2017-12-02 09:49:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And here I was hoping that the title referred to something like \u0026quot;The most clever line of JavaScript is the line you don\u0026#x27;t write\u0026quot;.","parent":"15830788","id":"15831209"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1516915807","timestamp":"2018-01-25 21:30:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Nowadays, everything is pass-by-value.\u003cp\u003eEven viewing sharing as a subtype of value, that\u0026#x27;s not true; call by need exists in modern languages (e.g., Haskell), and, in fact,  classic call-by-reference is \u003ci\u003eavailable\u003c/i\u003e in lots of languages, though not the exclusive model in any (and not the primary model in any current popular language I can think of.)","parent":"16233927","id":"16234859"}
{"by":"BoorishBears","time":"1500526019","timestamp":"2017-07-20 04:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So if a P100D has the 0 to 60 of an exotic, but all the interior fit and polish of a base trim CLA, taxpayers should... cover the difference in price to a CLA? There has to be something missing here.","parent":"14810041","id":"14810058"}
{"by":"dsp1234","time":"1532980487","timestamp":"2018-07-30 19:54:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWant a debugger? Nope.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.markheath.net\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;remote-debugging-azure-functions\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.markheath.net\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;remote-debugging-azure-functi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17646979","id":"17647448"}
{"by":"jimmyvanhalen","time":"1335075189","timestamp":"2012-04-22 06:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to Joshua Block, Google's Chief Java Architect. (slide 62 and 63)\u003cp\u003e“I find it very rewarding to design great APIs and have people come to me years later and say, wow, you know, the collections framework changed my life.”\u003cp\u003e\"API design is a noble and rewarding craft\"\u003cp\u003e\"API design is tough\"","parent":"3873513","id":"3874156"}
{"by":"hazz99","time":"1539601283","timestamp":"2018-10-15 11:01:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It takes a while to load, and heavy traffic stops some features from working. You\u0026#x27;re much better off writing in markdown and generating the site with some static site generator, although I\u0026#x27;ll admit that is more work.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a huge deal though - I\u0026#x27;m fine with it, just an interesting choice :)","parent":"18218743","id":"18218756"}
{"by":"amjo324","time":"1464751680","timestamp":"2016-06-01 03:28:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When an application residing at one.example.com sets a cookie, the browser by default resubmits the cookie in all subsequent requests to one.example.com and also to any subdomains, such as sub.one.example.com. It does not submit the cookie to any other domains, including the parent domain (example.com) and any other subdomains of the parent, such as two.example.com.\u003cp\u003eA server can override this default behavior by including a \u003ci\u003edomain\u003c/i\u003e attribute in the \u003ci\u003eSet-cookie\u003c/i\u003e instruction but this is pretty uncommon. Cookie scoping (and therefore cross-domain protection) can be managed differently if the default behaviour is not intended and HTTPOnly is not relevant here. HTTPOnly is really only a simple mitigation against the most obvious and trivial Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exploitation technique (i.e stealing a session token).","parent":"11809534","id":"11811882"}
{"by":"ChoGGi","time":"1462925269","timestamp":"2016-05-11 00:07:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;told me she really doesn\u0026#x27;t want to cause problems with the team.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhat people say and what people do are two different things, that and it could open you up to further legal issues.\nTalk to a lawyer, then talk to him (preferably with the lawyer).","parent":"11666857","id":"11671699"}
{"by":"StevePerkins","time":"1434069987","timestamp":"2015-06-12 00:46:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cassandra is a distributed database that easily scales more or less to infinity.  As you add more nodes to a cluster, it automatically redistributes data throughout the cluster.  It \u0026quot;just works\u0026quot;, and that\u0026#x27;s pretty exciting.  So Cassandra at the moment seems to be enjoying a bit of the hype cycle that MongoDB enjoyed 5 or 6 years ago.  It\u0026#x27;s the thing that everyone wants to try out and get onto their resume at the moment.\u003cp\u003eHowever, like all \u0026quot;NoSQL\u0026quot; databases, the trade-offs come with the usual severe limitations (e.g. no joins, no foreign keys, no transactions in the usual sense of the term, eventual consistency, etc).  Curious people diving into Cassandra (or most NoSQL databases for that matter) typically have zero understanding of these trade-offs at first, and think that they will be easier to work with.  It isn\u0026#x27;t, and it isn\u0026#x27;t supposed to be.  It\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eharder\u003c/i\u003e to work with, and has \u003ci\u003efewer\u003c/i\u003e features, because that\u0026#x27;s the trade-off you\u0026#x27;re making for scalability.  There\u0026#x27;s little reason to use it if you don\u0026#x27;t need to scale like that.\u003cp\u003eSo, curiosity and RDD (\u0026quot;resume-driven development\u0026quot;) aside, I don\u0026#x27;t think there are many situations in which one would be choosing from Cassandra or MySQL\u0026#x2F;MariaDB\u0026#x2F;PostgreSQL.  If you are working with multiple terabytes or more of data, then there is seldom a good reason to consider a relational database.  If you are working with less than a terabyte of data, then there is seldom a good reason to consider anything OTHER than a relational database.  I just don\u0026#x27;t see much overlap in which these technologies seriously compete against each other.","parent":"9703264","id":"9703366"}
{"by":"jcalvinowens","time":"1395681609","timestamp":"2014-03-24 17:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How exactly does eliminating all income tax help the poor? They pay little to no tax as it is.","parent":"7459390","id":"7459572"}
{"by":"aaroneous","time":"1272936027","timestamp":"2010-05-04 01:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I regularly see gently used Aeron chairs on CL bay area for $400-450. Those of us who spend significant computer time every day really need to take care of our bodies. Prevention is much easier than repair. Consider upgrading your work environment before upgrading your box or getting an iPad...\u003cp\u003eAnd to the parent: If you like your Aeron, you should seriously consider the Embody - lots of time and money went into making it a significant upgrade worthy (imho) of the premium price.","parent":"1312505","id":"1316682"}
{"by":"subelsky","time":"1296137292","timestamp":"2011-01-27 14:08:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh cool, I didn't know that - thanks for clarifying. I'll update the post.","parent":"2147776","id":"2147821"}
{"by":"jamesaguilar","time":"1307735431","timestamp":"2011-06-10 19:50:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; While this isn’t a big deal in nearly all production environments (you want to know when your database gets slow, so you can optimize queries or add indexing), it matters a lot to us because a slow query can affect other customers queries.\u003cp\u003eOne more reason to be leery of single-threaded eventing systems. You'd never run into this issue with a threaded web app, and it would perform just as well provided you kept your datastructures as independent as they are in your current eventing setup.\u003cp\u003eComparing an eventing system and a threading system, the eventing system is inherently \u003ci\u003eless\u003c/i\u003e shared-nothing. It shares everything the threading system does \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e the event thread.","parent":"2641734","id":"2642172"}
{"by":"Zak","time":"1257659964","timestamp":"2009-11-08 05:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIndividuals would be required to obtain insurance or pay a fine of as much as 2.5 percent of income.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis seems like a horrible violation of property rights, perhaps to the point of being a violation of the fifth amendment.","parent":"928813","id":"928918"}
{"by":"yuvadam","time":"1325494743","timestamp":"2012-01-02 08:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually don't see that process as a bad thing.\u003cp\u003eWhat you're doing is basically learning the tool, and its capabilities. Next time you need a CSS3 transformation plugin tailored for presentations, you'll be able to say \"hey, I remember there's this impress thing that I tried once and it's exactly what we need\".","parent":"3414141","id":"3415301"}
{"by":"tx","time":"1211269412","timestamp":"2008-05-20 07:43:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Typical engineering job is pretty lame? That's very American, if you ask me, because you're measuring everything around youself in dollars. I've become an engineer because I \u003ci\u003ecreate\u003c/i\u003e things: every day something starts spinning, cranking, rotating and pumping because I build it, while 100% of lawyers (without exceptions) are useless parasites eating off our own deficiencies.\u003cp\u003eHaving an average engineering job isn't lame, your (and Greenspun's) line of thinking \u003ci\u003eIS\u003c/i\u003e lame. In fact, it's pretty disgusting. That also explains why there aren't many women in the field: generalizing, they're simply more bottom-line oriented, as numerous studies have proven: they don't spend 6 years to get a Master's and build robots in a garage in their spare time for free, instead they'll \"wipe ass\" overtime in a nearest hospital with an associate degree, because overtime pays double rate.","parent":"194306","id":"194809"}
{"by":"user5994461","time":"1500854393","timestamp":"2017-07-23 23:59:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly, the blog is only about rock paper scissor.\u003cp\u003eI too wish it were about Poker, as the title suggests.","parent":"14834650","id":"14835025"}
{"by":"nahname","time":"1350958769","timestamp":"2012-10-23 02:19:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is good reason to use the same environment. No one wants to be dealing with wacky version issues on remote servers, which is precisely what you would be signing up for.","parent":"4685852","id":"4686462"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1393845764","timestamp":"2014-03-03 11:22:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ewhy didn\u0026#x27;t Discourse beat Facebook? Why didn\u0026#x27;t App.net beat Twitter? Why didn\u0026#x27;t Linux beat Windows on desktops?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve never heard of Discourse.\u003cp\u003eApp.net didn\u0026#x27;t beat Twitter because of network effects. And it costs more.\u003cp\u003eWindows has a very open ecosystem. It\u0026#x27;s not open source.\u003cp\u003eArguably the parent has missed the difference between open source and open ecosystem. The iPad has a moderately open ecosystem too - though less open than Android (which in some ways is less open than Windows since it has a centralised distribution method).","parent":"7333088","id":"7333154"}
{"by":"macrael","time":"1293101795","timestamp":"2010-12-23 10:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ahh, but they have no competitors. There is very little reason for them to improve. It's genius! Their entire business model is built on the fact that they don't have competitors. They just have to be good enough for the big schools to sign on, and now that they have that, they have \u003ci\u003eno\u003c/i\u003e reason to improve. They are no doubt raking in the cash, but aren't making things better.","parent":"2033556","id":"2034103"}
{"by":"zrail","time":"1321580090","timestamp":"2011-11-18 01:34:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi HN,\u003cp\u003eI've been ruminating on this project for about two years, starting when my girlfriend and I were looking for a place together. About a week ago I finally settled down to put it out there, and here is the MVP.\u003cp\u003eWhat do you think?","parent":"3250112","id":"3250116"}
{"by":"evmar","time":"1539225010","timestamp":"2018-10-11 02:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ASLR loads segments into random places, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t split the heap up.  Memory allocators typically (always?) arrange things contiguously for ease of management.","parent":"18190444","id":"18190624"}
{"by":"babul","time":"1212692459","timestamp":"2008-06-05 19:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like the interface and way it works. Well done!","parent":"210009","id":"210204"}
{"by":"polshaw","time":"1370101922","timestamp":"2013-06-01 15:52:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The rest of the UK seems much worse.","parent":"5804286","id":"5804465"}
{"by":"oreganoz","time":"1527148886","timestamp":"2018-05-24 08:01:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You go around testing and reproving everything you encounter? Or do you believe in what a scientific community tells you, even partly?","parent":"17141401","id":"17141992"}
{"by":"endswapper","time":"1472415065","timestamp":"2016-08-28 20:11:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is fun and cool. It works well. I think I got hypnotized playing with it. I could see all sorts of uses. I think it would be even better if you could stack the blocks. Just a thought though, it\u0026#x27;s good as is.","parent":"12377912","id":"12378284"}
{"by":"readerrrr","time":"1416194705","timestamp":"2014-11-17 03:25:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003elfuller\u003c/i\u003e is right.\u003cp\u003eFor example, if you have a ship capable of continuous  acceleration at 1g, you can reach any point in the universe on the order of ~50 years.","parent":"8616494","id":"8616710"}
{"by":"nojvek","time":"1500408600","timestamp":"2017-07-18 20:10:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Reasoning and abstraction and high level AGI concepts that I don\u0026#x27;t think apply to deep learning\u003cp\u003eWhat do you mean? Each layer is selecting features and abstracting previous layers. A cat neuron abstracts all possible pixels that form cats.\u003cp\u003eHe\u0026#x27;s just saying that we need better ways of composing this `deep` abstractions.","parent":"14799036","id":"14799652"}
{"by":"kn0thing","time":"1338405044","timestamp":"2012-05-30 19:10:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tongue firmly in cheek :) btw, I'd love to see a HN etiquette guide.\u003cp\u003eedit: touche! thanks, agscala\n\u003ca href=\"http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4044147","id":"4044315"}
{"by":"justindocanto","time":"1330404608","timestamp":"2012-02-28 04:50:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some good tips. Thank you very much. Sounds like just making it as easy to use, constantly staying on top of things \u0026#38; being involved. Pretty standard advice, but good use case. Thanks again =)","parent":"3640732","id":"3641925"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1394424182","timestamp":"2014-03-10 04:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Domestic consumer market growth does have a chance to save us, that was what I thought the best way out when I was younger. But that would never happen, when you have some understanding how the nation\u0026#x27;s stakeholders operate. This is a topic that is too big to discuss here.\u003cp\u003eI understand you do not want to discuss it here, but can you briefly explain why this would never happen ? This is a very interesting point.","parent":"7371167","id":"7371239"}
{"by":"Anarch157a","time":"1531436677","timestamp":"2018-07-12 23:04:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here in Brazil you can fill a shopping cart with the stuff in ant Carrefour. For restaurants, specially the ones that serve feijoada or barbecue*, is not hard to find it in 50kg sacs.\u003cp\u003eManioc flour is the main ingredient in farofa, an essential side dish for both feijoada and bbq.","parent":"17518314","id":"17519341"}
{"by":"setpatchaddress","time":"1458330925","timestamp":"2016-03-18 19:55:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, but that\u0026#x27;s not something you can automatically enforce.","parent":"11314404","id":"11314445"}
{"by":"smeyer","time":"1424887935","timestamp":"2015-02-25 18:12:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, I definitely didn\u0026#x27;t study GRBs in any depth, but based on my increasingly vague memories from my degree in astrophysics, quasars don\u0026#x27;t have much to do with it. All of the major proposed mechanisms I recall for GRBs are on the scale of a star or two (supernovae, neutron star mergers, and the like) whereas quasars are a phenomenon involving supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei. Please, definitely correct me if I\u0026#x27;m wrong!","parent":"9108156","id":"9108371"}
{"by":"omegaworks","time":"1459494716","timestamp":"2016-04-01 07:11:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Basic. :)","parent":"11403094","id":"11403228"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1544654130","timestamp":"2018-12-12 22:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Buran was designed later, so the USSR copied the parts that worked well, like the basic shape, and redesigned the parts that gave NASA trouble.","parent":"18667968","id":"18668330"}
{"by":"facorreia","time":"1339799521","timestamp":"2012-06-15 22:32:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably because you used the back button after visiting the site. Nothing personal.","parent":"4118980","id":"4119056"}
{"by":"eanzenberg","time":"1512095911","timestamp":"2017-12-01 02:38:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The “task dependent observation model” also comes out of thin air, or is it trained with lots of data?","parent":"15820752","id":"15821508"}
{"by":"borski","time":"1434214016","timestamp":"2015-06-13 16:46:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They collect the info in order to obtain anything a foreign operative could use to blackmail you. The kicker? OPM also stores the results of the Polygraphs. Were they accessed? I don\u0026#x27;t know.","parent":"9711112","id":"9711579"}
{"by":"asabjorn","time":"1515355889","timestamp":"2018-01-07 20:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think you can have it both ways. You can\u0026#x27;t teach your kid to walk without risking that they occasionally fall and hurt themselves, and as we grow further these kind of small falls is a natural byproduct of taking risks that leads to growth.\u003cp\u003eIt really sucks when your kid runs in front of a car, but thankfully that is quite rare and there are some simple heuristics that seems to ameliorate most such potential situation.","parent":"16092205","id":"16092404"}
{"by":"niedzielski","time":"1489533087","timestamp":"2017-03-14 23:11:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably coincidental but the fish iconography reminded me immediately of David Siegel\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;Creating Killer Web Sites\u0026quot; \u0026quot;follow the fish\u0026quot; navigation:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.killersites.com\u0026#x2F;killerSites\u0026#x2F;core.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.killersites.com\u0026#x2F;killerSites\u0026#x2F;core.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13860271","id":"13872397"}
{"by":"maximusprime","time":"1321718735","timestamp":"2011-11-19 16:05:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last time I looked, only a tiny % of their expenses were on hosting. The vast majority was on research,salaries, business crap, idk what else.\u003cp\u003eTake a look.","parent":"3254061","id":"3255506"}
{"by":"Blahah","time":"1519669972","timestamp":"2018-02-26 18:32:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am in my early 30s and have been using drugs recreationally since I was 11. Thank you for caring :) I appreciate it. I am a professional though, and I am comfortable with my current use. It has been toned down massively since I was younger, and become much safer and more careful. I do agree though that people should be careful. I don\u0026#x27;t advocate for wanton drug taking.","parent":"16467083","id":"16467693"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1225549691","timestamp":"2008-11-01 14:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThey should sell a small, maybe 8GB version to use for swap\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's called RAM.  If you want 8G of RAM, get 8G of RAM.  It's cheap.","parent":"350281","id":"350720"}
{"by":"alistproducer2","time":"1490739992","timestamp":"2017-03-28 22:26:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"personally, I find the deletion time limit a bit arbitrary. I suppose the finality is there to make one consider the tone before posting. there\u0026#x27;s nothing worse than posting a karma-burning comment and coming back to find there\u0026#x27;s nothing you can do about it.","parent":"13981344","id":"13981375"}
{"by":"alfapla","time":"1436953971","timestamp":"2015-07-15 09:52:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your brain is probably the most subtle instrument in the universe and you\u0026#x27;re plain stupid if you\u0026#x27;re going to blast it with synthetic drugs the long term effects of which are still unclear. And for what? Most of you people are already brilliant just like that.","parent":"9889432","id":"9890496"}
{"by":"Domenic_S","time":"1458923119","timestamp":"2016-03-25 16:25:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, the problem here is that the power company can\u0026#x27;t unilaterally decide you don\u0026#x27;t get power anymore and turn it off without warning. Your shipping carrier can\u0026#x27;t suddenly decide they don\u0026#x27;t serve you anymore, and by the way we\u0026#x27;re keeping all the packages you have en route.\u003cp\u003eBut Amazon can. They also pay a few months in arrears, so one day you may wake up to a form email that says essentially, \u0026quot;adios, and I\u0026#x27;m keeping the money\u0026quot;. In fairness, I believe all affiliate programs are like that.","parent":"11360870","id":"11360940"}
{"by":"david927","time":"1204023218","timestamp":"2008-02-26 10:53:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point of the article, that capitalism has a natural inclination to increase the disparity between wealthy and poor, has been long assumed as a self-evident property of capitalism.  This doesn’t make it bad, but it does show how it needs to be tempered.  Most countries, including America, use a combination of socialism and capitalism to find a healthy balance.","parent":"123509","id":"123795"}
{"by":"scarmig","time":"1438369795","timestamp":"2015-07-31 19:09:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coastal cities aren\u0026#x27;t expensive because of bad housing policy (though they certainly have that). They\u0026#x27;re expensive because lots of highly economically productive people and companies are located in them.","parent":"9983581","id":"9983697"}
{"by":"marknutter","time":"1298927236","timestamp":"2011-02-28 21:07:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not about flash sucking or not. It's about Apple wanting to have more control over their destiny than they used to.  I think the bad years when Adobe decided to abandon the Mac platform left a bitter taste in Apple's mouth, and now that they don't have to kowtow to anybody they're making sure they do things their way.","parent":"2272740","id":"2272912"}
{"by":"Razengan","time":"1460493788","timestamp":"2016-04-12 20:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It is a bummer when I touch a few sectors in a huge file like a VM disk image, and the best Time Machine can do is back up the entire file again.\u003cp\u003eYou could exclude those kinds of files from Time Machine, and use your VM\u0026#x27;s own backup system.","parent":"11483156","id":"11483407"}
{"by":"x0x0","time":"1521316555","timestamp":"2018-03-17 19:55:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Believe whatever you want but (1) our lawyers disagree; (2) if you can query your logs, you have to (PS: you can; that\u0026#x27;s literally the point of things like sumologic); (3) the various privacy orgs that have published reasonable amounts of guidance -- notably ICO and DPC -- disagree.","parent":"16608584","id":"16608759"}
{"by":"dogruck","time":"1510528297","timestamp":"2017-11-12 23:11:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try not to live your life counting down 2.5 years of your future.\u003cp\u003eIn hindsight, those 2.5 years will be just a heartbeat.\u003cp\u003eI suggest doing your best to find ways to enjoy the immediate presence, and the future will take care of itself.","parent":"15682343","id":"15683079"}
{"by":"taliesinb","time":"1338791016","timestamp":"2012-06-04 06:23:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only one thinking how cool it would be to map income inequality using computer vision on satellite photographs of cities by counting trees or greenness?","parent":"4062151","id":"4062894"}
{"by":"cellularmitosis","time":"1460335950","timestamp":"2016-04-11 00:52:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why?  Does the spall have enough energy to hurt someone?","parent":"11467669","id":"11469001"}
{"by":"keyle","time":"1308884061","timestamp":"2011-06-24 02:54:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I now use it pretty much every day. I've only got good things to say about this app.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightfocus/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lightfocus/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSadly, they never responded to my improvement suggestion list. Now I see why.","parent":"2690652","id":"2690780"}
{"by":"Iv","time":"1336343243","timestamp":"2012-05-06 22:27:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Go to North Carolina or Georgia? I may as well be in Greece for how at \"home\" I feel there.\u003cp\u003eBut the language is the same, the newspapers are the same, the political parties are the same. Compare that to Europe where there are, what ? 23 languages for 27 countries, political parties specific to each and news sources totally different.","parent":"3935486","id":"3936576"}
{"by":"justin66","time":"1418616771","timestamp":"2014-12-15 04:12:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"War criminals who would have been shot for abandoning their posts (almost all of the low-level guys fall into that category) have been, and continue to be, prosecuted for those crimes. It\u0026#x27;s not a hypothetical, it\u0026#x27;s still in the news.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/23/justice/nazi-charge-philadelphia-man/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;23\u0026#x2F;justice\u0026#x2F;nazi-charge-philadelph...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8749057","id":"8750642"}
{"by":"mutewinter","time":"1326389122","timestamp":"2012-01-12 17:25:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like a nice replacement for status.vim \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/dickeytk/status.vim\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/dickeytk/status.vim\u003c/a\u003e. Just needs syntastic support \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"3456865","id":"3457104"}
{"by":"cynicalkane","time":"1359548206","timestamp":"2013-01-30 12:16:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; can't seriously argue that someone who is accused of rape should just be set free like that\u003cp\u003eIf there's no substance to the allegations, yes, the person accused should absolutely just be set free like that. This is obvious.","parent":"5139024","id":"5139125"}
{"by":"edw519","time":"1217766342","timestamp":"2008-08-03 12:25:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Misleading title.\u003cp\u003eMore accurate: Quantity \u003ci\u003eCauses\u003c/i\u003e Quality.","parent":"265520","id":"265548"}
{"by":"gfody","time":"1503831436","timestamp":"2017-08-27 10:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you\u0026#x27;re doing it right. what\u0026#x27;s needed is tooling that allows other publishers to do this for basic ads.","parent":"15109835","id":"15110199"}
{"by":"lotyrin","time":"1352954227","timestamp":"2012-11-15 04:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, if it's not worth 20 bucks a month to you, you probably aren't in their target market (deliberately priced out of it, for good reason).","parent":"4787051","id":"4787117"}
{"by":"1337p337","time":"1285749284","timestamp":"2010-09-29 08:34:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He may have actually been going faster.  He was reported to be going 117mph.  The LAPD's policy is to cut off chases at 120mph, as pursuit at that speed is considered more dangerous.  I would not put it past the pursuing officers to fudge the numbers a bit here in order to continue the pursuit.\u003cp\u003eIncidentally, that's a large part of the reason I don't sympathize.  It was unquestionably an abuse by the police to beat him, and I'm glad they caught hell, but I'm not going to shed a tear for the man.  It's a travesty the way their trial went.","parent":"1738256","id":"1738696"}
{"by":"vaksel","time":"1234205760","timestamp":"2009-02-09 18:56:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can't.\u003cp\u003eIn this day and age people are too used to free, especially for information. \"Why should I pay you $$$ if I can get more or less the same thing for free from Google search\"\u003cp\u003eAnd RSS is just as \"sensationalist\" since blogs etc use that to drive traffic to their actual pages","parent":"473860","id":"473962"}
{"by":"minikomi","time":"1317040406","timestamp":"2011-09-26 12:33:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Extremely bland hip hop","parent":"3035663","dead":true,"id":"3038550"}
{"by":"ksec","time":"1533566201","timestamp":"2018-08-06 14:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Hardrives are roughly 1Tb\u0026#x2F;in^2 in areal density right now. SSD\u0026#x27;s are a little better.\u003cp\u003eI am pretty sure 1Tb is 1 Terabit\u0026#x2F;in^2. Here it is 138 Terabytes \u0026#x2F; in^2, or 1104 Terabit\u0026#x2F;in^2, hence the \u003ci\u003e1000\u003c/i\u003e times difference. Not \u003ci\u003e100\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern Digital MAMR allows up to 4 Terabit\u0026#x2F;in^2, so the difference is now slightly closer to ~250x. Then there is Bit pattern media, which should get us to 10 Terabit\u0026#x2F;in^2.\u003cp\u003eBut it doesn\u0026#x27;t look like HDD manufacture are in any hurry, they will try to milk the market for as long as possible. The Total HDD market will fall to 50% of its peak volume sometimes next year or in 2020.","parent":"17697239","id":"17697930"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1539281339","timestamp":"2018-10-11 18:08:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it that embarassing ? I couldn\u0026#x27;t find a good summary about the state of F-35s.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think 150usd per year is a huge amount of money (12.5 per month). (Sure for some it\u0026#x27;s vital, I\u0026#x27;m not saying this).\u003cp\u003eMilitary..","parent":"18195566","id":"18195733"}
{"by":"stoobe","time":"1502163673","timestamp":"2017-08-08 03:41:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In this thread: \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t agree with what the scientists said so either they\u0026#x27;re cherry picked, or bad scientists, or right-wing\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRepublicans on global warming: \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t believe the results so it must be that scientists don\u0026#x27;t know what they\u0026#x27;re talking about or they\u0026#x27;re biased.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eCan I join\u0026#x2F;found a pro-science party? Anyone want to join?","parent":"14952738","id":"14953946"}
{"by":"Flenser","time":"1308300673","timestamp":"2011-06-17 08:51:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or IR dongles that can be programmed to add spam messages to photos.","parent":"2664732","id":"2664870"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1280408654","timestamp":"2010-07-29 13:04:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, they're beautiful animals.\u003cp\u003eYou can actually befriend foxes in the wild near your home relatively easily if you are patient. I'd be very wary of letting one of them (or one of the 'tame' ones above) near very young children though.\u003cp\u003eDogs have been bred for many thousands of generations and yet there still are plenty of them that bear careful watching in spite of being tame, with these animals I'd be extra careful, their roots are much more wild than any regular dog you'll ever meet.\u003cp\u003eThe brother of one of my ex employees in Canada had a half-wolf, half Sheppard. An absolutely amazing animal but imprinted on one person only, dog to him, wolf to the rest of the world. I imagine these foxes to be \u003ci\u003emuch\u003c/i\u003e more tame than their wild cousins but until you've seen them in stressful situations you'd have to be careful with individual specimen, even if as a breed they're considered tame enough for being around the house. The same goes for dogs.\u003cp\u003eIn Australia there are people that hold dingos as pets, that's another interesting option.","parent":"1557385","id":"1557407"}
{"by":"ry_ry","time":"1450297057","timestamp":"2015-12-16 20:17:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every language has it, but because JavaScript is evolving so rapidly the problem is amplified. We\u0026#x27;ve seen more change in the last couple of years than some more  mature languages have seen in the last decade - js isn\u0026#x27;t finished, and I don\u0026#x27;t think it ever should be.\u003cp\u003eOn the plus side, it keeps us employed as long as we are prepared to keep learning the new stuff, or earn a spectacular exit.","parent":"10746817","id":"10746982"}
{"by":"chinpokomon","time":"1373534520","timestamp":"2013-07-11 09:22:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can install a dev bootloader, but the way it initializes the system is different than what you may be familiar with","parent":"6021046","id":"6025151"}
{"by":"brianwawok","time":"1492627676","timestamp":"2017-04-19 18:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"New grads are a really bad value for their first year or two. If you are only looking for the bang for your buck approach, you would hire people with 1-3 years of experience. Anything under is negative value. Anything over is overpriced.","parent":"14150547","id":"14150573"}
{"by":"waps","time":"1380217383","timestamp":"2013-09-26 17:43:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) many muslims disagree that there is a difference between islam and sharia. The word itself disagrees with your assessment. Besides, ever met a muslim that didn\u0026#x27;t care what halal was ? Ever wondered what \u0026quot;halal\u0026quot; refers to. These people that call themselves muslim use the sources I referred to as guidance on what is halal, they do \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e decide for themselves.\u003cp\u003e2) slavery, incuding kidnapping people, even children into slavery is halal. So is raping them. Yes there\u0026#x27;s limits to exactly who, when and where, but frankly that doesn\u0026#x27;t matter to the morality of that. Halal = morally reprehensible.\u003cp\u003e3) Even seemingly stupid parts of the islamic faith, like halal food (practiced by the vast majority of muslims), you\u0026#x27;re going to find discriminatory\u0026#x2F;racist at best (religious discrimination in employment, to start with). Even that part is morally reprehensible.\u003cp\u003e4) I disagree strongly with your assessment that \u0026quot;those who see the West as the devil come from countries where the West has severely harmed in the past through selfish and corrupt interference\u0026quot;. Aside from the fact that that statement reads like a conspiracy theory, those hotbeds you refer to are Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Pakistan. In a different way Egypt has been a hotbed. You \u003ci\u003emight\u003c/i\u003e be able to build a weak case America has harmed Somalia, but the others have massively benefited from America\u0026#x27;s influence and help.\u003cp\u003eI propose instead that those who see the west as the devil come from societies (or at least families) that take islam very seriously and let it guide their life. The stronger the place of islam in their lives, the more hate for everyone they have (not just for America, in case you truly are that naive. Israel, Holland (because there is a whore at every intersection, one Egyptian explained to me not very long ago), France (something about a Jewish school that you just can\u0026#x27;t repeat, and the \u0026quot;fact\u0026quot; that they support ex-muslims in Lebanon), Ethiopia, Kenia, ...).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Religious rhetoric aligns itself with realpolitik. It is naive to see it in any other terms.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything\u003c/i\u003e, including your rhetoric, aligns itself with realpolitik. That\u0026#x27;s the definition of realpolitik. Your statement is true, but it contains no information, other than what\u0026#x27;s in the dictionary. Barbie dolls align themselves with realpolitik too, and it is equally naive to see things otherwise.","parent":"6450519","id":"6452338"}
{"by":"jacobbijani","time":"1218836801","timestamp":"2008-08-15 21:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What makes you think it's less efficient? They are driving all around the city. The system organizes the deliveries into an efficient route that favors right turns.\u003cp\u003eI'm sure the system is smart enough to not have them go all the way around the block to backtrack. It just has them hit that location before advancing. I would love to see an illustration of the type of route it outputs.","parent":"277382","id":"277402"}
{"by":"quotemstr","time":"1521926274","timestamp":"2018-03-24 21:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The same principle that justifies censoring \u0026quot;hate speech\u0026quot; also justifies censoring firearms content, pornography, and anything else that the censorious crowd considers \u0026quot;harmful\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eYou might not care about these things, but censorship will eventually hit something you do care about. The impulse to improve society by controlling people\u0026#x27;s thoughts is never satisfied.\u003cp\u003eCan you now see why some of us have been consistently opposed to censorship generally, even when people were talking only about censoring the most disreputable people? We need to commit to equal treatment of all legal speech. The only alternative is suffocation.","parent":"16668823","id":"16669003"}
{"by":"Udo","time":"1367941436","timestamp":"2013-05-07 15:43:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still, a very rare event requiring a precise alignment of the star system that gets more improbable and more rare the further out a planet is. And I imagine we need 2-3 data points of transitions at least to exclude false positives - that simply doesn't happen within a reasonable time (e.g. Neptune has an orbital period of 165 years).","parent":"5668552","id":"5668684"}
{"by":"vxNsr","time":"1404172453","timestamp":"2014-06-30 23:54:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The entire season of HoC was on torrents within hours of going live on netflix for each season, I\u0026#x27;m guessing the same was true for OitNB but I wasn\u0026#x27;t\u0026#x2F;am not interested in that show so don\u0026#x27;t know for sure.","parent":"7968255","id":"7968427"}
{"by":"stfu","time":"1344452825","timestamp":"2012-08-08 19:07:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The IP search is a great and super simple work around. Thanks a lot for that suggestions!","parent":"4357340","id":"4357430"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1339602042","timestamp":"2012-06-13 15:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It may be a matter of perception, because you're firing off ajax requests after loading.  I visit a page, stuff happens, and then there's \"waiting for disqus.com...\" in my status bar.  The page could be ready to view, but out of habit I generally wait until everything is done.  Whatever the last thing a site loads is, if it doesn't seem necessary for the site to function, it goes in adblock.","parent":"4106350","id":"4106479"}
{"by":"lancer383","time":"1273677317","timestamp":"2010-05-12 15:15:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found it to be pretty interesting.\u003cp\u003eI tend to fall on Apple's side when it comes to not wanting to be forced to support a technology that it is against. That being said, seeing the CPU usage on these simple HTML5/JS games was a bit shocking - no idea if that is due to sub-standard coding, or if it's inherent in JS, but it seems to blow a hole in the \"Flash is a resource hog\" argument.\u003cp\u003eI am wondering if better developer tools for creating graphical HTML5/JS and/or JIT compilation will help with this. Clearly an iPhone is capable of amazing things graphically, but that's all been on the native app side.","parent":"1341060","id":"1341137"}
{"by":"YuriNiyazov","time":"1513056960","timestamp":"2017-12-12 05:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a very interesting way to distinguish the two, and the first time I am seeing it presented this way. Did you come up with this? Are there references?","parent":"15903130","id":"15903232"}
{"by":"arithmetic","time":"1254873092","timestamp":"2009-10-06 23:51:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The way the article is titled (emphasizing that it was Brad Pitt's foundation) almost makes me think that they expected the foundation to fail. \"Oh, an actor's foundation. What good could they do?\". Or they were being sensationalist (anything with 'Brad Pitt' is highly clickable surely).","parent":"865641","id":"865675"}
{"by":"ionwake","time":"1425827237","timestamp":"2015-03-08 15:07:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"but cant you perform a MITM on SSL anyway?","parent":"9165737","id":"9165769"}
{"by":"orbnam","time":"1359506363","timestamp":"2013-01-30 00:39:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nice topic just subscribe here","parent":"5137151","id":"5137375"}
{"by":"dromidas","time":"1380218922","timestamp":"2013-09-26 18:08:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it was a single key I would have to have one of those plastic shields installed on top of it like you see in the cockpit of jet fighters. Gotta flip it up and then push it lol.","parent":"6451593","id":"6452526"}
{"by":"axemclion","time":"1459464619","timestamp":"2016-03-31 22:50:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey @taypo - how is that experience going ? Would love to hear how this is working out.\u003cp\u003eYou are right - this was announced at ReactConf 2016","parent":"11400364","id":"11401221"}
{"by":"Vinnl","time":"1533800527","timestamp":"2018-08-09 07:42:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not a fan of AMP either; just wanted to point out that it\u0026#x27;s unfair to say Google should have encouraged better practises when they did just that.\u003cp\u003e(Not that I\u0026#x27;m a fan of Google\u0026#x2F;any single company having to be that warden, but I digress.)","parent":"17720595","id":"17722295"}
{"by":"s986s","time":"1456422295","timestamp":"2016-02-25 17:44:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think them building it in rust is a good thing. But rust is a mozilla project so its not as though theyre doing people favors. What it certainly does is showcase the strength of the language considering they have proven to be so badass","parent":"11175772","id":"11176131"}
{"by":"elithrar","time":"1369954338","timestamp":"2013-05-30 22:52:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I didn't ask for a language which \"requires\" an IDE. I simply want to find a decent IDE for use when coding Go.\u003cp\u003eDepends what you mean by \"IDE\". There's LiteIDE[1], which fits the more \"traditional\" idea of an IDE.\u003cp\u003eI use Sublime Text 2 + GoSublime[2] myself; auto-completes from packages—inc. third party ones installed via `go get`—as well as error detection and integrated `go fmt`.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://code.google.com/p/liteide/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://code.google.com/p/liteide/\u003c/a\u003e\n[2]: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5795239","id":"5795779"}
{"by":"robotmachine","time":"1542556233","timestamp":"2018-11-18 15:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have mercy.","parent":"18480808","id":"18480883"}
{"by":"Spearchucker","time":"1420160650","timestamp":"2015-01-02 01:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Blockchain is a ledger, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file share service. Difficult comparison.","parent":"8824674","id":"8825053"}
{"by":"synthmeat","time":"1439892485","timestamp":"2015-08-18 10:08:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As my use case for 7-8 years demanded reverse tunnelling daily during development, and last 2 me switching to ngrok, let me just point out that it\u0026#x27;s not \u0026quot;the same\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eGiving you full benefit of doubt that you just haven\u0026#x27;t fully explored ngrok, instead of just listing the features here myself, I\u0026#x27;ll just urge you to check it out in more detail.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s awesome little tool, and the author has always been enthusiastically responsive through #ngrok on freenode.","parent":"10078123","id":"10078336"}
{"by":"joshu","time":"1291754163","timestamp":"2010-12-07 20:36:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can raise a priced seed round with a lead investor without going to an A.\u003cp\u003eYou can raise a convertible note with a lead investor as well.\u003cp\u003eThe article is a BIT confusing.","parent":"1980459","id":"1980483"}
{"by":"ozzmotik","time":"1533607275","timestamp":"2018-08-07 02:01:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"perhaps suffer wasn\u0026#x27;t the right term in terms of subjective expression becsuse i wouldn\u0026#x27;t say I distinctly suffer per se, i was just more using the term \u0026quot;suffer\u0026quot; in the sense of \u0026quot;suffering a condition\u0026quot; implying having to live through it, or rather being subjected to it. as far as actual negative side effects and the sensation of suffering in the context of struggling though, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say that applies so much except when it comes to visual art. I\u0026#x27;ve never been a very visual person thanks to the aphantasia thing and I\u0026#x27;ve always kind of wanted to be because I practice several other forms of art and creative expression, but it\u0026#x27;s like, with the analogy of a sculptor, I don\u0026#x27;t see the sculpture inside the block of marble; i don\u0026#x27;t  manifest these complex visual and spatial ideas about a thing before I try to go into creating it, I more just rely on first principles and the synthesis thereof, but that being said there is a distinctly abstract quality to my visual art that isn\u0026#x27;t exactly intentional; my grasp of perspective is kinda bad as well. I\u0026#x27;m sure I could overcome these limitations if i put my mind to it but I just haven\u0026#x27;t figured it out quite yet. im thinking i need to approach things more mathematically though\u003cp\u003eas far as what the aim was  , I\u0026#x27;m not sure exactly. just nice to know people who experience the same thing as me and then musing on it and rambling like i always do","parent":"17695673","id":"17703364"}
{"by":"upofadown","time":"1524489367","timestamp":"2018-04-23 13:16:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;XMPP with Signal for E2E somehow?\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a well developed thing already:\u003cp\u003e* \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;OMEMO\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;OMEMO\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommon OMEMO supporting XMPP clients are Conversations[1] for Android, ChatSecure[2] for iOS and Gajim[3] for the desktop.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Conversations_(software)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Conversations_(software)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;ChatSecure\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;ChatSecure\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gajim\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gajim\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can see the OMEMO status of the various XMPP clients here:\u003cp\u003e* \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;omemo.top\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;omemo.top\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16902315","id":"16903107"}
{"by":"xiaoma","time":"1489553814","timestamp":"2017-03-15 04:56:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;You\u0026#x27;re effectively fucking middle America into relocating both their people and businesses.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t taken anyone\u0026#x27;s job, I\u0026#x27;m sensitive to wage disparities, I support companies letting people work remotely and I\u0026#x27;m not doing anything at all to middle America.","parent":"13873186","id":"13873909"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1543526860","timestamp":"2018-11-29 21:27:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; this was already known. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re sounding like: \u0026quot;being a certain age is a disorder\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  Requiring younger children to sit still and pay attention may be a much more challenging task since their brains are actually less developed. Thus, they more easily get pushed over the diagnosis line compared to their older classmates.\u003cp\u003eTeachers who can\u0026#x27;t control kids (and to be honest, school requirements have been getting broader) will want to give them a pill as it\u0026#x27;s easier.\u003cp\u003eReminds to be seen what is the effect of such medicines on kids under development.","parent":"18563447","id":"18564191"}
{"by":"bandrami","time":"1511187260","timestamp":"2017-11-20 14:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  I\u0026#x27;m confused on how the kernel knows to associate keyboard input with any particular file at all\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re running a graphical environment, it doesn\u0026#x27;t: the kernel hands the keypress events to X or to Wayland, and they are then responsible for multiplexing them (X uses the focus capabilities in Xlib; I haven\u0026#x27;t poked around much with Wayland but it must do something similar).\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re on the console in Linux, there\u0026#x27;s a set of ioctls[1] that control how the kernel multiplexes virtual terminals. These can be set by the userland utility chvt. (Other Unixes do this differently; e.g. NetBSD and OpenBSD make a wsconsole abstract device with syscalls to associate it with a given TTY.)\u003cp\u003e1: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;linux.die.net\u0026#x2F;man\u0026#x2F;4\u0026#x2F;console_ioctl\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;linux.die.net\u0026#x2F;man\u0026#x2F;4\u0026#x2F;console_ioctl\u003c/a\u003e (scroll down to VT_ACTIVATE for the relevant parts)","parent":"15738994","id":"15739950"}
{"by":"yogo","time":"1377617728","timestamp":"2013-08-27 15:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, that\u0026#x27;s the reeking I was referring to :)","parent":"6284026","id":"6284066"}
{"by":"mcav","time":"1239587259","timestamp":"2009-04-13 01:47:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author seems to confuse push with polling:\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eConsider an application with just 10,000 users. It might service a million uses per day, assuming update checks every 15 minutes. More time-critical uses might demand checks every few minutes or even several times a minute. As the computational burden builds, so do the hosting costs. While cloud computing provides an excellent match to these kinds of needs, that kind of solution comes with a real price in development, maintenance, and day-to-day operations.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith push, small developers are \u003ci\u003esaved\u003c/i\u003e from the hassle of handling lots of polling connections. They just push according to what their application needs -- it's \u003ci\u003emore\u003c/i\u003e scalable, and that's the point.","parent":"559224","id":"559246"}
{"by":"mcphage","time":"1512059738","timestamp":"2017-11-30 16:35:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember reading an article (which unfortunately I can\u0026#x27;t find now) criticizing that article—that the watermelon that they show was a different cultivar, or had some other condition, which can still be found in watermelons today.\u003cp\u003eSo... yeah, I guess this isn\u0026#x27;t a super useful response since I can\u0026#x27;t find it again, but just, it\u0026#x27;s not as simple as all that :-)","parent":"15815009","id":"15817068"}
{"by":"kaitai","time":"1473371404","timestamp":"2016-09-08 21:50:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re going to take it that way, don\u0026#x27;t interact with humans ever. You do you, my friend. But that\u0026#x27;s black-and-white illogical thinking. \u0026quot;Once I asked a woman to discuss a tech thing and then she mentioned her boyfriend forever.\u0026quot; Who cares? One person had a hangup or a bad experience, and the horrible outcome is that she mentioned her boyfriend a few times. Try again with someone else, guy or gal. Try asking two people to coffee at once. There won\u0026#x27;t be any tragedies if you are polite and professional.","parent":"12457522","id":"12457660"}
{"by":"throwwit","time":"1413119951","timestamp":"2014-10-12 13:19:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is any organizational structure resistant to McCarthyism?","parent":"8445076","id":"8445192"}
{"by":"danw","time":"1231804732","timestamp":"2009-01-12 23:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"News and music are different. Chances are I'll hear a song somewhere, then buy it and listen to it again and again.\u003cp\u003eA news article is usually read once then never re-read. How do I know if the article is worth paying for without reading it? And why would I pay for it after I've read it or heard the information?","parent":"430635","id":"431367"}
{"by":"semerda","time":"1427385746","timestamp":"2015-03-26 16:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about their MBaaS? I\u0026#x27;m a fan of their Datastore API.\nWould welcome Dropbox expanding their apps ecosystem support.","parent":"9269855","id":"9270596"}
{"by":"sneak","time":"1374865890","timestamp":"2013-07-26 19:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; To save face, they get an expensive lawyer to sue you. Next thing you know, you\u0026#x27;re a registered sex offender.\u003cp\u003ePlease learn the difference between civil and criminal law.","parent":"6108754","id":"6109918"}
{"by":"127","time":"1325807982","timestamp":"2012-01-05 23:59:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \"fun\" and \"lighthearted\" pictures are pointless and actively harmful. If you're going to show me ads, show me ads. But if you're not, don't. I'm willing to pay the price of being annoyed by advertising. The \"instead of an ad\" pictures generate no revenue for Reddit and they constantly waste my time and attention. They are purely a negative thing.\u003cp\u003eThat's the most articulate way I can put my argument. If you still misunderstand, there's not much more that I can say.\u003cp\u003eMaybe some people actually enjoy the \"instead of an ad\" pictures. I absolutely hate them.","parent":"3431142","id":"3431216"}
{"by":"devan","time":"1299545322","timestamp":"2011-03-08 00:48:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to realise if you're not focused on one project your mind is going to be scattered everywhere and you'll end up with half assed products or incomplete projects. I made this mistake when i was trying to start something like 3 companies at the same time when i was 15/16, i wanted to do it all. You just can't.\u003cp\u003eFor example if you had a series of essays to do in a certain amount of time, they'd all probably be mediocre or incomplete. Yet, if you had to do one essay in the same amount of time that one essay would be pretty impressive, you'd have time to proof read, spell check, change areas etc...\u003cp\u003ePretty poor example but you get the idea.\u003cp\u003eFind one and stay focused on it.\u003cp\u003eWhen the idea becomes no longer fun get some feedback, nothings more motivational than feedback. There's going to periods were you just can't be bothered or were it tires you out and the next task/step is soo complex you procrastinate for weeks, you have to identify this and the fact that it happens and push forward.\u003cp\u003eOn thing i do, it's pretty weird, start with really small tasks and build up til' you're in a productive state. (do the dishes, reply to emails, make breakfast lol) When it comes to the hard part (opening up the code editor and getting started) what i do is kinda' go consciously unconscious, you phase out everything, the task, every thought in your head (you might even go light headed), complete yet forced zen and just start coding, when you \"regain consciousness\" you'll have already started the task and it will be less of a mountain.\u003cp\u003eAnd prioritise.\u003cp\u003eI'm currently at university, in my first year, working on my new start up. It's more important than university to me, i haven't been a class all term and only about 2/3 lectures this term because i'd rather be designing/programming. My priorities are with my idea not with this degree, i have a load of other ideas and what i'll learn from this start up with help me with the others later on.\u003cp\u003eJust shelve the ok ideas and push forward with that one idea you love the most.\u003cp\u003eD","parent":"2298752","id":"2299367"}
{"by":"Kluny","time":"1507694176","timestamp":"2017-10-11 03:56:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bring a warm jacket, OP. It\u0026#x27;s the last thing you think about in the summer heat, but if you somehow end up standing around on a lonely road in the middle of the night, it gets surprisingly cold, even in California! And take some pictures of your house the way it looks now. You\u0026#x27;ll really treasure them someday in the future, telling your kids, this is the house we lived in before the fire.\u003cp\u003eStay safe, hope the wind is favorable.","parent":"15446364","id":"15447167"}
{"by":"dchest","time":"1467879484","timestamp":"2016-07-07 08:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not worse than LZ4. LZ4 is just an LZ-based compression (find common strings, reference them), while LZFSE does both LZ compression and entropy coding (like ZIP\u0026#x27;s deflate). It\u0026#x27;s comparable to zstd, which uses LZ and finite state entropy coder. They achieve better compression at lower (than just LZ-based compressor) speed. You can say they replace zlib, achieving much higher performance at pretty much the same compression ratio.\u003cp\u003eApple\u0026#x27;s libcompression also provides LZ4 if you need it: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.apple.com\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;ios\u0026#x2F;documentation\u0026#x2F;Performance\u0026#x2F;Reference\u0026#x2F;Compression\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.apple.com\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;ios\u0026#x2F;documentation\u0026#x2F;Perfor...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12047980","id":"12048132"}
{"by":"sreya","time":"1538010674","timestamp":"2018-09-27 01:11:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure the EPA and FDA are the best examples you could\u0026#x27;ve picked...","parent":"18081462","id":"18081502"}
{"by":"gadders","time":"1510913176","timestamp":"2017-11-17 10:06:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a lot of the charities where you select an individual there is no guarantee the money actually goes to that person.","parent":"15720172","id":"15720673"}
{"by":"fossuser","time":"1411505132","timestamp":"2014-09-23 20:45:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting - I thought it\u0026#x27;d be red\u0026#x2F;green, but it\u0026#x27;s blue\u0026#x2F;purple (which I thought were colors chosen for the color blind).\u003cp\u003eIs blue\u0026#x2F;purple color blind less common?  Can you differentiate between red\u0026#x2F;green?","parent":"8357992","id":"8358099"}
{"by":"edouard1234567","time":"1367451069","timestamp":"2013-05-01 23:31:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Love the idea of having a personal \"Chef\" who cares about my health!\u003cp\u003eOne feature idea : you could integrate with one these smart wifi scale and use my daily weight as input. This way you'll have a daily feedback loop.","parent":"5640336","id":"5641499"}
{"by":"Natsu","time":"1321010214","timestamp":"2011-11-11 11:16:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For reasons I can't clearly explain, it seems oddly fitting to see the site's trademark spirited away like this.","parent":"3224054","id":"3224247"}
{"by":"aorloff","time":"1486370409","timestamp":"2017-02-06 08:40:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; budgetary and timing constraints\u003cp\u003eain\u0026#x27;t that the truth","parent":"13576955","id":"13577646"}
{"by":"marquis","time":"1369126816","timestamp":"2013-05-21 09:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A normal bank transfer will ultimately cost less, I would just contact your U.S. bank to inquire about a ITT, International Telegraphic Transfer.","parent":"5740648","id":"5742540"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1420611371","timestamp":"2015-01-07 06:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you arguing that it was difficult to find the responsible party, and that posting their address somehow helped that?\u003cp\u003eWhat possible outcome are you hoping to achieve by doing this?\u003cp\u003eIsn\u0026#x27;t this little more than a low level case of \u0026quot;dox\u0026quot;-ing someone you disagree with?","parent":"8849138","id":"8849175"}
{"by":"robertduncan","time":"1410898644","timestamp":"2014-09-16 20:17:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Error detection is much easier with pipefail:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Pipelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gnu.org\u0026#x2F;software\u0026#x2F;bash\u0026#x2F;manual\u0026#x2F;html_node\u0026#x2F;Pipelines....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If pipefail is enabled, the pipeline’s return status is the value of the last (rightmost) command to exit with a non-zero status, or zero if all commands exit successfully\u0026quot;","parent":"8326543","id":"8326847"}
{"by":"jamestenglish","time":"1481647908","timestamp":"2016-12-13 16:51:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some counter points, especially with fallacy #1:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Fallacy #1: Cleaner Code\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; “You don’t need to introduce a network boundary as an excuse to write better code.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI see this all the time as the argument against microservices: \u0026quot;but if you are just disciplined you don\u0026#x27;t need them\u0026quot;. It seems pretty clear to me that a large body of programming history has shown that it is incredibly difficult for a whole team to be disciplined all the time. If everyone was perfect drivers we wouldn\u0026#x27;t need seat belts. Some artificial \u0026quot;barriers\u0026quot; can be very helpful to tackle people working in the real world.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Fallacy #2: It’s Easier\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; “Distributed transactions are never easy.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis argument I\u0026#x27;ll buy, but there is a lot of really good work going into orchestration like kubernetes which makes a lot of these concerns much lower.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Fallacy #3: It’s Faster\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; “You could gain a lot of performance in a monolith by simply applying a little extra discipline.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain with the discipline...\nBut another point he makes really misses the mark:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Additionally, many of these stories about performance gains are actually touting the benefits of a new language or technology stack entirely\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you have microservices it allows you to use the best tool for the job for each individual service. If you have a Java monolith and you want to add new functionality that say GoLang would be better suited for, chances are you are still going to develop it in Java because it has to fit with the rest of the monolith. His example counters his claim.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Fallacy #4: Simple for Engineers\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; “A bunch of engineers working in isolated codebases leads to ‘not my problem’ syndrome.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is pretty subjective and I really think depends on culture and buy-in. Almost all these same things could be said about a well architected SOA monolith.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Fallacy #5: Better for Scalability\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; “You can scale a microservice outward just as easily as you can scale a monolith.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain his example, seems to counter his claim. Yes you could segregate the API calls to your monolith but you are still going to have the overhead of those un-used APIs. Unless you are doing some really clever dynamic loading that code is still going to be loaded into your executable package at the very least redundantly increasing RAM load, making for wasted resource utilization (which converts to real dollar and cents in the VM world). Additionally the author completely ignores any potential start-up costs of needing to load a larger monolith over a smaller microservice.","parent":"13167188","id":"13168231"}
{"by":"m_eiman","time":"1251307732","timestamp":"2009-08-26 17:28:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are such systems available, e.g. \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.se/search?q=authentication+sms+service\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.google.se/search?q=authentication+sms+service\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion the best solution for two-factor logins is password plus SMS challenge. It requires a device, but at least it's a device you most likely already have.\u003cp\u003eThe solution might not be as useful in the US with the \"pay for receiving messages\" stuff, but if the service you're loggin into is important enough (bank etc) most people might not mind.","parent":"787520","id":"787624"}
{"by":"martinced","time":"1358394642","timestamp":"2013-01-17 03:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's the fuss with multiple cursor?  Emacs has these too (of course) but seriously WTF!?\u003cp\u003eWho programs in languages so mediocre that there are repetition everywhere and that working is so repetitive that having multiple cursors actually helps?\u003cp\u003eDo you really \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c/i\u003e to enter the same thing so often that having \"multiple cursors\" makes you more productive and is considered a \"killer feature\"!?\u003cp\u003eAll I see is that if you need that you have way too much repetition in your \"code\".\u003cp\u003eI don't like repetitive stuff.  That's what computers are good for.  That's what I do as a programmer: I carefully craft my tools so that all the stupid repetitive tasks are done by my programs (or by my programmable text editor).","parent":"5069542","id":"5070830"}
{"by":"djsipe","time":"1362402690","timestamp":"2013-03-04 13:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Minimum Viable Product ;)","parent":"5317902","id":"5317993"}
{"by":"code_duck","time":"1305824937","timestamp":"2011-05-19 17:08:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, it's Twitter's service to do with as they wish. I hope they have a nice time with it. Over the last few months, they've done a great job of convincing me that I don't need Twitter as a user and that I should absolutely avoid them as a developer.","parent":"2564385","id":"2564611"}
{"by":"spdustin","time":"1456876635","timestamp":"2016-03-01 23:57:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it just me, or are news sites seemingly allergic to actually linking out to the companies profiles in stories such as this? I mean, yeah, I can GoogleDuckBing YourMechanic, but is a little external HREF action too hot to handle? \u0026quot;nofollow\u0026quot; is a thing, they don\u0026#x27;t have to give it up by linking out.","parent":"11204179","id":"11207167"}
{"by":"mrks_","time":"1439915688","timestamp":"2015-08-18 16:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think calling Ubuntu \u003ci\u003eon par\u003c/i\u003e with OS X is a stretch. Not that it\u0026#x27;s that far, but I\u0026#x27;ve had many more stability issues with the LTS versions of Ubuntu than with Mavericks or even Yosemite.\u003cp\u003eI agree, though, that sticking to Ubuntu or Fedora for new users is a great idea. They are both excellent operating systems with regard to simplicity.","parent":"10079774","id":"10080175"}
{"by":"tomchristie","time":"1417441581","timestamp":"2014-12-01 13:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure at the moment, we\u0026#x27;ll see once the remaining bits of the kickstarter work (releases 3.1 and 3.2) are done and released.","parent":"8680859","id":"8680873"}
{"by":"amackera","time":"1258742402","timestamp":"2009-11-20 18:40:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know what it looked like before, but this looks good!","parent":"952970","id":"952977"}
{"by":"krylon","time":"1508247312","timestamp":"2017-10-17 13:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel kind of sheepish to admit that \u0026quot;Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language\u0026quot; had a huge impact on me and caused me to avoid Pascal until I was forced to deal with it because a coworker quit and dropped maintenance of an in-house application in my lap.\u003cp\u003eI was happy to realize that most of the criticism in that essay no longer applies to relatively recent versions of the language\u0026#x2F;IDE (Delphi 7 in my case).\u003cp\u003eOne huge advantage if Pascal is that it is very easy to read; the code does not look or feel pretty, but it is so easy to read I could get an idea of what was going on without any prior knowledge of Pascal within a few hours.\u003cp\u003eKeywords not being case-sensitive felt weird at first, but one gets used to it very quickly.","parent":"15490345","id":"15490735"}
{"by":"jallardice","time":"1381753705","timestamp":"2013-10-14 12:28:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a link to the GitHub repository which I believe is all that is currently available. You can clone the repo (or download an archive of it) and install the platform from that.","parent":"6546805","id":"6546808"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1442617995","timestamp":"2015-09-18 23:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What would \u0026#x27;banning bitcoin\u0026#x27; even mean? All that is required is the computation of a number and its transmission to the blockchain.  It\u0026#x27;s impossible to block such a message without blocking all other communications.\u003cp\u003eGovernment \u003ci\u003eprohibition\u003c/i\u003e of an act rarely involves \u003ci\u003eblocking\u003c/i\u003e all instances of the act (in fact, if the government \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e effectively make an act impossible, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003eneed\u003c/i\u003e to prohibit it.)\u003cp\u003eSo the question here just seems to miss the entire \u003ci\u003eidea\u003c/i\u003e of legal prohibitions.","parent":"10237575","id":"10242567"}
{"by":"tome","time":"1545220631","timestamp":"2018-12-19 11:57:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you exit the commit message editor so that it retuns a non-zero exit code to git then nothing is committed and nothing is staged.","parent":"18712466","id":"18715024"}
{"by":"clarkm","time":"1390708612","timestamp":"2014-01-26 03:56:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes it\u0026#x27;s outrageous, but why compare this to Europe? Hidalgo County is right on the border, and if this would\u0026#x27;ve happened just a few miles south (in Mexico) it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be too far out of the ordinary. Some parts of the US seem to operate a lot more like our neighbor to the south than like the ones across the pond.","parent":"7123686","id":"7123800"}
{"by":"interfixus","time":"1493405357","timestamp":"2017-04-28 18:49:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, and POP, yes, in them olden days of yore.","parent":"14221976","id":"14222016"}
{"by":"j_baker","time":"1374091180","timestamp":"2013-07-17 19:59:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think those are two separate issues.  I think the key difference is public support.  Once all the facts about the NSA have come out, I think the public will be against what the NSA is doing. Bush\u0026#x27;s torture program divided the country more, and I suspect it\u0026#x27;s largely because 9\u0026#x2F;11 isn\u0026#x27;t as fresh on our minds now.\u003cp\u003eTruthfully, I think that the torture programs are to Prism as the McCarthy Committee is to the Vietnam War.","parent":"6059617","id":"6059900"}
{"by":"wtvanhest","time":"1344524058","timestamp":"2012-08-09 14:54:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know a lot of people at major investment firms and not one of them trades HFT.  I'd assume HFT is an extremely small percentage of the overall market in terms of average position size.","parent":"4361105","id":"4361306"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1272781722","timestamp":"2010-05-02 06:28:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is about as interesting as the old \"Microsoft sucks\" circle jerks that would occur on Slashdot. I deleted my FB account six months ago and it wasn't a big deal. There are plenty of people who will continue to use FB and not care about most of these implications.","parent":"1311391","id":"1312083"}
{"by":"Tharre","time":"1507214712","timestamp":"2017-10-05 14:45:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you check that your printer isn\u0026#x27;t secretly storing your key somewhere? I\u0026#x27;ve looked for open source\u0026#x2F;open hardware printers some time ago, unsuccessfully. I\u0026#x27;ve written my main key down on paper by hand as a backup, but it\u0026#x27;s a tedious task.\u003cp\u003eAs you mentioned fire-resistance, do you also use some sort of fire resistant paper? Because I don\u0026#x27;t think anything in made of paper would survive an actual fire.","parent":"15409293","id":"15409561"}
{"by":"jameswilsterman","time":"1406630952","timestamp":"2014-07-29 10:49:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wanted 15\u0026quot; and retina","parent":"8101513","id":"8101553"}
{"by":"ulzeraj","time":"1518413022","timestamp":"2018-02-12 05:23:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember when I’ve switched to bnet ID and my tag became username#1337. People sometimes ask me if I’ve bought the name or something like that.","parent":"16356627","id":"16356729"}
{"by":"erichocean","time":"1383080686","timestamp":"2013-10-29 21:04:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why we use the term \u0026quot;fetus\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s not a baby, and it\u0026#x27;s also not \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e human. It\u0026#x27;s in an intermediate category, which is the whole reason there is a debate at all.\u003cp\u003eIMO, both positions—the fetus is \u0026quot;my body\u0026quot; and I can do what I want with it—and—the fetus is a full human being, a person, like everyone else—are disingenuous. It\u0026#x27;s okay that a fetus be neither, and that we have special rules governing that situation. A fetus doesn\u0026#x27;t have to fit into pre-existing categories.","parent":"6636204","id":"6637409"}
{"by":"brown9-2","time":"1502159014","timestamp":"2017-08-08 02:23:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you give any evidence that this is actually what occurs, that the \u0026quot;better fit\u0026quot; is not selected?","parent":"14953245","id":"14953259"}
{"by":"RyanMcGreal","time":"1273261135","timestamp":"2010-05-07 19:38:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;the Washington Post and Funny Or Die\u003cp\u003eI bet the Washington Post just loves being lumped in with Funny Or Die as a content producer. :)","parent":"1328036","id":"1328498"}
{"by":"Havoc","time":"1546522632","timestamp":"2019-01-03 13:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My friend if you think that was commentary on your value as an individual then you\u0026#x27;ve got bigger problems than chromebooks.","parent":"18814781","id":"18814954"}
{"by":"guscost","time":"1344793625","timestamp":"2012-08-12 17:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \"adorable little bird(s) struggling really hard to do something impressive\" theme is strong with both titles. That's how I read it, I guess.","parent":"4371975","id":"4373048"}
{"by":"TickleSteve","time":"1470755513","timestamp":"2016-08-09 15:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the discussion on security comes about because the problem discussed is about messaging security (or lack of) on the pacemaker itself.... not about any bugs (or lack of) in the pacemaker software.\u003cp\u003eNo layer of security is ever perfectly implemented, mathematically perfect tho the algorithms may be.... this is the key point that defence-in-depth acknowledges... and hence is the key point that obscurity addresses.\u003cp\u003eBuying time certainly does gain you a lot in this context. If someone was attempting to bypass security to get into a pacemaker in side me.... I would damn-sure prefer the apparent \u0026quot;lock\u0026quot; to be hidden rather than in plain sight! (given everything else is equal).","parent":"12254597","id":"12255066"}
{"by":"dewski","time":"1511191199","timestamp":"2017-11-20 15:19:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don’t think Tesla evaluated LIDAR at all? I’m sure they did preliminary tests to confirm or deny what they could and couldn’t do with it.\u003cp\u003eConsidering every car produced by Tesla in the last two years has Autopilot, I think their pipeline is pretty great at gathering data for every car and performing tests against the data they gather.","parent":"15740374","id":"15740460"}
{"by":"ig1","time":"1378137640","timestamp":"2013-09-02 16:00:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should have a look at:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Threat_Risk_Modeling\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.owasp.org\u0026#x2F;index.php\u0026#x2F;Threat_Risk_Modeling\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo understand the standard approaches to threat modelling.\u003cp\u003eIt should be trivial for someone to look at the documentation and quickly answer basic security questions like \u0026quot;Does it defend against replay attacks ?\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Does it leak message size ?\u0026quot;","parent":"6315642","id":"6315712"}
{"by":"AnthonyMouse","time":"1353246265","timestamp":"2012-11-18 13:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Let's see, so the party whose biggest contributor is the teachers' unions, who have presided over four decades of trapping poor minorities in failed urban schools where it's virtually impossible to fire a teacher no matter how incompetent they are is pro-education, and the party that supports school choice programs, which in the past ten or twenty years has allowed hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged children to escape from some of the worst schools in the country and actually learn something is anti-education? Good to know.\u003cp\u003eYou're kind of just proving my point. I never said the Democrats were unambiguously better for education than the Republicans. There is a uniquely Democrat disease wherein a disproportionally large share of the funds are required to go to \"special needs\" students where \"special needs\" includes learning disabilities but doesn't include gifted students. At the same time, I don't care what you think about school choice, the party that wants to stop teaching evolution in biology is inherently anti-education.\u003cp\u003eBut suppose the Republicans got on the right side for both issues: Keep pushing for selection-based outcomes and school choice, and then teach the students how that process actually works in science class. If nothing else it would reduce the amount of cognitive dissonance necessary to become a Republican.","parent":"4797513","id":"4800560"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1425222301","timestamp":"2015-03-01 15:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"[Note: if you add two spaces at the beginning of each line, it will look like code:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  import os \n  import random \n  def do_something(x):\n    if x:\n      fd = os.open(x)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nNote2: If one line with two spaces is too long, it will mess the whole thread, so if you ever want to quote use \u003ci\u003eitalics\u003c/i\u003e instead of spaces.]","parent":"9127139","id":"9127236"}
{"by":"AdmiralBeotch","time":"1285418393","timestamp":"2010-09-25 12:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I completely agree with this... Your excitement will be renewed 10 fold by the excitement you see when tutoring the next generation of nerds. Nothing beats seeing the lightbulb flip on when an 8 year old \"gets\" binary math or writes their first program under your guidance. Nothing.","parent":"1726761","id":"1726849"}
{"by":"SEJeff","time":"1462548755","timestamp":"2016-05-06 15:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the last landing, Elon said (on twitter), that the ASDS can list up to 8% and the rocket can still land or stay upright.","parent":"11642810","id":"11644634"}
{"by":"melted","time":"1443591902","timestamp":"2015-09-30 05:45:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$140K and \u0026quot;falcon wing\u0026quot; doors only in the back. Epic fail. They seem like an afterthought that way. Sure, you can open them in tight spaces, but you won\u0026#x27;t be able to get into the car because the front door is basically the same as any other car door. Why bother with the back doors then?","parent":"10301739","id":"10302020"}
{"by":"ryanwaggoner","time":"1295959795","timestamp":"2011-01-25 12:49:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, just my bad...it was too late to delete the comment. You guys are doing great, keep up the good work :)","parent":"2137817","id":"2138847"}
{"by":"ubernostrum","time":"1493854182","timestamp":"2017-05-03 23:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Senators serve a term of six years.","parent":"14261069","id":"14261171"}
{"by":"fitzroy","time":"1499888481","timestamp":"2017-07-12 19:41:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to wonder if Netflix did this because a lot of their original or exclusive content seems to debut to mediocre star ratings. When the new system says \u0026quot;x% match\u0026quot; I assume that value is derived more from genre match or search relevance than whether I\u0026#x27;ll actually like it or not.","parent":"14755189","id":"14755902"}
{"by":"ce4","time":"1392020032","timestamp":"2014-02-10 08:13:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This app already exists since around 2009 and it\u0026#x27;s called\n\u0026quot;Don\u0026#x27;t push the red button\u0026quot;:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dont-push-the-red-button!/id330560517?mt=8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;dont-push-the-red-button!\u0026#x2F;id...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7209532","id":"7209746"}
{"by":"dom0","time":"1479591071","timestamp":"2016-11-19 21:31:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Reminds me of the Tyrell Corporation building in Blade Runner.\u003cp\u003eReminds me of the building Tyrell and Elliot look at in Mr Robot, the \u0026quot;belly of the beast\u0026quot; building. Maybe that\u0026#x27;s because the two \u003ci\u003eare the same building\u003c/i\u003e :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;33_Thomas_Street\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;33_Thomas_Street\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; As it was built to house telephone switching equipment, the average floor height is 18 feet (5.5 meters), considerably taller than in an average high-rise. The floors are also unusually strong, designed to carry 200 to 300 pound per square foot (10–15 kPa) live loads.\u003cp\u003eGood conditions to retrofit a data\u0026#x2F;processing center\u003cp\u003eThe description of the building and it\u0026#x27;s brutalist architecture are also remniscient of the machine building described in \u003ci\u003eThe Difference Engine\u003c/i\u003e (Gibson).","parent":"12995755","id":"12995801"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1520944480","timestamp":"2018-03-13 12:34:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Suppose your system has 10,000 network connections open but two cores.\u003cp\u003eFor each of those network connections, your program needs to retain some state for what it is doing.\u003cp\u003eThere are various places to put the state. You \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e put the state in a callstack and use blocking IO, but then you have to have one process per connection, which has quite a high minimum memory overhead.\u003cp\u003eSo people have developed a lot of frameworks which keep (connection,program) state in various ways and use the operating system\u0026#x27;s asynchronous frameworks, so you \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e have two worker processes handling thousands of connections.","parent":"16575387","id":"16575586"}
{"by":"bergoid","time":"1529660707","timestamp":"2018-06-22 09:45:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not too much of a stretch to describe 9\u0026#x2F;11 as an act of war.","parent":"17372542","id":"17372722"}
{"by":"tieTYT","time":"1421778514","timestamp":"2015-01-20 18:28:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting theory.  What prevents other sites from scraping SO posts?  If the answer is \u0026quot;nothing\u0026quot;, that suggests it\u0026#x27;s just a matter of time until it\u0026#x27;s just as bad.  Right?","parent":"8918298","id":"8918515"}
{"by":"stadeschuldt","time":"1536589568","timestamp":"2018-09-10 14:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coming from Python I like Pelican a lot. It also looks like there is an active development going on: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;getpelican\u0026#x2F;pelican\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;getpelican\u0026#x2F;pelican\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am still wondering, why the last release was made over 18 month ago.","parent":"17951984","id":"17952011"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1519602411","timestamp":"2018-02-25 23:46:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, no, you\u0026#x27;re not \u0026quot;f--ked\u0026quot;, there\u0026#x27;s just a pile of boilerplate.  Not fun - and likely not worth it for the marginal benefit of being able to reuse + that way - but plenty possible.\u003cp\u003eAnd for what it\u0026#x27;s worth, I certainly agree that the way Num is structured is a wart in Haskell, and I think the previous two commenters agree.  It\u0026#x27;s just that we should be clear about where the blame lies - and that\u0026#x27;s not the type system.","parent":"16457712","id":"16461935"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1507141645","timestamp":"2017-10-04 18:27:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, and then teardown the mobile app used to see the photos.","parent":"15402892","id":"15402974"}
{"by":"citricsquid","time":"1307342620","timestamp":"2011-06-06 06:43:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that isn't his real account, some of \"his\" latest tweets:  \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/GALIFlANAKIS/status/77450156102004736\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://twitter.com/#!/GALIFlANAKIS/status/77450156102004736\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/GALIFlANAKIS/status/77620921766129664\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://twitter.com/#!/GALIFlANAKIS/status/77620921766129664\u003c/a\u003e real account: \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/GALIFIANAKISZ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://twitter.com/#!/GALIFIANAKISZ\u003c/a\u003e they're using different letters and case. I = l, i = L","parent":"2623907","id":"2623926"}
{"by":"coldpie","time":"1457018079","timestamp":"2016-03-03 15:14:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Valve has developed and supports the OpenVR platform[1], which is designed to allow different hardware on the backend. Rift\u0026#x2F;Facebook seems to be primarily pushing a closed platform with exclusives. Playstation VR is obviously Playstation-only. Make your purchasing decisions accordingly.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ValveSoftware\u0026#x2F;openvr\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ValveSoftware\u0026#x2F;openvr\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11215779","id":"11217268"}
{"by":"coder543","time":"1542913540","timestamp":"2018-11-22 19:05:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why go back?","parent":"18511746","id":"18511845"}
{"by":"Malician","time":"1378676153","timestamp":"2013-09-08 21:35:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No reasonable person would intentionally give up their house, paid off, for a tax bill of $134, many years or not.\u003cp\u003eThe number of people this is happening to and (one third of them over a bill less than $1,000) suggest that something about the process is screwed up.","parent":"6350101","id":"6350457"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1449688583","timestamp":"2015-12-09 19:16:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, but it should work in the reverse too.  Just as there are ways to grind through the data and find non-obvious signals \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c/i\u003e an employee, there should be the same for signals \u003ci\u003ein favor of\u003c/i\u003e an employee.\u003cp\u003eAnd there should be just as much incentive for big data techniques to help identify undervalued employees.  For example, I\u0026#x27;m sure you can find a separation between \u0026quot;vagrants who can code\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;vagrants who can\u0026#x27;t\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e(An old-school example of such an insight would be early-GEICO\u0026#x27;s discovery that, \u0026quot;Hey, government employees have more reliable income than others\u0026#x27;.  So they\u0026#x27;re not as risky.  We can use that!\u0026quot; So I heard.)","parent":"10702801","id":"10706007"}
{"by":"drinian","time":"1230901057","timestamp":"2009-01-02 12:57:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to say, Android's sandboxed environment could be a big step up from the home-grown Linux sandboxes that Asus et al. currently ship with their netbooks.","parent":"417158","id":"417292"}
{"by":"nkkollaw","time":"1502997338","timestamp":"2017-08-17 19:15:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A little expensive IMHO.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve dropped the iPhone a little more than a year ago. I got a Y6II for $179. Perfect performance, but didn\u0026#x27;t like Huawei\u0026#x27;s tweaks to Android.\u003cp\u003eI just got a Moto G5 Plus with nearly-stock Android and it\u0026#x27;s the best phone I\u0026#x27;ve ever owned, and I paid only EUR 280 for it.","parent":"15037960","id":"15039915"}
{"by":"chewxy","time":"1475481177","timestamp":"2016-10-03 07:52:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually meant democratizing the network effect that Medium has. The \u0026quot;free marketing\u0026quot; bit.\u003cp\u003eI mean, right now one can pretty freely go write up a blog using self-hosted wordpress, octopress, pelican, hugo or whatever. But choosing that over Medium can sometimes mean a lot more work to put in. But if we can democratize the ease-of-use and the good bits of Medium\u0026#x2F;Facebook\u0026#x2F;Twitter... Maciej\u0026#x27;s end statement about \u0026quot;using open standards, write text in text, images in images\u0026quot; would have been achieved.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that corporations now create a significantly more compelling version (in most criteria - UX, UI, etc) of the Free and Open versions out there.","parent":"12625775","id":"12625938"}
{"by":"DrewHintz","time":"1271898442","timestamp":"2010-04-22 01:07:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dreamhost also repeatedly shut down my sites, such as mapwow.com, due to too much traffic. One time they even denied they shut it down -- even though my web directory had been chowned to root, which requires root privilege.\u003cp\u003eI moved to slicehost and appengine[disclaimer,etc] and have been relatively happy with them.","parent":"1283485","id":"1283741"}
{"by":"tzhenghao","time":"1537946476","timestamp":"2018-09-26 07:21:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Acquired[0] - very good coverage on recent tech acquisitions + IPOs\u003cp\u003e2. Knowledge Project podcast[1]\u003cp\u003e3. Amp Hour[2] - I worked with Chris Gammell previously at a tech startup in Chicago. Pretty cool dude.\u003cp\u003e[0] - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.acquired.fm\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.acquired.fm\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fs.blog\u0026#x2F;the-knowledge-project\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fs.blog\u0026#x2F;the-knowledge-project\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;theamphour.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;theamphour.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18073169","id":"18073508"}
{"by":"ews","time":"1211795051","timestamp":"2008-05-26 09:44:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think about marrying an european as well","parent":"200050","id":"200101"}
{"by":"DeanCollinsLCC","time":"1321139062","timestamp":"2011-11-12 23:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're not the only one - this idea has been done before, google \"The Third Voice\" for the details.\u003cp\u003eit was apretty big deal back in 1999 - \u003ca href=\"http://blog.collins.net.pr/2011/11/httphypothesis.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.collins.net.pr/2011/11/httphypothesis.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3229012","dead":true,"id":"3229198"}
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{"by":"epistasis","time":"1444093005","timestamp":"2015-10-06 00:56:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt HP is losing a dime on their switch pricing, unless HP is even less efficient than I expect them to be. Other vendors beat HP handily on price with identical hardware specs. Cisco has gotten fat on ridiculous margins, and it\u0026#x27;s doubtful that they will be able to survive in a marketplace where merchant silicon drives commodity switches.","parent":"10336092","id":"10336124"}
{"by":"ryandamm","time":"1495036516","timestamp":"2017-05-17 15:55:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In traffic, you have to look at both throughput and carrying capacity. Traffic jams usually result when the carrying capacity gets strained, not throughput. (The throughput of stop-and-go traffic is lower than the throughput of 70 mph traffic, but the road can carry more cars in total, so that equilibrium dominates when the load coming from surface streets exceeds some threshold.)","parent":"14359172","id":"14359692"}
{"by":"blhack","time":"1295051162","timestamp":"2011-01-15 00:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh come on.  My completely non-technical boss looked at me a while ago and said \"We should get a barracuda spam filter.\"\u003cp\u003eWhy?  Why does he even know what this is?  Why does he even know that spam filters exist?\u003cp\u003eBecause barracuda has their ads all over every airport I've ever been in.\u003cp\u003eThe same goes for cisco.  If I put in a request for funding for some network gear, my boss wants to feel like he knows a bit about what I'm spending money on.  Cisco helps him feel that way.  When he signs off on it, he gets a warm fuzzy because the television told him that cisco gear is the best gear and cisco gear is what he \u003ci\u003eneeds\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eHe might even object if I told him that we're going to get juniper stuff instead of cisco because juniper doesn't have ads on the TV and he's never heard of them.  What are they, some \u003ci\u003egeneric\u003c/i\u003e brand?  No!  WE need cisco!","parent":"2105769","id":"2105987"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1453391705","timestamp":"2016-01-21 15:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Driving is a privilege. People agree to certain rules when they start driving. According to the states this is one of the rules. If you don\u0026#x27;t want to play, don\u0026#x27;t drive. And that\u0026#x27;s exactly what they do. If you refuse, they won\u0026#x27;t charge you with criminal offense necessarily, but instead take your privilege to drive and impose a civil fine.\u003cp\u003eThat is a bit different than rape as far as I see, but I guess you don\u0026#x27;t see it that way.\u003cp\u003eYou are also voluntarily giving up freedoms when you sign up for the military or get a security clearance. You can try to claim free speech for divulging state secrets, but you\u0026#x27;ll still go to jail, because you signed a contract to that effect.","parent":"10945662","id":"10946027"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1461147557","timestamp":"2016-04-20 10:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tesla has a problem where they don\u0026#x27;t have the cash on hand to build that production line quickly, nor have the equipment on site or people trained to use it for the capacity they will need.\u003cp\u003eBMW\u0026#x27;s i3 and i8 are both attempts at not only testing electrification but beyond that they went after materials testing and packaging. As in, the i3 was a moon shot in materials technology and its battery pack is actually quite serviceable.\u003cp\u003eWhile I know everyone loves to toot the Tesla horn the real problem that hit the other car makers was GM. GM because showed what having established relationship with suppliers and a wealth of in house knowledge can do in short order. GM is bringing a 200+ mile range EV to the market THIS YEAR, not late 2017, 2018 or whenever.\u003cp\u003eThat car, the Bolt, has basically obsoleted every sub 100 and even sub 120 range EV over night. GM\u0026#x27;s supposed battery costs are lower than projections from Tesla\u0026#x27;s gigafactory","parent":"11533087","id":"11533343"}
{"by":"jcurbo","time":"1320763449","timestamp":"2011-11-08 14:44:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't use Arch personally, but I have found that every time I've looked for documentation on something lately (like setting up xmonad), I would be directed to the Arch wiki and forums quite a bit.  They seem to have a good community going on over there.","parent":"3210287","id":"3210875"}
{"by":"mastre_","time":"1477600984","timestamp":"2016-10-27 20:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I posted in another thread, I think it may actually be fine to have a different \u0026quot;feel\u0026quot; (touch vs physical) for escape, which is a very special key for us vim users (assuming you don\u0026#x27;t have it remapped).","parent":"12809688","id":"12809865"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1384195663","timestamp":"2013-11-11 18:47:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please tell me that \u0026quot;Performance Cloud Servers\u0026quot; are not the official response to the issue of normal servers being created \u003ci\u003every slooooowwwwly\u003c/i\u003e... The time spent in BUILDING is really annoying. Are you planning to improve those?","parent":"6713028","id":"6713171"}
{"by":"thawab","time":"1465853031","timestamp":"2016-06-13 21:23:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you need to do that because mobile won\u0026#x27;t autoplay video. A lot of landingpages use a gaming framework to do it.","parent":"11897117","id":"11897781"}
{"by":"RandVal30142","time":"1502820551","timestamp":"2017-08-15 18:09:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Bluntly the newsies want violence, dead people\u003cp\u003eThe Nazis do. This is why they stabbed people in Seattle, this is why they called it a war, this is why one of them ran down civil demonstrators.","parent":"15018960","id":"15020760"}
{"by":"throwawaykf05","time":"1416048878","timestamp":"2014-11-15 10:54:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Letting IE stagnate is different from holding back \u0026quot;ideas! concepts!\u0026quot; because Firefox (free software) and Opera were still around to pick up the slack. Sure, it caused (and still does) a lot of pain to web developers to make cross-browser compatible webpages, but that\u0026#x27;s not the same as \u0026quot;holding back ideas\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e2. Note also that vendor prefixes always were and are still a thing, so it\u0026#x27;s not just IE that had \u0026quot;non-compliant\u0026quot; features. Adding non-compliant features and then working them into the standards seems to be the natural way web technologies advance.\u003cp\u003eEspecially with Opera in mind, I recall many new features being added to browsers regardless of IE\u0026#x27;s stagnation. Sure, they were not \u003ci\u003ewidely used\u003c/i\u003e because the then-dominant IE didn\u0026#x27;t have them, but that didn\u0026#x27;t prevent Opera and Firefox from adding them. So, unless you conflate \u0026quot;experimentation and advancement\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;widespread adoption\u0026quot;, I would disagree that IE held back experimentation and advancement of web technologies.","parent":"8602169","id":"8611426"}
{"by":"kodr","time":"1418044505","timestamp":"2014-12-08 13:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; in case i share a file which would infect a Windows box?\u003cp\u003eyes, that\u0026#x27;s what I meant.","parent":"8716219","id":"8716229"}
{"by":"blhack","time":"1511717852","timestamp":"2017-11-26 17:37:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With a normal call, you follow typical social conventions of:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ering\u003c/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ering\u003c/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ering\u003c/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ering\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003epickup\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Hello\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Hey Morsch, what time are you doing $foo task by today?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Probably 6:30pm.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Okay thanks.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Do you need anything else?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;No, that\u0026#x27;s it, I\u0026#x27;ll talk to you later.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Alright bye.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;bye\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ehangup\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith PTT, there is a social convention surrounding it too that allows you to be much more abbreviated without coming across as rude:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003echirp\u003c/i\u003e (being talking immediately and assume that morsch hears you\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;MOrsch you out there?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Yeah what\u0026#x27;s up?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;What time are you doing $foo\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;6:30\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Thanks.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eend\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003ePTT occupied a space between a phone call and an SMS\u0026#x2F;email.  It was like SMS, but urgent, and you didn\u0026#x27;t need to pick up your phone and \u003ci\u003etype\u003c/i\u003e a response.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s the same reason logistics, stage production, building, etc. all use walkie-talkies instead of phones or SMS.\u003cp\u003ePTT was that sort of goodness, but it was global.","parent":"15781668","id":"15781979"}
{"by":"cJ0th","time":"1493069044","timestamp":"2017-04-24 21:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a long time Internet user I could actually imagine myself becoming passionate about \u0026quot;Make The Internet Fast Again\u0026quot;. I wonder how one would start a career in that direction. It\u0026#x27;s a bit of a dilemma: In order to build fast modern websites you probably need to know how to build horrible modern websites. And I can\u0026#x27;t really motivate myself to imitate horrendous websites just for kicks. In fact, I stopped creating websites when jQuery wasn\u0026#x27;t enough anymore. In other words, more than ten years ago... It\u0026#x27;s not that I shun more recent technologies, I am willing to learn. I just don\u0026#x27;t want to create Frankensteinish websites first.\u003cp\u003eAny tips for a more direct path towards website optimization jobs?","parent":"14184260","id":"14188441"}
{"by":"jlgaddis","time":"1373601911","timestamp":"2013-07-12 04:05:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the GP is correct. One such question is something similar to:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;You may have opened an auto loan in January 2010. If so, how much is\u0026#x2F;was the monthly payment?\u003cp\u003eA. $0-99\nB. $100-299\nC. $300-499\nD. $500+\nE. I did not open an automobile loan in January 2010.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eInformation like that could certainly be obtained from your credit report but I doubt the DMV knows how much my car payment was.","parent":"6029784","id":"6030855"}
{"by":"tertius","time":"1509030592","timestamp":"2017-10-26 15:09:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re talking about Russia right? Not North Korea?","parent":"15559372","id":"15559509"}
{"by":"briandear","time":"1344864159","timestamp":"2012-08-13 13:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u0026#62; puts focus on the content ...\u003cp\u003eThat's the purpose of good design. Design has but one purpose, to serve the UX. That's it. Anything else is just vanity.\u003cp\u003eWhen there's an obvious focus on \"design\", then the UX is harmed. I put design in quotes because we all know what I'm talking about, design that is more about artistry than utility. Real design is much different from art. While great design can be artistic, design is all about purpose and not that nebulous \"What's the purpose of art\" type of purpose, but actual utility. Getting something done. Solving a problem.\u003cp\u003eThe Drudge Report is considered by many on the internets to be a terrible \"design\" yet it's exceptionally well designed for what it does: it allows people to get a very fast listing of headlines curated by someone with a specific point of view. The purpose is precisely clear -- it's a place to browse headlines and perhaps visit links. Going to the Yahoo page, by contrast, I'm left wondering what the heck the purpose of yahoo is. Presumably, it's a news homepage, but it's incredible badly designed because the purpose of the page isn't really clear. It looks like Yahoo hired rejected Naver (\u003ca href=\"http://www.naver.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.naver.com/\u003c/a\u003e) designers and told them to ruin the Yahoo homepage as much as possible while maximizing ad pixels.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I know I'm rambling a bit, but I think the \"look\" of wikipedia could be improved slightly, but the design (at least on the consumer facing (not the editor) side is effective. I especially appreciate the mobile version of Wikipedia. It's a constant companion while I'm out and about and it's fast, crisp and gets me the information I need.","parent":"4375296","id":"4375724"}
{"by":"lhlmgr","time":"1491313349","timestamp":"2017-04-04 13:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13977554\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13977554\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14031057","id":"14032472"}
{"by":"mapster","time":"1329546658","timestamp":"2012-02-18 06:30:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At Mixergy I feel there are 3 categories of interviews: 1) 4 hr work week - book selling hucksters, 2) valley insiders built then sold for undisclosed bank and now have new site to promote, 3) regular shmo built a business online, doing well, and has lots to share.  Andrew works very hard to cover a broad spectrum of tastes. I prefer learning from group #3, but that's me.","parent":"3604330","id":"3606091"}
{"by":"losteverything","time":"1502469623","timestamp":"2017-08-11 16:40:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But to an idiot like me, the absolute amount should go down if it is a cut; not up!\u003cp\u003eSo if i spent $500 eating lunch at work two years ago; $600 last year and plan\u0026#x2F;allocated $610 this year i had a \u0026quot;budget cut?\u0026quot;  no. I spent more.\u003cp\u003eThats how i think","parent":"14991492","id":"14991642"}
{"by":"m_st","time":"1501827225","timestamp":"2017-08-04 06:13:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Original post from 3 months ago:  \n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14326913\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14326913\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14925517","id":"14926697"}
{"by":"mjfern","time":"1286763317","timestamp":"2010-10-11 02:15:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is the timeline: USB 1.0 was released in January 1996. Windows 98 launched in May/June 1998. Windows 98 was the first MSFT OS with native USB support. The first iMac was launched in August 1998. USB 1.1 was released in September 1998.\u003cp\u003eAccording to a June 1998 CNET article titled \"Peripherals to surge with Win 98,\" Rob Bennett, group product manager of Windows 98 stated: \"There will be a pretty impressive showing of peripherals this summer..There are 250 devices due to be launched around Windows 98 and 100 in development [to be] released in the next year...\"\u003cp\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/Peripherals-to-surge-with-Win-98/2100-1001_3-212671.html#ixzz1212GMjKK\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.cnet.com/Peripherals-to-surge-with-Win-98/2100-1...\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eLooking through Google news archives for 1998, I see the following devices with USB support: Logitech scanners, Intel video cameras (\"Create and Share\"), Imation and Iomega high capacity drives, Kodak digital cameras, joysticks, modems, etc.\u003cp\u003eHence, there was a collection of PC peripherals supporting USB around the time of the Windows 98 launch (in May/June) and the iMac launch later in the year (August).","parent":"1778193","id":"1778543"}
{"by":"72deluxe","time":"1390581384","timestamp":"2014-01-24 16:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Early releases of Mac OSX were pretty bad. Pretty, but pretty bad too. (Too many uses of the word \u0026quot;pretty\u0026quot;?)","parent":"7115552","id":"7115755"}
{"by":"tunesmith","time":"1380394605","timestamp":"2013-09-28 18:56:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s funny because you can write a deck to help you learn concepts of critical thinking.  Necessity, Sufficiency, Contributory Causes; Propositional Logic, Predicate\u0026#x2F;First-Order, Modal... the deck won\u0026#x27;t TEACH you critical thinking, but it will make it much easier for you to learn it.","parent":"6462232","id":"6462723"}
{"by":"aresant","time":"1527782493","timestamp":"2018-05-31 16:01:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gates \u0026amp; Buffet are right.\u003cp\u003eAs an \u0026quot;Asset Class\u0026quot; - which this article makes principle - cryptocurrency is absolute insanity.\u003cp\u003eBut having a trustless, semi-distributed, potentially anonymous, and global currency that we can send to anybody in the world via the internet in a few seconds - or even via an offline mesh network - is an incredible, exciting innovation.\u003cp\u003eAnd the sad thing is that point is of course not lost on Gates who - buried far under the lead - \u0026quot;touted its ability to push out third-party intermediaries, such as banks, while also keeping a secure and permanent record of transactions between two parties.\u0026quot;","parent":"17197009","id":"17197338"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1496873310","timestamp":"2017-06-07 22:08:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ebecause it sidesteps all the issues of politics and ego\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAKA the reasons why it\u0026#x27;s a people problem.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe should strive to make teachers be able to teach more children and teach them better\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re comparing apples to oranges. Agriculture does not \u0026quot;strive.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAll in all this sounds like pie-in-the-sky thinking. The science I\u0026#x27;ve seen says larger class sizes do not result in better outcomes, do you have anything that contradicts that? Anything demonstrating even a clear benefit from technology in the classroom? Anything about scaling? That is, is what you\u0026#x27;re proposing anything more than imaginary?","parent":"14509006","id":"14510246"}
{"by":"MrDutton","time":"1313985975","timestamp":"2011-08-22 04:06:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This guy is really missing the point. Fixed costs aren't just overhead - they're \u003ci\u003efixed\u003c/i\u003e. Even if you decided to stop selling, you'll likely still be paying them (e.g. a lease on a building). If times are tough, it still makes sense to sell below cost \u003ci\u003ebut above variable cost\u003c/i\u003e to reduce the sting of the fixed costs. If you want more details, read a micro 101 textbook.","parent":"2911029","id":"2911252"}
{"by":"mlevental","time":"1524945179","timestamp":"2018-04-28 19:52:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"basically everything south of williamsburgh and east of parkslope is like 1\u0026#x2F;4-1\u0026#x2F;3 of manhattan costs. as i wrote in response to the person living in UWS: the only difference is the average skin tone.","parent":"16947940","id":"16949157"}
{"by":"tel","time":"1382614598","timestamp":"2013-10-24 11:36:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the non-Haskeller audience, let me just copy the money quotes. This tutorial eventually shows how we can write the following Python\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026gt; str = \u0026#x27;[{\u0026quot;someObject\u0026quot; : { \u0026quot;version\u0026quot; : [1, 0, 0] }}]\u0026#x27;\n    \u0026gt; it = json.loads(str)\n    \u0026gt; it[0][\u0026quot;someObject\u0026quot;][\u0026quot;version\u0026quot;][1]\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nas the following Haskell\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026#x27;[{\u0026quot;someObject\u0026quot; : { \u0026quot;version\u0026quot; : [1, 0, 0] }}]\u0026#x27; ^? \n        nth 0 . key \u0026quot;someObject\u0026quot; . key \u0026quot;version\u0026quot; . nth 1\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nwhile keeping type safety, composability, and purity. That\u0026#x27;s the wonderful part. The rest is explaining a lot of how the magic works via Maybe monad chaining and thinking about what Lenses and Prisms are.","parent":"6604119","id":"6604608"}
{"by":"pickofpolitics","time":"1445878388","timestamp":"2015-10-26 16:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, anyone have any comments?","parent":"10452446","dead":true,"id":"10452626"}
{"by":"adamisntdead","time":"1523315374","timestamp":"2018-04-09 23:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would also have to recommend \u0026quot;Quantum Mechanics, The Theoretical Minimum\u0026quot; by Leonard Susskind, if you wish to go a little bit further into general quantum mechanics","parent":"16797754","id":"16797787"}
{"by":"endymi0n","time":"1540908923","timestamp":"2018-10-30 14:15:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Had a thought about it the other day. I think the easiest way forward would be a full scale attack on the quality side. There\u0026#x27;s a lot of people who wouldn\u0026#x27;t mind paying a few bucks more for something that\u0026#x27;s actually _good_. Get a subset of players on board, try to own a niche they\u0026#x27;re weak in (like Amazon started out with books) and then rigorously throw anything out that doesn\u0026#x27;t adhere to the platform\u0026#x27;s standards - the USP is that whatever you buy, it\u0026#x27;s stellar, and then you start getting exclusive deals and dry Amazon out (because a lot of sellers are tired of them too). Makes for some good PR, as everyone should be able to relate to that story. Unfortunately, it\u0026#x27;s really hard entering a two sided market with an established player as big as Amazon and will probably take lots of capital. Maybe it\u0026#x27;s actually easier to pivot one of the remaining e-commerce giants into that kind of company.","parent":"18336267","id":"18336622"}
{"by":"byoung2","time":"1252426603","timestamp":"2009-09-08 16:16:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brightstorm (\u003ca href=\"http://www.brightstorm.com)recently\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.brightstorm.com)recently\u003c/a\u003e raised $6 million in Series A for a similar concept.  I think the educational video online sector is really starting to heat up.  I'm still not completely sold on the YouTube for school concept...there needs to be an added element of interactivity.","parent":"811268","id":"811291"}
{"by":"double0jimb0","time":"1414515971","timestamp":"2014-10-28 17:06:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And who builds the sorting systems for the USPS? The largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;wp-dyn\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2006\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;AR2006080600630.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;wp-dyn\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2006\u0026#x2F;08...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDun dun dun...","parent":"8520422","id":"8521990"}
{"by":"Polyphonie","time":"1449306177","timestamp":"2015-12-05 09:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple\u0026#x27;s best marketing are the product themselves. In fact, if you look at the money Apple spend on advertising, it pales in comparison to Samsung or even Microsoft who constantly spend almost twice as much as Apple on Ads (from 2008-2012):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;VaVQnuH.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;VaVQnuH.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10671443","id":"10681352"}
{"by":"totekp","time":"1429485508","timestamp":"2015-04-19 23:18:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps this example is what you describe? flatMap (used by the for comprehension) enables monads to combine in powerful ways. The first part shows uncorrelated X,Y such that Y ~ -X, then the second part shows correlated Y = -X such that every y = -x\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    {\n      val X: Podel[Int] = Bernoulli(p = 0.5)\n      val Y: Podel[Int] = X.map(-1 * _)\n      val Z: Podel[Int] = X + Y\n      val d: Podel[Int] = for {\n        x \u0026lt;- X\n        y \u0026lt;- Y\n        z \u0026lt;- Z\n      } yield {\n          z\n        }\n      d.hist(sampleSize = 10000, optLabel = Some(\u0026quot;Uncorrelated X, Y\u0026quot;))\n    }\n\n    {\n      val X: Bernoulli = Bernoulli(p = 0.5)\n      val d: Podel[Int] = for {\n        x \u0026lt;- X\n        y = - 1 * x\n        z = x + y\n      } yield {\n        z\n      }\n      d.hist(sampleSize = 10000, optLabel = Some(\u0026quot;y = -x\u0026quot;))\n    }\n    \u0026#x2F;*\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nUncorrelated X, Y\u003cp\u003e-1 25.52% #########################\u003cp\u003e0 49.60% #################################################\u003cp\u003e1 24.88% ########################\u003cp\u003ey = -x\u003cp\u003e0 100.00% ####################################################################################################\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     *\u0026#x2F;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSo far, the weakness I find with probability monad, and simulation, is lack of precision. This makes them useless when the probability you want to find is precise such as 5.324e-11. Only formulas can give you the answer.","parent":"9405264","id":"9405291"}
{"by":"metafunctor","time":"1252432726","timestamp":"2009-09-08 17:58:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By a \"complex\" metric, I didn't mean that the metric is necessarily complex to compute or represent.  Rather, the complexity of the metric is a measure of the breadth and complexity of the activities which have an effect on the result.\u003cp\u003eTake operating profit, for example.  It's fairly straightforward to compute (not as simple in practice as one might imagine, though), and it's just one number.  Pretty much anything going on in the company has an effect on the bottom line, in one way or another.  It's the result of complex activity.\u003cp\u003eObviously, this was a poor choice of words.  Any suggestions for a better word?","parent":"811439","id":"811487"}
{"by":"NelsonMinar","time":"1377547358","timestamp":"2013-08-26 20:02:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s hard to tell the deliberate trolls from the accidental ones sometimes.","parent":"6279097","id":"6279520"}
{"by":"joshvm","time":"1421466445","timestamp":"2015-01-17 03:47:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least with the people I know, most trivia is the sort of thing they already found on the internet. If you browse Reddit and none of your friends do, you\u0026#x27;re pretty much guaranteed to know some bizarre fact. Similarly with programs like QI, it\u0026#x27;s often quite easy to know where people get their facts from (the conversation usually ends with \u0026quot;You got that from QI didn\u0026#x27;t you?\u0026quot; \u0026quot;Yes. I did.\u0026quot;)\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand I find it incredibly difficult to shut up when someone says something wrong about computing (or usually about some current affairs topic in computing).  Don\u0026#x27;t be that guy.","parent":"8903112","id":"8903319"}
{"by":"fweespeech","time":"1439309735","timestamp":"2015-08-11 16:15:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s insane. If companies are buying ad-space, it\u0026#x27;s because they expect to get more business in return. This means that someone out there is being influenced by said ads, so that if the content cost X to put up online (hosting, funding its creation), someone is paying X+(ad company overhead) for it.\u003cp\u003eYes, and if you paid directly you\u0026#x27;d have X+(B2C payment processing overhead) which is more than B2B.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; We could pay X for the content, and not incur the overhead.\u003cp\u003eThat is really not true. Have you ever tried to support N customers instead of 20 businesses?\u003cp\u003eThere are some very major costs in providing any kind of support, even if its just for billing.\u003cp\u003eYou are simply unrealistic if you believe that ad companies have higher overhead than providing large scale customer support. I know someone who runs a [small] ad network and his overhead is a fraction of what it\u0026#x27;d cost me to run a similar subscription based model.","parent":"10041491","id":"10042187"}
{"by":"dfraser992","time":"1516458156","timestamp":"2018-01-20 14:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The main thing I picked up from the interview was the level of precision Peterson uses in thinking and discussing things - which I\u0026#x27;d expect from a university professor. I might disagree with him on a few things, but I prefer to deal with such people.\u003cp\u003eThe interviewer, however, was barely coherent and couldn\u0026#x27;t deal with that level of precision. And she kept bouncing all over the place. She was totally unprepared and kept flipping to tangents and not drilling down into one topic...\u003cp\u003eSo to proclaim her as the typical embodiment of \u0026#x27;feminism\u0026#x27; and use this as \u0026#x27;the perfect example\u0026#x27; of why feminism (or whatever you want to project onto this) is fundamentally garbage... really only reveals your prejudices. At a surface level, the quality of the discussion or conversation was poor, so this video clip really is of low informational value.\u003cp\u003eI had a conservative friend who did this sort of thing - I\u0026#x27;d try to get into the details of examining something (to try and get at the limits of a position or what caveats there are) and he\u0026#x27;d do the same BS as the interviewer (though not as badly), oversimplifying things and deriving blanket principles from contrived examples. I guess that is the difference between philosophers and ideologues.\u003cp\u003eSo I don\u0026#x27;t talk to him anymore - I got tired of the hassle and I\u0026#x27;m tired of listening to how feminism is destroying society. It isn\u0026#x27;t. Society is morphing and change always upsets conservatives, because they are so fundamentally terrified of \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c/i\u003e they can\u0026#x27;t control. Given how things are really going to go out of whack in the next few decades due to all the unstoppable changes coming, they are going to have to keep up or go extinct.","parent":"16192994","id":"16193425"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1483155747","timestamp":"2016-12-31 03:42:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eisn\u0026#x27;t that it hides performance problems or is hard to invalidate ...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e... it needs to be invalidated when any of the states that it is composed from change ...  need to have a global understanding, possibly across multiple subsystems\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e:)","parent":"13286906","id":"13289320"}
{"by":"cschmidt","time":"1367504490","timestamp":"2013-05-02 14:21:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which author? The Economist author, or Alesina, Giuliano, and Nunn, the authors of the academic study?  The Economist is just giving description of the results for a popular audience, so I don't think they have to provide serious evidence.\u003cp\u003eThe original academic article can be read here:\u003cp\u003eThe Quarterly Journal of Economics \n\u003ca href=\"http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/19/qje.qjt005.abstract\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/19/qje.q...\u003c/a\u003e\n(open access full text, at least for now)\u003cp\u003eI haven't read it, it is a peer reviewed publication, so I imagine they do have some evidence.","parent":"5644478","id":"5644596"}
{"by":"wyager","time":"1380079502","timestamp":"2013-09-25 03:25:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I think we may start to see Moore\u0026#x27;s Law starting to be applied to Solar Cells.\u003cp\u003eIt would have to be a kind of inverse Moore\u0026#x27;s law, given that you can\u0026#x27;t double beyond 100%.","parent":"6442332","id":"6442431"}
{"by":"bostonvaulter2","time":"1332529420","timestamp":"2012-03-23 19:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I wish they mentioned their business model somewhere. Without an explicit mention we need to worry that they are selling kids info, possibly including GPS location since that is obviously sent to their website.","parent":"3745934","id":"3746602"}
{"by":"robin_reala","time":"1508772320","timestamp":"2017-10-23 15:25:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, I was going by their knowledge base article titled ‘IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 setup’ where they say:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt this time Protonmail does not support IMAP\u0026#x2F;SMTP or POP3 due to the technology ProtonMail utilizes within web browsers to encrypt and decrypt your messages. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working on creative solutions to allow IMAP\u0026#x2F;SMTP use.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;protonmail.com\u0026#x2F;support\u0026#x2F;knowledge-base\u0026#x2F;imap-smtp-and-pop3-setup\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;protonmail.com\u0026#x2F;support\u0026#x2F;knowledge-base\u0026#x2F;imap-smtp-and-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15533682","id":"15533838"}
{"by":"marmaduke","time":"1533898787","timestamp":"2018-08-10 10:59:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let me guess, this can’t happen in Julia because memory is always initialized?  Sounds like a performance hit if you know what you’re doing, so maybe you can use uninitialized memory in Julia and run into the same bug.  Perhaps Julia makes it easy to use LLVM sanitizers? But you could’ve done this with your C code as well.","parent":"17731643","id":"17732219"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1506441425","timestamp":"2017-09-26 15:57:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fist cannot be banned because it is a configuration of the human hand.","parent":"15339056","id":"15339787"}
{"by":"melvinmt","time":"1414690069","timestamp":"2014-10-30 17:27:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well if you acknowledge that the names are considered European\u0026#x2F;Asian as you say yourself, and you switch up names on purpose, is it that strange that people are surprised that the person doesn\u0026#x27;t match up their name? At least your kids will have less problems with this as they have both \u0026quot;bloods\u0026quot; running through their veins.\u003cp\u003eI think the problem is with the concept of names itself, if you\u0026#x27;re aiming for true etno-neutrality.","parent":"8534028","id":"8534377"}
{"by":"rjdevereux","time":"1474402307","timestamp":"2016-09-20 20:11:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"East vs West Germany, and North vs South Korea are good examples of how different governments result in different standards of living.","parent":"12542531","id":"12542929"}
{"by":"joejohnson","time":"1331329470","timestamp":"2012-03-09 21:44:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know that they attribute the content to Wikipedia, but this seems like stealing.","parent":"3685191","id":"3686100"}
{"by":"jimmywanger","time":"1524627948","timestamp":"2018-04-25 03:45:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The simplified characters are not actually \u0026quot;remarkably different\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re incorrect. As a simple example look at the difference in the character horse between the two character systems. You might be able to sort of figure it out if you knew ahead of time what it meant. Just plopping a whole pile of text in front of you with no translation in the language you\u0026#x27;re familiar with is fairly incomprehensible.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Have you ever seen how Chinese actually write many common characters with a paper and pen?\u003cp\u003eYes, I have written some stuff in chinese and I have friends who write sloppily. The strokes are still suggested if not perfectly expressed. Have you any experience?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Orthography reforms happen in non-authoritarian countries, too.\u003cp\u003eAlthough there since it\u0026#x27;s not enforced, you end up with a plurality of languages, like India. You can change any individual language but still have to support the old way.","parent":"16918419","id":"16918501"}
{"by":"ericelliott","time":"1479073954","timestamp":"2016-11-13 21:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the correct solution to this problem in web apps.","parent":"12942581","id":"12945874"}
{"by":"jorgeleo","time":"1401672517","timestamp":"2014-06-02 01:28:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been doing consulting for years now, and this is my policy.\u003cp\u003eInvoices unpaid for more than 30 days, get a 10% late fee. Late for more than 60 days, no more work of any kind untill all invoices are paid.i work to make a living and expecting prompt payment is reasonable, not a favor\u003cp\u003eAfter last invoice paid, 30 days of free bug fixes. After that, the client had enoug time to report any problems, so anything else is goes into maintenaince fee.\u003cp\u003eIf a potential client does not agree with this terms, then it will be a client that is more expensive than what i can afford, so i reject the work and move on. Specially the manipulative ones that try to guilt trip into fixing for free whatever they want, i don\u0026#x27;t need those.\u003cp\u003eSo te question is, are you into freelancing to make money or to do favors?","parent":"7831306","id":"7831436"}
{"by":"giobox","time":"1540479963","timestamp":"2018-10-25 15:06:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. This is going to be the simplest browser extension anyone has ever written, if someone hasn’t done so already.","parent":"18300692","id":"18301438"}
{"by":"pas","time":"1528932335","timestamp":"2018-06-13 23:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s the p-value on these? How many trials were there?\u003cp\u003eWe have separate events, and we try to compare them, and use them as \u0026quot;evidence\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think the SPE is great science, but people are very easily driven by circumstances, and it\u0026#x27;ll take a lot of time to fully unpack the dynamics and ethical consequences of that.","parent":"17289129","id":"17307905"}
{"by":"mvc","time":"1411241265","timestamp":"2014-09-20 19:27:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; how hard could it be to write bash routines to download files, unpack them, install packages, etc.\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t used Gentoo for a long time but wasn\u0026#x27;t part of it\u0026#x27;s package system a nice little DSL for writing scripts that would \u0026quot;download files, unpack them, install packages, etc\u0026quot;.","parent":"8344983","id":"8345356"}
{"by":"smsm42","time":"1467418459","timestamp":"2016-07-02 00:14:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  where small, local governments were steamrolled by corporations\u003cp\u003eSteamrolled in which way? Usually these corporations enjoy some support from much bigger government - like monopoly, patent, etc. - and usually the way they \u0026quot;steamroll\u0026quot; is capturing the power local government wields and using it against the competition or the opponents.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The primary driver of this is the fact that there is just so much money out there\u003cp\u003eDo you mean the supply of money (or, to be more precise, of value expressed by money, since supply of actual fiat money is arbitrary anyway and can be made as big or small as the government wishes) is fixed? If so, this is decidedly not true.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; or even with hired security pushing around the new players.\u003cp\u003eIf by pushing around you mean violence, the only entity that can legally employ violence not in self-defense in the government. So if somebody is pushing around somebody else, either government is participating or at least abdicating their duty.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; unless you think about why the regulatory body or whatever exists in the first place.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that nobody ever provided the \u0026quot;why\u0026quot; when these bodies are created. Most of them were created \u0026quot;because we can\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;to improve quality\u0026quot; or some other similarly fake and unprovable reason. If you require tangible proof to remove regulation, should not you at least require equally tangible proof to keep or institute one? Or, even more proof?","parent":"12006995","id":"12020679"}
{"by":"mjschultz","time":"1321053316","timestamp":"2011-11-11 23:15:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I'm not saying that you wouldn't be able to do this with a web-based mail client.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, using gmail should take fewer strokes than that.  Assuming you have a keyboard shortcut to spawn a gmail window, enter will take you to the first message, and 'e' will archive that message.  Command-Q/Alt-F4 to quit.\u003cp\u003eLabels can be applied with an 'l' and the label name, next/last message is 'n'/'p'.\u003cp\u003eThe full list of keyboard shortcuts is available here: \u003ca href=\"https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt would, of course, be better if they let you customize the shortcuts and sped up the loading of the initial page.","parent":"3226449","id":"3226527"}
{"by":"eeeuo","time":"1531627112","timestamp":"2018-07-15 03:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are many situations in life where one does something that is \u0026quot;optimal\u0026quot; but factors beyond their control cause it to be unsuccessful.  Being clear-eyed and able to distinguish between luck and non-optimal strategy is an important part of improving as a person.\u003cp\u003eThere are times that changing the original strategy\u0026#x2F;task\u0026#x2F;behavior is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e the optimal thing to do, but your \u0026quot;no luck\u0026quot; world view does not allow for that possibility.","parent":"17533027","id":"17533716"}
{"by":"tudorw","time":"1301319753","timestamp":"2011-03-28 13:42:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Details on who's behind it here \u003ca href=\"http://realbusiness.co.uk/management/startup_britain_entrepreneurs_behind_it\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://realbusiness.co.uk/management/startup_britain_entrepr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2377948","id":"2378311"}
{"by":"indrax","time":"1381295806","timestamp":"2013-10-09 05:16:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If not for copyright, a magazine page could probably store a compressed copy of every cited url.\u003cp\u003eI suppose one might argue that this is an educational use. It\u0026#x27;s for future academics and has no commercial impact.","parent":"6517370","id":"6519556"}
{"by":"kwoff","time":"1505503089","timestamp":"2017-09-15 19:18:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;transformed the Chinese keyboard into a \u0026#x27;smart\u0026#x27; peripheral, much more sophisticated at taking instructions from the user than its static, rather stupid alphabetic cousin\u0026quot; - also can ensure what you type conforms to CCP dictates - see also: newspeak - pinyin ban incoming?","parent":"15253699","id":"15259947"}
{"by":"deesix","time":"1530036060","timestamp":"2018-06-26 18:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disclosure: I work on GCP\u003cp\u003eThanks for the feedback. We spoke to number of existing GCP customers for feedback, but it\u0026#x27;s fair to say we can always talk to more non-customers.","parent":"17402583","id":"17402749"}
{"by":"rdiddly","time":"1476733240","timestamp":"2016-10-17 19:40:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some consistency would be nice. If it\u0026#x27;s OK for the boss to talk about this, then bring back the Thiel piece out of flagblivion. If this is a politics-free forum, then absolutely flag the boss.\u003cp\u003ePeter Thiel funds World\u0026#x27;s Worst Startup: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;peter-thiel-donald-j-trump.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;peter-thiel-don...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12728488","id":"12728769"}
{"by":"navigatorSL","time":"1539090580","timestamp":"2018-10-09 13:09:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Portugal we sold our electric grid and production. Lol.","parent":"18174178","id":"18175602"}
{"by":"lcfcjs","time":"1462557914","timestamp":"2016-05-06 18:05:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AHH Rust! ::runs off::","parent":"11645171","dead":true,"id":"11645602"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1316531841","timestamp":"2011-09-20 15:17:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You committed a felony every day last week. Have you paid the price?\u003cp\u003eYou protest that no you didn't? Oh, you did. You may not know what the felony is, but I assure you that in this country there is no way you got through an entire week without being felonious, probably multiple times a day.\u003cp\u003eSixteenth century platitudes about breaking the law and paying the price need to be updated for a 21st century reality in which a careful reading of the law reveals that there is very nearly a law against everything, and the only thing holding society together is that we \u003ci\u003edon't\u003c/i\u003e pay the price.","parent":"3017738","id":"3017865"}
{"by":"cwyers","time":"1530908853","timestamp":"2018-07-06 20:27:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am reminded of a joke from Rowan Atkinson, pretending to be a conservative member of Parliament: \u0026quot;Now I _like_ curry, but now that we have the recipe, why do they need to stay?\u0026quot;","parent":"17472868","id":"17474848"}
{"by":"teddyh","time":"1507048189","timestamp":"2017-10-03 16:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“Growth hacking” is \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c/i\u003e creepy.","parent":"15393108","id":"15393631"}
{"by":"mrkstu","time":"1547660368","timestamp":"2019-01-16 17:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A magnitude lower- its 3 actually:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.statista.com\u0026#x2F;statistics\u0026#x2F;196630\u0026#x2F;number-of-employees-in-us-fast-food-restaurants-since-2002\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.statista.com\u0026#x2F;statistics\u0026#x2F;196630\u0026#x2F;number-of-employe...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLess than I would of thought- considering it used to be a rite of passage for many teenagers.","parent":"18922009","id":"18922913"}
{"by":"sthomps","time":"1266706498","timestamp":"2010-02-20 22:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like what you say here.  The idea of getting both testers that are familiar with services similar and getting some that are completely new offers a complete perspective of the product and its applications.  I will make sure to aim for this in our testing group.","parent":"1139434","id":"1139664"}
{"by":"citrablue","time":"1532749369","timestamp":"2018-07-28 03:42:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The counter-argument is that some authorities have always wanted to jail some people, but haven\u0026#x27;t been able to.  Capone was jailed because he was caught on tax evasion; the mechanisms to why they looked at his tax records become lost in the argument around causality, which I don\u0026#x27;t think is fruitful in this context.","parent":"17631190","id":"17631391"}
{"by":"Zev","time":"1215140044","timestamp":"2008-07-04 02:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the flip side, with all PR and no product, you dont have much either. Like you said, an idea only goes so far.  You have to have the actual implementation.\u003cp\u003eJust look at Qtrax. They had pretty good PR, but no product to sell.  So they blew their big launch and then blew their relaunch as well later on because their product didn't perform as well as PR said it would.","parent":"235662","id":"235885"}
{"by":"kh_hk","time":"1392318028","timestamp":"2014-02-13 19:00:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do not think our views on the issue contradict at all.\u003cp\u003eMaths may not relate on how you structure code, but (as I see it) an early start with a little dose of maths on understanding algorithms, may make your brain understand the elementary stuff easily, and make you think like a programmer. Are there any other introductory ways to get there? Sure, why not.\u003cp\u003eMy third paragraph was referring to what I have seen on the people that do not think as programmers. Not as a matter on how they got there, but as how they never got there.","parent":"7233038","id":"7233396"}
{"by":"beat","time":"1437408023","timestamp":"2015-07-20 16:00:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A different focus, but same basic idea. ScriptRock, too. I met the founders of both of those companies at a conference last fall, and it was really interesting. The products diverge a lot, but we all see the same fundamental problem.","parent":"9916867","id":"9916915"}
{"by":"radoye","time":"1533751839","timestamp":"2018-08-08 18:10:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, as the cloud\u0026#x2F;edge interface settles we plan to build SDKs for pulling models from iOS, GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux through Swift, Python and C#.\u003cp\u003eLet me check your repo.","parent":"17717990","id":"17718050"}
{"by":"jedunnigan","time":"1430189448","timestamp":"2015-04-28 02:50:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you ever have quality issues with the splitter, check out this product, works like a charm (but a bit pricey): \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hdfury.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hdfury.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9449845","id":"9450355"}
{"by":"Lightning","time":"1369150862","timestamp":"2013-05-21 15:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you planning on adding PayPal integration?","parent":"5743868","id":"5744413"}
{"by":"sfk","time":"1427454544","timestamp":"2015-03-27 11:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In realtime?","parent":"9275567","id":"9275577"}
{"by":"bborud","time":"1321197297","timestamp":"2011-11-13 15:14:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand what you are trying to say.\u003cp\u003eOn one hand you are saying that most projects you have worked on end up creating their own language, usually as some kind of DSL.  Then you argue that the way to counter this is to ... give people more tools to craft DSLs.\u003cp\u003eSo what are you trying to say?\u003cp\u003ePS: you seem to make a lot of assumptions about me based on ... what exactly?  I don't believe we've met and whatever you are \"in direct opposition\" to is simply a straw man you have imagined.","parent":"3216893","id":"3230883"}
{"by":"pinguinFromY","time":"1515325303","timestamp":"2018-01-07 11:41:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Physical exercises, hiking and some other sports I practice. Sport is like magic, clears my mind and helps with anxiety.\nDoing legos and playing board games.\nPlaying around in FL Studio and with my launchpad.\nI\u0026#x27;ll try to get into drawing\u0026#x2F;painting.\nKeep social networks at a minimum and just take a look in a while to see what the few distant friends I have are doing. I don\u0026#x27;t really want to delete them because they are a good source of news and other stuff you can learn.\nReading\u0026#x2F;watching everything about technical stuff, documentaries, sci fi books. Worldbuilding on stack exchange is a good source to interact with people interested in sci fi stuff.\u003cp\u003eThese are the things that keep me in a decent mental shape after writing code all day. I also play highly-tiltable multiplayer games so that affects me also.\nCryptos and some stocks are also a source of stress. I also tend to avoid spending money on things I don\u0026#x27;t really need and then regret later, it\u0026#x27;s a discipline I learned while being a poor kid.","parent":"16089846","id":"16090467"}
{"by":"ahomescu1","time":"1398127474","timestamp":"2014-04-22 00:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You can forbid people from axe murdering their neighbors. What is special about \u0026quot;being capitalistic\u0026quot; that makes it unforbiddable?\u003cp\u003eMurdering someone is an act; \u0026quot;being a capitalist\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t. Forbidding \u0026quot;being a capitalist\u0026quot; is like fighting thoughtcrime. You can forbid certain actions that seem \u0026quot;capitalist\u0026quot;, but that\u0026#x27;s not a free society anymore.\u003cp\u003eMy definition of \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; is simple: able to do anything you wish, as long as you\u0026#x27;re not hurting anyone (in general, I mean hurt physically). I\u0026#x27;ll agree that the definition of \u0026quot;hurting\u0026quot; gets complicated in practice: in a competition, the losers could claim the winners are hurting them by winning (in fact, in the economic competition we all live in, that\u0026#x27;s exactly what is happening).","parent":"7624749","id":"7625035"}
{"by":"timnuwin","time":"1413398679","timestamp":"2014-10-15 18:44:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks thoughtpalette for the feedback.  I will add that issue to the kanban developer board!\u003cp\u003e-added to the backlog card-\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.taskfort.com/view/10\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.taskfort.com\u0026#x2F;view\u0026#x2F;10\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8460704","id":"8460786"}
{"by":"Pistos2","time":"1517766568","timestamp":"2018-02-04 17:49:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Delete, or make it not findable by other normal user accounts?  How is deletion enforcable or provable?  Are government agents allowed to enter your premises or those of your data centre(s), and gain complete and unrestricted access to all physical disk media to do a full scan to prove or disprove any given allegation of failure to delete?","parent":"16301543","id":"16303785"}
{"by":"jodrellblank","time":"1263144463","timestamp":"2010-01-10 17:27:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; it isn't pervasive as we had hoped.\u003cp\u003eAs who had hoped?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; What are your thoughts with Linux on the desktop\u003cp\u003eMeccano dressed as lamb. Fun for people who like Meccano, trapped fingers for people who mistake it for a real lamb.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Are you going to use a desktop linux?\u003cp\u003eNo, I'm Windowsy by habit and day job, and while it has many teeth grittingly annoying parts, so does Linux, just different bits. Same with OS X. Developments in Trusted Computing / Palladium / DRM might drive me to a different opinion in coming years.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Would recommend the system for someone else, maybe less tech savvy?\u003cp\u003eNo chance, but that's for personal reasons to do with not wanting to become the scapegoat or go-to support guy rather than a considered evaluation of whether it would do what they want.","parent":"1041774","id":"1043318"}
{"by":"aw3c2","time":"1366924729","timestamp":"2013-04-25 21:18:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hm, it is dismissing white (and black?) while I find those colours often very important to a site's look. Think Facebook, it is white and blue.","parent":"5608942","id":"5609926"}
{"by":"Quequau","time":"1405401897","timestamp":"2014-07-15 05:24:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In sight? Yes.\nShipping to more than the original Kickstarter Backers?  Probably not.","parent":"8033872","id":"8034934"}
{"by":"ocharles","time":"1494322476","timestamp":"2017-05-09 09:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also see\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;hedgehogqa\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;hedgehogqa\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hackage.haskell.org\u0026#x2F;package\u0026#x2F;smallcheck\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hackage.haskell.org\u0026#x2F;package\u0026#x2F;smallcheck\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14298605","id":"14298692"}
{"by":"andrewvc","time":"1263176647","timestamp":"2010-01-11 02:24:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, you completely misread what I wrote. I wrote that these particular people are eating what they believe is a caveman diet, though in fact it is no more than their own wishful food fantasy, with almost no grounding in history or science.","parent":"1044136","id":"1044145"}
{"by":"senko","time":"1352033285","timestamp":"2012-11-04 12:48:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flamebait article with a lot of factual errors:\u003cp\u003eArticle confuses GNOME 3 with GNOME Shell (Linux Mint and Ubuntu both use GNOME 3 the framework). Both the UI and the framework went through a huge transition, both arguably hurt the developers and the users.\u003cp\u003eNokia's abandonement of GNOME has nothing to do with GNOME 3. SUSE was a KDE distro from the very start, years ago. Ubuntu not shipping with GNOME 3 the UI by default is less to do with GNOME Shell and more to do with Ubuntu pushing their own thing (valid strategy, but not a response to GNOME 3 mess). The only major distro to react to GNOME 3 disruption is Linux Mint - which had to do so because \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c/i\u003e Unity and Shell weren't there yet.\u003cp\u003eBack to Apple envy and \"poisonous touch\" - whoever paid attention to what's going on with GNOME development knows there was (is?) much more Web \"envy\" (or rather panic: \"it's going to render the desktop obsolete!\"). In fact, I'd say Apple in this case served as an example of an ecosystem that successfully pushed \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c/i\u003e the web and obsolesence of desktop (or rather \"native\") apps.","parent":"4739457","id":"4739631"}
{"by":"jddjdbdbd3","time":"1470505485","timestamp":"2016-08-06 17:44:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So it\u0026#x27;s flickering rapidly and slowly dimming. Perhaps it\u0026#x27;s because they are completing more of the dyson sphere.","parent":"12238860","dead":true,"id":"12239025"}
{"by":"aidenn0","time":"1544373577","timestamp":"2018-12-09 16:39:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See also \u0026quot;Nord and Bert couldn\u0026#x27;t make head nor tail of it\u0026quot; which is a wordplay only infocom game.","parent":"18638256","id":"18641706"}
{"by":"g00gler","time":"1463156326","timestamp":"2016-05-13 16:18:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s true, but what do you do for a living? I think it\u0026#x27;d be significantly harder to find a job as a developer in the middle of nowhere, it\u0026#x27;s even hard to find an interesting job in the suburbs IME.","parent":"11691120","id":"11691256"}
{"by":"serve_yay","time":"1418686295","timestamp":"2014-12-15 23:31:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shoutout to the journal that rejected the research team\u0026#x27;s findings, once for being impossible, then once for being mundane.","parent":"8751946","id":"8755103"}
{"by":"UUMMUU","time":"1429019728","timestamp":"2015-04-14 13:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bento.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bento.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e is pretty good for a list of teach-yourself-technology.\u003cp\u003eI would also check out Codeschool (although they\u0026#x27;re not free) because they have some really great classes on everything from Rails to jquery and CSS.","parent":"9374090","id":"9374223"}
{"by":"tinus_hn","time":"1536919011","timestamp":"2018-09-14 09:56:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the difference? This allows you to mutate the DOM all you want and then have it redrawn when it’s ready.","parent":"17981467","id":"17985974"}
{"by":"jkahn","time":"1294743392","timestamp":"2011-01-11 10:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's probably not the best example, as Blender was initially closed-source until the creators went bankrupt. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2091392","id":"2091589"}
{"by":"dkokelley","time":"1283278225","timestamp":"2010-08-31 18:10:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you elaborate? I'd love to see what you did, what worked, and what didn't. Did you have a website set up? Is it still up?","parent":"1650046","id":"1650294"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1510269731","timestamp":"2017-11-09 23:22:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think his plans would be an improvement because they would just make inequality even larger. I don\u0026#x27;t think we need that.","parent":"15666298","id":"15666608"}
{"by":"spooneybarger","time":"1274011593","timestamp":"2010-05-16 12:06:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ignore the morons. They will be around you everywhere in life. They will spew their hyperbole no matter what you do. Fighting them is a losing cause, just vote against them when you can. Be it by sending ihatedjanjo.com to 127.0.0.1 on your machine or voting against them when they run for political office or not watching their tv programs etc etc etc.","parent":"1351822","id":"1351882"}
{"by":"enysry","time":"1479822520","timestamp":"2016-11-22 13:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"jakarta 25 november 2016","parent":"13013868","dead":true,"id":"13014063"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1481329452","timestamp":"2016-12-10 00:24:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably not, but it\u0026#x27;s a nice thing to do. Telling everyone you\u0026#x27;re giving their gift to someone else is honestly kind of a nasty thing to do, even if it\u0026#x27;s a donation. It actually would\u0026#x27;ve been \u003ci\u003eless bad\u003c/i\u003e if they didn\u0026#x27;t tell their employees their gift was going elsewhere.","parent":"13142744","id":"13143108"}
{"by":"vowelless","time":"1507791238","timestamp":"2017-10-12 06:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The parent likely means \u0026quot;La ilaha illallah\u0026quot;. So the point it not about \u0026quot;Allah\u0026quot; (indeed \u003ci\u003emany\u003c/i\u003e cultures use that word for God -- it is derived from the semetic El). The point is instead about an inscription of the \u003ci\u003eShahada\u003c/i\u003e on the cloth of the Patriach of Russia. This would be akin to the US President wearing a garment with something along the lines of \u0026quot;God save the Queen\u0026quot; in Latin (assuming the President didn\u0026#x27;t understand Latin).","parent":"15456035","id":"15456141"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1371586779","timestamp":"2013-06-18 20:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Define \u0026quot;sweatshop\u0026quot;","parent":"5901446","id":"5901786"}
{"by":"hkmurakami","time":"1373606192","timestamp":"2013-07-12 05:16:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Welcome to the world of \u0026quot;banishment rooms\u0026quot; in Japanese companies, made for employees they\u0026#x27;d like to fire but would prefer to \u0026quot;coerce\u0026quot; into willing resignation.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/business/AJ201305300011\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ajw.asahi.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;economy\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;AJ201305300011\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot unlike the NYC school district\u0026#x27;s rubber rooms.","parent":"6030297","id":"6031049"}
{"by":"k33n","time":"1452873148","timestamp":"2016-01-15 15:52:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Is there anything more annoying than a mattress company that thinks it’s clever?\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s where I stopped reading. Yes, there are many things more annoying than people starting businesses and trying to do well for themselves.","parent":"10909572","id":"10909986"}
{"by":"drivebyacct","time":"1276012792","timestamp":"2010-06-08 15:59:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You act as if \"first movers\" ever don't get screwed by Apple. I understand that technology is constantly evolving and that by time I buy a phone, a better one is being produced, but I \u003ci\u003ecan't\u003c/i\u003e shake the feeling that Apple schedules their releases and features in ways that maximize their revenue. I suppose I can't really blame them for that. It just makes the whole thing seem less \"magical\" the way some act like Apple is just the most innovative and new company in the whole wide world.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I still can't help but laugh at this moniker of the \"post PC era\". The rest of us are still doing real work in Windows, Mac, Linux and the smartphone/tablets are accessories.","parent":"1414134","id":"1414307"}
{"by":"Normal_gaussian","time":"1475266172","timestamp":"2016-09-30 20:09:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The suggestions are repeated and clear: a woman putting herself out in public talking about her work is begging for harassment.\u003cp\u003eThis is not what is being said.\u003cp\u003eI think you have found a very small number of comments and extrapolated them to take a side on the argument you want to have.\u003cp\u003eAnd I think in doing so you are confusing the issue and hope of progression.\u003cp\u003eFirstly,  what I am seeing said in these comments and in other articles and circles is that harassment is something that happens,  something that is worse if you are seen as vulnerable,  and many suggesting that more women are seen as more vulnerable than men.\u003cp\u003eAs a response to that a lot of people are suggesting that perhaps vulnerable people should use pen names.  The response to this is that pen names hamper the point of writing.\u003cp\u003eNowhere have I seen serious claims that they were \u0026quot;begging for harassment\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eWhat I have seen are people who receive hate simply for \u0026#x27;being ginger\u0026#x27; in photo\u0026#x27;s on Reddit.  People who are harassed and followed in the street for being obese or mentally ill.  People who are teased and chased or excluded for being weaker or slower.  People who receive hate for making political comments on Facebook or twitter.  I have seen these people have real  problems with those that harass them following and abusing them from site to site,  stripping them of their self-worth.\u003cp\u003eThese are the things I am not OK with.\u003cp\u003eI am also not OK with you marginalising the problems of others (which in this case appears to be any vulnerable person sporting a penis).","parent":"12614548","id":"12614971"}
{"by":"neilkinnish","time":"1375523429","timestamp":"2013-08-03 09:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi this is a known bug that affects many apps on the Mac - we have written about it in the FAQ\u0026#x27;s on the site and also in the GitHub repo.\u003cp\u003eIf you re-boot your machine that generally sorts it out, we think it is caused by machines with dual GFX cards and dynamic switching.","parent":"6151624","id":"6151635"}
{"by":"benbreen","time":"1519162553","timestamp":"2018-02-20 21:35:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u003ci\u003eoverall\u003c/i\u003e historical narrative that he presents, about specific factors like capital punishment and infant mortality, is generally valid. But Pinker\u0026#x27;s use of historical evidence is at least as flawed as the issues with his statistics. \u003ci\u003eBetter Angels\u003c/i\u003e literally appears to be based on a group of research assistants, without archival training, being let loose in a library and tasked with cataloguing all examples of violence and mortality throughout history.\u003cp\u003eThis leads to an obvious sample bias and to Pinker basing the bulk of his argument on some truly questionable, non-peer reviewed secondary sources. It is frankly the kind of approach that would get called out if done by an undergraduate history major.\u003cp\u003eAnd I say that as someone who thinks Pinker is a fantastic writer, and who is sympathetic to much of the argument of \u003ci\u003eBetter Angels.\u003c/i\u003e But it\u0026#x27;s hard for me not to see some level of condescension in Pinker\u0026#x27;s approach to doing historical analysis. What he does in that book is akin to me (if you couldn\u0026#x27;t already guess, an historian) trying to write a pop linguistics book by reading a bunch of library books on the subject and chatting with the linguistics professors who have offices down the hall from me.","parent":"16421669","id":"16424430"}
{"by":"jmtame","time":"1308246673","timestamp":"2011-06-16 17:51:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really? Can you elaborate?","parent":"2662382","id":"2662388"}
{"by":"grondilu","time":"1514393756","timestamp":"2017-12-27 16:55:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting idea.  I\u0026#x27;d love to read what package maintainers think about this.  Would it be completely ridiculous to consider this method as a replacement for all the various package management systems of the major linux distributions?","parent":"16015105","dead":true,"id":"16015979"}
{"by":"jlarocco","time":"1419181625","timestamp":"2014-12-21 17:07:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I started reading I expected to be upset by this, and expected it to be some kind of abuse, to hide bad behavior by cops.\u003cp\u003eI was glad to see it\u0026#x27;s actually quite reasonable.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I\u0026#x27;m not sure how it could ever be completely automated, short of accurate face recognition software trained with everybody in the region.","parent":"8777955","id":"8780170"}
{"by":"charlieok","time":"1366728230","timestamp":"2013-04-23 14:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you happen to use an iPhone, I highly recommend Sol:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iphone-now-in-app-store/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iph...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm not sure what the equivalent on Android might be; if anyone knows, hopefully they'll weigh in.","parent":"5591410","id":"5595383"}
{"by":"schtono","time":"1232188532","timestamp":"2009-01-17 10:35:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be great to have the possibility to import scores from other popular software (cubase etc) so you can collaborate on projects","parent":"437275","id":"437979"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1335282107","timestamp":"2012-04-24 15:41:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the dichotomy here is specifically the thought that venture capitalists require portfolio companies to work 6-7 day weeks.","parent":"3883412","id":"3884443"}
{"by":"thespace123","time":"1405264366","timestamp":"2014-07-13 15:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fullstack javascript\u0026#x2F;html\u0026#x2F;css dev looking to get out of Miami, lol.  HELP!","parent":"8026117","id":"8027526"}
{"by":"trez","time":"1374214043","timestamp":"2013-07-19 06:07:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"fixed","parent":"6064738","dead":true,"id":"6068577"}
{"by":"monk_e_boy","time":"1513456132","timestamp":"2017-12-16 20:28:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you think? Will we ever know the truth of this incident? Are there more being covered up? Are aliens visiting Earth?","parent":"15941580","id":"15941846"}
{"by":"azth","time":"1399055883","timestamp":"2014-05-02 18:38:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haskell and ML are practically FP oriented. You might want to check out Rust for a language that is not purely FP oriented (it is multi-paradigm), yet attempts to take pragmatic choices from such languages. There seems to be a good community response to it.","parent":"7687320","id":"7687337"}
{"by":"dangrossman","time":"1393976648","timestamp":"2014-03-04 23:44:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of all the speculative explanations so far, this one would make the best plot for a movie script.","parent":"7343796","id":"7344097"}
{"by":"trentmb","time":"1504321420","timestamp":"2017-09-02 03:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sous-vide?","parent":"15151696","id":"15153991"}
{"by":"turkeysandwich","time":"1540352209","timestamp":"2018-10-24 03:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; In the future, should someone wish to become a core developer of SQLite and is in every way qualified except that he or she does not feel comfortable with some details of this rule (for example, the overtly religious elements), then appropriate adjustments can be made at that point. The objective of the rule is not to impose a particular religious creed, but rather to use time-tested behavioral guidelines to promote a productive and peaceful community.","parent":"18279784","id":"18289522"}
{"by":"brown9-2","time":"1262661935","timestamp":"2010-01-05 03:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. the article is about debit cards, not credit cards\u003cp\u003e2. if we are \"living in the freaking future\" based on what you've described, we've been living it in for a long time","parent":"1031754","id":"1031775"}
{"by":"Luyt","time":"1353635924","timestamp":"2012-11-23 01:58:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found some manuals on how to program this computer:\u003cp\u003eProgramming manual:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/Wolv-Manual.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.computerconservationsociety.org/Wolv-Manual.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eExample programs:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch4.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch4.htm\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch14.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch14.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4818644","id":"4820703"}
{"by":"zzzcpan","time":"1527970961","timestamp":"2018-06-02 20:22:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Programming jobs since the 90s were offering a much better pay than pretty much every other job. So parents were pushing kids to pursue CS degrees. With completely free or very cheap education this created a lot of competition for such degrees. And with math exam being the only deciding factor to get accepted, only people who were really good at math and really well prepared were getting in. Sort of due to the lack of other opportunities filtering the most capable and the most motivated.","parent":"17215372","id":"17216179"}
{"by":"Balgair","time":"1491502653","timestamp":"2017-04-06 18:17:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes but in soccer, both teams start with 0 points and can tie. You can\u0026#x27;t do that in racing (a tie does happen but is so rare, it might as well never happen). Would you like to just watch cars draft each other for 3 hours and never actually overtake or \u003ci\u003etry\u003c/i\u003e to win? Because that\u0026#x27;s what F1 is kinda is, a 15 second death scramble at the front of the poll followed by a non-competitive Sunday drive at extreme speeds. The damn time trials for poll in NASCAR are more worth watching, at least they are trying to go fast.","parent":"14041296","id":"14053064"}
{"by":"wave","time":"1359148591","timestamp":"2013-01-25 21:16:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only suggestion I have is that it would be nice to see the patient's profiles get updated after being funded and treatment was given. We all like to see how our donations are making noticeable difference in people's lives.\u003cp\u003eI really like what Watsi is doing. They even \"eat the credit card processing fees\"","parent":"5117385","id":"5117680"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1385479866","timestamp":"2013-11-26 15:31:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAssange isn\u0026#x27;t even charged with anything\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is due to differences in the procedural law. Under the Swedish system, he can\u0026#x27;t be charged until he\u0026#x27;s arrested and interrogated.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  According to Swedish law, a formal decision to indict may not be\n  taken at the stage that the criminal process is currently at.\n  Julian Assange\u0026#x27;s case is currently at the stage of \u0026quot;preliminary\n  investigation\u0026quot;. It will only be concluded when Julian Assange is\n  surrendered to Sweden and has been interrogated. \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bailii.org\u0026#x2F;ew\u0026#x2F;cases\u0026#x2F;EWHC\u0026#x2F;Admin\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;2849.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;but they haven\u0026#x27;t even charged him\u0026quot; is just disinformation.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efor some reason the police demands that he comes here to Sweden to be questioned.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Some reason\u0026quot; being that he\u0026#x27;s a suspect who has evaded an arrest warrant.","parent":"6800808","id":"6801857"}
{"by":"roryokane","time":"1302618580","timestamp":"2011-04-12 14:29:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually noticed only two grammar errors while reading the article, even though I read the article after reading your comment. Now when I go back and look at the article again I see more errors, but since I (a native English speaker) didn't notice them when I read the article for real, they weren't a problem in this case. I've read articles that I started hating because of all the English errors, but this article doesn't even come close to that level for me. I don't think this article deserves such a long rebuke for bad grammar when I had so few problems reading it.","parent":"2437183","id":"2437329"}
{"by":"wladimir","time":"1355475080","timestamp":"2012-12-14 08:51:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's my experience too.\u003cp\u003eIn addition to that, there are hardware companies that have always seen software as necessary but uninteresting, thus trying to cut costs on it as much as possible, and not knowing how to set up an environment conductive to good software development (like having non-programmer physicists code in C, or still being stuck using 80's source control tools).","parent":"4917927","id":"4920120"}
{"by":"jqkeller","time":"1455497590","timestamp":"2016-02-15 00:53:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe at the 100MW scale it already operates like this, but not at smaller scale.  Recently I had a discussion with a county level public utility district where we were exploring building a 1-10 MW Solar system on a closed landfill.  The capability existed for us to wheel the power to a load that was interested in the energy, but the smallest chunk of capacity we could buy was 1MW and the cost to wheel the power would require a \u0026gt;90% capacity factor to make it economical.\u003cp\u003eSo the system may well exist, but I think there is benefit from some scaling down of the market rules.","parent":"11100623","id":"11100854"}
{"by":"mgkimsal","time":"1492857659","timestamp":"2017-04-22 10:40:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  I think those are good engineering decisions (depending on the problem domain).\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;depending on the problem domain\u0026quot; seems another variant of \u0026quot;choose the right tool for the right job\u0026quot;.  One could probably add \u0026quot;for the right reason\u0026quot; on the end of that instruction too, and it wouldn\u0026#x27;t hurt.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is the ability to determine \u0026quot;the right tool\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;the right job\u0026quot; - many people simply don\u0026#x27;t have it.  You only get that ability through experience.  With new tools \u003ci\u003efew\u003c/i\u003e people - even older folks - have enough experience with the tool in question to make accurate\u0026#x2F;useful assessments.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; but hey, the internet is full of really talented smart people who do excellent engineering work.\u003cp\u003eAnd it\u0026#x27;s full of even more people who aren\u0026#x27;t really capable of making those assessments accurately.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; You\u0026#x27;d be stupid to not look at what the best and most successful companies in the world are doing with their engineering teams and take note of it.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;d be \u003ci\u003estupid\u003c/i\u003e to think that because \u0026quot;Facebook\u0026quot; (or \u0026quot;Amazon\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;Google\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;MS\u0026quot;) is using a particular tech stack (which, likely, teams of internal people contributed to for months), it\u0026#x27;s a great fit for your problem, or your skills, or your team\u0026#x27;s skills, or your project\u0026#x27;s timeline, or its budget.  Few people have the problems or demands that Facebook\u0026#x2F;Amazon\u0026#x2F;Google\u0026#x2F;etc have.  It\u0026#x27;s great that they share some of their internal tech, but that sharing isn\u0026#x27;t an automatic determination that their solutions are appropriate fits for your problems.","parent":"14171838","id":"14171917"}
{"by":"tete","time":"1413505535","timestamp":"2014-10-17 00:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keep in mind however that using a LiveCD means that you will lose your guard nodes, which may make it easier for an attacker to deanonymize you over time.\u003cp\u003eAlso Tor Browser is usually better than using Tor + another browser.\u003cp\u003eExplanation about attacks: \u003ca href=\"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.torproject.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;improving-tors-anonymity-ch...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8468442","id":"8468721"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1439240688","timestamp":"2015-08-10 21:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would hope the EU can see right through transparent moves like this, but I suspected this as well.","parent":"10037211","id":"10037320"}
{"by":"rgejman","time":"1374229998","timestamp":"2013-07-19 10:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Judging by her article history, she seems like more a tech columnist and not a science news writer.","parent":"6069200","id":"6069291"}
{"by":"trominos","time":"1239287335","timestamp":"2009-04-09 14:28:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read the article.","parent":"554376","id":"554412"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1453276905","timestamp":"2016-01-20 08:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The thing about Mathematica (and any other math product) is that it lets you increase the abstraction level of your thinking.\u003cp\u003eThe difference between Mathematica and other environments is that in the latter, you ascend from the trivial to the abstract, hopefully learning the entire structure as you go, but with Mathematica, you\u0026#x27;re deposited on a mountaintop with no obvious pathway down.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; That said, mathematica has a function to have it explain exactly what it did to solve a particular problem.\u003cp\u003eYes, but this doesn\u0026#x27;t work for the more advanced features. If it did, someone could simply copy down the conversion sequence and recode it for a different environment. As a result, Mathematica users are in the position of accepting results whose genesis is concealed.","parent":"10935971","id":"10936615"}
{"by":"retrogradeorbit","time":"1470725871","timestamp":"2016-08-09 06:57:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clean code is not an OO concept. It\u0026#x27;s a higher level concept. SOLID may help you achieve clean code in OO, but clean code does not mean \u0026quot;know SOLID\u0026quot;.","parent":"12251636","id":"12253025"}
{"by":"SeoxyS","time":"1413249113","timestamp":"2014-10-14 01:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s mostly for efficiency. Imagine going on the top floor and having to wait for 10+ stops on the way up. That said, I think split elevators are more common in commercial buildings. I\u0026#x27;ve seen  residential skyscrapers have elevators cover all floors. For example, One Rincon Hill in San Francisco has 3 elevators that all cover all 64 floors.","parent":"8451318","id":"8451444"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1329835966","timestamp":"2012-02-21 14:52:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I learned C pretty early on.  But I wouldn't want to inflict that on other people.","parent":"3616238","id":"3616610"}
{"by":"frozenport","time":"1401324265","timestamp":"2014-05-29 00:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;why is diversity good?\u003cp\u003eI want there to be more women whom I can date.","parent":"7813891","id":"7813948"}
{"by":"jhancock","time":"1237472082","timestamp":"2009-03-19 14:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This AU firewall is most likely going to end up being what China has in place.  China's is a solid packet filtering beast that allows the government to control whatever info it wants!!!\u003cp\u003eFor a country like AU that supposedly has similar citizens rights as in the U.S., its a sign of things to come for many developed nations.\u003cp\u003eThis is critical Hacker News.  Not rumor and gossip.","parent":"523071","id":"523300"}
{"by":"0xdeadbeefbabe","time":"1527184297","timestamp":"2018-05-24 17:51:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They could write an operating system.","parent":"17143704","id":"17146475"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1456110375","timestamp":"2016-02-22 03:06:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure why you put \u0026quot;Google (which uses Apache code, but doesn’t contribute back)\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;VMware (which openly violates the GPL)\u0026quot; in the same sentence. One is legal, the other one isn\u0026#x27;t. You\u0026#x27;re not forced to contribute to anything, GPL or not.\u003cp\u003eBut it\u0026#x27;s worth remembering that Google\u0026#x27;s involvement goes further than just extra commits. For example - if Google uses something, they\u0026#x27;ll likely do a better security testing of the product than many other companies. Their security reports always go back to other projects.","parent":"11147088","id":"11148147"}
{"by":"kochthesecond","time":"1510830815","timestamp":"2017-11-16 11:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Learning how to get patches submitted and accepted, and learning vala..","parent":"15707899","id":"15711793"}
{"by":"jjoonathan","time":"1511374191","timestamp":"2017-11-22 18:09:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Normally I\u0026#x27;d agree, under the premise that the party who manufactured the comments had the competence to hide\u0026#x2F;obfuscate their trail enough to make it not worth following. However, the FCC\u0026#x27;s position is striking: they\u0026#x27;re not even maintaining the pretense of caring. This suggests sloppy execution and makes me revisit my priors regarding assumed competence. I think Schneidermann is right to spend resources on this angle, even if the chances of success are far below 100%.","parent":"15758850","id":"15758985"}
{"by":"onetwothreefour","time":"1356385232","timestamp":"2012-12-24 21:40:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having come from a country where the postal service was privitized, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: it sucks. But hey, they're profitable...\u003cp\u003eOne of the (very few) things the US does better than most countries is the USPS. It should be a point of pride, not some problem that needs to be left up to the 'free market' to ruin.","parent":"4962535","id":"4964197"}
{"by":"kanamekun","time":"1357911633","timestamp":"2013-01-11 13:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From his website: \"Hello, I'm Don Melton, probably best known as the guy who started the Safari and WebKit projects at Apple. These days I'm just an aspiring writer and a recovering programmer.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://donmelton.com/about/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://donmelton.com/about/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5041769","id":"5042587"}
{"by":"mobilefriendly","time":"1522603217","timestamp":"2018-04-01 17:20:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You never know when politically correct culture, which grows more intolerant and authoritarian by the day, will shift against something you said once on Twitter.","parent":"16729254","id":"16729358"}
{"by":"acconrad","time":"1300681991","timestamp":"2011-03-21 04:33:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really depends on what I'm trying to do. Coordinate a ski trip? Email best friends. Going out for drinks? Text. Got lost to the bar? Call.\u003cp\u003eSo yeah, I email my best friends.","parent":"2348227","id":"2348488"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1328137248","timestamp":"2012-02-01 23:00:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or using the hstore? I would also like to hear an answer on this.","parent":"3540430","id":"3540520"}
{"by":"jared314","time":"1366497434","timestamp":"2013-04-20 22:37:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm still trying to find performance numbers that prove it impractical. Otherwise, it just sounds like a problem that could be mitigated by clustering.","parent":"5583005","id":"5583097"}
{"by":"jokoon","time":"1470936675","timestamp":"2016-08-11 17:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to keep trying to open those mapbox vector tiles. Zipped protocol buffers in a sqlite file. If you want to handle a lot of geo data, you can\u0026#x27;t keep using text. Although I wonder if protocol buffer+sqlite is really a good idea.","parent":"12267824","id":"12270137"}
{"by":"alex_h","time":"1305911972","timestamp":"2011-05-20 17:19:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would be an interesting problem to solve algorithmically. If you could get a map of ATM locations and population density.","parent":"2568135","id":"2568567"}
{"by":"njharman","time":"1286309522","timestamp":"2010-10-05 20:12:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, cryptome.  The Wikileaks long before wikileaks existed.","parent":"1760658","id":"1761249"}
{"by":"mherkender","time":"1359748442","timestamp":"2013-02-01 19:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't we all experience moments where our jobs require things of us that our moral compass disagrees with? The fact that women were involved (which is incredibly vague by the way) says just about nothing of the women or men that find this kind of thing sexist.\u003cp\u003eIt's not like sexism at tech trade shows is a new thing, but there always seems to be people to defend it. They are using naked women as attention-getting displays to sell laptop batteries to a largely male audience. Forget blaming the company, maybe they had to do it to sell their product, but surely there is some sexism involved here.","parent":"5152591","id":"5153023"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1263693525","timestamp":"2010-01-17 01:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"with a stripped down/custom distro and FastCGI perl i could make that happen. you could go crazy and use an epoll perl httpd too. backend would be nosql with a small cache in memory. you'd need a decent chunk of bandwidth as gzip may push cpu over the edge, and hope you have fast disks. how many hps is HN anyway, at peak?","parent":"1056766","id":"1057866"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1412114185","timestamp":"2014-09-30 21:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would really like some new version of Windows, regardless of the number, to really rethink the install\u0026#x2F;uninstall process. Really sandbox new software in and when you uninstall it, it really absolutely removes everything, instead of leaving garbage all over the system.\u003cp\u003eAnd also to improve the install process, let\u0026#x27;s please move beyond the install wizard. The user shouldn\u0026#x27;t have to click \u0026quot;next\u0026quot; 5 screens in a row where there are no options of any kind. Something more OS X-like would be nice.","parent":"8389398","id":"8391562"}
{"by":"crescendo","time":"1237821662","timestamp":"2009-03-23 15:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both of the OP's examples are verb uses of \"queue\". I believe the question here is whether to use active or passive voice.\u003cp\u003eIMO the passive construction (\"has been queued\") sounds more natural, because you wouldn't normally think of an inanimate object like a website queuing itself in a line. But it could go either way, as \"queue\" technically can act as either a transitive or an intransitive verb.","parent":"528612","id":"528656"}
{"by":"hliyan","time":"1448447276","timestamp":"2015-11-25 10:27:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I understand, we can detect them through their gravitational effects and not much else. If we fully account for the pulls of all the non-dark bodies in the vicinity (Earth, Sun, Moon) and then manage to measure an anomalous gravitational pull (say on a mass connected to an extremely fine sensor) that changes with the motion of the measuring apparatus, that (I think) ought to do it.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: not physicist.","parent":"10626343","id":"10626458"}
{"by":"the_unknown","time":"1331926657","timestamp":"2012-03-16 19:37:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a similar manner - if you aren't driving a \"north american\" car you're not even allowed to park in any of the close lots at the local GM plant.  you basically park further away then everybody else as your punishment.  When mixed with the large price discount for buying from GM it is basically a fool's game to buy anything other than a GM here.  If you're an employee/partner/supplier/ or know an employee/partner/supplier.\u003cp\u003eFor the rest of us who don't get discounts.... the world is our overpriced oyster.","parent":"3714764","id":"3714916"}
{"by":"stamps","time":"1530677086","timestamp":"2018-07-04 04:04:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s difficult to quantify, but I\u0026#x27;d say the only thing I notice is battery life. On the x230, before the mods I\u0026#x27;ve made to modernize it a bit more, the battery life was somewhere south of 4 hours.\u003cp\u003eWith the Librem 13 I do get 6-10 hours depending on work load.","parent":"17454403","id":"17455198"}
{"by":"fr0sty","time":"1362499778","timestamp":"2013-03-05 16:09:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No it doesn't. If I work for a company that does not provide health benefits any health insurance I buy is NOT deductible. and that is one of the many odd decisions made.\u003cp\u003eIf you are self-employed (which is what the linked page is about) you are both the employer and employee and you as the employer of yourself get the decuction. People working for \"the man\" don't get this luxury.","parent":"5324994","id":"5325262"}
{"by":"pspeter3","time":"1324421570","timestamp":"2011-12-20 22:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that they developed this in 24 hours is ridiculous. I sat next to them when they did it and it was pretty incredible to see in action.","parent":"3374530","id":"3375561"}
{"by":"boomboomsubban","time":"1545879968","timestamp":"2018-12-27 03:06:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Taiwan, South Korea, and every NATO member immediately bordering Russia at risk. Over the ensuing decades, the free world would gradually be eroded away by autocratic regimes until, at best, the US and Canada are isolated between two oceans and surrounded by a world of despotism.\u003cp\u003eRight, this is all a fight against despotism. Which is why the US helped Kai-Shek in Taiwan, propped up Rhee for South Korea, and included Turkey and Portugal as founders of NATO.","parent":"18766465","id":"18766925"}
{"by":"jmnicolas","time":"1514389568","timestamp":"2017-12-27 15:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Way Of Men by Jack Donovan.\u003cp\u003eBut I don\u0026#x27;t expect it to be popular with the highly politically correct HN crowd.","parent":"16015180","id":"16015372"}
{"by":"jpstory","time":"1436283839","timestamp":"2015-07-07 15:43:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Confirmed here as well.  Very strange, yet delightful!","parent":"9845220","id":"9846122"}
{"by":"danielweber","time":"1410037140","timestamp":"2014-09-06 20:59:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve got a bit of a headache right now, but IIRC the second remotely exploitable OpenBSD bug was because they had IPv6 enabled by default.  There are a lot of grues lurking in there.","parent":"8279316","id":"8279462"}
{"by":"cgh","time":"1485220704","timestamp":"2017-01-24 01:18:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Webex from Chrome every day (macOS). It works great. It\u0026#x27;s the best conferencing software I\u0026#x27;ve used.\u003cp\u003eI didn\u0026#x27;t even know they had any kind of Linux support. Internally, Cisco only supports macOS and Windows on the desktop so it\u0026#x27;s no wonder the Linux support is bad. If you absolutely need to use Webex then clearly using desktop Linux is a bad idea.","parent":"13466685","id":"13468007"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1528778336","timestamp":"2018-06-12 04:38:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are definitely some frames of that restoration that look like removal of shading to me.","parent":"17289946","id":"17290740"}
{"by":"bluecalm","time":"1533913501","timestamp":"2018-08-10 15:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not sure what you mean by feral free market but what we have in US and EU doesn\u0026#x27;t look like that. There are tons of subsidies and regulations making a lot of things unprofitable to grow (cause you get cash for free when you grow junk food) and a lot of things unpractical (hard to have small simple farm when you have to comply with tons of laws just to ask eggs from a few hens you have).","parent":"17733757","id":"17733900"}
{"by":"coffeesn0b","time":"1530645719","timestamp":"2018-07-03 19:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We haven\u0026#x27;t open sourced how we do this yet... we have an MVP way of doing it by using Ansible to provision the NUCs, and nmap (please don\u0026#x27;t laugh!) so that they can find each other on a specific virtual network at the restaurants.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re replacing a lot of these solutions with \u0026quot;better ways\u0026quot; over the next weeks and months, but I\u0026#x27;d be happy to share how we went about it. You can contact me on LinkedIn: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;calebrhurd\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;calebrhurd\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biggest key was that we use RKE for the clustering\u0026#x2F;certs on bare metal. That\u0026#x27;s definitely our secret sauce (pun intended).","parent":"17451008","id":"17452938"}
{"by":"thecosas","time":"1452788430","timestamp":"2016-01-14 16:20:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congrats on shipping!\u003cp\u003eHow are you planning to monetize and keep it going long-term?","parent":"10901065","id":"10902275"}
{"by":"rglover","time":"1308603074","timestamp":"2011-06-20 20:51:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is excellent news. I think those who don't really understand the importance of upgrading will finally see the light when a company like \u003ci\u003eGoogle\u003c/i\u003e encourages, nay, forces it. This is a great day, especially for app developers.","parent":"2675433","id":"2675989"}
{"by":"Bombthecat","time":"1538311128","timestamp":"2018-09-30 12:38:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think media. In Brazil there was a soap opera where the main actors got ( often pregnant) pregnancy rates increased heavily during that time.","parent":"18105826","id":"18105913"}
{"by":"daly","time":"1502758527","timestamp":"2017-08-15 00:55:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a really cool syntax check out hello world written in the Whitespace language:\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;daly.axiom-developer.org\u0026#x2F;hello.w\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;daly.axiom-developer.org\u0026#x2F;hello.w\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, it\u0026#x27;s not a blank page. It\u0026#x27;s a page of spaces, tabs, and newlines\nbut it compiles and runs.\u003cp\u003eNow you can publish all of your source code in Whitespace.","parent":"15010732","id":"15014447"}
{"by":"coryrc","time":"1278543791","timestamp":"2010-07-07 23:03:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was the idea behind Supreme Commander.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_(video_game)#Development\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_(video_game)#...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1495760","id":"1495829"}
{"by":"aaronsnoswell","time":"1384179713","timestamp":"2013-11-11 14:21:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks awesome!","parent":"6711632","id":"6711683"}
{"by":"conanbatt","time":"1528511638","timestamp":"2018-06-09 02:33:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats because Utility is a very hard thing to measure, being so subjective and individual.","parent":"17269283","id":"17271203"}
{"by":"raychancc","time":"1312233128","timestamp":"2011-08-01 21:12:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.\u003cp\u003e- Seth Godin\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://startupquote.com/post/8353614743\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://startupquote.com/post/8353614743\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2834453","id":"2834456"}
{"by":"qq66","time":"1341949777","timestamp":"2012-07-10 19:49:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The city should have the bare minimum equipment possible required to perform the functions required of it, because it's purchased from tax revenues, which are forcibly extracted from the population, and thus should be spent only on things that are necessary for the proper governance of the city.\u003cp\u003eSure, web and print designers should have Macs if they need them but it's pretty clear that a lot of people who don't need them have them.","parent":"4225549","id":"4225772"}
{"by":"jsheard","time":"1481571329","timestamp":"2016-12-12 19:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The catch, which AMD are quick to gloss over, is that Caffes performance on Nvidia hardware largely comes from its use of Nvidia\u0026#x27;s proprietary cuDNN kernels.\u003cp\u003eAMDs HIP port is using the \u0026quot;fallback\u0026quot; open-source CUDA kernels, which are nowhere near as fast as the hand-optimized cuDNN code.","parent":"13160925","id":"13161129"}
{"by":"GFK_of_xmaspast","time":"1449267328","timestamp":"2015-12-04 22:15:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re living in the social construct that we constructed socially over hundreds of years.","parent":"10679124","id":"10679567"}
{"by":"barrkel","time":"1448352296","timestamp":"2015-11-24 08:04:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was a kid I went to a country school and lessons didn\u0026#x27;t start until 9:30, to accommodate dark mornings. If it\u0026#x27;s better for children, only children need necessarily adjust, provided school is also serving its industrial daycare function.\u003cp\u003eI get up around 8 and sleep between 1 and 2. So naturally I\u0026#x27;m in favour of DST all year round.","parent":"10619507","id":"10619669"}
{"by":"geezerjay","time":"1525245092","timestamp":"2018-05-02 07:11:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If Rust doesn\u0026#x27;t find its \u0026quot;killer app\u0026quot; I don\u0026#x27;t see it rapidly growing like Go (network services, containers) or Swift (everything Apple).\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t believe that Go or Swift are growing because of their technical merits.  Swift is essentially forced by Apple upon any developer who needs to develop applications that run on Apple products, and Go, in spite of its pedigree, can\u0026#x27;t be sold to newcomers without waving the Google brand.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  Widely displacing C is a pipe dream.\u003cp\u003eFor old projects, sure.  Yet, for greenfield projects then, given the choice, Rust does offer quite a lot of sought-after features that C is sorely lacking.","parent":"16971407","id":"16974799"}
{"by":"frik","time":"1428147324","timestamp":"2015-04-04 11:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Several books with WebGL in the title are almost completely about Three.js. The same goes for several online tutorials for beginners. A sad current state.\u003cp\u003eThree.js is a JS library, one of its render targets is WebGL. Three.js is more a scene graph layer and graphics\u0026#x2F;game engine.\u003cp\u003eWhere as WebGL is bare metal. And I wish more people would consider using WebGL directly for their demos, tutorials and products.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s like every top answer on a JavaScript questions on Stackoverflow was answered with a JQuery code snip back in 2013. Fast forward to 2015, the landscape changed completely and the SO community upvoted vanilla JS answers.\u003cp\u003eSome may remember the Voxel.js project that had gained traction fast. The main developer wrote a long blog post about the development: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@deathcap1\u0026#x2F;six-months-of-voxel-js-494be64dd1cc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@deathcap1\u0026#x2F;six-months-of-voxel-js-494be64...\u003c/a\u003e .\u003cp\u003eQuotes from that article: \u003ci\u003eUnfortunately the greedy meshing + texture atlases demonstration was not compatible with the three.js library used by voxel-engine, so I forked it. [...] I updated to three.js version r66, from the previous r58 series. Slightly non-trivial since there were a few major changes, though they provide a migration guide to help updating. The most noticeable was the removal of Face4 (quads, removed in r60), so you need to use two Face3 (triangles) in its place. [...] That and realizing having three.js part of voxel-engine is the reason most voxel plugins have a horrible peer dependency to the game instance.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"9318566","id":"9320571"}
{"by":"nas","time":"1458692426","timestamp":"2016-03-23 00:20:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t want to sound like a old grumpy man but here goes anyhow.  I was looking into using node.js, react, etc after many years of writing web apps using Python and Quixote (obscure web framework like Flask).  The whole Javascript technology stack looks pretty insane of me.  Getting a working React environment requires a huge number of packages to be pulled down by npm.  Browserify requires a bunch more.  Recursive dependency resolution is nice and all but isn\u0026#x27;t this going to create a massive technological debt that needs to be maintained?  Semver is not a magic bullet.\u003cp\u003eAlso, seems like a security disaster waiting to happen (I don\u0026#x27;t use CDN because I like to make sure I review code before putting it on my important websites).  Linux distributions like Debian have put in huge effort into making a packaging system that is secure and doesn\u0026#x27;t lead to dependency hell.  You can argue how successful they have been but, and maybe I\u0026#x27;m ignorant, I don\u0026#x27;t see the same effort and level of maturity in the Javascript\u0026#x2F;npm ecosystem.\u003cp\u003eAs an alternative to React, I\u0026#x27;m looking at Mithril.  It\u0026#x27;s relatively small and has no dependencies.  I\u0026#x27;m quite a bit more comfortable building on that foundation as opposed to a giant house of cards.","parent":"11340953","id":"11341074"}
{"by":"imjared","time":"1482235813","timestamp":"2016-12-20 12:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems odd. It feels unfair to shame companies because they may or may not contribute to a handful of projects you\u0026#x27;ve picked out. I\u0026#x27;d also encourage the author to do a bit more digging. The first entry calls out Instagram for allegedly not contributing to Django but they have a fork of it here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Instagram\u0026#x2F;django\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Instagram\u0026#x2F;django\u003c/a\u003e and without doing much digging, it\u0026#x27;s easy to say they\u0026#x27;ve contributed at least once.\u003cp\u003eSeveral of the companies listed make incredible contributions to OSS.","parent":"13219065","id":"13219134"}
{"by":"cynwoody","time":"1354088616","timestamp":"2012-11-28 07:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If memory serves, Amazon was the first to come out with street view, via their a9.com site, circa 2005. However, they canned it before coverage got behind a few major metropolitan areas.\u003cp\u003eThen came Google Maps and a much cooler street view implementation.","parent":"4840868","id":"4841470"}
{"by":"sime2009","time":"1526306736","timestamp":"2018-05-14 14:05:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.\u0026quot; -- Mark Twain","parent":"17064206","id":"17065622"}
{"by":"Touche","time":"1484312612","timestamp":"2017-01-13 13:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"40kb is 40% of your budget if targeting mobile.","parent":"13389508","id":"13390471"}
{"by":"Mythbusters","time":"1341279634","timestamp":"2012-07-03 01:40:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wrong. Just in time: \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-1045_3-57464649/windows-7-on-majority-of-pcs-for-the-first-time/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-1045_3-57464649/windows-7-on-major...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4191520","id":"4192041"}
{"by":"ChewyTechJobs","time":"1538671989","timestamp":"2018-10-04 16:53:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chewy Engineering | Senior Software Engineer,Java | Boston, MA- Onsite\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chewy.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;position\u0026#x2F;534290?gh_jid=534290\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chewy.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;position\u0026#x2F;534290?gh_jid=534290\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18113144","id":"18141557"}
{"by":"franckbyron","time":"1325813856","timestamp":"2012-01-06 01:37:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should check out hulu first. It has the biggest selection for tv shows","parent":"3431307","id":"3431519"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1529452755","timestamp":"2018-06-19 23:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read the article.  People getting addicted to medically prescribed opiates is single digit percentage.\u003cp\u003eAre their pill mills out there?  Yes, and the DEA should shut them down.\u003cp\u003eBut should we be undertreating real pain in order to “do something” about opioid deaths?  He’ll no.","parent":"17351038","id":"17351298"}
{"by":"josephg","time":"1481771884","timestamp":"2016-12-15 03:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cute idea, but thats not secure. You can edit the function prototype object to return anything you want:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (function() {}).__proto__.toString = () =\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Hi!\u0026quot;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAll functions use same __proto__ object (including functions that haven\u0026#x27;t been written yet), and it can be edited from anywhere in your program. (Tested in chrome 54).\u003cp\u003eAt a meta level, if you\u0026#x27;re trying to run trusted code in a JS environment that has some untrusted code in it too, you\u0026#x27;re going to have a bad time. The same is true in native programs by the way - you can\u0026#x27;t protect your program from a malicious library you\u0026#x27;re running in process.\u003cp\u003eThe right way to solve this is to stop sharing a JS environment with libraries you don\u0026#x27;t trust. I don\u0026#x27;t know how you can protect yourself from malicious extensions, but you can stop pulling in a kitchen sink of JS libraries by being super selective about what you pull in from NPM. (Which you really should be doing anyway.)","parent":"13182039","id":"13182108"}
{"by":"lhl","time":"1443158636","timestamp":"2015-09-25 05:23:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a new version and the first non-\u0026quot;Innovator Edition\u0026quot; (read: enthusiasts\u0026#x2F;devs) - the big deal I think is that presumably as a true consumer product, it\u0026#x27;ll be getting a lot more distribution, and moving forward will probably a big part of Samsung\u0026#x27;s pitch for differentiation of their flagship mobile products.\u003cp\u003eMore resolution would be nice, but it\u0026#x27;s not everything. The biggest issue for VR geeks is probably the lack of positional tracking. A close second (or first, depending on how sensitive you are) is the relatively low refresh rate (60Hz) causes noticeable strobing for a lot of people. At that refresh rate you don\u0026#x27;t get the temporal super-resolution bonuses you get at higher rates. Fill factor is as important (if not moreso) for screen-door effect - the CV1 and Vive screens are lower-res, but look much better. AFAIK, the S6\u0026#x2F;N5 screens don\u0026#x27;t support global refresh (although there is direct front-buffer access). Lack of physical IPD adjustment is a big deal, and it\u0026#x27;s hard to solve w\u0026#x2F; a single screen w\u0026#x2F;o sacrifices.  Oh, and of course, running the devices comfortably w\u0026#x2F;o overheating.","parent":"10276440","id":"10276495"}
{"by":"mrhyperpenguin","time":"1331199357","timestamp":"2012-03-08 09:35:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But as you said yourself, there are situations in which this 'humor' is appropriate. The official blog of a government agency is definitely not the place. I would expect this type of language from a no-name blog by a person with the grammar of 16 year-old.","parent":"3679038","id":"3679148"}
{"by":"contextfree","time":"1297366122","timestamp":"2011-02-10 19:28:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of the glitchiness was due to buggy third-party drivers. It was \"fixed in 7\" not as a result of any changes in 7, but as a result of third parties fixing their drivers. FWIW, I ran Vista for a year both and home and at work with very few problems. (if anything, 7 was less stable for me for a while due to some NVIDIA chipset drivers, this was eventually fixed with a driver update).\u003cp\u003eBy the way, I'm definitely not saying that Microsoft didn't botch its Vista release, or that all the blame for the problems people had falls on third parties. Microsoft failed to communicate effectively with its partners, kept pulling the rug underneath them with breaking changes during the betas, etc. But saying it should have never existed, but 7 should, doesn't make much sense. If they'd held off for another two years or something and just released 7, 7 would probably have had just as much of a reputation for glitchiness as Vista did.","parent":"2203243","id":"2203315"}
{"by":"stonemetal","time":"1405965861","timestamp":"2014-07-21 18:04:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Joel worked at MS on office, Excel if I recall correctly.  Jeff\u0026#x27;s blog is named for a feature from a book published by MS.  I would be more surprised if it was MS free.","parent":"8064833","id":"8065011"}
{"by":"urahara","time":"1519947452","timestamp":"2018-03-01 23:37:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you think that women who forced to constantly experience all kinds of problems and overload because of their gender, should be concerned about well being of groups and institutions (that tend to force them into these problems) at the expense of their own safety? Maybe you imply some ideal situation in which it is totally safe for an average woman to communicate openly like you suggest, but how often is it really the case given a huge problem of sexism we are discussing here and multiple evidence of which you were just presented?","parent":"16497176","id":"16497423"}
{"by":"cmelbye","time":"1260486942","timestamp":"2009-12-10 23:15:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only one not excited by WebSockets? It seems like a nice layer over a new Comet method that's even more complex than the long-polling method that we're using today. The server still needs to handle tons of open long-running connections, but with WebSocket you have the added complexity of having to support a brand new protocol in your web server - whatever that may be - instead of one that your web server has supported since it was created.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I'd rather someone just write a minimal interface (i.e. not Bayeux) to long-running Comet connections using XMLHTTPRequest. It should be trivial after that to make it compatible with the nice API that WebSocket has exposed.","parent":"988479","id":"988805"}
{"by":"konad","time":"1290361105","timestamp":"2010-11-21 17:38:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm going to start using some of this \"inappropriately\" and see what happens.\u003cp\u003eI'm not racist but it's cold in here.\u003cp\u003elol, if you tried you could find racism in lots of innocent sentences prefixed with that.","parent":"1927275","id":"1927394"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1451082795","timestamp":"2015-12-25 22:33:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it\u0026#x27;s super frustrating, like dealing with an evil genius who knows what all your buttons are and delights in pushing them. That\u0026#x27;s an illusion, of course, but it\u0026#x27;s how the statistical aggregate of a whole bunch of people online appears to the human psyche (or at least its hard-wired parts).\u003cp\u003eHN started as an experiment in trying to withstand that, and though there\u0026#x27;s much to be unsatisfied with, at least it hasn\u0026#x27;t succumbed completely.","parent":"10790243","id":"10792570"}
{"by":"hx87","time":"1470932847","timestamp":"2016-08-11 16:27:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The stick has to be paid too--otherwise things don\u0026#x27;t go very well for those who wield it. Saddam at least had enough of a domestic economy to tax to pay for the security services, as well as a loyal extended family that actually did some of the grunt work, whereas it is doubtful the Saudis have either.","parent":"12267869","id":"12269574"}
{"by":"dreur","time":"1280351256","timestamp":"2010-07-28 21:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First time I hear about Enso, anyone already bought something from them?","parent":"1555555","id":"1555677"}
{"by":"prpatel","time":"1331329067","timestamp":"2012-03-09 21:37:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I don't blame this on Android phones or users, however.\"\u003cp\u003eI am forced to call you out on this misinformation. It \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e the Android _phones_ and _users_. Android based platforms like the Nook Color and Amazon Fire both have good app revenue in my experience. Android phone revenue is at the \u003ci\u003ebottom\u003c/i\u003e for the apps I sell. Of course, iOS is at the top.\u003cp\u003eI'm willing to listen to any counter-points you may have to back up your claim that it's not the Android ecosystem. Fire away.","parent":"3685772","id":"3686068"}
{"by":"wiz21c","time":"1512135925","timestamp":"2017-12-01 13:45:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Do bear in mind this was several years ago and that it is reported from memory. It is entirely possible they\u0026#x27;ve gotten their act together and\u0026#x2F;or that I\u0026#x27;m misremembering some details, but this was my experience as I recall it.\u003cp\u003eso much honesty is such a pleasure to read !","parent":"15822277","id":"15823734"}
{"by":"hapless","time":"1271865306","timestamp":"2010-04-21 15:55:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unsubstantiated post by an anonymous reddit user.\u003cp\u003eI'll believe it when I see it.","parent":"1282423","id":"1282508"}
{"by":"Swizec","time":"1481324081","timestamp":"2016-12-09 22:54:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like drip campaigns on steroids. Know any tips for how to learn more about this? I\u0026#x27;ve found drip campaigns very converty, but I\u0026#x27;m still a total newb.","parent":"13142318","id":"13142591"}
{"by":"laumars","time":"1434317415","timestamp":"2015-06-14 21:30:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was my point.","parent":"9714443","id":"9716401"}
{"by":"taybin","time":"1349448268","timestamp":"2012-10-05 14:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if this table had been made in 1880 if it would have split the recent past into 10 year increments too. Or 1330, for that matter.\u003cp\u003eAnd if in 2220, our past 150 years will be grouped together under some other moniker.","parent":"4616849","id":"4617078"}
{"by":"yostrovs","time":"1535713112","timestamp":"2018-08-31 10:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When a B is considered a poor grade by your mother and you are simply expected to be on top of your class, it does wonders. Genetics probably play a roll too, but that discussion is not allowed here.","parent":"17884357","id":"17884487"}
{"by":"shacharz","time":"1448291790","timestamp":"2015-11-23 15:16:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what Peer5 is about :)","parent":"10612294","id":"10615000"}
{"by":"henrik_w","time":"1346875566","timestamp":"2012-09-05 20:06:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great article! I also had severe RSI, which I eventually overcame in similar way. I also switched to an ergonomic keyboard, and I'm using a pen-like mouse.\u003cp\u003eHowever, for me the most important component was to start using a break program. I get so into programming that I completely forget to take breaks, so the break program is crucial for me.\u003cp\u003eI've written about my experience here: \u003ca href=\"http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/\u003c/a\u003e and I have also reviewed different Mac break programs here \u003ca href=\"http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/26/mac-os-x-break-programs-review/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/26/mac-os-x-break-programs-re...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscussion on HN: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3635692\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3635692\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4480877","id":"4481198"}
{"by":"petepete","time":"1453799072","timestamp":"2016-01-26 09:04:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I saw that film a long time ago and had no idea what it was called. Thanks for the link!\u003cp\u003eAlso, it would be a great idea for fun exercise if this technology could be used to make multiplayer cycling games (think Mario Kart, but on bikes.. or maybe Road Rash) that allow people of varying fitness levels to compete, race, and get fit while playing.","parent":"10972383","id":"10972507"}
{"by":"teeja","time":"1346639910","timestamp":"2012-09-03 02:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In many densely-populated US urban areas, Wi-Fi is already completely- (often over-) occupied with contending users. This is to be expected considering the trickle of \"public airwaves\" which the public can currently access.\u003cp\u003eAlternative frequencies are already sorely needed. None of this stuff (and plenty of it) can happen fast enough.","parent":"4467429","id":"4468922"}
{"by":"drewtemp","time":"1350189841","timestamp":"2012-10-14 04:44:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Phoenix Dark. Great theme with numerous customization options.\u003cp\u003eColor scheme is Tomorrow Night.","parent":"4650666","id":"4650672"}
{"by":"kevingadd","time":"1354836578","timestamp":"2012-12-06 23:29:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if the risk for independent discovery was high, announcing it to the public without contacting the vendor and giving them the opportunity to at least prepare a response plan (even if you think the plan is inadequate) ensured a thoroughly dramatic media response that made certain that anyone with the slightest desire to break into hotel rooms now knew how.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Yep, you're right. I don't know how I missed that given that I skimmed the article twice. Sorry.","parent":"4884217","id":"4884474"}
{"by":"meatysnapper","time":"1444758754","timestamp":"2015-10-13 17:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hop Schweiz!!!\u003cp\u003eBut seriously, let\u0026#x27;s not forget about Luxembourg or Lichtenstein!","parent":"10382039","id":"10382164"}
{"by":"jayfuerstenberg","time":"1370924414","timestamp":"2013-06-11 04:20:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They still have to waste CPU cycles comparing either the plaintext or the checksum as you suggest.\u003cp\u003eIf nothing else it makes their server room A\u0026#x2F;C more expensive.","parent":"5855232","id":"5859710"}
{"by":"iMark","time":"1453061664","timestamp":"2016-01-17 20:14:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a superb adaptation at the Barbican in London a few years ago. It returned again the following year.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve no idea if it will come back again, but it\u0026#x27;s more than worth catching if you can. One of the best plays I\u0026#x27;ve seen, with an incredible cast.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.barbican.org.uk\u0026#x2F;theatre\u0026#x2F;event-detail.asp?ID=13735\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.barbican.org.uk\u0026#x2F;theatre\u0026#x2F;event-detail.asp?ID=13735\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10920148","id":"10920837"}
{"by":"sytse","time":"1464035763","timestamp":"2016-05-23 20:36:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Updated with \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gitlab.com\u0026#x2F;gitlab-com\u0026#x2F;www-gitlab-com\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;c758f6b23e9932106c8a309539342da900c8bbe0#174ec8386397c5e9ee37196e69593ab070fbe673_214_220\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gitlab.com\u0026#x2F;gitlab-com\u0026#x2F;www-gitlab-com\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;c758f6b2...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11756126","id":"11756743"}
{"by":"kchoudhu","time":"1486594873","timestamp":"2017-02-08 23:01:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FreeBSD, thank god.","parent":"13602654","id":"13603027"}
{"by":"achompas","time":"1517231833","timestamp":"2018-01-29 13:17:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I might have needed to edit down my comment, but you locked on to the least important part of my argument.\u003cp\u003eIf reproducibility is important, like you say, then a notebook is the \u003ci\u003elast\u003c/i\u003e thing you want. Your code needs to be tested and designed like the software it is, instead of tossed into some notebook that does not fit into classic software practices.","parent":"16247428","id":"16257290"}
{"by":"babul","time":"1257041732","timestamp":"2009-11-01 02:15:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The BBC had a documentary on Warren Buffet last week that is worth watching \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nn7vs/The_Worlds_Greatest_Money_Maker_Evan_Davis_meets_Warren_Buffett/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nn7vs/The_Worlds_Gre...\u003c/a\u003e (website is discussed at 00:32:37)\u003cp\u003eBerkshire Hathaway run a $150BN business with a staff of just twenty, and Buffet often points out having a fancy website is not a priority as long as it is functional.\u003cp\u003eIn many ways their website is analogous to the likes of Google in providing just enough to make it useful and not much more.","parent":"914065","id":"914542"}
{"by":"rkunal","time":"1496394116","timestamp":"2017-06-02 09:01:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. You may mail us at contact@nyaaya.in, mentioning what domain you wish to contribute in. We would take it forward from there.","parent":"14467582","id":"14468521"}
{"by":"aioprisan","time":"1409255318","timestamp":"2014-08-28 19:48:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a good way to drive the point home, by adding that last sentence in every post. An effective way to spread the word. What\u0026#x27;s wrong with asking that? For the past projects that I open sourced, I asked people to star them if they found them useful.","parent":"8238424","id":"8239298"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1529595192","timestamp":"2018-06-21 15:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"procrastination is a fuzzy thing too, I used to LOVE discomfort, because I had this desire to feel capable of achieving anything. Could spend hours, days thinking and trying things.\u003cp\u003eThese days I don\u0026#x27;t, it\u0026#x27;s not about discomfort, I need something more human and wise behind my efforts.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure most parents know that, I\u0026#x27;ve seen some that were demotivated, but when their family started, they were moving everything around.\u003cp\u003eA balance sense of purpose is worth a lot there.\u003cp\u003eps: a distraction heavy context is also bad. ironic :)","parent":"17365984","id":"17366077"}
{"by":"yomritoyj","time":"1437299479","timestamp":"2015-07-19 09:51:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In intellectual pursuits like programming, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that only intellectually hard things are worthwhile. Which in turn leads us to think of an intellectual ladder with mathematics at the top. This causes us to disregard the creativity and effort required to produce useful things (such as websites) even when no intellectually hard problems need to be solved. I think this is a toxic frame of mind for anyone who is not a mathematician.","parent":"9910146","id":"9910638"}
{"by":"pferde","time":"1389625076","timestamp":"2014-01-13 14:57:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, IT Crowd was perfectly, until Denholm\u0026#x27;s son was introduced, and completely ruined the whole series\u0026#x27; theme with crass, juvenile sex jokes.","parent":"7050398","id":"7050871"}
{"by":"jrochkind1","time":"1502116041","timestamp":"2017-08-07 14:27:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s technology to blame exactly, but I think technology is a part of the story. I think decreasing areas for expanse created a crisis for capitalist profitability, which tech was one \u0026quot;solution\u0026quot; to, but it\u0026#x27;s a solution that makes increasing portions of the population surplus\u0026#x2F;unneeded labor, and increases wealth inequality.","parent":"14946772","id":"14947664"}
{"by":"dinkumthinkum","time":"1361938859","timestamp":"2013-02-27 04:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One thing about people that make this argument that I don't understand is do you all know about libraries? You know they've been around for a long time. I'll grant you search engines make some parts marginally easier but to get the fundamental knowledge, you don't have to have that. So why is the Internet the great panacea for this ... Or is it that autodidactism is not really that common but it's much easier to call casually watching a YouTube building a blog engine as learning?","parent":"5287075","id":"5290554"}
{"by":"pmelendez","time":"1434756295","timestamp":"2015-06-19 23:24:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Herb Sutter gives a hint of what\u0026#x27;s going on in this video:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;channel9.msdn.com\u0026#x2F;Events\u0026#x2F;GoingNative\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;Keynote-Herb-Sutter-One-Cpp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;channel9.msdn.com\u0026#x2F;Events\u0026#x2F;GoingNative\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;Keynote-He...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9748262","id":"9748268"}
{"by":"Permit","time":"1358098564","timestamp":"2013-01-13 17:36:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;The executives of the institution still get paid...\u003cp\u003eGod forbid. I hear they even pay their other employees.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;I don't know much about JSTOR, but I know the IEEE (for example) can be a good bunch of sharks. In the past, they forced you to hand them your copyright for the privilege of publishing your work in their journals, and proceeded to go after you if you committed the cardinal sin of distributing your own papers through your research website. They also put your work behind a 30$ paywall without, of course, giving you a dime.\u003cp\u003eI have yet to hear about a similar story with JSTOR, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.","parent":"5050340","id":"5051235"}
{"by":"ojbyrne","time":"1378360363","timestamp":"2013-09-05 05:52:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been in the recruitment pipeline at Google 3 times over the last ten years. Each of the latter two times they had no record of the previous recruitment. In the one case where I got to onsite interviews the first set of interviewers had somebody else\u0026#x27;s resume with my name on the top. It took me most of the morning (because its an all day process) to convince them that I was not actually the piece of paper they were waving at me.","parent":"6331243","id":"6332407"}
{"by":"chii","time":"1529333011","timestamp":"2018-06-18 14:43:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; unsustainable shadow debt\u003cp\u003ei keep hearing this term, but what does shadow debt mean?","parent":"17338374","id":"17338607"}
{"by":"subliminalpanda","time":"1422899375","timestamp":"2015-02-02 17:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this also include using something like ephemeral keys?","parent":"8985154","id":"8985490"}
{"by":"brazzy","time":"1415274995","timestamp":"2014-11-06 11:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What license did you choose for your photographs on Flickr? If you chose a Creative Commons Attribution license without further restrictions, you don\u0026#x27;t really have any grounds to complain, though of course you can still ask nicely to have it removed.\u003cp\u003eIf they are actually violating the license terms, the best idea is still to first ask nicely. If they don\u0026#x27;t comply, you can sue.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;compensation for damage\u0026quot; you can pretty much forget about unless you can prove actual damages.","parent":"8566608","id":"8566633"}
{"by":"laserson","time":"1437411094","timestamp":"2015-07-20 16:51:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s directly addressed here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ibis-project.org\u0026#x2F;faq.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ibis-project.org\u0026#x2F;faq.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9917230","id":"9917273"}
{"by":"hazz99","time":"1537630879","timestamp":"2018-09-22 15:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love this! I wish I had programmers in the family.","parent":"18046112","id":"18046416"}
{"by":"mikecane","time":"1350312978","timestamp":"2012-10-15 14:56:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does not work with my wordpress.com blog. Blank. I know it's not responsive, so maybe instead of blank it should throw up a dialog box instead of just blank?","parent":"4654710","id":"4655306"}
{"by":"posterboy","time":"1477511626","timestamp":"2016-10-26 19:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was just pattern matching.","parent":"12799090","id":"12799868"}
{"by":"homakov","time":"1406044264","timestamp":"2014-07-22 15:51:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the link, I truly agree attack is very difficult to exploit, most of the time just impossible. I did some tests locally long time ago \u003ca href=\"https://gist.github.com/homakov/4953145\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;homakov\u0026#x2F;4953145\u003c/a\u003e and signal was extremely weak.","parent":"8069485","id":"8069596"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1469237667","timestamp":"2016-07-23 01:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My first thought was why Lean vs Isabelle\u0026#x2F;HOL or Coq given all they have that can be leveraged? And selectively depending on how challenging or different you want your project.","parent":"12147212","id":"12147940"}
{"by":"Rapzid","time":"1487817053","timestamp":"2017-02-23 02:30:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The subtleties of it are very interesting. It took ~1300 miles for significant loses to appear(IMHO) but you can see how it took a while for his skin to catch up. For a while his face is a bit droopy giving him a very haggard look. Nothing another 1k miles didn\u0026#x27;t tighten up lol.","parent":"13711032","id":"13711168"}
{"by":"atomical","time":"1547243947","timestamp":"2019-01-11 21:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not proven. Time to take responsibility for your own actions.","parent":"18887328","id":"18887584"}
{"by":"tonybaroneee","time":"1437335858","timestamp":"2015-07-19 19:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe it was from a post made by a high profile developer I follow on Twitter.","parent":"9910921","id":"9912603"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1433672537","timestamp":"2015-06-07 10:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you please point out an example of someone being accused of oppressing people for pointing out that social expectations exist? If that is so widespread, I\u0026#x27;m sure the web will provide plenty to link to.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m asking because I feel you and I live in a different reality. The concept of gender roles and its restrictions on free personal choice is, as far as I know, completely accepted by the mainstream, and while I\u0026#x27;m sure there are dissenters, the idea that they are the dominant opinion is baffling to me.\u003cp\u003eHuffPost, not exactly a fringe publication, has had a dozen or so posts on it the past week alone: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;gender-roles\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;gender-roles\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not to say gender roles or other social expectations are dead - of course not, they\u0026#x27;re extremely powerful. But I certainly don\u0026#x27;t agree that it\u0026#x27;s taboo to point it out.","parent":"9673601","id":"9674065"}
{"by":"nikita","time":"1310513472","timestamp":"2011-07-12 23:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, sigil. We are certainly aware of various options. It's either Paxos, or a simpler failover mechanism used by traditional dbs, such as SQL Server or Oracle on the per node basic based on replication.","parent":"2756102","id":"2757096"}
{"by":"ansible","time":"1424858438","timestamp":"2015-02-25 10:00:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We prefer to use version control, and vendor libraries in our project instead.  This is language-agnostic, and allows us to have repeatable builds without extra tools.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve written up a tutorial about it using git-subtree:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jamesgraves/example-go-app\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jamesgraves\u0026#x2F;example-go-app\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9105948","id":"9106067"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1310953378","timestamp":"2011-07-18 01:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't most Americans live in cities, now? Dallas has awful public transportation, but hypothetically, you could use it to get to work - it would just turn your 30-60 minute commute into a 2.5 hour adventure.","parent":"2774744","id":"2774795"}
{"by":"beerbajay","time":"1412203203","timestamp":"2014-10-01 22:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, the opinion section is the worst part of NYT, though I\u0026#x27;m sure it\u0026#x27;s a driver of much of the traffic, at least judging from the \u0026quot;most read\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;most emailed\u0026quot; sidebars. I suspect that the by turns vague and inflammatory headlines are great as clickbait, but not something people actively seek out. And anyway, it\u0026#x27;s not like David Brooks (ever?) has anything interesting to say.","parent":"8397746","id":"8398262"}
{"by":"x_foo_x","time":"1494435990","timestamp":"2017-05-10 17:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Open the link and check for yourself...","parent":"14309653","id":"14309764"}
{"by":"vfulco2","time":"1545183940","timestamp":"2018-12-19 01:45:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remove objective.  The employer doesn\u0026#x27;t care what you want.  They have problems in search of problem solvers.  Write a short paragraph detailing your strengths, achievements, hard skills and soft skills. Use the job descriptions and openings you apply to as the form of your career objective. This is considered a US-centric best practice.\u003cp\u003eMy background: I run a professional career coaching service for global career seekers in Shanghai, China. All the best.","parent":"18711624","id":"18712364"}
{"by":"kaybe","time":"1400071495","timestamp":"2014-05-14 12:44:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe hormone stuff, at least for women?","parent":"7743146","id":"7743382"}
{"by":"bermanoid","time":"1325838322","timestamp":"2012-01-06 08:25:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of the late 90s, when recruiters were routinely posting jobs that required \"8+ years of Java experience\".\u003cp\u003eThe worst part was, I'm sure they found plenty of people willing to add that line to their resume without hesitation...some of them probably even got hired. Sigh.","parent":"3432484","id":"3432533"}
{"by":"whiskyseagull","time":"1510935916","timestamp":"2017-11-17 16:25:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course he still has the legal right to do it. The US hasn\u0026#x27;t gone so far yet, as other western countries have, to ban \u0026quot;hate\u0026quot; speech, and he hedged his arguments well enough that it would be hard to ban that kind of talk outright without exposing that you really don\u0026#x27;t care about the arguments, but that it\u0026#x27;s really about that he\u0026#x27;s daring to make them at all. That\u0026#x27;s why, in my opinion, he draws so much seething hatred - he was too careful about hedging and inviting discussion for the left to be able to dismiss him easily as a dumb retrograde hate monger, but they didn\u0026#x27;t want to address the arguments on the merits either (yes, I\u0026#x27;m aware that there were exceptions, no need to list them, this is about the left as a whole). His speech has been effectively banned because he\u0026#x27;s been made a pariah and dismissed.\u003cp\u003eOf course the left hasn\u0026#x27;t completely won yet, so he\u0026#x27;s found a home in some parts of the right. But that\u0026#x27;s not the point, it\u0026#x27;s about what the left ultimately wants, and what we should expect if it wins. This serves as an example - the left is happy and comfortable when certain controversial points are suppressed and their advocates exiled.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Would you force Googlers to work with someone they disagree with so strongly that they cannot be civil?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhy can\u0026#x27;t they be civil? Is there a line where uncivil behavior is permitted because someone\u0026#x27;s thoughts offend you?","parent":"15723024","id":"15723352"}
{"by":"ttflee","time":"1396714530","timestamp":"2014-04-05 16:15:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could it be possible that another black box happened to be found there?\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I\u0026#x27;m just asking a question. Why the down vote anyway?","parent":"7537364","id":"7537462"}
{"by":"RussianCow","time":"1450371312","timestamp":"2015-12-17 16:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The second example should be:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026#x27;{} {}\u0026#x27;.format(\u0026#x27;one\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;two\u0026#x27;)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nEither way, the former example still works in Python 3.5, so that syntax hasn\u0026#x27;t gone away. `format` is preferred, though. This Stack Overflow question has some good answers as to why: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;5082452\u0026#x2F;python-string-formatting-vs-format\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;5082452\u0026#x2F;python-string-for...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10752551","id":"10752579"}
{"by":"gorkonsine","time":"1499356075","timestamp":"2017-07-06 15:47:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;We will have some mining forever though, whether that\u0026#x27;s here on earth or elsewhere.\u003cp\u003eYes, of course; the need for raw materials is never-ending.  I just want mining on Earth to mostly stop, or at least be done in the most environmentally-sustaining way possible.  Moving a lot of mining offworld would accomplish this.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;I want those with the means to (rich or upper middle class) to have kids\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not so sure this is such a great idea.  Rich people can already have all the kids they want; it\u0026#x27;s not like financial concerns are holding them back from it.  And I don\u0026#x27;t see how they\u0026#x27;re going to do a better job of it than regular middle-class people; in fact, rich people generally seem to be much worse and more sociopathic human beings, and their kids frequently come out awful--look at Paris Hilton for instance.  I don\u0026#x27;t see why we should be encouraging them to have more; we don\u0026#x27;t need more sociopaths in the world.  And again, there\u0026#x27;s so few wealthy people it wouldn\u0026#x27;t make a significant difference.","parent":"14707029","id":"14711258"}
{"by":"NightlyDev","time":"1532266718","timestamp":"2018-07-22 13:38:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve bought a bunch of XPS 13 laptops because of project sputnik, and the only bad thing with them seems to be the extreme coil whine.","parent":"17586411","id":"17586665"}
{"by":"jrochkind1","time":"1380291348","timestamp":"2013-09-27 14:15:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why can\u0026#x27;t get the \u0026#x27;best config for security\u0026#x27; be default out of the box on nginx and apache httpd?  That\u0026#x27;s the only way we\u0026#x27;re actually going to have a secure web, ain\u0026#x27;t it?","parent":"6456724","id":"6457106"}
{"by":"kirubakaran","time":"1248062496","timestamp":"2009-07-20 04:01:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You mean like a goat, that also gives you milk and love?","parent":"713910","id":"713922"}
{"by":"mbreese","time":"1300674770","timestamp":"2011-03-21 02:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mandates worked for TV standards (original standard def). Then when high def came around, everyone was lobbying for their own formats with too many official formats.","parent":"2347682","id":"2348150"}
{"by":"tejasmanohar","time":"1516933308","timestamp":"2018-01-26 02:21:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I downloaded Waze Carpool, and it feels just like that.","parent":"16231193","id":"16236576"}
{"by":"voltagex_","time":"1537513729","timestamp":"2018-09-21 07:08:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Motorola’s use of a single QFUSE that must be blown to unlock the device, permanently voiding the warranty.\u003cp\u003eIf this isn\u0026#x27;t illegal (the warranty part), it should be.","parent":"18037139","id":"18037730"}
{"by":"reaperducer","time":"1527717203","timestamp":"2018-05-30 21:53:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;I tried looking for the location history feature on my iPhone and I honestly can\u0026#x27;t find it.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s always fun to look at the places your iPhone thinks you frequent:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Settings \u0026gt;Privacy \u0026gt;Location Services \u0026gt;System Services \u0026gt; Significant Locations\u003cp\u003eI stop at a particular traffic light on the way to work most days, and the phone thinks I like to hang out at the pawn shop on the corner.\u003cp\u003eAs far as anyone knows, all of this information is only known to the phone, and not to Apple.  But it\u0026#x27;s still creepy to see how a little box in your pocket watches you day and night.","parent":"17191837","id":"17192214"}
{"by":"bambax","time":"1362928269","timestamp":"2013-03-10 15:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please don't! The original is better and gets the point accross faster than the suggested change.","parent":"5352058","id":"5352191"}
{"by":"memetichazard","time":"1296942380","timestamp":"2011-02-05 21:46:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try going at it through google.\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.ca/search?q=I+make+getting+fired+look+good.+:-\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.google.ca/search?q=I+make+getting+fired+look+good...\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eHm, not sure how to include that ) in the URL, but the shorted search term works anyways.","parent":"2184029","id":"2184181"}
{"by":"jblow","time":"1448652374","timestamp":"2015-11-27 19:26:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are presuming it actually works for Valve, which is not an uncontroversial notion.","parent":"10638175","id":"10638510"}
{"by":"eah13","time":"1416853165","timestamp":"2014-11-24 18:19:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a great story and project.\u003cp\u003eAn apology (in the original sense) of Jessica\u0026#x27;s work for those who think that the experiences of these individuals don\u0026#x27;t matter:  What I think people don\u0026#x27;t get about Jessica\u0026#x27;s interviews is that they\u0026#x27;re part of a scientific process of understanding what makes great founders and great companies.  Many discredit qualitative, observational scientific data.  But for new, rare, or poorly understood phenomena, observation is the only way to make scientific progress.  In engineering the phenomena are often well understood, common, and within the discipline, familiar.  In this case deductive logic, reasoning from known principles, is quite fruitful; but its success biases engineers against inductive reasoning.  But for other subjects, such as what makes a great startup founder, or what makes a great \u003ci\u003efemale\u003c/i\u003e startup founder, the inductive method is much more fruitful.\u003cp\u003eThis is not some anomaly: all sciences started with observation and the inductive method.  These are the beginnings of insight, generating hypotheses to be tested.  We\u0026#x27;re still quite early in our understanding of startups, and even more so in our understanding of female-founded startups, that this approach is not just warranted, it\u0026#x27;s the only way to make true progress.\u003cp\u003eJessica is like the Jane Goodall of startup science.  Even though she\u0026#x27;s studying individual founders she\u0026#x27;s ultimately helping us understand more about ourselves.","parent":"8653416","id":"8653729"}
{"by":"pfortuny","time":"1359132952","timestamp":"2013-01-25 16:55:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, great idea: enjoying good things alone. I do it a lot of times). There is no special need for friends in order to enjoy a good meal, a good concert or a good film or a good sightseeing.\u003cp\u003eThere is a time to enjoy alone and a time to gather together.\u003cp\u003eGlad you have discovered this.\u003cp\u003eEdit: and there is no need to 'fuck it', one should do these things by himself from time to time. There is no obligation to enjoy with others.","parent":"5115874","id":"5116368"}
{"by":"ratsmack","time":"1517111095","timestamp":"2018-01-28 03:44:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The mindset is completely different today as are the tools to intervene in market volatility and instability. Short of a catastrophic natural disaster, I think the stock market is relatively safe.","parent":"16248824","id":"16249678"}
{"by":"cia_plant","time":"1207538107","timestamp":"2008-04-07 03:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, I never realized that. Thanks for the clarification.\u003cp\u003eI do think that analytic philosophy is a useful point of view. It just frustrated me that at my school, it was the only point of view offered.","parent":"156518","id":"156631"}
{"by":"polshaw","time":"1455026585","timestamp":"2016-02-09 14:03:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there any chance of some ARM builds? (pretty please!)\u003cp\u003e(also, congrats!)","parent":"11064224","id":"11065277"}
{"by":"aristus","time":"1259952147","timestamp":"2009-12-04 18:42:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You used to be able to buy something like this at Pearl or other craft centers. It comes in sheets you heat in water in the microwave and shape to fit. My mom had a set of screwdrivers with custom grips. I think it was called thermal decorative plastic.\u003cp\u003eedit:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.craft-products.com/polyform-plastic.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.craft-products.com/polyform-plastic.asp\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.wisdomking.com/product/aquaplast-t-18\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.wisdomking.com/product/aquaplast-t-18\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eseems to be called \"moldable craft plastic\" or similar","parent":"976007","id":"976923"}
{"by":"martinced","time":"1363612719","timestamp":"2013-03-18 13:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"fail2ban only blocks brute-force attacks from similar IPs right?\u003cp\u003eWhat if a botnet is used to do the brute-force, does fail2ban lock everybody out, effectively making fail2ban a tool that can be used for Denial of Service?\u003cp\u003eAll I'd have to do now is to hammer your system with SSH attempts from my botnet and you can't log in anymore...","parent":"5393887","id":"5393918"}
{"by":"jayliew","time":"1482855475","timestamp":"2016-12-27 16:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the idea of this: blending offline and online education. I took CodePath\u0026#x27;s iOS class (\u0026quot;bootcamp\u0026quot; but for senior engineers), and I loved it. Keep up the good job!","parent":"13226256","id":"13263957"}
{"by":"Fastidious","time":"1408101210","timestamp":"2014-08-15 11:13:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would be atrocious! You need to flavour and enjoy the reading, just the same you enjoy a nice drink, or a good cup of coffee, or you take the time to make coitus a never-ending engagement.\u003cp\u003eJust enjoy it.","parent":"8181638","id":"8181674"}
{"by":"jberryman","time":"1308372469","timestamp":"2011-06-18 04:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is beautiful, wonderful, hopeful, and sad all at once. Stuff like this, the voyager probes... I dont know, really get to me.\u003cp\u003eI was also reminded of reading Asimov's Foundation novels in middle school.\u003cp\u003eAnd how about that solar synchronization mechanism. I mean Jesus, how amazing.","parent":"2665380","id":"2667942"}
{"by":"xrisk","time":"1526883936","timestamp":"2018-05-21 06:25:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm I suppose you\u0026#x27;re right. My bad!","parent":"17116515","id":"17116533"}
{"by":"rmccue","time":"1303207404","timestamp":"2011-04-19 10:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The rendering engine makes no difference at all to me. Whether Gecko or WebKit, both follow the standards closely enough that I know how something will render in one or the other without testing. Combined with reset stylesheets, which iron out little differences in default stylesheets, they're essentially the same.\u003cp\u003eOne thing that's great about Chrome is their rapid development pace. I think Mozilla has realised this is something that they need to change, and they're changing their release cycle to be much quicker (though, IIRC, not Chrome-scale).\u003cp\u003eFirefox's extensions are what seals the deal for me though. Chrome's extensions are nowhere near powerful enough to do some of the things that Firefox extensions do with ease.","parent":"2461981","id":"2462142"}
{"by":"blasteye","time":"1348525710","timestamp":"2012-09-24 22:28:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ummm, Google Fiber had to pay over 10k per customer.  This article sites around 3k per customer in gross.\u003cp\u003eSo they expect the ISPs to just eat up a 7k difference which will take over 1-2 decades to recoup?","parent":"4565133","id":"4567377"}
{"by":"AnimalMuppet","time":"1456424840","timestamp":"2016-02-25 18:27:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why doesn\u0026#x27;t language power make a difference in practice?\u003cp\u003eDepends on your definition of \u0026quot;make a difference in practice\u0026quot;.  If you mean \u0026quot;make the language become one of the dominant ones\u0026quot;, yeah, that doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to have happened.  Either Lisp is less effective in the large than one would expect from its power, or it\u0026#x27;s less powerful in practice than people think, or power has almost no relation to language dominance.\u003cp\u003eBut if you mean \u0026quot;make a difference to the user\u0026quot;, well, it lets the user more easily write the program that the user wants to write.  In practice, that makes a difference - to that user.","parent":"11175455","id":"11176511"}
{"by":"Aloha","time":"1543553589","timestamp":"2018-11-30 04:53:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why are you not going thru your ambassador for these issues?","parent":"18564321","id":"18566792"}
{"by":"overcast","time":"1501423033","timestamp":"2017-07-30 13:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok, I\u0026#x27;ll give you essentially all of the 2001 dotcom crash companies. Is that enough examples?","parent":"14885830","id":"14885958"}
{"by":"m_eiman","time":"1353610944","timestamp":"2012-11-22 19:02:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have a list of your registered devices on iCloud.com, but I don't know what effect removing a device there has on the device's connections to various Apple services.","parent":"4819687","id":"4819701"}
{"by":"nicholassmith","time":"1381488615","timestamp":"2013-10-11 10:50:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can read it a couple of ways, you can take it as Gates showing off that he did something hard quickly, which is certainly valid, or you can take it as Gates saying \u0026#x27;stop fiddling whilst Rome burns and get it done\u0026#x27;. You can hammer out complex ideas quickly and lose your life twiddling the details, or just do it and move on.\u003cp\u003eOr more likely he was being a bit of a jerk.","parent":"6528969","id":"6532331"}
{"by":"lagadu","time":"1536749195","timestamp":"2018-09-12 10:46:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m on the other side of the fence. My previous car had an automatic, a lovely one too: the 7-speed getrag dual-clutch that bmw puts almost exclusively on the M models. When I bought it I thought that because the car was so good and it had so much power I would be ok with having it.\u003cp\u003eNope, I was bored out of my mind and the paddle shifters were no replacement. Sold it after 6 months, bought a manual again and am never going back to automatics. Yes, they\u0026#x27;re slower and less fuel efficient but they\u0026#x27;re so much more fun; like Hammond said \u0026quot;changing gear is a vital form of self-expression\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eProbably helps that I don\u0026#x27;t drive in traffic, only for fun.","parent":"17963883","id":"17967170"}
{"by":"seanpk8","time":"1454690326","timestamp":"2016-02-05 16:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Take a look at our newly released express.js-based, \u0026quot;swagger-matic\u0026quot;, server runtime for Node.js.\u003cp\u003eBlueOak Server is \u0026quot;swagger-matic\u0026quot; because it maximizes the value of your Swagger API by using it to drive runtime behavior:\nIt loads your Swagger API, connects the paths it defines to your implementation code, exposes that API to the network, and validates that every request is well-formed per that API.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve got a lot of value from using it on our projects, and hope you will too, or, at least your criticism will help us make it better for us :-)","parent":"11042508","id":"11042535"}
{"by":"tikwidd","time":"1392523705","timestamp":"2014-02-16 04:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Performance is indeed pretty bad. The code I adapted it from  (floppy bird) just uses divs and css. Maybe I\u0026#x27;ll just rewrite it in canvas if I can\u0026#x27;t improve things :I","parent":"7246598","id":"7246614"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1393154567","timestamp":"2014-02-23 11:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, only kinda. For example here in the UK we could scrap our welfare system and give every man, woman and child in the country £3000\u0026#x2F;year no questions asked no strings attached, for what the welfare system costs now.\u003cp\u003eA family of 4 could live on £12000\u0026#x2F;year not luxuriously but with the basics, somewhere like Wales. A single person could not live on £3000\u0026#x2F;year in London.","parent":"7285583","id":"7285591"}
{"by":"jimmies","time":"1519578384","timestamp":"2018-02-25 17:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My reasoning is that it does one thing: Being a dumb head unit. Since it does just that one thing, it can be distributed as a big blob. You don\u0026#x27;t have to worry about changing that file or this file, following this instruction or that instruction, downloading this version or that version of the packages. It simplifies many things for the end user. I learned that from Retro Pie, a distro that I love.\u003cp\u003ePower users who want it to do many things can just run\u0026#x2F;read the scripts in the repo and make it a multi-purpose device. I\u0026#x27;d imagine for $100 head unit, many people won\u0026#x27;t bother.\u003cp\u003eThat being said, I really have to brush up on how to package Qt5 and OpenAuto as Debian packages.","parent":"16459388","id":"16459874"}
{"by":"ThomPete","time":"1450128708","timestamp":"2015-12-14 21:31:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. No and soon no one will be required to work at uber once they automate the car fleet. So sure in theory you are right. But that\u0026#x27;s hardly the most informative perspective to see this in. Many people have to take what they can get.\u003cp\u003e2. No but thats not really what they are. They are working as contractors but being treated as employees.\u003cp\u003eFor example they can\u0026#x27;t set their own price, they aren\u0026#x27;t allow to choose their own car, they can\u0026#x27;t subcontract which is the conditions employees normally are subject to. On the other hand they don\u0026#x27;t get ex. healthcare and have to maintain all expenses themselves. Uber works because it\u0026#x27;s managed to disrupt legislation. Sometimes thats great or necessary and the taxi medallion system surely are broken. But to ignore some of the deeper issues with the kind of disruption Uber is doing is simply ignoring some of the deeper issues of technology.\u003cp\u003eAnd just as we are fine with companies being able to lobby for their legislated privileges so should the drivers be allowed to organize.","parent":"10733674","id":"10734061"}
{"by":"aback","time":"1455752042","timestamp":"2016-02-17 23:34:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I hope Apple finds a compromise where they can help get this specific data without risking leaking a compromised OS.\u003cp\u003eI want pharmaceuticals without side effects, and real doughnuts that don\u0026#x27;t make you fat.\u003cp\u003eSeriously, you are asking for \u0026quot;A\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;not-A\u0026quot; in one sentence.  Take your pick.  Are you willing to get this one phone unlocked so badly that you would be OK with nobody having security?  Because that\u0026#x27;s what you\u0026#x27;re asking for, whether you realize it or not.","parent":"11118462","id":"11122463"}
{"by":"umenline","time":"1356522127","timestamp":"2012-12-26 11:42:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"odesk","parent":"4968818","id":"4968922"}
{"by":"rieter","time":"1341363578","timestamp":"2012-07-04 00:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which was mostly developed by Google. They are the biggest contributor to open source WebKit these days, eclipsing even Apple.","parent":"4196986","id":"4197069"}
{"by":"npalrecha","time":"1297285198","timestamp":"2011-02-09 20:59:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The cards go on sale after the first contest is over, at the beginning of March. :)","parent":"2199300","id":"2199315"}
{"by":"joez","time":"1253228540","timestamp":"2009-09-17 23:02:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Drooling might have been an over dramatization on my part. But I think there was a #citysourcedcommittee (something like that) started on twitter.\u003cp\u003eI did hear multiple mutters of two ninety ninety around me because they neglected to mention a price on downloading the app. They are trying to build a tribe (in Seth Godin's words). Their application is not very good if only a few are reporting issues and they could have overcome some chicken and egg issues by making it free for a week.\u003cp\u003eI think the real issue might be the fact that these were applications that did not solve an immediate pain and yet wanted an upfront payment. In CitySourced's case, there was no graffiti or potholes in the room for people to report but people wanted to download it and play around. Perpetually required maybe months of caching to see a benefit but wanted a $99 upfront fee. (They've since started offering a trial)","parent":"829163","id":"829191"}
{"by":"phy6","time":"1354797109","timestamp":"2012-12-06 12:31:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Man, his phrasing is awkward and annoying.","parent":"4880466","id":"4881483"}
{"by":"phaser","time":"1463768491","timestamp":"2016-05-20 18:21:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Eric! You can reach me at bitquest@bitquest.co. We do want to start experimenting with a sidechain","parent":"11736661","id":"11740204"}
{"by":"Nonea","time":"1359087526","timestamp":"2013-01-25 04:18:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like Les Miserables...","parent":"5111073","id":"5113922"}
{"by":"sdiq","time":"1449661291","timestamp":"2015-12-09 11:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Satoshi.","parent":"10703097","id":"10703102"}
{"by":"pjscott","time":"1282358395","timestamp":"2010-08-21 02:39:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Computer labs usually have decent hardware, and are free for students to use. That should work as long as they can get the administrators to allow Portal on the computer lab machines.","parent":"1622124","id":"1622146"}
{"by":"mark_l_watson","time":"1272924997","timestamp":"2010-05-03 22:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice, I am curious how it will benchmark against Ruby 1.9.1 for some of my libraries. Anyone run any benchmarks yet on their code?","parent":"1316166","id":"1316274"}
{"by":"CurtMonash","time":"1366013990","timestamp":"2013-04-15 08:19:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon will probably have some very strong competitors. For starters, there will be national-champion types, who will prosper due to geo-compliance issues if nothing else. (I.e., rules restricting cross-border data transfer.) Other security compliance will also matter, both pro- (strong enough security) and anti- (government back doors). OpenStack is currently an Amazon fast follower, but that's apt to change, with OpenStack getting some technical advantages as well. And OpenStack is likely to maintain the very big advantage you can move it among providers and hardware configurations, on-premise or off-.","parent":"5549432","id":"5550362"}
{"by":"root_axis","time":"1516746430","timestamp":"2018-01-23 22:27:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And \u0026quot;BCH proper\u0026quot; has identical scarcity characteristics to BTC and it\u0026#x27;s not as if the creation of BCH negatively impacted the price of BTC - suddenly a new \u0026quot;scarce\u0026quot; token was created and everyone who was holding BTC before the fork is $1600 USD per coin richer today. The scarcity aspect is purely a social construct.","parent":"16218230","id":"16218420"}
{"by":"Nimitz14","time":"1540850664","timestamp":"2018-10-29 22:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m guessing you are not interests in local events.","parent":"18330117","id":"18331983"}
{"by":"bayesian_horse","time":"1538130602","timestamp":"2018-09-28 10:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This almost sounds like one of those pranks Australians like to play on tourists.","parent":"18083344","id":"18092267"}
{"by":"ojosilva","time":"1320362005","timestamp":"2011-11-03 23:13:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only dependency hell I've had installing modules in my 14 years of programming with dynamic languages was trying to get 2 different Rails apps to work out of the same gems...\u003cp\u003eRuby, my other favorite language besides Perl, is just as vulnerable to dependency problems as... every other language!\u003cp\u003eRuby, Python, Perl, Java, they all have lots of packages and modules that depend on each other. So do many Linux distributions. Dependency hell is not language nor domain specific.\u003cp\u003eAfter all these years, one of the reasons I stick with Perl and CPAN is precisely because I can monitor and anticipate dependency problems with CPAN Testers. MetaCPAN has nice impact analysis tools too. I'm yet to find something comparable in any other language ecosystem. Hell, you can't even specify a minimum version of a module to import in Python, like in Perl's \"use Module 2.3\".","parent":"3192933","id":"3194124"}
{"by":"mootothemax","time":"1347874747","timestamp":"2012-09-17 09:39:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI've been thinking for some years now, I wish everyone would stop implementing features and perfect the ones that are already there.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook at the iPhone 5 discussions taking place. The most common topic you'll see is: \u003ci\u003eit doesn't have enough new features\u003c/i\u003e. That kind of thinking is one of the reasons that refinement doesn't take place as often as you and I would like.","parent":"4531815","id":"4531827"}
{"by":"kator","time":"1357641774","timestamp":"2013-01-08 10:42:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you decode it you will know. :)","parent":"5020907","id":"5025643"}
{"by":"ayharano","time":"1393969985","timestamp":"2014-03-04 21:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there any official development or user mailing list? I am trying to set both static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, but I am able to set only the address, not their respective default routes. BTW, I am using Arch Linux ARM and systemd 210 just kicked into repositories today.","parent":"7295850","id":"7343468"}
{"by":"chenluois","time":"1317618064","timestamp":"2011-10-03 05:01:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know, I'm glad you like Mou. :)","parent":"3062692","id":"3065119"}
{"by":"gozzoo","time":"1407356063","timestamp":"2014-08-06 20:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that in long term it will take much less effort to customize ChromeOS than Ubuntu. Initially it will be harder but after that it will require next to no maintenance. Changing the kernel sounds much more complicated than finding a way to install a package manager. Google might also be willing to participate in this in more ways than just helping set up the environment, which could be very beneficial for the whole project.","parent":"8144281","id":"8144593"}
{"by":"vinchuco","time":"1516413040","timestamp":"2018-01-20 01:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that\u0026#x27;s being optimistic","parent":"16191378","id":"16191570"}
{"by":"vikas5678","time":"1201649793","timestamp":"2008-01-29 23:36:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am a grad student at the san jose state university and a freelance programmer.","parent":"105976","id":"106511"}
{"by":"gbrindisi","time":"1369579801","timestamp":"2013-05-26 14:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know it's used for child pornography, carding and malware related incomes but not for child slavery.\u003cp\u003eFrom the little I saw on underground forums LR is used for mid to low criminal incomes, by the like of botnet herding profits and carding infos trade.\nFor things bigger and riskier like cashing out massive amounts of stolen cards and bank drops it's my understanding that cybercrooks are using money mule schemes and networks of off shore companies, not LR or similar... I'd flag child slavery as an high risk activity which can't be done just trough LR-like currencies, that's why I was asking for some sources.","parent":"5771170","id":"5771218"}
{"by":"Jare","time":"1491429325","timestamp":"2017-04-05 21:55:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"During development of the game [Prototype] I experimented with a number of game logic update scenarios, including variable timesteps, fixed (potentially multiple per frame) and limited fixed (potentially leading to slow motion), in combination with factors like enabling and disabling vsync, taking into account camera movement (speed, mostly horizontal or mostly vertical?), amount of explosions and debris going off, etc. To try and find the best experience for the player at each moment.\u003cp\u003eBut we always had physics running at a fixed update rate (always receiving a constant delta time) regardless of any of the above. Trying variable rates there will ruin the stability of your movement, collisions, platforming, etc in any system that is complex or requires precision and predictability.","parent":"14045896","id":"14046000"}
{"by":"SageRaven","time":"1284433284","timestamp":"2010-09-14 03:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not horribly efficient, but you could enable screen's session log (C-a H), base64 encode the remote file to stdout, tidy up the local capture file, then decode it.","parent":"1689191","id":"1689253"}
{"by":"throwwiffle","time":"1373910623","timestamp":"2013-07-15 17:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"and paste - quick and simple for working with columns","parent":"6047126","id":"6047248"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1276875940","timestamp":"2010-06-18 15:45:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Big enough that developers would target it if there was any interest.\u003cp\u003eI think it's not about size, but potential growth. Nokia's two platforms will remain limited. Nokia's 44% share is not in the smartphone segment, IIRC. Having 99.9% of the featurephones means very little for those who write apps for smartphones.","parent":"1442269","id":"1442542"}
{"by":"jarcoal","time":"1348339127","timestamp":"2012-09-22 18:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They probably have, but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot of great contributions ahead.\u003cp\u003eThe last decade at Apple has been a once-in-a-century run; we might all die before seeing another company pull something like that off again.","parent":"4558429","id":"4558611"}
{"by":"silentbicycle","time":"1287353268","timestamp":"2010-10-17 22:07:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This could be done in a couple different ways. My point was that you can use multiple functions with tail calls rather than one big self.state == self.STATE_TAG switch statement. In this case, the input for loop works like a trampoline, so the stack doesn't build up. It could have been done the same way in Python (where self.state IS the \"handle next byte\" method). That wouldn't be true for all FSMs, though.\u003cp\u003eIn something that take input one piece at a time, it'd probably still be simplest to use a coroutine. Also, everything here could be made private except new, if it mattered. I tried to make a straightforword translation of the first Python sample. It looks rather like a recursive descent parser.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    local header, footer, dle = '\\97', '\\98', '\\253'\n    \n    function wait_header(s, byte)\n       if byte == header then s.frame = {}; return in_msg end\n       return wait_header\n    end\n    \n    function in_msg(s, byte)\n       if byte == dle then\n          return after_dle\n       elseif byte == footer then\n          return table.concat(s.frame)\n       else\n          s.frame[#s.frame+1] = byte    --append to frame buffer\n          return in_msg\n       end\n    end\n    \n    function after_dle(s, byte)\n       s.frame[#s.frame+1] = s.adf(byte)\n       return in_msg\n    end\n    \n    function new(after_dle_func)\n       local state, func = { adf = after_dle_func, frame = {} }, wait_header\n       return function(byte)\n                 func = func(state, byte)\n                 if type(func) == \"string\" then return func end\n              end\n    end\n    \n    -- test --\n    foo = new(function(x) print \"(in after_dle_func)\"; return x:upper() end)\n    \n    -- this is like \"for /./ in string do ...\"\n    for b in string.gmatch(\"foo\\97frame contents\\253dle\\98end\", \".\") do\n       local res = foo(b)\n       if res then print(\"GOT FRAME: \", res); break end\n    end\n    \n\n    \u0026#62; dofile(\"/tmp/lua-6043PeX\")\n    (in after_dle_func)\n    GOT FRAME: \tframe contentsDle\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAlso, Shriram Krishnamurthi's \"The Swine Before Perl\" (\u003ca href=\"http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Talks/SwineBeforePerl/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Talks/SwineBeforePe...\u003c/a\u003e) also has a good example of using tail calls to write FSMs in Scheme.","parent":"1801027","id":"1801569"}
{"by":"spiralx","time":"1527183905","timestamp":"2018-05-24 17:45:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s digital data that\u0026#x27;s covered by GDPR, so a bricks and mortar outfit with solely paper records wouldn\u0026#x27;t be affected.","parent":"17143674","id":"17146421"}
{"by":"pessimizer","time":"1391687642","timestamp":"2014-02-06 11:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representativeness_heuristic\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Representativeness_heuristic\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7189506","id":"7189884"}
{"by":"jlebrech","time":"1509006919","timestamp":"2017-10-26 08:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"how much to per hour with windows?\u003cp\u003eI want to do this.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lg.io\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lg.io\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15556669","id":"15557289"}
{"by":"avaku","time":"1396573708","timestamp":"2014-04-04 01:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Be careful not to get sued like that guy who posted an article about detecting songs and got sued by Shazam, even though everybody knows about FFT (I\u0026#x27;ve been doing something like that for my BSc)","parent":"7521844","id":"7528424"}
{"by":"lallysingh","time":"1327546767","timestamp":"2012-01-26 02:59:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A query string, by itself, is just a few words in a specific order.  It doesn't say very much at all.  A machine has very little idea of what you're asking for.  The more context it has for what you're talking about, the better chance it has at guessing what you meant -- that's all it can do, it'll never actually know.\u003cp\u003eGoogle's often guessing wrong now -- how many times is the link you want not the top one?  How often do you have to change your query?  It's all a guessing game, because the situations where there's an obvious right answer (like exact phrases) doesn't give satisfactory results.  Moreover, interpreting queries for those situations can often (even usually) give sub-optimal results, as the computer's taking the query too literally.\u003cp\u003eAs for programming queries, my email's actually pretty useful.  I'm subscribed to a few mailing lists, and it'd be nice to not get Perl or Win32 results when I'm mostly in C and Linux.  A trivial scan of my email headers would say as much.\u003cp\u003eFor other interests, my youtube play list indicates a lot of what I mean.  I like cats, and I watch them on youtube.  When I type in jaguar, I'm actually probably asking about the cat, not the car.  Lots of other people are asking about the car.  It's particularly obvious if they were watching a review of a car recently, and not watching cat videos.\u003cp\u003eAnd as for your friends, how about the people you follow?  If I'm following really good programmers, and I type in a programming-related query, I'd rather get results biased toward what really good programmers like, versus the unbiased average.  Even for my friends, I actually respect some of their opinions (gasp!).  If they've +1'd something in the realm of what I'm looking for, it's probably worth considering.","parent":"3511356","id":"3512729"}
{"by":"SonicSoul","time":"1443791275","timestamp":"2015-10-02 13:07:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"great post and it changed my perspective on what wasabi was. This part makes complete sense:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorking on FogBugz changed my perspective on technical debt. I used to believe, as I suspect many do, that it was strictly a bad thing. You took a shortcut because you’re lazy, and then it comes back later to bite you. Count how many times that Wikipedia article uses the word “lack”. As the originator of the term Ward Cunningham explains, that’s off the mark. Buying something with credit doesn’t automatically imply you’re not going to pay your bills.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInstead of thinking of technical debt as yesterday’s work that I failed to do, I think of it as tomorrow’s feature I can have today. You have to pay interest, but in the mean time you’re shipping a product, have a roof over your head, and are keeping the lights on. A much hipper programmer might say something like “you ain’t gonna need it.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn one sense, Wasabi was a rather substantial payment on the debt we had accumulated. FogBugz was written in a now dead language. Building a compiler extended the life of the product, though of course now we had to pay for the compiler, too. So maybe it was more like a bridge loan, or refinancing. The financial wellbeing of Fog Creek at the time depended on FogBugz, so a total rewrite would have been a terribly risky investment. Even if it costs more in the long run, spreading those payments out over time gets you a lot of stability.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhile I also enjoyed Coding Horrors: \u003ci\u003eHas Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?\u003c/i\u003e[0], Jeff either missed this point or ignored it on purpose to support the shark-jump theory\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com\u0026#x2F;has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-shark\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com\u0026#x2F;has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sha...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10314933","id":"10318212"}
{"by":"wahern","time":"1513648677","timestamp":"2017-12-19 01:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026gt; You create a centralized bureaucracy by hiring bureaucrats and giving them the final say. \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAmericans don\u0026#x27;t like doing that, especially conservative Americans for whom \u0026quot;centralized bureaucracy\u0026quot; is literally synonymous with Communism. In many states even judges and sheriffs are elected. My point is, if you want to shield the regulation from politics your best bet (although by no means guaranteed) is a framework that creates a private right of action.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026gt; Similarly with zoning boards and the YIMBY suits\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIf zoning boards mechanically applied zoning ordinances like they\u0026#x27;re supposed to, things wouldn\u0026#x27;t be nearly as problematic as they are now. Ask any developer; they\u0026#x27;d be thrilled if they only had to contend with the letter of the zoning ordinances.\u003cp\u003eFWIW, in the business world private rights of action are usually preferred over a centralized regulator, at least if they have to choose their poison. Centralized regulators usually _prohibit_ certain business practices prophylactically long before any substantial harm arises. Whereas with private rights of action you get to do whatever you want, whenever you want, until you _actually_ harm someone.\u003cp\u003eHistorically this is one reason why some economists argue the United States and other Common Law jurisdictions that relied on civil actions were more innovative. Similarly, such jurisdictions were long considered more business friendly as regulatory policies were more predictable. A central regulator can decide to block your business on a whim, whereas with a civil action there has to be _actual_ harm as well as refusal to settle damages outside of court. Both can involve a lot of red tape and a long paper trail. The important distinctions are 1) whether the government steps in before or after substantial harm has occurred, and 2) how closely penalties reflect actual harm.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, the basic issue is how reliably you can price risk into your business plan. A business can reasonably plan expenses for civil suits. A regulator can shut you down, and all the money in the world won\u0026#x27;t stop it.\u003cp\u003eBut other Common Law jurisdictions have slowly shifted enforcement to Continental-style centralized regulators. The U.S. has too, but it\u0026#x27;s been more chaotic, inconsistent, and (predictably) much more corrupted by politics. There are many reasons for this, but in any event there\u0026#x27;s no reason to think that Americans can do centralized bureaucracy any better than we do now. It\u0026#x27;s important to recognize and accept built-in political and societal constraints when engineering regulatory frameworks if you want to maximum benefit and minimize harm.","parent":"15955646","id":"15957163"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1405633288","timestamp":"2014-07-17 21:41:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Geeze I\u0026#x27;ve been visiting HN all day and didn\u0026#x27;t see this one. Was it pushed off the main page artificially?","parent":"8050309","id":"8050360"}
{"by":"thephyber","time":"1516225290","timestamp":"2018-01-17 21:41:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This would get rid of the abuse of plea bargaining\u003cp\u003eI would argue that there is little or no \u0026quot;abuse\u0026quot; of plea bargaining.\u003cp\u003eThe current system has evolved from a fitness function which encourages more laws, fewer prosecutors and judges per capita, less time per defendant to plead their case in a courtroom, and more incentive for prosecutors to appear to \u0026quot;win\u0026quot; the vast majority of their cases.\u003cp\u003eThere is no place in that fitness function for justice or ethics. Those who appear to get those luxuries get them entirely because they have the means to leverage the legal system (usually before\u0026#x2F;during the crime, not after the arrest).\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s unrealistic to expect that mere mortal humans to know all of the laws that govern them (I doubt most people have read more than a paragraph of state laws that govern them), let alone to understand them with the expertise of a lawyer.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s not enough resources for cities or states to allow more than ~5% of people to plead innocence in a courtroom so the plea bargaining system isn\u0026#x27;t being \u0026quot;abused\u0026quot;, it\u0026#x27;s a necessary evil in order for the extremely expensive society we have.","parent":"16170119","id":"16172190"}
{"by":"ramblerman","time":"1537361223","timestamp":"2018-09-19 12:47:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did they look at the reverse as well, or would that not be shocking enough?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d be surprised if there were no companies targeting only women for tampons, various beauty products, breast health.","parent":"18020018","id":"18023764"}
{"by":"DiabloD3","time":"1447864719","timestamp":"2015-11-18 16:38:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re preaching to the choir however.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve used Debian for over 15 years, use it on all my home machines that run Linux, and also use it for prod everywhere at work. Everything you listed is \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e I still use Debian, even when Debian politics like this keeps ruining Debian further.\u003cp\u003eI won\u0026#x27;t touch Ubuntu with a twelve foot pole, and I think RHEL family distros are trash.\u003cp\u003eHowever, when I say Debian has deep internal politics issues, I am saying this unbiasedly: I like Debian, but I wish they\u0026#x27;d stop ruining my distro of choice.","parent":"10585370","id":"10588779"}
{"by":"kamjam","time":"1371662886","timestamp":"2013-06-19 17:28:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI can point to many computer games that were distributed through MegaUpload - perfectly legal games - that have now disappeared, at least from public view.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo they should just upload it somewhere else now, or through bittorrent. They certainly shouldn\u0026#x27;t have been using MU as a source control repository or as their only copy.","parent":"5905841","id":"5906882"}
{"by":"markhall","time":"1319503371","timestamp":"2011-10-25 00:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks staunch!","parent":"3145305","id":"3152251"}
{"by":"symmetricsaurus","time":"1455184603","timestamp":"2016-02-11 09:56:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got a login screen that popped up after a while. Pressing ESC got rid of it.","parent":"11079005","id":"11079242"}
{"by":"afarrell","time":"1446125700","timestamp":"2015-10-29 13:35:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Basore also noted that you can meet some of the evening surge simply by pointing photovoltaic panels to the west instead of the south. But since all electricity is priced equally, everyone tries to point theirs south for maximum productivity.\u003cp\u003eDoes California not use Location Based Marginal Pricing like New York, New England, and Texas?","parent":"10470490","id":"10470828"}
{"by":"kinleyd","time":"1468761820","timestamp":"2016-07-17 13:23:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With focused, deliberate practice, I\u0026#x27;m hoping I crack the electric guitar in 5001. :) But seriously, I know it\u0026#x27;s the journey that\u0026#x27;s more important - the heuristic really does give me confidence when I look at where I am and where I want to be.","parent":"12109967","id":"12110091"}
{"by":"jusben1369","time":"1446229202","timestamp":"2015-10-30 18:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trust me I\u0026#x27;m not bashing Apple. I think what they\u0026#x27;ve done is amazing. It\u0026#x27;s just that there are signs of this being a saturated, or at least slowing, market.","parent":"10466298","id":"10479534"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1490603218","timestamp":"2017-03-27 08:26:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Care to elaborate? What exactly did the person do wrong? Seems like a very strange thing to be upset about.","parent":"13964690","id":"13965992"}
{"by":"mcherm","time":"1332183066","timestamp":"2012-03-19 18:51:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My decision drivers:\n(1) Will I personally be able to make a difference for the company (and the world at large) in this position?\n(2) Who will I be working with? Do I like them? Will I learn from them?\n(3) Do I have the skills needed to excel at this job?\n(4) Will I get reasonable remuneration in pay/benefits/opportunities?","parent":"3725478","id":"3725493"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1220982489","timestamp":"2008-09-09 17:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why use threads when you can use an event-based IO system?  (I think Twisted is the Python way of doing this.)","parent":"299595","id":"299640"}
{"by":"unmole","time":"1545203388","timestamp":"2018-12-19 07:09:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the term you\u0026#x27;re looking for is \u0026quot;reality distortion field\u0026quot;.","parent":"18713734","id":"18713755"}
{"by":"giovannibajo1","time":"1439264785","timestamp":"2015-08-11 03:46:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes but also the privacy implications are over exaggerated. This kind of \u0026quot;phoning home\u0026quot;, at least for Apple Siri\u0026#x2F;Spotlight, goes through a session ID which is random, regenerated every 30 minutes, and not bound to Apple ID or other user profile. Moreover, IP addresses are not used, not communicated to third parties (eg: Bing for Siri) and anonymized in logs. So yes, it\u0026#x27;s a \u0026quot;phoning home\u0026quot;, but with different implications compared to eg. inputting a wifi password on a logged-in Android phone.","parent":"10038412","id":"10038981"}
{"by":"pclark","time":"1240998829","timestamp":"2009-04-29 09:53:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Christ, $4 a month is a bit steep isn't it?!","parent":"584612","id":"584813"}
{"by":"apohn","time":"1485876266","timestamp":"2017-01-31 15:24:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Part of the issue might come from being from PreSales.  Does your resume strongly reflect that you were in a PreSales role?  Should it? If you are applying for PreSales roles, then yes.  If you are trying to get out of PreSales, then no.\u003cp\u003eIn my last job I was part of the PreSales organization and my official title was a PreSales one.  My team was very technical, but IMO PreSales people are technical \u0026quot;experts\u0026quot; only in the sense that they are knowledgeable about the product they sell and the architecture around their product.  Basically, they can talk the talk but how much they can actually do is very narrowly focused.  Many PreSales people typically aren\u0026#x27;t truly experts, even in the products they sell.\u003cp\u003eI decided to get out of PreSales and into a lead technical role and spent 4 months applying to positions and getting nowhere.  Eventually I figured out it was because my resume reflected I was PreSales person and this was a huge \u0026quot;Jack of all trades, master of none\u0026quot; red flag for people.  I changed my resume and completely de-emphasized the PreSales aspects and focused on all the deep technical consulting work I had done.  I did the same thing in interviews, and made sure people understood I was in a very technical role and I was not spending 40 hours a week giving demos.\u003cp\u003eIt still took me time to land a new job, but I started to get interviews and eventually offers after those changes to my resume.","parent":"13528434","id":"13531265"}
{"by":"simonw","time":"1274100085","timestamp":"2010-05-17 12:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing about the Yelp/Facebook bug is that it demonstrates how some of these features have pretty fundamental problems. Facebook gave Yelp full access to their API in a way that meant that any XSS holes in Yelp would result in a breach for Facebook. Yelp had an XSS hole.\u003cp\u003eKeeping a large site free of XSS is really, really hard (especially if you don't have an escape-by-default policy baked in to your template layer). Ensuring your partners are free of XSS is even harder.","parent":"1353775","id":"1354167"}
{"by":"chadwickthebold","time":"1392140313","timestamp":"2014-02-11 17:38:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps someone a little more vulnerable in general might be a good idea. I think I remember reading somewhere that she basically has that seat for life.","parent":"7218828","id":"7218888"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1350417519","timestamp":"2012-10-16 19:58:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's disingenuous to say that they're offering to pay to do the training. They're offering to pay for marketing incentives to get people to do STEM.\u003cp\u003e\"Microsoft is not simply trying to solve the immediate worker shortage. The software company proposes boosting the H-1B visa fee to $10,000 to raise money for a STEM-version of the Race to the Top federal grant program spurring education reform in schools.\"\u003cp\u003e$10,000 pays for about one year of K-12 education in the cheapest states, and about 6-7 months in a state like NY.","parent":"4661505","id":"4661553"}
{"by":"wtfstatists","time":"1517887654","timestamp":"2018-02-06 03:27:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which many wont. Yet business still have to provide same service as someone who has. Cost remains same but now profit reduced drastically. Thus its not economical to provide to EU.\u003cp\u003eIMO this demands more attention from HN: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16314101\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16314101\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16311542","id":"16314230"}
{"by":"madeofpalk","time":"1406731669","timestamp":"2014-07-30 14:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Australia, I would say about at least 75% of all in-person payments I make are with PayPass\u0026#x2F;PayWave. That other 25% is cash and the odd place that hasnt updated their terminals yet. Some banks will even give you like a 5% cash back if you use contactless.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very reliable and is the defacto method of payment in places like pubs. Often I\u0026#x27;ll hand my card over and they\u0026#x27;ll ask \u0026#x27;Can I just PayWave that?\u0026#x27;","parent":"8108362","id":"8108472"}
{"by":"mattcurry","time":"1231423761","timestamp":"2009-01-08 14:09:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Frankly the old version of the site sucked.  I finally got around to launching the new version this past summer.  I was hesitant to push it considering I had no real QA other then myself.  It would have sucked to spent a ton of time/money to market it and then find a huge bug that drove all those users away.\u003cp\u003eNow that it's half way through the school year and there haven't been any issues I'm more confident.  But it doesn't make sense to market it now, since teachers are already in their routine for the year.  Next August I plan on making a bigger push.","parent":"424494","id":"424894"}
{"by":"bambax","time":"1316340661","timestamp":"2011-09-18 10:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eAnd if you need to prepend a + to query terms, that means for the given query terms, the missing word is rarely occurring and the overall ranking is low\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsn't that the point of \u003ci\u003esearching\u003c/i\u003e: find a specific thing in a whole bag of other things? I don't use Google to find the Yahoo homepage (I know many people actually do; should we help them???)\u003cp\u003eIf you were right, Altavista would have prevailed and Google would not have emerged; the way Altavista worked was, they linked the words in a query with the \"OR\" operator, so that any query produced at least some results, however irrelevant.\u003cp\u003eIf you were right, Google would have done this from the start; why are they doing it now?\u003cp\u003e(Could it be because focus groups are taking over?)\u003cp\u003eBesides, what I'm complaining about is different from automatic spell correction; when you mistype a query Google automatically searches for (what it thinks are) the correctly spelled words, but it \u003ci\u003etells you about it\u003c/i\u003e and let you search for your original query with just one click.\u003cp\u003eHaving \"add\" match \"append\" is done silently, without any \u003ci\u003evisible\u003c/i\u003e option to disable it.\u003cp\u003eAnd if you have many words that you need to prefix with + it gets crazy; in theory there's the \"allintext:\" parameter, but if you use it often you get flagged as a bot and can't search at all.\u003cp\u003eI think I'd pay to have access to a \"Google Pro\" service where all these tricks would be disabled; no Instant, no fuzzy search, no nothing. Like 2001 Google.","parent":"3009702","id":"3009898"}
{"by":"bri3d","time":"1526934904","timestamp":"2018-05-21 20:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I went from full time to contract and failed to exercise vested options shortly before a startup I worked at exited. However, as usual the upside wouldn\u0026#x27;t have been very lucrative anyway after dilution and preference. I was hired and stayed at the acquirer where we have been given great autonomy to grow into a much larger organization, as well as good pay.\u003cp\u003eIn most cases I suspect your upside as a higher ranking employee at the acquirer will be far more important than your upside from the exit itself. If you are interested in the acquirer you would do well to position yourself to get a good role there.","parent":"17120861","id":"17121607"}
{"by":"keir-rex","time":"1540509785","timestamp":"2018-10-25 23:23:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not have I seen it, I\u0026#x27;ve been involved in hiring the person for their next role. There\u0026#x27;s a lot to be suspicious of but I think most people have been in a position where the personal relationship is beyond reconciliation for no other reason except it\u0026#x27;s difficult to change well formed opinions.","parent":"18304908","id":"18305497"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1357691412","timestamp":"2013-01-09 00:30:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very similar vulnerabilities have definitely been discovered in other platforms.\u003cp\u003eThis vulnerability is most similar to the object loader vulnerabilities found in Spring a few years back. It is the kind of vulnerability that is occasionally found in Java web stacks.\u003cp\u003eIt is a simpler vulnerability. This is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it is easier to fix (and to be sure we've fixed) than the objectloader-type stuff. On the other hand, it's so easy to reason about and work with that the exploit is straightforward. It was very difficult to find ways to talk about the general pattern of weakness in this code without immediately disclosing the exploit.\u003cp\u003eThe vulnerability is similar in spirit to Python's Pickle, which is also unsafe for untrusted data. A difference between Raila and Django, though: while specific Django apps have had Pickle exposures, I'm not sure Django itself ever did.\u003cp\u003ePHP has vulnerabilities that are similar in impact to this vulnerability. But there's a big difference between this flaw (and the Python issues) and PHP: PHP grappled for years and years with a publicly known bug class (remote file inclusion) that coughed up code execution. It's not impossible that more RCE flaws will be found in Rails, but it's unlikely to become a class of bug that every Rails developer will need to adopt best practices to stop.\u003cp\u003eNo mainstream web platform has ever survived long deployment in popular applications without some horrible finding. Nobody's hands are clean. It is very difficult to get security right in every single component that a full-featured web framework needs to offer. It only takes one mistake.\u003cp\u003eYou are dead right about deserializers in general.","parent":"5029296","id":"5029385"}
{"by":"sanswork","time":"1489513364","timestamp":"2017-03-14 17:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But that would be an authentic hockey stick.  It\u0026#x27;d just be a shit one.","parent":"13869546","id":"13869693"}
{"by":"tcj_phx","time":"1452668384","timestamp":"2016-01-13 06:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the drug companies recently paid a massive fine for falsifying research to justify selling their antidepressant to children:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.justice.gov\u0026#x2F;opa\u0026#x2F;pr\u0026#x2F;glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-and-pay-3-billion-resolve-fraud-allegations-and-failure-report\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.justice.gov\u0026#x2F;opa\u0026#x2F;pr\u0026#x2F;glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-a...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe big players have a lot of money invested in exactly-wrong theories and approaches to mental health.","parent":"10892639","id":"10892726"}
{"by":"dokein","time":"1530147513","timestamp":"2018-06-28 00:58:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Annual revenue, monthly fee.","parent":"17413207","id":"17413218"}
{"by":"joshka","time":"1345708622","timestamp":"2012-08-23 07:57:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Outside","parent":"4421288","id":"4421366"}
{"by":"captn3m0","time":"1525800037","timestamp":"2018-05-08 17:20:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally agree. We\u0026#x27;ve been using Traefik+Ingress and the lack of customizability in the configuration has been a minor pain point.\u003cp\u003eComing from nginx\u0026#x2F;apache rulesets where you can pretty much route a request however you want to a simple Ingress is jarring.","parent":"17022625","id":"17022674"}
{"by":"jharrison","time":"1375738247","timestamp":"2013-08-05 21:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which simply means that he now has a content asset that he can license back to Amazon for distribution if he wishes. It\u0026#x27;s seems like it could be a lot like a business owner buying a building under a different company name only to lease it back to their primary business for a variety of benefits.","parent":"6163131","id":"6163221"}
{"by":"rimantas","time":"1239100967","timestamp":"2009-04-07 10:42:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Once again I am glad that Apple does not do what it supposedly \"should\" do. Current design has some advantages: namely your controls are always more or less in the same place. You don't have to reach in your pockets, grab around yourself looking where did you clip that damn shuffle — just grab the wire and you are done.\nProposed design has more flaws than advantages, not to mention the cost of such interface.","parent":"550656","id":"550708"}
{"by":"jesperlang","time":"1531243078","timestamp":"2018-07-10 17:17:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but slowness only became a bad thing when time became money.\u003cp\u003eThis. After downscaling my expenses and started working at 25-50% it\u0026#x27;s amazing how much time I got now compared to working full time. We really under value time and have a weird perspective on it and what we can use it for. Walking to the shop can take 45 minutes for me now which seem ridiculous for some when a car ride takes 5-10 minutes. But what is not accounted for is that slowness itself has value, I have time for reflection while walking, I get fresh air and move my body, I don\u0026#x27;t need to worry about a car and its costs. The same goes for food. I used to do alot of take outs when I worked full time but now I don\u0026#x27;t hesitate to prepare and cook for 2-3 hours, I get a much more intimate experience with food, I learn things and get to eat food that taste great.","parent":"17499346","id":"17500164"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1412821985","timestamp":"2014-10-09 02:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was Islamist opposition to polio eradication campaigns before anyone in the West was sure that Osama Bin Laden was in Pakistan. (That\u0026#x27;s why it surprised me that vaccination campaigns were used as a ruse for verifying his whereabouts, but apparently Bin Laden\u0026#x27;s personal crazy ideas didn\u0026#x27;t include opposition to vaccination.) It\u0026#x27;s not entirely a coincidence that even before anyone heard about Bin Laden, the last few places on earth with endemic polio were all places with militant Islamist movements. Personally, I would rather have my children live long healthy lives, no matter whose idea it was to invent vaccines or to use a vaccination campaign as a pretext to find an international fugitive, but logic doesn\u0026#x27;t always appeal to people who are already making excuses for being illogical.","parent":"8430338","id":"8430515"}
{"by":"copenja","time":"1247210731","timestamp":"2009-07-10 07:25:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't help but read these articles.\u003cp\u003eReally.  One after another.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, I never get anything out of it.","parent":"697125","id":"697254"}
{"by":"_justinfunk","time":"1511926458","timestamp":"2017-11-29 03:34:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is my hangup with it. The libertarian dreams of a decentralized currency can never happen if people expect their money to rapidly increase in value.\u003cp\u003eWhy would I buy a pizza today, or a house, or an island, with BTC if in 6 months, that same BTC would be worth 10x.","parent":"15804184","id":"15804335"}
{"by":"_mrmnmly","time":"1528739739","timestamp":"2018-06-11 17:55:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe try to write to this guy: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;wybuchajacebeczki\u0026#x2F;about\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;wybuchajacebeczki\u0026#x2F;about\u003c/a\u003e He\u0026#x27;s pretty famous Polish Youtuber\u0026#x2F;entrepreneur\u0026#x2F;Video maker who has companies in Poland \u0026amp; Japan - maybe he will be able\u0026#x2F;willing to help you.","parent":"17283119","id":"17286682"}
{"by":"jccooper","time":"1426795038","timestamp":"2015-03-19 19:57:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Millions would be great, as it\u0026#x27;s currently a matter of tens (or hundreds) or millions. Order of magnitude can make a big difference.","parent":"9233665","id":"9234201"}
{"by":"twobyfour","time":"1499443878","timestamp":"2017-07-07 16:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure it\u0026#x27;s just structure, though.  I think there\u0026#x27;s an aspect of social pressure, for instance.","parent":"14701723","id":"14719542"}
{"by":"justinzollars","time":"1506752030","timestamp":"2017-09-30 06:13:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read The Creature of Jekyll Island.","parent":"15371130","id":"15371512"}
{"by":"snvzz","time":"1532951037","timestamp":"2018-07-30 11:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"lowrisc is the latter.","parent":"17643599","id":"17643742"}
{"by":"randallsquared","time":"1383216470","timestamp":"2013-10-31 10:47:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since some people would prefer not to lie, the fact that they didn\u0026#x27;t have to removes the \u0026quot;AND they were lying\u0026quot; clause from the hypothesis and thereby raises the chances that they\u0026#x27;re involved.  It\u0026#x27;s not an assumption that they replied truthfully, but a removal of the requirement that they lied when asked.","parent":"6645660","id":"6646076"}
{"by":"SmellyGeekBoy","time":"1544027499","timestamp":"2018-12-05 16:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t they use React for their UI?","parent":"18609452","id":"18609761"}
{"by":"JohnTHaller","time":"1505753286","timestamp":"2017-09-18 16:48:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also worth noting that the default installer for CCleaner automatically installs Chrome and sets it as the default browser with no notification in the default process.   Unless you click \u0026quot;More...\u0026quot; from one of the screens, then it tells you.  At least it was like this two weeks ago.  Had to uninstall bundleware Chrome again from multiple family members\u0026#x27; PCs.","parent":"15274339","id":"15277431"}
{"by":"azakai","time":"1403895616","timestamp":"2014-06-27 19:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The danger is that the VM has different semantics (for example, integer overflow) than dart2js code. If the same dart code sometimes runs in JS and sometimes in the dart VM, people are going to hit weird bugs.\u003cp\u003eAlso, if it is possible to ship dart code by itself - without the JS fallback - then we are going to see sites that don\u0026#x27;t bother with the JS fallback, and those sites are only going to work in chrome.\u003cp\u003eFor both of those reasons, the dart VM is somewhat worrying from the perspective of the openness of the web.","parent":"7955616","id":"7955695"}
{"by":"scrumper","time":"1517003256","timestamp":"2018-01-26 21:47:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always thought it was deliberately designed to invoke beetle pincers, or bug jaws.","parent":"16242316","id":"16243161"}
{"by":"Karunamon","time":"1415894138","timestamp":"2014-11-13 15:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is this different from just `init`ing the repo in your home directory and only adding files you care about?","parent":"8601926","id":"8602157"}
{"by":"vinothgopi","time":"1359835450","timestamp":"2013-02-02 20:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All the buttons are Google buttons' color scheme. Took me a while to notice that.","parent":"5157084","id":"5157123"}
{"by":"hawleyal","time":"1411408268","timestamp":"2014-09-22 17:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently running unauthorized JavaScript is now computer fraud.","parent":"8351076","id":"8351594"}
{"by":"romaniv","time":"1386950942","timestamp":"2013-12-13 16:09:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If someone said \u0026quot;my front left tire is flat\u0026quot;, most people would assume that other tires are okay. That\u0026#x27;s not an error in reasoning, as some pedants would claim, it\u0026#x27;s just the way natural language works. So yes, the title is written to imply exactly what you say it doesn\u0026#x27;t claim.","parent":"6900852","id":"6901200"}
{"by":"Aissen","time":"1446128759","timestamp":"2015-10-29 14:25:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since it now requires extension signing they could decide to revoke any extension they decide. Of course the process is more open, but it\u0026#x27;s also a walled garden :-(","parent":"10471069","id":"10471188"}
{"by":"CaliforniaKarl","time":"1535597763","timestamp":"2018-08-30 02:56:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like they’re working on moving to HTML5.  That’s awesome!","parent":"17873723","id":"17873800"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1399813146","timestamp":"2014-05-11 12:59:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hosts requiring a reboot due to issues with the underlying physical hardware are inevitable for VMs.  It happens to me approximately once per instance-year on Rackspace (and before that, Slicehost). [Edit: Slightly better approximation: ~5 incidents in the last ~20 instance-years.]\u003cp\u003eThe general level of seriousness with regards to operations is not constant across all VM providers.  Let\u0026#x27;s put it this way: there exist companies where the heart-and-soul of the business is supporting $5 a month hobbyists and there are companies where the heart-and-soul of the business is business-grade services.  Choose appropriately.","parent":"7728440","id":"7728583"}
{"by":"tw04","time":"1499870112","timestamp":"2017-07-12 14:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And yet they want to be the go-to IOT company... kind of scary.","parent":"14752774","id":"14752821"}
{"by":"nerd_in_rage","time":"1299787592","timestamp":"2011-03-10 20:06:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what were you trying to do? I've found the UIWebView to be pretty decent and have worked on some hybrid native/web apps.\u003cp\u003eI have native code calling into JS code that runs in UIWebView, and JS code calling back into Obj-C, etc.","parent":"2310456","id":"2310531"}
{"by":"Tomte","time":"1451654595","timestamp":"2016-01-01 13:23:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;prog21.dadgum.com\u0026#x2F;116.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;prog21.dadgum.com\u0026#x2F;116.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10820445","id":"10821813"}
{"by":"babby","time":"1369012169","timestamp":"2013-05-20 01:09:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Theoretically if said base could hover above the surface of the sea-bed during an earthquake scenario, perhaps it could resist most of the damage, provided it could remain stable.","parent":"5735191","id":"5735244"}
{"by":"Cyranix","time":"1412980381","timestamp":"2014-10-10 22:33:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I no longer play, but I still watch the pro teams from time to time. One of the things that has impressed me the most about Riot\u0026#x27;s approach has been their willingness to make dramatic modifications to core game mechanics in an effort to keep games exciting for both players and spectators.\u003cp\u003eAn example that indicates the difference between last year\u0026#x27;s world championship games and this year\u0026#x27;s is the ward system. Wards are items that a player can place near their current location, invisible to the enemy team, to gain vision into the fog of war, which is vital for decreasing risk in map-wide coordinated team strategies. Under the old system, pro teams often bogged down during the mid- and late-game phases as they vied for map vision superiority, and the only viable strategy was to purchase as many of the superior ward type (pink, with green being inferior) as possible and equip at least one player with a long-term ability to see invisible elements. Under the new system, both green and pink wards are valuable — the former are invisible to enemies and time-limited, the latter are visible to enemies but can detect invisible elements and are not time-limited — and all players have access to a periodic ability to place an extra ward or shut down enemy wards. As a result, the action in this year\u0026#x27;s matches has been much more consistent, as teams can still angle for vision control without losing momentum.\u003cp\u003eJust today, I saw some rough notes (\u003ca href=\"http://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/9dG0ndq0-rough-notes-pbe\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;c\u0026#x2F;champions-gamepla...\u003c/a\u003e) on changes being tested in public beta. The scope of changes is massive! Starting stats, behavior of towers, and the range of temporary buffs are all on the table for a major revamp. It would be really easy for Riot to resist improving their game under the excuse of \u0026quot;this is the way we\u0026#x27;ve always done it\u0026quot;, but they continue to push and innovate from within. A great example of keeping a startup mentality alive within an established company!\u003cp\u003e=====\u003cp\u003eOn another note more closely related to the posted article: for anyone that doesn\u0026#x27;t already watch pro-level League of Legends and is interested based on this article, you can follow the remainder of the current world championship matches through \u003ca href=\"http://na.lolesports.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;na.lolesports.com\u003c/a\u003e — the next best-of-five between two Samsung-sponsored teams should be very exciting. Past matches are available via \u003ca href=\"http://na.lolesports.com/vods/league/worlds\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;na.lolesports.com\u0026#x2F;vods\u0026#x2F;league\u0026#x2F;worlds\u003c/a\u003e and I would highly recommend the Fnatic vs. OMG game from the group stages (direct link: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O345c46mFqY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=O345c46mFqY\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"8439641","id":"8440387"}
{"by":"zamalek","time":"1497633843","timestamp":"2017-06-16 17:24:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real problem is the intersection of people who can afford it and people who want to go. Mars will need more people than that intersection to be successful.\u003cp\u003eThe human race needs a loss-leader.","parent":"14570649","id":"14570854"}
{"by":"ubernostrum","time":"1477646866","timestamp":"2016-10-28 09:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They can just read this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;oldnewthing\u0026#x2F;20110310-00\u0026#x2F;?p=11253\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;oldnewthing\u0026#x2F;20110310-00\u0026#x2F;?p=...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12812071","id":"12814292"}
{"by":"stretchwithme","time":"1298803843","timestamp":"2011-02-27 10:50:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess you'd have to cite some examples of what you're talking about.  Europe seems to be quite a mess right now, heading in to the austerity phase where quality gets gutted.\u003cp\u003eI do think winner-take-all elections magnify the ability of corporations in the US.  Unions are more powerful in Europe and strike paralyze France routinely, which doesn't happen in the US very often.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is the government giveaway itself.  I don't see proof that most of the same dynamics aren't happening elsewhere; they're just manifesting differently.\u003cp\u003eHuman nature and the desire to get something for nothing are the same everywhere you go, as is getting fed up with all the distortions created.","parent":"2267562","id":"2267644"}
{"by":"bluedino","time":"1406654881","timestamp":"2014-07-29 17:28:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m going to get down-voted into oblivion, but I never saw the love for Usenet. Sure, every topic under the sun was covered and anyone could access it, but it was far from perfect.\u003cp\u003eImpossible to search until things like DejaNews came along\u003cp\u003eEven going back a few months was a huge PITA on slower connections\u003cp\u003eYour ISP might not have carried every newsgroup, or it might update very slowly\u003cp\u003eI never cared much for mailing lists either, but at least many of them had a search interface that worked well.\u003cp\u003eFor all the problems that web-based bulletin boards had, they were a huge improvement over Usenet. Much easier to use and faster to browse through. You can argue that if you want to, but they were adopted so much faster.","parent":"8103443","id":"8103490"}
{"by":"grafporno","time":"1528935780","timestamp":"2018-06-14 00:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;papers.ssrn.com\u0026#x2F;sol3\u0026#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;papers.ssrn.com\u0026#x2F;sol3\u0026#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17308031","id":"17308216"}
{"by":"rdj2","time":"1220379827","timestamp":"2008-09-02 18:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article or the dev camp? My (non-legal) opinion is that the article gets into NDA-land when they talk about available connection API's and the return values of the accelerometer. It is also my opinion that the dev camp probably had more significant breaches, but if you don't hear developers talking at dev camp, did they really talk? Finally, it's also my opinion that it is silly that we even have to question whether someone breached the SDK NDA. Come on Apple lawyers. Fix this already.","parent":"292919","id":"292955"}
{"by":"mcguire","time":"1532975494","timestamp":"2018-07-30 18:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aaand we\u0026#x27;re off!\u003cp\u003e(For me, the name of the place is \u0026quot;Año Nuevo State Park\u0026quot;, in Spanish, so \u0026quot;Ano Nuevo\u0026quot; is simply misspelled. Don\u0026#x27;t let your technology control you.)","parent":"17640593","id":"17646775"}
{"by":"crispyambulance","time":"1472576815","timestamp":"2016-08-30 17:06:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Calendar time, when it is done truly right, is a complicated topic. There\u0026#x27;s a nice book that has way more detail on this than most people actually would want (Calendrical Calculations, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Calendrical-Calculations-Nachum-Dershowitz\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0521702380\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Calendrical-Calculations-Nachum-Dersh...\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"12391452","id":"12391875"}
{"by":"blackflame7000","time":"1500333653","timestamp":"2017-07-17 23:20:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Treating all calories the same ignores the fact that the body does different things with Carbs, Fats, and Proteins. Proteins help build muscle which raises a person\u0026#x27;s resting metabolic rate. A diet that is deficient in proteins will result in muscle loss and will lower metabolic rate. The scale only tells half the story. 200 lbs of lean muscle burns much more calories than 200 lbs of fat. What you eat directly contributes to this composition and therefore impacts your ability to burn calories.","parent":"14793050","id":"14793127"}
{"by":"EliRivers","time":"1343655625","timestamp":"2012-07-30 13:40:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To code in Python or Scratch you need a working PC. This is a working PC for a fraction of the price of a Dell desktop.","parent":"4312148","id":"4312223"}
{"by":"vinothgopi","time":"1470143542","timestamp":"2016-08-02 13:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon RDS is the managed version of Postgres (among other flavors of relational DBs). Maybe you are confusing it with Redshift.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;rds\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;rds\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12209623","id":"12209652"}
{"by":"haywirez","time":"1525465476","timestamp":"2018-05-04 20:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently visited and totally noticed a lot of minders, caretakers and other seemingly unnecessary jobs, mostly carried out by retirement-age employees or retired volunteers[0]. It was weird but seemed to make sense from a societal perspective, quite heartwarming.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;haywirez.com\u0026#x2F;tokyo-hong-kong-2018\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;haywirez.com\u0026#x2F;tokyo-hong-kong-2018\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16997105","id":"16997965"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1367365866","timestamp":"2013-04-30 23:51:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Twitter has the odd phenomenon of being a private company that news media has to constantly publicly refer to. Even to the point of some articles printing what an unrelated no-name had to say about the event in question. It's bizarre, though it seems also to be in part a lazy way to get 'bystander comments'.","parent":"5635512","id":"5635637"}
{"by":"enra","time":"1366768732","timestamp":"2013-04-24 01:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool, but seems like with your implementation, you can scroll too fast and get lost in the \"white\". Not sure how fix it, possible showing somekind of grid before loading the images could help.\u003cp\u003eThere is a good talk from Netflix team about the problem, specially with low-performance machines. They slowed scrolling so you couldn't get lost. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded\u0026#38;v=xuMWhto62Eo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded\u0026#38;v=x...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5599098","id":"5599206"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1477596569","timestamp":"2016-10-27 19:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait a minute: If you have 10 sick days, then (in theory) you can only take them if you\u0026#x27;re sick. If you have 10 PTO days, you can take them for any reason, including if you\u0026#x27;re sick. Isn\u0026#x27;t that more flexible?\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Ahh, good point, thanks repliers! I forgot the case where PTO comes out of your vacation days (which I have been subject to in several jobs). Yea, those jobs suck.","parent":"12808665","id":"12808868"}
{"by":"dendory","time":"1348459092","timestamp":"2012-09-24 03:58:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The sad thing isn't that we found out they used an illegal warrant, they had suspicious motives, or used illegal wiretapping, but that this comes out purely because this is such a public case. Just think if so much shady business goes on in a case they know will be high profile, how widespread and commonplace these practices must be all around. How many other cases we won't ever hear about because they aren't so scrutinized? Are we yet at a place where officers breaking the law is so commonplace they just don't care or even think about it anymore? Is going by the book something we tell children about, but we all know it never happens?","parent":"4562838","id":"4563141"}
{"by":"rachelbythebay","time":"1373619811","timestamp":"2013-07-12 09:03:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it the cake-baking you object to, or something else entirely?","parent":"6031642","id":"6031668"}
{"by":"morganvachon","time":"1482162695","timestamp":"2016-12-19 15:51:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dating sites and apps like Tinder are designed with hookups and casual sex in mind, not real relationships. As others have said, meeting someone through friends is generally the best way, at least in my experience. Expand your social circle, go to meetups and events that interest you and you\u0026#x27;ll meet interesting people.\u003cp\u003eAnother thing: Don\u0026#x27;t limit your options to other techies. While it may seem like a good idea to be with someone who likes everything you like and works in the same field as you, that can actually get boring fast if there\u0026#x27;s little chemistry beyond a shared interest. My wife is not a techie by any definition and we rarely talk about hardware hacking and futurism (my main interests) because she would be bored to death. Otherwise, we have a lot of shared interests, and our philosophical and political views mesh well.\u003cp\u003eWe \u0026quot;met\u0026quot; via a mutual friend who knew both of us well enough to know we\u0026#x27;d make for a great couple, and she encouraged us both to start talking long distance. When we finally met in person, we had already gotten past the awkward \u0026quot;so what do you like to do\u0026quot; phase, and it made dating easier and less stressful.","parent":"13211829","id":"13212119"}
{"by":"dmpk2k","time":"1385871606","timestamp":"2013-12-01 04:20:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eUhm, Ben lacts tact? Says who?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a general observation I\u0026#x27;ve developed watching node development on occasion. I don\u0026#x27;t even follow it that closely, but a disproportionate amount of negativity seems to stem from bnoordhuis; that\u0026#x27;s why I remember him specifically.\u003cp\u003eOkay, it could be just me, but I\u0026#x27;ve heard other people subsequently complain about his behaviour too.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI think you guys are maybe confusing the tough Dutch culture as being insensitive to some hot issues.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Netherlands isn\u0026#x27;t the world, and only a tiny percentage of developers come from there. As the blog post says, bnoordhuis needs to learn, but so far he has not. Furthermore, regardless of the origins of his behaviour, it\u0026#x27;s still negative.","parent":"6826043","id":"6826081"}
{"by":"tikhonj","time":"1324196582","timestamp":"2011-12-18 08:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect that is at least partly because of heavy performance optimization. Unfortunately, even the cleverest of abstractions tend to break or at least bend when you have to optimize something very heavily.","parent":"3366238","id":"3366254"}
{"by":"X-Istence","time":"1409449414","timestamp":"2014-08-31 01:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You think companies are being picky when they want their data stored in a manner that doesn\u0026#x27;t break the law of the countries they are based in?\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a VERY US centric view...","parent":"8247778","id":"8248171"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1543170238","timestamp":"2018-11-25 18:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Taking the Edward Tufte seminar will probably get you further faster than poking around in 5 different applications for the next few months.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edwardtufte.com\u0026#x2F;tufte\u0026#x2F;courses\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edwardtufte.com\u0026#x2F;tufte\u0026#x2F;courses\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18508284","id":"18528030"}
{"by":"imatworkyo","time":"1368098045","timestamp":"2013-05-09 11:14:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"right, but what  vegetable did you pick?!","parent":"5679709","id":"5679765"}
{"by":"HeyLaughingBoy","time":"1278622087","timestamp":"2010-07-08 20:48:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The trick is to buy packages of at least 100 so if you drop one you just don't care :-)","parent":"1497337","id":"1498716"}
{"by":"jerrysievert","time":"1546277391","timestamp":"2018-12-31 17:29:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are still some postal service rural vehicles.  My normal carrier drives a red Jeep Cherokee with permanently mounted flashing lights, but what makes it special is its right-hand drive.  Her subs tend to drive minivans, or sometimes a white Jeep, all with left-hand drive, magnetic stickers, and magnetic flashing light.","parent":"18795598","id":"18795646"}
{"by":"trenthauck","time":"1315957350","timestamp":"2011-09-13 23:42:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would definitely be interested in this.  Use it everyday for stats, but would like to get better at the fundamentals.\u003cp\u003eI think for it to be most efficient, we should use the book that coincides w/ the MIT lectures.","parent":"2993321","id":"2994121"}
{"by":"deweller","time":"1502738629","timestamp":"2017-08-14 19:23:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But is $4000 the high before the crash?  Or will it go up to $6000 first?  And when it crashes, will it go up again?  Or is it just the start of a 6 month bear market?\u003cp\u003eAttempting to time the market will cause you to lose you money roughly 50% of the time.\u003cp\u003eIf you believe Bitcoin is undervalued, buy it.  If you think it is overvalued and you own some, sell it.","parent":"15001782","id":"15011868"}
{"by":"thwarted","time":"1313822101","timestamp":"2011-08-20 06:35:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI can't imagine a business scenario where [degrade gracefully] would be a legitimate requirement.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot degrading gracefully, which rather than being a way to say you're going to support older versions or browsers without certain \"advanced\" or \"specific\" capabilities, is one way we ended up with bank, utility and government websites that only work in Internet Explorer.  Most of those days are thankfully behind us, but that's mainly because IE doesn't have the market share it once did, and those browsers that do have the significant market share are now more compatible with each other.  Often sites are more complicated than they need to be anyway, and if they weren't so complicated, they wouldn't need to degrade, gracefully or otherwise.","parent":"2904468","id":"2906006"}
{"by":"hamms","time":"1459364861","timestamp":"2016-03-30 19:07:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; GitHub is suppose to be synonymous with innovation\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure I agree. GitHub\u0026#x27;s core service - git - is one that they did not create. I\u0026#x27;d argue that if anything, GitHub is synonymous with accessibility and reliability.","parent":"11385213","id":"11392033"}
{"by":"krschultz","time":"1301329123","timestamp":"2011-03-28 16:18:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So the NYT spent 1% of their revenue on a project to define their entire future business model? Sounds cheaper than most \"lean\" startups.","parent":"2377299","id":"2378900"}
{"by":"d0m","time":"1314547825","timestamp":"2011-08-28 16:10:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things a company will ask you to know is a megaframeworks. Else, it's a micro or simply framework.\u003cp\u003eObviously, I'm not serious here; but there's some truth in it. I.e. You'll see some companies ask for django or rails developers; not for flask python hacker right ;-)","parent":"2934074","id":"2934188"}
{"by":"serge2k","time":"1461180630","timestamp":"2016-04-20 19:30:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Rather than put $200 per year away in a low-risk, low-reward savings account, some put $200 into high-risk, high-reward lottery tickets.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;It is crude yet important to point out that if America’s middle-class and poor were cheaper with their money, they would be richer. One fine policy would be to ban state lotteries\u003cp\u003eoh yeah, that whole $200 dollars a year is really going to help.\u003cp\u003eThis article is complete shit. ugh.","parent":"11536428","id":"11537078"}
{"by":"betterunix","time":"1385516051","timestamp":"2013-11-27 01:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Not sure what you mean by \u0026#x27;poorly researched\u0026#x27;.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI mean that it was poorly researched.  There was no definition of security, no mention of the vast body of related work in digital cash or secure multiparty computation, a weak security analysis, no mention of the fact that polynomial time attacks are usually considered to indicate that a system is not secure (one would think that a different security model would require at least some justification), and so forth.  That is not the mark of a solid research paper; the fact that Bitcoin has become so famous or that people are making money with it has no bearing on the quality of Satoshi\u0026#x27;s own research.","parent":"6805493","id":"6805618"}
{"by":"alblue","time":"1411891631","timestamp":"2014-09-28 08:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is basically a copy of my post at \u003ca href=\"http://alblue.bandlem.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alblue.bandlem.com\u003c/a\u003e and of my stack exchange answer.","parent":"8376567","id":"8379218"}
{"by":"dw0rm","time":"1313827462","timestamp":"2011-08-20 08:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see your point. Although, I've been using 303 redirect for this purpose in my app after reading the specs, and haven't experienced any problems yet. So maybe you should consider switching to 303.","parent":"2905414","id":"2906137"}
{"by":"SigmundA","time":"1510924853","timestamp":"2017-11-17 13:20:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The windshield is a lot more like a modern Class A RV windshield. You don\u0026#x27;t necessarily need a crane to replace, just a couple guys.\u003cp\u003eHaving some tough glass though as they promoted would be really nice on an RV, I\u0026#x27;m jealous.","parent":"15719147","id":"15721720"}
{"by":"courtneycouch0","time":"1351762181","timestamp":"2012-11-01 09:29:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's funny. I never heard it was used in that way!","parent":"4726751","id":"4726768"}
{"by":"emillon","time":"1349269941","timestamp":"2012-10-03 13:12:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It does not fully answer the question, but this discussion is relevant :\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3545548\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3545548\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4607144","id":"4607190"}
{"by":"ajmurmann","time":"1487106339","timestamp":"2017-02-14 21:05:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Hangouts is absolutely a viable product as it is. It just seems like it got released and then everyone moved on instead of making it better.","parent":"13645555","id":"13647181"}
{"by":"nakedrobot2","time":"1354786292","timestamp":"2012-12-06 09:31:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"fast forward a thousand years.... sentient rats using human remains to build new commnunication networks....","parent":"4877628","id":"4881041"}
{"by":"rs999gti","time":"1516561544","timestamp":"2018-01-21 19:05:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I didn\u0026#x27;t understand the net neutrality dig. Price gouging is price gouging, the practice is far older than the Internet.\u003cp\u003eGot to keep that net neutrality is bad narrative going.","parent":"16195764","id":"16199416"}
{"by":"sahaskatta","time":"1396235533","timestamp":"2014-03-31 03:12:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The sound is definitely from the vehicle which is doing the filming. The Tesla Model S does not sound like that.","parent":"7499015","id":"7499364"}
{"by":"ericflo","time":"1327108849","timestamp":"2012-01-21 01:20:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And it appears it will come full circle, as late last year YouTube announced that it was going to start producing original content: \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/29/idUS381630960920111029\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/29/idUS38163096092011...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3492136","id":"3492163"}
{"by":"rileymat2","time":"1496669532","timestamp":"2017-06-05 13:32:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You can\u0026#x27;t disable telemetry completey. Some people want it, some don\u0026#x27;t. Let the user decide.\u003cp\u003eI would be curious how many users \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e telemetry sent to Microsoft.  It seems the two largest buckets, by far, would be those who don\u0026#x27;t care and those who don\u0026#x27;t want it.","parent":"14487014","id":"14487440"}
{"by":"qeorge","time":"1250005758","timestamp":"2009-08-11 15:49:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm actually in Florida for the week, where its just as hot. I'll be back next week though, do any of you all want to grab a beer sometime? Big Boss?\u003cp\u003egeorge at illuminatikarate.com, shoot me an email if anyone's interested.","parent":"753693","id":"755478"}
{"by":"slurry","time":"1406417674","timestamp":"2014-07-26 23:34:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought NR was for legalization from way back? Quietly anyway. Definitely Bill Buckley personally was pro-legalization from at least the 70s onward.\u003cp\u003eEdit: and the piece is by a sitting Republican congressman, who is a somewhat legendary figure in movement conservative circles.","parent":"8091193","id":"8091265"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1337863233","timestamp":"2012-05-24 12:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Are you really advocating that the model for sustaining/growing good business is to keep shctum about it and hope your competitors don't notice?\u003cp\u003eNo, that was not what I was advocating.","parent":"4017952","id":"4018055"}
{"by":"qaq","time":"1462496845","timestamp":"2016-05-06 01:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are definitely providing value and are more effective then internal teams promoting the properties (we tracked both) (the chargebacks are accounted for in calculating what they get paid). It\u0026#x27;s a partner\u0026#x2F;affiliate type setup. I think one reason they concentrate on  this space is because say e-commerce affiliate programs are generally CPA and here they earn profit share for lifetime of the players they bring on. I do not claim the strategies they use are applicable to any market with same effectiveness.","parent":"11634584","id":"11640971"}
{"by":"k__","time":"1381314061","timestamp":"2013-10-09 10:21:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe the problem here is consciousness?\u003cp\u003eIf I get \u0026quot;duplicated\u0026quot; then there are 2 consciousnesses of me.\u003cp\u003eThey maybe an illusion, which gets created every moment in time, but it still feels like they exist.","parent":"6520258","id":"6520378"}
{"by":"phillipcarter","time":"1535041202","timestamp":"2018-08-23 16:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can check out some of the investments we\u0026#x27;ve been making for F# holistically here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;dotnet\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;14\u0026#x2F;announcing-f-4-5\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;dotnet\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;14\u0026#x2F;announcin...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(lots of language stuff at the beginning, but there\u0026#x27;s a tools and \u0026quot;what we\u0026#x27;re thinking of next\u0026quot; section afterwards)","parent":"17827673","id":"17828505"}
{"by":"exodust","time":"1463769610","timestamp":"2016-05-20 18:40:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article has the vibe of drawing attention to something else other than the subject of the piece. Is that unfair to say? Not for me to judge I suppose, but the final paragraph says it all.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, a couple of things from the article...\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Netflix have already switched to HTML5...due to the benefits of HTML5 based streaming\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;...HTML5 outperforms plugin based playback in almost every department\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;\u003ci\u003e...delivering high bandwidth products such as 360° video and Virtual Reality in a more efficient manor.\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSuch generic statements! Netflix HTML5 playback in both Chrome and Firefox is limited to 720p. That\u0026#x27;s not a benefit and is why I must use silverlight in IE on Windows 7 to watch 1080p Netflix. They really should cover things like this to better reflect how things actually are.\u003cp\u003eThe claims about HTML5 performance over plugins should only come from people who have done side by side comparisons. So many bloggers telling it according to something they read somewhere.\u003cp\u003eFinally, \u0026quot;\u003ci\u003e360° video in a more efficient manor\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;. I like efficient manors, even bad manors, but again this claim should be backed up with evidence. If you look at VR, if you look at 360 video, the evidence for better performance in HTML5 for these technologies is simply not there. Even with still image panoramas, anyone who has made these in something like KrPano will know that Flash panoramas generally outperform HTML5 panoramas. Smoother motion, better memory management, better cross-browser performance.  We may wish it weren\u0026#x27;t so, but we should get facts straight regardless of whether it leaves HTML (which we love) a little bruised in the comparison.","parent":"11737180","id":"11740372"}
{"by":"damagedcake","time":"1445860329","timestamp":"2015-10-26 11:52:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a very reasonable response for the most part, thank you.  I still take exception to the terminology \u0026quot;brain-washed\u0026quot; and the general premise.  Your point about Obama\u0026#x27;s advertising award actually makes my case for me.  In that sense, I could very easily make the claim that 50% of our country had been \u0026quot;brain-washed.\u0026quot; In fact, many people in more conservative parts of the internet would make that kind of statement; and they would be wrong too.  It\u0026#x27;s a derogatory phrase.\u003cp\u003eAs for betrayal...yes, of course.  That explains a lot (not all) of what is going on in the Republican primaries this year.  Unfortunately, politics nearly always involves compromise to achieve common ground.  Also unfortunately, evangelicals generally don\u0026#x27;t have a belief system that adequately addresses politics in the setting of a democracy or republic.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s an interesting thought expirement...if 10 years down the road the African-American vote left the Democratic party...would one go around saying they had been \u0026quot;easily brain-washed\u0026quot;?  Such statements would probably be challenged (and should be) just as I\u0026#x27;ve challenged it here.","parent":"10449371","id":"10450763"}
{"by":"AndrewKemendo","time":"1532756224","timestamp":"2018-07-28 05:37:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s just a reality that the majority of people will ignore or overlook a personal failing of a business partner, politician, celebrity, etc... so long as they are successful.\u003cp\u003eI think that\u0026#x27;s what makes the #metoo movement so impactful. That for a specific type of failing, namely male initiated sexual assault\u0026#x2F;harrassment, your profile is proportional to your culpability.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that pretty much nobody outside of SV\u0026#x2F;VC knows who Mike Cagney is, and he\u0026#x27;s really successful, and he had a consensual relationship, means this is a non-story. Nobody cares that he lied to his board.","parent":"17630422","id":"17631732"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1508725747","timestamp":"2017-10-23 02:29:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I catch myself reading paragraphs after paragraphs all the while thinking about something else.\u003cp\u003eTake notes as you read? Taking notes is great because you\u0026#x27;re doing both information input and output, which helps a lot in memorization and assimilation (information fits with previous information).","parent":"15528341","id":"15530257"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1437941665","timestamp":"2015-07-26 20:14:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At one point, most of the research focused on the memory safety property as a whole or many tactics for protecting memory\u0026#x2F;pointeres in narrow ways. The first had too much of a performance hit or required different hardware. The second wasn\u0026#x27;t good enough because, like you said, a whole umbrella of attacks existed that achieved same goal. Eventually, this paper [1] coined \u0026quot;Control Flow Integrity\u0026quot; as the property of protecting control flow rather than all memory issues. It cites lots of other work that specifically tries to protect control flow. The general idea seems to be that stopping code injection is highest priority and methods that focus just on that might have less performance hit than full memory safety. Plus, if you focus on preserving a property in all situations, then the individual ways to exploit a lack of that property no longer matter. Unless they\u0026#x27;re things that destroy your whole model. ;)\u003cp\u003eAt least, that\u0026#x27;s the impression I received from reading most of the papers. A few were clever enough to use segments like the old high assurance A1 systems did. CPI enforces a similar property on pointers with an interesting design and segments in its strongest form. Resulting performance penalty is negligible despite a large number of attacks stopped by it. This field is rife with failures so it wouldn\u0026#x27;t surprise me if more issues are found. Yet, combined with the bug bounty, the weaker SFI model used in Chrome has worked well enough. The stronger, CPI might deliver after enough analysis and fixes.\u003cp\u003eNote: While looking that up, I found a recent CFI scheme [2] by Criswell et al that builds on their SVA-OS scheme. It supports my assertion about why CFI exists with this claim:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Where comparable  numbers  are  available,  the overheads  of  KCoFI are far lower than heavyweight memory-safety techniques.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;research.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;pubs\u0026#x2F;64250\u0026#x2F;ccs05.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;research.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;pubs\u0026#x2F;64250\u0026#x2F;ccs05.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sva.cs.illinois.edu\u0026#x2F;pubs\u0026#x2F;KCoFI-Oakland-2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sva.cs.illinois.edu\u0026#x2F;pubs\u0026#x2F;KCoFI-Oakland-2014.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9951848","id":"9952074"}
{"by":"delinka","time":"1516935017","timestamp":"2018-01-26 02:50:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"About two years ago, my credit union started taking lessons from national banks. Charged late fees on a two loan accounts that had never been late (auto-drafted payments from a direct deposit destination); charged me for a replacement debit card when I reported one stolen; can\u0026#x27;t figure out that \u0026quot;wiring money\u0026quot; is actually free and points me at a third-party service they\u0026#x27;ve hired for transferring money between banks - there\u0026#x27;s a fee for that; converted my free checking account into a fee checking account without notice.\u003cp\u003eIn all these cases, I could not get the fees reversed on the phone, but had to visit a branch in person, where the branch manager was indignant that I had the gall to rob the financial institution of their fees. I did get the fees refunded. And two weeks ago, I closed all my accounts with them.\u003cp\u003eI am fortunate to have a community bank that acts the way my credit union once did. The only quibble I\u0026#x27;ve ever had with them is with the staff not knowing the rules on overdraft fees.","parent":"16236502","id":"16236686"}
{"by":"squozzer","time":"1474316479","timestamp":"2016-09-19 20:21:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here are some factors that might have a role --\u003cp\u003e1) Those who found companies, or who otherwise become rich through their work (e.g. pro athletes), as opposed to more passive ways to make money, in a way have a viewpoint similar to a feudal lord: The fiefdom called self has to be cultivated, protected and expanded.\u003cp\u003e2) Modern economics expands the sphere of success more easily than ever, through things such as branding or genre-crossing. E.g. Trump, Kanye, Michael Strahan.\u003cp\u003e3) The old-school rich indulged in a lot of leisure but also personally patronized a lot of culture. This doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to happen as much today, or if it does, more of it happens through foundations that probably free up time to generate more income.","parent":"12534067","id":"12534364"}
{"by":"yuhong","time":"1523692975","timestamp":"2018-04-14 08:02:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was hoping that it would be narrowed.","parent":"16832846","id":"16836411"}
{"by":"debacle","time":"1340210221","timestamp":"2012-06-20 16:37:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how this will reflect on FunnyJunk in the future.","parent":"4137083","id":"4137743"}
{"by":"will3942","time":"1385489666","timestamp":"2013-11-26 18:14:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The TSA agent was incredibly rude and didn\u0026#x27;t seem to want to listen to any part of my explanation, he could see I had a note from my mum saying I would be visiting with my friend so I don\u0026#x27;t see why I would have to be detained for a while.\u003cp\u003eTerrible was more of a personal opinion because I\u0026#x27;ve never experienced airport security like this in my life, I\u0026#x27;ve been asked when I arrive who I\u0026#x27;m meeting etc but not detained or anything.","parent":"6802937","id":"6803020"}
{"by":"swsieber","time":"1464829270","timestamp":"2016-06-02 01:01:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ooo, I\u0026#x27;m jumping into the firepit here. I haven\u0026#x27;t even read the article.\u003cp\u003eBut if he\u0026#x27;s talking about what happened to groups of people, isn\u0026#x27;t it correct then to talk about characteristics of groups of people?\u003cp\u003eNormally, I would stay away from stereotypes and generalizations, and yet aggregate characteristics are useful about talking about what happens to groups of people.\u003cp\u003eThe real trouble comes when you try to apply an aggregate observation to the individual. You can\u0026#x27;t. That\u0026#x27;s the racist bit.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Another problem is, and what we\u0026#x27;ve seen here, is that observations or opinions about groups are often used to evaluate a member of said group when met. Curse our brains for taking shortcuts.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I probably should have asked this upfront - are you up in arms about the construct of IQ, or the suggestion that that a group of people might differ in a particular characteristic?","parent":"11818918","id":"11819603"}
{"by":"scelerat","time":"1325108833","timestamp":"2011-12-28 21:47:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only better food, but better health education in general, including P.E., the 'lab' component to all that book learning.\u003cp\u003eWhen you are fit and healthy, running around and playing games like soccer, volleyball, tennis, basketball is fun. They are activities which are social and which you can do throughout most of your adult life.\u003cp\u003eSame goes for swimming and running. Those are harder to teach as \"fun,\" especially to children, since they don't necessarily have a game component and are more mental in nature. Yoga and weightlifting fall into this category too.\u003cp\u003eRegardless, it seems that some people obsess over the number on the scale or the appearance in the mirror, rather than focus on treating their bodies well and using them in active, physically rewarding ways. Weight and body image should follow from this approach, not drive it.","parent":"3400788","id":"3401529"}
{"by":"tonyarkles","time":"1343712218","timestamp":"2012-07-31 05:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the things that I've noticed in this discussion is that there's been little mention of what your company does (I do, I believe I'm citing some of your work in my M.Sc. thesis). While, in general, I suspect that self-taught developers can do a lot of great work, I also suspect that the kind of development that you're doing at Joyent would very strongly benefit from formal CS training.","parent":"4314655","id":"4315854"}
{"by":"TaylorAlexander","time":"1533674943","timestamp":"2018-08-07 20:49:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The cynic in me says the goal of making software controlled elections is to make them easier to manipulate. Given how insecure all these systems always are, I can’t believe the goal is improved security.","parent":"17707999","id":"17710657"}
{"by":"teilo","time":"1340478286","timestamp":"2012-06-23 19:04:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is absolutely an MITM attack, if for no other reason that your email has no presumption of privacy once it is in the hands of Facebook. Read the TOS. They can do whatever they like with the data that passes through your account.\u003cp\u003eThey are counting on your not noticing that they changed your publicly displayed email address, so that instead of a message going straight to you and bypassing facebook.com, it now goes to facebook.com. You still get the message. So do they.","parent":"4151486","id":"4151521"}
{"by":"prodmerc","time":"1483843453","timestamp":"2017-01-08 02:44:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ugh EU passports look so bad with that butt ugly bordeaux color :D","parent":"13347626","id":"13347954"}
{"by":"vog","time":"1357863839","timestamp":"2013-01-11 00:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, this article's quality is nowhere near e.g. what Joel Spolsky wrote on that topic:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5039781","id":"5040635"}
{"by":"maxawaytoolong","time":"1254708326","timestamp":"2009-10-05 02:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked at startups for 10 years and the only thing I got out of it was 50 extra pounds of bodyfat and an anxiety disorder. One of the best things I have done for my health is getting an easy, but high-paying quasi-corporate job and reducing the number of hours I spend at work. Sitting in front of a computer 12 hours a day is bad for mental and physical health. It can't really be compensated for by switching to diet soda and 30 minutes on the treadmill. My goal now is to continue to recuperate and lose 20 more pounds and save up enough money to do a complete career change. I'm not sure what yet, I'm trying to figure out something where I can use my mind but also not be chained to a desk all day.\u003cp\u003eThat might be a tough pill to swallow for the hacker news crowd, so here are things I did to fix my health, and lose 30 pounds while I was still in startup mode:\u003cp\u003e- pilates fixed a lot of back and flexibility problems\u003cp\u003e- break up the work day in to two halves. between those two spend an hour walking or working out at the gym\u003cp\u003e- walk, bike or skateboard to work. My job is 4 and a half miles away.\u003cp\u003e- swimming\u003cp\u003e- sprinting at the track\u003cp\u003e- I tried to stand up and do work whenever possible.\u003cp\u003e- Used one of those swiss exercise balls instead of an office chair\u003cp\u003e- avoid the typical beer \u0026#38; pizza binges after a release\u003cp\u003e- avoid eating all \"office food\" (chips, pretzels, candy, soda, etc)\u003cp\u003e- cut out sugar and most refined carbs, except for special occasions like when grandma bakes cookies. but even then, only eat a couple and give the rest away.\u003cp\u003e- eat salads, berries, almonds,lean meats, egg whites for most meals.\u003cp\u003e- started drinking seltzer. I love carbonated drinks, but most of them are bad for you. Seltzer is great, it's just carbonated water. Now I don't drink soda and drink about 1/10th the amount of beer I used to.\u003cp\u003e- bought a blood sugar meter. It turns out with all the carbs and sugary stuff I was eating I was making myself pre-diabetic. After 2 months with limited carbs and no sugar, my  blood sugar was down to 70-80. (instead of 100-120)\u003cp\u003e- one day a week don't use the computer at all\u003cp\u003e- weekends try to spend at least 8 hours outside, cycling, biking, walking around\u003cp\u003e- make friends with people outside of internet messenger\u003cp\u003e- spend less time on hacker news!","parent":"860825","id":"860968"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1502206853","timestamp":"2017-08-08 15:40:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;diversity\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;diversity\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut you can google search for articles from previous years (google controls the comparisons so you can\u0026#x27;t free query the data).","parent":"14957682","id":"14958964"}
{"by":"yeggeyeggeyegge","time":"1328760868","timestamp":"2012-02-09 04:14:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are right. And I am not touching Path with a ten foot pole. Not in hell. What annoys me is that Apple has caused a few hours of my life to be \u003ci\u003ewasted\u003c/i\u003e on this shit. And has me deeply worried about what other crap is uploading all my contacts information into their hush hush \u003ci\u003esecure\u003c/i\u003e database. And also that they allowed this piece of free advertisement seeking shit company to get through their fabled review system. Heck, I want an apology from Tim Cook, and maybe one from the heavens where a visionary soul probably rests forever now.\u003cp\u003eIf the going is so bad, I will soon end up using a clam shell that I put up with all these years before an eventful day that I fell in love with an \"are you getting it?\" product. Makes one wonder what all those jerks making the rounds on SOPA and PIPA are doing to protect us from these Path like shit makers.","parent":"3568813","id":"3569779"}
{"by":"lbotos","time":"1448897080","timestamp":"2015-11-30 15:24:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fun Yelp story time:\u003cp\u003eDated a girl. Her father was an eye doctor in a small town. There were 2 eye doctors on main street. He was convinced the other doctor had someone leave a bad review (which out of his ~8 or so reviews) which made him a 2 star \u0026quot;offering\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eHe was my eye doctor and I _did_ like his work, so we made an account, and left a review. My review was \u0026quot;untrusted\u0026quot; because my account didn\u0026#x27;t have any other activity.\u003cp\u003eNow it became a game. Everywhere we went we\u0026#x27;d leave a yelp review to try and get my account to be \u0026quot;trusted\u0026quot;. This went on for about 3 months and we had about 10-15 reviews. My account was still untrusted. We decided to stop and just let it be. About 3 months after that, my user was trusted and he now has a 5 star rating.\u003cp\u003eThe woes of yelp in a small town.","parent":"10649777","id":"10649816"}
{"by":"dinkumthinkum","time":"1387498079","timestamp":"2013-12-20 00:07:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have you ever thought that maybe human beings are not computer programs that you have written and so therefore there may be a reason someone may be unhappy someone sitting next them makes 20% more for the same work? You act as if it is some logical fallacy because you were naive enough to accept the smaller amount or something. I\u0026#x27;m not surprised. This kind of reasoning is very common on here.","parent":"6937906","id":"6938935"}
{"by":"pohl","time":"1359068730","timestamp":"2013-01-24 23:05:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even though Sorkin's rapid-fire walk-n-talk idiom is approaching self-parody, for some reason I still like it – maybe because it exercises the language center of my brain more than most passive-viewing does.  Still, I expect to go see this and cringe as these actors struggle to casually drop jargon in a way that sounds natural.  Our demographic is probably going to feel that Woz was given the worst rendering in that respect, because Jobs probably has minimal jargon written into his lines.  That shows up in this clip, in my opinion.\u003cp\u003eI bet both characters will work well when viewed by non-techies, though.","parent":"5110872","id":"5112846"}
{"by":"minz","time":"1504836469","timestamp":"2017-09-08 02:07:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you choose between his or her in this case?","parent":"15197351","id":"15197399"}
{"by":"justhw","time":"1353992682","timestamp":"2012-11-27 05:04:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wish you success.\nHave them get a project, personal side projects can teach a lot.","parent":"4835649","id":"4835730"}
{"by":"andrewcooke","time":"1356014117","timestamp":"2012-12-20 14:35:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it seems like this could be generalised to arbitrary rdf triples in some way and used as an interface to a general graph of information.  have you considered something like that?  it seems like it would start to get complex when you need to distinguish between nodes with the same name...","parent":"4947047","id":"4947878"}
{"by":"slashdotaccount","time":"1406801206","timestamp":"2014-07-31 10:06:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, the development roadmap is just what it says: A roadmap. Essentially this shall be one, unified App in the final end. And that is exactly the reason why it\u0026#x27;s open source: Your contributions shall help the project evolve and add all these things.","parent":"8113130","id":"8113269"}
{"by":"splintercell","time":"1484682368","timestamp":"2017-01-17 19:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No he\u0026#x27;s simply pointing out that your employer can only pay you what the market is allowing him to pay you. Or in other words, your salary is what your marginal productivity to the company is.\u003cp\u003eIf you are not working for 2 months a year, then you\u0026#x27;re getting paid for only 10 months of what you could have gotten over 12 months.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, there ain\u0026#x27;t no such thing as \u0026#x27;paid vacation\u0026#x27; when the employer can simply account for that \u0026#x27;paid vacation\u0026#x27; when making you an offer.","parent":"13416113","id":"13420499"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1371906532","timestamp":"2013-06-22 13:08:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, there is nothing really special here with respect to performance. It just makes me think back to the SGI O2, Next Cube, the iCube, the Amiga 2000...when computers were more works of art than they are now and not just built from a boring specifications. I\u0026#x27;m being a bit sentimental here.\u003cp\u003eIf you want the best bang for the buck, or even the best bang, it still makes sense to go with a boring HP box and not a Mac Pro. Honestly, the only ones who will probably go with the Mac Pro is the high-end photoshop\u0026#x2F;toaster crowd, or those who want big bangs in small spaces (e.g. Japan), as well as those with too much money and some amount of sentiment, but this is not even mainstream for the workstation market.","parent":"5923191","id":"5923471"}
{"by":"rodgerd","time":"1391984980","timestamp":"2014-02-09 22:29:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like that\u0026#x27;s the fundamental split between Ian and Everyone Else.  Russ, Bdale, Steve, and Colin all want to make sure that people don\u0026#x27;t start creating unreasonable dependency chains (\u0026quot;I want the functionality provided by logind for my DE, therefore I will require systemd as the init system\u0026quot;) when alternatives are available (\u0026quot;I need the functionality provided by logind so I require that and let systemd or the Canonical fork of logind provide it\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003eIan is speccing it out so that nothing may ever rely on capabilities provided by a init implementation unless the Debian developers add that functionality to every possible init system in the archive.  That is a very odd position, to put it mildly (you couldn\u0026#x27;t e.g. ship a GUI tool to manage upstart.  You\u0026#x27;d have to rewrite it to support systemd, as well).","parent":"7203549","id":"7207652"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1468858729","timestamp":"2016-07-18 16:18:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Once you\u0026#x27;ve written a bunch of code in a language, you\u0026#x27;re pretty much locked in - without a massive effort - in any event.","parent":"12115423","id":"12116001"}
{"by":"iamcreasy","time":"1462951325","timestamp":"2016-05-11 07:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Electron looks like it has for both worlds, but what is the drawback of this(kind of) system(s)?","parent":"11673118","id":"11673221"}
{"by":"hippich","time":"1454087499","timestamp":"2016-01-29 17:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"or C-corps taxes more and international tax avoidance loopholes are closed. But i guess both of these would be hard to make happen","parent":"10996390","id":"10996528"}
{"by":"B-Con","time":"1529823931","timestamp":"2018-06-24 07:05:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In this type of scenario (be it bitcoin hashes, serial numbers elsewhere, etc), the real question is how many possible \u0026quot;vanity\u0026quot; hashes exist. The odds of this specific one are not interesting, it\u0026#x27;s the space of all of them that is.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s pretty much always infeasible to enumerate that space, but generally speaking there are a looooot of things that could qualify as special-looking enough to be included. All forms of english, foreign languages, language abbreviations, leet-speak, slang, pop-culture-inspired references, etc.\u003cp\u003eThe odds of randomly tripping across something \u0026quot;special\u0026quot; eventually are pretty good. And bonus points if eventually one of those special coincidences is vaguely time-correlated with a real-world version of itself (eg, the number happens to be in the news, the slang word was recently used by a celebrity, etc).","parent":"17385265","id":"17385376"}
{"by":"DanRosenwasser","time":"1481133092","timestamp":"2016-12-07 17:51:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TypeScript PM here - the reason for that is that when we implement a feature in TypeScript, we take lengths to ensure that it is typed appropriately and that its performance characteristics are reasonable.\u003cp\u003eThat means that when using object rest\u0026#x2F;spread, we didn\u0026#x27;t want to just ship an experience where type type is effectively `any`, leading users to be frustrated if they make an error.\u003cp\u003eWith async\u0026#x2F;await, we had to rewrite our emit pipeline, which meant that we needed to keep parity in both output as well as time to emit. The investment has shown, and TypeScript is still extremely fast.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re always willing to think about different approaches, but those are some of the rationales here.","parent":"13124392","id":"13124493"}
{"by":"ebzlo","time":"1312507791","timestamp":"2011-08-05 01:29:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For figuring out chess pieces, maybe determining the light source and looking for light/dark patterns in certain areas? The problem is, from top view, even a human would have a difficult time figuring out if a piece was a bishop or pawn.","parent":"2848516","id":"2848588"}
{"by":"Brakenshire","time":"1473934785","timestamp":"2016-09-15 10:19:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m just writing a first React app, and read beforehand that it was going to be difficult to choose which libraries to use, and to get them to work together, but I haven\u0026#x27;t found that to be much of an issue in practice.\u003cp\u003ecreate-react-app set up all the build tooling, for a router the clear recommendation is react router, and for a flux implementation the clear recommendation is Redux. It feels like there\u0026#x27;s a well defined path for beginners. Over time you\u0026#x27;ll have to figure out how everything works, as is always the case, but you can learn more as and when it\u0026#x27;s necessary.\u003cp\u003eThe bumps were more whether to use ES5 or ES6 (but then I found an official position in favour of ES6), and whether or not you need to use flux (although that was really just learning how flux worked, which wasn\u0026#x27;t wasted time).\u003cp\u003eThe only uncertainty I have now is whether TypeScript will be necessary\u0026#x2F;useful in future, and if so how to integrate it.","parent":"12504283","id":"12504732"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1513705558","timestamp":"2017-12-19 17:45:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would suggest taking a look at the Purism Librem 5. Not because of whatever its own software stack will end up being, but because it\u0026#x27;ll help provide a basis for developing more FOSS software for phones. HiDPI support in Linux became polished and viable shortly after a couple of companies arranged for desktop developers to get a few of the first-generation Chromebook Pixel devices, with a 2560x1440 screen. And similarly, I expect support for the mobile touch experience and phone capabilities to drastically improve when developers have a device to work with.","parent":"15961702","id":"15962081"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1516462871","timestamp":"2018-01-20 15:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This, and void, and promises:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; 2 |\u0026gt; square |\u0026gt; increment |\u0026gt; square\u003cp\u003eSo, looks like any sufficiently complex language nowadays carries a badly self-compatible, inextensible, limited set of popular Haskell libraries.\u003cp\u003eAnd also Lisp\u0026#x27;s seq. Other Lisp features are left for implementation on a Lisp interpreter once your application gets large.","parent":"16193302","id":"16193704"}
{"by":"njharman","time":"1344032599","timestamp":"2012-08-03 22:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; no one wants to fix anything\u003cp\u003eIs patently false.  I like to fix things.  I get way more satisfaction from cleaning up a mess, improving X, etc.  Than I do from creating iteration 1 of something that may or may not be used.\u003cp\u003eI am not the only person in existence with this quality.","parent":"4335969","id":"4336491"}
{"by":"netcan","time":"1381921841","timestamp":"2013-10-16 11:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google bills most non US clients from Google Ireland too. Obviously there are tax considerations. But Google (non US) and Linkedin genuinely have big presences in Ireland. They do account management, customer service, accounting, etc out of massive Dublin offices. Language, availability of educated generalists and willingness of European employees to immigrate to Dublin are also big considerations. They  aren\u0026#x27;t billing to shell companies.\u003cp\u003eThis is a genuine loophole that is being closed, not an intentional piece of policy.","parent":"6558906","id":"6558966"}
{"by":"slapshot","time":"1263191444","timestamp":"2010-01-11 06:30:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very good point.  Will do next time, thanks.  I was hoping to loop in the CES tangent a bit because it's at least funny -- it's not only about the Crunchies.","parent":"1044498","id":"1044508"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1289454524","timestamp":"2010-11-11 05:48:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt's their toys, and hence you play by their rules.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over a decade Sun has been saying that Java is some kind of open, community-driven standard. Apache is simply calling them on \u003ci\u003etheir own PR\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"1892957","id":"1893022"}
{"by":"swang","time":"1383266792","timestamp":"2013-11-01 00:46:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No I think in this case: Fuck Spammers.","parent":"6650726","id":"6651116"}
{"by":"cordite","time":"1398087171","timestamp":"2014-04-21 13:32:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"strace with Haskell is really messy because of the run time scheduler for green threads.\u003cp\u003eI would guess that it is similar for other run times that involve similar concurrency management techniques.","parent":"7618780","id":"7620930"}
{"by":"singularity2001","time":"1478517580","timestamp":"2016-11-07 11:19:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone worried about the device coming from China?\nWhat\u0026#x27;s even the name of the Chinese NSA analogous backdoor specialist? \u0026quot;Party\u0026quot;?","parent":"12890005","id":"12890249"}
{"by":"liveoneggs","time":"1520303456","timestamp":"2018-03-06 02:30:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there are lonely and alone people everywhere; the japanese have just given them a name, which seems far too broadly applied (goes out at night to get food but stays inside during the day vs been inside for ten years and refuses to speak).\u003cp\u003eI guess if you name a thing it becomes a thing.","parent":"16522534","id":"16526432"}
{"by":"unethical_ban","time":"1510259822","timestamp":"2017-11-09 20:37:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems unethical?","parent":"15665314","id":"15665677"}
{"by":"pshyco","time":"1452571743","timestamp":"2016-01-12 04:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Visual Studio Online - Can\u0026#x27;t Sort Tasks, Can\u0026#x27;t Filter ....","parent":"10871076","id":"10885505"}
{"by":"cdibona","time":"1249881484","timestamp":"2009-08-10 05:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could install sip droid on an unlocked android like the adp1 (or install unknown sources on a carrier phone) or go with any number of sip clients for pdas. Then you still need to provision a line for the other end of the sip connection, but you'll have a pda that can make calls.","parent":"751937","id":"752010"}
{"by":"jaaron","time":"1289113298","timestamp":"2010-11-07 07:01:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to clarify, it wasn't in a private hotel room, it was in the pub adjacent to the conference hotel.  It was in a public setting.\u003cp\u003eI know Noirin and I've helped with ApacheCon for years (first time in years I wasn't there).","parent":"1875822","id":"1878894"}
{"by":"abritinthebay","time":"1494439091","timestamp":"2017-05-10 17:58:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Realized I was thinking about Uglify-ES which _also_ came out.\u003cp\u003eSo.. there are options :D","parent":"14286298","id":"14310175"}
{"by":"shutupalready","time":"1418111121","timestamp":"2014-12-09 07:45:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"St. Louis streetwalker serial killer, Maury Travis, sent the local newspaper a computer generated map giving the intersection where he left a body.\u003cp\u003eInvestigators determined that web-based mapping software Expedia was used--based on symbols used to mark highways and such--ruling out Mapquest, Yahoo, and others.\u003cp\u003eA single person had clicked on that intersection in Expedia in the 5 days before the map was received by the newspaper. They traced the person presumably using the IP address.\u003cp\u003eThis was back in 2001.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s odd that we still have unsolved street crime given that everyone today carries a tracking device sending back real-time geolocation data.","parent":"8717296","id":"8721550"}
{"by":"rewrew","time":"1458937737","timestamp":"2016-03-25 20:28:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or no one in Microsoft feels free to speak up when they see a bad idea coming down the road so something like this just sails through instead of getting flagged. I\u0026#x27;ve seen it -- not this big of scale, but I\u0026#x27;ve seen it.","parent":"11362375","id":"11362456"}
{"by":"seagaia","time":"1328976548","timestamp":"2012-02-11 16:09:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think #15 - attacking a bug directly instead of going about it with patches (although possibly there could be a fine line between \"direct' and using patches) can be especially relevant for anyone (even outside of games).\u003cp\u003eThe CRC one, #16, was cute.","parent":"3579159","id":"3579462"}
{"by":"hyperbovine","time":"1263494061","timestamp":"2010-01-14 18:34:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kudos to Dave Winer for successfully navigating Twitter at his age.\u003cp\u003eSorry, I couldn't resist ;-)","parent":"1052476","id":"1053231"}
{"by":"lflux","time":"1392674340","timestamp":"2014-02-17 21:59:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had absolutely no problem getting a \u0026#x2F;27 from my ISP here in Sweden the other week.","parent":"7253063","id":"7254783"}
{"by":"ricardobeat","time":"1385248453","timestamp":"2013-11-23 23:14:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this would work better as ranges or less granular options, few people are going to check 13 and other odd numbers since it\u0026#x27;s an imprecise guess.","parent":"6787760","id":"6787862"}
{"by":"coin","time":"1507338497","timestamp":"2017-10-07 01:08:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Steve Troughton-Smith: Fully excluded; a Swift-only conference is one that has nothing for me. I don\u0026#x27;t want to have to care about Swift best practices or design patterns now before the language is fully formed and before Apple is using it at scale. I don\u0026#x27;t want to collate a dozen community-led design patterns, I want to do what Apple does.\u003cp\u003eSo if it\u0026#x27;s not endorsed and spoon fed by Apple, he wants nothing to do with it.","parent":"15421073","id":"15421640"}
{"by":"granify","time":"1336657653","timestamp":"2012-05-10 13:47:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool, definitely something I can use","parent":"3953225","id":"3953425"}
{"by":"nunez","time":"1509851726","timestamp":"2017-11-05 03:15:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wealthy family and\u0026#x2F;or country pays for them to attend (with living costs, IIRC)","parent":"15625934","id":"15628023"}
{"by":"primeblue","time":"1531293067","timestamp":"2018-07-11 07:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not use a package manager to publish a library for a destination?\u003cp\u003eThen just release a package and reference it whenever there is a change to the target.\u003cp\u003eShould work well in either a monolith or micro service.","parent":"17499137","id":"17504999"}
{"by":"eldavido","time":"1368315464","timestamp":"2013-05-11 23:37:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Michael, do you have any evidence for your assertion that \"most people who have bad credit were unlucky\"?","parent":"5692499","id":"5692548"}
{"by":"n00kie","time":"1318248337","timestamp":"2011-10-10 12:05:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Timetracking (external customers): toggl.com\nProject management: pivotaltracker.com","parent":"3092918","id":"3093393"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1528886841","timestamp":"2018-06-13 10:47:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not semantics when self driving technologies rely more on superior reflexes to \u003ci\u003ebrake late\u003c/i\u003e in response to stuff suddenly appearing in the roadway to compensate for inferior ability to adjust ambient speed through better anticipation  of how likely a particular mammal on the pavement is to step out into it.","parent":"17301825","id":"17301910"}
{"by":"pietro","time":"1418405118","timestamp":"2014-12-12 17:25:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Put it on the front page. Not mentioning the price up front is creepy.","parent":"8741336","id":"8741381"}
{"by":"nsx147","time":"1527600757","timestamp":"2018-05-29 13:32:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is awesome. I was a DJ back in the early 2000s using Shoutcast [0] to stream. A lot of issues with obtaining music and obviously streaming rights.\u003cp\u003eThis is so easy to whip up your own station with a legit music source. Barrier to entry is much lower than having to figure out how to configure all of the software and connect to the actual stream server. The DJ software had some cool features like fade-in\u0026#x2F;fade-out, etc. but the music and the DJ\u0026#x27;s ability to speak to the audience were the important part. The chat element here could replace that. Something like this seems like it could be the next evolution in online radio.\u003cp\u003eAwesome work!\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.shoutcast.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.shoutcast.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17178302","id":"17178975"}
{"by":"mitchwainer","time":"1377618455","timestamp":"2013-08-27 15:47:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should only see the ad once on YouTube. We do apologize for this. Did you try clearing your cache?","parent":"6284103","id":"6284154"}
{"by":"pmontra","time":"1479885969","timestamp":"2016-11-23 07:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know f-strings but I still can\u0026#x27;t believe them.\u003cp\u003eThere are parts of Python that look like it wants programmers do low level compiler job and I can\u0026#x27;t understand why. This is one of them. Python can do %s string interpolation without some s\u0026#x27;\u0026#x27; s-strings so I wonder why it needs this f-string thing. Many languages can do string interpolation without having developers babysitting the interpreter. In 2016 we have the CPUs to make it happen the other way around.","parent":"13020127","id":"13020806"}
{"by":"sigkill","time":"1341570233","timestamp":"2012-07-06 10:23:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But are you not required to give the password then?","parent":"4205339","id":"4207149"}
{"by":"collyw","time":"1458314379","timestamp":"2016-03-18 15:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My previous job was Python code written in the style of Java. I agree that its good to have experience in a number of languages, but there is also benefit to having one that you know deeply and can write good idiomatic code for.","parent":"11312303","id":"11312331"}
{"by":"run4yourlives","time":"1248903643","timestamp":"2009-07-29 21:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But most likely illegal in most cities.","parent":"730995","id":"731139"}
{"by":"rickdale","time":"1491492114","timestamp":"2017-04-06 15:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eif you want to participate in the comments a baseline level of understanding isn\u0026#x27;t a big ask.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThats not fair. I came to the comments after reading the article to learn more about the article. I think its considered poor quality to make a comment like ADF is the worst. Without referecing what ADF is first, or without being referenced in the article.","parent":"14051301","id":"14051346"}
{"by":"mojuba","time":"1541318984","timestamp":"2018-11-04 08:09:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My guess is, because of interoperability with older Windows machines on the local network, but I\u0026#x27;m not sure.","parent":"18374735","id":"18374828"}
{"by":"lkrubner","time":"1540138703","timestamp":"2018-10-21 16:18:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a moot point for as long as we still have 3.5 billion people engaged in subsistence level farming. All of them need to be brought into the modern economy, and taught a specialty. In other words, if 50% of the human race is still wasting its time with farming practices that have barely changed since the Neolithic, then there are still a lot of ways to grow the economy, even if the population is falling.","parent":"18268301","id":"18268713"}
{"by":"creshal","time":"1455007671","timestamp":"2016-02-09 08:47:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  I assure you Yaourt doesn\u0026#x27;t have an .asc signature either.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s yaourt\u0026#x27;s problem, not makepkg\u0026#x27;s or the AUR\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; They should be using SHA-256, or Blake 2 if they think the extra seconds spent verifying matter, but insisting on using MD5 is pretty much going out of your way to increase your attack surface.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t matter what algorithm you use, \u003ci\u003efile hashes are not a security feature.\u003c/i\u003e Use GPG!","parent":"11059718","id":"11064007"}
{"by":"pasbesoin","time":"1394818249","timestamp":"2014-03-14 17:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a worn tripe, but, \u0026quot;What could possibly go wrong?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAt least it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;flagger\u0026quot; status and not the power to directly remove.\u003cp\u003eStill feels like a slip along that slippery slope, though.\u003cp\u003eAmongst all the rest, there is the concern about \u0026quot;notification\u0026quot; transitioning into \u0026quot;obligation\u0026quot;.  You, Google, can no longer claim you were as yet unaware of a particular situation; we (the UK government) therefore now expect instant response -- and response in our favour.\u003cp\u003eIn other areas of law, I gather the situation and a party\u0026#x27;s obligation to act in some manner can depend significantly upon what they are and are not aware of.  I\u0026#x27;m concerned that prioritizing the requests\u0026#x2F;demands of a government known for censorship tendencies may induce or create an obligation to cater to those tendencies.","parent":"7399861","id":"7400394"}
{"by":"stock_toaster","time":"1320121911","timestamp":"2011-11-01 04:31:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dislike it too. I signed up with serverdensity to try it out, and after 4 separate email exchanges with support -- each one asking for my account to be delete...it still hasn't happened. I keep getting brush off replies like 'have you tried X?' and 'Are you sure?'.\u003cp\u003eThe service itself wasn't bad (I had some feedback that was likewise ignored/brush off), but I would never recommend them to anyone for this reason alone.","parent":"3180059","id":"3180639"}
{"by":"vsync","time":"1272565157","timestamp":"2010-04-29 18:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How would I get into one of those fields?  I would love to be involved in some scientific research or some medical project.  I have a solid and wide-ranging tech background, but I've only ever had luck working for tech companies and wouldn't know where to start otherwise.","parent":"1300345","id":"1305423"}
{"by":"spullara","time":"1395545194","timestamp":"2014-03-23 03:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve tried it all. My LinkedIn resume goes back to my first job after school (doesn\u0026#x27;t cover some during school): \u003ca href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/in/spullara\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;spullara\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill code every day, but my main job is as an investor. Best moves I made were risky moves, like moving from Chicago to San Francisco to join a very early stage startup. I was lucky and that startup grew from a handful of people to over a 100 and was sold to a larger company. You can also watch how it unfolded here: \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/02/sam-pullara/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techcrunch.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;sam-pullara\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI get the question from engineers all the time how I ended on the path I have been on. I think there are 2 things you can do 1) try to be a great engineer and 2) involve yourself in the strategy of the company. The latter requires an opening, mine was in helping perform the technical due diligence for acquisitions.\u003cp\u003eIf I was doing it again, I would intern at some of the big companies (Google, Twitter, Facebook, IBM, Oracle) and then try and get a job at a Series A funded startup run by people with experience. Good luck!","parent":"7449728","id":"7451975"}
{"by":"Houshalter","time":"1457895260","timestamp":"2016-03-13 18:54:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing about neural networks is they can generalize from one domain to another. We don\u0026#x27; have a million different algorithms, one for recognizing cars, and another for recognizing dogs, etc. They learn features that both have in common.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;The \u0026quot;x\u0026quot;, the training examples, is what tells the computer what to learn, therefore, what to do once it\u0026#x27;s trained. If you change the x, the learner can do a different y. Therefore, you\u0026#x27;re telling the computer what to do.\u003cp\u003eBut with RL, a computer can discover it\u0026#x27;s own training examples from experience. They don\u0026#x27;t need to be given to it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;I\u0026#x27;m still not clear what you\u0026#x27;re saying; game-playing AI is not an instance of general AI.\u003cp\u003eBut it is! The distinction between the real world and a game is arbitrary. If an algorithm can learn to play a random video game, you can just as easily plug it into a robot and let it play \u0026quot;real life\u0026quot;. The world is more complicated, of course, but not qualitatively different.","parent":"11272432","id":"11278844"}
{"by":"abraham","time":"1325902983","timestamp":"2012-01-07 02:23:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Student loans would be a huge help but no one is going to get standard student loans unless Hacker School becomes an accredited institution which would be a huge amount of work and bureaucracy.","parent":"3435892","id":"3435983"}
{"by":"basch","time":"1383750195","timestamp":"2013-11-06 15:03:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why did the US jump in priority.  Just because it is a problem doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it is a \u003ci\u003ebigger\u003c/i\u003e problem.\u003cp\u003eI think US journalism is causing us to misprioritize.  Everyone is talking about the NSA so everyone assumes it\u0026#x27;s the biggest problem.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/11/01/edward-snowden-escalated-cyber-war.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mag.newsweek.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;edward-snowden-escalated-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6681030","id":"6682997"}
{"by":"CharlieHess","time":"1441145315","timestamp":"2015-09-01 22:08:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wrote up a workaround until I can fix it properly.","parent":"10156051","id":"10156139"}
{"by":"CodeSheikh","time":"1537465468","timestamp":"2018-09-20 17:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;...code collects the user’s longitude and latitude, as well as the user’s browser type, operating system, device type, device identifiers, and full URL clickstreams (including date and time) and aggregates this information into a database.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAren\u0026#x27;t all mobile phones browsers collect this data any way? If your location privacy is enabled to be shared by the browser. I am not sure what this student found beyond this which is worth raising brows.\u003cp\u003eAlso, 3 cameras system in each kiosk is indeed creepy.","parent":"18024123","id":"18034218"}
{"by":"throwa","time":"1379543380","timestamp":"2013-09-18 22:29:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In addition to the discussion here, you can also follow the discussion on fred\u0026#x27;s article here.\n\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6408318\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6408318\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6408318","id":"6408606"}
{"by":"gpvos","time":"1511618022","timestamp":"2017-11-25 13:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was because the book was written before the third time he went. (See Wikipedia.)","parent":"15774504","id":"15775985"}
{"by":"shard972","time":"1476759221","timestamp":"2016-10-18 02:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Is there something really damaging in Wikileak emails?\u003cp\u003eThe most damaging thing at the moment would have to be the attempted bribery from the under secretary to the FBI. Even in their excuse they are kind of admitting they attempted to bribe, but it just failed so we shouldn\u0026#x27;t worry.\u003cp\u003eThe other part that really gets me is the death penalty question that the head of the DNC smuggled out of CNN when she was working there. I don\u0026#x27;t know how she hasn\u0026#x27;t resigned when you have been caught working within the media to manipulate things to benefit your prefered candidate.\u003cp\u003eAnd that skips over the whole issue of how the DNC was bias against bernie, it\u0026#x27;s just pilling on now how rigged the system was against him.","parent":"12727912","id":"12731665"}
{"by":"Haimpekel","time":"1343634728","timestamp":"2012-07-30 07:52:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You still need to specify \"how do you know that person\", if you don't know him they still block your request.","parent":"4311259","id":"4311323"}
{"by":"tarikozket","time":"1498143366","timestamp":"2017-06-22 14:56:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is exactly what I meant.","parent":"14611450","id":"14612655"}
{"by":"davidgerard","time":"1502234789","timestamp":"2017-08-08 23:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EOS did this and advertised to the general public in the US.","parent":"14961567","id":"14963976"}
{"by":"walrus01","time":"1525290533","timestamp":"2018-05-02 19:48:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah, if we\u0026#x27;re talking about RAM, there is still a significant difference in MB per second write ability for something like DDR4-3200 vs even the best NVME pci-express flash-based SSDs.","parent":"16980311","id":"16980536"}
{"by":"pmoriarty","time":"1486961672","timestamp":"2017-02-13 04:54:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The vibrating belt compass was actually pretty useful, from what I read.  The people who used it reportedly got very good at forming mental maps of where they were and improved their navigational skills.\u003cp\u003eThe downside was that some of them experienced nausea and disorientation when they discontinued use of the device.","parent":"13625368","id":"13633213"}
{"by":"dkrich","time":"1334003050","timestamp":"2012-04-09 20:24:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Two problems: any serious redesign should involve several templates that are thoroughly tested to ensure that users are interacting with the correct parts so that as many sales are squeezed out of the site as possible. Also, nobody reads reverse typeset. Just sayin'.","parent":"3817118","id":"3819035"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1516336676","timestamp":"2018-01-19 04:37:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. Bioavailability and absorption kinetics are major factors.","parent":"16184116","id":"16184175"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1339354970","timestamp":"2012-06-10 19:02:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SkepticBlog had a recent post by Michael Shermer on the current activities of Esalen Institute.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/06/05/a-weekend-of-woo/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.skepticblog.org/2012/06/05/a-weekend-of-woo/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"elegantly designed hot tubs (clothing optional, and most opt to go without)\" are still a big feature of meetings at Esalen Institute, but Shermer finds more to discuss about the activities during his latest visit there.\u003cp\u003eAFTER EDIT to comment on another interesting comment. A top-level comment mentions, \"Very cleverly, he mixes in examples of absolute crackpottery (e.g Uri Geller, reflexology) with those of somewhat researchers (e.g. the psychology student) who may be somewhat clueless in their experimental procedures but are trying to do valid science, which in our minds equate both.\" Feynman indeed was dubious about much of psychology as it was written about during his academic career. He was not alone. Psychologists wrote in similar terms during the same period, for example David Lykken in is article \"What's Wrong with Psychology Anyway?\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://cogprints.org/371/3/148.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cogprints.org/371/3/148.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4091413","id":"4091856"}
{"by":"cryptarch","time":"1489678787","timestamp":"2017-03-16 15:39:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Browser automation via (realistically Seleniun) WebDriver or a proxy that inserts scripts (like TestCafe).","parent":"13885866","id":"13885911"}
{"by":"aaronem","time":"1384187969","timestamp":"2013-11-11 16:39:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding\u0026#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpris...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerious business.","parent":"6712357","id":"6712425"}
{"by":"archaeopteryx","time":"1522599033","timestamp":"2018-04-01 16:10:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Metamask warns me that this site is on the Ethereum phishing list...","parent":"16721831","id":"16728988"}
{"by":"sklogic","time":"1441132444","timestamp":"2015-09-01 18:34:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Misleading title. Doctors in the UK prescribe active components, not brands.","parent":"10154546","id":"10154661"}
{"by":"sskates","time":"1390330384","timestamp":"2014-01-21 18:53:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On any payment network the fees are a result of the risks of credit card fraud. Card processors can\u0026#x27;t cut fees without losing money. It\u0026#x27;s an efficient market as it is.","parent":"7097201","id":"7097365"}
{"by":"hvass","time":"1393647720","timestamp":"2014-03-01 04:22:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pocket is amazing. I organize all my content with tags, so you are essentially building yourself a sweet library with (un)read articles on variety of topics, so when confronted with a problem, you might know exactly where to look.","parent":"7322267","id":"7323080"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1455223507","timestamp":"2016-02-11 20:45:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Web server reports modified: Sat, 18 Apr 2015\u003cp\u003eAnd googling the URL only returns results from after April 2015. So I am going to think that is accurate.","parent":"11079166","id":"11083089"}
{"by":"kreeger","time":"1348801509","timestamp":"2012-09-28 03:05:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Xbox never was an open platform to begin with, unlike the PC. The PC has never been the kind of platform to lock stuff down; while Microsoft may have their merits for doing so, a lot of people are up in arms about it and rightly so (as the PC is so widely distributed).\u003cp\u003ePlus, while Mojang did license and partner the code with another firm for the Xbox port, they didn't create it directly themselves.","parent":"4584095","id":"4584110"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1393223168","timestamp":"2014-02-24 06:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Technically competent and borderline-or-better ambitious people do not work at Yahoo!, generally.\u003cp\u003eThere exception are people who are trapped there (H1B, a massive side project, sick family member, whatever), or are vesting out after M\u0026amp;A.  Come back to this in 0.5 to 3.5 years when the Tumblr team have filled their vesting.\u003cp\u003e(You can make a reasonable case that big companies are better at EoE than startups, but I don\u0026#x27;t see a strong case that Yahoo! is better than Apple or Google or ...)\u003cp\u003eThis is because the culture at Yahoo! has been horrible in terms of actually turning technology into products, or at any real innovation.  A succession of utterly incompetent CEOs and ossified and incompetent upper management pretty much killed the company, technically.\u003cp\u003eEvery Yahoo! I\u0026#x27;ve talked to said it was a \u0026quot;nice\u0026quot; place to work if you\u0026#x27;re just collecting a paycheck.  It was a horrible place to actually try to do anything meaningful (with a few exceptions, like Panama, and even then).  So, it depends on your goals with a job: a paycheck ,or a chance to change the world.  It\u0026#x27;s up to the individual which it is.\u003cp\u003eHowever, people who are neither competent nor ambitious are irrelevant in general, and those who aren\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c/i\u003e are largely irrelevant in creating anything new.  (I know many highly-competent but situationally-lazy people who remained at Yahoo! a bit longer than was good for them.  They had impressive personal projects during that time.  They were vastly happier when they moved on to other companies.)\u003cp\u003e(As an indicator: outside of Government, Yahoo! had more contractors in more key roles than anywhere else I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen.  Microsoft had a lot of contractors, too, but they were generally not in core roles, and after that court case, were only there for ~a year.)\u003cp\u003eSo, I stand by my original comment.","parent":"7289336","id":"7289378"}
{"by":"eggy","time":"1442564038","timestamp":"2015-09-18 08:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but just before the last two big financial crises, Americans were buying houses they couldn\u0026#x27;t afford, second and third cars, taking loans etc...\nI live in Macau, and the Chinese government\u0026#x27;s recent policy of cracking down on corruption, money laundering and their history of \u0026#x27;massaging\u0026#x27; the news, leaves even the Macanese, Hong  Kongers and coastal mainlanders suspicious of any economic statistics coming out of the government. Foreign worker quotas here, and the drop in gamblers, VIP especially have resulted in 36% drops from last year. Gambling\u0026#x2F;Casinos generate 80% of Macau\u0026#x27;s GDP. I hold out hope for a progressive, free China, but after observing the yellow umbrella movement in Hong Kong, and the mainland\u0026#x27;s actions and words, I am in despair. The people have been under this type of rule for so long, and the rumors are that the current administration is only going after corruption when done by political rivals, while saving face with their own party.\nI truly believe consumerism is going to be humbled by a crash here, and hopefully a restructuring to head up with honest accounting by government if they want to be taken serious in the world currency market.","parent":"10237556","id":"10238035"}
{"by":"ltjohnson","time":"1294767522","timestamp":"2011-01-11 17:38:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've added some examples to my above comment.  My example is perhaps a little closer to 'median(x \u0026#60;- 10)' than you were asking for, but I think it illustrates the point that using '=' will not always have the desired result in places where '\u0026#60;-' would.","parent":"2092561","id":"2092723"}
{"by":"simonh","time":"1503484642","timestamp":"2017-08-23 10:37:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have bootable backups at the moment but it does sound like a good idea. I\u0026#x27;ll look into that, thanks.","parent":"15077993","id":"15080217"}
{"by":"wbillingsley","time":"1501717603","timestamp":"2017-08-02 23:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A couple of years ago, we tried literally giving some five to seven year-olds a computer science lecture (because we also wanted them to be able to play at being uni students, sitting in the big lecture theatre)\u003cp\u003eUsed a deliberately home made looking game that looked like Angry Birds (using a child\u0026#x27;s sketches of the birds) and exposed a few lines of code that the children could tell me how to edit. Worked really well, but it\u0026#x27;s partly like thinking about putting on a small stage show\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;doi.org\u0026#x2F;10.1145\u0026#x2F;2908805.2909410\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;doi.org\u0026#x2F;10.1145\u0026#x2F;2908805.2909410\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14909897","id":"14915725"}
{"by":"tonylemesmer","time":"1380113930","timestamp":"2013-09-25 12:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He did actually get on the flight so the title is misleading.","parent":"6443753","id":"6444230"}
{"by":"akhatri_aus","time":"1513336408","timestamp":"2017-12-15 11:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s speculative though isn\u0026#x27;t it? The rules could be better outside of the EU if equivalence is used (and judged from statements this week) and the EU standards would simply be the baseline.\u003cp\u003eThe EU hasn\u0026#x27;t been a panacea thus far, particularly with the environment. The strongest influence they\u0026#x27;ve had is with personal rights \u0026amp; freedoms but there have consistently been lapses when it comes to the environment. They refuse to pound down on coal in Eastern Europe\u0026#x2F;Northern Greece \u0026amp; overlooking Diesel-gate are just more recent ones.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing that can help the environment is if green politicians get a sufficient vote in the country involved","parent":"15930985","id":"15931023"}
{"by":"marquis","time":"1330327877","timestamp":"2012-02-27 07:31:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The music of Handel, Vivaldi and Bach et all is not copyrighted: only the recording. You are quite welcome to go make your own piano recording of the Goldberg Variations and sell this. Similarly you can't make a sellable copy of the music book you might have learnt the notes from but you can make your own interpretation from the original manuscript, or other version out of copyright, and publish this.","parent":"3637601","id":"3638127"}
{"by":"bmh_ca","time":"1498345569","timestamp":"2017-06-24 23:06:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m a lighthouse. It\u0026#x27;s your call.\u0026quot;","parent":"14626462","id":"14627847"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1546131605","timestamp":"2018-12-30 01:00:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldnt these potential customers of D-Wave be better off just buying a HPC cluster with lots of CPU\u0026#x27;s, GPU\u0026#x27;s, and FPGA\u0026#x27;s? Probably more opportunities for hardware reuse, too.","parent":"18784318","id":"18786683"}
{"by":"ibudiallo","time":"1372469764","timestamp":"2013-06-29 01:36:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let me add flame wars to the list.\u003cp\u003eAlso there would be even less females in Washington.","parent":"5960456","id":"5961218"}
{"by":"buro9","time":"1445528894","timestamp":"2015-10-22 15:48:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but not all of those JS CDNs do this (or provide full versioning in paths), and because you\u0026#x27;re not serving it you have no control over it or ability to configure it.","parent":"10432858","id":"10432881"}
{"by":"odammit","time":"1519890291","timestamp":"2018-03-01 07:44:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assumed they meant largest economy?","parent":"16490259","id":"16490332"}
{"by":"brucephillips","time":"1500456281","timestamp":"2017-07-19 09:24:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s just a matter of being on the other end of it now.\u003cp\u003eNot quite.  It\u0026#x27;s a different degree.  When I was in Japan, for example, no Japanese person would start a conversation with me in Japanese.  It was always English.  That mostly doesn\u0026#x27;t happen to Asian residents in the US.","parent":"14802805","id":"14802965"}
{"by":"e15ctr0n","time":"1408485296","timestamp":"2014-08-19 21:54:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Breaking the law seems very much the modus operandi of Silicon Valley startups these days. Just look at AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Aereo, 23andMe et al.","parent":"8199907","id":"8200039"}
{"by":"cfinke","time":"1376768052","timestamp":"2013-08-17 19:34:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A screenshot proves nothing: \u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/puRHX20.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;puRHX20.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6229971","id":"6230077"}
{"by":"erric","time":"1532354380","timestamp":"2018-07-23 13:59:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"`“Hiri” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.`\u003cp\u003eIs it really expensive for a dev to get a cert from apple? I don\u0026#x27;t develop so i\u0026#x27;ve never looked.","parent":"17592167","id":"17592779"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1290883067","timestamp":"2010-11-27 18:37:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My problem with that is, if there's more pressure to win, wouldn't you make less risky moves?","parent":"1945366","id":"1945517"}
{"by":"duaneb","time":"1373594222","timestamp":"2013-07-12 01:57:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Can a phone OS survive with just web technologies and not native apps?\u003cp\u003eWhy would you cripple yourself like this, though? Modern web technologies are far from ideal for doing websites, why would I extend the pain to offline apps?","parent":"6030304","id":"6030431"}
{"by":"amarkov","time":"1511734568","timestamp":"2017-11-26 22:16:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But most of the world doesn\u0026#x27;t trade in BTC, so most of the world could easily decide Bitcoin is worthless without a hit to their own pocketbooks.","parent":"15783275","id":"15783369"}
{"by":"atomical","time":"1452310430","timestamp":"2016-01-09 03:33:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So they are hiring other people? That doesn\u0026#x27;t address my question.","parent":"10869978","id":"10869988"}
{"by":"cowmoo","time":"1193510083","timestamp":"2007-10-27 18:34:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I second the second point. It seems somethings change and somethings never change - high school was Xanga and AIM,  Colllege is now facebook.","parent":"73204","id":"73225"}
{"by":"rspeele","time":"1501444555","timestamp":"2017-07-30 19:55:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Discussion on reddit: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;programming\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;6qizpb\u0026#x2F;statically_typed_sql_for_f\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;programming\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;6qizpb\u0026#x2F;statica...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14887176","id":"14887498"}
{"by":"xd","time":"1378655226","timestamp":"2013-09-08 15:47:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see society conforming to your ideals any time soon.  Hell, I love nothing more than celebrating the end of a hard days work with a beer.\u003cp\u003eIMO people need to worry about sitting down all day way before worrying about sugary drinks.","parent":"6349038","id":"6349081"}
{"by":"galaktor","time":"1377711941","timestamp":"2013-08-28 17:45:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I usually type around that speed. The chiclet buttons are a bit awkward but I\u0026#x27;m already used to it - if you\u0026#x27;re looking for a laptop for long typing sessions I think you might have an issue with it. But most of the time I have an external ergonomic keyboard attached when I do longer sessions. That said, I\u0026#x27;ve owned a few netbooks\u0026#x2F;laptops and none of them were good for much typing, plus I got RSI from them and avoid it since.","parent":"6290690","id":"6291496"}
{"by":"lootsauce","time":"1471938861","timestamp":"2016-08-23 07:54:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally not against solid critique. But it becomes a culture, a signal of intellectual superiority. Which is too easy. You can be, and I have been highly productive in plain ole JavaScript. Same with Java, Same with Ruby, same with Python. Are the language debates irrelevant, absolutely not. But \t\n“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” Hey if it is then I fully submit that I\u0026#x27;m just some stupid fool that should rage quit the internet and give up because.... Wait no that would be stupid.","parent":"12342037","id":"12342069"}
{"by":"Permit","time":"1354041272","timestamp":"2012-11-27 18:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have links to some of the other studies? I wouldn't mind going through them as well.\u003cp\u003eCheers.","parent":"4837522","id":"4838035"}
{"by":"cepth","time":"1532328727","timestamp":"2018-07-23 06:52:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keep in mind that John Carreyou’s sources for the Theranos articles faced actual 24\u0026#x2F;7 surveillance, and received legally threatening letters from one of the country’s top law firms (Boies Schiller).\u003cp\u003eThis is not to say that Musk would definitely do such a thing. However, the employee(s) who talked to the WSJ are risking personal legal liability for talking to a journalist.\u003cp\u003eAny journalist worth their salt is going to allow sources to go on “deep background” when appropriate.\u003cp\u003eI write all this as a soon to be Tesla customer. Yes, asking for manufacturer rebates is not completely unheard of, but it’s also the case that this very rarely happens.\u003cp\u003eIf you’re thinking there’s a conspiracy, keep in mind the WSJ’s auto reviewer just published an overwhelmingly positive review of the Model 3 this week, which Musk retweeted.\u003cp\u003eUS libel and defamation law puts newspapers in legal jeopardy if they intentionally publish false information (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan\u003c/a\u003e). News Corp has a couple billion reasons to let the WSJ’s newsroom do a thorough and honest job.","parent":"17590131","id":"17590977"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1479064005","timestamp":"2016-11-13 19:06:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you get to the point of explaining \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e you\u0026#x27;re against diamonds? Was she able to tell you \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e she wants a diamond in particular? To resolve this issue it would be good to exchange the exact, real reasons why one side wants the diamond and the other doesn\u0026#x27;t. But even then, it may end up your GF will insist on the diamond - while all the rational-in-the-vacuum reasons are against diamonds, there\u0026#x27;s this whole thing called culture, social pressure and someone spending half of their life imagining the perfect diamond ring. Those are perfectly valid reasons too. So if she insist, don\u0026#x27;t be angry at her - be angry at De Beers.","parent":"12944932","id":"12944977"}
{"by":"uurayan","time":"1288584746","timestamp":"2010-11-01 04:12:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a former GoDaddy hosting customer, let me tell you all that these attacks are not new business. There was a point in May where our sites were attacked weekly with massive damage done. We would perform all the fixes they recommended yet the next day our site would be hacked to crap again. It is obviously a huge vulnerability on their side (from what I remember it was with their phpmyadmin implementation) yet all they did during this time was blame their customers saying it was security flaws in the php software installed by their customers.\u003cp\u003eStay away from Godaddy hosting at all costs.","parent":"1854952","id":"1855338"}
{"by":"throwaway7645","time":"1495761075","timestamp":"2017-05-26 01:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone actually use Arc? Racket, Common Lisp, Clojure, Picolisp even yes. Arc was just used for this forum right and is based on Racket?","parent":"14419877","id":"14421410"}
{"by":"efferifick","time":"1483436567","timestamp":"2017-01-03 09:42:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I liked and recommend \u0026quot;The Transhumanist Paradox\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;media.ccc.de\u0026#x2F;v\u0026#x2F;33c3-8064-the_transhumanist_paradox\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;media.ccc.de\u0026#x2F;v\u0026#x2F;33c3-8064-the_transhumanist_paradox\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13307861","id":"13308032"}
{"by":"simonw","time":"1211350903","timestamp":"2008-05-21 06:21:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://djangogigs.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://djangogigs.com/\u003c/a\u003e currently lists 90 jobs in the US and 34 in the UK.","parent":"195520","id":"195775"}
{"by":"Nrsolis","time":"1371311211","timestamp":"2013-06-15 15:46:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depending on your carrier, SIMs weren\u0026#x27;t really used unless you were with AT\u0026amp;T or T-Mobile.  The subsidized phone system here made switching out SIMs between phones kinda pointless so fewer people knew about them.\u003cp\u003eNow, with LTE, that\u0026#x27;s changing a bit.","parent":"5885183","id":"5885280"}
{"by":"mkempe","time":"1500180081","timestamp":"2017-07-16 04:41:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. Even my two-year old knows which room is my office and not a playroom.","parent":"14778999","id":"14780516"}
{"by":"aditya","time":"1298059187","timestamp":"2011-02-18 19:59:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You'll hear back on April 7, either way. If you get a question on your app, that means they're atleast mildly interested, but it could still go either way. It's all very opaque and for a good reason: Once you submit the app, go back to building your product/company, don't worry about the result. Since you're going to do your startup ANYWAY, right!?!\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn April 7, we'll invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View during April 23-28. We'll reimburse up to $600 per group for travel expenses\u003c/i\u003e[1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://ycombinator.com/apply.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ycombinator.com/apply.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2236880","id":"2236978"}
{"by":"asdfs","time":"1382156486","timestamp":"2013-10-19 04:21:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that if the low quality render differs in any appreciable way from the high quality one, there will be flickering.  So the low quality renders have to be extremely similar to the high quality ones, in which case why not just use the low-quality ones all the time?\u003cp\u003eThough come to think of it, there is one example that \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c/i\u003e does what you describe.  Dynamic resolution scaling has some artifacts, but is being used in some games (and is notably used in Dead Rising 3).  Though one has to decide before the frame is rendered what resolution to use, so you still get frames that take longer than 16.7ms or whatever your target is.\u003cp\u003eOne \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e do something similar with render quality, but it has the same drawback that you have to decide beforehand what quality you want to use.  One would also have to ramp up and down the quality slowly, which is difficult as the complexity of a given scene can vary wildly over the space of a single second.  It also wouldn\u0026#x27;t help with spikes in rendering time.","parent":"6575101","id":"6575323"}
{"by":"samfisher83","time":"1476902504","timestamp":"2016-10-19 18:41:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes the more people that use it slower it goes since people have to share the same bandwidth. However given all the datacaps the faster the speed the faster you hit the datacap so I guess you can look at the positive side.","parent":"12746110","id":"12746474"}
{"by":"walrus01","time":"1458609369","timestamp":"2016-03-22 01:16:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot; All we had to do was download an app and click on some mysterious Chinese advertisements to top up our data. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis is the sort of shit that keeps network security people awake at night. I bet they enabled third-party app downloads on their Android phones and uninstalled some unknown .apk\u003cp\u003eThe future business leaders of America... fuck...","parent":"11332488","id":"11333695"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1447791061","timestamp":"2015-11-17 20:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We need not tell you to do more than what you\u0026#x27;re obviously capable of: find some research into the difference in outcome for black people and white people.\u003cp\u003eA successful rule of law functions in spite of, and not at the utter service to, the majority.","parent":"10583506","id":"10583621"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1381438478","timestamp":"2013-10-10 20:54:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The time lost to commuting is also time where you don\u0026#x27;t meet other people, and don\u0026#x27;t exercise. Things like that also factor into the result, and you might not even be aware that you are missing out.\u003cp\u003eAlthough to be fair, most people I know don\u0026#x27;t meet a lot of people most of the time anyway. Modern work life seems to be work - TV all week long.","parent":"6524803","id":"6529976"}
{"by":"webwielder","time":"1364525200","timestamp":"2013-03-29 02:46:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But as slg mentioned below, it's  trivial to check if a username/email is registered through the forgot password page. So some snooping significant other can still find out if they really want to.","parent":"5458319","id":"5458984"}
{"by":"dkarapetyan","time":"1474142838","timestamp":"2016-09-17 20:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be quite simple to have a two tiered approach to the logging problem since they have separated it into 2 components. One can just write and ship files while the other is what they have described in terms of providing real time streaming.\u003cp\u003eSo the question then becomes what are the failures modes of their logging setup in terms of misbehaving clients? I don\u0026#x27;t know how kafka handles misbehaving clients. I suspect it would lead to global effects and slowdown of the entire cluster because of 1 or 2 misbehaving clients whereas in the current set up local misbehavior will be localized to the nearest aggregator dropping messages. Simple memory usage and other kinds of monitoring can then be used to find these issues and then mitigate them accordingly.\u003cp\u003eThis is still a heck of lot simpler setup than using kafka and worrying about all sorts of weird distributed system failure modes. I\u0026#x27;m sure kafka got them started initially but continuing to use it is like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. For the use case they have this setup is the correct one and migrating to kafka if it becomes necessary will be possible. So in my view this is proper engineering. They\u0026#x27;ve made all the right trade-offs instead of just chasing fads and trends.","parent":"12520534","id":"12522206"}
{"by":"adamdavid","time":"1436731848","timestamp":"2015-07-12 20:10:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Damn...wish I were there. Would have pitched $20k of my own money and maybe had my parents pitch another $10k, with a lawyer to sign-off on it. Nowadays, it\u0026#x27;s just crappy companies that are easy to invest in - garbage on kick starter, and pump and pumps on Wall St. for example - the good stuff requires connections.","parent":"9874521","dead":true,"id":"9874765"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1457660051","timestamp":"2016-03-11 01:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And ultimately the electoral college in the event it\u0026#x27;s believed voters made an egregious error in electing their president.  Don\u0026#x27;t think we\u0026#x27;ll see that happen regardless of winner this cycle.","parent":"11263945","id":"11264049"}
{"by":"mpclark","time":"1458149768","timestamp":"2016-03-16 17:36:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We use Google DFP to manage the actual serving of our ads, simply because it is very, very good at it.","parent":"11298776","id":"11299132"}
{"by":"nxc18","time":"1483062268","timestamp":"2016-12-30 01:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It isn\u0026#x27;t your data. It is their data about you, which is a very important distinction.\u003cp\u003eFacebook and Oracle aren\u0026#x27;t the bad actors here, if you think there is a bad actor. The baddies are the people giving Oracle (and others) that data about you.\u003cp\u003e(And now I have to hang my head in shame for saying something that sounds like it is a defense of Oracle. They\u0026#x27;re baddies for many, many other reasons, just not this one)","parent":"13280394","id":"13281889"}
{"by":"doktrin","time":"1498224203","timestamp":"2017-06-23 13:23:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Remove C++ from software development and check what is still working...\u003cp\u003eRemove opcodes \u0026amp; assembler from software development and check what is still working...\u003cp\u003eSee how completely absurd that sounds?","parent":"14618692","id":"14618953"}
{"by":"rogerbinns","time":"1373911883","timestamp":"2013-07-15 18:11:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can (and probably should) setup ssh on one edge gateway and then ssh from that machine to further internal machines.  ssh config files make it easy to make multiple steps transparent.\u003cp\u003eI expose ssh externally on the edge gateway (but can\u0026#x27;t provide evidence for sanity).  The major attractions over a vpn is a limit in what traffic gets sent on the ssh connection - by default just the shell, and whatever port forwards are needed.  vpns end up forwarding DNS traffic and a bunch of other gunk.  They can also expose the client machines to unintended traffic from the remote end.","parent":"6046794","id":"6047433"}
{"by":"joejerryronnie","time":"1544584269","timestamp":"2018-12-12 03:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s amazing how a donated building can help the “need blind” admission officers see the light.","parent":"18659229","id":"18661072"}
{"by":"Gys","time":"1490191862","timestamp":"2017-03-22 14:11:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AQAP = Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Penins...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13930464","id":"13931003"}
{"by":"mindslight","time":"1486580676","timestamp":"2017-02-08 19:04:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Giving GP the benefit of the doubt means interpreting the comment as \u0026quot;Much oil that currently moves by rail will move by the pipeline\u0026quot;, which is valid.\u003cp\u003eStill that seems like a relatively small business interest, relative to the overwhelming behemoth implied by \u0026quot;astroturfing\u0026quot;. The presence of some amount of self-interested business funding cannot invalidate the legitimacy of a point of view, or there would be no such thing as a legitimate point of view. So what I look for is a severe power disparity between the two sides which would swamp the smaller side\u0026#x27;s point of view.\u003cp\u003eIn this situation, that seems like the oil companies and the legible-business-interest preference of state and federal governments. Railroads being on the opposing side doesn\u0026#x27;t really alter my appraisal of that balance. But I\u0026#x27;d be interested in hearing the involvement of a larger entity that I\u0026#x27;ve missed.","parent":"13600865","id":"13601024"}
{"by":"macspoofing","time":"1385918084","timestamp":"2013-12-01 17:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;s right, sort of, about some things. Bitcoin is absolutely in a speculative bubble right now. People are buying it not to use as currency but to sit on it and watch its value appreciate. That\u0026#x27;s not good. Lots of people will be hurt when the inevitable crash occurs.\u003cp\u003eThe bigger problem is that Bitcoin has intrinsically a deflationary nature. That\u0026#x27;s not a great property for a currency to have. Currency is meant to be spent. It\u0026#x27;s not meant to be buried in a backyard so that you can watch its value grow.\u003cp\u003eHis points around the development of currencies are bunk. The fact that in the old days it took any currency decades or centuries to take a hold, is purely a function of that time. Bitcoin also does solve some big problems with the current financial system. Specifically today it\u0026#x27;s pretty friggen hard to move money around because of the insanely strict regulations around transfers. In an era of the internet and all that it enables, there is a huge pent-up demand for something compatible with \u0026quot;the internet way of thinking\u0026quot;.","parent":"6827077","id":"6828127"}
{"by":"lkbm","time":"1424925405","timestamp":"2015-02-26 04:36:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess it\u0026#x27;s not right to say our solutions aren\u0026#x27;t needed. It\u0026#x27;s just that our voice and the sorts of solutions we\u0026#x27;ll tend to come up with are not underrepresented. Far too often our solutions are \u0026quot;be more white\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;stop being poor\u0026quot;, and the like: \u0026quot;Abandon your perspective and become a member of the dominant group.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWe need solutions that acknowledge minority experiences and treat them as valuable, not solutions that simply impose majority viewpoints.","parent":"9110920","id":"9111212"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1487070039","timestamp":"2017-02-14 11:00:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I\u0026#x27;m sure she\u0026#x27;s smart, for her own personal gain","parent":"13641411","id":"13642654"}
{"by":"dotBen","time":"1302660531","timestamp":"2011-04-13 02:08:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure that happens, it may even happen a lot... but that's not true across the board.\u003cp\u003eOne of my companies works with an Eastern European dev shop on ELance.  The company works for ~$18/hr for custom development work, which is done from scratch.  Even at that rate it certainly equate to more than $300 for a site, however. :)\u003cp\u003eFor the type of development we're doing it makes sense to out-source to Eastern Europe: For them this hourly rate is high and they perform quality work, for us we get to turn the tap on/off on quality development when we need it, with work turned around very quickly.\u003cp\u003eI think it is foolish to write off all Eastern European developers (and those from South America, Asia, etc) as code bodgers who slap skins onto Drupel.","parent":"2440051","id":"2440389"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1475804082","timestamp":"2016-10-07 01:34:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People over 30 feel \u0026#x27;old\u0026#x27; every 10 years. That\u0026#x27;s nothing new; it\u0026#x27;s not even \u0026#x27;programmers are 20something\u0026#x27;; people becoming 30-40-50-60 have all been saying \u0026#x27;now I am old\u0026#x27; while we stand to become 90-100 (at least in western EU), so 60 is not that old. 40 (i\u0026#x27;m 41) is spring chicken and I look forward to many years telling my younger colleagues that the latest thing, however interesting to learn about, is not always better.","parent":"12657418","id":"12657535"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1359602957","timestamp":"2013-01-31 03:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a broader, frequently updated, shorter-form and better categorized collection of this sort of reading check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/forums/40-Trip-Reports\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.bluelight.ru/vb/forums/40-Trip-Reports\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5142627","id":"5143278"}
{"by":"ahelwer","time":"1324573559","timestamp":"2011-12-22 17:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. There is a substantial bandwagoning effect going on. Still, I wouldn't deny that problems exist.","parent":"3382246","id":"3382268"}
{"by":"Kadin","time":"1507689999","timestamp":"2017-10-11 02:46:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;d be much preferable to turn the power off before leaving.","parent":"15446767","id":"15446954"}
{"by":"dataker","time":"1434208562","timestamp":"2015-06-13 15:16:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The largest threat to America is America itself.\u003cp\u003eFor the past decades, America appears to be moving away from principles , objectiveness and liberty.\u003cp\u003eMore and more, we see a \u0026#x27;democracy\u0026#x27; ran by delusional ideologies and even blind nationalism.","parent":"9710757","id":"9711253"}
{"by":"analog31","time":"1416921571","timestamp":"2014-11-25 13:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly I don\u0026#x27;t know. I haven\u0026#x27;t studied philosophy in any formal sense since the 101 course in college. Physicists differ on whether they are interested in philosophy at all.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps one way to think about it is: Are there different schools or beliefs within ontology, and would a unification of QM an GR help philosophers choose one of those schools from among the others, or develop a new school?","parent":"8656594","id":"8657570"}
{"by":"mempko","time":"1539797679","timestamp":"2018-10-17 17:34:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s telling that the first people in history to get wages were slaves who rented themselves out when their master had nothing for them to do. Maybe they feel like slaves to the system because they are.","parent":"18240483","id":"18241394"}
{"by":"defen","time":"1514395479","timestamp":"2017-12-27 17:24:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone who hacks the support forum (notoriously soft targets) now has access to all your passwords for everything.","parent":"16016195","id":"16016269"}
{"by":"oAlbe","time":"1499154996","timestamp":"2017-07-04 07:56:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are right, but I really can\u0026#x27;t get myself to call a chrome extension \u0026quot;desktop client\u0026quot;.","parent":"14691979","id":"14694281"}
{"by":"Ecio78","time":"1417016041","timestamp":"2014-11-26 15:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"when I read \u0026quot;QuaggaJS\u0026quot; before finishing the headline, I thought that it could be a porting of Quagga the routing software[1] to Javascript :)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nongnu.org\u0026#x2F;quagga\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8657454","id":"8662741"}
{"by":"jarek","time":"1317083460","timestamp":"2011-09-27 00:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is Amazon. Content is their value proposition.","parent":"3041096","id":"3041314"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1273779201","timestamp":"2010-05-13 19:33:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, I get you now, sorry.\u003cp\u003eI don't know if it is not 'right', the signal function would have been just as strong if they would have set their original goal at $100K and people would have sent them that much $.\u003cp\u003eIn some ways the $amount is a value that collapses a number of underlying elements to a single number, the amount of frustration around facebook privacy, the people that simply wish these kids luck and there are a number of people that hate facebook enough to put up a substantial amount of $.\u003cp\u003eWhich portion of that $100K ($109K already, $4500 per \u003ci\u003ehour\u003c/i\u003e right now) comes from the 'signal' portion is hard to tell.","parent":"1345332","id":"1345352"}
{"by":"emersonwalker","time":"1375142781","timestamp":"2013-07-30 00:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I think its the only way that we have a chance being a success.","parent":"6124647","id":"6124660"}
{"by":"moonboots","time":"1335462207","timestamp":"2012-04-26 17:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The post mentions that the disk performance of Amazon small ec2 instances was poor enough to justify the relatively expensive large instances. If the blog author is on HN, were you using Amazon EBS or ephermeral storage to back Riak? I have seen different advice regarding using ephermeral storage to increase disk performance at the expense of data integrity in the event of instance termination. I remember Reddit programmers saying they run Cassandra on ephermeral storage.","parent":"3894642","id":"3895160"}
{"by":"iainmerrick","time":"1539176557","timestamp":"2018-10-10 13:02:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have the opposite reaction, I’m skeptical that the abstract “objections are goals” rule has significant value. But the concrete points about TCR are interesting.\u003cp\u003eTo address the objections about fast and trustworthy tests, you could limit its use to code that already has good tests. To address the version history objection, you could use “git commit --amend” to limit it to a single commit. So in some situations TCR may actually be usable (and in fact it’s not too far away from the process I often use! Frequent small commits with --amend)","parent":"18184203","id":"18184420"}
{"by":"inimino","time":"1498270165","timestamp":"2017-06-24 02:09:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sort of naive \u0026quot;censorship doesn\u0026#x27;t work\u0026quot; optimism is one of the main reasons your side lost the copyfight.","parent":"14618376","id":"14624047"}
{"by":"detst","time":"1268440222","timestamp":"2010-03-13 00:30:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you, Andrew.\u003cp\u003eThe interviews are inspiring but I have to say I'm inspired most seeing the work you put into Mixergy. You could slack and maybe not do an interview everyday but you do it because that's what you want Mixergy to be.\u003cp\u003eThat's what I find inspiring and I can't tell you how helpful it is in keeping me on track.","parent":"1188046","id":"1188193"}
{"by":"capkutay","time":"1322644329","timestamp":"2011-11-30 09:12:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why we need more software engineers in the US. If we have people with law AND engineering backgrounds making policy, we would see a system much more rational/practical/just toward new technology. These types of issues only occur because current policy makers have little understanding of the consequences of their own actions (or perhaps they don't care.","parent":"3292233","id":"3294365"}
{"by":"briandear","time":"1541453894","timestamp":"2018-11-05 21:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not tax cancer? If I eat red meat and don’t get cancer, then why am I paying an extra tax? It isn’t like my red meat consumption is causing other people to get cancer.","parent":"18386116","id":"18386228"}
{"by":"dragontamer","time":"1383069456","timestamp":"2013-10-29 17:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. There are plenty of cases of local and\u0026#x2F;or state level corruption in the US, but there is also the FBI who has the responsibility of tracking that corruption and prosecuting offenders.\u003cp\u003eIn the US, there are \u0026quot;the police who watch the police\u0026quot;: the FBI. But their powers are relatively limited in scope... the FBI does not do routine traffic stops, or patrol neighborhoods. So even if the FBI were corrupt, the typical citizen wouldn\u0026#x27;t come across them very often.\u003cp\u003eIs there a local Mayor or Governor who is accepting bribes or illegal kickbacks? Call the FBI on them. Is there a local police officer who is giving trouble? Are the local courts too corrupt to prosecute the officer?\u003cp\u003eThen prosecute him in Federal Court, for federal corruption crimes.\u003cp\u003eSimilarly, FBI Agents are still subject to the rules of the towns and states that they go under. Even if the Feds were corrupt... the \u003ci\u003eState\u003c/i\u003e Attorney can prosecute any FBI Agent that oversteps their bounds.","parent":"6635681","id":"6636155"}
{"by":"jimminy","time":"1497655711","timestamp":"2017-06-16 23:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The technique I personally use, as  a full-stack developer, is if I can get features planned out into weekly chunks, segment days to backend vs frontend work, and move forward.\u003cp\u003eMonday is backend, Tuesday is frontend integration, Wednesday is front-end adjustments, Thursday and Friday are refactoring and further integration days.\u003cp\u003eAlso I batch my issues, so if I\u0026#x27;m planning to work on something that day, I\u0026#x27;ll look for other issues that may be in the same code area. Then I\u0026#x27;ll work on all of them throughout the day, as I can with primary focus on the issue I started with.\u003cp\u003eRefactoring happens any time you look at the code if you can see a need.","parent":"14558894","id":"14573303"}
{"by":"NateDad","time":"1389960576","timestamp":"2014-01-17 12:09:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note, this is the study referenced by the article:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-labor-market-analysis/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.epi.org\u0026#x2F;publication\u0026#x2F;bp359-guestworkers-high-skill...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe article does not jive with my personal experience.  Everyone I know in IT can walk off the job and onto another one without batting an eye.  Even the crummiest developer I know got a new job in a couple weeks of looking.  Every software company I know says they have difficulty finding qualified applicants.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. colleges graduate 50 percent more students than are hired into those fields each year; of the computer science graduates not entering the IT workforce, 32 percent say it is because IT jobs are unavailable, and 53 percent say they found better job opportunities outside of IT occupations. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI wonder how they calculate this.  If someone goes to write software for a finance company, does that count as being \u0026quot;in the field\u0026quot;?  What are these computer science graduates doing that has more opportunities than software development?\u003cp\u003eAnyone have any insight into this?  Are current college grads with CS degrees really having so much difficulty finding jobs that they have to go find jobs elsewhere, and if so, what are they doing?","parent":"7075332","id":"7075357"}
{"by":"akoumjian","time":"1334771630","timestamp":"2012-04-18 17:53:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let's also keep in mind that if true, this is personalization done poorly (for the consumer). Presumably, was no correction  in Yahoo's model to consider whether the user liked the content after reading it. The first question here is whether or not the author clicked on more articles leading to more ad views as a result. If so, then it \"worked\" and made business sense. The second question is whether or not it improved the user's experience, which in this case it obviously did not.","parent":"3857624","id":"3859287"}
{"by":"sh1mmer","time":"1258928114","timestamp":"2009-11-22 22:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You lost me with \"l33t setups\", possibly you are thinking of the wrong kind of \"hackers\".","parent":"955885","id":"956295"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1381822307","timestamp":"2013-10-15 07:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m tried of bandwagon sites that have no other purpose than to act as resume stuffers.","parent":"6551887","id":"6552008"}
{"by":"geraldbaeck","time":"1374594582","timestamp":"2013-07-23 15:49:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, we will add metadata in the next dump, but currently the time_spent is all that matters.\u003cp\u003eOur plans are to add categories, the language and rough information about the content type (video, image, etc).\u003cp\u003eGerald, CTO Blippex","parent":"6090546","id":"6090771"}
{"by":"nandemo","time":"1302137083","timestamp":"2011-04-07 00:44:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you know it's due to Fukushima?","parent":"2417582","id":"2417706"}
{"by":"athenot","time":"1443627991","timestamp":"2015-09-30 15:46:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lower-income women are also forced to work very soon after birth (at least in the US where there is no guaranteed maternity benefits), in jobs that forbid breastfeeding.\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s because I\u0026#x27;m a dad, but I would have no problem if the bank teller happened to have a baby latched onto her breast while she was processing my deposit. Many office jobs would not be significantly impaired if a mom were to bring in her infant. I think it\u0026#x27;s sad that we\u0026#x27;ve constructed a society that has become very hostile to children (and elderly but that\u0026#x27;s a topic for a different day). Contrast with rural Asian cultures where you see babies strapped to the backs of their moms while they are in the rice fields or conducting commerce. If anything, carrying a child around during work in those conditions is \u0026quot;more inconvenient\u0026quot; than in our modern places of work.","parent":"10303944","id":"10304763"}
{"by":"jfktrey","time":"1471273953","timestamp":"2016-08-15 15:12:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what they want you to think.","parent":"12290907","id":"12290964"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1478805579","timestamp":"2016-11-10 19:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You still didn\u0026#x27;t got on the level of tampered hardware.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s just no good wat to verify this.","parent":"12923256","id":"12923334"}
{"by":"beyondcompute","time":"1477672323","timestamp":"2016-10-28 16:32:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is absolutely brilliant :)","parent":"12817736","id":"12817771"}
{"by":"cemerick","time":"1374088435","timestamp":"2013-07-17 19:13:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, that reply was only regarding the particular phrase \u0026quot;100% time\u0026quot;, and the very broad concept of self-directed work.","parent":"6058228","id":"6059607"}
{"by":"exelius","time":"1415746290","timestamp":"2014-11-11 22:51:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve definitely seen this. It\u0026#x27;s probably a consequence of how women are depicted in our society: women in movies\u0026#x2F;TV are either young and beautiful or matronly old crones. The period between 40 and 60 just doesn\u0026#x27;t exist (presumably women are busy raising children then?) Any actresses whose careers are fortunate enough to survive turning 40 are usually because they either naturally look younger or have a good plastic surgeon. Men, on the other hand, don\u0026#x27;t shed their \u0026quot;boyish good looks\u0026quot; until their late 30s and can be considered sex symbols well into their 60s. Thus how you get stupid romantic comedies with a 25 year old woman falling in love with a 50 year old man.\u003cp\u003eBut you\u0026#x27;re right, it\u0026#x27;s not fair. But I don\u0026#x27;t think this particular problem is isolated to tech.","parent":"8592731","id":"8592797"}
{"by":"tsomctl","time":"1425863705","timestamp":"2015-03-09 01:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How practical would it be to automatically search the web for images of the Mosul Museum? Has anyone calculated SIFT descriptors for all of Flickr or Picasa? Seems like with enough computing and bandwidth, and a set of seed images of objects in the Museum, someone could search the entire web automatically for the needed images.","parent":"9167336","id":"9168304"}
{"by":"joe_the_user","time":"1253404390","timestamp":"2009-09-19 23:53:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It saddens me to see so much effort put into this kind of proposal. I favor loosened immigration conditions but this is a poorly thought-out scheme that seeks to create private initiative via government intervention.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't just threaten to pollute the 'immigration space' with folks trying to seem like 'founders', it also pollutes the start-up space with these folks. If someone is 'creating jobs' with the goal of securing a VISA, they could put out ads (which real job seekers will try to answer), then hire only their friends, get the wages paid kicked mostly back to them and have a VISA pretty cheaply since they would get back a good proportion of their money.\u003cp\u003eSure, you could have regulators looking for people who did stuff like this but it would get clunky and I'm sure folks could think of umpteen other schemes to get around this. I'm not a Austrian or free-market nut but I think the Austrian arguments are \u003ci\u003emost\u003c/i\u003e plausible when governments try to micro-manage enterprises.\u003cp\u003eIt would simpler to elimenate h1b's, skip the 'founders' and give N VISAs to individuals with documented skills and M to individuals who just pay a million dollars directly. That would bring skilled workers and investors here without a lot of falderal. If you wanted to make sure they were never unemployed, make them put up a bond.\u003cp\u003eAnd Taxi drivers can make up to $100K/year if they are committed (a lot of them work literally 24 hours/day). A beach-head in the States is worth a lot in many parts of the world since once you arrive you can bring your entire family. $100K for ten people to immigrate here is a good deal. It's not something I'm even opposed to \u003ci\u003eas such\u003c/i\u003e - my father and ex-wife were both immigrants. In fact, the main thing I oppose is the way present system creates distortions which helps neither the economy nor the immigrants.","parent":"832433","id":"832477"}
{"by":"neilk","time":"1350617744","timestamp":"2012-10-19 03:35:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wikipedia took over the world while nobody was noticing. Didn't you get the memo?\u003cp\u003eYou are a bit confused here, but I don't blame you. Here is the legal situation as far as I understand it (IANAL, standard disclaimers apply).\u003cp\u003eThe Wikimedia Foundation hosts content on its servers provided by the community. Usually, the individual contributors own the copyright to all the content. And when they submit content to a WMF site, like Wikipedia, they  explicitly agree to license the work under terms such that others can use it. (I am ignoring the case of fair use for now).\u003cp\u003eCertain kinds of contributions, however, are not original to the contributor. This gets confusing because then you have to prove that it's okay to reuse.\u003cp\u003eDepictions of national flags are often ineligible for copyright, or are explicitly granted to the public domain, in their country of origin. However, \"public domain\" has no legal meaning internationally.\u003cp\u003eThe CC0 license is really designed for creators who want to dedicate their work to be freely copied, like public domain, but want something that is legally meaningful.\u003cp\u003eBut - there was a large collection of flags licensed CC0 which became the basis of the Wikimedia Commons collection. Other flags have specific justifications for why they are public domain, sometimes quoting laws from specific countries. This is the good thing about Wikimedia Commons, it doesn't force you into any straightjacket to explain how the license works. But that also means that everything's kind of a mess if you want to get a straight answer to a question like \"under what license could I republish all the flags on Wikimedia Commons?\"\u003cp\u003eAnd that's where it sits. If you squint, everything's not so bad. But maybe Wikimedia Commons should relicense \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e the flags as ineligible for copyright -- it would make things a lot simpler.\u003cp\u003eOf course, because copyright is taking over the world, I would not be surprised if there are some nations that would insist they \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e hold the copyright to their flags. For instance, the EC insists it holds the copyright to their flag and the Euro symbol. Maaaaadness.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Europe.svg#Licensing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Europe.svg#Li...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/symbol/index_en.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/symbol/index_e...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4671958","id":"4672170"}
{"by":"MrBuddyCasino","time":"1436772024","timestamp":"2015-07-13 07:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, same thing in Germany. The relationship in the US between employee and employer seems very hostile from our point of view, full of fear, mistrust, and legal issues. But I guess it only seems that way, due to cultural differences?","parent":"9876740","id":"9876817"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1359993374","timestamp":"2013-02-04 15:56:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like everything else it depends.  \"rm -rf\" is a lot easier to read than \"--recursive --force\" simply because every likely maintainer will (1) already know the short form and (2) will have no idea the long form options even exist.  Likewise arguments to tar are probably best left in traditional form, etc...\u003cp\u003eDon't rock the boat just to adhere to silly style rules.  The goal is readability.  You're probably already the best judge of what is most readable, so trust your intuition.  If you had to look it up, then spell it out.  If not, relax and do it the sane way.","parent":"5164688","id":"5164724"}
{"by":"mcintyre1994","time":"1502642419","timestamp":"2017-08-13 16:40:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried the History of Rome?","parent":"15001852","id":"15003586"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1388327797","timestamp":"2013-12-29 14:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even the confusion seems to prove the point that Ms are confusing their customers.","parent":"6979597","id":"6979629"}
{"by":"vinceguidry","time":"1434651876","timestamp":"2015-06-18 18:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, it stays hard no matter how much deliberate practice you sink into it. I didn\u0026#x27;t understand what DHH was saying about design damage inflicted by testing until I started seriously confronting questions like \u0026quot;which parts of this API should I mock and which parts should I just use integration tests for?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eEventually you spend more time thinking about testing than you do actually getting shit done. You have to because otherwise you find yourself rewriting tests every time you refactor. You rationalize this time under the guise of \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s making me think more clearly about my design.\u0026quot; Once it starts wearing thin disillusionment takes root. The first step towards my own enlightenment was when I realized that I needed tests to help me ensure that my test framework was working. What\u0026#x27;s testing those tests? Tests are code, and code needs to be tested. Where does it end?\u003cp\u003eI wrote my own toy test framework as an exercise. I was trying to * really * wrap my head around meta-programming, so I meta-programmed my test suite to test the heavily meta-programmed data classes. It solidified into a grotesque mush and I scrapped the whole thing. Now I\u0026#x27;m solving the original problem with boring old Rails and sanity has been restored.\u003cp\u003eNow when I start a project I do it knowing that my code is going to suck and I\u0026#x27;m going to refactor it over time. The truth is, when there\u0026#x27;s no tests I only have to refactor one code base and not two. I don\u0026#x27;t need to learn two frameworks. I don\u0026#x27;t need to understand two domains. The amount of time I\u0026#x27;ve spent maintaining code has sharply diminished after I stopped being so religious about testing. If I don\u0026#x27;t know what it\u0026#x27;s doing, the REPL is my best friend. Backtraces rule.\u003cp\u003eIf your code is Serious Business, like, say, SQLite which is used everywhere, a robust test suite is a very nice tool to have and maintain. For everyone else, it\u0026#x27;s another step on the road to mastery.\u003cp\u003eAlso if you\u0026#x27;re using a dangerously unsafe language like C, tests can alert you to brewing problems. If you\u0026#x27;re using a safe language solving not-so-hard problems, a test framework is just adding complexity to paper over your lack of experience.","parent":"9739569","id":"9740612"}
{"by":"chrisseaton","time":"1513862543","timestamp":"2017-12-21 13:22:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, people claim \u0026#x27;all CS degrees teach the same stuff and a degree from any place is the same\u0026#x27; and I think they\u0026#x27;re crazy. Look at what a top university actually teaches, and then look at a mid-tier university and it\u0026#x27;s not even remotely the same league at all.\u003cp\u003eI think some people genuinely think there\u0026#x27;s some kind of national or even internationally agreed syllabus.\u003cp\u003eSomeone was trying to tell me a first from Luton was the same as a first from Cambridge because they were the same degree course and the same grade. They\u0026#x27;re mad.","parent":"15977291","id":"15978542"}
{"by":"randyrand","time":"1467242538","timestamp":"2016-06-29 23:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Patreon would be great for this.","parent":"12004970","id":"12005569"}
{"by":"dmitriid","time":"1511346563","timestamp":"2017-11-22 10:29:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t think it is possible to do any high quality music with it or beamforming.\u003cp\u003eDefine \u0026quot;high quality\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eApple isn\u0026#x27;t in the audiophile market (a sham in itself), or in the professional audio market. It\u0026#x27;s in the consumer market.\u003cp\u003eAnd for the consumer market you need a reasonably good sounding speaker. Which is quite doable in the form factor they announced (hell, Sonos is quite capable of making nice-sounding speakers that are much smaller)","parent":"15755640","id":"15755781"}
{"by":"rst","time":"1402421297","timestamp":"2014-06-10 17:28:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, even newer parts of the NYC system aren\u0026#x27;t getting bypass capability -- the initial portion of the second avenue subway will be double-tracked when it opens in a few years; they even cut out a planned storage track (which could at least have been used to get disabled trains out of the way) to save construction costs.","parent":"7872717","id":"7873980"}
{"by":"kcsrk","time":"1463529185","timestamp":"2016-05-17 23:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is the small standard library that ships with the compiler. And then there are more extensive ones such as Batteries and Core. It is easy to generate docs in Reason syntax from OCaml projects using `redoc` tool. Here is Reason docs for:\u003cp\u003e- OCaml compiler\u0026#x27;s stdlib: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kcsrk.info\u0026#x2F;reason_stdlib_docs\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kcsrk.info\u0026#x2F;reason_stdlib_docs\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Batteries: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kcsrk.info\u0026#x2F;reason_batteries_docs\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kcsrk.info\u0026#x2F;reason_batteries_docs\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11717807","id":"11718604"}
{"by":"martinald","time":"1515498613","timestamp":"2018-01-09 11:50:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t agree. BT have got to 95% \u0026#x27;superfast\u0026#x27; (24mbit+ sec) coverage, with minimal govt funding. It will probably get to 98% coverage.\u003cp\u003eTry switching from Virgin to BT\u0026#x2F;openreach FTTx and you\u0026#x27;ll probably see much more reliable speeds.\u003cp\u003eFWIW I have hyperoptic in London which is ~£45\u0026#x2F;month for 1gigabit up and down.\u003cp\u003eedit: keep in mind the NZ project cost NZ$1.5bn subsidy to get to 87% penetration for ~1million premises. The UK has got to 95%+ penetration (\u0026gt;20million premises) for £600m ish subsidy. It\u0026#x27;s literally 20x the cost.","parent":"16105348","id":"16105416"}
{"by":"k__","time":"1478624055","timestamp":"2016-11-08 16:54:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I probably just translated them wrong from German.\u003cp\u003eBut as I said, since I didn\u0026#x27;t understand it, I probably don\u0026#x27;t recall correctly what they told me.\u003cp\u003eI just remember that the \u0026quot;particles\u0026quot; I had in mind somehow stopped being \u0026quot;the thing\u0026quot; and now it was all abount strange fields that worked without a physical medium and formed waves by being aligned in a specific way.","parent":"12901528","id":"12901794"}
{"by":"antihero","time":"1355494826","timestamp":"2012-12-14 14:20:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ST2 seems to be sticking around so far, it's not the author's fault that it's new.","parent":"4920015","id":"4921000"}
{"by":"Rusky","time":"1484250249","timestamp":"2017-01-12 19:44:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As far as the kernel-side implementation goes, IO is always asynchronous. The CPU is not involved in the actual movement of data between memory and the network interface.\u003cp\u003eWhen you make a synchronous syscall, the kernel initiates the operation, saves the state of your thread, and starts another one. When the network interface is done, it signals the kernel, which then marks your thread as runnable and schedules it for execution.\u003cp\u003eWhen you make an asynchronous syscall, the kernel initiates the operation but does not block your thread. This is usually done in the context of an event loop, which makes a synchronous syscall (like epoll_wait) when it runs out of tasks to run.\u003cp\u003eThus, converting a single async syscall to a sync one means two syscalls: initiate the operation, then wait for its result. The extra round trip between user and kernel mode is basically free in this case because you\u0026#x27;re blocking on IO, and any logic it implements has to happen in the synchronous case anyway.","parent":"13381385","id":"13385423"}
{"by":"RivieraKid","time":"1391471350","timestamp":"2014-02-03 23:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; higher sea levels\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure we\u0026#x27;ll deal with it. It\u0026#x27;s a (good) price for low energy prices.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Meteorological events could become vastly more frequent and powerful.\u003cp\u003eI hope so, the weather is pretty boring here.","parent":"7174391","id":"7174434"}
{"by":"tinkerrr","time":"1402413950","timestamp":"2014-06-10 15:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Forbidden\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t have permission to access \u0026#x2F;pages\u0026#x2F;sliceofmit\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;fathers\u0026#x2F; on this server.","parent":"7872992","id":"7873047"}
{"by":"gjm11","time":"1268155666","timestamp":"2010-03-09 17:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right. I \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e the TeXbook explicitly says that TeX doesn't know about rivers, but I forget; anyway, I've read the code, and there is no river detection in TeX.","parent":"1174506","id":"1178837"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1369255031","timestamp":"2013-05-22 20:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u0026#62;It takes a certain poverty of mind to quantify the value of an education in terms of earnings.\u003cp\u003eI don't know... If I spend up to 7 years of my life studying and researching my ass off to become one of the foremost experts in a specialized field, then it better have more benefits than just personal satisfaction.\u003cp\u003eA fantastic job with good living arrangements do not require a Ph.D.","parent":"5753467","id":"5753532"}
{"by":"GFischer","time":"1346417665","timestamp":"2012-08-31 12:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is, at least in my experience, the ratio of people who would use it for good vs those who would misuse it would be very bad.\u003cp\u003eOf course, it's also the employee's fault for getting into such an environment in the first place, but sometimes you just need the job.\u003cp\u003eI use ManicTime Tracker, if my boss got hold of all the data contained in there, he would probably consider firing me - I average more than 2 solid hours of surfing the web on any given workday... wait, I have the exact data :) , that's the point!\u003cp\u003eI was at my work PC for 1059 hours so far this year.\u003cp\u003eOf those, I spent  325 hours on Firefox and 95 on Chrome, that averages about 13 hours a week of web surfing (probably 10 hours procrastinating or reading and 3 actually researching problems).\u003cp\u003eI also spend a shocking 8 hours a week reading and replying to mail (to be fair, we don't have any bug tracking or project management, so mail becomes both), and 5 hours a week on SQL (I do a lot of querying and reporting).\u003cp\u003eI'm less than 4 hours a week actually on a development environment, split between VB6, .NET and Forte4GL (our ugly legacy system).\u003cp\u003eAnd I was hired to be a \"systems analyst\"... And that's only time spent at the PC, it doesn't count time wasted on meetings and stuff.\u003cp\u003eThis is a real-life example of why they say that on a large corporation, you only do actual work 1 or 2 hours a day (as opposed to a startup where you might do code or programming-related stuff 6 or 7 hours, I hope :) ).\u003cp\u003eIt's really depressing to put it in numbers. Fortunately, I'm going to quit next year and dedicate full-time to my startup (which is just getting started right now :) ).","parent":"4459216","id":"4459437"}
{"by":"frezik","time":"1385569938","timestamp":"2013-11-27 16:32:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The OP probably needed to clarify. English having a simple alphabet gave the US a leg up on personal computing compared to the KJC countries. It\u0026#x27;s only one contributing factor, though.","parent":"6808630","id":"6809062"}
{"by":"devb","time":"1377629393","timestamp":"2013-08-27 18:49:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to talk about \u0026quot;Back in the day\u0026quot;, telegraph companies had been running their lines along ROWs since the 1860s. They would obviously have to duplicate ways across vast expanses of the country otherwise. In exchange, they would leave a few conductors open for the railroads to use for their communications.","parent":"6284782","id":"6285357"}
{"by":"jpalomaki","time":"1479345848","timestamp":"2016-11-17 01:24:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They can reduce their risk by doing this. For online retailer there is always risks in accepting card payments. (Not saying this is a good idea, just trying to find reasons).","parent":"12973305","id":"12973352"}
{"by":"davexunit","time":"1400590759","timestamp":"2014-05-20 12:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Oh-My-Zsh\u003cp\u003eNo, I like bash (or fish sometimes) with my own personal configuration that I fully understand.  If I were to switch to zsh, I would just use zsh, and not a giant bundle of stuff that someone else thinks I need.","parent":"7772097","id":"7772286"}
{"by":"rflrob","time":"1269055544","timestamp":"2010-03-20 03:25:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It all depends on how well the organism can distinguish between the incorrectly copied DNA (this is probably what you mean by damage) and the right sequence.  Given that most of the DNA will be copied correctly, if slightly wrong bits can be detected and excised, then the organism should stay healthy. Biological codes are just as digital as computer ones.","parent":"1205863","id":"1205905"}
{"by":"breser","time":"1497890968","timestamp":"2017-06-19 16:49:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes that is very much the case, but people are still using these things.","parent":"14588269","id":"14588351"}
{"by":"mordyk","time":"1365808294","timestamp":"2013-04-12 23:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has to do with the codes of signalling in the various protocols such as SS7, h323 and SIP. Taking SIP as an example code 180 is call progress connecting and a signal is generated that sounds like ringing while code 183 allows you to actually hear the sound being generated on the other end, which is how they create the custom ring tones or when you will hear the international ring tone. While 183 is the actual signal the 180 code is far more efficient and is what is used by the larger carriers.","parent":"5541080","id":"5541652"}
{"by":"mcleod","time":"1378314512","timestamp":"2013-09-04 17:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is anyone else just happy that the assets will finally be high-res? :P","parent":"6325760","id":"6328901"}
{"by":"pasta","time":"1521382413","timestamp":"2018-03-18 14:13:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With sheet piling they sometimes use the resonance of the sheets to let them vibrate so they will sink into the mud.\u003cp\u003eThis is sometimes needed next to old buildings where hammering will cause damage.","parent":"16609694","id":"16611984"}
{"by":"dewey","time":"1391768778","timestamp":"2014-02-07 10:26:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From their forum: \u0026quot;As nearly 270,000 of you now use hubiC, we have been able to confirm our technical decisions and this volume has enabled us to further optimise our infrastructure and its performances.\nResult: we\u0026#x27;re now able to lower our prices again, and this time we\u0026#x27;re aiming for nothing less than a million users!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s see how that works out, OVH isn\u0026#x27;t really known to run a uncongested network. I\u0026#x27;m still excited because it\u0026#x27;s just a crazy cheap place to move additional backups to.","parent":"7195319","id":"7195607"}
{"by":"tdylan","time":"1443019289","timestamp":"2015-09-23 14:41:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are facing a ton of competition in their 3 largest markets. USA (Lyft 1bn+ funding), China (Didi 3bn+ funding) \u0026amp; Ola (couple 100mm\u0026#x27;s).","parent":"10265212","id":"10265259"}
{"by":"dougabug","time":"1392284466","timestamp":"2014-02-13 09:41:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The parent poster is wrong, for the reason you surmise.","parent":"7228651","id":"7230448"}
{"by":"mkj","time":"1501254509","timestamp":"2017-07-28 15:08:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"10x sounds kind of reasonable, it\u0026#x27;s harder to make things than break things.","parent":"14873178","id":"14874780"}
{"by":"jdub","time":"1425913440","timestamp":"2015-03-09 15:04:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re also talking about processed and refined sugars, not naturally occurring sugars.","parent":"9171169","id":"9171269"}
{"by":"bambax","time":"1529752790","timestamp":"2018-06-23 11:19:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe blockchain allows two strangers to interact without needing to trust eachother\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is false. It would only be true if said strangers were very skilled programmers having the time and know-how to audit smart contracts.\u003cp\u003eIn practice, cryptocurrencies rely on users trusting the operators and intermediaries and ultimately the state to prevent or at least strongly punish fraud.","parent":"17380594","id":"17380696"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1466466348","timestamp":"2016-06-20 23:45:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could they? Do they have access to the Apple firmware documentation?","parent":"11942493","id":"11942515"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1295371580","timestamp":"2011-01-18 17:26:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just buy a phone.","parent":"2116483","id":"2116566"}
{"by":"nimbius","time":"1533053606","timestamp":"2018-07-31 16:13:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aggravated assault during an attempted carjacking.  The aggravated charge stemming from my use of a paslode gas actuated nail gun to defend myself against an armed attacker.  I worked a construction job at the time to pay for my automotive trade tech schooling.\u003cp\u003eacquitted of all charges but this took six months of my life.  Bail only works for rich people.  In my opinion its easier to just do the time and work with the judge.  Bail bonds also wrecked my credit.\u003cp\u003eBail can change, too.  The judge could just \u0026quot;decide\u0026quot; they dont want you in jail and release you under monitored conditions.  this type of amnesty is very popular for rich people...especially if you have a winning complexion.","parent":"17653784","id":"17654438"}
{"by":"roschdal","time":"1275553408","timestamp":"2010-06-03 08:23:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I strongly disagree with this HTML5 standards test from Microsoft. They have included only a small subset of the HTML5 standard, and have excluded important parts, in particular the HTML5 canvas element. As a result, Internet Explorer 9 will lead to an even more fragmented web where browsers interpret standards differently.\u003cp\u003eThis is why we started the Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 canvas campaign:   \u003ca href=\"http://freeciv.net/internet-explorer-html5-canvas-campaign.jsp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://freeciv.net/internet-explorer-html5-canvas-campaign.j...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1399998","id":"1400802"}
{"by":"orangethirty","time":"1369742901","timestamp":"2013-05-28 12:08:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's too much stuff at once. This coming from the guy who has like a million startups. Your issue is that everything is unrelated. You can't combine work loads (that's the secret). When you are able to combine work loads, stuff gets simpler.","parent":"5778527","id":"5779426"}
{"by":"PatentTroll","time":"1497641368","timestamp":"2017-06-16 19:29:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m actually working on this! Would love to hear your thougts","parent":"14569715","id":"14571959"}
{"by":"oelmekki","time":"1359104532","timestamp":"2013-01-25 09:02:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've always seen a clear distinction in hacktivism between legal fighters (EFF, GNU, democracynow) and crackers. We could not think of EFF doing anything illegal, for example.\u003cp\u003eThis article/speech is interesting because it seems to be dropped right in the middle. I can't help but think this army vocabulary is precisely aimed at making both joining.\u003cp\u003eLet see what comes out of this.","parent":"5114557","id":"5114649"}
{"by":"mlevental","time":"1510583864","timestamp":"2017-11-13 14:37:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The probabilistic analogy is flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads. Flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads does not have measure zero. It has a positive measure.\u003cp\u003ewut? 1. in each instance it\u0026#x27;s 1MM conditionally independent trials so i don\u0026#x27;t see the difference 2. any realization of any continuous random variable has measure zero\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Contrast this to measure zero events. Flipping infinitely many coins and having them all come up heads has measure zero.\u003cp\u003eyou\u0026#x27;re playing fast and loose with the difference between a counting measure (no measure zero events) and a continuous\u0026#x2F;discrete measure.\u003cp\u003eanyway my point was exactly that quantum tunneling is counterintuitive exactly for the same reason that measure zero events are counterintuitive","parent":"15683730","id":"15686764"}
{"by":"mancerayder","time":"1521232342","timestamp":"2018-03-16 20:32:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except criminal background checks don\u0026#x27;t just aim at murderers and rapists.  Felonies are often a drug-related, and often in states with stricter laws.  And no, it\u0026#x27;s not your business if a job candidate got caught with a joint or even something worse years ago, on his own leisure time, or got a DUI in college a decade ago.  Why should that continue to be allowed to be your business, if you hire (for instance) a programmer?  Finally, what about time served?  A person should be punished forever?","parent":"16603351","id":"16603825"}
{"by":"cwp","time":"1342895074","timestamp":"2012-07-21 18:24:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tell that to Ben Johnson.","parent":"4275204","id":"4275394"}
{"by":"Estragon","time":"1387142161","timestamp":"2013-12-15 21:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In certain forms of Theravadin practice, the bliss is the \u0026quot;engine\u0026quot; which motivates the concentration on the target object.  Fostering the bliss does tend to make it much easier to settle down, particularly when the mind is disturbed.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/painhelp.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.accesstoinsight.org\u0026#x2F;lib\u0026#x2F;authors\u0026#x2F;thanissaro\u0026#x2F;painhe...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6910642","id":"6910907"}
{"by":"baybal2","time":"1534348177","timestamp":"2018-08-15 15:49:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Want to explain to me how this is even a bad thing?\u003cp\u003eI believe Germany can do even better if they can find ways to reduce the ratio of people in workforce to welfare recipients. Don\u0026#x27;t forget, we talk about that in the context of EU. Germany is carrying half of EU on its shoulders.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;it sounds like the Germans have solidarity for their fellow people\u0026#x2F;workers and realize everyone should be provided the basics for a peace of mind\u003cp\u003eDoing just \u0026quot;basics for a peace of mind\u0026quot; is doable with not much less, but nevertheless less money. The few developer countries in Asia can show how to do that well. My main criticism is that Germany\u0026#x27;s welfare is more expensive that that of other countries because not only direct payouts are moderately high, but welfare paid infrastructure and services are taking quite a lot too: lifts for pedestrian overpasses in the middle of nowhere, free transit ticket for people with minimal and non-mobility hampering disabilities, \naccess to free housing (depending on a state) for people with income that qualifies as high in countries just across the border... and on and on\u003cp\u003eBig issue with all extensive welfare systems in the West is that in them, needs of people in need are not being known by people who are entrusted with administering welfare to them. I can easily pull out many example of welfare states where people in need live miserably. When the welfare does not benefit to the person in need, what\u0026#x27;s use of it? In that case it just becomes wasted money.\u003cp\u003eWith all my militant atheism, I can give high mark to welfare administrators in the gulf region. Zakat distribution by mosques is very straightforward, addressing needs of people in need in the most straightforward way.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;and overall better workers that can rest and enjoy life outside of work.\u003cp\u003eI believe a professionals can enjoy life even more if they simply get higher salaries. In that context, I believe that German labour councils serve a good role, making people understand that \u0026quot;they can\u0026#x27;t milk a dead cow.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt is very good when both sides can come to terms knowing how much money they can extract from the business before it kicks the bucket.","parent":"17766789","id":"17766979"}
{"by":"corndoge","time":"1538688042","timestamp":"2018-10-04 21:20:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dupe of \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18140617\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18140617\u003c/a\u003e\nwhich is also a dupe of some other post","parent":"18143698","id":"18143773"}
{"by":"Caveman_Coder","time":"1499089996","timestamp":"2017-07-03 13:53:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most nuclear power plant construction projects have historically been over-budget and late...pretty normal in the industry. For a fraction of the cost and time, nat. gas generation capability can be spun up and deployed.","parent":"14687722","id":"14688231"}
{"by":"skippytheroo","time":"1458044571","timestamp":"2016-03-15 12:22:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps if HIV was endlessly highlighted by government and the media as a major problem in Sweden your analogy might have made some sense. In my opinion your post exemplifies the antithesis of a decent argument or even legitimate criticism.","parent":"11289031","id":"11289056"}
{"by":"Crito","time":"1389484954","timestamp":"2014-01-12 00:02:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The issue is fuzzed when you consider less extreme cases than \u0026quot;death row inmates\u0026quot;.  That is something of a special case since there are many people who think that \u003ci\u003enobody\u003c/i\u003e should be a death row inmate.\u003cp\u003eA more normal case might be \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;gender imbalance among garbage collectors\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e  Nobody is going to argue that this imbalance should be corrected by reducing the number of garbage collectors, since they like their trash to be collected.  Would they instead argue that the imbalance should be corrected by adding more female garbage collectors?  Doubtful.  In practice, they will just ignore that imbalance completely.  It won\u0026#x27;t be discussed.","parent":"7040080","id":"7044414"}
{"by":"carlosdp","time":"1396180795","timestamp":"2014-03-30 11:59:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well besides the fact it was closed down, Google was trying to \u0026quot;replace email\u0026quot;. That was just too big of a step to attempt in one go with drastic changes in interaction.\u003cp\u003eThat coupled with the fact you could only communicate with other Wave users made wide-spread adoption impossible.","parent":"7495657","id":"7495925"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1427190739","timestamp":"2015-03-24 09:52:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In an unrestricted free market, someone would just buy up all the property in a constrained space to corner the market. That has definitely happened before in robber baron days.\u003cp\u003eAnd honestly, if I wanted to live in a cess pool like Houston, I would move there. Houses are cheap enough (comparatively) but it is a huge icky sprawl.","parent":"9255594","id":"9255630"}
{"by":"ramidarigaz","time":"1286664528","timestamp":"2010-10-09 22:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep. I always enjoy upgrading.","parent":"1775721","id":"1776094"}
{"by":"yardie","time":"1372144153","timestamp":"2013-06-25 07:09:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you work freelance on spec and only take money from clients if they were unconditionally happy and at any price they wanted? That is the argument you are asking artists to accept.","parent":"5936673","id":"5937997"}
{"by":"p1esk","time":"1523310521","timestamp":"2018-04-09 21:48:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think you should assume your position is the only valid one.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t, that\u0026#x27;s why I said \u0026quot;very unclear\u0026quot; (to me). If something is \u0026quot;clear\u0026quot; to you about AGI, then it seems like it\u0026#x27;s you who makes that assumption.","parent":"16797125","id":"16797294"}
{"by":"brianpane","time":"1312770806","timestamp":"2011-08-08 02:33:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience, it's useful, even when writing high-level applications, to be aware of the relative cost of low-level operations.  The \"Numbers Everyone Should Know\" slide from this deck is a reasonable starting point: \u003ca href=\"http://research.google.com/people/jeff/stanford-295-talk.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://research.google.com/people/jeff/stanford-295-talk.pdf\u003c/a\u003e  To generalize a bit, the small numbers at the top of that chart are mostly a concern for people doing systems programming, but as you progress down the list you'll find operations costly enough to have a noticeable impact on application programs.  E.g., if you build a typical web application in a high-level language, your user won't be able to tell if you add a hundred prediction-resistant conditional branch instructions or a hundred L1 cache misses per page view; but if you add a hundred network round trips per page view they'll observe a measurable slowdown.  Similarly, if you're making a game and you want to display graphics at 60 frames per second, you can do quite a large amount of computation per frame, but you can't read a file from disk on every frame.","parent":"2857747","id":"2858524"}
{"by":"stevedekorte","time":"1356277163","timestamp":"2012-12-23 15:39:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a look at more data (and different conclusions) see: \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4959345","id":"4959677"}
{"by":"fleitz","time":"1317768474","timestamp":"2011-10-04 22:47:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"YC's application process is genuinely about the factors that lead to success, with that in mind, why not just teach people to be successful and cut out the application bs?","parent":"3073157","id":"3073299"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1402013456","timestamp":"2014-06-06 00:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eFurther: the aspects of NSA surveillance that seem to have people most up in arms are also not hugely expensive.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo that giant data center in Utah isn\u0026#x27;t being turned against the American people? Maybe it could be demolished before it is used that way, and we could swap the NSA\u0026#x27;s budget for the BND\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003eTaking away the NSA\u0026#x27;s money is the only way to trust that it\u0026#x27;s operations against Americans are curtailed.","parent":"7853290","id":"7855448"}
{"by":"zombio","time":"1372728686","timestamp":"2013-07-02 01:31:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be interesting to see how many ads will be put up purely for the sake of trolling.","parent":"5971971","id":"5975102"}
{"by":"dmight","time":"1368381549","timestamp":"2013-05-12 17:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My guess is Google is focusing more on a certain goal than having cash flow issues.","parent":"5695129","id":"5695146"}
{"by":"alanh","time":"1312568626","timestamp":"2011-08-05 18:23:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you logged in? Should be your user ID, not 0","parent":"2851074","id":"2851095"}
{"by":"Kadin","time":"1472500753","timestamp":"2016-08-29 19:59:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re already at the mercy of every CA whose certificates are trusted by default by browsers.  You can request additional verification, but that\u0026#x27;s not going to stop someone from turning the screws on a CA on the other side of the planet, whose certificates are nonetheless accepted-by-default by users\u0026#x27; systems, and as long as they\u0026#x27;re not totally foolish in deploying that cert (i.e. it\u0026#x27;s used in targeted attacks only), you\u0026#x27;d never see it via certificate transparency.\u003cp\u003e(And yes, for the record, HPKP blunts the compromised-CA weapon somewhat, but adoption has been pretty crummy.  IIRC the latest iOS Safari and IE don\u0026#x27;t support it at all.)","parent":"12384095","id":"12384808"}
{"by":"dperfect","time":"1431063861","timestamp":"2015-05-08 05:44:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stripe plans to use the iFrame \u0026quot;loophole\u0026quot; to enable Stripe.js customers to qualify under SAQ A-EP as mentioned on their website[1]:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The new version of Stripe.js meets these criteria by performing all transmission of sensitive cardholder data within an iframe served off of a stripe.com domain controlled by Stripe.\u003cp\u003eCan someone help me understand how this is practically any more secure than the way Stripe.js currently works? It sounds like the intention of the iFrame exception[2] is to allow a payment form to be loaded, completed, and submitted to a compliant server all within a \u003ci\u003evisible\u003c/i\u003e iFrame. From what I can tell, the \u0026quot;compliant\u0026quot; version of Stripe.js just submits the data (similar to the traditional way) via an invisible iFrame - the form is still hosted and completed on the (likely) non-compliant server.\u003cp\u003eIf that\u0026#x27;s the case, then I\u0026#x27;d expect the \u0026quot;loophole\u0026quot; to go away soon and current Stripe.js users will have to adopt a payment flow similar to Stripe Checkout; in other words, it will be obvious that Stripe (a third party) is being used because the end user will be interacting with a form (or part of a form) completely hosted on Stripe\u0026#x27;s servers.\u003cp\u003eFor companies using Stripe to avoid PCI compliance with self-hosted payment forms, this essentially transforms Stripe into another PayPal checkout-style service.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.stripe.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;what-about-pci-dss-3-0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.stripe.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;what-about-pci-dss-3-0\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pcisecuritystandards.org\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;Understanding_SAQs_PCI_DSS_v3.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pcisecuritystandards.org\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;Understanding...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9508289","id":"9510159"}
{"by":"kanzure","time":"1518665307","timestamp":"2018-02-15 03:28:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Your percentage of profits idea is something I liked for a while when I was thinking a lot about reform, but I now think that it would be way too hard to enforce.\u003cp\u003eYou could just do a general per industry tax, which I proposed here a few years ago: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;groups.google.com\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;msg\u0026#x2F;openmanufacturing\u0026#x2F;vS4ju1VqXb0\u0026#x2F;jD_TZ8U47b4J\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;groups.google.com\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;msg\u0026#x2F;openmanufacturing\u0026#x2F;vS4ju1VqXb...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16381232","id":"16381704"}
{"by":"kps","time":"1361898414","timestamp":"2013-02-26 17:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Treat keyboard layouts as a part of your software tool set. If the one the OS gave you doesn't work well (and they are universally pretty bad), find or build one that does.","parent":"5286082","id":"5286822"}
{"by":"baby","time":"1425225085","timestamp":"2015-03-01 15:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should put the .css and .js on the frontpage (some people don\u0026#x27;t know how to use github). Also some basics explanation on how to use it would be nice as well. I\u0026#x27;m using right now and I just see the background no event get displayed.\u003cp\u003eAlso Haml is cool but it makes your project hard to understand if you do not use haml (like me).\u003cp\u003eedit:fixed halm-\u0026gt;haml, thx :)","parent":"9126491","id":"9127464"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1510579711","timestamp":"2017-11-13 13:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice, I wish this were around when I was writing my A6 lib:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;skorokithakis\u0026#x2F;A6lib\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;skorokithakis\u0026#x2F;A6lib\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHopefully the MicroPython ecosystem will expand with efforts like this one, how did you find performance? I\u0026#x27;m always worried about memory usage with μPython.","parent":"15686316","id":"15686369"}
{"by":"rythie","time":"1385478428","timestamp":"2013-11-26 15:07:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Currently CleverRun only works with RunKeeper. However, \nRunKeeper should be able to pull Garmin stuff in, look at: \u003ca href=\"http://runkeeper.com/apps/fit2app/47741\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;runkeeper.com\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;fit2app\u0026#x2F;47741\u003c/a\u003e - Then CleverRun will be able to get that data from RunKeeper.","parent":"6801462","id":"6801696"}
{"by":"reificator","time":"1514839219","timestamp":"2018-01-01 20:40:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I\u0026#x27;d probably let that one slide too.\u003cp\u003eAs far as auto goes, I\u0026#x27;m in the camp of using it unless the type makes the code clearer, but I get where you\u0026#x27;re coming from.\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to iterators and such, that\u0026#x27;s where I think auto really shines.  Those types only exist because they have to and I just don\u0026#x27;t care about having the noise there.","parent":"16046155","id":"16047920"}
{"by":"spingsprong","time":"1395676551","timestamp":"2014-03-24 15:55:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t need analogies.\u003cp\u003eA buffer is a place in a computer\u0026#x27;s memory for storing things, text, numbers, data, whatever.\u003cp\u003eA buffer overflow is when you try to put more into a buffer than there is room for.\u003cp\u003eWhen this happens, some of what you tried to put into the buffer spills over into memory outside the buffer.\u003cp\u003eThis other memory could have important things in it which can get destroyed or changed when a buffer overflow spills into it, causing programmes to behave in strange ways.","parent":"7457877","id":"7458921"}
{"by":"lowtolerance","time":"1528674716","timestamp":"2018-06-10 23:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why does anyone do \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e creative, if it’s not necessary to do so? Who are you to say that their feeling regarding the nature of a particular phenomenon is \u003ci\u003einvalid\u003c/i\u003e?","parent":"17280672","id":"17280787"}
{"by":"lightbyte","time":"1523277712","timestamp":"2018-04-09 12:41:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do this, and I was very confused to find out that if you try to do this at some government buildings (post office for me) they will completely reject your card and not let you use it.","parent":"16790998","id":"16792466"}
{"by":"fjarlq","time":"1305787915","timestamp":"2011-05-19 06:51:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system.\u003cp\u003eHis reply: \"I'd spell creat with an e.\"\u003cp\u003e-- \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson#Attributed\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson#Attributed\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe got his chance with Go... when he added the O_CREATE symbol (an alias for O_CREAT) his comment was:\u003cp\u003espell it with an \"e\"\u003cp\u003e-- \u003ca href=\"http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=4a3f6bbb5f0c6021279ccb3c23558b3c480d995f\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=4a3f6bbb5f0c6021...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2563076","id":"2563118"}
{"by":"cek","time":"1323627771","timestamp":"2011-12-11 18:22:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's really hard to know for sure, but there are 40K apps and games in the WP7 marketplace.  Just 13 months ago there were 0.","parent":"3339488","id":"3340598"}
{"by":"presty","time":"1408377884","timestamp":"2014-08-18 16:04:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if US is footing the bill","parent":"8192102","id":"8193216"}
{"by":"vnorby","time":"1302678264","timestamp":"2011-04-13 07:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sure, email is revolutions@gmail","parent":"2440234","id":"2441101"}
{"by":"toasterlovin","time":"1515117566","timestamp":"2018-01-05 01:59:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree. It’s probably partly about sweat, partly about protecting the eyes, and partly about communicating facial expressions.","parent":"16072796","id":"16075891"}
{"by":"shmerl","time":"1418054154","timestamp":"2014-12-08 15:55:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks like a lesson in avoiding non portable technologies. Something like SDL + OpenGL could help preventing a lot of such problems.","parent":"8716717","id":"8717045"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1503196896","timestamp":"2017-08-20 02:41:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google groups is entirely different to Gmail in behaviour.","parent":"15053096","id":"15056757"}
{"by":"cecja","time":"1532214078","timestamp":"2018-07-21 23:01:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is their community. If you are a shitty guest I throw you out of the house. It is their right to do so.","parent":"17584251","id":"17584319"}
{"by":"antirez","time":"1464125408","timestamp":"2016-05-24 21:30:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hello pathsjs,\u003cp\u003ewell first of all, one thing is that I make efforts towards a goal, another thing is to reach it. In your analysis I don\u0026#x27;t reach the goal of simplicity, but I can ensure you I really try hard.\u003cp\u003eNow more to the point, I still think Redis is a simple system:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; one thing that Redis does not have is a coherent API.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately coherence is pretty orthogonal to simplicity, or sometimes there is even a tension between the two. For instance instead of making an exception in one API I can try to redesign everything in more general terms so that everything fits: more coherence and less simplicity. In general complex systems can be very coherent.\u003cp\u003eSimilarly the PHP standard library is extremely incoherent but is simple, you read the man page and you understand what something does in a second.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Whenever I use Redis, I absolutely need the command cheatsheet [snip]\u003cp\u003eThis actually means that Redis is very simple, in complex systems to check the command fingerprint in the manual page does not help, since it is tricky to understand how the different moving parts interact.\u003cp\u003eHowever it is true that in theory Redis could have more organized set of commands, like macro-type commands with sub operations: \u0026quot;LIST PUSH ...\u0026quot; \u0026quot;LIST POP ...\u0026quot; and so forth. Many of this things were never fixed because I believe that is more aesthetic than a substantial difference, and the price to pay to give coherence later is breaking the backward compatibility.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  why LPUSH accepts multiple parameters but LPUSHX does not?\u003cp\u003eSince nobody uses LPUSHX almost and is a kinda abandoned command, but this is something that we can fix since does not break backward compatibility.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Why there is even hyperloglog in a database?\u003cp\u003eBecause Redis is a data structures server and HLLs are data structures.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Where did the need for RPUSHLPOP come from?\u003cp\u003eIt is documented and has nothing to do with simplicity \u0026#x2F; coherence.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Why the options for SCRIPT DEBUG are YES, SYNC and NO?\u003cp\u003eThey have different fork behavior, as explained in the doc.\u003cp\u003eI think Redis is a system that is easy to pickup overall, but that\u0026#x27;s not the point of my blog post. However our radically different point of view on what \u003ci\u003esimplicity is\u003c/i\u003e is the interesting part IMHO. I bet you could easily design a system that is complex for me because of, for instance, attempt to provide something very coherent, because breaking coherency for a few well-picked exceptions to the rule is a great way to avoid over-generalization.","parent":"11763019","id":"11765648"}
{"by":"elchief","time":"1521052699","timestamp":"2018-03-14 18:38:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I meant the SQLite.org server","parent":"16586632","id":"16587185"}
{"by":"bitJericho","time":"1449165240","timestamp":"2015-12-03 17:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would anybody want this information destroyed. Protected until the person is long dead sure, but destroyed? A lot can be learned by seeing what experiences someone has had. Would you not want to read what Plato had read? How about Jefferson or Tesla?","parent":"10670605","id":"10671178"}
{"by":"lclr","time":"1509552388","timestamp":"2017-11-01 16:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey textmark.io! Steganogr⁡a⁠p⁣h⁣y⁣ ⁢i⁣s⁣ ⁢s⁣o⁢ ⁠c⁠o⁣o⁢l⁢,⁢ ⁠b⁠u⁢t⁣ ⁢e⁠n⁣s⁣u⁠r⁠e⁡ ownership without a robust crypto system is a little bit pretentious ... And in some cases, dangerous!","parent":"15564878","id":"15602578"}
{"by":"ccarella","time":"1314833911","timestamp":"2011-08-31 23:38:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would be the url to use \u003ca href=\"http://subjot.com/explore#friends\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://subjot.com/explore#friends\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can find it via Explore in the header and then People on the sidebar.","parent":"2947704","id":"2948051"}
{"by":"cssmoo","time":"1426606701","timestamp":"2015-03-17 15:38:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"100% failure rate here. It is convinced I work at McDonalds despite setting my work address to home.\u003cp\u003eAt least I always know how far I am away from a Big Mac.","parent":"9218352","id":"9218650"}
{"by":"endtime","time":"1285604521","timestamp":"2010-09-27 16:22:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a lot of people (of varying degrees of foolishness[1]) who want to work at Google or Apple but wouldn't even consider the companies you listed.\u003cp\u003e[1]Prefer working at Google to Oracle?  Fair enough.  Rather work at Apple than Microsoft?  Ha, have fun with that.","parent":"1731990","id":"1732193"}
{"by":"dohertyjf","time":"1354726921","timestamp":"2012-12-05 17:02:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"YES, THIS.\u003cp\u003eWhile I wish this article actually provided some examples (I did that here too - \u003ca href=\"http://www.johnfdoherty.com/landing-pages-that-rank/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.johnfdoherty.com/landing-pages-that-rank/\u003c/a\u003e), it's a decent rant.","parent":"4876342","id":"4877170"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1325149636","timestamp":"2011-12-29 09:07:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those guys are funny! “They sell a product! How evil!”","parent":"3402918","id":"3403023"}
{"by":"theophrastus","time":"1455228997","timestamp":"2016-02-11 22:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. i think that settles my confusion. (it\u0026#x27;s somewhat like we witnessed a length\u0026#x2F;Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction in a situation where there was apparently no reason to witness one). Now i can go back to being simply amazed by it all.","parent":"11083364","id":"11083757"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1451422080","timestamp":"2015-12-29 20:48:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And is it really rich people lobbying for more surveillance and resisting decriminalization of drugs, or is it my mother?\u003cp\u003eWhile your mother may be voting for such policies, she is likely not lobbying for them (or writing them). The companies and high net worth individuals who have a financial stake in these policies are the ones doing that.\u003cp\u003eEvery piece of legislation that exists benefits a rich person in some way.","parent":"10808715","id":"10808963"}
{"by":"Xuzz","time":"1294904364","timestamp":"2011-01-13 07:39:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think Google has affected \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e with this move. By any counts out there, Firefox has double the market share of Chrome. It might reduce the use of HTML5 video versus Flash video in Chrome itself, but for the whole web, it doesn't make a difference when Firefox already took this position with twice the market share.","parent":"2099013","id":"2099151"}
{"by":"mcv","time":"1505984387","timestamp":"2017-09-21 08:59:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if doing this for publicity, then it\u0026#x27;s insincere.","parent":"15301023","id":"15301677"}
{"by":"nercury","time":"1483056488","timestamp":"2016-12-30 00:08:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Few recent posts that I can see are about the compiler internals, design of a tracing GC and a crypto problem. These things might just be complicated anyway :)","parent":"13281301","id":"13281390"}
{"by":"Detrus","time":"1397423480","timestamp":"2014-04-13 21:11:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you handle users gaming the system for profit?\u003cp\u003eI was thinking up various ways to introduce money to our communication systems to incentivize certain behaviors. But not from the modern Facetwitter perspective of a site that wastes your life by addicting you. The true measure should be the correctness of the content and money should pay for that.\u003cp\u003eFirst a system where you have to pay to post and if you post is confirmed as not spam or abuse, then you get the money back. Otherwise the site takes your money. Should be a negligible amount. Mostly a way to make spam expensive and compensate for moderation, but of course a site can abuse a user this way as well.\u003cp\u003eIf a user posts some profound story\u0026#x2F;comment and others want to compensate him directly with an easy UI, they can add a monetary amount to their upvote. But there is little guarantee that the amount will be significant or the money will arrive promptly. Users should be able to undo money sent for well sounding but ultimately wrong info. This is to discourage participation driven by points and monetary rewards.\u003cp\u003eIf participation and content creation is driven by money even more than it is now, there will be a few new legitimate sources with useful information but the vast majority will be content farms. To discourage this \u0026quot;points\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;money\u0026quot; should accumulate, BUT should not be paid out for years until the accuracy of this content is confirmed by the passage of time, peer review, etc. If mistakes are found, all readers should be notified of corrections. There should be penalties for releasing misleading or mislabeled information (like tech blog posts that are really advertising but pretend not to be. You should pay to advertise and pay more for advertising what turns out to be crap after peer review.)\u003cp\u003eA site should take its share for moderating content well and working on rules that incentivize useful content\u0026#x2F;services and penalize attention seeking of little utility.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s hard to predict effects of various new incentives. But a site should work on modifying the rules until desired results are reached. Users should not stray from normal behavior to satisfy some quick and dirty addicting point systems. If that means limiting participation to select trained users, releasing information to larger audiences only after it has been discussed by relevant experts (so no shocking attention grabbing studies are released) then so be it.","parent":"7582193","id":"7583044"}
{"by":"jmonegro","time":"1242087152","timestamp":"2009-05-12 00:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your algorithm seems like it's well made, though I have not taken a close look at it's capacities yet. My suggestion: get a better interface. You're competing with similar websites such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.newspond.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.newspond.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"604333","id":"604597"}
{"by":"wyager","time":"1475780508","timestamp":"2016-10-06 19:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t write every possible term of that type. However, you can write a program that performs the same computation as any expression of that type by explicitly breaking recursion out, e.g. via\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     Free (() -\u0026gt;) Integer\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAnd then using corecursion to evaluate this step by step.\u003cp\u003eThe actual definition of Turing completeness is the ability to implement any program that a Turing machine can compute, which you can with corecursion.","parent":"12651547","id":"12655113"}
{"by":"alcidesfonseca","time":"1345930959","timestamp":"2012-08-25 21:42:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should blog about it. I am really interesting in knowing your workflow and the reasons.","parent":"4433083","dead":true,"id":"4433420"}
{"by":"jamez1","time":"1481584618","timestamp":"2016-12-12 23:16:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article seems to use the labels \u0026#x27;insider\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;hacker\u0026#x27; to contrast the intent of the two, when the labels should be just used to define their circumstances.\u003cp\u003eBoth Snowden and Ellsberg appear to have done a good job at informing the public given those circumstances, Snowden\u0026#x27;s being inferior because his circumstances constrained him, not his intentions.\u003cp\u003eDid Snowden steal more data than he needs to because he\u0026#x27;s a hacker and he can\u0026#x27;t help himself? Or because he thought its better to take more than less, and then have the journalists figure out what\u0026#x27;s appropriate?","parent":"13162274","id":"13162994"}
{"by":"dreamfactory","time":"1382904783","timestamp":"2013-10-27 20:13:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. This is more than I\u0026#x27;d have thought but you can\u0026#x27;t just remove them from the supply\u0026#x2F;demand picture and say they are driving prices up by their very existence. The OP\u0026#x27;s point I was addressing was that housing benefits being paid were above market rates (not true as they are capped) and this was pushing the whole market.","parent":"6622806","id":"6623351"}
{"by":"nxzero","time":"1458233468","timestamp":"2016-03-17 16:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the title was \u0026quot;Speculation on Why Telsa Bought Telsa.com\u0026quot; -- would you have clicked the link?","parent":"11304603","id":"11305623"}
{"by":"sportanova","time":"1401781636","timestamp":"2014-06-03 07:47:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope we start seeing more things like this, especially in the US. Does 6 hours a day maximize happiness \u0026#x2F; productivity? I don\u0026#x27;t know. Does 8 hours? It\u0026#x27;s the custom, but I don\u0026#x27;t know. I think it\u0026#x27;s almost impossible that 8 hours is the best number across every industry =\u0026gt; vertical =\u0026gt; company. I\u0026#x27;d love to see more experimentation","parent":"7838459","id":"7838602"}
{"by":"Rolpa","time":"1478916947","timestamp":"2016-11-12 02:15:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a post on Polycount that analyzes other parts of the game:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;polycount.com\u0026#x2F;discussion\u0026#x2F;104415\u0026#x2F;zelda-wind-waker-tech-and-texture-analysis-picture-heavy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;polycount.com\u0026#x2F;discussion\u0026#x2F;104415\u0026#x2F;zelda-wind-waker-tech...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12934089","id":"12936195"}
{"by":"PuercoPop","time":"1357519588","timestamp":"2013-01-07 00:46:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well there is a phone with e-ink and 7 day batteries. It's called Motofone F3.\u003cp\u003eIt didn't had much success in Perú. (although I'm an avid fan an ex-user of it)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5016093","id":"5018552"}
{"by":"kolev","time":"1438188389","timestamp":"2015-07-29 16:46:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yahoo! Arrow [0]?\u003cp\u003eNot available on any of my Android devices.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=com.yahoo.arrow\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=com.yahoo.arro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9969762","id":"9969844"}
{"by":"AndrewKemendo","time":"1428413146","timestamp":"2015-04-07 13:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eHave you been around people who own a project from start to finish and nothing but their name is on it?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI actually have never seen this. Everyone I have ever interacted with who was working on a project either had it in a customer\u0026#x27;s hands (so they said) or had it available on github for people to look at.\u003cp\u003eI am sure it exists, but I have never run into anyone who refuses to release their work to anyone at all. In fact it\u0026#x27;s generally the exact opposite, they can\u0026#x27;t stop telling people about it.","parent":"9333786","id":"9333818"}
{"by":"sero","time":"1442320223","timestamp":"2015-09-15 12:30:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally understand why you\u0026#x27;d feel like this, but I think there are two big reasons why this is only true to a lesser extent with RN:\u003cp\u003e1) There are a ton of native APIs that accomplish \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e the same things, but have different APIs because different people built them and there\u0026#x27;s no pressure to make them consistent. Examples: layouting (just calculate x, y, width, height\u0026#x27;s of a view tree), animation, storage, networking, touch handling, the list goes on... it\u0026#x27;s a waste to have to learn the implementation specific quirks of each platform.\u003cp\u003e2) We\u0026#x27;ve focused on making sure we can make apps at least as good as the native ones for the platform. Specifically this has meant exposing platform specific apis (e.g. Android\u0026#x27;s material touch ripple, iOS\u0026#x27;s gaussian blurs, etc), allowing arbitrary new ones to be added, and encouraging designers to still design their apps for each platform individually.","parent":"10217198","id":"10220205"}
{"by":"mrmondo","time":"1506761135","timestamp":"2017-09-30 08:45:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"May I suggest that using creepy sketches of young girls may not be the best example if you want people to take your software seriously?","parent":"15370415","id":"15371915"}
{"by":"cheeseprocedure","time":"1475252589","timestamp":"2016-09-30 16:23:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, \u0026#x27;Look at that, you son of a bitch.\u0026#x27;\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e-- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut","parent":"12611680","id":"12613422"}
{"by":"acchow","time":"1395696610","timestamp":"2014-03-24 21:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are looking to issue $250M worth of stock. That\u0026#x27;s not their valuation.","parent":"7461646","id":"7461685"}
{"by":"jkubicek","time":"1351135183","timestamp":"2012-10-25 03:19:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does Mr. Moroun have any arguments against the bridge other than the (offensively effective), \"Your grandchildren are going to pay for it?\"","parent":"4696180","id":"4696213"}
{"by":"kiechu","time":"1536595878","timestamp":"2018-09-10 16:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are experiencing some issues with a hosting providing we try to figure out.","parent":"17952751","id":"17952779"}
{"by":"danielrhodes","time":"1478541559","timestamp":"2016-11-07 17:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Farmers have been doing genetic modification to plants and animals for thousands of years, so go ask your ancestors how everything turned out.","parent":"12893086","id":"12893205"}
{"by":"jjeaff","time":"1497772500","timestamp":"2017-06-18 07:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right or not, all speech is not protected. If you spill government secrets, you can be thrown in jail (assuming you aren\u0026#x27;t politically powerful). If you threaten someone, you could be prosecuted. Yelling fire in a crowded theater...  Some of these are grey areas. I would say in this case, helping to convince someone who is obviously mentally ill that they should kill themself was decided to be one of those types of speech that is not protected.","parent":"14577465","id":"14579529"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1529962741","timestamp":"2018-06-25 21:39:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The video is a useful start in understanding the Idris experience, but I guess it would be useful to see how much tooling helped in this definition of quick sort?","parent":"17395377","id":"17396035"}
{"by":"chrisbolt","time":"1263154028","timestamp":"2010-01-10 20:07:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But Time Warner Cable has much higher costs per user since they have to build the infrastructure to get to those users, whereas Hulu can take advantage of the fact that users pay for most of the infrastructure to get to Hulu (and they may even be paying Time Warner Cable).","parent":"1043551","id":"1043559"}
{"by":"thirsteh","time":"1388412799","timestamp":"2013-12-30 14:13:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see. Curious.","parent":"6984528","id":"6984643"}
{"by":"sparknlaunch12","time":"1336746762","timestamp":"2012-05-11 14:32:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Enjoyed reading the story and appreciate the challenge to balance out sales and development. They are both important but need controls to ensure 1) money comes in and 2) you develop and focus on the right product.\u003cp\u003eThe point that stood out was the final lines on the importance of sales. This almost promotes the mantra of building sales first, product second; and ensuring you are having money arriving in to pay the bills (and/or investors).\u003cp\u003eHaving recently heard profitable entrepreneurs speak, the common story is how when they spoke with potential customers about their idea (even pre MVP) and customers paid them. Yes, paying customers suggest you are on to a smart product. Maybe some merit in this approach.","parent":"3958394","id":"3959352"}
{"by":"unprepare","time":"1487698838","timestamp":"2017-02-21 17:40:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;If you ever looked it up it\u0026#x27;s 5 lines of code.\u003cp\u003emultiply that 5 lines of code by all the possible algorithms they couldve asked about instead of this one.  Thats what you need to know walking into the interview, seems kinda stupid","parent":"13696957","id":"13697533"}
{"by":"Bahamut","time":"1406050290","timestamp":"2014-07-22 17:31:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is this getting flagged to hell?","parent":"8069585","id":"8070315"}
{"by":"farrel","time":"1312148793","timestamp":"2011-07-31 21:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is most certainly what they're not doing. Airbnb has promoted the idea that you can rent out your primary residence to make money.\u003cp\u003eA quote from  \u003ca href=\"http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/new\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.airbnb.com/rooms/new\u003c/a\u003e - \"Airbnb lets you make money renting out your place. Your apartment will pay for itself!\"\u003cp\u003eThat is the antithesis of a 'unused low marginal cost asset'.","parent":"2829677","id":"2829724"}
{"by":"greglindahl","time":"1538616852","timestamp":"2018-10-04 01:34:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What % of these subsidies flow to vegetables?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pcrm.org\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;agriculture-and-health-policies-unhealthful-foods\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pcrm.org\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;agriculture-and-health-p...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Between 1995 and 2009, USDA distributed more than $246 billion ($246,000,000,000) in subsidies. The subsidy system, updated approximately every five years, provides financial support primarily to producers of “commodity crops,” which include more than a dozen nonperishable crops. However, five commodity crops—corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, and rice—receive the vast majority of subsidies.","parent":"18135529","id":"18136397"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1535275206","timestamp":"2018-08-26 09:20:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is it selfish?","parent":"17844406","id":"17845051"}
{"by":"siavosh","time":"1478574731","timestamp":"2016-11-08 03:12:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Went to school at UCI when he was chancellor, heard some of his talks, and attended some mixers where he was present. He was highly respected by everyone, but the most memorable quality I remember of him was his humility and friendliness to everyone.","parent":"12896987","id":"12897301"}
{"by":"brilee","time":"1542591212","timestamp":"2018-11-19 01:33:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; In the most difficult challenges of the event, the setters wanted to do more than just test the competitors’ forearm muscles; that’s a recipe for a tie, because all these athletes are ripped. Rather, they wanted to create a men’s problem in the realm of V10 or V11, but one that was inscrutable enough that there would be a few successes (“tops”), a few falls, and one hell of a show.","parent":"18482960","id":"18483590"}
{"by":"mncolinlee","time":"1528134223","timestamp":"2018-06-04 17:43:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not arguing for government intervention, but it wasn\u0026#x27;t hypothetical.\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft explicitly detected DR-DOS and pretended that the DOS crashed instead of starting Windows, which worked just fine on DR-DOS before then. This was ruled an illegal practice even though Microsoft had been far smaller at the time.","parent":"17225408","id":"17230186"}
{"by":"dejaime","time":"1547055732","timestamp":"2019-01-09 17:42:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"got to love that intrusive fullpage ad that needs to be scrolled down to be closed. It was probably not worth reading anyway.","parent":"18865361","id":"18866793"}
{"by":"FooBarWidget","time":"1527752507","timestamp":"2018-05-31 07:41:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The GDPR defines multiple legal grounds on which you are allowed to process personal data (such as collecting an email address for contacting). Consent is only one legal ground. Another one is \u0026quot;legitimate interest\u0026quot;, which a lot of salespeople will use in order to find prospects. However the recipient is allowed to say \u0026quot;not interested, don\u0026#x27;t contact me again\u0026quot; and you\u0026#x27;ll have to comply.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore the GDPR does not apply to small-scale, ad-hoc, personal situations. Contacting a CEO as a customer is fine. Your personal phone\u0026#x27;s address book is fine. So is keeping a list of attendees of your birthday party. But wearing a camera on your body all day and recording everything and running face recognition on the video, even if you do it for personal reasons, is not ok.","parent":"17194202","id":"17194654"}
{"by":"pumainmotion","time":"1373342813","timestamp":"2013-07-09 04:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just FYI, in case you weren\u0026#x27;t aware of this:\u003cp\u003eWhen you log out you have the option of deleting all of your metadata, and we also provide you with the link to revoke Immersion\u0026#x27;s access to Gmail.","parent":"6010760","id":"6011042"}
{"by":"astrodust","time":"1539188829","timestamp":"2018-10-10 16:27:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The regulation is fine. It\u0026#x27;s just that it\u0026#x27;s not always easy to predict how it will be applied since the SEC behaves in some very strange ways when it comes to ICOs.\u003cp\u003eA lack of precedent makes this the biggest challenge. New regulation would have the same problems.","parent":"18186343","id":"18186391"}
{"by":"mark-r","time":"1486005573","timestamp":"2017-02-02 03:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In about 1978 I designed my own keyboard. The unique feature it had was that the key positions were used as address lines into a ROM, and I was free to assign any character to any key I wanted. Shift\u0026#x2F;Ctrl weren\u0026#x27;t required to be at all related to the base character. Today we take it for granted, but back then it was radical.","parent":"13544974","id":"13547829"}
{"by":"i__believe","time":"1480657474","timestamp":"2016-12-02 05:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Question: how does one go about finding that number?","parent":"13085243","id":"13086343"}
{"by":"velobro","time":"1509720019","timestamp":"2017-11-03 14:40:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then don\u0026#x27;t get an Android phone?","parent":"15619367","id":"15619499"}
{"by":"Angostura","time":"1517494125","timestamp":"2018-02-01 14:08:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here you go. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;dtg\u0026#x2F;attarchive\u0026#x2F;ab.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;dtg\u0026#x2F;attarchive\u0026#x2F;ab.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a tech journalist, I visited a chap called Andy Hopper up there in the late 80s and it was as cool as it sounded.\u003cp\u003eThey also had it hooked up to their Unix box\u0026#x27;s finger command.\u003cp\u003eYou could Telnet in and type Finger $username and it would return something like \u0026quot;Bob Smith was last seen 20 minutes ago at the ground floor lift\u0026quot;","parent":"16281855","id":"16281914"}
{"by":"Digory","time":"1542259823","timestamp":"2018-11-15 05:30:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...and some of the current \u0026quot;App X is better\u0026quot; is because App X isn\u0026#x27;t as far along as Uber. They likely started later, and are still subsidizing drivers more.\u003cp\u003eAt some point, they\u0026#x27;ll all wean drivers out of subsidies, and cheap fares will see cheap cars on average.","parent":"18454691","id":"18457077"}
{"by":"thr0waway1239","time":"1472530178","timestamp":"2016-08-30 04:09:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you combine this with studies about the tipping point of ideas starting at about 10% of the population [1], it means SV already has enough of the programmer population to create self-sustaining trends in software.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know whether to feel glad or be worried :-)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.rpi.edu\u0026#x2F;luwakkey\u0026#x2F;2902\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.rpi.edu\u0026#x2F;luwakkey\u0026#x2F;2902\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12385926","id":"12387479"}
{"by":"joshmlewis","time":"1337479670","timestamp":"2012-05-20 02:07:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's interested when you task reddit with finding something.  It's like crowdsourced searching, with a few really resourceful people.","parent":"3996951","id":"3997699"}
{"by":"dandelany","time":"1240463489","timestamp":"2009-04-23 05:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is kind of awesome... I wonder if there will be any negligible bump in overall browser usage stats as a result of this.","parent":"575116","id":"575141"}
{"by":"platform","time":"1511411679","timestamp":"2017-11-23 04:34:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"and so has MarkLogic, I think since 2003 (may be a bit later)\u003cp\u003e---\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cdn.marklogic.com\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;ACID-Transactions-Datasheet.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cdn.marklogic.com\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;ACID-Tra...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15761550","id":"15762772"}
{"by":"dwild","time":"1545170835","timestamp":"2018-12-18 22:07:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; it should never feel _good_ to criticize.\u003cp\u003eWhy not? I feel good when I help someone. I feel good when I have made a great project. I feel good when I made a good decision.\u003cp\u003eI feel good when I did something good.\u003cp\u003eYour sentence is true only if we consider a critic as a bad thing, which I certainly don\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"18709541","id":"18711035"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1347302400","timestamp":"2012-09-10 18:40:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn't work the other way because of temporal constraints, not causality.  A person's creativity happens before their longevity is determined.  Similarly, you wouldn't write \"election predicts poll results.\"\u003cp\u003eThat said, if I was looking at records of the deceased and first discovered a person's age at time of death, then I could use the correlation to predict that I am likely to further find that they were creative.","parent":"4496908","id":"4501351"}
{"by":"roryisok","time":"1513017295","timestamp":"2017-12-11 18:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well for me it\u0026#x27;s a ten minute stand up every day, so about an hour more per week. I hate f.lux though. Tried it for a week and I found my screen going yellow just made me feel like my eyesight was fading every evening","parent":"15898276","id":"15899136"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1371669327","timestamp":"2013-06-19 19:15:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion, the Java ecosystem has grown to the point where C++ is no longer \u0026quot;the undisputed master\u0026quot;. It is, at least, in dispute. TIOBE isn\u0026#x27;t perfect, but if C++ were still the undisputed master, Java would not handily out-score it, for instance. (If your response is to start expanding on the imperfections of TIOBE, stop and reread that sentence a few more times, carefully. Exactly what my if-then says, and what it \u003ci\u003edoesn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e say, are important to my point.)","parent":"5903403","id":"5907581"}
{"by":"MJR","time":"1294805161","timestamp":"2011-01-12 04:06:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real question is will Google follow through and remove all support for H.264 from YouTube. That will be the telling sign that they're serious.","parent":"2094736","id":"2094894"}
{"by":"acuozzo","time":"1321377316","timestamp":"2011-11-15 17:15:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Omnipotence means God has limitless power (or better, his power cannot be improved), not that he can do anything, whether logically impossible or not.\u003cp\u003eI'd like to write a well-thought-out reply, but I'm a little confused. How is `power' defined (for God, that is)?","parent":"3238838","id":"3239035"}
{"by":"Natanael_L","time":"1486544363","timestamp":"2017-02-08 08:59:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; For that money Sweden took in about 163.000 people (refugees and economic migrants who pose as such). UNHCR is responsible for 60 million refugees.\u003cp\u003eThis comparison is meaningless without comparing what help they get and standard of living","parent":"13594616","id":"13596871"}
{"by":"fictorial","time":"1337110199","timestamp":"2012-05-15 19:29:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would it not suffice to click the little up arrow and carry on then? :-)","parent":"3978313","id":"3978345"}
{"by":"IsaacSchlueter","time":"1229027134","timestamp":"2008-12-11 20:25:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm getting chills as I read this.  I wish that I could vote it up more than once.\u003cp\u003eTo borrow a term from 4chan: \u003ci\u003eMOAR!!\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"394180","id":"394743"}
{"by":"pkolaczk","time":"1381843713","timestamp":"2013-10-15 13:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like a similar concept to robozzle: \u003ca href=\"http://robozzle.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;robozzle.com\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"6552632","id":"6553078"}
{"by":"apawloski","time":"1349279935","timestamp":"2012-10-03 15:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's on codeplex \u003ca href=\"http://z3.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9823ee3b4481\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://z3.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9823ee3b...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4607943","id":"4608059"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1435156870","timestamp":"2015-06-24 14:41:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CO2 is not strictly human emissions and to imply so is so dishonest is ridiculous. of course any gross simplification of the environment as done in this presentation is explicitly to deliver a message decided before the numbers were assembled.\u003cp\u003ethe primary co2 process is ocean to atmosphere exchange, the earth to atmosphere, and then to mammals respiratory activity. So then you get down to how much CO2 is man pumping into the atmosphere beyond that point and which sources are direct versus indirect.\u003cp\u003efinally since their numbers only are observable to 1880, how accurate can we assume them to be? If were are extrapolating we could do it further back than 1880 to periods where man was present in significant numbers and thew world was warmer\u003cp\u003eThere is climate change, never has been a period of time where it hasn\u0026#x27;t, but junk presentations are just that. Take numbers out of context, put in easily to dismiss arguments along side, and it appears to make your point beyond reproach (its like say, the sky is blue and you agree, don\u0026#x27;t you? the going off to explain why something indirectly related is bad or good)","parent":"9771493","id":"9771883"}
{"by":"thebrettd","time":"1406072829","timestamp":"2014-07-22 23:47:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe I misunderstood the SHowHN submission instructions - I thought I could share either the text or a link but not both","parent":"8071774","id":"8072214"}
{"by":"DougN7","time":"1333079197","timestamp":"2012-03-30 03:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You just explained it perfectly for me -- Best Buy is CompUSA, just on a curve 5-8 years behind it.","parent":"3774339","id":"3774404"}
{"by":"olefoo","time":"1364096638","timestamp":"2013-03-24 03:43:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not to get too deeply into the weeds of philosophy of science; but macroeconomics very is at least as much of a science as climate science. Observations are made, hypotheses are tested against reality, and predictions are derived that fail or succeed.\u003cp\u003eThat said it also suffers from a similar pathology where academic investigation is systematically distorted, occasionally suppressed outright and researchers in the field are sometimes attacked ( literally ) for the views that are ascribed to them.","parent":"5430592","id":"5431006"}
{"by":"lamby","time":"1309524122","timestamp":"2011-07-01 12:42:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://code.playfire.com/django-bcrypt/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.playfire.com/django-bcrypt/\u003c/a\u003e  Backwords-compatible bcrypt support.","parent":"2717932","id":"2718032"}
{"by":"yasure","time":"1359225751","timestamp":"2013-01-26 18:42:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same miserable b!7ch who was reponsible for this:\n\u003ca href=\"http://ij.org/massachusetts-civil-forfeiture-release-1-24-2013\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ij.org/massachusetts-civil-forfeiture-release-1-24-20...\u003c/a\u003e\nGet rid of her.","parent":"5048699","dead":true,"id":"5121243"}
{"by":"pyb","time":"1489165881","timestamp":"2017-03-10 17:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds nice, but I am unable to find any ticket info.","parent":"13839349","id":"13840091"}
{"by":"chiefofgxbxl","time":"1445218404","timestamp":"2015-10-19 01:33:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Author here - I\u0026#x27;ve been working on this add-on for some time. SciZone allows you to paste little \u0026#x27;snippets\u0026#x27; (urls) onto web pages. Any user who has the add-on can hover over the link and see the data.\u003cp\u003eFor instance, if you have the add-on, you\u0026#x27;d be able to hover over this link: sci.zone\u0026#x2F;#9LeYO and see the weekly number of nuclear arms the US and Russia have had over the years since the Cold War. If I wanted to pop in a definition of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, I can: sci.zone\u0026#x2F;#LNcSk. (There may be an issue with Hacker News changing up my links)\u003cp\u003eIt is my hope that SciZone will help make discussions on the web even more informed and backed-up with hard data. In some sense, it acts as a citation; except now the citation is interactive!\u003cp\u003eThe project has a long way to go and I could use all the feedback I can get. Just be constructive. Thanks.","parent":"10410619","id":"10410627"}
{"by":"nightpool","time":"1447479116","timestamp":"2015-11-14 05:31:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;blindly agreed to so many things\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eyou mean one permission prompt, on one app they may have downloaded years ago?\u003cp\u003eeverything else is just the advertisers including high-frequency beacons in their ad spots—it doesn\u0026#x27;t require any knowledge or cooperation of any of the intermediary steps.","parent":"10563513","id":"10564610"}
{"by":"xienze","time":"1403715006","timestamp":"2014-06-25 16:50:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there\u0026#x27;s something to be said for not completely overhauling the look and feel of the OS every two years or so.  As it stands today a typical Android phone probably has at least one app sporting the Android 2.3 look and feel.  And even in Google\u0026#x27;s UI guidelines (not sure if it\u0026#x27;s still the case), they suggested providing multiple sets of icons, some that follow the 4.0 look and feel, some that follow the 2.3 look and feel, some that follow the pre-2.3 look and feel, etc.\u003cp\u003eThey make it very difficult to both follow their latest UI guidelines and the older ones (because adoption rates lag quite a bit).","parent":"7944772","id":"7945168"}
{"by":"TallGuyShort","time":"1376675444","timestamp":"2013-08-16 17:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with this comment so much! The negative stigma of \u0026quot;only\u0026quot; doing high school is so harmful. Take welders for instance. It\u0026#x27;s an honest job, provides a useful and necessary service. If somebody finds welding interesting enough to occupy them and satisfy their career ambitions, it\u0026#x27;s a \u003ci\u003esmart\u003c/i\u003e decision not to go to college. They will contribute to society just as well for their choice.","parent":"6225518","id":"6225588"}
{"by":"prdonahue","time":"1450224767","timestamp":"2015-12-16 00:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Were you told \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e they were removed from the front page? That\u0026#x27;s more interesting to me\u0026#x2F;the community than the fact he reinstated.","parent":"10740784","id":"10741473"}
{"by":"mysterypie","time":"1510854576","timestamp":"2017-11-16 17:49:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possible solutions (speaking about the US of course):\u003cp\u003e1. Let the federal government establish a uniform national sales tax \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e outlaw all state and local sales taxes.\u003cp\u003e2. Even better, eliminate sales taxes entirely. Replace it with higher income taxes or property taxes. Yes, yes, I know, regressive, not progressive, taxing consumption is better, but there\u0026#x27;s something to be said about an economy without crazy levels of bureaucracy and regulations.\u003cp\u003e3. Just keep fighting off the states until they accept that Internet orders should be non-taxable. The Internet has completely changed the business models of music delivery, porn, and newspapers. No reason it can\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003eeventually\u003c/i\u003e convince states to back off on sales taxes.","parent":"15714528","id":"15714759"}
{"by":"wahsd","time":"1382476584","timestamp":"2013-10-22 21:16:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They hate them because they are a threat to revenue streams. Just like Uber, just like those ridesharing apps like Lyft, just like HomeAway or AirBnB, just like electric vehicles (especially hybrids once they started realizing the financial impact),  just like public transportation, just like bicycling in general, just like ridesharing in general......just like eBikes.\u003cp\u003eCall me cynical; but it is why we won\u0026#x27;t ever have autonomous personal vehicles in the USA. If you follow autonomous vehicles to their logical conclusion, there would only be a need for a tiny little fraction of vehicles to serve all of society\u0026#x27;s transportation needs.","parent":"6594418","id":"6595044"}
{"by":"maha420","time":"1503648171","timestamp":"2017-08-25 08:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a key pair, for SSH keys, which is what SFTP uses to tunnel the FTP protocol.  You cannot derive the private key from the public key.  So no, you cannot duplicate someone\u0026#x27;s private key unless you have access to their machine.  In which case you could just install a keylogger.\u003cp\u003eHardware tokens are vulnerable too, by your own admission.  A 6 digit pin created by a token is still \u0026quot;something you know\u0026quot; even if it\u0026#x27;s only good for a couple of minutes.","parent":"15096563","id":"15096923"}
{"by":"piratebroadcast","time":"1370634513","timestamp":"2013-06-07 19:48:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks!","parent":"5841101","dead":true,"id":"5841207"}
{"by":"kajecounterhack","time":"1210802362","timestamp":"2008-05-14 21:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heres a question for you then: Who owns the airwaves?","parent":"189229","id":"190028"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1443818631","timestamp":"2015-10-02 20:43:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am 50 years old. When I was a child in the U.S., I also went where I wanted without a parent and so did other kids.\u003cp\u003eThe world was different 20-30 years ago. I don\u0026#x27;t know that how safe it was 20-30 years ago has any bearing on the current conditions in Japan as compared to the rest of the world currently.","parent":"10321175","id":"10321199"}
{"by":"vlasev","time":"1393571960","timestamp":"2014-02-28 07:19:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reason for disagreement?","parent":"7317128","id":"7317572"}
{"by":"eeZah7Ux","time":"1496835483","timestamp":"2017-06-07 11:38:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why are you focusing only on the financial aspect and ignoring the parents education, general behavior and mental health, and living conditions, safety and so on?","parent":"14505322","id":"14505374"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1485798706","timestamp":"2017-01-30 17:51:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, that\u0026#x27;s pretty impressive. YC should consider making it a requirement of funding that the components go open-source if they shutdown without acquisition, etc. Aside from collective benefit, a future, YC startup might get a head start from their docs or components. They seem to fund multiple startups in the same market segments at times.","parent":"13522723","id":"13523373"}
{"by":"derleth","time":"1371799584","timestamp":"2013-06-21 07:26:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Implying we should \u0026#x27;fix\u0026#x27; Eternal September is pretty close to implying we should keep important technology out of the hands of those the current users deem unworthy. That prevents both spam and the Arab Spring, both 4chan and Wikileaks.\u003cp\u003eKeeping the Internet as it was prior to 1991, when commercial access was first allowed, means keeping it a small, controlled entity with obvious choke points that make it trivial to censor or kill entirely. It largely prevents its use for social or political change other than the kinds of change its owners want to see. It would trivialize the Internet by relegating it to a tiny fraction of its current usefulness.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s easy to idealize what we had. However, losing sight of what we have now, and what we could have, is actively harmful to the prospect of future moral growth.","parent":"5916601","id":"5916986"}
{"by":"superhuzza","time":"1520451160","timestamp":"2018-03-07 19:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I outright disregard a large number of sources - There\u0026#x27;s so much rubbish online that the \u0026#x27;middle ground\u0026#x27; is extremely unlikely to be the truth.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Argument_to_moderation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Argument_to_moderation\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16538804","id":"16539108"}
{"by":"djjose","time":"1324539825","timestamp":"2011-12-22 07:43:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems nice but I just don't see myself using this over WAMP/MAMP.  It's a cinch to install and of course gives you a mysql setup right away to start your codes.  Plus it's likely closer to your production environment anyway (if you're on LAMP).  So what's the real use case for this then?","parent":"3380367","id":"3380799"}
{"by":"onggunhao","time":"1513170835","timestamp":"2017-12-13 13:13:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oops!! Fixed it! Thanks for pointing it out to us\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;bitcoin-vr\u0026#x2F;bitcoin-vr\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;84\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;bitcoin-vr\u0026#x2F;bitcoin-vr\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;84\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePS: We set the param of 1 BTC when we built the first version a few weeks ago. Then came the massive surge in transactions and prices... we had to change the info panels to accomodate a lot more digits (esp for the USD price). Kinda crazy how the parameters changed within such a short period of time","parent":"15913877","id":"15913981"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1369087727","timestamp":"2013-05-20 22:08:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Troll! That's preposterous. He INVENTED those things; he didn't buy up batches of vague patents and file frivolous suit.\u003cp\u003eAnd his patents were detailed, precise, and often accompanied by a model.","parent":"5739230","id":"5740428"}
{"by":"robinhouston","time":"1327669358","timestamp":"2012-01-27 13:02:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don’t think the scientific community really bought it in the first place. The original experiment wasn’t especially rigorous; e.g. see Rosie Redfield’s review \u003ca href=\"http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arsenic-associa...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then the authors declined to respond in detail to any of the specific criticisms that had been made by other scientists, which is very rarely a good sign.","parent":"3517937","id":"3518096"}
{"by":"whofailed","time":"1535335718","timestamp":"2018-08-27 02:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Bitcoin monetary policy can be changed\u003cp\u003ePeople can fork bitcoin with a different monetary policy.  I, and many others will continue to support the monetary policy as set out in the original white paper. Not much in bitcoin is sacrosanct, but 21 million coins is what makes it bitcoin for me.","parent":"17847559","id":"17849031"}
{"by":"eridius","time":"1364110590","timestamp":"2013-03-24 07:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you mean by \"proprietary software virally infects any project that uses it\"? You're saying nonsense.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, the GPLv3 is extremely dangerous, with its patent crap, and it's anti-tivoing clause. Moreso than any other attribute of software, proprietary or free, that I can think of. For example, just imagine how devastating it would be if one bit of GPLv3 software made its way onto iOS.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdit:\u003c/i\u003e Thanks for the downvotes, guys. Yes, big shock, not everybody loves GPLv3, and some of us actually have legitimate reasons to do so.","parent":"5431026","id":"5431411"}
{"by":"mef","time":"1409061246","timestamp":"2014-08-26 13:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like I read plenty about racism and high taxes in Europe. Which countries in Europe do you consider to do better on these issues?","parent":"8223796","id":"8227047"}
{"by":"Yeroc","time":"1477627082","timestamp":"2016-10-28 03:58:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The power connector had a good run but they couldn\u0026#x27;t get the video connector right!  Every new generation Apple laptop I buy has a different video adaptor.","parent":"12808789","id":"12812943"}
{"by":"heartbreak","time":"1522783643","timestamp":"2018-04-03 19:27:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if Paul Lamere is on HN, but he\u0026#x27;s likely the best person to answer this question. Short answer: It\u0026#x27;s not all about user-fed listen data.","parent":"16747231","id":"16748236"}
{"by":"charlysl","time":"1538972895","timestamp":"2018-10-08 04:28:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From what I read in \u0026quot;Bad Blood\u0026quot; (the book about the Theranos fiasco) of what WSJ does before publishing investigative reports, you can be 100% that they did.","parent":"18162785","id":"18164128"}
{"by":"wyager","time":"1505914459","timestamp":"2017-09-20 13:34:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t trust car manufacturers to implement anything more complex than a Bluetooth module that has only power and analog audio integration. I don\u0026#x27;t want all this stuff. I love my old land cruiser because it\u0026#x27;s well designed in almost all aspects, which cannot be said for any infotainment system.","parent":"15290169","id":"15293531"}
{"by":"gordon_freeman","time":"1407346529","timestamp":"2014-08-06 17:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this mean You can split the fare with your friends (people you know) or even with complete strangers who want to share the same route as yours? Both features need different approaches and I guess the later one will drag down cost of transpiration much lower.","parent":"8143311","id":"8143693"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1363501644","timestamp":"2013-03-17 06:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it can easily be an extension, why are the best replacements they could suggest so awful-looking?","parent":"5388091","id":"5388370"}
{"by":"andy_ppp","time":"1459372988","timestamp":"2016-03-30 21:23:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know if these climate models are open source, how they work etc?  It seems this is an area where we as software engineers can start to have a think about how accurate these simulations are and possibly think about ways of improving them...","parent":"11392005","id":"11393127"}
{"by":"op00to","time":"1476148230","timestamp":"2016-10-11 01:10:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha walked into that one.","parent":"12677065","id":"12681210"}
{"by":"rubidium","time":"1440441143","timestamp":"2015-08-24 18:32:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very fun project. I love these step-by-step descriptions of little code projects to see something fun.\u003cp\u003eFor those wondering, Pluto and Charon orbit each other due to their Charon being 11.6% of Pluto\u0026#x27;s mass. So it\u0026#x27;s really a flyby of the center of their orbit.","parent":"10111440","id":"10112027"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1337173917","timestamp":"2012-05-16 13:11:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A platform where you just run ads and then see success simply doesn't exist. It is the quality of advertisement, the targetting, follow-up marketing, landing pages, and a lot of other elements that also impact success and ROI.\u003cp\u003eThe equiv of this story on Google would be that they ran ads, got a few hundred click-through to their website but nobody signed up. What would you pinpoint as the problem in that situation?","parent":"3981548","id":"3981852"}
{"by":"p4wnc6","time":"1450648505","timestamp":"2015-12-20 21:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article only mentions that forecasts for the \u003ci\u003eincrease\u003c/i\u003e of cell-phone demand in China is around 14%, whereas that same market experienced 27% growth from 2014 to now (we\u0026#x27;d have to follow the article\u0026#x27;s sources to confirm this or disentangle the exact forecast and measurement).\u003cp\u003eSo decline in this setting means a decline \u003ci\u003ein growth\u003c/i\u003e -- that \u003ci\u003egrowth is slowing down\u003c/i\u003e. Whether that remains the longer term trend is still a hard call to make, and the article makes no comments about growth in other geographic markets.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s definitely disingenuous of the article\u0026#x27;s author to make generic statements about all smartphones or statements that at first blush seem to be about the general worldwide demand for smartphone technology. But this article isn\u0026#x27;t really a robust analysis of anything; just clickbait to feed confirmation bias of market pessimists and spread more FUD to befuddled mainstream news patron types.","parent":"10768409","id":"10768425"}
{"by":"skellystudios","time":"1417034851","timestamp":"2014-11-26 20:47:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just for anyone who feels pleased with their mental maths and thinks they might be able to take on their calculator head-to-head:\u003cp\u003ewindow.setInterval(function(){$(\u0026#x27;#question-answer\u0026#x27;).val(eval($(\u0026#x27;#question\u0026#x27;).html().replace(\u0026quot;×\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;).replace(\u0026quot;÷\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot;).replace(\u0026#x2F;(.\u003c/i\u003e)²\u0026#x2F;,\u0026quot;Math.pow($1,2)\u0026quot;).replace(\u0026#x2F;√(.*)\u0026#x2F;,\u0026quot;Math.sqrt($1)\u0026quot;))).trigger(\u0026quot;keyup\u0026quot;)},10)","parent":"8664180","id":"8664490"}
{"by":"philsnow","time":"1479496776","timestamp":"2016-11-18 19:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve seen this before but the edges join together cleanly:  one of the edges \u0026quot;merges\u0026quot; (like a freeway on-ramp) with the other edge.\u003cp\u003eIn the demo on the front page, there\u0026#x27;s clearly a pseudo-node that the edges stop at, and it\u0026#x27;s jarring.\u003cp\u003eedit: this thing: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;snap.philsnow.io\u0026#x2F;2016-11-18T11-19-57.mpfpkk55hj0dunqfi8dn.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;snap.philsnow.io\u0026#x2F;2016-11-18T11-19-57.mpfpkk55hj0dunqf...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12988971","id":"12989327"}
{"by":"mycall","time":"1477097975","timestamp":"2016-10-22 00:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I think the FPGA approach is generally more usefu\u003cp\u003eIntel agrees with its purchase of Altera.","parent":"12765979","id":"12766317"}
{"by":"smcl","time":"1511016237","timestamp":"2017-11-18 14:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess that makes the comparison the GP post made even more interesting","parent":"15729080","id":"15729107"}
{"by":"xirium","time":"1211950737","timestamp":"2008-05-28 04:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RSS added to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"201705","id":"201785"}
{"by":"erispoe","time":"1476484957","timestamp":"2016-10-14 22:42:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Build Better Products\u0026quot; [1] by Laura Klein, will be available on Nov 1st. Laura Klein was recently a guest on the Lean Startup Podcast [2]. She brings an experimental, iterative, approach to design.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rosenfeldmedia.com\u0026#x2F;books\u0026#x2F;build-better-products\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rosenfeldmedia.com\u0026#x2F;books\u0026#x2F;build-better-products\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;soundcloud.com\u0026#x2F;lean-startup\u0026#x2F;4-season-3-combining-user-centered-design-lean-startup-to-build-better-products?in=lean-startup\u0026#x2F;sets\u0026#x2F;lean-startup-webcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;soundcloud.com\u0026#x2F;lean-startup\u0026#x2F;4-season-3-combining-use...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12711060","id":"12711658"}
{"by":"pornel","time":"1377733950","timestamp":"2013-08-28 23:52:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve moved numpad to the left instead:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.a4tech.com/product.asp?cid=1\u0026amp;scid=1\u0026amp;id=54\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.a4tech.com\u0026#x2F;product.asp?cid=1\u0026amp;scid=1\u0026amp;id=54\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6287628","id":"6293410"}
{"by":"jacksmith21006","time":"1527161193","timestamp":"2018-05-24 11:26:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The issue is why is this acceptable by Apple?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;amp.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;images\u0026#x2F;59309194b74af426208b538d-1136-852.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;amp.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;images\u0026#x2F;59309194b74af426208b5...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssistant is all about UX and the Apple of the past would do everything they could to be the best.  I mean way better versus so far behind.\u003cp\u003eThey have had plenty of time now to make Apple Maps better.  Here is a great comparison.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com\u0026#x2F;google-maps-moat\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com\u0026#x2F;google-maps-moat\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is this acceptable?","parent":"17142798","id":"17142950"}
{"by":"ghaff","time":"1521131290","timestamp":"2018-03-15 16:28:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like something Whole Foods is missing out on. There\u0026#x27;s a local Whole Foods-like store I\u0026#x27;ve swung by in town that carries their own kits.","parent":"16594013","id":"16594239"}
{"by":"wallawe","time":"1317183356","timestamp":"2011-09-28 04:15:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"simplicity is the keynote of elegance\"","parent":"3045290","id":"3046434"}
{"by":"comex","time":"1502225793","timestamp":"2017-08-08 20:56:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s not about free speech in general.  It’s about a specific narrative, wherein free speech on college campuses is under serious threat thanks to liberal orthodoxy, usually linked to concepts such as trigger warnings and microaggressions.  This narrative is currently in vogue on the right, and thus making a fuss about campus censorship is \u003ci\u003elikely\u003c/i\u003e to indicate a right-wing persuasion.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the issue itself is very complex, and as a self-described leftist I happen to believe there’s some room to be concerned about free speech on campus (although I view the causes and nature of the issue very differently from the typical right-wing perspective) - but that’s not the point.  When I called out those “free speech” references, I didn’t mean to make any statement about the merits of the issue; I was more using it as a sort of shibboleth, given the context of current trends in political discourse.","parent":"14957165","id":"14962618"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1317858605","timestamp":"2011-10-05 23:50:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're not following. Broadly speaking, better talent costs more money. The more money you have to spend on talent, the better the talent you retain will be. It's not about looking for \"cheap labor\"; it's about being able to find, recruit, and retain better people.\u003cp\u003eThink of it as a market inefficiency (albeit one that is difficult to \"fix\"): the stickiness of people's locales prevents them from maximizing their opportunities and decreases demand for their services in SFBA and increases their supply in (say) MSP.","parent":"3078138","id":"3078184"}
{"by":"_jas","time":"1520214769","timestamp":"2018-03-05 01:52:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a contract and is completely legal. A contract does not need to be \u0026quot;fair\u0026quot; to both sides, only \u0026quot;reasonable\u0026quot;. There might be some argument that this contract is unconscionable, but that is a difficult battle, especially when one has so willingly given up their rights to their material. The court system was not designed to come running in to save individuals just because they have made a foolish deal.","parent":"16517960","id":"16518121"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1390480260","timestamp":"2014-01-23 12:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also the sheer level and scale of integration of Facebook with, well, basically life. \u003ci\u003eGlobally\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eAlso one has to keep in mind that the Internet itself is also constantly growing and evolving, and today it is nothing like in times of MySpace.","parent":"7107024","id":"7107687"}
{"by":"dclara","time":"1391654767","timestamp":"2014-02-06 02:46:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You made the point. Although it was not that explicit, from IE destroyed Netscape, I can see the other intentions. Fortunately, Linux, Apple, Android survives. MS tried to play monopoly which hampered the competition. The same for Google now. Maybe once you are no.1, you will be like that, but it\u0026#x27;s near eye sighted.","parent":"7183519","id":"7188413"}
{"by":"psgbg","time":"1423936747","timestamp":"2015-02-14 17:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After reading what said tree_of_item, I think tree_of_item is right.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;I\u0026#x27;m toying with the idea right now of registering geteos.com and linking to images of Elementary without an option to pay just as a \u0026quot;Fuck You\u0026quot; to these guys.\u003cp\u003eThat does not do any favor to anyone. Please put the bar of the discussion a little higher. You have right to be upset by their wording use.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t like it expose your arguments. If you are going to \u0026quot;fuck\u0026quot; every open project for their mistakes... gosh. Today many people are complaining that the open source community is getting toxic of haters, people threatening, trolls and other people doing bad stuff.\u003cp\u003eHN is full of smart people, at least if you want to discus acts like that do it elsewhere.","parent":"9049976","id":"9050226"}
{"by":"nonrecursive","time":"1389497908","timestamp":"2014-01-12 03:38:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But I do apologize! It seems to me like this misunderstanding has made you a bit grumpy. I apologize if that\u0026#x27;s the case. If it\u0026#x27;s not, then I apologize for being wrong!","parent":"7043813","id":"7045054"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1485984556","timestamp":"2017-02-01 21:29:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What exactly in this article do you believe is racist or sexist? From what I can tell, Thiel made one factual statement - that women (and welfare beneficiaries) vote for policies he considers harmful. Do you think that factual statement is wrong?\u003cp\u003eIf I made a similar factual statement - say \u0026quot;white people were more likely to support Trump\u0026quot; - does that imply I\u0026#x27;m biased against white people?","parent":"13545257","id":"13545421"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1396118382","timestamp":"2014-03-29 18:39:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Some AR is already present in some vehicles.\u003cp\u003eIf HUDs are considered AR (a valid viewpoint, as far as I\u0026#x27;m concerned) then they\u0026#x27;ve been in warplanes since WW2.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t see AR getting mass customer adoption before it can be directly grafted.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Imagine a sales clerk or rep with it as you walk into the store to pull in data from across the web about you from facial recog and be able to automatically point you to where you might be interested\u003cp\u003eThat sounds horrifying. And unlikely, that customers efficiently go through their purchases in the least possible time is not really in most store\u0026#x27;s interest.","parent":"7492778","id":"7493376"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1175115269","timestamp":"2007-03-28 20:54:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another approach is to let PG take care of it and get back to working on something that matters, whatever that may be;-)","parent":"6967","id":"7041"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1507332982","timestamp":"2017-10-06 23:36:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand but it\u0026#x27;s easy to imagine jobs only as a salesman that just grabs others ideas blindly.","parent":"15421176","id":"15421259"}
{"by":"rprasad","time":"1341856870","timestamp":"2012-07-09 18:01:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IAAL.\u003cp\u003eBoth 3Taps and Padmapper are potentially liable in this scheme.  DMCA compliance does not protect this type of use; the safe harbors are very narrow and specific.  It only protects websites (or services) from liability for content posted to the website \u003ci\u003edirectly\u003c/i\u003e, by users of the website (or service).  The DMCA does not protect the website (or service) from content it actively acquires, on its own or on behalf of another party.\u003cp\u003e3Tap is scraping the Google Cache under some misguided interpretation that the copy of the Craiglist site is not protected by copyright.  This is as ridiculous a legal interpretation as Carreon's charges against the Oatmeal for defamation.  Google has fair use rights to maintain a copy of Craiglist's site in its cache, but ownership of the content remains with Craiglist.  This is no different than if the site were hosted on Akamai or CloudFront servers instead of Craiglist's own servers.\u003cp\u003eCopyright liability does not stop with the first infringer.  \u003ci\u003eEvery\u003c/i\u003e infringer is potentially liable (which is why the DMCA safe harbors were necessary in the first place).","parent":"4219141","id":"4219440"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1515711057","timestamp":"2018-01-11 22:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess it is a matter of taste.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, it should be impossible to trademark a name like \u0026quot;Tesla\u0026quot;, because it is a common term in electrical engineering and transportation (Tesla wasn\u0026#x27;t the first company making electric cars).","parent":"16128747","id":"16128818"}
{"by":"robomartin","time":"1353532117","timestamp":"2012-11-21 21:08:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On your first point, I refer you to Google and Wikipedia for excellent articles on basic physics.  In particular look to understand the relationship of power as it relates to speed.\u003cp\u003eOn the second point.  Our cargo rail system is crap.  Nowhere in my write-up am I proposing that we unload 100,000 cargo ships per year and load these containers onto diesel trucks or the current train system.  That would be incredibly dumb, inefficient, more harmful to the environment and, well, actually impossible.\u003cp\u003eNo, the idea is that a new highly-efficient, all-electric, highly-automated and cargo-only transportation system be built with the express purpose of moving container-based cargo from coast to coast (and port to port) at the highest possible speed and lowest possible power consumption.  The idea further suggests that the required energy can come from nuclear, wind and solar power.\u003cp\u003eThe complete elimination of the burning of the most harmful form of fossil fuel from the transportation system is one of the stated goals of the idea.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, the idea is also to look 50, 100 or even 200 years into the future.  Pollution aside, fossil fuel cost is absolutely, positively guaranteed to increase over the next 200 years.  The current system of burning millions of tons of bunker-c fuel per year to bring widgets to Walmart isn't a viable and scalable long-term solution.  Not to mention the fact that it is royally fucking up the environment at many levels.  I am not a crazy environmentalist by any measure, but this is stupid.","parent":"4816049","id":"4816320"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1186039298","timestamp":"2007-08-02 07:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can never really agree to such a clause, though. In the most extreme case it would mean I could never take on another contract, because I already used up all my programming tricks in the first one. For example I might have employed the MVC pattern, will I be able to ever use it again?","parent":"38541","id":"38615"}
{"by":"aliston","time":"1403398071","timestamp":"2014-06-22 00:47:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, I found the UX to be very confusing.  Some basic things --\u003cp\u003eThe highlight to select an element is inconsistent.  Sometimes it is a padded highlight, other times it isn\u0026#x27;t.  The instructions to \u0026quot;right click\u0026quot; don\u0026#x27;t make sense on a mac and the usual cmd+click doesn\u0026#x27;t appear to do anything.  Other times, there is no selected element, I\u0026#x27;m scrolling through the left bar to pick something to add, yet the UI remains with the appearance of something selected (blue outline).  In short, the selection\u0026#x2F;action\u0026#x2F;deselect was not intuitive for me.\u003cp\u003eThe first thing I tried to do was drag a button into a column section -- nothing happened.","parent":"7909611","id":"7926505"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1275788900","timestamp":"2010-06-06 01:48:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"1. It would be pretty simple to write a computer simulation to test this, no? Would anyone care to do so?\"\u003cp\u003eI'm on it. Results in a later reply.","parent":"1407715","id":"1407822"}
{"by":"kieranajp","time":"1415285651","timestamp":"2014-11-06 14:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This really bothered me in the article too, though I\u0026#x27;d always assumed Reading was a city (it certainly _feels_ like one!) - thanks for the info on that","parent":"8566376","id":"8567212"}
{"by":"w0utert","time":"1428059515","timestamp":"2015-04-03 11:11:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a matter of technology, it\u0026#x27;s a matter of physical impossibility.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would say (and I\u0026#x27;ve been saying this all along) is that it\u0026#x27;s first and foremost a matter of economic impossibility.\u003cp\u003eUnder the assumption that you can make the technology work well enough for a sufficiently large group of potential customers, the business case for streaming games simply doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense to me. You need to invest huge amounts of money to build, maintain, and update (keep current) highly-specialized server farms that are mostly useless for other purposes, in the hopes that people will pay money to play games on them. All while hardware prices keep going down, and game visuals (including resolution and GPU requirements) keep going up. If you stop upgrading your server farms, within a year or 2 what would previously be top-of-the-line hardware will be so cheap (new in the case of PC\u0026#x27;s or second-hand in the case of consoles), that unless you are dead set on being able to play the same games no matter your physical location, you can get a much better experience for less money by just buying the hardware.\u003cp\u003eIt has always occurred to me that many people are still convinced cloud gaming is a good idea, but the repeated failures of services like OnLive seem to have proven this wrong for now...","parent":"9315123","id":"9315223"}
{"by":"Veratyr","time":"1476979324","timestamp":"2016-10-20 16:02:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the record I\u0026#x27;m aware of people with 10s of TB in Amazon Cloud Drive without any issues. It is of course yet to be seen whether they\u0026#x27;ll pull a Microsoft and take it back.","parent":"12751612","id":"12753485"}
{"by":"jeiting","time":"1532617338","timestamp":"2018-07-26 15:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Soooooon. :)","parent":"17615910","id":"17618000"}
{"by":"forkLding","time":"1502814846","timestamp":"2017-08-15 16:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t downvote you because thats your opinion, other people downvoted u.\u003cp\u003eAs well, I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure I\u0026#x27;m not a bot, maybe you can give me a recaptcha test to test me and I never said protests are treated the same in USA. Does the USA censor their protests on the media? Please answer me there as I put that on my post and learn to read. I\u0026#x27;m angry because this is stupid.\u003cp\u003eAlso I hate the Chinese Communist Party and don\u0026#x27;t want China under a communist one-party dictatorship. I have not said anything about Tibet, that was you. If I was a Chinese bot I would have just lost my job.\u003cp\u003eThey also approve of protests requests that forward their political agenda:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2012_China_anti-Japanese_demonstrations\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2012_China_anti-Japanese_demon...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee above, this was broadcasted on the Chinese interwebs and on Chinese State news where I saw it, if it wasn\u0026#x27;t allowed, it would have been stopped and cracked down on.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Note that a BBC News article about it says that \u0026quot;The BBC\u0026#x27;s Martin Patience in Beijing says the outbreak of protests was almost certainly sanctioned by the Chinese authorities, as they were well policed.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world-asia-19312226\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world-asia-19312226\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf there is police allowed around a protest in China, it usually is legal\u003cp\u003eAnother edit: Dont pretend you know more about China than I do, i am prepared to protest the Chinese govt on Chinese streets and light myself on fire for Chinese democracy, until you can do the same you have no skin in the game.","parent":"15017415","id":"15019744"}
{"by":"paddy_m","time":"1393009054","timestamp":"2014-02-21 18:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pay for products.  Use companies that have a real business model.","parent":"7278550","id":"7278656"}
{"by":"baldfat","time":"1509307372","timestamp":"2017-10-29 20:02:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Double speed 200% = 2.00\u003cp\u003e2000 mhz * 2 is 4000 mhz\u003cp\u003eTripple would be 300%","parent":"15580576","id":"15581096"}
{"by":"734786710934","time":"1513281941","timestamp":"2017-12-14 20:05:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2017 Was Bad for Bloomberg. 2018 Will Be Worse. All of these anti-Facebook articles should have disclaimers informing readers that they are in competition with Facebook and that Facebook is winning.","parent":"15922022","id":"15926400"}
{"by":"wooptoo","time":"1369389380","timestamp":"2013-05-24 09:56:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcansecwest.com%2Fslides%2F2013%2FAssessing%2520the%2520Linux%2520Desktop%2520Security%2520-%2520Ilja%2520van%2520Sprundel.ppt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcansecwest.c...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5760823","id":"5761991"}
{"by":"vanessa","time":"1300644870","timestamp":"2011-03-20 18:14:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for posting this - I think regardless of market rate you've identified a key problem in the hiring industry, especially in software. The incentives for recruitment agencies/headhunters to do ridiculously shady things like copy your ad and then sell you candidates (without even necessarily telling you they promised the candidates more money) are high because companies feel so lost in the hiring process, sometimes they are willing to pay. And they usually get burned/waste a lot more time and money (in my experience).\u003cp\u003eGood for you for calling them out when they're clearly not providing a respectable service to you OR the jobseeker.","parent":"2346119","id":"2346882"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1545667662","timestamp":"2018-12-24 16:07:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That Theodore Tso seems like a sharp guy. Hopefully he can put the controversy (whatever it was) behind him.","parent":"18752629","id":"18752714"}
{"by":"unepipe","time":"1462519324","timestamp":"2016-05-06 07:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It creates an easy vector for MITM attacks - could be done by nefarious parties on US citizens traveling in other countries for example.","parent":"11642205","dead":true,"id":"11642290"}
{"by":"WalterBright","time":"1364864635","timestamp":"2013-04-02 01:03:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I signed up for it and am planning to use it, but am disappointed it doesn't work with the regular kindle (just the Kindle Fire).","parent":"5476400","id":"5477054"}
{"by":"NathanOsullivan","time":"1468744835","timestamp":"2016-07-17 08:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, hotmail will in some instances accept mail at SMTP level and then silently discard it. You cannot even request de-listing.","parent":"12109448","id":"12109487"}
{"by":"flipp3r","time":"1441892557","timestamp":"2015-09-10 13:42:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that sucks for you, and you\u0026#x27;re stupid for putting emotional baggage online. Its not you boss\u0026#x27; fault that you felt entitled for double pay, that you didn\u0026#x27;t communicate properly, or that you have 4 kids, these are things you just have to deal with now and learn from. Yes your boss was a dick, deal with it.\u003cp\u003eIf you want a job fast use linkedin and recruiters to your advantage. There\u0026#x27;s loads of recruiting companies that are waiting for people like you. Getting a job with some IT skills is very easy, don\u0026#x27;t expect a well-paying job as a junior ruby tester though and make it clear to recruiters what you need.","parent":"10196231","id":"10197936"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1356088274","timestamp":"2012-12-21 11:11:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or you could just harcode the certificate fingerprint and refuse to accept anything else. It's trivial when you own the client.\u003cp\u003eI'm not sure if this would break when you needed to renew the certificate, but I guess you only update the signature, not the actual public key.","parent":"4952281","id":"4952286"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1221387318","timestamp":"2008-09-14 10:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I respect only one thing: competence.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, that breaks down into 3 things: competence, knowledge, and experience, but only because the last two are often indicators of the first, so it would be unwise to dismiss them.\u003cp\u003eAchievements are a symptom of competence, so I do respect people who have achieved what I consider great things.\u003cp\u003eHowever, even where someone is knowledgeable, experienced, and having apparently achieved great things, if they display something which indicates a severe lack of competence, my respect for them will automatically decrease - not to zero, of course, but still, it can take a severe hit.","parent":"303642","id":"303684"}
{"by":"rawnlq","time":"1474574267","timestamp":"2016-09-22 19:57:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sidetracked: Can someone explain to me why there seem to be a culture of blackhat hacking from Russia? Do their CS degrees have mandatory advanced courses on how to exploit vulnerabilities for lulz?\u003cp\u003eNot really even saying this in a mean way. Almost all top CS programs in the US have assignments on writing buffer overflow attacks and reverse engineering in their mandatory intro to systems course. But I don\u0026#x27;t seem to see them going off on their own to learn more sophisticated attacks and acutally using it in the real world.\u003cp\u003eWhy does russia seem to foster so many blackhats? Or is it just the proxies that are hosted there?","parent":"12559439","id":"12559823"}
{"by":"ryanhuff","time":"1486615718","timestamp":"2017-02-09 04:48:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nobody has bought a M3 yet, but people have placed deposits.","parent":"13604691","id":"13604749"}
{"by":"mhandley","time":"1527777637","timestamp":"2018-05-31 14:40:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, and it\u0026#x27;s the main reason our economy hasn\u0026#x27;t tanked.  But there have traditionally been more barriers to movement from the EU, not least language, so the effect is somewhat less, and easy immigration from the EU hasn\u0026#x27;t been going on for nearly so long.  And don\u0026#x27;t get me started on Brexit...","parent":"17196606","id":"17196637"}
{"by":"duiker101","time":"1342077644","timestamp":"2012-07-12 07:20:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can already see how unique this will be.","parent":"4233050","id":"4233473"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1429525191","timestamp":"2015-04-20 10:19:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Paracetamol\u0026#x2F;acetaminophen does appear to  have synergistic effect with codeine as far as I\u0026#x27;m aware, and the combination is often prescribed for severe pain (the prescription-only variation - at least in the UK - has a far higher codeine to paracetamol ratio), but the \u003ci\u003erequirement\u003c/i\u003e that they are combined is clearly to deter abuse of the codeine.\u003cp\u003eThe irony is that paracetamol overdoses are far harder to treat and far more likely to lead to death or severe long term damage than opioid overdoses...\u003cp\u003eIn the UK, codeine on it\u0026#x27;s own is still a controlled substance to the point where if you extracted the codeine from a single pill (possibly two, not sure of the exact limit) of the combination products, possession ould get you arrested, while you can go and buy packets with a total of 64 pills (32 each of ibuprofen and paracetamol combined with codeine) at the time from your local pharmacy no questions asked.\u003cp\u003eBasically there seems to be a bizarre belief that addicts will act as rational actors when faced with the knowledge of this mix, despite the fact that most \u003ci\u003eother\u003c/i\u003e drug policy is based on the assumption that drug users - addicts or not - are incapable of making decisions about harm on their own.\u003cp\u003eThis becomes even more bizarre in places like the UK, where there have been restrictions on the number of paracetamol pills that can be sold per transaction because of the amount of harm caused by accidental or intentional paracetamol overdoses.","parent":"9406984","id":"9407067"}
{"by":"halfcat","time":"1385450982","timestamp":"2013-11-26 07:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Beyond getting good at chess, fast, if you want to get great at chess, slowly, then GM Rashid Ziatdinov has the instructions you seek.\u003cp\u003eGM Ziatdinov is unique in that he gives the blueprint that he claims will get anyone to master level (2200+) [1], and it\u0026#x27;s dead simple. It\u0026#x27;s much of the same:\u003cp\u003e1. Study tactics a ton [2]\n2. Memorize 300 key positions and games\n3. Now you are a master\u003cp\u003eHis definition of \u0026quot;memorize\u0026quot; is that you understand the key position\u0026#x2F;game instantly and without thinking, the same way you walk or read your native language. 300 doesn\u0026#x27;t sound like a lot, but to understand each key position to the depth he advises, we\u0026#x27;re looking at the 10,000 hour rule for all 300 positions.\u003cp\u003eFor comparison, either he or another GM claimed that super-GMs know 1000+ key positions\u0026#x2F;games, and Magnus Carlsen has said he has memorized 10,000+ games.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/GM-RAM-Essential-Grandmaster-Chess-Knowledge/dp/0938650726\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;GM-RAM-Essential-Grandmaster-Chess-Kno...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] He used to have a few thousand tactics problems on his website. He said to do 1-10 quickly until you could get through them without a mistake. He emphasizes quickly, it\u0026#x27;s about getting new patterns in your brain, not figuring it out on your own. After 1-10 are perfect, do 11-20 until perfect, then 1-20 until perfect, and repeat until you can do all 1-4000 (or however many). At that point he said you will have the tactical ability of a GM.","parent":"6791742","id":"6799711"}
{"by":"virtu","time":"1375900342","timestamp":"2013-08-07 18:32:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really loved the article, but would go furthermore and say like Mooji find out what you really are, ask the question who is I behind a thought based identity. More on yt:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_q6gZkoceg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=8_q6gZkoceg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6171790","id":"6174659"}
{"by":"jdmoreira","time":"1530058311","timestamp":"2018-06-27 00:11:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m very ignorant of supercomputers but I can\u0026#x27;t really see how\u0026#x2F;why linux is a better choice than library oses \u0026#x2F; unikernels for this.","parent":"17404434","id":"17404911"}
{"by":"DigitalSea","time":"1343708716","timestamp":"2012-07-31 04:25:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I can sympathise to a certain extent, the ignorance of the StockTwits founder makes it hard to completely sympathise for honestly thinking that a company wouldn't take a money making idea using its platform and bake it in to the service. It's the same problem people complain of in the Apple app store, numerous times developers have cried foul over Apple stealing their idea for themselves.\u003cp\u003eI definitely agree it's not ideal and will stifle innovation, but when you're as big as Twitter or Apple you can afford to lose a few developers using your platform without any recourse.","parent":"4315663","id":"4315696"}
{"by":"dsk139","time":"1395509718","timestamp":"2014-03-22 17:35:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Day 1. We do 1-to-1 mentorship for web development helping our clients go from 0 to fully functioning Backbone\u0026#x2F;Angular\u0026#x2F;Rails\u0026#x2F;Node apps- designed for people who have time to learn on nights and weekends. Hosted free workshops and utilized our network to get clients. Now our pipeline is mostly from internal referrals from clients.","parent":"7449422","id":"7450007"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1406779584","timestamp":"2014-07-31 04:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d rather have sky walkways above ground-level cars for a lot of reasons; Hong Kong\u0026#x27;s central district does this quite well.","parent":"8112155","id":"8112405"}
{"by":"whalesalad","time":"1296244586","timestamp":"2011-01-28 19:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mirror: \u003ca href=\"http://static.whalesalad.com/north_korea/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://static.whalesalad.com/north_korea/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2152223","id":"2153277"}
{"by":"wunderg","time":"1500255347","timestamp":"2017-07-17 01:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought ethereum would move to Proof of State from Proof of Work which will make mining as it\u0026#x27;s obsolete.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ethnews.com\u0026#x2F;proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-explained\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ethnews.com\u0026#x2F;proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-expl...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14784042","id":"14785082"}
{"by":"Game_Ender","time":"1320777927","timestamp":"2011-11-08 18:45:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to a video on their site they don't add additional fees for out of network ATMs only forward the fee that ATM charges.","parent":"3211680","id":"3212137"}
{"by":"morrbo","time":"1489925319","timestamp":"2017-03-19 12:08:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m fully aware of gpo, thanks. I was more on about the shift from the default of do not update (in server 2012) -\u0026gt; update and restart (as a default in server 2016)","parent":"13906178","id":"13906620"}
{"by":"jackhack","time":"1467404641","timestamp":"2016-07-01 20:24:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ever wonder why they would leave a toothless law in place like this, rather than strike it from the books? Because it enables detention.\u003cp\u003eNow that the local constable has a legal reason to stop and detain due to the criminal act of jay-walking, a round of questioning and a search for other violations may begin in earnest. It\u0026#x27;s part of the shakedown machine.","parent":"12014060","id":"12019367"}
{"by":"FabHK","time":"1523212440","timestamp":"2018-04-08 18:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another difference is that China has kidnapped Chinese nationals, while the US has \u0026quot;rendered\u0026quot; mostly non-US nationals, if I understand correctly.","parent":"16784461","id":"16787520"}
{"by":"haseeb5297","time":"1481559325","timestamp":"2016-12-12 16:15:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is \u0026quot;Platform Support Engineer\u0026quot; remote?","parent":"13084339","id":"13159118"}
{"by":"eugeneionesco","time":"1456211132","timestamp":"2016-02-23 07:05:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, it\u0026#x27;s dead.","parent":"11156645","id":"11157122"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1347073395","timestamp":"2012-09-08 03:03:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately (particularly for those of us with 30\" monitors) they don't have a full screen option like the amazing Mars Gigapan: \u003ca href=\"http://gigapan.com/gigapans/113071\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gigapan.com/gigapans/113071\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: Found it - Awesome on a big monitor  \u003ca href=\"http://gigapan.com/gigapans/73573\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gigapan.com/gigapans/73573\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4491831","id":"4492095"}
{"by":"TheCoelacanth","time":"1397573241","timestamp":"2014-04-15 14:47:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It becomes a problem when you\u0026#x27;re protecting the entire city rather than just a few key areas.","parent":"7591257","id":"7592086"}
{"by":"mindball","time":"1303058867","timestamp":"2011-04-17 16:47:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll take nameego.com and wearstartups.com","parent":"2456419","id":"2456424"}
{"by":"silvestrov","time":"1354153521","timestamp":"2012-11-29 01:45:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obligatory for Danish: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkvqJJvR9U\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkvqJJvR9U\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=danish+pronunciation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=danish+pronuncia...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanes tolerance for Danish pronunciation is way tighter than Americans for English, so if a sound is just slightly off, we don't understand a word of what you're saying.","parent":"4845678","id":"4845855"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1530126089","timestamp":"2018-06-27 19:01:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right, and it\u0026#x27;s a long running problem. See what dang says here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9238739\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9238739\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren\u0026#x27;t sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.","parent":"17410757","id":"17410823"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1428181325","timestamp":"2015-04-04 21:02:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are spoiled; \u0026quot;open source\u0026quot; has come to mean in many people\u0026#x27;s minds, \u0026quot;free as in speech AND beer\u0026quot;","parent":"9322079","id":"9322200"}
{"by":"gruglife","time":"1502383447","timestamp":"2017-08-10 16:44:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Morbid","parent":"14975863","id":"14981534"}
{"by":"soneca","time":"1375200839","timestamp":"2013-07-30 16:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. I share a very very similar story with the author, execpt that I am not successfull yet. His story had everything to inspire me, someone who followed my exactly same path and made it.\u003cp\u003eThen, after reading it, I feel that he is more interested in creating a brand, building an audience, than sharing his story and inspiring people. I think I will have to find out some other \u0026quot;learned to code and created a company\u0026quot; role model.","parent":"6127422","id":"6127953"}
{"by":"Rainymood","time":"1541406998","timestamp":"2018-11-05 08:36:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really dont hope that writing blog posts on twitter with one tweet per sentence and then threading them together becomes the norm rather than the exception, but my expectations are low.","parent":"18374938","id":"18380771"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1445014647","timestamp":"2015-10-16 16:57:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Austria, a small tip (keep the change, basically) seemed pretty normal, whereas almost no one tips in Italy.","parent":"10400337","id":"10400578"}
{"by":"monkmartinez","time":"1370581578","timestamp":"2013-06-07 05:06:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5836653","id":"5837337"}
{"by":"vukk","time":"1287428665","timestamp":"2010-10-18 19:04:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is going to be a lot of books in there, so _filtering_ is a must, sorting just isn't enough.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I mean this for \"Noob ... Expert\" selection. Also simple tags would probably be better than those \"How to xx some xx\"","parent":"1803290","id":"1804683"}
{"by":"bede","time":"1453285677","timestamp":"2016-01-20 10:27:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel obliged to once again refer to Home Secretary Theresa May\u0026#x27;s on-record statement to a government committee only seven days ago:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The UK does not undertake mass surveillance\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eMake of this what you will.","parent":"10936914","id":"10937139"}
{"by":"Lewton","time":"1486031378","timestamp":"2017-02-02 10:29:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"deadlifting heavy weights is the single best way to avoid lower back pain","parent":"13549424","id":"13549499"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1397871853","timestamp":"2014-04-19 01:44:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Believe it or not, world elites were once on the brink of adopting the International Fixed Calendar, which was basically the same as Comte\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003eThen judaist religious backlash kicked in, and here we are.","parent":"7611834","id":"7612221"}
{"by":"tim333","time":"1428293113","timestamp":"2015-04-06 04:05:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah but uBlock is easier","parent":"9326358","id":"9326435"}
{"by":"dilyevsky","time":"1546729376","timestamp":"2019-01-05 23:02:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you seen \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;stripe\u0026#x2F;skycfg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;stripe\u0026#x2F;skycfg\u003c/a\u003e ? It’s kind of early development stages tho","parent":"18833594","id":"18834899"}
{"by":"zenlikethat","time":"1455751082","timestamp":"2016-02-17 23:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree Erlang is probably not the correct fit for the average startup, but for some areas it is essentially unparalleled (and businesses have had great success with it).  Consider the online advertising industry, for instance -- in order to guarantee the kind of uptime and debuggability that real-time bidding and decision making on ads requires, Erlang is an excellent choice (cf. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=qURhXHbxbDU\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=qURhXHbxbDU\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"11122058","id":"11122358"}
{"by":"serge2k","time":"1459220540","timestamp":"2016-03-29 03:02:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Canada\u0026#x27;s tech sector can shut up about wanting foreign talent until they pay enough to retain canadian talent.","parent":"11373669","id":"11379209"}
{"by":"engtech","time":"1340394639","timestamp":"2012-06-22 19:50:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this comment is the second result on Google for \"whois endosquid.com\" within 40 minutes of posting the comment on Hacker News.\u003cp\u003ewow.","parent":"4148243","id":"4148428"}
{"by":"tomatotomato37","time":"1536674674","timestamp":"2018-09-11 14:04:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can confirm, both sponsered links for \u0026quot;iphone charger\u0026quot; score an F on fakespot. Disappointing, considering I was hoping this could be a way to filter through knockoff products.","parent":"17959637","id":"17959766"}
{"by":"dspillett","time":"1462970392","timestamp":"2016-05-11 12:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might be a stretch to assume the effect will be significant, but...\u003cp\u003eA larger application presumably uses more RAM to itself (especially if its instances of node\u0026#x2F;chrome\u0026#x2F;libraries are distinct and so do not share pages by reference or in a copy-on-write manner with other similar applications) so there is less room for cache and buffers so the machine as a while is likely to be hitting disk more often and so consuming more power that way.\u003cp\u003eLoading the app will obviously involve more IO too, though hopefully that is not a regular occurrence for a full desktop app (it may be for a smaller utility program though) so the running costs should dwarf any start-up costs over time.","parent":"11673928","id":"11674683"}
{"by":"stereobit","time":"1506504847","timestamp":"2017-09-27 09:34:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nearly as good as\u003cp\u003ealias gti=git","parent":"15337730","id":"15346157"}
{"by":"rskar","time":"1419429427","timestamp":"2014-12-24 13:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you suggesting that the bottom 90% of households are predominately headed by under-40 year-olds?\u003cp\u003eAccording to payscale.com, among those with college degrees or higher, pay for men stops growing about age 48; for women, about 39. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.payscale.com/gender-lifetime-earnings-gap\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.payscale.com\u0026#x2F;gender-lifetime-earnings-gap\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003eIn your defence, there is this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/02/03/blame-the-income-gap-on-demographics-not-capitalism\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.usnews.com\u0026#x2F;opinion\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;economic-intelligence\u0026#x2F;20...\u003c/a\u003e ; in which Joseph Mason, Moyse\u0026#x2F;LBA Chair of Banking at the Ourso School of Business at Louisiana State University and a senior fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that the demographics of income and wealth inequality will go away with the Baby Boomers. However, that article doesn\u0026#x27;t go into or cite any real analysis.\u003cp\u003eA contrary opinion by Phillip Longman in 2008 (at \u003ca href=\"http://newamerica.net/files/Longman-Remarks.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;newamerica.net\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;Longman-Remarks.pdf\u003c/a\u003e) actually goes into more detail on baby boomers and money: Could it really be that a typical household headed by a person in their 50s has disposable income of over $85,000 dollars? ... [Sure] enough, [the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey] shows average household income numbers for that cohort in the range of $85,000. ... The medium income numbers were much, much lower. For example, in 2006, according the Census Bureau, households headed by a person 45-54 had an average income $85,812. But the medium income of such households was some $20,000 less. The difference between average and medium works out to about 25 percent. ... Income inequality, let alone wealth inequality, in this generation is extremely high. Its average income includes the earnings of Bill Gates and countless other baby boom billionaires, plus a very large new class of McMansion-owning minor millionaires. Because of very high income inequality within the baby boom generation, medium income statistics tell us a much more accurate story than do average income stats about how the “typical” baby boomer lives.\u003cp\u003eAge could easily explain the apparent \u0026quot;wealth inequality\u0026quot;, but not so much in regards to \u0026quot;income inequality\u0026quot;. Yet \u0026quot;income inequality\u0026quot; can easily be shown to be a factor towards \u0026quot;wealth inequality\u0026quot;. According to Pew Research (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/17/wealth-gap-upper-middle-income/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pewresearch.org\u0026#x2F;fact-tank\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;wealth-gap-u...\u003c/a\u003e): The wealth gap between America’s high income group and everyone else has reached record high levels since the economic recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09, with a clear trajectory of increasing wealth for the upper-income families and no wealth growth for the middle- and lower-income families. In 2013, the median wealth of the nation’s upper-income families ($639,400) was nearly seven times the median wealth of middle-income families ($96,500) - the widest wealth gap seen in 30 years when the Federal Reserve began collecting these data.\u003cp\u003eMy suggestion: Let\u0026#x27;s stop conflating the issues of \u0026quot;wealth inequality\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;income inequality\u0026quot;. The real crux of the matter is in the \u0026quot;income inequality\u0026quot;. There\u0026#x27;s been wage stagnation for decades despite productivity gains. In America anyway, the tax code is rigged against earned income in favor of unearned income. Overall, it is better to be \u0026quot;wealthy\u0026quot; than to be \u0026quot;gainfully employed\u0026quot;.","parent":"8792152","id":"8792840"}
{"by":"1001101","time":"1489421414","timestamp":"2017-03-13 16:10:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting that the article mentions then Sen. Obama\u0026#x27;s change of heart re: the FISA Amendments Act - saying he would filibuster it and then voting for it.  I wonder what led to his change of heart. I haven\u0026#x27;t heard that explained.","parent":"13858656","id":"13859062"}
{"by":"sigil","time":"1303976448","timestamp":"2011-04-28 07:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \"sharing a certain amount of bandwidth\" idea from the article is way more difficult than it sounds.\u003cp\u003eFundamentally, anyone with access to a network segment can saturate it. Like you, I ran an open network for years (this was pre DD/Open-WRT, using pebble linux), and saw some pretty crazy stuff. Eventually I got tired of fighting to maintain a fair and usable network and just went encrypted.\u003cp\u003eHowever -- this piece and your request for pointers has inspired me to publish my bandwidth sharing and traffic shaping scripts from those days [1], in the hopes that some of the problems can be solved. I really \u003ci\u003ewould\u003c/i\u003e like to run an open network again, I just need to get things done using my internet connection from time to time. :)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/acg/wifishape\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/acg/wifishape\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I need to have a fresh look at the high bandwidth encrypted / low bandwidth unencrypted setup you mention, because sharing bandwidth across separate network segments seems like it might work.","parent":"2491739","id":"2492529"}
{"by":"Miyamoto","time":"1378571493","timestamp":"2013-09-07 16:31:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like how the sign up button appears 5 times. They should A\u0026#x2F;B test that and see if it works. \u0026#x2F;s","parent":"6345348","id":"6345511"}
{"by":"poilcn","time":"1539714381","timestamp":"2018-10-16 18:26:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It could free space for possible Google \u0026quot;rivals\u0026quot;. Russian Yandex for example has its own store for Android, plus alternatives for other Google products. But Google put a spoke into its wheels so Yandex sued them. Don\u0026#x27;t know the results though.","parent":"18231139","id":"18231860"}
{"by":"acheron","time":"1513645961","timestamp":"2017-12-19 01:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, those are advantages too.","parent":"15955938","id":"15956991"}
{"by":"ckinsey","time":"1397849449","timestamp":"2014-04-18 19:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say quite a few things.  We\u0026#x27;re focused on developers, not companies.  This is not a place to showcase a startup or court VC money; this is a place where developers can build a new type of interactive resume and leverage it to find solid jobs.","parent":"7610719","id":"7610840"}
{"by":"joecool1029","time":"1489181165","timestamp":"2017-03-10 21:26:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering that most of the exchanges have been reduced to being stuck loading, are they wrong?","parent":"13842252","id":"13842266"}
{"by":"nebula","time":"1227969865","timestamp":"2008-11-29 14:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I first saw the article on reddit, I tried to see if I could figure it out myself, by trying to imagine motion of moon and Earth. But I couldn't.\u003cp\u003eThen I went to the article and was skimming through it. Just gave up when I hit this imagine \"race track\" thing. Was too lazy at that point in time.\u003cp\u003eHowever the wikipedia picture did it in seconds. I didn't even have to read the above quote :)\nJust proves that \"a picture is worth a thousand words\"","parent":"379724","id":"380129"}
{"by":"westicle","time":"1334193942","timestamp":"2012-04-12 01:25:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A sworn affidavit is made under penalty of perjury.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affidavit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affidavit\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bit more administrative hassle, but the concept should be sound.","parent":"3829589","id":"3830537"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1522956151","timestamp":"2018-04-05 19:22:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Drunk drivers, recklessly fast drivers, redlight runners, stop sign blowers, high speed tailgaters.\u003cp\u003eWait, so you are willing to share the road with all those nutjobs, yet you\u0026#x27;re \u0026quot;staying the hell away from\u0026quot; Teslas you see which you claim are \u003ci\u003eNOT\u003c/i\u003e being driven by these people?  I think you need to reevaluate your argument.  Badly.\u003cp\u003eThat even leaves aside the clear point that a Tesla on autopilot is significantly less likely to make any of those mistakes...","parent":"16765637","id":"16768098"}
{"by":"spac","time":"1544541925","timestamp":"2018-12-11 15:25:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bloomberg News is not a newspaper. The company makes money from selling terminals not news (although the terminal contains news, but it\u0026#x27;s easy to see that sensationalism is not what the customers pay for).","parent":"18655738","id":"18655883"}
{"by":"jayzalowitz","time":"1382603285","timestamp":"2013-10-24 08:28:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But in all seriousness, php is not the bad guy here, bad coders are.","parent":"6603970","id":"6603981"}
{"by":"syllogism","time":"1419987238","timestamp":"2014-12-31 00:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another huge benefit: non-native speakers.  If all your office processes rely on verbal conversation, it\u0026#x27;s really critical that everyone speaks perfect English.  If the communication is async, that constraint can be relaxed slightly, which can give you a great pool of talent other companies are missing out on.","parent":"8816222","id":"8817749"}
{"by":"mathgladiator","time":"1312788309","timestamp":"2011-08-08 07:25:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like this. It's a shame I don't play these games anymore like I did in college.\u003cp\u003eWhile it is interesting and useful, you should market it to people that could use it. I'd look at a chess sites and chess clubs. People love to communicate and share. You could also build a site that acts as a Wiki for chess plays. That would be pretty cool actually.","parent":"2858835","id":"2859145"}
{"by":"EdiX","time":"1321949409","timestamp":"2011-11-22 08:10:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; * You only need one binary to work with TeX. Either PDFTeX or LuaTeX. All other binaries are just glue code (for example to generate missing Metafont fonts, but who wants them these days anyway?\u003cp\u003eA lot of TeX uses Computer Modern to typeset the body (a metafont font) and I don't think I have ever see a TeX document that doesn't use Computer Modern or Euler (another metafont font) for equation typesetting.\u003cp\u003eI also wonder whether it's possible to achieve the excellent equation typesetting capabilities of TeX without metafont.","parent":"3264502","id":"3264621"}
{"by":"zhubz","time":"1381358645","timestamp":"2013-10-09 22:44:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, i don\u0026#x27;t think so too.","parent":"6524385","dead":true,"id":"6524418"}
{"by":"CWuestefeld","time":"1259014129","timestamp":"2009-11-23 22:08:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe. But they've had the opportunity for years to explain their methodology to the world. Yet they \u003ci\u003erefused\u003c/i\u003e to release the details of what they were doing, taking this attitude (as quoted from one of the alleged emails):\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe should be able to  conduct our scientific research without constant fear of an \"audit\" by Steven McIntyre;  without having to weigh every word we write in every email we send to our scientific colleagues. ... I  am unwilling to submit to this McCarthy-style investigation of my scientific research... I will continue to refuse such data requests in the future. Nor will I provide  McIntyre with computer programs, email correspondence, etc. I feel very strongly about  these issues. We should not be coerced by the scientific equivalent of a playground bully.  I will be consulting LLNL's Legal Affairs Office in order to determine how the DOE and LLNL should respond to any FOI requests that we receive from McIntyre.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey shouldn't be surprised now to find that they're being tarred.\u003cp\u003eOf course, that doesn't help us extract the truth of the situation. But it's a pretty clear object lesson to other scientists.","parent":"957769","id":"958246"}
{"by":"adventured","time":"1392656481","timestamp":"2014-02-17 17:01:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve had a really great experience with the WD Elements line. It seems like WD is phasing them out in favor of the Passport slim \u0026#x2F; ultra line though. And before moving to the Elements product, I had purchased numerous of their my book line without any failures across several years and being on 24\u0026#x2F;7.","parent":"7252872","id":"7252958"}
{"by":"WalterSear","time":"1545621784","timestamp":"2018-12-24 03:23:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps the parent commenter is 50.","parent":"18746483","id":"18750069"}
{"by":"DRMacIver","time":"1458223112","timestamp":"2016-03-17 13:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"About a third of them aren\u0026#x27;t from any episode, including that one.","parent":"11304330","id":"11304341"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1210094008","timestamp":"2008-05-06 17:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We do large amounts of consulting, and I just had the experience of contracting out the look-and-feel of the Rails UI for our product to one designer and our print collateral to another, so I feel like I've been on both sides of this.\u003cp\u003eYou should know that the \"I think we should talk, what's your budget\" answer is pretty unfriendly, even though it makes business sense. When your prospect is reaching out to 5 different firms for a competitive bid, it's really annoying for them to have to convince you to cough up your rate.","parent":"182547","id":"182610"}
{"by":"nandhp","time":"1463688900","timestamp":"2016-05-19 20:15:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are also commit bots for other contribution graph hacks:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;gelstudios\u0026#x2F;gitfiti\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;gelstudios\u0026#x2F;gitfiti\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11733206","id":"11733412"}
{"by":"perfmode","time":"1513917333","timestamp":"2017-12-22 04:35:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider how much of the pay of well-paid big Corp talent goes to real estate rentiers in the Bay Area.\u003cp\u003e30% of base?\u003cp\u003eThat’s almost greater than the US gov’t’s cut.","parent":"15985250","id":"15985302"}
{"by":"stingraycharles","time":"1530428007","timestamp":"2018-07-01 06:53:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, both are theories but should not be presented as facts.","parent":"17434454","id":"17434460"}
{"by":"kettlecorn","time":"1546222771","timestamp":"2018-12-31 02:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems to me that it should mostly be software engineers designing the software engineering interview process.","parent":"18791484","id":"18792627"}
{"by":"mathattack","time":"1375810539","timestamp":"2013-08-06 17:35:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair enough.  I think my bias showed.  :-)\u003cp\u003eSo a question in return...  Do you share my belief that documentation tends to lag in most projects?  And if so, is the bottleneck not enough documentation writers, or not enough engineering time and attention?  I\u0026#x27;ve assumed it\u0026#x27;s the latter, though it could be the former.  Or is it something else?","parent":"6166911","id":"6167938"}
{"by":"echu_marbdan","time":"1433768462","timestamp":"2015-06-08 13:01:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think naming names was a mistake; rather, I think the names demonstrate that your thesis doesn\u0026#x27;t have anything to do with \u0026quot;Beating the Averages\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI mean, by your definition, Flub is literally every new language, modulo a few that are too domain-specific.  Hell, Flub need not even be a powerful language, just a language with crackpot users.\u003cp\u003eSo, rather than about being any averages, it appears to me that your point is just to not-so-subtly poke at anyone who thinks any language is better than the status quo (if so, then why hasn\u0026#x27;t it made an impact?!).\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t see that as being a difficult question in general; there are many real-world problems, such as technological inertia and corporate culture, that already skew the chances of any new language.\u003cp\u003eHowever, in this case, where you\u0026#x27;ve broadly directed this question at, well, everyone, I\u0026#x27;m not sure if an answer would do you any good.  What is true for Haskell may not be true for Rust (which is way too new to have made a big impact), which may not be true for any given crackpot language, which, to avoid offending anyone, I\u0026#x27;ll call Crud.\u003cp\u003eAside from ruffling feathers, was there any point to this?","parent":"9678447","id":"9678679"}
{"by":"socceroos","time":"1514085776","timestamp":"2017-12-24 03:22:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...the more they diverge? \u0026#x2F;s\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s been interesting to see the wrap-around. It happened more quickly than I thought it would.\u003cp\u003eThe one lesson that never seems to stick is \u0026quot;use the right tools for the job at hand\u0026quot;.","parent":"15993931","id":"15997718"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1484685598","timestamp":"2017-01-17 20:39:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hardly makes the Times unique though; how many businesses \u003ci\u003edon\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e operate that way now?","parent":"13420853","id":"13420975"}
{"by":"guelo","time":"1505343445","timestamp":"2017-09-13 22:57:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would the left-wing not want to improve a poorly run program?","parent":"15243365","id":"15243520"}
{"by":"jorangreef","time":"1543581328","timestamp":"2018-11-30 12:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, but it\u0026#x27;s Google\u0026#x27;s love of software patents that is spilling over into everything else, like popup books.","parent":"18568194","id":"18568620"}
{"by":"modernerd","time":"1343289096","timestamp":"2012-07-26 07:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Twice?","parent":"4293862","id":"4294929"}
{"by":"stretchwithme","time":"1270385380","timestamp":"2010-04-04 12:49:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did if you check my first comment.","parent":"1238970","id":"1240087"}
{"by":"mkramlich","time":"1336529753","timestamp":"2012-05-09 02:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This story just adds another data point to my growing belief that I want to minimize or ideally eliminate any further signing of contracts, forms, applications or other legal paperwork. \u003ci\u003e\"The big print giveth but the fine print taketh away.\"\u003c/i\u003e Every document you sign has the potential to become a minefield to be exploited by lawyers or unscrupulous types. Minimize your exposure to that as much as possible.","parent":"3946008","id":"3946793"}
{"by":"Gracana","time":"1485291158","timestamp":"2017-01-24 20:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ohhhhhh. I saw Dr Strange in 2D and thought the rippling building effects and hurling of bodies and such was kind of goofy. Didn\u0026#x27;t think of 3D at the time, but now it makes sense.","parent":"13473359","id":"13475340"}
{"by":"untilHellbanned","time":"1375328668","timestamp":"2013-08-01 03:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"my money is on Elon Musk","parent":"6137126","id":"6138514"}
{"by":"smallnamespace","time":"1482220603","timestamp":"2016-12-20 07:56:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is that an important distinction here? Both direct subsidies and tax credits\u0026#x2F;rebates\u0026#x2F;write-offs have the same net effect on the government\u0026#x27;s coffers.\u003cp\u003eThe Wikipedia article cites another article that has the breakdown (over a period of years):\u003cp\u003e1. Foreign tax credit ($15.3 billion)\u003cp\u003e2. Credit for production of non-conventional fuels ($14.1 billion)\u003cp\u003e3. Oil and Gas exploration and development expensing ($7.1 billion)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eli.org\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;default\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;eli-pubs\u0026#x2F;d19_07.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eli.org\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;default\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;eli-pubs\u0026#x2F;d19_07.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13218187","id":"13218215"}
{"by":"betterunix","time":"1356546512","timestamp":"2012-12-26 18:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"C/C++ are the building blocks for all these other languages\"\u003cp\u003eNot necessarily.  The SPARK compiler was originally written in Ada.  Python is moving towards a bootstrapped model with PyPy.  Lisp compilers have been written in Lisp.  There was a Perl 6 interpreter written in Haskell.  The HaXe compiler is written in OCaml:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaXe#Compiler_implementation_and_performance\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaXe#Compiler_implementation_a...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"your argument seems to suggest that it's impossible to write critical systems in these languages\"\u003cp\u003eObviously it is not impossible, given how many such systems are out there.  It is just scary.\u003cp\u003e\"what would the alternative be?\"\u003cp\u003eWell, these guys may be on to something:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altran_Praxis\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altran_Praxis\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Surely if this is the case we can't use Linux as it's written in C\"\u003cp\u003eWould you trust your life to the Linux kernel?  Would you be comfortable with that?  I still see the occasional kernel panic; how would you like a kernel panic that sent your car swerving into a tree?\u003cp\u003e\"we can't use Java because it's C++ based...\"\u003cp\u003e...or we bootstrap our compilers and programming systems, and let C++ fade away (as it should).  What stops us now is the volume of code, but we could go a long way by just not writing more C++ code, so that the problem does not continue to expand.","parent":"4970083","id":"4970251"}
{"by":"nitwit005","time":"1509659044","timestamp":"2017-11-02 21:44:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Companies like that often just buy up a stock of the hardware they need and stuff it in a warehouse, at least when it\u0026#x27;s in danger of being discontinued. They don\u0026#x27;t need to maintain the source code at all. They just need to be able to keep installing the binary.","parent":"15612426","id":"15614559"}
{"by":"mjolk","time":"1389279298","timestamp":"2014-01-09 14:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the European developers that _I_ know are using apple hardware.  Anecdotes are fun!","parent":"7030626","id":"7030751"}
{"by":"thesteamboat","time":"1416256145","timestamp":"2014-11-17 20:29:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since probability is between 0 and 1, more likely is that the odds of a leak scale exponentially.","parent":"8619761","id":"8620321"}
{"by":"jdpedrie","time":"1484671619","timestamp":"2017-01-17 16:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love to see that rail happen. Nowhere near Texas, but it would be cool. That said, Texas isn\u0026#x27;t really representative of the rest of the country.","parent":"13412415","id":"13418965"}
{"by":"auxbuss","time":"1346658993","timestamp":"2012-09-03 07:56:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The story was also reported yesterday, with more detail, in the Sunday Times (\u003ca href=\"http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/\u003c/a\u003e), which sits, ironically, behind a paywall. (I have the dead tree version here, which I guess I could photograph and upload.)","parent":"4468289","id":"4469515"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1353015137","timestamp":"2012-11-15 21:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can just ask it, \"What can I say?\" or similar and it will come up with a big list. Although I don't know how you can discover \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e feature... bit of a chicken-and-egg there.","parent":"4790850","id":"4790862"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1368992370","timestamp":"2013-05-19 19:39:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's nothing wrong with horse meat.","parent":"5733730","id":"5734128"}
{"by":"ReverseCold","time":"1539125446","timestamp":"2018-10-09 22:50:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it\u003cp\u003eSounds fast to me if you know how. Just write the article (markdown + pandoc is fast) and...\u003cp\u003eWith Zeit you can just type `now` and `now alias (url) mydomain.xyz` - and the website is up and running at your domain for $domain_price + 0.10USD\u0026#x2F;GB.\u003cp\u003eWith DigitalOcean\u0026#x2F;Vultr\u0026#x2F;Some VPS Provider + Ansible you can do something similar.","parent":"18180324","id":"18180499"}
{"by":"seanplaice","time":"1459446842","timestamp":"2016-03-31 17:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No shift in focus, we have always supported more than restaurants. Our goal is to make everything in your city available on-demand. You are correct though, food has been a huge catalyst for our early growth.","parent":"11399010","id":"11399112"}
{"by":"aaavl2821","time":"1519328898","timestamp":"2018-02-22 19:48:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"im also a non-programmer who has been learning programming and building websites.  ive spent just over a year learning programming part time, and even with uber basic knowledge you can build useful stuff\u003cp\u003ei did CS50 on edx (harvard\u0026#x27;s intro CS program) which starts with programming basics (in C language) then jumps into web dev with python and javascript.  you build 2 or 3 basic web apps as part of the class.  after the class you have the tools to really go off and running and make some \u0026quot;real\u0026quot;, though basic, web apps.  it is a lot of work but a really well taught course with useful and challenging problem sets.  i really enjoyed the lectures and problem sets and spent time on them that i otherwise could have spent having fun, just bc i liked them\u003cp\u003ein parallel i also did a codeacademy tutorial on html \u0026#x2F; css and built some basic static websites for friends.  html \u0026#x2F; css isnt really programming but you can make and deploy basic static websites that are actually useful, and it gives you some experience hosting \u0026#x2F; deploying stuff on the web\u003cp\u003ejust based on these 2 resources im working on building a moderately complex (for a beginner) web app that hopefully will be open for testing this month, am adding a vue front end to my blog as my first experiment with a modern JS framework.\u003cp\u003ethe next steps for me are 1) learning about deploying and maintaining small web apps (ive just deployed static sites \u0026#x2F; JS to date) on heroku or aws or something, really dont know whats best, 2) basics of security (sql injection, xss, xsrf etc) and then ill be comfortable getting users on my app\u003cp\u003elearning about programming has been a lot of fun and led to some interesting side projects","parent":"16438615","id":"16440780"}
{"by":"e40","time":"1361978892","timestamp":"2013-02-27 15:28:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is called \"negotiation\".  It's unclear if the cable provides would have actually slit their own throats.  There are a LOT of cable subscribers that wouldn't have the means to use HBO Go, and they would be pissed off.","parent":"5292710","id":"5292784"}
{"by":"forgotpwtomain","time":"1445662752","timestamp":"2015-10-24 04:59:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Throughout most of history, the causation was reversed. Technology drove science much more than vice versa.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re just making a blanket statement with out providing a detailed supporting narative.\u003cp\u003eFor example: you mention agricultural production - What is the comparative improvement achieved in 3000 years of say Human agrarian trial and error vs. what was made possible by Gregor Mandel (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gregor_Mendel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Gregor_Mendel\u003c/a\u003e) and Modern genetics in the 20th century?","parent":"10442182","id":"10442494"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1405783307","timestamp":"2014-07-19 15:21:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s something strange about adding meta noise to a post you believe is meta noise.","parent":"8057622","id":"8057695"}
{"by":"geerlingguy","time":"1540086644","timestamp":"2018-10-21 01:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And in most areas, way more than a mile, especially with 97+% efficient appliances.","parent":"18266350","id":"18266403"}
{"by":"aperrien","time":"1494959274","timestamp":"2017-05-16 18:27:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d guess that it would be close to the size of the adjacency matrix for the human brain, if it is given that the brain has ~1000 dendrites per neuron.","parent":"14351194","id":"14352038"}
{"by":"contextfree","time":"1304481860","timestamp":"2011-05-04 04:04:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the syntactic level SQL is just a poorly designed  language. LINQ query expressions actually do a better job of expressing the semantics of the SQL-like set/collection operations, in a compositional manner. It's definitely true though that SQL databases currently have a lot of capabilities (like, errmm, DML) that at least the Microsoft ORMs don't support other than by dropping down to SQL. I don't think this is a problem with the LINQ IQueryable paradigm, though, but just a problem with the Microsoft ORMs being incomplete.\u003cp\u003eI don't have much experience with ORMs or mapping frameworks other than LINQ-based ones, but it seems like it would be pretty difficult to typecheck queries expressed as SQL strings, at least dynamic ones, at compile time. Do the frameworks you mention typecheck the actual query itself at compile time, or do they just check at runtime that the data returned from the query matches what you want?","parent":"2512247","id":"2512759"}
{"by":"makkesk8","time":"1518733842","timestamp":"2018-02-15 22:30:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great UI! Finally a competitor to altpocket :)","parent":"16386419","id":"16388364"}
{"by":"rajacombinator","time":"1448510345","timestamp":"2015-11-26 03:59:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bring on the promo codes. :)","parent":"10627154","id":"10631186"}
{"by":"flukus","time":"1474437161","timestamp":"2016-09-21 05:52:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always think they\u0026#x27;re assholes, annoying me with their boring conversations.\u003cp\u003eAt least put the speakerphone on so we can hear both sides of the conversation.","parent":"12545711","id":"12545737"}
{"by":"rovr138","time":"1481483452","timestamp":"2016-12-11 19:10:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Man pages in the terminal are pretty annoying as you can\u0026#x27;t (easily) search them.\u003cp\u003eThe content? Type \u0026#x2F; then your search term.","parent":"13150791","id":"13152577"}
{"by":"nitrogen","time":"1434509250","timestamp":"2015-06-17 02:47:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d be happy with a reliable way of repurposing old phones.  There\u0026#x27;s a ton of CPU and GPU power just being thrown away every time we upgrade our phones.","parent":"9728375","id":"9729838"}
{"by":"Izkata","time":"1544828261","timestamp":"2018-12-14 22:57:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To quote:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; When you tear out a man\u0026#x27;s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you\u0026#x27;re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.\u003cp\u003eThe best way to deal with them is not to turn them into a figurative martyr and make people wonder what you\u0026#x27;re trying to hide, but to convince others their ideology is stupid by putting it on display and publicly rebutting it.  You may even convince them to change their ways, rather than just build up the anger and resentment.","parent":"18684278","id":"18685671"}
{"by":"davchana","time":"1535311439","timestamp":"2018-08-26 19:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"UIDAI keeps switching the stance almost every week: it is secret; it is not; it is kind of; repeat.","parent":"17847075","id":"17847405"}
{"by":"netsp","time":"1247050801","timestamp":"2009-07-08 11:00:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The protection against that should be consumer choice.","parent":"693595","id":"693672"}
{"by":"vvanders","time":"1467417663","timestamp":"2016-07-02 00:01:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously but you need to TX\u0026#x2F;RX on some sort of frequency otherwise it\u0026#x27;s not really a radio :).\u003cp\u003eI was just wondering if there\u0026#x27;s spectrum allocated for experimentation or if you\u0026#x27;d be stepping on FCC rules by putting this into practice.","parent":"12020176","id":"12020597"}
{"by":"colemickens","time":"1481944208","timestamp":"2016-12-17 03:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The same way you solve this anyway, or the same answer you should hear when people say \u0026quot;how do you handle security with Docker\u0026quot;: Continuous Integration.","parent":"13197883","id":"13198965"}
{"by":"mynewtb","time":"1468579390","timestamp":"2016-07-15 10:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flag and hide is the way to go.","parent":"12100006","id":"12100022"}
{"by":"neumann_alfred","time":"1356875854","timestamp":"2012-12-30 13:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there is also this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/greggman/html5bytebeat\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/greggman/html5bytebeat\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003echeck out this example first! \u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/lQyDd\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://goo.gl/lQyDd\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4984944","id":"4985697"}
{"by":"cinquemb","time":"1369281724","timestamp":"2013-05-23 04:02:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possibly, but maybe it would be cheaper for them to pay for the service from google or whomever (depending on how frequent their network is overly congested) and not have to worry about having special staff on hand to manage something themselves (maybe even the not having to worry about it is enough to shell out cash in itself).","parent":"5755259","id":"5755287"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1401212677","timestamp":"2014-05-27 17:44:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"30-40k. U.S. Major Metro Area. In their late 30s, early 40s. Getting on to 20 years of work experience.","parent":"7805669","id":"7805741"}
{"by":"fl0wenol","time":"1427909993","timestamp":"2015-04-01 17:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A better argument for per-user, randomly-chosen-at-password-change-time salts is so that you can\u0026#x27;t determine that two users (currently or historically from a password history) are using the same password by comparing the hashes.\u003cp\u003eIf you knew that a hash was used many times over in a system, then you\u0026#x27;d try cracking that password first to get access to the most accounts.\u003cp\u003eWith salting you don\u0026#x27;t get to prioritize, or compare to previous information trivially.","parent":"9304993","id":"9305350"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1402343294","timestamp":"2014-06-09 19:48:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LegalZoom is perfectly adequate for incorporating, particularly if you\u0026#x27;re doing it solo and don\u0026#x27;t need to worry about e.g. equity or vesting between multiple partners.\u003cp\u003eWith regards to getting an MSA drafted: many consultants just use one from NoLo or similar.  Your larger clients who most care about the details will simply refuse to use yours and counterpropose using their standard paper.  You will say that you\u0026#x27;ll accept their standard paper pending legal review and pay a lawyer a few hundred bucks per incident.  Your lawyer will, ideally, prevent you from agreeing to any term that \u0026quot;gives away the store\u0026quot;, like e.g. an IP assignment or non-compete which would prevent you from ever doing anything in a related field again.","parent":"7870052","id":"7870106"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1470867168","timestamp":"2016-08-10 22:12:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, I don\u0026#x27;t follow. Are you talking about key generation in ECC systems? There\u0026#x27;s no prime involved there.","parent":"12265032","id":"12265093"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1454851862","timestamp":"2016-02-07 13:31:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not just that, but there\u0026#x27;s a lot of optimizations that would be nice, but we haven\u0026#x27;t implemented yet. (Though some of these will end up being more to help with compile times than runtime performance, though)","parent":"11052705","id":"11052762"}
{"by":"closed","time":"1461080343","timestamp":"2016-04-19 15:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t used xtables or stargazer in a while, but ipython + pandas can display tables as html.\u003cp\u003eHere is an interesting ipython notebook with some examples:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nbviewer.jupyter.org\u0026#x2F;gist\u0026#x2F;chris1610\u0026#x2F;f2f4a2e9181f6ec22e88\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nbviewer.jupyter.org\u0026#x2F;gist\u0026#x2F;chris1610\u0026#x2F;f2f4a2e9181f6ec22...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11527531","id":"11527710"}
{"by":"mistermann","time":"1525565137","timestamp":"2018-05-06 00:05:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They went from a 3rd world country to 2nd largest economy in \u0026lt; 20 years, their country is full of brand new wealth from skyscrapers to luxury cars to designer goods, and that wealth is also spilling over very flagrantly into numerous other countries, in some cases substantially distorting real estate markets.\u003cp\u003eAnd the one reads articles that open with \u0026quot;Looking back, there were two kinds of people who lived in America in 2016: people who believed Donald Trump, and people who believed data.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAs if:\u003cp\u003ea) Non-trump supporters read data\u003cp\u003eb) Jobs disappearing due to automation could enable China to achieve its amazing transformation\u003cp\u003eI can appreciate how leftists can laugh at stereotypical Trump supporters, they can be rather dumb after all, but can\u0026#x27;t wrap my head around how \u0026quot;Liberals\u0026quot; take themselves seriously, at least those who buy into the mainstream corporatist neo-liberal flavor of it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Between 2000 and 2010, manufacturing employment plummeted by more than a third. Nearly 6 million American factory workers lost their jobs. The drop was unprecedented—worse than any decade in US manufacturing history. Even during the Great Depression, factory jobs shrunk by only 31%, according to a Information Technology \u0026amp; Innovation Foundation report. Though the sector recovered slightly since then, America’s manufacturing workforce is still more than 26% smaller than it was in 2000.\u003cp\u003ePrecisely as Ross Perot told us would happen.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ross_Perot\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ross_Perot\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBased on his performance in the popular vote in 1992, Perot was entitled to receive federal election funding for 1996. Perot remained in the public eye after the election and championed opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), urging voters to listen for the \u0026quot;giant sucking sound\u0026quot; of American jobs heading south to Mexico should NAFTA be ratified.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo those of you who may have the urge to claim Perot wasn\u0026#x27;t entirely right, China didn\u0026#x27;t join the WTO until 2001.","parent":"17003442","id":"17004589"}
{"by":"ipsum2","time":"1460401451","timestamp":"2016-04-11 19:04:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Candidates should be able to pass or nearly pass normal dev hiring bar, and may have some additional skills that are rare among devs (e.g., L1 - L3 networking or UNIX system internals).\u003cp\u003eThey hire devs with ops experience.","parent":"11474172","id":"11474234"}
{"by":"rohit2412","time":"1513136220","timestamp":"2017-12-13 03:37:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clearly a \u0026quot;first-worlder\u0026quot; view. People in (most) oppressive regimes are not looking to move off their currencies, and nobody is looking for a decentralized solution for banking. M-pesa, Vodafone money, mobile wallets work great for people. There\u0026#x27;s no reason for costly decentralization that Bitcoin offers.\u003cp\u003eMaybe a case could be made for Venezuela where bolivars are useless, but USD is a far better candidate for their currency needs that Bitcoin, given how volatile Bitcoin is.","parent":"15908053","id":"15911826"}
{"by":"ihsw","time":"1370744062","timestamp":"2013-06-09 02:14:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The simplest and most direct springboard would be \u0026quot;There is no taxation without representation\u0026quot; however that is a whole different (and more volatile) debate.\u003cp\u003eThe UN Human Rights Council[1] would probably be the highest authority to appeal to, considering they have enshrined many rights as natural human rights that are inviolable and universally applicable -- for example freedom of association and assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of belief, Women\u0026#x27;s rights, and so forth. Many nations don\u0026#x27;t recognize these rights (and quite a few don\u0026#x27;t recognize the UN\u0026#x27;s authority) and the UN\u0026#x27;s ability to enforce respect of these rights is quite non-existent, but it\u0026#x27;s a good place to start.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;United_Nations_Human_Rights_Cou...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5847177","id":"5847213"}
{"by":"dsmithn","time":"1351571357","timestamp":"2012-10-30 04:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to see sources for the candidate's opinions. For example, I don't think Romney denies that global warming is real. \u003ca href=\"http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/romney-admits-global-warming-is-real/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/romney-admits-global-war...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4715828","id":"4716067"}
{"by":"asnyder","time":"1282637537","timestamp":"2010-08-24 08:12:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're basing your assumptions on a broken premise. You're clearly not browsing normally, but rather are crippling your browser in some way, after which you decide to bash whatever you can, without clearly identifying your methods.\u003cp\u003eAs I mentioned earlier it's at the developer's discretion as to whether they want to enable JS degradation or not. Sometimes when an application is sufficiently complex a developer may choose not to, or not have certain actions map to links.\u003cp\u003eYou shouldn't base your assumptions on one implementation, but rather, read what the technology claims to do and then try it so you can actually see, rather than just slash and burn.\u003cp\u003eIt's people like you that really make me wonder whether we should even continue down the standards based route, or continue to support text-based browsers, as mentioned in our latest blog posts \u003ca href=\"http://dev.noloh.com/#/blog/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dev.noloh.com/#/blog/\u003c/a\u003e, or \u003ca href=\"http://dev.noloh.com/?/blog/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dev.noloh.com/?/blog/\u003c/a\u003e for you. Not a single client or user has ever asked for such features, but we always get complaints from the die-hards. So we work and implement it, to what effect? Next you'll complain that some app that uses NOLOH doesn't do XYZ. There's nothing we can do about that, we can't force users to upgrade, or implement a feature, we can only offer it.\u003cp\u003eClearly it doesn't matter what we do, or how compatible we try to be, you won't care, won't listen, and won't actually try it.","parent":"1629233","id":"1629266"}
{"by":"pipio21","time":"1484434672","timestamp":"2017-01-14 22:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;nearly-all-of-silicon-valleys-political-dollars-are-going-to-hillary-clinton\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;nearly-all-of-silicon-v...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;silicon-valley-donors-favor-hillary-clinton-over-trump-2016-11\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;silicon-valley-donors-favor-h...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is what Paul Graham and Sam Altman had donated to:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.dcpos.ch\u0026#x2F;silicon-valley-political-contributions\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.dcpos.ch\u0026#x2F;silicon-valley-political-contributions\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13400672","id":"13401108"}
{"by":"daviross","time":"1412553188","timestamp":"2014-10-05 23:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting how the ideas displayed here for the most part avoid what I\u0026#x27;ve seen many geek-identity marketing pushes do, i.e. treating it as predominantly an identity built around consumption (Which shows do you watch and collect memorabilia about, what IP do you catalog and spend money on, which conventions do you throw money at for signed items, etc)\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know that each of these are for everybody, but then again, that\u0026#x27;s (at least, in my opinion) not the point here. The waveform rings, for example, are \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e personal. I like it.","parent":"8413766","id":"8413810"}
{"by":"mc_hammer","time":"1424101310","timestamp":"2015-02-16 15:41:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"no","parent":"9057296","id":"9057337"}
{"by":"uptown","time":"1383222453","timestamp":"2013-10-31 12:27:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me a little of this, though this uses a constant fan rather than a pulsing schedule of cooling jolts.  I\u0026#x27;ve used one before, and it works surprisingly well for such a low-tech contraption.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/CoolWare-Personal-Cooling-System/100849\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sharperimage.com\u0026#x2F;si\u0026#x2F;view\u0026#x2F;product\u0026#x2F;CoolWare-Persona...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6646074","id":"6646363"}
{"by":"BearGoesChirp","time":"1508534525","timestamp":"2017-10-20 21:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the Supreme Court interprets the Second Amendment to apply to the upper appendages we call arms, that is a factual error, not just a different interpretation.  It is possible for an interpretation, given the evidence, to be factually wrong in as much as anything can be factually wrong.","parent":"15518519","id":"15519193"}
{"by":"cryoshon","time":"1539288039","timestamp":"2018-10-11 20:00:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"no more of an over-simplification than kissinger\u0026#x27;s concept of realism, to be blunt.\u003cp\u003ecountries routinely do things that are contrary to the interest of maximizing their net power, and claiming \u0026quot;but it\u0026#x27;s anarchy out there!\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t very accurate.","parent":"18195918","id":"18196597"}
{"by":"mfjordvald","time":"1541679729","timestamp":"2018-11-08 12:22:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not abuse of employees, this is abuse of customers.","parent":"18405708","id":"18405758"}
{"by":"tmaly","time":"1493726508","timestamp":"2017-05-02 12:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am trying, its just a side project at this point.","parent":"14244493","id":"14245638"}
{"by":"willyt","time":"1348904196","timestamp":"2012-09-29 07:36:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I live in a remote rural area in the UK, I just tried it again and the routing and postcode information that was wrong the day it came out is now corrected. Google maps had the same problems 2-3 years ago. I remember because they once directed me the wrong way and I missed a ferry.\u003cp\u003eAs for business listings, its not like this is a solved problem. Everyone knows that google maps is not perfect for that. It's not as bad as apple maps but it's wrong enough of the time that I don't trust it, every now and then I forget it doesn't work and find myself standing outside a delivery bay, late for an appointment... I suspect most people google for a store/company/whatever, check the website to see if it offers what they want then copy paste the zip/postcode from the contact page into the maps app to get them close enough.\u003cp\u003eApple's biggest problem is that they botched the PR, even if they fix the zip/postcode data quickly, no one will believe its fixed for a long time now.","parent":"4586501","id":"4589047"}
{"by":"claytonjy","time":"1534181238","timestamp":"2018-08-13 17:27:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this class\u0026#x2F;site is mentioned on every relevant HN for very good reason: it\u0026#x27;s actually that good.\u003cp\u003eI dislike learning from video (upping playback speed helps), I dislike the coding style of the library and the notebooks (nonlinear notebook execution especially), and I still think this is the best available class on anything deep-learning related, and it\u0026#x27;s only getting better. The top-down, practice-before-theory approach is excellent, but they still get into the theory, often in a much more intuitive and better motivated way than you get elsewhere. Also tons of little breadcrumbs dropped throughout lessons and in the forum to dig deeper for those inclined to.\u003cp\u003eIf you go this route, make sure to follow the suggestion of re-implementing each lesson, from scratch, without referring back to the original notebook. It\u0026#x27;s a little too easy to not do that and miss out on the lessons you learn from struggling through the actual code.","parent":"17751559","id":"17751799"}
{"by":"wyatt","time":"1232556677","timestamp":"2009-01-21 16:51:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can everyone trying to check do so on this comment? It would be much appreciated :)","parent":"443229","id":"443429"}
{"by":"slantyyz","time":"1287774446","timestamp":"2010-10-22 19:07:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if not required by law, I'm sure you'll be subject to more scrutiny by any taxation agency if you don't serialize your invoice numbers.\u003cp\u003eAs far as they're concerned, you're throwing away invoices to pocket additional income.","parent":"1819133","id":"1821018"}
{"by":"tinfoilhat","time":"1342596255","timestamp":"2012-07-18 07:24:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"first, make yourself familiar with WebRTC. it will require server side signaling. demo by google: \u003ca href=\"http://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos#TOC-Demos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos#TOC-Demos\u003c/a\u003e\nsending srtp session keys over that signaling server sounds interesting","parent":"4255145","id":"4259759"}
{"by":"quanticle","time":"1321229006","timestamp":"2011-11-14 00:03:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whether organic food is scalable or not depends entirely on what kind of food is being grown and what sort of land it is being grown on.  If you read \u003ci\u003eSeeing Like a State\u003c/i\u003e, you'll note that \"modern\" Western farming techniques actually produce worse yields than traditional \"organic\" farming techniques. Lots of soils simply can't sustain the extremely intensive monocropping that the western farming tradition requires.\u003cp\u003eIf we want to really have a second green revolution, we're going to have to start looking at organic farming techniques to make marginal lands agriculturally viable.","parent":"3231253","id":"3232205"}
{"by":"mburst","time":"1477414379","timestamp":"2016-10-25 16:52:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are several breaking changes which makes it a good use case for the major version upgrade. Also the odd major numbers for node aren\u0026#x27;t LTS versions so I imagine they\u0026#x27;ll be adding a ton more features before releasing v8 LTS.","parent":"12789154","id":"12789496"}
{"by":"thaumaturgy","time":"1349504280","timestamp":"2012-10-06 06:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think prefork/mod_php is still the default setup, and it's a really good one to get away from right away if you plan on handling any serious traffic.\u003cp\u003eUsing nginx/php-fpm is \u003ci\u003egreat\u003c/i\u003e, so long as you don't need support for Apache-style .htaccess files. Since I'm adminning a shared hosting environment, I can't give up support for .htaccess files; if you intend to only host your own site, and your site doesn't need that, then by all means please use nginx \u0026#38; php-fpm, you'll save yourself a lot of headaches.\u003cp\u003eSetting up an nginx proxy seems like kind of a cheat in a discussion about tuning Apache -- \"how to tune Apache: 1. don't tune Apache, set up nginx proxies instead...\" -- but suffice it to say that setting up proxying nginx servers is on my to-do list.\u003cp\u003eI have not yet though had a traffic-related site outage (see also \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619906\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619906\u003c/a\u003e), so it's not as high on my list as things like \"recurring payments system\". :-)","parent":"4619937","id":"4619948"}
{"by":"stale2002","time":"1462157904","timestamp":"2016-05-02 02:58:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you think these capitalistic monopolies enforce their monopolies?\u003cp\u003eThey do it through the government by creating arbitrary regulations and barriers to entry.\u003cp\u003eWe are already living in a world where the housing monopolies are enforcing their will on the population.\u003cp\u003eGetting rid of these regulations, and allowing people to build so many houses that the market price gets driven into the ground, is how we take the market back for the people.","parent":"11608910","id":"11608977"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1257958007","timestamp":"2009-11-11 16:46:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was way ahead of its time (read the wikipedia article), with a nicer language than PHP.\u003cp\u003eI never actually used it much (I was busy working on Apache Rivet), but it was a nice bit of technology.","parent":"935484","id":"935521"}
{"by":"aidenn0","time":"1460047096","timestamp":"2016-04-07 16:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do not understand your reply; Lorem ipsum text is tangentially related to Cicero, but he\u0026#x27;s Roman, not Greek.","parent":"11432923","id":"11448619"}
{"by":"loschorts","time":"1327953453","timestamp":"2012-01-30 19:57:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, actually you can try our implementation at \u003ca href=\"http://iDoneThis.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://iDoneThis.com\u003c/a\u003e (author of the post here).  We have a team thing we're rolling out and this post was in part to gauge interest.","parent":"3530343","id":"3530383"}
{"by":"spookthesunset","time":"1522039238","timestamp":"2018-03-26 04:40:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe don\u0026#x27;t use them then?","parent":"16674125","id":"16676655"}
{"by":"gue5t","time":"1478121810","timestamp":"2016-11-02 21:23:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do they justify calling it \u0026quot;fully open\u0026quot; when it uses libHybris to support binary blobs for Android just to get graphics and other essentials working?","parent":"12858326","id":"12859423"}
{"by":"swatow","time":"1424636373","timestamp":"2015-02-22 20:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with comments like yours is that you\u0026#x27;ve chosen to shame the top level posters instead of replying to a single one of them.  Shaming works well to enforce uniform beliefs in a tight knit social circle, such as you may have enjoyed in SF before the tech influx.  It doesn\u0026#x27;t work so well online.","parent":"9090553","id":"9090880"}
{"by":"philmcc","time":"1398299079","timestamp":"2014-04-24 00:24:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As stated elsewhere, it allows small investors to buy in -- and the stock advance of their AppleTV release it could mean that they are expecting a ton of attention from the lay investor.\u003cp\u003eThe dates are significant: The split happens the evening of WWDC launch.","parent":"7637594","id":"7637837"}
{"by":"antoineMoPa","time":"1474401825","timestamp":"2016-09-20 20:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pro tip: The image is in the pdf when you click \u0026quot;Images\u0026quot; at the top.\u003cp\u003eYou can then confirm that the bag has nothing special.","parent":"12542058","id":"12542860"}
{"by":"clubm8","time":"1545545784","timestamp":"2018-12-23 06:16:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another perspectivemight be that selling a small amount of shares gives the founders the financial stability to weather any storms. Let\u0026#x27;s say they sell 2 mil worth. Small in the grand scheme of things, but invested wisely can cover food, modest rent in an apartment etc for life assuming they do odd jobs.\u003cp\u003eThen again I come from a working class background, so I may have a different perspective.","parent":"18741318","id":"18744738"}
{"by":"matt4077","time":"1426529350","timestamp":"2015-03-16 18:09:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Driverless car could take us (almost) there. The coordination would allow traffic to flow incredibly smoothly, meaning a single one-way lane would be enough for most streets. They could more easily be shared, significantly lowering the need for parking. Even privately-owned cars could find their parking spot in i. e. an underground garage a few blocks away. Therefore: no need for parking spaces along the road.\u003cp\u003eSo you go from four lanes (2 driving, 2 parking) to just a single one. Sidewalk area increases from \u0026quot;two-lane width\u0026quot; to four and one lane is free for bicycles.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s going two be a revolution comparable to the invention of the internet, completely changing the quality of living in cities. And I get to see it, yeah. (Unless I end up being one of the world\u0026#x27;s last traffic fatalities)","parent":"9212432","id":"9213172"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1484593590","timestamp":"2017-01-16 19:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about Yelp for politicians? No need for elections.","parent":"13411999","id":"13412081"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1523477193","timestamp":"2018-04-11 20:06:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really? By my read Congress is begging him to do their jobs for them, asking the fox to design the henhouse.","parent":"16814849","id":"16814983"}
{"by":"GFischer","time":"1406813632","timestamp":"2014-07-31 13:33:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A coworker has one, looks like a decent and relatively cheap choice, but it seems the others recommended have better battery life.\u003cp\u003eEdit: looking on Amazon, there\u0026#x27;s a 2-battery version which looks good.","parent":"8112443","id":"8113916"}
{"by":"dmichulke","time":"1431412304","timestamp":"2015-05-12 06:31:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I will teach my son first Game Theory and Statistics and only then economics and law.","parent":"9528333","id":"9529892"}
{"by":"nilliams","time":"1415442538","timestamp":"2014-11-08 10:28:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well of course, I didn\u0026#x27;t mean it quite that literally and am a bit sad to see I got downvoted but I guess I did make the point poorly (and mildy aggressively now I read it back).\u003cp\u003eI should probably just have linked to somewhere the argument has been made before [1].\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a nerd and I vastly prefer large type \u0026amp; generous amounts of whitespace over cramming lots of titles on one screen so it saddens me whenever I hear someone authoritatively state the \u0026#x27;information density\u0026#x27; argument.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://uxmyths.com/post/654047943/myth-people-dont-scroll\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;uxmyths.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;654047943\u0026#x2F;myth-people-dont-scroll\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8575697","id":"8576501"}
{"by":"brandon272","time":"1534656596","timestamp":"2018-08-19 05:29:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider the fact that if the average pay is $70-$80k and you\u0026#x27;re working for a company that does client work, the company is charging its clients a lot more than $35-$40\u0026#x2F;hour for access to you.","parent":"17791911","id":"17792764"}
{"by":"camtarn","time":"1522350538","timestamp":"2018-03-29 19:08:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah! Could be. It certainly worked for me - I stayed eight years, rotating teams on average every three years. Greenfields project, big established project, greenfields project, back to big established project. Learned a heck of a lot too, in a very wide variety of areas.","parent":"16709982","id":"16710132"}
{"by":"potatolicious","time":"1383858217","timestamp":"2013-11-07 21:03:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because they\u0026#x27;re growing?\u003cp\u003eThere are two types of profitability of concern here:\u003cp\u003e1 - Is the product itself profitable. In this case: does the cost of providing a payment transaction cost Square more money than they charge for said transaction. A company that fails #1 is a really long way from success.\u003cp\u003e2 - Is the company itself profitable. You can have #1 but not #2, if you\u0026#x27;re pouring the bulk of your income into expansion.\u003cp\u003eSquare can very well be making money hand over fist, but still be in the red due to pouring all would-be profits into acquiring more market share and R\u0026amp;D into new markets (aka the Amazon model).\u003cp\u003eNaturally, this is a risky move - it presumes that the the core product is long-term sustainable (i.e. the new market share you\u0026#x27;re acquiring is just as profitable as the market share you already have), and that the new markets you\u0026#x27;re investing massively in are worth it.\u003cp\u003eAll said and done, Square not turning a profit overall doesn\u0026#x27;t say much about the overall viability of their business model.","parent":"6692076","id":"6692379"}
{"by":"avar","time":"1502455280","timestamp":"2017-08-11 12:41:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because when the cops measure your speed they can do so in an arbitrarily small time period of their choosing, and inertia and power requirements mean you can\u0026#x27;t be going 1000 MPH one milliseconds and 10 MPH the next.\u003cp\u003eYou could decide to measure APM by saying that the time difference between any two actions extrapolated to sustaining that rate over a minute or seconds couldn\u0026#x27;t exceed the APM or APS, but as I\u0026#x27;ve explained such a measurement would unfairly give the human player an advantage because humans are capable of bursts they couldn\u0026#x27;t sustain over longer periods.","parent":"14983961","id":"14989025"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1454785773","timestamp":"2016-02-06 19:09:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I agree with you in theory, in practice it\u0026#x27;s perfectly legitimate for politicians to be able to \u0026quot;try\u0026quot; something like that, even if it\u0026#x27;s an attempt to distort or deny scientific truth. Even in Texas, those efforts are controversial, and not guaranteed to succeed without opposition. But it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be just to simply forbid religious people from the opportunity to influence political debate when their point of view represents that of the majority, or at least a significant minority.","parent":"11049048","id":"11049208"}
{"by":"SamReidHughes","time":"1387182246","timestamp":"2013-12-16 08:24:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No it\u0026#x27;s not, it\u0026#x27;s just how things turned out.  The different commands have a whole bunch of separate options, and the fact that they turned out to be split upon certain lines isn\u0026#x27;t a reflection of some \u0026quot;philosophy\u0026quot;.  (Also, I\u0026#x27;m glad you find it so easy to find ways to convince yourself you\u0026#x27;re not a dumb person.)","parent":"6912410","id":"6913498"}
{"by":"FloatingGhost","time":"1509530691","timestamp":"2017-11-01 10:04:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003etips fedora\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"15599862","dead":true,"id":"15599900"}
{"by":"sachingulaya","time":"1382994690","timestamp":"2013-10-28 21:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d add that it\u0026#x27;s colloquial. When a stock drops it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;getting hammered\u0026quot;. Also, after hours is deceiving. NFLX was up 50pts after hours with their last earnings announcement. It dropped 80pts the next day.","parent":"6629718","id":"6629825"}
{"by":"motivitysystems","time":"1546365596","timestamp":"2019-01-01 17:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Motivity Systems is hiring a full stack developer in Seattle (onsite) to help on our mission to make autism behavior therapy more efficient, effective and able to reach more patients in need.\u003cp\u003eWe are currently preparing our flagship product for release early in the new year that will allow therapists to specify therapeutic programs within our system, which in turn generate interfaces for recording performance on tasks (games, response to certain prompts, etc.) and real-time visualization of patient progress tailored to the various roles involved in patient care.\u003cp\u003eWe use F# on the back end and front end, so some functional programming experience might help, but certainly isn\u0026#x27;t required -- honestly we\u0026#x27;re really just looking for bright developers who are enthusiastic about learning and being a part of a growing, early-stage (but thankfully well-funded!) startup.\u003cp\u003eSee \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;about.motivity.net\u0026#x2F;careers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;about.motivity.net\u0026#x2F;careers.html\u003c/a\u003e for more info!","parent":"18800645","id":"18801311"}
{"by":"rotten","time":"1439894231","timestamp":"2015-08-18 10:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In many parts of the US the average joe has to have a car to do anything.  There is no safe passage to anywhere without getting in a car.  Pedestrian and Bikes are discouraged, and there is no practical public transportation.","parent":"10078347","id":"10078415"}
{"by":"blazingcloud","time":"1263746493","timestamp":"2010-01-17 16:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many people are interested in doing something where they must \"get over\" discrimination?  Most women who stay in the field are ones are really excited about it, naturally very good at it or very lucky not to run into idiots early on -- usually all three.  That weeds out a lot of talent and a lot of people who would be otherwise interested.","parent":"1057616","id":"1058581"}
{"by":"dkhenry","time":"1546451033","timestamp":"2019-01-02 17:43:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;planetscale.com\u0026#x2F;careers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;planetscale.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at the same scale as YouTube. For any candidates tired of the quizzes and puzzles of traditional interviews ask us about our alternative hiring path. Email careers@planetscale.com or apply online at planetscale.com\u0026#x2F;careers","parent":"18807017","id":"18808148"}
{"by":"magduf","time":"1541604444","timestamp":"2018-11-07 15:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, I\u0026#x27;ll add that your comparison is apples-to-oranges.  For the electrical part in particular, electric utilities in almost every country are highly regulated.  They can\u0026#x27;t raise prices on a whim, even though they\u0026#x27;re monopolies; the government won\u0026#x27;t allow it.  This doesn\u0026#x27;t apply to Google Maps.  You\u0026#x27;re comparing services that are provided by a government, or are highly regulated, to a service that has governmental constraints whatsoever.  If you don\u0026#x27;t like the price, don\u0026#x27;t buy it.","parent":"18391884","id":"18399718"}
{"by":"m_mueller","time":"1461806118","timestamp":"2016-04-28 01:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And I don\u0026#x27;t see any projections where total loss of habitat is on the table.\u003cp\u003eThe more I read about it, the more it seems to me that valuable information continues to be poisoned, clouding our judgement.\u003cp\u003eSee for example the following extracts from wikipedia [1]:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Research carried out in 2008 in the Siberian Arctic has shown millions of tons of methane being released, apparently through perforations in the seabed permafrost,[20] with concentrations in some regions reaching up to 100 times normal levels.[22][23] The excess methane has been detected in localized hotspots in the outfall of the Lena River and the border between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea. Some melting may be the result of geological heating, but more thawing is believed to be due to the greatly increased volumes of meltwater being discharged from the Siberian rivers flowing north.[24] Current methane release has previously been estimated at 0.5 Mt per year.[25] Shakhova et al. (2008) estimate that not less than 1,400 Gt of carbon is presently locked up as methane and methane hydrates under the Arctic submarine permafrost, and 5–10% of that area is subject to puncturing by open taliks. They conclude that \u0026quot;release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time\u0026quot;. That would increase the methane content of the planet\u0026#x27;s atmosphere by a factor of twelve,[26][27] equivalent in greenhouse effect to a doubling in the current level of CO2.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYet in the \u003ci\u003esame\u003c/i\u003e section, you know what the introduction text reads currently?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Most deposits of methane clathrate are in sediments too deep to respond rapidly, and modelling by Archer (2007) suggests the methane forcing should remain a minor component of the overall greenhouse effect.[17] Clathrate deposits destabilize from the deepest part of their stability zone, which is typically hundreds of metres below the seabed. A sustained increase in sea temperature will warm its way through the sediment eventually, and cause the shallowest, most marginal clathrate to start to break down; but it will typically take on the order of a thousand years or more for the temperature signal to get through.[17]\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo let me get this straight: Because someone found a \u003ci\u003emodel\u003c/i\u003e from 2007 that makes things look mostly fine, we ignore  \u003ci\u003eempirical\u003c/i\u003e data from 2008 that shows that a Clathrate Gun of 50 Gt could go off at any time? Please someone tell me how I\u0026#x27;m wrong just so I don\u0026#x27;t have to go crazy here.\u003cp\u003eSo, you want precedent for a loss of habitat? How about [2]? Now look, I\u0026#x27;m not saying that this is a certainty. But one has to assign a percentage of risk for this happening. I can\u0026#x27;t do it, I\u0026#x27;m not enough of a modeller, but so far I haven\u0026#x27;t found any conclusive evidence that would either lead to such a calculation or could tell us with certainty that the risk is close to zero. If it \u003ci\u003eisn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e close to zero, I\u0026#x27;d argue that we have to do everything we can to make sure \u003ci\u003eit is\u003c/i\u003e. Because the insurance policy for a catastrophic damage happening at, say, 1% chance, is worth paying up to 1% of that catastrophic damage. My intuition is, it\u0026#x27;s way more than 1%.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Clathrate_gun_hypothesis\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Clathrate_gun_hypothesis\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Permian–Triassic_extinction_event#Methane_hydrate_gasification\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Permian–Triassic_extinction_ev...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11585659","id":"11585953"}
{"by":"thrownaway2424","time":"1441577440","timestamp":"2015-09-06 22:10:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s very good advice in a heavily-loaded shared hosting environment.  A disk read could easily stall for tens of seconds, just because the kernel whimsically decided to throw out the cache (or because your server crowded its memory container).  I actually don\u0026#x27;t want any server touching a disk while it\u0026#x27;s serving.  Everything should be read before service begins and never again.","parent":"10179051","id":"10179265"}
{"by":"finspin","time":"1416602993","timestamp":"2014-11-21 20:49:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I attended a big conference this week and met a lot of new people. Very few of them carried business cards so we ended up exchanging emails. I typically closed the conversation with something like \u0026quot;Hey, it was great chatting with you, would you mind exchanging emails?\u0026quot;. And then I would launch my Gmail, ask for their email address, enter some dummy subject and send it. Having an app with some quick intro where all I need to do is enter an email address would be much more handy.\u003cp\u003eAny plans for making an Android version?","parent":"8642504","id":"8643304"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1492633961","timestamp":"2017-04-19 20:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, this could be huge. Autoimmune diseases are legion.","parent":"14144044","id":"14151485"}
{"by":"johncoltrane","time":"1361399546","timestamp":"2013-02-20 22:32:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks.","parent":"5253107","id":"5253843"}
{"by":"jtoeman","time":"1350925660","timestamp":"2012-10-22 17:07:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"but neither of you are taking the existing industry into account. you just want them to lay over and die and do it your way.  they make FIVE HUNDRED BILLION dollars a year, and you guys think they should just change because you want them to.\u003cp\u003emarket testing in TV and movies is exactly what produces mediocre crap.\u003cp\u003eif you'd like to spend some more time getting up to speed on how the industry works before deciding it sucks, i'm happy to oblige.","parent":"4679137","id":"4684155"}
{"by":"audleman","time":"1468618910","timestamp":"2016-07-15 21:41:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of what a terminal is for. I SSH into any number of boxes every day, be it on my RaspberryPi, client machines in AWS, crappy hosting providers, etc. The standard bash terminal is there on all of them, which can not be said of any project like this.","parent":"12103354","id":"12104029"}
{"by":"dfps","time":"1502748927","timestamp":"2017-08-14 22:15:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. This edges Google closer towards monopoly status and competition laws, I think.\u003cp\u003eBut I wonder where on the internet unpopular speech will be hosted?\u003cp\u003eEven if the UN (and nations) declare internet a human right, where will content be hosted? Will the UN be able to force nations to change their laws to not persecute unpopular speech?","parent":"15011180","id":"15013511"}
{"by":"Drbble","time":"1337128537","timestamp":"2012-05-16 00:35:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mostly brand awareness, which is famously inefficient and only works for products with extremely wide mass appeal, like Coke.","parent":"3979660","id":"3979723"}
{"by":"uberduber","time":"1529699196","timestamp":"2018-06-22 20:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’ve spent a bit of my life thinking about this as I come from a bit of an odd circumstance as my parents purposely raised me poor (despite having wealth), didn’t offer much support and made me struggle thinking it would make me very resilient. They very much believe that anything that doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.\u003cp\u003eThe biggest problem with childhood adversity is that you are risking your health. My physical health started to fail and I’ve been unable to work for the last few years. I wasn’t born with the strongest constitution, but I do think my upbringing is a large contributor to my health problems.\u003cp\u003eI have friends who grew up in wealthy supportive environments, they are doing absolutely fine but the article is right in that they don’t have the drive or sacrifice to accomplish huge things. They are also by and large, very healthy. On the other hand, with my immigrant friends (many of whom are very successful), even though most are healthy there is a way higher percentage of health problems.\u003cp\u003eAnother problem that I have is that I have some poor people impulses and habits, like issues with instant gratification. I did get some benefits in that I am amazingly resourceful and have great problem solving skills. I have the resilience to navigate awful bureaucracies and deal with everyday problems which has been helpful in my attempts to restore my health. I do know a lot of normal people would’ve given up by now.","parent":"17370780","id":"17377083"}
{"by":"hackinthebochs","time":"1380302612","timestamp":"2013-09-27 17:23:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve seen this referenced a few times in this article. Did the pilot consciously attempt to \u0026quot;land\u0026quot; in the Hudson River, or was the plane simply going down in the Hudson and the pilot was able to correct its pitch enough to land? If its the latter, I would say the autopilot could have done it better.","parent":"6457769","id":"6458179"}
{"by":"wapz","time":"1486979115","timestamp":"2017-02-13 09:45:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like high speed trains but have you paid for them? They are great for business where you need to go somewhere and come back, but for a family of 4 they are \u003ci\u003eextremely\u003c/i\u003e expensive. From Tokyo to Osaka ~350 miles, it\u0026#x27;s about $130 per person each way on the Shinkansen. For 4 of us (2 adults, a child, and a free toddler), it would be ~$650 for round trip tickets.","parent":"13633459","id":"13634176"}
{"by":"firebones","time":"1477610118","timestamp":"2016-10-27 23:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re okay...Twitter reportedly didn\u0026#x27;t get acquired almost solely because of the abuse problem the buyer would inherit (e.g., Disney), and they now should have a crystal clear valuation for how much failing to address the abuse has cost. (Approximation: it is somewhere between $6B and $20B of added market cap.)\u003cp\u003eThey haven\u0026#x27;t addressed abuse in the past because the market has stupidly hitched their stock price to MAUs, which I think has caused them to take their eye off the ball and prioritize that metric over all else.  Address abuse, and risk lower MAUs.\u003cp\u003eSo if they\u0026#x27;ve finally decided that sacrificing MAUs in the short term is worth it (focusing instead on revenue, cost control, and cleaning up the toxic abuse), they may be able to finally realize some of that discounted value.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like it could be a great opportunity at helping Twitter unleash some of that discounted value.  Not the sole reason that the value will be reflected in the future market price, but a very important factor that at least gives them an option to sell out later at a good valuation if the growth in earnings is slower than expected and they feel the need to test the waters again.\u003cp\u003eWorst case, it\u0026#x27;s 100% focus on stemming abuse, they clean it up in a year, and you\u0026#x27;re working for Disney, Microsoft, Google, Amazon or some other acquirer.","parent":"12805961","id":"12811309"}
{"by":"CPLX","time":"1460593773","timestamp":"2016-04-14 00:29:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; someone had lunch in the same restaurant nearby, chimed in with a sarcastic comment about anything, and shows up over two years later with a claim.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a substantive difference between this sentence, and someone who is listed on a written, successful, YC application as a founder of the company. As such your comment is disingenuous.","parent":"11493441","id":"11493480"}
{"by":"noblethrasher","time":"1254981381","timestamp":"2009-10-08 05:56:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whatever your beliefs, the mythology suggests that God gave us free will by provding for the possibility of disobeying Him.","parent":"868316","id":"868422"}
{"by":"drb91","time":"1540588557","timestamp":"2018-10-26 21:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seriously, I enjoy my beanie babies the same as I did 20 years ago. They’re a lot of fun to throw around! I just never expected anything more.","parent":"18312494","id":"18312760"}
{"by":"brogrammernot","time":"1491887294","timestamp":"2017-04-11 05:08:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Programs like edX are making this a reality. Education does not have to be expensive and the sooner we realize that most college degrees are worthless in their practical application in the workforce the better off we will be.","parent":"14081338","id":"14085022"}
{"by":"Veedrac","time":"1495809671","timestamp":"2017-05-26 14:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s excessively tame for C++. If you want to really see the difference, look at actual libraries. Tracing through libcxx is a lot of fun. Here\u0026#x27;s \u0026lt;optional\u0026gt;, for example.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;llvm-mirror\u0026#x2F;libcxx\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;include\u0026#x2F;optional\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;llvm-mirror\u0026#x2F;libcxx\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;include\u0026#x2F;op...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14424231","id":"14424359"}
{"by":"mhartl","time":"1409251352","timestamp":"2014-08-28 18:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks!","parent":"8238944","id":"8238951"}
{"by":"emcrazyone","time":"1456854808","timestamp":"2016-03-01 17:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"HA! I\u0026#x27;m down the road from you in Plainfield with office in Burr Ridge.  The taxes in IL are killing us - have to get out.  Curious, why did you incorporate in IL?  I\u0026#x27;m based out of Michigan but expanded to IL last year.  However, the tax base is so high I\u0026#x27;m looking for alternatives like office in Indiana.  Just curious....","parent":"11204478","id":"11204534"}
{"by":"feral","time":"1295987888","timestamp":"2011-01-25 20:38:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not so sure about that.  Its pretty hard to predict the past too.\u003cp\u003eAnyone doing serious research into this, will first partition the past data into training and test sets.  (And sometimes other validation sets).\u003cp\u003eSo the idea would be to fit a model on one set of past data (the 'training' set), check it works, and then, in the final evaluation, run it on the never seen before, never used, never thought about, 'test' data.\u003cp\u003eIf you have a model trained on 2009, and it also does a great job the first time you run it on the Q1 2010 data that you've never looked at before, I'm now interested, even though every data point is in the past.\u003cp\u003eI imagine they had to do something like this to pass review.","parent":"2140514","id":"2140739"}
{"by":"jules","time":"1446246896","timestamp":"2015-10-30 23:14:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Companies spend lots of money there, so they believe it does work. Samsung built an ice skating facility directly in front of the courthouse. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mix931fm.com\u0026#x2F;yes-you-can-ice-skate-in-east-texas\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mix931fm.com\u0026#x2F;yes-you-can-ice-skate-in-east-texas\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10481048","id":"10481119"}
{"by":"recursive","time":"1353426627","timestamp":"2012-11-20 15:50:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \"The more concerning charge to online activists watching Weev’s case is based on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which forbids “unauthorized access” to a computer.\"\u003cp\u003eThere are HTTP codes to indicate lack of authorization.  Presumably he didn't encounter those.  How is this an argument?","parent":"4808676","id":"4809464"}
{"by":"bartcobain","time":"1543369198","timestamp":"2018-11-28 01:39:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, I\u0026#x27;ll look for your recent work in your twitter.","parent":"18547497","id":"18548572"}
{"by":"MatthewPhillips","time":"1331151267","timestamp":"2012-03-07 20:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this not include an update to iOS?","parent":"3676776","id":"3676939"}
{"by":"jcl","time":"1209066041","timestamp":"2008-04-24 19:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are working in a language that has significant development advantages but mediocre performance, I think it is reasonable to look for ways to improve its performance.","parent":"172768","id":"172779"}
{"by":"muerdeme","time":"1191266616","timestamp":"2007-10-01 19:23:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Back when \"TheFacebook\" was limited to whatever universities were added that week, there was a guy at my school living on campus and pretending to be a student for at least 3 months.  He didn't get caught until one of his friends got suspicious about him using someone else's e-mail address to get a Facebook account.  The fact that he never seemed to do any actual work didn't help either.","parent":"61625","id":"61697"}
{"by":"cabalamat","time":"1289654148","timestamp":"2010-11-13 13:15:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use BugMeNot.","parent":"1899445","id":"1900791"}
{"by":"balladeer","time":"1394283649","timestamp":"2014-03-08 13:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, the unfortunate thing is after one dies it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;nothing\u0026quot;, not even a black hole or vacuum. It\u0026#x27;s just nothing.","parent":"7364413","id":"7365046"}
{"by":"dhughes","time":"1341167857","timestamp":"2012-07-01 18:37:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand and agree with you but I also think about how much radio, microwaves and other types of electromagnetic radiation (yes I know not nuclear radiation) we are bathed in everyday, other than light and natural sources.\u003cp\u003eAlso there is the inverse square law, just because we are bombarded by EM radiation doesn't mean it's damaging due to being so weak. Yet a transmitter mere millimetres from your brain cells is a greater risk.\u003cp\u003eThen again we sit in MRI machines at a flux density of 5 Tesla for health reasons!","parent":"4185594","id":"4185692"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1532092473","timestamp":"2018-07-20 13:14:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As you said, the losers will always have an excuse for why they lost if they want one. This doesn\u0026#x27;t really do anything to impact that.\u003cp\u003eBut targeted online advertising is a brand new thing in the political world. Data like this will be essential for academics to study the effect of this kind of advertising on an election.","parent":"17574353","id":"17574675"}
{"by":"mark-t","time":"1201872375","timestamp":"2008-02-01 13:26:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You haven't taken this thought process far enough. In assembly, according to you, you don't write trees. I guess this means you write sequences of commands (procedures), and you store data in a state system. Well, in that case, Lisp gets turned into procedures and a state system, seemingly by magic.\u003cp\u003eMaybe people have an easier time understanding other languages because they work in the same way the computer does.","parent":"107731","id":"107796"}
{"by":"middle-out","time":"1518878149","timestamp":"2018-02-17 14:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this isn\u0026#x27;t supposed to be snide. apologies if it comes across that way.\u003cp\u003etry switching the words (and relevant phrases) \u0026quot;hacker\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;business people\u0026quot; to see if it still works.\u003cp\u003eas a hacker, i\u0026#x27;m not overly optimistic that a marketer (ie. business person) would work on my idea for \u0026quot;reputation\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;experience\u0026quot;, but perhaps i\u0026#x27;m wrong. there are certainly hackers that work on open source, but that\u0026#x27;s probably for different reasons.","parent":"16400111","id":"16400816"}
{"by":"_spoonman","time":"1513953401","timestamp":"2017-12-22 14:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the OSCP certification worth it?","parent":"15986100","id":"15987701"}
{"by":"marinosbern","time":"1436896489","timestamp":"2015-07-14 17:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually asked a bunch of psychologists about this. Most people will either freeze or run. If your inbuilt reaction is to run, you are already in the lucky group. The goal is to use it, if possible, while running, so I tried to make it as simple as possible to activate. Unfortunately, because of Apple restrictions, you still need to launch the app, but I\u0026#x27;m experimenting with things like using notification center for faster access","parent":"9886625","id":"9886761"}
{"by":"dbg31415","time":"1472628554","timestamp":"2016-08-31 07:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why isn\u0026#x27;t Dropbox reporting this?  I\u0026#x27;d have more respect for them if they were more honest about this.","parent":"12396331","id":"12396555"}
{"by":"gp3gp3gp3","time":"1479751161","timestamp":"2016-11-21 17:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trello","parent":"13006882","id":"13007419"}
{"by":"lowercased","time":"1532657580","timestamp":"2018-07-27 02:13:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bit of a shame the nyt article didn\u0026#x27;t include that perspective  - not all the \u0026#x27;cringey\u0026#x27; labelling so much, but at least mentioning that they were booed.","parent":"17622893","id":"17622972"}
{"by":"Robin_Message","time":"1286449656","timestamp":"2010-10-07 11:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u0026#62;unless you are comfortable giving the new platform access to your inbox, they can't get your data\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;Huh? You receive a link to a zip file, which you then download. Your statement would be pretty FUDly if it weren't so busy being wrong.\u003cp\u003eI'm assuming the grandparent is talking about an automated site that imports from facebook by asking for my facebook username and password. This can't work, because the zip link goes to my e-mail, so I either have to copy-paste the link from my e-mail or provide my e-mail address and e-mail password as well, as the grandparent said. Your statement would pretty wrong if it weren't so busy being rude :-P","parent":"1766992","id":"1767453"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1307362422","timestamp":"2011-06-06 12:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The one I work on, for a start :-) A good deal more in fact...\u003cp\u003eBut it's not just servers. You are up against physical availability of stuff, and stuff gets exponentially more expensive as you approach the limit. A programmer who is wasteful of memory on a single box will eventually reach a point where you simply can't buy more, you will have to rewrite the app to run on more machines, for example. At the small scale, sure, programmer time is expensive. But on an industrial scale, programmers are pretty cheap compared to say \"building and operating an entire new datacentre\".","parent":"2624367","id":"2624413"}
{"by":"icelancer","time":"1543704719","timestamp":"2018-12-01 22:51:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; More personal service, better shoppers\u003cp\u003eBut will this survive with price slashes? Quality almost never stays the same (or improves) when you get into a price war.","parent":"18579483","id":"18579493"}
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{"by":"damncabbage","time":"1329875363","timestamp":"2012-02-22 01:49:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know what Ubuntu's numbers are doing, but you need to consider the rate of growth as well.\u003cp\u003eTake the following hypothetical situation:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  * Say, every month, a small percentage of the userbase stop\n    using Ubuntu (and switch to Mint or OS X, for example).\n  * Say the rate of growth is shrinking.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nYou've already hit the inflection point: if that trend continues, your userbase \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e start shrinking, you'll wonder why everyone's leaving all of a sudden, and you're suddenly in a position of trying to pull the project out of a nosedive you didn't realise you were in.","parent":"3617574","id":"3618967"}
{"by":"zeveb","time":"1517515861","timestamp":"2018-02-01 20:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Without a headphone jack, how do you use the built-in radio?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think Apple \u0026amp; Google \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e you to use the radio.  They don\u0026#x27;t make money from it, so they don\u0026#x27;t see a reason to permit you to use it.","parent":"16282004","id":"16285409"}
{"by":"jeltz","time":"1390926349","timestamp":"2014-01-28 16:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really hope you are wrong about killing mysqld corrupting tables, because if it does then I would not want mysql near my data. Databases should use a journal for crash safety.","parent":"7137187","id":"7137985"}
{"by":"setq","time":"1480922626","timestamp":"2016-12-05 07:23:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I ignore it as my escape from the daily grind of computing is digging the soldering iron out and building some very minimal kit out of only discrete components. There is something fascinating about extreme minimalism. The fact it transmits and receives is a byproduct of the journey. I\u0026#x27;m unsociable enough to confirm a couple of contacts and then build something else.\u003cp\u003eI have no problem with SDR, it just doesn\u0026#x27;t interest me. You need a physical connection with the universe sometimes.","parent":"13102073","id":"13103904"}
{"by":"binarycrusader","time":"1325993759","timestamp":"2012-01-08 03:35:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.\"\u003cp\u003eI like hypothetical money trees just as much as the next person but on what do you base these hypothetical scenarios?","parent":"3438799","id":"3438807"}
{"by":"619Cloud","time":"1288078356","timestamp":"2010-10-26 07:32:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I want to spend a few hours and get the Hummingbird realtime scrolling visualization implemented. See the demo at (required HTML5 browser such as Chrome/Safari).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1833276","id":"1833389"}
{"by":"naasking","time":"1488045108","timestamp":"2017-02-25 17:51:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Animals typically don\u0026#x27;t kill and eat their own species\u003cp\u003eI think you\u0026#x27;ll be surprised by the amount of cannibalism in the animal kingdom:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Cannibalism_(zoology)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Cannibalism_(zoology)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13732461","id":"13732746"}
{"by":"hmans","time":"1419232987","timestamp":"2014-12-22 07:23:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless you need one of the new features on offer, there is no reason why you would need to upgrade right away. It\u0026#x27;s perfectly okay to give a new Rails release a couple of months to settle, including gems that need to be compatible with it.","parent":"8775452","id":"8782334"}
{"by":"wtetzner","time":"1347552278","timestamp":"2012-09-13 16:04:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven't written any Go, but the FAQ (\u003ca href=\"http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#principles\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#principles\u003c/a\u003e) says:\u003cp\u003e\"There are no forward declarations and no header files; everything is declared exactly once.\"\u003cp\u003eIs the author just wrong, or has the language changed since the FAQ was last updated?","parent":"4516719","id":"4516889"}
{"by":"avitzurel","time":"1499796380","timestamp":"2017-07-11 18:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I said it before in my streams many times [1]\u003cp\u003eThis is a classic case of weighing solutions against other solutions. When you do that the one with the most features or the fastest will always seem the best.\u003cp\u003eBut, you need to weigh the solutions against your problem.\u003cp\u003eYour problem is time-to-market.\nYour problem is development time.\nYour problem is software reliability.\nYour problem is finding great engineers to do great work.\u003cp\u003eWhen that\u0026#x27;s your problem. Ruby and Rails are great solutions. Not good. Great solutions.\u003cp\u003eShow me an express app that is as monolithic as some Rails apps and I will show you how Node.js halts to a crawl.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitch.tv\u0026#x2F;kensodev\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitch.tv\u0026#x2F;kensodev\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Typo","parent":"14746408","id":"14746463"}
{"by":"jordache","time":"1481848906","timestamp":"2016-12-16 00:41:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Umm yes it does..  @ symbol accessible via keystroke","parent":"13183262","id":"13190106"}
{"by":"acqq","time":"1459799506","timestamp":"2016-04-04 19:51:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There is so much irony in that paragraph combined with the title\u003cp\u003eThe irony is more apparent when you read further in the article that the author received support from the very same U.S. for his activity of making a democratic revolution. However he was just an \u0026quot;activist\u0026quot; and Muslim Brotherhood the \u0026quot;political force.\u0026quot; Which developed exactly how it sounds, as he also describes.\u003cp\u003eMy other comment here contains some more interesting quotes.","parent":"11424897","id":"11424918"}
{"by":"JonLim","time":"1390493225","timestamp":"2014-01-23 16:07:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the books aim to teach kids to approach problems using programming logic, like loops and if else statements, rather than actually getting them up and running on Ruby.\u003cp\u003eBut this is just what I remembered from reading her Kickstarter!","parent":"7108921","id":"7108984"}
{"by":"pius","time":"1207091068","timestamp":"2008-04-01 23:04:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a completely incorrect conclusion.  As I wrote on the blog:\u003cp\u003eActually, you’re the one who’s mistaken — history \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c/i\u003e support the benign view. As you note, the term hacker dates back even to the Tech Model Railroad Club. The term was generalized to include all sorts of neat but benign tomfoolery (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_hack\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_hack\u003c/a\u003e) including white hat phone phreaking. At MIT, there’s definitely always been a sense that hacking has a code of ethics and that people who do bad things under the guise of hacking aren’t hacking at all.\u003cp\u003eThe Tech’s 1963 reference to malicious phreakers as hackers is the same as modern day references to crackers as hackers: a mistake.","parent":"152565","id":"152588"}
{"by":"michaelwww","time":"1382583395","timestamp":"2013-10-24 02:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With no other opportunity and with a deep resentment towards the millionaire, the fisherman\u0026#x27;s sons become involved in the drug trade. Violence escalates in the village to the point that kidnappings for ransom become a popular way to finance the importation of drugs for resale. The sons kidnap the millionaire\u0026#x27;s wife for ransom and kill her when the businessman fails to follow instructions. Later the millionaire and his new trophy wife are gunned down in the street. See Acapulco:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/07/violence-in-acapulco-intensifies.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.borderlandbeat.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;violence-in-acapulco-i...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6602552","id":"6603164"}
{"by":"Hello71","time":"1493770952","timestamp":"2017-05-03 00:22:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I can tell you from experience that I have never connected to a cloudflare backed site with tor that didn\u0026#x27;t require multiple captchas. So every tor ip is hostile to cloudflare sites? If so, how is that practically different than just blocking tor?\u003cp\u003eso you manually looked up the provider of every site you visited?\u003cp\u003esounds like 100% of cloudflare sites that are configured to require captchas require captchas.","parent":"14251264","id":"14252018"}
{"by":"beagle3","time":"1512630582","timestamp":"2017-12-07 07:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I understand correctly (and I might be wrong), the intent was to pass the test, despite failing in the real world conditions that the test is supposed to control for.","parent":"15867843","id":"15868281"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1434157030","timestamp":"2015-06-13 00:57:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LLVM can and will do it. It will assume it knows what a function named \u0026quot;memcpy\u0026quot; (for example) does and optimizes accordingly. (Look at TargetLibraryInfo.cpp and grep for LibFunc::memset in, for example, SimplifyLibCalls.cpp.)\u003cp\u003e(That said, I think TheLoneWolfling is being too strong with his\u0026#x2F;her claims. You \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e get modern compilers to avoid dangerous optimizations; it\u0026#x27;s just not for the faint of heart.)","parent":"9708517","id":"9709432"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1409691603","timestamp":"2014-09-02 21:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Author somehow manages to introduce a third, \u003ci\u003eworse\u003c/i\u003e, option in the tabs vs. spaces debate. I\u0026#x27;m too impressed and bewildered to even be angry.","parent":"8260030","id":"8260117"}
{"by":"gz5","time":"1357706722","timestamp":"2013-01-09 04:45:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"surprised the corporate agility theme doesn't explicitly include globalization displacing former US-based middle class jobs?  globalization has positive economic consequences for the US as a whole, but not to key parts of the displaced middle class, at least not yet?","parent":"5029720","id":"5030203"}
{"by":"toolslive","time":"1531896407","timestamp":"2018-07-18 06:46:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   [t\u0026#x2F;3,  3t] with 50% confidence\n   [t\u0026#x2F;4,  4t] with 60% confidence\n   [t\u0026#x2F;39, 39t] with 95% confidence\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"17554621","id":"17555969"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1387227727","timestamp":"2013-12-16 21:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt the \u0026quot;forget\u0026quot; part is as strong as your description implies. Instead they are \u0026quot;in\u0026quot; on a heavily pre-vetted set of companies with very little work. And then begin on Day 2 (probably Day 1, actually) figuring out how involved to get, likely getting meaningfully involved in favorites.","parent":"6917434","id":"6917785"}
{"by":"timv","time":"1395284454","timestamp":"2014-03-20 03:00:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but indirectly.\u003cp\u003eIt was a relatively common theme on Kuro5hin (back when it had more than 2 stories per year...) that there was no K5 cabal (in reference to the backbone cabal)\u003cp\u003eI was never a heavy usenet-er, so the K5 reference is the one that stays in my mind.","parent":"7433438","id":"7433539"}
{"by":"GFischer","time":"1378224699","timestamp":"2013-09-03 16:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have an Ace too (180 mb internal memory), and it\u0026#x27;s an extremely annoying problem.\u003cp\u003eOnly a very few low end phones made that braindead decision - my girlfriend has a cheaper Mini 2 and it has 1 GB of memory for apps.\u003cp\u003eYou can install apps on the SD, but they still take a little of those valuable megabytes. The only apps I have on the internal memory are Gmail, Maps, Facebook and Youtube (plus Play Services). Several apps can be moved to the SD (Opera Mobile, most games, MX media player, Adobe Reader, so I manage.","parent":"6320526","id":"6321743"}
{"by":"zackattack","time":"1250141493","timestamp":"2009-08-13 05:31:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We found a local astronomy group and saw it tonight. I probably saw a total of five shooting stars.","parent":"760008","id":"760081"}
{"by":"will_work4tears","time":"1391791921","timestamp":"2014-02-07 16:52:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oops, mistype.  I realized that just didn\u0026#x27;t type it right.  Thanks.","parent":"7194006","id":"7197223"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1364971635","timestamp":"2013-04-03 06:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Usually the blame is on the developers that don't make use of what Java offers.\u003cp\u003eThere used to be a blog series explaining developers how to take advantage of Swing to make nice UIs. The problem is that most don't care and use whatever is the default.","parent":"5483599","id":"5484653"}
{"by":"gizmo686","time":"1515533508","timestamp":"2018-01-09 21:31:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Since white males are not protected class.\u003cp\u003eYes they are. Or at least whites and males are a protected class (at the suit alledges discrimination against these classes independently, not just their intersection).\u003cp\u003eIt is true that the \u003ci\u003eintent\u003c/i\u003e of the anti discrimination laws was to protect non-whites and females, codifying that into law would be a clear violation of the equal protections clause and make any such law unconstitutional.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;My personal unqualified opinion is that they will settle out of court for wrongful termination.\u003cp\u003eThe wrongful termination argument defiantly seems stronger here. However, it is worth keeping in mind that they have not settled yet. I assume Damore\u0026#x27;s laywers would have tried settling before even filing [0]. If Google wanted to settle they should have done it back than, before the PR hit of the suit being filed happened. Coming up is the PR hit of discovery, which is going to bring to light a lot of skeletons that Google would rather keep hidden. (Even if Google did nothing wrong with regards to this case; no organization the size of Google can go through discovery without something coming out)\u003cp\u003e[0] Assuming their actual goal is just money. They claim to be doing this to effect change. While their public statements on motivation are highly suspect, it is within the realm of reason that they are actually interested in this case for the political agenda, in which case they would want to take it to court.","parent":"16107536","id":"16110306"}
{"by":"duskwuff","time":"1442453457","timestamp":"2015-09-17 01:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  This is as much a bomb as a disassembled alarm clock is.\u003cp\u003eIn large part because that is \u003ci\u003eprecisely\u003c/i\u003e what it is!","parent":"10231007","id":"10231068"}
{"by":"Symmetry","time":"1412775448","timestamp":"2014-10-08 13:37:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think my best memories from lurking on the Extropians mailing list Back In The Day were hearing about the \u0026quot;Terrorism Futures Market\u0026quot; months before it went public.  All the objections that would later be made came up on the list and Robin Hanson did a pretty good job of answering them.  Too bad it didn\u0026#x27;t take longer for the media to discover it.","parent":"8423633","id":"8426778"}
{"by":"binarycrusader","time":"1375910209","timestamp":"2013-08-07 21:16:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you read Jean-Baptiste\u0026#x27;s post?  In this particular case, there\u0026#x27;s no video device support for \u003ci\u003eGoogle\u003c/i\u003e flagship devices!\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  ...can\u0026#x27;t boot to the home screen on its flagship device for lack of GPU support...\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThat sort of makes it useless.  I\u0026#x27;d only be willing to buy the device argument if we were talking about a microphone or webcam, but when you lack the most basic of support (video), I think that\u0026#x27;s not a useful argument to have.","parent":"6174801","id":"6175703"}
{"by":"jdonahue","time":"1386277101","timestamp":"2013-12-05 20:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the DeCAF plug! Here\u0026#x27;s a demo of the classifier with the pre-trained ImageNet weights in action: \u003ca href=\"http://decaf.berkeleyvision.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;decaf.berkeleyvision.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI also have to take the opportunity to plug Caffe [1] - Yangqing\u0026#x27;s replacement for DeCAF which he actually open sourced just a few hours ago.  All the heavy processing (e.g., forward\u0026#x2F;backprop) can be run either on your (CUDA-enabled) GPU or on the CPU, and the GPU implementation is actually a bit faster than cuda-convnet.  The entire core is (imo) very well-engineered and written in clean lovely C++, but it also comes with Python and Matlab wrappers.  I\u0026#x27;ve personally been hacking around inside the core for about a month and it has really been a pleasure to work with.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://daggerfs.com/caffe/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;daggerfs.com\u0026#x2F;caffe\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6856414","id":"6857167"}
{"by":"crazyjimbo","time":"1276466488","timestamp":"2010-06-13 22:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn't worry too much about what Recurly did - they seemed to constantly change their mind on how their pricing would work. Now they've given up and are holding out until to July to announce new pricing.\u003cp\u003eWhat I would take away from Recurly is that it can be hard to get it right first time, and changing your pricing once customers are signed up will upset some of them.","parent":"1426157","id":"1428290"}
{"by":"dingo_bat","time":"1496369696","timestamp":"2017-06-02 02:14:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"News like this makes me glad I\u0026#x27;ve moved entirely to edge. It has ublock and lastpass and RES. It\u0026#x27;s as fast as Chrome and much more responsive than Firefox. There are some bugs but Microsoft is doing a good job of gradually ironing those out. That\u0026#x27;s enough for me.","parent":"14463732","id":"14466927"}
{"by":"bhauer","time":"1520954964","timestamp":"2018-03-13 15:29:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eEven more striking, \u0026quot;the diversity of the company or organization\u0026quot; is second last for women.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy wife works at a tech organization that is (unsurprisingly) mostly men.  The data here seem to align quite well with what she has told me several times.  Namely, she doesn\u0026#x27;t much care about diversity at the workplace since she feels the organization\u0026#x27;s values and culture result in her being respected and able to be a valuable member of the team regardless of who she is working with.\u003cp\u003eWhen she is able to work with other women in the organization, she does find that refreshing.  So I think she would like to see more women among the team, but it\u0026#x27;s not something she thinks about much, putting it below other more important matters.","parent":"16575237","id":"16576908"}
{"by":"thomastjeffery","time":"1494453954","timestamp":"2017-05-10 22:05:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no idea.\u003cp\u003eAll I have heard in favor of removing net neutrality is \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s a regulation, and regulation is bad.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOf course, this argument falls to pieces very quickly no matter what angle I try to think of it from.\u003cp\u003eAs far as I can tell, there really is no legitimate argument. I like to think that I can consider any perspective on an issue, and understand why someone might disagree with me. In most cases, I can do that, but removing privacy and net neutrality rules are two subjects where I have been completely unable to do so.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t like to give up, and jump to the conclusion that my perspective is the \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e plausible one. I want to make it clear that I haven\u0026#x27;t given up on listening for the other side of the story, but thus far, I haven\u0026#x27;t heard a peep of it. I hate to say it, but there likely isn\u0026#x27;t one.","parent":"14308027","id":"14312151"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1526248138","timestamp":"2018-05-13 21:48:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The text makes it clear that the week can belong to another year. This piece of documentation leaks numerous clues that it\u0026#x27;s describing something radioactive that you want to stay away from\u003cp\u003eAnd it gives away the specifier that you want: %Y.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Same format as %Y except ...\u0026quot; means \u0026quot;this is some extended\u0026#x2F;twisted version of another year format, which is assigned to the obvious %Y letter. Hmm, maybe I should check that one out!\u0026quot;","parent":"17058852","id":"17061215"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1348004054","timestamp":"2012-09-18 21:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"1. Android lets developers have access to the dialer so that app developers can watch who calls you and who you call.\"\u003cp\u003eIs this actually true?","parent":"4530141","id":"4540641"}
{"by":"campnic","time":"1367519512","timestamp":"2013-05-02 18:31:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the overlooked part of this, once we step back from the natural desire to pick 'the best', is that people who care about the platforms are providing a vast set of starting examples for people looking to get started on each network. Its easy to do a side by side comparison of similar tasks across languages which is something that is very valuable and, in my experience, relatively novel. Thanks for all your amazing work!","parent":"5644880","id":"5646320"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1473347916","timestamp":"2016-09-08 15:18:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s relevant is that AirBnB is against the Freedom of Owners to select who stays at their place. In the end Owners should have the final word, no matter what, certainly not AirBnB.","parent":"12453626","id":"12453805"}
{"by":"anonymfus","time":"1520557158","timestamp":"2018-03-09 00:59:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why company? Why not one of these organisations:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;List_of_telecommunications_regulatory_bodies\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;List_of_telecommunications_reg...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003efor example?","parent":"16548930","id":"16549090"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1327122585","timestamp":"2012-01-21 05:09:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're missing the classic game theory element. If everyone is working hard, everyone gets X. But if I decide to slack off, everyone gets X minus some tiny fraction, \u003ci\u003eincluding me\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eGame theory tells us this kind of system will fall apart practically instantly.\u003cp\u003eI forget the details, but I think Marx tried to dismiss that problem through an appeal to nationalism.","parent":"3492624","id":"3492666"}
{"by":"_random_","time":"1397740458","timestamp":"2014-04-17 13:14:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems that second scenario is much better since it means more work for us, developers?","parent":"7602783","id":"7603326"}
{"by":"sanqui","time":"1428155209","timestamp":"2015-04-04 13:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previously discussed (a month ago): \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9166967\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9166967\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9320546","id":"9320810"}
{"by":"spiznnx","time":"1518629506","timestamp":"2018-02-14 17:31:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the joke he referenced. Although there is a difference between knowing something and memorizing answers.","parent":"16377376","id":"16377503"}
{"by":"mbrubeck","time":"1353437898","timestamp":"2012-11-20 18:58:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you know that every major browser already supports storage and geolocation APIs?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://caniuse.com/#search=localstorage\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://caniuse.com/#search=localstorage\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://caniuse.com/#search=geo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://caniuse.com/#search=geo\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4810319","id":"4810587"}
{"by":"rektide","time":"1411591722","timestamp":"2014-09-24 20:48:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like this would\u0026#x27;ve been a completely ideal place to rock some mongo_fdw, which would give postgres the ability to query and extract data directly from mongo. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/citusdata/mongo_fdw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;citusdata\u0026#x2F;mongo_fdw\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8363252","id":"8364051"}
{"by":"ido","time":"1473242755","timestamp":"2016-09-07 10:05:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Immigration is still a pretty new thing for most of central Europe.\u003cp\u003eThere weren\u0026#x27;t a significant number of visibly-foreign immigrants in Germany till the 60s or 70s and it took a couple more decades before those were seen as anything other than \u0026#x27;temporary guest workers\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eThe UK and France (and even more so the US and other \u0026quot;New World\u0026quot; countries) had at least a few decades head-start for culture to get around the idea of immigration.","parent":"12429245","id":"12442025"}
{"by":"martin1975","time":"1500915397","timestamp":"2017-07-24 16:56:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never liked their liberal bias for many of the things they report where the truth of something cannot be ascertained.  I won\u0026#x27;t be donating.\u003cp\u003eedit:\u003cp\u003ewow, didn\u0026#x27;t know there was this many snopes lovers on here. Got downvoted to hell. Funny thing is, Silicon Valley\u0026#x27;s leadership\u0026#x2F;VCs is extremely conservative, yet the people who work for them, namely lots of people who read HN aren\u0026#x27;t... weird.","parent":"14839972","id":"14840149"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1396814952","timestamp":"2014-04-06 20:09:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Chinese silk road from 200 BC is perfectly on-topic for HN! We want more, not fewer, interesting pieces from off the beaten track.\u003cp\u003eGood historical posts are particularly welcome because they counteract the relentless addiction to novelty, which breeds shallowness.","parent":"7542317","id":"7542591"}
{"by":"phektus","time":"1309718755","timestamp":"2011-07-03 18:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"check the commit message:\n\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/GenTiradentes/tinyvm/commit/35c2fdbdabc63e660798deed7ca01191f00f64d9\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/GenTiradentes/tinyvm/commit/35c2fdbdabc63...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2722383","id":"2724288"}
{"by":"Ardit20","time":"1238050478","timestamp":"2009-03-26 06:54:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well there was nothing and there became something.\u003cp\u003eIf we take the cause and effect theory which clearly conforms to the evolutionary theory then logicaly we are able to so rewind the cause and effect to a point where there was nothing. Hence, if there is no choice but only predetermined causes, what predetermined something from nothing?","parent":"532219","id":"533130"}
{"by":"guard-of-terra","time":"1439679943","timestamp":"2015-08-15 23:05:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Olympics were created to hold nations together, to be a common child of all countries.\u003cp\u003eIf you put them in the same place, you might as well cancel them. They no longer have any point besides vice and bad taste.","parent":"10065717","id":"10067301"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1243911006","timestamp":"2009-06-02 02:50:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"[A]bsolutely no individual user or listener information was supplied to the RIAA by Last.fm or any division of CBS Corporation in the past, nor do we plan to do so in the future,\" CBS told Ars. When we asked if perhaps CBS had transferred the data to a music label or other third party, CBS said, \"We never handed over user info to the music labels or anyone else.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOk, TechCrunch. Your turn.","parent":"637082","id":"637270"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1320480064","timestamp":"2011-11-05 08:01:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Case in point: me and some of my coworkers have wasted a good several hours this last week just dealing with having a system which was stuck in the old (pre-2005) DST period.","parent":"3198183","id":"3199243"}
{"by":"wtbob","time":"1429095785","timestamp":"2015-04-15 11:03:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This is incredibly easy to prove. Count all the good stories that have happened, and all the bad. Compare the ratios to different publications.\u003cp\u003eI think that\u0026#x27;s likely to be a lot more difficult than you think: how does an independent observer know what the count of good and bad events is, rather than the count of good \u0026amp; bad published events?  The trouble is that if an event isn\u0026#x27;t published, it\u0026#x27;s practically invisible to an observer.\u003cp\u003eThis is a related issue to the fact that many sensational crimes are less common today, but perceived to be more common due to over-coverage in the media.","parent":"9379082","id":"9380083"}
{"by":"lqdc13","time":"1473449567","timestamp":"2016-09-09 19:32:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So for larger dicts the memory size of the dict would be 5\u0026#x2F;3 of what it is now?  That seems like a big regression unless I\u0026#x27;m missing something.","parent":"12460936","id":"12465398"}
{"by":"deno","time":"1528295100","timestamp":"2018-06-06 14:25:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s the problem with anthropomorphising companies.\u003cp\u003eAs far as I can tell Cloudflare single-handedly destroyed the usability of Tor Browser. It was just getting pretty fast when Cloudflare put literally half the Internet behind a spywall.\u003cp\u003eSo should I be angry at them? Should I dismiss this valuable service to then remain consistent with my anger? Is Microsoft now “good” or “bad”?\u003cp\u003eEvery action needs to be evaluated on its own. Our evolutionary social adaptation just doesn’t work in this case.\u003cp\u003eIn the end all Cloudflare did is expose how centralized the  Internet has become. The immediate emotion is anger because that is how you react when you’re suddenly awakened out of blissful ignorance and forced to face reality.","parent":"17246687","id":"17247376"}
{"by":"derleth","time":"1386148227","timestamp":"2013-12-04 09:10:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; They were Microsoft functions long (6 years?) before they were standardized.\u003cp\u003eAnd most of what\u0026#x27;s in ANSI C (the first C standard, before ISO stepped in, from 1989) was in C compilers before ANSI C existed. I think void and void* were the only things ANSI C really added to the language.\u003cp\u003eMy point is, the C standards body likes to standardize common usage, and \u0026#x27;what a Microsoft compiler does\u0026#x27; is pretty close to being common in some parts of the world.","parent":"6844443","id":"6845832"}
{"by":"jaz","time":"1447723116","timestamp":"2015-11-17 01:18:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don\u0026#x27;t mind sharing, which providers did you end up using for health insurance and 401(k)?","parent":"10578397","id":"10578577"}
{"by":"jjcc","time":"1493306463","timestamp":"2017-04-27 15:21:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point. public and private funding are complementary to each other so there is a healthier Eco system for technology\u0026#x2F;social progress. Funding from (some time bureaucratic or  socialist) government without concerning profit is necessary part of the system. Let me give you a few examples.\u003cp\u003eQuite a few many pioneers like Hinton, Bingo ,maybe LeCun(was working with Hinton before moved to NY) are happened to be from Canada. I realized the answer for the  mysterious coincidence until I watched the video that Hinton explained why  he moved to Toronto: There was not enough funding from US other than Military at the time while there were some funding in Canada that didn\u0026#x27;t demand much instant result from his research.\u003cp\u003eThe healthcare system in Canada is also better than the states although it has a lot lot lot of problems. I believe socialist Canadians care more about people than efficiency of the system initially but it ended up with only 6 or 7 payers for the cost and less overhead instead of more than 2 thousands of payers along with less regulated but very complicated system.\u003cp\u003eThe hi speed train system in China funded by government totally changed the concepts of distance , time, space , contribute so much to economy beyond calculation. I guess if California government can do the same thing, Silicon Valley would spread to be a bigger area and a lot of developer can afford housing by living 100 miles away from where they work.\u003cp\u003eBTW, I myself was quite pro small government\u0026#x2F;free market but became more moderate not because I\u0026#x27;m influenced by my follow Canadians but by looking it at \u0026quot;High Order\u0026quot; level of efficiency.","parent":"14211227","id":"14212143"}
{"by":"dylanhassinger","time":"1535775285","timestamp":"2018-09-01 04:14:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hope this applies to Russians too","parent":"17890138","id":"17890170"}
{"by":"junto","time":"1398735370","timestamp":"2014-04-29 01:36:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While i don\u0026#x27;t disagree with you, I\u0026#x27;d like to share something that recently struck me.\u003cp\u003eAlthough I hated the film Tree of Life, there was a pertinent line that has resonated with me since.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The nuns taught us there were two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you\u0026#x27;ll follow.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Grace doesn’t try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. … Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it over them. To have its own way.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe penny dropping moment is when you question nature \u0026quot;goodness\u0026quot;. Nature is often perceived to be \u0026quot;the pure way\u0026quot;, but we often forget that the pure way can be brutal and unforgiving. Nature is the route of the shortest path, highly optimised to survive and flourish often at the cost of others and without compassion. Grace balances nature.\u003cp\u003eSome of that is quoted  from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (see Book 3, Chapter 54):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/imitation/imb3c51-59.html#RTFToC290\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leaderu.com\u0026#x2F;cyber\u0026#x2F;books\u0026#x2F;imitation\u0026#x2F;imb3c51-59.html...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7662873","id":"7664364"}
{"by":"kstenerud","time":"1414693803","timestamp":"2014-10-30 18:30:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not so much the question as the pattern (either noticing a new pattern, or the break of an existing pattern).\nEverything operates in patterns, and some are more pleasing or more jarring than others. In either of these cases, it may spur you into investigating further, which may lead to an interesting discovery. Whether that discovery is useful or beautiful to other people or not is irrelevant.","parent":"8534630","id":"8534820"}
{"by":"ajanuary","time":"1387375502","timestamp":"2013-12-18 14:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could only keep the detail in memory for a particular window of time.\u003cp\u003eFor example, keep a rolling window of two or three hours of trace logging in memory. If the number of errors in that window passes a threshold, write the full trace out to disk, otherwise just write the info logging.\u003cp\u003eYou save on disk space while having detailed logging around errors.","parent":"6927463","id":"6927521"}
{"by":"jrs95","time":"1501020413","timestamp":"2017-07-25 22:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure a $15 an hour national minimum wage would do a pretty good job of that. Especially since that\u0026#x27;s nearly the median income in the poorer parts of the country.","parent":"14851603","id":"14852313"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1508503938","timestamp":"2017-10-20 12:52:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t organic food more costly to make?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I do recognize that it\u0026#x27;s not enough and we all need to basically go back pre-industrial lifestyles to really make enough of a change to matter.\u003cp\u003eBah.  Charge a dollar per kg of carbon released and the problem will almost solve itself.  It\u0026#x27;s much more a problem of political will than it is a problem of technical capability.","parent":"15504537","id":"15515335"}
{"by":"goblin89","time":"1424083317","timestamp":"2015-02-16 10:41:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; 75% of my work relates to child exploitation material, and an enormous amount of child abuse material disappeared from easy access when mega-upload went down.\u003cp\u003eHowever, this apparently did not serve as the grounds for punishment, and is not mentioned in statements quoted in the article—the whole deal seems to hinge on copyright infringement allegations.","parent":"9056134","id":"9056196"}
{"by":"Torn","time":"1413671969","timestamp":"2014-10-18 22:39:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to wikipedia\u0026#x27;s uncited \u0026#x27;performance characteristics\u0026#x27; section of their page on K (programming language):\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  The small size of the interpreter and compact syntax of the language makes it possible for K applications to fit entirely within the level 1 cache of the processor.\u003cp\u003eSounds like the overhead\u0026#x27;s acceptable?\u003cp\u003e.\u003cp\u003eEdit: the following page (2002) says\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Even though K is an interpreted language, the source code is somewhat compiled internally, but not into abstract machine code like Java or Python. The interpreter can be invoked interactively or non-interactively, and you can also compile a source file down to a binary file for product distribution, if you wish.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/14/22741/791\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kuro5hin.org\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;2002\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;14\u0026#x2F;22741\u0026#x2F;791\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8476563","id":"8476589"}
{"by":"podperson","time":"1314225808","timestamp":"2011-08-24 22:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft Surface came out _after_ the iPhone. But what the hell does that have to do with anything?","parent":"2919432","id":"2922794"}
{"by":"sixtofour","time":"1311961371","timestamp":"2011-07-29 17:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe that was too blunt.\u003cp\u003eI've watched these kinds of complaints and calls for correction/improvement/action for some time.\u003cp\u003eI come to HN late to the party, so I don't miss the old days as much as the first residents. In fact I'm probably one of the people ruining the party, for some of the longer residents.\u003cp\u003eI come to HN every day, because HN is the most interesting site on the web. I suspect that the earlier residents still come to HN daily or with some regularity, for similar reasons.\u003cp\u003eWhile I understand the dismay that earlier residents might have in reaction to the changes, these changes are all but inevitable as a more diverse crowd comes in. This is compounded by HN's relatively poor interface, especially in relation to the current complaint.\u003cp\u003eI don't mean to put words in pg's mouth. I doubt that there's much \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e incentive for pg to address all the mechanical issues in HN. He has many other interests, and he probably does well to attend to those before this.\u003cp\u003eGiven the realistic improbability of large interface changes, the only thing left is to restrict membership to invite only. Otherwise you'll experience a slow retreat (as you are) from posts that longer residents like, as HN's low but strong buzz spreads.\u003cp\u003eSince mechanical and membership (I'm guessing) changes are unlikely, the most practical thing for any individual is to not worry about it.","parent":"2822358","id":"2822926"}
{"by":"umanwizard","time":"1391400830","timestamp":"2014-02-03 04:13:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone has figured out how to do JS injection: \u003ca href=\"http://kurikku.com/s/52ef1679e4b0630f318682c5\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kurikku.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;52ef1679e4b0630f318682c5\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7168547","id":"7168785"}
{"by":"jastanton","time":"1420567232","timestamp":"2015-01-06 18:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like she will be getting plenty of socialization in this new program, and because she is finishing highschool online she is going to get a well rounded education. I don\u0026#x27;t see this any different than a Montessori or a trade school route.\u003cp\u003eIt may not be the right trend to set for everyone but I think it\u0026#x27;s just as naïve to think that traditional public \u0026#x2F; private highschool or homeschool \u0026#x2F; online school is the right path for everyone. It\u0026#x27;s a case by case basis, Our school system as we know it hasn\u0026#x27;t been around for very long and as a matter of a fact is criticized pretty heavy for being inefficient. I wasn\u0026#x27;t around in the Greek \u0026#x2F; Roman days but I\u0026#x27;m sure they did things pretty different and they probably had inefficiencies and benefits to what they did.\u003cp\u003eLastly I feel a lot of the criticism comes from FUD. Finding something you love to do is not as common as you might think and is a huge factor in success. I took an unconventional education myself and found the most important aspect of all my of learning was that I did something I loved and I tackled it hard which lit my desires for all kinds of other knowledge.","parent":"8845342","id":"8845875"}
{"by":"djcapelis","time":"1293274080","timestamp":"2010-12-25 10:48:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can make the FSM repeat the addition, but you can't give it the memory it needs to know when to stop.\u003cp\u003eIf you need more explanation just try implementing it, you should see where the problem is fairly quickly.  :)","parent":"2038710","id":"2038786"}
{"by":"justaguyhere","time":"1534512442","timestamp":"2018-08-17 13:27:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just curious, how does copyright work in this case? To summarize someone\u0026#x27;s book (especially if we are selling the summaries), don\u0026#x27;t we have to get permission from the book\u0026#x27;s authors?","parent":"17781098","id":"17782634"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1391528563","timestamp":"2014-02-04 15:42:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It does not impose any extra constraint on the design of a telescope, and very little help telling where to point it, or how to analize the data.\u003cp\u003eOur current telescopes probably aren\u0026#x27;t good enough to catch a small hot object by now, but there is nothing to gain from explicitly including that as a goal.","parent":"7177196","id":"7178086"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1363395209","timestamp":"2013-03-16 00:53:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, actually Instagram had around 30 million users at the time of acquisition and according to the linked article Formspring also had around 30 million users at one point.\u003cp\u003eHaving said that, I never used Formspring and didn't know anyone who ever had.","parent":"5383838","id":"5383879"}
{"by":"mindhunters","time":"1508698773","timestamp":"2017-10-22 18:59:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a problem with apps, but we should look at it from another angle. We all know that in the app store and play market popular apps become more popular over time and it is difficult for smaller companies to promote their products even if their solution is better.\u003cp\u003eApp market is now a market of couple dozens of apps that make up the most amount of revenue.\nFor small developers, there is a too little chance to be seen at all.\u003cp\u003eActually, the whole article makes sense. Nowadays, we all see that it\u0026#x27;s difficult for small startups to promote themselves. The privilege on major platforms is given to those who pay more(ex: Google). Even if one company gains enough traction and begins to become successful, another larger corporation buys it (in best case) or makes everything to not let small competitor get larger market share. That\u0026#x27;a a very big problem that if not solved will result in a slower progress rate.","parent":"15527530","id":"15528323"}
{"by":"shdon","time":"1322916847","timestamp":"2011-12-03 12:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Countermeasures don't appear to be all that necessary, if the attack itself is ineffective. The results seem to be quite random, placing me at sites I've never been on and not noticing ones that I do visit regularly, such as Twitter and Facebook.","parent":"3307401","id":"3307632"}
{"by":"noir_lord","time":"1470415298","timestamp":"2016-08-05 16:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I stopped paying attention to be BMI, I\u0026#x27;m 6ft, 190lbs and have a 32\u0026quot; waist and it has me right on the edge of been overweight.\u003cp\u003eI think given that many people don\u0026#x27;t realise how inaccurate it is I might even class it as harmful.","parent":"12232752","id":"12233724"}
{"by":"julian55","time":"1467668960","timestamp":"2016-07-04 21:49:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m also Britsh and find this annoying but it does seems to be on the increase here.  Quite often shop assistants ask you how your day has been or what you\u0026#x27;ve got planned for the rest of the day.  I wonder if they\u0026#x27;ve been trained to do that or it\u0026#x27;s something that they have picked up from the US.","parent":"12033054","id":"12033207"}
{"by":"ashleyn","time":"1545322494","timestamp":"2018-12-20 16:14:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s very obvious that the author has an extreme pro-socialist bias. How is suburban living \u0026quot;conservative\u0026quot;?","parent":"18726086","id":"18726140"}
{"by":"thisjepisje","time":"1424019726","timestamp":"2015-02-15 17:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Curious what effect this will have on comment upvotes.","parent":"9052128","id":"9053156"}
{"by":"brianmcc","time":"1543422313","timestamp":"2018-11-28 16:25:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds a sensitive one :-)  Technically I meant making them not fitting them, but mea culpa, the whole horseshoe area is not my domain so I\u0026#x27;ll watch my step!","parent":"18552626","id":"18552784"}
{"by":"gniquil","time":"1401122333","timestamp":"2014-05-26 16:38:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And of course someone should make storify for this once it gets popular.","parent":"7800062","id":"7800455"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1540453611","timestamp":"2018-10-25 07:46:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That in itself wouldn\u0026#x27;t change the incentives too much.  Government grant boards don\u0026#x27;t like that you \u0026#x27;waste\u0026#x27; their money either and come up with \u0026#x27;nothing\u0026#x27;.","parent":"18298992","id":"18299209"}
{"by":"nunez","time":"1516195832","timestamp":"2018-01-17 13:30:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why?","parent":"16167316","id":"16167697"}
{"by":"daxelrod","time":"1503242801","timestamp":"2017-08-20 15:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Private browsing is NOT secure.\u003cp\u003eSecurity is not an absolute. The best you can do is talk about whether something addresses a particular threat model.\u003cp\u003eThere are different tradeoffs to Tor. A big downside is that unencrypted traffic is now \u003ci\u003eeasier\u003c/i\u003e for intermediaries to read and even change, because of how exit nodes work.","parent":"15052407","id":"15058781"}
{"by":"throwaway1zz","time":"1498182852","timestamp":"2017-06-23 01:54:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with some parts of your answer but I have always wondered do u really evaluate the capabilities solely on an ability to solve these mind bending problems, there are lot of folks who might not know how to get an exact solution for a crazy hard dp problem but are very good devs and vice versa is also true a good cs interview might not necessarily translate to a great dev in a real world scenario.","parent":"14616507","id":"14616655"}
{"by":"grabcocque","time":"1448538529","timestamp":"2015-11-26 11:48:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a weird sort of universality that excludes the oldest and biggest mass transit systems, the London Underground and the New York Subway.","parent":"10632391","id":"10632538"}
{"by":"alansmitheebk","time":"1434728608","timestamp":"2015-06-19 15:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely not true.","parent":"9744144","id":"9745513"}
{"by":"ed_balls","time":"1490822708","timestamp":"2017-03-29 21:25:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And also the delivery of goods.","parent":"13989920","id":"13990709"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1279480031","timestamp":"2010-07-18 19:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"or the other way around, the iPhone (FaceTime) ads are built around the same structure and the idea of playing hearts like a fiddle. Except where the carousel brings backs the past, FaceTime gives you the present.","parent":"1526442","id":"1526459"}
{"by":"pdkl95","time":"1443983263","timestamp":"2015-10-04 18:27:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Ok, do you seriously not understand what it means to not want every website you come across to look the same?\u003cp\u003eYes. Does you get annoyed that most books have the same formatting - a style you \u003ci\u003edidn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e get to choose? My mother absolutely loves her kindle, because it let her do exactly what I\u0026#x27;m talking about and apply a font that she can actually read to all books.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; how can 1 design or style even work for the entire range of websites and web apps?\u003cp\u003eOf course not. That\u0026#x27;s why HTML let you specify styling to override the default stylesheet in the cases when it is important.\u003cp\u003eMore importantly, I never said anything about \u003ci\u003enot styling your pages\u003c/i\u003e, nor did I claim one style should apply to ll pages on the internet. I replied to a post complaining about the \u003ci\u003eDEFAULT STYLE\u003c/i\u003e. I suggested that it is the responsibility of the client to render that style as they like.\u003cp\u003eHow, exactly, does this get in the way of your ability to apply formatting?","parent":"10328063","id":"10328318"}
{"by":"WillSlim95","time":"1520238798","timestamp":"2018-03-05 08:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh That is weird, As an Indian I have to ask you to  cite a source. My mom is a middle school teacher and I studied in the same school I remember the ratio of female to male teachers at around 7:1 and similar ratios were through out schools in the city","parent":"16511047","id":"16519620"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1366649251","timestamp":"2013-04-22 16:47:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's also a bunch of stuff between error and malice. As we saw yesterday here, it's very obvious in pharmaceutical research, where the stuff getting funded and published is often heavily biased despite the best intentions of everybody (or almost everybody).\u003cp\u003eI suspect there are plenty of similar issues in economics. People with money are much more likely to support researchers whose work benefits or protects people with money. E.g., I happened to read a paper from a U of Chicago prof arguing that insider trading is actually beneficial. Boy, I wonder who the big donors are there. Probably not Mother Jones Magazine.","parent":"5590012","id":"5590289"}
{"by":"dustingetz","time":"1519931602","timestamp":"2018-03-01 19:13:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"remote or Philadelphia\u003cp\u003eDustin and Karl are the founders of Hyperfiddle. We are co-located and share an office in Philadelphia, PA.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hyperfiddle-consulting.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hyperfiddle-consulting.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull-stack application development. We can handle anything–the crazier, the better.\u003cp\u003eReact.js, Redux, Javascript, ClojureScript, Clojure, Scala, Java, Meteor and MongoDB, Datomic","parent":"16492996","id":"16495140"}
{"by":"admoin","time":"1240026137","timestamp":"2009-04-18 03:42:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's interesting that they chose to focus on undergrad business students rather than MBAs. I would guess that undergrad biz majors are going to be more flexible about career options than MBA students.","parent":"567948","id":"568015"}
{"by":"ghrifter","time":"1452701852","timestamp":"2016-01-13 16:17:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So then when you were installing Visual Studio did you do the \u0026quot;recommended\u0026quot; installation or did you customize?\u003cp\u003eEven with customization its a bit bloated, but you can totally avoid a SQL Server Express installation.","parent":"10895252","id":"10895362"}
{"by":"greglindahl","time":"1478201618","timestamp":"2016-11-03 19:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cite?","parent":"12866574","id":"12867204"}
{"by":"dangrover","time":"1227561873","timestamp":"2008-11-24 21:24:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a shame, particularly if this effect becomes pronounced elsewhere.\u003cp\u003eThere's been a lot written about the psychological/sociological role of places like cafes and bars:\n\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Place\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Place\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"375170","id":"375419"}
{"by":"Maro","time":"1356177297","timestamp":"2012-12-22 11:54:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently learned Haskell and am writing code in it on a daily basis, although I'm still a novice.\u003cp\u003eIn my limited experience, Haskell is like any other PL, you can write clean, readable code or a horrible mess.\u003cp\u003eMy major concern with Haskell right now is with maintainability/changability of code. One recent example that bit me in the ass was: I wrote an elegant solution to check whether a list of files exists, using sth like foldr (\u0026#38;\u0026#38;) True doesFileExist. Then I realized I really need to print out which file is actually missing, but only the first N to avoid flooding the user with error messages. At this point FP becomes a pain IMO, and it'd be much easier to add a counter variable and printfs in the imperative program and move on. Actually this is fairly common, think about adding printfs for debugging: not so easy in Haskell, as IO changes the type signatures of the function and its callers. So, in my limited experience, changing code in Haskell is expensive and its effect are not localized.","parent":"4956303","id":"4956407"}
{"by":"falsedan","time":"1506512723","timestamp":"2017-09-27 11:45:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think the BMW factory has more to do with that","parent":"15345353","id":"15346792"}
{"by":"TAForObvReasons","time":"1523375575","timestamp":"2018-04-10 15:52:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every single regulation starts from an \u0026quot;untenable place\u0026quot;, almost by definition.  What happens in every industry is \u0026quot;abuse\u0026quot; -\u0026gt; \u0026quot;collective realization that there\u0026#x27;s a problem\u0026quot; -\u0026gt; \u0026quot;close the hole that allowed the abuse to happen\u0026quot;.  Self-regulation is only a solution if the industry at large addresses the concerns early and acts in good faith.  That did not and is currently not happening with SV and data privacy.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that FB can\u0026#x27;t give a straight answer, and it has to be dragged out with revelations of increasing scale, is a big part of why public sentiment favors more external regulation.","parent":"16801981","id":"16802281"}
{"by":"pdkl95","time":"1452284611","timestamp":"2016-01-08 20:23:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is hard about authentication? This was trivial along time ago with mutt and it was still trivial in recent years with thunderbird+enigmail. If your complain is that your favorite email client doesn\u0026#x27;t support pubkey authentication, complain to the vendor.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing that should even be relevant re: usability is the need to occasionally enter a password. This is even minimized with gpg-agent (or similar), which we can assume is something that would be setup by IT anyway along with everything else related to email.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; C suite\u003cp\u003eThen educate them about the need. Even better, educate the \u003ci\u003elawyers\u003c/i\u003e about why authorizing large purchases (i.e. the type of scam currently being discussed) without proper authentication is an unacceptable risk.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; it can\u0026#x27;t help to prevent things like this\u003cp\u003eWhile you cannot fix a stupid CxO, the problem of deciding if a particular email claiming to to be from that CxO authorizing a purchase order is actually from that CxO is easy.\u003cp\u003eRemember, we only need to solve the internal case, where it is easy to setup PKI. I believe there are even several solutions already available[1] for directory services and key management. Run some sort of local directory service and a local CA and a decent email client should make authentically \u003ci\u003ecompletely transparent\u003c/i\u003e for internal emails.","parent":"10867772","id":"10867920"}
{"by":"willholloway","time":"1367588415","timestamp":"2013-05-03 13:40:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe ubiquitous wireless internet attached to an abundance of sensors will change life on earth in ways we are just starting to understand.","parent":"5649338","id":"5650027"}
{"by":"gruseom","time":"1226631991","timestamp":"2008-11-14 03:06:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it interesting that the word \"millionaire\" still has the emotional allure it had in the 1920s, despite having deflated so drastically that \"billionaire\" would now be a more correct equivalent.","parent":"363839","id":"363898"}
{"by":"tehlike","time":"1540760642","timestamp":"2018-10-28 21:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, but the point was all of this is context dependent.\u003cp\u003eFor example, if you are involved in a 3rd party bidding where you bid on some other network\u0026#x27;s impression, you\u0026#x27;ll have a deadline to respond with a bid. Let\u0026#x27;s say that deadline is 500ms (it\u0026#x27;s not). 100ms increase in median would lose _significant_ amount of impressions in that case.","parent":"18322792","id":"18323184"}
{"by":"ced_vdb","time":"1476492549","timestamp":"2016-10-15 00:49:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there anything in favor of the war on drugs ? I heard portugal made every drug legal and the amount of addicts has plumeted.","parent":"12712081","id":"12712106"}
{"by":"0xcde4c3db","time":"1507474652","timestamp":"2017-10-08 14:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The scaling of marginal vs. NRE costs (not to mention core-limited vs. pad-limited chip area) has put us in the somewhat odd situation that it\u0026#x27;s actually cheaper to crank out an SoC capable of running an emulator than it is to implement the thing you want in \u0026lt; 1% of the transistors.","parent":"15427801","id":"15428446"}
{"by":"khaki54","time":"1413549241","timestamp":"2014-10-17 12:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t get past the author claiming that linking to an article in its published location is somehow akin to stealing the article and publishing it in a compilation book without permission.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s more like pointing someone to a bookstore and saying \u0026quot;check out this great book\u0026quot;.","parent":"8466053","id":"8470600"}
{"by":"thomnottom","time":"1489764637","timestamp":"2017-03-17 15:30:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;If someone isn\u0026#x27;t sure how they feel about a movie, why is it a benefit to have them spew their half-formed thoughts into a like\u0026#x2F;dislike rating?\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s pretty harsh.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve watched plenty of movies that I enjoyed and would give a thumbs up but aren\u0026#x27;t sure whether it should be a 3 or 4 star movie. There\u0026#x27;s movies I love but consider too flawed to give 5 stars. And I find little difference between 1 and 2 stars other than the level of regret for wasting my time.\u003cp\u003eOverall I rarely bother rating things on Netflix because it just doesn\u0026#x27;t feel worth it. So they get nothing out of me, whereas with a thumbs up or down I am more likely to chime in.","parent":"13893859","id":"13894707"}
{"by":"tugberkk","time":"1512465333","timestamp":"2017-12-05 09:15:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are not \u0026#x27;slow\u0026#x27;, I don\u0026#x27;t think it is necessary. Of course, if you are working in a job which requires you to scan many things, of course go for it.\u003cp\u003eI do it unintentionally. Probably because of how I learned to read. I also have very fast recognition of stuff so probably that is the reason. I am of course faster when I am reading novels and stuff, but I must say that \u0026#x27;visualization part\u0026#x27; which you have while reading fiction is gone with me. I just scan and understand, and try to learn what happens next instead of creating a scene of that page etc.","parent":"15848381","id":"15850705"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1469907874","timestamp":"2016-07-30 19:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eIt seems designed for sys admins who don\u0026#x27;t like windows (quite funny)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s designed first and foremost for developers deploying on UNIX\u0026#x2F;Linux.","parent":"12192665","id":"12194389"}
{"by":"echelon","time":"1479679692","timestamp":"2016-11-20 22:08:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not familiar with this discipline. What might this subject matter be used for? Is this related to ML in a broader sense?","parent":"13001068","id":"13001562"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1504797188","timestamp":"2017-09-07 15:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Chiefs became lords.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThey became feudal lords by accepting the King of Scots as their feudal overlord - this is what gave them the \u0026quot;ownership\u0026quot; of lands that had previously been held communally.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;The Poor Had No Lawyers - ho Owns Scotland and How They Got it\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e covers this and much more:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B006WB2E9Q\u0026#x2F;ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;btkr=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B006WB2E9Q\u0026#x2F;ref=dp-kindle-redirec...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eScotland has had well over a thousand years of legal shenanigans around land ownership - it is amazingly complex for such a small country.","parent":"15192160","id":"15192572"}
{"by":"dedward","time":"1289663065","timestamp":"2010-11-13 15:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook has a phenomenal amount of organized data about their customers, and a reasonable amount of unorganized data.\u003cp\u003eIt's a data miner's heaven.\u003cp\u003ePeople leaving for potential higher pay, when it's a lot higher, is natural. \nAlso, working for a non-public company is often quite different than a public one. Facebook is private, so we really have no idea what it's like to work there, and they can do pretty much whatever they want with their money.\u003cp\u003eAlso - engineers who can cop 3.5 million dollar raises just to stay somewhere aren't really concerned about job stability, yeah? They can find work easily.","parent":"1900889","id":"1900966"}
{"by":"nickgrosvenor","time":"1444162494","timestamp":"2015-10-06 20:14:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Redfin is more accurate than zillow, They list new listings much faster and the interface is better. I\u0026#x27;m in LA and redfin is superior.","parent":"10340262","id":"10341998"}
{"by":"michaelsbradley","time":"1446825357","timestamp":"2015-11-06 15:55:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have found memories of playing around in IDLE while reading through \u003ci\u003eHow to Think Like a Computer Scientist\u003c/i\u003e, back in 2003\u0026#x2F;4.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.greenteapress.com\u0026#x2F;thinkpython\u0026#x2F;html\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.greenteapress.com\u0026#x2F;thinkpython\u0026#x2F;html\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10519785","id":"10520086"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1522347695","timestamp":"2018-03-29 18:21:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, this startup is headquartered in Miami, FL, and is selling randomly amounts of random cryptocurrencies to people who pay a defined amount of real US currency.\u003cp\u003eThat is, it looks remarkably like a private, for-profit lottery. The operation of which, and even knowing assistance or promotion of which, is a third-degree felony under Florida state law. [0]\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leg.state.fl.us\u0026#x2F;Statutes\u0026#x2F;index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute\u0026amp;Search_String=\u0026amp;URL=0800-0899\u0026#x2F;0849\u0026#x2F;Sections\u0026#x2F;0849.09.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leg.state.fl.us\u0026#x2F;Statutes\u0026#x2F;index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16708526","id":"16709592"}
{"by":"kgo","time":"1294188520","timestamp":"2011-01-05 00:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well yeah, but that's the whole point of the original article we're linking to, right?  They're not the biggest band of a generation, they're not the current KISS-FM darlings, and they're still raking in the money by touring non-stop, building a dedicated fan base, and giving a good show.\u003cp\u003eI think if you asked most people, even the ones who aren't old and 50, to make a list of the top ten tours this year...  It'd be easy to guess the expensive shows for the baby boomers (Eagles, etc) and the hip acts for the kids (Lady GaGa, Black Eyed Peas).  But I don't think many people would peg the Dave Matthews Band.\u003cp\u003eThat's why I thought the article was interesting.  Not because Bon Jovi is awesome and Dave Matthews is lame or vice versa...","parent":"2069176","id":"2069289"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1473694908","timestamp":"2016-09-12 15:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not very impressed with \u0026quot;the whole purpose of CSS\u0026quot;. CSS made a ton of design mistakes which we\u0026#x27;re still living with today.\u003cp\u003eA big design mistake was the global cascading\u0026#x2F;inheritance system. It\u0026#x27;s a huge pain to write CSS that doesn\u0026#x27;t leak into nooks and crannies where it shouldn\u0026#x27;t. CSS is supposed to be modular, but you can\u0026#x27;t just import someone\u0026#x27;s stylesheet (e.g. for embedding something in your page, like a video player) and trust that it won\u0026#x27;t override everything around you, intentionally or accidentally.\u003cp\u003eMore than that, CSS was designed for \u0026quot;styling documents\u0026quot; — the idea being that you could display the same document with different stylesheets, sort of like themes, and so the stylesheet obviously had to be separate from the document. But almost nobody who uses CSS these days do it to \u0026quot;style\u0026quot; anything, let alone \u0026quot;documents\u0026quot;. One particularly egregious issue coming from this design is the attempt to separate layout from content, when in truth layout \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e content, and for pretty much any application today, the style is also content. We\u0026#x27;re well beyond the point where an HTML document can be \u0026quot;semantic\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eShadow DOM may be the way forward in the future, but CSS Modules is a nice stopgap solution, at least, and you can use them with React + PostCSS (+ SASS) + Webpack in a nicely seamless way, without requiring any browser support.","parent":"12479565","id":"12480654"}
{"by":"aqme28","time":"1342107161","timestamp":"2012-07-12 15:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the reply to that is that there is no criteria requiring intent in this law.","parent":"4234927","id":"4235036"}
{"by":"calibraxis","time":"1372021682","timestamp":"2013-06-23 21:08:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a recent philosophical interview where middle-school students asked Chomsky some questions: (\u003ca href=\"http://www.zcommunications.org/noam-chomsky-beyond-fascism-by-noam-chomsky\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zcommunications.org\u0026#x2F;noam-chomsky-beyond-fascism-b...\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eI liked the discussion of proto-humans, and comparisons to other species. Helps put our violence and self-destructiveness into perspective for me.","parent":"5929373","id":"5929471"}
{"by":"jghn","time":"1425678207","timestamp":"2015-03-06 21:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Absolutely agree, it\u0026#x27;s just that it doesn\u0026#x27;t always happen. I tell every new boss that I\u0026#x27;ll be completely upfront w\u0026#x2F; them regarding my thoughts on how things are going, if I\u0026#x27;m thinking of jumping ship, etc - but in return I expect them to do the same.\u003cp\u003eIdeally both sides are on the same page at any point of time as to what the situation is.","parent":"9159507","id":"9159761"}
{"by":"marmaduke","time":"1519718057","timestamp":"2018-02-27 07:54:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks great. I’m deploying JLab as the new front end to the HPC cluster I maintain and users like it.\u003cp\u003eAnyone know of good list of extensions like this?","parent":"16467973","id":"16471774"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1505898877","timestamp":"2017-09-20 09:14:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mining power was shown to be overrated by the failure of multiple miner driven or supported proposals and the success of the user-activated Segwit soft fork.\u003cp\u003eThe idea of the UASF was that miners would be economically incentivized to follow user nodes signaling and then enforcing new rules - and that is exactly what happen.\u003cp\u003eIt is also not out of the question to alter how blocks are mined in Bitcoin - Ethereum is doing that in an upcoming hard fork[0].\u003cp\u003eWith Bitcoin it would be possible to not only introduce a new PoW with a soft-fork, or introduce multiple proof of work methods so that each has a difficulty target and no one PoW has a geographic, technological or regulatory advantage allowing it to achieve more than 100 \u0026#x2F; number_of_proofs_of_work% hashrate\u003cp\u003e[0] Ethereum is transition from proof-of-work to a combined proof-of-work\u0026#x2F;proof-of-stake with the Casper project \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ethereum\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Casper-Version-1-Implementation-Guide\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ethereum\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Casper-Version-1-I...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15291591","id":"15291886"}
{"by":"zvanness","time":"1456868314","timestamp":"2016-03-01 21:38:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK - Remote, San Francisco, Washington D.C\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a full stack developer and designer.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll build you a minimal lovable product for a fixed fee and in 4 weeks.\u003cp\u003eFor iOS apps, I use Swift. For web apps, I use Ruby\u0026#x2F;Rails, JavaScript.\u003cp\u003eTo see some of my recent work:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;breue.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;breue.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\u0026#x2F;zachvanness\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\u0026#x2F;zachvanness\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy email: zach@breue.com","parent":"11202955","id":"11206295"}
{"by":"osweiller","time":"1459785457","timestamp":"2016-04-04 15:57:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eNow, you want to argue that among people who buy a new car,\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis conversation is specifically and only about new cars, in this case the Tesla Model 3. It is outrageous that you\u0026#x27;re implying that I\u0026#x27;m the one diverting the conversation, when the very root post by dionidium was a completely irrelevant non-sequitur as they injected some completely irrelevant sociology bias into the conversation. If we were discussing the average price of a fast food meal, would a comment about a Cup O\u0026#x27; Noodles have any relevance?\u003cp\u003eNo one cares to argue what people pay for used cars, or for no car at all, because that is \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eirrelevant\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e to this discussion.","parent":"11422773","id":"11422862"}
{"by":"theorique","time":"1373993374","timestamp":"2013-07-16 16:49:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. I suspect he was always an easily-frustrated, OCD, crabby hacker.\u003cp\u003eAnd those aspects of his personality would be exaggerated by the level of communication and questions and input that he\u0026#x27;s come to receive over the years.\u003cp\u003eDoesn\u0026#x27;t make it \u0026#x27;right\u0026#x27;, or \u0026#x27;kind\u0026#x27;, but I suppose it gets things done.","parent":"6052354","id":"6053043"}
{"by":"lkozma","time":"1299858362","timestamp":"2011-03-11 15:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe because bookmarking is a bit like TODO apps: not technically difficult to do but everyone hates using someone else's system. Of course, Delicious was the exception :)","parent":"2313562","id":"2313701"}
{"by":"andrew-lucker","time":"1457844907","timestamp":"2016-03-13 04:55:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First game, AlphaGo looked ambiguously weak until end of mid-game when it suddenly looked very strong.\u003cp\u003eSecond game, AlphaGo looked obviously strong throughout.\u003cp\u003eSo the probabilities are maybe not entirely wrong.\u003cp\u003eFor reference I am 4k rating, somewhat below darkforest(1d amateur) and so very very far from 9dan pros that AlphaGo is beating. Usually, pro matches are hard to understand but the excellent commentary and abundant community analysis helps greatly.","parent":"11275659","id":"11276285"}
{"by":"namecast","time":"1411742520","timestamp":"2014-09-26 14:42:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For now I\u0026#x27;m going to offer gut feeling. Take this or leave it - I wrote two paragraphs here that essentially came down to an argument to an authority re: my personal experience and the opinions people who know who trade. That\u0026#x27;s shitty logic, so let\u0026#x27;s go with gut feeling for now...\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t believe that the same specific bug has manifested itself across many many different HFT algorithms run by many different actors over a long period of time, in a way that loses money consistently for everyone involved whenever the bug is triggered, without ever being addressed by anyone.\u003cp\u003eTo argue otherwise is contrary to my current understanding of software engineering best practices - imagine another industry where every service provider has the same bug manifest in the same way, across all their different software stacks - some running Java, some Python, some even with their own proprietary languages -  and no one ever catches it even though it\u0026#x27;s losing money and it\u0026#x27;s occurence is easily identifiable on a time-series graph (so very easy to be matched up with all available logging data)? No one has the resources to throw a team of devs at this for 6 months to identify the bug, or they do and they\u0026#x27;re just willing to lose money and not make every last nickel they can? Not a single person is trying to reach for that lost money with a bug fix or a novel tweak to their own existing algo? For years?\u003cp\u003eI believe it\u0026#x27;s more likely that either the actors who are quote stuffing believe they are benefiting by tipping their hand early with false information, or they actually are benefiting.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s hard to imagine how these actors could be benefiting; perhaps they believe that someone is watching their quotes in transit or has visibility into their quotes before trades are executed, and the quote-stuffers are trying to fake these malicious actors out?\u003cp\u003eThe alternative scenario where quote-stuffers are not benefiting from their actions - or rather, that they aren\u0026#x27;t even operating under the irrational assumption that they are benefiting (because the quote stuffers could be stuffing intentionally but incorrectly) - seems much more implausible.\u003cp\u003eIt seems to involve a whole lot more things going wrong in a very specific very atypical way,from a software development standpoint, with no one every interested in picking up the money they\u0026#x27;re dropping on the floor due to this bug when things go wrong, over the course of years, even though all the data to pinpoint the source of the bug is public, charted, and discussed openly.\u003cp\u003eThe first scenario just requires a quote stuffer to hold a possibly incorrect belief about the other actors in the market. The second requires multiple specific distinct software development failures to line up like dominoes and stay lined up without anyone ever addressing their root causes.\u003cp\u003eBut who knows :) \u0026lt;shrug\u0026gt; Trading is chaos, after all.","parent":"8372498","id":"8372868"}
{"by":"bro-stick","time":"1439595893","timestamp":"2015-08-14 23:44:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My family is conserving water in N California to water 100 ft (30 m) trees to prevent them from weakening and being colonized by borer insects which will then kill the trees.  Having a tall dead around suburban homes is a very dangerous thing.  They\u0026#x27;re also in an extremely risky area for fast-moving forest fires and a dried tree is fuel too.  In addition to enough water, trees often need systemics (chemical treatment if there are specific pests) and annual inspections by arborists.","parent":"10062978","id":"10063655"}
{"by":"quesera","time":"1481227498","timestamp":"2016-12-08 20:04:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well of course I\u0026#x27;m coming from my own context, where remote mission critical servers are the norm.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that the mistake you made was not knowing your tools, and being careless. That can\u0026#x27;t be an acceptable combination.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, automated grading is useless, and your role might never involve the same concerns about recoverability.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a big industry, but in my little corner of it, a person who locked themselves out of root during an interview would be very hard to support in a hiring meeting.","parent":"13133055","id":"13133770"}
{"by":"jakobegger","time":"1448923606","timestamp":"2015-11-30 22:46:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After a few days of sleeping only 6 hours I get irritable and slow though, and then I\u0026#x27;ll fall asleep on the couch in the afternoon. It\u0026#x27;s not sustainable, and probably not healthy.","parent":"10651094","id":"10652461"}
{"by":"rodgerd","time":"1444208883","timestamp":"2015-10-07 09:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It says a lot about a chunk of the population that being a small, fairly obscure subreddit will generally result in Good Things, but becoming a default will quickly result in being overrun by racists, gay-haters, mysoginists, and suchlike.\u003cp\u003eHeaven help you if your small subreddit attracts the attention of KiA, redpill, or the like, unless you enjoy a constant stream of filth from rape apologists.","parent":"10344725","id":"10344935"}
{"by":"nathancahill","time":"1473516002","timestamp":"2016-09-10 14:00:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool project, but the pictures look like you walked down the street randomly pressing the shutter. Would be interesting to see some photos that had some thought put into them.","parent":"12460858","id":"12469218"}
{"by":"craigds","time":"1501183262","timestamp":"2017-07-27 19:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In NZ we definitely pronounce it \u0026quot;historic\u0026quot;. But that doesn\u0026#x27;t stop the news anchors from saying \u0026quot;an historic\u0026quot;. It sounds ridiculous","parent":"14867058","id":"14868489"}
{"by":"pacaro","time":"1389888196","timestamp":"2014-01-16 16:03:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This strikes me as an instance of \u0026quot;The Blind Men and an Elephant\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very hard to pin down either necessary or sufficient skills for a developer, so we all focus on the things that have been relevant to us.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d add the following to the list: problem solving, critical thinking, social skills, egolessness","parent":"7069603","id":"7070089"}
{"by":"solotronics","time":"1435820724","timestamp":"2015-07-02 07:05:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the perspective of the ISP many customers are totally incapable of implementing NAT and waste IP addresses like they are dollar bills at the strip club.","parent":"9816508","id":"9817265"}
{"by":"mannykannot","time":"1508007962","timestamp":"2017-10-14 19:06:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would think that is possible, but the author seems to be claiming otherwise in the third-from-last paragraph.\u003cp\u003eOne consideration (not raised in the article) is that perhaps the people of South America (unlike the Polynesians) did not have the seagoing technology or know-how to make a round trip to the island, prior to the arrival of europeans.\u003cp\u003eThe English were relative latecomers among the European colonists of the americas, and by then smallpox and other diseases had spread widely. Apparently, the Wampanoag had suffered from an epidemic, now suspected to have been smallpox, in the years prior to the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Wampanoag\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Wampanoag\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15473404","id":"15473665"}
{"by":"igouy","time":"1304626571","timestamp":"2011-05-05 20:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; six places ahead ... five places ahead ...\u003cp\u003eThose tables do not show a rank # by each programming language implementation because that might encourage people to make a completely bogus comparison!\u003cp\u003e(For example, six places rather than five just because one table includes an extra programming language - Clean.)\u003cp\u003eYou're both being silly! \"The numbers\" for Go 6g and OCaml overlap and are quite similar.","parent":"2518653","id":"2518755"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1226672611","timestamp":"2008-11-14 14:23:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Balsamiq is fascinating because following Peldi's discourse is almost like a real-time Harvard Business School case study on an evolving, successful business (not that HBS would study microISVs in the first place). Congratulations, here's to scaling to $1M!","parent":"364254","id":"364298"}
{"by":"zck","time":"1475758396","timestamp":"2016-10-06 12:53:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Names are exactly as easy to not change at comments are.","parent":"12651874","id":"12651976"}
{"by":"pentagonpapers","time":"1519788350","timestamp":"2018-02-28 03:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In e-commerce, order data and item level data can be exported to reported engines to gather info but you can pseudorandom the names to prevent data leakage","parent":"16477672","id":"16480455"}
{"by":"Udo","time":"1380870384","timestamp":"2013-10-04 07:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you read the rest of my comment? Was I really \u0026quot;sugarcoating\u0026quot; it when I said they intentionally and needlessly crippled full screen?","parent":"6494077","id":"6494110"}
{"by":"carbine","time":"1504728199","timestamp":"2017-09-06 20:03:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some people submit their DNA but switch up their gender so as to theoretically nullify the results for a potential future data breach. (Insurance providers being one concern here.)\u003cp\u003eDoes anyone know if\u0026#x2F;how 23andme addresses this, or do they care?","parent":"15186356","id":"15186677"}
{"by":"alex9439","time":"1360903498","timestamp":"2013-02-15 04:44:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"great post","parent":"5221635","dead":true,"id":"5224501"}
{"by":"snicklepuff","time":"1372724693","timestamp":"2013-07-02 00:24:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To imply that the US is somehow out of order to pursue his extradition makes no sense. What does he expect them to do?\u003cp\u003eIMHO, he should not have run. I don\u0026#x27;t think he would have any trouble convincing 12 people that what he did was the right thing. Running was bad form.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t like this guy, and I don\u0026#x27;t trust him.","parent":"5973896","id":"5974783"}
{"by":"mdip","time":"1436560309","timestamp":"2015-07-10 20:31:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used to do a bit of this and it\u0026#x27;s a sort-of paradox.  (I\u0026#x27;m referring entirely to my last job, not my current where I have not done hiring yet and we\u0026#x27;ve brought on several people in a very short period of time)\u003cp\u003eOn the one hand, we hire because we desperately need someone to fill a role we\u0026#x27;re now doing in addition to our current work.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, we are so miserably overwhelmed with work that going through the mess of things with HR to get everything figured out takes way longer than it should.  In the middle of that might also be something happening to the position itself -- it was open and available when we listed it, but now the company\u0026#x27;s financials came out and we don\u0026#x27;t know if the position is still available. So we sit on it, for weeks, waiting to hear back from a VP. It gets approved but, nuts, the candidate\u0026#x27;s found another job already.\u003cp\u003eBut within your question you seem to be asking for help in getting the job. You think you\u0026#x27;ve interviewed well so you might have been within the top few candidates and just didn\u0026#x27;t get selected.  The person who got selected, obviously, was notified. You were not and I guarantee that this will happen most of the time.  As an interviewer, we didn\u0026#x27;t handle any of that communication -- you came to me with a resume attached in an e-mail from our hiring team. I don\u0026#x27;t even know how to get in touch with you. It sucks and I\u0026#x27;m \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e sorry about that, but at a big corporation, it\u0026#x27;s pretty typical, unfortunately (and that speaks to a lot of other processes that tend towards being terribly impersonal).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d also hate to say it but too often I\u0026#x27;d be stuck between 4 adequate candidates and the decision came down to superficial things.  The best advice I can give you there is: add some superficial things.  Get the work mailing address of the person you interviewed with -- the one who is going to make the decision. Write a hand-written Thank You letter expressing your desire for the position. I\u0026#x27;ve gotten \u003ci\u003eone\u003c/i\u003e of those in my life, though I\u0026#x27;ve written one every time.  My boss was so impressed by that extra step that I \u003ci\u003edidn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e get to pick the person I wanted for the job in favor of the other gal.  She turned out to be a fantastic hire, so no hard feelings, but she literally won out because of a thank-you note.\u003cp\u003eEdit: To clarify I\u0026#x27;m referring to a large corporation, not a startup. Can\u0026#x27;t recommend working for a good startup enough, it\u0026#x27;s been a way better situation for me.","parent":"9865849","id":"9866544"}
{"by":"hakunin","time":"1386187243","timestamp":"2013-12-04 20:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a list of providers it supports? And I\u0026#x27;m wondering if Evernote can be one of those providers (not sure if they even have this type of API).","parent":"6849346","id":"6849710"}
{"by":"twodave","time":"1526419467","timestamp":"2018-05-15 21:24:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree. I live and work in the Jacksonville, FL area and it’s both extremely affordable and abundant in jobs, both tech and otherwise. They can’t get enough qualified candidates to move here.","parent":"17077979","id":"17077986"}
{"by":"sedachv","time":"1468357611","timestamp":"2016-07-12 21:06:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We convinced millions of people they\u0026#x27;ll feel better if they don\u0026#x27;t eat gluten. An entire cottage industry created. All without force. All without the influence of politics and fallible men.\u003cp\u003eHow do you make the logical leap from \u0026quot;a big diet fad happened\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;the FDA is redundant and evil?\u0026quot;","parent":"12081829","id":"12082281"}
{"by":"michaelmrose","time":"1523947692","timestamp":"2018-04-17 06:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"25k worth of lidar makes it worthless for most market segments I think. Lacking self driving features will ensure that the insurance costs 3 times as much ultimately. It will eventually be cheaper to have self driving capability than pay premiums.","parent":"16856028","id":"16856082"}
{"by":"jmpeax","time":"1515711247","timestamp":"2018-01-11 22:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the answer to this problem simply more minority volunteers in clinical trials?","parent":"16125724","id":"16128840"}
{"by":"WaltPurvis","time":"1438093681","timestamp":"2015-07-28 14:28:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I \u003ci\u003emust\u003c/i\u003e attend all of these it looks like I have to figure out how to be in Orlando, FL and Anaheim, CA at the same time. Even harder than figuring out how to clone myself, I have to explain to my boss why I\u0026#x27;m only going to be in the office for a total of three days in October.","parent":"9961263","id":"9961691"}
{"by":"bigohms","time":"1324404591","timestamp":"2011-12-20 18:09:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good points and fitting as right now a large portion of my personal income is consultant based.","parent":"3374227","id":"3374427"}
{"by":"SideburnsOfDoom","time":"1323956829","timestamp":"2011-12-15 13:47:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My experience at present is that only a very small number of corporates are still on IE6. IE7 is the new lowest denominator.","parent":"3356042","id":"3356072"}
{"by":"rocky1138","time":"1443668198","timestamp":"2015-10-01 02:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there burndown charts, yet?","parent":"10305534","id":"10308952"}
{"by":"hanspeter","time":"1473765180","timestamp":"2016-09-13 11:13:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both.","parent":"12486995","id":"12487001"}
{"by":"b0rsuk","time":"1350391082","timestamp":"2012-10-16 12:38:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"She was technically Polish, but she didn't owe much to Poland. Especially not her successes in science. That's what I mean. For me it's ethically wrong to boast about Maria Skłodowska-Curie as a Polish scientist. And it's not just \"not respecting\" ! It's likely that she wouldn't achieve anything if she chose to stay in Poland. She was denied higher education !","parent":"4659377","id":"4659504"}
{"by":"Tyr42","time":"1343588810","timestamp":"2012-07-29 19:06:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And I have a macbook, and no plans to switch from my android phone.  Still have a windows partition though.","parent":"4309141","id":"4309365"}
{"by":"spaceboy","time":"1485793499","timestamp":"2017-01-30 16:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can someone explain this part: \u0026quot;Tor .onion access\nseamless, native in-browser magic\u0026quot;. Does this mean I can access a .onion site with a VPN? Because that would be very weird.","parent":"13522233","id":"13522476"}
{"by":"tgsovlerkhgsel","time":"1542433676","timestamp":"2018-11-17 05:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grabbing phones off people doesn\u0026#x27;t scale, and is reasonably hard to pull off since you need to first map from the online identity to the exact physical location, then actually physically get there yourself.\u003cp\u003eMuch easier to just social engineer the provider into giving you a replacement SIM.","parent":"18473610","id":"18474188"}
{"by":"nhebb","time":"1335758974","timestamp":"2012-04-30 04:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which version of Excel were you working with? Security was greatly increased in Office 2007.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://serverfault.com/questions/122627/how-secure-is-the-encryption-used-by-microsoft-office-2007\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://serverfault.com/questions/122627/how-secure-is-the-en...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3907962","id":"3907991"}
{"by":"holdenc","time":"1271247682","timestamp":"2010-04-14 12:21:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the kind of guy who wants to be instant friends just to get his computer fixed.","parent":"1264540","id":"1264758"}
{"by":"phlakaton","time":"1507681315","timestamp":"2017-10-11 00:21:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not my favorite, to be sure! But I suppose we share an appreciation for John Zorn, and there are other noisy bands out there that we probably both like. Can we agree, though, that this sort of debate ought to be relegated to the fringe, to be enjoyed by people with weird hair who like to jump around and scream? ;-)\u003cp\u003eThe point of Bach, or band songs, is not precisely to be popular. At least I sure never got popular playing them. :-)","parent":"15445011","id":"15446345"}
{"by":"rogerb","time":"1531041827","timestamp":"2018-07-08 09:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Australia we went to the doctor after my kid had an allergic reaction. They medicated him, had a nurse within 10 feet and kept him for 6 hours until symptons receded. Total cost - AUD$40. \nThe US systom is absolutely insane, expensive and delivers worse results.","parent":"17482806","id":"17482857"}
{"by":"swiley","time":"1478481987","timestamp":"2016-11-07 01:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The time the sun rises and sets drifts around (and drifts differently depending on how far north you go). It\u0026#x27;s really a separate thing that you should have an almanac (or an approximate expression) for.","parent":"12887179","id":"12888176"}
{"by":"FireBeyond","time":"1348696419","timestamp":"2012-09-26 21:53:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right now, prohibitive... I believe the LIDAR system alone is around $80,000 on the current prototype cars. But down the road, we'll see.","parent":"4577967","id":"4578250"}
{"by":"axg","time":"1411661129","timestamp":"2014-09-25 16:05:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be honest I kind of like the old design better than the new one.","parent":"8366940","id":"8367859"}
{"by":"a-priori","time":"1402951336","timestamp":"2014-06-16 20:42:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m no lawyer, but I think it\u0026#x27;s compatible with contract law...\u003cp\u003eIf you wanted to create an organization represented by a DAO in this system, then you would still need to register a legal entity with your government to represent your organization (for tax and regulatory reasons). But that organization could have exactly one bylaw saying, essentially, \u0026quot;this organization shall operate according to the DAO uniquely identified as ABCXYZ123\u0026quot;. Then you do all further work in the DAO.\u003cp\u003eIf you wanted to create a contract of some kind, you wouldn\u0026#x27;t need to do even that. A \u0026quot;contract\u0026quot; in law is fairly general: it\u0026#x27;s an agreement, entered into voluntarily, between multiple partners for their mutual benefit. It\u0026#x27;s often done on paper, but not necessarily: they can be created orally, or via email. There\u0026#x27;s no reason I know of that a DAO couldn\u0026#x27;t create a contract, as long as you could show to a court that it fits all the normal criteria for a valid contract.\u003cp\u003eThe main complication in all this is that it\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eunusual\u003c/i\u003e and, at least at first, judges wouldn\u0026#x27;t know how it works and would want proof that it creates a legal contract.","parent":"7900744","id":"7901379"}
{"by":"unalone","time":"1222443085","timestamp":"2008-09-26 15:31:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things like this are why I'm glad I'm an SA member. They do some pretty stunning things with their time.","parent":"316063","id":"316153"}
{"by":"kelnos","time":"1492144299","timestamp":"2017-04-14 04:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s actually the point.  Don\u0026#x27;t fret so much about it; that\u0026#x27;s actually the problem.  Just do your thing, and be happy without the need to push your limits so hard that you might break yourself.  People often ignore the \u0026quot;healthy\u0026quot; bit from the phrase \u0026quot;a bit of healthy competition\u0026quot;.  And that includes competing with yourself.","parent":"14112452","id":"14112707"}
{"by":"aedron","time":"1490350659","timestamp":"2017-03-24 10:17:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you find yourself having to reimplement a blinking cursor, that\u0026#x27;s when you know you are working on a shitty tech stack.","parent":"13941749","id":"13947869"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1467135099","timestamp":"2016-06-28 17:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personal jabs are not allowed on Hacker News. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.\u003cp\u003eWe detached this comment from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11991618\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11991618\u003c/a\u003e and marked it off-topic.","parent":"11993316","id":"11995699"}
{"by":"the_clarence","time":"1538738565","timestamp":"2018-10-05 11:22:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This. Had a colleague who kept telling everyone how good he was doing. He started at the same time a lot of us did but got promoted extremely quickly.","parent":"18147148","id":"18147223"}
{"by":"jasongaya","time":"1357132699","timestamp":"2013-01-02 13:18:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i will try but are you sure it work?","parent":"4996322","id":"4996489"}
{"by":"scrollaway","time":"1456850128","timestamp":"2016-03-01 16:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but practically will look odd on every platform but native\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s absolute nonsense. First of all there\u0026#x27;s no \u0026quot;native\u0026quot; platform to Qt \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c/i\u003e it\u0026#x27;s cross-platform, and that\u0026#x27;s taken extremely seriously. Second of all, Qt apps are extremely well integrated on Windows, OSX and Linux alike.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s tons of examples of commercial Qt apps exactly for that reason. What you say is true only for GTK, not Qt.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: Lead dev\u0026#x2F;designer of LXQt.","parent":"11203685","id":"11203809"}
{"by":"runako","time":"1466784508","timestamp":"2016-06-24 16:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their comparison section looks like an advertisement for Backblaze B2. C14 looked interesting until I got to that part. Now, I\u0026#x27;m not sure why I would choose C14 over Backblaze.","parent":"11969541","id":"11970900"}
{"by":"cshenton","time":"1502753569","timestamp":"2017-08-14 23:32:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats not an option when you want to do something like reinforcement learning with lock free updates. In that case, the networks are small enough that you want to use the CPU, but learning sensitive enough that you don\u0026#x27;t want multiple copies of the network getting out of sync. Then you absolutely need multiple cores sharing memory.","parent":"15009627","id":"15013992"}
{"by":"geoka9","time":"1377216231","timestamp":"2013-08-23 00:03:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe \u0026quot;gilded\u0026quot; is spot on here, because that\u0026#x27;s what the  state of the art Web essentially is: sleek designs rendered by stacks of software\u0026#x2F;technologies \u0026quot;hiding serious, fundamental, and widespread problems\u0026quot; (browsers).","parent":"6260713","id":"6260896"}
{"by":"stale2002","time":"1455474817","timestamp":"2016-02-14 18:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We could be doing that now, on the blockchain instead. Inflating the block chain isn\u0026#x27;t really a \u0026quot;problem\u0026quot; until you get to very large values.","parent":"11099262","id":"11099333"}
{"by":"ryan_j_naughton","time":"1408052592","timestamp":"2014-08-14 21:43:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NYTimes groups all immigrants as \u0026quot;Outside the United States\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in where the immigrants from each state come from, check this out:\u003cp\u003eMap: Where The Majority of Immigrants Come From By State\n\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8179477\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8179477\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt also plots it excluding Mexico, as Mexico is the #1 for most states.","parent":"8178475","id":"8180011"}
{"by":"nobodysbusiness","time":"1323286857","timestamp":"2011-12-07 19:40:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A recent Typesafe blog post was written in response to the last Scala-complaint furor: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.typesafe.com/getting-down-to-work\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.typesafe.com/getting-down-to-work\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the points mentioned there is binary compatibility. The Typesafe people are working on it, so hopefully we'll see some improvement over the next year or so.","parent":"3325101","id":"3325519"}
{"by":"chenshuiluke","time":"1491811641","timestamp":"2017-04-10 08:07:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because its an otherwise very useful and good looking CSS library.","parent":"14076062","id":"14076808"}
{"by":"ilkhd2","time":"1253401975","timestamp":"2009-09-19 23:12:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Impractical:\n1) The compiler is gonna be very slow;\n2) If you make compiler for low-level language, such as C\nyou need precise correspondence between data types used in cpu, datatypes used in compiler's implementation language and datatypes in the target language.","parent":"832383","id":"832435"}
{"by":"platz","time":"1335399704","timestamp":"2012-04-26 00:21:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/01/on-git-and-usability/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.nelhage.com/2010/01/on-git-and-usability/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fundamentally, the way (most) people learn and think about subversion is different from the way git experts think about git. subversion’s internal model is fairly complex, but you are not expected to understand it. You just have to know the half dozen commands you’ll ever need, and you use them, and everything is fine.\u003cp\u003eGit’s model is fundamentally fairly simple (a DAG of immutable commit objects where branches are named mutable pointers into it), but you are expected to understand it fully to use git effectively.\"\u003cp\u003e...\u003cp\u003e\" The other, perhaps more fundamental reason, is that git is designed to be infinitely flexible, and so it’s fairly rare that you can give an answer for “How do I do X with git?”, since the answer will often depend on, “Well, what are your project’s conventions?” \"","parent":"3891598","id":"3891769"}
{"by":"Merad","time":"1522092186","timestamp":"2018-03-26 19:23:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IME the more complex your code formatting, the less likely people are to do it, especially after your code has been touched by dozens of different people with a dozen different editors.","parent":"16681098","id":"16681656"}
{"by":"rhino369","time":"1439759927","timestamp":"2015-08-16 21:18:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;ll probably see less profitable industries get out of dodge before tech companies do. Tech companies have more money, labor costs are less important to the bottom line, and young tech workers can and do spending way too much on rent.","parent":"10070219","id":"10070304"}
{"by":"daveJSF","time":"1497929545","timestamp":"2017-06-20 03:32:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the reason why I created an online course about this. I include lots of ways to follow up and stay connected after the conference. That\u0026#x27;s key.\u003cp\u003eThe first thing in networking is showing up. The second is following up.","parent":"14591929","id":"14592004"}
{"by":"joyeuse6701","time":"1401805736","timestamp":"2014-06-03 14:28:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;s becoming a hermit in a very strict, almost religious sense. I agree with you in that this sort of social decision could be more pain than joy, but you know, I never really interpreted the tone of the article as malicious or particularly negative. I think it\u0026#x27;s alright.","parent":"7840187","id":"7840381"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1505478259","timestamp":"2017-09-15 12:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Patreon is fighting the good fight so far, especially with YT promoting more disposable content with every passing day","parent":"15254069","id":"15256506"}
{"by":"yonran","time":"1542649745","timestamp":"2018-11-19 17:49:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s fundamentally _odd_ to me that people are looking at rental costs.\u003cp\u003eI think it was good that he focused on rent instead of for-sale price. The sale price includes other factors (property taxes, interest rates, expectation of rent increases) that do not affect the cost of living, and many authors get confused when they complain about rising prices while ignoring rents; see \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;housing-part-264-rent-is-how-we-consume.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;housing-part-264-...\u003c/a\u003e for further explanation","parent":"18487578","id":"18488164"}
{"by":"wodenokoto","time":"1444307704","timestamp":"2015-10-08 12:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I completely agree. In colloquial English, \u0026quot;An American\u0026quot; is someone from the United States.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think I ever heard anyone from outside the US being referred to as \u0026quot;an American\u0026quot;","parent":"10352173","id":"10352276"}
{"by":"martokus","time":"1350312539","timestamp":"2012-10-15 14:48:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what is the PCI DSS audit committee doing? I mean the world is fool of idiots that need policing and that's why such organs exists at a first place.\u003cp\u003eShit like this just shows that being a PCI DSS level 1 certified means absolutely nothing in the real world.","parent":"4655070","id":"4655272"}
{"by":"vj44","time":"1520967189","timestamp":"2018-03-13 18:53:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been testing easymail for a couple weeks (the gmail add-on and the chrome plugin). So far a very positive experience - saves me time on repetitive emails. Looking forward to updates \u0026amp; more AI.","parent":"16577650","id":"16578732"}
{"by":"bayareaguy","time":"1254879397","timestamp":"2009-10-07 01:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although I believe you're wrong about the actual utility of this kind of data sharing across processes (and also making exaggerating claims about complexity), I might change my mind if you provided a specific real-world reference example.","parent":"864398","id":"865845"}
{"by":"Jgrubb","time":"1487472600","timestamp":"2017-02-19 02:50:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only if you have a rooster..","parent":"13677927","id":"13677937"}
{"by":"seszett","time":"1386404274","timestamp":"2013-12-07 08:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Difficult to say if that\u0026#x27;s the case for hospitals, since they run on public money anyway, so they could run at a deficit and it would hide the higher cost than what they charge.\u003cp\u003eBut in all cases, social security pays exactly what you are billed.\u003cp\u003eIn most cases you pay yourself the hospital, clinic, doctor, whatever, and social security then gives you part of the costs (depending on the procedure) and if you have one, your private health insurance gives you the rest (or less, depending on your plan, of course).\u003cp\u003eThe tendency is at removing the unnecessary payment by the patient before being reimbursed, but for now this at least serves as a way to ensure you know exactly how much was paid for the procedure, and to prevent too many excesses (since, well, the patient has to be able to pay, even if he gets reimbursed).","parent":"6865682","id":"6865915"}
{"by":"csallen","time":"1297893687","timestamp":"2011-02-16 22:01:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are your rates? Haha","parent":"2228443","id":"2228521"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1342646186","timestamp":"2012-07-18 21:16:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, you don't need to click around with Firefox's search bar. If you create a bookmark with a keyword, then typing the keyword on the main bar loads the website, and if you put an %s somewhere in that bookmark's url, you can then use it much like a bang, e.g.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    newegg ATI HD4200\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThat said, I can perfectly understand why you don't want to waste the time to set them up if someone has already done it for you.","parent":"4261423","id":"4263040"}
{"by":"GrumpyYoungMan","time":"1479759058","timestamp":"2016-11-21 20:10:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e6 months living expenses is on the high side\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot at all.  Whatever causes the emergency is likely to come with unexpected costs of its own, so 6 months salary is more of a minimum in my opinion.","parent":"13008244","id":"13008705"}
{"by":"bennyg","time":"1382713462","timestamp":"2013-10-25 15:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the backwards version of contract-to-hire.","parent":"6611922","id":"6612033"}
{"by":"will_brown","time":"1359521150","timestamp":"2013-01-30 04:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Update: I emailed timeSpace about the subject and the swiftly replied with the following:\u003cp\u003e\" for this first iteration of timeSpace, we will not be offering funding. While that may unfortunately limit the pool of applicants, it is the most viable way to efficiently launch the program and get entrepreneurs on board as soon as possible. We will reevaluate for future iterations.\u003cp\u003eVery sorry that this poses a problem for teams based outside of NYC.\u003cp\u003eBest,\u003cp\u003ethe timeSpace team\"","parent":"5135401","id":"5138115"}
{"by":"palakchokshi","time":"1394483913","timestamp":"2014-03-10 20:38:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok then why not just ask to post tweets on my behalf? why ask for Update your profile., Read my tweets, etc. Not letting any unknown app update my profile. Sorry.","parent":"7375506","id":"7375542"}
{"by":"draw_down","time":"1456775734","timestamp":"2016-02-29 19:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great advice!","parent":"11197846","id":"11197907"}
{"by":"olavk","time":"1340784759","timestamp":"2012-06-27 08:12:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The blogger claims that the research was ignored without any consideration, but comments points out that the research have been considered, but rejected as pseudoscience.","parent":"4165284","id":"4166048"}
{"by":"ccallebs","time":"1446062900","timestamp":"2015-10-28 20:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, his expiration date (if correct) is on there too.","parent":"10466991","id":"10467003"}
{"by":"imron","time":"1477625789","timestamp":"2016-10-28 03:36:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It also illustrates pretty clearly why the TouchBar is going to take off - all sorts of silly little apps and games that keep people amused for hours.","parent":"12812219","id":"12812822"}
{"by":"curiousjorge","time":"1437841701","timestamp":"2015-07-25 16:28:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s true that free software is eating into everyone\u0026#x27;s margins, especially unsustainable business models that run entirely by burning cash and continually raising more and more money in hopes a giant will come and swoop it off it\u0026#x27;s feet.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I think there\u0026#x27;s a problem with attempting to take the assumptions from macro view and drilling it to individual companies and startups. Plenty of awful software with awful websites sell like hot cakes. The age of these companies are ancient, started in mid 90s to mostly early 2000s. The people buying their software don\u0026#x27;t know what open source is, rather if they see something as free, these are the type of people that think there\u0026#x27;s something wrong with it. By the articles explanation, they shouldn\u0026#x27;t exist or they should be fending off attacks from left and right but in reality, the software part of business is actually very small. The fact is, it\u0026#x27;s a business and the people that make up the customer base. So while it is true that some industries may face fierce competition from \u0026quot;free software\u0026quot; it varies from a spectrum where one end is little to no innovative destruction mostly because of the customers to the other end which this article talks mostly about where ALL software companies are threat. There are still industries where the establishment form coalition and invent complicated \u0026quot;industry standards\u0026quot; to prevent anymore innovation happening. These are business strategies aimed to raise the cost of entry among other tactics that\u0026#x27;s harmful for the industry but great for the stakeholders.\u003cp\u003eHaving said that, the article isn\u0026#x27;t without merits, there are some very important truths in there. Like almost all advices, take it with a grain of salt.","parent":"9946374","id":"9948062"}
{"by":"peregrine","time":"1297183199","timestamp":"2011-02-08 16:39:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is spectacular for small towns or smaller regional libraries but have you ever been to a large city library? It brings out some of the weirdest people.\u003cp\u003eCollegiate libraries in my experience are nice, but can get crowded at times.","parent":"2193317","id":"2193493"}
{"by":"drinchev","time":"1426151419","timestamp":"2015-03-12 09:10:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is another one from \u0026quot;Smashing Magazine\u0026quot; [1], I think it\u0026#x27;s written better :\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; In quite a few discussions online about reclaiming memory in JavaScript, the delete keyword is brought up, as although it was supposed to be used for just removing keys from a map, some developers think you can force de-referencing using it. Avoid using delete if you can. In the below example, delete o.x does a lot more harm than good behind the scenes, as it changes o‘s hidden class and makes it a generic slow object.\u003cp\u003eAlthough it\u0026#x27;s from 3 years ago it looks decent. The comments below are even more interesting than the article.\u003cp\u003e[1] : \u003ca href=\"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/05/writing-fast-memory-efficient-javascript/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.smashingmagazine.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;writing-fast-memo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9189665","id":"9189695"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1363114573","timestamp":"2013-03-12 18:56:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could say the same thing about Java. Clojure/Lisp code just tends to have functions that do mostly what their names indicate. Java code tends to be broken up into billions of classes, and understanding an algorithm tends to involve trying to collect together all the pieces of it that are spread out as methods in a bunch of classes.\u003cp\u003eTake something like code generation from an AST. In Clojure, you might do it in a single file with multimethods. In Java, the code generation algorithm would be spread out over dozens of different AST classes, each with a visitor method.","parent":"5363981","id":"5364105"}
{"by":"rpeden","time":"1338337195","timestamp":"2012-05-30 00:19:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the beautiful thing is that we can see actual results of Bill Atkinson's philosophy. You can download the source of both MacPaint and QuickDraw from \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIt's in Pascal and 68k assembly, and I find it quite beautiful. Especially the Pascal code, as it is broken up into clear, concise functions so it is easy to understand what is going on.","parent":"4040082","id":"4040709"}
{"by":"justinsaccount","time":"1464560510","timestamp":"2016-05-29 22:21:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;0pointer.de\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;the-biggest-myths.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;0pointer.de\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;the-biggest-myths.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003esystemd myth #2: systemd is about speed","parent":"11797313","id":"11798505"}
{"by":"paulryanrogers","time":"1493768098","timestamp":"2017-05-02 23:34:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have any tools to automate that process?","parent":"14250186","id":"14251691"}
{"by":"sircastor","time":"1502303277","timestamp":"2017-08-09 18:27:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember reading\u0026#x2F;thinking\u0026#x2F;hearing that this was closely tied to the change in administration. The Clinton administration, pushed the Justice Dept to prosecute, whereas the Bush administration encouraged the Justice Dept to ease off. That\u0026#x27;s speculation though without evidence to back it up.","parent":"14971688","id":"14972185"}
{"by":"billjings","time":"1264083890","timestamp":"2010-01-21 14:24:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's part of the issue. Eating slower has been suggested to help losing weight for that reason - it gives your satiety response time to kick in.\u003cp\u003eThe issue with calories in minus calories out is not equivocating the word \"in\", though. It is that it doesn't provide a useful model of how weight gain works. \"Calories in\" and \"Calories out\" are not independent variables, they are managed by the body's various feedback systems. Changing one of them will almost always change the other. Going for a run will make you hungrier, and undereating will lower your energy level and probably make you hungrier as well.\u003cp\u003eBased on a lecture of his I've seen, I'm convinced that his major hypothesis is God's own truth - that \"calories in - calories out\" is not a useful model for controlling weight, and that the regulatory systems of the body are what you have to get at to have a real effect on body weight. I am sold on the idea that diet is one way to get at those systems effectively. I'm eager to read his book to find out more about the case he's making.","parent":"1067003","id":"1067310"}
{"by":"mgalka","time":"1429857407","timestamp":"2015-04-24 06:36:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The entire premise that the banks brought down the economy is complete BS. They just make an easy scapegoat.\u003cp\u003eThe regulators, rating agencies, mortgage lenders, government, GSEs all contributed to people overleveraging, but thats not even the real issue.\u003cp\u003eThe real problem is that the economy has changed, and all but the high skilled jobs are going overseas or being done by machines.\u003cp\u003eBankers are not going to jail because they didn\u0026#x27;t break any laws. People need to stop being parrots and making claims about things they dont understand.","parent":"9431463","id":"9431743"}
{"by":"nwatson","time":"1454453808","timestamp":"2016-02-02 22:56:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slap a depth-sensing thing (like Project Tango \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;atap\u0026#x2F;project-tango\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;atap\u0026#x2F;project-tango\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) onto the AR stuff, you can probably get a Kinect-like algorithm to sense peoples\u0026#x27; limbs, bodies, etc., and come up with a hypothetical-location-in-3d-space.  Then the hilarity will start with projecting cartoon body overlays.  Successive versions of the app will do better recognition and fitting and come up with more realistic images.  Eventually you can have AR \u0026quot;beer goggles\u0026quot; or whatever effect you want.","parent":"11023347","id":"11023389"}
{"by":"eitally","time":"1437991646","timestamp":"2015-07-27 10:07:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve worked intensively on a schema (as an end user developing reports against it) where several columns in one of the tables were flex fields whose content\u0026#x2F;use changed dependent on a different column\u0026#x27;s value.  It was always a bear to train new developers on it and it wasn\u0026#x27;t documented anywhere (until I created a flat file documenting it).  In a situation like that I\u0026#x27;d have loved inline tabular comments.\u003cp\u003eSimilarly, if a table or a field has become \u0026quot;legacy\u0026quot;, that is, no longer actively used but kept around because there\u0026#x27;s old data in it somewhere, that should be commented, too.  Or, if a column has it\u0026#x27;s datatype changed for some reason while there is data in the table, that should probably be noted, too (e.g. char --\u0026gt; varchar, int--\u0026gt;string, etc).\u003cp\u003eSchema versioning is a huge problem at many companies, especially non-tech companies where the developers are completely at the mercy of their \u0026quot;business stakeholders\u0026quot;, and since full-fledged data dictionaries don\u0026#x27;t exist for almost anything, using simple comments like this could be a boon.  I dunno, ymmv, but I\u0026#x27;d have appreciated it.","parent":"9954230","id":"9954297"}
{"by":"rifung","time":"1431532939","timestamp":"2015-05-13 16:02:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope this means accessing internal resources will be a lot less painful too","parent":"9539372","id":"9539937"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1457733659","timestamp":"2016-03-11 22:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s naturally a volume solution. RFID makes close-range identification just a little faster \u0026amp; easier for a lot of hassle. So it\u0026#x27;s been worthwhile anywhere you need to identify a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of things at close range. Ski passes, cows, library books, boxes in a warehouse... and anything volume tends not to be very \u0026quot;the future!\u0026quot; exciting.","parent":"11266013","id":"11269864"}
{"by":"antirez","time":"1532520887","timestamp":"2018-07-25 12:14:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I meant to only change the \u003ci\u003ereasoning\u003c/i\u003e the author is used in terms of optimizations being the ability to ignore loads\u0026#x2F;stores versus giving more semantical value to a pointer.","parent":"17608509","id":"17608637"}
{"by":"kingnothing","time":"1444157648","timestamp":"2015-10-06 18:54:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Serious question: why would anyone buy a 0% T-Bill over keeping cash in a bank account?","parent":"10340527","id":"10341396"}
{"by":"hshojaee","time":"1366671367","timestamp":"2013-04-22 22:56:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I should have probably mentioned that this promo ends Friday, April 26th.","parent":"5592058","id":"5592236"}
{"by":"Jendokan","time":"1508490627","timestamp":"2017-10-20 09:10:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for sharing this, I was looking for a group doing investments like this!","parent":"15514449","id":"15514467"}
{"by":"jndsn402","time":"1414173504","timestamp":"2014-10-24 17:58:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a terrific idea (the backtest - sentiment analysis is interesting but the backtest could be a core part of the offering).","parent":"8504804","id":"8504953"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1476825494","timestamp":"2016-10-18 21:18:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If nothing\u0026#x27;s changed in the past 15 years, anything under 95% accuracy is not accurate enough for automation without human intervention (copy editing).","parent":"12738123","id":"12738808"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1394103819","timestamp":"2014-03-06 11:03:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People in discussions like this often assume that it\u0026#x27;s easy to make test scores go up without teaching the material.\u003cp\u003eHere are \u003ci\u003especific\u003c/i\u003e tests from some large states (the first I found via google):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.nysedregents.org/Grade8/Mathematics/20100505book1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nysedregents.org\u0026#x2F;Grade8\u0026#x2F;Mathematics\u0026#x2F;20100505book1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.nysedregents.org/Grade8/EnglishLanguageArts/042610book1w.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nysedregents.org\u0026#x2F;Grade8\u0026#x2F;EnglishLanguageArts\u0026#x2F;04261...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/cstrtqmath7.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov\u0026#x2F;ta\u0026#x2F;tg\u0026#x2F;sr\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;cstrtqmath7.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you make scores \u003ci\u003eon these specific tests\u003c/i\u003e go up to any significant degree without making students learn the material? Please explain the techniques in detail.","parent":"7349283","id":"7353020"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1212247998","timestamp":"2008-05-31 15:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Technically asymmetric warfare is such that you are \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e trying to kill civilians.","parent":"205266","id":"205272"}
{"by":"hughes","time":"1387141611","timestamp":"2013-12-15 21:06:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a community grows, the perceived relevance of a celebrity death scales non-linearly.","parent":"6910844","id":"6910862"}
{"by":"fluxon","time":"1348145321","timestamp":"2012-09-20 12:48:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Will \u003ca href=\"https://\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/a\u003e access be available?","parent":"4547176","id":"4548208"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1329850489","timestamp":"2012-02-21 18:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess they forgot to make the part of the website that explains what it is.","parent":"3617163","id":"3617588"}
{"by":"GiraffeNecktie","time":"1253838755","timestamp":"2009-09-25 00:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For someone working regularly from multiple computers running both Windows and Linux, Dropbox has been a lifesaver. Good on them.","parent":"842462","id":"842596"}
{"by":"julianlam","time":"1544832987","timestamp":"2018-12-15 00:16:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t think of it as having been scammed, but moreso that you paid your $500 tuition to the school of life. You won\u0026#x27;t make that mistake again.\u003cp\u003eWhat honestly shocks me is the \u0026quot;aw shucks\u0026quot; attitude in the email from Teachable. I get that they\u0026#x27;re sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place, and they did issue as many refunds as they could, but to turn to students and say \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;ve paid out the remaining amount of money... so sorry about that!\u0026quot; is like rubbing salt into the wound.\u003cp\u003eIf she moved to a custom payment gateway, they probably know what it is, and that gateway ought to know about the scam she\u0026#x27;s pulling. After all, they have an incentive to keep these bad actors from using their systems.","parent":"18685751","id":"18686104"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1254877678","timestamp":"2009-10-07 01:07:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I realize that. My point is that there is no 100% solution.","parent":"865801","id":"865803"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1440731585","timestamp":"2015-08-28 03:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those aren\u0026#x27;t comma splices because there aren\u0026#x27;t two independent clauses.","parent":"10133149","id":"10133555"}
{"by":"rob","time":"1204654541","timestamp":"2008-03-04 18:15:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What?","parent":"128992","id":"129003"}
{"by":"grourk","time":"1331091493","timestamp":"2012-03-07 03:38:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has nothing to do with his post.  Did you read it beyond \"What's wrong with Android?\" and \"Fragmentation\"?\u003cp\u003eHe's saying that for his purposes Android is not up to snuff, and then lays out the reasons -- fragmentation was one of them.\u003cp\u003eThere can be an discussions about topics besides market domination.  Such as what sucks about Android and how it could be better.  An \"endless parade\" of such discussions doesn't prove that people don't understand what wins a market at all.","parent":"3674090","id":"3674153"}
{"by":"jstarfish","time":"1546892425","timestamp":"2019-01-07 20:20:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d be surprised if each battery couldn\u0026#x27;t come with a little computer that tracks charge times, cycles and power output over time. It would make it trivial to monitor whether or not a battery is currently serviceable (or whether it will expire prematurely).\u003cp\u003eFor EV fleets we used to only be able to do this per vehicle (not by battery) while the vehicle was home and charging,  by shipping the fleet battery metrics to a central aggregator. But that is overkill for consumer vehicles.","parent":"18846745","id":"18849559"}
{"by":"benjoffe","time":"1313422242","timestamp":"2011-08-15 15:30:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; We always knew better than our customers. Eventually, they realized that.\u003cp\u003ePretty sure I've read quotes from Steve Jobs that follow that line of thinking actually.","parent":"2887198","id":"2887281"}
{"by":"yShrike","time":"1326740943","timestamp":"2012-01-16 19:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just be honest and say \"I'm sorry but I signed separation papers that mean that I\"m not allowed to say anything negative about the company.\"\u003cp\u003e:-)","parent":"3471945","id":"3471966"}
{"by":"rl3","time":"1482832156","timestamp":"2016-12-27 09:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t get a job because the requirements and qualifications is way too demanding ...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou seem overly concerned about this. If a company wants to prevent themselves from hiring someone perfectly capable of doing the job (namely you), then they\u0026#x27;re probably foolish and you don\u0026#x27;t want to work there anyways.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, it\u0026#x27;s possible you\u0026#x27;re mentally hung up on having a desired skill set that\u0026#x27;s seemingly forever out of reach. If that\u0026#x27;s the case, just resign yourself to the fact that software development requires perpetual learning in a field where the ground is always shifting beneath you.\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that a typical senior developer is just someone who has enough experience to know how to learn fast and not fall victim to common pitfalls in the process.\u003cp\u003eI suggest finding a job at a nice place to work where you\u0026#x27;ll be doing something that you enjoy, then worry about the technology stack later. Good companies usually understand that both whiteboard-style interviews and formal degree requirements are bad. The best ones explicitly state that they don\u0026#x27;t care if you\u0026#x27;re inexperienced with their stack, so long as you have solid experience.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eI really feel like giving up.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf that means starting a company as some of the other comments suggest, don\u0026#x27;t. You\u0026#x27;re 24. Enjoy your youth while it lasts, don\u0026#x27;t piss it away doing a startup.","parent":"13261486","id":"13262255"}
{"by":"staticassertion","time":"1522432750","timestamp":"2018-03-30 17:59:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not without external tooling, as far as I\u0026#x27;m aware.\u003cp\u003eWith rust this is built into the default tools installed by rustup.","parent":"16717896","id":"16718337"}
{"by":"cowpewter","time":"1524679155","timestamp":"2018-04-25 17:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My suggestion was more about sleep quality than quantity. If you have undiagnosed sleep apnea, you are probably not getting sufficient sleep no matter how long you\u0026#x27;re in the bed.","parent":"16923620","id":"16924221"}
{"by":"closetnerd","time":"1410629035","timestamp":"2014-09-13 17:23:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks","parent":"8312363","id":"8312957"}
{"by":"pmelendez","time":"1440424686","timestamp":"2015-08-24 13:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; we\u0026#x27;re stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary\u003cp\u003eI think you are being a bit biased on this one. There are a lot of applications that the \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; alternative is just not good enough in comparison with the propetary one.\u003cp\u003eJust to name a few:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Gimp and Photoshop\n    Inkscape and Illustrator\n    Maya\u0026#x2F;3DStudio and Blender\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI would even add Office and LibreOffice but the later is actually good enough for a good chunk of people.","parent":"10109305","id":"10109702"}
{"by":"hank777","time":"1211983307","timestamp":"2008-05-28 14:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are right. But sometimes authority and experience are relevant. I cant help that I really do know what I am talking about on this matter. I guess I could go out and interview some other people about how this part of the industry works so that I would be relying on someone else's authority and not mine, but we don't all have equivalent knowledge on everything. I have been involved in music for a long time and know how this part of the business works.\u003cp\u003eI am not sure how, other than expressing that, that I can explain this. This is not really a judgment issue but about explaining the dynamics of an existing market. If you would prefer to believe that I don't know what I am talking about that is fine. But at minimum I would suggest, if you are really interested in how artists today become successful that you do a little independent (and therefore not tainted by my bias) investigation from people that are really in the biz. The funny part is that there really is nothing to argue about here. No one in music will tell you that concert promoters create demand for artists. It feels a little surreal to even be arguing the point.","parent":"202028","id":"202074"}
{"by":"creamyhorror","time":"1339468160","timestamp":"2012-06-12 02:29:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps, but I find it unlikely that professional companies would let their workstations - Windows or OSX - get loaded with malware. In fact, I hardly encounter exploits or malware on PCs nowadays, and never at all in the few corporate environments I've been in.","parent":"4097542","id":"4098379"}
{"by":"dmoy","time":"1475112606","timestamp":"2016-09-29 01:30:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not Google Maps, but rather Google Now that has the \u0026quot;where did I park my car\u0026quot; for quite awhile (2.5 years) now:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;websearch\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;6015842?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;websearch\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;6015842?hl=en\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoogle Now generally seems to be where all that automated stuff goes, so if you don\u0026#x27;t use it that would explain why you don\u0026#x27;t see any of it.","parent":"12602677","id":"12602707"}
{"by":"danieltillett","time":"1457987991","timestamp":"2016-03-14 20:39:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you missed my statements several times that I am not a supporter of gun control, but asking why those that are in favour of gun control don\u0026#x27;t go after ammunition rather than guns.\u003cp\u003eAs for the second amendment it has basically been totally gutted long ago since people have no access to true arms.","parent":"11282867","id":"11285407"}
{"by":"kreeWall","time":"1535664764","timestamp":"2018-08-30 21:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it is worth noting that Singapore Airlines used to have a 19-hour flight from Singapore to NYC, which it flew for 9 years. Having been on this flight, the experience wasn\u0026#x27;t terrible and there was plenty of space to walk around and spread your legs, despite it being a non-A380 or anything fancy back in 2008. There were always spaces in the back of the plane with snacks and drinks where passengers could relax and look out the window and talk to the stewardesses.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnbc.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;singapore-airlines-is-bringing-back-the-worlds-longest-flight.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnbc.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;singapore-airlines-is-bringi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17874626","id":"17880978"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1464034608","timestamp":"2016-05-23 20:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, it \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c/i\u003e posted in \u003ci\u003eprobability\u003c/i\u003e and not is some social science board.  So I thought it was safe to assume a purely mathematical question.  Not that I can answer it...","parent":"11756553","id":"11756585"}
{"by":"Delmania","time":"1502294150","timestamp":"2017-08-09 15:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author advocates for ending programs designed to get more females into technology and leadership positions because he views them as discrimination.  His basis is precisely what you mentioned, that on average women are X.  In his mind, the fact that men are more status oriented than women means that men will be disproportionately in leadership roles.  That\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;just the way it is\u0026quot; and we should accept it and create \u0026quot;separate but equal\u0026quot; opportunities (part time work in this case).  It\u0026#x27;s not outright discrimination, but it\u0026#x27;s ignoring several other factors that cause women not to seek leadership positions.  He\u0026#x27;s trying to use some very basic differences and ignoring a much broader picture.","parent":"14970092","id":"14970523"}
{"by":"dawie","time":"1175738847","timestamp":"2007-04-05 02:07:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Down is new","parent":"8926","id":"9013"}
{"by":"talkingquickly","time":"1394122551","timestamp":"2014-03-06 16:15:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also use them and in general like them but would add to this list;\u003cp\u003e* Can\u0026#x27;t add backups to an already provisioned node\u003cp\u003e* Undocumented \u0026quot;droplet limits\u0026quot; e.g. one day you\u0026#x27;ll click \u0026quot;Add Droplet\u0026quot; and it will say \u0026quot;You\u0026#x27;ve reached your droplet limit, please contact support\u0026quot;. They\u0026#x27;ll generally raise it after some basic security verification but it\u0026#x27;s a nasty shock since you don\u0026#x27;t find out about it until you need to provision a new Droplet, especially if you\u0026#x27;re in a hurry.","parent":"7354252","id":"7354578"}
{"by":"blueprint","time":"1513806961","timestamp":"2017-12-20 21:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds to me like you\u0026#x27;re actually saying your \u003ci\u003eexperience\u003c/i\u003e with convergence has been overrated vis-à-vis initial claims.","parent":"15973101","id":"15974199"}
{"by":"Cthulhu_","time":"1513249335","timestamp":"2017-12-14 11:02:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe not, but the insurance will shrug at you if you make a claim for theft.","parent":"15919656","id":"15921362"}
{"by":"asyncwords","time":"1437755978","timestamp":"2015-07-24 16:39:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good for you! Magento isn\u0026#x27;t in my wheelhouse, but I\u0026#x27;d be interested in hearing how you\u0026#x27;ve gone about marketing your book before release — building a mailing list, sharing articles to social media, guest blog posts, etc. Do you have anything you\u0026#x27;d do differently if you were to write another book in the future?","parent":"9942549","id":"9943200"}
{"by":"tanderson92","time":"1482645509","timestamp":"2016-12-25 05:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not entirely encouraging because the \u0026quot;national interest\u0026quot; is separate and distinct from civil liberties. That is, if there were a way to do this while keeping the national security intact and trampling over civil rights they\u0026#x27;d be all for it.","parent":"13253029","id":"13253151"}
{"by":"Macha","time":"1514931871","timestamp":"2018-01-02 22:24:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s code going in to perform some extra work to workaround some CPU bugs. This disables that work on AMD, because the bugs are not present there. Intel will have to do the extra work still as the bugs are present in Intel CPUs.\u003cp\u003eThe full details are as yet undisclosed, implying there are security issues arising from these bugs (also the name of the flag)","parent":"16053794","id":"16056403"}
{"by":"ithingsnoway","time":"1430313188","timestamp":"2015-04-29 13:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn\u0026#x27;t the backup tablet also experience issues in this case?","parent":"9457980","id":"9458002"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1364665760","timestamp":"2013-03-30 17:49:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But surely a working captcha would increase conversion as well \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e have the added benefit of being a captcha?","parent":"5465993","id":"5466095"}
{"by":"brndn","time":"1459877185","timestamp":"2016-04-05 17:26:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was just about to start looking into some http load testing tools, so I am glad to see this come up. Do people recommend this tool? What are some competitors? Can you produce enough load from your average laptop to effectively load test a web server?","parent":"11431752","id":"11432392"}
{"by":"digitalzombie","time":"1502866607","timestamp":"2017-08-16 06:56:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well MongoDB is working with Jepsen...\u003cp\u003eAfter several Jepsen\u0026#x27;s article on how bad MongoDB is with the Taylor Swift reference.\u003cp\u003eAlso the notorious wave of MongoDB hacked with terrible security defaults and several programmers blaming bootcamp coders for terrible set up.\u003cp\u003eI think MongoDB had to do some damage control and wake up.\u003cp\u003eThey apparently are working with him now.\u003cp\u003eQuick google as proof: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aphyr.com\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;338-jepsen-mongodb-3-4-0-rc3\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aphyr.com\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;338-jepsen-mongodb-3-4-0-rc3\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15025117","id":"15025465"}
{"by":"0x0","time":"1383508739","timestamp":"2013-11-03 19:58:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they had designed the win32 PE .exe format differently, they could have included a 16bit NE stub to throw up a messagebox with the message - in the same way the .exe files already include a 16bit MS-DOS MZ .exe stub with an equivalent message.","parent":"6664253","id":"6664728"}
{"by":"dbbolton","time":"1432921519","timestamp":"2015-05-29 17:45:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My degree was in linguistics (although it is not my current profession), and I wholeheartedly agree with your comment.\u003cp\u003eMy personal opinion is that claims of polyglotism are quite often (if not usually) exaggerated, whether intentionally or not. There are many different metrics for language proficiency, but they are all just samples of a person\u0026#x27;s linguistic competence rather than a complete picture. For that reason, they\u0026#x27;re prone to the same issues as general intelligence tests. A high score on a language test is no guarantee of fluency just as a high IQ is no guarantee of intelligence-- and this is all assuming the person claiming to be fluent has even taken such a test, which is rare. I think more often people have individual standards for \u0026quot;fluency\u0026quot;, which vary wildly. Again, I\u0026#x27;m not saying that people intentionally mislead others about their own language ability, or that there aren\u0026#x27;t any true hyperpolyglots-- just that such claims should be taken with a grain of salt.\u003cp\u003eBoth the description of the critical hypothesis in the article and the person who described it as \u0026quot;a bunch of crap\u0026quot; are wrong. The hypothesis actually states that there is an \u003ci\u003eideal\u003c/i\u003e window for language learning that occurs at a young age, whereas the article presents it as \u0026quot;a narrow window during childhood in which we can pick up the nuances of a new language\u0026quot;. No serious academic linguist that I have ever met subscribes to a definition that rigid. Adults absolutely \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e pick up on the nuances of a new language, but for the overwhelming majority it takes considerably more time and effort compared to a child in the critical period.\u003cp\u003eI do believe that language learning for adults can be made more efficient than it usually is (e.g. the classic cookie-cutter layout of every foreign language textbook I\u0026#x27;ve ever read), and perhaps some of the strategies laid out in the article are effective, but that does not discredit the critical period hypothesis and it\u0026#x27;s still going to take a lot of effort for a typical adult to become fluent in a new language.","parent":"9625462","id":"9626130"}
{"by":"darkerside","time":"1535234363","timestamp":"2018-08-25 21:59:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the record, this is literally gatekeeping. That\u0026#x27;s ok, just own it.","parent":"17842612","id":"17842810"}
{"by":"Encosia","time":"1293129645","timestamp":"2010-12-23 18:40:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real hidden value of the Disney stock is that it has paid him $242,880,000 in dividends since the Pixar sale in 2006.","parent":"2035203","id":"2035380"}
{"by":"bayareaguy","time":"1205202618","timestamp":"2008-03-11 02:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's an excerpt from a discussion on ACM Queue[1] between Jim Gray and Werner Vogels on this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe went through a period of serious introspection and concluded that a service-oriented architecture would give us the level of isolation that would allow us to build many software components rapidly and independently. By the way, this was way before service-oriented was a buzzword. For us service orientation means encapsulating the data with the business logic that operates on the data, with the only access through a published service interface. No direct database access is allowed from outside the service, and there's no data sharing among the services.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content\u0026#38;pa=showpage\u0026#38;pid=388\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content\u0026#38;pa=show...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"133693","id":"133767"}
{"by":"baldfat","time":"1504621628","timestamp":"2017-09-05 14:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"youtube-dl = fightclub\u003cp\u003eRule #1 ---- No one talks about youtube-dl!!!!!!","parent":"15175408","id":"15175491"}
{"by":"WalterBright","time":"1471893352","timestamp":"2016-08-22 19:15:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The way to generally motivate efficient reduction in CO2 emissions is straightforward - tax CO2 emissions. Raise the tax until it becomes worthwhile for people to change their habits.\u003cp\u003eUse the tax revenue to subsidize cleaner alternatives, like solar, wind, geothermal.","parent":"12336445","id":"12338658"}
{"by":"s73v3r_","time":"1521822390","timestamp":"2018-03-23 16:26:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Can \u0026quot;most people\u0026quot; afford paying $600 yearly fee to edit images?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eConsidering Adobe\u0026#x27;s Creative Cloud is pretty popular, it seems that yeah, they can. But that\u0026#x27;s irrelevant to whether a piece of software is FLOSS or not.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;although they may not know that these problems are caused by Adobe apps being non-free\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHow dare those bastards ask to be paid for their work!\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I just don\u0026#x27;t think that suggesting proprietary alternatives in this context is particularly helpful as they also lack features of freedom, e.g. sharing, privacy and absence of vendor lock-in.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIn this context, nobody gave a shit about that. They wanted the features that let them get their work done. If FLOSS doesn\u0026#x27;t have it, it doesn\u0026#x27;t get used. End of story.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If Adobe freed the source code of Photoshop, how long do you think it would take for missing features to make it into Gimp?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIrrelevant, cause that\u0026#x27;s not going to happen. If the Gimp developers aren\u0026#x27;t good enough to make those features themselves, without copying off of Adobe, perhaps they should work on something else.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;... except if the task involves working with other people who may not have access to that software, or may not want to run proprietary software, or may not want to give up their privacy or freedom.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo, nobody? Photoshop is the industry standard. If you\u0026#x27;re not using it, you\u0026#x27;re the one who\u0026#x27;s the odd person out, not them.","parent":"16658067","id":"16659723"}
{"by":"bluedanieru","time":"1362627102","timestamp":"2013-03-07 03:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Limitation: I accept the argument that says if they are producing significantly more than they are paid, they will eventually be paid more anyway, so the gain is both temporary and small.\u003cp\u003eWhere the \u003ci\u003eflying fuck\u003c/i\u003e have you been for the last 30 years?","parent":"5334904","id":"5335895"}
{"by":"blinkingled","time":"1462719938","timestamp":"2016-05-08 15:05:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title is somewhat misleading. This is old news and it\u0026#x27;s only applicable to various Windows versions - MS has traditionally spent efforts ensuring that supported versions of Windows work with latest hardware. They\u0026#x27;re saying they\u0026#x27;ll no longer do that - implying that if you buy new hardware (Kaby Lake based system for e.g.) they\u0026#x27;ll not guarantee that Win7\u0026#x2F;8.1 will work with it.\u003cp\u003eLinux will work the same way it has - you might need a newer distribution, support maybe flakey initially, Intel might cut costs and decide some SoCs won\u0026#x27;t be supported by their open source efforts etc. Or it might all work great - this news doesn\u0026#x27;t change that.","parent":"11654291","id":"11654323"}
{"by":"Jtsummers","time":"1465945354","timestamp":"2016-06-14 23:02:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By the time you are in the care of medical professionals they are responsible for your life. A physically able and rational person will find little impeding their attempt to kill themselves. A person who is mentally unsound and in medical care is not in a state of mind to make a rational decision about ending their life. It\u0026#x27;s not like it can be undone. The physically impaired (injured, sick), but mentally sound, you have a reasonable case for medical professionals assisting or at least not preventing suicide. But you seem to ignore all cases other than if someone wants to do, let them, even if the decision is spur of the moment because they just experienced something horrible and haven\u0026#x27;t given time to process it fully. Brilliant.","parent":"11905736","id":"11906061"}
{"by":"davesims","time":"1323791030","timestamp":"2011-12-13 15:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Linking is one of the things that I think Android got right over iOS. Google -- web company that they are -- smartly realized that their mobile OS platform needed to borrow metaphors from the web and attempted to do this with their Intent/Activity architecture.\u003cp\u003eThe challenge here is the execution -- it's Java-heavy and unwieldy compared to \u0026#60;a href=...\u0026#62;, but the basic structure is there and allows for interesting interleaving of Activities from one app into another. I haven't yet seen a lot of discussion or adoption of Open Intents, but I think it's an interesting approach. It does, again, seem to suffer from an inheritance of Java's heaviness, and that may be a fatal flaw.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.openintents.org/en/intentstable\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.openintents.org/en/intentstable\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether this approach succeeds in sustaining rich-client apps as web apps mature remains to be seen, but I do think it points to the fact that OP's criticism was a concern in the minds of Android's developers at the earliest stages.","parent":"3347601","id":"3347798"}
{"by":"jkaunisv1","time":"1414160791","timestamp":"2014-10-24 14:26:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s kung fu, and it\u0026#x27;s extremely satisfying to cultivate it in everything you do. I\u0026#x27;ve been inspired to learn how to do stuff like that since I saw a chef drop ingredients into a recipe without measuring.","parent":"8501540","id":"8503801"}
{"by":"drifkin","time":"1415768819","timestamp":"2014-11-12 05:06:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the main concern is that in many systems each key doesn\u0026#x27;t have an equal amount of work associated with it (this sort of thing is usually referred to as a \u0026quot;hotspot\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003eAn example: suppose you have some distributed system storing article metadata and all of the sudden one of your articles becomes very widely shared. The machine that the popular key hashes to gets slammed. Perhaps we\u0026#x27;d want to adjust it so that that particular machine is just dedicated to that one article, or some other way to distribute that one article across multiple machines. But we\u0026#x27;re just using a hash function, so without doing something fancier, we can run into problems when the load suddenly becomes wildly uneven.","parent":"8593990","id":"8594109"}
{"by":"pohl","time":"1295388585","timestamp":"2011-01-18 22:09:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The earnings call started a few minutes ago...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq111/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq111/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2117552","id":"2117611"}
{"by":"archimedespi","time":"1450457603","timestamp":"2015-12-18 16:53:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there currently any POC for a live KASUMI attack on 3G using SDRs?","parent":"10759245","id":"10759396"}
{"by":"nikital","time":"1445192243","timestamp":"2015-10-18 18:17:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right, I missed it. Nice catch :)","parent":"10407776","id":"10409121"}
{"by":"tibu","time":"1475430519","timestamp":"2016-10-02 17:48:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My Synology NAS does exactly this. Besides this it backs up my Google Drive and Dropbox too.","parent":"12570040","id":"12623438"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1469031385","timestamp":"2016-07-20 16:16:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have indeed captured the standard reasoning.  But when a group of people forms an exclusive club, the result is inevitably politics.  And politics of a kind that is bad for everyone.  It is bad when people in power do it.  But it is also bad when people who are disenfranchised do it.\u003cp\u003eThe specific comment in question came about as follows.  It was triggered by her recommending a book club to me, then having the organizer ask me not to come \u0026quot;because it would change the dynamic too much to have a man there.\u0026quot;  This lead to the woman who recommended it to me dropping out of said club because it became something which she did not wish to be associated with.","parent":"12130000","id":"12130187"}
{"by":"baursak","time":"1541347934","timestamp":"2018-11-04 16:12:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; A huge jump? Versus the tsar regime, probably - it was a catastrophe in itself. But compared to the Western world, GDP growth was miserable and clearly behind all \u0026quot;modern\u0026quot; countries in comparison.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m curious, how useful is a GDP measurement in a \u0026quot;communist\u0026quot; country where there are no monetary transactions to obtain the most important human needs -- housing, education, daycare, leisure, vacations, etc?","parent":"18375669","id":"18376519"}
{"by":"saulrh","time":"1326692380","timestamp":"2012-01-16 05:39:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, I forgot to post the tutorial link! \u003ca href=\"http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Quick_References\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://stenoknight.com/wiki/Quick_References\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3469382","id":"3469514"}
{"by":"varenc","time":"1261634942","timestamp":"2009-12-24 06:09:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the big differences I see here is that billshare doesn't handle the money!  WePay actually handles accepting the payment, and distributing the funds.  You can then get a check, or better in many cases, spend it using a WePay debit card!","parent":"1013457","id":"1013484"}
{"by":"igravious","time":"1366323408","timestamp":"2013-04-18 22:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Serious question. Please hit me with a clue stick.\u003cp\u003eRegarding 1.9, how can \"old-IE compatibility often causes problems of its own\" and \"simplest way to support older browsers is to use jQuery 1.x on your site, since it works for all browsers.\" both be true at one and the same time?","parent":"5573181","id":"5573508"}
{"by":"pohl","time":"1314304978","timestamp":"2011-08-25 20:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What wouldn't I give to have my own failure of the magnitude of NeXT.  As a business they merely survived, but to create as much system software value as they did (and during the dark ages of operating system monopoly, no less) and be able to use that value to acquire the dying husk of Apple for a negative 430 million or thereabouts...not bad, really.","parent":"2926178","id":"2926358"}
{"by":"ThePawnBreak","time":"1335544952","timestamp":"2012-04-27 16:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This question is a bit funny, given that it's posted on a site with frequent arguing over which programming language is better for certain purposes. You can think in French just like you think in C++ or Python, but I think that what is different about thinking in two natural languages is that they are more alike each other than programming languages are.","parent":"3899833","id":"3899881"}
{"by":"crypto5","time":"1368763240","timestamp":"2013-05-17 04:00:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly, no cassandra support yet..","parent":"5717570","id":"5722623"}
{"by":"mechanical_fish","time":"1196049225","timestamp":"2007-11-26 03:53:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A quick poll of Hacker News readers: if you lived in Boston, where would you go to test drive some of these chairs? How about Silicon Valley, or New York City?\u003cp\u003eI'm 6'2\" and most of the world's office chairs don't fit me. Trying to shop for them over the internet is like performing surgery while wearing mittens -- and, while articles like this are very helpful, they're not exactly conclusive.\u003cp\u003e","parent":"83447","id":"83475"}
{"by":"jimnotgym","time":"1525535430","timestamp":"2018-05-05 15:50:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wouldn\u0026#x27;t hurt for the website linked to tell us what the package does at least somewhere on the page, I will agree with that much. The first paragraph tells me what it replaces, what language it is coded in and who wrote it...but not what it does.","parent":"17002249","id":"17002291"}
{"by":"zobzu","time":"1449355300","timestamp":"2015-12-05 22:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s no such thing as \u0026#x27;firefox alpha\u0026#x27;, its \u0026#x27;firefox nightly\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eKinda odd to see when they get the rest right and they\u0026#x27;re engineers. feels like they dont know firefox o.O","parent":"10682003","id":"10683545"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1436031306","timestamp":"2015-07-04 17:35:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google, in 2012, made a neural net that \u0026quot;discovered\u0026quot; the concept of cat on its own, by unsupervised training, the same way we form our concepts. A neural net compresses data, and in this process, the concept of \u0026quot;chair\u0026quot; emerges.\u003cp\u003eThere is no such thing as \u0026quot;chariness\u0026quot; outside our brains, it\u0026#x27;s just a compressed form of representation of many perceptions.","parent":"9830370","id":"9830856"}
{"by":"sametmax","time":"1485161839","timestamp":"2017-01-23 08:57:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It actually could be several projects:\u003cp\u003e- one for graph deps;\u003cp\u003e- one for packaging;\u003cp\u003e- one for managing your project.\u003cp\u003eThen you can let people like Kenneth build a big friendly wrapper on top of it.\u003cp\u003eThe only problem with those is that it must be pure Python. Otherwise you will have problems. Wheel are not bullet proof, and while you can get away with tinkering for dependencies, you can\u0026#x27;t with your package manager. It should work out of the box.\u003cp\u003eBut creating \u0026quot;cargo for Python\u0026quot; is a very, very hard job. And nobody will remember you for it.","parent":"13460772","id":"13460836"}
{"by":"jcoffland","time":"1471463342","timestamp":"2016-08-17 19:49:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The quoted statement above is blatant discrimination and incriminates the company who wrote it.  I\u0026#x27;m surprised the company\u0026#x27;s lawyers allowed it.  Much of the legal system in the US says that you cannot ignore the needs of minority groups just because it\u0026#x27;s not profitable.","parent":"12307348","id":"12307790"}
{"by":"eliben","time":"1374583431","timestamp":"2013-07-23 12:43:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how long it takes for such jobs to be fully robot-staffed. I had the impression it\u0026#x27;s already the case for some types of warehouse tasks. With very high likeness, within our lifetime there will be no need for human pac-mans.","parent":"6089216","id":"6089629"}
{"by":"hunt","time":"1424665138","timestamp":"2015-02-23 04:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really enjoyed this film, I felt it was good at being inclusive for people without much technical knowledge.","parent":"9092437","id":"9092519"}
{"by":"daeken","time":"1361581941","timestamp":"2013-02-23 01:12:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Interestingly, at least one poster acknowledged that she had in fact downloaded the music in question, suggesting that the scammers had collected real file-sharing data and connected it to peoples' real names and physical addresses. It's unclear how they managed to obtain the information.\u003cp\u003eI'm going to take a stab here and say that they picked a popular piece of music and sent out letters about those.  A decent portion of the population will have downloaded this stuff, just by coincidence.","parent":"5267555","id":"5268028"}
{"by":"narag","time":"1473567382","timestamp":"2016-09-11 04:16:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s nice to see one thats not just bashing the format as bad or insulting the developers.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou know the author was part of Excel team, don\u0026#x27;t you?\u003cp\u003eThe article seems like an explanation, not a justification. Moreover, I totally agree with the conclusion: use OLE to extract information programatically.\u003cp\u003eBut the format is still terrible :-) The fact that there were reasons to do it that way at the time is not the same as saying the decisions were the right ones. Probably there were reasons to do \u0026lt;insert here any despicable historical or technical catastrophe\u0026gt;.","parent":"12471730","id":"12471979"}
{"by":"ajuc","time":"1354888513","timestamp":"2012-12-07 13:55:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After last few years here in Poland I've stopped believing in good reporting. No matter what you say, press is going to present it the way it wants, and it's impossible to break the glass and say to public what you really want. If there's order to show you're stupid, you will look stupid, no matter what you say. If there's order to show you're great - you will look and sound great.\u003cp\u003eI wish traditional massmedia fast demise. There's nothing there worth saving at this point.","parent":"4882998","id":"4886860"}
{"by":"dom0","time":"1492017108","timestamp":"2017-04-12 17:11:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Making decisions and thinking what\u0026#x27;s good for the ecosystem are two different things. I can still buy nVidia for my company, and think and say at the same time that it\u0026#x27;s bad.\u003cp\u003eOf course, while it\u0026#x27;s the cheap consumer garbage ^W^W pro-gaming hardware, the prices are okay, since these are kept in check by AMD. Once we get to the relabelled consumer garbage ^W^W^W professional compute hardware, you pay for it. Dearly. Why? No one that keeps them in check through competition.","parent":"14099381","id":"14099641"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1343627027","timestamp":"2012-07-30 05:43:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NO LINK TO \"MY YAHOO\"!!! The only Yahoo service I still use.","parent":"4310247","id":"4311078"}
{"by":"noobie","time":"1458649694","timestamp":"2016-03-22 12:28:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am almost certain they are not doing this for attention.","parent":"11335939","id":"11335963"}
{"by":"lisper","time":"1433259402","timestamp":"2015-06-02 15:36:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What federal laws did they violate?  As noted in the post, they sell software, not marijuana.","parent":"9646508","id":"9646529"}
{"by":"jamesrcole","time":"1505244673","timestamp":"2017-09-12 19:31:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was responding to someone comparing it to the standard model, not the plus models. See the text I quoted, and see their original comment.","parent":"15231019","id":"15231161"}
{"by":"lpga510","time":"1486416239","timestamp":"2017-02-06 21:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are the differences with firebase? There must be something.","parent":"13583530","id":"13584182"}
{"by":"scott_s","time":"1264653106","timestamp":"2010-01-28 04:31:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Recognizing that class distinctions exist in society is not the same as being communist.","parent":"1082750","id":"1083020"}
{"by":"NinjaX","time":"1543941026","timestamp":"2018-12-04 16:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"#python\n#pocoo\n#startups","parent":"18590138","id":"18600891"}
{"by":"buovjaga","time":"1524515636","timestamp":"2018-04-23 20:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; He claims that the brain is massively parallelized pattern recognition machine, with consciousness being a censor that filters results. While in hypnagogia, this censoring function is suppressed and you are able to make \u0026quot;unthinkable\u0026quot; connections between ideas you normally think are unrelated.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro\u0026#x27; narrow chinks of his cavern.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)","parent":"16904132","id":"16907129"}
{"by":"nitwit005","time":"1525150143","timestamp":"2018-05-01 04:49:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t expect people to make that choice when there are better options. If I wanted to get away from urban life, I\u0026#x27;d go move next to a forest with hiking, or near a ski resort, not near miles and miles of endless farms.","parent":"16963207","id":"16964657"}
{"by":"Tuna-Fish","time":"1264163872","timestamp":"2010-01-22 12:37:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. Schoolchildren start learning English at grade 3, and Swedish at grade 7. Swedish is widely hated and outright despised, while people just Generally learn English and consider it a part of the education.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the difference is that there is so much English culture everywhere that you can't avoid it, while if you are not from near the Swedish-speaking areas, you will never actually use the language.","parent":"1068062","id":"1069566"}
{"by":"dozzie","time":"1507151654","timestamp":"2017-10-04 21:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Blockchain seems like a brilliant solution when multiple anonymous untrustworthy parties need to get together and agree.\u003cp\u003eNo. What you described is the problem of Byzantine generals, for which\nefficient solutions are known since \u0026#x27;80s. Think again what blockchain is,\nbecause it\u0026#x27;s not \u003ci\u003eagreement\u003c/i\u003e protocol.","parent":"15401275","id":"15404752"}
{"by":"amaccuish","time":"1542995357","timestamp":"2018-11-23 17:49:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe the fans aren\u0026#x27;t running when they should and the CPU is struggling with heat?","parent":"18517747","id":"18517876"}
{"by":"gorhill","time":"1422546747","timestamp":"2015-01-29 15:52:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only `google-analytics.com` is blocked when using default filter lists. The 500 error appears to be random, I got it both with and without uBlock.","parent":"8966169","id":"8966787"}
{"by":"reefoctopus","time":"1344881493","timestamp":"2012-08-13 18:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm inclined to believe this article is the result of confirmation bias.\u003cp\u003eI'm currently looking for housing in charlotte, and tree cover tells me nothing about whether I want to live in a particular neighborhood. Like Ljubljana, trees are everywhere.","parent":"4370694","id":"4377186"}
{"by":"JonoW","time":"1334612263","timestamp":"2012-04-16 21:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you really think the Nokia board hired Elop without thinking about a partnership with MS?","parent":"3849386","id":"3849595"}
{"by":"sampo","time":"1378368147","timestamp":"2013-09-05 08:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What? It\u0026#x27;s the indirect reflection of the sun, specularly reflected\u003cp\u003eI am pretty sure the standard use of \u0026quot;indirect lighting\u0026quot; in normal computer graphics jargon means light that has had at least one diffuse reflection on its path. Even Merriam-Webster lists this meaning [1].\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;d just need to run the ray-tracing from light sources algorithm, to map the intensity of the specular reflection of the building. This would be equivalent to just \u003ci\u003ecreating\u003c/i\u003e the photon map. Then you could just view the photon map directly, to see the intensity of the death ray. There would be no need to render the scene (although you could, if you wanted a photorealistic view).\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indirect%20lighting\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;indirect%20lightin...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6329719","id":"6332791"}
{"by":"opk","time":"1359453811","timestamp":"2013-01-29 10:03:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing I like a lot with DDG is that you can easily configure the region and language explicitly. Google keeps redirecting me depending on geolocation (that isn't always correct). When searching for shopping, I want things to be local. When programming, I much prefer stuff in English to German or Italian.","parent":"5130592","id":"5133183"}
{"by":"javery","time":"1282964925","timestamp":"2010-08-28 03:08:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am still pre-beta so I am showing the application in person or using GoToMeeting to potential customers. I have setup the more serious ones account to try out and use (but not in production).","parent":"1640684","id":"1641057"}
{"by":"otakucode","time":"1528401211","timestamp":"2018-06-07 19:53:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;It\u0026#x27;s hard to argue they\u0026#x27;re wrong.\u003cp\u003eEugenics.  Thalidomide.  Radium paint.  Lead paint.  Leaded gasoline.  The list goes on.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s quite easy to argue against taking shortcuts and eschewing rigor in favor of \u0026quot;results\u0026quot; if you know some history and have some perspective.","parent":"17255658","id":"17259602"}
{"by":"__david__","time":"1401791169","timestamp":"2014-06-03 10:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There\u0026#x27;s no way to bail out of the loop early, at least with OpenGL ES 2.0 (WebGL) shaders. We can\u0026#x27;t break or do any sort of branching on the loop variable.\u003cp\u003eIs this true? I was recently playing around with a webgl Mandelbrot [1] and the core algorithm escapes with a break. I wrote it without thinking and it worked on my computer and the computers of the people to whom I showed it. Was this just luck that it works?\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://caldwell.github.io/mandelbrot-html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;caldwell.github.io\u0026#x2F;mandelbrot-html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7837537","id":"7839170"}
{"by":"SapphireSun","time":"1222970019","timestamp":"2008-10-02 17:53:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow! This is a cool idea!\u003cp\u003eSome of the art could use some changes, but the core idea looks like fun! Perhaps you could also add something along the lines of principle components analysis so that you don't only use random groups from your area - you want to have a netflix kind of thing going on mixed with some truly random ones.\u003cp\u003eGood luck guys!","parent":"321925","id":"321957"}
{"by":"iopq","time":"1481527139","timestamp":"2016-12-12 07:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your link has bread at 70 and sugar at 68. QED","parent":"13156231","id":"13156263"}
{"by":"andypants","time":"1367498984","timestamp":"2013-05-02 12:49:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His/her/their story is very interesting.\u003cp\u003eDidn't Satoshi have email conversations with other developers or interested users? What about forum or wiki accounts for the bitcoin sites? Domain name registration? Web hosting account?","parent":"5643917","id":"5644110"}
{"by":"jamessb","time":"1419372836","timestamp":"2014-12-23 22:13:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps a better example of how a naive assumption of statistical independence has led to a severe miscarriage of justice is provided by the case of Sally Clark: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sally_Clark\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would be extremely wary of your claim that \u0026quot;multiple accusations enable us to get enough evidence to convict even in parameter regimes where a single accusation is never enough\u0026quot; (\u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/sh/drrvcd5zzqclhbt/AACdWnx_wlfwnUoYFme9UgX9a/exercises_with_binomial_posterior_probabilities.pdf?dl=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;sh\u0026#x2F;drrvcd5zzqclhbt\u0026#x2F;AACdWnx_wlfwnUoYF...\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"8790240","id":"8790521"}
{"by":"_alastair","time":"1510845884","timestamp":"2017-11-16 15:24:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a really interesting development. I\u0026#x27;ve been poking around with making a cross-platform library lately, and had settled on Go because it does such a great job of building for iOS and Android simply (though the go bind tool), but the implementation feels a little messy because the nature of Go (e.g., no classes, property accessors, etc) doesn\u0026#x27;t translate easily to Objective-C or Java. So Kotlin might be a really interesting alternative here.","parent":"15712015","id":"15713327"}
{"by":"zimbatm","time":"1363466361","timestamp":"2013-03-16 20:39:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah agreed but what's the most likely outcome. You rewriting your urls or you fixing your network / kicking the offending user ? You're not only impacting browsing experience but also all the scripts that are trying to connect to the domain like your google drive sync agent.","parent":"5385682","id":"5386718"}
{"by":"incompatible","time":"1477003192","timestamp":"2016-10-20 22:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I\u0026#x27;ve heard, that it\u0026#x27;s difficult to get a human involved if you have a problem with Google\u0026#x27;s free products. The article says \u0026quot;Eventually, with the help of Google’s customer support and some ex-colleagues who still work at Google, Bob was able to get his account back.\u0026quot; For the average person who doesn\u0026#x27;t have ex-colleagues who still work at Google, or who\u0026#x27;s name isn\u0026#x27;t Linus Torvalds, it will be far more difficult.","parent":"12755580","id":"12756805"}
{"by":"louprado","time":"1507925912","timestamp":"2017-10-13 20:18:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, I was making a general comment and I didn\u0026#x27;t read the article because others warned it was too disturbing.\u003cp\u003eI find blaming oneself is always the best strategy in life especially in a close-call life-and-death situation. Agreed, it is self-deluding at times. And I would never apply such judgement on others especially the dead -- what would be the point.","parent":"15467144","id":"15468940"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1356423203","timestamp":"2012-12-25 08:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yet, this has happened before. \"NoSQL Doesn’t Mean No SQL Injection\"[1] You also need to worry about escaping $ operators in your query documents[2].\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]: \u003ca href=\"http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/developers/#dollar-sign-operator-escaping\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/developers/#dollar-sign-o...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4952022","id":"4965464"}
{"by":"rpgmaker","time":"1465531176","timestamp":"2016-06-10 03:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can make anything look cheap if I compare it with something substantially more expensive but that isn\u0026#x27;t the point. I think it is expensive because after shelling that amount I end up without a copy of the software that I can call my own.","parent":"11869158","id":"11874205"}
{"by":"kirillzubovsky","time":"1307382141","timestamp":"2011-06-06 17:42:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you do, let John know that he's becoming a local superstar!","parent":"2625470","id":"2625576"}
{"by":"onion2k","time":"1546957220","timestamp":"2019-01-08 14:20:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gulp is still a great tool for straightforward workflows. It\u0026#x27;s still being developed and maintained. It has more than 30,000 GitHub stars. There\u0026#x27;s no need to change you have a working process.\u003cp\u003eThere are valid reasons to look at other build tools, but \u0026quot;because your current tool is 4 years old\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t one.","parent":"18855518","id":"18855634"}
{"by":"krollew","time":"1335165498","timestamp":"2012-04-23 07:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Psychedelic drugs can help nearly everybody, not just terminal patients.","parent":"3872532","id":"3877701"}
{"by":"throwaway420","time":"1381202322","timestamp":"2013-10-08 03:18:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe I\u0026#x27;m wrong, but I think you\u0026#x27;re over-thinking the problem this will cause you. It\u0026#x27;s understood that most startups end up dying. Additionally, you have other companies listed on your resume, so I\u0026#x27;m not sure what there is to worry about.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re concerned, I might add a note on your resume that this startup formally ceased operations on X date.","parent":"6512772","id":"6512831"}
{"by":"cynicalkane","time":"1268849758","timestamp":"2010-03-17 18:15:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You misunderstand PEGs.\u003cp\u003eIn the simplest version, each rule can be seen as a function that calls other rules, passing along a memo table as it goes. It's entirely stateless and functional, except for the memo table. In addition, each function is only a few lines.\u003cp\u003eBacktracking isn't a hack--it's the natural result of statelessness. There's no cursor that needs to be backtracked.","parent":"1199129","id":"1199232"}
{"by":"LPTS","time":"1214539824","timestamp":"2008-06-27 04:10:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know.  Who is \"We all?\"  I think people who know have been saying Bill Gates is smart for ages.  I really do truly hate Microsoft, from the bottom of my heart, because how bad and ugly most of their stuff is weighs deeply on my sensitive aesthetic sense.  Just knowing I have to share a planet and 99.9% of my genome with people who are happy with that crap causes me deep existential anxiety.  So there aren't many people who hate Microsoft more then me.  But, I always thought Bill Gates was really smart.  As much as I hate Microsoft, that kind of evil is a smart evil.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is, first of all, that all this evaluation doesn't mean shit if you don't fire the people responsible for your crap sucking, and second of all, that no one is really responsible for things not sucking.  The problem with MS is the MBA's, and that anyone with a strong enough vision to make stuff not suck will have to bump heads with very powerful institutional forces that pull MS towards suckage.\u003cp\u003eThe problem isn't quite someone at microsoft as the fact there is no one there with power AND taste who can make a big difference.  (there are maybe a few at low levels, there are some of microsoft things that don't suck, and that even evidence taste, but it's the rare exception not the rule.)","parent":"228965","id":"229428"}
{"by":"nilkn","time":"1466628077","timestamp":"2016-06-22 20:41:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate that you\u0026#x27;re trying to clarify my post, although I did not intend my use of parentheses to imply that the enclosed fact was not important. But I\u0026#x27;m unclear on what your ultimate point is. It\u0026#x27;s certainly not true that well ordering is \u0026quot;completely irrelevant\u0026quot;, and I think you must know that if you have the confidence to make such a bold statement, which makes me wonder why you made it in the first place. It plays a very prominent role in many proofs of these facts for the positive integers. It alone is not sufficient to establish unique factorization, but I never claimed it was.\u003cp\u003eAre you agreeing with me? Disagreeing with me? What sort of response are you expecting? I\u0026#x27;d like to have a productive discussion about this, but you\u0026#x27;re giving me a single bread crumb to go off of here.","parent":"11956260","id":"11956835"}
{"by":"No1","time":"1358404176","timestamp":"2013-01-17 06:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, and bringing on a non-technical cofounder who can do marketing for you. What's better, 50% interest with a big market share or 100% of none? How are you ever going to be on the front page of TechCrunch?\u003cp\u003eSeriously, this is an open-source project. Why in the world would he use a professional voice over? That's just weird.\nIf anything, the home page is too polished. People seem to be mistaking it for a well-funded commercial endeavor.","parent":"5066982","id":"5071372"}
{"by":"ma2rten","time":"1434314762","timestamp":"2015-06-14 20:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lack of theory is actually mentioned as one of the issues in the presentations.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think your examples are good though, Max polling reduces noise. RuLU learn faster than Sigmoid or tanh.","parent":"9715776","id":"9716278"}
{"by":"allwein","time":"1531751587","timestamp":"2018-07-16 14:33:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Won\u0026#x27;t fix\u0026quot; is the incorrect terminology to use.  I\u0026#x27;m having trouble finding a direct quote from Apple in any of these stories. My assumption is the actual statement is along the lines of \u0026quot;It was designed to be quieter.\u0026quot; while omitting any reference to addressing the sticky key issue.\u003cp\u003eSaying \u0026quot;We designed it to fix the sticky key issue\u0026quot; creates liability admitting that there\u0026#x27;s a significant defect that needs to be fixed, which no corporation would ever do, especially while currently facing multiple class-action lawsuits about said issue.\u003cp\u003eSo while saying it was designed to be quieter, that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean there aren\u0026#x27;t additional benefits or corrections being implemented.","parent":"17518961","id":"17541531"}
{"by":"projektir","time":"1489721719","timestamp":"2017-03-17 03:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t invent something like sexism, but some feminists did contribute to generating extra hatred towards the male gender.\u003cp\u003eThe hate on all sides is understandable, but in the end, we all lose.","parent":"13891173","id":"13891236"}
{"by":"tzakrajs","time":"1476184773","timestamp":"2016-10-11 11:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oof, that is too real.","parent":"12680733","id":"12683274"}
{"by":"Theodores","time":"1475919102","timestamp":"2016-10-08 09:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Recently I split some forms out from \u0026#x27;name\u0026#x27; to \u0026#x27;firstname\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;lastname\u0026#x27;. An extra column was added to the backend table too.\u003cp\u003eSo why did I do this, go from what you want to something else? What was the evil marketing intent?\u003cp\u003eThose names also get used by other systems, therefore to create a support ticket in 3rd party system, extra name needed. There is also the small matter of writing back to whomever filled in the form. \u0026#x27;Dear Steve, thanks for applying for the position of blah blah...\u0026#x27; becomes possible.\u003cp\u003eThe backend form handling is there to build a tidy database so extra fettling goes on. Customer enters \u0026#x27;steve  mcdonald\u0026#x27; in the \u0026#x27;name\u0026#x27; field, but when you email them their tickets you would prefer to have the name as \u0026#x27;Steve McDonald\u0026#x27;. Note the titlecasing going on there and the tidying of whitespace. This is a snip if using two fields, a bit more complex otherwise.\u003cp\u003eDoing this makes it easier when it comes to customer enquiries, the name is the same in the sales order table, the customer database, the newsletter system somewhere in the cloud and in the helpdesk system. Simple.\u003cp\u003eAlso important to the change was the reality of how web forms work. You can get autofill to do a good job of \u0026#x27;firstname\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;lastname\u0026#x27;, it is all there to be clicked \u0026#x27;submit\u0026#x27; to if the form autofill helpers are configured correctly in a HTML5 way.\u003cp\u003eSometimes the Mr\u0026#x2F;Mrs option is helpful as you instantly get people\u0026#x27;s gender. That is why the Mr\u0026#x2F;Mrs box is there.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I do not put Mr\u0026#x2F;Mrs in forms, instead I use the \u0026#x27;gender\u0026#x27; library to guess the customer\u0026#x27;s gender based on their IP address (country) and their first name. In this mini-\u0026#x27;shadow profile\u0026#x27; the gender guess is not disclosed to the customer but it does get pulled through to the reports and the inaccuracy of not knowing whether \u0026#x27;Viv\u0026#x27; is a girl or a boy does not matter in the aggregate.\u003cp\u003eSo there you have it, why an \u0026#x27;evolved web form\u0026#x27; can move away from a \u0026#x27;name\u0026#x27; box to \u0026#x27;firstname\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;lastname\u0026#x27;.","parent":"12666226","id":"12666286"}
{"by":"pasas","time":"1449608808","timestamp":"2015-12-08 21:06:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes, but PassengerVec at least gives you a lot more indication (including whether it\u0026#x27;s a pointer or reference as they have to be declared along with it) than:\u003cp\u003eauto passengers = getPassengers();","parent":"10699483","id":"10699522"}
{"by":"mseepgood","time":"1341827886","timestamp":"2012-07-09 09:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All of them were started in the past, when desktop programming was still considered a good thing.","parent":"4217339","id":"4217400"}
{"by":"jordansmith","time":"1460652934","timestamp":"2016-04-14 16:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Desk: Cheap tempered glass L-shaped desk. Think I got it at staples or walmart.\u003cp\u003eChair: Standard leather office chair from Staples\u003cp\u003eMonitor: 13\u0026quot; Macbook Air \u0026amp; 22\u0026quot; Asus 1080p monitor\u003cp\u003eKeyboard: Apple magic keyboard. I have a WASD mechanical but have fallen in love with the magic keyboard\u003cp\u003eMouse: latest magic mouse\u003cp\u003eMusic: Sometimes. I put on a pandora \u0026quot;chill out\u0026quot; playlist which is mostly ambient type music.  Other times I Just use noizio to get general ambient sound.\u003cp\u003eHours: Work for myself at home, so whenever. usually on and off throughout the day.","parent":"11493678","id":"11498356"}
{"by":"cstejerean","time":"1487975783","timestamp":"2017-02-24 22:36:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a length extension on the beginning part of the PDF. There are 2 headers that have the same hash. As long as you append the same suffix to both of those headers, the hash will be the same. In this case the headers happen to contain a switch that select between one of two images. So the length extension is adding both images to both of the headers. Since the headers have the same hash and the suffix has the same hash, the overall document has the same hash. But because of the switch in the header you see two completely different contents.\u003cp\u003eSo basically H1 and H2 have the same SHA1 hash. By adding suffix I1I2 to both you get H1I1I2 and H2I1I2. That\u0026#x27;s the length extension.","parent":"13728409","id":"13728574"}
{"by":"tocomment","time":"1288753391","timestamp":"2010-11-03 03:03:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I question that was bothering me: where does the test drive fit into your model?  Are you supposed to go to dealers beforehand to do that?","parent":"1862763","id":"1863448"}
{"by":"humanrebar","time":"1509561522","timestamp":"2017-11-01 18:38:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I think one of the big complaints about the gendered pronouns...\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d say that\u0026#x27;s definitely a complaint, but a minor one. The bigger complaint is the Orwellian implications of language policing, though the person complaining might not reach for the word \u0026quot;Orwellian\u0026quot; exactly.","parent":"15604173","id":"15604199"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1473573971","timestamp":"2016-09-11 06:06:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So if legislators with their car dealer friends ban Tesla from selling directly to consumers, could Tesla do something like \u0026quot;We\u0026#x27;ll pay for your flight out to nearest place you can buy a car and drive it home. You\u0026#x27;ll get free nice hotel stays on the way home?\u0026quot; I can see that for someone buying a Model S or Model X. The sale was not made in that state so it should be fine.\u003cp\u003eWhat would the states do then? I am guessing force buyers to pay a steep registration tax, but they\u0026#x27;d just have to word in a very strange way. Can\u0026#x27;t people then just register the car quickly out of state and then re-register it locally so it looks like \u0026quot;a move\u0026quot; legally and not a sale? It seems for any trick these states can come up with, the other, Tesla friendly, states can come with an alternate trick to counter it...","parent":"12471067","id":"12472201"}
{"by":"superuser2","time":"1450291867","timestamp":"2015-12-16 18:51:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that Facebook is not an anonymous internet community and doesn\u0026#x27;t want to be. If you don\u0026#x27;t want someone to \u0026quot;dox\u0026quot; you then you shouldn\u0026#x27;t be friends with them on Facebook.","parent":"10746067","id":"10746321"}
{"by":"wvenable","time":"1481823307","timestamp":"2016-12-15 17:35:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might also be good for certain types of programmers and worse for others.  I tried to do TDD on an appropriate project but it hampered my creativity too much.  I slowly started writing code ahead of the tests and ended up back to regular unit testing.","parent":"13185155","id":"13186367"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1303066958","timestamp":"2011-04-17 19:02:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice one. I'll likely be a customer for this firm too...I have to take my shirts to a tailor anyway so I might as well cut out the middleman. Next, suits.","parent":"2456519","id":"2456712"}
{"by":"ah-","time":"1369093313","timestamp":"2013-05-20 23:41:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BMW bets heavily on electric cars and plans to launch their first production car, the i3 in a few months.","parent":"5740386","id":"5740939"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1235081783","timestamp":"2009-02-19 22:16:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So get into their machine via SQL injection and fix the code. Jeez! This Web 2.0 where users are expected to contribute!","parent":"487907","id":"487954"}
{"by":"prateekdayal","time":"1315804740","timestamp":"2011-09-12 05:19:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. Sometimes people mess it up. However, mostly it's helpful and disabling that option for people who know how to use it is really bad.","parent":"2985924","id":"2985925"}
{"by":"ZoFreX","time":"1354369545","timestamp":"2012-12-01 13:45:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And what happens once the phone's battery dies?","parent":"4856642","id":"4857588"}
{"by":"ethomson","time":"1421973695","timestamp":"2015-01-23 00:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a nutshell, it checks out the target and cherry-picks what had been HEAD onto it, beginning at the merge-base.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/src/rebase.c\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;libgit2\u0026#x2F;libgit2\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;src\u0026#x2F;rebase.c\u003c/a\u003e may be helpful and (hopefully) readable.","parent":"8932592","id":"8932751"}
{"by":"zjaffee","time":"1533169511","timestamp":"2018-08-02 00:25:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point I wanted to get at was that there isn\u0026#x27;t the same level of competition in electric cars than gas powered cars yet.","parent":"17667310","id":"17668292"}
{"by":"yohui","time":"1474160957","timestamp":"2016-09-18 01:09:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article says that was the \u0026quot;out-of-the-box\u0026quot; experience. After upgrading to the latest firmware:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe newer firmware certainly delivered higher peak throughput: up to 800mbps or so, if you click your mouse just fast enough at just the right point of one of the easiest tests. I\u0026#x27;m not sure that\u0026#x27;s an \u0026quot;upgrade.\u0026quot; The improved peak throughput comes at the cost of stalled connections, peaky and unpredictable ceilings, and tremendously degraded throughput in the more demanding 10K tests. This would be a downgrade for someone with 100mbps or 200mbps cable, in my opinion.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"12522409","id":"12523412"}
{"by":"rozap","time":"1354743592","timestamp":"2012-12-05 21:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is definitely a massive overstatement. I think it's true in almost any industry, that the best results come from a balance of these things.\u003cp\u003eYou don't get anywhere by doing and not thinking. You don't get anywhere by thinking and not doing. Things like this don't have to be (and are not) black and white.","parent":"4876041","id":"4878744"}
{"by":"krschultz","time":"1298432772","timestamp":"2011-02-23 03:46:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In theory, centrally planned things make a lot of sense.\u003cp\u003eIn practice, democracy usually comes to a better solution, even if it is not perfect.\u003cp\u003eHN is driven by votes, the community is getting what the majority wants right now. The only way to really improve HN is to change or limit the community. You can tweak the rules only to limit certain actions to high-kharma users, but if there is pent up demand for some kind  of story it will make its way to the front page.","parent":"2252152","id":"2252923"}
{"by":"notatoad","time":"1543100780","timestamp":"2018-11-24 23:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s text, with images interspersed.  it\u0026#x27;s a perfectly usable way to present information.  to read it, you just keep reading - all the information is there on the page.  or are you not seeing something that looks like this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;bba37wW\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;bba37wW\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18524294","id":"18524416"}
{"by":"ramblerman","time":"1331545518","timestamp":"2012-03-12 09:45:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is gambling illegal all of a sudden. There has to be more behind these interests.","parent":"3684324","id":"3692845"}
{"by":"Bromskloss","time":"1523359585","timestamp":"2018-04-10 11:26:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I appreciate most of all in that video is that he has carefully considered his words, not just to make a lay audience able to follow, but also so that what he says is _precisely_ correct.","parent":"16797904","id":"16800534"}
{"by":"thingie","time":"1240387178","timestamp":"2009-04-22 07:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but that's only a poor substitute. I can't just press shift + pg [up,down] or drag scrollbar in the terminal emulator or use mouse wheel.","parent":"573570","id":"573663"}
{"by":"speedplane","time":"1532243783","timestamp":"2018-07-22 07:16:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was never a moment where MS’s search engine was seriously competitive with Googles, whether that’s 2003 or 2018. Google was worried, but it wasn’t about the search algorithm. It was who would control the platform that controlled which search to run.\u003cp\u003eBack then, MS clearly had the desktop (this was well before the widespread adoption of Chrome). Oracle\u0026#x2F;Java had a shaky but real lead in devices. The answer to desktop domination \u0026#x2F; MS was Chrome and taking the lead on new web standards that Google could control.\u003cp\u003eBut the answer to device \u0026#x2F; Oracle domination was Android. If Google didn’t wage that battle, every Android advertisement would have a “powered by Oracle” slogan in the bottom corner.","parent":"17585605","id":"17585637"}
{"by":"pclark","time":"1234778743","timestamp":"2009-02-16 10:05:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"280 North are building a Hacker News variant?","parent":"482807","id":"482867"}
{"by":"PelCasandra","time":"1393299270","timestamp":"2014-02-25 03:34:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wow, that was fast","parent":"7295198","id":"7295255"}
{"by":"rtpg","time":"1380739802","timestamp":"2013-10-02 18:50:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, the core of the counter argument is that the executive can declare anything classified.\u003cp\u003eThe argument for publishing from the companies is that this information is not classified, but it\u0026#x27;s not their decision, it\u0026#x27;s (basically) the President\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/RS21900.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fas.org\u0026#x2F;sgp\u0026#x2F;crs\u0026#x2F;secrecy\u0026#x2F;RS21900.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;The Supreme Court has never directly addressed the extent to which Congress may constrain the \nexecutive branch’s power in this area. Citing the President’s constitutional role as Commander-inChief,4\n the Supreme Court has repeatedly stated in dicta that “[the President’s] authority to \nclassify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from \nthis Constitutional investment of power in the President and exists quite apart from any explicit \ncongressional grant.”5\u003cp\u003eThe President decide\u0026#x27;s what\u0026#x27;s classified, the Supreme Court agrees that the President has the constitutional authority to declare things classified. End of story (at least for this case).\u003cp\u003eI think in general, it\u0026#x27;s important to note that the Courts have always ruled in degrees. Nothing is absolute (which is why people can get thrown into jail for hate speech), and the courts are the ones that decide up to where the line gets to be drawn, balancing between rule of law and freedom. The discussions about surveillance (and nat. sec. associated) are relevant.","parent":"6484205","id":"6484411"}
{"by":"dhume","time":"1281973773","timestamp":"2010-08-16 15:49:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if you only have a finite amount of hardware available (which is probably the case), each node's data set grows exponentially with input size.\u003cp\u003eIf your node population increases exponentially with input size, you're still running into the speed-of-light delay problem mentioned above (cube root of exponential is still exponential). If your solution is polynomial time with polynomially many nodes, your space cost is also polynomial.","parent":"1607952","id":"1608125"}
{"by":"remy_luisant","time":"1507407466","timestamp":"2017-10-07 20:17:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Courage.\u003cp\u003eTry things. I have done web dev (front and backend), low-level OS stuff, game dev, math simulations, teaching, VLSI, etc...\u003cp\u003eIn the end, looks like teaching and game development is what stuck. Took me years to discover this, but I\u0026#x27;m happy with it.\u003cp\u003eIf something does not appeal to you after trying it? Don\u0026#x27;t do it, go and do something else.\u003cp\u003eBe your own test.","parent":"15425461","id":"15425491"}
{"by":"burgerbrain","time":"1319141156","timestamp":"2011-10-20 20:05:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think it's known at this point that Qaddafi was assassinated by the US.  The two more common things I'm hearing is that he was either shot by rebels or hit by a NATO air-strike, which is kind of ambiguous.","parent":"3136574","id":"3136668"}
{"by":"DanielStraight","time":"1305292599","timestamp":"2011-05-13 13:16:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mechanical engineering has also made us lazy though. People didn't have to work out 200 years ago. They just worked. If you want to be in shape today, you almost have to do it on the side.","parent":"2544467","id":"2544484"}
{"by":"Jedd","time":"1521116710","timestamp":"2018-03-15 12:25:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My spouse that I\u0026#x27;ve met?  Ditto my mother?  (there are also non-females that I love, btw.)\u003cp\u003eUnless you\u0026#x27;re going the solipsistic route, actually knowing (not in in the biblical, but rather merely just the physical \u0026#x2F; actual sense) people is a major factor.","parent":"16592146","id":"16592195"}
{"by":"vixen99","time":"1477339729","timestamp":"2016-10-24 20:08:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"on its own.","parent":"12782078","id":"12782373"}
{"by":"shortlived","time":"1299106679","timestamp":"2011-03-02 22:57:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is sarcastic? He looked like the walking dead.","parent":"2281385","id":"2281797"}
{"by":"ksk","time":"1484505584","timestamp":"2017-01-15 18:39:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes what you said is completely true. I misread the original comment.","parent":"13405524","id":"13405544"}
{"by":"tragic","time":"1440746480","timestamp":"2015-08-28 07:21:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is not whether or not there will be a downturn. In any sector, there \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e be a downturn ... eventually. That\u0026#x27;s just capitalism. (And it could be triggered in the short term by something like the small reasons you mock - it is merely not wise to bet your shirt on one or the other being the exact proximate cause.)\u003cp\u003eThe point according to OP is that the start-up scene has become soft and flabby, and lean times, whenever they arrive and for whatever reason, will toughen it up - and for those who can survive the initial chill winds, lower costs of labour, real estate etc will provide a boost.","parent":"10132204","id":"10134097"}
{"by":"madengr","time":"1541345468","timestamp":"2018-11-04 15:31:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose people will complain about cremation not being carbon neutral.  Liquification seems to be the way to go, or perhaps soylent green.  Why not just fed to hogs?","parent":"18376070","dead":true,"id":"18376273"}
{"by":"circa","time":"1359057823","timestamp":"2013-01-24 20:03:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you run it.  It tells you, \"you're the fuckin' best, you da fuckin' best.\"","parent":"5110921","id":"5111835"}
{"by":"qwertyuiop924","time":"1471793311","timestamp":"2016-08-21 15:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The same WAS true for scheme: Scheme\u0026#x27;s spec is fairly minimal, and for many years there was no standard way to handle external dependancies, so such deps were frowned upon in the tiny amount of portable code that existed. SLIB, SXML, and a handful of SRFIs were all you could really depend on. Hell, even Binary I\u0026#x2F;O wasn\u0026#x27;t standard.\u003cp\u003eWith R7RS, hopefully we can have a larger set of portable code, and fix this problem.\u003cp\u003eBut yeah, these kind of abstractions ARE just part of how lisp is designed. The rule is, if you see an idiom in your code, abstract it as a function or a macro.","parent":"12328385","id":"12331226"}
{"by":"mikegerwitz","time":"1495041674","timestamp":"2017-05-17 17:21:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Both are abiding by laws restricting access to that content. If you have an issue with that perhaps talk to the relevant governments.\u003cp\u003eIn the case of Roskomnadzor, GitHub is not under the jurisdiction of the Russian government---they made a choice to comply.  They could have instead chosen to stand up to the Russian government, which would surely upset its citizens and the world and possibly lead to change.  Possibly not.  It\u0026#x27;s certainly a gamble.\u003cp\u003erms drew a hard line on this.  When I asked him about Roskomnadzor specifically, he was not moved.  Quite the opposite, in fact.\u003cp\u003eI forget what he said about the export controls; I\u0026#x27;ll have to look at my mail archives tonight.  But if they are complying with US law, and they have no choice, I don\u0026#x27;t think they\u0026#x27;d be penalized in these criteria.","parent":"14357715","id":"14360563"}
{"by":"Hondor","time":"1462264588","timestamp":"2016-05-03 08:36:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point, but it looks like there\u0026#x27;s still a big effect. Vasoconstriction causes up to an extra 10 degC temperature gradient across the skin compared to when they\u0026#x27;re dilated (less than 1 degC). [ \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.healthyheating.com\u0026#x2F;Thermal_Comfort_Working_Copy\u0026#x2F;downloads\u0026#x2F;http___repositories.cdlib.org_cgi_viewcontent.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.healthyheating.com\u0026#x2F;Thermal_Comfort_Working_Copy\u0026#x2F;d...\u003c/a\u003e  p572 ] So that halves heat flow rate from what I described. It\u0026#x27;s like being in a 10 degC environment instead of 0 degC. You could double the length of the cold shower to 5 minutes to compensate.","parent":"11618319","id":"11618889"}
{"by":"iuguy","time":"1288634173","timestamp":"2010-11-01 17:56:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rails seems to be popular for people that do C++, Java and PHP in terms of jobs. Python is something that you can get to about 3/10 in an afternoon, but there are less jobs (except in domain-specific areas where python has an advantage).\u003cp\u003ePersonally I'd recommend python to anyone to pick up and run with, see if they like it and carry on if they do. Having said that, if it's coin you're after with your current skillset I imagine that C sharp or a .NET-based language may well be more appropriate for you.","parent":"1857127","id":"1857415"}
{"by":"BrendanEich","time":"1364458564","timestamp":"2013-03-28 08:16:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So? You can't use PNaCl at all yet, and you can use NaCl only in Chrome and only loading content from the CWS. Please use the same yardstick!\u003cp\u003eThe cross-browser evolving standards story is the winner, not only long-term but shorter term. There is no serious argument to the contrary.\u003cp\u003e/be","parent":"5453621","id":"5453759"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1355136740","timestamp":"2012-12-10 10:52:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure\u003cp\u003eMoney buys more commodity hardware faster than the time/money used to develop a chip\u003cp\u003eIt's not hard to make tens, or maybe even hundreds of GPUs beat a specialized chip except for very specific things\u003cp\u003eAnd even for something specialized it's probably easier to use an FPGA","parent":"4897663","id":"4898470"}
{"by":"michaelmrose","time":"1472899197","timestamp":"2016-09-03 10:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ok","parent":"12399336","id":"12418669"}
{"by":"wccrawford","time":"1309819036","timestamp":"2011-07-04 22:37:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author assumes that people who write Wikipedia articles do their research after they've decided to write an article, instead of having things to say and then going to make articles or edits.\u003cp\u003eAlso, blogs rarely come about by searching Google for things and then writing them, so most of those links aren't from Google, either.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, the only time that Google is used is when we know part of something, but not enough of it to consider ourselves fluent in the subject.  In other words, when we don't know enough to write an article.","parent":"2728015","id":"2728087"}
{"by":"nathancahill","time":"1484751389","timestamp":"2017-01-18 14:56:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A similar thing happens with commercial imagery satellites. Companies are forced to \u003ci\u003edownsample\u003c/i\u003e their high resolution govt-only images to 30cm for the general public.","parent":"13426636","id":"13426682"}
{"by":"SmellyGeekBoy","time":"1509360527","timestamp":"2017-10-30 10:48:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m not a programmer so I don\u0026#x27;t know, but: Wouldn\u0026#x27;t it be trivial for someone who knows how to write Android software to monitor if an an application is accessing the audio input device?\u003cp\u003eOr even by MITMing the connection and looking at the network packets. But yes, it\u0026#x27;s not outside the realms of possibility to hook into the microphone driver on a rooted Android phone and check when it\u0026#x27;s being activated.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not one to leap to Facebook\u0026#x27;s defence and if this is happening it needs to be shut down ASAP, but I suspect that there would be at least some credible evidence out there if it were indeed the case.","parent":"15582869","id":"15584110"}
{"by":"thechao","time":"1533944987","timestamp":"2018-08-10 23:49:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, this is literally the whole point of this article: it turns out that that is a bad idea, in the long run.","parent":"17737386","id":"17737500"}
{"by":"itg","time":"1490982339","timestamp":"2017-03-31 17:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like it\u0026#x27;s time to stay away from the internet this weekend.","parent":"14006058","id":"14006187"}
{"by":"JonathonW","time":"1437795929","timestamp":"2015-07-25 03:45:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might, if PHP were distributed under a copyleft license that cared about such things.  PHP is not (it\u0026#x27;s licensed under a BSD-style license [1], which permits redistribution under another license with attribution).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m actually having trouble finding an interpreted language (and accompanying standard library) that \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e licensed under a copyleft license.  Python isn\u0026#x27;t (the PSFL isn\u0026#x27;t copyleft); Ruby isn\u0026#x27;t (it\u0026#x27;s dual-licensed under 2-clause BSD and a Ruby license that\u0026#x27;s their own); Perl isn\u0026#x27;t (it\u0026#x27;s dual-licensed under GPL and the Artistic License, with an explicit note by Larry Wall that scripts are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e considered derivative works for GPL purposes).\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.php.net\u0026#x2F;license\u0026#x2F;3_01.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.php.net\u0026#x2F;license\u0026#x2F;3_01.txt\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9946115","id":"9946464"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1483652723","timestamp":"2017-01-05 21:45:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ePatreon doesn\u0026#x27;t work perfectly\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere does patreon fail, aside from adoption and popularity?","parent":"13328025","id":"13331713"}
{"by":"JabavuAdams","time":"1366321253","timestamp":"2013-04-18 21:40:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But isn't giving respect low-power? If you're the alpha, others give \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e respect, and you do as you please. I'm exaggerating, obviously, but respect is a form of deference. Deference is low-power.","parent":"5573262","id":"5573301"}
{"by":"copperx","time":"1410558374","timestamp":"2014-09-12 21:46:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You must be kidding, right?","parent":"8310576","id":"8310628"}
{"by":"Laforet","time":"1435141494","timestamp":"2015-06-24 10:24:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have mixed feelings about Lustig. A lot of his theories make good scientific sense but the experimental observations just don\u0026#x27;t add up. Still I agree with him in saying that the fat-free fad have probably done more harm than good since a lot of the supposedly low fat food have heaps of added sugar to maintain the taste and people end up eating way more calories than needed.","parent":"9770156","id":"9770675"}
{"by":"ep103","time":"1366319558","timestamp":"2013-04-18 21:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; it would have to run at greater than real time, no?\u003cp\u003eNot for the people in the simulation : ) We'd just be self-conscious byte code.  Which actually is the question Iain Banks brings up.  They want to run simulations on how a society will respond to a political action, but that would imply creating self-conscious byte-code in the simulation.  And wouldn't that be genocide when they turn off the sim?  So maybe the only ethical thing is to never turn off the sim...","parent":"5565200","id":"5573119"}
{"by":"CyberDildonics","time":"1457627981","timestamp":"2016-03-10 16:39:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if you were paying attention he was talking about being able to stockpile chemicals without having to tell anyone.","parent":"11259879","id":"11260204"}
{"by":"djmips","time":"1521877986","timestamp":"2018-03-24 07:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don Mattrick and Jeff Sember. Not sure how much they made but they did evetually parlay the start into millions (at least for Don) \n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cbc.ca\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;entry\u0026#x2F;video-games-video-kids-strike-it-rich\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cbc.ca\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;entry\u0026#x2F;video-games-video-kids-stri...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16663572","id":"16665429"}
{"by":"JauntTrooper","time":"1522289405","timestamp":"2018-03-29 02:10:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s probably influenced greatly by industry and region.\u003cp\u003eThe entry level job market is paradoxically the hardest due to the competition and limited opportunity to differentiate.\u003cp\u003eMy first three job searches out of college required several months with 150-200 applications each, and I was an ivy league grad with a finance degree.\u003cp\u003eIt was really tough to get an interview without knowing anyone. I initially tried limiting my search to positions and companies I was passionate about via career websites, but my hit rate of even getting a response was ~5%, so I realized I needed to up the number of applications to get a reasonable pipeline of opportunities.\u003cp\u003eThankfully I\u0026#x27;ve passed that point in my career and have  specialized, so my last two positions have been through recruiters that approached me. I won\u0026#x27;t forget how stressful the early career can be though.","parent":"16703882","id":"16704013"}
{"by":"HaoZeke","time":"1509820042","timestamp":"2017-11-04 18:27:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"UpWork is completely biased towards their work force.\nThey treat freelancers like shit and the client is always right.\nThe rating system makes it impossible to have any benefit from conflict resolution.\u003cp\u003eThen again some of the people hiring there are really professional.\u003cp\u003eI was scammed by some guy who gave me a 1 star for overworking me and exploiting me, in spite of showing evidence that his work was completed (and much more) his rating was not even exempted from my total.\u003cp\u003eSuffice to say it makes it hard to work. Luckily it was my 6th job and I had other 5 stars.....","parent":"15625279","id":"15626251"}
{"by":"jgrahamc","time":"1273680992","timestamp":"2010-05-12 16:16:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"e.g. my old iPod nano in diagnostic mode: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.jgc.org/2006/09/ipod-nano-in-diagnostic-mode.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.jgc.org/2006/09/ipod-nano-in-diagnostic-mode.htm...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1341192","id":"1341332"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1437500842","timestamp":"2015-07-21 17:47:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This entails giving \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c/i\u003e users freedom, yet they can take it away from theirs.","parent":"9924065","id":"9924217"}
{"by":"altonzheng","time":"1455151742","timestamp":"2016-02-11 00:49:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, yes, because then your ROI would be huge for the money you\u0026#x27;re putting in.","parent":"11077403","id":"11077472"}
{"by":"dec0dedab0de","time":"1535175953","timestamp":"2018-08-25 05:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jupyter is also really useful for figuring out how you want to do something before you copy it to your IDE. Every time I work with a new API or library I try it out in jupyter first.","parent":"17839680","id":"17839735"}
{"by":"colin_mccabe","time":"1444625468","timestamp":"2015-10-12 04:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThen the question becomes whether an architecture obscures or exacerbates them, and also how it deals with them. The systemd object model does not fare well, as discussed.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat specific aspects of the systemd dependency model do you feel exacerbate race conditions and circular dependencies?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Also compare a system like s6-rc or serel where dependency graphs are compiled from manifests and consistency checked before being applied. The graph is persistent configuration and not an ephemeral artifact.)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have seen people discussing systemd error messages about circular dependencies online.  It seems that systemd does perform some checking, although I haven\u0026#x27;t found documentation on what checks it does (I probably missed it).  I\u0026#x27;m not sure how the dependency graph could be persistent configuration because hardware can be hotplugged these days.  For example, are you going to create nodes in the graph for all the hard drives that could possibly exist over the lifetime of the machine?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSystems having ordering dependencies does not inherently affect their determinism, the startup discipline (sequential v. parallel) primarily does, and then there are different ways to tackle parallelism. systemd\u0026#x27;s execution model and transactional object system exacerbate non-determinism in ordering results.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the sequential vs. parallel startup discipline \u0026quot;primarily affects determinism\u0026quot; won\u0026#x27;t all these systems have the same issues with nondeterminism?  I don\u0026#x27;t think anyone is seriously proposing starting up services on boot sequentially in 2015.  Or even when a USB stick is inserted.  Systems have 12 cores now and people can be very sensitive to boot times.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e[lack of portability is] a horrible criticism of systemd. Any cursory examination of systemd will quickly reveal the task is next to insurmountable without doing what amounts to a full reimplementation.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI understand that systemd relies heavily on cgroups and other Linux-specific features for process isolation.  And the BSDs are also unlikely to accept GPLed code.  However, I feel like they could have at least discussed some way of reducing fragmentation here.  As it is, I would be amazed if at least one or two of the BSDs didn\u0026#x27;t implement a similar init system to systemd in the next few years.  And as it is, they probably won\u0026#x27;t share any code or concepts, unfortunately.","parent":"10372482","id":"10372628"}
{"by":"factsaresacred","time":"1506637550","timestamp":"2017-09-28 22:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An earlier version of this article was mysteriously removed from the front-page without reason, and the comments criticizing the move deleted.\u003cp\u003eIrony aside, let\u0026#x27;s hope this submission on a \u0026#x27;Trust Problem\u0026#x27; fares better.","parent":"15361280","id":"15361292"}
{"by":"mturmon","time":"1501470423","timestamp":"2017-07-31 03:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of the best-chosen comments in the thread.  The OP has encouraged commenters here to make generalizations about \u0026quot;NASA\u0026quot; software, but this does not make sense.  It\u0026#x27;s too big, too dispersed, and the software developed is in a big range from research codes to operational codes to human-rated (see upthread: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14886727\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14886727\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eIn short, s\u0026#x2F;w practices and the dedication and capabilities of the people writing the software vary too much to characterize at that level of granularity.","parent":"14887631","id":"14889215"}
{"by":"0x0","time":"1394603530","timestamp":"2014-03-12 05:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But when you buy direct from Tesla, you know who you\u0026#x27;re buying from... The same manufacturer that the dealerships buy from!\u003cp\u003eNot so much with unlicensed taxis.","parent":"7383984","id":"7384208"}
{"by":"pm90","time":"1489212567","timestamp":"2017-03-11 06:09:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Selling clothes is legal. Selling drugs would be illegal even if we decriminalize the users of said drugs.","parent":"13843687","id":"13844478"}
{"by":"m0skit0","time":"1350850304","timestamp":"2012-10-21 20:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to diagree with your PoV for recursion. I personally don't have any problems if an alogrithm is iterative or recursive, specially if the recursivity is as simple as in your example. In fact, in such cases recursivity is even simpler to understand than iteration IMHO.","parent":"4680368","id":"4680634"}
{"by":"navigator01","time":"1508610809","timestamp":"2017-10-21 18:33:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everyone on Earth has a petty identity. If we allow secession just so every self-identifying group can \u0026#x27;rule\u0026#x27; themselves then we encourage those petty identities when we should be discouraging them and instead encouraging universal humanism.","parent":"15522877","id":"15522897"}
{"by":"crag","time":"1348252686","timestamp":"2012-09-21 18:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And 10 years ago the opposite was true. Apple was on the verge of collapse and MS ruled the world. Fortunes change.","parent":"4554970","id":"4555074"}
{"by":"ignu","time":"1404925446","timestamp":"2014-07-09 17:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To prove a 17 year-old committed child pornography by recording himself, a bunch of adults are going to stimulate and photograph his penis.\u003cp\u003eMakes sense.","parent":"8010572","id":"8010768"}
{"by":"kintamanimatt","time":"1341007016","timestamp":"2012-06-29 21:56:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only trouble with this is that trivial applications tend to only give a superficial feel for the framework and aren't representative of a \"real\" development experience. For example, I wrote a trivial application in Flask. Python's Flask, while it looks great on the surface and has fantastic documentation, rapidly becomes unwieldy in the face of more complex problems. The same is true for Ruby on Rails.\u003cp\u003eMost frameworks almost feel like they're tuned to solve these basic problems and give a fantastic first impression that doesn't sustain.\u003cp\u003eDeveloping a complete project in each is a better way to move forward IMHO.","parent":"4179246","id":"4179323"}
{"by":"jhund","time":"1328496231","timestamp":"2012-02-06 02:43:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At intigi.com we're trying to solve this problem and have a beta product working. It not only helps you find interesting links in the way described in the article, but it also helps curating and sharing them.","parent":"3555923","id":"3555991"}
{"by":"troymc","time":"1329016909","timestamp":"2012-02-12 03:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I asked a bricklayer what he was doing. He said he was laying bricks... duh!\u003cp\u003eI asked another. He said he was building a library, where one day his grandchildren might discover Hemmingway.","parent":"3580328","id":"3581000"}
{"by":"trotsky","time":"1348064458","timestamp":"2012-09-19 14:20:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I understand you point, it's rather thin - they are comparing the newest smartphone chip from apple with the newest smartphone chip from intel. Intel brought their best low power engineering to the table - haswell won't be available until 2Q13 which is pretty much an entire phone design cycle. Power doesn't mean much anymore without power/watt.","parent":"4543429","id":"4543650"}
{"by":"asynchronous13","time":"1523603278","timestamp":"2018-04-13 07:07:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was the data as of 2009.\u003cp\u003eHelicopters \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e crash more frequently than airplanes (on the order of 30% more crashes per flight hour). Part of that is due to how and when helicopters are used. Flying next to 500,000 Volt power lines is dangerous. When the coast gaurd is plucking someone out of the ocean, they use a helicopter, not an airplane. And people don\u0026#x27;t fall off boats when the weather is nice.\u003cp\u003eThere are no helicopters comparable to a 747 as far as passenger count goes. So from that perspective you\u0026#x27;re right. But a 747 is also crazy safe and barely contributes to the average accident rate. The small 2-10 seat airplanes are the ones that crash a lot, like 10x more than the average of all aircraft (including helicopters). you\u0026#x27;re more likely to survive a helicopter crash than a Cessna crash.","parent":"16826961","id":"16827715"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1545719316","timestamp":"2018-12-25 06:28:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless I\u0026#x27;m reading it wrong, this is a personally nasty comment. Please don\u0026#x27;t post those to HN. That\u0026#x27;s the kind of community we\u0026#x27;re trying not to be.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18756113","id":"18756261"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1526394717","timestamp":"2018-05-15 14:31:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doubling the distance only gives you a 6db drop.  So, the best approach is probably to have structures in the way to redirect sounds.  Which should make a dramatic difference.","parent":"17074078","id":"17074157"}
{"by":"Andrex","time":"1360784378","timestamp":"2013-02-13 19:39:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn't say they \u003ci\u003ewere\u003c/i\u003e Chrome packaged apps, but that they were like them. He even says as much:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"That's how the seeds of the webapps on the Chromium desktop, albeit originally written in HTML and running on Firefox, were planted.\"\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"5215059","id":"5215187"}
{"by":"philipkglass","time":"1518330444","timestamp":"2018-02-11 06:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In broad strokes: both have life independent from planetary surfaces, strong AI, FTL communications and travel, teleportation, and extremely cheap and abundant energy. The Federation has time travel over the Culture, but less impressive AI and comparatively abysmal biomedical technology. The latter two weaknesses are, IMO, more a result of extreme technological conservatism in the Federation than any universal technological ceiling being lower in the Trek setting.\u003cp\u003eIn TNG we see that the computer can faithfully emulate human intelligences on the Holodeck, including human geniuses, while maintaining its \u0026quot;ordinary\u0026quot; ship duties as well. (At least I \u003ci\u003eseem\u003c/i\u003e to recall Barclay consulting a virtual Einstein in the Holodeck when an alien probe turned Barclay into a supergenius in \u0026quot;The Nth Degree.\u0026quot;)\u003cp\u003eSo they\u0026#x27;ve got strong AI for entertainment. And for medical care, according to Voyager. Run it faster than realtime and I\u0026#x27;d guess it\u0026#x27;s already weakly superhuman, Data-or-better. Then keep iterating from there, like the Culture ancestors did for generations of AI before the full-fledged Minds came about. I\u0026#x27;m not going to argue that Trek has anything close to Minds, but it seems like the Federation already has the ancestors of Minds, lacking mostly the willingness to let them develop further.\u003cp\u003eThe even weirder question, when I keep thinking about it, is why none of the \u003ci\u003eother\u003c/i\u003e major factions in Star Trek were less reactionary about e.g. ubiquitous AI or life extension. It seems like the Vulcans, Romulans, or \u003ci\u003esomebody\u003c/i\u003e would have already been willing to end aging and\u0026#x2F;or adapt transporter technology to make immortal backups of individuals.","parent":"16351165","id":"16351479"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1466642794","timestamp":"2016-06-23 00:46:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like millimeter wave: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webpass.net\u0026#x2F;about_network\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webpass.net\u0026#x2F;about_network\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"11958142","id":"11958167"}
{"by":"blauwbilgorgel","time":"1411855841","timestamp":"2014-09-27 22:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see a security vulnerability, but bad security practice.\u003cp\u003eEither they: Delete the account. All is well.\u003cp\u003eEither they: Take over the account. It is common sense then to change the phone number associated with the account. All is well.\u003cp\u003eYou could solve this \u0026quot;bug\u0026quot; by reading the documentation and creating a better security protocol (which is currently putting your organizations\u0026#x27; data at risk).\u003cp\u003eI clicked the title with just one thought it the back of my mind: \u0026quot;If this is an active serious vulnerability then why did OP not apply for the vulnerability program and have it fixed beforehand\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eMy experience with the vulnerability team has been great (one honorable mention and one pay-out). If you did not get an honorable mention then it means the security team did not file a bug report. Your feedback could probably still be used to improve the UI.\u003cp\u003eAs an aside: Hunting real security bugs on Google domains is insanely addictive (because they are so hard to find). Try to generate all their different error screens. Try to find the Google property running on aspx. To practice there is also \u003ca href=\"https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;google-gruyere.appspot.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8378145","id":"8378354"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1429895269","timestamp":"2015-04-24 17:07:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it goes like this: If you gave someone your PIN you broke contract with the bank, but you also authorised the transaction. Similarly if you did the transaction you can\u0026#x27;t argue that you didn\u0026#x27;t authorise it - mistakes happen, but the bank isn\u0026#x27;t usually liable for your mistakes.","parent":"9434363","id":"9434617"}
{"by":"mdda","time":"1417624005","timestamp":"2014-12-03 16:26:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see that Skype get a license to the content, only that you should have the rights to distribute it (\u003ca href=\"http://www.skype.com/en/legal/tou-usa/#5\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.skype.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;legal\u0026#x2F;tou-usa\u0026#x2F;#5\u003c/a\u003e), and that they have the right to \u0026quot;take it down\u0026quot; if they feel like it.","parent":"8693909","id":"8694570"}
{"by":"docgnome","time":"1297903460","timestamp":"2011-02-17 00:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow. Thanks for posting this! Besides being interesting, it has inspired me to go pick up a personal project I've sort of abandoned! I'm really hoping to get it working enough to do a Show HN post for some feedback. Thanks! :-)","parent":"2227770","id":"2229113"}
{"by":"willvarfar","time":"1360834940","timestamp":"2013-02-14 09:42:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes, I know all the ins and outs.\u003cp\u003eBut they will end up building a pull rather than push system in the end.","parent":"5218427","id":"5218695"}
{"by":"bcaulf","time":"1305518303","timestamp":"2011-05-16 03:58:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course you are right that it will be a leaky wall due to the nature of the Internet. But it will increase the cost and hassle and reduce bandwidth. And that is good enough to prop up publishing industry revenue.","parent":"2529616","id":"2551589"}
{"by":"megablast","time":"1383429071","timestamp":"2013-11-02 21:51:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they don\u0026#x27;t know what to do, try buying someone.","parent":"6660855","id":"6660981"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1372496230","timestamp":"2013-06-29 08:57:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My wife and me tried it as well; same thing. Two things make DDG unusable for me; much slower than Google and doesn\u0026#x27;t understand context. I think that sums up the article as well.","parent":"5961554","id":"5961818"}
{"by":"dlor","time":"1515605008","timestamp":"2018-01-10 17:23:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maintainer of structure-test here. We also have a tool that does this! Check out \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;GoogleCloudPlatform\u0026#x2F;container-diff\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;GoogleCloudPlatform\u0026#x2F;container-diff\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16113782","id":"16116841"}
{"by":"mironathetin","time":"1205621227","timestamp":"2008-03-15 22:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... fan noise","parent":"137577","id":"137766"}
{"by":"muyuu","time":"1390865517","timestamp":"2014-01-27 23:31:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From all the reports I\u0026#x27;ve seen, they seem to be equating the selling of BTC with money laundering. No other activity related to money laundering is being reported.","parent":"7134120","id":"7134155"}
{"by":"PhasmaFelis","time":"1444097481","timestamp":"2015-10-06 02:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI fully expect to lose a lot of karma over this comment, but I\u0026#x27;d love to hear an argument over why access to Facebook is a right together with your down vote.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eEffectively banning political dissidents and victims of abuse, stalking, and harassment from using the world\u0026#x27;s largest communication platform is a shitty thing to do. Mentioning \u0026quot;rights,\u0026quot; or--the other popular approach--saying \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s their website, they can do what they want,\u0026quot; is a non sequitur and dishonest besides. You\u0026#x27;re trying to imply that people saying \u0026quot;Facebook \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e do this\u0026quot; are actually saying \u0026quot;Facebook should be \u003ci\u003eforced\u003c/i\u003e to do this.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I am more than willing to acknowledge that allowing pseudonyms on Facebook would cause some inconvenience, just as--for example--I acknowledge that allowing government organizations the control they want over data, crypto, and personal devices would, indeed, make it easier for them to catch some criminals. I would like \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e to acknowledge that some things are more important than those things.\u003cp\u003e(Do bear in mind, when you respond, that Facebook has  reversed users\u0026#x27; privacy settings with no notice before and reserves the right to do so at any time, and that \u0026quot;they \u003ci\u003eprobably\u003c/i\u003e won\u0026#x27;t do that again\u0026quot; is a slim fucking hope for someone whose life could be endangered.)","parent":"10334825","id":"10336371"}
{"by":"brianwawok","time":"1451104324","timestamp":"2015-12-26 04:32:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, in the US at least not many rural people (and some city people) do not have access to multiple ISPs. I have comcast up to 120 mbps,  or att for 6mbps. So I need to sell my house if I want to drop comcast.","parent":"10792836","id":"10793263"}
{"by":"sametmax","time":"1530542344","timestamp":"2018-07-02 14:39:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you.","parent":"17441854","id":"17441994"}
{"by":"jazoom","time":"1533300700","timestamp":"2018-08-03 12:51:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe sho stated the problem. We have dysfunctional government that only thinks as far as the next election.","parent":"17678695","id":"17679375"}
{"by":"anamax","time":"1209738118","timestamp":"2008-05-02 14:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's possible to store multiple bits in lots of devices, including capacitors and inductors.  Intel has been shipping flash that stores multiple bits per cell for quite some time.\u003cp\u003eThere's an interesting tradeoff between the size of the box, the number of bits, and the required detector.  And, if you're going small enough, the charge of an electron.","parent":"178550","id":"179496"}
{"by":"burger_moon","time":"1462036168","timestamp":"2016-04-30 17:09:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you I appreciate the explanation.\u003cp\u003eI have a question, are the job ads written in a way that would attract both a junior(I\u0026#x27;m picturing 1yr out of college experience) developer and someone who is so experienced to justify a $300k comp package?\u003cp\u003eWithout some clear distinction in the ad I\u0026#x27;m having a hard time figuring out how it could appeal to people on both ends of the spectrum.","parent":"11601552","id":"11602502"}
{"by":"sbergot","time":"1513354149","timestamp":"2017-12-15 16:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; every day at midnight for 10 minutes is fine\u003cp\u003eNo it is not. Coinbase has clients all over the globe. It is always regular trading hours.","parent":"15932450","id":"15932753"}
{"by":"Apocryphon","time":"1423171119","timestamp":"2015-02-05 21:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where did you even get that figure?","parent":"9006050","id":"9006177"}
{"by":"wuliwong","time":"1506815429","timestamp":"2017-09-30 23:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t a false equivalency be if the author said all jobs are equivalent because they share some common skills? Seems like you might be claiming a false \u0026quot;exclusivity?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m legitimately asking because I had to just admit to myself that I didn\u0026#x27;t really know what \u0026quot;false equivalency\u0026quot; means and looked it up.","parent":"15374890","id":"15375611"}
{"by":"Sanddancer","time":"1390798043","timestamp":"2014-01-27 04:47:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aye, but I\u0026#x27;d go for\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026#x2F;usr\u0026#x2F;include; perl -e \u0026quot;@c=\\\u0026quot;x\\\u0026quot;x(2**16); while(1) {warn @c}\u0026quot;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\ninstead. Fewer chars, and you\u0026#x27;re not relying on the shell to throw it into stderr for you.","parent":"7128676","id":"7128876"}
{"by":"jonsen","time":"1337868519","timestamp":"2012-05-24 14:08:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes it did. Many times. Each spring they start melting.","parent":"4018232","id":"4018464"}
{"by":"jpolitz","time":"1482095813","timestamp":"2016-12-18 21:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love this paper!  I built my compilers course out of the ideas in it:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.swarthmore.edu\u0026#x2F;~jpolitz\u0026#x2F;cs75\u0026#x2F;s16\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.swarthmore.edu\u0026#x2F;~jpolitz\u0026#x2F;cs75\u0026#x2F;s16\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think the incremental approach is terrific, because it allows you to get to a program the emits assembly and builds a working binary in week one.  The first thing this does is give a concrete example of what \u0026quot;a compiler\u0026quot; is.  The second is to provide a great foundation for discussing static vs. dynamic and what decisions are made at compilation time vs. runtime, without needing a full implementation.  These concepts are not obvious (e.g. when can and should a check for unbound ids happen?  What about divide by zero, or overflow, or type mismatch?), and deserve to be carefully taught and considered.\u003cp\u003eThis lets the course build up a new feature, from front-to-back, each week or two, and consider its implications on the whole pipeline each time.","parent":"13207441","id":"13207695"}
{"by":"chris_b","time":"1427775655","timestamp":"2015-03-31 04:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"768px in my 1920px screen. Stays that way when I resize to 1600px. Could not reproduce?","parent":"9294136","dead":true,"id":"9294353"}
{"by":"danudey","time":"1294346296","timestamp":"2011-01-06 20:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been using Plex for Mac, and it's quite good. Not sure if it counts as 'lightweight', but it's fantastic. I load TV shows or movies into it (non-iTunes though).\u003cp\u003eI have it set up on my Mac Mini (connected via HDMI), and I can remote control it with the Apple Remote, but there's also an iPhone/iPad app that can both remote control (up, down, select, back), remote browse (tap on a movie or TV episode to watch it on the TV), and stream (tap on a movie to watch it on your iPhone/iPad).\u003cp\u003eIt also has the nice feature of being able to automatically find any other Plex instances on the local network and automatically stream from them as if the media were local. That way, you can connect Plex to your media centre in the basement, but watch the data anywhere in the house (e.g. on a smaller TV in the bedroom or an iMac in the office).\u003cp\u003eIt's really a great ecosystem, and if their partnership with LG[1] pans out, it might get that much better.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/03/plex-announces-paternship-with-lg-pledges-to-beat-boxee-box-and/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.engadget.com/2010/09/03/plex-announces-paternship...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2076168","id":"2077049"}
{"by":"richardjordan","time":"1392329170","timestamp":"2014-02-13 22:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah yes because Hacker News is the place for a thesis on modern history.\u003cp\u003eI was being polite: let me be clearer - you are wrong and your comment shows an ignorance of the facts and I suggest you actually read up on said conflicts before spouting nonsense. Better?","parent":"7227911","id":"7234788"}
{"by":"Dave_Rosenthal","time":"1343308617","timestamp":"2012-07-26 13:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FoundationDB co-founder here.\u003cp\u003eYes, we provide the strongest level of ACID semantics. Although proving things about large computer programs is pretty hard, we have spent much of the past three years building testing and validations systems to ensure this is true. We run tens-of-thousands of nightly simulations to check system correctness and properties in the face of machine failures, partitions, etc. We also run long-running tests on real-world clusters using programmable network and power switches to simulate these same cases in the real world.\u003cp\u003eSo, we've convinced ourselves. What would you like to see on the site to help provide the kind of incredible evidence you're looking for?","parent":"4294826","id":"4295797"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1436985645","timestamp":"2015-07-15 18:40:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re lucky in that we require web workers, so we get web sockets compliance for free. We also are an infrastructure deployment, so we get some leeway in ignoring shitty devices.\u003cp\u003eI made the decision early on to push on the business side as hard as possible to only use modern web tech, and it has saved us a lot of trouble. HTML5, without compromise, is \u003ci\u003enice\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"9893001","id":"9893185"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1262634089","timestamp":"2010-01-04 19:41:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, so the crystals tend to follow a 6-sided geometry.  Why are snowflakes \u003ci\u003esymmetrical\u003c/i\u003e?  Why does one arm have to fall into the \u003ci\u003eexact\u003c/i\u003e same configuration as the opposite one?  Why not have 6 different arms, all following the same 6-sided geometry?  What mechanism communicates between the arms to achieve 6-sided symmetry?","parent":"1030711","id":"1031031"}
{"by":"LarryPage","time":"1499310082","timestamp":"2017-07-06 03:01:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha I did the same thing to build huge scrapers.","parent":"14706976","id":"14707864"}
{"by":"sontek","time":"1527189837","timestamp":"2018-05-24 19:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love the law to come down on the people who murdered an innocent man without verifying claims.\u003cp\u003eWhy do they approach assuming guilt?  It shouldn\u0026#x27;t be this easy to get people murdered by making false claims.","parent":"17147301","id":"17147361"}
{"by":"noir_lord","time":"1495014027","timestamp":"2017-05-17 09:40:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depending on whose definition of millenials that\u0026#x27;s certainly true, I was born 1980, I\u0026#x27;m 37 in a couple of weeks and some would have me as a millenial..which is kind of funny since statistically I\u0026#x27;m damn near half way through my life.","parent":"14355189","id":"14356893"}
{"by":"bloak","time":"1519074803","timestamp":"2018-02-19 21:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We didn\u0026#x27;t get a test for coeliacs because at that time the only reliable test for coeliacs was a biopsy: yikes!\u003cp\u003eThe main symptom was \u0026quot;bloating\u0026quot;, and it went away after two weeks of a very exclusive diet: just rice and fried vegetables. Then we reintroduced each ingredient by eating loads of it for 2 days, except that for wheat they recommended eating loads of it for 7 days because the reaction to wheat can be delayed, as you mentioned. However, within 48 hours of reintroducing wheat the symptoms had returned, strongly, so it was fairly clear.\u003cp\u003eWe continued with the rest of diet plan anyway, and a second sensitivity was detected: lactose. Apparently it\u0026#x27;s not unusual for people to be sensitive to wheat and lactose.\u003cp\u003eIt was quite a fun couple of months, really. We ate loads of things that we\u0026#x27;d never tried before. I\u0026#x27;d recommend it to anyone who suspects that something in their diet might be making them ill. It broadens one\u0026#x27;s culinary horizons if nothing else.","parent":"16413915","id":"16415798"}
{"by":"aasarava","time":"1216052886","timestamp":"2008-07-14 16:28:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been blogging on and off since 1999 and I've seen a lot of friends and other good bloggers stop maintaining their sites over the years for various reasons.  Some got married and didn't have their single-person adventures to write about anymore; others got discouraged when they looked at their visitor stats; still others just lost interest.\u003cp\u003eBut for the most part, many people who have stopped blogging have come to the realization that maintaining a good blog takes time -- lots of it.  A good, thoughtful post can take a couple hours to write and edit.  And maintaining an overall theme for your blog that's compelling and not just \n\"random stuff I post for the occasional friend who drops by\" is even harder.  In other words, having a good blog is like creating and managing a product.\u003cp\u003eAs many bloggers begin to realize this, and begin to see other options (microblogging, etc.) they move on.  But that's not to say that the entire form of media called blogging is dead.  It just means it's stabilizing and becoming recognized as just one of the many options out there for publishing content, as opposed to being the \"everyone must have\" option it once was.","parent":"245641","id":"245824"}
{"by":"GFK_of_xmaspast","time":"1485983627","timestamp":"2017-02-01 21:13:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;entry\u0026#x2F;peter-thiel-women-democracy_us_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;entry\u0026#x2F;peter-thiel-women-democr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13545145","id":"13545257"}
{"by":"OnlyRepliesToBS","time":"1542243888","timestamp":"2018-11-15 01:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"lol nope","parent":"18455551","dead":true,"id":"18455972"}
{"by":"PuffinBlue","time":"1522367637","timestamp":"2018-03-29 23:53:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Signed up to MFP yesterday to test it out. Immediately noticed they don\u0026#x27;t use https (though the login forms appear to be submitted over https).\u003cp\u003eI thought to myself - on the face of it they don\u0026#x27;t seem to hot on security, I wonder how long it will be before they get hacked or something?\u003cp\u003eWell, I wasn\u0026#x27;t expecting less than 24 hours.","parent":"16710891","id":"16712346"}
{"by":"Tobias42","time":"1480204200","timestamp":"2016-11-26 23:50:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried SpriteKit? I chose SpriteKit with Swift for my first game and like it quite a lot, but I keep wondering if it was a good choice to limit myself to iOS.\u003cp\u003eWhat I\u0026#x27;m interested in mostly is if I at least got a significant performance gain from chosing SpriteKit over Unity.","parent":"13046269","id":"13046733"}
{"by":"bilbo0s","time":"1386654234","timestamp":"2013-12-10 05:43:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"???\u003cp\u003eI didn\u0026#x27;t mention minorities either???\u003cp\u003eAt any rate... your side of the story is known... but not the other side. That is my entire point. The government can\u0026#x27;t be the solution to EVERY problem. Especially when it is so expensive. It\u0026#x27;s an easy thing for you to go to a different movie theater. It is a difficult thing for government to incur a $40K obligation to make you comfortable... all on your word.","parent":"6875698","id":"6879178"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1397069602","timestamp":"2014-04-09 18:53:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, if one posits a channel for transmitting secrets among a vendor cabal which never leaks to people not authorized to receive the secrets, we should abandon SSL and use that for our secure communication needs instead.","parent":"7561252","id":"7561469"}
{"by":"pyvek","time":"1370640723","timestamp":"2013-06-07 21:32:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, the old `if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear` fallacy. I\u0026#x27;ll leave you with this - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;falkvinge.net\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;19\u0026#x2F;debunking-the-dangerous-nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear\u0026amp;#x2F\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;falkvinge.net\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;19\u0026#x2F;debunking-the-dangerous-noth...\u003c/a\u003e;","parent":"5841793","id":"5842065"}
{"by":"zeynel1","time":"1302484842","timestamp":"2011-04-11 01:20:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAs far as I can make out from that post and the rest of your blog, you seem to reject Newtonian gravitation...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eReject Newtonian gravitation?\u003cp\u003eWhy would I reject a meaningless concept such as “Newtonian gravitation?”\u003cp\u003eNewton did not know “Newtonian gravitation.” There is no “Newton’s constant of gravitation G” in the Principia. There are no equations in the Principia... “Newtonian gravitation” is an invention of Newtonian physicists.\u003cp\u003eMy point is that if you want to understand the concept of force; look at its origins in Newton’s writings. Why? Because academic physics is a legal system. In legal systems, once a “law” enters the system, and it is canonized that law can never be removed from the system. The legal system of physics must remain consistent. This is the reason why Einstein’s Field Equations which claim to describe a nature without force has Newton’s constant of force G in them. Only in a legal system an equation denying force can have the unit of force in it.\u003cp\u003eAs you can see from reading the comments in this thread by otherwise intelligent people they are utterly confused about what force is because they take the authority of physics as the absolute truth; and physics teaches nothing but the legal concepts of physics; in a legal system there is no right or wrong, or true and untrue, the truth table is not valid and there is no and/or; there is only legal and not legal.\u003cp\u003eConsequently, in a legal system, every concept comes in triplicates:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    1. the letter interpretation of the law; \n    2. the spirit interpretation of the law; and \n    3. combination of letter and spirit interpretation of the law.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSo, in physics it is legal to state\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    1. “force exists”; \n    2. “force does not exist”, and \n    3. “force existsnot”. \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThese are all legal statements in physics. If you try to conform your research on force to physics, you can only write a commentary on the concept of force in physics. The original article is a commentary on force in physics; it is a legal document.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e...in favor of Kepler's laws of planetary orbits.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou see how much the Newtonian worldview is innate in your reasoning. You can only perceive nature in Newtonian terms. “Kepler’s laws” is the invention of Newton’s disciples who now call themselves physicists. Newton did not call “Kepler’s Rule” “Kepler’s Third Law.”\u003cp\u003eKepler’s Rule is a rule, because it is a proportionality which ties the radius of an orbit to its period. Newton used Kepler’s rule to compute planetary orbits; this is what my blog is about. If you disagree; or you believe that my math is wrong, I cannot be happier to know that. But do not try to dismiss what I write by throwing Newtonian mythology at it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow does your model account for the perturbations that are observed in three-body and more complex systems?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain, you are using post-Newtonian notions invented by Newton’s disciples the physicists. You are assuming, when you write “three-body system”, that the world is Newtonian, and the three bodies in question interact according Newtonian occult force.\u003cp\u003eThe world is not Newtonian.\u003cp\u003eNewton dealt with perturbations in the Principia in proposition III.13 \u003ca href=\"http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/the-cause-of-saturns-perihelion-motion/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://science1.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/the-cause-of-saturn...\u003c/a\u003e\nSo the myth that “perturbation” is a dynamical phenomenon goes back to that proposition in the Principia.\u003cp\u003eWhat is perturbation and how does astronomy account for perturbations?\u003cp\u003eThere is only 1 way to make orbit calculations in astronomy: define a model; make observations; subtract observations from the model to obtain residuals. This is it. There is no other way. This is how astronomical calculations are made. Anyone who claims otherwise is a charlatan.\u003cp\u003eThe residuals are the perturbations. So for example: if your model is the Ptolemaic model; and you make a table of naked-eye observations, and take residuals you will find that your residuals are close to zero; Ptolemaic theory explains planetary orbits perfectly well for the naked eye observations.\u003cp\u003eNow take the residuals of Ptolemaic theory with the telescopic observations of planets and you will see sinusoidal “perturbations.” How do you account for these perturbations? You add new terms to your model to eliminate the perturbations. This is usually done with trigonometric expansions. There is no other way; you must add new terms to your model to account for perturbations. There is no Newtonian magic or occult force that explains these perturbations. This is where the hoax is.\u003cp\u003eSo take a look at the proposition III.13 and you will see that Newton’s explanation is geometrical, not dynamical. This is why “Newtonian gravitation” is a hoax. Newton used Kepler’s Rule to compute orbits but he claimed to have used his dynamical force instead.  \u003ca href=\"http://science1.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/periodic-reminder-of-newtons-fraud/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://science1.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/periodic-reminder-o...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor instance, right now there is a satellite called SOHO at the Sun-Earth L_1 Lagrangian point.\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWhy do you say that Newtonian gravity is a myth, when the existence of such an orbit violates Kepler's third law but is in perfect agreement with calculations according to the Newtonian model?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan you tell me how Lagrangian point violates “Kepler’s Rule”? Can you compute Lagrangian points by using Kepler’s Rule only?\u003cp\u003eAnd conversely, can you compute Lagrangian points without using Kepler’s Rule? No you can’t. If you can let me know.\u003cp\u003eWhat physicists do, is to express Kepler’s Rule in Newtonian units such as GM \u003ca href=\"http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/is-newtons-constant-a-conventional-unit/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://science1.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/is-newtons-constant...\u003c/a\u003e\nand they claim that because they used a conventional unit of their own invention and named it after their master Newton, they used Newtonian dynamical force in astronomical calculations. If this is not a hoax what is it?\u003cp\u003eTake a look at Lagrange’s original paper here: \u003ca href=\"http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k229225j/f231\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k229225j/f231\u003c/a\u003e He states his goal as to calculate the orbit of three bodies by nothing but the distances between them.\u003cp\u003eThis is the definition of Kepler’s Rule.\u003cp\u003eBut Lagrange must still conform to Newtonian doctrines so he adds A, B, C as the “mass” of bodies A, B, C. But “mass” exists only to scale the calculations. Once you realize that mass in the Newtonian lingo is the constant term R03/T02; in other words, “mass” is the ratio of two lengths and it serves only to set the scale, you will see that Lagrange’s original equations do not concern themselves with Newtonian force; force terms exist only as cosmetic terms either eliminated or used as scaling units.\u003cp\u003eFrom Newton to the present day, physicists compute orbits by using Kepler’s Rule but claim to have used Newton’s dynamical terms. All we have to do is to look at the equations, ignore what Newton’s disciples write in their commentary; look at the equations.\u003cp\u003eCan you look at this calculation \u003ca href=\"http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slagrang.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slagrang.htm\u003c/a\u003e\nand compute L1 by using Kepler’s Rule only?\u003cp\u003eTry it. All you have to do is to eliminate Newtonian labels G, M, m and F from formulas and use Kepler’s Rule directly: \u003ca href=\"http://science1.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/computation-of-lagrange-point-l1-without-newtonian-branding/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://science1.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/computation-of-lagr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2418372","dead":true,"id":"2430932"}
{"by":"bcantrill","time":"1457638416","timestamp":"2016-03-10 19:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(I\u0026#x27;m the CTO of Joyent.)\u003cp\u003eSadly (and despite repeated pleading), Quizlet didn\u0026#x27;t bother to do anything -- at all -- with LX-branded zones.  This was a bit dispiriting because they were part of the motivation for the work (namely, a customer of ours that was upfront with the \u0026quot;impossible\u0026quot; demand of the performance they saw in a SmartOS container but with their Linux stack).  I think that even by the time the LX-branded zone work was clearly on a production trajectory (i.e., late 2014), they had already implicitly decided to move away from Joyent to a more established brand.  That\u0026#x27;s fine, and I don\u0026#x27;t fault them for it (and I definitely appreciate their kind words for Joyent in general and our support and engineering teams in particular) -- but I do wish they\u0026#x27;d been more upfront about their rationale.","parent":"11261143","id":"11261577"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1499121318","timestamp":"2017-07-03 22:35:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t right now, and I am thinking about it more and more these days.\u003cp\u003eI continually bump into people on the road with kids. It absolutely can be done. (Yes, even in Central America and West Africa!)","parent":"14691946","id":"14691964"}
{"by":"spindritf","time":"1406580962","timestamp":"2014-07-28 20:56:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m gonna be honest, that\u0026#x27;s an impressive prank. And the faded flag is not just run-of-the-mill vandalism.","parent":"8099202","id":"8099281"}
{"by":"dcraw","time":"1430506191","timestamp":"2015-05-01 18:49:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Alation (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alation.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alation.com\u003c/a\u003e), Redwood City, CA\u003cp\u003eLooking for UI and data Software Engineers, DevOps, Demand Marketing, and Sales Development Representatives. VISAs welcome, though we can\u0026#x27;t relocate international candidates right now.\u003cp\u003eAlation is democratizing access to data by tackling one of the most universal challenges in analysis – the challenge of context. We analyze petabyte-scale data warehouses at companies ranging from eCommerce to online radio to improve the way data is accessed. Alation has brought together an incredible team of engineers, designers, and executives from Google, Apple, Oracle, IBM, one-man startups and top schools.\nJust announced: a $9m Series A, and our customers include eBay, Square, and Hipmunk.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve got a great product in a huge market with the right people for the job, and we have a hell of a lot of fun. Come join us!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;alation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;alation\u003c/a\u003e or contact joanna.leon@alation.com","parent":"9471287","id":"9473670"}
{"by":"snowmaker","time":"1534827146","timestamp":"2018-08-21 04:52:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally agree!  I am very excited to see how the community evolves.","parent":"17806516","id":"17807105"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1415427578","timestamp":"2014-11-08 06:19:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wups, yeah, it occurs to me that a factory function would transfer ownership so a unique_ptr is a more appropriate return value.\u003cp\u003eYou could imagine another example where the goal of the factory function is to construct an object and then set one of two or more other owned pointers to the value.  You still want \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c/i\u003e to hold ownership of the pointer, but don\u0026#x27;t know its eventual home until after some complicated logic finishes, and don\u0026#x27;t want to pay the copy constructor cost.  That might make a better illustration (or technically, you\u0026#x27;d use operator= instead of release(), but same basic point).","parent":"8575814","id":"8576208"}
{"by":"Uh7seidu","time":"1536335959","timestamp":"2018-09-07 15:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It blocks legitimate sites, e.g. file-droppers just because someone dropped a malware file there.","parent":"17935058","id":"17935322"}
{"by":"makomk","time":"1466693688","timestamp":"2016-06-23 14:54:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your experience would easily be explained by other AirBNB hosts not renting to non-whites.","parent":"11961142","id":"11961358"}
{"by":"ggregoire","time":"1489764315","timestamp":"2017-03-17 15:25:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish we could have the IMDB\u0026#x2F;RT ratings directly in Netflix and a page with all the movies sorted by those ratings.\u003cp\u003eThere are articles on Internet like \u0026quot;top 100 Netflix movies of the month\u0026quot; but it\u0026#x27;s almost always for the US Netflix.","parent":"13893672","id":"13894660"}
{"by":"m0shen","time":"1376583845","timestamp":"2013-08-15 16:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These are pretty handy:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.readability.com\u0026#x2F;bookmarklets\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://readable.tastefulwords.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;readable.tastefulwords.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e is nice too, but doesn\u0026#x27;t properly wrap \u0026lt;pre\u0026gt; lines.","parent":"6215382","id":"6218868"}
{"by":"mrpippy","time":"1546195965","timestamp":"2018-12-30 18:52:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ObjC was definitely seen as a dead-end at the time: it would either be replaced with Java, or maybe Mac developers would just stick with Carbon and C\u0026#x2F;C++. Either way, all driver development (on classic Mac, Windows, Unix) was in C, and C++ would be much more familiar than the “weird obsolete square-brackets NeXT language”\u003cp\u003eI made a post a few years ago discussing the issue:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10006411\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10006411\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18788600","id":"18790647"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1492039096","timestamp":"2017-04-12 23:18:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People who understand how close to the edge of disaster we are don\u0026#x27;t seem to understand how far past the edge others already are, and have been for generations.\u003cp\u003eNuclear strike is only a relevant fear for people who live cushy lives exploiting those who already live in post-apocalyptic landscapes, often just down the street from them. Those who can afford to worry about imaginary disasters are clearly desensitized to current ones.\u003cp\u003eThose who truly care about holocausts are already busy putting out fires. Those who only care about themselves are worrying about nuclear weapons.","parent":"14100882","id":"14102633"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1335037656","timestamp":"2012-04-21 19:47:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CLs become one perforce commit, but their lifetime is more like a git branch.  I try to keep CLs under 100 delta lines.  (In contrast, I try to keep git commits around 10 delta lines.)\u003cp\u003ePeople that only write one CL a month have probably written a fairly large amount of code, but are being blocked on reviews.  When I see a review for more than 100 lines of code, I immediately think, \"I'll do this later\" or \"Oh good, I'm only CC'd on this review; ignore.\"  If the person doesn't have anything else to work on, this blocks him until I feel like diving into 1000 lines of code I've never seen before.  Conversely, if I got one 30 line CL every day for a month, I would probably immediately review each, turning the one-CL-a-month guy into a 30-CLs-a-month guy with the same amount of code.","parent":"3872303","id":"3872798"}
{"by":"bjnortier_hn","time":"1280241065","timestamp":"2010-07-27 14:31:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Several factors had combined to bring about this sorry state of affairs. Services and rates were tightly regulated. Companies were obliged to run passenger services that could not make a profit.\"\u003cp\u003eAre you suggesting that rail companies should again be forced to offer unprofitable passenger services until again a \"fifth of rail mileage was owned by bankrupt firms.\"? Why should passengers be a priority? The most economical use of the railways should be the priority.","parent":"1550941","id":"1551285"}
{"by":"eagsalazar2","time":"1468430927","timestamp":"2016-07-13 17:28:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to learn some tool (react test utils at least) to access and interact with those React components either way.  Enzyme is 100% better and more powerful than using the react test utils and way easier to onboard new devs to.\u003cp\u003eAll IMO but I def think you should at least check it out.","parent":"12087746","id":"12087991"}
{"by":"valevk","time":"1423070901","timestamp":"2015-02-04 17:28:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another great (though not free) framework is Tabris: \u003ca href=\"http://developer.eclipsesource.com/tabris/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.eclipsesource.com\u0026#x2F;tabris\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8997645","id":"8998161"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1285270244","timestamp":"2010-09-23 19:30:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; the right way to word a response to this.\u003cp\u003eA restraining order?;-)","parent":"1720931","id":"1720973"}
{"by":"follower","time":"1309443608","timestamp":"2011-06-30 14:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Intriguing idea--can you tell us a bit more about the story behind it?","parent":"2713961","id":"2714114"}
{"by":"joshu","time":"1237397455","timestamp":"2009-03-18 17:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's basically a Geode machine. I downloaded a recent ubuntu desktop distribution, booted it under VMWare and installed it to a disk. Popped the disk in the machine, it starts up.\u003cp\u003eUsing Ubuntu's server variant was a bit more painful, as the kernel build assumes PAE or something; I needed to switch to a generic 32bit kernel. Not too bad.\u003cp\u003eThe wifi driver that ships with Ubuntu didn't work very well with it, so I had to compile and install a new one. There was some oddness with the ifup scripts and I had to have it start up, shut down, and start up again to intialize properly.\u003cp\u003eI am largely happy with the device; it's just a small, slightly strange PC.\u003cp\u003eI am also using it with one of those $80 32gb Transcend SSDs. They are not blazing, but neither is the machine.","parent":"521409","id":"521946"}
{"by":"peeters","time":"1401418586","timestamp":"2014-05-30 02:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bold choice on the touch screens.  If there\u0026#x27;s any time you\u0026#x27;d think you\u0026#x27;d want unambiguous, tactile buttons it\u0026#x27;d be when you have spine-wrenching vibrations coursing through your entire body and have 3 Gs pulling your arm back towards your body.\u003cp\u003eBut I guess pretty much the only thing astronauts are potentially required to do during launch is abort, and they  have the physical buttons for that.  So maybe it\u0026#x27;s not actually an issue.","parent":"7819880","id":"7819991"}
{"by":"playhard","time":"1312475974","timestamp":"2011-08-04 16:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the reply.\nDoes resident phase offers accommodation??\nwhen does the accelerator phase starts??\u003cp\u003ep.s- we are a startup from coimbatore","parent":"2846188","id":"2846657"}
{"by":"ztratar","time":"1425350166","timestamp":"2015-03-03 02:36:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I don\u0026#x27;t enjoy this fact much, I can\u0026#x27;t help but vehemently dislike the author\u0026#x27;s clear bias here.\u003cp\u003eStuff like this doesn\u0026#x27;t just pop out of nowhere. It\u0026#x27;s very clear this is the start of a campaign against Hillary; heck, they even went so far to talk about how Jeb, the leading GOP candidate, released a \u0026quot;trove\u0026quot; of emails during his 8 years as Governor. What they failed to really dive into, however, is how State reps have been doing this for a while. They mention it in a single sentence and then immediately go onto the next thing.","parent":"9135762","id":"9135792"}
{"by":"jaclaz","time":"1504800572","timestamp":"2017-09-07 16:09:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;We promise your email is safe with us and we will never spam you!\u003cp\u003eYeah, sure, I\u0026#x27;ve read that line before...\u003cp\u003eT\u003ci\u003eh\u003c/i\u003euesday is a \u003ci\u003equeer\u003c/i\u003e day of the week, anyway.\u003cp\u003eHow is the list \u0026quot;beautifully crafted\u0026quot; exactly?","parent":"15184589","id":"15193125"}
{"by":"amandalim89","time":"1319139095","timestamp":"2011-10-20 19:31:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love the quote: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It embodies the crux of human psychology. You can try to force a hand to do what you want but unless you convince the mind the precipitated action will never be sustainable.","parent":"3135264","id":"3136499"}
{"by":"ggm","time":"1525661204","timestamp":"2018-05-07 02:46:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Screen grab at: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;algebras.org\u0026#x2F;ggm\u0026#x2F;StadiaMaps.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;algebras.org\u0026#x2F;ggm\u0026#x2F;StadiaMaps.png\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17009943","id":"17010048"}
{"by":"veb","time":"1311029980","timestamp":"2011-07-18 22:59:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Internal Server Error - Read\u003cp\u003eThe server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.\nReference #3.1fc38f18.1311029956.4e5f0fc","parent":"2778738","id":"2778748"}
{"by":"cerberusss","time":"1390131008","timestamp":"2014-01-19 11:30:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow thanks for that link. Branson had a really, really hard time answering that question. Actually he didn\u0026#x27;t answer it at all.","parent":"7082871","id":"7084154"}
{"by":"d_c","time":"1253409416","timestamp":"2009-09-20 01:16:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope this spurs some entrepreneurial growth in the affected areas, such as gardening services.","parent":"832255","id":"832564"}
{"by":"misja111","time":"1473230509","timestamp":"2016-09-07 06:41:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1000 Volvo\u0026#x27;s for 300 million, that\u0026#x27;s 300,000 euro per Volvo.\nGranted, the article says \u0026#x27;adjusted for interest and inflation\u0026#x27;. But that seems wrong, if you had the choice in the 70\u0026#x27;s to buy a Volvo but instead you put the money on the bank, you would have only the accumulated interest by now, not anything else to offset the inflation.\u003cp\u003eCalculating backwards with an average 4% interest rate for 45 years gives an original price of about 55,000 euro in 1971. For that money you could buy a villa in Sweden around then.","parent":"12440015","id":"12441311"}
{"by":"fiaz","time":"1239108357","timestamp":"2009-04-07 12:45:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No they are not.\u003cp\u003eYC has more experience than you.\u003cp\u003eYC has more success than you.\u003cp\u003eIf they turned you down, listen to the \"why\" and make the adjustments necessary to be successful.\u003cp\u003eConsider it a badge of honor that they even gave you the time of day.  Take the information, feedback, advice, and rejection to heart and grow a pair.\u003cp\u003eSuccess is not static, it is dynamic.","parent":"550544","id":"550791"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1463347310","timestamp":"2016-05-15 21:21:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just like a virus that kills their hosts quickly is a \u003ci\u003eshitty virus\u003c/i\u003e, killing the company outright may not be the best way of sabotage, especially today, when companies are dime a dozen.\u003cp\u003eInstead, a good sabotage will make the company extremely unproductive but still alive - which leads them to suck a lot more money in than they\u0026#x27;d otherwise need, waste most of it, and then turn out subpar products being sold by the power of marketing itself, and otherwise a waste of energy, fuel, materials and man-hours...\u003cp\u003e... oh wait, we\u0026#x27;re talking about sabotage, and here I am describing most of the consumer electronics.","parent":"11702683","id":"11702831"}
{"by":"pepsi","time":"1522693498","timestamp":"2018-04-02 18:24:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No - the public Slack community for Ghost is shutting down.","parent":"16737512","id":"16737552"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1311408512","timestamp":"2011-07-23 08:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A bit like MYOB, for anyone who's been unfortunate enough to have used that program.","parent":"2794447","id":"2796476"}
{"by":"burfog","time":"1546839430","timestamp":"2019-01-07 05:37:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, well, the nice thing about the current system in the USA is that nobody will stop you from forming a commune. If things were flipped around, with the government being socialist, you couldn\u0026#x27;t escape that.\u003cp\u003eNo, it isn\u0026#x27;t perfect. In either case there would be a national government demanding taxes and conscription and not assaulting people, but in your case this is a very minor issue because you\u0026#x27;re wanting the more-shared option.\u003cp\u003eGood luck.","parent":"18842589","id":"18843033"}
{"by":"vaksel","time":"1261286560","timestamp":"2009-12-20 05:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"depends on how far in the future you'll go.\u003cp\u003efrankly I think all the \"space battles\" will basically just boil down to two space shuttle cargo haulers duking it out to hijack the other guy's shipment","parent":"1005520","id":"1005773"}
{"by":"unfletch","time":"1353081243","timestamp":"2012-11-16 15:54:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can set syncing to manual (and then never do it), but you still need to sign in to use the app.","parent":"4794256","id":"4794291"}
{"by":"three14","time":"1278441553","timestamp":"2010-07-06 18:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only does it help, but it helps even those of us without the prerequisites.  Never underestimate the power of good writing.\u003cp\u003eThanks.\u003cp\u003e(Mind you, I'm still not convinced this is worthwhile, since it appears that the point could be made more clearly without the linguistic exercise, but I haven't made any attempt to read the original so I know that's not entirely fair.)","parent":"1490499","id":"1491896"}
{"by":"wfn","time":"1376401538","timestamp":"2013-08-13 13:45:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I hope that the media keeps focusing on the issues detailed by the whistleblowing, rather than the story of said whistleblowing.\u003cp\u003eOf course, completely agree.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; We shouldn\u0026#x27;t be distracted by a human interest story.\u003cp\u003eBut there is a value in looking at people and using stories and those people\u0026#x27;s outlooks as our own role models for the future.","parent":"6205272","id":"6205629"}
{"by":"hhsnopek","time":"1469626484","timestamp":"2016-07-27 13:34:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What so what happens with the libs that aren\u0026#x27;t version controlled by Git... say Mercurial?","parent":"12170755","id":"12172583"}
{"by":"phaemon","time":"1431870265","timestamp":"2015-05-17 13:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d thought about that, but there could be two effects. There are people working for low wages, who live in high cost areas, because that\u0026#x27;s where the jobs are. If we\u0026#x27;re talking about a liveable BI, then they would have the option of moving to a cheaper area to live. Once there were many more people living there, at least some of them would start their own businesses, and there would be more economic activity in that area.\u003cp\u003eNow, this would raise rents in that area slightly, but would have a downward pressure on rents in the more expensive area. In short, it might have the effect of equalising rents.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s difficult to be sure, of course, which is why I think it would be a good idea to start BI low enough that we can keep an eye on what\u0026#x27;s actually happening (say $30 a week), as there could well be multiple effects all at once if you started at, say, $150 a week.","parent":"9558461","id":"9559989"}
{"by":"seren","time":"1377596814","timestamp":"2013-08-27 09:46:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t really think you are \u0026#x27;losing\u0026#x27; something in the literal sense when meditating. It is probably more akin to exercising\u0026#x2F;reshaping it. I was just commenting on the public perception.","parent":"6282358","id":"6282435"}
{"by":"pulisse","time":"1536411007","timestamp":"2018-09-08 12:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly.  No one here, least of all Tufekci, is claiming that YouTube has deliberately engineered their recommendation system to favor extreme content.  The argument is that it\u0026#x27;s an unintended consequence of how the YouTube recommender\u0026#x27;s objective function interacts with human psychology:  (1) YouTube trains its recommenders to maximize time on site.  (2) It\u0026#x27;s a sad fact about humans that sensationalistic or extreme content is highly engaging.  (3) YouTube\u0026#x27;s recommendation system thus learns to serve up sensationalistic and extreme content.","parent":"17940067","id":"17940637"}
{"by":"grzm","time":"1486659351","timestamp":"2017-02-09 16:55:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Submissions are by HN members. The guidelines clearly state that the title should not be modified unless clearly link bait:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e[P]lease use the original title, unless it is misleading or link bait.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the mods are aware that a title has been unnecessarily editorialized, from what I\u0026#x27;ve observed they always update the title, either back to the original or to something conforming to the guidelines in the case of egregiously bad original titles.\u003cp\u003eIf you see a title that\u0026#x27;s been editorialized, make a comment (as others have done here), and if it\u0026#x27;s something you feel particularly strongly about, contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer.","parent":"13608355","id":"13608419"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1456337456","timestamp":"2016-02-24 18:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What would prevent the auto companies from hiring someone with a clearer idea of how securely architect these things?\u003cp\u003eThere are things like insider bias to overcome, but if the older auto companies see Tesla eating their lunch over software, they will go ahead and overcome it.","parent":"11167615","id":"11168819"}
{"by":"oh_sigh","time":"1478127021","timestamp":"2016-11-02 22:50:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read the article. Going east to west is not the same as west to east because of the winds.","parent":"12856709","id":"12860105"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1501542763","timestamp":"2017-07-31 23:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s probably better to inform the jerk, in no uncertain terms, that behaving that way will have immediate negative consequences\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a bright line between telling someone they\u0026#x27;re being rude and being rude back. OP could communicate something like \u0026quot;you\u0026#x27;re coming across super aggressively right now; that makes it hard for me to have this conversation.\u0026quot; That draws a clear maturity line. Such lines can motivate better behavior, by laying the groundwork for mutual respect. They also, in the worst case, clearly establish fault.\u003cp\u003eIn a professional environment, you can\u0026#x27;t demand someone stop being an asshole by being one back. That just invites others to feel fine being rude to you in the future.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI\u0026#x27;m assuming that the behavior is deliberate\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is an untested assumption. Double check, preferably by asking them as directly as possible, \u003ci\u003ee.g.\u003c/i\u003e \u0026quot;this is coming across in an incredibly hostile way; I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s your intention.\u0026quot;","parent":"14896176","id":"14896668"}
{"by":"codemac","time":"1448818603","timestamp":"2015-11-29 17:36:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Just like it is possible to fix alcoholism by having someone remove alcohol from the house\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s different because alcohol withdrawal can kill you. It can give people seizures and hospitalize them for weeks. Telling someone to \u0026quot;remove alcohol from the house\u0026quot; as a cure is so left field for me it feels like you\u0026#x27;re missing the very real \u003ci\u003emedical\u003c/i\u003e struggle long-term alcoholics go through. I\u0026#x27;m livid but I know this should be a civil conversation.\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t seen someone\u0026#x27;s facebook+9gag habits tear a community, family, or person apart. Maybe that\u0026#x27;s my ignorance.","parent":"10645122","id":"10645307"}
{"by":"tomkarlo","time":"1367272535","timestamp":"2013-04-29 21:55:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is 3 years old...","parent":"5628936","id":"5629099"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1426798226","timestamp":"2015-03-19 20:50:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, for certain categories of problems, I disagree.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s way too little acknowledgement in our industry of just how much suffering and anguish one or two chucklefucks on a codebase can inflict on their teammates. Using only the matter at hand as an example:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Rude\u0026quot; is waking somebody up to stand watch over a buggy system because it wasn\u0026#x27;t written properly and will seize up.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Rude\u0026quot; is wasting senior developer time on a refactor because the last person who touched the code used system calls and primitives only available on one specific compiler and one specific OS, and now the system has to change.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Rude\u0026quot; is injuring somebody because your embedded controller is using the wrong sized int for something, because it slipped through code review because somebody decided to use a #define that got changed between architecture upgrades and never fixed it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Rude\u0026quot; is wasting a tester\u0026#x27;s day having them try to hop up and down over the same three feet of virtual space while trying to tap the attack key just right to repro a race-condition bug caused by some permutation of the above. 8. Hours. Of. Hopping.\u003cp\u003e~\u003cp\u003eWhen you write shitty software, you are hurting everyone else who might ever have to interact with it--so, uh, yeah, \u003ci\u003eI get to be rude\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"9234469","id":"9234531"}
{"by":"pcardh0","time":"1497983979","timestamp":"2017-06-20 18:39:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would encourage \u0026quot;a man\u0026quot;, especially when \u0026quot;he\u0026quot; is \u0026quot;a young man\u0026quot; to get educated in a skill that is in demand by the marketplace.","parent":"14597209","dead":true,"id":"14597282"}
{"by":"RiderOfGiraffes","time":"1253696864","timestamp":"2009-09-23 09:07:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Summarising, and adding my $0.02 ...\u003cp\u003eSince they want to abandon it, get them to agree \u003ci\u003ein writing\u003c/i\u003e that they are walking away and leaving you everything.  Make sure you write the agreement, and get all parties to \u003ci\u003esign it.\u003c/i\u003e  If you can afford it, and if you think they deserve or will want it, offer them some money. If they accept money, \u003ci\u003eget a receipt.\u003c/i\u003e  I believe having money in exchange makes future disputes less likely.  You made an offer, they accepted, they got money, you got the rights.\u003cp\u003eWhile you are doing this, get a few opinions from people who have never seen it before.  People here on HN are usually pretty straight and pretty honest.\u003cp\u003eTarget limited alpha launch (not just a couple of people dropping in) for two weeks from now.  Target beta launch two weeks after that.  Don't move those deadlines, just make sure you hit them.  If you can bring them closer, do it.\u003cp\u003eLaunch, and listen to the feedback.\u003cp\u003eA comment about the failures: Each one you mention, the failure is that you have not taken control.  You are doing the work, but you are not driving things through.  If you are ever going to succeed in these sorts of things you must see what needs to be done, and get it done.\u003cp\u003eFinally, you can contact me directly if you want.  There are two ways.  Firstly, find a real email address for me.  It's not that hard, others have done it.\u003cp\u003eAlternatively, read this page:\u003cp\u003ehttp (colon) //www (dot) penzba.co.uk (slash) DHMW_Challenge.txt\u003cp\u003eI'd prefer not yet to have a direct link.  On there you can find instructions on creating a public-key message for me which you can either post or, preferrably, put in your profile.  It's probably secure enough for what you want.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to do this but have trouble, reply to this comment.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand you can give up and walk away, but from what you say, you've already done most of the work.  Be methodical, make a plan, then work through it.","parent":"838640","id":"838910"}
{"by":"stephenr","time":"1449642572","timestamp":"2015-12-09 06:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure how this is better than say a makefile, which will only rebuild the file when needed?","parent":"10697994","id":"10702249"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1434382279","timestamp":"2015-06-15 15:31:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think putting demonstrably violent people in jail is a fine idea. Cleary GP\u0026#x27;s ideas are too extreme, simply having a gun or knife doesn\u0026#x27;t harm anyone, but if you use a weapon to commit a crime and injure\u0026#x2F;kill someone (as distinct from doing that out of self-defense) yeah, in general you need to be taken out of society.","parent":"9718382","id":"9719955"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1460487853","timestamp":"2016-04-12 19:04:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thorium produces Plutonium-238 which is NOT bomb-making material but used in space probes.  Thorium advocates should make sure to not have the word \u0026quot;nuclear\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;reactor\u0026quot; in any press and emphasize that the waste is \u0026quot;space fuel\u0026quot;.","parent":"11481517","id":"11482535"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1413575246","timestamp":"2014-10-17 19:47:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;you let the visual component of arguably the greatest communication shift\u0026#x2F;revolution in the 21st century be under the whim of one idiot\u0026quot;. 800 million pictures, just gone. For example \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523160725158903808\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;textfiles\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;523160725158903808\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8472047","id":"8472951"}
{"by":"blattimwind","time":"1518913623","timestamp":"2018-02-18 00:27:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My gut feeling is that you do very little work with your hands, because your pain-o-meter seems to have drifted in a very unrealistic direction.","parent":"16403362","id":"16403674"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1394562475","timestamp":"2014-03-11 18:27:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah dangit, another famous Nguyen (along with Dat Nguyen) who I\u0026#x27;ll be asked if I\u0026#x27;m related to. It\u0026#x27;s especially interesting and cool that he\u0026#x27;s still in Vietnam, and I\u0026#x27;m not surprised that was a heavy factor in just waking away...$50,000 a day, even a \u003ci\u003eyear\u003c/i\u003e, is a lot of money. My uncle was making less than that (a year) in Saigon and yet could still afford to rent a massive house with courtyard, 2 servants and a nanny, and a SUV with a driver.\u003cp\u003e(BTW, \u003ci\u003edong\u003c/i\u003e is the name of Vietnam\u0026#x27;s currency, something that is probably worth a lot of jokes in the Vietnamese media)\u003cp\u003eAlso, becoming a viral success (regardless of quality of the game) from Vietnam is a much different and rarer accomplishment than doing it from America (or any place where the world\u0026#x27;s media is more attuned to). Kudos to him!","parent":"7380754","id":"7381174"}
{"by":"gambiting","time":"1435312897","timestamp":"2015-06-26 10:01:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t ever plan to retire. Because when I retire, I\u0026#x27;ll be doing the same thing...coding at home. Might as well get paid for it. :)\u003cp\u003eYou can still retire and get a pension,and still make money by coding.","parent":"9783149","id":"9783263"}
{"by":"paulpauper","time":"1540343889","timestamp":"2018-10-24 01:18:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s remarkable how stable bitcoin has been recently. It actually has less volatility than even tech stocks. The vast majority of people who trade bitcoin and other currencies seem to have very little (less than 10k or so) , so this is not  enough move the price much. The only way bitcoin can go up a lot is if institutions and large funds buy it at once. Otherwise it\u0026#x27;s just stuck in a really tight trading range.","parent":"18279951","id":"18288925"}
{"by":"webwanderings","time":"1366731643","timestamp":"2013-04-23 15:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should keep it simple: blog via email, or something like that.  I also agree that people would want their own username in the URL and the URL itself needs to be descriptive. Unless you're building a throw-away type of blogging system where people can blog anonymously, I think it makes sense to give users the ability to have easy-to-read blog setup.","parent":"5595597","id":"5595812"}
{"by":"wiml","time":"1422696672","timestamp":"2015-01-31 09:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of wave and tidal motors were built along the California coast in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It\u0026#x27;s an interesting history. Cheap fossil power made them uneconomical, though.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/wave-motors-of-california.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bldgblog.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;2009\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;wave-motors-of-californ...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.outsidelands.org/wave-tidal.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.outsidelands.org\u0026#x2F;wave-tidal.php\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8974535","id":"8976307"}
{"by":"irrational","time":"1535001400","timestamp":"2018-08-23 05:16:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A family \u0026quot;friend\u0026quot; growing up made the most delicious dinner rolls. But she refused to share the recipe with anyone because they were a family secret. The pure selfishness just boggles my mind.","parent":"17824451","id":"17824788"}
{"by":"awhitty","time":"1398714376","timestamp":"2014-04-28 19:46:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relevant link: \u003ca href=\"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mediawiki.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Typography_refresh\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7662078","id":"7662449"}
{"by":"fusiongyro","time":"1367900551","timestamp":"2013-05-07 04:22:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm a lot like you, so I hope you'll believe me when I say your entire problem is that you allocated 1/4th the time you needed for getting a new job.","parent":"5666471","id":"5666503"}
{"by":"WhitneyLand","time":"1471889058","timestamp":"2016-08-22 18:04:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3.5 stars at Yelp, 3.6 at Google reviews","parent":"12333560","id":"12338146"}
{"by":"lehmannro","time":"1286203806","timestamp":"2010-10-04 14:50:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ideas brought up on that site are frequently gamed in the pickup scene.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrash 'n' Burn\u003c/i\u003e is the practice of trying impossible sets (ie. girls) with the assumption of being rejected.  If you are sure you will blow it big time, you can as well \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e and learn something from it.\u003cp\u003eAnother tangentially related technique against rejection angst is the \u003ci\u003eThree Seconds Rule\u003c/i\u003e which mandates you talk to some stranger before thinking for too long (which is really a different, short-term approach to the Rejection Therapy game).","parent":"1754790","id":"1755791"}
{"by":"rabboRubble","time":"1510775509","timestamp":"2017-11-15 19:51:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My cousin has a ranch in the west. The land is incredibly poor, diatomaious earth (she finds dinasaur bones!), has very little natural water (and some of what little water she does have is hot spring water), and where grass grows the land is covered in sparse bunch grass.\u003cp\u003eHer head of cattle to land ratio is some crazy number like 100 acres to a cow\u0026#x2F;calf pair. Could be less IDK exactly. Consequnetly she owns thousands of acres to feed her cattle.\u003cp\u003eThere is not enough water there to irrigate non-native edible species over her thousands acre ranch. She\u0026#x27;d drain every creek, stream, and river to make a farm happen there.","parent":"15705835","id":"15707155"}
{"by":"w_t_payne","time":"1349457277","timestamp":"2012-10-05 17:14:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is making me seriously consider investing some time learning J.","parent":"4587370","id":"4617727"}
{"by":"usrusr","time":"1501514818","timestamp":"2017-07-31 15:26:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The “1970“ is certainly not a strict threshold, but I do think that it can legitimately be seen as a bit of a watershed regarding out-of-field computer skills. (sorry, I can\u0026#x27;t consider a mathematician who wrote impactful software truly out-of-field, no matter how blessed with humility)\u003cp\u003eTake for example brick and mortar architecture students. Most of those born mid 1970ies would at one point have put a lot of research in speccing out their personal CAD machine, learn how to apply cracks for the piracy countermeasures of the day and design multiple generations of less and less inadequate personal backup strategies. Their peers ten years older? None of that DIY, most would probably have jumped straight from paper to a professionally supported workstations. Their peers twenty years younger? Walled garden app stores.","parent":"14889659","id":"14892858"}
{"by":"chops","time":"1314415704","timestamp":"2011-08-27 03:28:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe company make WiFi routers targeting large companies and software to manage wireless networks with tens of hundreds of users\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI found this wording a bit odd.  Why say \"tens of hundreds of users\" and not just \"thousands of users\"?  Or is that \"of\" supposed to be an \"or\"?","parent":"2930534","id":"2930715"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1512710282","timestamp":"2017-12-08 05:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s wrong by orders of magnitude. The actual speedup of GPU\u0026#x27;s is about 8x. Those GPU cores are much weaker than CPU cores.\u003cp\u003eThe paper in discussion here reports 10x speedup for GPU vs CPU.","parent":"15870238","id":"15876848"}
{"by":"tveita","time":"1464099434","timestamp":"2016-05-24 14:17:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I look forward to one day seeing what these diagrams are actually supposed to look like...\u003cp\u003eI kind of suspect that once you\u0026#x27;re used to the wider gamut, other screens will look washed out. Like how low-res CRT screens look awful and smudgy today, even though I used to be able to spend hours in front of one.","parent":"11757995","id":"11761673"}
{"by":"tverlinden","time":"1359924407","timestamp":"2013-02-03 20:46:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's still on the list, at #363 as of this posting.\u003cp\u003eIt can also still be reached here: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5160680\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5160680\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs to why it's so low on the list, I'm not sure.","parent":"5161048","id":"5161078"}
{"by":"ecaroth","time":"1295554746","timestamp":"2011-01-20 20:19:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sketchpad for mockups \u0026#38; google docs (for change history) -\u0026#62; mockups in photoshop -\u0026#62; framework install \u0026#38; data structure setup -\u0026#62; code code code code","parent":"2125101","id":"2125110"}
{"by":"matt_wulfeck","time":"1476718593","timestamp":"2016-10-17 15:36:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. In fact I would say these words mean any living person regardless of nationality (though the courts would disagree with me):\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"12725846","id":"12725966"}
{"by":"currywurst","time":"1427117991","timestamp":"2015-03-23 13:39:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know of any good WebAudio based looper apps ?","parent":"9250493","id":"9250779"}
{"by":"minborg","time":"1542796164","timestamp":"2018-11-21 10:29:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speedment uses in-JVM-memory technology so, once the tables are moved into the JVM, streams are served using content and indexes directly from off-heap RAM.","parent":"18486817","id":"18501544"}
{"by":"Declanomous","time":"1478985891","timestamp":"2016-11-12 21:24:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Good luck if you ever have a boss or a colleague who prefers rapport and empathetic communication over the more direct, rational style you prefer. You are going to continually wonder why that boss expects you to read their mind.\u003cp\u003eThat hit home for me. I once got called down to HR to find my boss there. I discovered at that moment that she was frustrated with how long it was taking me to do my job. Part of my job is pulling data for mailings out of our database. We have ~1 million constituents, and regularly send mailings with tens of thousands of recipients. She had performed that role before me, and she felt that it could be done much more quickly that I was performing it.\u003cp\u003eTurns out, I could perform the task as quickly as she expected, but I had totally misunderstood a conversation we had months earlier. Word had gotten to my boss that a person had called in because of a factual error on a piece of mail we had sent them. She came by my desk and asked me about the error, as I had specifically said the file was 99.5% error free. I mentioned that the incorrect information had been put in the database by someone else, and the error rate was about what I had expected. She told me that she wanted 99.9% error free mailings from then on.\u003cp\u003eLater on, I sent her data for another mailing. She came by my desk and asked if the data was 100% correct. I said I was confident it was 99.9% correct. She said we couldn\u0026#x27;t have \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e errors this time, and we needed to make sure that the data was 100% correct. I told her that it was fundamentally impossible to be 100% sure the data was correct. She said that she understood, but she wanted it 99.99% correct, as we couldn\u0026#x27;t mail constituents information that was wrong. I said it would probably take 10x longer to run the data, but I could do that if she wanted it. She did, so I proceeded to make sure the data was 99.99% correct.\u003cp\u003eShe was absolutely flabbergasted when I brought these conversations up. To her, she thought 100% confidence meant \u0026quot;pretty damn sure\u0026quot; and 99% confidence was somewhere around \u0026quot;It\u0026#x27;s probably right, maybe.\u0026quot; From my perspective, 99.5% correct meant we\u0026#x27;d have 5 or fewer bad rows for every 1000 rows in the data.\u003cp\u003eIt was so weird for both of us, because we both thought we had been incredibly clear with the other person. I thought I had been very clear with my point -- I had spoken with her about how long it would take to ensure the data was 99.99% correct several times, because I was concerned about the delay. She had thought she was being emphatic, ad I was just being a pain in the ass. The thing is, that I\u0026#x27;m generally not particularly hung up on the difference between literal meaning and figurative meaning, and she generally pretty clear when expressing what she wanted in technical conversations without hyperbole. So she hadn\u0026#x27;t even considered that I was interpreting her comments literally, and I hadn\u0026#x27;t considered that she was being hyperbolic.\u003cp\u003eIt was definitely a huge learning experience for both of us. We had both been really stressed for months because we failed to communicate effectively with one another, despite both of us recognizing the same problem and trying to bring it to the other person\u0026#x27;s attention.","parent":"12939683","id":"12940299"}
{"by":"thomd","time":"1317503797","timestamp":"2011-10-01 21:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cambridge and Brighton (UK) - Aptivate\u003cp\u003eWe are a not-for-profit organisation who are passionate about using technology for social good. We build websites and tools to support organisations in the international development sector, and we are looking for smart software developers to join our team (particularly in Python/Django).\u003cp\u003eAs well as writing code, we often work on the ground in developing countries on projects ranging from delivering technical training, to building and deploying resilient hardware systems for power and communications. Each team member has a voice in the strategy and policy of the organisation.\u003cp\u003eFor details see \u003ca href=\"http://www.aptivate.org/job-web-developer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.aptivate.org/job-web-developer\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3060221","id":"3061120"}
{"by":"MrLunk","time":"1495662989","timestamp":"2017-05-24 21:56:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because if they print \u0026#x27;small print\u0026#x27; that small in Lower Caps... it becomes even more unreadable ;)","parent":"14413769","id":"14413786"}
{"by":"gtaylor","time":"1320152505","timestamp":"2011-11-01 13:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely love some AUR!","parent":"3181579","id":"3181760"}
{"by":"fineman","time":"1437005995","timestamp":"2015-07-16 00:19:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nonsense. Gwern doesn\u0026#x27;t need to do anything for anyone.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s an interesting issue, and a way investigators may be attacked, but it\u0026#x27;s their responsibility alone. There exists data. This is that data. The data may bite. Touch the data at your own risk.","parent":"9894852","id":"9894900"}
{"by":"barleymash","time":"1528812987","timestamp":"2018-06-12 14:16:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been trying the opposite lately -- a high carb diet. I\u0026#x27;ve mostly been modeling my eating style after Dr. McDougall\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;Starch Solution\u0026quot; plan. He basically believes that humans are designed to eat starchy foods (potatoes, whole grains, etc), and that fats are bad (healthy fats -- like from avocados -- aren\u0026#x27;t necessarily unhealthy, but aren\u0026#x27;t great if you are trying to lose weight). So one of the core tenets of this plan is to keep fat and protein very low, and roughly an 80\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;10 percentage of carbs\u0026#x2F;protein\u0026#x2F;fat, which means cooking without oils, butter, etc.\u003cp\u003eThe staple of my diet is potatoes. I eat potatoes nearly every day, and I eat a lot of them. My favorite way is to slice them up into wedges, add some spices, bake them, and then dip them in mustard. I also eat lots of rice, beans, oatmeal, bread, occasionally something like cheerios for a snack, etc.\u003cp\u003eThe beauty of this plan is that if you stick to resistant starches, and keep fat low, you don\u0026#x27;t need to count calories. You will likely feel full before you will overeat calories. I\u0026#x27;m down about 15 pounds since starting in February (6 ft tall, down from 195 to 180ish), and I\u0026#x27;ve got the most ab definition I\u0026#x27;ve ever had from JUST a diet (I\u0026#x27;m barely doing any cardio right now). But more importantly, I feel really good.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, this is not to undermine a ketogenic diet. I think both are effective ways to feel good and look good... either eating low enough carbs that your body burns fat (Keto), or eating low enough fat that your body isn\u0026#x27;t storing any. I just enjoy experimenting with different ways of eating, and this one happens to be working great for me right now.","parent":"17292806","id":"17293428"}
{"by":"analog31","time":"1547428209","timestamp":"2019-01-14 01:10:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually don\u0026#x27;t think this is a new phenomenon, but an old one with evolving names and players. When I was a student 3+ decades ago, we called them \u0026quot;fluff courses.\u0026quot; And my parents remember taking fluff courses too.\u003cp\u003eWe may have rolled our eyes, but in reality we were in on the game and had a vested interest in it, because the fluff courses were known to be an easy A. For one thing, a course that everybody in the college had to take, everybody had to pass. For another, teachers with a strong ideological agenda tended to be easy graders, because they wanted to be liked. So we sucked it up in those courses and were thankful for the boost to our GPA\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003eIf you make \u003ci\u003eevery\u003c/i\u003e subject as rigorous as math or physics, the resulting workload will be crushing. And not everybody who gets a degree needs to be such a rigorous thinker, to make a valuable contribution to society.","parent":"18899538","id":"18899828"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1305758240","timestamp":"2011-05-18 22:37:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That will be an interesting outcome. What if it's not?\u003cp\u003eCan you imagine how weird it would be if we backed into proving a universal consciousness existed in a different dimension and an exactly modelled/simulated brain didn't get to participate because it wasn't given a 'soul' by that consciousness?\u003cp\u003eOr the flip side where our brain model does develop sentience as an emergent property and the spiritualists have to deal with the possibility that they are just animated meat.\u003cp\u003eOr the creepy side where you take an imprint of your current brain state, impart it on the model and suddenly the model thinks it's you?\u003cp\u003eScience fiction has explored these concepts for a while. I know that personally I'd like there to be something \"special\" about consciousness and/or sentience but I am rational enough to know that this isn't backed up by solid reasoning, just wishful thinking.\u003cp\u003eIn a highly networked, highly automated, world the idea that consciousness could simply 'emerge' from a sufficiently constructed system is deeply disturbing.\u003cp\u003eWhile much of what the film \"Eagle Eye\" speculated on with a sentient computer connected to everything seemed pretty bogus, the ability to disrupt and render unusable a wide range of systems simulataneously by a disgruntled AI is not an experience I would anticipate as being 'pleasant.'","parent":"2561633","id":"2562118"}
{"by":"bunderbunder","time":"1431815629","timestamp":"2015-05-16 22:33:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They can eat memory at extraordinary rates, but I\u0026#x27;ve successfully used them to reduce memory usage as well.  If you need to store a mess of strings that tend to have a lot of duplication toward the front - URIs, for example - then a trie might fare pretty well in that department.","parent":"9557557","id":"9557893"}
{"by":"hakim","time":"1299091750","timestamp":"2011-03-02 18:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Live stream (video) is available here: \u003ca href=\"http://bambuser.com/channel/mikebutcher/broadcast/1465264\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bambuser.com/channel/mikebutcher/broadcast/1465264\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2280521","id":"2280655"}
{"by":"wklauss","time":"1533634063","timestamp":"2018-08-07 09:27:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Because of this, there\u0026#x27;s a feedback loop were even if the sun gets a little hotter or colder, the successful daisy would spread and either warm or cool the Earth in response, effectively acting as a stabilizer. Gaia theory suggests that the world is full of these stabilizing systems.\u003cp\u003eThere are several mechanisms in place on earth to stabilize changes in atmospheric composition and temperature (otherwise an sporadic eruption of a volcano or glacial eras would have thrown things out of whack long time ago). I don\u0026#x27;t think this is an hypothesis. We have seen some of them in action in recent years, like the advanced rate of reforestation due to larger levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is we don\u0026#x27;t know what would happen if we push these to the limit or what their limit really is. And they are very complex in the way the interact. For example. Warmer oceans and larger levels of CO2 will make phytoplankton grow faster, absorbing more CO2 in return, but it will also accelerate the growth of zooplankton, that feeds on it. This creates a bottleneck.\u003cp\u003eSo TL;DR: yeah, it\u0026#x27;s cool we have these mechanisms around but the goal should still be to keep things as close to the baseline as possible (and we have been really bad about it in the last century)","parent":"17704898","id":"17704977"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1387291657","timestamp":"2013-12-17 14:47:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both Microsoft and IBM put Google to shame when it comes to pure research labs.  Hell companies like Boeing are probably closer to Bell labs than Google","parent":"6919338","id":"6921338"}
{"by":"Joof","time":"1461697718","timestamp":"2016-04-26 19:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are mostly programmers, so it makes sense. Most of us are happy to listen to people more knowledge than us though.","parent":"11574118","id":"11574657"}
{"by":"david4096","time":"1380771075","timestamp":"2013-10-03 03:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently an exploit in the forum software.\u003cp\u003eBitcointalk hacked\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nmdq4/bitcointalk_hacked/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;Bitcoin\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;1nmdq4\u0026#x2F;bitcointalk_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6486438","id":"6486981"}
{"by":"jMyles","time":"1484316433","timestamp":"2017-01-13 14:07:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the actual point here is the retransmission vulnerability.  That\u0026#x27;s what makes WhatsApp different.  That\u0026#x27;s the backdoor.","parent":"13390790","id":"13390816"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1526162605","timestamp":"2018-05-12 22:03:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same question from a short time ago, with extensive discussion: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16296200\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16296200\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd an even bigger discussion from 11 months ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14477851\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14477851\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17056154","id":"17056241"}
{"by":"massysett","time":"1489656975","timestamp":"2017-03-16 09:36:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Private industry brought us smartphones.  Private industry brought us SSDs.  Those things are useful.  I saw a smartphone and I said \u0026quot;oh, I can get my Gmail on it, cool.\u0026quot;  I saw SSDs and I said \u0026quot;I won\u0026#x27;t have to wait while my hard drive spins, cool.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNo one has ever told me how my life would be better if I had massive Internet speed.  I\u0026#x27;m happy with the Internet speed I have now.  That\u0026#x27;s why private investors have not been willing to roll it out, unlike with smartphones or SSDs.  Government shouldn\u0026#x27;t go put up the money either.","parent":"13883089","id":"13883688"}
{"by":"boulos","time":"1466405665","timestamp":"2016-06-20 06:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry to hear about your troubles! Assuming you got hit by our painful network outage, we can only repeat: sorry, and we have taken serious action internally to avoid this again.\u003cp\u003eTo explain the difference between your experience (outages taking you out) and \u0026quot;Google.com\u0026quot;, I\u0026#x27;d guess the difference is that \u0026quot;Google.com\u0026quot; is \u003ci\u003emassively\u003c/i\u003e distributed. Perhaps you were running in just one zone or region, or maybe even quite sophisticatedly running across two regions (say us-central1 and us-east1). For Google.com, we have 15 \u0026quot;major\u0026quot; datacenter locations (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;datacenters\u0026#x2F;inside\u0026#x2F;locations\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;datacenters\u0026#x2F;inside\u0026#x2F;locations\u0026#x2F;in...\u003c/a\u003e) which are approximately regions in Compute Engine \u0026#x2F; Cloud parlance.\u003cp\u003eTo your other question though, Cloud is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e a side project. Google happens to be enormous, so even though we have thousands of folks across Technical Infrastructure (TI) working on Cloud, thousands divided by tens of thousands is still a \u0026quot;small\u0026quot; percentage (but TI is bigger than say YouTube or Android).\u003cp\u003e[Edit: And please reach out to support! Don\u0026#x27;t be silently unhappy, have someone call us up, even if it\u0026#x27;s just to strangle a PM about how difficult it is to use.]\u003cp\u003eDisclosure: I work on Compute Engine.","parent":"11936355","id":"11936485"}
{"by":"rmgraham","time":"1322503467","timestamp":"2011-11-28 18:04:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Than 1.8, as per the part you trimmed from your quote..","parent":"3286789","id":"3286868"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1348268051","timestamp":"2012-09-21 22:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That has absolutely not been my experience in the last 8-9 years of doing onsite engagements for corporations. You can usually count on HTTPS getting through unmolested. Usually.","parent":"4556320","id":"4556325"}
{"by":"loewenskind","time":"1286373480","timestamp":"2010-10-06 13:58:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm getting the impression you haven't spent any time doing prototypes on this yet.  Are you familiar with Xcode/Interface Builder/etc.?\u003cp\u003eI've been procrastinating for a couple of weeks now because I'm not happy with the visual design of the iPad app I'm working on.  I'm no designer and would love to just pay someone to do this part, but if you're going to be learning this for the first time it will probably take you longer than it will me (even though your final product should look much better than mine).\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Wait, what do you mean by \"I would be producing the design files\"?  Do you mean producing e.g. pictures of what the GUI should look like that I then have to go build myself?","parent":"1763868","id":"1763923"}
{"by":"pfcwt","time":"1331831111","timestamp":"2012-03-15 17:05:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are you talking about?  You say you're in Pakistan.  That's a Muslim country.  Why would I, a Muslim, be hated in Pakistan?\u003cp\u003eIt has to be better than being in a place where Islam itself is seen as the enemy and you're not allowed to practice your religion openly without harassment or the threat of violence.","parent":"3709294","id":"3709337"}
{"by":"wnoise","time":"1291067973","timestamp":"2010-11-29 21:59:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I once again wish to suggest that teaching and grading are two separate jobs and should not be done by the same people.  The conflict of interest should be obvious.","parent":"1951288","id":"1951977"}
{"by":"sigzero","time":"1385061520","timestamp":"2013-11-21 19:18:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would choose that over the alternative.","parent":"6776735","id":"6776743"}
{"by":"ex3ndr","time":"1537215097","timestamp":"2018-09-17 20:11:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know if Mojave is going to be as awesome as this iOS update?","parent":"18007675","id":"18009568"}
{"by":"Nomentatus","time":"1433640070","timestamp":"2015-06-07 01:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, this may be the central error of the Universitas - originally the Universitas was a union of teachers who did not create, give or mark the exams - usually for admission to careers in law - because that was the exclusive province of the Catholic Church. \u0026quot;Universitas\u0026quot; was and is just the latin word for \u0026quot;guild\u0026quot; - any guild.\u003cp\u003eOnce the professors began in effect, to judge their own work, relevance and competence (along with their students\u0026#x27; qualities) the jig was up. The union has become the company as well, so of course it\u0026#x27;s expensive and largely worthless.","parent":"9671686","id":"9673029"}
{"by":"dominotw","time":"1400356330","timestamp":"2014-05-17 19:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Martin Fowler is still relevant?","parent":"7760678","id":"7760862"}
{"by":"autotravis","time":"1353090608","timestamp":"2012-11-16 18:30:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"exactly. I think it is an common misconception that \u003ci\u003eeverybody\u003c/i\u003e has trouble learning new things as they grow older. This might be true for some. However, it seems that if you actually try and don't let the misconception trick you into thinking you can't keep learning, then you won't fall victim to it.","parent":"4793341","id":"4795133"}
{"by":"blackbagboys","time":"1523415699","timestamp":"2018-04-11 03:01:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are few modern white collar spectacles more nauseating than watching capitalist overlords jerk themselves off over their wise decision to make lifestyle choices literally everyone else would also choose if they weren\u0026#x27;t forcibly restrained from doing so by their own overlords.\u003cp\u003eThe next time your boss calls you into a multi-hour meeting, tell him that it\u0026#x27;s much more productive if you only attend for 15-20 minutes. If he assigns you a task you find to be a \u0026quot;painful drag on morale\u0026quot;, then go ahead and \u0026quot;be ruthless about saying no.\u0026quot; Let Altman know how it goes.","parent":"16802530","id":"16807703"}
{"by":"DPS47","time":"1314126647","timestamp":"2011-08-23 19:10:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty interesting article.","parent":"2917898","id":"2917946"}
{"by":"sametmax","time":"1532460649","timestamp":"2018-07-24 19:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How much did the $2 trillions invested in the Irak War paid back ? I mean beside the obvious benefit of parasiting the invaded country and suck all you can out of it ?\u003cp\u003eBecause $2 trillions (more than 60 millions of man year at minimum US wage) invested in schools, research and clean energy would certainly have yielded some interesting results.\u003cp\u003eIt also has the small benefit of killing less civilians, not destroying the UN trust and avoiding a few PTSD.","parent":"17602919","id":"17604195"}
{"by":"b1ind","time":"1318192461","timestamp":"2011-10-09 20:34:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think its safe to say that Reddit won that war.","parent":"3091109","dead":true,"id":"3091251"}
{"by":"perl4ever","time":"1527178624","timestamp":"2018-05-24 16:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Two semi-automated types of cars are out there:\u003cp\u003e1. Ones where a human pilots them most of the time, but a computer steps in in emergencies.\n2. Ones where a computer pilots them most of the time, but a human steps in in emergencies (hopefully).\u003cp\u003eFor some reason I don\u0026#x27;t understand, people treat (2) as an evolution of (1). But it is the inverse.","parent":"17144160","id":"17145481"}
{"by":"glibgil","time":"1407516474","timestamp":"2014-08-08 16:47:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I go to that page I get a 503.","parent":"8153719","id":"8153750"}
{"by":"nwmcsween","time":"1427812265","timestamp":"2015-03-31 14:31:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like either a bug in how Linux handles MADV_DONTNEED or within transparent hugepages, remember you can still have thp if you set the kernel to do so using madv_hugepage.","parent":"9288772","id":"9296420"}
{"by":"falloutx","time":"1452088430","timestamp":"2016-01-06 13:53:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Res is low I think.","parent":"10848660","id":"10850454"}
{"by":"sweedy","time":"1394503670","timestamp":"2014-03-11 02:07:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can hardly understand anything, so here is a transcript -\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://blog.inside.com/blog/2014/3/10/edward-snowden-sxsw-full-transcription-and-video\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.inside.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;3\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;edward-snowden-sxsw-fu...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7373514","id":"7377005"}
{"by":"sengork","time":"1509776031","timestamp":"2017-11-04 06:13:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is interesting to observe that this teardown has been carried out down under (in Australia). Maybe it had something to do with the timezones and release date.","parent":"15621494","id":"15624021"}
{"by":"lsb","time":"1292582464","timestamp":"2010-12-17 10:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MTurk has been in beta for a while.  What's new about MTurk since last year?","parent":"2015540","id":"2015842"}
{"by":"dejb","time":"1284276576","timestamp":"2010-09-12 07:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did he say they should be forced to block by the law or was he making a strong moral argument that they should block? My impression is that both FB and CL were (possibly inconsistent) moral arguments and not so much about the right to free speech.","parent":"1683067","id":"1683231"}
{"by":"hammock","time":"1510627197","timestamp":"2017-11-14 02:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you confident that you have enough value to your employer that they would be willing to write into your contract that you cannot be fired for a harassment claim until it has been proven in court (as Bill O\u0026#x27;Reilly had[1])? I would guess not, and there are few people at any given company that could say that.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2017-11-08\u0026#x2F;o-reilly-s-fox-deal-shielded-him-from-firing-over-allegations\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2017-11-08\u0026#x2F;o-reilly-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15691906","id":"15692177"}
{"by":"saghul","time":"1545402774","timestamp":"2018-12-21 14:32:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My mom worked in the neonatology ICU for years, and while every once in a while there was a tragedy which made her very upset, not many bad (and unexpected) things happen these says. It\u0026#x27;s a very rewarding job, as you help start a life.\u003cp\u003eAlas this can only be said about the first world. In less developed parts of our world this would be the complete opposite I imagine.","parent":"18732517","id":"18733496"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1493229329","timestamp":"2017-04-26 17:55:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They did. It\u0026#x27;s mostly bs, though, since they cut corners too or cant impact the software lifecycle enough. Few people trust those labels. It could still be done, though, in a way along lines of Underwriter Laboratories and Consumer Reports with private evaluations.","parent":"14204981","id":"14205335"}
{"by":"haberman","time":"1390512229","timestamp":"2014-01-23 21:23:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can Julia be a competitor to R?  I love R in concept (interactive environment for statistical analysis) but the language just drives me crazy in its multitude of types and the loosey-goosey ways it converts between them.\u003cp\u003eA friend of mine is really proficient with R; when I walked him through some of the R patterns that are very confusing\u0026#x2F;irregular to me, he sort of laughed: he could see what I was saying but he said \u0026quot;with R you can\u0026#x27;t worry about things too much, you kind of just have to just go with it.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIf Julia can serve some of the same use cases but in a better-designed way, sign me up!","parent":"7109982","id":"7111302"}
{"by":"jopt","time":"1371509900","timestamp":"2013-06-17 22:58:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I just don\u0026#x27;t buy the ad hominem\u0026#x2F;smear angle when the things reported thus far have been rather banal facts that thus far have gone uncontested.\u003cp\u003eIn my view, neither the banality nor even the truth of the allegations are particularly important. The key reason I chose to file this as a ad hominem\u0026#x2F;smear is that it invites judgment of Snowden without pertaining to the contents of the leak or even the act of leaking.","parent":"5885151","id":"5896527"}
{"by":"NickNameNick","time":"1524659408","timestamp":"2018-04-25 12:30:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think chrome now ignores HPKP headers, and only respects the pre-load list. The risk of someone hijacking a domain, and inserting a malicious HKPK header had become too high.","parent":"16916854","id":"16920890"}
{"by":"concede_pluto","time":"1502039782","timestamp":"2017-08-06 17:16:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s better to do the big commit and then refactor it. Otherwise you won\u0026#x27;t have tested whether the hunks depend on each other, which means history littered with broken commits.","parent":"14934118","id":"14942211"}
{"by":"njharman","time":"1268002015","timestamp":"2010-03-07 22:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey man, welcome to the mid to late 1990's.\u003cp\u003eAnd if you're just figuring this out now you don't have much business giving advice to the News Industry.","parent":"1174099","id":"1174166"}
{"by":"malka","time":"1504078241","timestamp":"2017-08-30 07:30:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is actually some corruption in France (domestically). If you work in the building business and want some juicy contract with the City, building gratis a new pool for the mayor\u0026#x27;s house will definitely help.","parent":"15129965","id":"15130303"}
{"by":"astine","time":"1284744494","timestamp":"2010-09-17 17:28:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These ideas aren't new. I doubt that they are impossible but we haven't yet solved the technical problems that would make 'vertical farms' cost effective over regular farms. If farmland became expensive enough (really expensive,) I could see them seeming more viable.\u003cp\u003eIf these were to happen, my entirely uneducated guess would be that it would start with rooftop farming, and that extending to storied greenhouses at the tops of skyscrapers. Depending on your crops, these both don't need artificial light and could lead to solutions for other engineering problems such farming would involve.","parent":"1701724","id":"1701985"}
{"by":"LiveTheDream","time":"1291951139","timestamp":"2010-12-10 03:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In that case, you're not the target customer.","parent":"1989744","id":"1990446"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1345929476","timestamp":"2012-08-25 21:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pretty sure Apple has enough cash to fund both the R\u0026#38;D and legal departments at 100%.","parent":"4432866","id":"4433332"}
{"by":"taneq","time":"1516246424","timestamp":"2018-01-18 03:33:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep. The great marvelous internet fad reinvention machine has just managed to find a new name for \u0026quot;web hosting\u0026quot;.","parent":"16174410","id":"16174466"}
{"by":"roywiggins","time":"1527111426","timestamp":"2018-05-23 21:37:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would have been a perpetual motion machine of the first kind (you could get an unlimited amount of energy out of it): \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;abs\u0026#x2F;1506.00494\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;abs\u0026#x2F;1506.00494\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe evidence for it was no better than the evidence for any other perpetual motion machine, there was nothing that made it special other than not claiming to be a perpetual motion machine (despite being one).","parent":"17137995","id":"17138564"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1377740829","timestamp":"2013-08-29 01:47:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To provide an alternative view, in e.g. Haskell the redundancy would be solved the other way round:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (stringBuilder :: StringBuilder) \u0026lt;- construct\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n(Assuming that there was a type class that had construct as a method and StringBuilder was an instance of that class.)","parent":"6276566","id":"6293790"}
{"by":"owyn","time":"1344235586","timestamp":"2012-08-06 06:46:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ugh. If you've ever worked on a project with more than 1 person, you'd understand why... it's about the team and the work they'd done over the last few years.  Even if they had no direct \"joystick\" control over the procedure, there was plenty of work happening immediately after the landing. I'm sure most of those people didn't have to actually be there for that work, but anybody working on the project wants to be there...","parent":"4343964","id":"4344162"}
{"by":"merinowool","time":"1522449144","timestamp":"2018-03-30 22:32:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Go to bed earlier.\u003cp\u003eIt is the same as telling depressed person to \u0026quot;cheer up\u0026quot;...","parent":"16716244","id":"16720374"}
{"by":"algorias","time":"1375640155","timestamp":"2013-08-04 18:15:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, and that is why there should be a compression step on the code path that handles the paper -\u0026gt; pdf case. This doesn\u0026#x27;t make any sense in a paper -\u0026gt; paper case, however, as any electronic version of the image will only be stored internally, for a very brief time.","parent":"6156410","id":"6156480"}
{"by":"kaennar","time":"1521695391","timestamp":"2018-03-22 05:09:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re definitely right, but 200 excess calories a day is 74,000 a year which can translate to 21 lbs a year in weight gain. It doesn\u0026#x27;t take much to get fat over a few years with a calorie surplus like that.","parent":"16645019","id":"16645934"}
{"by":"the_mitsuhiko","time":"1392297070","timestamp":"2014-02-13 13:11:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep.  Because the dictionary literal gets created via opcodes in the interpreter loop whereas the named tuple pays the price of calling a function and setting up an interpreter frame.","parent":"7230989","id":"7231094"}
{"by":"threatofrain","time":"1433210172","timestamp":"2015-06-02 01:56:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m surprised this is the first mention of jsblocks, when the graphics displayed by the article shows jsblocks beating everybody, including React.","parent":"9642548","id":"9643376"}
{"by":"paraschopra","time":"1295548330","timestamp":"2011-01-20 18:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Average time on site won't be accurate in your case because GA calculates it by subtracting time duration between two successive visits. In your case, it will usually be just single pageview so average time will be misleading.\u003cp\u003eMay I suggest using getclicky.com which calculates time based on actual time spent.","parent":"2124539","id":"2124682"}
{"by":"joeclark77","time":"1407599315","timestamp":"2014-08-09 15:48:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Genesis 3:16 also explains it as one of the curses on Adam and Eve: \u0026quot;To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children...\u0026quot;","parent":"8155708","id":"8157127"}
{"by":"zupreme","time":"1516049787","timestamp":"2018-01-15 20:56:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed.  Obviously the mafia doesn\u0026#x27;t participate in surveys so, barring criminal charges or conviction, anecdotal evidence is the best one can hope for.","parent":"16153236","id":"16153372"}
{"by":"RV86","time":"1398202628","timestamp":"2014-04-22 21:37:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Inflated Tech valuations are the least of our economy\u0026#x27;s problems.  This article is riding the wave of anti-tech sentiment in an otherwise stagnant, slow-to-recover economy.  It\u0026#x27;s click-baiting and we\u0026#x27;re all reinforcing this sort of thing by being agitated by it\u0026#x2F;drawn to it.\u003cp\u003eAdd up all the \u0026quot;bloated\u0026quot; Tech Valuations and you don\u0026#x27;t get anywhere close to the 1 Trillion+ we\u0026#x27;re looking at in outstanding student loans and the effects the bubble bursting might have on creditors and debtors alike.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d enumerate other much more dangerous threats to our economy, but I just read on Secret that someone is about to acquire my company for 5B.","parent":"7629658","id":"7630634"}
{"by":"realityking","time":"1506503652","timestamp":"2017-09-27 09:14:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does that mean React is only using the save subset of Map\u0026#x2F;Set methods that are supported by IE11? That\u0026#x27;d one great news and should be documented.","parent":"15342864","id":"15346073"}
{"by":"easp","time":"1258499103","timestamp":"2009-11-17 23:05:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is EC2 a \"lock-in\" platform, particularly when compared to space on a shared server?","parent":"947174","id":"947426"}
{"by":"VikingCoder","time":"1383667130","timestamp":"2013-11-05 15:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;history of killing products that everyone is actually using\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s true for amazingly small values of \u0026quot;everyone.\u0026quot;  It may include you, several people you know, and other people in your line of work, but that\u0026#x27;s not remotely the same thing.","parent":"6674524","id":"6675748"}
{"by":"ajdhsjakafjt","time":"1544603379","timestamp":"2018-12-12 08:29:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Matlab has a somewhat different focus, but essentially offers the experience you describe.\u003cp\u003e(just want to say: this concept is around for ages and Jupyter could adapt some of Matlab\u0026#x27;s GUI features for sure)","parent":"18661822","id":"18662288"}
{"by":"rebuilder","time":"1482242949","timestamp":"2016-12-20 14:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a terrific-terrible idea: let\u0026#x27;s create an open network of surveillance cameras with facial recognition. Permanent logs, free access to all, an easy search function, plot all events on a map with timestamps. Should kick up a storm.","parent":"13218534","id":"13219877"}
{"by":"iuytgfrtyuik","time":"1291326912","timestamp":"2010-12-02 21:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"low cost low resolution bolometer arrays are easy to make if you have even a simple semiconductor fab (\u003ca href=\"http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~tayfuna/papers/akin_c20_mems2001.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~tayfuna/papers/akin_c20_mems2001...\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eThe problem with anything built for military/medical/emergency service use, is that by the time you have ruggedized it, packaged it, setup service and support and got it approved by a dozen different agencies - well even a simple flashlight really does end up costing $100","parent":"1963465","id":"1963829"}
{"by":"zaroth","time":"1463888229","timestamp":"2016-05-22 03:37:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For YouTube videos, but I noticed suspiciously not for Twitter.","parent":"11744560","id":"11747290"}
{"by":"RealGeek","time":"1287860218","timestamp":"2010-10-23 18:56:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe activecollab started as \"code a basecamp clone in a weekend\" project on HN.","parent":"1822063","id":"1824114"}
{"by":"theBobMcCormick","time":"1280883668","timestamp":"2010-08-04 01:01:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They seem to think they're more interesting than they are. That approach might work for getting access to a beta for the next Valve game, or a preview of the PlayStation 4 or whatever.  But for this site?  Bah.  I've lost interest already.","parent":"1571736","id":"1573333"}
{"by":"mnw21cam","time":"1403537835","timestamp":"2014-06-23 15:37:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At the multiple seconds travel time level, gravitational lensing is completely insignificant. Come back when you have a round trip time of a million years past a massive galactic supercluster.","parent":"7932272","id":"7932498"}
{"by":"ZoFreX","time":"1360678560","timestamp":"2013-02-12 14:16:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Freedom of expression\" (or freedom of speech) is not \"Freedom from criticism or consequences\", though.","parent":"5206814","id":"5206852"}
{"by":"monochromatic","time":"1431996960","timestamp":"2015-05-19 00:56:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not have a background app that periodically purchases a satoshi now and then?","parent":"9567346","id":"9567662"}
{"by":"RutZap","time":"1364219386","timestamp":"2013-03-25 13:49:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's nice but that is hardly a skyscraper. By the look of it the building is around 15 floors high... let's say around 40m high. The author was talking about putting trees at 500feet in the air, that's 152m... considerably more.","parent":"5436885","id":"5436916"}
{"by":"peterburkimsher","time":"1527958222","timestamp":"2018-06-02 16:50:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a Virtex-II on a dev board that\u0026#x27;s the size of a desktop PC\u0026#x27;s motherboard. I found it in the trash several years ago, and couldn\u0026#x27;t let it go to waste! I didn\u0026#x27;t want to buy a programmer for it, so I decided to use guzuntyPi instead.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m familiar with how FPGAs work, and I did a project writing Verilog and using Xilinx chips to make a basic CPU while at university. I still think the technology is really cool.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is, after 4 years, I still haven\u0026#x27;t found a good use for my Virtex-II dev board. I\u0026#x27;ll give it away for free to anyone in Taiwan, or if you pay shipping to elsewhere. You could also try to suggest fun projects (e.g. I really want HDMI input to my laptop), but the physical size of the board is just too cumbersome for my itinerant needs.","parent":"17214857","id":"17215319"}
{"by":"programminggeek","time":"1477671448","timestamp":"2016-10-28 16:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bizarrely, it\u0026#x27;s almost to the point where Microsoft is making better computers than Apple.","parent":"12817332","id":"12817604"}
{"by":"aninhumer","time":"1485388127","timestamp":"2017-01-25 23:48:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;So you\u0026#x27;re willing to use violent coercion against non-violent people\u003cp\u003eSo are you. Theft is not violence. If you walk into my house and take my valuables, at no point have you done anything violent.","parent":"13487313","id":"13487372"}
{"by":"timhargis","time":"1383632701","timestamp":"2013-11-05 06:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wonder if this will really hurt clarity.fm - really like that site.  Dan Martell did an awesome job.  I\u0026#x27;ve used it on a number of occasions and had great experiences with the people I\u0026#x27;ve spoken to.","parent":"6673510","id":"6673533"}
{"by":"zdragnar","time":"1543947267","timestamp":"2018-12-04 18:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gross, no thank you. The trialware \u0026#x2F; bloatware that has come standard on windows from manufacturers was bad enough. Can you imagine how bad Lenovo Windows or Dell Windows would be? The Android landscape is bad enough.\u003cp\u003eAt first, I was thinking that it would only be bad for the non-technical folk (i.e. other 99%) who wouldn\u0026#x27;t know how to re-install a better windows. But then, I remembered that even MS is having a hell of a time rolling out updates without breaking machines. All the different branded flavors of windows would just make getting windows updates that much harder or terrifying, I think.","parent":"18601188","id":"18602033"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1329428418","timestamp":"2012-02-16 21:40:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is more likely. Living in cities is desirable because you have a vibrant and 'close' community, it is undesirable because its hard to drive and if you do own a car its under utilized.\u003cp\u003eOne of the interesting effects on this might be 'non-bus' cars. Which is to say public transit as a fleet of say 'four person' self driving cars where you walk to a bus top and touch your transit car and one shows up and picks you up. You tell it where you want to go and it takes you there.\u003cp\u003eIt of course destroys the taxi business quite completely. But combines all manner of public transit into a single service which gets economies of scale. Dynamic electric cars would be fine (where they have an electric 'boom' like trains in Europe do).","parent":"3600642","id":"3600780"}
{"by":"mej10","time":"1447439890","timestamp":"2015-11-13 18:38:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The current black ribbon is due to Gene Amdahl\u0026#x27;s death.","parent":"10561469","id":"10561502"}
{"by":"bonsai","time":"1360268436","timestamp":"2013-02-07 20:20:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have expected much more from this book. Afer reading Zakas books any other javascript book looks like complete waste of time.","parent":"5184197","id":"5184274"}
{"by":"badsectoracula","time":"1544316851","timestamp":"2018-12-09 00:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Borland got greedy. Up to Delphi 5, the IDE was something anyone could afford at $99.95 with the cheapest option and going up from that up to $1000+ for the \u0026quot;architect\u0026quot; version. In Delphi 6 they made the cheapest option only for non-commercial use, still at $99.95 and the next tier was a few hundred. In Delphi 7 they made the non-commercial version free, but then they got distracted by .NET and started rising their prices \u003ci\u003ehard\u003c/i\u003e to the point where the $1000+ version was the \u003ci\u003echeapest\u003c/i\u003e one until a few years ago. Then a few years ago they made a \u0026quot;cheap\u0026quot; $350 version but the license allowed only for $5000 annual income or something silly like that (they changed the limit a couple of times IIRC) and then you had to buy the next most expensive option which was several hundred dollars more. Lately they made that version free but the limit is still there. To add on that, most of the community doesn\u0026#x27;t really believe in the free versions since ever since the Delphi 7 Personal Edition they keep discontinuing them (they made another in 2006, based on the slowest and most buggy version which wasn\u0026#x27;t exactly a great idea) and then bring them back years later with different limitations (and always the reason for discontinuing them is that it didn\u0026#x27;t work - as if they\u0026#x27;d magically become popular in a few months for releasing a free yet extremely limited version).\u003cp\u003eAdd to that that after Delphi 7, which by many was considered the most stable and generally best version, they got distracted by .NET and Linux (with a very hacky project, Kylix, that never got any traction in the Linux community) and decided to make Delphi a .NET product, rewrote the IDE with a highly unpopular (at the time) interface with a lot of bugs and generally a much worse experience for developers and you get the idea.\u003cp\u003eThey basically did the worst thing they could ever do at every single front: abandoned their core audience (Delphi was very popular with smaller developers, especially in Europe) to go after enterprise customers, closed the gates to new blood by increasingly rising the prices, created a sense of unreliability by changing their minds every few years, replaced a stable product with  a buggy mess and drove a lot of their skilled people to leave over the years.\u003cp\u003eThe same stuff apply to C++ Builder too, btw. They actually lost a chance here - C++ Builder could have been a \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e IDE to use for tools in the game industry that relies a lot on custom tooling and some developers did try to use it (e.g. Bioware and i personally worked on another company that also considered it) but Borland\u0026#x2F;Inprise wasn\u0026#x27;t very cooperative and they left their C++ compiler stagnate (in our case the compiler simply couldn\u0026#x27;t build the codebase due to outdated standards support).\u003cp\u003eDelphi and C++ Builder are products that you can\u0026#x27;t help but wonder what they could have been at the hands of a company with more competent management.","parent":"18638076","id":"18638503"}
{"by":"smegel","time":"1452288196","timestamp":"2016-01-08 21:23:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sell off the parts of Yahoo still worth something to give each team some startup cash, and let them raise more from investors? I am sure many would also just be bought outright by other companies for the talent alone.","parent":"10867984","id":"10868384"}
{"by":"rcruzeiro","time":"1514924202","timestamp":"2018-01-02 20:16:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"REMOTE or ONSITE (London) Android Native Developer – Pony Bikes \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;getapony.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;getapony.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePony Bikes is the smartest bike sharing system in the world, aiming at putting everyone on the planet on a bike. We have successfully launched in the UK and France with hundreds of Pony bikes grazing around.\u003cp\u003eNo docking. No hassle. No limits.\u003cp\u003eThe role: We are looking for a talented and experienced Android developer to own the Android app development effort. The app is an essential part of the product and is the main point of contact with the customers. This means that the app must be top quality and resilient (as our users might be using the app in less than ideal conditions e.g. poor connectivity, low GPS precision).\u003cp\u003eYou will be working directly with the Head of Mobile to ensure that the app is consistent both in terms of UX and architecture with the existing iOS app (which is currently a bit more developed than its Android counterpart).\u003cp\u003eMain role: - Evolve our Android app from MVP to world-class app - Make sure that the UX is perfect and our users have a seamless experience while riding our bikes - Ensure that the app will work in several regions and languages (Pony Bikes is currently operating in Oxford, UK and Angers, France)\u003cp\u003eThe ideal candidate: - Excellent communication skills (English) - Strong self management skills - Previous experience with RxKotlin is a huge plus - Shipped a world-class app before (preferably more than once) - Must be capable of owning the Android development. You\u0026#x27;ll be part of a small team where every contribution counts, and you\u0026#x27;re encouraged and expected to deliver great value to our loving customers\u003cp\u003eDetails: - Competitive Pay (£35k - £60k) - Equity \u0026#x2F; stock options - Free biking!\u003cp\u003eMore details here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;pulse\u0026#x2F;you-strong-android-developer-interested-urban-we-hiring-cruzeiro\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;pulse\u0026#x2F;you-strong-android-developer-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ejobs@ponybikes.co","parent":"16052538","id":"16055158"}
{"by":"notyourwork","time":"1300907811","timestamp":"2011-03-23 19:16:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is based on: \" As discussed above, to create his PSN account, Hotz was required to first agree to the terms of the PSN User Agreement and thus he is clearly subject to personal jurisdiction in California.\"","parent":"2360728","id":"2360881"}
{"by":"deftnerd","time":"1388087689","timestamp":"2013-12-26 19:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have, but I\u0026#x27;m the kind of developer who thinks up the big ideas and can build to 95% but I\u0026#x27;m not great at grinding away at that last 5% of bugs. We\u0026#x27;re valuable, but by no means a rare breed.\u003cp\u003eThe rarer breeds are the work-horses that you can throw the results of a QA check to and they work on everything to completion.\u003cp\u003eIn startups, it\u0026#x27;s the founders that typically have the rights to do the planning and core development that I\u0026#x27;m good at and delegate the last bits to subordinates. I don\u0026#x27;t have founder money and bootstraping \u0026quot;real\u0026quot; startups requires a lot more time than I have available with a family.\u003cp\u003eSmall \u0026quot;4 hour work-week\u0026quot; startups are within reach. Currently my plan is to make 4 or 5 of them and move me and the family somewhere where the cost of living is so low that even a meager income from \u0026quot;side businesses\u0026quot; can be enough to live off of. We\u0026#x27;re actually flying down with the kids to scout out Antigua, Guatemala for a few weeks in January to see if it\u0026#x27;s a good fit for us. Also, my first 4-hour work week business (steamloader.com) is making on average 0.4 BTC a day so this seems like a realistic goal.\u003cp\u003eIdeally we could stay somewhere in the US, but we\u0026#x27;re being priced out of the Austin, TX area and if we have to move, we would love to move where our money is the most valuable. $50k (what I earn) is not much for a family of 4 to live on in Austin, but in Central America that income could give my kids a quality education and let us live more comfortably.","parent":"6967417","id":"6967714"}
{"by":"bhouston","time":"1514962253","timestamp":"2018-01-03 06:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if cloud providers will ask Intel for partial refunds when their CPUs get 5% to 30% slower than promised?","parent":"16057742","id":"16059078"}
{"by":"ikt","time":"1378394160","timestamp":"2013-09-05 15:16:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"please don\u0026#x27;t link to news.com.au, you are giving them ad revenue and attention they don\u0026#x27;t deserve :(","parent":"6333489","id":"6334670"}
{"by":"mikekchar","time":"1491574852","timestamp":"2017-04-07 14:20:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is actually the reason I gave up on my idea of working with Gnome Shell.  But as far as I can tell, most of the badness happens before you get to Shell.  Basically, Canonical has had to deal with it in Unity anyway.","parent":"14058351","id":"14059835"}
{"by":"cnagele","time":"1426084365","timestamp":"2015-03-11 14:32:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When we were searching for space this was our preferred choice. We wanted a large single floor space with offices on the perimeter. Each office would have a glass wall to see the open space. This way, as you said, people can see what is going on. Searching for office space is hard, so we ended up where we are and made the best of it. We still get the offices on the perimeter and the glass wall, but separated by multiple floors. Maybe we just put Dropcams everywhere so people can see when lunch is ready :)","parent":"9182143","id":"9184233"}
{"by":"JadeNB","time":"1497997702","timestamp":"2017-06-20 22:28:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yet another reason to be thrilled, as an Android user, that my ability to upgrade is held hostage to my phone vendor\u0026#x27;s willingness to package it.  Google has so much weight to throw around, and seems to recognise the \u003ci\u003eproblem\u003c/i\u003e with fragmentation; why do they only ever take such half-hearted steps to combat it?","parent":"14598018","id":"14599122"}
{"by":"vimeojobs","time":"1438619391","timestamp":"2015-08-03 16:29:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"New York CIty, NY; Full time; VISA; ONSITE only; Will relocate; VIMEO\u003cp\u003eVimeo.com is looking to hire Software Engineers for the following opportunities...\u003cp\u003eLead Engineer, Creator Platform...\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1P0uZUZ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1P0uZUZ\u003c/a\u003e\n(JavaScript, PHP, React.JS)\u003cp\u003eSenior Android Engineer, Cameo...\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1MI5Boq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1MI5Boq\u003c/a\u003e\n(Android exp, Java, C, OpenGL)\u003cp\u003eAPI Engineer...\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1E4xcbr\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1E4xcbr\u003c/a\u003e\n(API Exp, PHP, JS, OAuth)\u003cp\u003eDevOps Engineer...\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1N4DfSw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1N4DfSw\u003c/a\u003e\n(Linux, Chef, Puppet, AWS, Python)\u003cp\u003eFront-End Engineer...\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1E4z0Bd\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bit.ly\u0026#x2F;1E4z0Bd\u003c/a\u003e\n(JS, HTML5, CSS, SASS)\u003cp\u003eIf anyone is interested in hearing more about these opportunities please email Samer Zaben at samer@vimeo.com","parent":"9996333","id":"9997389"}
{"by":"weddpros","time":"1522429759","timestamp":"2018-03-30 17:09:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"a journalist whose salary is paid for by advertisers, a journalist working for a concurrent of Facebook (in terms of ad revenue), a journalist who\u0026#x27;s probably complaining how internet 2.0 has killed his profession, how Social Media has killed Traditional Media, etc...\u003cp\u003ePlus how could a journalist suggest a nationalised alternative that would stop at UK\u0026#x27;s border, instead of a global one connecting people from all countries? It\u0026#x27;s extremely short sighted and closed minded.","parent":"16716492","id":"16717867"}
{"by":"zerr","time":"1454440698","timestamp":"2016-02-02 19:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve seen freeware antivirus bundled (McAfee, Avast). Can be useful for some people.","parent":"11018837","id":"11021722"}
{"by":"cupcake_death","time":"1318418693","timestamp":"2011-10-12 11:24:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mannicken, your 20... Pain is what you'll experience as a result of life and through it you get growth. I'd suggest perhaps some volunteer work with those in a worse situation than yourself, such as the homeless, it's a great way to get perspective and help others, (Rather than thinking about yourself and what's only a temporary situation). Time and good judgement will fix things for you. But in a culture of instant gratification, it may not be in your time.","parent":"3102143","id":"3102474"}
{"by":"mortehu","time":"1369289787","timestamp":"2013-05-23 06:16:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... and it's not like it requires a lot of effort to switch to the web browser on an iPad.  Just swipe up with four fingers and touch the Safari icon.  And at that point, you don't have to deal with the terribly slow monochromatic screen.","parent":"5755281","id":"5755588"}
{"by":"hitr","time":"1466052355","timestamp":"2016-06-16 04:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft has good PaaS story when it comes to .NET stack. Especially product Azure App Service[1].All though it can technically host nodejs,java etc ,it still is based on IIS and windows stack. Joyent has more native offering for nodejs which could have been Paas for nodejs(Azure App Service for nodejs )\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;azure.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;services\u0026#x2F;app-service\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;azure.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;services\u0026#x2F;app-service\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11913800","id":"11914057"}
{"by":"cliftonk","time":"1325097011","timestamp":"2011-12-28 18:30:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Carbohydrates produce insulin, insulin causes us to store fat. It's not complicated. There have been scientific studies out since the 30's entirely dismissing calorie counting as being effective.\u003cp\u003eGood Calories, Bad Calories: \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Challenging-Conventional/dp/1400040787\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Challenging-Conventi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3400508","id":"3400741"}
{"by":"zdw","time":"1288785066","timestamp":"2010-11-03 11:51:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate to say this, but of that 77%, the percent of devices that will probably never get vendor supplied updates from 2.1 and 2.2 to a newer version of android is probably 90%.\u003cp\u003eIt's not in the OEM's interest - they'd rather have you buy a new phone and put more money in their pockets rather than support what's already out there.\u003cp\u003eWitness the gnashing of teeth every time a new version of Android comes out, and devices X/Y/Z don't get a manufacturer update.\u003cp\u003eThankfully there are 3rd parties doing custom ROM's for these, but that's not a solution for the layperson...","parent":"1864043","id":"1864470"}
{"by":"hmottestad","time":"1354622852","timestamp":"2012-12-04 12:07:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But how do you give accounts to paying customers?\u003cp\u003eThe only way I know is through in app purchases.","parent":"4870510","id":"4870520"}
{"by":"gburt","time":"1528506729","timestamp":"2018-06-09 01:12:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I went ahead and flagged this. It is not HN quality. It is not even Globe and Mail quality.\u003cp\u003eThe other comments have already expressed why that is the case - but in summary, there is no security flaw coherently expressed here, Excel is possibly the \u003ci\u003eright\u003c/i\u003e tool for the job (it saves tens of thousands of dollars of custom software development through government acquisition programs) and the editorialism in the title was unnecessary and further hurt the credibility of the \u0026quot;point.\u0026quot;","parent":"17270754","id":"17270954"}
{"by":"albur","time":"1410371440","timestamp":"2014-09-10 17:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Dublin, Ireland\u003cp\u003eRemote: No\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: Yes\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: Java EE (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, etc), PHP (Laravel, Zend, Doctrine, etc), Python, Bash, MySQL, Linux, Git, Mercurial, etc\u003cp\u003eResume: \u003ca href=\"http://www.alberto-burgos.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.alberto-burgos.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail: albertoburgosmh at gmail.com","parent":"8252732","id":"8297890"}
{"by":"on_and_off","time":"1537243434","timestamp":"2018-09-18 04:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or maybe that tech in general has a toxic culture problem and Linus definitely contributed to it by making it ok to be an asshole as long as you are skilled.\u003cp\u003eI often see people complain that \u0026#x27;soft\u0026#x27; topics are not worth being included in conferences.\u003cp\u003eBeing tough and being an asshole are two very separate things.  The best engineers I have had the pleasure to work with were both technically skilled and great mentors\u0026#x2F;teammates.\u003cp\u003eLast time I have checked, software engineering is almost exclusively teamwork, it is time we start treating it as such.","parent":"18001600","id":"18012378"}
{"by":"EGreg","time":"1450138736","timestamp":"2015-12-15 00:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eedit: why the downvote?","parent":"10734984","id":"10735031"}
{"by":"facepalm","time":"1432386118","timestamp":"2015-05-23 13:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;In America one person dies by suicide every 13 minutes.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOdd statistic to cite. Could you help us out and tell us what percentage of young people commit suicide?","parent":"9592768","id":"9592786"}
{"by":"Ygg2","time":"1377867101","timestamp":"2013-08-30 12:51:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Couldn\u0026#x27;t you dress yourself as a highly religious woman (using a burka)? You wear an attire covering your entire body, right? Not sure what rights religious people enjoy, but maybe you could pass as a woman.","parent":"6301132","id":"6301403"}
{"by":"zaroth","time":"1377060115","timestamp":"2013-08-21 04:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not so sure about the online grocery thing. Won\u0026#x27;t people want to touch their food before buying it?\u003cp\u003eI say that somewhat ironically, because of course that\u0026#x27;s exactly what everyone said about online shopping from the beginning. So it\u0026#x27;s a safe bet, I think, that online grocery will grow and ultimately own a substantial chunk of the market.\u003cp\u003eI would love to read more about start-ups in this space. Every interface for ordering groceries, including Amazon\u0026#x27;s, is just frustratingly bad. It\u0026#x27;s even harder to get ordering right for groceries than it is for take-out!\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Build a better way to buy groceries online\u0026quot; sounds like a great idea. As long as you\u0026#x27;re cool with Walmart Labs acquiring you in a couple weeks\u0026#x2F;months\u0026#x2F;years.","parent":"6245975","id":"6248228"}
{"by":"famousactress","time":"1304028032","timestamp":"2011-04-28 22:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I miss them also. Was a weighted voting discussed as an alternative? One where the up/down vote is weighted against the karma of the voter? Seems like that would help elevate big-karma users to sort of meta-moderators and might help soften the concerns about reflexive voting?\u003cp\u003eAnd yeah, maybe for display the numbers aren't the best option.. just some sort of watered down \"+\" \"++\" \"+++\" type scheme...","parent":"2495137","id":"2495270"}
{"by":"scrozier","time":"1361738904","timestamp":"2013-02-24 20:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 for John Adams. Or Steve Reich. Or Phillip Glass. Or Morton Lauridsen.","parent":"5274341","id":"5275829"}
{"by":"alex_c","time":"1187046754","timestamp":"2007-08-13 23:12:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do I do if I like karma whoring? Aaaahhhh!","parent":"42087","id":"42101"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1377235030","timestamp":"2013-08-23 05:17:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The big reason to do server-side browser detection is latency.  Each feature you support takes code, and if you ship the code to the client-side, that code takes bytes and slows down the page load.  If you do your browser detection on the server side, you can avoid shipping code to the client that won\u0026#x27;t work on it anyway.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s usually a poor business trade-off to slow down the several hundred million Chrome, Firefox, and IE users for the sake of a few thousand users on a new browser.  Numerous studies (first publicized by Google but replicated several times since) show a direct link between latency and conversions: the slower your webpage is, the fewer people buy from it.","parent":"6261364","id":"6261851"}
{"by":"csytan","time":"1318654865","timestamp":"2011-10-15 05:01:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do they really need Labs now?  Google has grown to a size where they can easily acquire promising young start-ups out in the wild.\u003cp\u003eOne advantage of having Labs back in the day was that projects could have the backing of Google's infrastructure. Now, with cloud services like AWS, the bar is set low enough that anyone has access to this kind of stuff.  How hard is it to start a YouTube in this day and age?","parent":"3113711","id":"3114088"}
{"by":"2bitencryption","time":"1465016804","timestamp":"2016-06-04 05:06:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"US has no mandatory data retention laws, part of the reason I pick PIA specifically over VPNs outside the US.","parent":"11834985","id":"11835001"}
{"by":"wolf550e","time":"1468945173","timestamp":"2016-07-19 16:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a famous photo: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)#\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;File:TaskForce_One.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)#\u0026#x2F;media...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12122589","id":"12122614"}
{"by":"michaeldhopkins","time":"1312559779","timestamp":"2011-08-05 15:56:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I eat a lot of things dipped in tzatziki sauce, mostly pitas.","parent":"2846404","id":"2850484"}
{"by":"ericabiz","time":"1342974936","timestamp":"2012-07-22 16:35:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Want a better job? Put more info in your Hacker News profile. Email address, Github link, personal website, LinkedIn...so when you write these posts, people can contact you if they're interested.","parent":"4275957","id":"4277683"}
{"by":"CodeCube","time":"1436189613","timestamp":"2015-07-06 13:33:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;s known, amongst certain people in the industry - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Charles_Petzold\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Charles_Petzold\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9838892","id":"9838948"}
{"by":"acchow","time":"1496284829","timestamp":"2017-06-01 02:40:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This.\u003cp\u003eThe people eating McDonalds and the people paying for food delivery are not the same people. I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure their intersection is statistically insignificant.","parent":"14457508","id":"14457582"}
{"by":"n0us","time":"1467917832","timestamp":"2016-07-07 18:57:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"then again more or less everything about the current mobile reddit website is bizzare","parent":"12051228","id":"12051378"}
{"by":"Tagore","time":"1491621203","timestamp":"2017-04-08 03:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s pretty clear at this point that citing Chomsky in cases like this is like citing Velikovsky when discussing celestial mechanics. Wrong and inapposite.","parent":"14064715","id":"14065089"}
{"by":"habitue","time":"1436539109","timestamp":"2015-07-10 14:38:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Comets, and the planets and the tides, and apples falling from trees were found to be caused by the same underlying phenomena, despite seeming very different. Newton\u0026#x27;s insight that they were the same was not overturned by relativity, so the point stands quite well.","parent":"9864091","id":"9864169"}
{"by":"4ad","time":"1500993362","timestamp":"2017-07-25 14:36:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I would expect a ceramic knife to be sharp and I would expect it to remain sharp throughout its life.","parent":"14847108","id":"14848010"}
{"by":"andyv","time":"1534614511","timestamp":"2018-08-18 17:48:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s indicative of how far gone he is.","parent":"17789553","id":"17789614"}
{"by":"murrayb","time":"1251251247","timestamp":"2009-08-26 01:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been doing the same thing for some time now as well.  As well as what you have observed I have observed that you really can actually hack the traffic to reduce congestion.  I've seen a gap that I brought to a merge point allow 8-9 cars to move and several hundred meters of stationary traffic was able to pick up speed enough to merge, I could see both lanes continue to flow in my review mirror.\u003cp\u003eInstead of competing to get ahead the game has changed to strategising to keep the traffic moving.  It's beautiful and fun and transforms the whole driving experience, very zen.","parent":"785498","id":"786340"}
{"by":"vegardx","time":"1417443060","timestamp":"2014-12-01 14:11:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While having an unique address per application can be cool, I don\u0026#x27;t like the premise that this is used as some sort of security layer.\u003cp\u003eWe have firewalls. We know how they work and how to implement them well. For all intents and purposes a typical NAT-setup is bascially wide open from the inside and out. You can do the same with a few simple rules on a firewall.","parent":"8680962","id":"8680991"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1286919842","timestamp":"2010-10-12 21:44:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're sexist.","parent":"1784659","id":"1785088"}
{"by":"IronWolve","time":"1518562077","timestamp":"2018-02-13 22:47:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At my old telecom job, we had weekly MOP (method of procedure) meetings, basically the gate process from lab to production.\u003cp\u003eOne of the MOP checkoff boxes, test results.\u003cp\u003eSo many times you could tank someone by asking \u0026quot;Where are the test results\u0026quot; and they would have to reschedule their maintenance window.  If you pissed some ops engineer off, expect the question \u0026quot;Where are the test results\u0026quot; every MOP meeting.\u003cp\u003eGood times.","parent":"16371376","id":"16371597"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1279423918","timestamp":"2010-07-18 03:31:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or just send them a photo of yourself.","parent":"1524985","id":"1525175"}
{"by":"achr2","time":"1445615801","timestamp":"2015-10-23 15:56:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that an agency should be responsible for the testing, just ensuring that software development best practices are in place, and that the company is actually doing their internal testing.","parent":"10439360","id":"10439409"}
{"by":"daeken","time":"1351281121","timestamp":"2012-10-26 19:52:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well thanks, definitely appreciate the chance!  And you're right -- I did say \"Metro NYC Area\", as I'm a fairly close by, despite being in the 'middle of nowhere' by my own standards haha.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I'm really bullish on Developer Auction.  It's the first innovative thing I've seen in recruiting in a long, long time.  I think it's going to be a Big Deal (TM).","parent":"4703920","id":"4703938"}
{"by":"nreece","time":"1431854344","timestamp":"2015-05-17 09:19:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stripe. Streamlined and well-documented.","parent":"9559093","id":"9559337"}
{"by":"edgarvaldes","time":"1482524085","timestamp":"2016-12-23 20:14:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The Final Anthropic Principle states that once the Universe has brought intelligence into being, it will never die out.\u003cp\u003eHow can you propose someting like that? I mean, in a scientific way.","parent":"13246594","id":"13246977"}
{"by":"carsongross","time":"1400694303","timestamp":"2014-05-21 17:45:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The elephant in the room, of course, is Mr. Summer\u0026#x27;s object of desire, the Fed.\u003cp\u003eUntil the Fed is dealt with and the financial sector is subject to true market forces, it will continue to dominate the economy and produce destructive malinvestment.","parent":"7779300","id":"7779606"}
{"by":"schwede","time":"1530891138","timestamp":"2018-07-06 15:32:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about equipment and machinery? How do you use a tractor on a vertical farm? That challenge seems more expensive to solve than buying more land.","parent":"17467498","id":"17472229"}
{"by":"astura","time":"1523472422","timestamp":"2018-04-11 18:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They had to be in the works previously - These sorts of deals require more time to negotiate than has passed since the pedestrian incident.","parent":"16813942","id":"16814169"}
{"by":"othersideofcoin","time":"1507872773","timestamp":"2017-10-13 05:32:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there 20 companies worth funding to that amount?  I dont imagine you or I can determine.","parent":"15462711","id":"15463479"}
{"by":"pablovidal85","time":"1390674512","timestamp":"2014-01-25 18:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now I understand why Telefónica forced me to have WEP 128 that was automatically generated from the SSID. After I asked them  to set up my own password (the router was password protected) they suggested I tell them what password I wanted over the phone. I switched ISP two weeks ago.","parent":"7121176","id":"7121696"}
{"by":"mortenjorck","time":"1265514989","timestamp":"2010-02-07 03:56:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing can stop you from aging.\u003cp\u003eEating right, getting out more, and generally taking care of yourself can put a \u0026#60;1.0 coefficient on a lot of it though.","parent":"1106705","id":"1107223"}
{"by":"datingapps","time":"1401811429","timestamp":"2014-06-03 16:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve tried both in house and via agency (Fiksu). They\u0026#x27;ve just relayed the message back to us that dating ads are now restricted. We will try reaching out to Nanigans, thanks for the tip.\u003cp\u003eI agree with you about the larger advertisers with the bull horns - but this isn\u0026#x27;t some local TV station - Facebook spent the last 5+ years building out a sophisticated self-serve ad platform for this very reason, which has been wildly successful for them. Have they lost all confidence in their ability for their platform to filter out racy boob pictures and the advertisers who push the envelope?","parent":"7838355","id":"7840979"}
{"by":"jpincheira","time":"1539555557","timestamp":"2018-10-14 22:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jumpcut  — macOS menubar clipboard manager with keyboard shortcuts\u003cp\u003eSpectacle - macOS window resizer \u0026#x2F; manager","parent":"18214443","id":"18215833"}
{"by":"dexwiz","time":"1469545981","timestamp":"2016-07-26 15:13:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never understand Nintendo\u0026#x27;s naming. NES, SNES, SP, DS, 3DS, NX?","parent":"12165576","id":"12166191"}
{"by":"gulbanana","time":"1543993319","timestamp":"2018-12-05 07:01:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"many people use windows, and therefore it is useful even if it is not cross-platform","parent":"18604401","id":"18606225"}
{"by":"blueimp","time":"1540155439","timestamp":"2018-10-21 20:57:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for your comment.\u003cp\u003eI do think that I share at least part of the blame.\nEnabling all file types by default was not necessary and would have prevented this issue.\u003cp\u003eEspecially since there are so many inexperienced developers using PHP, the defaults should have been secure in every perceivable Webserver configuration.","parent":"18269807","id":"18270205"}
{"by":"peller","time":"1479373284","timestamp":"2016-11-17 09:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I don\u0026#x27;t disagree, and I\u0026#x27;m not sure if this applies specifically to Google in this case, but as a general trend oftentimes users sign their class action rights away in the EULA by way of an arbitration clause.[0] This, in and of itself, is also IMO a huge abuse of power. But it\u0026#x27;s perfectly legal and only serves to further entrench the power of the monopolists.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Arbitration_clause\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Arbitration_clause\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12975325","id":"12975692"}
{"by":"city41","time":"1493329230","timestamp":"2017-04-27 21:40:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d argue several of those would be classified as layoffs, and my hunch is layoffs sting far less.","parent":"14214886","id":"14214962"}
{"by":"davidjhall","time":"1290031058","timestamp":"2010-11-17 21:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Found a bug - Genghis Khan -\u0026#62; Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)\nTried to find the answer -- chose \"Show me the answer\" - Kara-Khitan Khanate.\u003cp\u003eTried it and it doesn't connect -- did wikipedia change it in the meantime?","parent":"1915428","id":"1915919"}
{"by":"revorad","time":"1316684884","timestamp":"2011-09-22 09:48:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would actually strongly advise against reading. Vicarious entrepreneurism is a real trap.\u003cp\u003eIt's better to start building or selling something. If your friends have any flair for business at all, tell them to open up a Shopify store and sell something. I actually recommended this to a friend who asked me the same question your friends asked. She's got a growing online jewellery business now. And she's keyed into the startup literature when she needs it.","parent":"3024802","id":"3025469"}
{"by":"ptbrowne","time":"1330451503","timestamp":"2012-02-28 17:51:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"useful software if you happen to often work with graphs : \u003ca href=\"http://gephi.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gephi.org\u003c/a\u003e. The ForceAtlas V2 algorithm which is an optimization of Barnes-Hut one  is pretty fast !","parent":"3643428","id":"3644075"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1459840654","timestamp":"2016-04-05 07:17:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Scale. A 10 GB file has a few million 4kB blocks, a 10 GB database may have a billion records. Worse, moving a block takes a read, typically a seek, and a write; moving a record takes the same because the disk works at block scale (this could change with flash memory). Also, part of the strategy for fighting fragmentation is to grow a file a cluster of several blocks at a time, wasting quite a bit of space if the file stays small. That would be too much overhead for a database with small records.\u003cp\u003e2. MVCC is similar to a log-structured file system, and I don\u0026#x27;t think fragmentation is a solved issue there. Certainly, Wikipedia doesn\u0026#x27;t think so (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sarwiki.informatik.hu-berlin.de\u0026#x2F;Log-Structured_Filesystem\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sarwiki.informatik.hu-berlin.de\u0026#x2F;Log-Structured_Files...\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Log-structured_File_System_(BSD)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Log-structured_File_System_(...\u003c/a\u003e) (reading the LFS page makes me think somebody should implement a generational garbage collector for it)","parent":"11427463","id":"11428490"}
{"by":"jfb","time":"1358871822","timestamp":"2013-01-22 16:23:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I think\". That many people think that there is a fruitful analogy to be drawn between chattel slavery and wage labor has \u003ci\u003eno bearing\u003c/i\u003e on whether I think it's a sensible comparison to draw.","parent":"5097181","id":"5097825"}
{"by":"jaclaz","time":"1480952496","timestamp":"2016-12-05 15:41:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"JFYI there is a little (35 Kb) and little known free tool for Windows (by McAfee, I know, I know) that is very easy to use\u0026#x2F;convenient:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mcafee.com\u0026#x2F;it\u0026#x2F;downloads\u0026#x2F;free-tools\u0026#x2F;bintext.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mcafee.com\u0026#x2F;it\u0026#x2F;downloads\u0026#x2F;free-tools\u0026#x2F;bintext.aspx\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(a number of hex editors AFAIK want you to specify if ASCII or Unicode)","parent":"13102715","id":"13106071"}
{"by":"icc97","time":"1515590749","timestamp":"2018-01-10 13:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also keeping distance from the car in front is very important.","parent":"16108681","id":"16114717"}
{"by":"agorabinary","time":"1426028107","timestamp":"2015-03-10 22:55:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Political extremist\u0026quot; is an empty ad-hominem --- please point out specifically what views of his are so distasteful.","parent":"9181325","id":"9181342"}
{"by":"smileysteve","time":"1523570359","timestamp":"2018-04-12 21:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Maybe take a 50% tax cut out of minimum wage and give the prisoners the rest of the money.\u003cp\u003eSo you\u0026#x27;re okay with the tax, now it\u0026#x27;s just down to the percentage.\u003cp\u003e50% is just as justified as 100%.","parent":"16824487","id":"16825272"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1477344617","timestamp":"2016-10-24 21:30:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point was that they \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e asking for $$$ by having a \u0026quot;Free vs. Pro\u0026quot; business model (i.e. people pay $$$ for Pro), so where does the need for a Kickstarter campaign come from?","parent":"12782795","id":"12783099"}
{"by":"sogen","time":"1412185557","timestamp":"2014-10-01 17:45:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also worth checking out is Bugs:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://pixeline.github.io/bugs/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pixeline.github.io\u0026#x2F;bugs\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssue management, Kanban board, extremely simple to setup (Apache, MySQL).","parent":"8395689","id":"8396324"}
{"by":"bhartzer","time":"1390580218","timestamp":"2014-01-24 16:16:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there is a big difference here between Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. Harvard and Yale clearly bought \u0026quot;likes\u0026quot; to their pages, while Princeton kept it clean and thus doesn\u0026#x27;t have any fake followers or fake page \u0026quot;likes\u0026quot;.","parent":"7111627","id":"7115617"}
{"by":"dusklight","time":"1207074659","timestamp":"2008-04-01 18:30:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure this is a good thing.\u003cp\u003eAs far as I can see, Apple is if anything even more tyrannical and monopolistic than Microsoft, the main difference being that Apple is sexier. Apple wants the computer to become like a household appliance, closed to outside modification.\u003cp\u003eLooking at how they've run iTunes, the restrictive iPhone SDK, etc ... M$ wanted to control all your software but they at least gave you some choice on hardware. If Apple becomes the new monopoly we won't even have any say on that.","parent":"152059","id":"152332"}
{"by":"lovich","time":"1536156018","timestamp":"2018-09-05 14:00:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was going off articles like \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;charts-eu-economy-is-bigger-than-the-us-2015-6\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;charts-eu-economy-is-bigger-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, when I was just looking it up now to find evidence for you I found various sources saying the US, China, or the EU was the largest so now I am not sure","parent":"17917399","id":"17918013"}
{"by":"cube13","time":"1384814742","timestamp":"2013-11-18 22:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because the US already has laws on the books for handling foreign currency, which Bitcoin could also apply?  There\u0026#x27;s noting really different between handling piles of physical cash and bitcoin.  In fact, Bitcoins are probably easier to track through the blockchain than $20 bills.","parent":"6757577","id":"6757802"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1276219147","timestamp":"2010-06-11 01:19:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try: один, два, три, четыри, пять, шесть, семь, восемь, девять, десять.","parent":"1419074","id":"1422401"}
{"by":"JacobAldridge","time":"1283208446","timestamp":"2010-08-30 22:47:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article would have been better argued had it provided stats on close calls which SHOULD have been challenged, by players with challenges remaining, but were not (for whatever reason).\u003cp\u003eIn the absence of that information, and given more than 2 in 3 challenges are overruled, it's forced to boil down to the conclusion that players should \"challenge recreationally\" to disprupt an opponent.\u003cp\u003ePoor maths. Worse sportsmanship.","parent":"1647499","id":"1647770"}
{"by":"jlgbecom","time":"1284626446","timestamp":"2010-09-16 08:40:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do they deserve attention?  Because they have better, more mature code-bases and more experienced programmers developing them.  Other than publicity, what does Diaspora have going for it, and why do they deserve attention just because of their marketing?  This is open source we're talking about, not startup companies, and open source works best when it's meritocratic.  And if we're talking about which open source project to build a startup with, then we're talking about merit, nothing else.","parent":"1697196","id":"1697229"}
{"by":"ethanbond","time":"1471632314","timestamp":"2016-08-19 18:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Benefits of improving credit score: access to capital when shit hits the fan e.g. medical emergency?\u003cp\u003eIs this disputable?","parent":"12322274","id":"12322421"}
{"by":"rdiddly","time":"1479436458","timestamp":"2016-11-18 02:34:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LinkedIn didn\u0026#x27;t just \u0026quot;get blocked\u0026quot; out of the blue.  They got blocked after many warnings and plenty of time during which they refused to take basic steps to comply with the laws of a sovereign nation.  Just set up some servers in a Russian datacenter and be done with it!  But instead they blew it off, or created the impression of blowing it off, by going running to the Russian bureaucrats on the last day -- as if the whole thing were a big surprise!\u003cp\u003eIf you wanted to insult them, show them you didn\u0026#x27;t take them seriously and didn\u0026#x27;t make a plan to comply with their laws, I can\u0026#x27;t think of a better way to do it than going to them on the last day to ask for more time.  If I were those bureaucrats I would take especial relish in cutting them off.  (And that\u0026#x27;s aside from the fact that it\u0026#x27;s a worthless site in the first place.)\u003cp\u003eSometimes when you get Tased it\u0026#x27;s because of crooked cops, but most of the time it\u0026#x27;s because you\u0026#x27;re being an ass, disregarding the laws of the people, despite many warnings, and not taking simple steps to comply.","parent":"12977088","id":"12983861"}
{"by":"hammock","time":"1475612840","timestamp":"2016-10-04 20:27:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oneplus 3 not available on verizon","parent":"12638393","id":"12639168"}
{"by":"Macha","time":"1536768669","timestamp":"2018-09-12 16:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although despite Android not requiring you to just wrap the native browser, Edge on Android just wraps the native browser (unlike Firefox for Android and like Chrome for iOS)","parent":"17967735","id":"17970214"}
{"by":"hyperliner","time":"1429627373","timestamp":"2015-04-21 14:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Darn. I came here just to say that. Oh well, you beat me \u003ci\u003ethis time\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"9413527","id":"9414337"}
{"by":"gk1","time":"1391703321","timestamp":"2014-02-06 16:15:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the very detailed guide.\u003cp\u003eWord of caution: As with any marketing effort at a start-up, don\u0026#x27;t put too much time\u0026#x2F;money into something before testing it. This won\u0026#x27;t work for every company. For all you know, you may get better results from just speaking with your customers more, so that they love you and tell their network about you.","parent":"7188849","id":"7191065"}
{"by":"chrismaeda","time":"1366728778","timestamp":"2013-04-23 14:52:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I expect it to die in the House.","parent":"5594551","id":"5595450"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1446168875","timestamp":"2015-10-30 01:34:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree.  The author (she?) has spent what looks like a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of effort in building a introduction to at least two areas of basic software literacy and, assuming the book is even half way reliable (quick look shows no obvious horrors) then this is a worthwhile addition to the \u0026quot;how to code\u0026quot; which beats most Java-in-10-days books simply for its subject matter.\u003cp\u003eAdd in what seems to be a recurring theme of \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t worry, this is hard, ignore the (male?) arse-hats and just do it, and we have an introduction by and for women - a sorely needed part of the landscape.\u003cp\u003eSo, as I judge this book by its cover, it seems a good and worthwhile addition to the community.  Please use Hacker News to promote worthwhile additions (especially as there seems to be a free online copy)","parent":"10475612","id":"10475655"}
{"by":"halite","time":"1472824863","timestamp":"2016-09-02 14:01:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not wash grills just like regular dishes? My grills come off and once I\u0026#x27;m done cooking, I rinse and put them in dishwasher.","parent":"12409425","id":"12413069"}
{"by":"henning","time":"1199840376","timestamp":"2008-01-09 00:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's intentional, and it more or less makes sense if you've listened to Autechre's music.\u003cp\u003eIDM people are kind of the intelligent chin stroking artsy bedroom-techno loners of the electronic music scene.","parent":"96209","id":"96213"}
{"by":"bsaraogi","time":"1511799662","timestamp":"2017-11-27 16:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"great analogy, but guess these things would comes eventually within the platform as it evolves, metadata\u0026#x2F;analytics keep following with adoption\u0026#x2F;conversion ?","parent":"15788313","id":"15788455"}
{"by":"asdfprou","time":"1380252081","timestamp":"2013-09-27 03:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see your point - in more ways than one.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure why you feel it necessary to be a cynic. I don\u0026#x27;t see why there is a reason to etch the flaws out in everything. I could caveat everything I say but what would be the point of that? Especially in a section labelled: \u0026quot;What I liked about working at Google\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI also don\u0026#x27;t see the point in you playing fortune teller - so what if my blog has 1 post? Why does it matter to you what I do or do not do with my life after its been read?\u003cp\u003eI appreciate your criticism of my writing, and certainly welcome more of it, but if you\u0026#x27;re going to be passive aggressive about it I\u0026#x27;m afraid I don\u0026#x27;t see the point in it either. From your reply it seems like your suggestion is to \u0026quot;add cynicism\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eLastly, your thinly veiled insults do not make your post more palatable to me.","parent":"6454752","id":"6455068"}
{"by":"graeme","time":"1430230511","timestamp":"2015-04-28 14:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So this was not the normal method of breeding prior to GMOs? I always hear the argument above mentioned whenever GMOs are discussed.\u003cp\u003eFallacy aside, it\u0026#x27;s an emotionally persuasive argument. I\u0026#x27;m wondering if it\u0026#x27;s a central talking point that was developed by a marketing team for forum use.\u003cp\u003eWhat is the standard non-GMO breeding method?","parent":"9451991","id":"9452482"}
{"by":"notatoad","time":"1333122918","timestamp":"2012-03-30 15:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm still skeptical. These rumours have been around for so long without anything ever surfacing, it seems unlikely that anything ever will.","parent":"3775665","id":"3776565"}
{"by":"wonderous","time":"1510414249","timestamp":"2017-11-11 15:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of these jobs sound exactly like the types of jobs AI will replace.","parent":"15676301","id":"15676706"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1336669087","timestamp":"2012-05-10 16:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that people (mostly people here, based on their status as \"one of us\" I guess) were led to believe that Square wasn't going to be like PayPal at all.  Yet here they are with a story that could have come straight out of paypalsucks.com.\u003cp\u003eIn context, having unclear policies and unresponsive customer service at the \"still-somewhat-better-than-paypal\" level isn't matching the expectations set by Square's marketing.\u003cp\u003eIt's a billing goof.  It's going to happen, and all parties are always going to hedge in their own favor to the extent practical.  Pretending that Square (like Paypal) won't go after your bank account to cover a pending chargeback is just fantasy.","parent":"3954313","id":"3954523"}
{"by":"Jweb_Guru","time":"1483564038","timestamp":"2017-01-04 21:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Purity seems to be totally orthogonal to this question, to me.  I\u0026#x27;m referring to the ability to return thunks from within called functions, such that the data are totally encapsulated in the closure (are not passed in explicitly and cannot be retrieved manually).  That seems to be coupling data and behavior to me, since you can\u0026#x27;t run the function without the data it was coupled with at construction time.  Whether that\u0026#x27;s fundamental or not is, of course, a subjective question, but I have a hard time thinking of a language that bills itself as functional that doesn\u0026#x27;t provide that capability natively (Rust and C++ make it difficult, but neither really bill themselves as functional).","parent":"13315772","id":"13322046"}
{"by":"alex_hirner","time":"1472770607","timestamp":"2016-09-01 22:56:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What a beautiful project. I started to hack around for a guitar amp emulator on the bb in 2014, but it quickly became too involved. Thanks for sharing.","parent":"12401372","id":"12409471"}
{"by":"caractacus","time":"1421331916","timestamp":"2015-01-15 14:25:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Valleywag is cynical and harsh, but it has done more good for technology and humanity than all of Sand Hill Road combined\u003cp\u003eUmmm. What? Is there some secret Valleywag of which I\u0026#x27;m not aware other than the one that is just a gossip site aimed at silicon valley types?","parent":"8892500","id":"8892579"}
{"by":"ebildsten","time":"1375381919","timestamp":"2013-08-01 18:31:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Planet Labs Inc. - \u003ca href=\"http://planet-labs.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;planet-labs.com\u003c/a\u003e - San Francisco, CA\u003cp\u003eWe provide universal access to information about the changing planet. We\u0026#x27;ll soon operate the world’s largest fleet of Earth imaging satellites to frequently image the entire planet and provide open access to that information. We have a big mission and we seek highly performing and accountable people who care deeply about the art of creation.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re primarily looking for strong software engineers interested in working on distributed systems, image processing, embedded systems, spacecraft commanding, mapping, and web tool development. While we expect you to have a strong background in building software systems, no prior experience in these specific systems is required. You\u0026#x27;ll code in Python and C++, among other languages.\u003cp\u003eSee our open positions and apply at \u003ca href=\"https://planetlabs.recruiterbox.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;planetlabs.recruiterbox.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eCome help us build a spacecraft network!","parent":"6139927","id":"6142374"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1392623661","timestamp":"2014-02-17 07:54:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I meant that quote to read as \u0026quot;dollars.\u0026quot;  My bad.  It\u0026#x27;s at somewhere north of $250k lifetime -- you can probably find it here \u003ca href=\"http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bingocardcreator.com\u0026#x2F;stats\u0026#x2F;sales-by-month\u003c/a\u003e .  (I don\u0026#x27;t keep tabs on it very often anymore.)","parent":"7251036","id":"7251044"}
{"by":"terminus","time":"1336817764","timestamp":"2012-05-12 10:16:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; So let me get this straight: rich kid at Harvard gives his bright friend some money to rent servers to run a service that gets popular. Rich kid doesn't contribute any more.\u003cp\u003eNot terribly different from Seed/VC funding.","parent":"3961233","id":"3963414"}
{"by":"lotsofmangos","time":"1429062645","timestamp":"2015-04-15 01:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"July 16th\u003cp\u003ecan\u0026#x27;t be any of the months with unique numbers, so May and June are out\u003cp\u003eIt can\u0026#x27;t be 14th therefore as you are still confused between July and August\u003cp\u003eIf it was 15 or 17, then there would still be confusion about which, so Albert must have been told July and Bernard must have been told 16\u003cp\u003eedit - BBC baffles world by claiming basic logic puzzles baffle world.\u003cp\u003eedit 2 - This attitude to maths in news reports is utterly poisonous. The papers publish more difficult sudokus daily in their puzzle section.","parent":"9378273","id":"9378462"}
{"by":"venomsnake","time":"1357505156","timestamp":"2013-01-06 20:45:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Talking is cheap. It is the shipping to the platform that eludes the linux gaming so far. And the install base.\u003cp\u003eOf course everyone evaluates the platform with the planned obsolesce of desktop machines and the walled gardens.\u003cp\u003eLets hope to see some A class titles on linux in 2013.","parent":"5017055","id":"5017644"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1314007569","timestamp":"2011-08-22 10:06:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For web stuff in particular, using a comparatively low-bandwidth and/or high-latency connection can also be useful, since not everyone has 10+ Mbit connections with a 20ms ping to a Bay Area datacenter. On Linux, you can use 'tc' to simulate that.\u003cp\u003eI had a 384 Kbit, ~100ms-latency crappy SDSL connection until recently (was renting in the Santa Cruz mountains in a location that had poor connection options), and it was pretty amazing how two sites that looked very similar from a fast connection, would load \u003ci\u003emuch\u003c/i\u003e differently on the slow connection, often for reasons not really inherently connected to the site's needs (it's one thing if it's loading slowly due to streaming video, versus due to having a gigantic background-wallpaper image, or unnecessarily serialized roundtrips).","parent":"2911935","id":"2911977"}
{"by":"morsch","time":"1442336842","timestamp":"2015-09-15 17:07:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Show me some evidence that pigs are \u0026quot;way smarter\u0026quot; than dogs.\u003cp\u003eA paper recently made the rounds regarding pigs: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;escholarship.org\u0026#x2F;uc\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;8sx4s79c\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;escholarship.org\u0026#x2F;uc\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;8sx4s79c\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example: \u0026quot;Additionally,  pigs  can  use  pointing  by  humans (under  certain  circumstances)  to  lead  them  to  a food  reward (Nawrothet al., 2013b).\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBut from a cursory glance, it seems that pigs are not \u0026quot;way smarter\u0026quot; than dogs, however they may be \u0026quot;about as smart\u0026quot; as dogs, which is surprising in and of itself.","parent":"10221499","id":"10221743"}
{"by":"malkia","time":"1414439241","timestamp":"2014-10-27 19:47:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK gpu\u0026#x27;s and ps3 cell chip did not support subnormals for that reason, also as the other poster said, they can be disabled. Alternatively you can add white-noise to your data to avoid it (Say after an IIR filter on sound data).","parent":"8517121","id":"8517748"}
{"by":"lauradhamilton","time":"1390920780","timestamp":"2014-01-28 14:53:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a company is paying for the servers, they may have a claim for the after hours side projects of their employees. Depends on specific situation obviously.\u003cp\u003eBetter to pay for your own servers. My $.02.","parent":"7135689","id":"7137343"}
{"by":"Maro","time":"1312474064","timestamp":"2011-08-04 16:07:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I purchase something on Amazon and GoDaddy, I usually spend 3 minutes to google a coupon to save $5. It feels good.","parent":"2844369","id":"2846532"}
{"by":"Camillo","time":"1380230734","timestamp":"2013-09-26 21:25:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you think the average hacker\u0026#x27;s experience as a teenager is representative of their contemporaries\u0026#x27;?","parent":"6453677","id":"6453744"}
{"by":"adamnemecek","time":"1508632616","timestamp":"2017-10-22 00:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I reward those who try harder with recommendations, references, professional contacts and encouragement.\u003cp\u003e...and everyone knows that recommendations from writing professors are what helps you land the jobs that make the big $$$.","parent":"15524010","id":"15524454"}
{"by":"earbitscom","time":"1309995050","timestamp":"2011-07-06 23:30:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe they just thought you needed more starch in your diet.","parent":"2736446","id":"2736448"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1513932452","timestamp":"2017-12-22 08:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, but we\u0026#x27;ve had that since the start of the web. I get that Serverless is not a very good name, but there\u0026#x27;s a reason why it was coined now - it was meant to describe a particular kind of service that appeared recently. If we\u0026#x27;re going to apply it backwards to any web hosting service where the host was not explicitly managed, the term becomes much less useful.","parent":"15985870","id":"15986118"}
{"by":"ufmace","time":"1513032649","timestamp":"2017-12-11 22:50:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s strange and quite arguably hypocritical, but still correct. Millions of people pay markups for coffee and booze that are completely absurd every day. Very few people will pay a dollar or two for a app, even a well-made app that does something useful and saves them a pretty significant amount of time. There\u0026#x27;s a reason why so many are moving to ad-based or freemium revenue models in their apps.","parent":"15901024","id":"15901427"}
{"by":"richardawk1","time":"1531842509","timestamp":"2018-07-17 15:48:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just googled the COO, she is pretty big in the security community. Also was CISO at a Dutch Telecom, and they have Phil Zimmerman!\u003cp\u003eIm not worried about the budget for marketing, they seem to have managed to get themselves into a few leading publications already and the early backers will provide initial beta users + word of mouth marketing.\u003cp\u003eWhat remains to be seen is if the team can execute, I guess only time will tell. Overall good initiative though.","parent":"17548638","id":"17550492"}
{"by":"fretn","time":"1448897024","timestamp":"2015-11-30 15:23:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you were talking about reading books :)","parent":"10649541","id":"10649810"}
{"by":"nachteilig","time":"1349186528","timestamp":"2012-10-02 14:02:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It really amuses me that so few tech sites bother to mention the MacBook Air when talking about \"Ultrabooks\". It's not like one can exactly deny that Intel/PC manfcs were \"inspired\". I wonder if its genesis is part of the reason that they fail so hard when it's not Apple making them.","parent":"4601662","id":"4601982"}
{"by":"SamReidHughes","time":"1542598192","timestamp":"2018-11-19 03:29:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s called libstdc++ :-)\u003cp\u003eYou could make your own library (on top of system calls or libc). It\u0026#x27;s not going to need to be very big.  Unless you get into Unicode handling.  My second-hand impression is that glib is really really ugly.\u003cp\u003eI think your best bet is to use some of libc though. I bet you\u0026#x27;ll want to make a \u0026quot;safe\u0026quot; wrapper of snprintf that uses its format strings, with the annotation for compiler checked format string parameter types.","parent":"18479491","id":"18484035"}
{"by":"criddell","time":"1467060566","timestamp":"2016-06-27 20:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But I can fix problems with a \u0026#x27;92 Corolla. If Microsoft were to open source XP or Windows 7, perhaps the community would relieve Microsoft of the maintenance burden.","parent":"11988154","id":"11989356"}
{"by":"masterzora","time":"1324490039","timestamp":"2011-12-21 17:53:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you should read the names of posters, but I am more than happy to take the position you stated so we'll call it good.\u003cp\u003eI think what you are leaving out of your analysis is that, in this scenario, there is no \u003ci\u003ecompulsion\u003c/i\u003e to help the beggars.  Thus, if everyone actually is helping they are doing for their own reasons: that it is good, that it is right, that they want to help.  I find it hard to imagine that a significant number doing so would then take advantage of the same system in the manner that you describe.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"But\u003c/i\u003e\", you say \u003ci\u003e\"it is ridiculous to even assume that everyone is going to willfully give as such in the first place.\"\u003c/i\u003e  This much is obvious, so trying to comment on the above utopian ideal has its limits.  I am inclined to believe, however, that if everyone who actually would be willing to help beggars of their own accord to make things better did help that it is likely that this would only be done in such numbers that the beggars could be helped but not such that it would become such a lucrative market as posters have described.","parent":"3376532","id":"3378375"}
{"by":"50CNT","time":"1466499394","timestamp":"2016-06-21 08:56:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cost.\u003cp\u003eClinical IQ tests are administered by psychologists and created by publishers. Pearsons WISC-IV Basic Kit costs $1,123.40.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a bit like brand-name drugs and generics, except that the generics aren\u0026#x27;t allowed to copy the exact chemical structure of the brand name drug in a similar way that research substances copy controlled substances with minor chemical alterations, with unknown effects.\u003cp\u003eNow these free online IQ tests could create their own IQ test, but that requires both expertise in creating IQ tests, and a large normative sample (WISC used a normative sample of 2,200 children between 6 and 16).\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, creating more accurate IQ tests does nothing for their bottom line, or may even hurt it as some of these tests are biased to give you higher scores, so that you may share them on social media.\u003cp\u003eWhilst you could invest in creating an accurate IQ test to be cheaply taken online, you\u0026#x27;d have to fight the perception these less accurate tests have created that online IQ tests are about as accurate as horoscopes.\u003cp\u003eAs an interesting note, pearson does offer computer based IQ tests under their Q interactive brand, however, they are not cheap.","parent":"11944045","id":"11944449"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1373513399","timestamp":"2013-07-11 03:29:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that a \u0026quot;PC\u0026quot; is a sort of weird limbo between a focused device like a kindle or iphone and a truly general device.\u003cp\u003eThe way that I use my PC is mainly as a host for virtual machines, be they JVM or vagrant instances etc. I don\u0026#x27;t really want to have an \u0026quot;operating system\u0026quot; so much as I want a hypervisor and a windowing environment to tie everything together.\u003cp\u003eIt would be great to have a system where I can just slot in arbitrary stuff, for example: If I want to develop mobile applications I\u0026#x27;d like to be able to just pop an ARM system into my case via a PCI card or something and just have certain software execute on that.\u003cp\u003eMaybe if I want to edit video, I\u0026#x27;d like to be able to rent a bunch of high end CPUs for a weekend and just slide them in there and then take them out and return when I\u0026#x27;m done.\u003cp\u003eThis is sort of what I hoped the new Mac Pro would be, but they seemed to go in the opposite direction.","parent":"6023512","id":"6024342"}
{"by":"mrich","time":"1463119206","timestamp":"2016-05-13 06:00:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like speed often takes the backseat, especially in large big corp projects designed by committee. At the end during user testing everyone realizes the architecture is just too slow and all to often this leads to a failed project.","parent":"11686998","id":"11688876"}
{"by":"waqf","time":"1293670688","timestamp":"2010-12-30 00:58:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Happy Christmas\" is accepted in the UK, just not in the US.","parent":"2048241","id":"2050777"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1315049501","timestamp":"2011-09-03 11:31:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tell it to Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and all the other members of the CAB forum. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cabforum.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cabforum.org/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoint and laugh at them until they look up from counting their money long enough to realize that the entire value proposition of their business model is at risk.\u003cp\u003eMaybe they're ready for some change now?","parent":"2956513","id":"2957099"}
{"by":"gertef","time":"1447723009","timestamp":"2015-11-17 01:16:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article was no Doyle.","parent":"10578263","id":"10578570"}
{"by":"sanj","time":"1201400491","timestamp":"2008-01-27 02:21:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Years back, I helped run 6.270, the LEGO Robotics contest.  The winners got a very cool Lego watch.  One of them was a friend of mine.  She was more than a little bummed because the stem on her watch didn't pull out far enough to allow the time to be set.\u003cp\u003eRecalling that an adage that \"even a broken clock is right twice a day\", I suggested she remove the battery.  Then, when the current time was the same as the time on the watch, reinstall the battery.\u003cp\u003eI've never seen her so delighted!","parent":"104802","id":"104835"}
{"by":"snowwrestler","time":"1409717589","timestamp":"2014-09-03 04:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The purpose of a briefing is to inform and educate. So of course the people attending are going to be those in need of informing and educating.","parent":"8260344","id":"8261478"}
{"by":"Ilovepee","time":"1285087148","timestamp":"2010-09-21 16:39:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeh but you gota look at it from a business standpoint\nwho profits from the outsourcing? why would a website owner pay to outsource the ads to get solved in india just to get blacklisted then lose revenue that would have come in anyway for less","parent":"1709171","id":"1713206"}
{"by":"debt","time":"1485616938","timestamp":"2017-01-28 15:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I wrong but couldn\u0026#x27;t this be used to create an extremely powerful quantum supercomputer?","parent":"13505287","id":"13506652"}
{"by":"dan1234","time":"1346361082","timestamp":"2012-08-30 21:11:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“Our apps have been taken down, so there is no way to link to them unfortunately.”\u003cp\u003eAre you saying none of these apps have promotional websites?","parent":"4456741","id":"4456841"}
{"by":"d0","time":"1393158081","timestamp":"2014-02-23 12:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for posting this - your efforts are appreciated :)","parent":"7282525","id":"7285711"}
{"by":"hoodwink","time":"1468019901","timestamp":"2016-07-08 23:18:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. The brains of keto-adapted individuals can use ketones as a source of energy which are much more stable, although for a long time it was believed that brain relied on glucose.","parent":"12059200","id":"12059251"}
{"by":"trevyn","time":"1506591196","timestamp":"2017-09-28 09:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since the article goes into this, a couple things about selling into large companies:\u003cp\u003e- The amount that they will try to squeeze you and give you the runaround is highly dependent on the personalities and the resources of the \u003ci\u003eteam\u003c/i\u003e that you’re selling to; it’s not generally consistent across the entire company, unless you’re dealing with a central purchasing department (hopefully you’re not, except for processing your PO). Of course, it also depends on the amount of value that your product provides compared to their current or potential internal solutions, as well as your competitors.\u003cp\u003e- Getting paid promptly is much easier if you write your contract with milestones and require receipt of payment for a previous milestone before work on the next milestone begins. Invoice in advance so the “net 30” expires on the day you want to be paid, or demand “due upon receipt” terms.","parent":"15355068","id":"15355868"}
{"by":"_virtu","time":"1443641040","timestamp":"2015-09-30 19:24:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the reply. I was actually looking for more of an abstract solution. Tools are great and all but building processes and architecting a better way to log bugs is more important.","parent":"10305306","id":"10306413"}
{"by":"LinuxFreedom","time":"1492451960","timestamp":"2017-04-17 17:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, of course there are easy to use and much better programming languages for that - I just really wanted to read some \u0026quot;real-life\u0026quot; recommendations from that guy that mentioned \u0026quot;php\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;long-polling\u0026quot; in the same sentence.\u003cp\u003e[Maybe it was just a joke and I did not get it... or I did get it but did not identify it as a joke... however... I would like to see some beef...]","parent":"14130858","id":"14133008"}
{"by":"jjnoakes","time":"1472852036","timestamp":"2016-09-02 21:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Impossible to find? Where do you shop? Where I live, the non-antibacterial soap outnumbers the anti-bacterial soap 4:1 or more on the shelves.","parent":"12414683","id":"12416442"}
{"by":"mpercy","time":"1363129912","timestamp":"2013-03-12 23:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure where you are looking but the Parquet home page  looks mostly brown and reddish to me.","parent":"5365422","id":"5365639"}
{"by":"AlexCoventry","time":"1542568334","timestamp":"2018-11-18 19:12:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; all mobile phones must be able to call emergency services and provide their location data\u003cp\u003eI also had this impression, but on the other hand, I\u0026#x27;ve had to call 911 a couple of times, and they\u0026#x27;ve always asked me for my location, and denied that they have location data. What are the relevant statutes\u0026#x2F;regulations mandating that phones report location data?","parent":"18480448","id":"18481962"}
{"by":"eva1984","time":"1460620492","timestamp":"2016-04-14 07:54:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Java itself is, IMHO, quite straightforward.\u003cp\u003eBut setup a java toolchain, building, deploying, and a lot of other configuration if some heavy framework is involved, is non-trivial. Gradle is like a must for modern Java application, and mastering itself takes some efforts. Go, when coming to toolchain, it is pretty much battery-included, best-practice-builtin, sometimes even a little forced.\u003cp\u003eLanguage wise, Java recently has seem a more aggressive adoption of new and modern features, which is quite welcome for me personally, but it is still more LOC comparing to Go.\u003cp\u003eI think Go is the new Python for light to middle complexity web service, with fewer people. Java is more for mature stuff, for larger scale collaboration.","parent":"11494574","id":"11494974"}
{"by":"justinmolineaux","time":"1439577374","timestamp":"2015-08-14 18:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As for the process, I think Sam Altman\u0026#x27;s startup class at Stanford might be the best intro resource out there: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;startupclass.samaltman.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;startupclass.samaltman.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e. It\u0026#x27;s a lot of information, from a lot of different people, but it\u0026#x27;s fairly comprehensive, and the matter-of-fact style is extremely orienting.","parent":"10058436","id":"10061955"}
{"by":"mayoff","time":"1481999663","timestamp":"2016-12-17 18:34:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The year in the title should be 1979, not 2009. This was Ken Iverson\u0026#x27;s Turing Award lecture in 1979.","parent":"13199880","id":"13201773"}
{"by":"hvidgaard","time":"1499936820","timestamp":"2017-07-13 09:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s difficult problem to solve. If we do put it in the filesystem, we need some way for the filesystem to know how the NAND behaves. Otherwise the lowest common denominator dictates and nobody gain anything.\u003cp\u003eWith this in mind, I don\u0026#x27;t see why the disk cannot handle this in the firmware. As long as there is enough free NAND on the drive, it can manage wear level and GC just fine assuming that it gets TRIM commands.","parent":"14756633","id":"14759813"}
{"by":"kauffj","time":"1411344810","timestamp":"2014-09-22 00:13:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that animals have experienced significant weight gain is by far the best evidence the author provides to support a factor exogenous to the calories-in-calories-out model. What are the leading explanations for this phenomenon?","parent":"8348316","id":"8348763"}
{"by":"JdeBP","time":"1465645299","timestamp":"2016-06-11 11:41:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Masks would be overkill, were the designed mechanism widely available on Ubuntu 15\u0026#x2F;16.  See \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;askubuntu.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;779554\u0026#x2F;how-to-install-apt-package-without-starting-systemd-process#comment1175118_779554\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;askubuntu.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;779554\u0026#x2F;how-to-install-apt-pac...\u003c/a\u003e .","parent":"11881187","id":"11883093"}
{"by":"frantzmiccoli","time":"1472662722","timestamp":"2016-08-31 16:58:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok ;) sorry for that","parent":"12393885","id":"12399752"}
{"by":"msutherl","time":"1372730834","timestamp":"2013-07-02 02:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should definitely never rely on others to change, but you can engage in a dialogue with the public through writing and speaking, which has the potential to change others.","parent":"5970841","id":"5975308"}
{"by":"kmonsen","time":"1510905716","timestamp":"2017-11-17 08:01:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be stationary similar to supercharger","parent":"15720002","id":"15720051"}
{"by":"btown","time":"1502481926","timestamp":"2017-08-11 20:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What the brand gains at the expense of quality is MUCH more valuable: the notion that \u0026quot;if I only have time to check one website, Amazon\u0026#x27;s going to have it because Amazon has EVERYTHING.\u0026quot; Adding third-party sellers allows it to have a much larger catalog of obscure items.\u003cp\u003eAny shopper who\u0026#x27;s been burned will still use Amazon in the way you are, just being careful to filter by Prime and\u0026#x2F;or Fulfilled by Amazon. So the damage to the core brand is minimal even for rare cases like OP, who even ends his article with \u0026quot;even if it’s through an online retailer as trustworthy as Amazon.\u0026quot; Despite this experience, he\u0026#x27;ll still buy his memory cards and Whole Foods groceries over Amazon Prime.","parent":"14993504","id":"14993636"}
{"by":"azsromej","time":"1204171412","timestamp":"2008-02-28 04:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it was like repeating which floor of the parking deck you're on early in the morning only to forget come afternoon","parent":"125186","id":"125247"}
{"by":"obilgic","time":"1291613560","timestamp":"2010-12-06 05:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not right now for sure, Maybe 1 hour later..","parent":"1973915","id":"1974066"}
{"by":"matellis","time":"1303424524","timestamp":"2011-04-21 22:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Completely agree.","parent":"2472584","id":"2472607"}
{"by":"bigiain","time":"1340511424","timestamp":"2012-06-24 04:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Question: what \"monopoly power\" do you believe Craigslist has? What product or service can you _only_ buy from Craigslist? Are they the only way to find an apartment to rent? Are they the only way to advertise an apartment to rent? (Note, your answers there may be very_ different from my perceptions of the answers to those questions - for me locally here in Sydney Australia, Craigslist _exists_, but isn't even close to a bit-player in real-estate/aparement-rental, never mind a major player - and it'd be _laughable_ to accuse them of \"monopoly\")\u003cp\u003e\"Fuck Craigslist. Seriously.\"\u003cp\u003eBecause they \"cost\" you \"several hours\" everytime you choose to use them to look for an apartment? Which is what - twice a year maybe? And this cost to you is somehow greater then the newspaper classifieds market they disrupted? Without some more backstory - I can't help but think you're _seriously_ over-reacting…","parent":"4152415","id":"4152581"}
{"by":"ivl","time":"1493652254","timestamp":"2017-05-01 15:24:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There have been a multitude of generational shifts over the years.  If you think that thinking it is happening (again) and that being hopeful that people move on is a bad thing, I\u0026#x27;m sure you think of the shift away from subsistence farming was just as awful.","parent":"14238110","id":"14238247"}
{"by":"Chaebixi","time":"1502403631","timestamp":"2017-08-10 22:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m skeptical \u0026quot;the active MetaFilter community\u0026quot; is actually representative of \u0026quot;the MetaFilter community.\u0026quot;  It seems like is just the fraction who likes or at least tolerates the way it is now.","parent":"14984421","id":"14984891"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1479838794","timestamp":"2016-11-22 18:19:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve done a crappy implementation for my blog to fight spammy comments. It works OK, probably more because it\u0026#x27;s a totally custom thing that isn\u0026#x27;t worth time for spammers to fight, rather than because it\u0026#x27;s actually effective.\u003cp\u003eThe way I did it is:\u003cp\u003e- When the user focuses in a comment field, the page makes a request to the server asking for initial parameters.\u003cp\u003e- The server returns the number of leading zeroes required, the number of distinct hashes it needs, and a salt to use. (This is just a constant in my code right now, but could be varied based on client specifics.)\u003cp\u003e- The page then crunches on the work as the user types their comment. The submit button is disabled until it\u0026#x27;s complete.\u003cp\u003e- The proof of work is submitted to the server along with the comment. The server then checks to see if it\u0026#x27;s good and accepts or rejects. A properly working client should never be rejected (since it fetches the required parameters in advance) so the rejection doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be too fancy.\u003cp\u003e- Replays are prevented by storing the salts in a database, and deleting them once they\u0026#x27;re used for a comment.\u003cp\u003eI changed the standard hashcash technique a bit by requiring the client to submit multiple distinct hashes. Requiring only one hash works fine, but results in a lot of variance in how long it takes to compute the proof of work. You might tune it for an average of 30 seconds, but a decent percentage of clients will get it in 1 second, or will take 60 seconds. By, for example, requiring 7 fewer leading zeroes but requiring 128 distinct hashes, you get the same average but with a lot less variance. You can also display a semi-accurate progress indicator this way. The downside, of course, is that you have to send more data and the server has to do some extra work to verify.","parent":"13015998","id":"13016144"}
{"by":"goeric","time":"1495480659","timestamp":"2017-05-22 19:17:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty insane that the semi-famous \u0026quot;Bitcoin Pizza\u0026quot; would now valued at ~$22M.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;ericmack\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;23\u0026#x2F;the-bitcoin-pizza-purchase-thats-worth-7-million-today\u0026#x2F;#4625425f2509\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;ericmack\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;23\u0026#x2F;the-bitcoin...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14395962","id":"14396177"}
{"by":"jklinger410","time":"1541111653","timestamp":"2018-11-01 22:34:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Analytics javascript can assign you an Unique Identifier string that can be passed along in a form where you fill out your phone number. They then tie your \u0026quot;session\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;user\u0026quot; (depending on how they have it set up) to a cookie they have placed on your machine.\u003cp\u003eThey then leverage a partnership with a large ad network, to see where they found that cookie, as well as other cookies, from other sites in their network. They then correlate where they have seen essentially your user footprint (collection of cookies and other identifiers from your machine) stored throughout their network, to put you in some kind of demographic or intent-based bucket.\u003cp\u003eWhen you include data from mobile apps that are tracking your location, this can get very scary. There is a small leap required in tying a mobile ID (your phone\u0026#x27;s unique identifier) to web traffic, but it happens. Obviously all depending on the level of data you \u0026quot;share.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThey then run every user in these buckets through a machine learning algo, that tries to predict things. Income, gender, spending habits, life events, etc. They can determine where you live easily, zip codes, compare that to census data, etc. It\u0026#x27;s all a part of predictive modeling.\u003cp\u003eThat is the tracking portion.\u003cp\u003eThe other portion is just tying a simple customer service rating to your phone number.\u003cp\u003eSo imagine you piss of several customer service reps, live in a low income part of town, and rarely spend money. You  might be on hold for quite some time...","parent":"18358957","id":"18359075"}
{"by":"FreakLegion","time":"1332999713","timestamp":"2012-03-29 05:41:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. \u003ci\u003eHowever\u003c/i\u003e, there is no definitive evidence that these threat actors are state sponsored, so the fact they're \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c/i\u003e China doesn't mean that they \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e China, technically. But the circumstantial evidence is convincing.\u003cp\u003eContrary to what samstave said, Chinese APT aren't particularly sophisticated. They do leave a lot of footprints behind, although for obvious reasons that data is generally not made public.","parent":"3769155","id":"3769795"}
{"by":"M2Ys4U","time":"1430286771","timestamp":"2015-04-29 05:52:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Are you willing to pay increased taxes, so [...] that they can get emergency orders out for civil defence ?\u003cp\u003eUnquestionably, yes.","parent":"9454856","id":"9456655"}
{"by":"sciurus","time":"1404922882","timestamp":"2014-07-09 16:21:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a good debate about this on the devops-toolchain mailing list.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://groups.google.com/d/topic/devops-toolchain/UZzAcEL7Kpw/discussion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;groups.google.com\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;topic\u0026#x2F;devops-toolchain\u0026#x2F;UZzAcEL7K...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8010247","id":"8010462"}
{"by":"marquis","time":"1351015119","timestamp":"2012-10-23 17:58:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;I do not have any source to back all that, just my personal view\u003cp\u003eYour view is welcome but please take care with comments such as 'women in general take less risk than men'. The second statement you make may be a fact but your first statement comes across as a cause for this fact, and there is no data that suggests this. My personal experience, as a woman, would be quite the opposite: women make more risks than men. Would that because of my gender bias and who I spend time with talking about such things as risk, on a deep enough level to for to consider it substantial? Quite probably, which is why I would never make such a statement to back up a fact.","parent":"4684555","id":"4689280"}
{"by":"brownbat","time":"1449192197","timestamp":"2015-12-04 01:23:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Two hunches:\u003cp\u003e1) Expertise may cause certain types of bias.\u003cp\u003eRecent studies have examined this idea of \u0026quot;earned dogmatism\u0026quot;: the idea that once you gain expertise in something, your ego builds, and that actually makes you less open minded and less able to revise or challenge your existing beliefs.[0]\u003cp\u003e2) Overcoming bias is different than overcoming ignorance. Categorically different, and perhaps massively harder.\u003cp\u003eA different study found expert philosophers exhibiting cognitive biases at the same rate as nonprofessionals, even when dealing with undergraduate-level philosophy problems.[1]\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;pii\u0026#x2F;S0022103115001006\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;pii\u0026#x2F;S0022103115...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cushmanlab.fas.harvard.edu\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;schwitzgebel\u0026amp;cushman_2012.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cushmanlab.fas.harvard.edu\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;schwitzgebel\u0026amp;cushman_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10673345","id":"10674026"}
{"by":"bufordsharkley","time":"1461170644","timestamp":"2016-04-20 16:44:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are these assets? Surely not most capital, which depreciates rapidly.\u003cp\u003eThe only assets that would apply would be:\u003cp\u003e* Intellectual property (patents and copyrights). This would be a problem, but only to an extent-- there isn\u0026#x27;t such an inelastic demand on the return of IP as there is on housing stock.\n* Picassos, etc. This, while true, isn\u0026#x27;t especially relevant.\u003cp\u003eIs there something you\u0026#x27;re getting at that I\u0026#x27;m missing here?","parent":"11535499","id":"11535688"}
{"by":"joepie91_","time":"1461619947","timestamp":"2016-04-25 21:32:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that it\u0026#x27;s opt-out rather than opt-in... yeah, well. I don\u0026#x27;t think I need to finish that sentence.","parent":"11567040","id":"11567542"}
{"by":"jrs235","time":"1364235388","timestamp":"2013-03-25 18:16:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was going to email you but you don't have contact info in your profile.\u003cp\u003eSmall tip: Please change the link that the logo on that top of your blog goes to. The self reference to blog.hwatermarquee.com is silly and pointless. Change it to www.watermarquee.com so folks can easily get from your blog to your actual site (without having to click the \"give it a try\" link... which scares me because I assume it's going to dump me off at a form to signup rather than the site for more info.)","parent":"5436553","id":"5438623"}
{"by":"jdietrich","time":"1502728169","timestamp":"2017-08-14 16:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You probably want Bias FX. It\u0026#x27;s designed specifically for guitar processing and is very easy to use. The standard version costs $79 and there\u0026#x27;s a 30 day free trial.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.positivegrid.com\u0026#x2F;bias-fx\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.positivegrid.com\u0026#x2F;bias-fx\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15009036","id":"15009937"}
{"by":"sahat","time":"1354742315","timestamp":"2012-12-05 21:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you hide the top toolbar completely? (\u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/rhZQZ.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.imgur.com/rhZQZ.png\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"4877980","id":"4878649"}
{"by":"Zancarius","time":"1328035166","timestamp":"2012-01-31 18:39:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. I know of at least two other people with that condition who were missing a number of adult teeth that never came in. Though, I think their example is somewhat more extreme (and according to Wikipedia, I guess it would be classified as oligodontia), because at least one of them required extensive dental surgery for implants since they quite literally lacked 6+ (maybe more?) teeth.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; (On a tangent, there's a great article [1] about how bulldogs have been bread to have massive jaws and a very short face and that results in all kinds of breathing difficulties.)\u003cp\u003eI bet that applies to persian cats, too, since they're bred with extensively concave faces (something that seems cruel, IMO).\u003cp\u003eVery interesting reply--thanks for sharing that, because I had completely forgotten that one of my friends has a similar condition. Can't believe I completely forgot he had implantation done, too...","parent":"3534011","id":"3534556"}
{"by":"scarlac","time":"1505302445","timestamp":"2017-09-13 11:34:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why I\u0026#x27;m getting down voted. Here\u0026#x27;s a link to the marketing material where a dark-skinned guy is wearing a hat, scarf, and grows a beard: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.apple.com\u0026#x2F;iphone-x\u0026#x2F;#face-id\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.apple.com\u0026#x2F;iphone-x\u0026#x2F;#face-id\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15231221","id":"15237259"}
{"by":"weego","time":"1536226549","timestamp":"2018-09-06 09:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anecdotally as a mostly full time scala dev, swift has been the easiest \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m bored this weekend I\u0026#x27;ll pick up a new language for side projects\u0026quot; I can remember.","parent":"17923936","id":"17924968"}
{"by":"georgehotelling","time":"1436992379","timestamp":"2015-07-15 20:32:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A, B and D would be affecting on-site developers just as much as the remotes, but C (communication) is the thing that requires unique abilities for a remote worker.\u003cp\u003eIf either the worker or the company is not good at communicating, that will cause serious problems. Poor communication from the managers can easily cause poor motivation and execution problems from the workers. If a worker is not communicating blocks or reaching out for the help they need, that can also lead to those problems.","parent":"9891699","id":"9893883"}
{"by":"brianlash","time":"1226535010","timestamp":"2008-11-13 00:10:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see what you're saying. As a different way of looking at it, I've always considered that Desire for Meat (bread/poultry) = Biological, Desire for Hostess Cupcakes = Psychological. And while you shouldn't fudge with the former, the latter can be manipulated with things like this \"target fixation.\" Least that's been my experience, and I was a chubby teen.\u003cp\u003eIt's all very unscientific, and you may be right. But I have this feeling there's room for a distinction between biological/psychological food needs and the ways we cope with each.","parent":"362319","id":"362512"}
{"by":"jasonlbaptiste","time":"1273681154","timestamp":"2010-05-12 16:19:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the content has \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e logical thought to it, but the title just makes me want to \"this is sparta\" kick my screen across the room.\u003cp\u003e1)  google apps has great adoption and im personally all for web apps.  iwork ipad edition might match gapps in revenue actually.  it's about all the cloud apps, not JUST google's.\u003cp\u003e2) ebooks? okay, so what.  that's like saying, oh it has an mp3 player or music store attached.\u003cp\u003e3) The large ipod touch thing doesn't work.  tablets are tablets.  if you say the ipad is a souped up ipod touch, then an anroid tablet is a souped up nexus one. oh, and ipad is getting more \"computer\" like processes with os4 ie- multitasking.\u003cp\u003e4) Actually the iPad can be used with any carrier (that's gsm sim i believe), no contracts.   People have already hacked other carriers to go on it.  its just the low profile sim card.  scissors+normal sim = low profile sim.\u003cp\u003e5) the ups guy doesnt actually pick the technology.  g maps and g calendar is available on the ipad as well.  odds are ups would use a custom app.  in that case, g maps is available as well via the api.\u003cp\u003eSeriously, i refuted this entire article in about 5 minutes while taking a shit because i was bored.  I'm sure inc took a ton of time on this article (dont ask how) and paid good money.  Google can certainly produce an ipad competitor(s), but this article isn't showing how.","parent":"1341213","id":"1341346"}
{"by":"fhood","time":"1506349829","timestamp":"2017-09-25 14:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Candy crush showed up in my windows menu every day for a while.","parent":"15330297","id":"15330777"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1313082439","timestamp":"2011-08-11 17:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought this post from Nilay Patel today was a much better summation of a similar argument:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso more substantial and less nieve (ie. not from somebody who listened to the TIL episode, read wikipedia for 15 minutes, and then decided to write a blog post)","parent":"2873602","id":"2873762"}
{"by":"abra_kadabra","time":"1505239488","timestamp":"2017-09-12 18:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That makes sense to me.  Are you planning on doing any Google advertising or Facebook advertising? I ask because I\u0026#x27;m hoping to launch my own SAAS in the next month, and am trying to figure out what works for connecting to the developer community.","parent":"15229427","id":"15229702"}
{"by":"skolos","time":"1222112197","timestamp":"2008-09-22 19:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think anyone argues or don't understand this concept. The problem is: instead of answering the question: \"How do I create executable?\" people got lectured on why they shouldn't do that. I think it is much more productive for everyone just to give an answer and then, once you get the usual follow up question quickly explain why executable is big. This way lisp community might get more users.\u003cp\u003eBut as it stands now all we hear is complaints that lisp community is bunch of jerks - the answers people get for this simple question is one of the reason why people think that the lisp community is not friendly.","parent":"311524","id":"311538"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1538752681","timestamp":"2018-10-05 15:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s an example: I wanted to have decent hashing performance in JavaScript (large file uploads protected against bitrot). There are a hodgepodge of different JavaScript libraries with inconsistent algorithm support and performance characteristics; SubtleCrypto is becoming more standard but has limited algorithm support and doesn\u0026#x27;t support efficient operations on large inputs.\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;acdha\u0026#x2F;wasm-hashing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;acdha\u0026#x2F;wasm-hashing\u003c/a\u003e I was able to use the high-quality Rust hashing system to support all of the different algorithms I needed with a consistent interface and performance was actually competitive with or better than the browsers\u0026#x27; native SubtleCrypto implementation.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a really nice capability to have in your back pocket, especially since it comes with Rust\u0026#x27;s usual assistance for code-quality.","parent":"18147244","id":"18148795"}
{"by":"Jun8","time":"1325743082","timestamp":"2012-01-05 05:58:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a weird piece, I didn't quite understand what he is riling against. One place where I would like to clear the distinction is:\u003cp\u003e\"we have come close to this with the notion of “universal service” — the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available even in the most remote regions of the country. When we accept this idea, we are edging into the idea of Internet access as a civil right\"\u003cp\u003eLet's not confuse access to Internet (which is described here) and \u003ci\u003efree\u003c/i\u003e access to it. You can have free service to all houses in the US but if the likes of SOPA are implemented, I think most people agree that some rights are being trampled on. Otherwise, why oppose SOPA at all, or why find the Chinese Firewall objectionable? To put Cerf's analogy on better ground, it's as if you have phone service but can only call some numbers.","parent":"3427380","id":"3427625"}
{"by":"bdonlan","time":"1311868438","timestamp":"2011-07-28 15:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That support is not a required part of the EFI spec. It's possible to emulate it anyway, but quite complex: \u003ca href=\"http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2817352","id":"2817388"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1384051573","timestamp":"2013-11-10 02:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been doing this for years and don\u0026#x27;t feel the least bit bad about it, and I think everyone should adopt this practice.\u003cp\u003eIf marking as spam or unsubscribing are approximately equal effort, I will unsubscribe; if unsubscribing is even slightly more difficult than marking as spam, I mark as spam with no regrets.  Even if you don\u0026#x27;t force me to login but make me do some monkey trick like type \u0026quot;CANCEL\u0026quot; into a box =\u0026gt; spam!  One click is the only acceptable method, and don\u0026#x27;t hide the link in a bunch of small print legalese, because I\u0026#x27;m not going to expend much effort looking for it while the nice, inviting \u0026quot;Mark as Spam\u0026quot; button is just sitting there waiting for me to click it.","parent":"6704198","id":"6704900"}
{"by":"mseebach","time":"1279794941","timestamp":"2010-07-22 10:35:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as the script-file lives at / there's no problem..","parent":"1537732","id":"1537816"}
{"by":"jlgreco","time":"1379962006","timestamp":"2013-09-23 18:46:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With twitch-based games you\u0026#x27;ll have to convince twitch-based game players of that.  These are people that look up latency specs on \u003ci\u003ewireless keyboards\u003c/i\u003e because they think that makes a difference.","parent":"6432539","id":"6433280"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1359010281","timestamp":"2013-01-24 06:51:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eboth Perl and Python use PCRE\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, Perl doesn't.\u003cp\u003ePCRE was written because a lot of people liked some of the ideas that were first introduced in Perl's regular expression engine.  But PCRE was a reimplementation, and never was all that compatible with what Perl was doing.","parent":"5107491","id":"5108042"}
{"by":"WalterSear","time":"1473369761","timestamp":"2016-09-08 21:22:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;At this point, isn\u0026#x27;t it generally accepted that all tech interviewing sucks, and companies would do better throwing darts at resumes?\u003cp\u003eExcept I\u0026#x27;ve had good interview experiences. So, no, there are better and worse kinds of interviews. Just because it is an overwhelmingly neglected aspect of the industry is neither here nor there.","parent":"12457055","id":"12457465"}
{"by":"karlunho","time":"1484707380","timestamp":"2017-01-18 02:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is bigger market forces that isn\u0026#x27;t being considered here - namely that the entire database as a service margins have been nearly driving down to zero by AWS. Why do you think firebase had to sellout to Google ? Why did Parse shut down ? Simply because the big cloud vendors figured out that providing paas services at nearly the cost of the infrastructure will win them even more compute workloads which is the real money maker (especially if your are reducing your computer pricing slower than Moore\u0026#x27;s law)","parent":"13421608","id":"13423561"}
{"by":"LeoPanthera","time":"1471574047","timestamp":"2016-08-19 02:34:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used to work in IT at a place where FITS was the standard image format. Made me want to tear my hair out daily.\u003cp\u003eImageMagick supports FITS, and will happily convert it to PNG or some other rational format. (It will make FITS files too, if you\u0026#x27;re feeling masochistic.)","parent":"12317531","id":"12317627"}
{"by":"Markoff","time":"1501784400","timestamp":"2017-08-03 18:20:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK, never heard about this, prepaid cards from my and other neighboring countries works in roaming same as postpaid plans.","parent":"14892218","id":"14922216"}
{"by":"danschumann","time":"1520002015","timestamp":"2018-03-02 14:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why we\u0026#x27;re in huge student loan crisis, and why we just left the housing crisis.  SNAKES!","parent":"16501528","id":"16501714"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1443813943","timestamp":"2015-10-02 19:25:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can second this. Qlikview is pretty awesome.\u003cp\u003eExcept when it crashes and loses 5 hours of work, even though I was saving diligently.","parent":"10320613","id":"10320669"}
{"by":"unhammer","time":"1525633495","timestamp":"2018-05-06 19:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All these workarounds sound like a reason to use start using tramp more (apropos, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=dljNabciEGg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=dljNabciEGg\u003c/a\u003e \u0026#x2F; \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.howardism.org\u0026#x2F;Technical\u0026#x2F;Emacs\u0026#x2F;literate-devops.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.howardism.org\u0026#x2F;Technical\u0026#x2F;Emacs\u0026#x2F;literate-devops.htm...\u003c/a\u003e is a pretty neat demo of combining org-babel and tramp).\u003cp\u003e-----\u003cp\u003eThere is also emamux, which seems to be able to copy from tmux: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;syohex\u0026#x2F;emacs-emamux\u0026#x2F;#emamuxyank-from-list-buffers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;syohex\u0026#x2F;emacs-emamux\u0026#x2F;#emamuxyank-from-list...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17002527","id":"17007811"}
{"by":"vibrio","time":"1473454472","timestamp":"2016-09-09 20:54:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Today I learned that my dog is doing her part to improve National Security.","parent":"12465535","id":"12465968"}
{"by":"progrock","time":"1368599649","timestamp":"2013-05-15 06:34:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been championing the same issues, or rather bemoaning them on HN repeatedly.\u003cp\u003eI never see much innovation with the actual browser UIs.  The rendering engines get plenty of love, while something like the UI for Firefox has barely changed at all.\u003cp\u003eI used to have an aging powerpc, and Firefox would bring it to it's knees.  But I think I was abusing it.   Firebug, Flash, JS and too many tabs were the main culprits.  And I have sinced tried to change my habits.\u003cp\u003eI think tabs are heavily used and abused!  I personally believe that they are so popular because the bookmark UIs are so sucky.  Most tabs could be replaced by a bookmark.\u003cp\u003eTabs bring other problems,  resizing the browser window in one tab, effects all the others.  Tabs have inconsistant behaviour between different applications.   Windows should be left to a window manager IMHO.\u003cp\u003eNow I try and keep my tabs to a minimum.  Two or three.   Any page I think I might want to read later I once bookmarked (to one day sort through...), but now I send to readability to read later at my leisure.\u003cp\u003eMy main browser I have configured to make reading on it more pleasurable.  I've throw away the page author's styles, and instead opt to use my own font, font size and colour scheme.  I block adverts.  And block flash.  Layouts can suffer, but if I have to, I resort to using another browser.  I did have JS turned off completely, but I am finding that increasingly difficult.\u003cp\u003eIn terms of design trends - responsive web pages are quite welcome in my world.  I think people will soon hunger for simpler pages and simpler sites.  Something that's far easier to use.   And I welcome the day that I can actually surf web pages comfortably on my TV when sitting on my arse.\u003cp\u003eSome sites are still very difficult to use, and the browser UIs could really lend a hand here.","parent":"5709132","id":"5710522"}
{"by":"ramanujan","time":"1312185080","timestamp":"2011-08-01 07:51:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, Vivek Wadhwa is being highly misleading here. He publishes a variant of this same article over and over and over again in every forum available to him (see his old TechCrunch posts, for example).\u003cp\u003eThe key is really the misleading definitions at the beginning. He includes what we'd call lifestyle businesses as startups. Is a new carpet cleaner a startup?\u003cp\u003ePublish the raw data, Vivek, with the actual names of the businesses, their founders, their market caps, their sectors, and their revenue growths in a single publicly accessible, read-only Google Spreadsheet.\u003cp\u003eBecause my feeling is that the actual businesses selected will differ strongly from the kinds of operations peoe on Hacker News are concerned with: Google, Facebook, Adobe, LinkedIn, Apple, Twitter etcetera, and the kinds of companies they acquire.\u003cp\u003e---\u003cp\u003eEdit: here's the original study\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1431263\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1431263\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote that this is a survey of 549 respondents across twelve industries. First, that is a relatively small sample to slice and dice on multiple axes simultaneously, though you can compare each attribute to the population at large.\u003cp\u003eMore importantly though it is not a \u003ci\u003erank ordered survey\u003c/i\u003e within those industries. For example, identify the top N most profitable companies started in the last T years in the hardware sector, for different values of N and T. Who are their founders? What are their characteristics? They are going to look more like Jen Hsung Huang of Nvidia, another Stanford grad school product, than the demographic profile Wadhwa presents.","parent":"2830193","id":"2831195"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1374042027","timestamp":"2013-07-17 06:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Subcontracting your monopoly is still a monopoly.","parent":"6056342","id":"6056365"}
{"by":"knowaveragejoe","time":"1350482461","timestamp":"2012-10-17 14:01:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amusing easter eggs throughout. One guy has rick roll videos playing on both his computers.","parent":"4664162","id":"4664438"}
{"by":"muraiki","time":"1483733516","timestamp":"2017-01-06 20:11:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are really considering this, I recommend that you first see if you can volunteer a bit at a local bakery. I also was considering a career change to becoming a baker. I knew someone who worked at a fairly large yet still artisan bakery (their brick oven was built by some specialists who came from France). He let me come work for a day to see what it\u0026#x27;s like. I quickly realized that as much as I love bread, I\u0026#x27;d get bored doing relatively the same thing every day. I think that it\u0026#x27;s also a life where you can\u0026#x27;t easily take time off, which depending on your current situation in tech may not be much of a difference. :)","parent":"13338059","id":"13339772"}
{"by":"jvm","time":"1409108400","timestamp":"2014-08-27 03:00:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But you do carry a balance to receive funds, until you cash out. With Square you receive funds directly into your bank account via your debit card.","parent":"8230268","id":"8230687"}
{"by":"petewarden","time":"1275326950","timestamp":"2010-05-31 17:29:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've reluctantly come to a similar conclusion. I moved to California from the UK in 2001 thinking that the anti-smoking laws in bars, etc were oppressive 'nanny-state' measures. I was finally able to give up smoking though, and it really helped that it was socially unacceptable to light up a cigarette in most situations. It also helped that I left behind my smoking friends and hung out with people who didn't smoke, so it wasn't just the laws, but it made me reconsider my previous position on paternalistic regulations.","parent":"1392878","id":"1392992"}
{"by":"avar","time":"1283336271","timestamp":"2010-09-01 10:17:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just curious, how don't they match your workflow, and what about Git's power features gets in your way? You can just not use things like interactive rebase if you don't want.","parent":"1650642","id":"1652347"}
{"by":"gricardo99","time":"1468873776","timestamp":"2016-07-18 20:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Once a card has been used, it can\u0026#x27;t be used again for 18 minutes\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure what you mean. I\u0026#x27;ve used mine twice in quick succession to pay for a friend.","parent":"12117699","id":"12117881"}
{"by":"uvince","time":"1486693259","timestamp":"2017-02-10 02:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rule when I was at Yahoo! \u0026quot;not on company time, not on company equipment\u0026quot; but you also may want to check that inventions agreement you signed when you started employment. Those tend to be pretty all-encompassing.","parent":"13612791","id":"13612803"}
{"by":"windexh8er","time":"1328036211","timestamp":"2012-01-31 18:56:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While that was generally true it's generally not the case anymore.  This isn't a knock on older dentists but the fact is - you're good at what you practice.  Younger dentists (and better/more progressive dentists) do composites without the downside you're sharing.  If a composite is structured correctly it should last over 10 years I've been told.  Sure, an amalgam may last your lifetime, but I for one will never allow mercury to be in my mouth long term.  Mercury changes significantly to insignificant amounts of heat (i.e. thermometer) -  and while the ADA will tell you it's \"sealed\" it's considered a toxic substance, which has been disputed by many researchers.  This is why amalgam is banned in most developed countries.\u003cp\u003eI asked about the failing of a composite as you've described and was told that what you stated is not true.  Any filing can fail and leak as described, this is generally a result of bad dentistry or trauma to the filing that impacted it's seating and is why you have annual X-rays done.  ANY filing can fail regardless of compound leading to shadowing as described.\u003cp\u003eSo you have a choice.  Mercury or safer materials that, when used properly, are a safer / healthier alternative.\u003cp\u003eIn closing - keep in mind one thing: not every doctor is as skilled or cognizant as the next.  They're humans as well and there are fantastic doctors and there are greedy and poor skilled doctors.  The fact is you should understand your doctor's core competency and skills as best you can.  Unfortunately most doctors know who the bad doctors are in regions, but the status quo is to not throw any other doctor under the bus.  The consumer loses because it's hard to get at that information.  If in doubt, get a second opinion - if there's a big derivation in prognosis, get a third.  It's your health at stake.","parent":"3532336","id":"3534639"}
{"by":"foobarqux","time":"1388522750","timestamp":"2013-12-31 20:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t the right problem to be fixing: The right problem is a distributed data store.","parent":"6990354","id":"6992738"}
{"by":"Elhana","time":"1504387159","timestamp":"2017-09-02 21:19:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m already on ESR, but my reason is I need java plugin for my company OEBS (it supports web start, but it takes ages for our admins to patch anything).\nAt the same time, keeping legacy plugins working is a big bonus, I love Classic theme restorer.\u003cp\u003eStill undecided what to do after june 2018. I guess I\u0026#x27;ll just try firefox and chrome side by side and move to chrome if there is no real difference. It is probably more convinient to migrate to chrome, since it is on the phone by default too.","parent":"15157982","id":"15158265"}
{"by":"deong","time":"1491243163","timestamp":"2017-04-03 18:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think what you\u0026#x27;re describing is a need that\u0026#x27;s filled pretty well today by a master\u0026#x27;s degree.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think the PhD is so much archaic as just overused. It is intended to signify that a person has demonstrated that they can contribute significant new knowledge to a field of study, and incidentally, that they can teach (graduate) university courses. Society probably needs far less of both those traits than it can supply people who want to do them.","parent":"14025037","id":"14025467"}
{"by":"apurvadave","time":"1484632283","timestamp":"2017-01-17 05:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never knew of houdini\u0026#x27;s relationships to patents. Seems like an interesting case where they don\u0026#x27;t really protect your work.","parent":"13415450","id":"13415473"}
{"by":"jnoller","time":"1376412144","timestamp":"2013-08-13 16:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We wanted to do a quick introduction to Go ideas so that those of us \u0026quot;not in the know\u0026quot; would know the why, what and additional context.","parent":"6206722","id":"6206759"}
{"by":"jjcm","time":"1285977368","timestamp":"2010-10-01 23:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wasn't. It seems that the image compression algorithm that GIMP uses for JPG just has a higher tendency to band at lower levels of quality. I just retried it to make sure that there weren't any mistakes, then attempted to make it look better using the advanced options to no avail. You're welcome to try it out though, the lossless images are here: \u003ca href=\"http://jjcm.org:8081/webp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://jjcm.org:8081/webp\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm in the process of updating the images on the original blog post (I'm the author) using photoshop's jpg compression algorithm, and it should change the results a bit.","parent":"1748526","id":"1749234"}
{"by":"pzone","time":"1449970504","timestamp":"2015-12-13 01:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It needs no coordination, that\u0026#x27;s why futures markets exist. We get estimates of future prices of these products.  If the future prices make storage attractive, speculators can purchase syrup to store for sale in the future, each based on their individual assessment of the prices and risks involved.","parent":"10723145","id":"10725031"}
{"by":"cf498","time":"1540687168","timestamp":"2018-10-28 00:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wiktionary.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;percussive_maintenance\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wiktionary.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;percussive_maintenance\u003c/a\u003e ftw\u003cp\u003eedit: I have to add, i just found out about the extent of the definition.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;make a malfunctioning device or person work.","parent":"18318175","id":"18318509"}
{"by":"piotrkubisa","time":"1506669013","timestamp":"2017-09-29 07:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is system-wide configuration, so also you block ads in apps.","parent":"15357444","id":"15363367"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1399136308","timestamp":"2014-05-03 16:58:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Battery technology is fundamentally limited by chemistry.\u003cp\u003eThe best available battery techs (generally metal-air designs which consume the anode) offer about 1\u0026#x2F;10 the energy storage density of liquid hydrocarbon fuels.  The best of these, lithium-air, offers a \u003ci\u003etheoretical maximum\u003c/i\u003e of 11140 wH\u0026#x2F;kg (40 MJ\u0026#x2F;kg), excluding oxygen weight, which is actually close to that of gasoline, diesel, or fuel-oil (~46 MJ\u0026#x2F;kg).\u003cp\u003eBut at practically attainable levels for rechargeable designs, you\u0026#x27;re down to 9 MJ\u0026#x2F;kg, and on a gross energy-density basis, while  sufficient for some uses, including a fair number of ground-transport uses, but with some significant operational and technical constraints imposed by the battery\u0026#x27;s own operation.  You also have the further disadvantage of having to carry around the full weight of the battery even when its energy content has been exhausted (fuels by comparison are burned off).\u003cp\u003eFor other uses, particularly large bulk-good transport (ground or sea), or practical heavier-than-air craft, it\u0026#x27;s simply not good enough.\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s the best possible designs.  For more viable designs -- LiON or even hypothetical graphene \u0026#x2F; carbon nanotube batteries, you\u0026#x27;re looking at vastly lower storage densities -- 0.36–0.875 MJ\u0026#x2F;kg for LiON.\u003cp\u003eThe prospect of synthesizing hydrocarbons using electrical energy from renewable or sustainable sources strikes me as a highly probable future path, though I\u0026#x27;m partial to the US Navy\u0026#x27;s fuel-from-seawater proposals, given the much higher (140x) concentrations of CO2 available in dissolved and bound (carbonate, bicarbonate) form.  For more:  \u003ca href=\"http://redd.it/22k71x\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;redd.it\u0026#x2F;22k71x\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor discussion of energy storage see generally Wikipedia:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%E2%80%93air_electrochemical_cell\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Metal%E2%80%93air_electrochemi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Energy_density\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7688530","id":"7691432"}
{"by":"silon5","time":"1431408391","timestamp":"2015-05-12 05:26:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because they are enums done right. Enums in C and many other languages are often just a helpers to define integer constants (or abused in this way) and can be evil.","parent":"9528084","id":"9529739"}
{"by":"wott","time":"1476888908","timestamp":"2016-10-19 14:55:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I checked a bit for the newspapers.\u003cp\u003eNone of the English newspapers I checked does it.\u003cp\u003eIn the USA, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, do it; but USA Today, LA Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune don\u0026#x27;t. Washington Post apparently does or did both.\u003cp\u003eNone of the Australian newspapers I checked does it (and at first sight, most of them seem to fall in the following category...).\u003cp\u003eTabloids either use one foot high full capital titles, or don\u0026#x27;t capitalise.\u003cp\u003eNot any French, Spanish, German use this capitalisation style either. Of course Germans do capitalise nouns, as they do in regular text.\u003cp\u003eSo, it seems to be an American-only thing, and not even widespread there (for newspaper titles).","parent":"12743292","id":"12744326"}
{"by":"icelancer","time":"1508359856","timestamp":"2017-10-18 20:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;But have you thought about why you feel this way?\u003cp\u003eYes. I don\u0026#x27;t want to increase my attractiveness regarding a house robbery, as I live well below my means in a developing neighborhood, amongst other reasons.\u003cp\u003eI very much understand the concept of leverage and have no problems privately discussing my salary amongst groups that I trust. That doesn\u0026#x27;t include the entire Internet.","parent":"15502890","id":"15502923"}
{"by":"lrm242","time":"1415369808","timestamp":"2014-11-07 14:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"autossh + ssh -C + tail -F ?\u003cp\u003ekafka sounds like an enormous overkill. If you want to store the logs locally while tailing, just add in a tee.","parent":"8572054","id":"8572541"}
{"by":"va_coder","time":"1267456865","timestamp":"2010-03-01 15:21:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently had a physical therapist look at my 6 month old daughter at G'town hospital in DC for a routine checkup.  Before I could see the therapist for a half-hour session I had to interact with 4 different people and sign so much paperwork that I felt like I was buying a house.\u003cp\u003eThe system is broken.","parent":"1158831","id":"1158847"}
{"by":"stanleydrew","time":"1359405248","timestamp":"2013-01-28 20:34:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No it doesn't. It sells ad space next to content on valuable internet properties. Google Search and YouTube being the two big ones.\u003cp\u003ePlease everyone, stop sensationalizing this. Google doesn't \"sell users\" or \"sell your privacy\" any more than, e.g., NBC, which sells ads alongside its content.","parent":"5130395","id":"5130478"}
{"by":"flavio81","time":"1496417953","timestamp":"2017-06-02 15:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, but moreover: You can also do nice OOP with C. \nTake a look, for example, to COS (C Object System) which implements OOP on top of your C compiler. The object system itself is inspired by CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) and Objective-C (in turn inspired by Smalltalk). It also allows \u0026#x27;automatic\u0026#x27; allocation by reference counting.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;CObjectSystem\u0026#x2F;COS\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;CObjectSystem\u0026#x2F;COS\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaper:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;abs\u0026#x2F;1003.2547\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;abs\u0026#x2F;1003.2547\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14470594","id":"14470687"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1372965034","timestamp":"2013-07-04 19:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As far as I know the only thing that works this way in the UK - there is as scheme where you can get a bicycle tax free and paid by deductions from your salary:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cyclescheme.co.uk/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cyclescheme.co.uk\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5992007","id":"5992040"}
{"by":"antirez","time":"1414593208","timestamp":"2014-10-29 14:33:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you read the post? \u0026quot;the 99% percentile is bad\u0026quot; is something I never wrote, it was part of a larger sentence where it was obvious it meant if the 99th percentile figure is too big.\u003cp\u003eAbout pointing to relevant papers: things like pointing to timestamped replication paper, which is a CP system for replicated state machines, in response to the fact that Redis does not support slaves when the master disk persistence is turned off, is actually just another instance of why it is not possible to have decent tech conversations on Twitter.\u003cp\u003eThe problem experienced at Stripe is a result of Redis replication documented behavior, regardless of using Sentinel or not. Redis replication is a very simple system where replicas will try to exactly mimic the master, and if the link breaks, will try to connect with it again and again forever. There is no builtin HA, nor failover or alike.\u003cp\u003eSo before considering failover (and yet IMHO pointing to timestamped replication is not very informative even in this context, since in distributed systems the details matter, and you can\u0026#x27;t just give a random reference to a completely different system which happens to have just superficially similar issues to fix), there were \u003ci\u003edifferent\u003c/i\u003e useful observations to do.\u003cp\u003eLike: Hey @antirez, what about supporting master-slaves setups where the master can be configured without persistence at all, and yet when it reboots, it will not be considered viable for reconnections? Which is the fundamental problem: stopping the basic Redis replication behavior from working as it works, with slaves that always want to replicate the current master, which is not ok if we want a system supporing the master restarted without persistence (which wipes the dataset on restart).\u003cp\u003eHowever the whole problem with that is that there are a lot of people like you that will regard linking to a paper as a great way to help, and as a very smart thing, while there are other that are instead trying to work to really make stuff better. Before commenting you should make the effort to understand exactly the problem domain and its subtleness: exact details or what you say is not relevant in a discussion which is all about details.","parent":"8526970","id":"8527350"}
{"by":"charlesism","time":"1452177522","timestamp":"2016-01-07 14:38:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"0% interest rates (or even negative rates, in some countries) for saving fiat money means you\u0026#x27;re better off investing in stocks...\u003cp\u003ebut enough years of pumping stocks, they crash...\u003cp\u003eSo now that fiat and stocks are bad investments that leaves you with gold, silver, bitcoin, etc.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s why bitcoin is back above $450 today.","parent":"10855994","id":"10858107"}
{"by":"LoSboccacc","time":"1502608851","timestamp":"2017-08-13 07:20:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Makes me wish there was some sort of website\u003cp\u003eCan\u0026#x27;t people just use liveleaks for that kind of videos?","parent":"14998846","id":"15001908"}
{"by":"AndyNemmity","time":"1487447414","timestamp":"2017-02-18 19:50:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wasn\u0026#x27;t aware of them, signing up my daughter now. Thanks!","parent":"13676016","id":"13676356"}
{"by":"wilsonnb2","time":"1531700202","timestamp":"2018-07-16 00:16:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OneNote works pretty well.","parent":"17537675","id":"17537859"}
{"by":"bnejad","time":"1407350279","timestamp":"2014-08-06 18:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool project but sublime text is not free software and a nag screen isn\u0026#x27;t exactly fun to see quite often especially for kids.","parent":"8143844","id":"8144074"}
{"by":"yonran","time":"1327081643","timestamp":"2012-01-20 17:47:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This means that for applications that want to store binary data as efficiently as possible in localStorage (e.g. Offline Wikipedia \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3409512\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3409512\u003c/a\u003e), you can pack two bytes into each string character. ECMAScript strings are just arrays of 16-bit unsigned integers (e.g., '\\ud800' is a valid JS string but is not valid UTF-16).","parent":"3489188","id":"3490341"}
{"by":"Aelinsaar","time":"1467147554","timestamp":"2016-06-28 20:59:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which level of autonomy? Hint: It won\u0026#x27;t Lvl 6.","parent":"11996987","id":"11997519"}
{"by":"michaelbuckbee","time":"1490163337","timestamp":"2017-03-22 06:15:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you are (accurately) describing is the high end of the IoT space. The low end is almost equally disconcerting but in the other direction: no updates, no responsibility and wildly vulnerable to attack.","parent":"13928787","id":"13928835"}
{"by":"lazyjones","time":"1357548844","timestamp":"2013-01-07 08:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Does that mean that if/when an attacker uses a SQL injection vulnerability to obtain the contents of your database,\u003cp\u003eMore pedantry: if you have a decent RDBMS like Postgres and connect to the DB always as some user A (using a Pg function with SECURITY DEFINER defined by a superuser to compare passwords with a delay, hashed or not) and use column-level permissions that disallow access to the password (or hash) column to non-superusers, they can sql inject all they want (any attempt to dump/select the password column will fail, unless they also manage to reconnect to the database as superuser).","parent":"5020063","id":"5020123"}
{"by":"nodesocket","time":"1529079067","timestamp":"2018-06-15 16:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You realize that Democrats are supporting these tarrifs on China as well. China has already won the trade war by dumping steel and aluminum and stealing  intellectual property for decades. This isn\u0026#x27;t even controversal.","parent":"17320825","id":"17320865"}
{"by":"Geekette","time":"1499126853","timestamp":"2017-07-04 00:07:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clarification in response to comments that assume I\u0026#x27;m the OP: It\u0026#x27;s not my story, I just reposted from author\u0026#x27;s site.","parent":"14692038","id":"14692455"}
{"by":"ottoquattro","time":"1383731072","timestamp":"2013-11-06 09:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hey olgeni! anyone else?","parent":"6675479","id":"6681819"}
{"by":"jonbarker","time":"1515772373","timestamp":"2018-01-12 15:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good one thanks.  I was thinking achievement but progress is better.","parent":"16133576","id":"16133763"}
{"by":"manish","time":"1235023175","timestamp":"2009-02-19 05:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The era of IP, pay per download etc is going to fade away, music companies are better off make money by subscription from user to download all the music they want. Something like \noreilly safari \u003ca href=\"http://my.safaribooksonline.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://my.safaribooksonline.com\u003c/a\u003e. This would atleast for now make users stream or download from official sources.","parent":"485830","id":"486855"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1330551567","timestamp":"2012-02-29 21:39:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"but in practice the few attempts at this have failed, mainly at the hardware level. See the Motorola Atrix, previous Windows Tablet Laptops, etc\"\u003cp\u003eI am typing this response on an ASUS Transformer laptop, which I don't see as a failure at all at the hardware level.  The only downside of the ASUS Transformer is that the Android software ecosystem has a long way to go to catch up to the idea of being run on a laptop-like device.  This is something Windows 8 should have a big advantage on, which is one of the primary reasons I'm really looking forward to Win8.","parent":"3649596","id":"3649829"}
{"by":"Wingman4l7","time":"1453747812","timestamp":"2016-01-25 18:50:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something that polled trending news in categories like \u0026quot;Entertainment\u0026quot; and pulled key phrases, and then filtered for said phrases might be a good start.\u003cp\u003eHeck, considering how much of news is just re-posted AP wire content, you could block entire redundant chunks by simply filtering by a string long enough to be a unique phrase \u003ci\u003e(surprisingly short, as little as 6 words [ \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.plagiarismtoday.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;how-long-should-a-statistically-improbably-phrase-be\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.plagiarismtoday.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;how-long-should-a...\u003c/a\u003e ] )\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"10968947","id":"10969031"}
{"by":"Confusion","time":"1269242620","timestamp":"2010-03-22 07:23:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  1) Taking longer is not an indication of strength of the\n     algorithm\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIs anyone arguing it is?","parent":"1209292","id":"1209705"}
{"by":"jorgeortiz85","time":"1260044997","timestamp":"2009-12-05 20:29:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other: Scala","parent":"978381","id":"978571"}
{"by":"brador","time":"1503428947","timestamp":"2017-08-22 19:09:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What were the other 4?","parent":"15075104","id":"15075462"}
{"by":"diesellaws","time":"1307676082","timestamp":"2011-06-10 03:21:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clickable: \nWebsite - \u003ca href=\"http://barkles.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://barkles.com\u003c/a\u003e\nScreenshot- \u003ca href=\"http://ow.ly/i/cJM3\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ow.ly/i/cJM3\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2639629","id":"2639639"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1443034284","timestamp":"2015-09-23 18:51:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an ISO-specified solution of CO(NH2)2 and deionized water. If evil automakers want to screw the consumer they could make the fill port difficult to access, but other than that it seems straightforward. The \u0026quot;once a year\u0026quot; thing is also strange, since DEF usage is totally dependent on miles driven and how \u0026quot;hard\u0026quot; those miles were. (High-RPM, high-turbo-pressure driving uses more than low-RPM, low-turbo-pressure driving.)","parent":"10267031","id":"10267164"}
{"by":"ryanajon","time":"1415247283","timestamp":"2014-11-06 04:14:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;The ridesharing space does not offer advantages to economies of scale\u0026quot; - efficiencies of scale in ridesharing are massive; more consumers means a more liquid marketplace and less downtime for drivers (idle time or time-in-transit to a passenger)and more drivers means shorter wait times and increased reliability in car availability. Beyond the improved consumer experience, there\u0026#x27;s real $ value creation resulting from these efficiencies that can lead to increased revenue\u0026#x2F;unit of time for drivers, decreased fares for passengers or increased commission for the ridesharing platform.","parent":"8563455","id":"8565760"}
{"by":"facepalm","time":"1453721516","timestamp":"2016-01-25 11:31:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see why a factor of chance makes a game unworthy. We want to learn for real life from games, and real life is full of chance. And there are strategies for dealing with chance, like hedging your bets.\u003cp\u003eFor Monopoly, mathematicians have worked out winning strategies. I think it has to do with a high chance of people landing in jail and the odds of landing on fields when starting from jail.","parent":"10962040","id":"10966599"}
{"by":"imrehg","time":"1305341806","timestamp":"2011-05-14 02:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I moved to SpiderOak a few weeks ago when this came up first.\u003cp\u003eStill need a lot of improvement but It's good. Built on different philosophy, so the workflow is slightly different, however in some areas (what to backup, what to sync and how) has more flexibility.\u003cp\u003eOne missing feature is syncing directories with others. Probably the architecture that gives the security makes this a difficult task.\u003cp\u003eTo compensate for that, there's a pretty good feature of web-share. Can share anything you backed up, with a separate password that you can revoke any time.\u003cp\u003eSo in the end: I keep Dropbox but removed most of my files from there, started with SpiderOak, and playing with AeroFS (similar functionality on peer-to-peer architecture).","parent":"2546416","id":"2547038"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1365136435","timestamp":"2013-04-05 04:33:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is your insurance company stealing from you when your house doesn't burn down?\u003cp\u003eWhen someone buys or sells a security, they take on risk in exchange for money.  When someone is on the other end of the transaction, they give up money to reduce their risk.  That seems fair to me.  Just because it's a zero-sum game with respect to money doesn't mean it's a zero-sum game in totality.  It's just that you can buy less iPods with risk than you can buy with cash, so you mentally overvalue cash and undervalue the lack of risk.","parent":"5496553","id":"5496802"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1286804574","timestamp":"2010-10-11 13:42:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am also baffled by the weird serial to USB cable my UPS came with.  You're selling a product that is basically 90% battery and 10% smarts, and they don't seem to spend any money on the smarts.","parent":"1778994","id":"1779663"}
{"by":"MBlume","time":"1336709829","timestamp":"2012-05-11 04:17:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for reminding me of one of the reasons I love being a developer =)","parent":"3957228","id":"3957610"}
{"by":"hbharadwaj","time":"1428963819","timestamp":"2015-04-13 22:23:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could try and maybe normalize salaries based on the location I guess, but this also hits a snag when you take into account occupation. Some occupations generally pay lesser than others. Do they then not warrant H1Bs? Don\u0026#x27;t think so.","parent":"9370827","id":"9370909"}
{"by":"peterclary","time":"1456142629","timestamp":"2016-02-22 12:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I note that nobody was brave enough to sign their name to this article.","parent":"11149516","id":"11150239"}
{"by":"keyboardhitter","time":"1513636508","timestamp":"2017-12-18 22:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t abuse cards or rush to a minimum spend to get benefit from cash back bonuses. I use two different 2% cash back cards for groceries and food, respectfully, and pay off in full each month. in fact, these cards still give the  bonuses without even carrying balance to statement close, though not all do (amex comes to mind). I have never accrued interest or fees by using the card on everyday purchases towards cash back benefits. many people are apprehensive to do this and I totally understand why, especially those who don\u0026#x27;t feel they have self control around spending habits\u003cp\u003eit is worth it for me, i do have to stay vigilant but it keeps me in check with my budget at the same time. then at the end of the month I will have some extra money to pay for generous tips or a cup of coffee, or to put back in my checking\u0026#x2F;savings account. it works great for me.\u003cp\u003eI never use cash unless I am buying marijuana (Washington state but not all stores allow cards at this time). having to manually track my cash spending actually has the opposite effect on frugality awareness for me, because I may forget to notate it, or will be more impulsive because I won\u0026#x27;t have to see it right away on any bank statements\u0026#x2F;spend tracker apps\u003cp\u003eObviously everyone has their own preferences. Figured I would share my contrary pov!","parent":"15953662","id":"15956126"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1453456439","timestamp":"2016-01-22 09:53:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CTL???","parent":"10951226","id":"10951802"}
{"by":"brandonbloom","time":"1380576534","timestamp":"2013-09-30 21:28:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll agree it\u0026#x27;s best to avoid fully open unions when you can, but some (super useful) things truly don\u0026#x27;t work that way. Check out \n\u003ca href=\"http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monads.html#ExtensibleDS\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;okmij.org\u0026#x2F;ftp\u0026#x2F;Computation\u0026#x2F;monads.html#ExtensibleDS\u003c/a\u003e for a cool example.","parent":"6472276","id":"6472495"}
{"by":"Ysx","time":"1261823686","timestamp":"2009-12-26 10:34:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clintina for a girl, Fleen for a boy.","parent":"1015858","id":"1015873"}
{"by":"eli","time":"1350052132","timestamp":"2012-10-12 14:28:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought that would happen as more people added rel=nofollow to links in comments... hasn't happened yet though.","parent":"4644818","id":"4645157"}
{"by":"tomelders","time":"1393966008","timestamp":"2014-03-04 20:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s LSD, it can go one way or the other. My tip, if you\u0026#x27;re going to do it, do it. Take a full dose or don\u0026#x27;t do it at all. Doing \u0026quot;just a bit\u0026quot; is always miserable.\u003cp\u003eEven when it\u0026#x27;s bad, if you\u0026#x27;ve got decent people around you, you can keep your shit together. But then if you\u0026#x27;ve got decent people around you, you\u0026#x27;re unlikely to freak out.","parent":"7342219","id":"7342991"}
{"by":"fenier","time":"1518805849","timestamp":"2018-02-16 18:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Learn Analytics. Take the free courses and earn Google Analytics Individual Qualification.  Instrument your site and learn how your funnel behaves, how different programs you have in place contribute and so on.\u003cp\u003eYou must know your existing numbers before you can improve them.\u003cp\u003eNext, look into things which drive traffic (AdWords, Paid Search) or can recapture traffic (Remarketing).  You should also consider a Tag Manager, such as Google Tag Manager, or Tealium.\u003cp\u003eIf your traffic is high enough, you could learn how to run valid AB tests, but if your just starting out, chances are you do not have enough traffic to do this effectively.\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the above, learn the vocab.  Analytics, especially in a marketing context, can be very dense, and you\u0026#x27;ll need to understand the terms to get the most from other more marketing focused resources (books \u0026#x2F; forums, etc).","parent":"16374299","id":"16394565"}
{"by":"jzwinck","time":"1371823295","timestamp":"2013-06-21 14:01:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few related thoughts:\u003cp\u003eTravel guides: buy Lonely Planet or similar books as dead trees, not Kindle which is almost useless for this.  Buy them in the US if it\u0026#x27;s convenient, because they definitely aren\u0026#x27;t cheaper in many other places.\u003cp\u003eVisas: US passport is usually good, but may increase the odds of being asked to pay someone off.  In Cambodia specifically, better to get a visa in advance via the official website; some of the border stations are well-known for various schemes to get extra cash from those seeking visas on arrival.  Make sure your passport starts out fairly empty--some visas take a whole page each.  For US passports, extra pages are free initially, expensive to add later.\u003cp\u003eRoom and board: if breakfast is free, great.  But don\u0026#x27;t buy it in advance if it\u0026#x27;s not included, unless you\u0026#x27;re in the middle of nowhere.\u003cp\u003eTransportation: hitchhiking can be easier in poorer areas where many people do it, harder in places where everyone owns a car.  For regional flights not every country does things online, and some smaller airlines do not charge a lot for last-minute tickets.\u003cp\u003ePacking: a 50 liter pack is enough if you don\u0026#x27;t have many gadgets.  Take thin clothes that dry quickly, avoid jeans, wash a few items in the sink each night and enjoy perpetual clean clothes for free.  An ultralight daypack like Marmot\u0026#x27;s Kompressor ($35) is useful, or get a cheapie abroad, e.g. $7 in Bangkok.","parent":"5917575","id":"5918045"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1323765309","timestamp":"2011-12-13 08:35:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One problem might be that many kids know their parents' password – they mght even be the ones who created the account for their parents.","parent":"3346897","id":"3346914"}
{"by":"sliceof314","time":"1313082555","timestamp":"2011-08-11 17:09:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple went super-nova on that galaxy!","parent":"2873749","id":"2873769"}
{"by":"lucian1900","time":"1360176133","timestamp":"2013-02-06 18:42:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK much of the Rubinius library is independent of VM features (since it was only in C for historical speed reasons), so there should be opportunity for reuse.","parent":"5177525","id":"5178026"}
{"by":"canjobear","time":"1517782730","timestamp":"2018-02-04 22:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t see any reason why the presumed features of our subjective experience should be \u0026quot;reflected\u0026quot; in the physical working of our brains.\u003cp\u003eIf subjective experience has absolutely no physical correlates then wouldn\u0026#x27;t that make it strictly supernatural?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a coherent position, but it turns consciousness into an article of religious faith.","parent":"16304356","id":"16305267"}
{"by":"nowarninglabel","time":"1305659220","timestamp":"2011-05-17 19:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a valid concern, but it would be better to weight it against the current carbon costs of existing currencies.","parent":"2557115","id":"2557452"}
{"by":"josephlord","time":"1420220095","timestamp":"2015-01-02 17:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"enums and structs are value types (and Result is an enum) so I think that you could just return self for the error case (gaining cleanliness and a little efficiency).\u003cp\u003eObjects (of classes) are reference types so if Result was a class there would be a difference between returning self and returning a new Result.","parent":"8826419","id":"8827607"}
{"by":"obviouslygreen","time":"1369156325","timestamp":"2013-05-21 17:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I seem to recall an article announcing this service incurring some developer ire a while ago due to choosing a name that clearly conflicts with an existing (and reasonably popular) service. Same confusion here, initially.","parent":"5744948","id":"5745086"}
{"by":"carterehsmith","time":"1435957014","timestamp":"2015-07-03 20:56:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I realized that, and looked over the thing again, but the measurement still does not add up - even the author calls it \u0026quot;bamboozle\u0026quot; and says \u0026quot;I have no idea what’s happened at the end.\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eSo if the benchmark produces weird results, and is published without source code, so that the results cannot be reproduced, why would anyone trust it?\u003cp\u003eEven the author suspects the V8 optimized away the vanilla code... and if that is what happened, then apples are being compared to oranges and the whole conclusion is bogus. Which was kind of my point.","parent":"9827249","id":"9827913"}
{"by":"BWStearns","time":"1391259501","timestamp":"2014-02-01 12:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flashcards are not enough to make a linguist, however I doubt that you would hire a developer who said that they didn\u0026#x27;t need to know what parameters were necessary\u0026#x2F;accepted for common functions in their language(s). While it\u0026#x27;s not enough it is certainly a requirement that there be some memorization in terms of vocabulary in order to hit the point where context starts to be informative as opposed to a crutch.","parent":"7157099","id":"7161563"}
{"by":"Gibbon1","time":"1445304927","timestamp":"2015-10-20 01:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually would be a lot quieter, since the turbine wouldn\u0026#x27;t have a high velocity exhaust output. And the fans are fairly quiet.\u003cp\u003eOne real advantage would be quick throttle response. Gas turbines are slow to ramp up output power which is a real problem when dealing with wind shear on takeoff and landing. A 30 knot wind shear turns your 140 knots air speed turns into 110 knots airspeed. An electric fan\u0026#x27;s response would be very fast, probably faster than a prop plane.","parent":"10415827","id":"10416927"}
{"by":"henderson101","time":"1423585004","timestamp":"2015-02-10 16:16:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, that\u0026#x27;s not really true. Their business model revolves around licensing the mono runtime to end users (in this case Developers) along with some extra platform specific code. In the case of iOS that is a statically linked exe build from AOT compilation of the CLR code. For Android that is a runtime that sits on the device and is shared for each exe, and for Mac that is taking the Mono Runtime and moving it in to the App package.\u003cp\u003eYes, iOS was a lot of work. Yes, if they want to make it a commercial venture, that is their right, but Miguel has gone on record stating that no one else can do this due to the way the Mono runtime is licensed. They refused to give a static linking exception, as some other libraries do, so basically your only option is their solution or your own written from scratch. This is why the CoreCLR is cool.\u003cp\u003eAlso - did you notice Mac is in there too? If you build a self contained package using Mono (embed the runtime in the App Bundle) they want you to pay for that now. Even though this has about zero to do with static linking.... I had a 10 minute long argument with a Xamerin representative about how retarded this was, as people have been embedding the Mono Runtime in their Mac apps for quite a long time now. But no, apparently we now pay for that.\u003cp\u003eI was on the Monotouch Beta and it looked so good. It\u0026#x27;s a pity the initial pricing was so absurd and even all these years later, it is still impossible to build an app for iOS with the Mono framework without a fee on top of the Apple Developer license. This is why I stuck with Objective-C.","parent":"9026981","id":"9028073"}
{"by":"klez","time":"1513844369","timestamp":"2017-12-21 08:19:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    [ == if (*dataptr == 0) goto ]\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIsn\u0026#x27;t this wrong? I mean, `[` starts a loop, it doesn\u0026#x27;t mean goto `]`. Unless I\u0026#x27;m getting the semantics wrong, at least one iteration should execute, even if the current cell is set at zero.","parent":"15971877","id":"15977287"}
{"by":"chrism2671","time":"1443443894","timestamp":"2015-09-28 12:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do 90% of my work on a Chromebook\u0026#x2F;ChromeOS desktop, but I can\u0026#x27;t program on it, and yet I don\u0026#x27;t want to suffer trying to put Linux on it, so basically anyone who doesn\u0026#x27;t want to install Linux on their computer :)","parent":"10290025","id":"10290100"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1477965803","timestamp":"2016-11-01 02:03:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The part you conveniently omitted was the most important part in that sentence.\u003cp\u003eChrome on \u003ci\u003eWindows 10\u003c/i\u003e is protected. So if anything, it\u0026#x27;s an ad for Windows 10, not Chrome. Chrome is still vulnerable on Windows 7 and Windows 8\u0026#x2F;8.1 - which is what, 70-80% of the Windows users? And as others have said, it probably affects all the other browsers, too, so  if Google was indeed the \u0026quot;good guy\u0026quot; in this story, it would still do this so the users of other browsers find out about the vulnerability, too.","parent":"12842424","id":"12842817"}
{"by":"nohorse","time":"1490494877","timestamp":"2017-03-26 02:21:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Using the Windows store would be your best answer to most of these questions.","parent":"13957909","dead":true,"id":"13958708"}
{"by":"cfstras","time":"1429272396","timestamp":"2015-04-17 12:06:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, so I can tell whether the designer uses OSX by the fact that I can\u0026#x27;t read the fonts. That\u0026#x27;s nice.","parent":"9390650","id":"9393747"}
{"by":"shiftb","time":"1278055600","timestamp":"2010-07-02 07:26:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Happy to see them working with Pivotal, that gives me a lot more confidence in them. They're working with top notch mentors.","parent":"1480389","id":"1480498"}
{"by":"juhohei","time":"1506973055","timestamp":"2017-10-02 19:37:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reaktor | Senior Software Engineers | NYC | Full-time\u003cp\u003eReaktor is a strategy, design, and engineering company based in NYC, Helsinki, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Our New York office is growing fast and we’re always on the look-out for the most talented software engineers to make sure our teams are filled with best in class individuals. We might all have climbed far up the career ladder in our past lives, but here we leave our titles at the door and work together to get shit done with clients like HBO, Michael Kors, Nasdaq, Samsung, Supercell, and Finnair.\u003cp\u003eYou can find more information on the role here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reaktor.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;senior-software-engineer\u0026#x2F;?utm_source=HN\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reaktor.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;senior-software-engineer\u0026#x2F;?ut...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15384262","id":"15387202"}
{"by":"rtpg","time":"1481287129","timestamp":"2016-12-09 12:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many times the praise is qualified\u003cp\u003e- Body Building \u0026quot;for dumb people\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e- Acting \u0026quot;just in dumb movies\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e- Governor \u0026quot; Just because he\u0026#x27;s an action star. He won for because of the lols\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not a megafan, but the more I think about him, the more I\u0026#x27;m surprised I completed discounted how he completely dominated 3 fields. I sometimes wonder whether it\u0026#x27;s because of his accent. So many subconsciously connect strong accents with stupidity.","parent":"13138147","id":"13138393"}
{"by":"hiharryhere","time":"1366940859","timestamp":"2013-04-26 01:47:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I took an OO class once where the questions were verbatim for about 3 semesters prior, except for a simple find replace on the variable names in the code snippets. e.g. x = y became var1 = var2\u003cp\u003eNeedless to say after I recognised the pattern from the first exam I got perfect scores for the rest of the semester.","parent":"5610435","id":"5611040"}
{"by":"emiliobumachar","time":"1521997912","timestamp":"2018-03-25 17:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember that video. Playtesters would simply load a previous save when struck with serious calamity.","parent":"16672357","id":"16673155"}
{"by":"leereeves","time":"1425139047","timestamp":"2015-02-28 15:57:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most executives at non-webdev companies don\u0026#x27;t know anything about Rails, except what their staff and consultants tell them.\u003cp\u003eIf a fair number of those executives learn too late about the technical limitations of Rails, they probably do feel burned, and word gets around.","parent":"9123923","id":"9123991"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1464377481","timestamp":"2016-05-27 19:31:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11787803\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11787803\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11788324","id":"11788338"}
{"by":"JimmaDaRustla","time":"1448555067","timestamp":"2015-11-26 16:24:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It mentions \u0026quot;disabling chip and pin\u0026quot;, meaning it will convert the sentinel character on the magnetic stripe which tells the terminal that it is a chip card. By disabling the sentinel character and using this on a chip enabled terminal, the financial institute (BASE24) SHOULD decline the transaction because the Track 2 data will be incorrect.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I meant on an EMV compliant terminal.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Also, that is considered fraud and your best not testing it, unless you like the prison environment.","parent":"10623861","id":"10633575"}
{"by":"kokey","time":"1524843163","timestamp":"2018-04-27 15:32:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose this is the one of the reasons farmers in the UK will be glad that the UK is leaving the EU, because the neonicotinoids are mainly used as seed coverings on rapeseed (which is the crop that most of the vegetable food\u0026#x2F;cooking oil is made from) and winter cereals to prevent seeds and seedlings from specific insects and the pesticide has broken down within weeks, long before the time bees do their rounds and is never sprayed on the crops.  It also prevents the use of a lot of other known to be harmful pesticides and increased spraying.\u003cp\u003eAlso, all the studies in the UK that I have seen could not determine any statistically significant impact of neonicotinoids on the bee populations, because it was impossible to detect due to the much more significant impact of a season\u0026#x27;s weather on honey bees.  It really feels like politics is leading the science here and I suspect this will come out in the courts.","parent":"16939619","id":"16941534"}
{"by":"moocowduckquack","time":"1387726590","timestamp":"2013-12-22 15:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Go make your own stuff and don’t listen to HN or any other skeptical community.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is fine in art, but it runs into problems when you start doing engineering and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in cryptography.","parent":"6950434","id":"6950530"}
{"by":"drhowarddrfine","time":"1345735632","timestamp":"2012-08-23 15:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've always said two things. Those who want to get real work done bring their Mack truck to work and not the family van. Mac OSX is Unix and the Mack truck. Windows is the family van.\u003cp\u003eI also say those who know the web best, don't use Internet Explorer.","parent":"4422121","dead":true,"id":"4422870"}
{"by":"blensor","time":"1475746360","timestamp":"2016-10-06 09:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve got the Structure sensor \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;structure.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;structure.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e . They have an OpenNI2 library so you can use it on a Linux based system","parent":"12651038","id":"12651200"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1379048592","timestamp":"2013-09-13 05:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not quite sure why I collected the downvotes, but you\u0026#x27;re spot on. For example, I\u0026#x27;m short and relatively uncoordinated. I have a few chronic physical problems in addition to this that make me \u0026quot;unredeemably incompetent\u0026quot; at the sport of basketball. I could work my ass off for the rest of my life and still never come within shouting distance of Michael Jordan. I simply cannot perform at an NBA level no matter what I do.\u003cp\u003eIf there were a shortage of talented basketball players, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t matter how many copies of myself you were able to get into basketball training programs, you\u0026#x27;d never get an MJ. We need a better system to find MJ\u0026#x27;s of STEM and allow their talent to work for us.","parent":"6377522","id":"6378761"}
{"by":"kevinburke","time":"1507856707","timestamp":"2017-10-13 01:05:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I gave a talk about this project recently: ttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=KUBYTcVjp7I","parent":"15456833","id":"15462616"}
{"by":"espeed","time":"1455509412","timestamp":"2016-02-15 04:10:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, the SIGMOD\u0026#x27;15 conference was in June 2015 so the paper is only \n~6 mos old. While it is based on Gremlin 2 rather than Gremlin 3, most all the code in the paper is SQL CET statements -- there\u0026#x27;s very little Gremlin. In Table 8 on the last page they show their code for the Gremlin-\u0026gt;SQL CET translations, and only a few tweaks are needed to update the step names in column one to Gremlin 3.","parent":"11101416","id":"11101461"}
{"by":"intenex","time":"1379375475","timestamp":"2013-09-16 23:51:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He did it for a higher calling -- namely having a penguin as a pet. Maybe if you make that your justification too your wife will jump on board, so to speak.","parent":"6396625","id":"6396684"}
{"by":"rubatuga","time":"1494093033","timestamp":"2017-05-06 17:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for that, it seems to explain most of the problems security faces today. It\u0026#x27;s similar to how social engineering works, for example, even if someone was told that plugging in a dropped USB stick is dangerous, they may still do it because of the burning curiosity inside. ( I myself would take a peek, at least on a sandbox or VM )","parent":"14281424","id":"14281437"}
{"by":"nashequilibrium","time":"1428537934","timestamp":"2015-04-09 00:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Come on, every finance guy knows to cut off tail risk, yet they still don\u0026#x27;t. Look at LTCM, with all the brains they had still didn\u0026#x27;t cut off tail risk and Meriwether still came back and got burnt again. Look at Victor Niederhoffer, got burnt twice the exact same way not cutting off tail risk. Then you get a guy like Taleb profiting off tail risk. Complaining about liquidity crunches does not count as its one of the main parts of the tail risk.","parent":"9344784","id":"9345007"}
{"by":"mercer","time":"1487078873","timestamp":"2017-02-14 13:27:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m surrounded by millennials, and most of the pay for Spotify and Netflix, or share an account with family members.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, while I\u0026#x27;m not \u0026#x27;poor\u0026#x27;, I\u0026#x27;m quite frugal, and yet I\u0026#x27;ve spent quite a bit of money already on Blendle articles.\u003cp\u003eThe biggest hurdle in my case was signing up and connecting my account to a payment system. But once that barrier was crossed, paying somewhere between 10 cents and 1 euro on a article became a (concerning) easy thing to do. I suspect I\u0026#x27;m not alone in this.","parent":"13635073","id":"13643322"}
{"by":"superbatfish","time":"1479700146","timestamp":"2016-11-21 03:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What the fuck is wrong with people.","parent":"13002369","id":"13003008"}
{"by":"marquis","time":"1319821820","timestamp":"2011-10-28 17:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would be fantastic in an environment where you have a consumer base - but we're still trying to solve the problem where we have a huge amount of technical information for our professional customers and it's difficult to find - even for our support staff as some issues only come up rarely and we forget where we put the solution.\u003cp\u003eWe're actively looking for this solution if anyone has something that would fit this need.","parent":"3168817","id":"3169129"}
{"by":"ghostcluster","time":"1513378937","timestamp":"2017-12-15 23:02:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is Stanford Medical school on the subject, from just this past Spring: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stanmed.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;2017spring\u0026#x2F;how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stanmed.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;2017spring\u0026#x2F;how-mens-and-womens-b...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd a highly cited study from 2013 addressing Damore\u0026#x27;s topic directly: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;atavisionary.com\u0026#x2F;study-index\u0026#x2F;intelligence-psychometrics-psychology\u0026#x2F;sex-differences-on-g-and-non-g-intellectual-performance-reveal-potential-sources-of-stem-discrepancies\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;atavisionary.com\u0026#x2F;study-index\u0026#x2F;intelligence-psychometri...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe evidence is not \u0026#x27;cherry picked\u0026#x27;. It is abundant, comprehensively researched, and well replicated. Take a trip to Google Scholar yourself. It is certainly not \u0026#x27;fringe\u0026#x27;. That\u0026#x27;s why the public reaction was so absurd. Damore was fired for exactly the type of phenomenon Sam Altman is talking about in this post.","parent":"15935783","id":"15936002"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1477052757","timestamp":"2016-10-21 12:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But how would you perform the lookup in the hash table when the string you\u0026#x27;re searching for is not (exactly) in the hash table?","parent":"12759631","id":"12759799"}
{"by":"Iazel","time":"1432109081","timestamp":"2015-05-20 08:04:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pff... Some hikkikomori hasn\u0026#x27;t leave is room for 5+ years!","parent":"9571451","id":"9575022"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1273878715","timestamp":"2010-05-14 23:11:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know the guy. Send him an email - I'm sure he'll appreciate the inquiry.","parent":"1346025","id":"1348883"}
{"by":"amluto","time":"1530042575","timestamp":"2018-06-26 19:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not optimistic.  I believe that the underlying crypto protocol is this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org\u0026#x2F;document\u0026#x2F;4622764\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org\u0026#x2F;document\u0026#x2F;4622764\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;secure authentication of equals\u0026quot;, which is a protocol that kind of looks like it\u0026#x27;s trying to be a PAKE (Password Authenticated Key Exchange), but the paper does not mention PAKE anywhere in its abstract, and I\u0026#x27;m not at all confident that SAE\u0026#x27;s design or analysis takes into account the properties that PAKE protocols should have.\u003cp\u003eI think that the original WPA key exchange was supposed to use the SRP protocol, which is a PAKE, but that was dropped due to patent issues.  Since then, as I understand it, quite a few very nice PAKE protocols have had their patents expire, so I don\u0026#x27;t see what the problem is now.\u003cp\u003eSo color me extremely skeptical.","parent":"17402274","id":"17403498"}
{"by":"Siyo","time":"1423934338","timestamp":"2015-02-14 17:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What they said is that they want to sell elementary OS. But going completely in that direction is pointless because someone will just fork the project and offer it for free. So what they did is make you enter $0, so when you do get it for free, it feels like you\u0026#x27;ve cheated the system.\u003cp\u003eWhat\u0026#x27;s wrong with that?","parent":"9050075","id":"9050119"}
{"by":"oconnor663","time":"1510172562","timestamp":"2017-11-08 20:22:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Part of the problem is that the inequality leads to behavior that protects the inequality.\u003cp\u003eI do agree with you, but I think it\u0026#x27;s worth nitpicking the examples. Is the Disney case an inequality problem? I\u0026#x27;m not sure that it is. Suppose we waved a magic wand, and suddenly all of Disney\u0026#x27;s employees and shareholders were middle class people. Would that change Disney Inc\u0026#x27;s incentives around IP lobbying?\u003cp\u003eI think that rather than an inequality problem, cases like Disney are something like a \u0026quot;concentrated interests\u0026quot; problem. Even if every individual person had exactly the same amount of money in the bank, they wouldn\u0026#x27;t all be equally invested in the exact same things, and competing interests would still emerge. Disney\u0026#x27;s incentives follow just from the fact that it \u003ci\u003ehas\u003c/i\u003e shareholders, regardless of how much wealth those shareholders have. And for what it\u0026#x27;s worth, as a society, this is definitely the problem we want! Concentrated interests solve huge problems, like how to make a $100 million movie that everyone wants to see, but that no one person could fund on their own.","parent":"15656098","id":"15656578"}
{"by":"Aarvay","time":"1309417434","timestamp":"2011-06-30 07:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but it was a quick hack. It's not a product they are trying to sell.","parent":"2709482","id":"2712989"}
{"by":"s73ver_","time":"1511306783","timestamp":"2017-11-21 23:26:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a big ol\u0026#x27; [Citation Needed]. You\u0026#x27;re gonna have to explain why you believe those two would be ineligible.","parent":"15748897","id":"15752688"}
{"by":"wilsonnb","time":"1528125710","timestamp":"2018-06-04 15:21:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure how Linux\u0026#x27;s viability as a desktop OS is relevant to Windows being usable or unusable.\u003cp\u003eI have no idea what else they\u0026#x27;ve installed, just like I have no idea what MacOS or Linux install. They\u0026#x27;re all black boxes to me. I see no reason to think Windows is any worse than it\u0026#x27;s competitors.\u003cp\u003eI assume by spying, you are referring to Windows 10\u0026#x27;s telemetry. Personally, I think concerns about it are overblown and calling it spying is misleading at best. It\u0026#x27;s for diagnostic information. You can set it to only send basic diagnostic data if you so choose. I am in favor of companies collecting diagnostic information about their products to improve them.","parent":"17228528","id":"17228594"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1248745300","timestamp":"2009-07-28 01:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When two companies collude like AT\u0026#38;T and Apple, it's hard to determine who is at fault.  Might as well blame them both.\u003cp\u003eBut, does anyone who's not from the US have anything to say about this?  Are the networks that carry the iPhone in Europe and Asia as evil as AT\u0026#38;T?","parent":"727210","id":"727227"}
{"by":"bobthechef","time":"1500935751","timestamp":"2017-07-24 22:35:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you always been this literal minded? It\u0026#x27;s simplistic to think that AMZN is hermetically sealed off from the WaPo because legally the two entities have nothing to do with each other. Trump\u0026#x27;s insinuation isn\u0026#x27;t as strong as what you claim it is. He is at most suggesting that WaPo may be serving AMZN interests in a de facto, not de jure, capacity. Frankly, I think that he\u0026#x27;s just using Amazon as a symbol for Bezos because people know what Amazon is and what it means for businesses. They don\u0026#x27;t necessarily know who Bezos is. It allows him to associate whatever negative associations Amazon may have in his electorate with the WaPo. On the other hand, it may have been as simple as a humorous quip. In any case, you should relax.","parent":"14842974","id":"14843364"}
{"by":"shoota","time":"1312235490","timestamp":"2011-08-01 21:51:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yet a renter will still be held responsible by the owners of the building if anything outside of their possessions is destroyed.","parent":"2834598","id":"2834678"}
{"by":"cmancini","time":"1346521067","timestamp":"2012-09-01 17:37:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"New York City: Software engineers, Front-end devs, and agile QA engineers wanted at Intent Media.\u003cp\u003eWe have a proven and rapidly expanding advertising platform that runs hotel and flight advertising on many major travel sites. From an engineering end this means true big data and performance considerations. This also means we can really feed our user segmentation algorithms and tune so that we make a better travel experience for users while boosting ROI for advertisers and bringing alternate revenue to publishers.\u003cp\u003eWe're agile, test everything, and deploy several times a week. We write top-notch Java and Ruby, and Javascript code, with Cucumber, Python, Coffeescript, and Pig mixed in.\u003cp\u003eEveryone here has really interesting stories and are the brilliant, fun kinds of people you want to spend time with. The office is in the heart of SoHo, the hippest area of the best city in the world. We usually eat lunch together from one of the amazing local restaurants, like little Italian sandwich shops and fun Indian take-out restaurants. Employee dogs play around the office all day too.\u003cp\u003eWe're well-funded after a series B. We have great investors like Matrix and Redpoint, and have a great growth story to tell.\u003cp\u003eFeel free to reach out to the email in my profile and of course there are more details at \u003ca href=\"http://www.intentmedia.com/jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.intentmedia.com/jobs\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"4463689","id":"4464435"}
{"by":"iSloth","time":"1395492350","timestamp":"2014-03-22 12:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t try hide anything from a potential employer as that just makes you look embarrassed, and the experience that you have gained from working in that industry should be a positive due to the technical challenges that it presents. If the company can\u0026#x27;t see that then just carry on looking. Good Luck!","parent":"7439156","id":"7448832"}
{"by":"guelo","time":"1480012654","timestamp":"2016-11-24 18:37:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Republicans were hoping not to have to repeal the rule after it had already taken effect pissing off millions of workers.","parent":"13031324","id":"13031957"}
{"by":"biot","time":"1394277138","timestamp":"2014-03-08 11:12:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok, I get it now. It reads like every other SaaS pricing page with columns showing multiple plans but is actually a competitive analysis. It doesn\u0026#x27;t help that I\u0026#x27;m not aware that \u0026quot;Vanilla\u0026quot; is a competitive product as it seems like the name of one of your plans.","parent":"7364848","id":"7364893"}
{"by":"pavs","time":"1292082741","timestamp":"2010-12-11 15:52:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks will do!","parent":"1994983","id":"1995005"}
{"by":"qbrass","time":"1466529895","timestamp":"2016-06-21 17:24:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People complained about the same criticism of MtGox back in the day.","parent":"11946945","id":"11947489"}
{"by":"shubb","time":"1544392859","timestamp":"2018-12-09 22:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like he\u0026#x27;s talking about climate change, whereas you are talking about polution more generally. NO2 isn\u0026#x27;t really relevant to global warming, but isn\u0026#x27;t healthy.\u003cp\u003eIn the case of diesel cars, as I recall, the manufacturers built sports diesel engines that were much more polluting than normal older diesel engines. They then lied that they were still okay due to \u0026#x27;technology\u0026#x27; which turned out to be detecting by GPS that the car was at a government test center and making it run like an old engine. Total fraud.\u003cp\u003eWhen the fraud was found out, all those diesel sports cars were treated as super polluters because they were.\u003cp\u003eBut NO2 and small particles are a big short term problem rather than an apocalypse, so we should look at them differently.\u003cp\u003eYou are quite right in suggesting that, especially with a lot of lobbying going on, we should look critically at all proposals. The popularity of biofuels maybe being linked to the farming lobby.","parent":"18643452","id":"18643556"}
{"by":"rhabarba","time":"1478992105","timestamp":"2016-11-12 23:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, I see, thank you. So I\u0026#x27;ll have to \u0026quot;install\u0026quot; the script into the registry before being able to just \u0026quot;use\u0026quot; it? :(","parent":"12940663","id":"12940722"}
{"by":"djsumdog","time":"1484866784","timestamp":"2017-01-19 22:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt it and that argument makes no sense. Copyright is extended thanks to the lobbying effort of huge business like Disney in order to make a ton more money.\u003cp\u003eUnless you see some big corporate support contracts coming over the horizon for PSF, not to mention they\u0026#x27;d have to be worth the money vs the technical debt, I don\u0026#x27;t think Py2 support will get extended.","parent":"13436981","id":"13440261"}
{"by":"iisbum","time":"1472903643","timestamp":"2016-09-03 11:54:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Click bait headline which sucks because the issue of who pays legal fees in cases like this an important one.","parent":"12410187","id":"12418850"}
{"by":"username223","time":"1449163647","timestamp":"2015-12-03 17:27:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congressmen are mostly rich people rented by richer ones, but a small amount of plebian influence is surely better than none at all if you\u0026#x27;re into that whole \u0026quot;democracy\u0026quot; thing.","parent":"10670869","id":"10670934"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1464999360","timestamp":"2016-06-04 00:16:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One might err in assumptions about what I think. Parent had \u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eseldom used sidewalk that runs for miles next to a bicycle hostile road\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;. Obviously that is different from a regular grid of streets, where \u003ci\u003eno one\u003c/i\u003e should cycle on the sidewalk. As soon as crosswalks appear get your ass in the street. Even in the situation the parent described, however, the presence of one pedestrian makes it a sidewalk again so no cyclist will ride and no low speed collisions will occur.","parent":"11834134","id":"11834195"}
{"by":"eluttner","time":"1361226206","timestamp":"2013-02-18 22:23:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if you guys need any help in brazil I would be glad to help.\n@eluttner","parent":"5239207","id":"5241159"}
{"by":"freebsd_dude","time":"1268285710","timestamp":"2010-03-11 05:35:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thanks for the great response","parent":"1183071","id":"1183112"}
{"by":"krschultz","time":"1365978572","timestamp":"2013-04-14 22:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Negotiating 101 is to always try and do the whole thing at once rather than piecemeal. If you do the parts that everyone agrees to, there's nothing in common to build around for the hard stuff later.\u003cp\u003eAlso in general, just doing the popular stuff leads to big problems later (that's how we ended up with low taxes and high spending, nobody wants to do either of the hard parts of balancing a budget).","parent":"5548244","id":"5548656"}
{"by":"grogenaut","time":"1509986358","timestamp":"2017-11-06 16:39:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So the way I understand it is gpus are really just a lot of really dumb CPUs and they toss out all but the simplest interlocking. So Nvidia gets to skip a lot of legacy complexity and focus on building chips that just have lots of copies of the same thing. The complexity is pushed downstream. Stuff also has to be rewritten for gpus. And this is for people chasing speed so they\u0026#x27;re more likely to rewrite. These people couldn\u0026#x27;t do what they wanted without this new tech.\u003cp\u003eCPUs need to make legacy code up to 40 years old run faster so there is a ton of complexity in the hardware. They are chasing people who want modest speed bumps without large changes.\u003cp\u003eKinda like how apple was able to pull off a performant phone\u0026#x2F;tablet after Microsoft failed a bunch... Because they got people to rewrite apps (or create) for their platform instead of shoehorning windows apps into a different form factor. Much bloat was cut, usability was redone. It\u0026#x27;s an analogy so don\u0026#x27;t go silly over the differences.","parent":"15636507","id":"15636639"}
{"by":"throwawayL1","time":"1439207511","timestamp":"2015-08-10 11:51:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for the hijack, but am in a different boat of confusion. I have 6 years experience in tech and I\u0026#x27;ve been offered an L1 to transfer to Bay Area with a salary of 145k USD along with a comprehensive medical insurance.\u003cp\u003eI am not really sure if I should be taking this up considering the ridiculous cost of living in the Bay. Also, I don\u0026#x27;t know how much I\u0026#x27;ll be saving at the end of 2 years considering the fact that my wife will be travelling along with me (she doesn\u0026#x27;t have a STEM degree).\u003cp\u003eAlthough there are these cost of living calculators they just take into account a lifestyle that is \u0026#x27;just enough\u0026#x27; to get by.","parent":"10033111","id":"10033931"}
{"by":"pttrpttrwttr","time":"1514453960","timestamp":"2017-12-28 09:39:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pakistani here, you really expect us to believe that in countries without reliable electricity in rural areas, nevermind reliable broadband internet access, and 40% literacy rates people who, looking at the average GDPs of countries in the region couldn\u0026#x27;t possibly afford the necessary computing power are mining Bitcoin?","parent":"16015941","id":"16021154"}
{"by":"antman","time":"1487589839","timestamp":"2017-02-20 11:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does the new OrangePi PC2+ have this like the OrangePi+ 2e you mention? I was thinking about it since it also reportedly supports h265 10bit.","parent":"13684546","id":"13686406"}
{"by":"scotty79","time":"1512848856","timestamp":"2017-12-09 19:47:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; He pointed, among other examples, to the intelligence of Hassabis and his colleagues in devising, designing, and building the program in the first place. “That’s almost as impressive as a queen in the corner,” he quipped.\u003cp\u003eThat sentiment that pops up  whenever machines surpass humans is quite silly to me.\u003cp\u003eAs if they were discussing a crane and say: This crane can lift many tonnes of weight more than any human can but we must remember that it was put together from parts by strong humans, strong humans designed it and operate it, said body building expert.\u003cp\u003eWho cares? Machines are stronger than you, calculate better than you, play games better than you, often design better than you. And people react as if they just found out that they have bigger d*cks than them and last longer. Sure they do but isn\u0026#x27;t it juvenile to feel insecure and defensive each damn time?","parent":"15885142","id":"15887684"}
{"by":"JacobAldridge","time":"1431760532","timestamp":"2015-05-16 07:15:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was an off-by-one error in calculating the required number of chairs.","parent":"9555247","id":"9555297"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1489560790","timestamp":"2017-03-15 06:53:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There is little repetitive, mindless work in programming, because as most of you know, \u0026quot;anything that you can treat as construction can and should be automated.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSure, but there is a cost to automation. We all know the programmers who will attempt to automate God if left to their own devices. \u003ci\u003ecough\u003c/i\u003e At some point there is a tradeoff between automating something, and sending an email to an intelligent human being who maybe isn\u0026#x27;t god level at software architecture but who can fill out some organizational context with pidgen code.\u003cp\u003eI think the idea that the only code that needs to get written is type of a decorator on a subtype Haskell kind of stuff is wrong. It\u0026#x27;s the same fallacy as people who say we just need physics and all of the natural sciences will shake out of it. We need Richard Stallmans and Terry Davis\u0026#x27;s to write that stuff for sure, and maybe they are the only True Programmers out there. But there\u0026#x27;s an awful lot of automation engineering that needs to get done too, and some of that really is just putHotDogIn(basket) (unless Debbie from accounting emails you to say no) and wget \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;dist.zip\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;dist.zip\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet me say it another way: there are and will always be gnarled programmers who think in koans and concoct the words we code in, but spread across that will be a thick layer of humans embedded in human systems mapping the minutia of the day in code. I daresay we\u0026#x27;ll all be doing it.\u003cp\u003eI suppose I agree that work is all design. But the code isn\u0026#x27;t the part that\u0026#x27;s being designed. The code is just the log format.","parent":"13861236","id":"13874289"}
{"by":"bob_doles_ghost","time":"1464369329","timestamp":"2016-05-27 17:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got bored and think I found out who the principal was. Was it B--- Hou----?\u003cp\u003eEdit: not trying to freak you out or anything.  In the spirit of this article on publicly accessible information, I wanted to see if I could find out who it was through public means.","parent":"11787151","dead":true,"id":"11787415"}
{"by":"tkriplean","time":"1511150600","timestamp":"2017-11-20 04:03:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi! This isn\u0026#x27;t exactly what you asked for, but our Invisible College informally helps connect peers doing independent work.  Sometimes we organize video checkins. Eventually we\u0026#x27;re going to create a method for cohorts of independent workers to form. These cohorts can support each other over time with checkins to counter that loneliness of independent work.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to get involved, join our Slack at \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;invisible-slack.herokuapp.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;invisible-slack.herokuapp.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15732087","id":"15737690"}
{"by":"imjk","time":"1395020092","timestamp":"2014-03-17 01:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hate to go on a tangent but I can\u0026#x27;t believe jwz still hasn\u0026#x27;t updated his site to a more reader friendly color scheme.","parent":"7411988","id":"7412367"}
{"by":"fnordfnordfnord","time":"1362159321","timestamp":"2013-03-01 17:35:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're going to make it vi-like, please put some effort into introducing the modal-concept, and lots of help for new users. There are reasons that many people avoid vi. You may not think that you need to make it a teaching tool, but everything else about lighttable makes it well-suited as a teaching tool.","parent":"5299348","id":"5305642"}
{"by":"nategri","time":"1500073099","timestamp":"2017-07-14 22:58:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Knew this wasn\u0026#x27;t for me when he had to introduce what a derivative was with a weird metaphor. I like this approach to teaching things (it\u0026#x27;s Feynman-y) but half the time I end up hung up on trying to understand a particular author\u0026#x27;s hand-waving for a concept I already grok.","parent":"14769525","id":"14773873"}
{"by":"Traubenfuchs","time":"1483837587","timestamp":"2017-01-08 01:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sex is reduced to a commodity, people get offended if you waste their time by talking about anything but how and where you two will have sex, rampant racism against Asians and black people is common (which, as a white man, does not concern me).\u003cp\u003eThere are countless predators there looking to exploit young and inexperienced men, like me from years ago.\u003cp\u003eIt makes lots people unable to have monogamous relationships, because at every moment sex with incredibly attractive men is less than a minute away.\u003cp\u003eIf you want countless real life examples just search for Grindr on \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;askgaybros: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;askgaybros\u0026#x2F;search?q=grindr\u0026amp;restrict_sr=on\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;askgaybros\u0026#x2F;search?q=grindr\u0026amp;restrict...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13347588","id":"13347617"}
{"by":"baggachipz","time":"1362151525","timestamp":"2013-03-01 15:25:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Uh.... what just happened?","parent":"5303871","id":"5304659"}
{"by":"solarkraft","time":"1534093283","timestamp":"2018-08-12 17:01:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For 100GB of important data I\u0026#x27;d be willing to buy an extra hard drive.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d expect your users to be willing to set up a torrent client. It\u0026#x27;s not even difficult.","parent":"17745164","id":"17745236"}
{"by":"jseliger","time":"1345866723","timestamp":"2012-08-25 03:52:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think a lot of people were playing sports, or practicing an instrument, or learning how to deal with the opposite sex (or maybe even the same sex), or reading. . . all of them, to me, more viable activities than Starcraft, at least at the level I played.","parent":"4429769","id":"4431052"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1467136166","timestamp":"2016-06-28 17:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Such resistance is hopeless in general terms of warfare, to be won it has to be considered as much a political war as it is a conventional one.\u003cp\u003eWar is always political.","parent":"11994493","id":"11995850"}
{"by":"dfc","time":"1400111928","timestamp":"2014-05-14 23:58:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of curiosity is there a reason why cert-test.sandbox.g.c resolves to so many IPs compared to www.g.c?\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  dfc@ronin:~$ host cert-test.sandbox.google.com |grep address |wc\n       16      64     894\n  dfc@ronin:~$ host www.google.com |grep address |wc\n        6      25     262\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI wanted to see how the various vendor ssl tests would handle sha256. Everything i tested had no problem, but they all took a little longer than usual because of the number of DNS  results.\u003cp\u003ePS Not that it would matter but unlike other google hosts the cert-test does not have any IPv6 records.","parent":"7747055","id":"7747254"}
{"by":"pushedx","time":"1410890248","timestamp":"2014-09-16 17:57:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can make available the source for an iPhone app that could be compiled with XCode.\u003cp\u003eHow is this in violation of the GPL?","parent":"8325171","id":"8325907"}
{"by":"maneesh","time":"1481563485","timestamp":"2016-12-12 17:24:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yea that\u0026#x27;s just not true.","parent":"13159526","id":"13159811"}
{"by":"Rariel","time":"1298866889","timestamp":"2011-02-28 04:21:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"“The current system is just bizarre,” he said of the first-to-invent rule. “Imagine parking your car in a metered space, then someone else comes up and says they had priority for that space and they have your car towed. Under the new system, if you are the first to pull in and pay your fee, you can park there and no one else can claim it’s their space.” \"\u003cp\u003eWow. What a horrible analogy.  Completely off base.\u003cp\u003eThis bill is very radical, but there has been a call for reform for some time.  I think this is the wrong way to go. The first person to reduce an idea to practice should still be the first person to get a patent. Making a mad dash to file @ the USPTO shouldn't be the way you decide who gets the rights to an \u003ci\u003eidea\u003c/i\u003e. The decision should turn on who came up with that idea first.\u003cp\u003eMy 2 cents.","parent":"2269986","id":"2270023"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1214085765","timestamp":"2008-06-21 22:02:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MySpace was mostly written by contract developers, in the early days, though I guess they have staff developers now.","parent":"223820","id":"223894"}
{"by":"cmurf","time":"1410209608","timestamp":"2014-09-08 20:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GlusterFS offers WORM volumes. Volumes made available with NFS\u0026#x2F;SMB.","parent":"8286616","id":"8287177"}
{"by":"russell","time":"1241238251","timestamp":"2009-05-02 04:24:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was a wee lad, engineers became managers so that they could be promoted and get salaries sufficient to put their children through college and eventually retire.  Engineers could be bad managers because there were enough layers of managers to smooth things over. These are not those days and the hierarchy has collapsed.  There are no safe managerial positions for aging programmers to slide into.  If you dont like the prospects of managing stic with the art.  The money oisnt that much better.","parent":"589515","id":"589539"}
{"by":"neverminder","time":"1391783869","timestamp":"2014-02-07 14:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, I think that sums it up. The fine is pocket money for Google so surely it\u0026#x27;s not about that.","parent":"7196368","id":"7196388"}
{"by":"duncanawoods","time":"1415542464","timestamp":"2014-11-09 14:14:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there any svg based animation tools that you can recommend please? I crank out SVG but I\u0026#x27;d like to be animate it easily for little things like the gifs on the Atom site.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://atom.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;atom.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8579899","id":"8579926"}
{"by":"akg_67","time":"1449276209","timestamp":"2015-12-05 00:43:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pursuit of market share vs pursuit of profit. Amazon seems to want to dominate every market they want to get into. While Walmart focused on dominating one market - retail.\u003cp\u003eI compare Amazon story to Gold Rush. Once Amazon penetrates gold mining business, it wants to move into business of providing tools for gold mining, storage, distribution, and consumption. The profits from the initial gold mining efforts goes into building organizational infrastructure of gold vertical as well as entry into another new vertical.","parent":"10680083","id":"10680227"}
{"by":"acangiano","time":"1233082069","timestamp":"2009-01-27 18:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now we need Lua on Orbits. ;-)","parent":"452396","id":"452520"}
{"by":"kelukelugames","time":"1435890235","timestamp":"2015-07-03 02:23:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a good ask. I wasn\u0026#x27;t trying to be snarky. I really don\u0026#x27;t understand it that well and I don\u0026#x27;t think it means as much coming from an Asian person. And honestly I\u0026#x27;m not comfortable arguing about it on a public forum.","parent":"9822927","id":"9823042"}
{"by":"general_failure","time":"1387240779","timestamp":"2013-12-17 00:39:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know the purpose of Sec-WebSocket-Key and the associated Accept? I know the hashing stuff (\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;WebSocket\u003c/a\u003e) but I don\u0026#x27;t understand why it exists.","parent":"6916816","id":"6918944"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1381429409","timestamp":"2013-10-10 18:23:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Half of an Instagram!","parent":"6527035","id":"6529265"}
{"by":"tacojuan","time":"1420246828","timestamp":"2015-01-03 01:00:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anywhere I can get more info on the HTP group? I was pretty fascinated by their zines at the time...","parent":"8829014","id":"8829481"}
{"by":"johnhenry","time":"1480695577","timestamp":"2016-12-02 16:19:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I posted a link to a instructions on getting the GNU equivalent of commonly used BSD programs on OSX yesterday: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13084969\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13084969\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13089220","id":"13089834"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1535427543","timestamp":"2018-08-28 03:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf the differences between filesystems were not interesting, we wouldn\u0026#x27;t have different filesystems.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe differences between filesystems are largely \u003ci\u003eimplementation\u003c/i\u003e differences, not \u003ci\u003einterface\u003c/i\u003e ones. They all essentially provide a way to store hierarchically named streams of bytes.\u003cp\u003eIf it was something like a formatter, fscker, defragger or similar utility I could definitely see the reason behind \u0026quot;only X filesystems are supported\u0026quot; --- they need to access the low-level data structures, but (disclaimer: haven\u0026#x27;t used it before) AFAIK all that Dropbox does is sync changes in files between your local filesystem and some cloud server --- which doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like the sort of functionality that requires anything more than the basic FS API.\u003cp\u003e(If it hasn\u0026#x27;t already been done, someone should write their own client, or patch out a stupid check and show that, yes, Dropbox \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c/i\u003e work on just about any filesystem.)","parent":"17856360","id":"17856411"}
{"by":"kevbahr","time":"1403815963","timestamp":"2014-06-26 20:52:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for sharing. I\u0026#x27;m in the National Guard too. I\u0026#x27;ve done some VBA to automate tactical operations center (TOC) reporting while deployed. I wrote an iPhone app \u0026#x2F; website for ammunition net explosive weight calculations (\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dodic-calc/id660062276?mt=8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;dodic-calc\u0026#x2F;id660062276?mt=8\u003c/a\u003e). Working on a bunch more. I\u0026#x27;m in the logistics field and would love to collaborate.","parent":"7950190","id":"7951520"}
{"by":"J_Darnley","time":"1469025427","timestamp":"2016-07-20 14:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anything, you say.  Can I remove it all and shut it down completely?","parent":"12128968","id":"12129298"}
{"by":"SubiculumCode","time":"1490292901","timestamp":"2017-03-23 18:15:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just noted that my lastpass extension was updated by Firefox. Is this fixed?","parent":"13941468","id":"13942466"}
{"by":"trekker7","time":"1189059816","timestamp":"2007-09-06 06:23:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This post is crying out for a bar graph based poll.","parent":"50773","id":"50977"}
{"by":"vermontdevil","time":"1459798973","timestamp":"2016-04-04 19:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Want to be a millionaire? Start with a billion dollars and start an airline\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e~ Richard Branson\u003cp\u003eEdit: Didn\u0026#x27;t see the same quote below!","parent":"11424053","id":"11424825"}
{"by":"Grantarvey","time":"1444344311","timestamp":"2015-10-08 22:45:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"haha I actually use flux on my desktop! didn\u0026#x27;t know they had it for mobile. Very cool. Thanks!","parent":"10349814","id":"10356903"}
{"by":"recurse","time":"1361494151","timestamp":"2013-02-22 00:49:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am a recent grad and got job offers from 5 different companies in bay area. Well, recent grad or new grad means a bachelor/masters student who is on either varge of graduation, finished with his all school work or the one who graduated in 2-3 months and looking for jobs. I had applied for jobs when I was almost done with my school work, I was just left with my defense, I had started applying for jobs from sept 2012 and got few offers by november 2012, meanwhile I was working on my masters project too. Then, after 5 offers I stopped applying for jobs and chose an offer where i wanted to work. On december 17th I defended my project and joined the company on 18th december.\u003cp\u003eHope it helped.","parent":"5261742","id":"5261778"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1314586603","timestamp":"2011-08-29 02:56:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eHacker has to compromise the server\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr the connection in between, unless SSL is satisfying that part of our threat model.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethen, for each connecting user, serve malware javascript.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo problem there, that's a core function of a server. It's a feature of MitM tools as well.\u003cp\u003eWhat's more difficult is an attacker who wants to target only a few specific users.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeanwhile, external network of monitors, masquerading as real users,\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nice idea, let me know when you get that implemented.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003edetect that server is compromised and alert the admins who can take appropriate actions.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's always a fun conversation to have. Be prepared for denial, anger, bargaining, and depression before getting to acceptance.\u003cp\u003eMonitor network: \"We've found sometimes users are receiving the old version of the Javascript, you know, the buggy one? Particularly when certain key words like 'democracy' occur in the text.\"\u003cp\u003eSite operator: \"Oh, must be an old file on one of the servers.\"\u003cp\u003eMonitor network: \"We think it might be a targeted attack\"\u003cp\u003eSite operator: \"Well, what are the \u003ci\u003echances\u003c/i\u003e of that\"\u003cp\u003eMonitor network: \"This is not a random phenomenon like earthquakes\"\u003cp\u003eSite operator: \"But, you can't \u003ci\u003eprove\u003c/i\u003e it, and not \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e users are affected, right?\"\u003cp\u003e...and so on\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOverall, compromised server can be shut down in minutes during which only a fraction of user base will have been affected.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis scheme should not be confused with actual security.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow does this not add to security?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore moving parts to break and make things worse. Every bit of script and supplemental page content is another weakest link.\u003cp\u003eAnd they will break, because they're being developed by those who are ether don't understand or are not willing to admit that they're pushing snake oil, even after the systemic flaws in their scheme have been pointed out repeatedly.","parent":"2935635","id":"2935691"}
{"by":"TaylorAlexander","time":"1538165498","timestamp":"2018-09-28 20:11:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That feels pretty dismissive. Wealth independence is a huge deal that gains an individual very important security and well being.\u003cp\u003eWe can chastise the workers as much as we can chastise the consumers who support this system. We’re all complicit in this, for the most part. We can work together to build alternatives.","parent":"18096630","id":"18096657"}
{"by":"buugs","time":"1257306222","timestamp":"2009-11-04 03:43:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both maps clearly state 3G coverage in the ad and do not say network coverage anywhere in it, why even go for a lawsuit like this?","parent":"920737","id":"920917"}
{"by":"ElysianEagle","time":"1447782637","timestamp":"2015-11-17 17:50:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also the fact that in many poor nations, there simply isn\u0026#x27;t enough of a social safety net to take care of you in your old age. The surest form of insurance is to have as many kids as you can and count on some or all of them to support you when you\u0026#x27;re no longer able to work.\u003cp\u003eWith SS, Medicare (in the US), etc. even though you won\u0026#x27;t live in luxury, you at least have some kind of income coming in in your retirement years.","parent":"10581652","id":"10582751"}
{"by":"madisonmay","time":"1388183732","timestamp":"2013-12-27 22:35:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Python 2.7, Scikit-learn, a few gb of ram, and a nice gpu.","parent":"6972856","id":"6972918"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1534892702","timestamp":"2018-08-21 23:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The amount of charge in an area stays constant because of Kirckhoff\u0026#x27;s laws, so dQ\u0026#x2F;dt=0 always.\u003cp\u003eEh what? No. There seems to be some huge misunderstanding here. First of all, charge is not \u0026quot;in an area\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s in \u003ci\u003evolumes\u003c/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eflows\u003c/i\u003e through areas. And the amount of charge in a volume is absolutely not constant (in general). If you think it is, then please explain what happens when you rub a balloon on your hair, or why\u0026#x2F;when lightning strikes.","parent":"17812028","id":"17814672"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1535426969","timestamp":"2018-08-28 03:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The entire industry and gaming culture in general has been having the \u0026quot;let\u0026#x27;s tone down the rape jokes, guys\u0026quot; conversation for years and years. At this point if it\u0026#x27;s part of your corporate culture in 2018 then it means it\u0026#x27;s something you value.","parent":"17855946","id":"17856378"}
{"by":"ye","time":"1382914345","timestamp":"2013-10-27 22:52:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s definitely a bug, most likely in the pre-prime generation (not enough entropy).\u003cp\u003eIf we\u0026#x27;re talking 1024-bit integers created by multiplying two 512-bit primes, the facts are:\u003cp\u003e1) The number of 512-bit primes is estimated around 11.36×10^150\u003cp\u003e2) The chance that two truly random primes are the same is one in 3.37*10^75. It is safe to assume it has never happened and never will (at least on our current hardware).","parent":"6623850","id":"6624006"}
{"by":"fastest963","time":"1362679400","timestamp":"2013-03-07 18:03:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but break a lot of other apps that happen to use different domains/pages for different contexts (mobile, desktop, etc).","parent":"5338647","id":"5339077"}
{"by":"dholowiski","time":"1360861246","timestamp":"2013-02-14 17:00:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use disqus on my blog for comments. I just checked and I'm not getting what he's getting, and I do have one post that gets ~40 views per day. Weird.","parent":"5220072","id":"5220364"}
{"by":"robin_reala","time":"1417189072","timestamp":"2014-11-28 15:37:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here’s the real one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOVFvcNfvE\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=OMOVFvcNfvE\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8671186","id":"8671190"}
{"by":"pjscott","time":"1376345647","timestamp":"2013-08-12 22:14:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s in a big, steel tube. You won\u0026#x27;t see bus-sized things going at nearly the speed of sound; you\u0026#x27;ll see a big, steel tube.","parent":"6201978","id":"6202500"}
{"by":"drakaal","time":"1380238746","timestamp":"2013-09-26 23:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The issue with Genism is you have to know what you are trying to analyze before you analyze it. It doesn\u0026#x27;t do well if you use the wrong corpus or if like you mention start with a million word corpus.\u003cp\u003eIf you were analyzing emails in a single organization all day you could probably sort out topics really well. Doing all of the web it breaks down because it gets less accurate the larger the variety of content.","parent":"6454256","id":"6454295"}
{"by":"gknoy","time":"1449995712","timestamp":"2015-12-13 08:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Additionally, if you\u0026#x27;re especially anxious to be introduced to an assembly-themed CTF, you can also go look at Microcorruption. I would wager that Thomas and Erin\u0026#x27;s current project is \u0026quot;better\u0026quot;, but Microcorruption still seems rather good.","parent":"10725177","id":"10725776"}
{"by":"carapace","time":"1543859726","timestamp":"2018-12-03 17:55:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to hack your brain try Neuro-Linguistic Programming, it describes the OS of the mind.  A good book to get started is, \u0026quot;Get the Life You Want: The Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming\u0026quot; by Richard Bandler.","parent":"18588727","id":"18591020"}
{"by":"Skinney","time":"1398509972","timestamp":"2014-04-26 10:59:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"which you can run at any time. Git also runs a minor gc every time you do a git push, which does do some compression.","parent":"7649852","id":"7650997"}
{"by":"seanysean","time":"1390246093","timestamp":"2014-01-20 19:28:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I must say that I find it revolting that you would invoke \u0026quot;competition law\u0026quot; to defend a patent monopoly.\u003cp\u003eI understand what you\u0026#x27;re trying to say but you should keep your economic theorizing in check, seeing as you\u0026#x27;re very libertarian in your attitude towards IV and in the same model going all Keynesian on Google (and via courts no less) your facts are also off, seeing as \u0026#x27;non-practicing entities\u0026#x27; or \u0026#x27;patent assertion entities\u0026#x27; are hardly \u0026quot;new business models\u0026quot; in fact they\u0026#x27;ve been at this racket for so long they are now called \u0026quot;trolls\u0026quot; for short, or the \u0026quot;Mafia\u0026quot; if you\u0026#x27;re an originalist.","parent":"7091029","dead":true,"id":"7091310"}
{"by":"frosty","time":"1237557505","timestamp":"2009-03-20 13:58:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hey man,\u003cp\u003ei also quit around a month ago and have now been thinking why i did'nt do it earlier. bad economy or good economy, i don't think it should make much of a difference.\u003cp\u003eactually i think this is a good time to start, less competition and also, if we can make something which is making good enough money, when economy becomes better. people will be running after few good startups around.","parent":"524837","id":"524906"}
{"by":"Hov","time":"1309988316","timestamp":"2011-07-06 21:38:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know where you're going with this, but unfortunately the implication applies equally well to Google+ as it does to FaceBook. I don't see why it wouldn't.","parent":"2735938","dead":true,"id":"2736004"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1324448903","timestamp":"2011-12-21 06:28:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally sympathize with the point and totally understand the SEO technique of creating an account and submitting it a well read news site, but this part is where you lose me:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"If SOPA passes, I for one pledge to both renounce my citizenship by 2014 and re-locate my business internationally. \"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou decide to run away? Really? Like anyone cares? I get the emotion, you can't stand it. But how about instead of running, how about becoming part of the solution? You know run for town council or something, start putting people to work and putting sanity into the world.\u003cp\u003eDid you know that federal judges are appointed by the recommendation of local US Attorneys? They even have office hours! Its amazing but true, you can go to the US Attorney's office, make an appointment, and talk about what makes for a good candidate for federal judge, the kind that hear and then rule on lawsuits that challenge the validity of stupid laws like SOPA.\u003cp\u003eSure you can move to some other country, guess what, if you don't participate there the idiots who step in where reasonable people won't are going to screw you again. And then where will you go? Antartica? Seasteading?\u003cp\u003eWe can't run away and hope for someone to say \"Oh crap there's nobody here any more.\" That won't happen. Take some personal responsibility for the crappy state of your country and work to fix it.","parent":"3376438","id":"3376577"}
{"by":"melvinram","time":"1297684179","timestamp":"2011-02-14 11:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 to that \"LOL what?\" I don't buy the whole \"if you don't normally handle the house that you can't figure it out when you have to\" idea. If someone can't figure that stuff out, they have bigger problems then paying the bill or rent.","parent":"2216367","id":"2216408"}
{"by":"Retra","time":"1446597200","timestamp":"2015-11-04 00:33:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I mean is that you can\u0026#x27;t be paid to raise a child, but you can be paid to manipulate them through marketing. You won\u0026#x27;t get paid to pick of trash off the street, but you can get paid to produce things that produce street-prone trash.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;And if you could pay someone to do something they normally wouldn\u0026#x27;t wouldn\u0026#x27;t they be merely passively not for it and not actively against that thing?\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t matter. They might be actively against it, but if you pay them enough, they\u0026#x27;ll still do it. We -- as a society -- pay people to do things that nobody really wants to have happen except those who happen get paid to do it (like market cigarettes.) And there are things that everybody wants to have happen that almost nobody gets paid to do (like care for your family.)\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re potentially using our economy to create problems rather than solve them.","parent":"10502340","id":"10503783"}
{"by":"amasad","time":"1540273631","timestamp":"2018-10-23 05:47:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Answered here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18277896\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18277896\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18280848","id":"18280999"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1506027356","timestamp":"2017-09-21 20:55:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See Ford strike of 1941, Ford strike of 1945 (which looked somewhat like a revolution), Ford strike of 1961...","parent":"15307232","id":"15307269"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1347588370","timestamp":"2012-09-14 02:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From word processing to servers to compilers, no tech company eats their own dog food like Microsoft. They even have their own search engine.\u003cp\u003eIt's an under appreciated feature of their corporate culture that first hit me when I asked myself, \"Why the hell does Microsoft sell project?\" and realized that just about everything they have developed since DOS has been something they could use in house.","parent":"4519442","id":"4519648"}
{"by":"smsm42","time":"1536699034","timestamp":"2018-09-11 20:50:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are assuming the original patent holder still exists and holds the patent. And it\u0026#x27;s not held by some patent troll aggregator whose sole purpose in life is milking their large patent portfolio and who has no problem refusing to grant license on any of the individual patents if the applicant can\u0026#x27;t pay whatever they want, and have no incentive to undermine their portfolio profitability and their market worth by offering these licenses too cheap.","parent":"17962981","id":"17963244"}
{"by":"wingerlang","time":"1475056995","timestamp":"2016-09-28 10:03:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With skytrain, around 20 minutes if I go after the morning rush. Looking to get a bike to get it down to some 5 minutes or less, although the traffic is dangerous.","parent":"12590582","id":"12596527"}
{"by":"fpgaminer","time":"1493061500","timestamp":"2017-04-24 19:18:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s better for the environment to bury wood unburnt.  Burning it will release carbon back into the atmosphere.  Burying the tree will re-sequester the carbon.\u003cp\u003eAs for grinding it, that\u0026#x27;s a question of whether the space saved by grinding up the wood is worth it versus just digging\u0026#x2F;finding a bigger hole.","parent":"14186768","id":"14187193"}
{"by":"spokey","time":"1275359187","timestamp":"2010-06-01 02:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think for Chicago it is less about \"developing recently enough that the effect would be negated\" and more about Burnham's \"forever free and clear\" plan for the lakefront (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham_Plan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham_Plan\u003c/a\u003e) which, unlike many cities, kept the waterfront from becoming industrialized.","parent":"1391508","id":"1394132"}
{"by":"topicseed","time":"1541321967","timestamp":"2018-11-04 08:59:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the graph engine used to query the nodes and edges with traversals?","parent":"18374456","id":"18374949"}
{"by":"Pigo","time":"1500917645","timestamp":"2017-07-24 17:34:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best possible business apps, including the Thyssenkrupp promo, revolved around conferencing with people in real time in an augmented reality space. Someone can help you while viewing what you\u0026#x27;re seeing, and interact with you using holograms, files from your OneDrive, and of course video chat. The Skype demo is by far the best implementation I\u0026#x27;ve seen of this, and it\u0026#x27;s designed really well imo. The other user does have to download a skype plugin, but then they are able to interact with your space.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve yet to test it with two devices, but there\u0026#x27;s a lot of shared experience functionality in the HoloToolkit.","parent":"14839736","id":"14840656"}
{"by":"cauldron","time":"1541780548","timestamp":"2018-11-09 16:22:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Reminder that one chief editor of the People\u0026#x27;s daily commited suicide days ago, following several similar suicides.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;A stressful job even to read propaganda afterall I guess.\u003cp\u003eThey even created a thing called \u0026quot;People\u0026#x27;s Search Engine\u0026quot; though it flopped.","parent":"18413762","id":"18415536"}
{"by":"copperx","time":"1452470793","timestamp":"2016-01-11 00:06:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t you have a nagging thought that you could buy a decent tablet for the cost of 8 Moleskines?","parent":"10877713","id":"10877891"}
{"by":"dragonsky","time":"1536991364","timestamp":"2018-09-15 06:02:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Always struck me as strange that cooking is not work, but turning on a oven is.  Would starting a fire to cook over be considered work?","parent":"17991873","id":"17993204"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1367224335","timestamp":"2013-04-29 08:32:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I consider myself as a professional programming language designer* . I try to explain what this means to my wife, a visual/interaction designer, and it's a struggle. We do talk a lot about color, typography, and grids, however, which actually is important in PX as it is in UX.\u003cp\u003e* who hasn't made it to the big time yet. I masquerade in the meantime as a researcher.","parent":"5623892","id":"5624781"}
{"by":"pleasanthipster","time":"1448010963","timestamp":"2015-11-20 09:16:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I personally take on jobs I\u0026#x27;m not assigned. But I think believing someone owes you a promotion for working hard is bs. Instead, work on the things you find valuable in whatever way you want it to be.\u003cp\u003eTbh though I actually agree with your comment 100% but there is a positive way to spin it","parent":"10600129","id":"10600372"}
{"by":"_jal","time":"1501593834","timestamp":"2017-08-01 13:23:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not the same thing at all, but my local laundromat is also a restaurant\u0026#x2F;bar, and hosts really terrible standup.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll frequently grab a bite while doing my laundry, and the \u0026quot;comedy\u0026quot; is a useful inspiration to get it done earlier in the day, so I don\u0026#x27;t have to listen to it. (It is really, truly awful.)","parent":"14897951","id":"14900345"}
{"by":"timedoctor","time":"1346328303","timestamp":"2012-08-30 12:05:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not checking email first thing is really hard to do! I manage to do it (just) but it requires an immense amount of discipline and easy to slip back into bad habits.","parent":"4453501","id":"4454141"}
{"by":"algebras","time":"1461417575","timestamp":"2016-04-23 13:19:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, why do British singers (at least some of them) sing in American accent? Adele for one. Her spoken speech is so different for her singing one.","parent":"11555404","id":"11555425"}
{"by":"sharkweek","time":"1410909359","timestamp":"2014-09-16 23:15:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Friend is a site supervisor for a pretty big GC up here in Seattle - They used to pay a pilot a few hundred bucks every time to fly over job sites to take aerial photography.\u003cp\u003eHe decided one month w\u0026#x2F;o telling the bosses to spend the money on a $500ish drone with a decent camera attached and cancel the pilot flights.\u003cp\u003eShowed the foreman the capabilities of the little drone, which quickly made it\u0026#x27;s way up the chain, and now one pilot is out of a recurring job.\u003cp\u003eThanks robots.","parent":"8324737","id":"8327638"}
{"by":"viper","time":"1242353294","timestamp":"2009-05-15 02:08:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One more thought on a very high level.\u003cp\u003eI thought, what would I want to be told if I was the customer?\u003cp\u003e1) The truth that there are holes in the process and here is a better solution if you need it.\nor\n2) That it is super secure unbreakable private key encryption.\u003cp\u003eI chose \"1\". I'll still stick to the story line but I will implement it in the next release.","parent":"609867","id":"609896"}
{"by":"genmon","time":"1426525869","timestamp":"2015-03-16 17:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that\u0026#x27;s the kind of thing. the one that comes to mind for me is the 9 hour AT\u0026amp;T long distance outage of 1990: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;hacker\u0026#x2F;part1.html\u003c/a\u003e -- it\u0026#x27;s these kind of emergent outages that really interest me","parent":"9212559","id":"9212738"}
{"by":"jmount","time":"1472139018","timestamp":"2016-08-25 15:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funding lawsuits for profit is a well-known society anti-pattern called \u0026quot;champerty.\u0026quot;  It is no longer illegal (as blocking it interfered with access to justice) but when used for profit or other agendas it is pretty damaging (think patent trolls).","parent":"12359305","id":"12359800"}
{"by":"epx","time":"1532900790","timestamp":"2018-07-29 21:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did similar to choose between the Big 3 frameworks, and I chose Vue. Was thinking about polishing the code to make the test \u0026quot;publishable\u0026quot;.","parent":"17636940","id":"17640443"}
{"by":"farcical_tinpot","time":"1464094824","timestamp":"2016-05-24 13:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I look back on Visual Basic with a mixture of trepidation and fondness. If you were a programmer who had experience of building well structured applications in C++, Python etc. then you could get a lot of stuff done and built on Windows. If you inherited a bad application, however....it was really bad. You can\u0026#x27;t deny its importance to desktop applications though.\u003cp\u003eThe switch to VB.Net was the first time that you couldn\u0026#x27;t simply take your existing code and recompile it in a new version and carry on adding new features. That\u0026#x27;s where VB.Net, and .Net in general, simply didn\u0026#x27;t take off. Most people found out they simply didn\u0026#x27;t need or even want the complexity of full object oriented development either.\u003cp\u003eWhat Microsoft should have done was built a rapid development environment on top of .Net, distinct from programming in C#, that allowed you to take classic VB code and simply recompile it. The switch to .Net has never really happened for Microsoft and if anyone has been rewriting applications they are as web applications or mobile apps - which Microsoft are not a part of. It will be seen as a pivotal moment where Microsoft simply lost developers. You see it now with pandering to bringing Bash to Windows, amongst other things. No one cares about Windows development.","parent":"11755041","id":"11761166"}
{"by":"daviding","time":"1288641960","timestamp":"2010-11-01 20:06:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The bottleneck is mainly in rendering. Plus I actually took a lot of 'blur n zoom' effects out already (which is where the silverlight version really excels I think). I'll put them back in and retry (it's a kind of blend like anim)\u003cp\u003eI'll check out the 2d canvas - thanks for that. Ironically the IE 9 works very well too, although that group of users always seem to have Silverlight already :)\u003cp\u003eWith traffic non-existent to the site it might just be too early, or perhaps some best suited as a native iOS app instead.","parent":"1851988","id":"1857993"}
{"by":"ryanmercer","time":"1544190267","timestamp":"2018-12-07 13:44:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve got a \u0026quot;Who\u0026#x27;s on First?\u0026quot; situation here.","parent":"18627095","id":"18627545"}
{"by":"redy","time":"1500447512","timestamp":"2017-07-19 06:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a common error. The blockchain itself doesn\u0026#x27;t make money. Just like the internet itself doesn\u0026#x27;t make money. People build collaboration models on top of the communication protocols and they make money.\u003cp\u003e(You still need to pay the ISPs of course and eventually the ISPs become too powerful and start demanding bigger and bigger fees and then the whole thing turns to shit. See: Bitcoin, the internet.)","parent":"14802365","id":"14802452"}
{"by":"svankmajer","time":"1412375784","timestamp":"2014-10-03 22:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394627\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8394627\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8400816","id":"8408021"}
{"by":"pmjordan","time":"1300092081","timestamp":"2011-03-14 08:41:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried using Chrome, with its embedded version of Flash (check chrome://plugins to enable only the embedded one)? If that doesn't work either, it sounds like there's a bust configuration somewhere, rather than a problem with the installation as such. Another thing to try: log in with another OS user account, and see if it works there. Finally: what's the failure mode, exactly? Browsers pretend no flash is installed? Flash hangs on start, etc.?","parent":"2320563","id":"2321780"}
{"by":"vdaniuk","time":"1382303682","timestamp":"2013-10-20 21:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At first I wanted to commend you on your long answer since you put a lot of work to explain your position. As I was writing a reply I understood that you have spent so much time to explain in detail why some subset X of humans are idiots, while attributing the motives of their actions to their innate qualities. (read: their idiotism)\u003cp\u003eThis is an exact demonstration of the fundamental attribution error I\u0026#x27;ve posted before.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, your comment is perfectly applicable to guns and cars with same fancy calculations and characterizations. And I definitely wont get into the discussion about personal responsibility, determinism vs free choice, etc. At least not in this discussion.","parent":"6581135","id":"6581521"}
{"by":"didibus","time":"1516298808","timestamp":"2018-01-18 18:06:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as they keep churning out awesome AAAs and continue to get lots of quality indie and third party games to the Switch, I\u0026#x27;m okay with this also being a thing they do.","parent":"16172492","id":"16179595"}
{"by":"radmen","time":"1393615694","timestamp":"2014-02-28 19:28:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. I didn\u0026#x27;t mention Java because I\u0026#x27;m a little Java hater :)\u003cp\u003eI like the idea that backend works only as an API (in fact we\u0026#x27;ll try to implement this in our future projects).\u003cp\u003eProblem is that, currently, client-side rendered pages have lots of performance problems. I guess that this shouldn\u0026#x27;t be a problem in future.","parent":"7320487","id":"7320895"}
{"by":"AFNobody","time":"1512686773","timestamp":"2017-12-07 22:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More or less, yes.\u003cp\u003eFringe political views will get you permanently blocked by Discord and\u0026#x2F;or Twitter.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not a right-leaning person but even the concept speech should be free and uncensored if you aren\u0026#x27;t enabling a crime is an issue.","parent":"15874985","id":"15875102"}
{"by":"justliving","time":"1282298071","timestamp":"2010-08-20 09:54:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thanks a lot!","parent":"1617872","id":"1619973"}
{"by":"latortuga","time":"1336152867","timestamp":"2012-05-04 17:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your demo video is very awesome - short, easy to follow, clear instructions! The library looks pretty cool!","parent":"3928837","id":"3929438"}
{"by":"dominik","time":"1323198133","timestamp":"2011-12-06 19:02:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"In this instance, we recognized our error and moved as swiftly as possible to fix it.\"\u003cp\u003eIt's not clear what \"error\" they're admitting to, but it seems as if they're admitting some error, however ill-defined.","parent":"3320364","id":"3320469"}
{"by":"clamprecht","time":"1403059100","timestamp":"2014-06-18 02:38:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s something I\u0026#x27;ve been wondering, totally hypothetical but could be real for someone else:\u003cp\u003ePuerto Rico has this new tax law that basically limits taxes to like 4% or less, if you are a resident of PR.  Let\u0026#x27;s say Bob is an American who expects to have a big exit in 2015 (or he has lots of GOOG stock and wants to sell it).  Normally Bob would pay US capital gains taxes (15-20%, maybe 23.8%), plus California taxes (assuming he lives in CA).  Instead, Bob moves to Puerto Rico, establishes residency.  Then he sells his shares for US dollars, and pays Puerto Rico taxes.  Then Bob moves back to mainland US, having saved lots of money.\u003cp\u003eIs there a flaw in the above situation?","parent":"7907980","id":"7908281"}
{"by":"lectrick","time":"1436983126","timestamp":"2015-07-15 17:58:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elixir all the way. It\u0026#x27;s going to be a big deal.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been doing Ruby for over 10 years. Never seen anything like Elixir.\u003cp\u003eRust, Haskell, Clojure will have their niches too. But Elixir will probably take over back-end web development.","parent":"9877565","id":"9892929"}
{"by":"jowiar","time":"1346806619","timestamp":"2012-09-05 00:56:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn't have the crazy f of Inconsolata. It's one of the Bitstream/DejaVu Sans Mono derivatives - I think it's Menlo.","parent":"4477128","id":"4477339"}
{"by":"scotty79","time":"1502711415","timestamp":"2017-08-14 11:50:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Without products of complex industrial you are pretty much this: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Lykov_family\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Lykov_family\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure if any self-sustaing fan would want that.","parent":"15004297","id":"15007998"}
{"by":"rat87","time":"1467014229","timestamp":"2016-06-27 07:57:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally disagree. Back in the day a lot of these questions fit on Stack Overflow just fine. A lot of the sites are too specific and have to few users for good answers.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The SO community has always aimed to close any questions whose answers will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.\u003cp\u003eThis isn\u0026#x27;t true back in the day people gave good opinions on things with subjective answers. Frequently you\u0026#x27;d have author of framework A saying whats pluses and minuses it has and the same for framework B and C. I didn\u0026#x27;t see any flamewars. The problem is that they started moderating questions instead of answers. If you get a bad subjective answer simply remove it with a warning.","parent":"11984581","id":"11984742"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1359597219","timestamp":"2013-01-31 01:53:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, you can really see these are student projects. They are basically focused on what students care about. It makes sense, but it's very narrow-minded and probably not very appealing to many people out there. THis being said, some of the services are very well designed.","parent":"5142633","id":"5142913"}
{"by":"spraak","time":"1517430318","timestamp":"2018-01-31 20:25:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Observing these services connect in my own life has been interesting. The peak moment where I really started to think about it was when I took an Uber to pick up my Turo car then drove my Airbnb where I waited for my Instacart order to arrive.","parent":"16276449","id":"16277229"}
{"by":"elthran","time":"1448962286","timestamp":"2015-12-01 09:31:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sitting on one right now (not a FB one), while knowing full well how expensive they are - what I can never understand is \u0026#x2F;why\u0026#x2F; they are so expensive - I can\u0026#x27;t say its noticeably more comfortable than any other office chair I\u0026#x27;ve used.","parent":"10654166","id":"10654343"}
{"by":"ted1961","time":"1414743217","timestamp":"2014-10-31 08:13:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eich is also 53, the same age as Cook. Both were born in 1961 Where do you get you mistaken certitude from? And why would 5 years age difference matter even if it were true?","parent":"8532749","id":"8537776"}
{"by":"comrh","time":"1438117257","timestamp":"2015-07-28 21:00:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t most startups only becoming interesting when they receive investments?","parent":"9964203","id":"9964448"}
{"by":"trickjarrett","time":"1300860214","timestamp":"2011-03-23 06:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should see the tv special \"Merchants of Cool\" which talks about the tv and music industry, being owned by just five companies, and how they mold and shape the product, tell us what is cool, then sell it to us only to tell us it's not cool anymore.\u003cp\u003eThis doesn't surprise me in the least, if it proves to be true (which it appears to be, I'm just saying it isn't an undeniable case.)","parent":"2357467","id":"2358246"}
{"by":"moha002","time":"1466100642","timestamp":"2016-06-16 18:10:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I took that course and I really enjoyed it. That\u0026#x27;s why, I downloaded it and uploaded it to drive when I heard that coursera is gonna delete it. Here\u0026#x27;s the link:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;open?id=0B64NfOIwa64BVFJXQzNhTDM3NDg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;open?id=0B64NfOIwa64BVFJXQzNhTDM3ND...\u003c/a\u003e\nKeep looking up :D","parent":"11886288","id":"11917829"}
{"by":"adrianN","time":"1529329942","timestamp":"2018-06-18 13:52:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if the script doesn\u0026#x27;t just contain a sudo (which they often do), you\u0026#x27;re still just one local exploit away from installing a rootkit. I don\u0026#x27;t think they\u0026#x27;re that hard to come by.","parent":"17338151","id":"17338223"}
{"by":"bigiain","time":"1374134871","timestamp":"2013-07-18 08:07:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God\u0026quot; … \u0026quot;a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation\u0026quot; (Exod. 20:5)","parent":"6062029","id":"6062409"}
{"by":"samirm","time":"1537917683","timestamp":"2018-09-25 23:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"love the posters","parent":"18066929","id":"18071398"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1322481351","timestamp":"2011-11-28 11:55:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry to hear that.  The ridiculous pressures placed on gifted kids in this regard is widespread and, IMO, not healthy for society as a whole.  But usually doesn't involve \u003ci\u003ebeatings\u003c/i\u003e.  However, it is possible to undo the damage.  I walked away from a national merit scholarship and dropped out of college to go find out who I was other than an obnoxious brainiac.  I wish I had some words of wisdom to help you.  No advice comes to mind (but then I don't typically do advice anyway).\u003cp\u003eConsider this a cyberhug and meant in the best way possible.  If you aren't the huggie type, then a cyberbow if that works better.\u003cp\u003ePeace.","parent":"3285224","id":"3285511"}
{"by":"petre","time":"1510203212","timestamp":"2017-11-09 04:53:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NSA gets their money from the taxpayer so you\u0026#x27;re only looking at more taxes to sustain they\u0026#x27;re storage costs.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ll also waste money to power empty hard drives.","parent":"15658465","id":"15659968"}
{"by":"morsch","time":"1352576796","timestamp":"2012-11-10 19:46:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like a way to be able to access a full-resolution version of the image. (Fwiw I didn't watch the video.)\u003cp\u003eI couldn't zoom in the image with with browser zoom (ctrl-+/wheelup), it breaks badly when I do that (Firefox nightly Ubuntu).","parent":"4766861","id":"4767531"}
{"by":"ericHosick","time":"1323043788","timestamp":"2011-12-05 00:09:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For both business value and effort? Also, by hours for tasks during the sprint?","parent":"3311661","id":"3312348"}
{"by":"robbiewright","time":"1389502610","timestamp":"2014-01-12 04:56:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most point-of-sale terminals in Australia have been upgraded recently to facilitate RFID enabled cards. But I guess that will only happen in the US once banks start issuing RFID\u0026#x2F;chip and pin cards by default. I hope for the sake of those 110 million people that the banks sent out modern debit\u0026#x2F;credit cards to those who cancelled their cards.","parent":"7044892","id":"7045204"}
{"by":"geofft","time":"1516852798","timestamp":"2018-01-25 03:59:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One thing to note is that at least in the US, the compulsory licensing scheme for recordings of covers involves paying a fixed amount per copy (a couple of cents), even if you charge nothing at all.\u003cp\u003e(Also, it doesn\u0026#x27;t apply to things that aren\u0026#x27;t recordings at all, including live performances, as you say, or written or electronic copies of sheet music \u0026#x2F; lyrics.)","parent":"16228606","id":"16228630"}
{"by":"Lapsa","time":"1517697328","timestamp":"2018-02-03 22:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"looks broken \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;Ndm5z\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;Ndm5z\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16299928","id":"16300082"}
{"by":"JeffJenkins","time":"1274023830","timestamp":"2010-05-16 15:30:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe github allows you to comment on commits.  I don't know how well that is integrated with their bug tracker, though.","parent":"1351299","id":"1352159"}
{"by":"mulmen","time":"1512779817","timestamp":"2017-12-09 00:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I guess we can abolish congress then?\u003cp\u003eDemocracy contains a fundamental assumption that society is continually evolving.  You\u0026#x27;re putting a lot of words in my mouth here.  I don\u0026#x27;t think our current system is perfect, that does not mean I want to institute a dystopian centrally managed society.  It means I understand the basic concepts of democracy, and nuance.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think our current levels of wealth inequality are healthy or sustainable.  Personally I\u0026#x27;d like to see a wealth tax where you pay for the portion of the national economy you hold.","parent":"15882980","id":"15883394"}
{"by":"notacoward","time":"1466772022","timestamp":"2016-06-24 12:40:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a very strange, and in some cases inaccurate, portrayal of history.\u003cp\u003e* The British were not an external enemy.  That would have been the French.  For the most part, even the people leading the revolution were proud of being British subjects and would have liked to remain so, but could no longer tolerate the conditions being attached to that status.  Our enemy was recognized to be our own cousins, not some external force.\u003cp\u003e* The shared dream of settling the continent was real but - given that said continent was already occupied and settling it meant exterminating the current residents - it\u0026#x27;s not something I\u0026#x27;d want to put forward as key to our identity.\u003cp\u003e* Shared culture, language, religion?  Language, mostly.  The Puritans in New England didn\u0026#x27;t really have much to say to the Quakers in Philadelphia, and both had even less in common with the not-particularly-religious folks down in Virginia.  Yes, I guess they all were (or at least professed to be) Christians, but that\u0026#x27;s not \u003ci\u003etoo\u003c/i\u003e different than Europe today.\u003cp\u003eSo, basically, the difference between the US and the EU, according to the criteria you\u0026#x27;ve mentioned, is that the US united to commit genocide and the EU united to avoid it.  Congratulations on making the point that the two cases are different.","parent":"11966167","id":"11969300"}
{"by":"dangravell","time":"1335184832","timestamp":"2012-04-23 12:40:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would \u003ci\u003epay\u003c/i\u003e for a GMail extension that allowed me to automate or semi-automate actions upon some kind of matching... e.g.\u003cp\u003eWhen I get an email from so-and-so...\nScrape some data from email\nAdd as a new row in Google Spreadsheet\nReply with this data inserted or my own manual edits\u003cp\u003eAre commercial GMail add ins permitted?","parent":"3878153","id":"3878444"}
{"by":"Jsarokin","time":"1297224856","timestamp":"2011-02-09 04:14:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know the exact details of your situation, and I can't say I've ever experienced what you're going through but I think it can be boiled down to a simple question.\u003cp\u003eAre you doing what you love?\u003cp\u003eI think dealing with the frustrations is different for each person. You have to try things out and find what works for you.\u003cp\u003eThis may be something you want to talk to a psychologist about.","parent":"2196235","id":"2196263"}
{"by":"mfalcon","time":"1262488375","timestamp":"2010-01-03 03:12:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're right, sorting the items into individual drops is an important issue. I thought about hiring a service for taking care of this and for the transport.","parent":"1028049","id":"1028126"}
{"by":"paulddraper","time":"1473388169","timestamp":"2016-09-09 02:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with you, but a lot of people don\u0026#x27;t. There are rules about who you decide to hire, who you decide to rent to, and who you decide to serve.\u003cp\u003eCrazy, I know, but that\u0026#x27;s the world most wanted.","parent":"12457441","id":"12459292"}
{"by":"jschuur","time":"1331271497","timestamp":"2012-03-09 05:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My email address is jschuur@jschuur.com. I'm not afraid of people finding it out.","parent":"3682350","id":"3683063"}
{"by":"gwern","time":"1296157042","timestamp":"2011-01-27 19:37:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; My mileage did vary. Nobody in modern academic philosophy is a dualist.\u003cp\u003eThat may not be as true as you think. Notice the high percentages of internalism, libertarianism, and other positions associated with dualism. (Unfortunately, the survey didn't ask flat out about dualism):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2148821","id":"2149146"}
{"by":"dlsiren","time":"1486620880","timestamp":"2017-02-09 06:14:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"in blog dlsiren, i Write about all driving related stuffs, from Driving Licence to Maintainance of a car. :)","parent":"13605038","id":"13605073"}
{"by":"factorialboy","time":"1336197192","timestamp":"2012-05-05 05:53:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry .. didn't know it was controversial .. Such jokes were common (and generally acceptable) when I worked there.. :-/","parent":"3919122","id":"3931472"}
{"by":"thyb","time":"1399489007","timestamp":"2014-05-07 18:56:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, fixed.","parent":"7711909","id":"7712019"}
{"by":"tcas","time":"1395696844","timestamp":"2014-03-24 21:34:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eProfitability seems very very very far away\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust to add, right on their S1 risk factors:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  We have incurred significant losses in each period since our inception in 2005.\n  We incurred net losses of $50.3 million in our fiscal year ended December 31, 2011,\n  $112.6 million in our fiscal year ended January 31, 2013, and\n  $168.6 million in our fiscal year ended January 31, 2014. \n  As of January 31, 2014, we had an accumulated deficit of $361.2 million\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nGranted the risk section is usually the absolutely worst case scenario, but it\u0026#x27;s interesting that they\u0026#x27;re losing more money at a faster pace each year.","parent":"7461562","id":"7461716"}
{"by":"hawkharris","time":"1379388461","timestamp":"2013-09-17 03:27:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate Stack Overflow even more when I think about it in terms of a broader trend.\u003cp\u003eA paper published earlier this year showed that online comments can affect Americans\u0026#x27; perceptions of science. In fact, the comments posted on science articles can persuade readers more than the articles themselves. [0]\u003cp\u003eThis got me thinking: every year more people are turning to the Internet for advice about serious subjects — medical advice, technical advice, a basic understanding of science. This fact, combined with the findings about the persuasiveness of comments, suggests that comments are tied to a growing ethical responsibility.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, if you manage a website that deals with, say, health care, science or technology, you have an ethical obligation to a) recognize the potential harm that can result from misinformation in comments; b) take action to minimize that harm and facilitate a productive dialogue.\u003cp\u003eThis brings me to Stack Overflow, which has a responsibility to offer accurate, useful feedback about programming. The stakes can be high, considering that a malicious or misinformed user could easily convince others to execute harmful code.\u003cp\u003eI think Stack Overflow is an excellent example of how sites can use rewards systems to encourage positive feedback and punish (i.e. downvote) those who disseminate misinformation or off-topic questions. The feedback as a whole seems very focused and accurate.\u003cp\u003eI hope other sites that offer serious advice will become more aware of their responsibility to solicit accurate comments. Now that we know comments can seriously affect readers\u0026#x27; perceptions, it seems that an anything-goes comment form can be unethical. Stack Overflow may be a great role model in this respect.\u003cp\u003e[0]\u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/40.summary\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;339\u0026#x2F;6115\u0026#x2F;40.summary\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6394454","id":"6397393"}
{"by":"forinti","time":"1241014287","timestamp":"2009-04-29 14:11:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another quick fact: South America produces three times the food it consumes. And another: Brazil's per capita GDP is nearly 4 times India's. Brazil can feed and educate everybody. The fact that it doesn't (at least the feeding part is already fixed) is more related to bad government than to lack of funds.","parent":"584840","id":"585047"}
{"by":"vmarsy","time":"1378268879","timestamp":"2013-09-04 04:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A trick I use when I change quality is immediately clicking on the time bar, it enforce the change right away.\u003cp\u003eI agree with all the annoying points above!","parent":"6325120","id":"6325554"}
{"by":"huuu","time":"1416828678","timestamp":"2014-11-24 11:31:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the keyword here is \u0026quot;state\u0026quot;. A lot of bad code is written because people think they need to access (global) state all the time.\u003cp\u003eMaybe you drunk too much good practice-aid ;)","parent":"8651853","id":"8651918"}
{"by":"gahahaha","time":"1281361505","timestamp":"2010-08-09 13:45:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. (See: Laffer, Arthur)","parent":"1587912","id":"1587924"}
{"by":"jacksmith21006","time":"1521829556","timestamp":"2018-03-23 18:25:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After Google sees the record numbers of people protesting tomorrow against guns they will see them and Reddit made the right decision.\u003cp\u003eI have 8 kids and me and wife and every one of my kids and many of their friends will be out tomorrow.  I have a blow horn ready.\u003cp\u003eNow why on Earth is Google paying the bills for Alex Jones and other alt right figures as no advertisers?   Google should just boot them when no revenues.","parent":"16643040","id":"16661148"}
{"by":"alaskamiller","time":"1190831573","timestamp":"2007-09-26 18:32:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, the Basin is a pretty good restaurant.","parent":"59875","id":"59920"}
{"by":"willyyr","time":"1507289492","timestamp":"2017-10-06 11:31:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess because SAP HANA is an in memory database which requires, well, a lot of memory. Other providers use HANA as a reference as well.","parent":"15415884","id":"15415915"}
{"by":"sachinag","time":"1297133069","timestamp":"2011-02-08 02:44:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OMFG, this is amazing.  And they're from Illinois.  Someone in Chicago please fund them before they run off to the Valley.","parent":"2191542","id":"2191700"}
{"by":"beaudeal","time":"1216966898","timestamp":"2008-07-25 06:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i think its great that theres all of this discussion over something such as business models -- in this age of technology i feel its often something overlooked -- but in my opinion, they are both valid, it just depends on what you're going for. if dhh is happy working 4 days a week on 37signals and earning the money that he is, and he wouldnt rather be doing something else, than great for him! if his interest were exhausted, and he were still doing that, then i would say why not sell? for me personally i could not be happier than working on my current project, because it is what i am most passionate about. however, with that being said, for the right price it would be crazy not to sell. not only could you continue to work on it afterward, but if something else came along more interesting you would have the opportunity to pursue it. i just dont think this is as cut and dry as dhh wants to make it seem, and i really agree with the clarifications that paul made in his first comment.","parent":"255716","id":"256363"}
{"by":"dmillar","time":"1239381503","timestamp":"2009-04-10 16:38:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. If you feel your employee is a value to you and potentially a competitor, you ought to compensate them accordingly. Personally, I would never sign a non-compete unless there were not only adequate considerations for compensation, but also equity.","parent":"556146","id":"556281"}
{"by":"wiredfool","time":"1314992808","timestamp":"2011-09-02 19:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a way to make this work with KVM, or is this using something special from the virtualbox distrubution to convert the .vhds?","parent":"2955023","id":"2955348"}
{"by":"nikolay","time":"1454240190","timestamp":"2016-01-31 11:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an essential feature that is dragging me towards Varnish even if this comes with tons of negatives.The bans feature is just amazing.\u003cp\u003eAnd right or wrong, there are not that many implementations to choose from in the Nginx land, unfortunately.","parent":"10992091","id":"11006097"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1543331672","timestamp":"2018-11-27 15:14:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you feel reading this article? Who benefits from that feeling? Is there anyone you\u0026#x27;re more likely to give money or votes to? Are there any actions with economic impact you feel like you should take? And most cynically, isn\u0026#x27;t there a part of you that feels like you\u0026#x27;re morally superior or have secret knowledge that the other people below you on your social scale don\u0026#x27;t share, and you now despise that other group for not \u0026quot;seeing the truth\u0026quot; that much more, solidifying an \u0026quot;us vs. them\u0026quot; mentality with another brick in the wall?\u003cp\u003eYes, there\u0026#x27;s politics here. Being \u0026quot;political\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it\u0026#x27;s wrong, though we have that default reaction for a fairly solid reason, but, still, being \u0026quot;political\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it\u0026#x27;s wrong. There\u0026#x27;s definitely politics, though.","parent":"18542666","id":"18542867"}
{"by":"jonknee","time":"1346981284","timestamp":"2012-09-07 01:28:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll take transit navigation and street view before slightly improved 3D any day.","parent":"4486509","id":"4487258"}
{"by":"lscott3","time":"1338580462","timestamp":"2012-06-01 19:54:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent! I know I have caught myself thinking about this way too much. It often stops the flow of getting good ideas out the door. I have rewrote projects 2 or 3 times because I have learned something new and just had to apply it because that was the most effective way to do it.","parent":"4055128","id":"4055390"}
{"by":"dsmithatx","time":"1462489543","timestamp":"2016-05-05 23:05:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I should of said it wouldn\u0026#x27;t surprise me if it had positive effects.  It would surprise if we hadn\u0026#x27;t evolved as you said to tolerate low doses.  I can\u0026#x27;t think of anything else all land creatures evolved exposed to that is really harmful.","parent":"11640278","id":"11640377"}
{"by":"auser678","time":"1344921114","timestamp":"2012-08-14 05:11:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would change the statement to 'The US Visa laws are broken'. Empirically H1-B demand is tied to the demand for highly skilled people. There have been years when it was allotted via lottery and there were years when the quota was not filled up.\u003cp\u003eThe companies using H1 already pay a high penalty in terms of the very high fees, which is non refundable even if the visa is rejected. It is a source of revenue to the US govt","parent":"4376641","id":"4379512"}
{"by":"RaSoJo","time":"1355069078","timestamp":"2012-12-09 16:04:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But there are many other \"Big Corps\" specified on the FreeBSD portal. Aren't they obligated in some form or the other to be funding FreeBSD?\u003cp\u003e500k appears to be quite a nominal amount when you put all these \"Big Corp\" names together. Or is this fund raising set apart from what the \"Big Corps\" pay?\nNot sure how this works...","parent":"4894944","id":"4894989"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1531179994","timestamp":"2018-07-09 23:46:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, no, no. You\u0026#x27;ll see it when you believe it. It\u0026#x27;s a new paradigm.","parent":"17493750","id":"17494341"}
{"by":"sharkbrainguy","time":"1231964128","timestamp":"2009-01-14 20:15:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like a window manager?\n\u003ca href=\"http://xmonad.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://xmonad.org/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"434180","id":"434196"}
{"by":"glenra","time":"1392443079","timestamp":"2014-02-15 05:44:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Scarce resources aren\u0026#x27;t the cause of starving babies\u003cp\u003eThey aren\u0026#x27;t? Wait, let\u0026#x27;s make the claim more specific. Biofuel mandates that had been justified in part based on CO2 concerns have driven up the cost of corn and other grains - crops and farmland is being needlessly diverted from food to fuel. Making grains more expensive has indeed been a cause of starvation in the third world.\u003cp\u003eUm, here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/62609/c-ford-runge-and-benjamin-senauer/how-biofuels-could-starve-the-poor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.foreignaffairs.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;62609\u0026#x2F;c-ford-runge-an...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7242446","id":"7242809"}
{"by":"catamorphismic","time":"1498987349","timestamp":"2017-07-02 09:22:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... what? This is precisely the correlation meant in the aphorism you mentioned and is also the only sense of the word correlation of which I am aware of. Signals can be similar (correlated) purely by chance and this cannot be taken to imply a causative link between them.","parent":"14679406","id":"14681654"}
{"by":"edw519","time":"1214744078","timestamp":"2008-06-29 12:54:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMoney doesn't buy happiness; it just helps you arrive in style.\u003c/i\u003e - Tony Robbins\u003cp\u003eOnce you eliminate low outlying cases (people who can't afford the basics), I have witnessed little correlation between money and happiness.  I know lots of people of ordinary means who are thrilled with life and are a pleasure to be with.  OTOH, I dread spending time with many people I know that do have more money than most.  They seem like they've lost focus on what really is important.  (I don't want to hear you complain about people who work for you and I certainly don't care who you're suing; did you call your mother today?)\u003cp\u003eJust my experience.  I suspect others have witnessed the same.","parent":"231040","id":"231163"}
{"by":"light3","time":"1232346564","timestamp":"2009-01-19 06:29:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice essay :) I'm an immigrant and looking back at how my mother always frowned when I wanted biscuits, or chips or fruit bars - it was because she didn't have any of that when she grew up and for the better.","parent":"439690","id":"440147"}
{"by":"smoyer","time":"1374409847","timestamp":"2013-07-21 12:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A stand-alone Java application is enterprise-ready if you can convince the enterprise it will support their needs.  And as you point out, security and error handling as well as a lack of critical bugs will help.\u003cp\u003eNote that this is vastly different than \u0026quot;Enterprise Java\u0026quot;, where the goal is to create systems that are modular, that interact with each other in defined ways (JMS and SOA).  The goal is essentially to allow each module in your system to be a \u0026quot;black-box design\u0026quot;.  In the BDUF world, this means your ICDs (Interface Control Documents aka APIs) stay the same when you swap out a module\u0026#x27;s implementation.","parent":"6078353","id":"6078573"}
{"by":"rdegges","time":"1347306157","timestamp":"2012-09-10 19:42:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both (I'm the author). It covers Heroku from the ground up. I've had people of many different skill levels review the book, and so far its had extremely positive feedback.\u003cp\u003eIf you're on the fence, send me an email (rdegges@gmail.com) and I'll give you a copy for free :)","parent":"4501759","id":"4501787"}
{"by":"dietrichepp","time":"1462317247","timestamp":"2016-05-03 23:14:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here.  64-bit addition on RV32I.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    ; input 1 (msb r1, lsb r2)\n    ; input 2 (r3, r4)\n    ; output (r5, r6)\n    xori    r5, r4, -1\n    sltu    r5, r5, r2\n    add     r6, r4, r2\n    add     r5, r5, r3\n    add     r5, r5, r1\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThis is what I mean. Outside a few applications (mostly asymmetric crypto) nobody cares that it takes five instructions instead of two. Remember that this is the same processor that outright omits multiplication from the core spec.","parent":"11610845","id":"11624977"}
{"by":"president","time":"1312136901","timestamp":"2011-07-31 18:28:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure it's not a major update but it is the little things that makes an OS great. After being a long time power Windows user, switching to Mac OS made me realize how the little things can really improve productivity and workflows.","parent":"2829055","id":"2829085"}
{"by":"candiodari","time":"1527437635","timestamp":"2018-05-27 16:13:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So what you\u0026#x27;re saying is there\u0026#x27;s lots of complexity and nuances in how you do this with some commonly done things illegal and others not ... and you should probably consult a lawyer to make sure.\u003cp\u003eCorrect ?","parent":"17161984","id":"17167550"}
{"by":"coffeemug","time":"1545874082","timestamp":"2018-12-27 01:28:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nobody owes you not selling your data either. But social networks got so big and powerful that we\u0026#x27;re developing specialized norms for this sort of stuff because on balance it\u0026#x27;s better to live in a society where our data doesn\u0026#x27;t get sold. The same is true for speech and platforms -- nobody \u003ci\u003eowes\u003c/i\u003e you one, but these companies accrue the astronomical benefits of massive network effects and are changing the ecology of our society. It\u0026#x27;s reasonable to impose free speech norms in exchange because on balance it will result in a better world than the counterfactual.","parent":"18766302","id":"18766470"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1527181590","timestamp":"2018-05-24 17:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The driver was also in charge of monitoring and classifying\u0026#x2F;tagging instruments messages appearing on monitors on the center stack.","parent":"17145978","id":"17146063"}
{"by":"ghostbrainalpha","time":"1507764197","timestamp":"2017-10-11 23:23:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is my own Turing Test.\u003cp\u003eAny AI that doesn\u0026#x27;t have the capability of destroying us isn\u0026#x27;t true AI.\u003cp\u003eEven if it can improve itself, and even if it has some agency, AI needs to be able to choose for itself what its relationship with us will be, otherwise its just an extremely robust calculator.","parent":"15453693","id":"15454422"}
{"by":"serge2k","time":"1452123218","timestamp":"2016-01-06 23:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to that link we should be terrified that any man is a sexual predator just waiting to take your kid away. Fuck that.","parent":"10853376","id":"10854802"}
{"by":"robwilliams","time":"1452201865","timestamp":"2016-01-07 21:24:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t that just prove that 1 dog = 2 cats and not that anyone was actually willing to pay $1 million for the dog? People are spending real money, that they could equally well as spend on other things, on stocks - they\u0026#x27;re not just trading stocks, correct? The man in your story couldn\u0026#x27;t actually sell the dog to someone for $1 million, but people who own stock can sell for cold cash.\u003cp\u003eOr am I wrong?","parent":"10860169","id":"10860895"}
{"by":"mintplant","time":"1329114747","timestamp":"2012-02-13 06:32:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sorry, what? Chrome does not send your info back to Google, unless you have the anonymized usage statistics (not sure what it tracks) option turned on, or are using Google as your search provider with Suggestions enabled as-you-type.","parent":"3584484","id":"3584495"}
{"by":"adrianratnapala","time":"1524809251","timestamp":"2018-04-27 06:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The bar on the left is obviously a vertical imitation of the Mac OS X dock.\u003cp\u003eWhich is a horizontal \u0026quot;imitation\u0026quot; of the NeXTStep doc, which I learned about from WindowMaker.  And which is the obvious extension of a plain-old button-bar for the use case of a Window manager.  So Kudos to old Stevie J, but still ...","parent":"16931491","id":"16938746"}
{"by":"scottmcdot","time":"1447968106","timestamp":"2015-11-19 21:21:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I came across The \u0026quot;Susso\u0026quot; while reading the novel \u0026#x27;My Brother Jack\u0026#x27;.","parent":"10587715","id":"10597776"}
{"by":"criddell","time":"1472218687","timestamp":"2016-08-26 13:38:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes (especially on mobile) it seems to be the only way to get rid of it.\u003cp\u003eI should apologize to \u0026quot;someguy@gmail.com\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;ihateyou@gmail.com\u0026quot; for all the things I\u0026#x27;ve signed you up for.","parent":"12366058","id":"12366103"}
{"by":"cblock811","time":"1486763553","timestamp":"2017-02-10 21:52:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I can see that. Fair enough.","parent":"13617481","id":"13619229"}
{"by":"ralfn","time":"1502037002","timestamp":"2017-08-06 16:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; they don\u0026#x27;t deserve the level of scattergun disrespect that you\u0026#x27;re displaying here.\u003cp\u003eYou really consider their feelings more important than protecting actual scientific facts from something akin to trademark infringement?\u003cp\u003eThe public perception right now is that IQ and EQ are similar in the level of scientific backing. In world where people stop vaccinating their kids, ignore global warming, etc. i really don\u0026#x27;t consider the feelings of any particular group of people in any field important enough to not, every chance i get, fight for clarity on just what are reliable scientific facts and what are not, because it is scientific method itself that is under attack.\u003cp\u003eAnd if these \u0026#x27;serious people working on areas such as this\u0026#x27; are not full of shit, working in service of science, i expect them to have the exact same priority as me.","parent":"14941138","id":"14941945"}
{"by":"sdkmvx","time":"1445904342","timestamp":"2015-10-27 00:05:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Can you imagine if, every time something new happened in Syria, Wikipedia published a new Syria page, and in order to understand the bigger picture, you had to manually sift through hundreds of pages with overlapping information?\u003cp\u003eThat is exactly what Wikipedia does. It works well because most readers are not looking in an encyclopedia for information on yesterday\u0026#x27;s events.\u003cp\u003eLikewise inverted pyramid works well because it simultaneously satisfies the needs of new readers who need the most important details at the top and repeat readers who can quickly scan the short paragraphs for new information. I despise new-style live streaming because it is so awkward to read; I have to read backwards, bottom-to-top, and the most important details are often in the middle.","parent":"10455051","id":"10455343"}
{"by":"Estragon","time":"1309604761","timestamp":"2011-07-02 11:06:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just an anecdote, but I have been using chrome for the last six months because everything else was slow as a dog on my Mum's MacBook Pro, and chrome was super-fast.  But the lack of decent keyboard link navigation is driving me crazy, and may drive me back to firefox soon.","parent":"2721108","id":"2721457"}
{"by":"GauntletWizard","time":"1430340186","timestamp":"2015-04-29 20:43:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is this different from Little Caesars or Dominos business model, except being app-only instead of phone-call based? My local dominos barely has a pick-up window as it\u0026#x27;s storefront. There\u0026#x27;s always a delivery guy pulling in or out.","parent":"9458031","id":"9461608"}
{"by":"ethan","time":"1274466062","timestamp":"2010-05-21 18:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Froyo also will let you buy songs over the air and download them directly to your phone.\u003cp\u003eNice, now if only Android could make a decent music player...","parent":"1367616","id":"1368234"}
{"by":"tomstuart","time":"1274870612","timestamp":"2010-05-26 10:43:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Top 10 lists.","parent":"1379779","id":"1379977"}
{"by":"elnate","time":"1388607078","timestamp":"2014-01-01 20:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ironically I found that page hard to read. I think it might the constantly having to switch my eyes back at the end of a line breaks the mental flow of the sentances. Anyone else experience similar?","parent":"6996064","id":"6996364"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1228944675","timestamp":"2008-12-10 21:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've seen just one performance measurement system that works really.  It must be done in a shop that does Test First development and maintains a comprehensive unit test suite.  The shop must also use \"story points\" or something similar. To measure a programmer's performance:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    1) Review a random sample of their unit tests\n    2) Count the number of passing unit tests that they write\n    3) Count the number of story points they complete\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIt's harder to game this system.  If you write lots of trivial, worthless tests, then (1) suffers and you don't complete more of (3).  Also, story points originate with the user, so it's harder to game those.","parent":"393203","id":"393502"}
{"by":"alexbardas","time":"1344685077","timestamp":"2012-08-11 11:37:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very true indeed. I was also randomly changing user-agents (Mozilla, Safari, Chrome, IE). I thought that this will be harder to tell whether there is a lot of traffic from the same network or someone is just intensively crawling the site.\u003cp\u003eFor me, it was more a proof of how efficient and fast a crawler can be. \nAlso, a response from IMDB was very fast in less than 0.4 seconds, so not that much time was lost there.","parent":"4369729","id":"4369902"}
{"by":"Mapou","time":"1214769683","timestamp":"2008-06-29 20:01:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why put up this strawman? There is nothing in the article about either the limits of computation or a mathematical proof. Pretty much all it says is that the Turing sequential (or algorithmic) conmputing model is inadequate and I agree. We need a better model.","parent":"231412","id":"231422"}
{"by":"killjoywashere","time":"1516391856","timestamp":"2018-01-19 19:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Long time Little Snitch user here, that seems ... high","parent":"16189211","id":"16189233"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1381849102","timestamp":"2013-10-15 14:58:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Big media companies forced into a folder that hides their app from users aren\u0026#x27;t very keen on Newsstand either.","parent":"6553079","id":"6553567"}
{"by":"dogecoinbase","time":"1411613130","timestamp":"2014-09-25 02:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt is likely untrue...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do you believe this?","parent":"8365291","id":"8365303"}
{"by":"afy","time":"1440098379","timestamp":"2015-08-20 19:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that is just to refer to the instruction set that is being emulated (8-bit AVR - see Erin Ptacek\u0026#x27;s blog post about it on sockpuppet.org), used by the microcontroller on many Arduino boards","parent":"10093848","id":"10094020"}
{"by":"miguelrochefort","time":"1498094898","timestamp":"2017-06-22 01:28:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Getting Things Done\u0026quot; by David Allen","parent":"14608397","id":"14609476"}
{"by":"mkirklions","time":"1528119374","timestamp":"2018-06-04 13:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, I really dont understand why there are Microsoft fans.\u003cp\u003eLike I understand if you bought an Xbox, but I dont understand if you are a programmer.\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft has always been a headache. Recently its been a tiny bit better, but they still are a for-profit company that needs to continue to make a profit.\u003cp\u003eThis was to make Microsoft money, nothing to \u0026#x27;help programmers\u0026#x27;.","parent":"17227435","id":"17227614"}
{"by":"Flammy","time":"1498226148","timestamp":"2017-06-23 13:55:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a decent article, one nit-pick is it focuses on B2C SaaS companies. Companies that are selling to B2B or other (B2G, etc) will find this only partially applicable (especially their reasons for churn and the model to measure churn).\u003cp\u003eI work at a startup which is using ML to predict churn [1] for our SaaS customers (B2B especially, but also B2C and B2G). We use the signal in product analytics data and other sources of data to flag at-risk accounts before they cancel, so proactive engagement can occur. I can tell you that the reasons for churn are numerous, and even more so unique to each of our customers. There is definitely no golden bullet solution out there (shocking, I know).\u003cp\u003eOur customers that have had the most success reducing churn  take a flexible, adaptable approach which brings in stakeholders from multiple areas. A marketer probably can\u0026#x27;t heavily reduce churn on their own. A customer success team probably can\u0026#x27;t heavily reduce churn on their own. Same for Sales teams, Product teams, etc - you shouldn\u0026#x27;t point to one team and say \u0026quot;this is your problem, fix it\u0026quot;. Churn is a complex interplay between a number of factors. At least in my experience, no one team or division working in isolation will have as much success as raising churn as a company focus that is shared between multiple domain experts working together with the shared objective of improving customer retention.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;appuri.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;appuri.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14618782","id":"14619155"}
{"by":"dreadpirateryan","time":"1334849955","timestamp":"2012-04-19 15:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For any node.js devs out there, here is the promises library I've been using with great success: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/coolaj86/futures/tree/v2.0/future\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/coolaj86/futures/tree/v2.0/future\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3862137","id":"3863503"}
{"by":"kalleboo","time":"1402644505","timestamp":"2014-06-13 07:28:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yandex is the 4th largest search engine in the world and #1 in Russia. I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure they have a large local social network as well but the name has slipped my mind.","parent":"7887526","id":"7887757"}
{"by":"Johnny555","time":"1503376847","timestamp":"2017-08-22 04:40:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regardless of any GPS spoofing that could be present, it\u0026#x27;d be awfully hard to hide the radar return from a large tanker\u0026#x2F;cargo ship.","parent":"15069579","id":"15069764"}
{"by":"knodi123","time":"1460644441","timestamp":"2016-04-14 14:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you!  Yes, absolutely.  People need to learn the difference from \u0026quot;secure, in theory, in a perfect world\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;secure enough, in practice, in the real world\u0026quot;.  Just about every disagreement in this thread is from two people who are talking about two entirely different concepts of security.","parent":"11496705","id":"11497040"}
{"by":"tokenizerrr","time":"1524649795","timestamp":"2018-04-25 09:49:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems bundling mails together isn\u0026#x27;t in Gmail yet? Too bad, it\u0026#x27;s the only reason I use Inbox.","parent":"16919327","id":"16920001"}
{"by":"oconnor0","time":"1233167845","timestamp":"2009-01-28 18:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I'm driving, I'll make the decision on passing someone or not depending on whether the resultant speedup is O(1) or O(n).","parent":"454137","id":"454187"}
{"by":"kitneoh","time":"1412628016","timestamp":"2014-10-06 20:40:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats true, the startup that I\u0026#x27;m working on is Jellybean and I am considering on applying for YC W15. When I rethink Jellybean\u0026#x27;s idea and comparing with some of the YC startup batch it feels pretty intimidating especially when you have awesome ideas and technology and people.\u003cp\u003eThanks a lot for replying, really helped me to think further on the meaning of idea itself.","parent":"8417874","id":"8418159"}
{"by":"bsilvereagle","time":"1398698315","timestamp":"2014-04-28 15:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, the original is easier to play since each numerical value has a different background color.","parent":"7660379","id":"7660491"}
{"by":"aurelianito","time":"1396395504","timestamp":"2014-04-01 23:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another project related to the one propossed in this article is a diff-diff3-patch like program suite that can be used on trees. It would fit in a great way with version control systems and make them (more) aware of structural changes in changesets.\u003cp\u003eImagine being able to dump plain-text files for real trees when diffing-merging. The way differences are shown to the user could be like a project i did a few years ago to show differences in graphs (applied to basic-blocks graphs). Here is the link: \u003ca href=\"http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki\u0026amp;action=view\u0026amp;type=tool\u0026amp;name=aureliax\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;corelabs.coresecurity.com\u0026#x2F;index.php?module=Wiki\u0026amp;actio...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7511979","id":"7512558"}
{"by":"yellowgatorade","time":"1483115610","timestamp":"2016-12-30 16:33:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there any studies showing that \u0026quot;processed food\u0026quot; is, on its own, dangerous? Or is the inherent danger largely due to the HFCS, sugar, and other items that are usually added in the process?","parent":"13284382","id":"13285193"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1514256110","timestamp":"2017-12-26 02:41:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; How should the human driver communicate with the machine?\u003cp\u003eIn theory, a self-driving car could watch for hand-based turn signals, just like a human driver could, and take those into account.\u003cp\u003eIn practice, what someone \u003ci\u003esignals\u003c/i\u003e is far less interesting than what they \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e, and all it does is provide hints for reaction time, which 1) a computer already wins at, and 2) a computer should always leave enough time for braking\u0026#x2F;stopping\u0026#x2F;etc anyway.  A human driver should never make an assumption based on someone\u0026#x27;s turn signal that would lead to a crash if they don\u0026#x27;t do what they\u0026#x27;re signaling, and neither should a computer.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; What should the machine do when there is a dog standing in the middle of a street?\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t hit it (stopping if necessary), and listen when the human in the vehicle says \u0026quot;stop\u0026quot; (or \u0026quot;call animal control\u0026quot;, or any number of other reactions).  The human in the vehicle should always be in control of the high-level actions, just not the moment-to-moment ones.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Going really extreme: in a car accident in a somewhat remote area, the driver might be able to get an injured passenger out if the passenger stuck. Now a fully autonomous car, there is only passenger.\u003cp\u003eNot sure what scenario you\u0026#x27;re getting at here. If you mean a driver and passenger in the same vehicle, the same problem exists today with an injured driver.","parent":"16006715","id":"16006751"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1413993138","timestamp":"2014-10-22 15:52:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What would be the rational for choosing this over say, Google Apps authentication?","parent":"8491666","id":"8493267"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1384719488","timestamp":"2013-11-17 20:18:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;This thing is loud, which really makes me feel like I\u0026#x27;m getting serious work done when typing. Not so great if you share an office or participate in conference calls, though.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m told over and over again that the most important technique for programming success is interrupting programers as often as possible.  They thrive on having to listen to sports discussions and having to listen to other people\u0026#x27;s music that they don\u0026#x27;t like when they\u0026#x27;re trying to concentrate.  Open plans are the silver bullet of programmer productivity and surely a littly clicky clicky will only help.\u003cp\u003eSeriously though I have been using a Model M since the 90s, they are beyond awesome, excellent finger feel compared to mushboards, and cheap\u0026#x2F;easy to maintain.  Every year or so I pop the keycaps off and wash them using dishwasher soap, let dry, pop back on.  That\u0026#x27;s about all the maintenance they need.  Every mass market article about them has some weird moth to the flame desire to go on and on about how loud they are.  Dude, they\u0026#x27;re not jackhammers.  They are discernibly louder if you pay attention to those things.  If you don\u0026#x27;t pay attention you will not notice the difference.","parent":"6750332","id":"6750633"}
{"by":"mrbill","time":"1481747713","timestamp":"2016-12-14 20:35:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What keeps me from moving to another note software is the right-click \u0026quot;save this web page to evernote\u0026quot; extension that I\u0026#x27;ve come to rely on (for online purchase receipts, bill paying, etc).","parent":"13177971","id":"13179410"}
{"by":"CurtHagenlocher","time":"1332269432","timestamp":"2012-03-20 18:50:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You haven't actually read the paper, have you?","parent":"3730509","id":"3730863"}
{"by":"cesarb","time":"1504839487","timestamp":"2017-09-08 02:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It appears so. I did a quick test with a huge PNG (80 megabytes), just to see what would happen. optipng took 5m9s, oxipng with \u0026quot;--threads 1\u0026quot; took 3m21s, and oxipng with the default number of threads took 2m00s. Not quite \u0026quot;half the time\u0026quot;, but not bad.","parent":"15197231","id":"15197597"}
{"by":"sunahsuh","time":"1318608942","timestamp":"2011-10-14 16:15:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you find this interesting, I'd highly recommend \"Racing the Beam\" by Montfort and Bogost, which talks about Atari development from both a technical and a cultural perspective. It really goes into detail about some of the landmark games that introduced new techniques to push the platform to the edges of its capabilities (e.g. the scrolling and color-shifting \"neutral zone\" in Yar's Revenge was actually created by repurposing the game's machine code as opposed to being algorithmically generated)","parent":"3111169","id":"3111743"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1528575591","timestamp":"2018-06-09 20:19:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still don\u0026#x27;t get why do Autocrasher systems think it\u0026#x27;s better to ignore stationary objects even whey it\u0026#x27;s driving towards it at a high speed!\u003cp\u003eSure, slamming in the brakes is a bad idea. This doesn\u0026#x27;t mean the system can\u0026#x27;t start to slow down or change the direction of the car.","parent":"17274179","id":"17274777"}
{"by":"vibrato","time":"1546011066","timestamp":"2018-12-28 15:31:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Service contracts","parent":"18777186","id":"18777255"}
{"by":"mikec3010","time":"1527874659","timestamp":"2018-06-01 17:37:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;A call for\u0026quot;..\u003cp\u003eHow do you call for that on an unmoderated platform?  Or do you think they should have a mod sit there and curate it for your tastes? Or automated software that keeps everything PC? I\u0026#x27;m curious how \u0026quot;calling for \u0026quot; is in any way different than praying?","parent":"17207764","id":"17207886"}
{"by":"ColinWright","time":"1494451809","timestamp":"2017-05-10 21:30:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, Putting it underneath divorces it from the text and makes me flip up and down, rather than having it immediately there for reference.  I\u0026#x27;ve added a comment in the text that the diagram is there on the right, and I\u0026#x27;d hope that seeing that would make the reader glance at it, and see that it really is relevant, and not an ad.\u003cp\u003eOdd, isn\u0026#x27;t it, how the ubiquitous ads have trained us to ignore parts of a page that would otherwise be a useful part of the reading experience.  Thanks for pointing this out to me so I can keep it in mind.","parent":"14311686","id":"14311900"}
{"by":"thescribe","time":"1456336623","timestamp":"2016-02-24 17:57:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;In this respect, a humanities or broad liberal-arts education — meant to teach critical, analytic thinking, and engage students with questions about the human experience, does not seem like a bad idea.\u003cp\u003eI had never thought about the humanities in the context of what should they be doing. This was an insightful piece of what humanities could be.\u003cp\u003eHaving said that, given the liberal arts classes I took at university I would not trust that group collectively with any detail of society that could impact outside of their academic world. The amorality of scientific knowledge would be a great deal preferable to that nonsense.","parent":"11167972","id":"11168707"}
{"by":"effingwewt","time":"1471655448","timestamp":"2016-08-20 01:10:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel at this point in our society the reverse proves true more often than not.","parent":"12323937","id":"12324551"}
{"by":"learc83","time":"1444759593","timestamp":"2015-10-13 18:06:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For federal student loans, there isn\u0026#x27;t a life of indentured servitude. There are income based repayment plans that with fairly low costs per month. A single guy working at starbucks making 30k per year would only pay about $100 per month even with a 200k loan (if he had a wife and kid, he\u0026#x27;d pay nothing). Then after 20 years the rest is forgiven.","parent":"10382264","id":"10382290"}
{"by":"GhotiFish","time":"1385241946","timestamp":"2013-11-23 21:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When the topic of psychopathy comes up for lunch room discussion, I sometimes go into depth of what I\u0026#x27;ve personally learned on the subject (just something I\u0026#x27;m interested in). When I go into it, most people I\u0026#x27;ve talked to immediately ask me if they are psychopaths. It\u0026#x27;s funny how consistent that is.\u003cp\u003eMaybe, despite the evidence pointing in that direction, he just didn\u0026#x27;t manifest a psychopathic brain.\u003cp\u003emaybe.","parent":"6787442","id":"6787513"}
{"by":"paul9290","time":"1324631532","timestamp":"2011-12-23 09:12:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has one of it's competitors whipped up and a SOPA easy/quick transfer service?  Seems like a great opportunity for one of it's competitors to jump on!\u003cp\u003eOn a different note I have everything on GoDaddy; all my domains and hosting.  In the past 4 months my sites have been hacked and I've been thinking about moving away from them.  Yet I have so much there, SO PLEASE TO ANY of it's competitors whip up a SOPA easy/painless transfer your Web businesses to us page.","parent":"3384984","id":"3385172"}
{"by":"geebee","time":"1534962521","timestamp":"2018-08-22 18:28:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, that\u0026#x27;s a very good point. If one profession\u0026#x27;s median salary is higher, but employment is overwhelmingly concentrated in a high cost area, then it\u0026#x27;s possible that the profession with the lower median salary on a national basis has higher median pay on a cost of living adjusted basis.\u003cp\u003eI doubt it goes quite this far for software development and nursing, but it may be a factor.","parent":"17820604","id":"17820774"}
{"by":"frgtpsswrdlame","time":"1498684958","timestamp":"2017-06-28 21:22:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. The multi-site issue \u003ci\u003ecombined\u003c/i\u003e with the $19\u0026#x2F;hr problem prevent the study from being very useful.\u003cp\u003eGiven this quote:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis pattern of average higher pay and more employment appears also in food services: a decline of about 150 jobs paying under $19 from 2014 to 2016 and a simultaneous increase of about 4,500 jobs in all pay levels at single-site food service establishments.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould you concede the possibility that in Seattle\u0026#x27;s restaurant sector a higher minimum wage did not have negative employment effects? (NOTE: I edited this question)","parent":"14658381","id":"14658588"}
{"by":"iuguy","time":"1219925102","timestamp":"2008-08-28 12:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good advice.","parent":"288928","id":"289048"}
{"by":"tristanz","time":"1406911665","timestamp":"2014-08-01 16:47:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sense - San Francisco, Remote - \u003ca href=\"https://senseplatform.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;senseplatform.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSense is next-generation platform for data science and big data analytics. We\u0026#x27;re building something awesome, are venture backed, and located in San Francisco.  We\u0026#x27;re a small, highly-technical team of 3 looking to expand to 5-6 in the next few months.  We\u0026#x27;re open to remote for the right candidate.\u003cp\u003e* Frontend Engineer - We\u0026#x27;re looking for a frontend \u0026#x2F; fullstack engineer to help lead development of our web platform.  You should care deeply building great products and have experience building complex JavaScript applications and designing developer-friendly REST APIs.  Our stack consists of AngularJS, Node.js, Postgres, Couchbase, and Docker, plus a whole bunch of data science magic.\u003cp\u003e* Data Scientist - Do you want to push the frontier of data science rather than work on better ad targeting?  We\u0026#x27;re looking for a polyglot data scientist to help make Sense the best platform for data science.  If you love playing with R, Python, Spark, Julia, JavaScript, D3, and more, this job is for you.\u003cp\u003eCompensation: $90k-$120k, 1%-4% equity.\u003cp\u003eInterested? Email tristan@senseplatform.com.","parent":"8120070","id":"8121328"}
{"by":"russellallen","time":"1359883681","timestamp":"2013-02-03 09:28:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You too should read $classic-tome to learn $trite-lesson.","parent":"5158936","id":"5159191"}
{"by":"ScottBurson","time":"1383789485","timestamp":"2013-11-07 01:58:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I commuted by bike for years (though not so much in recent years) and have never had an accident at speed.\u003cp\u003eI do wear a helmet, but not a full-face helmet, and it looks like this thing would actually be more effective in protecting against concussions.","parent":"6686578","id":"6686989"}
{"by":"throwaway729","time":"1480451178","timestamp":"2016-11-29 20:26:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IDK. That was my initial reaction too.\u003cp\u003eBut then, my wife\u0026#x27;s parents are \u003ci\u003edefinitely\u003c/i\u003e not well-off (unlikely to ever retire) and they still sent us small \u0026quot;just because\u0026quot; gifts occasionally when we were young and poor.\u003cp\u003eAnd I literally don\u0026#x27;t know anyone with a kid and a non-terrible (not even necessarily good) relationship with their parents who hasn\u0026#x27;t received a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of free child care. Parents -- even those who have to work hard to make ends meet -- find time for the grandchildren.\u003cp\u003eSo if the definition was \u0026quot;any amount of cash\u0026#x2F;any service for a reason other than birthday\u0026#x2F;holiday\u0026quot;, then I kind of have to agree with your parent.\u003cp\u003eSo I definitely agree that having parents who can work and take occasionally vacation and have any amount of disposable income is definitely a huge blessing. But I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s particularly rare in the US, either.","parent":"13065910","id":"13065970"}
{"by":"mwsherman","time":"1400200944","timestamp":"2014-05-16 00:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A new CDN node is a new privileged route. An existing CDN node is not a new privileged route.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; CDN nodes do not route traffic that does not have that node as either a source or a destination.\u003cp\u003eCorrect. That is true of any router.\u003cp\u003eNetflix did buy a new route, replacing the one they were previously buying from Cogent.","parent":"7752653","id":"7753156"}
{"by":"rglover","time":"1304428341","timestamp":"2011-05-03 13:12:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Assange's claim that Facebook and the other myriad social tool's he mentioned are spy tools is a bit embellished. He's right in that U.S. intelligence agencies can and will gain access to the data stored by these services (if necessary). However, saying that it's inherently a spy tool just seems a bit on the Salem side. If there's information about us or our lives that we deem sensitive, the last place you want to put it is online. There's noted security flaws in pretty much every system out there and to dismiss that reality is a bit naive.\u003cp\u003eThere's most definitely a problem with security in this era, but it's important to note that we're the one's doing it. Honestly, anyone who may expose sensitive information should have Facebook or any other online presence on the top of their list as things NOT to use. When you're being nefarious communication is a bit difficult, eh?","parent":"2505763","id":"2509796"}
{"by":"jwilk","time":"1497639338","timestamp":"2017-06-16 18:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The SIG prefix doesn\u0026#x27;t work in dash (the default shell in Debian).\u003cp\u003ePOSIX¹ says:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn early proposal also required symbolic signal_names to be recognized with or without the SIG prefix. Historical versions of kill have not written the SIG prefix for the -l option and have not recognized the SIG prefix on signal_names. Since neither applications portability nor ease-of-use would be improved by requiring this extension, it is no longer required.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e¹ \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org\u0026#x2F;onlinepubs\u0026#x2F;9699919799\u0026#x2F;utilities\u0026#x2F;kill.html#tag_20_64_18\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org\u0026#x2F;onlinepubs\u0026#x2F;9699919799\u0026#x2F;utilities\u0026#x2F;ki...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14571457","id":"14571732"}
{"by":"maushu","time":"1295882613","timestamp":"2011-01-24 15:23:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm, doesn't seem to be working on chrome 8. For half a second there is empty space where, I guess, the form would show up but it disappears.\nI tested it on Firefox 3.6 and it works.","parent":"2134782","id":"2135357"}
{"by":"loceng","time":"1393353987","timestamp":"2014-02-25 18:46:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree that any part of the universe is insignificant. We\u0026#x27;re all important.","parent":"7298933","id":"7299537"}
{"by":"timcederman","time":"1251772176","timestamp":"2009-09-01 02:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always met far more interesting people in random places in the Valley than skiing at Squaw.\u003cp\u003e(amazed at the mix of ex-pats who played touch rugby at Stanford, including some VPs and a referee who had officiated at State of Origin)","parent":"796616","id":"797180"}
{"by":"yellowbeard","time":"1444257294","timestamp":"2015-10-07 22:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s terrible - I just wanted to point out bad information in the parent comment.","parent":"10342297","id":"10349613"}
{"by":"pesmhey","time":"1544798552","timestamp":"2018-12-14 14:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ten functions performing narrow, non-overlapping aspects of a large program is pretty decent design, so that you can change\u0026#x2F;update\u0026#x2F;troubleshoot one function without affecting too much of your whole system.\u003cp\u003eYour alternative has been tried and fails when you have to replace that all-considering function with another at the end of its life and the other one isn’t so good. It’s a less robust system.\u003cp\u003eBureaucracy isn’t inherently bad, it’s just like, a model of designing complex systems.","parent":"18680919","id":"18681089"}
{"by":"apohn","time":"1534884274","timestamp":"2018-08-21 20:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;That and having longer meetings\u0026#x2F;workshops to really talk through all the details as opposed to 30 minutes catch up everyday that involves multiple context switches.\u003cp\u003eThinking back on my experiences, this is a gem of an observation.  Most people hate long meetings because they are just a lot of status updates with 2 or 3 people dominating the conversation.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;In both small and large organizations, I\u0026#x27;ve found that the productivity killer is trying to do too much that ends being nothing gets done at all.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m curious about your thoughts on something I\u0026#x27;m currently facing.  When I was an IC at a medium sized organization, \u0026quot;trying to do too much\u0026quot; was typically manifested by over-committing\u0026#x2F;over-confidence in what could be delivered in the timeframe allotted.  But for the most part everybody was \u003ci\u003egenerally\u003c/i\u003e aligned in the same way.\u003cp\u003eAt the two large orgs where I\u0026#x27;ve worked, I\u0026#x27;ve seen a lot of extra work come from teams being motivated in completely different ways.  One team is focused on blame-avoidance, another in gaming KPIs, one team wants to show off how awesome they are, one group is just tagging along for visibility reasons, etc.  So there\u0026#x27;s an incredible amount of \u0026quot;too much work\u0026quot; that has very little to do with actual execution.\u003cp\u003eHave you seen the latter in medium or smaller organizations?","parent":"17809529","id":"17813626"}
{"by":"atwebb","time":"1384208699","timestamp":"2013-11-11 22:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It probably waits until you hit a site it that\u0026#x27;s in in their store catalog and redirects with the proper CJ\u0026#x2F;LS\u0026#x2F;Amazon link. I wrote something similar for Firefox a few years ago.","parent":"6714514","id":"6714526"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1485453170","timestamp":"2017-01-26 17:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So every piece of software now needs a markdown renderer?","parent":"13493044","id":"13493501"}
{"by":"Manishearth","time":"1457377075","timestamp":"2016-03-07 18:57:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  It\u0026#x27;s a pretty sweet design\u003cp\u003eYeah, it is, but it wouldn\u0026#x27;t interact well with Rust\u0026#x27;s safety guarantees :)\u003cp\u003e(You\u0026#x27;re analysing this feature in a vacuum, but that\u0026#x27;s not how language design is done.)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Easy to read code with standard control constructs.\u003cp\u003eI think this is in the eye of the beholder, `try!` or `?` or `catch` are (would be -- for the latter two) easy to read for Rust folks. It\u0026#x27;s just \u003ci\u003edifferent\u003c/i\u003e. do-notation in Haskell is similarly \u0026quot;standard\u0026quot; for functional types, but it\u0026#x27;s totally alien to C++ folks. The main reason folks find try\u0026#x2F;catch\u0026#x2F;throw easier to understand is because they\u0026#x27;re used to it. Once I learned how enums worked in Rust, `Result` was a very straightforward and simple thing. I actually personally find `try!` easier to read, since I know \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e where a return can happen, unlike C++ where the control flow is totally obscured.\u003cp\u003eThis leads to the rug getting pulled out from underneath you, which can be bad for safety. In fact, Rust\u0026#x27;s `recover()` needs to be careful about types allowed to cross a recover boundary so that it can be 100% memory safe.\u003cp\u003eSo the code might be easy to read, but not easy to reason about.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; No dispatching on error types, therefore less temptation to use errors for control flow.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t get what you mean here. Rust doesn\u0026#x27;t dispatch on error types, though it does dispatch on Result (which may contain an error). I don\u0026#x27;t see what\u0026#x27;s wrong with this. This lets you program in a functional way (and like I mentioned, you don\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c/i\u003e to), which isn\u0026#x27;t a bad thing.\u003cp\u003eErrors _are_ a control flow thing, you can\u0026#x27;t escape that. C++ handles the control flow around errors with try, throw, and catch, Rust does it with Result and its methods (and the try macro).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; especially if you need to catch errors from code you don\u0026#x27;t control.\u003cp\u003e`recover()` exists. Use it sparingly; it\u0026#x27;s basically only for cases when you want to catch panics in code you don\u0026#x27;t control (even then, try other solutions), or stop panics from crossing FFI boundaries.\u003cp\u003ePanics are supposed to be for irrecoverable or impossible things, where \u0026quot;irrecoverable\u0026quot; is usually a statement that only makes sense in an application, not a library. So this problem in theory shouldn\u0026#x27;t come up (I haven\u0026#x27;t seen it happen much in practice).\u003cp\u003eI think the problem of forgetting to catch an exception from code you don\u0026#x27;t control because you don\u0026#x27;t know it\u0026#x27;s there is a much more pressing problem than having stray panics (since panics are relatively rare).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; No distinction between code that can cause errors and code that cannot, thus higher-order functions become easier to write.\u003cp\u003eResult\u0026lt;T,E\u0026gt; is also a type. Treat it as any other return type in a higher order function and it works. In `Fn(...) -\u0026gt; T`, `T` can be a Result type, no problem.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Rust can\u0026#x27;t even claim to be transparently callable from languages that don\u0026#x27;t support exceptions, because panics exist\u003cp\u003eand so does `recover()`.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; No performance overhead in the common case.\u003cp\u003eIIRC it doesn\u0026#x27;t turn out to be much, but ICBW. I think someone looked into this.","parent":"11239754","id":"11240730"}
{"by":"acqq","time":"1383160391","timestamp":"2013-10-30 19:13:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Impractical is in sense \u0026quot;nobody can actually  it, only the papers are written about it.\u0026quot; Practically impossible to use.","parent":"6642057","id":"6642541"}
{"by":"rbehrends","time":"1490036653","timestamp":"2017-03-20 19:04:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds like you\u0026#x27;re confusing two types of \u0026quot;write barriers\u0026quot; that happen to share the same name, but have otherwise little in common. Memory barriers for atomic instructions are essential for giving them sane semantics, but have nothing to do with GC. GC write barriers deal with the needs of generational or incremental collections, but are a totally different thing.","parent":"13916728","id":"13916766"}
{"by":"sgrove","time":"1435596613","timestamp":"2015-06-29 16:50:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pairing with someone who\u0026#x27;s built a few Om apps should get you up to speed in no more than 45 minutes. I\u0026#x27;ve done it a few times now, and it just takes a few examples, building some components, and composing them together.","parent":"9798902","id":"9799250"}
{"by":"gyardley","time":"1368442514","timestamp":"2013-05-13 10:55:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your comment couldn't be more wrong.\u003cp\u003eLinking every Tea Party group to the Sovereign Citizens movement is just a smear.\u003cp\u003e'Not being opposed to taxation' isn't one of the eligibility criteria for a non-profit.\u003cp\u003e501(c)(4) (aka social welfare) organizations can participate in political activities if they like. Many of the applications were for 501(c)(4) organizations.\u003cp\u003eMany of the groups targeted never received their nonprofit status after being unwilling to comply with the extensive and invasive documentation requests.\u003cp\u003eTax collection might be a necessity for every first world country, but so is a bureaucracy that doesn't use its power for political purposes. Apparently, America doesn't have one of those.","parent":"5697586","id":"5698018"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1511464499","timestamp":"2017-11-23 19:14:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent point. RIP DigiCash, CyberCash, First Virtual, Beenz, Flooz, et cetera, ad nauseam.\u003cp\u003eAnd come to think of it, I think Flooz reached better merchant adoption than any blockchain-based digital currency has managed to get.","parent":"15766911","id":"15767205"}
{"by":"tempYeez","time":"1508191762","timestamp":"2017-10-16 22:09:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well in the US you can\u0026#x27;t really choose when to pay those loans back. Not to mention for the type of car you\u0026#x27;d be able to afford if it breaks down it would easily wipe that 700 dollars out. Go forbid you got sick. An emergency bill would run 3 months income.","parent":"15487012","id":"15487050"}
{"by":"vorg","time":"1391259747","timestamp":"2014-02-01 13:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; China conquered China, unifying a large area of territory under one government\u003cp\u003eThe land between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers is relatively flat, making it easier for the Han to unite. When the grand canal was built, the economies of scale of trade made the Tang prosperous.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Historically, they have not shown much inclination to capture foreign territory and colonize it (even when they could have done so easily)\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if they could have captured foreign territory easily. The hilly southern areas weren\u0026#x27;t always part of China, but they took it over when they were able. China\u0026#x27;s surrounded by forests to the southwest, mountains to the west, deserts to the north, and ocean to the east and south, all hard barriers to penetrate. It\u0026#x27;s easier for nomadic cavalry from the desert to come down and raid, they often did and even ruled China for 100 yrs.\u003cp\u003eThe Chinese then built a navy and probably would have taken over various ports along the coast from Vietnam to Tanzania, but the Ming leaders were so afraid the Mongolians (or similar) would re-invade, they closed down the entire navy and diverted all military resources to securing the northern border, building the Forbidden City and Great Wall.\u003cp\u003eLike all governments, if they can take over more land, they will.","parent":"7161333","id":"7161568"}
{"by":"petepete","time":"1538324725","timestamp":"2018-09-30 16:25:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ability to split Vue components into multiple (html, ts, scss) files in a single directory would be nice. I dislike the single file approach and it makes things like having nice syntax highlighting and completion more complex than it should be.","parent":"18106224","id":"18106809"}
{"by":"eloy","time":"1436532527","timestamp":"2015-07-10 12:48:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I already knew this would be an article about Moxie before clicking the link.","parent":"9861793","id":"9863609"}
{"by":"SkyMarshal","time":"1277998943","timestamp":"2010-07-01 15:42:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why take it back to the store for a refund when you can get a lawyer a million dollars instead?\u003cp\u003eThis culture of benevolence baffles me.","parent":"1478125","id":"1478278"}
{"by":"jonbishop","time":"1362383304","timestamp":"2013-03-04 07:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I think the important thing early on is to set expectations\"\u003cp\u003eAgree 100%. Overall, people don't like things taken away from them, but if you set expectations up front, they tend to take change better.","parent":"5316262","id":"5317151"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1389167693","timestamp":"2014-01-08 07:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;email is not reliable and can fail at any minute and must not be relied on,\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIn what universe?  If email were to stop working in most major corporations that I\u0026#x27;ve worked in for the last 8+ years, the company would basically come to a halt.\u003cp\u003eEmail, for many, many companies is the message\u0026#x2F;workflow bus, and if it stops - communication comes to a halt.\u003cp\u003eIt is, after electricity, and the network, the one essential function in a company in 2013.\u003cp\u003eTelephones, Photocopiers, Printers can all cease functioning , with little impact in most technologies companies  - but not email.","parent":"7019007","id":"7022304"}
{"by":"kls","time":"1322919521","timestamp":"2011-12-03 13:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK I get you, I guess it is all in personal comforts, I personally don't suffer tech bravado well, I have run across that arch-type in real life too may times and it has always made (for me) getting good ideas done difficult to impossible. To the extent that when confronted with it, too many times, I will disengage, whether it be a site or a project/job/activity. I have come to understand that it is born out of stubborn ignorance and that it cannot be, or I do not have the capacity to, navigate around it, I therefore choose to not engage it.\u003cp\u003eOn the flip side I can see where legitimate comments getting down-voted could be taken as rude, the ones I hate to see are new people asking legitimate questions and then getting dog-pilled into oblivion, but it is the nature of the site. I do wish there where less of the i don't agree, or my comfort does not like what you say down-votes but for me it is preferable to the \"i'm always right\" personality. I never really thought about viewing down-votes as rude, save for the occasions where it is evident that it is a group think dog-pile.","parent":"3307153","id":"3307712"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1508933589","timestamp":"2017-10-25 12:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re at least useful for manual modes.\u003cp\u003eSource: DEFCON - Elevator Hacking: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15549036","id":"15549381"}
{"by":"daxelrod","time":"1486174710","timestamp":"2017-02-04 02:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Git Kraken has some neat ideas around dragging bits of the DAG around to manipulate them.","parent":"13561164","id":"13565248"}
{"by":"Tuna-Fish","time":"1545176605","timestamp":"2018-12-18 23:43:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because you expect the revenue to go up dramatically in the future.\u003cp\u003eThe main reason for that belief, at least for me, is Starlink.","parent":"18708710","id":"18711662"}
{"by":"alanfalcon","time":"1537206921","timestamp":"2018-09-17 17:55:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have sound off?","parent":"18008122","id":"18008197"}
{"by":"makmanalp","time":"1309827535","timestamp":"2011-07-05 00:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't this basically the same thing as e-mailing yourself your password?","parent":"2728070","id":"2728330"}
{"by":"caibkai","time":"1534120234","timestamp":"2018-08-13 00:30:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Baidu has monopolized power in Chinese market as a search engine. It sold advertisement to fake hospital and ranked the advertisement as a top searching result. A young Chinese student died because of the fake hospital advertisement (Wei Zexi scandal). A censored google can still create more competition. How could it be harmful to that 20%?","parent":"17747170","id":"17747276"}
{"by":"marvin","time":"1343566748","timestamp":"2012-07-29 12:59:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've seen ridiculously hostile and inappropriate comments posted with full name and photo (using the Facebook comment system).\u003cp\u003eAs a particularly dramatic example, which was so bad it was almost art, we had a debate in a Norwegian newspaper about what to do with the traveling Romani people who put up their tents everywhere. One commenter said: \"Why not put Anders Behring Breivik on the case? He cleaned up a camping site in an hour\", referring to the Utøya massacre where 69 camping teenagers were killed.\u003cp\u003eIf someone's able to post that with their full name and photo, I don't really think there's any hope of solving the comment problem without old-fashioned moderation.","parent":"4308284","id":"4308336"}
{"by":"webignition","time":"1338456267","timestamp":"2012-05-31 09:24:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe Chromebox is a fast, compact home or office device.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first sentence describes this as a \u003ci\u003edevice\u003c/i\u003e not a \u003ci\u003ecomputer\u003c/i\u003e. This seems like a poor choice, as is that the page mentions the word 'computer' not once.","parent":"4047137","id":"4047156"}
{"by":"huherto","time":"1476114984","timestamp":"2016-10-10 15:56:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Joda Time was \u0026quot;adopted\u0026quot; as a part of java 8 on the java.time.* packages.","parent":"12677400","id":"12677834"}
{"by":"asto","time":"1321015760","timestamp":"2011-11-11 12:49:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something doesn't seem right there. Firstly, FB and twitter are off bounds because of US regulations but Gmail isn't?\u003cp\u003eAnd \"The new interception system would be instant because we would have the email IDs and passwords of suspects and we can track their conversations 24X7,\"?\nWTF does that even mean? How do they plan on getting the passwords?\u003cp\u003eIndiatimes is not the best news source we have here in India, to put it lightly. I suggest we ignore this till somebody more credible reports.","parent":"3224332","id":"3224409"}
{"by":"cristianocd","time":"1339637519","timestamp":"2012-06-14 01:31:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PR, link bait or whatever you think about it... you gotta agree it sure is a fun way to promote change.","parent":"4109137","id":"4109360"}
{"by":"ijktdot","time":"1442851851","timestamp":"2015-09-21 16:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the chans (2ch\u0026#x2F;8ch\u0026#x2F;4chan\u0026#x2F;420chan ect) are just FreeBSD boxes and cgi\u0026#x2F;perl scripts\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net\u0026#x2F;interviews\u0026#x2F;moot-4chan.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net\u0026#x2F;interviews\u0026#x2F;moot-4chan.h...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10253167","id":"10253207"}
{"by":"Ironballs","time":"1384027289","timestamp":"2013-11-09 20:01:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah. So nice when science fiction actually \u003ci\u003ehappens\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e“She lets go of the handle and goes into free fall.\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, she jerks the manual release on her cervical collar and goes into full Michelin Man mode as tiny gas cartridges detonate in several strategic locations around her bod. The biggest one goes off like an M-80 at the nape of her neck, unfurling the coverall\u0026#x27;s collar into a cylindrical gasbag that shoots straight up and encases her entire head. Other airbags go off around her torso and pelvis, paying lots of attention to that spinal column.”\u003cp\u003e-- Neal Stephenson, \u003ci\u003eSnow Crash\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"6702338","id":"6702918"}
{"by":"roryisok","time":"1484598024","timestamp":"2017-01-16 20:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Evidence please?","parent":"13412589","id":"13412674"}
{"by":"hetoh","time":"1539647409","timestamp":"2018-10-15 23:50:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What was the reasoning to use node ? Also UI would have been nice could be a good open source competitor to \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;assertible.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;assertible.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18223905","id":"18225167"}
{"by":"teej","time":"1311992238","timestamp":"2011-07-30 02:17:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Give me a break.\u003cp\u003eThis isn't evil marketers hiding in their underground lair.  This is web developers, designers, and product managers gaining insight about their users.  They don't package this information and sell it wholesale to advertisers.  They use it to \u003ci\u003emake the product better\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eYou are taking this -way- too seriously.  The ability to have perfect information on how users interact with your product is one the \u003ci\u003eearth-shattering advantages\u003c/i\u003e we have as makers in the digital world.  It means we can make something people want - better and faster than ever before.\u003cp\u003eI'm not saying that all use of tracking is good.  All power can be used for good and for evil.  But that doesn't mean that power is implictly evil.  Save your rage for when you discover someone actually being evil.","parent":"2824476","id":"2824647"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1535592433","timestamp":"2018-08-30 01:27:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. That was my hope. And it\u0026#x27;s great to have an informed opinion.","parent":"17867009","id":"17873470"}
{"by":"zhemao","time":"1373311847","timestamp":"2013-07-08 19:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real reason is almost always \u0026quot;We didn\u0026#x27;t feel like it. So =P\u0026quot;","parent":"6008386","id":"6008700"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1466274494","timestamp":"2016-06-18 18:28:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few years ago, when VerbalExpressions hit HackerNews I became interested in regexes [enough so that I did a Racket Port and put in some time on a building a more complete model]. VerbalExpresions is still popular enough to hit Hacker News from time to time.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I bought the O\u0026#x27;Reilly \u003ci\u003eMastering Regular Expressions\u003c/i\u003e and looked at some StackOverflow questions and bought Ullman\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Auomata\u003c/i\u003e and took his \u003ci\u003eCoursera\u003c/i\u003e course and in general thought about the nature of regex\u0026#x27;s [and regular expressions] off and on.\u003cp\u003eWhat really highlighted the nature of regular expressions was thinking about regex generators. They popup from time to time and their purpose is to take a set of inputs and produce a regex that matches them. The problem is that given strings [x,y,z] the two best regex\u0026#x27;s are * and x|y|z. Any system that produces some other regex is by definition more difficult to understand than regex\u0026#x27;s themselves.\u003cp\u003eNow circling back to novice users, simple code that iterates over strings with a loop or comprehension is probably going to be less prone to bugs than using regex\u0026#x27;s because regex\u0026#x27;s are so powerful.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also going to be simpler to understand because the tools are familiar and purpose built and the abstractions of the code can be matched to the abstractions of the business logic. What makes regex\u0026#x27;s hard is that the abstractions are mathematical and intuitions about regex\u0026#x27;s rely on mathematical intuitions about automata [and in the case of Perl type regex\u0026#x27;s not simply finite automata due to backtracking and capture].\u003cp\u003ePlease don\u0026#x27;t misunderstand me, I think the article is a neat piece of work. Even though I think that simplifying regex\u0026#x27;s isn\u0026#x27;t really possible because of mathematics, the article may introduce someone to the idea of using them. Because regex\u0026#x27;s are immensely powerful, that\u0026#x27;s a good thing.\u003cp\u003eGood luck.","parent":"11929191","id":"11929929"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1394050014","timestamp":"2014-03-05 20:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds nice, but I\u0026#x27;m not holding my breath for hope that the \u0026quot;new\u0026quot; SAT will be any better.\u003cp\u003eI took both the \u0026quot;old\u0026quot; SAT (the one that they discontinued around 2004) and the \u0026quot;new\u0026quot; SAT (the one that they\u0026#x27;re now discontinuing). I actually thought that the structure old one was better in many ways - for example, the analogies were often terribly \u003ci\u003ewritten\u003c/i\u003e, but the idea of testing analogies as a reasoning tool is very powerful, and much more so than just doing passage after passage of reading comprehension.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, this is the \u003ci\u003eexact\u003c/i\u003e same language that they used to justify the decision to change the SAT 10 years ago.  Coleman isn\u0026#x27;t saying anything new when he\u0026#x27;s criticizing the SAT today; he\u0026#x27;s just recycling the same PR language that they used a decade ago.\u003cp\u003eOf course, perhaps they really are genuine. I\u0026#x27;d love to be pleasantly surprised. But reading this gives me total deja vu from the news stories I remember reading in 2002.","parent":"7349122","id":"7349495"}
{"by":"Evbn","time":"1354411124","timestamp":"2012-12-02 01:18:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, a brick and mortar troll!","parent":"4859679","id":"4859690"}
{"by":"mdoerneman","time":"1316625539","timestamp":"2011-09-21 17:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Safe-to-spend balance is great but will it be enforced? I currently calculate my safe to spend balance but nothing stops me from over spending. I don't have the willpower. It would be great if the bank simple card will only let me spend my safe-to-spend balance. So if my safe-to-spend balance is $20 and I go to an ATM and try to withdraw $50, it will decline.","parent":"3022537","id":"3022862"}
{"by":"jws","time":"1380860270","timestamp":"2013-10-04 04:17:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"USB sound card","parent":"6493648","id":"6493684"}
{"by":"jdavis703","time":"1475885259","timestamp":"2016-10-08 00:07:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The most important thing to remember: you\u0026#x27;re not a programmer, you\u0026#x27;re a creator. It would be like a carpenter thinking of themselves as a wood cutter. Instead a carpenter will realize a need for something specific and make it. So my question for you, what do you need? Figure it out, sketch out the UI, data structure etc in a notebook, figure out what tech you need to build, and then start coding.","parent":"12664758","id":"12664868"}
{"by":"baker_miller","time":"1520525642","timestamp":"2018-03-08 16:14:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Harsh. Nothing about this post implies a monetization play. The whole point of Keybase is identity verification. How is it not a natural evolution for them to explore trusted cross-border, multicurrency transactions?\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not to say you even have to use a payments feature if it\u0026#x27;s integrated into the primary Keybase application. You don\u0026#x27;t have to verify ownership of a domain or register a Bitcoin address, but both of them are options in Keybase right now.","parent":"16545092","id":"16545243"}
{"by":"SyneRyder","time":"1458478106","timestamp":"2016-03-20 12:48:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know about EU law, but in Australia we just had an electronics company (Dick Smith) go into administration and refused to honour all gift cards, even though they continued selling gift cards while they were searching for an administrator:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.news.com.au\u0026#x2F;finance\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;retail\u0026#x2F;dick-smiths-worthless-gift-card-sale\u0026#x2F;news-story\u0026#x2F;4cfea6656265f0936fbdf4b1d847ecd1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.news.com.au\u0026#x2F;finance\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;retail\u0026#x2F;dick-smiths-w...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seems that while it\u0026#x27;s a slimy thing to do, it\u0026#x27;s apparently legal.  Gift cards aren\u0026#x27;t money.","parent":"11322632","id":"11322714"}
{"by":"derekp7","time":"1513744804","timestamp":"2017-12-20 04:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem I have with GM is that it will often send me past my destination, then have me do a U-turn, in an apparent attempt to make sure the building is on the right side of the street.  Even if there is no center divider and a left turn lane.  Even if there is a traffic-light-controlled intersection to get me into the parking lot of the building.","parent":"15966654","id":"15967098"}
{"by":"mseepgood","time":"1374597295","timestamp":"2013-07-23 16:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Well you can\u0026#x27;t call \u0026#x27;var\u0026#x27; type inference\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;var\u0026#x27; is not the type inference, \u0026#x27;:=\u0026#x27; is the type inference.","parent":"6090835","id":"6091102"}
{"by":"8ig8","time":"1365384583","timestamp":"2013-04-08 01:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"zmhenkel's Reddit comments if anyone wants first person accounts:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/user/zmhenkel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reddit.com/user/zmhenkel\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5509396","id":"5509529"}
{"by":"potatolicious","time":"1361461496","timestamp":"2013-02-21 15:44:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That may be true - the industrial design may not actually be finalized. But ultimately this is to Sony's benefit - people are talking about the games, the features, the controller, etc - things that actually influence a buying decision. Rather than salivating (or bashing) the industrial design, which nobody \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c/i\u003e cares about at the end of the day.\u003cp\u003eIntentional or not, this is a great move.","parent":"5257934","id":"5258021"}
{"by":"ericd","time":"1539676553","timestamp":"2018-10-16 07:55:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh man, probably the most played game of my childhood. Certainly my first networked multiplayer game  I wonder if there are communities out there still playing it.","parent":"18226821","id":"18227504"}
{"by":"ricardobeat","time":"1357337125","timestamp":"2013-01-04 22:05:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried LibreOffice recently? It had a major breakthrough some time ago (a year? can't remember) that improved loading times enormously and actually made it usable.","parent":"5010185","id":"5010241"}
{"by":"postscapes1","time":"1373570663","timestamp":"2013-07-11 19:24:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the real implications of Plug or a similar system are actually in the VRM vendor rights management and API\u0026#x27;s, not in the media play features.\u003cp\u003eWe really need to wake up and realize that having all of our connected devices reliant on 3rd party servers will not scale.\u003cp\u003eI want to see this device have babies with another crowdfunded project BRCK  \u003ca href=\"http://brck.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;brck.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e for backup connectivity, power, and mesh networking.","parent":"6027406","id":"6028517"}
{"by":"jackweirdy","time":"1416245059","timestamp":"2014-11-17 17:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He works in the Polygraph Office","parent":"8617003","id":"8619214"}
{"by":"bentlegen","time":"1274722470","timestamp":"2010-05-24 17:34:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tom's Hardware also has a review:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-momentus-xt-hybrid-hard-drive-ssd,2638.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-momentus-xt-hybr...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At this point, we realize that reaching a verdict is not so easy. The new memory management technology is complex and hard to benchmark, as optimizations take place in the background, because we don’t know the performance parameters of the flash memory.\"","parent":"1375008","id":"1375159"}
{"by":"sandipc","time":"1272497271","timestamp":"2010-04-28 23:27:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not to mention all the nice Palm IP that comes along with the Palm purchase","parent":"1302916","id":"1303095"}
{"by":"cgore","time":"1388458465","timestamp":"2013-12-31 02:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the Godwin rule is good for stuff that is extreme hyperbole, and typically just examples of attacks on character.  The \u0026#x27;Soup Nazi\u0026#x27; from Seinfeld being a good example: it was one of my favorite episodes, but really, the soup restaurant guy is Hitler?\u003cp\u003eBut I am literally making a point about something that I think is truly key to preserving democratic society in America, or whatever is left of it, and I would view the removal of private gun ownership in the United States as actually being a prelude to something as bad as Nazi Germany.  I think the Second Amendment is the keystone to all of the rest of the Bill of Rights.\u003cp\u003eBasically, calling your boss Hitler because he made you work on the weekend is absurd, but making comparisons between Hitler and somebody like Pol-Pot is quite legitimate.","parent":"6986804","id":"6988669"}
{"by":"wingerlang","time":"1421501168","timestamp":"2015-01-17 13:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t it also work by just not having CSS on it at all? Except for maybe the font.","parent":"8904209","id":"8904286"}
{"by":"yinhm","time":"1300382000","timestamp":"2011-03-17 17:13:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should click to download it!","parent":"2336618","id":"2336950"}
{"by":"kartickv","time":"1500624607","timestamp":"2017-07-21 08:10:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t say I want quick but wrong answers. I said I prefer a quick but inefficient solution to a problem, as a starting point.\u003cp\u003eIf I ask to determine whether an array contains two numbers that add to zero, a competent engineer should be able to give the naive answer -- a doubly nested loop -- in ten seconds, or at most a minute. If someone takes a lot of time to give me any answer at all, it\u0026#x27;s a concern.","parent":"14818636","id":"14818888"}
{"by":"kenjackson","time":"1317511557","timestamp":"2011-10-01 23:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"John Dvorak has said something similar:\u003cp\u003e\"The problem here is that while Apple can play the fashion game as well as any company, there is no evidence that it can play it fast enough. These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months.\"\u003cp\u003e\"And its survival in the computer business relies on good margins. Those margins cannot exist in the mobile handset business for more than 15 minutes.\"\u003cp\u003eThe problem is -- he said it in 2007.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug-on-the-iphone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3061437","id":"3061456"}
{"by":"forgotAgain","time":"1503692664","timestamp":"2017-08-25 20:24:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems more like the tub is overflowing rather than draining.","parent":"15098743","id":"15101896"}
{"by":"easyd","time":"1458578559","timestamp":"2016-03-21 16:42:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mailgun has a great inbound api [1]. You can set up routing rules to let them post the email as json (or just forward it) to a specified url. The json also includes fields for the extracted quoted parts and signature. The latter is based on some machine learning, which other providers don\u0026#x27;t have afaik.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;documentation.mailgun.com\u0026#x2F;quickstart-receiving.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;documentation.mailgun.com\u0026#x2F;quickstart-receiving.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11329177","id":"11329355"}
{"by":"tomjen3","time":"1284965066","timestamp":"2010-09-20 06:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well what do you expect to happen when you put them out in the cold for so long?","parent":"1707571","id":"1708028"}
{"by":"FlyingLawnmower","time":"1436976195","timestamp":"2015-07-15 16:03:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, as a college student, I love taking my notes digitally. OneNote automatically runs OCR and indexes every note that I take, which means I can search through my handwritten notes (at least for me, it\u0026#x27;s immensely useful come test time). Plus, you can ink right on top of powerpoints and PDFs distributed by professors, which helps give some additional context to whatever you\u0026#x27;re saying and saves some effort note-taking wise. I can\u0026#x27;t go back now that I\u0026#x27;m able to harness fully digital notes.\u003cp\u003eAlso, there are other tablets out there (see: iPad), but the lack of a digitizer makes note taking pretty frustrating. It\u0026#x27;s irritating that they don\u0026#x27;t support any degree of pressure sensitivity, palm rejection, etc. Surface 3 (base model) is actually very reasonably priced, in my opinion, for all of its value add.","parent":"9891377","id":"9892058"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1393696541","timestamp":"2014-03-01 17:55:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same still applies, though: You\u0026#x27;re jumping to conclusions about what is important to others.\u003cp\u003eI play video games with my 4 year old. He loves it, and he loves \u003ci\u003edoing it with me\u003c/i\u003e more than the games themselves. We take him out lots too, but I have equally fond memories of times I\u0026#x27;ve spent playing games with him as the ones I\u0026#x27;ve spent with him on outdoors activities.","parent":"7324098","id":"7325269"}
{"by":"drzaiusapelord","time":"1340668898","timestamp":"2012-06-26 00:01:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly, its all too common to see tech visionaries buy into this dog-eat-dog libertarianism. Heck, slashdot is unreadable and reddit is often a Ron Paul lovefest. Its ugly, but some people, especially those who have impressive achievements, seem to need to believe that everthing is fair in life and if you're not doing well its because you suck.\u003cp\u003eThis is also why I don't read ESR or RMS or any ideologue. Last I heard, it took the product of a northern European leftist-socialist* society to produce a college kid with a \"fuck it, lets write a kernel and dismiss the Ayn Rand politics\" attitude to do anything with their philosophies.\u003cp\u003e*by American standands","parent":"4158324","id":"4159398"}
{"by":"touzen","time":"1384288879","timestamp":"2013-11-12 20:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Equality doesn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;just happen\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s something that must be actively pursued. Basically all equality is \u0026quot;forced\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the type of positive discrimination that you describe is irrelevant to this discussion. Your ramblings on \u0026quot;forced equality\u0026quot; were in response to my view that you shouldn\u0026#x27;t discriminate job applicants because of their ethnicity.\u003cp\u003eThe absence of discrimination is not the same thing as positive discrimination.\u003cp\u003e2) Whether or not my ideas are socialist (I think \u0026quot;progressive\u0026quot; is a better word) is irrelevant here. The truth is, I can back my claims with credible sources. You cannot.","parent":"6718644","id":"6720860"}
{"by":"geofft","time":"1447244113","timestamp":"2015-11-11 12:15:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ensure is also intended for complete replacement of meals; they just don\u0026#x27;t market that way in the US to the general public. They do to doctors, and they\u0026#x27;re more open about this use outside the US. From \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ensure.ca\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;faq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ensure.ca\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;faq\u003c/a\u003e :\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor how long can I use Ensure®?? How many servings do I need to consume each day to meet my daily needs for \ngood health?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnsure® products deliver complete and balanced nutrition Ensure® products can be used daily. Individual needs depend on many factors — age, gender, level of activity, health status. Please consult your health care professional for details related to your health.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan Ensure® replace a meal?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYes. Ensure® products are complete and balanced, when used in appropriate amounts they can be used to replace meals.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasically, if you\u0026#x27;re going to do something like switch to Ensure or Soylent or \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e as your sole meal source, talk to your doctor first, but if the doctor doesn\u0026#x27;t object, Ensure is as usable for this purpose as Soylent.","parent":"10544986","id":"10546239"}
{"by":"Danieru","time":"1457449215","timestamp":"2016-03-08 15:00:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At work we use a blend of C++ with Unreal Engine\u0026#x27;s visual programming language Blueprints. I am going to be honest with you guys here: I love blueprints.\u003cp\u003eThey are very limited compared, lacking even maps. When it comes to connecting existing behavior together they are king. Consider the parts of game development which cannot be made generic. By sticking those in Blueprints we get nice high level code.","parent":"11244558","id":"11245569"}
{"by":"gambiting","time":"1513073375","timestamp":"2017-12-12 10:09:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And also - in my car(Merc) if you order the Premium HK speaker system the spare tyre is replaced with a subwoofer + tyre repair kit.","parent":"15899453","id":"15904325"}
{"by":"grey-area","time":"1424687227","timestamp":"2015-02-23 10:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be this way though.\u003cp\u003eThe browsers could start not trusting those CAs, and not allowing them to impersonate any SSL site you visit, and they are making steps towards this with measures like pinning aren\u0026#x27;t they?\u003cp\u003eMeasures like that just need to be made the default, and if companies want the ability to MITM they should have to adjust settings to make that happen, but consumers should not be vulnerable to that by default and browser vendors could work towards that future. At least people are now more aware of these issues, and that a green lock really doesn\u0026#x27;t signify much if a government takes an interest in your communications.","parent":"9093490","id":"9093520"}
{"by":"DanBC2","time":"1338692927","timestamp":"2012-06-03 03:08:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NewsWelcome page is excellent.\u003cp\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eMeatball Wiki has many people talking about creating and controlling online communities.  It's focused on wikis, but is applicable to other types of communities.\u003cp\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://meatballwiki.org/wiki/\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eThe Japanese origin of anonymous posting (leading into the chan culture) is interesting and is very different to the western use (where \"anonymous == arsehole\".)\u003cp\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http://www.ojr.org/japan/internet/1061505583.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ojr.org/japan/internet/1061505583.php\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eQ: Why did you decide to use perfect anonymity, not even requiring a user name?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eA: Because delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only truly discuss something when they don't know each other.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eIf there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, \"it's boring,\" if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"4058506","id":"4059915"}
{"by":"pklausler","time":"1481913963","timestamp":"2016-12-16 18:46:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I would put this in almost literary terms: I don\u0026#x27;t want events to be described, I want them to be recounted.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a great idea and, if applied, is going to save a lot of time in fiction writing.  For example, chapter 3 of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c/i\u003e can now be just:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Stephen walked on the beach, sometimes with his eyes closed, and sometimes looking at the sea.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"13193640","id":"13195622"}
{"by":"FatalLogic","time":"1418284975","timestamp":"2014-12-11 08:02:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He warned against the rise of Hitler, actively conspired against the Nazis at great personal risk, and helped Jews avoid deportation or arrest. He died of natural causes in 1943.\u003cp\u003eYou could say that he tried to do the right thing.","parent":"8733568","id":"8733700"}
{"by":"DanielBMarkham","time":"1424340865","timestamp":"2015-02-19 10:14:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Battery technology is the #1 problem pervading tech right now. From robots to iPads, we need about 10x battery storage for the same weight as we have now.\u003cp\u003eHaving said that, it\u0026#x27;s shame to see all of this work in cars. I get the feeling that Apple is just going for a huge \u0026quot;me too\u0026quot; play, hoping to make the car into the next iPad.\u003cp\u003eBut if that\u0026#x27;s what it takes for us to finally see progress? Count me in.","parent":"9072992","id":"9073314"}
{"by":"CrankyFool","time":"1418442967","timestamp":"2014-12-13 03:56:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s actually more like close to 1.2 billion different time series -- we report most metrics on one minute granularity, but they\u0026#x27;re not all reporting at the same second (thank God), so on average we\u0026#x27;re getting up to 20M time series per minute.\u003cp\u003eBut this of course just makes the question more reasonable -- 1.2B different time series? Really?\u003cp\u003eYup.  We get a bunch of system telemetry, and a bunch of default application telemetry, without even getting traffic hitting the box, but that\u0026#x27;s a relatively small percentage of the overall volume.  Developers LOVE metrics.\u003cp\u003eSo imagine you want to measure requests to our API, and these are some tags you want to keep track of:\nrequest type: 5 different types\nresult: 2 possible values (success, failure)\noriginating country: 50 countries\noriginating device type: 200 devices\u003cp\u003eAnd let\u0026#x27;s say you\u0026#x27;ve got a 1000 instances reporting this data.\u003cp\u003eSuddenly you\u0026#x27;ve got 5 * 2 * 50 * 200 * 1000\u003cp\u003eOh look.  Here\u0026#x27;s 100M different metrics.\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s a relatively trivial example.","parent":"8743631","id":"8744075"}
{"by":"lucifer","time":"1264534814","timestamp":"2010-01-26 19:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"And let me emphasize, any homeowner who can afford his mortgage payment but chooses to walk away from an underwater property is simply a speculator -- and one who is not honoring his obligations.\"  - Paulson\u003cp\u003eEvery time these GoldmanSachs critters open their mouth is yet another oblique reminder that the masses are brain dead.","parent":"1078504","id":"1078574"}
{"by":"nagrom","time":"1288432129","timestamp":"2010-10-30 09:48:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One anecdote to counter yours: when I came into Glasgow about 6 years ago, I had a few bottles of vodka with me - you're only allowed one. I asked a member of staff about it and he just said don't do it again, and waved me through.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, the only place that I've had trouble with my passport (it was kid of dog-eared at the end of its life) was also Glasgow. It depends which security officer you get.","parent":"1850203","id":"1850540"}
{"by":"solomatov","time":"1426447515","timestamp":"2015-03-15 19:25:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems that you\u0026#x27;ve aren\u0026#x27;t aware of many useful IntelliJ features.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; extensibility, if I don\u0026#x27;t like something in emacs I can always change it, less so in IDEA.\u003cp\u003eIntelliJ has extensive plugin API.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; IDEA has problems with key shortcuts on the dvorak (and other non-querty) keyboard layout, and the devs have no intention of fixing them.\u003cp\u003eYou can tune keymap for you. For example, I don\u0026#x27;t use default shortcuts.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; plugins. In my experience, language-specific plugins in IDEA tend to either suck or not work so well. Emacs, by comparison has support for damn-near any language, and many of those packages include tasty features which make working in each language a joy. (see the various lisp modes, ensime, and so forth)\u003cp\u003eIn my experience, emacs works well only with basic language support. If you want something more advanced, for example, completion, error checking, you have much worse experience. In case of rarely used languages, for example, Idris, Agda, etc, they often just don\u0026#x27;t work.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; speed, IDEA is slow, too slow.\u003cp\u003eIf you don\u0026#x27;t need smart features, you can turn them off, and IntelliJ will be at least as fast as emacs (google power save mode).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; IDEA is too \u0026quot;mouse driven\u0026quot; for my liking. In emacs, absolutely everything can be controlled via keyboard shortcuts, less so with IDEA.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s definitely not mouse driven. AFAIK, everything can be done via keyboard.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; ultimately, I don\u0026#x27;t think an IDE actually brings much to the table. I don\u0026#x27;t get any value from having the project build tied to a green triangle graphic, and I generally find the usual IDE workflow to be slow and clumsy. Emacs works perfectly, it does exactly what I ask of it and then gets out of the way.\u003cp\u003eI look at IntelliJ not as IDE but as a code navigation\u0026#x2F;refactoring tool. I can work in emacs if I have about 10s of KLOC, but after this, I need an effective tool to navigate code.","parent":"9206881","id":"9207698"}
{"by":"Fraztastic","time":"1489264862","timestamp":"2017-03-11 20:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Manager has piss poor communication then \u0026quot;solves\u0026quot; it by threatening to fire people. Genius.","parent":"13846215","id":"13847139"}
{"by":"artorias","time":"1513019396","timestamp":"2017-12-11 19:09:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Pai and his republican co-commissioners are going to jam this through regardless of what anyone says or does\u003cp\u003eAustralian lawmakers are lauded as heroes for doing the same thing. The double think here is insane.","parent":"15899206","dead":true,"id":"15899416"}
{"by":"pm90","time":"1541960159","timestamp":"2018-11-11 18:15:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If we logically extend your argument to include people in the rest of the world, then people in America will probably be as poor as them as well.\u003cp\u003eWhy would you do that? The purpose of having countries is to have a limit on where the laws\u0026#x2F;policies apply to. In this case we\u0026#x27;re talking specifically about the US.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Moreover, what would the environmental impact of such a policy be? Will we be consuming way more than what we are currently?\u003cp\u003eIf anything, its likely to be \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c/i\u003e for the environment. I don\u0026#x27;t think income equality means that people will just be buying more stuff (although that is likely to happen to a certain extent, just not enough to have meaningful impact); the way it would look is access to better services like healthcare, education etc.","parent":"18427652","id":"18427681"}
{"by":"cloudjacker","time":"1467082192","timestamp":"2016-06-28 02:49:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Man Silicon Valley companies are living in a parallel dimension!\u003cp\u003eThey collectively think they have the LUXURY to hire employees that are in love with their random idea\u003cp\u003eAnd they collectively think that the employees have the LUXURY to play russian roulette with the compensation terms\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s address that, because these factors have are completely disjointed with the success of the company and the employees\u0026#x27; INTEGRITY (instead of \u0026quot;aligned incentive\u0026quot;) to deliver amazing products and code","parent":"11988344","id":"11991170"}
{"by":"fleitz","time":"1273780422","timestamp":"2010-05-13 19:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man expects the world to adapt to him, therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.","parent":"1345382","id":"1345417"}
{"by":"brain5ide","time":"1356739991","timestamp":"2012-12-29 00:13:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everything will be wishy-washy when compared to \"The Art of Computer programming\" by Knuth.","parent":"4979938","id":"4980306"}
{"by":"DigitalSea","time":"1354496349","timestamp":"2012-12-03 00:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who do you think was responsible for implementing the filter in the first place? The courts may have been responsible for extending it, but there should never have been a filter introduced in the first place to be extended. Filtering has been proven to be very ineffective, expensive and detrimental to an open society. The Internet might have it's grey areas, but filtering doesn't benefit anyone other than the lobbyists acting on behalf of the entertainment industry averse to change.","parent":"4863352","id":"4863381"}
{"by":"franciscop","time":"1479838325","timestamp":"2016-11-22 18:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are we talking about collaborators to huge projects such as React or Angular or can smaller projects apply? Is there a \u0026quot;minimum star count\u0026quot; kind of thing?","parent":"13015885","id":"13016071"}
{"by":"sroussey","time":"1502864516","timestamp":"2017-08-16 06:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about malicious interference?","parent":"15023668","id":"15025330"}
{"by":"kvb","time":"1498526896","timestamp":"2017-06-27 01:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think most do... Can you point to some that don\u0026#x27;t?","parent":"14641691","id":"14641888"}
{"by":"notdrunkatall","time":"1352522415","timestamp":"2012-11-10 04:40:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which makes this particular idea even better.","parent":"4765593","id":"4765939"}
{"by":"01100011","time":"1531542499","timestamp":"2018-07-14 04:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could put the whole thing in a faraday cage and look at the emissions with a spectrum analyzer.  There\u0026#x27;s probably a bunch of wide spectrum noise though, thanks to all those squarewaves running at various frequencies.  If you were smart, you might try modulating one of those signals(sort of like the \u0026#x27;spread-spectrum\u0026#x27; feature of many BIOSes, but with information doing the modulation and not just noise).  You might be able to sneak other signals in amongst all the noise.  Hell, spread spectrum signals can sit below the noise floor... I don\u0026#x27;t really think there\u0026#x27;s a way you could be 100% certain that the laptop wasn\u0026#x27;t exfiltrating data.","parent":"17528424","id":"17528821"}
{"by":"bottled_poe","time":"1432003663","timestamp":"2015-05-19 02:47:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So where does the energy to move the bike come from?","parent":"9566358","id":"9567935"}
{"by":"RestlessMind","time":"1486163586","timestamp":"2017-02-03 23:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why isn\u0026#x27;t anyone else truly innovating? Why do all of the ad tech companies look like clones of one another?\u003cp\u003eBecause simply (simplistically?) speaking, a lot of people out there want to make a lot of money, but do not have enough smarts to \u0026quot;truly innovate\u0026quot;. So they end up \u0026quot;hustling\u0026quot; - cloning whatever is working, Facebook for X, Groupon for Y, Uber for Z... and there is a reasonable chance that such a strategy pays off with decent enough success rate, so I don\u0026#x27;t see this trend stopping anytime soon.","parent":"13564059","id":"13564188"}
{"by":"randomdata","time":"1337283541","timestamp":"2012-05-17 19:39:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe idea of someone skipping a CS degree to learn some Ruby on Rails and start as a web developer makes me ill. It's classic short-term thinking\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm not sure if you are directing this at me, but I've never been concerned about specific technologies. I spent my \"college years\" learning how to adapt to anything, which does include, but is not limited to programming. I've also worked professionally in several other industries.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYet there are surprisingly few people who can create new recommendation algorithms or build massively parallel systems that scale to thousands of nodes without downtime.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are very few that can do this period, CS degree or not. And even fewer companies willing to pay people to do that kind of research. Re-implementing someone else's algorithm to do recommendations, like, say, a Bayesian recommendation model, is no big challenge though.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNearly everyone who complains about CS degrees being a waste of time is complaining that college isn't a vocational school.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain, I'm not sure if this post is even directed at me, but I never made that claim. Formal CS comes with a lot of value. It just would have been a poor decision for my career. If you are willing to sacrifice business to be a better programmer, don't let me discourage you. It takes people who are willing to do that.","parent":"3988469","id":"3988673"}
{"by":"joshstrange","time":"1462815869","timestamp":"2016-05-09 17:44:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"* 4 commands vs 1\u003cp\u003e* Doesn\u0026#x27;t account for files with the same name\u003cp\u003e* No helper methods like merge when you typo\u003cp\u003eJust a couple of reasons off the top of my head","parent":"11661612","id":"11661646"}
{"by":"Boothroid","time":"1493833617","timestamp":"2017-05-03 17:46:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, I\u0026#x27;ve often felt like my brain speaks a different language to other people, and that if I could only improve the translation between their language and mine life would be a lot easier. Similar concept here - I have this feeling that maths is taught in a way that suits those that create the learning materials, rather than in a way that suits the learner. In teaching I wonder how much feedback goes into selecting the most efficient learning material?","parent":"14257878","id":"14258216"}
{"by":"pestaa","time":"1353708659","timestamp":"2012-11-23 22:10:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the FreeBSD product page[1]:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Please note that for technical reasons this AMI\n    only runs on high-performance (cluster \u0026#38; high-I/O) \n    instances.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nLooking at Mr. Percival's other resources, other contributed AMIs don't run on arbitrary instances, either.\u003cp\u003eBeing a broke student, I wanted to put it on the smallest micro instance. What are these technical reasons that prevent me from doing so?\u003cp\u003eIn any case, thanks for the great work.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK/ref=sp_mpg_product_title/189-3526635-0298104?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;sr=0-2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK/ref=sp_mpg_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4823739","id":"4823840"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1445019531","timestamp":"2015-10-16 18:18:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The military already does this by handing out amphetamines during major combat operations - look up various stories on \u0026#x27;go pills\u0026#x27; from the early stages of the Afghan war. Having taken prescription amphetamines over an extended period for adult ADD this isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily a disaster, but its not that sustainable either, and I would not be surprised to find a correlation between high dispensation rates and subsequent suicide rates by unit.","parent":"10399964","id":"10401120"}
{"by":"sutro","time":"1252995548","timestamp":"2009-09-15 06:19:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eHomer:\u003c/i\u003e Stupid driving test at the stupid DMV where stupid Patty and stupid Selma work! Sometimes I think God is teasing me...just like he teased Moses in the desert.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarge:\u003c/i\u003e Tested, Homer! God tested Moses. And try to be nice to my sisters. It's very hard on me to have you fighting all the time.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomer:\u003c/i\u003e Oh, OK Marge, I'll get along with them. Then, I will hug some snakes...yes! Then, I will hug and kiss some poisonous snakes. Now _that's_ sarcasm.","parent":"819490","id":"823384"}
{"by":"xte","time":"1545738955","timestamp":"2018-12-25 11:55:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With modern \u0026quot;web platforms\u0026quot; we are not customers but only lemons to be juiced and dropped, puppets, slaves. Nothing more.\u003cp\u003eNow think REALLY well about our future, especially imaging at actual trend a future with a banking system lead by big of IT instead of banks and of course usable only via proprietary services.\u003cp\u003eThink about the past when we have bankbooks with any transaction written and signed by the bank in \u003ci\u003eour\u003c/i\u003e hand vs today when we only have to relay on bank\u0026#x27;s servers itself. Think about how you can pay with physical money and how you need to pay with electronic one, especially observe the hard dependencies that both systems have.\u003cp\u003eAdd to the soup the fact that power corrupt and interdependence force cooperation instead of wars.\u003cp\u003eAdd to the soup the fact that in the past knowledge generally used to be in universities, so in public hand while now it\u0026#x27;s mostly in super-big-corps secret hands.\u003cp\u003eAdd to the soup the fact that when we totally depend on something, including basic things like food supply\u0026#x2F;production\u0026#x2F;distribution there is no need of strong power to create a dictatorship simply because people can\u0026#x27;t live without the product of de-facto \u0026quot;dictator\u0026quot;...","parent":"18754860","id":"18757088"}
{"by":"phreeza","time":"1361873633","timestamp":"2013-02-26 10:13:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One issue that I see with this, as with the Leap to a lesser degree, is how to signal the start and end of a gesture to the device. With a touchscreen this is pretty straightforward, but here it seems running a classifier on the entire stream of all your movements might give a lot of false positives? Or am I missing something?","parent":"5282310","id":"5284816"}
{"by":"pol0nium","time":"1453109790","timestamp":"2016-01-18 09:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That, plus the fact that landing far from inhabited regions is safer.","parent":"10922572","id":"10923467"}
{"by":"luroc","time":"1540316444","timestamp":"2018-10-23 17:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A handheld engine-diagnostics module is not hard to use. Take it out of the box and drive in a nail with it.\u003cp\u003eSaying that there is \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c/i\u003e you can do with a device without an explanation doesn\u0026#x27;t automatically imply that it\u0026#x27;s easy to use. Ease of use is a metric for how much of the full potential of something you can utilize with as little instructions as possible. The article has a point that this ease of use is quite reduced when you are disabled or don\u0026#x27;t have prior knowledge of devices.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not saying that the title couldn\u0026#x27;t be less sensational but simply saying that iPhones aren\u0026#x27;t difficult to use is wrong aswell.","parent":"18283757","id":"18285557"}
{"by":"frandroid","time":"1484332832","timestamp":"2017-01-13 18:40:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no alternative. Profits for the healthcare industry all the way.","parent":"13392838","id":"13393338"}
{"by":"monkeynotes","time":"1365115976","timestamp":"2013-04-04 22:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I deleted my FB account when they IPO'd as I could then plainly see that the only worth in the company was user data and it would certainly be monetised as much as possible.\u003cp\u003eBut 'deleting' an account probably doesn't do much more than remove the data from the immediate web services. My data has probably been sold to multiple 3rd parties by now.","parent":"5495736","id":"5495810"}
{"by":"CyberDildonics","time":"1508254649","timestamp":"2017-10-17 15:37:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; you can write JS programs, that are equally perfromant, as the WASM program (WASM would be at most 10 - 20 percent faster). So if you see JS being slower in this case, maybe it just was not written properly.\u003cp\u003eI think that is a pretty bold claim without anything to back it up. I\u0026#x27;ve never seen anything that indicates that while having seen a lot to the contrary.","parent":"15490580","id":"15491814"}
{"by":"melling","time":"1414520474","timestamp":"2014-10-28 18:21:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would pretty much cover the rest of the population, as far as getting people to wear a smart watch.","parent":"8522390","id":"8522543"}
{"by":"yoklov","time":"1438187978","timestamp":"2015-07-29 16:39:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"JS is not really a low level language in any sense.","parent":"9969437","id":"9969807"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1401669957","timestamp":"2014-06-02 00:45:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope this was horribly mangled by some chthonian sub-editor, because I hate to think that this rambling disconnected potpourri is considered acceptable output from a PhD candidate as the bio claims.","parent":"7830805","id":"7831321"}
{"by":"wrp","time":"1464384746","timestamp":"2016-05-27 21:32:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Suppose we remove everything from an OS that the particular service doesn\u0026#x27;t need, then you tie the app+OS together as a unit. How is that different from just a regular application running on the host OS? If it is something better, then why don\u0026#x27;t we write applications to be that way to begin with? Serious question.","parent":"11788789","id":"11789192"}
{"by":"shad0wfax","time":"1326298303","timestamp":"2012-01-11 16:11:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congratulations! I am sure its a proud moment after taking the big step in life :).\u003cp\u003eA nice concept as well (btw, the hackernews effect is slowing down/timing out your site).\u003cp\u003eOn a tangential note (maybe), are you also liking running the startup (a company)? I am sure developing the product would have been an awesome experience, but when it comes to manage and run the company it calls for something else. How are you liking that?","parent":"3451893","id":"3452288"}
{"by":"mos2","time":"1383149232","timestamp":"2013-10-30 16:07:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Author here, would really like to get some feedback about how I can make this better for the zurb foundation \u0026#x2F; ruby community. If you have any resources about creating Rake build scripts for static site resources (outside of Asset Pipeline \u0026#x2F; Sprockets) I would love to hear about them.","parent":"6641172","id":"6641209"}
{"by":"darkbot","time":"1387627697","timestamp":"2013-12-21 12:08:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow. Seem like a great product.\nMaybe you could license it to cloud hosters? I\u0026#x27;d love Linode to have an interface like this.","parent":"6945950","id":"6946486"}
{"by":"jblok","time":"1500929318","timestamp":"2017-07-24 20:48:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"186 days ago I posted my app Dongle Daddy - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13434787\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13434787\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn this day, it was also featured on Product Hunt and The Next Web leading to around 30k uniques across 2 days. Traffic is now nothing like that unfortunately.\u003cp\u003eOne nice upside is that when I launched, it was picked up by a manager at BT Shop, a fairly large online electronics store in the UK, and I have released a variant of the app which uses their own affiliate scheme and branding. They\u0026#x27;ve integrated this into one of their category pages at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.shop.bt.com\u0026#x2F;category\u0026#x2F;cables-and-adapters,cables\u0026#x2F;11125\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.shop.bt.com\u0026#x2F;category\u0026#x2F;cables-and-adapters,cables\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"14839459","id":"14842549"}
{"by":"quizbiz","time":"1255421606","timestamp":"2009-10-13 08:13:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worry that I only like the night because of the isolation it enduces.","parent":"878591","id":"878640"}
{"by":"dguaraglia","time":"1453841671","timestamp":"2016-01-26 20:54:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh! Nice, I actually know a guy who works for Honeywell out of  MN. He\u0026#x27;s in the Aerospace division though (just found out he\u0026#x27;s kind of a big deal... weird, I know him through my girlfriend\u0026#x27;s family and had never checked his LinkedIn page.)","parent":"10970906","id":"10975976"}
{"by":"eknkc","time":"1534713446","timestamp":"2018-08-19 21:17:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tried HC just yesterday on cloud functions. For some reason, it runs extremely slow. Did some comparisons to AWS lambda with similar memory \u0026#x2F; cpu sizes and basic “load page and screenshot” jobs would take 2x - 3x more time on google cloud functions.\u003cp\u003eI’ll dig deeper soon but this is a bad start.","parent":"17795626","id":"17796223"}
{"by":"PeCaN","time":"1472063689","timestamp":"2016-08-24 18:34:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nearly all x86_64 instructions are microcoded on modern Intel and AMD CPUs. That does \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e mean they\u0026#x27;re slow.\u003cp\u003eSome instructions may end up slow when the microcode isn\u0026#x27;t updated to take advantage of the latest processor iteration (I recall this happened to rep movs at some point, which gave it its bad reputation, even though it was fixed). That probably happens often for legacy instructions.","parent":"12353792","id":"12354228"}
{"by":"Fradow","time":"1499157526","timestamp":"2017-07-04 08:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s answer point by point (I\u0026#x27;m not a heavy bike user, but I used to bike everyday to work):\u003cp\u003e- What if it is raining? You use a raincoat. If it\u0026#x27;s really raining too heavily, use public transportation (bus\u0026#x2F;metro\u0026#x2F;tram). It doesn\u0026#x27;t happen too often in most areas, as far as I know.\u003cp\u003e- What about when it is too far away to arrive without being sweaty? There is very little \u0026quot;too far\u0026quot; when in a big city. If it\u0026#x27;s really too far, use public transportation, or if it\u0026#x27;s outside the city, a taxi (or equivalent) or rental. If it happens too much, you are not in an area favorable to bikes, sorry.\u003cp\u003e- What if it is too cold to be outside for long? Are you in an area where it\u0026#x27;s often below 0°C? If not, it\u0026#x27;s really not too cold. If you are, well sorry, you are not in an area favorable to bikes either.\u003cp\u003e-  What if it is too far uphill? Public transportation on the way up, shared bikes on the way down. That\u0026#x27;s how it\u0026#x27;s done here at least. Or you train to go uphill if you have you own bike.\u003cp\u003e- What if you need to take a child with you? You use a bike which have an attachment to carry a child. It\u0026#x27;s very common in the Netherlands.\u003cp\u003e- Or two people from out of town? They take a bike too. Or they rent a car if they are not confortable using bikes.\u003cp\u003e- What about bringing back furniture from ikea? You pay Ikea to deliver it to your door. Or you rent a truck.\u003cp\u003e- How do you leave the city and go out to the surrounding area? If you really need to (most of the time, you don\u0026#x27;t), you use a taxi (or equivalent) or a rental.\u003cp\u003e- What if you need to get somewhere faster than a bike can take you? Taxi.\u003cp\u003eTo sum up: they are necessary if your location is not bike friendly (heavy rain often, too cold to be outside, really lackluster public transportation, or not in a big city). Otherwise, you can live without car, you just need to plan ahead for the occasions you go out of the city or need to transport things. It\u0026#x27;s cheaper in the long run too.\u003cp\u003eI understand it may be hard to conceive if you always owned a car. Try to buy a bike and use it whenever possible. At some point, you may find that you don\u0026#x27;t use your car anymore. Or you may not, and you really do need a car, that\u0026#x27;s understandable too.\u003cp\u003eSource: 28 years old, living in Paris, I never owned a car. I rely on friends and family car when outside of Paris. If I couldn\u0026#x27;t rely, I would rent a car when going on vacations and that\u0026#x27;s it. Unless I move out of Paris, I don\u0026#x27;t plan to own a car, ever.","parent":"14694365","id":"14694453"}
{"by":"tobiasbischoff","time":"1336380365","timestamp":"2012-05-07 08:46:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"shit, overread *masturbation' initially.","parent":"3937280","dead":true,"id":"3938215"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1341783502","timestamp":"2012-07-08 21:38:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an EU citizen myself I think the EP is pretty much the only governing body that I vote for that I can actually trust, except maybe for my local municipality. I thanked the MEPs I voted for the last time they turned ACTA down, I should do it again.\u003cp\u003eAs for Ars, probably subscribing: \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4215791","id":"4215814"}
{"by":"swampthinker","time":"1458100831","timestamp":"2016-03-16 04:00:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mean, it cuts both ways. By drawing it out, Snowden got the story get a lot more attention from the media and general public.","parent":"11294893","id":"11294916"}
{"by":"pokemongoaway","time":"1507867342","timestamp":"2017-10-13 04:02:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but we could see that batteries needed to get X better in order for us to achieve Y results in the future. But how much better do vacuum chamber technologies have to get before you can make the biggest one ever built, that also has a high-speed capsule traveling through it, that is also impervious to armor piercing bullets? Furthermore, imagine if every airplane had to fly the exactly same path, and if any failure on that path prevented (at the very least) all subsequent planes from traveling that path. And finally, how are security lines going to get shorter if the stakes will be at least as high as airplanes?","parent":"15463069","id":"15463190"}
{"by":"jeditobe","time":"1427895501","timestamp":"2015-04-01 13:38:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ReactOS Foundation renounce claims to the logo ReactJS in exchange for investments by Facebook\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;habrahabr.ru\u0026#x2F;company\u0026#x2F;reactos\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;254579\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;habrahabr.ru\u0026#x2F;company\u0026#x2F;reactos\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;254579\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the saying goes, there would be a blessing ...\u003cp\u003eSome time ago, in the ReactOS Foundation, it was decided to exercise their right to protect their means of individualization, namely the registered trademark, trademark and logo (the wording depends on the jurisdiction of law enforcement). We were inspired by the successful experience of the project Gnome, which is to protect their brand from the encroachments of Groupon.\u003cp\u003eRecently, the lawyers hired by the Fund, sent to Facebook Ireland Limited warning about trademark infringement ReactOS. The fact that Facebook is developing a project ReactJS, whose logo resembles the logo ReactOS confusingly. Since over the long term has not followed any response letter, nor any appropriate action on the part of Facebook, lawyers fund full steam preparing a lawsuit against the social network. Suddenly came very late response to the complaint letter ... and what!\u003cp\u003eFacebook ReactOS Foundation offered to give up claims to ReactJS out of court in exchange for investments in the project of our operating system.\u003cp\u003eThe volume and the specific conditions of the investment currently being discussed in the negotiations, but it is already clear that it is a sum equivalent to several million euros. For their part, representatives of Facebook made demands on what exactly should go money.\u003cp\u003eIs expected to develop client and server distributions based on ReactOS, a graphical shell which will be based on React.JS, then while all calculations and data processing will be carried out thanks to Node.js. It is obvious that Facebook is preparing to attack Google and Microsoft in the operating system market for tablets and handheld gadgets. It is worth noting that the social giant has long been known for its contribution to the opensource-motion: Apache Cassandra, Apache Hive, Apache Thrift, FQL, Hack, HipHop for PHP, Scribe, Open Compute Project.\u003cp\u003eStay tuned for details of this epochal event will follow soon!","parent":"9302010","id":"9303392"}
{"by":"gdog","time":"1338344821","timestamp":"2012-05-30 02:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the code sample and I like your convention. However, I can't enforce it on other people (especially at work) so it doesn't help me most of the time.","parent":"4040905","id":"4041061"}
{"by":"tw04","time":"1421723943","timestamp":"2015-01-20 03:19:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would imagine he means trying to navigate the debris when sending \u003ci\u003eother stuff\u003c/i\u003e into orbit, or bringing spacecraft home.  I\u0026#x27;ve often wondered this myself... at some point do we have so much \u003ci\u003estuff\u003c/i\u003e up there it\u0026#x27;s near-impossible to get spacecraft out without serious danger to their crews?  And what about when it\u0026#x27;s time to retire them?\u003cp\u003eLegitimate question.","parent":"8915163","id":"8915305"}
{"by":"gcp","time":"1336747905","timestamp":"2012-05-11 14:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On Windows it's modal. Dunno about the others.","parent":"3959343","id":"3959470"}
{"by":"jfernandez","time":"1421958598","timestamp":"2015-01-22 20:29:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah I agree, it\u0026#x27;s sort of the \u0026#x27;early adopter\u0026#x27; version of where it\u0026#x27;ll be in a few years hopefully. That said because it\u0026#x27;s sort of a different medium model, I can see why this is hard to change or move past.","parent":"8931450","id":"8931531"}
{"by":"seanflyon","time":"1411599929","timestamp":"2014-09-24 23:05:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  just in fuel costs\u003cp\u003eI think you mean \u0026#x27;just in rocket costs\u0026#x27; as the fuel cost is negligible and the cost of the launch is 5 figures (dollars\u0026#x2F;kg).\u003cp\u003eFor example the falcon 9 costs $12,618\u0026#x2F;kg to GTO and $4,653\u0026#x2F;kg to LEO.  I don\u0026#x27;t recall the exact figure but fuel cost is a low single digit percentage of that cost.","parent":"8364592","id":"8364665"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1452084935","timestamp":"2016-01-06 12:55:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t trust someone who says \u0026quot;I have nothing to hide\u0026quot;. And certainly don\u0026#x27;t trust them with your secrets!","parent":"10847842","id":"10850211"}
{"by":"o_nate","time":"1532449169","timestamp":"2018-07-24 16:19:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NYC commuter tax was repealed in 1999. You still have to pay NY state tax obviously.","parent":"17602210","id":"17602452"}
{"by":"kyllo","time":"1359230720","timestamp":"2013-01-26 20:05:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pg addresses this in \u003ca href=\"http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.paulgraham.com/start.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStart by writing software for smaller companies, because it's easier to sell to them. It's worth so much to sell stuff to big companies that the people selling them the crap they currently use spend a lot of time and money to do it. And while you can outhack Oracle with one frontal lobe tied behind your back, you can't outsell an Oracle salesman. So if you want to win through better technology, aim at smaller customers. [...] Corollary: Avoid starting a startup to sell things to the biggest company of all, the government. Yes, there are lots of opportunities to sell them technology. But let someone else start those startups.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand I see a lot of potential in selling cheap, lightweight, cloud-hosted, but effective \"small business IT\" applications on a subscription basis to help enable the little guys to compete with big business on a more level playing field. You're running a small business and you can't afford to shell out millions on an Oracle or SAP system? Maybe you can't afford to hire a full-time developer or even a consultant to build you an application? Who cares, when there's a just-as-good application that you can access online for less than $100/month?\u003cp\u003eThe key to this would be understanding the use cases particular to whatever industry you are selling to. You might have to have industry-specific modules within a larger application framework.\u003cp\u003eThen there's always the potential challenge of ETL-ing the data from whatever legacy system the small business might be currently using in order to make it available inside your application, but that's much more of a consulting job than a product marketing job. That's got to be one of the the most expensive aspects of selling enterprise software in the first place.\u003cp\u003eAnd of course, assuring the customer about security, privacy, and IP protection of their data would also be of paramount importance, if it's going to be cloud-based.","parent":"5120922","id":"5121564"}
{"by":"niggler","time":"1363895677","timestamp":"2013-03-21 19:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think anyone here is judging the comparative difficulties of various groups of minorities.  It's recognized that most minority groups do face discrimination.","parent":"5418324","id":"5418394"}
{"by":"cscotti","time":"1526833304","timestamp":"2018-05-20 16:21:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really cool, well written article. And also, very timely!\u003cp\u003eThe video deposition of Gates echoes so much of the latest Zuckaberggate...\nAnd as much as people made fun of Zuckaberg.. he did much better than Gates!","parent":"17113255","id":"17113470"}
{"by":"Jupe","time":"1411356618","timestamp":"2014-09-22 03:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh? Ever hear of the Chevy Volt?","parent":"8349009","id":"8349099"}
{"by":"NHQ","time":"1324341360","timestamp":"2011-12-20 00:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The US Government should buy T-Mobile and turn it into a nationwide information super freeway.","parent":"3371282","id":"3371757"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1333983974","timestamp":"2012-04-09 15:06:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And your basis for generalizing sweepingly about all of humanity is...","parent":"3817098","id":"3817245"}
{"by":"mechanical_fish","time":"1224509025","timestamp":"2008-10-20 13:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Britney Spears is a musician. I know it hurts to have to admit that, but it's true.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, when Britney is performing songs that are written by AIs (and how can we tell that this hasn't already happened?) she will \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e be a musician. If you think that singers are passive conduits of a composer's will, I invite you to visit an opera set and voice that opinion. (You can ask either the singers or the composer; it doesn't matter. Though if you ask the singers you had better carry earplugs, lest you risk being sonicated to death.)\u003cp\u003eI was actually thinking about Britney Spears at one point, in the context of my post. She strikes me as a prime example of one path that pop music will take in a world where, say, ABBA tunes can be written by a AI box that sits on my desk. One thing that boxes can't do so well is to perform a piece in which the musicians have simulated sex in the middle of the performance. Another is to simulate a complete nervous breakdown in the middle of a set. I've never seen Britney perform, either live or on video, but my understanding is that much of the drama of her act derives from anticipation of one of these events.\u003cp\u003eOf course, Britney Spears is only one facet of music (one that I frankly know little about). Another is jazz, which I tend to regard as another generation's solution to the artistic problem of abundant mass-produced music: Make each performance a unique, live, semi-improvised expression of the artist's technique, taste, and composing skills.","parent":"337700","id":"337843"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1473428708","timestamp":"2016-09-09 13:45:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m starting to get tired of making this point in some of the many discussions of this topic (most recently \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12457371\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12457371\u003c/a\u003e), so the last time for a month, I swear:\u003cp\u003eYou tell me when I can open a segregated lunch counter, or refuse to bake a gay wedding cake, and I\u0026#x27;ll consider your argument to have merit. Otherwise, it\u0026#x27;s only a matter of time until Facebook and company are brought to heel under that sort of \u0026quot;public accommodation\u0026quot; approach.\u003cp\u003eSee also mabbo\u0026#x27;s well thought out comment: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12462031\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12462031\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12462053","id":"12462097"}
{"by":"IkmoIkmo","time":"1455179907","timestamp":"2016-02-11 08:38:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t fully read the article but I\u0026#x27;ve got wifi at home, wifi at work, wifi at uni. My phone automatically connects to all of \u0026#x27;m. Hell I\u0026#x27;ve got wifi at some friends, even at the parents of my gf when I stayed over for a weekend.\u003cp\u003eSo most of my data use is not from my phone\u0026#x27;s data plan. Did she specify it was?\u003cp\u003eThat having been said, 60gb is a shitload and I think 1) it may not be true and 2) she\u0026#x27;s an outlier who uses snaps for scoring. While undoubtedly more people do that, most young people I know send a few snaps a day at most, not 40 over breakfast.","parent":"11076398","id":"11078983"}
{"by":"baldfat","time":"1432746016","timestamp":"2015-05-27 17:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Until people organize and fight the systematic (unintentional I believe) dumbing down of poor urban students and see it as a form of racism which propels inequality nothing is really going to change.\u003cp\u003eThis wasn\u0026#x27;t due to Common Core it is due to curriculum being mirrored by Standardized Testing.","parent":"9612188","id":"9612737"}
{"by":"sizzle","time":"1394404604","timestamp":"2014-03-09 22:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"xprivacy and xposed framework give an insane amount of control back to us end users. I suggest everyone cautious of their private data being taken without permission to look into them for android.","parent":"7369726","id":"7370313"}
{"by":"CommentNewUser","time":"1442596469","timestamp":"2015-09-18 17:14:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"really cool.","parent":"10239413","id":"10240462"}
{"by":"gamblor956","time":"1547232228","timestamp":"2019-01-11 18:43:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve always felt that it takes a unique form of psychopath to enjoy playing Eve, and the constant drumbeat of stories like this one just confirm it.\u003cp\u003eBut I\u0026#x27;m glad Eve exists. As long as the griefers are playing Eve and griefing each other, they aren\u0026#x27;t playing (or at least aren\u0026#x27;t focusing on) all the other games.","parent":"18883512","id":"18885759"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1437496578","timestamp":"2015-07-21 16:36:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previous discussion:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9921335\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9921335\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9906107\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9906107\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9923094","id":"9923509"}
{"by":"philhippus","time":"1353772034","timestamp":"2012-11-24 15:47:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they called me and leave a ticket number, I might not call them back. Maybe I don't want to pay for their phonecall.","parent":"4825335","id":"4825520"}
{"by":"zaidf","time":"1262119750","timestamp":"2009-12-29 20:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be in Delaware.\u003cp\u003eInvestors would almost certainly want vesting terms. I'm not sure that is possible under LLC.","parent":"1021245","id":"1021279"}
{"by":"tantalor","time":"1461611723","timestamp":"2016-04-25 19:15:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The story did not bury the lead:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs a publisher, the experience made me realize the potential in a service like the one from Ev Williams’s Medium.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"11566478","id":"11566568"}
{"by":"gcp","time":"1502966404","timestamp":"2017-08-17 10:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One typically keeps pools of trained networks to combat this.","parent":"15035397","id":"15035427"}
{"by":"Jimbob12","time":"1479526652","timestamp":"2016-11-19 03:37:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not a personal attack, it\u0026#x27;s an objective observation; it\u0026#x27;s science. Surely we\u0026#x27;re allowed to discuss science here, right?","parent":"12979349","dead":true,"id":"12991936"}
{"by":"tim333","time":"1532771098","timestamp":"2018-07-28 09:44:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just last week I was at an unusually good talk by an Ogilvy Vice Chairman Rory Sutherland mentioned in the article.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Rory co-heads a team of psychology graduates who look for \u0026quot;butterfly effects\u0026quot; in consumer behaviour - these are the very small contextual changes which can have enormous effects on the decisions people make\u003cp\u003eThe talk\u0026#x27;s on youtube. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=PWiB5H18aug\u0026amp;t=1187s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=PWiB5H18aug\u0026amp;t=1187s\u003c/a\u003e Recommended if you are in to that stuff.","parent":"17632236","id":"17632423"}
{"by":"intrasight","time":"1527378429","timestamp":"2018-05-26 23:47:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But ads are not viable unless they are driven by information about the audience - down to the individual. However, I am also an advocate of returning to the \u0026quot;sponsorship\u0026quot; model - old-fashion ads, if you will. No tracking there - the sponsor just knows approx audience size and demographics.","parent":"17162975","id":"17164782"}
{"by":"aksquestions","time":"1455218759","timestamp":"2016-02-11 19:25:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the real story here that this guy was acquitted of murdering a police officer and was thus targeted by law enforcement for retribution? His 2010 felony conviction was for \u0026quot;evading arrest\u0026quot;, which is what led to him being deprived of his 2nd amendment rights and thus set the tripwire for this violation. But what would you do if you knew law enforcement had it out for you for killing one of their own?","parent":"11077614","id":"11082472"}
{"by":"hamburglar","time":"1411067013","timestamp":"2014-09-18 19:03:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s your warning: if you ever click on an HN link titled \u0026quot;\u0026lt;something\u0026gt; XSS\u0026quot;, prepare for something annoying to happen.","parent":"8336694","id":"8336989"}
{"by":"chrisbennet","time":"1532779918","timestamp":"2018-07-28 12:11:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’m not sure if it helps “get” jobs but it doesn’t hurt.\u003cp\u003eMy current web site is 3drocketsurgery.com. The chrisbennet.com one is all stuff that I did 10 years ago or more. Neither of them are sites you would find via a web search. Not a single person has contacted me through 3drocketsurgery site’s contact form and my name isn’t on it anywhere on it (on purpose). I used to use it with my resume’ and now use it instead of one.\u003cp\u003eI don’t actually call people or actively search for work. I do try to talk people out of hiring me sometimes. Reading this it makes it seem like I’ve got it all figured out but in reality, I’m just lucky and I’m expecting my luck to run out at some point. It’s kind of scary to be honest.","parent":"17632437","id":"17632821"}
{"by":"spullara","time":"1377145429","timestamp":"2013-08-22 04:23:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMHO that is only true if you want to be a Twitter clone or otherwise be in the same business as Twitter.","parent":"6248494","id":"6255160"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1545743037","timestamp":"2018-12-25 13:03:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love to see a real comparison of the effectiveness of video learning vs more traditional, skimmable text.","parent":"18754391","id":"18757248"}
{"by":"twblalock","time":"1480570101","timestamp":"2016-12-01 05:28:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s unlikely that Fitbit will do well over the next few years. They sell in markets where the hardware is commoditized, just like GoPro. Razor-thin profit margins and increasingly interchangeable competing products are  the future of that industry.\u003cp\u003eI guess this is an acquihire, which is fine, because Pebble was selling in a commoditized market and didn\u0026#x27;t have much of a future either.","parent":"13077179","id":"13077392"}
{"by":"vonmoltke","time":"1513274677","timestamp":"2017-12-14 18:04:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Was interesting until I saw this.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Good for decorative concrete, though.\u003cp\u003eIt goes far beyond decorative concrete.  This process can be used for concrete blocks, roof tiles, drainage pipes and boxes, prestressed slabs, and virtually any other product that is manufactured off-site.\u003cp\u003eFor the record, I don\u0026#x27;t think I have ever seen a basement where the walls were solid pour.  It\u0026#x27;s a waste of concrete when hollow block with poured columns is sufficient.","parent":"15922470","id":"15924685"}
{"by":"DrMcFacekick","time":"1326391926","timestamp":"2012-01-12 18:12:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eruns off to write her Representative\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"3457244","id":"3457342"}
{"by":"md224","time":"1387232273","timestamp":"2013-12-16 22:17:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At the risk of playing messenger and getting shot, I\u0026#x27;ll say this: I think what rayiner\u0026#x27;s trying to do is clarify the narrative. Right now the dominant narrative on HN seems to be \u0026quot;the government has expanded their powers to intrude on our right to privacy.\u0026quot; Rayiner is suggesting that perhaps the government is simply exercising the power it had been granted over years of precedent-setting court decisions (including, critically, the loss of expectation of privacy when information is handed to a third party). According to this alternate narrative, what has changed hasn\u0026#x27;t really been the government\u0026#x27;s scope of power, but rather our increasing reliance on third-party services to mediate our interactions in the modern world. As more and more of our communication is digitized and aggregated by third party services, more of our information falls within the government\u0026#x27;s constitutionally limited scope.\u003cp\u003eA key point of contention is whether what we\u0026#x27;re seeing here is the government breaking laws, or the government following laws that simply haven\u0026#x27;t caught up with the times. Rayiner believes (I think) that it\u0026#x27;s the latter, and therefore has reason for optimism; as he says, \u0026quot;I think those laws [to protect electronic communications] could work because I don\u0026#x27;t believe the government is just ignoring the law.\u0026quot;","parent":"6918181","id":"6918236"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1329415246","timestamp":"2012-02-16 18:00:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I \u003ci\u003edid\u003c/i\u003e spell shemales wrong! Luckily, I spelt \"schemaless\" right.","parent":"3599699","id":"3599857"}
{"by":"layble","time":"1469212046","timestamp":"2016-07-22 18:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blue Hill in the West Village has a raw vegetable dish that changed my view on what vegetables should taste like.","parent":"12145361","id":"12145623"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1518722778","timestamp":"2018-02-15 19:26:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not much money.\u003cp\u003eBut for poor people $100 a month is the difference between eating or not eating some days, or having the heating on or going cold, or buying some books for the kids to read at home, or paying the bills on time vs paying them late.\u003cp\u003eAlso, about books: I don\u0026#x27;t know if there\u0026#x27;s something like this in the US, but it seems like a good idea: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;literacytrust.org.uk\u0026#x2F;support-us\u0026#x2F;help-child-fall-love-reading-valentines-day\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;literacytrust.org.uk\u0026#x2F;support-us\u0026#x2F;help-child-fall-love...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16386365","id":"16386741"}
{"by":"Pyxl101","time":"1442226811","timestamp":"2015-09-14 10:33:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those of us who do not have the option to get on the news: what should one do to stay off of it? Let\u0026#x27;s assume that you believe you\u0026#x27;re \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c/i\u003e to be on the news for something you don\u0026#x27;t want to be.","parent":"10213858","id":"10214442"}
{"by":"Hondor","time":"1465710646","timestamp":"2016-06-12 05:50:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is simple \u0026quot;they stole our jobs\u0026quot; rhetoric. It\u0026#x27;s just like taxi drivers with their \u0026quot;Uber stole our fares\u0026quot;. If you can\u0026#x27;t compete, go to another market. If you\u0026#x27;re already overcharging, charge less. \u0026quot;Depressing local wages\u0026quot; is a good thing - it reduces the cost to society of getting productive things done.\u003cp\u003eThe other argument about foreign workers being exploited is a clear sign of people pretending to care but really not caring. Sure there are some who were tricked into debt traps, but for most, they know what they\u0026#x27;re getting into and they know it\u0026#x27;s better than what they have back home. So they\u0026#x27;re making a step up in life. You want to kick them back down because you care about their welfare? What it means is you only care about people in America and once they leave, they lose their status as worthy human beings who deserve good working conditions.\u003cp\u003eI used to be a foreign laborer. I was paid minimum wage to do grunt work that locals didn\u0026#x27;t want. It was wonderful. The currency was worth more in my home country than where I was working. It helped me pay off my student loan. I would have hated to be forced out by someone trying to protect me from myself. My coworkers loved it too, they\u0026#x27;d send money home to help their parents run their farms and pay off their own loans. They\u0026#x27;d laugh at the lazy local workers who were mostly overweight and doing the same job more slowly.","parent":"11885132","id":"11886836"}
{"by":"knocte","time":"1512744327","timestamp":"2017-12-08 14:45:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Large holders of bitcoin are probably believers so I don\u0026#x27;t think they would do any detrimental action to the ecosystem on purpose. Plus, if they wanted to sell BTC they would not be so stupid to do it with a large market order (because it would act against their favour), OTC market exists (or even limit orders, which don\u0026#x27;t move the market but if anything, they make it more price-stable).","parent":"15877838","id":"15878899"}
{"by":"nommm-nommm","time":"1492609203","timestamp":"2017-04-19 13:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Next bug report, \u0026quot;non-existent islands shown off the coast of Australia\u0026quot; - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;worldmapswithout.nz\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;worldmapswithout.nz\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14141454","id":"14147592"}
{"by":"stevenj","time":"1304267256","timestamp":"2011-05-01 16:27:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Qomments: Quora for comments?","parent":"2503193","id":"2503287"}
{"by":"telegraph","time":"1249859680","timestamp":"2009-08-09 23:14:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"May I ask why? How does one monetize URL shortening, anyway?","parent":"751465","id":"751480"}
{"by":"xstartup","time":"1511457830","timestamp":"2017-11-23 17:23:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I believe it\u0026#x27;s net positive for a project because I tell other what I am using and they get interested, this helps a project get more mindshare and some of them will eventually contribute.","parent":"15765661","id":"15766501"}
{"by":"amalcon","time":"1264824320","timestamp":"2010-01-30 04:05:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate to be the detractor here, because getting rid of IE6 would be great for everyone, but do we really expect discontinuing Google Docs and Google Sites to have any effect on IE6 market share?  They're mostly corporate users, which means they're probably using MS Office (and have a web team or contractor) anyway.","parent":"1087778","id":"1088199"}
{"by":"mayneack","time":"1363740092","timestamp":"2013-03-20 00:41:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MIT CS class (6.047) I just took had a mix between course notes and a textbook. It started as a compilation of course notes and then each year, was improved by the class. During each lecture, one or more people were assigned to update the relevant chapter of the book to reflect this year's lecture/changes in the field. Some chapters that were the core of the class or didn't change from year to year were really good and some were only a basic framework. He also recorded all his lectures, so that helped with any places where the book might not be ideally up to date.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://compbio.mit.edu/teaching/book.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://compbio.mit.edu/teaching/book.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5402181","id":"5404755"}
{"by":"WalterBright","time":"1422850112","timestamp":"2015-02-02 04:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you consider working for the patent office and doing relativity in your spare time government funding, I suppose.\u003cp\u003eBell Labs funded Shockley in 1947. I don\u0026#x27;t think anyone was thinking about ICBMs at the time.","parent":"8982652","id":"8982688"}
{"by":"dragontamer","time":"1533707386","timestamp":"2018-08-08 05:49:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I go to physicists to learn about physics. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t ask them a question about finance.\u003cp\u003eI go to an economist, or maybe a trader, to learn about money and finances.","parent":"17711787","id":"17713491"}
{"by":"catch23","time":"1250516576","timestamp":"2009-08-17 13:42:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the google founders were able to easily explain \"PageRank\" in just a few words, yet nobody considered their approach during the era of Altavista \u0026#38; Hotbot.\u003cp\u003eThere might be a simple \u0026#38; obvious solution out there, but nobody has attempted it yet.","parent":"767998","id":"768084"}
{"by":"jbooth","time":"1291182002","timestamp":"2010-12-01 05:40:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every statement you made was a complete misunderstanding of my statement.  Including the sarcasm, I was being genuine in my praise.\u003cp\u003eBriefly, the random walk factor is less of an issue for speculative stocks because they either make it as a business, or don't.  That's not a random walk.  And I really don't understand why you're so miffed.","parent":"1956960","id":"1956964"}
{"by":"untothebreach","time":"1364903117","timestamp":"2013-04-02 11:45:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Corn is in so much stuff because it's production is subsidized by our government, and therefore is much cheaper to use than alternatives. This is why you see high fructose corn syrup used to sweeten foods more often than regular sugar. Sugar is (for the most part) imported, and sells at a much higher price than our subsidized corn products.","parent":"5478094","id":"5478717"}
{"by":"aristus","time":"1197752323","timestamp":"2007-12-15 20:58:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not crazy at all. If it does what you say, then it is very useful.\u003cp\u003eBut \"trust me\" is not enough -- you have to prove it works in a wider context. IR has many pitfalls, and success in one domain is not an indicator of general applicability. Your algo may work well on the subset of Wikipedia pages. It may spit out garbage with other sources or on search terms that would not occur to you.\u003cp\u003eJust as in crypto, IR algorithms have to be kicked around a lot before they get serious attention. I suggest you put something up that people can play with. You don't have to reveal the algo.","parent":"89927","id":"89931"}
{"by":"chrbutler","time":"1370560792","timestamp":"2013-06-06 23:19:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup, agreed. Although I bet there's a less intrusive means of aggregating citizen data germane to things like road maintenance than capturing our web browsing history, emails, and phone calls. IBM's Smart Cities initiative is essentially all about that -- distributing sensors throughout infrastructure for the purpose of gathering just that sort of data. That seems like a much more worthy investment in technology than massive data centers that suck up our chatter -- chatter which we have a reasonable expectation of privacy over, by the way.","parent":"5835836","id":"5835909"}
{"by":"irq11","time":"1474176310","timestamp":"2016-09-18 05:25:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok, so change \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;cheaper\u0026quot;, and the point remains: you like it because they charge less.\u003cp\u003eStill, most people in HN threads use it because it\u0026#x27;s free. Which is great for an open source tool, but bad for an unprofitable, VC-funded startup.","parent":"12509739","id":"12524044"}
{"by":"ashazar","time":"1384279168","timestamp":"2013-11-12 17:59:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried this and run startx.\u003cp\u003eWhat i get is only a black screen.\nEven though i restarted my laptop, still black screen.\u003cp\u003eHow can i return back to Unity?","parent":"6697582","id":"6719453"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1529501646","timestamp":"2018-06-20 13:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you trust people in business more than people in government?","parent":"17353144","id":"17355162"}
{"by":"janemanos","time":"1519741051","timestamp":"2018-02-27 14:17:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Max.. thanks also for your feedback. We worked it into an update to the benchmark, please find it here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16473117\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16473117\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16378568","id":"16473495"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1367691614","timestamp":"2013-05-04 18:20:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u003ci\u003eExcept that Hofstadter, other than writing about his ideas and theories, has accomplished jack shit.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy would he have to accomplish anything else? He is not an inventor, he is a writer.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;\u003ci\u003ePragmatically speaking, Kurzweil is miles ahead of Hofstadter in terms of putting his theories and ideas to practice.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't think so. He merely invented some low hanging fruit in early computer science, like OCR and text recognition. Things on which other people worked and had results too.\u003cp\u003eAnd things that, even now, 3 and 4 decades after his inventions, are miles BEHIND of his expectations of them, and somewhat of a disappointment still.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;\u003ci\u003eIt's very easy to criticize visionaries, until they achieve something.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it's equally easy to be a \"visionary\", if you don't have to also achieve those visions. Visionaries are a dime a dozen, especially in California.","parent":"5655534","id":"5655772"}
{"by":"thousande","time":"1501019055","timestamp":"2017-07-25 21:44:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess it played a role in getting html5\u0026#x2F;css3\u0026#x2F;web-standards features up to speed\u003cp\u003eThe Adobe Flex thing had lot of css3 features early. Funny to see how \u0026#x27;easy\u0026#x27; it is to release specs and implementation when you are the sole owner of the tech","parent":"14849445","id":"14852145"}
{"by":"bbatha","time":"1486433173","timestamp":"2017-02-07 02:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can do:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  foo() -\u0026gt; Option\u0026lt;String\u0026gt;\n\n  foo().as_ref() == Some(\u0026quot;str\u0026quot;)\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"13586057","id":"13586337"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1474920346","timestamp":"2016-09-26 20:05:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a little chicken and egg, the bridal shop was able to command high prices because they were the only game in town and served a luxury segment of the market. As a result less people want to repair clothes. But if there was high demand, there would be a competitive market of general purpose tailor, and repairing clothes would be cheaper \u0026amp; more attractive.","parent":"12583814","id":"12585101"}
{"by":"donw","time":"1250273328","timestamp":"2009-08-14 18:08:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've actually been considering going up for a few weeks, because California's tax structure, high cost of living, and overall lack of decent public infrastructure is seriously unfavorable to small business.","parent":"763437","id":"763515"}
{"by":"adharmad","time":"1248810864","timestamp":"2009-07-28 19:54:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the reasons why caving is an interesting sport is just that - no easy way to capture all the imagery.","parent":"728388","id":"728682"}
{"by":"metachris","time":"1314220949","timestamp":"2011-08-24 21:22:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Talk to a lawyer!","parent":"2921448","id":"2922534"}
{"by":"munchbunny","time":"1533929561","timestamp":"2018-08-10 19:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Whiteboard coding interviews are one thing that I have to go out of my way to practice for and get better at over time when interviewing (ie over the course of a few failed interviews). I don’t feel more skilled or smarter by the end of the set of interviews, but I inevitably do better at these kinds of problems.\u003cp\u003eYou have a good point, I noticed this about myself as well. However, I don\u0026#x27;t think whiteboard interviews are special in that regard. I noticed that I got noticeably better at the \u0026quot;sit down and code me a simple web API endpoint\u0026quot; interview, and I got noticeably better at the systems design interview, and so on.\u003cp\u003eI do think that whiteboard interviews tend to lean very algorithm-heavy, which doesn\u0026#x27;t reflect the role\u0026#x27;s actual day to day. And practicing algorithm interviews really does feel like an inefficient use of time unless your role truly demands algorithmic proficiency (like if you\u0026#x27;re a graphics dev).","parent":"17728676","id":"17736143"}
{"by":"mbrubeck","time":"1329550614","timestamp":"2012-02-18 07:36:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This Ars article from last week gives some context and explanation:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/critics-slam-ssl-authority-for-minting-cert-used-to-impersonate-sites.ars\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/critics-slam-ss...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn short, at least one CA, Trustwave, has issued a \"subordinate CA certificate\" (which allows another party to issue certs which will be trusted as if they were from Trustwave) to a network admin who used it to create forged certificates and intercept SSL traffic on their internal network.","parent":"3606154","id":"3606162"}
{"by":"nunez","time":"1523450896","timestamp":"2018-04-11 12:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have stats for that? Maybe I\u0026#x27;m an outlier, but I loved the Surface Pro so much, I bought a Surface Book for work and a Surface Book 2 for personal use.","parent":"16742407","id":"16810545"}
{"by":"talideon","time":"1423670858","timestamp":"2015-02-11 16:07:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I\u0026#x27;m not, and you\u0026#x27;re putting words in my mouth.\u003cp\u003eThis:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I have tried in the past to explain how awesome the ratio is, but it didn\u0026#x27;t go well because of dumb people.\u003cp\u003eDoes not mean the same thing as this:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;ve tried in the past to explain how awesome the sqrt(2) ratio used as the basis of DIN\u0026#x2F;ISO page sizes is, but there are some very dumb people on HN.","parent":"9033396","id":"9033621"}
{"by":"delano","time":"1280517838","timestamp":"2010-07-30 19:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's true. It would be helpful to have dynamic reloading as an option with the JVM.","parent":"1562152","id":"1562274"}
{"by":"crikli","time":"1502896152","timestamp":"2017-08-16 15:09:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was something I wrote in 2003, before git was a thing.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d grown up futzing with code in the 80\u0026#x27;s (AppleBASIC, a bit of assembler).  Turbo Pascal, ANSI C, in the early 90\u0026#x27;s.  I\u0026#x27;d started crunching through Ivor Horton\u0026#x27;s book on Visual C++ in 2000.\u003cp\u003eMy girlfriend\u0026#x27;s (now my wife\u0026#x27;s) employer had an ecommerce website that was written in this thing called PHP and it kept throwing errors, something about MySQL.  Figure out it was hosted on this \u0026quot;Apache\u0026quot; thing.\u003cp\u003eBought a SAM\u0026#x27;s Teach Yourself in 24 Hours on LAMP, spent a month digesting it, fixing the issues with the site in the meantime.  When I was done with the book I wrote my own ecommerce platform to replace the one they had (I did all this for no compensation, I just wanted to learn).\u003cp\u003eTook programming gigs off of what was then called \u0026quot;rentacoder.com\u0026quot; working for almost nothing to get experience and built a portfolio.\u003cp\u003eThe next year, 2004, a big auto parts company in town was looking for a \u0026quot;webmaster.\u0026quot;  I leveraged having built an ecommerce platform from scratch into that job.  I was all things internet for them (except graphic design).  Wrote code for their ecomm website (old school ASP.NET), did SEO\u0026#x2F;PPC marketing, came up with email campaigns, integrated with their ancient PICK-based inventory system, used NLP to detect tone in customer support emails before that was something you could farm out to Google, etc.\u003cp\u003eSo...the replicable aspects of that path, excepting luck and right place right time:\u003cp\u003e1) Dive deeply into a challenging language.  C++ wasn\u0026#x27;t for the faint of heart then and although it\u0026#x27;s been years since I wrote any I\u0026#x27;m sure that hasn\u0026#x27;t changed.  I\u0026#x27;m a much better coder for having had to deal with the obtuseness of C++.  Pointer pointers, anyone?\u003cp\u003e2) Do work until your skillset and portfolio represents enough value to someone that they\u0026#x27;re willing to pay for it.  So much of my early work was garbage anyway...hell my SAMS book on LAMP hadn\u0026#x27;t covered SQL JOINs, so I was doing queries and iterating through the results and running more queries!\u003cp\u003e3) Build something that non-developer can understand and connect to.  I was able to talk about the ecommerce site I\u0026#x27;d built, how I\u0026#x27;d integrated with PayPal, demonstrate the UI, etc, to the people that hired me.  Had I been presenting something more esoteric, like the time I had to figure out endianness to decode a data file and get it into a MySQL database, I\u0026#x27;d have completely lost them and likely not have gotten the job.","parent":"15025578","id":"15028044"}
{"by":"ojbyrne","time":"1377525483","timestamp":"2013-08-26 13:58:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That seems like a classic example of \u0026quot;Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eEspecially since there are security-circumventing mechanisms developing (private flights) that make heavy use of midrange jets.","parent":"6276788","id":"6277036"}
{"by":"moultano","time":"1294980481","timestamp":"2011-01-14 04:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I want to live a little, I'll go read reddit. HN is not the place for this.","parent":"2102589","id":"2102597"}
{"by":"brightball","time":"1536811707","timestamp":"2018-09-13 04:08:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s a bit strong. I’ve extensively used both and there’s no advantage for an SPA with PHP over Ruby.\u003cp\u003eIf your goal is an SPA and your backend performance is a concern you’re better off with Go or Elixir than either of them.","parent":"17975731","id":"17975934"}
{"by":"ihsw2","time":"1522024686","timestamp":"2018-03-26 00:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their business model is leaky abstractions as a rule and malicious compliance when exceptions occur -- we (our policymakers) have to know the underlying complexity (of Facebook in order to issue permission for its continuing existence), otherwise it\u0026#x27;s a foot-gun by default (for constituents of those policymakers), and furthermore when we need Facebook\u0026#x27;s help to clean up its messes then it\u0026#x27;s half-hearted and doesn\u0026#x27;t address the underlying issue.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s not much they can do other than assume absolute pacifism and absolute neutrality, to a fault. Effectively they must be resolute in their support for the stability of society, and that includes putting down political activists like Antifa and BLM. Facebook must no longer be a platform for activism of any kind, where all content deemed objectionable by anyone is pruned.","parent":"16675469","id":"16675618"}
{"by":"Steko","time":"1308101751","timestamp":"2011-06-15 01:35:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great advice yes but missed the most important thing you should do:  call Apple's Legal Dept (or other platform owner should they start pursuing Android et. al.).","parent":"2655410","id":"2655609"}
{"by":"known","time":"1459148849","timestamp":"2016-03-28 07:07:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good write up.","parent":"11370788","id":"11373095"}
{"by":"daxorid","time":"1465130528","timestamp":"2016-06-05 12:42:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If this were true, their refusal to use endpoint authentication, TLS or otherwise, would be even more damning than a simple breach.","parent":"11840313","id":"11840639"}
{"by":"Shubley","time":"1489011818","timestamp":"2017-03-08 22:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So is the lock on your front door.","parent":"13822880","id":"13824473"}
{"by":"soundsop","time":"1216772124","timestamp":"2008-07-23 00:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They could do a flickr-type model and charge only heavy users (say, more than 1000 friends) or charge for premium services (high-res photos or similar features).\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Even if social ads don't work out, I think Facebook will probably find a way to make lots of money. Although, maybe not enough money to justify the highest valuations we've heard.","parent":"253561","id":"253823"}
{"by":"secstate","time":"1462937955","timestamp":"2016-05-11 03:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And so it would be better if cities were built according to economic potential? At some point you have to pick a reason for doing anything in this world. Religion is about as valid a wealth generation in the long run.","parent":"11671659","id":"11672497"}
{"by":"ExploitsforFun","time":"1449840965","timestamp":"2015-12-11 13:36:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t buy this from VW for a second.  I am not sure what the work environment is in Europe but in all the corporate places I have written code for in US if I pulled a stunt like this with no backing from managers the best I could hope for is getting yelled at.  Most places would have fired me on the spot.  The possibility of this being a rogue engineer is extremely remote.  This screams management cover-up.","parent":"10710354","id":"10716964"}
{"by":"awt","time":"1274224513","timestamp":"2010-05-18 23:15:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"-- Personal Experience Only Disclaimer --\u003cp\u003eCaffeine has always caused me to have a heightened level of anxiety that lasts much longer than initial high.  My recommendation is that you should sleep when you are tired.  I like to take a nap in my car during lunch.","parent":"1359268","id":"1359450"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1493431434","timestamp":"2017-04-29 02:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The speed of the current change is unprecedented. Your article makes the standard argument that climate changes in the past and this is more of the same, but it\u0026#x27;s just not true.\u003cp\u003eXkcd summed it up nicely: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;1732\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;1732\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14223992","id":"14224632"}
{"by":"lsb","time":"1216783678","timestamp":"2008-07-23 03:27:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e Verdi Spoiler Alert \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Covent Garden this past spring, Fiesco says \"Simone, I morti ti salutano!\" -- \"Simon, the [previously-thought] dead salute you!\".\u003cp\u003eTo the classically minded, it's a riff on the gladitorial salute to the Roman emperor \"Nos te morituri te salutant\" -- we who are about to die salute you.\u003cp\u003eTakeaway lesson: only date people who laugh as much at Latin jokes as you do.","parent":"253471","id":"253998"}
{"by":"RockyMcNuts","time":"1300286319","timestamp":"2011-03-16 14:38:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Japan and other Asian societies, individuals have stronger social ties to their families, neighbors, coworkers. In the US, economic ties are more important. The US was built by people who left their families, neighborhoods, and existing structures to seek their fortune in the US.\u003cp\u003eI apologize for a non-PC interjection. You can't totally separate race and culture in the US. When a group has differences in language, music, eating habits, values and other social interactions, it becomes useful to think about it as a subculture. At the risk of being non-PC, a 'black urban subculture' may license antisocial behavior that is considered more reprehensible in 'white suburban subculture'.\u003cp\u003eI hasten to add that people who are white may be strongly associate and be of high standing in 'black urban subculture' (ie Eminem), and people who are black may strongly associate and be of high standing in 'white suburban subculture,' (ie Obama) and that once you start making assumptions about people's values and cultural adherence based on the color of their skin you start crossing the line into racism, which I don't believe anyone of any race is entirely free of.","parent":"2330113","id":"2332171"}
{"by":"lbrandy","time":"1262704041","timestamp":"2010-01-05 15:07:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I read this article, I got hung up on the part about the scientists studying the biochemical pathways of the placebo effect. How interesting. It saddens me to think he doesn't get much funding.\u003cp\u003eAnd then I had this thought: What if he developed a pill that caused an artificial biochemical release of the chemicals responsible for the placebo response. A non-placebo that triggers a placebo response in your body. Hmmmm. How would you even a test such a pill?","parent":"1032149","id":"1032459"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1399113235","timestamp":"2014-05-03 10:33:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After looking at the spec, I\u0026#x27;m wondering does this really save anything for the client, vs. doing this in a CSS preprocessor? Instead of spending the time compiling once and then having clients interpret declarations, \u003ci\u003eevery single user who visits the site\u003c/i\u003e will have their browser perform the same computation, \u003ci\u003eevery time they visit a page that uses these\u003c/i\u003e. It\u0026#x27;s also another source of significant complexity to the browser.","parent":"7690124","id":"7690264"}
{"by":"nostromo","time":"1382730722","timestamp":"2013-10-25 19:52:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.  That sentence was more about how very-valuable companies can not only be frivolous and create economic value (Coke), but can create real problems while creating economic value (Exxon).\u003cp\u003eIt wasn\u0026#x27;t phrased perfectly, but I\u0026#x27;ll leave it now since several people have responded.","parent":"6614045","id":"6614089"}
{"by":"brackin","time":"1355548028","timestamp":"2012-12-15 05:07:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why doesn't PICPC-VC have a Dropbox or Airbnb in their alumni yet?","parent":"4923136","id":"4924639"}
{"by":"TulliusCicero","time":"1505913961","timestamp":"2017-09-20 13:26:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"American cities largely feel like they were designed by people who hate cities.\u003cp\u003eLiving in Munich now, urban design is easily the #1 thing I\u0026#x27;d transplant over to the states if I could.","parent":"15293249","id":"15293458"}
{"by":"apsurd","time":"1346883085","timestamp":"2012-09-05 22:11:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me I see it as breeding a culture of \u003ci\u003epassion\u003c/i\u003e. I'm sure there are tons of people who \u003ci\u003ereally want to work for GitHub\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThis is a small example of why that is true.\u003cp\u003eToward that end, I'd say it's a fantastic use of resources.","parent":"4480798","id":"4481749"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1362755543","timestamp":"2013-03-08 15:12:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.  Many people supported dcurtis and were angry at the blatant rip off.  Also, many people were annoyed at dcurtis and felt he brought it on himself by acting like an idiot.","parent":"5343413","id":"5343808"}
{"by":"oblio","time":"1462787333","timestamp":"2016-05-09 09:48:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This method was invented by \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sakichi_Toyoda\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sakichi_Toyoda\u003c/a\u003e. He died in 1930.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure that it predates even the word \u0026quot;startup\u0026quot; as it is currently used :)","parent":"11658447","id":"11658580"}
{"by":"CaptainZapp","time":"1398168957","timestamp":"2014-04-22 12:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My definition of Hell?\u003cp\u003eIKEA on a rainy Saturday afternoon.\u003cp\u003e(read it somewhere, but really can\u0026#x27;t recall the source)","parent":"7627094","id":"7627162"}
{"by":"bsnyder","time":"1322068238","timestamp":"2011-11-23 17:10:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few years ago I worked for a satellite imagery company. I can tell you that communications with space vehicles in orbit are heavily encrypted using very strong and very proprietary algorithms that require special hardware. Because of this encryption, I had to acquire a government security clearance.","parent":"3270159","id":"3270720"}
{"by":"byrneseyeview","time":"1266875961","timestamp":"2010-02-22 21:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Demand Media does not produce high quality content. They product content that is good enough to rank (i.e. it's written in English) and unique. But they have a strong incentive to have bad content! If your article on \"how to make pancakes\" tells someone how to make pancakes, they close their tab and make pancakes; if it's 300 words of \"original content\" that makes no sense, you'll end up clicking through to another site (that has to pay for the privilege).\u003cp\u003eWhen you think of how many struggling freelancers use those long-tail guides to build their business (\"How to shoot a commercial for a gym,\" or \"How to write brochure copy for life insurance,\"), you can see the magnitude of this problem. People who could trade their time for traffic now have to trade their \u003ci\u003emoney\u003c/i\u003e for traffic. When they're just getting started, money is harder to come by than time. The result: fewer people creating this kind of content, more of them joining organizations that pay for the traffic instead.","parent":"1143765","id":"1143851"}
{"by":"cromwellian","time":"1461184590","timestamp":"2016-04-20 20:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just came back from China, in which most of the phones I used did not have Google Play, or Play Services, and had replacements for everything.\u003cp\u003eIf you try to use an phone with Google Play in China, you need a VPN, since if the app calls things like location services, it\u0026#x27;ll get blocked, for example, Taxi hailing apps could not retrieve the location, however with a native-phone, they work.\u003cp\u003eNeedless to say, the experience of the fork of all of these services is inconsistent between devices and makes it less easy to move between phone vendors.  One paradoxical outcome could be that you could get locked into XiaoMi, Huawei, etc.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the experience of 9 different appstores is kind of jarring. I think it would be better if apps simply worked like the Web, and could be safe enough to stream-through and purchased through distributed payment systems.","parent":"11534148","id":"11537531"}
{"by":"navait","time":"1416887698","timestamp":"2014-11-25 03:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Speaking at the PTA? Better hope one of your \u0026quot;neighbors\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t decide it\u0026#x27;s politically convenient to crucify you as having said something Wrong and put it on your Permanent Record.\u003cp\u003eI know petty things happen when nothing is on the line, but your idea of the average PTA is ludicrous. There is no permanent record; People forget even controversial ideas quickly in such a situation. You have to act like a total douchebag to make a permanent negative impression on something like a PTA.","parent":"8655752","id":"8656255"}
{"by":"chronomex","time":"1293770743","timestamp":"2010-12-31 04:45:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sticky rice is sticky for a \u003ci\u003ereason\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"2053486","id":"2054540"}
{"by":"sillygoose","time":"1432352627","timestamp":"2015-05-23 03:43:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re seeing problems that aren\u0026#x27;t really there.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eAll businesses must be licenced.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy\u003c/i\u003e? Why the hell would a grocery store need a license and what for? I\u0026#x27;m not asking for \u0026quot;because the government says so\u0026quot;, because the government says a lot of things that don\u0026#x27;t actually make sense. Is there a good, \u003ci\u003eobjective\u003c/i\u003e reason for all businesses to have to be licensed and how would the license help?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eTaxi licensing is special because of their special circumstance.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does that mean? What are the special circumstances? It\u0026#x27;s just people with cars and people who need to go places.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e(a) \u0026#x27;forget\u0026#x27; about picking up people of a certain skin color\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuppose there was no regulation for taxis. Now suppose a big taxi company had emerged. Let\u0026#x27;s call it \u0026quot;Toober\u0026quot;. Now Toober, just like most companies, wants to make as much money as possible.\u003cp\u003eDo you think people accusing its drivers of racism would be conducive to that goal, and if not, do you think Toober would do something about racist drivers?\u003cp\u003eWhat about the drivers? They want money too, right? So if there was a racist driver working for Toober, and he knew Toober doesn\u0026#x27;t tolerate racism because it\u0026#x27;s bad for their image and thus, bottom line, don\u0026#x27;t you think the driver would refrain from behaving in a racist way so that he could keep his job?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e(b) refuse fare to a certain district they don\u0026#x27;t like\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003elike\u003c/i\u003e? Because it somehow displeases them like Justin Bieber\u0026#x27;s music displeases a lot of guys? What sense would it make for a taxi to leave money on the table because he finds a district distasteful?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e(c) arbitrarily set fares depending on what they see as people\u0026#x27;s willingness to pay--like say setting the fare for single women outside nightclubs to 3x the normal rate.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain, imagine Toober getting complaints about discrimination. On the other hand, getting home safely from a night out is a more valuable service than just getting from Place A to B in less dangerous situation, so maybe it\u0026#x27;s alright to charge a bit more.\u003cp\u003eSure, three times the normal rate would be too much, but another taxi company would be free to offer a better rate, and people would take it.\u003cp\u003eDo you see why regulation is not necessary at all? Whenever the government says it\u0026#x27;s doing something for your safety or for fairness, you can be 100% sure the results and real reasons are different.\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e reason why we have taxi regulations is to maintain a state-supported taxi-cartel.","parent":"9591106","id":"9591924"}
{"by":"sosuke","time":"1420830984","timestamp":"2015-01-09 19:16:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He will be doing a workshop:\u003cp\u003eRIMS Joint Research Workshop: On the verification and further\ndevelopment of inter-universal Teichmuller theory\n(in Japanese)\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/2015-03%20IUTeich%20Program%20(English).pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp\u0026#x2F;~motizuki\u0026#x2F;2015-03%20IUTeich%...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarch 9-20 2015","parent":"8862294","id":"8863837"}
{"by":"floatboth","time":"1499124507","timestamp":"2017-07-03 23:28:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Ethereum VM is not for general app programming. It\u0026#x27;s really not your typical environment. EVM contracts get executed \u003ci\u003eon every network node\u003c/i\u003e, and it must return the same results everywhere.","parent":"14691864","id":"14692224"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1447857220","timestamp":"2015-11-18 14:33:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which happened to be targeted to UNIX systems.","parent":"10587559","id":"10587857"}
{"by":"breeny592","time":"1499411726","timestamp":"2017-07-07 07:15:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s bit different if you work with them (or in the same company). Linus has a certain, style, to put it nicely, but in the broader open source community.\u003cp\u003eThe key point is that this is likely the first time these two individuals had communicated - she effectively introduced herself to this person by saying \u0026quot;you are wrong\u0026quot;, or \u0026quot;your work is incorrect\u0026quot;. This isn\u0026#x27;t a professional way in a business to talk to someone. Even a simple greeting and explanation to say \u0026quot;I have some experience in this area, and here\u0026#x27;s some suggestions that would improve it\u0026quot; is infinitely better than the framing she gives:\n\u0026gt; I was very disappointed at this 101 mistake\n\u0026gt; sadly opened an issue referencing the question\nThe emotions portrayed there give a good indication to the tone that the writing likely gave - instead of being constructive it could easily be perceived as hostile.\u003cp\u003eYes, I think the data scientist over reacted. But I don\u0026#x27;t think her tone or approach was at all appropriate either.","parent":"14704529","id":"14716675"}
{"by":"odonnellryan","time":"1427729415","timestamp":"2015-03-30 15:30:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like having light on my keyboard. Something about that area not being dark. If it\u0026#x27;s not lit, it throws me off. Not sure why.","parent":"9289938","id":"9290147"}
{"by":"symmitchry","time":"1470674969","timestamp":"2016-08-08 16:49:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not trying to disagree with the article here, but I have worked very short weeks before... and for me I found that 4 days off makes it really hard to be productive. You\u0026#x27;re away for so long that you don\u0026#x27;t even feel like you are a part of the company. Sometimes I would nearly forget to go to work, it was so much time off. I would say 4 days (maybe with less hours) is a much better schedule.","parent":"12248653","id":"12249099"}
{"by":"CydeWeys","time":"1540372852","timestamp":"2018-10-24 09:20:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about what works well for many European countries?  A more progressive taxation scheme (i.e. the opposite of what Trump\u0026#x27;s done) combined with a more generous social safety net (e.g. public healthcare).\u003cp\u003eThe US is facing wealth inequality right now almost on par with the gilded age, which resulted in serious social upheaval.  Other than the gilded age, and especially for a long period in the last century, wealth equality has much better then than it is now.  We could go back to that at least, for starters.  But ever since Reaganomics we\u0026#x27;ve been seeing more and more wealth accumulating to those who already have it.  Democrats get elected and aren\u0026#x27;t able to make headway against it (or don\u0026#x27;t try very hard), but when Republicans get elected they make it worse (look at the Bush and Trump tax cuts).","parent":"18289817","id":"18290863"}
{"by":"llccbb","time":"1508350466","timestamp":"2017-10-18 18:14:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But going to w3schools is like trying to kill a fly with a flyswatter with a dashed red border of weight 2px. Their examples are so basic, pre-canned, and repetitious between pages that you rarely see useful options and intricacies that each tag\u0026#x2F;property may posses.\u003cp\u003eFor super quick syntax checks (\u0026quot;Is it fill-opacity or opacity?\u0026quot;) MDN might be a little overboard, but as any sort of reference beyond 3 line snippets it is the link that I always look for. I usually append MDN to the end of my searches for HTML\u0026#x2F;SVG help.","parent":"15501092","id":"15501491"}
{"by":"groupthink--","time":"1508781182","timestamp":"2017-10-23 17:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"take my word for it, do it for your kids and stay in california.  figure out a way to make the money.  just figure it out dude.  rent forever if you have to, and don\u0026#x27;t tell anyone.  do whatever it takes.\u003cp\u003ebeing harassed and ridiculed endlessly for being non-white (i\u0026#x27;m guessing asian or indian) somewhere inexpensive and 90% homogenous (white or hispanic or black) will produce extremely negative results, to put it mildly.  dealing with racism on TV and in movies is one thing, dealing with it in real life is an entirely different proposition.","parent":"15534812","id":"15535285"}
{"by":"jshevek","time":"1497892680","timestamp":"2017-06-19 17:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. I\u0026#x27;m offended by restrictions on speech. Therefore restricting speech to avoid offending people is logically impossible.","parent":"14588486","id":"14588593"}
{"by":"NathanKP","time":"1497273374","timestamp":"2017-06-12 13:16:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As much as I like the interactive map the truth is it makes things look way more shadowed than they actually are because its showing the averages of shadows from all time of the year and all times of the day. The reality is that most of the streets have a shady side and sunny side at all times of the year. It\u0026#x27;s shady on one side of the street in the morning and shady on the other side in the afternoon.\u003cp\u003eThis is actually great because you can choose the side of the street to walk on. If you are too hot in the summer you can go walk on the shaded side, or if you are too chilled in the spring\u0026#x2F;fall\u0026#x2F;winter you can walk on the sunny side. During the summer it is actually very nice to have a long stretch of tall buildings where you can cool off by walking on the shady side of the street.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s kind of like enjoying walking down a street that is shaded by a lot of trees, although sadly the buildings don\u0026#x27;t absorb as much heat as the trees do, and in some cases glass buildings actually seem to reflect the heat harshly.","parent":"14536755","id":"14537104"}
{"by":"collegeappz","time":"1350053413","timestamp":"2012-10-12 14:50:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"10/2 article on dearth of women in the tech industry.  It mentions a key point, in its first paragraph copied below. I agree (and I'm a woman).\u003cp\u003eIt’s an important question: why are there so few women working in the IT and telecoms sector? It might be one of the rare times that The Guardian has actually asked an interesting question in fact. The answer is, I’m afraid, that on average men and women are different.","parent":"4644475","id":"4645245"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1351212520","timestamp":"2012-10-26 00:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, Service Packs sometimes even introduced significant new functionality. Mostly, any non-critical fixes would wait for a SP, to make testing easier.\u003cp\u003eI imagine that Microsoft will do for Windows what they do for other products like IE: Offer periodic \"rollup\" updates that apply several updates at once.","parent":"4700001","id":"4700336"}
{"by":"fake-name","time":"1485145880","timestamp":"2017-01-23 04:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really. It\u0026#x27;s only really applicable to any router that uses a dipole antenna.\u003cp\u003ePragmatically, this means it\u0026#x27;s only really an option on routers with external whip antennas. Lots of routers have internal antennas, at which point you\u0026#x27;re going to have problems attaching the thing. Also, if the internal antennas aren\u0026#x27;t dipoles, it\u0026#x27;s not an option at all without significant redesign.","parent":"13459751","id":"13459770"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1533640372","timestamp":"2018-08-07 11:12:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So I have full faith life on Earth will eventually restore the feedback loops and get the temperatures back in the sweet spot.\u003cp\u003eOr just broadly adapt to the new state of things, historical data suggests that atmospheric CO2 levels did reach ~1000PPM up to the Cretaceous, with complete lack of continental ice sheets and temperate forests at the poles.\u003cp\u003eThe current sweet spot is a sweet spot for us and the ecosystems we grew up in as a species, it\u0026#x27;s not a life-wide sweet spot.","parent":"17705019","id":"17705421"}
{"by":"BerislavLopac","time":"1497255091","timestamp":"2017-06-12 08:11:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wanted to propose the name \u0026quot;Clarke-Hanlon Theorem\u0026quot; for this, but apparently it\u0026#x27;s already known as Grey\u0026#x27;s Law: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tvtropes.org\u0026#x2F;pmwiki\u0026#x2F;pmwiki.php\u0026#x2F;Main\u0026#x2F;HanlonsRazor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tvtropes.org\u0026#x2F;pmwiki\u0026#x2F;pmwiki.php\u0026#x2F;Main\u0026#x2F;HanlonsRazor\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: Actually it\u0026#x27;s not, the Grey\u0026#x27;s Law is the opposite of what eponeponepon wrote...","parent":"14532718","id":"14535777"}
{"by":"singlow","time":"1500004855","timestamp":"2017-07-14 04:00:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you check the various data centers and non-windows operating systems, you\u0026#x27;ll find as low as $5.10\u0026#x2F;month. But their special offer allows you to get one server for $30\u0026#x2F;year for the first year prepaid. Kind of a crappy way to advertise a PAAS.","parent":"14767258","id":"14767359"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1374323398","timestamp":"2013-07-20 12:29:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depression probably returns self-harm images, which Apple would obviously block.","parent":"6074371","id":"6075011"}
{"by":"srimadman","time":"1307628310","timestamp":"2011-06-09 14:05:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"website looks fine to me.\ncan you tell me the things which bother you?","parent":"2637128","dead":true,"id":"2637153"}
{"by":"scotty79","time":"1440581971","timestamp":"2015-08-26 09:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is something like disability insurance checks even transferable?","parent":"10120489","id":"10121964"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1485434093","timestamp":"2017-01-26 12:34:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have any evidence for these claims? What\u0026#x27;s the concrete mechanism that allows AVs to observe and react to threats earlier than Google? (Since you allow up to 1 week of reaction time, I\u0026#x27;ll assume that you\u0026#x27;re not referring to heuristic detection methods.)","parent":"13490069","id":"13490800"}
{"by":"papachito","time":"1273084840","timestamp":"2010-05-05 18:40:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It already exists. It's called status.net using the ostatus protocols.","parent":"1322059","id":"1322089"}
{"by":"andrzejsz","time":"1409668339","timestamp":"2014-09-02 14:32:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you also looking for interns ?","parent":"8252820","id":"8257769"}
{"by":"yellowapple","time":"1484632378","timestamp":"2017-01-17 05:52:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well yeah.  We\u0026#x27;ve known that for years.\u003cp\u003eHell, if you live anywhere that isn\u0026#x27;t a specific part of Africa, you\u0026#x27;re pretty much guaranteed to be an immigrant or a descendant thereof.","parent":"13415470","id":"13415477"}
{"by":"hengheng","time":"1402503374","timestamp":"2014-06-11 16:16:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not if it reacts to spot market prices.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sorry.","parent":"7878755","id":"7878787"}
{"by":"xauronx","time":"1381280451","timestamp":"2013-10-09 01:00:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is awesome! I was literally working on a project today that needed websockets and I was so bummed out that I had to use Socket.IO and fallback into long polling.\u003cp\u003eIf you Heroku guys are still listening... I\u0026#x27;m so fucking impressed that you already updated the docs I was using earlier. I was going to suggest you update them... but then I went to grab the link and it was updated. Well done.","parent":"6516240","id":"6518885"}
{"by":"sjg007","time":"1519441972","timestamp":"2018-02-24 03:12:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still a good reason to become a AWS or GCP sales engineer.","parent":"16450440","id":"16451422"}
{"by":"bitL","time":"1505170943","timestamp":"2017-09-11 23:02:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are probabilistically modeled already. You keep tracking other objects and compute various possibilities for their movement and depending on the past and present behavior pick the most probable one. If car encounters lower-than-threshold probability, it can always slow down or stop, like what non-reckless humans would do. Even end-to-end deep learning can recognize construction zones and learn to drive around traffic cones.","parent":"15223219","id":"15223231"}
{"by":"cylinder","time":"1440522020","timestamp":"2015-08-25 17:00:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also had this idea then found out a startup called Blendle is pursuing it.","parent":"10113760","id":"10117897"}
{"by":"lultimouomo","time":"1436100439","timestamp":"2015-07-05 12:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right; s\u0026#x2F;undefined\u0026#x2F;unspecified\u0026#x2F;.\u003cp\u003eThe comment on the article still stands though. You\u0026#x27;re still invoking unspecified behaviour, and this is a horrible practice - it forces you to take not on which classes you are sure of the actual behaviour when accessing after move, and you\u0026#x27;re bound to slip.\u003cp\u003e(Note that the article itself uncorrectly says that move leaves string in an invalid state, which is what threw me off track)","parent":"9833170","id":"9833355"}
{"by":"leggomylibro","time":"1511386237","timestamp":"2017-11-22 21:30:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The diesel fumes you get from walking along any road will probably be high on the list.\u003cp\u003eOne reason why that VW scandal was so morally objectionable is that diesel emissions are fairly local pollutants. Skimping on filtering them offloads an extreme negative externality to every person who gets near your customer\u0026#x2F;product; it\u0026#x27;s like poisoning a well. And of course, VW sure isn\u0026#x27;t alone in cutting inconvenient corners for cash.\u003cp\u003eLead solder will probably also be up there. Yeah, yeah, ROHS and REACH and whatever, but there are plenty of exemptions and the barrel-scrapers just ignore them anyways.","parent":"15759960","id":"15760842"}
{"by":"SiempreZeus","time":"1502307013","timestamp":"2017-08-09 19:30:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a bit too bad they\u0026#x27;re having to move towards supervised learning and imitation learning.\u003cp\u003eI totally understand why they need to do that given the insane decision trees, but I was really hoping to see what the AI would learn to do without any human example, simply because it would be inhuman and interesting.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m really interested in particular if an unsupervised AI would use very strange building placements and permanently moving ungrouped units.\u003cp\u003eOne thing that struck me in the video was the really actively weird mining techniques in one clip and then another clip where it blocked its mineral line with 3 raised depots...","parent":"14971326","id":"14972729"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1454039795","timestamp":"2016-01-29 03:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Freedom and money.","parent":"10992956","id":"10993380"}
{"by":"mgos","time":"1494416836","timestamp":"2017-05-10 11:47:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are really not desperate with the option he has offered. I think we will pass on and have decided to remain silent for the email he sent to us. Agree with you that we can meet such people in the times to come. It\u0026#x27;s better to stop wasting time on them. Thanks.","parent":"14307433","id":"14307456"}
{"by":"theschwa","time":"1244405747","timestamp":"2009-06-07 20:15:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So... Anyone want to make the Android app for this?","parent":"646008","id":"646289"}
{"by":"pasta","time":"1509034238","timestamp":"2017-10-26 16:10:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same aplies to drinking beer.","parent":"15558147","id":"15560194"}
{"by":"ericb","time":"1531945966","timestamp":"2018-07-18 20:32:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure that\u0026#x27;s intended as some sort of damning critique, but that\u0026#x27;s true of most assets in a portfolio. Real estate, commodities, stocks, currency, options, index funds, precious metals--all held in hopes of selling for a higher price.","parent":"17561661","id":"17561828"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1298686782","timestamp":"2011-02-26 02:19:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I'm saying simply offer a coupon code to users if their password validates certain levels of difficulty. It doesn't need to be tied to the account in anyway.\u003cp\u003eAh, my assumption  was that the entire DB was in the wild, and that every user had a unique discount code they could use once.\u003cp\u003eAnd why are you storing payment details, anyway?","parent":"2263296","id":"2264632"}
{"by":"lz400","time":"1496446403","timestamp":"2017-06-02 23:33:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quants don\u0026#x27;t usually have CFAs. A phD in physics is more common to see. CFAs help you working in a real financial environment where you need to be aware of a lot of stuff. If you want to day trade at home, it\u0026#x27;s close to useless. Please nobody gets a CFA if what you want to do is learning day trading.","parent":"14473306","id":"14473996"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1415021092","timestamp":"2014-11-03 13:24:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550271\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8550271\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8550593","id":"8550630"}
{"by":"nexox","time":"1367449107","timestamp":"2013-05-01 22:58:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another advantage to Shapeways (and similar services) is that they offer significantly better printing technologies than the affordable hobby printers. SLS Nylon produces very nice parts, with relatively tight tolerances, and useful strength and stiffness properties, but last time I checked, the cheapest SLS machine was on the order of $50k US.","parent":"5641079","id":"5641380"}
{"by":"boomlinde","time":"1528388067","timestamp":"2018-06-07 16:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Evidently not to the extent that we can rely on self-interest as a viable regulatory mechanism.","parent":"17254983","id":"17257190"}
{"by":"buyx","time":"1516867731","timestamp":"2018-01-25 08:08:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I avoid third-world sources of tumeric (and most other food, especially when given to my children). Corruption and food safety make poor bedfellows IMO.","parent":"16229353","id":"16229505"}
{"by":"losteverything","time":"1477053009","timestamp":"2016-10-21 12:30:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This.\u003cp\u003eCompany value: respect. Ok. Your boss rips you a new one. Screams. Name calls. Uses profanity. Play the \u0026quot;respect card\u0026quot;   this will work.\u003cp\u003eCompany value Integrity:  you are suggested to do something shady or wrong to boost a metric.  Play the integrity card.","parent":"12756160","id":"12759830"}
{"by":"dialupmodem","time":"1498977443","timestamp":"2017-07-02 06:37:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Realizing that I don\u0026#x27;t have to be (or even want to be) a talking head in the industry.\u003cp\u003eRealizing that I don\u0026#x27;t have to build a following to be extremely happy, and that contrary to popular opinion, living a small life is much more desirable.","parent":"14681171","id":"14681204"}
{"by":"mwexler","time":"1347975231","timestamp":"2012-09-18 13:33:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://xkcd.com/725/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://xkcd.com/725/\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://xkcd.com/386/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://xkcd.com/386/\u003c/a\u003e both come to mind...","parent":"4537784","id":"4537866"}
{"by":"PhasmaFelis","time":"1422205017","timestamp":"2015-01-25 16:56:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#x27;Cause you\u0026#x27;re apathetic, presumably. We all get tired of caring sometimes.\u003cp\u003eThe real question is why you feel compelled to brag about it, instead of just closing the tab and reading something that suits you.","parent":"8943181","id":"8943351"}
{"by":"deanclatworthy","time":"1501588099","timestamp":"2017-08-01 11:48:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not true for every bank in every EU country.","parent":"14899474","id":"14899681"}
{"by":"mschaef","time":"1383758597","timestamp":"2013-11-06 17:23:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Accenture is technically \u0026quot;Irish\u0026quot;. It used to be \u0026quot;Bermudan\u0026quot;. In either case, they have so many employees in so many countries, it\u0026#x27;s hard to imagine pinning them down to a single home country.","parent":"6683795","id":"6683842"}
{"by":"AlyssaRowan","time":"1427820961","timestamp":"2015-03-31 16:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A Cortex-M0+ core - which is a really \u003ci\u003etiny\u003c/i\u003e microcontroller - can do TLS 1.2 just fine (using the AES-CCM AEAD instead of the AES-GCM AEAD helps somewhat, apparently: I\u0026#x27;ve not tried to implement it myself, so I\u0026#x27;m not clear precisely why, but it\u0026#x27;s probably GHASH). With enough work, an 8-bit class chip with a couple kilobytes of RAM could implement a constrained subset. If that\u0026#x27;s somehow \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e too heavy, I\u0026#x27;m not sure how.\u003cp\u003eI hope they can find a way to make TLS 1.3 work for their IoT scenarios: CHACHA20_POLY1305 and Curve25519 will also hopefully help, quite a lot. They\u0026#x27;re as small as they are fast.","parent":"9297452","id":"9297862"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1430704375","timestamp":"2015-05-04 01:52:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But OWS wasn\u0026#x27;t representative of a very large portion of the population. That\u0026#x27;s the issue with not having a message. Other than acting as a way for people currently pissed off about something to get together, it provided no message for the broader population (e.g. baby boomers with collapsed retirement accounts, etc) to get behind. Every time I asked someone about OWS that wasn\u0026#x27;t an early twenties reddit user, they would just mention that they were the modern \u0026#x27;hippies protesting the system\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eSuccessful protests have leaders are not nearly as organic as they initially appear. OWS participants failed to realize this and instead sat around empathizing with each other.","parent":"9470262","id":"9483927"}
{"by":"rtkwe","time":"1491235757","timestamp":"2017-04-03 16:09:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s kind of a demon of necessity though. Originally they did things more in the base OS but getting manufacturers to actually push updates was horrible. Now they can do bug, (minor) security and feature updates through a side channel that bypasses the carriers who don\u0026#x27;t want to update their older phones when people might go buy new ones instead.","parent":"14023489","id":"14023973"}
{"by":"rock_hard","time":"1518172415","timestamp":"2018-02-09 10:33:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please get your facts straight before posting here.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;facebooks-listening-smartphone-microphone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;facebooks-listening-smartphone-m...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16339150","id":"16339242"}
{"by":"pjlegato","time":"1413833887","timestamp":"2014-10-20 19:38:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No worries, I think it\u0026#x27;s good to cover all possibilities rationally, and your feedback helps.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve gone through the same process, too, and come to a somewhat different conclusion. :) We perceive a gap in the market -- as you mentioned, there are many low-end Postgres hosting places, and a few expensive high end places. All are lacking features that we (personally) want, too, in one way or another.\u003cp\u003eI think that, at least partially, it comes down to Amazon and Heroku having many other lines of business. Postgres is just not a major priority for them at all. By focusing entirely on Postgres and only Postgres, we can deliver a better experience.\u003cp\u003eCompeting on price is a race to the bottom. I don\u0026#x27;t want to be wading into a commodity market trying to pick up a million $5 customers. I\u0026#x27;d much rather go for the higher end segment where we deliver premium service and features for people who see the value in that and are willing to pay for it.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d love to chat with you sometime in more detail about the Postgres idea.. if you\u0026#x27;re ever in San Francisco, I\u0026#x27;ll gladly buy you a beer or a coffee!","parent":"8483983","id":"8484043"}
{"by":"yesenadam","time":"1546938301","timestamp":"2019-01-08 09:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. :-)","parent":"18789224","id":"18854286"}
{"by":"colinplamondon","time":"1294525608","timestamp":"2011-01-08 22:26:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Crazy- she could have scored points out of this! Price at $0.99 out of the gate, email the ENTIRE userbase explaining the situation. Say that there is no way to migrate existing users to the App Store, but in appreciation of their support she's pricing at 99 cents for the first week so they can upgrade.\u003cp\u003eExplicitly state that 'Even though I'll lose a bunch of money by pricing so low during the launch of the App Store, it's worth it to me to maintain the trust of my users'.\u003cp\u003eBoom. Crisis averted, you lose $5-10k or so on launch sales, but make very, very loyal users out of your existing customers. Cross-sell that email list more aggressively in the future. Money in the bank.","parent":"2083772","id":"2084133"}
{"by":"vitaminj","time":"1290352722","timestamp":"2010-11-21 15:18:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you've ever been to business school, then you'll know that most of the students clearly don't give a shit about the course material. I mean what kind of 18 year old kid would care about the pricing of a zero-coupon bond?","parent":"1927028","id":"1927168"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1326011092","timestamp":"2012-01-08 08:24:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, one way of thinking about it is what success looks like. There are (simplifying) three main kind of startup success: 1) IPO; 2) acquisition; or 3) profitable long-term company. If your view of success is #1 or #2 (i.e. an \"exit\") within 5 years, then you're more aligned with VC views of success than if your view is #3.\u003cp\u003eAlso, between #1 and #2, the second is vastly more likely, so in most cases \"exit\" will mean losing control of your company.","parent":"3439056","id":"3439169"}
{"by":"driverdan","time":"1493076583","timestamp":"2017-04-24 23:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don\u0026#x27;t like it don\u0026#x27;t develop for closed ecosystems. This is the kind of shit you get when someone else has complete control.","parent":"14188918","id":"14189400"}
{"by":"rman666","time":"1335405278","timestamp":"2012-04-26 01:54:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only looked cool because room was filled with smoke. But, it did look cool!","parent":"3891877","id":"3892002"}
{"by":"peyton","time":"1469867152","timestamp":"2016-07-30 08:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, Canada plays hardball with foreign medical IP. The \u0026quot;evil tax\u0026quot; may be passed on to foreigners instead.\u003cp\u003eThe US could be unique in that compulsory licensing laws and aggressive patent invalidation don\u0026#x27;t work--there aren\u0026#x27;t many desirable foreign patents to invalidate or inventions to compel licensure.","parent":"12191472","id":"12192154"}
{"by":"palish","time":"1280824175","timestamp":"2010-08-03 08:29:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's really cool. A city with a castle on a volcano? Which city is that?","parent":"1570500","id":"1570509"}
{"by":"waiseristy","time":"1499041556","timestamp":"2017-07-03 00:25:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lenovo makes the T4xxP series laptops with Quad cores, I\u0026#x27;m running one right now. But I would rather not be stuck buying the same model every time I go laptop shopping =\\","parent":"14685048","id":"14685057"}
{"by":"brianberns","time":"1502947806","timestamp":"2017-08-17 05:30:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Easy there, pal. I think people write \u0026quot;C\u0026quot; because the letter C alone looks odd in a plain English sentence.","parent":"15032134","id":"15034027"}
{"by":"barake","time":"1284778872","timestamp":"2010-09-18 03:01:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is an Android NDK, but it's meant to give Dalvik stuff some extra oomph.","parent":"1703524","id":"1703600"}
{"by":"mirap","time":"1476962227","timestamp":"2016-10-20 11:17:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How would these design help people? How would it help the community? That\u0026#x27;s the main question there. And I see no answer there.","parent":"12750563","id":"12751331"}
{"by":"danesparza","time":"1499271433","timestamp":"2017-07-05 16:17:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Make up your own mind.  Be a human.  With a spine.  And your own opinion.  People might not like it, but at least you\u0026#x27;ll be you.","parent":"14702833","id":"14703684"}
{"by":"andywood","time":"1298873874","timestamp":"2011-02-28 06:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This blog post is mainly about the tools developers use day-to-day while they're in coding mode. Tools and development processes do tend to be well thought out and efficient at MS.\u003cp\u003eThat's not really related to the organizational dynamics that come into play for planning products and features. That tends to be complicated, involving a lot of people, meetings, and debate. (I'm not defending it, just saying that's how it is.) That 14 steps isn't about a code change; it's about the end-to-end design, implementation, and shipping of a feature, expressed in the most detailed, far-reaching way possible, to make a point about how things operate in a huge organization.\u003cp\u003eBoth points of view are accurate, IMHO. When you're strictly coding, things are pretty efficient. Not too surprisingly, those were the times I enjoyed the most. But it's equally true that at MS, coding is only a small piece of a larger, somewhat slow-moving process. And sure, all that other overhead can get tedious, even exasperating at times. It's just a separate subject from what the OP is writing about here. The \u003ci\u003ecoding\u003c/i\u003e part is typically quite fun and autonomous.","parent":"2270194","id":"2270304"}
{"by":"bmj","time":"1243618264","timestamp":"2009-05-29 17:31:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, and properly pastured cattle sequester carbon dioxide as well.This doesn't mean the methane issue goes away, but if we could eat less meat, make CAFOs go away, and raise cattle in a more sustainable manner, I think we'd come out ahead.","parent":"632220","id":"632396"}
{"by":"djsumdog","time":"1505908813","timestamp":"2017-09-20 12:00:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone remember how back in the day, we had Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, Dogpile .. a whole host of search engines. You\u0026#x27;d go to two or three to get an idea of what was out there. People had different indexes and there were a lot of players.\u003cp\u003eToday, it\u0026#x27;s just Google. I\u0026#x27;ve been using DDG for a few years, but about 1\u0026#x2F;3 of the time I add an !g because I don\u0026#x27;t find the results I need on DDG.\u003cp\u003eThe cost of entry to the search market is exceedingly high right now. This is a pretty good article of detailing how one person was able to come up with an idea and challenge the behemoth in very niche areas (privacy\u0026#x2F;the nsa leaks were probably the reason I started looking at\u0026#x2F;using it around 2013).\u003cp\u003eYet I still miss the days of using multiple search engines; seeing a variety of results. I hate the de factor standard of Google. When a company controls that much of search, they get to define the narrative. They literally shape the way many people perceive the world.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if tech will get to the point where indexing will be easier and we\u0026#x27;ll see more solutions that are cheaper and that can crawl larger datasets with lower processing requirements. Maybe the next step will be distributed search with shared indexes?\u003cp\u003eIn any case, Google can\u0026#x27;t remain on top forever (at least I hope not). It\u0026#x27;d be nice to see more tech in this space, but it\u0026#x27;s an incredibly difficult problem. There is reason Google climbed to the top like it did.","parent":"15291961","id":"15292723"}
{"by":"dazc","time":"1502020023","timestamp":"2017-08-06 11:47:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the UK, reacting violently to any kind of attack is very likely to result in you being prosecuted for assault. \nIf anyone is wondering why anti-social behaviour and minor criminality is now so common here it is not that decent people don\u0026#x27;t want to do anything about it, it is because the Police are often perceived to be on the same side of the assailants.","parent":"14940717","id":"14940914"}
{"by":"nategri","time":"1530033631","timestamp":"2018-06-26 17:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"one pretty obvious source starts with a q","parent":"17402262","id":"17402419"}
{"by":"nuttinwrong","time":"1460007777","timestamp":"2016-04-07 05:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gotta have a seal! lol","parent":"11444514","id":"11444979"}
{"by":"duncan_bayne","time":"1524033197","timestamp":"2018-04-18 06:33:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shades of \u003ci\u003eA Gift From Earth\u003c/i\u003e there. Good novel.","parent":"16865130","id":"16865155"}
{"by":"anon4","time":"1450540385","timestamp":"2015-12-19 15:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whether huge states vs lots of small states are desirable or not is another topic entirely though.","parent":"10763434","id":"10763864"}
{"by":"LeoNatan25","time":"1500503928","timestamp":"2017-07-19 22:38:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you have a beta release installed? Usually those are hit with a “full” update when GM version drops.","parent":"14808571","id":"14808619"}
{"by":"SideburnsOfDoom","time":"1364395280","timestamp":"2013-03-27 14:41:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use interfaces all the time, and like generics, they are a way of getting around the limitations of a strict type system, at the cost of making the type system more complex.\u003cp\u003eI may as well say \"\u003ci\u003eInterfaces\u003c/i\u003e are an epicycle that IMHO sits poorly with JavaScript.\"\u003cp\u003eThere are good things about strong typing, but it's \u003ci\u003eastonishing\u003c/i\u003e how many language constructs can be thrown away if you don't have it.","parent":"5449429","id":"5449643"}
{"by":"BenoitEssiambre","time":"1395863649","timestamp":"2014-03-26 19:54:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure, as with Bitcoins, you would pay tax on $50:\u003cp\u003esee \u003ca href=\"http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/09/forex-taxation-basics.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.investopedia.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;forex\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;forex-taxation...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7475791","id":"7476090"}
{"by":"jsiepkes","time":"1529705006","timestamp":"2018-06-22 22:03:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;My enemies managed to spike\u0026quot; anyone have a clue who his enemies are? I know he\u0026#x27;s quite the character but I\u0026#x27;ve never read anything about him having the type of enemies that would try to kill people.","parent":"17377553","id":"17377838"}
{"by":"jrochkind1","time":"1425887027","timestamp":"2015-03-09 07:43:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Where\u0026#x27;d you get the inkling that I thought it was important to argue whether to word rape is the right word?\u003cp\u003eThe part where you engaged in argument about whether rape was the right word (for some hypothetical undescribed situation), arguing it was important not to use it unless it was... was where I got that idea. So, the whole comment.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sorry if I got the wrong idea, and at any rate I acknowledge I was reacting to the direction of this collective thread with many participants, not just specifically to your post. In fact, I wrongly assumed you were the same person who participated in the replied-to replied-to post, without checking the names.\u003cp\u003eI am also sorry that you feel your safety was threatened by my post, requiring you to reply to restore your safety, my intent was not to threaten your safety in any way.","parent":"9169697","id":"9169738"}
{"by":"velik_m","time":"1377786999","timestamp":"2013-08-29 14:36:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you deal with multiple languages?","parent":"6295970","id":"6296051"}
{"by":"andriesm","time":"1458176742","timestamp":"2016-03-17 01:05:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sociopathy (1 in 25 people are diagnosable as APD) and stupidity (low IQ but even more importantly - flawed reasoning patterns and weak thinking skills)","parent":"11301080","id":"11301936"}
{"by":"thebigkick","time":"1360076036","timestamp":"2013-02-05 14:53:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wish it had Readability.  HackerNode for iPhone finally came full circle -for me at least- with Readability support in their latest update.\u003cp\u003eAlthough, I'm not sure how much I'd use this since I mainly read HN in the browser.  Beautiful app though.","parent":"5170229","id":"5170877"}
{"by":"blacksmith_tb","time":"1507831414","timestamp":"2017-10-12 18:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not exactly - KeePassXC (and many of the other clients) do try to unset the clipboard. I think this is as much to save you from accidentally pasting a password into your browser\u0026#x27;s search box or a chat, but at least on OSX \u0026#x2F; macOS, it prevents a malicious script from using pbpaste to grab the last entry off the clipboard.","parent":"15459467","id":"15459872"}
{"by":"deadcast","time":"1478450720","timestamp":"2016-11-06 16:45:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just switched to a geforce 8400gs using the nouveau drivers on GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux. I\u0026#x27;m not big into graphically intense applications and I don\u0026#x27;t have to worry about my graphics card waking up and \u0026quot;phoning home.\u0026quot; :)","parent":"12884762","id":"12885869"}
{"by":"calebm","time":"1465248899","timestamp":"2016-06-06 21:34:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, this looks cool. How does this differ from luigi?","parent":"11849817","id":"11850604"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1385458696","timestamp":"2013-11-26 09:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re going to do that, why are you wasting instructions maintaining an offset and adding it to the string pointer on every iteration, instead of just iterating the pointer (or a copy of it) every iteration instead?","parent":"6800136","id":"6800152"}
{"by":"zxombie","time":"1497064887","timestamp":"2017-06-10 03:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is also a FreeBSD port: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.freshports.org\u0026#x2F;devel\u0026#x2F;libtrue\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.freshports.org\u0026#x2F;devel\u0026#x2F;libtrue\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14525909","id":"14526000"}
{"by":"s_q_b","time":"1376324969","timestamp":"2013-08-12 16:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s on the SpaceX website. That Musk was doing this through SpaceX is news to me.","parent":"6200050","id":"6200052"}
{"by":"dvhh","time":"1466478212","timestamp":"2016-06-21 03:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not as much disappear as being displaced in lower wage countries","parent":"11943098","id":"11943198"}
{"by":"msandford","time":"1371248975","timestamp":"2013-06-14 22:29:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would argue that it\u0026#x27;s not obviously fair that everyone should profit from it.  What incentives do people have to make new technologies that drastically increase labor if they cannot be paid for inventing them?  People should only invent to serve their fellow men, and receive no compensation for their efforts?\u003cp\u003eIf they do deserve compensation for their efforts, how do you do that aside from \u0026quot;capitalism\u0026quot;?  In a capitalist society if you can make more things from less resources, you should (everything else being equal) reap higher profits.  That\u0026#x27;s your compensation for your invention.  In the absence of such a mechanism, what is the fair price for an invention?  Who decides?","parent":"5882832","id":"5882879"}
{"by":"hackuser","time":"1486082162","timestamp":"2017-02-03 00:36:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you greatly underestimate the power of norms and normalization, specifically with regard to Trump.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a democracy. People see Kalanick act and will follow; and politicians will follow their constituents.","parent":"13556366","id":"13556536"}
{"by":"cema","time":"1370972485","timestamp":"2013-06-11 17:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have always thought it was all his pun on: \u0026quot;Under capitalism, a man exploits a man. Under socialism, it\u0026#x27;s the other way around!\u0026quot; But I may have been mistaken.","parent":"5861815","id":"5863393"}
{"by":"bobspryn","time":"1332226100","timestamp":"2012-03-20 06:48:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm.. It should have. I'll check it out.","parent":"3728088","id":"3728115"}
{"by":"bravura","time":"1464128641","timestamp":"2016-05-24 22:24:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But that seems to only use Seafile\u0026#x27;s servers, not S3.","parent":"11765068","id":"11766011"}
{"by":"AsymetricCom","time":"1377645609","timestamp":"2013-08-27 23:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m glad you stayed away from other ARM Cortex chips with TrustZone and SecureOS installed. I see the propriety chip you use for radio is pretty simple.  Are there other proprietary systems on here?\u003cp\u003eAlso, I don\u0026#x27;t feel comfortable donating before a finalized hardware design is reached. I feel the potential for bait-and-switch is too high and no words will convince me otherwise due to the nature of crowd-sourcing EULA, sorry.","parent":"6286325","id":"6286949"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1451505050","timestamp":"2015-12-30 19:50:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s my theory. I\u0026#x27;ve seen the same effect keep organizations away from working, encrypted email.\u003cp\u003eUser: \u0026quot;What do you mean I can\u0026#x27;t access my emails because I lost my password?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAdmin: \u0026quot;For privacy, it\u0026#x27;s designed so that your password is only thing that unlocks the keys. If that\u0026#x27;s gone, then the email is gone. That\u0026#x27;s how it\u0026#x27;s supposed to work.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eUser: \u0026quot;Well, that\u0026#x27;s bullshit. Now, we might loose all kinds of money over this crap. And for what!? It\u0026#x27;s not like there\u0026#x27;s people snooping our traffic on the internal network.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eScenario plays out in so many situations. In business, it\u0026#x27;s availability first, integrity second, and confidentiality maybe. Almost always.","parent":"10808873","id":"10813927"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1514999475","timestamp":"2018-01-03 17:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And at the same time we are arguing for basic income. It is not all bad, these people at least have an income and they allow \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e to make your income because of their incompetence. Chances are that if their employer could fire them you would not have your job either.","parent":"16060643","id":"16062757"}
{"by":"pmjordan","time":"1280328944","timestamp":"2010-07-28 14:55:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. Obviously no website UI can ever cover absolutely all cases and some queries will need to reach a human, but most companies don't even seem to try. Even if there's a form for other queries it's usually one big text box rather than the more specific questions staff would ask you on the phone. The worst part are the responses combined from canned text blocks, which tend to make no sense at all and don't solve any problems. Or even better, online queries being ignored altogether, or receiving an automated \"please call\" reply.\u003cp\u003eOne exception to this (in my experience) is amazon. Their help section is pretty comprehensive, each shipment has associated actions you can take which are context (status) dependent and if you do have a specific request it's ridiculously impersonal but very efficient.","parent":"1554390","id":"1554450"}
{"by":"rfugger","time":"1306395644","timestamp":"2011-05-26 07:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eGiven the experimental evaluations to date, we have serious doubts about how well MapReduce applications can scale.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eUmm... Google search?","parent":"2586899","id":"2586959"}
{"by":"PopePompus","time":"1544946252","timestamp":"2018-12-16 07:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds good, as long as the public isn\u0026#x27;t expected to cough up the funds for their research.   Otherwise, don\u0026#x27;t blame the public for wondering if the LHC was worth the cost.","parent":"18692128","id":"18692189"}
{"by":"gerty","time":"1429020626","timestamp":"2015-04-14 14:10:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did read through it and they tracked it back to Recorded Future [1].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Recorded_Future\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Recorded_Future\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9374269","id":"9374336"}
{"by":"jrowley","time":"1464449955","timestamp":"2016-05-28 15:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d recommend trying to build something relatively simple (e.g. an AM transmitter) from scratch and just enumerating all the questions you ask in the process. Then finding the real answers to those questions and the whys.","parent":"11791927","id":"11792029"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1488909198","timestamp":"2017-03-07 17:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That happens a lot around here too. Actually, I know (by sight) both the UPS drivers and the parking enforcement people. The UPS drivers, at least that I can see, usually try to park somewhere slightly out of the way, so they\u0026#x27;re not blocking traffic or creating a dangerous diversion. Uber drivers generally seem to act like they\u0026#x27;re the only car on the road. That\u0026#x27;s more of a driver thing than a company thing, but culture comes from the top.","parent":"13812375","id":"13812755"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1533761531","timestamp":"2018-08-08 20:52:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another interesting bit of history was the Seiko Message Watch, which had time-sync and one-watch messaging over an FM radio sideband:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mako.cc\u0026#x2F;copyrighteous\u0026#x2F;tribute-to-the-seiko-messagewatch\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mako.cc\u0026#x2F;copyrighteous\u0026#x2F;tribute-to-the-seiko-messagewa...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack before cell phones were ubiquitous that was pretty novel. I remember being struck by how cool it was to step off the plane in Taipei and see it update to local time while I watched. Getting pages about server downtime using the email gateway was also a nice way not to lug a pager around.\u003cp\u003eThe system didn\u0026#x27;t outlive Y2K, however, and since it was clear where the market was going they simply shut it down rather than fix the Y2K bugs.","parent":"17717387","id":"17719364"}
{"by":"supergeek133","time":"1480538584","timestamp":"2016-11-30 20:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not just Amazon\u0026#x27;s strategy, that\u0026#x27;s most cloud providers.","parent":"13073297","id":"13074513"}
{"by":"gleetree","time":"1324527457","timestamp":"2011-12-22 04:17:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've transferred several thousand dollars worth of bitcoins in the last few weeks to a Chinese bank account - the exchange I bought them on didn't know what I wanted the bitcoins for. And the Chinese exchange I sold them on didn't know where I got them from. The act of buying the bitcoins contains no information about their future use. The fees were much lower than Western Union, and since Bitcoin prices are volatile I actually made money on most of the transfers.\nBitinstant.com already allows you to send money to anyone in the  world using paypal via bitcoin anonymously.\u003cp\u003eEdit - the point is that bitcoin makes it possible for individuals or small companies to move funds to virtually anywhere in the world. A big multinational corporation facilitating this becomes unnecessary.\nAt some point it will occur to people just to move the bitcoins and not bother converting them to a local currency.","parent":"3380120","id":"3380360"}
{"by":"codedokode","time":"1441458596","timestamp":"2015-09-05 13:09:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disabling javascript makes Chromium eat less memory and makes pages load faster. Also all sort of annoying popups, effects, ads and social tracking buttons do not work without it while page content is usually readable. That\u0026#x27;s why I have JS enabled only for trusted websites like Youtube and disabled everywhere else. It just makes browsing the web more comfortable.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s sad that Chromium doesn\u0026#x27;t have a way to disable CSS on a per-domain basis (and browser extensions are potential backdoors so I\u0026#x27;m not going to install them).","parent":"10174517","id":"10174732"}
{"by":"Myrmornis","time":"1408355370","timestamp":"2014-08-18 09:49:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah yes, and the timing and context was entirely coincidental. Neither of us know the truth but \u0026quot;digging around\u0026quot; by journalists, law enforcement or intelligence agencies is far more likely to be the reason that this surfaced than pure coincidence.","parent":"8191973","id":"8191985"}
{"by":"Pulce","time":"1476821380","timestamp":"2016-10-18 20:09:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes :)\nI\u0026#x27;ll write it toworrow!","parent":"12734840","id":"12738190"}
{"by":"kokoito","time":"1294470217","timestamp":"2011-01-08 07:03:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think this is an issue, actually. Developers and hackers are faced with the need to learn new technologies or programming languages every now and then, that have different philosophies or ways of doing things, and hence different standards of quality. Writing idiomatic and good Python code is not equal to writing idiomatic and good C.\u003cp\u003eSo, what makes a good developer is, in my opinion, the capacity to re-learn, to specifically break bad habits. Let's face it, we've all learned (and still learn) crappy techniques first. If anything, people who wanted to learn it the RIGHT way from the start, that I've met, tended to get bogged down in dogmatism of a specific technology or design idea, unable to see the benefits of other ways of doing things.\u003cp\u003eIn the end, if a person who has learned at W3Schools can't recognize some of the things he has learned as inefficient or false, then this person clearly chose the wrong calling to pursue.","parent":"2082295","id":"2082520"}
{"by":"doodlebugging","time":"1496251656","timestamp":"2017-05-31 17:27:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The middle screenshot in your linked page has a spelling error that really pops. It makes it hard for me to consider using something like this when I have to ask myself whether things like this are buried in the code making some of it do strange, unintended things.\u003cp\u003eShould be \u0026quot;Information\u0026quot; on the screenshot.","parent":"14453937","id":"14454300"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1540129662","timestamp":"2018-10-21 13:47:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Garbage-fed livestock is most of the source of worms etc. In the Western world, commercial livestock is not fed garbage. \nThere hasn\u0026#x27;t been a trichinosis case in America from \ncommercial pork for instance in 60 years.\u003cp\u003eStill, with home-raised pigs you have to be careful.","parent":"18267894","id":"18267933"}
{"by":"evan_","time":"1333142545","timestamp":"2012-03-30 21:22:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Insurance companies have been doing this exact same thing for years. Progressive had a huge ad campaign a few years ago around the idea that you can compare your rates between Progressive and other companies instantly- that worked the same way as this tool.","parent":"3777040","id":"3778144"}
{"by":"talmand","time":"1441807068","timestamp":"2015-09-09 13:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For explanations of older browsers implementation, there\u0026#x27;s this as well.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;css-tricks.com\u0026#x2F;using-flexbox\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;css-tricks.com\u0026#x2F;using-flexbox\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10189762","id":"10191445"}
{"by":"jonalmeida","time":"1431056399","timestamp":"2015-05-08 03:39:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This exists in a few linux terminal shells. Notably, gnome-terminal.","parent":"9508841","id":"9509846"}
{"by":"aortega","time":"1463988456","timestamp":"2016-05-23 07:27:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any Meade, celestron or skywatcher robotic mount can connect to a computer using a serial RS232 interface.\u003cp\u003eI recommend a Skywatcher mount, because those mounts can be completely controlled by software and there is a very good opensource project for this, called eq-mod.","parent":"11752312","id":"11752428"}
{"by":"Raed667","time":"1480085200","timestamp":"2016-11-25 14:46:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m curious to see the \u0026quot;Facebook vs WeChat\u0026quot; battle..","parent":"13036648","id":"13037021"}
{"by":"DannyBee","time":"1484087667","timestamp":"2017-01-10 22:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chris is basically just an occasional contributor to llvm code itself at this point, but serves heavily on the board.","parent":"13367321","id":"13369844"}
{"by":"thaik51ca","time":"1539699479","timestamp":"2018-10-16 14:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It saves my time by providing articles with very good content.","parent":"18229457","id":"18229543"}
{"by":"ef4","time":"1354538838","timestamp":"2012-12-03 12:47:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used Password Gorilla for a long time and it's ok.\u003cp\u003eBut I like KeePassX better. Mostly because Gorilla can be absurdly slow sometimes.","parent":"4865108","id":"4865143"}
{"by":"gruseom","time":"1199728848","timestamp":"2008-01-07 18:00:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's noticeably faster - a lot more noticeably than 25 ms would suggest.","parent":"95605","id":"95686"}
{"by":"laken","time":"1494867981","timestamp":"2017-05-15 17:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a big problem with it. Even Apple \u0026quot;has found nearly 90 percent of [their chargers and cables] to be counterfeit\u0026quot; on Amazon.[1]\u003cp\u003eYou could also read the reviews on listing for products such as the popular \u003ci\u003eYeti\u003c/i\u003e cooler mugs, and you\u0026#x27;ll find many people complaining about getting fakes (wrong color lid, etc.)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2016-10-20\u0026#x2F;apple-many-genuine-apple-products-on-amazon-are-fake\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2016-10-20\u0026#x2F;apple-man...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e*edited for minor typo","parent":"14342950","id":"14343187"}
{"by":"JoshMnem","time":"1518209988","timestamp":"2018-02-09 20:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m still baffled why anyone would put those voice-activated devices in their houses. Smartphones are bad enough, and I\u0026#x27;m hoping to get rid of mine soon.","parent":"16343198","id":"16343784"}
{"by":"chrisabrams","time":"1479497498","timestamp":"2016-11-18 19:31:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m curious as to what the author\u0026#x27;s goal in writing this point. The point itself could have been achieved without mentioning VCs.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s pretty rare to \u0026quot;persistently\u0026quot; be contacted by any VCs, even if you live in SV.\u003cp\u003eMost the startup founders I know would love to have this VC \u0026quot;persistence\u0026quot; problem.","parent":"12989361","id":"12989427"}
{"by":"evanhamilton","time":"1334697110","timestamp":"2012-04-17 21:11:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, it's worth clarification here. Here's how we use the nomenclature:\u003cp\u003eTicket - a message a customer sends in about an issue or question.\u003cp\u003eBug - an issue (that can come from any source) which we track and resolve.\u003cp\u003eWe just Trello for bugs (which may be reported in tickets) but we use UserVoice Helpdesk (\u003ca href=\"http://www.uservoice.com/helpdesk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.uservoice.com/helpdesk\u003c/a\u003e) for tickets. Helpdesk is designed around customer communication, Trello is designed around development.\u003cp\u003eHope that clarifies! :)","parent":"3854724","id":"3855011"}
{"by":"tibbon","time":"1393891700","timestamp":"2014-03-04 00:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My girlfriend right now is trying to figure out her postdoc in neuroscience.\u003cp\u003eWhile I fully support her passion, the industry of academia seems completely irrational from almost every sense and full of traps. While the end goal of a tenured professor is exceedingly stable, getting there requires heroic acts of risk, going with the flow and instability that even when compared with the world of startups seems insane.\u003cp\u003eAfter 4-7 years on a PhD (which is fraught with the possibility of your PI losing funding, vets shutting you down for weeks on end, the university messing up shipping of things that need to stay frozen, strange policies of academic journals, endless bureaucracy, the university threatening to cancel health insurance or not pay you for a few months despite them wanting you to work) you exit with the ability to make \u003ci\u003eless money\u003c/i\u003e at a Postdoc than you had with just your undergraduate degree, and certainly less than you\u0026#x27;d make if you had just stayed as a lab tech for that term.\u003cp\u003eIn admission to a Postdoc program, you\u0026#x27;ve gotta deal with PIs who seem to check their email in more archaic ways than RMS and seem to play games with you with their intermittent responsiveness. The chances of you getting into a place doing the research you\u0026#x27;d like in a geographic region that has any semblance of culture or livability. Of course, all the pitfalls of your PhD are still present, as funding is constantly on the brink and your PI might die or retire without notice- which essentially ends your academic career.\u003cp\u003eThen \u003ci\u003emaybe\u003c/i\u003e after a postdoc (or two), you find a tenure track position (again, where this is... you seem to have little control over), which also seems to pay crap considering the amount of knowledge and experience you have.\u003cp\u003eAll of these funnels seem to have a 20:1 (or worse) completion rate. Something always seems to screw up. Fortunately, my girlfriend is almost done with the PhD part, and the Postdoc part is looking more promising than it is for most.\u003cp\u003eWhatever relationships, life, family or culture you\u0026#x27;d like to maintain through this seem nearly impossible. Now, I\u0026#x27;m aware that \u0026#x27;softer\u0026#x27; subjects are a little more flexible on parts of this. You don\u0026#x27;t need a lab with a half million a year funding to write the next great american novel or study the culture of people on 4Chan.\u003cp\u003eIn comparison, startups seem much more certain. Move to SF|Boston|NYC, program awesome things, get funding, etc... no one\u0026#x27;s going to ask you suddenly to move to Alabama to work with the one startup in the US that does Haskell programming, but in science academia that\u0026#x27;s entirely possible. Worst case scenario, you go work for Google or similar. And after working for 10 years, they aren\u0026#x27;t going to pay you barely livable wages.\u003cp\u003eUnless you\u0026#x27;re running a center (which probably less than 0.1% of people entering into a PhD program ever will), the monetary reward almost \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e catches up. The risk of failure is high, and the alternatives for leaving are grim. Whereas if you leave your CS PhD, you can get a job at a startup... there are few places that are dying to hire PhD dropouts.","parent":"7336024","id":"7337540"}
{"by":"kbenzle","time":"1453840808","timestamp":"2016-01-26 20:40:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What, why?","parent":"10975597","id":"10975861"}
{"by":"danielrhodes","time":"1476681384","timestamp":"2016-10-17 05:16:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a difference between presenting an argument and agreeing with that argument.\u003cp\u003eIn this case, it is actually an interesting discussion because you can use the same arguments in a discussion about whether we should have a direct or representative democracy.","parent":"12722730","id":"12722816"}
{"by":"johnjreiser","time":"1455656380","timestamp":"2016-02-16 20:59:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have added a neighborhood map to each property page, in addition to the Bing \u0026quot;Bird\u0026#x27;s Eye.\u0026quot; I\u0026#x27;m also working on a Leaflet-based map of the whole state with the parcel layer. Still thinking over how to handle creating the vector tiles and linking them up to the assessment information. NJ\u0026#x27;s parcel GIS data gets updated yearly, while the assessment\u0026#x2F;sales records are updated weekly. I don\u0026#x27;t want to have the assessment data in the vector tiles, so I\u0026#x27;ve got to perform some matching \u0026amp; retrieving data after they\u0026#x27;re loaded.","parent":"11113005","id":"11113084"}
{"by":"murbard2","time":"1432819028","timestamp":"2015-05-28 13:17:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Corrolary: solving price stickiness problems, or changes in the demand for liquidity by changing the money supply itself is a horrible hack.\u003cp\u003eAll of the (stated) goals of monetary policy can be achieved by using a price index layered on top of money, whith none of the distortionary effect and seignorage.","parent":"9617710","id":"9617884"}
{"by":"hughes","time":"1534707274","timestamp":"2018-08-19 19:34:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fake scrollbar on the documentation page is infuriatingly nonfunctional.","parent":"17793375","id":"17795807"}
{"by":"akkartik","time":"1296058562","timestamp":"2011-01-26 16:16:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My favorite aesthetic on naming things is to try to avoid it. Evidence that this is on the right track:\u003cp\u003e- Refactoring is often for eliminating temporaries, or for segregating them into their own call.\u003cp\u003e- A more functional style leads to fewer intermediate variables.\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a rule, or a metric to be optimized to the exclusion of all else. Often the way to clean up code is to get rid of names that don't help you read, coalescing code blobs, until new names occur to you. Then you tease out code blobs again.","parent":"2143374","id":"2143710"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1379540338","timestamp":"2013-09-18 21:38:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here all the kids on the buses have blackberries, the London riots were run over BBM. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-facebook-twitter-blackberry\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;aug\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;london-riots-fa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6408177","id":"6408336"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1424284775","timestamp":"2015-02-18 18:39:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, in addition to the actual basis of the case indeed being \u0026quot;tying\u0026quot; with regards to Internet Explorer, whether you like it or not, being tame compared to Google\u0026#x27;s voracity for the same behavior, forcing 20 apps to be tied on Android devices.\u003cp\u003eThey do indeed form restrictive licensing agreements with OEMs. Through the MARA, anyone who dares create an Android device that doesn\u0026#x27;t have Google\u0026#x27;s blessing is permanently cut off from Google services.\u003cp\u003eGoogle\u0026#x27;s APIs no doubt favor their own services over competitors, where many features of synergistic behavior between services exist which are not represented in their public API.\u003cp\u003eAnd Google has absolute intent on continuing these practices. New marketing campaigns and shilled blog articles regularly advertise about the brilliance of their current direction, and they continue to add more and more restrictions on OEMs with every passing year.\u003cp\u003e(Using \u0026quot;Underlying these disputes were questions over whether Microsoft altered or manipulated its application programming interfaces (APIs) to favor Internet Explorer over third party web browsers, Microsoft\u0026#x27;s conduct in forming restrictive licensing agreements with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Microsoft\u0026#x27;s intent in its course of conduct.\u0026quot; from the Wikipedia article as a source for the other parts of the Microsoft case. Note the article clearly defines the IE tying issue as the principal claim.)","parent":"9070104","id":"9070134"}
{"by":"register","time":"1537821699","timestamp":"2018-09-24 20:41:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that checked exceptions enforce clarity however I absolutely disagree on the fact that the exception should be managed immediatly. Usually exceptions can and must be managed at different levels of the call stack depending on their origin and destination. My experience tells that usually in an application there are just a few sinks that can be used to ultimately manage exceptions raised from different application flows. The pro of checked exception is to enforce exception management the cons is that they require a pedantic management. For unchecked exceptions pros and cons are exactly inverted. What would be ideal is to have a meta-exception management rule system that would allow to specify which exceptions are allowed to pop-up and which must be managed at the class and method level. Is there any language that provides something nearly similar to this?","parent":"18050558","id":"18061222"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1379234268","timestamp":"2013-09-15 08:37:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In effect you are saying that we have a better understanding of the long-term evolution of the climate than we do of the long-term evolution of Earth\u0026#x27;s economy.\u003cp\u003eThere is absolutely no evidence that this is the case and considerable evidence that the exact opposite is true.","parent":"6388412","id":"6388497"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1371764990","timestamp":"2013-06-20 21:49:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes, I know - but there is a difference between privacy and secrecy.\u003cp\u003ePrivacy is the things anyone can work out by looking at me, secrecy is the stuff I actively hide.\u003cp\u003eThe cost of breaching privacy on mass scale has dropped simply because now everyone publishes everything about themselves.\u003cp\u003eBreaching secrecy is still a manual intensive effort as it eve has been.","parent":"5912909","id":"5915192"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1373991399","timestamp":"2013-07-16 16:16:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are plenty of alternatives to Logic. Check out Cubase, Ableton Live, Studio One, Sonar, Reason, Reaper etc.","parent":"6052751","id":"6052833"}
{"by":"dimitry","time":"1231334077","timestamp":"2009-01-07 13:14:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First half of the article - good \u0026#38; inspirational. Second half - horrible.","parent":"423273","id":"423375"}
{"by":"throwaway7645","time":"1495623359","timestamp":"2017-05-24 10:55:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neat, will have to look into that. I think Perl might have a command line switch with similar behavior that runs your command across every line of whatever you pipe to it, but that might not be what you\u0026#x27;re saying.","parent":"14407954","id":"14409025"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1464679095","timestamp":"2016-05-31 07:18:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s well documented that whiteboard exercises are terrible for evaluating candidates. A lot of people, developers especially, don\u0026#x27;t perform well under pressure (stress reduces cognitive ability). Not only that, but you will also alienate a great many experienced candidates.\u003cp\u003eIf you are OK with all that, fine I guess. But I thought it was widely agreed upon that the software industry needs better hiring practices.","parent":"11805066","id":"11805187"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1534015314","timestamp":"2018-08-11 19:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Self driving vehicles, controlled by some griefer would be a pretty harsh demonstration target as well.\u003cp\u003eThere is no way I\u0026#x27;ll drive an internet connected car, unfortunately I still have to share the road with people that do drive internet connected cars.","parent":"17741056","id":"17741115"}
{"by":"dr_zoidberg","time":"1503077012","timestamp":"2017-08-18 17:23:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can either compile-before-run (as you would any compiled language), our you can leverage Cythons compile-on-import mechanism. Which does exactly the same, but you don\u0026#x27;t have to think about having to compile.\u003cp\u003eCompile time is usually down to a few seconds (or less), so it\u0026#x27;s not really a burden.","parent":"15047818","id":"15048053"}
{"by":"sjellis","time":"1486911265","timestamp":"2017-02-12 14:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the audiblemagic.com Website linked to by another commentator:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The Leading Automated Content Recognition Solution\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Content ID Software \u0026amp; Information Services for Networks, Cloud Platforms, Devices \u0026amp; Apps\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Make your smart device, application, or platform content aware in the presence of media streams or ambient audio.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAmbient audio. In other words, they turn your phone into a listening device then analyze what it hears for commercial purposes, albeit supposedly only for picking up the sound of copyrighted material.","parent":"13628353","id":"13628575"}
{"by":"ryanchan001","time":"1485369622","timestamp":"2017-01-25 18:40:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay yeah, anything you like that you think was designed really well I attribute that all to my friend Irene.\u003cp\u003eDefinitely not my strong suit! I am always astounded by the designs that she creates and I\u0026#x27;ll let her know!","parent":"13484186","id":"13484428"}
{"by":"forgetsusername","time":"1453805788","timestamp":"2016-01-26 10:56:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eNote: I bet many people didn\u0026#x27;t think Zuckerberg and others paid visits to the old guard to learn old lessons for IT\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI see a couple of anecdotes, not a recipe for success, or even a pattern.\u003cp\u003eI agree that Silicon Valley arose from magic (or luck), and that it can\u0026#x27;t be recreated.  But it doesn\u0026#x27;t need to be.  The Valley will lose influence for precisely the reason it claims strength in the article; money and computer software can move anywhere, now more than ever.  And mobility is increasing fast.\u003cp\u003eTechnology development is diffusing, globally.  Believe it or not, many people have cultural roots and don\u0026#x27;t want to leave their home town...or country.  SV is still highly influential, but that will wane over time.","parent":"10970098","id":"10972798"}
{"by":"textmode","time":"1524280942","timestamp":"2018-04-21 03:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The question is whether all the data that is collected from online consumers is actually \u003ci\u003erequired\u003c/i\u003e in order to fulfill the ever-growing number of online transactions.  What data is needed to purchase a product or subscribe to a paid service?  Perhaps name, billing address, payment details, etc.  Any data collected above and beyond that minimum may be rightfully questioned and might reasonably be considered \u0026quot;optional\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eFacebook\u0026#x27;s data policy has now increased from something like 2700 words to 4200 words.[1]  Putting aside the question of whether this makes it more or less digestible by users, some are saying the new policy may make more clear what data Facebook is collecting.  However the question remains: Why are they collecting it?  This is perhaps the fundamental question and one that underlies the GDPR.  With respect to each item of user data: Is it neccessary to collect it in order to provide the product or service.\u003cp\u003eIs there a minimum amount of data that must be collected?  Is the amount of user data that Facebook is collecting above that minimum?\u003cp\u003eFacebook is clearly a business. It is selling a service.  There are paying customers.  However there is a question whether users are actually the \u0026quot;customers\u0026quot;.  Is the relationship between Facebook and users a commercial one?\u003cp\u003eHow does one quantify the \u0026quot;price\u0026quot; that users pay.  What are the users affirmative obligations under the agreement?  What is the user\u0026#x27;s end of the bargain.  An agreement to allow herself to be studied?\u003cp\u003eWhat is Facebook\u0026#x27;s end of the bargain?  Does it have any affirmative obligations regarding service?  What happens if Facebook fails to perform their end of the bargain?  How is the value of the service quantified?\u003cp\u003eDoes this arrangement at times seem tantamount to users agreeing to take part in an elaborate, ongoing \u0026quot;marketing survey\u0026quot;, where their behaviour online will be recorded, observed and analysed?  Does this make the user agreement different from a traditional commercial transaction?\u003cp\u003eIs the relationship between Facebook and advertisers more like a traditional commercial transaction?  What data does Facebook collect about its customers, advertisers?  Is it only the minimum needed to provide the service?\u003cp\u003eIs joining Facebook the modern equivalent of taking part in Nielson ratings, agreeing to have a monitoring device attached to ones television recording ones viewing habits.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gizmodo.com\u0026#x2F;weekend-long-reads-facebooks-new-data-policy-1825424333\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gizmodo.com\u0026#x2F;weekend-long-reads-facebooks-new-data-po...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16888477","id":"16889828"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1503587608","timestamp":"2017-08-24 15:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Analytics is a pretty well known idea.  I question the base theory that it will answer this specific question.\u003cp\u003eAlso, given that the indicator for an AMP page is a greyscale, hard to see icon and words, people who don\u0026#x27;t want to use AMP might hit it because they are in a hurry and the text they are looking at is black and noticeable.","parent":"15087537","id":"15090744"}
{"by":"wayn3","time":"1460491709","timestamp":"2016-04-12 20:08:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"should rename to PR as a service. Same product, bigger market :P","parent":"11443376","id":"11483132"}
{"by":"sago","time":"1429434358","timestamp":"2015-04-19 09:05:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; nor is mindfullness a quack method unverified by science\u003cp\u003eWhat specific benefits had mindfulness been verified to provide, in comparison to placebo meditation? I\u0026#x27;d be very grateful for any references to peer-reviewed study.","parent":"9402443","id":"9402496"}
{"by":"timr","time":"1357787522","timestamp":"2013-01-10 03:12:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on what you like and what you're like and how old you are.\u003cp\u003eIf you're a young guy, and you've got the typical grooming and lifestyle habits that would cause people to label you as a \"nerd\", you'll have trouble in both cities.  But if you're a little more put together and/or a little older, SF is massively better.  A lot of the single women here are in their 30s, and a bit more established in their lives.  They're not the kind of women who find conversations about code and video games to be desirable traits in a partner.\u003cp\u003eSeattle was abysmal in all dating categories.  The place has a weird, backwards social vibe that makes it incredibly difficult to make friends, and every public space was at \u003ci\u003eleast\u003c/i\u003e 2-to-1 male.  I went to dance classes where men had to dance with each other because there weren't enough women(!)\u003cp\u003eThat said, there's been a huge shift in the number of well-off, vaguely stylish, 28-35 year-old single guys living in SF in the last two years.  That's going to make things harder, but I don't know if it will ever get as bad as Seattle.","parent":"5034640","id":"5035146"}
{"by":"Sapient","time":"1315518569","timestamp":"2011-09-08 21:49:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At $25 they will be helping a lot more people than just well-off geeks - this whole project a charitable after all.\u003cp\u003eI will be buying them for kids who would never have even touched a computer in their lives if not for these (and doing a bit of teaching). \nSince I am hardly Bill Gates, this would be completely impossible for me at $95 each (only giving them to 2-3 of these kids and leaving out the rest is just a bad idea in a slum).","parent":"2974945","id":"2975810"}
{"by":"Bilters","time":"1494418560","timestamp":"2017-05-10 12:16:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m familiar with Wordpress. I did set it up a couple of times, but I used a theme were i could re-do some colouring, and fonts etc. Now i\u0026#x27;ve got a website, and I would like to add a CMS behind it, It could be Wordpress or another one, but the connection I can\u0026#x27;t seem to make. Build a website, then connect the HTML \u0026#x2F; CSS to Wordpress. Do you have any resources where I can look into to start making this connection?\u003cp\u003eThanks","parent":"14306991","id":"14307570"}
{"by":"empath75","time":"1545372939","timestamp":"2018-12-21 06:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Super skeptical about this story. Why should they bother instead of just using regular banking or keeping their own ledger.","parent":"18730778","id":"18731721"}
{"by":"rbaud","time":"1518285558","timestamp":"2018-02-10 17:59:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the book, which I\u0026#x27;d recommend if you enjoyed the concepts surrounding digitized consciousness, the subplot with the traumatized daughter serves to introduce a pretty pivotal character\u0026#x2F;plot point.","parent":"16348417","id":"16348524"}
{"by":"nathanwdavis","time":"1276795289","timestamp":"2010-06-17 17:21:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indianapolis, IN\u003cp\u003eAngie's List - angieslist.com\u003cp\u003eThe sales shpeal: \"Angie’s List is a consumer-driven organization that collects customer satisfaction ratings on local service companies in more than 400 categories. We provide an exclusive list of these companies based on feedback from local consumers who know who to turn to when the gray clouds of disrepair loom. It's the word-of-mouth network solidified into one handy \"who can I call\" list. We now have over 1,000,000 members and get 40,000 new reviews each month!\"\u003cp\u003eWe're hiring in marketing, ad sales, and some IT positions.","parent":"1438505","id":"1439614"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1396464359","timestamp":"2014-04-02 18:45:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are more vulnerable to a dictionary attack for a given password \u003ci\u003elength\u003c/i\u003e.  The theory is that memorability (and ease of typing) decays more slowly \u003ci\u003ewith respect to the entropy contained\u003c/i\u003e in an xkcd style password than in a jumble of random characters.","parent":"7512797","id":"7517975"}
{"by":"mpyne","time":"1384395891","timestamp":"2013-11-14 02:24:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It doesn\u0026#x27;t surprise me that non-English language stuff is slower.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t have to read the stories I linked. You might want to at least glance at the URL though. E.g. [2] was posted in \u003ci\u003e2010\u003c/i\u003e. Still waiting...","parent":"6729247","id":"6730137"}
{"by":"kenver","time":"1236957567","timestamp":"2009-03-13 15:19:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure if it's intentional, but the data center we use in Sheffield looks like an absolute tip from the outside.  Just looks like your average inner city, run down, squatter filled mess.  Inside it's another story though, so I think you can disguise a data center!","parent":"514709","id":"514950"}
{"by":"uola","time":"1462948769","timestamp":"2016-05-11 06:39:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t buy his arguments. It\u0026#x27;s one thing to say we have to be on Google Play Store or we have to use phone numbers despite the privacy implications because that is what people use. But ignoring much of the developing countries (see whatsapp), China or the people who are your strongest user base by saying \u0026quot;you can just\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t pragmatic at all.\u003cp\u003eNor is it actually reasonable that we should expect to or rely on a few people to secure something that should be a fundamental and a fundamental right of communication. Not to rant to much, but it feels like going to parties (conferences) and talking about how much good you do and then being dismissive in the real world is how much of the security industry operates and that Signal has just become the latest excuse to why nothing has to be fixed.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll give him credit for the whatsapp integration though. More people in the field should consider working with companies where they can have a lot of impact.","parent":"11672897","id":"11673051"}
{"by":"xenihn","time":"1492455562","timestamp":"2017-04-17 18:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s as simple as stretching if you have anterior pelvic tilt and spend the majority of your day in a position that either makes it worse or keeps it in its current state.","parent":"14133269","id":"14133477"}
{"by":"cyberferret","time":"1513034028","timestamp":"2017-12-11 23:13:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eDo\u003c/i\u003e you though?  What do you do when you get a take out cup that is too bitter or over\u0026#x2F;under sweetened? Do you wear it, or take it back?\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when you get caught up talking to someone or distracted, and your $4 cup of coffee becomes cold and undrinkable?  Or if someone nudges you and you spill some?  Does the $ value ever factor into it, or is it just a \u0026#x27;throwaway\u0026#x27; cost?\u003cp\u003eIn fact, does anyone ever stand at a urinal and think to themselves - \u0026quot;That is a $10 pee, given the coffees I bought this morning\u0026quot;?","parent":"15901556","id":"15901627"}
{"by":"umanwizard","time":"1539624415","timestamp":"2018-10-15 17:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right; I was calculating based on the per-troy-ounce price, thinking it was the per-gram price. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.","parent":"18221437","id":"18221682"}
{"by":"brd","time":"1421342538","timestamp":"2015-01-15 17:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure it depends entirely on what area of the org you work in but in my opinion GS is not a good place for most programmers. The bulk of their programmers will be supporting applications (not writing sophisticated trading software) and in that area career progression seemed to be shockingly slow from what I could tell.\u003cp\u003eI interviewed at GS years ago and I ended up declining the job mid interview when I realized it would likely be years before I worked back up into a role where I\u0026#x27;d have control over designing more complex systems. In short, GS seemed particularly good at pumping out sub-par code monkeys.","parent":"8893726","id":"8893809"}
{"by":"jmatt","time":"1224872478","timestamp":"2008-10-24 18:21:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"software for embedded systems is still in C and C++ and that is generally what engineers care about when they are coding.\u003cp\u003eI agree it sucks, and it's too bad they can't move away from it sooner rather than later. Probably a great niche for any number of programming languages - if you can ever get the big multi-nationals and military to adopt it.","parent":"342671","id":"342687"}
{"by":"grimman","time":"1431856208","timestamp":"2015-05-17 09:50:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless you specifically tweak the UI to enable really small tabs, which is among the first things I do on a fresh install. Favicon + a small number of pixels for padding, way way less than Google allows me to get away with! Slap on a bunch of tab groups and I\u0026#x27;m set.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m quite comfortable with a tab group filled to the point where the tab bar only displays favicons, but hasn\u0026#x27;t gotten to the point where it lets me scroll yet. That way I can rely on spatial memory to get to the right tab, without necessarily seeing the title!\u003cp\u003eOf course, searching for the right tab is an option, just like you said. I love the fact that Firefox also activates the correct tab group automatically.","parent":"9559368","id":"9559392"}
{"by":"MiddleEndian","time":"1542241754","timestamp":"2018-11-15 00:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about Windows Phone? :(","parent":"18455217","id":"18455708"}
{"by":"graphitezepp","time":"1542220571","timestamp":"2018-11-14 18:36:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OH! I hit that one too, quit the game over it. Very obnoxious finding endless forum posts of people having the same bug as you, and not a solution to be had, and your not even being paid for it.","parent":"18451896","id":"18452445"}
{"by":"jmcgough","time":"1506895520","timestamp":"2017-10-01 22:05:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re actually in the middle of a renaissance when it comes to psychedelic drug research. Research essentially ended after the panic in response to Leary\u0026#x27;s misuse of drugs, and the association of drugs with counter-culture movements in the 60s and 70s... and then in the 80s and 90s we had the much maligned War on Drugs.\u003cp\u003eNow that it\u0026#x27;s become more widely accepted that psychedelic drugs are comparatively harmless next to opioids, there\u0026#x27;s been a HUGE amount of new psychedelic drug research. I attended Horizons (annual NYC conference on psychedelic drug research) several years ago when I was doing my neuroscience undergrad, and was really impressed with how many new studies were coming out. Interesting enough, a lot of it was focused on psilocybin (e.g. treating anxiety in end of life cancer patients), because LSD still has a bit of a bad reputation after Leary. Probably the most interesting researcher I met was a professor in Europe who was doing fMRI scans of grad students on psilocybin. Nowadays, MDMA has been receiving a lot of attention for its potential to treat those with PTSD.\u003cp\u003eAnyways, super rambling response, but there\u0026#x27;s reason to be more optimistic about psychedelic research compared to decades past.","parent":"15378271","id":"15380134"}
{"by":"biopharma_guy","time":"1327095356","timestamp":"2012-01-20 21:35:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. I have free pass for few days. I will go and explore more.","parent":"3488725","id":"3491321"}
{"by":"pif","time":"1488185024","timestamp":"2017-02-27 08:43:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Regarding your point 2 - have you been to an Ikea recently?\u003cp\u003eNo, I haven\u0026#x27;t. Thanks for the update!\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; about the look, well, that\u0026#x27;s just subjective taste, isn\u0026#x27;t it?\u003cp\u003eI think I wasn\u0026#x27;t clear enough. I don\u0026#x27;t complain about quality\u0026#x2F;look: what I don\u0026#x27;t like is the standardisation! As soon as you see something from IKEA, you know it\u0026#x27;s from IKEA.","parent":"13742637","id":"13742832"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1268093278","timestamp":"2010-03-09 00:07:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've seen desktop-code that does that, but nothing in JS so far.\u003cp\u003eOne site I've found has been particularly full of quality material, including lots of open source projects: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Combinatorics/Software/Graph_Drawing/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Combinatorics/Software/Grap...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1176313","id":"1176944"}
{"by":"ProblemFactory","time":"1380404267","timestamp":"2013-09-28 21:37:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All of these are also apps for businesses, not casual entertainment for consumers. Also, they are mainly delivered via web, not Apple or Google app stores, which makes it possible to offer a time-limited free trial with no free plan.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d hypothesise that both of these are more important factors than being started in 2003 vs 2013.\u003cp\u003eFor a freelancer, $100\u0026#x2F;month is a good deal if it allows you to get a few more billable hours per month. For a larger established business, $500\u0026#x2F;month is pocket change that nobody will even notice (and the customer who signs up isn\u0026#x27;t even spending their own money).","parent":"6463172","id":"6463239"}
{"by":"Retra","time":"1471379429","timestamp":"2016-08-16 20:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You think we\u0026#x27;re not adapted to live longer because it takes us 60+ years to die after the only ~14 to become fertile? That seems like evidence of us being adapted to live longer. We are actually the longest-lived land mammal on the planet. So why on Earth would you conclude the opposite?","parent":"12296228","id":"12300414"}
{"by":"Kagerjay","time":"1534696152","timestamp":"2018-08-19 16:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but I don\u0026#x27;t really need the extra CPU power\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s what my windows desktop PC is for","parent":"17792723","id":"17794910"}
{"by":"frozenport","time":"1398861470","timestamp":"2014-04-30 12:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;mosquitos have nothing to do with Malaria\u003cp\u003e?\u003cp\u003eIf you get rid of the mosquitos you get rid of most of Malaria.","parent":"7672811","id":"7672844"}
{"by":"ktta","time":"1491120741","timestamp":"2017-04-02 08:12:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a question[1] regarding this. Any Canadians here?\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13983728\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13983728\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14015616","id":"14016381"}
{"by":"thirdusername","time":"1258836649","timestamp":"2009-11-21 20:50:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are wrong, it has no connection to quick-match, just rating. I rate a lot of people globaly that never show up on quick match. :)","parent":"949911","id":"954926"}
{"by":"ianstormtaylor","time":"1526322431","timestamp":"2018-05-14 18:27:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re right, and that that be great in my opinion. I\u0026#x27;d love for this to be the start of Google being less dependent on ads across some of their currently free products. If a \u0026quot;Google One\u0026quot; subscription guaranteed that Gmail and other services were no longer mined for ads, that would be a great thing. It might allow them to maintain the ads-based model for free users, while providing a single subscription for people who are willing to pay. In a way that offering subscriptions for each individual product wouldn\u0026#x27;t be feasible due to the complexity of marketing\u0026#x2F;managing so many at once.","parent":"17068027","id":"17068088"}
{"by":"vans","time":"1432020167","timestamp":"2015-05-19 07:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WOW Huge bullshit on this website (internet.org). The story with Neesha tells us that her father \u0026quot;knows impressive tricks. But let\u0026#x27;s get Neesha online and see some real magic\u0026quot; OMG, of course, you need internet to live. Of course real life is not as magical as fake facebook friends. Of course, Neesha\u0026#x27;s father tricks are not as magic as internet... How condescending colonialist shit is this web site ?!","parent":"9567976","id":"9568520"}
{"by":"NeedMoreTea","time":"1539790757","timestamp":"2018-10-17 15:39:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Also without searching first) Methane is something like 50 times more effective as a greenhouse gas. That\u0026#x27;s after allowing for the fact it dissipates far more quickly, initially it\u0026#x27;s even more.\u003cp\u003eSo even though it\u0026#x27;s a small part of emissions it\u0026#x27;s a significant constituent of climate change.","parent":"18240027","id":"18240103"}
{"by":"switch007","time":"1423661251","timestamp":"2015-02-11 13:27:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I truly believe driverless cars are the only way we will ever see a massive reduction in this fatality rate.\u003cp\u003eWhat about reducing cars on the road through greater usage of public transportation?","parent":"9032476","id":"9032663"}
{"by":"vetinari","time":"1282919650","timestamp":"2010-08-27 14:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, few years ago, there was 'Haha, so Firefox is not so secure after all' bug in Windows 'shell:' protocol handler:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Mozilla-Flaw-Lets-Links-Run-Arbitrary-Programs/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Mozilla-Flaw-Lets-Links-Ru...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1638878","id":"1638911"}
{"by":"electrichead","time":"1362629403","timestamp":"2013-03-07 04:10:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the main reason to go to a conference is to immerse yourself in a certain type if culture. I attended a query conference last weekend and I came out of it so motivated to work on new things. It is easy to get bogged down sometimes by the daily grind at work and these events feature speakers who can show you a different side of things - things that excite you. And the best part is that you are there with others that share your enthusiasm. It is sometimes infectious.\u003cp\u003eI would say that the type of person that attends a Google i/o conference appreciates the cutting edge in terms of mobile and web technologies.","parent":"5335942","id":"5336021"}
{"by":"nathan_f77","time":"1437585495","timestamp":"2015-07-22 17:18:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been thinking that I would like to get CT and MRI scan done for my whole body, maybe every 4-6 months. Then doctors could keep track of any suspicious lumps, and perform biopsies if they are growing at an unusual rate.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve read many articles that say MRIs are overused and lead to overdiagnosis. They say that many people have benign nodules and cysts that you don\u0026#x27;t need to worry about, and you might even end up worrying about shadows or other scanning errors. You\u0026#x27;ll end up having too many biopsies, which can be invasive and have negative side-effects.\u003cp\u003eBut I think this might be a different story if you could compare two full-body scans, and take note of the differences. In fact, I\u0026#x27;m starting to wonder if rich people get this done all the time, and it\u0026#x27;s just too expensive to provide this level of medical care to the rest of the world.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s just a fact that a tumour could be growing inside me right now, and I wouldn\u0026#x27;t know about it until it starts causing side effects. I hope we see some breakthroughs for the early detection of cancer, and I\u0026#x27;m really glad to see companies like this being funded by YC.","parent":"9930791","id":"9930943"}
{"by":"danmaz74","time":"1416216921","timestamp":"2014-11-17 09:35:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very interesting article.\u003cp\u003eNitpicking: Why do they give the cost for this solution \u0026quot;per month\u0026quot;, and then for comparison the costs in the US \u0026quot;per day\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;per year\u0026quot;? Did they choose to make it harder to make a comparison??","parent":"8616383","id":"8617481"}
{"by":"jen_h","time":"1324069318","timestamp":"2011-12-16 21:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good info here, too, on the money trail:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3361800","id":"3362299"}
{"by":"wang_li","time":"1494513391","timestamp":"2017-05-11 14:36:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That came from Nibble Magazine.","parent":"14315857","id":"14316306"}
{"by":"berdario","time":"1434801573","timestamp":"2015-06-20 11:59:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same idea, but a bit more mature: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;lantiga\u0026#x2F;ki\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;lantiga\u0026#x2F;ki\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: Actually, it\u0026#x27;s completely different... I was too fast to judge upon reading: a new language built with mori+sweetjs for easier javascript interop\u003cp\u003eBut it might still be of interest to people here","parent":"9749286","id":"9749746"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1525105330","timestamp":"2018-04-30 16:22:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"[Hi from Argentina!]\u003cp\u003eI had the reverse problem with my daughter. She has some formal education but we also got for her many movies with the sound and subtitle both in English and Spanish.\u003cp\u003eMy recommendation for you is to see the movie a few times:\u003cp\u003e1) In Spanish with the subtitles in English: So you can cheat when you don\u0026#x27;t understand what is happening\u003cp\u003e2) In Spanish with the subtitles in Spanish: It\u0026#x27;s easier to understand the written form.\u003cp\u003e3) In Spanish without subtitles.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps try seen a few movies in mode 1 and 2, and when it\u0026#x27;s too easy switch to mode 2 and 3, or just mode 3.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t expect word by word translations\u0026#x2F;subtitles. They help but they are not literal.\u003cp\u003eLater, it would be good to find some movies where the original sound is in Spanish (again, pick a DVD with the sound and subtitles in both languages). Be aware that each country has a different accent, so changing the country the movie is from will make a big difference that may be interesting.\u003cp\u003e[Also, try to get some formal knowledge about grammar and orthography from other sources.]","parent":"16959456","id":"16959892"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1392758432","timestamp":"2014-02-18 21:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh jesus that\u0026#x27;s a huge mess. So I guess it turns out Docker was designed to do a bunch of wacky things under the hood because they never expected users to use their tool in different ways. It looks like as a fix some people are running full-blown copies of Ubuntu under Docker (because somehow that\u0026#x27;s better than OpenVZ??)","parent":"7260963","id":"7261153"}
{"by":"pitzips","time":"1398872472","timestamp":"2014-04-30 15:41:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So awesome! Would love for there to be an option to pay what you want for the PDF. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t mind giving a couple bucks if you offered the options.","parent":"7673628","id":"7674030"}
{"by":"WestCoastJustin","time":"1374720926","timestamp":"2013-07-25 02:55:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was discussed on HN last week [1].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6051856\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6051856\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6100427","id":"6100656"}
{"by":"MadGouki","time":"1319842421","timestamp":"2011-10-28 22:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what the implications of this are in regard to Wolfram's book on automata. Would it be possible to implement an automata computer in a system made from this molecule?","parent":"3168453","id":"3170421"}
{"by":"joopxiv","time":"1427975126","timestamp":"2015-04-02 11:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are corporations. Their most important asset is trust, which they need to keep by not signing certificates that can be used for malicious purposes.\u003cp\u003eThe action by Google will definately impact this CA. As soon as this root certificate is no longer trusted, all Chrome users will see big warnings as soon as they visit a website that has a SSL certificate that is signed by them. I don\u0026#x27;t know the exact market share of Chrome, but I have no doubt it is large enough to make current customers of CCNIC switch to a different CA.","parent":"9309585","id":"9310013"}
{"by":"Endy","time":"1487486691","timestamp":"2017-02-19 06:44:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A point he made in \u0026quot;Six Words Long\u0026quot;.","parent":"13676632","id":"13678463"}
{"by":"chrismorgan","time":"1375412065","timestamp":"2013-08-02 02:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While Ruby and Perl cannot be parsed, Python can be parsed correctly.","parent":"6143137","id":"6145078"}
{"by":"jonathan-kosgei","time":"1512755299","timestamp":"2017-12-08 17:48:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Kasbah, :) Several.\u003cp\u003e- The Global infrastructure backing ipdata.co is pretty impressive, 4 data centers in the US, 1 in Canada, 2 in Europe and 1 each in Mumbai, Sydney and Seoul.\u003cp\u003e- We offer more datapoints, I tried to build this around the most common use cases for Geolocation, one of which is showing your users the right currency. This is something we provide, that is, the currency ISO code and symbol.\u003cp\u003e- I think our API is pretty darn fast :)\u003cp\u003eYour pros;\u003cp\u003eYou offer more data formats, csv and xml whereas we only offer JSON.\u003cp\u003eYou offer a pretty high free tier but I think there\u0026#x27;s definitely tonnes of people who derive a lot of value from ipdata :)","parent":"15880372","id":"15880438"}
{"by":"ilaksh","time":"1401187133","timestamp":"2014-05-27 10:38:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re really arguing against a straw man or a few of them.  In other words, I wasn\u0026#x27;t trying to say that we should create programs without using any text or by drawing.  Or that we should communicate without text.\u003cp\u003eObviously, text is going to be important for programming.  What I am saying is that the definition that programming only happens when you are writing textual source code is wrong and holding us back.\u003cp\u003eStart with the idea of intellisense or autocompletion for method\u0026#x2F;function call names and parameters.  If this happens inline in the text editor, we are still programming, right?  What if my intellisense\u0026#x2F;help for parameters etc. pops up in a box on the screen?  What if it is a dialog with a description of the method, and descriptions of each parameter?  Now what happens if for each boolean or enum, I have drop downs or check boxes?  Now what happens if I can drag functions out of a toolbox into my code window?\u003cp\u003eWhat happens if I can also drag entire components into my project window and connect them to my database structure editor?  But now I can also type some code into part of the editor to create some custom functionality.  Am I programming?  What if I didn\u0026#x27;t have to type any custom code at all?  Am I still programming? I didn\u0026#x27;t write any code, I just dragged and dropped, checked some boxes and connected some components.","parent":"7803605","id":"7803768"}
{"by":"PavlovsCat","time":"1475186159","timestamp":"2016-09-29 21:55:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair point, I got carried away a bit there :)","parent":"12608483","id":"12609106"}
{"by":"dutchkabuki","time":"1235945057","timestamp":"2009-03-01 22:04:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love all of pg's essay, but this one is a startlingly superficial, and naive, commentary on a topic that has been thought about for +20 years.  Also, I think pg has become too focused on the types of companies he funds (\"ramen consumer web 2.0 companies\") and he thinks this is applicable to broader issues.  it isn't.","parent":"497951","id":"499344"}
{"by":"voaie","time":"1479340017","timestamp":"2016-11-16 23:46:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something like Mail2Tor@onion?","parent":"12972090","id":"12972766"}
{"by":"anamax","time":"1272047255","timestamp":"2010-04-23 18:27:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u0026#62; If someone builds a better mousetrap, it's patentable.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;Only if the mechanism is novel.\u003cp\u003eActually, no.  It's perfectly reasonable to patent using old mechanisms to do new things or to do old things differently.\u003cp\u003eFor example, appropriate to patent using a lever to do something that no one had thought to do with a lever before, despite the fact that levers are one of the oldest mechanisms.\u003cp\u003eNote that new mechanisms don't come along very often.  Much of what we get are new uses or new applications.","parent":"1288350","id":"1289034"}
{"by":"dethswatch","time":"1487966176","timestamp":"2017-02-24 19:56:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, this smells like:\n* Required before: I only ever code at work.\n* Recursion: I didn\u0026#x27;t get any\u0026#x2F;much theory in school \n* Type checking: I don\u0026#x27;t know my language very well.\n* Going beyond minimal: agreed- try not to hire them.","parent":"13724202","id":"13727191"}
{"by":"SimbaOnSteroids","time":"1506726319","timestamp":"2017-09-29 23:05:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, its certainly a clever work around, Are they also their own VPN though? How do we know we won\u0026#x27;t get hit by a man in the middle attack?","parent":"15369841","id":"15370015"}
{"by":"mvkel","time":"1341512906","timestamp":"2012-07-05 18:28:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A new homepage does not a redesign make.","parent":"4191388","id":"4204253"}
{"by":"subrat_rout","time":"1358407726","timestamp":"2013-01-17 07:28:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless ER and catastrophic care including lab tests go through a radical changes, I doubt US healthcare system is going to change significantly. But still this is a first step towards towards a bigger goal. At least people will be able to afford some primary visit and preventative care.","parent":"5070202","id":"5071511"}
{"by":"jjoonathan","time":"1422485047","timestamp":"2015-01-28 22:44:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they build some bridges to the *AA it will cost net negative resources to care about piracy.","parent":"8962891","id":"8963038"}
{"by":"moylan","time":"1333589021","timestamp":"2012-04-05 01:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"and there we run into the problem of one size fits all design.  you hate the stylus and i prefer them.  it comes down to what you are using your mobile tech for.\u003cp\u003ewith the psions keyboards i could get 30-40 wpm typing.  with a stylus i was down to around 20wpm.  typing on touch screens is a chore and stuggles approach 20wpm.\u003cp\u003ebut with stylus i also had the option of doodling info on screen.  at higher resolution than a finger can achieve.  i could get signatures, scribble a hasty note in freehand.\u003cp\u003ei don't think it should be a requirement but rather an option.  but without the option i would lose interest towards a device that has a stylus option.  but even then i prefer a keyboard more and currently use a samsung galaxy pro.","parent":"3800615","id":"3800808"}
{"by":"zozbot123","time":"1545779586","timestamp":"2018-12-25 23:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"耶诞快乐!","parent":"18759479","id":"18759564"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1541715953","timestamp":"2018-11-08 22:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d just activate the hotspot on the phone to use the laptop.","parent":"18410410","id":"18410625"}
{"by":"umanwizard","time":"1462222423","timestamp":"2016-05-02 20:53:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are continuing to confuse GDP and GDP per capita","parent":"11615368","id":"11615504"}
{"by":"andrepd","time":"1438962119","timestamp":"2015-08-07 15:41:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is browsing, then? Read-only? Are forums browsing, or interactive apps? Where do you draw the line?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m all for less bloat, and I can\u0026#x27;t figure why would a browser double as a PDF reader, for instance, when a native app is invariably faster, more feature-rich, more customisable and more secure. However, it\u0026#x27;s difficult to draw a concrete line between plain browsing and web apps.","parent":"10022772","id":"10023096"}
{"by":"jsmcgd","time":"1197960242","timestamp":"2007-12-18 06:44:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, not relevant but since when does no one wear a necktie? Check out the picture in the link. I can now see the value of the tie; their general throat, neck, collar area looks a disgrace. You'd think with all the money they've just made, they might want to announce it with a ludicrously expensive and obnoxious tie. When I make my millions I'm going straight out to buy the world's best tie and become the world's most handsomest man when viewed from the navel to the chin.","parent":"90568","id":"90642"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1415373624","timestamp":"2014-11-07 15:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Erlang is used in infrastructure projects. A few I know of:\u003cp\u003eRabbitmq -- probably the most popular messaging system\u003cp\u003eRiak -- distributed, fault tolerant database\u003cp\u003eWhatsApp -- managed to route billions of messages a day with only a handful of engineers and servers.\u003cp\u003eEricsson -- pretty much got the market for cell base nodes cornered. Chances are about 50% if you use internet on your smartphone, that Erlang will be involved.\u003cp\u003eSome firms on Wall Street use Erlang -- remember Serge Aleynikov case, he is an Erlang programmer.\u003cp\u003eEjabberd -- a very popular XMPP server\u003cp\u003eCouchDB\u0026#x2F;Cloudant(IBM) -- another database and database-as-a-service company use Erlang.\u003cp\u003eSo I would still say the original statement holds. By success might mean the amount of work being done not amount of people writing code. Think about WhatsApp. It was only 10-20 engineers that worked on the back-end yet think about the massive amounts of data they were able to handle.","parent":"8572198","id":"8572861"}
{"by":"ra","time":"1310356091","timestamp":"2011-07-11 03:48:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003e(its not toxic to humans, or comparable to salt anyway)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is FALSE, and very dangerous advice for people with infants.\u003cp\u003eQuote from NSW Food Authority [1]:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Borax, also known as sodium borate (Na2B4O7.10H2), and boric acid (H3BO3) are colourless, salt-like substance that can also be a white powder.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What are the symptoms of Borax poisoning?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome of the symptoms of Borax ingestion include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, and red eyes.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSymptoms may appear 2 to 4 hours after ingesting Borax.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf you have ingested Borax, or come into contact with someone with these symptoms, you should call the NSW Poisons Information 24 hour hot line on 13 11 26 and seek immediate medial attention at your local doctor’s surgery or hospital.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf large amounts of Borax are consumed, acute kidney failure and death may result.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot to say it isn't good at killing roaches, but please don't use it believing it's non-toxic.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/consumers/other-food-topics/borax-and-boric-acid/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/consumers/other-food-top...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2749287","id":"2749409"}
{"by":"stevoski","time":"1271844445","timestamp":"2010-04-21 10:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The LP guides on iPhone are not good. They consist of the guidebook content shoved into a hard-to-navigate app.","parent":"1281682","id":"1281758"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1296019745","timestamp":"2011-01-26 05:29:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(sidenote) I really wish users didn't get so critical of people and companies who are, well, critical. Like, I'd really love to see \"our opinion of our competitors, no holds barred\" right on these websites, so I can try to compare something other than a lot of marketing copy or sketchily done third-party statistics.","parent":"2142256","id":"2142272"}
{"by":"captainperl","time":"1546344607","timestamp":"2019-01-01 12:10:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being from the Detroit area, I find many of the comments here naive as one can\u0026#x27;t compare Detroit to an average urban city.\u003cp\u003eTo understand what Detroit is like, watch a film like \u0026quot;Escape from New York\u0026quot; or a WW2 bombing documentary.\u003cp\u003eThere are areas with no police or fire forces.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the soil around mfg. plants (and downwind) have metal contamination. The air quality used to be worse than anything in China today, with choking curtains of black and red soot and oxides which precipitated into the soil.\u003cp\u003eSo do your homework, get your firearm certifications and spend some time there before any relocation or investment.\u003cp\u003eIt is a great location if you want cheap industrial space or your own truck marshalling yard (true story) and you don\u0026#x27;t need city services like elementary schools. Check out \u0026quot;Detroit Steel\u0026quot; to see more:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.imdb.com\u0026#x2F;title\u0026#x2F;tt6403968\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.imdb.com\u0026#x2F;title\u0026#x2F;tt6403968\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18799139","id":"18799888"}
{"by":"comex","time":"1488828066","timestamp":"2017-03-06 19:21:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t have to swipe on the snake.  (I agree it\u0026#x27;s somewhat annoying to control, though.)","parent":"13805121","id":"13805246"}
{"by":"chromatic","time":"1406936961","timestamp":"2014-08-01 23:49:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethere\u0026#x27;s no horizon on which a complete implementation (or stable target for a spec\u0026#x2F;test suite, for that matter) is promising to arrive\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e the problem.\u003cp\u003eThe future of Perl is very, very difficult to predict. 14 years ago, the next major version was announced. It was explained and designed and promoted in public by gathering the community\u0026#x27;s list of 361 technical flaws.\u003cp\u003eP6 is now older than Perl was when P6 was announced and no one can tell when or if P6 will replace Perl. That includes developers as well as users and technical decision makers. If you start a new project in Perl today, how long will it be supported? Will you be able to hire or train enough developers? Will you be able to retain them? Will P6 ever replace Perl?\u003cp\u003ePython has its difficulties with the gradual adoption of Python 3, but at least there\u0026#x27;s a consistent and coherent story about community expectations. Perl doesn\u0026#x27;t have that, and that, to me, as a technical decision maker, is a huge risk.","parent":"8118413","id":"8123449"}
{"by":"higginsc","time":"1519772495","timestamp":"2018-02-27 23:01:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate the effort that went into making this, but I get really annoyed with analyses like this that show heatmaps comparing highly heterogeneous groups (in this case, states, income groups, age groups, and education groups) that use an absolute scale. Of course absolute migration looks extreme in NY and Texas compared to, say Missouri or Iowa. This would be a much more interesting story if they used a lift metric that controlled for state\u0026#x2F;group size and\u0026#x2F;or state\u0026#x2F;group migration volume.","parent":"16478617","id":"16478906"}
{"by":"ihaveahadron","time":"1483244872","timestamp":"2017-01-01 04:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems to me like the western scientists (I have no idea about the eastern scientists) royally fucked up and thought there was like some kind of emotional region that only exists for women,  when it turns out males , in reality,  have emotional regions too.  If this doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense,  guess what,  you don\u0026#x27;t make any sense either.","parent":"13294090","dead":true,"id":"13294698"}
{"by":"snadwich","time":"1506563079","timestamp":"2017-09-28 01:44:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so cool -- kinda like sendy but better!","parent":"15353766","id":"15353905"}
{"by":"tlarkworthy","time":"1369312978","timestamp":"2013-05-23 12:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Presumably Youtube asked the same question to Nintendo that Youtube did to Mojang, do you want to monetize your trademarks? Mojang declined earning off Minecraft's massive youtube impact[1], Nintendo wanted the cash.\u003cp\u003eAnd so we can clearly see Nintendo has lost its way and Minecraft is the the new Nintendo.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/notch/status/335045859156819969\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://twitter.com/notch/status/335045859156819969\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5756207","id":"5756479"}
{"by":"jlgreco","time":"1358302703","timestamp":"2013-01-16 02:18:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know if you can really blame congresspeople for being apathetic while Aaron was alive if even HN of all communities largely was as well.","parent":"5064539","id":"5064744"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1535174950","timestamp":"2018-08-25 05:29:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you find it compares to Spyder?","parent":"17839680","id":"17839692"}
{"by":"revmoo","time":"1509568437","timestamp":"2017-11-01 20:33:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fascinating concept of \u0026quot;solved\u0026quot; that you, and AT\u0026amp;T, appear to have.","parent":"15604666","dead":true,"id":"15605211"}
{"by":"mindfulhack","time":"1527127872","timestamp":"2018-05-24 02:11:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like a comment like this. It\u0026#x27;s free of fear, and knee-jerk response.\u003cp\u003eI actually see your point. Some people may feel a sense of peace by being tightly constricted by behavior that they\u0026#x27;re taught is OK to do, and what is not. In such a system, there\u0026#x27;s actually security in there. Some people love not having to decide how to live.\u003cp\u003eBut this is what trumps your thought: people in China wouldn\u0026#x27;t even be able to HAVE the conversation you and I are having right now (about this very meta topic, about how to organize ourselves) - and therein lies the problem.\u003cp\u003eWe objectively need certain individual civil freedoms, to even grow and develop as a society.\u003cp\u003eSo for humanity\u0026#x27;s future, China sucks. Its ideas are archaic, and its totalitarianism ISN\u0026#x27;T the way to go.","parent":"17137570","id":"17140462"}
{"by":"growupkids","time":"1382834502","timestamp":"2013-10-27 00:41:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Incidents.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad#Germany\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Chinese_intelligence_activity_a...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6620155","id":"6620165"}
{"by":"BMorearty","time":"1502037449","timestamp":"2017-08-06 16:37:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A whole apartment\u0026#x2F;house does have some amenities that aren\u0026#x27;t in a decent hotel, though. Like a kitchen. Or enough beds for a group of 5. I appreciate those when traveling on a budget and\u0026#x2F;or with my family. - Airbnb employee.","parent":"14941862","id":"14941980"}
{"by":"DerpDerpDerp","time":"1384202579","timestamp":"2013-11-11 20:42:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My understanding is that they don\u0026#x27;t \u0026#x2F;officially\u0026#x2F; apply them at such a micro level, but it requires an unusually persuasive manager for the \u0026quot;low ranks\u0026quot; not to be shared around evenly between the people having to rank their workers.","parent":"6713693","id":"6713878"}
{"by":"MarkMc","time":"1512171729","timestamp":"2017-12-01 23:42:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Springbok Solutions Ltd | C++ Developer | London, UK | Full-Time or Part-Time | REMOTE | £50-60K\u003cp\u003eI’m looking for a C++ developer with at least 3 years experience to help me port a large macOS Objective C++ application to Windows. You must be familiar with Windows system calls and the UI event loop, debugging with Visual Studio or gdb\u0026#x2F;lldb. Experience with Mac Objective C\u0026#x2F;C++, XCode, git and gradle is a bonus.\u003cp\u003eYou must be fluent in English, have fast internet connection, and be in a timezone that allows you to work at least 4 hours between 10am and 10pm Sydney time. Email CV to mark dot mclaren at solaraccounts.co.uk, and if possible include links to code you have written on GitHub or stack overflow.","parent":"15824597","id":"15828811"}
{"by":"lisper","time":"1434319410","timestamp":"2015-06-14 22:03:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A good litmus test for an article like this is whether it talks about the Bell inequalities.  If it doesn\u0026#x27;t (and this one doesn\u0026#x27;t) it\u0026#x27;s very likely bullshit.","parent":"9716115","id":"9716488"}
{"by":"LordKano","time":"1445451018","timestamp":"2015-10-21 18:10:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This happened near where I live.\nA gay couple did an adoption but now they\u0026#x27;re father and son so it\u0026#x27;s not legal for them to marry.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.post-gazette.com\u0026#x2F;local\u0026#x2F;north\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;Fox-Chapel-gay-couple-had-to-legalize-their-status-through-adoption-now-it-keeps-them-from-getting-married\u0026#x2F;stories\u0026#x2F;201510110112\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.post-gazette.com\u0026#x2F;local\u0026#x2F;north\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;Fox-Chape...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10425459","id":"10427297"}
{"by":"halayli","time":"1397582680","timestamp":"2014-04-15 17:24:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting to see how the term devops is stretched to mean anything you want. This term should die because it confuses many.","parent":"7592278","id":"7593054"}
{"by":"BCM43","time":"1362153544","timestamp":"2013-03-01 15:59:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the biggest problem is definitions. Keep in mind that copyright means very different things internationally. Let's compare the CC0 text to this one. Note that I'm not a lawyer, and this is mostly conjecture, but pulled from a reasonable amount of reading I've done on the subject.\u003cp\u003eSee: \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: This talks about what copyright means. Given there is no universal definition, this clarifies exactly what is being given away.\u003cp\u003ePart 2: This is worth quoting.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e. To the greatest extent permitted by, but not in contravention of, applicable law, Affirmer hereby overtly, fully, permanently, irrevocably and unconditionally waives, abandons, and surrenders all of Affirmer's Copyright and Related Rights and associated claims and causes of action, whether now known or unknown (including existing as well as future claims and causes of action), in the Work (i) in all territories worldwide, (ii) for the maximum duration provided by applicable law or treaty (including future time extensions), (iii) in any current or future medium and for any number of copies, and (iv) for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation commercial, advertising or promotional purposes (the \"Waiver\").\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotice how this is unambiguous, and takes into account many different cases. Compare that the the blog post:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is no need to email me for permission — use my content however you want! Email it, share it, reprint it with or without credit. Change it around, put in a bunch of swear words and attribute them to me. It’s OK.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst of all, what does use mean? Does that mean I can share it with others, and they have the same right to it? And is he allowed to take it back?\u003cp\u003eWhat happens if he decides he does not want to have people giving away his books anymore? He's not said that he can't change it in the future. CC0 explicitly says it last for as long as legally permissible.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, what about in countries like Germany, where you can't actually give up your copyright? CC0 has a fallback (part 3) that essentially says \"if I can't give up my rights to this, this is the license I am releasing it under\", then provides a license with no restrictions.\u003cp\u003eI've been packaging software for Debian recently, and dealing with copyright stuff. When you start distributing data internationally for a large organization, you really want to make sure all of your ducks are in a row.","parent":"5304803","id":"5304929"}
{"by":"QAPereo","time":"1510509889","timestamp":"2017-11-12 18:04:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If quantity were the thing, then Kim Jong Il was the greatest author of all time, assuming you discount forum posting, in which case probably some on David Icke\u0026#x27;s forums takes the prize.","parent":"15681776","id":"15681785"}
{"by":"SoMisanthrope","time":"1504038805","timestamp":"2017-08-29 20:33:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was the right decision, @alyson-cabral. The major market is linux-based, correct? There are better uses of company assets, than trying to chase the less-than-0.06% of holdouts that operate Solaris.\u003cp\u003eAs a person of science, I\u0026#x27;ve used both Sun Solaris and SGI Irix.... time to let go of that past and pivot to the future!","parent":"15127001","id":"15127388"}
{"by":"criloz2","time":"1514747095","timestamp":"2017-12-31 19:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"designing the next level serverless platform, and trying to prove at the same time that we live in a simulation. xd","parent":"16041245","id":"16042085"}
{"by":"WiseWeasel","time":"1328740077","timestamp":"2012-02-08 22:27:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With the noise it makes, I'd give this thing unattended about 5 minutes in the mountains of Afghanistan before it gets converted to scrap. Hell, it's such an ear-sore, I might be tempted if I found that thing unattended in the mountains of California...","parent":"3568431","id":"3568854"}
{"by":"toss1","time":"1538006170","timestamp":"2018-09-26 23:56:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then you are essentially demanding either that Google:\n1) actively support anti-democratic, anti-human rights activities to the extent that they\u0026#x27;re willing to pay, or\u003cp\u003e2) that the USGovt simply ban them from doing biz in those countries, or\u003cp\u003e3) that the USGovt ban doing biz of a certain type, with likely arguments around the edges of that type.\u003cp\u003e4) or something else that I\u0026#x27;m missing.\u003cp\u003eWhich are you proposing?","parent":"18079862","id":"18081247"}
{"by":"chanon","time":"1332436350","timestamp":"2012-03-22 17:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One thing would be to discuss, as a startup owner, how would one prevent this kind of thing happening in their startup. How to create a culture where women aren't treated like that so that highly talented women are more likely to join and stay. Or is this something that we shouldn't hope to achieve because nerds will always be like that?\u003cp\u003eJudging by other comments here (and recent sexism issues in tech), it seems like her treatment isn't an isolated case.","parent":"3740226","id":"3740776"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1233694125","timestamp":"2009-02-03 20:48:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; So they're saying you always have a phone with you?\u003cp\u003eIf my phone isn't in my hand, it's in my pants. If I'm not \u003ci\u003ewearing\u003c/i\u003e pants, it's on the end-table of my bed, where I assumably am as well. So yes.","parent":"464075","id":"464634"}
{"by":"krrrh","time":"1511634930","timestamp":"2017-11-25 18:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fastmail does the email migration in the cloud. It’s relatively quick and painless, and you can trial things for a period by setting up your gmail account as an alias (send from the fastmail web interface through gmail’s smtp servers etc) so you can always switch back if you don’t like it. When satisfied, set up an auto-responder and forwarding to let people know to stop emailing your @gmail account.\u003cp\u003eFastmail has a decent calendar, but you may prefer to use iCloud or something else for that. Calendar clients on desktops and phones tend to be pretty good at supporting multiple providers so that is a lot easier to migrate.","parent":"15777004","id":"15777165"}
{"by":"jnoller","time":"1322507101","timestamp":"2011-11-28 19:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an additional supplement - here's a pile of links I've collected that might apply: \u003ca href=\"http://jessenoller.com/good-to-great-python-reads/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://jessenoller.com/good-to-great-python-reads/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3286883","id":"3287122"}
{"by":"GarethX","time":"1464775471","timestamp":"2016-06-01 10:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s right remixing gives you your own copy of the project that you can then edit.","parent":"11812149","id":"11813253"}
{"by":"jaredsohn","time":"1359707814","timestamp":"2013-02-01 08:36:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can downvote with only 1030.  However, for this article, yours is the only comment that it will let me downvote.  Also, a good number of articles on the Ask HN page won't let me downvote although every article I have checked on the front page does; I suspect it may have to do with the age of the comments.","parent":"5148494","id":"5149845"}
{"by":"hellonewworld","time":"1509683685","timestamp":"2017-11-03 04:34:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool site.","parent":"15613844","id":"15616720"}
{"by":"benjoffe","time":"1284265724","timestamp":"2010-09-12 04:28:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi I'm the author of that page. I also recently put up similar decks for Omaha: \u003ca href=\"http://www.benjoffe.com/omaha\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.benjoffe.com/omaha\u003c/a\u003e Feel free to ask questions.","parent":"1682089","id":"1683033"}
{"by":"ig1","time":"1441371946","timestamp":"2015-09-04 13:05:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What missed here is that if you\u0026#x27;re operating in a market which you can build a billion dollar business, you can miss badly and still have a hugely successful company.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re operating in a market where your turnover is going to max out at a few million then you have a much smaller margin for error, you have to execute close to perfectly to win that market.\u003cp\u003eBuilding a large business doesn\u0026#x27;t have to involve raising huge amounts of money, taking undue risks, etc.","parent":"10169782","id":"10170111"}
{"by":"mistercow","time":"1350573252","timestamp":"2012-10-18 15:14:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a good question. I know that the Font Awesome project has better hinting for smaller sizes as a stated goal. Currently hinting does seem to improve their icons at 12pt but below that, it doesn't give much help.\u003cp\u003eSubpixel rendering is, of course, very helpful. It's really preposterous though that we have to resort to abusing fonts to get subpixel when implementing it for arbitrary vector rendering is so straightforward.\u003cp\u003eThe other big problem with using fonts for hinting support is that people have differing opinions on the value of hinting for fonts, but everyone would probably agree on the value of hinting for icons. If you disable hinting because it hurts your eyes (or because you use OS X and don't have a choice), then you're going to miss out on icon hinting as well.\u003cp\u003eSeems to me what we really need is a client side solution for rendering arbitrary SVG with either manual hinting or icon-optimized autohinting (which might be too general of a concept to be doable).","parent":"4663675","id":"4669138"}
{"by":"justasitsounds","time":"1499135153","timestamp":"2017-07-04 02:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"possibly could have been better phrased: I was trying to point out that a woman \u0026#x27;using her sexuality for personal gain\u0026#x27; only works if men treat her solely as a sexual object","parent":"14692877","id":"14693061"}
{"by":"nlh","time":"1351702510","timestamp":"2012-10-31 16:55:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really nice resource. I've been playing with CSS for years and still find myself scratching my head from time to time with some of the layout basics. Just went through the full tutorial and it's quick, lightweight, and covers exactly those issues that (I think) confuse a lot of folks.\u003cp\u003eWell done - and thank you!","parent":"4723645","id":"4723815"}
{"by":"eslaught","time":"1407301032","timestamp":"2014-08-06 04:57:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the 85 year old grandpa, absolutely. I have an uncle (around 85) who went through multiple computers (edit: all Windows), and kept getting virus and other malware; he kept falling for sites that would advertise to \u0026quot;clean\u0026quot; his computer, and it just kept getting worse and worse as a result. The instant he switched to a ChromeOS-device, that all went away, and my tech-support burden also went away instantly.\u003cp\u003eHis biggest issues with ChromeOS is printing (his printer of the time was not compatible with Google\u0026#x27;s cloud printing service), but after he bought a new printer that basically went away too.","parent":"8141065","id":"8141082"}
{"by":"avindroth","time":"1470850373","timestamp":"2016-08-10 17:32:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eJohn comes by and says, \u0026quot;Jack, you shouldn\u0026#x27;t play Overwatch. You are wasting your time and energy.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eJack responds, \u0026quot;I know, but just this one match.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"12263426","id":"12263438"}
{"by":"ryanmercer","time":"1544455903","timestamp":"2018-12-10 15:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;What makes prions so weird is that they are a protein that has been mismade (misfolded, generally).\u003cp\u003eAnd science doesn\u0026#x27;t know how they get misfolded in the first place then they basically go \u0026quot;hey other protein, \u003ci\u003eboop\u003c/i\u003e you\u0026#x27;re like me now, let\u0026#x27;s burn this mother to the ground\u0026quot; and then you get something similar to the \u0026#x27;corrupted blood incident\u0026#x27; \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Corrupted_Blood_incident\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Corrupted_Blood_incident\u003c/a\u003e except you lose your mind and die.\u003cp\u003eAs far as saying we know how proteins misfold, I\u0026#x27;m going purely by what I\u0026#x27;ve read both on and on wikipedia as I\u0026#x27;m not an expert in proteins and amino acids...\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;It is not known what causes the normal protein to misfold\u003cp\u003eSecond sentence of: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Prion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Prion\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18648533","id":"18648559"}
{"by":"MalcolmDiggs","time":"1441338263","timestamp":"2015-09-04 03:44:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e99% of the world population would love to have your knowledge, job and salary.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy thoughts exactly. OP, you\u0026#x27;re in an incredibly privileged position, and you\u0026#x27;re very successful by almost any modern standard. It seems like a little perspective is all that might be needed here. I mean, you\u0026#x27;re a young, single, able-bodied, high-earning, english-speaking, hetero male (from the sound of it) living in California. When it comes to having advantages in life, you\u0026#x27;ve pretty much won the lottery. Count your blessings.","parent":"10168622","id":"10168719"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1419679702","timestamp":"2014-12-27 11:28:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(As much as I hate to post twice on a thread, I\u0026#x27;ve had some thoughts that I haven\u0026#x27;t seen expressed yet.)\u003cp\u003eI think a lot of folks are missing some important perspective on the origin and rise of \u0026quot;agile\u0026quot; and the current state of process in the software industry. So let\u0026#x27;s take a quick trip back to the bad old days before agile to get a sense of what software development was often like back then.\u003cp\u003eFirst off, a lot of software was developed \u0026quot;out of house\u0026quot; so to speak, as works for hire by consultancy type companies. There would be extensive negotiations between the customer and representatives of the development company, the end goal of this process was typically a specification and a timetable that was then mutually agreed upon, through a legally binding contract, as to what would be built.\u003cp\u003eNext, the development company would take that specification and come up with a design that would be able to match the specs. Then that design would be sliced up and handed out to various teams and eventually down to individual devs. After the individual coding was done it\u0026#x27;d be integrated together and compiled into a working product. The product would then be passed off to QA to test in order to make sure it didn\u0026#x27;t have any bugs and that it matched the spec. After that the product would then be passed on to the customer to use.\u003cp\u003eAnd everyone lived happily ever after.\u003cp\u003eOf course, there are a few problematic aspects to this process. Namely: everything. Usually what would happen is that the spec and\u0026#x2F;or the design would be unrealistic or impossible to implement, and wouldn\u0026#x27;t be what the customer actually wanted regardless. Often this was handled by acrimonious bouts of negotiation, often involving lawyers. Meanwhile, attempting to build anything that worked at all using this sort of process was a nightmare. When the software was integrated only at the last minute there were always a million new problems discovered. With such \u0026quot;big-bang\u0026quot; integrations a lot of effort is spent spinning away just getting the software to build and work at all. Meanwhile, when QA is the last step before handing the product off to the customer that means that defects, especially design defects, have had the greatest amount of opportunity to fester and take the most effort to remove. And, of course, the chance that the project would chew up many staff-years of effort without actually producing anything of use whatsoever was quite high with this model, since actually building software was a fairly late step.\u003cp\u003eIn the face of all these very fundamental problems with the venerable \u0026quot;waterfall\u0026quot; process model a lot of new process ideas started to gain traction, more or less culminating in the \u0026quot;agile manifesto\u0026quot;. The core idea of agility is to use iterative development, continuous integration, and open lines of communication to keep on track. The \u0026quot;customer\u0026quot; (or \u0026quot;stake holders\u0026quot;) can see the direction of the product mid-stream and have many chances to correct communication errors or even errors in their original conception of what they wanted. The software is always being built and always being tested so integration overhead costs are much less severe and defects are spotted much closer to where they are introduced, making them easier to fix. The software is routinely in a \u0026quot;shipable\u0026quot; state with a continually evolving subset of the \u0026quot;final\u0026quot; featureset, this lets the customer see how close the developers are to the schedule and also dramatically reduces the risk of not shipping anything at all. The developers can always time box the release and ship \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c/i\u003e of value, even if it wasn\u0026#x27;t what was originally intended.\u003cp\u003eAnd so on.\u003cp\u003eThe thing is, today we live in a fundamentally agile world of development. Waterfall is so far from the norm it\u0026#x27;s essentially extinct. The very idea of futzing around with nothing but requirements and specs for months or \u003ci\u003eyears\u003c/i\u003e before bothering to write a line of code is so anathema to the current standards of software development it seems ridiculous. Everyone knows you start with a skeleton and you flesh it out iteratively. The idea that you\u0026#x27;d have your code base in an unbuildable state, let alone an unusable product state, for more than a few hours or days at most is similarly seemingly preposterous.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that the basic principles of agility are now so ubiquitous that they are like a mold infecting every nook and cranny of the software industry is still unsatisfactory for a lot of folks. Management wants a process they can sink their teeth into. They want something that requires no effort on their part but seems like a silver bullet that can solve any problem. They want gadgets and tools. They want a process that they can leverage to justify all of their bad behaviors while removing accountability from themselves. And that\u0026#x27;s what agile-the-noun has become. Not agility, but rather an excuse for micro-management. A way to plan without planning. A justification for short-sightedness and disengagement. A convenient rolodex of excuses for why everyone but management is at fault for being late or building something bad or broken or that no one wants.\u003cp\u003eYou either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.","parent":"8798651","id":"8802312"}
{"by":"GFischer","time":"1363791271","timestamp":"2013-03-20 14:54:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funnily, the post inmediately above you (posted a bit later) mentions:\u003cp\u003e\"I had to spend USD15 to run 8 medium EC2 instances for 16 hours to only find 200++ million hosts\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406233\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406233\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eand another study was done using EC2 instances:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405483\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405483\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5405940","id":"5407610"}
{"by":"lucasjung","time":"1322480347","timestamp":"2011-11-28 11:39:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would hesitate to use the term \"dangerous failure modes.\"  The danger generally stems from interference with key avionics during critical phases of flight.  For example, if your ILS starts acting wacky right in the middle of an approach in actual IMC, you've got a problem.  Likewise, if your radios become unusable due to noise anywhere in the terminal area, you've got a problem.  Generally, this sort of thing is caught during the EMC SOFT, which is conducted on deck so that there is no immediate danger.  Once the interference has been discovered it's basically a debugging process to figure out what the hell is going in (where is the interference originating, and how is it causing the observed effect).  The plane doesn't fly again until it can pass an EMC SOFT.\u003cp\u003eUsually dangerous interference comes through hard-wired connections: a device that feeds back frequencies into the power system, which then disrupts other devices; or a device that puts noise on an avionics bus, disrupting communications on that bus.\u003cp\u003eHowever, sometimes a device, even a device not designed to transmit, can create significant RF interference.  For example, a device that has an internal power supply or transformer of some sort.  If that power supply is not working right, it might generate an oscillating signal.  Maybe even the device itself is tolerant of a certain amount of oscillation in its power and so is not affected by this.  Then, there just happens to be a wire inside the device, connected to the power supply that's just the right length to act as an antenna at that frequency, and now you've got an RF transmitter on your aircraft that you didn't expect or want.  There are bazzillions of wires in most medium-to-large modern aircraft, and some of them are bound to be the right length to act as an antenna and receive that signal, passing interference into who-knows-what.\u003cp\u003eThat example may sound highly unlikely, but it does happen.","parent":"3284063","id":"3285481"}
{"by":"mullingitover","time":"1374281760","timestamp":"2013-07-20 00:56:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m holding out for the tumblr userbase to protest by marking all their blogs as nsfw, and watching tumblr completely disappear from web searches.","parent":"6073519","id":"6073863"}
{"by":"bufferoverflow","time":"1513070939","timestamp":"2017-12-12 09:28:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since the number of categories is limited, even if large, there will always be weird videos that don\u0026#x27;t strictly fit into any category. It\u0026#x27;s a slippery slope argument, it doesn\u0026#x27;t mean we shouldn\u0026#x27;t organize information better.\u003cp\u003eThis particular video can be under\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt \u0026gt; Drawing \u0026gt; Coloring\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t see anything damaging about it. Yes, it\u0026#x27;s weird, but so what?","parent":"15904078","id":"15904156"}
{"by":"GFischer","time":"1478202396","timestamp":"2016-11-03 19:46:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, isn\u0026#x27;t what you\u0026#x27;re describing the Teams software that prompted Slack\u0026#x27;s letter?\u003cp\u003eOnly tied to Office365, not Azure and LinkedIn.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;products.office.com\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;microsoft-teams\u0026#x2F;group-chat-software\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;products.office.com\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;microsoft-teams\u0026#x2F;group-chat...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12865788","id":"12867307"}
{"by":"ultramancool","time":"1438700883","timestamp":"2015-08-04 15:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, it does say they \u0026quot;won\u0026#x27;t act on reverse-racism or reverse-sexism\u0026quot;, so, depending on how you interpret that I can see what he\u0026#x27;s trying to say at least. \u0026quot;Endorses\u0026quot; is strong, but \u0026quot;ignores\u0026quot; would be correct. And one could imply something about the authors of this CoC from that.","parent":"10003833","id":"10003855"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1518011995","timestamp":"2018-02-07 13:59:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All blue jeans for instance are made in the same factory in Korea. All of them.","parent":"16324346","id":"16324399"}
{"by":"pmelendez","time":"1444152863","timestamp":"2015-10-06 17:34:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really, just the processor was the same, but it was the best they could do in a short time.","parent":"10340606","id":"10340697"}
{"by":"beeboop","time":"1459637288","timestamp":"2016-04-02 22:48:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m surprised you kept \u0026quot;engineers\u0026quot; as part of the title. Is a guy writing only CSS an engineer?","parent":"11413854","id":"11413926"}
{"by":"curun1r","time":"1534463701","timestamp":"2018-08-16 23:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t forget the gymnasiums, stadiums, aquatic centers and all the other high-priced facilities that schools have constructed to compete for those easy-to-get student dollars. Because who can learn in an environment without swimming pools?","parent":"17777841","id":"17779375"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1493673249","timestamp":"2017-05-01 21:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple didn\u0026#x27;t buy a headphone maker for expertise at making headphones that sound good. Apple Stores \u003ci\u003esell\u003c/i\u003e headphones from any number of brands—including B\u0026amp;O—so there\u0026#x27;s nothing to gain by making their \u003ci\u003eown\u003c/i\u003e headphones more audiophile-friendly. They still make money off of other companies\u0026#x27; audiophile-targeted headphones, without having to actually design and produce any.\u003cp\u003eInstead, Apple bought the headphone maker whose products make money through a combination of visually-distinct brand-recognition and a high level of \u0026quot;fit and finish\u0026quot;—the same way their own hardware does. Beats slots into Apple\u0026#x27;s product-design paradigm as naturally as if they had created the brand themselves.","parent":"14241637","id":"14241681"}
{"by":"mehrdada","time":"1506131254","timestamp":"2017-09-23 01:47:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is much more abstract. The point is it’s not an obviously non-controversial point of view that being 12 magically solves, as the post pertains it to be.\u003cp\u003eWhile we are at it, yes, disenfranchisement of young voters who are mostly single definitely makes tax dollars more favorable to married folks and people with children. It’s not like most societies need to subsidize overpopulation, yet they do. Some food for thought.","parent":"15317168","id":"15317554"}
{"by":"pielud","time":"1293904283","timestamp":"2011-01-01 17:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oops. Somehow missed that link at the bottom.","parent":"2057840","id":"2057941"}
{"by":"papersmith","time":"1176151095","timestamp":"2007-04-09 20:38:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm fairly new to Lisp, this is encouraging to hear! :)  Just a few technical questions:\u003cp\u003eIs there any specific reason to use Lispworks as oppose to a free implementation (say SBCL)?  \u003cp\u003eI remember the author of portable allegroserve mentioned that he wrote it mostly for demonstration purposes, and might not perform well.  Are you guys finding this to be an issue at this stage?\u003cp\u003eAs for session, would it be possible to store session objects in AllegroCache, which comes with the paid version of AllegroCL? (I'm just a newbie speculating :) )","parent":"10953","id":"10971"}
{"by":"lvh","time":"1541203775","timestamp":"2018-11-03 00:09:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can’t speak for GP, but Nelson invented hypermedia\u0026#x2F;hyperlinks and had a vision for the future that included documents including other documents. All of that seems pretty compatible.","parent":"18367612","id":"18367775"}
{"by":"snuxoll","time":"1540913962","timestamp":"2018-10-30 15:39:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Certain categories of items are ripe with them, fake Sandisk SD cards have been a problem for years, for example.","parent":"18336903","id":"18337672"}
{"by":"SchizoDuckie","time":"1334652342","timestamp":"2012-04-17 08:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've just migrated to SlimFramework for one of our biggest projects. It is all I could want in a framework: it provides routes, basic structuring, middle ware, views, and leaves the rest up to you. This made it super easy to switch, as I can use my own ORM and was able leave most of the structural logic intact.\u003cp\u003eThe slim framework docs are perfect, the code is clear and the forums are great. I especially like that it doesn't force you to do everything in one predefined way, making the learning curve nice and low","parent":"3851697","id":"3851766"}
{"by":"yarone","time":"1316749865","timestamp":"2011-09-23 03:51:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sasha baron Cohen pitched his ice cream glove to a bunch of vc's...\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(not \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e what you had in mind...)","parent":"3028212","id":"3028759"}
{"by":"mtberatwork","time":"1531847269","timestamp":"2018-07-17 17:07:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; meaning your company is taking on all the risk\u003cp\u003eWhile I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say there aren\u0026#x27;t any companies out there that are absorbing the entire cost of insurance premiums, most are splitting this in some proportion with the employee.","parent":"17551065","id":"17551257"}
{"by":"woodrowbarlow","time":"1510345426","timestamp":"2017-11-10 20:23:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"presumably the process for recording a new sample involves verifying your identity (e.g. going in person and providing a government id with photograph).","parent":"15672427","id":"15672657"}
{"by":"Aga","time":"1323655029","timestamp":"2011-12-12 01:57:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess all of those actual vim users had a reason to encourage you to take the \"extreme route\" instead of the incremental one. Maybe they have never seen anyone actually succeed in getting fluent in vim by incremental learning?\nI know I have yet to witness such.\u003cp\u003eBut I'm glad to learn from your link that it's possible. I'll show it to aspiring vim users as an alternative take to learning vim.","parent":"3341633","id":"3341886"}
{"by":"theandrewbailey","time":"1542725201","timestamp":"2018-11-20 14:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nvidia stocks are dropping like a rock, too: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?hl=en\u0026amp;q=nvda\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?hl=en\u0026amp;q=nvda\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18493519","id":"18494111"}
{"by":"rhaps0dy","time":"1483989876","timestamp":"2017-01-09 19:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; is like \u0026quot;affirmative action\u0026quot; version of pressure on a private entity, isn\u0026#x27;t it?\u003cp\u003eYes it is.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Why Diversity should ever be a goal?\u003cp\u003eDiversity of expertise makes for better decisions, but that\u0026#x27;s not what\u0026#x27;s happening here.\u003cp\u003ePutting priority on ethnic, cultural, diversity would make sense if these marked collectives have worse interview performance for the same work performance. I don\u0026#x27;t know if this is true and I don\u0026#x27;t want to discuss whether it is.","parent":"13358942","id":"13358986"}
{"by":"javajosh","time":"1440463364","timestamp":"2015-08-25 00:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My father was dying and I\u0026#x27;d moved home to help him out in his last days. He\u0026#x27;d lasted longer than we thought, and so I was very low on money. But he wanted something from the store, and it was cheap, and I went to get it. It went through, but I got a $35 overdraft fee for something like $0.50 over. I was angry, and the woman at Wells Fargo chastised me for not checking my balance by phone before charging anything. Mind you, this was \u003ci\u003eafter\u003c/i\u003e I told my bank to just decline any charges that would put me over.\u003cp\u003eI left Wells Fargo that day and have never been back to them or any other big national bank.","parent":"10113639","id":"10113738"}
{"by":"michaelmrose","time":"1474475568","timestamp":"2016-09-21 16:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Presumption of innocence implies that the default attitude towards accusers is healthy skepticism plus a willingness to listen. This is necessary because if we are not skeptical nearly anyone can successfully attack anyone else with impunity and destroy their reputation and if we aren\u0026#x27;t willing to listen we risk ignoring victimization.\u003cp\u003eIn this case the proposed victim is silent on the matter and there is not only no proof there aren\u0026#x27;t even any details.  My default assumption of skepticism leads me to conclude in the total absence of any other information that the individual was fired for some other reason and the accusations of bias was erroneous.","parent":"12528641","id":"12549746"}
{"by":"funkdobiest","time":"1287754441","timestamp":"2010-10-22 13:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he is saying that Oracle caused a lot of headaches for Apple in the past so Apple is returning the favor by trying to force them to support Java on their platform.Who knows how this will play out, but it will be interesting since many Java developers use Macs.","parent":"1819328","id":"1819608"}
{"by":"edanm","time":"1275162779","timestamp":"2010-05-29 19:52:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's actually a feature I wish existed in e.g. StackOverflow. They actually \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e know which language code is written in, so they should include a comment before the copied code which links to the question.\u003cp\u003eI do this myself with any snippets I copy from sites, since I always find myself going back to the site at least once.","parent":"1387230","id":"1389181"}
{"by":"estomagordo","time":"1454919482","timestamp":"2016-02-08 08:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So in essence, \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t criticize anyone ever\u0026quot;?","parent":"11056864","id":"11056933"}
{"by":"mzw_mzw","time":"1477590633","timestamp":"2016-10-27 17:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think you can just gaze at a dam from the visitors\u0026#x27; center and accurately deduce how much renewable energy is being produced by hydroelectric power across one of the largest countries in the world. Why, even buying a souvenir T-shirt in the gift shop might not be enough to gain that information.","parent":"12804114","id":"12807425"}
{"by":"noetic_techy","time":"1526490513","timestamp":"2018-05-16 17:08:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RMS = Richard Stallman?","parent":"17083434","id":"17084158"}
{"by":"ippisl","time":"1335696829","timestamp":"2012-04-29 10:53:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about simulation ? wouldn't some kind of precise simulation of this idea would decrease risk, improve the design and be much cheaper to make than a first prototype ?\u003cp\u003eAnd then it would be much easier to get investment ?","parent":"3905300","id":"3905677"}
{"by":"dfkf","time":"1384089759","timestamp":"2013-11-10 13:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There must some sort of legal procedure for things like these... You can\u0026#x27;t just snap your fingers and change your sex or you name and demand from everyone else to accept it right away. Why not also change titles? From now on, call me Padishah Emperor, please.","parent":"6706128","id":"6706333"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1378795633","timestamp":"2013-09-10 06:47:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like a great way to get shot in the head.\u003cp\u003eDoes anyone have reliable stats for the number of people illegally held in handcuffs?\u003cp\u003eOr what the best course of action is?  I suspect (in the UK) you should stay calm, and polite, and cooperative up to a point, and say nothing without a lawyer, and then sort it out afterwards (and collect some money for wrongful arrest.)","parent":"6358479","id":"6358554"}
{"by":"chwolfe","time":"1259182800","timestamp":"2009-11-25 21:00:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"View Cookies Tab","parent":"961725","id":"961803"}
{"by":"Revisor","time":"1277373584","timestamp":"2010-06-24 09:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't find this submission HN worthy.","parent":"1456161","id":"1457716"}
{"by":"kqueue","time":"1271607475","timestamp":"2010-04-18 16:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author had to pick on Apple..","parent":"1274959","id":"1275017"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1520057016","timestamp":"2018-03-03 06:03:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aren\u0026#x27;t computer skills a prerequisite for office work everywhere now? So maybe that familiarity with computer UI will help students later.","parent":"16508127","id":"16508160"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1388888647","timestamp":"2014-01-05 02:24:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;ve always considered it bad to use the RH provided python for development.\u003cp\u003eMay I ask why?\u003cp\u003eI see why maybe using your own compiled 2.7 or 3 might be nice, I don\u0026#x27;t, I just use the one that comes in with CentOS\u0026#x2F;RHEL 6.\u003cp\u003e* It get regular security updates from upstream\u003cp\u003e* Easy to install, it is part of existing package dependency chain (as opposed to say doing make ; make install from source)\u003cp\u003e* It comes with a default repo\u003cp\u003e* Most Python packages today are compatible with 2.6","parent":"7013712","id":"7014175"}
{"by":"sriku","time":"1444398552","timestamp":"2015-10-09 13:49:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aren\u0026#x27;t GPUs a good enough example of hardware that can be programmed to do things way faster than what is possible with CPUs of the same era?\u003cp\u003eAlso what about FPGAs? If compiling a specific program down to an FPGA is possible, what kinds of optimizations can we bring in? (I am indeed waving my hands here, but we already have had genetic-proframming optimized FPGAs for over 15 years in research.)","parent":"10358153","id":"10359967"}
{"by":"A-K","time":"1316115461","timestamp":"2011-09-15 19:37:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder the same thing.","parent":"3001609","id":"3001794"}
{"by":"icegreentea","time":"1291242370","timestamp":"2010-12-01 22:26:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More specifically, this is a test heavily based on facts. Nothing wrong with that. Knowing and retaining facts is important to life. Even if you have Google.\u003cp\u003eBut the relevance of facts is based on context, and will change through time. Many of the facts tested for just aren't relevant in today's life. It's likely several of these weren't even relevant back in 1895 and were just added because 'they were always asked' or something.","parent":"1959808","id":"1959978"}
{"by":"drzaiusapelord","time":"1475767252","timestamp":"2016-10-06 15:20:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, the Church\u0026#x27;s influence in what we would call science back then was incredibly powerful. I think its unrealistic to see 17th century science as this secular institution like we have today. Of course the \u0026#x27;scientists\u0026#x27; of the age followed a church friendly narrative. It was in their interests to do so. I think we will never really understand the chill on speech and research the Church had during the medieval and later periods. I would say its significant considering that the ancient Greeks (Aristarchus of Samos) were able to figure out the heliocentric model, arguably because they didn\u0026#x27;t have a large Christian Church structure working against them.\u003cp\u003eI find that modern revisionism to make religion seem less villainous is fairly common nowadays. I don\u0026#x27;t know where this is coming from or why its on social media so frequently, but its concerning. I think splitting hairs to make the Church look good is a questionable narrative and a form of feel good politics for certain religious people and certain types of habitual contrarians the internet is so fond of. I imagine we\u0026#x27;re witnessesing a pendulum shift towards more religiosity considering how the west has swung the other way for so long.\u003cp\u003eRegardless, its still wrong and the hundreds years of fighting to secularize science and to progress past religiously acceptable models wasn\u0026#x27;t done because Locher was a bad guy, but because the Pope and and the religious establishment was, regardless of the individual merits of the many monks and priests, who ultimately had to tow the party line regardless of their own findings, mathematical skills, or opinions. Blasphemy was certainly a serious charge back then. The wonderful thing about secular science is that there\u0026#x27;s no serious punishment for being wrong or going against the grain, flawed as it may be. The worst you can expect is being punched by Buzz Aldrin and even then you really have to earn that.","parent":"12652660","id":"12653214"}
{"by":"jon-wood","time":"1525725406","timestamp":"2018-05-07 20:36:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This weekend I spent 1.5 hours on recreational coding - at the moment I’m working through NAND to Tetris. The rest of the weekend was spent with my family, watching TV, or reading.\u003cp\u003eI also do a 3 hour each way commute into the office once or twice a week which I’ll often spend on side projects.","parent":"17015048","id":"17016282"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1454341478","timestamp":"2016-02-01 15:44:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As did Phoenix: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_the_IBM_PC_BIOS\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11012286","id":"11012359"}
{"by":"roywiggins","time":"1540949747","timestamp":"2018-10-31 01:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; “My immediate thought was that the MRI must have emitted some sort of EMP, in which case we could be in a lot of trouble.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI... don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s a thing that MRI machines can do. They\u0026#x27;re even shielded!","parent":"18340693","id":"18342705"}
{"by":"SlySherZ","time":"1485117571","timestamp":"2017-01-22 20:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note: I didn\u0026#x27;t watch the video yet and my opinion might change by then.\u003cp\u003eC teaches you something very useful, which is how the computer works under the hood. Most things you do in C loosely match to what the computer does, and learning C helps you understanding the computer.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not saying that it\u0026#x27;s a good language to start with, but it\u0026#x27;s okay. Unlike C++.\u003cp\u003eIMO, C++ is the worst possible language to start with. The reason for this is that C++ tries to support everything, often using handy but cryptic syntax. C++ doesn\u0026#x27;t guide you to program one way or another, it simply adapts to every possible way to solve the problem. This might be good on the hands of someone that already knows how to solve the problem, but it\u0026#x27;s completly overwhelming for a begginer. It feels like you\u0026#x27;re taking the wrong turn at every step.\u003cp\u003eA much better alternative would be JavaScript. Yes, it does have flaws, but it\u0026#x27;s much simpler and has personality.","parent":"13456974","id":"13457302"}
{"by":"deckiedan","time":"1502276125","timestamp":"2017-08-09 10:55:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Writing the react-bindings took me an hour,...\u003cp\u003eDo you mean generic \u0026#x27;use react in kotlin\u0026#x27; bindings?  If so, have you published them or would you consider doing so?","parent":"14966858","id":"14967343"}
{"by":"thristian","time":"1507545010","timestamp":"2017-10-09 10:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nix[1] says hi.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nixos.org\u0026#x2F;nix\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nixos.org\u0026#x2F;nix\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15431218","id":"15432702"}
{"by":"toomanybeersies","time":"1523864112","timestamp":"2018-04-16 07:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my research on the subject, ketamine bladder only happens if to chronic, long term users using several grams a week.\u003cp\u003eMost of the studies of using ketamine to treat depression are using under 1 gram per month.\u003cp\u003eInfrequent use of ketamine (less than once a week, less than 1 g), whether medical or recreational has no negative side effects.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also unknown whether it\u0026#x27;s actually caused by ketamine, or by whatever is being used to cut street ket.","parent":"16847089","id":"16847286"}
{"by":"cr0sh","time":"1503008738","timestamp":"2017-08-17 22:25:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AI Expert - interesting. I recall purchasing a few issues. But that\u0026#x27;s about it.\u003cp\u003eOne magazine I wish I could find a complete collection of (PDF or paper, I don\u0026#x27;t care) is Robotics Age. About the only thing I have found on it is a book that was published (picked up a copy of that), but nothing else as far as the magazine is concerned.\u003cp\u003eIt was kinda the Byte magazine for robotics of the 1980s era. So you had a mashup of articles for both industrial and research robotics, as well as articles and such for hobbyist robotics. It\u0026#x27;s a shame that it seems to have disappeared.","parent":"15037906","id":"15041637"}
{"by":"piva00","time":"1534873855","timestamp":"2018-08-21 17:50:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, we are all adults, this kind of non-answer-marketing-speak: \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;ve made this change to make sure we can improve the Docker for Mac and Windows experience for users moving forward\u0026quot; is dishonest. I, as an adult, would definitely call someone who gives me this sideway kind of answer a jerk.","parent":"17810719","id":"17812001"}
{"by":"Viper007Bond","time":"1471632472","timestamp":"2016-08-19 18:47:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wasn\u0026#x27;t commenting whether it\u0026#x27;s right or wrong to be spending that much, merely that if one is going to do a comparison, it should not be misleading.","parent":"12322370","id":"12322457"}
{"by":"archeopterix","time":"1465690634","timestamp":"2016-06-12 00:17:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Meta-reply:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  (Edited. I fucking hate autocorrect sometimes.)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWhy do people compulsively inform the internet that they edited their posts after the fact. No one cares. Everyone here can see the edit link.\u003cp\u003eSo I quoted the parent, so what?\u003cp\u003eIf you edited your post, after a reply, each have the opportunity to either further edit, or even delete irrelevant posts. Deleting your post and re-posting can quickly disconnect your comment from bogus replies that jumped the gun, and landed in between the first post and the edit.\u003cp\u003eWe all can see how long the post has been sitting, and if it\u0026#x27;s only been there a matter of minutes, an edit would not be surprising.\u003cp\u003eDo people feel guilty and dishonest about making edits to their posts? Why?","parent":"11885412","dead":true,"id":"11886042"}
{"by":"dpweb","time":"1437136528","timestamp":"2015-07-17 12:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting the Greece and 2008 global crises are usually brought up, but important to note that with capitalism comes a need for responsibility - especially regarding debt, and those failures were a result of irresponsiblity on the part of the governments and actors involved - not a defect of the capitalist system itself.  In both cases, taking on massive debt and quite simply, living beyond one\u0026#x27;s or a state\u0026#x27;s means.","parent":"9902062","id":"9902389"}
{"by":"panarky","time":"1499695372","timestamp":"2017-07-10 14:02:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Markets for widgets generally work pretty well. The consumer pays the distributor and the distributor pays the producer. When consumer preferences change, the supply chain produces more or less widgets with higher or lower quality.\u003cp\u003eBut markets for information are leaky. Consumers can get information without paying the distributor. Many consumers can\u0026#x27;t tell the difference between high-quality information and information that\u0026#x27;s deceptive or manipulative. Most consumers aren\u0026#x27;t willing to pay for high-quality information.\u003cp\u003eSo markets for information don\u0026#x27;t work as well as markets for widgets. Producers don\u0026#x27;t get paid, the supply of quality information is diminished, and we are all poorer as a result.\u003cp\u003eNow the producers want to form a cartel to negotiate with distributors as a bloc. But this only increases the cost of content to the distributor.\u003cp\u003eA cartel doesn\u0026#x27;t fix the root cause. Consumers still don\u0026#x27;t want to pay. Increasing the cost without changing consumers\u0026#x27; willingness to pay will only make a bad situation even worse.\u003cp\u003eAt a higher cost, even less high-quality information will be demanded, so even less will be produced. Producers will shrink further into irrelevance, low-quality information will dominate, and we\u0026#x27;ll all be even poorer.\u003cp\u003eWhen consumers aren\u0026#x27;t willing to pay, markets don\u0026#x27;t work well.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s unlikely consumers will suddenly become willing to pay for information they can get for free, so feeds will fill up with even more low-quality, deceptive and manipulative information.\u003cp\u003eMaybe markets just aren\u0026#x27;t the right mechanism. Since the public needs high-quality information now more than ever, maybe we need to examine non-market methods to produce it.","parent":"14733235","id":"14735972"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1274121662","timestamp":"2010-05-17 18:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know this is glib but; it's more \"raw\" :)\u003cp\u003eBut that's a personal preference. Git is just as good a choice.","parent":"1354796","id":"1355135"}
{"by":"DavidAdams","time":"1347815030","timestamp":"2012-09-16 17:03:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll chime in here to say that indeed we don't treat our brightest minds quite well. For one, by trying to let no child be left behind, and raise average test scores, our schools are spending most of their time trying to raise the bottom half to the standard. Kids who can easily pass the tests are left to languish. And I mean this literally. My son has been relegated to the corner of the classroom to spend hours poking around in the meager classroom library while the teacher worked intensively with the laggards.  Programs for \"gifted\" kids are unpopular with parents because they seem \"elitist\" so schools have to go to crazy lengths to obfuscate them and make them as low-profile as possible. You're unlikely to even hear the term \"gifted\" in a school nowadays. They have to use euphemisms like Early Learning Program.  Even in high schools where it finally becomes politically workable to sort the smarter kids into AP classes, the \"best\" schools use those classes and the bright students as a factory farm of AP credits earned, which raise the rankings of their school system, and make it easier to justify continued budget increases. So rather than encouraging critical thinking, writing, and creativity, they're teaching to the test.\u003cp\u003eI actually agree with many of the facts that the article lays out. I actually don't think that there's much point in getting heartburn about the US's standing in the ratings, because a lot of the ratings are probably useless or easily-gamed metrics. And it's critically important for US interests that we make it easy for the world's best and brightest to continue to immigrate. The big problem with the article is that, as other readers point out, it's a self-defeating argument. The reason that our poor education outcomes don't matter is that we import the top performers from other countries?  Well, it's a good thing that we import the top performers (in a selfish way of seeing things). But that's beside the point.\u003cp\u003eI think that one of the factors contributing to our education challenges is that we have a large and diverse population, but we also have naive notions of what equality means, and we too often think that correlation equals causation. Going to college correlates with success later in life.  That's because smarter, harder-working kids tend to go to college. It does not mean that sending dumb lazy kids to college you'll make them successful. If you send dumb kids to college, you end up with dumb kids with no college degree and $40,000 in student loan debt the incurred before they dropped out. I'm using the term \"dumb\" to make a point, but the truth is that there's nothing wrong with not being cut out for the academic life. In fact, if you are prepared in childhood to be determined, hard-working, and creative, you can become a very successful person without having ever been an academic type. I spent three years doing carpentry, and I got to know a lot of tradespeople who did important things, enjoyed their work, and lived comfortable middle class lives, and sent their kids to college. But we're allergic to the idea that people are cut out for different kinds of life purpose because some people are more academically oriented than others.","parent":"4529406","id":"4529575"}
{"by":"MBCook","time":"1460321413","timestamp":"2016-04-10 20:50:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are reports that it can handle water MUCH better than that. Showers, swimming, etc.\u003cp\u003eBut Apple doesn\u0026#x27;t promise it and it would void your warranty. It\u0026#x27;s a question of if you\u0026#x27;re willing to risk $400+ on people\u0026#x27;s anecdotes or not.","parent":"11467937","id":"11468114"}
{"by":"michaelwww","time":"1370910227","timestamp":"2013-06-11 00:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"About as much chance as Facebook replacing MySpace","parent":"5858637","id":"5858654"}
{"by":"justsaysmthng","time":"1457606422","timestamp":"2016-03-10 10:40:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why am I feeling a bit scared of all this  ?","parent":"11258215","id":"11258377"}
{"by":"iuguy","time":"1268835584","timestamp":"2010-03-17 14:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We used a non-ideal domain name for about 3 years before buying our domain from a domain squatter. It cost us 3 times what it would've cost if we'd have bought it up front, but the money was needed for other things earlier on.\u003cp\u003eOur domain cost about US$1000 in the end, versus $370 if we'd have bought it at the start.","parent":"1198541","id":"1198586"}
{"by":"VinzO","time":"1245756380","timestamp":"2009-06-23 11:26:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have had troubles for years to get up in the morning. Here are some tips I use fix it. It has help me a bit to get up earlier.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   - Reduce Caffein intake. the half life of caffein is 6h on average... \n\n   - Reduce sugar intake.\n\n   - Try to go to bed at a regular time.\n\n   - Eat more fruits and vegetables.\n\n   - No coffee or tea in the afternoon.\n\n   - try to respect sleep cycles.\n\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHere are two links that give interesting informations about sleep :\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm\n\n   www.sleepwarrior.com\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"669606","id":"670137"}
{"by":"janisozaur","time":"1507880738","timestamp":"2017-10-13 07:45:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have added poor man\u0026#x27;s scaling in \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;2280\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;2280\u003c/a\u003e you can also look into the investigation lead in \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;2328\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;OpenRCT2\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;2328\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15463770","id":"15463867"}
{"by":"jauer","time":"1430777902","timestamp":"2015-05-04 22:18:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That already happens to some degree, but the point of aggregation is from local police to county sheriff and is primarily driven by economic concerns.\u003cp\u003eIn my area towns with less than 10k residents have been outsourcing policing to the county sheriff instead of continuing to staff their 1-2 officer police departments.","parent":"9489578","id":"9489608"}
{"by":"thebillkidy","time":"1491488091","timestamp":"2017-04-06 14:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is limited to two entities yes. My experience also leans more towards a RDBMS","parent":"14050630","id":"14050654"}
{"by":"rapind","time":"1363291758","timestamp":"2013-03-14 20:09:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a non-lisper reading over some of those examples I definitely prefer his \"Sweet-expression\". Seems much more approachable.\u003cp\u003eOnce I make a serious foray into Lispland maybe that'll change...","parent":"5376901","id":"5377383"}
{"by":"simonrobic","time":"1524488364","timestamp":"2018-04-23 12:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for your feedback!\u003cp\u003eYes, we definitely have to improve the homepage, but we wanted to launch quickly to see if people were interested by the idea.\u003cp\u003eThanks again!","parent":"16902094","id":"16902983"}
{"by":"zerr","time":"1472016786","timestamp":"2016-08-24 05:33:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. I thought those corporate gigs are onsite only. But I guess in web dev you have more options. I\u0026#x27;m particularly interested in C++ jobs.","parent":"12347267","id":"12349890"}
{"by":"digitalmarks","time":"1350773285","timestamp":"2012-10-20 22:48:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://statmilk.com/NCAAF/MatchUp/107/674/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://statmilk.com/NCAAF/MatchUp/107/674/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4678220","id":"4678399"}
{"by":"jachee","time":"1495178384","timestamp":"2017-05-19 07:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of all the colors to follow \u0026quot;Homestar\u0026quot; I didn\u0026#x27;t expect Brown.","parent":"14373382","id":"14373574"}
{"by":"justatdotin","time":"1315632949","timestamp":"2011-09-10 05:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"oh, it's 10/9/11 here ...","parent":"2980898","id":"2980922"}
{"by":"robeastham","time":"1521712936","timestamp":"2018-03-22 10:02:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saw that the Centriq 2434 (40 cores) is listed at RRP $888.\u003cp\u003eDoes anyone know if you can get hold of a Centriq cpu \u0026amp; compatiple motherboard to build a local server or two? I fancy one in our lab rack to play around with.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m assuming that this is not possible and that they are currently just for datacentre partners who make a large order. But would be great to hear otherwise.","parent":"16646701","id":"16647253"}
{"by":"philh","time":"1506683854","timestamp":"2017-09-29 11:17:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it makes sense to call something a bonus unless it\u0026#x27;s also a goal.\u003cp\u003eI never said all goals were equal, so asking which is the main goal is irrelevant; my point is just that both goals exist as goals.","parent":"15364272","id":"15364320"}
{"by":"natrius","time":"1339792387","timestamp":"2012-06-15 20:33:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Public shaming, especially among the community involved, is often quite effective.","parent":"4118516","id":"4118561"}
{"by":"cm2012","time":"1530505302","timestamp":"2018-07-02 04:21:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a big part of what the TPP was.","parent":"17436993","id":"17439328"}
{"by":"dotancohen","time":"1488091928","timestamp":"2017-02-26 06:52:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And adsense. Well, I guess the adsense goes without saying.\u003cp\u003eBut what else has Gooogle ever done for us?","parent":"13731932","id":"13736042"}
{"by":"sadiq","time":"1193501674","timestamp":"2007-10-27 16:14:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That it does, on the whole.\u003cp\u003eFor the business units that directly compete with Google, how does it perform?\u003cp\u003eMuch of that profitability are the cashcows that are Windows and Office.","parent":"73069","id":"73191"}
{"by":"nemild","time":"1518543895","timestamp":"2018-02-13 17:44:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If useful, I wrote my own thoughts on ethics in software, after reflecting on certain experiences over the years:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; A serial tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley once asked me to design a “social stockade” for his financial services customers. It would lock people out of their social media accounts and tweet out\u0026#x2F;FB share to their friends when they hadn’t paid a loan. He pitched it to prospective employees as meaningful work that would reduce the cost of loans for the needy.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I was horrified that his product was being built and that many others would likely take the role I was turning down. And he was hardly the first to pitch his “innovation” as providing only good.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nemil.com\u0026#x2F;musings\u0026#x2F;software-engineers-and-ethics.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nemil.com\u0026#x2F;musings\u0026#x2F;software-engineers-and-ethics....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf anyone ever wants to discuss something, feel free to reach out (see HN profile).","parent":"16368722","id":"16369045"}
{"by":"ndesaulniers","time":"1423849855","timestamp":"2015-02-13 17:50:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What happens if I call ARRAY_SIZE on an empty array?","parent":"9043594","id":"9045729"}
{"by":"givinguflac","time":"1468737598","timestamp":"2016-07-17 06:39:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly! People seem to get really caught up and adamant about this label. However, airplane autopilot is arguably significantly dumber than Tesla\u0026#x27;s autopilot. Yet for some reason people expect more even though Tesla has been clear on how limited the use case is.","parent":"12109252","id":"12109271"}
{"by":"TriinT","time":"1245119081","timestamp":"2009-06-16 02:24:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being a nomad in one's country is fun if one's country is big. I come from a tiny European country which would take only a few weeks to explore, eh eh.\u003cp\u003eThat's a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing the URL.","parent":"659107","id":"659438"}
{"by":"imron","time":"1537444485","timestamp":"2018-09-20 11:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People said the same thing about AltaVista.","parent":"18031442","id":"18031557"}
{"by":"pkaye","time":"1448828339","timestamp":"2015-11-29 20:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the second problem, there is no reason you have to pick a college far from home. Go with a state university. Certainly don\u0026#x27;t go out of state and pay higher tuition.","parent":"10645711","id":"10645895"}
{"by":"PhilipDaineko","time":"1540998993","timestamp":"2018-10-31 15:16:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you think there is such a demand for them then?","parent":"18346302","id":"18346371"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1526504138","timestamp":"2018-05-16 20:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My viewpoint in the discussion is that mandatory arbitration is an attempt to work around an expensive and overtaxed court system. Conservatives would probably prefer that companies have fewer legal liabilities in the first place, and liberals would probably prefer that most of the burden of protecting consumers and employees\nbe handled by more explicit and comprehensive regulations up front so that people didn’t have to resort to litigation. Since we live in a democracy, we ended up with a compromise that leaves everyone unhappy.\u003cp\u003eSince it’s obvious why liberals are unhappy, the only piece I needed to add was an explanation of why conservatives are unhappy with this compromise.\u003cp\u003eI shouldn’t have to restate the entire context of a threaded conversation every single time I respond to it, but apparently I do or otherwise people are going to think I’m some type of conservative and insult me over it. I’m not a conservative, but I also don’t think insulting people over political disagreements is acceptable in the first place.","parent":"17083426","id":"17086412"}
{"by":"snappy173","time":"1365190321","timestamp":"2013-04-05 19:32:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt's not necessarily \"10\". It's somewhere between 1.5 and 1000 depending on the project. It's 2-3x for typical business work; 10+ for infrastructural work that multiplies across the company (i.e. makes everyone more productive). I'm writing about developer economics (Part 22 of a series that was supposed to be 22 parts, but will be 23).\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ein other words, it's all about leverage. 10x in the abstract probably doesn't make sense, but a good developer that is able to leverage that ability can produce real value.\u003cp\u003eand of course, the opposite is true. if a cowboy style developer produces a ton of work while taking on technical debt, and this isn't probably accounted for, the technical debt can spiral out of control. this of course slows everybody else down, and the cowboy's reputation as the 10x is reinforced ... yeah, i've been there ... no i'm not bitter.","parent":"5499319","id":"5500514"}
{"by":"yoz-y","time":"1443685820","timestamp":"2015-10-01 07:50:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hm, I see. However I imagine entreprises with large car parks should have quite a lot of information (taxi services, car rentals, ...)","parent":"10305381","id":"10309806"}
{"by":"wpeterson","time":"1287940924","timestamp":"2010-10-24 17:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This reminds me of two important things:\u003cp\u003eThe #1 thing you need to do is find a way to sustain yourself and your energy through the long slog - Paul Graham's \"How Not to Die\"\u003cp\u003eThe #2 thing you need to do is build relationships with customers and understand who's problem you're solving and how you're going to do it.\u003cp\u003eFiguring out how to make forward progress is easier than figuring out how not to give up and how to get anyone to give a shit.","parent":"1817883","id":"1826588"}
{"by":"verbin217","time":"1383173574","timestamp":"2013-10-30 22:52:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems to be a common misunderstanding about the new Mac Pro. Apple has actually improved modularity by liberating expansion from a fixed physical space. Additionally, users aren\u0026#x27;t required to install scary-looking computer hardware into PCI slots. They can just use the familiar UX pattern of plugging a cable into a port.","parent":"6642907","id":"6644052"}
{"by":"motoford","time":"1330543290","timestamp":"2012-02-29 19:21:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really hope you meant to type \"prosecute\" instead of what you actually put, \"persecute\".","parent":"3649140","id":"3649235"}
{"by":"sigstoat","time":"1535648661","timestamp":"2018-08-30 17:04:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i felt like returning to half-duplex communications was enough of a non-starter to discount it as a possible suggestion.","parent":"17872863","id":"17878388"}
{"by":"Randgalt","time":"1352848331","timestamp":"2012-11-13 23:12:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We were getting throttled by Github. We're now caching the content and this shouldn't happen anymore.","parent":"4779385","id":"4781164"}
{"by":"DanHulton","time":"1351810978","timestamp":"2012-11-01 23:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that they only offer phone support is not a company doing its fair share to try to connect with me over problems.  It's them putting up roadblocks to try to avoid having to deal with me.  Given that, I don't feel I have the obligation to attempt to sit through their various roadblocks.\u003cp\u003eIt was honestly far easier and satisfying to just give them the two bucks and then report the facts of my experience onto the internet.\u003cp\u003ePlus, with any luck someone thinking about selling on eBay in the future will run across this post, think twice, and be saved the trouble I was.  So I feel pretty good about that too.","parent":"4730163","id":"4730239"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1529943497","timestamp":"2018-06-25 16:18:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect it\u0026#x27;s fine. Two-seater planes fire the seats in sequence - if it\u0026#x27;s not frying the other passenger, it\u0026#x27;s highly unlikely to be melting the instruments.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org\u0026#x2F;wikipedia\u0026#x2F;commons\u0026#x2F;9\u0026#x2F;9c\u0026#x2F;Ejection_seat_test_at_China_Lake_with_F-4B_cockpit_1967.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org\u0026#x2F;wikipedia\u0026#x2F;commons\u0026#x2F;9\u0026#x2F;9c\u0026#x2F;Ejection...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17393322","id":"17393576"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1461354281","timestamp":"2016-04-22 19:44:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds no different than WalMart\u0026#x2F;Sam\u0026#x27;s Club.","parent":"11550289","id":"11552079"}
{"by":"sillysaurus3","time":"1421438858","timestamp":"2015-01-16 20:07:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, I\u0026#x27;ll reduce it to \u0026quot;Unless people make an advancement in structural materials similar to the invention of steel itself, which is to say \u0026#x27;fundamentally world-changing,\u0026#x27; hyperloop is nothing more than an inspirational pipe dream, similar to world peace.\u0026quot;  (EDIT: This comment may actually get called out in the future once Hyperloop is fully deployed, as an example of some idiot\u0026#x27;s words. So it\u0026#x27;s probably more than a little dumb of me to have said this.  In my defense, it\u0026#x27;s based on Hyperloop Alpha, as it\u0026#x27;s presented in the whitepaper.  Their design could change radically before deployment.)\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re planning on building a closed loop out of steel, and there\u0026#x27;s nowhere for the steel to go when it expands in summer, the plan may need some rethinking.\u003cp\u003eThe best I can think of is some kind of inner lining, so that it has a segmented hull, like a caterpillar: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=caterpillar\u0026amp;tbm=isch\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=caterpillar\u0026amp;tbm=isch\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it would need to be very strong lining in order to prevent any leaks between the segments.  And any kind of a leak would need to be detectable and would shut down the hyperloop until it\u0026#x27;s resolved.\u003cp\u003eBetween the wildly optimistic cost projections and the fundamental engineering difficulties, I\u0026#x27;m much more inclined to call it a pipe dream than a perhaps-future-possibility.","parent":"8901292","id":"8901337"}
{"by":"zaphar","time":"1267930426","timestamp":"2010-03-07 02:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I started with gw-basic and remember thinking how awesome it was in qbasic that I didn't have to use line numbers.","parent":"1172687","id":"1172778"}
{"by":"fiaz","time":"1212060938","timestamp":"2008-05-29 11:35:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My rule of thumb when purchasing a computer: think about what will be most (relatively) useful 18 months from now.  I always consider purchasing a new computer every 24-30 months.  The 6-12 months is my \"coping\" period between the old computer and new computer depending upon my needs.","parent":"203040","id":"203192"}
{"by":"JonnieCache","time":"1427295260","timestamp":"2015-03-25 14:54:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same for me. Here\u0026#x27;s a cache: \u003ca href=\"https://archive.today/JmiPN\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.today\u0026#x2F;JmiPN\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9263275","id":"9263313"}
{"by":"spinchange","time":"1282053566","timestamp":"2010-08-17 13:59:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's refreshing to read more of reality-based examination of last week's announcement.","parent":"1610890","id":"1611107"}
{"by":"spiralx","time":"1539086267","timestamp":"2018-10-09 11:57:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;A person walked down the street. They were wearing a brown coat.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSingular they has been in recorded use since 1375, it\u0026#x27;s only been the last couple of hundred years people started trying to insist it wasn\u0026#x27;t valid.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;public.oed.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;a-brief-history-of-singular-they\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;public.oed.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;a-brief-history-of-singular-they...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18169739","id":"18175139"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1505729383","timestamp":"2017-09-18 10:09:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing is, all the \u0026quot;new\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;high tech\u0026quot; parts of bitcoin can be treated as a black box, and their relevant properties summarised on a single sheet of paper. You could then hire someone with financial controls expertise to run the other side of the business - the entirely conventional money handling.\u003cp\u003eA bitcoin exchange really isn\u0026#x27;t all that different from a metals exchange, if you substitute \u0026quot;physical delivery of gold\u0026quot; for \u0026quot;emit an actual on chain bitcoin transaction\u0026quot;.","parent":"15274486","id":"15274584"}
{"by":"biztos","time":"1469644090","timestamp":"2016-07-27 18:28:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;On a scale of 1:10, with 10 being Completely Happy...\u0026quot; would have made much more interesting data, but a more difficult infographic.","parent":"12175176","id":"12175346"}
{"by":"KingMob","time":"1461107879","timestamp":"2016-04-19 23:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re just looking for a starter kit with everything included, consider Luminus. It gather a bunch of libs together and shows you how they interoperate to handle web requests.","parent":"11529915","id":"11531239"}
{"by":"rlpb","time":"1465399931","timestamp":"2016-06-08 15:32:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; which pits the bank against a warrantless seizure that\u0026#x27;s impossible to defend in court\u003cp\u003eYour argument could equally be applied against regular (cash) civil asset forfeiture. The outcome is the same either way.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Sorry, it was authorised by the authorities, nothing we can do\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ll be short of the money until you sue, same as in regular civil asset forfeiture. When you do sue, you\u0026#x27;ll have to prove that you\u0026#x27;re entitled to the money, same as in regular civil asset forfeiture. What you get back will be less legal fees, same as in regular civil asset forfeiture.","parent":"11862809","id":"11862892"}
{"by":"Domenic_S","time":"1425841966","timestamp":"2015-03-08 19:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Needlessly pedantic.","parent":"9166679","id":"9166757"}
{"by":"kstenerud","time":"1309480718","timestamp":"2011-07-01 00:38:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've already had my fill of \"idea guys\". Somehow, almost every one seems to think that merely coming up with a cool idea while drunk one night automatically entitles them to 50% of the profits (after YOU build and ship it).\u003cp\u003eA successful startup requires all aspects of a business:\u003cp\u003e- leadership\u003cp\u003e- sales\u003cp\u003e- marketing\u003cp\u003e- market research\u003cp\u003e- competitor research\u003cp\u003e- product research\u003cp\u003e- product development\u003cp\u003e- product shipping \u0026#38; deployment\u003cp\u003e- contacts in key areas related to your business\u003cp\u003e- strategic planning\u003cp\u003e- financial management\u003cp\u003e- employee management\u003cp\u003e- investor management\u003cp\u003e- lots and lots and lots and lots of paperwork\u003cp\u003e- and of course a million other little things you discover along the way\u003cp\u003eSome of this can be learned as you go, but the most likely startups to succeed have a large portion of these areas covered by the founders, at least in the book learning sense.\u003cp\u003eSo whenever I'm approached by an idea guy, my questions usually go like this:\u003cp\u003e- \"Great idea. So who else is doing it?\" (red flag for \"nobody\")\u003cp\u003e- \"Who is going to buy this?\" (red flag for \"everybody\")\u003cp\u003e- \"How do you know that [group x] is going to buy it?\" (I'm looking for something better than a hunch)\u003cp\u003e- \"How much starting capital do you have?\" (got to at least have ramen money)\u003cp\u003e- \"Who have you spoken to about funding?\" (red flag for \"nobody\", unless they are bootstrapping with their own money and have enough for 6 months of runway and a plan for after that)\u003cp\u003e- \"Are you going to do this full time?\" (If not, this conversation is over)\u003cp\u003e- \"What skills are you bringing to the table?\" (Must have at least half of the list above, or have other interested co-founders who fill many of the gaps)\u003cp\u003eSo if you're looking for a technical co-founder, make sure you're bringing a business to the table, not just an idea.","parent":"2714304","id":"2716408"}
{"by":"cazum","time":"1430499658","timestamp":"2015-05-01 17:00:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Every party I\u0026#x27;ve seen\u0026#x2F;attended had strict rules on STD\u0026#x2F;STI\u0026#x27;s and Drug Use. No reason to think this one would not as well\u003cp\u003eThere no reason to think it did, either.\u003cp\u003eRegardless of how inert non-blood fluids are, it\u0026#x27;s no reason to discount the possibility of contact infection.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a bit sensationalist to call it a \u0026quot;biohazard\u0026quot;, but not necessarily innacurate, and certainly not negligent.","parent":"9472757","id":"9472880"}
{"by":"rflrob","time":"1448403859","timestamp":"2015-11-24 22:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The game: \u0026quot;Return to the play area\u0026quot;\nMe: \u0026quot;Or else what?\u0026quot;","parent":"10623804","id":"10624001"}
{"by":"kafkaesq","time":"1467049902","timestamp":"2016-06-27 17:51:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s plenty of space in the middle of Kansas.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAside from the environmental issues, and the fact that not too many people would be crazy about living there -- what about the generations-old farm families who just... don\u0026#x27;t want to sell?  At any price?\u003cp\u003eWhich is what I meant about there being few places of significant scale (aside from protected wilderness areas that ought to remain as such) that are genuinely \u0026quot;empty.\u0026quot;","parent":"11987644","id":"11987940"}
{"by":"rtf","time":"1205021848","timestamp":"2008-03-09 00:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only things I really have to do to feel at home in a Gnome desktop:\u003cp\u003e1. Fool with the mouse movement and screen resolution settings.\n2. Set shortcuts for \"Show the panel run application dialogue\" and \"Run a terminal\". I use Shift+Win and Shift+Tab for those, respectively.\u003cp\u003eOnce I've done that, I almost never have to use the mouse for non-browsing tasks. I could probably improve on that by changing out the window manager for a keyboard-friendly one, but I'd have to learn something new, and I'd have to maintain the wm setup instead of riding along with whatever the distro wants to do (which is far less likely to break)","parent":"132082","id":"132244"}
{"by":"cameldrv","time":"1456295055","timestamp":"2016-02-24 06:24:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One alternative to look at for some datasets is nonnegative matrix factorization.  It\u0026#x27;s similar to PCA, but every element of each basis vector has to be positive.  This tends to make the results a lot easier to interpret.","parent":"11164312","id":"11164918"}
{"by":"bmmayer1","time":"1352189037","timestamp":"2012-11-06 08:03:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are two main arguments against government spending.  The first is that governments tend to spend money much less efficiently than individuals do.  There is much truth to this; if you think about market efficiency with distributed buyers and sellers, all trying to maximize utility individually, vs. purchases made by consensus--whether its textbooks or social spending like welfare--where there is a principal agent problem.  The mantra goes, very few people spend other people's money better than they spend their own.  So whereas the money might very well end up in the pockets of contractors who hire workers and create jobs, these jobs don't necessarily have to be productive.  It was Keynes who gave the example of the government paying people to dig holes and fill them up.  Certainly, this would be government spending that created jobs, but would it be good for the economy?  If you take a labor theory of value, that the wealth of a society is the sum value of the goods and services the society produces, then that isn't the case.  It is also apparent from a historical perspective that command economies are far outperformed by free ones.  People simply work harder and produce more if they are working for themselves and not for others.  This generates more value which generates more wealth which generates more growth, prosperity, and jobs.\u003cp\u003eThe second argument against government spending is that there really is no such thing as government spending.  The government doesn't have any money on its own; it only has money that it borrows through debt, raises in taxes, or creates via inflation.  For the government to spend money in the economy, it needs to get money from the economy.  No additional value is created; the cycle is only perpetuated.  Frederic Bastiat, who developed the notion of opportunity cost, said it best in his essay That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen.  It is easy to see the benefits of government spending when it arises (contracts going to construction workers, teachers, etc), but much harder to see the tradeoff of where that money is not being spent; for instance, money that would have circulated through the economy had it not have been paid to the government in taxes.  The exact example he used, in fact, was of a natural disaster sweeping through a town and destroying buildings.  Arguments will be made, he said, that the economy will be helped by the jobs necessitated by the cleanup and rebuilding.  But these arguments ignore the money that would then not be spent on the economy had the disaster never come through in the first place.  The fact is, a natural disaster destroys value, and that's that.\u003cp\u003eSo a general rule of thumb is that public spending is not really good for growth, and anything that can be taken care of by the private sector should be.  There are obviously public goods that cannot be efficiently managed privately, like roads and bridges, but these make up a fraction of the actual government spending today on growth.  In general, increased public spending does not create growth, it merely recirculates money through the economy much less efficiently.","parent":"4747567","id":"4747601"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1444304908","timestamp":"2015-10-08 11:48:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of interest, what two worst things are you referring to?","parent":"10352041","id":"10352056"}
{"by":"maxlybbert","time":"1402521031","timestamp":"2014-06-11 21:10:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GCC certainly releases more often than Visual Studio, with the end result being that GCC has support for newer standards much sooner than Visual Studio.  But if you intend to run your programs on Windows systems without GCC installed, you have to find the support DLL, and it\u0026#x27;s not always easy to find.","parent":"7875887","id":"7880458"}
{"by":"jasonlbaptiste","time":"1278356316","timestamp":"2010-07-05 18:58:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure.  It's funny.  I almost ended up doing something in this space (mix of content and monetization).  If it weren't for Andres pushing me + attending startupweekend, i'd be doing something here instead of Cloudomatic.  Some verticals I identified:\u003cp\u003e-  Casual geeks.  People who want to know what we know, but just don't have the time + know geeky tricks.\u003cp\u003e-  Urban demographic.  It's valuable and something overlooked in the tech space.  Why do you think all of those things trend on twitter with weird hashtags?  It's because of the urban demographic.\u003cp\u003e-  Family living.  People want tips for better family living.  It's also a valuable demographic.\u003cp\u003e-  College focused.  Do .edu email addresses only and segment by city.  This is how facebook got started and college humor spread.  It's highly viral and highly valuable.  Think financial companies paying for a dedicated email to 100k college kids with good editorial content.\u003cp\u003e-  Male fitness.  Sort of mens health meets GQ.  Fashion, sex, fitness,money,etc.  Women often get all the love here when it comes to content online, but this is a gaping hole.  If you've ever picked up a fitness magazine, you would know advertisers spend a ton here.\u003cp\u003eI think there's more.  I'd start with either the first one or last one.  If you end up doing one of those, I'd love to help in some way possible.","parent":"1488724","id":"1488838"}
{"by":"jboggan","time":"1412173746","timestamp":"2014-10-01 14:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an illustration of the above point about Home Depot: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCP2Og__Go#t=94\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=WwCP2Og__Go#t=94\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8394463","id":"8394566"}
{"by":"jpace121","time":"1499611845","timestamp":"2017-07-09 14:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how this would practically work in somewhere like America, where the cities are so diverse. I have a hard time believing that the rules that are the best for a big city like LA and San Francisco are the same rules that would work for middle of nowhere Iowa.","parent":"14729849","id":"14729964"}
{"by":"jluxenberg","time":"1260322494","timestamp":"2009-12-09 01:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cuil's shtick is that they don't store any search history   \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuil.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cuil.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"984817","id":"985079"}
{"by":"webwanderings","time":"1544638174","timestamp":"2018-12-12 18:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The better question is: is it possible for people to be diplomatic? (with empathy and care towards each other and the environment).","parent":"18665351","id":"18666186"}
{"by":"mancerayder","time":"1531406479","timestamp":"2018-07-12 14:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... but the DJ in the video can slide the volume up and down with his finger.  Surely that counts for something big.","parent":"17514702","id":"17515049"}
{"by":"infinity0","time":"1386765681","timestamp":"2013-12-11 12:41:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why downvote?","parent":"6887256","id":"6887330"}
{"by":"300bps","time":"1368529223","timestamp":"2013-05-14 11:00:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your point is correct but I was actually speaking more broadly.  Specifically, there is a friend of mine who has 3 CCIE certifications and actually works at Cisco.  He knows more about wired and wireless networks than anyone I know.  But his wife's iPhone 4s with AT\u0026#38;T showed a \"4G\" signal when it was connected so he just assumed it was legitimate 4G.","parent":"5702157","id":"5704052"}
{"by":"lox","time":"1280826953","timestamp":"2010-08-03 09:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently the rest of the world doesn't deserve battle axes. I would have loved to enter. Totally need a battle axe.","parent":"1569251","id":"1570599"}
{"by":"SideburnsOfDoom","time":"1387149654","timestamp":"2013-12-15 23:20:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; by the very nature of the restricted work environment at intelligence agencies, it\u0026#x27;s not reasonable to expect him to have a complete picture.\u003cp\u003eHow is that different from \u0026quot;he lacks credibility\u0026quot; ?","parent":"6911387","id":"6911563"}
{"by":"Devilboy","time":"1298842022","timestamp":"2011-02-27 21:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disagree completely. Have we forgotten IE6 already? How I wish EVERY browser acted like Chrome...","parent":"2268982","id":"2269024"}
{"by":"newsmaster","time":"1382985221","timestamp":"2013-10-28 18:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;by connecting to any computer within a 200m (656ft) radius which were using unprotected Wi-Fi networks.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ewow it\u0026#x27;s better than any wifi router I\u0026#x27;ve ever owned! Time to buy an iron.","parent":"6628627","id":"6628812"}
{"by":"rejschaap","time":"1481720447","timestamp":"2016-12-14 13:00:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why this is on the front-page. This is just a glue library between two other libraries and the update doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be a real major update.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Version 5.0 maintains API compatibility with v4.x but due to major internal changes and potential behavior differences across nearly all API surfaces, semver dictates a major version bump. Also, it\u0026#x27;s good marketing!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAnyway, the marketing part worked. :)","parent":"13174883","id":"13175623"}
{"by":"linuxkerneldev","time":"1447141271","timestamp":"2015-11-10 07:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; China was also very open to immigration and inclusive in what counted as \u0026quot;Chinese.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure this claim is invalid. Say you took a measure of genetic diversity in various populations, I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure you would find that Han Chinese are less heterozygotic than other neighbouring Asian populations. Take for example, their Southern neighbour, India, I predict you see far more genetic variation. I think this maps out to just looking at phenotype variation. I have travelled a bit through South East Asia and India, and just looking at visible attributes like skin color, eye color, hair color, and so on, one sees huge variation, also their languages are distinct (not even from a single linguistic family like Sino-Tibetian). In contrast, in China, where I have lived in, I found that the amount of variation was much smaller (just small differences between Northern Chinese and Southern Chinese) which I predict corresponds with much lower genetic diversity and thus the \u0026quot;openness to immigration\u0026quot; is quite suspect.","parent":"10537915","id":"10538053"}
{"by":"tgarma1234","time":"1472391096","timestamp":"2016-08-28 13:31:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes indeed.  Libraries.  Walking around the stacks looking for books in college and not necessarily knowing what would be in the book other than what was briefly described by the card catalog.  You couldn\u0026#x27;t wikipedia a topic, so you had to really know how to scan a books contents and decide if it was worth the time to read.  It was such a huge time commitment to learn anything at all from books back then.  I love learning but I don\u0026#x27;t think that books\u0026#x2F;libraries were a better way to find information than the internet is.  Every book should be digitized in my opinion.","parent":"12376264","id":"12376425"}
{"by":"TheCoelacanth","time":"1510245862","timestamp":"2017-11-09 16:44:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is that GraphQL was designed to be used like that, so it is relatively easy to limit what capabilities the client can use. SQL was not designed to be used like that, so for complex queries it will be very difficult to verify that the client isn\u0026#x27;t doing something that it isn\u0026#x27;t allowed to do.","parent":"15662151","id":"15663832"}
{"by":"notjustanymike","time":"1421276175","timestamp":"2015-01-14 22:56:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. I\u0026#x27;m a little hesitant to pollute my Pocket feed with a bunch of articles I haven\u0026#x27;t even seen an example of.","parent":"8889690","id":"8889716"}
{"by":"daigoba66","time":"1357832449","timestamp":"2013-01-10 15:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Microsoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of employees for a business.\u003cp\u003eThat's not true for the product editions labeled \"enterprise\" or \"ultimate\". Just look at SQL Server Enterprise.","parent":"5037366","id":"5037454"}
{"by":"jdeibele","time":"1458700041","timestamp":"2016-03-23 02:27:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I made Annies for the kids my \u0026quot;secret\u0026quot; was to whisk the cheese powder in the milk.  It made it much more creamy.","parent":"11338329","id":"11341682"}
{"by":"gambiting","time":"1502559954","timestamp":"2017-08-12 17:45:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m willing to bet that in their hundreds and hundreds of pages of terms and conditions there is a paragraph saying that by using their services you give up your right to sue Google for war crimes.","parent":"14998705","id":"14998931"}
{"by":"TimPC","time":"1516302009","timestamp":"2018-01-18 19:00:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As much as I want the correlation to be causation looking at any of the maps in this article makes me almost wonder how much of the effect is due to the fact that downtowns get made walkable rather than anything else.","parent":"16178273","id":"16180164"}
{"by":"Garbage","time":"1283350262","timestamp":"2010-09-01 14:11:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Real presentation is till slide #70. After that it gets advertisement.","parent":"1652794","id":"1652807"}
{"by":"voltagex_","time":"1402013445","timestamp":"2014-06-06 00:10:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The maker community though have no basic electrical safety knowledge as a whole and are concerned with making it work, not making it work safely.\u003cp\u003eOuch. What are you basing this on? What could be done to improve the situation?","parent":"7852640","id":"7855447"}
{"by":"rational_indian","time":"1336295134","timestamp":"2012-05-06 09:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please accept my condolences on the sad demise of your father.\u003cp\u003eI totally agree with you on the state of emergency medical services. We still have a lot to improve on here but things are getting better with time.","parent":"3934327","id":"3934593"}
{"by":"panglott","time":"1522765382","timestamp":"2018-04-03 14:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not just give users more power over their newsfeed, instead of assuming that the site engineers can get the balance right.\u003cp\u003eA user could be able to specify \u0026quot;I want 50% of my newsfeed to be from immediate family, 35% from close friends, 15% from acqaintances.\u0026quot; Use a pie chart slider bar to make it clear. Then let the algorithm figure out how to interpret that chart.","parent":"16741237","id":"16744859"}
{"by":"timmorgan","time":"1406311392","timestamp":"2014-07-25 18:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I strongly considered building on DigitalOcean API and doing some sort of pre-built image where I transfer it to the customer or something. I\u0026#x27;m interested in Sandstorm -- will check it out!","parent":"8086146","id":"8086546"}
{"by":"Casseres","time":"1526834528","timestamp":"2018-05-20 16:42:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They also sell it with a perpetual license.  I own licenses for Office 2003, 2007, 2013, and 2016.\u003cp\u003e(Office 2016 works well on Linux with Crossover.  Just bought a Crossover lifetime license.  Crossover has a decent subscription\u0026#x2F;license working - subscription is for updates, you can continue using indefinately if you stop paying.  Although it is a little expensive.)","parent":"17113441","id":"17113581"}
{"by":"Johnny555","time":"1546310815","timestamp":"2019-01-01 02:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAnd if something still where to go wrong then you\u0026#x27;ll get your money back.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell... most of the time, unless the bank claims it was your fault because chip-and-pin is infallible... then you have to fight the bank for your money.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thisismoney.co.uk\u0026#x2F;money\u0026#x2F;saving\u0026#x2F;article-2215223\u0026#x2F;Victim-chip-pin-fraud-Its-YOUR-fault-insist-banks.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thisismoney.co.uk\u0026#x2F;money\u0026#x2F;saving\u0026#x2F;article-2215223\u0026#x2F;V...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18798584","id":"18798600"}
{"by":"domp","time":"1174017374","timestamp":"2007-03-16 03:56:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like a decent program. The location threw me off though. I'm not interested in moving to Colorado anytime soon. But I'm pretty sure it's a decent place to start a business even though other locations such as Silicon Valley of Boston would be better.","parent":"4509","id":"4524"}
{"by":"Greenisus","time":"1451925443","timestamp":"2016-01-04 16:37:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"and what will it cost?","parent":"10836506","id":"10836512"}
{"by":"ukblewis","time":"1532358894","timestamp":"2018-07-23 15:14:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I took my MacBook Air in for repair with a UEFI password, they carried out the whole repair and just asked me to type my password when I arrived to collect it and ran a diagnostic on the machine to verify the computer was working. You shouldn’t need to tell\u0026#x2F;give an Apple Genius your password.","parent":"17593098","id":"17593294"}
{"by":"OberstKrueger","time":"1473775196","timestamp":"2016-09-13 13:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For myself, I go caseless because, 1) I like the feel of a solid metal device in my hand over plastic or rubber, and 2) it\u0026#x27;s thinner without a case, and easier to handle.\u003cp\u003eI have a leather wallet case that the phone slides into easily for when its in my pocket, as I wouldn\u0026#x27;t want it to get damaged being jostled around, but it\u0026#x27;s quick to take out when I want to use it.","parent":"12487574","id":"12488263"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1379072834","timestamp":"2013-09-13 11:47:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But that may not end up like that in say China which is forecast to buy much of the world cars.","parent":"6379264","id":"6379810"}
{"by":"dannypgh","time":"1386361289","timestamp":"2013-12-06 20:21:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;While it is easy to sit back and judge the past we have to realize that some actions were seen as prudent at the time.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNot by black people.","parent":"6862210","id":"6863522"}
{"by":"brohee","time":"1482415034","timestamp":"2016-12-22 13:57:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Solar is not only photovoltaic. Thermal solar (heat stored in molten salt) provides electricity at night. See e.g. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13234925","id":"13237245"}
{"by":"evilhackerdude","time":"1267118590","timestamp":"2010-02-25 17:23:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congratulations on entering the infinite procrastination loop.","parent":"1150945","id":"1151028"}
{"by":"Raz2","time":"1540408657","timestamp":"2018-10-24 19:17:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Migration is limited because almost every EU country has its own language.","parent":"18295179","id":"18295496"}
{"by":"w1ntermute","time":"1370576056","timestamp":"2013-06-07 03:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.ghostery.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ghostery.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5837016","id":"5837046"}
{"by":"alicetech","time":"1539031608","timestamp":"2018-10-08 20:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ALICE Technologies | Menlo Park, CA | fulltime | senior front-end\u0026#x2F;full-stack | onsite | visa | relocation\u003cp\u003eALICE Technologies: ALICE leverages AI to revolutionize scheduling in the $17+trillion global construction industry.\u003cp\u003eCurrently, our stack mainly consists of the following:\nFront-end: TypeScript, Angular\u0026#x2F;React, and Data visualization (including D3.js)\nBack-end: Scala (Play framework, slick, akka), Postgresql, AWS, \u0026amp; 3D-Computer graphics (involves C++)\u003cp\u003eOpen engineer \u0026amp; technology positions:\u003cp\u003eSOFTWARE ENGINEER - FRONT-END - FULL TIME\nSOFTWARE ENGINEER - FULL-STACK - FULL TIME\u003cp\u003eFor more details, please see here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alicetechnologies.com\u0026#x2F;careers.html?src=hn\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alicetechnologies.com\u0026#x2F;careers.html?src=hn\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18113144","id":"18171162"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1511616177","timestamp":"2017-11-25 13:22:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with everything you said, but you can also go too far in that direction of analysis. If you let the empirical gain in traction to sneak in as a factor in your analysis, you effectively have a tautology, and you lose all predictive power, similar to the misuse of the phrase “survival of the fittest,” where you conclude that variant A was “clearly” more “fit” than variant B because A survived and B didn’t.\u003cp\u003eIt’s still important to recognize that a variant might “win” because of factors completely unrelated to its “fitness,” like an organization using its market power in an unrelated sector to promote its variant, or even just good old fashioned dumb luck.","parent":"15775571","id":"15775872"}
{"by":"flexxaeon","time":"1349803324","timestamp":"2012-10-09 17:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there is a specific hashtag for the event, you can try out my web app Picsho \u003ca href=\"http://picsho.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://picsho.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4627425","id":"4632786"}
{"by":"indrax","time":"1291555970","timestamp":"2010-12-05 13:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation#Capital-sigma_notation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation#Capital-sigma_notatio...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1971507","id":"1971566"}
{"by":"pasquinelli","time":"1462405131","timestamp":"2016-05-04 23:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hey, i turn 32 today. i\u0026#x27;m also feeling dissatisfied with being a programmer. i don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s a phase though. honestly, i can\u0026#x27;t remember a time that i\u0026#x27;ve been satisfied with my situation.","parent":"11632759","id":"11632854"}
{"by":"juvenn","time":"1271183386","timestamp":"2010-04-13 18:29:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Subscribed. But try your best to maintain a high ratio of signal:noise, we'll appreciate your creative work then.","parent":"1261499","id":"1262912"}
{"by":"dharbin","time":"1349807612","timestamp":"2012-10-09 18:33:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah yes, Hacker News... the go-to place for all your news on religion.","parent":"4632823","id":"4633214"}
{"by":"jxub","time":"1530374784","timestamp":"2018-06-30 16:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to admit that the sales pitch of the document is on point, however they could leave the revision history out as I see not much value added there.","parent":"17430673","id":"17431310"}
{"by":"llukas","time":"1543014433","timestamp":"2018-11-23 23:07:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"90% efficient panels would have ~4x smaller area. Wouldn\u0026#x27;t be that easier to clean and secure from bird poo etc?","parent":"18519002","id":"18519414"}
{"by":"marcoperaza","time":"1509497098","timestamp":"2017-11-01 00:44:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;List_of_countries_by_suicide...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLots of Europe has a higher suicide rate than the US. Within the US, as the other response said, gun ownership is confounded by all sorts of other factors.","parent":"15597548","id":"15598042"}
{"by":"phillian","time":"1235675077","timestamp":"2009-02-26 19:04:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work as an IP paralegal by day (when not fiendishly working on my own coding projects at night).\u003cp\u003eMy one recommendation is that if you are cost conscious, send your IP projects (copyright, patent, trademark) to a boutique or, as we call them, a 'mill'. Having worked in both boutique and large conglomerate firm settings, I can attest to the fact boutiques are far more organized and, because their overhead is so much less, far less expensive.\u003cp\u003eW/r/t at what point in your development cycle you should register the TM, I have seen the spectrum of very early to very late filings. While in one instance a late-stage filing resulted in more similar marks out there (and the class claims for goods/ services had to be much more limited) I have not yet seen it be detrimental to getting registered eventually.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, small start-ups (both net based and brick-and-mortar) account for a disproporionate number of the applications we have to let go abandoned due to client request or nonpayment.","parent":"494831","id":"496236"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1297390398","timestamp":"2011-02-11 02:13:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am expressing marvel that a computer can respond to many Jeopardy! clues in 3 seconds. That is marvelous, amazing, and awesome. Don't infer that I am undervaluing that achievement.\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eadditional\u003c/i\u003e fact that this computer can \u003ci\u003ebeat\u003c/i\u003e human players is not impressive to me, because I know how Jeopardy! works. To sum everything up: it's a great feat of artificial intelligence and computer performance for Watson to generate correct responses so quickly; it's \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e a great feat for Watson to be able to buzz in faster than human competitors. I think IBM could have chosen a better sort of competition to truly show off Watson's abilities than a competition with reflexes as the final layer of competition.","parent":"2204395","id":"2204864"}
{"by":"Avenger42","time":"1484937255","timestamp":"2017-01-20 18:34:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It is interesting that this article mentions German was with his parents as well. That swayed me a bit against believing that German was the real victim.\u003cp\u003eThis confuses me. I don\u0026#x27;t see how his parents being present affects the story.","parent":"13444930","id":"13445856"}
{"by":"MollyR","time":"1476283735","timestamp":"2016-10-12 14:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an anecdote. I have coworker friend who is from india, and he told me most of the men in his family die from heart attacks from age 40-50.\u003cp\u003eI thought it was weird as heck, but when I researched it showed they had 4x for heart issues against the general population in america.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stanfordhealthcare.org\u0026#x2F;stanford-health-now\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;south-asians-heart-disease-qa.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stanfordhealthcare.org\u0026#x2F;stanford-health-now\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;sout...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12692879","id":"12693330"}
{"by":"contextual","time":"1381314704","timestamp":"2013-10-09 10:31:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s keep in mind that entrepreneurs are dreamers, delusional even. We take incredible risks and are willing to suffer to create something we can be proud of.\u003cp\u003eTo wit: I once worked so obsessively on a project I forgot about making money for rent. That\u0026#x27;s right, my mind was in a constant deep flow state for weeks on end, and rent (among other things like exercise and socializing) slipped my mind.\u003cp\u003eI ended up losing my apartment and being forced to sleep in a friend\u0026#x27;s basement for a month.","parent":"6520376","id":"6520406"}
{"by":"xaldir","time":"1489657043","timestamp":"2017-03-16 09:37:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me it sound an over-engineered solution to a simple problem.\u003cp\u003eWe need less meat from better raised animals.\nWe need to understand that animals are an essential part of a balanced agricultural system.\nWe do not need more food-industry.","parent":"13880055","id":"13883692"}
{"by":"crb002","time":"1494184819","timestamp":"2017-05-07 19:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Buffett\u0026#x27;s holdings all see decreased IBM spending on the horizon. Buffet knows IBM will need a massive bond infusion as a life raft. Sell the stock now, lend proceeds back to IBM at 12% interest, and buy the shares back at half price.","parent":"14286277","id":"14287055"}
{"by":"kennydude","time":"1504788983","timestamp":"2017-09-07 12:56:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In order to verify the output matched the input, you will need paper and to verify it by hand. Which, is just a waste of time adding computers...","parent":"15191333","id":"15191376"}
{"by":"KozmoNau7","time":"1523887986","timestamp":"2018-04-16 14:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Before wishing death or removal from the gene pool on anyone, maybe you should look at \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e the accident rate is high, especially in the US.\u003cp\u003eSeverely deficient mandatory motorcycle training, riders who refuse to wear helmets or any safety gear at all, a tendency to just go for the biggest most powerful engine right away, and of course shitty drivers, who either deliberately antagonize riders, or simply don\u0026#x27;t give a shit.\u003cp\u003eSquids and outlaw bikers heavily skew the numbers.","parent":"16847643","id":"16849104"}
{"by":"jernfrost","time":"1453244437","timestamp":"2016-01-19 23:00:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree, I warmed to dynamic typing specifically due to the experience of working with 2-3 million lines of C++ code. The problem with static typing at that size is that you very frequent impedance mismatch. A lot of the code you write ends up being about translating from one type to another which is almost identical.\u003cp\u003eYou also get dependency problems you don\u0026#x27;t have with dynamic languages because you aren\u0026#x27;t required to import type definitions to use an object from somewhere else. Your code easily get tightly coupled. You end up with a nightmare of compile times.\u003cp\u003eThe couplings get so intricate over time that it becomes and almost intractable problem to figure out how to take it apart.\u003cp\u003eThat is much easier in a dynamic language. You can tackle problem far more independently from each other because dynamic languages don\u0026#x27;t impose as much dependencies between types.","parent":"10934000","id":"10934774"}
{"by":"meowface","time":"1416796080","timestamp":"2014-11-24 02:28:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is the person, not the game.\u003cp\u003eI started leading relatively large guilds and alliances (1000-6000 people) in a few MMOs at age 15. The experience and wisdom I gained from those experiences helped me greatly in my adult life. The games I played were very cutthroat and modeled off real-world politics, diplomacy, espionage, and warfare (the games in question were inspired by EVE and UO; I\u0026#x27;ve also played those two, but not with leadership positions).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m now 22 and I frequently see parallels in my working life. I can think of many times I\u0026#x27;ve leveraged some of my past experiences to help make decisions, especially when it comes to big-picture strategic problems.\u003cp\u003eYes, it is easy to become extremely addicted to these kinds of games and it\u0026#x27;s tempting to sacrifice aspects of your personal or working life, but they can also offer a ton of fun and a ton of great learning opportunities. People just need to practice impulse control, and they need to set boundaries (\u0026quot;I won\u0026#x27;t login until I finish my homework for tomorrow\u0026quot;, etc.).\u003cp\u003eI think MMOs like EVE should receive more study and writing in the scientific community, because it\u0026#x27;s a perfect example of a microcosm of some of the more \u0026quot;base\u0026quot; nature of human psychology and behavior.","parent":"8644356","id":"8650772"}
{"by":"blocke","time":"1294803662","timestamp":"2011-01-12 03:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They can both be winners and losers depending on what game they choose to play.  Being disruptive is about pissing on the rules for the original game.\u003cp\u003eActually the more I think about it the more non-sensical your original statement and this conversation becomes. ;)","parent":"2094781","id":"2094835"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1315201807","timestamp":"2011-09-05 05:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article makes a very strange assertion:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat $5 trillion dollars is not money invested in building roads, schools, and other long-term projects, but is directly transferred from the American economy to the personal accounts of bank executives and employees.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does the author believe the bank executives and employees do with that money? Some of it is spent on consumption, but most bank executives consume a far smaller portion of their income than anyone else. [1]\u003cp\u003eWhatever they don't consume is reinvested in the economy.\u003cp\u003e[1] If you disagree with this claim, then it logically follows that the best form of Keynesian stimulus is tax cuts for bank executives.","parent":"2961095","id":"2961296"}
{"by":"dennybritz","time":"1414674451","timestamp":"2014-10-30 13:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Travel back in time to replace IBMs datacenters of 1995.","parent":"8531671","id":"8532658"}
{"by":"sesqu","time":"1349549546","timestamp":"2012-10-06 18:52:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I meant clauses. Translation error.","parent":"4620225","id":"4621329"}
{"by":"pvnick","time":"1371324018","timestamp":"2013-06-15 19:20:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m working with some of the folks at stopwatching.us, and we\u0026#x27;ve got some cool things going on. We\u0026#x27;re currently working with some of Aaron Schwartz code that he wrote when getting involved in politics to deliver citizens\u0026#x27; emails to congress en masse. There\u0026#x27;s a bunch of really interesting projects going on that are starting to come together these days. It\u0026#x27;s an exciting time to be a politically-active developer!\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re interested in volunteering some dev time on some creative ways of getting involved, let me know! My email is pvnick@gmail.com :)","parent":"5885551","id":"5886010"}
{"by":"huac","time":"1513273355","timestamp":"2017-12-14 17:42:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think so. `%in%` is built into R (or at least in the base package).","parent":"15922299","id":"15924380"}
{"by":"innovator116","time":"1432923845","timestamp":"2015-05-29 18:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if they combine it with Holacracy?","parent":"9622684","id":"9626376"}
{"by":"Michelle1","time":"1364856276","timestamp":"2013-04-01 22:44:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"San Francisco, CA – Fulltime, Software Engineer \u0026#38; Data Scientist\u003cp\u003eAbout us - \nAt Ginger.io, we are on a mission to change population health. The company is a spin-off of the MIT Media Lab, and we use sensor data and machine learning to build a 'check-engine light' for a person's health. Our platform is designed to help chronic patients, their caregivers and providers. Ginger.io is currently working with leading US healthcare institutions, has won industry awards, and has been featured in the Economist, New York Times, and Businessweek.\u003cp\u003eSoftware Engineer (Web, Mobile, Data) - \nGinger.io is looking for software engineers to help us take our product to the next level.   We’re looking for candidates who can play across at least one of the following areas:\u003cp\u003e• Back-end web development: Python, MySQL, MongoDB, Django, Celery\n• Front-end web development:  HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery\n• Mobile: Android, iOS (either native or using frameworks like PhoneGap), background processing\n• Deployment \u0026#38; scaling: database sharding and replication, Apache/Nginx, Fabric, RabbitMQ, logging, monitoring\n• Data engineering: production feature extraction and machine learning, distributed computation using Hadoop and Celery, data modeling using R and Python toolkits.\u003cp\u003eFor more information: \u003ca href=\"http://ginger.io/jobs/software-engineer/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ginger.io/jobs/software-engineer/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eData Scientist - \nWe are looking for a Data Scientist with a background in statistics and data mining to focus on offline analysis and study design. This role is both internal and external facing, hence excellent communication skills are a must. We’re looking for a subset  of the following technical skills.\u003cp\u003e• MS (or PhD) in statistics, epidemiology, computer science, public health or related quantitative field\n• Expertise in statistics including study design, hypothesis testing, sample size estimation, generalized linear models and multivariate statistics\n• Familiarity with machine learning and bayesian methods for classification for offline analysis\n• Ability to develop and iterate models and analysis using R, Python, and other scripting languages on large datasets\n• Ability to work with engineering team to deploy analysis/ models on production servers  \n• Experience with grant writing is a plus.\u003cp\u003eFor more information: \u003ca href=\"http://ginger.io/jobs/data-scientist/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ginger.io/jobs/data-scientist/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5472746","id":"5476416"}
{"by":"rms","time":"1185663814","timestamp":"2007-07-28 23:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm really looking forward to living a location-based lifestyle in about five years or so, and at this point, Sam Altman seems to be the primary enabler of such a lifestyle.\u003cp\u003eBut seriously, this list invalidates itself by not even including Mark Zuckerburg, let alone not giving him number one.","parent":"37342","id":"37351"}
{"by":"Latteland","time":"1544397868","timestamp":"2018-12-09 23:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s very difficult in normal times (vcs mostly pick losers, just get a few winners and they are doing good), so for regular people we can\u0026#x27;t handle that much loss or get good returns on winners. When businesses stop expanding (cause there\u0026#x27;s a recession!) it\u0026#x27;s even more impossible for startups to succeed.","parent":"18641841","id":"18643980"}
{"by":"codexon","time":"1265067021","timestamp":"2010-02-01 23:30:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your partner can't picket your bed because that would be trespassing.\u003cp\u003eThe people in this article had the rights and invitation to be at the speech. There was no trespassing involved. They weren't even picketing before they were forced to leave.","parent":"1093804","id":"1093808"}
{"by":"tomblomfield","time":"1395339173","timestamp":"2014-03-20 18:12:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that Rails is polarizing into two schools - Steve Klabnik\u0026#x27;s blog post details this really well.\u003cp\u003eBut I don\u0026#x27;t think that moving towards more single-responsibility objects means you have to give up all that Rails offers - particularly the preference for concise, human-readable APIs and convention-over-configuration. Ie, we don\u0026#x27;t need tonnes of boiler-plate just because we want to use more objects.\u003cp\u003eWe put this permission check in the controller and not the interactor because it seems like the controller should generally be responsible for authentication \u0026amp; permissioning. Once you get to the interactor, it should just be told \u0026quot;Perform this interaction\u0026quot;. Not \u0026quot;check if you can perform it, and then perform it\u0026quot;.","parent":"7437304","id":"7437460"}
{"by":"johannchiang","time":"1255442443","timestamp":"2009-10-13 14:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon (Joyo in China) don't have Chinese Kindle books. And Kindle doesn't support Chinese characters without hacks yet.\u003cp\u003eWith censorship on print books, China is already the biggest market for eBooks (no copyright though).","parent":"878971","id":"879042"}
{"by":"guelo","time":"1267479100","timestamp":"2010-03-01 21:31:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is funny, though not surprising considering it comes from a right-wing think tank, that this article doesn't mention that Canadian banks are much more regulated wrt what they’re allowed to do with their money and higher capital requirements.  The investment banking side of the business is much smaller relatively in Canada. The problem in the U.S. isn’t the retail banks; the problem is the big investment banks on Wall Street.\u003cp\u003eThe Canadian capital markets don’t amount to very much, and mortgage securitization was pointless because the big five banks hold all the mortgages anyways.","parent":"1159435","id":"1159831"}
{"by":"adrusi","time":"1451931772","timestamp":"2016-01-04 18:22:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article starts with the assumption that testable code is better code. Its primary point against mocks, that mocks let you write tests without changing your code, is dependant on that assumption. Without the assumption, there is no reason to believe that changing your code for the sake of tests is good or bad.\u003cp\u003eI claim that that assumption is faulty. Code being easily testable indicates that it follows a certain set of good rules of thumb for writing good code. You\u0026#x27;re unlikely to find 500 line functions that encompass half of the program\u0026#x27;s logic. You\u0026#x27;re likely to find well delineated inputs and outputs of functions. The vast majority of the time, these are \u003ci\u003egood things\u003c/i\u003e, and it\u0026#x27;s tempting to say that since writing testable code gave use these good thing, that only testable code is good. Or maybe you\u0026#x27;d rather not leap that far — perhaps you\u0026#x27;d rather only claim that as a rule, code should be written to be testable.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not that it\u0026#x27;s an unreasonable rule. I\u0026#x27;d be inclined to embrace it for novice programmers, since their judgement for what is and is not good code is lacking and they have to write tests regardless. Their code will probably come out better if they write for testing than if they try to use their best judgement. But once a programmer develops their judgement, they must use it. Programming is an art — a controversial statement, I know. It is not an art like music or painting or writing, it is more like architecture. Programming is about communicating simultaneously with humans and computers. Good code is that which achieves its technical requirements of reliability, performance, security, etc. in the way most accessible to a human. Good architecture is that which achieves its technical requirements of structural stability, cost-effective layout, energy efficiency, etc. in the way that best meets the needs of the people who will be seeing and using the space.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s nothing about testing in that definition. Optimizing code for tests is like optimizing a building for government inspectors. Yes, making all of the piping and wiring easily accessible via a hatch in the wall is a good thing because it will allow easier repairs and upgrades, but splitting the toilets into three different parts connected by rubber hose so that the inspectors can verify that the flush mechanism and the trap and what-have-you are all working properly independently would be inadvisable.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not going to attack the examples presented in the article because they are clearly a strawman. They serve to demonstrate the ideas the author sponsors rather than as a case study in how the author is right.","parent":"10832576","id":"10837338"}
{"by":"wz1000","time":"1429335793","timestamp":"2015-04-18 05:43:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Haskell, there are no \u003ci\u003eside effects\u003c/i\u003e. Any effects you care about will explicitly be part of the type.\u003cp\u003eHaskell provides many combinators to combine various combinations of effectful and effect-free functions. Look into the documentation for Control.Monad to see some.","parent":"9397851","id":"9398428"}
{"by":"wturner","time":"1498685827","timestamp":"2017-06-28 21:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still can\u0026#x27;t get my head around the logic that a garbage collector gets paid next to nothing relative to someone who is paid millions to talk into a microphone and the reasoning is that the latter \u0026quot;provides more value\u0026quot;. \u0026quot;They provide more value\u0026quot; just seems like a very partial catch phrase to make this all look less absurd than it actually is.","parent":"14658482","id":"14658703"}
{"by":"conradfr","time":"1411814746","timestamp":"2014-09-27 10:45:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great link, but I would say still more than reading HN ;)","parent":"8373117","id":"8376663"}
{"by":"kscaldef","time":"1281629133","timestamp":"2010-08-12 16:05:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my personal observations, I'd say the 2x number is BS anyway.  Yeah, there might be a few contractors really raking it in.  And I don't exactly sit around comparing tax returns with my friends and acquaintances.  But, I certainly get the impression that I'm making more as a FTE than most contractors around here.  (To be fair, I'm also making more than most salaried employees as well.)  The guys I know who contract never seem to have as much work as they want.  They're always juggling a couple gigs to make ends meet.  Their wives are constantly bugging them to just get a \"real job\" so they can pay the bills.  So, I think the idea that you could quit your job and just step into contracting and double your pay is misleading.","parent":"1598040","id":"1598422"}
{"by":"fnovd","time":"1478890014","timestamp":"2016-11-11 18:46:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have a problem with safe spaces. To me, they\u0026#x27;re like office break rooms. Sometimes you just need a minute to disengage. But, if you\u0026#x27;re spending your whole day in there, I\u0026#x27;m going to question why you show up to work in the first place.","parent":"12933072","id":"12933127"}
{"by":"ipedrazas","time":"1364250711","timestamp":"2013-03-25 22:31:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the name is not that important, is it? I mean, at the end we use an email client, no-matter-whatever-the-name\u003cp\u003eBrands are important for the companies not for the people.","parent":"5440010","id":"5440139"}
{"by":"vhiremath4","time":"1350288211","timestamp":"2012-10-15 08:03:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://vhiremath4.github.com/Balloon/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://vhiremath4.github.com/Balloon/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso outlined on the README.","parent":"4654002","id":"4654167"}
{"by":"vegas","time":"1338699700","timestamp":"2012-06-03 05:01:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Model checking is a pretty cool idea, except you really need to have it built into the language rather than as an annotation or seperate system.  Maintaining a seperate model just gives you two places to make typos.","parent":"4059541","id":"4060107"}
{"by":"godinaa","time":"1515539013","timestamp":"2018-01-09 23:03:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand wanting to show off your latest project, but comparing a large framework like Rails to your couple hundred lines of crystal is not an honest comparison, not even taking into account the concerns of startup time as others mentioned.","parent":"16109765","id":"16111007"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1507603155","timestamp":"2017-10-10 02:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that the first time.\u003cp\u003eYeah. Many levels of creepyness there.","parent":"15438541","id":"15438902"}
{"by":"danudey","time":"1266271471","timestamp":"2010-02-15 22:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026#62; It looks to me, as if a team had a good idea (yes, i think buzz as an idea is a good idea,\n  \u0026#62; the launch was not) but it was not properly tested and thought of such cases.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI agree wholeheartedly, which is why I feel they're evil. They believed that their idea was a good one, and so forced it on everyone without bothered to test it. Even if you don't attribute their mistakes to malice, the other option is to concede that they were 'merely' careless and reckless with our personal, private data.\u003cp\u003eMy issue with Google isn't all the privacy issues around Buzz, it's that all the privacy issues around Buzz came after no outside testing, and with no choice on the end-user's part. They made a string of assumptions that turned out to be false in a not-insignificant number of cases, because no one thought 'hey, maybe we should ask people before we give other people information about them.'","parent":"1127589","id":"1127642"}
{"by":"BatFastard","time":"1493929172","timestamp":"2017-05-04 20:19:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I will boil down 10 years experience into a few words, \u0026quot;its hard, and expensive\u0026quot;. Leveraging the real world paradigm works great in some situations and not at all in others. There are some things that 2D will always be better for, like search and shopping.","parent":"14263460","id":"14268402"}
{"by":"ekanes","time":"1311626703","timestamp":"2011-07-25 20:45:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Adding another data point: Bought it, reading it, so far very impressed.","parent":"2802670","id":"2804523"}
{"by":"Grue3","time":"1384338055","timestamp":"2013-11-13 10:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe he should ask Putin for some spare change.","parent":"6723521","id":"6724315"}
{"by":"kibwen","time":"1412185755","timestamp":"2014-10-01 17:49:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly I\u0026#x27;m not enough of an expert to say for sure. It would certainly depend on the specific form that it took, and there are a multitude of options in this space. Of the current contributors who are willing and able to push the boundaries here, I believe that quasiquotation is the preferred approach (motivated by use cases for compile-time codegen in Servo).","parent":"8395652","id":"8396354"}
{"by":"xhrpost","time":"1366807615","timestamp":"2013-04-24 12:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I remember correctly, people used to criticize IBM's Deep Blue for not being \"real\" AI because it just basically brute-forced a ton of possible play paths in the chess game. Someone then said: \"Saying that Deep Blue doesn't really think is like saying an airplane doesn't really fly because it doesn't flap its wings.\"","parent":"5600842","id":"5601140"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1258811585","timestamp":"2009-11-21 13:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If your startup is domestically based or requires important people to have home internet access, and that access can be completely removed if your kid downloads (or is suspected of downloading) something that big-media say is infringing their copyright, then can you see how that might disrupt your online activity.\u003cp\u003eI'm going to go out on a limb here and posit that internet start-ups generally do less well without internet access.","parent":"953675","id":"954535"}
{"by":"mrfusion","time":"1469808791","timestamp":"2016-07-29 16:13:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can anyone eli5?","parent":"12186149","id":"12187818"}
{"by":"return0","time":"1523021172","timestamp":"2018-04-06 13:26:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AV driving seems to be ripe for disruption","parent":"16772748","id":"16773002"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1298145682","timestamp":"2011-02-19 20:01:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For perspective, here's the most popular recent articles on China:\n\u003ca href=\"http://searchyc.com/china?sort=by_points\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://searchyc.com/china?sort=by_points\u003c/a\u003e\nCompanies pulling out, being blocked, hacking, plagiarism, human rights violations, book banning, even making T-shirts there seems to be a bad idea due to rising labour costs and a shortage of yarn... \npositives: a pretty cool but unworkable giant tram concept\u003cp\u003eDoubt things are going too badly for you in Shanghai though?","parent":"2239435","id":"2239749"}
{"by":"vessenes","time":"1308950343","timestamp":"2011-06-24 21:19:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Libel laws are extremely strong in the UK; the closes thing we have here would be anti-trust laws.\u003cp\u003eAs a fun historical example, Richard Branson felt BA was acting monopolistically in England; they both kept Virgin out of Heathrow for some time, and one of their senior execs badmouthed the airline in England.\u003cp\u003eVirgin took the court to New York State (since, you know, JFK Airport), won the anti-trust case there, then returned and won the libel case in the UK based on evidence in the US case. At least, that's how Branson tells it.","parent":"2693798","id":"2693921"}
{"by":"dreamcompiler","time":"1533755395","timestamp":"2018-08-08 19:09:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like you have a beef with Aaronson that goes beyond this blog post.","parent":"17718448","id":"17718547"}
{"by":"fpgeek","time":"1339579531","timestamp":"2012-06-13 09:25:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The VFAT patent isn't FRAND because it was just a de-facto standard that became popular because it was compatible with over 95% of desktop and laptop computers at one point in time.\u003cp\u003eOf course, you'd think that a convicted monopolist might have some obligations with respect to licensing patents essential to de-facto standards created by the same monopoly power. In today's world, unfortunately, you'd be wrong.","parent":"4104746","id":"4105039"}
{"by":"stoney","time":"1295144830","timestamp":"2011-01-16 02:27:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that T5 is pretty decent.  The queues are short and there's lots of seating.  Access by car is pretty decent if you're on that side of London (which most of the country is).  Pretty much all I care about.\u003cp\u003eI generally try to avoid Heathrow T3 though (and T2 and T4 never seem to have flights to where I want to go).","parent":"2108402","id":"2108438"}
{"by":"VectorLock","time":"1505153256","timestamp":"2017-09-11 18:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The box is mostly to prevent dust ingress which is arguably a bigger problem than heat or condensation on the playa.","parent":"15219120","id":"15220668"}
{"by":"sglasberg","time":"1435778760","timestamp":"2015-07-01 19:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA\u003cp\u003eAt RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. High-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data.\u003cp\u003eWe are currently hiring: Account Development Representatives, an Onboarding Account Manager, a Data Warehouse Analyst, a Lead Product Designer, and a Senior Web Applications Engineer. To learn more about our open jobs, check out our career page: rjmetrics.com\u0026#x2F;jobs.\u003cp\u003eOur offers are competitive - they include stock options, 100% company-paid health benefits, flexible scheduling\u0026#x2F;time-off policy, 401K, a commuter benefits program, assess to a fully stocked kitchen and weekly catered lunches, and SO MUCH MORE!\u003cp\u003eRJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised.\u003cp\u003eWe are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.","parent":"9812245","id":"9814503"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1455635776","timestamp":"2016-02-16 15:16:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Mac decided to go for Metal. That\u0026#x27;s their choice.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a choice which predates Vulkan being even thought of though.","parent":"11109876","id":"11110322"}
{"by":"georgieporgie","time":"1300266084","timestamp":"2011-03-16 09:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Japan bet that they wouldn't have an earthquake over, what, 7.8?  I forget what the nuclear plants were engineered to withstand.  Life is risk management.\u003cp\u003eI agree with others, though, that the TSA should know, to a reasonably high degree of certainty, what the \u003ci\u003emaximum\u003c/i\u003e dose of radiation will be from any given scan.  But what can you expect from an organization that judges success by the number of water bottles and nail clippers confiscated...","parent":"2330808","id":"2331349"}
{"by":"adamnemecek","time":"1394517545","timestamp":"2014-03-11 05:59:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mean it\u0026#x27;s probably the same for me (idk I never really counted) but I still find it strange when pretty reputable news outlets do it.","parent":"7377695","id":"7377699"}
{"by":"onreact-com","time":"1253279849","timestamp":"2009-09-18 13:17:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is news.arc?","parent":"830155","id":"830186"}
{"by":"dsl","time":"1332222534","timestamp":"2012-03-20 05:48:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup. That is the one. Thanks!","parent":"3727437","id":"3728009"}
{"by":"devx","time":"1379999382","timestamp":"2013-09-24 05:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does it come with an arrest if your post gets liked 500 times, too?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailydot.com/news/china-teen-arrested-rumors-500-retweets/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailydot.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;china-teen-arrested-rumors-500-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6435993","id":"6436112"}
{"by":"jdietrich","time":"1347692399","timestamp":"2012-09-15 06:59:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those who don't understand the prosecution, it is important to know that impoverished parts of northern England have seen violent race riots on several occasions over the past few years, as have many other countries in Europe. There was significant rioting across England in August of last year, which had a substantial racial element and which ultimately led to 5 deaths.\u003cp\u003eRadical Islamist and far-right groups are constantly looking to provoke anger and dischord, with regular demonstrations and counter-demonstrations by groups like Islam4UK and the English Defence League posing a real threat to civil society.\u003cp\u003eThe American notion of free speech is reliant on a level of cultural homogeneity that limits the risks of political and ethnic tensions. Europeans are much more comfortable with the idea of limiting speech which is a threat to peaceful coexistence, because we are painfully aware of how quickly a society can degenerate.\u003cp\u003eAmericans perceive free speech as an inalienable right, but the European perspective is generally that there is a careful balance to be struck between the right of the individual to self-expression and defending the political stability which makes such freedom possible. The provocation of social tension is very much perceived as equivalent to shouting \"fire!\" in a crowded theatre. A great many historical failures to strike that balance loom large over the European political landscape.","parent":"4525101","id":"4525553"}
{"by":"mitchty","time":"1330626068","timestamp":"2012-03-01 18:21:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a way these scientists \"hacked\" a species from going completely extinct.","parent":"3651910","id":"3653294"}
{"by":"berntb","time":"1294861304","timestamp":"2011-01-12 19:41:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for the late answer, I was busy today and didn't check hn until now, long after it went from the front page.\u003cp\u003eLindberg was going to be fired because of complaints from the employees -- but he got reinstated, by Bodström himself! That was a few years before the big scandal.\u003cp\u003eThat is well known and has been in the major media. Google gave me this link. IIRC, I originally read it in DN or SvD.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.1862998/lindberg-raddades-kvar-av-bodstrom\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.1862998/lindberg-raddades-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;\u0026#62;I december 2002 skickade polisfacket i Uppsala ett brev direkt till justitieminister Thomas Bodström där de krävde att Lindberg skulle avgå.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;\u0026#62;– Från justitieministern fick vi inget svar över huvud taget, säger Gunnar Elrud, som då var ordförande för polisfacket.\u003cp\u003e(And being at -3 in the original comment for posting well known facts, while that simple questioning got +11, is really funny...)","parent":"2095416","id":"2097361"}
{"by":"eridius","time":"1502926576","timestamp":"2017-08-16 23:36:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now I want to see Mappy used to map out Mappy-Land (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mappy-Land\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mappy-Land\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"15026931","id":"15032316"}
{"by":"Create","time":"1355700985","timestamp":"2012-12-16 23:36:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"no problem, History isn't simple (for many reasons)\u003cp\u003eCertainly, the presence of nuclear weapons on their territory involves, for Europeans, multiple risks. Many of them are similar to the risks and dangers faced by the citizens of any of the countries possessing an atomic arsenal. The usefulness and desirability of which may be subject to debate. Including whether the risks are worth to be taken in the service of a politico-military strategy of national defence (or, conversely, must be rejected in view of universal peace and total disarmament). It is up to each and everyone to take a stance according to their beliefs, their world views, their perception and ranking of hazards, et cetera. For us here, all this is irrelevant. Because in this case, the question does not even arise. Thanks to another dimension of NATO nuclear \"sharing\", which is highly reflective of transatlantic relations. Whereas in the nuclear power countries the debate can focus on the articulation of the nuclear force with an overall strategy (importance attributed, or not, to the concept of deterrence), here, to the contrary, the (U.S.) nuclear force, and the myth of the protective umbrella that accompanies it, is a pretext used to justify the lack of (European) strategy. As well as providing a comfortable smokescreen that allows the governments of the old continent to stay, ultimately, flawlessly aligned on the United States – even if this means to become accomplices of a nuclear strategy in the development and implementation of which they cannot even dream of having a little bit of say. Alas, they already feel happy when they are, more or less correctly and more or less timely, informed on the subject.","parent":"4929195","id":"4930025"}
{"by":"dave_sullivan","time":"1489262302","timestamp":"2017-03-11 19:58:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Say you had a computer operating near planck scale (or some max bound on physical density of a computer system), could you use that to represent more information than would fit in the physical space?\u003cp\u003eThe simulation argument is \u0026quot;If we ever create a simulation, we\u0026#x27;ll create more, so we\u0026#x27;re probably in one of those simulations, unless we were first or are unique at cosmic scales.\u0026quot; Would lazy loading make it harder to simulate our own universe at similar scales (harder to build a simulation in a simulation?)\u003cp\u003eAt some point, unless we\u0026#x27;re living in a \u003ci\u003elimited\u003c/i\u003e simulation that can itself not be fully simulated, aren\u0026#x27;t we getting something for nothing? And if it is in fact limited, how do you show that?\u003cp\u003eEdit: basically what zerofries said...","parent":"13846507","id":"13846903"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1517526078","timestamp":"2018-02-01 23:01:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They wouldn\u0026#x27;t care about that. In fact when someone volunteers to pay for everybody, and someone else asks to chip in because e.g. they drank alcohol or they ordered a more expensive dish than the others, the person volunteering to pay just dismisses them (and jokingly feigns being insulted that they\u0026#x27;d think he\u0026#x27;d care for such a thing).","parent":"16285588","id":"16286781"}
{"by":"imrev","time":"1412890360","timestamp":"2014-10-09 21:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hello Guys,\nI hate when people sends me one sentence in 4-5-6 messages with 5-10 min time difference, therefore I created Shorty. It shows only the last message of the conversation so you must compose meaningful messages with much content as you can. Please tell me if you don\u0026#x27;t like something, I appreciate any criticism.\u003cp\u003eThanks, Imre","parent":"8435047","id":"8435120"}
{"by":"danbmil99","time":"1249540422","timestamp":"2009-08-06 06:33:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This whole nonsense bodes ill for Apple after Steve.  In fact, I suspect it's a foreshadowing of how fucked up Apple will be if he ever leaves the company.  Apple+Jobs is a bit like North Korea (though more successful) -- it's whole structure is built around a single personality.  There seems to be no cultural ability to properly delegate authority.\u003cp\u003eIf Steve had been full throttle over the last year, he would have personally vetted the first 500 apps, and carefully trained a couple lackeys to predict his innate reaction so well that they could proxy for him for 90% of the submissions (those from unknowns).  Steve would have personally handled the 5 or 10% from developers deemed important enough to not completely piss off.  This is how he's run the company since his return (and probably how he ran it in the first place).\u003cp\u003eIn my experience negotiating with Apple, it was like talking to the staff of a very famous and influential person, rather than talking to people at a company with a normal distribution of responsibility.  Everyone could give you an opinion or best guess about what might transpire, but absolutely nothing could be decided one way or another without the direct involvement of Steve.\u003cp\u003eI think they're in for a very rough period if/when Steve leaves.  Obviously the app store has fallen off his radar or we wouldn't be seeing this kind of bullshit.  It's all a factor of his personal bandwidth, which has obviously been impacted by his health.","parent":"742616","id":"744930"}
{"by":"kordless","time":"1406011183","timestamp":"2014-07-22 06:39:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just wash it off.","parent":"8067552","id":"8067632"}
{"by":"startupdiscuss","time":"1515000518","timestamp":"2018-01-03 17:28:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, this is very interesting.\u003cp\u003eI wish I could upvote you more so you get a boost but I don\u0026#x27;t think I can.\u003cp\u003eSo after you went over the parts, you had to come up with labels and branding and packaging. Was the manufacturer able to do all that for you? And this was included in the $11k\u0026#x2F;2000 = $5.5\u0026#x2F;unit?\u003cp\u003eDid you hire someone on upwork to do the packaging?","parent":"16062661","id":"16062918"}
{"by":"rad_gruchalski","time":"1511795822","timestamp":"2017-11-27 15:17:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but what if the language I\u0026#x27;m using is not high on your priority list? Isn\u0026#x27;t it easier to add a high level rest api?","parent":"15787594","id":"15787914"}
{"by":"tst","time":"1297703211","timestamp":"2011-02-14 17:06:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eArticlesbase is a leading articles directory that receives over 15 million monthly unique visitors to our over 25 different verticals. We offer premium placement for 300x250 display ads targeted to a vertical / geography or ROS.\u003c/i\u003e\n - Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.articlesbase.com/advertising\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust looked into one article (\u003ca href=\"http://www.articlesbase.com/business-opportunities-articles/information-on-refinancing-your-home-mortgage-4227262.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.articlesbase.com/business-opportunities-articles/...\u003c/a\u003e) there are two text boxes with Google Ads, two vertical banners and one horizontal banner at the bottom.","parent":"2217354","id":"2217514"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1361843976","timestamp":"2013-02-26 01:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Say what shit? Swartz shouldn't have been in the networking closet.","parent":"5283073","id":"5283374"}
{"by":"kakarotoismygod","time":"1463692424","timestamp":"2016-05-19 21:13:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having offline apps is game changing because not everyone has access to the Internet all day long, and doing tasks like image and video editing on your laptop will be much easier and faster than using web services.","parent":"11733887","id":"11733905"}
{"by":"arrrg","time":"1367336608","timestamp":"2013-04-30 15:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, for me it isn’t and I also have a rMBP. I believe you, it’s just that you are likely looking at a software issue. (No doubt that this software issue is likely exacerbated by the requirements of the screen and it sucks either way, but in principle the graphics hardware is up to the task.)","parent":"5629239","id":"5632823"}
{"by":"TheOneTrueKyle","time":"1485383859","timestamp":"2017-01-25 22:37:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then I will probably sell drugs.","parent":"13486569","id":"13486940"}
{"by":"SamReidHughes","time":"1396142519","timestamp":"2014-03-30 01:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Instead of assigning person-to-person debt relationships, my company just tracked the sum of each person\u0026#x27;s net debt on the whiteboard, with a circular buffer log so we can go back and fix things in case the sum doesn\u0026#x27;t add up to 0.  The trouble with that is when people are too lazy to update the sum, so they end up hoarding a bunch of receipts and then update it way later.  Eventually some numbers got really big, so I put some offsets on the board so that infrequent participants\u0026#x27; contribution to the sum was zero.  And then people left the company with nonzero debts...\u003cp\u003eAnother option that we\u0026#x27;ve started doing is to just randomly assign the task of paying for a meal, weighted by each person\u0026#x27;s proportion of the cost.\u003cp\u003eOnce somebody has a debt to a coworker, though, the most efficient way of paying it off is to bet double-or-nothing on a coin flip until the debt is zero or the debtor is uncomfortable increasing it further.","parent":"7494321","id":"7494723"}
{"by":"malkia","time":"1357837336","timestamp":"2013-01-10 17:02:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And when he/she grows up, your phone would be lost forever... in their little hands :)","parent":"5037941","id":"5038103"}
{"by":"justinmk","time":"1408003232","timestamp":"2014-08-14 08:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it\u0026#x27;s anything like the Neovim coverity report, it\u0026#x27;s probably not particularly interesting. But it is extremely helpful, and it\u0026#x27;s impressive what static analysis can find in a legacy C codebase. Here\u0026#x27;s the Neovim clang analysis:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://neovim.org/doc/build-reports/clang/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;neovim.org\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;build-reports\u0026#x2F;clang\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eClick on any of the \u0026quot;View Report\u0026quot; links to see a line-by-line step-through of each suspected bug.\u003cp\u003e(Coverity doesn\u0026#x27;t allow public access to reports AFAIK, so can\u0026#x27;t link to it.)","parent":"8176480","id":"8176506"}
{"by":"elwin","time":"1363274478","timestamp":"2013-03-14 15:21:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Higgs field is something like the idea of an ether, pervading all space, but it is not related to the propagation of light.","parent":"5375360","id":"5375521"}
{"by":"toomanybeersies","time":"1519048165","timestamp":"2018-02-19 13:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously everyone is different, but I could never work from home. I really need social interaction to get through the day, I struggle even in my office of 8 people.\u003cp\u003eI used to work in a coworking space of 250 people, and I loved it. If I\u0026#x27;m being honest it\u0026#x27;s not great for productivity, but socially it was amazing. It was also a really good way to meet people and make new friends, which was important because I moved to a new city and didn\u0026#x27;t know anyone.\u003cp\u003eI couldn\u0026#x27;t handle spending over 20 hours a day in the same building either, I\u0026#x27;d get cabin fever. Even spending a whole weekend at home drives me crazy, I have to get out of the house.\u003cp\u003eI could totally do remote working in a coworking space, or the digital nomad thing, but not working from home. I also think that remote working works best if the whole company is remote. You can\u0026#x27;t have some people remote and some people on location, because you get an \u0026quot;us and them\u0026quot; mentality. It also makes communication difficult, an on-location team member might tell everyone in the office something, but forget to put it in Slack, as an example.\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day though, different things work for different people.","parent":"16411363","id":"16412828"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1395056541","timestamp":"2014-03-17 11:42:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s quite possible to think of reasons why they decided on that course of action. I\u0026#x27;m no expert, but here\u0026#x27;s some based on previous incidents:\u003cp\u003eThey wanted to burn off fuel.\u003cp\u003eThere was a fault with the rudder\u003cp\u003eThere was a fault with the control system\u003cp\u003eThey pilots were dead, and the autopilot was doing something off.","parent":"7414360","id":"7414454"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1282236793","timestamp":"2010-08-19 16:53:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article struck a real chord with me too. I stayed far, far too long at my last job and it's only after finally getting bored enough to quit that I've realized how corrosive it's been to my motivation for \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"1617576","id":"1617867"}
{"by":"mooreds","time":"1535822535","timestamp":"2018-09-01 17:22:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a fundamental skill for modern jobs. If you don\u0026#x27;t want your labor to be commoditized or be out on the other end of an API, you need to be able to do hard, creative things.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately what is \u0026quot;hard\u0026quot; changes every year, so you need to be a continuous learner.","parent":"17892796","id":"17892865"}
{"by":"josephschmoe","time":"1403130004","timestamp":"2014-06-18 22:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a brilliant idea - I just have this feeling something terrible is going to happen as a result of the scaling process. Something about posting event details to a public place...","parent":"7905290","id":"7913270"}
{"by":"drdaeman","time":"1457227184","timestamp":"2016-03-06 01:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But what if I want to watch ~\u0026#x2F;Downloads\u0026#x2F;big_buck_bunny.mkv?","parent":"11230280","id":"11232013"}
{"by":"herrwolfe","time":"1418407917","timestamp":"2014-12-12 18:11:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only for interacting with photos. Normally, I just use terminal :).","parent":"8741310","id":"8741709"}
{"by":"luke_s","time":"1348643879","timestamp":"2012-09-26 07:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The tent.io protocol looks very interesting.  Architecturally the way e-mail works, mixed with the functionality of social networks all done over JSON/REST.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if it would be possible to implement a tent.io -\u0026#62; facebook/G+/Twitter bridge?  A tent.io server, which instead of being backed by some sort of database, would instead read and write to somebodies existing social network profiles?","parent":"4572427","id":"4574531"}
{"by":"billysielu","time":"1510046403","timestamp":"2017-11-07 09:20:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do folks think about this?\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;She felt comforted by the rabbits’ straightforward approach to their emotions and said that reading the novel might actually help neurotypical people understand autism in a new way.\u0026quot;","parent":"15640138","id":"15641964"}
{"by":"pault","time":"1518371783","timestamp":"2018-02-11 17:56:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve migrated off Google services as much as possible over the last six months; I use Duck Duck Go for searches, and fastmail for email with my own domain. I also use the fastmail client\u0026#x27;s built in calendar. So far I\u0026#x27;ve only had to fall back to a Google search a few times in six months, and the fastmail client is light years behind gmail inbox and gcal, but it\u0026#x27;s fine for my usage patterns. A year ago I was spending half of every day on a google service, now I barely touch them.","parent":"16353357","id":"16353767"}
{"by":"azth","time":"1456950204","timestamp":"2016-03-02 20:23:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you provide an example? I\u0026#x27;d be interested to know more.","parent":"11209713","id":"11212714"}
{"by":"CaptSpify","time":"1457454979","timestamp":"2016-03-08 16:36:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair: What is proper practice, is far from what is common practice","parent":"11246291","id":"11246318"}
{"by":"dtran","time":"1298517284","timestamp":"2011-02-24 03:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Way to go Dan and Pete! Didn't get a chance to play around with it, but the cross-browser testing and interactive modes sound like really useful features even outside of the context of A-B testing.","parent":"2256742","id":"2256793"}
{"by":"blueskin_","time":"1425905171","timestamp":"2015-03-09 12:46:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there\u0026#x27;s a huge article about her situation, it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter so much - only the densest of people would still be offended (and are peobably not the kind of person any sane person would want to work for anyway), while now there won\u0026#x27;t be the same number of people who were innocently misled into believing she was trying to be offensive.","parent":"9169192","id":"9170567"}
{"by":"mattkevan","time":"1544795730","timestamp":"2018-12-14 13:55:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My fairly recent MacBook boots up in less time than Photoshop takes to open.\u003cp\u003ePhotoshop is amazing and I use it daily, but my goodness does it creak.","parent":"18680383","id":"18680777"}
{"by":"anonymfus","time":"1381334162","timestamp":"2013-10-09 15:56:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When \u0026quot;none of the above\u0026quot; wins, it usually means new elections where all old candidates are banned or some other procedure to resolve complete distrust to current politicians.","parent":"6521888","id":"6522036"}
{"by":"damncabbage","time":"1360289080","timestamp":"2013-02-08 02:04:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wisty said it best in another post: \"All sync is horrible. iCould unnecessarily so.\"\u003cp\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185428\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185428\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"5185807","id":"5185866"}
{"by":"palish","time":"1172778177","timestamp":"2007-03-01 19:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see what you're getting at.  What I meant was, I work 50 hour weeks.  During my spare time, I'm getting my business up and running.  If I can ever be in a position which I can focus on my business full time without starving, then I'll do that.  That'll happen right around when I save up $15k, or the business is successful.  Just because there's no way out of my job doesn't make me not an entrepreneur :P","parent":"1671","id":"1757"}
{"by":"madaxe","time":"1379704663","timestamp":"2013-09-20 19:17:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The casings are steel, the rtg is in a ceramic capsule. You\u0026#x27;d be amazed at what barnacles and such can pry wide open given time.","parent":"6419732","id":"6419912"}
{"by":"mturmon","time":"1351611488","timestamp":"2012-10-30 15:38:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, being on the other side is the best way to prepare for actually writing a proposal.  It's easier to write a document when you know the mindset of the person reading it.","parent":"4715959","id":"4717789"}
{"by":"ilitirit","time":"1289471816","timestamp":"2010-11-11 10:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems very buggy.  This is what mine looks like:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://imgur.com/64D7h\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://imgur.com/64D7h\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso, here are a few other issues:\u003cp\u003e* Navigating to www.google.com gives me a 302 page before redirecting me to the localized version (seems like it does this on other sites as well)\u003cp\u003e* The AdBlock icon is missing\u003cp\u003e* No status bar means I can't access my NoScript, MultiProxy Switch, or FireBug addons easily\u003cp\u003e* Sometimes tabs just refuse to close\u003cp\u003e* It didn't seem to want to upload the above image to imgur.com.  Might have been some other problem but it worked in IE8.\u003cp\u003e* The back button doesn't work (backspace does though)\u003cp\u003e* ctrl-shift-t doesn't work (\"Restore recently closed tabs\" is greyed out)\u003cp\u003e* When I submitted this comment I wasn't redirected to the comment page - a blank page was all I got (same thing that happened on imgur, so I'm assuming it's a related issue)\u003cp\u003e* Sometimes I get stuck in the Tab Groups window and I can't return to the main view\u003cp\u003eThis is all within 10 minutes of installation, so I'm expecting to find more bugs.","parent":"1892605","id":"1893489"}
{"by":"TamDenholm","time":"1485962884","timestamp":"2017-02-01 15:28:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do contract work a lot in the UK through recruitment agencies. I very often provide feedback like this, especially when i\u0026#x27;m asked to opt-out of the agency regulations. I never opt out, every single time i get the a response along the lines of \u0026quot;In my 20+ years of recruiting we\u0026#x27;ve never had any problems with the contractor not opting out of the agency regulations, you\u0026#x27;re the first person to ever do that. Can i ask why you want to opt-in?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eMy response is always something like \u0026quot;Thank you for acknowledging my contribution to the innovation to the recruitment industry, i\u0026#x27;m very proud to be a pioneer in this field, being first is a great honour. One thing to note, i\u0026#x27;m not opting in, i\u0026#x27;m refusing to opt out, i dont need to opt-in to the law. I\u0026#x27;ve chosen to do this because theres no reason to and the law specifically protects me from you forcing me to do so. Also, since your client has already decided to hire me, even if i was to opt out, it wouldnt be recognised in court as the opt out paperwork must be signed before i ever meet the client.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFor this point on the agency regulations, i do it primarily just to make the recruiters work for their exorbitant markup on my day rate. However i do also question source code and copyright clauses like the author did, almost always, i\u0026#x27;m looked at with dumbfoundment that i even bothered to read the contract.\u003cp\u003eIf anyone wants to know the regulations i\u0026#x27;m referring to, heres a link: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.contractoruk.com\u0026#x2F;agencies\u0026#x2F;5158.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.contractoruk.com\u0026#x2F;agencies\u0026#x2F;5158.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13541162","id":"13541397"}
{"by":"ojbyrne","time":"1334080998","timestamp":"2012-04-10 18:03:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Baltimore's downtown is surprisingly livable and walkable.","parent":"3823443","id":"3823504"}
{"by":"wallace_f","time":"1487609350","timestamp":"2017-02-20 16:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I skip just two meals I get irritability, acid reflux, upset stomach, headache, and at worst, aggressive.\u003cp\u003eThe acid reflux can sometimes get so bad that my ears start to get clogged I get other ENT symptoms.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t see how people can do it. I can\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"13686671","id":"13688707"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1423894246","timestamp":"2015-02-14 06:10:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read Calabresi\u0026#x27;s opinion in the appeals court case overturning the conviction:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://tsi.brooklaw.edu/sites/tsi.brooklaw.edu/files/filings/united-states-v-aleynikov/20120411calabresi039s-concurrence.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tsi.brooklaw.edu\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;tsi.brooklaw.edu\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;filings...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gist is: everyone agrees the conviction needs to be overturned by the letter of the law, and so it was, but that\u0026#x27;s because the law was silly, which is why it was immediately changed by unanimous consent in the Senate and a 388-4 vote in the House in a bill \u003ci\u003especifically mentioning Aleynikov\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2012/11/27/senate-section/article/S6978-3\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.congress.gov\u0026#x2F;congressional-record\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;27\u0026#x2F;sen...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9048194","id":"9048905"}
{"by":"ddodge","time":"1305654728","timestamp":"2011-05-17 17:52:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is basic stuff for anyone here. I'm sure you get asked for startup advice all the time. Here is something you can send to people who ask you for help. It will get them started thinking...and come back with more focused questions.","parent":"2557096","id":"2557153"}
{"by":"purple-dragon","time":"1484089835","timestamp":"2017-01-10 23:10:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re projecting. I have bought Apple products because they work best for me in light of other options, but I don\u0026#x27;t consider them above criticism or reproach.\u003cp\u003eCalling someone a fanboy is just as old (and frankly, quite silly).","parent":"13370072","id":"13370132"}
{"by":"DrScump","time":"1450918469","timestamp":"2015-12-24 00:54:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Permissions required:\u003cp\u003eIdentity\u003cp\u003eLocation\u003cp\u003ePhotos, Media, Files\u003cp\u003eWiFi connection info","parent":"10785578","id":"10786501"}
{"by":"justifier","time":"1514656464","timestamp":"2017-12-30 17:54:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  She seems to be saying that she is not capable of giving consent, meaning that she is the legal equivalent of a child.\u003cp\u003eWhat in this post could lead anyone to that conclusion?\u003cp\u003eThe author established sexual boundaries\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; When I became romantically involved with Jacob, I clearly told him that I wasn\u0026#x27;t interested in group sex, or having sex in front of other people. I told him this more than once, and clearly stated that if we were going to be intimate, I wanted it to be with him in a private setting.\u003cp\u003eAnd had those boundaries violated while intoxicated","parent":"16035051","id":"16036348"}
{"by":"rckclmbr","time":"1485496861","timestamp":"2017-01-27 06:01:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love this comment, thanks for sharing it.  And next time, you\u0026#x27;ll be the \u0026quot;more skilled person\u0026quot;.","parent":"13495738","id":"13498066"}
{"by":"anothermachine","time":"1341205132","timestamp":"2012-07-02 04:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; So, really, you need something like car insurance, where everyone (and here I also mean every country) is required to buy in.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4184643","id":"4187389"}
{"by":"vicaya","time":"1384504226","timestamp":"2013-11-15 08:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For reads, sure. LSMs are optimized for writes, while LMDB, which is a nice B-tree implementation is optimized for reads.\u003cp\u003eLSMs are getting popular because it\u0026#x27;s harder to scale durable writes than reads, which can be handled (in many cases independently) by caching.","parent":"6737731","id":"6738348"}
{"by":"ljf","time":"1503302697","timestamp":"2017-08-21 08:04:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Put of interest, what do you hoard? I\u0026#x27;m similar - I don\u0026#x27;t spend much money, but I do (at times) find myself surrounded by crap or tools or the detritus of \u0026#x27;hobbies\u0026#x27; that I tired of. Had another clear out lately and feeling great for it, though likely need another round or two...","parent":"15062296","id":"15062751"}
{"by":"pkolaczk","time":"1442385157","timestamp":"2015-09-16 06:32:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point. I have nothing against temporary accepting people coming from dangerous places, regardless of their financial status. However not all of them come from war zones. Some come from relatively safe places like Turkey (I do have friends in Turkey who chose to live there and while the average income there may be in fact lower than in EU, people do normally live there, have jobs, families, houses etc.). And many are not interested in staying in poorer European countries like Greece or Hungary but they say it openly: \u0026quot;we want to Germany\u0026quot;. In these cases, standard immigration rules should apply.","parent":"10224926","id":"10224997"}
{"by":"elblanco","time":"1265048409","timestamp":"2010-02-01 18:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The bigger question is that does having a bunch of friends over to watch \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e on your big-screen tv violate copyright law?","parent":"1092935","id":"1093001"}
{"by":"reacweb","time":"1523523560","timestamp":"2018-04-12 08:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think your 160 billions include advertising and lobbying.","parent":"16818882","id":"16819121"}
{"by":"chipotle_coyote","time":"1547489555","timestamp":"2019-01-14 18:12:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You keep referring to \u0026quot;JSON,\u0026quot; but the parent post referenced \u0026quot;JSONFeed.\u0026quot; The question you should be looking at isn\u0026#x27;t whether JSON is somehow better than XML in an objectively measurable way; it\u0026#x27;s whether JSONFeed is somehow better than RSS in an objectively measurable way.\u003cp\u003eAnd in fact, JSONFeed \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c/i\u003e resolve that issue for podcasts that don\u0026#x27;t publish anymore, because it has an \u0026quot;expired\u0026quot; key that indicates that. One of the other problems that the parent post mentioned has to do with pagination, and JSONFeed handles that issue, too -- which again, RSS doesn\u0026#x27;t. JSONFeed also supports attachments in a better fashion, allowing for alternate representations of the same thing (e.g., different audio formats). Extensions are baked into JSONFeed rather than being a slightly dubious hack. The spec also supports things that have become common in the last decade-plus that RSS and Atom simply don\u0026#x27;t handle, from simple things like including favicons and banners to real-time notification endpoints.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jsonfeed.org\u0026#x2F;version\u0026#x2F;1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jsonfeed.org\u0026#x2F;version\u0026#x2F;1\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eJSONFeed has come up before on HN and the same kind of \u0026quot;why do you think it\u0026#x27;s better because it\u0026#x27;s JSON\u0026quot; questions came up. I guess we can argue about whether the bike shed looks better when it\u0026#x27;s painted with braces or with angle brackets, sure. But it\u0026#x27;s not the JSON part that makes JSONFeed better; it\u0026#x27;s the \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;ve thought about what we\u0026#x27;ve learned in the 16 years since RSS was last materially updated\u0026quot; part that makes it better.","parent":"18904756","id":"18904972"}
{"by":"murz","time":"1312154014","timestamp":"2011-07-31 23:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think requiring a log-in is actually against the CAN-SPAM regulations.\u003cp\u003eFTC.gov's web site states:\n\"an e-mail recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her e-mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any steps other than sending a reply e-mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page to opt out of receiving future e-mail from a sender\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2829523","id":"2829986"}
{"by":"alan_cx","time":"1361535687","timestamp":"2013-02-22 12:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do we now? Look at the cost of the military and its uses. I didn't make government spend on that. Look at all the paranoid post 9/11 security measures. What proportion of your money is being spent on those things compared to, say, education, health or even welfare? Who actually asked for all that? To be fair, I suppose it could be called job creation.\u003cp\u003eWe don't make the government spend too much money, they chose to spend all that money because they are backed by the people who benefit from the spending of all that money, and its not the working or middle class. Remember those discussions about how bent and corrupt lobbying is? They are the people getting your money. Not \"we\".\u003cp\u003eMakes me laugh, all the US revulsion to socialism, while the US has one of the biggest state funded job creation strategies in the capitalist west. Its just that it is called the military rather than anything too socialist sounding. It also get the poor an education, at the risk of their lives. Shame its about killing and paranoia, rather than creating and earning.\u003cp\u003eYes, the military drive some innovation, but man, really? In the 21st century?","parent":"5263347","id":"5263877"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1438680263","timestamp":"2015-08-04 09:24:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The priority has been the same for hundreds of years: protect the Establishment from \u0026quot;subversives\u0026quot; threatening instability. This includes anyone leaking damaging true information. The grip seems to have loosened in recent years, partly due to overseas media and partly due to the security services genuinely having increasing panic over ISIS and Islamic radicalisation.\u003cp\u003eWhat is being concealed? Not just Zircon, but all the persistent allegations of sexual assault on children. A lot of the stories that have surfaced include elements of either the Metropolitan police or MI5 taking over the files and then \u0026quot;losing\u0026quot; them or silently shutting down the inquiry.","parent":"10002311","id":"10002360"}
{"by":"philipov","time":"1536755478","timestamp":"2018-09-12 12:31:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every time someone mentions anti-trust, someone else comes in and starts claiming it\u0026#x27;s not really a monopoly, so antitrust doesn\u0026#x27;t apply. The thing is, market manipulation doesn\u0026#x27;t require monopoly power: an excessive difference of scale between the largest and smallest participants in a market is enough.\u003cp\u003eFor example, the consumer choice feedback loop breaks down when scale gets large enough that market signals from individual decisions are smaller than the amplitude of the noise, making it easy to neutralize them with marketing. We are heading in a direction where market breakdown occurs long before monopoly power, and cartel-like behavior is more likely. The largest players are so large they have more incentive to cooperate to keep everyone else down, while maintaining only nominal competition with each other.\u003cp\u003eThat doesn\u0026#x27;t mean anti-trust is no longer relevant, but that people arguing for it need to revise their position. Antitrust has never been about monopolies, but about abuse of power in the market. It was only a historical coincidence that that lined up with monopolies when the total economy was smaller. Corporations have now become so large that market failure begins long before monopolies, and our trust-busting strategies need to adapt to that.","parent":"17967529","id":"17967862"}
{"by":"nerfhammer","time":"1496771491","timestamp":"2017-06-06 17:51:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gödel bio by Rebecca Goldstein covers some of the friendship between Gödel and Einstein: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;amzn.to\u0026#x2F;2rxJexf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;amzn.to\u0026#x2F;2rxJexf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14496885","id":"14499342"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1497857333","timestamp":"2017-06-19 07:28:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you can go to pubmed.com and read, there\u0026#x27;s a lot of papers on THC and other cannabinoids\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pubmed\u0026#x2F;?term=cannobinoids\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pubmed\u0026#x2F;?term=cannobinoids\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLots of research is related to Cancer, but there are some meta studies and non cancer related too.","parent":"14585004","id":"14585154"}
{"by":"ed_balls","time":"1546613178","timestamp":"2019-01-04 14:46:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I must have confused it with the local elections result or a poll.","parent":"18823899","id":"18824336"}
{"by":"shazow","time":"1464028052","timestamp":"2016-05-23 18:27:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m finding that people spend way more money in the rough prototyping phase than during the \u0026quot;ok let\u0026#x27;s build the real thing\u0026quot; phase. Especially in things like asset stores.\u003cp\u003eMyself and a bunch of friends working on VR stuff easily spend $10-50 on a random helper to get a prototype done in a few hours rather than a few days.","parent":"11755730","id":"11755789"}
{"by":"boothead","time":"1466164624","timestamp":"2016-06-17 11:57:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you aware of \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;postgrest.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;postgrest.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e?","parent":"11921607","id":"11922068"}
{"by":"wglb","time":"1275961608","timestamp":"2010-06-08 01:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is really a matter of scale and reality.  Let's think in survival terms.  Some applications, oh, say High Frequency Trading depend on getting the calculation done first.  We are talking milliseconds or less to do a calculation that leads to placing, cancelling, or modifying an order.  Do they use assembler?  No. Problems of scale requiring massive hardware or clusters, do they use assembler? Not generally.  Often they use Lisp, C++ or C.\u003cp\u003eSo in the context of real-world problems, compilers win, because none of us has the energy or attention span to write it in assembler, something the size of a real-world problem like, for example, a compiler.\u003cp\u003eWe optimize small problems by hand, but problems of useful size we don't because the compiler does a better job on problems of true interest than we have the patience or time to do.\u003cp\u003eTo put it another way, it is better to put energy into improving compilers than getting into a John Henry type of competition.","parent":"1410576","id":"1412734"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1370644226","timestamp":"2013-06-07 22:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But if you look at the slide why would companies slowly get \u0026quot;added\u0026quot; rather than just implicitly be being spied upon?\u003cp\u003eWell, if they are intercepting data through backbones, and much of that data is encrypted, they need to defeat the encryption in a durable way to get a clear feed. While I don\u0026#x27;t suggest that this is what was going on, if it was, there would be know reason that each provider would necessarily be broken at the same time; there would likely both be prioritization of resources directed at each provider, differences in the security of each provider, and chance involved as to when each was broken.","parent":"5842462","id":"5842485"}
{"by":"Ntrails","time":"1393519036","timestamp":"2014-02-27 16:37:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  to me \u0026quot;luxury\u0026quot; implies either greed or wastefulness\u003cp\u003eI would not read the same thing into that word, which may be a regional thing?  To me luxury and comfort are not the same as excess.","parent":"7312881","id":"7313115"}
{"by":"irremediable","time":"1513119422","timestamp":"2017-12-12 22:57:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s being downvoted because it comes over as uncharitable and even petty.\u003cp\u003eA computer scientist is one who practises and\u0026#x2F;or studies computer science, which she does. No, that doesn\u0026#x27;t require a CS degree, though it helps.","parent":"15909286","id":"15910268"}
{"by":"leoc","time":"1410402055","timestamp":"2014-09-11 02:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right; I was somewhat OT as antr\u0026#x27;s comment was about exercise watches.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think the analogy is very strong even looking at Apple Watch as an exercise watch competitor, though. Firstly, I\u0026#x27;m not closely familiar with the recent exercise watch\u0026#x2F;widgets on the market, but I\u0026#x27;d be surprised if \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e of them are as unpleasant to use as the Nomad was. Second, even if the UX advance is really that big, it seems the (first-generation) aWatch is going to have other stumbling blocks, like the need to own an iPhone 5 or higher and the need to have it with you for GPS. Those aren\u0026#x27;t just missing checklist ticks or things which will annoy a minority of technically-minded users, they\u0026#x27;re issues which affect whether \u0026quot;the rest of us\u0026quot; are going to enjoy using the aWatch or bother buying one at all. (Yes, the iPod originally required a Firewire Mac, but precisely for that reason it didn\u0026#x27;t really take off commercially until that requirement was lifted.) Thirdly, the iPod addressed a huge market, even if many users didn\u0026#x27;t even realise they were in the market for a portable music player until they heard about the iPod. Even if the aWatch wins over nearly everyone who currently uses an exercise wearable, and also draws in a substantial number of people who don\u0026#x27;t currently use one (and that\u0026#x27;s a super-optimistic outcome for as long as an iPhone remains a required accessory) is that really a big enough market to make for a commercial success on the scale of the iPod or iPhone, the kind of scale Apple now needs to keep its investors from being disappointed?","parent":"8295767","id":"8300539"}
{"by":"kirillzubovsky","time":"1330217981","timestamp":"2012-02-26 00:59:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nate, I answered this on your blog, but here's copy-pasted response:\u003cp\u003e----------------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003eNate, design is not binary. I am a big fan of well designed sites, but at the same time I think design needs to serve a purpose.\u003cp\u003eFirst, In the case of DrudgeReport, people go there for hand-picked content, probably learning about the site through referrals. Although design would make things look prettier, it wouldn't attract more readers, in that case.\u003cp\u003eSecond, good design doesn't mean pretty things. Imho, for most products, user-experience is more important than fancy graphics. People need to want to use your site, and then they need to be able to use your site!\u003cp\u003eLastly, it all depends on your business. If you're building something where your content is judged by the looks of your site, then by all means go ahead and make something really sexy. However, if your site is judged by the content, make sure the usability is top-notch and you can apply a sexy skin later.\u003cp\u003ep.s. All that said, if you're releasing a new product that needs to capture attention from a wide audience or you need to stand out among competitors, then yes, you need to make sure your design (among other things) is the best on the market. After all, you want to be noticed!","parent":"3630113","id":"3634414"}
{"by":"jhmaddox","time":"1414854010","timestamp":"2014-11-01 15:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FirstJob.com - San Francisco, CA\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re looking for inspired and versatile web developers to join our team of seven and our mission to redefine career search and skill development for the 77 million millennials that will soon represent the majority of the workforce.\u003cp\u003eFrontend Developer (Full-Time)\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ll translate Photoshop\u0026#x2F;Illustrator mockups into functional web pages. We need people who know HTML, CSS and JavaScript - especially those familiar with Bootstrap and responsive design.\u003cp\u003eFull-Stack\u0026#x2F;Backend Developer (Full-Time)\u003cp\u003eWe need a Python\u0026#x2F;Django developer to aid in feature development, site reliability, performance improvement, etc. As the first programmer outside our founding team, your work will be an integral component in ensuring we achieve our technical vision.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re offering a competitive salary and early-stage equity, health + dental and flexible paid time off. You\u0026#x27;ll work on a tight-knit team in San Francisco\u0026#x27;s Financial District.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re interested in applying, please contact me directly via email at james@firstjob. Thanks!","parent":"8542892","id":"8543255"}
{"by":"saluki","time":"1485623611","timestamp":"2017-01-28 17:13:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice that you have a connection to get your foot in the door at your Dad\u0026#x27;s plant. Customer #1.\u003cp\u003eThe path I would recommend to learn full stack development.\u003cp\u003eGo through the books Head First HTML and CSS (get an inexpensive hosting account you can FTP files to and setup some domains, point to your hosting), next go through Head First PHP and mySQL. Next is Headfirst Javascript then Headfirst jQuery.\u003cp\u003eAfter those you should sign up for teamtreehouse.com.\u003cp\u003eYou could play around with developing this in PHP without a framework, setting up a login in system you would learn a lot. Sometimes frameworks are tough to understand what all the magic is happening behind the scenes if you haven\u0026#x27;t creating a simple app with login, etc in vanilla PHP on your own. For your customer version though you will want to use a framework, more secure, better organized code, etc.\u003cp\u003eI would recommend developing this with Laravel(PHP) it has a great community so you\u0026#x27;ll be able to find great learning resources to get started. (Rails is good too, but I think Laravel will be easier to get started\u0026#x2F;deploy your app)\u003cp\u003eAlso I recommend developing on a mac. Windows always seems to have obscure issues that you will waste hours\u0026#x2F;days on.\u003cp\u003elaracasts.com will get you started with Laravel.\u003cp\u003eThere are great deployment tools forge and envoyer. Hosting on Digital Ocean is perfect for most apps, AWS and linode too)\u003cp\u003eUse stripe for billing.\u003cp\u003eThere is a SaaS add-on to the framework call Spark. It\u0026#x27;s ok but, I find I\u0026#x27;d rather roll my own stripe\u0026#x2F;SaaS integration.\u003cp\u003eAlso Spark does use Vue.js though so since you\u0026#x27;re just learning I would stick with developing the app using jquery for ajax interactions and think about moving up to vue in the future.\u003cp\u003eI would create the MVP as a web application for all the interactions. Then once you have that established you can look at adding true android and iOS apps. Those might be better to hire out the development of. Or a future learning project.\u003cp\u003eYou should be able to set everything up as a mobile web application, use the bootstrap framework for the look and feel of your app. There are some ready made admin templates that can get you something similar to baremetrics.\u003cp\u003eHaving your Dad\u0026#x27;s plant as an initial user for your app will be great to refine what they need get their feedback.\u003cp\u003eGood luck. Follow up and let us know how it\u0026#x27;s going.","parent":"13506189","id":"13507449"}
{"by":"ape4","time":"1375824307","timestamp":"2013-08-06 21:25:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a midsized to big project static typing is really nice.  eg A few years ago I had a perl project that only let you know a function was missing at run time (ie when the user asked for that code).","parent":"6168954","id":"6169278"}
{"by":"chris11","time":"1503819406","timestamp":"2017-08-27 07:36:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not too familiar with those, but it looks like they just shut down the circuit. We were looking for arcing to pinpoint where the problem was. It was a short wave radio station, so it had a large antenna. Arcing in the antenna was probably caused by a broken wire. That could be fixed by climbing up and replacing it.","parent":"15109166","id":"15109607"}
{"by":"ThinkWriteMute","time":"1267198215","timestamp":"2010-02-26 15:30:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Civility has nothing to do with it. It was a not-so-clever pun. I wasn't actually using it as a pejorative. That should be \u003ci\u003epainfully\u003c/i\u003e obvious.","parent":"1152621","id":"1153285"}
{"by":"thesmart","time":"1468679168","timestamp":"2016-07-16 14:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the convenience of GitHub and NPM are good features, and it\u0026#x27;s easy to blame ease-of-use as a culprit. I have often pondered about how remarkably poor these tools are at representing repo quality. I think there are some basic questions to ask before accepting any unknown source in as a module. What is the core problem and requirements the source addresses? Does it verify the solution and how? What is the reputation of the core contributors? Is it used by any serious institutions? (Aside: download count and star count are a measure of herd mentality) What are the open issues? What are the closed \u0026quot;won\u0026#x27;t fix\u0026quot; issues? How often are issues regressed? What is a safe version? How is the versioning managed and how should I pen it? How many dependencies do I assume from this library? How severable are the dependencies?\u003cp\u003eIt would be useful if package management tools facilitated the process of understanding the liability imposed by a package, but the opposite is encouraged. Authors too often put up shiny market materials and make bold statements about utility and vision of their software. Perhaps some kind of rating or feedback system that is qualitative in nature would help mitigate the salesmanship? I\u0026#x27;d love to know who has been burned by a project and anecdotes about how packages are used by others.","parent":"12106318","dead":true,"id":"12106415"}
{"by":"pavelludiq","time":"1290530147","timestamp":"2010-11-23 16:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Im not saying simple web knowledge is useless, its just a very narrow and shallow view of programming. A CS curriculum(even if you don't learn that much in class) might widen your view a bit. You didn't become a journalist by learning to hack English did you?","parent":"1933334","id":"1934229"}
{"by":"grovesNL","time":"1535591112","timestamp":"2018-08-30 01:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m glad they\u0026#x27;re still doing well in Newfoundland. I always enjoyed spotting them on the small island next to Cape Bonavista Lighthouse.","parent":"17871063","id":"17873382"}
{"by":"peterarmstrong","time":"1394063130","timestamp":"2014-03-05 23:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;New publishing model\u0026quot;?  You could have just used a photocopier.","parent":"7350661","id":"7350817"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1500040486","timestamp":"2017-07-14 13:54:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"During the last administration, we had a fake \u0026#x27;shovel-ready\u0026#x27; infrastructure program to boost economic growth. I say fake, because mostly very-visible PR projects such as changes to roads and parks got funded. Not real infrastructure such as sewer plants, under-street pumping stations, painting the underside of bridges and other invisible but essential projects that have been \u0026#x27;shovel-ready\u0026#x27; for a decade but still undone.\u003cp\u003eBiggest waste of public funds in a generation. And mostly used to build \u003ci\u003efurther infrastructure\u003c/i\u003e such as roads, burdening the maintenance budget \u003ci\u003eeven more\u003c/i\u003e. Instead of helping.","parent":"14769618","id":"14769772"}
{"by":"bdr","time":"1249538907","timestamp":"2009-08-06 06:08:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why did you have to write \"Get real\"? That's just mean.","parent":"744348","id":"744900"}
{"by":"btipling","time":"1299177260","timestamp":"2011-03-03 18:34:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting on the switch from the Windows/MS stack. Is there not a decent No SQL option for a windows stack?","parent":"2284900","id":"2285152"}
{"by":"pharrington","time":"1489255655","timestamp":"2017-03-11 18:07:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While you are certainly less able to overthink in that state, the euphoria is a discrete phenomenon. The euphoria and poorer high-level cognition seem not to be caused by each other (obviously discounting any cyclical feedback effects once they\u0026#x27;re both in play), but instead caused by the same process.","parent":"13846368","id":"13846395"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1511746914","timestamp":"2017-11-27 01:41:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bilton also wrote about it when Trump was still just the likely nominee:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vanityfair.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;how-silicon-valley-created-donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vanityfair.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;how-silicon-valley-c...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15784107","id":"15784221"}
{"by":"davvid","time":"1316729622","timestamp":"2011-09-22 22:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Much of the early git scripts (e.g. git-pull) have been rewritten in C.  Performance is one reason.  Helping out win32 (where fork+exec is slow) is another.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $ ls -1 git-*.sh | wc -l\n        25\n  $ ls -1 git-*.perl | wc -l\n         9\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nCompare this to the built-in commands:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $ ls -1 builtin/*.c | wc -l\n        92\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nor all the C files:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $ git ls-files '*.c' | wc -l\n       306\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"3025610","id":"3028030"}
{"by":"6stringmerc","time":"1443624778","timestamp":"2015-09-30 14:52:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent point, and thanks for elaborating on the \u0026quot;spirit\u0026quot; component as it relates to the phrasing. I\u0026#x27;m on board with you in that it\u0026#x27;s a functional way of doing business, legally speaking, but could benefit from public oversight (e.g. reputation).","parent":"10294864","id":"10304382"}
{"by":"gcb0","time":"1422380648","timestamp":"2015-01-27 17:44:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that is moronic. it is yet another point of failure on the tire!\u003cp\u003ea rfid label on the inside of the tire would work exactly the same and not compromise the tire structure.","parent":"8950650","id":"8954464"}
{"by":"andrewla","time":"1532638695","timestamp":"2018-07-26 20:58:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They changed the headline to \u0026quot;Slack Is Buying HipChat\u0026quot; from \u0026quot;Slack and Atlassian Team Up to Take on Microsoft in Chat Software\u0026quot;.  The latter still survives in the URL.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;team up\u0026quot; makes it sound ridiculous, like some sort of cabal is being formed -- the team up here is like when I team up with a cheeseburger to take on hunger.","parent":"17620543","id":"17621053"}
{"by":"tvon","time":"1255415201","timestamp":"2009-10-13 06:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the idea is that the airflow created is far more than the blower itself provides.  In other words, while it may not be original, it's not just a gimmick.","parent":"878198","id":"878506"}
{"by":"sternenseemann","time":"1406126089","timestamp":"2014-07-23 14:34:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being popular on HN is not the best thing for Webservers...","parent":"8074186","id":"8074563"}
{"by":"usaar333","time":"1523352676","timestamp":"2018-04-10 09:31:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rents are flat the last three years. Values are up by over 30%. That difference feels speculative..","parent":"16798510","id":"16800089"}
{"by":"koeselitz","time":"1332430683","timestamp":"2012-03-22 15:38:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The actual root sexism isn't the story here. It's a story about PR, or about making- and dealing with- complaints.\u003cp\u003eI think it is, actually. This method of dealing with women who speak up - veiled threats, sniping about \"tone,\" complaints that 'we're not being treated fairly!' - is \u003ci\u003ethe actual root sexism.\u003c/i\u003e It's not just a PR problem or a problem with complaints. The anger here focused directly and solely on the woman who made the complaint, in an ugly and crass way, and that qualifies as more inherently sexist than anything in the video.","parent":"3739980","id":"3740178"}
{"by":"zrobotics","time":"1537126562","timestamp":"2018-09-16 19:36:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For machining, it\u0026#x27;s hard to beat tubalcain (Mr. Pete). Retired high-school shop teacher, very educational and entertaining.\u003cp\u003eEdit: spelling","parent":"18000420","id":"18000654"}
{"by":"frantzmiccoli","time":"1411556325","timestamp":"2014-09-24 10:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A very nice article ... in German ;)","parent":"8360749","id":"8360778"}
{"by":"tedmiston","time":"1478735640","timestamp":"2016-11-09 23:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a month long-period with your first time out of the country and by yourself, choosing an English-native country simplifies a lot of things.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps consider Australia or New Zealand (or both).\u003cp\u003eMelbourne is a cheery, relaxed, wonderful and relatively inexpensive city.","parent":"12915481","id":"12916183"}
{"by":"carbocation","time":"1290190972","timestamp":"2010-11-19 18:22:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Much better!\u003cp\u003eI'd still suggest a lower limit on image sizes. I'm seeing icon-sized pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge show up, etc.","parent":"1921892","id":"1922211"}
{"by":"_pmf_","time":"1410346888","timestamp":"2014-09-10 11:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The question is whether a mode-less interface (that necessarily displays more information at once and is therefore inherently more complex) would have caused more problems than this single instance of a problem caused by the mode mechanism.","parent":"8294539","id":"8295966"}
{"by":"extension","time":"1328159417","timestamp":"2012-02-02 05:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not easy to crack a safe, but doing so does not entitle you to the contents.","parent":"3541504","id":"3541526"}
{"by":"webjprgm","time":"1355773007","timestamp":"2012-12-17 19:36:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've had several dreams where I've been trying to code the world around me.  Sometimes this involves seeing scrolling source code, other times it seems to be an abstract relationship of programs to the environment I'm in.  I usually can't remember very much of these dreams, because when I wake they don't readily make sense and so flee quickly.","parent":"4933852","id":"4933912"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1192686228","timestamp":"2007-10-18 05:43:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT IF YOUR DAD IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR, ASKING \"WHY\" CAN BE DANGEROUS By Stephen McNeil\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.scq.ubc.ca/?p=657\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.scq.ubc.ca/?p=657\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"69422","id":"69544"}
{"by":"SXX","time":"1471298376","timestamp":"2016-08-15 21:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually it\u0026#x27;s was not only possible to use it for ray tracing, but Intel had it working back in 2008. They also sponsored Uber Entertainment implement it into their game and that was ready before Intel cancelled it: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.polygon.com\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;3\u0026#x2F;19\u0026#x2F;4094472\u0026#x2F;uber-hail-mary-monday-night-combat\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.polygon.com\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;3\u0026#x2F;19\u0026#x2F;4094472\u0026#x2F;uber-hail-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12293738","id":"12293805"}
{"by":"creshal","time":"1434616311","timestamp":"2015-06-18 08:31:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would it? Bytecode is not substantially harder or easier to disassemble and grok than minified and obfuscated JS.","parent":"9737292","id":"9737402"}
{"by":"FreakLegion","time":"1356384856","timestamp":"2012-12-24 21:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62;The primary virtue of these commands is that they use the Perl regular expression engine.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou mean the engine that lets you write pathological regular expressions[1] and accidentally ReDoS[2] yourself? To be fair, it's fine if you understand how the engine works well enough to avoid these cases. But how many people can actually say this?\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4963945","id":"4964174"}
{"by":"occultist_throw","time":"1503672714","timestamp":"2017-08-25 14:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading further in, it was a screw-up on the paper envelope that had too big of a window and referred to HIV treatment connected to the person\u0026#x27;s name. This is really bad, but it was 12k localized instances of crummy physical mailing.\u003cp\u003eIts pretty bad, but it\u0026#x27;s not like this was \u0026quot;300k people leaked by hackers for ransom\u0026quot;.","parent":"15098706","id":"15098848"}
{"by":"sannee","time":"1532586993","timestamp":"2018-07-26 06:36:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason your GPS receiver does not work on a plane is likely because it\u0026#x27;s processing algorithms aren\u0026#x27;t tuned for those speeds. The popular Ublox NEO-6M for example needs to be explicitly switched to \u0026quot;airborne\u0026quot; mode.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that you are enclosed in a faraday cage also isn\u0026#x27;t helping, but they make planes from plastic now, so this shouldn\u0026#x27;t always be the case.","parent":"17615150","id":"17615469"}
{"by":"profquail","time":"1311624446","timestamp":"2011-07-25 20:07:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is interesting, if only because I've heard a lot of talk from C/C++ developers who believe that by compiling to native code their programs will \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c/i\u003e be faster than the equivalent C# code running on the .NET CLR. It's nice to have some data points to debunk that theory.","parent":"2804233","id":"2804370"}
{"by":"ceol","time":"1320685556","timestamp":"2011-11-07 17:05:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you guys be willing to do something like a Bronze plan, where maybe you get access to the videos but no offline viewing? I'd love to pay something like $10-$15/mo for the most basic access.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I'd like to toss in my obligatory \"Awesome job with the design!\" comment.","parent":"3206865","id":"3207077"}
{"by":"minimax","time":"1388765835","timestamp":"2014-01-03 16:17:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you are programmatically trying to unscramble something that has been encrypted, you end up trying a bunch of different keys. When you try a key and you want to know if the unscrambling worked, you can check the letter frequency distribution in your result against the letter frequency distribution of a big English corpus. If the distributions are close, you can be more confident that your key is correct.\u003cp\u003eIt actually works pretty well. You end up having to do something like this pretty early on in the Matasano crypto challenge problems.","parent":"7005549","id":"7006160"}
{"by":"atgm","time":"1296015286","timestamp":"2011-01-26 04:14:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I liked slashdot more when it was plain, quick-loading HTML. I liked most sites more when they were plain, quick-loading HTML. Ain't It Cool News is the only other one coming to mind at the moment, though.","parent":"2142089","id":"2142102"}
{"by":"angusgr","time":"1288300670","timestamp":"2010-10-28 21:17:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ebut the term 'Linux' is commonly used as a shorthand for GNU, X, GNOME, the Linux kernel and more.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know, I use that shorthand myself. But only one of the components you mention (GNU) was created for the explicit reason that the article describes.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethose of us that understand the difference know the author is talking about GNU\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm not sure even the author actually realises he was talking about GNU. The \"Linux or GNU/Linux (sorry Richard Stallman)\" quote gave me the impression that he has heard of RMS's pedantry about the term GNU/Linux, but he doesn't understand why RMS is pedantic about it, or any of the other relevant history.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand those that don't think Linux is GNU anyway.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e... which would seem to justify the comment, in itself. :)\u003cp\u003eBTW, _Why_ does this have more upvotes than WildUtah's comment?!? Their comment is far more to the point than my one.","parent":"1842590","id":"1845015"}
{"by":"RK","time":"1279137785","timestamp":"2010-07-14 20:03:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just mean that you said you are very active, so you maybe able to build on one of those specific activities. For example there are people who design artificial waves for surfers. This involves a lot of optimization work, But of course you also need it as the waves.","parent":"1515694","id":"1515787"}
{"by":"ebbv","time":"1418150194","timestamp":"2014-12-09 18:36:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also get to deal with SOAP occasionally. I recently got the joy of dealing with it for a CA\u0026#x27;s API.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s clearly the result of developers and managers more interested in what the technology CAN do than what it should do.","parent":"8724640","id":"8724669"}
{"by":"growt","time":"1412158557","timestamp":"2014-10-01 10:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SSD performance data:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  dd bs=1M count=1024 if=\u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;zero of=test   conv=fdatasync\n  1024+0 records in\n  1024+0 records out\n  1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.7785 s, 386 MB\u0026#x2F;s\n\n  hdparm -tT \u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;disk\u0026#x2F;by-uuid\u0026#x2F;50543a27-2cb6-4d68-9ab4-e09493f946d5\n\n  \u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;disk\u0026#x2F;by-uuid\u0026#x2F;50543a27-2cb6-4d68-9ab4-e09493f946d5: \n  Timing cached reads:   14362 MB in  2.00 seconds = 7189.28 MB\u0026#x2F;sec\n  Timing buffered disk reads: 1770 MB in  3.00 seconds = 589.21 MB\u0026#x2F;sec\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nreally nice.","parent":"8389477","id":"8393609"}
{"by":"msla","time":"1515517255","timestamp":"2018-01-09 17:00:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right.","parent":"16107544","id":"16107603"}
{"by":"vezzy-fnord","time":"1422503677","timestamp":"2015-01-29 03:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Bible Belt has a pretty big impact just by its territory and the population within it alone.\u003cp\u003eI really, really don\u0026#x27;t think the broader population is anywhere near as enthusiastic about startup culture (which is probably what you mean by \u0026quot;aspire to be tech CEOs\u0026quot;) as you think it is.\u003cp\u003eAs for technology being a main center of power, that is correct. But probably not in the idealistic way you\u0026#x27;re thinking of, regarding entrepreneurship and \u0026quot;disruptions\u0026quot; or anything like that. The fruits of their labor may be used indirectly, but it\u0026#x27;s primarily closed-room contract work and military defense that is used to exert political power, not that trendy startup or open source project.","parent":"8964187","id":"8964235"}
{"by":"whybroke","time":"1476948293","timestamp":"2016-10-20 07:24:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The line being the answer to the questions: to what degree should you tolerate intolerance, to vote for voter intimidation, to call incitement to violence a mere difference of opinion and to be inclusive of exclusivity.\u003cp\u003eAnd do be aware that a person who would jail his opponent is never going to be so tolerant of you as you might be of him. It is the position that calls for tolerance only so long as it is weak.\u003cp\u003eI might suggest that an industry with a very small number of the exact population being targeted should do some serious soul searching about exactly what free speech (if campaign contributions are speech) they are standing by.","parent":"12750193","id":"12750318"}
{"by":"mattmaroon","time":"1225922917","timestamp":"2008-11-05 22:08:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You just can't unless you can somehow get that many users and have a healthy markup on them. Perhaps Toyota is a good model for that.\u003cp\u003eMost of good support is eliminating the need for it I suppose.","parent":"354957","id":"355048"}
{"by":"kn0thing","time":"1415917232","timestamp":"2014-11-13 22:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aww, thanks. Responding to each and every feedback email was something Steve + I took very very seriously. If only we\u0026#x27;d had Front back then ;)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://frontapp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;frontapp.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8604017","id":"8604525"}
{"by":"subway","time":"1479439280","timestamp":"2016-11-18 03:21:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oversubscription isn\u0026#x27;t exactly a rare thing in the ISP world.","parent":"12983990","id":"12984024"}
{"by":"qbrass","time":"1448899906","timestamp":"2015-11-30 16:11:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Suspend on lid close actually does (or should) work on that laptop. It\u0026#x27;s just not enabled by default because suspend doesn\u0026#x27;t work on everything.\u003cp\u003eAdding:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=s3\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nto \u0026#x2F;etc\u0026#x2F;sysctl.conf should enable it.","parent":"10646639","id":"10650078"}
{"by":"gigantor","time":"1332372143","timestamp":"2012-03-21 23:22:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWe respect you more than to try to lure you with promises of iPads, snacks, foosball tables or any of that junk...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you, I'm glad companies are respecting the fact that good developers can see through these 'perks', and hope this will go the way of the 'rockstar' or 'ninja' developer descriptors. We can all afford plenty of $1.50 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to maximum  gluttony levels on our own salary, and this is no way to prevent weight gain at a startup. About the foosball tables, at the last startup I was, we were so busy that if I or anyone else were caught near it or the complimentary Wii/XBox/Pool Table/Jacuzzi, it would be guaranteed to appear somewhere on the next performance review.","parent":"3736678","id":"3737349"}
{"by":"aaronbrethorst","time":"1442380463","timestamp":"2015-09-16 05:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apps can download gigs of additional data with the new On-Demand Resources feature present in tvOS and iOS 9: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.apple.com\u0026#x2F;videos\u0026#x2F;wwdc\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;?id=214\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.apple.com\u0026#x2F;videos\u0026#x2F;wwdc\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;?id=214\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10224789","id":"10224811"}
{"by":"kbp","time":"1514307195","timestamp":"2017-12-26 16:53:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Left and Right are really commonly used in this situation in ML-descended languages. It’s not the worst thing.\u003cp\u003eAre you talking about Either types? OCaml and Haskell at least both call car and cdr fst and snd respectively, but they\u0026#x27;re rarely used.\u003cp\u003eAs for left and right as names, I don\u0026#x27;t think they\u0026#x27;re any worse than car and cdr, I just don\u0026#x27;t think they\u0026#x27;re substantially better.","parent":"16009341","id":"16009388"}
{"by":"jandrese","time":"1464209580","timestamp":"2016-05-25 20:53:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stop buying such shitty bulbs.  I moved into my house 8 years ago and replaced the incandescent as they burned out.  Most within the first year.  Of all of the bulbs I have replaced, not a single one has failed.  The only ones that have failed me are some that came packaged in with a new light fixture.  Those were the pits.\u003cp\u003eWorse, the bulbs in the lamps came from my previous home, and have been going strong for a decade now.  I\u0026#x27;ve been wanting to upgrade to LED bulbs when they finally burn out, but they\u0026#x27;ve been too damn reliable.\u003cp\u003eThere is a light at the end of the tunnel (hah) with a couple of bulbs that now won\u0026#x27;t turn on unless you tap them a bit.  They\u0026#x27;re roughly a decade old and have been used for many hours, so I guess it\u0026#x27;s finally time.","parent":"11771690","id":"11772984"}
{"by":"minimaxir","time":"1359273690","timestamp":"2013-01-27 08:01:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eDon't use the default CSS styles.\u003c/i\u003e Make it your own brand.","parent":"5123275","id":"5123598"}
{"by":"KaiserPro","time":"1370899250","timestamp":"2013-06-10 21:20:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still requires you to trust the holder of your private key....","parent":"5856217","dead":true,"id":"5856961"}
{"by":"loup-vaillant","time":"1395358416","timestamp":"2014-03-20 23:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThis is the agreement that every user agreed to when they signed up for Hotmail or Outlook.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo they didn\u0026#x27;t.  Over 99% of them clicked through without reading.  Some of them suspected Microsoft might one day read their email, but somehow shrugged it off, then forgot about it.\u003cp\u003eIf people were truly informed, most would not give consent.  Make no mistake: using a hotmail or gmail account means giving away a good chunk of your private correspondence.  It also affects whoever you\u0026#x27;re communicating with, even if they have their own private mail server.\u003cp\u003eWe need those Freedom Boxes.  Fast.","parent":"7438630","id":"7439649"}
{"by":"n95_throwa","time":"1538360849","timestamp":"2018-10-01 02:27:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Buy NIOSH-approved N95 particulate respirator masks. They\u0026#x27;re like $2\u0026#x2F;per on Amazon.\u003cp\u003eMake sure they fit you, and your family. Get different types \u0026#x2F; sizes.\u003cp\u003eYou won\u0026#x27;t be able to buy them -- anywhere -- once media organizations start reporting on an outbreak.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t tell anyone you have them.\u003cp\u003eIgnore people who don\u0026#x27;t think this is worth worrying about. People are stupid.","parent":"18109277","id":"18109614"}
{"by":"jcr","time":"1439388738","timestamp":"2015-08-12 14:12:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"discussion: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10037157\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10037157\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10047645","id":"10047767"}
{"by":"Iv","time":"1495334810","timestamp":"2017-05-21 02:46:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; While their approach is clever, it is not guaranteed to converge in a fixed number of iterations.\u003cp\u003eAre you sure about it? I struggle to find a case where the quadtree version of their algorithm would not converge.","parent":"14383243","id":"14385449"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1538083928","timestamp":"2018-09-27 21:32:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I meant within here in the US.\u003cp\u003eI am perfectly aware of military use of drones. I was referring to the hobbiest movement\u0026#x27;s potential use of drones for \u0026#x27;domestic terrorism\u0026#x27;.","parent":"18088684","id":"18088937"}
{"by":"teaneedz","time":"1382631222","timestamp":"2013-10-24 16:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of what Google does (beta or released) these days is sending me to other options.\u003cp\u003eThank you DuckDuckGo for taking a stand for users.","parent":"6605312","id":"6606066"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1538780496","timestamp":"2018-10-05 23:01:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here. German always follows the rules. You might not \u003ci\u003elike\u003c/i\u003e the rules, but it always follows the rules!","parent":"18152235","id":"18152430"}
{"by":"berkut","time":"1508613608","timestamp":"2017-10-21 19:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While cool, it should be pointed out that this way of ordering things doesn\u0026#x27;t really scale with scene complexity (more objects, more complex triangular meshes requiring acceleration structures) or image size, as the number of masks required to determine visibility would become very prohibitive.\u003cp\u003eOne of the great things about raytracing (at least the basics before you get to more complicated light transport), is how simple the normal recursive algorithm is for rendering a scene. This method in the article complicates that greatly with the mask passes, and I guess could be termed a wavefront renderer.","parent":"15522428","id":"15523157"}
{"by":"perakojotgenije","time":"1484217595","timestamp":"2017-01-12 10:39:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, as a linux (latest linux mint, 64 bit) steam user for more than two years I can tell you it is pretty much supported.","parent":"13380587","id":"13381265"}
{"by":"maccard","time":"1499948358","timestamp":"2017-07-13 12:19:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been to many theme parks (only Disney one was in Paris, I\u0026#x27;m in Europe), and most of them I don\u0026#x27;t feel the need to revisit.","parent":"14760483","id":"14760642"}
{"by":"Filligree","time":"1452623039","timestamp":"2016-01-12 18:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"XMonad has the feature that you can freely swap workspaces between screens. For example, you can show workspace 1 on screen 1, 2 on screen 2, and then switch them around to 3-\u0026gt;1, 1-\u0026gt;2, or any other combination you prefer.\u003cp\u003eThis is a killer feature for me, and I\u0026#x27;ve never found any other WM capable of doing that.","parent":"10888990","id":"10889244"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1453222009","timestamp":"2016-01-19 16:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Weird. In a model of post-apocalyptical life, the only people out and cleaning up are the constables. Erasing graffiti, clearing rubble, tending to bodies found in culverts. And this is supposed to be \u003ci\u003eanti-police\u003c/i\u003e? Not what I took away from it. I guess I\u0026#x27;m missing some cultural assumptions. Which makes it just sad.","parent":"10930320","id":"10931881"}
{"by":"itsjaredc","time":"1315340624","timestamp":"2011-09-06 20:23:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is the point of this post, to get them over the fear, to give them the confidence to do it.\u003cp\u003eHaving a personal tutor can accelerate the learning process dramatically. Even if you can teach yourself, you can learn faster if someone just tells you the answer. But, you can also just do it. And, the process will teach you the benefits of being precise with your searches and that if you know to use the work \"toggle\" rather than \"switch back and forth\", you'll get to the answer faster next time (though, you'll get to it both ways and you'll learn a lot while you're reading).\u003cp\u003eI was fortunate enough to have great engineers accelerate my learning but I also did a lot on my own and that process gave me a deeper understanding and taught me the right mindset to now continue improving on my own forever.","parent":"2967072","id":"2967130"}
{"by":"viperscape","time":"1524606055","timestamp":"2018-04-24 21:40:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried Botox? Might be a good way to test your theory","parent":"16916221","id":"16916883"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1411699723","timestamp":"2014-09-26 02:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think most people living long enough term in China to grapple with the language are well beyond caring about brand names. :)","parent":"8370843","id":"8371091"}
{"by":"nextparadigms","time":"1310046585","timestamp":"2011-07-07 13:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to see Google implement a similar feature for Google+ by integrating it with Google Music. They could implement it in Hangout somehow.","parent":"2738324","id":"2738385"}
{"by":"zimpenfish","time":"1376003879","timestamp":"2013-08-08 23:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are the odds of there being two distinct John Lathams at Manchester Uni?  Sadly the IV\u0026#x2F;JoLat is a Climate wonk, not the loveable CS wonk I was lectured by (many years ago.)","parent":"6181677","id":"6182661"}
{"by":"geff82","time":"1513503434","timestamp":"2017-12-17 09:37:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Welcome to my world in Germany :)","parent":"15944419","id":"15945001"}
{"by":"Moto7451","time":"1392973285","timestamp":"2014-02-21 09:01:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup, it was merged into trunk for 1.8. I love iTerm\u0026#x2F;Tmux integration.","parent":"7276035","id":"7276050"}
{"by":"santisiri","time":"1427007612","timestamp":"2015-03-22 07:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More than willing to figure out the ways of doing consensus. Yet any enforcement on the need to consent some perceive it as a dangerous dictatorial pattern.","parent":"9245208","id":"9245916"}
{"by":"10ren","time":"1272521875","timestamp":"2010-04-29 06:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mathematicians mostly study the surprising consequences of what others create; and it's often easier to take action than know the consequences, as the latter requires perfect understanding. Poorly understood automation is the Frankenstein fear, a real danger, as each victim of Murphy's Law will rue.\u003cp\u003eIt's the pure science vs. engineering chestnut, that old favourite of science fiction: the pursuit of understanding for its own sake vs. making something useful (the trope has abstract knowledge as crucial in the end). But in reality, one isn't better than the other, both are needed, and it is, as you say, a matter of personal value.\u003cp\u003eHere's a related comment (you might like the cartoon too): \u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bw3le/caveman_science_fiction_you_are_play_gods/c0ovc6b\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bw3le/caveman_science_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1287949","id":"1303739"}
{"by":"jaggederest","time":"1509171944","timestamp":"2017-10-28 06:25:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And works largely the same without Javascript enabled, last I checked. Edit: Yup, can still view pages, up\u0026#x2F;down\u0026#x2F;flag in essentially the same flows.","parent":"15574192","id":"15574206"}
{"by":"kej","time":"1467753082","timestamp":"2016-07-05 21:11:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s covered in the article; the city had no idea and welcomes geologists to inform them of any significant sites in the future.","parent":"12039524","id":"12039573"}
{"by":"nommm-nommm","time":"1482448511","timestamp":"2016-12-22 23:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can confirm, I met my spouse in a bar.\u003cp\u003eI also became good friends with a bartender who I met when she was serving me. She no longer bartends now that she\u0026#x27;s out of school but we still see each other all the time.\u003cp\u003eA lot of my friends now usually prefer to meet out rather than have someone come over. It takes the pressure off to be a host.","parent":"13241190","id":"13241290"}
{"by":"darkarmani","time":"1355524848","timestamp":"2012-12-14 22:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \"Mexican Train\"\u003cp\u003eThat's offensive to those of us that use that to describe a sexual position!\u003cp\u003eBut seriously, I agree with you.  Since I only played it about once a year, I usually forget to play it very conservatively and get a large score.  You don't have to win a single round to win overall, but people seem to forget what the real metric is with the excitement of winning a round.","parent":"4922943","id":"4923758"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1521847470","timestamp":"2018-03-23 23:24:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not what pump and dump means.","parent":"16661216","id":"16663539"}
{"by":"WayneDB","time":"1320933404","timestamp":"2011-11-10 13:56:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The trirand grid that you linked to doesn't even get keyboard or mouse focus right. It doesn't even get row selection right.\u003cp\u003eIf you think that's a good grid, I don't expect you to see anything remarkable about the grid I posted.","parent":"3216288","id":"3220025"}
{"by":"chris11","time":"1237326360","timestamp":"2009-03-17 21:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really don't think it could have been prevented by good journalism. I see the government basically guaranteeing bank losses without adequate collateral.  The government did not really know how the banks assets should be valued, but they were willing to accept the bank's word.\u003cp\u003eSo basically the banks had a financial incentive to make extremely risky investments.\u003cp\u003eBut still, Cramer and other journalists failed. By the time Cramer said that AIG was safe, I thought it should have been obvious that the banks had invested a lot of money in some extremely risky assets. In June that year Bear Stearns said it was  spending over 3 billion to bail out one of its funds. So instead of Cramer deciding that he did not have enough enough information to evaluate AIG, and saying that, he basically decided that he had enough info to say that AIG was safe. That probably convinced a lot of people to keep their money in AIG stock.","parent":"520395","id":"520675"}
{"by":"kirian","time":"1365193862","timestamp":"2013-04-05 20:31:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A slightly related article I read recently about how should we evaluate the claims of people much smarter than ourselves. i.e. in this specific article the example is if Krugman makes some claim about economics should we just accept them as he is probably leagues ahead in terms of knowledge and expierience in the subject.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://theumlaut.com/2013/03/13/paul-krugman-is-brilliant-but-is-he-meta-rational/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://theumlaut.com/2013/03/13/paul-krugman-is-brilliant-bu...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5500388","id":"5500869"}
{"by":"magneticnorth","time":"1500648963","timestamp":"2017-07-21 14:56:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is fascinating, thanks for sharing.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s especially interesting that female software developers seem to marry other devs, whether they\u0026#x27;re gay or straight, but gay male software devs tend to marry fitness workers.","parent":"14813648","id":"14821020"}
{"by":"koboll","time":"1525363031","timestamp":"2018-05-03 15:57:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shouldn\u0026#x27;t smartphones, if they do cause cancer, cause a much larger spike in the hands or pocket area?\u003cp\u003eI sure have my phone adjacent to those parts of my body a whole lot more than my head.","parent":"16986686","id":"16987094"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1290521808","timestamp":"2010-11-23 14:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don't get emotionally wrecked when your preference is defeated. \"Wracking sobs and tears\" - that's a reactopm tp a firmly-held lifelong belief being deconstructed - so for her it was religion.","parent":"1932899","id":"1933700"}
{"by":"ZachPruckowski","time":"1297205020","timestamp":"2011-02-08 22:43:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a private school, that's probably a decent solution.  Generally, people willing to send their kids to a private school are probably the parents who (a) put a premium on their kid's education and (b) make their children behave at least somewhat civilly most of the time.  That cuts out a lot of the problem cases of children who face no consequences at home and who have no incentive to learn.  Private schools also get to select on competence in many cases.  You're not going to have someone who's reading on a 4th grade level in your senior English class, as happens at public schools.  And you can refuse hard discipline cases and/or expel them, which they can't do in public schools.\u003cp\u003eIn that environment, a teacher should be able to control the students.  But you can't expect a system that works in those conditions to work in non-optimal conditions.","parent":"2190773","id":"2195260"}
{"by":"zirkonit","time":"1463325700","timestamp":"2016-05-15 15:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a casual student of German, is there any context in “der Schmetterling” which is not translated as “the butterfly”?","parent":"11697053","id":"11701220"}
{"by":"newnewpdro","time":"1534465428","timestamp":"2018-08-17 00:23:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Linux (the kernel) is arguably in decline as well, especially now that it\u0026#x27;s clear Android and ChromeOS will both pivot to Fuschia\u0026#x2F;Zircon.","parent":"17778469","id":"17779474"}
{"by":"junke","time":"1463548424","timestamp":"2016-05-18 05:13:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider this snippet of C code:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    struct foo {\n        int x;\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nDo you care how the structure definition is represented in your\ncompiler? is it a list, a vector or a custom data-structure? You don\u0026#x27;t\nknow, and it doens not matter to you. Besides, it is totally different\nfrom what you manipulate at runtime (for type definitions, not\nmuch). Consider the second snippet:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    for(int i = 0; i \u0026lt; n; ++i) {\n        \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; something\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nShould the internal representation for the block delimited by braces\nbe necessary the same as the one used to represent the fields in the\nprevious structure? I mean, do the brace characters always map to the\nsame internal data-structure? Probably not. In C, the concrete syntax\nhas generally nothing to do with the abstract syntax. This is not the\ncase in Lisp, because each syntax is used to parse a specific type of\ndata.\u003cp\u003eIn Clojure, you write #{...} and the reader (LispReader.java) sees the\nsharpsign followed by brace and builds a set containing the values\ninside the braces. That set is contained inside the AST, and acts as a\nliteral value. That value is shared among all invocations of your\ncode, meaning that if you call the enclosing function at different\nplaces, the same literal object is shared. Since this data is\nimmutable, this is not really a problem because when you add more\nelements at runtime, the original literal is not modified. OTOH, you\ncan still invoke EvalReader, #=(), which evaluates code at\nread-time. I believe that you can put mutable data-structures into the\nAST and obtain funny results by mutating it during execution.\u003cp\u003eHow is it different from Common Lisp? Not much.\u003cp\u003eCommon Lisp is less restrictive because the readtable can be\ncustomized. Also, the standard data-structures are mutable (however,\nthe behavior is undefined if you try to mutate literal data; some\ncompilers warn you about that). I don\u0026#x27;t think I ever needed to have\nhash-table as a literal, it seems practically useless because if you\nwant a hash-table in your source code, odds are that it contains few\nelements. If so, an association list is simpler (and more efficient).\u003cp\u003eIf you really really need a complex data-structure in your source\ncode, you are more likely to use LOAD-TIME-VALUE anyway, because it\nworks better with a compiler: not all data-structures are (nor should\nbe) automatically serialisable in the object file (they could containt\ntransient data, for example). In other words, your original code has\nlittle to do with the machine code that is produced and eventually\nloaded (possibly in another environment). LOAD-TIME-VALUE is a way to\nexecute code at load-time to produce such data-structures in your\ncode: I have a parser which pre-computes some regexes, and this is not\nsomething that has an equivalent in Clojure, as far as I know.\u003cp\u003eSo my first point is: you can have literals of any type in your source\ncode in Common Lisp (like in Clojure). All of them have dedicated\nsyntax, like vectors of arbitrary dimensions #2A((1 2)(3 4)), bit\nvectors #*1111, complex numbers #C(0 1), pathnames #P\u0026quot;\u0026#x2F;tmp\u0026#x2F;foo\u0026quot;, and\nof course strings. Likewise, you have a generic syntax for\nstructures. Suppose you define a structure FOO with a single slot X,\nthen #S(foo :x 10) is a literal of that type.\u003cp\u003eHowever, not all data-structures have such syntax: maybe it was not\ndeemed necessary to represent literal hash-tables in source code, or\nmaybe it did not make it to the standard, I don\u0026#x27;t know. I personally\ndon\u0026#x27;t miss it and I am happy to use auto-complete the few times I need\na hash-table. However, if you want you can customize your Lisp easily;\nfor example, load the FSET library and provide a custom syntax over\nimmutable data-structures. If you look at Maxima, it has a lot of\ncustom syntax. And I am not talking about macros, but about changing\nthe readtable which reads Lisp objects from a stream. An example of\nthis is RUTILS[0], which provides the #h(equal \u0026quot;k1\u0026quot; v1 \u0026quot;k2\u0026quot; v2) syntax\nfor hash-table. But note that this notation is only used to produce a list,\nnamely the code required to produce a hash-table at runtime and\npopulate it.\u003cp\u003eWhich brings me to my second point: there is a big difference with\nClojure in that Common Lisp doesn\u0026#x27;t use different types to provide\nsyntactic sugar. For example, in Clojure [] is for vectors, {} is for\nmaps and #{} is for sets. That literally means that when you have a\nbinding, you allocate a vector. When you destructure a map with\nmap-notation, you use internally a map. So the language is mixing two\nconcepts: syntactic sugar and actual internal representation. I find\nthis rather hackish but I can live with it because it probably has\nlittle incidence. I think it adds complexity to the compiler which has\nto walk different kinds of code. Besides, the usage of such syntax is\nnot regular: sometimes vectors are for unevaluated data, sometimes for\nbindings or destructuring, so you still need context to know what you are\ndoing. Those are minor points, and I understand that Clojure can look more convenient to use. However Common Lisp being a little more wordy is not a problem for me.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.fr\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;improving-lisp-ux-one-form-at-time.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.fr\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;improving-lisp-ux-o...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11712843","id":"11719911"}
{"by":"gremlinsinc","time":"1526081504","timestamp":"2018-05-11 23:31:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m still aiming a little low, but I\u0026#x27;ve seen a lot of profiles of devs who charge 80-100\u0026#x2F;hour and seem to have a solid history on there.\u003cp\u003eMy thinking is you need to start low till you build rep\u0026#x2F;reviews then you can start charging more per hour.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Also there\u0026#x27;s a lot of people who want u.s. or english native speakers. I\u0026#x27;m in u.s. not planning on traveling much but I like working out of my basement and not wasting time commuting.","parent":"17050905","id":"17051455"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1444147098","timestamp":"2015-10-06 15:58:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What sucks about it is that the EU, rather than presenting one set of rules and regulations to follow, and, say, allowing you to host data within the EU to be compliant, seems to have kicked the question down to individual European countries, each of which might do something different.\u003cp\u003eAnd you wonder why it\u0026#x27;s tougher to do startups in Europe...\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pleased by what the ruling says about the NSA and the pressure it puts on the need for reform, but less than pleased about the practical implications.","parent":"10338070","id":"10339798"}
{"by":"kalid","time":"1323090599","timestamp":"2011-12-05 13:09:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Humans are notoriously bad at predicting what will make them happy.","parent":"3313735","id":"3314427"}
{"by":"dexterdog","time":"1446032009","timestamp":"2015-10-28 11:33:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then you should be willing to pay for inventory and overstock. I find that to be a waste. Then again I\u0026#x27;m the kind of person who when the time comes can likely find a car that I will be fine with from a selection of a dozen. I\u0026#x27;m also fine with waiting for a month or so.","parent":"10463625","id":"10463806"}
{"by":"martythemaniak","time":"1302625265","timestamp":"2011-04-12 16:21:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"*Peter Thiel's definition of freedom.\u003cp\u003eIt's important to note that a lot of libertarians' ideas about freedom and pretty much everything else is comically out of step with how most people think. They think it is because they have stumbled on the magical answer to everything (the response to any problem facing society is a trivial \"no government\") and that everyone else is a blind idiot, when in fact they are an odd fringe that is unlike most other people.","parent":"2437760","id":"2437854"}
{"by":"phkahler","time":"1476630202","timestamp":"2016-10-16 15:03:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s obvious. People are not going to maintain a decentralized network for copyright infringement. But imagine a NAS device that also hosts something like a Facebook account which is shared with trusted others. Your personal data is also encrypted and backed up on your friends machines - even data not part of your FB stuff. When everyone has their own NAS with the decentralized P2p\u0026#x2F;backup software then we win. How one maintains that software across the network is a mystery, but it must be up to the individuals to maintain in some way.","parent":"12718155","id":"12718889"}
{"by":"malz","time":"1462425180","timestamp":"2016-05-05 05:13:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every job I\u0026#x27;ve held for 20 years has involved keeping a chat window open with my collaborators. At various times it was IRC, Jabber, AIM, iChat, HipChat; but now Slack is suddenly the one worth a jillion dollars.","parent":"11633494","id":"11634127"}
{"by":"jdawg77","time":"1422639556","timestamp":"2015-01-30 17:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a free, open source software on github. Is this the kind of thing that would be featured in the tips for designers \u0026amp; developers? It\u0026#x27;s a bit hard to figure out what kind of tips, without a sample \u0026#x2F; preview of the content you\u0026#x27;re going to send...","parent":"8972890","id":"8973162"}
{"by":"aikah","time":"1440110564","timestamp":"2015-08-20 22:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I also dislike this Rails\u0026#x2F;Ember-CLI scaffolding stuff. It simply feels like too much magic for me.\u003cp\u003eGood thing nobody forces you to use scaffolding in  Rails. Code generation should always be a one shot , to get started on something.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand the situation in Go land with \u0026quot;go generate\u0026quot; is much much worse, as code generators become dependencies , right in the code with pragmas ...\u003cp\u003eThe worst offender is PHP of course, with frameworks like Symfony or Doctrine (and its famous proxies because yes, Doctrine doesn\u0026#x27;t actually use the code you write but the one it generates and put in a proxy folder ) that use code compilers and generators for everything from routing to dependency injection to every configuration step . Although PHP frameworks usually do it on the fly so no manual step.","parent":"10094977","id":"10095056"}
{"by":"maximusprime","time":"1319230904","timestamp":"2011-10-21 21:01:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually weather is one reason I wouldn't live in silicon valley - it doesn't really have any. It's either flatline boiling hot, or if you go north it's windy and foggy all the time. It's like being stuck in a never ending summer.\u003cp\u003eI live in England, where we get glorious boiling summers, wet and windy autumns, snowy winters. I know that's not for everyone, but the sheer variety is something I love.\u003cp\u003eTo see the scenery and wildlife change by season is something that really makes life interesting.","parent":"3139468","id":"3141684"}
{"by":"seunosewa","time":"1357131287","timestamp":"2013-01-02 12:54:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... but will it work?","parent":"4995940","id":"4996379"}
{"by":"mden","time":"1391573506","timestamp":"2014-02-05 04:11:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The distinction here is that\u0026#x27;s for hardware cost only. I imagine salary costs are much higher.","parent":"7181669","id":"7181842"}
{"by":"ethanbond","time":"1376516769","timestamp":"2013-08-14 21:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or maybe the tech company has, Idk, cool tech. Although I guess appreciating it would take more than a reactionary pants-pissing any time a writer happens to mention \u0026#x27;PRISM\u0026#x27; and another (unrelated) company in the same article.","parent":"6213088","id":"6214514"}
{"by":"joshmn","time":"1442535679","timestamp":"2015-09-18 00:21:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ovh.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;vps\u0026#x2F;vps-ssd.xml\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ovh.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;vps\u0026#x2F;vps-ssd.xml\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor less than the price of your $5 droplet, you get 4x the RAM and probably an equal amount of CPU.\u003cp\u003eJust don\u0026#x27;t expect much support from OVH because they\u0026#x27;re busy all the damn time.","parent":"10235531","id":"10236870"}
{"by":"FlaceBook","time":"1433226316","timestamp":"2015-06-02 06:25:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I want to be rich, how do I do this?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIs this yahoo answers?","parent":"9643628","id":"9644211"}
{"by":"FeepingCreature","time":"1436954639","timestamp":"2015-07-15 10:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compromise: use significant whitespace to detect precedence errors due to faulty assumptions.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    a+b * c\n        ^ Warning: precedence\u0026#x2F;whitespace mismatch.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"9889785","id":"9890530"}
{"by":"linkregister","time":"1531558152","timestamp":"2018-07-14 08:49:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you share more information about score inflation for STEM degrees in the United States? This is the first I\u0026#x27;ve heard of this phenomenon.","parent":"17529435","id":"17529455"}
{"by":"tony-allan","time":"1522300859","timestamp":"2018-03-29 05:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can look it up yourself, but watch out for CDN\u0026#x27;s and other third-party services and be aware that not every IP address has a reverse DNS entry. On MacOS:\u003cp\u003e---------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003eNote that the IP address bytes are reversed in the following command to lookup 18.9.25.15\u003cp\u003ehost -a 15.25.9.18.in-addr.arpa\u003cp\u003e;; ANSWER SECTION:\u003cp\u003e15.25.9.18.in-addr.arpa. 1800\tIN\tPTR\tdmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu.\u003cp\u003e---------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003ehost -a dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu\u003cp\u003e;; ANSWER SECTION:\u003cp\u003edmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu. 1800 IN\tA\t18.9.25.15\u003cp\u003edmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu. 1800 IN\tHINFO\t\u0026quot;VMWARE\u0026#x2F;VM\u0026quot; \u0026quot;LINUX\u0026quot;","parent":"16704534","id":"16704669"}
{"by":"tel","time":"1260083581","timestamp":"2009-12-06 07:13:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hamilton, I'd like to email you about your work at Stanford if you don't mind. Could you drop me a line?","parent":"978587","id":"979294"}
{"by":"jlees","time":"1301443081","timestamp":"2011-03-29 23:58:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One way out of the pool might be to reach out to potential teams herself, if you have any friends of friends within the 'plex who can send out tendrils internally. (Or just contact friendly people who post on HN... \u0026#62;.\u0026#62;)","parent":"2384412","id":"2385093"}
{"by":"ChristianMarks","time":"1331923251","timestamp":"2012-03-16 18:40:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is possible to live in Manhattan for $70K/year--with roommates. However you should not have  any financial shocks. You should not, just to name a personal example, find yourself suddenly needing three dental implants at $2700 each, not including the cost or surgery. You should avoid cabs and use public transportation instead. And you should avoid taking advantage of any cultural activity that isn't free.\u003cp\u003eOne downside of taking lower paying jobs is that employers often decide that you really are worth the lower salary. Programmers can end up doing system administration and desktop work. Perhaps that's not too bad in moderation, but it's very easy to get sucked into an on-call mode. Then again there may be exceptional people who can program in their heads as if they had an office with a door they can close, while some administrative assistant is nagging about corrupted email.","parent":"3713549","id":"3714674"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1521725300","timestamp":"2018-03-22 13:28:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;Ok this guy is out of his mind, but Murky Marc should probably go and hand over the company to Sheryl. She knows what to do\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eDo you believe that the number 2 executive officer at FB had no part in any of the bad decisions FB have made recently?","parent":"16647503","id":"16648433"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1382955787","timestamp":"2013-10-28 10:23:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see why would the latter be any less RESTful than the former; as long as the \u0026quot;foos\u0026quot; still have their canonical URL, I don\u0026#x27;t see any constraint being bent or broken by having their representations be sent in another request\u0026#x2F;response.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, I\u0026#x27;d say the latter approach is actually more RESTful, since the former requires the client to build URLs, which breaks if the server changes them.","parent":"6625979","id":"6626141"}
{"by":"res0nat0r","time":"1389549613","timestamp":"2014-01-12 18:00:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actual article title: NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers","parent":"7046052","id":"7046745"}
{"by":"794CD01","time":"1523975465","timestamp":"2018-04-17 14:31:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly, yes. These days you cannot judge anyone by your own ethical standards, only by their own. There is no right and wrong, only consistency and hypocrisy.","parent":"16857622","id":"16858643"}
{"by":"Nursie","time":"1387183648","timestamp":"2013-12-16 08:47:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t. I was being flippant.","parent":"6913535","id":"6913563"}
{"by":"thwarted","time":"1382668750","timestamp":"2013-10-25 02:39:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as they provide economic impact assessments of the status-quo services like cabs and hotels.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d be especially interested in how the impact of established services changes over time.","parent":"6605611","id":"6609450"}
{"by":"illuminate","time":"1363898083","timestamp":"2013-03-21 20:34:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd say an appropriate comparison considering how the flames are tossed at women who disapprove of sexual objectification in professional environments.","parent":"5414405","id":"5418749"}
{"by":"walljm","time":"1429308613","timestamp":"2015-04-17 22:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think balabaster\u0026#x27;s point still stands, and your points (though good) only serve to illustrate.  also, its important to keep in mind that not everyone is as good at switching.  this could be because only some people have the time and inclination to do what balabaster suggested and dig in and learn the ins and outs of both systems, after which its \u0026quot;really isn\u0026#x27;t that difficult\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003ei\u0026#x27;ve worked in both (Win\u0026#x2F;Nix) on a daily basis for a while doing dev in perl.   as long as i was active in both switching wasn\u0026#x27;t hard, though i found myself feeling out of water in \u003ci\u003enix whenever i ventured outside the boundaries i was used to.  i\u0026#x27;d run into a situation and just not know where to even start looking in \u003c/i\u003enix for a problem, whereas in windows i could usually guess at the right place to start investigating.\u003cp\u003ealso, the transition and learning was made easier because i had really smart and helpful people right next to me to answer my questions.\u003cp\u003eI had the same problem with Mac\u0026#x2F;Win when doing photo\u0026#x2F;video editing.  I could get around in a mac fine, but found certain ui and organisational decisions frustrating.","parent":"9389119","id":"9397462"}
{"by":"derwiki","time":"1297357686","timestamp":"2011-02-10 17:08:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it would be cool to see IBM's creation versus a creation from Google versus (a person or another machine), although I doubt another company would want to make such a risky move. If Watson wins, huge PR win; if Watson loses, still a pretty big PR win.","parent":"2202193","id":"2202652"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1522276664","timestamp":"2018-03-28 22:37:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t been following this stuff super closely, but hasn\u0026#x27;t there been ongoing counternarrative of how CA data analysis and its 50 million profiles may not have been very useful, period? Because there\u0026#x27;s a concurrent (and legitimate) narrative of Facebook\u0026#x27;s questionable data practices, I\u0026#x27;ve been wondering whether CA has been an overhyped antagonist in our media\u0026#x27;s rush to find the true villains.\u003cp\u003eYesterday Drudge Report (still one of our biggest news drivers) had a headline [A] that almost made my eyes roll through the back of my head. It was \u0026quot;WHISTLEBLOWER: FACEBOOK CAN HEAR YOU!\u0026quot; But the linked story [B] contained nothing more than Wylie speculating how it was physically possible for Facebook (and other apps) to do this, but they probably weren\u0026#x27;t, but if they \u003ci\u003ewere\u003c/i\u003e, it could lead into some bad shit or something.\u003cp\u003eYeah, Wylie can\u0026#x27;t control what linkbaiters write about him. Or what politicians ask him in a public hearing. But because he was a whistleblower about CA\u0026#x27;s abuse of FB\u0026#x27;s data, he\u0026#x27;s been considered an expert\u0026#x2F;whistleblower in domains far beyond what he actually has experience in. Being a good data analyst and having a bunch of FB scraped data is still not enough to remotely guarantee success in the startup scene.\u003cp\u003eIn terms of the election, what\u0026#x27;s the most substantive discussion\u0026#x2F;proof that CA and its magic data was any more a game changer than, say, Brad Pascale [0]? And I also haven\u0026#x27;t read out CA\u0026#x27;s insights were a gamechanger in boosting the Russians\u0026#x27; alleged propaganda and fake news bots schemes. I haven\u0026#x27;t yet read a better reporter on this angle than the New Yorker\u0026#x27;s Adrian Chen, and his relative reluctance to blame big data\u0026#x2F;bot schemes has perhaps made me too skeptical every time I read media stories about CA\u0026#x27;s magical mind-bending dataset [1].\u003cp\u003e[A] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;DZVzHctU8AAZBxa.jpg:large\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;DZVzHctU8AAZBxa.jpg:large\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[B] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20180328111429\u0026#x2F;https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pjmedia.com\u0026#x2F;trending\u0026#x2F;cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-facebook-may-listening-home-work\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20180328111429\u0026#x2F;https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pjmedia.co...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;politics\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;27\u0026#x2F;trumps-facebook-advertising-advantage-explained\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;politics\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;27\u0026#x2F;t...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;tech\u0026#x2F;elements\u0026#x2F;a-so-called-experts-uneasy-dive-into-the-trump-russia-frenzy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;tech\u0026#x2F;elements\u0026#x2F;a-so-called-experts-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16700714","id":"16702670"}
{"by":"column","time":"1438338741","timestamp":"2015-07-31 10:32:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very intrusive image to tell me ads are not intrusive. Okay.","parent":"9980185","id":"9980959"}
{"by":"snadal","time":"1490087925","timestamp":"2017-03-21 09:18:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why so many of this frameworks insist in using an account with administrator privileges?\u003cp\u003eFrom the docs: \u0026quot;search for a Policy named \u0026#x27;AdministratorAccess\u0026#x27;, click next and confirm\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIt would be much more convenient to request only the needed privileges while teaching the user what is the tool doing in the background.","parent":"13919069","id":"13920755"}
{"by":"Osmigo","time":"1393428587","timestamp":"2014-02-26 15:29:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe it\u0026#x27;s just me, but I find it difficult to conceive of someone to whom, even after discussion and contemplation, (+4+3)=(+7) is not obvious. I suppose there are such people wandering the planet, however.","parent":"7302345","id":"7305486"}
{"by":"marceldegraaf","time":"1298037761","timestamp":"2011-02-18 14:02:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn't resist asking: is the article hosted by an OCaml application? ;-)","parent":"2235371","id":"2235399"}
{"by":"the_watcher","time":"1485474082","timestamp":"2017-01-26 23:41:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea, if, as seems to be the crux of one criticism of the policy, is that it allows bad actors to simply pay for the privilege of their bad actions, penalties that scale to extreme quickly is probably the best method. It\u0026#x27;s unfortunate, since the (very large majority) of good actors are also at risk of punishment.","parent":"13493055","id":"13496456"}
{"by":"incision","time":"1343838332","timestamp":"2012-08-01 16:25:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many Kickstarter projects have actually shipped a finished product?\u003cp\u003eA serious question, not a jab. It seems \"success\" in the world of Kickstarter is defined by achieving a funding goal, not necessarily producing anything.\u003cp\u003eI'm very tempted to sign on for this one, but I've already kicked into a handful of projects, none of which are anywhere near shipping or this price.","parent":"4323276","id":"4323835"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1514691496","timestamp":"2017-12-31 03:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to Wikipedia, he didn\u0026#x27;t remove that much:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eDelsalle used a virtually standard version of the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel B3, only removing unnecessary elements, such as passenger seats, to reduce the standard weight by 120 kg (265 lb) and thus extend the 1-hour fuel range.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in any case, I believe the user you responded to was talking about rescues, not removing corpses.","parent":"16038677","id":"16039207"}
{"by":"mshenfield","time":"1498400119","timestamp":"2017-06-25 14:15:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I came to this page looking for ways to parameterize and re-use raw SQL. \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c/i\u003e (and \u003ci\u003ecreate view\u003c/i\u003e for multiple queries) fulfill the case where the unit of reuse is a filtered view on one or more tables.","parent":"14629744","id":"14630074"}
{"by":"brasetvik","time":"1533148668","timestamp":"2018-08-01 18:37:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch (and more), is hiring for a lot of roles: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.elastic.co\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;careers#engineering\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.elastic.co\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;careers#engineering\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocation: Earth","parent":"17663077","id":"17665561"}
{"by":"PavlovsCat","time":"1369062942","timestamp":"2013-05-20 15:15:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the part where someone else is making assumptions about anyone who isn't a jquery fan, I disagree based on the physical reality of my own existance, and some anonymous coward decides nah, I don't get to speak for myself, the one-sided blanket assumptions someone else pulled out of their ass are really all the \"contribution\" this \"discussion\" needs... oh well, thanks for the belly laugh ^^","parent":"5737923","id":"5738086"}
{"by":"geocar","time":"1433422177","timestamp":"2015-06-04 12:49:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except you don\u0026#x27;t have a fault each check: You only have a fault if a fork has occurred.\u003cp\u003eUsing getpid\u0026#x2F;gettid (or the keyring trick) you are doing a syscall for every check.","parent":"9643339","id":"9658844"}
{"by":"crispyambulance","time":"1495367127","timestamp":"2017-05-21 11:45:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know about what is going on because of teaching math in an adult basic education context (= literally primary-school math for adults who never graduated who are very far from high-school level). I also have known a guidance counselor in Baltimore public schools. The OP\u0026#x27;s article is very much spot-on as far as painting a picture of the worst-case-scenario of urban schools in the USA.\u003cp\u003eUsing the word \u0026quot;spoon-feeding\u0026quot; implies that the students are coddled to the point that it hurts their development. What is actually happening is that the students have horrific home lives characterized by neglect, bad-influences, and utter chaos. Neglect is the opposite of \u0026quot;spoon-feeding\u0026quot;. Students come to school with such deep unfillable needs that just keeping the classrooms from erupting into mayhem is an achievement in itself for the instructors.\u003cp\u003e... and to respond to the article you cite: I do not believe that the quality of the teachers, alone, can be blamed for the \u0026quot;achievement gap\u0026quot;. The \u0026quot;Achievement Gap\u0026quot; is a deep systemic problem with multiple causes and horrific outcomes which beget yet more horrific outcomes like some kind of hellacious positive feedback loop.","parent":"14386755","id":"14386844"}
{"by":"arebop","time":"1466011246","timestamp":"2016-06-15 17:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s say 30 minutes [\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;goo.gl\u0026#x2F;maps\u0026#x2F;SjMUzazkmUy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;goo.gl\u0026#x2F;maps\u0026#x2F;SjMUzazkmUy\u003c/a\u003e]. Is that \u0026quot;much further\u0026quot; than 15 minutes?","parent":"11910168","id":"11910633"}
{"by":"nottorp","time":"1500563115","timestamp":"2017-07-20 15:05:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After gaining a bit of experience programming, I\u0026#x27;ve developed for myself the following rule:\u003cp\u003eIf I feel particularly smart and proud after writing a piece of code, I look at it again and remove some smartness in favour of readability.\u003cp\u003eUnless it\u0026#x27;s absolutely performance critical, in which case I try to comment the hell out of what\u0026#x27;s going on.","parent":"14810014","id":"14813099"}
{"by":"pantaloons","time":"1324066209","timestamp":"2011-12-16 20:10:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surprising indeed. It seems strange that they would take the proposal this far before withdrawing for financial reasons, or fear of losing.\u003cp\u003eSurely there is a more interesting bone of contention here that didn't become evident until late in the process.","parent":"3362038","id":"3362098"}
{"by":"FatalBaboon","time":"1380025644","timestamp":"2013-09-24 12:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s hard to measure productivity differences, especially in terms of \u0026#x27;x\u0026#x27; (times), but it\u0026#x27;s definitely not constant.\u003cp\u003eHowever when it comes to whether they exist or not, here\u0026#x27;s an anecdote:\u003cp\u003eI was working for a TV channel and a piece of software needed to be \u0026#x27;actualized\u0026#x27; (made over). By the time the other programmers told me the specs, over the office space, and started debating how long many days it should take, I was done (so roughly 1h).\u003cp\u003eAnother point they make is that a group of people can generate compounded productivity. I live the exact opposite. \nRight now I\u0026#x27;m sitting in an office with friendly people, and I roll my thumbs in boredom, but at night I work 1h for select clients and do more than in a week at my day job.\u003cp\u003eThe only problem is loneliness. I hardly ever met anyone who enjoys multiple subjects (maths\u0026#x2F;physics\u0026#x2F;software\u0026#x2F;networks\u0026#x2F;biology\u0026#x2F;literature and capital management for me mostly), in fact I mostly receive jealousy disguised as mockery. \nHeck, I learned not to talk about seemingly arcane languages (Racket, LUA and the like) otherwise I\u0026#x27;m cataloged and have to fight ridiculous prejudices. I found the best solution is to appear dumb.\u003cp\u003eDiscrepancy between expectation of programmer productivity and the reality of one programmer can be very deceiving.","parent":"6432823","id":"6437436"}
{"by":"gitah","time":"1402432864","timestamp":"2014-06-10 20:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s preventing another competitor from buying self-driving cars themselves and pushing the margins on automated taxis down to a commodity product?\u003cp\u003eAnything that you need to pay for has a chink in the network effect armor. All a competitor needs to do is price cheaper and all your users will flock to them.\u003cp\u003eTech companies survive on fat margins, but I think this industry is heading the other way.","parent":"7873503","id":"7875194"}
{"by":"fortawesome","time":"1480530624","timestamp":"2016-11-30 18:30:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a good thought. I\u0026#x27;ll check with the team and see if we want to add that to the $900k goal.","parent":"13073226","id":"13073283"}
{"by":"philipkglass","time":"1492839738","timestamp":"2017-04-22 05:42:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought they were calling themselves Czechia now but it looks like the announced name change hasn\u0026#x27;t really caught on yet.","parent":"14171199","id":"14171255"}
{"by":"paul_f","time":"1377944304","timestamp":"2013-08-31 10:18:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the real problem the whole concept of for-profit textbooks? Without that, we, and our children could read and study these magnificent words.","parent":"6296428","id":"6306415"}
{"by":"oasisbob","time":"1421369279","timestamp":"2015-01-16 00:47:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Staging sites which need to interoperate with a third-party are one place I\u0026#x27;ve seen obscured hostnames used.\u003cp\u003eeg, You want to test some front-end changes in conjunction with changes to the CDN config. If the production site is origin.example.com, the staging site might be at origin-stage-asdgwdse.example.com because you (hope!) the changes don\u0026#x27;t leak early.\u003cp\u003eIPv4 literal addresses are often inconvenient \u0026#x2F; not feasible  for larger stacks or cloud setups where you don\u0026#x27;t control the underlying infrastructure.","parent":"8895380","id":"8896553"}
{"by":"hcg","time":"1541453117","timestamp":"2018-11-05 21:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disagree, it\u0026#x27;s just not an apples to apples comparison when you add in revenue from a largely unrelated SAAS offering.","parent":"18384422","dead":true,"id":"18386110"}
{"by":"anon987","time":"1362933692","timestamp":"2013-03-10 16:41:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another political article with no possible worthwhile discussion makes it to the front page.\u003cp\u003eFlagged, and I encourage other readers with appropriate karma to do the same.","parent":"5352442","id":"5352487"}
{"by":"rectang","time":"1534905790","timestamp":"2018-08-22 02:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heh.  I have also seen that.\u003cp\u003eSharing power means actually ceding power and trusting that it will work out on average.  Listening doesn\u0026#x27;t mean \n\u0026quot;talking\u0026quot;.","parent":"17815788","id":"17815850"}
{"by":"hermannj314","time":"1359547235","timestamp":"2013-01-30 12:00:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.  Elon Musk is amazing, but I doubt he has the time to review the battery design of everything manufactured in the entire Universe so that he can warn about design flaws.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, if your kid sticks a fork in a electrical socket, anyone can say, \"you really should have bought covers for your sockets\".  Does that really add anything to the conversation?  Sometimes the incident itself make the previously underlying flaw so apparent that the armchair commentary and criticisms (which in the Boeding case seem to obvious in retrospect to all EE professors) almost provide no real value.","parent":"5138342","id":"5139090"}
{"by":"dkb","time":"1484526136","timestamp":"2017-01-16 00:22:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends from who. A big one, in my opinion, is the loss of power\u0026#x2F;sovereignty, in the sense that countries of the EU have to follow the European Directives that are made in Bruxelles, and that if they don\u0026#x27;t, they have to pay huge penalty fees.\u003cp\u003eAnother one is that, on a lot of different matters and areas, different countries just cannot obey to the same laws, and their history, language, and way of thinking are just fundamentally different.","parent":"13406828","id":"13407402"}
{"by":"balls187","time":"1498502666","timestamp":"2017-06-26 18:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On one hand google\u0026#x27;s AMP is ruining the open web.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, mobile pages suck. Too many ads, annoying popups and interstitials, and tracking scripts.","parent":"14635013","id":"14639197"}
{"by":"ArbitraryLimits","time":"1332783523","timestamp":"2012-03-26 17:38:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only one who was surprised that of all the pieces in that sentence, the author italicized \"web browser\" and \"flash?\"  Those actually seem like the least hacky pieces to me, but I guess he highlighted those because they're at the end?","parent":"3755129","id":"3757744"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1452673475","timestamp":"2016-01-13 08:24:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re utterly a matter of opinion. Please stop, and please don\u0026#x27;t be uncivil on Hacker News.","parent":"10891618","id":"10893001"}
{"by":"taxonomyman","time":"1335812547","timestamp":"2012-04-30 19:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was exactly the goal. In our opinion the \"un-findable\" as you put it represents a gold mine of information yet to be absorbed and enjoyed.","parent":"3910780","id":"3910825"}
{"by":"platz","time":"1532448007","timestamp":"2018-07-24 16:00:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool you liked it - I recently had a similar experience replacing from JQuery froms with it.\u003cp\u003eIt does by default it provide access to native JS data structures, but you don\u0026#x27;t have to use them e.g. there are persistent structures as well. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pursuit.purescript.org\u0026#x2F;packages\u0026#x2F;purescript-ordered-collections\u0026#x2F;1.0.0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pursuit.purescript.org\u0026#x2F;packages\u0026#x2F;purescript-ordered-c...\u003c/a\u003e though I don\u0026#x27;t quite understand the comment that persistent data structures are \u0026quot;slower\u0026quot; than native structures; I thought usually, it\u0026#x27;s the other way around.","parent":"17601676","id":"17602236"}
{"by":"drakaal","time":"1380485804","timestamp":"2013-09-29 20:16:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. Having access to a few hundred computers that sit in computer labs all day mostly doing nothing, I used to fold proteins or search for Yeti. Now I mine.\u003cp\u003eBut profit is kind of relative. I have made money. It is bankable, but I probably had more time in doing the initial setup than what I would have made if I had taken that same time and spent it doing something related to my primary job.\u003cp\u003eThere is \u0026quot;Profit\u0026quot; there is \u0026quot;Revenue\u0026quot; and there is \u0026quot;a smart spend of my time\u0026quot;. This met two of the three.","parent":"6466258","id":"6466349"}
{"by":"NicoJuicy","time":"1530473670","timestamp":"2018-07-01 19:34:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, Dutch too, that\u0026#x27;s correct. But almost nowhere else","parent":"17434553","id":"17437129"}
{"by":"artellectual","time":"1517026464","timestamp":"2018-01-27 04:14:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Citus, Timescale, Postgres is definitely the way to go when it comes to data services.\u003cp\u003eBasically now Postgres can be setup to be distributed, without having to modify your application’s to be distribution aware. From what I understand you just make the SQL statements as you normally would and Citus takes care of the rest.\u003cp\u003ePretty neat I have to say.","parent":"16244010","id":"16244831"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1351083777","timestamp":"2012-10-24 13:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DKIM is an anti-spam mechanism. It does \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e authenticate the sender of an email message; to do that, use something like PGP. This is an interesting story, but it's not a story about a \"massive net security hole\". Mail on the Internet has always been spoofable.","parent":"4692453","id":"4692701"}
{"by":"duck","time":"1277750981","timestamp":"2010-06-28 18:49:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Two weeks is the standard in the states. I wonder if it is different in other countries?","parent":"1468730","id":"1468972"}
{"by":"whooshee","time":"1506396243","timestamp":"2017-09-26 03:24:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your views on things are pretty static, China has ups and downs in the river of history, it also had tech flourishing time like in Song dynasty. I guess 40 years ago you would never have a chance to see what China could be now. By the way, Shinhansen also imported a great deal tech from Germany, but what\u0026#x27;s big deal of it? Why can\u0026#x27;t China just learn from other countries and build a better and more accessible one? Just like Japan or America did? China now has fully advanced high-speed trains and pushing it to dozens of markets. Including The U.S. You were talking about the policies, those big companies came and made their money without paying taxes, not to mention successfully transferred a lot of polluted industries to China. they got what they deserve. Don\u0026#x27;t whine about that.","parent":"15333902","id":"15335894"}
{"by":"Roboprog","time":"1417889689","timestamp":"2014-12-06 18:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re partially right:  the house is a long \u0026quot;strip\u0026quot; shape that has the living room facing south.  We moved in about a year and a half ago, and the back yard needs landscaping to put in some trees on the south side of the house.  (shade in the summer, drop leaves in the winter)  Now if I can only talk my wife into having something that blocks all the sun coming in that she loves so much...","parent":"8706821","id":"8709772"}
{"by":"jcbrand","time":"1420246853","timestamp":"2015-01-03 01:00:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Messaging between friends is not publishing and it\u0026#x27;s normal to want and expect conversations between friends to be private. With Facebook, there\u0026#x27;s always a middle man, listening in on and recording the conversation.","parent":"8827336","id":"8829482"}
{"by":"stared","time":"1537020349","timestamp":"2018-09-15 14:05:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I though it will be about Less Wrong.\u003cp\u003e(Discussion with a friend, who identifies with the crowd: \u0026quot;Is it a cult? Yes, but a good one!\u0026quot;)","parent":"17993929","id":"17994327"}
{"by":"jackhack","time":"1518728577","timestamp":"2018-02-15 21:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Illegal? You wish to use the power of the legal system to prohibit a closed protocol for telescope control? I think there are more serious problems in the world that deserve the attention of courts\u0026#x2F;police and prosecutors, but whatever.\u003cp\u003eLet me propose a compromise in the spirit of YCombinator\u0026#x27;s startup-focus: As you feel so strongly about this, and AFAIK such an open-protocol system does not exist, that tells me you have a perfect opportunity for you to invent this stuff, market it and sell it. Why not go tackle this gaping hole in the marketplace?","parent":"16386763","id":"16387602"}
{"by":"Lord_DeathMatch","time":"1407650371","timestamp":"2014-08-10 05:59:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"either than or you\u0026#x27;re on windows, where unfortunately next to nothing is implemented","parent":"8158954","id":"8158992"}
{"by":"gibsonf1","time":"1176146669","timestamp":"2007-04-09 19:24:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hadn't heard of kpax before.  Their documentation is missing on their website.  Do you know the features and positive reasons to use it?","parent":"10869","id":"10935"}
{"by":"pnathan","time":"1426094983","timestamp":"2015-03-11 17:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had many long discussions with a previous boss about estimates. What it boiled down to is this:\u003cp\u003e* He is on the hook for certain things to be done, and is being asked when they will be done.\u003cp\u003e* I don\u0026#x27;t have enough data to tell him in such a way that the organization can plan around it. Anything I tell him is purest moonshine and unicorn hair. Sometimes it relates to reality.\u003cp\u003e* If I give an estimate, I am essentially passing dishonesty through the organization. I am lying to him.\u003cp\u003eThis did not go over well. We compromised: I gave a order of magnitude WAG. Which, at the least, gives meaningful information and probably isn\u0026#x27;t wrong.","parent":"9182814","id":"9185287"}
{"by":"rbehrends","time":"1370078189","timestamp":"2013-06-01 09:16:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Basic welfare is an unavoidable cost. The only way to avoid paying for food, housing, and healthcare is, to be blunt, to starve or bleed to death in the gutter. And basic welfare doesn't really cost much. The cost drivers for the European welfare systems are healthcare and pensions. With respect to healthcare, the EU countries actually have the enormously inefficient American system beat (often for better quality at lower cost), with respect to pensions, they generally lag behind due to lower fertility rates.\u003cp\u003eEducation pays for itself because it is an investment. The average person will be more productive and earn more (thus increasing GDP and also their personal tax payments) if they have an education rather than being illiterate. ROI for education is extremely good. Countries like Switzerland and Germany do not subsidize education just because it's a nice thing to do, but because it's a positive sum game.","parent":"5802648","id":"5803343"}
{"by":"delegate","time":"1501686080","timestamp":"2017-08-02 15:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not a game developer, but I think one of the reasons is Visual C++ (Visual Studio), which is still the best C++ IDE around.","parent":"14910673","id":"14911073"}
{"by":"jgroszko","time":"1428418020","timestamp":"2015-04-07 14:47:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Europe is more beer-centric than the US, but here you can always ask the bartender to put a lime in your club soda to make it look like a cocktail... Bartenders are usually pretty friendly to people that aren\u0026#x27;t actually drinking, whether you\u0026#x27;re the DD, recovering, or just don\u0026#x27;t want to actually drink.","parent":"9334104","id":"9334406"}
{"by":"everyone","time":"1440365586","timestamp":"2015-08-23 21:33:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, are they outright deaths tho? As far as I\u0026#x27;m aware the most common result of car\u0026#x2F;bicycle collision is not death but some kind of head trauma for the cyclist, often resulting in brain damage.","parent":"10103055","id":"10106819"}
{"by":"TuringTest","time":"1516627354","timestamp":"2018-01-22 13:22:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has anyone suggested him to port the kernel to Rust yet? :-P","parent":"16203885","id":"16204120"}
{"by":"thenomad","time":"1380018610","timestamp":"2013-09-24 10:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My girlfriend used to work with people in a related field. I\u0026#x27;ll ask her about this and comment back later.","parent":"6424726","id":"6437005"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1499328480","timestamp":"2017-07-06 08:08:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are suggesting a blockchain to prevent mutation  of the publication (pun intended) after the fact.","parent":"14708552","id":"14708849"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1521552041","timestamp":"2018-03-20 13:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s a raw quote. Is it inaccurate?\u003cp\u003eIMO it’s very apropos because it sums up the core attitude of the company. That 19 year grew up to become one of the richest and most powerful men on the planet, with unchecked power.","parent":"16628071","id":"16628277"}
{"by":"blumentopf","time":"1307720515","timestamp":"2011-06-10 15:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's amazing that the Economist still touts Anglo-Saxon \"panaceas\" for growth: deregulate, get rid of red tape, focus the economy on services rather than manufacturing.\u003cp\u003eWhen Germany entered a period of stagnation after the Euro-introduction in 2002, the Economist made exactly the same prescriptions. Look what that ideology has done to the US and the UK: countless jobs in manufacturing have been offshored and growth was simulated through financial \"innovations\".\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I buy lots of organic food products from Italy (e.g. laselva-bio.eu) as well as clothes (e.g. slowear.it), and for a simple reason: They're the best on the market. Therein lies Italy's potential.","parent":"2640841","id":"2641248"}
{"by":"conanbatt","time":"1521420928","timestamp":"2018-03-19 00:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Meanwhile Walmart has to come up with the $.20 out of their store operating costs, but those costs are an opportunity to cut something that Amazon doesn\u0026#x27;t have. They could improve the energy efficiency of their stores. They could lay off some greeters. They could renegotiate the lease on their stores against the fact that all other retailers will have to pay the same new tax, which reduces the market value of commercial rental property.\u003cp\u003eWalmart makes up for the difference profit margins with amazon because of volume. Reducing operating costs at pure profit is already at walmarts disposable: what they could do is reduce the quality of products (worse chain of supply, worse produce, worse items) which is in practical terms also a tax in consumers.\u003cp\u003eThey really are distorting.","parent":"16613490","id":"16615458"}
{"by":"SG-","time":"1428521069","timestamp":"2015-04-08 19:24:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$1\u0026#x2F;month for 15GB extra (20GB total) is reasonable.   It\u0026#x27;s not just photo storage too, it will increase all your iCloud storage (backups, iCloud Drive, etc).","parent":"9342952","id":"9343214"}
{"by":"sjwright","time":"1426048843","timestamp":"2015-03-11 04:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mate, many of our servos sell straight 91 RON fuel. Check your local  Caltex, United or 7-Eleven.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2224794\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;forums.whirlpool.net.au\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;2224794\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9182498","id":"9182614"}
{"by":"YeGoblynQueenne","time":"1485121387","timestamp":"2017-01-22 21:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think \u0026quot;buffalo\u0026quot; (the verb) having a specific meaning makes any difference in how hard that sentence is to parse.","parent":"13453248","id":"13457709"}
{"by":"nostromo","time":"1421084224","timestamp":"2015-01-12 17:37:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually liked the article\u0026#x27;s prescription.  Not because of gender issues alone, but because I\u0026#x27;ve worked in offices where the smartest people in the room were also the quietest (both men and women).","parent":"8875088","id":"8875161"}
{"by":"nness","time":"1488752081","timestamp":"2017-03-05 22:14:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In many countries, even trying to access child pornography (even without necessarily having success in doing so), is a crime. I\u0026#x27;d assume the US to be the same.","parent":"13799048","id":"13799108"}
{"by":"Dn_Ab","time":"1366203468","timestamp":"2013-04-17 12:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm uncertain from your description but have you heard of QuickCheck  or \u003ca href=\"http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck/\u003c/a\u003e  ? QuickCheck might be available in some form in your language.","parent":"5563899","id":"5564171"}
{"by":"tr4656","time":"1369204396","timestamp":"2013-05-22 06:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Theres a coupon so that its around ~$2.79 a month for the 256MB OpenVZ one. That should probably be enough.","parent":"5748002","id":"5749234"}
{"by":"ryanatkn","time":"1383062462","timestamp":"2013-10-29 16:01:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you seen Wisp? [1] It\u0026#x27;s a minimalist approach with Clojure syntax. For me it may be the next step after CoffeeScript, which I believe has subtly brainwashed me into loving the lambda.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/Gozala/wisp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Gozala\u0026#x2F;wisp\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6633373","id":"6635115"}
{"by":"bamboo_7","time":"1534341812","timestamp":"2018-08-15 14:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Boston does not require a car. Got rid of my car 10 years ago.\u003cp\u003eOnly problem is that rent is more expensive near the subway. But we have buses and many many international workers and students. Very livable without a car.","parent":"17765848","id":"17766073"}
{"by":"spiritplumber","time":"1433976756","timestamp":"2015-06-10 22:52:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get that a lot. Very occasionally, it\u0026#x27;s after \u0026quot;thanks for saving my life \u0026#x2F; my job\u0026quot;. There\u0026#x27;s no shame in being an asshole but there is shame and dishonor in being insincere.","parent":"9695578","id":"9696199"}
{"by":"trebor","time":"1434031152","timestamp":"2015-06-11 13:59:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TL;DR, use Time \u003ci\u003eexcept\u003c/i\u003e when you need to deal with historical dates in their context.\u003cp\u003eThis was actually explained in the last paragraph of that post. Emphasis mine.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; So when should use you use DateTime in Ruby and when should you use Time? Almost certainly you\u0026#x27;ll want to \u003ci\u003euse Time since your app is probably dealing with current dates\u003c/i\u003e and times. However, \u003ci\u003eif you need to deal with dates and times in a historical context you\u0026#x27;ll want to use DateTime\u003c/i\u003e[...]","parent":"9699683","id":"9699712"}
{"by":"k3n","time":"1379085379","timestamp":"2013-09-13 15:16:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"John Resig did a really cool series[1][2][3] of deep-dive posts into optimization in JS for mobile, which covered tries (among others) -- it was the first I\u0026#x27;d heard of them. Fascinating read.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://ejohn.org/blog/dictionary-lookups-in-javascript/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ejohn.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;dictionary-lookups-in-javascript\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-trie-performance-analysis/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ejohn.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;javascript-trie-performance-analysis\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. \u003ca href=\"http://ejohn.org/blog/revised-javascript-dictionary-search/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ejohn.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;revised-javascript-dictionary-search\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6380473","id":"6381013"}
{"by":"chris24","time":"1268019384","timestamp":"2010-03-08 03:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's an interesting start. It shows off the UI of Apple's software quite well. It'll be very interesting to see the different interfaces from third-party developers that Apple will surely be showing off in their ads after the iPad ships.","parent":"1174540","id":"1174585"}
{"by":"commandlinefan","time":"1538403403","timestamp":"2018-10-01 14:16:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; no one would ever be convinced to change their minds ever. And yet, we do.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ve never seen anybody change their behavior as the result of a well-reasoned, rational argument.  I have seen people change their behavior to avoid ridicule.\u0026quot; -- Scott Adams","parent":"18110777","id":"18112696"}
{"by":"justin_vanw","time":"1441917228","timestamp":"2015-09-10 20:33:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was an example from the project.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;  1:5-1:14  warning  `boogeyman` may be insensitive, use `boogey` instead","parent":"10200077","id":"10200376"}
{"by":"sathackr","time":"1528301970","timestamp":"2018-06-06 16:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder why they are submerging these instead of just making them a floating barge.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t imagine submersion is significantly better for cooling, the energy density very likely already requires a circulating water system, and the added issues dealing with the pressure at depth seem risky.\u003cp\u003ePossibly there is a benefit not related to cooling. Perhaps weather\u0026#x2F;waves? Things are probably alot calmer 30ft below the surface. The tossing and turning on the surface may place additional streses on things like HDD spidles.","parent":"17244525","id":"17248391"}
{"by":"posterboy","time":"1511382484","timestamp":"2017-11-22 20:28:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stands to reason that \u0026quot;everyone\u0026quot; is coding wrong. You wouldn\u0026#x27;t say people are programming just because natural language is turing complete, or because they \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e while physics is turing complete. One important aspect of information is structure, but programming classes at the low level merely teach syntax. So I\u0026#x27;m thinking that therefore spreadsheets are unstructured. Sure that\u0026#x27;s elitist or at least academic - in comparison to amateurish.","parent":"15758102","id":"15760298"}
{"by":"valuearb","time":"1513533799","timestamp":"2017-12-17 18:03:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What dangers of FaceID? It works great. You immediately got hysterical but apparently don’t even understand how it works.\u003cp\u003e95%+ of these cases where a very similar face can open the phone is because they trained the iphone to recognize both faces. Caused by very similar looking family members sharing passcodes, each failed attempt adds the face to the model. If you don’t want your very similar brother to access your iphone X, the fix is simple, dint give him your passcode.\u003cp\u003eFaceID is part of making phones even more secure. Most people won’t use passcodes. TouchID can’t work with gloves, wet\u0026#x2F;sweaty fingers, etc. FaceID is much easier to  setup, and displays notification details without forcing you to unlock. Whichever you prefer, either allows you to have a far more secure passcode without it being a hassle.","parent":"15945866","id":"15946809"}
{"by":"ecspike","time":"1520819237","timestamp":"2018-03-12 01:47:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As low as $3. Sometimes a touch cheaper if you order an erm \u0026quot;inspired\u0026quot; copy from abroad.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.jetpens.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;great-beginner-fountain-pens-that-wont-break-the-bank\u0026#x2F;pt\u0026#x2F;862\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.jetpens.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;great-beginner-fountain-pens-th...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16565632","id":"16565706"}
{"by":"aestra","time":"1391785694","timestamp":"2014-02-07 15:08:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;many companies do have it\u003cp\u003eThe people who \u003ci\u003eREALLY\u003c/i\u003e need it don\u0026#x27;t get it though, those working low income jobs who can\u0026#x27;t afford to save up for maternity leave.","parent":"7196278","id":"7196534"}
{"by":"Geee","time":"1350084527","timestamp":"2012-10-12 23:28:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great, signed up for invite! Do you have support for Unity3D?","parent":"4647148","id":"4647281"}
{"by":"0xcde4c3db","time":"1489671003","timestamp":"2017-03-16 13:30:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A more reliable and helpful approach is to make sure that colors meant to convey information are augmented by some other indicator (symbols\u0026#x2F;shapes, text labels, line styles, etc.) whenever possible. In addition to avoiding colorblindness issues, this makes the difference easier to recognize in general. It also helps accommodate non-ideal viewing conditions such as a washed-out display, coordinating between displays that are calibrated differently, monochrome print\u0026#x2F;e-ink, and so on.","parent":"13884413","id":"13884798"}
{"by":"mrtron","time":"1191770204","timestamp":"2007-10-07 15:16:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are learning Python, new to programming, and want to be a web-entrepreneur, I strongly suggest you check into Django once you learn Python reasonably well.\u003cp\u003eBest of luck","parent":"64425","id":"64439"}
{"by":"vvanders","time":"1471550522","timestamp":"2016-08-18 20:02:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Build scripts can now emit warnings.\u003cp\u003eNice! This one bit me pretty bad when first getting into Rust so it\u0026#x27;s nice to see it improved.","parent":"12315147","id":"12315898"}
{"by":"rbucks","time":"1373330217","timestamp":"2013-07-09 00:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great point. As co-founder of Scripted, I whole-heartedly agree.\u003cp\u003eI think Leah is great -- I\u0026#x27;ve never met her but have heard and read good things. However it\u0026#x27;s hard to be one size fits all anymore. Craigslist and oDesk may be the last two marketplace leaders without single focus.","parent":"6010191","id":"6010391"}
{"by":"oliveshell","time":"1540053797","timestamp":"2018-10-20 16:43:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As of somewhat recently, it’s possible to defer updates through the settings menu without using the group policy editor (though only on Pro, Education and Enterprise):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;help\u0026#x2F;4026834\u0026#x2F;windows-10-defer-feature-updates\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;help\u0026#x2F;4026834\u0026#x2F;windows-10-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18263924","id":"18264073"}
{"by":"vhost-","time":"1410388378","timestamp":"2014-09-10 22:32:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for this. I just learned a lot!","parent":"8298836","id":"8299637"}
{"by":"kstenerud","time":"1331484126","timestamp":"2012-03-11 16:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Because in addition to that $200 for the bus ticket, they'd also need money on hand for first month's rent, security deposit, probably some new furniture and houseware, etc. plus enough saved up to be able to commit to the lease without knowing how much income they'll have... if/once they do manage to line up a job.\"\u003cp\u003eThese concerns are not unique to the current generation. Pulling up stumps and moving in search of work and prosperity has ALWAYS been risky (hell, I've done it three times so far, once while massively in debt). It's just that now there's a very strong trend towards risk aversion, which makes it that much harder for the entrepreneurial spirit to flourish.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, it's even worse than that; With the internet, it's easier than ever before to find a job before you even decide whether to move or not. And yet more and more people remain complacent in a 13% jobless rate area when 3.3% is available for the taking.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the good news is that for those who ARE adventurous, there's never been a better time to move and take advantage of the opportunities created by the fear of the majority.","parent":"3689774","id":"3690612"}
{"by":"HardyLeung","time":"1304702462","timestamp":"2011-05-06 17:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's amazing! Would love to know how he did it (I know he was quick, but still there are plenty of competition in a short amount of time).","parent":"2521612","id":"2521650"}
{"by":"Roridge","time":"1266947502","timestamp":"2010-02-23 17:51:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I missing something? Surely almost all the blogging sites offer this already?","parent":"1145843","id":"1145903"}
{"by":"jschwartzi","time":"1464024552","timestamp":"2016-05-23 17:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In those studies, they\u0026#x27;ve probably failed to control for children who qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch, which is a good proxy for children who don\u0026#x27;t get enough to eat for lunch. I suspect the correlation would go away if that were controlled for.","parent":"11754672","id":"11755349"}
{"by":"rqs","time":"1511752274","timestamp":"2017-11-27 03:11:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Guess that\u0026#x27;s why professional front end developer and their experiences is so important :D","parent":"15781742","id":"15784542"}
{"by":"tejay","time":"1389549486","timestamp":"2014-01-12 17:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dunno man. If you looked at the recent TechCrunch\u0026#x2F;VC exit data, your chances of \u0026#x27;exiting\u0026#x27; with a VC funded startup are actually pretty bad. And that\u0026#x27;s what VC-funded startups are ultimately designed to do. I\u0026#x27;d argue that if your goal is financial success, bootstrapping is actually better as a tactic purely on a financial basis!\u003cp\u003eThe key thing though as you mentioned is you either gotta have a lot of personal cushion, or you gotta be willing to relocate to a fairly cheap area to temporarily lower your burn...like Nashville ;).","parent":"7046478","id":"7046730"}
{"by":"kabdib","time":"1439989636","timestamp":"2015-08-19 13:07:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of my cow-orkers is an ex Amazonian. Not damaged, though he rather disliked the culture. Amazon lost a good egg when we hired him.\u003cp\u003eHe says that the only thing you can expense without a manager\u0026#x27;s permission is a pager. Which, if true, tells you a lot about Amazon.","parent":"10084140","id":"10085128"}
{"by":"mark_l_watson","time":"1272494948","timestamp":"2010-04-28 22:49:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, stop using Facebook if that bothers you. Same comment, re: privacy, goes for GMail, Google documents, Twitter, Yahoo, etc.\u003cp\u003eThe sci-fi author David Brin (a cool guy, BTW, I once went to his house and had a long talk with him) has a good take on privacy (pardon my paraphrasing, but could not find a direct quote): lack of privacy can be tolerated if it is an even playing field. That is, if politician, corporations, etc. all have the same lack of privacy as people.","parent":"1302736","id":"1302998"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1473517009","timestamp":"2016-09-10 14:16:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Buying access and influence\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t appear in the majority opinion at all, and certainly not juxtaposed with the passage you quoted. The text preceding what you quote is:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; In a series of cases over the past 40 years, we have spelled out how to draw the constitutional line between the permissible goal of avoiding corruption in the political process and the impermissible desire simply to limit political speech. We have said that government regulation may not target the general gratitude a candidate may feel toward those who support him or his allies, or the political access such support may afford. “Ingratiation and access . . . are not corruption.” Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n, 558 U. S. 310, 360 (2010). They embody a central feature of democracy—that constituents support candidates who share their beliefs and interests, and candidates who are elected can be expected to be responsive to those concerns.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI.e.\u003c/i\u003e it\u0026#x27;s not corruption if LGBT rights advocates donate heavily to get Hilary Clinton elected, and it is not corruption if she is responsive to their concerns once in office. Nor does it become corruption just because you replace a viewpoint you approve of with a viewpoint you do not approve of (\u003ci\u003ei.e.\u003c/i\u003e when you substitute \u0026quot;farmers\u0026quot; for \u0026quot;LGBT rights advocates\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003eThe case itself is also much narrower than you imply. McCutcheon v. FCC involved a challenge to the aggregate contribution limit. \u003ci\u003eI.e.\u003c/i\u003e the law that said you couldn\u0026#x27;t contribute to a 10th candidate because you hit the aggregate limit, even if you stayed under the individual contribution limit (which is currently $2,700).\u003cp\u003eThe Court started with the premise that Congress could not Constitutionally preclude people from trying to influence elections, or reduce the ability of one group to influence elections in order to increase the relative influence of other groups. It acknowledged that Congress can prevent bribery, or the appearance of bribery, but held that the aggregate limit did not achieve that purpose. If giving $2,700 to 9 candidates does not create the risk of corruption, the court reasoned, how does giving $2,700 to a tenth candidate do so?\u003cp\u003eWhat McCutcheon did not do is overturn the individual limit. Under the Court\u0026#x27;s reasoning, the result may well have been very different if the petitioner tried to contribute $10,000,000 to the same candidate.","parent":"12469166","id":"12469304"}
{"by":"LoSboccacc","time":"1525504782","timestamp":"2018-05-05 07:19:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is how to finance the hundred thousand micropublishers. To avoid the adnetwork trash effect you’d need someone big, like medium, to implement some well integrated advertisement with revenue sharing, like youtube.\u003cp\u003eFailing that affiliate and ad networks and maybe microfinancing like patreon are the only things to get something out of micropublishing.\u003cp\u003eDoesn’t seem fair.","parent":"17000577","id":"17000780"}
{"by":"joeuser12","time":"1284189051","timestamp":"2010-09-11 07:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eyawn\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"1681133","id":"1681138"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1374869245","timestamp":"2013-07-26 20:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;More to the point: why would an app ask for permissions it didn\u0026#x27;t need...\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAd networks. So wrap the calls to the ad network library in try\u0026#x2F;catch, and, in most cases, that takes care of the mostly gratuitous permissions.","parent":"6110184","id":"6110285"}
{"by":"baby","time":"1385052293","timestamp":"2013-11-21 16:44:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  Not surprising, there is no free speech in France.\u003cp\u003eEntirely false, except if you mean ABSOLUTE free speech. In this case I would argue no country has one. I guess you come from the US? See : \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;United_States_free_speech_excep...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Especially when it comes to crooked banks or politicians.\u003cp\u003eWeren\u0026#x27;t we talking about the 1% recently where you live?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; France is closer to a monarchy than a democracy.\u003cp\u003eI like those empty statements.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, who is upvoting your comment? It\u0026#x27;s just plain bashing with no real arguments.","parent":"6775474","id":"6775657"}
{"by":"galdosdi","time":"1522126990","timestamp":"2018-03-27 05:03:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha, as I joked in another article comment thread, their current crash rate ironically means a somewhat drunk but otherwise defensive driver is probably much safer! What a world.","parent":"16685166","id":"16685402"}
{"by":"spookyuser","time":"1513020910","timestamp":"2017-12-11 19:35:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I actually don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;ve done this so I\u0026#x27;ll give it a shot!","parent":"15899007","id":"15899622"}
{"by":"to3m","time":"1448819597","timestamp":"2015-11-29 17:53:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do these companies that don\u0026#x27;t move then spend the money on? Because it doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be the salaries ;)\u003cp\u003eSuggested office square footages: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.officespacefinder.co.uk\u0026#x2F;officespacehow.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.officespacefinder.co.uk\u0026#x2F;officespacehow.html\u003c/a\u003e - does this place look like they\u0026#x27;ve got even 50 ft^2 per person?! Packing your staff in like battery hens or galley slaves is unhealthy. Those poor people in the photo (assuming it is their office - the question has yet to be answered conclusively) are suffering from terrible ergonomics and cramped working areas, both physical and virtual.\u003cp\u003eSo what if you\u0026#x27;re this scrappy startup - that sort of thing is a false economy. Your staff are pretty much your only asset.","parent":"10644984","id":"10645372"}
{"by":"Zuider","time":"1426495169","timestamp":"2015-03-16 08:39:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on whether the offender cares or not. If they cared, they probably would not be transgressing in the first place. If they didn\u0026#x27;t care, they would probably react aggressively to being told off.","parent":"9156613","id":"9210430"}
{"by":"irrational","time":"1517377605","timestamp":"2018-01-31 05:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, I don\u0026#x27;t know. We\u0026#x27;ve lived in a 1900 sq ft house for the past 15 years. We have 7 kids (currently ages 4 to 20) and it has worked out just fine so far. We haven\u0026#x27;t felt cramped yet.","parent":"16271321","id":"16271750"}
{"by":"relics443","time":"1486748232","timestamp":"2017-02-10 17:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with his intent but not his delivery.\u003cp\u003eHowever, asking a community with many engineers to not harshly nitpick someone else\u0026#x27;s contribution is a futile task.","parent":"13617055","id":"13617192"}
{"by":"abrichr","time":"1374100885","timestamp":"2013-07-17 22:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right-click -\u0026gt; Inspect element -\u0026gt; Delete key -\u0026gt; Done.","parent":"6059997","id":"6060517"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1449538082","timestamp":"2015-12-08 01:28:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It takes one to know one.\u003cp\u003eI think we\u0026#x27;re done here.","parent":"10694148","id":"10694173"}
{"by":"skj","time":"1397396515","timestamp":"2014-04-13 13:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure. I was only addressing the concern of accessing source.","parent":"7581079","id":"7581272"}
{"by":"primigenus","time":"1363912099","timestamp":"2013-03-22 00:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Look at it like this: if the Kickstarter campaign gets attention in the media, Mackenzie and her mom (or Susan and her daughter, depending on how you want to look at it) have successfully brought positive attention to the case of videogames and computer programming for girls. Something in me, perhaps a naive, optimistic part, tells me that's a good thing. Regardless of whatever their motives for doing this are.","parent":"5420341","id":"5420484"}
{"by":"dschep","time":"1348144602","timestamp":"2012-09-20 12:36:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All the custom stuff is in a PPA[1]. Some of the patches are already merged into Quantal.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-kernel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-k...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4547914","id":"4548175"}
{"by":"lolc","time":"1539680879","timestamp":"2018-10-16 09:07:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every society needs common beliefs to function. These beliefs are arbitrary in the sense that there are other beliefs that would work just as well.\u003cp\u003eAll secular states have a flag used for ceremonial purposes for example. It\u0026#x27;s supposed to create a feeling of unity. Just like religious symbols do. Sure we can talk about matters of degree. Not all societies have an all-seeing god, for example.","parent":"18227531","id":"18227847"}
{"by":"interwho","time":"1428912812","timestamp":"2015-04-13 08:13:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t a hard cutoff, those are the recommended grades to receive an offer. I\u0026#x27;m currently in the Computer Engineering program here and I can say out of my class, most had around a 90. That said, CE is one of the less competitive programs.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a chart of the number of students rejected from Waterloo Engineering with averages 90+: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;profbillanderson.files.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;unadmittednumbers.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;profbillanderson.files.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;unadmit...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9366439","id":"9366480"}
{"by":"russ","time":"1178951862","timestamp":"2007-05-12 06:37:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"The next Google\". Riiight. Some things look neat, but I definitely wouldn't go that far.","parent":"21497","id":"21532"}
{"by":"daveguy","time":"1486104133","timestamp":"2017-02-03 06:42:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eventually we will develop the game:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Nex...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13557507","id":"13558205"}
{"by":"Duff","time":"1300751710","timestamp":"2011-03-21 23:55:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For many students -- perhaps as high as 80% IMO, something like the Khan Academy, combined with a supervising adult to coach you could easily replace teachers, and should.\u003cp\u003eWhy? Schools work the way that they do because it is convenient. They ignore the needs of the bright (most of whom are bored out of their minds) and those who need some more help. We push kids through school, use outdated, repressive discipline to keep them in control, and spend alot of money in the process.\u003cp\u003eEducation hasn't always been this way -- in rural areas as late as the 1950's 1 room schools taught K-12 successfully -- with one or two adults. How? The kids taught each other.\u003cp\u003eI could think of nothing more rewarding (for teachers and students) than designing schools to be institutions where kids actually enjoy learning. I don't think staffing needs would be reduced as much as one may think. It will by necessity shrink somewhat, total teacher compensation is growing beyond the ability of many communities ability to pay.","parent":"2350742","id":"2352229"}
{"by":"acjohnson55","time":"1496898856","timestamp":"2017-06-08 05:14:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, you read me correctly.\u003cp\u003eApproval voting is great too, but I don\u0026#x27;t know that it addresses the issue of district boundaries on its own.\u003cp\u003eAnd to address the question of complexity from the first person to reply to me, I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s a realistic concern. Basically it would work like this: you vote normally (whether singe vote, approval, ranked, or whatever), then each party gets at most the number of winners proportional to their aggregate share of the vote, with representatives chosen in order of performance.","parent":"14511916","id":"14512055"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1442090039","timestamp":"2015-09-12 20:33:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Recent articles about tumor growth heterogeneity :\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nature.com\u0026#x2F;nature\u0026#x2F;journal\u0026#x2F;v525\u0026#x2F;n7568\u0026#x2F;full\u0026#x2F;nature14971.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nature.com\u0026#x2F;nature\u0026#x2F;journal\u0026#x2F;v525\u0026#x2F;n7568\u0026#x2F;full\u0026#x2F;nature1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eVideos below are pretty telling.","parent":"10209182","id":"10209266"}
{"by":"DirtyAndy","time":"1286450260","timestamp":"2010-10-07 11:17:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate to sound too negative, but 99% of that \"Rate My Startup\"'s I see on here are worth nothing now, and will be worth nothing in 5 years. Don't spend too much time debating whether you deserve 90% or nothing or 20% of nothing, because they both equal the same thing.\u003cp\u003eUnless there was a overriding reason for one partner to have more equity I would only ever do 50/50 or 1/3rd each etc. Equal shares means everyone has the same amount riding on it. Everyone suffers the same stresses. Everyone gets the same wins. Reasons that would make me do it differently, if one partner has a proven track record (has had a major success in the past, that they were truly part of), if it was an extremely technical project (getting better search results than Google for example) I think the technical co-founder is probably worth more - if they can deliver, similarly if it is a very hard sell the marketing/business person might deserve more (although if it is that hard a sell I'd stay away). Lastly if the business needed money and someone had a contact that could bring in that money it would be worth considering giving them more equity (if it was me, I'd be demanding more).\u003cp\u003eI'm pretty sure in general YC gives the company equal money based on number of founders. I would imagine as a general rule that means they see all founders as equals. Seems like a pretty good guideline.\u003cp\u003e(Would be interesting to hear what PG and co do when they meet a team and think 2 out of 3 are awesome - do they fund, not fund, tell them to lose the other guy etc?)","parent":"1766804","id":"1767466"}
{"by":"inopinatus","time":"1317851097","timestamp":"2011-10-05 21:44:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"php lowered the bar to web programming to below \"moron\" level.\u003cp\u003eso you will need something equally instant-gratificational.\u003cp\u003eonly without the horrible warts\u003cp\u003erails was too clever. stupid people are afraid of clever.\u003cp\u003eI don't see anything to hand.","parent":"3077031","id":"3077756"}
{"by":"jpttsn","time":"1492085017","timestamp":"2017-04-13 12:03:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sea turtles live long. That doesn\u0026#x27;t mean lying on a beach all my life is right for me.","parent":"14092686","id":"14106057"}
{"by":"prav","time":"1538969633","timestamp":"2018-10-08 03:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this in same category as OptaPlanner? How do these two compare?","parent":"18161145","id":"18163959"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1352357543","timestamp":"2012-11-08 06:52:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If your software is Twitter, then you're constantly rewriting the stack anyway just to keep up, and switching to different languages, frameworks, technologies, and tools component-by-component is often the best way to do that.","parent":"4756696","id":"4756748"}
{"by":"shufti","time":"1298136761","timestamp":"2011-02-19 17:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not ideal, but you can upload a .pdf to google docs, then download it as a .doc.","parent":"2238635","id":"2239407"}
{"by":"Arizhel","time":"1494306845","timestamp":"2017-05-09 05:14:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s assholes, for lack of a better term.  Instead of respecting your privacy and sending you an email to avoid interrupting you, they think that whatever concern they have is more important and worth interrupting you.","parent":"14296596","id":"14297878"}
{"by":"yaix","time":"1340016187","timestamp":"2012-06-18 10:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"service event\"\u003cp\u003eAdded to my list of favourite euphemisms.","parent":"4124488","id":"4125781"}
{"by":"Rifu","time":"1526974216","timestamp":"2018-05-22 07:30:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article was kinda meh but the blog it\u0026#x27;s on is actually really interesting if you\u0026#x27;re into medieval books. Lost quite a bit of time today just browsing.","parent":"17121577","id":"17124272"}
{"by":"coffeecheque","time":"1362144525","timestamp":"2013-03-01 13:28:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why does it have a monthly fee? What are the differences between the US and AUS markets that require Australian users to pay three different fees to use a payment gateway?","parent":"5304043","id":"5304098"}
{"by":"jchw","time":"1499116345","timestamp":"2017-07-03 21:12:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think they mean, because Skype Desktop on Linux is already unbelievably horrible. And always has been! Well, it was OK in the Skype 2 days.","parent":"14691417","id":"14691442"}
{"by":"toomanybeersies","time":"1539147646","timestamp":"2018-10-10 05:00:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a few on Aliexpress: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aliexpress.com\u0026#x2F;wholesale?catId=0\u0026amp;initiative_id=AS_20181009205845\u0026amp;SearchText=xiaomi+redmi+4x+motherboard\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aliexpress.com\u0026#x2F;wholesale?catId=0\u0026amp;initiative_id=A...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt would appear that they are used and recycled though, rather than new OEM parts.","parent":"18181851","id":"18182082"}
{"by":"bensandcastle","time":"1368901977","timestamp":"2013-05-18 18:32:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, the dev unit allows software to run on Windows x86. We're not building for Android. Use the latest version of Unity that you wish.","parent":"5728601","id":"5729837"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1444748578","timestamp":"2015-10-13 15:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s unclear to me also.  I don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;ve actually been scammed, but it\u0026#x27;s possible and I\u0026#x27;m kind of still waiting to find out.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a trick to it:  asking for the money in stages, because if you make it to a stage then you don\u0026#x27;t have to give everything back.\u003cp\u003eSo if you truly need $100K, you first set your goal to $15K, then $40K, then $75K, then $100K. That way if you fail to raise your $100K, you still get to keep your $75K or whatever your max was.  It seems that it\u0026#x27;s against the spirit of the sites, but it works.\u003cp\u003eOn the books it\u0026#x27;s a failure, but the folks walk away with the money.  Is it a scam?  I\u0026#x27;m not sure.","parent":"10380620","id":"10380915"}
{"by":"digi_owl","time":"1442344492","timestamp":"2015-09-15 19:14:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems the quote gets turned into a single long line in Firefox, and subsequently making the page extra wide...","parent":"10220496","id":"10222582"}
{"by":"bsder","time":"1420787180","timestamp":"2015-01-09 07:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, and many of them tout their modeling credentials (discovered this when I was trying to learn Cantonese).\u003cp\u003eUh, they\u0026#x27;re teaching \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c/i\u003e, it\u0026#x27;s just not what you think it is.","parent":"8860983","id":"8861100"}
{"by":"Ardit20","time":"1251718231","timestamp":"2009-08-31 11:30:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I have never heard anyone describe depression as anything other than a waste of time.\"\u003cp\u003eWhat does that mean exactly? I think the reason why teenagers and young adults are depressed is because they are trying to figure out what the world is and what is their place in it. Sorting out their fundational believes and what not, like what career to choose, or whether it matters if there is a god, or whatever and I wouldn't call that a waste of time.","parent":"795503","id":"795730"}
{"by":"swingline-747","time":"1536898460","timestamp":"2018-09-14 04:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Fly me to the moon \n    Let me play among the stars \n    Let me see what spring is like on \n    A-Jupiter and Mars \n    In other words, hold my hand \n    In other words, baby, kiss me\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI knew a guy whom took dates to buzz around the Statue of Liberty  about 20m away, pre-9\u0026#x2F;11.. now dudes are going to have to take them literally around the moon. To afford this, anyone got any hot stock tips? :)","parent":"17983890","id":"17984631"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1420396923","timestamp":"2015-01-04 18:42:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;ve said limited scope authorisation is weak authentication, but you haven\u0026#x27;t said why in your post.\u003cp\u003eCan anyone advocating OpenID connect give a single sentence explanation of why people (developers and users) would want to use it vs limited scope oauth?","parent":"8834709","id":"8835344"}
{"by":"bbcbasic","time":"1421809162","timestamp":"2015-01-21 02:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have used Keepass (Classic) for years. \u003ca href=\"http://keepass.info/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;keepass.info\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8920626","id":"8921224"}
{"by":"saucow","time":"1387316634","timestamp":"2013-12-17 21:43:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey thanks for trying it.\nWe\u0026#x27;ve tested it with many different people and machines with bluetooth accessories, and never ran into that issue.\nI personally use pair of magic mouse\u0026#x2F;keyboard on both of my Macs.\nCan you please try replacing the batteries in your mouse and try again.\nOn a technical level this should never happen since your smartphone and your human interface devices utilize Bluetooth on your Mac through different profiles.","parent":"6924049","id":"6924167"}
{"by":"extension","time":"1334246607","timestamp":"2012-04-12 16:03:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If == is supposed to be a numeric comparison and you are supposed to use strcmp for strings then why does == (sometimes) work on strings? Make it \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c/i\u003e coerce to a number, or die trying. Overloading it as numeric or string compare depending on what the string looks like is ridiculous.\u003cp\u003eAnd BTW, things that work in \u003ci\u003emost\u003c/i\u003e cases, but not \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e cases, are exactly where bugs come from.","parent":"3832316","id":"3832926"}
{"by":"eis","time":"1311319995","timestamp":"2011-07-22 07:33:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go is a nice language, I've used it for 3 projects so far.\u003cp\u003eBut the garbage collector needs some big improvements until I will use it for anything that gets some kind of heavy work load.\nI used it as a simple HTTP daemon that just collects data submitted by flash clients via POST requests and keeps some internal stats about them. It is literally just something like 200 lines of code.\nWhen I had over 30 req/s, nearly 100mb overall RAM usage and a Go heap of usually about 60-70mb, a GC run would take over 115ms. During that run, it stops all other threads (stop-the-world GC). For this particular project that was OK-ish since the clients don't see the latency.\nBut for anything where the user is exposed to the latency (e.g. serving pages), this would be a problem. Especially since the GC latency increases faster than linearly.\nI'd expect a GC run to take more than 1 second with about 100 req/s and something like 500mb RAM usage.\u003cp\u003eI could probably get much better performance by reducing the heap size by avoiding using the stdlib packages like \"http\". They create LOTS of garbage. Strings being imutable does not help with that either.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately even though they said the GC is being rewritten right during the first and nearly every other presentation, this is not happening. They still are using a conservative non-generational stop-the-world GC. Even though they are tuning it a fair bit, this type of GC is not really good to begin with. It's a shame :(","parent":"2792351","id":"2792720"}
{"by":"xelfer","time":"1396865013","timestamp":"2014-04-07 10:03:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Garmin connect can do this, as can runkeeper: \u003ca href=\"http://runkeeper.com/search/routes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;runkeeper.com\u0026#x2F;search\u0026#x2F;routes\u003c/a\u003e. I\u0026#x27;m sure mapmyrun and others allow it as well? you point and click along the route and it calculates the distance for you, garmin even tells you expected time to complete.","parent":"7544625","id":"7545579"}
{"by":"KozmoNau7","time":"1505396498","timestamp":"2017-09-14 13:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, I could have reinstalled Arch, but 1) that sort of breaks the whole \u0026quot;install once, update forever\u0026quot; ideal many Arch proponents trot out, and 2) that would still require me to install everything manually, set up the base system manually, fiddle around with config files and so on.\u003cp\u003eIn comparison, to install Mint, I popped in the USB stick, ran the installer and that was it. The most complicated thing was the partition manager, and only because I have four hard drives and a Windows partition to take into account.\u003cp\u003eAnd that was it, 20 minutes and I was up and running on a desktop with a browser, with automatic updates, and every driver working correctly.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s what I want from my computer these days. I want it to work \u003ci\u003efor\u003c/i\u003e me.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not a kernel hacker, I\u0026#x27;m not even a developer (aside from some monitoring scripts at work). I want my web browser and my media player and my various little utility apps. I have no desire to be a sysadmin, I\u0026#x27;ve been there and done that, and now I find it a waste of time.","parent":"15247714","id":"15247880"}
{"by":"julianpye","time":"1364913233","timestamp":"2013-04-02 14:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tend to give my brain play-time, when it can freely roam around. At that time a whiteboard however is much more useful than a browser with tabs, where you will end up with 40 open tabs that you plan to 'work through'. \nWhat I also found most useful is cycling outside. I research and let my brain binge on information, then I do a long walk or a cycling trip for two hours. During that time the puzzle solves itself. Then I have a voice-recorder ready and record my completed train of thought, which later at night is typed into Powerpoints for work and Mindmaps. \nThe trickiest part of all this is that it's difficult to fit this around fixed schedules.","parent":"5479310","id":"5479482"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1425737326","timestamp":"2015-03-07 14:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe it\u0026#x27;s also possible to use variable-size arrays in C or C++ (and end up with a variable-size struct).\u003cp\u003eGo does allow fixed size arrays in structs, and they\u0026#x27;re inline in the struct, so `struct { foo [8]uint }` is 32 bytes, whereas `struct { foo []uint }` is 12 bytes and `struct { foo string }` is 8.","parent":"9161604","id":"9161838"}
{"by":"sjg007","time":"1519857167","timestamp":"2018-02-28 22:32:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That makes sense.  It\u0026#x27;s a lot and doesn\u0026#x27;t go very far in the Bay area but it makes things better than just 105k-120k for a family of 4 which can work but can be stressful.","parent":"16487569","id":"16487793"}
{"by":"Roboprog","time":"1319816076","timestamp":"2011-10-28 15:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm so tired of benchmarks that play with ints and floats which show how fast Java is.\u003cp\u003eMost business app work is string manipulation.  If you think Ruby is slow, look at the timings for \"sequential\" operation in the table on this page (yes, it's my site):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.12.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.12.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you think that I have badly blundered in my methodology, get the benchmark code, fiddle with it, and run it on your own hardware:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/roboprog/mp_bench\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/roboprog/mp_bench\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFYI:  I'm not trying to say that \"Ruby is the most awesomest language, like ever, d00dz!!!\".  I like different tools for different jobs.  I'm just tired of seeing people judge implementation speeds based on bit twiddling benchmarks, rather than stuff that at least churns through a large number of strings, if not other object types, and does some I/O.","parent":"3168450","id":"3168681"}
{"by":"junkscience2017","time":"1514051976","timestamp":"2017-12-23 17:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not just America. growing up in Canada, exactly 0 minutes were dedicated to discussing treatment of First Nations peoples...noteworthy given that government\u0026#x27;s exceptionally awful history in that regard","parent":"15995079","id":"15995328"}
{"by":"curtis","time":"1532474228","timestamp":"2018-07-24 23:17:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think monorepos make a lot of sense when you\u0026#x27;re talking about millions of lines of code.  I\u0026#x27;m not at all sure they make sense when you\u0026#x27;re talking about billions.","parent":"17605371","id":"17605698"}
{"by":"lerax","time":"1523436709","timestamp":"2018-04-11 08:51:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The legacy is dying, finally.","parent":"16808683","id":"16809217"}
{"by":"higherpurpose","time":"1425340282","timestamp":"2015-03-02 23:51:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not as worried about \u003ci\u003ecompletely\u003c/i\u003e autonomous AI\u0026#x2F;robots, as I am about \u003ci\u003egovernment-controlled\u003c/i\u003e \u0026quot;autonomous\u0026quot; robots, or even non-autonomous ones.\u003cp\u003eFor instance, for someone in the Middle East, or any poor country being in war with US, it would very much look like the Terminator war, if the US only sends remote-controlled robots and drones to invade that country.","parent":"9135050","id":"9135234"}
{"by":"canttestthis","time":"1543646142","timestamp":"2018-12-01 06:35:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m above that already, but apparently most of the Indians aren\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eThis comment is just bordering on being inappropriate. The H1-B is a skilled worker program. Having a per country cap makes absolutely no sense.","parent":"18574705","id":"18575564"}
{"by":"Safety1stClyde","time":"1491619130","timestamp":"2017-04-08 02:38:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; When I give a draft of an essay to friends, there are two things I want to know: which parts bore them, and which seem unconvincing.\u003cp\u003eIronically this article is somewhat boring. The general impression I take away it is that the author thinks that he\u0026#x27;s much more intelligent than other people. That might be true, but still it is rather tedious to keep making that assertion.","parent":"14064778","id":"14064975"}
{"by":"swsieber","time":"1444156450","timestamp":"2015-10-06 18:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They wrote it specifically for sandstorm.io, so they\u0026#x27;re dog-fooding it.","parent":"10338503","id":"10341226"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1341334965","timestamp":"2012-07-03 17:02:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only by degrees.","parent":"4194482","id":"4194990"}
{"by":"solipsism","time":"1476007925","timestamp":"2016-10-09 10:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhat makes him special?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour lesson to help you better understand the world lies in the answer to that question.\u003cp\u003eWhat makes him special is knowing how to break the rules in ways that don\u0026#x27;t have too many negative repercussions. It\u0026#x27;s not easy, but if you can do it, it puts you ahead of the people who play by the rules.","parent":"12670050","id":"12670578"}
{"by":"gouranga","time":"1339597042","timestamp":"2012-06-13 14:17:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't. I do know what is involved though. You dig a big hole and put them in it. Then over 25 years or so the lithium seeps out into the water table...","parent":"4105888","id":"4106022"}
{"by":"akama","time":"1457983595","timestamp":"2016-03-14 19:26:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would guess you are correct about how they make sure your hands are on the wheel. I\u0026#x27;ve done some car hacking and one of the things that surprised me was how sensitive some cars steering wheels are to pressure. It was impossible to keep it in the same position according to the car\u0026#x27;s internal electronic systems with my hands on it. This is car is 4 years old, so it\u0026#x27;s probably only gotten more sensitive.","parent":"11284864","id":"11284932"}
{"by":"guscost","time":"1345216106","timestamp":"2012-08-17 15:08:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You got odds on that?","parent":"4395915","id":"4396714"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1311304371","timestamp":"2011-07-22 03:12:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That being said, it's also uncommon to specifically use Mr. (except for male surgeons, of course) - not unknown, but uncommon. I'd have less of a problem if the article was about, say, his dog having a funny coat pattern or him complaining about parking restrictions at the local council, but it is weird that in an article about his professional conduct and capacity, that the lesser title should be used.","parent":"2792162","id":"2792255"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1461074351","timestamp":"2016-04-19 13:59:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s worth pointing out that wariness and fear isn\u0026#x27;t the usual response to a rare sight of foreigners in many (if not most) other cultures...","parent":"11526698","id":"11526960"}
{"by":"stevenwu","time":"1493940974","timestamp":"2017-05-04 23:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sort of related but not about the main site being down: search crashes way more often than I expected it would for such a popular site. I read an AMA by the CEO that said they\u0026#x27;re rolling out a new search by (the end of?) this summer. Probably not enough resources to scale up as fast as they want to.","parent":"14262817","id":"14269850"}
{"by":"Aelinsaar","time":"1467499144","timestamp":"2016-07-02 22:39:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Baruch dayan emet. When I was a young boy I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Wiesel and chat with him for a while about his book \u0026#x27;Night\u0026#x27;, an life in general. He was one of the warmest, most intelligent and interesting people I\u0026#x27;ve ever met.","parent":"12023618","id":"12024030"}
{"by":"ed_blackburn","time":"1456301562","timestamp":"2016-02-24 08:12:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"-1 :(\u003cp\u003eZuckerberg used to wax lyrically about Spotify and I always assumed Facebook would one day like to move to the subscription streaming market. A barrier to entry for Spotify to stream movies I always suspected would be cash.\u003cp\u003eMoving to google cloud won\u0026#x27;t stop a Spotify sale but it may discourage some?","parent":"11161737","id":"11165272"}
{"by":"tjoff","time":"1527677141","timestamp":"2018-05-30 10:45:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google also says that an event that took place 47 hours ago is \u0026quot;yesterday\u0026quot; which is hilariously bad.\u003cp\u003eJust print the date and time.","parent":"17183778","id":"17186563"}
{"by":"tgflynn","time":"1294082034","timestamp":"2011-01-03 19:13:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The read range you're seeing also seems compatible with a low frequency device.\u003cp\u003eI'm quite perplexed.  I don't think the foil could be attenuating the signal directly.  It might be reflecting it/altering the field pattern so as to reduce the effective gain between the transmitter and receiver antennas.","parent":"2064143","id":"2064296"}
{"by":"chipkey","time":"1507389032","timestamp":"2017-10-07 15:10:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kleinberg\u0026#x2F;Tardos book that I am reading right now needs trimming for brevity. A good math text editor could, probably, easily lop off 1\u0026#x2F;3 of it without affecting its content. Otherwise I prefer it to most other algo books because its proofs are closest to how mathematicians approach their proofs. By contrast, I am confused as to why CLRS contains proofs at all. At the beginning of the book, the authors say something to the effect of actual proofs being too messy\u0026#x2F;hard so they simply wave their hands through them. But if most any intro discrete math books can do these proofs, why can\u0026#x27;t CLRS? To me it\u0026#x27;s a turn-off.","parent":"15423045","id":"15424047"}
{"by":"Tomte","time":"1458585203","timestamp":"2016-03-21 18:33:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The randomness quality is part of OTP\u0026#x27;s definition, so your \u0026quot;random enough\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;considered safe\u0026quot; places you squarely out of OTP territory, back into \u0026quot;homegrown stream cipher\u0026quot;.","parent":"11330158","id":"11330535"}
{"by":"ecspike","time":"1331747570","timestamp":"2012-03-14 17:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They needed hits and hating on Google is an easy way to do that.","parent":"3703904","id":"3704380"}
{"by":"nol13","time":"1506554268","timestamp":"2017-09-27 23:17:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"^clearly a bot account\u003cp\u003e(but there are ~hundreds of similar vids if not convinced)","parent":"15352980","id":"15353239"}
{"by":"colechristensen","time":"1510088842","timestamp":"2017-11-07 21:07:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This might just be lacking knowledge of how the aerospace industry works.  NASA wanted reusable commercial rockets, it got what it wanted. They create contracts to design things, contracts to develop demonstrators, contracts to fly blocks of missions.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not very likely for any aerospace contractor to turn down work because it\u0026#x27;s structured in a way that avoids risks.  The NASA contract isn\u0026#x27;t for only the final results, they pay the R\u0026amp;D costs.  The first round might be a competition to design a reusable launch system.  You get paid for designing, it\u0026#x27;s NASA\u0026#x27;s ambition, you\u0026#x27;re just implementing it (and trying to implement it better than the other guy).\u003cp\u003eULA might not have ever taken the initiative itself, but if NASA wants to pay them to design a flying pig, they\u0026#x27;ll be happy to do it.\u003cp\u003eThis is how government programs work contracting to the public sector, the motivation for cheaper reusable launches has existed for a very long time.  Reusability was a primary design motivation that led to the space shuttle.  Lessons learned pointed in a different direction than a space plane for the next iterations and difficulties developing things in house led to the commercial motivation.","parent":"15647175","id":"15647650"}
{"by":"lmilcin","time":"1538654629","timestamp":"2018-10-04 12:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is that the process was to assure the device wasn\u0026#x27;t tampered AFTER shipped from manufacturer. Nobody thought it could already have been modified so early in the process. This is the eternal cat and mouse game. When I started in IT in 90s it was assumed that company network was quite safe and you didn\u0026#x27;t always need passwords, maybe for critical resources only.","parent":"18138798","id":"18139085"}
{"by":"bluGill","time":"1534187002","timestamp":"2018-08-13 19:03:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To you. But it is a big deal some someone else. Your task is to figure out who, and why. (why tends to be obvious once you realize who)","parent":"17752570","id":"17752674"}
{"by":"marmaduke","time":"1533837979","timestamp":"2018-08-09 18:06:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Numba has user defined types,\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;numba.pydata.org\u0026#x2F;numba-doc\u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;jitclass.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;numba.pydata.org\u0026#x2F;numba-doc\u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;jitclass.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one intends to fix Python but it’s straightforward to do things like Numba: use a decorator to read out the AST for a function, reimplement it however you like and pass back the compiled function, and document the semantics.","parent":"17726363","id":"17726759"}
{"by":"sotojuan","time":"1508422013","timestamp":"2017-10-19 14:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So is Hugo, and that\u0026#x27;s in Homebrew for macOS users.","parent":"15507800","id":"15507962"}
{"by":"waitwaitwhay","time":"1422749268","timestamp":"2015-02-01 00:07:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Resharper exists in a C++ version. Just preview, but still.","parent":"8977421","id":"8978576"}
{"by":"almost","time":"1288101569","timestamp":"2010-10-26 13:59:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it has a USB port you can use either an external CDROM drive or a USB key drive.\u003cp\u003eIf it has a network port then you can make a network boot floppy quite easily. This just contains enough to get the system booting off of an image retrieved from a TFTP server over the network.","parent":"1834141","id":"1834169"}
{"by":"eric_bullington","time":"1360693016","timestamp":"2013-02-12 18:16:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Repetition is the source of all learning (literally: \"repetition is the mother of studies\").\u003cp\u003eEDIT: And you're right, obviously the parent comment should have written \"est\" in lieu of \"is\".  Sorry, missed what you were pointing out initially.","parent":"5208409","id":"5208457"}
{"by":"Tharkun","time":"1381766327","timestamp":"2013-10-14 15:58:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your reasoning is a bit strange. You might as well recommend using windows for the same reason (popularity). I personally run Fedora for the exact reasons you gave. Eye of the beholder, and all that.","parent":"6544406","id":"6547959"}
{"by":"jmtame","time":"1239297239","timestamp":"2009-04-09 17:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's fun only the first 10 or so times you hear \"PHP sucks, ROR is the greatest language in the world!\"  As with any joke, it tends to get old pretty quickly.  Move on, find another joke to tell.\u003cp\u003eAs a disclaimer, I don't take sides.  I use both PHP and ROR.  Use a language that works for YOUR project, but don't harass other people because of the languages they choose to use on theirs.","parent":"554641","id":"554714"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1387226068","timestamp":"2013-12-16 20:34:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThis is why freedom of speech applies to illegal immigrants and visitors\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot if we read the text:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtracting the relevant bit:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCongress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllegal immigrants and visitors \u0026quot;have\u0026quot; free speech because no laws may be enacted against it, period.","parent":"6917566","id":"6917619"}
{"by":"steego","time":"1453224571","timestamp":"2016-01-19 17:29:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s especially entertaining how he tries to apply his very unique sidestepping effort to the rest of their operations as if he\u0026#x27;s warning potential buyers and investors alike.\u003cp\u003eI wonder how many people have had to listen to this drawn out story.","parent":"10932134","id":"10932216"}
{"by":"andrewmitchell","time":"1477192115","timestamp":"2016-10-23 03:08:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can understand the instinct to move, but I think the answer is to split your eggs among many baskets, not just pick a sturdier basket.   I don\u0026#x27;t think the Dyn team is necessarily bad, it was an enormous assault.","parent":"12771657","id":"12771676"}
{"by":"cnp","time":"1442954658","timestamp":"2015-09-22 20:44:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its not hard to figure out. All of the indicators point to it being bad.","parent":"10260528","id":"10261590"}
{"by":"gte910h","time":"1344367996","timestamp":"2012-08-07 19:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've heard great things about University of Toronto grads as well","parent":"4351463","id":"4351827"}
{"by":"rajacombinator","time":"1409959180","timestamp":"2014-09-05 23:19:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) get connected, 2) get traction, 3) get both!","parent":"8271529","id":"8276815"}
{"by":"voidz","time":"1474627936","timestamp":"2016-09-23 10:52:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They gave Krebs the service free of charge.","parent":"12563551","id":"12563607"}
{"by":"dasil003","time":"1352136548","timestamp":"2012-11-05 17:29:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're cargo culting on security dogma.\u003cp\u003eInformation assymetry is probably your only advantage against credit card fraudsters, because there is no security hole, rather they are exploiting your core business flow.","parent":"4744380","id":"4744685"}
{"by":"retrogradeorbit","time":"1394958865","timestamp":"2014-03-16 08:34:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience they usually settle pre-trial. They did in my case. Especially if the litigant has a strong case. Better to pay out than to risk a negative judgement.\u003cp\u003eThe point is that questions get asked at a high level and internal changes can be triggered by a pre-trial settlement. As I said, it\u0026#x27;s the only thing people like that understand. They won\u0026#x27;t take you seriously unless you take their money.","parent":"7408551","id":"7408613"}
{"by":"phlakaton","time":"1471906887","timestamp":"2016-08-22 23:01:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go in a group of 3 or more.\u003cp\u003eKeep calm and friendly when asking. Make sure the stakes are low for you.\u003cp\u003eTry ice cream.","parent":"12336968","id":"12340056"}
{"by":"saola-app","time":"1451885037","timestamp":"2016-01-04 05:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for that. I took it in the spirit of the hash bang.","parent":"10833863","id":"10834155"}
{"by":"Unseelie","time":"1280685137","timestamp":"2010-08-01 17:52:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the other half?\nCertainly not Democrats, none of them.","parent":"1565644","id":"1565693"}
{"by":"ntuandung93","time":"1531825458","timestamp":"2018-07-17 11:04:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi, thanks for your thought. You might want to checkout how Softagram can help you here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=_3OzOVIOmkQ\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=_3OzOVIOmkQ\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17547836","id":"17548773"}
{"by":"dsfyu404ed","time":"1500496765","timestamp":"2017-07-19 20:39:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;In the US, everything about the car ownership experience — from research to negotiation to delivery to service — has been utterly and depressingly commoditized\u003cp\u003eClearly this guy hasn\u0026#x27;t walked into a Chrysler dealer and asked \u0026quot;How much horsepower can I get with four doors?\u0026quot;","parent":"14807222","id":"14807696"}
{"by":"yitchelle","time":"1455779487","timestamp":"2016-02-18 07:11:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These lists are wish lists and is used to see who can be brought in as applicants. Unless they are very generic, it is very difficult to tick off every item on the wish list.\u003cp\u003eMy rule of thumb is that if you are able to meet about 75% of them, just apply.","parent":"11120112","id":"11124181"}
{"by":"cmelbye","time":"1261323165","timestamp":"2009-12-20 15:32:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've loved playing with Heroku and I'm excited to deploy my real project to it once we finish a stable version of it.\u003cp\u003eI've also liked working with Rails, because it has made things like i18n, testing, and implementing new features so much easier.\u003cp\u003eFinally, I've enjoyed using beanstalkd for my message queue. It's tiny and fast and it just stays out of the way. I'm using a new library I made called Peon (based off of an AMQP-based library called Minion) and it's a really easy, scalable way to bring long running tasks into the background.","parent":"1005884","id":"1006211"}
{"by":"jhanschoo","time":"1510569423","timestamp":"2017-11-13 10:37:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wrt fortran, it\u0026#x27;s not really dying, afaik. It has found its niche in very performant numerical computing.","parent":"15685067","id":"15685530"}
{"by":"Para2016","time":"1517077887","timestamp":"2018-01-27 18:31:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if instead of Nick Cage and actresses on existing porn, the users put their own faces\u0026#x2F;bodies on the porn actor\u0026#x27;s face and body? Would that be weird and creepy or would it be more immersive for the user? Maybe it could even be good enough to create artificial memories, especially if adobe voice conversion technology was combined with it. Then you\u0026#x27;d see and hear yourself having sex with a porn star.","parent":"16246021","id":"16247348"}
{"by":"yareally","time":"1385502357","timestamp":"2013-11-26 21:45:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"T-Mobile sells it as well around the same price (I bought one to have a Win8 developer phone). I know if you use 6 months of prepaid service with them, you can unlock it afterwards without issue.","parent":"6803515","id":"6804473"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1356323275","timestamp":"2012-12-24 04:27:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the lazy, here's the Capsicum project Colin mentioned: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso, for those who don't know, Colin sometimes takes consulting gigs. I worked with him earlier this year; easily the best thousand Canadian dollars I've ever spent.","parent":"4961635","id":"4961848"}
{"by":"FredFredrickson","time":"1357758511","timestamp":"2013-01-09 19:08:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Codeacademy is a great site... it makes it fun to brush up on the basics or try out a new language. It helped me learn some Javascript recently, and I really enjoyed the course.\u003cp\u003eI'd love to see them do something on OAuth / Twitter. I find that stuff very confusing.","parent":"5032504","id":"5032842"}
{"by":"berns","time":"1524232910","timestamp":"2018-04-20 14:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With Telegram you can change the phone number and keep all the messages and contacts. It\u0026#x27;s also possible with Whatsapp, but with some limitations.","parent":"16883131","id":"16884819"}
{"by":"jsjohnst","time":"1516805419","timestamp":"2018-01-24 14:50:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why do organizations allow this?\u003cp\u003eWhile I generally agree with you on principle, I also feel you need to be pragmatic too. It’s important to also use the right tool for the job as long as you have sufficient engineers who can support that alternative language\u0026#x2F;framework\u0026#x2F;platform. Sometimes a language can also be favored at one point, but lose favor later, and in some cases it doesn’t make sense priority wise to rewrite it because it still works.","parent":"16222501","id":"16223075"}
{"by":"anotheryou","time":"1477179682","timestamp":"2016-10-22 23:41:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if the dealer was known he would have to reimburse me, no?\u003cp\u003eAlso what if I where no longer in possession of the good?","parent":"12771075","id":"12771126"}
{"by":"ambition","time":"1211921422","timestamp":"2008-05-27 20:50:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And here I was wondering why there was no RSS feed on the essays page.","parent":"201388","id":"201395"}
{"by":"wwwv","time":"1499095276","timestamp":"2017-07-03 15:21:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s worthwhile to note that not a single once of the thousands of \u0026quot;ICO\u0026quot; things that have been launched in the last year have actually done anything of value. They all generate hype, raise money, and then give up and go to work on other things. It happens over and over again with no memory of the past failures, apparently.\u003cp\u003eThat said I wouldn\u0026#x27;t fault you for believing that a lot of the $xM raised in x ICO just turned out to be largely the creator seeding the pot and a minority of other people buying into something \u0026quot;big\u0026quot;. You could even take out a loan, there\u0026#x27;s nearly zero risk other than the operator of the ICO running with the scratch.","parent":"14688769","id":"14688877"}
{"by":"heysunshine123","time":"1481446573","timestamp":"2016-12-11 08:56:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh so it\u0026#x27;s like, the employer stole some work from you when you weren\u0026#x27;t looking?\u003cp\u003eLook, I\u0026#x27;m \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e saying not getting your wages is just fine. But the world sure could use less Socialism-tinged concept-twisting.","parent":"13150078","dead":true,"id":"13150233"}
{"by":"blaabjerg","time":"1362921538","timestamp":"2013-03-10 13:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's an interesting comment [1] by a fella called kodemunkee at TechCrunch. Is there any truth to this?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; This is definitely an \"unmitigated disaster\".  What nobody's seemed to realize about EA's offer to give away a free Origin game is this:  EA can write off the games they give away in dealing with this debacle as a tax write-off at full \"market\" value (on the Origin market, anyhow) even though they cost only pennies to deliver to you.  In addition, the $20 coupon for another Origin game that was given to those who bought the game through Origin will also be used as a write-off against the $50+ the game went against.  If we assume that the value of the games that they will offer for their \"apology\" will be around $35-40, then they will have effectively written off the entire purchase price of SimCity in \"promotional\" and \"apology\" give-aways, thus turning the aforementioned \"unmitigated disaster\" into EA's most profitable quarter ever.  This is not just consumer fraud, it's tax evasion.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http://fyre.it/QUB0pP.4\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://fyre.it/QUB0pP.4\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5351469","id":"5351752"}
{"by":"vertr","time":"1322508062","timestamp":"2011-11-28 19:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Download the single html page, open it in calibre, and convert it to an epub.  It worked best when I deleted the CSS file first.","parent":"3286375","id":"3287178"}
{"by":"endergen","time":"1433198963","timestamp":"2015-06-01 22:49:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey zik, has anyone tried getting it running through emscripten? It would be very cool to have interactive C purely client side in browser. Could make some cool c based jsbin like hosting websites from that.","parent":"9642618","id":"9642762"}
{"by":"kmfrk","time":"1340703249","timestamp":"2012-06-26 09:34:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People said stupid things in public before social media. :)","parent":"4159719","id":"4160940"}
{"by":"fosap","time":"1361037414","timestamp":"2013-02-16 17:56:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to your logic Chicken Scheme is the language of the future. They have a small, but great community.\u003cp\u003eI like it, but I have given up hopes that one day it will become mainstream.","parent":"5231988","id":"5232317"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1352684016","timestamp":"2012-11-12 01:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Are there any 53-character function names in the multi-million line Linux kernel?\u003cp\u003eThe linux kernel is actually only about 100 K lines. And its naming conventions are not what I'd call an example of elegance either, to put it very mildly (many of the names are quite cryptic and require extensive study of the code around it to understand what a function does). If low symbol length would be an indicator of code quality then we'd all be using fXXXX where X is a digit of your choice.\u003cp\u003eThe longest symbol in the kernel proper that I can quickly locate is 36 characters:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  timer_stats_hrtimer_clear_start_info\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIt uses roughly the same convention that we use in our projects (a quite common one in large C projects): a module prefix\n (if possible the same as the filename) an action and a bit that specifies further details.\u003cp\u003eEven with that simple convention it can add up quickly.\u003cp\u003eAnd if you start linking against 3rd party libraries you're going to be looking at name clashes sooner or later, even if you're careful. Whoever at mysql decided to expose 'list_free', 'list_add', 'list_delete' and so on with global scope wasn't having their most lucid day. I wished I was kidding.","parent":"4771194","id":"4771242"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1258256344","timestamp":"2009-11-15 03:39:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can do that, just don't let people buy the install DVDs at Best Buy.","parent":"942508","id":"942588"}
{"by":"earlz","time":"1469644602","timestamp":"2016-07-27 18:36:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a CS friend who just recently got hired for walmart (not sure on terminology, but he does some analytics stuff). Your account sounds pretty accurate to what he described, but add in a dollop of basically every technology that\u0026#x27;s ever existed and was ever popular at any point. He\u0026#x27;s been there a short time and already had to look into systems running on cobol, hadoop, oracle database, SQL Server, MySQL, Firebase, C, C++... Pretty much they hire contractors to implement any new project, and then hire H1-Bs to maintain it afterwards. He said his job is mostly managing H1-Bs, rather than actually writing code.","parent":"12175245","id":"12175421"}
{"by":"conflux0","time":"1270503567","timestamp":"2010-04-05 21:39:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just think about it this way. How many people using msnbc will actually make the query that will match the regex \"/^wikileaks$/i\". If they were truly trying to prevent people from accessing information about it they would have done a better regex.\u003cp\u003e\"It seems pretty obvious to me that their search dept is trying to stop people from finding the story. Either that or their search is broken in a truly bad way--given that those words should stem to the same query, it's suggestive to say the least.\"\u003cp\u003eIt really doesn't. I'm going to take a big guess here and say that the good people over at MSNBC are not that inept.","parent":"1243144","id":"1243164"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1451095079","timestamp":"2015-12-26 01:57:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If he had called the regulators timid and weak, and perhaps lazy, it would make more sense.","parent":"10792024","id":"10792974"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1375878712","timestamp":"2013-08-07 12:31:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why again do I need Windows 7?\u003cp\u003eI mean other than developers purposely breaking things that already worked under XP?","parent":"6167572","id":"6172305"}
{"by":"oldfatslow","time":"1445963159","timestamp":"2015-10-27 16:25:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think flying over a forest would be way easier on a robot than weaving it\u0026#x27;s way through underbrush. Although, a slithering robot would be pretty awesome!","parent":"10458946","id":"10459095"}
{"by":"smoyer","time":"1318077119","timestamp":"2011-10-08 12:31:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've never advocated finding another leader of the FSF ... But I am afraid that it will become completely irrelevant if it's viewed as an extremist organization.  I think the real danger is that it's membership will decide not to be associated with it and it's funding will dry up.  RMS hasn't really said where his income comes from, but I'm assuming he's paid as the FSF's leader.  Assuming that RMS' marketable skills revolve around software, wouldn't it be ironic if he had to develop closed software to support himself?  Given his current extremist stance, I suspect he'd choose to starve first.","parent":"3087673","id":"3087775"}
{"by":"notruthallowed","time":"1502738056","timestamp":"2017-08-14 19:14:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unpopular political speech as preciously what the 1st ammendment is for.","parent":"15011561","dead":true,"id":"15011748"}
{"by":"olaf","time":"1353714335","timestamp":"2012-11-23 23:45:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374422\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374422\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374492\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374492\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4823964","id":"4824062"}
{"by":"alcuadrado","time":"1368728266","timestamp":"2013-05-16 18:17:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't see any connection","parent":"5720044","id":"5720097"}
{"by":"dima_medvedev","time":"1513624792","timestamp":"2017-12-18 19:19:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what Ballmer thought about iPhone.","parent":"15954424","id":"15954501"}
{"by":"akhilrex","time":"1522652313","timestamp":"2018-04-02 06:58:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Already bought $1000 worth of FridgeCoins.","parent":"16732486","id":"16732830"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1270833011","timestamp":"2010-04-09 17:10:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion, this is more of an attack piece disguised as a \"review\" than an actual review, for the reasons you cite.  The typo doesn't even make sense!  If you look at the iPad keyboard, there's no way to hit the equals sign, unless you do two separate mode-shifts.  Very suspicious.\u003cp\u003eThe key closest to equals is even two columns over and two rows up from the nearest letter in Lacking on the iPad keyboard.  I can't easily imagine how that happened.","parent":"1253143","id":"1253213"}
{"by":"eternalban","time":"1467113580","timestamp":"2016-06-28 11:33:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would question the assertion that Bushwick\u0026#x27;s (and BK\u0026#x27;s in general) gentrification is Airbnb driven. Manhattan\u0026#x27;s rental picture started getting unreasonable around turn of the century. Williamsburg, for example, was pretty much an urban wasteland around 1997 but was already a \u0026#x27;beach-head\u0026#x27; of adventerous\u0026#x2F;artist tribe of Manhattan exiles. Regardless, the displacement of poor people from these areas is self evident.\u003cp\u003eWhat I find objectionable in terms of Airbnb is the corrosive effect that the transitional flux has on cities and neighborhoods. Manhattan is now basically worlds largest open air shopping center -- yes a bit shinier than before but not the Gotham of yore (which is sorely missed).","parent":"11991229","id":"11992842"}
{"by":"Anono","time":"1277984624","timestamp":"2010-07-01 11:43:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I heard that the iTeX rumor was created by my neighbor. Same with HiTeX and TeXML.\u003cp\u003eKnuth didn't prove that P=NP. He proved that P-NP=42.","parent":"1477273","id":"1477736"}
{"by":"benchaney","time":"1499804512","timestamp":"2017-07-11 20:21:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If that is the attitude you take don\u0026#x27;t be surprised when people don\u0026#x27;t listen to your opinions.","parent":"14747685","id":"14747703"}
{"by":"HenryBemis","time":"1522242580","timestamp":"2018-03-28 13:09:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Legal\u0026#x2F;Regulatory compliance is not for Facebook or Amazon.\u003cp\u003eIt is to prevent people going to their Bank, where they have a credit card or a consumer loan, or a mortgage, and say \u0026quot;can I please be forgotten\u0026#x2F;be wiped from your systems - oh and the loan too!\u0026quot;.","parent":"16695970","id":"16697371"}
{"by":"mantrax5","time":"1400716227","timestamp":"2014-05-21 23:50:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s because these systems were created with the focus being how cool it\u0026#x27;d be to make a static site generator, versus the focus being solving a real problem.\u003cp\u003eWe do this. I do this. We like to decide \u0026quot;how cool it\u0026#x27;d be...\u0026quot; and do something. There\u0026#x27;s nothing bad in that, as long as we don\u0026#x27;t start coming up with invented reasons for its reasons to be.\u003cp\u003eWhen asked to quickly name a tool, most people say \u0026quot;hammer\u0026quot;. When asked to quickly name a site application, most people think \u0026quot;blog\u0026quot;. The focus on blogs inadvertently tells you that these authors were scratching their own itch of making the generator itself, and focused on the first application they could think of, and not responding to real needs. I remember when the coolest thing was for everyone to make their own web framework, everyone focused on making frameworks where blogs were easy to set up and demo. Notice a pattern?\u003cp\u003eIn the end though, all sites need a machine to be put on, a server to serve them, and the arbitrary goal of pre-generating basic things like header and footer includes externally has little real value to offer when it comes to business needs (\u0026quot;business\u0026quot; used in a wide sense, as in people\u0026#x27;s real reason to have a site in the first place).\u003cp\u003eAny non-static site can maintain a static cache when performance is needed, and any non-static site can be as simple (and therefore as secure, by function of its complexity alone) as you need it. Maybe your non-static site \u0026quot;engine\u0026quot; can just do basic includes and support a contact form, and nothing else. It\u0026#x27;s easy to secure this, and you draw the line. But there\u0026#x27;s no need to ever cross that specific line where your site is 100% static. You have nothing to gain from it.","parent":"7781160","id":"7781414"}
{"by":"rwieruch","time":"1482066146","timestamp":"2016-12-18 13:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of people already answered your question regarding Redux. I want to mention MobX [0] as an alternative to deal with state management. I have written an article about the differences of Redux and MobX and the road to learn state management in React [1].\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mobxjs.github.io\u0026#x2F;mobx\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mobxjs.github.io\u0026#x2F;mobx\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.robinwieruch.de\u0026#x2F;redux-mobx-confusion\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.robinwieruch.de\u0026#x2F;redux-mobx-confusion\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13200874","id":"13205667"}
{"by":"jordhy","time":"1332652926","timestamp":"2012-03-25 05:22:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This happened to me a couple of times before I had a solid business infrastructure. After you have an office, employees, etc., your life partner becomes more understanding. I think they need validation on your seriousness, the vision of your business and your track record.\u003cp\u003eHowever, if you lose large amounts of money (unexpected severance payments, macro-economy, loss of contracts, etc) then things can get really complicated. Sometimes even your relatives expect to benefit from the business - if you shoot for and get high profile press you should expect this.\u003cp\u003eDon't despair. At the end, you'll end up with a stronger social network: the people that really matter are going to stick. To ensure they do, be open, communicate and involve them in the process (this is key).\u003cp\u003eAlternatively, to avoid bumpy financial roads, just diversify your investments:\u003cp\u003e- Put a fraction the money of an exit or the final payment of a major contract in the bank and never touch it\u003cp\u003e- Invest in real estate so you have a stable income source no matter what\u003cp\u003e- Assume (like Bill Gates famously did many times) that no client is going to pay for your software and plan for the worst case scenario\u003cp\u003e- Never go all-in. In anything!\u003cp\u003e- Get a part time job/ a speak at conferences/ etc\u003cp\u003e- And, finally, engage with someone who is very stable or also an entrepreneur (which incidentally works like a charm)\u003cp\u003eHope this helps.","parent":"3733103","id":"3751809"}
{"by":"martingordon","time":"1283380631","timestamp":"2010-09-01 22:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NYT article from 2004 discussing the same exact organisms:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/nyregion/there-s-something-in-the-water-and-it-may-not-be-strictly-kosher.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/nyregion/there-s-something...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1654173","id":"1654573"}
{"by":"santoshalper","time":"1413603415","timestamp":"2014-10-18 03:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Man, I just read that entire essay, and it is terrible. I actually love Paul Graham a little less after reading it. It is as though he had literally never heard of the concept of scarcity and simply thought all wealth was just a form of converted effort. A child\u0026#x27;s understanding of economy.","parent":"8474521","id":"8474533"}
{"by":"rufibarbatus","time":"1313701125","timestamp":"2011-08-18 20:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The twilio thing sounds like a good idea. Given the mechanics, the more means of communication you have, the better you're protected against false positives.\u003cp\u003eI'm still a bit unsure about the part where \"you're responsible for asserting that you're still alive.\" I'd like break it down to its basic premises and see if they actually make sense. :-)","parent":"2899959","id":"2901037"}
{"by":"elwell","time":"1399070967","timestamp":"2014-05-02 22:49:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s because Ballmer couldn\u0026#x27;t sell much while he was CEO (that would look very bad).","parent":"7688285","id":"7688630"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1483121913","timestamp":"2016-12-30 18:18:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those pages are loading instantly for me at present, but even if they were slow, your comment is far too uncharitable to make for a good HN post. Physically angry? Come on—it\u0026#x27;s a single programmer\u0026#x27;s project from decades ago. He\u0026#x27;s probably tackling the problem of upgrading it by himself. The last thing he needs (or we, for that matter) is an angry chorus of internet entitlement.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re hot under the collar, please cool down before commenting here.","parent":"13283364","id":"13286025"}
{"by":"ginko","time":"1410383957","timestamp":"2014-09-10 21:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also this one:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-index/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fgiesen.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;a-trip-through-the-g...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seems to be a quite common phrase by now.","parent":"8298922","id":"8299253"}
{"by":"sfphotoarts","time":"1251732936","timestamp":"2009-08-31 15:35:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not necessarily, there are a lot of niche products where there is a small company that \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e the leading provider. Leica, for example, the leading provider of rangefinder cameras since the 20's. A perfectly true statement, but you won't find them in the fortune 50. There are many many more examples.","parent":"796079","id":"796110"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1340695030","timestamp":"2012-06-26 07:17:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's ludicrous to call that an \"anti-feature.\" The feature may very well have been active on your account for years without you even knowing. Yet again, the only bad thing is their choice to replace your personal email address with their own.","parent":"4159561","id":"4160681"}
{"by":"EspadaV9","time":"1486346895","timestamp":"2017-02-06 02:08:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, should\u0026#x27;ve said that the security releases are 3 years after release or 18 months from the time they were removed from the Google Store [0]. So as a minimum they get 1 year more than required by EU law.\u003cp\u003eLike I said, I don\u0026#x27;t really agree with it, but Google do seem a bit above the average. And personally, so long as I can install custom ROMs afterwards, I\u0026#x27;m okay with 3 years of official updates.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;nexus\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;4457705#nexus_devices\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;nexus\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;4457705#nexus_device...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13529946","id":"13576039"}
{"by":"SemanticFog","time":"1289156507","timestamp":"2010-11-07 19:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These definitely happen all the time.\u003cp\u003eAnother thing to watch out for is for unfilled seats that can change the board dynamic. If multiple parties have to agree on the board seat, then an intransigent investor can maintain an advantage by never approving any candidates. Don't put off filling these seats! Ideally, you should agree on a specific person before you sign the docs.","parent":"1879982","id":"1880044"}
{"by":"SiempreViernes","time":"1526907827","timestamp":"2018-05-21 13:03:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Five years ago I had a phone with buttons and rarely had to stop the impulse of trowing it into a wall because google kept installing updates to apps I don\u0026#x27;t want and can\u0026#x27;t do more than factory reset.\u003cp\u003eSure, I didn\u0026#x27;t have a fancy app to look at the timetable for the bus, but there was a wap-page I could use and frankly the apps are about as frustrating but now because touch interactions so often go wrong without real buttons.\u003cp\u003eAnd I  use both vim and ssh daily, rarely wishing I had an new app to replace them with.","parent":"17117950","id":"17118057"}
{"by":"Joeri","time":"1332767535","timestamp":"2012-03-26 13:12:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I switched from zend studio to phpstorm almost entirely due to speed, with product quality being the other part of what drove me. Fundamentally, an ide is still a code editor, and it has to do that at least as well as notepad++ or i will not use it.","parent":"3755447","id":"3756470"}
{"by":"voltagex_","time":"1520575681","timestamp":"2018-03-09 06:08:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I looked into the same kind of thing for Python years ago - it\u0026#x27;s hard, and not many things get it right (even the new .NET bits get it really wrong).\u003cp\u003ePlease: single exe\u0026#x2F;msi, one click to install\u0026#x2F;run.","parent":"16549928","id":"16550066"}
{"by":"runn1ng","time":"1471260589","timestamp":"2016-08-15 11:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing in this data leads me to believe Soros does anything more than he states he does. There doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be any hidden agenda or any evil master-plan.","parent":"12288020","id":"12289731"}
{"by":"sumedh","time":"1525771651","timestamp":"2018-05-08 09:27:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"India has the second highest number of English speakers in the world.","parent":"17016580","id":"17019784"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1489325015","timestamp":"2017-03-12 13:23:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get the sentiment but a lot of people do get life insurance through work.","parent":"13849162","id":"13850542"}
{"by":"younata","time":"1469921893","timestamp":"2016-07-30 23:38:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote (and maintain) my own rss reader for iOS - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;younata\u0026#x2F;RSSClient\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;younata\u0026#x2F;RSSClient\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e, here\u0026#x27;s a trimmed down version what I follow:\u003cp\u003eNews:\u003cp\u003e- Electrek - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;electrek.co\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;electrek.co\u003c/a\u003e (Basically Tesla news, but ostensibly EV news)\u003cp\u003e- Hackaday\u003cp\u003e- MacRumors\u003cp\u003eSwift\u0026#x2F;iOS Dev:\u003cp\u003e- Natasha The Robot - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;natashatherobot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;natashatherobot.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Swift Weekly Brief - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;swiftweekly.github.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;swiftweekly.github.io\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- This Week in Swift - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;swiftnews.curated.co\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;swiftnews.curated.co\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- NSHipster\u003cp\u003eMisc:\u003cp\u003e- xkcd What If\u003cp\u003e- Wait but Why\u003cp\u003e- Mr. Money Mustache\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also other stuff not really worth mentioning - serialized stories (mostly just feeds for a few reddit user\u0026#x27;s posts), my blog, some comics, etc.","parent":"12194875","id":"12195099"}
{"by":"loceng","time":"1392651868","timestamp":"2014-02-17 15:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would love to see an overlay of the land that Israel has taken from Palestinians, and how many people are displaced each time (directly or indirectly) in the timeline they\u0026#x27;re presenting. Might balance it out a bit.. or give some perspective.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I can\u0026#x27;t reply to the below commenter. I am in Canada. There is relatively little negative media relating to Israel, though I don\u0026#x27;t watch a lot of news. I imagine in part this has to do with there being a large enough, influential, and entrenched Israeli population in North America - involved in business.","parent":"7252436","id":"7252559"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1481377088","timestamp":"2016-12-10 13:38:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Equivalent in Australia is a Strata Corp and the resulting meetings they involve.","parent":"13140406","id":"13145586"}
{"by":"niggler","time":"1359524968","timestamp":"2013-01-30 05:49:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they paid dividends, it would have been returned to the shareholders (both long and short)\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day, buybacks benefit those who tender shares into the buyback at the expense of the other shareholders (the buyback would have to happen at a price above the market price at the time of the buyback, so that net loss is attributed to people who are still holding the stock.)  This would be worthwhile if the company can grow earnings and profits enough to compensate for the short-term expense, but that doesn't happen most of the time.\u003cp\u003eTaking the long view, dell was $15/sh back then.  If you just held for 16 years you'd be down nearly $2/sh.  If they paid a dividend instead of a buyback, you'd have received at least $20 in dividend during that time (and the stock price, all else equal, would be higher)","parent":"5138281","id":"5138296"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1354617919","timestamp":"2012-12-04 10:45:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the rule, we have this rule in place with a caveat. The rule protects us from a few common events, first being that where some developers just love to tinker with code outside the scope of their project. The second is simply a bad design where the results affected other code in unexpected ways.\u003cp\u003eThere have been a few times were code was reverted and having the code merely commented out saved time, time spent cut/pasting from archive. Even with a good CMS keeping commented out code can serve another purpose, knowing what was when and why. That way we can avoid the \"well back in year X we had a rule\" because we have the code readily accessible.\u003cp\u003eFor large blocks (subroutines/procedures/etc) it is not uncommon to move the whole to the end of the source.","parent":"4870233","id":"4870291"}
{"by":"SteveGuttenberg","time":"1337843039","timestamp":"2012-05-24 07:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's the books i'd recommend\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.catchcamera.com/2010/07/13/the-16-best-business-books-of-all-time/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.catchcamera.com/2010/07/13/the-16-best-business-b...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4016981","id":"4017228"}
{"by":"somontop","time":"1362591615","timestamp":"2013-03-06 17:40:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting blog-post - \u003ca href=\"http://bruun.co/2013/03/06/who-owns-flat\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bruun.co/2013/03/06/who-owns-flat\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5331766","dead":true,"id":"5332431"}
{"by":"Raphmedia","time":"1419863120","timestamp":"2014-12-29 14:25:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Goog god, I hate this talk of brogrammers.\u003cp\u003eProgramming is no longer the realm of geeks and nerds. Everyone and their dog can learn to code online.\u003cp\u003eWhat you call a brogrammer, I call a regular person who is healthy and has a social life while also being a programmer. It\u0026#x27;s not as if people were slamming tequila at work while watching porn.","parent":"8809679","id":"8809855"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1496080800","timestamp":"2017-05-29 18:00:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The lowest amount of \u0026quot;XX,000,000\u0026quot; is $10MM, which at 5% is $500,000. So yeah, less than 1\u0026#x2F;3.","parent":"14440002","id":"14440428"}
{"by":"jpravetz","time":"1300772351","timestamp":"2011-03-22 05:39:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If Sendoid is completely relying on RTMFP then the core security technology would have to be coming from Adobe. Check out Matthew Kaufmann's two year old talk on the subject:\n\u003ca href=\"http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2008-develop/future-of-communication-with-rtmfp-by-matthew-kaufman/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2008-develop/future-of-communi...\u003c/a\u003e\nOr Tom Krcha's blog which contains a number of Flash P2P entries:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.flashrealtime.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.flashrealtime.com/\u003c/a\u003e \nRTMFP is pretty fascinating technology that originates with a couple of very smart guys that Adobe brought on board (Matthew Kaufman and Michael Thornburgh).\nI'm curious if the Sendoid team has a non-Flash solution for 'restricted' devices.","parent":"2352442","id":"2353278"}
{"by":"taneq","time":"1518154927","timestamp":"2018-02-09 05:42:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the one! I was looking for a paper but couldn\u0026#x27;t find one. Now imagine that with multiple different types of antibiotic simultaneously ramping up, and something nasty and contagious as the subject... :S","parent":"16337946","id":"16338148"}
{"by":"ThomPete","time":"1282307186","timestamp":"2010-08-20 12:26:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why does this stuff get upvoted? It's a freaking tutorial based on standard functionality in PS.","parent":"1620044","id":"1620187"}
{"by":"dschuetz","time":"1536916247","timestamp":"2018-09-14 09:10:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If Einstein was still alive he\u0026#x27;ll probably say: \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ve been publishing papers before it was mainstream!\u0026quot;","parent":"17970938","id":"17985780"}
{"by":"neic","time":"1355324786","timestamp":"2012-12-12 15:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This image is from a 122 hours (~5 days) recording the frequency in Denmark [0] The red bar is avg. over 40000 sec (11 hours).\u003cp\u003e[1] is the original source translated from danish.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://webx.dk/oz2cpu/radios/50hz-kurve122h.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://webx.dk/oz2cpu/radios/50hz-kurve122h.gif\u003c/a\u003e\n[1] \u003ca href=\"http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da\u0026#38;tl=en\u0026#38;js=n\u0026#38;prev=_t\u0026#38;hl=en\u0026#38;ie=UTF-8\u0026#38;eotf=1\u0026#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwebx.dk%2Foz2cpu%2Fradios%2F50hz-normal.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da\u0026#38;tl=en\u0026#38;js...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4909531","id":"4910351"}
{"by":"pilsetnieks","time":"1505692778","timestamp":"2017-09-17 23:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"macOS\u0026#x2F;OS X has been free for quite some time. And it\u0026#x27;s not illegal, it just violates the EULA - there is a distinction.","parent":"15269861","id":"15272399"}
{"by":"d0m","time":"1305562399","timestamp":"2011-05-16 16:13:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like when people are comparing languages, they are exaggerating.. For instance:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  public boolean hasUpperCase(String word) {\n      if (word == null) {\n          return false;\n      }\n      int len = word.length();\n      for (int i = 0; i \u0026#60; len; i++) {\n          if (Character.isUpperCase(word.charAt(i))) {\n              return true;\n          }\n      }\n      return false;\n  }\n\n  or\n\n  public boolean hasUpperCase(String word) {\n      if (null != word)\n          return any(charactersOf(word), new Predicate() {\n                  public boolean apply(Character c) {\n                      return isUpperCase(c);\n                  }\n              })\n          else\n              return false;\n  }\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"2552618","id":"2552996"}
{"by":"liveoneggs","time":"1523757852","timestamp":"2018-04-15 02:04:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"fossil is used as the intermediate format for the NetBSD CVS -\u0026gt; git and mercurial, I assume because its format is good?  Only \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jsonn\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jsonn\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e could say for sure, though.","parent":"16839592","id":"16840694"}
{"by":"gregwebs","time":"1308322310","timestamp":"2011-06-17 14:51:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The CTO I am working with is responsible for maintaining both MySQL and MongoDB data stores himself in addition to writing a lot of code. After starting with MySQL he has been gradually shifting everything to MongoDB and would like to just get rid of MySQL.\u003cp\u003eI personally don't have deep operations experience, and I am sure your individual experience is valid.\u003cp\u003eI think that in part, MongoDB is maturing- it now has single server durability and replica sets. Single server durability means it now can be a default, whereas before you had to commit to 2 servers as you allude to.\u003cp\u003ePeople seem to report it is more critical to have enough memory, and that it wants more in comparison that a SQL database, so perhaps that limits its ability to be a default database.\u003cp\u003eThe issue of course isn't whether you \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e adjust an RDMS based infrastructure to suit your needs, but how much effort that will be in comparison to an alternative.","parent":"2665576","id":"2665703"}
{"by":"cableshaft","time":"1460603789","timestamp":"2016-04-14 03:16:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You and me both. I have a turn based strategy game I had half developed for the Kindle, but I had some issues getting some things working (lots of limitations and peculiarities, especially supporting the 1st and 2nd gen devices, which was required) and life got in the way for a little while.\u003cp\u003eOnce I was motivated to start working on it again, it wasn\u0026#x27;t long before it became pretty clear that Amazon didn\u0026#x27;t believe in Active Content anymore and the rumors were flying that Amazon was going to pull the plug entirely, so I decided to move on.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a shame, too, because the game really looked nice, and I think it would look amazing on the Paperwhite. The game stopped working on my Kindle Keyboard a couple of years ago (expired certificate).","parent":"11489732","id":"11494078"}
{"by":"asveikau","time":"1398963481","timestamp":"2014-05-01 16:58:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are wrong. assert is a no-op when NDEBUG is defined. Some compilers will set that for you in an optimized build.\u003cp\u003eUsing an assert in place of real error checking or otherwise relying on its side effects is consequently a huge wtf in C.","parent":"7680238","id":"7681030"}
{"by":"mbdev","time":"1452462242","timestamp":"2016-01-10 21:44:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is actually not an issue at all, because even with native apps you can still load content from the web which apple has no control over, which is similar to Alexa.\u003cp\u003eBut the big deal that no one talks about is that Alexa is not compatible with EC2 backends, this is the most bizarre limitation I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen, you can host An Alexa app on your own PC at home, but not on EC2.","parent":"10876493","id":"10877344"}
{"by":"akerro","time":"1530880589","timestamp":"2018-07-06 12:36:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The group of teenagers escaped from their supervisor into the cave without his permission. The supervisor went to look for them, they all got trapped there by the flood. Someone found their shoes in front of cave entrance.","parent":"17470846","id":"17470871"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1481868225","timestamp":"2016-12-16 06:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We detached this subthread from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13189033\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13189033\u003c/a\u003e and marked it off-topic.","parent":"13189090","id":"13191393"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1412785248","timestamp":"2014-10-08 16:20:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Email is one of those technologies which makes no real assurance about delivery speed. Which is to say that the receiving party can delay it substantially as a spam-fighting technique (e.g. Gmail) and you cannot REALLY complain because email makes no assurance.\u003cp\u003eIf you want near instant delivery then may I suggest Text Messages? They will often be delivered within a minute and cost very little with the right provider (e.g. Twilio).","parent":"8427577","id":"8427743"}
{"by":"enriquto","time":"1501168345","timestamp":"2017-07-27 15:12:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C, shell and Octave\u003cp\u003eSome computations with sparse matrices are better expressed in the M-code, but the bulk of the image processing work is done by standalone programs written in C, piped together by a shell script.","parent":"14864389","id":"14866025"}
{"by":"ytpete","time":"1455959224","timestamp":"2016-02-20 09:07:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could put a lower limit on it by assuming the rest of the NPC members are flat broke: 463.8\u0026#x2F;2987 = $155 million per congress critter, or about 150x the average for US Congress critters.","parent":"11136340","id":"11139469"}
{"by":"tjoff","time":"1492008129","timestamp":"2017-04-12 14:42:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. I\u0026#x27;m not arguing that it is. There are more cues than color contrast before taking into account your mental state. As said, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t mind it being configurable but I understand the reluctance to do it if it breaks XP support.\u003cp\u003e3. Yes, a perfect hierarchy of the settings would be nice, in theory. Because never mind that what is important depends on the user and context - making the whole concept extremely tricky to get right. It is a tradeoff. And I haven\u0026#x27;t seen any terminal and few other applications that I\u0026#x27;ve enjoyed setting up as much as ConEmu, most settings are logically where they should be. There are, understandably considering the amount of options, a few places where it can be difficult - but to help with that there is a great search function.\u003cp\u003e4. I don\u0026#x27;t even have a tab bar anymore, takes up way too much space and I always switch between tabs using the keyboard (since I only interact with the terminal from the keyboard anyway). But I tested it now, there is about 2px of space above the tab bar but if you try to press that area you still hit the tab you intended. So if you have maximized the window there is no possible way to click above the tab bar.\u003cp\u003eConEmu is one of the most well polished applications I use on a daily basis, it doesn\u0026#x27;t get in the way. I miss it to death every time I\u0026#x27;m using a non-windows machine.","parent":"14097835","id":"14098101"}
{"by":"csorrell","time":"1447692036","timestamp":"2015-11-16 16:40:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I think it has. Welcome to the new dark ages.","parent":"10575365","id":"10575395"}
{"by":"bobfunk","time":"1310386898","timestamp":"2011-07-11 12:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think the \"Don't use too many floats\" is meant to say anything about performance, but about maintenance.\u003cp\u003eI think the point is, that if you have to put \"float\" in lots of declaration, you're missing some abstractions in your css. Most likely a grid plus some classes for inline lists.\u003cp\u003eAgain, CSS Lint is very opinionated, and some of it opinions are contrary to various best practices (especially the fundamentalist approach to not let any classes in the HTML have anything to do with presentation). But from the perspective of these opinions based on how to write maintainable CSS and HTML for large sites, the rules makes a lot of sense.","parent":"2750301","id":"2750347"}
{"by":"xtracto","time":"1533767896","timestamp":"2018-08-08 22:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At first I thought you were being pedantic, but when I saw the download symbol as \u0026quot;save\u0026quot; it just felt... weird.\u003cp\u003eI agree that at some point we will need to change the floppy disk, but it was just interesting the \u003ci\u003efeeling\u003c/i\u003e I had when trying to grok the down arrow as \u0026quot;save\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eGuess it is just a matter of getting used to it.","parent":"17715512","id":"17720198"}
{"by":"matrixagent","time":"1511204935","timestamp":"2017-11-20 19:08:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you tell me where to find that counter? I\u0026#x27;ve looked everywhere… I for the life of mine can find it. I even tweeted the author. Google, looked at lots of reviews to find a clue… eventually I gave up and figured the counter must have been removed in an update before I got the app.","parent":"15742083","id":"15742259"}
{"by":"sssparkkk","time":"1509229891","timestamp":"2017-10-28 22:31:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So how about this: the influencers on Snapchat are all recording \u003ci\u003ethemselves\u003c/i\u003e most of the time. These glasses did nothing to help with that particular and most popular use case.\u003cp\u003eI feel really weird for being the first to bring this up, it seems pretty obvious to me the main reason these glasses weren\u0026#x27;t going to catch on.","parent":"15576751","id":"15577014"}
{"by":"NightMKoder","time":"1546384623","timestamp":"2019-01-01 23:17:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried to get into Scala a little while ago, but I couldn’t quite grok the language - there was a time where I wanted to pull out a nested function call (e.g. f(g(x))) into a variable and it gave me compile errors (there might have been implicit a involved; I just backed away slowly). Something about that just completely put me off from the language. Maybe it’s worth another go. Have they done any kind of syntax cull since 2-3 years ago?\u003cp\u003eI’m curious about the choice of Azure. Why that over AWS\u0026#x2F;GCP?","parent":"18799669","id":"18803024"}
{"by":"bsder","time":"1532557896","timestamp":"2018-07-25 22:31:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whataboutism.\u003cp\u003eYour statement, while accurate, says nothing about the veracity of the current article.\u003cp\u003eI wish I could do more than downvote you.","parent":"17612928","id":"17613526"}
{"by":"vinhboy","time":"1468299975","timestamp":"2016-07-12 05:06:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish Starbucks would have healthier breakfast options to go with my coffee. Besides the oatmeal, everything else on their menu is like a candy bar.\u003cp\u003eI can only eat so much un-sweetened oatmeal. I don\u0026#x27;t really don\u0026#x27;t know what else they could sell, maybe some sort of plain bread?","parent":"12076698","id":"12076857"}
{"by":"phalien","time":"1290071890","timestamp":"2010-11-18 09:18:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ryan Carson published a very instructive (and eye opening!) document with various SaaS cashflow models. Things are not always what they seem :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkxZrw3662U_dEhQa0Y4T3c5RU5mcGd6N0twYXhLZWc\u0026#38;hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkxZrw3662U_dEhQa0Y...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1917191","id":"1917287"}
{"by":"zeuslawyer","time":"1542842542","timestamp":"2018-11-21 23:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! i had updated the question to specify non-tech roles, and that must have happened just after you replied!","parent":"18506564","id":"18506865"}
{"by":"Arjuna","time":"1350247949","timestamp":"2012-10-14 20:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Preliminary (i.e., non-record certified) telemetry:\u003cp\u003eExit altitude:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  128,100 ft\n  39,045 m\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nFree-fall time:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  4m:20s\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nFree-fall distance:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  119,846 ft\n  36,529 m\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nMaximum velocity:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  373 m/s\n  1,342.8 km/h\n  833.9 mph\n  Mach 1.24\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"4652150","id":"4652608"}
{"by":"poulsbohemian","time":"1513616405","timestamp":"2017-12-18 17:00:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Help the uninitiated out here -- what\u0026#x27;s the difference between an Instant Pot and a generic slow cooker? Looks like this thing just has more heat settings?","parent":"15948338","id":"15953077"}
{"by":"jgalt212","time":"1386901459","timestamp":"2013-12-13 02:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google is starting to emulate the bullying tactics of Microsoft during its hey day.  Don\u0026#x27;t be evil.  not so much, I say.","parent":"6898382","id":"6898708"}
{"by":"shire","time":"1378587992","timestamp":"2013-09-07 21:06:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was it a Mac? I\u0026#x27;m sure MacBooks have the ability to be tracked if the owner allowed it. I have a MacBook pro and the guest account allows a thief to login and I can track them through the guest account.","parent":"6346032","id":"6346624"}
{"by":"cmurf","time":"1516670579","timestamp":"2018-01-23 01:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s hugely wasteful and ultimately not affordable, to build out such massive infrastructure that then needs to be maintained with taxes. Most cities have extracted the initial funding for this infrastructure: roads, water, sewage, storm drainage, sidewalks, overhead or underground cables from the developer. But the tax base can\u0026#x27;t really support that beyond the initial life for that infrastructure without raising revenue. All city and county fees, taxes, and fines all inevitably go up and quality of infrastructure still goes down.\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s in cities. Extend it out to podunk and they have to be subsidized, even when they don\u0026#x27;t know that\u0026#x27;s what\u0026#x27;s happening. And it\u0026#x27;s getting bad enough many counties in the U.S. have started to revert paved county roads back into gravel because they simply don\u0026#x27;t have the money to maintain the paving. They\u0026#x27;re worse full of pot holes than gravel. And the locals don\u0026#x27;t want to pay their fair share which might mean a dozen families sharing 50 miles of road - it\u0026#x27;s the exact opposite of economies of scale. Their incomes obviously have not kept up with the cost of even maintaining local roads... but there\u0026#x27;s no market force that\u0026#x27;s really correcting for this either.","parent":"16209464","id":"16210021"}
{"by":"Xdes","time":"1397580839","timestamp":"2014-04-15 16:53:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d like to see an open source version of this. I like the API centric approach to site building, but I don\u0026#x27;t want some third party to have access to all of my content in one place.","parent":"7592375","id":"7592900"}
{"by":"grasshopperpurp","time":"1516891031","timestamp":"2018-01-25 14:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The fact remains that everyone starts with nothing.\u003cp\u003eThis is clearly wrong.","parent":"16230963","id":"16230985"}
{"by":"roc","time":"1338434282","timestamp":"2012-05-31 03:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fewer, stronger ties sounds like a recipe for insulation and groupthink, just as weaker more numerous ties sounds like a recipe for banality and conformity.\u003cp\u003eI prefer society, via technology, to continue to have and explore both.","parent":"4045207","id":"4046160"}
{"by":"scottilee","time":"1344912657","timestamp":"2012-08-14 02:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jack Dorsey tweeted this a couple days ago and I thought it was pertinent: \"Be happy, but never satisfied.\" -- Bruce Lee\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/jack/status/233963752347795456\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://twitter.com/jack/status/233963752347795456\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4378978","id":"4379159"}
{"by":"tree_of_item","time":"1535026883","timestamp":"2018-08-23 12:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why doesn\u0026#x27;t it come up with strategies? The program is doing a massive search over an action space, of course it will find things there.","parent":"17824203","id":"17826600"}
{"by":"dylan-m","time":"1505502791","timestamp":"2017-09-15 19:13:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It gives you the chance to read the article while having the vision there too.\u003cp\u003eThat is not a thing that an actual human is capable of doing. A human has two eyes which must be fixed in the same general direction, and one brain. As convenient as it would be for some interface designers, humans are not octopuses. The cocktail party effect (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Cocktail_party_effect\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Cocktail_party_effect\u003c/a\u003e) is a useful thing to keep in mind when considering the limits of peoples\u0026#x27; awareness. It happens for a reason.\u003cp\u003eYou may think you can read an article and watch a video at the same time, but the fact is, no, you cannot. One of the two things is making it very hard to focus on the other.","parent":"15259419","id":"15259905"}
{"by":"andai","time":"1490451760","timestamp":"2017-03-25 14:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow! How did you create BeagleHash? I took a look at your repos but could only find the end result.","parent":"13954512","id":"13955761"}
{"by":"thomas","time":"1311785617","timestamp":"2011-07-27 16:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"covered: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811865\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811865\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2812937","id":"2812986"}
{"by":"kranzky","time":"1379566777","timestamp":"2013-09-19 04:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But isn\u0026#x27;t maths boring at school because we\u0026#x27;re teaching it wrong? See Conrad Wolfram\u0026#x27;s TED Talk: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OVlfAUPJg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=60OVlfAUPJg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6409700","id":"6409919"}
{"by":"otakucode","time":"1509027829","timestamp":"2017-10-26 14:23:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You get investors to give you money so you can pay to hire capable people.  Or else you realize that the world doesn\u0026#x27;t owe you workers to generate profit for you to skim\u0026#x2F;scalp.  If you have \u0026#x27;an idea\u0026#x27; the first thing to realize is that ideas are worthless.  Utterly and completely worthless.  The only thing worth a cent is execution.  And execution does not consist of expecting others to execute for you for no compensation.  That\u0026#x27;s begging.","parent":"15558756","id":"15559042"}
{"by":"skolos","time":"1394724134","timestamp":"2014-03-13 15:22:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I was not clear - there is no problem with signing up with Medicaid. The problem is - I don\u0026#x27;t see how ACA adds anything to entrepreneurs.\u003cp\u003eWhen I quit my job, we signed up for private insurance (family of 4 - $500 a month with decent coverage). That was pre ACA time. All I\u0026#x27;ve got from ACA - my insurance got bumped to $680, which is OK and still much cheaper than any comparable plan on the marketplace.\u003cp\u003eSo my complaint is not about lack of options for entrepreneurs, my complaint is that ACA actually made my life marginally worse, not better.\u003cp\u003eAlso don\u0026#x27;t forget that jumping from plan to plan includes filling tons of forms, which takes quite a bit of time and frustration, which I would rather spend building my business.","parent":"7392215","id":"7392375"}
{"by":"simonbrown","time":"1342281743","timestamp":"2012-07-14 16:02:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In that case, it is harder to provide. As far as I know, most SSL certificates just validate the domain name, while code signing certificates validate the developer/company identity.","parent":"4244274","id":"4244509"}
{"by":"FurrBall","time":"1375451997","timestamp":"2013-08-02 13:59:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally I would go with Lisp. The symmetry between data and executable code affords flexibility beyond compare. You have a first class suite of tools with Emacs + SLIME + Paredit. You have native deployment on multiple platforms to boot. Can\u0026#x27;t go wrong.\u003cp\u003eIf you prefer static typing I\u0026#x27;d choose C++ over Go. Good old C++ may not be the flavor of the week but it is almost as dummy-easy as Java if you use smart pointers and RAII. It has excellent generics support, something sadly missing from Go. Great mutli-platform native deployment.","parent":"6141529","id":"6146893"}
{"by":"not_a_test_user","time":"1431958155","timestamp":"2015-05-18 14:09:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why? I went from having very limited free time due to having a commute to having at least 3 - 5 hours every day after work. Even more if I woke up earlier.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m interested in learning how to use those hours that I never had before because I have been marathoning Netflix series and I\u0026#x27;m not so sure that\u0026#x27;s good for me in the long run.","parent":"9564392","id":"9564481"}
{"by":"KGIII","time":"1503876446","timestamp":"2017-08-27 23:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup. They will be rare and fetch good auction prices.\u003cp\u003eI gave my watch collection to my son, keeping just a Citizen. He had them appraised and they have all pretty much retained or increased in value.","parent":"15113216","id":"15113393"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1449707926","timestamp":"2015-12-10 00:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Measuring \u0026quot;class\u0026quot; by income distribution measures like this kind of misses the point; more accurately this is \u0026quot;Most Americans no longer fit a particular definition of \u0026#x27;middle income\u0026#x27;\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClass\u003c/i\u003e distinctions are about significant qualitative distinctions, not points on a simple quantitative distribution. A reasonable upper\u0026#x2F;middle\u0026#x2F;lower class distinction could be made where the upper class has capital assets that they can and do live off the proceeds of while increasing the value and annual proceeds of the assets, the middle class has capital assets that they could (whether or not they \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e -- they may still work at wage labor) live for at least some months on by depleting, and the lower classes are entirely dependent on wage labor (and one could make further distinctions within these groups).\u003cp\u003eThis would roughly correspond with the traditional ideas of \u0026quot;class\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Which is all not to discount the potential significance of an ongoing increase in income inequality -- which almost certainly has some real impact in terms of the kind of things that would reasonably define class.","parent":"10707689","id":"10708044"}
{"by":"throw2016","time":"1498594093","timestamp":"2017-06-27 20:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You make homelessness like a super awesome thing, do you think people will be tempted to quit their jobs and give up their homes for a taste of this?\u003cp\u003eBut wait, since being homeless is one the worst experiences a human being can have this can only be the flippant perspective of someone who has no clue about homelessness and no interest to learn.","parent":"14648331","id":"14648911"}
{"by":"underwater","time":"1476177537","timestamp":"2016-10-11 09:18:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve worked in a bunch of the Menlo Park buildings. The new Frank Gehry designed one is quieter than the old Sun buildings. Foot traffic is only a problem if you\u0026#x27;re immediately next a thoroughfare, and even then it\u0026#x27;s not terrible.","parent":"12680155","id":"12682736"}
{"by":"Geezus42","time":"1495032833","timestamp":"2017-05-17 14:53:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"privacy.com","parent":"14357505","id":"14358980"}
{"by":"JackWebbHeller","time":"1366545690","timestamp":"2013-04-21 12:01:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003e\"Its a strange situation where it is legal to do something to a human that is illegal to do to a computer\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is illegal to do to a computer, in this case...?","parent":"5584563","id":"5584597"}
{"by":"Yetanfou","time":"1540418118","timestamp":"2018-10-24 21:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here, often jasmin blended with some Lapsang Souchong (\u0026quot;smoked tea\u0026quot;) to give it a bit more punch. I\u0026#x27;ve been doing this for decades and haven\u0026#x27;t noticed anything other than that it makes you pee quite a lot - a good thing as it serves as a natural screen\u0026#x2F;keyboard break.","parent":"18295353","id":"18296790"}
{"by":"famousactress","time":"1416370570","timestamp":"2014-11-19 04:16:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, there was a \u0026quot;flashing example\u0026quot; in the middle of the article: \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;The company has been criticized for the treatment of its drivers, its combative tactics against competitors, and a sexist promo that offered free twenty-minute rides with attractive women.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso apologies.. It was definitely unfair of me to throw a \u0026quot;Seriously?\u0026quot; on this without context, but my commentary on this issue wasn\u0026#x27;t limited to what I read in this article. I\u0026#x27;ve been following the story today. This guardian editorial covers and links to plenty of other impressions that line up well with my thinking: \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/18/uber-woman-problem\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;commentisfree\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;nov\u0026#x2F;18\u0026#x2F;uber-wo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m just short-tempered on being asked for evidence of sexism lately because it\u0026#x27;s fucking sad how readily available it tends to be.","parent":"8628188","id":"8628228"}
{"by":"segmond","time":"1349795179","timestamp":"2012-10-09 15:06:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it seems so on this site like to argue just for the sake of argue.  who is saying anything about rights?   sure, it's his work, it's  his right do anything he wishes, and he will be expelled.  the course doesn't mind you sharing your code, just wait till the class is over.  share and risk getting expelled.","parent":"4631545","dead":true,"id":"4631889"}
{"by":"lavezzi","time":"1527184233","timestamp":"2018-05-24 17:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The car should have slowed at that six second mark, and at least reduced speed dramatically by the time of impact (if not completely).\u003cp\u003eThe risk of fatality would have been severely reduced if the car was (at most) travelling at 30mph (likely around ~10% - instead of between 25% and 60% for the speed at the time of impact depending on what study you choose).","parent":"17146275","id":"17146465"}
{"by":"bsimpson","time":"1512193031","timestamp":"2017-12-02 05:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m always a bit skeptical of this argument as a rationale for FOSS.\u003cp\u003eOf course, publishing your source code does make it a lot easier for outsiders to audit your software, but how many people actually do?  Linux might be an exception because so many organizations build drivers and distributions for it (there are always people digging through the internals and likewise, hackers\u0026#x2F;security consultants looking for opportunities), but I suspect for most open source projects (even the big ones), there are way fewer people auditing them than comments like this would lead you to believe.\u003cp\u003eHow many people do you think are digging through and critically analyzing Django\u0026#x2F;Node\u0026#x2F;Rails\u0026#x2F;Docker\u0026#x2F;OpenSSL\u0026#x2F;network drivers\u0026#x2F;etc?  There\u0026#x27;s a mindblowing amount of code behind any application, and as developers\u0026#x2F;users, we tend to trust strength in numbers - people are using it, so it must be fine.  But in practice, I wonder how much the bystander effect counteracts this intuition.","parent":"15829889","id":"15830371"}
{"by":"kurtisc","time":"1530038087","timestamp":"2018-06-26 18:34:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ironically, from what I\u0026#x27;ve come to expect comparing popular websites to phishing websites, I have a knee-jerk worried reaction when I see a URL that isn\u0026#x27;t \u0026#x27;centre-heavy\u0026#x27;.","parent":"17402518","id":"17402982"}
{"by":"mappu","time":"1367923193","timestamp":"2013-05-07 10:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely worth reading the full zine, some scary stuff in there (including very readable python LFI-based exploits for unpatched MoinMoin and ColdFusion).\u003cp\u003eHighlights: 1900+ days uptime on a sparc box somewhere in sourceforge.net, root on ICANN, root on Debian repositories..","parent":"5667027","id":"5667374"}
{"by":"ferongr","time":"1491260452","timestamp":"2017-04-03 23:00:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NYT article shows a 360 video and not static images (note the movement of the tree branches).","parent":"14027915","id":"14028050"}
{"by":"pythonaut_16","time":"1513020182","timestamp":"2017-12-11 19:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m actually somewhat satisfied with how they\u0026#x27;re ramming this vote through right now. Not because I want to lose Net Neutrality, but because if it is going to happen, it\u0026#x27;s best that it happens now, early in Trump\u0026#x27;s term, and that the process of forcing the vote is messy.\u003cp\u003eTwo possible silver linings if it does get removed on the 14th:\u003cp\u003e1. We were wrong the whole time and reversing net neutrality launches us into a golden age of fast and cheap internet for all. (Very unlikely)\u003cp\u003e2. We were right, and reversing net neutrality is as bad as we feared. While it will be painful in the short term, hopefully it\u0026#x27;s bad enough to The Internet\u0026#x2F;Net Neutrality a relevant election issue for more people.\u003cp\u003eEither way, the sure silver lining is that by hashing this out now the consequences will be fully felt by the time the next presidential election rolls around.\u003cp\u003eCan you imagine if they were trying to shove this through in the lead up to the 2020 election when everyone is distracted by all the other issues at stake in the election?","parent":"15899206","id":"15899519"}
{"by":"ramchip","time":"1365898999","timestamp":"2013-04-14 00:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed... an exchange is more useful the more volume it has.","parent":"5545251","id":"5545265"}
{"by":"demian","time":"1350929720","timestamp":"2012-10-22 18:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But Chile was not a communist country.\u003cp\u003eThe dream of a \"mechanical centralized control\" was shared by a lot of people in the XX century. It's strongly featured in positivistic SciFi literature of the time, for example I, Robot from Asimov.","parent":"4683826","id":"4684502"}
{"by":"edanm","time":"1425939543","timestamp":"2015-03-09 22:19:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why?","parent":"9174242","id":"9174533"}
{"by":"gordaco","time":"1542452688","timestamp":"2018-11-17 11:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Spain was no different, and from what I\u0026#x27;m seeing, I think that there will pass many years before the damage of the \u0026quot;little belt tightening\u0026quot; is undone.","parent":"18474941","id":"18474972"}
{"by":"gohrt","time":"1470955908","timestamp":"2016-08-11 22:51:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"eh, raise the terms as an exponent and subtraction becomes division. :)","parent":"12271339","id":"12272227"}
{"by":"discardorama","time":"1437772412","timestamp":"2015-07-24 21:13:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, you are right. I was thinking of NHTSA, which does braking tests on an actual track.","parent":"9944262","id":"9945230"}
{"by":"rip747","time":"1393597724","timestamp":"2014-02-28 14:28:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why they don\u0026#x27;t just integrate this into the results page? what\u0026#x27;s wrong with having up and down votes or a report this link button for the results?","parent":"7318203","id":"7318821"}
{"by":"egypturnash","time":"1357849537","timestamp":"2013-01-10 20:25:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OOon the other hand you probably have more computing power in your purse or pocket than entire server farms had in the 80s. It's all relative.\u003cp\u003eThe big question is just when is Moore's Law going to quit applying.","parent":"5038653","id":"5039522"}
{"by":"sharemywin","time":"1536770914","timestamp":"2018-09-12 16:48:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As far As I\u0026#x27;ve seen, all traits are a combination of nature\u0026#x2F;nurture.","parent":"17969160","id":"17970642"}
{"by":"kragen","time":"1313115158","timestamp":"2011-08-12 02:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn't use a JS program served from somebody else's website to generate my password anyway.  How do I know it's not sending them a copy of the passwords it generates?","parent":"2874580","id":"2875694"}
{"by":"Ntrails","time":"1384509826","timestamp":"2013-11-15 10:03:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We also, historically, tend to test in ways that limit damage.  We doubtless have enough weapons to eliminate 95% + of the global population if that were the intent.","parent":"6738437","id":"6738607"}
{"by":"bdickason","time":"1277261951","timestamp":"2010-06-23 02:59:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been 'product managing' for 4 years now in NYC and haven't found very many books useful. Here are a few:\u003cp\u003e-Getting Real / Rework (37 signals) - Build a lean product\u003cp\u003e-Don't Make Me Think - Usability 101\u003cp\u003e-Web Analytics 2.0 - Metrics are your best friend\u003cp\u003e-Viral Loop - Great companies and how they did it\u003cp\u003e-Delivering Happiness - Last 50 pages are phenomenal for building your company's \"culture\"","parent":"1453613","id":"1453986"}
{"by":"Aldo_MX","time":"1476399828","timestamp":"2016-10-13 23:03:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which of the top languages is actually well designed? All of them have their area of opportunity.","parent":"12704643","id":"12704894"}
{"by":"extrememacaroni","time":"1543367873","timestamp":"2018-11-28 01:17:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hue hue","parent":"18548409","id":"18548459"}
{"by":"jordache","time":"1504279818","timestamp":"2017-09-01 15:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i tend to skim-read manifestos","parent":"15149065","id":"15149276"}
{"by":"thaumaturgy","time":"1439590010","timestamp":"2015-08-14 22:06:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s almost the definitive example of the tragedy of the commons. How do you propose charging market prices for privately pumped well water?","parent":"10063228","id":"10063283"}
{"by":"tzury","time":"1373345780","timestamp":"2013-07-09 04:56:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is important to mention that \u0026quot;self-hosted\u0026quot; by itself, does not make one Prism-Free.\u003cp\u003eIn most cases, if the hosting platform provider will be asked to provide access to the infrastructure, it is most likely that SSL private keys that stored on the virtual machine will be taken along with other data.","parent":"6010803","id":"6011178"}
{"by":"tomstuart","time":"1401286524","timestamp":"2014-05-28 14:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That may not be what they\u0026#x27;re \u0026quot;for\u0026quot; (wtf does that even mean?)\u003cp\u003eIt means that “[mocks are] a way to allow you to test code that you can\u0026#x27;t improve right now” and “[mocks are] a stepping-stone for testing and improving a large existing codebase” is a mischaracterisation of the role and benefits of mocks.\u003cp\u003eIf using them like that is useful for you then that’s great, but it’s misleading to say that that’s why “they’re there”.\u003cp\u003eSteve Freeman \u0026amp; Nat Pryce’s book [0], for example, is an excellent illustration of what mocks are for.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.growing-object-oriented-software.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7809885","id":"7809996"}
{"by":"yongjik","time":"1446596454","timestamp":"2015-11-04 00:20:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is, ironically, only possible because of radioactive heat generated by the Earth.\u003cp\u003eWithout radioactivity, there would be no continent to die in the first place.","parent":"10503573","id":"10503733"}
{"by":"surge","time":"1495471198","timestamp":"2017-05-22 16:39:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Non compete clauses are unenforceable (especially if the state has a right to work) and I simply do not sign them. For me, it\u0026#x27;s a deal breaker. If you have a right to fire me for any reason, I have a right to leave and go work for someone else, including a competitor in a the same industry in which my skill set lies for any reason (especially if that reason is higher pay).","parent":"14392429","id":"14394993"}
{"by":"jquery","time":"1348859419","timestamp":"2012-09-28 19:10:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; An important change that I think could be made with the h1b would be to allow people to get into Green card status after 2 years of being in continuous h1b status ... irrespective of company. That way h1-b hires aren't used as pawns in lowering wages and abused because they can be forced to do things that an American hire would never do.\u003cp\u003eThis is a good idea. My wife has been on H1B for four years and is no closer to a green card via the H1B path than when she started. It's a joke. She has a Ph.D. in CS, she's been in the USA for 11 years, and her only realistic path to a green card turned out to be marriage. Meanwhile, she's been used and abused by employers and seeing her mentally and emotionally break down due to H1B abuse is difficult to watch.","parent":"4587076","id":"4587259"}
{"by":"Zenst","time":"1348567306","timestamp":"2012-09-25 10:01:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you and signed up.  I have interests in too many things that cross over, but this is one area I do need to step back a bit and learn the lingo a bit more.  Looking forward to this course now.","parent":"4567670","id":"4569530"}
{"by":"NumberSix","time":"1450382887","timestamp":"2015-12-17 20:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My main objection is that technology companies appear to have very high turnover rates.  By design?  Are the companies \u0026quot;loyal\u0026quot; to their employees?\u003cp\u003eMany surveys have reported extremely short average or median durations for technology jobs, meaning 1-2 years, especially in software development.\u003cp\u003ePayscale did a survey that listed both Google and Amazon as having extremely short durations among employees.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.payscale.com\u0026#x2F;data-packages\u0026#x2F;employee-loyalty\u0026#x2F;least-loyal-employees\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.payscale.com\u0026#x2F;data-packages\u0026#x2F;employee-loyalty\u0026#x2F;least...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times recently published an article reporting extremely difficult working conditions at Amazon resulting in a perhaps intentional high turnover rate:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;inside-amazon-w...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee also coverage of working conditions at Electronic Arts and other gaming companies.\u003cp\u003eIt is true that \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e people are able to get jobs at technology employers and stay for several years.  Even among these, very very very few seem to make it past ten years at a single employer.\u003cp\u003eThere are those who suspect that many companies have a covert policy of hiring young, single, mostly male employees, getting them to work large amounts of unpaid overtime through various deceptive tactics ranging from free food to continuous grossly unrealistic schedules and deadlines, often coupled to PR events like trade shows intended to create a perpetual crisis atmosphere.  Inevitably and by design this burns out large numbers of people, leading to large turnover rates and other problems.","parent":"10746431","id":"10754136"}
{"by":"RexRollman","time":"1371941507","timestamp":"2013-06-22 22:51:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Human are destructive and lay waste to every area they inhabit; like a blight on a tree.","parent":"5923776","id":"5925446"}
{"by":"devmunchies","time":"1528135557","timestamp":"2018-06-04 18:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the enterprise version is not opened source? big deal. gotta support free software somehow and that is a respectable way.","parent":"17230376","id":"17230388"}
{"by":"le-mark","time":"1526044455","timestamp":"2018-05-11 13:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also check his blog from time to time, the quality of his rants have declined imo. Also he tended to beat the same drum, a bit myopic.","parent":"17045462","id":"17047047"}
{"by":"colomon","time":"1542369107","timestamp":"2018-11-16 11:51:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every mask I\u0026#x27;ve ever used automatically vented air by design. (Which yes, is really awful WRT cuddling.)","parent":"18464506","id":"18468118"}
{"by":"ajanuary","time":"1374164039","timestamp":"2013-07-18 16:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The semantics of ICollection\u0026lt;T\u0026gt;.Count and IList\u0026lt;T\u0026gt;.Count are well defined and known to you at the time your write your extension method.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t know the semantics of a method of an arbitrary type you\u0026#x27;ve been passed in just because it has the same name. Go plays fast and loose with this idea, but at least the interface type of the argument should document \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m expecting these methods to have a particular semantics\u0026quot;. If they don\u0026#x27;t, that\u0026#x27;s then your fault.","parent":"6061704","id":"6064589"}
{"by":"acabal","time":"1497567001","timestamp":"2017-06-15 22:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lofty goals, and needed.  However I can\u0026#x27;t help but mourn that at least in Chicago, all of the taxis I\u0026#x27;ve ever taken in the past several years have been hybrid vehicles.  I think I can count on one hand the number of hybrids\u0026#x2F;electric Lyfts and Ubers I\u0026#x27;ve taken.  So in Chicago (like everywhere else) ridesharing is decimating the taxi industry, but here when you take a rideshare instead of a taxi there\u0026#x27;s a greater chance your ride is not climate-friendly \u003ci\u003etoday\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eSo while it\u0026#x27;s nice that Lyft is targeting 2025, in this specific case you could have already been saving carbon by taking regular taxis instead.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if Lyft\u0026#x2F;Uber already have a feature like this (someone else always calls one for us) but it would be nice if they allowed you to only take rides in hybrid\u0026#x2F;electric vehicles, or if they would otherwise incentivize drivers who had such vehicles.","parent":"14564489","id":"14565120"}
{"by":"narag","time":"1491560849","timestamp":"2017-04-07 10:27:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ewhy didn\u0026#x27;t the Roman Empire progress to an industrial revolution?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have always heard an answer that I thought was widely accepted (maybe not): the combination of slavery and Christianism.\u003cp\u003eMasters would not be interested in improving efficiency because the work was done by slaves. Look for a short story by William Golding: \u0026quot;Envoy Extraordinary\u0026quot; for a literary version of that point.\u003cp\u003eThen Christianism didn\u0026#x27;t improve the situation. It got rid of slavery, but not of slaves. The mindset was not the same but no better either.","parent":"14056417","id":"14058590"}
{"by":"roadnottaken","time":"1285788635","timestamp":"2010-09-29 19:30:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a fair point.  But nowadays OS'es all have good search tools (e.g. SpotLight in OS X) which makes it unnecessary to organize your files (\"why organize when you can search\"?).  However, I still like my files organized so I can browse them to find things in a straightforward way.  So, too, with e-mail.","parent":"1740509","id":"1740777"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1510437502","timestamp":"2017-11-11 21:58:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The internet myth is that it doesn\u0026#x27;t work but all you have to do is answer and ask them to put you on their do not call list.\u003cp\u003eNot give them a big tiresome speech about how they are breaking the law, just ask them not to call anymore (\u0026quot;Please put this number on your courtesy do not call list\u0026quot;). They actually don\u0026#x27;t want to waste their time...","parent":"15677996","id":"15678406"}
{"by":"epx","time":"1535472146","timestamp":"2018-08-28 16:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wrote my master dissertation in LyX, it was great. The LaTeX-specific features that LyX did not support, I put in a \u0026quot;preamble\u0026quot;. Never had a problem and it even worked on a then-rare iBook (2004).","parent":"17858445","id":"17859855"}
{"by":"TheHegemon","time":"1511808091","timestamp":"2017-11-27 18:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Tax incentives for employer tuition reimbursement makes more sense.\u003cp\u003eJust when you thought tuition costs couldn\u0026#x27;t go any higher...","parent":"15789540","id":"15789873"}
{"by":"grosskur","time":"1412073621","timestamp":"2014-09-30 10:40:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m working on something along these lines:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.packagelab.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.packagelab.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea is to have a common UI and REST API for building packages and managing repositories across packaging toolchains. Right now it supports rpm+yum and deb+apt. Packages are built in isolated Linux containers using Heroku\u0026#x27;s buildpack interface. (Would love feedback from anyone who\u0026#x27;s interested in beta testing.)\u003cp\u003eAlso, have you seen the Omaha protocol?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://code.google.com/p/omaha/wiki/ServerProtocol\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;code.google.com\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;omaha\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;ServerProtocol\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s used by a lot software, including Chrome and ChromeOS. Recently, CoreOS has built infrastructure with it and they offer a SaaS product for rolling updates. I think they\u0026#x27;re planning on using it to update Docker containers, too:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://coreos.com/products/coreupdate/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;coreos.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;coreupdate\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8387441","id":"8387514"}
{"by":"bpicolo","time":"1508771045","timestamp":"2017-10-23 15:04:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fine inference, but the implementation degenerates to spam. My news feed has almost nothing other than things-others-liked now, mostly because Facebook seems to be trying to push video heavily into your feed because (I assume) it increases their engagement statistics drastically on the average","parent":"15533365","id":"15533683"}
{"by":"4ad","time":"1452253025","timestamp":"2016-01-08 11:37:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The End of Eternity and Nightfall (the novel with Robert Silverberg, not the short story) are Asimov\u0026#x27;s greatest novels.","parent":"10860857","id":"10864191"}
{"by":"wnoise","time":"1326556411","timestamp":"2012-01-14 15:53:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd be quite surprised if they allowed write access.\u003cp\u003e(Yes, they mean \"no downloads\", but it's a rather ridiculous way of phrasing that.  And if you can read it, you can save it for later.)","parent":"3464316","id":"3464442"}
{"by":"gumby","time":"1400552338","timestamp":"2014-05-20 02:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;This code so eminently readable. Is this the norm or is it Woz...?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s super easy to write spaghetti code in assembler, so if you wrote any code of any size you really needed to be super careful in structuring and documenting it.  Especially since in the \u0026quot;old days\u0026quot; your selection of identifiers (labels) was also often limited.\u003cp\u003ePlus assembly is generally pretty regular in structure so you can\u0026#x27;t rely on the \u0026quot;shape\u0026quot; of the code (e.g. indenting) to find your way, and it\u0026#x27;s not dense enough to allow a complete functional unit to fit in your fovea.\u003cp\u003eAs a result of that, if you didn\u0026#x27;t write like Woz did here you ended up with write only code.\u003cp\u003ePlus Woz was also a very good developer.","parent":"7769100","id":"7770921"}
{"by":"mrbonner","time":"1423268008","timestamp":"2015-02-07 00:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My last job has 24\u0026#x2F;7 on-call rotation once every 5 weeks with a duration of 1 week. That was the most stressful and frustrated path of my career: got paged several times a week, got paged during wee hours (2, 3AM) by business idiots from oversea, got paged when someone else\u0026#x27;s system was down.\u003cp\u003eI remember my first page was on the day before Thanksgiving around 5PM. And then the 2nd and 3rd one one came after that around 8PM adn 11PM. And then on Thanksgiving day I got paged around 9AM when I was driving to the airport to pick up my brother. I didn\u0026#x27;t know what to do at that point.\u003cp\u003eThe worst happened when my wife gave birth and I got paged while waiting in the hospital. She gave birth 2 weeks earlier so it screwed up my on-call planning. I called my manager and said \u0026quot;you gotta get someone to replace me, I am at the hospital.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAbout 6 months later I quit.","parent":"9010865","id":"9012428"}
{"by":"chickenfries","time":"1515265688","timestamp":"2018-01-06 19:08:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You really assume too much about me. I\u0026#x27;m one generation removed from 3rd world farmers.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re convinced that anyone who has a problem with their standard of living in America has no perspective, when really you\u0026#x27;re the one who can\u0026#x27;t see the perspective of the lower class of someone living in one of the richest countries in the world. Seriously, you\u0026#x27;re making these arguments on the internet, on a forum where everyone is presumed to be working in technology and therefore not starving, how about you go volunteer at a shelter in your city like I do and tell those people \u0026quot;cheer up! I bet you wouldn\u0026#x27;t want to switch places with John Rockefeller!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI know you won\u0026#x27;t though.","parent":"16085936","id":"16086897"}
{"by":"smithzvk","time":"1391480435","timestamp":"2014-02-04 02:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess this is kind of nice because I won\u0026#x27;t have to worry about people connecting to my \u0026lt;insert non-technologically adept person\u0026gt;\u0026#x27;s open or poorly secured WiFi and start playing porn as a joke.\u003cp\u003eBut you can still stream a Chrome tab, so... maybe they are not really preventing anything except good audio sync.","parent":"7174904","id":"7175083"}
{"by":"skylan_q","time":"1404173296","timestamp":"2014-07-01 00:08:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you count the federal reserve as a market participant.","parent":"7968322","id":"7968484"}
{"by":"seanccox","time":"1399465157","timestamp":"2014-05-07 12:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Klout\u0026#x27;s vacancy ad to \u0026quot;Bro down and crush code\u0026quot; is sexist and the article is pointed at the misogynist culture that the ad exemplifies.\u003cp\u003eWhat part of the content constitutes a \u0026#x27;club to hit men with\u0026#x27;?","parent":"7709668","id":"7709707"}
{"by":"developer123","time":"1273457542","timestamp":"2010-05-10 02:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"also please bear in mind thia app has a brand and company behind it with lots of market share in its niche allready through other products other than iphone, so lots of avenues to generate awareness of the app through other channels including facebook.","parent":"1332453","id":"1333336"}
{"by":"djur","time":"1543299212","timestamp":"2018-11-27 06:13:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The new iPhones do not come with a headphone adapter anymore.","parent":"18539293","id":"18539913"}
{"by":"atlantageek","time":"1347982336","timestamp":"2012-09-18 15:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A yelp type app for long trips. When Im on the interstate for a 6 hour drive. I prefer a starbucks 10 miles away right off the the exit than a starbucks 3 miles away but 2.5 miles from the interstate.","parent":"4537834","id":"4538622"}
{"by":"paulmd","time":"1533113480","timestamp":"2018-08-01 08:51:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please don\u0026#x27;t shame the differently abled.\u003cp\u003eAlzheimer\u0026#x27;s disease doesn\u0026#x27;t really hold you back these days.  We\u0026#x27;ve elected presidents with Alzheimer\u0026#x27;s three times in the last 4 decades.  I mean, how much higher can you go than that?  What better proof of their competence do you want?\u003cp\u003eThey managed to pass through our electoral system, right?  How \u003ci\u003edare\u003c/i\u003e you judge their mental abilities?  How \u003ci\u003edare\u003c/i\u003e you, sir?  Let\u0026#x27;s see you get elected president, buster.  What are you, some kind of \u003ci\u003edoctor?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot that there\u0026#x27;s any trend as to which party keeps electing the \u0026quot;differently abled\u0026quot; to the highest office in the country, no sir...  I mean, my heart and my best intentions say that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. \u0026#x2F;s\u003cp\u003eAfter all, we all know that decorum is what\u0026#x27;s really important, in fact more important than saying what needs to be said.  Which is that Republicans keep electing actual dementia patients to be President, and keeping them in office even when that becomes obvious.  And, that the US political system is founded on broad assumptions of good faith and isn\u0026#x27;t built to handle intense partisanship to the extent that a Congress would refuse to deal with an obviously senile president.\u003cp\u003eBut hey, it probably worked reasonably well in an era when your average elite lived to be like 50 or something.  We\u0026#x27;re no longer in that era, and it\u0026#x27;s time to put a maximum age limit on the Presidency as well as a minimum, and start enforcing the 25th.","parent":"17660662","dead":true,"id":"17660691"}
{"by":"algesten","time":"1478267191","timestamp":"2016-11-04 13:46:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I took it to mean that we had to zoom to see that the holes were gone in the compressed version.","parent":"12872419","id":"12872469"}
{"by":"chrischen","time":"1250616043","timestamp":"2009-08-18 17:20:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's how the idea started. Afterwards they used it to scare off the lady's grandchildren when she went on \u003ci\u003evacation\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"770900","id":"770933"}
{"by":"cm3","time":"1456102670","timestamp":"2016-02-22 00:57:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there Haskell involved in the WebRTC code or is pretty much all JavaScript?","parent":"11146819","id":"11147583"}
{"by":"bredren","time":"1542059638","timestamp":"2018-11-12 21:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Glad to see they built their product-use data tracking tools in house.","parent":"18435882","id":"18436250"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1383253734","timestamp":"2013-10-31 21:08:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK the Nexus 4 only does two LTE bands, and only works with T-Mobile (and even then not all their bands)","parent":"6649557","id":"6649912"}
{"by":"samcrawford","time":"1427975863","timestamp":"2015-04-02 11:57:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My first thought was that at the very least he should be comparing it to a tcp-traceroute (i.e. traceroute -T ...) rather than an ICMP one. Other routers before them may make different routing decisions based upon the type of IP traffic, so assuming both take the same path is unsafe.","parent":"9309117","id":"9310063"}
{"by":"athenot","time":"1504800378","timestamp":"2017-09-07 16:06:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps if someone sues them for some issue with email in general (say loss of productivity due to spam), they will quickly revert to the distinction between e-mail (as in SMTP) and EMAIL (his program).","parent":"15192915","id":"15193093"}
{"by":"il","time":"1283742689","timestamp":"2010-09-06 03:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a startup posted on HN recently that did this, I can't recall the name.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, it's super easy to roll your own and run it yourself. That way you're not giving up (potentially very valuable) keywords to anyone in the cloud.\u003cp\u003eInsider Tip: If you're only interested in the top 10 results, use the Ajax API to get around query limits.","parent":"1658128","id":"1665736"}
{"by":"TheOtherHobbes","time":"1491868081","timestamp":"2017-04-10 23:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or simply a pragmatist.\u003cp\u003eReals are a useful sensory abstraction. Countability is another sensory abstraction, although for most people it\u0026#x27;s a rather less useful one.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s no particular obligation for sensory abstractions to be logically watertight - if only because logic is an abstraction itself.","parent":"14083355","id":"14083599"}
{"by":"jfroma","time":"1412762942","timestamp":"2014-10-08 10:09:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook might have a directory of employees, ldap or something.\u003cp\u003eToo bad slack doesn\u0026#x27;t support any of this. This is the price they have to pay for reinventing username and password authentication and requiring everyone to register.\u003cp\u003eIt is also bad since employees quit or are fired, and you don\u0026#x27;t want to have to maintain a directory of employees on every application you use.\u003cp\u003eShameless plug, I work for \u003ca href=\"https://auth0.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;auth0.com\u003c/a\u003e and we make this easier.","parent":"8425996","id":"8426136"}
{"by":"NateLawson","time":"1445273334","timestamp":"2015-10-19 16:48:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re exactly right. You can go even further in gathering environmental data from syscalls and using it to construct strings at runtime. At some point, you have to include dynamic analysis in addition to static analysis.\u003cp\u003eThe iRiS paper we mentioned in the blog post describes a really great approach to doing this. They do \u0026quot;forced execution\u0026quot; using a port of Valgrind to iOS. They also do the exact right thing by resolving as many call targets as possible statically, then using dynamic analysis only for the call sites that can\u0026#x27;t be resolved. This saves on runtime and complexity, though you might notice that even this approach didn\u0026#x27;t resolve 100% of them.\u003cp\u003eUltimately, you\u0026#x27;re dealing with a variant of the halting problem, where the app uses a specific value only on a full moon, on iOS 4.1, where the username is \u0026quot;sjobs\u0026quot;. And that\u0026#x27;s why computers are still fun.\u003cp\u003ePDF: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cse.buffalo.edu\u0026#x2F;~mohaisen\u0026#x2F;classes\u0026#x2F;fall2015\u0026#x2F;cse709\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;deng-ccs15.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cse.buffalo.edu\u0026#x2F;~mohaisen\u0026#x2F;classes\u0026#x2F;fall2015\u0026#x2F;cse709...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10413892","id":"10414059"}
{"by":"ericmo","time":"1428445982","timestamp":"2015-04-07 22:33:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Finished the article. It is a blatant advertisement for Scala\u003cp\u003eI like Scala, but the features I like in it, eg pattern matching or tail recursion, these things don\u0026#x27;t even exist in this article.\u003cp\u003eSo I\u0026#x27;m not sure it\u0026#x27;s advertisement, it feels more like it\u0026#x27;s an anti-ad, actually. If the argument for me to use a language is that it is statically typed, man, that language must not be good at all! Static or dynamic typing is part of language philosophy, it makes sense to have dynamic typing in Python, as it makes sense not having it in Java. Python philosophy is pretty coherent, productive and fun, and dynamic typing is a part of that. It just doesn\u0026#x27;t feel like a reasonable argument.","parent":"9334111","id":"9337619"}
{"by":"hitr","time":"1467859079","timestamp":"2016-07-07 02:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes probably. Article is largely aimed at 12-24 Months but at the same time 20-40 member team. But if you team is big, you need lot of things in control no matter how old you are as detailed in the article. Otherwise they are inviting chaos","parent":"12046579","id":"12047194"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1342560528","timestamp":"2012-07-17 21:28:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To check your biases what percentage of someones Height is based on DNA vs environmental factors?  Ok, now compare that with IQ.\u003cp\u003eIn the US environmental factors represent ~20 point shifts in IQ.  However 50 point differences are not all that uncommon (75 vs 125) even among family members. Which suggest huge differences based on DNA.\u003cp\u003ePS: When the average nutrition level increases the importance of DNA also increases.","parent":"4257657","id":"4258000"}
{"by":"mmanfrin","time":"1380744592","timestamp":"2013-10-02 20:09:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d imaging they began with the \u0026#x27;frosty\u0026#x27; name, which led to SO, which lead to a subpoena, which got them logs and the name.","parent":"6484755","id":"6484973"}
{"by":"quest88","time":"1503331944","timestamp":"2017-08-21 16:12:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it would be see by the DOM as Shadow DOM I believe. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developers.google.com\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;fundamentals\u0026#x2F;architecture\u0026#x2F;building-components\u0026#x2F;shadowdom\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developers.google.com\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;fundamentals\u0026#x2F;architecture\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can get notifications through the mutation observer API: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;API\u0026#x2F;MutationObserver\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;API\u0026#x2F;MutationObs...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15065186","id":"15065572"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1393529946","timestamp":"2014-02-27 19:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CGI Federal is a Canadian company that won a no-bid contract to build the site. Good luck disrupting anything; the system doesn\u0026#x27;t even pretend to be competitive and it\u0026#x27;s designed to keep incumbents in power.","parent":"7313867","id":"7314435"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1439242169","timestamp":"2015-08-10 21:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, they are doing letters? Really? Letters? Hey is Eric Schmidt still in the building somewhere? Ask him how well Planets worked out for Sun Microsystems.\u003cp\u003eInteresting strategy, hard to second guess from the outside of course. Sun\u0026#x27;s motivation was to figure out whether the other parts of the company could stand on their own[1], it also makes it less fiscally complicated to discharge an entire group into the void. Think HP selling off the Agilent half of itself.\u003cp\u003eGenerally though this sort of move is a way of containing and then \u0026quot;fixing\u0026quot; cost problems. Divestiture is so much easier once you\u0026#x27;ve created the framework of a whole organization around each chunk. It can also be weirdly inefficient, at Sun each of the \u0026quot;planets\u0026quot; paid in a sum of money to IT (Bill Raduchel\u0026#x27;s organization) for \u0026quot;Corporate IT support\u0026quot; except that Corporate IT didn\u0026#x27;t work for them, they were just the only vendor you could use to get your IT services, so what you ended up with was really crappy IT work that you couldn\u0026#x27;t shop around for. It was maddening. But the \u0026#x27;collection of companies\u0026#x27; design pattern requires either that you have your \u0026quot;service providers\u0026quot; that everyone uses (HR, IT, Legal) which gives little incentive for quality service, or everyone gets their own version which means a lot of excess overhead and duplicated work.\u003cp\u003eI could think of at least two other ways Google could have re-organized without bringing that pain upon them, and as Eric lived through it at Sun as well I\u0026#x27;m sure he has an opinion.\u003cp\u003eOh, and having one of the sub-companies get the world\u0026#x27;s #3 brand? I wonder how that works out.\u003cp\u003e[1] Answer \u0026quot;No\u0026quot; for SunSoft, \u0026quot;Yes\u0026quot; for Sun Hardware, \u0026quot;No\u0026quot; for Sun Labs.","parent":"10037157","id":"10037511"}
{"by":"elmarhaussmann","time":"1524752924","timestamp":"2018-04-26 14:28:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, pretty big coincidence. However, this may change with the next TensorFlow versions, which supposedly has further speed improvements for the TPUv2.\u003cp\u003eNote also, that the ~2% performance difference is only on one model (ResNet-50) and cannot be generalized to all workloads\u0026#x2F;all of deep learning (at least not without further proof).","parent":"16932099","id":"16932147"}
{"by":"tromp","time":"1425862937","timestamp":"2015-03-09 01:02:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would take at least a nanosecond for each position. Given that 6x6 already has 62567386502084877, it would take at\nleast 724 days. To take \u0026quot;practically forever\u0026quot;, 7x7 more than suffices:)","parent":"9168189","id":"9168224"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1528260003","timestamp":"2018-06-06 04:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google is also an order of magnitude bigger than a local TV station. They have no excuse.","parent":"17244289","id":"17244398"}
{"by":"aikah","time":"1427879932","timestamp":"2015-04-01 09:18:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  - Most Chromebooks are freely bootloader unlocked, allowing any operating system to be loaded on them.\u003cp\u003eSo do most Windows Notebooks. I just bought one recently at 250$, installed Linux. so there is nothing special about chromebooks in this regard.","parent":"9300023","id":"9302512"}
{"by":"sharms","time":"1393265090","timestamp":"2014-02-24 18:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a topic that I would love to see brought up more, and I think there is a lot Linux can learn from Solaris.  As someone who was only exposed to Solaris in the last 4 years (using Linux since \u0026#x27;96), I have become increasingly interested in the seemingly unimportant features which have been incredibly useful.\u003cp\u003eZones have a distinct maturity and robustness over LxC (to be expected), ZFS is the filesystem I wish we could have, dtrace isn\u0026#x27;t a bolt-on etc.\u003cp\u003eIt would be nice to see it fully open-sourced again as I think the one thing it has working against it is a smaller community and it lacks the same size army of driver authors.","parent":"7291877","id":"7292291"}
{"by":"mindslight","time":"1472760629","timestamp":"2016-09-01 20:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It entirely depends on the measure.\u003cp\u003eLow-level gang members get their raw deal from being systematically trapped in their situation. Go to jail, get out of jail, find no other opportunities, repeat.\u003cp\u003ePunishment divided by harm-caused obviously goes to drug users, being infinite.\u003cp\u003eHacking has stiff criminal penalties for many things that should be civil matters at best, precisely because it makes powerful people realize how tenuous their control actually is.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s not succumb to identity pity politics about who has it the \u0026quot;worst\u0026quot;. Each codified injustice is ultimately the result of a ruling class slowly eroding the rule of law for its own benefit.\u003cp\u003e(Also, I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure the definition of \u0026quot;hacker\u0026quot; does not imply \u0026quot;white dude\u0026quot;)","parent":"12408369","id":"12408484"}
{"by":"tn13","time":"1463538444","timestamp":"2016-05-18 02:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really cant understand these journalists.","parent":"11718226","id":"11719303"}
{"by":"jessriedel","time":"1287380055","timestamp":"2010-10-18 05:34:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article is about honoring failed entrepreneurs in the sense of valuing people who start companies and fail (by correctly realizing that the success of a start-up is almost completely uncorrelated with the technical skill of it's employees and only weakly correlated with their future start-up success rate).  It doesn't have anything to do with government subsidies.","parent":"1802178","id":"1802489"}
{"by":"richforrester","time":"1365989032","timestamp":"2013-04-15 01:23:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cheers. Crazy, or maybe just misinformed. Thanks for enlightening me. (no sarcasm)\u003cp\u003eGuess I'll think twice before posting something positive about HN from now on.","parent":"5549197","id":"5549226"}
{"by":"dontJudge","time":"1541177005","timestamp":"2018-11-02 16:43:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; bankruptcy would be a start?\u003cp\u003eYes. This is the start and the end.  Bankruptcy will stop lenders from making predatory loans. It puts risk on both sides.\u003cp\u003eTuition costs will naturally (and quickly) drop.  Because there will be fewer people able to pay a crazy loan fueled price without a crazy loan given to them.","parent":"18364293","id":"18364491"}
{"by":"nickhalfasleep","time":"1537235967","timestamp":"2018-09-18 01:59:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This puts Yusaku Maezawa up there in league with the de Medici\u0026#x27;s and Borgia\u0026#x27;s in terms of patron of the arts.","parent":"18011723","id":"18011782"}
{"by":"QUFB","time":"1507925562","timestamp":"2017-10-13 20:12:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some people don\u0026#x27;t want to be social.\u003cp\u003eIf they do, there\u0026#x27;s the \u0026#x27;About\u0026#x27; field in the profile they can set with appropriate contact information.","parent":"15468283","id":"15468889"}
{"by":"fabatka","time":"1535720961","timestamp":"2018-08-31 13:09:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think biology would have \u0026quot;solved\u0026quot; the problem in this case. Without regulation and sustained pollution, the population would eventually decrease enough (through migration and increased mortality rate) to reduce pollution.","parent":"17884650","id":"17885225"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1433781496","timestamp":"2015-06-08 16:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do not think that the sorting of the population by politics is desirable, but I do think it is inevitable and that it presages a period of low-intensity conflict. America is not one place anymore. It has become a set of enclaves, and it\u0026#x27;s not just a left-right split. It has multiple dimensions: religious, economic, authoritarian\u0026#x2F;libertarian, racist\u0026#x2F;inclusive, etc.","parent":"9676952","id":"9680214"}
{"by":"sjwright","time":"1507980692","timestamp":"2017-10-14 11:31:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An invalid (and thoroughly disgusting) analogy. You are conflating murder and death in a rather untidy way, and hoping that the disgust for the analogy taints that which we\u0026#x27;re making an analogy about.\u003cp\u003eIf you like the theme of murder: \u003ci\u003eHow would it be different if a prison, rather than executing death row inmates on the first day they were legally permitted, instead delayed their executions so they could bundle them up into annual batches?\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"15471499","id":"15471718"}
{"by":"arca_vorago","time":"1423070567","timestamp":"2015-02-04 17:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given both Googles and Facebooks origin funding, I think a debate could be had about this point.","parent":"8998069","id":"8998111"}
{"by":"bpicolo","time":"1493853653","timestamp":"2017-05-03 23:20:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see that it claims that, but that\u0026#x27;s not entirely true. The closure compiler does a variety of perf optimizations as well (e.g. inlining).\u003cp\u003eClosure is really a great compiler, it\u0026#x27;s just a shame it doesn\u0026#x27;t interact well (that is, at all) with the modern JS ecosystem.","parent":"14259563","id":"14261126"}
{"by":"Tepix","time":"1521484567","timestamp":"2018-03-19 18:36:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s dumb. The term means someone who is walking. \u0026quot;Per pedes\u0026quot; means \u0026quot;by foot\u0026quot;.","parent":"16620358","id":"16621582"}
{"by":"rollcat","time":"1510866444","timestamp":"2017-11-16 21:07:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Multi-line lambdas will never happen. Lambdas are expressions. \u0026quot;Multi-line\u0026quot; means statements. There is no sane way you could embed statements into an expression with whitespace-based block syntax.","parent":"15714606","id":"15716626"}
{"by":"Thrymr","time":"1342298928","timestamp":"2012-07-14 20:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cats_named_Fluffy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cats_named_Fluffy\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4243559","id":"4245300"}
{"by":"nimble","time":"1381708461","timestamp":"2013-10-13 23:54:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Wealth_tax\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6544514","id":"6544608"}
{"by":"Redoubts","time":"1535047974","timestamp":"2018-08-23 18:12:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Overall, I think the most accurate thing to say is that CA was \u0026quot;scraping\u0026quot; user information\u003cp\u003eThat sounds like the least accurate way to describe API access.","parent":"17829341","id":"17829429"}
{"by":"perl4ever","time":"1530314635","timestamp":"2018-06-29 23:23:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure the cost of payloads is independent of launch costs.","parent":"17427332","id":"17428617"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1321869472","timestamp":"2011-11-21 09:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eI really doubt the government is regularly spying on your printing.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor some values of \"the government\" not including many governments; see $OPPRESSIVE_REGIME.\u003cp\u003eThere's a lot of stuff \"the government\" does now that would have been unthinkable before various terrorist bombing attempts.  Really, forcing everyone to remove their shoes before boarding a plane?\u003cp\u003eAnd, if you doubt that the US[1] spies on its own citizens you should have a look at the Echelon programme, where a legal loophole was used by the US to gather intelligence on its citizens.  (The US gov can't do it legally, so they pass a name onto another gov involved in Echelon.)\u003cp\u003e[1] US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.","parent":"3260570","id":"3260580"}
{"by":"cubano","time":"1458076226","timestamp":"2016-03-15 21:10:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am sorry to hear about your Dad, and its very ironic in a way...both of my grown sons are super careful about substances so I think I get what you are saying.\u003cp\u003eI often think the only silver lining to the wreck-that-is-my-life is that I left such an ugly imprint on them both that neither of them really touch anything \u0026quot;evil\u0026quot;, and I am incredibly proud of both of them, as I am sure your Dad was of you.\u003cp\u003eYeah whew...thank you very much for your kind words BTW.  To tell the truth the hard part isn\u0026#x27;t staying totally sober these days, the hard part is trying to find a place in society for a 50yo man who has none of the obvious material trappings of a successful life and a whole shitstorm of dirty laundry that is only a Google search away.","parent":"11287959","id":"11293023"}
{"by":"jot","time":"1317389351","timestamp":"2011-09-30 13:29:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We use Chargify with Payment Express hooked up to Barclaycard and American Express merchant services. It works great.\u003cp\u003eWe lost $750 of sales (50%) in our first month because we didn't think Amex was important. It turns out that Amex is the card of choice for US businesses.","parent":"3056714","id":"3056876"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1513012031","timestamp":"2017-12-11 17:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’m sure some people could get away with it for some amount of time, but each person in each circle is incentivized to keep an eye out for these personal schemes.","parent":"15897363","id":"15898364"}
{"by":"eagletusk","time":"1495736366","timestamp":"2017-05-25 18:19:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Alan suffered a pretty major injury to his leg a few months ago, it\u0026#x27;s unclear if he will be able to climb mountains again, but we all are pretty sure he will find a way.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.alanarnette.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;broken-leg-update-three-months-out\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.alanarnette.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;broken-leg-update...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14418208","id":"14419054"}
{"by":"robotmay","time":"1362269747","timestamp":"2013-03-03 00:15:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK the use of high-fructose corn syrup is illegal in the EU and a number of other regions (thankfully), hence why Coke is made with actual sugar in most areas outside the US.","parent":"5311412","id":"5311811"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1399749538","timestamp":"2014-05-10 19:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How much will this be able to work with old ASP code?\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve got boat-loads of it, and while we\u0026#x27;re slowly retiring it, we can\u0026#x27;t even diagnose trouble-spots because most monitoring tools (like New Relic) don\u0026#x27;t instrument it.","parent":"7725147","id":"7726569"}
{"by":"jessriedel","time":"1461014236","timestamp":"2016-04-18 21:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$20 per month!?!","parent":"11522869","id":"11523223"}
{"by":"agoandanon","time":"1379524994","timestamp":"2013-09-18 17:23:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s better than an amateur sex-change...","parent":"6406373","id":"6406532"}
{"by":"mrlala","time":"1534368428","timestamp":"2018-08-15 21:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but...what are you learning?\u003cp\u003eYou are learning that there is a very simple and elegant way to create something like a realistic weather pattern.  Just like the example, if you told most people to simulate the weather with 50% R or S, nearly all would create a loop which prints out S or R with 50% probability becuase they don\u0026#x27;t know any better.\u003cp\u003eThis extremely simple visual example opens your mind to how easy it can be to create some way more realistic and powerful.\u003cp\u003eMost basic coders who didn\u0026#x27;t know what a markov chain is could easily setup a simulation after seeing this.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;You are replacing the active intellectual process in the head of the student by some trivial animations with scrolling texts\u003cp\u003eThat is absurd.  I guess you don\u0026#x27;t like people learning, do you?","parent":"17768454","dead":true,"id":"17769918"}
{"by":"clarkmoody","time":"1452111128","timestamp":"2016-01-06 20:12:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In some fields, there is extreme pressure to be \u0026quot;first to publish\u0026quot; specific results, and sometimes multiple labs are working on the exact same problem. In this case, if the \u0026quot;peer\u0026quot; is with a competing lab, they are faced with the unethical decision of rejecting the paper in favor of their lab. Or even worse, of stealing the results and trying to publish first.","parent":"10848602","id":"10853363"}
{"by":"Irishsteve","time":"1336350496","timestamp":"2012-05-07 00:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author gives the game away at the end of his post. That is he's been predicting the demise of Zynga for years. So really the fact that the stock price has dropped gives the author some belief that they were correct.\u003cp\u003eId imagine the drop in price is linked to the FB IPO. Not sure if anyone remembered when FB announced their plans, anything in that space increased.","parent":"3936662","id":"3936980"}
{"by":"johnnybgoode","time":"1256704908","timestamp":"2009-10-28 04:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by the reaction to this, but I was. Honestly, I'm disappointed by it.","parent":"906643","id":"907185"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1267898901","timestamp":"2010-03-06 18:08:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm confused why downvoting for comments matters. Or upvoting. It doesn't bury comments. It doesn't really change the conversation that happened. It doesn't really do much but give a bigger useless number to people you agree with and a smaller useless number to people you disagree with.\u003cp\u003eNews.ycomb could get rid of all comment moderation and it would probably be at least as good. Maybe better. Suddenly what \"Karma\" means would become clear. It isn't some mixture of popularity poll and story contributor, it's just a measure of how popular the stories you've contributed would be.\u003cp\u003eMy karma is over 2000, and it's almost all from comments. Maybe 100 of this karma is from stories. I consider it to be very artificial and meaningless, because most comment voting is basically \"I AGREE!\" or \"I DISAGREE!\". I wish I had karma from contributing stories that people wanted to share.","parent":"1171586","id":"1171866"}
{"by":"flipbrad","time":"1290778784","timestamp":"2010-11-26 13:39:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TorrentFreak is well written and well research; its story selection is different to other more mainstream news sites. Much like al jazeera, this makes it an extremely useful and valuable news site. I do wish for a more mainstream name though! It always seems slightly embarrassing referring people to an authoritative piece on 'TorrentFreak.com'","parent":"1942269","id":"1942354"}
{"by":"rjbwork","time":"1375246185","timestamp":"2013-07-31 04:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I talked to several programmers, and they mostly said that a prestigious degree only helps out with the first few jobs\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAny degree helps out with the first few jobs.  A prestigious degree is for life man.  Would that I lived in a state with a top-tier CS school in a good location.  I\u0026#x27;m doing fine, don\u0026#x27;t get me wrong, but a Stanford or MIT or Carnegie Melon degree is worth so much more.","parent":"6131968","id":"6131980"}
{"by":"Clubber","time":"1526669907","timestamp":"2018-05-18 18:58:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would never work for one of those large companies. You really only need one household company on your resume during your career, then you can ignore them.","parent":"17103491","id":"17104011"}
{"by":"FussyZeus","time":"1482414744","timestamp":"2016-12-22 13:52:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh alright, I misunderstood on a few points. Thanks for clarifying and tell her good luck from a rando person on the Internet.","parent":"13237214","id":"13237221"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1505414799","timestamp":"2017-09-14 18:46:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree completely with everything in this article. But in addition, I think std::variant also misses the point of sum types in a big way.\u003cp\u003eSum types don\u0026#x27;t just store values of different types. They store different states, with associated data. So, for instance, consider the following simplistic expression AST; how would you store it in a std::variant?\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    enum Expr {\n        Number(usize),\n        Negate(Expr),\n        Add(Expr, Expr),\n        Sub(Expr, Expr),\n        Let(String, Expr, Expr),\n        Var(String),\n    }\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"15249994","id":"15251170"}
{"by":"bvttf","time":"1395452790","timestamp":"2014-03-22 01:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disagree on your first point, the top comment is often obviously spawning a huge argument that goes nowhere because it touched some hot-button political issue that was a minor part of the story.","parent":"7446448","id":"7446673"}
{"by":"cptskippy","time":"1526947005","timestamp":"2018-05-21 23:56:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a Cassiopeia with WindowsCE in the late 90s and a program called Calligrapher that did this.  I was impressed because I have horrible handwriting and it was able to consistently recognize it.\u003cp\u003eSo it\u0026#x27;s always strange to hear that no one offers handwriting recognition on these devices.","parent":"17122727","id":"17122807"}
{"by":"inthewoods","time":"1415714154","timestamp":"2014-11-11 13:55:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s the lock-in? Are you saving the data?","parent":"8588081","id":"8589750"}
{"by":"c00p3r","time":"1283507474","timestamp":"2010-09-03 09:51:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eOne scotch, one bourbon, one beer\u003c/i\u003e - that is a hack!","parent":"1658635","id":"1659043"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1274901137","timestamp":"2010-05-26 19:12:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You see, I have anecdotal evidence that this \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e the case (which is why I agrue we need to start real studies into the affects of pot before any decision can be made).\u003cp\u003eI have a couple of extremely bright friends (one of them was possibly the smartest guy I've met) who became pot abusers for all manner of reasons. One wanted (and had the skills) to be a stock broker. He spent the first summer of university trading and made a really strong start. But from the second year onwards his pot habit inhibited his learning/development and he now does door-to-door collections for a charity on minimum wage. He was probably my second closest friend at university so I am absolutely sure that cannabis was the cause of his decline.","parent":"1381289","id":"1381300"}
{"by":"manarth","time":"1484694749","timestamp":"2017-01-17 23:12:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  You don\u0026#x27;t have to speculate, you can just read the wikipedia page.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWhich page are you referring to? Could you please provide a link?\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  a reporter for the Washington Post was able to reconstruct the\n  incident and write a book about it without seeing the video.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIs that not worrying though: a journalist writing an article, whilst ignoring a reputable source? If there is a verifiable video, shouldn\u0026#x27;t the journalist view the video (and decide whether it\u0026#x27;s verifiable or not), and include that in the article? To deliberately ignore a significant piece of evidence is a significant editorial decision.","parent":"13422263","id":"13422412"}
{"by":"KozmoNau7","time":"1527399562","timestamp":"2018-05-27 05:39:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anything can be scripted.","parent":"17164147","id":"17165599"}
{"by":"exfacebook","time":"1483517761","timestamp":"2017-01-04 08:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook --- far and away the best engineering culture I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen, and I\u0026#x27;ve been programming for 20 years. Other companies aren\u0026#x27;t even in the same league.\u003cp\u003eFacebook has an incredibly high hiring bar. I never once met someone who I didn\u0026#x27;t feel was qualified to be there. I was seldom the smartest person in the room.\u003cp\u003eThe high average engineer quality allows the company to give developers almost complete autonomy. At Facebook, you not only get to choose your team, but once you\u0026#x27;re on that team, \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e, not some PM or manager, decide what to work on. You\u0026#x27;re evaluated on impact twice a year, and Facebook has an expansive and nuanced understanding of \u0026quot;impact\u0026quot; that rewards things like developer productivity improvements, side projects, and removal of bad code.\u003cp\u003eFacebook encourages cross-team collaboration in a way that Google only dreams of doing. There\u0026#x27;s a single codebase unified under \u0026quot;fbsource\u0026quot;, of course, but also a lack of OWNERS files. That means that it\u0026#x27;s your job as an engineer to decide what code to add, not some team of blessed approvers. There\u0026#x27;s no readability process. Teams are trained to \u003ci\u003eexpect\u003c/i\u003e people from all over the company to contribute code. It\u0026#x27;s a dream job if you want to wear lots of different hats, or if you have a maniacal obsession with following a problem to its root cause and fixing it.\u003cp\u003eOne engineer famously traced a sporadic failure to a single bad register on a single core on a single server. He was recognized for it too: Facebook has a \u0026quot;fix of the week\u0026quot; program that highlights heroic fixes and clever hacks.\u003cp\u003eFacebook management \u0026quot;gets it\u0026quot; in a way I haven\u0026#x27;t seen anywhere else.  Developer productivity is paramount.  When something goes wrong, management doesn\u0026#x27;t overreact. The general ethos is to apply tooling to make developers better, not to add process to make developers slower.\u003cp\u003eBest of all, Facebook is \u003ci\u003efun\u003c/i\u003e. The code review tool, Phabricator, has built-in meme support! The internal Facebook groups are full of interesting discussion and trolling (of the good sort). The people there all feel like, well, characters. They\u0026#x27;re memorable in a way I haven\u0026#x27;t seen at other technology companies.\u003cp\u003eBest of all, at Facebook, there\u0026#x27;s none of the insufferable technical grandstanding you see at other companies. It\u0026#x27;s hard to describe --- at other companies, people with just enough competence to be annoying regularly create elaborate word-salad design documents that would fit right in at \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;iamverysmart. At Facebook? People say what needs to be said.\u003cp\u003eThe most striking thing about Facebook is how it does more with fewer developers.  At Facebook, you feel incredibly productive.  There\u0026#x27;s always enough to do.  Teams are much smaller than equivalent teams at other companies, but somehow move faster.  Management trusts you --- I never once heard \u0026quot;you can\u0026#x27;t check that in: the technical risk is too great\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eOh, and the pay is fantastic, especially if you demonstrate extraordinary impact.\u003cp\u003eIs Facebook perfect? Of course not. After all, I\u0026#x27;m not there anymore. Some people ragequit. The company is growing more corporate over time, little by little.  Traffic in MPK is nasty. Traffic in SEA is worse. The tooling has some room for improvement --- but you\u0026#x27;re welcome to send patches!  The playfulness isn\u0026#x27;t for everyone.  The open allocation policy sometimes leads to duplication of work, forcing people to discard their hard work.  There are few hard rules, and sometimes you don\u0026#x27;t know where you stand in the power structure.\u003cp\u003eAll that said, I\u0026#x27;d go back to Facebook in a millisecond if circumstances lined up.  Despite Facebook\u0026#x27;s flaws and its inevitable slow decline, it\u0026#x27;s still the best fucking engineering culture on earth right now.","parent":"13316234","id":"13316569"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1377451310","timestamp":"2013-08-25 17:21:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting.  That\u0026#x27;s a good question... I suppose we can wait and see?  Though Amazon\u0026#x27;s success may not be a real sign that app-store-apps are exempt, given their size.","parent":"6272653","id":"6272747"}
{"by":"hackermailman","time":"1491831090","timestamp":"2017-04-10 13:31:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anything by Kernighan\u0026#x2F;Pike\u0026#x2F;Ritchie such as The C Programming Language, The Unix Programming Environment and gopl.io book are all concise and well written books with just exactly the right amount of material it seems. Paolo Aluffi\u0026#x27;s Algebra Chapter 0 is a good math text as a math example for something that is more than just dumping propositions\u0026#x2F;theorems and proofs.\u003cp\u003eI liked this draft book as an algorithms book example \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.parallel-algorithms-book.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.parallel-algorithms-book.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMIT\u0026#x27;s course notes are good as brief material that compliments the lectures \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ocw.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;courses\u0026#x2F;electrical-engineering-and-computer-science\u0026#x2F;6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-fall-2010\u0026#x2F;readings\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ocw.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;courses\u0026#x2F;electrical-engineering-and-compu...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnuth also labels the difficulties of each problem set in his books like Concrete Math, something I wish more authors did. Concrete Math is also a good example of a well written and engaging math book accessible to a motivated highschool student.","parent":"14078172","id":"14078326"}
{"by":"twakefield","time":"1436393761","timestamp":"2015-07-08 22:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LOL, I had the same initial reaction. Apparently Norse monitors global cyber attacks[1]. So the real question is not why they hate St. Louis but why does China hate St. Louis?\u003cp\u003eI found the link while reading conspiracy theories about the NYSE shut down this morning[2]. I have no idea about the quality of the data. I just thought the visualization was cool.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;norsecorp.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;norsecorp.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e. \n[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zerohedge.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2015-07-08\u0026#x2F;what-first-world-cyber-war-looks-global-real-time-cyber-attack-map\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zerohedge.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2015-07-08\u0026#x2F;what-first-world-cy...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9854826","id":"9854963"}
{"by":"jai_","time":"1543836180","timestamp":"2018-12-03 11:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the case of taxis, the additional taxation of fuel for example would affect the taxi owner more directly than the customer.\u003cp\u003eApplying the additional charge on-top of the original taxi fare itself, affects the customer more and directly influences the market dynamics better than a tax, which does it indirectly.","parent":"18587199","id":"18587935"}
{"by":"OliverJAsh","time":"1399590693","timestamp":"2014-05-08 23:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to clear up any confusion: this is not the same as the Guardian’s “Scribe” project (\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/guardian/scribe\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;guardian\u0026#x2F;scribe\u003c/a\u003e). I believe Quill did used to be called Scribe, but they are not the same. (Similar in purpose - take your pick.)","parent":"7716376","id":"7718299"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1464599716","timestamp":"2016-05-30 09:15:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It cannot assume that, specially in binary libraries.\u003cp\u003eYou separate overloads need to be provided and the compiler cannot know if the behavior is the same.\u003cp\u003eI always use the same approach as in pure OOP languages and FP ones, assume everything is a method call.","parent":"11800272","id":"11800398"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1424127928","timestamp":"2015-02-16 23:05:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still it\u0026#x27;s kind of absurd that we are humans, and not, say, mosquitos, for the a-priori probability of finding yourself in the body of a mosquito is quite a bit higher.","parent":"9059533","id":"9059643"}
{"by":"celticninja","time":"1479558610","timestamp":"2016-11-19 12:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why bother, err on the side of caution with pedestrians. The driver is already benefiting from auto pilot, a minor delay due to safety of other road users would be acceptable to most.","parent":"12993156","id":"12993196"}
{"by":"dahdum","time":"1521767893","timestamp":"2018-03-23 01:18:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I said so above, but I’m sure the Republicans are no less corrupt than the Democrats are. I think it’s a mistake to think either party is more moral or less corrupt than the other, they adapt to each other.","parent":"16654242","id":"16654272"}
{"by":"quaffapint","time":"1450936391","timestamp":"2015-12-24 05:53:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I scraped from about 6 different sites - went through millions of combinations and only did so-so. I think it\u0026#x27;s simple - the people that win play A LOT of rosters to cover their bases. That seems to be what the person in the story is doing and what I\u0026#x27;ve read other big players are doing.","parent":"10786640","id":"10787285"}
{"by":"voxic11","time":"1433992349","timestamp":"2015-06-11 03:12:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because you need a court order to get that information in many countries. These devices allow police to bypass the courts oversight.","parent":"9693502","id":"9697229"}
{"by":"cullenking","time":"1250121048","timestamp":"2009-08-12 23:50:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Co-founder of a route mapping and performance analysis site, \u003ca href=\"http://ridewithgps.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ridewithgps.com/\u003c/a\u003e aimed at cyclists.  Currently at 1100 users, 4000 user submitted routes and 1300 uploaded trips.  Looking to upset the market leaders in a very lucrative industry that is void of innovation.\u003cp\u003eThere are three of us, Zack and I are code/business/advertising and Cameron is graphic design.  Works really well so far!  We have a complete redesign launching this weekend, with an aggressive feature map after our re-launch.","parent":"755291","id":"759607"}
{"by":"proyb","time":"1431148963","timestamp":"2015-05-09 05:22:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there an alterative for web stack and template engine, I choose Meteor+React, it\u0026#x27;s no brainer for small to medium scale project. In active development to scale large sized project well in the near future.","parent":"9514903","id":"9515619"}
{"by":"jsight","time":"1458837816","timestamp":"2016-03-24 16:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have actually had printing fail more frequently on Windows than on Linux. Printers are quirky.","parent":"11353740","id":"11354299"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1263337685","timestamp":"2010-01-12 23:08:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, the Scunthorpe problem: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1048648","id":"1048810"}
{"by":"tlb","time":"1252685961","timestamp":"2009-09-11 16:19:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf hair is a non-conductor, then it cannot be a semiconductor\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalse. For example, pure silicon is non-conductive, but when you add slight boron or phosphorous impurities it becomes a semiconductor. So it's not impossible that hair has semiconducting properties when it absorbs salt water.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the claim of human hair solar is crap. But debunkers should be extra-careful not to make bogus claims of their own.","parent":"817099","id":"817603"}
{"by":"mcms","time":"1422645039","timestamp":"2015-01-30 19:10:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where can I find more about clustering in Rethinkdb? e.g. What is durability and replication models?\u003cp\u003eI could not find enough info in the documents and the github issues are not clear about the status and the roadmap :(","parent":"8973283","id":"8973760"}
{"by":"e12e","time":"1386811569","timestamp":"2013-12-12 01:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe ops point was that \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e stable api would be preferable to: \u0026quot;Yeah, there\u0026#x27;s an api, but we refuse to document it, and we\u0026#x27;ll randomly depricate stuff if you try to use it to build something that isn\u0026#x27;t gmail\u0026quot;. The team behind gmail is probably one of the best qualified to hammer out a working api for email of json (what we have + a bit of what we want + stability and versioning). No reason why they couldn\u0026#x27;t publish that as an RFC and let people implement a front end for dbmail or whatnot that spoke the same api.","parent":"6890974","id":"6892224"}
{"by":"antientropic","time":"1429705203","timestamp":"2015-04-22 12:20:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would be interested to know why you call purely functional package management \u0026quot;idiotic\u0026quot;, given that one of its main goals is to solve the problem of version hell? I.e., to make it easy for a developer to specify that application X should use version V of library Y, without interfering with other applications on your system?","parent":"9419713","id":"9419836"}
{"by":"lepht","time":"1307331893","timestamp":"2011-06-06 03:44:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bah, they can have the verb. It's the noun, 'hacker', that doesn't have a satisfactory equivalent, IMO.","parent":"2623605","id":"2623613"}
{"by":"wtallis","time":"1396303422","timestamp":"2014-03-31 22:03:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest wart on the ARM instruction set was the predicate attached to basically every instruction. That\u0026#x27;s gone in the 64-bit ARM ISA, so there\u0026#x27;s no need for a 64-bit Thumb (and there isn\u0026#x27;t one).","parent":"7503043","id":"7504523"}
{"by":"jacobolus","time":"1494877063","timestamp":"2017-05-15 19:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found the iPad stylus to have significantly lower latency than both types of MS Surface stylus tech.","parent":"14342193","id":"14344452"}
{"by":"david927","time":"1333116545","timestamp":"2012-03-30 14:09:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You couldn't be more right, and I think the key here is:\n\u003ci\u003eHow each fact connects with other facts\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf there were no operations, math would just be numbers on their own -- and what fun is that?\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that the relations turn it into the Semantic Web, and after trying and failing to crack that nut for so long, everyone is turned off of it.  Which is too bad, because what was failing was the approach.  Trying several shipping routes to the New World and failing each time doesn't mean that the New World doesn't exist.","parent":"3775544","id":"3775973"}
{"by":"nlawalker","time":"1500480301","timestamp":"2017-07-19 16:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt; QR codes, it turns out, were just ahead of their time.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo they weren\u0026#x27;t, they were given a bad reputation because their use in ad campaigns, where they were exclusively deployed as a tool to con people into actively viewing more ads, dwarfed other uses in both number and visibility to the average person. Google did exactly the same thing to the reputation of its own product (Glass) in a similar way - by trying to convince people that it was going to be something that everyone was going to wear all the time.\u003cp\u003eIt makes sense that they\u0026#x27;re becoming more popular now that they\u0026#x27;re not being used in ads so much anymore, and instead being used for games and other features that actually do things users want to do.","parent":"14804917","id":"14805309"}
{"by":"bugs","time":"1264108265","timestamp":"2010-01-21 21:11:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Spanish would be of much more use to Americans because there are so many Spanish speakers in America especially in states near the border. I live in a southern state and many conversations here interchange Spanish and English words where best fit when speaking to other bilinguals","parent":"1068301","id":"1068326"}
{"by":"ridruejo","time":"1514744601","timestamp":"2017-12-31 18:23:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see serverless as the new Visual Basic (in a good way!). It allows you to glue together disparate cloud APIs and services (the equivalent of OCX controls in VB) and create useful applications. Though we are still in the early days, serverless platforms will continue to get easier to use and lower the barrier of entry to cloud application development for a whole new group of developers. We built our own open source serverless solution on top of Kubernetes, called Kubeless: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kubeless.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kubeless.io\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16041164","id":"16041835"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1446464241","timestamp":"2015-11-02 11:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have accused minimaxir of being \u0026quot;Alex\u0026quot;.  Click on minimaxir\u0026#x27;s username on HN. You\u0026#x27;ll see he\u0026#x27;s been here for more than 1,300 days, and has information about who he is and where he is.  Click his submissions link, and you\u0026#x27;ll see a bunch of his submissions. Not a single one is for any account to livecoding streams. (Although a stream of him creating on of his data posts would be interesting).\u003cp\u003eYou probably need to apologise to minimaxir for that mistake.\u003cp\u003eYou also need to find someone else to handle this thread, because you\u0026#x27;re not doing a good job at it.\u003cp\u003eThings you need to do:\u003cp\u003e1) Read up on your requirements under the various European data protection laws.  You have to only collect the information you need; and keep it for the time you need it; and tell your users what you\u0026#x27;re collecting and why; and make the information you collect available to users when they ask; and make corrections when asked.  There\u0026#x27;s probably a requirement to delete it when asked to too.\u003cp\u003e2) Fix your email.  You must stop spamming people.  Spam is any bulk, unsolicited, email.  Bulk is \u0026quot;more than one\u0026quot;. Unsolicited means i) You don\u0026#x27;t have a confirmed opt-in (and users not unselecting a box does not count in UK) ii) You don\u0026#x27;t include a single-click unsubscribe link in every email\u003cp\u003e3) Get someone who knows PR involved.\n3a) Until then, get someone else to read your comments before posting. You don\u0026#x27;t need to post immediately, and doing so is causing you harm.","parent":"10491056","id":"10491296"}
{"by":"johncolanduoni","time":"1497764721","timestamp":"2017-06-18 05:45:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect the same way shooting down separate but equal hasn\u0026#x27;t led to courts requiring hospitals to not offer obstetric care to women because men can\u0026#x27;t use it. Judges aren\u0026#x27;t overly literal robots.","parent":"14579122","id":"14579163"}
{"by":"twelvechairs","time":"1331895608","timestamp":"2012-03-16 11:00:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your calculation is wrong. Even taking all of your assumptions, 530MWh per * $.10 per kWh is $53000 (not $53), no meagre sum.\u003cp\u003eWould be very nice if you would admit it is not so 'clearly' that I am wrong now.","parent":"3711781","id":"3712766"}
{"by":"bickfordb","time":"1378256433","timestamp":"2013-09-04 01:00:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The desktop browser statistics in the article value Internet Explorer higher than in other articles I have read such as this one: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Usage_share_of_web_browsers\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6324800","id":"6324896"}
{"by":"andrewflnr","time":"1331522982","timestamp":"2012-03-12 03:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So your ideal legal system does not recognize ownership of information, just whether it is \"public\" or \"private\", and has legal protection for private information? I'm just curious how the no-IP theory goes. One thing that concerned me was protection for works in progress, where people need to send, say, manuscripts for a novel back and forth, or tracks for a CD.","parent":"3692127","id":"3692233"}
{"by":"ikeboy","time":"1431960352","timestamp":"2015-05-18 14:45:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bullshit. The bulk connection was not found unconstitutional, it was found illegal because the Patriot act didn\u0026#x27;t authorise it.","parent":"9564641","id":"9564721"}
{"by":"DonutATX","time":"1501621223","timestamp":"2017-08-01 21:00:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh man, these were cash cows.  $24.99 for the one my company did, it came on three floppy disks.  But, if you had our games installed, it would use their art resources for more screensavers!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.old-games.com\u0026#x2F;download\u0026#x2F;5742\u0026#x2F;origin-fx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.old-games.com\u0026#x2F;download\u0026#x2F;5742\u0026#x2F;origin-fx\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14900647","id":"14905255"}
{"by":"JdeBP","time":"1481267615","timestamp":"2016-12-09 07:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the systemd developers has pointed out that the feature being touted is currently broken on several architectures:\u003cp\u003e* \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lists.freedesktop.org\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;systemd-devel\u0026#x2F;2016-December\u0026#x2F;037987.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lists.freedesktop.org\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;systemd-devel\u0026#x2F;2016-De...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13128568","id":"13137245"}
{"by":"throwanem","time":"1544637085","timestamp":"2018-12-12 17:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They already monetize joy. Is monetizing grief worse? Why? What about monetizing neither? What\u0026#x27;s the signal to pivot the relevance model significantly away from a world full of robots constantly self-optimizing to exploit emotions they cannot understand or share?\u003cp\u003e(Or if we can\u0026#x27;t manage that, maybe at least we could somewhat curtail the misbehavior of the ML systems they foist on the rest of us.)","parent":"18665717","id":"18666009"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1524702662","timestamp":"2018-04-26 00:31:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At home at my Desktop I type in an IBM model M. I used to have a Corsair k70 which I played FPSes and Warframe. I have a Apple Bluetooth keyboard that is a chicklet. I also have a Chicklet keyboard on a Toshiba satellite . I also used the chicklet keyboards on a MacBook Pro 2011 and a MacBook Air 2012.\u003cp\u003eOn my k70 I had red Cherry MX switches . When I was in kindergarten I used Apple II keyboards.\u003cp\u003eFor mobile devices I used an Motorola droid and a Treo. Also a blackberry .\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Sorry forgot to mention I touch type (I am touch typing on a IBM model M right now).","parent":"16927709","id":"16927788"}
{"by":"forensic","time":"1293860307","timestamp":"2011-01-01 05:38:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Rejection Therapy\" is the inaccurate, possibly dangerous meme version of a real therapy  - in vivo desensitization.\u003cp\u003eConquering fear is done by facing your fears not by intentionally going out with the expectation that things will go bad. Pessimism is just another defence mechanism from the true vulnerability of ambiguity.\u003cp\u003eThis meme is just psychologically wrong in so many ways.\u003cp\u003e- Seeking rejection creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where you will be more likely to be rejected.\u003cp\u003e- When you are rejected in this way, instead of processing it maturely, you're going to say \"Oh it was part of my rejection therapy. I didn't really even want or expect to be accepted. Add one point to the scoreboard!.\" This is an attempt to dodge the reality of what happened - rejection is a negative thing. It's not the end of the world, but it also is probably not cause for celebration. You aren't fooling anyone (including yourself) by telling yourself it is positive. Anytime you are rejected from something you care about you are going to have sad feelings at the least. The way to handle these is to face them, own them, feel them, realize they will go away, and try again another day. But inflicting this on yourself on purpose is masochism and unhealthy.\u003cp\u003e- For most people, experiencing a lot of rejection will not make them less fearful of rejection, it will make them more fearful. They will come to expect rejection more and then avoid behaviours that they believe will lead to it.\u003cp\u003e- The effective, scientifically proven way to face your fears is to do it piece by piece, in small bites, and to recognize that if you are not allowing yourself to be truly emotionally vulnerable, you are not really facing your fear of rejection. The fear of rejection is about asking for something you want and then feeling the uncomfortable vulnerable feelings of ambiguity. It's about making yourself emotionally vulnerable - you genuinely want something and will be happy to receive it and sad to be denied it. This is true vulnerability. You cannot avoid the pain of rejection, you can only learn to process it when it happens, and to have the courage to risk that pain because you know it's all for a greater good. But inflicting this pain on yourself needlessly is masochistic and will likely lead to more phobias and anxiety, not less.\u003cp\u003eThose who are having trouble with fear - look up systematic desensitization and in vivo desensitization. Also, remember that true courage means allowing yourself to be vulnerable. And vulnerability means allowing for the instance where you feel bad. A coward is someone who finds ways to avoid any chance of feeling bad. A courageous person is one who is willing to risk losing something he desires because he knows that it is a smart risk.","parent":"2056341","id":"2057287"}
{"by":"willglynn","time":"1522102999","timestamp":"2018-03-26 22:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the indictment:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    19. HENRY and SCHOOLEY lacked the technical expertise to properly design a\n        complex amusement ride such as Verrückt. Neither of the two men possessed any\n        kind of technical or engineering credential relevant to amusement ride design or\n        safety. As SCHOOLEY admitted, \u0026quot;If we actually knew how to do this, and it could\n        be done that easily, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be that spectacular.\u0026quot;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nFull text:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kansascity.com\u0026#x2F;latest-news\u0026#x2F;article206611679.ece\u0026#x2F;BINARY\u0026#x2F;Read%20the%20full%20Schlitterbahn%20corporation%20indictment\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kansascity.com\u0026#x2F;latest-news\u0026#x2F;article206611679.ece\u0026#x2F;B...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16682841","id":"16683186"}
{"by":"jjsz","time":"1394812202","timestamp":"2014-03-14 15:50:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If most people don\u0026#x27;t know about this then it should be in Arch Linux\u0026#x27;s Unofficial Beginner\u0026#x27;s Guide.","parent":"7398929","id":"7399606"}
{"by":"ConceptDog","time":"1239820689","timestamp":"2009-04-15 18:38:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ditto. I asked for movies like wargames, military, strategic, nuclear, and it was way off. It gave me movies like Meteor. I was expecting things like By The Dawns Early Light, Threads maybe, things like that.\u003cp\u003eSorry, complete miss.","parent":"563034","id":"563926"}
{"by":"sixdimensional","time":"1501184258","timestamp":"2017-07-27 19:37:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, fundamental question here - if scientific articles (or anything that can be copy protected, etc.) can be released online in this manner to \u0026quot;free the knowledge\u0026quot;, and yet, given such free access, there are still people that will pay for a subscription to access the same scientific articles, wouldn\u0026#x27;t that be the best solution?\u003cp\u003eI see people commenting that just because of this release, universities won\u0026#x27;t cancel their subscriptions to the journals.  Well, that would be great - let them keep paying, while the content also gets out for free.\u003cp\u003eThis is like the trend where you can pay what you want for stuff, or nothing.  I wonder if that model would apply to scientific research - pay what you want for the paper, or nothing - but if you want to support that research.. hopefully people would still pay.\u003cp\u003eJust thinking out loud... probably already been thought of or wouldn\u0026#x27;t work (or I\u0026#x27;m just self-defeatist). :)","parent":"14868033","id":"14868660"}
{"by":"craze3","time":"1367231237","timestamp":"2013-04-29 10:27:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is perhaps one of the most awesome publicity stunts I've ever seen. \nI wonder if this type of tactic is going to catch on. Can you imagine if each copy of Wired shipped with 30 days of free wi-fi? Their subscriber count would shoot through the roof!","parent":"5625044","id":"5625184"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1421533743","timestamp":"2015-01-17 22:29:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you consider the major media networks (NBCUniversal, CBS, News Corp) to be in one business - selling ads - or do you consider them to be in many (selling ads on TV, selling ads on websites, selling ads on Internet Video, selling ads on Hulu, selling ads in magazines)?","parent":"8905018","id":"8905771"}
{"by":"grahamburger","time":"1522952669","timestamp":"2018-04-05 18:24:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My son started with Scratch (stratch.mit.edu) and had tons of fun with that. He\u0026#x27;s kind of moving on to Python now. I had him play a little bit of Zork to show him that games could be fun with just text and then made him a very very simple text game engine in Python. It\u0026#x27;s been loads of fun to see the stuff he comes up with. (You start on a deserted island in the pacific ocean. You go east and find a boat and you\u0026#x27;re in New York!)","parent":"16766273","id":"16767555"}
{"by":"bbarn","time":"1545164904","timestamp":"2018-12-18 20:28:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work from home full time, and get typically 1-2 a day.  I have a sign that says \u0026quot;Please ring bell for deliveries, home all day!\u0026quot; on my front porch and it\u0026#x27;s never rung. Packages just tossed on the porch.  Amazon I get a notification on Alexa sometimes before the UPS guy is back to his truck though, so that helps.\u003cp\u003eContrast to that - before I moved to this house, my old UPS guy used to honk and wave if he saw me walking down the street, knew me by name and would knock every time.","parent":"18709142","id":"18710235"}
{"by":"dzhiurgis","time":"1516782979","timestamp":"2018-01-24 08:36:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does it require perfect knowledge of the object?","parent":"16220376","id":"16221257"}
{"by":"ilamont","time":"1382388390","timestamp":"2013-10-21 20:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s another idea: Remove questionable Wikipedia entries from the first page of search results. Could this be done algorithmically, or through the use of noindex attached to some trigger on Wikipedia\u0026#x27;s end?","parent":"6588025","id":"6588101"}
{"by":"bosch","time":"1390079500","timestamp":"2014-01-18 21:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is the most ridiculous thread I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen from a company. Not only did the employee take a shot at people (self hosting solutions is wrong) he also epically, never delivered what the people were asking for even after FIVE YEARS!!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m really wondering why he even continued to reply to the thread.","parent":"7081174","id":"7082251"}
{"by":"27182818284","time":"1473791876","timestamp":"2016-09-13 18:37:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I try to use \u0026quot;summary\u0026quot; when I can as well.\u003cp\u003eI think few people know the full history of tl;dr. When it first started appearing, it wasn\u0026#x27;t used by the author, but in response to the author (like you wrote something way too long winded I\u0026#x27;m not reading that)","parent":"12490472","id":"12491059"}
{"by":"jshap70","time":"1429816979","timestamp":"2015-04-23 19:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just got to Balln.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;We Are Balln.\nBalln is a professional ball service that makes it easy to turn your balls into cash.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tiffzhang.com\u0026#x2F;startup\u0026#x2F;index.html?s=245220439925\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tiffzhang.com\u0026#x2F;startup\u0026#x2F;index.html?s=245220439925\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9427856","id":"9429184"}
{"by":"nicpottier","time":"1322470582","timestamp":"2011-11-28 08:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting.. I've never used \"Go to line\" in that way, probably because my text editor never has line numbers showing.  For me it is always to jump to the point of an exception or somesuch.. maybe I'll try it for a while.\u003cp\u003ePS. I use Emacs for virtually everything so C-N, C-P and M-N, M-P get used for that kind of navigation.","parent":"3285147","id":"3285165"}
{"by":"michaelt","time":"1404325555","timestamp":"2014-07-02 18:25:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The intellectual challenge is a baited hook for headhunting people who aren\u0026#x27;t looking for work, so aren\u0026#x27;t actively applying for jobs or answering cold calls.","parent":"7978407","id":"7978673"}
{"by":"mcphage","time":"1480908102","timestamp":"2016-12-05 03:21:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I wonder how long until this whole system gets replaced by tablets that always automatically show the latest revision, without requiring the use of esoteric paper colors.\u003cp\u003eDo they also not run out of batteries when you\u0026#x27;re filming in the middle of a desert at night?","parent":"13102256","id":"13103173"}
{"by":"55acdda48ab5","time":"1462198417","timestamp":"2016-05-02 14:13:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You actually can\u0026#x27;t. Lefty types show up in pretty much all the otherwise good topical sub-reddits and signal and get their upvotes. There will be some utterly irrelevant aside with Trump bashing, or whatever, on thread about single cylinder engines. There are some guys upthread here arguably doing it, for example.\u003cp\u003eAsk the lefty signaler to shut up and stay on topic and you get downvoted or even deleted.\u003cp\u003eReddit is dominated by entry-ist lefties to the point it\u0026#x27;s too annoying to read.","parent":"11611178","id":"11611508"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1448221202","timestamp":"2015-11-22 19:40:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What kind of features beyond those that a normal dimmer provides do you add when you have a wifi\u0026#x2F;bluetooth enabled dimmer? Does that translate into \u0026#x27;you can control the light from your phone\u0026#x27;? Or are there other things that I haven\u0026#x27;t thought of that a light can do other than being on\u0026#x2F;off or somewhere in between?","parent":"10611127","id":"10611152"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1478536784","timestamp":"2016-11-07 16:39:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are fewer out-and-out fake scotch whiskey products; I can\u0026#x27;t, for instance, think of the Scottish equivalent of Templeton Rye.\u003cp\u003eBut that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean price and quality are aligned. There are good deals in scotch, and there are bad deals. There are mediocre scotches that command huge prices for their brand. There\u0026#x27;s a sharp trend towards no-age-statement scotches clearing the way for more like that.\u003cp\u003eAlso: part of the reason there are fewer fake whiskeys in Scotland is that they\u0026#x27;re practically all owned by Diageo and Pernod Ricard. Within those corporate families, distilleries are outsourcing a lot of their grain production, malting, \u0026amp;c. The stills themselves are mostly software-controlled. The median scotch is probably better than the median bourbon, but there\u0026#x27;s a case to be made for bourbon having higher highs.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also a trend towards startups lighting up silent distilleries in Scotland, so prepare yourself for craft scotch as well.","parent":"12892019","id":"12892366"}
{"by":"rwg","time":"1315081265","timestamp":"2011-09-03 20:21:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mozilla's Gervase Markham posted a more detailed (and, frankly, more damning) blog entry about the DigiNotar fiasco:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://blog.gerv.net/2011/09/diginotar-compromise/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.gerv.net/2011/09/diginotar-compromise/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2956268","id":"2958039"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1353099772","timestamp":"2012-11-16 21:02:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CBS says it's a collapse. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57406006/spains-collapsing-economy-poses-risks-to-u.s/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57406006/spains-colla...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4795696","id":"4795831"}
{"by":"bbuffone","time":"1249483518","timestamp":"2009-08-05 14:45:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with the startup vs. project vs. other is more interesting and your distinction is an important one but more is needed.\u003cp\u003eIs a buying a corner-store or laundry mat mean you are running a startup?  I think there are several other qualifications needed.\u003cp\u003e1.)\tThere needs to be the intention to hire more than yourself/family as employees.\u003cp\u003e2.)\tThere needs to be the intention to pay a return on investment to investors.\u003cp\u003e3.)\tThe organization needs to be structured as corporation.","parent":"743324","id":"743503"}
{"by":"derekp7","time":"1386797972","timestamp":"2013-12-11 21:39:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found out that this varies quite a bit based on your monitor.  For example, on my newer Thinkpad, the yellow background really stands out.  But on my desktop monitor (a 5 - 6 year old Samsung), it isn\u0026#x27;t noticeable at all, even with tilting the monitor.","parent":"6890862","id":"6890956"}
{"by":"kthejoker","time":"1496023334","timestamp":"2017-05-29 02:02:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shenanigans. The same infrastructure serves basically all home delivery, marketing, service, etc. There\u0026#x27;s not a special new highway or chain store or advertising network for every kitchen gadget.","parent":"14435202","id":"14436996"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1295688041","timestamp":"2011-01-22 09:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless Google starts making tablet hardware by then and does an amazing job of selling it, what the analyst is actually predicting is that by 2015, the combined sales of dozens of Apple competitors will be slightly ahead of Apple's sales.\u003cp\u003eAssuming he's right--so what? It would be at least as accurate to headline the analysts prediction as \"By 2015, Apple will still be the dominant tablet maker by far\".","parent":"2130068","id":"2130214"}
{"by":"jff","time":"1347595085","timestamp":"2012-09-14 03:58:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dennis Ritchie's anti-forward was the best part.","parent":"4519280","id":"4519999"}
{"by":"moron4hire","time":"1394463467","timestamp":"2014-03-10 14:57:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That might hold water if every company I\u0026#x27;ve ever worked for hired much more than just self-diagnosed-with-Aspergers\u0026#x27;, white-guy assholes. I\u0026#x27;ve never seen a group of programmers get along. \u0026quot;So-and-so should be fired\u0026#x2F;shouldn\u0026#x27;t be hired because we just don\u0026#x27;t get along\u0026quot; is not an acceptable excuse. Any other industry and your boss will tell you that you better learn to get along.\u003cp\u003eThis is Kindergarten level issues here. You\u0026#x27;re supposed to know how to tie your own shoes and play nicely with others by the time you\u0026#x27;re 6 years old. Why do we continue to let the tech industry endorse childish behavior in the work environment?\u003cp\u003eEDIT: The one job I hated \u003ci\u003ethe most\u003c/i\u003e was the one where I was hired because I was a \u0026quot;good cultural fit\u0026quot;. Turns out, they thought I was of the \u0026quot;culture\u0026quot; that enjoyed working free overtime. Nerf guns and free soda weren\u0026#x27;t enough to keep me in the office after \u003ci\u003e6pm\u003c/i\u003e, so I started to get squeezed out, \u003ci\u003eculturally\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"7373184","id":"7373250"}
{"by":"shit_parade","time":"1426624721","timestamp":"2015-03-17 20:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that\u0026#x27;s 2.7M people willing to work for and assist an entity that openly tortures and murders without consequence, so yeah seems like they are on the same page to me.","parent":"9221017","dead":true,"id":"9221264"}
{"by":"merrywhether","time":"1441021315","timestamp":"2015-08-31 11:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone about to make this decision from outside of SF and with less knowledge about the market there, I\u0026#x27;m curious to know what you think an SF \u0026quot;market-level\u0026quot; salary would be. Would you mind elaborating?","parent":"10146063","id":"10146341"}
{"by":"peatmoss","time":"1532621036","timestamp":"2018-07-26 16:03:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, they’re all mitigatable, but that technical training is competing with a lot of other considerations within the limited brainwidth of a scientist.\u003cp\u003eFrom the scientist’s perspective, a lot of this can start to feel like yak shaving. The opportunity costs are real.","parent":"17617031","id":"17618498"}
{"by":"irrational","time":"1537138689","timestamp":"2018-09-16 22:58:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if the result is indistinguishable from old examples, does it matter if the approach is different?","parent":"18001709","id":"18001740"}
{"by":"scdoshi","time":"1347056529","timestamp":"2012-09-07 22:22:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article written purely just to generate traffic. The author manufactured an 'investor battle' out of this? What?","parent":"4491268","id":"4491504"}
{"by":"dangrossman","time":"1387346043","timestamp":"2013-12-18 05:54:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s in-store only, on clearance, so good luck finding one, they\u0026#x27;re just clearing out stock. Even if you do, 4.3\u0026quot; is smaller than the screen on new phones -- that\u0026#x27;s hardly what I\u0026#x27;d call a tablet. It has pretty terrible reviews online; bad screen, slow responses, high failure rate. I don\u0026#x27;t think this is particularly interesting for HN either way.","parent":"6926093","id":"6926125"}
{"by":"zinkem","time":"1268801451","timestamp":"2010-03-17 04:50:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he means 'own' in the sense that he openly acknowledges his past and isn't ashamed of it, not that he has control over the information itself.","parent":"1196961","id":"1197814"}
{"by":"themartorana","time":"1465842259","timestamp":"2016-06-13 18:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you believe a person has the right to change it? Some people are born with both male and female genitalia - as many as 1 in 2000. There are also chromosomal differences that show up - not XX or XY. Here are some of the frequencies of this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.isna.org\u0026#x2F;faq\u0026#x2F;frequency\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.isna.org\u0026#x2F;faq\u0026#x2F;frequency\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI agree with you that biologically, the majority of people are born with a well-definite biological sex. But the fact that there is an actual biological set of people that \u003ci\u003earen\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e XX or XY, however, means not even in birth is gender guaranteed to be deterministic.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I think, therefore I am\u0026quot; lends itself to gender identity, for me, anyway. Biology isn\u0026#x27;t 100%, and identity is even less so. Let people be what they want. I don\u0026#x27;t see where non-sex-identifying is really troubling.\u003cp\u003eEdit: thinking about it more, is gender on documents used as one measure against fraud? Or as a way of protecting against potential sexual crimes? We have sexually separated \u003ci\u003ethings\u003c/i\u003e like bathrooms and prisons, and I wouldn\u0026#x27;t advocate for mixed-sex prisons (is there an argument for that I don\u0026#x27;t know?) so sexual identity and gender can\u0026#x27;t go away completely, right?","parent":"11895590","id":"11896032"}
{"by":"mythz","time":"1373567261","timestamp":"2013-07-11 18:27:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft often \u0026quot;competes\u0026quot; by trying to strangle competitors revenue streams even when outside their core business, where they are happy to lose billions on Bing and their online division if it also reduces Googles primary revenue stream: \u003ca href=\"http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/microsofts-online-sinkhole-8-5-billion-lost-in-9-years/52989\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zdnet.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;btl\u0026#x2F;microsofts-online-sinkhole-8-5...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince Google\u0026#x27;s products are essentially \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; to end users, they don\u0026#x27;t criticize them on value, so they build an anti-Google campaign against how Google makes money, i.e. their strategy of targeted advertising.","parent":"6027930","id":"6028072"}
{"by":"seestheday","time":"1413923418","timestamp":"2014-10-21 20:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Look at how many distinguished engineers, or other very high level individual contributors who have actual real power there are compared to Directors and VP\u0026#x27;s who manage large groups of people.\u003cp\u003eThe individual contributor path is exponentially more difficult to climb.  I argue that you both have to win the lottery with the right projects and get in early at a company, and have all of the necessary skills.\u003cp\u003eI believe it is a story that is told to individual contributors by people with real power to keep them motivated.\u003cp\u003eThe only theory that I\u0026#x27;ve heard of where a flat org could be  actually beneficial to individual contributors is the parents theory on open allocation.  Otherwise it\u0026#x27;s just management kicking out the ladder once they\u0026#x27;ve climbed it.","parent":"8482197","id":"8489753"}
{"by":"catnaroek","time":"1453321903","timestamp":"2016-01-20 20:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Not my experience - most functional languages make it much harder than it should be to say \u0026quot;this is exactly an X except that it prints differently\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s because this is the wrong thing to say in the first place - it dilutes the very meaning of “type”. You should factor out the common parts, and only then say X prints this way, Y prints that other way.","parent":"10937190","id":"10941108"}
{"by":"zmmmmm","time":"1292192770","timestamp":"2010-12-12 22:26:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I started out writing about how I thought this was insane and by the end of it I had changed my mind and - suspending disbelief and assuming they can pull this off in a reasonable and performant manner - it's actually a pretty clever idea.\u003cp\u003eNow that Apple, Google and Microsoft have all put the nail in the coffin of applets by not supporting them on their mobile devices Java is looking decidedly shaky as a client side browser technology - especially when you consider that Flash IS shipping to most devices. However Oracle can actually one-up Flash here if they can promise to run inside the browser on any platform.  Not too long ago it would have been impossible, but with things like Canvas, WebWorkers and WebSockets they can probably make a reasonable stab at implementing at least the functions of a standard Applet with Javascript.","parent":"1997988","id":"1998274"}
{"by":"M4v3R","time":"1363121535","timestamp":"2013-03-12 20:52:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a matter of fact I tried IntelliJ. It was nice, but it had it's own set of problems. Two of them:\n- compilation times of bigger Android projects sucks hard. It's just not fast enough. I even feel that using word fast in this sentence is a misuse.\n- one of the selling points of the IDE (from their website) is Jabber integration for team coding. Tried for several hours, didn't get it to work. Even filed a ticked for it, which is still unsolved (the package is unmantained for years).","parent":"5362259","id":"5364793"}
{"by":"pmyjavec","time":"1477287047","timestamp":"2016-10-24 05:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think we\u0026#x27;ll find the current US election won\u0026#x27;t help the opinion polls for 2016-2017 :)\u003cp\u003eAlso, I\u0026#x27;m not really up on this kind of thing, but 57% seems pretty low for the land of the free?","parent":"12776278","id":"12776884"}
{"by":"happyscrappy","time":"1431114027","timestamp":"2015-05-08 19:40:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I knew some preppers and it is pretty frightening. They practice one day a month and apparently the first order of business is to capture and defend a Walmart or similar. These guys are going to be a liability in a crisis.","parent":"9513257","id":"9513705"}
{"by":"andrewchambers","time":"1415807021","timestamp":"2014-11-12 15:43:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would I rather write a single purpose code formatter like go fmt, or write the equivalent non portable plugin for eclipse or visual studio.\u003cp\u003eIn my mind the answer is very clear.","parent":"8595886","id":"8595963"}
{"by":"colin_scott","time":"1356464439","timestamp":"2012-12-25 19:40:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it should be fixed now. Thanks!","parent":"4966857","id":"4966883"}
{"by":"robertpohl","time":"1458258330","timestamp":"2016-03-17 23:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kul, grattis!","parent":"11306378","id":"11308622"}
{"by":"oxidiz","time":"1410593187","timestamp":"2014-09-13 07:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or for television news content, Internet Archive \u003ca href=\"https://tv.archive.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tv.archive.org\u003c/a\u003e has news from 2009 searchable by the closed captioning text, only Bay Area media market, national and international. Just added Philadelphia news too.","parent":"8310004","id":"8311819"}
{"by":"tempestn","time":"1461477660","timestamp":"2016-04-24 06:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The entire article is written in present tense, as if it\u0026#x27;s a current news event; makes for a more interesting read.  I don\u0026#x27;t think they\u0026#x27;re too concerned about people thinking William Shakespeare just now died.","parent":"11558524","id":"11558745"}
{"by":"lopmotr","time":"1527880310","timestamp":"2018-06-01 19:11:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Americans are so concerned about how other people vote but why not just vote for who you want if you want to? If you really really want some party to win, then take the day off work somehow, however difficult. If you can\u0026#x27;t be bothered with that level of effort, then you care about your day at work more than the election, so don\u0026#x27;t vote and be happy with whoever wins. In my country, for me, voting was complicated so I didn\u0026#x27;t. Now the winner is doing things I don\u0026#x27;t like so I\u0026#x27;ve decided to vote next election. I\u0026#x27;m not going to go waving banners and insulting people who want to vote for someone else. I\u0026#x27;ll just privately find a party I like and go vote for them. I don\u0026#x27;t yet know which party that is! Americans should try that too - research what they actually want and who\u0026#x27;s likely to do that, instead of voting with their tribe. Once you become locked to a tribe, your vote loses its power because your tribe\u0026#x27;s party can do anything it wants without losing your vote. If you want election reform, then you\u0026#x27;d better not have voted for either other two main parties because it\u0026#x27;s in their interests not to allow others in.","parent":"17208090","id":"17208918"}
{"by":"Glawen","time":"1521788218","timestamp":"2018-03-23 06:56:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why in iso 26262 you can only use certified compiler and tools. Rust compiler is not certified for example. \nSure you can use 3rd party libs, but they must be certified.\u003cp\u003eI agree dith parent: never use  copy paste from internet in safety critical SW, anyway it most probably isn\u0026#x27;t designed for your use cade. \nPersonally I always have been disapointed by copy pasting stuff, it was always buggy somehow. In the end I always reimplemented it from scratch by reading the theory","parent":"16655152","id":"16655705"}
{"by":"WimLeers","time":"1353605402","timestamp":"2012-11-22 17:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- Backwards compatible\u003cp\u003e- Responsive\u003cp\u003e- Stackable\u003cp\u003e- …\u003cp\u003eNice. But why isn't \"Accessible\" in that list?","parent":"4815466","id":"4819416"}
{"by":"tomjen3","time":"1277112642","timestamp":"2010-06-21 09:30:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Damn, that is sluppy. GitHub is, essentially a glorified file storage place and they don't have a wy to ensure th\nat corruption doesn't happen?","parent":"1447518","id":"1448345"}
{"by":"cpr","time":"1328792956","timestamp":"2012-02-09 13:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the removal process automated, or are you relying on something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk?","parent":"3570207","id":"3570943"}
{"by":"meesterdude","time":"1441905509","timestamp":"2015-09-10 17:18:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I forgot about games! although i\u0026#x27;m not sure how much of a hayday it will be; ideally 3d touch would represent a progressive enhancement to the app, and not a core feature that is required for usage.","parent":"10199201","id":"10199304"}
{"by":"raheemm","time":"1288278967","timestamp":"2010-10-28 15:16:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Added","parent":"1843137","id":"1843176"}
{"by":"jtolmar","time":"1543552368","timestamp":"2018-11-30 04:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;People will come up with reasons the system they live under is the laws of nature,\u0026quot; probably is a law of (human) nature, though.","parent":"18565720","id":"18566693"}
{"by":"PankajGhosh","time":"1347819608","timestamp":"2012-09-16 18:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are specifically interested in NYC tech scene, I would suggest a)looking for a tech meetup, b) visiting some start up incubator c)visiting one of many schools/universities in the NYC (last one would be least probable of being fruitful)","parent":"4528158","id":"4529819"}
{"by":"pms","time":"1444755365","timestamp":"2015-10-13 16:56:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I fully agree with that, yet they were right since over a year. They do a decent job making the most out of the \u0026quot;open-source\u0026quot; evidence they have access to.","parent":"10381149","id":"10381741"}
{"by":"parksy","time":"1394204127","timestamp":"2014-03-07 14:55:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.  In addition, with each year comes a new \u0026quot;super-duper-real-correct-semantic\u0026quot; way of doing it.  That word semantic.  It grates me.  Everyone uses it to back their argument, then throws their hands up and \u0026quot;case closed\u0026quot;.  The meaning has been lost.\u003cp\u003eLike now we have to:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;write\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n    \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;write__our\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n      \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;write__our__classes\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n        \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;write__our__classes__like\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n          \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;write__our__classes__like__this\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n          \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n        \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n      \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n    \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n\n  \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;instead\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n    \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;of\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n      \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;like\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n        \u0026lt;div class=\u0026quot;this\u0026quot;\u0026gt;      \n        \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n      \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n    \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWhich \u0026quot;old me\u0026quot; says is disgusting and breaks the rules of semanticism.  The DOM loses meaning and becomes a vessel for the form \u0026#x2F; appearance.  But I get why people do it.  It\u0026#x27;s pragmatic.  I don\u0026#x27;t like it, but it works.\u003cp\u003eRegardless of the real real true real true way of doing things and all the arguments that people like to have about that, it\u0026#x27;s obvious why people are constantly trying to find these conventions and rules of thumb.  It\u0026#x27;s because form and function are not properly separated with CSS alone.  Using the DOM purely as a vehicle of function makes forming difficult, while pulling form into the DOM level muddies up the goal of semantic documents - the idea that a machine should be able to comprehend the nature of (X)HTML content has fallen to the wayside but that\u0026#x27;s a separate argument (should documents be sources of truth, isn\u0026#x27;t that what REST is for, are entities documents, etc).\u003cp\u003eThe thing is that XML \u0026amp; XSLT got us oh-so-close.  Nice, lovely pure XML documents with clean semantic tags and attributes with strongly typed definitions that had meaning to both humans and machines.  A transform step converted these into an XHTML presentation format, adding whatever DOM sugar was needed for the CSS and JS to do its thing.  It was almost there.\u003cp\u003eWhere it fell down is where I think you hit the nail on the head.  Both CSS and JS are needed currently to do very basic things, with a lot of overlap for things like positioning or animating transitions.\u003cp\u003eA single layout language that handles _everything_ in an intuitive way without having to navigate the CSS+HTML+JS love triangle would be fantastic.\u003cp\u003eSorry for the somewhat longwinded response for what is otherwise a \u0026quot;me to\u0026quot; comment. I guess I just needed to vent a little - long day at the office and all :\u0026#x2F;","parent":"7354738","id":"7360517"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1370907853","timestamp":"2013-06-10 23:44:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FISA limits intercept, surveillance, and search, not collection, from what I\u0026#x27;ve read of it (I don\u0026#x27;t think there is \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e restriction on collection).  They have chosen the (IMO bad) interpretation that merely collecting information is not special at all.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;d \u0026quot;voluntarily\u0026quot; wave the protection of that collected data, so it would be identical to \u0026quot;give us your last 10 years of email\u0026quot;, except conveniently they would be the ones holding it for you.\u003cp\u003e(I could be wrong; I\u0026#x27;m really not claiming any expertise on FISA or FAA or any of the secret court rulings determining its scope, just trying to figure out ways which collected information could be used to one\u0026#x27;s detriment.  Plus, of course, FISA 2 is always possible, modifying FISA.)","parent":"5858343","id":"5858407"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1316575136","timestamp":"2011-09-21 03:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point they're making is that the \"diagram of the invention\" doesn't actually show the invention, but rather ... the Internet on which it runs.  Qualifies as abstract in my book.","parent":"3020554","id":"3020597"}
{"by":"henvic","time":"1443679548","timestamp":"2015-10-01 06:05:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More details: data is being sent to the host intenta.io over HTTP.\u003cp\u003eSo I can see that it\u0026#x27;s an open source project and hopefully the developer isn\u0026#x27;t aware of how invasive are the tracking mechanisms he\u0026#x27;s using.\u003cp\u003eI have reached the developer to ask him to fix it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;barbushin\u0026#x2F;javascript-errors-notifier\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;barbushin\u0026#x2F;javascript-errors-notifier\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;barbushin\u0026#x2F;javascript-errors-notifier\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;28\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;barbushin\u0026#x2F;javascript-errors-notifier\u0026#x2F;issu...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10309432","id":"10309500"}
{"by":"justfor1comment","time":"1539108765","timestamp":"2018-10-09 18:12:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow! This is a top notch phone","parent":"18176993","id":"18178387"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1294008722","timestamp":"2011-01-02 22:52:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a terrible analysis. I don't see how you can come to those conclusions at all from the way you conducted this \"test\"...\u003cp\u003eMy deconstruction of this \"analysis\"'s mistakes here: \u003ca href=\"http://swombat.com/2011/1/2/data-is-dangerous\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://swombat.com/2011/1/2/data-is-dangerous\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2060907","id":"2061373"}
{"by":"wolco","time":"1504905802","timestamp":"2017-09-08 21:23:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes they release this information to scare and control the population.\u003cp\u003eThis is talking about the hell angels getting a medical supply and selling it on the black market.   Not the same as running a store and none of this changes by having the lcbo run stores the supplier are licensed by government of Canada.","parent":"15203815","id":"15204072"}
{"by":"thwarted","time":"1298160842","timestamp":"2011-02-20 00:14:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as it was easy to see who had donated how much to keep an article alive (still have puppet accounts though, I guess).","parent":"2240380","id":"2240393"}
{"by":"rm_-rf_slash","time":"1483484561","timestamp":"2017-01-03 23:02:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the \u0026quot;eat your vegetables\u0026quot; line of smartphone marketing. Good for you but a hard sell. Besides if battery life really matters to you then you would get much more utility from an external battery that can store far more than a single smartphone charge.","parent":"13313386","id":"13314088"}
{"by":"wtbob","time":"1485528069","timestamp":"2017-01-27 14:41:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think so: just as reading, writing \u0026amp; speaking are still our primary forms of communication (rather than pointing \u0026amp; grunting), so too will CLIs last.","parent":"13499896","id":"13500027"}
{"by":"xanary","time":"1328724156","timestamp":"2012-02-08 18:02:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is very, very cool! However, are you willing to share the source code or otherwise clarify how it's implemented? I love this and think it's a great idea, but I would not feel comfortable using it extensively unless I knew how it worked, what its limitations are, etc.","parent":"3567152","id":"3567626"}
{"by":"humanrebar","time":"1418073169","timestamp":"2014-12-08 21:12:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To pick a nit, people in the armed services don\u0026#x27;t get benefits, they get compensation. The beneficiaries of the armed forces are the ones not fighting.\u003cp\u003eYou also leave off debt service, which is approaching the military budget in size.\u003cp\u003eThat aside, I agree with what you wrote.","parent":"8718877","id":"8719205"}
{"by":"cabinpark","time":"1450716020","timestamp":"2015-12-21 16:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no qualms with mathematical physics at all. I love mathematical physics to the extent my undergraduate degree is in mathematical physics. But the problem is that they are calling it reality. To my mind, string theory is nothing but a mathematical exercise that likely has nothing to do with reality.\u003cp\u003eI hate when theorists take some abstract crazy idea and then say the universe has 10 or 11 dimensions when they have no basis for saying that.","parent":"10769168","id":"10771902"}
{"by":"rntz","time":"1484413480","timestamp":"2017-01-14 17:04:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the end, it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter who it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;fair\u0026quot; to assign responsibility to; a language you can\u0026#x27;t rely on is a language you can\u0026#x27;t rely on. All esr is pointing out is that there\u0026#x27;s a problem. Personally I think the Rust folks are pretty aware of this problem, and are managing just fine; Rust is definitely still in the early stages of language community growth, and locking things down too much would be a mistake.","parent":"13399269","id":"13399303"}
{"by":"ayanb","time":"1329493217","timestamp":"2012-02-17 15:40:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does this impact if you are aiming to build a JSON API too?","parent":"3603507","id":"3603664"}
{"by":"nicholassmith","time":"1357731439","timestamp":"2013-01-09 11:37:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being clever when coding is one of the biggest headaches for long term maintenance unless you \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e need that extra performance. I've had to do a bug hunt on a piece of code recently that was very, very clever but used all sorts language features that are marked 'use with caution' when a longer function with more simplicity would have worked as well.\u003cp\u003eReadability and maintainability trump developers showing how clever they are by far.","parent":"5031025","id":"5031082"}
{"by":"Panoramix","time":"1317758311","timestamp":"2011-10-04 19:58:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Martin Rees just commented on that:\n\"I think, however, that this is one of the increasingly frequent instances when the Nobel Committee is damagingly constrained by its tradition that a prize can't be shared between more than three individuals. The key papers recognised by this award were authored by two groups, each containing a dozen or so scientists. It would have been fairer, and would send a less distorted message about how this kind of science is actually done, if the award had been made collectively to all members of the two groups.\"\u003cp\u003eMore here:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/oct/04/nobel-prize-physics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/oct/04/nobel-pri...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3071142","id":"3072643"}
{"by":"abtinf","time":"1435607712","timestamp":"2015-06-29 19:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how much of this had to do with using alcohol as a primary source of nutrition and method of food preservation.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the best way to preserve all the new world crops (including corn, potatoes, and numerous fruits and vegatables) was to ferment them? Old world wheat is very dry to start with, making it easy to store for long periods. But new world staples are much harder to preserve - what else could you do if you haven\u0026#x27;t discovered bacteria or pasteurization, invented refrigeration or canning, and need to feed everyone year round?\u003cp\u003eWith farm output preserved through fermentation, alcohol would have been extremely cheap as well - I would guess significant cheaper than fresh foods during winter months.","parent":"9799490","id":"9800492"}
{"by":"njharman","time":"1354727660","timestamp":"2012-12-05 17:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; with their massive distribution and infrastructures\u003cp\u003eThat is a disadvantage.  Along with their size that represents massive costs and massive inertia.\u003cp\u003eThe actual threat from incumbents is regulation(lobbying for) and legal.  Both of which they can afford due to massive size and have established the \"infrastructure\" for.","parent":"4876654","id":"4877230"}
{"by":"ramses0","time":"1473277747","timestamp":"2016-09-07 19:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pebble Time Round exists, and has the exact same problem.  Such a \u003ci\u003ehuge\u003c/i\u003e design fork it\u0026#x27;s really like writing and supporting two different apps.  One with a 90% market share (square screen) and one with 10% market share (round) and which requires so much more work and thought to utilize it effectively.","parent":"12446533","id":"12446807"}
{"by":"ceol","time":"1375134013","timestamp":"2013-07-29 21:40:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fish responding to trolls in no way excuses the trolls harassing him. That\u0026#x27;s textbook victim blaming, and it\u0026#x27;s disgusting for it to come up here.","parent":"6123985","id":"6124070"}
{"by":"theorique","time":"1418649530","timestamp":"2014-12-15 13:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good idea. No more antibiotics, ibuprofen, chemotherapy for cancer, anesthetics for surgery ... shall I go on?\u003cp\u003eOh, you meant only the \u0026quot;bad\u0026quot; drugs, not the \u0026quot;good\u0026quot; drugs. Never mind.","parent":"8750912","id":"8751771"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1453841690","timestamp":"2016-01-26 20:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It doesn\u0026#x27;t matter to me at all that Bill Gates has more money than God, because he\u0026#x27;s empathetic to people who aren\u0026#x27;t as rich and aren\u0026#x27;t as great as he is,\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m glad he learned empathy in his old age; but keep in mind that he was ruthless, manipulative, exploitative, and caused \u003ci\u003ea lot\u003c/i\u003e of long-term damage throughout most of his working life.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s\u003c/i\u003e the problem I have with the \u0026quot;rich\u0026quot; - our system (and lack of government oversight\u0026#x2F;enforcement) enables and encourages \u003ci\u003eevil\u003c/i\u003e, as long as it makes profit.","parent":"10975503","id":"10975981"}
{"by":"JackFr","time":"1379424159","timestamp":"2013-09-17 13:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To your first point, I guess I don\u0026#x27;t understand your definition of corruption.  I think your example is exercising a legitimate power as a mayor, to the benefit of a friend rather than to the benefit of some other deserving party, and no benefit to himself other than a warm fuzzy feeling.  That is poor governance, but it is not corruption.\u003cp\u003eTo your second point, virtually all of Michael Bloomberg\u0026#x27;s wealth comes from \u0026#x27;Bloomberg\u0026#x27; the company. \u0026#x27;Bloomberg\u0026#x27; the company has one business -- terminals on traders\u0026#x27; desks.  Everything else they do is a loss-leader to advertise the terminals.  For the past 20 years every bond trader in New York and London has paid BBG around $3000 a month and will continue to, until some young whipper snapper from HN disrupts the industry and dislodges them from traders.  Reuters came close, and is currently mounting a new challenge, but I wouldn\u0026#x27;t hold my breath.","parent":"6396758","id":"6399087"}
{"by":"hnick","time":"1547090169","timestamp":"2019-01-10 03:16:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; mayonnaise\u003cp\u003eNever tried that. My ideal is bechamel sauce with cheese on top - shredded for the added surface area when browning. This is based on a typical croque monsieur recipe. It\u0026#x27;s very easy to make bechamel in about 10 minutes and it keeps for a week or more in the fridge without issues.","parent":"18868509","id":"18871227"}
{"by":"porpoisemonkey","time":"1426532984","timestamp":"2015-03-16 19:09:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I realize it\u0026#x27;s pedantic, but the title is actually inaccurate. The vehicle(s) in questions aren\u0026#x27;t actually \u0026quot;drones\u0026quot;; the term drone implies fully autonomous use. The accurate term is \u0026quot;Unmanned Aerial Vehicle\u0026quot; (UAV) or \u0026quot;Remote Piloted Vehicle\u0026quot; (RPV).\u003cp\u003eThis is also not exactly new technology. The United States military has been using Synthetic Aperature Radar (SAR) in small UAVs (hand-launched) to perform similar tasks identifying IEDs for at least the last year.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://defensesystems.com/articles/2014/09/02/army-synthetic-aperture-radar-small-uavs.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;defensesystems.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;army-synthetic...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?id=123422434\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.afmc.af.mil\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;story_print.asp?id=123422434\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9213187","id":"9213576"}
{"by":"t0mbstone","time":"1466452164","timestamp":"2016-06-20 19:49:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Docker containers are not meant to be persistent. Things like storage and state should be kept elsewhere and linked into your containers. You should be able to dynamically tear your containers down or spin up 20 of them and load balance requests between different ones.\u003cp\u003eIf you are trying to store a MySQL database \u003ci\u003einside\u003c/i\u003e of a Docker container, you are missing the whole point.","parent":"11940083","id":"11940838"}
{"by":"bryanjclark","time":"1340913987","timestamp":"2012-06-28 20:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Until you make a note taking app that takes less time to use than a white board, I'm gonna use the whiteboard.\"\u003cp\u003eYou should check out Threadnote (www.threadnote.com) -- we made it exactly for that reason.","parent":"4172835","id":"4173640"}
{"by":"pattrn","time":"1530563666","timestamp":"2018-07-02 20:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely let me know if you have any questions about Terraform \u0026#x2F; AWS. The remaining 27 blog post topics are still up in the air, so I\u0026#x27;m looking for some writing material :).\u003cp\u003eOne thing to note about these posts is that they take some shortcuts when addressing things like secret storage. If you\u0026#x27;re using this directly in a production application, make sure to read the noted sections and make those changes.","parent":"17445040","id":"17445102"}
{"by":"Skinney","time":"1399623429","timestamp":"2014-05-09 08:17:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really? Android and Gtk is just nuts?\u003cp\u003eOf course, you can still create your ui in JS, just as you can create Gtk and Android applications without markup.","parent":"7718534","id":"7719894"}
{"by":"ibejoeb","time":"1510714212","timestamp":"2017-11-15 02:50:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s just twisting words. The time restriction has not been lifted.  There are plenty of ways to handle that in the form of instruments like cash-settled SARs.","parent":"15697189","id":"15701124"}
{"by":"danoprey","time":"1356160970","timestamp":"2012-12-22 07:22:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a Chrome extension to block TC and PD posts from HN?","parent":"4955902","id":"4956052"}
{"by":"threatofrain","time":"1475519832","timestamp":"2016-10-03 18:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you looked into stateless React + Redux? These libraries are interesting in their suggestions for app architecture, and their api\u0026#x27;s are minimal.\u003cp\u003eOne day perhaps React and Redux will be replaced by something else, but I think the strategy of a GUI functional layer consuming a stream of events is here to stay, and I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if it spread to native app design.","parent":"12629900","id":"12630091"}
{"by":"sherincall","time":"1495006924","timestamp":"2017-05-17 07:42:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, that\u0026#x27;s not always correct in C++ (it is in C). It is possible that either type has the operator\u0026amp; overloaded, so instead the proper way to do it is:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (std::addressof(a) == std::addressof(b))\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.cppreference.com\u0026#x2F;w\u0026#x2F;cpp\u0026#x2F;memory\u0026#x2F;addressof\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.cppreference.com\u0026#x2F;w\u0026#x2F;cpp\u0026#x2F;memory\u0026#x2F;addressof\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14348942","id":"14356385"}
{"by":"mpweiher","time":"1530954032","timestamp":"2018-07-07 09:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, I am not saying there are no problems.  And I don\u0026#x27;t deny a certain emotional appeal to having safety features provided by the language.\u003cp\u003eHowever, great (quality) is delivered with those kinds of features and without, and crap software is delivered with those kinds of features and without.  And more importantly, I have seen little to no \u003ci\u003eevidence\u003c/i\u003e that having those sorts of features actually substantially changes the statistical distribution of crap\u0026#x2F;quality software, no matter what we feel should be the case.\u003cp\u003ePeople can use these safety features or not, and they can use them well or not.  Just like they can use non-linguistic safety mechanism, such as really good test-suites...or not.\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, he writes:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; This is where I stop understanding how the rest of the world can work at all.  And so you probably need to upgrade your understanding.\u003cp\u003eIf the world doesn\u0026#x27;t conform to your understanding of it, the thing that\u0026#x27;s lacking is almost certainly your understanding of the world.  Because it does work.","parent":"17475463","id":"17477741"}
{"by":"int_19h","time":"1506999683","timestamp":"2017-10-03 03:01:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The ideas of freedom of information, of freedom of expression are repugnant to the aristocrat (who always consider they know best), but these are founding principals of so far the most innovative and productive societies history has known.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not entirely sure this is true. Before Internet, what we had was mostly freedom of the press - which is to say, the freedom to spread information (or disinformation) \u003ci\u003eby those with financial means to do so\u003c/i\u003e. This is far more free than the preceding eras of widespread censorship, where the only one spreading information (or disinformation) was the government and its agents. But it\u0026#x27;s not quite a free for all. In effect, the ability to spread information on a large scale was still restricted to the \u0026quot;elite\u0026quot;, defined in financial terms.\u003cp\u003eInternet, and especially social networks with their graphs, changed that. A little money, and a carefully crafted story, go a long way in terms of dispersal and effect. Big money still gives you more opportunities, but even small players can make a difference. And we\u0026#x27;ve yet to see the full effect that this is going to have on our societies.","parent":"15389417","id":"15389799"}
{"by":"hdctambien","time":"1473719457","timestamp":"2016-09-12 22:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d wager that most of the students you went to school with didn\u0026#x27;t self teach themselves programming before they went to University and probably didn\u0026#x27;t have a Computer Science class in high school.\u003cp\u003eIt is difficult to understand the usefulness of a VCS when the longest project you have worked on amounted to 5 lines of code and you can\u0026#x27;t produce a fizzbuzz program, let alone understand the difference between a class and an object.\u003cp\u003eIf you were self taught, or have been away from the newbies for too long, you don\u0026#x27;t always remember what it was like when everything was new. Wrapping your head around how to construct a program that does what you want it to do (or even figuring out what you want a program to do in the first place) is a difficult hurdle to jump. The more extra hurdles you throw in front of them (git, debuggers, and even the compile step) make it harder.\u003cp\u003eThe earlier you require those hurdles to be jumped, the earlier you will filter out students. I believe most people can wrap their head around computational thinking and computer science and I would hate to lose them because of the tools.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t need a VCS to understand classes \u0026amp; objects. You don\u0026#x27;t need a VCS to understand Big-O, you don\u0026#x27;t need a VCS to understand Trees or Graphs or Maps or Stacks or Queues. You don\u0026#x27;t need a VCS to understand Computer Science.\u003cp\u003eAnd once you know what a Tree is... then I can explain to you how git works.","parent":"12480697","id":"12484202"}
{"by":"totocino","time":"1472415793","timestamp":"2016-08-28 20:23:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did they come up with Shadowmere?","parent":"12377923","dead":true,"id":"12378339"}
{"by":"davi","time":"1235777900","timestamp":"2009-02-27 23:38:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think the problem is with upvote inflation as much as dilution of individual-to-individual recognition.  Limiting upvotes wouldn't address that.","parent":"495445","id":"497800"}
{"by":"belorn","time":"1375275667","timestamp":"2013-07-31 13:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can\u0026#x27;t an IE user turn tracking on if they want to?","parent":"6132994","id":"6133323"}
{"by":"shawabawa3","time":"1408629126","timestamp":"2014-08-21 13:52:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure why the article is so obsessed with this \u0026quot;six-figure salary\u0026quot; thing (which seems to mean exactly $100,000).\u003cp\u003e$100k 30 years ago after inflation is $288k now. Anyone earning $288k now is definitely rich enough to \u0026quot;live the american dream\u0026quot; (in the article they price that at $130k).\u003cp\u003eIt would have been a much more interesting article if it had just focused on cost of living increasing faster than inflation","parent":"8207077","id":"8207313"}
{"by":"theophrastus","time":"1407166944","timestamp":"2014-08-04 15:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thank you!  (moral of story: don\u0026#x27;t start the search by visiting keyserver sites like \u003ca href=\"https://pgp.mit.edu/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pgp.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"8132161","id":"8132241"}
{"by":"Papachooka","time":"1426292422","timestamp":"2015-03-14 00:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s correct. While 30 cm is a revolution for satellite imagery, it\u0026#x27;s pretty common to have 5 cm aerial photos.","parent":"9200656","id":"9200926"}
{"by":"flashman","time":"1433482750","timestamp":"2015-06-05 05:39:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The impression I get is the Chinese feel they are a singular nation: the world\u0026#x27;s largest, one of its richest, and its fastest-developing (the \u0026quot;sleeping dragon\u0026quot; finally awakening). And then they hear the Western world criticising them...\u003cp\u003eSure, China isn\u0026#x27;t perfect, but it\u0026#x27;s getting better, and for a significant fraction of a billion people, good enough.","parent":"9663854","id":"9664040"}
{"by":"ncallaway","time":"1498755641","timestamp":"2017-06-29 17:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are normal people, who follow normal psychological patterns.\u003cp\u003eIn your root cause analysis, 99% of the time the answer should not be \u0026quot;human error\u0026quot;. An error that one human makes will be repeated in the future by another human.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is setting up patterns and processes in the working environment that are aware of these human limitations and that work around them. The air travel industry is a _great_ example of what happens when you don\u0026#x27;t simply blame the human, but look to fix the true problems that caused the human to make a mistake.","parent":"14664233","id":"14664842"}
{"by":"rodgerd","time":"1424211006","timestamp":"2015-02-17 22:10:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Shitty init scripts and the path to systemd have been self-inflicted wounds caused by a tiny group of inexperienced desktop developers.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s hard to take you seriously when you\u0026#x27;re not even wrong.","parent":"9065191","id":"9065443"}
{"by":"larrys","time":"1429637164","timestamp":"2015-04-21 17:26:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Side issue parent article claims that passages can\u0026#x27;t be copied because the pdf is locked. Other than workarounds to that (I don\u0026#x27;t know any but I am sure they exist) you could simply run OCR on screengrabs of the pages using something like adobe acrobat or similar.","parent":"9414211","id":"9415582"}
{"by":"zaroth","time":"1422333658","timestamp":"2015-01-27 04:40:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only way \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c/i\u003e the system is I guess the Supreme Court. They have already laid a framework establishing that tracking requires a warrant, even if it\u0026#x27;s just making the police\u0026#x27;s job more efficient and it\u0026#x27;s data they can get from a tail.\u003cp\u003eIf the license plate tracking gets to that point within metropolitan areas (presumably where cameras are most dense) or they start doing it from blimps or whatever, at least there is precedence for striking it.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not going to stop the collection but it should at least prevent the data being used against you in court. Of course, parallel construction. Sigh...","parent":"8950791","id":"8951275"}
{"by":"andybak","time":"1423662556","timestamp":"2015-02-11 13:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Smart TVs are a terrible idea for the same reason that combined printer and scanners are a bad idea but with the negative aspect magnified many times. The cost and life expectancy of each part is very different and you don\u0026#x27;t want their replacement\u0026#x2F;upgrade to be tied together.\u003cp\u003eA display panel should last you more than a decade and probably costs many 100s or 1000s. The \u0026#x27;smart\u0026#x27; bit is probably worth less than $200 and is probably going to be obsolete in a couple of years.\u003cp\u003eEDIT - another thing. I want the people that make my \u0026#x27;smart\u0026#x27; box to be nimble, forward looking new media companies - not box shifters like Samsung, LG, Philips et al. Most Smart TVs have awful software (LG\u0026#x27;s purchase of WebOS might lead them to be an exception here)\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been asked by non-tech friends and relatives about SmartTVs many times and my answer is always \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t touch them with a barge-pole\u0026quot; and a link to a Roku\u0026#x2F;Chromecast\u0026#x2F;AppleTV etc.","parent":"9032661","id":"9032786"}
{"by":"stemc43","time":"1417785696","timestamp":"2014-12-05 13:21:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Odd? Image you\u0026#x27;re a Github. There are thousands of paying accounts in Russia and also a zillion Russians contributing to open-source projects.\u003cp\u003eNow imagine all these people now have no access and start sending emails asking why their paid accounts now aren\u0026#x27;t working? Russian devs working on tight schedule, forereigners working in Russia, subs doing contracts for american companies - now all of them are DENIED.\u003cp\u003eWould it really be better for github to continue blocking all those innocent people because of a clearly a set-up type suicide-notes post?","parent":"8704227","id":"8704333"}
{"by":"leerob","time":"1522706575","timestamp":"2018-04-02 22:02:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Des Moines, IA (Exploring relocation to SF)\u003cp\u003eRemote: Partial would be nice, but not full-time.\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: Yes. US Citizen.\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: Dart, JavaScript (React, ES6), Python (Flask, GAE - Google App Engine), AWS (Lambda, Kinesis), HTML, CSS, SASS\u0026#x2F;SCSS, GitHub, JIRA, a little Swift (iOS) \u0026amp; Java (Android) work.\u003cp\u003eRésumé\u0026#x2F;CV: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leejamesrobinson.com\u0026#x2F;LeeRobinson.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leejamesrobinson.com\u0026#x2F;LeeRobinson.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail: lrobinson2011 at gmail\u003cp\u003ePortfolio, blog (some technical posts), and more here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leejamesrobinson.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leejamesrobinson.com\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eCurrently exploring Technical Product Management type roles (Product\u0026#x2F;Project manager) but also the right engineering position would still be appealing.","parent":"16735013","id":"16739819"}
{"by":"existencebox","time":"1526682744","timestamp":"2018-05-18 22:32:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You may be missing a point for comparison.  My understanding was always that international packages, due to negotiated relationships (especially with china) end up being a FAR larger burden on domestic mail carriers in terms of cost.[0]\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t done sufficient research to know how these compare and I would of course be convinced otherwise if the numbers were weighted opposite what I understand them to be, but on the surface, I find that to attack Amazon while leaving this on the table is taking the metaphorical bait (Trump has been on an anti-amazon warpath for a while now, my own opinions aside) to the deficit of attacking The Real Problem.\u003cp\u003e[0]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;wadeshepard\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;how-the-usps-epacket-gives-postal-subsidies-to-chinese-e-commerce-merchants-to-ship-to-the-usa-cheap\u0026#x2F;#4800ef8140ca\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;wadeshepard\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;how-the-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17104763","id":"17105438"}
{"by":"ElenaADEX","time":"1502181925","timestamp":"2017-08-08 08:45:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Berlin, Germany | The ADEX GmbH (DMP, Big Data)| Senior Big Data Engineer | ONSITE | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;short.sg\u0026#x2F;j\u0026#x2F;1180960\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;short.sg\u0026#x2F;j\u0026#x2F;1180960\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt ADEX we\u0026#x27;re working on a real Big Data scale. We analyze and segment daily billions of requests in a YARN\u0026#x2F;Hadoop cluster of more than 60 machines. In the next phase of development, we are planning to re-design more parts of our Big Data systems to make them work in real-time. This will involve the usage of some cutting-edge technologies and also the challenge to extend the on-premise cluster to the cloud.\u003cp\u003eWe are therefore seeking a Senior Data Engineer who can design and implement new features of the Big Data DMP (new automated analyses, data aggregation or summarizing). As part of our interdisciplinary, international team you will work on Apache Spark to solve real Big Data problems and optimize our processes. Besides designing and building our new architecture you will convert new business requirements into data processes as well as help maintain our Big Data systems. You will be a mentor to our Data Engineer as well as another Data Engineer we are currently looking for.\u003cp\u003eWe are around 30 people in the company, half of the team works on tech positions. 15 employees are male, the other 15 female. The ADEX is based in Berlin with a small customer support team based in Hamburg. We are pretty flexible and chilled, and very tech- and product-focused. We work in a cutting-edge industry, so we encourage our employees to try new technologies, go to meet-ups, workshops and conferences. We are not afraid of trying and failing because we strongly believe in learning from mistakes.\u003cp\u003eIf you have any questions, please get in touch: elena@theadex.com","parent":"14901313","id":"14955812"}
{"by":"micah94","time":"1497639415","timestamp":"2017-06-16 18:56:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, the coin you have in an exchange is theirs.  You don\u0026#x27;t have those private keys.  And the coin can move around.  Coinbase actually flaunts this as a feature (you can give money to other Coinbase users without using the blockchain). \n This is also why they won\u0026#x27;t accept generated coins from mining payouts.","parent":"14571318","id":"14571744"}
{"by":"zeerakw","time":"1438196554","timestamp":"2015-07-29 19:02:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s always nice to know that your masters programme requires more of you in just an exam (building a Relation Extraction pipeline including POS tagging and a NER system).\u003cp\u003eHaving said that, it\u0026#x27;s been shown pretty well that CRF\u0026#x27;s outperform the Stanford Parser with simple features (it can get even better with better features - particularly for organisations), which also beat out HMM\u0026#x27;s but it could be interesting to see how neural networks would do.","parent":"9969725","id":"9970835"}
{"by":"thegyppo","time":"1354070743","timestamp":"2012-11-28 02:45:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Been using DataShack lately: \u003ca href=\"https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.datashack.net/dedicated/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI pay roughly $78 a month for this: \u003ca href=\"http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/28/NkHEVWXUAKwf4USF\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/28/NkHEVWXUAKwf4USF\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4838880","id":"4840729"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1423475748","timestamp":"2015-02-09 09:55:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I recall, to get prosecuted for tax evasion in the UK, you need to not only commit the tax evasion, but also to lie to the HMRC investigation of the tax evasion, at the point where they ask you to sign a form that explicitly says that if you lie now and they find out, they will put you in jail.\u003cp\u003eSo unless you lie at that point, you will not be prosecuted, only investigated.\u003cp\u003eThis may let some tax dodgers off the hook, but it also ensures that genuine mistakes are not punished by jail time.","parent":"9020359","id":"9020409"}
{"by":"ryanmercer","time":"1547074662","timestamp":"2019-01-09 22:57:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say Tillamook\u003cp\u003eCan\u0026#x27;t say I\u0026#x27;ve ever even heard of\u0026#x2F;seen this brand although their product locator shows them at the grocery I shop at, looks like the only thing sold in my state is their shredded cheddar.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;or Cabot are fancy,\u003cp\u003eAgain I\u0026#x27;ve never seen this but my grocery also allegedly has 3 of their products, all 2lb bricks of cheddar. Looks like a store about 20 minutes away has 20 of their products, all cheddar but weird ones like horseradish, hot habanero, port whine spreadable.\u003cp\u003eMost of the stores seem to have 0-3 of either brand\u0026#x27;s products.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ll see a lot of Sargento\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x27;snack bites\u0026#x27; and packs of 11 slices of a few varieties though but every one I\u0026#x27;ve ever tried was not worth the price and was often extremely dry\u0026#x2F;waxy.\u003cp\u003eOther than that, and the fancy case, it\u0026#x27;s some store brand bricks of a few cheddars, store and kraft brand shredded cheeses, Kraft slices and Velveeta.","parent":"18867810","id":"18869887"}
{"by":"jmchu","time":"1537429187","timestamp":"2018-09-20 07:39:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If anyone today is struggling with kidney stones, I suggest trying a roller coaster: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;roller-coaster-kidney-stones.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;roller-coaster-ki...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18029797","id":"18030459"}
{"by":"eyelidlessness","time":"1468908717","timestamp":"2016-07-19 06:11:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have (created!) a job that closely resembles a work of dystopian fiction, laughing that off is absolutely lacking in human empathy. That\u0026#x27;s not even the first problem with this line of work, but since you\u0026#x27;re also laughing off the problem, it deserves a rebuttal.\u003cp\u003eIf I said to you that I was going to create a network of surveillance devices that also serves as mindless entertainment and routinely broadcasts faith routines that non-participants will be punished for, and you told me that sounds like something out of 1984, and I told you were paranoid, you\u0026#x27;d think I\u0026#x27;m mad.\u003cp\u003eAnd the advance of technology unhindered is not a universal good. Algorithms only have better judgment than humans according to the constraints they were assigned. If there\u0026#x27;s a role for automation in criminal justice, that role must be constantly questioned and adjusted for human need, just as the role of human intervention should be. Because it\u0026#x27;s all human intervention.","parent":"12119908","id":"12120086"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1516023905","timestamp":"2018-01-15 13:45:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Luck.\u003cp\u003eI was going to reply with a personality trait, but let\u0026#x27;s be honest, 90%+ of every success story is plain luck.","parent":"16149006","id":"16150421"}
{"by":"ef4","time":"1366290969","timestamp":"2013-04-18 13:16:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Economic behavior is not static.\u003cp\u003eIndustries use lots of free resources \u003ci\u003ebecause they're free\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIt is not possible to say a priori whether they could be profitable with different input prices, because there are myriad complex ways to economize and substitute.","parent":"5569562","id":"5570388"}
{"by":"justinsteele","time":"1418434048","timestamp":"2014-12-13 01:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Equal in value does not imply equal in thought, experience, or skill. I think that is the major flaw in your argument and why you are misconstruing breaking down barriers for women as \u0026quot;sexist\u0026quot;.","parent":"8743685","id":"8743707"}
{"by":"jdminhbg","time":"1373486035","timestamp":"2013-07-10 19:53:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; All of these new services that enable poor or lower-income people to serve rich people (Uber, TaskRabbit, Instacart) have been enabled by two main things: an economic recession that permanently eliminated a lot of jobs and the recovery which drove economics gains to the 1%\u003cp\u003eThe 1% don\u0026#x27;t use Uber, TaskRabbit, or Instacart; they have actual personal drivers, servants, and chefs.","parent":"6021829","id":"6022371"}
{"by":"eternalban","time":"1325793244","timestamp":"2012-01-05 19:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is also a potential synergy with dangover's incubator idea.\u003cp\u003edangover, quite impressed with your accomplishment.  This is perhaps a wrong headed idea (edit: but I would do it if I had your business and product skills):\u003cp\u003eTake your (iOS/Obj-C) engineering, product development, business development, and startup skills and experience, and combine them with your incubator idea. There is a gap (and not a new one at that) that has many startups and even established businesses in NYC feeling the pain, and that is finding and keeping tech talent.  An incubator that, for example, also provided a shared framework for rolling out prototypes and 1st cut products, and had a core staff of experienced engineers to triage, could crank things out, get the products out in front of the customers, and then you can weed out the wheat from the chaff.\u003cp\u003eAll the best to you. Enjoy your well earned success.","parent":"3430030","id":"3430188"}
{"by":"fulafel","time":"1395087454","timestamp":"2014-03-17 20:17:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Context: HW vendors push to get ACPI on ARM servers, \u003ca href=\"https://lwn.net/Articles/574439/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lwn.net\u0026#x2F;Articles\u0026#x2F;574439\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7414921","id":"7417793"}
{"by":"KhalPanda","time":"1453713989","timestamp":"2016-01-25 09:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a lot of power consumption.","parent":"10961202","id":"10966304"}
{"by":"MBCook","time":"1522447424","timestamp":"2018-03-30 22:03:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s a mitigating factor is Tesla’s favor.\u003cp\u003eBut mostly... I just don’t understand it. It seems like such an odd decision by the driver I don’t know what to make of it.\u003cp\u003eIt’s very unfortunate that he died, but that doesn’t mean we can’t ask questions\u0026#x2F;criticize what may have gone on.","parent":"16720073","id":"16720169"}
{"by":"pedrocr","time":"1379541600","timestamp":"2013-09-18 22:00:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BBM doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like much of a win but a blackberry email client would be smart. As far as I know they\u0026#x27;re the only ones that have an efficient mobile email client that does things like not download a huge file just to upload it again when you forward a message with an attached document. That\u0026#x27;s the only reason I\u0026#x27;ve heard for people keeping Blackberrys instead of switching to iPhones or Androids.","parent":"6407991","id":"6408435"}
{"by":"burkaman","time":"1495500719","timestamp":"2017-05-23 00:51:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might be an assumption, but you can also just Google Bri Holt and see who it is.","parent":"14397581","id":"14398010"}
{"by":"ninjin","time":"1360299060","timestamp":"2013-02-08 04:51:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pah, the people I know in bio-informatics use Haskell, I do research on language and use Python, C and Coffeescript. Honestly, science is more diverse than high-performance simulations of the universe...","parent":"5185905","id":"5186358"}
{"by":"bigbugbag","time":"1495011406","timestamp":"2017-05-17 08:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I read Chinese or Russian hacker in the general media I tend to assume US backed false flag operations.","parent":"14354224","id":"14356696"}
{"by":"thebigcoguy","time":"1450458384","timestamp":"2015-12-18 17:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recommend opposite as well but look for things like Leadership Development Programs in JPMC,WF,CITI etc... you get well rounded experience in 2\u0026#x2F;3 years and then you can decide to stick around or move.. Or work in big company and contribute to open source. There is lot to learn with big companies and if you can solve their problem you can solve small company problems as well but all small companies will get tired and have to behave like big corp to continue.. start up momentum is not sustainable beyond 3\u0026#x2F;4 years. Once you hit about 15000 people then you start having all kind of issues so better know how to manage that or seeing that will give you idea how to segment your company.","parent":"10759110","id":"10759471"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1427812321","timestamp":"2015-03-31 14:32:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This actually works out well for me since I don\u0026#x27;t host any \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; projects there, but I suspect DigitalOcean will be deploying a whole ton of VPSes in the next month with the Dokku image running ;-)","parent":"9295874","id":"9296428"}
{"by":"dinkumthinkum","time":"1392160892","timestamp":"2014-02-11 23:21:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not difficult to see that government should not exist ...  Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound? No one should take you seriously; I don\u0026#x27;t see what espousing that ideology is going to get you.","parent":"7218858","id":"7221297"}
{"by":"bilbo0s","time":"1475758967","timestamp":"2016-10-06 13:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure how this affects Iran that much at all. I mean it won\u0026#x27;t affect the people or the government. The Tournament will go on happily without this player\u0026#x27;s participation. In my own opinion, a better response would be to hold the tournament in a place other than Iran. I\u0026#x27;m not sure why that isn\u0026#x27;t the route that was chosen for protest ?","parent":"12651776","id":"12652050"}
{"by":"ericskiff","time":"1329245864","timestamp":"2012-02-14 18:57:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"P.S. Yes, \"side-along\" is a nod to \"side-along-apparition\" from harry potter","parent":"3591138","id":"3591251"}
{"by":"jonknee","time":"1406037510","timestamp":"2014-07-22 13:58:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m thinking it\u0026#x27;ll be a very expensive used car to keep on the road, which will limit it to collectors or rich people and\u0026#x2F;or severely impact the resale value.\u003cp\u003eI think $100k cars are already limited to rich people.","parent":"8068117","id":"8068984"}
{"by":"dandermotj","time":"1477553994","timestamp":"2016-10-27 07:39:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on what the variance of the distribution is and how skeweded it is.","parent":"12803291","id":"12803468"}
{"by":"tempay","time":"1537694264","timestamp":"2018-09-23 09:17:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TIS-100 is a nice step up from human resource machine while keeping the feedback.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;store.steampowered.com\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;370360\u0026#x2F;TIS100\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;store.steampowered.com\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;370360\u0026#x2F;TIS100\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18050058","id":"18050215"}
{"by":"Swannie","time":"1483418468","timestamp":"2017-01-03 04:41:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few Sony Vaio models had that feature circa 2011 (HDMI in to display on the 16\u0026quot; WXGA (?) 1080p screen). I was very close to getting one.","parent":"13304798","id":"13306774"}
{"by":"cyberneticcook","time":"1397840657","timestamp":"2014-04-18 17:04:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so what kind of tool would you recommend instead to deal with 100TB-1PB per day ? I\u0026#x27;m genuinely interested.","parent":"7609865","id":"7610034"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1468406991","timestamp":"2016-07-13 10:49:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For every serial killer, the government may be catching 100 mostly innocent people this way. To me the morals here are very clear. The case should be thrown out.","parent":"12084837","id":"12085214"}
{"by":"hs","time":"1216911023","timestamp":"2008-07-24 14:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would IPO path be more optimal for Viaweb?","parent":"254335","id":"255372"}
{"by":"mianos","time":"1463696129","timestamp":"2016-05-19 22:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am using \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;keleshev\u0026#x2F;schema\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;keleshev\u0026#x2F;schema\u003c/a\u003e with \u003ci\u003epython\u003c/i\u003e. I see a solid need for a schema here and there but don\u0026#x27;t buy into the whole heavy handed XSD. (Who hasn\u0026#x27;t struggled with the completely broken Microsoft .NET SOAP schema). \nFrom a practical perspective I am tending to validate multiple sections of json with a schema closer to the code that uses it. This way I don\u0026#x27;t have to maintain some massive schema at the top.\n(It is great for decorators\n@validate_body(Schema({\u0026#x27;size\u0026#x27;: Use(int), \u0026#x27;name\u0026#x27;: unicode})\ndef handler(body):\n   aa = body[\u0026#x27;size\u0026#x27;]\n...","parent":"11729208","id":"11734305"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1223952185","timestamp":"2008-10-14 02:43:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't really know much about Japanese, but this is awesome! I know there's a song called \"Kaze Wo Atsumete\" that I like, so I just typed that in and the various symbols came up.. I copied and pasted it, and bam.. I was finding music videos on YouTube I wouldn't have seen otherwise - and it was the right song! Big thumbs up.","parent":"331340","id":"331875"}
{"by":"rhinoceraptor","time":"1441252668","timestamp":"2015-09-03 03:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a Steam script that had a nasty habit of running \u0026#x27;# rm \u0026#x2F;*\u0026#x27; due to an empty script variable.","parent":"10163090","id":"10163273"}
{"by":"bcl","time":"1249574344","timestamp":"2009-08-06 15:59:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is interesting that the bridges all seem to be intact, even the one near the hypocenter. I wonder why? Were they shielded enough by the buildings, or were they just built strong enough to withstand it?","parent":"745303","id":"745734"}
{"by":"ExhibitAClause2","time":"1434513519","timestamp":"2015-06-17 03:58:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whats the best way to go about finding one on short notice in a generic major city?","parent":"9729975","id":"9729999"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1507750249","timestamp":"2017-10-11 19:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon pays almost no corporate income tax because they have almost no profit due to reinvestment.","parent":"15452229","id":"15452668"}
{"by":"matt_wulfeck","time":"1494954400","timestamp":"2017-05-16 17:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Especially considering that all of AWS database solutions require a 20 minute maintenance window \u003ci\u003eper week!\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"14351204","id":"14351229"}
{"by":"ebbv","time":"1477922625","timestamp":"2016-10-31 14:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; they can\u0026#x27;t rest on their laurels simply because they\u0026#x27;re Apple.\u003cp\u003eNo, but they can because they have something like $200 billion cash on hand. Which means if they really care about their stock price they can do a buy back if they want. Or if they are worried about employee compensation due to lagging stock price they can give bonuses, etc.","parent":"12836627","id":"12836754"}
{"by":"paulgb","time":"1341002660","timestamp":"2012-06-29 20:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point is that if the password is one that's used elsewhere, if it's client-side encrypted, at least it can't be captured for use on another site by an eavesdropper.\u003cp\u003eIt does nothing against an attacker who can get in the middle of the transmission though.","parent":"4178961","id":"4178996"}
{"by":"tixocloud","time":"1476712757","timestamp":"2016-10-17 13:59:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great work and thanks for the tips! How did approach people for interviews?","parent":"12721502","id":"12725031"}
{"by":"jussy","time":"1395913817","timestamp":"2014-03-27 09:50:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A towel","parent":"7478408","id":"7479389"}
{"by":"jcromartie","time":"1231190782","timestamp":"2009-01-05 21:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion, E-Prime appears good for two things: dehumanizing English, and making it hard to say really stupid things!","parent":"419895","id":"421154"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1404240499","timestamp":"2014-07-01 18:48:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or don\u0026#x27;t know how to implement.\u003cp\u003eIt has been pointed out multiple times that the page you refer to, only focus on C++ and Java, while forgeting about all the other languages.","parent":"7972669","id":"7972716"}
{"by":"gm","time":"1331690233","timestamp":"2012-03-14 01:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there's no story there. If the platiff won the small claims case and the HE initiated further contact with AT\u0026#38;T on the matter then all bets are off and AT\u0026#38;T is entitled to respond as it pleases, even if it's a \"we won't talk to you about this matter we just settled in court unless you sign an NDA\"","parent":"3700661","id":"3701433"}
{"by":"kzisme","time":"1485795310","timestamp":"2017-01-30 16:55:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those who enjoy reading there\u0026#x27;s a chapter\u0026#x2F;interview with Brad in the book \u0026quot;Coders At Work\u0026quot;.  I really enjoyed his perspective on the industry.","parent":"13521673","id":"13522772"}
{"by":"j2labs","time":"1323876905","timestamp":"2011-12-14 15:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coroutines + a scheduler become an awesome replacement for threads. They're lighter weight and don't thrash the GIL the same way Python threads do.\u003cp\u003eGreenlet is an optimized implementation of coroutines for Python. Gevent or Eventlet combine greenlet + a scheduler and even monkeypatch your blocking calls into nonblocking ones.\u003cp\u003eI use eventlet for my load testing tool, Micro Army, to create nonblocking SSH pools. I can SSH to 2 boxes and run config scripts in parallel in 58 seconds, but I can SSH to 100 boxes and run the same tasks in 106 seconds.\u003cp\u003eThe code couldn't be simpler too. Here's the proof.\u003cp\u003eSSH details for a single host: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/j2labs/microarmy/blob/master/microarmy/firepower.py#L149\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/j2labs/microarmy/blob/master/microarmy/fi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSSH to every host in a list: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/j2labs/microarmy/blob/master/microarmy/firepower.py#L188\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/j2labs/microarmy/blob/master/microarmy/fi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotice that the code is basically just spawning a coroutine and iterating across a list of coroutines. Done. No callback spaghetti, yet all of this is async and nonblocking.","parent":"3351916","id":"3352167"}
{"by":"grantbachman","time":"1425826247","timestamp":"2015-03-08 14:50:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tutorials that actually validate whether they currently work.\u003cp\u003eOne use case would be tutorials on deploying to IAAS\u0026#x2F;PAAS providers. Deploying always seems to be the hard part after I build something; I don\u0026#x27;t like using the same language and IAAS\u0026#x2F;PAAS twice for learning purposes. It\u0026#x27;s complicated even more so as many tutorials don\u0026#x27;t reference when they were written or which code versions they used. The site would require this information, and then use it to periodically attempt to deploy that sample to AWS\u0026#x2F;Digital Ocean\u0026#x2F;etc (whichever the tutorial is covering), and prominently display whether the tutorial currently works.","parent":"9165278","id":"9165720"}
{"by":"kuschku","time":"1452773390","timestamp":"2016-01-14 12:09:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, quite a few airlines already have satellite trackers on all their planes, even if it is just to provide free internet to all users, even over the ocean.","parent":"10900361","id":"10900869"}
{"by":"arechsteiner","time":"1523993514","timestamp":"2018-04-17 19:31:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry to hear that. I\u0026#x27;ve tried to keep some consistency with the layout because the fonts and colors are already all over the place.","parent":"16861217","id":"16861537"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1504631529","timestamp":"2017-09-05 17:12:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would only be a binding precedent in the State of Michigan though, no? And from the same Wikipedia page:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the 1950s and 1960s, states rejected Dodge repeatedly, in cases including AP Smith Manufacturing Co v. Barlow[2] or Shlensky v. Wrigley.[3] The general legal position today is that business judgment that directors may exercise is expansive. Management decisions will not be challenged where one can point to any rational link to benefiting the corporation as a whole\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"15176409","id":"15177127"}
{"by":"varjag","time":"1368282762","timestamp":"2013-05-11 14:32:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So basically a Renaissance Man is what we used to call Web Developer back in the day?","parent":"5690555","id":"5690675"}
{"by":"stevehawk","time":"1544020751","timestamp":"2018-12-05 14:39:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regarding the U.S., the reality is that it\u0026#x27;s mostly the students (med students, residents and fellows.. you\u0026#x27;re called Doctor by residency) that are sleep deprived. After that most doctors are on normal to normal-ish cycles. But because residents and fellows are such solid profit earners for hospitals and the hospital owns their life they opt to over-work them and charge you max dollar for their time. Once the doctor is board certified (post residency or fellowship) then the power shifts back towards the doctor and they can get more normal lives.\u003cp\u003eExceptions are specializations that are essentially emergency\u0026#x2F;urgent but even most of them are on rotations like another poster mentioned where they\u0026#x27;ve shifted their own sleep patterns to match their hours.\u003cp\u003eSince watching my friends become doctors (psychiatrists, uroligists, neurointerventional readiology) and my wife become a surgeon I have started telling friends and family \u0026quot;If your doctor looks under the age of 35 then you should ask them the last time they slept before they start treating you.\u003cp\u003etl;dr : hospitals straight up own the futures of their med students\u0026#x2F;residents\u0026#x2F;fellows .. so they overwork them while paying them $40-55k year, and when they aren\u0026#x27;t working they have to study for their exams.","parent":"18608366","id":"18608522"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1481894490","timestamp":"2016-12-16 13:21:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It works on mobiles, factory and robot control systems, integration with external devices, and all use cases where HTML 5 is just a poor UI\u0026#x2F;UX.","parent":"13192818","id":"13193014"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1465224817","timestamp":"2016-06-06 14:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You keep mentioning voting.  Some people reflexively downvote any post that talks about votes. If you didn\u0026#x27;t mention voting you may get fewer downvotes.","parent":"11847166","id":"11847195"}
{"by":"mlinksva","time":"1322430941","timestamp":"2011-11-27 21:55:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or if you were a government. If in the long term bitcoin-like cryptocurrency is to play a significant role in society as money (not totally implausible, in the long term), I don't see why any entity with a more or less captive audience of payers (eg taxpayers) wouldn't start its own, taking a large cut ... \u003ca href=\"http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2011/05/30/cryptocurrency-cambrian/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2011/05/30/cryptocurrency-cambr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3283182","id":"3283529"}
{"by":"russnewcomer","time":"1296244480","timestamp":"2011-01-28 19:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In addition to the coldfeet scenario, they use SMS in case the bomber is captured or incapacitated, a handler watching from afar can detonate the bomb.  That's why lots of suicide bombers blow up at police checkpoints, their handler sees them being detained and remote detonates the bomb.","parent":"2153150","id":"2153269"}
{"by":"panzagl","time":"1505140284","timestamp":"2017-09-11 14:31:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, and an iPhone can get you to the grocery store once you plug a car into it\u0026#x27;s charging port.","parent":"15218560","id":"15218761"}
{"by":"pinoyyid","time":"1391440092","timestamp":"2014-02-03 15:08:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A Trademark is only granted for a narrow field of use. So the headline assertion that King want to monopilize the word \u0026quot;Candy\u0026quot; is wide of the mark. As thaumasiotes states, the purpose is to protect consumers by rogue companies passing off their products in an attempt to deceive. All trademark applications are inspected before grant, that inspection being focussed on what is right for the average consumer, not for the company making the application, nor its competitors. In this case, imho, the trademark is legitimate. A quick scan of many of the objectioners shows that they are clearly aiming to deceive the average consumer.","parent":"7161189","id":"7170959"}
{"by":"borism","time":"1255377323","timestamp":"2009-10-12 19:55:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One name. Jon Lech Johansen.","parent":"877301","id":"877499"}
{"by":"itistoday","time":"1267649130","timestamp":"2010-03-03 20:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Touché sir, I should have narrowed my words a bit, I did not mean to claim that the entire idea of patents is bankrupt, I'm sure there are scenarios where it's helpful.\u003cp\u003eBut as you state, in software, it's very detrimental, and I'm sure software isn't the only industry where that's the case. That's why we need a far more nuanced approach. We could start by not handing out 20-year monopolies for ideas that take only a few months to implement and bring to market.\u003cp\u003eIn general, I think that it would be useful for all legislation to carry along with it legally binding \"original intent\" written down in broad, layman terms. That way a legal framework would exist to protect people from legislative hypocrisy.","parent":"1165075","id":"1165109"}
{"by":"BinaryIdiot","time":"1444511029","timestamp":"2015-10-10 21:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes they very much should! But in my, admittedly anecdotal, experience only the best \u0026#x2F; most senior ever do. Almost every junior or mid developer I\u0026#x27;ve worked with (and a small handful of senior folks) not only have no idea how changes like this would impact the larger environment but many won\u0026#x27;t even care to look into it.","parent":"10366730","id":"10366997"}
{"by":"eitally","time":"1395308803","timestamp":"2014-03-20 09:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a story on NPR a few weeks back stating that Lowe\u0026#x27;s (or Home Depot, I can\u0026#x27;t remember) is already doing this.","parent":"7434562","id":"7434594"}
{"by":"ugk","time":"1408023236","timestamp":"2014-08-14 13:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow. You\u0026#x27;re a real humanitarian. Most people just want it to stop, yet you want whitey punished.","parent":"8176313","id":"8177327"}
{"by":"canweriotnow","time":"1433440178","timestamp":"2015-06-04 17:49:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is AltaVista going to do an IoT pivot next? Maybe Pets.com?","parent":"9660315","id":"9660846"}
{"by":"kens","time":"1375922666","timestamp":"2013-08-08 00:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was an interesting case in 2005 when 110 people claimed the second prize in Powerball, compared to an expected 4 winners. The lottery officials suspected fraud of some sort since there were so many winners. But it turned out that a whole pile of fortune cookies had been printed with the same numbers and a lot of people use the lucky fortune cookie numbers. Thus 110 people ended up using the same winning numbers.\u003cp\u003eThe point is that the numbers people select can be extremely different from a random distribution.\u003cp\u003eSources: \u003ca href=\"http://www.snopes.com/luck/cookie.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.snopes.com\u0026#x2F;luck\u0026#x2F;cookie.asp\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/03/31/fortune-cookie-leads-to-record-number-powerball-winners/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.foxnews.com\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;2005\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;fortune-cookie-leads...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to a mathematician, even numbers over 31 are less common, so you should pick those to avoid splitting the jackpot: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/03/29/149635815/the-sobering-odds-of-winning-the-lottery-jackpot\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;149635815\u0026#x2F;the-sobering-odds-of...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6176018","id":"6176665"}
{"by":"antr","time":"1425948762","timestamp":"2015-03-10 00:52:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any insight why? I\u0026#x27;m guessing ad revenue is down, not enough traffic, etc. But more light on why Gigaom shutting down would be of value.","parent":"9175119","id":"9175222"}
{"by":"subway","time":"1362153422","timestamp":"2013-03-01 15:57:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if it would be possible to walk back the date using an ntp mitm attack.","parent":"5304153","id":"5304908"}
{"by":"javier2","time":"1477996966","timestamp":"2016-11-01 10:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am also in Europe, and the new model is insanely expensive to the point where I can no longer defend getting one for personal use. My job will probably buy one the next time I\u0026#x27;m due for an upgrade.","parent":"12844534","id":"12844579"}
{"by":"dferlemann","time":"1427724875","timestamp":"2015-03-30 14:14:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if it\u0026#x27;s fair to compare him to Mao, as Mao\u0026#x27;s reputation is pretty bad in the west. The general feel of this article is like: oh, he\u0026#x27;s pretty cool, well, anti-corruption, but controlling, and take his job really seriously, just like HITLER! Whut...\u003cp\u003eBut this article has very good details though. I enjoyed reading it.","parent":"9289139","id":"9289615"}
{"by":"sanxiyn","time":"1417413934","timestamp":"2014-12-01 06:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nobody knows how to make a pencil, and that is not a bug. Division of labour is how humanity improved its lot so far.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikisource.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;I,_Pencil\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8679471","id":"8679751"}
{"by":"enjo","time":"1314832155","timestamp":"2011-08-31 23:09:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would the lifetime of the data be at all relevant? Most noDB (a term I don't like much) stores are built to be highly durable.\u003cp\u003eThere are a lot of questions that make the choice of data store a difficult one, but I'm not sure that plays into it at all.","parent":"2946260","id":"2947984"}
{"by":"wodenokoto","time":"1530873127","timestamp":"2018-07-06 10:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who is not very good with grammars of programming languages, what is wrong with having\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    if a = b():\n       foo(a)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI know it doesn\u0026#x27;t work, but why couldn\u0026#x27;t it?","parent":"17469701","id":"17470299"}
{"by":"doombolt","time":"1543985172","timestamp":"2018-12-05 04:46:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is that you don\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e know that it has actually happened, but also you are footing the bill for it.\u003cp\u003eAs a Russian I find chinese ultra-unrealism pretty wimpy. We\u0026#x27;ve got cooler, more fierce stuff.","parent":"18604744","id":"18605747"}
{"by":"CamperBob2","time":"1378453201","timestamp":"2013-09-06 07:40:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If so many people are missing the point, then maybe, just maybe, there isn\u0026#x27;t one to miss.","parent":"6332972","id":"6339181"}
{"by":"eplanit","time":"1478028334","timestamp":"2016-11-01 19:25:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK\u003cp\u003eLocation: California\u003cp\u003eRemote Work: Yes\u003cp\u003eEmbedded Software Engineer, presently for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems, with knowledge and experience from firmware to bootloader, kernel, and application framework (esp. U-boot, Linux, and Android).   Wide-ranging experience solving challenges in areas of board bringup, device drivers (creating, adapting, debugging), framework customization, solving performance\u0026#x2F;resource issues, testing and validation.  Experiences span Product, R\u0026amp;D, and Factory Automation contexts.\u003cp\u003eHave worked extensively across geographies, cultures, and time zones.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;tom-thomas-73410b1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;tom-thomas-73410b1\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12846145","id":"12849261"}
{"by":"cosmolev","time":"1436476747","timestamp":"2015-07-09 21:19:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"via Google News as always \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?hl=en\u0026amp;gl=us\u0026amp;tbm=nws\u0026amp;authuser=0\u0026amp;q=The+age+of+unreason\u0026amp;oq=The+age+of+unreason\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?hl=en\u0026amp;gl=us\u0026amp;tbm=nws\u0026amp;authuser=0...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9860714","id":"9860763"}
{"by":"AlexMuir","time":"1283833713","timestamp":"2010-09-07 04:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was what I thought until I installed ubuntu. Maybe it's the honeymoon period, but it just works. I doubt your mum is doing heavy graphics work or playing games and those are the only two things that are keeping me on win 7. The interface ubuntu is nice, it's stable and programs can be installed in one click.\u003cp\u003eI'm not saying its perfect, just that it's much, much better than I thought.","parent":"1668022","id":"1668041"}
{"by":"davidad_","time":"1503523495","timestamp":"2017-08-23 21:24:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, I do find Interface to be subjectively noticeably more pleasant than Roboto in the comparison here.","parent":"15084624","id":"15085318"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1416042843","timestamp":"2014-11-15 09:14:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"KVM has a memory balloon driver that is pretty simple.","parent":"8610628","id":"8611271"}
{"by":"lumberjack","time":"1424111690","timestamp":"2015-02-16 18:34:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. If you have the time to sink figure out how to attend classes at the local state university. A few college credits that way would be immensely more valuable even if you don\u0026#x27;t complete the degree.\u003cp\u003eAnd having used MIT\u0026#x27;s material extensively while going through my studies I have to say the material is not really extraordinary. It\u0026#x27;s not what gives MIT students an edge over others. That edge is due to the motivating and challenging environment. So you probably won\u0026#x27;t get MIT level anything just by going through the videos and doing the problem sets.","parent":"9054992","id":"9058365"}
{"by":"olavk","time":"1488050015","timestamp":"2017-02-25 19:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then I sure you are also well aware of the counterarguments against this form of theodicy.","parent":"13731773","id":"13733211"}
{"by":"mrfusion","time":"1479948233","timestamp":"2016-11-24 00:43:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wild be so cool to get this to work with VR.","parent":"13022353","id":"13027015"}
{"by":"lrem","time":"1546194096","timestamp":"2018-12-30 18:21:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that Google (and presumably the others) pay for performance, not tenure. 10 years in you might be L8-9 and earn a million or be L4 and, well, not earn a million ;)\u003cp\u003eSource: I\u0026#x27;m keeping a pace of 1 promo \u0026#x2F; 2 years in Google. I\u0026#x27;ve seen people going both faster and slower (and some stopping at L4, because why bother).","parent":"18790393","id":"18790515"}
{"by":"yoodenvranx","time":"1509703075","timestamp":"2017-11-03 09:57:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Can\u0026#x27;t we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please?\u003cp\u003eWe should just go back to Delphi, it was\u0026#x2F;is one of the best ways of doing GUIs.","parent":"15617573","id":"15617897"}
{"by":"spriggan3","time":"1460737839","timestamp":"2016-04-15 16:30:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, like subprime mortgage rates didn\u0026#x27;t go up ...","parent":"11504963","id":"11505579"}
{"by":"p0nce","time":"1446393451","timestamp":"2015-11-01 15:57:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can setup IRC bouncers pretty easily.","parent":"10486648","id":"10486767"}
{"by":"TruthSHIFT","time":"1534866457","timestamp":"2018-08-21 15:47:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having an election manipulated by the Russian government does not count as \u0026quot;self-governance.\u0026quot;","parent":"17810270","dead":true,"id":"17810643"}
{"by":"matwood","time":"1326575324","timestamp":"2012-01-14 21:08:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great post.  It hits on one of the many problems I have with xfit.  The workouts are so different every time it's hard to track progress.","parent":"3465066","id":"3465319"}
{"by":"woranl","time":"1509546782","timestamp":"2017-11-01 14:33:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a hard time understanding your criticism. How is what you described easy? Care to explain?","parent":"15600498","id":"15601455"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1489758982","timestamp":"2017-03-17 13:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Model 3 is supposed to start at $35,000. Demand doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be a problem, as they have hundreds of thousands of reservations and pretty much stopped trying to solicit more while they work through the backlog. The major challenge for now is actually getting production up to capacity.","parent":"13888024","id":"13893978"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1360867032","timestamp":"2013-02-14 18:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll add a link to the HN discussion.\u003cp\u003eedit: ok link added at the bottom of the article. I hope that helps, I figured out belatedly that this may have been your way of making a joke but it is a useful addition so thank you for the hint.","parent":"5220864","id":"5221085"}
{"by":"madmaze","time":"1273711503","timestamp":"2010-05-13 00:45:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was wondering the same question. I assume places like HN and maybe digg are the main source of publicity","parent":"1342786","id":"1342814"}
{"by":"FussyZeus","time":"1481894754","timestamp":"2016-12-16 13:25:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So since you\u0026#x27;re either a marketer or someone who works closely with them at least, I have a serious question. Why can\u0026#x27;t you guys be happy with simple, unintrusive text ads on websites? Why do you need to bombard people with autoplay video, audio, etc. and annoy them to death? I have never heard of a single consumer who enjoys this experience yet it\u0026#x27;s employed by everyone.","parent":"13192473","id":"13193041"}
{"by":"lessthunk","time":"1426760740","timestamp":"2015-03-19 10:25:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A picture says more than a 1000 words;","parent":"9231013","id":"9231037"}
{"by":"marshallp","time":"1349857609","timestamp":"2012-10-10 08:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People are tired of me criticizing maths on here so I'll stop with it.\u003cp\u003eMy opinion on sports, arts etc. is the same. Publicly funded stuff is basically for the elite anyway, it's their way of cleverly siphoning tax-payer money (for there boring outdated interests which they partake in to show the illusion of sophistication). The masses pay to see their interests (and usually heavily taxed for it to boot).","parent":"4635485","id":"4635544"}
{"by":"anonymouse1570","time":"1389476796","timestamp":"2014-01-11 21:46:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"R u in any way impeding his work? Do you harrass him (explicitly or implicitly) or do any other kind of irritation. That might also be the reason. I don\u0026#x27;t think its his fault though.","parent":"7043668","dead":true,"id":"7043892"}
{"by":"danbruc","time":"1488676714","timestamp":"2017-03-05 01:18:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Without anything in the universe that could change over time and therefore indicate the passing of time that seems to be rather inconsequential to me at first glance, if it is even meaningful to talk about time in such a universe. I\u0026#x27;d say I leave that to your choosing. Also have as many space dimensions as you like and whatnot, I don\u0026#x27;t want to be to picky. I just want to take away all the objects you could use to implement sets with and on top of which you could then continue to build more structures.","parent":"13793978","id":"13794035"}
{"by":"joelhaus","time":"1324083134","timestamp":"2011-12-17 00:52:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is another mechanism used to incentivize support for ill-conceived policies: \u003ci\u003epromises of cushy, high-pay lobbying jobs for officials and members of their staff.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI imagine this would only be uncovered ex-post facto. Here's a nauseating example:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tauzin#Career_as_a_lobbyist\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tauzin#Career_as_a_lobbyi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3362501","id":"3362989"}
{"by":"mich41","time":"1364305368","timestamp":"2013-03-26 13:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003esome of our customers asked us not to use ATHEIST-branded packing tape on their shipments\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe sent 178 packages to 89 people\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e4 participants didn't get back to us with their dates and so were not included in the analysis\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo they used easily-spoofable data submitted by people who knew about the study and \u003ci\u003ea priori\u003c/i\u003e believed to be discriminated against.\u003cp\u003eIt may easily be just trolling by atheist jihadists from the US.","parent":"5442728","id":"5443153"}
{"by":"sauronlord","time":"1492155843","timestamp":"2017-04-14 07:44:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The solution to burnout:\n - get paid way more\u003cp\u003eMany people will happily work 14 hour days for a 1 million\u0026#x2F;year Salary. I promise you they will not burnout.\u003cp\u003eBut the crux of it is that employers must optimize burnout with labour expense.\u003cp\u003eTherefore they focus on the employee\u0026#x27;s behaviour to identify burnout and give them \u0026quot;just enough\u0026quot; to be teetering below the burnout phase (on-site massages, catered lunches, bullshit games, and extra vacation)\u003cp\u003eOther solution is to have a management\u0026#x2F;executive team that is proactive and not reactive.","parent":"14112842","id":"14113177"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1317319480","timestamp":"2011-09-29 18:04:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; Just where you could share ideas, ask question and mark progress of your startup in mile-stones and all.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut does it actually offer that, or is it just a generic forum UX? Frankly, I think the latter market is pretty well covered by cheaper, full featured and easy to host (PHP) alternatives. There's no point in going after that.\u003cp\u003eI think what SO (and possibly Quora, I'm not there yet) has shown is that you can succeed and displace well-established competitors if your software is custom tailored to the domain at hand.\u003cp\u003eSo, what differentiates your engine-for-the-entrepreneurial-community from any other engine? What specific features does it have just to solve that problem?","parent":"3052518","id":"3053534"}
{"by":"hnrodey","time":"1544732134","timestamp":"2018-12-13 20:15:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has been happening all over Denver, CO for the past few years.","parent":"18674986","id":"18675623"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1524163234","timestamp":"2018-04-19 18:40:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the case at every non-tech company I\u0026#x27;ve worked at. It\u0026#x27;s (mostly) the tech companies that segregate IT as a lower-status function.","parent":"16878258","id":"16878776"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1454185058","timestamp":"2016-01-30 20:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We for sure don\u0026#x27;t feed kids corn syrup and dress them ridiculously because their senses are still developing.\u003cp\u003eIn some senses, yes, we do.  Children often like brightly colored clothes (and objects in general), or clothes with large, obvious representations of things they like.\u003cp\u003eFoods with strong uncomplicated flavor profiles also go over well.  Mac \u0026amp; Cheese, Chicken tenders, etc.","parent":"11003513","id":"11003546"}
{"by":"mudil","time":"1461946638","timestamp":"2016-04-29 16:17:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brilliant! \nCL \u0026gt; SF bay area \u0026gt;south bay \u0026gt;for sale \u0026gt;antiques - by owner","parent":"11595853","id":"11596692"}
{"by":"scott_s","time":"1350862389","timestamp":"2012-10-21 23:33:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One's ability to use simple words to describe complex concepts is a function of not just understanding of the concept itself, but also mastery of the language. Consider that many (most?) of the research papers you've read were written by non-native English speakers. In my experience, people who are native English speakers have an easier time being both precise and concise.","parent":"4680810","id":"4681199"}
{"by":"rozzie","time":"1540747447","timestamp":"2018-10-28 17:24:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. We were very fortunate to have had the opportunity in 1984 to incorporate many concepts that seem to have withstood the test of time - a NOSQL db, masterless dB replication, end-to-end encryption, decentralized federated PKI, pure functional query\u0026#x2F;form language, etc.\u003cp\u003eEspecially proud of what the core team of 5 was able to accomplish, with ~3M lines of C operating smoothly (b\u0026#x2F;e + f\u0026#x2F;e) within the 250KB working set imposed by the win2 environment of the time.\u003cp\u003eBut you can’t blame the UI on mid 90’s. We very intentionally kept the dev team very small, and yet business reasons we needed to do concurrent UI ports to Windows, Mac, OS\u0026#x2F;2, OpenLook and Motif.\u003cp\u003eInstead of scaling the team to do a best of breed native UI for each target, we constrained ourselves to building a “greatest common multiple” portability layer that worked but felt foreign and awkward everywhere.\u003cp\u003eI still believe that self-imposed prioritization of constrained core team size was right for the time, even in that period of hyper growth, but the entire UI should have been completely revamped when success allowed for it and the team was ultimately scaled up. No excuses for that.","parent":"18320592","id":"18321703"}
{"by":"abrimo","time":"1312553815","timestamp":"2011-08-05 14:16:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool - looks kinda nifty.  The priority list approach to task management is something we've done for our software as well.  \u003ca href=\"https://mijura.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://mijura.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea of fixed priority isn't very flexible or realistic anymore.  Having a list of tasks to complete in the order you have to complete them really make it easier to focus and prioritise.","parent":"2849850","id":"2850147"}
{"by":"Jach","time":"1303520488","timestamp":"2011-04-23 01:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm interested where the 1.270589 number comes from. sqrt(golden ratio) is close: 1.27201965","parent":"2475854","id":"2475957"}
{"by":"ojbyrne","time":"1214592356","timestamp":"2008-06-27 18:45:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn't really have a point, but if I did, it wasn't in support of the wiki idea (or at least not using \"productivity\" as a way to sell it).","parent":"230017","id":"230035"}
{"by":"OliverJones","time":"1460113586","timestamp":"2016-04-08 11:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the article, Mr. Toomey wrote this:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The government assumes that any communication entering or leaving the country has a foreigner on one end — and thus is eligible for warrantless searching. As the new Brennan Center report makes clear, the implications of this position are especially dire given the global structure of the Internet, where even Americans’ domestic communications may be routed or stored abroad without the parties to those communications even knowing. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHe\u0026#x27;s correct. This position is dire. It also works in reverse. Any communication between two non-US residents that happens to transit the US is also subject to surveillance. Given the way global packet networks function, that means that almost any communication could be subject to surveillance under this legal theory.\u003cp\u003eAs US networking companies\u0026#x27; foreign customers have understood, that\u0026#x27;s an unacceptable -- and sometimes illegal -- risk. These policies haven\u0026#x27;t been good for US network business.\u003cp\u003eAnd, pretty soon the NSA could have T. Cruz or D. Trump at the head of the government they control.\u003cp\u003eIs there some reason the US security apparatus can\u0026#x27;t legislate in public? Is there some reason they can\u0026#x27;t make the case \u0026quot;here\u0026#x27;s why we are trustworthy\u0026quot;? They haven\u0026#x27;t even TRIED to make that case.","parent":"11449099","id":"11453827"}
{"by":"gnarbarian","time":"1419844441","timestamp":"2014-12-29 09:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m talking about accidental deaths. I have no issue with legal homicide (in self defense) or suicide. RFID guns won\u0026#x27;t stop either of those from happening.","parent":"8809042","id":"8809046"}
{"by":"estel","time":"1321484825","timestamp":"2011-11-16 23:07:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those of us not in the US, what are they?","parent":"3245473","id":"3245581"}
{"by":"johnfn","time":"1503911305","timestamp":"2017-08-28 09:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately I believe you have missed what I was trying to say and went on a very long post against something that doesn\u0026#x27;t have anything to do with how I use FB. Your post was fun and interesting to read, I- it- I- just... it\u0026#x27;s almost as if you responded to a completely different post.\u003cp\u003eTo recap, I have a bunch of friendships that are so minor that I only have contact with them on FB. They\u0026#x27;re not serious enough to demand the other person to move off FB. (We\u0026#x27;re talking about \u0026quot;I randomly like one of there posts every few months\u0026quot; minor.) They may become more serious in the future due to the ephemeral nature of friendships. Leaving FB would sever those friendships before they get to that stage.\u003cp\u003eHopefully that makes sense!","parent":"15064118","id":"15115335"}
{"by":"notJim","time":"1337441564","timestamp":"2012-05-19 15:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I fully agree that for a new project, you shouldn't use PHP for any other reason than the ubiquitous hosting.\u003cp\u003eHere's another scenario where I could imagine using PHP. Suppose I'm starting a company, and I'm starting it solo. I've been using PHP successfully for many years, and I know it and the environment (Apache, etc.) \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e well. I know what libraries are good, what libraries are not good, I have a framework that I like, and that I know how to set up to my liking. By the way, I'm really excited about this company.\u003cp\u003eNow, PHP is pretty awful as a \u003ci\u003eprogramming language\u003c/i\u003e. I really don't like it. But the reality is, \u003ci\u003eI\u003c/i\u003e am going be \u003ci\u003edramatically more efficient\u003c/i\u003e with it. If I were to use Rails, it would take me at the very least a week or two to really be able to use it without checking documentation constantly, and it would probably take me months to be at a proficiency where I was totally comfortable with it, and the environment it lives in, and figured out which libraries to use with it and so on.\u003cp\u003eDuring those months, when I should be focussing on building my business, talking to customers, getting feedback, learning more about marketing, I am instead dealing with the friction of learning a new programming environment. If I had stuck with PHP, all I have to do is sit at a terminal and let the code flow out of my fingertips. All of my actual thinking could go into the important stuff.\u003cp\u003eI don't deny that PHP is pretty terrible as a programing language. I do however deny that there are no reasons to use it for a new project.","parent":"3995768","id":"3996147"}
{"by":"pbiggar","time":"1435985236","timestamp":"2015-07-04 04:47:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like others took up the cause later, see \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;bjacob\u0026#x2F;builtin-unreachable-study\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;notes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;bjacob\u0026#x2F;builtin-unreachable...\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;groups.google.com\u0026#x2F;forum\u0026#x2F;#!topic\u0026#x2F;mozilla.dev.platform\u0026#x2F;E0sg9EYk1xU\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;groups.google.com\u0026#x2F;forum\u0026#x2F;#!topic\u0026#x2F;mozilla.dev.platform...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9829233","id":"9829244"}
{"by":"cafard","time":"1429647855","timestamp":"2015-04-21 20:24:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Upvoted for the owned\u0026#x2F;read distinction.","parent":"9416740","id":"9416795"}
{"by":"bbctol","time":"1476885864","timestamp":"2016-10-19 14:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting argument presented in the paper, though I wouldn\u0026#x27;t frame it as \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;ve evolved to be inaccurate\u0026quot;: it\u0026#x27;s really that the world can be so suddenly unpredictable that setting up strong, working paradigms of decision making in the short term can be worse in the long run than just winging it.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s worth considering, especially in light of the authors\u0026#x27; suggestion that we use computer\u0026#x2F;human decision-making systems to improve performance, as the world is still unpredictable, and can still break our paradigms. The biggest danger of setting up a good system to improve knowledge is that you\u0026#x27;ll think you\u0026#x27;ve got a perfect one--we could improve our rationality and decision-making with computers for a long time, before an unexpected case cracks the system, and we\u0026#x27;re left floundering.","parent":"12743198","id":"12743832"}
{"by":"c22","time":"1449817401","timestamp":"2015-12-11 07:03:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think jaquesm was making a tongue in cheek reference to the thought process of 2g\u0026#x27;s designers.","parent":"10715328","id":"10715807"}
{"by":"siegecraft","time":"1377111698","timestamp":"2013-08-21 19:01:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMO, it\u0026#x27;s because they\u0026#x27;re abstract enough to be completely opaque to someone who doesn\u0026#x27;t understand the concept of them, but ridiculously simple once you do.  Also, if you\u0026#x27;re doing a lot of front-end\u0026#x2F;javascript work you\u0026#x27;re bound to have run into them, even if you don\u0026#x27;t realize what they actually are at the time.  For me it was just one of those \u0026quot;a-ha\u0026quot; moments where you realize there\u0026#x27;s an easier\u0026#x2F;better way to do something.  And if the interviewee doesn\u0026#x27;t know about them before the interview, hopefully s\u0026#x2F;he has learned something from the interview (I learn a lot from interviews just from looking up all the stuff I didn\u0026#x27;t know).","parent":"6252231","id":"6252575"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1452284280","timestamp":"2016-01-08 20:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with aluminum for conduction is that (1) it does not like to be clamped down (it tends to back away from the screw terminals so you will have to re-tighten them or use a different clamping mechanism) and (2) it tends to oxidize so even a slight loss of contact will turn into a much higher resistance on the joint.\u003cp\u003eCopper doesn\u0026#x27;t have these draw-backs which is why it is used a lot more on the \u0026#x27;low power\u0026#x27; side of things.\u003cp\u003eBut for the transmission lines the reduced weight more than offsets all the other issues, those are very well taken care of connections with resistances in the milli-Ohms, an expensive connector is not an issue when it comes to power infrastructure.","parent":"10867269","id":"10867882"}
{"by":"Cthulhu_","time":"1405954037","timestamp":"2014-07-21 14:47:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TBH if you\u0026#x27;re nervous about a technical interview, maybe you don\u0026#x27;t actually have the technical level required for said job.\u003cp\u003eOr maybe that\u0026#x27;s just me; nervousity in presentations or interviews or even talking is IMHO an indication of not knowing what you\u0026#x27;re talking about. And knowledge is confidence.","parent":"8063482","id":"8063903"}
{"by":"Pinckney","time":"1446246446","timestamp":"2015-10-30 23:07:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t work with joe.","parent":"10480331","id":"10481088"}
{"by":"user5454","time":"1529573083","timestamp":"2018-06-21 09:24:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On a related note I\u0026#x27;ve found it\u0026#x27;s easier to get your way with e.g. your manager if you say \u0026quot;I will do this!\u0026quot; rather than \u0026quot;Can I do this?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis probably have to do with that in the second case you ask your manager to make a decision, causing them cognitive load. In the first case you already made that decision for them.","parent":"17361482","id":"17363413"}
{"by":"Dove","time":"1349971998","timestamp":"2012-10-11 16:13:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The criticism does not seem to be against asteroid mining in general, but against the idea that diamonds in space would make it more viable.  Diamonds, especially for industrial use, are not something Earth has a shortage of.","parent":"4641419","id":"4641445"}
{"by":"akavi","time":"1399926115","timestamp":"2014-05-12 20:21:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One lovely benefit of being an ethnic minority living outside the \u0026quot;motherland\u0026quot; is that you get a large pool of names to choose from that satisfy both the \u0026quot;only one in their 2nd grade class\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;venerable and meaningful\u0026quot; criteria.\u003cp\u003eThe downside is you\u0026#x27;ll be spelling out your name at Starbucks for the rest of your life and probably grow very tired of saying \u0026quot;No, emphasis on the first syllable, not the last\u0026quot; twice a week. But there are tradeoffs to everything.","parent":"7734905","id":"7735204"}
{"by":"extra88","time":"1493475720","timestamp":"2017-04-29 14:22:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The most glaring example is Congress taking away funding from the Centers for Disease Control to study gun violence (I think they still do some reports based on data collected by others but not their own original research). While gun crimes get some attention, particularly mass shootings, accidents and suicides account for most gun deaths and injuries.","parent":"14226557","id":"14226695"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1543771125","timestamp":"2018-12-02 17:18:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But they haven’t made the names-part of the data available to the public, in your scenario. They’ve made an editorial decision that it’s not in the public interest to know the names of the officers — just like most news orgs don’t publish the name of rape victims even though it’s part of the court record. Virtually no news org will want to set a precedent of selectively releasing info that it previously decided it wanted to withhold.\u003cp\u003eYes, we obviously have a different position about the trade offs, that’s why I replied to your comment in the first place. However, what I’m arguing is that your current position is untenable. It is not logistically or morally feasible for a news org to provide upon request info that it has used its editorial judgment to redact.","parent":"18582966","id":"18583233"}
{"by":"mannykannot","time":"1423081742","timestamp":"2015-02-04 20:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author presented an argument for this proposition. Do you have an argument against it?","parent":"8999247","id":"8999504"}
{"by":"0xFFC","time":"1485783818","timestamp":"2017-01-30 13:43:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First of all, I was talking about people. The USA government (and as far as I can see trump banned based on nationality, not relation to government) did far worse to Iran and most of other countries. In scale, I don\u0026#x27;t need to provide a link for you. You can find it on the internet. If we want to go this path, (almost) every country in the world should ban the US. From assassinating their leader, changing their government, supporting dictators, and so much more.\u003cp\u003eLet me remember you, me and my generation is in this deep shit (Islamic Republic) because your government has overthrown an elected democratic government in ~1952.\u003cp\u003eBTW I don\u0026#x27;t believe Hezbollah is a terrorist. Because it is not, It does not blow people in Marathon, It does not blow people in a restaurant in France. Yes, they do defend themselves against Israel. \nSo as much as I hate , Hezbollah, they are not terrorist.","parent":"13521032","id":"13521047"}
{"by":"3rd3","time":"1371342943","timestamp":"2013-06-16 00:35:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe people got lazy over time and tended to use the abbreviation?\u003cp\u003eOr maybe one can see a general decline of less popular terms due to the growth and change of the internet usage in the past 10 years? Imagine all those people who search for \u0026#x27;weather\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;email\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;facebook\u0026#x27; etc.","parent":"5886554","id":"5886817"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1381531970","timestamp":"2013-10-11 22:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Increased demand for basic goods and services increases the expected yield of investments in areas related to producing and selling those goods, and therefore would be expected to \u003ci\u003eincrease\u003c/i\u003e investment in that area.","parent":"6535967","id":"6536339"}
{"by":"apaprocki","time":"1429761370","timestamp":"2015-04-23 03:56:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s when you take the ferry across the river and bring an umbrella :)","parent":"9424833","id":"9424936"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1260729526","timestamp":"2009-12-13 18:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I once told people the correct definition of \"begs\", and they refused to believe me, and thought I was wrong. To them begs means: raises a very obvious question.\u003cp\u003eSo it's over, \"begs\" has a new meaning, and complaining about it is pointless.","parent":"992876","id":"992959"}
{"by":"izzydata","time":"1456248386","timestamp":"2016-02-23 17:26:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a way to limit this to battles that had at least 50+ people in them and maybe 20 casualties? Most of the ones I looked at didn\u0026#x27;t even seem liked an armed conflict.","parent":"11154294","id":"11160526"}
{"by":"arnon","time":"1493986925","timestamp":"2017-05-05 12:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Incidentally, yes.","parent":"14270326","id":"14272834"}
{"by":"AdmiralAsshat","time":"1522428127","timestamp":"2018-03-30 16:42:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My hope is that it will put more effort into projects like ReactOS, which will get us a binary-compatible version of Windows that is free and open-source.","parent":"16717081","id":"16717627"}
{"by":"mistermann","time":"1243883822","timestamp":"2009-06-01 19:17:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope the server can be run in house.  God, I would love to get off sharepoint.","parent":"635706","id":"636604"}
{"by":"rprasad","time":"1344016081","timestamp":"2012-08-03 17:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of the professional athletes from my school use their positions to help fund (and/or run) nonprofits across the state of California.  Some of them run nonprofits that benefit refugees in Africa.  Others fund medical clinics in Southeast Asia.  More than a few have helped raise \u003ci\u003emillions\u003c/i\u003e for the cancer research you love so dearly.\u003cp\u003eYou know what they all have in common?  Their \u003ci\u003ejob\u003c/i\u003e is to be an athlete.  It says nothing about their ability to give back to society.\u003cp\u003eIndeed, I would argue that the average professional athlete gives back more to society and creates more value than a hacker who wants to give the world Yet Another Useless Social Platform/iApp/SaaS That No One Will Ever Use.\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion, merely creating a startup is not something of value to society--you actually have to create something of value.","parent":"4334203","id":"4335169"}
{"by":"DougMerritt","time":"1439778121","timestamp":"2015-08-17 02:22:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, Colin is good that way. But:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; he understood my side far better than you did (and another who came to his defense, then deleted the remark) and his reply was far more respectful, diplomatic and appreciated.\u003cp\u003eHoly shit you are a rude fuck. I\u0026#x27;m sorry I even tried to be understanding and explain to an aggressive tool like you.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m sure you meant well and I appreciate the good intentions behind your words\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t say the same for you. It\u0026#x27;s been a long time since I was so effectively \u0026quot;damned with faint praise\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eEdit: regarding mathematics, you are anthropologically an outsider, but you\u0026#x27;re complaining because you might be looked down upon for that. Well you either join a community or remain an outsider, it\u0026#x27;s not complicated.","parent":"10070191","dead":true,"id":"10071079"}
{"by":"daughart","time":"1455978180","timestamp":"2016-02-20 14:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got to the third sentence:  \u0026quot;Based on an analysis of reality, it is well-informed on economics...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFunny, I remember it as a comedy about petulant capitalists.","parent":"11139979","id":"11140107"}
{"by":"robryan","time":"1267962513","timestamp":"2010-03-07 11:48:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The suspect thing I see about this is that it doesn't link back to Mixergy at all or even mention that it is summarizing another websites content.\u003cp\u003eSeems to step a little bit over fair use if it's an unauthorized site.","parent":"1173067","id":"1173246"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1500144742","timestamp":"2017-07-15 18:52:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What it\u0026#x27;s economy is like and what it\u0026#x27;s popularly imagined to be are two different things. Your nitpick actually undermines the very awareness you\u0026#x27;re trying to create because it misses the semantic mark.","parent":"14776741","dead":true,"id":"14778266"}
{"by":"red75prime","time":"1483894798","timestamp":"2017-01-08 16:59:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like Richard Feynman\u0026#x27;s position. He attended one philosophical seminar, complimented cleverness of arguments, then he hadn\u0026#x27;t attended philosophical seminars anymore.","parent":"13350068","id":"13350620"}
{"by":"cromwellian","time":"1474675622","timestamp":"2016-09-24 00:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the best you\u0026#x27;ve got?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=EPyZNxnRK-8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=EPyZNxnRK-8\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=EEZBDTHy1o4\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=EEZBDTHy1o4\u003c/a\u003e \u0026quot;Hey, we forgot to make them promise to give us half the oil\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eDo I need to even bring up the videos of Trump essentially saying we should plunder Iraq and Syria for oil?  It\u0026#x27;s not even thinly veiled imperialism, Trump literally says \u0026quot;We should go in and TAKE the oil\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eDo you understand that part of \u0026quot;Make America Great Again\u0026quot; is a return to former empire glory? It\u0026#x27;s stone cold patriotic nationalism, the same forces at work in Russia supporting Putin, with ideas of returns to former glory.\u003cp\u003eTrump wants more than Waterboarding: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=z3FXMJ46pVA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=z3FXMJ46pVA\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrump wants to assassinate people\u0026#x27;s families: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=KRoLRJCW3js\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=KRoLRJCW3js\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrump\u0026#x27;s AIPAC speech far exceeded the pandering by Hillary and other politicians.\u003cp\u003eI could go on and on. We know the kind of politician Hillary is, we see it every 4 years. Pandering to AIPAC, defending the existing foreign entanglements, acting tough so as not to be seen \u0026quot;weak on national security\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eDo you understand that there\u0026#x27;s a difference between that, and a man literally saying he wants to make torture legal, and to assassinate families, to plunder foreign resources via military conquest? Why don\u0026#x27;t you take this man at his word?\u003cp\u003eAre you Russian and just pro-Trump because you think he\u0026#x27;ll be nice to Russian interests?","parent":"12568451","id":"12568788"}
{"by":"VestingAxis","time":"1524589807","timestamp":"2018-04-24 17:10:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, you are correct, vacuum tube amps have higher levels of distortion (and noise in most cases) compared to solid state amps. For vacuum tube amps the characteristic curve of distortion is a quadratic function called the second harmonic (frequency double the original sound and an overtone factor produced by most musical instruments - eg. a stradivarius -  that gives depth and richness to sound). Solid state amps on the other hand produce tertiary and quintic harmonics that are not as pleasing to hear (which is why they try to reduce distortion for solid state amps to zero).","parent":"16914205","id":"16914485"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1516476249","timestamp":"2018-01-20 19:24:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. It\u0026#x27;s why you need multiple, assurance activities on projects to spot what a single one can\u0026#x27;t handle. I summarized here [1] those that produced results at various points in CompSci and INFOSEC history. Far as this, the first applications of covert-channel analysis to hardware found cache-based, timing channels in both VAX [2] and Intel CPU\u0026#x27;s [3]. That the caches leaked secrets meant any number of constructions built on top would leak secrets. So, proper response would be either one cache\u0026#x2F;core\u0026#x2F;cpu per security domain or designing a new cache that didn\u0026#x27;t leak secrets. The former was high-security\u0026#x27;s fall-back with the latter attempted by many in CompSci using partitioning or masking caches. The first was done in 2005 after Percival\u0026#x27;s work showing secret leaks. That first attempt on partitioned caches also cited prior work in real-time sector thinking similarly to boost determinism: proving determinism and covert channel prevention were always closely related. There were many designs after that for both partitioning and masking before the Intel hit.\u003cp\u003eSo, the root causes of shared, on-chip resources were identified by mid-1990\u0026#x27;s, demonstrated again by later work like Percivals, being mitigated from that year onward, and ignored by CPU vendors. When I asked in the past, hardware people told me they didn\u0026#x27;t care about cache security because their sales were strictly tied to customers\u0026#x27; benchmarks of performance per dollar and watt. Customers didn\u0026#x27;t care. Suppliers didn\u0026#x27;t care. That simple.\u003cp\u003eThere were in fact (tiny) segments where customers were buying processors with more robustness or predictability. Those that come to mind were some PowerPC designs from Freescale that aerospace liked, Leon3-FT SPARC that was GPL, some smartcard components, and especially Rockwell-Collins\u0026#x27; AAMP7G [5]. Designed with EAL7 methods from 1992, it had mathematical proof of separation at level, triplicated registers for fault-tolerance, ECC memory, and MILSPEC heat tolerance. It\u0026#x27;s used in guards to separate Top Secret\u0026#x2F;SCI info from other stuff.\u003cp\u003eSo, these are old attacks with mitigations of various costs that were ignored for profit maximization by the big companies and performance maximization by most consumers\u0026#x2F;businesses who didn\u0026#x27;t buy security in general. Both old and new techniques were effective at assessing leaks and mitigations, though. They could\u0026#x27;ve been used at any time, were by CompSci, were by security-critical suppliers (esp Rockwell), and even more techniques exist now for analysis [6]. Intel et al will just patch up until next attack since they and the market haven\u0026#x27;t changed. ;)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;uyNfvqcp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;uyNfvqcp\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.ch\u0026#x2F;patents\u0026#x2F;US5574912\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.ch\u0026#x2F;patents\u0026#x2F;US5574912\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Note: Using the patent filing since the 1992 work is paywalled. It\u0026#x27;s the same person filing what they discovered on VAX VMM project.)\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org\u0026#x2F;2209\u0026#x2F;42809262c17b6631c0f6536c91aaf7756857.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org\u0026#x2F;2209\u0026#x2F;42809262c17b6631c0f653...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[4] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eprint.iacr.org\u0026#x2F;2005\u0026#x2F;280.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eprint.iacr.org\u0026#x2F;2005\u0026#x2F;280.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[5] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ccs.neu.edu\u0026#x2F;home\u0026#x2F;pete\u0026#x2F;acl206\u0026#x2F;slides\u0026#x2F;hardin.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ccs.neu.edu\u0026#x2F;home\u0026#x2F;pete\u0026#x2F;acl206\u0026#x2F;slides\u0026#x2F;hardin.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[6] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;ajqxDJ3J\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;ajqxDJ3J\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16194122","id":"16194928"}
{"by":"pbiggar","time":"1490724445","timestamp":"2017-03-28 18:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is a safe assumption. It\u0026#x27;s well known in the dev tools space that if you do well, AWS will start to compete with you.\u003cp\u003eA bunch of VCs have articles about how the big cloud players change the ecosystem (esp that AWS will just compete - won\u0026#x27;t even offer to buy), and Andy Jassy said something like \u0026quot;your success is our opportunity\u0026quot; at the last re:invent.\u003cp\u003e(I should really have citations for all this stuff but a quick search didn\u0026#x27;t find them and I\u0026#x27;m in a rush, sorry!)","parent":"13977338","id":"13979028"}
{"by":"_kyran","time":"1522952898","timestamp":"2018-04-05 18:28:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was possible, using one off charges with a webhook.","parent":"16767474","id":"16767598"}
{"by":"rm999","time":"1515519921","timestamp":"2018-01-09 17:45:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; How is Google even remotely comparable to Amazon???\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re already scared of Google and Facebook this is an easy one: Amazon\u0026#x27;s growth will increasingly depend on advertising, and they \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e continue to grow. Pretty much everything they have done in the last couple years moves in this direction: a search page riddled with sponsored results, Echo (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gizmodo.com\u0026#x2F;yes-your-amazon-echo-is-an-ad-machine-1821712916\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gizmodo.com\u0026#x2F;yes-your-amazon-echo-is-an-ad-machine-18...\u003c/a\u003e), my new 30 dollar Fire tablet that always shows me ads, retargeting, etc. Amazon has Google-level information on its users, and will use it in ways that are simialrly invasive.\u003cp\u003eI see a lot of people writing off Amazon because it\u0026#x27;s not as ubiquitous as Google in their lives. This is a mistake: their dominance will continue to grow. They have the best product strategy I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen, and everything they are doing will move them in the direction of being a central part of everyone\u0026#x27;s lives (even non-Americans - when I was in India recently and I saw an Amazon billboard or bus ad every 5 minutes, even in smaller towns).","parent":"16107776","id":"16108038"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1535249841","timestamp":"2018-08-26 02:17:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nngroup.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nngroup.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;f-shaped-pattern-reading-we...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eJakob Nielsen was making this observation ages ago with regard to Web pages.\u003cp\u003eI think it\u0026#x27;s a bit of a mistake to lump reading books on a Kindle in with checking e-mails on an iPad (at least assuming we mean the e-ink version); the former is much less task-oriented than the latter and I find I\u0026#x27;m actually reading many more long and challenging books on the Kindle than I used to.  Though of course I can\u0026#x27;t really explain why the students in the study mentioned had so much worse results.","parent":"17841431","id":"17843841"}
{"by":"adminprof","time":"1441808621","timestamp":"2015-09-09 14:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That Wikipedia page is the most hilarious wtf I have ever seen. I did not see this \u0026quot;\u0026lt; 25%\u0026quot; number you mention, but I read that \u0026quot;In 2011, a survey conducted by TIAA-CREF Institute senior researcher Paul J. Yakoboski estimated that 73% of professors with senior tenure ranged between the ages of 60 and 66 and that the remaining 27% were above the age of 66.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThen I read the reference and it said \u0026quot;To this end, the TIAA-CREF Institute surveyed full-time college and university faculty age 60 and older regarding issues related to whether and when to retire.\u0026quot; The survey is about seniors (in terms of age) because TIAA-CREF is a retirement account company, not \u0026quot;senior tenure\u0026quot; whatever that means. I\u0026#x27;m actually more surprised that the number of professors over 60 is not 100% since that\u0026#x27;s the only population surveyed.\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the Wikipedia page is similarly biased, \u0026quot;Today (2015), adjunct professors, hired for their low cost only, rather than expertise, make up more than half the teaching faculty at United States universities.\u0026quot; I can\u0026#x27;t tell if the Wikipedia article is intentionally ridiculous or if it\u0026#x27;s some parody article.","parent":"10181259","id":"10191599"}
{"by":"STRML","time":"1474488084","timestamp":"2016-09-21 20:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Be aware: Sierra breaks Karabiner and Seil. You\u0026#x27;ll need to use Karabiner-Elements, which has far less functionality than Karabiner. Notably, you can\u0026#x27;t remap caps lock and you can\u0026#x27;t assign to more than 2 keys, so caps-lock \u0026quot;hyper\u0026quot; is out.","parent":"12548792","id":"12551709"}
{"by":"brisance","time":"1536884746","timestamp":"2018-09-14 00:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly, the US does similar things. The current administration is particularly evil, yet why didn\u0026#x27;t Google employees resign en masse when Snowden came forward with the revelations?","parent":"17981393","id":"17983857"}
{"by":"jusob","time":"1489777092","timestamp":"2017-03-17 18:58:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If this is an explicit proxy, this is true. But with a transparent proxy, SNI would still be needed to know what domain name is going to be requested.","parent":"13892460","id":"13896890"}
{"by":"dpweb","time":"1507859326","timestamp":"2017-10-13 01:48:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing quite screams b2b tech like, better sales beating better product.\u003cp\u003eVendors spend a lot of money on marketing and sales and id argue its a much tougher nut to crack that putting together some great tech.  IT sr managers and up are constantly harassed by vendors for a piece.\u003cp\u003eSecurity however, sounds like you picked a good space to be in. I’d focus on getting an installed base by whatever means necessary. Your prospects are going to want to see you are out there in production at real companies. Ive heard stories of very small startups getting in that way.","parent":"15460568","id":"15462748"}
{"by":"theseatoms","time":"1452174996","timestamp":"2016-01-07 13:56:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What Chicago startups would you put on the list?","parent":"10853390","id":"10857890"}
{"by":"forkrulassail","time":"1337241026","timestamp":"2012-05-17 07:50:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Games are the last vestige of the Windows platform that still chain my students to the platform. If they could game (with the latest and greatest games) on *nix, then, the battle is mostly won, no more dual booting, no more worrying about crappy Windows dev tools.","parent":"3985903","id":"3985928"}
{"by":"colinm","time":"1327127046","timestamp":"2012-01-21 06:24:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there is plenty of independent movies, the trouble is getting it into cinemas.","parent":"3491542","id":"3492796"}
{"by":"marco_guate","time":"1461963452","timestamp":"2016-04-29 20:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Couple of issues with that: \n-Very few developed nations read in Spanish. Donation books in other languages are usually just trashed.\n-Getting this huge amounts of books would be indeed crazy.\n-So books will stay at owners homes. Because there are books in developing countries. We´re not necessarily looking into getting more. We just want to have them shared so they can all be read 10-20 times, instead of just 1 or 0 times.\u003cp\u003eYes, I´ve been evaluating the non-profit way, especially because it could be easier to get donations, but I want it o be sustainable. Seems like everything that gets donation money becomes inefficient.","parent":"11538378","id":"11598706"}
{"by":"nandemo","time":"1422863429","timestamp":"2015-02-02 07:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking at an excerpt in another wikipedia entry, it looks like the metric is based on phonology only:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eDemonstrates a comparative statistical method for determining the extent of change from the Latin for the free and checked accented vowels of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Old Provençal, and Logudorese Sardinian. By assigning 3½ change points per vowel (with 2 points for diphthongization, 1 point for modification in vowel quantity, ½ point for changes due to nasalization, palatalization or umlaut, and −½ point for failure to effect a normal change), there is a maximum of 77 change points for free and checked stressed vowel sounds (11×2×3½=77). According to this system (illustrated by seven charts at the end of the article), the percentage of change is greatest in French (44%) and least in Italian (12%) and Sardinian (8%). Prof. Pei suggests that this statistical method be extended not only to all other phonological, but also to all morphological and syntactical, phenomena.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_Romance_languages#cite_note-10\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Classification_of_Romance_langu...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSounds rather arbitrary. Linguistics has come a long way since the 1940s, so I would take that one with a big grain of salt without confirmation from more modern references.\u003cp\u003eThat said, as another comment in this subthread says, Latin survives in all Romance languages. There\u0026#x27;s no objective basis in claiming that Romanian is the one true descendant.","parent":"8982768","id":"8983145"}
{"by":"rblatz","time":"1436041181","timestamp":"2015-07-04 20:19:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a counterpoint, I don\u0026#x27;t know anyone who thinks she has any business running reddit.  She has shown time and time again that she doesn\u0026#x27;t understand the reddit community, or even internet culture.","parent":"9831094","id":"9831474"}
{"by":"lotsofpulp","time":"1546955782","timestamp":"2019-01-08 13:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Instead of targeting specific entities, the better way would be to introduce structural changes in a American society via federal laws mandating paid leave minimums and removal of non-monetary compensation like health insurance benefit.\u003cp\u003eA reduction in supply of labor will lead to higher wages, at the same time providing people with less stress and more time to participate in their community.","parent":"18855125","id":"18855488"}
{"by":"DabAsteroid","time":"1221673364","timestamp":"2008-09-17 17:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMillionaire Nathan Myhrvold, renowned in the computer industry as a Renaissance man, has a less lofty message for tech companies these days: Pay up.\u003cp\u003eOver the past few years, the former Microsoft Corp. executive has quietly amassed a trove of 20,000-plus patents and patent applications related to everything from lasers to computer chips. He now ranks among the world's largest patent-holders -- and is using that clout to press tech giants to sign some of the costliest patent-licensing deals ever negotiated.\u003cp\u003eIn recent months Mr. Myhrvold's firm, Intellectual Ventures, has secured payments in the range of $200 million to $400 ...\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"307254","id":"307265"}
{"by":"ebiester","time":"1296764362","timestamp":"2011-02-03 20:19:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering the 15 people who are going to be sending condolances letters once it hits the rumor mill? yep.","parent":"2176509","id":"2176605"}
{"by":"e40","time":"1398570214","timestamp":"2014-04-27 03:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A traceroute takes a few seconds.  99% of the time I call it\u0026#x27;s mainly to  tell them to please track down the problem (outside of my home... only once over the years was it my modem) and fix it.  To have to wade through 20 minutes of prelims, when a 20 second command could make it obviously unnecessary, that\u0026#x27;s just dumb.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that you thought I was suggesting skipping the basics is bewildering.","parent":"7652742","id":"7653855"}
{"by":"FussyZeus","time":"1461936428","timestamp":"2016-04-29 13:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can understand as a programmer Bing being used for the more interesting functions, such as tracking packages or finding business hours and that sort of thing (the tasks that never leave the Cortana window) but come on Microsoft, beyond that we both know all you\u0026#x27;re going is opening a Bing search in the browser and that\u0026#x27;s NOT complicated at all.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m fine with Bing integration for most Cortana functions, but let us choose our own damn browser and our own damn search engine.","parent":"11594869","id":"11595537"}
{"by":"kiba","time":"1242006216","timestamp":"2009-05-11 01:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An online wargame in reality using geolocation and mobile phones.\u003cp\u003eBuild game servers that serve as wireless mesh network and locate them throughout the city(Partnering with local businesses such as coffee shops). They can also store the company's weapon hardwares and suits to loan to player.\u003cp\u003ePlayers can also build their own weapon system and suits.","parent":"602478","id":"602804"}
{"by":"stevewillows","time":"1508563606","timestamp":"2017-10-21 05:26:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve always assumed that signatures were purely for some form of potential legal proceeding where they court can ask, \u0026#x27;did you sign this?\u0026#x27; -- and nothing more.","parent":"15517949","id":"15520811"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1431291182","timestamp":"2015-05-10 20:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We\u0026#x27;re still allowed to use what we want, no matter how new or old it is, right?\u003cp\u003eYes, but that means you may be on your own to support it, which means extra up-front work as well as maintenance.\u003cp\u003eFor example, keep in mind that Javascript has changed execution environments and was also originally built without the concept of simply importing other JS files. So over the years, we have had various incompatible ways of packaging and even importing modules[0]. Yes, the situation is improving, and ES6 and polyfills sort of fix this, but let me tell you, it is not fun to deal with old code that assumes a different execution environment and\u0026#x2F;or build process than the one you\u0026#x27;re using[1].\u003cp\u003e[0] e.g. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;16521471\u0026#x2F;relation-between-commonjs-amd-and-requirejs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;16521471\u0026#x2F;relation-betwee...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] I really don\u0026#x27;t want to turn this into a debate on the best way to package or import Javascript projects today - just to point out that yes, there is a cost to using old code, regardless of how good it was at the time it was written.","parent":"9521143","id":"9521263"}
{"by":"mikerichards","time":"1422847148","timestamp":"2015-02-02 03:19:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you communists even listen to yourselves?  He never said he was a libertarian.  And where the hell do you get this \u0026quot;hustling sketchy shit\u0026quot; from?   Do us a favor and reply to the comment, not whatever your mind twisted it into.","parent":"8981996","id":"8982580"}
{"by":"koko775","time":"1362642588","timestamp":"2013-03-07 07:49:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Phrased that way, I agree completely. An established codebase needs to be verified in some ways. But writing code and running it against tests is not exactly equivalent to TDD.\u003cp\u003eTDD as I understand it is characterized by writing a failing test, followed by implementation code, followed by test-fixing, etc.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I can write plenty of good code that does what it's supposed to and works and is stable. THEN I'll refactor as needed, write tests, and since I anticipated my needs, making those tests good and the code testable will be relatively straightforward. That's not TDD, though. It's a pragmatic approach that doesn't prioritize setting requirements (or solidifying an API) over starting simple and iterating quickly.","parent":"5331763","id":"5336646"}
{"by":"tomphoolery","time":"1374000061","timestamp":"2013-07-16 18:41:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Git will always freak when you have large WAV files in there. Use git-media to offload that to an external file server: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/schacon/git-media\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;schacon\u0026#x2F;git-media\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6052649","id":"6053865"}
{"by":"booruguru","time":"1438204943","timestamp":"2015-07-29 21:22:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.webdesignernews.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.webdesignernews.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;inbound.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;inbound.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9971594","id":"9971669"}
{"by":"bmelton","time":"1289528391","timestamp":"2010-11-12 02:19:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone else in this thread mentioned 'unbounce'.  (I can't remember who mentioned, but I'll upvote.)\u003cp\u003eYou should go check out their landing page templates -- they're quite good.  In fact, they're so good that I had to go and edit my 'coming soon' page, even though I'd told myself I wouldn't.","parent":"1896235","id":"1896261"}
{"by":"pankajdoharey","time":"1535620161","timestamp":"2018-08-30 09:09:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is an Interesting trend on Githut \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;madnight.github.io\u0026#x2F;githut\u0026#x2F;#\u0026#x2F;pull_requests\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;madnight.github.io\u0026#x2F;githut\u0026#x2F;#\u0026#x2F;pull_requests\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;2\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeems Ruby is on a downward trend, while other languages are picking up, Kotlin, Elixir , Lua , Clojure. Surprisingly Perl is also on an uptick. There is a high traction for Functional languages and this trend will increase as we transition to a more multicore world Ruby cant cut it in those environments, JVM would stay but it isnt sure which JVM lang will be preferred in that environment. Rails on the other hand is too convention driven and may not survive what is coming.","parent":"17856314","id":"17875197"}
{"by":"sho_hn","time":"1313729186","timestamp":"2011-08-19 04:46:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm still bummed at being stuck with the dilemma of having to chose between CPython 3.x and PyPy. PyPy with Py3k support would rock.","parent":"2900172","id":"2902281"}
{"by":"draw_down","time":"1492543927","timestamp":"2017-04-18 19:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They all look to be within the same ballpark; none of those startup times would be a problem for me, at least. But when I tried Atom it was noticeably less responsive, which I have very little tolerance for. I haven\u0026#x27;t tried VS Code. (I also use Sublime)","parent":"14142055","id":"14142103"}
{"by":"Zariel","time":"1415819187","timestamp":"2014-11-12 19:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like an improved version of OpsWorks","parent":"8597401","id":"8597468"}
{"by":"EGreg","time":"1476854876","timestamp":"2016-10-19 05:27:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That guy... and his videos! Pretty cool no? He stars in all his own vids. How do they choose what startup to make them for?","parent":"12740795","id":"12741308"}
{"by":"wcarss","time":"1519472764","timestamp":"2018-02-24 11:46:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Typically a student must maintain good academic standing and apply specifically to a co-op program to attend, and then an administrative department within the school will run a class on interviewing skills and resumé-building, before helping to coordinate a matching process between students and participating companies for work terms.\u003cp\u003eIn many cases, large companies have special days where they\u0026#x27;ll come onto campuses to do interviews, and they may take a significant cohort of students each semester. There are often rules like, \u0026quot;you have 24 hours to respond to an offer and may only reject one offer\u0026quot; to ensure good faith been parties and high match percentages when some companies may be more prestigious or slow in their process.\u003cp\u003eStudents then spend 3-16 months (this depends on the school\u0026#x27;s academic timing and the company\u0026#x27;s own structure -- 4 months in summer is most common) at a company and if it\u0026#x27;s a good company, they\u0026#x27;ll be given real work, strong mentorship, and deep integration into a team, and often students near graduation will get offers of employment directly at the end of their term.\u003cp\u003eThere are also usually very tedious  written work-term reports to fill out as a bureaucratically useful artifact of the process. They\u0026#x27;re typically expository essays of topics like \u0026quot;what I learned at $company\u0026quot;, and everyone hates them.\u003cp\u003eStudents will have 1-4 (usually 3) terms out in the real world over the course of their time in school, and graduate with meaningful practical skills and usually a taste of what\u0026#x27;s available to help assess opportunities.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s on the whole a great system for a lot of people, particularly those who are using university to increase their employability.","parent":"16452600","id":"16452872"}
{"by":"matm","time":"1488388682","timestamp":"2017-03-01 17:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heap | Software Engineer | San Francisco | REMOTE \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;heapanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;heapanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeap is building analytics infrastructure for web and mobile. Unlike other tools, which require you to manually instrument code, Heap captures all user actions automatically, and then lets you answer questions retroactively. Instead of writing a bunch of new tracking code every time you want to answer a question, the data is already in Heap waiting to be analyzed.\u003cp\u003eAs an engineer at Heap, you will work on our in-house distributed system that ingests billions of events a week and processes queries over 100s of terabytes of data in seconds. To learn more about our distributed system, see our talks at PGConf [1] or our recent blog post on how we index our data [2].\u003cp\u003eWe have a small eng team made up of 13 engineers, nine in San Francisco, and four scattered around the globe.\u003cp\u003eOur interview process consists of a one hour technical phone interview, a three hour takehome problem, and a full day onsite in which you\u0026#x27;ll build a fake-but-plausible Heap feature.\u003cp\u003eWe enjoy talking to everyone who interviews, so please apply: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;heapanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;heapanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=iJLq3GV1Dyk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=iJLq3GV1Dyk\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.heapanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;running-10-million-postgresql-indexes-in-production\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.heapanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;running-10-million-postgresql...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13764728","id":"13765769"}
{"by":"Ultimatt","time":"1448870851","timestamp":"2015-11-30 08:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I\u0026#x27;ve written some Bio stuff for Perl 6 and unfortunately Rakudo is still way too slow for super heavy computational lifting. On average stuff is 10x slower than Perl 5 and worse case 100x. I strongly believe this will improve next year to the point it\u0026#x27;s competitive though. Shaped native arrays just came on the scene which means a list in Perl 6 can act in memory exactly like a C array which opens up the ability for the JIT to use SSE instructions. That said I\u0026#x27;ve been using Perl 6 at work for basic file manipulation just because its so nice and quick. Anything that\u0026#x27;s 100sMB rather than 100sGB finishes up in acceptable times and sometimes Grammar support is super helpful.","parent":"10641620","id":"10648340"}
{"by":"rjsamson","time":"1338832417","timestamp":"2012-06-04 17:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree - none of the other frameworks I've tried have felt right, but this looks like a great fit with Rails - we'll see if I feel the same way after using it though :)","parent":"4064967","id":"4065026"}
{"by":"mbrubeck","time":"1415240150","timestamp":"2014-11-06 02:15:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For reference, here the starting point of the Servo implementation:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/3590\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;servo\u0026#x2F;servo\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;3590\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8565417","id":"8565456"}
{"by":"jjeaff","time":"1534021068","timestamp":"2018-08-11 20:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ya, it doesn\u0026#x27;t technically imply the negation, but the fact that the negation is not generally the case makes the mantra useless at best and misleading at worst.","parent":"17711512","id":"17741497"}
{"by":"briandear","time":"1476182355","timestamp":"2016-10-11 10:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When someone lies in order to convince someone to invest -- that\u0026#x27;s called fraud.\u003cp\u003eThe failure to conduct diligence does not idemnify Theranos. They weren\u0026#x27;t exaggerating-- they were making claims that just weren\u0026#x27;t true -- and the knew those claims weren\u0026#x27;t true and still went to investors with the lies. That shows criminal intent and not just incompetence.","parent":"12682692","id":"12683045"}
{"by":"smcl","time":"1312626343","timestamp":"2011-08-06 10:25:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u0026#62; The debt is $14T, the deficit is just over a billion\u003cp\u003eThe US budget deficit is far more than $1 billion.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-10/u-s-had-record-222-5-billion-monthly-budget-gap-in-february.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-10/u-s-had-record-222-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2853284","id":"2853565"}
{"by":"danielam","time":"1504286775","timestamp":"2017-09-01 17:26:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Signafire | New York, NY | Full-time\u003cp\u003eSignafire provides business intelligence and decision support tools for companies.  We are a small, agile company devoted to enabling leaders to make better decisions faster through tailored solutions for data collection, analysis and visualization to extract knowledge and facilitate discovery of previously unknown relationships.\u003cp\u003eAvailable positions:\u003cp\u003e* Front End Developer\u003cp\u003e* Data Engineer\u003cp\u003e* DevOps \u0026#x2F; SRE\u003cp\u003e* QA Engineer\u003cp\u003e* Product Designer\u003cp\u003eTechnologies used include Apache Storm, AWS, Clojure, Elasticsearch, Javascript, MySQL, RabbitMQ and Redis.\u003cp\u003eVisit \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;signafire.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;signafire.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e or email jobs@signafire.com with your resume.","parent":"15148885","id":"15150531"}
{"by":"willglynn","time":"1461194338","timestamp":"2016-04-20 23:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d be interested to see results from such a trial.\u003cp\u003eCloser to home, we twice found out that the pharmacy gave her a generic when she developed quirks 4-5 days after she started taking a new bottle. Sort of the reverse of a placebo effect -- she thought she was on the brand all along, and she didn\u0026#x27;t think to check until things didn\u0026#x27;t feel right.\u003cp\u003eHumans are complicated.","parent":"11536544","id":"11538453"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1175760401","timestamp":"2007-04-05 08:06:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We already have some practice scaling.  The first batch was 8 startups, and the most recent 13.  I think we could get to 20 or even 30 without changing the model substantially.  Beyond that we might have to hire people, or get alumni to help.\u003cp\u003eSo far, foreign founders seem a bit more serious.  Makes sense, because merely coming to the US is a big step for them.","parent":"9100","id":"9121"}
{"by":"kj12345","time":"1285600981","timestamp":"2010-09-27 15:23:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's right to be strict on this given that the labor market is so asymmetrical even without anti-poaching collusion. Employers get detailed resumes, credit reports, references, and often salary history before hiring. Employees are expected to believe the company's marketing about being a great place to work, get no references, and the salaries of others at the company are kept secret. Hopefully sites like \u003ca href=\"http://www.glassdoor.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.glassdoor.com\u003c/a\u003e can help to even out this imbalance.","parent":"1731571","id":"1731965"}
{"by":"kbar13","time":"1509910671","timestamp":"2017-11-05 19:37:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i believe dep and glide allow you to pin to specific versions. i actually really like that imports are URLs, makes it really obvious where packages come from, and it\u0026#x27;s a better system imo than a centralized package manager like pypi \u0026#x2F; rubygem where names need to be unique.","parent":"15631071","id":"15631141"}
{"by":"fweespee_ch","time":"1459185218","timestamp":"2016-03-28 17:13:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair enough but honestly, I pretty much find this true:\u003cp\u003e* Google\u003cp\u003e* DuckDuckGo [ Although with the Ad changes, if I don\u0026#x27;t have an Ad Blocker enabled, this tends to beat Google. As such, it tends to my default since I use JS blocking. ]\u003cp\u003e* Yandex \u0026#x2F; Bing","parent":"11375422","id":"11375626"}
{"by":"dayaz36","time":"1481011112","timestamp":"2016-12-06 07:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I already have an app like this that lets me share my location and everything with my loved ones.  It\u0026#x27;s called text messaging","parent":"13111249","id":"13112963"}
{"by":"danielharan","time":"1313082103","timestamp":"2011-08-11 17:01:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was about to submit this, and the search revealed this comment that's very relevant: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857938\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857938\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis kind of optimization is often very important. Unfortunately what works changes often and it's hard to guess what will work -- which is why it's good to do these micro-benchmarks.","parent":"2873190","id":"2873737"}
{"by":"squarefoot","time":"1520534486","timestamp":"2018-03-08 18:41:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Puppy pictures aside, I\u0026#x27;d put it another way: I\u0026#x27;m unique and what I do online is the product of an unique person thinking. If some corporation makes money by analyzing my behaviour, then I should be allowed to treat my data just like a song or a book: that is, intellectual property, with the clause that if and only if that data is gathered with consent and full transparency (using 100% free and open source software for example), then they\u0026#x27;re exempted from paying fees and\u0026#x2F;or lawsuits.\nJust my 0.2€. I don\u0026#x27;t condemn companies for using technology to make money, and am perfectly fine if they scan my surfing habits, but people rights should always come first, and if they scan my emails or private messages or use the information in a way I don\u0026#x27;t approve then I want to be able to hit them badly.","parent":"16543501","id":"16546536"}
{"by":"Gravityloss","time":"1381538125","timestamp":"2013-10-12 00:35:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why can\u0026#x27;t the police \u0026#x2F; border guards just treat these humans as humans. \nOk, do what you must, return them to the originating country if they break some law.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s unfortunate when it is a cool thing for some to be \u0026quot;tough\u0026quot; like this?","parent":"6536332","id":"6536707"}
{"by":"stjarnljuset","time":"1264725447","timestamp":"2010-01-29 00:37:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What data do you use to generate User Comment Clusters?","parent":"1085395","id":"1085500"}
{"by":"kneath","time":"1517802039","timestamp":"2018-02-05 03:40:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. This is SOP for law firms authoring stock option agreements after Facebook IPO\u0026#x27;d.\u003cp\u003eOP is extraordinarily lucky that his company allowed a stock transfer, with extraordinary being too weak of a word to describe his circumstance.","parent":"16306426","id":"16306444"}
{"by":"delinka","time":"1504880332","timestamp":"2017-09-08 14:18:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apologies - I was amidst edits when I was called away. I\u0026#x27;ve addressed this by suggesting removal of the LPF.","parent":"15200180","id":"15200305"}
{"by":"SolarNet","time":"1527842348","timestamp":"2018-06-01 08:39:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It implies simply that markets are not efficient.\u003cp\u003eNo it implies that efficient market states are an NP complete problem. And that we are likely approximating the optimization of efficiency (of the allocation of resources) using markets. Different approximation algorithms have different properties. Might markets be the best in every possible way, sure, but it\u0026#x27;s very unlikely given what we know about approximation algorithms. It\u0026#x27;s like one of the best variants in one way, perhaps that\u0026#x27;s the best way, \u003ci\u003ebut we should figure that sort of thing out\u003c/i\u003e. And that\u0026#x27;s what this paper is laying the ground work for.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; What it definitely says however, is that a government committee could not, in any way, successfully determine the value of all goods and fix prices based on that determination.\u003cp\u003eIn it\u0026#x27;s editorializing about markets. Which isn\u0026#x27;t incorrect. But the larger consequences of efficiency being an NP complete problem means that there are many possible algorithms we could use to solve them if they are given equivalent resources. If those equivalent resources are thousands (or millions) of government panels then we should be able to mathematically prove equivalency. That\u0026#x27;s my point.","parent":"17203556","id":"17203599"}
{"by":"justryry","time":"1491855366","timestamp":"2017-04-10 20:16:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s your power consumption like on this set up?","parent":"14081794","id":"14082148"}
{"by":"wyldfire","time":"1474033895","timestamp":"2016-09-16 13:51:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Waldmann\u0026#x2F;Ginn don\u0026#x27;t describe the FDA\u0026#x27;s complaints about the competitors, but it\u0026#x27;s probably: (1) a failure to validate claims or (2) insufficient design\u0026#x2F;manufacturing controls.  IMO it\u0026#x27;s very unlikely that the FDA is engaged in protectionism of the sole manufacturer of this product.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Most definitely, the solution is not more government controls through regulation.\u003cp\u003eI agree that we likely don\u0026#x27;t need any more regulation in this space.  But it seems obvious to me that this issue is related to the overall shift lately.  Employers are offering high-deductible insurance plans and employees are bearing a greater burden.  The outrage over EpiPens is just another symptom of the US public clamoring for what they see as something that should be an entitlement.  I don\u0026#x27;t know that I prefer it but it seems pretty clear to me that it\u0026#x27;s coming (within another generation or two at max).\u003cp\u003eThe point about patent protection is pretty huge.  I wonder: what net effects would there be to removing patents entirely?  Would we end up with less ambitious products and services because designs would just get copied by the cheapest production centers?  Could we\u0026#x2F;should we restrict patents among different industries?","parent":"12513816","id":"12513946"}
{"by":"fusiongyro","time":"1363238949","timestamp":"2013-03-14 05:29:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How would one go about doing that?","parent":"5372856","id":"5373233"}
{"by":"igorgue","time":"1247493181","timestamp":"2009-07-13 13:53:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally agree!, and... with that said, I don't think some people opinions should be taken as a majority, and even more if it comes from the web, internet usage is so low worldwide. Iran != US.\u003cp\u003eI posted my opinion about Honduras situation (which is very similar, and I would say worse than Iran's, and still didn't get much press... interesting ah?):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://igordevlog.blogspot.com/2009/07/interweb-world.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://igordevlog.blogspot.com/2009/07/interweb-world.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"701552","id":"701682"}
{"by":"eevilspock","time":"1410441268","timestamp":"2014-09-11 13:14:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple could easily do that for a round \u0026quot;Apple Watch 2\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s the same as the digital crown in function, just in a different place. The just have to make the bezel touch sensitive. The feel of using it would be very reminiscent of the iPod scroll wheel.","parent":"8300447","id":"8302352"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1311934524","timestamp":"2011-07-29 10:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, what's even worse is that when a company pays billions of dollars for patents, they have to use them otherwise the investment is worthless.\u003cp\u003eGoogle may have a no-evil policy on patents for the time being, but the future will be quite different. Microsoft also used to acquire patents for defensive purposes only. Look at them now.","parent":"2820493","id":"2821047"}
{"by":"icky","time":"1227690943","timestamp":"2008-11-26 09:15:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, interest usually compounds.  This is more like a one-off currency trade of now-dollars versus future-dollars.","parent":"377448","id":"377455"}
{"by":"cheapsteak","time":"1445919707","timestamp":"2015-10-27 04:21:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Yes, Polymer 1.0+ backs off from this a little bit)\u003cp\u003eI didn\u0026#x27;t know about this, any guidance on why?","parent":"10455422","id":"10456305"}
{"by":"brc","time":"1291855731","timestamp":"2010-12-09 00:48:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No you missed my point.\u003cp\u003eEven the generic aspirin manufacturers can sell the stuff with little or no advertising.\u003cp\u003eThe vitamins business has to spend a lot of money convincing to buy people stuff, the aspirin business doesn't.","parent":"1968882","id":"1985456"}
{"by":"tlrobinson","time":"1522905067","timestamp":"2018-04-05 05:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relevant quote from an article about the Air France 447 crash:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; To put it briefly, automation has made it more and more unlikely that ordinary airline pilots will ever have to face a raw crisis in flight—but also more and more unlikely that they will be able to cope with such a crisis if one arises.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vanityfair.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;air-france-flight-447-crash\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vanityfair.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;air-france-...\u003c/a\u003e (linked to from another HN post today: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16757343\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16757343\u003c/a\u003e )","parent":"16761884","id":"16761954"}
{"by":"slackingoff2017","time":"1502904278","timestamp":"2017-08-16 17:24:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you get promoted so quickly? I\u0026#x27;ve worked my ass off at several companies and been in high positions at early startups but when I ask for a promotion everyone so far has said no\u0026quot;sorry, you only have X years experience\u0026quot;. Maybe I\u0026#x27;m not working for the right places...","parent":"15028146","id":"15029326"}
{"by":"ssewell","time":"1526668795","timestamp":"2018-05-18 18:39:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was wondering this myself. I skimmed to the code but can\u0026#x27;t find any variable for this.","parent":"17103745","id":"17103866"}
{"by":"nkuttler","time":"1422884545","timestamp":"2015-02-02 13:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chocolatey looks nice actually. I might have had more fun on windows when I used it in the 90s if that had existed. I will keep it in mind in case I ever see a need for it, I imagine I could suggest it to some windows users.","parent":"8983975","id":"8984076"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1396267873","timestamp":"2014-03-31 12:11:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So if multiple opposite positions come through, each is assigned a slice of the transaction?","parent":"7499605","id":"7500892"}
{"by":"skrebbel","time":"1509436633","timestamp":"2017-10-31 07:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Kaj, thanks a lot for this feedback! We\u0026#x27;ll do our best to improve based on it :-)","parent":"15588873","id":"15591656"}
{"by":"0x0","time":"1511999936","timestamp":"2017-11-29 23:58:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say that works against the purpose of protecting customers. Every blackhat in the world had probably heard about it last night, but if Apple had announced details earlier, even without a patch, informed customers could take preventive action (such as not connecting to public wifi, disabling screen sharing, etc).","parent":"15811941","id":"15812080"}
{"by":"TheSpiceIsLife","time":"1542415664","timestamp":"2018-11-17 00:47:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another blue collar reporting in. I did an apprenticeship in metal fabrication \u0026#x2F; welding after high school. I worked in IT briefly more recently but am back in my trade now doing fairly technical job of operating a laser cutter.","parent":"18469446","id":"18473171"}
{"by":"rjzzleep","time":"1348093110","timestamp":"2012-09-19 22:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"op forgets the most important point:\u003cp\u003eassumption is the mother of all fuckups. and the fuckup is what i just read.\u003cp\u003eprotip: define \"we\" before you start wasting other peoples time","parent":"4544538","id":"4545852"}
{"by":"Rygu","time":"1418927530","timestamp":"2014-12-18 18:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just heard about Shyp yesterday. Seems like it\u0026#x27;s the same idea but selling the concept of regular people helping each other for a more personal service (like Uber, Lyft). I kind of like that approach. \u003ca href=\"http://www.shyp.com/heroes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.shyp.com\u0026#x2F;heroes\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8767449","id":"8768834"}
{"by":"Guvante","time":"1382623469","timestamp":"2013-10-24 14:04:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They have access to details, they posted that userprefs.js was to blame.","parent":"6605254","id":"6605276"}
{"by":"matrixagent","time":"1420742091","timestamp":"2015-01-08 18:34:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are many, many crimes where the victim has to press charges for any prosecution to happen, and copyright infringement most certainly should be one of those.","parent":"8857768","id":"8857980"}
{"by":"scott_s","time":"1445462862","timestamp":"2015-10-21 21:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You sincerely think that the prosecutors in the cases mentioned in the article purposefully made the case hard for the jury to understand, for the explicit purpose of losing the case?","parent":"10428722","id":"10428829"}
{"by":"jhanschoo","time":"1510559589","timestamp":"2017-11-13 07:53:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Halmos seems to discuss the same things as Hoffman and Kunze, which is the more “standard” and recommended book. Nevertheless after these you will still have to read up on multilinear algebra (tensors and determinant-like functions) as well as stuff on the numerical side of linear algebra.","parent":"15683569","id":"15684955"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1332039939","timestamp":"2012-03-18 03:05:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; He basically wanted to upgrade just one (obscure) app\u003cp\u003eNo. He wanted a new version of the app and upgraded to a new version of the OS (with a new set of default packages). And he got surprised by getting a new GUI, something which is rather odd because Unity was one of the most publicized features of Ubuntu.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; the process triggered the automatic removal of Gnome2 and installation of Unity\u003cp\u003eNot really. Gnome2 would still be there. Just the default UI is Unity. I'm more than a little bit surprised ESR had trouble remembering you switch UIs on login. I've been doing it since my Solaris (2.5) days. I loved OpenWindows.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; having to upgrade the whole distribution every few months just to be able to get new app versions\u003cp\u003eThat's not really true - you have to do so because the distro publisher won't support the newest Chrome on their 2006 OS. It's ridiculous to demand them to spend their resources on \u003ci\u003eyour particular\u003c/i\u003e needs. If you are not happy, you can ask to have your money back. And even when the distro publisher doesn't want to add newer versions to an old OS, you can always add private repos maintained by the makers of your favorite software.\u003cp\u003eAnd, remember, having stable versions of software (even when a newer, flashier version, was made public) is not what some people want. I wan't my servers stable.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; This \"distribution\" bullshit is not what is killing desktop Linux\u003cp\u003eIt was never much alive. Linux is an OS that suits a couple users well, but not most of them.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; are imho just consequences of the distribution concept and the 6-month planned-obsolescence cycle.\u003cp\u003eIt usually took much longer to get a new version of your favorite Linux distro. 6 months is the current standard. And, again, there is no planned obsolescence. There are many alternative places to get newer versions for.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Windows installations, once installed or preinstalled, run for a decade.\u003cp\u003eI don't believe we met, sir. Where planet are you from?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; If anybody _ever_ really wants to see Linux succeed on the desktop (...) he will have to give up on the distribution concept first.\u003cp\u003eI don't think so. In fact, most people don't think so. And, let me say that not thinking so works quite well.\u003cp\u003eYou do realize the incredibly arrogant position you are taking. You purport to be the savior of the Linux desktop (do we need one, BTW?) and to have realized what's wrong with it and, best of all, you have the solution! Just do everything opposite to how it's been working for decades and all our problems will be solved.\u003cp\u003eLet me put it simply: when you think you are the dumbest person in a room, you are probably right. When you think you are the smartest person in a room, you are most probably wrong. And if you disagree with everybody else in the room, odds are you are really the dumbest person there.\u003cp\u003eMaintaining a distro is a lot of work, but until we can make software makers to agree on a single package format, a single way to manage configurations and a single way to organize the file hierarchy, the distro way will remain a very popular way to manage your computers.","parent":"3716884","id":"3718976"}
{"by":"seanmccann","time":"1511143867","timestamp":"2017-11-20 02:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can incorporate in Delaware to allow shareholders from any US state avoid double taxation. You incorporate (mostly funds) in zero tax countries to allow worldwide investors avoid double taxation. A shareholder of an \u0026quot;offshore\u0026quot; corporation often still pays the taxes in their home country.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s certainly a lot of abuse, but there are valid reasons to own offshore stock.","parent":"15736121","id":"15737290"}
{"by":"pygy_","time":"1508800106","timestamp":"2017-10-23 23:08:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Food limits how far the population can grow anyway.\u003cp\u003eAFAIK the energy consumption (and thus the pollution) for the benefit of developed nations far outweighs the one that benefits the poorer ones whose population increases.","parent":"15537572","id":"15537684"}
{"by":"woah","time":"1407125154","timestamp":"2014-08-04 04:05:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where did they get malarial blood during the hackathon?","parent":"8129934","id":"8130270"}
{"by":"tavert","time":"1493035854","timestamp":"2017-04-24 12:10:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although unequally inconvenient when working with user-defined types. Possible now (wasn\u0026#x27;t always) but not seamless. Are there examples of libraries that depend on Numba?","parent":"14177886","id":"14183578"}
{"by":"cinquemb","time":"1459732719","timestamp":"2016-04-04 01:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eI agree that it\u0026#x27;s a nice ideal to have everything open, but people need to realize that there are costs to doing so, and merely saying \u0026quot;I paid for it, therefore I have a right to read it\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t do much.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re right, that\u0026#x27;s why places like sci-hub exist, and Elsevier et al dont seem to be winning this fight…","parent":"11418320","id":"11418808"}
{"by":"hobbs","time":"1210864272","timestamp":"2008-05-15 15:11:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True enough. I guess my point is that there were previous debates about banning TechCrunch, which has articles that are spot-on topic but of questionable validity, and then we get an article about farming regulations shooting to the top spot. I mean c'mon guys, do you want to be picky or not?","parent":"190503","id":"190554"}
{"by":"ineedtosleep","time":"1371489559","timestamp":"2013-06-17 17:19:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my quick stint with django-userena, it felt very constrained. At that time, my application\u0026#x27;s login requirements were simple, but needed a few minor tweaks. It\u0026#x27;s been a while, but I recall that doing so didn\u0026#x27;t seem like an easy task, so I switched to django-registration then eventually using the Django 1.5 custom user model.\u003cp\u003eOverall, I\u0026#x27;d say do a quick run through of both. If one of them has exactly what you need, stick with it. Otherwise, you are probably better off using the default User model or extending the default.","parent":"5893710","id":"5894461"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1529582784","timestamp":"2018-06-21 12:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It may well do - there certainly are circumstances where the US will be lower.","parent":"17363887","id":"17364322"}
{"by":"johnda","time":"1299438384","timestamp":"2011-03-06 19:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you guys so much for taking the time to give me some feedback!  I really appreciate it.  I'll make sure to address those issues--didn't realize the app itself was confusing to use, great point.","parent":"2291977","id":"2294733"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1530825484","timestamp":"2018-07-05 21:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or walking up a sidewalk ramp, or using the headphone jack at the ATM, or using the handicapped stall in the bathroom, or taking the elevator instead of the stairs...","parent":"17466860","id":"17466925"}
{"by":"xg15","time":"1516755688","timestamp":"2018-01-24 01:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eUnaffordable is relative. If HQ2 brings thousands of high-paying jobs with it, plus creates an ecosystem where tens of thousands of other good paying jobs are created, housing can become more affordable to more people while rising in price.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eShouldn\u0026#x27;t this have played out just like that in SF then?","parent":"16218156","id":"16219446"}
{"by":"warsaw","time":"1479094708","timestamp":"2016-11-14 03:38:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.","parent":"12947331","id":"12947358"}
{"by":"rogermugs","time":"1318877232","timestamp":"2011-10-17 18:47:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"best app ever. keep it up marco. stoked.","parent":"3120456","dead":true,"id":"3121831"}
{"by":"fragsworth","time":"1371535488","timestamp":"2013-06-18 06:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s questionable that they are \u0026quot;getting away with it\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThe implications of what they\u0026#x27;ve done are incredibly vast and damning. Not to mention, persistent - people now know everything they type on their computer is handed over to the government. That doesn\u0026#x27;t go away, no matter how much the media might want to ignore the subject.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d actually be surprised if they completely get away with it. At least a few people will be in trouble over this whole thing. Lots of civil rights organizations are organizing lawsuits over this as we speak.","parent":"5897779","id":"5897823"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1312744478","timestamp":"2011-08-07 19:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    The good\n\n    GitHub uses custom MIME types for all of their responses. They're using the vendor extensions that I talked about in my post, too. For example:\n\n        application/vnd.github-issue.text+json\n\n    Super cool.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHmm, I wouldn't call that \"good.\" It's definitively better than sending 'application/json' or 'application/xml', which tell us nothing about the structure of the data, and it's probably inevitable in their context, but \"good\" would be to use an actual \u003ci\u003estandard\u003c/i\u003e mimetype instead.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with using mimetypes tied to the service is that it undermines the concept of Uniform Interface, by forcing developers to write clients specifically for that service. Imagine if instead of standardizing on (X)HTML, CSS, JS and a couple of image formats, each website used their own format.","parent":"2857214","id":"2857464"}
{"by":"TheSpiceIsLife","time":"1499372293","timestamp":"2017-07-06 20:18:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair point. Counterpoint: in the sense that it is dis-ease (the absence of feeling well and easy going) it may still be a sufficient reason to take a day off work.","parent":"14712815","id":"14713579"}
{"by":"dctoedt","time":"1497575190","timestamp":"2017-06-16 01:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIn what way is this proposal better or more progressive than direct cash transfers to acquire the same market housing that everyone else does?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eRent-seeking (in the economic sense).  IIRC, any kind of direct cash transfer (or even subsidized loan) has been known to result in price increases for everyone. See, e.g., college tuitions.  (Disclaimer: I haven\u0026#x27;t looked into the data myself and am relying on recall of things I\u0026#x27;ve read in the past.)","parent":"14559047","id":"14565832"}
{"by":"TheAceOfHearts","time":"1492997621","timestamp":"2017-04-24 01:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Writing bug-free shell programs is hard because it doesn\u0026#x27;t provide safe defaults. By now I\u0026#x27;ve gotten reasonably decent at shell scripts due to trial and error, and shellcheck... But if I\u0026#x27;m doing anything fancy, I just opt for a node script using shelljs and any other third-party deps to cover my needs. This also has the benefit of typically working cross-platform. Although that\u0026#x27;s not as big of a concern for me, for some people it makes a big difference.\u003cp\u003eFor my day-to-day shell, I use fish. IMO, it has much better defaults than bash and zsh, and it\u0026#x27;s fast. I still have to use bash sometimes, but it\u0026#x27;s  becoming increasingly rare.\u003cp\u003eYour linked example doesn\u0026#x27;t really seem particularly tricky to me. I\u0026#x27;d feel comfortable writing it in something like node or ruby, and I believe the result would probably be easier to consume for certain people.","parent":"14178529","id":"14181400"}
{"by":"fyolnish","time":"1408436203","timestamp":"2014-08-19 08:16:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s iTerm","parent":"8196295","id":"8196396"}
{"by":"RobertoG","time":"1509120273","timestamp":"2017-10-27 16:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why you feel the need to use slavery or communist as an example here, instead of, for instance, secessionist.\u003cp\u003eMaybe you expect to elicit a sense of horror in your readers?","parent":"15569172","id":"15569689"}
{"by":"rwallace","time":"1532105300","timestamp":"2018-07-20 16:48:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. Closest I\u0026#x27;ve come across, though I can\u0026#x27;t find the link now, is one set of figures that just looked at housing, and found by that metric, real income in the U.S. peaked in 1959. Which, I will claim, was the main cause of the opening up of society in the sixties, with the subsequent drop in real income being the main cause of the end of this phenomenon.","parent":"17575169","id":"17576655"}
{"by":"linkregister","time":"1468015085","timestamp":"2016-07-08 21:58:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You describe the \u0026quot;interview anti-loop,\u0026quot; a term coined by Steve Yegge, a prolific blogger who wrote about the Google interview process.  Better luck next time.  I\u0026#x27;ve come across it a few times myself.  Also I\u0026#x27;ve legitimately bombed interviews, sending apology emails to the recruiter immediately after leaving.","parent":"12058794","id":"12058922"}
{"by":"3327","time":"1384875249","timestamp":"2013-11-19 15:34:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I must say the video is most definitely over emotional no to mention it made me sea sick with the over use of shaking. The product looks great and interesting.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;It\u0026#x27;s got to the point I can\u0026#x27;t actually take products like this seriously without getting annoyed by them going on about artisanal wood carvings. Like the owning of the object itself is more important than what you\u0026#x27;re supposed to do with it . . .\u003cp\u003ei agree with you on your point but it also has upsides, design was forgotten and every electronic device we owned was either matt black or white (think of all the VCR\u0026#x27;s, home audio, laptops). So now that a sense of design has returned we rebel against it \u0026#x27;being\u0026#x27; hipster. Its a delicate balance i guess.","parent":"6761765","id":"6761799"}
{"by":"aaron695","time":"1346451706","timestamp":"2012-08-31 22:21:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To not know the answer to \"there are no camels in Germany so how many camels do they think there are in B, a specific German city? \" is not a cultural difference, to think that other cultures are seriously that dumb is more a statement on ones self than anything else.\u003cp\u003eThis is similar to statements engineers sometimes make that the Chinese are good copiers but can't innovate.\u003cp\u003eNo, cultures are the same as everyone else. They have humour, art and like to tinker and have in jokes. If they don't publicly innovate it's more likely it's not economical in that environment yet.\u003cp\u003eThe fact 'camels' was used has strong undertones to me, if this was an actually a study I'd be interested to know.","parent":"4461038","id":"4461932"}
{"by":"jessriedel","time":"1410292348","timestamp":"2014-09-09 19:52:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s how I think about it: Apple is the user\u0026#x27;s broker and Stripe is the merchant\u0026#x27;s broker.  Every time there\u0026#x27;s a transaction between the user and the merchant, they are setting up a deal between their respective brokers.\u003cp\u003eAs fgblanch points out, a merchant using Stripe only needs a single account with them to handle credit cards, Apple Pay, and whatever else comes along tomorrow.\u003cp\u003eAs Igglybook and zaidf point out, Apple wants to provide the hardware and software for the user, but they don\u0026#x27;t actually want to be a financial services company like Stripe.","parent":"8292079","id":"8292410"}
{"by":"PakG1","time":"1538037530","timestamp":"2018-09-27 08:38:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An appendectomy might be easier than procuring the necessary antibiotics in a deep rural area, depending on how rural....","parent":"18082899","id":"18082913"}
{"by":"puppetmaster3","time":"1389715494","timestamp":"2014-01-14 16:04:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DOM animation is done native, by GPU.\u003cp\u003eWebGL... you can\u0026#x27;t even do fonts.\u003cp\u003eAnd DOM is more accessible by creative designers.","parent":"7056542","id":"7057714"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1522321517","timestamp":"2018-03-29 11:05:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then why are you chiding kchoudhu who\u0026#x27;s simply pointing \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e out?","parent":"16706013","id":"16706028"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1300325705","timestamp":"2011-03-17 01:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aren't you allowed to circumvent for interoperability? If the \"these are just really long video cables\" argument would hold up on its own, and the CSS-circumvention issue were the only thing standing in the way, then it seems like they could argue that they were circumventing CSS for the purpose of interoperating with their fancy software video cable. And if that argument \u003ci\u003edoesn't\u003c/i\u003e hold up, then their rental/streaming business is probably not legal anyway for licensing reasons, even without the circumventing-CSS issue.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: my knowledge of this area of law is somewhat spotty, so I could be wrong.","parent":"2334703","id":"2334725"}
{"by":"dragonbonheur","time":"1361909012","timestamp":"2013-02-26 20:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd say it's mainly SQLite by itself over Libre/Open Office or Kexi or Glom because the others don't have viewers and SQLite is bundled with mobile devices and operating systems.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the comparison may seem odd given that Access has a GUI and SQLite is just the database engine but some consideration should be given to the fact that people who operate databases often know how to use SQL commands and won't have any problem learning scripting languages to build applications to ease data entry. Software like GAMBAS makes that easy on Linux. Access users should have no trouble converting to GAMBAS at all.\u003cp\u003eBut for casual use outside of custom applications design Libre/Open Office are the biggest threat to Access.","parent":"5287996","id":"5288139"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1530696847","timestamp":"2018-07-04 09:34:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that\u0026#x27;s largely a myth or at least an exaggeration.  I\u0026#x27;ve worked in both Norway and Sweden (and currently live in Sweden) and I\u0026#x27;ve never seen an office party get even close to going way overboard.  Office parties in the US and the UK I\u0026#x27;ve seen have been \u0026#x27;worse\u0026#x27;.","parent":"17455927","id":"17456172"}
{"by":"stephenr","time":"1479383682","timestamp":"2016-11-17 11:54:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My point was, how is anyone surprised by this?\u003cp\u003eEveryone always complains when politicians break their campaign promises once elected.\u003cp\u003eTrump had a fucking train wreck of a campaign, you name it, he was found to have done\u0026#x2F;said it. He \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e won.\u003cp\u003eBut \u003ci\u003enow\u003c/i\u003e people are so surprised that him\u0026#x2F;his staff act exactly the same way him\u0026#x2F;his staff acted for the last 20 years.\u003cp\u003eCongratulations America, he isn\u0026#x27;t the president you need, but he\u0026#x27;s the president you fucking deserve.","parent":"12976537","id":"12976607"}
{"by":"jarek","time":"1371848694","timestamp":"2013-06-21 21:04:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So locally running malware only needs to keylog your master 1Password password to decrypt your 1Password data file?","parent":"5920715","id":"5920992"}
{"by":"mullingitover","time":"1363738216","timestamp":"2013-03-20 00:10:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Always buy a nice-looking but cheap cubic zirconia engagement ring. If she accepts it graciously, she's a keeper. If she runs out and gets it appraised, and angrily leaves you, you dodged a bullet.","parent":"5403988","id":"5404617"}
{"by":"keefe","time":"1266334468","timestamp":"2010-02-16 15:34:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could have done without the javascript evangelizing (not that I don't love js too) - it would have been relatively easy to cover flex charts, \u003ca href=\"http://flare.prefuse.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://flare.prefuse.org/\u003c/a\u003e etc. and just make it a visualization article","parent":"1128552","id":"1129000"}
{"by":"andypants","time":"1477433125","timestamp":"2016-10-25 22:05:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then you can \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e do a Windows and release Node 10.","parent":"12789545","id":"12792142"}
{"by":"sdegutis","time":"1488918428","timestamp":"2017-03-07 20:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article says:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; This was useful in C to avoid accidentally\n    \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; typing variable = null. These days it will\n    \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; confuse most people, with little benefit.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe use of \u0026quot;was\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;these days\u0026quot; in the link shows that the author of this piece is in a tiny little bubble of development, and is far from being able to give general advice for programming. C is not past-tense. C, C++, Objective-C, these are all still widely used today by modern professionals. I\u0026#x27;m very tired of articles and authors which claim to be representative of all programming or programmers, when they\u0026#x27;re isolated to a tiny little bubble. Especially when they only know JavaScript.","parent":"13814248","id":"13814470"}
{"by":"ozim","time":"1538925612","timestamp":"2018-10-07 15:20:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t care about comments, I care about unit tests and I need to run trough code with debugger. If code is testable I can run piece of code in isolation and understand how it works. Most of the time people do comments:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ea = 4 \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;assign value 4 to a\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course that is exaggeration but usually they restate obvious things and think it is good comment.\u003cp\u003eAlso I don\u0026#x27;t trust comments, I have to see commit history, and if I see there was piece of code changed where comments are, without stepping through and debugging I don\u0026#x27;t trust code is doing what comment is saying.\u003cp\u003eI do not know how other people are writing code, but I have to run code locally, ideally in unit test or click through in the interface with test data. Maybe others just can run code in their heads and account for what is written in comments. But unfortunately I am not human compiler\u0026#x2F;runtime\u0026#x2F;processor.","parent":"18160350","id":"18160968"}
{"by":"SingAlong","time":"1354239685","timestamp":"2012-11-30 01:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's also Mailgun.net. Infact I co-wrote a mailgun ruby client sometime back \u003ca href=\"http://github.com/hashnuke/mailgun\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://github.com/hashnuke/mailgun\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4849476","id":"4851434"}
{"by":"eric_h","time":"1432079155","timestamp":"2015-05-19 23:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"eh, i think the stigma associated with swearing has started to wane over the last decade or two. Admittedly if you swear every other word, you\u0026#x27;re not a very good communicator, but the occasional, impassioned (and well selected) swear word can be endearing, even in a professional environment.","parent":"9573584","id":"9573858"}
{"by":"colllectorof","time":"1541513481","timestamp":"2018-11-06 14:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; why don\u0026#x27;t you put forward a concrete vision of what your definition of free speech is?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause that is not the correct response to someone who casually describes eight hundred thousand users as \u0026quot;a few jerks\u0026quot;. Or someone who smugly dismisses a well-reasoned article by saying the author \u0026quot;beats an ocean with a stick\u0026quot;. If you insist on promoting gross misrepresentations of reality, all you will get in response is well-deserved pushback. The ideas and constructive suggestions will flow to people who actually listen.","parent":"18381932","id":"18391074"}
{"by":"decob","time":"1414072699","timestamp":"2014-10-23 13:58:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"awesome app dude....","parent":"8497751","id":"8498117"}
{"by":"wwweston","time":"1324019480","timestamp":"2011-12-16 07:11:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Lobbyists are there to ensure the interests of the organizations they represent are addressed.\"\u003cp\u003eSure. Some of those organizations have interests that make the world a better place. You do know there are lobbyists out there working against SOPA, right?\u003cp\u003eI agree that financial influence is a problem, but only part of it has anything to do with campaign contributions and backscratching. Plain and simple, interests that have (or causes that attract) more money can afford to hire more people to actually do the lobbying work from research to face-to-face discussion (this is one reason why wealth distribution issues matter bigtime).\u003cp\u003eAnd in the meanwhile, fewer and fewer people do lobbying for any reason other than money. Or to put it another way, maybe the other half of the problem is that we're not \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e trying to be better lobbyists. I remember hearing an interview with Rep Bill Orton a while back (interesting guy -- a Democrat elected to Utah's 3rd district, one of the most conservative Republican districts out there) where he said his biggest surprise after election was how \u003ci\u003efew\u003c/i\u003e \"ordinary citizens\" came to visit.","parent":"3359180","id":"3359828"}
{"by":"dsr_","time":"1513301592","timestamp":"2017-12-15 01:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not a hard drive. That\u0026#x27;s a system built on top of hard drives.\u003cp\u003eAnd so is perkeep.","parent":"15929026","id":"15929042"}
{"by":"Gravityloss","time":"1436454822","timestamp":"2015-07-09 15:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Wake_Shield_Facility\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Wake_Shield_Facility\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9856477","id":"9858280"}
{"by":"chacha102","time":"1318547126","timestamp":"2011-10-13 23:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't this what innovation is about? Finding ways of solving problems? Is forcing apps to make more efficient of their use of space such a bad thing?\u003cp\u003eFrom what I see, your users have 3 choices: They can use your app and use up their iCloud allotment, they can use your app and not upgrade, or they can upgrade and find a mapping app that is more efficient in its use of space.","parent":"3109055","id":"3109176"}
{"by":"gravypod","time":"1485673886","timestamp":"2017-01-29 07:11:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; why should a protocl like telnet be relevant today\u003cp\u003eA lot of software uses \u0026quot;telnet\u0026quot; as in TCP sockets with \\r\\n and ASCII encoding. That\u0026#x27;s all telnet is and that\u0026#x27;s how a lot of data is shifted around all the time.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; To learn from its mistakes?\u003cp\u003eTelnet wasn\u0026#x27;t a mistake. It was an obvious step from terminals via RS232 to terminals via TCP.\u003cp\u003eAlso, telnet is everywhere. If you went into research and someone said \u0026quot;just hook into the telnet stream for $SENSOR\u0026quot; and you said \u0026quot;What\u0026#x27;s telnet\u0026quot; that wouldn\u0026#x27;t end well.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; No, that\u0026#x27;s why you take design classes that you seem to dislike.\u003cp\u003eNo one in their right minds would call telnet, sending text over TCP, a bad design. It\u0026#x27;s a bad design for some things, but others it\u0026#x27;s the simplest way to do things. You can do a lot with it since it is very robust. What can go wrong with a telnet stream?\u003cp\u003e1) Client\u0026#x2F;Server drops connection to you\n2) ...\u003cp\u003eWhat else? That\u0026#x27;s a tenant of fantastic design.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Leaving aside the lack of need to know those ancient things (I say this as a heavy user of vim), you seem to conflate engineering with computer science.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t conflate it. Everyone in industry does. I\u0026#x27;m marketing myself to industry so I will use their terminology. Their terminology associates Computer Science with \u0026quot;The programmer\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; There\u0026#x27;s a lot of CS that doesn\u0026#x27;t have anything to do with network protocols and UNIX programs\u003cp\u003eI and most places you\u0026#x27;d go to work in industry aren\u0026#x27;t mainly concerned with those problems. Different data structures? Great yea I\u0026#x27;d love to learn them. Proving some code mathematically? Ok, sure, I guess. I\u0026#x27;ll probably only do that once or twice. Memorizing Algorithms? Nope, you\u0026#x27;ve lost me.\u003cp\u003eI need to know how to design my own algorithms, understand abstractions of these algorithms, then design the algorithms I\u0026#x27;m good at designing and leave the rest to experts in their portion of the field.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Leaving aside the lack of need to know those ancient things\u003cp\u003eI think this is completely wrong. You might what to watch this video series to see how much important and enlightening information comes from history: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is it important to know? You can easily see which arcane practices are still needed and which are just superstition. You also learn why specific systems were desgined and how they were implemented. They are usually far more basic and robust then current solutions and if we religate that all to the history books we\u0026#x27;ll loose all of that innovation from the very exciting dawn of computer science.","parent":"13512617","id":"13512758"}
{"by":"kostko","time":"1272863084","timestamp":"2010-05-03 05:04:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know how many information gets shared with third parties if your fb account is just disabled and not deleted?","parent":"1313790","id":"1314045"}
{"by":"general_failure","time":"1409410546","timestamp":"2014-08-30 14:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny :)","parent":"8246551","id":"8246585"}
{"by":"ThenAsNow","time":"1528653075","timestamp":"2018-06-10 17:51:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regeneratively cooling nozzles (i.e., circulating liquid or gaseous propellant in embedded cooling channels) is standard fare for liquid rocket engines.  GP used graphite because it was a student project.  Probably not what would be done for a real launch vehicle.\u003cp\u003eOne thing to keep in mind about spike nozzle cooling is that you get compression shocks from the aerospike flowfield that strike the centerbody.  These shock impingements drive up local heat transfer rates.  As the flowfield changes with  increasing altitude (decreasing ambient pressure), the impingement locations move.  So when you size your cooling capacity, you have to account for this which tends to make the spike \u0026quot;overcooled\u0026quot; as compared to what you\u0026#x27;d have to design for with the bell.  This tends to correlate with increased pressure losses from the associated high coolant flow rates, causing a system-level mass hit and detracting from the nozzle Isp efficiency benefit.  Take a look at XRS-2200 test video to watch the spike ramps ice over hard after engine shutdown.  While not unique to that engine, the magnitude of that effect has a lot to do with how heavily cooled the ramps were.","parent":"17276911","id":"17279237"}
{"by":"Fiahil","time":"1493575505","timestamp":"2017-04-30 18:05:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Raaco racks could work! Thanks!","parent":"14231197","id":"14232923"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1420667779","timestamp":"2015-01-07 21:56:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference with Islam is that the Koran advocates for violent persecution of non-muslims and that is something that the founder, Mohammed, took a great part in including murdering people [in battle and after when they refused to convert] and taking their wives as his possessions. It seems to me that if you choose to identify as a follower of Mohammed you can\u0026#x27;t uphold him as a paragon and oppose violence, those positions are contrary.\u003cp\u003eSikhism has violent elements in it\u0026#x27;s historical fundamentals too, from what I\u0026#x27;ve read. But they have appear to me to have been \u0026#x27;editted\u0026#x27; out to some extent (cf history of the kirpan).\u003cp\u003eWhilst Shintoist Japanese were involved in horrible atrocities Shintoism, at least Confucian Shintoism, historically was quite anti-war.\u003cp\u003eSimply being an adherent of a particular way or faith or religion and performing violence doesn\u0026#x27;t make that \u0026#x27;way\u0026#x27; a violent one. There is a great difference between this and the foundation and fundamental teachings including violence.","parent":"8852262","id":"8853562"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1285178005","timestamp":"2010-09-22 17:53:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know much about this sector, but how does Oracle compare to its direct competitors? E.g. is SAP friendlier with the developer/technical community?","parent":"1716904","id":"1716940"}
{"by":"pimeys","time":"1477158263","timestamp":"2016-10-22 17:44:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SModem was the best. You could chat with people while downloading files.","parent":"12769370","id":"12769664"}
{"by":"gglitch","time":"1521717953","timestamp":"2018-03-22 11:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All kinds of edge cases are possible. That doesn\u0026#x27;t in any way address, let alone refute, the widespread concerns.","parent":"16646995","id":"16647635"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1281894777","timestamp":"2010-08-15 17:52:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The solution to all of these problems is \"simply\" to reduce the number of journeys we need to make.\u003cp\u003eI think you are in a agreement with the author of the book on that. The common goal is \"less journeys\". The difference seems to be in the way to achieve that. He wants to tax those who commute, you, it seems,  might want to give incentives to companies to move to suburbs or to let employees telecommute, or to have some kind of tax incentive  for employees to move to the city.\u003cp\u003eWhatever method is used it will take decades to make a difference and it will be very unpopular. Making parking $70/day like it is in London in some garages, would destroy Los Angeles. It is a city that is so car centric and pedestrian unfriendly that it would completely cripple it.\u003cp\u003eI personally hate Los Angeles for that reason. Its public transportation sucks, it is filled with a tangled mess of highways, no sidewalks, you end up sitting in traffic for hours, even though the highways are already 8 lanes wide. I would never live there.","parent":"1605217","id":"1605538"}
{"by":"pdonis","time":"1401079930","timestamp":"2014-05-26 04:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; someone pushing you to drink may actually trying to be say \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;d like you to be a member of this group\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd my response (like that of logicchains, I expect) would still be \u0026quot;No thanks, I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s my kind of group\u0026quot;. So the signaling works fine both ways.","parent":"7798726","id":"7798742"}
{"by":"jamesaguilar","time":"1402369819","timestamp":"2014-06-10 03:10:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems like the type of thing that\u0026#x27;s good to ffi out of you\u0026#x27;re using it a lot. I highly doubt the c version would take this long.","parent":"7871486","id":"7871669"}
{"by":"noelchurchill","time":"1210023402","timestamp":"2008-05-05 21:36:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right.  That is a different question all together.  I'm really more curious about Djangos ability to tap into an existing database.  I've heard that RoR has a very difficult time doing this.\u003cp\u003eBut to answer your question, there probably wouldn't be any need to rewrite my application.  PHP is very adaptable and scalable and will probably continue to suit my needs.","parent":"181874","id":"181895"}
{"by":"nknight","time":"1331519748","timestamp":"2012-03-12 02:35:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like Martijn doesn't actually know much about Linux kernel development.\u003cp\u003ePatches get rejected from the kernel all the time for many of the same reasons listed in the linked post. It takes a long time for most new kernel contributors to get anything substantive in, and major changes almost never go in without huge reviews, fights, competing proposals, etc..\u003cp\u003eThe only difference between that and what this post talked about is that for the kernel, a lot of the sausage making goes on in public (though far from all of it).","parent":"3691847","id":"3692113"}
{"by":"latch","time":"1318697494","timestamp":"2011-10-15 16:51:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The pacific is worth mentioning too...Singapore in particular, and Australia increasingly so. A handful of southern US states are getting things ramped up too.","parent":"3115130","id":"3115148"}
{"by":"zwieback","time":"1523027355","timestamp":"2018-04-06 15:09:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting to see all the negative comments about the SO culture here. I just hadn\u0026#x27;t really noticed it but maybe it is a problem for beginners. I generally find what I\u0026#x27;m looking for and when I post a question I try to research first to avoid spam. Isn\u0026#x27;t that how it\u0026#x27;s supposed to work?","parent":"16773182","id":"16773806"}
{"by":"majormajor","time":"1348859308","timestamp":"2012-09-28 19:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. The bit \"[a network] where a system decides who is your friend was just awesome\" could easily go either way.\u003cp\u003eDid you actually find out interesting things from its statements as to who your friends were, or do you not like the idea (it doesn't sound particularly appealing to me)?","parent":"4587173","id":"4587246"}
{"by":"pg_bot","time":"1321521140","timestamp":"2011-11-17 09:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They do a very good job presenting their product but the price point is way too high in my opinion for what the product is. (10-12.50 per unit based on the kickstarter pledge values)","parent":"3246354","id":"3246999"}
{"by":"jader201","time":"1370134363","timestamp":"2013-06-02 00:52:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, and I wasn't trying to diminish his role. I was just trying to understand where the \"co-founder\" in the title came from. How did the submitter know he was truly a co-founder?\u003cp\u003eI couldn't find mention of this anywhere, so I was assuming the submitter knew some history of him that I couldn't find on their site.","parent":"5806409","id":"5806782"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1407029303","timestamp":"2014-08-03 01:28:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe patches are applied in the factory, toward the end of the production line, and they fix critical bugs. If the units don’t have these fixes, the Newt won’t work very well.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe patches live in the battery protected low-power RAM of the Newton, and they’re theoretically immortal as long as power holds out. This is why the battery compartment has a wacky mechanical locking system meant to discourage people from simultaneously removing both the main and the backup batteries.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAm I the only one who thinks this is an overly fragile way of doing it? It\u0026#x27;s almost like planned obolescence. (Apple isn\u0026#x27;t the only one doing this; a lot of very expensive test equipment back then also had things like calibration constants stored in battery-backed RAM.)","parent":"8125296","id":"8126680"}
{"by":"megablast","time":"1279585444","timestamp":"2010-07-20 00:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get the impression that Apple is not run by a bunch of MBAs, unlike a lot of the big companies around the world.","parent":"1530471","id":"1530701"}
{"by":"elaineo","time":"1455912637","timestamp":"2016-02-19 20:10:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"try deleting cookies, then hit refresh.","parent":"11136137","id":"11136240"}
{"by":"akoster","time":"1483390107","timestamp":"2017-01-02 20:48:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would venture a guess that many people are back to work after the Christmas\u0026#x2F;new year holidays and hence, have less time to spend on HN.","parent":"13298829","id":"13304368"}
{"by":"marvel00legend","time":"1464548017","timestamp":"2016-05-29 18:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try WIX","parent":"11789795","id":"11797670"}
{"by":"LukeShu","time":"1478288578","timestamp":"2016-11-04 19:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; MJPEG which is essentially every frame independently encoded as a JPEG.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;essentially\u0026quot; makes it sound like it isn\u0026#x27;t precisely true.  MJPEG is literally just a stream of JPEG images.  The framing of the stream varies a bit, but many implementations are just literal JPEG images bundled one after the other into a MIME \u0026quot;multipart\u0026#x2F;x-mixed-replace\u0026quot; message.","parent":"12871805","id":"12875409"}
{"by":"starpilot","time":"1517876241","timestamp":"2018-02-06 00:17:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks like it might be in the top 100 though. Considering these are changes per \u003ci\u003eday\u003c/i\u003e, and the chart covers around 100 years or 25,000 trading days, this puts it in the top 0.4% of largest percentage daily losses. So, it does appear to be a significant losing day if 99.6% of such days are smaller in magnitude.","parent":"16313218","id":"16313475"}
{"by":"dbrgn","time":"1516666132","timestamp":"2018-01-23 00:08:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The US has cheaper AND cleaner electricity than China\u003cp\u003eThis is a nice read: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.americanprogress.org\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;green\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;432141\u0026#x2F;everything-think-know-coal-china-wrong\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.americanprogress.org\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;green\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;0...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuote: \u0026quot;The nation is on track to overdeliver on the emissions reduction commitments it put forward under the Paris climate agreement\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAnd: \u0026quot;Compared with the Chinese coal fleet, even the best U.S. plants are running older, less efficient technologies.\u0026quot;","parent":"16209334","id":"16209494"}
{"by":"tshtf","time":"1460638149","timestamp":"2016-04-14 12:49:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like this?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;jul\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;cia-admits-improperly-hacking-senate-computers-sea\u0026#x2F;?page=all\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;jul\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;cia-admits-i...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11496143","id":"11496178"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1453757669","timestamp":"2016-01-25 21:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an interesting article. There\u0026#x27;s certainly a lot of untapped talent out there doing relatively menial work when they\u0026#x27;ve shown capability to do very different and more effective things. Sponsoring such people or just being more likely to hire them could bring benefits. Well, it\u0026#x27;s already been proven by the companies doing it while reaping those benefits. Plus the occasional academic team asking for funding on something that might be a game-changer and is to some degree. So, we need more of it.\u003cp\u003eThat said, the author is wrong about the title and doesn\u0026#x27;t get Silicon Valley. Most don\u0026#x27;t because they don\u0026#x27;t know the historical context of how it became what it is. If you want to re-create or beat it, you have to either imitate or improve on the components that went into creating it. This is the best article I\u0026#x27;ve seen summarizing the big picture of how Silicon Valley came to be:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;backchannel\u0026#x2F;why-silicon-valley-will-continue-to-rule-c0cbb441e22f\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;backchannel\u0026#x2F;why-silicon-valley-will-conti...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote: I bet many people didn\u0026#x27;t think Zuckerberg and others paid visits to the old guard to learn old lessons for IT. Probably thought it was all modern, fresh thinking \u0026quot;disrupting\u0026quot; the old stuff. A mix as usual. ;)","parent":"10969111","id":"10970098"}
{"by":"venomsnake","time":"1428950188","timestamp":"2015-04-13 18:36:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There has been horizontal expansion of refineries. I don\u0026#x27;t think US have substantially lower capacity than before.","parent":"9367804","id":"9369469"}
{"by":"dfield","time":"1272529481","timestamp":"2010-04-29 08:24:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you're right, but in my opinion they don't overlap very well either.  A startup is \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e unlikely to succeed without complete devotion and it's very hard to take the most rigorous classes while working \u0026#62;20 hours a week.","parent":"1303639","id":"1303900"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1277949948","timestamp":"2010-07-01 02:05:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eInvestment advisers who can't do the simple maths required for deciphering mobile pricing schemes? Next...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that these are the same people that gave the subprime CDOs AAA ratings.","parent":"1476281","id":"1476812"}
{"by":"jwatte","time":"1477791441","timestamp":"2016-10-30 01:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the battery has a MCU for charge management, and the trackpad, and the keyboard, and ...","parent":"12824478","id":"12827600"}
{"by":"andybak","time":"1307444009","timestamp":"2011-06-07 10:53:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From a brief reading, it's potentially worse than an 8ms slow-down if you take all the issues into account. Have I misinterpreted?","parent":"2628491","id":"2628606"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1498865736","timestamp":"2017-06-30 23:35:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You even introduce a class of bugs doesn’t exist for statically typed languages.\u003cp\u003eAs type systems vary, almost every statically-typed language allows some errors of the class statically-typed languages, in general, can prevent, so this is not really true.\u003cp\u003eWhat is true is that on the continuum from no static validation to something like Idris or Agda, you accept \u003ci\u003emore\u003c/i\u003e statically-avoidable type errors the closer you are to the former rather than the latter.","parent":"14674208","id":"14674254"}
{"by":"bsaul","time":"1430951207","timestamp":"2015-05-06 22:26:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Be EXTREMELY cautious when using document-based auto-syncing DBs such as firebase. If you\u0026#x27;re not closely following the best-practice such as using flat document structure instead of nested ones, and dictionaries instead of arrays, you may enter a world of nasty disappointments as you struggle to query and update your local data structure.\u003cp\u003eData syncing is \u003ci\u003ehard\u003c/i\u003e and so far i\u0026#x27;ve only seen two possibilities : roll your own solution using the fact that you have a knowledge of your business that will help you be smart and small, or use a generic solution but take some time to understand deeply its way of working \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c/i\u003e you build your real product.\u003cp\u003eI actually had to cancel what i thought would be a short angular\u0026#x2F;firebase project after two days struggling to sync one big nested data structure displayed on a page, and realizing i actually had to rethink my model from scratch to fit the technology (which ended up being completely overkill for my need anyway).","parent":"9499910","id":"9502184"}
{"by":"ArkyBeagle","time":"1482927487","timestamp":"2016-12-28 12:18:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never ask people what they identify as. The descent into self-parody is just one of those things. It\u0026#x27;s really curious to me that basic ideas, like the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, are still such hard nuts to crack.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Private courts paid for by the applicants\u0026quot; - go read \u0026quot;Machineries of Freedom\u0026quot; by David D. Friedman. Catch the finer points. He writes well; it\u0026#x27;s just a foreign concept.\nHis grounding is non-Anglo Saxon law, from the perspective of literally SCA stuff.\u003cp\u003eI think of the book as sort of a ... Talmudic dialogue on alternatives to what we\u0026#x27;re used to. Is it something that should or can be implemented? Can\u0026#x27;t say. Probably not if I had to guess - crosses too much path-dependence.\u003cp\u003eThe framework I use for \u0026quot;what is libertarianism\u0026quot; tends these days to be the three axis model from Arnold Kling. \nTo wit: conservatives are concerned about barbarism, \u0026quot;liberals\u0026quot; are concerned about oppression; libertarians about coercion.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;... white males with skills...\u0026quot; - well, that\u0026#x27;s very path dependent. It\u0026#x27;s also the target audience for say, Heinlein novels.  Y\u0026#x27;know, nerds :) The internet of the \u0026#x27;90s was a big vector for libertarian ideas. \u0026quot;Normal\u0026quot; people won\u0026#x27;t bother with it. So you have had 20+ years of libertarian bikeshedding online.\u003cp\u003eFinally, the Clean Air Act... it\u0026#x27;s easy to forget the junkyards full of cars where all the air control stuff just stopped working, to forget the rather steep learning curve, to forget it all \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e didn\u0026#x27;t work out until adaptive control in engine control modules became commonplace. To treat it as ... \u0026quot;holy writ\u0026quot; ( uggggh, horrible metaphor ) is leaving a lot of information on the floor.","parent":"13269581","id":"13270029"}
{"by":"dopamean","time":"1477179668","timestamp":"2016-10-22 23:41:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I played 2\u0026#x2F;5 NLH at the Venetian in June of 2015 and had my phone on the table most of the time. I had earbuds in and would check twitter and text friends playing at other tables between hands. No one seemed to have a problem with it and I wasn\u0026#x27;t the only person doing something like that. I never thought it would be a problem actually.","parent":"12770866","id":"12771125"}
{"by":"abakker","time":"1533089295","timestamp":"2018-08-01 02:08:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can attest as a non-pro photographer (but as someone who cares a lot about photography), that the SD card built in is not that important. I tend to use a dock\u0026#x2F;reader anyway because most of my cameras use CF or mini SD. True, full sized SD cards are actually not used in any equipment I have now.","parent":"17659020","id":"17659089"}
{"by":"maaku","time":"1331279259","timestamp":"2012-03-09 07:47:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, Obama hasn't signed this into law (yet). But with the momentum it has and the current political situation, it looks like its on the fast track. Once it \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e signed into law, has anyone put together a kickstarter-for-startups site? An AngelList for the masses? Anyone have a set of standardized legal forms that can be used for crowd funding?\u003cp\u003eMy startup is going to raise its first round in a few weeks to a month's time.. we would love to be a test case for crowd funding, if this is law by then.","parent":"3683070","id":"3683330"}
{"by":"jhancock","time":"1227694124","timestamp":"2008-11-26 10:08:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nice to hear the windows folks get to opt out ;).  I didn't see such a choice on the OS X installer.","parent":"377469","id":"377475"}
{"by":"wyager","time":"1411539781","timestamp":"2014-09-24 06:23:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; For me that includes freedom of speech and net neutrality.\n\u0026gt; These things don\u0026#x27;t exist unless you make laws to protect them.\u003cp\u003eNet neutrality? Maybe. You could argue that network provision is a natural monopoly and therefore needs regulation to keep it \u0026quot;fair\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eFree speech? Absolutely not. There is no sensible way a law can make the internet freer (as in speech) than it is in the absence of law. Right now, any lack of free speech on the internet is directly \u003ci\u003edue to\u003c/i\u003e laws. Please explain your reasoning.","parent":"8359355","id":"8360155"}
{"by":"Yaggo","time":"1519307130","timestamp":"2018-02-22 13:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Typical 5 watt solar panel is 25x25 cm. That 5 watt is generated under ideal conditions, i.e. in sunlight, measuring about 100 kilolux. Bright indoor lightning is 1 kilolux, i.e. the \u0026quot;indoor solar panel charger\u0026quot; would take ~6 m² (assuming ideal spectrum).","parent":"16436944","id":"16437462"}
{"by":"metachris","time":"1458577984","timestamp":"2016-03-21 16:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I\u0026#x27;ve just added SparkPost!","parent":"11329032","id":"11329272"}
{"by":"fastball","time":"1501059780","timestamp":"2017-07-26 09:03:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a software engineer with a degree in Physics and a degree in Biomedical Engineering, you\u0026#x27;re both wrong.","parent":"14854218","id":"14854603"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1464202951","timestamp":"2016-05-25 19:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  the burden of proof would be on the employer to prove that there was no retaliation.\u003cp\u003eOnly if they are sued. And then they can just say. It would take someone who is in on the nudge-nudge wink-wink euphemisms to somehow break the silence and testify. They\u0026#x27;d have to have a falling out with the owners \u0026#x2F; management at the same when the person who is gone sued and then testify that \u0026quot;what we mean by restructuring is person is the wrong race\u0026quot;. Then bingo, easy peasy case.\u003cp\u003eSee companies have written rules and communication, and unwritten rules and communication.  The unwritten rules are the nudge-nudge wink-wink type things.\u003cp\u003eIf they are very careful they could even start a performance review probation period. Could say we need to \u0026quot;re-evaluate your role, you have to improve your performance review numbers\u0026quot;. They set some unrealistic goals, then the clock start ticking. And in the end they have a paper trail of a reason to lay the person off. Even though, according to unwritten communication it was really because they were the wrong race, or gender and so on.","parent":"11770425","id":"11772237"}
{"by":"flukus","time":"1472774937","timestamp":"2016-09-02 00:08:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I generally work with prod backups (it\u0026#x27;s not uncommon) because you get realistic performance and it makes debugging live bugs much easier.\u003cp\u003eI prefer to have an annonymization script but many companies are too cheap to allocate time for one.","parent":"12407320","id":"12409798"}
{"by":"____nope","time":"1481664333","timestamp":"2016-12-13 21:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not being able to serialize an empty string is abysmally poor design.","parent":"13170993","id":"13171202"}
{"by":"orthecreedence","time":"1410392359","timestamp":"2014-09-10 23:39:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But studies performed in Arizona, Minnesota and Hawaii suggest that drivers are at fault in more than half of cycling fatalities.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d be amazed if this were true in SF. I\u0026#x27;m an avid cyclist, love biking around the city for fun or to commute, etc. The cause of most near crashes (and crashes) I\u0026#x27;ve witnessed are idiot cyclists thinking it\u0026#x27;s ok to blow through stop signs or traffic lights, or to wildly cut across two lanes without signalling and expecting the entire universe to notice them and stop for them. When I\u0026#x27;m driving, I\u0026#x27;m hyper-aware of the stupidity I\u0026#x27;ve seen when I\u0026#x27;m biking and try to take that into account when cyclists are around, and I don\u0026#x27;t blame other motorists for getting pissed or even aggressive. Cyclists have this incredible double-standard...they want to use the road, but they don\u0026#x27;t want to share it. Sure, everyone who drives a car is an earth-destroying, gas-guzzling, roided out freak who\u0026#x27;s trying to kill you, but isn\u0026#x27;t that all the more reason to have some respect for \u003ci\u003eeveryone else\u003c/i\u003e on the road?\u003cp\u003eGranted, I\u0026#x27;ve had my fair share of asshole drivers turn right in front of me without signalling or just merge into the bike line for no reason (prompting me to \u0026quot;gently\u0026quot; tap their car window). Hell, I\u0026#x27;ve even had people run red lights and come within a foot of slamming into me, and I\u0026#x27;ve been doored really bad by someone getting out of a taxi, but to be honest I\u0026#x27;m as cautious around other cyclists as I am around cars.\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s just SF and it\u0026#x27;s the wild west here, but biking at rush hour is just as bad because of other cyclists, not just cars. I think drivers would hate us a lot less if we stopped at a stop sign once in a while and thought about others besides ourselves (same goes for shitty drivers too).","parent":"8299027","id":"8299947"}
{"by":"abc_lisper","time":"1417708410","timestamp":"2014-12-04 15:53:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Won\u0026#x27;t infrared sensors work well here?","parent":"8699438","id":"8699816"}
{"by":"Lazare","time":"1514994950","timestamp":"2018-01-03 15:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  males clearly rate females in a normal-distribution way, females highly skew it in favor of the more attractive males.\u003cp\u003eYes.  But males messaging females skew highly in favour of the more attractive females, while females messages males do so in a normal-distributed way.\u003cp\u003eSo when OP asks \u0026quot;Why does it appear that the vast majority of women prefer the same small group of men?\u0026quot; the answer is simple:  It\u0026#x27;s actually the other way around.  2\u0026#x2F;3 of men (a \u0026quot;vast majority\u0026quot;) are messaging 1\u0026#x2F;3 of women (a \u0026quot;small group\u0026quot;).  Women do not exhibit this behaviour.  Those are the facts we are presented with.\u003cp\u003eAnything else is, as you put it, \u0026quot;mental gymnastics\u0026quot;.","parent":"16061942","id":"16062004"}
{"by":"technofiend","time":"1523047306","timestamp":"2018-04-06 20:41:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Requiring sewers is hardly \u0026quot;planning\u0026quot;. You can\u0026#x27;t really plan growth.\u003cp\u003eOf course you can! \u0026quot;Gee, we\u0026#x27;re growing like a weed so now we need to annex the areas surrounding us.\u0026quot;  \u0026quot;Hey developers, you\u0026#x27;re required to hook up to city sewerage, which we\u0026#x27;ll supply because that\u0026#x27;s what responsible cities do.\u0026quot; Done.\u003cp\u003eIf you want another good example of failure to plan look at all the development in Addicks Reservoir in Houston. It was trivial to plan for growth by banning development in the 100 year flood plain.  We chose not to.  Now 40 years too late we\u0026#x27;re trying to kinda sorta but not really regulate in the 500 year flood plain.  Having the political wherewithal to just say \u0026quot;You know what? No building houses in the flood plain!\u0026quot; would have saved the taxpayers billions. But nobody had the stones to tell developers no.  So those developers got to build in a risky spot and walk away with the profits while shifting the risk to taxpayers.","parent":"16776491","id":"16777212"}
{"by":"brown9-2","time":"1295550277","timestamp":"2011-01-20 19:04:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There might be another issue at play here: perhaps the investment firms represented by the professional analysts have incentive to under-predict a company's performance in their public-facing reports.","parent":"2124537","id":"2124842"}
{"by":"CountSessine","time":"1456441418","timestamp":"2016-02-25 23:03:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eSo I think your point, while valid, does not apply in any way to Xamarin!\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll believe it when I see it. Cross-platform UI libraries like Qt, Gtk, SWT, etc, just never end up choosing quite the right widgets or having exactly the right look-and-feel as natively-designed apps.\u003cp\u003eIf cross-platform is a bigger requirement than producing the best-possible UX, then perhaps Xamarin could deliver. I see this being a big deal with enterprise software. But that\u0026#x27;s almost never the case for most consumer-facing software; you\u0026#x27;re always much, much better off building your presentation code in a native UI toolkit.","parent":"11177702","id":"11178561"}
{"by":"X-Istence","time":"1356060937","timestamp":"2012-12-21 03:35:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd love to keep 6 months in the bank, but my first job out of school was at a startup and I am not making a whole lot. At the moment I am lucky if I have 1 month in the bank, and it is not that I spend my money quickly, I simply live pay-check to pay-check at the moment.\u003cp\u003eDo note that about 40% of my pay check goes to paying off student loan debt, 50% to simple living expenses and costs, the last 10% goes into savings, generally so that I can afford a once a year trip back to Europe to see my grandparents/dad/cousins/uncles/aunts/siblings. So at the end of the year I have quite a bit saved up, and then I purchase a flight back home... that really hurts.","parent":"4949747","id":"4951369"}
{"by":"brianmckenzie","time":"1179512969","timestamp":"2007-05-18 18:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm in agreement with the article. Most of the desktop-mimic web apps I've used just plain suck. They feel like really slow, crappy desktop apps, as if you were running Lotus Notes on a 10-year-old windows machine, only worse. \u003cp\u003eThis isn't to say that 'web'-style interfaces don't have room for improvement, but it's a different ballgame than the desktop. On the web we have load time concerns, a different toolset for building the interface, and different considerations in terms of color and space. \u003cp\u003eNot to mention the precedents set by every other web page that has come before which people are used to. Geez, we have to do a scriptaculous hilite on every xhr just so people will notice what's going on.","parent":"23090","id":"23121"}
{"by":"agnivade","time":"1508138912","timestamp":"2017-10-16 07:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most often, in general purpose programming, you don\u0026#x27;t need burden of managing memory manually. Things just go fine with a good runtime.\u003cp\u003eAnd that is what I think beginners should be introduced to - how to write code, how to frame algorithms in your mind and convert them into lucid code. Python does all of this wonderfully. It hides all of the internal details and exposes just the part that is needed for sometime writing a computer program for the first time in their life - simple statements which do simple things.\u003cp\u003eThere is no need for a beginner to understand memory management at all. Trying to understand what is code or how algorithms work is more important to build that mental capacity IMO. Pardon me, but it does seem that just because you had to undergo the pain of trying to understand pointers, memory layout and allocations, you want everyone to go through the same experience as well.","parent":"15480419","id":"15481463"}
{"by":"solve","time":"1431824868","timestamp":"2015-05-17 01:07:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doing any kind of web research for work is effectively a breadth-first tree traversal. Remembering all the higher level nodes, when you\u0026#x27;re ready to go the next level deep, would be a nightmare. My brain couldn\u0026#x27;t handle that, but tabs solve it effortlessly.\u003cp\u003eSo I\u0026#x27;d say that I keep many tabs open for the exact opposite reason. It enhances what I can do, due to the limitations of my brain.\u003cp\u003eWithin a few decades, I expect for the concept of open tabs and bookmarks to merge. We\u0026#x27;ll be keeping far more tabs open, and flipping between them effortlessly, or scrolling back to that snapshot in time effortlessly.\u003cp\u003eI imagine closing tabs will be being like closing Emacs buffers. In practice, you practically never have the need to close an Emacs buffer, for anything you might have a small chance of wanting to work on again soon.","parent":"9558241","id":"9558259"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1281967015","timestamp":"2010-08-16 13:56:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, it's weird how people tend to completely overlook that XMLHttpRequest is a Microsoft thing, originally it was to make the Outlook web client work.","parent":"1607316","id":"1607777"}
{"by":"pfedor","time":"1248328549","timestamp":"2009-07-23 05:55:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI, for one, have never seen a decent quality desktop application written in Java.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hear eclipse is pretty decent.","parent":"719111","id":"719133"}
{"by":"marvin","time":"1206442244","timestamp":"2008-03-25 10:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is possible today to create airplanes that use less energy per mile than a good car, traveling at higher speeds. I think PG's comment about government involvement is very relevant here - the reason such airplanes aren't the norm is bureaucracy, politics and law. Intellectual inertia.\u003cp\u003eThe problem regarding personal air travel is almost purely political. The only real technical hurdle I can see is the problem of getting them into and out of the air: we haven't yet created airplanes that both are energy-efficient in the air and land or take off vertically. Tilt-rotor designs are the most promising candidate I can see for this (you need wings to travel cheaply), but they would have to be under computer control unless we want reckless pilots to die in droves while landing. The efficient planes I am talking about here don't need a mile of runway - 500 meters is plenty.\u003cp\u003eIn case my first sentence draws criticism off the bat, please consider that there are four-seater, canard airplane designs that cruise at 170 mph at 5 gallons/hour = 34 MPG. And this is with today's airplane engine technology, which hasn't changed since the 1960s. The problems which then remain are infrastructure, training and inertia, which are purely political. I have confidence that we will eventually have personal flying vehicles (\"flying cars\"), but this shows that the problems faced are anything but technological in nature. People ridiculing the old notion of a near-term \"flying car\" are bashing the wrong people. Why do the scientists always get the blame when it's just cultural inertia that is the problem?","parent":"145410","id":"145587"}
{"by":"ef4","time":"1446670877","timestamp":"2015-11-04 21:01:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Is it possible to do it over a period of time? (keep current job and moonlight freelance gigs)\u003cp\u003eYes, but you may need to pick a different job as an intermediate step: find a job that will let you interact meaningfully with wider open source communities.\u003cp\u003eThe recipe is deceptively simple: (1) build things, (2) tell people about it, (3) repeat. You need a job that lets you do step 2.\u003cp\u003eI will also add that projects around \u0026quot;20\u0026#x2F;hr or less\u0026quot; are not just quantitatively too low-paying, they are qualitatively the wrong kind of projects.  A $300\u0026#x2F;hr consultant is not just a more expensive version of a $20\u0026#x2F;hr web developer -- it\u0026#x27;s an entirely different job.\u003cp\u003eThe actual technology layer involved in either case might be the same, but the \u0026quot;interface\u0026quot; between you and your clients is different. The high-priced consultant exposes a much higher-level interface that is closer to the business problem domain.","parent":"10507355","id":"10509722"}
{"by":"jsmcgd","time":"1228350069","timestamp":"2008-12-04 00:21:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you think Clojure wasn't mentioned? Not mature enough?","parent":"384637","id":"385063"}
{"by":"lewispb","time":"1337256304","timestamp":"2012-05-17 12:05:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like how you've used my IP address to tell me that delivery will be free 'even to the United Kingdom'.\u003cp\u003eMay I suggest using the same code to also convert the price from $23.95 to the users local currency as this will help increase conversions. £15.10 feels a lot less than $23.95!\u003cp\u003eOther than that, great idea and I wish you all the best!","parent":"3986339","id":"3986564"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1525379740","timestamp":"2018-05-03 20:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Plenty of people do quit - Amazon\u0026#x27;s fulfillment centers have legendarily poor retention. It\u0026#x27;s one of the reasons Amazon offers stocks to full time employees as compensation for paying below market rates, since they expect almost no one to last the two years it will take to vest. Either they\u0026#x27;ll quit, or miss quota too often or empty their UPT (or have their UPT \u003ci\u003eretroactively\u003c/i\u003e taken, which I\u0026#x27;ve heard happens) and then get fired.\u003cp\u003eBut bear in mind that the risk taken by quitting is losing one\u0026#x27;s livelihood and (in the US) healthcare, and not quickly finding other work in a difficult market. Just because some people find it a rational decision to prefer to put up with Amazon\u0026#x27;s poor conditions and wages, doesn\u0026#x27;t mean Amazon is reasonable for treating its employees the way it does.","parent":"16988143","id":"16989686"}
{"by":"PavlovsCat","time":"1453555112","timestamp":"2016-01-23 13:18:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You\u0026#x27;ve made a very serious mistake, and that\u0026#x27;s to think that all peoples are the same.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re making the mistake to think that \u0026quot;peoples\u0026quot; are a monolith. They are much less so than racists. Which, regardless of other problems that need to be addressed, should have a priority of not being given one inch. We should \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c/i\u003e learned that the hard way, and now again this rhetoric is trying to weasel its way into everywhere.\u003cp\u003eSay what you want, \u003ci\u003ewish\u003c/i\u003e what you want, but it changed nearly nothing for the people who wanted to help before. Those who didn\u0026#x27;t were obstructing before and are exploiting it now. They just got louder and more violent, not more correct.","parent":"10958194","id":"10958282"}
{"by":"jgrahamc","time":"1321284487","timestamp":"2011-11-14 15:28:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What would be useful is an apples-to-apples comparison.  The WhisperGen is about £3,000 in the UK but that's a complete installable unit in the home that burns natural gas and hooks up to the electricity and water supply.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like your $100 is for just the motion part of the engine (perhaps I'm wrong about that).  Do you have a sense for what it would cost me to go from having nothing to a working system in my home generating electricity?","parent":"3234289","id":"3234310"}
{"by":"neximo64","time":"1472831476","timestamp":"2016-09-02 15:51:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A subsidy is as good as state aid. Is subsidy a form of tax, no.\u003cp\u003eIt is an issue of tax, not even as blurry as a subsidy.\u003cp\u003eChina and the EU pertain the exact same way as Ireland and the EU. The EU has no say over Ireland\u0026#x27;s tax affairs.\u003cp\u003eTaxes are not state aids, Any form of say on tax in any way at all needs all member states to agree, - as from the Treaty of Lisbon on Tax Affairs.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a shame really that this is brought up, because one of two things will happen\u003cp\u003e1) It will be said the EU has control over the state of Ireland\u0026#x27;s tax policy, through the guise of \u0026#x27;state aid\u0026#x27;. What fun that\u0026#x27;ll be\u003cp\u003e2) The ruling will be overturned and the EC will not be able to easily govern on its rulings. Legislation will be brought about to seek more control over EU member states.\u003cp\u003eEither way, each spell trouble for the EU. You can see the Brexiteers laughing.","parent":"12407334","id":"12413842"}
{"by":"erpellan","time":"1522102539","timestamp":"2018-03-26 22:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Feel free to exert that \u0026#x27;just a very little bit of effort\u0026#x27;, for all our sakes. If it\u0026#x27;s that easy it shouldn\u0026#x27;t take more than a couple of days, right? :)\u003cp\u003eI jest.  ECMAScript is the most widely installed programming platform on the planet. Ever. How do you even begin to shift that?","parent":"16683101","id":"16683138"}
{"by":"TheLoneWolfling","time":"1430240909","timestamp":"2015-04-28 17:08:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, that\u0026#x27;s pretty much it.\u003cp\u003eAlthough sometimes you can even skip the second device and just have the one near the keyfob.","parent":"9453715","id":"9453779"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1414606249","timestamp":"2014-10-29 18:10:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the USA you always key in the PIN after swiping\u0026#x2F;inserting\u0026#x2F;removing the card.","parent":"8528438","id":"8528819"}
{"by":"gcb0","time":"1473279965","timestamp":"2016-09-07 20:26:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the active line from Samsung is like the Sport line on every Japanese car maker: shitty.","parent":"12446923","id":"12447249"}
{"by":"madeofpalk","time":"1378204835","timestamp":"2013-09-03 10:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  Microsoft is a company with an institutional disdain for both the truth and for rules of law that lesser entities must respect\u003cp\u003eFunny, replace Microsoft with Apple in this pull and it would still make sense (but not with the rest of the quote)","parent":"6319712","id":"6320123"}
{"by":"Simulacra","time":"1534787181","timestamp":"2018-08-20 17:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When things got stressful at work I started smoking cannabis daily. It was really detrimental to my overall productivity. It was great for the stress, and made me feel wonderful, but it’s severely dulled the sharp edges of my mind.","parent":"17800280","id":"17802046"}
{"by":"time_management","time":"1224737872","timestamp":"2008-10-23 04:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"They want to be treated like colleagues rather than subordinates\"\u003cp\u003e\"They would renege on a job-acceptance commitment if a better offer came along.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Millennials also expect ... time for their family and personal interests.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough my mind as I read those quotes:\u003cp\u003e\"[Baby Boomers] want to be treated as superiors rather than colleagues.\"\u003cp\u003e\"They would rescind an offer if they found something embarrassing on Facebook.\" (This has happened to people I know.)\u003cp\u003e\"Baby boomers also expect ... others' lifestyles to be arranged for their purposes.\"\u003cp\u003eIn any case, I'm surprised but not amazed that people are willing to say things like this. The problem is as follows: consider that a money economy is essentially a computer, designed to allocate resources to the most productive individuals and institutions; e.g. those who make the best decisions with them in the past. Of course, this process is filtered through large corporations...\u003cp\u003eMost people would agree that, unless there was a specific, well-defined goal of high potential value, working at immense sacrifice is unwise. Most higher-level corporate work is not toward a well-defined goal of value; in fact, most of it's so generic and abstract as to be pointless. But large corporations often value sacrifice over productivity, shifting the money and (much more importantly) power over to those who were most willing to sacrifice themselves. What does this mean? Well, becoming a \"company man\" in a large company, with all the personal sacrifices that entails, is actually often a bad decision. Thus, decision-making power is allocated to those who made \u003ci\u003ebad\u003c/i\u003e decisions (about the relative value of their personal existence vs. corporate goals) in the past. In large big-box companies, power shifts to the defective rather than the productive. Hmm. \u003ci\u003eThat\u003c/i\u003e definitely wasn't supposed to happen.\u003cp\u003eThis article is the voice of Baby Boomers who made bad decisions with their lives and, out of regret and reflective bitterness, have chosen to chide those who wish to explore other options, falling back on a \"because I said so\" attitude. People veer toward authoritarianism when under psychological stress, and that's exactly what we see in this article.","parent":"340497","id":"340932"}
{"by":"esses","time":"1485618349","timestamp":"2017-01-28 15:45:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i\u0026#x27;m an evening shower-er and frequently have shower epiphanies.\u003cp\u003emaybe relevant to your theory: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;content.time.com\u0026#x2F;time\u0026#x2F;covers\u0026#x2F;20060116\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;Day_Night.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;content.time.com\u0026#x2F;time\u0026#x2F;covers\u0026#x2F;20060116\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;Day_Night.p...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13505098","id":"13506780"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1483470224","timestamp":"2017-01-03 19:03:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The retired population in NYC is not 5.6 million.  Further, these are older buildings which are not being replaced in part from rent control.  So, the \u0026#x27;Gap\u0026#x27; is wider than just 27,000 missing apartments.\u003cp\u003eIn any case there still is a highly subsidized subset of the overall retired population that is part of the problem.","parent":"13311655","id":"13311968"}
{"by":"hyperliner","time":"1404935977","timestamp":"2014-07-09 19:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Therefore, the addition of \u0026quot;... and we can still steal what you negotiate\u0026quot;","parent":"8011672","id":"8011902"}
{"by":"jstewartmobile","time":"1481941482","timestamp":"2016-12-17 02:24:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t assume too much about a CS degree.  If I relied solely upon what I was taught in college, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be able to get a job.  It was sheer providence that some of my profs were so bad that self-directed study was an obvious necessity.\u003cp\u003eBest advice I could give to any professional is to ACTUALLY READ the great books of the field.  Everyone wants the distillation and the cliff\u0026#x27;s notes versions, and a lot gets lost in translation.  There are a lot of threads on HN where people recommend their favorite programming books.\u003cp\u003eThe other thing would be the old \u0026quot;harder you work, the better you\u0026#x27;ll get\u0026quot; adage.  Book learning can only take you so far.","parent":"13198689","id":"13198786"}
{"by":"adamnemecek","time":"1380751371","timestamp":"2013-10-02 22:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe the gov\u0026#x27;t just does not want to reveal all the aces up their sleeves.","parent":"6485690","id":"6485709"}
{"by":"specialist","time":"1541532867","timestamp":"2018-11-06 19:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Approval voting for executive positions, proportional representation for assemblies.\u003cp\u003eThe upper house (eg Senate) in bicameral systems is a special case. I\u0026#x27;m undecided if they should be abolished (7 states have more Senators than Representatives) or our state boundaries redrawn.","parent":"18393555","id":"18394204"}
{"by":"ihsw","time":"1470919689","timestamp":"2016-08-11 12:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not going to deny that many are judged based on their religious and cultural values, and that there are correlations between all Muslims that point to certain trends that some find alarming (eg: irrationality, lack of self-preservation, and strong desire for justice), but I cannot accept that such trends are a reflection of Islam.\u003cp\u003eCulture shock happens and when it happens on a massive scale then there will obviously be issues, and I think that is what we are witnessing now. It may take a generation but I am hopeful that Western society will co-exist with Islam peacefully, regardless of the negative interpretations some people have.\u003cp\u003eYou could do the same with a billion and a half people anywhere -- give them a unifying identity, tell them to live in every nation on Earth, and make most of the poor and uneducated. There will be a central global point that people call home, there will be culture clashes, and there will be demagogues taking advantage of the situation.","parent":"12267462","id":"12267763"}
{"by":"0xcde4c3db","time":"1535218843","timestamp":"2018-08-25 17:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not saying it\u0026#x27;s justified at all. I\u0026#x27;m not saying that I know what the solution is. I\u0026#x27;m saying that these are all expressions of the same underlying set of attitudes rather than merely being poor policy. The reason there aren\u0026#x27;t 24\u0026#x2F;7 protests outside mental hospitals and politicians of every stripe calling for radical reform of the mental health system is the same reason that city councils pass \u0026quot;sit-lie\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;anti-camping\u0026quot; laws instead of providing needed services to the homeless. At a societal level, the desire is largely to make these people \u003ci\u003ejust go away\u003c/i\u003e, or at least to approximate that by keeping them so beaten down that they\u0026#x27;re afraid to engage in any noticeable behavior. Lip service is sometimes given to fundamental rights and humane treatment, but the attitude expressed by the behavior of our institutions is often closer to animal control than to a welfare system. When it comes to the mentally ill, the average person seemingly doesn\u0026#x27;t know the difference between treatment and abuse, and might not even care to know. As long as there\u0026#x27;s any room for doubt and someone with the right letters after their name says \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s for their own good\u0026quot;, the conscience goes back to sleep.","parent":"17841147","id":"17841706"}
{"by":"ComputerGuru","time":"1320025033","timestamp":"2011-10-31 01:37:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why was this downvoted? I found it very informative and interesting - personally, I can't wait for GV to be a native option on the iPhone 4S w/ Verizon, though that'll never happen.","parent":"3175776","id":"3176016"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1427959325","timestamp":"2015-04-02 07:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting...based on that illustration, it seems like #2 is the dominant factor.  The areas of previously highest density are the Lower East Side and East Village, formerly working-class immigrant enclaves with more tenements than highrises.","parent":"9306508","id":"9309079"}
{"by":"abyssknight","time":"1241637787","timestamp":"2009-05-06 19:23:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know, I think you can do it for far less. The key is human assets and time. Legal copy you can acquire for free, or if a founder is a lawyer everyone wins. Marketing is free, provided you're willing to do it. Hosting is really all you have to pay for, and that starts at a paltry $20/month at SliceHost or lower on shared hosting. What is it that costs so much?\u003cp\u003eSure, rent, food and everything isn't free but my day job covers that. I guess a good designer might cost you some cash, but even that doesn't amount to $5k if you do some leg work yourself (i.e. sketches, html breakdown).","parent":"594363","id":"596533"}
{"by":"gchpaco","time":"1317020718","timestamp":"2011-09-26 07:05:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a 1920s document, I would actually expect it to be (badly) typewritten, but perhaps I'm injecting too much of modern myth of the times.  Certainly cursive handwriting was considered to be vital at the time.\u003cp\u003eAs for medieval, you can actually do pretty well with the medieval Italics or my personal favorite, the Carolingian miniscule.  Blackletter is good for late period but it's very difficult for modern folks to read.","parent":"3037126","id":"3037918"}
{"by":"paulhauggis","time":"1428354906","timestamp":"2015-04-06 21:15:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my city, we have tons of homeless shelters and help for anyone that needs it.  Yet, many choose not to live in these shelters and live on the streets because they don\u0026#x27;t want to follow the rules of the shelters...which aren\u0026#x27;t really that strict.","parent":"9330613","id":"9330743"}
{"by":"secstate","time":"1458748735","timestamp":"2016-03-23 15:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The killer part is that it\u0026#x27;s only expensive to repair because Apple has opted not to streamline a repair pipeline. There is absolutely no way a digitizer glued to a piece of glass costs $500 otherwise they\u0026#x27;d never make another iPad.\u003cp\u003eBut if they price the part hideously expensively it makes buying a new one a no-brainer. Working in a school for a few years, I was amazed how easily and inexpensively I could replace screens and memory on 2008-era white macbooks when I had access to school channels for parts priced at cost (or close enough). I think we had access to those channels as a stipulation in a state contract to buy assloads of those machines for every kid in the state.","parent":"11345450","id":"11345598"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1376639829","timestamp":"2013-08-16 07:57:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a C++ compiler, just use C++ and you will be fine.","parent":"6222358","id":"6222718"}
{"by":"dotancohen","time":"1503859354","timestamp":"2017-08-27 18:42:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; After 14 years in the military and experience with several armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters, I have seen that pretty much all your plans and preparation will go out the window, so you need to learn to move adapt and improvise.\u003cp\u003eEisenhower said it best: Plans are worthless, but planning is priceless.","parent":"15111881","id":"15112011"}
{"by":"domparise","time":"1490677577","timestamp":"2017-03-28 05:06:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like this could also use DNS for backend or devops","parent":"13970781","id":"13974234"}
{"by":"jliptzin","time":"1395602320","timestamp":"2014-03-23 19:18:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think what\u0026#x27;s relevant is the trend. You do have a good point, but it seems plausible to me that the same proportion of college students today are working minimum-wage jobs compared to 40 years ago, with the higher paying jobs breaking along the same rough percentages. It would be interesting to see the data on that though.","parent":"7454608","id":"7454623"}
{"by":"lubos","time":"1458090282","timestamp":"2016-03-16 01:04:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you need cooked dinner for kids every day? There are plenty of healthy meals which take 10 minutes to prepare and will do as a dinner.","parent":"11290738","id":"11294248"}
{"by":"brlewis","time":"1311896396","timestamp":"2011-07-28 23:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, we would be about 1/4th as up in arms as we are now.","parent":"2818953","id":"2819490"}
{"by":"blowski","time":"1464101794","timestamp":"2016-05-24 14:56:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely that would just defer the problem? Plus, the airlines now have to buy all their own equipment, train their own staff. At the moment, they are \u0026#x27;outsourcing\u0026#x27; their airport security to the TSA.\u003cp\u003eI suppose they could each choose which security checks they are going to carry out, but how would they choose? Based on recommendations from something that looks like the TSA?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not clear to me that the airlines would want this responsibility, or would do a better job at it than the TSA.","parent":"11762015","id":"11762092"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1340583676","timestamp":"2012-06-25 00:21:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me the part that hit a nerve was this: \"Nobody likes to have debt and as soon as you have it, you become restricted in what you can do.\"\u003cp\u003eMost of us hear the constant refrain of what a good idea home ownership is, and how it so much better than renting, when you take into account the mortgage interest deductions and appreciation.  And that's all true, but what they never really emphasize is that once you take out a mortgage you've got that $1,000 monthly payment (for example) that you've got to meet EVERY month, for the next 30 years or until you sell.  And you have insurance, property taxes, maintenance, etc.\u003cp\u003eCarrying long-term debt and especially owning a home really does impact your thinking.  You become more risk-averse.  You start thinking that a steady paycheck is a better idea than taking the risk of starting a business.  As time goes on, you feel like you have MORE to lose because you've been paying on the debt for a while and you actually have some equity.  It's why banks view mortgages with equity as lower risk, and why car insurance is cheaper if you own a home.\u003cp\u003eAs far as buying property as an investment, i.e. renting it out, the \"common wisdom\" is that you make your money when you buy.  You absolutely need to get a really good deal when you buy, because the rent you're able to collect will basically be a break-even on your expenses, so wnen you eventually sell your profit is a function of your purchase price.  Unfortunately a lot of people pay too much for houses that they think are in a \"hot\" rental area, and they never really make any money on them.","parent":"4154495","id":"4154612"}
{"by":"waterlesscloud","time":"1333330062","timestamp":"2012-04-02 01:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd look at the online courses that are starting to be offered.  Coursera, MITx, etc.  There's a lot of foundational stuff in those courses.","parent":"3784294","id":"3785773"}
{"by":"kurtisc","time":"1540552728","timestamp":"2018-10-26 11:18:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Assuming you only lose employees to firing.","parent":"18307737","id":"18308252"}
{"by":"nullc","time":"1404031051","timestamp":"2014-06-29 08:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last mile bandwidth tends to be a lot more expensive than more centralized data center bandwidth— moving traffic out to the edge is just not very attractive in general.","parent":"7960701","id":"7960710"}
{"by":"dspig","time":"1517774449","timestamp":"2018-02-04 20:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While Schroeder\u0026#x27;s algorithm sounds like reverberation, these days it might not be confused for \u0026#x27;natural sounding\u0026#x27;.  Well, to be fair there is worse sounding reverberation in real life (garages).\u003cp\u003eA better sounding algorithm is to convolve the signal with decaying random noise - impractical in Schroeder\u0026#x27;s day - but that\u0026#x27;s sort of what his and later algorithms are approximating.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Improvements on Schroeder\u0026#x27;s algorithm include feedback delay networks (where the comb filters don\u0026#x27;t just feed back to their own input, but to the others too, and\u0026#x2F;or nesting allpass filters inside each other. Both of these increase the density of echoes faster.","parent":"16304354","id":"16304579"}
{"by":"samstokes","time":"1308939045","timestamp":"2011-06-24 18:10:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No va?  \u003ca href=\"http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.polishedcode.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.polishedcode.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2692882","id":"2693215"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1454967184","timestamp":"2016-02-08 21:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Suburb\u0026quot; has shades of meaning here in the U.S. too, but I think most people think of the sprawling new city suburbs when they use the term. When I lived in New York, I lived in a small suburb, but we had a cute little downtown and regional rail access to New York City. We rarely drove there. But most U.S. suburbs are not like that. They\u0026#x27;re like my parents\u0026#x27; suburb in Virginia: where you can\u0026#x27;t really even leave the cul-de-sac on foot because you quickly hit a major road with no sidewalks.","parent":"11059960","id":"11061041"}
{"by":"mmel","time":"1472183427","timestamp":"2016-08-26 03:50:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The free market will fix it. Alas, it is not a free market.","parent":"12364018","id":"12364142"}
{"by":"glenra","time":"1526074355","timestamp":"2018-05-11 21:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eAnd yet that rebuke being aimed only at \u0026quot;the left\u0026quot; seems to imply that hostility is endemic to leftist political opinion, intended or not. Otherwise why mention the left at all?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot all of \u0026quot;the left\u0026quot; is hostile in this particular way, but virtually all of those who are hostile in this way are of \u0026quot;the left\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIf you disagree with that assessment, can you think of any examples of a \u003ci\u003eleft-wing\u003c/i\u003e speaker being prevented from speaking (and the audience being prevented from hearing them speak) by a violent unruly mob of \u003ci\u003eright-wing\u003c/i\u003e protestors?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m looking for a polarity-reversed equivalent of the sort of reaction Charles Murray and his host got when he tries to talk on campus. Does that ever happen? (link: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theatlantic.com\u0026#x2F;politics\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;middlebury-free-speech-violence\u0026#x2F;518667\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theatlantic.com\u0026#x2F;politics\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;middleb...\u003c/a\u003e )","parent":"17044552","id":"17050946"}
{"by":"whatever2001","time":"1384810250","timestamp":"2013-11-18 21:30:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wouldn\u0026#x27;t you just ssh into the container?","parent":"6757135","id":"6757199"}
{"by":"minipci1321","time":"1487699626","timestamp":"2017-02-21 17:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, seems to be some personality problems (although I of course don\u0026#x27;t know the guy). No need to go as far as binary trees.","parent":"13696596","id":"13697657"}
{"by":"mpweiher","time":"1464589965","timestamp":"2016-05-30 06:32:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you actually watch the talk??","parent":"11799779","id":"11799891"}
{"by":"megablast","time":"1324124003","timestamp":"2011-12-17 12:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So who do they listen to, the experts from the RIAA/MPAA, or the experts from Google?\u003cp\u003eDo you guys actually think about this stuff? If you do not know what you are making judgements on (you are the government), how do you find the right experts? You can't. You trust advisers, but everybody has an agenda, including the Universities Professors. This is not a solved problem, and anyone who thinks it is easy is wrong.","parent":"3363064","id":"3364099"}
{"by":"mck-","time":"1396062423","timestamp":"2014-03-29 03:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s my thesis paper for reference [1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://thesis.eur.nl/pub/6427/6427-Kuo.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thesis.eur.nl\u0026#x2F;pub\u0026#x2F;6427\u0026#x2F;6427-Kuo.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7491232","id":"7491243"}
{"by":"Viktor_Egri","time":"1469007088","timestamp":"2016-07-20 09:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"During the early stage, it will be usable only in our standalone MA system. Later on, it will depend on our users\u0026#x27; needs.","parent":"12124111","id":"12127770"}
{"by":"dahdum","time":"1527529153","timestamp":"2018-05-28 17:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This concept was immortalized in this seminal work of lyrical prose by Matt Stone and Trey Parker.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=b2zGFXaPn0o\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=b2zGFXaPn0o\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17173369","id":"17173689"}
{"by":"thezilch","time":"1384295946","timestamp":"2013-11-12 22:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t speak for this lib, but I\u0026#x27;ve had a lot of success with csvkit [0], json2csv [1] and json directly with jq [2].\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;onyxfish\u0026#x2F;csvkit\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jehiah/json2csv\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jehiah\u0026#x2F;json2csv\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/stedolan/jq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;stedolan\u0026#x2F;jq\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6721108","id":"6721873"}
{"by":"danbolt","time":"1535581812","timestamp":"2018-08-29 22:30:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wasn’t it removed at some point? I remember the nature of it changing but then being reversed due to negative responses. At the time I realized people were starting to use Twitter in ways not originally intended.","parent":"17872560","id":"17872639"}
{"by":"Layke1123","time":"1336241585","timestamp":"2012-05-05 18:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brilliant!","parent":"3932746","id":"3932759"}
{"by":"gman99","time":"1349352097","timestamp":"2012-10-04 12:01:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"€1.5bn hole? Last I checked they had  €4.2bn in the bank?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://press.nokia.com/2012/07/19/nokia-corporation-q2-2012-interim-report/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://press.nokia.com/2012/07/19/nokia-corporation-q2-2012-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: €1.3bn loss in Q1, €800ml loss last quarter. I guess that's what you meant. Still, not a \"hole\"... just driving straight into one :)","parent":"4611774","id":"4611871"}
{"by":"lsc","time":"1380760870","timestamp":"2013-10-03 00:41:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Also I wonder how they got a server image without him noticing since it is typically something you\u0026#x27;d need to shut down the machine for. Was the whole thing running off a hosting service?\u003cp\u003eHow often does one of your servers crash?   I mean, it happens.  I estimate maybe once a year\u0026#x2F;server, on average, assuming a 5 year lifecycle.  (well, usually it\u0026#x27;s more like \u0026#x27;no crashes for the first three years, several crashes a year after\u0026#x27;  -  hardware ages.)\u003cp\u003eHell, whole racks lose power at times.  Doesn\u0026#x27;t happen all that often, but it happens often enough that if your provider says \u0026quot;We blew breaker X\u0026quot;  well, more often than not, it\u0026#x27;s a honest problem, and not the FBI yanking power to image a drive.\u003cp\u003eOr hell... what if it\u0026#x27;s a server with a mirrored drive?   It\u0026#x27;d be easy enough to pull half the mirror (the drive \u0026#x27;failed\u0026#x27; right?  Hell, you can say you let the salesguy into the co-lo and he bumped the hard drive release catch, or you sent in the new kid to swap a drive and they pulled the wrong one.  These things aren\u0026#x27;t common, but they are way more common than the FBI.)\u003cp\u003eHell, a drive could have legitimately failed and been sent back to seagate\u0026#x2F;wd by the provider (assuming he was renting servers)   for warranty repair.  The FBI could have intercepted the drive (or gotten it from the manufacturer) and run their own analysis.\u003cp\u003eSo yeah.  I totally believe that the FBI could get a reasonable image without DPR or anyone being the wiser.","parent":"6483745","id":"6486393"}
{"by":"DanielRibeiro","time":"1299851255","timestamp":"2011-03-11 13:47:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. It was an honest request for clarification, not a challenge of your point.","parent":"2313132","id":"2313273"}
{"by":"elmar","time":"1510584473","timestamp":"2017-11-13 14:47:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Tesla is positioned to dominate here. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t doubt that they\u0026#x27;re working on the apps internally to create the shared vehicle system that Elon speaks of.\u003cp\u003eIs Tesla Preparing to Roll Out its Ride Sharing Program With the Model 3?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thedrive.com\u0026#x2F;sheetmetal\u0026#x2F;13075\u0026#x2F;is-tesla-preparing-to-roll-out-its-ride-sharing-program-with-the-model-3\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thedrive.com\u0026#x2F;sheetmetal\u0026#x2F;13075\u0026#x2F;is-tesla-preparing-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15685661","id":"15686823"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1477933197","timestamp":"2016-10-31 16:59:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Local electricity cost multiplied by the capacity of the battery listed on the Bolt\u0026#x27;s site (ignoring any inefficiency).\u003cp\u003eCutting e.g. $3\u0026#x2F;charge off the cost doesn\u0026#x27;t really swing the figures towards paying off the Bolt\u0026#x27;s extra $5.2K starting price over the life of the vehicle.","parent":"12838419","id":"12838627"}
{"by":"mantas","time":"1425034604","timestamp":"2015-02-27 10:56:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there was no Stalin, WW2 would have been totally different. Soviet Union helped Hitler a lot to rebuild Germany military power and prepare for WW2. In fact, they started WW2 as allies. Soviets were giving supplies to Germany till the moment Germans did U-turn and attacked USSR. Without Stalinism, were would probably be no need for WW2 at all. Or it would be a totally different event.","parent":"9116934","id":"9118213"}
{"by":"primatology","time":"1349412842","timestamp":"2012-10-05 04:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can also click the black areas to the left and right of the slide.","parent":"4614742","id":"4615721"}
{"by":"philbarr","time":"1533724705","timestamp":"2018-08-08 10:38:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there sets of cards for known problems, such as learning language X, or is making the cards part of the learning process?","parent":"17713520","id":"17714677"}
{"by":"infruset","time":"1422016430","timestamp":"2015-01-23 12:33:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know if there is technology out there which would allow for VPN traffic to blend in with other traffic, or to bypass DPI in any way?","parent":"8934246","id":"8934521"}
{"by":"Evbn","time":"1352781047","timestamp":"2012-11-13 04:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You may be surprised. Google has more legal resources, and less fear off illegal imprisonment. The government had wide latitude for breaking its own laws against individuals.","parent":"4776008","id":"4776416"}
{"by":"Oxitendwe","time":"1488214216","timestamp":"2017-02-27 16:50:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s especially ironic because one of the other posters mentioned about how he\u0026#x27;ll only believe it (your claim that there is a cultural purge) if it actually happens to you.","parent":"13745465","id":"13745562"}
{"by":"d0mine","time":"1409164839","timestamp":"2014-08-27 18:40:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Choosing UTF-8 aims to treat formatting text for communication with the user as \u0026quot;just a display issue\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s a low impact design that will \u0026quot;just work\u0026quot; for a lot of software, but it comes at a price:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  - because encoding consistency checks are mostly avoided, data in different encodings may be freely concatenated and passed on to other applications. Such data is typically not usable by the receiving application.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;   - for interfaces without encoding information available, it is often necessary to assume an appropriate encoding in order to display information to the user, or to transform it to a different encoding for communication with another system that may not share the local system\u0026#x27;s encoding assumptions. These assumptions may not be correct, but won\u0026#x27;t necessarily cause an error - the data may just be silently misinterpreted as something other than what was originally intended.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;   - because data is generally decoded far from where it was introduced, it can be difficult to discover the origin of encoding errors.\u003cp\u003eIt seems surrogateescape error handler introduces these issues back (only for Unicode strings instead of bytes this time) i.e., a+b is no longer well-defined (a, b Unicode strings may have lone surrogates due to different reasons). JSON permits lone surrogates in its strings so the data can easily spread over the network too.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;   - as a variable width encoding, it is more difficult to develop efficient string manipulation algorithms for UTF-8. Algorithms originally designed for fixed width encodings will no longer work.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;   - as a specific instance of the previous point, it isn\u0026#x27;t possible to split UTF-8 encoded text at arbitrary locations. Care needs to be taken to ensure splits only occur at code point boundaries.\u003cp\u003eIt seems like a premature optimization to claim that UTF-8 being variable-width encoding is a performance bottleneck in most applications.\u003cp\u003eAnd if we want to show the data to a user then we should handle user-perceived characters (\\X regex) that may span several Unicode codepoints e.g., to avoid splitting a Unicode string inside a character.\u003cp\u003e---\u003cp\u003eUnicode by default is more complex than the article makes it appear to be e.g., see 🎅 𝕹 𝖔 𝕸 𝖆 𝖌 𝖎 𝖈 𝕭 𝖚 𝖑 𝖑 𝖊 𝖙 🎅 (it is for Perl but Unicode issues are mostly universal) \u003ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;6163129\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8233916","id":"8233925"}
{"by":"giantrobothead","time":"1394279511","timestamp":"2014-03-08 11:51:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, according to the authorities at slate.com, there is a \ndistinct possibility that I might have invented bitcoin.\u003cp\u003e(Full disclosure: There\u0026#x27;s no way I invented bitcoin.)","parent":"7364718","id":"7364946"}
{"by":"IgorPartola","time":"1407503004","timestamp":"2014-08-08 13:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I second this. My grandfather died from colon cancer a few years ago. He refused to go see a doctor even when he knew something was very wrong. Hope you get the treatment you need.","parent":"8152500","id":"8152556"}
{"by":"ecaron","time":"1327880820","timestamp":"2012-01-29 23:47:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently had to decide where my tech needs end and my beliefs begin - I bought a new laptop. Although Apple has amazing hardware, I had to decide if I was willing to support their practices or possibly use a machine that offered less CPUs/dollar.\u003cp\u003eIn the end, I went Tim's route and went with a company that treats its workers better - but it was a very hard decision and I was struck by the similarities between my purchase and the localvoire trend.","parent":"3526621","id":"3526721"}
{"by":"MollyR","time":"1462370527","timestamp":"2016-05-04 14:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that really the whole story ?\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.marketwatch.com\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;apple-isnt-really-sitting-on-216-billion-in-cash-2016-01-26\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.marketwatch.com\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;apple-isnt-really-sitting-o...\u003c/a\u003e\nI honestly don\u0026#x27;t know and am interested in what you think of this article.","parent":"11628049","id":"11628401"}
{"by":"biot","time":"1438374656","timestamp":"2015-07-31 20:30:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps a bit of a novelty given the rechargeable battery argument others have mentioned. I imagine distributing a bunch of these with batteries and having a central dynamo-powered recharging station that gets shared throughout a community would be even more practical.\u003cp\u003eThe first thing that came to mind when I saw that it lasts 20 minutes would be to use it as a pomodoro timer. Code for 20 minutes, then be forced to take a break, stand up, lift the weight, etc. You get a micro-workout as a small bonus. Again, it\u0026#x27;s a novelty but sort of a cool one at that.","parent":"9981745","id":"9984260"}
{"by":"kartan","time":"1524851647","timestamp":"2018-04-27 17:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Internet exists in the physical world.\nYou can use extradition to put CEOs in jail.\nYou can use commerce treates to enforce USA to make them comply.\nYou can ban their IPs.\nYou can make Apple, Google, or whatever the platform that allows this to pay.\u003cp\u003eInternet is part of the real work, and the rule of law still applies there. Even when there is a lot of tech start ups that think the contrary.\u003cp\u003eGoogle pulled out of the Chinese market, while Apple complies with Chinese law.","parent":"16942238","id":"16942758"}
{"by":"blucoat","time":"1463597239","timestamp":"2016-05-18 18:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think most arguments for abortion rely heavily on the right of the mother to bodily autonomy.  That is, once the baby is delivered, those arguments fall apart.  Breastfeeding your child because you want the \u0026quot;experience\u0026quot; is completely different.","parent":"11724482","id":"11724634"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1411993437","timestamp":"2014-09-29 12:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t most operating systems memory-map executables in anyway? As long as the code is never paged it in shouldn\u0026#x27;t make any difference.","parent":"8382467","id":"8382566"}
{"by":"sunyc","time":"1364491770","timestamp":"2013-03-28 17:29:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"one of my server got exposed too, it was being queried for ripe.net","parent":"5455331","id":"5456282"}
{"by":"arjo129","time":"1497742131","timestamp":"2017-06-17 23:28:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is an ampere a fundamental unit but,not a coulomb?","parent":"14574283","id":"14578182"}
{"by":"jcoffland","time":"1497294791","timestamp":"2017-06-12 19:13:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The point isn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;can we solve sudoku with a completely over-wrought solution\u0026quot;, it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;can NN be applied to X class of problems with no human-added domain specific knowledge\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBut why would you care about solving a class of problems with NNs when that class of problems already has much better solutions?  Too many new programmers are running to NNs out of pure laziness.  NNs are like magic.  They solve the problem for you so you don\u0026#x27;t have to learn how to solve it yourself.  Or at least that\u0026#x27;s the enticing promise.","parent":"14537631","id":"14540124"}
{"by":"DonHopkins","time":"1453732525","timestamp":"2016-01-25 14:35:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, the message is totally in keeping with John\u0026#x27;s character. \u0026quot;Contributed to lively corporate culture\u0026quot; is one way of putting it! ;)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.toad.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.toad.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.toad.com\u0026#x2F;gnu\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.toad.com\u0026#x2F;gnu\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings I\u0026#x27;ve Put A Lot of Energy Into\u003cp\u003eSun Microsystems\u003cp\u003eSun is a computer manufacturer, long a leader in the technical workstation and database markets. Many Web pages are served from a Sun server. Sun is now a multi-billion-dollar company; working there made me financially independent. It was acquired by Oracle in 2010. I was its fifth employee, and later a consultant. I handled architecture, design, implementation, and debugging of Sun Workstations. Wrote and maintained bootstrap and diagnostic ROMs for the Sun-1, Sun-2, and Sun-3. Debugged first prototypes of Sun-1 and Sun-2, working with the hardware designer. Worked on first bringup ever of Unix on Motorola 68010 and 68020. Designed and diagnosed the chip designs for the SPARCstation-1 and SPARCstation-2. Straddled the hardware and software camps to locate, explain, and solve design, implementation, and manufacturing problems. Pulled many chestnuts out of fires. Debugged Unix utilities, kernel, device drivers, and CAD software. Diagnostics. Documentation. Electronic mail maintenance, support, and enhancement. Performance and code generation improvement. General technical support. Network relations. Contributed to lively corporate culture.","parent":"10967046","id":"10967341"}
{"by":"ivthreadp110","time":"1459364568","timestamp":"2016-03-30 19:02:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My linux machine does not make it look nice- but try it on chrome or firefox on windows.","parent":"11391980","id":"11391998"}
{"by":"tomxor","time":"1532895892","timestamp":"2018-07-29 20:24:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;ve used it. It\u0026#x27;s at the \u0026quot;technically doesn\u0026#x27;t not work\u0026quot; stage.\u003cp\u003eWhat did you try and when, why does It not not technically work? I haven\u0026#x27;t tried myself, but i\u0026#x27;ve seen a few little videos of people synthesising and running little things on the ice40 using all open source toolchain. One of them was a little open source CPU. I could understand \u0026quot;technically works but not practical for many things\u0026quot;, but not work at all?","parent":"17638913","id":"17640079"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1349630106","timestamp":"2012-10-07 17:15:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah I think this is the best approach. For my one-pager I have a one paragraph explanation, followed by a FAQ. Virtually everyone has the same questions in the same order after hearing the pitch, so it makes it super easy to explain both in person and in writing. I could always rewrite it in a more traditional way, but I think it's actually easiest to read as is.","parent":"4623739","id":"4623751"}
{"by":"jonknee","time":"1447950402","timestamp":"2015-11-19 16:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not that surprising, IPO days are weird for that sort of thing. It will show up here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;finance?q=NYSE%3ASQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;finance?q=NYSE%3ASQ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10595623","id":"10595647"}
{"by":"cm3","time":"1461291448","timestamp":"2016-04-22 02:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but I think I could do without \u0026quot;clobs\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;sexprs\u0026quot;, and \u0026quot;symbols\u0026quot; at this level of representation\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m by no means a real Lisp programmer, but even I find S-Expressions more natural to write and process. And the simplicity of it allows for great editing tools too. This may be personal, but I always found JSON clunky.","parent":"11546517","id":"11546644"}
{"by":"dmazin","time":"1383861520","timestamp":"2013-11-07 21:58:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find this really offensive. This post compares Indian cinema to American as if America was the world standard even finance-wise (see other post showing that Indian industry grosses more annually).","parent":"6692471","id":"6692715"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1347224111","timestamp":"2012-09-09 20:55:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It might help you to do research\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to that precise subject, I happen to have already done so and to know the count rather well. Stupidity is stupidity, even if it's on the python.org wiki.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; or explain why you think someone is wrong\u003cp\u003eI did so. Twice if not thrice. There is no well-defined and shared — let alone formal — semantics (and meaning) to the strong/weak \"axis\", every other person has his own pet definition of it[0] and the definitions are quite often incompatible if not downright opposed.\u003cp\u003eIt is therefore garbage and utterly useless to communication.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; instead of assuming that anyone saying something you disagree with has no idea what they are talking about.\u003cp\u003eIt's not \"anyone saying something [I] disagree with\", just \"anyone using the strong/weak axis as if it actually existed\".\u003cp\u003e[0] From \"no memory corruption\" to \"no possible runtime error\" through \"no UB\", \"dynamically typed\" and all sorts of takes on \"no implicit conversions\", usually in order to declare one's pet language is \"strong\" and somebody else's is \"weak\". I've seen all of C, C++, Python, Javascript, Perl, Java, Tcl, Lua, Smalltalk or Pascal declared both strong and weak by various (usually different) people.","parent":"4495965","id":"4496948"}
{"by":"ikeboy","time":"1456358308","timestamp":"2016-02-24 23:58:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that all relays working together can determine the information means that the user gave up the info. If the US were to operate all three relays, would you still consider collecting that data to be illegal?","parent":"11171175","id":"11171269"}
{"by":"kasabali","time":"1431789250","timestamp":"2015-05-16 15:14:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gnome shell is CPU hungry and I can tell I\u0026#x27;m not alone with that because I did a lot of google search on it. Even when dragging windows around, CPU usage skyrockets to 40-60% and it\u0026#x27;s not even smooth. And that\u0026#x27;s with gpu acceleration, I can\u0026#x27;t even imagine what would\u0026#x27;ve happened if it were on software rendering. Not to mention memory usage of gnome shell only increases with time.\u003cp\u003eThey are all known issues but shell developers blame proprietary Nvidia driver, maybe that\u0026#x27;s why you are more happy with gnome shell than I am :) (Though I still can\u0026#x27;t get how cpu usage skyrockets when dragging windows.)","parent":"9556277","id":"9556373"}
{"by":"tmurray","time":"1334788158","timestamp":"2012-04-18 22:29:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This post is very accurate. I build APIs for a living (CUDA), and this lines up pretty well with my experience. Writing APIs is very tough, you will get a lot of things wrong, and the fixes available to you after you realize your mistake are all ugly at best.\u003cp\u003eOne quick example:\u003cp\u003eIn CUDA, you have to explicitly copy memory to and from the GPU. We have two basic kinds of memcpy functions--synchronous and asynchronous. Asynchronous requires some additional parameter validation because the GPU has to be able to DMA that particular piece of memory, etc. After we had been shipping this for a release or two, we noticed that our parameter checking for the asynchronous call was missing one very particular corner case and would silently fall back to synchronous copies instead of returning an error. We thought, okay, let's just fix that by returning an error because surely no one managed to hit this.\u003cp\u003eAbsolute carnage. Tons of applications broke. This particular case was being used \u003ci\u003eeverywhere\u003c/i\u003e. It provided no benefit whatsoever in terms of speed; in fact, it was just a more verbose way to write a standard synchronous memcpy. People did it anyway because... they thought it must be faster because it had async in the name? I don't know.\u003cp\u003eIn the end, we made the asynchronous functions silently fall back to synchronous memcpys in all cases when the stricter parameter validation failed.","parent":"3860361","id":"3860576"}
{"by":"rhoursour","time":"1509573818","timestamp":"2017-11-01 22:03:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A good place to start would this repo that outlines some popular folder structure conventions: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;kriasoft\u0026#x2F;Folder-Structure-Conventions\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;kriasoft\u0026#x2F;Folder-Structure-Conventions\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15605484","id":"15605913"}
{"by":"roddux","time":"1476784038","timestamp":"2016-10-18 09:47:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How to create an echo chamber: the guide\u003cp\u003eWhy are people so aversive of practical discussion? If not Facebook (which most people use, unlike specific discussion sites) then where? I admit that not all Facebook debates about politics are very productive but they need to be held somewhere.\u003cp\u003eI understand this article is supposedly aimed at non-Americans, but the point stands. No matter who is elected it will have consequences for all.","parent":"12732892","id":"12733119"}
{"by":"nabeards","time":"1515361582","timestamp":"2018-01-07 21:46:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This question is important: what are the alternatives to npm? Surely someone has something out there with code signing and single-use package names for node\u0026#x2F;JS?","parent":"16092703","id":"16092935"}
{"by":"allan_s","time":"1477754711","timestamp":"2016-10-29 15:25:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t agree more, when interviewing I always ask this kind of questions of \u0026quot;theoretical knowledge\u0026quot; not to have the actual answer, but to see how candidates reacts when they don\u0026#x27;t know. Because if the guy not only admits he does not know directly and is eager to know what it is briefly, then you know that giving your team and environment is favorable to learning, the guy will soon be able to catch up, and it\u0026#x27;s certainly the same guy that one day will bring in the team\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;tips and tricks\u0026quot; channel an article or an insight that will make the team\u0026#x27;s knowledge grow too.","parent":"12824275","id":"12824331"}
{"by":"ryanbraganza","time":"1345350178","timestamp":"2012-08-19 04:22:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, and this reminds me of two other quotes.\u003cp\u003e\"Strong opinions, weakly held\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/strong-opinions-weakly-held.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/strong-opinions-wea...\u003c/a\u003e \n\u003ca href=\"http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinions.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I aim to fight as if I am right, and listen as if I am wrong\"\n\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.hbr.org/sutton/2010/08/its_up_to_you_to_start_a_good.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.hbr.org/sutton/2010/08/its_up_to_you_to_start_a...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4403171","id":"4403191"}
{"by":"Roodgorf","time":"1509392932","timestamp":"2017-10-30 19:48:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s fair. Though I will say I don\u0026#x27;t think any single armed approach to sequestration will be anywhere close to reasonable, so exploring any avenue with decent margins, especially if there\u0026#x27;s any current practical value to it, seems like a smart idea.\u003cp\u003eWhat do you mean by \u0026quot;you can\u0026#x27;t burn it\u0026quot;? It would release some amount of CO2, but as another commenter points out, there would still be a non-zero amount of left over carbon, no?","parent":"15587219","id":"15588283"}
{"by":"crdoconnor","time":"1504951203","timestamp":"2017-09-09 10:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It may be used as such but it shouldn\u0026#x27;t be. YAML serves this purpose much better.\u003cp\u003eJSON works better as a language independent serialization format that is incidentally readable.","parent":"15206228","id":"15206325"}
{"by":"marcuswestin","time":"1281381326","timestamp":"2010-08-09 19:15:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The bottleneck with Fun is going to be the network latency.\u003cp\u003eAny piece of UI that needs extra care, e.g. a very long list of items, is implemented in javascript with appropriate lazy rendering.","parent":"1588986","id":"1589028"}
{"by":"bhartzer","time":"1408992338","timestamp":"2014-08-25 18:45:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Running pretty slow for me, still waiting for the data after a few minutes...","parent":"8222798","id":"8223334"}
{"by":"mattmanser","time":"1320406782","timestamp":"2011-11-04 11:39:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hang on a sec, that's what CSS does for the sighted, we don't expect the HTML to tell the browser how to layout the page, so why are you expecting the HTML to be able to tell a screen reader how to present it.\u003cp\u003eSemantic web is suppose to elicit meaning from content, not presentation.\u003cp\u003eThe whole concept of semantic markup is extremely fishy to me. On the one hand you're supposed to remove presentation directions but on the other it's supposed to give presentation clues to screen readers?","parent":"3195492","id":"3195662"}
{"by":"Ralfp","time":"1482953984","timestamp":"2016-12-28 19:39:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I won\u0026#x27;t bash any other frameworks\u003cp\u003eDoing mostly React myself, Vue has reminded me of times when I was doing PHP and the Rails was \u0026quot;next big thing\u0026quot;, and you couldn\u0026#x27;t have discussion about technology on \u0026quot;neutral ground\u0026quot; without it being raided by aggressive RoR fanboy or few to explain to you how you are doing it all wrong without giving any arguments, but with a lot of snark.","parent":"13272602","id":"13273040"}
{"by":"marcoperaza","time":"1452463318","timestamp":"2016-01-10 22:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Milton Friedman gave a lecture on the economics of the medical industry: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=ss5PxPlnmFk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=ss5PxPlnmFk\u003c/a\u003e . He discusses the AMA\u0026#x27;s guild-like tactics at one point (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=MAjOryNaDkA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=MAjOryNaDkA\u003c/a\u003e), but their folly is a theme throughout.","parent":"10876805","id":"10877415"}
{"by":"yters","time":"1529813767","timestamp":"2018-06-24 04:16:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I submit that if we are any different today, it is only in degree or manner, not in kind.  56 million abortion a year worldwide is still a ritual killing of human beings.  Only difference is stage of development, and not building edifices \nor masks out of the remains.  On the other hand, we still engage in a manner of adornment by reusing the fetal remains in our medical research, and other profitable consumer goods.","parent":"17381724","dead":true,"id":"17384902"}
{"by":"oakwhiz","time":"1404850018","timestamp":"2014-07-08 20:06:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like military equipment could benefit from removable, modular ASICs or FPGAs designed and programmed specifically for encryption.","parent":"8005782","id":"8006474"}
{"by":"andrewgross","time":"1343687612","timestamp":"2012-07-30 22:33:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Switch memcache to UDP for testing and see what it looks like, curious if TCP connection startups are causing issues.","parent":"4269449","id":"4315039"}
{"by":"deckard1","time":"1517171196","timestamp":"2018-01-28 20:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They did a study using Facebook. But I\u0026#x27;m more curious about Instagram. \u0026quot;Look at all these rich beautiful people with millions of followers sailing around the world on their yachts.\u0026quot; Ten minutes on Instagram is enough to fill any sane person with existential dread and bring about severe depression.","parent":"16252949","id":"16253269"}
{"by":"geofft","time":"1481138717","timestamp":"2016-12-07 19:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At what point do we get an Electron runtime that can be distributed (and kept up-to-date) separately from the apps using Electron?\u003cp\u003e.NET does this, Java does this, DirectX does this, etc.","parent":"13124630","id":"13125372"}
{"by":"goldenkey","time":"1397305742","timestamp":"2014-04-12 12:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tu quoque?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.relativelyinteresting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/LogicalFallaciesInfographic_A2.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.relativelyinteresting.com\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2012...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7577649","id":"7577666"}
{"by":"Chris2048","time":"1456329364","timestamp":"2016-02-24 15:56:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Historically, people not inclined to sex with the opposite gender, still had children.","parent":"11167026","id":"11167650"}
{"by":"thisrod","time":"1499041409","timestamp":"2017-07-03 00:23:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m unconvinced by the paragraph beginning, \u0026quot;However, the above result leads to a striking contradiction with the covariance principle, which is a fundamental\nprerequisite of the special theory of relativity.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt is pretty well accepted that light can have mass, in the sense that the authors are using the term.  For example, light trapped as a standing wave between two mirrors in an etalon must have zero momentum.  (By symmetry: if it has momentum, which way does the vector point?)  But that light has energy, so it has mass in the sense that m must be non-zero to satisfy E² = p²c² + m²c⁴.  More precisely, the momentum-energy vector of the light is timelike instead of lightlike.\u003cp\u003eThis makes me suspect the whole paper, because it seems really plausible that a light wave in a medium is partly like a standing wave.  In particular, there is a limit of a dense medium whose momentum is negligible.  (Maybe the refractive index approaches 1 in a very dense medium, but I can\u0026#x27;t imagine why that would be so.)  I\u0026#x27;d have to spend a morning reading and thinking about it to be sure.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the paper is suspiciously detailed; these questions should be resolvable at a much higher level of abstraction, and certainly without computer simulations.","parent":"14682274","id":"14685047"}
{"by":"lobotryas","time":"1507394969","timestamp":"2017-10-07 16:49:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The plaintiff\u0026#x27;s lawyers say that Google has won five out of six similar lawsuits on procedural grounds so looks like pretty common.\u003cp\u003eAs for reputation, why would a behemoth like Google care if they squash a little guy (or two, or a dozen)? Even if they go on a PR offensive they still won\u0026#x27;t be able to outmatch or shout over Google. At most people like the HN audience will find out and then... proceed to do nothing because Google\u0026#x27;s products are either ubiquitous (like search) or first-in-class (because they are free, like email).","parent":"15422414","id":"15424499"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1347634538","timestamp":"2012-09-14 14:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ca href=\"http://ernestdelgado.com/public-tests/gifoncanvas/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ernestdelgado.com/public-tests/gifoncanvas/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eKinda:\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; if we add an animated GIF as the first source, every time a drawImage call happens it will render whatever the status of the GIF is at that very second\u003cp\u003eSo if you call drawImage in a (timeout/setinterval) loop, you can get the frame's data, compare to the previous frame's data and if they're different you got a new frame-worth of data.\u003cp\u003eConsidering that requires canvas support (with image-query capabilities) you're probably better off using websockets and the like.","parent":"4521839","id":"4521909"}
{"by":"slurgfest","time":"1343433004","timestamp":"2012-07-27 23:50:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is not the meaning of \"Rogue State\" and never has been.\u003cp\u003eUS companies have to play ball in China in all kinds of interesting ways, as a matter of fact...","parent":"4303868","id":"4304097"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1525989456","timestamp":"2018-05-10 21:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Those are general guidelines.\u003cp\u003eWell, actually 0.01% \u0026#x2F; 1 hour is a sizable cushion on top of the general guidelines, but sure.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If you think they will apply to you then you\u0026#x27;re gambling.\u003cp\u003eWell, yeah, just like I\u0026#x27;m gambling when I assume that I won\u0026#x27;t spontaneously development autobrewery syndrome and be intoxicated without drinking anything.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; There are so many factors that influence this that the only safe thing to do is just not drive if you\u0026#x27;ve been drinking at all.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s only a little less of an overstatement than to says that the only way to be safe from DUI arrest is never to drive at all.","parent":"17043075","id":"17043312"}
{"by":"epall","time":"1274285095","timestamp":"2010-05-19 16:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds like a great way for busy startuppers to outsource menial tasks. Are there services like this that aren't tied to a credit card?","parent":"1361225","id":"1361334"}
{"by":"g_h","time":"1362000757","timestamp":"2013-02-27 21:32:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the feedback, you're right that we can simplify the initial pages. We've been focusing on clear explanations of the coverage on insurance plans and taking the headache out of all the forms later in the process, so we'll definitely keep your suggestions in mind as we refine the top of the funnel.","parent":"5294942","id":"5295089"}
{"by":"supergirl","time":"1432742558","timestamp":"2015-05-27 16:02:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lets see what comes out at the trials before writing further Putin slander, also?","parent":"9612224","id":"9612297"}
{"by":"neilk","time":"1234173803","timestamp":"2009-02-09 10:03:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. I think it is highly unlikely that PIP is being used on a large scale as a real cost-cutting measure. PIP takes months. More likely, they simply are realizing that they have some duds on staff. They've grown tremendously in the past four years, and not all those hires were gems.\u003cp\u003eI have even heard that there are new hiring rules, that engineers now have to have X years of experience doing Y before they can be hired. Which is totally anti-old-school-Google; they would hire the greenest college kid if s/he seemed brilliant and industrious. This suggests that they now believe they have a systemic hiring problem. Or, that brilliance is now not as important as experience. Either way, it suggests that Google is changing.","parent":"473188","id":"473236"}
{"by":"stevenacreman","time":"1543638448","timestamp":"2018-12-01 04:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As somebody who has created a product in the past and also reviewed quite a few I\u0026#x27;ve given up doing performance comparisons. This is quite sad as comparisons help people save time and money and cut through the marketing which technical people hate.\u003cp\u003eEvery time I\u0026#x27;ve done a performance comparison an expert pops up and says the result is invalid because of X. It takes 10 seconds to write the comment but perhaps a few hours to redo the tests and update the blog contents.\u003cp\u003eThe blogger doesn\u0026#x27;t want an inaccurate blog and the software authors don\u0026#x27;t want bad benchmarks left up which constantly crop up in search results. As a blogger you feel a little duty bound to work on updating a blog you know probably won\u0026#x27;t be re-read by the majority of people who have already opened it anyway.\u003cp\u003eMy conclusion is that fault should fall on the side of the software developer in most cases. Having created a startup I understand the time pressures and motivations driving the roadmap. There is a natural tendency to work on the differentiators and high value complex features. Blogs like this should act as a reminder that there is massive value in prioritising sane defaults, tests, documentation and building logic into the application that makes incorrect settings that effect performance unlikely.\u003cp\u003eFrom reading this blog I get the sense the author is quite technical. A positive public relations move would be to spend your time replicating the results and then when the problem is found make it difficult for the next person to have the same issue. Preferably with logic in the software, but worst case scenario with some bold text towards the top of the readme so it\u0026#x27;s not buried somewhere obscure.","parent":"18569967","id":"18575163"}
{"by":"alexeisadeski3","time":"1394709604","timestamp":"2014-03-13 11:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m looking at the history... Do not any US corporations doing anything near as bad as enslaving tens of thousands of Americans - then sending them off to die in muddy European trenches.","parent":"7389659","id":"7391100"}
{"by":"mathiasben","time":"1490644633","timestamp":"2017-03-27 19:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the inherent problem in having children\u0026#x27;s programs produced by adults. If parents would strictly monitor their children\u0026#x27;s viewing habits and ensure only content produced, directed and written by toddlers entered the home this problem wouldn\u0026#x27;t happen.","parent":"13965249","id":"13971137"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1517339275","timestamp":"2018-01-30 19:07:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What \u0026quot;moral consequences\u0026quot;? Nye\u0026#x27;s stances on relevant issues are well-documented. They\u0026#x27;re not refuted by merely sitting in a chair next to someone else.\u003cp\u003eHe\u0026#x27;s not \u0026#x27;lending\u0026#x27; anything to anyone, except in the reaching imagination of those obsessed with wholly-symbolic rituals of association, distancing, and shunning.\u003cp\u003eIf this appearance causes some to claim Nye supports Trump\u0026#x27;s agenda – they\u0026#x27;ll quickly be refuted with all Nye\u0026#x27;s writings and performances otherwise.\u003cp\u003eIf this controversy wins Nye extra media appearances, he\u0026#x27;ll there again clearly articulate his own true views for anyone who might have been confused by the childlike, pre-modern, quasi-religious doctrine that \u0026quot;near contaminates near with idea cooties\u0026quot;.","parent":"16267488","id":"16267988"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1451496553","timestamp":"2015-12-30 17:29:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why are they against militarizing robots? It pays the bills.\u003cp\u003eBecause money isn\u0026#x27;t everything?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; There\u0026#x27;s not some magic that prevents consumer developed technology from reaching the battlefield.\u003cp\u003eThat doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you\u0026#x27;re required to actively help it along.","parent":"10812946","id":"10813118"}
{"by":"_greim_","time":"1493309317","timestamp":"2017-04-27 16:08:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. From a skeptical POV, it\u0026#x27;s much harder to argue something can\u0026#x27;t be the case than it is to argue something could be the case. Especially for a complex and multi-faceted concept of intelligence levels, which the author admits isn\u0026#x27;t one-dimensional.","parent":"14212356","id":"14212579"}
{"by":"frontendbeauty","time":"1359570473","timestamp":"2013-01-30 18:27:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, the underscore in the data-attribute isn't ideal.  I initially tried to use camelCase, but alas, we often forget that DOM elements are case-insensitive:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://cl.ly/image/2c113k1h1L41\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cl.ly/image/2c113k1h1L41\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5138747","id":"5140912"}
{"by":"cstejerean","time":"1203661434","timestamp":"2008-02-22 06:23:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I upvoted the current \"fluff link\". I found it entertaining and at least somewhat on topic (more than the post about Castro). Personally I'm more concerned that the link about 37signals releasing numbers was still on the front page today. Ok, it was news, I read it and it was relevant. but it stopped being relevant after 5 minutes.\u003cp\u003eI think the solution is not to keep the inevitable influx of stories that will annoy some long time users, but to figure out a way to show users only stories they care about.","parent":"121016","id":"121108"}
{"by":"kaeluka","time":"1303678454","timestamp":"2011-04-24 20:54:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know the color of my eyes because people told me but I could not pick my kind of green/brown from a set of pictures if you showed me. I just never look at my eyes in the mirror. It might sound weird to you, but thats just as it is.\nWhen it comes to other people: I do not know the color of their eyes unless there is something that reminds me (e.g.: we talked about it. someone told me and I remember. ...). I think that is even stronger because I have the tendency to concentrate on people's lips when I talk to them. (at least I once talked about this habit with friends and 100% of those present told me that they look at almost only the eyes of people they have a conversation with.)","parent":"2479531","id":"2479603"}
{"by":"jamesbritt","time":"1383947615","timestamp":"2013-11-08 21:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sweet.  But how does this work? I\u0026#x27;m not the only James Britt on g+, but profiles.google.com\u0026#x2F;jamesbritt goes to my profile page.","parent":"6699381","id":"6699398"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1443287471","timestamp":"2015-09-26 17:11:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Renaissance faires use the renaissance   spelling.  Maker faire is perhaps trying to evoke those.","parent":"10283411","id":"10283637"}
{"by":"shortlived","time":"1348533682","timestamp":"2012-09-25 00:41:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, the message could perhaps be targeted at Opera specifically, but what else do you want when your browser IS the minority on the web? If you've ever shipped software you know the time will come when you have to cut your list down. How do you make the justification for supporting Opera? And like notatoad says, it's not just a matter of adding some JS, you need to test, etc.","parent":"4567421","id":"4567901"}
{"by":"chii","time":"1435623124","timestamp":"2015-06-30 00:12:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It supports java 7 syntax. Invoke dynamic  you mentioned is a jvm feature, which dalvic isn\u0026#x27;t one. I think the lack of nio is an annoyance that can be fixed tho.","parent":"9801322","id":"9802041"}
{"by":"sqeaky","time":"1498242647","timestamp":"2017-06-23 18:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I completely agree with you and its still the best cross platform general purpose GUI library.","parent":"14620672","id":"14621495"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1370298441","timestamp":"2013-06-03 22:27:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this speaks to the idea that start-ups are becoming the new form of labour.  We are happy with the idea of just working with strangers as labourers.  Oddly we don't start great passions and journeys with them so much","parent":"5816326","id":"5816478"}
{"by":"davidcuddeback","time":"1493307785","timestamp":"2017-04-27 15:43:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I joined ACM several years ago. It took filing charge backs with my credit card company to cancel my membership. Even after canceling, I still get non CAN-SPAM compliant emails from them from which I\u0026#x27;ve found it very difficult to unsubscribe.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re interested in joining a professional society for computer scientists, software engineers, and electrical engineers that doesn\u0026#x27;t resort to dark patterns, I\u0026#x27;d recommend checking out IEEE. I don\u0026#x27;t get spam from them and they respected my decision to cancel my membership. I generally find their digital library to be of higher quality as well.\u003cp\u003eMy two cents. YMMV.","parent":"14212135","id":"14212324"}
{"by":"suprfnk","time":"1459843221","timestamp":"2016-04-05 08:00:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably this: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;~uno\u0026#x2F;email.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;~uno\u0026#x2F;email.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11427938","id":"11428650"}
{"by":"trgn","time":"1470326233","timestamp":"2016-08-04 15:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Art deco was probably the last period before the triumph of utilitarian architecture. A lot has changed since the 30s, the loss of craftmansship, but also the \u0026quot;engineerifying\u0026quot; of the architecture profession.\u003cp\u003eThat loss of finesse has been acute, and one way to address this regression, and it\u0026#x27;s an approach that\u0026#x27;s been waxing and waning since WW2, is by looking at the building as a sculpture in itself, as opposed to its own art form that can accommodate other fine arts like sculpture or ornamentation.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;well done\u0026quot;-picture is a case in point. The whole building is shaped to pop from a distance, but it will look uninspiring up close. Great architecture, like Miami\u0026#x27;s art deco, doesn\u0026#x27;t have this, it looks good at all scales. Smaller buildings get away with simple forms, if you use high quality natural materials that are pleasing to the touch. But generally, the larger a building gets, the more care it requires the architect to introduce a hierarchical order, that gradually refines as you approach.\u003cp\u003eSo I don\u0026#x27;t think Seattle\u0026#x27;s style will endure, because it isn\u0026#x27;t sensual up close, and mostly drab from a-far.","parent":"12223636","id":"12226406"}
{"by":"josteink","time":"1441913484","timestamp":"2015-09-10 19:31:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"XML without namespaces, so pretty much just markup.\u003cp\u003eYou know, without namespaces, you take out the eXtensibility-bit.","parent":"10199654","id":"10200047"}
{"by":"junkscience2017","time":"1514570872","timestamp":"2017-12-29 18:07:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Patton\u0026#x27;s strategy was borrowed from his inspiration...Sherman. The goal was to make war intensely in order to end it quickly and let his soldiers return to their lives. Software development is not war.","parent":"16030571","id":"16030831"}
{"by":"unclebucknasty","time":"1401573436","timestamp":"2014-05-31 21:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dunno. I kind of like trying to judge it visually and waiting for the ump\u0026#x27;s call.\u003cp\u003eI can also imagine MLB having similar concerns as the NFL when, for instance, they insisted on removing the line as the ball is being spotted. That is, if they are showing the strike zone and the ump\u0026#x27;s call seems inconsistent, then it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be a \u0026quot;good look\u0026quot; for the sport.","parent":"7825668","id":"7827404"}
{"by":"lpolovets","time":"1264486389","timestamp":"2010-01-26 06:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the employer's perspective:\nIn your FAQs, you mention that there are no refunds. I'd urge you to reconsider. I worked on LinkedIn Jobs when it first launched. Initially, traffic was low and some postings didn't get a single applicant. For these users, we ended up extending the listings for free and IIRC even gave refunds or credits when someone simply couldn't fill a position after trying repeatedly. The problem is that when your site is small, it's a high risk for a prospective employer to post to it. Knowing that you can get your money back if things don't work out really helps. Money-back guarantees are a great marketing feature.\u003cp\u003eIMO, $75 is a high price for a site w/o a track record of effectiveness. It's hard to put that much into a posting on a site that gets... tens of hits per day? hundreds? When one can pay twice that to post to LinkedIn or HotJobs or some other portal where you can literally get 1000 times more views. Also, I think Craigslist jobs are still free in many places, and that's something you're competing against as well. I'd start really low.. maybe $20-25 to post. Assuming you get some traction, get a few testimonials that you can feature on the site to raise its perceived value, then you can start to slowly raise prices.\n(as an aside, LinkedIn did this too. Job posting started at ~$50 and slowly moved up to their current price of ~$200 as the value of the site became more clear and demonstrable to potential employers)\u003cp\u003eFrom the jobseeker's point of view:\nYou're making people sign up to view details for a posting. IMO, that's too aggressive. You want people to become really engaged first and find jobs that they want to apply to, and then ask for them to create an account at that point. If you ask too early, many people will just abandon the site.\u003cp\u003eMore comments:\u003cp\u003e- Not sure what a provider is? Is that someone who provides labor or someone who provides jobs?\u003cp\u003e- The UI is really simple. At first, I thought it was a little too simple, but after a few minutes it grew on me =).\u003cp\u003e- I can't figure out if you're screening job applicants and job postings, or just job postings.\u003cp\u003e- Is there a specific problem you're trying to solve that you don't think is currently addressed by other job sites?\u003cp\u003e- The trick to a successful job site is to get a huge base of jobseekers. If every posting gets 100 views and 5 applications of which 1-2 are good, employers will gladly pay to post on your site. Try to come up with ways to get jobseekers to visit your site often -- job hunting tips, rss feeds, etc\u003cp\u003eGood luck!","parent":"1077061","id":"1077183"}
{"by":"alkonaut","time":"1510139624","timestamp":"2017-11-08 11:13:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it might be possible that the subscription fleets that already exist in many cities can be used to \u0026quot;summon\u0026quot; (like teslas can be summoned) a few blocks ro a few miles, autonomously, because they know the area.\u003cp\u003eThat makes these subscriptions much more convenient than having to pick up\u0026#x2F;drop off a share car in a fixed spot.\u003cp\u003eThe user uses the car for a while in semi-autonomous mode (car can drive 90, 95 or 99% with user supervision) and then the user can return it by letting it drive back. If the car is stuck it just stops and a driver from the fleet company comes along to drive it.\u003cp\u003eI think a scenario like that could be viable in small scale for some metropolitan areas (good climate, limited user base etc) within 5 years.","parent":"15649478","id":"15651297"}
{"by":"patwalls","time":"1527273739","timestamp":"2018-05-25 18:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally. I\u0026#x27;d say business in general is rather un-intuitive.","parent":"17156365","id":"17156722"}
{"by":"visdo","time":"1231042734","timestamp":"2009-01-04 04:18:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will never happen. If there is no paid dating site, plentyoffish will become one.","parent":"418909","id":"418980"}
{"by":"erdo","time":"1543396934","timestamp":"2018-11-28 09:22:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a pet hate of mine - glad to see it\u0026#x27;s not just me getting older. A restaurant round the corner from me has acoustic foam on the under-side of all the hard wood chairs and tables, and that helps a little. As soon as I find a bar that\u0026#x27;s decided to carpet its ceiling, it\u0026#x27;s going to be my new favourite hang (I understand why places don\u0026#x27;t want carpet on the floor. Apart from anything else, it\u0026#x27;s hard to keep clean)","parent":"18549522","id":"18550266"}
{"by":"dmckeon","time":"1547690555","timestamp":"2019-01-17 02:02:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; prescribing a pill on a twelve-hour schedule when, for many patients, it works for only eight is a recipe for withdrawal, addiction, and abuse.\u003cp\u003eThis article is well worth reading for anyone wishing to\nbe informed about the background before discussing \nwhich parties might ultimately be responsible for abuse.","parent":"18920742","id":"18927664"}
{"by":"megalodon","time":"1426453169","timestamp":"2015-03-15 20:59:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, the success metrics are measured on the training set.\u003cp\u003eI just ran a measurement with a separately generated testing set consisting of 52k characters which yielded a success rate of 98.53% on letters a-z. This turns out to be almost exactly the same as the rate presented on the repo page (98.52%). Will upload the result for your perusal as soon as possible.\u003cp\u003eYou will have to browse the synaptic neural network library [1] for an answer to your second question.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/cazala/synaptic\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cazala\u0026#x2F;synaptic\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDIT: A separate testing set is now generated in addition to the training set. I updated the success rates of the examples in the readme accordingly.","parent":"9207593","id":"9208100"}
{"by":"gammateam","time":"1535305493","timestamp":"2018-08-26 17:44:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, use in commerce peaked when transaction fees went too high in 2017, and consumers didn\u0026#x27;t try the shitty user experience again\u003cp\u003eokay, temporary problem\u003cp\u003ethe payment processor\u0026#x27;s user experience kind of sucks and the network didn\u0026#x27;t help that\u003cp\u003ebetter UX and lightning network will help with that. There are also some BIPs regarding signing transactions differently, as well as smaller transactions coming. This year, 2018, more people already use another form of smaller transactions and also combine them. Bitcoin would handle a lot more load this year.\u003cp\u003eSecondly, M1 is a tiny fraction of the supply used for goods and services, M2 and M3 are illiquid stores of value. Bitcoin isn\u0026#x27;t functioning differently to currencies in this regard so its a weird standard to put it at to proclaim it isn\u0026#x27;t a good value transfer mechanism.","parent":"17846335","id":"17846909"}
{"by":"zekevermillion","time":"1467660327","timestamp":"2016-07-04 19:25:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would like to see antitrust authority focus on technology protocols \u0026#x2F; standards rather than, or perhaps in addition to, corporate mergers. Prohibit \u0026quot;embrace-and-extend\u0026quot; for example. Place limitations on use of proprietary formats where there is widespread third-party reliance on a technology.","parent":"12032146","id":"12032512"}
{"by":"axus","time":"1369257364","timestamp":"2013-05-22 21:16:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wondered if the payback a political move; something to make the U.S. government look good after the problems with Solyndra and Fisker Automotive.  Mentioning the other auto companies doesn't sound like an attempt to make the government look good, though, just Tesla.","parent":"5753704","id":"5753777"}
{"by":"ambition","time":"1207792377","timestamp":"2008-04-10 01:52:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having spent a few days with him in person, I would say that it's 80% Internet persona. He's a good guy. He's a strongly opinionated guy with an overdeveloped sense of justice, but he's smart, kind, and not nearly as egotistical as he seems online.\u003cp\u003eBut that's just me.","parent":"158877","id":"159444"}
{"by":"shagie","time":"1519573976","timestamp":"2018-02-25 15:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"UW Madison charges a little bit more for international cs out of state. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mbo.wiscweb.wisc.edu\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;194\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;student-fee-table-FY18-2017-07-31revised.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mbo.wiscweb.wisc.edu\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;194\u0026#x2F;20...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe additional surcharge is based on additional staff for the additional paperwork and programs (e.g. ESL) used by students from abroad.  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;iss.wisc.edu\u0026#x2F;international-student-fee-increase\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;iss.wisc.edu\u0026#x2F;international-student-fee-increase\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16455912","id":"16459470"}
{"by":"nhangen","time":"1311013981","timestamp":"2011-07-18 18:33:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree completely. Businesses do this every day, and many hackers here, especially those learning to code, fake it until they make it, learning on the fly.\u003cp\u003eI'm not saying education is useless, but it's amazing how quickly you can learn when forced to.","parent":"2776799","id":"2777499"}
{"by":"zephyrfalcon","time":"1307989726","timestamp":"2011-06-13 18:28:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"On the graph we can see a textbook example of a bell distribution curve.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this an actual bell curve? It's not symmetrical. (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"2649749","id":"2650120"}
{"by":"runin2k1","time":"1446228279","timestamp":"2015-10-30 18:04:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not entirely sure what this is doing at first glance beyond providing a plain textfield for text entry, and some controls to save it as a file.\u003cp\u003eCompared to something like this:\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jsoneditoronline.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jsoneditoronline.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich has auto-parsing, auto-formatting, and relatively intuitive controls for manipulating the object structure inline.","parent":"10479266","id":"10479430"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1485461456","timestamp":"2017-01-26 20:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t personally recommend backing up and restoring 2FA secrets; there\u0026#x27;s a reason that the printable backup codes you get are one-time-use. But if you\u0026#x27;re going to do that, don\u0026#x27;t bother with hardware tokens. I mean, use them if they make you feel cool (I\u0026#x27;m not being derisive; there\u0026#x27;s value in feeling better), but understand that you\u0026#x27;re effectively turning your hardware token into a software token by doing that.\u003cp\u003eMy point is not that backup and restore is intrinsically evil; it\u0026#x27;s a legit security\u0026#x2F;usability tradeoff. I think most people should use software tokens.","parent":"13494459","id":"13494850"}
{"by":"cmdkeen","time":"1375195464","timestamp":"2013-07-30 14:44:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Economist did an article on Swedish state provided childcare a while back. Cheap nurseries provide by the state are a boon, but also teach what it is to be a Swedish citizen. Immigrants especially are highly incentivised to send their children to state nurseries through welfare payments being dependant upon it.\u003cp\u003eSo there\u0026#x27;s a very communitarian mindset that is inculcated from an early age in Scandinavian children. The recent story on here around attitudes and how the USA is much more individually minded compared to Europe in general is magnified.\u003cp\u003eSo the famous liberalism of Scandinavia is built on a single, illiberal act by the state which then sets up its citizens to have freedom. Whereas other countries allow parents to raise children in much more varied ways, you end up with more diversity but that can produce some nasty results.","parent":"6126900","id":"6127198"}
{"by":"bigato","time":"1527165284","timestamp":"2018-05-24 12:34:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What I wonder is why there isn\u0026#x27;t a language that is C, with safe defaults, easy-to use syntax, as fast as C\u003cp\u003eBecause part of the speed of C is due to the fact that it doesn\u0026#x27;t do much for you. The moment you want the language to guarantee your memory safety, you\u0026#x27;ll have to pay either via speed penalty or via added complexity. At least this has been the case with the languages I know. Maybe someday something else will emerge which proves me wrong.","parent":"17143246","id":"17143305"}
{"by":"cromwellian","time":"1395936667","timestamp":"2014-03-27 16:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Best snarky answer from that thread: \u0026quot;Is Google overreaching by forcing you to log in with a password?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eVaccine analogy answer from stackexchange: It\u0026#x27;s not just about you, it\u0026#x27;s about herd immunity. Having everyone have secure communications helps makes others secure as well.","parent":"7480273","id":"7481253"}
{"by":"fiedzia","time":"1415974864","timestamp":"2014-11-14 14:21:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Github is simple and good enough for vast majority of users.\nGerrit UI sucks. I really cannot express how much I hate it,\nand how broken and counter-intuitive it is,\nafter working with github. For new users its just unusable. If github would try to impose it on its users, they\u0026#x27;d loose 99% of contributions.","parent":"8605544","id":"8607202"}
{"by":"lyddonb","time":"1435630969","timestamp":"2015-06-30 02:22:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure if it also include Seattle but it appears to include Boulder \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailycamera.com\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;ci_28402965\u0026#x2F;uber-buys-boulder-bing-operations-shore-up-mapping\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailycamera.com\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;ci_28402965\u0026#x2F;uber-buys-bo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9800986","id":"9802497"}
{"by":"lscharen","time":"1424654559","timestamp":"2015-02-23 01:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This just seems to be a very ranty way of saying that identifying the boundary where separation of concerns takes place is difficult.\u003cp\u003eIt seems almost a tautology to me that \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c/i\u003e you want to put all the data-related functionality in the database and \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c/i\u003e you want the application business logic to be as small as possible and not enforce data integrity at the application level.\u003cp\u003eBut a lot of this perspective comes from the long tail of hard-won experience and is not obvious to a lot of developers.","parent":"9087855","id":"9092067"}
{"by":"donavanm","time":"1344982724","timestamp":"2012-08-14 22:18:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AWS CloudFront also supports persistent connection pooling to the origin.","parent":"4382929","id":"4383360"}
{"by":"billmalarky","time":"1402503827","timestamp":"2014-06-11 16:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks.","parent":"7878725","id":"7878840"}
{"by":"M4v3R","time":"1437763954","timestamp":"2015-07-24 18:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you need 32GB of RAM in a laptop? 16GB ought to be enough for anybody ;).\u003cp\u003eSarcasm aside, this is probably purely business driven decision. The tech is there and it\u0026#x27;s nearly zero difference for the manufacturer to put either 8GB or 16GB dies on the board. It\u0026#x27;s the same as with SSD\u0026#x27;s - companies have to milk existing capacity tier to offer users next ones, otherwise they will have lower profits.","parent":"9944257","id":"9944316"}
{"by":"jjgod","time":"1536421126","timestamp":"2018-09-08 15:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This project began by pulling the original “Helvetica” font from my system files, and making a copy of it. From there I opened it in FontForge, which is a brilliant open source font editor.\u003cp\u003ePretty sure the license won’t allow you to do any modification to the font installed on your system.","parent":"17925352","id":"17941275"}
{"by":"dorkrawk","time":"1358810717","timestamp":"2013-01-21 23:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is your company The Dating Game?","parent":"5094354","id":"5094392"}
{"by":"devmach","time":"1318800017","timestamp":"2011-10-16 21:20:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, my bad. I meant to say \"recipes\".","parent":"3117600","id":"3118335"}
{"by":"stephen82","time":"1491154730","timestamp":"2017-04-02 17:38:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can write exception free code since C++11. All you must do is to add noexcept operator at the end of your function that you don\u0026#x27;t want to throw an exception and that would do.\u003cp\u003eAlso, in the article it states that cars are using C. If I\u0026#x27;m not mistaken, Bjarne himself in a couple of videos he has mentioned certain companies, like BMW and Mercedes, are using C++ for their cars and of course these two companies are not the only ones.\u003cp\u003eThe good thing is that C++ committee \u003ci\u003edid\u003c/i\u003e pay attention to what people and companies have suggested and or complained for years and fixed it with the release of C++11.\u003cp\u003eI really love using C myself, but I wish C had the safety C++ has by default.","parent":"14015284","id":"14018075"}
{"by":"aidenn0","time":"1456964201","timestamp":"2016-03-03 00:16:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had never heard of it before this.  Does it have updated cygwin libraries?  The ones in msys are really old and crufty.","parent":"11214144","id":"11214159"}
{"by":"davidf18","time":"1490281156","timestamp":"2017-03-23 14:59:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author of the article is a professor of economics but doesn\u0026#x27;t state the true cause of rising housing costs:  Market inefficiencies (or market failures) caused by politically induced market scarcity restrictions called \u0026quot;rent-seeking\u0026quot; which benefits landowners such as President Trump over people who rent or are purchasing housing.\u003cp\u003eRent-seeking was first illustrated by David Ricardo in the mid-19th century (IIRC) and surprising that the author did not cite the true reasons for the rising housing costs.\u003cp\u003eHarvard Economist Edward Glaeser and Economist and Financial Times writer Tim Harford among many others writes about this.\u003cp\u003eRemember, rising prices come from scarcity.  Eliminate the scarcity and your eliminate the high prices.  Reverse the zoning density restrictions and you get lower prices.","parent":"13939546","id":"13940272"}
{"by":"weddpros","time":"1501314990","timestamp":"2017-07-29 07:56:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OCSP stapling isn\u0026#x27;t supported yet by Go as far as I can tell, but I\u0026#x27;ll implement PROXY for HTTP proxying (not for TCP proxying of course)...\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, it\u0026#x27;s using SNI which is now largely supported, but I think I can add an option to restrict it to as single TLS certificate (and make it work without SNI).\u003cp\u003eThe original use-case is a friend with 2500 websites hosted on a single server, and he wants to make the switch to TLS ;-) but I\u0026#x27;ll try to make it work for everyone!","parent":"14879819","id":"14880120"}
{"by":"ezy","time":"1261269816","timestamp":"2009-12-20 00:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn't make sense to me.\u003cp\u003eYou've widened the scope of \"language\" to its libraries.  And that's entirely fair.  So, yes, Arc has it \"built in\", but Arc \u003ci\u003eitself\u003c/i\u003e is (IMO) only marginally more mature than the libraries one might invent for (e.g.) Haskell to do the same thing (ok, I'm being a little unfair here, but not that much IMO).  And one \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e invent those libraries for another language and \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e match Arc in the challenge using those invented libraries -- at least you don't seem to be denying this.\u003cp\u003eSo, then, what's the point?  That Arc already has the libraries available?  That the Arc \u003ci\u003elibraries\u003c/i\u003e meet the challenge?  It certainly isn't that those libraries aren't possible in another language.  The challenge means (almost) nothing with regards to comparing programming languages as you first implied, and is more about what tools and libraries were invented along with Arc to develop web apps.","parent":"1005445","id":"1005494"}
{"by":"brandonb","time":"1439492845","timestamp":"2015-08-13 19:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the intent of HIPAA is good, but in practice, it\u0026#x27;s a big barrier to a lot of medical advancements. It\u0026#x27;s less the letter of the law itself, to be honest, and more the penumbra of fear that develops around any complex law. We saw the same thing on healthcare.gov.\u003cp\u003eThere was a great article about this a while ago, but I can\u0026#x27;t seem to find it now.\u003cp\u003eOverall, I\u0026#x27;m pretty happy with the approach the FDA and other regulatory bodies are taking to digital health -- mostly hands-off, but stepping in to stop pure snake oil apps that really have the potential for harm. That seems like a good balance.","parent":"10056407","id":"10056473"}
{"by":"smallegan","time":"1383664968","timestamp":"2013-11-05 15:22:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you still seeking funding?","parent":"6673834","id":"6675514"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1417524808","timestamp":"2014-12-02 12:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I definitely think Peirce should be more famous - particularly for identifying \u003ci\u003eabductive\u003c/i\u003e reasoning:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Deduction proves that something must be; Induction shows that something actually is operative; Abduction merely suggests that something may be.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Abductive_reasoning\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8686522","id":"8686812"}
{"by":"korisnicko_ime","time":"1546727168","timestamp":"2019-01-05 22:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really, really like this comment - especially coming from the outsourcing body-shop type of world, where very little revenue derived from the software trickles down to developers.","parent":"18834617","id":"18834673"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1302298969","timestamp":"2011-04-08 21:42:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People on forums can call many things... but it's still the Canonical staff that makes the decisions (Tech board in this case).","parent":"2425525","id":"2425715"}
{"by":"cossatot","time":"1465244405","timestamp":"2016-06-06 20:20:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Math support would be very nice for me.","parent":"11849624","id":"11849974"}
{"by":"rsheridan6","time":"1222038634","timestamp":"2008-09-21 23:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAICT, what we know at this point is that Palin's email was hacked and somebody claiming that Kernell's email address was theirs claimed to have done it on 4chan.  I think it's a little irresponsible to have a headline that shouts \"Palin Hacker Caught\" when he hasn't admitted to it, been convicted of it, or even been charged yet.  I'm not saying he didn't do it, but internet trolls have been known to attribute their actions to others before.","parent":"310538","id":"310657"}
{"by":"DocFeind","time":"1349380452","timestamp":"2012-10-04 19:54:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"vimeo.com/50608606","parent":"4601783","dead":true,"id":"4614048"}
{"by":"hannob","time":"1534956776","timestamp":"2018-08-22 16:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems a severe case of \u0026quot;we tried really hard to obfuscate our words with marketing bullshit speak and then it backfired and we got a shitstorm instead, because noone understoond what we were really trying to say\u0026quot;.","parent":"17818647","id":"17820058"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1305822542","timestamp":"2011-05-19 16:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, Linux has code to do deduplication in RAM; it exists primarily for the benefit of virtual machine host systems, so they can deduplicate common pages across virtual machines running the same software.  (If you run a dozen VMs from the same base image, you'll end up with a dozen copies of pages from libc.so.6.)","parent":"2564381","id":"2564460"}
{"by":"Cyranix","time":"1406910786","timestamp":"2014-08-01 16:33:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m one of the devs hired from HN — shoot a message to andrew.harrison+hn@moveline.com if you have any initial questions.","parent":"8120386","id":"8121206"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1277079232","timestamp":"2010-06-21 00:13:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps; perhaps not. There's many situations it would be worthwhile.\u003cp\u003e- They want to kill us just because\u003cp\u003e- They have already occupied virtually everywhere else, and want more (our) space\u003cp\u003e- We are in the way of their wave of expansion, and they don't care (and are set to steam-roller over us)\u003cp\u003e- Earth or nearby planets are valuable to both them and us, and equivalents are too far away (nobody says FTL travel is possible)\u003cp\u003eThere have been plenty of wars (not every single one, but plenty) here on Earth already that demonstrate that.","parent":"1447473","id":"1447490"}
{"by":"Tepix","time":"1444342390","timestamp":"2015-10-08 22:13:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have the impression that it\u0026#x27;s working (from the NSA\u0026#x27;s point of view): There is hardly any research being done in universities in the US with the trove of data that Wikileaks has provided.","parent":"10356616","id":"10356719"}
{"by":"projektir","time":"1502755595","timestamp":"2017-08-15 00:06:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see the parent calling it simple. Thought control isn\u0026#x27;t simple and is part of strategies like CBT which seem fairly effective in treating people with imbalanced brain chemistries, which is going to be all the people who care about this stuff anyway.","parent":"15014182","id":"15014206"}
{"by":"jonah","time":"1413422270","timestamp":"2014-10-16 01:17:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Think of the jobs\u0026quot; is almost as bad as \u0026quot;Think of the kids\u0026quot; as far as excuses for things go.\u003cp\u003eWe see it a lot in the realm of energy production too. LEO or Roughneck can\u0026#x27;t be the only job these folks could possibly get if there were fewer of those positions.","parent":"8462608","id":"8462785"}
{"by":"dkarl","time":"1331519654","timestamp":"2012-03-12 02:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Economic incentives are sandwiched between two other factors.  One is more attractive, and tends to dominate discussion, and the other is more powerful and tends to dominate actual behavior.\u003cp\u003eThe more attractive force is morality.  People consciously approach their own behavior in moral terms, and they struggle, occasionally successfully, to defy economic incentives that conflict with their moral values.  This personal focus on morality (even if it is a narcissistic delusion) makes it much more natural to discuss policy in moral terms than it terms of incentives.  I don't think this is helpful for policy discussions.  We should all follow what we think is right, but policy needn't reflect moral consensus.\u003cp\u003eThe more powerful force is culture.  Think of all the people in jail for selling drugs who could be living middle class lives if only they had rejected their social identities and social ties to follow economic incentives.  It's hard to imagine more powerful economic incentives than the ones operating in American life today.  If you're a poor kid and you dedicate your life to achieving technical competence in a highly paid profession, the economic elite is ideologically invested in the idea that you should be rewarded with a comfortable, secure upper-class life.  Not only are they eager to see you assume the most economically productive position in life you can, in order to bolster the U.S. economic growth that their investments largely track, but even more importantly, denying you the social position you've earned would undermine the legitimacy of their social position.  And if you shoot for Harvard law or Harvard medicine but fall short, you'll still fall in the upper middle class somewhere.  The incentives couldn't be more clear, but mistrust and cultural ties muddy things up.  The fact that people make many of the most crucial decisions of their lives as ignorant children, or have those decisions made for them by ignorant parents, gives culture a big advantage over incentives.  People don't see incentives with perfect, X-ray vision.  They see them through whatever lens they've been equipped with by their upbringing.\u003cp\u003eThe effectiveness of incentives, then, depends on cultural factors.  In the case of corporations and thoroughly bourgeois businesspeople, we underestimate the power of incentives.  In the case of everybody else, we overestimate the power of incentives.  In the case of persuading inner-city youth to dedicate themselves to lucrative (for us as well as them) middle-class lives instead of lives of crime, our failure is less in providing opportunity (aka incentives) than in teaching them to see the opportunity and believe in it so that it becomes possible for them to work towards it.\u003cp\u003eI do believe laws should be seen more as a system of incentives than as enforcers of a privileged morality, but laws should be designed to be effective incentives for the people who live under them, not for homo economicus.","parent":"3691099","id":"3692110"}
{"by":"campuscodi","time":"1496913837","timestamp":"2017-06-08 09:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any mirrors? The site appears to be down.","parent":"14511627","id":"14512957"}
{"by":"valuearb","time":"1510169903","timestamp":"2017-11-08 19:38:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;have access to offshore accounts that most businesses don\u0026#x27;t\u0026quot;. They naturally earn most of their profits internationally, and pay taxes to the countries they earn those profits in. If they return those international profits to the US, they\u0026#x27;ll lose another 40%+ to taxes (closer to 60% if you count individual dividend taxes).\u003cp\u003eSo they keep the remaining profits in the lowest tax country\u0026#x2F;location they can find while it earns interest. They owe Germany nothing more.","parent":"15653563","id":"15656127"}
{"by":"mathgladiator","time":"1316186821","timestamp":"2011-09-16 15:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is so bullshit!\u003cp\u003eBasically, leaves non-security-aware people out in the cold. Instead of trying to champion good security practices and locking down their shit, they are saying \"this is a glory hole, buyer beware\" in a document that no one reads.\u003cp\u003eSigh","parent":"3004674","id":"3004802"}
{"by":"infocaptor","time":"1330275150","timestamp":"2012-02-26 16:52:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can  you shed some light on what percentage of the company do the investors own now? How did you or they did the valuation?\u003cp\u003eI see the funding numbers everywhere but rarely see how much equity was given away in the transaction.","parent":"3635761","id":"3635997"}
{"by":"kuni-toko-tachi","time":"1424634264","timestamp":"2015-02-22 19:44:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perl always will be my favorite language. Its absolutely a joy to write. What\u0026#x27;s interesting to me is that all the things that people like about JavaScript, Perl had first, and I think better (closures, first class functions).\u003cp\u003eThe criticisms that people had about Perl, such as that it langrage like line noise was unfortunate. Being able to tell whether something was a scalar, array, or hash by the character that preceded it was helpful.\u003cp\u003eBeing able to slap a set of braces around code to create a closure was also much better than needing to do the same in a function like JavaScript.\u003cp\u003ePerl formed some much new ground. CPAN was the predecessor of npm, etc.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m just glad to be able to write functional code again through JavaScript, just like when I wrote Perl. I don\u0026#x27;t miss writing Java (or any static typed object oriented language) at all, and hope I never will again. I just hope that ES6 doesn\u0026#x27;t turn JavaScript engineers into object oriented programmers.","parent":"9089945","id":"9090701"}
{"by":"xigency","time":"1437581126","timestamp":"2015-07-22 16:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In response to being downvoted — I would assume that tracking all of the records in function closures (first-class functions) would be a real headache, though slightly aided by the fact that garbage collection is available, and the question of whether to support eval raises a number of issues.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, compiled Common Lisp is not something that resembles other compiled languages... and the purpose of my article is to discuss either designing an interpreter or a compiler, not a dynamic compiler, recompiler, or compiled code that requires some kind of runtime interpreter as a side, all of which are extraneous use cases for hackers not people learning how to program. They also make for poor pedagogical tools.","parent":"9904037","id":"9930436"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1440423834","timestamp":"2015-08-24 13:43:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The status quo is that random business acquaintances and whoever gets automatically added to contact lists via some vulnerability (just wait, it\u0026#x27;ll happen) do not have my wifi password.  Not on their machine, not to share, not access at all.  I like it that way.  We have something-guest as a SSID for a reason, after all.","parent":"10109486","id":"10109612"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1501470692","timestamp":"2017-07-31 03:11:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why are you totally ignoring the limited scope of \u0026quot;happiness\u0026quot; looked at?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eparticular how happy various demographics are with the part of their free time when they can do whatever they like\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wouldn\u0026#x27;t seem all that surprising if parents wished they\u0026#x27;d have more of that, and is something totally different than \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;couples with kids are less happy\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"14888105","id":"14889228"}
{"by":"taybin","time":"1346333935","timestamp":"2012-08-30 13:38:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes I feel like the only software engineer with a wife and child. Nice to know the field isn't entirely 20-somethings.","parent":"4454052","id":"4454541"}
{"by":"flamedoge","time":"1495560911","timestamp":"2017-05-23 17:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I realize this whole thread is pushing back against undue scalable tools, but what if problem actually scales? Is it that foolish to take a risk on learning and deploying scalable tools vs. simpler ones?","parent":"14402328","id":"14403226"}
{"by":"crdoconnor","time":"1435640942","timestamp":"2015-06-30 05:09:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;correct me if I\u0026#x27;m wrong, but it will be a lot of rich people, especially foreigners who will get hosed.\u003cp\u003eWealthy investors always seem to find a way to foist the losses off on to somebody else.\u003cp\u003eSee what happened to Greece\u0026#x27;s loans for just one example. They ended up owned by Eurozone governments but they didn\u0026#x27;t start out that way.","parent":"9802090","id":"9803062"}
{"by":"HerraBRE","time":"1375547626","timestamp":"2013-08-03 16:33:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is something we have debated extensively. Our main goal is to improve privacy and security on-line - giving cloud providers yet another free tool with which to build proprietary services and lock in more users and their data feels like it would be counterproductive.\u003cp\u003eHowever, we are open to discussing, and if a significant fraction of our backers would prefer a more liberal license we will probably switch.","parent":"6152420","id":"6152531"}
{"by":"adrianhoward","time":"1362858867","timestamp":"2013-03-09 19:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not a request for a brand refresh.\u003cp\u003eIt's a request for a new logo.\u003cp\u003eMy internal designer is sighing and shaking his head.","parent":"5349067","id":"5349406"}
{"by":"100k","time":"1352833952","timestamp":"2012-11-13 19:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's also the Storm/Liquid Web combination.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.stormondemand.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.stormondemand.com/\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.liquidweb.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.liquidweb.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4779022","id":"4779952"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1346974368","timestamp":"2012-09-06 23:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like this upside model of freelancing where the companies have to bid for the freelancer's work. I wish there were more generic freelancing websites that did this, though. Could be a start-up opportunity here.","parent":"4486830","id":"4486873"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1462674347","timestamp":"2016-05-08 02:25:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve found fsql[1] to be extremely useful in the past.\u003cp\u003e1: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;metacpan.org\u0026#x2F;pod\u0026#x2F;distribution\u0026#x2F;App-fsql\u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;fsql\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;metacpan.org\u0026#x2F;pod\u0026#x2F;distribution\u0026#x2F;App-fsql\u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;fsql\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11649142","id":"11652330"}
{"by":"davidivadavid","time":"1535035858","timestamp":"2018-08-23 14:50:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, isn\u0026#x27;t that just Standard ML?","parent":"17827336","id":"17827714"}
{"by":"vruiz","time":"1538411792","timestamp":"2018-10-01 16:36:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"simplesurance GmbH | Berlin, Germany | Onsite, Full Time \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplesurance.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplesurance.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are building one of the world’s leading platforms to make insurance accessible. Since 2012, we are proudly “Made in Berlin”: we are very international with 150+ people from over 30+ countries working daily in our central Berlin office. Our internationalism is reflected also in our business since we are active in over 28 countries.\u003cp\u003eInsurTech is just taking off \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;thoughts-on-insurance\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;thoughts-on-insurance\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e and we’ve been there from the beginning.\u003cp\u003eWhat we are looking for:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - DevOps Engineer (f\u0026#x2F;m): For lovers of infrastructure as code and service orchestration.\n  - Golang Software Engineer (f\u0026#x2F;m): For hardcore gophers.\n  - Language-agnostic Software Engineer (f\u0026#x2F;m): For pragmatic developers always looking to learn new things.\n  - Full-stack Software Engineer (f\u0026#x2F;m): For PHP and Javascript allrounders.\n  - QA\u0026#x2F;Test Engineer (f\u0026#x2F;m)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nEmail: jobs@simplesurance.com | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplesurance.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplesurance.com\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18113144","id":"18114280"}
{"by":"chx","time":"1479290456","timestamp":"2016-11-16 10:00:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am using this \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Qotom-Q190G4-Celeron-Processor-Barebone\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B019Z8T9J0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Qotom-Q190G4-Celeron-Processor-Barebo...\u003c/a\u003e machine as a Linux router and also as a media player. It\u0026#x27;s astonishingly cheap for what it is and is not an Atom which CPUs I really dislike because of their incredibly slow single thread performance. This is not fast either but it\u0026#x27;s about on par with a i3-4020Y so don\u0026#x27;t be put off by the \u0026quot;Celeron\u0026quot; marking. It\u0026#x27;s very similar to the Shuttle @dpfu mentions in this thread except a little different in ports and appearance and 20% cheaper. The Shuttle one has two DIMM slots while this only has one.","parent":"12964354","id":"12965732"}
{"by":"breadbox","time":"1340327898","timestamp":"2012-06-22 01:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not at all. It's a rhetorical quotation; I'm not responding to any one person. (I suppose that's part of the issue: it's rarely any one person that's behaving badly; it's the cumulative effect.)","parent":"4144879","id":"4144977"}
{"by":"the_af","time":"1432137759","timestamp":"2015-05-20 16:02:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed.\u003cp\u003eI worry that the name change will reflect a change in focus away from type-safety. Which, like someone else commented, is already the case with (some aspects of) Akka and UntypedActors.","parent":"9576657","id":"9577213"}
{"by":"ForrestN","time":"1339882898","timestamp":"2012-06-16 21:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a person who spends all day looking at contemporary art as my job, everyone in my field considers this lawsuit totally insane. The way Sarah Morris's audience (and she has a very big one) approaches her work has absolutely nothing to do with the way Lang's work is approached. Unless origami masters are using terms like \"endgame\", \"the death of painting,\" or \"the history of abstraction.\"\u003cp\u003eFine art is really about invisible distinctions between existing objects, the difference between Duchamp's urinal and any other urinal. Contextualizing something in a contemporary art museum, even a much more direct appropriation than this, radically transforms it. In my view, applying intellectual property violations to contemporary artworks is at least as insane as any of the software patent shenanigans we have seen. No one is happening upon Morris's work and thinking she is a great origami designer.","parent":"4120691","id":"4121605"}
{"by":"eropple","time":"1518319404","timestamp":"2018-02-11 03:23:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A desktop application has need to \u003ci\u003einstruct the OS to draw\u003c/i\u003e its window. That can be reasonably unprivileged--an app owns its windows, this is easy. Most applications have no need to \u003ci\u003eread raster data from\u003c/i\u003e its window. Even fewer have need to read raster data from the desktop itself.\u003cp\u003eDesktop applications are not \u0026quot;meant to\u0026quot; have access they don\u0026#x27;t need. They sometimes have that access as an accident of history, but they are not \u0026quot;meant to\u0026quot;; we\u0026#x27;ve known about the principle of least privilege for a long time. And the MacOS sandbox (which, to be honest, doesn\u0026#x27;t work very well, but that\u0026#x27;s neither here nor there) is intended to enforce application privileges and reduce escalation.","parent":"16350963","id":"16350999"}
{"by":"throwaway98237","time":"1479362394","timestamp":"2016-11-17 05:59:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The bigger issue is, many of these same folks are not gonna stop buying into \u0026quot;echo chamber\u0026quot; news and gossip just because FB stops publishing it. Sad as it is, this is what Fox News is to a super lesser extent. This is what shooting the sh-t at the bar with your buddies is.\u003cp\u003eWe don\u0026#x27;t need less fake news. We need a more educated and engaged public. Now that we have a president-elect that campaigned on gutting public funding, including Dept. of Education, well, we\u0026#x27;ll see how that goes.","parent":"12972219","id":"12974765"}
{"by":"mgkimsal","time":"1337601394","timestamp":"2012-05-21 11:56:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Feature request - ability to add 'notes' to a document.  I'd imagine these as toggleable divs that would be able to be inserted anywhere in the doc, then made visible or not by toggling a class.  When 'on' the visible portion would just be a small box/space/marker that, when clicked, opened up a larger div with the full note.\u003cp\u003eI'd tried to do this with the YUI and Dojo editors a couple years ago, but my JS-fu wasn't good enough.  I'm possibly better now, and maybe wil try my hand at adding that to this editor (which looks nice for a lot of applications) but someone else with better skills could probably lay the foundation for a 'notes' system much better than me :)","parent":"4002001","id":"4002400"}
{"by":"n00bmach1ne","time":"1335271326","timestamp":"2012-04-24 12:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"related: On being senior\n\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3883494\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3883494\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3880595","id":"3883646"}
{"by":"patorjk","time":"1519338641","timestamp":"2018-02-22 22:30:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for posting this. This issue happened to me for the first time last week - I thought my account had been hacked. I had no idea how a rouge spammy event got added to my calendar. I ended up resetting my password and spending over an hour pouring over other aspects of my account to make sure nothing else was compromised. It\u0026#x27;s mind boggling to think this could have been because of a spam message.","parent":"16441326","id":"16442134"}
{"by":"klrr","time":"1351428057","timestamp":"2012-10-28 12:40:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks!","parent":"4708737","id":"4708790"}
{"by":"branchless","time":"1477360049","timestamp":"2016-10-25 01:47:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve used one. I find them a little annoying when it comes to selecting the actual song. Not a real problem, but neither was using a regular button.","parent":"12784559","id":"12784597"}
{"by":"grannyg00se","time":"1269968343","timestamp":"2010-03-30 16:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"if you don't like what someone else is doing to you, become one of them yourself\"\u003cp\u003eSomeone is bullying my family.  I'm to become a bully and harass their family?  This seems childish at best and possibly an extremely harmful way to go about working through hardships.\u003cp\u003eI think the idea is more along the lines of:  \"if you don't like the way a service is being provided, don't sit around and complain, try to do it better\".  It's a decent idea, but I think you're setting up for failure if you try to live this way.  We can't all create new cable companies, new phone companies, new banks, and new ISPs just because we don't like the way the existing ones work.\u003cp\u003eI can see the idea leading to a severe lack of focus.  Imagine trying to rebuild something everytime you notice that you don't like the way the existing infrastracture works.\u003cp\u003eI would suggest instead of rebuilding and likely becoming that which you despise, find a way around the problem so that you're no longer affected by it, or at least reduce your exposure.","parent":"1229187","dead":true,"id":"1229594"}
{"by":"_corbett","time":"1274654218","timestamp":"2010-05-23 22:36:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I usually love Sundays for working, because they are so uninterrupted that I can really knock things out. today I was traveling so... not so much.\u003cp\u003eWoke up at 7:30 to go into office, respond to some emails, printed out boarding pass, grabbed nicest laptop, went home and packed, went to airport, flew to Madrid (watched Dr. Who enroute for break), drank sangria with friends over tapas, took bus outside of Madrid, mingled with conference attendees, came back to hotel room and obsessed about my app stats with AppViz, read my tech blogs, responded to this, now perhaps sleep.\u003cp\u003eI use the pomodoro method (\u003ca href=\"http://www.pomodorotechnique.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.pomodorotechnique.com\u003c/a\u003e) when I'm in the fugue where I want to be productive but am somehow not managing to.","parent":"1372359","id":"1373203"}
{"by":"cryoshon","time":"1505054784","timestamp":"2017-09-10 14:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wait for the third party confirmation of their results.\u003cp\u003epapers with findings exactly like this one have been found to be complete and total fabrications numerous times over the last few years.","parent":"15199091","id":"15212412"}
{"by":"sametmax","time":"1497984885","timestamp":"2017-06-20 18:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TIL","parent":"14596846","id":"14597409"}
{"by":"fiatmoney","time":"1466384787","timestamp":"2016-06-20 01:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Birth control\u0026quot; is ridiculously available.  \u0026quot;Hormonal birth control\u0026quot; can have serious side effects and interactions, at least at the level of something like tylenol-fortified opiods or mild antidepressants, to say nothing of any net public-health effects (even after you account for \u0026quot;unwanted pregnancies\u0026quot;).  Hell, testosterone, the direct analog, is Schedule III.\u003cp\u003eBut some people have a political interest in promoting infertility, so quasi-OTC it goes.","parent":"11933846","id":"11935549"}
{"by":"joesmo","time":"1414863414","timestamp":"2014-11-01 17:36:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t really think of any other driving offense that would result in arrest rather than a ticket unless it\u0026#x27;s even more serious (manslaughter) or unrelated (drugs, guns), all of which seem much less likely than DUI.","parent":"8543831","id":"8543854"}
{"by":"peterkelly","time":"1397135864","timestamp":"2014-04-10 13:17:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, and I thought the recent Mozilla thing was controversial...\u003cp\u003ePopcorn status: Ready","parent":"7565546","id":"7565762"}
{"by":"daivd","time":"1376392805","timestamp":"2013-08-13 11:20:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is not quite that simple. The government will have to say yes, since this is a big infrastructure project that wants land next to existing highways. I don\u0026#x27;t know much about politics, but I do know that, sadly, the net gain for the country over time is not a weighty criterion in such decisions.","parent":"6204773","id":"6205075"}
{"by":"watwut","time":"1542928003","timestamp":"2018-11-22 23:06:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read quite a lot about history and it was more complicated then that. There were famines, but also plenty of time without them. There was feudalism and social classes did not mixed (meaning dude and girl having families of similar resources), so what you wanted from dude was physical strength.\u003cp\u003eThere were mining areas where men died young so women fed themselves and kids. Occasionally wars killed men leaving women being more in numbers.\u003cp\u003eThere were multi generation  families where everyone worked and elders ruled.\u003cp\u003eIn any situation near famine, everyone worked for money or food however they could (women and kids having limitations but also able to prostitute). Poor people always had two working and not just caring about kids - idle lifestyle being luxury.\u003cp\u003eAnd then aristocracy marrying for power and peace.\u003cp\u003eThen farm had everyone working on own property, no one working outside house.\u003cp\u003eHistorically there were many different arrangements. None of that requires or implies selling and buying brides as something good that that girl, through that happens.\u003cp\u003e-----------------\u003cp\u003eI was full time stay at home. It was idle. Also hard, but due to psychological reasons - kids were fine but that lack of everything else and no purpose no usefulness no challenge and isolation were killing me.","parent":"18512204","id":"18513153"}
{"by":"saosebastiao","time":"1381989819","timestamp":"2013-10-17 06:03:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not a bold claim...hundreds of pundits have said exactly the same thing. Not only do you not have a reputation to maintain, but you have chosen a completely conspicuous comment section to make the claim, ensuring that nobody cares enough to track down your comment 10 years from now.\u003cp\u003eFunnily enough, there is one Exec whose 40 year strategy is almost identical despite radically different markets and tactics...namely the \u0026quot;reinvest until you are blue in the face\u0026quot; strategy. You may have heard of him, his name is Warren Buffet. Bezos has the advantage that with his company, he doesn\u0026#x27;t have to realize any profits.","parent":"6563832","id":"6563892"}
{"by":"pirateking","time":"1383454778","timestamp":"2013-11-03 04:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The next Constitution should be a set of mathematical proofs or computer program. At the very least, it will make sure law makers and enforcers are capable of higher order thinking.\u003cp\u003eI wonder how to properly frame the problem from that approach.","parent":"6661282","id":"6662293"}
{"by":"tareqak","time":"1376424413","timestamp":"2013-08-13 20:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This story makes me wonder what would have happened if the Watergate scandal would have happened in the age of the Internet. Would the Internet rally in favour of Richard Nixon\u0026#x27;s impeachment and against his subsequent pardon? Would impeachment proceedings still take place irrespective of the pardon because of massive public support?","parent":"6207529","id":"6207941"}
{"by":"oinksoft","time":"1367849434","timestamp":"2013-05-06 14:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pardon my language, but do we have to get this narcissistic shit from you in every thread? I know the \"I'm awesome\" stuff is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek and all, but still ...","parent":"5662462","id":"5662471"}
{"by":"MisterNegative","time":"1424687715","timestamp":"2015-02-23 10:35:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lets hope the judge chooses the side of Lenovo, It would be devastating if windows\u0026#x2F;gnu\u0026#x2F;linux\u0026#x2F;apple gets sued every time they have a security flaw in a product.","parent":"9092653","id":"9093549"}
{"by":"hayksaakian","time":"1437443210","timestamp":"2015-07-21 01:46:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there\u0026#x27;s a story behind it, but the tl:dr is far less than you would think -- a generous scientist basically donated it.","parent":"9920113","id":"9920165"}
{"by":"epidemian","time":"1424445417","timestamp":"2015-02-20 15:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s up with these kind of childish slander of OSS projects being upvoted to the top?\u003cp\u003eAnyway, funnily enough, this change was not only rectified on CoffeeScript 1.9.1, but it was also a change that only affected code that relied of the names of compiler-generated variables.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  foo = (@bar) -\u0026gt;\n    # Bad: \u0026quot;bar\u0026quot; is not declared anywhere\n    console.log bar\n    # Good: the parameter is \u0026quot;@bar\u0026quot;, so that should be used instead\n    console.log @bar\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nRelying on a \u0026quot;bar\u0026quot; variable existing inside that function body is no different from relying on an \u0026quot;_i\u0026quot; variable exiting inside a look like:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  for a in arr\n    console.log \u0026quot;the index is\u0026quot;, _i\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n... which, BTW, would also break if upgrading to CoffeeScript 1.9, because the compiler-generated iterator variable would now be called \u0026quot;i\u0026quot; :)\u003cp\u003eUpdate: i misinterpreted something. What was rectified in CoffeeScript 1.9.1 was the addition of an \u0026quot;_at_\u0026quot; prefix for the generated parameters of `(@something) -\u0026gt;` functions, which broke Angular\u0026#x27;s dependency injection mechanism when using it like `(@$someAngularThingy) -\u0026gt;`. You still can\u0026#x27;t access the auto-generated \u0026quot;bar\u0026quot; parameter in the first snippet. If you access a \u0026quot;bar\u0026quot; variable inside that function, the auto-generated parameter is then named \u0026quot;bar1\u0026quot;, which is the Right Thing to do :D","parent":"9080117","id":"9080723"}
{"by":"cauterized","time":"1471696989","timestamp":"2016-08-20 12:43:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Plan to make a transitional stop as a team lead. It\u0026#x27;s a position that lets you develop \u0026quot;leadership\u0026quot; skills and practice interfacing with managers and other departments on behalf of a team. But it\u0026#x27;s still an engineering position and doesn\u0026#x27;t require previous management experience.\u003cp\u003eAt a smaller company (most early stage startups) with a team of 10-20 engineers is where you\u0026#x27;re most likely to get the most management exposure as a team lead. Because the engineering team is big enough to need a leadership and planning layer below the CTO but too small to have developed a true management army yet.\u003cp\u003eIn a small company (run well), you\u0026#x27;ll also have more exposure to how your decisions impact the business and what business information you need to make those decisions - crucial aspects of being a good manager.\u003cp\u003eHowever, a larger company is more likely to have good mentors for you to learn from. Like everything else, it\u0026#x27;s a trade off and a balancing act. You may want to try both routes.\u003cp\u003eIf you find you like it and you\u0026#x27;re pretty good at it, it should be much easier to get hired into a management position from a team lead position than from a plain engineering position because you\u0026#x27;ve positioned yourself as a leader of people and have some practice doing it.\u003cp\u003eThen you just need to be confident that you\u0026#x27;ll be content spending 95% of your time talking and planning and 5% or less working directly with the tech.","parent":"12320748","id":"12326302"}
{"by":"toolz","time":"1422126510","timestamp":"2015-01-24 19:08:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"depends on the model, I\u0026#x27;m sure.  I\u0026#x27;ve never had any problems with the battery life, but that\u0026#x27;s highly subjective to the way people use a laptop.  I\u0026#x27;m always spending a couple hours here and there at a coffee shop, but I carry my laptop in a messenger bag so having a charger nearby isn\u0026#x27;t a problem.  Plug it in when I need to, don\u0026#x27;t bother if I don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m always curious why people talk about needing battery life so often.  Only thing I can think of is if you fly overseas often you would need great battery life, but a mac wouldn\u0026#x27;t cover that use case either.  Where are people going that they aren\u0026#x27;t within a few feet of an outlet when they are computing?","parent":"8938837","id":"8940568"}
{"by":"krasin","time":"1445356216","timestamp":"2015-10-20 15:50:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those who may have missed, maps.me is also gone open-source recently: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;mapsme\u0026#x2F;omim\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;mapsme\u0026#x2F;omim\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10419667","id":"10419908"}
{"by":"chrisbennet","time":"1510596283","timestamp":"2017-11-13 18:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Either ditch the client or double or triple your rate (at least).\u003cp\u003eIn addition to paying for a work product, clients will also pay to reduce risk. (The insurance industry is based on this fact.) When you agree to a fixed rate for a project, you are assuming risk. If you can\u0026#x27;t avoid assuming all the risk for a project, make sure you are being compensated for it.\u003cp\u003eIn my experience, I never have a good estimate of how long a project with take - the type of projects I take on are never the same and involve a lot of inventing stuff as I go along.","parent":"15687102","id":"15688466"}
{"by":"samps","time":"1318270678","timestamp":"2011-10-10 18:17:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool! Is there anything I can look at to see how async I/O will work? Does all the async support depend on gevent monkey patching (as requests/async.py would suggest)?","parent":"3095016","id":"3095060"}
{"by":"recursive","time":"1456005979","timestamp":"2016-02-20 22:06:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a normal person, and I can\u0026#x27;t figure it out.  Every time I see a link to twitter, I can\u0026#x27;t tell who is responding to who.  It looks like snippets of conversations, but I can rarely figure out the context.  I don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;m looking at a timeline view, just a particular tweet.","parent":"11142050","id":"11142178"}
{"by":"arcadeparade","time":"1241690154","timestamp":"2009-05-07 09:55:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Submit an interesting page on Erlang.","parent":"597530","id":"597703"}
{"by":"pfg","time":"1475929672","timestamp":"2016-10-08 12:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure plenty of \u0026quot;western\u0026quot; sites have attempted to get similar deals (FWIW, Tyro, one of the companies that got SHA-1 certificates from WoSign, is based in Australia), but I\u0026#x27;m not aware of any other CA incidents like this one. Other CAs seem to either use pulled roots or go through the proper exception process for SHA-1 issuance in the CA\u0026#x2F;B Forum. No one else has been caught backdating SHA-1 certificates to my knowledge. (For now?)\u003cp\u003e(Symantec accidentally signed a SHA-1 certificate from a publicly-trusted root while preparing their SHA-1 issuance exception application, but that\u0026#x27;s not quite as bad, I guess.)","parent":"12666668","id":"12666726"}
{"by":"larrys","time":"1381255540","timestamp":"2013-10-08 18:05:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree and same as a statistic of chance of \u0026quot;getting hit by lighting\u0026quot; or any activities that doesn\u0026#x27;t take into account where someone is located or even whether an indoor or outdoor location. \nFor example are there any statistics on the chance of getting hit by lighting while playing golf outdoors with a storm within 50 miles? Vs. in general?\u003cp\u003eAnd what if you calculated the chance of starting a billion dollar company in Bentonville Ark (Walmart) which has a population of 38k (which no doubt was way less when Sam Walton decided to locate there). Not bad \u0026quot;odds\u0026quot;.","parent":"6516464","id":"6516684"}
{"by":"majke","time":"1483698854","timestamp":"2017-01-06 10:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my defense, I never said \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t use select(2)\u0026quot;. The point I want to get through: due to the semantics, it\u0026#x27;s impossible to create a fast kernel side implementation of select().","parent":"13333447","id":"13335315"}
{"by":"golemotron","time":"1460462976","timestamp":"2016-04-12 12:09:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thefire.org\u0026#x2F;laura-kipniss-title-ix-inquisition-reveals-absurdity-of-the-current-campus-climate\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thefire.org\u0026#x2F;laura-kipniss-title-ix-inquisition-r...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;news-desk\u0026#x2F;trouble-teaching-rape-law\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;news-desk\u0026#x2F;trouble-teaching-rap...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vox.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;6\u0026#x2F;3\u0026#x2F;8706323\u0026#x2F;college-professor-afraid\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vox.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;6\u0026#x2F;3\u0026#x2F;8706323\u0026#x2F;college-professor-afraid\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theatlantic.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;the-coddling-of-the-american-mind\u0026#x2F;399356\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theatlantic.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;the-codd...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11478749","id":"11478806"}
{"by":"GoToRO","time":"1460292366","timestamp":"2016-04-10 12:46:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes and no. Yes they can do it, no they don\u0026#x27;t do it for all websites because it\u0026#x27;s slow and expensive. I\u0026#x27;m still waiting for googlebot to figure out a simple window.location = ...\u003cp\u003eIn conclusion, if you rely on googlebot reading your javascript: 1. for a vast majority of websites it will never happen 2. for popular websites it will happen but not as often.\u003cp\u003eAlso, interestingly, this is a new way Google could push Angular: just make sure Angular powered websites don\u0026#x27;t suffer from this...","parent":"11463915","id":"11465909"}
{"by":"hellbanner","time":"1435787176","timestamp":"2015-07-01 21:46:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Links or references?","parent":"9814582","id":"9815424"}
{"by":"bluejekyll","time":"1450932615","timestamp":"2015-12-24 04:50:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think they mean something more along the lines of Dragonflies. They love to eat mosquitoes and their larvae.\u003cp\u003eNot that we shouldn\u0026#x27;t do it, I\u0026#x27;m sure they can live off knats just as easily.","parent":"10786906","id":"10787161"}
{"by":"maneesh","time":"1246293395","timestamp":"2009-06-29 16:36:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote my first book when I was 13, it was a bestseller...It's definitely possible to write well when you're 13","parent":"679044","id":"679207"}
{"by":"goatforce5","time":"1371472611","timestamp":"2013-06-17 12:36:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you propose a building in London that would obstruct the view of St Pauls Cathedral for someone many miles away, that can be grounds to have your application denied:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Protected_view\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Protected_view\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5892686","id":"5892781"}
{"by":"tracker1","time":"1469678364","timestamp":"2016-07-28 03:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And that\u0026#x27;s probably why JS isn\u0026#x27;t higher... even for internal applications a \u003ci\u003eLOT\u003c/i\u003e of UIs are web based these days, which means JS is involved to some extent... and a lot of those frameworks and tool sets are all JS.  These days, I\u0026#x27;d go so far as to say, if you\u0026#x27;re doing web anything, you should have some node too, as a significant amount of web tooling is node\u0026#x2F;js based.","parent":"12178074","id":"12178233"}
{"by":"ashleyw","time":"1288547489","timestamp":"2010-10-31 17:51:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The current version (\"741, 2.41\") is nicer. I'm not a karma-whore, but it's nice to know where I'm at.\u003cp\u003eOne feature I'd love to see also, is the # of direct replies to my comments in the head bar. Also, while we're at it, a page listing them all too. That way, I'll know if somebody replies to a comment I made last week/month/year. For example, in 'My dalliance with smart drugs - and the lesson I learned' (\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1850750\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1850750\u003c/a\u003e), a few people have ordered some of the drugs mentioned, but the story will be dead soon, so in a few weeks, when the drugs arrive, nobody will be able to share their experiences.","parent":"1853688","id":"1853797"}
{"by":"lostlogin","time":"1375425758","timestamp":"2013-08-02 06:42:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One memorable day at work a POS Kodak system decided that it wouldn\u0026#x27;t store a particular record. Nothing worked. This happened a few times until it became clear that the only things these cases had in common was that the people\u0026#x27;s  first names started BRE. I can remember a rather sad looking IT manager nodding with agreement having tried everything when I suggested we just get them to change their names. Bug is still there. It\u0026#x27;s just a historic archive now, thank god. Worst software ever.","parent":"6143684","id":"6145651"}
{"by":"rphlx","time":"1306778461","timestamp":"2011-05-30 18:01:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Several countries are trading oil directly with each other in non-USD currencies now.","parent":"2596929","id":"2599994"}
{"by":"radicaledward","time":"1407271382","timestamp":"2014-08-05 20:43:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You seem to have some missing content on your homepage: \u003ca href=\"https://imgix.exposure.co/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgix.exposure.co\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e Two white boxes on the right. I\u0026#x27;m on Chrome 36 on OS X if it helps? It looks like the content is just plain missing. I disabled adblock but it didn\u0026#x27;t help.\u003cp\u003eThe ascii art logo in your web site\u0026#x27;s source code is amusing!\u003cp\u003eI had no idea what the \u0026quot;Enjoyed\u0026quot; button at the bottom of the page was for. When I clicked it, the counter incremented. Is this some new stand alone like button that people are doing?","parent":"8138791","id":"8139283"}
{"by":"kbolino","time":"1343924819","timestamp":"2012-08-02 16:26:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All things being equal, on 32-bit systems, pointers are 32 bits wide, and on 64-bit systems, pointers are 64 bits wide.  So if your program previously used X bytes of memory for storing pointers, it would now use 2X bytes.  Depending on how pointer-heavy your memory usage is, the impact of this change could be anywhere from negligible to significant.\u003cp\u003eThis is part of the reason why games remain 32-bit on Windows as well (that, and compatibility with 32-bit versions of the OS).\u003cp\u003eHowever, there are, on x86 at least, other reasons to go 64-bit, perhaps the most prominent of which being the availability of additional general-purpose registers (8 more, to be precise).\u003cp\u003eAn ABI for Linux has been proposed called x32 that would run 64-bit code but use only 32 bits for pointers.  This would re-impose the 4GB per-process memory limitation but still allow the use of other 64-bit-only features.  AFAIK, x32 programs are not compatible with x64 libraries, and vice versa, though.","parent":"4329276","id":"4329506"}
{"by":"MichaelCrawford","time":"1435250998","timestamp":"2015-06-25 16:49:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"he ran the company into the ground but we all had a great time while he did so.\u003cp\u003ethat was the best place i ever worked.  the problem was that dave really didnt want to be in the software industry anymore.\u003cp\u003enowadays, jimmy carter reads his political blog.","parent":"9778423","id":"9779215"}
{"by":"akhilcacharya","time":"1497146090","timestamp":"2017-06-11 01:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then why the hell even discuss it?","parent":"14529646","id":"14530225"}
{"by":"epicureanideal","time":"1462742929","timestamp":"2016-05-08 21:28:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent execution, and very cool idea.\u003cp\u003eSomewhat in jest let me say, \u0026quot;People are complaining that JavaScript is a terrible language.  Great, let\u0026#x27;s put Java in the browser.\u0026quot;  Now we have an even worse language to code in for the browser.\u003cp\u003eNote: jvilk explains the perfectly valid reason for this library in another comment below.","parent":"11655582","id":"11655943"}
{"by":"bks","time":"1327901148","timestamp":"2012-01-30 05:25:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only going to mention things that other have not mentioned.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://Elance.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://Elance.com\u003c/a\u003e - Remote contractors. Hourly or job based\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://oDesk.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://oDesk.com\u003c/a\u003e - Virtual Admins\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://Freshbooks.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://Freshbooks.com\u003c/a\u003e - Automation of invoicing. My average days to pay are about 9. A bill I am very happy to pay each month. I use chronomate as the time tracking portion.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://adroll.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://adroll.com\u003c/a\u003e - advertising retargetting\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://join.me\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://join.me\u003c/a\u003e - free screen sharing better than go-to-meeting\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://highrisehq.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://highrisehq.com\u003c/a\u003e - CRM","parent":"3518985","id":"3527630"}
{"by":"Consultant32452","time":"1533179684","timestamp":"2018-08-02 03:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difficulty with this case is that it\u0026#x27;s very difficult to find a source that genuinely steel-mans backpage.\u003cp\u003eI noticed one thing, for example, which I will try to describe in a steel-manning way.  It appears backpage, at least in part, was working with law enforcement and human trafficking activists.  Perhaps not to the extent that those activists would have liked, but I suspect those activists would have preferred them to shut down completely.  In assisting authorities\u0026#x2F;activists, certain keywords were filtered from ads, keywords which might have indicated that someone was under-age.  This act of removing those keywords is what now has them in trouble, because the plaintiffs are arguing that backpage is now the \u0026quot;author\u0026quot; of that material rather than just a platform.  If this is true, that seems like a dirty trick.  The authorities\u0026#x2F;activists trick you into \u0026quot;helping\u0026quot; in such a way that you actually become a criminal, and then they come after you for it.","parent":"17653035","id":"17669010"}
{"by":"spoiledtechie","time":"1286935546","timestamp":"2010-10-13 02:05:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to ask then, Why is Africa in SUCH poverty. Compared to the rest of the world, Africa as a continent is third world. Why the hell has it never been better than what it was when kings and queens had control of Africa. Did it have a brain drain when the slaves were exported?","parent":"1780004","id":"1785757"}
{"by":"Pxtl","time":"1492658801","timestamp":"2017-04-20 03:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s too late.  After my 9-year-old son\u0026#x27;s start-page got taken over by a malicious ad, I set up uBlock.  I was fighting long and hard to avoid adblocking because I really did think it was wrong to view the web without the ads that support it... but the industry has utterly failed to keep their houses clean.\u003cp\u003eWhatever \u0026quot;polite\u0026quot; implementation Google implements in Chrome won\u0026#x27;t be enough anymore.","parent":"14152688","id":"14153687"}
{"by":"benchaney","time":"1517763301","timestamp":"2018-02-04 16:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"None of these should actually be a problem in practice.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; * You have to build a state machine inside the kernel to handle cases like applications reading a file one byte at a time.\u003cp\u003eYou need to have this anyway, because regular files exist. Also, the logic is very simple.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; * Programs now have to deal with malicious applications capable of managing mountpoints giving fake results via the filesystem. I could link to \u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;random to \u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;zero, how many programs are going to check for that?\u003cp\u003eOnly root could do that. If an attacker has root, there are many more realistic attacks.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; * You can\u0026#x27;t let the program go into a chroot jail if it needs to read the kernel\u0026#x27;s magic filesystem.\u003cp\u003eYou can add the magic filesystem to a choot jail.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; * You have to mingle filesystem access bits with kernel security checks for process capabilities and the like.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m really not sure what this means.","parent":"16295989","id":"16303498"}
{"by":"detcader","time":"1425772144","timestamp":"2015-03-07 23:49:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That makes sense, though I\u0026#x27;m not sure that it makes up the whole of what nostrademons was talking about.","parent":"9163611","id":"9163654"}
{"by":"justincormack","time":"1350401558","timestamp":"2012-10-16 15:32:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. A crime in both locations. But double jeapody means someone should not be prosecuted in both.","parent":"4659781","id":"4660240"}
{"by":"lisivka","time":"1468860931","timestamp":"2016-07-18 16:55:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is very sad that chemical weapon used by Iraq against Kurds is still not found. Moreover, it was used again year ago in Iraq against Kurds.\u003cp\u003ePS.\nMoreover, large quantities of mustard agent were found in Syria in 2013.","parent":"12116013","id":"12116304"}
{"by":"vibrunazo","time":"1333505908","timestamp":"2012-04-04 02:18:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point. If you wanna show you're capable of executing, just pick one of the well known pain points. Build something cool. Then use that as a proof of your abilities. Investors look for good teams. There's no better curriculum for your team than a track record of great projects.\u003cp\u003eInstead of telling us that you can build something, just build something. :)","parent":"3795448","id":"3795894"}
{"by":"joe","time":"1190903786","timestamp":"2007-09-27 14:36:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It sounds like what you've got is more of a painful group hobby. I think it might be time to consider a better format for being productive.\u003cp\u003eI think you're right, at least for my part. One problem is that the idea guy IS my friend, but I don't think he shares my point of view about this. I wrote up the blog post in order to collect my thoughts to relate them to him.","parent":"60214","id":"60254"}
{"by":"v_lisivka","time":"1540813622","timestamp":"2018-10-29 11:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;abs\u0026#x2F;physics\u0026#x2F;0609235\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;abs\u0026#x2F;physics\u0026#x2F;0609235\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18320886","id":"18326657"}
{"by":"throwanem","time":"1502336009","timestamp":"2017-08-10 03:33:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And Alkove was \u003ci\u003ethere\u003c/i\u003e - physically present. He could\u0026#x27;ve warned them off in person, and made sure they knew what was up. No one is going to care why he didn\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"14975826","id":"14976116"}
{"by":"dhumph","time":"1531301060","timestamp":"2018-07-11 09:24:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll shoot you an email!","parent":"17504084","id":"17505550"}
{"by":"taternuts","time":"1369327220","timestamp":"2013-05-23 16:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most angular diehards really try to use as little jQuery as possible, since most the times it's not needed to do what you want to do","parent":"5757689","id":"5757795"}
{"by":"ariofrio","time":"1520072432","timestamp":"2018-03-03 10:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve done it. We brought down his service plan.\u003cp\u003eArchive: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20050409065436\u0026#x2F;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;boglin.iwarp.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20050409065436\u0026#x2F;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;boglin.iwa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16505244","id":"16508679"}
{"by":"lanaius","time":"1414535563","timestamp":"2014-10-28 22:32:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For certain (acceptable) values of perfect. I\u0026#x27;m in California but for just a year, so I\u0026#x27;m not a citizen or anything. I see 2-3 unskippable 30 second political ads each night and while ads have never driven me away from online streaming before, these are actually pushing me away from youtube.","parent":"8523932","id":"8524025"}
{"by":"edgyswingset","time":"1452895281","timestamp":"2016-01-15 22:01:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say Zynga has a pretty clear business model.","parent":"10912439","id":"10912510"}
{"by":"dionidium","time":"1502049710","timestamp":"2017-08-06 20:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;White supremacy\u0026quot; as a movement, as a phrase in common usage, and as a matter of common sense, implies a whole host of beliefs and policy desires that aren\u0026#x27;t held or sought by Charles Murray or his defenders.\u003cp\u003eNot holding those beliefs doesn\u0026#x27;t render you a \u0026quot;benevolent supremacist;\u0026quot; it means, very plainly (and using ordinary definitions of ordinary words) that you\u0026#x27;re \u003ci\u003enot a supremecist\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIt is plainly misleading and obfuscatory to apply that term to anyone investigating population differences in good faith.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps you mean to say that all such investigations are evidence of nefarious motives? I think that\u0026#x27;s wrong, but it\u0026#x27;s at least a coherent worldview.","parent":"14942562","id":"14943173"}
{"by":"ajpatel","time":"1290539787","timestamp":"2010-11-23 19:16:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not for me","parent":"1934922","id":"1934989"}
{"by":"x1798DE","time":"1450748203","timestamp":"2015-12-22 01:36:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Care to share with the rest of the class?","parent":"10774742","id":"10775057"}
{"by":"segmondy","time":"1366737912","timestamp":"2013-04-23 17:25:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And who made you the moderator?","parent":"5595560","id":"5596532"}
{"by":"positivejam","time":"1383852497","timestamp":"2013-11-07 19:28:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; He probably also plans to start creating similar email lists for other verticals with high levels of contractor work - so not just developers, but also designers, devops etc.\u003cp\u003eThis is what I\u0026#x27;m interested in, although I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure he said his product is actually for designers, not devs. I\u0026#x27;d love to see something similar for devs.","parent":"6691742","id":"6691799"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1281392984","timestamp":"2010-08-09 22:29:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There must be other phone brands that would allow you to do just that.","parent":"1589349","id":"1589666"}
{"by":"faizshah","time":"1539260820","timestamp":"2018-10-11 12:27:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point!\u003cp\u003eMy grandmother lives in London and she\u0026#x27;s had a peace lily growing indoors for over a decade. Give it a try or ask around :)","parent":"18192786","id":"18192893"}
{"by":"thorin","time":"1477998259","timestamp":"2016-11-01 11:04:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you a fan of Paco de Lucia by any chance? I love Entre dos aguas.","parent":"12844634","id":"12844657"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1283563265","timestamp":"2010-09-04 01:21:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be strange to live in a world where Duke Nukem isn't vaporware. It's status as vaporware has always been one of the basic tenants of the internet as I know it, up there with Rule 34.","parent":"1660502","id":"1661686"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1251473416","timestamp":"2009-08-28 15:30:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This plan is severely flawed, it assumes there are actual people on date.com","parent":"791386","id":"791560"}
{"by":"bordercases","time":"1467318845","timestamp":"2016-06-30 20:34:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I take a lot of the above for granted. It all sounds like a solid CS education to me, something which many students already have.\u003cp\u003eSo I think your point about being open minded is the strongest. Additionally, you bring up some excellent summaries of what each discipline is about. A lot of the time the failure here is lack of comprehensiveness, or coverage; coverage in space (what\u0026#x27;s out there) and coverage in time (what\u0026#x27;s been done historically). Current favorite example is APL: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;isomorphism.es\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;146379365169\u0026#x2F;unlike-many-languages-apl-arrays-are-just-a\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;isomorphism.es\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;146379365169\u0026#x2F;unlike-many-language...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as far as material goes, I suspect pure, bare metaphysics is underrated. Bearing with me, this talk by Hickey quotes a lot of Whitehead: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.infoq.com\u0026#x2F;presentations\u0026#x2F;Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.infoq.com\u0026#x2F;presentations\u0026#x2F;Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitehead spearheaded Process philosophy: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Process_philosophy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Process_philosophy\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost metaphysics is crap, but there are a few gems. Whitehead, Russell, Quentin Meillassoux, Wittgenstein, Northrop, Peirce, Kripke. Dealing with fundamental conceptions of space, material, time, cause, and uncertainty can go a long way when it comes to modeling code and understanding when it will correspond to reality. Programming languages give you enough flexibility to reach your ass and fuck yourself over. That needs to be constrained.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003etl;dr\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re in agreement, I just like hearing myself talk.","parent":"12004833","id":"12011439"}
{"by":"pndmnm","time":"1342647617","timestamp":"2012-07-18 21:40:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Apple has never produced a new product category. They take the innovations that came before and throw money and Steve Jobs/Jonny Ives taste at it.\u003cp\u003eRight -- or like we always say here on HN, it's not ideas that count, it's execution.","parent":"4262550","id":"4263139"}
{"by":"cema","time":"1276582762","timestamp":"2010-06-15 06:19:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's the \u003ci\u003egood\u003c/i\u003e parts, not the \u003ci\u003egoof\u003c/i\u003e parts, heh. I second the recommendation, but I think it should be the second Javascript book read after the latest edition of Javascript (The Definite Guide, by Flanagan). JQuery follows.","parent":"1430684","id":"1431946"}
{"by":"slazaro","time":"1510152297","timestamp":"2017-11-08 14:44:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a parallel to :w as ZZ is to :wq or :x? With my layout at least, typing double colons is a bit more annoying than regular letters.","parent":"15651119","id":"15652856"}
{"by":"inchcombec","time":"1332954516","timestamp":"2012-03-28 17:08:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. It seems to be a point that a lot of people forget. A lot of people don't fully trust the Internet security tools, such as TOR, for anonymity. So, they try to add a layer of what is essentially physical security by using an Internet connection that doesn't track back to them. However, a lot of times people don't fully consider that at that point you must now not only secure your Internet security but physical security as well. Ie. Not be seen.\u003cp\u003eI'm not saying it is a bad idea to want to add an extra layer of security/anonymity, but it actually has to be done right. If investigators trace it back to the coffee shop and see on the CCTV that you're the only one sitting there using a laptop for the entire time the attack took place you're screwed.\u003cp\u003eInterestingly enough, all the ways to actually add that layer of physical security are potentially illegal. (depending on local laws) Obviously, the laws can vary a lot, but in a lot of places the methods a person would use to hide themselves are considered unlawful access.\u003cp\u003eTake the coffee shop for example, instead of entering the coffee shop you sit outside it. If it doesn't have cameras outside, the businesses around it very well might have one that can see you, and then there are also the people that see you. (witnesses) Okay then, long range antenna, right? Wrong, still illegal in some places. Even though it is an unsecured wifi that is meant for people to connect to it, it is meant for customers. That means that you either have to go in and buy a coffee (which shows on camera that you were in the area) or to have previously asked permission to use it which means that someone in the coffee shop must know who you are to have given you permission. This caveat actually applies to the parking lot situation too and people really have been charged before for accessing a coffee shop's wifi from the parking lot without actually going in so this isn't just a thought exercise.\u003cp\u003eGenerally, if you're doing something online illegal enough to be investigated that fully, illegally accessing some coffee shop's connection is the least of your problems. There are legitimate reasons to want total anonymity though, such as whistle-blowers or individuals living in certain countries. If you're going to try for that level of anonymity it is important to know the local laws and make sure that whatever you're trying to be anonymous about is worth potentially breaking that law if it exists.","parent":"3765427","id":"3767243"}
{"by":"aftbit","time":"1424839750","timestamp":"2015-02-25 04:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When can I have a compatible FOSS desktop client? I don\u0026#x27;t do 100% of my communications from my phone, and I never will.","parent":"9104936","id":"9105353"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1424235168","timestamp":"2015-02-18 04:52:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t burn your bridges until the chickens are hatched or something.","parent":"9067021","id":"9067042"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1452745096","timestamp":"2016-01-14 04:18:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;It\u0026#x27;s really inexplicable. They have nice industrial design, good brand recognition, no shortage of money behind them, and they screw up at every conceivable turn.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIpso Facto.  They can\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e screw it up.\u003cp\u003eA critical component of infrastructure should not be IP addressable.  It should not be \u0026quot;on your wifi\u0026quot;.  It should not have a login or a password.  It should be as dumb as possible and as simple as possible - and as anti-fragile to all of these events as possible.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not possible to have this \u0026quot;feature set\u0026quot; and not have this pain.  It\u0026#x27;s a fools errand to pursue it.","parent":"10899241","id":"10899608"}
{"by":"Zirro","time":"1331067207","timestamp":"2012-03-06 20:53:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have any examples of sites/companies that put the techniques into use as a direct result of Evercookie exposing them?\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Why am I being downvoted for this question? I am seriously interested, so that I can avoid contact with them.","parent":"3672767","id":"3672813"}
{"by":"SmellyGeekBoy","time":"1525077803","timestamp":"2018-04-30 08:43:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was always against the idea of memory foam pillows. I thought they\u0026#x27;d be too hot, they would feel \u0026quot;odd\u0026quot;, they\u0026#x27;d swallow my face and suffocate me... To cut a long story short we stayed in an AirBnB a few months back that had them and they were an absolute revelation. My wife and I ordered some there and then and they were waiting for us when we got home.\u003cp\u003eYou can pay a fortune for a name brand one but ours are just no-name pillows from Amazon. I think the pillows in the AirBnB were from IKEA, IIRC.","parent":"16956428","id":"16956858"}
{"by":"jimmyjazz14","time":"1298080755","timestamp":"2011-02-19 01:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it odd that JSLint/JSHint is made up of one giant source file, seems like its setting a kinda bad example (unless such a thing is actually considered acceptable by javascripters).","parent":"2236417","id":"2238098"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1377129884","timestamp":"2013-08-22 00:04:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The law isn\u0026#x27;t even relevant here, since the conduct happened in a theater of war.\u003cp\u003eIf the law wasn\u0026#x27;t relevant in theaters of war, we wouldn\u0026#x27;t have phrases like \u0026quot;war crime\u0026quot;.","parent":"6251236","id":"6254157"}
{"by":"flukus","time":"1499941647","timestamp":"2017-07-13 10:27:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t assume English is everyone\u0026#x27;s first language. It happens to be mine, but don\u0026#x27;t assume everyone is sober either!","parent":"14759789","id":"14760130"}
{"by":"toast42","time":"1366385966","timestamp":"2013-04-19 15:39:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Dwolla to transfer less than $500 every month for splitting rent, utilities, etc.  I've never once had a problem, they're just kind of slow sometimes.","parent":"5572923","id":"5577200"}
{"by":"dmnd","time":"1271530622","timestamp":"2010-04-17 18:57:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm just starting to go beyond Excel, but I chose to learn Python and scipy over R due to reading that R's scripting language didn't match up to Python. Am I handicapping myself by ignoring R?","parent":"1273397","id":"1273509"}
{"by":"wylie","time":"1359077971","timestamp":"2013-01-25 01:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for confirming! I'm doing the same.","parent":"5113382","id":"5113443"}
{"by":"12423gsd","time":"1420841951","timestamp":"2015-01-09 22:19:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are \u0026quot;Traits\u0026quot; basically C++ Concepts?","parent":"8864245","id":"8864851"}
{"by":"dholowiski","time":"1325708527","timestamp":"2012-01-04 20:22:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it's all static content, have you thought about using Amazon S3 and cloudfront?","parent":"3421455","id":"3425733"}
{"by":"marze","time":"1256424097","timestamp":"2009-10-24 22:41:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For one thing, a desert airport is harder to sell once you outgrow it.\u003cp\u003e\"Used airport, good condition, excellent for coastal city, $15B, free shipping.\"","parent":"900924","id":"901008"}
{"by":"stephenr","time":"1540220404","timestamp":"2018-10-22 15:00:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shared (via iCloud Family sharing) list in Apple\u0026#x27;s Reminders app. Actually we have several - a shopping list (for groceries etc), one for DIY\u0026#x2F;hardware stuff, etc. I don\u0026#x27;t use the feature much but you \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e use Siri to add items to lists by name too - \u0026quot;Hey Siri, add milk to my shopping list\u0026quot; works as expected.","parent":"18275110","id":"18275149"}
{"by":"thorin","time":"1449264614","timestamp":"2015-12-04 21:30:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In terms of data warehousing-the data warehouse toolkit (kimball) book is an excellent resource. It covers models for many business areas and also talks about the transactional  models the are coming from.","parent":"10669106","id":"10679290"}
{"by":"MichaelApproved","time":"1352278953","timestamp":"2012-11-07 09:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Make the demo link big, first and easy to find. It's the most important part of the page.\u003cp\u003e2) Failed to work (using first gen iPad).","parent":"4752328","id":"4752776"}
{"by":"wellboy","time":"1382683751","timestamp":"2013-10-25 06:49:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well Bezos is interested in controlling the media.. :)","parent":"6610019","id":"6610157"}
{"by":"peterb","time":"1329834160","timestamp":"2012-02-21 14:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish all technical books did this.","parent":"3616460","id":"3616503"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1229883714","timestamp":"2008-12-21 18:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, I find C-w more annoying in web browsers.  In emacs, I have it bound to backward-kill-word, and use it almost as much as backspace.\u003cp\u003eIn firefox, the results are not too good.  The tab dies, taking the entire textbox with it.  Annoying.\u003cp\u003eThe moral of the story is to not use software other than emacs.  I use Gnus for mail and w3m for light web browsing, eliminating any problem with keybinding emulation.  It \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e emacs, so it acts like emacs.\u003cp\u003eFor heavier web browsing, I use conkeror.  It is almost like emacs, but not quite.  Better than anything else, though.","parent":"405452","id":"405559"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1421424446","timestamp":"2015-01-16 16:07:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t new. We basically banished android a few years ago when an active sync bug on a few thousand devices killed our on-prem exchange. The workaround was literally to land something like 8-12 servers.\u003cp\u003eFiled a bug with Google, they closed it. The handset vendor fixed it, but the carrier refused to release it. So we made the carrier take them back and give us iPhones. (One of those rare times when it\u0026#x27;s fun to work for a massive bureaucracy!) Never looked back.","parent":"8898986","id":"8899722"}
{"by":"chasingsparks","time":"1260032069","timestamp":"2009-12-05 16:54:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jacob's docs were fantastic. I read them after they were posted on HN a few weeks back.\u003cp\u003eThe marketing aspect is pretty important. I was considering following his (my friend's) advice for that reason. Every week or so there seems to be a \"Watch me build a blog in 5 minutes\" screencast. I don't really think they are tutorials; they are closer to movie trailers.","parent":"978224","id":"978238"}
{"by":"toomanybeersies","time":"1541979496","timestamp":"2018-11-11 23:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Parochial, small-minded, cliquey people, all the money is in construction and farming rather than tech, poor range of jobs, low wages, and relatively expensive real estate\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s funny that you moved to Australia and complain that NZ is parochial and small minded. I\u0026#x27;ve found Australia to be even worse, although Sydney and Melbourne are large enough that you can self select into groups of people where you avoid that. Australia is multicultural, sure, but not in an inclusionary way. When was the last time New Zealand had race riots?\u003cp\u003eReal estate in Melbourne and Sydney aren\u0026#x27;t exactly affordable either, unless you enjoy a 1 hour commute each direction daily.\u003cp\u003eAustralia has great pay, and Melbourne and Sydney are great for the big city life if that\u0026#x27;s what you enjoy (which I do). Remember as well that if you\u0026#x27;re a New Zealand citizen in Australia you\u0026#x27;re essentially treated as a guest worker, you get minimal government benefits, regardless of how long you\u0026#x27;ve lived here, and technically your visa is subject to cancelation at any time (although if you\u0026#x27;re not a criminal that\u0026#x27;s not a particular issue).","parent":"18428615","id":"18429440"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1253908477","timestamp":"2009-09-25 19:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly the same as during the week. As I work for myself weekends are normal days like any other. I just take random days off with no regard for what name they have.\u003cp\u003eMy wife has always worked weird shifts (and is now off for a year on maternity leave) so it works family-wise.. and we don't have to wrestle with the horrible weekend crowds at places. The only real benefit of the weekend is less e-mail to deal with :)","parent":"844177","id":"844189"}
{"by":"oddlyaromatic","time":"1481979294","timestamp":"2016-12-17 12:54:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Equally there could be beneficial aspects to working on different coding problems outside a main job- improving skills, learning new tools, whatever. But that\u0026#x27;s not the important thing. To me, the important thing for an employer should be performance: \u0026quot;I have these expectations for the role, how is the employee doing in relation to those expectations, and are they being paid over or under the market value for the position?\u0026quot; Even if the employee could be better if they didn\u0026#x27;t have a side project, figuring out balance and maintaining job performance are skills in and of themselves. If an employee can do that, great, if not, bummer. The external cause doesn\u0026#x27;t matter. What matters is the employee\u0026#x27;s judgement in the self care they need to do in order to meet the needs of their job. No need for employer to borrow trouble by trying to control non-work activities and incurring bad will.","parent":"13200394","id":"13200518"}
{"by":"WildGreenLeave","time":"1496211919","timestamp":"2017-05-31 06:25:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I\u0026#x27;m waiting for Apple to include push notifications via browser. I\u0026#x27;d much rather receive them via my browser than need yet another native app for it. And it feels like it isn\u0026#x27;t as widely used as it could be because iOS doesn\u0026#x27;t provide this feature.\u003cp\u003eExample: I removed the Facebook native app, but still get my push notifications via the Chrome browser.","parent":"14450481","id":"14450732"}
{"by":"georgeglue1","time":"1433442191","timestamp":"2015-06-04 18:23:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kaggle is a website on which users can submit statistical models\u0026#x2F;programs\u0026#x2F;predictions into competitions, often involving rewards and many competitors.\u003cp\u003eThe goal is usually to make interesting and insightful models based on a sample dataset. Overfitting occurs roughly when you tailor your model too specifically to the sample data. For instance, a regression with 10000 parameters might fit the data really well, but only because we included so many useless parameters.\u003cp\u003eA poorly designed contest on Kaggle had a submission that deliberately overfit.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re curious, there are many ways to address overfit models (look up model selection or AIC)","parent":"9660977","id":"9661094"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1383259636","timestamp":"2013-10-31 22:47:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT. Questions are not allowed. Consideration is not allowed. Context is not allowed. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.","parent":"6650566","id":"6650574"}
{"by":"leifaffles","time":"1502484676","timestamp":"2017-08-11 20:51:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What should he apologize for?\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m sorry for telling the truth.\u0026quot;?","parent":"14993924","id":"14994132"}
{"by":"thristian","time":"1264251483","timestamp":"2010-01-23 12:58:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a recent HN post on this topic that garnered a lot of discussion:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070780\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070780\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new blog-post from Robert O'Callahan (one of the Mozilla developers who worked on the \u0026#60;video\u0026#62; element) explains Mozilla's position much better than anyone in the HN thread did, touching on things like patent licensing, using GStreamer, and idealism.","parent":"1071727","id":"1071751"}
{"by":"pclark","time":"1299759225","timestamp":"2011-03-10 12:13:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think there is anything wrong with crunch for a month or three, on the promise that the team can wind down, relax and be acknowledged for their crunch period after.\u003cp\u003eI find I can work intensively for three months, but then need a few weeks of working 9-5 to recover. I think that is pretty normal, and I assume this is what the SocialCam team did.\u003cp\u003e(swombat: got a source for the quote?)","parent":"2308839","id":"2308923"}
{"by":"ashitlerferad","time":"1472636179","timestamp":"2016-08-31 09:36:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you deal with any situations where public\u0026#x2F;private keys are used instead of passwords?","parent":"12396992","id":"12397104"}
{"by":"djrogers","time":"1501264116","timestamp":"2017-07-28 17:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the US, everyone of these options is used in various ways. You have to take into account though that some of this is done by the individual states, some is Federal, and some is local or even public\u0026#x2F;private partnerships. There is no single countrywide solution that can solve something like highway maintenance on a country the size of the US.","parent":"14875196","id":"14876103"}
{"by":"dschiptsov","time":"1375025851","timestamp":"2013-07-28 15:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"minimalism in itself is not the key, but being \u003ci\u003esmall, consistent and good-enough\u003c/i\u003e is.","parent":"6116701","id":"6116969"}
{"by":"PeterisP","time":"1376758759","timestamp":"2013-08-17 16:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that is the whole point of functioning regulations - if someone doesn\u0026#x27;t care, then you simply bill them until they bleed and can\u0026#x27;t ignore it.\u003cp\u003eIf \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t care\u0026quot; is a reasonable option, then that particular DoNotCall regulation is defective by design.","parent":"6229570","id":"6229604"}
{"by":"Sideloader","time":"1436344226","timestamp":"2015-07-08 08:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Downvoting is so much easier than thinking or offering a counter argument if you don\u0026#x27;t agree with or understand a point of view.\u003cp\u003eThe up\u0026#x2F;down voting system on here is toxic as it disappears posts for no good reason whatsoever.","parent":"9850367","id":"9850452"}
{"by":"lhuang","time":"1268922061","timestamp":"2010-03-18 14:21:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is.  Reducing China's dependency on Coal is a huge priority for both China and the international community.  It was a big point of discussion during last year's talks at Copenhagen.","parent":"1200721","id":"1201342"}
{"by":"richardw","time":"1417583443","timestamp":"2014-12-03 05:10:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A friend has had a set of these for ages. We found a difference between two source setups. A particular Sony DVD player sounded incredible - each note seemed perceptible in a 3D space [1]. A CD player he had, didn\u0026#x27;t. [2] We tried with Yamaha amp, without, different configs of widgets. That DVD player with nothing added was the best. He gave it to his sister and I haven\u0026#x27;t heard anything like that since.\u003cp\u003eI nearly went off on a tangent and bought an amp etc, but I\u0026#x27;m happy with my much cheaper HD380\u0026#x27;s - great price\u0026#x2F;performance :) But those 600\u0026#x27;s are awesome.\u003cp\u003e[1] I\u0026#x27;ve since learned it\u0026#x27;s called soundstage\u003cp\u003e[2] How would the source influence soundstage? Sounds irrational to me. Hey, one sounded better than the other and I don\u0026#x27;t know why.","parent":"8691650","id":"8692008"}
{"by":"Pjdog","time":"1331256592","timestamp":"2012-03-09 01:29:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know, maybe they thought that the virus would be harder to remove, or perhaps the person created it to just to see if he could!","parent":"3682501","id":"3682506"}
{"by":"balls187","time":"1452714315","timestamp":"2016-01-13 19:45:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m skeptical.\u003cp\u003eOver the past 5 years or so, Microsoft has lost developers as a core group. There are certainly interesting things happening out of their dev group, but with the rise of Cloud infrastructure, cheap (free) alternatives to WINS stacks rose tremendously in popularity.\u003cp\u003eI was a Seattle Techstars 2013 Founder, and the only two teams using MSFT tech were those whose founders were ex-Microsoft employees.\u003cp\u003eThis just feels like a ploy to get developers back on to Microsoft\u0026#x27;s platforms, then slowly bleed them dry with fees.\u003cp\u003e*\u003cp\u003eMy experience with the new Microsoft: One of our major products runs on Microsoft SQL Server. Sadly, many developers\u0026#x2F;ops folks did not realize the difference between SQL Server Enterprise, and SQL Server Standard, and opted to install SQL Server Enterprise on servers, despite not using any of the Enterprise features.\u003cp\u003eNot only does SQL Server Standard pricing differ compared to Enterprise, but \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c/i\u003e it\u0026#x27;s price differs. Enterprise is charged based on a per-core license, requiring both a core license for \u003ci\u003eevery\u003c/i\u003e core, as well as a minimum of 4-core\u0026#x27;s per physical processor.\u003cp\u003eDuring a routine Software Audit, MSFT determined we had quite a few more SQL Server Enterprise installs than we licensed, so sent us a nice fat bill. We asked for leniency. It was a mistake (ours of course), but we didn\u0026#x27;t use any of SQL Server Enterprise features.\u003cp\u003eMSFT wanted no part of that.\u003cp\u003eSo we ponied up our bill, and decided to never use MSFT tech again.\u003cp\u003eContrast that with AWS. Due to developer error, we had one of our AWS keys compromised and an attacker used it to mine bitcoins. Amazon sent us the bill. We contacted them, and they gave us a one-time forgiveness.\u003cp\u003e*\u003cp\u003eThe morale of this story: Use microsoft technology at your own peril. Also, having developers handle infrastructure is cool, but don\u0026#x27;t discount the value of a dedicated infra team.","parent":"10895961","id":"10896930"}
{"by":"va_coder","time":"1320241659","timestamp":"2011-11-02 13:47:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"40k people got comp sci degrees in 1985, and in 2009 that number has not changed!  That's shocking.","parent":"3186426","id":"3186601"}
{"by":"mpenn","time":"1500104838","timestamp":"2017-07-15 07:47:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wolfram Research (Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha) - 700 employees, no outside capital.","parent":"14770114","id":"14775544"}
{"by":"wtvanhest","time":"1317350836","timestamp":"2011-09-30 02:47:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"jfruh,  I disagree with you there.  By setting the goal of reusable and reliable he could change the cost structure in a way that would make a fundamental improvement in financing of space missions.\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the video make no sense with rockets helping for reentry.  Why not just use pilot guided shoots?","parent":"3055223","id":"3055378"}
{"by":"testtuber","time":"1492525214","timestamp":"2017-04-18 14:20:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t go to programming meet-ups to actually learn anything new.  It\u0026#x27;s a place for networking.  Nothing more.  The same with tech conferences and MBA programs.  They\u0026#x27;re all networking events.","parent":"14138398","id":"14138994"}
{"by":"anonymousDan","time":"1390134466","timestamp":"2014-01-19 12:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you elaborate on your understanding of logarithms and integrals? Curious to know if it tallies with mine!","parent":"7083601","id":"7084243"}
{"by":"pbh101","time":"1468956895","timestamp":"2016-07-19 19:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It isn\u0026#x27;t very fundamentalist :)","parent":"12124205","id":"12124217"}
{"by":"rwcarlsen","time":"1526494330","timestamp":"2018-05-16 18:12:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At human civilization\u0026#x27;s scale, the energy production\u0026#x2F;consumption market is not a zero-sum-game.  I would be curious to know how much extra energy production the crypto-currency world has caused\u0026#x2F;incentivized to be established (e.g. increased capacity factors of underutilized hydro-power, etc.).  It\u0026#x27;s not as if consumption will grow until there is no energy left for anything else.  We will just produce more (which can also be a problem - e.g. CO2 and such).","parent":"17084253","id":"17084906"}
{"by":"MsMowz","time":"1511797666","timestamp":"2017-11-27 15:47:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft just moved an office into Munich and now, over the objections of the municipal IT staff, the city is switching to Windows. Interesting.","parent":"15787975","id":"15788181"}
{"by":"Girlang","time":"1509629595","timestamp":"2017-11-02 13:33:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No locks in Erlang.","parent":"15607869","dead":true,"id":"15610230"}
{"by":"rocky1138","time":"1366672473","timestamp":"2013-04-22 23:14:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Props for OpenTTD in the last screenshot :)","parent":"5591279","id":"5592313"}
{"by":"JshWright","time":"1516587189","timestamp":"2018-01-22 02:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isp is awesome, TWR... not so much. The electric turbopumps are a big propellant efficiency win, but aren\u0026#x27;t without other costs.","parent":"16201414","id":"16201429"}
{"by":"gcb","time":"1343149459","timestamp":"2012-07-24 17:04:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"uh, didn't he wrote that to say how he was complying with the C\u0026#38;D order and ceasing any automated access to craigslist servers?\u003cp\u003epadmapper is now merely the user of a 3rd party service that provides craigslist data... it's like coca cola suing me because i bought a can at 7-11 and 7-11 failed to pay the coke distributor.","parent":"4286559","dead":true,"id":"4286609"}
{"by":"sounds","time":"1484073128","timestamp":"2017-01-10 18:32:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One thing that Windows (somewhat famously) gets is \u0026quot;developers! developers! developers!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eApple has a passionate, loyal developer community. Developers who create iOS apps use OS X machines to do it. They spend almost twice as much on an OS X machine (vs. a Windows machine) to get over the barrier to entry.\u003cp\u003eApple has never made anywhere close to the same investment in their developers that their developers have made in Apple. Their mindset can be summarized as (I think):\u003cp\u003e1. iOS and OS X are \u0026quot;easy to develop on\u0026quot; (so Apple thinks) so WWDC is sufficient as far as developer relations. Lately even WWDC is an empty shell.\u003cp\u003e2. Huge software failures don\u0026#x27;t seem to touch Apple\u0026#x27;s revenue stream (e.g. Maps, iCloud, security exploits), which over time makes Apple more and more deaf to the realities of software outside their company.\u003cp\u003e3. Apple execs are \u0026quot;courageous\u0026quot; and visionary. The company has a very top-down culture.","parent":"13367223","id":"13367479"}
{"by":"jacksmith21006","time":"1514586375","timestamp":"2017-12-29 22:26:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gave my wife a Samsung CB plus and she loves it for Animal Crossing with the stylus.","parent":"16028266","id":"16032454"}
{"by":"saluki","time":"1381111257","timestamp":"2013-10-07 02:00:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go with a fixed fee for a set scope of work . . .\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t like hourly and definitely don\u0026#x27;t go with hourly not to exceed.\u003cp\u003eBreak it up in to multiple mile stones with incremental delivery, review\u0026#x2F;revisions and payment . . .\u003cp\u003eI would have early initial milestones so you make sure you and the client are on the same page . . . and that they are happy with the initial work and making payments . . .\u003cp\u003eIf you can maybe quote 1 or 2 phases and see how the project is proceeding and if you are making a profit . . . you could also take some time to mock up a more difficult part to see how it\u0026#x27;s coming together and then quote that difficult phase as you are working on the initial ones . . . if a particular phase that you already have quoted don\u0026#x27;t be afraid to approach the client and see if you can work out an adjusted fee so you\u0026#x27;re both happy and a quality project is delivered.\u003cp\u003eI would setup the IP stating that you won\u0026#x27;t reuse the project in it\u0026#x27;s entirety but that you have the right to reuse portions of the code in previous, current and future projects.  As most projects have modules you\u0026#x27;ve used before, will use on your current project and on future projects.\u003cp\u003eThere are some good boiler plate contracts out there.\u003cp\u003eGood luck with your first freelance project.","parent":"6505170","id":"6506218"}
{"by":"flatline3","time":"1340934153","timestamp":"2012-06-29 01:42:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're an Instagram or Pinterest then you have more than enough money to target Android natively, and provide the best experience possible.\u003cp\u003eIf you're not one of them, then there's more than enough of a userbase on iOS to start with.","parent":"4174807","id":"4174853"}
{"by":"omni","time":"1484274093","timestamp":"2017-01-13 02:21:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a big XCOM fan so I can say for that game that the RNG is messed with on lower difficulties to protect you from a bad streak. So if you miss 3 70% shots in a row, the next one will actually give you an 80% chance, escalating as your bad luck streak continues. On non-easy difficulties the chance to hit is honest as far as I know, a 30% chance to hit is actually a 30% chance.","parent":"13387318","id":"13387930"}
{"by":"zzzmarcus","time":"1280767728","timestamp":"2010-08-02 16:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The E-Myth Revisited. It's not specifically web related, but it's a great book (with a cheesy pie shop metaphor) on how to start a business that is a system you own rather than a business that owns you.\u003cp\u003eCheck out the Amazon reviews, they're telling:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abou...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1567456","id":"1568135"}
{"by":"7952","time":"1349797557","timestamp":"2012-10-09 15:45:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or even make a cookie value part of the mix.  The cookie could be from another domain and only accessible through a javascript API on the browser.","parent":"4631775","id":"4632178"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1495150681","timestamp":"2017-05-18 23:38:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t use a filesystem as a database. We did that back in 1998 mostly just because we were using 1998-era computing power, and the more static content you could serve the less likely your box would get hosed by Slashdot. Now my watch has more computing power than those old servers. Use a real database, even a file-backed one like BerkeleyDB (or god forbid, SQLite)","parent":"14371189","id":"14371948"}
{"by":"jmathai","time":"1362349884","timestamp":"2013-03-03 22:31:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Assume it was meant to be talked over. By itself the photos have no context.","parent":"5315381","id":"5315504"}
{"by":"cortesoft","time":"1428796592","timestamp":"2015-04-11 23:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, which is why trying to hide the fact you testified might be a bad idea... If someone won\u0026#x27;t hire you because you testified against a criminal employer... You probably don\u0026#x27;t want to work for them. Since, as you said, companies hide their true colors, this way you can know before being hired.","parent":"9360462","id":"9361314"}
{"by":"tricolon","time":"1331598236","timestamp":"2012-03-13 00:23:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn't find another way to contact you, so here goes.\nThere's an extraneous apostrophe in \"This bookmark is pending download, until then it's summary will not be available\". In fact, that comma should be a semicolon.\u003cp\u003eThank you for creating a service I needed.","parent":"3695517","id":"3696377"}
{"by":"Robin_Message","time":"1289220476","timestamp":"2010-11-08 12:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Especially if you delay sending the seller a postal address long enough to find a buyer.","parent":"1882228","id":"1882276"}
{"by":"dogweather","time":"1384127458","timestamp":"2013-11-10 23:50:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why I became an attorney.","parent":"6708647","id":"6709072"}
{"by":"kachnuv_ocasek","time":"1422302343","timestamp":"2015-01-26 19:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How you dragged \u0026quot;bloatware loaded Windows installs\u0026quot; into this I don\u0026#x27;t understand.","parent":"8948321","id":"8949206"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1362393250","timestamp":"2013-03-04 10:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. The test-driven idea above is a really good one.\n   I find a combo of running tests and auto-docs to be\n   Powerful in keeping me motivated.  Python doctest, sphinx \n   Are excellent\u003cp\u003e2. MVP and focus - really choose one small thing and ship it\nScript your deployment process so you can in \u003ci\u003eone day\u003c/i\u003e write a function run the tests then push it live.  That will seriously motivate you\u003cp\u003e3. Outside help - know anyone else who might work with you?  There is a very good reason pg says solo founders don't work well.  The motivation levels needed are huge.\u003cp\u003e4. Put time aside in the week to see your girlfriend (over a table, with a candle, just on the sofa does not count).  Similar with family friends.  Don't go mad on this try a date night each week and a friends night.  Your social life may improve (depends where you are now I guess)","parent":"5316867","dead":true,"id":"5317601"}
{"by":"thejosh","time":"1378832302","timestamp":"2013-09-10 16:58:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of my favourite traceroute replacements, that is installed by default on Ubuntu: mtr !","parent":"6360320","id":"6361308"}
{"by":"frou_dh","time":"1271624743","timestamp":"2010-04-18 21:05:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good observation. I know barely anything about ObjC/Cocoa, but if I was pushed to provide an opinion on them I'd start griping about how awful the verbose mixed case method names and prefixes on everything look. Which obviously isn't hindering the other people making fantastic iPhone and Mac applications.","parent":"1274934","id":"1275505"}
{"by":"superuser2","time":"1462499787","timestamp":"2016-05-06 01:56:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"VRBO was the AirBnb before AirBnb.\u003cp\u003eGetAround is an excellent car sharing service, basically peer-to-peer ZipCar. Cheaper, more available, and a more interesting spread of vehicles. Used it 7 or 8 times while living in SF for a summer. I think it\u0026#x27;s only in SF.","parent":"11639760","id":"11641160"}
{"by":"rms","time":"1210994450","timestamp":"2008-05-17 03:20:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah... the thought process alteration is really the same as the psychedelic effects. More so than visuals or anything, what the psychedelics do is temporarily change the way you think and perceive reality.","parent":"192035","id":"192441"}
{"by":"ZephyrP","time":"1309718508","timestamp":"2011-07-03 18:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"zephyr.pellerin as well","parent":"2717944","dead":true,"id":"2724275"}
{"by":"JonLim","time":"1304014346","timestamp":"2011-04-28 18:12:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many of my friends own iPhones, and many are flabbergasted when they find out that my phone is not jailbroken nor is it filled with free apps.\u003cp\u003eI happily pay for quality apps. Why? It's going to cost me anywhere from $1 to $10, and that is honestly chump change for an app that will provide much more in value.\u003cp\u003eFor some reason, if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start insulting the service and/or claiming they didn't get enough support.\u003cp\u003eWhat do people expect when they don't pay for a valuable app...?","parent":"2494270","id":"2494383"}
{"by":"ctingom","time":"1199681938","timestamp":"2008-01-07 04:58:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I checkmated your 5k. Come back later with more code and we will play again.","parent":"95207","id":"95519"}
{"by":"georgespencer","time":"1350310981","timestamp":"2012-10-15 14:23:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now, all this is pretty bad but manageable. Shitty customer service, a shitty system, and no attempt to make amends for failing to provide a decent standard of service. But we're set up, right? Not quite. HSBC is the only bank I know that actively prevents you from using your funds by periodically just declining your card.\u003cp\u003eWe're a web business. Every month we pay a bunch of money to our web hosts (the brilliant EngineYard), Google Apps, AWS, etc. WE DO THIS EVERY MONTH. THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY. And every month an Indian dude calls me in the middle of my lunch, asks me to confirm a load of security questions, and then asks me to confirm the same transactions that I confirmed with him the month before that, and the month before that and EVERY MONTH SINCE OUR JOURNEY OF PAIN WITH HSBC STARTED.\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile EngineYard are sending us polite emails saying \"Please pay us, your card was declined.\" The upshot is that we have a bad relationship with our hosts. I'd imagine that HSBC's website is hosted internally, because I know for sure that if it was hosted externally it would GET TURNED OFF ONCE PER MONTH BECAUSE YOUR FRAUD PREVENTION TEAM STOPPED PAYMENT FOR IT.\u003cp\u003eThree months ago I called HSBC and pointed out that this happens every month. \"Ah yes Mr. Spencer, I can see that in your account. I can confirm that we will not phone you again about these transactions.\" Bull. Shit. Two months ago when they called back I brought it up again, in a slightly more irate manner. \"Ah yes Mr. Spencer you need to speak to my colleague about that, hang on.\" I spoke to his colleague and explained it all AGAIN.\u003cp\u003eThen they called back a few weeks ago. I explained it all again. Everything was fine, again; no fraud or unusual activity (SO WHY DID YOU CALL?). The card is fine and working, the EngineYard payment will go through, I'm told. I explain to the guy that if I ever have a phone call like this again where I have to explain, for the millionth time, why my business uses American hosting providers, I will change banks and never look back. \"No, no Mr. Spencer, I'm trying to help you. You just need to speak to my colleague...\"\u003cp\u003eNo, I don't. I've spoken to everyone. Nobody I have ever dealt with at HSBC has any respect for my time. I've repeated myself dozens of times with HSBC to no avail, at every step of the process, to different staff members who can't pass a message along to save me from having to explain it again.\u003cp\u003eI tell the Indian guy that I'll leave him to resolve it. If he can't then that's fine, we'll switch banks.\u003cp\u003eHe calls back to say it's all resolved. A week later, an email from EngineYard. Card declined.\u003cp\u003eCheerio, HSBC.","parent":"4655153","id":"4655155"}
{"by":"Kliment","time":"1340919220","timestamp":"2012-06-28 21:33:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"everything2 is weird like that. Ignore the links. They are a semantic graph pointer, not hypertext.","parent":"4171357","id":"4174074"}
{"by":"jasim","time":"1449437797","timestamp":"2015-12-06 21:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All sorts of web pages. The tool will create HTML and CSS, the elements will use DOM flow and positioning, and grid columns if that information is annotated through our UI. The developer has to give meaningful names through our UI so that we can create CSS classes that follow BEM conventions.","parent":"10686665","id":"10686743"}
{"by":"SEJeff","time":"1516974660","timestamp":"2018-01-26 13:51:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EVERYONE GETS A STROOPWAFEL!","parent":"16238816","id":"16239081"}
{"by":"kev009","time":"1532494099","timestamp":"2018-07-25 04:48:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These seem pretty insane, you\u0026#x27;d be better off with two POWER9s in just about any dimension including cost, TDP, thread count, cache, memory bandwidth, I\u0026#x2F;O bandwidth including PCIe lanes, FLOPS and integer performance.","parent":"17606626","id":"17606965"}
{"by":"jason_tko","time":"1452083139","timestamp":"2016-01-06 12:25:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve lived in Japan for 14 years, and I\u0026#x27;m doing a startup here.\u003cp\u003eIn my experience, if you stay in Japan for more than a year, you go through several phases.\u003cp\u003eThe first phase is confusion. Why am I being treated differently, even though I\u0026#x27;m doing and saying the same things as another Japanese person.\u003cp\u003eThe second phase that quickly follows is anger. This is bullshit! I know my accent and pronunciation is correct! Why are they saying they don\u0026#x27;t understand me! WTF!\u003cp\u003eThe third is dull acceptance. You\u0026#x27;re not going to change Japan. They\u0026#x27;re not like this because they\u0026#x27;re bad people. They\u0026#x27;re just inexperienced with foreigners and foreign things, and they\u0026#x27;re overcompensating and trying to be nice in the way they think is nice.\u003cp\u003eThe final stage is fun. This is the best stage. You understand all the social patterns and why everything is happening, so you just relax and start enjoying it.\u003cp\u003eWhen you go into a restaurant and order in Japanese and the waiters response is \u0026quot;I can\u0026#x27;t speak English! Sorry!\u0026quot; you respond in Japanese \u0026quot;Oh, I\u0026#x27;m terribly sorry. Is there anyone here who speaks Japanese?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis often (not always) has the interesting effect of changing the \u0026quot;foreigners cannot speak or understand Japanese\u0026quot; mindset, if only for a moment.\u003cp\u003eSounds like you\u0026#x27;re in between stages two and three. It gets better.\u003cp\u003eTo quickly respond to your list:\u003cp\u003e1) It\u0026#x27;s your face. It\u0026#x27;s nothing personal. They\u0026#x27;re just trying to be accommodating.\u003cp\u003e2) My typical response is \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ve been using chopsticks since I\u0026#x27;ve been four, since we used to order Chinese takeout. So complimenting me on my chopstick skills feels the same as me complimenting you on your deft fork techniques.\u0026quot; This may result in enlightening your Japanese friends as to why it\u0026#x27;s challenging to be overly grateful for their well-intended compliment.\u003cp\u003e3) Kanji is hard. They\u0026#x27;re just impressed that you can read it, since they spent years as kids studying and repeating kanji over and over again. Having said that, my typical response here is \u0026quot;Actually, I think English is much, much harder than Japanese. Sure Japanese is difficult, but it\u0026#x27;s logical. English is full of exceptions, weird spellings, inconsistent grammar, because it\u0026#x27;s a mix of languages. If I wasn\u0026#x27;t born a native speaker, I can\u0026#x27;t imagine how I\u0026#x27;d learn English from scratch.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e4) Yep - you\u0026#x27;re definitely not alone. It can be hard to avoid feeling a bit slighted here. If you haven\u0026#x27;t seen this already: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=oLt5qSm9U80\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=oLt5qSm9U80\u003c/a\u003e I gently correct people here. \u0026quot;Excuse me - since I\u0026#x27;m ordering, could you please look at me?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBy the way, thinking of these things as \u0026quot;micro-aggressions\u0026quot; is a terrible way to think. They\u0026#x27;re not being aggressive. They\u0026#x27;re often just not very familiar with foreign people, and they\u0026#x27;re doing their best to be accommodating. Once you get to stage four, this becomes a lot easier.\u003cp\u003eGood luck, and don\u0026#x27;t forget to swing by the Hacker News Tokyo Meetups if you\u0026#x27;re in Tokyo - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e - we\u0026#x27;re just about to announce another one.","parent":"10849696","id":"10850101"}
{"by":"xaban","time":"1427881319","timestamp":"2015-04-01 09:41:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Splendor. Where are you from?\nJust curious, because it\u0026#x27;s a matter of taste, which seems to be different in US and Europe.\u003cp\u003eFor us, supportdetails.com looks so 1990 and it\u0026#x27;s not mobile-friendly.","parent":"9300097","dead":true,"id":"9302581"}
{"by":"white-flame","time":"1496630811","timestamp":"2017-06-05 02:46:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, life betterment is great to have.  However, with 6 figure debts involved, is it worth bulldozing most people in society through that model, when those skills can also be found elsewhere?  There are lots of people out there who simply aren\u0026#x27;t academically minded, regardless of how otherwise smart they are or aren\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eWe shouldn\u0026#x27;t be seeking to shovel everybody through this model because not everybody is compatible with it, and tons of people cannot afford it and the significant financial investment will be an albatross around their neck.  If it weren\u0026#x27;t such a financial burden, it would make a ton more sense to expose more people to academic skills training more broadly, regardless of attach rate.","parent":"14484441","id":"14484976"}
{"by":"alexilliamson","time":"1485971962","timestamp":"2017-02-01 17:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But I think the author was careful to sprinkle caveats so as to avoid universal recommendations.  Rather, it take on a few common abuses.\u003cp\u003eAbout the mean vs. median, it might be true that \u0026quot;mean\u0026quot; is appropriate in just as many contexts as \u0026quot;median\u0026quot;, but at least in my opinion, people cite a \u0026quot;mean\u0026quot; when a \u0026quot;median\u0026quot; would have been appropriate more frequently than  the reverse.  There are times when neither are appropriate, but if you\u0026#x27;re using median, you\u0026#x27;re more likely to understand the merits of different contexts.","parent":"13542837","id":"13543130"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1343193282","timestamp":"2012-07-25 05:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pretty sure that absolutely none of that is new. The \"change my profile from anonymous to visible\" part makes total sense in context.","parent":"4289465","id":"4289487"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1253459802","timestamp":"2009-09-20 15:16:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IBM PCs were also more powerful than Apple IIs.","parent":"833120","id":"833126"}
{"by":"venomsnake","time":"1441803297","timestamp":"2015-09-09 12:54:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is missing, as a context from the article, is that the majority of Eastern Europe spend half a millennium under the rule of the Ottoman Empire as a second class citizens. Islam is not welcomed on these lands.","parent":"10191021","id":"10191094"}
{"by":"nod","time":"1328638129","timestamp":"2012-02-07 18:08:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm rather confused that Google seems to be aiming to fragment the browser market for its own platform.  I already wasn't looking forward to supporting/testing both Browser and Firefox on Android... Is Google just this disorganized internally?","parent":"3562785","id":"3562952"}
{"by":"ekanes","time":"1337872485","timestamp":"2012-05-24 15:14:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bad: We're sorry, but we have to let XX,XXX of you go.  Here's your severance packages, etc etc.\u003cp\u003eReally Really Bad:  We're sorry, but \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e of you will be let go, \u003ci\u003esometime\u003c/i\u003e in the next years.  Try not to think about it.  Ok let's be productive out there people!","parent":"4017503","id":"4018798"}
{"by":"scrollaway","time":"1490910743","timestamp":"2017-03-30 21:52:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Connect is an interesting thing. Much like MTurk, Amazon is turning humans into auto-scalable infrastructure. It\u0026#x27;s up the stack, but it\u0026#x27;s still very much lego pieces as someone else was saying elsewhere in the thread.","parent":"13998277","id":"13999211"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1265142525","timestamp":"2010-02-02 20:28:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003elawmakers don't have much to do with it\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditionally they don't, but they could if they wanted to.  If the Supreme Court rules that something is not legal, the legislature can make it legal.  The Constitution can also be amended, making the issue of constitutionality null.\u003cp\u003eSome of the most powerful Constitutional protection is in the form of amendments; the Bill of Rights.  Technically, the freedom of speech is implicit in the text of the main body of the Constitution.  (Any powers not specifically given to the Federal government falls to the States and People.)  But the explicit text of the First Amendment has made it much easier for the People to retain their right to Free speech and press.","parent":"1095552","id":"1095980"}
{"by":"shimon_e","time":"1348454485","timestamp":"2012-09-24 02:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note: I'm using the term skill from a manufacturer's POV as being something that can not be simply done by a machine. Whether that is R\u0026#38;D or creativity as part of a manufacturing process.\u003cp\u003eIt is obvious they feel underpaid. It is their interest to get the most pay for their labour as they can get. Doesn't mean that the economy can afford to pay them more. Nor does it mean they would be paid more with a different unskilled job. China's struggle is that it has a massive surplus of unskilled labourers. The only way they can keep these people employed is by producing unskilled jobs for a low cost.\u003cp\u003eWhat is an example of an unskilled job? Sticking stickers on products. How much does it cost to get a machine to do it? $X. Then if a human wants to do it they must be to do at a comparable cost, otherwise market forces will eliminate his job. China is leaving low value manufacturing in coastal regions (where most of the manufacturing is done due to lower logistic costs). The unskilled migrant workers who haven't made their saving yet, and don't soon, are going to be far worse off in the future as they will have less earning opportunity and will be competing additional against logistic costs.\u003cp\u003eMany people fail to understand that things won't start costing more if unskilled Chinese labour would cost more. What would happen is we would start using simple machines to do the work and there would be less unskilled Chinese jobs available (leading to a slowdown of the Chinese economy). Dish washer machines are rare in restaurants in China due to the cost of labour being comparable or less than a machine.","parent":"4562841","id":"4562957"}
{"by":"davidsmith8900","time":"1386257238","timestamp":"2013-12-05 15:27:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- Okay, thank you for your feedback collyw.","parent":"6854016","id":"6854819"}
{"by":"skue","time":"1422230138","timestamp":"2015-01-25 23:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there any significant difference between this exchange and the upcoming Winklevoss exchange?[1]\u003cp\u003eBoth claim to be \u0026quot;regulated,\u0026quot; but it doesn\u0026#x27;t look like the Winklevoss version will offer SIPC protections either.[2]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/winklevoss-twins-aim-to-take-bitcoin-mainstream-with-a-regulated-exchange/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dealbook.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;winklevoss-twins-aim-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/000119312513279830/d562329ds1.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sec.gov\u0026#x2F;Archives\u0026#x2F;edgar\u0026#x2F;data\u0026#x2F;1579346\u0026#x2F;0001193125132...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8944689","id":"8944768"}
{"by":"pred_","time":"1539340669","timestamp":"2018-10-12 10:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another problem is that even if the puzzle is legit, you can\u0026#x27;t claim your prize without wrecking havoc on the environment in the process. At an estimated 850 kWh [0] per transaction, you would need to have a pretty good excuse for performing transactions at all.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;digiconomist.net\u0026#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;digiconomist.net\u0026#x2F;bitcoin-energy-consumption\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18199550","id":"18200476"}
{"by":"dryicerx","time":"1240275561","timestamp":"2009-04-21 00:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is pretty exciting stuff! Content based image retrieval has been an active and hot topic in research for years, yet I have rarely seen them in action that much specially in the form of any new startups, which is really surprising for me.\u003cp\u003eThe startup I am working on is somewhat related to CBIR but in a different way, so it's definitely cool to see more implementations spark up in this field.","parent":"571284","id":"571721"}
{"by":"vectorpush","time":"1397086452","timestamp":"2014-04-09 23:34:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I created this contrived example to illustrate the basic idea behind the pattern I want to emulate.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://play.golang.org/p/7T2s8Dn0Sr\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.golang.org\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;7T2s8Dn0Sr\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeally, on line 57 I\u0026#x27;d pass in some kind of \u0026quot;first class\u0026quot; type representation that the switch statement could use to branch into the correct type, rather than a zeroed (or not, Go doesn\u0026#x27;t care) struct or a string. Admittedly, this could definitely be abuse of Go semantics, so I\u0026#x27;m also interested in how I could refactor this into a more canonical Go pattern.","parent":"7562885","id":"7563258"}
{"by":"B-Con","time":"1354310075","timestamp":"2012-11-30 21:14:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really surprising, considering that Windows 8 is not a desktop-oriented OS. Existing non-touchscreen desktops and laptops have little motivation to upgrade. Windows 7 was a new generation OS that was friendlier than the previous attempt (Vista).","parent":"4855479","id":"4855487"}
{"by":"yolesaber","time":"1473446423","timestamp":"2016-09-09 18:40:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Money and power","parent":"12456513","dead":true,"id":"12464931"}
{"by":"libraryatnight","time":"1385070726","timestamp":"2013-11-21 21:52:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is really cool, and the interface for navigating the \u0026#x27;moments\u0026#x27; works like a charm. I was surprised that even on my work machine (which often crumbles to its knees at large content like this in a browser) it loaded smooth and fast, and didn\u0026#x27;t cause any freezing.","parent":"6776797","id":"6777786"}
{"by":"barbs","time":"1389227749","timestamp":"2014-01-09 00:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a bit of a grey area, but the FAQ states that so long as they\u0026#x27;re kept separate, and they communicate \u0026quot;at arms length\u0026quot;, they should be ok:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gnu.org\u0026#x2F;licenses\u0026#x2F;gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySy...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/110380/call-gpl-software-from-non-gpl-software\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;programmers.stackexchange.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;110380\u0026#x2F;call-g...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: IANAL","parent":"7027927","id":"7027945"}
{"by":"acidus","time":"1521397241","timestamp":"2018-03-18 18:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually think that the design of gRPC must have been a great deal of effort. The project proposes an scalable solution with simple enough interfaces that smaller teams have been able to adopt quickly. I admire that very much!","parent":"16613221","id":"16613371"}
{"by":"zerr","time":"1486149122","timestamp":"2017-02-03 19:12:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if you ask someone in the poor country to have more performance compared to colleague from the rich country, assuming they are on the same level\u0026#x2F;position, you still differentiate by country\u0026#x2F;region...","parent":"13542803","id":"13562346"}
{"by":"tom_mellior","time":"1487258105","timestamp":"2017-02-16 15:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That doesn\u0026#x27;t necessarily help. Many people have Facebook accounts with names that are not their \u0026quot;real name\u0026quot; as on their ID and plane ticket. If they want to, they\u0026#x27;ll just claim that you most likely \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e have an account and you\u0026#x27;re lying to them, and hold that against you.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re a foreigner, there is no way to win this if they are determined to make you lose. US visas as well as the documents for the Visa Waiver program make it clear that even if you do have all that is required, \u003ci\u003eyou are not guaranteed entry\u003c/i\u003e to the United States. The officer on the border can turn you back on a whim, and you have no legal recourse. Presumably they have some internal controls, but that won\u0026#x27;t help you in particular.","parent":"13660390","id":"13660461"}
{"by":"mdda","time":"1409908991","timestamp":"2014-09-05 09:23:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are some good TLDRs here.  But the actual article includes a link to a UI with the actual ImageNet decision task created by the author.  You can compete against the winning ConvNet too..","parent":"8272055","id":"8272969"}
{"by":"larrik","time":"1469202948","timestamp":"2016-07-22 15:55:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there any way your hardware would support something like being the KVM for a headless server (or family member\u0026#x27;s computer that you are working on) or something?","parent":"12144254","id":"12144312"}
{"by":"Reedge","time":"1281551305","timestamp":"2010-08-11 18:28:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We do not promise conversion rates but its always possible to prove or disprove hypothesis that people have on changes on the site. So its worth something to know that your new homepage is lowering conversion.\u003cp\u003eBut its true that that will not justify becoming a reedge.com client eventually. People wanna see double figure improvements. So this gonna be a hard one.\u003cp\u003eBut we will see on the way how people use reedge.com and see how the positioning of the product will go. Its now Conversion Rate Optimizing, but maybe geo-targeting, analytics, funnel optimization or whatever is the way to go... we will refocus.","parent":"1595105","id":"1595554"}
{"by":"deelowe","time":"1446125276","timestamp":"2015-10-29 13:27:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Apps that do controversial things with respect to Apple or Google seem to get rejected for seemingly random technical reasons a lot.\u003cp\u003eThis is regarding the chrome web store, not the play store. Also, I\u0026#x27;m aware of Apple taking a pretty heavy handed approach, but I\u0026#x27;m not convinced Google has a history of this.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; What does it even mean for code in a packaged program to be \u0026quot;visible\u0026quot;? It should be invisible! That\u0026#x27;s the whole point of packaging!\u003cp\u003ePerhaps you are assuming this is the play store instead of the chrome web store? Web store apps are just web pages. They want to ensure the packages are easy to inspect and understand. It\u0026#x27;s a rule that appears to be attempting to maintain open web standards. Given that this is HN, I assume that\u0026#x27;s enough of a justification for anyone reading this comment.","parent":"10470716","id":"10470784"}
{"by":"shittyanalogy","time":"1393481863","timestamp":"2014-02-27 06:17:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think you honestly want to know \u0026quot;what scenarios people actually think will play out\u0026quot; and that you question this way solely for the sake of argument. I think you have your mind made up and would rather snark at people that have an opposing opinion.\u003cp\u003eThat being said, it\u0026#x27;s no stretch to understand that some people just don\u0026#x27;t want to volunteer personal information especially originating from software.\u003cp\u003eThere are enormous trust implications with any sort of software that phones home for any reason. And if the software source code isn\u0026#x27;t publicly auditable it can be impossible to actually verify what information is being sent from your machine. I personally don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s possible to actually \u003ci\u003etrust\u003c/i\u003e closed source software. I don\u0026#x27;t care that it\u0026#x27;s socially normal to ignore your personal computing privacy. I care about mine.","parent":"7310007","id":"7310681"}
{"by":"fred-r","time":"1284472703","timestamp":"2010-09-14 13:58:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nerd erotica.","parent":"1690001","id":"1690551"}
{"by":"t3ra","time":"1477998408","timestamp":"2016-11-01 11:06:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably the site got HN-ed. Timing out for me as well","parent":"12844651","id":"12844665"}
{"by":"sergiotapia","time":"1377647504","timestamp":"2013-08-27 23:51:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if it\u0026#x27;s cognitive bias or what; but I\u0026#x27;ve been using my iMac for about 5 months now, and the small keyboard that comes with it is fantastic. My wrists don\u0026#x27;t hurt, and the keys are crisp and clear to touch type on.\u003cp\u003e$150 for a keyboard is really steep.","parent":"6286735","id":"6287121"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1478797218","timestamp":"2016-11-10 17:00:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What do you have to say about the women who voted for Trump. Do they support molesting themselves?\u003cp\u003eThey are feeling relatively safe from molestation. That good. They like to think it\u0026#x27;s because they are keeping themselves safe. If it\u0026#x27;s their doing then they\u0026#x27;re in control. So it feels good to them to blame women for their assaults and to believe that men like Trump aren\u0026#x27;t doing anything. It makes the world feel safer.\u003cp\u003eThe liberal position, that men like Trump do sexually assault people, and that rape is common, and your friends might do it to you, and you should probably believe rape accusations by default, is much scarier. Many women would rather not believe it if they can avoid it.\u003cp\u003eWomen with a LOT of privilege can safely believe it because they can use their prvilege (money etc) to stay safe. Women who are forced to be in unsafe positions can believe it, because they see how common sexual assault is. They are on the front line. Those two groups make up the feminist core.\u003cp\u003eBut there are a lot of women who are just trying to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the rape scene, and for them it\u0026#x27;s a bit of an abstract matter.","parent":"12914869","id":"12922053"}
{"by":"maccard","time":"1387290015","timestamp":"2013-12-17 14:20:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;and yet they\u0026#x27;re demanding take-down notices of such pre-prints hosted on 3rd party machines. \nIn the contract you sign, it\u0026#x27;s clearly stated you can\u0026#x27;t upload your manuscript to 3rd party distribution sites, other than arxiv. Don\u0026#x27;t get me wrong here, I\u0026#x27;m not keen on what they\u0026#x27;re doing, but they\u0026#x27;re staying within their contracts.","parent":"6920683","id":"6921182"}
{"by":"briandoll","time":"1280966188","timestamp":"2010-08-04 23:56:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Is there significant support amongst the intelligentsia for nixing laws like the Espionage Act and Official Secrets Act that the government and military rely on?\"\u003cp\u003eIt's not that there is widespread support for nixing those laws, but since the US government has been using those laws rather broadly (most notably during the invasion of Iraq), I'd say there is support for revising those laws.\u003cp\u003eLaws that protect secrets are a sort of Schrödinger's cat, though, in that in order to decide if they are a secret, you have to know the secret.  So all government declared secrets are both secrets and non-secrets at the same time.\u003cp\u003eIt will be a long time before the Iraq invasion documents are declassified, far too long from now to consider it ammo for those that want a more transparent government.\u003cp\u003eI'm not defending Wikileaks nor their supporters necessarily, but I would guess that this is the link of thinking with exposing (some of) these documents.  For some documents, clearly they are exposing things just to provoke people and draw media attention, for which they have been insanely successful.","parent":"1576476","id":"1576530"}
{"by":"biggestlou","time":"1483554342","timestamp":"2017-01-04 18:25:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Important note: these reports are accessible only by you, the user. They are not publicly available.","parent":"13320701","id":"13320722"}
{"by":"nicoburns","time":"1544125562","timestamp":"2018-12-06 19:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e upside to going public if you\u0026#x27;re profitable is to get a quick injection. The IMO massive downside is that you\u0026#x27;ve just lost control of your company.","parent":"18618635","id":"18621378"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1359041725","timestamp":"2013-01-24 15:35:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As phones become[1] no longer subsidized by network operators in the United States, this will become a non-issue.\u003cp\u003e[1] EDIT: I changed the former word \"are\" to \"become\" for clarity. What I mean, as some readers picked up and some did not, is that I expect United States mobile phone networks to get out of the business of selling mobile handsets at a heavily subsidized price (as is current practice in the United States), and thus get out of the business of needing to lock in contracts to gain revenue to cover the up-front cost of the subsidy. When handsets are sold at near full list price, the networks can charge just their network costs to customers who are free to shop with unlocked phones. The United States market is confusing in having different technical standards for basic voice phone service on different networks, but the networks are converging on similar technical standards for their data networks, so eventually most smart phone users will be able to shop for networks here.","parent":"5109847","id":"5110018"}
{"by":"MaxBarraclough","time":"1531996624","timestamp":"2018-07-19 10:37:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; This means that for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit.\u003cp\u003eAcid test: can I build it myself and expect to see identical binaries to what they ship?","parent":"17565067","id":"17565120"}
{"by":"bandrami","time":"1480086941","timestamp":"2016-11-25 15:15:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;All the mathematics you missed but need to know for graduate school\u0026quot;[1] helped me a lot (and, in fact, I had and did).\u003cp\u003eOnce I had finished that, Cullen\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;Matrices and linear transformations\u0026quot;[2] was really helpful too. But I wouldn\u0026#x27;t do Cullen if you\u0026#x27;re still, as I was, floundering with the concepts of why you\u0026#x27;re doing this in the first place. It\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003egreat\u003c/i\u003e once you have those concepts down.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;All-Mathematics-You-Missed-Graduate\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0521797071\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;All-Mathematics-You-Missed-Graduate\u0026#x2F;d...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;store.doverpublications.com\u0026#x2F;0486663280.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;store.doverpublications.com\u0026#x2F;0486663280.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13037000","id":"13037253"}
{"by":"rgbrgb","time":"1467872703","timestamp":"2016-07-07 06:25:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, what\u0026#x27;s your secret to such fast builds? We\u0026#x27;re at ~35 minutes to build and test our rails monolith on Wercker. I\u0026#x27;m guessing you\u0026#x27;re not hitting a db too much or loading phantomjs for end-to-end tests of a web ui?","parent":"12047619","id":"12047795"}
{"by":"CydeWeys","time":"1476844158","timestamp":"2016-10-19 02:29:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I could imagine suburban companies needing to open urban satellite offices to be able to retain talent\u003cp\u003eThis change is well under way.  I\u0026#x27;m in Manhattan and a good number of tech companies have large offices here, most prominently Google.","parent":"12740517","id":"12740531"}
{"by":"huherto","time":"1276631600","timestamp":"2010-06-15 19:53:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We couldn't fork; it turns out that mygwt was not really LGPL as it was originally stated. We couldn't even use the old versions.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/2918164133ac9b2e\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thr...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not about the money. It is about changing the license after you've made a big commitment.","parent":"1433203","id":"1433686"}
{"by":"splat","time":"1339447955","timestamp":"2012-06-11 20:52:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A million photons would be overkill for a solid detection.  A standard CCD saturates at about 65,000 counts (or about that many photons, assuming the efficiency is high).  A source that is detected well enough to do interesting measurements usually has a ~1000 - 20,000 photons per pixel.  Spread out over ~15 pixels, a good detection could require as few as ~15,000 photons.\u003cp\u003eIn this particular application it would be more difficult since you not only have to detect the source on its own, you have to block out the glare from the parent star.  Usually the main problem in this sort of work is making sure that the source you are detecting is actually a real thing and is not just an artifact from the way you block out the light from the parent star.","parent":"4096835","id":"4096897"}
{"by":"hiou","time":"1462371396","timestamp":"2016-05-04 14:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many artists peak in their early thirties after about a decade of constant practice and work. There are many hormonal and social changes that occur after that point which make creative paths more difficult. Certainly not impossible but I certainly wouldn\u0026#x27;t consider doing those later as simple as it sounds on paper based upon financial means.","parent":"11628118","id":"11628494"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1436880436","timestamp":"2015-07-14 13:27:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;In the \u0026quot;flyover country\u0026quot; where you DON\u0026#x27;T get big city salaries\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSure you do.  I could expect at absolute most a 25% pay raise if I moved to CA.  Its not worth it.  The ratio in cost of living might be 10:1 but the ratio in income is more like 5:4 or so.","parent":"9882155","id":"9884671"}
{"by":"joering2","time":"1338907163","timestamp":"2012-06-05 14:39:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are so many things wrong with your post that I don't know where to start..\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Agreed. Facebook could do everything.\u003cp\u003eno they can't. They can't turn to hot-dog seller. Sure they can try, but every time they try to do something other than social networking, they will be losing users.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Ads: I don’t know about any platform that will be able to show ads to (soon) +1B people.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't matter to how many people they can show ads. What matters is that how much value out of ads the advertisers can get (conversion?). More and more of my friend try to advertise with FB once, and then stop. The bottom line: FB ads don't work! And its not Facebook fault! Its that they are in business of connecting people, not advertising products. By now, 99% of Facebook users' brains are automatically coded to ignore ads on the website, regardless how intrusive those ads get. At some point, one of my friend, totally non-tech-savvy actually searched for ad blocker, found it and successfully installed, because she was so annoyed with ads. The biggest FB Ads weapon, so called \"likes\" do not work either. I \"like\" Ferrari, but what does it means? I like fast cars? I like racing cars? I like Ferrari as a brand, or do I actually own Ferrari? Or am I planning to buy one. Because for advertisers, there is a huge difference. Google solves this problem via their core product: search. Wanna buy Ferrari? search \"buy used Ferrari\" or \"Ferrari prices\". Need parts for Ferrari? You search for parts. Facebook has no way of knowing any of these from simple \"Ferrari like\", which makes \"likes\" irrelevant to Advertisers. Even recently GM withdraw $10MM of Ads founds. You know, they have entire Ad department, so they know what they doing.\u003cp\u003eBottom line: show me 10 successful advertisers on Facebook, but other than Zynga or \"lose 20 pounds quickly\" scams.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Platform/Apps: They have built one of the biggest platforms with 9MM apps. Third-party apps integration and the entire FB platform is just one the most powerful things on the internet.\u003cp\u003eWell, I don't know about powerfullness, but the main reason behind FB connect is people's laziness to create another username/password. Other than that, there is not much value in connecting any Platform/App with your Facebook account. I have some friends that lost connections because they let SocialCam or other garbage to spam their wall without their direct knowledge of how this connection with FB will work. So more and more users trust less in connecting their FB with Platform Apps.\u003cp\u003eFurther, Apps on Facebook do not make money. What was the last time you or anyone you know bought an Facebook app for 99cents, versus Apple App Store App? There will always be a higher quality of Apps on apple because guess what: surprise surprise! - developers like to be paid for their hard work. I won't even comment on your \"facebook ecosystem may be more powerful than Apple\". I know you were joking!\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Specific APIs: There is some sort of overlap between APIs and FB platform. As of today all FB APIs are free. But I don’t believe in giving for free additional value will last forever.\u003cp\u003eWell, there is not much money one can make on specific API. Sure, if an average developer makes $1,000 bucks on connecting with FB Api, then they will start charging. But as of now, there is no monetary value to use their API. That's why its free. They won't convert it to paid unless people will start benefiting off of it (make money); otherwise they would chop off the tree they sitting on.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Coupons/Deals: They failed here, but they will not give up.\u003cp\u003eHow do you know they will not give up? do you have any insights? Also, don't forget if Ads on mobile will get too intrusive with deals popping up every time I am around Verizon and simply want to check friends feed, people will start to disabling their location. Because - once again: Facebook main core product is social network, not apis, not deals and coupons, not credits! network of connected friends!\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Facebook Credits/Payments: I believe this is going to be a tremendous revenue stream over the years.\u003cp\u003eOk, you believe in that. I believe in unicorns pooping out golden bricks. Yet you have not explain why you so strongly believe in that. With all those payment systems coming up (not to mention PayPal still strong?), but Stripe, Dwolla, even GumRoad, I think they will be in hot water here. And actually their FB connection api works against them. GumRoad adds Facebook Integration and viola! why on earth would I use Facebook Credits if all my friends are bragging how awesome GumRoad is, plus I can connect to it using my Facebook!\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Much more: there are a tons of things that they can do, from user subscriptions (imagine having just 10% of the users paying $9/month to access premium services);\u003cp\u003eWell, Imagine opening a shoe factory; there are 6B people and most wear shoes. If you only capture 1% of the market and sell 1 pair of shoes 1 times a year for $15, that's $900MM in revenues per year!! so how come I don't see shoe factories popping up everywhere?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Facebook is basically becoming a new kind of telco.\u003cp\u003euhm, you sound little late to the party. Where have you been for last 4 years?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Facebook is speed. A new version of Facebook is released every Tuesday, there are 12,000 modifications per month, more than 1000 developers deliver code to be released each week. Facebook average employee is 26 years-old.\u003cp\u003eAll those things are irrelevant to whether they can make money or not. How come you didn't comment on how CEO was scared of growing Instagram (competitor) and had to overtake it at any means necessary ($1B thats a lot, they can only make 15 more deals like that, given they would use all their money for acquisition).\u003cp\u003eAnd last but not least: they stock performance tells it all. I don't have to add much here, I hope.","parent":"4068006","dead":true,"id":"4068798"}
{"by":"grx","time":"1491576554","timestamp":"2017-04-07 14:49:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;nothing is more important to democracy than an educated electorate\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYou would do a great service to the privacy scene by not using Google Docs for sign up forms! (Or in general..)","parent":"14056893","id":"14060116"}
{"by":"muzani","time":"1502234787","timestamp":"2017-08-08 23:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds like you would get 40k cash then but have to look for a new job. I don\u0026#x27;t see it as a bad deal.","parent":"14963730","id":"14963975"}
{"by":"dep_b","time":"1518564912","timestamp":"2018-02-13 23:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True. But for Objective-C I often used the NY Times style guide. Just whatever the one is that is the most complete and most easy to maintain really. But I notice with C# that if I copy-paste reasonably fresh code from Stack Overflow to VS + RS I sometimes get zero warnings because the other programmer uses exactly the same toolchain and style. Same goes for Python PEP8 in PyCharm. Personally I like the idea of having a strong similarity in code style within an ecosystem, especially when dealing with libraries that more or less follow the same conventions as the code that I wrote myself.","parent":"16370097","id":"16371971"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1476898356","timestamp":"2016-10-19 17:32:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t uninstall Google Apps without the same level of difficulty of removing Samsung\u0026#x27;s apps, they both live in the system partition.","parent":"12742509","id":"12745797"}
{"by":"bradleyprice","time":"1459627305","timestamp":"2016-04-02 20:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was my thought as well. I\u0026#x27;m not even sure how to judge this article. It seems very misinformed with making assumptions without any supporting evidence on how we get there.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s true that automation would bring in new jobs, but not the jobs that the people affected would be able to jump into.\u003cp\u003eAs far as the whole child care and home health jobs go, I\u0026#x27;m not sure there would be a mass influx of opportunities there.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if I\u0026#x27;ve ever personally seen employees at a daycare making much more than minimum wage and there\u0026#x27;s already a thin margin with daycares. So, I\u0026#x27;d think they\u0026#x27;d be in same trouble as a restaurant employee.","parent":"11413037","id":"11413117"}
{"by":"harryh","time":"1400209029","timestamp":"2014-05-16 02:57:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds like you\u0026#x27;re being intentionally obtuse to be honest.","parent":"7753455","id":"7753493"}
{"by":"andreasvc","time":"1384813577","timestamp":"2013-11-18 22:26:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I reckon because pointer-based trees are very slow compared to array-based data structures; these are constant factors due to memory accesses so they have nothing to do with the average and worst case performance you mention. For databases b-trees are appropriate, but for most uses of associative data structures hash tables are just very hard to beat.","parent":"6755792","id":"6757619"}
{"by":"thinkingisfun","time":"1345336858","timestamp":"2012-08-19 00:40:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html#POLICY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html#POLICY\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(1) The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.\u003cp\u003e(2) The improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and space vehicles.\u003cp\u003e(3) The development and operation of vehicles capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies, and living organisms through space.\u003cp\u003e(4) The establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific purposes.\u003cp\u003e(5) The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere.\u003cp\u003e(6) The making available to agencies directly concerned with national defense of discoveries that have military value or significance, and the furnishing by such agencies, to the civilian agency established to direct and control nonmilitary aeronautical and space activities, of information as to discoveries which have value or significance to that agency.\u003cp\u003e(7) Cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this chapter and in the peaceful application of the results thereof.\u003cp\u003e(8) The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the United States, with close cooperation among all interested agencies of the United States in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment.\u003cp\u003e(9) The preservation of the United States preeminent position in aeronautics and space through research and technology development related to associated manufacturing processes.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI personally would categorize the above as follows, not that I gave it much thought:\u003cp\u003e1 = science\u003cp\u003e2 = could go either way\u003cp\u003e3 = could go either way\u003cp\u003e4 = science, peace\u003cp\u003e5 = dominance\u003cp\u003e6 = dominance, specifically military\u003cp\u003e7 = could go either way, science, peace\u003cp\u003e8 = efficiency (which I'll file under dominance, too)\u003cp\u003e9 = dominance\u003cp\u003efinal scores:\u003cp\u003escience: 3\u003cp\u003epeace: 2\u003cp\u003eneither/nor: 3\u003cp\u003edominance: 4","parent":"4402656","id":"4402808"}
{"by":"mtmail","time":"1510323214","timestamp":"2017-11-10 14:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The person asking the question is running a \u0026quot;social music network where u can connect your music with your friends\u0026quot; mobile app (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15669015\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15669015\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"15669925","id":"15669961"}
{"by":"jorgeortiz85","time":"1378411382","timestamp":"2013-09-05 20:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it harder to sneak in junk in open source projects? I\u0026#x27;m reminded of Ken Thompson\u0026#x27;s Turing Award lecture, \u0026quot;Reflections on Trusting Trust\u0026quot;. \u003ca href=\"http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cm.bell-labs.com\u0026#x2F;who\u0026#x2F;ken\u0026#x2F;trust.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould someone add a backdoor to git that hides backdoors from showing up in git? Could gcc be backdoored to add backdoors to arbitrary software? How likely is it that NSA has a few zero-days lying around they could use to hack into the servers that host git or gcc or any other tool you rely on? What if they had agents among the committers and maintainers of these projects?\u003cp\u003eSecurity against a well-armed, well-funded, well-organized, secretive adversary is hard.","parent":"6336470","id":"6336568"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1476215442","timestamp":"2016-10-11 19:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then the attacker would push that configuration change before DDoSing someone.","parent":"12687328","id":"12687953"}
{"by":"MisterWebz","time":"1372683098","timestamp":"2013-07-01 12:51:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure about smartphones, but IIRC, my old cellphone used to ring any alarm that was set even if the phone was completely turned off.","parent":"5970018","id":"5970234"}
{"by":"scandox","time":"1455139939","timestamp":"2016-02-10 21:32:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m curious why the author\u0026#x27;s agent didn\u0026#x27;t just approach other mainstream publishers with it. After all, if he\u0026#x27;s a critical and commercial success with HarperCollins then it\u0026#x27;s very likely that someone, somewhere will take a serious interest. Now I know that the publishing world has conglomerated a lot in the last 20 years...but still there are other players.\u003cp\u003eedit: and editors at other imprints owned by the same group will often take a different view.","parent":"11075826","id":"11076201"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1463249260","timestamp":"2016-05-14 18:07:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But it \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a fault of Literate Haskell, which doesn\u0026#x27;t provide mechanisms allowing you to put them elsewhere.","parent":"11697291","id":"11697322"}
{"by":"groby_b","time":"1364341331","timestamp":"2013-03-26 23:42:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a woman in tech - the existence of role models is important. They often get lost in the noise. Having them pointed out in a separate post is nice. It's not like they're taking away precious bits from male founders :)\u003cp\u003eAnd our industry sure could use a bit more diversity, so attracting non-male (and/or non-white) people to work in it is a good idea.\u003cp\u003eAnd I'm not saying that because it'd be nice to have a few more women around, so things wouldn't be quite as lonely - there's a clear benefit to diversity. See e.g. \u003ca href=\"https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenArticle\u0026#38;aoid=360157\u0026#38;lang=EN\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://infocus.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuse...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy it is especially important in areas that require innovation: \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/hr_neale_groupdiversity.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/hr_neale_groupdive...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5446448","id":"5446763"}
{"by":"icey","time":"1251344071","timestamp":"2009-08-27 03:34:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you say it's more or less drastic than learning emacs? I'm going to go with less drastic.","parent":"788564","id":"788576"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1372105519","timestamp":"2013-06-24 20:25:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Two notes:\u003cp\u003e(1) While Google uses forward-security on their HTTPS connections, I\u0026#x27;ve not yet seen evidence either way as to whether the SMTP-TLS connections (relaying email to other domains) use forward-security. (The report at checktls.com mentions only the cipher \u0026quot;RC4-SHA\u0026quot;, not the key-exchange mechanism.)\u003cp\u003e(2) If one side of the connection chooses to retain its session keys, or chooses session keys in a poor\u0026#x2F;predictable manner, or leaks information about session keys via a side-channel (either by mistake or intent), then the forward-security could be destroyed, and in a very subtle\u0026#x2F;undetectable way.\u003cp\u003e(This could be a cheap and sly way to grant visibility to a third-party: adopt forward-security outwardly, but ensure your session keys only look random to people who don\u0026#x27;t know the bug\u0026#x2F;secret-seed-shared-with-the-third-party.)","parent":"5933784","id":"5935428"}
{"by":"dangrossman","time":"1366472333","timestamp":"2013-04-20 15:38:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Issuing a take-down notice for content you do not own should result in large fines\u003cp\u003eIt effectively does. The DMCA makes damages, costs and attorneys fees mandatory for material misrepresentations. Doctorow can sue at no cost to himself, while Fox would be out a significant amount of money in two sets of attorneys fees plus whatever damages Doctorow can show this caused to his sales.","parent":"5581671","id":"5581711"}
{"by":"qaq","time":"1541293450","timestamp":"2018-11-04 01:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Defense, IT (3d after SF and NYC by number of devs)","parent":"18372916","id":"18373415"}
{"by":"geezerjay","time":"1519669506","timestamp":"2018-02-26 18:25:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a sweeping geneealization. More often than noy, those nifty, pristine posts with corrext syntax and grammar are the work of editors who clean them up.","parent":"16467486","id":"16467624"}
{"by":"billybob","time":"1301325246","timestamp":"2011-03-28 15:14:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it better to force banks into smaller entities, exerting government control over the marketplace, or let their investors lose their pants when the banks take stupid risks, allowing the marketplace to correct itself?","parent":"2375719","id":"2378624"}
{"by":"socratees","time":"1242353300","timestamp":"2009-05-15 02:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://identi.ca/notice/4231184\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://identi.ca/notice/4231184\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"609895","id":"609897"}
{"by":"ra","time":"1317206674","timestamp":"2011-09-28 10:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a word, licencing.\u003cp\u003eWebOS isn't open source, and is never likely to be.","parent":"3047240","id":"3047251"}
{"by":"meric","time":"1358161059","timestamp":"2013-01-14 10:57:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I am upset that we have a justice system that would persecute me the way it did Aaron.\"\u003cp\u003eBut it wouldn't, because we allow our fears to convince us to keep our thoughts to ourselves. And I am upset the very persons who are courageous enough to fight for our interest are eliminated, leaving us.","parent":"5053895","id":"5054155"}
{"by":"undershirt","time":"1426116146","timestamp":"2015-03-11 23:22:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! it was years ago I made these.  The interactive ones are made in just straight Raphael.js (in js\u0026#x2F;1dscreen.coffee).  The cube animations are just plain canvas (in js\u0026#x2F;iso3d.js)","parent":"9187968","id":"9188147"}
{"by":"wingerlang","time":"1458821995","timestamp":"2016-03-24 12:19:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I made an app over a year ago that has ~3 DAU.\u003cp\u003eAnother pings back every 3 days (if they reboot) and each day I get ~500-700 pings on the newest version. 1000 if I include the old one.","parent":"11346466","id":"11352181"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1521948512","timestamp":"2018-03-25 03:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; a survey of the happiness\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not possible to measure happiness by asking people.\u003cp\u003eI remember reading a study about, maybe someone can find it.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing you can measure (or ask about) are proxies to happiness.","parent":"16670467","id":"16670545"}
{"by":"lowlevel","time":"1521011359","timestamp":"2018-03-14 07:09:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I encounter this closed-minded opinion all the time... some of us just can’t live with a ‘might not work on Tuesday’ computer. I’ve purchased over 200 laptops with Windows 7 downgrade this year. I throw the windows 10 discs right in the trash. I imagine I am not alone.","parent":"16582861","id":"16582907"}
{"by":"atomical","time":"1444912027","timestamp":"2015-10-15 12:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nutritionfacts.org\u0026#x2F;video\u0026#x2F;egg-cholesterol-in-the-diet\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nutritionfacts.org\u0026#x2F;video\u0026#x2F;egg-cholesterol-in-the-diet\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterally? Or imaginatively?","parent":"10391367","id":"10392692"}
{"by":"natrius","time":"1457160273","timestamp":"2016-03-05 06:44:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ignoring the companies that onboard almost all new users and process transactions for most merchants sounds like a bad idea. But whatever, it\u0026#x27;s clear at this point that Ethereum will be how most people interact with blockchains for the first time. Anyone who wants to ignore the drama should pick up the docs and start building cool stuff with us.","parent":"11228638","id":"11228685"}
{"by":"richo","time":"1325813400","timestamp":"2012-01-06 01:30:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use my Geeks circle on G+, a few close friends on IRC and there are a couple of close friends I'll call in a pinch.\u003cp\u003eAlthough are we talking about geeky ideas or life crap?","parent":"3431487","id":"3431494"}
{"by":"JackFr","time":"1512145227","timestamp":"2017-12-01 16:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who is pulling the strings!!!!","parent":"15824753","id":"15824791"}
{"by":"vertex-four","time":"1467620623","timestamp":"2016-07-04 08:23:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a protocol implementation in development which looks somewhat like this (minus the \u0026quot;delete this\u0026quot; part, I just keep my Peers in a bunch of vectors and remove them from those, Rc then drops it when the function ends and nobody is capable of accessing it), as part of a protocol implementation. Turns out it\u0026#x27;s relatively easy - it\u0026#x27;s what the Rc\u0026lt;RefCell\u0026lt;T\u0026gt;\u0026gt; type is for.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m coming from Python, so the odd simple integer\u0026#x2F;boolean check (what Rc and RefCell come down to) aren\u0026#x27;t an issue for me - they might be for you depending on what you\u0026#x27;re writing, I suppose, although 99% of the time they\u0026#x27;re not going to be what you need to optimise.\u003cp\u003eHowever - Rust is not an object-oriented language. This sort of design isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily what you want to be using. In your particular case, what you\u0026#x27;d probably want is the EventLoop owning the Socket and MyClient, callbacking MyClient directly, and allowing MyClient\u0026#x27;s callback to return a value describing whether to destroy it or not. Libraries like rotor[0] do exactly this.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tailhook\u0026#x2F;rotor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tailhook\u0026#x2F;rotor\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12029238","id":"12029436"}
{"by":"appstateguy","time":"1526320880","timestamp":"2018-05-14 18:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked with a recruiter once and the way she treated me like an object to sling around to make her commission turned me off to the entire recruiting industry. I refuse to work with them again.","parent":"17067585","id":"17067817"}
{"by":"Tharkun","time":"1481212818","timestamp":"2016-12-08 16:00:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Power is three times as expensive over here. It\u0026#x27;s a very poor trade.","parent":"13116112","id":"13131138"}
{"by":"Samuel_Michon","time":"1311811972","timestamp":"2011-07-28 00:12:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...or one could use a credit card with a low limit when making online purchases, just like one would use a separate email account for spammy retailers and web services. Besides, the various issues with Paypal should be known to all by now — no one should \u003ci\u003eever\u003c/i\u003e link a bank account to Paypal.","parent":"2814704","id":"2814832"}
{"by":"spectrum1234","time":"1473970275","timestamp":"2016-09-15 20:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A CEO\u0026#x27;s job is strategy. All these other replies are wrong.","parent":"12508800","id":"12509428"}
{"by":"DenisM","time":"1538850737","timestamp":"2018-10-06 18:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does intermittent fasting count as real fasting?","parent":"18155973","id":"18156513"}
{"by":"noelwelsh","time":"1316899602","timestamp":"2011-09-24 21:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want details on the tech. go read some of John Langford's publications (\u003ca href=\"http://research.yahoo.com/John_Langford\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://research.yahoo.com/John_Langford\u003c/a\u003e) and the rest of the Machine Learning group at Yahoo (\u003ca href=\"http://research.yahoo.com/Machine_Learning\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://research.yahoo.com/Machine_Learning\u003c/a\u003e). I sometimes joke that Myna (\u003ca href=\"http://www.mynaweb.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.mynaweb.com\u003c/a\u003e -- ob plug for my startup!) should be renamed the John Langford Appreciation Society.","parent":"3033544","id":"3034374"}
{"by":"digerata","time":"1432056887","timestamp":"2015-05-19 17:34:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems awesome.  I couldn\u0026#x27;t see from the blog post, but how does it handle loading development data sets?","parent":"9571550","id":"9571740"}
{"by":"jsz0","time":"1263868263","timestamp":"2010-01-19 02:31:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good example of how far reaching bad choices can be for a company. IE6 had a quirky embraced \u0026#38; extended implementation of web standards and, at the time, ActiveX was still being actively pushed as an Internet lock-in to the Windows platform. Almost a decade later we're still dealing with the fallout from it because many corporate web apps are still tied to IE6.","parent":"1061199","id":"1061333"}
{"by":"AznHisoka","time":"1344914319","timestamp":"2012-08-14 03:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's going to be a self-fulfilling conspiracy. All this talk about how it's gonna succeed, and how noone understands it.. sooner or later, some misled company like FB or Google will just acqui-hire App.net for millions of dollars because everyone is talking about it.","parent":"4379201","id":"4379218"}
{"by":"xenihn","time":"1485280513","timestamp":"2017-01-24 17:55:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out the books from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;minireference.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;minireference.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e, I\u0026#x27;m currently going through them.","parent":"13472333","id":"13473713"}
{"by":"revorad","time":"1316419607","timestamp":"2011-09-19 08:06:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This made me realise there should be a service which translates Terms of Service documents to human-readable bullet-points. Most people, myself included, are unlikely to start reading these annoying documents, but if there was a place which highlighted important aspects (like the OP does), then we are much more likely to pay attention.\u003cp\u003eYC-funded MarketBrief is doing this for SEC documents. Is there anything that does it for ToS?","parent":"3012637","id":"3012739"}
{"by":"CalinBalauru","time":"1350591947","timestamp":"2012-10-18 20:25:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although 'never' is a very hard word, I found that in real live most code that uses early exists simply breaks SRP (come to think of it 99% of the time that is the case)\u003cp\u003eI know people will say \"but I will only write this little return statement here\" before you know it you will \"add this little assignment before it returns\" ...\u003cp\u003eNever might be strong but it make a very  good point.","parent":"4627772","id":"4670883"}
{"by":"duh","time":"1258176738","timestamp":"2009-11-14 05:32:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Might want to add that I pay myself about 50 grand a year beyond business expenses (which admittedly covers my \"luxuries\" - mostly my auto lease and eating out).  Without leveraged overhead (mortgage, student loans, business loans, credit card, etc) it's surprising how little money I need to live a comfortable life.","parent":"941324","id":"941458"}
{"by":"gdwatson","time":"1440702330","timestamp":"2015-08-27 19:05:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t the design philosophy of a complex piece of software matter?  Doesn\u0026#x27;t consistency of philosophy provide power by enabling separate pieces to integrate smoothly?\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a legitimate discussion about tradeoffs to be had, sure.  But at least since Fred Brooks it\u0026#x27;s been quite clear that conceptual integrity is valuable.  And the concepts behind Unix have been shown to be consistent and powerful; Plan 9 demonstrated that there\u0026#x27;s still unexploited potential there.\u003cp\u003eThe Unix philosophy argument may be wrong in a particular case, but it shouldn\u0026#x27;t be derisively dismissed.","parent":"10127409","id":"10131369"}
{"by":"maverick_iceman","time":"1491737921","timestamp":"2017-04-09 11:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not an American and I completely support Uber. They did a great thing to break up the taxi cartel. Most of these laws are results of regulatory capture. They lead to an inefficient market and price gouging.\u003cp\u003eAlso just because a law is in the law book doesn\u0026#x27;t make it sacrosanct. Think about the Jim Crow laws before the Civil Rights movement.","parent":"14071140","id":"14071777"}
{"by":"caela_ielle","time":"1321932894","timestamp":"2011-11-22 03:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any commentary on whether or not picking up debris is a problem?","parent":"3262875","id":"3263952"}
{"by":"nirajan94","time":"1477326996","timestamp":"2016-10-24 16:36:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very Nice","parent":"12752414","id":"12780381"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1344534696","timestamp":"2012-08-09 17:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found this: \u003ca href=\"http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=702\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=702\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4362061","id":"4362270"}
{"by":"merqurio","time":"1491340581","timestamp":"2017-04-04 21:16:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wow, that\u0026#x27;s really cool. Why is it cheaper than normal wind turbines ? Maintaining drones that take off and land autonomously sounds expensive\u003cp\u003eI really like the idea of low environmental impact","parent":"14037219","id":"14037294"}
{"by":"rm_-rf_slash","time":"1544565330","timestamp":"2018-12-11 21:55:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I too read Atlas Shrugged as a teenager.","parent":"18659199","id":"18659308"}
{"by":"nirav","time":"1317864979","timestamp":"2011-10-06 01:36:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"R.I.P. Steve, You inspired many of us to rise above and beyond what we would have been otherwise...","parent":"3078128","id":"3078620"}
{"by":"aston","time":"1225485485","timestamp":"2008-10-31 20:38:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of Facebook's man power is in customer support (which also involves community moderation). When you have more than a hundred million users worldwide, there's a lot of work to go around in that area. And I guess they're not outsourcing much of it.","parent":"350181","id":"350337"}
{"by":"jmathai","time":"1389773525","timestamp":"2014-01-15 08:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right now my photos are stored in Trovebox into my personal S3 bucket. I have a script that mirrors down to my local NAS (photo file + meta data from API).\u003cp\u003eMy videos are stored in BitCasa\u0026#x27;s Infinite Drive and a copy is also on my local NAS.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: Work @ Trovebox","parent":"7060933","id":"7062209"}
{"by":"oli5679","time":"1460129743","timestamp":"2016-04-08 15:35:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yesterday I tried to read a Forbes article on my mobile. It presented me with the banner asking me to turn ad-blocker off (which I haven\u0026#x27;t installed). I reloaded the page and was faced with pop-ups claiming I had won free Amazon products.","parent":"11455031","id":"11455398"}
{"by":"wangluxiaoyu","time":"1289836620","timestamp":"2010-11-15 15:57:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unrestricted music transfer over IPv6?\u003cp\u003eI'll enjoy the fantasy for today at least.","parent":"1906560","id":"1906655"}
{"by":"vipa123","time":"1546905489","timestamp":"2019-01-07 23:58:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this not simply a reflection of which companies are willing to pay, or sponsor, Instagram with the most money? Or is this a concerted effort by Instagram, or society in general, to only accept ads of this nature? Should Instagram require a diverse set of advertisers\u0026#x2F;sponsors? Even it means that they will generate less revenue?","parent":"18851206","id":"18851595"}
{"by":"TulliusCicero","time":"1478814408","timestamp":"2016-11-10 21:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to this, the median rent in NYC is like $3200\u0026#x2F;month: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.de\u0026#x2F;median-rent-new-york-city-across-us-2016-3?r=US\u0026amp;IR=T\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.de\u0026#x2F;median-rent-new-york-city-acro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12923260","id":"12924718"}
{"by":"neonate","time":"1522966941","timestamp":"2018-04-05 22:22:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;CCY8Y\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;CCY8Y\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16768744","id":"16769296"}
{"by":"nunobrito","time":"1499603150","timestamp":"2017-07-09 12:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, excellent docs. Really loved seeing a diagram with a legend explaining what each arrow is doing, plus the finite state machine. You don\u0026#x27;t see that level of engineering so often. Thanks for sharing.\u003cp\u003ebtw. Would just recommend to specify the GPL version explicitly it is just mentioned \u0026quot;GPL\u0026quot; and that could be version 1, 2 or 3 which are different in requirements, for example: GPL-3.0 or if you want to make it forward compatible with future licenses, just choose GPL-3.0+","parent":"14729075","id":"14729417"}
{"by":"fmap","time":"1524758281","timestamp":"2018-04-26 15:58:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes! Functional or imperative programming makes no difference in his challenge problems.\u003cp\u003eTail recursive functions and loops are the same thing. Proving a loop correct using invariants and showing (partial) correctness for a tail recursive function by (functional) induction are the same thing.","parent":"16929599","id":"16933041"}
{"by":"pokemongoaway","time":"1539296725","timestamp":"2018-10-11 22:25:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the article:\n\u0026quot;... And in Trump, that’s saying a lot, because he has a number of pretty bad sides.\u0026quot;\n\u0026quot;... and then the Trump election really nailed it home that something was changing in society, and in a way that was potentially going to get worse and worse and weirder and weirder.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also an article called:\n\u0026quot;Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAnd from his book: \u0026quot;Who Owns the Future\u0026quot; he says:\u003cp\u003e“Saving the Winners from Themselves:\nIs the present trend really a benefit for those who run the top servers that have come to organize the world? In the short term, of course, yes. The greatest fortunes in history have been created recently by using network technology as a way to concentrate information and therefore wealth and power.\nHowever, in the long term, this way of using network technology is not even good for the richest and most powerful players, because their ultimate source of wealth can only be a growing economy...”\u003cp\u003e“...I’m no Marxist. I love competing in the market, and the last thing I’d want is to live under communism. My wife grew up with it in Minsk, Belarus, and I am absolutely, thoroughly convinced of the misery. But if you select the right passages, Marx can read as being incredibly current...”\u003cp\u003e“...One reason companies like Facebook should be interested in what I am proposing is that planning a regulation regime is better than morphing involuntarily into a dull regulated utility, which is what would probably happen otherwise. Suppose Facebook never gets good enough at snatching the “advertising” business from Google. That’s still a possibility as I write this. In that event, Facebook could go into decline, which would present a global emergency...”\u003cp\u003e“...Imagine a future industry of “decision reduction” that would be (gasp!) regulated so as to remain unaligned with other services. You’d choose a decision reduction service the way you choose a broker now. The decision reduction service would use its particular style and competence to create bundles of decisions you could accept or reject en masse. You could switch to other services without penalty at any time. Such services would be prohibited from having conflicts of interest. That is a proper place for regulation...”\u003cp\u003e“...Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn’t improved...”\u003cp\u003eHe just seems so out of touch! I wonder why he is held up by TED and others as THE guy to follow when you\u0026#x27;re deleting your accounts for following people :)","parent":"18189958","dead":true,"id":"18197510"}
{"by":"halis","time":"1481492677","timestamp":"2016-12-11 21:44:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author says they don\u0026#x27;t like purity and immutability, because it limits their ability to \u0026quot;get stuff done\u0026quot;. But in the long run you get many benefits, whether you have 1000 developers or one. Namely that a whole class of bugs will be eliminated and you can do quick reference comparisons to tell if something changed.\u003cp\u003eEvery time I go to look at Vue I can\u0026#x27;t stand the fact that it DOESN\u0026#x27;T have JSX. I\u0026#x27;ve used every template system you can think of and they always fall apart when things get hard.\u003cp\u003eJSX is basically JavaScript but a much easier and nicer syntax (basically HTML).\u003cp\u003eYou get the same flexibility with Elm, but even there you don\u0026#x27;t get the nice JSX syntax:\u003cp\u003eul [class \u0026quot;grocery-list\u0026quot;]\n    [ li [] [text \u0026quot;Pamplemousse\u0026quot;]\n    , li [] [text \u0026quot;Ananas\u0026quot;]\n    , li [] [text \u0026quot;Jus d\u0026#x27;orange\u0026quot;]\n    ]\u003cp\u003eThe one criticism I happen to agree with is certain aspects of using forms in React. Checkboxes and radio buttons are pretty buggy and stupid. Kind of unacceptable at this point.","parent":"13151317","id":"13153488"}
{"by":"virmundi","time":"1497936190","timestamp":"2017-06-20 05:23:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is true. Now we have to see if this model or these models are useful. Are there other models that provide a better answer?","parent":"14592369","id":"14592378"}
{"by":"miclill_kit","time":"1497854328","timestamp":"2017-06-19 06:38:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was exactly my thought as well.","parent":"14584353","id":"14584964"}
{"by":"mrsteveman1","time":"1330886185","timestamp":"2012-03-04 18:36:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The linked post says \"Why I do this? Since guys in rails issues ingored me\".\u003cp\u003eSounds like this was already a known problem that has led developers to shoot themselves in the foot.","parent":"3663422","id":"3663449"}
{"by":"thomas-st","time":"1283542455","timestamp":"2010-09-03 19:34:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for your feedback!\u003cp\u003eRegarding the resolution, there is room for improvement as the server is currently located in Europe and the website visitor only sends new mouse positions when the previous request returns from the server (in order to avoid multiple requests that may be stuck).\u003cp\u003eoyoLive should not slow down the site, as it loads asynchronously, but tell me if you notice any slowdowns.\u003cp\u003eI'll contact you soon to hear more feedback from you. Thanks so far!","parent":"1660764","id":"1660804"}
{"by":"throwaway90125","time":"1493368073","timestamp":"2017-04-28 08:27:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Absent numbers showing a decline in Uber numbers, there is absolutely nothing here that suggests that Lyft\u0026#x27;s growth here is anything but organic growth.\u003cp\u003eAre there any market share figures that show what the title claims?","parent":"14211419","id":"14217804"}
{"by":"megy","time":"1516159466","timestamp":"2018-01-17 03:24:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do all of that on a bike (well, not the kid stuff). It is not like it is impossible to live without a car.","parent":"16164937","id":"16165211"}
{"by":"razzmataz","time":"1223321464","timestamp":"2008-10-06 19:31:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think part of the problem is that the way the schools are set up they only encourage doing enough to get by, and don't encourage learning for learning's sake.  What concerned me about the article is the author's espousal of some sort of universal test.  I think most college students would probably only be motivated enough to learn enough to pass the test, and miss out on more important skills.","parent":"325161","id":"325227"}
{"by":"Diamons","time":"1457460247","timestamp":"2016-03-08 18:04:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought the same thing lol","parent":"11246703","id":"11247109"}
{"by":"zeratul","time":"1323818622","timestamp":"2011-12-13 23:23:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can only guess that jey's comment was downvoted because R is more prevalent language for statistics and data mining when compared to Python:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2011/languages-for-data-mining-analytics.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2011/languages-for-data-minin...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus, there is a much larger ecosystem as it comes to STATISTICS and data mining in R. Cluster analysis packages are especially advanced in R.\u003cp\u003eBTW, there is an effort to have OpenMP support in core R, e.g. the \"dist\" function:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-safely-use-OpenMP-pragma-inside-a-C-function-td3777036.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-safely-use-OpenMP-pragm...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I was able to compile and run some of the functions under MacOSX 10.6 and R 2.13.1. I couldn't get it to compile with CULA (free version) and my GPU hardware is 1.1 so I can't run SVM :-(","parent":"3349296","id":"3349842"}
{"by":"simonswords82","time":"1409314956","timestamp":"2014-08-29 12:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure there are some business people who love buzzwords but surely you\u0026#x27;re not saying that ALL business people (anybody who runs a business) love buzzwords?","parent":"8242107","id":"8242190"}
{"by":"2muchcoffeeman","time":"1506631730","timestamp":"2017-09-28 20:48:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But you literally cannot discuss something if you don\u0026#x27;t agree on what\u0026#x27;s being discussed.\u003cp\u003ePeople who understand the grandparents definition of emotional labour are going to read the first couple paragraphs of this article, wonder what the author is on about, and quit reading.","parent":"15359450","id":"15360593"}
{"by":"jakobegger","time":"1480067159","timestamp":"2016-11-25 09:45:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh... so you\u0026#x27;re installing Tor? And a Bitcoin client? You\u0026#x27;re starting to look a lot like a drug dealer.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s send a SWAT team and confiscate all your stuff just to make sure.","parent":"13035442","id":"13035475"}
{"by":"adamtj","time":"1434149576","timestamp":"2015-06-12 22:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A MITM can easily spoof IP addresses.  You can\u0026#x27;t trust unsigned data, and IP address headers aren\u0026#x27;t signed.\u003cp\u003eYou also can\u0026#x27;t trust signed data if you don\u0026#x27;t trust the signature.  That\u0026#x27;s the real problem here.  This whole protocol is an attempt to establish trust, but it\u0026#x27;s based only on temporary control of a server\u0026#x27;s network traffic.  Probably that\u0026#x27;s the legitimate owner of the domain, but maybe it\u0026#x27;s somebody malicious who merely had access to their network for a time.  You can\u0026#x27;t really be sure.","parent":"9707853","id":"9709064"}
{"by":"tambourine_man","time":"1350359102","timestamp":"2012-10-16 03:45:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can't create new style rules with the new inspector.\u003cp\u003eIt's also buggy and skow to the point of being unusable.\u003cp\u003eWho ever thought that was ready for release must be out of his mind.\u003cp\u003eAlso, if you chose \"use webkit inspector\" you're no longer able to view source.\u003cp\u003eI'm left with no alternative. Chrome is hideous on OS X and I hate that omnibar that Safari now shares. I'm using Safari for browsing and chrome for developing but it's a terrible experience.","parent":"4658311","id":"4658372"}
{"by":"ConstantineXVI","time":"1360100076","timestamp":"2013-02-05 21:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd imagine there's a market for a generic push-button \"insert dev-provided VM, recieve app\" hosting service for these kind of people without being limited to PHP. AWS Marketplace already does this to a degree, just a matter of making a similar service accessible to the GoDaddy crowd.","parent":"5173162","id":"5173368"}
{"by":"mattmanser","time":"1359993571","timestamp":"2013-02-04 15:59:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm guessing you're just meant to use the js console, it's got the script loaded and a prepopulated array in it.","parent":"5164682","id":"5164744"}
{"by":"onnnon","time":"1468529013","timestamp":"2016-07-14 20:43:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Official blog post here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.statuspage.io\u0026#x2F;joining-the-atlassian-family\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.statuspage.io\u0026#x2F;joining-the-atlassian-family\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12096978","id":"12097034"}
{"by":"tsotha","time":"1291505628","timestamp":"2010-12-04 23:33:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did they execute the queen and divide the honey amongst themselves?","parent":"1970405","id":"1970478"}
{"by":"barrkel","time":"1536232457","timestamp":"2018-09-06 11:14:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, if you think about it, they already have containers on Windows - the WSL is effectively a container for each distro install.\u003cp\u003eEmulating Linux-level container APIs is also possible in principle.","parent":"17925338","id":"17925383"}
{"by":"balsam","time":"1321834953","timestamp":"2011-11-21 00:22:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One might define a meritocracy as one in which the coolness signalling aspect of money is no different from the resource gathering aspect. You also raise the interesting point about the granularity of money: if IBM makes more money than the Lisper for her Lisp, does that make IBM cooler? It could.","parent":"3259375","id":"3259455"}
{"by":"dig","time":"1211747192","timestamp":"2008-05-25 20:26:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All work and no play makes Paul a dull boy.","parent":"192654","id":"199701"}
{"by":"pera","time":"1519446462","timestamp":"2018-02-24 04:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always thought it was some kind of contraction of \u0026quot;isso e certo\u0026quot;. The same expression also exist in Spanish.","parent":"16451175","id":"16451661"}
{"by":"jacobush","time":"1460700959","timestamp":"2016-04-15 06:15:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What people want is for their neighbourhood to be better, while not in the process being driven from their homes to make room for wealthier people. Maybe it\u0026#x27;s naive or a pipe dream.","parent":"11502317","id":"11502550"}
{"by":"fpgeek","time":"1346918751","timestamp":"2012-09-06 08:05:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit.\u003cp\u003eThe Linux / Windows update situation that is most analogous to the carrier-gated smartphone updates is updating OSes inside large companies. It's the same update process - a third party has to certify your update and then the update is incrementally rolled out to a large number of computers.\u003cp\u003eSo how do corporations do with their Windows and Linux updates? Well, I'm using XP and RHEL 5 these days and I don't think my experience is at all atypical...","parent":"4483205","id":"4483283"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1506163475","timestamp":"2017-09-23 10:44:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;Users often publish data that they don\u0026#x27;t know what they mean. Because at first sight, it\u0026#x27;s not possible to see what\u0026#x27;s the data, or what the data is for\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNo its more like people are so obsessed with curating their \u0026quot;fabulous\u0026quot; lifestyle for social media that they don\u0026#x27;t care.\u003cp\u003eThe boarding passes are a carefully arranged prop in that picture, intended to  reinforce the fact to social media that \u0026quot;yes I lead a fabulous life.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIf their intention had only been to communicate to others that they were going on vacation, an \u0026quot;On our way to ____\u0026quot; message would have sufficed.","parent":"15318440","id":"15319146"}
{"by":"unclebucknasty","time":"1436998681","timestamp":"2015-07-15 22:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder:\u003cp\u003e1. If it is reasonable to expect fewer collisions over time, as earlier collisions eject some objects from the belt and remaining objects settle into \u0026quot;safer\u0026quot; orbits?\u003cp\u003e2. Whether collisions cause objects to break apart such that subsequent collisions are with smaller objects, which then leave fewer discernible impacts?\u003cp\u003e3. Whether the temperature changes induced by Pluto\u0026#x27;s orbit--which cause the methane ice to move between the atmosphere and the surface--would cause a smoothing effect over time; e.g. craters being filled by reforming ice?","parent":"9893877","id":"9894399"}
{"by":"brlewis","time":"1340991377","timestamp":"2012-06-29 17:36:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Follow the \"deeply flawed\" link in the article to see lots of  bullet points of precise criticisms.  The target of the link is \u003ca href=\"http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4177764","id":"4177862"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1384854309","timestamp":"2013-11-19 09:45:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m very disappointed in how archive.org handled this. I mean, they just delete all of their archives as soon as the source blocks archive.org or requests they delete its archives on them? Then what\u0026#x27;s the point of it all?!","parent":"6760045","id":"6760152"}
{"by":"unalone","time":"1234028580","timestamp":"2009-02-07 17:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. And is that necessarily a bad thing? Amazon has a reputation for excellent customer service. They're extremely dedicated to making your experience with Amazon great. Doesn't that mean the public has less to risk with an Amazon book reader? I'm biased because I have a Kindle and it's a sheer delight to use, but that's kind of the point. Posters here are acting like the Kindle's reputation is undeserved, when in fact it is a superior e-reader in the sense that it's easy and comfortable to use. People who go only for technical superiority often ignore the user experience, and that's equally poor a way to look at a product.","parent":"471141","id":"471287"}
{"by":"bitcoin-truth","time":"1385533077","timestamp":"2013-11-27 06:17:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You own it only while you remember the password. Gold won\u0026#x27;t just disappear one day though your memory might.","parent":"6775517","id":"6806756"}
{"by":"abraae","time":"1485200831","timestamp":"2017-01-23 19:47:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But it would be perfectly reasonable - and not at odds with anyone\u0026#x27;s justice system - to set your fraud detection trigger such that:\u003cp\u003eif (source.isSuspicious() \u0026amp;\u0026amp; destination in (\u0026#x27;Ghana\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;Nigeria\u0026#x27;)) {\n  investigateFurther();\n}","parent":"13465252","id":"13465286"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1493685944","timestamp":"2017-05-02 00:45:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That depends:\u003cp\u003e- do you have a VPro enabled mac (probably not) or laptop (could be)?\u003cp\u003e- if so are you running AMT (check bios!)?\u003cp\u003e- if so is it running one of the affected versions?\u003cp\u003e- and even if not check if the machine is running LMS and if it does disable that.","parent":"14243068","id":"14243115"}
{"by":"rch","time":"1323977019","timestamp":"2011-12-15 19:23:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google thinks 'honey badger' searches are science-related?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-lists/us/science/fastest-rising-science\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/top-lists/us/science/faste...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3356321","id":"3357505"}
{"by":"peter303","time":"1544416190","timestamp":"2018-12-10 04:29:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Biomaterial Books have to copied to survive the centuries. First the knowledge has to be written down, which was not the uniform practice in pre-scientific craft guilds. Second it has to be deemed significant enough to be worth expensive paper and hand-copying. Certain classical texts were deemed significant by Christian monks and Arab scholars to preserve by copying. But many were not.","parent":"18644880","id":"18645220"}
{"by":"jordsmi","time":"1423020627","timestamp":"2015-02-04 03:30:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People sell accounts that are from phishers and botnets. Which is mostly less work than using stolen CCs\u003cp\u003eYou can buy the accounts for $2 or you can pay $20 for unlimited accounts. They sell programs that you click a button and it just gives you another hacked account from their database.","parent":"8993082","id":"8995175"}
{"by":"mrlase","time":"1403783792","timestamp":"2014-06-26 11:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Chrome:\u003cp\u003e* Checker Plus for Gmail\u003cp\u003e* Google Cast\u003cp\u003e* Hangouts (I use this with a lot of people instead of SMS now, its great to be able to switch back and forth between my phone and Chrome)\u003cp\u003e* Lastpass\u003cp\u003e* Rapportive\u003cp\u003e* Reddit Enhancement Suite\u003cp\u003e* TeX the World\u003cp\u003e* Videostream (for Chromecast, so I can stream MKVs locally)","parent":"7948186","id":"7949141"}
{"by":"lovich","time":"1529029032","timestamp":"2018-06-15 02:17:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I kinda feel that way with npm and nuget. I\u0026#x27;m instalking software all over the place because a coworker told me to or I found it suggested on the internet, but I don\u0026#x27;t come even close to the skill level needed to verify a single one of these libraries.\u003cp\u003eThe only reason it makes me uneasy instead of keeping me up at night is because I can point to the rest of the industry and say it\u0026#x27;s standard practice if a problem happens.","parent":"17315834","id":"17317050"}
{"by":"beza1e1","time":"1332507204","timestamp":"2012-03-23 12:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hard to call it a failure, because it is not over yet. They are happily failing for 20 years now. :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3744332","id":"3744884"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1278363588","timestamp":"2010-07-05 20:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it's outside the realm of science, it's no longer a question. The believer already has an answer. In fact, any answer that makes the believer happy will do, for it cannot be neither proved nor disproved.\u003cp\u003eScience folks my return to the question in the future, when there \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a hypothesis to test. Right now, it can't. Trying to answer a question by throwing reason out the window cannot be called trying very hard...","parent":"1488792","id":"1489087"}
{"by":"tosbourn","time":"1428087173","timestamp":"2015-04-03 18:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you have to physically be there to open the account or were you able to do it all online\u0026#x2F;over the phone?","parent":"9317438","id":"9317673"}
{"by":"hossbeast","time":"1512512914","timestamp":"2017-12-05 22:28:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don\u0026#x27;t mind my asking, how long had you held for?","parent":"15855351","id":"15856644"}
{"by":"mamp","time":"1368629520","timestamp":"2013-05-15 14:52:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think MS have lost a lot of support on the desktop after deprecating Windows Forms (which is all a lot of enterprise apps need), followed by WPF/Silverlight's poor penetration leaving no hardware accelerated graphics for non-WPF (bit blitting excluded), and then the confusing messages around WinRT which at one point looked like they were deprecating WPF as well.\u003cp\u003eWhile the front end flashy stuff isn't there compared in .net compared to the better Javascript libraries (I love d3!) MS have really progressed the non-sexy .net improvements e.g. C# evolution, F#, WebAPI.","parent":"5712191","id":"5712364"}
{"by":"tzahola","time":"1513853447","timestamp":"2017-12-21 10:50:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. A prime example of this is the “quality” software at financial companies.","parent":"15976765","id":"15977846"}
{"by":"tomxor","time":"1517082388","timestamp":"2018-01-27 19:46:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Additionally, it\u0026#x27;s just unpleasant to use, even if it\u0026#x27;s not obvious enough to you that having dirty water blown all over you in a public toilet is extremely unhygienic... it\u0026#x27;s just goddamn unpleasant, I suppose it\u0026#x27;s users aren\u0026#x27;t it\u0026#x27;s customers, so who the hell is buying these things?","parent":"16246264","id":"16247750"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1194921144","timestamp":"2007-11-13 02:32:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Though it works that way for the rest of your life too - if you sucked at your last job, nobody wants to hear about how you were exceptional in college.  And conversely, if you last worked on an exceptional project, nobody cares if you dropped out of high school.","parent":"78954","id":"78968"}
{"by":"throwaway954683","time":"1482630452","timestamp":"2016-12-25 01:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you please provide sources (primary sources with direct evidence, not editorialized articles) in support of these claims?","parent":"13251349","dead":true,"id":"13252456"}
{"by":"ISL","time":"1507395893","timestamp":"2017-10-07 17:04:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eand many remain unpublished.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitation?","parent":"15424538","id":"15424586"}
{"by":"im3w1l","time":"1407513350","timestamp":"2014-08-08 15:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you like this you\u0026#x27;d like the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun (Kim Il-sung Mausoleum). It has a very curious mixture of their possesions. From expensive gifts from foreign friends, to craft from schoolchildren, to everyday stuff. I think there is a photoshop CD on display for instance.","parent":"8152794","id":"8153418"}
{"by":"wizardforhire","time":"1475706017","timestamp":"2016-10-05 22:20:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... and not a moment too soon.","parent":"12648432","id":"12648463"}
{"by":"vectorpush","time":"1353003655","timestamp":"2012-11-15 18:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can attempt to levy personal insults against me, but it only makes you look foolish.\u003cp\u003eYou cannot confidently claim that Romney will fix the economy while simultaneously dismissing the supposed economic accomplishments of Clinton without contradicting yourself.\u003cp\u003eThe logic is simple, no classes necessary.","parent":"4771043","id":"4789920"}
{"by":"arunagarwal","time":"1340302014","timestamp":"2012-06-21 18:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where should I tweet... when twitter is down!!","parent":"4142682","id":"4143360"}
{"by":"mushufasa","time":"1515398719","timestamp":"2018-01-08 08:05:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"aspiring pandits who can\u0026#x27;t keep up won\u0026#x27;t graduate to the author\u0026#x27;s sample group","parent":"16094771","id":"16095339"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1401277839","timestamp":"2014-05-28 11:50:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting to look at these figures while keeping in mind Google\u0026#x27;s self-driving car project and their large investment in Uber. In 10 years Uber will be able to replace all those jobs they\u0026#x27;ve created with self-driving cars.","parent":"7808517","id":"7809429"}
{"by":"einhverfr","time":"1324131929","timestamp":"2011-12-17 14:25:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But in certain domains (childrearing, for example) females are definitely in a net-privileged position in terms of power and control, particularly if unmarried.","parent":"3363761","id":"3364265"}
{"by":"nilkn","time":"1398449836","timestamp":"2014-04-25 18:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other than grade school, I rarely ever did serious work in school while sitting shoulder to shoulder with people as in this image. The only time I can think of being in this sort of setup in college were labs, and I only remember those as being chaotic, loud, hectic, and annoying.","parent":"7647835","id":"7648167"}
{"by":"symbion","time":"1346322684","timestamp":"2012-08-30 10:31:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right now ? 90% because I am learning a new programming language.","parent":"4453289","id":"4453930"}
{"by":"GregBuchholz","time":"1302739719","timestamp":"2011-04-14 00:08:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This ties in well with ( \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003e\"What can be said of this? If, in order to 'really' enter a programming culture, I need to both 'be solving a significant real problem in the real world' and exercising 'the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS or even the hardware design', then there are very few options for entering this culture indeed. The requirement for 'real world work' is almost by definition incompatible with 'the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS and the hardware design'.\"","parent":"2444563","id":"2444806"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1499966680","timestamp":"2017-07-13 17:24:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no need for physicians to inform the FDA about off-label use.  It happens thousands of times per day.","parent":"14761426","id":"14763195"}
{"by":"imran","time":"1355920272","timestamp":"2012-12-19 12:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think we should go for some other alternative besides facebook before its too late.","parent":"4942129","id":"4942273"}
{"by":"jedc","time":"1527024851","timestamp":"2018-05-22 21:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 I read this book years ago, which follows a violin maker in building a custom instrument.  It\u0026#x27;s fascinating - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Violin-Maker-Centuries-Old-Tradition-Brooklyn\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0060012676\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Violin-Maker-Centuries-Old-Tradition-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17127989","id":"17129604"}
{"by":"tootie","time":"1456065718","timestamp":"2016-02-21 14:41:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The CIA most definitely knew and refused to share that information with the FBI.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;2006\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;the-agent\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;2006\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;the-agent\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11144242","id":"11144655"}
{"by":"jeffreyrogers","time":"1413486773","timestamp":"2014-10-16 19:12:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reliability of UDP is mainly going to depend on the end nodes you\u0026#x27;re trying to connect. The backbone of the internet is very reliable and if you\u0026#x27;re connecting over ethernet or through some other wired connection you\u0026#x27;ll see very few dropped packets and thus UDP will be very reliable.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re connecting with wireless, expect to see some more dropped packets, and if you\u0026#x27;re connecting with bluetooth expect to see even more (because of its low power bluetooth is more likely to drop packets than either a wifi or wired connection).","parent":"8465956","id":"8466878"}
{"by":"debt","time":"1528484067","timestamp":"2018-06-08 18:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AirBnB also immediately contributed to a very serious housing shortage and has contributed to rising rents everywhere.\u003cp\u003eThe effects are just now being understood which why legislation is just now being enacted to taper it a bit.","parent":"17266368","id":"17268593"}
{"by":"kilobyte","time":"1401881747","timestamp":"2014-06-04 11:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"actually last pass also gives you web access to your passwords, so, as I understand your advantage is the way u keep them, that is secure.","parent":"7844965","id":"7844980"}
{"by":"dasil003","time":"1257386192","timestamp":"2009-11-05 01:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When Microsoft released the killer version of Word in 1990 they only had 4000 employees (according to wolframalpha).","parent":"922820","id":"923149"}
{"by":"simias","time":"1499869490","timestamp":"2017-07-12 14:24:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it too late to consider killing software patents? I guess the battle is over and we just have to bite the bullet and be happy with these half-assed \u0026quot;countermeasures\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m probably biased because I mostly read about software patent stories on HN and other similar outlets, but it seems like 99.9% of the time they\u0026#x27;re only used for patent trolling or killing the competition.\u003cp\u003ePatents are supposed to protect the inventors by giving them the time to license and market them before the competition can swoop in and create a similar product without having to pay for the R\u0026amp;D.\u003cp\u003eSo do people around here have \u0026quot;success stories\u0026quot; regarding the use of software patents to actually reward creativity instead of just playing the \u0026quot;patent cold war\u0026quot; game?","parent":"14751977","id":"14752727"}
{"by":"Dewie","time":"1401308120","timestamp":"2014-05-28 20:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; , and for whatever bizarre reason the Rust crew has decided that they need to aggressively attack Go\u003cp\u003eMost of the time that I see Go come up as a comparison to Rust on places like HN, it is someone who is asking how Rust compares to Go, some question about \u0026#x27;systems languages like Go, Rust, C++\u0026#x27;, etc. In turn, someone on the Rust team might answer, but they weren\u0026#x27;t the one to bring up the topic to begin with.","parent":"7810870","id":"7812555"}
{"by":"stfu","time":"1354532616","timestamp":"2012-12-03 11:03:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Somehow I am afraid that this sets the stage for an endless discussion about the \"hidden\" ycombinator acceptance criteria. I am already looking forward to the \"how I uncovered x of pg's criteria\" posts.\u003cp\u003eImplying that there are secret rules to \"a game\" make it a highly attractive subject to try to discover these.","parent":"4862567","id":"4864883"}
{"by":"ewzimm","time":"1439320090","timestamp":"2015-08-11 19:08:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to play Devil\u0026#x27;s Advocate, real total surveillance might not be bad. If you were hooked into a system that actually monitored all minds in real time and connected you directly to whatever other mind you wanted to reach out to with no misunderstanding, you\u0026#x27;d have a hive mind that was no longer human but might be capable of more complicated thoughts.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s been done plenty of times in science fiction, but now we\u0026#x27;re getting to the point where we can actually transmit some information directly from mind to mind. I think there\u0026#x27;s room for voluntary connectivity without being invasive. There should always be a way to have total privacy whenever it\u0026#x27;s desired, and that should be true for the near future without question.\u003cp\u003eBut there\u0026#x27;s a chance that at some point, people won\u0026#x27;t even want it anymore. If it happens voluntarily as people become more comfortable with each other, I\u0026#x27;m not sure if it will even be bad. Forced is no good of course, and using surveillance to impose oligarchical control is terrible, but if we move gradually, I don\u0026#x27;t think anyone can really predict how it might turn out.","parent":"10041192","id":"10043571"}
{"by":"piotrjurkiewicz","time":"1466846979","timestamp":"2016-06-25 09:29:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;You will have to vote until outcome will be pro-EU.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eJust like the Ireland few years ago.","parent":"11975680","id":"11975759"}
{"by":"bfung","time":"1540698170","timestamp":"2018-10-28 03:42:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an interesting topic;\u003cp\u003eThe automation removed a lot of the human interaction, creating a better experience for the customer.\u003cp\u003eIn the short term.\u003cp\u003eHowever, by removing a lot of humans from the shopping interactions, it allows the removed humans to never learn from their mistakes, to stay isolated in their own views.\u003cp\u003eWill this actually make racism better or worse in the long run, as there isn\u0026#x27;t automation to \u0026quot;fix\u0026quot; these social problems of ours, at least in the US.","parent":"18318647","id":"18319073"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1345086701","timestamp":"2012-08-16 03:11:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's what replication is for. :)  Really, mysql makes a fine key value store.  \"Mostly ACID\" is good enough for lots of purposes, but what people complain about is its \"serious business\" sql failures.\u003cp\u003eLook, I used to have to support mysql.  Every couple months we had to increment our minimum required version because we found yet another query that didn't work right.","parent":"4389518","id":"4389734"}
{"by":"cdmckay","time":"1485836899","timestamp":"2017-01-31 04:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the issue people have isn\u0026#x27;t the surge pricing so much as the fact that Uber didn\u0026#x27;t participate in the strike, and thus profited from it.","parent":"13527580","id":"13527616"}
{"by":"jsavimbi","time":"1300393810","timestamp":"2011-03-17 20:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In theory, I'd value someone with varied experience as well, but we're talking about the technology industry here, nothing else, and albeit a somewhat enlightened community, the same social paradigms exist within as the do without to a varying degree. The same prejudices exist but what may be different is the way in which they're projected, perceived and handled.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that the author found this shocking was, well, shocking. Coming from a lightweight, non-technical background and spouting off about what the startup scene should or shouldn't be based on her assumptions is very naive.\u003cp\u003eI wouldn't assume to delve in her decision-making process in regards to her current employment, but again, from what I've read, it seems that she has a bad case of founderitis and that shit gets old after a couple of minutes. It's embarrassing when people regard that as some sort of status symbol when they don't even have a half-baked app to show for it. Male or female.","parent":"2334249","id":"2337925"}
{"by":"chaosmachine","time":"1257951040","timestamp":"2009-11-11 14:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Automation. They accidentally flagged the entire internet a while ago.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459590\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459590\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"935048","id":"935325"}
{"by":"tuhdo","time":"1415004880","timestamp":"2014-11-03 08:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, since you spread failed information, and I had to post to correct it. There are many things that could not be done in those IDEs you listed, i.e. to debug random binary outside of a project. Did you tried it Ctrl + H for finding files? Completely unnecessary complicated with tons of checkboxes, and slow to search. It does not show me result instantly; meanwhile in Emacs, I could do this: Open file at point anywhere, even in plain text file: \u003ca href=\"http://tuhdo.github.io/static/helm-projectile/helm-projectile-find-files-dwim-1.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tuhdo.github.io\u0026#x2F;static\u0026#x2F;helm-projectile\u0026#x2F;helm-projectil...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn debugging, Eclipse is no difference than Emacs; both use GDB. For compiling, Eclipse also uses external debugger. The only thing that makes it an IDE is its internal parser, that is broken for large projects and Emacs also has a C\u0026#x2F;C++ parser anyway. What make Emacs less IDEish than Eclipse?","parent":"8549727","id":"8549924"}
{"by":"lomnakkus","time":"1501275751","timestamp":"2017-07-28 21:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, OK, I apologize. I think it might just have been the phrasing of your original comment that confused me. I definitely think it\u0026#x27;s a good idea to drum up a bit of interest in history, historical sites, etc. I \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e say, however, that the look of the webpage you pointed to did induce a little bit of a \u0026quot;cranky\u0026quot; vibe just because of the look, big fonts, etc. If you control it, you might want to tone it down it a down, or if you don\u0026#x27;t... just avoid linking to it. What you just posted is \u003ci\u003emuch\u003c/i\u003e more interesting and informative than that page.","parent":"14877419","id":"14877545"}
{"by":"jjcm","time":"1284088819","timestamp":"2010-09-10 03:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"Foxconn founder Terry Gou might be regarded as Henry Ford reincarnated if only a dozen of his workers hadn't killed themselves this year\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOuch, that's a cold way to start an article - odd considering they go into detail his charitable works later on in the article.","parent":"1677446","id":"1677775"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1350935423","timestamp":"2012-10-22 19:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the black and white graphics. It reminds me of dark castle,  which was arguably the best non-educational game for the original Macintosh:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4684909","id":"4685144"}
{"by":"xg15","time":"1473873249","timestamp":"2016-09-14 17:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slighty off-topic, I\u0026#x27;m surprised\u0026#x2F;amazed that top-level await is permitted at all.\u003cp\u003eThis looks like it would allow some interesting new patterns in web programming, though at the expense of wreaking havoc with traditional execution models.\u003cp\u003eFor example, await in event handlers:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026lt;button onclick=\u0026quot;await doOneThing(); doAnotherThing()\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIs the event object still valid when doAnotherThing is called?\u003cp\u003eOr await in script blocks:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Welcome back,\n    \u0026lt;script\u0026gt;\n     document.write(await fetchUsername());\n    \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;script\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;p\u0026gt;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nLook ma, I stalled the page load with no synchronous XHR!","parent":"12497114","id":"12499125"}
{"by":"brightball","time":"1540408322","timestamp":"2018-10-24 19:12:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn’t Citus AWS only right now though?","parent":"18295068","id":"18295456"}
{"by":"hardwaresofton","time":"1446411013","timestamp":"2015-11-01 20:50:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While there\u0026#x27;s obviously nothing wrong with directly asking users to not adblock guru3d, the long-term solution is definitely to find another business model.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not a regular reader of Guru3D, but would it be a stretch to imagine that the community would willingly pay $1 a month to see the content you put on the site? Maybe you can shuffle only people with adblockers to the paid version of the site, and allow people with ads to view for free.","parent":"10485726","id":"10488197"}
{"by":"morgante","time":"1455296007","timestamp":"2016-02-12 16:53:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like having it as a simple way to quickly download a git-free tree of simple projects. So there\u0026#x27;s one small piece of positive feedback.","parent":"11088148","id":"11088541"}
{"by":"cpursley","time":"1373293391","timestamp":"2013-07-08 14:23:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not all, I didn\u0026#x27;t say all.\u003cp\u003eThe source is my current home in Georgia and my wife\u0026#x27;s experience as a HS teacher.","parent":"6006594","id":"6006886"}
{"by":"sn","time":"1444590440","timestamp":"2015-10-11 19:07:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For virtual machines, whether economies of scale are important depends on whether you define cloud based on minimum time units - hourly or minute increments - or in service expectation - the provider doesn\u0026#x27;t work particularly hard to keep your machine up on a given server but it\u0026#x27;s automatically brought back up when the underlying hardware has a failure. If you define it based on minimum time of compute, this means having enough spare capacity to handle highly variable demand and the resources to absorb the costs of having the hardware sit idle.\u003cp\u003eIf you own your own datacenter and there are physical machines, you can turn off the power and not pay for it so as long as the initial investment is paid off, it doesn\u0026#x27;t hurt too much financially. Without your own data center, the cost is fixed regardless of whether the servers are in use or not which is why we (prgmr.com) do not plan to offer hourly pricing any time in the foreseeable future. Someone with a larger user base is also going to be able to negotiate better rates such that idle machines do not hurt as much.\u003cp\u003eDO is currently \u0026quot;cloud\u0026quot; based on pricing and not necessarily how it globally provides service, as at least some subset of VMs are subject to routine maintenance or downtime. But to bring up a server almost immediately on another machine if one has a hardware failure is a more tractable problem and it is a service we eventually intend to offer. Xen has a feature called remus \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.xen.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Remus\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.xen.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Remus\u003c/a\u003e which effectively does continual live migration which would be pretty cool to implement, though support on Linux is not mainstreamed yet.","parent":"10370000","id":"10370482"}
{"by":"ajuc","time":"1499686077","timestamp":"2017-07-10 11:27:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a lottery with some requirements to participate.","parent":"14734820","id":"14734947"}
{"by":"gte910h","time":"1275663448","timestamp":"2010-06-04 14:57:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Custom designed phones likely wouldn't work that great for the first gen or two, but no reason they would work just as well as PC's after that. Hell, I could finally get the 1 pound batteries filled phone of my dreams.","parent":"1403890","id":"1404466"}
{"by":"xur17","time":"1464463542","timestamp":"2016-05-28 19:25:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vigilink also offers a great short term solution to help them get this out the door, and figure out how much they can make. In the future, they can do the math, and pretty easily decide if it\u0026#x27;s worth taking the time to rewrite the urls \u0026#x2F; manage a bunch of affiliate programs themselves to increase their margin.","parent":"11792894","id":"11793006"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1466181282","timestamp":"2016-06-17 16:34:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if at some point some of the things we\u0026#x27;ve considered parasites and actively targeted will be considered symbiotes.  We don\u0026#x27;t call out gut bacteria parasites, as there\u0026#x27;s continuing to be more and more evidence that it plays a strong role in how we function.\u003cp\u003eIt makes sense to me that through tens (hundreds) of thousands of years, what initially began as a parasite may have adapted to be more symbiotic, or \u003ci\u003ewe\u003c/i\u003e might have adapted to make it so.  If you can\u0026#x27;t eliminate a problem, find a way to make it work for you, or at least integrate it so it causes the least amount of problems.","parent":"11922912","id":"11923638"}
{"by":"arde","time":"1369461839","timestamp":"2013-05-25 06:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For my use case I'm not worried about the client's security (in fact, he's the one I'm interested in protecting the server from).\u003cp\u003eWe probably are assuming very different tolerance thresholds on security. But even so, I don't think you can argue for any security advantages of typical implementations for a 50-page protocol when comparing them to a one-way simple GIF sender.","parent":"5765973","id":"5766518"}
{"by":"jewbacca","time":"1292715559","timestamp":"2010-12-18 23:39:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great toy, love it cleanly in HTML5 -- casually playing with L-systems the other day, the best apparent tool was this bugged Java applet[0] that didn't render any of the labels for its fields[1].\u003cp\u003eSuggestions:\u003cp\u003e- List the syntax it accepts on the page itself\u003cp\u003e- Add the ability to step through iteration\u003cp\u003e- Add the ability to scale with each iteration (and maybe change colour)\u003cp\u003e- Clarify that 'e' means edit -- took me a while to figure out it had any different functionality than the 'x' close (also, perhaps the ability to edit directly in the Rules listing)\u003cp\u003e---\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://cgjennings.ca/toybox/lsystems/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cgjennings.ca/toybox/lsystems/index.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] Could be an OS X/personal setup issue, as when rarely I encounter Java applets, they seem to have serious issues.","parent":"2020334","id":"2020614"}
{"by":"elect_engineer","time":"1494224942","timestamp":"2017-05-08 06:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(I am the author of the op-ed. A better version is at [ \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;User:Guy_Macon\u0026#x2F;Wikipedia_has_Cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;User:Guy_Macon\u0026#x2F;Wikipedia_has_C...\u003c/a\u003e ].)\u003cp\u003eI am very familiar with Agile and Scum, and I have seen the advantages over older paradigms such as waterfall. That being said, there are certain basic principles that the old methods and the new methods have in common. One such principle is the basic idea of having some sort of contact with the people who will be using the finished software and understanding their needs. The WMF does not do that. Instead, they build something in secret, throw it over the wall, and watch as the Wikipedia editors reject it as the steaming pile of crap that it is. They have done this again and again. Visual Editor. Flow. Mobile App. Knowledge Engine. All failures. All built without any input from the people who would be using them.\u003cp\u003eNow I KNOW that the developers are not stupid or ignorant, and I have checked as best I can and it appears that every one of them was able to create high quality software that meets the customer\u0026#x27;s needs when they were working other places. That leaves me with management as the probable culprit. And I don\u0026#x27;t think that the problem is product managers like the author of the post above this one. I think the blame is at the very top.\u003cp\u003eI would advise anyone who really wishes to understand these issues to at least read the pages linked to on my [ \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;User:Guy_Macon\u0026#x2F;Wikipedia_has_Cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;User:Guy_Macon\u0026#x2F;Wikipedia_has_C...\u003c/a\u003e ] page, especially [ \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mollywhite.net\u0026#x2F;wikimedia-timeline\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mollywhite.net\u0026#x2F;wikimedia-timeline\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e ]\u003cp\u003eFinally, if it really \u0026quot;it takes minimal digging to find all their plans and timelines\u0026quot;, I would like to see this demonstrated by providing links to the plans and timelines for the Knowledge Engine. --~~~~","parent":"14287794","id":"14289655"}
{"by":"oelmekki","time":"1509452401","timestamp":"2017-10-31 12:20:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, not having inheritance is what I love the most about go. When I write ruby code, I keep wondering \u0026quot;where does this method come from?\u0026quot; and have to grep my codebase.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Composition over inheritance\u0026quot; is not a new trend, that was actually mentioned in first chapter of Gang of four\u0026#x27;s Design Patterns in 1995 [1]. In that regard, I feel like we mostly failed to ever use OOP properly (although, \u0026quot;fail\u0026quot; is probably too strong a word).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m actually annoyed that embedded types exist in go because it re-introduces the same problem (but I have an easy fix for that: I don\u0026#x27;t use them).\u003cp\u003eBut really, what you\u0026#x27;re describing is a data structure problem. This can be solved without OOP, and structs are especially good at it.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Design_Patterns#Introduction.2C_Chapter_1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Design_Patterns#Introduction.2...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15592326","id":"15592651"}
{"by":"uggedal","time":"1263600392","timestamp":"2010-01-16 00:06:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I was initially thinking of using tinc, but ssh might be easier to set up.","parent":"1055901","id":"1056225"}
{"by":"reuven","time":"1459049690","timestamp":"2016-03-27 03:34:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I sympathize with the author: I\u0026#x27;m Jewish, and read the Narnia books when I was a kid.  I absolutely loved them, and read them all multiple times -- except for the last one, which I never understood, and which struck me as completely weird.\u003cp\u003eWhen I was 16, I stayed with friends of my parents while traveling.  I saw a book analyzing Narnia, and it talked about CS Lewis as a Christian theologian.  My response was: Wow, that\u0026#x27;s fascinating; I guess he managed to keep that out of the Narnia books, right?\u003cp\u003eBut then I kept reading that book about CS Lewis, and it described how Narnia was all Christian, and how its symbolism, and characters, and language, were all about Christianity.  I was absolutely shocked.  How could I have missed it?\u003cp\u003eBut I missed it because I was the wrong audience.  The \u0026quot;dog whistles,\u0026quot; as they\u0026#x27;re known in the political realm nowadays, failed to work for me, because I hadn\u0026#x27;t been raised to think in those terms.\u003cp\u003eBy the way, I encouraged my kids to read Narnia  I even read many of the books to them when they were younger.  But I told them that the last book would be really weird, and that it reflects the author\u0026#x27;s Christian perspective.  None of them got into the series as much as I did, so much less explaining had to happen -- but I did talk about it with them, and I think that they were almost as surprised as I was.","parent":"11367831","id":"11368752"}
{"by":"kristianc","time":"1489446118","timestamp":"2017-03-13 23:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I often wonder what Wittgenstein would have made of today\u0026#x27;s models of machine learning \u0026#x2F; deep learning \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Family_resemblance\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Family_resemblance\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13861990","id":"13863360"}
{"by":"imesh","time":"1492053003","timestamp":"2017-04-13 03:10:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this a cultural thing? I have had 0 discussions about a non-diamond ring.","parent":"14102500","id":"14103838"}
{"by":"eevee","time":"1380594054","timestamp":"2013-10-01 02:20:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whoops!  I could\u0026#x27;ve sworn that said \u0026quot;without\u0026quot;, sorry  :)\u003cp\u003eThough I\u0026#x27;m not sure `__slots__` actually saves any time, as it\u0026#x27;s really a \u003ci\u003espace\u003c/i\u003e optimization.  I\u0026#x27;ve tried it before for hot code and even seen very slight (probably not significant) slowdowns.","parent":"6473251","id":"6473649"}
{"by":"trhway","time":"1439421347","timestamp":"2015-08-12 23:15:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In general - plutonium breeder reactors don\u0026#x27;t move our civilization forward. Nobody would be allowed to have them except the already nuke having countries, and for them it is just a minor improvement, if any, in nuclear energy production.\u003cp\u003eSpecifically for Russia - i\u0026#x27;m Russian and i know how inherently careless Russian mentality is. Any of such objects is just a disaster waiting to happen (people outside don\u0026#x27;t understand that Chernobyl wasn\u0026#x27;t really \u0026quot;accidental accident\u0026quot;, instead it was just like Russian roulette accident ; for illustration of current Russian technological degradation look at the recent space launches history). Additional issue - in particular with Russian corruption (and rise of Islamic powers, specifically Chechnya, inside Russia) it is just a matter of time before somebody will sell 10kg of plutonium to somebody else :)","parent":"10050986","id":"10051386"}
{"by":"joebo","time":"1477066869","timestamp":"2016-10-21 16:21:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I would pay a little more. $5\u0026#x2F;mo is the max -- any more than that I would probably just do a family plan or something. I would prefer something nominal like $2\u0026#x2F;per device\u0026#x2F;per month","parent":"12761150","id":"12761703"}
{"by":"aeden","time":"1298966977","timestamp":"2011-03-01 08:09:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DNSimple has been in business since June 2010 and has just over 300 paying subscribers. I usually average 1 to 2 support requests per day. I may only get 1 to 2 pre-sales inquiries per week - most sales occur via self-service. I hand craft each response for support emails.\u003cp\u003eHTH.","parent":"2274520","id":"2274729"}
{"by":"Amadou","time":"1382728103","timestamp":"2013-10-25 19:08:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, the RefControl add-on gives you more fine-grained control.\u003cp\u003eI use it to spoof the referrer as the root of the site when I link in and then the correct referrer when navigating within the site.  In some rare cases I force the referrer to be google, that lets you past some paywalls.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;addons.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;firefox\u0026#x2F;addon\u0026#x2F;refcontrol\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6612763","id":"6613817"}
{"by":"gilrain","time":"1335312814","timestamp":"2012-04-25 00:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(because it is)","parent":"3886939","id":"3887017"}
{"by":"kllrnohj","time":"1376517599","timestamp":"2013-08-14 21:59:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was referring to the NDK. The NDK is perfectly capable of input \u0026amp; drawing - it\u0026#x27;s what many games use, for example. It\u0026#x27;s also what Firefox uses. Well, Firefox is a hybrid - a mix of Java and native. But the web parts are all native running outside of dalvik and drawing directly to a surface via OpenGL.","parent":"6204641","id":"6214616"}
{"by":"nabla9","time":"1535111786","timestamp":"2018-08-24 11:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you both describe is large cultural division between survival values and self-expression values between two generations.\u003cp\u003eIn quickly developing countries some people already live modern life but their parents come from very traditional valued society. What in the west is cultural division between grandparents and grandchildren can be division between parents and children.\u003cp\u003ePolitical scientist Ronald Inglehart (known for Inglehart-index and Inglehart–Welzel cultural map used in the World Values Survey) noticed the same difference between post-war generations and their parents. His book \u0026#x27;The Silent Revolution\u0026#x27; (1977) was the first attempt to map these differences between generations and cultures.\u003cp\u003eI noticed similar cultural division after  Soviet Union collapsed in 1992 and I made friends with Russians of my age who moved to Finland, I realized that they shared the same values as my parents (and I have old parents).","parent":"17833301","id":"17834330"}
{"by":"chris__butters","time":"1501665661","timestamp":"2017-08-02 09:21:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Made the jump to Mac about a decade and haven\u0026#x27;t used anything else (unless experimenting) since then. The OS has the software I need and is built on Unix so the command line is very similar to that of Ubuntu which I use on servers.","parent":"14908718","id":"14909109"}
{"by":"ar15saveslives","time":"1481942641","timestamp":"2016-12-17 02:44:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re describing public transportation in Ottawa.","parent":"13198433","id":"13198868"}
{"by":"noahdesu","time":"1519537078","timestamp":"2018-02-25 05:37:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a Planet Money episode where they talk about trying to get their own satellite launched, and it includes several pointers that might help you get started.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;sections\u0026#x2F;money\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;567267573\u0026#x2F;planet-money-goes-to-space\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;sections\u0026#x2F;money\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;567267573\u0026#x2F;plan...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16457312","id":"16457317"}
{"by":"Techonomicon","time":"1456911989","timestamp":"2016-03-02 09:46:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. The team was repurposed, not really Firefox OS though. Have got some insider knowledge on this one.\u003cp\u003eI mean come on. Firefox OS on embedded devices, the thing could barely run on cheap smartphones.","parent":"11208885","id":"11208993"}
{"by":"drchickensalad","time":"1478355214","timestamp":"2016-11-05 14:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you.","parent":"12879025","id":"12879840"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1457776316","timestamp":"2016-03-12 09:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11270292\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11270292\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11270958","id":"11272178"}
{"by":"owebmaster","time":"1485540808","timestamp":"2017-01-27 18:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clojure \u0026amp; ClojureScript (over React)","parent":"13501396","id":"13501443"}
{"by":"jonny_noog","time":"1221181631","timestamp":"2008-09-12 01:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would definitely suggest that you not give up development of your idea.\u003cp\u003eAs someone else has already said, learn from your competition and make your product better as a result.\u003cp\u003eIf the idea you're working on is a good one, then you're almost bound to have competition. So I see competition as a sign that I'm on the right track.\u003cp\u003eKeep at it! You just have to make your implementation a little bit better than the other guy.","parent":"301853","id":"301975"}
{"by":"bhickey","time":"1290102325","timestamp":"2010-11-18 17:45:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you document the pixel shader DSL?","parent":"1918520","id":"1918588"}
{"by":"jsabo","time":"1427734078","timestamp":"2015-03-30 16:47:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For anyone else who is interested, I tried to find something about venues getting a cut but only found this (which also references a now shut down blog that I haven\u0026#x27;t checked for an archive of):\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.laweekly.com\u0026#x2F;music\u0026#x2F;ticketmaster-and-servants-bands-get-cut-of-service-fee-2158605\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.laweekly.com\u0026#x2F;music\u0026#x2F;ticketmaster-and-servants-band...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eApparently during congressional testimony they mentioned that venues, and sometimes artists or promoters, get a cut of the service fee. They quote some mid-level promoters that dispute the promoter\u0026#x2F;artist fee but it doesn\u0026#x27;t really go into the venue statement. In my experience with small shows, the venue\u0026#x27;s money is baked into the ticket price, not the additional fees.","parent":"9290572","id":"9290747"}
{"by":"elcct","time":"1477909453","timestamp":"2016-10-31 10:24:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Ubuntu in production and having the same tools on the dev machine natively is great. When I was using macOS it was a bit clumsy to get tools set up. I find apt superior to brew also compiling from source etc is less of a headache.\nWindows really nailed that department.","parent":"12835288","id":"12835565"}
{"by":"notJim","time":"1358492631","timestamp":"2013-01-18 07:03:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's pretty hilarious to watch people clambering all over each other in this thread to claim this isn't a problem because [op_is_doing_it_wrong] or [weird_hacky_workaround]. Commenting out bits of code to see what effects it has is one of the most useful ways of not only debugging a program, but learning to program, and “reading” code.\u003cp\u003eJust because some really smart people made a decision for reasons that are great 99% of the time, but fail badly in a very important 1% case doesn't mean you have to redefine your entire belief system to avoid criticizing them.","parent":"5076461","id":"5077512"}
{"by":"yters","time":"1226211284","timestamp":"2008-11-09 06:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I guess I am showing off.  But, for most of the books, the only reason I've read them is because I had too, not because I'm some kind of autodidact, and not that the list is particularly impressive anyways.","parent":"358020","id":"358129"}
{"by":"m_ke","time":"1537032365","timestamp":"2018-09-15 17:26:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 for that. Later either join a post A round startup with traction or start your own thing.","parent":"17995090","id":"17995120"}
{"by":"MartinCron","time":"1285294906","timestamp":"2010-09-24 02:21:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do both for fun and for profit stuff in .net. I recently put together my first Silverlight app and I found the platform to be wholly underrated.","parent":"1719408","id":"1722361"}
{"by":"JetSpiegel","time":"1390406403","timestamp":"2014-01-22 16:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where can I buy one of those? Haven\u0026#x27;t seen an MP3 player or a PDA for sale in ages.","parent":"7103187","id":"7103367"}
{"by":"notfunk","time":"1391618904","timestamp":"2014-02-05 16:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ahh cool! I completely agree that using your own products from a customer point of makes a better employee. Thanks for the input =)","parent":"7184734","id":"7184801"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1346446972","timestamp":"2012-08-31 21:02:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as the browser auto-updates...","parent":"4461546","id":"4461685"}
{"by":"KGIII","time":"1504243145","timestamp":"2017-09-01 05:19:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless they were making credible threats, I don\u0026#x27;t really care. If they were making credible threats, that\u0026#x27;s a matter for the courts - and shouldn\u0026#x27;t (in my opinion) be a matter for Google to decide. Not with domain names, no. They took property, without judicial oversight. They can get their domain back after sixty days, if they can find a new registrar.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t like what they had to say, and I\u0026#x27;m not white so they pretty much hate me, but the freedom of expression extends to even stupid people. Freedom of speech shouldn\u0026#x27;t be about just the absolute barest considerations of legal protections, it should be a social ideal.\u003cp\u003eYeah, the Nazis hate me. Yeah, they pretty much suck in every way. I kinda like being able to say they suck and I really don\u0026#x27;t care that they think the same about me. I care when it becomes a credible threat. Well, slander is not acceptable so long as truth is an assertive defense.\u003cp\u003eWe are probably not going to agree about this. That\u0026#x27;s okay, I know I hold a very strong view. It doesn\u0026#x27;t bother me that they speak. It just makes them easier to identify.","parent":"15146234","id":"15146301"}
{"by":"kristianc","time":"1496066269","timestamp":"2017-05-29 13:57:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Worth bearing in mind that this is a piece of PR \u0026#x2F; thought leadership for a media conglomerate that mainly plays in Sub Saharan African countries and India, where data is more of an issue, and people are more choosy about what they keep on their phones. Not immediately obvious on a first read unless you can spot the signs of such a piece.\u003cp\u003eIf you look at this argument through a developed market lens there are obvious weaknesses, for instance the complete failure to address WeChat.","parent":"14436436","id":"14439102"}
{"by":"psbp","time":"1370919139","timestamp":"2013-06-11 02:52:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AT this point, Apple cutting out Google only makes Android more attractive to me.\u003cp\u003eI was willing to take the blow of losing a superior Google maps, but excising Google search entirely is way too much of a sacrifice for me to continue using apple products.","parent":"5859295","id":"5859332"}
{"by":"collias","time":"1447713412","timestamp":"2015-11-16 22:36:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re in US\u0026#x2F;Canada, give Slacker Radio a shot. They do radio \u0026quot;stations\u0026quot; better than anyone. Plus on-demand if you feel like just listening to an album or something.","parent":"10577675","id":"10577793"}
{"by":"ihaveahadron","time":"1478123169","timestamp":"2016-11-02 21:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t get this. If quantum things exist, then the brain is ran using quantum physics. Literally quantum physics control the entire brain. How does anyone around here manage to breath.","parent":"12857140","dead":true,"id":"12859637"}
{"by":"fiatmoney","time":"1450205566","timestamp":"2015-12-15 18:52:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also known as the Drill Sergeant Paradox.\u003cp\u003eImagine that shouting has no actual effect on performance, but it is traditional to shout at underlings when they do something particularly poorly.  When your trainees screw up, you berate them - and afterwards they \u003ci\u003eactually do\u003c/i\u003e tend to do better.  Unfortunately, this is because the screwup is more often than not a random variation, and the improvement is due to the mean regression, not the treatment.  Conversely, praising them when they do well (again, assuming no underlying effect) actually seems to \u003ci\u003eworsen\u003c/i\u003e their performance.","parent":"10731023","id":"10739605"}
{"by":"jmintz","time":"1265358109","timestamp":"2010-02-05 08:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dan's apology: \u003ca href=\"http://www.danielbru.com/2010/02/the-line-was-crossed/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.danielbru.com/2010/02/the-line-was-crossed/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI haven't ever met the guy, but much worse things are done by 17-year-olds all the time. The punishment he is receiving seems adequate to me.  Hopefully he learns from it, this post is a good first step.","parent":"1102816","id":"1103067"}
{"by":"mcshicks","time":"1504821509","timestamp":"2017-09-07 21:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You get a unique long pin code when you freeze the account.  You need that to unfreeze it.  There is some \u0026quot;recovery\u0026quot; procedure, I think you need a notary or something","parent":"15196117","id":"15196142"}
{"by":"adgar","time":"1336910438","timestamp":"2012-05-13 12:00:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Perhaps we will now see increasing differentiation between those who code and those who use?\u003cp\u003eI personally hope for the opposite.","parent":"3966284","id":"3966773"}
{"by":"warrenm","time":"1518645651","timestamp":"2018-02-14 22:00:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What makes you think the developers have to \u0026quot;know tax law\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eIt might be a peripheral plus for an applicant, but it\u0026#x27;s more important they are a competent programmer.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Tax law\u0026quot; changes constantly - you truly cannot \u003ci\u003ereasonably\u003c/i\u003e expect a developer to \u0026quot;know tax law\u0026quot; \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e be a competent programmer.","parent":"16377875","id":"16379875"}
{"by":"sanxiyn","time":"1527254268","timestamp":"2018-05-25 13:17:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am more than willing to pay $20 a month for both Google and Facebook. Do you hear me? Take my money!","parent":"17153034","id":"17153359"}
{"by":"superdanny","time":"1512169011","timestamp":"2017-12-01 22:56:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING FREELANCERS | Full-Stack Engineer and UI\u0026#x2F;UX Designer | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.superteam.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.superteam.io\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocation: Remote Only, United States\u003cp\u003eSUPERTEAM is the on-demand team creation platform for specialized freelancers; Our Mission: to provide consistent end-to-end projects to your teams of specialists. (Currently we are limiting hiring to freelancers located in the U.S)\u003cp\u003eYou Are:\nWilling to work in fast paced environment. You can creatively multi-task through numerous projects. Your compensation is on a per-project basis and pay increases with your system skill level and quality of completion rating.\u003cp\u003eDesigner: 3~5 years of experience designing for desktop and mobile.\u003cp\u003eEngineer: 3~5 years of full-stack development experience, can deliver rapid prototypes.\u003cp\u003eIf you’re interested please apply at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.superteam.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.superteam.io\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15824598","id":"15828501"}
{"by":"wtallis","time":"1421381960","timestamp":"2015-01-16 04:19:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good to see that progress is being made toward catching up with btrfs in this really useful area. For those of us who don\u0026#x27;t buy hard drives by the dozen, it\u0026#x27;s really nice to have absolute flexibility about adding and removing drives and changing RAID modes non-destructively with btrfs, but ZFS still has some pretty enticing features, too.","parent":"8894976","id":"8897237"}
{"by":"darklajid","time":"1388250536","timestamp":"2013-12-28 17:08:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone with native IPv6 connectivity (from a braindead\u0026#x2F;broken\u0026#x2F;cheap\u0026#x2F;stupid ISP, behind Dual Stack Lite, which causes a bunch of other problems) I .. don\u0026#x27;t believe that IPv6 is\u003cp\u003e- being generally available soon enough to matter (ever tried accessing your home connection via IPv6 from your mobile? There\u0026#x27;s no usable workaround that I\u0026#x27;ve found so far and I don\u0026#x27;t see networks switching to IPv6 anytime soon)\u003cp\u003e- easy to migrate to (privacy concerns, lots of things to relearn, existing hard- and software WILL break - as my ISP provided cable modem does every three days when my prefix is renewed -\u0026gt; Reboot\u0026#x2F;reconnect or you\u0026#x27;re silently offline forever)\u003cp\u003eThe idea is great. I was a fan of the technology in theory. Living with IPv6 at home for ~2 month now I\u0026#x27;m considering to cancel my contract _because of issues due to the IPv6 migration_.\u003cp\u003eThat aside, ignoring my anecdotal troubles and my personal disappointment with the way IPv6 is (not..) introduced around me: How would IPv6 help anyway? Just because you\u0026#x27;re having a globally routable address for all your machines probably doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that you want them to be directly exposed to the internet? Wouldn\u0026#x27;t you still need (rather: want) to punch a hole through the firewall?","parent":"6975328","id":"6975402"}
{"by":"drb91","time":"1543508557","timestamp":"2018-11-29 16:22:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that may be true, but there is good reason to doubt the effects of adding more roads to LA: demand will grow to meet capacity, which I am sure Musk is aware of given that he runs a car company.","parent":"18553667","id":"18561346"}
{"by":"sixothree","time":"1355866917","timestamp":"2012-12-18 21:41:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  sFile = \"filename.xml\";\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nthen later\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  sFile = File.ReadAllText(\"filename.xml\");\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"4939645","id":"4939747"}
{"by":"serichsen","time":"1297027765","timestamp":"2011-02-06 21:29:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that Minix has a microkernel, too.\u003cp\u003eLook up the Tanenbaum vs. Linus debate on the subject of monolithic vs. microkernels.","parent":"2183985","id":"2186498"}
{"by":"revoltingx","time":"1265329721","timestamp":"2010-02-05 00:28:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sorry if the writers of thousands of years ago don't meet your expectations.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I'm not sure how you can call a paragraph(s) a story.\nConsidering they're in the same chapter of the same book.\u003cp\u003e(Actual chapters were added later, the chapter is genesis and the book is the old testament.)\u003cp\u003eComplete non-sense.","parent":"1102012","id":"1102181"}
{"by":"sjroot","time":"1426391260","timestamp":"2015-03-15 03:47:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has anyone else had serious issues using Microsoft peripherals? I purchased a Microsoft wireless keyboard and ergonomic mouse when I built my current Windows 8 machine, and have had nothing but trouble with both. The keyboard is at least functional, although it doesn\u0026#x27;t provide much insight to the amount of battery it has left. I\u0026#x27;ll be typing and suddenly it\u0026#x27;ll give out. It\u0026#x27;s usable, though.\u003cp\u003eThe mouse on the other hand has given me grief around the clock. Severe latency issues make it difficult to use, not just while playing games, but during basic usage such as browsing the web. I have to have two mice connected just in case this one throws me for a loop. It is a shame because I really like the feel of both the keyboard and the mouse. I just wish they worked.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I can\u0026#x27;t say I would ever recommend this keyboard to any of my friends.","parent":"9204724","id":"9205287"}
{"by":"mc_hammer","time":"1434461804","timestamp":"2015-06-16 13:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"www.goodui.org is great\u003cp\u003emy biggest 3 takeaways from trying to improve my ux were:\u003cp\u003e- vertical spacing makes things feel more relaxing, so always use more vertical space than you need\u003cp\u003e- typography is key: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;practicaltypography.com\u0026#x2F;summary-of-key-rules.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;practicaltypography.com\u0026#x2F;summary-of-key-rules.html\u003c/a\u003e is a really good guide\u003cp\u003e- users have no idea what your favorite icon does, you have to put a label by it","parent":"9725543","id":"9725613"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1469208013","timestamp":"2016-07-22 17:20:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That argument isn\u0026#x27;t valid here and does not lead to positive contributions to HN. Why? Because the topic here is\u0026#x2F;was concrete: a biologist who made a discovery about lichens. To use that as fodder for an ideological argument is to take the thread in the wrong direction: away from something that gratifies intellectual curiosity into something that does not, however important it may otherwise be.\u003cp\u003eIntellectual curiosity is HN\u0026#x27;s core value. Curiosity is gratified by things that are specific, so the specific is precious here. Ideological arguments are the opposite: they\u0026#x27;re reruns of episodes seen many times, for which circumstances are interesting only as primer fuel, quickly to be discarded on getting going.\u003cp\u003eWorse, the energy they mobilize is agitated and the stance they induce rigid. This jolts people out out of the relaxed, reflective state that makes for good HN conversation and puts them into battle mode. From an intellectual curiosity point of view, it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter what the battle is—we end up in the wilderness either way.\u003cp\u003eIt may be important to get people marching, but let\u0026#x27;s not march over a lichen garden.","parent":"12144268","id":"12145007"}
{"by":"jsin","time":"1457330893","timestamp":"2016-03-07 06:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s back online!!!","parent":"11228443","id":"11237399"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1431553916","timestamp":"2015-05-13 21:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why did so many men die from testicular cancer? They do not seek help when they find a lump on a testicle. We had extensive campaigns to get men to see a doctor when they find a lump to help reduce the death rate from testicular cancer.\u003cp\u003eDid we? I don\u0026#x27;t recall people wearing anything in support of testicular cancer awareness, but many frequently wear pink ribbons. I also don\u0026#x27;t really recall a campaign from my childhood, except one (1) occasion when doctors told us (university student) to self-inspect our balls.\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s better in the US, though.","parent":"9538200","id":"9542196"}
{"by":"jerven","time":"1490776099","timestamp":"2017-03-29 08:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its because most of these companies are small and largely family owned. i.e. the owners understand the product, and moving it to china means they would need to move to china as well.\u003cp\u003eIn many ways the difference is that headquarters is next or on top of the factory instead of in a different state.","parent":"13982974","id":"13984353"}
{"by":"Digit-Al","time":"1509394080","timestamp":"2017-10-30 20:08:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who would financially benefit enough to pay for it though? There\u0026#x27;s no one big seller of the boxes and the software is free.\u003cp\u003eEdit: For clarification - I\u0026#x27;m not saying it\u0026#x27;s impossible. I just personally can\u0026#x27;t see any obvious beneficiary. Would welcome any suggestions though.","parent":"15586868","id":"15588427"}
{"by":"graeme","time":"1412285299","timestamp":"2014-10-02 21:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;So we had to essentially cold call schools, find teachers\u0026#x2F;admins emails online, and fish around our personal network for intros. To say it didn\u0026#x27;t go well is an understatement. Our success rate, of even a phone call, was nearly 1% (roughly one answer per 100 or so emails\u0026#x2F;calls). We eventually locked down a core group of users simply by contacting so many people. Aside from other bureaucratic factors in the public schooling system we failed simply because we couldn\u0026#x27;t establish a growing user base.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve found that walking into the school gets much better results. I work in test prep.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s no magic bullet for learning about clients, and it depends on the niche. In my case (LSAT prep) I learned about LSAT students because I had been an LSAT tutor. In fact, I still do \u003ci\u003ea bit\u003c/i\u003e of tutoring just to stay in touch with what students are going through.\u003cp\u003eOther niches would require completely different approaches.  Steps:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  1. Identify target client\n  2. Find out where they congregate, how they communicate\n  3. Use *that* approach.\n  4. Once you find some, ask for referrals. \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI found targeted cold calls worked pretty well. Targeted in the sense that a meaningful % of whoever I was targeting would say \u0026quot;woah, I gotta get me some of that\u0026quot;, even if they had not previously heard of me.\u003cp\u003eThe way you get that reaction is by knowing the needs of the prospect, putting yourself into their shoes.","parent":"8403015","id":"8403205"}
{"by":"minimaxir","time":"1359338723","timestamp":"2013-01-28 02:05:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hacker News is a completely serious link aggregator. This link is \u003ci\u003eWORSE THAN REDDIT\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"5126665","id":"5126691"}
{"by":"lazyjones","time":"1495760886","timestamp":"2017-05-26 01:08:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"YMMV, but I don\u0026#x27;t want the average car owners to replace their hardware with whatever they found on Aliexpress, especially if those cars are supposed to drive autonomously at some point.","parent":"14418608","id":"14421401"}
{"by":"AnimalMuppet","time":"1496766572","timestamp":"2017-06-06 16:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do tell.","parent":"14497406","id":"14498520"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1475122532","timestamp":"2016-09-29 04:15:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The ad hominem fallacy is simply a guideline to evaluate the logical consistency of an argument.\u003cp\u003ePrecisely. So an argument is not logically consistent if it\u0026#x27;s just attacking the messenger instead of the content. Here\u0026#x27;s a hint: if your argument in any way relies on discounting the messenger, it\u0026#x27;s pretty weak and you should not make it.\u003cp\u003eHow many times have you been swayed by someone that says, \u0026quot;Well I would disregard this study because it\u0026#x27;s been done by a liberal.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIf you find that you don\u0026#x27;t have the time to evaluate an argument based on its merits, don\u0026#x27;t evaluate it at all. Otherwise your \u0026#x27;gut reaction\u0026#x27;, which is all an ad hominem is, is just dead weight on the discussion.","parent":"12602634","id":"12603256"}
{"by":"xenophonf","time":"1411265815","timestamp":"2014-09-21 02:16:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the link.  That was a very interesting article.  Btrfs sounds very interesting.","parent":"8344198","id":"8346125"}
{"by":"yellowapple","time":"1430156493","timestamp":"2015-04-27 17:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While it\u0026#x27;s true that the GPL and the distributed nature of Linux development helped GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux proliferate, that isn\u0026#x27;t the reason why the BSDs didn\u0026#x27;t.  In reality, they were encumbered by legal problems due to being derivative works of AT\u0026amp;T\u0026#x27;s Unix; the ensuing legal war of attrition caused a lot of folks to be unsure of whether or not they could legally use any of the BSDs without having to pony up for Unix licenses.\u003cp\u003eAs a result, Linux was created (Linus Torvalds has said that if Hurd existed or if the BSD legality issues were resolved, he wouldn\u0026#x27;t have felt the need to develop the Linux kernel), and folks jumped onto that as the preferred free Unix due to it being unencumbered by the massive legal warfare taking place in BSD Land (of course, SCO would eventually bring the battle to the GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux world, but by that point, Linux was already well-entrenched).","parent":"9447337","id":"9447881"}
{"by":"sctb","time":"1476061238","timestamp":"2016-10-10 01:00:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Recent discussion: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12508776\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12508776\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12674174","id":"12674433"}
{"by":"kibwen","time":"1363056094","timestamp":"2013-03-12 02:41:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Similar story here. I spent a year out of college unemployed, listlessly sending out job applications in an awful market and stewing in depression. When I finally got a break it was at a company full of old-hand COBOL and RPG-IV programmers... and they wanted to hire me to lead a huge web-based modernization effort! Me, a scraggly-looking kid, decades younger than the rest of the team, with no real evidence of my talents or experience. And likewise the pay was a pittance compared to what the programmers in SV were allegedly making. But the degree of freedom to do basically whatever I wanted, however I wanted, more than made up for it. To this day they're delighted with the work that I produce, and it's done absolute wonders for my self-confidence. And even though I could strike out for greener pastures at this point, the fact that they took such a chance on me is the reason that I stick by them.","parent":"5359615","id":"5359725"}
{"by":"jMyles","time":"1545861896","timestamp":"2018-12-26 22:04:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m proud of my work, and that of the rest of our team.  I don\u0026#x27;t think I have ever shilled.  If you think I\u0026#x27;m morally obliged to be silent about my work, where does it end?  Am I supposed to shut down my github account too?","parent":"18765258","id":"18765325"}
{"by":"adamfeldman","time":"1408815850","timestamp":"2014-08-23 17:44:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like that, it really works well. Repurposing yesterday\u0026#x27;s jargon for today\u0026#x27;s innovations.\u003cp\u003eI still think the writer should work on that word choice though....","parent":"8216313","id":"8216350"}
{"by":"skilesare","time":"1316575160","timestamp":"2011-09-21 03:19:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very, Very interesting concept.  This is very much what I've been thinking of doing with my new company rivvir.com.  Thanks for verifying the business model!\u003cp\u003eSeriously though, my focus was on doing something like this to cultivate the Houston Startup scene(there isn't much of one yet but there seems to be simmering pot and few really good start ups.)  Blog posts here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.rivvir.com/blog/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.rivvir.com/blog/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3019508","id":"3020599"}
{"by":"techyguy","time":"1489112333","timestamp":"2017-03-10 02:18:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, the original query according to the author is: (gao.gov do not distribute pdf) which basically captures all sites that have gao.gov, do, not, distribute and pdf listed anywhere in any order.\u003cp\u003eI found interesting docs there .....","parent":"13835456","id":"13835800"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1364832752","timestamp":"2013-04-01 16:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The security problems of Flash and Java are not comparable to those of Rails. They're different in magnitude, different in number, and different in circumstance and origin.\u003cp\u003eI strongly agree with 'knowtheory that gloating about security vulnerabilities is a bad habit. But this Rails/Java comparison is even worse. Nobody personalizes Java insecurity. The Java applet plugin is a mess, responsible for a huge number of compromised desktops, but nobody I know would assume that a developer who worked in Java or on the JVM would be security-illiterate. That's not true of the Rails drama, which is really an opportunity for people to piss on DHH and his personality cult, as you can see in this subthread with 'static_typed's comment.","parent":"5473582","id":"5473938"}
{"by":"graystevens","time":"1515532011","timestamp":"2018-01-09 21:06:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope, Windows Defender has already set the registry key, and you should be good to go. For the rest of you, there is a good public document[0] that is being regularly updated on the status of each of the AV products out there.\u003cp\u003e[0]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;spreadsheets\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;184wcDt9I9TUNFFbsAVLpzAtckQxYiuirADzf3cL42FQ\u0026#x2F;htmlview?usp=sharing\u0026amp;sle=true\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;spreadsheets\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;184wcDt9I9TUNFFbsAVLp...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16109851","id":"16110073"}
{"by":"40acres","time":"1479445280","timestamp":"2016-11-18 05:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is cool, I wanna go urban gardening with Ron.","parent":"12982738","id":"12984496"}
{"by":"realusername","time":"1513666002","timestamp":"2017-12-19 06:46:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And also in the UK, they generally pour your wine glass up to the top (no idea why) whereas in France it\u0026#x27;s always served with about a 1\u0026#x2F;4 of the glass.","parent":"15956562","id":"15958267"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1498952857","timestamp":"2017-07-01 23:47:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This breaks the HN guidelines. Please remain civil, regardless of how wrong someone else is.","parent":"14672454","id":"14679796"}
{"by":"Spearchucker","time":"1333463965","timestamp":"2012-04-03 14:39:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lol yeah. My point about having to change browser for a site stands though. It's a self-imposed \"denial-of-customer\" attack :-) I raised it because I see it more often than I would expect, and expect it least of all from an ad company like Google.\u003cp\u003eHTML 5 is great and all, but if a web site is trying to gain pageviews/users/whatever, then effectively blocking out one of the most widely-used browsers makes no sense to me.","parent":"3792929","id":"3793085"}
{"by":"chj","time":"1504254418","timestamp":"2017-09-01 08:26:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of people talk about callback hell. For me, the biggest issue of Callbacks is that you don\u0026#x27;t have a single point to catch thrown errors. We need finer control than a global catch-all handler.","parent":"15140669","id":"15146975"}
{"by":"tboyd47","time":"1512827823","timestamp":"2017-12-09 13:57:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe that\u0026#x27;s more accurate. I was using \u0026quot;politics\u0026quot; as just a catch-all term for anti-social behavior in general, but it is more specific than that.","parent":"15885790","id":"15885800"}
{"by":"Nomentatus","time":"1522032421","timestamp":"2018-03-26 02:47:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;YouTube. It has users who love conspiracy videos, and YouTube takes that love as a sign that more and more people would love those videos, too.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNot exactly. YouTube sends everybody down rabbit holes, because it adores sticky topics and video sources (more views, more $), and so rewards those who create a bit of an information monopoly by simply lying; after which, one of their videos leads you to another one of their videos. Nobody else is making videos on that, \u0026#x27;cause you made it up. You win. Novel \u0026quot;information\u0026quot; is more likely to be viewed through, and then followed up on with searches for more on the topic. So make \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e up, and YouTube is all about you, thrilled to facilitate the niche info-market you\u0026#x27;ve created out of thin air or wildly exaggerated.\u003cp\u003eMerely having your own misleading phrases to refer to your bent views will be heavily rewarded by search engines including Google\u0026#x27;s and YouTube\u0026#x27;s. For example:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I wrote about this in my new book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. In it, I discuss Dylann Roof, the Charleston mass murderer, who said he Googled the phrase “black on white crime” after the Trayvon Martin shooting. He has talked about how important that experience was in forming his white supremacist views. He noted in his online diary that when he Googled the phrase “black on white crime,” the search engine gave him information that shocked him—and helped him come to a different understanding about the so-called truth about race and the value of a multiracial society.\nThat’s because his search only returned the white supremacist websites that use such a phrase—a phrase that is used by hate-based sites to radicalize white Americans against African Americans and other people of color, including Jewish people. Google didn’t provide any context on the white supremacist movement. It didn’t provide any counterpoints of view.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;logicmag.io\u0026#x2F;03-engine-failure\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;logicmag.io\u0026#x2F;03-engine-failure\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16673938","id":"16676224"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1439561157","timestamp":"2015-08-14 14:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, that is why I find it good that both Mac OS X and Windows allow for kernel code in C++ as a kind of \u0026quot;worse is better\u0026quot; improvement over plain C.\u003cp\u003eHowever C++ with teams that haven\u0026#x27;t drink the safety kool aid, becomes C with a C++ compiler quite fast.\u003cp\u003eHence why nowadays I tend to only use it occasionally in side projects.","parent":"10059948","id":"10060139"}
{"by":"magicalist","time":"1455752867","timestamp":"2016-02-17 23:47:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thankfully it\u0026#x27;s not true","parent":"11121402","id":"11122532"}
{"by":"noodle","time":"1219682258","timestamp":"2008-08-25 16:37:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i also second this.\u003cp\u003ethere are a lot of consultancy firms that wave magic wands, practice black-magic voodoo and have secret sauces.\u003cp\u003ethe reality of the situation is that there are bread and butter principles to follow, and then its down to just optimizing/tweaking things.","parent":"286068","id":"286087"}
{"by":"zaphar","time":"1263266007","timestamp":"2010-01-12 03:13:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any one of those mentioned in your question are bad. If it's all of them it's still bad. No matter what meaning of the word \"is\" that you choose it's bad. That's kind of the point of the article really.","parent":"1046640","id":"1046731"}
{"by":"wiradikusuma","time":"1408697507","timestamp":"2014-08-22 08:51:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dont understand why you\u0026#x27;re downvoted (I upvoted you just because of that). Your comments are valid, and your concern is genuine.","parent":"8210914","id":"8211375"}
{"by":"arfrank","time":"1410295482","timestamp":"2014-09-09 20:44:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Curious to hear what innovations you see coming down the pipeline?  The spec also discusses loyalty programs via tokenization, but no one has yet to implement them to my knowledge.","parent":"8292611","id":"8292959"}
{"by":"maaku","time":"1347741449","timestamp":"2012-09-15 20:37:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I assume because of the legal complications given the nature of their work.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, yes. Google \"ITAR aerospace\" for why :\\\u003cp\u003eStill, the American aerospace industry has a long and illustrious tradition of bringing in experts from around the world and getting them citizenship. Get an internship somewhere that isn't ITAR-restricted and get yourself on the fast track for a green card.","parent":"4525290","id":"4527227"}
{"by":"willejs","time":"1398639552","timestamp":"2014-04-27 22:59:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"* How can I set up an environment without spending an entire week on it?\n- Cloud formation would be a good bet here\u003cp\u003e* How can I make installing everything as easy as possible?\n- Use hosted chef and community cookbooks\u003cp\u003eThese suggestions might be pretty daunting if you havent used chef or autoscaling\u0026#x2F;cloudformation before.\nAlternatively you could hack this all and bake an ami and clone it.\u003cp\u003eLook at using something with a higher granularity of metics than cloudwatch (resolution is 5 minutes), like graphite and collectd to collect stats easily.","parent":"7656144","id":"7657349"}
{"by":"mTh","time":"1252950397","timestamp":"2009-09-14 17:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmmm... what about tooling in the IDE which will push for MVC-type of development?","parent":"821365","id":"822166"}
{"by":"rdiddly","time":"1523951134","timestamp":"2018-04-17 07:45:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah I know about Citibike, Velib, Capital Bikeshare, and the Nike ones in Portland, all of which are part of how I ended up accumulating enough experience of the topic to end up baffled that they\u0026#x27;re actually popular. But from your comments I realize it\u0026#x27;s about avoiding a commitment. And I\u0026#x27;m not trying to sound as judgmental as that probably sounds. It\u0026#x27;s to enable you to NOT own a bike. But for reference here\u0026#x27;s how I\u0026#x27;ve dealt with your five issues:\u003cp\u003e1. My current bike cost $550 new, 6 years ago, so that would\u0026#x27;ve been less than $100\u0026#x2F;yr, if I hadn\u0026#x27;t replaced parts and spent more. But I get unlimited rides. And it\u0026#x27;ll last another 20 years if I\u0026#x27;m not a fad-follower and don\u0026#x27;t get reckless or unlucky.\u003cp\u003e2. I do it myself, that way I\u0026#x27;m the one in control of when it fails to get done.\u003cp\u003e3. Always lock it. Never had a problem. Having a cheap $550 bike probably helps.\u003cp\u003e4. Yep America\u0026#x27;s like that. I carry mine up \u0026amp; down from the 3rd floor. If I move I\u0026#x27;ll choose not to live above the 3rd floor. Or maybe I\u0026#x27;ll live on the 5th floor after all, and become a bad-ass with huge calves and five flights of endurance.\u003cp\u003e5. I wear rain gear.","parent":"16856110","id":"16856336"}
{"by":"Larrikin","time":"1506958092","timestamp":"2017-10-02 15:28:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good?","parent":"15384107","id":"15384538"}
{"by":"lupin_sansei","time":"1182472531","timestamp":"2007-06-22 00:35:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't equate men in the field of computing as cutey pies because I don't find men cute.\u003cp\u003eHow does thinking someone is cute make her accomplishments not equal to men?\u003cp\u003eTo me your looks and your accomplishments are completely independent. Your accomplishments stand on their own, regardless of how you look.\u003cp\u003eI think you are overreacting somewhat.","parent":"29867","id":"29941"}
{"by":"codeslush","time":"1320892758","timestamp":"2011-11-10 02:39:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fundamentally, I don't see an issue with you doing outside consulting work, as long as it isn't in direct competition with your main employer.  I would definitely never mix assets - e.g. don't use your main work computer for moonlighting work.  Moonlighting has been around forever, in all trades, and won't go away.\u003cp\u003eRealistically, this is a very difficult task to pull off in our discipline.  This was true for me anyway -  I've tried it and it was short lived.  It could be that I'm an \"all or nothing\" kind of guy and it is just difficult for me.  Maybe other people don't suffer from this quirk.  For me, I find it incredibly difficult to shift between simultaneous projects.  It takes a certain amount of mental time just to get into productive mode.  By the end of the day, I'm pretty exhausted from my main duties.  What happens, then, is I ended up doing okay at one task, and terrible at the other, but didn't produce the kind of quality output I would want for either. Ultimately, I wasn't pleased with myself.\u003cp\u003eThe startup is going to expect you to be 150% focused on their objectives.  I don't think it will be an 8 to 5 gig.  That's not the way these things work.  It's a heck of a commitment, and if it were my startup, I would want you \"fully engaged.\"\u003cp\u003eJust my 2cents.","parent":"3218252","id":"3218613"}
{"by":"vannevar","time":"1405054082","timestamp":"2014-07-11 04:48:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you read the rest of my comment, you\u0026#x27;ll see that it is not identical at all. For instance, why would a lottery winner value their time more highly? Their time doesn\u0026#x27;t earn them anything. And you went beyond saying that the individual values their time more, you implied that \u003ci\u003esociety\u003c/i\u003e should also value it more to encourage productivity. But again, what kind of productivity are we encouraging from a lottery winner, a trust fund baby, or a con artist?","parent":"8018135","id":"8018907"}
{"by":"quarterwave","time":"1414211862","timestamp":"2014-10-25 04:37:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saw this after posting my comment. I agree this is the simplest way to think of an FFT.","parent":"8507056","id":"8507237"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1497391642","timestamp":"2017-06-13 22:07:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Assuming Debian Stretch still uses non-systemd networking configuration (which was the default case in 8 at least), or Tails switches back to it, systemd shouldn\u0026#x27;t impact what Tails tries to do in any way.","parent":"14548985","id":"14549073"}
{"by":"shmichael","time":"1382218842","timestamp":"2013-10-19 21:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"feature detection happens too late, if you want to serve fast.","parent":"6577870","id":"6577980"}
{"by":"jonathanstark","time":"1312770731","timestamp":"2011-08-08 02:32:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for your feedback! Your suggestion is a good one and something that I've been considering. It is possible to reload one sbux card from another, so I was thinking about using one for deposit only and dribbling the balance into the purchase card at $20 per hour or similar. I think there's something about this that would ruin the excitement so I'm working on different approach at the moment. Not sure where it'll end up.","parent":"2858389","id":"2858523"}
{"by":"sillygoose","time":"1431864952","timestamp":"2015-05-17 12:15:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty cool.","parent":"9559240","id":"9559728"}
{"by":"doktrin","time":"1403551668","timestamp":"2014-06-23 19:27:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Accounting has always struck me as a field that is un-appreciated by the masses, but valued quite highly by those somewhat more in the know. For instance, a background in accounting is highly valued in investment banking.","parent":"7933746","id":"7933995"}
{"by":"davedx","time":"1314878219","timestamp":"2011-09-01 11:56:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This man has never heard of video game A.I. programming :)","parent":"2949543","id":"2949597"}
{"by":"realworldview","time":"1466016540","timestamp":"2016-06-15 18:49:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And I\u0026#x27;m quitting the gym.","parent":"11910966","id":"11911176"}
{"by":"EthanHeilman","time":"1463066118","timestamp":"2016-05-12 15:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Your arguments are exactly the ones used by creationists for the purpose of making that internally consistent system seem as valid as the theory of evolution.\u003cp\u003eScience is different than Mathematics in that science must be both internally and externally consistent.","parent":"11683799","id":"11683963"}
{"by":"graeme","time":"1425582359","timestamp":"2015-03-05 19:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, actually I meant what could the mods do about it? Since you mentioned allowing HN to be a boy zone.\u003cp\u003eI \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e (hope?) I\u0026#x27;m fine personally as far as female engagement goes. I run a forum in my niche, a niche that\u0026#x27;s slightly majority female.","parent":"9152293","id":"9153076"}
{"by":"gtrubetskoy","time":"1359049388","timestamp":"2013-01-24 17:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but not quite. The first thing zrange does is look for the starting point, which is an approximately O(log(N)) for a skiplist (which is how it's implemented). An iterator's next() operation should be O(1). If I need to iterate over a gazillion elements, it would make a huge difference. Or course you could zrange chunks, and it would be more efficient, but what's wrong with a simple START and NEXT semantic?\u003cp\u003eBUT this is all a moot point - a Sorted Set is not the type of structure that something like SQLite4 needs anyway. The keys should be sorted lexicographically, not by score. I think a Skip List fits the bill perfectly, and Redis already contains an implementation of it (as part of Sorted Sets), why not expose it as a standalone type?","parent":"5110759","id":"5110869"}
{"by":"bdb","time":"1363217872","timestamp":"2013-03-13 23:37:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been using NewsBlur for a few weeks now (I met Sam a couple weekends ago) and I think it's fantastic. Highly recommended.","parent":"5371771","id":"5371901"}
{"by":"gerbilly","time":"1467377411","timestamp":"2016-07-01 12:50:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;In particular, tropical islands are incredibly damaging to your motivation and general happiness.\u003cp\u003eFor me it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be if the island had a good surf break.\u003cp\u003eLiving on the cheap for a few years on an island like that would be awesome for me.","parent":"12014530","id":"12015557"}
{"by":"rodionos","time":"1496939149","timestamp":"2017-06-08 16:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apples-Oranges-Apples","parent":"14514564","id":"14515239"}
{"by":"paul_f","time":"1373157552","timestamp":"2013-07-07 00:39:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No jury in the world ...","parent":"6000366","id":"6000573"}
{"by":"Thiez","time":"1541636231","timestamp":"2018-11-08 00:17:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But without optional parameters, what is the point of named parameters? Hopefully most functions have a limited number of parameters, with these parameters being in a somewhat logical order, and the names of the values passed to the functions hinting at their purpose. In addition, more and more IDEs have the ability to display the parameter names. Some display them at all times, other on mouse-over.\u003cp\u003eI write a lot of C#, and find I only used named parameters when a function has default parameters. Even then I prefer to avoid writing such functions myself, and Microsoft seems to agree [1].\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;visualstudio\u0026#x2F;code-quality\u0026#x2F;ca1026-default-parameters-should-not-be-used?view=vs-2017\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;visualstudio\u0026#x2F;code-quality\u0026#x2F;c...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18401157","id":"18403434"}
{"by":"jcr","time":"1364651469","timestamp":"2013-03-30 13:51:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The other two parts are below but I'm not done reading them:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.mobilesecurity.com/articles/422-history-of-mobile-malware-part-ii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.mobilesecurity.com/articles/422-history-of-mobile...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.mobilesecurity.com/articles/423-history-of-mobile-malware-part-iii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.mobilesecurity.com/articles/423-history-of-mobile...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5465390","id":"5465391"}
{"by":"FollowSteph3","time":"1391466876","timestamp":"2014-02-03 22:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t forget we\u0026#x27;re also near the end of a mini ice age so we should be expecting the earth to heat up. A lot of people forget this. Antarctica was once warm...","parent":"7173978","id":"7174004"}
{"by":"Frogolocalypse","time":"1477702258","timestamp":"2016-10-29 00:50:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In different countries it is called different things. The point being, you can change it through your elected representatives if you so choose.","parent":"12820145","id":"12821992"}
{"by":"thomaskcr","time":"1491352001","timestamp":"2017-04-05 00:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Slightly concerning to see so much skepticism\u003cp\u003eI think its more concerning that skepticism is a bad word in climate \u003ci\u003escience\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThe facts are the observations about our climate, I think the conclusion it\u0026#x27;s changing and humans are causing it is pretty well supported by that. Past there, we\u0026#x27;re basing policy decisions on modeling (so 1 level removed from observation) and then predicting the effects of those changes on the environment (2 levels removed from observation). So policy decisions based on projected effects in modeled changes to those parameters are pretty far removed from the actual \u0026quot;97% of scientists agree with this conclusion\u0026quot; part of the field.\u003cp\u003eI live in an affluent area with a good job in a pretty future proof field - it\u0026#x27;s really easy for me to say \u0026quot;well, who cares if we make the world a better place for no reason\u0026quot;. These policy decisions affect a lot of people in negative ways though - to pretend they don\u0026#x27;t have a valid reason to oppose those changes, and that those policies are based on bullet proof science (especially with the past of climate modeling) is just as anti-science to me as the people who deny the climate is changing. It indicates that a person doesn\u0026#x27;t understand confidence levels or how errors propagate through layers (especially in an non-linear system) or the difference between an observation, a forecast model and a projection.","parent":"14031232","id":"14038602"}
{"by":"wisty","time":"1370836082","timestamp":"2013-06-10 03:48:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t care. I don\u0026#x27;t care. The EU companies which are running systems on US-based SAS platforms care.","parent":"5852093","id":"5852241"}
{"by":"glhaynes","time":"1422824298","timestamp":"2015-02-01 20:58:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Smart and useful! And if there are issues with the GIF format, surely others could easily be added. Nice work.","parent":"8981314","id":"8981628"}
{"by":"richardwhiuk","time":"1496484714","timestamp":"2017-06-03 10:11:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Modern intel CPUs are very different beasts from your average microcontroller.","parent":"14474791","id":"14475699"}
{"by":"sprash","time":"1418582227","timestamp":"2014-12-14 18:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also interesting the debian package \u0026quot;usbmount\u0026quot;: auto mounts plugged in sticks as \u0026quot;\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;usb\u0026quot;","parent":"8748534","id":"8749086"}
{"by":"greenhatman","time":"1532172643","timestamp":"2018-07-21 11:30:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if you only use Git for save points, it\u0026#x27;s game changing. I honestly can\u0026#x27;t imagine working without it. I\u0026#x27;d be too afraid to change anything, in case I break it.","parent":"17579528","id":"17581645"}
{"by":"dataisfun","time":"1340157187","timestamp":"2012-06-20 01:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not an issue at all. I grew up in Tel Aviv and Israelis love Americans, esp. those doing tech related work.","parent":"4135182","id":"4135260"}
{"by":"z3t4","time":"1491673171","timestamp":"2017-04-08 17:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s the user benefit of a (JavaScript) \u0026quot;desktop\u0026quot; (Electron, nw.js) app vs the same app as a web (browser) app , given that the web app has all the features of the desktop app, when the app won\u0026#x27;t work without the server ? (if you can\u0026#x27;t run the server yourself)\u003cp\u003eBenefits for a web app (non-desktop):\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  * User don\u0026#x27;t have to download the \u0026quot;browser\u0026quot; (Electron or nw.js)\n  * The user don\u0026#x27;t need \u0026quot;install\u0026quot; permissions\n  * The app can be accessed via an URL\n  * The app runs in a VM (a browser) that don\u0026#x27;t give full (root) access like a Electron\u0026#x2F;nw.js app does.\n\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nbtw, I did not know Spotify had a web app. There\u0026#x27;s only a tiny link to it at the bottom of the page, impossible to find unless you really look for it, witch is probably why no one is using it.\nP.S I\u0026#x27;m now enjoying Spotify via the web app after not using it for years because I don\u0026#x27;t like \u0026quot;desktop\u0026quot; apps (for the reasons above)","parent":"14066131","id":"14068003"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1534970807","timestamp":"2018-08-22 20:46:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This comment is beyond the pale. No more of this here, please.\u003cp\u003eWe detached this subthread from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17820916\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17820916\u003c/a\u003e and marked it off-topic.","parent":"17820989","id":"17822032"}
{"by":"arca_vorago","time":"1502336687","timestamp":"2017-08-10 03:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve seen PIA being very active and friendly, along with supporting FOSS which I love, so I say good work.\u003cp\u003eThat said, a question: is there a way for a power user to control this startup ping mechanism in favor of using a single server they have selected as the best? The only reason I see to not do this would be if your IP ranges are volatile time-wise for some reason. Or perhaps I\u0026#x27;m missing another factor?","parent":"14975547","id":"14976150"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1466609874","timestamp":"2016-06-22 15:37:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everytime we try blind auditions we see more women being picked.  It\u0026#x27;s the responsibility of the conference to guard against bias.","parent":"11954732","id":"11954739"}
{"by":"antr","time":"1418325147","timestamp":"2014-12-11 19:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- I\u0026#x27;m still waiting for the specific examples, the europa.eu link doesn\u0026#x27;t show any information you mention. Again I quote you \u0026quot;countries ignored the deficit limits to increase investment\u0026quot;, none of that is mentioned in the website you refer to.\u003cp\u003e- The \u0026quot;European Fiscal Compact\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t forbid public investment. Feel free to point me to the clause in question.\u003cp\u003e- And finally:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; a small bank with a market share of 2% that required upwards of 5 billion euros of taxpayer\u0026#x27;s money\u003cp\u003eWhat has market share got to do with the size of the capital requirements? Lehman Brother had 0% US retail banking market share, and yet the capital requirement was well above many of the largest retail US banks. You are mixing two completely independent variables! You are mixing capital structure with a vanity metric which is market share... it\u0026#x27;s mind boggling.","parent":"8735238","id":"8736523"}
{"by":"sneak","time":"1518820112","timestamp":"2018-02-16 22:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those people were using 10-20x a typical recreational dose, daily.","parent":"16395384","id":"16397070"}
{"by":"jacalata","time":"1396050407","timestamp":"2014-03-28 23:46:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"tl;dr: because we think that the questions asked on the application are good ones to have considered simply for the future of a startup anyway.","parent":"7490541","id":"7490705"}
{"by":"GarethX","time":"1420631018","timestamp":"2015-01-07 11:43:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Added, my bad","parent":"8849856","id":"8849972"}
{"by":"binarymax","time":"1291141172","timestamp":"2010-11-30 18:19:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speaking of which ...I wonder if we will hear anything from \u003ca href=\"http://bumptop.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bumptop.com/\u003c/a\u003e via Google soon?","parent":"1954878","id":"1955012"}
{"by":"TheLoneWolfling","time":"1437864222","timestamp":"2015-07-25 22:43:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Two semi-tangential ideas:\u003cp\u003eI wish it was possible to do things along the lines of \u0026quot;fetch this data from RAM and at the same time start recomputing it, whichever is faster\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAnd also, I wish there was a \u0026quot;branch upcoming \u0026#x2F; branch execute\u0026quot; split. In other words, instead of just \u0026quot;here\u0026#x27;s a branch\u0026quot;, it\u0026#x27;s more along the lines of \u0026quot;you will have to branch on \u0026lt;x\u0026gt;. \u0026lt;other instructions\u0026gt; now branch on \u0026lt;x\u0026gt;.\u0026quot; Effectively a variable number of branch-delay slot(s). Wouldn\u0026#x27;t help for straight pointer-chasing, but in other situations it could.","parent":"9941349","id":"9949333"}
{"by":"nunez","time":"1506099850","timestamp":"2017-09-22 17:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the reply! You\u0026#x27;re totally right re: regional airports being better for charters. Hubs are more expensive and really, really busy; plus, there isn\u0026#x27;t as much traffic to a smaller airport, so the ride in and out is nicer. When I fly out of regionals with Southwest or regional airlines (Mesa, PSA, Republic, etc.), ExecJet and tail numbers are all I hear on the ATC (alongside some bigger airline callsigns, like Southwest or regionals).\u003cp\u003eI did two discovery flights and got to partially operate the plane both times. I absolutely can\u0026#x27;t wait to take lessons; I loved it.","parent":"15309450","id":"15313903"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1411473285","timestamp":"2014-09-23 11:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also not, since I require access to specific 3D programming software SDKs (vendor specific), modeling, video editing tools and .NET (work).\u003cp\u003eThis currently makes me a Windows\u0026#x2F;Mac OS X guy in what concerns desktop usage.","parent":"8354791","id":"8354906"}
{"by":"repeek","time":"1477488655","timestamp":"2016-10-26 13:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you say \u0026quot;go agile\u0026quot;, what do you mean? Why does the client care how the project is delivered?\u003cp\u003eIf the client wants to pay a fixed bid then bake that added risk into your estimate.\u003cp\u003eFor clients - if they\u0026#x27;re asking for something new\u0026#x2F;unique, what they have in their minds at the beginning is just a theory and needs to be tested -- working in iterations and focusing on \u0026quot;how do we help you prove your hypothesis in the most time\u0026#x2F;cost effective manner\u0026quot;. Agile is about incremental, demonstrable progress to provide clarity and reduce risk.","parent":"12793364","id":"12796270"}
{"by":"lima","time":"1479421988","timestamp":"2016-11-17 22:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most importantly, a stable API which can be concurrently used by multiple processes.\u003cp\u003eGetting\u0026#x2F;setting single values in a plain text config file is cumbersome and error-prone, and even if there\u0026#x27;s a library which is able to read that particular format, it often clobbers comments and formatting. For systems administration, you usually solve this by generating the entire config file from a template since nothing on the server should change your config files anyway.\u003cp\u003eHowever, on the desktop, many different application want to read and write keys. Tray applets, the system config panel, even your media player... They would inevitably conflict and you\u0026#x27;d have to implement file-based locking.\u003cp\u003eAnother topic: real-time notifications. If you modify the text size in the Gnome Control Panel, what happens is that the panel modifies the value in dconf and dconf sends a notification to all running Gnome applications. You could implement this using inotify, but you\u0026#x27;d need code in each of your applications to open the config file, parse it and figure out which setting actually changed.\u003cp\u003eSingle dconf lookups are really fast since everything is zero-copy and doesn\u0026#x27;t involve any syscalls. This is much faster than opening, reading and parsing config files.\u003cp\u003edconf doesn\u0026#x27;t aim to replace all plain text config files. Storing the i3 or SSH configuration in dconf would be stupid (or even using dconf on a server to begin with).","parent":"12982128","id":"12982377"}
{"by":"jessriedel","time":"1365460469","timestamp":"2013-04-08 22:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're looking for wide appeal, the name seems unnecessarily risqué.","parent":"5515029","id":"5515115"}
{"by":"BuckRogers","time":"1450388904","timestamp":"2015-12-17 21:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An invite directly from the head honcho himself! Thanks Jose, I will do so. \nMy dream language was basically Elixir, another BEAM VM language but Pythonic but called something like \u0026#x27;Hydra\u0026#x27; to play off the Python theme. Envisioning a multiheaded snake fits right in with the Erlang actor theme.\u003cp\u003eBut, why reinvent the wheel when you guys already have something similar enough. I\u0026#x27;ll for sure reserve some time to dive in.","parent":"10750350","id":"10754807"}
{"by":"evilneanderthal","time":"1227120800","timestamp":"2008-11-19 18:53:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I agree with your opinion, in this case it seems like the \"norms of professional behavior\" were more about control than about multiculturalism.","parent":"369570","id":"369776"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1499264684","timestamp":"2017-07-05 14:24:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about learning to understand English?\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;writing mostly safe systems programs.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eDo you understand what \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c/i\u003e means?\u003cp\u003eAda and Modula-2 have multi-threading as part of their ISO\u0026#x2F;ANSI language standard.\u003cp\u003eAlso you don\u0026#x27;t seem to know much about Ada given your GC remark, but here is some learning.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.fosdem.org\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;schedule\u0026#x2F;event\u0026#x2F;ada_memory\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.fosdem.org\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;schedule\u0026#x2F;event\u0026#x2F;ada_memory\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course there are still use cases where Algol derived languages are still unsafe, however those use cases are a tiny portion of what happens in C land.","parent":"14701867","id":"14702621"}
{"by":"marvin","time":"1472628975","timestamp":"2016-08-31 07:36:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I\u0026#x27;ve read that the cost of an empty Falcon 9 first stage is somewhere $10 million. They would have to spend a lot on inspections in order to not save a lot of money. IMHO, a lot of the skepticism I\u0026#x27;ve previously read about SpaceX\u0026#x27;s reusability program is just inherited from the Space Shuttle program. I.e. \u0026quot;\u0026quot;if the US government can\u0026#x27;t do it, how can a small-ish private company do it\u0026quot;?","parent":"12395423","id":"12396591"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1430439382","timestamp":"2015-05-01 00:16:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After trying for a while, I finally \u0026#x27;managed\u0026#x27; to do it any time I wanted to, now that I stopped it doesn\u0026#x27;t happen anymore. I\u0026#x27;d second the stretched ligament theory.","parent":"9467185","id":"9468507"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1409305784","timestamp":"2014-08-29 09:49:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be interesting to see a similar study done on (racing) cyclists in a peloton. It\u0026#x27;s fairly rare to see similar behaviour in that environment, and I\u0026#x27;m not sure why. Maybe the fear of road rash is enough to make people ignore phantoms.","parent":"8239848","id":"8241839"}
{"by":"zak_mc_kracken","time":"1410744631","timestamp":"2014-09-15 01:30:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty much every article that is posted about Go ends up in a never ending discussion about the absence of generics, which completely drowns the discussions about Go. As a result, the material on the web about Go has a very high noise\u0026#x2F;signal ratio, which is unfortunate.\u003cp\u003eHopefully, the Go team will see this as one more reason to add generics to their language, but until they do that, Go will remain a niche language with a severely crippled potential.","parent":"8315996","id":"8316871"}
{"by":"vineet7kumar","time":"1468874388","timestamp":"2016-07-18 20:39:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; considering how the state holds what was injected in higher esteem than whatever is native. It seems that most of the indignance pointed to at @pmarca is about (white) guilt shaming.\u003cp\u003eIf I understand your logic correctly, it seems that you are suggesting that a country or a community should either reinvent every useful thing that was introduced by colonialists or should not take a stand against the ideas of colonialism, racism and discrimination!\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a fact that Britishers introduced a lot of technology in this world and helped bring it to many countries but I feel that it would have been much better if they would have tried to integrate with these countries rather than trying to follow a master-slave approach. Anyways, what\u0026#x27;s done is done but we can certainly hope that going forward the world can be a more equal place.","parent":"12117053","id":"12117938"}
{"by":"benatkin","time":"1299103966","timestamp":"2011-03-02 22:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Convore needs a room for that. Stereotypical programmer has been sitting on his butt for five hours straight. To go with:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://convore.com/early-bird-codes-before-8am/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://convore.com/early-bird-codes-before-8am/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2281458","id":"2281602"}
{"by":"mlamat","time":"1438585224","timestamp":"2015-08-03 07:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One word: training","parent":"9993576","id":"9994198"}
{"by":"GraemeLion","time":"1487470671","timestamp":"2017-02-19 02:17:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you request this with your plugin\u0026#x2F;addon developers, or with mozilla yourself through their many methods of contact for this if you are a plugin\u0026#x2F;addon developer?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t get why addon\u0026#x2F;plugin developers not communicating upstream is the problem of upstream.","parent":"13677346","id":"13677851"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1466115873","timestamp":"2016-06-16 22:24:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The argument is as long as the math works out for a purely physical universe to behave like X.  Then that\u0026#x27;s all you need.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, the possibility exists for a purely physical universe \u003ci\u003eeven if that\u0026#x27;s not the one we live in.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"11918728","id":"11919358"}
{"by":"mcguire","time":"1491673955","timestamp":"2017-04-08 17:52:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that we don\u0026#x27;t actually know the nature of any private communication between our recent candidates. Further, the standards of communication between men of a certain rank were more formal at the time.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, Mr. Jefferson was accused of being an atheist and of wanting to destroy the country à la the Reign of Terror. And Mr. Adams was painted as tolerating straight up acts of war.","parent":"14067883","id":"14068062"}
{"by":"hnriot","time":"1355421611","timestamp":"2012-12-13 18:00:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title is misleading, Amazin video has been available on the iPad for a while. This update brings it to the iPhone and iPod Touch.","parent":"4916064","id":"4917035"}
{"by":"fjabre","time":"1473387876","timestamp":"2016-09-09 02:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. We have considered open sourcing but we need to clean some things up on the backend before doing so. Also we have some 3rd party tools that are not free that are part of the core functionality. So open sourcing might not make sense but I would like to make the platform available to users who want to catalogue their own collections. Thanks for your comment","parent":"12459204","id":"12459280"}
{"by":"newman314","time":"1449088911","timestamp":"2015-12-02 20:41:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Enh. Signal\u0026#x27;s UX is still not effortless.\u003cp\u003eFor example:\u003cp\u003e* Does not make it clear it\u0026#x27;s a point to point mapping (on iOS) right now. I discovered this the hard way.\u003cp\u003e* Unclear failure modes (see above). It\u0026#x27;s entirely possible to have messages be silently dropped.\u003cp\u003e* Texting vs. call methods unclear. I.e. there\u0026#x27;s a phone icon but no text icon (select name instead).\u003cp\u003e* Contacts list has some text only, some phone only, some both.\u003cp\u003e* The whole contacts list arguably needs to be rethought. It only shows others that have installed Signal\u0026#x2F;RedPhone\u0026#x2F;Textsecure. There is no easy way to see if someone does NOT have Signal installed and have the functionality to send a link to invite other person to add the app. I think this would help tremendously in the virality of the app.\u003cp\u003e* There used to be easy ways to invite people to the app within the app, seems to have gone away with only a tweet an invite to app store function remaining.\u003cp\u003e* There have been several instances when I can\u0026#x27;t see someone after they install Signal. They have to initiate a message to me in order for the contact to show up in the list.\u003cp\u003e* Signal has poor handling for contacts with multiple numbers. It\u0026#x27;s not clear which number is being used and you can\u0026#x27;t switch selection of numbers.\u003cp\u003eSo what I\u0026#x27;m saying is don\u0026#x27;t necessarily ape what Telegram\u0026#x2F;WhatsApp etc. is doing but I think Signal would do well to study hard the onboarding workflows of those apps.","parent":"10665476","id":"10665645"}
{"by":"abelsson","time":"1480777430","timestamp":"2016-12-03 15:03:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A while ago, I spent a fair amount of time evaluating JIT frameworks including DynASM. The one I ended up using is something called Xbyak (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;herumi\u0026#x2F;xbyak\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;herumi\u0026#x2F;xbyak\u003c/a\u003e) which I think is a bit of a hidden gem. Unlike DynASM, it doesn\u0026#x27;t require a preprocessing pass, is better documented and IMHO easier to use.\u003cp\u003eSo if you\u0026#x27;re in the market for a lightweight JIT engine and target C++\u0026#x2F;X86, I\u0026#x27;d give Xbyak a whirl too and see which one you like better.","parent":"13094586","id":"13095903"}
{"by":"dmurray","time":"1506454120","timestamp":"2017-09-26 19:28:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be surprising if someone hadn\u0026#x27;t made such a ridiculous claim. But in an article on gay marriage in the US, would the NY Times really have felt the need to observe that \u0026quot;one preacher even claimed - with no evidence -\n that homosexuality caused earthquakes\u0026quot;?","parent":"15341713","id":"15341771"}
{"by":"michaelt","time":"1420110108","timestamp":"2015-01-01 11:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if this is actually \u0026quot;standard\u0026quot; or if there are just outliers that receive press attention, but there have been reports of innocent people confessing after being interrogated for 15 hours a day [1].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/asia/11japan.html?pagewanted=all\u0026amp;_r=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2007\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;asia\u0026#x2F;11japan.html?pa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8822597","id":"8822623"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1433578989","timestamp":"2015-06-06 08:23:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it\u0026#x27;s an unhelpful thing about HN having a terrible partial subset of markdown: ignoring that every other markdown implementation under the sun has more supported markup, all of them provide ways to escape markup characters and inline code sections which ignore markup characters.","parent":"9669103","id":"9670129"}
{"by":"dwild","time":"1389511260","timestamp":"2014-01-12 07:21:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it really the same?\u003cp\u003eIf they have backup (it\u0026#x27;s MIT.. I don\u0026#x27;t doubt they do have backup) it\u0026#x27;s probably clean in less than 15 minutes.\u003cp\u003eNow they also need to fix the security issue. It\u0026#x27;s more like I know your door is broken but I use that problem to talk about another problem. Will that make you work more? Maybe yeah because you will have to fix that door NOW but in the same time, the same is true if I told only you, you would still need to fix it now because it can be a HUGE danger for you.","parent":"7043004","id":"7045465"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1234531672","timestamp":"2009-02-13 13:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"One of the things we see when businesses have too much power is that they corrupt those watchdogs, and we see this in the U.S. all the time. The U.S. government has ceased to effectively monitor the market to make sure it works well. Instead, it is a tool in the hands of big business.\"\u003cp\u003eI think Stallman's views tend towards the extreme but I have to agree with this one.","parent":"479751","id":"479820"}
{"by":"shitgoose","time":"1454002084","timestamp":"2016-01-28 17:28:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"bend","parent":"10989442","id":"10989624"}
{"by":"carbocation","time":"1275847828","timestamp":"2010-06-06 18:10:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aha. Not sure I've ever seen that number, which would involve coroner data, or sometimes simply be unavailable.\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, with ~200,000 people per year on Medicare alone having acute MI and surviving long enough to get to the hospital, we're still talking about a growing burden of MI survivors.","parent":"1408818","dead":true,"id":"1408831"}
{"by":"comex","time":"1391484258","timestamp":"2014-02-04 03:24:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the \u0026quot;available only on this devices\u0026quot; thing is about formatting, not DRM, although I could be wrong.  (Of course, one might wonder why the original Kindle isn\u0026#x27;t being updated to support the new stuff...)","parent":"7175233","id":"7175306"}
{"by":"menloparkbum","time":"1211864570","timestamp":"2008-05-27 05:02:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why is that bad?","parent":"200574","id":"200690"}
{"by":"jkestner","time":"1374206879","timestamp":"2013-07-19 04:07:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re not crazy. I\u0026#x27;ve found that a small customer service interaction early on (regardless of fault) helps solidify a good first impression. Not that I intentionally create problems...","parent":"6068183","id":"6068277"}
{"by":"teleclimber","time":"1485883517","timestamp":"2017-01-31 17:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be helpful if you could provide a high-level explanation of what \u0026quot;Structured Reactive Programming\u0026quot; means and what problem you are trying to solve with current solutions? How is it different from current reactive environments?","parent":"13519835","id":"13532815"}
{"by":"moe","time":"1329525361","timestamp":"2012-02-18 00:36:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Part of me hopes Windows will rediscover tiling, considering their new-found love for tiles.\u003cp\u003eIn the unlikely event they execute on that I might actually be tempted to try windows again - for the first time in 10 years.","parent":"3605122","id":"3605573"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1247071197","timestamp":"2009-07-08 16:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"do you also block ads that pertain to other religions?  Or are you a sectarian opposer of Scientology? :)","parent":"694018","id":"694176"}
{"by":"iamleppert","time":"1519277972","timestamp":"2018-02-22 05:39:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your question is fallacious. The point is he is the first known person to have witnessed it in known history, the odds of such were calculated to be 1 in 10 million.","parent":"16435319","id":"16435368"}
{"by":"mads_ravn","time":"1454403171","timestamp":"2016-02-02 08:52:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it as bit disingenous. The key part about the alpha measurement is this\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; [...] in the next very short period, say one second [...]\u003cp\u003eMost \u0026quot;institutional investors\u0026quot; (which I guess means longer-term in the context of the article) would not be affected by this.","parent":"11015681","id":"11018327"}
{"by":"maffydub","time":"1519931712","timestamp":"2018-03-01 19:15:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point the parent might have been making is that many people (or maybe just me) know \u0026quot;type II error\u0026quot; by the far more self-explanatory name of \u0026quot;false negative\u0026quot;.","parent":"16494955","id":"16495158"}
{"by":"kapture12","time":"1461683478","timestamp":"2016-04-26 15:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Singapore is best city i would lovr to there,\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kapturecrm.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kapturecrm.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11570763","dead":true,"id":"11572513"}
{"by":"MostAwesomeDude","time":"1309708993","timestamp":"2011-07-03 16:03:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whenever I see posts like this, I have to ask the question: How can code be improved if nobody criticizes it? I can sense the ableist vibe of this blog post, but in general, the ability to say, frankly, that somebody's code is bad is \u003ci\u003eessential\u003c/i\u003e for teaching that person how to write good code. I've seen far too many students get away with writing horrible code simply because there isn't a TA on the planet willing to directly point out what's wrong with their algorithms or logic.\u003cp\u003eIn other disciplines, like music (something in which I have quite a bit of experience), criticism is essential. The best teachers I ever had were the ones who were unafraid to tell me exactly what I was doing wrong. One class was taught in a group setting, and the instructor told us at the beginning of class that he usually made people feel uncomfortable, and that thick skins would be required. He had a habit of pointing out what you were doing wrong in the middle of class, not for humiliation, but so that the entire class could learn from example. Best class I've ever taken in that department.","parent":"2723632","id":"2723901"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1293647787","timestamp":"2010-12-29 18:36:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$1000/day is revenue, not earnings, FWIW.","parent":"2048911","id":"2049656"}
{"by":"travisjungroth","time":"1506876428","timestamp":"2017-10-01 16:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last night I finished a project I’ve been working on in my spare time. It’s a web app where you can set up a group of messages, and get one of those messages texted to you at scheduled times. I use it to remind myself of things that are important but I tend to forget throughout the day.\u003cp\u003eWhile at work, I might get “Writes lots of tests” or “Go for short walks”. Every night at 11, my phone buzzes with “Get lots of sleep”. I wrote it as a script about a month ago, and have found it surprisingly valuable. Now I’ve finished a web app so other people can use it too.\u003cp\u003eLessons learned:\u003cp\u003eI’m finally decent at estimating time for projects. I can do that by breaking it into the smallest pieces I can, remembering the longest it’s taken me to do that sort of task (not the shortest) and then doubling it (to account for missed stuff). That seems to be about right.\u003cp\u003eWriting an MVP script for myself was huge. I did that in about 3 hours and this project has taken more like 50. Having something useful already was very motivating and I learned a lot over the month. I hardcoded everything (the schedule, the text, my phone number) into that first script just to get something working. I was able to reuse the shuffling code, so it wasn’t totally scrapped.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eStack\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ePython 3 (Used pipenv for the first time and I’d highly recommend it)\u003cp\u003eDjango 1.11\u003cp\u003ePostgres\u003cp\u003eBootstrap\u003cp\u003ejQuery\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eProviders\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHosting: Heroku\u003cp\u003eCode: GitHub\u003cp\u003eDNS: EasyDNS\u003cp\u003eBug Reporting: Sentry\u003cp\u003eTexting: Twilio\u003cp\u003eBootstrap Theme: Lumen by Bootswatch\u003cp\u003eHome image: MockuPhone\u003cp\u003eSo, give it a try and let me know how you like it!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.solitext.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.solitext.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15378609","id":"15378616"}
{"by":"multiplier","time":"1405413062","timestamp":"2014-07-15 08:31:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scribd was synonymous with copyright violation for years. Nice to see you\u0026#x27;re finally making an honest business out of it.","parent":"8035319","id":"8035355"}
{"by":"mwill","time":"1319358619","timestamp":"2011-10-23 08:30:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aside from this, can anyone in the know give some info about the startup community/hacker culture in Japan. Is there one?\u003cp\u003eI'm in Australia, and I've always had a suspicion that China or Japan would be the closest hub of innovation and interesting stuff outside of Aus.","parent":"3145332","id":"3145602"}
{"by":"martin_bech","time":"1519923483","timestamp":"2018-03-01 16:58:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if you need 535M USD to effectively deliver pizzas... I think you are doing it wrong. Specially if you make money on every order.","parent":"16493066","id":"16493707"}
{"by":"sdegutis","time":"1461345928","timestamp":"2016-04-22 17:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like that\u0026#x27;s typical of most new apps\u0026#x2F;websites coming out. Trying to solve non-problems. That\u0026#x27;s why we never jumped onto using Slack at work. And now I\u0026#x27;m feeling a bit validated about that decision, seeing as just a year later everyone\u0026#x27;s flocking away from it.","parent":"11550770","id":"11550801"}
{"by":"brador","time":"1346820799","timestamp":"2012-09-05 04:53:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you day lost, how exctly? Hacked trading? other?","parent":"4477683","id":"4478060"}
{"by":"rahimnathwani","time":"1447988285","timestamp":"2015-11-20 02:58:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks.  But I live in China, and Banggood doesn\u0026#x27;t ship to China (it\u0026#x27;s not in the \u0026#x27;Ship to\u0026#x27; drop down on their site).  I presume this is because they would then have to deal with domestic taxes like sales tax or VAT, whereas goods which are exported aren\u0026#x27;t subject to domestic taxes, and may even be eligible for export subsidies.","parent":"10593445","id":"10599307"}
{"by":"baybal2","time":"1545437376","timestamp":"2018-12-22 00:09:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a much, much easier explanation for the obscene valuation:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, \u003ci\u003e___Tencent___\u003c/i\u003e, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners.\u003cp\u003eAll and every big Chinese company seeks to exfiltrate cash out of the country no mater what the justification is.\u003cp\u003eThat way you have China Rail buying Canadian casinos, tech companies buying American pig farms, and a farming cooperative buying Dutch semiconductor fab equipment maker.\u003cp\u003eI will not be surprised that Tencent will dump them upon first opportunity. I am almost certain that all other players on board the deal are there just to provide the justification and legal cover for otherwise nonsensical deal.","parent":"18737632","id":"18737915"}
{"by":"internals","time":"1471660027","timestamp":"2016-08-20 02:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for bringing attention to the remark as you did, and for sharing your own experience.","parent":"12324667","id":"12324828"}
{"by":"hissworks","time":"1481221668","timestamp":"2016-12-08 18:27:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t be so certain about blizzards. Warming increases the amount of moisture in the atmosphere during the cold months, producing more blizzards. My only fear about living in the Great Lakes is that we may end up snowed under before our ready access to fresh water makes a difference in terms of climate change preparedness.\u003cp\u003eReferences:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cleveland.com\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;index.ssf\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;global_warming_effect_bigger_b.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cleveland.com\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;index.ssf\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;global_wa...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.climatecentral.org\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;future-of-epic-blizzards-warming-world-19949\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.climatecentral.org\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;future-of-epic-blizzards-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nwf.org\u0026#x2F;Wildlife\u0026#x2F;Threats-to-Wildlife\u0026#x2F;Global-Warming\u0026#x2F;Global-Warming-is-Causing-Extreme-Weather\u0026#x2F;Winter-Weather.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nwf.org\u0026#x2F;Wildlife\u0026#x2F;Threats-to-Wildlife\u0026#x2F;Global-Warmi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13132057","id":"13132708"}
{"by":"faitswulff","time":"1531856866","timestamp":"2018-07-17 19:47:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speaking of outages, did Netflix ever release a postmortem on their recent global outage?","parent":"17552409","id":"17552626"}
{"by":"oh_sigh","time":"1447492149","timestamp":"2015-11-14 09:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about chamberlains negotiations with Hitler?","parent":"10564608","id":"10565038"}
{"by":"pan69","time":"1285572810","timestamp":"2010-09-27 07:33:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To fake being an extravert is not that difficult when you've mastered the skill of meaningless chit chat. However, I've noticed that to acquire that skill you need an active interest in the person you're communicating with. I've noticed that people with a natural interest in other people seem to be perceived as extraverts. To learn that interest in other people can be a challenging task and after twenty years of practice I still haven't mastered it myself...","parent":"1730515","id":"1731008"}
{"by":"cooper12","time":"1505713722","timestamp":"2017-09-18 05:48:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How typical on HN for a Chinese perspective to be downvoted to the bottom of the thread while everyone else flagellates themselves for how \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; the USA is.","parent":"15272337","id":"15273640"}
{"by":"StephenFalken","time":"1417167335","timestamp":"2014-11-28 09:35:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your point makes all sense and I totally agree with it. And it made me remember an old joke about programming languages of the future, through a fictional book cover: [1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://i.imgur.com/dPjtGVj.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;dPjtGVj.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8669328","id":"8670292"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1286077274","timestamp":"2010-10-03 03:41:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A service club such as Kiwanis, Lions, or Rotary is one way to help address needs in your local community and to participate in larger initiatives such as Rotary's Polio Plus.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellowship/Polio/Pages/ridefault.aspx?housead\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellowship/Polio/Pages/ri...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eService clubs also provide an excuse toget away from the office and meet people active in civic life.","parent":"1751795","id":"1752028"}
{"by":"dublinben","time":"1368562804","timestamp":"2013-05-14 20:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Intellectual property 'rights' are diametrically opposed to free speech rights.  Free speech allows you to reproduce copyrighted materials, except the IP rights overrule your speech rights.  Free speech allows you to transact under a trademarked brand, but IP rights overrule your speech rights.","parent":"5706557","id":"5707760"}
{"by":"beaumartinez","time":"1311461279","timestamp":"2011-07-23 22:47:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a nice approximation, but it's also a hack—it doesn't take \u003ci\u003e'scrolloff'\u003c/i\u003e into account, and once you scroll too far in one of the windows they lose synchronisation.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdit\u003c/i\u003e: You can record a macro to do something similar—create a vertical split, switch to it, disable scroll-bind, go forwards one screen, enable scrollbind, then switch to the other window. This doesn't lose synchronisation but it doesn't take \u003ci\u003e'scrolloff'\u003c/i\u003e into account either.","parent":"2797925","id":"2798054"}
{"by":"hahainternet","time":"1362443039","timestamp":"2013-03-05 00:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The toggle button also suffers from the ambiguity common to many of these controls. The default image for 'on' is a dark background, where 'off' is a light background. Because there's no indicator whether 'on' is the current state or the action, this can be quite confusing.","parent":"5321851","id":"5322011"}
{"by":"taurath","time":"1462825603","timestamp":"2016-05-09 20:26:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me its part of the taxonomy of becoming a more experienced developer:\u003cp\u003e- First you can implement solutions (jr level)\n- Then you can design solutions (mid level, sometimes senior - most of time is spent here)\n- Then you can find problems that need solutions (senior, management)","parent":"11661393","id":"11662859"}
{"by":"brettnak","time":"1272778555","timestamp":"2010-05-02 05:35:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can it do html back to zen and then can I use it with erb/any other templating language?  That would be useful.","parent":"1311635","id":"1312030"}
{"by":"pavanky","time":"1374447586","timestamp":"2013-07-21 22:59:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remember these are people who have been using windows all their lives. Change is not something all people can deal with easily.\u003cp\u003eIt also says, given the chance to be the default desktop, Linux can have higher than 1% market share.","parent":"6079851","id":"6080717"}
{"by":"w0utert","time":"1507140656","timestamp":"2017-10-04 18:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really wish Microsoft had used a different platform to build VS code on, like C#\u0026#x2F;Mono, Java, anything except Javascript\u0026#x2F;Electron basically. I just started using VS code for C++ development, trying to switch from Vim, an I basically like everything about the concept, but the execution and quality\u0026#x2F;polish of the software is mediocre at best. At least three times a day random stuff breaks: code completion stops working, switching between header\u0026#x2F;source (using a plugin) stops working, all keyboard input except shortcuts stops working, Vim plugin acting up, the app randomly starts to use 40% cpu until I kill it etc. On top of that performance is just so-so for most things (editing, autocomplete), and quite slow for others (e.g. gotoSymbol for the whole project). This was very disappointing for me to find out considering all the praise VS code gets for being ‘probably the best Electron app’.\u003cp\u003eI don’t mean this as a flame, but the software just feels like all the other applications I tried that are based on web technology. If it works everything is fine, but if you stress the application enough, inevitably things start to fail in ways that suggest it was simply too difficult to properly QA and test the thing to the point it doesn’t hit some weird platform edge case. I sincerely think the product itself is awesome, apparently that’s enough for people to put up with the shoddy stability and general sense of quality?\u003cp\u003eMaybe there are other reasons and the platform is not actually the problem, but I find it remarkable that something as advanced as VS code fails in similar ways my own web-based projects usually fail.\u003cp\u003eAnd now I read they are going to implement their own console rendering using HTML canvas, because the obvious ways to implement it when you are stuck with a Electron have major shortcomings... Somehow I just feel Microsoft with all their talent and resources could have made an even more impressive product if they had made the exact same thing based on some other platform...","parent":"15401761","id":"15402751"}
{"by":"parfe","time":"1339771174","timestamp":"2012-06-15 14:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right Click Any Folder, Dropbox -\u0026#62; Get a Link","parent":"4115961","id":"4116706"}
{"by":"schiffern","time":"1534688493","timestamp":"2018-08-19 14:21:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Ecosystems aren\u0026#x27;t collections of people.\u003cp\u003eIs the implication here that \u0026quot;only people have rights,\u0026quot; therefore ecosystems shouldn\u0026#x27;t? Correct me if mistaken. To clarify, I wasn\u0026#x27;t arguing that ecosystems have rights \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c/i\u003e corporations do.\u003cp\u003eThis is indeed the status quo, but it\u0026#x27;s hardly immutable. Consider that 200 years ago neither women nor slaves were considered legal persons. Restating the status quo isn\u0026#x27;t an argument in its favor.","parent":"17794157","id":"17794422"}
{"by":"rspeer","time":"1530273467","timestamp":"2018-06-29 11:57:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To keep it alive and do \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c/i\u003e with it?","parent":"17421415","id":"17423954"}
{"by":"my_username_is_","time":"1523284923","timestamp":"2018-04-09 14:42:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not as much of a \u0026#x27;rip off\u0026#x27; as a commentary on it. It specifically mentions the AskReddit thread in the article.","parent":"16793311","id":"16793336"}
{"by":"adamsmith","time":"1240628643","timestamp":"2009-04-25 03:04:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One could always add a random length of random bytes to the message so the size comparison method doesn't work.\u003cp\u003eThis assumes that real ciphertext is indistinguishable from random data without the key.","parent":"578475","id":"578526"}
{"by":"dsfyu404ed","time":"1516648977","timestamp":"2018-01-22 19:22:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But it\u0026#x27;s still a .22 caliber though.  That caliber by itself isn\u0026#x27;t a very good indicator of ballistics is exactly the point.\u003cp\u003eAre you going to tell me that .30-06 isn\u0026#x27;t a \u0026quot;30 cal\u0026quot; because it\u0026#x27;s way hotter than .30 carbine?","parent":"16206948","id":"16207097"}
{"by":"foxhop","time":"1417107298","timestamp":"2014-11-27 16:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This honestly reminds me of Sears Electronics Department, I worked there for 3 years.","parent":"8663729","id":"8667995"}
{"by":"bjourne","time":"1404909629","timestamp":"2014-07-09 12:40:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Often shots on goal or number of corners are used as a proxy variable because those events occur much more often than scored goals. But you\u0026#x27;re right that football is incredibly hard to model. For example, what would happen to the Argentinian team if Messi gets injured? Any pundit can tell you that it would probably be \u0026quot;really bad\u0026quot;, but quantifying exactly how bad is currently impossible.","parent":"8008443","id":"8009297"}
{"by":"jerguismi","time":"1263322098","timestamp":"2010-01-12 18:48:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone create FUSE plugin, please :)\n\u003ca href=\"http://fuse.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://fuse.sourceforge.net/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1047977","id":"1048167"}
{"by":"RexRollman","time":"1319799128","timestamp":"2011-10-28 10:52:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm disappointed in you, Google.","parent":"3167353","id":"3167748"}
{"by":"bleuarff","time":"1500992377","timestamp":"2017-07-25 14:19:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another point of the article is that the majority of the land owners refused to answer the question. You don\u0026#x27;t even know what you can and can\u0026#x27;t do until you\u0026#x27;re trespassing. Please RTFA.","parent":"14847827","id":"14847879"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1489421612","timestamp":"2017-03-13 16:13:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tons of stories get flagged—in fact above a certain point threshold the majority do—and in most cases the effect isn\u0026#x27;t that strong.","parent":"13858422","id":"13859096"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1283417438","timestamp":"2010-09-02 08:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Twitter used to use Mongrel, but replaced it with Unicorn (uh, another Ruby based server :))\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/03/unicorn-power.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://engineering.twitter.com/2010/03/unicorn-power.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1655595","id":"1655636"}
{"by":"incision","time":"1353104086","timestamp":"2012-11-16 22:14:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, my use of Prime is significantly different than Netflix.\u003cp\u003eI've rarely used Prime free content, but I have rented a number of recent movies and \"bought\" a few recent seasons of TV shows.\u003cp\u003eOff the top of my head, Amazon has collected more cash from me for video streaming in the last 6 months than Netflix, but I've been consuming probably 10x more data from Netflix.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if / how Hastings comparison accounts for this?","parent":"4795678","id":"4796165"}
{"by":"nick_urban","time":"1525038982","timestamp":"2018-04-29 21:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does not seem to be actively developed, however. Last commit was in early 2016: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;voltrb\u0026#x2F;volt\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;voltrb\u0026#x2F;volt\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16953485","id":"16954128"}
{"by":"wtallis","time":"1436577795","timestamp":"2015-07-11 01:23:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to be fair to ISPs, don\u0026#x27;t look at cases where they fail to do the impossible or very hard, look at cases where they fail to do the very easy.\u003cp\u003eThe standard deviation of any ping test I do is at least 3ms due to how DOCSIS works, and I can\u0026#x27;t ping my next door neighbor (same ISP) through the internet in under 16ms. I\u0026#x27;ve done traceroutes against several servers that are in the same city as I am in North Carolina and the only one where my traffic didn\u0026#x27;t first go to Atlanta or DC (or both) was to a server hosted by an ISP that has no physical presence outside of North Carolina. My cable modem and my ISP\u0026#x27;s CMTS each have out of control bufferbloat that adds hundreds of milliseconds of latency under load in each direction, which can\u0026#x27;t be entirely mitigated by my router\u0026#x27;s traffic shaping and AQM. There\u0026#x27;s little reason to believe that they\u0026#x27;ve got got any AQM further upstream given the large latency spikes I see even when my last-mile link is quiet. Disregard for latency is \u003ci\u003epervasive\u003c/i\u003e in the design of the ISP\u0026#x27;s network.","parent":"9867107","id":"9868057"}
{"by":"techaddict009","time":"1374687404","timestamp":"2013-07-24 17:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.3.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.android.com\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;versions\u0026#x2F;android-4.3.html\u003c/a\u003e You can find more info about it here.","parent":"6097642","id":"6097665"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1355681698","timestamp":"2012-12-16 18:14:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually its a dirigible according to the render (rigid structure) and it has exploited the same \"design innovation\" that the Australian company [1] did which is that by making is a saucer shape you avoid some of the stationkeeping issues as the vehicle presents a uniform air resistance profile in every direction.\u003cp\u003eI wonder though who the target market is for this thing which is clearly out looking for funding. Given the scale on the render by a hanger it seems to be quite large, and while being predominantly clear would have it be hard to spot at altitude its overall size and the slow maneuverability of gas filled aircraft suggests it would be an easy target.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't seem to have the payload to carry a communication substation (another proposed application of long loiter aircraft) thus the market seems like it might be drug lords wanting surveillance around their home base (always a bad idea since its also a flag \"here is my home base\") or perhaps border patrol.\u003cp\u003eThe good news is that being specialized you only have a few possible customers and you can quickly ascertain if they will buy from you or not thus you won't waste a lot of time.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://skylifter.com.au/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://skylifter.com.au/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4928670","id":"4929005"}
{"by":"trentmb","time":"1437726789","timestamp":"2015-07-24 08:33:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like a doofus asking this- I was always under the (false?) impression that socialists and fascists were diametric opposites- how is a nation asserting rule over an industry socialist, but not fascist?","parent":"9940694","id":"9940739"}
{"by":"Varcht","time":"1385600313","timestamp":"2013-11-28 00:58:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the exact same thought, runs smooth on my 920 too.","parent":"6812287","id":"6812407"}
{"by":"kule","time":"1515666045","timestamp":"2018-01-11 10:20:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting - I wonder if this also fits with the binary research going on: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;binaryresearchinstitute.com\u0026#x2F;bri\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;binaryresearchinstitute.com\u0026#x2F;bri\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16122158","id":"16122709"}
{"by":"wil421","time":"1525446614","timestamp":"2018-05-04 15:10:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So pirates will be able to steal nuclear material? What happens if a container sinks near a popular beach? I doubt people want these kinds of risks.\u003cp\u003eI’d expect gas and diesel to be used for airplanes and ships for a long long time.","parent":"16995072","id":"16995131"}
{"by":"michaelmrose","time":"1524717330","timestamp":"2018-04-26 04:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One would think but converting from pdf is pretty crappy and the results meh at best in my experience.","parent":"16928410","id":"16928824"}
{"by":"jchonphoenix","time":"1389402401","timestamp":"2014-01-11 01:06:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve worked at similarly (or perhaps even better regarded) companies with lunch interviews. They always say the same thing.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve definitely seen the lunch interviewer pulled into the conversation. When the process isn\u0026#x27;t supremely formal, lines get blurred. Being paranoid is probably a smart thing to do.","parent":"7040837","id":"7040903"}
{"by":"rimantas","time":"1477867052","timestamp":"2016-10-30 22:37:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same in Lithuania. Have been using mobile signatyre as it is called for yeats, very convenient.","parent":"12829173","id":"12832883"}
{"by":"ancientworldnow","time":"1516307549","timestamp":"2018-01-18 20:32:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Dutch didn\u0026#x27;t have to worry about living over porous limestone that floods directly out of the ground (sea walls or not).","parent":"16178363","id":"16181100"}
{"by":"codeodor","time":"1240020222","timestamp":"2009-04-18 02:03:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a good question, but I'd have to say: only if you equate \"nonstandard\" with \"considered harmful.\"\u003cp\u003eNeedless to say, I don't.\u003cp\u003eFor one, there is a large difference between the spaghetti code that can result from liberal and \ninjudicious goto usage vs. whatever you might encounter by using \"for\" instead of \".each\"\u003cp\u003eIn the goto case - we use it all the time under different names with special circumstances: method calls, loops, breaks, nexts, etc.\u003cp\u003eIn the case of for vs. each - it depends. In some cases you may indeed be iterating over the contents of some object in particular. But what if you are iterating over the contents of two disparate objects? Should we use \".each\" on one and keep a separate counter for the other?\u003cp\u003eAnd then, there are those times when you actually want the variables in the loop to be available outside the scope of the loop, as I mentioned in the previous comment. It might not be standard, but it does happen. One instance is where you are letting doing evals on variables introduced by the objects in the loop. That just can't happen with the .each call, and you need the \"for\" loop to do it.\u003cp\u003eAnd I would add, even if it were possible to keep track of that in a block we pass to #each, I would rather not do so because of the psychological implications of doing so. If I want to iterate over two disparate objects, I need a way of expressing that, and the \"for\" loop is it.","parent":"567089","id":"567946"}
{"by":"beat","time":"1468429264","timestamp":"2016-07-13 17:01:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All music does, really. I have a friend who pays attention and constantly picks up little tricks of guitar playing from me. When she figures one out, she always says \u0026quot;Guitarists cheat!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI think more to the point, if you have to \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e about what you\u0026#x27;re playing while you\u0026#x27;re playing it, you\u0026#x27;re hosed. It\u0026#x27;s like the old question of how does a centipede walk. If the centipede thinks about walking, it falls. So music, even very complex music, tends to be built from small, easy to grok bits of technique, small enough that a player can simply memorize them, the way we memorize how to walk, or how to conjugate verbs.","parent":"12087501","id":"12087744"}
{"by":"IheartApplesDix","time":"1365113862","timestamp":"2013-04-04 22:17:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Why not provide a counter-argument (or even just an alternative proposition) instead of insulting me with the \"because you said so\" thing?\u003cp\u003eThe irony of this statement is lost on you.  Suck my dick.\u003cp\u003eThe rest of your post is so god damn pointless I can't even read it.  My brain rejects it outright.","parent":"5483285","id":"5495639"}
{"by":"veli_joza","time":"1485867952","timestamp":"2017-01-31 13:05:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Drivr[1] is doing exactly that in few cities in Europe, they basically offer complete uber-in-a-box solution to local taxi operators.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drivr.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drivr.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13529559","id":"13530164"}
{"by":"forkandwait","time":"1426990377","timestamp":"2015-03-22 02:12:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lame, red flag, tell them to stuff it.","parent":"9245059","id":"9245222"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1339074063","timestamp":"2012-06-07 13:01:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, why not just bcrypt the SHA1/MD5 hashes? Your auth check will just become bcrypt(SHA1(pass)) rather than bcrypt(pass). You can convert all passwords right away and I don't see any significant downside to it.","parent":"4078561","id":"4078751"}
{"by":"dotBen","time":"1296591270","timestamp":"2011-02-01 20:14:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, I have fielded my fair share of recruiter calls.\u003cp\u003eAs I said in my parent post \"we don't pay recruiter fees - never have, never will\" is usually enough.  You might have to say it twice and leave them hanging but it is a pretty direct response.\u003cp\u003eIt's not saying \"no I don't want to use a recruiter\" - which creates the opportunity to try to change your mind.  It is saying I don't pay the fees, which is a fact and leaves them little room to argue.  I can sit there and agree with the virtues of a recruiter but then I say 'yeah but I don't pay the fees'. And we're done.\u003cp\u003eFrom a sales funnel perspective it positions me as not being a prospect because I'm not in the market to make the purchase/expenditure.","parent":"2161777","id":"2167141"}
{"by":"DanielStraight","time":"1275598489","timestamp":"2010-06-03 20:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you've read any of my review posts before I'm going to sound like a broken record, but...\u003cp\u003eIf you're handling anything which could be considered personal data, you need a privacy policy, a TOS page, and a way to export that data. From looking at your site and watching your video, I can't tell whether you intend to sell my list of clips to advertisers, connect it to my name and make it available in a data dump, or any one of 100 other things I have no interest in you doing.\u003cp\u003eAs for your web page, why make such a user-unfriendly thing as a log-in screen your main page? Why not include the video on the main page so I don't have to click 3 or 4 times to start finding out what the heck your service even is.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I think you get it, and that's refreshing. For me, Google Notebook and Evernote are too linear. Zoho Notebook is too complicated. No one else has really sparked my interest.\u003cp\u003eThe two main features I want in an online notebook are the ability to grab anything from anywhere with minimal effort and the ability to organize things freely. These you deliver quite well.\u003cp\u003eThere are a few features I would definitely consider.\u003cp\u003e1. Inline notes. If a note is really short, it would nice to be able to just stick it on the page as plain text, instead of having to double click to open it. This would add a lot to the ability to freely organize things because you could use notes as headers, separators, whatever.\u003cp\u003e2. Inline pictures. Since there's a little preview of the picture anyway, why not let me clear away the title and URL and just show the picture. Then, if you're doing that, why not let me resize it. Again, this goes to letting me freely drag stuff around however I want it. It would also let me use a picture as a background or header or just about anything else.\u003cp\u003e3. Sharing at least read access to a project with someone else. This is pretty big. The reason I started looking into online notebooks in the first place was to plan vacations with my fiancee. I can share login details, and that's fine, but eventually, I'm going to want to share a view of a project with someone I don't trust with my login.\u003cp\u003eAnd one little minor thing. Double-clicking an open folder should close it.\u003cp\u003eI also think it might be cool if you could arrange things inside folders just like you can on the main project page. At the very least, reordering would be nice.\u003cp\u003eJust so we're clear after all that: My overall impression is very, very positive.","parent":"1402360","id":"1402515"}
{"by":"JoeCortopassi","time":"1343951403","timestamp":"2012-08-02 23:50:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. How do you evaluate different affiliates to see which ones are worth the time? Do you just stick to major ones like Amazon, or talk to them individually? It seems like it can be risky, in the sense that you can spend a ton of time setting something up, only to have the affiliate change the terms.","parent":"4331563","id":"4331706"}
{"by":"michael_miller","time":"1354382862","timestamp":"2012-12-01 17:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you're describing is very similar to a 1-1 with a lead/manager at a good company. Usually you'll meet once a week, talk about any problems you're having, and work through any hard design problems you're encountering. If the company is well managed, your lead will be very experienced and know how to help you become a better programmer.","parent":"4857854","id":"4858295"}
{"by":"Hitpost","time":"1372712455","timestamp":"2013-07-01 21:00:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"San Francisco, CA. Full-time.\u003cp\u003eHitpost is revolutionizing the sports world. We\u0026#x27;re a fast-growing, well backed startup and are focused on building social, design forward, mobile apps for the ever expansive sports market. The opportunity ahead of us is huge and we\u0026#x27;re looking for the right team members to join us.\u003cp\u003eWe love what we do and we love what we are building. A challenging problem is what excites us.\u003cp\u003eWe are looking for:\u003cp\u003e* iOS Developer\u003cp\u003e* Python\u0026#x2F;Django Developer\u003cp\u003e* Android Developer\u003cp\u003eJoin us. Email jobs@hitpost.com\u003cp\u003eRead more about us and our team at \u003ca href=\"http://www.angel.co/hitpost-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.angel.co\u0026#x2F;hitpost-1\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5970187","id":"5973525"}
{"by":"plq","time":"1424433639","timestamp":"2015-02-20 12:00:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got a custom built 13.3\u0026quot; Sony Vaio S. It\u0026#x27;s got 12GB ram, 1TB disk, Intel i7 at 2.9Ghz, 1600x900 display, Blu-Ray Reader\u0026#x2F;DVD-RW Combo, 3G modem, gbit ethernet, both VGA and HDMI output, 3 USB ports (2 of them 3.0) SD Card and MemoryCard and cost 987 GBP plus tax which I got back on my way out. Oh and it\u0026#x27;s got very good Linux compatibity out of the box. Resumes from ram without a hitch, I only reboot when I need to get something done with the kernel. I\u0026#x27;m writing this while listening music via my bluetooth headset. Battery sustains around 2 hours of work, but it used to be better. It was leaps and bounds ahead of what Apple had to offer with its Macbook PRO line at the time at 2\u0026#x2F;3 of its weight, and I fear still is.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m looking at Dell\u0026#x27;s machine and yes it\u0026#x27;s got a higher resolution display (but is it \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c/i\u003e at that display size? I hope!), and presumably an updated processor, but that\u0026#x27;s it. No nic, no disk spinner, less ports, no VGA, etc. Call me old-fashioned but I can\u0026#x27;t consider a laptop without a couple easy ways to get data on\u0026#x2F;off (e.g. ethernet ports, disk spinners) as a development workstation.\u003cp\u003eTop that and I\u0026#x27;ll pay you.\u003cp\u003eAnd shame on you, Sony, for not being able to properly sell today\u0026#x27;s market leader that you came up with two years ago. Shame on you.","parent":"9074197","id":"9080048"}
{"by":"dmfdmf","time":"1259855251","timestamp":"2009-12-03 15:47:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its a good rule but not always true.  It depends on what price is being negotiated, e.g. salary, car price, etc.  If someone throws out a number that is clearly too high (seller) or obviously too low (buyer) just to get the ball rolling there is no loss in negotiating strength from that, both parties know they are still far apart so nothing has changed.  Also, vague numbers like \"around $60K\" are less committal, express common ground and more likely to be attempts to get the ball rolling. Another important rule is do not negotiate with your self. In other words, if you made an offer don't raise it until the other guy makes a counter offer.  This is negotiation 101 but its very easy to get pressured to raise your offer without a counter offer. As for salary negotiations, I read an article once that a company's first solid offer (which is their low starting point) is somewhere around %20 below what the company is actually willing to pay you.  So add 25% to the company's first offer and if that number is not near what you think you are worth you need to find someone else to work for or reevaluate the market value of your skills.","parent":"974434","id":"974501"}
{"by":"ManlyBread","time":"1464359924","timestamp":"2016-05-27 14:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;if you were really concerned about whether there was a gender pay gap, you\u0026#x27;d look for the research yourself instead of waiting for somebody to hand it to you.\u003cp\u003eAre you seriously expecting people to fact-check every single broad statement they come across and then come to the exact same conclusions you did?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;It\u0026#x27;s not the world\u0026#x27;s duty to convince you of anything.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not my duty to find arguments supporting your cause. The gender pay gap is a myth anyway. I\u0026#x27;m not going to tell you why - go to scholar.google.com and search for \u0026quot;gender pay gap myth debunked.\u0026quot; Follow the citations. You should also do that if you\u0026#x27;re not sure if racism exists, or if other planets exist. Then instead of trying to one-up people on message boards when they won\u0026#x27;t do your research for you, you can lead in whatever direction your research takes you.","parent":"11783410","id":"11786317"}
{"by":"kagamine","time":"1440657312","timestamp":"2015-08-27 06:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That was built by engineers not by designers or by UX guys who do \u0026quot;research\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eExcept that what Google did was look at existing search engines and think \u0026#x27;how can we differentiate?\u0026#x27; and the result was an (originally) ad-free, no links to other services site. They stripped all the bad design from thier industry competitors and left a service in which the new or naive user was in no doubt about what to do there. No distractions, no fiddling, no - anything except full focus on Google Search.\u003cp\u003eThe search results are what you get \u003ci\u003eafter\u003c/i\u003e you use the search functionality, that those results were good could be argued as secondary to what got users to switch from Yahoo, Ask Geeves etc in the first place.","parent":"10127543","id":"10127878"}
{"by":"neilkelty","time":"1374925996","timestamp":"2013-07-27 11:53:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was at a conference last October where Dave Shea talked about the impact of CSS Zen Garden - but said that the web didnt need it or another one anymore. I wonder what changed his mind?","parent":"6076163","id":"6112597"}
{"by":"srslack","time":"1522158966","timestamp":"2018-03-27 13:56:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;It will be impossible to re-populate land up to six miles from the Chernobyl\u003cp\u003eThere are still humans living within the exclusion zone, still humans working at Chernobyl where three reactors continued to operate after the accident, the vast majority of gamma from the site is from an isotope with a half-life of 30 years, and the background radiation within the exclusion zone is \u003ci\u003eprovably\u003c/i\u003e less than the background radiation you find when living in high altitudes.\u003cp\u003eChernobyl was the absolute worst case in that it had no containment whatsoever, and Fukushima was an absolute worst case for a western reactor in that it couldn\u0026#x27;t SCRAM and cool properly with multiple backup systems failing, but the implication that large tracts of land are uninhabitable for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of years is patently false.\u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are no attributable deaths to either accident among the general population. Radiation doses in both cases were very low in the context of the general population surrounding these plants.\u003cp\u003eThe fact is that more people died from the sudden evacuations and stress of relocating than died, or will die, from the radiation levels.","parent":"16687844","id":"16688361"}
{"by":"kbp","time":"1513081066","timestamp":"2017-12-12 12:17:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Algol 68 is not the language most people mean when they say Algol, and was not a de facto standard language for publishing algorithms.","parent":"15904784","id":"15905032"}
{"by":"dolinsky","time":"1308670277","timestamp":"2011-06-21 15:31:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, the redirect works, but when I get to zuppy.com I see that error.","parent":"2679111","id":"2679146"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1366126247","timestamp":"2013-04-16 15:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I backed them on kickstarter, and I don't remember seeing any claim like what you claim to have seen.\u003cp\u003eTo me it was always clear that the current models are not particularly fast. They may be fast \"per watt\", and if they succeed in their roadmap, then their future 1024 core chips may be fast for the subset of problems that they are suitable for.\u003cp\u003eIn the meantime, the kickstarter page is/was careful to focus on this as a stepping stone, and developer platform for playing with the technology first and foremost, and not as being about delivering some incredibly fast computer for end users.\u003cp\u003eIf anything, they've provided an extreme amount of data, down to cycle counts for memory accesses and the instruction set, and they've dumped a lot of code in our laps, including drivers etc., and the final unit actually comes with a faster version of the Zynq SoC than what they promised, after Xilinx apparently gave them an amazing deal.","parent":"5558471","id":"5558697"}
{"by":"graycat","time":"1438379760","timestamp":"2015-07-31 21:56:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow.  Windows 10 is too hard for\nMicrosoft.  What a mess.  Right,\nI\u0026#x27;ll say with Windows XP or \nWindows 7.\u003cp\u003eTime for Windows 11.\u003cp\u003eWhat a disaster.\u003cp\u003eAnd for what I\u0026#x27;m really interested\nin, security, and compatibility,\nif they can\u0026#x27;t get some simple\nGUI dialogs correct, there\u0026#x27;s no\nhope for the rest.  Looks like\nWindows 7 is the most recent\nusable Microsoft OS.","parent":"9983862","id":"9984757"}
{"by":"dschiptsov","time":"1349094349","timestamp":"2012-10-01 12:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you ever tried to estimate how much it cost to maintain up-to-date browser, in terms of rapidly incorporating new standards, keeping high-quality, low-resource consumption and major-bug-free code, along with keeping it fairly secure?)\u003cp\u003eI think they grossly over-estimate their abilities to compete with completely different structures, like Mozilla, leave alone Google.)\u003cp\u003eThinking that they are \"Russian Google\" is a self-delusion. Google is built out of talent, that they are collecting for a decade, and then by money and top-tier world-wide brand.\u003cp\u003eYandex is mere a \"company\". Just compare the assets - data-centers, cables, commercial real estate, etc. Then take a look at amount of research Google's people do. This should be enough.\u003cp\u003eThis browser, I guess, is something like Opera mini or Amazon Fire - the way to divert, scan and monetize user's traffic. Plain, banal scam.","parent":"4596460","id":"4596537"}
{"by":"int_19h","time":"1486453824","timestamp":"2017-02-07 07:50:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In C# (from which the original example is), these days - and for like 6 years now - what you do is File.ReadLines, and you get a lazy enumerator.","parent":"13585986","id":"13587834"}
{"by":"kgwxd","time":"1544465708","timestamp":"2018-12-10 18:15:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stated unambiguously by someone at Cognitect: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cognitect-labs\u0026#x2F;REBL-distro\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;144acd0415caa88eaf2cad141f49d72069ca4ab4#diff-9879d6db96fd29134fc802214163b95a\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cognitect-labs\u0026#x2F;REBL-distro\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;144acd0...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18585433","id":"18649901"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1264981264","timestamp":"2010-01-31 23:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huge win for the publishers.  If Amazon accepts, then the publishers (And I disagree with Amazon, once they conceed with Macmillan, the rest will want the same deal) will be able to leverage this agreement to get the same from Barnes and Nobles and other eBook sellers - I'm sure Apple will, likewise, agree - if they haven't already.\u003cp\u003eThis will restrict (prevent?) Amazon, B\u0026#38;N, Apple from discounting eBook prices to get people into their eStore.  It hurts the reader, in that they can't get cheap eBooks until a year after they are released.  I wonder if the publishers will try to extend this to the \"Physical\" book market, or whether that's a different ballgame altogether.  (If Walmart is the Amazon in the physical book market, who is the Apple?  I'm sure B\u0026#38;N likes being able to flexibly price books to get traffic in the store.  As does Target.  For that matter, so does Amazon.   Is there an odd man out there with enough volume to make a difference?)\u003cp\u003eFrom a competitive landscape perspective - Steve Jobs knew that providing an agency model as a negotiating tool to Macmillan was valuable - I'm wondering what he got back in return?\u003cp\u003eAll in all, a very exciting weekend of developments in the eBook economy.  All started with the iBook store negotiating between Apple and Macmillan, I'm sure.","parent":"1091282","id":"1091336"}
{"by":"teeja","time":"1374641060","timestamp":"2013-07-24 04:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWe encourage real-name usage to make Community feel more like a family.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause that worked out so well for G+.\u003cp\u003eAs for W.A., I keep trying to get it to tell me how much ice covers Antarctica, and it keeps giving me weather reports. No threat of the singularity showing up in WA-ville anytime soon.","parent":"6092378","id":"6094563"}
{"by":"brianbreslin","time":"1283819196","timestamp":"2010-09-07 00:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you mean assume what they would fill in? most users are lazy. always assume they are willing to put in the minimal amount of effort to get past your friction points (signup)","parent":"1667633","id":"1667684"}
{"by":"throwaway-864","time":"1345019494","timestamp":"2012-08-15 08:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out Smart::Comments module in Perl [1].\u003cp\u003eIt allows the specially-formatted comments to produce debugging output.\u003cp\u003eFrom the synopsis:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    use Smart::Comments;\n     \n    my $var = suspect_value();\n     \n    ### $var\n     \n    ### got: $var\n     \n    ### Now computing value...\n     \n    # and when looping:\n     \n    for my $big_num (@big_nums) {  ### Factoring...      done\n        factor($big_num);\n    }\n     \n    while ($error \u0026#62; $tolerance) {  ### Refining---\u0026#62;      done\n        refine_approximation()\n    }\n     \n    for (my $i=0; $i\u0026#60;$MAX_INT; $i++) {   ### Working===[%]     done\n        do_something_expensive_with($i);\n    }\n\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n[1] \u003ca href=\"https://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4382241","id":"4385123"}
{"by":"jakobegger","time":"1473371264","timestamp":"2016-09-08 21:47:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mailchimp also has pay-as-you-go pricing where you pay per email for lists where you only email subscribers occasionally. I think its around 2c per email (depends on how much credit you purchase at once)","parent":"12456755","id":"12457646"}
{"by":"coatmatter","time":"1529509125","timestamp":"2018-06-20 15:38:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about just typing rsync -havz --progress source destination?\u003cp\u003e-h for human-readable numbers\n-a for archive mode\n-v and --progress for verbose info\n-z for compression during transfer\u003cp\u003eAdd a -n for a dry run if required.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;linux.die.net\u0026#x2F;man\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;rsync\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;linux.die.net\u0026#x2F;man\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;rsync\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the people who came up with it - Andrew Tridgell - was more or less \u0026quot;responsible\u0026quot; for Linux and BitKeeper parting ways, which in turn ultimately lead to the creation of Git. I think it\u0026#x27;s a fascinating story. Excellent tools.\u003cp\u003eThe progress \u0026#x2F; speed display is the main thing that keeps me coming back to rsync even though other tools might manage the same job - not seeing the progress of a copy is what had me searching for that solution in the very first place.","parent":"17355826","id":"17356382"}
{"by":"donatj","time":"1471658023","timestamp":"2016-08-20 01:53:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah, and there\u0026#x27;s the kicker. In Japanese the most common input method is phonetic, either with a latin alphabet keyboard or a hiragana keyboard. The IME kicks in and has you select the ideogram you mean, so in reality it would save you no time typing and actually cost you time.","parent":"12324679","id":"12324699"}
{"by":"drpgq","time":"1349539521","timestamp":"2012-10-06 16:05:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had some pretty bad RSI where I had to take a couple of months off so I don't think the risk is nothing.","parent":"4620425","id":"4620841"}
{"by":"thesmok","time":"1513153797","timestamp":"2017-12-13 08:29:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You wouldn\u0026#x27;t want to use a $100 monitor after that Retina display.","parent":"15911781","id":"15912888"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1371453197","timestamp":"2013-06-17 07:13:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The motherboard is an \u0026quot;Asus F1A55-M LX AMD A55 FM1 DDR3 mATX\u0026quot; which has integrated \u0026quot;AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series Graphics\u0026quot;.  The monitor is an \u0026quot;Asus VS229HR 21.5\u0026quot; LED IPS Monitor\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBut the point is exactly that individuals will have varying experiences - I have a printer that just works in one OS but is terrible in another; a gadget that works as expected in one OS, but has better independently developed drivers in a different OS and doesn\u0026#x27;t work at all on a third OS; etc.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t offer my experience as an example of Windows 7 having worse hardware support than OS X or Linux.","parent":"5890574","id":"5891863"}
{"by":"dkersten","time":"1473780693","timestamp":"2016-09-13 15:31:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AFAIK most systems have an emergency shutoff anyway, so if it gets too hot, the machine simply powers off. At least, my old desktop did.","parent":"12488935","id":"12489131"}
{"by":"spiro","time":"1300925578","timestamp":"2011-03-24 00:12:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminder Columbus, OH area hackers, join us for our first meetup tomorrow.\u003cp\u003e3/24, 6pm @ Brazenhead Irish Pub in Dublin.\u003cp\u003eVery informal, chat, beer, NCAA hoops.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300016\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300016\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://anyvite.com/ybqq6ymkmz\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://anyvite.com/ybqq6ymkmz\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2362105","id":"2362130"}
{"by":"rrss1122","time":"1432757971","timestamp":"2015-05-27 20:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heh, if you can actually get people to do all of that, it will be $150 well spent.","parent":"9613942","id":"9614038"}
{"by":"promptworks","time":"1546451680","timestamp":"2019-01-02 17:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PromptWorks | Multiple positions | Philadelphia PA | ONSITE \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;promptworks.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;promptworks.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are a development shop that focuses on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web \u0026amp; mobile applications, APIs, products, and services.\u003cp\u003ePair programming, continuous integration \u0026amp; delivery, kaizen, and TDD\u0026#x2F;BDD aren\u0026#x27;t just ideas we pay lip service to, but core practices of our day-to-day work.\u003cp\u003eWe love polyglots. We use lots of Ruby, Python, Elixir and JavaScript (mostly React and React-Native).\u003cp\u003eOpen positions:\u003cp\u003e• Director of Engineering\n• Software Engineer\n• Senior Front End Engineer\n• Senior Software Engineer\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.promptworks.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.promptworks.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18807017","id":"18808275"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1497905909","timestamp":"2017-06-19 20:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But a huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic.\u003cp\u003eIs there a morally relevant distinction between mental illness and bad work ethic? There is a lot of research to suggest that things we associate with \u0026quot;bad work ethic\u0026quot; (\u003ci\u003ee.g.\u003c/i\u003e lack of impulse control) appear extremely early in childhood development and aren\u0026#x27;t things people necessarily have much control over.\u003cp\u003eWe need to stop moralizing things that people have no control over. We\u0026#x27;ve realized this in a limited way--it is no longer acceptable to make fun of people with intellectual disabilities (IQ \u0026lt; 70). But there is still a weird doughnut hole were it is perfectly acceptable to make fun of people with 70 \u0026lt; IQ \u0026lt; 90. Your mental abilities are mostly an accident of birth, like having rich parents. There is no moral dimension to it.\u003cp\u003eThere is a kernel of something I agree with in your post, though: social structures can add a lot of value in helping people who might not be that bright or might have problems with impulse control to lead productive lives. That\u0026#x27;s a major shortcoming of our current approaches to fighting poverty, which emphasize individualism.","parent":"14590262","id":"14590403"}
{"by":"JulianMorrison","time":"1443544198","timestamp":"2015-09-29 16:29:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Intra-site, they can be rather common. My Amazon and Etsy logins have long wishlists.","parent":"10297246","id":"10297449"}
{"by":"teekert","time":"1499762315","timestamp":"2017-07-11 08:38:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s the 5th result for me (when searching Ubuntu), after a Linux Cheat Sheet, some PasteBin program and WepUpd8 (whatever that may be), then when I click it, the first line says: \u0026quot;This title is powered by great new feature of the windows insider program, please join at...\u0026quot;... Now should I, do I need to do that? The Get button is greyed out, but no indication why (probably because me company hasn\u0026#x27;t approved the anniversary update yet). What a crappy experience.","parent":"14741714","id":"14742519"}
{"by":"kleevr","time":"1200521512","timestamp":"2008-01-16 22:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003echime\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"99466","id":"99474"}
{"by":"nox_","time":"1391296082","timestamp":"2014-02-01 23:08:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, I am never against adding good syntax into a language, I implemented the named funs. Second, just because Joe says something doesn\u0026#x27;t mean I agree. Third, here is my tentative answer to the piping syntax:\u003cp\u003eAn F#-like pipe operator:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    X |\u0026gt; F.\n    F(X).\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nA partial app syntax:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    fun map(F)\u0026#x2F;1.\n    begin _1 = F, fun (_2) -\u0026gt; map(_1, _2) end.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThese coupled together allows concise yet explicit function chaining and makes use of the most common convention which is to pass the most-changing argument last.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with what Joe likes is that in X |\u0026gt; foo(bar), the call foo(bar) is transformed to foo(X, bar), making what really happens less obvious, a big no-no for Erlang.","parent":"7163820","id":"7163875"}
{"by":"kolinko","time":"1403692482","timestamp":"2014-06-25 10:34:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s like saying \u0026quot;why use phone when telegraph is good enough\u0026quot;. If you can order things and receive them very fast in any place, there are things that you can start ordering that otherwise you wouldn\u0026#x27;t do.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s raining and you need an umbrella, with nomsalesperson near? Order a drone. Forgot to buy mayo back in the store? Order throug drone and get it in an hour.\u003cp\u003eBut there once you\u0026#x27;re able to order stuff and get it within minutes, not hours or days, there are other effects that start happening. For one, you don\u0026#x27;t need to stockpile supplies anymore, or you can do things more spontaneusly.\nWill 40 or 100\u0026#x27;people come to a party. Who cares, if there are not enough forks or plates, you can order them fast.\nOr, if you want to play in garage, you don\u0026#x27;t have to make sure that you\u0026#x27;ve got all the supplies well in advance, or go to the store and back 20\u0026#x27;times.\u003cp\u003eThink how many businesses were spawned, and how much more efficient are people now that there are mobile phones, not just stationary. But ic an imagine people saying \u0026quot;who needs mobile, I can call when i get back home, and i\u0026#x27;ve got an answering machine if someone calls when i\u0026#x27;m away.","parent":"7943050","id":"7943130"}
{"by":"Florin_Andrei","time":"1478717689","timestamp":"2016-11-09 18:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, that\u0026#x27;s the price you pay for civilization.","parent":"12913145","id":"12913376"}
{"by":"SonicSoul","time":"1384649543","timestamp":"2013-11-17 00:52:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am really worried about being forced to log into google to use chrome these days.. there is a \u0026quot;skip for now\u0026quot; button. I hate this we-know-whats-best-for you approach..","parent":"6745525","id":"6747072"}
{"by":"vkjv","time":"1429209140","timestamp":"2015-04-16 18:32:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While, I do have an EE degree, I play with FPGAs fairly frequently and rarely think about the hardware that I\u0026#x27;m laying out.\u003cp\u003eIn my experience, unless you are building something either very large and need to worry about your gate count, or something very time sensitive and need to work about component distance, you can just program and enjoy real concurrency. :)","parent":"9389402","id":"9389891"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1231580004","timestamp":"2009-01-10 09:33:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I started having problems about 7 year ago, I did a handful of things, but the two that made the most difference were:\u003cp\u003eBetter chair (Aeron).  Sounds odd, I guess, but being the right height and having good posture makes a difference.  I also dropped the arms way down, so I simply cannot lean on them no matter how lazy I'm feeling (among many other pains, my left elbow had a permanent twinge of pain, which still pops up now and then, but was always-on back then).\u003cp\u003eTiling window manager.  This assumes UNIX/Linux, but it made a difference when I almost completely killed the mouse from my life.  If typing is more painful than mousing for you, this might not be the right choice.  It helped for me, though...I immediately was able to work full days again due to this change, though I don't know if it was therapeutic...it may have just avoided the most serious pains.\u003cp\u003eOther things that may or may not have helped, but I did them while recovery was clearly happening:\u003cp\u003eChanging positions frequently.  Keyboard slanted/flat.  Raising and lowering the chair.  Occasionally sitting in a different chair or on a ball or standing.  Getting up and walking about a lot.\u003cp\u003eExercises that encouraged blood flow to the affected areas.  Cardiovascular exercise in general, but tennis and such were my focus.  You've already tried swimming...so that's probably in the same league for circulation.  I wouldn't quit doing those things, even though they haven't resolved your problem...I doubt they're hurting.\u003cp\u003eI cut back dramatically on playing guitar and piano, since they incurred very similar sorts of repetitive stress.  This one was not pleasant, but now I can play again without any problems.","parent":"427743","id":"427837"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1259617980","timestamp":"2009-11-30 21:53:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See the conservative assumption that \"liberal == vegan\" or \"liberal == animal activist.\"","parent":"962429","id":"968782"}
{"by":"homakov","time":"1359668553","timestamp":"2013-01-31 21:42:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It sounds oddly similar to the Rails issue from about a year ago (the one in which the reporter was able to commit to master on Github)\u003cp\u003eHey, yes, yaml bug is _very_ similar. Whitelist is better than no list at all","parent":"5145687","id":"5147679"}
{"by":"stale2002","time":"1498425682","timestamp":"2017-06-25 21:21:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know right, isn\u0026#x27;t it awesome?\u003cp\u003eLow low prices! Customers customers customers.\u003cp\u003eThe only people who get screwed are the businesses.","parent":"14631574","id":"14632261"}
{"by":"city41","time":"1372533132","timestamp":"2013-06-29 19:12:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They must have been removed. The 8 comments that are there are quite benign","parent":"5963102","id":"5963458"}
{"by":"redthrowaway","time":"1327789688","timestamp":"2012-01-28 22:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. If I were larry or sergei I'd fire Schmidt. Now, that might mean I'd never run a company as large as google, but I'm okay with that. This incident removes Google from my list of tech giants I'd work for leaving it, well, empty.\u003cp\u003eSad to see. I'm not surprised by the behaviour of Apple and others, but I thought better of Google than this.","parent":"3521933","id":"3523513"}
{"by":"fiatjaf","time":"1440889357","timestamp":"2015-08-29 23:02:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stout.is\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stout.is\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t plan to use any, but Awsome seems much easier.","parent":"10141241","id":"10141646"}
{"by":"timbonicus","time":"1393780136","timestamp":"2014-03-02 17:08:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Minor tip when embedding YouTube videos, as with the \u0026#x27;Watch the HUM Trailer\u0026#x27; video - add rel=0 to the URL to prevent \u0026#x27;Related videos\u0026#x27; from appearing at the end.","parent":"7327728","id":"7329793"}
{"by":"IanChiles","time":"1374523266","timestamp":"2013-07-22 20:01:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the best thing about docker is that it\u0026#x27;s not a VM. It\u0026#x27;s a containerization layer built on some linux kernel (only) features. It\u0026#x27;s not fair to compare it to a VM, or even to put it in the same class of programs.","parent":"6086070","id":"6086120"}
{"by":"martin-adams","time":"1478962240","timestamp":"2016-11-12 14:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those that don\u0026#x27;t know what SOL means (I had to look it up)...\n\u0026quot;S--t Outta Luck\u0026quot;","parent":"12937968","id":"12938054"}
{"by":"froo","time":"1285903909","timestamp":"2010-10-01 03:31:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did try, the whois information doesn't come up with anything useful and a search for the name in question doesn't return any useful information","parent":"1745792","id":"1745881"}
{"by":"herrgigglung","time":"1522932705","timestamp":"2018-04-05 12:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jesus how the hell can they do anything on those tiny screens! Would it really have been that difficult to get a decent sized screen!","parent":"16764039","id":"16764377"}
{"by":"olkuli","time":"1425341150","timestamp":"2015-03-03 00:05:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Seattle area\nRemote: yes\nWilling to relocate: no\nI\u0026#x27;m a freelance developer looking for projects.\nTechnologies: .Net, JavaScript, Angular, Knockout, SQL Server, MongoDB.\nEmail in profile.","parent":"9127238","id":"9135319"}
{"by":"dspillett","time":"1403771827","timestamp":"2014-06-26 08:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you deliver outside the US? \u003ca href=\"http://www.dodocase.com/pages/shipping-and-returns\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dodocase.com\u0026#x2F;pages\u0026#x2F;shipping-and-returns\u003c/a\u003e doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to say at all. UK here, but people all over the place may want to know.","parent":"7948056","id":"7948623"}
{"by":"topcryptobooks","time":"1510095587","timestamp":"2017-11-07 22:59:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is an awesome book to start with.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.topcryptobooks.com\u0026#x2F;attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain-bitcoin-blockchain-ethereum-and-smart-contracts\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.topcryptobooks.com\u0026#x2F;attack-of-the-50-foot-blockch...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain is also a really good book!","parent":"15647954","id":"15648501"}
{"by":"verinus","time":"1436345214","timestamp":"2015-07-08 08:46:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"from what I have read and seen lots of young Greeks are leaving the country.\nGerman language education has soared during the beginning of the crisis- not sure if the anti-german press coverage of the Greek press has changed that...","parent":"9850422","id":"9850507"}
{"by":"lloeki","time":"1470823806","timestamp":"2016-08-10 10:10:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can always (ab)use the linker! [0]\u003cp\u003e[0]: (shameless plug) \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;8923097\u0026#x2F;compile-a-binary-file-for-linking-osx\u0026#x2F;13772389\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;8923097\u0026#x2F;compile-a-binary-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12259149","id":"12260586"}
{"by":"ChrisNorstrom","time":"1407525753","timestamp":"2014-08-08 19:22:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A growing number of users think HN is Wendy Williams for Startups. They love gossip, drama, and revenge. Don\u0026#x27;t bother trying to convert them, \u0026quot;name-and-shame\u0026quot; is a growing new attitude in Startups. Every problem and issue is now being aired out in public because it allows people (completely unrelated to the issue) to opinionate and play hero.","parent":"8153354","id":"8154584"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1371636195","timestamp":"2013-06-19 10:03:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It just means the cost is a bit higher: You need to train people yourself. That didn\u0026#x27;t use to be such a novel idea.","parent":"5904523","id":"5904674"}
{"by":"Andrex","time":"1352703321","timestamp":"2012-11-12 06:55:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn't require a GPU for hardware acceleration anymore, Gnome 3.6 uses LLVM for hardware where GPU acceleration isn't available.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item\u0026#38;px=MTAxMjI\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item\u0026#38;px=MTAxM...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4771070","id":"4771891"}
{"by":"emblem21","time":"1482476031","timestamp":"2016-12-23 06:53:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Breaking HN policy to say this is the correct answer to this question.","parent":"13243228","id":"13243328"}
{"by":"dchuk","time":"1375278512","timestamp":"2013-07-31 13:48:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank god. As someone who routinely visits coffee shops to help maintain some semblance of sanity as I work from home most of the time, entering a nearly full Starbucks almost always means the internet will be sluggish. Hopefully this means I can actually stream music and work at the same time now.","parent":"6133390","id":"6133603"}
{"by":"teye","time":"1281457447","timestamp":"2010-08-10 16:24:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stop writing posts warning against use of these terms. You're too late. The tide turned long ago, and the ones who were there already made the announcement.","parent":"1591573","id":"1592029"}
{"by":"tatotato","time":"1501713377","timestamp":"2017-08-02 22:36:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Goodness!  This seems like an amazing opportunity - I have charges that will never go away under New Zealand\u0026#x27;s Clean Slate Act for buying from Silk Road when I was 17 years of age.  This is truly progressive.","parent":"14911467","id":"14915311"}
{"by":"jgilbert","time":"1249910936","timestamp":"2009-08-10 13:28:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"birmingham, alabama","parent":"752262","id":"752816"}
{"by":"yarou","time":"1460011608","timestamp":"2016-04-07 06:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hosting the server itself is not per se illegal (well, maybe it might be; alternative Battle.net servers were given C\u0026amp;Ds back in the day), but you still need a game client to extract stuff like map and vmap data from all of the game files.","parent":"11444653","id":"11445221"}
{"by":"darawk","time":"1489778163","timestamp":"2017-03-17 19:16:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You\u0026#x27;re projecting. At least let him explain his reasoning. Creating your own fictional version which you can denounce prior that that explanation doesn\u0026#x27;t really help the conversation.\u003cp\u003ea) That isn\u0026#x27;t what projecting means.\u003cp\u003eb) He asked him about his reasoning and then criticized an explicitly hypothetical scenario. Note the \u0026#x27;if\u0026#x27;.","parent":"13896781","id":"13897059"}
{"by":"jeena","time":"1458286412","timestamp":"2016-03-18 07:33:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have to say it, this wouldn\u0026#x27;t be a problem it they wrote free software instead. Security by obscurity was never a good way to go.","parent":"11306272","id":"11310407"}
{"by":"xiaomai","time":"1292730798","timestamp":"2010-12-19 03:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've tried liking rspec so many times, but Test::Unit really is where it's at.  I don't understand the obsession with tests reading like english (Cucumber is much worse in this regard).  I'll stick with ruby.","parent":"2020815","id":"2021030"}
{"by":"Foy","time":"1345244132","timestamp":"2012-08-17 22:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kind of funny that the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature was staring us in the face this whole time. :)\u003cp\u003eAlso, how is it that this was only measured just recently? Astronomers suspected it was wider at the equator, like Jupiter, but never bothered to check?","parent":"4399175","id":"4399248"}
{"by":"vy8vWJlco","time":"1367214519","timestamp":"2013-04-29 05:48:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have had a very hard time trusting Sony since the removal of the OtherOS/Linux support on the PS3 (which was not their first hard-line opposition to owner control that came to my attention by then). Since then, I have tried to avoid even simple Sony wares (headphones, etc) - even if the hardware was sexy - on the theory that they were the sort of company that would sue the sort of person I consider myself to be (specifically, someone who is likely to hack any phone or game system I buy).\u003cp\u003eMaybe others feel that way too. I don't know how much that would matter to the average phone user, but it might uniquely matter to the sort of people who are looking for an open boot process.","parent":"5624197","id":"5624318"}
{"by":"woobar","time":"1333760774","timestamp":"2012-04-07 01:06:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, 'information you give them' is always within your control.","parent":"3809141","id":"3809600"}
{"by":"bgarbiak","time":"1406829494","timestamp":"2014-07-31 17:58:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just a note: the system was never actually used in any Grand Prix. Williams had problems with packaging and weight balance (safety was also a concern). They later followed other teams and settled on battery-based solution. Flywheel had only one significant advantage over these: lower operating costs. That\u0026#x27;s what makes it feasible for use in public transport, I guess.","parent":"8113561","id":"8115804"}
{"by":"berntb","time":"1383771878","timestamp":"2013-11-06 21:04:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh my, this is funny.\u003cp\u003eWhat would work for the Indians is the English English cliche of British civil servants -- everyone understands English if you make a point of speaking sloowwllyy and e-nun-ci-ate cleeaarrllyy.\u003cp\u003e(Not a native speaker, even if I\u0026#x27;ve read mostly in English since I was a teenager. Which was a while ago.)","parent":"6685156","id":"6685496"}
{"by":"chillacy","time":"1544904016","timestamp":"2018-12-15 20:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Chinese leaders have been increasingly focused on scientific misconduct, following ongoing reports of researchers there using fraudulent data, falsifying CVs and faking peer reviews\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like a step in the right direction. It feels less gross if you think of \u0026quot;social punishment\u0026quot; as a lighter version of \u0026quot;legal punishment\u0026quot;. No need to send cheaters to jail, but don\u0026#x27;t let them off the hook either.\u003cp\u003eAssuming the system won\u0026#x27;t be abused for political (I\u0026#x27;m sure it will), the detection is accurate (I\u0026#x27;m sure it\u0026#x27;ll be hard), the social punishment is reasonable (we\u0026#x27;ll see), it sounds reasonable in theory.","parent":"18689988","id":"18690068"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1357546447","timestamp":"2013-01-07 08:14:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm, I hope they got that resolution wrong. The last thing we need are some more 540 x 240 resolution glasses.","parent":"5018759","id":"5020012"}
{"by":"mwarkentin","time":"1379938621","timestamp":"2013-09-23 12:17:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saw this Chrome extension mentioned on Twitter yesterday: \u003ca href=\"http://oldcompose.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;oldcompose.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t tried it myself, but apparently it works well.","parent":"6429325","id":"6430300"}
{"by":"cynicalkane","time":"1369088032","timestamp":"2013-05-20 22:13:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe point of capitalism is that this is not true in the general case.","parent":"5740248","id":"5740464"}
{"by":"jlg23","time":"1477693651","timestamp":"2016-10-28 22:27:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m looking at you JIRA, GitLab, Chrome Dev Tools, etc.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure that using tools that try to provide a good visual experience is the right approach. Have you tried writing scrapers that provide an optimized textual representation?","parent":"12819482","id":"12821308"}
{"by":"IkmoIkmo","time":"1441236800","timestamp":"2015-09-02 23:33:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, in fact just last week I was just watching a Dutch program I recalled watching back in 2005 when I was a teenager, it was basically a conversation that Rogers and Marc Faber and another guy had on their ideas of the future. Then India came along and he was incredibly negative and dismissive and that stood out to me as being over the top. Here I am a week later, surprised to see a topic on just that (Rogers about India) and not surprised to find comments like yours.","parent":"10160619","id":"10162612"}
{"by":"st3v3r","time":"1470790490","timestamp":"2016-08-10 00:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The money doesn\u0026#x27;t appear to defend itself, and thus, boom: Default judgement.","parent":"12258746","id":"12258773"}
{"by":"markokrajnc","time":"1381418920","timestamp":"2013-10-10 15:28:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If Google is a \u0026quot;thought leader\u0026quot; why didn\u0026#x27;t they use another language for Android?\u003cp\u003eThe more you digg into the languages, the more you see, that Java rules them all... I\u0026#x27;ve tried MANY, MANY languages (from assembler, Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Smalltalk, C#, Python, Ruby\u0026#x2F;Rails, Groovy, PHP, Perl, awful JavaScript which shouldn\u0026#x27;t be called a language at all, because it has bugs built in it and many others) and nobody is forcing me to use Java, but I program my Rasberry Pi-s only in Java...\u003cp\u003eWith latest Rasbperian Wheezy where Oracle JDK is included I can tell you it is super cool and super fast for this small ARM processor... I will not use Python on it... Either Java or C - nothing else do I need...","parent":"6524616","id":"6528224"}
{"by":"praveer13","time":"1477589792","timestamp":"2016-10-27 17:36:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here, I think I had it too when I was a kid..I wonder if my excessive internet use drowned my internal voice or something else.","parent":"12807020","id":"12807248"}
{"by":"andyjsong","time":"1349080967","timestamp":"2012-10-01 08:42:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"bay area local. rent a car, public transit can only take you so far in the area.","parent":"4595674","id":"4595880"}
{"by":"krona","time":"1490799394","timestamp":"2017-03-29 14:56:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m providing empirical evidence of a verifiable claim that is either true or false. You can argue about the rigorousness of the claim, but regardless it can be independently verified.","parent":"13986114","id":"13986830"}
{"by":"jd20","time":"1467347817","timestamp":"2016-07-01 04:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think Apple is intentionally trying to create lock-in, but I do think there is a valid fragmentation concern in the field of deep learning right now. For example, you look at CUDA vs OpenCL, and CUDA has clearly become the winner there. Anyone building a system for deep learning would be crazy not to buy nVidia hardware. And while some projects support both CUDA and OpenCL (e.g. OpenCV), you can usually count on the CUDA implementation being more tested and performant. Metal is going to just throw one more wrench into the mix :)","parent":"12013300","id":"12013901"}
{"by":"rqs","time":"1539918560","timestamp":"2018-10-19 03:09:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So what\u0026#x27;s the plan for when IPv6 gains more adoption and we don\u0026#x27;t need SNI as much since every site can have its own public IP address\u003cp\u003eSay sometimes I love to visit a very private website for my personal pleasure when I\u0026#x27;m alone at night.\u003cp\u003eWithout eSNI, when I type-in pornhub.com and hit enter, my buddy Bob who working for the ISP immediately knows and be very sure that I\u0026#x27;m trying to accessing none other than pornhub.com. And then, with great confident, he greedily calling me for a live chat.\u003cp\u003eBob is a ... special person. He might tell my mom about the pleasure thing, but not just that, he also secretly tracks my pleasure activities only to figure out the pattern using some sort of weird thing called machine learning, so he can show up in front of my door at the exact right time to share the pleasure with me.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t like that.\u003cp\u003eWith eSNI, Bob only knows that I\u0026#x27;m accessing 216.18.168.0. But when he tries to access the 216.18.168.0:80, he be greeted by a 403 error which says \u0026quot;Invalid Host\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eA website may have many IP addresses, and an IP address can serve many websites. Because of that, now Bob can only know MAYBE I\u0026#x27;m watching my little pleasure, oh wait, or maybe it\u0026#x27;s imworkingverylateatnight.com? He just can\u0026#x27;t be sure now.","parent":"18251104","id":"18253996"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1413793529","timestamp":"2014-10-20 08:25:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Somehow it must be beneficial for the elected officials to keep these non-changing people in charge.\u003cp\u003eYes, because the vast majority of them are simply the bureaucrats that keep things ticking over because they know how to do their jobs.","parent":"8481113","id":"8481126"}
{"by":"kiriakasis","time":"1522247162","timestamp":"2018-03-28 14:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that lack of compatibility between IPv4 and IPv6 was more relevant than middleboxes meddling with packets.","parent":"16696055","id":"16697879"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1400164410","timestamp":"2014-05-15 14:33:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To explain to those who may not know what\u0026#x27;s going on here:\u003cp\u003eGo forbids importing modules that you then don\u0026#x27;t use in the source code. This is particularly annoying with the \u0026quot;fmt\u0026quot; module, which contains things like Printf that are useful for debugging, but you may only be using fmt.Printf for one debugging statement in the code. Consequently, if you\u0026#x27;re developing, and you\u0026#x27;re adding and removing it over and over you also have to add and remove it to and from your import list over and over, which is very annoying since it\u0026#x27;s likely to be relatively distant from your use location, and it\u0026#x27;s mandatory that all imports are listed at the top of the file. (So, you can\u0026#x27;t do what you can do in perl and say \u0026quot;use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($debugging_stuff);\u0026quot; all on one line, without even being concerned about whether Dumper may already be imported.)\u003cp\u003egoimports is a source filter that cleans out any unused modules, and tries its best to add modules that you only reference. It\u0026#x27;s pretty good. You can confuse it if you have two modules with the same last bit of the name, but the standard library doesn\u0026#x27;t have that anyhow, and for the most part you can deal with that. Since it also runs gofmt for you on save, it\u0026#x27;s also a drop-in replacement for gofmt, which you should configure your editor to run on every save even if you for some reason don\u0026#x27;t want the goimports functionality. (Seriously. Just do it. There\u0026#x27;s no excuse not to. There\u0026#x27;s no excuse to ever commit code that was not gofmt\u0026#x27;ed.)\u003cp\u003eIf you do that, the problem goes away. Typing \u0026quot;fmt.Printf\u0026quot; pulls fmt in automatically, removing the one line removes it automatically, the import list is always accurate, and it\u0026#x27;s smart enough that if it isn\u0026#x27;t the only usage it doesn\u0026#x27;t remove it.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I also strongly recommend setting up automatic syntax checking by compilation (flymake in emacs, don\u0026#x27;t know what in vim, etc), so that you also avoid the \u0026quot;Save -\u0026gt; switch windows to terminal -\u0026gt; compile -\u0026gt; get smacked in face with an error that feels stupidly persnickety\u0026quot; psychological torture. If the errors highlight in your editor on save or something, you go through that much less. Those who lived in the C#\u0026#x2F;Java etc world have long had this... a lot of people coming from the scripting side would be advised to pick up a bit more of the helpful tools the static side has to offer.","parent":"7749456","id":"7749618"}
{"by":"tbolt","time":"1461599463","timestamp":"2016-04-25 15:51:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who runs Ubuntu Desktop, should this be concerning?\u003cp\u003eCurrently I am running 14.04 which I keep regularly updated. The only other software I have installed is plex media server and chrome. Seems like I would be more at-risk if I were running more \u0026#x27;non-main\u0026#x27; packages, but I am not really sure what that means.","parent":"11563015","id":"11565019"}
{"by":"cbsmith","time":"1462440034","timestamp":"2016-05-05 09:20:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Languages don\u0026#x27;t really dictate response times to the user.","parent":"11546536","id":"11634778"}
{"by":"brazzledazzle","time":"1465493871","timestamp":"2016-06-09 17:37:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the criticism seemed to be centered around communication\u0026#x2F;PR so statistics don\u0026#x27;t really address that. Definitely important when considering a provider though.\u003cp\u003eWhile the numbers are nice, if some outages only impact a subset of customers and your monitoring accounts aren\u0026#x27;t one of them it\u0026#x27;s hard to determine how good your monitoring data really is. If he was impacted by a 12 hour outage and you only show ~2 hours that\u0026#x27;s a really significant difference.\u003cp\u003eI guess it really depends on how you monitor and how comprehensive it is. Do you monitor from multiple ISPs on different network paths in multiple regions\u0026#x2F;countries? Do you monitor each of the services under different load conditions and monitor multiple accounts? Sometimes \u0026quot;up\u0026quot; only tells part of the story.","parent":"11870369","id":"11870937"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1427833269","timestamp":"2015-03-31 20:21:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...and \u0026quot;increasing the character set\u0026quot; actually means \u0026quot;reducing the password space\u0026quot;.  A rainbow algorithm for instance no longer has to test any plain words at all; just the ones with vowels replaced by digits and\u0026#x2F;or a special character added to the end.  Its actually LESS entropy.","parent":"9298583","id":"9299610"}
{"by":"reedloden","time":"1458107585","timestamp":"2016-03-16 05:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bugs.launchpad.net\u0026#x2F;ubuntu\u0026#x2F;+source\u0026#x2F;git\u0026#x2F;+bug\u0026#x2F;1557787\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bugs.launchpad.net\u0026#x2F;ubuntu\u0026#x2F;+source\u0026#x2F;git\u0026#x2F;+bug\u0026#x2F;1557787\u003c/a\u003e is the tracking bug for this issue. Seems like it\u0026#x27;s fixed on xenial but not yet in older releases.","parent":"11293893","id":"11295326"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1446240360","timestamp":"2015-10-30 21:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fantastic read, and a great introduction to the subject matter. Kudos!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m also really enjoying the position taken on OSS here:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026gt; I’d personally be very disappointed in an engineer who, in 2015, defaulted\n  \u0026gt; to scratchbuilding their own clients for every API they consumed.\n  \u0026gt; Starfighter loves OSS and the OSS culture. Go nuts.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nPerfect.","parent":"10480390","id":"10480633"}
{"by":"hippich","time":"1326247399","timestamp":"2012-01-11 02:03:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Texas, Scott \u0026#38; White","parent":"3447543","id":"3450131"}
{"by":"cleversoap","time":"1396922467","timestamp":"2014-04-08 02:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; how people made games\u003cp\u003eIn my experience this is the common question amongst everybody (myself included) that started programming young. Some adult somewhere (how sad that I don\u0026#x27;t remember) took me seriously enough and gave me some books so I started writing in C, BASIC, and assembly and I was too stupid to realise that it was supposed to be too hard for a 9 year old.\u003cp\u003eToday (as in literally this moment in time) I am still writing C for games.","parent":"7549481","id":"7550996"}
{"by":"lol768","time":"1506084519","timestamp":"2017-09-22 12:48:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Monzo, and would highly recommend them. Great customer support, very transparent (you can see their trello roadmap, they interact with the community via forums and Slack) and I love their product too (have switched over to their current account as primary bank account now). They have somre really great people working there too - if you\u0026#x27;re in London they have a lot of events and talks that are pretty interesting.","parent":"15311440","id":"15311654"}
{"by":"hellbanner","time":"1434664747","timestamp":"2015-06-18 21:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are these jokes?","parent":"9741671","id":"9741863"}
{"by":"jdmichal","time":"1541955401","timestamp":"2018-11-11 16:56:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s a real comic.  Looks like the Dilbert site used to have a feature to modify \u0026#x2F; make your own comics, but I can\u0026#x27;t find it anymore.","parent":"18427187","id":"18427269"}
{"by":"_ao789","time":"1481533725","timestamp":"2016-12-12 09:08:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have found it to be often nothing more than just a title unfortunately. So many developers I work with have the \u0026#x27;senior\u0026#x27; title but struggle to do actual development, often spending most of their time talking or \u0026#x27;pair programming\u0026#x27; which has completely put me off the concept as they hide behind others helping them all the time but claim they are \u0026#x27;senior\u0026#x27; purely because the hiring manager filled that gap. Pathetic.","parent":"13154878","id":"13156719"}
{"by":"drats","time":"1287515867","timestamp":"2010-10-19 19:17:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More to the point, what's the cost of a Moon base - where a return and even a rescue is feasible - AND a one-way extensive robotic exploration of Mars. It just seems an overly dramatic waste (there will be no shortage of people willing to go) to send people to die on Mars when we can get the same off-Earth habitation expertise and Mars scientific data for the same price or cheaper.","parent":"1807693","id":"1808351"}
{"by":"edent","time":"1456904846","timestamp":"2016-03-02 07:47:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Title has now changed to show that it is Ist. Sans Serif fonts can be confusing :-)","parent":"11208472","id":"11208601"}
{"by":"wmboy","time":"1502238946","timestamp":"2017-08-09 00:35:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really? That\u0026#x27;s the business you\u0026#x27;ve automated??\u003cp\u003eCare to share some more details on the process?","parent":"14960949","id":"14964466"}
{"by":"sleavey","time":"1541325782","timestamp":"2018-11-04 10:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I went to university intending to study computing science, but switched to physics half way through under the assumption that you could teach yourself computing science more easily than physics. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t change what I learned for the world, and I\u0026#x27;m now in physics academia, but it\u0026#x27;s funny how my job these days involves using some of the algorithms, mathematics and data structures that I was just about to start learning if I had stayed the course in computing.\u003cp\u003eMy few years of study and general interest in computing has already given me a huge advantage in solving certain types of problem. I think computing science (not just software engineering) is slowly but surely becoming an essential part of many areas of modern physics research.","parent":"18374994","id":"18375118"}
{"by":"skrebbel","time":"1538563985","timestamp":"2018-10-03 10:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could see myself doing this a few years from now. Does a Gaza stamp in your passport limit someone\u0026#x27;s entry into other countries? (eg USA)","parent":"18128757","id":"18129078"}
{"by":"tomcam","time":"1484112929","timestamp":"2017-01-11 05:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can someone explain the downvotes?","parent":"13371514","id":"13372003"}
{"by":"ishansharma","time":"1355220583","timestamp":"2012-12-11 10:09:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am one. The thing with Metro is that it's just too much clutter on big screens and strange colour choices by Microsoft. Out of 15 or so options in Windows 8, there is exactly 1 that looks good!\u003cp\u003eAnd the jumping between Metro and Desktop environment is just too hectic!","parent":"4902369","id":"4903883"}
{"by":"chaosmachine","time":"1239059328","timestamp":"2009-04-06 23:08:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I meant was that URLs would be replaced with the word \"link\".\u003cp\u003e\u0026#60;a href=\"hxxp://somelongurl.com/1234\"\u0026#62;link\u0026#60;/a\u0026#62;\u003cp\u003eLike that, except actually a link. Short anchor text eliminates the need for short URLs.","parent":"549846","id":"549863"}
{"by":"tjogin","time":"1308858602","timestamp":"2011-06-23 19:50:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not the photographer's work, really, since the pixelated version was hand made by a pixel artist, using the photo only as inspiration.","parent":"2688152","id":"2689557"}
{"by":"jhancock","time":"1271962520","timestamp":"2010-04-22 18:55:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ikea makes one (or at least did a few years back).  I bought 3 of them along with tall Ikea chairs.  Total cost for chair and desk ~$100.  Fantastic desk at the right price.","parent":"1285876","id":"1286085"}
{"by":"aembleton","time":"1515753551","timestamp":"2018-01-12 10:39:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They could still include an external charging LED.  For example, my Xiaomi Air 12 has an LED that changes between red, amber and green whilst it is charging to show the current state of the battery.\u003cp\u003eThat laptop only has one USB-C so the placement of the indicator is simple, but Apple could include one somewhere.","parent":"16131096","id":"16131896"}
{"by":"jcromartie","time":"1211306623","timestamp":"2008-05-20 18:03:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This scribd thing is getting ridiculous.  Why not make it an opt-out arrangement for submitters?","parent":"195067","id":"195087"}
{"by":"creativityland","time":"1354315627","timestamp":"2012-11-30 22:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"#3 is definitely a problem for many as well.","parent":"4855886","id":"4855897"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1462292806","timestamp":"2016-05-03 16:26:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AIUI the backlight dominates the power consumption, so more pixels at the same physical size makes very little difference.\u003cp\u003eBut sure, that\u0026#x27;s a lot more concrete. So are you unhappy with the battery life on this device? Does the laptop the grandparent was talking about have worse battery life than comparable models? Certainly I\u0026#x27;m very happy with the battery life of my Surface Book (which is a lot better than that of the laptop it replace), so to my mind it\u0026#x27;s not a problem in practice.","parent":"11622012","id":"11622053"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1305946897","timestamp":"2011-05-21 03:01:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did not author the article.\u003cp\u003eI am technical and I realize that I want to better my non-technical skills. It really is all about relationships. You can't get meet someone and talk business the first time you meet, just get the contact info to follow up. You can't woo them on the first date.\u003cp\u003eLike many people here, HN has inspired me to actually do side projects with people. Yes making money is nice, especially when it is not from coder of fortune mercenary consulting but from product. Like many people here, I have a day job but get a lot from my side projects (The term startup is so meaningless). Having a day job lets us explore possibilities, without giving up some comfort","parent":"2570085","id":"2570145"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1371062632","timestamp":"2013-06-12 18:43:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but they can\u0026#x27;t pretend that they are the company you are talking to... Or at least they\u0026#x27;ll leak enough information to get caught if they do that in a massive way.","parent":"5869101","id":"5869795"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1319651861","timestamp":"2011-10-26 17:57:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dell had more operating income last year than eBay or Amazon or Adobe.\u003cp\u003eMichael Dell is worth $15 billion.\u003cp\u003eI guess we have different measures of success.","parent":"3159142","id":"3159675"}
{"by":"Apofis","time":"1423898732","timestamp":"2015-02-14 07:25:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a monkey steals your camera and takes a photo, who owns the copyright to that photo?","parent":"9047452","id":"9049017"}
{"by":"candiodari","time":"1512020946","timestamp":"2017-11-30 05:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The senator in question, by the way, is Diane Feinstein, a longstanding and very senior member of what passes for a \u0026quot;socialist\u0026quot; party in the US.\u003cp\u003eAnd how do we fix this ? Obviously this is the result of government being corrupt, and for decades in the pocket of a small group of rich people, regardless of who gets elected.\u003cp\u003eI mean, this cannot be fixed by more government regulation, since if it so much as forces these people to buy the land they use privately, it immediately gets repealed. Don\u0026#x27;t tell me that this organisation is going to really raise taxes on them, because ... it\u0026#x27;s not. It\u0026#x27;s just not going to do that.\u003cp\u003eObviously smaller government is also not the answer. But ...","parent":"15812215","id":"15813763"}
{"by":"frou_dh","time":"1468662220","timestamp":"2016-07-16 09:43:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unreal Engine 4\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;Blueprint\u0026quot; scripting system is the most impressive visual programming system I\u0026#x27;ve seen. It\u0026#x27;s easy to ignore for many because it\u0026#x27;s just some videogame thing, but the editor application is very substantial (as is its compatibility with the textual programming side), and the concepts within pretty general.","parent":"12105617","id":"12105796"}
{"by":"MildlySerious","time":"1501002814","timestamp":"2017-07-25 17:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elm has been going strong among Elixir users, including a bunch of influencers.\u003cp\u003eI personally haven\u0026#x27;t tried it out of personal preference and instead had a great experience coupling Vue with a Phoenix backend.","parent":"14849472","id":"14849633"}
{"by":"adamnemecek","time":"1494789695","timestamp":"2017-05-14 19:21:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m definily targeting that workflow. What\u0026#x27;s your current mixing workflow?","parent":"14337074","id":"14337093"}
{"by":"the_af","time":"1430744742","timestamp":"2015-05-04 13:05:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, Tony\u0026#x27;s claim is a bit extreme, and I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s standard practice in general. I just thought it was a nice counterpoint to the OP\u0026#x27;s claim.\u003cp\u003eNote, however, that this \u0026quot;do not needlessly name things\u0026quot; does show up in actual programming. In standard Haskell practice, it\u0026#x27;s common to write very short, abstract variable names whenever the function is general, and in turn you\u0026#x27;re encouraged to write general functions whenever possible.","parent":"9484304","id":"9485857"}
{"by":"doug4hn","time":"1366318381","timestamp":"2013-04-18 20:53:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I downloaded a \"pre-release\" or beta of this recently and it was absolutely wonderful installing it compared to other recent Linux distros, including Fedora 18 (anaconda problems) even though Fedora allowed BTFS as root. Best Linux distro to get a minimal install and work from there.","parent":"5572929","id":"5573014"}
{"by":"benjamincanfly","time":"1217745641","timestamp":"2008-08-03 06:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not imaginary.","parent":"265255","id":"265447"}
{"by":"jmilloy","time":"1381336155","timestamp":"2013-10-09 16:29:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s fair. I tried to include this perspective as well. Personally I want to agree that this behavior is never ever justified, but do you know that being respectful has no impact on the number of actual violators that are caught? Instead, I expect there is a trade off, and I would sacrifice respect for increased efficacy, to an extent. Furthermore, the resources required to remove agents that misbehave compete with the resources to find violators. Ultimately, I think it\u0026#x27;s hard to tell from here if we\u0026#x27;re sacrificing too much respect given the results.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d rather not have to become an expert in border control; I pay taxes so that someone else can do that. I can see, however, that many people find it hard to trust that someone else might know more than them. I think it\u0026#x27;s a shame that there is not enough transparency; is assuming the worst and crying foul without proper data really the best we can do?","parent":"6521507","id":"6522240"}
{"by":"harryh","time":"1404534626","timestamp":"2014-07-05 04:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh, interesting. I stand completely corrected. Thanks!","parent":"7990958","id":"7991037"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1446870848","timestamp":"2015-11-07 04:34:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10515961\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10515961\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10517475","id":"10523724"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1497049388","timestamp":"2017-06-09 23:03:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The specificity is misleading you.\u003cp\u003eMy guess is that if you look at the giant basket of things a group of terrorists could do in the US with modest funding, this is pretty low down on the list of harms, and solving it would be very low down on the cost\u0026#x2F;benefit list of harm reduction options.\u003cp\u003ePower outages happen frequently regardless. We\u0026#x27;ve reduced the frequency to a level where it\u0026#x27;s not a big deal. If they were a really big problem, we already would have hardened things.","parent":"14524402","id":"14525228"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1447519387","timestamp":"2015-11-14 16:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve memorized a few values, like the radius and mass of the Earth. What meaning would it be for them, I wonder, if I answered \u0026#x27;40,000 km \u0026#x2F; (2 pi)\u0026#x27; (or \u0026#x27;25,000 miles \u0026#x2F; (2 pi)\u0026#x27;?\u003cp\u003eBTW, there are three factors that affect your calculation which you left out. First, the fencepost error. While SF and NYC have two timezones in between, neither city is on the furthest edge of its timezone. With better knowledge, an estimate of 3.5 is more correct, giving (24\u0026#x2F;3.5)\u003ci\u003e3000\u0026#x2F;(2 pi) = 3274 miles.\u003cp\u003eSecond, 3,000 miles is the driving distance, not the great circle distance, which is only 2,500 miles. (24\u0026#x2F;3.5)\u003c/i\u003e2500\u0026#x2F;(2 pi) = 2728 miles. Still, I think 3,000 miles is good for the ballpark estimate you made, and it\u0026#x27;s certainly not a fact I have at hand.\u003cp\u003eThird, those two cities lie at about 40 N latitude, so you computed the length of that latitude, not the length of the equator. You need to divide by cos(40 degrees). cos(45 degrees) is sqrt(2)\u0026#x2F;2 = 0.707, so I\u0026#x27;ll use 0.75. (24\u0026#x2F;3.5)*2500\u0026#x2F;(2 pi)\u0026#x2F;0.75 = 3637.","parent":"10565797","id":"10566230"}
{"by":"Pigo","time":"1479926412","timestamp":"2016-11-23 18:40:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s got to be expanding documentation or writing more tutorials. There\u0026#x27;s so much you can do with webpack, but as a beginner I found it hard to wade through 3rd party blog posts to figure out best practices.","parent":"13023787","id":"13024725"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1518914056","timestamp":"2018-02-18 00:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=658691\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=658691\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=392347\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=392347\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=117171”\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=117171”\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eRef: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16131314\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16131314\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16403548","id":"16403695"}
{"by":"pivo","time":"1378429347","timestamp":"2013-09-06 01:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really do like Scala, however I also find it to be similar to C++ in the sense that lots of the Scala code I\u0026#x27;ve read seems to be written by people who trade simplicity of implementation for being able to use every single feature of the language all at once. In other words, people unable to resist the urge to be too clever.\u003cp\u003eSometimes the result is Scala source files that almost appear to be written in different languages, or lots of little libraries each with their own wacky DSLs that require a major investment of time to comprehend just to accomplish something that should be trivial.\u003cp\u003eThese sorts of abuses you really don\u0026#x27;t see in Clojure even though it\u0026#x27;s just as possible in that language. Of course this is all based just on my experience, YMMV.","parent":"6337937","id":"6338129"}
{"by":"wazoox","time":"1283514001","timestamp":"2010-09-03 11:40:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple sells it as a personal device, so you have to buy one for each and every family member. Do you have user profiles on your phone? Of course you don't.","parent":"1658446","id":"1659229"}
{"by":"edw519","time":"1349349986","timestamp":"2012-10-04 11:26:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"57, programming for 33 years with hardly a day off, and having more fun than ever.\u003cp\u003eMy motivation? It's not about the technology, the tools, the apps, the business, the customers, or even the money, although any of those can provide plenty of motivation. And believe it or not, it's not even about the happy dance feeling I get when something I built works for the first time.\u003cp\u003eIt's about the achievements of those who use what I built. Hopefully that'll keep my busy for another 33 years.","parent":"4611337","id":"4611787"}
{"by":"2mur","time":"1320946775","timestamp":"2011-11-10 17:39:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, my sympathies for your wife, I wish the best outcome for you both. Second, please do not take any of the following for medical advice, I intend to speak generally.\u003cp\u003eI mostly said moderately differentiated, because for a lot of pathologists, if you give us a three tiered system for grading some type of cancer (and there are systems for almost every type of cancer) that we'll put most things in the middle. I personally believe two tiered systems work better for most everything. Most studies have shown that breast cancer scoring (in the US, most use the Nottingham modification of the Bloom-Richardson system) is only moderately reproducible anyways [1][2]\u003cp\u003eI tend to only fully grade the tumor after it has been resected, because there is not much point in grading it on the biopsy (ie. it won't change management, most patients are still going to have surgery) since sampling error may influence the final grade if you are discrepant from the biopsy.\u003cp\u003eI always tell friends and family that if they have any medical procedures, and most especially those for cancer, to always get copies of the operation note and the final pathology interpretation. The operation note will be written by the surgeon and will detail everything she did during the operation, what was removed, what was placed, etc. The final pathology will be the best place to get detailed information about what the tumor, where it is, the pathologic stage, etc. Your discussions with all of the other doctors will all basically be dictated by this report. There may be multiple of them, one for each procedure. So get the biopsy pathology report, the pathology report from the mastectomy, etc. They should also report out the results of the ancillary testing to (ER/PR/Her2) since they are the ones who did them. Most of the cancer reports (in the US anyways) should be written in accordance with the protocols from our professional organization and can be found online [3]. You'll probably find them somewhat tedious, but there is a wealth of information in there [4]. You are entitled to those reports and you really owe it to yourself to get a copy. If your doctor/doctor's staff won't get you one, then you could contact the pathology group directly to obtain one, don't hesitate.\u003cp\u003eIn general, the grade of the tumor is far, far less important than stage of the tumor at diagnosis (most importantly the status of the axillary lymph nodes) and also the ER/PR/Her2 status of the tumor.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15920556\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15920556\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7856562\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7856562\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true\u0026#38;cntvwrPtlt_actionOverride=%2Fportlets%2FcontentViewer%2Fshow\u0026#38;_windowLabel=cntvwrPtlt\u0026#38;cntvwrPtlt%7BactionForm.contentReference%7D=committees%2Fcancer%2Fcancer_protocols%2Fprotocols_index.html\u0026#38;_state=maximized\u0026#38;_pageLabel=cntvwr\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true\u0026#38;cntvwrPtlt...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[4][pdf] \u003ca href=\"http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2009/InvasiveBreast_09protocol.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protoc...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3220797","id":"3220935"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1462386756","timestamp":"2016-05-04 18:32:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What is the risk when a large percentage of the middle class and others are all in low fee index funds?\u003cp\u003eOne risk is that index funds aren\u0026#x27;t really unmanaged, they are managed by people who set and apply rules as to what is included in the index. The greater proportion of total investment that is passively (i.e., without deep research into the practices behind the index) invested in such funds (and, particularly, the proportion that is passively invested in any one such fund), the greater the risk of the rules and practices of setting the index being manipulated.","parent":"11629332","id":"11630538"}
{"by":"nickik","time":"1486497584","timestamp":"2017-02-07 19:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Om next is not really Clojure specific, you could use the same query\u0026#x2F;transaction model in other languages as well. The server part is can be used with any database. As I understand, that is much harder with GraphQL.","parent":"13592160","id":"13592194"}
{"by":"hyperbovine","time":"1343855521","timestamp":"2012-08-01 21:12:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use a Chrome extension that automatically displays the embedded photos as thumbnails next to each listing. Per request, it probably increases the resource burden on CL's servers by one or two orders of magnitude. I can't imagine they are happy about that and keep waiting for the day when they implement some sort of rate limiting.\u003cp\u003eOr maybe it really is as they say, and they just don't want 3rd parties doing this sort of thing, even though it's far more efficient. Personally I'm skeptical.","parent":"4324953","id":"4325745"}
{"by":"ScottBurson","time":"1379598360","timestamp":"2013-09-19 13:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  while (read(line, ...) \u0026gt; 0) {\n    if (line[0] == \u0026#x27;#\u0026#x27;) continue;   \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; comment\n    ...\n  }\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"6410682","id":"6411537"}
{"by":"vampirechicken","time":"1353003396","timestamp":"2012-11-15 18:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's not marketing. \nThat's poor customer service.","parent":"4785834","id":"4789904"}
{"by":"ag","time":"1192137136","timestamp":"2007-10-11 21:12:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're right, that's why i think european policy makers need to change that","parent":"66459","id":"66501"}
{"by":"FigBug","time":"1465405416","timestamp":"2016-06-08 17:03:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You also need to make it so the user can replace the Qt binaries with a later \u0026#x2F; modified version which may not be possible on an embedded device.","parent":"11863240","id":"11863724"}
{"by":"jmpeax","time":"1445483174","timestamp":"2015-10-22 03:06:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s $9.99 per-month, where in the article the word \u0026quot;month\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t appear once. Great journalism there techcrunch.","parent":"10426806","id":"10430192"}
{"by":"vvanders","time":"1538192519","timestamp":"2018-09-29 03:41:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;ve seen anyone claiming that Rust is a perfect language without flaws. Heck I\u0026#x27;d hold up all of the huge strides that have been made in errors, usability and constant feedback as a counter example of that.\u003cp\u003eYou see a lot of people holding up Rust precisely because we\u0026#x27;ve been there for the last 5\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;20 years. The day I don\u0026#x27;t have to write a makefile or build yet another CMakeLists.txt is the day I rejoice.\u003cp\u003eWhat Rust offers is another option in the native, non-GC\u0026#x27;d language space. A space that has very few languages and even fewer yet that are shipped at scale. Rusts inclusion w\u0026#x2F; FF means that the have to address the robustness, security, performance and usability of the language to a degree that you don\u0026#x27;t commonly see.\u003cp\u003eHaving just blown 4+ hours today dealing with the linker on a mixed C\u0026#x2F;C++ project I don\u0026#x27;t really miss a lot of the baggage that comes with native development these days. Rust gives you the option of dropping down to that level while still preserving a set of sane, opinionated defaults that are pretty well thought out.","parent":"18098540","id":"18098597"}
{"by":"mattstreet","time":"1383624230","timestamp":"2013-11-05 04:03:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t you feel a bit dirty coming up with those ideas?","parent":"6672451","id":"6673165"}
{"by":"danielvinson","time":"1475086763","timestamp":"2016-09-28 18:19:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a high school student, not a college intern.  I did a similar thing when I was in high school - during the school year there were incredibly tight restrictions on any job I could have, including limited hours per week, review and oversight by the school, and lots of extra paperwork for the company.  Generally it is just easier for both parties to exclude the pay to get around these requirements.","parent":"12597762","id":"12599962"}
{"by":"yakshaving_jgt","time":"1516355147","timestamp":"2018-01-19 09:45:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that a nice way of saying \u0026quot;we need to figure out how much money we can get from them\u0026quot;?","parent":"16184855","id":"16185116"}
{"by":"cdimascio","time":"1425596655","timestamp":"2015-03-05 23:04:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We also have an alternate UI which has a bit more functionality: \u003ca href=\"http://brewerymaster.mybluemix.net\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;brewerymaster.mybluemix.net\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9151557","id":"9154509"}
{"by":"corin_","time":"1284558015","timestamp":"2010-09-15 13:40:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. That (youtube) method may be better for non-musical people who haven't actually learned but... if they spent the time learning to read music they'd find it far better.","parent":"1693899","id":"1694154"}
{"by":"the_cat_kittles","time":"1534831071","timestamp":"2018-08-21 05:57:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the hard won wisdom and honest self asessment here are inspiring, and im not sure why. but i think its very good you wrote this, and im almost positive the guy you are responding to is going to benefit from what you are saying, not to mention all the other readers","parent":"17805685","id":"17807337"}
{"by":"PureSin","time":"1354930220","timestamp":"2012-12-08 01:30:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it is for me and i hate it. It's as annoying as when facebook added the right side events bar and throw the news feed off center.","parent":"4890154","id":"4890212"}
{"by":"gysien","time":"1540916370","timestamp":"2018-10-30 16:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting read.\u003cp\u003eI used to drink enormous amount of coffee at my previous work (5-6 cups a day) and the overall anxiety just became part of my daily life. Then I decided to go on cold turkey which lasted for about 3-4 months. First weeks were rough, imposter syndrome kicked in like crazy and I wasn\u0026#x27;t able to focus at all.\u003cp\u003eNow I have my morning cup of coffee with L-Theanine and that\u0026#x27;s it for the day. It lasts, the anxiety is gone and overall effect is magnificent.","parent":"18337956","id":"18338249"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1497447026","timestamp":"2017-06-14 13:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14550111\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14550111\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14552523","id":"14552527"}
{"by":"divan","time":"1539864310","timestamp":"2018-10-18 12:05:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, that\u0026#x27;s the obvious benefit for the compiler (statically enforcing behaviour, etc), but I\u0026#x27;m struggling with not seeing here a detremential effect for the human.\u003cp\u003eTo me, when you write code, you\u0026#x27;re encoding your understanding of the problem domain (mental map) into the code, describing it in a way that permits to restore it back. By reading a code your coworker or you 6 month later should be able to restore the same mental map you had while writing the code. And using type system to describe properties (there is another way  to do it already in place – fields in structs), seems like complicating this task and it eventually should hurt readability.","parent":"18247021","id":"18247550"}
{"by":"omegant","time":"1355408730","timestamp":"2012-12-13 14:25:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You didn´t really read the post do you?","parent":"4915679","id":"4915757"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1348527246","timestamp":"2012-09-24 22:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like they are overlooking a market as well by excluding them.\u003cp\u003eFrom: \u003ca href=\"http://www.opera.com/press/faq/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.opera.com/press/faq/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How many people are using Opera?\nToday, more than 275 million people are using Opera every month.\"","parent":"4567421","id":"4567501"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1486829353","timestamp":"2017-02-11 16:09:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Hitler\u0026#x27;s rules sound vaguely familiar.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think comparing Hillary to Hitler is that appropriate.","parent":"13622715","dead":true,"id":"13623170"}
{"by":"maguay","time":"1285562339","timestamp":"2010-09-27 04:38:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ads from The Deck, Fusion Ads, Yoggrt, and other similar ad networks actually get my attention and clicks because they always have ads from quality services and companies.  I even find myself peeking at The Deck ads just to see what new app/product/service is being advertised.  When ads can actually be useful and informative, that's when they're really, really great.\u003cp\u003eThat and affiliate ads.  What person in the HN crowd hasn't given (MT) a thought after seeing all the high-profile sites recommending it?","parent":"1730641","id":"1730752"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1273287834","timestamp":"2010-05-08 03:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"think the argument is fairly sound\"\u003cp\u003eNo, it's a fallacy. There is an absolutely enormous number of possible humans that could exist, but don't. A presumably finite, but enormous number. Neither of us believe they exist. I also don't believe in your existence (for the sake of argument), but you do. The difference is, you don't believe in 10^1000-1 humans, but I don't believe in 10^1000 humans.\u003cp\u003eNo amount of stacking up non-existent things proves anything about any given thing, up to and including whether or not that thing exists.\u003cp\u003eIncidentally, this doesn't address any of your other arguments, which aren't really \"in support of 'the (n-1) gods' argument\" so much as their own independent, free-standing points. I just want to point out the (n-1) argument is a rhetorical device, not an actual argument of any merit. Perhaps \"good rhetorical device\" is all you meant by \"sound\", that would fit with the rest of your message, but I do prefer to reserve the word for its actual logical meaning; if we give that up we don't really have a replacement.","parent":"1328994","id":"1329473"}
{"by":"heyitsnick","time":"1265176969","timestamp":"2010-02-03 06:02:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Light humour?","parent":"1096961","id":"1097182"}
{"by":"9935c101ab17a66","time":"1493416955","timestamp":"2017-04-28 22:02:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a counter-point: do some research into Seattle\u0026#x27;s absolute disaster with tunnelling the last few years. Yes, there are some details of the situation that are specific to Seattle, but it just goes to show that even nowadays, tunnelling isn\u0026#x27;t as easy as we think it is.","parent":"14223369","dead":true,"id":"14223489"}
{"by":"codeonfire","time":"1536810667","timestamp":"2018-09-13 03:51:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A woman that joins a company in mountain view that only hires women is the same as a man that joins a company in Manhattan that only hires men.  Can\u0026#x27;t really say you are neutral after that.","parent":"17975817","id":"17975854"}
{"by":"sudioStudio64","time":"1426780023","timestamp":"2015-03-19 15:47:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;d expect every commercial OS to be at least as good...\u003cp\u003eYou can expect whatever you want. That doesn\u0026#x27;t make it likely or even reasonable. That\u0026#x27;s kind of my point. You say that it\u0026#x27;s not set up for people that tweak their computer...I build systems and don\u0026#x27;t have that problem because I learned how it actually works and don\u0026#x27;t really get hung up on how I wish it worked.","parent":"9232559","id":"9232751"}
{"by":"margorczynski","time":"1511283028","timestamp":"2017-11-21 16:50:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That I understand but in the article there\u0026#x27;s a clear anti-Trump agenda and it\u0026#x27;s just I had a higher opinion about the Economist than them pushing their agenda in an article.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s basically: \u0026quot;The economy is getting better (but not thanks to Trump) and there are more jobs (still not thanks to Trump). There has been an increase in wages (you might think it\u0026#x27;s thanks to Trump, but it is not)...\u0026quot;","parent":"15748784","id":"15749230"}
{"by":"Brakenshire","time":"1387238642","timestamp":"2013-12-17 00:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t have thought full stack ranking (i.e. actually firing the bottom x% each year) would be legal under British\u0026#x2F;European employment law.","parent":"6918514","id":"6918802"}
{"by":"AlexDanger","time":"1356816049","timestamp":"2012-12-29 21:20:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps this is part of your current problem with Azure, but is it possible to retain some part of your frontpage during an outage like this? Or failover to a static page with a basic description of the service? Your support site seems to look ok.\u003cp\u003eI only make the suggestion because I was not aware of Soluto. I went to your homepage and see the outage notice and a link to support. I still have no idea what your service is about.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps not the best time to be spruiking your site and service, but any-publicity-is-good-publicity etc.","parent":"4983078","id":"4983521"}
{"by":"rplevy","time":"1213492559","timestamp":"2008-06-15 01:15:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Upmodded this, downmodded its parent.  Bottom line is that we read other feeds to learn about general news, and expect a higher SNR on this site, restricted to relevant domains. Downmods != disagree is correct, but I would not want to inhibit any downmod that improves the SNR and preserves the quality of a great news forum.","parent":"217735","id":"217807"}
{"by":"vijayr","time":"1341350625","timestamp":"2012-07-03 21:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Ticketmaster's exclusives on venues\"\u003cp\u003eSorry for the dumb question - does this mean that nobody else can book these venues?\u003cp\u003eIf that is the case, can't CK (and other comedians) find a neutral venue (or a venue that is not already on Ticketmaster's list)?  At least in his case, he doesn't need sophisticated venues (like the ones need for an opera, or a circus for example)\u003cp\u003eAlso, for disruption - can't a company \u003ci\u003ebuy/build\u003c/i\u003e a venue, and pitch it as \"just pay the rent, and you take care of ticket sales and everything else\" model?","parent":"4195429","id":"4196258"}
{"by":"Laforet","time":"1498867949","timestamp":"2017-07-01 00:12:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of the features, seemingly taken from the jailbreal scene, were rather obvious additions previously found lacking in iOS, e.g. custom keyboards, call filtering and a common filesystem. Tweaks may have hastened.their development however I am yet to be convinced that Apple relies on other people for ideas.","parent":"14674249","id":"14674417"}
{"by":"rogerbinns","time":"1353110435","timestamp":"2012-11-17 00:00:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but you can buy the streaming service as you use it.  There are numerous CDNs out there, and Amazon itself has the same.  Amazon did not need to spend an additional billion dollars in order to serve the first 10,000 customers of video.\u003cp\u003eIf the expenses are coming from additional fixed infrastructure then the article is still misleading - the more viewers you have the lower the per viewer cost.  The article in no way implies that infrastructure is relevant to their monetary claims.","parent":"4796144","id":"4796511"}
{"by":"ZenPsycho","time":"1455066689","timestamp":"2016-02-10 01:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;not an official google product\u0026quot;","parent":"11070007","id":"11070127"}
{"by":"throwanem","time":"1487873424","timestamp":"2017-02-23 18:10:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Got a link? I live a little way from there, but don\u0026#x27;t remember hearing about that one, and now I\u0026#x27;m all curious.","parent":"13715991","id":"13716157"}
{"by":"Salamat","time":"1476417072","timestamp":"2016-10-14 03:51:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Bob Dylan hasn\u0026#x27;t Recanted Praise for Rabbi Meir Kahane.Yes, you read that right. Bob Dylan said Meir Kahane, who favored the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland and whose racist Kach party has since been banned from Israeli politics, is “a really sincere guy” who’s “really put it all together.”\n \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;desertpeace.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;14\u0026#x2F;bob-dylan-joins-forces-with-the-neighbourhood-bully\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;desertpeace.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;14\u0026#x2F;bob-dylan-joins...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12699834","id":"12706025"}
{"by":"adelevie","time":"1366829375","timestamp":"2013-04-24 18:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. Of I course, I'm not trying to discourage this at all. I really dig this stuff. Just writing my thoughts on another, complimentary approach. I guess this makes sense from the perspective of a hacker who wants to build a cool thing for his/her own use.\u003cp\u003eThe questions of efficiency really come into play when you see Yahoo! spending $30 million for Summly. For that, you could hire 60 people to work for $50,000/yr for one year. I wonder how 60 happily-employed English majors might stack up to something produced by Summly et al.","parent":"5603123","id":"5603236"}
{"by":"ComputerGuru","time":"1229218396","timestamp":"2008-12-14 01:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. (Just to turn this into a poll - here's the second option!)","parent":"397119","id":"397132"}
{"by":"eslachance","time":"1335150905","timestamp":"2012-04-23 03:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is precisely the reason why Linux hasn't stuck on me, even though I've tried multiple times to use it. Every time, on different systems, there was something off. Sometimes the sound card that wasn't properly supported, other times the video card (ATI at the time) had big issues with secondary monitors, other times it was my low-end, weird brand WiFi card. It's never \"Just Worked\" and, even though the exact same happened with Windows at one point or another, the fix is generally simple with Windows (locate the manufacturer, download the driver for your Windows, works with any decent age hardware), wheras it's harder with Linux (google it, find half a dozen possible solutions, download one driver which installs 30 dependencies and breaks your system, try another driver which completely prevents the OS from booting, give up and reinstall Windows).\u003cp\u003eAnd then, there's the Software \u0026#38; Games issues... but that's a story for another day.","parent":"3875150","id":"3877039"}
{"by":"simbalion","time":"1470618414","timestamp":"2016-08-08 01:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"is it wrong to call a fool a fool?","parent":"12244737","id":"12244791"}
{"by":"capitalsigma","time":"1459113734","timestamp":"2016-03-27 21:22:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except you let the machine handle that for you with RAID.","parent":"11370947","id":"11371622"}
{"by":"witty_username","time":"1460518855","timestamp":"2016-04-13 03:40:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; most countries in Asia not exactly full of \u0026quot;anti-nuclear hysteria and high-inertia bureaucracy\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHere in India, a fair number of people are anti-nuclear.","parent":"11484861","id":"11485555"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1497949320","timestamp":"2017-06-20 09:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But how are companies like Google and Facebook going to mine the data then? Or are they mostly interested in the metadata anyway?","parent":"14592745","id":"14593052"}
{"by":"raganwald","time":"1387391209","timestamp":"2013-12-18 18:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then it has \u0026quot;Rebounded to within its normal trading range.\u0026quot;","parent":"6929386","id":"6929442"}
{"by":"amjith","time":"1231263974","timestamp":"2009-01-06 17:46:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OSNews has a detailed article that takes a deeper look into this new dialect of Lisp.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.osnews.com/story/20728/A_Look_at_newLISP\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.osnews.com/story/20728/A_Look_at_newLISP\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"421936","id":"422156"}
{"by":"troels","time":"1366661100","timestamp":"2013-04-22 20:05:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since this is about startups, where there is usually a sizeable chunk of equity to go with the salary, it would be useful to get that figure as well.","parent":"5589867","id":"5591485"}
{"by":"aembleton","time":"1538347935","timestamp":"2018-09-30 22:52:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it\u0026#x27;s not running on a separate server, then you can\u0026#x27;t eliminate just by blocking doubleclick.com or adsrv.com or some other such domain that hosts advertising.\u003cp\u003eIf it was hosted by the same server that produces the content, then it would be harder though not impossible to block.  It would also be harder to just mass block like you can at the moment.  You would need to block for individual sites by targeting the div class name that they use.","parent":"18107447","id":"18108897"}
{"by":"nickbp","time":"1302103420","timestamp":"2011-04-06 15:23:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These look great, though I'm not sure I can justify $25 each on tshirts..\u003cp\u003eAlso, I think this is the first time I've seen a .biz that wasn't spam-related (or is it?!?!)","parent":"2415110","id":"2415433"}
{"by":"m45t3r","time":"1546314731","timestamp":"2019-01-01 03:52:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It also keep very interesting apps from being in platform, from hobbysts\u0026#x2F;opensource developers, for example.\u003cp\u003eLast time I used iOS had terrible apps for Keepass (I tested them all, trust me [1]), while Android has at least two very good implementations (both opensource, one based on the official C# implementation with a native interface in Mono and another one less featured however fully written in Java).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; But as far as $99, between my $300 a year Linux Academy subscription, $144 a year JetBrains Resharper subscription and the money I spend on Udemy, $99 a year is nothing.\u003cp\u003eCongratulations, so for you this is nothing. If I wanted to develop for iOS as a hobbyst I would need to pay ~R$400,00 (this is equivalent almost half of a minimum wage in Brazil) [1]. I am not even including the expenses of buying a iOS device and a Mac just to have the \u0026quot;privilege\u0026quot; to develop to an Apple device.\u003cp\u003e[1]: Or don\u0026#x27;t, because Apple Store search is terrible.\n[2]: Just to make clear, I could afford this too if I wanted. However just because you and I can afford it doesn\u0026#x27;t mean this tax is abusive.","parent":"18798641","id":"18798826"}
{"by":"davidf18","time":"1492097066","timestamp":"2017-04-13 15:24:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Since the oil price crash, investment in exploration has gone down dramatically, so I would argue the contrary....\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe fracking technology for oil and gas is still on it\u0026#x27;s Moore\u0026#x27;s Law curve and is getting cheaper and cheaper so in fact more and more fracking is coming on-line so that we\u0026#x27;re unlikely to see prices much above $50 per barrel.\u003cp\u003eMar 21, 2017\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;2017-03-21\u0026#x2F;big-oil-s-plan-to-buy-into-the-shale-boom\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;2017-03-21\u0026#x2F;big-oil-s...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eApril 12, 2017\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;view\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2017-04-12\u0026#x2F;u-s-shale-investment-is-back-on-the-upswing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;view\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2017-04-12\u0026#x2F;u-s-shale...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14107139","id":"14107742"}
{"by":"randallsquared","time":"1302288706","timestamp":"2011-04-08 18:51:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e2. Buy small and women's sizes\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one puzzles me a lot.  The place I work recently ordered a bunch of shirts for everyone who wanted one in the dev team.  The sizes went up to XL, and their \"XL\" was the same size as an \"M\" in some stores.  Fully half the devs in our shop couldn't fit into the largest size offered.\u003cp\u003eHere's a tip, as someone who likes wearing t-shirts: buy larger sizes.  Someone who can wear an \"M\" can just as easily wear an \"L\" or \"XL\", but the reverse is very much not true.","parent":"2425108","id":"2425129"}
{"by":"nawtacawp","time":"1500470215","timestamp":"2017-07-19 13:16:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a talk\u0026#x2F;demo I saw a few years ago that went into great detail about how this works. I remember it was given by a German. Anyone know what I am talking about?\u003cp\u003eEdit: It was a video.","parent":"14803953","id":"14804028"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1520959678","timestamp":"2018-03-13 16:47:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No worries! No, it\u0026#x27;s usually better to let existing discussions continue.","parent":"16577326","id":"16577514"}
{"by":"mattmaroon","time":"1228367540","timestamp":"2008-12-04 05:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn't costing Amazon a cent other than maybe some small bandwidth costs. Nobody who knows enough to install a Firefox plugin for a bittorrent site never found themselves buying a CD unaware that they could have gotten it for free.","parent":"384998","id":"385342"}
{"by":"kyllo","time":"1373551866","timestamp":"2013-07-11 14:11:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, the TL;DR is that they are currently organized into (almost) self-sufficient business units by product category, but now they are going to switch to being organized into interdependent departments by job function category.\u003cp\u003eThis is a huge shift for MS.","parent":"6025939","id":"6026091"}
{"by":"hackernews2000","time":"1472228855","timestamp":"2016-08-26 16:27:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. I don\u0026#x27;t understand why they do that (it was already like that before the brand change). It just scares away many potential users (people who have already used Linux, like open source etc.).\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not like their management is clueless either. The project is sponsored by an advanced technology company (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ixsystems.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ixsystems.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"12367017","id":"12367327"}
{"by":"Brakenshire","time":"1545402788","timestamp":"2018-12-21 14:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you think the people affected by this are also against nuclear power?","parent":"18732267","id":"18733498"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1399057129","timestamp":"2014-05-02 18:58:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The video is well worth a watch, but for those short on time, Mirage OS allows you to build networking apps in OCaml that run (either on Xen or *nix) with their own integrated kernel and customisable network\u0026#x2F;storage\u0026#x2F;processing stack.\u003cp\u003eWhy would you want this? High performance, less resource overhead, better security (whole networking stack is type checked). This (and similar projects to it) could represent the next generation of web platforms.","parent":"7687403","id":"7687457"}
{"by":"snow_mac","time":"1315714229","timestamp":"2011-09-11 04:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. But Garage probably stole the idea.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://synergy-foss.org/pm/issues/47\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://synergy-foss.org/pm/issues/47\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSynergy isn't very developed but they do have an extensive roadmap, which Microsoft seems to have copied and implemented. This doesn't make them innovative, just coping a good idea.\u003cp\u003eMaybe if this run on OS X I'd use it, but I'll stick to my separate Mouse/Keyboards for now. Btw, back in the day, I did love Synergy.","parent":"2983052","id":"2983188"}
{"by":"lclarkmichalek","time":"1520714127","timestamp":"2018-03-10 20:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like journalctl -u foo is easier to type than that rant.","parent":"16559373","id":"16560028"}
{"by":"showngo","time":"1280927814","timestamp":"2010-08-04 13:16:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't make a conclusion for everyone out there - this really is like asking what car you should drive. That said I did make it clear in the post that it is OmniFocus for me all the way.","parent":"1573564","id":"1574400"}
{"by":"pmilot","time":"1449679546","timestamp":"2015-12-09 16:45:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compilation speed is a very good argument for Go, yeah. That often seems disregarded in a lot of these sorts of comparisons, but it\u0026#x27;s a really important factor since it directly affects the level of complexity your language can have.","parent":"10704533","id":"10704787"}
{"by":"klodolph","time":"1497838681","timestamp":"2017-06-19 02:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know what Google\u0026#x27;s purpose for Fuchsia is, but Linux was originally designed for a security model which is uncommon these days.  The Linux security model protects different users from each other, but these days it\u0026#x27;s much more common that a computer will only have one user, and you want to protect that one user from potentially harmful code.\u003cp\u003eCapability-based security is a big step in that direction.  I don\u0026#x27;t know what \u0026quot;they\u0026#x27;re both open-source\u0026quot; has to do with it, obviously there are other reasons to choose between different pieces of software besides the license.","parent":"14583679","id":"14584218"}
{"by":"morgtheborg","time":"1506644139","timestamp":"2017-09-29 00:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I have zero sympathy for junior who goes to some 150,000 a year liberal arts college and gets a degree that makes no money or requires another 2-4 years of school.\u003cp\u003eAn 18 year old assured by their parents this is the \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; move deserves sympathy when it all blows up in their face 150k down the road.\u003cp\u003eMy Mother told me she would throw me out of the house if I took a job rather than going to graduate school. She also said all the loans I took out for undergrad that she claimed she\u0026#x27;d pay she\u0026#x27;d stop paying if I got a job rather than going to grad school.\u003cp\u003eThe reality is some parents are so damn convinced that education is the magical key to a good life they\u0026#x27;ll go to some pretty intense lengths to get you to sign on the dotted line.","parent":"15357517","id":"15361831"}
{"by":"yellowapple","time":"1482399790","timestamp":"2016-12-22 09:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elixir itself ships with a module called EEx that should feel very familiar if you\u0026#x27;ve used Ruby\u0026#x27;s ERB.  There\u0026#x27;s also a HAML rendering library (Calliope) among others.","parent":"13235384","id":"13236113"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1543165853","timestamp":"2018-11-25 17:10:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Don\u0026#x27;t know which one had the greater effect, I did both at once. But I could feel the 4*4 breathing blocking a physical anxiety response in the middle of one happening. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eTo me it feels the other way. I feel the breathing opens up something that allows me to release the anxiety. In the end it\u0026#x27;s probably the same just from a different viewpoint.","parent":"18527448","id":"18527687"}
{"by":"the_af","time":"1422651347","timestamp":"2015-01-30 20:55:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of curiosity, what do gun ownership limitations have to do with US national security?","parent":"8974303","id":"8974430"}
{"by":"vladmk","time":"1515826113","timestamp":"2018-01-13 06:48:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d definitely start with codeacademy. There\u0026#x27;s two ways I look at it, if you want to be front end and start easy then go into html and javascript front end design then work to the back end. If you want to be a software developer or engineer start with back end development aka C, C# etc, but it will take more math. Up to your own path. I\u0026#x27;d also suggest a small project idea in your head you want to accomplish. I just wanted to create a website, did it and then lost my passion, but in the process of that project learned a lot. Lastly, paying someone on upwork.com a dev for example to keep you accountable and teach you javascript for $5 an hour is actually a great hack for me after I finished codeacademy.","parent":"16115744","id":"16138555"}
{"by":"jboggan","time":"1513455684","timestamp":"2017-12-16 20:21:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There were multiple contacts and the F-18s had telemetry on the objects, it wasn\u0026#x27;t just an optical trick. Also how do two different jets see the same insect stuck on a lens?","parent":"15941739","id":"15941785"}
{"by":"pawadu","time":"1473347791","timestamp":"2016-09-08 15:16:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google\u0026#x27;s only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple\u0026#x27;s browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI.\u003cp\u003eNone of the points you made are true. Granted things like UI can be very objective, but how someone can with a straight face say Excel is uglier than Numbers (have you seen those awful randomly colored icons?) is beyond me.","parent":"12450526","id":"12453783"}
{"by":"mister_m","time":"1398056580","timestamp":"2014-04-21 05:03:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is relevant to the discussion as an example.","parent":"7619866","id":"7619875"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1406517437","timestamp":"2014-07-28 03:17:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They seem to display the license plate number now.  That works perfectly.","parent":"8094979","id":"8094984"}
{"by":"orianmarx","time":"1223870712","timestamp":"2008-10-13 04:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's very interesting reading through your blog. I'm surprised I hadn't come across it before, and I'm glad you put it out there.","parent":"330500","id":"330732"}
{"by":"hnriot","time":"1393944976","timestamp":"2014-03-04 14:56:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Inaccurate for one and I\u0026#x27;m not sure what your point is. You underestimate England and have a very recent view of history.","parent":"7340382","id":"7340510"}
{"by":"onion2k","time":"1462826059","timestamp":"2016-05-09 20:34:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a lot of software out there. Every car, every phone, every plane, computer, TV, washing machine, factory robot, etc - every \u003ci\u003ething\u003c/i\u003e works pretty much flawlessly on a day to day basis. Occasionally things need a reboot or a patch but that\u0026#x27;s all. The number of times software fails in our daily lives is pretty low considering we interact with it so often. I\u0026#x27;d contend that software quality is actually \u003ci\u003estaggeringly\u003c/i\u003e high. It could be higher, but there\u0026#x27;s the law of diminishing returns and all that.","parent":"11662841","id":"11662926"}
{"by":"helveticaman","time":"1219204450","timestamp":"2008-08-20 03:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;This is a stupid theory, mostly because your facts are false and imaginary.\u003cp\u003eNot cool.","parent":"280846","id":"281172"}
{"by":"arisAlexis","time":"1500566900","timestamp":"2017-07-20 16:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3. is an interesting angle and if someone asked me I would say the opposite, but I am not really knowledgeable in the field.","parent":"14813188","id":"14813686"}
{"by":"dkopi","time":"1463466808","timestamp":"2016-05-17 06:33:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good thing malware doesn\u0026#x27;t have administrative privileges.","parent":"11709540","id":"11711702"}
{"by":"smallnamespace","time":"1469340192","timestamp":"2016-07-24 06:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Turns out the Great Firewall had the side benefit of protecting China\u0026#x27;s nascent tech companies from foreign competition.","parent":"12151774","id":"12152388"}
{"by":"psykovsky","time":"1454592294","timestamp":"2016-02-04 13:24:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Migrants at least use condoms when they rape Swedish girls. \u0026#x2F;s","parent":"11033585","dead":true,"id":"11033719"}
{"by":"robchez","time":"1312324360","timestamp":"2011-08-02 22:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am a Mining/Mechanical Project engineer and have had the extreme pleasure of visiting a lot of these underground operations (although Kidd is still on the bucket list!)\u003cp\u003eDue to precious and base metal prices as they are, there are a lot of mining deposits that were once not viable, but now seem quite profitable. There is a huge push to deeper levels and this is leading to some awesome engineering advances in the field (that I am proud to be a part of).\u003cp\u003eMining is a market for hackers waiting to be tapped(!). This industry pushes two things, safety and efficiency. These mines work 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, any loss of work costs serious money. If you could develop software to have mines be both safer and more efficient, you have a signed pay check.","parent":"2837532","id":"2838973"}
{"by":"harrisreynolds","time":"1321545285","timestamp":"2011-11-17 15:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This guy expresses a lot of confidence in his developers and is just trying to motivate them.  This is a good thing.  It is so so easy to be a joker.  Everything in nature needs energy to move forward, including startups and software developers.","parent":"3246259","id":"3248008"}
{"by":"dublinben","time":"1481901744","timestamp":"2016-12-16 15:22:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article is pretty clear that she was in the US.  Not sure what Australian law has to do with this.","parent":"13193216","id":"13193821"}
{"by":"Mithaldu","time":"1478205592","timestamp":"2016-11-03 20:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes even biological people fail the Turing test.","parent":"12867659","id":"12867739"}
{"by":"darkr","time":"1506707386","timestamp":"2017-09-29 17:49:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Odd comparison, Google has supported MySQL for a long time, as has AWS.\u003cp\u003eDynamo might be a slightly closer comparison","parent":"15367031","id":"15367461"}
{"by":"thedudeabides5","time":"1547321442","timestamp":"2019-01-12 19:30:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mean, it\u0026#x27;s kinda cool that they still put the data out there.\u003cp\u003eAs a JSON wrapped in a tar file, it\u0026#x27;s not exactly accessible to all, but at least it\u0026#x27;s out there.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;filestore.data.gov\u0026#x2F;gsa\u0026#x2F;catalog\u0026#x2F;jsonl\u0026#x2F;dataset.jsonl.gz\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;filestore.data.gov\u0026#x2F;gsa\u0026#x2F;catalog\u0026#x2F;jsonl\u0026#x2F;dataset.jsonl.g...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18892048","id":"18892847"}
{"by":"curun1r","time":"1452458611","timestamp":"2016-01-10 20:43:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate these articles that compare software engineering to traditional engineering because the typical software engineer has very different requirements wrt failure and budget than does the traditional engineer. There are examples [1] of software being written up to the standards of traditional engineering. It can be done, it\u0026#x27;s just very expensive and it almost always makes more sense financially to write software that\u0026#x27;s more likely to have bugs. When that doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense, more disciplined practices are used.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastcompany.com\u0026#x2F;28121\u0026#x2F;they-write-right-stuff\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastcompany.com\u0026#x2F;28121\u0026#x2F;they-write-right-stuff\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10876097","id":"10877111"}
{"by":"pmarreck","time":"1467248339","timestamp":"2016-06-30 00:58:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, there is. Allow me to rephrase it using Boolean logic to elucidate:\u003cp\u003eIF women aren\u0026#x27;t interested in programming, THEN none of them go into programming professionally.\u003cp\u003eIF women don\u0026#x27;t go into programming professionally, THEN they aren\u0026#x27;t interested.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI have 2 better questions to ask:\u003cp\u003e1) If fewer women than \u0026quot;the ideal\u0026quot; are interested in STEM, then why is that?\u003cp\u003e2) Why do we think a perfect 50\u0026#x2F;50 ratio across all fields is \u0026quot;the ideal,\u0026quot; when \u0026quot;nature\u0026quot; might not deem it so? (note: this is NOT an \u0026quot;argument to nature\u0026quot;)","parent":"12005333","id":"12005944"}
{"by":"corndoge","time":"1485578501","timestamp":"2017-01-28 04:41:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Backwards compatibility!","parent":"13504527","id":"13504943"}
{"by":"dpark","time":"1470885680","timestamp":"2016-08-11 03:21:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have some compelling examples of problems from leniency. I think in some cases the issues are definitely magnified by other poor designs (bad escaping\u0026#x2F;filtering) but you\u0026#x27;ve demonstrated that well-intentioned leniency can encourage and even directly cause bugs.\u003cp\u003eThanks for providing actual, concrete examples.","parent":"12264816","id":"12266143"}
{"by":"drewblaisdell","time":"1378762147","timestamp":"2013-09-09 21:29:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice.\u003cp\u003eThis uses the same type of visualization as the train schedule in Edward Tufte\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Information\u003c/i\u003e: \u003ca href=\"http://www.c82.net/images/java-railroad-lg.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.c82.net\u0026#x2F;images\u0026#x2F;java-railroad-lg.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6355127","id":"6356358"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1503607416","timestamp":"2017-08-24 20:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used an N900 for years as my primary phone. It worked very well for me, including for calls.\u003cp\u003eI eventually gave it up, solely because I wanted the ability to run specific Android applications.\u003cp\u003eBut honestly, if I had the power of a full Debian-based system, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t need that.","parent":"15093050","id":"15093874"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1430108960","timestamp":"2015-04-27 04:29:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e“I think that people and companies need to be convinced that everything we do in the cyber domain is lawful and appropriate and necessary,” Mr. Carter told students and faculty at Stanford.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood luck with the convincing. Quite a few of us can read, so it will be rather impossible.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\u003c/i\u003e  \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eShortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush secretly told the N.S.A. that it could wiretap Americans’ international phone calls and collect bulk data about their phone calls and emails without obeying the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.\u003c/i\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;25\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;politics\u0026#x2F;value-of-nsa-warrantless-spying-is-doubted-in-declassified-reports.html?_r=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;25\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;politics\u0026#x2F;value-of-nsa-w...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eOn July 9, 2012, when asked by a member of the press if a large data center in Utah was used to store data on American citizens, Alexander stated, \u0026quot;No. While I can\u0026#x27;t go into all the details on the Utah data center, we don\u0026#x27;t hold data on U.S. citizens.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Keith_B._Alexander#Statements_to_the_public_regarding_NSA_operations\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Keith_B._Alexander#Statements_t...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy are these people not in prison for violating the constitution on a mass scale? Their only defense can be that they were simply \u0026quot;following orders.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe USA PATRIOT Act will be viewed by historians as something akin to the Reichstag Fire Decree \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Reichstag_Fire_Decree#Background\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Reichstag_Fire_Decree#Backgroun...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9444092","id":"9444382"}
{"by":"kstenerud","time":"1430371723","timestamp":"2015-04-30 05:28:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now is when you need to be cultivating discipline. Discipline is what keeps you fighting when every other part of you has given up. It\u0026#x27;s the only way to succeed if you\u0026#x27;re one of those people whose future wasn\u0026#x27;t handed to them on a silver platter.\u003cp\u003eYou can suffer setbacks every day, but you haven\u0026#x27;t actually lost until you stop breathing. You cannot build strength without suffering, and you cannot overcome without strength.","parent":"9462788","id":"9463480"}
{"by":"megaman821","time":"1355637575","timestamp":"2012-12-16 05:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mostly like Peewee's API, it is like a mixture of the Django ORM and SQLAlchemy. It could be a sane path forward for Django's ORM, but backwards compatibility will still be hard. Django's ORM has a lot in it's API that are hard to or shouldn't really be replicated like extra(), annotate(), aggregate(), F(), exclude(), raw().","parent":"4926627","id":"4927487"}
{"by":"masomenos","time":"1240331615","timestamp":"2009-04-21 16:33:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Air: 13\" screen, GeForce 9400M, Core 2 Duo\u003cp\u003enetbook: 9-10\" screen, integrated graphics, Atom processor","parent":"572553","id":"572582"}
{"by":"jungler","time":"1544767514","timestamp":"2018-12-14 06:05:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a kid I did get an imposing\u0026#x2F;pretentious vibe out of many of these logos and some others. Apple Garamond comes to mind as one that felt cold and unfriendly, like Apple were saying \u0026quot;Mac users are better and that\u0026#x27;s just how it is, chap.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI do not think the new ones are great, and they definitely lack distinction, but they also leave little to complain about. Brands that have ceased trying to say anything about themselves or their products.","parent":"18678305","id":"18678789"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1326621992","timestamp":"2012-01-15 10:06:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have an up vote (Natsu too) because you  are both getting grayed out, even though your responses to mine are perfectly civil and reasonable.\u003cp\u003eI wish people would reserve down votes for comments that are expressed offensively or are blatantly off topic.","parent":"3465907","id":"3466837"}
{"by":"kumarski","time":"1395510455","timestamp":"2014-03-22 17:47:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"30 days. \nA manufacturing training and certification business.","parent":"7449422","id":"7450053"}
{"by":"robmcm","time":"1321870522","timestamp":"2011-11-21 10:15:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't there huge fragmentation in Android webkit? Plus focusing on iOS and Android covers most 'mobile' cases. Other platforms hold a harder justification.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the route forward is a simple web app to cover everyone, then focus on the top platforms for native.","parent":"3243391","id":"3260614"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1367184936","timestamp":"2013-04-28 21:35:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks almost indistinguishable from DejaVu Sans Mono [1]. Screenshot here: \u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/MYB1i5N.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.imgur.com/MYB1i5N.png\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5622534","id":"5622871"}
{"by":"gnarbarian","time":"1475620154","timestamp":"2016-10-04 22:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, in a sense material design is too restrictive to let designers think outside of the box.\u003cp\u003eI get that opinion. But allow me to play the devil\u0026#x27;s advocate:\u003cp\u003eMobile interfaces are small and restrictive. Touch screens and gestures have zero discoverability. Interfaces must scale to a multitude of different screen sizes and resolutions.  Flare hurts usability in these situations. When designers break convention it is far more likely to result in confusion or frustration by end users. Well defined standards can enable me to use your app without even looking at the screen and drastically improve accessibility for things like screen readers.\u003cp\u003eI think the tendency toward flare stems from design education that emphasizes print media and tries to make a direct translation into Web\u0026#x2F;UX Design.  Print media, and advertisements are meant to grab your attention, establish unique brand design language and brand identity. But If I\u0026#x27;m already on your website or using your app you already have my attention. You\u0026#x27;ve already sold me. Now simply help me accomplish the task I am here for in the least painful way possilbe. Branching out beyond common guidelines and creating new interface conventions may scratch your creative itch but it is rarely more efficient or easy to use that established conventions.","parent":"12639880","id":"12640116"}
{"by":"slap_shot","time":"1541088715","timestamp":"2018-11-01 16:11:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Engineer #1 | Stealth stage analytics company | NYC\u0026#x2F;Remote\u003cp\u003eStealth stage analytics company is looking to bring on Engineer #1. I’ve bootstrapped this business over the last two years and just hit a $1MM run rate.\u003cp\u003eThis is a hands-on role and will allow you to basically own the technology stack and build out the technology team.\u003cp\u003eA few of the projects you’ll be leading:\u003cp\u003e- A streaming data pipeline on Kafka handling millions of events a day.\u003cp\u003e- An open source data integration library that connects data to\u0026#x2F;from over 75+ of the most common data sources companies rely upon\u003cp\u003e-A scheduler that deploys thousands of containers a day into Kubernetes clusters, efficiently migrating our customers’ data between systems.\u003cp\u003e- An open source JavaScript event tracking library\u003cp\u003eThe technology stack is mostly JVM (Java and Scala) with some Python and ES6\u0026#x2F;React\u0026#x2F;Redux on the frontend. Everything is containerized and runs on Heroku and Kubernetes.\u003cp\u003eCandidates should have a mastery of at least one language, and ideally have experience with the following: Docker\u0026#x2F;Kubernetes, SQL, Kafka, JavaScript, data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery), ETL, data pipelines. Bonus points if you have experience managing engineering teams.\u003cp\u003eThis is a very early position so compensation can be whatever blend of salary\u0026#x2F;equity you prefer.\u003cp\u003eSend me an email at slapshothn@gmail.com with a bit about who you are and what you’ve built. If I think there’s a fit, I’ll schedule a Skype\u0026#x2F;Hangout with you and tell you about the business and discuss the role in more depth.","parent":"18354503","id":"18355425"}
{"by":"grncdr","time":"1459690926","timestamp":"2016-04-03 13:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is _could_ be a great idea, but the landing page is doing too much \u0026quot;telling\u0026quot; and not enough \u0026quot;showing\u0026quot;. I\u0026#x27;d really need to see an example of a PR \u0026amp; it\u0026#x27;s presentation before I\u0026#x27;d be sufficiently motivated to try it.\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the end result, showing the process of getting there helps to not only show off the product, but gives a concrete answer to the question of \u0026quot;how will I use this thing?\u0026quot;. Having a page that shows the steps of going from a \u0026quot;plain\u0026quot; PR to a finished presentation with GIF screen captures and text would be my personal ideal format.\u003cp\u003eAnyways, very cool idea, hope to see more of it!","parent":"11415331","id":"11416063"}
{"by":"mattmaroon","time":"1229585502","timestamp":"2008-12-18 07:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No Presidents in recent memory at least. From what I gather, the last one that was noted as such was Grant. Let's hope for the sake of our nation that Obama's similarities to him end with the pen.","parent":"401910","id":"401920"}
{"by":"rileymat2","time":"1491571566","timestamp":"2017-04-07 13:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is odd that they compared to 2015 instead of 2016.\u003cp\u003eThere could be a good reason, but it feels manipulative.","parent":"14059346","id":"14059378"}
{"by":"prodigal_erik","time":"1309279200","timestamp":"2011-06-28 16:40:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I read \"X is great\" while using Y, I reflexively put my choice under scrutiny. I see that as the main reason to talk about technologies X or Y at all. And if X has some terrible drawback, network effects can make it worthwhile for me to dissuade other people. Hg vs. git isn't a compelling example, but if I want to never face another svn-induced merge conflict again, I myself am actually better off if everyone I may collaborate with already knows how troublesome that tool is (I would have said \"nightmarish\" in the svnmerge.py days).","parent":"2705428","id":"2706067"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1340062485","timestamp":"2012-06-18 23:34:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trademarks? Trademarks are not cool. You know what's cool?\u003cp\u003ePATENTS.\u003cp\u003ePatents in the \u003ci\u003emobile space\u003c/i\u003e, which is currently the most litigious tech sector.\u003cp\u003eNokia has thousands of them, because they used to be a great engineering company which pioneered mobile TLCs. Their patent war-chest is comparable to Motorola's, if not better. They \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e be acquired by one of the following companies: a) Apple, b) Google, c) Microsoft. And there won't be any antitrust concerns: the buyer will just sell off any manufacturing activities to some Chinese or Taiwanese company, and place all their patents in a well-protected safe for their lawyers to peruse.","parent":"4127947","id":"4129167"}
{"by":"vanderZwan","time":"1479307905","timestamp":"2016-11-16 14:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003estill creates very good abstractions and classifiers.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy point is that \u0026quot;good\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;bad\u0026quot; are not objective here, but depend on human use-cases.\u003cp\u003eNow to be clear: I\u0026#x27;m not disagreeing with you! These \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e good abstractions, \u003ci\u003efor humans\u003c/i\u003e. It lets us communicate concepts easily, which is great! But it might not be the best abstraction in every circumstance.\u003cp\u003eFor example, I recall reading an article that said that AI is better at spotting breast cancer from photos (which is essentially interpreting abstract blobs as cancer or not). The main reason seems to be that it is not held back by the human biases in perception.","parent":"12966947","id":"12967303"}
{"by":"Oxitendwe","time":"1488053234","timestamp":"2017-02-25 20:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Your argument is essentially that there are almost no women talented enough to be in leadership roles in tech\u003cp\u003eThis is wrong. There are plenty. My point is that these people should not be given special treatment and more opportunities if they come at the expense of other demographics.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;I\u0026#x27;m not suggesting quotas here, and I don\u0026#x27;t think Pike is either\u003cp\u003eHe didn\u0026#x27;t mention quotas, but he did mention preferential hiring.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;It may take proactive behavior, like choosing a women over a man when growing your team, just because, or promoting women more freely.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHow would you feel if you applied for a job and it was given to someone else because they were a woman? Would that not be unfair? Would this practice applied in aggregate not chase off even more talented people? I can only imagine most people would not want to stick around in a situation like that.","parent":"13733458","id":"13733552"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1528270434","timestamp":"2018-06-06 07:33:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those weren\u0026#x27;t free trials: they were limited versions; they were already long ago replaced by using in-app purchase to upgrade a single app.","parent":"17243620","id":"17245062"}
{"by":"joe_the_user","time":"1410987657","timestamp":"2014-09-17 21:00:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that prison reform seems unlikely but I would put this in terms of the entrenched interest of guards, law enforcement and all the beneficiaries of the War On Drugs. Prison gangs are subordinate players in this game but certainly they are the monsters that the Drug War overall has successfully conjured up.","parent":"8332286","id":"8332336"}
{"by":"carlosgg","time":"1502231608","timestamp":"2017-08-08 22:33:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Georgia Tech is also starting a few MOOCs on edX.org, starting 8\u0026#x2F;21\u0026#x2F;17, if anyone is interested.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;machine-learning-gtx-cs7641x\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;machine-learning-gtx-cs7641x\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;statistical-modeling-regression-analysis-gtx-isye6414x#\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;statistical-modeling-regression-a...\u003c/a\u003e!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;big-data-analytics-healthcare-gtx-cse6250x#\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;big-data-analytics-healthcare-gtx...\u003c/a\u003e!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;database-systems-concepts-design-gtx-cs6400x#\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course\u0026#x2F;database-systems-concepts-design-...\u003c/a\u003e!","parent":"14958779","id":"14963590"}
{"by":"vadimberman","time":"1512111268","timestamp":"2017-12-01 06:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but ICOs as a class are not counted as seed investment, at least not of the traditional variety that is known to be legal.","parent":"15822281","id":"15822409"}
{"by":"aswellian","time":"1528574611","timestamp":"2018-06-09 20:03:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly that, proprietary hardware will limit usefulness for anything beyond specially developed Windows functionality.\u003cp\u003eAnd, even if the hardware can be hacked for Linux the question becomes, how can it be made functional in a desktop environment independent way?\u003cp\u003eBeen doing R\u0026amp;D for a similar concept for several years, a detached video enabled trackpad. The key functionality which all concepts to date lack, is being OS agnostic and allowing end-user customization of functionality.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a good effort, but is likely only the beginning...","parent":"17273018","id":"17274709"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1222206304","timestamp":"2008-09-23 21:45:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds batty. A PhD student \u003ci\u003edidn't\u003c/i\u003e want his name on a paper? Lost emails? Discursions about family educational dreams?\u003cp\u003eWhat were Hubert Chang's other papers? What was his PhD thesis about?","parent":"312741","id":"312870"}
{"by":"nodarius","time":"1435787892","timestamp":"2015-07-01 21:58:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Tbilisi, Georgia.\u003cp\u003eRemote: Yes.\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: Yes.\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: C \u0026amp; Linux.\u003cp\u003eRésumé\u0026#x2F;CV: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;open?id=1wPeidNc4jWtnkCE-dWO0vfejiWYBvdNBDixvgRmCsQA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;open?id=1wPeidNc4jWtnkCE-dWO0vfejiW...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail: ndarj11@freeuni.edu.ge\u003cp\u003ePersonal website: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nodarius.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nodarius.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpwork profile: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.upwork.com\u0026#x2F;o\u0026#x2F;profiles\u0026#x2F;users\u0026#x2F;_~01fa9f15e51f7fe3e1\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.upwork.com\u0026#x2F;o\u0026#x2F;profiles\u0026#x2F;users\u0026#x2F;_~01fa9f15e51f7fe3e1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have performance-critical tasks, or some other C \u0026amp; Linux related work, or want to get some high quality rap songs, then contact me.","parent":"9812247","id":"9815498"}
{"by":"Holbein","time":"1396012177","timestamp":"2014-03-28 13:09:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;a braver film would have addressed this somehow. Samantha is a slave.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think Samantha is a slave. Note that Theodore is not shown paying for Samantha. He could as well have partaken in a free beta program. She also asks for time for herself, does not sound slaveish to me.\u003cp\u003eThere were many places where the story could have gone, but Jonze decided not to go there: privacy, hacking and trust, malfunctions, AI doing stuff for you that you did not explicitly asked for and Theodore suing the company for that.\u003cp\u003eJonze simply decided to accept Samantha as a real person in a love story, and go from there.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t agree with you that \u0026quot;Her\u0026quot; is not a brave film just because it did not raise issues that you had in mind.","parent":"7486537","id":"7486935"}
{"by":"392c91e8165b","time":"1403493259","timestamp":"2014-06-23 03:14:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my late teens and my twenties, I spent 10s of 1000s of hours in a state of intense absorption on programming tasks. (I am in my 50s now.)\u003cp\u003eAm I the only one who believes that it is bad for me to spend more than 20 hours -- and perhaps as little as 15 hours -- a week in the state?\u003cp\u003eJust because an activity feels really good does not mean it is good for you.\u003cp\u003eI guess I should explain a little how I came to believe that that too much intense absorption is bad for me. Let me start by quoting a passage (which I agree with) from another comment here:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;in order to achieve flow these three criteria must be met: 1. The goal must be clear 2. Feedback must be immediate 3. There must be a feeling that our capability is balanced to the challenge at hand.\u003cp\u003eThe most important things for me to have made progress on in my life are things where it was not clear what my short-term goals should have been (although of course it was important for me to choose \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e short-term goals to work towards), where feedback was slow and rare and where I felt that the challenges I needed to surmount exceeded my capability. (I would guess that there are problems or concerns like in most people\u0026#x27;s lives.) In my past, I spent a great deal of time using the pleasures of intense absorption to distract myself from more important things.\u003cp\u003eEven after I realized that I was using programming and related activities like math and \u0026quot;programming-languages geekery\u0026quot; to distract myself from more important (but less enjoyable and messier) things, I did not know how to stop the distracting activities. In other words, I was addicted to the pleasures of intense absorption, and it took me many, many years to figure out how to extricate myself from that addiction.\u003cp\u003eIf there are a lot of things in your life that are pleasurable -- hanging out with friends, sex or romance, physical exercise -- then maybe you do not have to worry about falling into the same trap as I did. I think that probably what really tripped me up when I was a teenager and a young man was that intense absorption was my \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e reliable or regular source of significant amounts of pleasure. Well, to be more accurate, satisfying my curiosity, a.k.a., learning, and intense focus on programming and related things were my only reliable sources of pleasure. (I have read that this pattern of only being able to take pleasure in one or 2 things and the consequent problem of addiction to those things is often a trap fallen into by people who were abused as children. I was abused as a child. Perhaps people who had happy childhoods are immune to the negative effects of spending one\u0026#x27;s days intensely focused.)\u003cp\u003eI still program for a few hours every week: I write Emacs Lisp code whose only user is me, which I do not get paid to write, and I am convinced it is not harmful to me. It makes me happy when I notice that one of my problems can be solved with code because coding is an efficient way to solve a problem. But if I ever take a job that involves programming full-time, I\u0026#x27;ll keep a sharp eye out for signs of a recurrence of my previous destructive \u0026#x2F; addictive relationship with the pleasure that comes from intensely focusing or concentrating. A big warning sign would be if I were to start again to neglect things that clearly should not be neglected like appointments at the dentist and such. Another (more ambiguous) warning sign would be a cessation of the process which has been going on for over 10 years now of my slowing increasing the range or variety of things I am able to enjoy or take pleasure in.\u003cp\u003eI decided to write this because in online conversations among programmers, we almost never hear (or read) about any negative effects of the \u0026quot;flow state\u0026quot;. For me, there were significant negative effects: namely, I would have learned to deal with messy, low-feedback difficult situations at a younger age if I had not spent as much time in the \u0026quot;flow state\u0026quot;.  In other words, I got into the bad habit of using the flow state to avoid what I really needed to learn: how to make progress in messy \u0026quot;non-flow\u0026quot; situations.","parent":"7928025","id":"7930025"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1488833368","timestamp":"2017-03-06 20:49:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  Regarding stock options expiring 3 months after leaving the company, it doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be this way and a lot of startups are moving in the direction of 10 year exercise periods.\u003cp\u003eThis requires converting all options to NSOs, and the tax implications of NSOs are not pretty. (From a \u003ci\u003etax\u003c/i\u003e perspective, ISOs aren\u0026#x27;t great[0], but they\u0026#x27;re much better for employees, by design).\u003cp\u003e[0] You have to pay AMT on the spread between the option price and current value at the time you \u003ci\u003eexercise\u003c/i\u003e, whether or not the equity is liquid, so you could end up paying a large tax bill only to find that the company goes bankrupt before you have the opportunity to ever sell your equity.","parent":"13805531","id":"13805934"}
{"by":"amichail","time":"1181533867","timestamp":"2007-06-11 03:51:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you know it would be almost impossible to compensate for this?\u003cp\u003eCould you elaborate?","parent":"27192","id":"27193"}
{"by":"dkhenry","time":"1490806863","timestamp":"2017-03-29 17:01:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is I think where the voting public gets played by both sides. On the \u0026quot;free market\u0026quot; side people are told all regulation is bad, just let the market operate. Which ignores that some regulation is needed to keep a level playing field. Then on the other side we are told we need to strictly regulate to control for safety and shared resources, but both sides just impose regulation that benefit established firms and sell out consumers.","parent":"13988049","id":"13988281"}
{"by":"zwieback","time":"1469745206","timestamp":"2016-07-28 22:33:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was forced to learn Tcl this year after being able ignore it for the past 20 years. Hard to warm up to but not as horrible as I feared.","parent":"12180058","id":"12183699"}
{"by":"vvvVVVvvv","time":"1380812014","timestamp":"2013-10-03 14:53:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah obviously, but my main point is that the world would be better if we were less apathetic.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t trust any government, but I don\u0026#x27;t trust my group of fellows citizens either. Check out Gustave LeBon :)\n\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popular_Mind\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popul...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6488900","id":"6489287"}
{"by":"JackFr","time":"1491282941","timestamp":"2017-04-04 05:15:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not as simple as that.\u003cp\u003eThey are a servicer, not a lender -- they are contracted by the lender to collect the money from the borrower.  So the borrowers never asked to be customers of Navient.  They borrowed some money from a bank or the government, who then  contracted Navient to service the loans.\u003cp\u003eNow servicing loans is like owning an interest only bond -- you get a small payment every month as long as the loan is paying.  When you own servicing rights, what you want to do is for payments to drag on for as long as possible -- since you don\u0026#x27;t get the principal, having the loan pay early is the second worst thing that can happen.\u003cp\u003eNow its very possible that Navient is doing things which are not in the interest of either the borrower or the lender, but are in the interest of Navient.  And it\u0026#x27;s likely perfectly legal.\u003cp\u003eBut again many of these loans are not just simple transactions in the marketplace, but rather subsidized social programs, where the government in promoting the program has a reasonable expectation that some part of this subsidy should fall to the borrower, and is reasonable frustrated when a provider whom they have hired tries to prevent this.","parent":"14028454","id":"14029674"}
{"by":"jayonsoftware","time":"1525464520","timestamp":"2018-05-04 20:08:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am a Canadian who lives in Michigan. Here is why a comp sci major moves to US\u003cp\u003e1. Low salary compared to US\n2. High Tax\n3. Cant afford a house in Toronto\n4. TN Visa makes easy to get a job in US.","parent":"16996420","id":"16997852"}
{"by":"auston","time":"1357075129","timestamp":"2013-01-01 21:18:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Miami, FL (full-time, intern - LOCAL ONLY)\u003cp\u003e1SaleADay - \u003ca href=\"http://1saleaday.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://1saleaday.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e-------------------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003e1SaleADay is the place to shop for deep discounts every day. We curate products for our customers in a few different categories \u0026#38; have been steadily growing since inception.\u003cp\u003e-------------------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003e1SaleADay is looking for a ruby on rails developer to join the web development department. We are looking for a developer with significant know how, curiosity \u0026#38; experimental experience to work on our customer facing website \u0026#38; back office web applications. Your work will be used on multiple devices \u0026#38; third party platforms.\u003cp\u003eAs a developer we believe your most important trait should be the ability to deal with ambiguity, followed by a militant discipline for thorough testing. It's also very important that you have great communication skills because you will be acting as your own product manager - requiring you to coordinate with other departments within the organization.\u003cp\u003eIf you believe that:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  * PHP is a shallow and pendantic\n  * Passable isn't the same as passing\n  * That you can always be improving your body (of work)\n  * Code clarity is more important than code brevity\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nand you have a proficiency in:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  * Ruby 1.8+\n  * Rails 2.3+\n  * Database architecture\n  * SQL Queries\n  * Gem architecture \u0026#38; development\n  * GIT Version control\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nplus you have familiarity with:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  * MongoDB\n  * Queue systems\n  * Code refactoring \u0026#38; optimization\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n-------------------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003eYou should reach out to us: dev@1saleaday.com!\u003cp\u003e-------------------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e* BONUS SECTION \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e*\u003cp\u003e-------------------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003eIf you have most or all of the above \u0026#38; experience in:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  * Deployment Architectures for Ruby on Rails\n  * JavaScript\n  * CSS 2 \u0026#38; 3\n  * XHTML \u0026#38; HTML5\n  * CSS Frameworks (LESS or SASS)\n  * Using Templating Languages (HAML?)\n  * Twitters Bootstrap Framework\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n-------------------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003eEmail us anytime: dev@1saleaday.com","parent":"4992617","id":"4994025"}
{"by":"overgard","time":"1390711408","timestamp":"2014-01-26 04:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Signals\u0026quot;. Ok. So what\u0026#x27;s the signal being sent to women by a bunch of men that think that women are so weak that a mild mild MILD joke about fratboys is going to chase them away? (A lame joke that doesn\u0026#x27;t even involve women directly). Do you really think they\u0026#x27;re that emotionally fragile?\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t you see how incredibly patronizing this discussion is towards the people it\u0026#x27;s supposedly benefiting?\u003cp\u003eWhich do you think is more offensive: a comment that slightly gets under your skin, or someone questioning your ability to handle a comment that gets slightly under your skin?\u003cp\u003eIsn\u0026#x27;t the whole point of feminism that we treat women like normal fully functional adults that can stick up for themselves? I\u0026#x27;m not a feminist, but how does shit like this help their cause?","parent":"7122319","id":"7123927"}
{"by":"danudey","time":"1290819269","timestamp":"2010-11-27 00:54:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can't use custom kernels on Amazon EC2 anyway, so kernel patches aren't really an option (unless you had some kind of kernel module you can load that would change the value in memory, which seems dangerous).","parent":"1943131","id":"1943916"}
{"by":"jnoller","time":"1295829494","timestamp":"2011-01-24 00:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No Big plans on threading: Developer and Patch needed.\u003cp\u003eFunctional programming: No one has proposed it, Developer and Patch needed.\u003cp\u003eThere's a trend here - developers propose things for inclusion and changes to python based on needs, availability of time and skill. See the entire PEP system: \u003ca href=\"http://www.python.org/dev/peps/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe add new things in almost every release. If someone proposed a big pep for something on your list, it would be discussed, and added to a release.\u003cp\u003eFor example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/\u003c/a\u003e is coming when the moratorium on language features expires.","parent":"2132402","id":"2133793"}
{"by":"tlarkworthy","time":"1411051667","timestamp":"2014-09-18 14:47:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes but I want to scan for Hinton papers I have missed ... the fact it\u0026#x27;s backed by bibtex means it should be easy to generate said missing information. A bibliography in the academic sense would highlight those important tidbits of info. Titles alone, especially in a large listing, is not enough for me to make a high level choice on what to read next.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I just text searched Hinton and one paper was in that total bibliography, making me think this is not a very scholarly list.\u003cp\u003eEDIT2: oh its papers beyond 2014 only, makes sense now. It is scholarly, I apologise","parent":"8335441","id":"8335456"}
{"by":"riffic","time":"1500688589","timestamp":"2017-07-22 01:56:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Give more love to Ubuntu server. Remove this update notification from the MOTD (this message encourages newbs to break their box):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;6SD97\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;6SD97\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003efurther elaboration provided here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14006747\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14006747\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14819508","id":"14825002"}
{"by":"nrser","time":"1380118837","timestamp":"2013-09-25 14:20:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"like i said, i\u0026#x27;ve heard good things.\u003cp\u003ewhat kind of QPS have you guys seen a box go up to? anywhere near the \u0026#x27;tens to hundreds of thousands\u0026#x27; that [bhauer](\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bhauer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;user?id=bhauer\u003c/a\u003e) threw out there?\u003cp\u003e45K req\u0026#x2F;sec is big, btw. props, yo.","parent":"6443670","id":"6444716"}
{"by":"terryjsmith","time":"1262715718","timestamp":"2010-01-05 18:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Been working on open sourcing a PHP framework I created a while back.  Uses MVC, but the primary goals are to be lean and schemaless.  It pulls columns from the database and assigns them to variables dynamically so you don't have to update the schema and then worry about the database (most frameworks require you to flush and rebuild).  More to come in the next week.  It can be found here if you're interested:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://github.com/terryjsmith/jaxified\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://github.com/terryjsmith/jaxified\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1032699","id":"1032872"}
{"by":"walshemj","time":"1412512282","timestamp":"2014-10-05 12:31:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should try London day rate for DS contractors  is £700 £800 a day","parent":"8411675","id":"8412129"}
{"by":"calambrac","time":"1234286763","timestamp":"2009-02-10 17:26:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He's been there with a model that failed.  He talks in great length about why that model sucks, and then draws the conclusion that the whole space is doomed.  Why is that more convincing?","parent":"475490","id":"475506"}
{"by":"gcb","time":"1321412979","timestamp":"2011-11-16 03:09:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"waste of time. review by captain obvious.","parent":"3241481","id":"3241554"}
{"by":"dx034","time":"1505470288","timestamp":"2017-09-15 10:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can that be profitable for uber? Never heard of that pass before but sounds like an awful idea for them (and a great idea for commuters with a 15-20 mile commute). Having a private driver and no costs for a car for ~$160 per month is cheaper than just the car when you drive yourself.\u003cp\u003eWould love them to introduce that in London, the price would be the same as for a tube season ticket.","parent":"15254014","id":"15255914"}
{"by":"shalmanese","time":"1513994542","timestamp":"2017-12-23 02:02:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only backwards","parent":"15989514","id":"15992486"}
{"by":"scottmf","time":"1518483051","timestamp":"2018-02-13 00:50:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it hard to believe you “care” either way so I’m chalking this up to edgelord signaling.","parent":"16363691","dead":true,"id":"16363845"}
{"by":"higherpurpose","time":"1400444091","timestamp":"2014-05-18 20:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But in this case they didn\u0026#x27;t spam. The op\u0026#x27;s site linked \u003ci\u003enaturally\u003c/i\u003e to that site, and that site\u0026#x27;s admin got a message from Google that the op\u0026#x27;s link is \u003ci\u003eunnatural\u003c/i\u003e (when it was natural).\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s what\u0026#x27;s wrong with this picture. The link was perfectly valid and yet Google recommended that site\u0026#x27;s admin to disavow the natural link, simply because Google\u0026#x27;s algorithm isn\u0026#x27;t good enough to see what\u0026#x27;s natural and what isn\u0026#x27;t. So his suggestion is: if it\u0026#x27;s not good enough, then don\u0026#x27;t recommend the wrong stuff to people.","parent":"7764104","id":"7764235"}
{"by":"panarky","time":"1390606258","timestamp":"2014-01-24 23:30:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is really great, love the speed.\u003cp\u003eWhere does the comment karma come from?  Doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like you can get it by crawling HN directly.","parent":"7118496","id":"7118947"}
{"by":"cdibona","time":"1525365871","timestamp":"2018-05-03 16:44:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NASA and the DOE did a study on this and they determined that it was too expensive to do it, though safe enough but that we might want the waste later. Vitrification and storage was deemed cheaper, safer and more \u0026#x27;reversible\u0026#x27;.","parent":"16985209","id":"16987544"}
{"by":"simonw","time":"1265982360","timestamp":"2010-02-12 13:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You appear to be using the cross-domain XHR stuff that's only really supported by very recent browsers. Since you're hosting your own proxy for the script anyway you'd be better off having the proxy convert the XML in to JSON and serving it up using JSON-P so it works reliably cross-domain.\u003cp\u003eYour plugin hard-codes the HTML that's used to display the buzzes. While that's convenient, it's also inflexible. I would suggest splitting the logic up in to two parts - one that gets the recent buzzes and turns them in to JavaScript data structures, and one that takes those data structures and formats them as HTML. That way people who want to do their own processing / formatting of the Buzz data can still use the first half of your plugin.","parent":"1120366","id":"1120498"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1371315530","timestamp":"2013-06-15 16:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering the historical role of the NSA, I\u0026#x27;d imagine it was more a reference to hope and freedom bursting out of oppression. People who work at these agencies do not think they are evil, they think they are contributing to ensuring American freedom and prosperity.","parent":"5885498","id":"5885525"}
{"by":"lkrubner","time":"1320529586","timestamp":"2011-11-05 21:46:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are in danger of making the Lump Of Labor Fallacy:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are looking backwards. That is your first mistake. If you only look at what jobs exist now, then you are forced to look backwards and everything looks dark. Try to imagine what the future might actually be like.\u003cp\u003eLet's take a hypothetical example of some future industry:\u003cp\u003eIt is well know that by the year 2050, the urrgh industry was central to the USA economy. Conceptually, the idea of urrghs was developed by Lisa Simon Beckworth of MIT, late in 2014. Michael Ardossa of Stanford developed the first working urrgh in the summer of 2016. However, urrghs remained an academic toy until 2019, when Herbert Boink of Cambridge developed a technique for mass production. Early in the 2020s it seemed like a number of old names from the tech industry were also going to dominate the urrgh industry: Sony, Samsung, IBM, Lenovo. However, it soon became clear that the old tech companies had the wrong kind of management structures for pioneering the new industry. A host of newer companies sprang up. The public only gradually became aware of urgghs. Many people point to 2026 as a turning point. If you measure the number of articles being written about urrghs in the popular press, there is a 10x jump between 2025 and 2027. By 2028 there were young people confidently describing themselves as \"urrgh professionals\", the implication being that they were going to make their whole careers in the new industry. The early 2030s saw explosive growth in the industry. After the recession of 2038, economists pointed out that the urrgh industry had been the leading cause of economic growth during the last business cycle, and would likely play a major role in the next business cycle. On the eve of the next recession, in 2046, the urrgh industry was employing 1 million people in the USA.\u003cp\u003eWe all know at some point in the future there will be some new industry that sweeps the world and generates a lot of economic growth. The only question is how much any one given nation will dominate that industry. But that raises a different issue, an issue about national competitiveness, which should not be confused with issues of one nations unemployment, unless you want to make the explicit argument that some nation is stealing jobs from some other nation. Which can be true in some circumstances, but those circumstances need to be made explicit, for the conversation to have any meaning.\u003cp\u003eThe thing is, it's hard to know what the next big thing is. Generally, those countries that have the fastest growth in productivity also have the lowest unemployment rates. That might seem counter-intuitive, until you think about what productivity allows: it means you can produce more, at the same or higher quality, than you did before. If your productivity goes up at 10% a year, and your competitor only goes up at 5% a year, then pretty soon you can make more of whatever you make, at higher quality and lower cost, than your competitor. This applies to nations as well as companies. Back when Japan had 7% productivity gains every year, and the USA had 2% productivity gains every year, Japan had close to 0% unemployment. But if you believe, as you suggest, that rapidly rising productivity increases unemployment, rather than reducing it, then you would assume that Japan would have higher unemployment than the USA, back when its productivity was higher. But we know the opposite was true.\u003cp\u003eEven worse, if you took your own argument seriously, then you would have to argue that falling productivity is a good thing since it would mean more jobs for everyone. But I assume you are smart enough to avoid doing that.","parent":"3199562","id":"3201015"}
{"by":"dogma1138","time":"1444772436","timestamp":"2015-10-13 21:40:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Half of the heads of state of Europe would be dragged along with the US since the convention forbids states to transport people to any country where there is reason to believe they will be tortured.\u003cp\u003eOverall 54 countries participated and cooperated with the US on it\u0026#x27;s extraordinary rendition program from Iceland to Iran.\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.opensocietyfoundations.org\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;default\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.opensocietyfoundations.org\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;default\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;g...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would be an interesting trial indeed...","parent":"10383609","id":"10383680"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1519022248","timestamp":"2018-02-19 06:37:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t, and it\u0026#x27;s unlikely to ever be.\u003cp\u003eI like to use this comparison: a single cell you shed from your skin pollutes the Earth more than the Roadster pollutes the Solar System.","parent":"16407758","id":"16411149"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1391406125","timestamp":"2014-02-03 05:42:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can the version with team features be called Double Kurikku?","parent":"7168716","id":"7169057"}
{"by":"throwaway8610","time":"1535654906","timestamp":"2018-08-30 18:48:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s assume I have to spend a day doing \u0026quot;something\u0026quot; at your company to prove I\u0026#x27;m worthy of an offer of employment. What if instead of 6 randomly generated interviews left up to the whims of the interviewer it was 6 interviews working an a different aspect of a simple application? Time spent is the same but I think the latter would produce a much stronger signal.","parent":"17879140","id":"17879569"}
{"by":"watwut","time":"1544510384","timestamp":"2018-12-11 06:39:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please remind us on democratic freedoms of Russia slowly eroded. Or on slow progress of Nazism in face of majority pro-democratic populace. Neither happened.","parent":"18653098","id":"18653600"}
{"by":"burke","time":"1418145514","timestamp":"2014-12-09 17:18:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, exactly. I mostly love OS X in that it gives me nearly everything I love about Linux with almost none of the hassle. The window management story is terrible though. Wmii really clicked for me, and OS X really pales in comparison on that front.","parent":"8720347","id":"8724034"}
{"by":"mietek","time":"1427210786","timestamp":"2015-03-24 15:26:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, the words “strong” and “weak” often don’t mean anything more than:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Strong typing: A type system that I like and feel comfortable with\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Weak typing: A type system that worries me, or makes me feel uncomfortable\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20091227121956/http://www.pphsg.org/cdsmith/types.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20091227121956\u0026#x2F;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pphsg.o...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9257151","id":"9257186"}
{"by":"dschiptsov","time":"1385106754","timestamp":"2013-11-22 07:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My ass, it is nuts we all need, Harvard says so!\u003cp\u003eTibetans who never saw a tree in a whole life must be died away long ago without a proper nut supply.)\u003cp\u003eYet another example of a meme-based science.","parent":"6779465","id":"6779711"}
{"by":"jkot","time":"1441534817","timestamp":"2015-09-06 10:20:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One marwel super-hero has similar magnets inside him. Cowmen or something.","parent":"10176652","id":"10177269"}
{"by":"hyperpape","time":"1437663298","timestamp":"2015-07-23 14:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ack, I said I would attach a blog post, and then didn\u0026#x27;t: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.regehr.org\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;199\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.regehr.org\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;199\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9929819","id":"9936065"}
{"by":"trub","time":"1463509206","timestamp":"2016-05-17 18:20:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not surprised","parent":"11713000","id":"11715973"}
{"by":"SEJeff","time":"1373422494","timestamp":"2013-07-10 02:14:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Birds do not get picked up by radar set to war-time sensitivity levels. A a former UAV pilot who flew the Shadow 200 TUAV for 3rd Brigade 2nd Infantry Division in Iraq from 2003-2004, we did training with our attached air defense patriot battery. The Shadow is designed to have an exceptionally low radar and thermal cross signature. We wanted to prove it when doing our combat certifications before going to war. They told us they had to set their gear sensitive enough to pick up birds of prey (eagles, falcons, etc) to see anything meaningful and that they aren\u0026#x27;t able to do that in combat due to the numerous false positives. After initial takeoff and climbing up to mission altitude, those planes are effectively (meaning in practice) \u0026quot;stealth\u0026quot; although I\u0026#x27;m saying that very loosely","parent":"6016604","id":"6017057"}
{"by":"Baobei","time":"1495757837","timestamp":"2017-05-26 00:17:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider to take a break for 2 weeks, rather than resigning, replacing yourself or talking to your wife. After 2 weeks you may feel less burnt out and see things more clearly. You can get medication (and I for one can confirm it does work) but ideally that\u0026#x27;s to get you out of the rut not a permanent solution. It\u0026#x27;s possible that your lack of passion for this idea, combined with how much time and dedication it takes is making you feel this way. Your mind\u0026#x2F;body doesn\u0026#x27;t understand the inherent contradiction. I\u0026#x27;m married to my cofounder and it\u0026#x27;s hard to be honest when one is feeling weak, but hiding stuff damages your intimacy and closeness. Protect that, it\u0026#x27;s worth more than your company.","parent":"14417758","id":"14421126"}
{"by":"sanderjd","time":"1527607499","timestamp":"2018-05-29 15:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But would you agree that without any history of enforcement to look at yet, it may be prudent to base risk analyses on that maximum number?","parent":"17179328","id":"17179977"}
{"by":"dyeje","time":"1501703629","timestamp":"2017-08-02 19:53:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you need a separate standalone device?  Do your workers not have laptops?  Just buy everyone who needs to video conference a decent USB headset ($20 - $60) and be done with it.","parent":"14912056","id":"14914027"}
{"by":"ds9","time":"1400681408","timestamp":"2014-05-21 14:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Deleting the emails would have put Levison\u0026#x2F;Lavabit in violation of long-established law (destruction of evidence is a crime). Note that with PFS (if I recall correctly, Lavabit did not use PFS), preserving past emails does not help the adversary.\u003cp\u003eDeleting the account, however, seems much more viable for similar situations. Forcing a company (like Lavabit) to provide service to an individual might be supportable, based in part on past precedents to do with race discrimination and general regulation-of-business principles, but would be unprecedented in regard to a non-commercial entity. Arguably it would run afoul of the 13th Amendment in the US.\u003cp\u003eOf course, written law has little bearing on what the government can do in practice in today\u0026#x27;s USA.","parent":"7777109","id":"7778296"}
{"by":"gitgud","time":"1545250916","timestamp":"2018-12-19 20:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like this, thanks for your input","parent":"18715168","id":"18719177"}
{"by":"abbott","time":"1318412941","timestamp":"2011-10-12 09:49:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"which came first, the product or the platform? I remember when twitter switched over their public site and services to run on their API. Instagram just built theirs earlier this year. If the platform has an outage, so does the product. It's tough to justify a platform until you have traction, and unfortunately the industry track record reflects this.\u003cp\u003eExcellent insights in Steve's post.","parent":"3101876","id":"3102180"}
{"by":"alexasmyths","time":"1506538030","timestamp":"2017-09-27 18:47:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve come to the belief that crypto and security are a \u0026#x27;feature\u0026#x27; and never a product.\u003cp\u003eAs important as these issues are - I find that businesses and consumers don\u0026#x27;t often opt for these things as a primary choice except in specific circumstances, or for specific consumers with specific needs.\u003cp\u003eThe fact is - I think - most people don\u0026#x27;t care. Even most startups don\u0026#x27;t care that much. If their conversations are \u0026#x27;reasonably secure\u0026#x27; then they\u0026#x27;re good with it.\u003cp\u003eI think HN readers are way to one side on this issue - we care a lot about it. I think our views are different from that of most people.\u003cp\u003eThis could change but I think we\u0026#x27;re still in this mode.","parent":"15350263","id":"15351005"}
{"by":"warfangle","time":"1278504181","timestamp":"2010-07-07 12:03:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Medical shows legally have to be responsible. Apparently at some point, someone took medical advice from a soap opera and a life was lost because of it.\u003cp\u003eFrom that day forward they hire RNs part time to fill in gaps in the script with medical terms. A friend worked in an office that contracted out an army of RNs for this kind of script work. Pretty weird when you think about it.","parent":"1493887","id":"1493935"}
{"by":"conradfr","time":"1333357334","timestamp":"2012-04-02 09:02:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry it's a very bad translation from French, it's Monday morning ...\u003cp\u003eI think something like \"non-power-users\", or \"random/average user\" would be a better term ?","parent":"3786980","id":"3787055"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1509121728","timestamp":"2017-10-27 16:28:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There’s a pyramid for a reason.\u003cp\u003eSorry, but I am still unconvinced people got that reason correctly.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s say you have that A -\u0026gt; B; B -\u0026gt; C pipeline. How many tests you should have on each step (and on the origin) depends completely on how much freedom that steps grants you. It is not something one can say generalities about.\u003cp\u003eFor example, if you are writing an enterprise CRUD application, almost your entire freedom resides on the data mapping. That means that your tests should be equally divided between data validation and data storage\u0026#x2F;retrieval. And the second can only be done at the integration or E2E levels.\u003cp\u003eIf you are writing a multi-client statefull server (like a threaded web server), the freedom concentrated on launching and reloading it is so large that you can\u0026#x27;t even reasonably test for it. You\u0026#x27;d better design your software around proving this is correct and let testing for less problematic stuff.\u003cp\u003eMy biggest issue with the unity test pushing isn\u0026#x27;t even that it forces a bad structure into the code (what it does), or that it\u0026#x27;s pushes for fragile and valueless code (what it also dies). It is that it\u0026#x27;s wrong at the larger level, oversimplifying stuff and letting people get out of the hook without thinking for themselves.","parent":"15569597","id":"15569885"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1395989934","timestamp":"2014-03-28 06:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mentioned those because they have the highest valuations.  It usually takes several years to reach that sort of valuation, so the mostly highly valued companies are never the recent ones.","parent":"7484161","id":"7485722"}
{"by":"wrs","time":"1318708994","timestamp":"2011-10-15 20:03:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The hype around Siri as a \"personal assistant\" and the carefully-crafted ads that show it working in an ideal context remind me a lot of the hype around Newton, which caused a backlash when it turned out to be just a computer after all.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is deeper than recognizing what you said or wrote. Newton's \"intelligent assistant\" had the same sorts of trouble with meaning, like having to use literal text from your data (\"When is Dentist?\" vs. \"When is my dental appointment?\") Apparently while computers are better at determining what words you said than they were in 1992, there hasn't been a ton of improvement in \u003ci\u003eunderstanding\u003c/i\u003e what you said, even at this apparently simple level.","parent":"3115428","id":"3115639"}
{"by":"jakebasile","time":"1475652376","timestamp":"2016-10-05 07:26:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had just been evaluating Horizon for a new project using React. It looked very promising but we decided to use Firebase instead, in spite of Firebase being closed source and subject to vendor lock in. We simply couldn\u0026#x27;t justify forgoing the built in deployment and additional features of Firebase when we are on such a tight time and money budget.\u003cp\u003eI hope there is a good outcome for Horizon and RethinkDB, they both seemed excellent technologies and it\u0026#x27;d be sad to see them languish.","parent":"12641936","id":"12642101"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1524746762","timestamp":"2018-04-26 12:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are labouring under a severe misapprehension.","parent":"16931054","id":"16931330"}
{"by":"MrBuddyCasino","time":"1485115274","timestamp":"2017-01-22 20:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most importantly, the ESP32 has register windows.","parent":"13456483","id":"13457049"}
{"by":"chadp","time":"1289100593","timestamp":"2010-11-07 03:29:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know what % the founders held at the time of the sale?\u003cp\u003eSounds like they should have done OK, depending on what % they gave up for their $78MM VC.","parent":"1877916","id":"1878563"}
{"by":"beefsack","time":"1386137083","timestamp":"2013-12-04 06:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s down right now: \u003ca href=\"http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com\u0026#x2F;youtube.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6845291","id":"6845299"}
{"by":"forbes","time":"1297076538","timestamp":"2011-02-07 11:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read all 31 snippets and I am still a terrible coder. Perhaps a better title would be \"31 random CSS hacks, copied from other blogs, in no particular logical order\"","parent":"2188439","id":"2188497"}
{"by":"kijin","time":"1501653509","timestamp":"2017-08-02 05:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every popular mobile OS has standard libraries for making HTTP requests and doing crypto.\u003cp\u003eI can forgive games for sacrificing size in favor of high-res animations and a blazing fast graphics stack, but I don\u0026#x27;t think LinkedIn, for example, is in need of particularly fast graphics.","parent":"14907795","id":"14908239"}
{"by":"mike_esspe","time":"1384345836","timestamp":"2013-11-13 12:30:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you realize, that you still can buy it and get a 3-digits increase? :) Or lose. In that regard situation is the same as 4 years ago.","parent":"6724676","id":"6724752"}
{"by":"curun1r","time":"1481814238","timestamp":"2016-12-15 15:03:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A switch can increase the cyclomatic complexity of code and make it difficult to visualize how code flows at runtime. It may be the best solution, but often violates the single responsibility principle. What is best is often situational and depends on a developer\u0026#x27;s code aesthetic. But a single switch statement is useless in isolation, so one can\u0026#x27;t evaluate whether it\u0026#x27;s appropriate in isolation without looking at the context in which it\u0026#x27;s used.","parent":"13184838","id":"13185012"}
{"by":"wmeredith","time":"1384878094","timestamp":"2013-11-19 16:21:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the big differentiation, for me. Good design does speak for itself. Marketing bullshit (\u0026quot;An artisanally crafted tool\u0026quot;-these are most certainly not handmade, it\u0026#x27;s just bullshit) just cheapens the whole thing. It\u0026#x27;s like explaining the punchline to your joke. Copy like this just ruins a lot of the design for me. Marketing copy hyperbole has been a problem since the 60\u0026#x27;s. After 50 years it\u0026#x27;s gotten to where marketing copy is essentially meaningless.","parent":"6761854","id":"6762190"}
{"by":"dreamdu5t","time":"1499617680","timestamp":"2017-07-09 16:28:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a myth that heroin and opiate addiction are the result of pain killer prescriptions: \u0026quot;According to the large, annually repeated and representative National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 75 percent of all opioid misuse starts with people using medication that wasn’t prescribed for them—obtained from a friend, family member or dealer. \u0026quot;","parent":"14730445","id":"14730500"}
{"by":"gage","time":"1311697248","timestamp":"2011-07-26 16:20:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I felt the same way. It's hard enough to remember the subtleties of CSS and which order the table tags go in. The header tag makes my head hurt(no pun intended).","parent":"2807649","id":"2808049"}
{"by":"dh-g","time":"1539785508","timestamp":"2018-10-17 14:11:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any examples in regards to free speech?","parent":"18238706","id":"18239179"}
{"by":"eklavya","time":"1503560506","timestamp":"2017-08-24 07:41:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not a matter of would, it already has. So many subsidy\u0026#x2F;benefits accounts have been closed. Just search for news stories on this.","parent":"15088271","id":"15088327"}
{"by":"lithos","time":"1529772384","timestamp":"2018-06-23 16:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course they are.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ll learn less in your sleep deprived states, Which are days you aren\u0026#x27;t going to get back.  Your sleep deprived self will also be better at creating tech debt, which takes away time from the future.","parent":"17381494","id":"17382057"}
{"by":"TheSwede75","time":"1302052148","timestamp":"2011-04-06 01:09:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Next, Techcrunch stop's their inane self promotion in blog posts. As per my suggestion!","parent":"2412897","dead":true,"id":"2413497"}
{"by":"pixl97","time":"1465411468","timestamp":"2016-06-08 18:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That depends on if your network card supports TOE. If your network card supports full TCP offload then your routing latency can be as low as .6-1.4 \u003ci\u003eus\u003c/i\u003e. If you have to go through the entire TCP software stack it\u0026#x27;s around 20-40 \u003ci\u003eus\u003c/i\u003e, on 10Gb hardware. Full TCP offload puts it in the same ballpark a hardware router.","parent":"11863263","id":"11864541"}
{"by":"egypturnash","time":"1340566485","timestamp":"2012-06-24 19:34:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah, both comments on mine mention Portal. I never played ND but Portal was a blast; we'll see if someone picks this team up and help them make this a full game the way Valve did with ND/Portal.","parent":"4154015","id":"4154035"}
{"by":"jdhzzz","time":"1406210347","timestamp":"2014-07-24 13:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Terrorists won.","parent":"8078704","id":"8079566"}
{"by":"megaman821","time":"1295962328","timestamp":"2011-01-25 13:32:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We used to use SilverPop but then we just bought a PowerMTA license and wrote our own front end. If you are a small company with a large list, SilverPop is too expensive. Amazon is cheap but it doesn't look like it has any mailmerge (email personalization) capabilities.","parent":"2138846","id":"2138942"}
{"by":"ch4s3","time":"1490664473","timestamp":"2017-03-28 01:27:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine they will more or less stop enforcing, but they probably need time to set up the legal regime for regulating sales. I assume.\u003cp\u003e*edit: I\u0026#x27;d love for someone better informed to correct me, or fill in the gaps in my assumption.","parent":"13973162","id":"13973241"}
{"by":"robmcm","time":"1385975654","timestamp":"2013-12-02 09:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You only have to know more than half of the market.","parent":"6831978","id":"6832626"}
{"by":"slowpoke","time":"1320965564","timestamp":"2011-11-10 22:52:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Edit: Woops, this was supposed to be an answer to your parent (zecho), not you.\u003cp\u003eA common definition must not necessarily be a correct definition - ask any scientist, there's probably a number of terms that are misused by the general populace in every field. As a very general example, theory and hypothesis come to mind. When most people say \"theory\", they mean what in a scientific context would be referred to as a hypothesis - an unproven claim that requires verification.\u003cp\u003eNow, we can argue whether or not evolution of language justifies using wrong definitions of a term, but technically, defining \"anarchy\" as \"chaos\" is - in my opinion - not correct. The term denotes a state of society where there is no governing authority, but does \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e imply the absence of rules, laws or values.\u003cp\u003eThe major problem I have with these two definitions is that people who assume the negative one (anarchy == chaos) are, for the most part, not aware of the other meaning, and that quickly leads to confusion - which is sometimes used intentionally to defame opponents in an argument. I personally try to make it clear upfront which definition I am using (anarchy == absence of government or authority), but it's sometimes still hard to escape the negative association of the term.","parent":"3222172","id":"3222281"}
{"by":"rorrr","time":"1322090041","timestamp":"2011-11-23 23:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Algorithms are not even mentioned.\u003cp\u003eData structures are not there either.\u003cp\u003eSorry, you're a django coder, not a programmer.","parent":"3271866","id":"3272229"}
{"by":"throwaway7767","time":"1463666435","timestamp":"2016-05-19 14:00:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That\u0026#x27;s only true for GNU-based userlands, not BSD-based ones.\u003cp\u003eSure, but installing (a subset of) GNU coreutils is probably going to pull in a lot fewer dependencies than this JavaScript command line tool. Plus, you can use ports, no need to mess with a seperate package manager (npm) and the associated package verification foibles.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; And if the system properly TRIMs it might not be necessary at all, though that greatly depends on the SSD.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;depends on the SSD\u0026quot; is a big one. Various recent forensic papers have shown that it can take a while until a TRIM\u0026#x27;d sector is actually erased by the firmware.\u003cp\u003eI still think that if this kind of thing causes worries, full-disk encryption is really the only sensible solution.","parent":"11730173","id":"11730214"}
{"by":"skmurphy","time":"1274334890","timestamp":"2010-05-20 05:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"given your desire to join the \"product business community\" it would seem you should put some information in your profile so others can understand who you are and where you are coming from.","parent":"1359473","id":"1363346"}
{"by":"SteveC","time":"1320192026","timestamp":"2011-11-02 00:00:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Let’s face it:  unless there’s beer involved, men don’t have many instincts at all.\"\u003cp\u003eAnd this is where I closed the page and moved on.","parent":"3184379","id":"3184728"}
{"by":"tvon","time":"1270769717","timestamp":"2010-04-08 23:35:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple isn't interested in proving a point about market viability, they just don't want that on their platform.","parent":"1251017","id":"1251409"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1433184048","timestamp":"2015-06-01 18:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who says what I\u0026#x27;m willing to do? I\u0026#x27;ll admit You are willing to pay $1.\u003cp\u003eThe question was malformed. Should have been, how much can you pay and still make money, on average? Or better yet, what is the break-even point.","parent":"9641053","id":"9641089"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1258597594","timestamp":"2009-11-19 02:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bignums, my friend. BCD is also good for real-world numbers, like money or eggs.","parent":"948439","id":"949587"}
{"by":"ktta","time":"1508815215","timestamp":"2017-10-24 03:20:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That looks interesting!\u003cp\u003eI quoted UNIX to show how primitive technology was at the time, rather than say he could\u0026#x27;ve possibly used a computer. With ALS, using a computer would as hard as writing I would presume.","parent":"15538893","id":"15538938"}
{"by":"spectralblu","time":"1448316792","timestamp":"2015-11-23 22:13:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An interesting thing I realized on Android while doing some development was that if you install a custom root cert, Android actually persists a notification that says something along the lines of \u0026quot;other people may be able to intercept your communication\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eNoticed this while I was installing the MITM cert for CharlesProxy.","parent":"10616100","id":"10617716"}
{"by":"stretchwithme","time":"1400998447","timestamp":"2014-05-25 06:14:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least when you log in to flickr, you don\u0026#x27;t get the message \u0026quot;Hello- new account signups are temporarily unavailable from this network address space used by your Internet Service Provider\u0026quot;, as I\u0026#x27;ve been getting for so long.\u003cp\u003eMaybe some day, Yahoo will get their heads out of their asses and restore access to my old photos.  I\u0026#x27;m not holding my breath.","parent":"7795338","id":"7795644"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1510737339","timestamp":"2017-11-15 09:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We get that every century.\u003cp\u003eAlso, there is 2\u0026#x2F;3\u0026#x2F;5 7:09:11 and similar.","parent":"15691022","id":"15702495"}
{"by":"raquo","time":"1292716089","timestamp":"2010-12-18 23:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know, most people I've met don't mind being called by their nationality or hearing a joke involving nationalities. Now, granted, I've met many more Russians than any other nationality, but I think we're more like the rest of the world in this regard than Europe or USA where political correctness gets insane. And what the hell could possibly wrong with \"The Lady\", let alone the other two, if that's the way she calls herself?","parent":"2020502","id":"2020623"}
{"by":"arisAlexis","time":"1512043327","timestamp":"2017-11-30 12:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No better way than a high risk high reward portfolio of crypto currency","parent":"15783427","id":"15815076"}
{"by":"houseabsolute","time":"1267918644","timestamp":"2010-03-06 23:37:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; and in this case some small segment of the target audience is offering $0 for the content.\u003cp\u003eThere is a segment like this in every market. It doesn't follow that that segment may ethically consume the content at the price they find acceptable. To be morally right, they must negotiate to a price that the provider also finds agreeable. If they cannot reach agreement on a price, the only morally correct thing is to refrain from consuming the content, _not_ to just consume it anyway.","parent":"1172469","id":"1172475"}
{"by":"john_b","time":"1391638132","timestamp":"2014-02-05 22:08:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Programming is a notion to extend human capability, by offloading humanly-infeasible work onto a machine. It is the promise of an amplified knowledge worker. This would be worthy to learn.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this (correct) notion the author continues until he decides that\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Meanwhile there are few souls looking to evolve text code into something more humanly intuitive. For example something you can touch, you don’t have to read, or that tells you what the computer is thinking, so you don’t have to think like a computer yourself.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t help but feel that what the author really wants is some futuristic kind of AI assistant. Decades of programming progress has resulted in numerous abstractions piled on top of one another in order to minimize the amount of \u0026quot;thinking like a computer\u0026quot; that you have to do. But all abstractions are leaky and when you encounter those leaks you will inevitably have to be able to think like the machine you are trying to communicate with.\u003cp\u003eWhy is it acceptable to say that effective communication with \u003ci\u003epeople\u003c/i\u003e depends on being able to think like the person you\u0026#x27;re talking to, but demand that communication with a far more different and limited \u003ci\u003emachine\u003c/i\u003e should never require you to compromise on your preferred thought patterns? This is the fundamental fallacy of the natural language programming advocates. They want to use another entity to do things for them but demand all communication with that entity be in their preferred language, on their own terms.","parent":"7186686","id":"7187193"}
{"by":"notastartup","time":"1389502496","timestamp":"2014-01-12 04:54:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if competing for non-consumption and there are others doing this, how do you stand out? If something is infinitely better than nothing for this non-consumers how do you stand out from the competitors doing the same thing? How to charge a premium without driving each other to the bottom?\u003cp\u003eThe message I understood from his lecture video was develop:\u003cp\u003e1) Something that is infinitely better. My suspicion is that if you are targeting a group that already has very good tools to do the job, your product won\u0026#x27;t be infinitely better until it does feature \u0026quot;A-Z\u0026quot; like your incumbents.\u003cp\u003e2) Disrupt by targeting the non-consumption. These group of people have no other alternative to do the job or have technical understanding. Even a crappy product is better than nothing. Target this for disruption.\u003cp\u003eIs this correct? Did I miss anything?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSG_d0mmf0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=RQSG_d0mmf0\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7043468","id":"7045200"}
{"by":"bmelton","time":"1399385584","timestamp":"2014-05-06 14:13:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You had to demand it?  You couldn\u0026#x27;t ask for it?  Or request it?  The word demand here is curious, and strikes me as though my claim somehow offends you.\u003cp\u003eThat aside, the citation is here[1]. In context, the most relevant bit is:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026gt; (a) No automobile or other motor vehicle shall \n    \u0026gt; occupy any portion of an apartment house or hotel\n    \u0026gt; except in a garage which meets the requirements of \n    \u0026gt; the Building Code and other provisions of the \n    \u0026gt; Municipal Code.\n\n    \u0026gt; (b) Use. Private and public storage garages in \n    \u0026gt; apartment houses and hotels shall be used only for \n    \u0026gt; storage of automobiles.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSummed up, that means that automobiles may only be stored in garages, and nothing else may be.\u003cp\u003eJustifications for the law are numerous, I\u0026quot;m sure.  If you have a garage, and are parking on the street instead, then surely you\u0026#x27;re contributing to curbside congestion.  Beyond that, there are likely justifications from preventing hoarders, meth labs, etc.\u003cp\u003eStill, as written, it seems a little onerous.\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"http://housing.sanfranciscocode.org/6_603/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;housing.sanfranciscocode.org\u0026#x2F;6_603\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] - \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-push-to-abolish-ridiculous-S-F-laws-5119134.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sfgate.com\u0026#x2F;bayarea\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;A-push-to-abolish-ridi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7703652","id":"7704535"}
{"by":"mrfusion","time":"1433250369","timestamp":"2015-06-02 13:06:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shoot me an email if you want (in profile).  I\u0026#x27;d love to chat more about this.","parent":"9645330","id":"9645550"}
{"by":"hyper_reality","time":"1520598382","timestamp":"2018-03-09 12:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also highly recommend Edward Epstein\u0026#x27;s Atlantic article on this too: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theatlantic.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;1982\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond\u0026#x2F;304575\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theatlantic.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;1982\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;have-yo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the best pieces of long-form journalism ever published, without a doubt.","parent":"16551212","id":"16551242"}
{"by":"spriggan3","time":"1457998753","timestamp":"2016-03-14 23:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Consider programmatically working with email\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure what you\u0026#x27;re getting at, Working with email is a nightmare in any language, Go or Rust or language of the moment X included.","parent":"11286385","id":"11286415"}
{"by":"nnnnni","time":"1338294948","timestamp":"2012-05-29 12:35:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jurassic Park taught us about this nearly 20 years ago!","parent":"4035964","id":"4037124"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1273959060","timestamp":"2010-05-15 21:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I rather not develop in PHP unless I really have to\u003cp\u003eOne would have to hold me at gunpoint to convince me to use PHP for anything serious.","parent":"1350685","id":"1350698"}
{"by":"kisielk","time":"1382627478","timestamp":"2013-10-24 15:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a library in one of the Go subrepositories that handles transformation from other encodings to UTF-8: \u003ca href=\"https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse?repo=text#hg%2Fencoding\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;code.google.com\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;go\u0026#x2F;source\u0026#x2F;browse?repo=text#hg%2Fen...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re expecting to get data in other other encodings you could put together some detection and transformation at the point of ingress and convert to UTF-8 encoded text for the rest of your application.","parent":"6605344","id":"6605707"}
{"by":"killjoywashere","time":"1493265568","timestamp":"2017-04-27 03:59:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The archtype of temperature is a black body radiator. Classically, you make a block of metal (ceramic, whatever),  with a spherical cavity and drill a small hole into the cavity. Then you draw a vacuum and heat the cavity, point a scope at the hole, and measure the spectrum  of ligh tcoming out. In this circumstance, there is no mass that limits the energy: you are measuring the temperature of a black, empty vacuum; thus there is no upper limit.","parent":"14209005","id":"14209077"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1535761464","timestamp":"2018-09-01 00:24:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can imagine it being similar to medical stuff. You have to demonstrate that you have considered risks and took reasonable steps to avoid them. But you don\u0026#x27;t have to be perfect. Things can still happen.","parent":"17889368","id":"17889408"}
{"by":"tunesmith","time":"1408135778","timestamp":"2014-08-15 20:49:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anki is great, but I\u0026#x27;m currently having a bit of trouble in that after reaching a few thousand cards that are all fairly mature, I can\u0026#x27;t seem to get below 20 cards a day review.  When it\u0026#x27;s that many, I\u0026#x27;m experiencing a bit of disincentive in creating new decks to drill myself on new knowledge.  I thought they\u0026#x27;d continually get slower but the rate at which card appearances slow down seems to slow down over time as well.","parent":"8184051","id":"8184115"}
{"by":"siculars","time":"1308224208","timestamp":"2011-06-16 11:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is beyond. Where does it end? Governments and corporations will no doubt misuse this technology. Imagine a corporate HQ with this at the gate. Maybe a tank with this on the turret or riot police with this on their helmets.\u003cp\u003eI, for one, would not buy a phone with this \"feature\".","parent":"2660794","id":"2660820"}
{"by":"Igglyboo","time":"1416843532","timestamp":"2014-11-24 15:38:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t opt-out of Apple\u0026#x27;s sandbox.","parent":"8651466","id":"8652829"}
{"by":"russell","time":"1239040047","timestamp":"2009-04-06 17:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not if you are doing it right.  The article context is unit testing a dynamic languages vs a static language, saying that you have to do more testing with a static language.  If you do thorough unit testing, the difference isn't all that great.  The article implied that unit testing doesn't need to be as thorough with a staticly typed language,  That is just plain wrong.  You may need to do some additional testing with a dynamic language, but overall you come out way ahead.  Python instead of Java, you come out way ahead.  Python framework vs a full Java framework, the difference may be 5x or 10x.","parent":"549076","id":"549234"}
{"by":"wehadfun","time":"1395416648","timestamp":"2014-03-21 15:44:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea I was a underwhelmed that Tesla, AirBnb, and Uber where the examples in Harvard Buriness Review of corruption stifling innovation.\u003cp\u003eThese are billion dollar companies and their political problems are dam near mainstream news. How about this guy [0] who invented a needle that could cut down needle prick injuries by over 99% and cost the same as the regular accident prone needles in use but was blocked by medical monopolies with legal kickbacks.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.blake.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonmonthly.com\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;1007.blake.ht...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7440769","id":"7442931"}
{"by":"fizzle83","time":"1403562992","timestamp":"2014-06-23 22:36:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The UK also has favourable visa arrangements for Australians - certainly more so than the US, which seems hell bent on rejecting any desirable immigration.","parent":"7934626","id":"7935181"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1488008921","timestamp":"2017-02-25 07:48:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One way cloudflare could mitigate the damage they caused is by coughing up some money to facilitate non-profits in their cleanup activities on behalf of cloudflare.\u003cp\u003ePolluter pays.","parent":"13730251","id":"13730555"}
{"by":"jimktrains2","time":"1413837371","timestamp":"2014-10-20 20:36:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; SSL makes man-in-the-middle attacks all too easy. Every owner of root certificates that is certificate authorities, secret services and big Internet providers can intervene between user and server to intercept confidential information or even manipulate it.\u003cp\u003eThis problem doesn\u0026#x27;t go away with DNS (in fact without DNS-Sec it\u0026#x27;s as good as a self-signed cert) and with DNSSec, state actors\u0026#x2F;root delegates can still act maliciously.\u003cp\u003eGranted, I still think it\u0026#x27;s a better option than the current CA system, it just doesn\u0026#x27;t magically make certain kind of attacks go away.","parent":"8483800","id":"8484348"}
{"by":"vessenes","time":"1439528053","timestamp":"2015-08-14 04:54:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have for some time felt that robot cars absolutely need a physical disconnect lever. Nice and big, break glass, and you\u0026#x27;re driving off the wire.\u003cp\u003eBut, this hack reminds me that there\u0026#x27;s no such thing in a modern car; the whole thing is networked.\u003cp\u003eSo, yeah, physical updates of firmware. Although, in the article, it\u0026#x27;s a subsystem\u0026#x27;s firmware, which physically protecting that is just not in the minds of engineers right now: think of all the ports you\u0026#x27;d need.\u003cp\u003eEven if the physical kill switch left me with just (unpowered) steering and brakes, I would have a vastly different perspective on the safety inherent.","parent":"10057851","id":"10058685"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1531500201","timestamp":"2018-07-13 16:43:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My whiskey guy tried to sell me on a pricey Kavalan (he had a whole collection of them) and I ended up getting a Compass Box instead. But I\u0026#x27;m going on vacation next week and buying a whole bunch of bottles to take with. Do me a favor and sell me on the Kavalan? I\u0026#x27;m maybe a little skeptical of Taiwanese whiskey.","parent":"17524462","id":"17524476"}
{"by":"s09dfhks","time":"1533311819","timestamp":"2018-08-03 15:56:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why do you say that","parent":"17669635","id":"17680896"}
{"by":"ben0x539","time":"1386880569","timestamp":"2013-12-12 20:36:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If no actual http request between the email recipient and the sender happens, doesn\u0026#x27;t that also imply that the sender has less opportunity to do all the regular http user tracking stuff to associate the browsing session with that email address? That seems vaguely beneficial.","parent":"6896860","id":"6897052"}
{"by":"keenerd","time":"1424128400","timestamp":"2015-02-16 23:13:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a similar blog post a while back about the standard deviation in statistics.  About how when the SD was discovered, the original paper was full of disclaimers that the SD should only be used by statisticians working with perfect distributions.  The squaring would amplify the natural outliers present in real-world data and make the SD too dangerous to trust.  And yet we use the SD for everything, even though the original reason for it (a computation shortcut to save hand-labor) is pretty much meaningless.\u003cp\u003eI have a copy of the original paper but the paper lacks the historical perspective of the post.  I\u0026#x27;ve never been able to find that blog post again.  Does anyone remember what I\u0026#x27;m talking about?","parent":"9058101","id":"9059671"}
{"by":"JustSomeNobody","time":"1484492112","timestamp":"2017-01-15 14:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is my thinking as well. Zoos are kind of a necessary evil so we don\u0026#x27;t completely concrete all jungles, etc.\u003cp\u003eHumans are horrible caretakers of this planet.","parent":"13404193","id":"13404217"}
{"by":"rmc","time":"1439803208","timestamp":"2015-08-17 09:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Do I encrypt my mail and risk a SWAT team blowing up my front door and shooting my dog\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a best case. Worse case is they shoot you.","parent":"10070669","id":"10071985"}
{"by":"lnanek2","time":"1348516486","timestamp":"2012-09-24 19:54:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article is a continuation of many the site has posted. In previous articles they have gone on in detail about how the foreman ignored jury instructions. He invalidated prior art because the code wouldn't run on the iPhone processor, for example, and he said they calculated damages to send a message to Samsung and the industry as a whole. These things are both directly counter to the jury instructions, which do not require prior art to be binary compatible and state damages should only basically fix the amount of money lost by the other company, not be extreme to make a point. Here's one of the articles:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120828225612963\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120828225612...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the guy had that previous experience, but he followed the instructions, I don't think people would have complained. But instead he ignored instructions and took things into his own hands based on his incorrect perceptions of patent law he formed from his past experiences.","parent":"4565005","id":"4566615"}
{"by":"hack_edu","time":"1421072134","timestamp":"2015-01-12 14:15:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something tells me there\u0026#x27;s a lot more Surge Pricing in our futures. And just when you thought the modifiers were high enough, or that surge hours already have become any-waking-hours...\u003cp\u003eRather than the bait and switch, why not just raise the price rather than feign at lowering it? Kill the lie that the Surge Pricing brand has become. Just be honest.","parent":"8873834","id":"8873922"}
{"by":"wladimir","time":"1318397037","timestamp":"2011-10-12 05:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It does look like the US becomes scarier every day. More and more extrajudicial powers, secret laws, restrictions on speech, unwarranted searches/wiretaps and so on. Their \"war on freedom\" is very successful.\u003cp\u003eAs I've said before, the internet really should stop relying on the US that much. Too bad Europe and others seem to be asleep in this case. Maybe they will get it when it is too late. Having what is slowly becoming the world's only information distribution network in the hands of one government (or, any government) is a very big risk.","parent":"3101419","id":"3101609"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1293770976","timestamp":"2010-12-31 04:49:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but for many languages which are that dynamic, we now have JIT VMs which gather tracing data and can empirically tell us what the types actually are.  This is especially true for server apps, which can provide us with large datasets.  Also, as noted in a recent article posted to HN, after a certain span of time, most apps in dynamic langs behave as if statically typed.  Why don't we use this information?  It happens to be move available when it is most valuable.  (When a codebase has \"matured\" and things are moving more towards a \"maintenance\" mode.)","parent":"2054361","id":"2054547"}
{"by":"JesperRavn","time":"1436241927","timestamp":"2015-07-07 04:05:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can see progress.\u003cp\u003eBetter languages: {C#, C++14, Go, Rust} \u0026gt; Java, {ES6, TypeScript} \u0026gt; JavaScript, and Python keeps getting better thanks to Python 3 and an better libraries.\u003cp\u003eScaling: OpenCL and CUDA have \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c/i\u003e taken off, delivering everything they promised.  Hadoop matured and spawned variants, and now Spark is starting a new cycle.  Thanks to Amazon and Google we now have cheap computing cycles on tap with APIs usable by ordinary developers.\u003cp\u003eIt seems to me that only Web Development and Mobile Apps are a morass.  But web development was bound to be a step backwards given its strange history, while mobile app development can only be as good as the underlying platforms, which started from really rudimentary to get where they are now.","parent":"9842988","id":"9843576"}
{"by":"a_a_r_o_n","time":"1329654753","timestamp":"2012-02-19 12:32:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To drive home their message.","parent":"3608917","id":"3609214"}
{"by":"jlawer","time":"1336007358","timestamp":"2012-05-03 01:09:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not the included ones (there are about 5)","parent":"3921814","id":"3921938"}
{"by":"gavinlynch","time":"1360248966","timestamp":"2013-02-07 14:56:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"minor observation regarding the website's example images and their lightbox: really strange placement for the close \"X\" in the bottom right corner, right?","parent":"5181958","id":"5182322"}
{"by":"andybak","time":"1520776783","timestamp":"2018-03-11 13:59:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3D movies and TV = new way to view existing content\u003cp\u003eVR = an entirely new medium.\u003cp\u003eJust look at the number of arts projects that use VR. I hear about something new weekly. I don\u0026#x27;t recall artists around the world getting excited about 3D movies.\u003cp\u003e(Yes - VR has some similarity with games and other interactive content but cinema has some similarity with theatre and the novel has some similarity with poetry)","parent":"16557565","id":"16563012"}
{"by":"snambi","time":"1343029072","timestamp":"2012-07-23 07:37:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. Parties are fun. It provides a nice break. The models and tigers can distract, but they also provide a way to talk to strangers easily.","parent":"4279629","id":"4279970"}
{"by":"caseydurfee","time":"1406674884","timestamp":"2014-07-29 23:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;d already raised over 800M before this round.","parent":"8102790","id":"8105481"}
{"by":"Zikes","time":"1403721198","timestamp":"2014-06-25 18:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.openautoalliance.net/#members\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.openautoalliance.net\u0026#x2F;#members\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7945454","id":"7945884"}
{"by":"mtts","time":"1247211184","timestamp":"2009-07-10 07:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The guy quotes \"Data integrity is 100% paramount, trumping all other concerns, such as performance and scalability.\" as somewhat of a disadvantage of SQL databases.\u003cp\u003eThen he goes on to mention that e-commerce orders are examples of things where 100% data integrity isn't needed.\u003cp\u003eI find that shocking. An ACID-compliant DB engine is essential backup for when customers manage to break your application in ways you never even imagined.","parent":"697016","id":"697263"}
{"by":"srathbun","time":"1366893185","timestamp":"2013-04-25 12:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've got a vim setup hosted on github: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/srathbun/vim-plugins\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/srathbun/vim-plugins\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has Klen's python-mode plugin as a submodule: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/klen/python-mode\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/klen/python-mode\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePython-mode provides awesome sause :) To get the repo, clone it recursively, or you won't have all the submodules. `git clone --recursive \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/srathbun/vim-plugins.git\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/srathbun/vim-plugins.git\u003c/a\u003e ~/.vim`","parent":"5604334","id":"5606780"}
{"by":"sftueni","time":"1351221498","timestamp":"2012-10-26 03:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the basic idea; but don't quite understand what the Google Connect is needed for... ?","parent":"4700647","id":"4700693"}
{"by":"OJFord","time":"1541929615","timestamp":"2018-11-11 09:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, sorry, I skipped over the \u0026#x27;human brain in...\u0026#x27; part of the post, and thought GP was responding to \u0026#x27;rat brains\u0026#x27;. Please ignore.","parent":"18425628","id":"18425637"}
{"by":"oceola","time":"1364915576","timestamp":"2013-04-02 15:12:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"my first job out of uni was in medium-size finance software consultancy @£35k, up to £37k in less than a year. Trying to live a family life on that wasn't fun (definitely possible, just not fun). Moved 80 miles south for a £34k salary, reduced hours \u0026#38; stress, no dry cleaner bills, much cheaper rent and 0 commuting costs (cycling). Don't miss London one bit :-) OTOH, I've not had a raise yet and can't see one coming any time soon.\u003cp\u003ep.s. all numbers are pre-bonus, but for junior devs they're near-negligible in both companies anyway.\u003cp\u003ep.p.s both jobs are enterprise java.","parent":"5479503","id":"5479742"}
{"by":"cirath","time":"1485980094","timestamp":"2017-02-01 20:14:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The linked Reuters article said their polls showed a 90% chance of a Clinton win, but the polls across all boards proved to be unreliable after the fact. What they did that advanced the idea of unbiased journalism is twofold:\u003cp\u003eFirst, they reported on early election numbers in North Carolina which directly contradicted their poll numbers and showed Trump performing better than predicted.\u003cp\u003eSecond, they outlined a clear and realistic path to Trump winning. While their own poll numbers did not support this fact, they ultimately included it. They also did not rule out a Trump win in any way.\u003cp\u003eIt is always important to note that a 90% chance of winning is in no way a guarantee, and I do not believe Reuters ever truly ruled out Trump as a contender. They used the only early data available, polls--and when every poll is wrong, and psychics are still not a real thing, they did what they could with the data they had. At least, in my reading of the article you linked.\u003cp\u003eRegarding the polls you linked, those are not the Reuters\u0026#x2F;Ipsos polls of 15,000 participants. Those are much smaller polls (850 users) with far larger margins for error.\u003cp\u003eWhile I cannot speak to the censoring of the 11\u0026#x2F;6 poll mentioned in the second tweet, having Trump leading in popular vote nationally (eg: what polls generally check) was ultimately incorrect, regardless of what you believe. Polls need to be carefully read, interpreted, and corrected for -- which is why fivethirtyeight gave Trump a much higher chance to win than any other body.","parent":"13544152","id":"13544630"}
{"by":"shawndrost","time":"1262655424","timestamp":"2010-01-05 01:37:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, go bring some students on the site.  Post on cl, whatever.  Right now, there are 8 workers waiting, and 1 buyer.\u003cp\u003eSuggestion: embed the lobby in the homepage.","parent":"1030741","id":"1031627"}
{"by":"cromwellian","time":"1527651665","timestamp":"2018-05-30 03:41:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many Tesla\u0026#x27;s are there? How many crash without autopilot, and how many crash with autopilot? How does this compare with other low-ownership rate cars in the same class?\u003cp\u003eSeems to me that it\u0026#x27;s premature to me making bold claims like this. Of cars costing over $100k, what\u0026#x27;s the accident rate?","parent":"17184870","id":"17184887"}
{"by":"wu-ikkyu","time":"1489641160","timestamp":"2017-03-16 05:12:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;Bombarding people with information that challenges their cherished beliefs — the usual strategy that people employ in attempts at persuasion - is more likely to engender defensive avoidance than receptive processing.\u003cp\u003e^The great fallacy of the stereotypical Facebook\u0026#x2F;television political flame war\u0026#x2F;shout fest. The result is almost always detrimental to both sides\u0026#x27; understanding of eachother.","parent":"13881887","id":"13882706"}
{"by":"neurotech1","time":"1405055657","timestamp":"2014-07-11 05:14:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Michelle Lee basically came to the USPTO straight from Google, and has a strong silicon valley background. This is much more so than most other senior officials from USPTO in DC area.","parent":"8018901","id":"8018968"}
{"by":"mtw","time":"1303912586","timestamp":"2011-04-27 13:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(cough) \u003ca href=\"http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/20/russia_s_crime_of_the_century\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/20/russia_s_cr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2489265","id":"2489471"}
{"by":"mcculley","time":"1455036036","timestamp":"2016-02-09 16:40:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, that exports the whole address book. LinkedIn formerly had a link on each contact page that allowed you to download the vCard for that person. This was handy when trying to ensure you have the latest information for a particular person. If I use the export page you pointed to, I\u0026#x27;d have to resolve conflicts for every entry at once.","parent":"11066274","id":"11066530"}
{"by":"tomgaga","time":"1526336598","timestamp":"2018-05-14 22:23:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t buy this. If the article explains it correctly, the argument is that they can show that in place where the climate was stable, and humans were new, the megafouna went extinct. But that implies that they believe that there were places on the planet were the climate was stable. If you look at the greenland Ice core data, you can see extreme peaks and falls around the last quarterly extinction. So sounds like BS to me.","parent":"17069641","id":"17069980"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1273643371","timestamp":"2010-05-12 05:49:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but there are plenty of people yet to get an Android phone. These people will probably end up with a newer model that has all of these bells and whistles. I'm not really sure that Android has reached a 'critical mass' yet. Sure it's starting to out-pace the iPhone, but it still has huge potential for growth in the market. That these improvements are coming now, means that it will only help Android to grow (as the new handsets will come with v2.2 and all of the improvements).\u003cp\u003eThat said, it would be nice if the carrier-branded Android handsets bothered to update more regularly...","parent":"1340262","id":"1340279"}
{"by":"Kalium","time":"1413761967","timestamp":"2014-10-19 23:39:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The iron box approach?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve never heard of anyone actually using it. It would be a huge pain and wreak havoc on sysadmins. Also, really nasty attacks are capable of bringing exploit code with them.","parent":"8479925","id":"8480016"}
{"by":"iambateman","time":"1343216354","timestamp":"2012-07-25 11:39:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't forget, it is fundamentally easier to coach someone than to act on advice. So the field for potential (good) coaches/mentors is relatively large.\u003cp\u003eThe famous/successful/rich all got very lucky at some point (in addition to hard work), so many of them might not be the most valuable mentors. Especially if you're not already connected.\u003cp\u003eAnd of course, reading good authors will do a world of good. Writers like Peter Drucker, Zig Ziglar, and Jim Collins can be fantastic teachers.\u003cp\u003eFinally, there is a cottage industry of \"pay me and I will give you advice.\" Which is sad faced panda to the max. Probably don't waste your time and money there.\u003cp\u003e:)","parent":"4290190","id":"4290384"}
{"by":"lvoudour","time":"1494626787","timestamp":"2017-05-12 22:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since mobile browsing is so prevalent, you would expect websites to be more optimised for mobile cpus\u0026#x2F;bandwidth and therefore very fast on ethernet connected desktops. But more and more I find sites that take so much time to load I feel I\u0026#x27;m back to dial-up days. This blog doesn\u0026#x27;t even have ads.\nIt\u0026#x27;s absurd considering the fact we can stream full HD content in several devices on the same connection","parent":"14328208","id":"14328300"}
{"by":"clmcleod","time":"1536004842","timestamp":"2018-09-03 20:00:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve had a few requests for details, so I\u0026#x27;ll post some of my responses here in the comments.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRe: common technologies\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e- ASE\u0026#x2F;SSE: Python is the main language used in these positions. We work in a variety of other languages (Java, C, C++, bash, Perl) as genomic tools are written in all these languages. We\u0026#x27;ve done some experimenting in Rust (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;stjude\u0026#x2F;fqlib\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;stjude\u0026#x2F;fqlib\u003c/a\u003e), and we\u0026#x27;re just getting started in seeing how Rust might fit into the genomics community.\u003cp\u003e- BPE: For this position, the ability to work in multiple middle-stack and front-end frameworks is necessary. NodeJS and React\u0026#x2F;Vue are likely to be the workhorses here.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRe: team\u0026#x2F;project culture\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe St. Jude Cloud team is a little bit like a start-up within St. Jude. All of the positions posted here are software engineering positions, but we all wear many hats on the team. Everyone participates in product design and user feedback gathering by meeting with doctors, bioinformaticians, and everyone in-between. We\u0026#x27;re very interested in doing quality software engineering in the genomics space (historically, biological discovery has taken priority IMO) and also in experimenting in new technologies\u0026#x2F;languages.\u003cp\u003eSharing genomics data and tools is hard. We\u0026#x27;re attempting to set the standard for how genomics data is shared in a federated data sharing model (many institutions build subsites that talk to one another) rather than the centralized model (one or two centralized databases that every institution submits data to). This results in an environment that\u0026#x27;s always presenting new challenges, which is great if you\u0026#x27;re into that! Anything that\u0026#x27;s worth doing can be stressful at times, but the fact that we are working on something that\u0026#x27;s altruistic (in general, advancing cures for kids with catastrophic diseases) is what keeps me motivated.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRe: working at St. Jude\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eLast, I\u0026#x27;ll just make a quick plug that St. Jude is a great place to work: we were recently voted the number one place to work for Gen Z: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nshss.org\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;30907\u0026#x2F;2018-all-companies_ranked.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nshss.org\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;30907\u0026#x2F;2018-all-companies_ranked....\u003c/a\u003e! We consistently make the top 30-ish companies in the world. Last, you\u0026#x27;re working on something that\u0026#x27;s truly making a difference, so it\u0026#x27;s a really positive environment.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRe: remote vs. on-site\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor these positions, we\u0026#x27;re considering both on-site and remote arrangements. I\u0026#x27;d like to say upfront that on-site has worked better than remote for us so far. My gut feeling is that this is due to the nature of the work we\u0026#x27;re doing (building a product where an end-user sits right next to you) and the fact that the rest of our team is on-site. Don\u0026#x27;t let that deter you from applying if you are remote only and are excited by this opportunity! Just be sure to specify in your cover letter.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRe: is biological\u0026#x2F;genomics experience required?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, although the willingness to learn genomics \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e required. We\u0026#x27;re looking to hire strong software engineers for these positions, we have plenty of domain expertise in-house!\u003cp\u003eFor anything more, email me!","parent":"17903557","id":"17904572"}
{"by":"mastazi","time":"1502829552","timestamp":"2017-08-15 20:39:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So the takeaway is: you should become extremely proficient at writing memos and back them up with vast amounts of research, or be fired. But all of the above applies only if your memo expresses conservative ideas. I don\u0026#x27;t consider myself a conservative but I find all of this disturbing.","parent":"15021427","id":"15022239"}
{"by":"gaspoweredcat","time":"1547207834","timestamp":"2019-01-11 11:57:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can sort of relate to this, im autistic and i have a habit of picking up an interest and becoming obsessed with it for a while, at one point it was psychoactive chemicals that became such an obsession, due to this i spent a good while researching and then personally testing out a staggering number of chemicals.\u003cp\u003eOne thing i did notice was that in almost all cases chemicals seemed to have a different effect on me than they did on others, not in a huge way but certainly enough to be notable. The only one to actually benefit me life wise was amphetamine which made a big difference to my life but i also have ADD which explains that\u003cp\u003ei think it would be quite interesting to see a comparative study of the effects of psychoactives on autistic people vs neurotypical (god i hate that word) people, obviously itll never happen but itd be interesting","parent":"18879739","id":"18882856"}
{"by":"IBM","time":"1403744831","timestamp":"2014-06-26 01:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seeing them swipe through the interface in the demos makes me think this is another pre-iPad time (where everyone knew it was coming and competitors rushed their products to market). If the only value-add is having a wearable notification viewer (plus some other features that are a subset of smartphones), it\u0026#x27;s not going to be successful.\u003cp\u003eIt just feels like anything Google had an existing service\u0026#x2F;product for, like Google Now, got juryrigged on to the wrist. Rather than actually figuring out the jobs-to-be-done that a wearable can uniquely solve.","parent":"7947518","id":"7947626"}
{"by":"mratzloff","time":"1348527629","timestamp":"2012-09-24 23:00:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They've been working on this for awhile.  I interviewed at Myspace about 3 years ago (mostly for the hell of it) and they were talking about the foundation for this interface.  Their back end, from what I could tell, was a mess: C#, Ruby, Java, PHP, some ColdFusion still around...\u003cp\u003eThese poor guys were working long hours.  There were hundreds of employees, but they couldn't turn Myspace into something that 5 talented guys could make in 6 months.  It was clear to me that there were a lot of politics lurking just beneath the surface.","parent":"4567052","id":"4567530"}
{"by":"NormaHHopson","time":"1381545397","timestamp":"2013-10-12 02:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"my friend\u0026#x27;s step-sister makes $84\u0026#x2F;hr on the computer. She has been laid off for nine months but last month her check was $21144 just working on the computer for a few hours. Continue Reading\n===================================================\u003ca href=\"http://www.Works23.Com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.Works23.Com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6536899","dead":true,"id":"6537019"}
{"by":"throwaway1979","time":"1377269733","timestamp":"2013-08-23 14:55:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The failed Yahoo! acquisition could be seen as a positive.","parent":"6263401","id":"6263964"}
{"by":"briandear","time":"1537333352","timestamp":"2018-09-19 05:02:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn’t it discriminatory to have an intent to discriminate based on gender? “We want more \u0026lt;gender\u0026gt; at our company.” Unless gender is a bonafide qualification, that should be illegal just as “we want to hire more white people.”","parent":"18021640","id":"18021801"}
{"by":"thisrod","time":"1528683034","timestamp":"2018-06-11 02:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The most intelligent Christians I know regard communism as a Christian heresy.  As a minimum, communists had sacred beliefs, which sounded more like those of a Western religion than an Eastern one.  The trumpet shall sound, and we shall be changed etc.","parent":"17271621","id":"17281240"}
{"by":"ellyagg","time":"1274974021","timestamp":"2010-05-27 15:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the sales figures are not bearing out your latter claim, nor are the reactions of my \"normal\" friends or family.","parent":"1383866","id":"1383902"}
{"by":"masterzora","time":"1304483748","timestamp":"2011-05-04 04:35:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree.  Personally, I would say no to the unrealistic version, wherein I have no escape clause, every time.  I simply value the negative what ifs too strongly negative for it to be a rational wager.  However, rationally speaking, the only way you can say no to the realistic version is if you're Catholic or otherwise have a strong (in your own mind) reason to be unwilling to commit suicide.  Or if you have some reason you want to be old and decrepit, I guess.","parent":"2512200","id":"2512799"}
{"by":"danielha","time":"1178258445","timestamp":"2007-05-04 06:00:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Recently replaced my XP desktop with a 13\" Macbook as my main machine. I'm eying the Mac Pro w/ a 30incher when the time is right...","parent":"19203","id":"19251"}
{"by":"lewstherin","time":"1326999963","timestamp":"2012-01-19 19:06:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"X-org -version on Kubuntu 11.10 says 1.10.4 and the bug seems to have been introduced in 1.11\u003cp\u003eSo yet to get the killer feature.","parent":"3485485","id":"3486056"}
{"by":"zamalek","time":"1382431486","timestamp":"2013-10-22 08:44:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You really need to make an effort to conform with established naming\u0026#x2F;casing conventions in each language [1]. For example, your example page should read [2] for .Net.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/Mashape/unirest-net/blob/master/unirest-net/unirest-net/src/http/Unirest.cs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Mashape\u0026#x2F;unirest-net\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;unirest-n...\u003c/a\u003e\n[2]: \u003ca href=\"https://gist.github.com/jcdickinson/4dd0125d7c5af9d4878f\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;jcdickinson\u0026#x2F;4dd0125d7c5af9d4878f\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6588802","id":"6590502"}
{"by":"morgante","time":"1476044207","timestamp":"2016-10-09 20:16:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; As a point of reference, even the Wikimedia Foundation had almost 300 staff and contractors as of 2015. This is admittedly a lot fewer than Twitter employs today.\u003cp\u003eExactly, that\u0026#x27;s actually a pretty good argument for why Twitter should downsize substantially.\u003cp\u003eIn no way does Twitter need more than 1,000 employees.","parent":"12672860","id":"12673205"}
{"by":"bazillion","time":"1372178472","timestamp":"2013-06-25 16:41:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With the CIA, FBI, and other organizations I\u0026#x27;ve worked for, you\u0026#x27;d probably be right.  The NSA is the only meritocracy that I\u0026#x27;ve encountered in government work, although I only have a total of 10 years of experience so I haven\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;seen it all\u0026quot; per se.\u003cp\u003eWhen you work for the NSA, you can take a managerial route or a technical route for promotion.  This means that you can achieve the highest rank (GS\u0026#x2F;GG-15) being either a manager or just being good at your job.\u003cp\u003eI once wrote a report which countered reports that other people had written, resulting in some angry phone calls demanding me to redact my correct report so as to not make them look bad.  I responded with a no to all of them, and when circumstances proved the validity of my analysis, I was rewarded for standing my ground and not punished.\u003cp\u003eAll in all, the people working there on the whole cared about doing what is right, is what I found.  In that light, NSA stood in stark contrast to the FBI culture of major bureaucracy and lazy\u0026#x2F;inefficient practices.\u003cp\u003eAs an example of the culture, I learned to program at NSA because when I said I was interested they said, \u0026quot;Here\u0026#x27;s a book and some servers.\u0026quot;.","parent":"5940584","id":"5940680"}
{"by":"codewright","time":"1367203766","timestamp":"2013-04-29 02:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not as good as Python yet but rapidly getting better.\u003cp\u003eThere's an excellent SQL abstraction library (Korma), Ring makes for a nice WSGI equivalent, Compojure and Clabango combined give you a Flask'ish experience, and there are a goodly number of Forms and validation libraries.\u003cp\u003eSome like to use CLJS on the frontend. There are libraries out there for making that nice.\u003cp\u003eI usually use vanilla jQuery or Angular on the frontend, no CLJS.\u003cp\u003eYou need get more specific with your queries, I'm not going to write a novel at the merest hint.","parent":"5623586","id":"5623817"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1380895143","timestamp":"2013-10-04 13:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think aragot was using \u0026#x27;you\u0026#x27; to mean \u0026#x27;the user\u0026#x27;. While you may be motivated to find uncrippled versions of the content, you can rest assured that the vast majority of users will not, and will just switch browser.","parent":"6494493","id":"6495371"}
{"by":"nyrulez","time":"1416628356","timestamp":"2014-11-22 03:52:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This argument would have merit if we were anywhere near biological intelligence in our \u0026quot;AI\u0026quot;. We don\u0026#x27;t even understand how most of the brain works, what it does or how it does it. In fact if it was so simple even to re-create some aspect of the brain, we would have created the super-brain with the amount of resources we have at our disposal and time we have spent in the field of AI. It is like saying calculus is unnecessarily complex because all I can do is simple arithmetic.","parent":"8644650","id":"8644669"}
{"by":"spindritf","time":"1378846350","timestamp":"2013-09-10 20:52:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Then I can allocate addresses out of the \u0026#x2F;64 to my own instances.\u003cp\u003eI think that would call for a \u0026#x2F;48† if you\u0026#x27;re going to split it farther. Handing out \u0026#x2F;64 per server regardless of how many servers a client has seems just easier to me.\u003cp\u003eOne thing they could do due to virtually unlimited number of addresses is to let you keep them (instead of reusing for other customers) even if the servers are offline. You could create servers with IPs known in advance that way.\u003cp\u003eWhich actually makes it even more convenient to reserve \u0026#x2F;48† per customer and then carve out \u0026#x2F;64 per server. So maybe that\u0026#x27;s a better route.\u003cp\u003e† or \u0026#x2F;56 but I don\u0026#x27;t know if the savings are worth the potential hassle.","parent":"6362601","id":"6363410"}
{"by":"rwc","time":"1434744680","timestamp":"2015-06-19 20:11:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Suspect they used Photoshop Content Aware Fill. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.photoshopessentials.com\u0026#x2F;photo-editing\u0026#x2F;content-aware-fill-cs5\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.photoshopessentials.com\u0026#x2F;photo-editing\u0026#x2F;content-awa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9747301","id":"9747331"}
{"by":"Rayne","time":"1274269804","timestamp":"2010-05-19 11:50:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a problem with Chris Done (tryhaskell.org)'s jquery-console. I believe he's still working on proper history.","parent":"1360047","id":"1360711"}
{"by":"Yetanfou","time":"1398437366","timestamp":"2014-04-25 14:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it is the bullying which does the harm, rather the opposite: those who bully do it because they are insecure in their own person. They bully because they want to make themselves stronger by making others weaker. In other words, those who bully are already damaged, they bully as a consequence of this damage. Obviously your bully was damaged enough to blow his head off.","parent":"7646506","id":"7646819"}
{"by":"walshemj","time":"1529015264","timestamp":"2018-06-14 22:27:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ah I was thinking about the older gen ones which are more upgradeable","parent":"17315570","id":"17315979"}
{"by":"apotheon","time":"1252263841","timestamp":"2009-09-06 19:04:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he was talking about a \"rule\" of dominant ethics or morality, and not the law, with that question.","parent":"807158","id":"808035"}
{"by":"nokya","time":"1542540958","timestamp":"2018-11-18 11:35:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with you but the way you express this is still too distant from each individual\u0026#x27;s experience for the audience to actually understand it. I tried above in another comment but I suspect I will get the same answers that you received...","parent":"18479629","id":"18479885"}
{"by":"ptaipale","time":"1471543402","timestamp":"2016-08-18 18:03:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In -20C, I prefer biking to buses. (I live in Helsinki region).\u003cp\u003eYou generate some heat when you ride, while when waiting for a bus...","parent":"12313153","id":"12314900"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1542811038","timestamp":"2018-11-21 14:37:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if there\u0026#x27;s a bit of the \u0026quot;end of Moore\u0026#x27;s law\u0026quot; in play as well.   There appears to be a slump not just in iPhones, but in all smart phones: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techcrunch.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;gartner-reports-first-ever-global-decline-in-smartphone-sales\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techcrunch.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;gartner-reports-first-ever...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasically, the delta in speed and functionality gains for new models isn\u0026#x27;t what it used to be, so people hang onto old phones longer.   Personally, I buy ~$150 androids because I tend to drop them, and a $1k phone would be a bad idea for me.\u003cp\u003eThe end of \u0026quot;phone subsidies\u0026quot; probably also plays into this.","parent":"18502753","id":"18502934"}
{"by":"vhakulinen","time":"1515923201","timestamp":"2018-01-14 09:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Writing GUI with rust is totally possible: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gtk-rs.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gtk-rs.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16143451","id":"16143518"}
{"by":"insin","time":"1444243537","timestamp":"2015-10-07 18:45:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Is it reasonable to consider react when you just want to add some interactions and dynamism to a page that was rendered server side?\u003cp\u003eNot if you want to reuse the server-generated markup. You can use it for little pieces in an otherwise static page, but it needs to own rendering of those pieces.","parent":"10348026","id":"10348057"}
{"by":"sitkack","time":"1400159192","timestamp":"2014-05-15 13:06:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Calculus can be taught to anyone independent of age. It is not a unit of difficulty.\u003cp\u003eI think people are railing at teaching math to children because they themselves suck at math.  Your inability to grasp subject matter is not proof that something is wrong or too hard.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://commonsensequantum.blogspot.com/2010/11/geometric-representations-of-higher.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;commonsensequantum.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;geometric-rep...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7748506","id":"7749149"}
{"by":"finnw","time":"1372936766","timestamp":"2013-07-04 11:19:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t imagine many developers see hash(secret||data) as a \u003ci\u003ereplacement\u003c/i\u003e from HMAC.  I made that mistake once, but I had not yet heard of HMAC at the time.","parent":"5989576","id":"5990107"}
{"by":"pard68","time":"1542477111","timestamp":"2018-11-17 17:51:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Love the \u0026quot;hacker\u0026#x27;s\u0026quot; moral stance and then three lines later they are offering the data to the highest bidder. This sounds to me like an angry kid got hired by the competition.","parent":"18475014","id":"18476525"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1290337252","timestamp":"2010-11-21 11:00:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there were no facts in dispute, and so all that we needed was for someone to say what the law says the outcome is given the set of facts, then a judge would be all you would need. Heck, you could skip the judge and just have law students handle it.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that usually there are facts in dispute. Someone has to listen to witnesses telling conflicting stories, and decide which are telling the truth and which are not. That's what the jury is for.","parent":"1926013","id":"1926872"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1363703219","timestamp":"2013-03-19 14:26:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Often that means that the university claims rights in the IP produced, certainly [way back] when I matriculated it was required of all students to sign a waiver giving rights to the Uni for any works created whilst being a student. The first I heard about it was at the matriculation table when I'd already gone up. Perhaps this sort of thing doesn't happen elsewhere or as been deemed inappropriate.","parent":"5400616","id":"5401044"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1375232692","timestamp":"2013-07-31 01:04:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eTypical NCA (Non-Coding Architect) stuff.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI assure you that devices of this sort require a great deal of code: \u003ca href=\"http://cachepe.zzounds.com/media/quality,85/Ion_front-c20cdb1d4927b9558ac8b98e147823a3.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cachepe.zzounds.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;quality,85\u0026#x2F;Ion_front-c20cdb...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6130971","id":"6131206"}
{"by":"SnowingXIV","time":"1542031619","timestamp":"2018-11-12 14:06:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is rad. It\u0026#x27;s an early monday morning and I\u0026#x27;m listening to what would be late night wave anime radio in Japan. Really cool idea and solid execution.","parent":"18427701","id":"18432636"}
{"by":"jxub","time":"1526845966","timestamp":"2018-05-20 19:52:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this should be a submission, not an Ask HN.","parent":"17112753","id":"17114457"}
{"by":"feistypharit","time":"1511126767","timestamp":"2017-11-19 21:26:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Herman Miller Embody, mainly for the extra adjustability and tall back.  Only complaint is I like to sit with one leg crossed under the other, and the chair seat isn\u0026#x27;t padded.  It\u0026#x27;s mesh instead, so it pokes into the lower leg after awhile.","parent":"15733672","id":"15736018"}
{"by":"gbear605","time":"1547470081","timestamp":"2019-01-14 12:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An undo button would definitely help, especially if it is able to undo multiple times.\u003cp\u003eThanks for the fast help! I really appreciate it, and it will make me even more likely to keep on using Feeder in the future","parent":"18901823","id":"18902562"}
{"by":"throwawaygeu","time":"1443774765","timestamp":"2015-10-02 08:32:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Picture caption:\n\u0026quot;Ahh, white people.\u0026quot;\nYeah...\u003cp\u003eOn topic- Today we want to ban app that allows you to say something about someone, tomorow we will censor every comment! It\u0026#x27;s like reversal of china: instead of \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t speak about gov.\u0026quot; it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;don\u0026quot;t speak aboit me!\u0026quot;. It is sad how oversensitive and afraid of their own shadow people have became. Good thing it\u0026#x27;s not all people that are like that. Only specific group. Same gruop that likes to criticize and even dox people they do not agree with...","parent":"10316418","id":"10317350"}
{"by":"wutbrodo","time":"1363482743","timestamp":"2013-03-17 01:12:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When people say RSS is dead they're not saying its use case has been 100% effectively covered by another product/protocol.  What they're saying is that people are using Facebook/Twitter/G+ etc as a replacement in the most basic sense:  a feed of content that they can read.  Whether you or I think that this is an adequate replacement for RSS is irrelevant because the assertion being made is that enough people think it is a good-enough replacement.","parent":"5384571","id":"5387517"}
{"by":"lell","time":"1477734176","timestamp":"2016-10-29 09:42:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The pledge:\u003cp\u003eWhat is the Community Commitment?\nYou commit to treat everyone—regardless of race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age—with respect, and without judgement or bias.\u003cp\u003eAlso, they\u0026#x27;re serious about it:\u003cp\u003eIf you decline the commitment, you won’t be able to host or book using Airbnb, and you have the option to cancel your account. Once your account is cancelled, future booked trips will be cancelled. You will still be able to browse Airbnb but you won’t be able to book any reservations or host any guests.","parent":"12823309","id":"12823316"}
{"by":"curiousgeorgio","time":"1504894252","timestamp":"2017-09-08 18:10:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And how exactly are these so-called \u0026quot;near-monopolies\u0026quot; hurting consumers? Last I checked, nobody is forced to use Google for search, and people have a choice between buying Intel or AMD processors.\u003cp\u003eJust because a company makes better products than other companies, that doesn\u0026#x27;t make it abusive or detrimental to society (in fact, quite the opposite is true). If Intel\u0026#x27;s prices were unreasonable, no one would buy their processors and the next best alternative (AMD or otherwise) would steal their market share. Same with Google and Microsoft.","parent":"15201933","id":"15202601"}
{"by":"potomak","time":"1372867621","timestamp":"2013-07-03 16:07:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Best comment: \u0026quot;MICHAEL IS A LAZY BASTARD AND DOES NOT WANT TO REFACTOR\u0026quot; [1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/Continuities/adarkroom/blob/master/script/engine.js#L3\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Continuities\u0026#x2F;adarkroom\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;script...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5985138","id":"5985457"}
{"by":"jackowayed","time":"1278729564","timestamp":"2010-07-10 02:39:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's no reason they have to use the same DB for everything; you use what's right for the task.\u003cp\u003eLook at GitHub: they're running MySQL (or maybe PostgreSQL), Redis, and MongoDB.\u003cp\u003eFacebook uses MySQL for most stuff, but also uses Hive and Casandra.","parent":"1502887","dead":true,"id":"1502907"}
{"by":"SparklingCotton","time":"1397475220","timestamp":"2014-04-14 11:33:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C and AsmJS are just as open to side channel attacks.  AsmJS is safe, C is unsafe.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d take javascript over C any day.","parent":"7584907","id":"7585558"}
{"by":"johansch","time":"1481602055","timestamp":"2016-12-13 04:07:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is exactly what I ended up using (to create a second \u0026quot;payment method\u0026quot; with limited funds so that I could delete the real one).\u003cp\u003eBut still, this is not something that I expect to have to stoop to when dealing with an Internet company valued at ~$68B.\u003cp\u003eBtw: This is what you get when you try to delete the first (and last) valid payment method:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;Y4PEOS4.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;Y4PEOS4.png\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13164340","id":"13164353"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1502997277","timestamp":"2017-08-17 19:14:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it amazing, but maybe I was just lucky. I bought a cheap plastic HP ultrabook a decade ago and it survived four years of being carried every day on a backpack on the bus and being taken to camping vacations. Sure, it had scratches aplenty, and a couple of broken spots on the outer rim, but it worked fine.","parent":"15039226","id":"15039908"}
{"by":"veidr","time":"1421547077","timestamp":"2015-01-18 02:11:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, do you have a link for that? I think this is a fascinating story in and of itself, but one of the tangential things that also interests me about it is that nobody I know in Japan (where I live) has ever even heard of this story.","parent":"8906333","id":"8906352"}
{"by":"bjoernw","time":"1333861155","timestamp":"2012-04-08 04:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you know so much about federal and municipal taxes? HN is made up of people with such diverse backgrounds, I'm curious.","parent":"3812940","id":"3813121"}
{"by":"ljlolel","time":"1244145079","timestamp":"2009-06-04 19:51:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand, so you posted on all 3?  Have you ever sold a domain before?  How?","parent":"642061","id":"642072"}
{"by":"mwerty","time":"1198184722","timestamp":"2007-12-20 21:05:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"b. and c. are not an option for everyone.\nTheir risk profile may be different than what you think it to be.","parent":"91440","id":"91567"}
{"by":"mathattack","time":"1374241583","timestamp":"2013-07-19 13:46:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One could say that 22-44% is actually a much higher pass rate than most MOOCs, and this was a success.  It\u0026#x27;s just that the school is stuck in an old way of thinking.  What\u0026#x27;s wrong with using on-line courses to see where people stand out?  Perhaps let them avoid Fs on their report card if they drop out soon enough.  (This is true for many normal classes too)  Designed right, the feedback mechanisms should empower the middle tier students too.","parent":"6068043","id":"6070066"}
{"by":"voltagex_","time":"1344210458","timestamp":"2012-08-05 23:47:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The brilliant thing about bsnes (the \"crazy\" emulator you're referring to) is that the author has worked with researchers to reverse-engineer all of the secondary chips that SNES carts used - even an ARM3 chip.","parent":"4342707","id":"4343064"}
{"by":"rubinelli","time":"1369507765","timestamp":"2013-05-25 18:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Power may be a necessary evil, but it's still evil. It robs you of empathy, because putting yourself in the shoes of every person affected by your decisions is just too emotionally taxing. And lack of empathy is the root of all evil.","parent":"5767924","id":"5768309"}
{"by":"pbtflakes","time":"1487688265","timestamp":"2017-02-21 14:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This being distinct from that by being entirely undocumented, instead of burying the data limitations somewhere deep in the contract.","parent":"13695780","id":"13695818"}
{"by":"shouldbworking","time":"1492880948","timestamp":"2017-04-22 17:09:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They both use epoll underneath. Netty will likely perform better because it has a robust thread pool implementation.","parent":"14173321","id":"14173485"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1487692467","timestamp":"2017-02-21 15:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hidden only until the machine learns their pattern.","parent":"13694678","id":"13696362"}
{"by":"bgrins","time":"1410217828","timestamp":"2014-09-08 23:10:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; you now need to right click in the console and tick \u0026quot;Log request and response bodies\u0026quot; every single time\u003cp\u003eYes, seems like there could be a pref for that.  Filed a bug: \u003ca href=\"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064458\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1064458\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"8286175","id":"8287828"}
{"by":"ryguytilidie","time":"1398350179","timestamp":"2014-04-24 14:36:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The volunteering line really reminds me of the post from the github founder\u0026#x27;s wife.\u003cp\u003eIn both cases, a founder essentially guilted someone into spending extra, unpaid time working on a \u0026quot;world changing\u0026quot; (read: not at all world changing) new startup idea where they would retain all ownership while the people working for them were expected to \u0026quot;volunteer\u0026quot;. How do founders get so sociopathic that they do stuff like this?","parent":"7639180","id":"7640496"}
{"by":"gkya","time":"1472463185","timestamp":"2016-08-29 09:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2,3: Or just use make and use OS package managers.  Don\u0026#x27;t make the users learn yet another tool.\u003cp\u003eThe niche of C is Unix, which is here to stay.  C is a part of Unix, it\u0026#x27;s interfaces are defined in terms of C, and plethora of libraries written in it.  If a random library X is impemented in C, it is easily usable in many languages via FFIs.  Programs written in C are easily portable to most popular platforms, and C knowledge is transferable from supercomputers to tiny embedded devices.  C translates nicely to assembly, and it maps easily to mechanics of computing.  These are the areas where languages like Zig need to penetrate.","parent":"12379959","id":"12380886"}
{"by":"midwest1","time":"1450358812","timestamp":"2015-12-17 13:26:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also quite easy to verify for yourself by visiting the web of science search.  Then one can be assured it isn\u0026#x27;t a devious lie from the Koch brothers. ;)\u003cp\u003eI would be interested to know why Duarte feels the correct number is 80, and which IPCC model, if any of them, that consensus includes.  I\u0026#x27;m going to have to catch up on his blog.","parent":"10750270","id":"10751305"}
{"by":"tomku","time":"1331049466","timestamp":"2012-03-06 15:57:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your link should probably be to:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee/status/160414269173800960\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee/status/160414269173800...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mobile link brings up a signup page for some reason.","parent":"3671525","id":"3671540"}
{"by":"gte910h","time":"1337711522","timestamp":"2012-05-22 18:32:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first Diablo was a mostly single player game with added multiplayer content. The second was either way you wanted to play it and definitely shined more in Multi than Single player play.\u003cp\u003eThe third takes \u003ci\u003eall the good lessons\u003c/i\u003e Blizzard has learned from WoW and SC2, and made a hypersocial experience that's tons of fun to play with people.\u003cp\u003eBorderlands is an interesting game to bring up: I've tried continually to play the game. It's a bit lacking by yourself, but with friends it's great. However the slightest internet blip loses progress in the game for whomever has it due to the player-hosted nature of the game. If the host loses internet for a small window, then everyone loses progress. Lag is horrendous as well on that game depending on who you play with.\u003cp\u003ePlayed entirely LAN based, BL was a lot of fun...but as soon as we lost about 40 minutes of playtime from a small interruption, we just stopped playing it.\u003cp\u003eI get you want your D1 experience back, but the D3 experience, as designed, is fantastic. Go play Kingdom's of Amantur or something like that if you want a great solo 1 player game. There are TONS out there in that genre. No one does phenomenal multiplayer like Blizzard does. There are tons of companies that do great single player. I'm very happy they committed heavily to multiplayer for this game.","parent":"4008945","id":"4009148"}
{"by":"Illniyar","time":"1458760302","timestamp":"2016-03-23 19:11:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I must say that\u0026#x27;s really the most transparent way to handle a downtime I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen.\u003cp\u003eI would be scared shitless to expose for all to see what really happened and what is happening, even more so when it\u0026#x27;s makes them look like they don\u0026#x27;t know what they are doing.\u003cp\u003eI must applaud them for that, I wish if I ever get into such a nasty situation, I\u0026#x27;ll be able to do what they did.","parent":"11342968","id":"11347338"}
{"by":"Raphael_Amiard","time":"1280150391","timestamp":"2010-07-26 13:19:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Function pointers are very far from sufficient because you can't define new functions at runtime, since you can't nest functions or define anonymous ones. That means your functions are not first class citizen of your language and some common functional programming techniques are impossible to use in a clear way.\u003cp\u003eYou can't do that for example :\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    def make_adder(num_1):\n        def adder(num_2):\n            return num_1 + num 2\n        return adder\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"1547882","id":"1547922"}
{"by":"d8niel","time":"1307040128","timestamp":"2011-06-02 18:42:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is amazing!","parent":"2612825","id":"2613321"}
{"by":"gms7777","time":"1524216373","timestamp":"2018-04-20 09:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is fine as long as it\u0026#x27;s a bottle problem -- something for the interview that is not of benefit to the business. If a company is asking you to do unpaid work on their existing database without paying you, it\u0026#x27;s unethical.\u003cp\u003eI think in general asking you to do a coding assignment in the office is better than asking you to do homework because there is a cost (in terms of time invested) to the company. For homework, a company can ask dozens of applicants to invest hours of their time at minimum cost to the company, even when some of bthose applicants had no chance to begin with. Here, they\u0026#x27;re forced to be choosier.","parent":"16877690","id":"16883375"}
{"by":"RockyMcNuts","time":"1376868531","timestamp":"2013-08-18 23:28:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"well, if you think this is bad, don\u0026#x27;t turn on CNBC, or Fox.","parent":"6233827","id":"6234730"}
{"by":"steverb","time":"1402516820","timestamp":"2014-06-11 20:00:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article had a lot of good points that were over-shadowed by the bitter tone the author chose to use. It\u0026#x27;s a shame really.","parent":"7879244","id":"7880106"}
{"by":"nickpyett","time":"1383162061","timestamp":"2013-10-30 19:41:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not putting any responsibility on Google\u0026#x27;s CEO that he didn\u0026#x27;t ask for when he became CEO - he is ultimately responsible for the company\u0026#x27;s actions. Leaving that amount of user data open to attack is unforgivable, regardless of who is \u0026quot;behind this\u0026quot; or how much he knew.\u003cp\u003eSecondly, the alleged attack, however it happened, is not the reason he should step down. Larry Page stepping down is going to be really bad for Google, he is one of the finest entrepreneurs of our time, and a great technologist.\u003cp\u003eHe should do it to send a message.\u003cp\u003eWill their ever be more evidence about what actually happened? Probably not, but a resignation by one of the most powerful CEOs in the world will get some serious attention in the wider debate on privacy.\u003cp\u003eBut like I said, the share price probably comes first...","parent":"6642341","id":"6642785"}
{"by":"downandout","time":"1325531896","timestamp":"2012-01-02 19:18:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd much rather be offered products and services that are relevant to whatever I happened to be looking for at the time, than someone begging me for change indiscriminately.  As to your point about clicking the X, you'd be amazed at the number of computer novices that don't understand that.","parent":"3416917","id":"3416950"}
{"by":"lotharbot","time":"1339138675","timestamp":"2012-06-08 06:57:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003e\"that's still not sufficient for what one would call an awesome life.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor what \u003ci\u003ewho\u003c/i\u003e would call an awesome life?\u003cp\u003eI stay at home with my family.  We get up when we want to get up.  My wife does contract work, enough to pay the bills and put a bit away at considerably less than full time, and she does it from the next room.  My son has \u003ci\u003eme\u003c/i\u003e as a dedicated full-time caretaker and educator.  We don't go to Europe, but we can go to the park, grandma's house, or the mountains whenever we feel like it.\u003cp\u003eThe concept of life is to live, and you need money to live, but how much money depends on what you want to do with your life.  It depends on what \"do what you love\" leads you to, whether you need a high income to sustain what you love or whether you live for peanuts (and whether you can earn those peanuts doing something else you love.)  You can take your Ferrari on the Autobahn; I'll be out playing in the dirt with my kid.","parent":"4082735","id":"4083091"}
{"by":"scottfits","time":"1448301659","timestamp":"2015-11-23 18:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most the benefit of IP law goes to media and consumer products as opposed to software anyway. Our industry is much less protected, and perhaps that\u0026#x27;s one reason there\u0026#x27;s been so much more innovation in tech. Imagine the concept of \u0026quot;open source\u0026quot; applied to other industries, it almost seems ridiculous.","parent":"10610616","id":"10616018"}
{"by":"rco8786","time":"1447611539","timestamp":"2015-11-15 18:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm. Does that mean anyone who makes a spreadsheet is a developer?  What about photoshop users?","parent":"10570432","id":"10570445"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1473986709","timestamp":"2016-09-16 00:45:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They get one at a young age at and are unaware of it for various reasons.\u003cp\u003eRemember that there are 320M US citizens with all sorts of improbable stories. You have people born abroad, native americans on isolated reservations, people born at home or with irregular birth certificates, people with scummy parents committing fraud in their child\u0026#x27;s name, etc.\u003cp\u003eWhen New York implemented facial recognition on IDs, over 100 people were arrested for having multiple driver\u0026#x27;s licenses. Stuff happens!","parent":"12510678","id":"12511142"}
{"by":"628C6l0","time":"1521675780","timestamp":"2018-03-21 23:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; (When my parents’ ragged copy of the 1964 edition succumbed to water damage a few years ago, my mother delivered the news as if a relative had died.)\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m willing to bet my life that the author has taken liberties with this \u0026quot;delivered the news as if a relative had died\u0026quot; part. I bet if there still exist actual record (say an email) of the delivery that it would be something he wouldn\u0026#x27;t want us to see. It\u0026#x27;s a small lie, sure, but it\u0026#x27;s so unpleasant. In an article whose supposed topic is honesty no less.","parent":"16640166","id":"16643582"}
{"by":"pheelicks","time":"1322334439","timestamp":"2011-11-26 19:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As already pointed out, one is a framework (RoR), while the other is a language. \nAs you talk of learning a programming language, I'm guessing you meant, should I choose Ruby or Python?\u003cp\u003eTo pick between I would suggest you try and write a couple of simple scripts in both and see which suits you better.\u003cp\u003eYou should also think what you would like to use this knowledge for in the future. Do you want to build web apps, manipulate text, write desktop apps? Once you know this, it'll be easier to make the right choice about which tech to use.","parent":"3280373","id":"3280437"}
{"by":"gurkendoktor","time":"1498862448","timestamp":"2017-06-30 22:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Avoiding dangling pointers requires a bit of discipline in pre-ARC Objective-C and C++, but now that we have ARC, isn\u0026#x27;t ObjC pretty much as safe as Swift? (Unless you explicitly use \u0026quot;assign\u0026quot; properties, of course.)","parent":"14673586","id":"14673985"}
{"by":"mannykannot","time":"1484280926","timestamp":"2017-01-13 04:15:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My understanding is that Everett claims that Chomsky claims that not only do humans have the capacity to use recursion but that it is an essential feature of all our languages and for us to have languages (whether this is an accurate representation of Chomsky\u0026#x27;s views, I do not know; Pinker has stated that Chomsky is hard to pin down.) Everett further states that only Piraha children who have learned a recursive language as their first language are able to speak it recursively; adults, it seems, may learn another vocabulary, but will not use it recursively. Therefore, according to Everett, we have a human population (those who have not learned another language in childhood) with a functioning language, who display no capacity for recursion, even when exposed to it.\u003cp\u003eThis seems to me to leave a sliver of hope for what is alleged to be Chomsky\u0026#x27;s theory, but I would prefer to see more data than more argument over the current data.","parent":"13387712","id":"13388351"}
{"by":"pekr","time":"1490677873","timestamp":"2017-03-28 05:11:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can\u0026#x27;t be that easy, or can it? :-)","parent":"13972291","id":"13974260"}
{"by":"magadem","time":"1539796034","timestamp":"2018-10-17 17:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gates is a hack, and so is anyone else more concerned about the carbon cycle than these things:\u003cp\u003eSulfur Hexaflouride\nAh Nitrogen\nPlastics in the ocean\u003cp\u003eWhy are these things more directly important?\u003cp\u003eSulfur Hexaflouride has no known stochiometic pathways.\u003cp\u003eRampant one-way nitrogen conversion from noble to reactive species is killing the ocean literally, and to sustain ourselves, with or without meat; we continue to produce more every year for ag purposes.\u003cp\u003ePlastic use is so widespread and so bad the fish in your cabinet right now probably has plastic in it","parent":"18238862","dead":true,"id":"18241108"}
{"by":"dmix","time":"1348263787","timestamp":"2012-09-21 21:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The scarcity of iPhones at launch is a fabrication. The primal human instinct to be lured by scarcity even trumps rational minds.","parent":"4555693","id":"4556008"}
{"by":"GavinB","time":"1287672918","timestamp":"2010-10-21 14:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Image that there are several different ways to meet these energy requirements, and mitochondria just happened to occur first. Mitochondrial life was first and so it had a chance to evolve and optimized itself. Any new systems that arose through random mutation would not have had a chance to evolve into a high-efficiency configuration and would not be able to compete.\u003cp\u003eOther potential systems may exist and simply never got the foothold necessary to evolve into an efficient competitor. I would guess that it's quite likely we're at a local maximum, not the single and only possible way to organize cellular life.","parent":"1815064","id":"1815652"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1485889388","timestamp":"2017-01-31 19:03:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The UK startup \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mysociety.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mysociety.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e is very active in this space.\u003cp\u003ee.g. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theyworkforyou.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theyworkforyou.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e (Hansard prettified), \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.writetothem.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.writetothem.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e (case study at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mysociety.org\u0026#x2F;democracy\u0026#x2F;writetothem\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mysociety.org\u0026#x2F;democracy\u0026#x2F;writetothem\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e )","parent":"13533724","id":"13534002"}
{"by":"baldeagle","time":"1450194496","timestamp":"2015-12-15 15:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the purpose of the down jumps is to move you away from a local maxima.  For example, if you were wanting to climb [any large mountain] and could only gain elevation, then you would fairly easily get stuck in the stairwell of the hotel in the valley.","parent":"10738317","id":"10738413"}
{"by":"lowboy","time":"1393749152","timestamp":"2014-03-02 08:32:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mixing metadata in with data isn\u0026#x27;t ideal.","parent":"7328209","id":"7328299"}
{"by":"velodrome","time":"1476769160","timestamp":"2016-10-18 05:39:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ellen_Pao#Exit_from_Reddit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ellen_Pao#Exit_from_Reddit\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12732092","id":"12732377"}
{"by":"distracted828","time":"1456329191","timestamp":"2016-02-24 15:53:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but at a certain point, you need to learn a method to writing a maintainable codebase. Otherwise you never become capable of building a successful project.","parent":"11167216","id":"11167617"}
{"by":"crystalmeph","time":"1442588872","timestamp":"2015-09-18 15:07:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not just mobile apps, it\u0026#x27;s everything.  I write demo software and libraries to control sensors that are used in everything from university lab benchtop research to heavy automation.  You can never trust that the user reads a word of the manual (well the heavy automation guys probably do, because there\u0026#x27;s real danger involved), so I do my best to make it so in the demo software, there\u0026#x27;s one button you need to press to start communicating with the sensor, and very clear options from there to change the sample rate, save data to a file, etc.\u003cp\u003eIn the APIs we provide for them to do their own programming, ideally they only have to declare a new instance of a single object, with the necessary configuration data passed in as explicit arguments to the constructors, and all the communication methods are immediately accessible from that class\u0026#x27; API.  There\u0026#x27;s not a lot of extra new classes to hold configuration data, etc., because then the user doesn\u0026#x27;t know which fields are necessary to set in those objects.  Sometimes that means you get more parameters than you might like in a constructor, but it makes it a lot easier for the user because they know exactly what you require from them.","parent":"10239341","id":"10239604"}
{"by":"rahilsondhi","time":"1506957381","timestamp":"2017-10-02 15:16:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PopSQL co-founder here. Regarding the greyed out chart, we rely on your results being in a specific format to render a chart. Check out this help article for more details on that: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;intercom.help\u0026#x2F;popsql\u0026#x2F;how-to-create-charts\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;intercom.help\u0026#x2F;popsql\u0026#x2F;how-to-create-charts\u003c/a\u003e. We have plans for advanced charting, query parameterization, and dashboarding!","parent":"15383656","id":"15384417"}
{"by":"theophrastus","time":"1432306894","timestamp":"2015-05-22 15:01:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s the recent one that has us all with a worried frown:\n   \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.korelogic.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;24#ssds-evidence-storage-issues\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.korelogic.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;24#ssds-evidence-sto...\u003c/a\u003e\n   \u0026quot;... A stored SSD, without power, can start to lose data in as little as a single week on the shelf. ...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe key, it seems, is temperature change.","parent":"9588353","id":"9588698"}
{"by":"intended","time":"1492246697","timestamp":"2017-04-15 08:58:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is India man. The achievement of the EC is so phenomenal, that it\u0026#x27;s respect will endure. And the issues with the EC, from what I remember, were manufactured. Optics to deal with a strong EC. And I\u0026#x27;ve been through the dacoit, booth capturing end of Indian history, it\u0026#x27;s genuinely an accomplishment, its nuts that it even worked (works) at the time it began to work.\u003cp\u003eEdit: similarly with the SC. Both of these were institutions which were beyond reproach, and I pretty clearly remember the times they both got dragged into the political limelight. The issues were largely to deal with their growing power over the political class. And this is something which you\u0026#x27;ll see had support on all sides of the political aisle.","parent":"14113604","id":"14119993"}
{"by":"thelasthuman","time":"1540320363","timestamp":"2018-10-23 18:46:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go out on your own and the a mountain man in some remote place and live on cheap land. Then you can take your health, security and happiness into your own hands.\u003cp\u003eIt will be much harder for people to extract wealth from your investments if you have none. It will be much harder for the government to tax you since you have very few things to tax.\u003cp\u003eI know it takes capital to start but that is the world we live in. Everyone has already claimed everything. The system is world wide and looking to expand to Mars and space. (unless you move to Alaska, I think they still give free land away)","parent":"18278969","id":"18286220"}
{"by":"davewicket","time":"1330116758","timestamp":"2012-02-24 20:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"breaking.","parent":"3630860","id":"3630957"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1378744636","timestamp":"2013-09-09 16:37:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason I\u0026#x27;m excited by this is that it makes it much easier to have small adapter tables that allow a table whose definition has changed slightly over time to support older code (that might be using column names, for example, that no longer make any sense); even if you only then use these adapters for a few minutes, it lets you, in a safe manner, make these kinds of modifications (by, in a transaction, renaming the old table and replacing it with a view; you can then modify the real table under a transaction, update your code to point to the new table, and then drop the view). Another interesting use case for this is to add computed columns to a table.","parent":"6354274","id":"6354446"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1447685317","timestamp":"2015-11-16 14:48:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was free before Facebook brought them too. It just nagged people to pay once a year, but if one didn\u0026#x27;t pay, it just kept working.","parent":"10573946","id":"10574685"}
{"by":"daenz","time":"1339623644","timestamp":"2012-06-13 21:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems that \"The Front Page of the Internet\" only includes some of the internet.","parent":"4108115","id":"4108607"}
{"by":"vatis","time":"1343066034","timestamp":"2012-07-23 17:53:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's cute!  Isn't it?","parent":"4282137","id":"4282169"}
{"by":"throwaway613834","time":"1509663925","timestamp":"2017-11-02 23:05:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; EB2 actually has per-country caps. Once you are in the Eb2 queue, you have to wait 15-20 years if you were born in India. [...] The process should be completely merit based.\u003cp\u003eBecause... can I ask why, exactly?","parent":"15613628","id":"15615180"}
{"by":"flowerpot","time":"1442952931","timestamp":"2015-09-22 20:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve recently been at an event where Richard Stallman was promoting this. I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure it\u0026#x27;s part of the GNU Project.","parent":"10261333","id":"10261378"}
{"by":"vlad","time":"1187801664","timestamp":"2007-08-22 16:54:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree with him on this article.  Aside from the fact that business cards should fit their intended purpose, which he didn't even address, all of those have flaws.  The one he likes, I hate the most.\u003cp\u003eA business that sells boats or boat rides should target older customers with bigger fonts.","parent":"45219","id":"45253"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1466703334","timestamp":"2016-06-23 17:35:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah yes! But at this point it only works if you\u0026#x27;re nitpicking over the definition of \u0026quot;clear,\u0026quot; since the \u0026quot;in space\u0026quot; bit is now settled.\u003cp\u003eRight? Maybe I missed a nit!","parent":"11962595","id":"11962867"}
{"by":"jerkstate","time":"1512537400","timestamp":"2017-12-06 05:16:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, we could argue back and forth about what is fair and what is standard. But what did the contract, agreed to by both parties, say? Was Level3 in the wrong to sell Netflix a product that they could not deliver without violating their prior contract with Comcast?\u003cp\u003eI agree it sucks to be a consumer and get shafted by these shitty deals, but let\u0026#x27;s at least be honest about how we got here and what the powers that be are actually gunning for.","parent":"15857727","id":"15858732"}
{"by":"freehunter","time":"1532206840","timestamp":"2018-07-21 21:00:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think “creepy” is one of the least interesting arguments someone can have. Plenty of things are creepy, and the word “creepy” itself falls into the same category as “offensive” or other very subjective accusations.\u003cp\u003e“Creepy” is not a good argument. What’s offensive to you is normal to me, what’s creepy to me is normal to you.","parent":"17583605","id":"17583840"}
{"by":"eevilspock","time":"1399929279","timestamp":"2014-05-12 21:14:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t negate my point because:\u003cp\u003e- I did not say 100% of ads are lies\u003cp\u003e- You don\u0026#x27;t prove that you could have done better through product reviews and word of mouth (which is now web-scale via social media), especially in a world where you didn\u0026#x27;t have to compete with other products that make false claims through advertising.\u003cp\u003e- You didn\u0026#x27;t refute my claim (via the footnote link) that if people paid up front for Google, the other content creation sites you mention, as well as the hobbyist site, that it would actually be cheaper for everyone, both on a monetary and social cost-basis.\u003cp\u003eAnd wow, over 50% of the cost of your product went to advertising! In a world where people discover things via web-scale word-of-mouth (e.g. social networks, product review sites, recommendations from field- or topic-specific authoritative websites), your product would be 50% cheaper, and even cheaper than that considering people would not waste money buying products due to dishonest ads.\u003cp\u003eYes, we are in a sort of catch-22. Because people are so used to getting their web for free (even though as I point out that is an illusion), a huge majority of us would have to boycott ads to change the system to where non-ad-supported business models could thrive. But those of us who dare to do it first, before that critical mass is achieved, are likely not to survive.\u003cp\u003eBut a seemingly insurmountable catch-22 doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it isn\u0026#x27;t messed up and not worthy of critique. Remember, history is replete with such situations. When we all lived under totalitarianism, a small number of people could rule over a vast majority only because to unite people into a rebellion, you have to speak up, but if you speak up, you\u0026#x27;re head gets cut off.\u003cp\u003eChange is hard.","parent":"7734045","id":"7735456"}
{"by":"crazygringo","time":"1340663830","timestamp":"2012-06-25 22:37:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sure the story of bootstrapping Craigslist is very interesting, I don't doubt it.\u003cp\u003eBut that's not my point. My point is, their bootstrapping was a challenge just like any other other startup has to gain users, but it was \u003ci\u003epossible\u003c/i\u003e, with hard work.\u003cp\u003eNowadays, if any other startup tries bootstrapping that is even \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c/i\u003e, with even \u003ci\u003emore\u003c/i\u003e hard work and dedication, they'll still fail, because Craigslist wins via network effects. It's now virtually \u003ci\u003eimpossible\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eResentment towards Craigslist is not because they got to where they are now easily -- they didn't, it was hard. That gets respect. The resentment comes because they're \u003ci\u003estaying\u003c/i\u003e where they are now, easily, and potentially better competitors have virtually zero chance, no matter how much they work hard.","parent":"4158765","id":"4159130"}
{"by":"bbcbasic","time":"1435875554","timestamp":"2015-07-02 22:19:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also he didn\u0026#x27;t know what numbers whose digits add up to 88 would do.","parent":"9820867","id":"9822095"}
{"by":"freebsd_dude","time":"1268283660","timestamp":"2010-03-11 05:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ok yes I know about those libraries...I guess what Im asking is why use GWT when such libraries exist?","parent":"1183031","id":"1183037"}
{"by":"pressurefree","time":"1527088868","timestamp":"2018-05-23 15:21:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"did you beat them with stick and belts? what was your intention, runaway inflation?\u003cp\u003edid you touch them? molest them? give them everything...","parent":"17131219","dead":true,"id":"17134841"}
{"by":"powertower","time":"1437785399","timestamp":"2015-07-25 00:49:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The last time I looked into the WP theme GPL issue, by some of  the mentioned logic, every PHP script ever written and distributed would end up being a derivative work of the PHP engine.\u003cp\u003eOne way to get around some of it, is to use WP as a data store and management layer, with your own 2nd layer on top of it, that does use WP\u0026#x27;s functions to pull that data out, but is not a theme that has to be installed nor activated.\u003cp\u003eWhich is a actually what I\u0026#x27;ve done with my website - but that\u0026#x27;s not why... It\u0026#x27;s basically a mini-cms that first checks the file system for the page, and if not found, calls into wordpress.","parent":"9944650","id":"9946115"}
{"by":"scientistem","time":"1509043283","timestamp":"2017-10-26 18:41:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well this is true, but it’s certianly a far cry from the high employment prospects i was brought up believe STEM fields offered.\u003cp\u003eMy sister is on her second post doc; while the money is perfectly adequate, if she ever burned out she would be stuck up the creek without a paddle.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, it’s the precipitous drop in tenured positions that scared me away. Too risky of a time investment!","parent":"15558210","id":"15561746"}
{"by":"mempko","time":"1468689535","timestamp":"2016-07-16 17:18:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Libertarians rejoice! Government military research has finally brought you a product you can enjoy at home!","parent":"12106840","id":"12107079"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1390485472","timestamp":"2014-01-23 13:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine that when you are already making Intel based laptops and workstation, adding low end Intel based servers to your production line has a lower marginal cost than it would for a company that only makes Intel servers.","parent":"7108081","id":"7108138"}
{"by":"sthatipamala","time":"1376756946","timestamp":"2013-08-17 16:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;By himself\u0026quot; = physical isolation\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;alone\u0026quot; = societal, emotional, or other abstract isolation","parent":"6229472","id":"6229498"}
{"by":"gingerlime","time":"1443770211","timestamp":"2015-10-02 07:16:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, I also use it to detect repeat errors on our own application logs and block offending IPs.\u003cp\u003eFail2ban has a reasonably easy to tweak detection and blocking rules, plus lots of available ready-made ones that do the job. If you\u0026#x27;re comfortable with regular expressions (which most people on HN probably are), then it\u0026#x27;s really straight-forward to write your own rules.\u003cp\u003eThe only problem I encountered with it is when you start it up and you have a huge amount of data in your log files. It can cause 100% cpu usage for a long time until it digests the whole thing...","parent":"10303629","id":"10317142"}
{"by":"skowmunk","time":"1285896244","timestamp":"2010-10-01 01:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If its such a burning desire, then you owe it yourself to quench it by trying it at least once (but definitely not half-hearted).\u003cp\u003eAll you need to do is make sure that you have some savings for the family to survive and some more, if it doesn't work out and you need to get back on the job track.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, if you give it serious shot, give it all you got (obviously refering to non-financial stuff) and it still doesn't work out, all that learning could possibly even bump you to the 7 figure category later.\u003cp\u003eGood luck.","parent":"1745381","id":"1745612"}
{"by":"ryanwaggoner","time":"1526601161","timestamp":"2018-05-17 23:52:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s alarming that you don’t realize how insane this argument is. Now murder and keeping notes about someone you see in public are the same? You’re headed towards thought-crime with this; it’s basically murder to continue to hold an opinion of someone that they disapprove of, because “privacy”. Ridiculous.","parent":"17097181","id":"17097322"}
{"by":"zhte415","time":"1540642178","timestamp":"2018-10-27 12:09:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fantastic story.","parent":"18314545","id":"18315386"}
{"by":"2OEH8eoCRo","time":"1497524909","timestamp":"2017-06-15 11:08:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I kick myself because in 2010 I had 2 HD5970s was all set up for mining and got bored and did something else.","parent":"14551636","id":"14559285"}
{"by":"volandovengo","time":"1410541476","timestamp":"2014-09-12 17:04:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At some point the credit card industry is going to get disrupted.  It\u0026#x27;s so broken + they take on so little risk that it\u0026#x27;s just a matter of time.\u003cp\u003eMy belief is that bitcoin coupled with the right payment experience will disrupt the industry at some point. I would highly suggest reading Marc Andreessen view on the subject:  \u003ca href=\"http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/01/22/why-bitcoin-matters/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.pmarca.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;why-bitcoin-matters\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8308416","id":"8309097"}
{"by":"kornish","time":"1509836595","timestamp":"2017-11-04 23:03:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One incentive to police the store is that quality is a draw for users.","parent":"15627301","id":"15627304"}
{"by":"jimbokun","time":"1497896845","timestamp":"2017-06-19 18:27:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indicating \u0026quot;white\u0026quot; may not have been best term to use for the phenomenon he or she was trying to describe.","parent":"14589148","id":"14589178"}
{"by":"Papirola","time":"1484182425","timestamp":"2017-01-12 00:53:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why do you say that?","parent":"13377172","id":"13378991"}
{"by":"sandGorgon","time":"1491323504","timestamp":"2017-04-04 16:31:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"no - i dont believe its too expensive. the devs are fairly responsive.\u003cp\u003eThe thing is, it carries too much baggage. It took them many months to even put it on npm. Adding features takes a lot of effort.\u003cp\u003eIts 149$ for a year - its not at all bad and I love supporting them.\u003cp\u003eBut there\u0026#x27;s space to innovate - look at Airtable. I would love to have a component that looks like Airtable frontend.","parent":"14033819","id":"14034500"}
{"by":"unwind","time":"1382105510","timestamp":"2013-10-18 14:11:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does one write a page like that, without even \u003ci\u003etrying\u003c/i\u003e to explain, in a single sentence, what \u0026quot;RVM\u0026quot; \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e? It surely wouldn\u0026#x27;t hurt?\u003cp\u003eI assume that if you don\u0026#x27;t know (like me), you\u0026#x27;re not in the target audience of people willing to chip in to get the conversion done, but it still manages to frustrate me.","parent":"6570893","id":"6571430"}
{"by":"pg314","time":"1481803583","timestamp":"2016-12-15 12:06:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The punishment should be proportional to the damage that has been done. The settlement they reached was for 190 million dollar. That affects stockholders directly. You can argue that that fine is too low. I can agree with that, but saying the company should be put into bankruptcy is saying that the fine should be 275 billion dollar. I do not see how you can justify that.\u003cp\u003eI do not think destroying the complete company as a deterrent will help. That will not deter executives which will still be making money hand over fist. It will however deter investors in investing in companies in general.\u003cp\u003eI think a better way to address this situation is by reimbursing affected customers (which has mostly happened AFAIKT), compensating wrongly fired employees, disciplining the responsible executive (by firing and clawing back their compensation, which has happened partly). Improved oversight (internal\u0026#x2F;external) and whistleblower procedures should also be instated.","parent":"13183583","id":"13184010"}
{"by":"sn9","time":"1508637564","timestamp":"2017-10-22 01:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If your BMR is 750-1000, you\u0026#x27;re likely a female shorter than 5\u0026#x27; and\u0026#x2F;or weighing less than 100 lbs. At that point, you are likely severely underweight and probably shouldn\u0026#x27;t be trying to lose weight.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not denying that there are other reasons to eat a diet with greater nutritional density, but trying to convince people that CICO is \u003ci\u003ewrong\u003c/i\u003e is far more harmful than trying to convey that it is literally the most important factor in trying to modify your weight.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to make changes in your life, you need to know the right things to measure, and your caloric intake relative to how your weight changes is the single most important factor for people trying to lose weight. If you\u0026#x27;re not even doing that, it\u0026#x27;s unlikely you\u0026#x27;ll succeed, as millions of people who struggle with their weight will understand.\u003cp\u003eOnce you\u0026#x27;ve convinced people of the value of that, it then becomes more productive to go into the value of high protein intake and strength training to further improve body composition, the importance of eating a diet centered around fruits and vegetables, etc.\u003cp\u003eFor people that are severely overweight, getting their weight down will have the highest impact on their health.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Nobody is suggesting that CICO and the insulin theory are mutually exclusive;\u003cp\u003eTaubes literally argued this in the paragraph where he quoted the biochemistry text.","parent":"15524623","id":"15524733"}
{"by":"k_sh","time":"1474696677","timestamp":"2016-09-24 05:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why make this product, with its attendant risks, and why now? “Because it’s fun”.\u003cp\u003eThe way they framed this product is _so_ refreshing.","parent":"12569182","id":"12569663"}
{"by":"chad_strategic","time":"1439658713","timestamp":"2015-08-15 17:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure this is going to piss a lot of people off...\u003cp\u003eThis is #firstworldproblems.\u003cp\u003eIf you don\u0026#x27;t want to work there, then don\u0026#x27;t. I just quit a crappy\u0026#x2F;work intensive\u0026#x2F;crazy\u0026#x2F;insane\u0026#x2F;no structure cannabis startup and I feel a heck of lot better.\u003cp\u003eI would have been thrilled to be making the Amazon money out of college, instead I went to Boot Camp (USMC), that was low pay and stress environment.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s put this all in perspective...\u003cp\u003e(Let\u0026#x27;s not forget Bezos owns the Washington Post, and well this was written by the NYT?)","parent":"10065243","id":"10065980"}
{"by":"zrail","time":"1348008881","timestamp":"2012-09-18 22:54:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I'm interpreting this correctly, each liner is a one-use consumable and all of the power it can generate comes out in one big burst. How does long-term power generation work in that scenario? Is there a big feed tube that drops liners into a chamber, fuse them, then dump them out the bottom?","parent":"4540719","id":"4540964"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1289602945","timestamp":"2010-11-12 23:02:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cygwin is GPL.\u003cp\u003eDistributing even a simple \u003ci\u003eunmodified\u003c/i\u003e GPL library with your code is a huge PITA.  Your app may not become GPL'd, but you still need to distribute a copy of the GPL with all its attendant \"paperwork\" and 3 year ftp servers and original sources, yada yada.","parent":"1899242","id":"1899646"}
{"by":"anan0s","time":"1383667764","timestamp":"2013-11-05 16:09:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well I guess that\u0026#x27;s expected behavior. So you may need to explicitly state that the feature works if you save an image on your clipboard -- not just pressing printscreen ;-)\u003cp\u003enice work for a weekend app!","parent":"6675781","id":"6675814"}
{"by":"e534808d56","time":"1473462911","timestamp":"2016-09-09 23:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A nice \u0026quot;interview\u0026quot; with Bjarne from the yealy revue on the center of computer scince on the university of copenhagen: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;TTVCaZVUvC0?t=156\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;TTVCaZVUvC0?t=156\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12466167","id":"12466703"}
{"by":"jbeda","time":"1415129863","timestamp":"2014-11-04 19:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stable production ready GKE will gate on Kubernetes.  Our Kubernetes roadmap is here: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/roadmap.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;GoogleCloudPlatform\u0026#x2F;kubernetes\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;maste...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are driving aggressively here.  I hate to put a date on it but things are converging.","parent":"8558538","id":"8558582"}
{"by":"ygra","time":"1479930518","timestamp":"2016-11-23 19:48:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That approach is listed on the site under alternatives.","parent":"13022999","id":"13025284"}
{"by":"Nihilartikel","time":"1496254956","timestamp":"2017-05-31 18:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The distinction that I see is that the US is perhaps not individually risk averse, but is systemically accountability averse. There is no end to the inefficiencies that can be introduced by constant ass-covering and compulsive subdivision of responsibility to the point that no one human is accountable for anything of note.","parent":"14453836","id":"14454768"}
{"by":"dunpeal","time":"1534124656","timestamp":"2018-08-13 01:44:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you actually check it?  It has nothing to do with piracy or video games, as you seem to imply.","parent":"17746322","id":"17747505"}
{"by":"lampe3","time":"1396732895","timestamp":"2014-04-05 21:21:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"happy people don\u0026#x27;t have time to comment","parent":"7538438","id":"7538501"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1444338708","timestamp":"2015-10-08 21:11:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ahh, sorry about that! I misunderstood.","parent":"10356171","id":"10356285"}
{"by":"dazzawazza","time":"1316687265","timestamp":"2011-09-22 10:27:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I don't understand about this is: If it's released under an open source license why does anyone care what oracle does? Just fork it and move on.\u003cp\u003eIf it's that the core developers are stuck in Oracle then why don't all the big players that use MySQL create a fund to employ them and problem solved.\u003cp\u003eIs there more going on that I don't see?","parent":"3025366","id":"3025546"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1505483034","timestamp":"2017-09-15 13:43:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can any browser historian explain why the original models of cookie sharing weren\u0026#x27;t more like this?\u003cp\u003eI figure it comes down to some combination of lack of consideration and performance concerns, but that is just speculation.\u003cp\u003eI suppose restricted cookie sharing is also a lot more complicated for the user.","parent":"15256603","id":"15257058"}
{"by":"pjhyett","time":"1233506174","timestamp":"2009-02-01 16:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GitHub doesn't have an office, nor are we in any hurry to get one. We work out of our apartments and 1-2 times a week we'll hang out at a cafe and get dinner/drinks afterwards to discuss broader ideas. The company was built with the sort of people that can work autonomously, so while we stay in constant communication with Campfire, it's not a situation where you need to look over the other guy's shoulder to make sure he's still doing a good job. Until that's no longer a reality, I see no reason for an office; it's money better spent elsewhere.","parent":"460693","id":"460984"}
{"by":"kscaldef","time":"1268243736","timestamp":"2010-03-10 17:55:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read the article as saying almost exactly that: thunks are sort of like closures, but not entirely.  I have the advantage of having a good understanding of both thunks and closures already, but I don't think most reasonable readers would think he's drawing an exact equivalence.  Rather he's pointing out a similar concept (code that is run sometime later) that readers may have encountered elsewhere.","parent":"1181286","id":"1181496"}
{"by":"bifrost","time":"1368123552","timestamp":"2013-05-09 18:19:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, LinkedIn says that there are other people that work for my company that I might know. The only problem is, I'm an officer of my company, I know everyone who works there and they're all on my Linkedin. The people its suggesting, work for a similarly named company, about 1000 miles away... Score 1 for accuracy...","parent":"5680680","id":"5682075"}
{"by":"druiid","time":"1394587443","timestamp":"2014-03-12 01:24:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, simply enough, it\u0026#x27;s kind of a difficult problem to solve. The way most rails apps do it, is deployment with Capistrano or similar. There\u0026#x27;s also Fabric which can interface pretty well with rails deployment as well. Honestly the methodology I\u0026#x27;ve seen under most deployment situations is far, far from idempotent and is a bit terrible in this respect.\u003cp\u003eThere are lots of tools within Rails and Capistrano that hopefully get you to a state approaching \u0026#x27;idempotent\u0026#x27; deployments, but they fairly often aren\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"7383360","id":"7383388"}
{"by":"DarkTree","time":"1447166576","timestamp":"2015-11-10 14:42:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assume he\u0026#x2F;she means you can charge the tablet without it being attached to the keyboard.","parent":"10539513","id":"10539546"}
{"by":"limeblack","time":"1502311156","timestamp":"2017-08-09 20:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although you may be right I hope you are not.  I like the semi open source nature and high levelness of JavaScript.  It\u0026#x27;s not perfect but it beats dissembling things.  Yes I know there are obfuscators.","parent":"14972009","id":"14973356"}
{"by":"njharman","time":"1273939377","timestamp":"2010-05-15 16:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice of them to at no point define what the fuck WASP means.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1349834","id":"1350085"}
{"by":"philsalesses","time":"1312899799","timestamp":"2011-08-09 14:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't that what marketing is?  Telling a version of the truth but doing it in a way that leads minds to another ideal?  Apple, Think Different.","parent":"2864094","id":"2864109"}
{"by":"rsynnott","time":"1427915073","timestamp":"2015-04-01 19:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These days, ESB\u0026#x27;s generation is mostly gas, with wind being the second-largest. Coal is being phased out, and peat generally not expanded.","parent":"9302816","id":"9305997"}
{"by":"GeorgeOrr","time":"1380945411","timestamp":"2013-10-05 03:56:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haters Gonna Hate","parent":"6499142","id":"6499335"}
{"by":"mschuster91","time":"1458032066","timestamp":"2016-03-15 08:54:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t really get why the RPi still doesn\u0026#x27;t have a proper eSATA or at least a PCIe\u0026#x2F;TB interface...","parent":"11286932","id":"11288282"}
{"by":"iancarroll","time":"1407712916","timestamp":"2014-08-10 23:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, okay. It was a bit late when I wrote that. I was thinking of an oAuth interface and saying \u0026quot;Got a username with EarlyClaim? Login here!\u0026quot;.","parent":"8160048","id":"8161148"}
{"by":"oliverdavenport","time":"1409610100","timestamp":"2014-09-01 22:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google\u0026#x27;s cache: \u003ca href=\"http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2014/09/01/urgent-security-warning-may-affect-internet-users/\u0026amp;ion=1\u0026amp;espv=2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=cache:http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8254894","id":"8254920"}
{"by":"Steuard","time":"1403284426","timestamp":"2014-06-20 17:13:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eMight as well theorize fairies from another dimension materialized into ours to poke fun at internet search analyzers.\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eGood point!\u003cp\u003eJust to be clear, as far as I can tell this work \u003ci\u003ewasn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e ever published in a peer-reviewed journal. It was merely accepted as a preprint on arXiv.org, which requires little more than assurance that the author isn\u0026#x27;t an obvious crackpot (and it sounds like even they reclassified its subject area: almost like moving it into a journal with a different topic).","parent":"7921611","id":"7921627"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1302568594","timestamp":"2011-04-12 00:36:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And ITAR has rules about who can be the... pilot on a missile?","parent":"2435165","id":"2435199"}
{"by":"quarterto","time":"1478852917","timestamp":"2016-11-11 08:28:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Post with more comments than upvotes are penalised as a proxy for controversiality (remember HN doesn\u0026#x27;t have downvotes for posts)","parent":"12928905","id":"12928938"}
{"by":"qxb","time":"1315682271","timestamp":"2011-09-10 19:17:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assure you it wasn't me.\u003cp\u003eThe Offline feature for Gmail I was referring to was the new Chrome app. It's mentioned in the Google Blog post I linked to and can be found here on the Chrome Webstore: \u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejidjjhkpiempkbhmpbfngldlkglhimk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejidjjhkpiempkbhmp...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you wrote \"Google and Offline are like Oil and Water\", I took you to mean (1) that the two don't mix, and (2) you think this is a deliberate strategy or approach by Google, and that it's wrong.\u003cp\u003eI think (1) is correct, but I accept that I may have inferred too much with (2).\u003cp\u003eIf so, please accept my apologies: newish user here finding my feet.\u003cp\u003eI just felt it necessary to point out that Google has not abandoned offline capability, and understands its importance. I believe employees use a version of Google Docs internally that has offline functionality, as they have beta-tested new Google products / features before.\u003cp\u003eIn the HN thread from last week for the new app announcement, one of the Gmail offline team members contributes with comments about why offline is proving tricky to implement:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2946150\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2946150\u003c/a\u003e (user's name is nex3)\u003cp\u003eThere's also further comments about how other Google employees have contributed on HN about how offline access to Gmail, Docs and Calendar is understood to be fundamental for ChromeOS.","parent":"2981868","id":"2982248"}
{"by":"jetti","time":"1493817862","timestamp":"2017-05-03 13:24:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it only handles web browsers currently then I think it will be a hard sell. The use I see of this would be in settings that companies don\u0026#x27;t trust their employees (call center monitoring comes to mind). That being said, they would most likely be tracking HTTP traffic already so they would be able to tell what sites the employees were visiting. If you could parse out other applications I could see it being a hit.","parent":"14245701","id":"14255409"}
{"by":"onreact-com","time":"1247584076","timestamp":"2009-07-14 15:07:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best thing about IE6 is that you can crash it with ease by adding a few bytes of CSS code on your website.","parent":"703687","id":"703833"}
{"by":"polarix","time":"1387609379","timestamp":"2013-12-21 07:02:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t they now know what to restrain? (due to this post, at the very least...)","parent":"6945997","id":"6946050"}
{"by":"trailfox","time":"1369941886","timestamp":"2013-05-30 19:24:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there even a decent IDE for Go?","parent":"5793727","id":"5794641"}
{"by":"doktrin","time":"1346264625","timestamp":"2012-08-29 18:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree to disagree, I suppose.","parent":"4449964","id":"4450225"}
{"by":"pluma","time":"1503323751","timestamp":"2017-08-21 13:55:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, so maybe the recommendation should be \u0026quot;build your app around the assumption you may have to swap individual dependencies out in the future\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAmazingly enough, this recommendation is also beneficial if it turns out there are patents covering Angular, Vue or Ember.","parent":"15064201","id":"15064629"}
{"by":"seandougall","time":"1528212076","timestamp":"2018-06-05 15:21:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True — 10.12 is my recollection as well — but I’ve been bitten so many times by compiling under a new SDK, especially with an older build target, that I do that as a matter of course anyway.","parent":"17235845","id":"17238499"}
{"by":"pstuart","time":"1324623345","timestamp":"2011-12-23 06:55:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hollywood said the VCR would kill them.\nThen they said the DVD would kill them.\nThey don't have the best track record in this regard...","parent":"3383162","id":"3384954"}
{"by":"chrisbennet","time":"1474294047","timestamp":"2016-09-19 14:07:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ePractical Shooting : Beyond Fundamentals\u003c/i\u003e by Brian Enos is something similar for practical pistol shooters (P.P. shooting is a shooting sport). It isn\u0026#x27;t for beginners like the \u0026quot;Inner Game\u0026quot; but has some great insights even if you don\u0026#x27;t shoot i.e. its insights are probably transferable to the mental game for many sports.","parent":"12520444","id":"12531534"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1432943799","timestamp":"2015-05-29 23:56:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThat seems way too harsh to me. I have strong opinions on the US War on Drugs and it\u0026#x27;s failure to meaningful deal with drug use\u0026#x2F;abuse in the USA. And I feel even worse about how it\u0026#x27;s spilling out into the rest of the world as we go \u0026quot;global\u0026quot; with everything.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe US War on Drugs is ridiculously harmful and shortsighted, absolutely. But the sentencing is consistent with US policy, however wrong it is. People are getting two-figure sentences for carrying small amounts of drugs themselves. Someone who facilitates the selling of an illegal product on a much wider scale should not get a lighter sentence.\u003cp\u003eThe whole concept behind the War on Drugs sucks, but this sentence is consistent. If it were a shorter sentence, then it\u0026#x27;d be similar to the legal inconsistency around cocaine: the form wealthy white people tend to use (powder cocaine) is much less penalised than the form poor and minority people tend to use (crack cocaine), because...?","parent":"9627078","id":"9628253"}
{"by":"newman314","time":"1492371457","timestamp":"2017-04-16 19:37:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do we have any confirmation that Google has mandatory TLS?\u003cp\u003eIIRC, STARTTLS may not be mandatory and be just purely opportunistic. So relying on STARTTLS only is not a good idea.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;serverfault.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;523804\u0026#x2F;is-starttls-more-safe-than-tls-ssl\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;serverfault.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;523804\u0026#x2F;is-starttls-more-sa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14126996","id":"14127124"}
{"by":"dogma1138","time":"1517444944","timestamp":"2018-02-01 00:29:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You’ll be surprised by how many bases are unknown, or that their current status is unknown as the activity level changes all the time and most armies have “temporary” and permanent bases and unless were talking about FOBs in a war zone the temporary part refers more to when and how well they are manned rather than the temporary nature of the base infrastructure.\u003cp\u003eUnits shift bases all the time for various reason from simple rotation to specific operational needs.\u003cp\u003eThis is a huge leak since it provides you a source for both collaborating intelligence you already have and gaining new intelligence.\u003cp\u003eNames of individual people might not be nearly as important especially for other nation states but through this data not only that the location is revealed but also the level of activity and through the personal information what is more valuable as far as intelligence goes who is deployed and here we aren’t talking about individuals but rather units.\u003cp\u003eThis is huge, the level of activity in the base increases? Likely an influx of personnel which means that you’ve shifted your operational envelope to this area.\u003cp\u003e2 new support units and a SAR airwing we’re deployed to a base? Looks like some special operation is cooking.\u003cp\u003eLooks like a lot of army nerds are being deployed to this base might be setting up a SIGINT operation....\u003cp\u003eHeck the activity level alone is invaluable since it provide you with a signal which allows you to direct other sources of intelligence collection to a base that might otherwise would not have been noticed.\u003cp\u003eI can tell you that during specific operations when we would work out of hours or there would’ve be an increase in personnel an order would go out that would prohibit people from parking their car overnight and other controls would be set in place so no unusual activity that can be easily remotely picked up would be noticed.\u003cp\u003eOn a non state actor level this as things like on the level of AQAP for example then the routines that can be gathered from the activity are more important, you know when people get up when they run and hitting a large group of soldiers on their morning run might be a juicy target.","parent":"16278438","id":"16278810"}
{"by":"dunpeal","time":"1541482329","timestamp":"2018-11-06 05:32:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More expensive than LA?  Where exactly in LA?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d suspect the parts of LA you\u0026#x27;d like to live in - Santa Monica, for example - are far more expensive than the livable parts of San Diego.","parent":"18388289","id":"18388632"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1544799397","timestamp":"2018-12-14 14:56:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;d think an advertising company would be better at, well, advertising. All of the listed benefits at the top of the page are either things everyone has already been using with the exception of full-quality photos, which was previously available as a paid option with the same pricing, and unspecified additional promotional features.\u003cp\u003eIt seems like the main improvements are adding family plans to match Apple and having presumably not-chatbot support but that requires scrolling a long way down the page.","parent":"18678929","id":"18681197"}
{"by":"jbarham","time":"1320835053","timestamp":"2011-11-09 10:37:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also see article at \u003ca href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/08/telstra_opens_sme_cloud/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/08/telstra_opens_sme_cl...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3215021","id":"3215023"}
{"by":"ejames","time":"1265908540","timestamp":"2010-02-11 17:15:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but once you're \"the guy/gal who wrote $SUCCESSFUL_GOOGLE_PRODUCT\", you have a lot of credibility, experience, etc. as resources to make your own product that you do own.\u003cp\u003eThe point of the 20% products for Google is to give the company startup-style flexibility.  It works the other way, too - if you take a product from whiteboard doodling all the way to an official Google product, well, a startup is like that, except 100% of the time, on your own bank account, and with no admins/middle managers to take care of the business side for you.","parent":"1118013","id":"1118075"}
{"by":"skocznymroczny","time":"1493019510","timestamp":"2017-04-24 07:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"actually, why not System.copyArray(). arraycopy() suggests that the method returns a copy of the array ( sorted() vs sort() )","parent":"14182129","id":"14182535"}
{"by":"adrianmonk","time":"1510001635","timestamp":"2017-11-06 20:53:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would have been interesting to see enchiladas in this analysis. They are almost the default option in Texas, but in California (northern, at least) many restaurants don\u0026#x27;t even offer them.","parent":"15633329","id":"15638928"}
{"by":"ConnorJC","time":"1510722482","timestamp":"2017-11-15 05:08:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously, you need to be on Firefox Quantum to see its test results. You can click the A to see test failures (Shift-Click it to open in a new tab).\u003cp\u003eEdit: I get a 97\u0026#x2F;100, with the following errors:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Failed 3 of 100 tests.\n  Test 23 failed: expected \u0026#x27;14\u0026#x27; but got \u0026#x27;5\u0026#x27; - wrong exception for createElementNS(\u0026#x27;null\u0026#x27;, \u0026#x27;:div\u0026#x27;)\n  Test 25 failed: wrong exception\n  Test 26 passed, but took 50ms (less than 30fps)\n  Test 35 failed: expected \u0026#x27;0\u0026#x27; but got \u0026#x27;1\u0026#x27; - root element, with no parent node, claims to be a :first-child\n  Test 69 passed, but took 2 attempts (less than perfect).\n  Test 71 passed, but took 214ms (less than 30fps)\n  Total elapsed time: 1.57s\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"15701591","id":"15701602"}
{"by":"be5invis","time":"1396464203","timestamp":"2014-04-02 18:43:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am wondering whether they can make Windows Runtime\u0026#x27;s GUI avaliable for existing desktop appliacations. There are many professional applications needs a brand new API for user interface.","parent":"7516872","id":"7517960"}
{"by":"calambrac","time":"1249594808","timestamp":"2009-08-06 21:40:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I think that where he meant 'extremely vulgar language', he mistakenly reached for a term that has racial connotations.","parent":"746433","id":"746464"}
{"by":"bryondowd","time":"1478109101","timestamp":"2016-11-02 17:51:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I live in NJ, but I work at a federal facility with an IP that geolocation places in DC. So I frequently see sites assuming I\u0026#x27;m in DC when I access them from work rather than home, even though the two locations are actually three miles apart.\u003cp\u003eSo I certainly prefer when they just ask for a ZIP code.","parent":"12856292","id":"12857453"}
{"by":"astebbin","time":"1459908566","timestamp":"2016-04-06 02:09:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From The Verge, \u0026quot;Nest says it may offer \u0026#x27;compensation\u0026#x27; to Revolv users for disabling smart home hub:\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;4\u0026#x2F;5\u0026#x2F;11374358\u0026#x2F;nest-revolv-smart-home-hub-disable-user-compensation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;4\u0026#x2F;5\u0026#x2F;11374358\u0026#x2F;nest-revolv-smart-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11435245","id":"11436097"}
{"by":"jemmons","time":"1242842505","timestamp":"2009-05-20 18:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because...?","parent":"618855","id":"618974"}
{"by":"saguaro","time":"1378808649","timestamp":"2013-09-10 10:24:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s the rush?","parent":"6358937","id":"6359161"}
{"by":"kenrick95","time":"1421253241","timestamp":"2015-01-14 16:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How I build this project: It was mid-2013 when I wanted to apply what I\u0026#x27;ve learned from the MOOC CS188.1x Artificial Intelligence offered at edx.org. Around December 2013, I joined a bootcamp held in my university (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) in which some of the speaker came from Mozilla. Here, I learned a lot of stuffs on JavaScript (they also introduced us to HN). Later, I thought of applying what I\u0026#x27;ve learned to a game. I then started the project and finished it during January 2014.","parent":"8886897","id":"8887268"}
{"by":"thiago_fm","time":"1530003347","timestamp":"2018-06-26 08:55:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would pay $50\u0026#x2F;month for a service that would map out all REITs in my country(Brazil) and analyze their respective management companies, quality of assets(vs price), revenue and financial vacancy.\u003cp\u003eI wrote some scripts but it\u0026#x27;s a pain in the butt to maintain as most of the data provided by the stock exchange isn\u0026#x27;t formatted. So somebody who provides would have both the data processed, and possibly worked upon afterwards by humans. Which I\u0026#x27;m kind of lazy to do all by myself.\u003cp\u003eI thought about automating this and selling the service, but it\u0026#x27;s kind of hard to reach people to buy it, or to even sell this at all. I currently have already a good income that would hardly make the service be worth for me to build at all.\u003cp\u003eWith this... I could buy the best for this investment window(bear market) of the next 2 years and retire before the end of the bull market.","parent":"17397619","id":"17398906"}
{"by":"myfonj","time":"1536340702","timestamp":"2018-09-07 17:18:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have opposite experience with Chrome as well: I like when URL bar behaves just like URL bar and does nothing extra.  I worked in company that used custom TLD for all sites in internal network, and every single time I entered such `site.tld` in Chrome\u0026#x27;s URL bar it insisted on _searching_ for that instead of just appending protocol, \u0026#x27;\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x27; path and visiting it like reasonable browser.\u003cp\u003eTo be honest, Firefox likes to mess with input too, but it can be easily tamed with few prefs, namely:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    keyword.enabled=false\n    \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; no implicit searching from URL, must use explicit keyword or Searchbar\n    browser.fixup.alternate.enabled=false\n    \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; this prevents trying www. … .com or other configured suffixes when domain-like URL fails\n    browser.urlbar.trimURLs=false\n    \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; do not hide protocol and slash\n    browser.urlbar.filter.javascript=false\n    \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; bookmarklets FTW\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"17935379","id":"17935986"}
{"by":"robin_reala","time":"1264770946","timestamp":"2010-01-29 13:15:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft weren’t on that list when XP came out, so it’s hardly 2% of users.","parent":"1086339","id":"1086362"}
{"by":"yazaddaruvala","time":"1489178217","timestamp":"2017-03-10 20:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gotta remember, if we are seeing light intentionally or unintentionally, they pointed these sails to our current position, almost X years in the past. Where X is the distance in light-years.","parent":"13840368","id":"13841901"}
{"by":"rimantas","time":"1396590620","timestamp":"2014-04-04 05:50:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about LLVM?","parent":"7529070","id":"7529541"}
{"by":"XJOKOLAT","time":"1431459633","timestamp":"2015-05-12 19:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We recently stayed in (what was marketed as) one of the top residential, luxury skyrise apartment blocks in Thailand. For pennies.\u003cp\u003eIt was clear that it was only supposed to be for long term residents and short-term tenants airbnb\u0026#x2F;tripadvisor-rentals types were \u0026quot;unwelcome\u0026quot; (I imagine to maintain the exclusive feel of the place). They literally had signs up implying it was illegal to be a short-term renter there and, if caught, you might be refused access to facilities.\u003cp\u003eHowever, the apartment (and the apartment blocks) was so obviously empty of long term residents, it was sad to see such a waste of space.\u003cp\u003eThe owner of our apartment was someone in Oxford who I imagined was just trying to get a little money in just to pay the service charge while waiting for his capital investment to mature.\u003cp\u003eDespite the luxury of the place, this skyrise was like a dead zone. I felt sorry for the actual residents because there was no community for them.\u003cp\u003eAnd to loop around to a point related to your post, it didn\u0026#x27;t make for a good holiday experience.\u003cp\u003eActually, you can test these words of wisdom. Luxury is expensive so few get to experience it. However, in Thailand it is cheap so try it out.\u003cp\u003eOne thing it will teach you is that luxury is fun for a minute, but it may not make you happy. Worth trying it first before you chase it too hard in your home country and realise what a mistake it might be to dedicate too much time in the pursuit of it.","parent":"9534052","id":"9534325"}
{"by":"klenwell","time":"1319309996","timestamp":"2011-10-22 18:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You just made my weekend. I've been doing Python for a while and am well acquainted with the \"item in list\" idiom but did not know it could be used for find. That str.find syntax has always bothered me.\u003cp\u003eStill, I had to test just to be sure:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    test_cases = [\n        # haystack, needle, expect\n        ('abcdefg', 'a', True),\n        ('abcdefg', 'b', True),\n        ('abcdefg', 'bcd', True),\n        ('abcdefg', 'h', False),\n    ]\n    \n    for haystack,needle,expect in test_cases:\n        # find version\n        is_found = haystack.find(needle) != -1\n    \n        # in version\n        is_in = needle in haystack\n    \n        # confirm\n        print haystack, needle, expect, '--\u0026#62;', (is_found, is_in)\n        assert is_found == expect\n        assert is_found == is_in\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nPassed! Thanks.","parent":"3143901","id":"3144089"}
{"by":"jules","time":"1308658170","timestamp":"2011-06-21 12:09:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The most important disadvantage seems to me that you cannot comfortably sleep in it with two people. Or can you?","parent":"2676768","id":"2678388"}
{"by":"dmoo","time":"1498201217","timestamp":"2017-06-23 07:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the point is that if you are not getting paid they are as you say users and not customers.","parent":"14617148","id":"14617449"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1522648939","timestamp":"2018-04-02 06:02:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"APL supports reassignment and has state based control flow.","parent":"16732526","id":"16732648"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1498270356","timestamp":"2017-06-24 02:12:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You seem to be contradicting yourself. On the one hand, you say molecules can\u0026#x27;t be selected for because they\u0026#x27;re not organisms. Then you say genes encourage their own proliferation, but genes aren\u0026#x27;t organisms, they\u0026#x27;re molecules.\u003cp\u003eYou also never responded to the fact that humans are colonies, not single organisms, and yet I assume you believe humans are subject to selective pressure?","parent":"14623127","id":"14624055"}
{"by":"return0","time":"1481626532","timestamp":"2016-12-13 10:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be clear: it\u0026#x27;s not for the lack of alternatives, like \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;frontiersin.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;frontiersin.org\u003c/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;elifesciences.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;elifesciences.org\u003c/a\u003e  .\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s purely a cultural problem with life sciences . The problem is how to get way more people to publish in open access journals, so that they become prestigious. Elife is doing good progress with it.","parent":"13162326","id":"13165964"}
{"by":"Crito","time":"1403639075","timestamp":"2014-06-24 19:44:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think your statement requires a slight modification: There\u0026#x27;s no human being on Earth \u003ci\u003ewho is not guilty of any crime\u003c/i\u003e that is so dangerous  that they cannot be safely put on an airplane.\u003cp\u003eBy all means, keep the convicted Son of Sam\u0026#x27;s of this world off my airplane.  But somebody that the state finds themselves unable to convict of \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e?  Give me a break.  Either the state can prove that they are dangerous and need to prosecute them, or they need to leave them alone.","parent":"7939974","id":"7940072"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1506300283","timestamp":"2017-09-25 00:44:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So bending over backwards and making companies not follow the law is \u0026quot;stifling technology companies\u0026quot;. As others have pointed out Uber could play by the rules if they wanted to.","parent":"15326456","id":"15327317"}
{"by":"selimthegrim","time":"1510970581","timestamp":"2017-11-18 02:03:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a fellow sufferer of this years ago (we\u0026#x27;ve been over this before here on HN) I\u0026#x27;m happy to reach out and strategize. My email is my HN handle at gmail","parent":"15725933","id":"15727406"}
{"by":"andy_boot","time":"1301653130","timestamp":"2011-04-01 10:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely the raininess factor is an April fools at least?\u003cp\u003eThe happyness factor from mouse movements? Well I'm unsure but I can see how someone could argue that could be calculated. But raininess? Please no.","parent":"2395422","id":"2395679"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1219128537","timestamp":"2008-08-19 06:48:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Memetic_accounts_of_religion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Memetic_accounts_of_religi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"279999","id":"280143"}
{"by":"thereandhere","time":"1525422911","timestamp":"2018-05-04 08:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is one still required to submit all their personal information (ID card details, proof of address, etc.) before the servers can be useful? Previously you had to do it, or SMTP ports (etc.) would be blocked until you did.\u003cp\u003eIf that\u0026#x27;s still the case, is it at least made known that the servers are crippled, prior to starting your account creation process (previously it wasn\u0026#x27;t, which I found shady)?\u003cp\u003eMy experience so far is that the servers are okay, but the website\u0026#x27;s UI could be clunky-ish, support to be unresponsive and the aforementioned shady business with requesting personal-information to enable services.","parent":"16992295","id":"16993092"}
{"by":"fl0tingh0st","time":"1533551321","timestamp":"2018-08-06 10:28:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Computer Networks","parent":"17696271","id":"17696427"}
{"by":"benj111","time":"1546723331","timestamp":"2019-01-05 21:22:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But there should be no discrimination at all.\nIf there is a court case and gab is found guilty of something, or a court orders something, fair enough. That isn\u0026#x27;t the case here.","parent":"18834155","id":"18834347"}
{"by":"simonb","time":"1203631712","timestamp":"2008-02-21 22:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With all the batteries-included languages running around I think reliance on documentation is an irrelevant (obsolete?) measure.\u003cp\u003eI for one am constantly apropos-ing in CL even though it is my primary language.","parent":"120743","id":"120770"}
{"by":"andybak","time":"1493884420","timestamp":"2017-05-04 07:53:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So your big argument that everyone is to blame is that somehow you assume that others might have suspected that Greece did extensively falsified their accounting to hide double-dgit deficits and massive debt?\u003cp\u003eWell. Yes. And even in your reformulation, it sounds like a fairly reasonable argument.","parent":"14260735","id":"14263263"}
{"by":"brandonb","time":"1363717119","timestamp":"2013-03-19 18:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The two biggest anti-fraud vendors are Accertify and ReD. You might also look at ThreatMetrix, 41st Parameter, and Iovation, who do primarily device identification.\u003cp\u003eLet us know what you think!","parent":"5402307","id":"5402611"}
{"by":"kamaal","time":"1373859696","timestamp":"2013-07-15 03:41:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest problem with age is, its not static.\u003cp\u003eIf in your 20\u0026#x27;s you feel, some one over 30\u0026#x27;s is a plague. You have a big reason to be worried, because you will be in your 30\u0026#x27;s in less than 10 years. That\u0026#x27;s too less time for comfort.","parent":"6043217","id":"6043570"}
{"by":"sigzero","time":"1276363026","timestamp":"2010-06-12 17:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I enjoyed the LOTR because I understood the compromises that were made and why they were made. Doesn't replace what my imagination came up with though. I still love to read a story over watching it.","parent":"1426184","id":"1426246"}
{"by":"InitialLastName","time":"1534441204","timestamp":"2018-08-16 17:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Especially when they\u0026#x27;ve probably raised it by at least that much just in the last few years.","parent":"17776552","id":"17776854"}
{"by":"robomartin","time":"1332198861","timestamp":"2012-03-19 23:14:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...but you will see it on TV.  And that is what will stop the industry on its tracks.\u003cp\u003ePeople are used to gasoline.  They are comfortable with it, if you will.  Electricity is another matter.  People fear electricity.  They don't understand it.  If electric cars are seen as roving high-tension wires that can electrocute you and your family in a crash that will be the end of the industry.  People don't care about statistics but they react very readily to anything that triggers fundamental fears.","parent":"3726569","id":"3726845"}
{"by":"acid_bath","time":"1271874031","timestamp":"2010-04-21 18:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really?  _Really?_\u003cp\u003eYou really think that there exist enough \"incredibly intelligent\" people to fill every tech role in existence?\u003cp\u003eSure, every company can _ask_ for the top 1%, but unless they're delusional they're going to have to deal with the fact that some of the people they hire are just going to have to be average.  Doubly so for a company offering no job security and long/chaotic hours for a very low chance of payoff in a few years.\u003cp\u003eTrust me, I know the risks because I've worked almost exclusively with and for start-ups.  To me it's completely self evident why startup culture attracts the crazies or \"rockstar\" programmers.  Who else is going to gamble so much time and effort on a what's almost certainly a failed venture?  Usually not the industry's top talent, unless they're one of the founders.\u003cp\u003eOf course, I'm speaking very generally and making sweeping, stereotypes based on my own experience, which may not accurately reflect reality.\u003cp\u003e--edit--\u003cp\u003eMy post above sounds a bit more aggressive than I intended, sorry.  All I'm saying is that \"incredibly intelligent\" programmers with good communication skills are rare and it's pretty unreasonable (IMO) for a startup founder to just expect them to show up just because he has an idea and a little bit of money.","parent":"1280517","id":"1282912"}
{"by":"jonsen","time":"1246627114","timestamp":"2009-07-03 13:18:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you've got it backwards. Only one is pardoned. His chance of \u003ci\u003esurvival\u003c/i\u003e is 1 in 3.","parent":"685990","id":"686000"}
{"by":"my123","time":"1485951140","timestamp":"2017-02-01 12:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is UEFI+ACPI on ARM also, that\u0026#x27;s how Windows on ARM works. Windows on ARM devices use a far more desktop-like bootchain than anything else","parent":"13540078","id":"13540087"}
{"by":"dharma1","time":"1482063329","timestamp":"2016-12-18 12:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The prevalence of saunas in Finland is mainly because it has been a part of the Finnish way of life for thousands of years, not an exotic luxury in the way it might be perceived in some other countries.\u003cp\u003eMunicipal facilities (swimming halls with saunas etc) are charged, probably about 4 euros per visit, with discounts for students and elderly.\u003cp\u003eThe saunas people have in their homes these days are typically electric. Electricity prices are roughly the same, perhaps a bit less than UK - an hour of sauna with 4kw stove would probably cost around 0.5 euros in electricity. Some apartment blocks have shared saunas you can book for free, some have small saunas in each apartment. In detached houses you typically get a bit larger saunas.\u003cp\u003eIn general access to saunas is widely available for everyone regardless of socioeconomic status, and there is less economic inequality in general compared to the UK.\u003cp\u003eHeating is a separate topic but I\u0026#x27;ll reply briefly - majority of housing in Finland is heated with district heating, rather than individual gas boilers in each house, like in the UK.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;District_heating#Finland\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;District_heating#Finland\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a result, heating tends to be cheaper for consumers compared to the UK. Also, Finnish housing tends to be much better insulated than housing in the UK (because of colder winters).\u003cp\u003eOutside cities, where population is sparse, people heat their houses with electricity\u0026#x2F;wood\u0026#x2F;oil\u0026#x2F;geothermal - with many new builds now opting for geothermal.","parent":"13205492","id":"13205524"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1348084741","timestamp":"2012-09-19 19:59:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The previous post mentioned \"Playthroughs\" which to me suggests single player games recorded from start to finish.\u003cp\u003eI see it being unlikely that they will disrupt traditional \"TV\" that focuses on stuff like narrative driven dramas or documentaries. I don't see many people wanting to watch a playthrough instead of Game of Thrones or whatever. Maybe a small niche will, but not the mainstream.\u003cp\u003eIn terms of multiplayer game tournaments then yes, perhaps these may be successful in the way that traditional sports broadcasts are.","parent":"4545208","id":"4545281"}
{"by":"colanderman","time":"1390505738","timestamp":"2014-01-23 19:35:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t worry, we\u0026#x27;ve still got the \u0026quot;Bitcoin is inherently deflationary and incentivises hoarding\u0026quot; talking point.","parent":"7110201","id":"7110586"}
{"by":"popey","time":"1540482779","timestamp":"2018-10-25 15:52:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Snaps work on at least 40 different distros last time I looked. They remove a significant chunk of that \u0026#x27;library compatibility\u0026#x27; because they ship the necessary dependencies in the package. While Ubuntu dominates the Linux desktop market, by a couple of orders of magnitude, we made snaps with the express intention of them working on all the major leading distros. The goal being to ensure you don\u0026#x27;t need to test on all those different distros. One snap to rule them all ;)","parent":"18300768","id":"18301856"}
{"by":"saintPirelli","time":"1526382260","timestamp":"2018-05-15 11:04:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a clever idea, but I would consider a payment gateway to be an essential part of even an MVP.","parent":"17072846","id":"17073067"}
{"by":"nazgulnarsil","time":"1332375034","timestamp":"2012-03-22 00:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A nice gesture but it's truly amazing what Bioware managed to accomplish with a supposedly AAA title.  The writing was so bad it overwhelmed any possible positives the game had.  I had to stop playing after a few hours.  It sounds like it was written by a grade schooler.  Normally a statement like that would be hyperbole but I want to emphasize that I mean it quite literally.  I've tutored middle schoolers on writing and they didn't produce garbage this bad.","parent":"3737186","id":"3737533"}
{"by":"vishaldpatel","time":"1394155245","timestamp":"2014-03-07 01:20:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is this different \u0026#x2F; better than meetup.com?","parent":"7356431","id":"7357858"}
{"by":"hyperbovine","time":"1506537048","timestamp":"2017-09-27 18:30:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes that\u0026#x27;s what cameras need... Java. Ever used Android TV? Or Android for that matter? Lags and crashes on the camera OS would absolutely bug the shit out of most photographers.","parent":"15347950","id":"15350818"}
{"by":"mizzao","time":"1437230493","timestamp":"2015-07-18 14:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you said that, I thought that OneNote would be the app of choice.","parent":"9907305","id":"9907648"}
{"by":"skinnymuch","time":"1516889356","timestamp":"2018-01-25 14:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don’t think Jack will still have a strong role in Square?","parent":"16220289","id":"16230817"}
{"by":"cookiecaper","time":"1321311389","timestamp":"2011-11-14 22:56:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know that Honeycomb was the only distribution for which Google did not release the source, right?","parent":"3236042","id":"3236084"}
{"by":"tyohn","time":"1227204659","timestamp":"2008-11-20 18:10:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My two cents:  I'd change the design: I'd make the front page more like Google. (Search box in the middle)\u003cp\u003eAnd your site is full of features - like \"Browse baby names...\" and \"We have amazing maps...\" those thing are features - what you need to do is list the benefits.  You should tell the users what value they get.  Example: Our coats have double lining = feature: Our coats keep you warmer = value.\u003cp\u003eAnd from a users experience point of view:  The site isn't very instructive and its hard to navigate.\u003cp\u003eFor me I want to use the site to find the least \"popular\" name - I guess a user can figure it out by your maps and boxes - But wouldn't it be great to just type in a name and get a page back with a \"name popularity\" map? Or if I need suggestion for names maybe you could do that too via popularity - by entering a state?\u003cp\u003eLike I said just my two cents.","parent":"370745","id":"370817"}
{"by":"tobias2014","time":"1432213901","timestamp":"2015-05-21 13:11:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;We deserve a smartphone that can last a whole day without charging\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI claim that any recent smartphone can work up to two days including a few hours of browsing and doing calls, once you disable all (unnecessary) background synchronizations, forcing the hardware awake. At least this is my experience for the Nexus 4.\u003cp\u003eBut reading that the authors phone \u0026quot;used to die with 6–8 hours of moderate usage or sometimes even before that\u0026quot;, it seems he had much higher expectations than me. I don\u0026#x27;t expect a phone to work in \u0026quot;active\u0026quot; mode with screen on for so many hours. I expect it to consume just little power when screen is off and few background synchronizations run, and do not care much about consumption when the screen is on. If you need 8 hours (that is 1\u0026#x2F;3 day) of screen-on time then maybe your expectations are too high on a smartphone? Additionally you would probably stumble over a power socket in the meantime.","parent":"9582197","id":"9582443"}
{"by":"duck","time":"1337715788","timestamp":"2012-05-22 19:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is definitely different than the first time his idea was copied: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874271\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874271\u003c/a\u003e (github page no longer exists).","parent":"4009425","id":"4009572"}
{"by":"RobbieStats","time":"1504829468","timestamp":"2017-09-08 00:11:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I missing any?","parent":"15196925","id":"15196929"}
{"by":"nasalgoat","time":"1423865574","timestamp":"2015-02-13 22:12:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The CEO laughed at me when I asked for dilution protection in my contract.  So, why does the percentage matter?","parent":"9043250","dead":true,"id":"9047565"}
{"by":"grumpydba","time":"1532269371","timestamp":"2018-07-22 14:22:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Terror attacks are committed everywhere, even in neutral countries. Hence the source of terror is not the us. It\u0026#x27;s the suni ideology.","parent":"17586047","id":"17586899"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1421374370","timestamp":"2015-01-16 02:12:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you expand further on the problem which you see? Pinning appears to address the biggest problem with the current CA model, where any of the CAs are equally valid, by allowing you to pick the CA(s) used and, if desired, even locking it to a specific host certificate:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-20#section-2.6\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tools.ietf.org\u0026#x2F;html\u0026#x2F;draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-20...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; To perform Pin Validation, the UA will compute the SPKI Fingerprints for each certificate in the Pinned Host\u0026#x27;s validated certificate chain, using each supported hash algorithm for each certificate. (As described in Section 2.4, certificates whose SPKI cannot be taken in isolation cannot be pinned.) The UA MUST ignore superfluous certificates in the chain that do not form part of the validating chain. The UA will then check that the set of these SPKI Fingerprints intersects the set of SPKI Fingerprints in that Pinned Host\u0026#x27;s Pinning Metadata. If there is set intersection, the UA continues with the connection as normal. Otherwise, the UA MUST treat this Pin Validation Failure as a non-recoverable error. Any procedure that matches the results of this Pin Validation procedure is considered equivalent.\u003cp\u003eUnless I\u0026#x27;m missing something, that allows you both to limit the number of CAs which you trust and if you go to the trouble of pinning specific certificates you can even limit damage from a compromised CA.","parent":"8896422","id":"8896891"}
{"by":"alkonaut","time":"1502259381","timestamp":"2017-08-09 06:16:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Press freedom doesn\u0026#x27;t really account for diversity, it\u0026#x27;s unfortunate but that\u0026#x27;s it.\u003cp\u003eIf those 5 are all pro govt (either by choice or persuation) then it\u0026#x27;s even worse.\u003cp\u003eBut press would be considered free if anyone could start a 6th outlet without being pressured to stop - and the cost of starting one is not relevant for that really.","parent":"14964372","id":"14965991"}
{"by":"poops","time":"1275141490","timestamp":"2010-05-29 13:58:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it would help if microsoft allowed browser upgrading without checking for a valid installation of windows. i don't know if things changed, as i'm on a mac now, but when i had XP, i was stuck with an older version of IE cause i bought a computer with an invalid copy of the OS","parent":"1388699","id":"1388731"}
{"by":"ubernostrum","time":"1451768993","timestamp":"2016-01-02 21:09:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah yes, the evil gubmint did it.\u003cp\u003eWell, you have fun with that.","parent":"10827917","id":"10827957"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1362193466","timestamp":"2013-03-02 03:04:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aside from the obvious horror of it all, it's interesting to me to think about how much these efforts took away from the German efforts to actually fight the war. How much better would they have done if they had played nicer? Then, perhaps, after subduing the USSR and achieving a more secure position in Europe, these plans could have been carried out, even farther from prying eyes and with no hope that anyone would come by to liberate them.","parent":"5308182","id":"5308273"}
{"by":"phpnode","time":"1536918384","timestamp":"2018-09-14 09:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So... This is good news for bitcoin?","parent":"17985830","id":"17985925"}
{"by":"ghostly_s","time":"1496706452","timestamp":"2017-06-05 23:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay. I\u0026#x27;m going to respond in more depth to the original nay-sayer here, but will use your reply as a jumping-off point as you\u0026#x27;ve succinctly summarized it. Hope you don\u0026#x27;t mind.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; LEED is a private entity...\u003cp\u003eAnd? The AIA, which administers licensing exams for architects, is also a private entity. What is the actual criticism here? That the US Green Building Council (the administrator of LEED) should be a government program? That would have given them the delightful opportunity to be defunded by Trump right now...I\u0026#x27;m good with the current situation.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; that you pay to get LEED certification...\u003cp\u003eIf the implication here is that it is a pay-to-play system, that\u0026#x27;s patently false. Yes, you pay for the certification - \u003ci\u003eif\u003c/i\u003e you demonstrate meeting the lengthy list of requirements for the certification you are seeking.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;based on your planned designs... \n\u0026gt;Once you have certification, you could build literally anything else...\u003cp\u003eThis is where this so-called critique really goes off the rails. For clarity, LEED certifies architectural projects. Those outside the industry may not understand this, but \u003ci\u003ethe only thing architectural firms produce is plans\u003c/i\u003e. We call them Construction Documents. Architecture firms do not create buildings, unless they are a design-build firm (a small minority). The post I was replying to here was clearly implying that these \u0026#x27;plans\u0026#x27; are just some non-binding byproduct of the process with no real impact on what gets built, which is the opposite of the truth. the plans produced by an architectural firm, not the built product, are what is subject to building code approval and are the artifact which carries all legal liability. LEED criteria direct the content of these plans. The accusation that firms are or could be putting \u0026#x27;LEED-y things\u0026#x27; in their plans and then building something else is preposterous and baseless. This would be fraud and malpractice. Please provide some evidence if you\u0026#x27;re going to continue making this claim.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;If you buy a LEED certified building, you could convert it to be heated and powered by burning tires and endangered animals- still LEED Certified...\u003cp\u003eThis is quite true, and admittedly is not a use-case traditional LEED is designed to address. But again, it\u0026#x27;s your onus to provide some examples of the system being abused in this way. The certification is intended to apply to the design documents and subsequent construction project; casually it is extended to a \u0026#x27;building\u0026#x27;, but of course buildings are things which can change all the time and even are ill-defined (you can get LEED certification for a campus development project, for example, which does not necessarily imply all buildings in that development are individually LEED-certified projects). The plaque which is provided for a LEED project and granted for use in marketing the project has the year of certification on it, and generally the certification is sought by developers or owners as a marketing effort at the time of their construction effort. I\u0026#x27;m not generally aware of any companies purchasing LEED-certified buildings so they can use the certification for their marketing benefit, even leaving aside how faithfully they maintain the LEED-applicable elements. In fact I believe the first ever LEED-certified speculative property development (meaning a building explicitly built with the intent of selling to commercial occupants other than the developer) was just certified this past year.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;There is no decertification process,...\u003cp\u003eAgain, the only reason a de-certification process would seem prudent is if the problem of people buying LEED-certified properties, \u0026quot;de-LEEDing\u0026quot; them, and continuing to promote their LEED-certification for marketing purposes, is a real thing. Just like voter fraud, you\u0026#x27;ll need to provide some evidence before I\u0026#x27;m going to be convinced USGBC needs to start worrying about this. While they are not \u0026quot;de-certifying\u0026quot; legacy projects, one of the new components of the latest standard is a \u0026#x27;Performance Score\u0026#x27; (which is currently optional but heavily encouraged), which measures exactly the kind of ongoing metrics you seem to be concerned about, and gives you a fancy digital status board to display these stats in your lobby. [\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leedon.io\u0026#x2F;faq.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.leedon.io\u0026#x2F;faq.html\u003c/a\u003e]\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;because that would mean spending money to reduce the number of buildings with the very-public name on it....\u003cp\u003eWhat are you suggesting to be the ulterior motives of the USGBC here? Because I was able to divine the ulterior motives of your LEED scare site in the course of like, three clicks. I\u0026#x27;ll summarize how I see it as someone who has a bit of familiarity with its history. Look, LEED is a deeply-flawed system. This is a topic discussed ad-naseum in the industry. But what\u0026#x27;s the alternative you\u0026#x27;re proposing? Because the system LEED replaced was...nothing at all. Back in the good old days, \u0026quot;green building\u0026quot; was mostly an idea made of marshmallow fluff and good intentions, with some grass on a roof here and there. Aside from the true pioneers who were generally working in obscurity, the sum total of a \u0026quot;green\u0026quot; architectural project of any significance generally was some planters and a showy geothermal system that didn\u0026#x27;t actually work, maybe some dubiously-\u0026quot;sustainable\u0026quot; material with no actual credentials used in a prominent application. Greenwashing was pretty much all that ever happened, because large clients by and large were only interested in \u0026quot;green\u0026quot; for its marketing value and not willing to spend more than the bare minimum on it. Now, I\u0026#x27;m not saying the system we have today is too much different! But what\u0026#x27;s significant is it provides a framework that practitioners can defer to. Now when a client says \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;re interested in green\u0026quot;, we can direct them to LEED, thanks to its brand recognition, and LEED comes with rules. Rules you have to spend to meet, and rules which are influencing the products vendors put on the market. Not to say exceptions don\u0026#x27;t get made (they have a system in place to petition for them), and not to say the point system is particularly equitable, and not to say that even the most aggressive LEED certification is anywhere near where we need to be. But it\u0026#x27;s providing a framework which is pushing the industry forward in observable ways, on a mulititude of levels. And most admirably, they are aggressively (in architectural timelines) deprecating prior certifications and rolling out new, more stringent ones, including things like the ongoing performance metrics I mentioned above.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if LEED is the ultimate answer. There are certainly better standards out there, gaining traction (Green Globes, Passive House are a couple notable ones). But LEED is on the ground, with tens of thousands of certified projects, and is pushing its standards higher every year. I\u0026#x27;m not going to sneeze at that.","parent":"14490682","id":"14493414"}
{"by":"vidiviciveni","time":"1303770302","timestamp":"2011-04-25 22:25:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple: We 'must have' user location data.\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/137432/20110423/apple-we-must-have-comprehensive-user-location-data-on-you.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ibtimes.com/articles/137432/20110423/apple-we-mus...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis feels like one giant leap towards big brother watching you. I personally decided against purchasing Apple products because of this. I'm glad to see countries are investigating this clear invasion of privacy.","parent":"2482908","id":"2483177"}
{"by":"johndevor","time":"1459657955","timestamp":"2016-04-03 04:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are not there yet. I agree it will happen, the question is when.","parent":"11414716","id":"11414932"}
{"by":"kolev","time":"1426482388","timestamp":"2015-03-16 05:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s not one or two races in a ghetto - I\u0026#x27;ve been in some myself, so, let\u0026#x27;s not abuse the \u0026quot;R\u0026quot; word. \u0026quot;Crazy sh\u003ci\u003et\u0026quot; is not swearing, not even profanity; it\u0026#x27;s just weak speech and a cliche that needs to be eradicated - the whole \u0026quot;sh\u003c/i\u003et\u0026quot; thing stinks, literally.","parent":"9209786","id":"9209967"}
{"by":"grenoire","time":"1499581999","timestamp":"2017-07-09 06:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really. That $100 offer comes with better performance, support, and GPU drivers; users do care enough about those.","parent":"14728593","id":"14728649"}
{"by":"cnnsucks","time":"1488743215","timestamp":"2017-03-05 19:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed they are; Vox has improved the Q factor of the left wing echo chamber like nothing since the rise of huffpo.","parent":"13798031","id":"13798110"}
{"by":"aimatt","time":"1374528750","timestamp":"2013-07-22 21:32:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point is the next time someone goes to commit a change which fixes nothing and won\u0026#x27;t even compile, they will think twice and actually test it first due to the chastising they received the previous time they did it. Then there does not need to be a second \u0026quot;No\u0026quot;. The quality of the software goes up.","parent":"6086433","id":"6086600"}
{"by":"graedus","time":"1496232806","timestamp":"2017-05-31 12:13:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, but GS appears to be resilient against bad optics so far.  Some negative stories are written about them, some people on the internet call them \u0026#x27;criminal banksters\u0026#x27;, but no matter what happens they continue to make vast amounts of money and ex- (and likely future) employees seem to reliably find their way into top offices of government, central banks and other powerful institutions.","parent":"14451751","id":"14451834"}
{"by":"erikb","time":"1471769337","timestamp":"2016-08-21 08:48:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Strange conclusion. The only result I see is that Ad-Tech will lose. One assumption they presented is at least wrong for me: If the service is blocked, the user has lost. I think if the service is blocked, the service provider loses users and dies. And that\u0026#x27;s neither bad for the users, nor for the industry, nor for the service in general.\u003cp\u003eExample Yahoo Mail. Let\u0026#x27;s say they block web access to the emails if you don\u0026#x27;t load their ads. You can still read them on your phone, in Thunderbird or mutt, and you can still choose to switch to GMail. Emails from Yahoo Mail can also be redirected to GMail so you don\u0026#x27;t even have to tell people that you are using GMail now. Then Yahoo Mail loses their user base and dies. The empty space will very likely be filled by an email start-up with an idea how to make money without spamming ads. Life goes on.\u003cp\u003eSo, dear ad-blockers. I love you. You allow me to fight for my right to not be spammed. But if the service provider decides to not serve me for that wish of mine, then don\u0026#x27;t stop them. Don\u0026#x27;t take away their rights about their service. Just focus on fighting for the users\u0026#x27; rights. Thanks. Maybe if you detect that this is happening you can provide an in-html guide how to switch to alternatives.","parent":"12329635","id":"12330040"}
{"by":"skeolawn","time":"1452011886","timestamp":"2016-01-05 16:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe he would, but all the experiments so far have failed for pretty much the same reasons and at enormous human cost.\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile capitalism in whatever form it\u0026#x27;s tried has proven itself to be an incredible engine of poverty reduction and human\u0026#x2F;social progress. There\u0026#x27;s always been tension between capitalism and democracy and we may be at a point where some of the cracks are showing.","parent":"10844114","id":"10844135"}
{"by":"isostatic","time":"1545260915","timestamp":"2018-12-19 23:08:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re discussing RHEL7\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x2F;usr\u0026#x2F;bin.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026gt; For example, out of about 50 or so \u0026#x2F;usr\u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;python scripts I see in a RHEL7\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x2F;usr\u0026#x2F;bin\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI posted Ubuntu 1604\u0026#x27;s in comparison.","parent":"18719627","id":"18720811"}
{"by":"nikkwong","time":"1543452609","timestamp":"2018-11-29 00:50:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you kindly! The site you have attached is also rocket speed!\u003cp\u003eCMS\u0026#x27;s like shopify offer great value, and are a great starting place even for technical folks. However I think the lack of prioritization they\u0026#x27;ve placed on the performance of sites on their platform has overall been a net negative for e-commerce at large. The mobile experience of most shopify stores is usually atrocious and the inclination to bounce before page load is all too real.\u003cp\u003eI understand they are working with an old stack, and changing course may be nigh impossible at this point. However, I built my stack in 2014, and the dividends of doing something custom vs the status quo have more than paid off.","parent":"18557147","id":"18557218"}
{"by":"netsp","time":"1252644125","timestamp":"2009-09-11 04:42:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm going to chime in with the same note that always rings when dropbox get mentioned. This is such an impressive service.\u003cp\u003eThis is the first time I've seen web interface since I first installed it and had a quick play. I just moved a folder which I thought might be useful to have online to dropbox \u0026#38; forgot about it (it'll come in handy sometime).\u003cp\u003eI loved the little games where I can earn more quota. Great idea and I'm sure it works magic. Dropbox, being so wonderfully invisible, are at a slight disadvantage. They don't get to talk to their customers very often. It's great to see what a great job they do when the opportunity presents.\u003cp\u003eDropbox is what MobileMe should have started as.","parent":"816779","id":"816866"}
{"by":"jeremybernier","time":"1475521483","timestamp":"2016-10-03 19:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vroom | New York, NY preferred, but open to remote for the right candidate | Full Stack \u0026#x2F; Front End Engineer (junior, mid-level, senior) | Salary: $70k-150k+\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: Javascript (ES6\u0026#x2F;ES2015), Node.js, React, Redux, MobX, Nginx, Webpack, AWS, continuous integration, git, Sass\u0026#x2F;PostCSS (or experience with CSS Modules, Radium, etc.), Optimizely, NewRelic, Segment.io, etc.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re trying to make used car buying\u0026#x2F;selling as easy as buying a pair of shoes online. We\u0026#x27;re on track for $1 billion in revenue this year. We\u0026#x27;re a relatively small company trying to build out our NYC headquarters (~30 employees, ~5 engineers). This means you\u0026#x27;ll have the opportunity to really make a difference and touch the whole stack.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re looking for driven engineers who can write clean code, work autonomously, stay at the forefront of technology, care about the user experience, and can work well with or without other people.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re working on many projects right now - one of which is the refactoring of vroom.com to migrate off .NET and into Node.js, making it a universal\u0026#x2F;isomorphic Javascript single-page app. Since we\u0026#x27;re a small team, we want leaders who are not only competent, but can also work autonomously.\u003cp\u003eUnlike most other companies, we\u0026#x27;re not really into micromanaging employees and pointless meetings. As long as you\u0026#x27;re doing quality work, you can work from home or whatever hours are most comfortable to you.\u003cp\u003eSend your resume to jeremy.bernier@vroom.com if interested.","parent":"12627852","id":"12630336"}
{"by":"3triode3","time":"1515086101","timestamp":"2018-01-04 17:15:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t like closed systems that I have no oversight into\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhoa there, so you have insight into all those chipsets on your current motherboard? You know, the ones that are outside the CPU, made by third parties and control your audio, communications, video, networking, etc?","parent":"16071848","id":"16072024"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1397599086","timestamp":"2014-04-15 21:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;The death march was a complete success!\u0026quot;","parent":"7594231","id":"7594584"}
{"by":"thucydidesofusa","time":"1529096881","timestamp":"2018-06-15 21:08:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Harvard has no obligation to do this.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not clear what obligations a non-profit, private institution like Harvard might have, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean they have unlimited freedom to act how they want.\u003cp\u003eBusinesses (and to be clear, Harvard is chartered as a business) are expected to conduct their business in a non-discriminatory way. This is why restaurants aren\u0026#x27;t allowed to say \u0026quot;No Irish\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;No Blacks\u0026quot; anymore.\u003cp\u003eNow, Harvard\u0026#x27;s actions aren\u0026#x27;t rising to the level of a Jim Crow diner, but they\u0026#x27;re certainly racially motivated to some degree and the issue is whether or not the degree of racial discrimination is permissible.","parent":"17320881","dead":true,"id":"17323565"}
{"by":"JCB_K","time":"1303684977","timestamp":"2011-04-24 22:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wasn't Photoswap the next big thing in 2008? \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/photoswap-bring/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/photoswap-bring/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2479762","id":"2479814"}
{"by":"nickb","time":"1196048952","timestamp":"2007-11-26 03:49:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compete.com and quantcast.com are the only free alternatives that are closer to reality. I have no idea how accurate Compete.com is but Quantcast is extremely accurate for sites that have added their tracking code. Basically, Quantcast is like open Google Analytics. I've added Quantcast tracking to our site recently and their estimates are close to our logs (once you discount for bots etc).","parent":"83403","id":"83474"}
{"by":"pmoriarty","time":"1474433917","timestamp":"2016-09-21 04:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Limitless\u0026quot; is a fun movie to watch for anyone interested in this subject.","parent":"12544881","id":"12545523"}
{"by":"s3graham","time":"1249633674","timestamp":"2009-08-07 08:27:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As snprbob86 pointed out, that already exists: Pyjamas @ pyjs.org.\u003cp\u003eI used pyjamas a while back for a couple toy projects. It's quite nice and sounds like what you're looking for.\u003cp\u003eWith Skulpt, I wanted to avoid the build step that Pyjamas has (the compiler's written in Python, not Javascript so you run it ahead of time) and at least when I used it, it sometimes felt like Javascript with Python syntax, rather than actually programming in Python. It's certainly closer to Python than Skulpt is today though!","parent":"747262","id":"747279"}
{"by":"ojbyrne","time":"1233860710","timestamp":"2009-02-05 19:05:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok, I stand corrected. The meta-discussions were the _start_ of the death of digg.","parent":"468466","id":"468496"}
{"by":"a3n","time":"1439424439","timestamp":"2015-08-13 00:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I feel like I\u0026#x27;m sort of reaching into the computer\u0026#x27;s inner world and fiddling with things\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s what I \u003ci\u003edidn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e like when I was playing with smalltalk in school (in \u0026#x27;87)","parent":"10049733","id":"10051562"}
{"by":"theorique","time":"1272558529","timestamp":"2010-04-29 16:28:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"A guy with a fast car, excessive spending, and flashy clothes will go home from the bar with a girl before the geek with meek clothes and spending way below his means -- even if he is 1000x smarter than the flashy guy.\u003cp\u003eIt simply takes too long to evaluate intelligence and that increased time to analyze the male by the female means the males could die.\"\u003cp\u003eThis presupposes that women are selecting specifically for intelligence - or, said slightly differently, that maximizing (rather than merely satisficing) for intelligence is a better evolutionary strategy. Is that true in practice?","parent":"1304873","id":"1304992"}
{"by":"syntern","time":"1403290902","timestamp":"2014-06-20 19:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Family? Kids? Working at night and weekends quickly disappear once you have life in your work-life balance...","parent":"7922184","id":"7922261"}
{"by":"AsymetricCom","time":"1376087782","timestamp":"2013-08-09 22:36:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t Javascript wonderful?","parent":"6188543","id":"6189020"}
{"by":"jschwartzi","time":"1442783139","timestamp":"2015-09-20 21:05:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re 18 and in the army, you can buy alcohol on post.","parent":"10247383","id":"10249124"}
{"by":"bagels","time":"1409353891","timestamp":"2014-08-29 23:11:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, California. Should have specified. Same state as the article though :)","parent":"8244399","id":"8244952"}
{"by":"pearkes","time":"1346080983","timestamp":"2012-08-27 15:23:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're probably looking at extended validation vs a standard SSL cert.\u003cp\u003eIn this case, it's literally whether or not the bar will be green with your name in it.\u003cp\u003eStandard Example: \u003ca href=\"https://limitless-atoll-7423.herokuapp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://limitless-atoll-7423.herokuapp.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEV Example: \u003ca href=\"https://simple.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://simple.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4437021","id":"4439223"}
{"by":"danielweber","time":"1421159254","timestamp":"2015-01-13 14:27:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really would like to know when that happened.","parent":"8879971","id":"8880024"}
{"by":"drm237","time":"1268326561","timestamp":"2010-03-11 16:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can you possibly compare a consumer service ment to make it easy to access files across multiple devices with a backup solution ment only for the most technical people?  Can you imaging if ZumoDrive had you (or your parents?!) generate your own crypto keys which you would then have to manually transfer to your iphone when you wanted to access your data on it?  Think a web interface sounds nice?  Great, just login with your username, password, and crypto keys (that hopefully you have memorized), so we can decrypt your files and render a web interface.\u003cp\u003eThe article makes some decent point and if you're storing the nuclear launch codes, yeah, don't put them in ZumoDrive.  Otherwise, the article would have been much more useful if it suggested alternatives that would still operate within ZumoDrive's existing user experience.","parent":"1183308","id":"1184211"}
{"by":"mahranch","time":"1533135726","timestamp":"2018-08-01 15:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; pulled their search engine out of China, defying their censorship attempts\u003cp\u003eThey didn\u0026#x27;t pull their search engine out of China because of censorship requests, they pulled their search engine because the government kept trying to hack them and steal their source code, which they eventually did. So Google up and left.\u003cp\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;SB10001424052702303493904575167290011111402\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;SB10001424052702303493904575167...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey like to cite censorship and free speech to look better, but they knew \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e what they were getting into before setting foot in China -- the government of China made specific requirements before they could do business in China and Google agreed to those requirements. In fact, Google was criticized heavily for doing so. So don\u0026#x27;t buy into their history revisionism, they were on board with censorship from day 1. They had to be, or the PRC wouldn\u0026#x27;t allow them in.","parent":"17662433","id":"17663084"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1476837071","timestamp":"2016-10-19 00:31:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s rather hilarious to look at in Firefox on my desktop - humongous low-resolution images with 3-4 lines of inconsistently-styled text between each.\u003cp\u003eGraceful, responsive design this is not.","parent":"12739794","id":"12739955"}
{"by":"splintercell","time":"1454337625","timestamp":"2016-02-01 14:40:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Paying people the same value they contribute is not socialism. It\u0026#x27;s called: Being a good person. \u0026lt;\u003cp\u003eI am sorry but the whole disagreement is on what value a worker contributes.\u003cp\u003eAccording to Capitalism and Capitalism supporters, a productive activity is the sum of (Land\u0026#x2F;raw materials + Labor + Capital). Capital is nothing but deferred consumption. If you don\u0026#x27;t consume what you could consume, then that constitutes as capital.\u003cp\u003eWhen you say that Capitalism exploits another\u0026#x27;s surplus labor, what you don\u0026#x27;t understand is that the Capitalist pays for that surplus labor via capital (or time). Any worker in Capitalism is entitled to the full share of the profit as long as he does not expect wages to be paid out immediately, and that he is willing to wait until the profits pour in.\u003cp\u003eBecause most labor is paid immediately, and workers have no risk or delayed consumption, they don\u0026#x27;t get the share from the profit.\u003cp\u003eKarl Marx noticed this phenomenon, but was unable to understand the role of Capital(and yea I know he wrote a whole book on this concept). To him, careful inspection revealed a \u0026#x27;conspiracy theory\u0026#x27; among the capitalists which he dubbed as class struggle and class interest.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; How is the risk the founder takes that different to Employee #1\u0026#x27;s? \u0026lt;\nWhen you compare the risk of the founder vs risk of the employee #1, it is the matter of how much capital is on line there. Clearly the risk taken by someone who has invested $1000 is less than the risk taken by someone who has invested $10,000 into the same venture at the same time.\u003cp\u003eFunny thing is when people talk about a cooperative, it\u0026#x27;s no different than an early stage equity startup where nobody gets paid a salary. The moment a cooperative pays salary before the revenue, it will need capital and the person providing the capital would deserve a bigger share from the profits.","parent":"11010899","id":"11011940"}
{"by":"padmanabhan01","time":"1389640572","timestamp":"2014-01-13 19:16:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"years lost indeed..","parent":"7051091","id":"7052660"}
{"by":"oyeanuj","time":"1499806373","timestamp":"2017-07-11 20:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;d love to! What\u0026#x27;s the best way to get in touch? (My email is in my profile)","parent":"14747791","id":"14747957"}
{"by":"icey","time":"1225373646","timestamp":"2008-10-30 13:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThis\u003c/i\u003e is why PG likes to know usernames during the the funding cycle.","parent":"348581","id":"348686"}
{"by":"GuiA","time":"1387183121","timestamp":"2013-12-16 08:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those questions, I like to follow paulg\u0026#x27;s advice:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Another way to figure out which fields are worth studying is to create the dropout graph. For example, I know many people who switched from math to computer science because they found math too hard, and no one who did the opposite. People don\u0026#x27;t do hard things gratuitously; no one will work on a harder problem unless it is proportionately (or at least log(n)) more rewarding. So probably math is more worth studying than computer science. By similar comparisons you can make a graph of all the departments in a university. At the bottom you\u0026#x27;ll find the subjects with least intellectual content.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo CS.","parent":"6913083","id":"6913538"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1501213876","timestamp":"2017-07-28 03:51:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disadvantages: Sometimes it takes more work. Quick and dirty can be easier to read, if the function is short.\u003cp\u003eAdvantages: You can mix and match. Pure functions are more composable and easier to test because you don\u0026#x27;t have to worry about side effects.","parent":"14870550","id":"14871821"}
{"by":"masnick","time":"1314645853","timestamp":"2011-08-29 19:24:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't use use my \"pwdff\" command that often. It is convenient if I need to read a specific file in a script that's buried in some folder.\u003cp\u003eI use my \"cdff\" command much more often, which changes the directory in Terminal to the frontmost Finder window. (And if you already have the folder up in Terminal, \"pwd | pbcopy\" is essentially the same as \"pwdff\".)","parent":"2938092","id":"2938457"}
{"by":"avn2109","time":"1406661941","timestamp":"2014-07-29 19:25:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"However, the balance of power in our society has now shifted to the point where the NSA is trivially capable of securing the judges\u0026#x27; cooperation. So the \u0026quot;help of the judge\u0026quot; will be granted anytime the NSA asks for it, and in a practical sense they can still do all sorts of unpleasant things to you at will.\u003cp\u003eAlso, if a judge starts being uncooperative, the NSA has a lengthy dossier on his adultery, homosexuality, communist tendencies, suspected terrorist links, etc. It would be a real shame for that dossier to find its way to the public, wouldn\u0026#x27;t it...?","parent":"8102504","id":"8104406"}
{"by":"skc","time":"1365580357","timestamp":"2013-04-10 07:52:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lose developers?\u003cp\u003eTo who exactly?\u003cp\u003eExactly.","parent":"5522810","id":"5523778"}
{"by":"guiambros","time":"1354730813","timestamp":"2012-12-05 18:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's hard to feel any sympathy for Twitter on this Instagram debacle, given their track record.\u003cp\u003eOf course, users will pay the price, with a poor user experience and some additional clicks (plus ads, FB cookies, etc). Pity. That's the problem with being \u003ci\u003euser\u003c/i\u003e instead of \u003ci\u003ecustomer\u003c/i\u003e. Nice and free, exactly because \u003ci\u003ewe\u003c/i\u003e are the product.\u003cp\u003eI see a Chrome extension coming in 3...2..","parent":"4876635","id":"4877565"}
{"by":"theandrewbailey","time":"1405093122","timestamp":"2014-07-11 15:38:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorta knowing the sad state of government IT, it\u0026#x27;s possible that it was never \u0026quot;fixed\u0026quot; at all!","parent":"8020385","id":"8020693"}
{"by":"Major_Grooves","time":"1238364940","timestamp":"2009-03-29 22:15:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"although I should add that the website that they designed that made me want to use them is not on their online portfolio. I had found it through one of their designers showing it on a design blog. \u003ca href=\"http://ventlondon.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ventlondon.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"537879","id":"537882"}
{"by":"o1iver","time":"1313283352","timestamp":"2011-08-14 00:55:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please elaborate... I don't understand the criticism. I find the question quite interesting. What is ambiguous about it?","parent":"2882412","id":"2882435"}
{"by":"blattimwind","time":"1530115600","timestamp":"2018-06-27 16:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Putting the car in a large, fire-proof steel container (specialty engineering, they exist) for a few weeks (so you are at least somewhat sure it won\u0026#x27;t start catching fire RFN). Then dismantling the battery by hand, inspecting each cell individually.\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t really put anything around it (like a nitrogen atmosphere) that prevents fires, because the oxygen is already in there in the cathode. And so is the energy to ignite it.","parent":"17409255","id":"17409295"}
{"by":"paulcole","time":"1536166308","timestamp":"2018-09-05 16:51:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remember when all of Sanders\u0026#x27; supporters said he wasn\u0026#x27;t just another politician? Well he\u0026#x27;s certainly pandering to his base like one.","parent":"17919541","id":"17919727"}
{"by":"cordite","time":"1406373185","timestamp":"2014-07-26 11:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not a user of erlang, but about everybody I\u0026#x27;ve seen comments on how the real power of erlang is it\u0026#x27;s runtime.\u003cp\u003eIf this is yours, and you actually get pretty far in it, you\u0026#x27;ll have some awesome experience that you can use elsewhere in the JVM-languages world :)","parent":"8089448","id":"8089457"}
{"by":"blhack","time":"1436839890","timestamp":"2015-07-14 02:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand the sortof not-saying-it-but-maybe-saying-it implications that the big bad government had to \u0026quot;shut this down\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIt was a 900mhz wifi router with some wishy washy \u0026quot;security\u0026quot; speak slathered on top of it to gain attention.\u003cp\u003eIf you want a 900mhz wifi router, here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ubnt.com\u0026#x2F;airmax\u0026#x2F;nanobridgem\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ubnt.com\u0026#x2F;airmax\u0026#x2F;nanobridgem\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo nuts.  In fact, look at all of the other really cool stuff that ubiquity sells!\u003cp\u003eMy guess would be that this talk was either pulled because the author got in a little over their head, or the organizers of the event realized that this was just going to be a talk about a DIY wifi access point.\u003cp\u003eBTW, proxyham guy: COOL PROJECT!  Wifi access points are \u003ci\u003ereally fucking cool\u003c/i\u003e, and building your own is really fucking cool too.  Everybody should build one.","parent":"9882268","id":"9882442"}
{"by":"zach","time":"1252438761","timestamp":"2009-09-08 19:39:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every idiom was once a trick.\u003cp\u003eThen again, some tricks seem far less likely than others to graduate to that level...","parent":"811648","id":"811737"}
{"by":"wingspan","time":"1349185625","timestamp":"2012-10-02 13:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah right, misread your post. I was just commenting in general on the VS support, you are right that it would not be as nice on other platforms.","parent":"4598692","id":"4601907"}
{"by":"iamelgringo","time":"1300639874","timestamp":"2011-03-20 16:51:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love it, Gabe. I've been running Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley for several years, and this flow chart pretty much nails it.\u003cp\u003eI would suggest at the \"Have a Hacker Founder?\" level, to add a \"learn how to code\" box. I run in to a lot of BizDev people at our events, and the business people that have had the most success are the ones that...\u003cp\u003e1. Learn how to code. It proves to hacker founders that you are serious, and every level of technical knowledge that a business person brings to the table makes them exponentially more valuable to the technical founder.\u003cp\u003eI'm not blithely saying this.  My day job is as a nurse, and I went back to school for software engineering because I wanted to do the startup thing.  It took me years, but I decided early on that I was going to have to build 10 startups before one succeeded.  So, I learned what I had to, to be able to build 10 startups without breaking the bank.  And, they key factor there was learning how to code.\u003cp\u003e2. Leave their idea behind.  Instead help hackers take their too technical ideas and turn them into proper businesses.\u003cp\u003e3. Learn how the open source model works and give away their ideas and advice freely to hacker founders. Eventually, if the've helped enough hacker founders, they gain enough street cred, karma and friendships that hacker founders will ask you to join their startup.\u003cp\u003e-----------\u003cp\u003eWhen I tell business people to \"learn how to code\" the most common response I hear is that \"it takes too long\".  To which I say, It's going to take you at least 6 to 12 months to find a technical co founder, even in Silicon Valley, if you're lucky.  You might as well start learning how to code while you're looking.","parent":"2346499","id":"2346670"}
{"by":"xtracto","time":"1323341287","timestamp":"2011-12-08 10:48:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was also really surprised about this after reading the article. I look around to know a bit more about the Airbus design and arrived at this [article](\u003ca href=\"http://msquair.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/pilots-in-the-loop-airbus-and-the-fbw-side-stick/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://msquair.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/pilots-in-the-loop-a...\u003c/a\u003e). The problem is not that they are averaged, but it seems to be that they are not coupled.\u003cp\u003eIt seems that it has been known since 1987 that pilots prefer \u003ci\u003ecoupled\u003c/i\u003e sticks:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    In a 1987 evaluation of side stick controllers Summers et al (1987) found that under simulated ‘surprise’ hand overs pilots Cooper Harper rating of the schemes were (in descending order):\n\n    Coupled sides sticks with algebraically summed inputs (1.4),\n    Uncoupled side sticks with algebraically summed inputs and disconnect switch (final A320 implementation) (1.8),\n    Uncoupled with algebraically summed inputs and priority logic (original A320 implementation) (3.3), and\n    Uncoupled side sticks with with algebraically summed inputs (3.4).\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSo, Airbus chose to implement the \"second best\" option (using a disconnect switch). The same article speculates that even though several sound alerts might have been triggered - including a sound alerting of \"Dual Input\" -, the stress situation makes them insufficient:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    [...] in the circumstances identified as triggering instinctive responses the value of such alerts is degraded due to the inevitable attentional tunnelling that operators experience in high stress situations.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"3328398","id":"3328604"}
{"by":"roel_v","time":"1412168118","timestamp":"2014-10-01 12:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please do not post authoritative-sounding advise when you obviously don\u0026#x27;t know anything about the issue. There are several EU countries where carrying legal ID at all times is law.","parent":"8393894","id":"8394026"}
{"by":"kristopolous","time":"1445358368","timestamp":"2015-10-20 16:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure ... if I found eating 60 apples per day  for 2 weeks isn\u0026#x27;t a good idea, I\u0026#x27;m not in the right to declare apples as a terrible food to avoid.","parent":"10419773","id":"10420134"}
{"by":"patja","time":"1362068260","timestamp":"2013-02-28 16:17:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Testers are mostly a labor commodity.  Seems like the body shop contracting agencies and big offshore firms (Wipro, TCS, etc.) have this market cornered.  Any potential client who really values having a dedicated testing team will build up the domain knowledge in house rather than re-educate freelancers over and over, or require the body shop to build that knowledge base and do that training for them when bringing on a new tester.\u003cp\u003eAnd how often do you really need just one tester?  What are you going to do, bring in 10 different freelancers?\u003cp\u003eFreelancers need to wear more hats than just \"tester\".","parent":"5298663","id":"5299317"}
{"by":"NickDouglas","time":"1181088101","timestamp":"2007-06-06 00:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like it, though I'll bet a hundred bucks it doesn't turn a profit in the first two years.","parent":"26524","id":"26527"}
{"by":"ipsin","time":"1372259772","timestamp":"2013-06-26 15:16:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And a security risk, to boot.","parent":"5946542","id":"5946573"}
{"by":"cconcepts","time":"1465969458","timestamp":"2016-06-15 05:44:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its quite refreshing to hear you say that last sentence. Being labelled a bigot, self righteous or any of several other generalisations, because I believe Jesus was who he said he was, is a little hard to understand at times.","parent":"11903659","dead":true,"id":"11907365"}
{"by":"callinyouin","time":"1453073863","timestamp":"2016-01-17 23:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t downvote you, but from what I\u0026#x27;ve read (mostly here on HN), there are people in the industry advocating for easier work visas to bring skilled developers into the US to fill a talent vacuum. I\u0026#x27;m not sure how accurate that is (I\u0026#x27;m going on memory here), but perhaps that\u0026#x27;s why you were downvoted.","parent":"10921533","id":"10921625"}
{"by":"saintgimp","time":"1444407365","timestamp":"2015-10-09 16:16:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And I think at some point the customers are going to figure out that the startup merry-go-round is and never was intended for their benefit.  Over time it\u0026#x27;s going to get harder for new startups to attract customers because people will realize that flashy new product offerings aren\u0026#x27;t likely to stick around (in a form that we actually want) for long.","parent":"10359800","id":"10361078"}
{"by":"csomar","time":"1491315191","timestamp":"2017-04-04 14:13:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So update your hardware regularly?","parent":"14032685","id":"14032764"}
{"by":"riffraff","time":"1530807884","timestamp":"2018-07-05 16:24:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Germany is not all jurisdictions, that is the point.","parent":"17461011","id":"17464518"}
{"by":"botswana99","time":"1517519837","timestamp":"2018-02-01 21:17:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DataKitchen | Boston\u0026#x2F;Cambridge, MA, ONSITE full-time | UI Focussed Full Stack Senior Software Engineer (Angular, Python, AWS, big data) | \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.datakitchen.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.datakitchen.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDataKitchen, Inc. enables analytic teams to deliver value quickly, with high quality, using the tools that they love. DataKitchen provides the world’s first DataOps platform for data-driven enterprises, enabling them to support data analytics that can be quickly and robustly adapted to meet evolving requirements. DataKitchen is leading the DataOps movement to incorporate Agile Software Development, DevOps, and manufacturing based statistical process control into analytics and data management. Our company is profitable, stable, rapidly growing and stock will be part of the package.  We own the company -- ain’t got no stinkin’ investors to drive us crazy.\u003cp\u003eStack = (Angular, CoffeeScript, Python, AWS, big data, docker, mesos, mongodb)\u003cp\u003e----------------------------------------------\u003cp\u003eDataKitchen | Boston\u0026#x2F;Cambridge, MA, ONSITE full-time | Data Engineer in Customer Success (SQL, big data, Redshift, Python, AWS, docker) | \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.datakitchen.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.datakitchen.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou should have solid SQL development experience along with the ability to interface with customers (though there will be no significant travel required). This position requires excellent technical skills, good business communication skills, excellent attention to detail and follow-up, and the ability to self-manage. You will get great exposure as you work directly with our customers to tackle tough business challenges.\u003cp\u003eWorking knowledge of SQL including creation and maintenance of tables, views, indexes, and stored procedures. Some Python coding experience and experience building Docker containers is a plus. AWS and Amazon Redshift experience is a plus. Flexibility and self-motivation – with a problem solver\u0026#x27;s attitude. Excellent attention to detail. Ability to work independently yet collaborates cross-functionally in a team environment. Highly effective written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative work style.\u003cp\u003eWe offer very competitive pay, benefits like a company funded 401K, experienced team (we \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c/i\u003e all code), amazing customers, equity, and a cool office location.\u003cp\u003eContact jobs@datakitchen.io","parent":"16282819","id":"16285993"}
{"by":"mtl_usr","time":"1501428891","timestamp":"2017-07-30 15:34:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve seen a few good classifiers to filter hate speech in tweet s at a few hackathons.\u003cp\u003eOf course they rely on a wordlist 90 % of the time but it would eliminate the trashiest comments quite well.","parent":"14885372","id":"14886360"}
{"by":"lunatech","time":"1264150793","timestamp":"2010-01-22 08:59:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hadoop, Hive, Scribe","parent":"1068520","id":"1069358"}
{"by":"jorgecastillo","time":"1283028747","timestamp":"2010-08-28 20:52:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just don't get why people always fight about licenses. I would think that developers have carefully thought which license they feel more comfortable with and that they know what they are getting in to. This sort of discussion won't really make anyone change their mind, they're jut a waste of time and energy for everyone involved.","parent":"1641664","id":"1642391"}
{"by":"whyleyc","time":"1251131118","timestamp":"2009-08-24 16:25:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, although Simone Brummelhuis does mention some specific programs founders can apply to.","parent":"782485","id":"782491"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1501448589","timestamp":"2017-07-30 21:03:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, most countries don\u0026#x27;t have a non-pedal shoe - we use the other to operate the clutch :)","parent":"14887611","id":"14887800"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1512176992","timestamp":"2017-12-02 01:09:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You\u0026#x27;d still need physical access to a logged-in machine to exploit it.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t. You can exploit it from the login screen after a machine wakes from sleep, you can also exploit it remotely via Screen Sharing.","parent":"15829234","id":"15829399"}
{"by":"phjohnst","time":"1282427191","timestamp":"2010-08-21 21:46:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly...  I guess this is just another lesson that security of a network (in this case meaning all the different services we use) is only as strong as the weakest link.  Certainly not going to be firing up the foursquare app for a while","parent":"1623719","id":"1623724"}
{"by":"ah-","time":"1457636208","timestamp":"2016-03-10 18:56:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apache Kafka client for dotnet\u0026#x2F;C#: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ah-\u0026#x2F;rdkafka-dotnet\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ah-\u0026#x2F;rdkafka-dotnet\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eKafka is amazing, the new open source dotnet as well, and this brings both together.","parent":"11259746","id":"11261250"}
{"by":"sedachv","time":"1461979509","timestamp":"2016-04-30 01:25:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also see the author\u0026#x27;s other articles:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.6502.org\u0026#x2F;users\u0026#x2F;andre\u0026#x2F;icapos\u0026#x2F;mp.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.6502.org\u0026#x2F;users\u0026#x2F;andre\u0026#x2F;icapos\u0026#x2F;mp.html\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.6502.org\u0026#x2F;users\u0026#x2F;andre\u0026#x2F;icapos\u0026#x2F;osa65.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.6502.org\u0026#x2F;users\u0026#x2F;andre\u0026#x2F;icapos\u0026#x2F;osa65.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd this discussion on the 6502 forums for more info on multitasking on the 6502:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;forum.6502.org\u0026#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=2\u0026amp;t=2281\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;forum.6502.org\u0026#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=2\u0026amp;t=2281\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11599849","id":"11599862"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1361048853","timestamp":"2013-02-16 21:07:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is exactly the sort of the thing the grandparent talks about. Your post has rhetoric but no substance. If you want to be persuasive, show your evidence and make an argument. A bunch of unsupported assertions just reads like a temper tantrum.","parent":"5232690","id":"5233042"}
{"by":"jhj","time":"1509339989","timestamp":"2017-10-30 05:06:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, also SGD is not necessarily implied either (for example, full batch gradient descent).","parent":"15583176","id":"15583200"}
{"by":"xux","time":"1387833970","timestamp":"2013-12-23 21:26:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just read the description on Amazon,\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e• Evan “Ev” Williams, the ambitious farm boy from Clarks, Nebraska, who had already created Blogger and sold it to Google for millions. Quiet and protective...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e• Jack Dorsey, the tattooed “nobody” who helped mastermind the original concept of Twitter, became a billionaire tech titan...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone else find it funny how Medium and Stripe exactly portray those two personalities?","parent":"6956530","id":"6956610"}
{"by":"baybal2","time":"1524210134","timestamp":"2018-04-20 07:42:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was it their 12th attempt? I think they have to think about finally changing their product manager.","parent":"16882539","id":"16882895"}
{"by":"Produce","time":"1340295756","timestamp":"2012-06-21 16:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion, save the configuration, XMonad is simpler to use than mouse-based window managers.\u003cp\u003eYou can open and close programs, change their layout, move between and resize them. All with, what, 7 shortcuts?\u003cp\u003eWith mouse-based WM's there's click to focus, click and drag, right click, lots of buttons and icons everywhere and you have to constantly work to make the relevant information visible.\u003cp\u003eThere's a reason why people don't go back after using tiling WM's - they're \u003ci\u003eeasier\u003c/i\u003e and more efficient to use than their mouse-based counterparts.\u003cp\u003eConsider that mobile phones use a similar approach by getting rid of the concept of windows and they are, by a long shot, easier for most people to get to grips with. Tiling is a similar concept except that more than one application is visible at the same time. The lack of a window stack helps. Navigating a big physical table covered with pieces of paper (i.e. all applications on the same layer, where the table split into segments - aka desktops) is infinitely easier for a human than a stack of paper (i.e. finding something in a binder or book is more annoying and slower).","parent":"4142344","id":"4142737"}
{"by":"hanniabu","time":"1546605328","timestamp":"2019-01-04 12:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s the trusted setup with zcash?","parent":"18822027","id":"18823547"}
{"by":"revel","time":"1536451141","timestamp":"2018-09-08 23:59:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the opposite of surprising and writing scare headlines betrays an extremely shallow understanding of the mortgage market. Simply put, the GSEs were created to underwrite high quality mortgages, in fact they are legally compelled to do so. That\u0026#x27;s why they exist.\u003cp\u003eThere are more conforming, high quality mortgages than there were in the run up to the financial crisis. You don\u0026#x27;t hear about zero interest or liar loans any more because they\u0026#x27;re mostly not available any more. It\u0026#x27;s a good thing that those products aren\u0026#x27;t available any more. The average quality of mortgages is much, much higher. The flip side of that is that of course the GSEs have increased the size of their balance sheets: that\u0026#x27;s exactly what they were designed to do! This is like getting mad at a tree you planted for growing leaves.","parent":"17941829","id":"17943502"}
{"by":"sharemywin","time":"1528808974","timestamp":"2018-06-12 13:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you want a stupid little law like that overturned get a petition and take it to your local city counsel.","parent":"17285292","id":"17292838"}
{"by":"msie","time":"1408408883","timestamp":"2014-08-19 00:41:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe Chinese ethnic communities in the Bay Area have well established networks of people with a culture of facilitating opportunities for each other.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYa, like other groups in California don\u0026#x27;t?","parent":"8195407","id":"8195480"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1421443672","timestamp":"2015-01-16 21:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow that is a lot of centrifuges, err I mean magnets!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m disappointed that Popular Mechanics didn\u0026#x27;t go into the theory, this is better \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India-based_Neutrino_Observatory\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;India-based_Neutrino_Observator...\u003c/a\u003e but still not great.","parent":"8901083","id":"8901825"}
{"by":"dman","time":"1328138340","timestamp":"2012-02-01 23:19:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks Andrew. This is great work!","parent":"3539922","id":"3540588"}
{"by":"madengr","time":"1510836032","timestamp":"2017-11-16 12:40:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, that engineering half-life is so much bullshit.  Electromagnetics hasn’t changed much in 120 years.  Maybe a new transistor topology comes out every 20 years.","parent":"15712101","id":"15712183"}
{"by":"leggomylibro","time":"1512421899","timestamp":"2017-12-04 21:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just another reminder that there is no rule of law in the USA; its judicial system is an arm of oppression, not service.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s nothing we as individuals can \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e about it besides acknowledging the illegitimacy of laws and abiding by a basic empathetic moral code, but don\u0026#x27;t kid yourself about how that will be treated.\u003cp\u003eIf you feel like a law is wrong, look at why it was passed. There might be reasoning you aren\u0026#x27;t thinking of, like environmental damages. If you still feel like it\u0026#x27;s wrong, look at how likely the action it forbids is to hurt someone else by intent or accident. If you feel like that\u0026#x27;s extremely unlikely, and don\u0026#x27;t think you\u0026#x27;ll get caught, break that law!\u003cp\u003ePart of civil disobedience is acknowledging that you may get caught and punished. But in doing so, you are riding on the fact that the punishment \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e arbitrary and offensive, which would rally people in support of you if it is carried out. At least, that\u0026#x27;s the idea. The real problem comes when your government is more than happy to simply arrest\u0026#x2F;beat\u0026#x2F;shoot people until they quiet down.","parent":"15847450","id":"15847555"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1301463386","timestamp":"2011-03-30 05:36:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup. \"No false positives\" is my goal. I've experienced what happens when a company gets bloated and teams get diluted with bozos. Even one person can poison a team. Firing people is bad for a team too. I'm determined to avoid that to a great extent. I know of no other way than actually working with a person to determine whether I want to keep working with them.\u003cp\u003eI don't think most people even question how ridiculous it is that companies interview a person for a couple hours and then agree to work with them for many months or years before they will even consider firing them (usually only after additional months of trying to \"work it out\").\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion the best recruitment tool is having a team that a potential candidate would be really happy (and lucky) to work with. You can only do that if you keep standards up and hire slowly and methodically. A bit of a pain in the beginning, but worth it for everyone involved in the end.","parent":"2385936","id":"2385998"}
{"by":"freshfey","time":"1331914296","timestamp":"2012-03-16 16:11:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The greatest insight I got from this (pretty awesome) book was that sometimes your friends criticize your ideas and projects, because deeply they are scared that your relationship will change if you're successful.","parent":"3712470","id":"3713899"}
{"by":"tripzilch","time":"1342798157","timestamp":"2012-07-20 15:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually Perp-3 wasn't violent, as far as I could tell from the story. I think he mainly called him \"perpetrator\" because he was close, stood around, didn't do anything and seemed to be okay with what happened.\u003cp\u003eAnd of the other two, Perp-1 seemed to have been the manager, while Perp-2 was a customer (judging by the shades in his hair, and the \"meal\" in front of him).\u003cp\u003eI'm guessing the customer felt paranoid from the camera and complained to the manager.","parent":"4253403","id":"4271200"}
{"by":"freeone3000","time":"1504792834","timestamp":"2017-09-07 14:00:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I understand it, the Strait of Malacca is international waters. \u0026quot;We\u0026#x27;ll go to international waters and do whatever we like\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t seem threatening, it seems self-evident.","parent":"15191739","id":"15191894"}
{"by":"nodesocket","time":"1481769881","timestamp":"2016-12-15 02:44:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re not the only one who thinks this tax is absurd and unfair. It hampers innovation and entrepreneurs looking to start a business.\u003cp\u003eWhy should an LLC that makes $5,000 a year pay the same flat tax of $800 as a business that makes $5,000,000 a year? There should be tiers instead.\u003cp\u003eI think a structure like the following makes way more sense, but then again this is the government we are talking about.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Revenue \u0026lt; $50,000 = $250 tax\n  Revenue $50,000 - $100,000 = $500 tax\n  Revenue $100,000 - $500,0000 = $1,000 tax \n  Revenue \u0026gt; $500,000 = $2,000 tax\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"13181869","id":"13181947"}
{"by":"ssijak","time":"1510872804","timestamp":"2017-11-16 22:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about me?  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;gallery\u0026#x2F;Yqgy8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;gallery\u0026#x2F;Yqgy8\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15717076","id":"15717449"}
{"by":"jilebedev","time":"1330021768","timestamp":"2012-02-23 18:29:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Solution in search of a problem.\u003cp\u003eSteve Blank speaks about the technology lifecycle adoption curve [1], and I think this entire \"health + mobile\" market is (optimistically) on the far left end of the curve.\u003cp\u003eThe problem isn't the problem - it's how people feel about the problem. I know I can have a completely digital banking solution, with even phone support 24/7 if I need it, but I don't want that. \nBanking and my money is important to me, and when I need advice or have problems, I want to walk into a branch and speak with a real person. I'm not a dinosaur or a luddite - I'm 24, and I'm well versed in emerging technology.\u003cp\u003eI feel even more strongly about my health: I don't care that I can take a picture of my ear drum and send it to a doctor  and have an antibiotic prescription that I can forward to my pharmacy and pick up in 30 minutes: there is something wrong with my body, I am concerned, this is important to me, and I want to speak to someone who is trained, credible, and can offer medical advice. The trouble with digital services that attempt to melt themselves into the physical world is that important things need to be dealt with by people. A doctor offers credibility and that is what I want. A 99c iPhone app offers no credibility, and for important things, credibility is important. If a doctor waves off my ear problem as \"sleep on it for a few days, here's a note\", I trust his advice and I'm more than willing to go through with it. If an iPhone app told me the same, I'd be probably reaching for the uninstall button around the time I'm dialing a doctor to make an appointment.\u003cp\u003e1. [PDF] page 23/45 \u003ca href=\"http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upload/handouts/Four_Steps.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3625208","id":"3626064"}
{"by":"luckydude","time":"1502930545","timestamp":"2017-08-17 00:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You make good points.  I think I screwed up by not saying \u0026quot;for me ....\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFor me, I don\u0026#x27;t want a tool to be \u0026quot;safe\u0026quot; unless all my tools are safe.  Working in my shop there are so many places where something can go wrong.  I don\u0026#x27;t just do woodworking, I\u0026#x27;ve got a metal lathe, I do a ton of mechanic stuff so things like forget to put a jackstand under the tractor and the floorjack gives out, I run chainsaws, a chipper, tractors, an excavator, there are just a zillion ways things can go wrong.  So I feel like it is my job to make sure that nothing goes wrong.  I\u0026#x27;m not a fan of one or two or twenty things that save me, I\u0026#x27;ve got 200 ways where something is going to screw me.\u003cp\u003eYour situation is very likely different.  I\u0026#x27;m rural, on 15 acres, all of this stuff is to support living here.  I can\u0026#x27;t afford to get lazy or complacent, I\u0026#x27;d be dead real quick.","parent":"15028688","id":"15032684"}
{"by":"danhodgins","time":"1365648457","timestamp":"2013-04-11 02:47:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Love your thinking here, and your landing page is fantastic. Very inspiring. The 'before' and 'after' toggling is a very effective way to illustrate the value your system brings.\u003cp\u003eIf you can help my mom put an Ipad on the music stand instead of a song book she has to manually flip through while playing you might just win another customer. Right now, when i do a jam session with her (I play guitar) she literally has to stop playing piano to flip the pages. She does this 3-4 times a song which is quite jarring. The humble paper song book and conventional notation system could use a 'shaking up', and you guys have started innovating this problem, so thanks!\u003cp\u003eI could easily see this becoming the tabulation (tabs) system for that piano and other instruments have not had to date.\u003cp\u003eWell done!","parent":"5528274","id":"5529671"}
{"by":"bjustin","time":"1370618326","timestamp":"2013-06-07 15:18:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In his defense, President Obama knows lot more non-public information than (\u0026#x27;08) candidate Obama did.\u003cp\u003eThat said, dragnet surveillance of US citizens is still heinous.","parent":"5838984","id":"5839377"}
{"by":"AnonUser22","time":"1282430770","timestamp":"2010-08-21 22:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm assuming Comodo poached them from verisign and no one has told Dominos to take down the verisign logo.\u003cp\u003eComodo probably blabbed about their cheaper (lesser known)certificates, but they really dont stand a chance against the brand recognition that the verisign logo carries with it.\u003cp\u003eIt looks like Dominos made a bad decision.\u003cp\u003eAvoid the Noid.\nAvoid COMODO.","parent":"1623679","id":"1623802"}
{"by":"adamzochowski","time":"1349923554","timestamp":"2012-10-11 02:45:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) you can use plurals, so \"select from orders\"\u003cp\u003e2) typically there is no single order table. Most systems will have order_summary / order_details / order_items / order_packages . Think of handling a single order that has multiple products each of multiple quantities. And to complicate, fulfillment of product quantity requires multiple warehouses / shipments.\u003cp\u003e3) you can have a table called order, you just have to ensure to escape it properly, either double quotes or square brackets.  Similarly table names can have spaces in them.","parent":"4637040","id":"4639127"}
{"by":"Terr_","time":"1510768554","timestamp":"2017-11-15 17:55:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jim Cramer has credibility?","parent":"15705411","id":"15705896"}
{"by":"murtnowski","time":"1478022474","timestamp":"2016-11-01 17:47:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;wrongly-convicted-by-the-innocence-project.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;wrongly-con...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the innocence project has saved many innocent people, it\u0026#x27;s important to remember that they also are wrong sometimes.","parent":"12848033","id":"12848348"}
{"by":"bzbarsky","time":"1348778245","timestamp":"2012-09-27 20:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not just Jane Street at this point.  Jane Street has been using OCaml for a while, and others heve been picking it up too...","parent":"4581577","id":"4582757"}
{"by":"thomasjames","time":"1365966631","timestamp":"2013-04-14 19:10:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was actually thinking of going with this since it seemed to focus on the foundations of lambda calculus and is also fairly condensed. I was thinking I might try \"The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia\" as a follow up just cause it sounded satisfying.","parent":"5547433","id":"5547872"}
{"by":"anonytrary","time":"1525385761","timestamp":"2018-05-03 22:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That\u0026#x27;s how dumb you sound.\u003cp\u003eThis is HackerNews, not Reddit; comments like this are typically ignored. You are claiming that all currencies require active stabilization; that a currency is unstable without outside intervention. Where\u0026#x27;s the economics that supports your claim? You can cite it, if you want. Your retort regarding music is irrelevant, and it looks like you missed my point.\u003cp\u003eInstead of writing a paragraph, I observed that you are \u0026quot;making an inherently theoretical claim which you haven\u0026#x27;t backed up\u0026quot;. Why do you believe intervention is required for stability? Do you have a theory; can you cite a theory? I\u0026#x27;m not sure why the question was confusing to you, nor why you took it as an offense. I\u0026#x27;m sure other people would love to hear you justify your socialist, \u0026quot;hands-on\u0026quot; viewpoint.","parent":"16987441","id":"16990504"}
{"by":"ricree","time":"1546484449","timestamp":"2019-01-03 03:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The idea behind three strikes and death sentences, as I understand it, is that some people have proven unreformable, and therefore must be removed from society for the sake of everyone else. Of course death and permanent incarceration isn\u0026#x27;t the point, but what do you do if you run across someone who genuinely seems unable to reform and function safely?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not writing this intending to endorse three strikes laws or death sentences, but you\u0026#x27;re arguing against a point that I don\u0026#x27;t think is being made.\u003cp\u003e(Now, my own personal opinion is that we ought to be taking a closer look at why the penal system is doing such a poor job reforming criminals, and that \u0026quot;3 strikes laws\u0026quot; feel a lot like \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;ve tried nothing and we\u0026#x27;re all out of ideas\u0026quot;.)","parent":"18812275","id":"18812471"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1246903588","timestamp":"2009-07-06 18:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should ISPs be prohibited from making deals with companies like google to colocate CDN servers?\u003cp\u003eWhy shouldn't ISPs be required to make all CDNs open and allow any company to host its assets there to create an even playing field for content?  Why should google's pages load faster on someone's computer than my startup's?","parent":"689121","id":"690111"}
{"by":"curiouscats","time":"1493661680","timestamp":"2017-05-01 18:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, same sentiment from W. Edwards Deming: \u0026quot;A company could put a top man at every position and be swallowed by a competitor with people only half as good, but who are working together.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;quotes.deming.org\u0026#x2F;authors\u0026#x2F;W._Edwards_Deming\u0026#x2F;quote\u0026#x2F;10159\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;quotes.deming.org\u0026#x2F;authors\u0026#x2F;W._Edwards_Deming\u0026#x2F;quote\u0026#x2F;101...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14239211","id":"14239874"}
{"by":"vbezhenar","time":"1470870614","timestamp":"2016-08-10 23:10:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The boundaries are key here. You just found a community without thieves and our physical world has natural boundaries which prevent other people to enter your community. An analog is some kind of LAN with trusted peers. There\u0026#x27;s often little to no security in such a networks, the only security is firewall preventing any connections from the outside. But Internet is requires a completely different thinking. You are always living in the worst nightmare, everyone\u0026#x27;s attacking you constantly, checking your doors and locks. And there are such places in the Earth.\u003cp\u003eIn my city you can\u0026#x27;t use a wooden door, because thief can easily break it with good kick, so everyone uses heavy iron doors with good locks. You can\u0026#x27;t leave your automobile with factory locks, it\u0026#x27;ll be stolen, sooner or later. Everyone uses additional security systems. You can\u0026#x27;t even leave your bag in the closed car, if your windows are not tinted. Someone will see it, break window and stole your bag. You must use heavily tinted window, so no one from the street could see anything inside. Even the thought that I could leave my car or home unlocked is foreign for me. It\u0026#x27;s my property, so it\u0026#x27;s my work to defend it.","parent":"12264690","id":"12265330"}
{"by":"rasz_pl","time":"1474757461","timestamp":"2016-09-24 22:51:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"problems in Australia are entirely of political nature (corruption\u0026#x2F;collusion).\u003cp\u003eThere is absolutely ZERO reason for national fiber backbone to enforce data cap limits and encourage metered plans, but there it is, in Australia. Countries considered an ass of Europe like Romania roll on the floor laughing at you ($15 unmetered 1Gbit home connections).","parent":"12570419","id":"12572986"}
{"by":"j88439h84","time":"1532709993","timestamp":"2018-07-27 16:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is yalp better?","parent":"17624664","id":"17627273"}
{"by":"cunard-n","time":"1242009266","timestamp":"2009-05-11 02:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. I'll check these as soon as I have a second.","parent":"602500","id":"602849"}
{"by":"jaragones","time":"1384327989","timestamp":"2013-11-13 07:33:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like this sentence: \u0026quot;Let your users point you in the right direction\u0026quot;. They are the ones who can help to improve our products, feedback is the clue! :)","parent":"6723538","id":"6723888"}
{"by":"sheriff","time":"1302679598","timestamp":"2011-04-13 07:26:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Usage being total checkins per month?\u003cp\u003eI'd be more interested in a comparison of engagement (checkins per account per month) over time. \nThe first metric can hide declining engagement if there are sufficiently many latecomers who haven't burnt out yet.","parent":"2440608","id":"2441159"}
{"by":"andrewchambers","time":"1429237930","timestamp":"2015-04-17 02:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with rust is that it has been around for nearly as long as Go, yet is nowhere near stable or production ready in nearly every aspect.\u003cp\u003eGo has been ready for years.","parent":"9391913","id":"9391983"}
{"by":"woodandsteel","time":"1533078488","timestamp":"2018-07-31 23:08:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhat if Plato thought that (at least part of) the truth was that it was more beneficial for people to think and seek than to be told the pre-canned truth?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what if was wrong about that? Or is it your assumption that Plato was right about everything, and so therefore he must be right about that particular idea?\u003cp\u003eAs to Aristotle\u0026#x27;s specific empirical claims in the realm of biology, the great majority have been confirmed by modern science.","parent":"17649578","id":"17658116"}
{"by":"qu4z-2","time":"1438906507","timestamp":"2015-08-07 00:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re currently at #75 for me, and I\u0026#x27;m replying, so...","parent":"10019935","id":"10020284"}
{"by":"AgentConundrum","time":"1322238657","timestamp":"2011-11-25 16:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's the error you're getting? That code worked fine for me (2.7.2)\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; import itertools\n    \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; name_generator = itertools.imap(\"name-{}\".format,itertools.count())\n    \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; new_name = next(name_generator)\n    \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; new_name\n    'name-0'\n    \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; new_name = next(name_generator)\n    \u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62; new_name\n    'name-1'\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"3277273","id":"3277441"}
{"by":"maratd","time":"1378949838","timestamp":"2013-09-12 01:37:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; and no-one cares that it doesn\u0026#x27;t have embedded videos of antelopes bounding or the galaxy turning.\u003cp\u003eI care. I think Wikipedia would be greatly improved with relevant embedded video content. Unfortunately, getting high quality relevant public domain video is virtually impossible. It is nice to think about though.","parent":"6371424","id":"6371447"}
{"by":"gbog","time":"1333792519","timestamp":"2012-04-07 09:55:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, one way or another you'll have to decide what is good and what is not, with the naughty \"freedom\" to make a mistake. That is the basis of ethics: it can't be proved.","parent":"3810449","id":"3810467"}
{"by":"eridius","time":"1490555221","timestamp":"2017-03-26 19:07:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it\u0026#x27;s just for benchmarks, why not make it a preference (defaulted off), so benchmarks can be run with the default settings (off) just fine, but people can turn it on if they want to?","parent":"13962004","id":"13962488"}
{"by":"ye","time":"1383348968","timestamp":"2013-11-01 23:36:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So what happens when\u003cp\u003e1) Your apartment gets trashed. They break your walls, pour cement down your drain, break the furniture, etc?\u003cp\u003e2) Tenants refuse to move out. I\u0026#x27;m sure there are all kinds of laws protecting them, and it\u0026#x27;s very hard to kick them out even if they aren\u0026#x27;t paying.\u003cp\u003e3) Somebody gets injured on your property (slips in the bathroom and breaks an arm), and sues you for a shitload of money.\u003cp\u003eAlso, you forgot amortization in your calculations. Things will wear and tear.","parent":"6655492","id":"6657293"}
{"by":"reevookat","time":"1288991539","timestamp":"2010-11-05 21:12:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, that's the original name, which still survives here:\nwww.justfuckingbuyit.com","parent":"1874857","id":"1874947"}
{"by":"cmroanirgo","time":"1539184252","timestamp":"2018-10-10 15:10:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. At first, I thought I wanted notifications, but now I let it slide, and watch how the conversation moves, often to an unexpected direction.\u003cp\u003eI increasingly find that I\u0026#x27;m happy to let it go that way, rather than \u0026#x27;defending a position\u0026#x27;. This, of course, makes the need for comment notifications less important.","parent":"18184782","id":"18185596"}
{"by":"lasermike026","time":"1467138496","timestamp":"2016-06-28 18:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe a clone would be in order.  It would add some code diversity.","parent":"11994625","id":"11996214"}
{"by":"imrehg","time":"1315283922","timestamp":"2011-09-06 04:38:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I can trust more the CyanogenMod that I'm running on my HTC phone than anything coming from a Chinese closed-source firm.","parent":"2964088","id":"2964142"}
{"by":"chrononaut","time":"1410487121","timestamp":"2014-09-12 01:58:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there any advantages of using SailMail versus WinLink over HF? I can\u0026#x27;t say I\u0026#x27;m significantly familiar with either system, but at first glance they appear to offer similar functionality, with of course the latter requiring an Amateur Radio license.","parent":"8306018","id":"8306250"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1283442088","timestamp":"2010-09-02 15:41:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you will be driving down the street. You'll see this thing that looks like random markings...and then when you get close it will quickly resolve to be a girl chasing a ball?\u003cp\u003eI wonder if anyone is going to not realize it is a clever illusion, and think that a girl just jumped out in front of them, swerve, and have an accident?","parent":"1656369","id":"1656502"}
{"by":"whoelse9209","time":"1543535471","timestamp":"2018-11-29 23:51:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure, and that\u0026#x27;s an abomination. Violence is never the right means, but an entire minority does not become violent on their own until they feel they are desperate enough to perform these attacks in some futile effort to preserve things (culture) that means something to them or revenge for abusive actions taken against them.\u003cp\u003eIf China was peacefully coexisting with them and allowing them to perform their religion freely, it makes no sense that they would feel the need to attack random civilians.","parent":"18565272","id":"18565320"}
{"by":"sunflowerfly","time":"1488656340","timestamp":"2017-03-04 19:39:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have flown one, and while good, it is not \u0026quot;that good\u0026quot;. What happened is the FAA rules are so stringent to create a new aircraft, that the subsequent cost was so high, that few new small plane designs make ROI sense. This has created a case where the strict rules in the name of safety have actually caused a reduction in safety. This plane was originally designed on slide rules. Today we could create more optimized designs in almost every metric, including safety, but no company can afford to do so. The FAA is supposed to change these rules soon.","parent":"13792309","id":"13792545"}
{"by":"glougheed","time":"1484165055","timestamp":"2017-01-11 20:04:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting case study.","parent":"13376884","id":"13377032"}
{"by":"brucephillips","time":"1517101436","timestamp":"2018-01-28 01:03:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why shouldn\u0026#x27;t he?","parent":"16248999","id":"16249055"}
{"by":"Klathmon","time":"1458161199","timestamp":"2016-03-16 20:46:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just because someone doesn\u0026#x27;t agree with you doesn\u0026#x27;t make them an \u0026quot;apologist\u0026quot;...","parent":"11300528","id":"11300548"}
{"by":"muhammadusman","time":"1541009826","timestamp":"2018-10-31 18:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"where can I buy these?","parent":"18334598","id":"18348046"}
{"by":"Antifragile1","time":"1522990692","timestamp":"2018-04-06 04:58:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Overvalued tech companies are the next bubble.","parent":"16767511","dead":true,"id":"16770988"}
{"by":"nommm-nommm","time":"1493339278","timestamp":"2017-04-28 00:27:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Um...wtf? Are you replying to the right post? What news? It was never a secret, my cousin always knew he was adopted and nobody was ever sad.\u003cp\u003eThe situation is exactly like any other adoption just was informal in that it didn\u0026#x27;t involve the government. It worked out very well for everyone involved. Adoption happens every single day.","parent":"14215557","id":"14215990"}
{"by":"vabmit","time":"1365041804","timestamp":"2013-04-04 02:16:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Cisco VPN client supports 64bit Linux, now. Just go to \u003ca href=\"http://ist.mit.edu/cisco-anyconnect\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ist.mit.edu/cisco-anyconnect\u003c/a\u003e and get the latest version of the client. You could also hack the 32bit only version to work on a 64bit Linux system if you can't use the new version for some reason. There's a wikipage on how to do it.\u003cp\u003eYou should be able to use a cert based web form to get ssh traffic allowed to your host.  But, if you were using the VPN, you wouldn't encounter the firewall.\u003cp\u003eIt does kinda suck. But, the aaronsw hacks were a game changer. MIT became a different organization after them.","parent":"5489958","id":"5490561"}
{"by":"DenisM","time":"1353889201","timestamp":"2012-11-26 00:20:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your post is inflammatory. Compare it to other posts in this thread, and you will see that you're detracting from the conversation, not adding to it.","parent":"4829011","id":"4829773"}
{"by":"igravious","time":"1450808408","timestamp":"2015-12-22 18:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Did you realize negative numbers were only accepted in the late 1700s?\u003cp\u003eI did not know that! This makes total sense. I\u0026#x27;d like to know more about that. When you think about it, only whole positive numbers make sense from a quantitative perspective. One thing, two things, three things, and so on. What\u0026#x27;s half-a-thing? Right? a half-a-thing is still just one thing, if you know what I mean. And how can no thing (nothing) be a number? And how can negative numbers be \u0026quot;numbers\u0026quot;. It has always struck me that imaginary numbers are really badly named. Zero and the negative numbers are just as \u0026#x27;imaginary\u0026#x27;, equally unintuitive from a certain perspective.\u003cp\u003eI applaud what you\u0026#x27;re doing. I think there is a metric-tonne of dogma and bad naming schemes in the standard maths curriculum. Remember in software engineering they say that naming things is one of the hardest parts of the task? I think the same applies to maths, perhaps more so.","parent":"10779081","id":"10779341"}
{"by":"cmrdporcupine","time":"1442443419","timestamp":"2015-09-16 22:43:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At the time it felt like it should be something rewritten in C++ (or Rust now).\u003cp\u003eI do miss getting to play with stuff like that.","parent":"10230033","id":"10230489"}
{"by":"kelnos","time":"1529353988","timestamp":"2018-06-18 20:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except that they\u0026#x27;re often (usually?) one and the same.  If the opinion was popular, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be minority.","parent":"17341204","id":"17341484"}
{"by":"VikingCoder","time":"1479316557","timestamp":"2016-11-16 17:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was playing with it - it\u0026#x27;s great.  I was flying around the towns I know, but I\u0026#x27;m reminded of the places that I need to go when I get a chance:\u003cp\u003eGolden Gate Bridge\u003cp\u003eThe Washington Monument\u003cp\u003eDisney World\u003cp\u003eYosemite\u003cp\u003eBeijing\u003cp\u003eThe Grand Canyon","parent":"12968161","id":"12969103"}
{"by":"pirateking","time":"1353471530","timestamp":"2012-11-21 04:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They need to do a Breaking Bad format show with John  McAfee.","parent":"4812543","id":"4812743"}
{"by":"dagenleg","time":"1494483174","timestamp":"2017-05-11 06:12:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Taking \u0026#x27;spreadsheets in space\u0026#x27; concept to a whole new level here.","parent":"14313519","id":"14314147"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1462510730","timestamp":"2016-05-06 04:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Criticisms of FB notwithstanding (and it\u0026#x27;s interesting how that dominates this discussion), time-on-site is a \u003ci\u003ehorrible\u003c/i\u003e measure of \u0026quot;value added\u0026quot; to me.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve found highly-directed, highly-filtered, low-noise, low-distraction envrionments are what give me return.\u003cp\u003eInterfaces and services like ... \u003ci\u003eBooks.\u003c/i\u003e  A notebook.  Index cards for noting thoughts and ideas.  Tangibles which I can hold, flip through, sort, take outside, read in sunlight, and \u003ci\u003edon\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e offer me the option of  clicking over to see my feed or who\u0026#x27;s responded to me.\u003cp\u003e(And no, I don\u0026#x27;t have a FB account either, never have.)","parent":"11640231","id":"11641784"}
{"by":"jcromartie","time":"1398165827","timestamp":"2014-04-22 11:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Game mechanics are the rule systems that give the game goals or meaning.\u003cp\u003eAsteroids-like spaceship movement is not a game mechanic. Shooting bullets is not a game mechanic.\u003cp\u003eThe system that is the feedback loop of moving to chase\u0026#x2F;avoid asteroids while shooting them and creating more and faster obstacles and targets \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a game mechanic.","parent":"7624737","id":"7626972"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1546464346","timestamp":"2019-01-02 21:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One post per company, please. This is in the rules at the top.","parent":"18808310","id":"18810380"}
{"by":"redtuesday","time":"1461744370","timestamp":"2016-04-27 08:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out Red Hat\u0026#x27;s Openshift Online [1] if you haven\u0026#x27;t already. They offer 3 Gears for free, each with 512 MB Ram, 1 GB Disk space (install e.g Postgres into one gear and you have a DB with 1 GB) and you can use Lets Encrypt with their Bronze plan (which is free if you only use the 3 free gears). Depending on what your hobby sites do this could be enough.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.openshift.com\u0026#x2F;pricing\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.openshift.com\u0026#x2F;pricing\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11577777","id":"11578584"}
{"by":"docmach","time":"1259523501","timestamp":"2009-11-29 19:38:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the big advantage of Amazon is that you can scale up and down quickly so that you aren't paying for services you don't need.  They also have the advantage of better integration with their other services since you don't pay for transfers within the same region and the transfers are fast since it's all on their network.","parent":"966670","id":"966680"}
{"by":"s_q_b","time":"1430582784","timestamp":"2015-05-02 16:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who in the seven hells do you hang out with?\u003cp\u003eIf this is really your observation on human sociology, perhaps I may suggest you need some new friends.","parent":"9477506","id":"9477515"}
{"by":"wslh","time":"1456944031","timestamp":"2016-03-02 18:40:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sensitive data is data I don\u0026#x27;t want to share, like private notes, private source code, or private photos. These are not there. I don\u0026#x27;t carry a mobile phone if I care about my location.","parent":"11211878","id":"11211962"}
{"by":"etherael","time":"1303381010","timestamp":"2011-04-21 10:16:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kindle is region locked, certain titles are only available in EU vs AU (these ones I know from experience; Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos being the book in question) and I assume US also.","parent":"2469455","id":"2470029"}
{"by":"zobzu","time":"1336521784","timestamp":"2012-05-09 00:03:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I observed similar results, even thus ive more ram on all boxes. Linux works very well. Firefox for Linux works very well.\u003cp\u003eOn MacOSX it always feels like there's not enough ram. Including with Firefox, or maybe especially with Firefox.","parent":"3943551","id":"3946438"}
{"by":"jtheory","time":"1353202574","timestamp":"2012-11-18 01:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the example Django Reinhardt song, there's a bit where he plays the same pitch a few times fretted, then a few times on the neighboring open string.\u003cp\u003eI can imagine software that would analyze fret noise, vibrato, timbre, hand positions, etc. to get a decent shot at reproducing a performance -- basically, what a real player listens for when transcribing -- but right, this is a really hard problem.","parent":"4791785","id":"4799550"}
{"by":"frik","time":"1435385085","timestamp":"2015-06-27 06:04:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So many wrong statements either bad assumptions or intentional.\u003cp\u003eSkype used to be peer-to-peer and had a very secure protocol. With all its advantages and just a few disadvantages.","parent":"9786632","id":"9789276"}
{"by":"Schwolop","time":"1360295389","timestamp":"2013-02-08 03:49:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be honest, I found the entire coursera course on programming for data analytics to be in the same vein. So much time was spent explaining what each optional parameter to a function did that I skipped at least 50% of each lecture.","parent":"5185984","id":"5186191"}
{"by":"earenndil","time":"1520309283","timestamp":"2018-03-06 04:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vim?  Emacs?  Anything from jetbrains (although technically that\u0026#x27;s an IDE)?","parent":"16526397","id":"16526788"}
{"by":"jaytaylor","time":"1353531607","timestamp":"2012-11-21 21:00:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is very interesting.  I am very keen to know if this is a widespread problem.\u003cp\u003eHave you filed a ticket with CloudFlare or contacted them about this problem?","parent":"4816253","id":"4816283"}
{"by":"pypetey","time":"1405418198","timestamp":"2014-07-15 09:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"post it somewhere else","parent":"8035252","id":"8035557"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1529602941","timestamp":"2018-06-21 17:42:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having a high level position in a company comes naturally with an entire new set of rules to be obeyed, whatever those rules are.","parent":"17364925","id":"17367442"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1469806370","timestamp":"2016-07-29 15:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t down vote the above comment, but when the paper is available, complaints should usually be about something specific in the paper, not hand wavy concerns about methodology.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;geology.gsapubs.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;early\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;G37937.1.full.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;geology.gsapubs.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;early\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;G37937.1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe paper discusses the type of crystal they studied and how they formed (and cites further work on those topics).","parent":"12186866","id":"12187479"}
{"by":"dopecheese","time":"1424752956","timestamp":"2015-02-24 04:42:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many products does it have?","parent":"9098518","dead":true,"id":"9098733"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1358264491","timestamp":"2013-01-15 15:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you propose? Putting the man in prison for life, or even executing him, is \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e poor punishment for killing 77 innocents, many of them children.\u003cp\u003eNo sentence that can be carried out will match the magnitude of his crime. So why should 21 years be \"absurd\", but life in prison, or death, be \"not absurd\"?","parent":"5059151","id":"5060617"}
{"by":"newuser12344","time":"1539381411","timestamp":"2018-10-12 21:56:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. I agree with this comment. The last quarter of Model 3 production nearly doubled from the previous quarter and I assume that the number of staff to handle all the paperwork and logistics did not increase in proportion.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I took delivery of my Model 3 Sep 28th and here\u0026#x27;s my experience. They emailed me two weeks in advance to schedule pickup at the delivery center in Fremont on Saturday Sep 29th. Then a week later they called me and let me know that they could deliver the car to my house on a Monday. I was set to take delivery on Monday but then after the delivery time had passed, a manager called me to let me know they weren\u0026#x27;t able to get the car out that day and they\u0026#x27;d get back to me to schedule another delivery date. A couple of days later they emailed me and said they could bring the car to me on Friday, and this time they showed up with the car, a little late, around 10:30pm. Overall it was a great experience. I really appreciate that they drove the car to me and it only took a few minutes to sign the paperwork.\u003cp\u003eDespite the delays and rescheduling several times it was a much much better experience than the (first, last and hopefully only) experience I had at the Toyota dealership in buying my previous car.\u003cp\u003eI am just over the moon thinking about the fact that I may never have to visit a gas station or get a smog check or have to discuss the problems of idling solenoids with mechanics ever again.","parent":"18204791","id":"18205020"}
{"by":"aembleton","time":"1449521852","timestamp":"2015-12-07 20:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can sign up for Facebook with just a mobile number through the app.","parent":"10692090","id":"10692634"}
{"by":"stephenr","time":"1504626629","timestamp":"2017-09-05 15:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; WhatsApp was built almost entirely in Erlang + Mnesia. I honestly don\u0026#x27;t think they could have done it in PHP + Postgres.\u003cp\u003eWhatsApp backend is a heavily customised ejabberd - an XMPP server written in Erlang. Sure, they could have picked one of the other XMPP servers in a different language (I know of at least servers in Java, Lua, C).\u003cp\u003eSo, I would say (as a developer who uses PHP in some situations) that while PHP is completely the wrong choice for an XMPP server, that isn\u0026#x27;t the main reason why WhatsApp used Erlang - they used it because they used an existing open source project as their base.","parent":"15172931","id":"15176382"}
{"by":"Kurtz79","time":"1428682734","timestamp":"2015-04-10 16:18:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Anand article is spot-on I believe.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a processor that is meant to be doing sustained heavy work (compiling, gaming, simulations), but attend to small burts of CPU loads and then go back to low power mode.\u003cp\u003eIt seems to me it would be more than enough for office work, remote ssh,  (non flash) web browsing, e-mail etc.\u003cp\u003eAnyone buying a thin and light device like the ones mounting this processor, and expecting the performance of a desktop replacement laptop have unreasonable expectations to start with.","parent":"9354093","id":"9355321"}
{"by":"veidr","time":"1524486180","timestamp":"2018-04-23 12:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SMS is still very widely used by parties who don\u0026#x27;t know each other. In theory, anybody with a phone number can receive an SMS (though not always in reality, because SMS is a bag of suck). So your pharmacy can SMS you when your prescription is ready, your mechanic can SMS you when your car is fixed, etc.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t personally know anybody who still uses SMS to communicate directly with friends or frequent real-world contacts. But I also don\u0026#x27;t know anybody who still watches real-time broadcast TV with ads. I assume there are still a lot of both out there in the world, however.","parent":"16902589","id":"16902720"}
{"by":"monkeyspaw","time":"1377458735","timestamp":"2013-08-25 19:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would consider saying \u0026quot;please reply to this message to unsubscribe\u0026quot; easily accessible, legitimate, and free.\u003cp\u003eI think spam is more complex than just saying \u0026quot;spam is spam\u0026quot;.  Especially in b2b (see the other comment about pharmaceutical reps).\u003cp\u003eThere is a factor that includes relevance (negative correlation with spam).\nAnother factor is automation versus doing it by hand.\nAnother factor is the intent of the person who publishes their email.\nAnother factor is whether the sender stops sending messages once requested.\nAnother factor is the existence of a previous relationship.\u003cp\u003eAnyhow, I have one more question: can any message that is sent without automation (i.e., I type the message specifically to a recipient) be considered spam?","parent":"6273158","id":"6273319"}
{"by":"pandog","time":"1358341436","timestamp":"2013-01-16 13:03:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn't a security issue in Firefox.\u003cp\u003eTo pull this off you need write access to Firefox's SQLite database.\u003cp\u003eIf you have write access to Firefox's SQLite database you've already 'won', the system is already yours. You can do a lot more damage to the system than whitelisting a Firefox extension.\u003cp\u003eSure you could argue that this is another place for malware to hide - but I don't that this is really a security flaw in Firefox.","parent":"5066464","id":"5066616"}
{"by":"__jal","time":"1497986340","timestamp":"2017-06-20 19:19:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no knowledge of what they do. I doubt the latter; that would be trouble. But the former - why not? They do it with your email.","parent":"14597374","id":"14597603"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1248191602","timestamp":"2009-07-21 15:53:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People kill themselves in \"the West\" over losing jobs or pressure at school, too. I've heard that students in Cambridge have a high suicide rate, for example.\u003cp\u003eAlso the question is would the people be better off without the jobs from foreign companies? Surely they put up with pressure at their jobs because they don't have a better alternative?","parent":"716348","id":"716419"}
{"by":"MCRed","time":"1411448411","timestamp":"2014-09-23 05:00:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have never asserted that property rights were always respected for everybody for the whole history of this country.  To claim that I did is merely to erect a straw man. The propose of which was obviously to try and give yourself cover to throw mud at me personally.   That you have chosen this as your avenue of response, I take as a concession of my points in completion and admission of intellectual bankruptcy.","parent":"8354055","id":"8354101"}
{"by":"koeselitz","time":"1338839233","timestamp":"2012-06-04 19:47:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for saying so, but this seems like a weird axe to grind. I think your initial comment got downvoted because it seemed sort of like a backhanded criticism; but now it seems sort of like you just wanted to show that you'd read Google's TOS. I am still not sure what Google's TOS has to do with EveryMe's TOS.\u003cp\u003eEither way, \"opt-in\" or \"opt-out\" is in this case a technical distinction. EveryMe's sharing of data isn't opt-anything. They don't do it. Period. Doesn't that constitute a difference?","parent":"4065394","id":"4065576"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1441269065","timestamp":"2015-09-03 08:31:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The production of integrated circuits is very much dictated by economies of scale. The capital require is simply too large to justify the creation of a production line for a small run. If you crack that particular nut then you\u0026#x27;re going to be the next Bill Gates.","parent":"10161120","id":"10163864"}
{"by":"rumbler","time":"1376349519","timestamp":"2013-08-12 23:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also in the original II and II Plus. On those older models, I think you need to type \u0026quot;F666G\u0026quot; at the monitor prompt to get to the mini-assembler. The \u0026quot;!\u0026quot; command was implemented in the enhanced IIe ROM.","parent":"6201979","id":"6202879"}
{"by":"baccheion","time":"1466188496","timestamp":"2016-06-17 18:34:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- 15.6\u0026quot; high-resolution OLED screen (but a 13.3\u0026quot; equivalent, due to a thinner bezel)\u003cp\u003e- 32GB+ RAM\u003cp\u003e- Best Intel multi-core processor\u003cp\u003e- Mag-safe adapter (or wireless charging), rather than USB-C\u003cp\u003e- 180+ degree swivel\u003cp\u003e- \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eFingerprint (\u0026quot;Touch ID\u0026quot;) sensor\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e- 24+ hour battery life (that is, I charge the laptop while I\u0026#x27;m sleeping, wake up, use it all day and all night, then set it to charge and go to bed. 9am wake up and 2am bedtime = 17 hours. That is, 17 hours of continued use, with lulls throughout at the end of which I will not get a \u0026quot;low battery\u0026quot; warning. So 18 hours to be safe, or at least 12 real hours if 18 is too much)\u003cp\u003e- Something to make wireless headphones commonplace\u003cp\u003e- Touchscreen (would give up for something better)\u003cp\u003e- Continued presence of solid unibody design, backlit keyboard, great touchpad, etc\u003cp\u003e- Not normally particular about GPU, but as it speeds up the training time of machine learning algorithms, I\u0026#x27;m suddenly all for having a decent one (though not so much that I\u0026#x27;d jump to getting a heavy, clunky, and ugly \u0026quot;gamer laptop\u0026quot;)","parent":"11921848","id":"11924594"}
{"by":"sitkack","time":"1395554508","timestamp":"2014-03-23 06:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in Istanbul, southern, central and eastern Turkey over six weeks during the protests, wonderful people everyone.","parent":"7452012","id":"7452325"}
{"by":"astronautjones","time":"1485757640","timestamp":"2017-01-30 06:27:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of boycotts are of the moment - like if I applied my politics and boycotted equivocally I couldn\u0026#x27;t buy gasoline or pay my utilities or work for my employer. When one breaks out (esp in a competitive market), it\u0026#x27;s easy to decide to join in (with fervor). It\u0026#x27;s always been that way.","parent":"13518802","id":"13519098"}
{"by":"killerpopiller","time":"1370276274","timestamp":"2013-06-03 16:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In episode 3 of Oliver Stones marvelous Documentary \"the untold history of the US\" you will find a great representation of tose events as well:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sho.com/sho/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-the-united-states/season/1/episode/3#/index\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sho.com/sho/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-the-u...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5813991","id":"5814088"}
{"by":"xexers","time":"1528764296","timestamp":"2018-06-12 00:44:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a school of thought in psychiatry that some people would do better to simply move on and forget about it.  There was a good podcast on this topic here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.artofmanliness.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;podcast-193-fck-feelings\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.artofmanliness.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;podcast-193-fck-feel...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17289528","id":"17289871"}
{"by":"biot","time":"1310715059","timestamp":"2011-07-15 07:30:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Project is here with video and link to the course as well: \u003ca href=\"http://code.google.com/p/blackthorn-engine-3d/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.google.com/p/blackthorn-engine-3d/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2766390","id":"2766583"}
{"by":"pxlpshr","time":"1354585023","timestamp":"2012-12-04 01:37:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I think Packs is confusing because it's not immediately clear what it means to end-user. And I totally agree with your idea on how these should be grouped and marketed, and can probably get some great traffic with a little SEM/SEO.\u003cp\u003eWhat's also interesting to me is like Chomp, where Apple and Google dropped the ball on discovery, this service will be useful because a lot of hardware+software products also have 3rd party apps such as ROKU.","parent":"4869024","id":"4869055"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1484873865","timestamp":"2017-01-20 00:57:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand why the paradigm isn\u0026#x27;t about full volumetric prediction .. is it because people were too tired of solving all other issues (surely possible at the time of DARPA challenge, but Tesla had time and money since); or hardware limits (like scanning a larger area would impede signal quality or make processing too heavy ..)","parent":"13440292","id":"13440913"}
{"by":"huhtenberg","time":"1490349778","timestamp":"2017-03-24 10:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eYou do realise that would probably increase the amount of customer support cases raised, from confused\u0026#x2F;angry users\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, it won\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s an urban legend.\u003cp\u003eFor every support request that cannot be answered from a stock pile of answers, the first reply is \u0026quot;update to the latest version and then come back.\u0026quot; and not once did I see anyone ever complain about it (leave alone become angry) in my 20+ years in IT business. Never. Not a single complaint. Those who can upgrade will upgrade when asked.","parent":"13947366","id":"13947793"}
{"by":"haukurgud","time":"1304940033","timestamp":"2011-05-09 11:20:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly :)","parent":"2527311","id":"2528298"}
{"by":"chiph","time":"1377092522","timestamp":"2013-08-21 13:42:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Getting your credit card info stolen is a huge pain.  Imagine the pain from having your government identity stolen.","parent":"6249584","id":"6250173"}
{"by":"AznHisoka","time":"1335330180","timestamp":"2012-04-25 05:03:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why run thru a platform? Isn't it obvious just by seeing them?","parent":"3887138","id":"3887797"}
{"by":"eftpotrm","time":"1300111003","timestamp":"2011-03-14 13:56:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we're talking the UBS case that others have alluded to here:\u003cp\u003eHe went to jail because he didn't tell the whole story and tried to cover up his part. Whistleblowing rules require full disclosure of your information to prevent them just being used to take out rivals; by covering up his part in the illegal activity, he forefeited part of his protection and so is in prison. This is normal and perfectly fine.","parent":"2322370","id":"2322435"}
{"by":"knowaveragejoe","time":"1380819305","timestamp":"2013-10-03 16:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aside from the first one, is there any hard evidence of these? \u0026quot;Industrial Espionage\u0026quot; != spying on foreign companies with no commercial benefit, for example.","parent":"6484995","id":"6490242"}
{"by":"jackfoxy","time":"1268942225","timestamp":"2010-03-18 19:57:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've only lived through one version control migration, that was from TFS to Subversion. The problem we have is the length of time Subversion takes doing updates, commits, and merges when you are dealing with a large repository and many changes spread out among files. (Good old TFS was fast.)\u003cp\u003eCan anyone say if Mercurial is significantly faster?\u003cp\u003eAfter going through Joel's tutorial it looks like Mercurial keeps history from branches in the root much better than either TFS or Subversion. I think I would opt for Mercurial the next time I have to set up source control.","parent":"1201218","id":"1202334"}
{"by":"sdegutis","time":"1449157701","timestamp":"2015-12-03 15:48:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not for the source code to any project.","parent":"10669989","id":"10670196"}
{"by":"adrianhoward","time":"1369726827","timestamp":"2013-05-28 07:40:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anybody have any tips of their own for this?","parent":"5777930","id":"5778721"}
{"by":"patrickg_zill","time":"1531004430","timestamp":"2018-07-07 23:00:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a person doesn\u0026#x27;t have a car, unless they live in a big city, they are likely to be poor. IF they are poor, they are on government assistance, right?  So what ID do they use to get that assistance?\u003cp\u003eThat someone might have to pay $15-30 every 5 years to renew a state ID, and have it be claimed that it is a \u0026quot;poll tax\u0026quot; to vote, is ridiculous.","parent":"17480758","id":"17481138"}
{"by":"jschwartzi","time":"1440625075","timestamp":"2015-08-26 21:37:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which systems guarantee monotonic behavior for gettimeofday()? I can\u0026#x27;t think of any. I hope there\u0026#x27;s no behavior in nq which relies on monotonicity other than file naming, because otherwise you might run into some obscure issues.","parent":"10124461","id":"10126188"}
{"by":"rralian","time":"1448313167","timestamp":"2015-11-23 21:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh yeah, there\u0026#x27;s also the whole \u0026quot;every page a reader sees\u0026quot; on the front-end of the site.","parent":"10617250","id":"10617341"}
{"by":"NAFV_P","time":"1379176942","timestamp":"2013-09-14 16:42:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If this had happened to me 20 years ago, my parents and teachers would have said, \u0026quot;you are too sensitive, you need to ignore it\u0026quot;. This may have been said to me in front of the perpetrators. Then I would be reminded that I must be careful regarding my behaviour, I must not place the reputation of the school in disrepute.","parent":"6385757","id":"6386160"}
{"by":"heartsucker","time":"1467202702","timestamp":"2016-06-29 12:18:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clickbait title. It should read:\u003cp\u003eWhy this CEO is worth almost $1 billion but lives in a trailer park he owns that is specifically for techy coder types","parent":"12000706","id":"12001143"}
{"by":"thrownaway2424","time":"1350758528","timestamp":"2012-10-20 18:42:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This guy seems a bit mislead.  There are definitely not 15 million people in metro Detroit.  There are only 5 million people in the census area that includes Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Flint, and has an area over 15000 square kilometers.","parent":"4677259","id":"4677842"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1365023510","timestamp":"2013-04-03 21:11:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know (been playing with it and rust for some time now), but it's not received half the attention it received today. I mean, the Verge covered it...","parent":"5489080","id":"5489108"}
{"by":"pstuart","time":"1500960691","timestamp":"2017-07-25 05:31:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say it is God, Guns, Gays, and Gynecological Gerrymandering.","parent":"14844939","id":"14845321"}
{"by":"trotsky","time":"1355871334","timestamp":"2012-12-18 22:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"with median income growing relatively slowly over the last 30 years us households have maintained their living standards largely through lower real costs of many kinds of goods. Moving is certainly a significant financial event, perhaps we just can't afford it as often.","parent":"4938939","id":"4940107"}
{"by":"ajeet_dhaliwal","time":"1521767057","timestamp":"2018-03-23 01:04:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, basically everything my parents, teachers taught me was wrong. Been unlearning and retraining my mind for the last 3-4 years via YouTube and listening to people who learned the same lessons I did as a kid and changed themselves. I’ve worked so hard and in the corporate world had basically nothing to show for it so started something else. As long as your realize this and adapt you will be ok but I was in anger\u0026#x2F;denial for too long. People cannot do anything but ‘surive’ on a company wage. I had colleagues (engineers\u0026#x2F;devs) stressing about how to pay rent or bills while expected to come in early\u0026#x2F;leave late and focus.","parent":"16653380","id":"16654199"}
{"by":"nupark2","time":"1323028732","timestamp":"2011-12-04 19:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whether or not you recognize or care about these issues doesn't change the logic behind BSD developer's complaints regarding GPL re-licensing of BSD code, or somehow create a double standard.","parent":"3311553","id":"3311597"}
{"by":"GeorgeOrr","time":"1445139772","timestamp":"2015-10-18 03:42:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can only be a sample size of one, but I\u0026#x27;ve lived in countries where tipping is the norm and in countries where it\u0026#x27;s non-existent.\u003cp\u003eMy own experience is that service is more average when tipping isn\u0026#x27;t an issue.  That is it\u0026#x27;s always OK, or even good, but very rarely excellent or horrible.\u003cp\u003eWhere tipping is the norm, there is more variability.  In both directions - sometimes excellent but sometimes horrible.  Ok and Good are still the more common, but there are more experiences in those extremes.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure why this is.\u003cp\u003eI couldn\u0026#x27;t tell from this article if the studies discussed caught that (or could refute it).  That is, they all talked about average tips and service, did they measure volatility.","parent":"10407083","id":"10407143"}
{"by":"hackermom","time":"1305071718","timestamp":"2011-05-10 23:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's entirely correct. ƒ relates to DoF only in that it's relative to the maximum aperture of a specific lens. Without knowing the specifics of the lens, you cannot know from arbitrary ƒ value if the aperture has been contracted (narrowing the flow of light, thus increasing the DoF), if it's just really dark glass in the lens, if someone has a TC mounted that steals 1-2 exposure stops, or if someone has simply used a gray filter or two attached to the end of the lens. I can produce two identical exposures, both of ƒ/8.0, where one has a narrow DoF and the other 4 aperture steps deeper DoF, by simply using a gray filter in one shot, and contracting the aperture in the other. In a third example I can use a very, very dark lens such as f.e. what Leica used to produce in the 60s, still exposing at ƒ/8.0 in wide-open aperture, reaching the same exposure and achieving a narrow DoF (contrary to what anyone would think just knowing it's ƒ/8.0), but without having stopped down a single step and without having used gray filters.","parent":"2534543","id":"2534553"}
{"by":"jfoutz","time":"1450823643","timestamp":"2015-12-22 22:34:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also completely abandoning any notion of rehabilitation. Prison, in no sense, rehabilitates people, but at least \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e level of redemption should be possible. It seems as though prison no longer pays back the convict\u0026#x27;s debt to society.","parent":"10780667","id":"10780829"}
{"by":"eddiecalzone","time":"1495118211","timestamp":"2017-05-18 14:36:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chance favors the prepared mind.","parent":"14367300","id":"14367538"}
{"by":"asanwal","time":"1346533626","timestamp":"2012-09-01 21:07:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you're overstating the importance of investors.  With the exception of a few firms (Sequoia, Accel, Union Square and maybe 10 others) whose mere name probably brings you some advantage, most VCs are not all that special (look at the returns data for proof).\u003cp\u003eIf you're partnered with a middle-of-the-road VC, the reality is that not all their children (portfolio companies) are equal in their own eyes.  Investors are generally aiming for \"return the fund exits\" and of their own admission, of 10 investments, it might be 1 company that does this.\u003cp\u003eGiven they are in it for a financial return and they have limited time to allocate to companies, they will as self-interest dictates spend more time with the winners in their portfolio vs. duds.\u003cp\u003eYour celebrity analogy is a good one except it breaks down  because investors have to be promiscuous.  You are not the only special snowflake in their world that they'll take to parties and if anything, they're going to want to show up at the party with their \"trophy portfolio company\" -- not some broken or even doing ok company.\u003cp\u003eThere is immense survivorship bias in the ecosystem.  Those doing well get even more attention while the others shrivel up and go away.  The thing is those companies that die get little attention as founders and investors generally don't want to advertise failures.","parent":"4464899","id":"4465137"}
{"by":"antrion","time":"1452541644","timestamp":"2016-01-11 19:47:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well this is scary. How am I to trust a password manager if something as obvious as this is allowed to be shipped to the end user?","parent":"10882563","id":"10882832"}
{"by":"Mithaldu","time":"1324953910","timestamp":"2011-12-27 02:45:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can't say i find myself very impressed: \u003ca href=\"http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10190786/fractionless.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/10190786/fractionless.png\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3394227","id":"3394613"}
{"by":"martey","time":"1284597993","timestamp":"2010-09-16 00:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IANAL, either, but it looks like these documents came out of the discovery process: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_%28law%29\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_%28law%29\u003c/a\u003e As a result, Fusion Garage knows that TechCrunch knows about these documents, and their lawyers should realize that they will probably be used as evidence. Also:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’m embedding all the relevant documents below. A lot of time has been spent by Fusion Garage’s lawyers to try to keep these documents under seal, but they have recently been made publicly available.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI imagine that they wanted the documents kept private because they make Fusion Garage look \u003ci\u003every bad\u003c/i\u003e. Even if they end up surviving this lawsuit, I do not think very many companies will want to work with them.","parent":"1696042","id":"1696415"}
{"by":"enriquto","time":"1543524149","timestamp":"2018-11-29 20:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an inevitable feature of the perfect terminal.  The alternative is showing the binary contents of the image file in ASCII, which is always undesired.","parent":"18560967","id":"18563799"}
{"by":"paulie_a","time":"1517671407","timestamp":"2018-02-03 15:23:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would anyone install their app?","parent":"16281648","id":"16297936"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1288735806","timestamp":"2010-11-02 22:10:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If someone sent me 500 interesting and engaging emails every day, I wouldn't have any time to get real work done.","parent":"1862371","id":"1862604"}
{"by":"CWuestefeld","time":"1321548627","timestamp":"2011-11-17 16:50:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf we catch 1% of parking meter cheaters, they should pay at least a hundred times their overrun\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's almost true, but you haven't accounted for marginal utility.","parent":"3247818","id":"3248239"}
{"by":"jimijazz","time":"1544722503","timestamp":"2018-12-13 17:35:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"May I ask how much can one make with such sort of income?","parent":"18673993","id":"18674200"}
{"by":"lucisferre","time":"1340434596","timestamp":"2012-06-23 06:56:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sure that's nothing like being discounted because you're a woman.","parent":"4150201","id":"4150274"}
{"by":"gnipgnip","time":"1478498851","timestamp":"2016-11-07 06:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other than the doom and gloom, what is the standard practice in other paddy growing regions in Asia and India ?\u003cp\u003eIf the state really wanted to help, they\u0026#x27;d do well to believe their word is that of the God, and actively help with practices.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com\u0026#x2F;india\u0026#x2F;Crop-fires-already-on-in-Punjab-Haryana-satellite-pictures-show\u0026#x2F;articleshow\u0026#x2F;54860196.cms\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com\u0026#x2F;india\u0026#x2F;Crop-fires-already-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12886672","id":"12889160"}
{"by":"sandworm101","time":"1482988010","timestamp":"2016-12-29 05:06:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The armed forces, of many countries, really have to address their drinking culture.  Whatever challenge life throws at you after your service, alcohol doesn\u0026#x27;t help.  I read story after story about former soldiers coming home with problems.  They are always exacerbated by alcohol.  It\u0026#x27;s right there in the first sentence of the OP.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve got family in three different armed forces, and a couple clients.  Too many of their anecdotes begin with drinking.  Some of it is certainly them self-medicating, but much of it is also boredom.  Lots of soldiers just aren\u0026#x27;t happy with their daily routines.  I remember chatting with a kid in the US navy on his way to Japan (connecting flight through seattle).  What he was most excited about was the lower drinking age.  He had his first weekend all planned out ... complete with pics of bars emailed by buddies.  I wasn\u0026#x27;t going to lecture the kid.  A new job in a new country and that\u0026#x27;s all you are happy about?  (I wont say what the kid was tasked with as he likely divulged more than he should.)","parent":"13273530","id":"13275731"}
{"by":"SpaceManNabs","time":"1500503088","timestamp":"2017-07-19 22:24:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is true, but not everybody has those conditions. Some people have other demands. For example, I would not be able to start a start up for a while even as a recent grad software engineer at a fortune 50 company because:\u003cp\u003e1. I have to support my mom and siblings every once in a while\u003cp\u003e2. Am saving up for grad school expenses (even with funding of tuition and such through grants and such, my mother would not be able to support me for the other misc expenses)\u003cp\u003e3. I can\u0026#x27;t do part time work as I heavily am depending on the medical insurance my employer provides (nothing life threatening, but I am using all the preventive care now that I never had access to before)\u003cp\u003e4. Am saving up for a lot of expenses such as cars and such that I will need as I am starting as an adult\u003cp\u003eBut yes, in an ideal world, 50k can get you good. I don\u0026#x27;t have kids, but it would not be easy for me, and a part time job would not be enough! There is some merit in the constraint of initial conditions.\u003cp\u003eEdit: And it is not like I don\u0026#x27;t have drive. I read papers from astrophysical journals and ML journals all the time, and try to include those ideas in side projects. And I have an idea for a startup once I am more comfortable in my later 20s (after grad school).","parent":"14808419","id":"14808545"}
{"by":"Sean1708","time":"1509641582","timestamp":"2017-11-02 16:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s no more a marketing exercise than any tutorial that\u0026#x27;s posted on a project\u0026#x27;s site. If they\u0026#x27;d submitted this as a proposal to whichever standard\u0026#x27;s body is responsible for OpenDocument then I would think you have a point, but they\u0026#x27;re just using it as a well known example.","parent":"15609227","id":"15612076"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1469551156","timestamp":"2016-07-26 16:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s exactly my point as well, though. It\u0026#x27;s completely unfalsifiable, and \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c/i\u003e gets explained the same way.","parent":"12165789","id":"12166854"}
{"by":"apathy","time":"1208116684","timestamp":"2008-04-13 19:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is cute, RPy is \"\u003ci\u003ethe simplest thing that can possibly work\u003c/i\u003e\" (and it does!), and most of all, it's awesome to see an R story high on the front page of YC.news.\u003cp\u003eBut I would encourage readers (of this article and of YC news) to try playing with R interactively, just like you should try using iPython+SciPy interactively, to realize the truly awesome power of the libraries+language in each case.  Then you will know what can and cannot be done easily in each, and can use your code in the other (or C, or \u003ci\u003eshudder\u003c/i\u003e maybe even Java if necessary) to chink the gap.  Both languages can play nice with C and Java, incidentally.  But that's not the point -- let's look at an everyday situation.\u003cp\u003eFor example -- I might like to do some dimensionality reduction on a high-dimensional dataset which is information-starved along some of the features that interest me (until I collapse it a little).  Obviously, I'd like to read in the data (in as rich a form as possible), look at the combinations of dimensions that are most informative (probably via principal components analysis, aka PCA, but maybe I'd try some other techniques as well), plot them as predictors, and then perhaps use a bunch of resources on the Web to do some further annotation or testing and see how useful my pile of predictors is for various tasks.  Off the top of my head, here is what I'd think of doing:\u003cp\u003e1) depending on the nature of the data, parse it in either R or Python, and bind it into a dataframe (sort of a fancy matrix) or list of dataframes so I can manipulate it in R.\u003cp\u003e2) almost certainly I'd do the PCA and other EDA in R, due to the sheer power and variety of packages available for this sort of task in the R environment.  There are lots of libraries available for this sort of thing in Python, too, but if you have a wild hair up your ass to try some revolutionary technique that you saw in \u003ci\u003eBioinformatics\u003c/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eGenetic Epi\u003c/i\u003e (or whatever), yesterday, odds are that it was released as an R package.\u003cp\u003e3) Most likely I'd plot the correspondences for each predictor with responses I care about in R, maybe with GGobi if I had to deal with time series or high-dimensional plots.  Not that Python can't do an awesome job, but hey, we're already in R so let's get this over with, shall we?\u003cp\u003e4) I'd probably want to use the results in Python for web- or database-backed inquiries, because R's DBI packages sort of suck.  Maybe I'd save entire dataframes to MySQL or SQLite or what have you, and then retrieve them in Python to monkey around with the results (or use a stripped-down algorithm based on my R results to implement the 'app' version in Python, because eventually I'll bet we put this behind Django anyways...).  But Python for sure if it's ever going to talk to Windows or the Web.  Like, duh, \u003ci\u003erite\u003c/i\u003e?\u003cp\u003eSo the point here is that it pays to have a couple of sharp tools lying around when your interesting problem shows up and starts flopping around on your desk.  Don't be like the RDBMS guys who try and drive every damned screw with a filigreed hammer!\u003cp\u003eHope this gets one or a few people to try R (on its own) and then stick it in their utility belt for later use.","parent":"162488","id":"162591"}
{"by":"edoceo","time":"1537915256","timestamp":"2018-09-25 22:40:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would prefer not to say as, after some difficulty, I was able to reach someone at Google, provide necessary details and get approved to resubmit -- but the app name is now locked so I need a new one","parent":"18067342","id":"18071164"}
{"by":"scrollaway","time":"1477058777","timestamp":"2016-10-21 14:06:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your account appears to have been banned. I vouched your recent posts but you\u0026#x27;ll want to email the mods.","parent":"12760221","id":"12760509"}
{"by":"gamblor956","time":"1391882703","timestamp":"2014-02-08 18:05:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you need to talk to a lawyer (or a better lawyer, if this was the advice you were given.)\u003cp\u003eDo you really think the indie companies behind Jungle Run or Flappy Bird, or any of those other indie mobile hits registered for VAT in every country in which their apps got sold?  Hint: they did\u0026#x27;t. It would have been cost prohibitive.   And if this was a legal problem, you can bet there would have been news stories about these same indie darlings getting slapped with massive fines\u0026#x2F;penalties from various countries for not registering.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not necessary to have a business nexus to sell software \u003ci\u003einto\u003c/i\u003e an EU country (or most countries, for that matter); nor is it necessary to file VAT returns if you are using a store such as Google Play--Google handles both for you since \u003ci\u003ethey, not you\u003c/i\u003e are the seller of record.  That\u0026#x27;s part of what you pay the 30% for.  It\u0026#x27;s the same with Apple and MS.\u003cp\u003eThe business registration and VAT filings are necessary only if you sell directly to the customers \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e do so by physically interacting with the customer in their country.\u003cp\u003eThe best way to sum up the problem with the blog post you linked is with a quote from the post itself: \n\u0026quot;Does it apply to your App? Does it apply to our games? I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer, I’m not an accountant. I can’t give you any advice, I can’t even figure it out 100% for our own case.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eGEMA is an issue--but GEMA isn\u0026#x27;t a tax matter, it\u0026#x27;s an IP rights matter. Due to the various WIPO Treaties, the applicability of local laws to foreign content (or vice versa) is different.","parent":"7201736","id":"7201932"}
{"by":"mrhappyunhappy","time":"1531893322","timestamp":"2018-07-18 05:55:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this imply that a Keto diet makes you consume more? I find it to be the opposite ever since I went on a low\u0026#x2F;no carb diet.","parent":"17553155","id":"17555819"}
{"by":"catamorphismic","time":"1521039741","timestamp":"2018-03-14 15:02:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Reddit gets very dark very fast and it is factual that they don\u0026#x27;t control it nearly as well as they should.\u003cp\u003eIt can never be \u003ci\u003efactual\u003c/i\u003e that something \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be, since what should be is subjective.","parent":"16584123","id":"16585188"}
{"by":"bbgm","time":"1218574068","timestamp":"2008-08-12 20:47:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not in this country.  The facilities might be better, but I don't see any encouragement for curiosity and discovery, and I know enough people who've found out that doing DIY Biology might get them labeled as \"dangerous people\". Maybe I am just old and crusty.","parent":"274451","id":"274466"}
{"by":"ChicagoBoy11","time":"1433229579","timestamp":"2015-06-02 07:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WhatsApp has a distinct advantage in the fact that it can rely on lock-in since the app itself is responsible for the connections that are made within it; Once the .99 price-tag comes along, you are faced with paying for it or losing your entire WhatsApp chat network\u0026#x2F;groups\u0026#x2F;etc. With OP\u0026#x27;s software, all of those connections are handled by FB, not his app. Therefore, if he were to charge something, people could simply opt for the next-best one that is free.","parent":"9644124","id":"9644386"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1266089674","timestamp":"2010-02-13 19:34:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"7 Gb/s * 0.125GB/Gb * 86,400s/d * 30d/mo * 0.0009765625TB/GB = 2215TB/month to 738TB/month (\"20,000 users at night\", 1/3 peak usage - 8hrs)\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; That’s why I have put only four links on the bottom as advertisements. And what is interesting, is that these advertisements almost cover all expenses, just those four links on the bottom!\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I give up on the conversion\u003cp\u003eI went to a talk once with Jeff Barr of Amazon Web Services. The owners of SmugMug charge all of their AWS on a corporate credit card. We're talking multiple roundtrip tickets from bonus points a month.","parent":"1123359","id":"1123398"}
{"by":"dombili","time":"1448190091","timestamp":"2015-11-22 11:01:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks really good. I\u0026#x27;m not reading anything epub length on my phone but if I were, I\u0026#x27;d give this a shot. Big thumbs up for a great product page as well. So many people screw this up. Two problems I noticed with the website:\u003cp\u003e- No way to see the price of the app without clicking on the App Store button. Maybe this was intentional?\u003cp\u003e- \u0026quot;Personalize your reading experience\u0026quot; part has three different screenshots showing three different styles. White on black and black on white styles show the same part of the book while white on blue (is that the name of that color?) shows a  different part. No one will probably notice that, but I figured it wouldn\u0026#x27;t hurt to point out.\u003cp\u003eAny plans to make a Mac version?","parent":"10609397","id":"10609739"}
{"by":"grannyg00se","time":"1330030611","timestamp":"2012-02-23 20:56:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Node is very handy for high transaction, short transfer, high connection count applications like chat.  That's because of the non blocking single thread architecture, low overhead connections, and little bloat (small footprint).\u003cp\u003eHowever, that doesn't mean it isn't well suited for building a website.  You'd probably want to include some add-ons for that though (eg: express).\u003cp\u003eNote that even for realtime chat-like apps you'll probably need some kind of datastore and in fact that example sounds like a great use case for nosql as a datastore.","parent":"3625716","id":"3626728"}
{"by":"espeed","time":"1448755058","timestamp":"2015-11-28 23:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apache Tinkerpop: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe TinkerPop project is thoroughly documented, questions in the user groups are answered fast, and the R\u0026amp;D keeps pushing the space forward. For example, check out this new paper by Marko Rodriguez (TinkerPop founder and creator of the Gremlin graph programming language):\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Quantum Walks with Gremlin\u0026quot; \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;1511.06278v1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;1511.06278v1.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a quote from a community member:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Something like 13 yrs ago, I was trying to do server-side Java.  It\n  was a nightmare, until I discovered a thing called Apache JServ.\n\n  It was simple, elegant and the developer group was wonderfully\n  supportive and well organized.\n\n  Just as with JServ, way back then, Tinkerpop has all the same\n  characteristics, and gives me the same feeling of having hit on\n  something really valuable that will take me a long way.\n\n  Well ...  JServ morphed into TomCat, and I\u0026#x27;ve used it consistently\n  ever since.  I\u0026#x27;m confident Tinkerpop is going the same way, so I\u0026#x27;m\n  only too pleased to help where I can.\n\n  Sincerest regards,\n  Hasan\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;groups.google.com\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;msg\u0026#x2F;gremlin-users\u0026#x2F;pF577035UpY\u0026#x2F;M7t9uIiIOtIJ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;groups.google.com\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;msg\u0026#x2F;gremlin-users\u0026#x2F;pF577035UpY\u0026#x2F;M7...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I am a TinkerPop contributor.","parent":"10642500","id":"10643081"}
{"by":"username223","time":"1489684505","timestamp":"2017-03-16 17:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Pretty much all fruit trees used in agriculture are produced by cloning\u003cp\u003eI was surprised some years ago when I learned that most apple trees are grafts: you take a branch from a tree with apples you like, attach it to a shoot of some other apple tree, and it will produce the apples you like.  A neighbor\u0026#x27;s tree had burned down, and he had no idea what sort of apples the shoots sprouting from the stump would produce.","parent":"13886450","id":"13886802"}
{"by":"jwatte","time":"1469235708","timestamp":"2016-07-23 01:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Writing code will become less and less necessary, making software development more accessible to everyone.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI heard that same argument 30 years ago. \u0026quot;4G\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;expert systems\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;application generators\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;visual programming\u0026quot; were going to do away with the \u0026quot;engineering\u0026quot; aspect of software engineering.\u003cp\u003eHowever, in reality, we write more complex code for a simple business app now than ever before.\u003cp\u003eOnce hard AI can extract requirements and transform them to systems, we can retire from coding, but probably not before then.","parent":"12143627","id":"12147851"}
{"by":"d0mine","time":"1216416861","timestamp":"2008-07-18 21:34:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could use a \u003ca href=\"http://instapaper.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://instapaper.com\u003c/a\u003e 's \"Read Later\" bookmarklet.","parent":"250220","id":"250240"}
{"by":"gcatalfamo","time":"1527504836","timestamp":"2018-05-28 10:53:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“If you feel you are in control, you are not going fast enough.” -Steve McQueen","parent":"17169359","id":"17171746"}
{"by":"pclark","time":"1276593649","timestamp":"2010-06-15 09:20:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One reason the Mac Mini might not have i3/i5 has a very poor integrated graphics chip. Macs are often hurt by their poor video performance, so that may be the reason we haven't seen the i3/i5 on Macs that don't have an additional graphic card.","parent":"1432113","id":"1432214"}
{"by":"AnthonyMouse","time":"1445436024","timestamp":"2015-10-21 14:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It might actually be a good thing for the taxpayers of that country when looked at narrowly, which is often why these deals are done, but if every EU nation does it to their neighbour then overall it\u0026#x27;s a classic case of \u0026quot;race to the bottom\u0026quot; and taxpayers all across the EU will lose out.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that countries refusing to compete with each other doesn\u0026#x27;t actually help all of them. Countries like Germany have strong infrastructure, high availability of qualified labor, etc. If Romania had the same taxes as Germany then who would expand into Romania?\u003cp\u003eAnd of course taking taxes off the table would just shift the issue to spending. If you required countries to have a uniform (presumably high) tax rate then they could just spend the money on things that encourage companies to expand there and you\u0026#x27;re right back to the same situation.\u003cp\u003eCountries compete with each other to attract capital. The only way to stop that is to prevent the movement of capital across national borders, which is a completely unrealistic bad idea.","parent":"10424854","id":"10425435"}
{"by":"nodrama","time":"1343637591","timestamp":"2012-07-30 08:39:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I only got the popup the first time. Win7.","parent":"4311382","dead":true,"id":"4311416"}
{"by":"tyrust","time":"1513385409","timestamp":"2017-12-16 00:50:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;collisions are a concern\u003cp\u003eCould you elaborate?  Probability of collisions should be very low.","parent":"15936274","id":"15936615"}
{"by":"ci5er","time":"1497044067","timestamp":"2017-06-09 21:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not to quibble with your quibble (but here I go anyway)... The term \u0026quot;Marketing Spend of X\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;Operating Spend of Y\u0026quot; is fairly common business-analysis-speak. At least in certain regions of the United States. IIRC, I also heard it used by Telstra and ANZ execs during some projects I had to take care of in Australia.","parent":"14524225","id":"14524769"}
{"by":"loxs","time":"1356633773","timestamp":"2012-12-27 18:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for this. I was referring exactly to quantifiable traits.","parent":"4974407","id":"4974476"}
{"by":"madeofpalk","time":"1449623565","timestamp":"2015-12-09 01:12:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well I mean, there\u0026#x27;s a threshold - it\u0026#x27;s not OK to sell an arsenic laced Apple just because it has a warning on it.","parent":"10701139","id":"10701183"}
{"by":"bredren","time":"1545623304","timestamp":"2018-12-24 03:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s cool. I think Minecraft mods did this for a younger gen as well.","parent":"18748521","id":"18750182"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1413821660","timestamp":"2014-10-20 16:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand. Why can\u0026#x27;t I be angry about Apple artificially limiting what apps can use the service, and also indirectly limiting what apps can do if they use the service?","parent":"8482089","id":"8482885"}
{"by":"joebadmo","time":"1319005413","timestamp":"2011-10-19 06:23:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Samsung can't get high enough pixel density with AMOLED\" was what I was arguing with. The pixel density is very high. They weren't \"forced to just keep making the screens bigger\" as you claimed.","parent":"3128968","id":"3128993"}
{"by":"mavroprovato","time":"1385055745","timestamp":"2013-11-21 17:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is this ocean you are talking about? Because Europe has only the Atlantic Ocean on its West and the nearest countries on the Other side of the Atlantic are the US and Canada.","parent":"6775763","id":"6776081"}
{"by":"perfmode","time":"1535657201","timestamp":"2018-08-30 19:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"these are just things people say to get people to take accept lower salaries. a narrative that serves to suppress wages.\u003cp\u003equite frankly i’d like our industry to evolve past mission narratives.","parent":"17879846","id":"17879920"}
{"by":"foota","time":"1478499154","timestamp":"2016-11-07 06:12:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just tried to look at this to see BGP activity: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;bgpstream?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;bgpstream?lang=en\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12889104","id":"12889199"}
{"by":"dmackerman","time":"1357912962","timestamp":"2013-01-11 14:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hipstarter","parent":"5042239","id":"5042665"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1357838374","timestamp":"2013-01-10 17:19:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can I suggest that this is turning into a HN Matchmaking service\u003cp\u003ePerhaps a little codification might be good:\u003cp\u003e* A Maker puts their idea onto HS with \"MatchMake HN: \"\n* Any interested Investor then replies \n* Maker chooses Investor (possibly publically)\n* A month later a \"Show HN\" is published.\u003cp\u003eI would be interested seeing everyone's results","parent":"5038067","id":"5038237"}
{"by":"golergka","time":"1432109327","timestamp":"2015-05-20 08:08:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that RTT of this magnitude would create significant merge problems.","parent":"9573860","id":"9575037"}
{"by":"andrewvc","time":"1326464741","timestamp":"2012-01-13 14:25:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure there are, kpeg, citrus, treetop... Probably more I don't know about.","parent":"3460590","id":"3460605"}
{"by":"shpx","time":"1435279692","timestamp":"2015-06-26 00:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t mean to troll, but I really hope that that is not the final look of the car. Looks like one of those toy red and yellow cars [0]. Such an amazing engineering achievement deserves a more serious, futuristic look.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\u0026#x2F;736x\u0026#x2F;2c\u0026#x2F;7b\u0026#x2F;4b\u0026#x2F;2c7b4b50b3e4cc44b0b4a7f341b419c6.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\u0026#x2F;736x\u0026#x2F;2c\u0026#x2F;7b\u0026#x2F;4b\u0026#x2F;2c7b4b50b...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9781181","id":"9781881"}
{"by":"adolph","time":"1343222538","timestamp":"2012-07-25 13:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe basic problem being addressed is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions. Imagine you have an application that needs version 1 of LibFoo, but another application requires version 2. How can you use both these applications? If you install everything into /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (or whatever your platform’s standard location is), it’s easy to end up in a situation where you unintentionally upgrade an application that shouldn’t be upgraded.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom: \n\u003ca href=\"http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/index.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4290716","id":"4290767"}
{"by":"gerbal","time":"1490603411","timestamp":"2017-03-27 08:30:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are lot of wireless E-ink displays for sale that advertise 5-year battery life with a simple button cell. For like $10\u0026#x2F;label.","parent":"13965193","id":"13966008"}
{"by":"htf","time":"1354804527","timestamp":"2012-12-06 14:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how much this move was precipitated by Google's purchase of Motorola. Google produced each generation of nexus phone with a different manufacturer. This allows Google to learn the best practices of each of them. But eventually Google will produce the nexus devices themselves through their Motorola facilities, allowing them to iterate fast and produce cheaply. Apple sees this coming and figures out they also need to produce their devices in-house.","parent":"4881567","id":"4881851"}
{"by":"chii","time":"1535375513","timestamp":"2018-08-27 13:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  VMware actually emulated SLAT guest CPU on SLAT-less host CPU\u003cp\u003eso what was the point of SLAT?!?!","parent":"17850549","id":"17851248"}
{"by":"ohf","time":"1523827479","timestamp":"2018-04-15 21:24:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s whoever 4chan is.","parent":"16845058","id":"16845074"}
{"by":"leereeves","time":"1436745486","timestamp":"2015-07-12 23:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obtaining evidence while \u0026quot;routing around [AKA respecting] constitutional protections\u0026quot; is the essence of police work in America.","parent":"9874390","id":"9875543"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1461772905","timestamp":"2016-04-27 16:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the executive branch had any courage or decency, they\u0026#x27;d be pardoned. Along with tens of thousands of other unjustly imprisoned citizens.","parent":"11580226","id":"11581637"}
{"by":"marincounty","time":"1449685720","timestamp":"2015-12-09 18:28:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes--Hacker News is a form of social media.  I don\u0026#x27;t want to point out all the differences between the sites.\u003cp\u003eI can only comment on my own phyche after being on the two sites.  I don\u0026#x27;t feel good after being on FB.  I\u0026#x27;ve gotten into the habit of deativating my account Monday-Friday.  I keep it open on the weekends--just in case? So far nothing, but I\u0026#x27;ve never been a popular person.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I don\u0026#x27;t feel bad after being on HN.  Yes--like any site, I can only take it in small doses.  And yes--if it changed up too much from its current format, I would delete my account.\u003cp\u003eI use the Internet for information, and enjoyment.  FB just brings up too many bad memories, or just puts me in a weird mood.  I don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;ve evolved enough to like FB?  Were we, as monkeys, ever designed to see so many other monkeys?","parent":"10705204","id":"10705663"}
{"by":"cmollis","time":"1438717647","timestamp":"2015-08-04 19:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it(swift) feels that way to me too..   my first impressions were \u0026#x27;scala\u0026#x27;.","parent":"10005759","id":"10005775"}
{"by":"higherpurpose","time":"1421155202","timestamp":"2015-01-13 13:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2 days of battery life for you can mean just 2\u0026#x2F;3 of a day for someone else. So I\u0026#x27;d rather all smartphones default to 2-3 days of battery life, just to ensure even the heaviest users get a full day. If you start your day with 20 percent battery life, then you have no one to blame but yourself, in that case, no?","parent":"8879160","id":"8879558"}
{"by":"mikekchar","time":"1455004869","timestamp":"2016-02-09 08:01:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t agree with your assessment.  Although they encourage people not to use the term \u0026quot;Intellectual Property\u0026quot;, I think that\u0026#x27;s from the perspective that ideas are not property.  This is not at odds with (my understanding of) the legal definition of IP (the name notwithstanding).  The property in IP, is the monopoly it affords, not the idea.  You can\u0026#x27;t own an idea (i.e. it is not legal to do so).  You \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e own the government granted monopoly for implementing that idea.\u003cp\u003eThe FSF is pro-copyright and pro-trademark.  You can literally own software.  In fact, one of the things the GPL makes very clear is that once you have given\u0026#x2F;sold someone the software, you can\u0026#x27;t suddenly revoke their rights to use it in any way they see fit.  In fact the FSF is very outspoken about the dangers of using services which remove that right (for example ebooks where the seller can suddenly revoke your right to read the book).\u003cp\u003eWhen you receive software under the GPL, you \u003ci\u003eown\u003c/i\u003e that copy.  It is literally yours.  You can modify it.  You can study it.  You can give it or sell it (for any amount of money) to someone else.  Not only that, but you do \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e own the copyrights.  The copyrights are owned by someone else and are not transferred with the software.  So this means that you can not change the license, even with a derived work.\u003cp\u003eThey like it that way.  They do not want to change the ability to own software or own copyrights.  The GPL does not subvert the notion of software as property -- it enforces the normal rights you would have if it were physical property.","parent":"11063471","id":"11063842"}
{"by":"jooke","time":"1502537430","timestamp":"2017-08-12 11:30:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the police stopped arresting people then criminals would be much more pleased with their work","parent":"14993786","id":"14997488"}
{"by":"platz","time":"1491161676","timestamp":"2017-04-02 19:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also known as an \u0026#x27;oracle\u0026#x27;","parent":"14018579","id":"14018592"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1275447038","timestamp":"2010-06-02 02:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could just fake the id later.  Why ruin your architecture because your users are lazy?","parent":"1396779","id":"1396874"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1373601221","timestamp":"2013-07-12 03:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha. I love Linux and use it as much as possible but Linux has been dysfunctional on every laptop I\u0026#x27;ve ever owned in some way or another. I\u0026#x27;ve owned a Toshiba, Lenovo (I know, right?), Apple (actually was the best supported, by a decent margin), Chromebook Pixel.","parent":"6030666","dead":true,"id":"6030824"}
{"by":"medmunds","time":"1493077279","timestamp":"2017-04-24 23:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; you should not be mixing transactional email with work email\u003cp\u003eCan\u0026#x27;t emphasize that enough.\u003cp\u003eDjango makes it easy to substitute email backends [1], and there are backends available for most transactional ESPs. I maintain one that covers several popular, full-featured ESPs [2]; a quick search of PyPI will also turn up backends for AWS-SES and others.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;1.11\u0026#x2F;topics\u0026#x2F;email\u0026#x2F;#email-backends\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;1.11\u0026#x2F;topics\u0026#x2F;email\u0026#x2F;#email-b...\u003c/a\u003e\n[2]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;anymail\u0026#x2F;django-anymail\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;anymail\u0026#x2F;django-anymail\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14187590","id":"14189482"}
{"by":"aw3c2","time":"1267000826","timestamp":"2010-02-24 08:40:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Banned \u003ci\u003ein the USA\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eAre all those out of copyright already?","parent":"1147360","id":"1147584"}
{"by":"scarlac","time":"1468997695","timestamp":"2016-07-20 06:54:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This may be due to slow or limited support in Safari (no versions support it)\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s worth noting that Safari Tech Preview actually does support it. It shows from the compatibility table that he links to. I also tested it just now, in Release 8.","parent":"12124197","id":"12127302"}
{"by":"biohacker42","time":"1253110090","timestamp":"2009-09-16 14:08:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title is politically loaded. There's something that article is trying to say vis-a-vis government subsidies and free trade, but it never quite materializes, at least I couldn't understand it. But I had no trouble understanding the political outrage it is dripping with.","parent":"825612","id":"825804"}
{"by":"cnp","time":"1417383218","timestamp":"2014-11-30 21:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, quite a bit of research is happening in the US, with Johns Hopkins and NYU being at the lead.","parent":"8678088","id":"8678195"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1477502902","timestamp":"2016-10-26 17:28:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with Reddit is its bigger than the Dunbar number so its possible to predict there\u0026#x27;s going to be severe problems with politics and censorship (and hey, golly, it turns out there is!).\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile in the Slashdot 90s a weblog discussion type site took a lot of money and an entire corporation to kinda run, but in the 10s a splinter group like Soylent News takes like three part time dudes, if that much, to serve up more than Slashdot ever did in the 90s.\u003cp\u003eSo anything big automatically leads to political problems and 20 years ago, or even today, people just have to tolerate it, but as technology advanced eventually you\u0026#x27;ll be able to do more than reddit does with a simple $30 model 2025 raspberry pi and a sd card, so people will just move there instead.\u003cp\u003eOr rephrased the primary network effect of sharing Reddit is the joy of being a victim of raids from SRS, so people will be quite happy to leave.\u003cp\u003eAlso I\u0026#x27;d say we have very few TV shows because of expense and the resulting risk aversion.  We have many nearly identical shows none worth watching.  If the cost of TV shows scaled downward with technology we\u0026#x27;d have some pretty interesting diversity of TV shows, but we don\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"12792601","id":"12798489"}
{"by":"plesn","time":"1227496208","timestamp":"2008-11-24 03:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LaTeX makes it easy to make something clean out of a bunch of text.\u003cp\u003eBut when graphics enter, I'm easily stuck loosing \u003ci\u003ea lot\u003c/i\u003e of time. For now, i tend to use tikz and will learn Inkscape, after bad experiences with dia, metapost, etc. Sure under MacOS Omnigraffle produces great output...\u003cp\u003eGood documents are not only text...","parent":"374215","id":"374399"}
{"by":"mattmanser","time":"1340227746","timestamp":"2012-06-20 21:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read Allan Carr's book, you do not actually disagree and he's done the work you ask for. The writer has taken several short cuts on the steps to epiphany in the book, which is why you may be confused.\u003cp\u003eHis use of 'slavery' is merely an illustrative device, truth be told he's not a very good writer, just a man with a working solution to nicotine addiction and his writing may be poor but is good enough to communicate it.\u003cp\u003eHe also repeatedly asks you do not refer to it as 'quit' or 'give up'.","parent":"4138609","id":"4139209"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1508313836","timestamp":"2017-10-18 08:03:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I think that\u0026#x27;s it! Sheep are mostly used for wool, goats for milk and the odd lambchop.\u003cp\u003eIt very much depends on the country. Australia, NZ, South Africa and muslim countries consume significant amounts of sheep meat e.g. 5.5kg per capita in Saudi Arabia, 7.4 in Australia, 3.2 in Iran, …","parent":"15497263","id":"15497603"}
{"by":"existencebox","time":"1419229503","timestamp":"2014-12-22 06:25:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To his credit, my manager was extremely forthright in fighting for me, but his hands were tied in being limited to the typical periods.\u003cp\u003eYes, I did agree to the salary, but as that I was coming from an academic position (and was honestly\u0026#x2F;still am relatively new to shopping around for jobs) the salary seemed like a vast improvement and I didn\u0026#x27;t think to dig deep into actual level.\u003cp\u003eThanks (to other child posters as well) for your thoughts.\u003cp\u003e(to answer some side posts as well; I didn\u0026#x27;t mean to come across as having excessively many years experience, but that I was just not a college hire and hope I didn\u0026#x27;t mislead.  This introspection also doesn\u0026#x27;t preclude looking for other options simultaneously, and I\u0026#x27;ve certainly learned my lesson about asking more of some sorts of questions during my offer.)","parent":"8780248","id":"8782236"}
{"by":"jcr","time":"1346294961","timestamp":"2012-08-30 02:49:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it \"Reddit got Obama\" or is it \"Obama got Reddit\"?\u003cp\u003eI think the best answer is, \"Yes,\" since it seems to be mutually\nbeneficial exploitation of Reddit \u003ci\u003eUSERS\u003c/i\u003e for the sake of press\ncoverage (both Obama getting press and Reddit getting press).","parent":"4451690","id":"4452675"}
{"by":"ldite","time":"1543959006","timestamp":"2018-12-04 21:30:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t turn them down - bridge burning is for pyromaniacs - I just make non-committal noises and don\u0026#x27;t usually get back to them.\u003cp\u003eI should clarify that I was thinking more of outfits that respond to my enquiry with \u0026quot;Hi $candidate, please do this generic exercise after which we\u0026#x27;ll deign to look at your CV\u0026quot;. Bonus points awarded\u0026#x2F;deducted if the requested exercise is for something already available on my github profile.\u003cp\u003eAnd 4-6 hours is typically my free time (not free computer time, \u003ci\u003etotal\u003c/i\u003e free time) for a week.","parent":"18603697","id":"18603757"}
{"by":"hrrld","time":"1439184881","timestamp":"2015-08-10 05:34:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I felt the same.\u003cp\u003eI found the following by perusing the first few search results for obvious search terms:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quora.com\u0026#x2F;What-is-a-good-strategy-for-Risk-the-board-game\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quora.com\u0026#x2F;What-is-a-good-strategy-for-Risk-the-bo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt might be a good start at answering the questions raised here...","parent":"10030963","id":"10032797"}
{"by":"Annatar","time":"1469263474","timestamp":"2016-07-23 08:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is clear: voice over network, I don\u0026#x27;t care about some loss of fidelity, but for my audio collection, I absolutely do care.","parent":"12146918","id":"12148848"}
{"by":"etanazir","time":"1384786974","timestamp":"2013-11-18 15:02:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There may be truism that the wierdo playing with fire and rocks in the cave may not experience any returns if his new steel can\u0026#x27;t manage the hordes of club thugs.","parent":"6753931","id":"6754580"}
{"by":"hn_throwaway_99","time":"1547415832","timestamp":"2019-01-13 21:43:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When there are lots of people who have a vested interest in the Emperor\u0026#x27;s wardrobe, not surprising (but a bit sad) that the hammer is coming down on those that point out that the Emperor is naked.","parent":"18898614","id":"18898907"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1503689164","timestamp":"2017-08-25 19:26:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eYou brake before getting close to whatever you want to rendevous with.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis makes me question whether you actually understand how orbital rendezvous works. How about as an exercise, you explain why I would say this. Otherwise, I think the resulting conversation would be tiresome and not worth my time.","parent":"15100948","id":"15101451"}
{"by":"waterlesscloud","time":"1277576284","timestamp":"2010-06-26 18:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's good about C++ is that I know it well, so it's comfortable for me.  Why someone just coming to it now would like it, I couldn't tell you.\u003cp\u003eI will say that when I came to Python I felt much lighter and faster as programmer.  You forget how it can be.\u003cp\u003eAnd starting into Clojure recently just feels more \"right\".  I avoided Lispiness for a long, long time, but Clojure seems to hit the proper balance for me.","parent":"1464019","id":"1464034"}
{"by":"ghaff","time":"1528634825","timestamp":"2018-06-10 12:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;But I think one of our blind spots as a culture is the assumption that nothing bad will happen if you drive a car correctly and follow all of the rules, and I think that assumption might prove to be wrong and that collisions are an inherent aspect of driving a car in an unpredictable world.\u003cp\u003eThat assumption is clearly wrong. There are other drivers but even leaving that aside for the distant day when most vehicles are autonomous.\u003cp\u003e- Debris of various kinds\u003cp\u003e- Mechanical failures of vehicles\u003cp\u003e- Environmental factors, e.g. ice causing skids\u003cp\u003e- Road damage\u003cp\u003e- Animals\u003cp\u003eetc.","parent":"17275239","id":"17277859"}
{"by":"RBerenguel","time":"1384942194","timestamp":"2013-11-20 10:09:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always forgot which was which until I actually forced me to use them for a while (and \u0026quot;while\u0026quot; was too long). The only cool thing of the names is that you can get a cryptic sticker \u0026quot;My other car is a cdr\u0026quot; that no-one will understand but will make you jiggle each morning","parent":"6767031","id":"6767208"}
{"by":"saalweachter","time":"1491663695","timestamp":"2017-04-08 15:01:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like there\u0026#x27;s some sort of parallel with the Machine Apocalypse.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;What if we build intelligent machines that execute their goals at the expense of humanity,\u0026quot; we worry.","parent":"14065589","id":"14067223"}
{"by":"iworkforthem","time":"1301019728","timestamp":"2011-03-25 02:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In your mid 20s, made $1M.. Think you probably can take time out to write a book. And figure out what you want to do next. i.e. Build something interesting? Or invest in a startup?","parent":"2366219","id":"2366939"}
{"by":"cstross","time":"1410979811","timestamp":"2014-09-17 18:50:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has been pre-announced but not yet released.\u003cp\u003eDitto SwiftKey (although they announced a hard release date: tomorrow).\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I spoke too soon: Swype for iOS 8 is out now:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swype-keyboard/id916365675\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;swype-keyboard\u0026#x2F;id916365675\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8331142","id":"8331675"}
{"by":"eli_gottlieb","time":"1417865803","timestamp":"2014-12-06 11:36:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is absolutely amazing, and really makes me wish I knew a damn thing about 3D printing.","parent":"8682354","id":"8708999"}
{"by":"tjl","time":"1410995215","timestamp":"2014-09-17 23:06:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used simulated annealing for my Master\u0026#x27;s thesis. I was trying to fit a differential equation to some experimental results. With small changes in the parameters, you could get huge changes in the solution of the DE. For some of the experiments, the parameters it chose fit almost perfectly. As a result, simulated annealing is one of the techniques I look at for highly non-linear optimization.","parent":"8332516","id":"8332856"}
{"by":"jenkstom","time":"1483656645","timestamp":"2017-01-05 22:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of my favorite stories that hardly anybody knows about. I actually did consulting for Oneida briefly a long time ago, and I don\u0026#x27;t think anybody there had a clue that it was started by a communist sex cult.","parent":"13331115","id":"13332198"}
{"by":"duck","time":"1281068199","timestamp":"2010-08-06 04:16:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks pretty slick, but 1) out of those who uses Gantt charts, who would actually use this and 2) who uses Gantt charts in the first place?","parent":"1579282","id":"1580164"}
{"by":"dspeyer","time":"1342332913","timestamp":"2012-07-15 06:15:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you ever tried to read any Demeterized code?  It's an idea that needs to die.\u003cp\u003eIf I see book.line(n) and I want to know how it counts footnotes, and Book::line is defined as this.sectionWithLine(n).line(n) and those are defined in terms of Chapter::line and Page::line I'm going to need notepaper.  And as I'm flipping among five nearly-identical functions with the same name, I'm going to have a terrible time finding which one has the footnote logic in it.","parent":"4246018","id":"4246303"}
{"by":"mattnewton","time":"1506735446","timestamp":"2017-09-30 01:37:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The south was allowed to assemble, talk and vote on it, but the north didn\u0026#x27;t recognize the secession as legitimate. Those are separate issues.","parent":"15370264","id":"15370688"}
{"by":"sidlls","time":"1472178020","timestamp":"2016-08-26 02:20:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have a GitHub (bitbucket, etc.) account, can\u0026#x27;t remember the last time I contributed to any open source project, and have very few hobby programs I work on outside of my job.\u003cp\u003eYet somehow I\u0026#x27;m consistently rated very highly by my peers, to the point where I have significant influence on the technical direction of projects I work on.\u003cp\u003eThe reason I don\u0026#x27;t have hobby projects or dev social media accounts is this: by the time I get home, I have a spouse and two children who I have a life with outside of programming. I frankly don\u0026#x27;t have time to work on hobby programming outside of work to the level of sophistication that rises to the sort I\u0026#x27;d feel comfortable showing in an interview. And picking some random toy project that does would quickly reveal how little I care about it.\u003cp\u003eEdit for clarity: that said, I think this level of transparency is fantastic. I have nothing negative to say about it.","parent":"12363228","id":"12363915"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1339695295","timestamp":"2012-06-14 17:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Dawn spacecraft use ion drives. \"With the propellant it carries, it can perform a velocity change of over 10 km/s, far more than any other spacecraft has done with onboard propellant after separation from the launch rocket.\" Voyager 2 got a 20km/s boost from Jupiter, and almost the same from Saturn, about 4km/s from Uranus, and about 10 from Neptune. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf4-1.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf4-1.php\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003eIn other words, even the best rockets we have now are not as good as that rare lineup of all four gas giants in this system.\u003cp\u003eAlso, we don't have a better energy source. Voyager used RTGs, and that's still what we have. In any case, power isn't the limiting factor, it's exhaust velocity and amount of fuel.","parent":"4112228","id":"4112511"}
{"by":"rriepe","time":"1266506145","timestamp":"2010-02-18 15:15:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Measuring the amount of papers is questionable as well. One paper with a ridiculous breakthrough (cold fusion, etc) could outweigh all the others.","parent":"1134195","id":"1134288"}
{"by":"dragly","time":"1489529366","timestamp":"2017-03-14 22:09:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that Dropbox typically handles conflicts quite well, and the issues I had are more likely bugs outside the conflict resolution implementation. I was a bit brief in my comment above, so let me elaborate in case you or someone else is interested:\u003cp\u003eThe issues I had didn\u0026#x27;t result in conflicted files. Rather, after making a big change (i.e. switching git branches) some files were never updated or synced. Dropbox stopped picking up changes in the folder and eventually removed new changes once restarted.\u003cp\u003eThe order of events were something along the lines of:\u003cp\u003e1) Did work on computer A that caused massive file changes (i.e. moving between git branches).\n2) Moved to computer B to continue work.\n3) Noticed files were old or missing on B.\n4) Syncing files in some other folders worked, but nothing happened in the folder with missing files.\n5) Restarted Dropbox on both machines in hope that this would trigger a fresh sync.\n6) Observed files being reverted to old versions or deleted on machine A.\u003cp\u003eThe end result was that Dropbox threw away the changes I had made on A and left me with the original state of B. I was able to recover the changes from a backup, so it was no big deal in the end (although it left me a bit scared I could have lost those files without noticing).\u003cp\u003eI was in contact with Dropbox support about the issue and explained in detail what I had done and what happened. I was offered help to recover the files, but since I had already done so, I just told them I didn\u0026#x27;t need any more support on the issue. I thought it might be because \u0026#x2F;proc\u0026#x2F;sys\u0026#x2F;fs\u0026#x2F;inotify\u0026#x2F;max_user_watches had a low value on one machine, so I wrote back that they might want to add back the old warning about this. However, the same problem with deleted files happened again after I had verified that this value was high enough on all machines.\u003cp\u003eI have also seen how a script run by a colleague managed to confuse Dropbox. The script was running a test which repeatedly created and deleted the same file before checking its correctness. Running the script in the Dropbox folder left him with some old version of this file and a failed test. Running the scirpt in a folder outside Dropbox left him with the correct final version of the file. He was only working on one machine.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, I know it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;bad\u0026quot; to run scripts like this or switch git branches on top of sync software, but it happens, and it is interesting to see how different software handles these cases.\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that Dropbox usually handles these massive file changes well, so moving to Syncthing has for me been more about it being open source and the possibility to keep files on my own machines. I was just glad to see that Syncthing also handles heavy use cases gracefully.","parent":"13859034","id":"13871934"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1532524491","timestamp":"2018-07-25 13:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many people do. Native American nations are magnets for scam artists and various criminals.\u003cp\u003eThey are immune from state prosecution, so if they operate at a level below whatever the federal authorities care about, it’s lower risk.","parent":"17608786","id":"17608964"}
{"by":"ludwigvan","time":"1291597988","timestamp":"2010-12-06 01:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would suggest using FlashBlock or equivalent on Macs. (Gruber even suggests uninstalling Flash, chrome has builtin Flash I guess.)\u003cp\u003eAlso, keep an eye on the new Firefox 4 betas, they are much snappier.\u003cp\u003eThat said, it is true that Webkit based browsers are currently the best choice in terms of speed and stability.\u003cp\u003eOpera is good on Windows, and has advanced on the Mac UI wise, however it is not as stable as Safari on my mac.","parent":"1973323","id":"1973371"}
{"by":"x3n0ph3n3","time":"1469303944","timestamp":"2016-07-23 19:59:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the bank teller is tricked or their bank servers hacked,  the bank should be liable. If the account holder is tricked, the account holder should be liable. If a merchant is tricked, the merchant\u0026#x27;s agreement with their payment processor determines whom is at fault.","parent":"12150596","id":"12150783"}
{"by":"soraminazuki","time":"1493696291","timestamp":"2017-05-02 03:38:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The preinstalled version is so ancient that most people would just install a newer version.","parent":"14242598","id":"14243785"}
{"by":"athenot","time":"1513968954","timestamp":"2017-12-22 18:55:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The generalization of that is when you see high customer acquisition costs relative to what you think a vendor might earn from you, ask yourself why.","parent":"15989771","id":"15989923"}
{"by":"blacksmythe","time":"1294610071","timestamp":"2011-01-09 21:54:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026#62;\u0026#62; Of course, if you view a PhD purely as training \n  \u0026#62;\u0026#62; for academic positions, then clearly something is broken,\n  \u0026#62;\u0026#62; because there are very few academic positions.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIt always surprises me when people think this. It stands to reason that in a non-expanding market that each professor can on average train only one replacement in his/her entire career.","parent":"2085964","id":"2086542"}
{"by":"pen2l","time":"1448483712","timestamp":"2015-11-25 20:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sooooo... what we should do is take some of our own blood when we\u0026#x27;re teenagers, freeze it, and reacquaint ourselves with it at an older age?","parent":"10628271","id":"10629500"}
{"by":"autechr3","time":"1402501178","timestamp":"2014-06-11 15:39:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"URL debacle aside, I think this seems like a pretty good tool. My only qualm is that it seems a bit busy. In my mind, a good json editor will make it easier to edit the data, but here I had to scroll more and click more.","parent":"7876849","id":"7878558"}
{"by":"joshu","time":"1238649732","timestamp":"2009-04-02 05:22:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One hedge fund? This is a fairly standard strategy. Analysts publish their predictions. Services like First Call aggregate them, etc.","parent":"542577","id":"542951"}
{"by":"frandroid","time":"1447968127","timestamp":"2015-11-19 21:22:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"9 days ago: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10538791\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10538791\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10596452","id":"10597782"}
{"by":"mkelly","time":"1305336635","timestamp":"2011-05-14 01:30:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, I don't mean to be a hardass, but Sergey picked a latin transliteration for his name, so let's stick to it, okay? (I know, cry me a river about \"И\" vs \"Й\" and \"i\" vs \"y\".)","parent":"2545795","id":"2546869"}
{"by":"thenomad","time":"1448118504","timestamp":"2015-11-21 15:08:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here are a couple of examples of the kind of content that I think would have been upvoted 5-6 years ago, but nowadays seems to die in the \u0026#x2F;new queue or not even make it that far.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re not truly stellar, outstanding examples because I don\u0026#x27;t have enough time to dig through 100 to find 5 that would fit, but I found them pretty interesting and think that 6 years ago they would have gotten at least some upvotes and discussion.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10606780\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10606780\u003c/a\u003e - actionable suggestions backed up by practical experience. Slightly shilling his new startup, but also interesting and worth a read. I added it to my bookmarks. 1 upvote in the \u0026#x2F;new queue, from me.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10606876\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10606876\u003c/a\u003e - Found on Medium, wasn\u0026#x27;t even submitted to HN. Interesting discussion, actionable advice, focused on very HN-centric topic (Lean Startup). No upvotes so far.\u003cp\u003eOverall, I find that I have better luck discovering this kind of content on HN these days from reading \u0026#x2F;new than reading the front page. However, that still involves kissing a LOT of frogs because of the \u0026#x2F;new signal-to-noise ratio. I almost never see this sort of content make it to the front page in 2015.\u003cp\u003eAgain, hope this feedback\u0026#x27;s useful!","parent":"10606386","id":"10606955"}
{"by":"qwerta","time":"1397227828","timestamp":"2014-04-11 14:50:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Make sure you read their license, it could be slightly modified GPL. Some licenses (such as Apache 2)  has clause which makes any contribution Apache licensed.","parent":"7573138","id":"7573163"}
{"by":"clubhi","time":"1402848092","timestamp":"2014-06-15 16:01:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if it\u0026#x27;s all parts of the US that don\u0026#x27;t know foreign languages. I went to highschool in Texas and we all had foreign languages since grade 6. Most of us can at least read spanish. My friends that went to a local private school were usually fluent in two other languages. I myself am fluent in Spanish and can read\u0026#x2F;write Latin\u0026#x2F;Greek.","parent":"7895215","id":"7895512"}
{"by":"nextos","time":"1421930557","timestamp":"2015-01-22 12:42:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s too abstract. It contains plenty of geometrical intuition. And it makes things very clear and he says them very _early_. E.g., a matrix represents a linear transformation. It took me ages to understand this at high school because I was lost in a sea of matrices.","parent":"8922521","id":"8928839"}
{"by":"ben_jones","time":"1480102260","timestamp":"2016-11-25 19:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Somebody in ops is shitting bricks right now. Heart goes out to you brother\u0026#x2F;sister.","parent":"13038267","id":"13039235"}
{"by":"coob","time":"1343734726","timestamp":"2012-07-31 11:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do I not unwittingly get CP being stored on my device?","parent":"4316632","id":"4316707"}
{"by":"joshmanders","time":"1328651167","timestamp":"2012-02-07 21:46:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Put my email in, always good to improve your knowledge.","parent":"3563633","id":"3563767"}
{"by":"nzp","time":"1385840682","timestamp":"2013-11-30 19:44:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course you can\u0026#x27;t (although I do believe we can and should be free from unwanted, unpleasant labour).  But hey, you asked a value based question and got a value based answer. ;)","parent":"6824110","id":"6824321"}
{"by":"sago","time":"1505184028","timestamp":"2017-09-12 02:40:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only if they happen to a) be in the range 0-9 (for the sparkline) or 0-99 (for the dot or bar chart) and b) cover (pretty much) the whole of that range. See the page examples, the data in the sparkline bears no obvious relation to the start and end values.","parent":"15224143","id":"15224361"}
{"by":"skc","time":"1511906217","timestamp":"2017-11-28 21:56:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple probably doesn\u0026#x27;t take too kindly to their employees talking about their work. I\u0026#x27;d imagine it\u0026#x27;s a fire-able offense.","parent":"15802188","id":"15802226"}
{"by":"sytse","time":"1345880240","timestamp":"2012-08-25 07:37:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for the warning. Do you have a test case that reproduces the problem that you can share?","parent":"4430040","id":"4431372"}
{"by":"daemin","time":"1455878108","timestamp":"2016-02-19 10:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"China and Russia make iCloud data requests the same way the FBI already has in this case. Nothing different. The main thing is the FBI wants a free back door to any ones phone.","parent":"11132300","id":"11132734"}
{"by":"mikebenfield","time":"1473877633","timestamp":"2016-09-14 18:27:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Writing a 100 page thesis is not hard work either.\u003cp\u003eMaybe don\u0026#x27;t belittle things you\u0026#x27;ve never done?\u003cp\u003eDoing a PhD is not just sitting down and writing a thesis, and it\u0026#x27;s also not just taking a few classes that occasionally require late nights. A PhD student is typically teaching one or more classes, learning as much as possible about his\u0026#x2F;her field, reading papers at the forefront of research in his\u0026#x2F;her field, conducting original research, writing papers on one\u0026#x27;s research, preparing and giving talks at conferences and seminars, along with writing the thesis and (at least in the first year or two) taking classes.\u003cp\u003eMy thesis was in fact just over 100 pages. It also required a lot intense studying (on top of my basic undergrad and graduate education) before I understood the topic well enough to begin to do research on the topic, and quite a lot more work before I started to find worthwhile original results to write about. Here \u0026quot;a lot of work\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean a few late nights, it means years of working as much time as possible every week.\u003cp\u003eAs someone who was in the working world for almost 10 years before returning to school, I assure you my thesis represents a lot more hard work than anything I ever did in \u0026quot;the real world.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAll that said, this article is nuts. Very few PhDs are in a good position to launch a startup. But not because PhDs \u0026quot;know nothing about life or work,\u0026quot; and not because they are unfamiliar with hard work.","parent":"12499542","id":"12499871"}
{"by":"URSpider94","time":"1427783508","timestamp":"2015-03-31 06:31:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It may be 50% in Amsterdam, but I seriously doubt it\u0026#x27;s anywhere close to that high in the rest of the country. I\u0026#x27;ve ridden extensively around Eindhoven, a mid-size city in the middle of the Netherlands, and you spend extremely little time in the street with cars.\u003cp\u003eThe other thing that the author glosses over is that pedestrians and bikes don\u0026#x27;t share space either, and that pedestrians are equally deferential to cyclists. If you walk in the bike lane, you\u0026#x27;ll get a good shouting at.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s something that shows extremely poorly here in the USA by comparison, after you\u0026#x27;ve grown accustomed to it. Anywhere in the US there\u0026#x27;s a separate \u0026quot;bike path\u0026quot;, it\u0026#x27;s really a multi-use path for bikers, rollerbladers, walkers (usually two or three abreast), kids on Razor scooters, horseback riding, you name it. Dutch bike paths are for BIKING (Ok, and for 50cc motor scooters).","parent":"9294020","id":"9294677"}
{"by":"jmisavage","time":"1516198420","timestamp":"2018-01-17 14:13:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks like it would help prevent the recent incident, but the confirmation screen at the end doesn\u0026#x27;t make it clear whether it\u0026#x27;s a test or a real thing.  I know there was that big screen at the front, but if you\u0026#x27;re confirming something you need all the options presented again to double check.","parent":"16167746","id":"16167998"}
{"by":"daxorid","time":"1472003685","timestamp":"2016-08-24 01:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eare culturally incentivized (...) to be desperate to win the approval of their peers by how bulging their foreheads are\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile I largely agree with your main thrust, I must take issue with this. Many of us (older generation perhaps?) were culturally incentivized to \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e exhibit any of our nerdiness, and were ostracized or worse for doing so. Many of us developed a \u0026quot;dumber\u0026quot; external persona and explicitly avoided demonstrating cognitive excellence specifically because of negative social incentives regarding being a nerd.","parent":"12349019","id":"12349125"}
{"by":"xnxn","time":"1514405308","timestamp":"2017-12-27 20:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These folks hold the relation \u0026quot;environmentalism == feminine == unacceptable\u0026quot; in their minds.\u003cp\u003eYou could try to reinforce \u0026quot;environmentalism != feminine\u0026quot;, and that\u0026#x27;s certainly easier. But there is still a great deal of wrongness in \u0026quot;feminine == unacceptable\u0026quot; and you choose to ignore it, even perpetuate it, by changing your tune to appease fragile men.","parent":"16017337","id":"16017611"}
{"by":"cleverjake","time":"1443465139","timestamp":"2015-09-28 18:32:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nothing about mentions installing modules for you. This is about the environment, not the actual project","parent":"10292082","id":"10292099"}
{"by":"UMadBreaux","time":"1512684418","timestamp":"2017-12-07 22:06:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My previous employer had the best Christmas parties I have ever seen. We rented out a restaurant, open bar, and it was fun as hell. We worked our asses off, generally 50+ hours a week, and everyone got a chance to blow off steam together. I got a chance to really know executive management I would have been way too intimidated to ever approach.\u003cp\u003eToday I work for a different company, and we had one of these events you are talking about. I actually had just as much fun, if not more fun, than the previous lavish parties I was used to. I feel like I have a much more personable relationship to at least a half-hour other people I normally don\u0026#x27;t interact with on a day-to-day basis.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s what you make of it. If not showing up for you is working, rock on man. If enjoy an opportunity to get to know everyone I work with and find out what we have in common.","parent":"15873206","id":"15874816"}
{"by":"bztzt","time":"1339904568","timestamp":"2012-06-17 03:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BTW, what's caused me more confusion than any of this is Cancel vs. the third option: \"hit Back button on browser/phone / Close button on dialog\"","parent":"4121729","id":"4122157"}
{"by":"Natsu","time":"1348260584","timestamp":"2012-09-21 20:49:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is 0.999... one?  It's an ambiguous decimal expansion.\u003cp\u003e1 - 0.999... = 0.000...  Some part of you might think that there \"must\" be a 1 at the end of all those zeros.  The problem is that there \u003ci\u003eis no end\u003c/i\u003e at which to put a 1.\u003cp\u003eAnd you'd end up with tiny holes everywhere if they're not equal.  1 = 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 0.999...  oops.  Where did our missing one go this time?  Surely it's clear from this that we have nothing but 9s in that expansion and that three 3s can never be larger than 9, even if you repeat them over and over forever?  And there can't be any funny business going on at the end, because infinite lists do not have ends by definition.\u003cp\u003eAt some point you go through the rules and just accept that this is how they play out and that using other rules just leads to weirdness (AKA \"nonstandard analysis\").","parent":"4554891","id":"4555708"}
{"by":"gshubert17","time":"1513442475","timestamp":"2017-12-16 16:41:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With slope in degrees and grade in percent,\u003cp\u003e100*tan(slope) = grade%\u003cp\u003eslope = arctan(grade%\u0026#x2F;100)\u003cp\u003eso 110% is about 47.7 degrees, and tan(90 degrees) is infinitely large.","parent":"15939780","id":"15940246"}
{"by":"enjo","time":"1326925942","timestamp":"2012-01-18 22:32:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That sounds terrifying really. You'd undoubtedly end up with people only bothering to vote for things they feel really passionately about, which usually falls on the wrong side of rationale.","parent":"3481903","id":"3482168"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1241092956","timestamp":"2009-04-30 12:02:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eBasically right now nobody knows what they're doing.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's going a bit far.  We know how to design hashes which are provably at least as strong as block ciphers (i.e., \"if you can break this hash, you can break AES\") -- but synthetic constructions like those always end up being much slower than constructions which are \"native\" hashes.","parent":"586420","id":"586705"}
{"by":"bufordsharkley","time":"1505773300","timestamp":"2017-09-18 22:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They offer a service that can be consumed for free: physical interaction with product on the show floor.\u003cp\u003eIf you consume this and then buy on Amazon, Amazon is effectively unloading the marginal costs of running show floors to the brick-and-mortar stores.","parent":"15280121","id":"15280205"}
{"by":"mark_sz","time":"1516537161","timestamp":"2018-01-21 12:19:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m guessing their next step will be to charge monthly for Bluetooth connectivity and probably Navigation.","parent":"16195529","id":"16197804"}
{"by":"yoz-y","time":"1520258566","timestamp":"2018-03-05 14:02:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dunno. The massive amount of comments necessary to make this code remotely understandable is pretty telling.","parent":"16520957","id":"16521060"}
{"by":"mikeyouse","time":"1545546383","timestamp":"2018-12-23 06:26:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One last bit that people ignore -- The Clinton Foundation Initiative is a Public Charity (as opposed to a private foundation like the DJT Foundation) managed by a team of professionals subject to regular audits. Everyone one of their financial reports is posted on their website (by law), it would be public knowledge and it would be illegal if the Clintons benefitted financially in any way from the activities of the charity. They didn\u0026#x27;t. There are reams of pages of IRS guidance around private inurement in 501c groups (aka what was going on at the Trump Family Foundation -- a different type of nonprofit charity).\u003cp\u003eYou can safely ignore anyone who claims that the Clintons took money from anyone if they\u0026#x27;re claiming that money donated to their charity ends up in their pockets. They don\u0026#x27;t know what they\u0026#x27;re talking about.","parent":"18743171","id":"18744768"}
{"by":"facepalm","time":"1430769716","timestamp":"2015-05-04 20:01:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Prejudiced much? Anybody who doesn\u0026#x27;t drive a SUV is an annoying environmentalist in your world?","parent":"9486982","id":"9488720"}
{"by":"lisper","time":"1457539282","timestamp":"2016-03-09 16:01:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; They each appear to be bare metal, and not virtualized\u003cp\u003eHow can you tell?","parent":"11252112","id":"11253697"}
{"by":"murph","time":"1476558114","timestamp":"2016-10-15 19:01:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They can only trade one month out of three. Specifically, they can trade immediately after quarterly earnings.\u003cp\u003eThis is pretty common amongst similar companies.","parent":"12710997","id":"12715224"}
{"by":"motoko","time":"1244390393","timestamp":"2009-06-07 15:59:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks like a troll post, but this is actually good advice. Don't try to force a good Ruby environment on Windows. Instead, merely edit your source code on Windows, and use PuTTy to SSH into a Linux machine that runs your development Ruby on Rails installation. This will also help enforce best practices like keeping your source code in source control instead of hacking it bits-to-metal on your local machine.","parent":"645800","id":"645983"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1477504287","timestamp":"2016-10-26 17:51:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting.  Your comment gets at the question of what constitutes art.\u003cp\u003eI think there are many forms and purposes of art, but the kind we most often consider authentic usually seems in many ways crude compared to what preceded it:\u003cp\u003e- Jazz began as something that sounded cacophonous compared to the more obvious order of hymns and classical music. Jazz transformed what had been brief moments of dissonance and arrhythmia into elaborate intereleavings of tension and resolution, structure and chaos.\u003cp\u003e- Rap began by taking the repetition and rhyme of poetry and the rhythms of african music and created something many would not classify as music when they first heard it.\u003cp\u003e- In order to be deemed fresh and worthy of recognition, fiction must not feel like a rehash of the great classics.  In most cases the best new fiction smashes conventions in at least one narrow way. I\u0026#x27;d argue that an unattributed work from a great author would not likely be publishable today because of that. Quality is not just subjective, it is relative.\u003cp\u003e- In fashion, the moment a style is obvious it becomes outdated and means something quite different.  In some cases the latter can be marketed successfully, but it is hard to think of it as art by that point.  Think of the way iconic things felt when they were new (and ugly to most people at that moment) and someone was making them iconic.\u003cp\u003eSo while these algorithms create believable surface features mimicing established instances of \u0026quot;art\u0026quot; (they might persuade me that a short story was written by Fitzgerald when in fact it had been written by a grad student and run through the algorithm) they won\u0026#x27;t necessarily make it a \u003ci\u003egood\u003c/i\u003e short story.\u003cp\u003eBut in another year researchers will likely understand what makes humans consider things stylistically novel and then all the above points will be irrelevant.","parent":"12798510","id":"12798739"}
{"by":"loumf","time":"1285552756","timestamp":"2010-09-27 01:59:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The button becomes giant when I click it.  Works if you don't click the button (just click the image).\u003cp\u003eI volunteer on a lot of small campaigns (state level) -- we can buy voter list in MA, but that only has name, address -- no phone number.  We get phone number from your competitors products.\u003cp\u003eParty provides data sporadically --- usually only if there's a big election, and not in a downloadable way (through their software).  Different states are different, of course, but in MA, that's been my experience.","parent":"1730475","id":"1730485"}
{"by":"mikecane","time":"1360589827","timestamp":"2013-02-11 13:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still don't understand why Firefox OS will go anywhere when webOS did not.  Aren't we talking about basically the same thing? HTML5/JS/CSS?  Is it timing, the changed environment that now focuses attention on web apps?  Is it the reputation of Mozilla vs that of Palm/HP?  I'm not saying web apps won't have a place, I'm just extremely confused about the seeming contradiction or about-face here.","parent":"5200171","id":"5200667"}
{"by":"guybrushT","time":"1407516062","timestamp":"2014-08-08 16:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! This is my wife\u0026#x27;s favourite comment. I wonder why. :)","parent":"8153362","id":"8153709"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1464838821","timestamp":"2016-06-02 03:40:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11814512\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11814512\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11820179","id":"11820202"}
{"by":"karterk","time":"1336353711","timestamp":"2012-05-07 01:21:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's correct. In addition, you use the processes themselves to encapsulate logic. So the communication channel AND the logical parts that works with them are essentially the same.","parent":"3936745","id":"3937124"}
{"by":"cwilkes","time":"1483331526","timestamp":"2017-01-02 04:32:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently had the same experience at a different float place in Seattle that I don\u0026#x27;t normally go to.\u003cp\u003eI went as this place had huge tubs -- about 6 ft by 8 ft. Also the ceiling was at least 6 foot so people could stand in there. It felt good to not touch the sides like I do occasionally st the other place.\u003cp\u003eHowever with a really tall ceiling it was hard to maintain the correct temperature and humidity. Salt began to crystallize on my body and the air temp was noticeably cooler than the water. So the effect was off.  I bet this was the same place in Seattle that the author went to.\u003cp\u003eI mentioned this to the people running the place and they said it is a problem of humidity and they are installing infra red lamps to control it. I\u0026#x27;m a little suspicious that this will fix it.\u003cp\u003eSo for now I\u0026#x27;ll continue to go to the original place. The vats are more like tombs; you can barely sit up in them. But they are warm enough it is hard to tell what is in water and air.","parent":"13296394","id":"13299046"}
{"by":"jjoonathan","time":"1523554629","timestamp":"2018-04-12 17:37:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Republicans will require mandatory public service to obtain UBI\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a far more liberal perspective than the republicans in my family take, unfortunately.","parent":"16820806","id":"16823141"}
{"by":"idbehold","time":"1496182791","timestamp":"2017-05-30 22:19:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Promises only support a single success value so if you\u0026#x27;re \u0026quot;promisifying\u0026quot; something then you\u0026#x27;re only going to the second argument as the resolved value. The new util.promisify() doesn\u0026#x27;t provide said functionality [1] will only resolve the second argument [2] unless you define a custom function on the original function.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nodejs.org\u0026#x2F;api\u0026#x2F;util.html#util_util_promisify_original\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nodejs.org\u0026#x2F;api\u0026#x2F;util.html#util_util_promisify_origina...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;nodejs\u0026#x2F;node\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;ef16319effe396622666268cd8100ad8d586c4ee\u0026#x2F;lib\u0026#x2F;internal\u0026#x2F;util.js#L204-L245\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;nodejs\u0026#x2F;node\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;ef16319effe396622666268c...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14448759","id":"14449008"}
{"by":"kuschku","time":"1401985367","timestamp":"2014-06-05 16:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Using github.io? As the URL bar loses importance then people will just tend to ignore it, and on first glance (and probably for anyone who\u0026#x27;s not familiar with github pages) they will both look as valid.","parent":"7852459","id":"7852672"}
{"by":"adanto6840","time":"1479318541","timestamp":"2016-11-16 17:49:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is my number one question as well, as I use Unity\u0026#x2F;MonoDevelop combo all day every day.  And, as much as Mono crashes on Mac, it\u0026#x27;s still a pretty darn solid IDE overall, especially coming from bare-bones tools like Sublime \u0026amp; TextMate.\u003cp\u003eI downloaded this a bit ago and the install just finished;  thus far (\u0026lt;5 minutes invested, admittedly) I\u0026#x27;m at a loss as to how I\u0026#x27;d even open the Unity project code, much less get the integration setup.  Hopefully someone more familiar with VS \u0026amp; Unity on Windows may be able to provide some guidance...","parent":"12968858","id":"12969424"}
{"by":"js2","time":"1369418263","timestamp":"2013-05-24 17:57:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course, this doesn't address what I consider the greatest weakness in using ssh - distribution of host keys.\u003cp\u003eBy design, ssh does not make use of certificates. So there is no way for ssh to know upon connecting to a host for the first time whether the public key presented by that host is authentic. After the first connection, ssh caches the keys in ~/.ssh/known_hosts, and will then give you a big warning if the key changes. I imagine when this happens many folks blindly delete the the cached key and re-connect.\u003cp\u003eSo you should be aware of the potential for MITM attacks to occur unless you have some out-of-band mechanism for distributing or authenticating host keys.\u003cp\u003eEdit: huh, apparently ssh added support for certificates. \"ssh-keygen supports signing of keys to produce certificates that may be used for user or host authentication.\" So now you just need to distribute your CA certificate everywhere and you're golden. \u003ca href=\"http://justanothergeek.chdir.org//2011/07/howto-authenticate-ssh-server-through/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://justanothergeek.chdir.org//2011/07/howto-authenticate...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5763581","id":"5764363"}
{"by":"rgrieselhuber","time":"1326484792","timestamp":"2012-01-13 19:59:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a fair point. I was already regretting my agreement with that notion.","parent":"3461795","id":"3462115"}
{"by":"briHass","time":"1537543325","timestamp":"2018-09-21 15:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  There was no permanent waste in that process that he can recall.\u003cp\u003eExcept for the energy wasted to manufacture the glass bottle, clean it, transport it back to be cleaned, and the increased weight\u0026#x2F;fragility over a similar plastic container.\u003cp\u003eFor example, the reusable canvas shopping bag must be reused 170+ times to actually break even with the environmental impact of choosing it over plastic bags. By the way, that\u0026#x27;s without washing it.","parent":"18040212","id":"18040342"}
{"by":"AnimalMuppet","time":"1428532754","timestamp":"2015-04-08 22:39:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the only value in \u0026quot;coming up\u0026quot; with physics is that it corresponds to the external world - that it\u0026#x27;s not just a game inside our heads.  That is, I don\u0026#x27;t think you can use mankind coming up with physics to support your argument - unless your argument is that mankind\u0026#x27;s idea of God \u003ci\u003ealso\u003c/i\u003e corresponds to the reality of what exists outside our heads.","parent":"9344496","id":"9344590"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1445984226","timestamp":"2015-10-27 22:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Infrastructure costs money. Does this mean it should not be built?","parent":"10461439","id":"10461568"}
{"by":"pixl97","time":"1362677491","timestamp":"2013-03-07 17:31:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;But if by some miracle we do finally automate everything\u003cp\u003eor\u003cp\u003eIf we quit finding new ways new ways to employ people...\u003cp\u003eYou don't have to automate everything, just increase unemployment to a significant enough percentage and social instability (rioting, political unrest) will be the primary concern.","parent":"5334288","id":"5338866"}
{"by":"tuananh","time":"1401510645","timestamp":"2014-05-31 04:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Inky on OS X is nightmare. I tried it twice, only able to launch the app and then ---- updating ....... Takes forever to finish so i just quit.","parent":"7824929","id":"7825281"}
{"by":"dbm44","time":"1348698328","timestamp":"2012-09-26 22:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nicely designed.\u003cp\u003eI would be tempted to make the register link at the top right more prominent. You have to scroll quite a bit to get to the register button at the bottom. Having it more visible above the fold should help your signups","parent":"4577535","id":"4578346"}
{"by":"TimisaGeek","time":"1394747842","timestamp":"2014-03-13 21:57:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+10000 - we\u0026#x27;ve switched to Grails ~3 years ago, probably our best tech decision EVER.","parent":"7395239","id":"7395403"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1317716225","timestamp":"2011-10-04 08:17:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think maybe we just need to grow into it. This takes time, and probably generations. The first generation that has truly never been without a globally interconnected computer as part of their life is about to come of age. Lets see what they can do.\u003cp\u003eThere was a time when there were no humans who knew how to drive a car.","parent":"3069843","id":"3069900"}
{"by":"davux","time":"1321548416","timestamp":"2011-11-17 16:46:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn't seem to crash in IE10, but I can't right-click on the page to view source, so perhaps the child process is frozen or otherwise isolated from causing harm.","parent":"3247757","id":"3248226"}
{"by":"drumdance","time":"1452210905","timestamp":"2016-01-07 23:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He did that once a few years ago. He learned his lesson.","parent":"10855277","id":"10861805"}
{"by":"LoganCale","time":"1372166926","timestamp":"2013-06-25 13:28:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ron Wyden\u0026#x27;s Senate page has the full text of their letter as well as the NSA \u0026quot;fact\u0026quot; sheet.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/blog/post/wyden-and-udall-to-general-alexander-nsa-must-correct-inaccurate-statement-in-fact-sheet\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;wyden-and-udall-t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5939122","id":"5939247"}
{"by":"ktpsns","time":"1526242139","timestamp":"2018-05-13 20:08:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If their CGNAT would perform better, clients would not even notice a difference. I hardly doubt all that buisness clients (thinking of small non-IT buisinesses such as coffee shops) require native IPv4.\u003cp\u003eAn ISP who cannot offer a proper IPv6+IPv4 internet access should not be refered to as an ISP. He supports IPv6\u0026lt;-\u0026gt;IPv4 segregation, instead.","parent":"17060726","id":"17060768"}
{"by":"ww520","time":"1355871834","timestamp":"2012-12-18 23:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Confusing the Linux kernel service API and the OS API is pretty misleading.","parent":"4939313","id":"4940145"}
{"by":"mikeyouse","time":"1368080979","timestamp":"2013-05-09 06:29:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    With this reporting it was very easy to find the actual list, which is at .... \n    (Though \"LOCKE-TECKEMEIER LORETTA ULLRICH\" and \"LOCKE-TECKMEIER LORETTA U.\" are \n    likely the same person, so the count won't be perfect.) With a bit of work, you \n    can easily verify if the number is increasing.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThat's much of my point, I went looking at the source, to check for myself. But the best case scenario is aggregating a series of CSV files which you have to locate manually, something an actual news article would have done for themselves. Further analysis would be to move past the absolute number of citizens dropping citizenship and perhaps calculate the proportion of citizens doing so. We could even hope to run some simple tests to determine if the number of expats was statistically significant.\u003cp\u003eInstead we get none of that, just a vague, \"Taxes are complicated, expats are increasing, trust me.\" It's very disappointing.","parent":"5678165","id":"5679091"}
{"by":"TillE","time":"1398276795","timestamp":"2014-04-23 18:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Banished is an even more technically impressive example: one guy doing all the code (C++\u0026#x2F;DirectX) and 3D art, just not the music. And of course Minecraft, same thing until late beta, I think.","parent":"7635192","id":"7635798"}
{"by":"funkah","time":"1323794418","timestamp":"2011-12-13 16:40:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no idea what this is trying to say, but it sounds impressive.","parent":"3347638","id":"3348033"}
{"by":"ori_b","time":"1365733670","timestamp":"2013-04-12 02:27:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because settings change. I don't know if tomorrow Google is going to add a new feature to share new things, and I don't want to watch for new things to opt out of. It's a cognitive load I don't need.","parent":"5536197","id":"5536225"}
{"by":"ableal","time":"1445027497","timestamp":"2015-10-16 20:31:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The more dastardly conspirators upvote you, for obvious reasons.","parent":"10401289","id":"10401820"}
{"by":"gshulegaard","time":"1534812381","timestamp":"2018-08-21 00:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want lightweight virtual machine functionality I would recommend LXD\u0026#x2F;LXC.\u003cp\u003eIf you want app virtualization and packaging, I have been pretty intrigued by what I have found out experimenting with `snaps`.\u003cp\u003eThe biggest issue for me that I have hit with LXD\u0026#x2F;LXC is that host-to-container mount sharing is not as easy...which means I had to do some workflow alteration for moving from `docker` containers to `lxd` ones for existing projects...but otherwise I have been really happy with LXD.\u003cp\u003eEdit: And just to be clear, host-to-container mount sharing is \u003ci\u003epossible\u003c/i\u003e, I just had to work at it and slightly alter my workflow to get the best solution.","parent":"17805666","id":"17805730"}
{"by":"yock","time":"1528986940","timestamp":"2018-06-14 14:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; it can’t possibly cost anywhere near $10k per subscriber to build out fiber normally, even in small cities, can it?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know, because I don\u0026#x27;t possess any expertise in the matter. What I do have is a history of watching public works projects budgets balloon completely out of control. It seems far more likely, given history, that this estimate is low.","parent":"17311952","id":"17311996"}
{"by":"gress","time":"1440020131","timestamp":"2015-08-19 21:35:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just because someone insists on something doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you have to do it.","parent":"10087152","id":"10088676"}
{"by":"snoonan","time":"1381266138","timestamp":"2013-10-08 21:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s not forget about affiliate fraud and valid, legitimate refunds\u0026#x2F;returns\u0026#x2F;chargebacks. You really shouldn\u0026#x27;t get credit for your affiliate sales until Amazon is sure they\u0026#x27;re going to get to keep the money.\u003cp\u003eWe have an affiliate program and had to switch to 60 days (our chargeback window) because of credit card fraud.  If it were not for this, I\u0026#x27;d just as soon push out instant payments...","parent":"6517238","id":"6517829"}
{"by":"speek","time":"1244680930","timestamp":"2009-06-11 00:42:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We're not gonna get there using purely modeled AI or purely modeled machine learning.\u003cp\u003eIt's too much work to do it that way. We need a biologically inspired computer architecture... one that's non von Neumann; where the stored data and computation aren't separate.","parent":"651985","id":"652088"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1447039279","timestamp":"2015-11-09 03:21:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eDeregulation in Texas has spurred intense competition for customers.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuh. Who\u0026#x27;d a thunk it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emade possible by the nearly universal distribution in recent years of residential smart meters\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is key. Demand-based metering and pricing has been available for industrial customers for a long time but residential customers had dumb mechanical meters that only recorded total kilowatt-hours. This sort of thing will also become important as electric cars become more mainstream, to encourage people to charge cars at low-demand times. Otherwise everyone plugging in their car at 6pm when they get home from work, while also cooking dinner and turning on the A\u0026#x2F;C is going to stress the grid.","parent":"10529716","id":"10531196"}
{"by":"astrodust","time":"1540325714","timestamp":"2018-10-23 20:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The United States fully intends to reverse course on that and fire up coal plants in order to something something jobs.\u003cp\u003eThe reason it was falling was because of strict emissions standards and a strong EPA, both of which are basically gone.","parent":"18286740","id":"18287020"}
{"by":"dkersten","time":"1466673750","timestamp":"2016-06-23 09:22:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt pretends to be c++ but it doesn\u0026#x27;t support all features\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt \u003ci\u003eIS\u003c/i\u003e C++ though. All of the moc keywords are just macros (that the moc happens to interpret otherwise). signal: is just `#define signal public` and so on. You could compile annotated code without moc without issues.\u003cp\u003eSignal\u0026#x2F;slot connections are also compile-time type checked if you use the Qt 5 function pointer syntax: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;woboq.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;new-signals-slots-syntax-in-qt5.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;woboq.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;new-signals-slots-syntax-in-qt5.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI won\u0026#x27;t comment on the rest of what you say, as I don\u0026#x27;t really know enough about it.","parent":"11923703","id":"11959729"}
{"by":"ilamont","time":"1244553683","timestamp":"2009-06-09 13:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did some reporting on another digital gold currency company called e-bullion that imploded after the cofounder's wife (who was the other cofounder) was murdered in Los Angeles last year:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/22/e-bullions-lawyer-calls-governments-actions-extreme\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/22/e-bullions-lawyer...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lot of people, ranging from participants in bogus HYIP schemes to gold bugs who want to invest in gold without physically handling bullion, got burned when the FBI and IRS raided e-bullion's offices and shut down the website.\u003cp\u003eThe money is now being fought over by the cofounder, the estate of his wife, and the feds, who say they want to appoint a receiver to return the money to depositors.","parent":"648578","id":"649017"}
{"by":"jonnathanson","time":"1377525616","timestamp":"2013-08-26 14:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;She liked being loved\u0026quot; is a probably a quaint (and fairly sexist) euphemism for \u0026quot;She wasn\u0026#x27;t going along with the plan.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAs others have said, the typical corporate-raider plan is to slash costs (i.e., mass layoffs), sell off assets, create the appearance of a turnaround, capture the upside, then jump ship. Mayer was to be a figurehead in this arrangement. Whether she knew about this plan all along, or whether she put the pieces together after arriving, it sounds like she wasn\u0026#x27;t going for it. Loeb needed short-term profit (to the tune of $1B, it seems), and Mayer didn\u0026#x27;t want to be stuck holding the bag after the company was strip mined.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t climb to Marissa Mayer\u0026#x27;s position in life being overly concerned about \u0026quot;being loved.\u0026quot; The more rational explanation is that her incentives and Loeb\u0026#x27;s incentives didn\u0026#x27;t align, so to speak.","parent":"6274947","id":"6277049"}
{"by":"bronson","time":"1530917653","timestamp":"2018-07-06 22:54:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right for CPUs at 100% utilization.\u003cp\u003eFor CPUs at idle, able to turn off power to accessories, power consumption has gone down dramatically over the last decade. True, the curve has been flattening over the last 5 years, but it\u0026#x27;s still noticeable.","parent":"17474903","id":"17475731"}
{"by":"kashif","time":"1279376945","timestamp":"2010-07-17 14:29:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Makes the two of us. Want our money, you can have it.","parent":"1514537","id":"1523821"}
{"by":"chrismaddern","time":"1328728610","timestamp":"2012-02-08 19:16:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The design looks great, but I'd like to test out the google integrations before I start paying...","parent":"3567841","dead":true,"id":"3567972"}
{"by":"JHH_18","time":"1540613662","timestamp":"2018-10-27 04:14:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can reverse that curse. Look up American Scientist. Really.","parent":"18314064","id":"18314315"}
{"by":"reaperducer","time":"1532461394","timestamp":"2018-07-24 19:43:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Court stenography is computerized now.  And even decades ago was mechanized.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Steno\u0026quot; with pencil and a steno pad.  Not a stenography machine.","parent":"17598713","id":"17604276"}
{"by":"pankajdoharey","time":"1535641601","timestamp":"2018-08-30 15:06:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WoW, i had no idea Quake had a vm inside it.","parent":"17859498","id":"17877338"}
{"by":"douche","time":"1460392117","timestamp":"2016-04-11 16:28:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing I\u0026#x27;ve loved about ketogenic diets when I\u0026#x27;ve been on them is that I simply \u003ci\u003enever get hungry\u003c/i\u003e.  A couple eggs and a few strips of bacon for breakfast, and then I\u0026#x27;ll look up at sundown and realize I haven\u0026#x27;t eaten anything all day, and don\u0026#x27;t particularly feel the need to.","parent":"11472093","id":"11472733"}
{"by":"mirandavinci","time":"1410989956","timestamp":"2014-09-17 21:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this offer the same functionality that SwiftKey offers on Android? SwiftKey has been the best keyboard I\u0026#x27;ve used so far on any phone.","parent":"8331712","id":"8332514"}
{"by":"bartwe","time":"1354107704","timestamp":"2012-11-28 13:01:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, but signs of (extinct) life on mars could have been seeded from earth.","parent":"4842155","id":"4842266"}
{"by":"adulau","time":"1529237289","timestamp":"2018-06-17 12:08:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least, this one is in Python. My dream would be to have a transactional graph database written in Python which is used as back-end for NetworkX (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;networkx.github.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;networkx.github.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"17331660","id":"17332033"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1533661318","timestamp":"2018-08-07 17:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eFew men want to spend days on the road, far from their families and homes\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut back in the day, it paid well enough to make that sacrifice. I knew families growing up that did okay with Dad was a truck driver and sole bread-winner, probably as well as my UAW-working father.\u003cp\u003eBut now, sound like it\u0026#x27;s crap pay and the job didn\u0026#x27;t get any easier. And, duh, they can\u0026#x27;t find anyone to do that job.","parent":"17705999","id":"17708371"}
{"by":"magnetic","time":"1531504279","timestamp":"2018-07-13 17:51:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you can buy hashing equipment with your money, doesn\u0026#x27;t it mean you\u0026#x27;ve already \u0026quot;cleaned it\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eIf not, what kind of business provides you with hashing equipment from dirty money?","parent":"17524963","id":"17525092"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1544517620","timestamp":"2018-12-11 08:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their lawyers likely strongly advised against bundling GPLv3 software with their OS because there is a non-zero risk that some judge, somewhere, some day, will claim that requires them to release the source of all their software under GPLv3.\u003cp\u003eI think that, if GPLv3 ever gets sufficiently tested in courts all around the world (which is highly unlikely) that stance could change.","parent":"18653584","id":"18653974"}
{"by":"kw71","time":"1424220342","timestamp":"2015-02-18 00:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At our hackerspace, the washroom situation was terrible.  I found out there are some fuel cells that react to hydrogen sulfide!  We thought about displaying whether or not it was safe to enter on an LED scrolling-message sign.","parent":"9066230","id":"9066305"}
{"by":"bmmayer1","time":"1422814410","timestamp":"2015-02-01 18:13:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love that quote but it should be mentioned that it is actually misattributed to de Tocqueville. Doesn\u0026#x27;t make it any less true though.","parent":"8980951","id":"8980966"}
{"by":"shock-value","time":"1295547453","timestamp":"2011-01-20 18:17:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For added difficulty, try \u003ci\u003ethinking\u003c/i\u003e nothing for two minutes. For experienced meditators, this shouldn't be hard, but for the rest of us it's a real challenge.","parent":"2124106","id":"2124615"}
{"by":"sam0x17","time":"1542520807","timestamp":"2018-11-18 06:00:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I\u0026#x27;m still waiting for an \u0026quot;unlimited pay-as-you-go SFTP service\u0026quot; that uses something like S3 as a backend, but you connect with SFTP.","parent":"18478244","id":"18479075"}
{"by":"ciaoben","time":"1449242837","timestamp":"2015-12-04 15:27:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is probably the right question, I have just made a little calc, that if I dedicated 1 hour a day to my side project from the first day it came up on my mind I \u0026#x27;d have spent 400 hours on it, and it would be probably more than complete!","parent":"10652025","id":"10676779"}
{"by":"Natanael_L","time":"1445978881","timestamp":"2015-10-27 20:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Harder DRM? They\u0026#x27;ve tried that already","parent":"10460849","id":"10461004"}
{"by":"elgenie","time":"1524132678","timestamp":"2018-04-19 10:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a very logical extension of the project that became Open Compute, which started at Facebook back in 2009 and was announced two years later [1].\u003cp\u003eFacebook has been running its own datacenters, first in colos and now fully purpose-built, for nearly a decade and a half at this point. That hardware design done by a company isn\u0026#x27;t familiar to you doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it doesn\u0026#x27;t exist.\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s not even mentioning the now nearly four years old Oculus acquisition or the resources Facebook has been pouring into AI\u0026#x2F;ML research and applications.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.facebook.com\u0026#x2F;notes\u0026#x2F;facebook-engineering\u0026#x2F;building-efficient-data-centers-with-the-open-compute-project\u0026#x2F;10150144039563920\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.facebook.com\u0026#x2F;notes\u0026#x2F;facebook-engineering\u0026#x2F;building...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16874601","id":"16874631"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1512656229","timestamp":"2017-12-07 14:17:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Less than seven solid hours of sleep? Isn\u0026#x27;t that a bit on the low side?","parent":"15869827","id":"15870103"}
{"by":"SEJeff","time":"1449086591","timestamp":"2015-12-02 20:03:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No a career building those types of tools taught me SoL is garbage from most vendors. Cray, Dell, and HP are (arguably) best with mostly reliable SoL, but they still are awful. If you paste a buffer too big into a SoL session, the dell DRAC will freeze, so you have to kill and restart the serial connection. If you have \u0026gt; 1000 machines, hardware serial is the best thing to do for management, in addition to IPMI for power management.","parent":"10664650","id":"10665420"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1317834488","timestamp":"2011-10-05 17:08:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Instead of focusing so much on lawsuits, they should've focused on launching the new iPhone on time\u003cp\u003eThere's no such thing as \"not on time\" when there is no timeline, no announcement and no preview.\u003cp\u003eAnd the longer-than-usual refresh delay was due to iCloud, it has nothing to do with iPhone itself.","parent":"3075932","id":"3076509"}
{"by":"JadeNB","time":"1478110273","timestamp":"2016-11-02 18:11:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The pattern is, intentionally make a service worse, and then charge to \u0026#x27;make it better\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eAgreed; in the tech world, I\u0026#x27;d call this the difference between buying a faster processor—the analogue of going to a doctor—and paying to avoid intentionally  slowing down a processor (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Intel_80486SX\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Intel_80486SX\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"12856788","id":"12857661"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1264998173","timestamp":"2010-02-01 04:22:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you can quickly crate high quality books that people actually like you will make a lot of money as an author.  To paraphrase one of the best \"We don't subsidize an incompetent hore why must we subsidize incompetent authors.\"\u003cp\u003eMost published authors suck which has a lot to do with them making no money.  What publishers focus on is not high quality books but rather figuring out how to convince people to buy crap books that they will not actually read.\u003cp\u003eAmazon cut's into this in two ways, if you can read reviews before you buy you are less likely to pickup something you don't like.  The other approach is by removing the limited shelf space at the book store you reduce the control large publishing houses have over the channel which allows higher quality books to compete without backing from a major publishing houses .","parent":"1091651","id":"1091771"}
{"by":"gjm11","time":"1457520451","timestamp":"2016-03-09 10:47:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a way to measure the sophistication of a game of skill. Consider two players A and Z. A is a ten-year-old who has just been told the rules; Z is God. Now, in between them, put a series of other players B, ..., Y, where B beats A 2\u0026#x2F;3 of the time, C beats B 2\u0026#x2F;3 of the time, ..., Z beats Y 2\u0026#x2F;3 of the time. (We assume God doesn\u0026#x27;t use his magical divine powers to cheat by, e.g., making Y play bad moves.)\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, God is not readily available for comparison, so we\u0026#x27;ll use the best human players instead.\u003cp\u003eHow many links are there in that chain? The more there are, the more there is to learn about the game, and hence the deeper and more sophisticated the game is. (So you might think, anyway.)\u003cp\u003eIf you rate players using the Elo system, beating someone 2\u0026#x2F;3 of the time corresponds to being about 150 points stronger. A complete beginner at chess might have an Elo rating of 500, compared with the world champion somewhere around 2900, giving 16 links in the chain.\u003cp\u003eIn go, beating someone 2\u0026#x2F;3 of the time corresponds to being about one kyu\u0026#x2F;dan rank stronger. A complete beginner might be 30 kyu; the best players are stronger than 9 amateur dan, so that\u0026#x27;s at least 40 links in the chain. (Lower-numbered kyu ranks are stronger; after 1 kyu comes 1 dan, and then higher-numbered dan ranks are stronger.)\u003cp\u003eSo by this measure -- which you may or may not find convincing -- go is a more sophisticated game than chess.\u003cp\u003eHere is the best argument I know against this definition. Define the game of \u0026quot;tenchess\u0026quot; as follows. To play a game of tenchess, you play ten games of chess and the winner is whoever wins more games (a draw if the same number). Then it\u0026#x27;s easy to see that tenchess has a longer chain, as defined above, than chess; if I win 2\u0026#x2F;3 of my chess games then I win 79% of my tenchess games, so I can win 2\u0026#x2F;3 of my tenchess games with a smaller advantage. (I am ignoring the existence of draws for this calculation, just for simplicity.) But surely tenchess isn\u0026#x27;t a deeper game than chess; it\u0026#x27;s just \u003ci\u003elonger\u003c/i\u003e. Perhaps go\u0026#x27;s longer chain is just the result of its being a longer game.","parent":"11251989","id":"11252145"}
{"by":"Eight","time":"1278911971","timestamp":"2010-07-12 05:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's just a shame that FaceTime only works on Wifi. Does anybody know if you can call another Voip service or is it limited to iPhone 4 owners?","parent":"1506802","id":"1506907"}
{"by":"kzahel","time":"1391291336","timestamp":"2014-02-01 21:48:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, this is a great reference and high level low level overview. Having though of doing the exact same thing, it\u0026#x27;s nice to have a guide in case I ever decide to do so. Thanks!","parent":"7163248","id":"7163579"}
{"by":"dgabriel","time":"1324413690","timestamp":"2011-12-20 20:41:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My beloved was a German major once upon a time, and he assures me that this is exactly how German got started... or at least it's how German works.","parent":"3373999","id":"3375047"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1481283289","timestamp":"2016-12-09 11:34:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Steroids are not a magical solution","parent":"13138064","id":"13138142"}
{"by":"sah2ed","time":"1487179084","timestamp":"2017-02-15 17:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can always email the mods to help out: hn@ycombinator.com","parent":"13653074","id":"13653575"}
{"by":"bearmf","time":"1347226648","timestamp":"2012-09-09 21:37:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is an overview:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/APA-Monitor-attachment.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/APA-Monitor-attachment.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, I see that there is nothing in the article specifically about primary caregiver being female. To summarize, it is better to have one primary caregiver who has established a strong attachment with child. Traditionally it has been a female role, and I do believe women are better suited for it.","parent":"4497032","id":"4497088"}
{"by":"phreeza","time":"1422195005","timestamp":"2015-01-25 14:10:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I posted the medium article yesterday and deleted it myself when I realised it was actually bogus science from reading the comments.","parent":"8942656","id":"8942945"}
{"by":"erokar","time":"1538159709","timestamp":"2018-09-28 18:35:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they\u0026#x27;d used Java they would still be working on the prototype.","parent":"18095658","id":"18095819"}
{"by":"nikanj","time":"1545875786","timestamp":"2018-12-27 01:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"However, your number is still being sold and resold, so every time a new scammer opens shop you start to get calls again.","parent":"18766603","id":"18766629"}
{"by":"willvarfar","time":"1500317389","timestamp":"2017-07-17 18:49:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(On the Mill CPU the retire stations snoop\u0026#x2F;snarf writes and spot aliasing as it happens at runtime.  This is a big part of our auto-vectorisation)","parent":"14790412","id":"14791295"}
{"by":"Spivak","time":"1468601584","timestamp":"2016-07-15 16:53:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How decentralized are we talking? Because there are more shared hosting providers, VPS providers, and domain registrars than I can shake a stick at.\u003cp\u003eIf you don\u0026#x27;t want to depend on GitHub, there\u0026#x27;s nothing stopping you. I host my site on a VPS and couldn\u0026#x27;t be happier.","parent":"12101192","id":"12102298"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1315687543","timestamp":"2011-09-10 20:45:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know about that. For me personally electronic maps have enough advantages to completely replace the printed variey. That's with existing hardware.\u003cp\u003eIt's often true: Perfect feature parity is not necessary to replace something. (Cars certainly don't have all the features of horses.) A few features that blow the old vareity out of the water are often enough. (I can think of a few: Price, accesibility, flexibilit, compactness.)","parent":"2982365","id":"2982432"}
{"by":"belorn","time":"1454934904","timestamp":"2016-02-08 12:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use the term freedom as established by all major philosophers in the last 300 years or so. No one really believes that the true definition of freedom is the law of the jungle where anyone is \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; (scare quotes indeed) to do what they want with no restrictions.\u003cp\u003eJohn Locke describe freedom as a synonym to agency, where none is under any restrictions \u003ci\u003eexcept\u003c/i\u003e the standing rules to live by that are common to everyone in the society. Share and share alike a perfectly fine example of a rule that is common to everyone where no individual are be subjected to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others.","parent":"11054848","id":"11057733"}
{"by":"ImprovedSilence","time":"1323374901","timestamp":"2011-12-08 20:08:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Digital media is not physical property, but i can still download a song and be accused of stealing somebody's property.","parent":"3330799","id":"3330881"}
{"by":"wu-ikkyu","time":"1522195845","timestamp":"2018-03-28 00:10:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;More importantly, how different is mental manipulation compared to physical manipulation as commonly seen with dictatorship?\u003cp\u003eA number of futurists from many decades ago foretold this transition of power from brute physical force to subtle information warfare:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. (p.66)\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e-Culture is Our Business, Marshall McLuhan (1970)\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e-Take Today: The Executive as Dropout, Marshall McLuhan (1972)\u003cp\u003eSee also:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Third_Wave_(Toffler_book)#Key_characteristics_of_the_third_wave_society\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Third_Wave_(Toffler_book)#...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16692749","id":"16693993"}
{"by":"Tehnix","time":"1387396867","timestamp":"2013-12-18 20:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Care to enlighten on how it\u0026#x27;s disguting?","parent":"6929871","id":"6930206"}
{"by":"alyandon","time":"1447193524","timestamp":"2015-11-10 22:12:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He is on a non-admin account and can only visit a few white listed sites that I\u0026#x27;ve pre-screened.  The chances of him getting hacked are basically zero and I don\u0026#x27;t have the money to replace a perfectly functional computer with a newer one just so it can run a more recent version of OS X.\u003cp\u003eHe also loves the built-in applications like Photo Booth that lets him record own videos and apply silly special effects to send to the grandparents.  So, moving to Linux or Windows is really a non-starter.","parent":"10542870","id":"10542973"}
{"by":"konstruktor","time":"1383300487","timestamp":"2013-11-01 10:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a very dangerous project idea. Have you, for one second, considered that this is not a sales funnel, where the only thing that counts is the \u0026quot;success rate\u0026quot; at the other end, but something dealing with people in a crisis? People who may just be considering suicide, and can be tipped in both ways. For example by a pseudo-empathic bot that tells them the same shit they hear all day in the US, which sounds nice but is the culturally accepted way to say \u0026quot;Please either pretend to be happy, or shut up\u0026quot; [1].\u003cp\u003ePlease generously apply the hacker mentality to software, arduinos, knitting, cooking and art, if you like. Don\u0026#x27;t be afraid to fail, nothing bad happens there. Build, test, iterate, enjoy.\u003cp\u003eThere are, however, things in life where the stakes are higher. They require more knowledge than you can quickly gather with a Google search, and, you know, professionalism. Healthcare is one of these topics.\u003cp\u003e[1] As this seems to be a bit of a cultural blind spot for people in the US, I highly recommend \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Sided-Positive-Thinking-Undermining-America/dp/0312658850\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Bright-Sided-Positive-Thinking-Undermi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6651757","id":"6652780"}
{"by":"alphaBetaGamma","time":"1384787819","timestamp":"2013-11-18 15:16:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that as a few years ago, Bloomberg had zero terminals in china. I may be wrong, and thing may have changed, but I don\u0026#x27;t think that china is a big source of revenue for Bloomberg. Of course, I\u0026#x27;m not saying that it is not a big potential source of revenue.","parent":"6754068","id":"6754652"}
{"by":"dkersten","time":"1332679991","timestamp":"2012-03-25 12:53:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"None - I should have been more accurate and said uniqueness typing. Technically, linear types do not require uniqueness: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqueness_type#Relationship_to_linear_typing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqueness_type#Relationship_t...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniqueness guarantees that a value has no other references to it, while linearity guarantees that no more references can be made to a value\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"3751381","id":"3752448"}
{"by":"spacefight","time":"1414006345","timestamp":"2014-10-22 19:32:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SMS for this just plain sucks. I do not want to expose my cell phone number to Twitter or any other third party just for a simple app login.\u003cp\u003eI also will not accept, that someone else (hint hint) sees the comms flow (metadata) from Twitter to my cell phone, let alone the content in there. SMS is leaking like hell. I have more trust in HTTPS than in SMS.","parent":"8493817","id":"8494619"}
{"by":"royjacobs","time":"1428935119","timestamp":"2015-04-13 14:25:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Steganographic systems used for tracking screeners would have no problem identifying the two different sources you\u0026#x27;ve used. They are robust against all sorts of attacks, timing changes and edits. Removing frames doesn\u0026#x27;t really affect this, since it\u0026#x27;s not doing dumb frame-by-frame matching. You\u0026#x27;d have to degrade your audio and video to the point where they become unwatchable in order to remove the watermark.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I used to work for one of the companies providing these systems.","parent":"9367588","id":"9367770"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1458590102","timestamp":"2016-03-21 19:55:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What will your pilots do, just as a for instance, if ... say a lone Cessna asks tower for his ground speed ... and then a bit later a navy F-18 pilot also asks tower for his ground speed ?\u003cp\u003eWhat will they do in that situation ?","parent":"11330816","id":"11331320"}
{"by":"grkvlt","time":"1394062137","timestamp":"2014-03-05 23:28:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, they are stating that they \u003ci\u003etechnically\u003c/i\u003e have a large enough sample for the results to be meaningful \u003ci\u003eif\u003c/i\u003e the sample were unbiased (what they call \u0026#x27;scientifically random\u0026#x27;) - a large enough sample size is a necessary but not sufficient condition to allow valid statistical inferences to be drawn.","parent":"7346601","id":"7350745"}
{"by":"ouch","time":"1260323896","timestamp":"2009-12-09 01:58:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; same problem for a while... My wrists and arms\u003cp\u003eNeck muscles, shoulder, upper back. The problem derives from starting in one direction and needing my arms to be braced enough to be quick to the keys. I've tried all sorts of different postures and what not, seen my chiropractor a few times, etc., but nothing helps the problem other than being away from the computer for a while.","parent":"985099","id":"985104"}
{"by":"doitmw","time":"1531685180","timestamp":"2018-07-15 20:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know who \u0026quot;Ornstein\u0026quot; is, but he sounds racist. Using \u0026quot;whiter\u0026quot; as if that was a problem. Just change \u0026quot;whiter\u0026quot; for \u0026quot;blacker\u0026quot; and you\u0026#x27;ll see.","parent":"17536669","dead":true,"id":"17536788"}
{"by":"kuschku","time":"1511890895","timestamp":"2017-11-28 17:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’m not the one you responded to, but, I wanted to share my data:\u003cp\u003eI’ve had months where I’ve transferred above 180TB of data, at an overall cost of below 40€ in that month, with dedicated servers at a European hoster.","parent":"15797457","id":"15799455"}
{"by":"kaonashi","time":"1453227754","timestamp":"2016-01-19 18:22:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  Also why conflate fasting and ketogenics?\u003cp\u003eHe made the distinction between ketosis, a ketosis-inducing diet and fasting as far as I could tell:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I’m suspicious that there are big differences between nutritional ketosis (induced by reducing the intake of high glycemic index foods) and ketosis induced from fasting. In other runs done in nutritional ketosis I didn’t feel that energetic (but it’s hard to compare since I’ve never done it that far in distance). That’s something I may explore.","parent":"10931813","id":"10932667"}
{"by":"obi-nine","time":"1426551014","timestamp":"2015-03-17 00:10:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t speak for your city but this is what Vancouver looked like just before the arrival of the automobile:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjRs3ARo0g\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=vzjRs3ARo0g\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs you can see the streets are fairly wide (wider than they are now) to accommodate the electric trolley cars, the horse-draw carriages and the multitude of pedestrians and cyclists.","parent":"9214777","dead":true,"id":"9215443"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1336675593","timestamp":"2012-05-10 18:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're generally prohibited from putting links in ads at all, outside of jobs and maybe a couple other categories.","parent":"3897927","id":"3955201"}
{"by":"stablemap","time":"1509995797","timestamp":"2017-11-06 19:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, sorry—it\u0026#x27;s in the following article (is there a term for this?) and didn\u0026#x27;t autoplay for me in Safari.","parent":"15638025","id":"15638102"}
{"by":"TrevorJ","time":"1339295050","timestamp":"2012-06-10 02:24:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As mentioned above, class action lawsuits are a useful tool to penalize the company for wrongdoing that is diffused over a large set of people. Let's say AT\u0026#38;T overcharges 5 million people a dollar each, on purpose. I \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e take them to court to try to get my dollar back, but that would cost me far more than it is worth. There need to be some mechanism by which I can defray that cost among others like me and we can as one unit seek renumeration, otherwise AT\u0026#38;T has no real reason to stay honest because they will almost certainly come out ahead.","parent":"4089702","id":"4089980"}
{"by":"nobleach","time":"1352901209","timestamp":"2012-11-14 13:53:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem isn't always a lack of IE8. Government agencies often have a forced group policy that puts IE8 into \"compatibility mode\" so it's effectively IE7... which is only slightly better than IE6.","parent":"4782857","id":"4783274"}
{"by":"delinka","time":"1312373729","timestamp":"2011-08-03 12:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This gets into subjective perceptions of the detail in question. Mathematically, you are correct that fractals have infinite detail. Visually, however, it's noticeable when you've run out of interesting fractal detail and that the technique has failed to produce more detail (that the brain will acknowledge as such.)\u003cp\u003eHad they said \"fractal detail\" not only would they have received less grief for it, but they would have provided us with an explanation for part of their system. That last part seems to not be something they're inclined to do.","parent":"2840764","id":"2840796"}
{"by":"nathantross","time":"1467653226","timestamp":"2016-07-04 17:27:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is really a great platform. I\u0026#x27;m adding my projects now. Keep building guys!","parent":"12031901","id":"12031923"}
{"by":"pwim","time":"1366953547","timestamp":"2013-04-26 05:19:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Engine Yard: Slightly more low level than Heroku, good support, uptime, and performance.","parent":"5611503","id":"5611606"}
{"by":"numlocked","time":"1477934253","timestamp":"2016-10-31 17:17:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good idea. Will do!","parent":"12838772","id":"12838788"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1377451964","timestamp":"2013-08-25 17:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Short, entertaining, and relatively informative.  I\u0026#x27;m pleasantly surprised after seeing the page and encountering the autoplaying ad - usually those do not bode well for the content.","parent":"6272308","id":"6272787"}
{"by":"csomar","time":"1480032661","timestamp":"2016-11-25 00:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lived in a country with a similar effect albeit very very much lighter.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; but how does that turn into no one being able to buy milk (or other essentials)?\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that these countries come with price controls for basic food. The food can be available on \u003ci\u003eblack market\u003c/i\u003e. The problem, it\u0026#x27;s much more expensive to produce than the current price tag on the controlled government market.\u003cp\u003eSo there are two possibilities:\u003cp\u003e1. The industry goes bankrupt because of the laws. And I witnessed this first hand. I saw people and farmer throw away milk on the street. It makes no economical sense to produce at all.\u003cp\u003e2. Sell it on the Black market, or smuggle it outside of the country. This will depend on how strong is the local government on controlling borders and commerce.","parent":"13033077","id":"13033626"}
{"by":"Travis","time":"1286295495","timestamp":"2010-10-05 16:18:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is very interesting.  Are you considering doing it yelp/groupon style, with a representative in each city?  I'd be willing to be my local (san diego) rep, as I'm looking into getting more involved in my local dev community (and this seems like a great way to do that)","parent":"1760221","id":"1760295"}
{"by":"Vinnl","time":"1521120882","timestamp":"2018-03-15 13:34:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although I agree that it\u0026#x27;s just fine to use Wikipedia directly if you\u0026#x27;re aware of it, the main risk in this case is reaching the limits of the free tier of Heroku, I think. Otherwise, it\u0026#x27;s only dependent on Heroku, the Wikidata API, and Wikidata being maintained. Those are relatively safe assumptions.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the code is open source, so you can easily fork it and host it on e.g. your own Heroku account :)","parent":"16592636","id":"16592677"}
{"by":"yefim","time":"1427057015","timestamp":"2015-03-22 20:43:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never thought I\u0026#x27;d see the day where a Playboy article is on the top of HN. Great read.","parent":"9247668","id":"9248143"}
{"by":"khafra","time":"1297357080","timestamp":"2011-02-10 16:58:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, thanks.  If I move to a state with income tax, or enter a tax bracket that warrants it, I'll definitely take a closer look at municipal bonds.","parent":"2199121","id":"2202593"}
{"by":"rms","time":"1189596032","timestamp":"2007-09-12 11:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congratulations. Have you had this name for a while or was it a recent expiration?","parent":"53638","id":"53780"}
{"by":"a3voices","time":"1394166068","timestamp":"2014-03-07 04:21:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should work for NASA.","parent":"7358300","id":"7358490"}
{"by":"peterjmag","time":"1411915831","timestamp":"2014-09-28 14:50:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A couple links for those who, like me, want to learn more about bitwise operators:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/bitwise_operators.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cprogramming.com\u0026#x2F;tutorial\u0026#x2F;bitwise_operators.html\u003c/a\u003e (A decent intro to the concept of bitwise operators and what you might use them for.)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Bitwise_Operators\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;JavaScript\u0026#x2F;Referen...\u003c/a\u003e (Their use in JS.)\u003cp\u003eAnd Peter: I\u0026#x27;d love to watch that talk! Was it recorded? A quick search for \u0026quot;peter cooper future of code\u0026quot; brought up some references, but no videos (at least not yet).","parent":"8379651","id":"8379859"}
{"by":"woodrowbarlow","time":"1504619422","timestamp":"2017-09-05 13:50:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool! good luck.","parent":"15174596","id":"15175099"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1501913607","timestamp":"2017-08-05 06:13:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s covered by the guideline that says \u0026quot;Be civil\u0026quot;. Insinuating that someone else is a shill (i.e. lying for money) is deeply uncivil.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s impossible to make a list of all proscribed behaviors and if we tried, people would take it as a license to do anything not on the list. So that\u0026#x27;s not the way it works.\u003cp\u003eAs for whether the \u0026#x27;don\u0026#x27;t insinuate astroturfing\u0026#x2F;shillage\u0026#x27; bit is enforced, try scrolling through \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hn.algolia.com\u0026#x2F;?query=by:dang%20astroturfing\u0026amp;sort=byDate\u0026amp;prefix\u0026amp;page=0\u0026amp;dateRange=all\u0026amp;type=comment\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hn.algolia.com\u0026#x2F;?query=by:dang%20astroturfing\u0026amp;sort=by...\u003c/a\u003e and you\u0026#x27;ll find dozens if not hundreds of cases. Actually I\u0026#x27;ve posted so many of these that my body rejects writing them and I have to trick myself into doing it.","parent":"14927439","id":"14934446"}
{"by":"orangecat","time":"1325220108","timestamp":"2011-12-30 04:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, by that standard anyone's claim of openness is BS, because most users of any open source project don't actually use the source themselves.\u003cp\u003eSecond, Android is \"open\" in ways that have nothing to do with source availability. Even with a closed-source Honeycomb device, you can run apps from arbitrary sources, access the filesystem, replace OS components like the keyboard and launcher, and develop your own apps without asking (or paying) for permission.","parent":"3403176","id":"3406627"}
{"by":"wintercharm","time":"1538781805","timestamp":"2018-10-05 23:23:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d give it 2-3 years. They need to implement Marzipan fully, first.","parent":"18149280","id":"18152525"}
{"by":"dkural","time":"1490287772","timestamp":"2017-03-23 16:49:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This needs more work on the math side to be helpful. As it points out itself, the ecological example does not (in substance) correspond to the Lotka Volterra model.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, there is no way for a species to go extinct from what I saw initially (perhaps there are options I\u0026#x27;m missing?)\u003cp\u003eA lot of system-relationships are non-linear, or fractal, with time-ranges that are out of sync. Would be great to be able to model that -- i.e. introduce different \u0026quot;speeds\u0026quot; on how fast arrows can \u0026quot;travel\u0026quot; on the line,  and to introduce functions that describe how x input arrows results in y output arrows, etc.   It\u0026#x27;d be great to be able to model how when a food source (or any input disappears), the burden shifts to the other sources etc -- now the arrows just go equally,  sources\u0026#x2F;sinks can\u0026#x27;t disappear etc.","parent":"13939645","id":"13941492"}
{"by":"donaq","time":"1254714385","timestamp":"2009-10-05 03:46:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eStyle is an indicator of content. If someone uses five different colors and five different ways to emphasize text (I'm not exaggerating: count them) in the first few paragraphs of a blog post, then I expect the content to be equally lacking in thought.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave your expectations ever been proven wrong? I try to keep an open mind and pay more attention to the message than the messenger. I must say it's given me a few pleasant surprises (because I am not a buddha and naturally still have prejudices).","parent":"860494","id":"861150"}
{"by":"jlgreco","time":"1384196567","timestamp":"2013-11-11 19:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The laws need to be enforced to work, I would never suggest otherwise.\u003cp\u003eThe fact is \u003ci\u003ewhen\u003c/i\u003e the laws are enforced it becomes difficult for teenagers to buy liquor themselves and, absent people who \u003ci\u003emake a living\u003c/i\u003e selling liquor illegally \u003ci\u003e(these people still exist in some remote parts of Alaska, and in some very poor areas of the rural Appalachians, but not really elsewhere)\u003c/i\u003e, teenagers will have a difficult time finding a \u003ci\u003ereliable\u003c/i\u003e source of alcohol \u003ci\u003e(Joe\u0026#x27;s older brother who goes to college may pick you up a keg once in a while for your parties, but Joe\u0026#x27;s older brother has better things to do than buy teenagers booze all the time, even if he\u0026#x27;s gouging them)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, reliable sources of pot is easy for a teenager.  The people who are willing to illegally sell pot to teenagers are already selling to a larger more affluent audience illegally as well (adults).\u003cp\u003eBasically:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Selling alcohol to everybody illegally:\n    Laws are enforced:                       profitable, and risky.\n    Laws are not enforced:                   profitable.\n  Selling alcohol to only adults legally:    profitable.\n  Selling alcohol to only minors illegally:  \n    Laws are enforced:                       not profitable, and risky.\n    Laws are not enforced:                   not profitable.\n  Selling alcohol to adults legally and minors illegally:\n    Laws are enforced:                       profitable, but needlessly risky\n                                               for what you gain.\n    Laws are not enforced:                   profitable.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nGiven that you want to restrict childrens\u0026#x27; access to substances, you want to be in a position where no adult considers it worth it to sell to children.  The best place for that is \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;selling to adults is legal, selling to children is illegal, the law is enforced\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"6712394","id":"6713242"}
{"by":"jcromartie","time":"1287429609","timestamp":"2010-10-18 19:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't help you with strong typing, but I'm pretty sure a macro would go a long way towards implementing RAII in a Lisp.","parent":"1804558","id":"1804755"}
{"by":"reinhardt","time":"1404935939","timestamp":"2014-07-09 19:58:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You sort of proved his point. Your preference for working alone is because you avoid being in a team.","parent":"8011803","id":"8011898"}
{"by":"markdown","time":"1487283628","timestamp":"2017-02-16 22:20:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you know how to code (in other languages) before diving into Swift?","parent":"13659253","id":"13664108"}
{"by":"pmontra","time":"1505734811","timestamp":"2017-09-18 11:40:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know what they\u0026#x27;re planning to do, but we could need only a few parties doing the verifications. If a build yields the wrong binary then the release is flagged and nobody gets it. Apt should check against the expected results.\u003cp\u003eMany things could go wrong with this (mainly attacks on the expected results db, it should be replicated) but the idea should work.","parent":"15274847","id":"15274971"}
{"by":"mherdeg","time":"1435290893","timestamp":"2015-06-26 03:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried using a paper Kanban board (sticky notes on a whiteboard), but it didn\u0026#x27;t last.\u003cp\u003eSome technical issues (the sticky notes kept falling off and we literally \u0026quot;lost\u0026quot; work) and some social ones (we didn\u0026#x27;t secure buy-in with the household before we adopted the system; not everyone was on board with the idea of writing down every significantly sized chunk of work).\u003cp\u003eWe still have some TODO list items that have been backlogged for a year or so but succumb to lower-pri, higher-urgency issues. Oh well. They\u0026#x27;ll be a little higher-stress to fulfill as the deadline approaches, but not a big deal.","parent":"9782174","id":"9782403"}
{"by":"personlurking","time":"1414277558","timestamp":"2014-10-25 22:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMO, the last well-done dystopian films I saw, and I\u0026#x27;ve seen a lot, were The book of Eli and The Road. I think we need more big questions being looked at in this space rather than pure entertainment pushes.","parent":"8508430","id":"8509658"}
{"by":"pbharrin","time":"1340307137","timestamp":"2012-06-21 19:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it me or was this guy writing to support his investments?  He said only three incubators are worth joining: two that he has a vested interest in, and, and, and that other famous one.","parent":"4142528","id":"4143801"}
{"by":"sgift","time":"1303722327","timestamp":"2011-04-25 09:05:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to Wikipedia Microsoft had 89000 employees in 2010. Do you really think all of them agree with every \"underhanded\" tactic Microsoft used over the years? Or should be damned for things Microsoft did (maybe even before they worked for Microsoft)?\u003cp\u003eWorking for Microsoft is still a job, not a lifetime decision. And attributing a job with \"evil\" sounds like a hyperbole (ignoring jobs that involve killing people, that's a different matter).","parent":"2480761","id":"2480833"}
{"by":"stse","time":"1261746849","timestamp":"2009-12-25 13:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Expressen recently listed the \"top\" tax-payers in Sweden [1]. What's interesting is that the second wealthiest person in Sweden after Kamprad, H\u0026#38;M owner Stefan Perssson, tops the list and pays more tax than the ten following people combined. It's also interesting to find one of the investors in Skype at #4 and one of the founders of MySQL at #11.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.expressen.se/ekonomi/1.1797308/h-m-miljardar-betalar-mest-i-skatt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.expressen.se/ekonomi/1.1797308/h-m-miljardar-beta...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1014932","id":"1014988"}
{"by":"gexcolo","time":"1516985847","timestamp":"2018-01-26 16:57:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, the mail storage currently takes up 1.01TB, using dovecot\u0026#x27;s mdbox. This mail store started in January 2016, after the service got raided twice by german authorities[0] (at request of u.s. gov), otherwise it would be larger.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not going to run like per-user stats but I know historically there\u0026#x27;s been about 11kb per E-mail on average, so that\u0026#x27;s about 90 million mails stored. The MTA itself sends and receives a bit over 20 million E-mails annually, so the extra from that is probably from the mailing list I run on the same server (where each message only counts as 1 for statistical purposes)\u003cp\u003eHow I prevent outgoing abuse is a black box, but I do it well enough that mail from my server almost never ends up in spam. But given that it\u0026#x27;s a free service I definitely don\u0026#x27;t have the budget to warm up and dynamically scatter mail across IP space to maximize deliverability. Cool technique, though!\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;etfDM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;etfDM\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;etfDM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;etfDM\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16240544","id":"16240700"}
{"by":"PStamatiou","time":"1516774091","timestamp":"2018-01-24 06:08:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am under the impression they do some basic tests that don\u0026#x27;t entirely accommodate for uniformity of illumination and consistency of color across the display. In other words - I think maybe they only test one part of the display.","parent":"16220689","id":"16220700"}
{"by":"judk","time":"1413471392","timestamp":"2014-10-16 14:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why?","parent":"8464852","id":"8465220"}
{"by":"didgeoridoo","time":"1329947551","timestamp":"2012-02-22 21:52:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This comment got me wondering how important it is for navigation to take into account relativistic time dilation in GPS. Apparently: very. Turns out that ignoring it would cause a drift in position of about 10km/day. \u003ca href=\"http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3622460","id":"3622645"}
{"by":"danudey","time":"1298315376","timestamp":"2011-02-21 19:09:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most French people will be able to understand most Montrealers sometimes, in the same way that someone from Britain would be able to understand a Cajun sometimes. The language is very divergent, with franglais words sprinkled here or there, shortened words, differing word usage, etc.\u003cp\u003eOn top of that, for the reasons above as well as others (including their accent), people from France really dislike listening to people from Montreal speak 'French', and will avoid it whenever possible. This is similar to the way Francophones from Montreal will speak English rather than French to an Acadian, because their accent is really just that bad.","parent":"2246386","id":"2246692"}
{"by":"pj_mukh","time":"1446858009","timestamp":"2015-11-07 01:00:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not entirely for this and I pinged the author about clarifying that exact point. But it seems his hypothesis is that the contracts mostly have wage increases which long term will force the companies to invest in productivity-boosting technology to scale instead of just getting more labour.","parent":"10523046","id":"10523074"}
{"by":"Jtsummers","time":"1401499021","timestamp":"2014-05-31 01:17:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know, it\u0026#x27;s frustrating.\u003cp\u003eMy previous employer chose C over Ada for all their projects, and they paid for it when you looked at the overruns and additional moneys spent on testing and analysis tools that Ada provides as a language feature.","parent":"7824874","id":"7824890"}
{"by":"CalRobert","time":"1486028944","timestamp":"2017-02-02 09:49:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Man, for three months I lived in San Jose and tried to bike commute to my job in Newark. I got screamed at, swerved at, and nearly killed many times. The situation improved remarkably when I moved to Berkeley (and stopped cycling in the south bay).","parent":"13547258","id":"13549331"}
{"by":"war1025","time":"1546145328","timestamp":"2018-12-30 04:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe his response to that was that people were purposely misinterpreting what he said. I haven\u0026#x27;t looked into it in detail for a while, but last time I did, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable defense.","parent":"18787416","id":"18787456"}
{"by":"aembleton","time":"1538610686","timestamp":"2018-10-03 23:51:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That assumes that every car in Denmark will consume 50kwh per day.  The 64kw Kona Electric will do 300 miles according to the WLTP [1].  So, that assumes every car does 234 miles every day, or over 85k miles per year.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t find any solid data, but I\u0026#x27;d assume its closer to 10k miles per year, or an eighth of what you\u0026#x27;re suggesting.  That is still a lot, but it is achievable especially with more offshore wind.\u003cp\u003e1.  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hyundai.co.uk\u0026#x2F;new-cars\u0026#x2F;kona-electric\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hyundai.co.uk\u0026#x2F;new-cars\u0026#x2F;kona-electric\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18134214","id":"18135813"}
{"by":"Vitaly","time":"1290426101","timestamp":"2010-11-22 11:41:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so they invented erlang in hardware ;)","parent":"1929377","id":"1929449"}
{"by":"oferzelig","time":"1488753442","timestamp":"2017-03-05 22:37:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Site is down now.","parent":"13779152","id":"13799254"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1340888583","timestamp":"2012-06-28 13:03:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Names can't be copyrighted, but they can be trademarked.\u003cp\u003e2. Google is using their name in the branding. E.g. Apple calls the iPhone just the iPhone, not the \"Apple iPhone.\" On the other hand, Google prepends their name to all of their product names (e.g. \"Google Play\" \"Google Now\" \"Google Plus\" \"Google Glass\"), with Gmail being the only major exception that I can come up with (off the top of my head).","parent":"4171458","id":"4171482"}
{"by":"m_rcin","time":"1511564727","timestamp":"2017-11-24 23:05:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I bought a £500 e-bike from a supermarket 3 years ago and I\u0026#x27;ve been using it for daily commute since then. I have 9km to office, e-bike is a practical option. Cheaper models, like mine, have motor either in front or in rear hub. Both work fine, you don\u0026#x27;t really need a $2000 model with a crank drive. TFA claims that crank drive improves the bike\u0026#x27;s center of gravity :-). Actually it\u0026#x27;s more about being able to change gears between the motor and the wheel, but hub motors are also fine, at least up to the legal speed limit in Europe. The models sold in the E.U. are limited to 25km\u0026#x2F;h (15mi\u0026#x2F;h), I think in Japan the limit is even lower.","parent":"15773168","id":"15773499"}
{"by":"tgarma1234","time":"1478354022","timestamp":"2016-11-05 13:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes Werner Herzog mentions the collective insanity of humanity in conjunction with text messaging in one of his documentaries. Games and text messages and social media have captured peoples brains. People are drawn into their devices mentally and emotionally in a way that barely makes them present in the actual world, even when they are walking to work or dining with friends or driving.  There is something so magnetic about these devices that draws in almost every person who encounters them in a way that is not healthy.\u003cp\u003eBecause it\u0026#x27;s all happening in real time to humanity as a whole it\u0026#x27;s hard to see the bigger picture of how we are changing.  I think of it as probably being like how people responded to the invention of fire.  It just made perfect sense and took over the world and happened to everyone together.  Being present in the midst of this historical change is an opportunity to know something very deep about human beings, who we are.\u003cp\u003eThe biggest thing about these changes from my perspective is that people are devolving into something that looks like a collective autism.  Like they are obsessed with the fact that something is happening somewhere else at all times and the device has opened a window to seeing it.  And yet when you look out that window into the collective digital consciousness of pictures and texts and advertising you see that there is actually nothing happening at all that isn\u0026#x27;t exactly what you would expect.  People doing things.  But always somewhere else.\u003cp\u003eThe main thing I don\u0026#x27;t like is when I am walking downtown and people are literally just wandering mindlessly as a herd texting on their phones not even looking up at traffic as they cross the street.  They navigate by being aware of other people\u0026#x27;s direction and path but oblivious to their own.  For example, I will be crossing the street and another person who is texting will walk just a few steps behind me texting, looking at their phone, never looking up at traffic and trusting that if they follow my path they will end up on the other side of the street.  I don\u0026#x27;t even know really how to describe that experience but I am sure everyone else has it too.  It\u0026#x27;s like people have been reduced to herd animals walking collectively while immersed deeply in their devices...  because there isn\u0026#x27;t possibly anything at all happening in this present moment that is worth paying attention to.  And I am not talking about one or two people walking around in this way.  It\u0026#x27;s practically everyone.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, am I the only person who notices this?  I wonder.","parent":"12879685","id":"12879772"}
{"by":"jridgway","time":"1340908975","timestamp":"2012-06-28 18:42:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like a cool idea! I just might have to use this when my product comes out of beta.","parent":"4172698","id":"4173207"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1478198953","timestamp":"2016-11-03 18:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Packaged web apps are the worst of both worlds: the inconvenience of apps and the speed of web sites.\u003cp\u003eBut the article isn\u0026#x27;t talking about packaged web apps, it\u0026#x27;s talking about browsers, and has an interesting redefinition of that term.","parent":"12866725","id":"12866794"}
{"by":"mynameishere","time":"1374880451","timestamp":"2013-07-26 23:14:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I\u0026#x27;d rather work in a shipping container.  This kind of design is psycho-manager-centric.","parent":"6110370","id":"6111077"}
{"by":"fleitz","time":"1323333115","timestamp":"2011-12-08 08:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, could you point me towards those?\u003cp\u003eI'm seriously considering picking up some android kit after reading more about how the marketplace works now.\u003cp\u003eDo you think it would be worth it to just focus on ICS at this point?\u003cp\u003eOn iOS I just support the latest. (I figure users with the older versions can stay on them til they upgrade and it reduces support issues drastically)","parent":"3327273","id":"3328275"}
{"by":"rsailboat","time":"1395012482","timestamp":"2014-03-16 23:28:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cathy Bessant, the English major turned \u0026quot;tech-exec\u0026quot; who once said \u0026quot;I frequently design datacenter structures on the back of a napkin—much to the horror of my team\u0026quot; (\u003ca href=\"http://www.waterstechnology.com/waters/feature/2076214/bank-americas-catherine-bessant-business\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.waterstechnology.com\u0026#x2F;waters\u0026#x2F;feature\u0026#x2F;2076214\u0026#x2F;bank-...\u003c/a\u003e) is suddenly going to go after tech-talent? Har Har.\nIn the past 5 years, tech wages have only gone in one direction at the Bank: down. There is no technical talent in management whatsoever (and no technical career path). Don\u0026#x27;t believe me? If you ever interview there, ask to speak with your hiring boss\u0026#x27;s boss. See how technical they are. You will not find tech talent more than one level deep in management.\u003cp\u003eThis is a company that hired an Oceanographer (\u003ca href=\"http://www.rubinworldwide.com/team.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.rubinworldwide.com\u0026#x2F;team.php\u003c/a\u003e) to tell them how they are spending too much on IT, and are dumb enough to believe it.  As Steve Jobs said, once you compete on price (instead of value) you have already lost. Well, at the Bank it\u0026#x27;s just cut, cut, cut. No one Sr in IT appreciates or understands enough about technology to actually communicate its value to the business. This is a company in its death throes - the management is just too ignorant to recognize it.","parent":"7401804","id":"7411900"}
{"by":"technomancy","time":"1325535474","timestamp":"2012-01-02 20:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did this for four years, but I stopped because it's too easy to miss new files with the wide gitignore it requires.","parent":"3416881","id":"3417143"}
{"by":"username223","time":"1521499104","timestamp":"2018-03-19 22:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s basically just a new type of search result ad...\u003cp\u003eIt makes me wonder how many of their other \u0026quot;verticals\u0026quot; will soon be, or already are, basically just a new type of ad.  Flights?  Restaurants?  It\u0026#x27;s important to remember that the average person probably isn\u0026#x27;t aware that these are even ads.\u003cp\u003eUgh.  It\u0026#x27;s a shame that Google wasn\u0026#x27;t satisfied with just being a $1B company that made a kick-ass search engine and sold tasteful ads next to the results.  Instead, they\u0026#x27;re trying to get a taste of every part of the economy.  Does anyone else remember the company that kicked Alta Vista\u0026#x27;s ass?","parent":"16619516","id":"16623960"}
{"by":"paylesworth","time":"1276196344","timestamp":"2010-06-10 18:59:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For example, try reading it with a woman's voice trying to encourage her dog. \"Awww, look at the poor little puppy, errr man.\"","parent":"1421095","id":"1421215"}
{"by":"trezor","time":"1222295257","timestamp":"2008-09-24 22:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few points:\u003cp\u003e- Don't worry about scaling, like mixmax said.\u003cp\u003e- The main focus should be to get the killer-webapp up and running, not getting a CV or trying out new technology. However, you don't have to step far outside the PHP communities to see people shitting on PHP \u003ci\u003eeverywhere\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIf PHP is the only thing you know, do yourself a favour and widen your horizons. Not necessarily for this particular project, but because when the time comes, and you are getting fed up with PHP's shortcomings, at least you know there is a way out.\u003cp\u003eMe, myself? I'm a heavily invested C#/.Net developer, but prior to that I have worked with Atmel AVR Assembly, Motorola 68k assembly, Basic, Pascal, Python, Arexx, C, VHDL, Verilog, LabView, Matlab, Java and god knows what. Oh, and yes, PHP.\u003cp\u003eI may stick to C#, but I know there is another world out there. So should you.","parent":"314143","id":"314175"}
{"by":"dschulz","time":"1480201883","timestamp":"2016-11-26 23:11:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good. One less dictator.","parent":"13041886","id":"13046551"}
{"by":"z3phyr","time":"1352811028","timestamp":"2012-11-13 12:50:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":":) I can not possibly do it..... But, I am going to try it someday ;)","parent":"4777567","id":"4777680"}
{"by":"gcp","time":"1501501229","timestamp":"2017-07-31 11:40:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s the exact part of the DRM that bothers you?\u003cp\u003ePersonally I hate the restrictions such as \u0026quot;4K only on Kaby Lake with Edge etc\u0026quot; and I downgraded my subscription because of it.","parent":"14890943","id":"14891020"}
{"by":"nakkiel","time":"1339268968","timestamp":"2012-06-09 19:09:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand your reasoning yet it doesn't make any sense to me. I hope I can live correctly and die before your hopes come true. Good luck though.","parent":"4088529","id":"4088979"}
{"by":"jacobush","time":"1484316138","timestamp":"2017-01-13 14:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our species?","parent":"13384475","id":"13390792"}
{"by":"cjstewart88","time":"1319470933","timestamp":"2011-10-24 15:42:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I want to stay away from interrupting listening. I know there free so complaining is kind of pointless and lame, but I cant stand it in other music services. I might look into a service like \u003ca href=\"http://carbonads.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://carbonads.net/\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"3149643","id":"3150063"}
{"by":"dxbydt","time":"1357613039","timestamp":"2013-01-08 02:43:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;overrun with dipshit social media concerns that won't last 10 years\u003cp\u003eactually, the most innovative companies today are in the social media space, on account of them being able to attract the most talented developers. ofcourse, what they do today on the outside may not be that innovative, but what goes on inside a facebook, twitter, google, linkedin, is certainly light years ahead of what goes on inside investment banks \u0026#38; bread-and-butter techshops ( my past employers ). you are assuming social media outfits will be forever doing social media, which is 100% wrong. social media is lucrative \u0026#38; network effects are huge =\u0026#62; large money inflow =\u0026#62; R\u0026#38;D into non-social-media products. Very similar to what Ma Bell did by overcharging everybody on phone calls \u0026#38; routing all the cash to Bell Labs R\u0026#38;D. There are entire new languages \u0026#38; systems for handling big data that were invented within social media companies. Just because the dataset for those is social content does not mean that's all they can handle.  Social media companies, atleast the big 4, are definitely primed for handling cheap large scale computation on a massive scale, the exact problem that you think will dominate in 2030.","parent":"5023235","id":"5024622"}
{"by":"tdkl","time":"1450183539","timestamp":"2015-12-15 12:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a blast to the past to cry about : \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=0iwh3lDeCME\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=0iwh3lDeCME\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eiOS 5 smooth 60 FPS responsive interface, compared to 9 stutter fest. What added value does the iOS 9 bring to the table then ? The content in Facebook, Instagram, Youtube etc. is all the same.","parent":"10735182","id":"10737443"}
{"by":"Arrington","time":"1233177603","timestamp":"2009-01-28 21:20:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why we can't have nice things.","parent":"528","dead":true,"id":"454991"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1521779879","timestamp":"2018-03-23 04:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, when you read the article it\u0026#x27;s clear they mean it\u0026#x27;s in the plurality.  In a title it\u0026#x27;s ambiguous without the context, but not overly deceptive.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not downplaying it, it\u0026#x27;s only stating that claims of its being \u0026quot;the size of Texas\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;you can see it from space\u0026quot; are exaggerated.","parent":"16655069","id":"16655114"}
{"by":"stale2002","time":"1488137103","timestamp":"2017-02-26 19:25:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think you know what baseline means.\u003cp\u003eBaseline is just the starting point of the x-axis.  It doesn\u0026#x27;t matter.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I\u0026#x27;d set the baseline to 0 degrees.  Because thats how temperature works.\u003cp\u003eBut you can pick whatever you want.  It does not matter what you x-axis starts at.  It doesn\u0026#x27;t change the data.\u003cp\u003eOr you could just have no baseline.  Just remove the X-axis line from the graph.","parent":"13739063","id":"13739197"}
{"by":"danellis","time":"1364217952","timestamp":"2013-03-25 13:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's why I don't understand the point of a site like this.\u003cp\u003eI don't know anything about the site. I don't know if it's accurate. I don't know if it's maintained. I can't trust the information on it, so if I get an answer from it, in order to verify it I'll have to do whatever work I would have done if the site didn't exist. I've gained nothing.","parent":"5434186","id":"5436801"}
{"by":"Davertron","time":"1251828962","timestamp":"2009-09-01 18:16:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First off, I generally agree with what you're saying.  I think the reason that most people look at Linux and compare it to Windows is because most people start on Windows, so it's what they're used to.\u003cp\u003eI live on Linux for the most part, so I've gotten used to things, but there are still some things that need some work, especially when it comes to laptops: namely, dealing with resolution issues, external screens, and power management.  Most of these things can be dealt with if you're comfortable in Linux, but this stuff is REALLY easy to do on Windows (most likely because the driver support is better there, and will continue to be as long as Windows is the dominant user platform).\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I think Ubuntu has come a long way, and I'm perfectly happy running it as my main OS, but I can see what the author is saying here.","parent":"798398","id":"798531"}
{"by":"sillysaurus3","time":"1499798359","timestamp":"2017-07-11 18:39:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if star pupils do better when given a laptop?","parent":"14746579","id":"14746792"}
{"by":"thisisit","time":"1528997896","timestamp":"2018-06-14 17:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is not how attribution works. If tomorrow Sundar Pichai says he loves crypto currency it doesn\u0026#x27;t mean Google is going to start competing with Bitmain. News will still say - Google\u0026#x27;s Sundar Pichai says etc. But if it happens in an official forum like Google I\u0026#x2F;O then it means something else.\u003cp\u003eThis didn\u0026#x27;t happen in any official capacity like say a Senate hearing or a ruling. The guy was a guest speaker at a Yahoo forum. So while he is entitled to his view it is not official position.","parent":"17313316","id":"17313549"}
{"by":"petegrif","time":"1320433763","timestamp":"2011-11-04 19:09:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn't that be nice.  Now consider the case of a pharmaceutical company that has to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a new drug and get it past FDA.  If there is no IP protection would you as the CEO of this company spend that kind of money on innovating when the resultant drug could be copied a week after it appears on the shelves?  In this case you would be competing on product alright - exactly the same product.  But the copier has had no R\u0026#38;D cost and can undercut you and put your offering out of business.\u003cp\u003eThe issue is often framed in terms of all patents being bad, or all software patents being bad but to anyone to gives the matter more than the kind of superficial thought stemming from ideology the reality is rather more complicated.","parent":"3197129","id":"3197331"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1319630781","timestamp":"2011-10-26 12:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that piping will be the next big step, and that's not there yet. But it's on the radar, and Siri does seem to be built with interactions in mind, thanks to its context tracking.\u003cp\u003eSo for example, a stepping stone for piping might be:\u003cp\u003e\"Find me a bus 19 that leaves from home to arrive at work before 9am every day for the next week.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Ok, here are the buses that match your requirements.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Add those to my calendar.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Ok, I've added them.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Also remember to perform this task again every Sunday evening.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Ok, I'll remember.\"\u003cp\u003eThat's not exactly what you suggested, but it's close enough and not that far from what Siri is already capable of offering in theory, if it was plugged into the right services.","parent":"3158170","id":"3158195"}
{"by":"kryptiskt","time":"1523794881","timestamp":"2018-04-15 12:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A human\u0026#x27;s stomach lining is designed to nestle bacteriophages (those viruses that looks like moon landers that reproduce in bacteria) in it and they make sure that the bacteria population in the stomach stays put.","parent":"16841662","id":"16842355"}
{"by":"IggleSniggle","time":"1539614495","timestamp":"2018-10-15 14:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well said. All these loot box games are astounding upfront pessimistic, many of them even parodying themselves as they try to extract the next nickel using their Skinner box. I occasionally play them, and am always left with this weird mix of dopamine and existential despair.","parent":"18219815","id":"18220054"}
{"by":"contextfree","time":"1289579667","timestamp":"2010-11-12 16:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you ever looked at e.g. .NET assemblies in Reflector? It will decompile them into C# code that usually isn't even all that strange or hard to follow. There's plenty of structure and information there.","parent":"1896885","id":"1898169"}
{"by":"mobilefriendly","time":"1488770237","timestamp":"2017-03-06 03:17:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The MacBook Pro doesn\u0026#x27;t move APPL stock, it is a tiny portion of their sales, the entire Mac business is around 10% of revenue.","parent":"13800407","id":"13800438"}
{"by":"patrickryan","time":"1262550465","timestamp":"2010-01-03 20:27:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Logo design must be inspired by Hulu.","parent":"1028944","id":"1029055"}
{"by":"ajaykam","time":"1297893410","timestamp":"2011-02-16 21:56:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"they want you to keep spare batteries in the fridge?? Ridiculous on 2 levels. 1. Most people won't do that. 2. my macbook has a battery?","parent":"2228481","id":"2228504"}
{"by":"ktRolster","time":"1487198476","timestamp":"2017-02-15 22:41:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf someone is intentionally being subversive, that\u0026#x27;s hard to work with.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeah, that\u0026#x27;s true. I\u0026#x27;d rather work with an honest jerk than a friendly back-stabber.","parent":"13655997","id":"13656095"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1408565748","timestamp":"2014-08-20 20:15:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If everyone would receive X money then X would be the new 0.","parent":"8204099","id":"8204325"}
{"by":"rictic","time":"1542317404","timestamp":"2018-11-15 21:30:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The last time I looked into it, user agents may support the \u0026#x27;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026#x27; combinator for cases like user styling, where the user should trump the page content.","parent":"18462379","id":"18463549"}
{"by":"aaronbrethorst","time":"1361911242","timestamp":"2013-02-26 20:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Why Do So Many People Think They Need Gluten-Free Foods?\"\u003cp\u003eBecause when I eat it I feel bloated and nauseous. When I don't, I feel fine. Q.E.D. I talked about this a little bit the last time it came up[1].\u003cp\u003eThe problem occurs when I eat barley, rye, wheat, and other grains that contain it. So, it's definitely not a wheat allergy. My symptoms aren't as severe as those that celiacs suffer from, thankfully.\u003cp\u003eLast year, after I thought I knew what was causing the problem, I tried eating some bread after my symptoms had all gone away. They came back within a couple hours. Going back to a strict gluten free diet solved the problem again.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5277765\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5277765\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5288060","id":"5288431"}
{"by":"ctack","time":"1484900683","timestamp":"2017-01-20 08:24:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you feel in any way grateful for your success and if so, how?","parent":"13439221","id":"13442396"}
{"by":"labadav","time":"1532474589","timestamp":"2018-07-24 23:23:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you taken a look at the docs repo? \n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;knative\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;README.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;knative\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;README.md\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have the high-level overview and deeper dive into the details for each of the components, install instructions and samples.","parent":"17604371","id":"17605729"}
{"by":"mikeyouse","time":"1443567951","timestamp":"2015-09-29 23:05:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The former, 147 with at least 1 fatality.","parent":"10300443","id":"10300462"}
{"by":"BjoernKW","time":"1480715549","timestamp":"2016-12-02 21:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; a common metadata format for bills and invoices\u003cp\u003eSuch a format does exist: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;EDIFACT\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;EDIFACT\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s just hardly anyone uses it. It\u0026#x27;s got some adoption with large companies such as auto manufacturers that mandate their suppliers to use it but it\u0026#x27;s far from wide-spread (and certainly not with SMBs or consumer-oriented offerings).\u003cp\u003eThere also is MT940 (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;MT940\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;MT940\u003c/a\u003e ) which in theory can be used for exchanging and scripting bank accounting data. The format is a terrible mess though with each bank implementing it slightly differently (if they do offer it at all).\u003cp\u003eThen there is the Incoterms ruleset (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Incoterms\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Incoterms\u003c/a\u003e ), which is commonly used in supply chain management.","parent":"13091680","id":"13092650"}
{"by":"cesarb","time":"1454174406","timestamp":"2016-01-30 17:20:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lwn.net\u0026#x2F;op\u0026#x2F;FAQ.lwn#slinks\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lwn.net\u0026#x2F;op\u0026#x2F;FAQ.lwn#slinks\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers, we are happy to see them shared.","parent":"11002626","id":"11002701"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1499721125","timestamp":"2017-07-10 21:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For Facebook, it\u0026#x27;s not unreasonable. For SNAP, it is.","parent":"14739684","id":"14739726"}
{"by":"beachstartup","time":"1437861328","timestamp":"2015-07-25 21:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes but it seems like in this case government is the only one providing the free alternative!  an exclusivity provided by design of a sovereign state obviously, but ironic nonetheless.  that\u0026#x27;s why i say when it stops, i\u0026#x27;ll worry.","parent":"9948615","id":"9949181"}
{"by":"x0x0","time":"1502679665","timestamp":"2017-08-14 03:01:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because amazon hasn\u0026#x27;t been sued enough to care yet.","parent":"15006102","id":"15006362"}
{"by":"jamesbritt","time":"1372875214","timestamp":"2013-07-03 18:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s this: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/352489027716386816\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;hrheingold\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;352489027716386816\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut  I do not know how Rheingold get the news","parent":"5986382","id":"5986441"}
{"by":"PascalsMugger","time":"1459717799","timestamp":"2016-04-03 21:09:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting how this leak just seems completely devoid of US involvement. No US news media talking about it or involved. No US people mentioned in the leak.","parent":"11416928","id":"11417751"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1440102212","timestamp":"2015-08-20 20:23:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like this is largely an issue about expectations and disclosure more than it is about logging per se, right?  We have a privacy settings page, which I\u0026#x27;ll show you in a minute, but here\u0026#x27;s the public view of myself on the staging server.  I have it configured to Maximally Public (and will have that on in prod).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.evernote.com\u0026#x2F;l\u0026#x2F;Aacj0YC7tCRIdbau2AgTrBORPc6kgX442RUB\u0026#x2F;image.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.evernote.com\u0026#x2F;l\u0026#x2F;Aacj0YC7tCRIdbau2AgTrBORPc6kgX442...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe redactions are just to avoid spoiling levels.  The \u0026quot;replay\u0026quot; link is a UI templating bug.  (It isn\u0026#x27;t for \u003ci\u003eshowing\u003c/i\u003e a replay, it is a convenience method for replaying the level, and it\u0026#x27;s now supposed to show unless you\u0026#x27;re logged in and able to play the level yourself.  Fixing this in the next 5 minutes.)\u003cp\u003eNow, if I (as a player) log into and view \u003ci\u003emy own\u003c/i\u003e profile, I get a better sense of some stuff the system knows about me:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.evernote.com\u0026#x2F;l\u0026#x2F;Aae3c5I6TdZA7ZtONMeM_z-ammvZA_3FDfYB\u0026#x2F;image.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.evernote.com\u0026#x2F;l\u0026#x2F;Aae3c5I6TdZA7ZtONMeM_z-ammvZA_3FD...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is obviously not all the information the system has about me.  If a sparrow yawned in a world simulation that I took part in, that fact is dumped onto an S3 bucket, somewhere.  To be maximally explicit: every order I sent in.  Every execution I got back.  Snapshots of the GM\u0026#x27;s memory state as I passed through the levels.  etc.  We grab all that.  That isn\u0026#x27;t an exhaustive list.  Assume if it is amenable to being discovered by a computer that it will be discovered and persisted until the end of time.\u003cp\u003eThis is not exposed publicly.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s the preferences UI.  Verbose but it gets the point across, right.  Defaults are \u0026quot;Anonymous\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;No Public Profile\u0026quot;, respectively.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.evernote.com\u0026#x2F;l\u0026#x2F;AadESN5EzgdCzpFAQnR0rIuxA5Ghb7pKXl4B\u0026#x2F;image.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.evernote.com\u0026#x2F;l\u0026#x2F;AadESN5EzgdCzpFAQnR0rIuxA5Ghb7pKX...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow to a question which may be implied: \u0026quot;OK, I now understand that my info is locked up pretty tightly within Starfighter.  But you want to tell people that eventually, right?  That\u0026#x27;s how you justify your service to clients.\u0026quot;  At the point I\u0026#x27;m on the phone with the CTO of $CLIENT I am a \u003ci\u003econtigency recruiter\u003c/i\u003e.  That means I \u003ci\u003eonly get paid\u003c/i\u003e if that CTO decides to interview you and ultimately hire you.   You can bet that I will be doing my best Enterprise Sales work and showcasing your performance in its most positive truthful light.  If I did not feel like that would be possible, that phone call never happens.  If the CTO had previously mentioned to be \u0026quot;Be on the lookout, specifically, for people who are good at analyzing mountains of data.  We need them for our fraud team.\u0026quot;, and I had relevant signal on that question from level X, you can be reasonably assured that if you did really well on it I\u0026#x27;d open the call with \u0026quot;The reason I\u0026#x27;m recommending Foobar to you is because you told me you wanted folks who are really good at analyzing data.  Let me walk you through the solution Foobar came up with -- it\u0026#x27;s a hoot.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e(Worth re-iterating explicitly -- that that point, we\u0026#x27;ve talked on the phone and you\u0026#x27;ve explicitly given me the go-ahead on placing you.)\u003cp\u003eTo the question: \u0026quot;OK, so I get that people outside the system don\u0026#x27;t get arbitrary read on my history, and I understand that you\u0026#x27;re essentially a firewall which is incentivized to only allow the egress of the best possible true packets: what about \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e?  Aren\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e going to be influenced by, you know, taking a look directly at my stream of HTTP requests and seeing that I fumble fingered a URL the first time I played the level?\u0026quot;  To which I say: I don\u0026#x27;t care and don\u0026#x27;t have time for that nonsense -- I\u0026#x27;d much rather concentrate on things which \u003ci\u003eactually matter to an engineer\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"10094181","id":"10094425"}
{"by":"ben0x539","time":"1413387862","timestamp":"2014-10-15 15:44:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s easy for people who aren\u0026#x27;t being targeted for harassment to ignore it, but I think we owe it to those who are to not ignore it.","parent":"8458987","id":"8459010"}
{"by":"adrianwaj","time":"1237149734","timestamp":"2009-03-15 20:42:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes I forget how accomplished some of the people here can be. I just think of it as 'the blob.'","parent":"517061","id":"517226"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1435144151","timestamp":"2015-06-24 11:09:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get the impression that most ISPs are not really interested in disrupting personal piracy habits if that\u0026#x27;s what their customers want.","parent":"9770186","id":"9770808"}
{"by":"Fomite","time":"1533330912","timestamp":"2018-08-03 21:15:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The study is looking in hospitals, where the volume of hand sanitization needs are much higher than the average setting. And where, interestingly, germs living in the sewer are causing problems - biofilms in plumbing can easily recontaminate sink surfaces.","parent":"17683545","id":"17683676"}
{"by":"iamcalledrob","time":"1241066749","timestamp":"2009-04-30 04:45:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes some sense, although wouldn't producing custom designed chips (just for Apple) push the price up somewhat? Even with Apple's scale?","parent":"586313","id":"586402"}
{"by":"klibertp","time":"1439144845","timestamp":"2015-08-09 18:27:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Maybe I am biased from reading on a laptop where scrolling and scanning is easy?\u003cp\u003eProbably. I first looked at the page on a tablet, where the viewport is much smaller and so scanning\u0026#x2F;skimming is much harder. I later got back to the page on a laptop, and I scrolled past uninteresting parts without any problems.\u003cp\u003eOne thing I think would be good on learnxinyminutes is an ability to link to a specific line. Is it possible and I just missed it?","parent":"10030847","id":"10030966"}
{"by":"frandroid","time":"1423513424","timestamp":"2015-02-09 20:23:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And I particularly don\u0026#x27;t like how Krugman is always so quick to defend large debt loads. He keeps advocating to borrow borrow borrow, with seemingly no restraint. Is that really sustainable?\u003cp\u003eAs long as the interest remains smaller than inflation, yes.","parent":"9023274","id":"9023444"}
{"by":"m_sahaf","time":"1529672712","timestamp":"2018-06-22 13:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To add to your comment, here are Russ Cox\u0026#x27;s comments on why the toolchain is custom and they didn\u0026#x27;t use LLVM:\u003cp\u003e- (2010)  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=1509700\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=1509700\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- (2014)  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8817990\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8817990\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17373566","id":"17373629"}
{"by":"aestra","time":"1385987163","timestamp":"2013-12-02 12:26:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It really depends on the person. People are different, some may get flow from coding and others from knitting. An important point is to achieve flow you have to find what you are doing intrinsically rewarding. It is really ok that some people don\u0026#x27;t get flow from coding, and some do, but we shouldn\u0026#x27;t expect everyone to.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s even a checklist for \u0026quot;have I achieved flow?\u0026quot; so you know.\u003cp\u003eNakamura and Csíkszentmihályi identify the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow. [3]\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    intense and focused concentration on the present moment\n    merging of action and awareness\n    a loss of reflective self-consciousness\n    a sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity\n    a distortion of temporal experience, one\u0026#x27;s subjective experience of time is altered\n    experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThose aspects can appear independently of each other, but only in combination do they constitute a so-called flow experience.","parent":"6829543","id":"6833220"}
{"by":"aphextron","time":"1505420803","timestamp":"2017-09-14 20:26:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s something really disturbing about this given the fact that people are still rotting in jail in this country for selling a dime bag in the 90\u0026#x27;s. The time for federal prohibition to come to an end is far overdue.","parent":"15251275","id":"15252204"}
{"by":"roadbeats","time":"1538298854","timestamp":"2018-09-30 09:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you send a PR?","parent":"18105313","id":"18105319"}
{"by":"gametheoretic","time":"1389166681","timestamp":"2014-01-08 07:38:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is wrong.\u003cp\u003eIn oversimplifying your table for potential idiot readers by introducing the silent variable of older vs younger child, you have introduced \u003ci\u003eorder\u003c/i\u003e into a statistics problem wherein order is irrelevant and \u003ci\u003emasked the fact that what matters is which of the children you already know to be a boy\u003c/i\u003e. You grant this difference for the BG pairing, thus producing two options, but not for the BB pairing. There is not ONE way of knowing this for BB, as you present in the table, but two: you know the older is the boy, or you know the younger is the boy. 2\u0026#x2F;4 = 1\u0026#x2F;2. QED.\u003cp\u003eWhat you should have done in the first place, however (unless your aim is to produce a blog post which, apparently, can convince otherwise intelligent people that irrelevant information can magically become relevant) was simply remove the one boy from the equation and reformulate the question. What is the probability that this other child is a boy (and thus that both are boys)? 1\u0026#x2F;2. Fuck the table. Had you not used a table, this would never have happened. But it \u003ci\u003efeels\u003c/i\u003e authoritative, right? Thank you for the psychology lesson.\u003cp\u003e.\u003cp\u003e.\u003cp\u003e.\u003cp\u003eDownvotes but not refutations, because there aren\u0026#x27;t any. I\u0026#x27;ll assume it\u0026#x27;s my tone. My opinion of the competence of the average reader on this site has plummeted reading the other comments, however, so hey, fuck you guys too. :)","parent":"7022015","id":"7022264"}
{"by":"jasonwatkinspdx","time":"1502161078","timestamp":"2017-08-08 02:57:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  illegally discriminating against other groups.\u003cp\u003eAffirmative action is legal in the United States.","parent":"14953517","id":"14953603"}
{"by":"1ris","time":"1527454561","timestamp":"2018-05-27 20:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;childs\u0026quot; is, and always was uncommon, but seems to exists. Also saw it source code written by non-native speakers.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;ngrams\u0026#x2F;graph?content=Children%2C+Childs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;ngrams\u0026#x2F;graph?content=Children%2C+Ch...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17168713","id":"17169058"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1469727479","timestamp":"2016-07-28 17:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What really pissed me off about Audible is that they offered me a special offer after initiating the cancellation process, in a fully automated process.\u003cp\u003eMaybe other people like that, but this basically tells me that their good customers pay more than they have to, because they are fools that don\u0026#x27;t complain, possibly subsidizing the grumpy ones. And I find this to be totally unacceptable.\u003cp\u003eFor anybody interested in an Audible alternative, check this out: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;downpour.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;downpour.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s DRM-free, high quality audio books at comparable prices.","parent":"12181300","id":"12181750"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1539196772","timestamp":"2018-10-10 18:39:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMen are probably more likely to get their 10,000 hours (or multiple thereof) of deliberate practice playing games, than women due stigmas \u0026#x2F; social pressure\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom what I\u0026#x27;ve seen, female League of Legends players on YouTube and Twitch are well regarded. I may be getting skewed data, as I\u0026#x27;ve only managed to subscribe to a few of the more popular streamers\u0026#x2F;content creators. (These creators aren\u0026#x27;t playing solely on their sex appeal for their popularity. If anything, their talents are as game players, musicians, and as commentators. They\u0026#x27;re also all \u0026quot;cute.\u0026quot;)","parent":"18187446","id":"18187694"}
{"by":"tinco","time":"1389401932","timestamp":"2014-01-11 00:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aren\u0026#x27;t these numbers also so high because they took VC funding? The VC wants to throw the company against the wall as fast and hard as possible to see if it sticks. That means no time to roll out custom infrastructure, and hiring rockstar consultants just to build the product as fast as possible.\u003cp\u003eThe idea is not terrible, it\u0026#x27;s definitely better than doing everything the right way (tm) for 5 years, just to find out there is no way to fit the market.","parent":"7040810","id":"7040871"}
{"by":"bmelton","time":"1351529546","timestamp":"2012-10-29 16:52:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems to be a common reply to my statements, so I'll say it once here and link to it elsewhere.\u003cp\u003eI feel that I am empathetic (or at least sympathetic) to the plight of transgenders, minorities and others who feel that they need an anonymous or pseudonymous platform upon which to share their views.\u003cp\u003eI am substantially less concerned with those who do not see that it is Google's right to offer a platform that requires real names.  So long as there are other platforms available and allowed that support anonymity/pseudonymity, I don't see it as a great concern that one particular vendor doesn't work exactly how they want.\u003cp\u003eIf the discussion were framed as a matter of law, and that a new law were coming down requiring all discussion platforms / social networks / blog platforms to use real names, I would be against that law.\u003cp\u003eIt is within the rights of those providing the platform to determine what policies they wish to allow or disallow.  It is within the rights of the users of those platforms to use or not use the platforms they agree or disagree with.\u003cp\u003eI do not feel it is within the rights of those users to demand (or at least, to get a result from the demands) that a platform change its policies to suit their ideals.","parent":"4713016","id":"4713137"}
{"by":"davidmr","time":"1431663928","timestamp":"2015-05-15 04:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So yes, in retrospect he made some very basic errors. That said, it\u0026#x27;s pretty easy to call someone stupid after reading a long-form piece informed by a full indictment of their crimes produced by an intergovernmental criminal investigation and subsequent trial.\u003cp\u003eI have no experience in the matter, but I imagine that being the kingpin of such an organization tends to pull one\u0026#x27;s head in so many directions that it\u0026#x27;s easy for smart people to do dumb things unknowingly.","parent":"9547456","id":"9548938"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1464727259","timestamp":"2016-05-31 20:40:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t see a way to BI without significant buy in from Dept. of Agriculture and Dept. of HHS to provide some of the value of benefit as actual food and as gratis-rent, subsidized-utilities housing.\u003cp\u003eHHS doesn\u0026#x27;t provide gratis-rent, subsidized-utilities housing without BI. Section 8 is subsidized-rent  (and even so has long waiting lists and behavioral controls, so that many people that are income qualified for it don\u0026#x27;t receive it.)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Moving 100% of the benefit as cash leaves too much opportunity for middlemen to take a cut.\u003cp\u003eActually, it eliminates lots of the opportunities for middle men to take cuts (starting with government bureaucrats and government contractors.)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The ways to do that range from straight-up charging you interest on advance loans secured by the benefit\u003cp\u003eSo, just make contracts to secure loans by UBI benefit void as contrary to public policy. You can pay people from the benefit, you can contract to pay people from the benefit, you can\u0026#x27;t provide a lien on the benefit to secure a loan, because the benefit cannot legally be seized from you.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; to charging slightly more for the goods and services typically consumed by poor people.\u003cp\u003ePrice increases are an expected market effect that drive increased quantity supplied. It\u0026#x27;s not a bad thing.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; So I don\u0026#x27;t see the same magnitude of cost savings as the idea-evangelists do. If anything, government payroll would probably expand in the short term, as it builds the infrastructure to provide non-cash benefits to citizens.\u003cp\u003eYes, in a phase-in approach that phases out other programs using eligibility calculations (where UBI counts as part of income) rather than a slash-and-burn implementation where UBI immediately replaces other programs, in the short term you\u0026#x27;d have an additional program office with only caseload related reductions in the administration of other programs, until the UBI reached a level that entire programs could be eliminated because it became impossible to qualify for them.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; BI would have to assemble 300 million fungible daily ration packages and truck them to distribution centers sized and located appropriately for the needs of the population.\u003cp\u003eNo, the whole point of BI is that its just money. \u0026quot;fungible daily ration packs\u0026quot; are not being built and trucked, monthly fixed-amount benefit checks are delivered (or electronically deposited.) [0]\u003cp\u003ePeople use the money to buy services in the market.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Just moving the money around is not going to be enough to satisfy the need. If all you do is cut checks, it may take decades for the supply chain to adapt, if ever.\u003cp\u003eIf you use a ramp-up UBI and phase-out of other programs (which is the only way you get the short-term surge of government workers you talk about), the supply chain \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e adapt slowly, and its not a program.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  Food stamps have existed for a long time, and we still see \u0026quot;food deserts\u0026quot; in lower-income neighborhoods.\u003cp\u003eArguably, the restrictions around food stamps and the administrative cost of dealing with them contributes to that problem.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Even the promise of having a local monopoly on rent-seeking the free government money has not motivated food distributors to set up shop in otherwise unprofitable areas.\u003cp\u003eFood deserts typically do not have no food stores, or even no food stores that sell some things that qualify for government food benefits. There are lots of specific concrete definitions used to identify food deserts, and they tend to focus on local availability of particular variety of selections or prices of particular options.\u003cp\u003eMost food deserts have some (often small) food-selling stores, including ones that accept government food benefits.\u003cp\u003e[0] Incidentally, a universal basic banking service would be a useful side-program along with UBI, reducing the problem of the unbanked.","parent":"11809873","id":"11810032"}
{"by":"radiospiel","time":"1500391993","timestamp":"2017-07-18 15:33:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This really sounds like the FAT file system","parent":"14797184","id":"14797326"}
{"by":"SkyMarshal","time":"1285393999","timestamp":"2010-09-25 05:53:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And projected light keyboards.  :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/09/23/seabird/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/09/23/seabird/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnless foolproof voice recognition comes first.","parent":"1726311","id":"1726424"}
{"by":"gmoore","time":"1348591223","timestamp":"2012-09-25 16:40:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe we should bail them out?","parent":"4571053","id":"4571272"}
{"by":"Gigablah","time":"1408530841","timestamp":"2014-08-20 10:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, the same logic could be used to argue for using Java or PHP frameworks.\u003cp\u003ePlus, SASS\u0026#x2F;Compass\u0026#x2F;HAML integration isn\u0026#x27;t strictly part of a framework, it\u0026#x27;s the build pipeline.","parent":"8201350","id":"8201770"}
{"by":"javanix","time":"1378756419","timestamp":"2013-09-09 19:53:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it could be usable for an FPS but it needs something ... more.\u003cp\u003eThis article hit the nail on the head when he stated that the Rift is already a perfect fit for simulator games.","parent":"6355664","id":"6355721"}
{"by":"KozmoNau7","time":"1512138547","timestamp":"2017-12-01 14:29:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m perfectly OK with the idea of replacing processed\u0026#x2F;minced meats with plant-based products. You\u0026#x27;re mostly tasting the spices and cooking process at that point anyway.\u003cp\u003eAnd the impossible burger seems pretty awesome. I\u0026#x27;m just a very skeptical and discerning person when it comes to food (of all kinds).","parent":"15823857","id":"15823980"}
{"by":"dschobel","time":"1311736020","timestamp":"2011-07-27 03:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FTA:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTake advantage of existing WSGI tools.\nPump comes with adapters for serving Pump apps with WSGI servers and converting WSGI middleware to Pump middleware.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"2810528","id":"2810567"}
{"by":"kevin_b_er","time":"1531245735","timestamp":"2018-07-10 18:02:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no intellectual \u0026quot;property\u0026quot;, merely a temporary exclusive grant made by the public to encourage the arts and sciences.  To call it \u0026quot;property\u0026quot; is, as I warned, the goal of the \u0026quot;IP\u0026quot; industry in equating a patent as no different from a house and land.  Then it magically becomes some sort of right, but one is fundamental a restriction of your own fundamental human rights because a patent can be accidentally infringed.\u003cp\u003eA patent can be accidentally issued, but it can be hell to accidentally UN-issue it.  Meanwhile the patent constraints your actions and speech through its power.  And we want to treat it like a house?  The house limits what you may do upon that land, a patent limits what you may do anywhere any everywhere.  And you don\u0026#x27;t even need to know the patent \u0026quot;property\u0026quot; upon your actions even exists.","parent":"17499364","id":"17500608"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1534257485","timestamp":"2018-08-14 14:38:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eMore expensive power wouldn\u0026#x27;t affect the market price of a bitcoin\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis seems intuitively wrong. Production and marginal costs are always factors.\u003cp\u003eIf power goes up in value, it becomes more expensive to produce new Bitcoins as well as process transactions. That would feed into prices, fees and usage. The strength of this signal might be obscured by noise, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it isn\u0026#x27;t there.","parent":"17758287","id":"17758314"}
{"by":"shitgoose","time":"1467769109","timestamp":"2016-07-06 01:38:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yep. that\u0026#x27;s why things used to work back then - because people actually were thinking about what they were doing.","parent":"12037270","id":"12040704"}
{"by":"AnthonyMouse","time":"1417553913","timestamp":"2014-12-02 20:58:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not being able to afford the market price of a resource is not \u0026quot;getting screwed\u0026quot; and you\u0026#x27;re just being inflammatory by making it a matter of life and death. H1B visas are not a matter of life and death; we\u0026#x27;re talking about people who want to make more money, not people seeking political asylum.\u003cp\u003eSuppose we make your exact scenario about a rare\u0026#x2F;endangered species of caviar. Bob can still buy bread for one credit but you\u0026#x27;re arguing that the government should ensure the equitable distribution of caviar because the market price isn\u0026#x27;t fair to Bob who can\u0026#x27;t afford it. Bob is not getting screwed, Bob just can\u0026#x27;t afford caviar.","parent":"8688816","id":"8689852"}
{"by":"corbinpage","time":"1427078607","timestamp":"2015-03-23 02:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would love a way to join the \u0026quot;supply side\u0026quot; of this company aka pickup some quick scraping\u0026#x2F;scripting tasks for cash.","parent":"9249112","id":"9249235"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1502398465","timestamp":"2017-08-10 20:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Anatomically modern humans have lived on Earth for 200,000 years, and the creatures we descended from have lived on Earth for 541 million years. Stuff as dumb as the moon cycles affect us. How are we going to live somewhere that isn\u0026#x27;t exactly Earth?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eTo further your (good) point about gravitational and diurnal differences, it is worth also considering the experience of native americans in the face of novel (to them) micro-organisms brought in by europeans.\u003cp\u003eThese diseases were not from another solar system and they were related to animals that had local analogs ... and yet they were devastating (up to 90% mortality in some places) to the native population.\u003cp\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eanother planet\u003c/i\u003e the bacteria, viruses and fungi (not to mention the potential discovery of previously unknown biological primitives) would be completely novel to us.\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t be shocked if there was 100% mortality outside of containment\u0026#x2F;quarantine after a week or two.\u003cp\u003eEDIT:  On the other hand, imagine if we found that our genetic code \u003ci\u003edid contain\u003c/i\u003e information related to what we found offworld ... wouldn\u0026#x27;t that be fascinating ...","parent":"14981904","id":"14984147"}
{"by":"rco8786","time":"1413344200","timestamp":"2014-10-15 03:36:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speaking for OP here, but yea.  The simple examples are definitely simple.  But in practice it can get out of hand really quick.\u003cp\u003eThe type system is crazy powerful, but that also means it\u0026#x27;s crazy complex.","parent":"8457040","id":"8457060"}
{"by":"timpeterson","time":"1347731835","timestamp":"2012-09-15 17:57:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"@TazeTschnitzel agreed, but then what would fb engineers do all day? they gotta \"keep shipping\"","parent":"4526727","id":"4526750"}
{"by":"scott_karana","time":"1484692427","timestamp":"2017-01-17 22:33:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Rail systems are almost never profitable. The US, at least in spirit, doesn\u0026#x27;t like government subsidies.\u003cp\u003eExcuse me? Japan privatized its rail system in the late 80s, doesn\u0026#x27;t subsidize any of the JR companies[1][2] (which are all publicly traded to boot), and has a profitable enough industry that there are now numerous private operators[3] of various sizes who successfully compete.[4]\u003cp\u003e1 \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.railway-technology.com\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;featurelevel-playing-field-eu-efforts-to-break-into-japans-rail-industry-4379553\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.railway-technology.com\u0026#x2F;features\u0026#x2F;featurelevel-play...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Rail_transport_in_Japan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Rail_transport_in_Japan\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tokyu_Corporation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tokyu_Corporation\u003c/a\u003e, and see the box at the bottom for lots more\u003cp\u003e4 \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Transport_in_Greater_Tokyo#Other_railway_operators_serving_central_Tokyo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Transport_in_Greater_Tokyo#Oth...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13412741","id":"13422102"}
{"by":"goldenkey","time":"1460309126","timestamp":"2016-04-10 17:25:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to clarify, all over the counter painkillers are NSAIDs, non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs. And like OC said, they all inhibit COX1 and COX2. Selective COX1 inhibitors have been created as prescription drugs to avoid effects of stomach ulcers and liver damage but were pulled off the market due to studies showing increased risk of heart attacks. Ie. Celebrex\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Celecoxib\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Celecoxib\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;NSAID\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;NSAID\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11466733","id":"11467166"}
{"by":"tobias3","time":"1457189382","timestamp":"2016-03-05 14:49:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are using \u0026#x2F; in paths your are limited to max 260 characters paths.\u003cp\u003eIf you want paths up to 32k you need to use back-slashes.\u003cp\u003eI think this is the reason they are not switching e.g. Visual Studio over to max 32k paths.","parent":"11229282","id":"11229630"}
{"by":"cryptoz","time":"1522197251","timestamp":"2018-03-28 00:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I personally don\u0026#x27;t believe they can survive with human drivers (unit economics) and I personally don\u0026#x27;t believe they will catch up in engineering and technology of self driving cars, especially after this (but I never thought they would, too far behind from the start). So I would say maybe yes.\u003cp\u003eBut there are probably ways out of this for them. They will probably chug along for at least a decade and in that time anything can happen.","parent":"16694102","id":"16694113"}
{"by":"adverbly","time":"1515849645","timestamp":"2018-01-13 13:20:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you always liked learning stuff but don\u0026#x27;t have any time, find out how to get more time. Time is the only truly finite resource so getting more is always worthwhile.\u003cp\u003eAs far as happiness is concerned, I\u0026#x27;d read the paper causes and correlates of happiness. Make sure you address the most significant areas. If you already do, you might just have a low generic setpoint. Unfortunately genetics have a lot to do with intrinsic happiness. Not much you can do the beyond medication.\u003cp\u003eAnd far as social interaction goes, your best bet is to find a pre-existing social group with a shared interest. Building a community is hard but thankfully plenty of other people have already put in the hard work.","parent":"16138969","id":"16139500"}
{"by":"brianwawok","time":"1487866403","timestamp":"2017-02-23 16:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cheating and doping both make me very angry as a casual athlete. I don\u0026#x27;t let it ruin my day, but it annoys me. Like come on, we are training 10h a week to go pay money to run a race and get a $1 medal. Let\u0026#x27;s kinda sorta keep it fair?","parent":"13714909","id":"13715033"}
{"by":"g4ld3r","time":"1211719148","timestamp":"2008-05-25 12:39:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was fortunate enough to get a demo of this by the people working on it at the university of Tokyo in April. Our CS class was on a study tour in Japan. The technology is really amazing, especially when used to record animations. They also had other cool stuff, like a 3D leaves/flowers/trees design tool.","parent":"198526","id":"199489"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1424662727","timestamp":"2015-02-23 03:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know what \u0026quot;it\u0026quot; you mean here.\u003cp\u003eThe developers of ProjectA hold a license to that code. If ProjectB is under teamhappy license, then those parts of ProjectB which are unchanged from ProjectA are still only under the MIT license, because copyright requires creative input. As ProjectB made no changes, there was no creative input, so they cannot use copyright law to enforce difference license terms.\u003cp\u003eThe portions from ProjectA are under the MIT license. The portions from the ProjectB developers are under the teamhappy license. If I use ProjectB then I am a licensee for both MIT and teamhappy licenses.\u003cp\u003eThis co-mingling of software from multiple copyright holders with multiple licenses is why the licenses have to be \u0026quot;compatible.\u0026quot;","parent":"9091722","id":"9092395"}
{"by":"tinus_hn","time":"1468484827","timestamp":"2016-07-14 08:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no way it\u0026#x27;s a performance thing if it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter what kind of hardware it runs on. It\u0026#x27;s just a marketing deal of a company desparately trying to remain relevant.","parent":"12092141","id":"12092380"}
{"by":"Houshalter","time":"1384231857","timestamp":"2013-11-12 04:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Credit card fraud is far far more common, and cash is also completely untraceable. Untraceable doesn\u0026#x27;t mean \u0026quot;no accountability or justice or law\u0026quot;.","parent":"6715774","id":"6715917"}
{"by":"rdouble","time":"1374867268","timestamp":"2013-07-26 19:34:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I lived for years right by the Haight entrance to GGP. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t call the participants in the drug scene there hippies. There were a lot more crusties and gutter punk types, along with stereotypical thug dudes and tweakers. A lot of people were really aggro and there was some sort of fight nearly every day. A friend of mine would buy her pot over there and her dealer was a clean cut looking late 20s guy from the avenues, who used a cane because he had been shot in the leg. Gun violence didn\u0026#x27;t seem very hippie to me, either.\u003cp\u003eOne of the odder things to me about the area (everything was odd to some degree, including my presence there)  was that there was so much drug activity right next to the police station.","parent":"6109778","id":"6110043"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1259342729","timestamp":"2009-11-27 17:25:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it depends what you do with your toolbox.   Most people have a limited amount of working memory and filling it with syntax rules + library APIs of 15 programming languages is not best way to get most tasks done (unless the task is to learn as many languages as possible).\u003cp\u003eI would prefer to know as few languages and APIs as possible that let me get my work done.  Python is one of the languages and the other one is C.\u003cp\u003eC is for doing realtime stuff and Python is for everything else (setup, network IO, GUI, web, etc).  Unlike the author of the artice I like using Twisted and it works reasonably well for what I am doing.","parent":"964032","id":"964124"}
{"by":"RestlessMind","time":"1546725328","timestamp":"2019-01-05 21:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why should an American (or any other nationality, for that matter) care about what rest of the world has enjoyed? If a system in place is not serving one well, one is going to be upset no matter what happens elsewhere.","parent":"18826984","id":"18834522"}
{"by":"flyosity","time":"1271694633","timestamp":"2010-04-19 16:30:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd say this is a prototype hardware unit. The sides don't look finished, not with large, visible creases. There's no way they'll go from the smoothness of the MBP \u0026#38; iPad to something far less elegant with large visible gaps.","parent":"1277020","id":"1277084"}
{"by":"DanielRibeiro","time":"1312952006","timestamp":"2011-08-10 04:53:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"... that the thing is playable and that people will want it, all of which are much more difficult than to making the right decision about where to sell something\"\u003c/i\u003e (At 49:06)\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMake something people want\u003c/i\u003e is not just for startups.","parent":"2866469","id":"2866831"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1481303858","timestamp":"2016-12-09 17:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a content-addressable database, you absolutely want a cryptographic hash.  (And please, don\u0026#x27;t make the mistake Git did: please include the name of the hash function in the \u0026quot;address\u0026quot;, to make it possible to change the hash function.)","parent":"13138892","id":"13140019"}
{"by":"logicchains","time":"1500735549","timestamp":"2017-07-22 14:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did my bachelors in economics, and one of our textbooks taught that all other things being equal (ceteris paribus), more equality means less wealth creation. Why? Wealth will naturally concentrate in the hands of those more capable of creating it: if Jo is making 2% per annum return and Jane is making 4% per annum return, and they both start with the same amount, then Jane\u0026#x27;s share of the total wealth pool will continuously increase relative to Jo. The key thing to note is that as Jane\u0026#x27;s making better use of resources, producing twice as much from them as Jo, if we take resources from Jane to give to Jo then they\u0026#x27;ll be used less effectively, slowing overall growth.\u003cp\u003eTo illustrate, imagine they both start with $1000 each. The total wealth pool is hence $2000, and they both have 50% each, perfect equality. Now, let\u0026#x27;s look 50 years in the future, assuming the previously mentioned interest rates per annum compounding annually. According to \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.moneychimp.com\u0026#x2F;calculator\u0026#x2F;compound_interest_calculator.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.moneychimp.com\u0026#x2F;calculator\u0026#x2F;compound_interest_calcu...\u003c/a\u003e, Jo will have $2,691.59 and Jane will have $7,106.68. The total wealth pool is $9,798.27. Jo hence now has 27.47%, and Jane has 72.53%. They\u0026#x27;re both less equal, but they\u0026#x27;re also both wealthier, and the overall wealth pool has increased.\u003cp\u003eNow, let\u0026#x27;s look ahead another 50 years. If no wealth transfer occurs, Jane will have $69,633.20 and Jo will have $19,128.28, with the total wealth pool being $88,761.48. If we equalise wealth, however, such that both have $4,899.13, then in 50 years they\u0026#x27;ll each have $34,816.57, for a total \nwealth pool of $69,633.14. This is 78.45% of the total wealth pool that there would be if no wealth transfer took place.\u003cp\u003eIn this sense there is hence a direct tradeoff between growth and financial equality.","parent":"14827422","id":"14827516"}
{"by":"KingMob","time":"1366340287","timestamp":"2013-04-19 02:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. I'm writing a (low-frequency) arbitrage program in Clojure for fun, but the long confirmation time for BTC and the inability to move non-BTC currencies between exchanges greatly limits this in practicality.","parent":"5529682","id":"5574480"}
{"by":"kibwen","time":"1429902160","timestamp":"2015-04-24 19:02:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Though it may seem like this would be brittle, it\u0026#x27;s worth mentioning that this is how Servo eventually intends to interoperate with SpiderMonkey, so it will be a strategy that is well-researched and officially supported.","parent":"9435270","id":"9435381"}
{"by":"graycat","time":"1459079621","timestamp":"2016-03-27 11:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMHO, might look at ML as based heavily on the Leo Breiman work in \u003ci\u003erandom forests\u003c/i\u003e and classification and regression trees (CART).\u003cp\u003eBreiman was a first class applied mathematician, a student of M. Loeve at Berkeley and later a professor, of, say, statistics, at Berkeley.\u003cp\u003eSo, one way to get valuable information is to take in some data, manipulate it, and report the results.  IMHO, by far the best way to get powerful data manipulations is applied math, possibly with some advanced pure math prerequisites.\u003cp\u003eE.g., some of the best applied math long on the shelves of the research libraries for manipulating data to get valuable information is just astoundingly powerful stuff, and I don\u0026#x27;t see computer science work in ML and AI as an effective way to compete.  E.g., how to do as well as Wiener filtering, linear programming, optimal control without just programming what is already known?  Or, if we didn\u0026#x27;t have the simplex algorithm for linear programming, I don\u0026#x27;t see the \napproaches of ML or AI as\nreplacing them.  E.g., ML and AI are supposed to be good at games, but their approaches to just a large example of just the two person game of paper, scissors, rock would be very clumsy.  Why?  The solution is a nice application of linear programming, and that is darned clever.  Or, want to assign workers to jobs on a production line.  Sure, can try AI type approaches, but there is a super nice, fast, exact algorithm, darned clever, and a long way from ML or AI.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m out of school -- got my Ph.D. in applied math, stochastic optimal control.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m doing a startup, and the crucial core of the work and its value is some applied math I derived based on some advanced prerequisites.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve published in AI, but my view is that so far there is nothing in AI that is at all close to actual \u003ci\u003eintelligence\u003c/i\u003e as we see it in humans.\u003cp\u003eTheorems and proofs are a heck of a powerful \u003ci\u003emethodology\u003c/i\u003e and tough to beat.  For AI, a super big problem is to define in any meaningful way just what the heck \u003ci\u003eintelligence\u003c/i\u003e is, say, enough to get started on a solution.  That is, we don\u0026#x27;t really have a problem statement -- the Turing test might be a test on a candidate solution but is, still, not a problem statement.  IMHO, once we do get a problem statement, then the most powerful approach will be via applied math.","parent":"11369300","id":"11369682"}
{"by":"orky56","time":"1531096465","timestamp":"2018-07-09 00:34:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Currently using a combination of the following:\u003cp\u003eReviews \u0026amp; Check-ins via Yelp\u0026#x2F;Facebook\u0026#x2F;Google\u0026#x2F;Swarm\u003cp\u003eLikes via Facebook\u0026#x2F;Instagram\u003cp\u003eReferrals \u0026amp; Recommendations via Existing Clients\u0026#x2F;Partners\u003cp\u003eTime in store\u0026#x2F;Tip amount\u0026#x2F;Dollars spent\u0026#x2F;LTV via Existing clients\u003cp\u003eRelationship between online advertising to conversions in physical store","parent":"17485202","id":"17487142"}
{"by":"orionblastar","time":"1457419495","timestamp":"2016-03-08 06:44:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It still works if you use some plugins to set the user agent to Googlebot and other things to trick the WSJ into thinking you are from Google.\u003cp\u003eSometimes searching the title in Google works, sometimes it does not.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m really against paywalls because it is discrimination against the poor. It is like having a pay bathroom.","parent":"11243751","id":"11243870"}
{"by":"__derek__","time":"1475537505","timestamp":"2016-10-03 23:31:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anecdotally, I browsed the Prime Video offerings for the first time this past weekend, and I found two TV series and a movie that I\u0026#x27;ve wanted to watch but couldn\u0026#x27;t because they were not offered on Netflix. Prime also had HBO shows, which I could previously only access via HBO Go.","parent":"12628201","id":"12632247"}
{"by":"eberkund","time":"1486778252","timestamp":"2017-02-11 01:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m guessing because for many operations that are a few characters to type in JS actually require many, many byte code instructions to represent.","parent":"13617052","id":"13620496"}
{"by":"zeemonkee","time":"1274132407","timestamp":"2010-05-17 21:40:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Absolutely agree. Writing template tags in Django involves a lot of boilerplate. Compare for example Mako or Jinja2 where you can easily write a macro to handle something like nested comments.","parent":"1355519","id":"1355658"}
{"by":"meaty","time":"1360840575","timestamp":"2013-02-14 11:16:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree about static sites being cool. It seems such a terrible waste of energy dynamically generating content each request.","parent":"5218773","id":"5218935"}
{"by":"Jefff8","time":"1525043033","timestamp":"2018-04-29 23:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve worked in the same market as you, I think, from the hints in your comments.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve run or had a hand in running conferences and trade shows, as well as having built software and systems to keep the show on the road, from registration systems, management systems, surveying and apps. And I know the business side of startups too.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps you want to have a chat. HN has my email.\u003cp\u003eWithout knowing anything, I\u0026#x27;d speculate that if you aren\u0026#x27;t finding traction, then it\u0026#x27;s related to the structure of the conference\u0026#x2F;exhibition market which is a tough space to crack.","parent":"16949209","id":"16954403"}
{"by":"peripitea","time":"1305825747","timestamp":"2011-05-19 17:22:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have a pointer to good info on the left foot braking thing? I wonder if it's applicable to normal driving as well. I remember thinking that right-footed braking seemed dumb when I was learning to drive. The best explanation anyone could give me was that in a panic you might slam on both pedals, which didn't seem like a great argument.","parent":"2564539","id":"2564667"}
{"by":"striking","time":"1505165346","timestamp":"2017-09-11 21:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re running out of things to notify you about. I\u0026#x27;ve recently been getting a lot of \u0026quot;X updated their status\u0026quot;, where X is someone who I\u0026#x27;ve recently chatted with or whose status I\u0026#x27;ve liked within the past month.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s silly, but I suppose it\u0026#x27;s worked on some people.","parent":"15222435","id":"15222528"}
{"by":"avmich","time":"1450301639","timestamp":"2015-12-16 21:33:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And of course the phonetic transliteration would be Korolyov, not Korolev. ё instead of е in the middle.\u003cp\u003eAsif Siddiqi has a good book on the subject, \u0026quot;Challenge to Apollo\u0026quot;. I\u0026#x27;d also recomment Boris Chertok\u0026#x27;s memoirs, \u0026quot;Rockets and People Volume IV: The Moon Race\u0026quot;. You\u0026#x27;d learn, for example, how many launches of N-1 were originally planned for each expedition to the Moon and how that number eventually boiled down to 1.","parent":"10744157","id":"10747524"}
{"by":"ralfn","time":"1527537208","timestamp":"2018-05-28 19:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For somebody from Holland it\u0026#x27;s hard to understand how any family being that poor in a country like France with all it\u0026#x27;s socialism and union rights can be a thing.\u003cp\u003eWe count as quite capitalistic compared to France but just for having children alone you get a compensation that already puts you out of that territory. (Of course we don\u0026#x27;t take this compensation away for working parents -- everybody always gets its. And from the age of 16 it\u0026#x27;s actually deposited in the account of the child itself)\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s not even our (dressed down) welfare system:  this is just making sure kids in school grow up in a somewhat egalitarian way.\u003cp\u003eThis has to be an exaggeration. Nobody is that poor in France, right?","parent":"17172715","id":"17174452"}
{"by":"melange","time":"1380377655","timestamp":"2013-09-28 14:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please offer some kind of reference supporting your claim that the arm chip in the iPhone 5s is power inefficient.","parent":"6461648","id":"6461846"}
{"by":"l1n","time":"1513734987","timestamp":"2017-12-20 01:56:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s mentioned at the end of this blog post: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtube.googleblog.com\u0026#x2F;2009\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;1080p-hd-comes-to-youtube.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtube.googleblog.com\u0026#x2F;2009\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;1080p-hd-comes-to-you...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15966020","id":"15966374"}
{"by":"vaksel","time":"1244648824","timestamp":"2009-06-10 15:47:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"eharmony disagrees","parent":"650893","id":"651161"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1504536753","timestamp":"2017-09-04 14:52:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Somewhat of a tangent, but a lot of these reasons seem to boil down to \u0026quot;we don\u0026#x27;t have the resources\u0026quot;. The HomeBrew project does appear to have a Patreon account, but to find it you have to go to the GitHub repo and scroll to the bottom of the readme. It might help to promote that a bit more on the homepage. It might also help to engage a bit more with the community other than \u0026quot;here\u0026#x27;s a new release\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIOW, HomeBrew seems to be big enough that it needs to start engaging in some PR.","parent":"15165107","id":"15168591"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1378259934","timestamp":"2013-09-04 01:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK so I\u0026#x27;m not a finance guy at all, but can you explain what I\u0026#x27;m not getting:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALNKD\u0026amp;fstype=ii\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;finance?q=NYSE%3ALNKD\u0026amp;fstype=ii\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e363M revenue. Minus a ton of things for operating income of 8M. Then tax brings it to 3.7M.\u003cp\u003eOn what basis are we supposed to think LinkedIn is suddenly going to eliminate \u0026gt; $300M of quarterly costs?\u003cp\u003eIf you do the \u0026quot;1 times revenue\u0026quot; (so about 1BN) that\u0026#x27;s still not close to being worth 32B.\u003cp\u003eI asked the same things when I was 18 in the dot-com boom and got hand-wavy responses and people talking about eyeballs and stuff. Why is this fundamentally different? I understand if it\u0026#x27;s too much to explain in a comment, but could you link to some introduction that explains why a company\u0026#x27;s costs should be ignored?\u003cp\u003eAlso, why the stock would go \u003ci\u003eup\u003c/i\u003e when they meet expectations? If you bought into the high P\u0026#x2F;E at $100 on the logic of \u0026quot;yeah the PE is high, but it\u0026#x27;s growing into it\u0026quot; then you\u0026#x27;d expect the PE to lower as they meet their goals. Instead the PE stays around the same area and the stock goes up. That does not sound rational. Edit: Like, 1% profit margin, so even if they magically multiply that by 10 or 20 times, that\u0026#x27;d still mean a PE in the hundreds.","parent":"6324926","id":"6325122"}
{"by":"wtbob","time":"1495455044","timestamp":"2017-05-22 12:10:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our problem is the cities, and how they have many more people.  Representation in proportion to population is pretty kick-ass if you live in New York.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a little less kick-ass if you live in North Dakota, and wonder why a few coastal congressmen are able to pass laws which interfere with your lifestyle.\u003cp\u003eMore seriously, our problem is a metastasised federal government.  Very little should actually be a federal issue (read the enumerated powers of the United States in the Constitution!), and yet almost everything now is.  As a result, every issue becomes winner-take-all: the entire country must comply with me, or the entire country must comply with you.  There\u0026#x27;s no room to allow Massachusetts to go wrong and right in its ways, and to allow North Dakota to go wrong and right in \u003ci\u003eits\u003c/i\u003e ways.","parent":"14392795","id":"14392890"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1500486158","timestamp":"2017-07-19 17:42:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Altcoin promoter of overhyped altcoin complains about competition from other overhyped altcoins. World\u0026#x27;s smallest violin plays.","parent":"14806086","id":"14806212"}
{"by":"kokey","time":"1317042954","timestamp":"2011-09-26 13:15:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The industrial revolution keeps on destroying low skill jobs, for the benefit of everyone overall.  There is always a group of people who lose these jobs initially but in the long term it's never been that big problem for society after about 200 years of doing this.  However, it won't hurt to be more proactive in helping people get retrained and move into other kinds of jobs.  There is even some opportunity in offering a path for people who lose their jobs in one industry to get trained to work in other industries which has demand.  I think the people who suffer the most are those who insist on trying to hold onto a type of job that is disappearing, being the last group to lose their jobs and being behind others when it comes to retraining.  I think it's the same as people who refuse to move away from a town when industry there is shutting down.","parent":"3038652","id":"3038710"}
{"by":"madeofpalk","time":"1488247776","timestamp":"2017-02-28 02:09:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;loophole with the law\u0026quot; is a very interesting way avoiding the fact that they flat our broke the law in jurisdictions and reimbursed fines drivers incurred.","parent":"13750519","id":"13750557"}
{"by":"esbwhat","time":"1342972201","timestamp":"2012-07-22 15:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's definitely not the worst, but I don't think they should have asked him at all, and (more importantly) let him redirect the old site for more than a year.","parent":"4277562","id":"4277572"}
{"by":"paulbaumgart","time":"1244700670","timestamp":"2009-06-11 06:11:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sockpuppet accounts, probably. But that's why we have /classic .","parent":"652339","id":"652345"}
{"by":"King-Aaron","time":"1536734179","timestamp":"2018-09-12 06:36:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There\u0026#x27;s little argument for manual transmission anymore except in larger vehicles.\u003cp\u003eWhy has \u0026quot;having fun\u0026quot; disappeared from people\u0026#x27;s list of requirements in a vehicle?\u003cp\u003eCVT\u0026#x27;s are boring to drive. \u003ci\u003eExtremely boring\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"17963044","id":"17966045"}
{"by":"based2","time":"1513420921","timestamp":"2017-12-16 10:42:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"r\u0026#x2F;programming\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;7k4pj3\u0026#x2F;scala_at_duolingo_with_andre_kenji_horie\u0026#x2F;\u003cp\u003er\u0026#x2F;scala\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;7k0cw8\u0026#x2F;interview_from_python_to_scala_at_duolingo\u0026#x2F;","parent":"15938906","id":"15938910"}
{"by":"jianxioy","time":"1358220415","timestamp":"2013-01-15 03:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree. I was drowning in the flood that was the authors' self-entitlement.","parent":"5058056","id":"5058433"}
{"by":"afandian","time":"1535124133","timestamp":"2018-08-24 15:22:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazing. So glad I unburdened!","parent":"17834740","id":"17835470"}
{"by":"alexanderh","time":"1352574707","timestamp":"2012-11-10 19:11:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what they did with alcohol to keep people from doing this same thing with it?","parent":"4767387","id":"4767425"}
{"by":"jahansafd","time":"1422679009","timestamp":"2015-01-31 04:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My advice is keep working on it. But work as much as you can even if its for a couple of hours per weekend. You\u0026#x27;ll eventually finish it. I\u0026#x27;ve seen a lot of projects get done that way. Also, don\u0026#x27;t damage your health because you need to have a clear and healthy mind to successfully build and run a startup! If you think you\u0026#x27;re over doing it, take time off and get back to it later. Just don\u0026#x27;t give up ;)","parent":"8975719","id":"8975901"}
{"by":"stainednapkin","time":"1422460918","timestamp":"2015-01-28 16:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s how easy it is for the regime to take something away.\u003cp\u003eEven if it wasn\u0026#x27;t effective, they could easily fabricate more convincing evidence.","parent":"8960128","dead":true,"id":"8960541"}
{"by":"kolme","time":"1399726922","timestamp":"2014-05-10 13:02:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also available in Hamburg, Leipzig and other German biggish cities.","parent":"7725149","id":"7725245"}
{"by":"niels_olson","time":"1340083729","timestamp":"2012-06-19 05:28:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Defense\u003cp\u003eI'm active duty Navy, so I hear you. I really do. I'm still using WinXP on NMCI and was recently directed to remove Chrome from my desktop. However,\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.dvidshub.net/news/71885/semper-fipad-marine-corps-aviators-use-popular-tablet-afghanistan#.T-ANtCtYtUc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.dvidshub.net/news/71885/semper-fipad-marine-corps...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4129873","id":"4130398"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1384306011","timestamp":"2013-11-13 01:26:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I am assuming that the RTOS has direct and full unrestricted access to the hardware such as the camera and microphone?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re thinking small ... the baseband processor (typically) has DMA access to the processor itself.  Never mind pedestrian stuff like peripherals...\u003cp\u003eFurther, since carriers interface with the baseband processor for OTA updates, that means your carrier has (essentially) DMA access to your phones cpu.  I wish people appreciated just how deeply (as deep as deep gets, basically) your carrier can control the device in your hand - even if you have \u0026quot;rooted\u0026quot; it.","parent":"6722442","id":"6722732"}
{"by":"cturner","time":"1283522296","timestamp":"2010-09-03 13:58:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Darker things absorbed heat, rather than reflecting it - ? But then raw black bread will behave differently to raw white. Sounds interesting but I'm unconvinced.","parent":"1659421","id":"1659553"}
{"by":"syshum","time":"1510195250","timestamp":"2017-11-09 02:40:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Basically, I can only conclude that we are encouraged to be \u0026#x27;good citizens\u0026quot; by borrowing money and paying interest on it while slowly paying back the principal. People who live on a cash-only basis, which was considered to be a respectable practice not that long ago (borrowing was shameful) have terrible credit scores.\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the new consumerism....  Being Thrifty, having savings, and generally being responsible with your income is bad.  The Government does not like it and punishes you with low\u0026#x2F;no interest on savings and inflation that outpaces that savings,  Banks hate it because they would rather you spend spend spend so you need their loans to live above your means so they can not only get interest but maybe you will also over draft on your checking and they can kill you in fees.\u003cp\u003eRetail shops hate it because they need to sell you increasing amounts of cheaply made poor quality product you must replace every 12-18 months\u003cp\u003eThe economy lives and dies with debt.  If everyone started saving and living with in their means tomorrow the national economy would come to a screeching halt and we would have a depression that would make 1929 looks like a boom year","parent":"15659114","id":"15659362"}
{"by":"sanxiyn","time":"1396590228","timestamp":"2014-04-04 05:43:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not sure about this. I 100% think Mozilla should accept technically sound patches from racists and misogynists and people holding otherwise disagreeable views. I don\u0026#x27;t think Mozilla should elect such people as a CEO.","parent":"7529381","id":"7529520"}
{"by":"anonbanker","time":"1445529577","timestamp":"2015-10-22 15:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that source code is still available in torrent form. I have a copy somewhere.","parent":"10432934","id":"10432951"}
{"by":"blhack","time":"1313171731","timestamp":"2011-08-12 17:55:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's about utilitarianism, I think you'll like it, it's making the same point you are.\u003cp\u003e(It's called \"The Shallow Pond and The Drowing Child - By Peter Singer\")\u003cp\u003eedit: (If you read the paper, it's discussing exactly what parent was describing, and is completely relevant to the discussion)","parent":"2877894","id":"2878366"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1282168773","timestamp":"2010-08-18 21:59:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not strictly correct. You define variables all the time via vars. You \u003ci\u003emust\u003c/i\u003e in the sense that if you want to do anything over time, since doing it other way is insane.","parent":"1615377","id":"1615752"}
{"by":"un_montagnard","time":"1512665578","timestamp":"2017-12-07 16:52:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like the QPX Express API?","parent":"15871624","id":"15871634"}
{"by":"mehly","time":"1528302378","timestamp":"2018-06-06 16:26:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hahhahaha","parent":"17248437","id":"17248469"}
{"by":"versteegen","time":"1454885888","timestamp":"2016-02-07 22:58:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice tutorial, but aren\u0026#x27;t you aware that \u0026quot;git blame -w\u0026quot; ignores whitespace changes? git blame also always follows renames. git\u0026#x27;s rename detection isn\u0026#x27;t foolproof (if I edit and rename A.cpp to A-star.cpp at the same time as adding a new A.cpp file it won\u0026#x27;t detect it), however there are two more blame options for that: -C to follow lines copied between files, and -M to follow lines moved within a file.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, adding -M and -C will quite badly increases the time to compute the blame. Both take an adjustable parameter (min number of characters to match), but I found I actually had to reduce it to catch all the lines in an example of the A.cpp -\u0026gt; A-star.cpp move I did yesterday.","parent":"11054607","id":"11055392"}
{"by":"jayferd","time":"1327434108","timestamp":"2012-01-24 19:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the East Bay, I highly recommend LAN Minds (LMI.net).  One of their support guys actually advised me to select a cheaper package because the old wiring in our house wouldn't support the faster speeds of the more expensive plan.  Super professional.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Just checked, and it looks like they provide service in SF too.","parent":"3505803","id":"3506319"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1403169779","timestamp":"2014-06-19 09:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eNo, they don\u0026#x27;t. As with most manual labour work, mine workers produce a relatively small amount of absolute monetary value per person compared to software developers and other skilled occupations. Wages are determined by those productivity levels and supply and demand. In general, the more people who can do a job, the lower the wage.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiners ages are mostly determined by supply and demand.\u003cp\u003eWhat monetary value they produce doesn\u0026#x27;t come into play. It\u0026#x27;s not like the mine owners share their huge profits with the miners.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eYour argument about us being perfectly ok without modern computers is odd, to say the least.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, I lived in an era without \u0026quot;modern computers\u0026quot; and it wasn\u0026#x27;t that bad at all. In fact in several respects it was better than today.\u003cp\u003eWhat does \u0026quot;perfectly OK\u0026quot; mean? I like my gadgets, shopping online, instant communications and everything. In fact, I\u0026#x27;m one of those \u0026quot;programmers\u0026quot; (though with a better than 3-year degree).\u003cp\u003eBut none of those things are indispensable. We managed without those, not in antiquity, but merely 40-50 years ago. And even 25 years ago mostly geeks had computers. The eighties, seventies are not some medieval dark ages of humanity. Much less so the sixties.","parent":"7913722","id":"7915317"}
{"by":"agentultra","time":"1285000608","timestamp":"2010-09-20 16:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Man, I've been several different people already. I'm not even who I was yesterday and I'm certainly nothing like who I was just five years ago. No amount of wishful thinking or regret will change any of that. I don't really mind though because I can look back at those people and learn something new. They may not have made all the best choices, but I still have a chance.","parent":"1708464","id":"1709421"}
{"by":"johndoe","time":"1237637386","timestamp":"2009-03-21 12:09:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But. If they were successful and made money without having to use pissy yellow color, did they truly need to switch to it to cater to the lowest common denominator ? Are the dumbasses who clicked more when the color was of piss worth it ? do you truly need users that act like animals, more on impulses than on thought ?\u003cp\u003eShould you cater to the lowest common denominator and be the Microsoft of the web, or try to do the Best Thing and have a smaller market share but of much higher taste and disposable income, aka the Apple ?","parent":"525924","id":"526092"}
{"by":"jonknee","time":"1496357509","timestamp":"2017-06-01 22:51:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ebay has quite a few parts so there is definitely a market out there.","parent":"14465529","id":"14465651"}
{"by":"jpdoctor","time":"1322956397","timestamp":"2011-12-03 23:53:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for your detailed description.  I do note: There is a conspicuous absence of \"legacy admit\".\u003cp\u003eThat item is an even bigger injustice imho.","parent":"3309278","id":"3309298"}
{"by":"jelliclesfarm","time":"1538613577","timestamp":"2018-10-04 00:39:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. Is this the white asparagus harvest? I know that it’s a finicky and delicate crop. Asparagus harvest has been automated, if I remember right. The Dutch has come up with this.. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fruitnet.com\u0026#x2F;fpj\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;171946\u0026#x2F;dutch-start-up-invents-asparagus-harvesting-robot\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fruitnet.com\u0026#x2F;fpj\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;171946\u0026#x2F;dutch-start-up-in...\u003c/a\u003e but there are also other duct taped autonomous solutions I have heard of..\u003cp\u003eEdited to add: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;j8-X9Lk508I\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;j8-X9Lk508I\u003c/a\u003e : how a labour crew harvests asparagus","parent":"18136071","id":"18136094"}
{"by":"dhruvp","time":"1475706101","timestamp":"2016-10-05 22:21:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey rerock,\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s exactly right. We have terms opening on different months so that you have a community of students you do the program with.","parent":"12647217","id":"12648474"}
{"by":"OJFord","time":"1542719276","timestamp":"2018-11-20 13:07:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GDPR has already \u0026#x27;challenged\u0026#x27; the open internet, by causing many American websites to decide it\u0026#x27;s simply not worth it, and just block European access, as discussed previously:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17714152\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17714152\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18493483","id":"18493507"}
{"by":"zero445","time":"1361029569","timestamp":"2013-02-16 15:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wow,some of them were really true.","parent":"5225382","id":"5231772"}
{"by":"moxious","time":"1535740530","timestamp":"2018-08-31 18:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you expand on major points of how this will make the content different, (for example, Wikipedia is curated and non-notable people pages get thrown out, so if you\u0026#x27;re reading all of the web, presumably you\u0026#x27;d know about non-notable people) -- and why it\u0026#x27;s better?","parent":"17886530","id":"17887822"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1284434528","timestamp":"2010-09-14 03:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you feel the same if the bill was three orders of magnitude larger?\u003cp\u003eIf you don't, we're haggling over the price, not over the principle.","parent":"1689291","id":"1689301"}
{"by":"iamandrus","time":"1324688759","timestamp":"2011-12-24 01:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's no reason to use GoDaddy anyway. There are a lot of better domain hosts out there (Namecheap, Name.com, and more).","parent":"3387707","id":"3387797"}
{"by":"Synaesthesia","time":"1298400572","timestamp":"2011-02-22 18:49:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm curious to see how right the rumours are about the new design. From the case designs which have leaked, the iPad 2 is significantly thinner, with two cameras. I'm also expecting a dual core CPU and 1gb RAM, dual cameras, but no \"retina display\".\u003cp\u003eIf it really is as thin as rumoured I'm impressed.","parent":"2250829","id":"2250994"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1501371739","timestamp":"2017-07-29 23:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I collect money for my illegal pharmacy, then launder it through some retail front, am I not paying all taxes at that point?","parent":"14883518","id":"14883569"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1267212408","timestamp":"2010-02-26 19:26:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I don't know nearly enough about climate science to make any claims about it. What I do know about is scientific methods and I do know that there is no scientific method that can credibly make long term predictions about complex systems.\u003cp\u003eLike the Solar System. \nOr chemistry. \nOr biology. \nOr evolution.\nOr medicine.\u003cp\u003eWe're pretty much flying blind here. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to pay my taxes this year.\u003cp\u003eIf you don't know anything about climate science, maybe you should do the rational thing and listen to the experts and the best scientific consensus of the time.","parent":"1153865","id":"1153903"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1379073548","timestamp":"2013-09-13 11:59:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It is notable that both these are transgendered women I don\u0026#x27;t know of any transgendered men.\u003cp\u003eMight be because trans men in tech are men and thus \u0026quot;the norm\u0026quot;? Further, maybe most of them weren\u0026#x27;t in tech or high-profile before transition? Both Tang and Wilson were high-profile before transitioning.\u003cp\u003e(no evidence or anything, just providing possible working hypothesis).","parent":"6379708","id":"6379857"}
{"by":"jebblue","time":"1379027677","timestamp":"2013-09-12 23:14:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, Per Wendel the creator of Spark explains here too:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sparkjava.com/why.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sparkjava.com\u0026#x2F;why.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have done JAX-RS, for small web apps where you aren\u0026#x27;t trying to build in the kitchen sink, Spark is looking nice. Spark doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be trying to replace JAX-RS, it seems to just be making the syntax a bit easier and doing lightweight REST in a way I find unique and really applicable to small web apps. He uses plain Java main.","parent":"6377448","id":"6377612"}
{"by":"aphextron","time":"1498406573","timestamp":"2017-06-25 16:02:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The generation of kids now posting on 4chan actually group up watching shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which took one sentence sound bites from people, put labels (you might know which ones) on them and made them into a huge spectacle.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s two sides of the same extreme, both of which have driven people to the far right (Trumpism) and left (Antifa)  respectively. Stewart is a perfect example of this childish false dichotomy created by the media to set people against one another. There\u0026#x27;s clearly a lot of money in tribalism.\u003cp\u003eAs far as \u0026#x27;taking over our media\u0026#x27;, what I meant is the rise of far right talk radio and things like Alex Jones being taken legitimately. These things have made it impossible for a normal person to filter out the nonsense these days.","parent":"14630300","id":"14630640"}
{"by":"rory096","time":"1446841598","timestamp":"2015-11-06 20:26:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why did you quote the generic \u0026#x27;first aid measures\u0026#x27; section? The \u0026#x27;health effects\u0026#x27; section is far less alarming:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Skin: May be absorbed through damaged or abraded skin in harmful amounts. Allergic reactions have been reported. A single prolonged skin exposure is not likely to result in the material being absorbed in harmful amounts. Prolonged contact is essentially non-irritating to skin. Repeated exposures may cause problems. Negative results have consistently been obtained in guinea pigs studies for sensitization. 1,2-Propylene glycol is not considered an occupational skin sensitizer. (CHEMINFO)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Inhalation: Low hazard for usual industrial handling. Inhalation of a mist of this material may cause respiratory tract irritation. Material has a low vapor pressure at room temperature, so exposure to vapor is not likely.","parent":"10521718","id":"10521796"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1352126516","timestamp":"2012-11-05 14:41:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it could easily be argued that the dolphins' way of life is more sustainable than ours... Probably not the best line of argument!","parent":"4743613","id":"4743626"}
{"by":"schammy","time":"1272609635","timestamp":"2010-04-30 06:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn't see this so much as \"working when I feel it\" but more as \"wow I sure am productive after a nice relaxing break\".\u003cp\u003eI agree that a nice break from the daily grind can be very good for you. I as well find myself quite productive after being away from the grind for a day or two. But that doesn't mean I despise what I do!","parent":"1307115","id":"1307431"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1443040388","timestamp":"2015-09-23 20:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends on how they expose the UI for it. You could have a bin at the bottom of your inbox labelled \u0026quot;messages from recently auto-blocked senders\u0026quot;—with the messages still technically in the Spam folder and liable to be erased after 30 days, but exposed so you don\u0026#x27;t have to hunt through your \u0026quot;confirmed spam\u0026quot; to see them.\u003cp\u003eThrow in a little tweak to detect if you go on vacation (e.g. no messages opened in the last week, etc.) and pause the \u0026quot;decay\u0026quot; of messages in the spam folder until you get back, and it\u0026#x27;d be just as safe as the system we have now.","parent":"10267540","id":"10267965"}
{"by":"dis-sys","time":"1528188804","timestamp":"2018-06-05 08:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d willing to bet that it is very different to 8180.\u003cp\u003eit is simply not practical to boost freq from 2.5 base\u0026#x2F;3.5 turbo to all cores 5Ghz.","parent":"17235951","id":"17235968"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1398110658","timestamp":"2014-04-21 20:04:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is it that every discussion like this has to have somebody pointing out that \u0026quot;that\u0026#x27;s their right\u0026quot; to do whatever thing is being discussed? Do you really think that is being disputed?\u003cp\u003eTo pull from last Friday\u0026#x27;s xkcd, it\u0026#x27;s really the ultimate concession in an argument: you\u0026#x27;re saying that the most compelling thing you can say about this activity is that it\u0026#x27;s not literally illegal.","parent":"7623286","id":"7623395"}
{"by":"villek","time":"1364833497","timestamp":"2013-04-01 16:24:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Link to the source (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/\u003c/a\u003e) is in the comments.\u003cp\u003eHowever, as the author admits in the comments (after being corrected by a reader), he has interpreted the results of the source incorrectly. The cited report actually only says that \"Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.\"","parent":"5473649","id":"5474037"}
{"by":"147","time":"1351212007","timestamp":"2012-10-26 00:40:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Email: christopher.bui@folkrobots.com","parent":"4700228","id":"4700308"}
{"by":"TomGullen","time":"1384354080","timestamp":"2013-11-13 14:48:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a lot of information there... probably take a few days.","parent":"6725296","id":"6725441"}
{"by":"spencerhakim","time":"1485968895","timestamp":"2017-02-01 17:08:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seconding Convox. It\u0026#x27;s also worth noting that the tooling is open-source, and they profit off an optional-to-use closed-source web interface which has free and paid tiers.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m one of two developers at a very young startup, and the one responsible for backend + devops stuff. I simply don\u0026#x27;t have the time to learn a more complex tool like Kubernetes (not that I didn\u0026#x27;t consider it) while also working on the actual product. Its simplicity has been a bit limiting on occasion, but they\u0026#x27;re happy to accept PRs for well thought out changes. I recently had a PR merged regarding UDP ports and ELBs that should make microservice architectures much easier and cheaper to implement.","parent":"13541858","id":"13542502"}
{"by":"usea","time":"1471508068","timestamp":"2016-08-18 08:14:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ideally you would avoid this situation, but if you find yourself here: a good mitigation strategy is feature flags. If it\u0026#x27;s been agreed to build feature Y for one customer, then enable that feature for only that one customer. It\u0026#x27;s not a panacea, and won\u0026#x27;t necessarily help with your tech debt, but it will help the product stay focused from a user perspective.\u003cp\u003eFWIW, every product I\u0026#x27;ve worked on has gone through this.","parent":"12307281","id":"12311037"}
{"by":"gehwartzen","time":"1518456012","timestamp":"2018-02-12 17:20:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is part of what I don\u0026#x27;t understand; directionality of sound is a concept understood to be in reference to the listener (or point of measurement). So what exactly is the homepod doing? Since the listener could always be moving within the room is it dynamically tracking and adjusting? I assumed it just optimized the sound for the room in a more generalized sense (i.e eliminating weird reflections, dead spots, etc)","parent":"16359702","id":"16360111"}
{"by":"arkaine","time":"1494792346","timestamp":"2017-05-14 20:05:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Jaff waves and the massive amount of threats make it really hard to identify. Wannacrytor may not be found directly attached in the mail, only a downloader for it (like office docs\u0026#x2F;pdfs\u0026#x2F;js) might be.","parent":"14337170","id":"14337310"}
{"by":"skizm","time":"1392751610","timestamp":"2014-02-18 19:26:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how long it would take if the game went round robin. Everyone in the chat got a chance to enter a move and the move was guaranteed to work and everyone saw the outcome before the next person gets to press their button. I predict much faster.","parent":"7258905","id":"7260444"}
{"by":"jstimpfle","time":"1542180182","timestamp":"2018-11-14 07:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I clicked on it and expected an IOCCC contest entry or something...","parent":"18445685","id":"18448167"}
{"by":"freese","time":"1490229744","timestamp":"2017-03-23 00:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gotcha!","parent":"13936108","id":"13936524"}
{"by":"quickben","time":"1536875809","timestamp":"2018-09-13 21:56:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People think they have it scored when they make 10m, but some still don\u0026#x27;t stop.\u003cp\u003eThe game at his level of scoring includes different variables in the profit equation. He has to worry if poor people repoduce enough, is the overall population growth expanding, etc.\u003cp\u003eHe \u0026quot;scored\u0026quot; really doesn\u0026#x27;t apply.\u003cp\u003eI was told once that if you are a business, either the grow, or die.","parent":"17980730","id":"17983013"}
{"by":"zzzeek","time":"1367175022","timestamp":"2013-04-28 18:50:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sorry, I did a whole talk inspired by the term \"leaky abstraction\" and thought it was relevant.","parent":"5620738","id":"5622250"}
{"by":"ris","time":"1496576703","timestamp":"2017-06-04 11:45:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of the reasons I get quite nervous when people start talking about these private-implementation, \u0026quot;cloud native\u0026quot; database services (Aurora, Redshift, Spanner...). As wonderful as they sound (and possibly are), not only are you binding yourself to a single vendor by adopting these, but there is nothing to keep the pricing of these services connected to reality.\u003cp\u003eWhereas as long as you e.g. \u0026quot;keep it postgres\u0026quot;, you\u0026#x27;re able to experiment (at fairly low effort) with different database setups and find what is more efficient or cost effective for you. If Cloud Provider X\u0026#x27;s pricing model starts to deviate from what people are able to achieve with some custom database setup, people will start flocking to that - and, in fact, Cloud provider X would probably find themselves competing with an easy to use \u0026quot;managed database\u0026quot; service that does just that on their own Cloud Marketplace.\u003cp\u003eNot that this isn\u0026#x27;t an \u003ci\u003eextremely\u003c/i\u003e interesting project as long as it\u0026#x27;s possible to wrestle the concept free from Amazon\u0026#x27;s infrastructure.","parent":"14480486","id":"14480894"}
{"by":"billswift","time":"1263034399","timestamp":"2010-01-09 10:53:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote a review on Amazon for this book, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Technique-Getting-Things-Done-Directing/dp/B000OLAL22/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;s=books\u0026#38;qid=1262639577\u0026#38;sr=8-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Technique-Getting-Things-Done-Directin...\u003c/a\u003e , published in 1947, \"This is a very useful book on getting things done. If you need hand-holding and specific techniques you can apply without thinking too much it's not for you. It gives few specific techniques, instead it focuses on general methods applicable to almost anything and on many inspirational anecdotes. Very readable.\"  Most of the anecdotes involve the need for persistence and consistent effort.","parent":"1041150","id":"1041329"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1546460363","timestamp":"2019-01-02 20:19:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Source title is “Untitled”, and while \u003ci\u003eunhelpful\u003c/i\u003e, is more accurate, as, whatever this is, it is not literally a two line version of \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"18809438","id":"18809785"}
{"by":"lunchbox","time":"1231559904","timestamp":"2009-01-10 03:58:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm guessing that they're measuring the Pre (or the iPhone) in different locations.","parent":"427555","id":"427582"}
{"by":"prostoalex","time":"1390087872","timestamp":"2014-01-18 23:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stick to your job. Expect the first idea to fall through, but fourth or fifth one to take off.","parent":"7082431","id":"7082726"}
{"by":"Zelphyr","time":"1386951506","timestamp":"2013-12-13 16:18:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just the mattress.  Though your confusion is valid.  I wondered the same thing before I bought mine.","parent":"6901253","id":"6901274"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1390236052","timestamp":"2014-01-20 16:40:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Scala I find it more natural to group multiple columns together \u0026#x2F; break the case-class representing the table into multiple case-classes. The problem is that Slick needs to serialize\u0026#x2F;deserialize those case-classes into tuples.","parent":"7090125","id":"7090353"}
{"by":"fsiefken","time":"1482494781","timestamp":"2016-12-23 12:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but variants are supported in the application, anti-chess, horde, atomic, three-check etc. Agreed, those are not really chess, as the rules or end conditions are significantly changed. But it\u0026#x27;s like chess960 chess, the pieces are on a different position or there are less pieces and a smaller board. \nThe reason for my wish is that I want to play a small chess game with my son before bed, it should be a bit less daunting then a complete chessboard and only use a few pieces, so it would be both quick and easy. A time constrained regular chess game would be quick but less easy or usable for a young kid.","parent":"13244130","id":"13244352"}
{"by":"aytekin","time":"1436690098","timestamp":"2015-07-12 08:34:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That might explain why they are shutting down.","parent":"9872550","id":"9872918"}
{"by":"the_why_of_y","time":"1463664960","timestamp":"2016-05-19 13:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As the \u0026quot;rationale\u0026quot; document points out, implementations are free to do something well-defined in the cases that the standard considers UB. For example, an implementation may document that it detects out-of-bounds array reads and these always return the value \u0026quot;0\u0026quot;, and a hypothetical \u0026quot;C\u0026quot; program could rely on that. But implementations explicitly aren\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003erequired\u003c/i\u003e to do that, hence code that relies on a particular interpretation of UB in a particular implementation is nonportable, since it is a program written in an extended dialect of C, not ISO standard C.\u003cp\u003eOptions like GCC\u0026#x27;s -fwrapv\u0026#x2F;-ftrapv and -fno-strict-aliasing are examples of language extensions that are essentially implementation defined UB.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Of course you could argue that things where hardware difference are a likely motivation such as signed integer overflow \u003ci\u003eought not\u003c/i\u003e to be UB in the first place, but instead left as implementation defined in the standard, but in that case your issue is with the C standard committee, not with implementers.","parent":"11729781","id":"11730047"}
{"by":"eveningcoffee","time":"1447347704","timestamp":"2015-11-12 17:01:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So where would you go? And how much difference it would make?","parent":"10554117","id":"10554380"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1301591459","timestamp":"2011-03-31 17:10:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe I should take up egg-sucking.  I'm sure that there is a grandmother somewhere who hasn't learned how to do it.\u003cp\u003eYou understand my concerns, and are better informed on this topic than I am.  I'll watch what you do with interest, and wish you good luck.","parent":"2391665","id":"2392464"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1447457738","timestamp":"2015-11-13 23:35:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Strength on you. What a mess, those poor people.","parent":"10563154","id":"10563210"}
{"by":"twelvechairs","time":"1476804025","timestamp":"2016-10-18 15:20:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Im certainly not saying criticism is wrong but \u0026#x27;having to fear the repercussions\u0026#x27; goes further - i assume from all sides this meant the articles reference to YC potentially severing ties with thiel. All im pointing out is that this is a freedom of speech issue - whatever side you want to weigh in on. Broadly i agree with your views on Trump and interpretation of Mill","parent":"12735120","id":"12735313"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1303599649","timestamp":"2011-04-23 23:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think this guy gets it.  Clearly, he has drawn the line at \"proprietary software is fine, as long as it's useful to me\".  To RMS, though, that's not where the line is: he simply refuses to use software he can't tweak or audit.  That's not like calling Obama Hitler or saying global warming is a scientific fraud.  It's just an ideology, like not driving a car or only eating foods that don't come from animals.  Nothing wrong with that, so why all the hate?\u003cp\u003eThis article is sillier than calling the kindle \"swindle\".","parent":"2477586","id":"2477806"}
{"by":"bkovacev","time":"1502344592","timestamp":"2017-08-10 05:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Off-topic, but shout out to Tom (author of the article) and Duncan @Distilled for being great guys. I interviewed with them for a developer position few years back, and while I usually forget the interviewers these two were extremely nice. I didn\u0026#x27;t get the job, but they left a great impression. If they\u0026#x27;re hiring in the RD department at Distilled make sure to apply!","parent":"14970472","id":"14976856"}
{"by":"sandee","time":"1319002745","timestamp":"2011-10-19 05:39:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there really a YC list of 100 things that can kill a startup so they can be avoided ? Very interested to know","parent":"3128797","id":"3128888"}
{"by":"jeena","time":"1470783545","timestamp":"2016-08-09 22:59:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. All ads are bad\n2. Closing your eyes is not the same as robbing","parent":"12257588","id":"12258288"}
{"by":"gnaffle","time":"1328023502","timestamp":"2012-01-31 15:25:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The current Tesla will succeed if there are enough people that want to, and have enough money to buy a high performance electric car. It's not so relevant what most people think about electric cars if you don't target the mass market. Most people that can afford a Tesla will probably afford another car to go on holidays (or they will be enthusiastic enough about their Tesla to plan their holidays around charging stations..)","parent":"3533425","id":"3533588"}
{"by":"cachemoney","time":"1314812642","timestamp":"2011-08-31 17:44:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I spent about a year as a maintainer of FlockDB, Twitter's social graph store.  If you don't know, it's basically a sharded MySQL setup.  One of the key pain points was optimizing the row lock over the follower count.  Whenever a Charlie Sheen joins, or someone tries to follow spam us, one particular row would get blasted with concurrent updates.\u003cp\u003eDoing this in-memory in java via someAtomicLong.incrementAndGet() sounds appealing.","parent":"2945513","id":"2946628"}
{"by":"Jeremy1026","time":"1419270039","timestamp":"2014-12-22 17:40:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh hey meetram. Can we stop posting this link over and over again?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=meetram\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;submitted?id=meetram\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=careerswitchme\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;submitted?id=careerswitchme\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8784018","id":"8784066"}
{"by":"loewenskind","time":"1281445160","timestamp":"2010-08-10 12:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The US seems to have the worst currency setup of anywhere I've been.  You have to put in a lot of effort to not end up with a wallet thick with one dollar bills and pockets full of pennies.  The UK seems pretty bad as well since the the coin size doesn't seem to have much correlation to how much it's going to be worth.\u003cp\u003eThe EU is better, but I find Switzerland the best so far.  No bill smaller than 10, all notes are different sizes so you never accidentally pay with a 100 instead of a 10. A nice big 5cf coin (it's cool to be able to buy a new DVD with 3 coins or less) and no pennies.  There is a .05 coin but it's rare, most prices are to the nearest 0.1.  Every time I go back home I remember how painful the US system is by comparison.","parent":"1590755","id":"1591300"}
{"by":"utexaspunk","time":"1258678749","timestamp":"2009-11-20 00:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds to me almost as though you're supposed to feel so cool about getting such an informal e-mail from Steve personally that you just happily do what he wants. The guy's full of himself.","parent":"951146","id":"951588"}
{"by":"gizzlon","time":"1506590577","timestamp":"2017-09-28 09:22:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the browser you can always reload the page which presumably does the same thing (full sync).\u003cp\u003eAlready did that twice today in Evernote.","parent":"15355647","id":"15355820"}
{"by":"___ab___","time":"1462109460","timestamp":"2016-05-01 13:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My point is that the EFF (and whoever was drafting this press release) certainly knows what the Judicial Conference is, and are (is) willfully misrepresenting them through careful word choice.","parent":"11606002","id":"11606083"}
{"by":"VBprogrammer","time":"1533056254","timestamp":"2018-07-31 16:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is not anti-science to allow people the freedom to determine their own gender. There is a difference between being a man or a woman and being biologically male or female. All it requires is a degree of enlightenment and perhaps empathy.","parent":"17654565","id":"17654819"}
{"by":"davidu","time":"1443182147","timestamp":"2015-09-25 11:55:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well...\u003cp\u003eIs curl|bash insecure? YES\u003cp\u003eIs curl|bash more insecure than most of the ways people install software they just download from the Internet? NO\u003cp\u003eSo it\u0026#x27;s not ideal, but most people don\u0026#x27;t do anything else that\u0026#x27;s much better, and it\u0026#x27;s convenient, so you can expect it to continue.","parent":"10277470","id":"10277592"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1206762901","timestamp":"2008-03-29 03:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The way I read it, the PG essay was meant less as a statement about the absolute nature of reality and more as an attempt to get people to suck less. Even if Aristotle came up with some superset of these ideas 2400 years ago, I think there is still some value here.","parent":"149136","id":"149164"}
{"by":"jat850","time":"1487822614","timestamp":"2017-02-23 04:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not OP but I\u0026#x27;ve heard (anecdotally here and there) that many sites reject email from Amazon IP blocks because of historical spam problems.\u003cp\u003eI only encountered it personally a handful of times when using SES for delivery, and it was usually resolvable because the target customer base was easy to reach and worked with their IT departments to solve the problem.","parent":"13707492","id":"13711536"}
{"by":"aegiso","time":"1389675416","timestamp":"2014-01-14 04:56:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s the thing that bugged me throughout the movie: once AI\u0026#x27;s progressed to the point where it can rival a human, all bets are off. Nobody needs to work again, ever -- not even to maintain or develop the AI\u0026#x27;s, since they can, by definition, do that themselves, with infinite parallelizeability to boot.\u003cp\u003eWhat does \u0026quot;design\u0026quot; even mean in a world where everyone on earth can basically have an arbitrarily large army of AI\u0026#x27;s in the background designing everything in your life, custom-tailored for you?\u003cp\u003eFor this reason I don\u0026#x27;t see how the world in the movie could possibly exist. Not because the technology will never get there, but because once it does virtually all aspects of society that we take for granted go out the window. So imitating any of this design is a silly pursuit, because once you can make it there\u0026#x27;s no reason to.\u003cp\u003eI should go re-read some Kurzweil.","parent":"7055226","id":"7055473"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1183423924","timestamp":"2007-07-03 00:52:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a bad data point. It's an SEO site that managed to become a destination, almost purely by accident. Sort of like AdultFriendFinder, which makes hundreds of millions doing a similar thing.","parent":"32081","id":"32162"}
{"by":"captain-m","time":"1219050087","timestamp":"2008-08-18 09:01:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.  In a lot of cases it's a mistake to cater to inexperienced users by making your GUI 'intuitive'. The bulk of your users are intermediates and power users. A user interface should cater to those people and gently nudge beginners in the same direction.\u003cp\u003eThe old word interface (not the ribbon) actually did a pretty good job in this. Beginners used the menubar to do things. The options where accompanied by icons (\"ooh, that's the same as the one on the iconbar.\") and keyboard shortcuts (\"What happens if I press Ctrl - S?\"). The user interface doesn't get in the way of power users and teaches beginners and intermediate users.","parent":"279085","id":"279094"}
{"by":"adrr","time":"1335487565","timestamp":"2012-04-27 00:46:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yet i don't see any fellowships for males who want to be nurses.    Nurse practitioner is higher paid profession than engineering in regards to median salary.  It also rated the #4 occupation when using job security,salary etc as the metric.  I bet if you search, no one considers this gender bias a problem.","parent":"3896644","id":"3896879"}
{"by":"Symmetry","time":"1512434628","timestamp":"2017-12-05 00:43:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not necessarily, it would be going off pretty high.  Much higher than in this video with people directly underneath.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15847970","id":"15848895"}
{"by":"chadzawistowski","time":"1427072823","timestamp":"2015-03-23 01:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right, this article could do with a tag.","parent":"9248854","id":"9248947"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1358029503","timestamp":"2013-01-12 22:25:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, as the file description says, this was released by Gregory Maxwell rather than Swartz, though it's tangentially related. Maxwell had assembled this collection of public-domain articles earlier, but hadn't decided whether to release it yet. After the Swartz/JSTOR case broke, he was spurred to release this torrent (the linked file description contains a statement from Maxwell explaining his motives).\u003cp\u003eI don't think Swartz's famous JSTOR collection has surfaced.","parent":"5048709","id":"5049127"}
{"by":"credo","time":"1365529556","timestamp":"2013-04-09 17:45:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Detailed post, but it doesn't seem to address two things.\u003cp\u003e1. The WSJ report noted that Apple was concerned that \" AppGratis was pushing a business model that appeared to favor developers with the financial means to pay for exposure.\"\nSimon hasn't addressed this point. Do they make paid recommendations ?\u003cp\u003eIf they do make app-recommendations based on payments, it makes a lot of sense for Apple to ban them. As an iOS (and Android) developer, I personally think that paid-recommendations are bad for the ecosystem (though I'm sure that some giant shops paying for recommendations may disagree). At the least, I think users of AppGratis should be told if the recommendations are \"paid for\".\u003cp\u003e2. Simon's discussion of rule 5.6 doesn't really address the problem. Rule 5.6 says \"Apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct marketing of any kind.\"\u003cp\u003eSimon counters by saying that they only send one notification per day and that users opt-in. However, neither claim refutes the fact that they''re violating rule 5.6. All iOS push-notifications are opt-in anyway. Rule 5.6 says 'no advertisement , no promotions,.... no direct marketing'. It doesn't make exceptions for apps that only send one notification per day. Now Simon could argue that Rule 5.6 is bad for the user and that push-notification-advertisements/promotions are good. That may be a debatable point. However, it is clear that his claims do nothing to counter the fact that AppGratis violates Rule 5.6 (as it is written)","parent":"5519372","id":"5519735"}
{"by":"nnfy","time":"1505273198","timestamp":"2017-09-13 03:26:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been misreading that word for a few months now. I didnt catch that people were using the root pseudonym.\u003cp\u003eI didnt even know that pseudonymous was a word until today, thank you.","parent":"15234655","id":"15235280"}
{"by":"noxToken","time":"1489757224","timestamp":"2017-03-17 13:27:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can shield parry guardians. I mean, missing the parry is almost guaranteed death, but it deals a lot of damage.","parent":"13893640","id":"13893739"}
{"by":"inDigiNeous","time":"1509575350","timestamp":"2017-11-01 22:29:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You learn it by writing out of hand code :)\nBut more on the point, what has helped me immensively has been writing out my thought processes before starting to code. Write out the problem, and solve it in a journal or somewhere before just starting to write out code and go along.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s nothing wrong with just writing code as you go and solving things while you find problems, but to get structured, documenting the behaviour of the program is a major point. Draw images how the code should work. What is connected to what, who owns what ?\u003cp\u003eBy doing this process, you start to see the big picture. It\u0026#x27;s not always easy, and the tempation to just \u0026quot;go at it\u0026quot; is always there, but this easily leads to code you need to re-factor or re-think more than you would like.\u003cp\u003eBut of course, sometimes you just have to write the crap version first, and then move on to a more advanced model. Actually, this is the expected way, as coding is a field where you just can\u0026#x27;t know what lies in that valley before venturing into it. So, accepting the fact that re-factoring is something you do constantly is also key. If you don\u0026#x27;t refactor, the old crappy solutions hinder and slow you down.\u003cp\u003eExperience of course helps you make better decisions in new projects.","parent":"15604893","id":"15606079"}
{"by":"throw_away","time":"1252093117","timestamp":"2009-09-04 19:38:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Moreover, people who want to change how phone addressing works rarely consider the fact that the people who can email me are not the same people who I want to call me on voice.  Or the fact that sometimes I change my number with the intent of denying that ability to people who knew the old number.  Or the fact that the region-locality of numbers often yields useful information about the person on the other end.","parent":"805509","id":"805531"}
{"by":"ownagefool","time":"1369584711","timestamp":"2013-05-26 16:11:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm a programmer by profession, with some admin experience, and I couldn't disagree more.\u003cp\u003eIt's entirely possible to write code in ways that make it really difficult to backup or scale and it's your job to avoid this and any other gotchas.\u003cp\u003eAn obvious example, would be taking a binary copy of a database as a backup means.  I've seen this a ton of times, though most good admins know there are better ways to back them up.  How do they know this?  I'd hazard a guess because the programmers were aware of the problem, documented it, and wrote the tools to get around the issue.\u003cp\u003eI imagine you really meant to say \"I don't want to manage...\", which is fair enough as long as someone else is doing it. :)","parent":"5771257","id":"5771449"}
{"by":"felix_nagaand","time":"1540528525","timestamp":"2018-10-26 04:35:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mental illness increases propensity for substance abuse. Gates, Bezos, et alls wealth accumulation increases mental illness by robbing opportunity from those displaced by their businesses accomplishments. Increase in mental illness leads to an increase in suicide, violence, and substance abuse.","parent":"18293695","id":"18306806"}
{"by":"mSparks","time":"1465452743","timestamp":"2016-06-09 06:12:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although it\u0026#x27;s funny watching you guys fight.\u003cp\u003eIsn\u0026#x27;t the basic problem how much money the US government has spent improving the supply of heroin from Afghanistan after the taliban completely destroyed it during their 2001 rise to power.","parent":"11867613","id":"11867831"}
{"by":"xqyz","time":"1344310282","timestamp":"2012-08-07 03:31:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Email is quite clearly a thing that needs fixing\u003cp\u003eHonestly, I've never seen it that way. Email continues to work fine. It's platform independent and easy to use/setup. It's probably one of the best things on the internet ever.","parent":"4348360","id":"4348571"}
{"by":"rgraham","time":"1313077730","timestamp":"2011-08-11 15:48:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an important point. Raising taxes is not a static game either. There are a lot of ways people with money avoid taxes now.\u003cp\u003eI think Cuban was right that we do have a spending problem. We spend too much on things that are not important. We should cut debt, but the debate around this issue has been framed as a false and confusing dichotomy by the two major political parties.","parent":"2872913","id":"2873354"}
{"by":"Tyr42","time":"1462062378","timestamp":"2016-05-01 00:26:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t have yield.\u003cp\u003eIt also doesn\u0026#x27;t have Concepts yet, as they got pushed back again.","parent":"11597112","id":"11604309"}
{"by":"numbsafari","time":"1424207293","timestamp":"2015-02-17 21:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then they deserve what they get.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, this is probably some kind of confusion over a company or two that has -CURRENT as an upstream to their own fork of the OS because they are reliant on some kind of new changes in the system that aren\u0026#x27;t in -STABLE.\u003cp\u003eEven if that\u0026#x27;s the case, you\u0026#x27;d hope they\u0026#x27;d be taking extra special precautions considering what they are doing.","parent":"9064076","id":"9065003"}
{"by":"alpyne","time":"1323339750","timestamp":"2011-12-08 10:22:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can't give you the relative speed of the air around the aircraft.","parent":"3328481","id":"3328529"}
{"by":"knieveltech","time":"1351749735","timestamp":"2012-11-01 06:02:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So touchscreen's coming back into vogue? Great in a tablet format. For standard computer monitors this is a major ergonomics no-no: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course if this leads to light-table style hardware that could be pretty awesome.","parent":"4725773","id":"4726394"}
{"by":"monocasa","time":"1544206299","timestamp":"2018-12-07 18:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s been remote Spectre exploits.  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lwn.net\u0026#x2F;Articles\u0026#x2F;761100\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lwn.net\u0026#x2F;Articles\u0026#x2F;761100\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18628980","id":"18630016"}
{"by":"SlowRobotAhead","time":"1527196289","timestamp":"2018-05-24 21:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t read through the WSJ paywall. But, I like when people on the internet complain about gerrymandering and imply it\u0026#x27;s a Republican thing.\u003cp\u003eThis is Chicago. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bing.com\u0026#x2F;th?id=OIP.buywjQl9Qa3gWgFDJ2gb3wHaFi\u0026amp;pid=Api\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bing.com\u0026#x2F;th?id=OIP.buywjQl9Qa3gWgFDJ2gb3wHaFi\u0026amp;pi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17148016","id":"17148451"}
{"by":"bascule","time":"1488649087","timestamp":"2017-03-04 17:38:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For context, this is describing an updated AES-GCM-SIV construction following a number of attacks reported by NSA earlier this year:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mailarchive.ietf.org\u0026#x2F;arch\u0026#x2F;attach\u0026#x2F;cfrg\u0026#x2F;pdfL0pM_N.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mailarchive.ietf.org\u0026#x2F;arch\u0026#x2F;attach\u0026#x2F;cfrg\u0026#x2F;pdfL0pM_N.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral cryptographers have been wary of this construction, both because of the history of attacks and also because it generally hasn\u0026#x27;t lived up to the goals of (nonce) \u0026quot;misuse resistant authenticated encryption\u0026quot; as described in the seminal Rogaway paper on the matter:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eprint.iacr.org\u0026#x2F;2006\u0026#x2F;221.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eprint.iacr.org\u0026#x2F;2006\u0026#x2F;221.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt will be interesting to see more analysis on the latest version. For the intended use case (QUIC ticket encryption) it would be helpful.","parent":"13791091","id":"13791919"}
{"by":"neumann_alfred","time":"1358175294","timestamp":"2013-01-14 14:54:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eOne way of verifying this (without de-criminalisation) is to compare drug usage to alcohol usage\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's why the fact that most alcoholics don't commit crimes to get their fix is relevant. Sure, some do, sometimes, but on the whole, it's a vastly different picture; and the price, and not being pushed into shady alleys with shady people has to do with it.\u003cp\u003eJust consider the Prohibition, and also the experiences of all the countries who partially or completely decrimalized hard drugs, which is generally a success story.","parent":"5054704","id":"5054820"}
{"by":"londons_explore","time":"1489412842","timestamp":"2017-03-13 13:47:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are serious disadvantages to using someone elses currency though.\u003cp\u003eThe scottish government would likley be forced to strongly discourage the use of the UK pound to maintain fiscal control.","parent":"13857648","id":"13857751"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1484279518","timestamp":"2017-01-13 03:51:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I am sorry but that kind of sounds like you are gaming the system.\u003cp\u003eStory time.\u003cp\u003eA side hustle I\u0026#x27;m working on is creating a site that matches investors with solar projects. Due to how solar tax incentives are structured, if I can properly estimate your tax liability, I can create a partnership vehicle where instead of your tax liability going to the US federal government, its all invested in solar generation projects.\u003cp\u003eYou still have to pay taxes, but because of a legislative and tax code hack, you can fund renewable energy deployment instead of federal tax receipts.\u003cp\u003eThis is gaming the system, but I\u0026#x27;d rather my money go to clean energy and not bombing innocent brown people and another carrier group. Economics 101 is incentives matter. If you set a system up, be prepared for people to poke at it to find its weaknesses.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: @bogomipz\u003cp\u003eRegarding your comment:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;So that Federal Government was OK when it came to you getting a student loan for an education but it\u0026#x27;s somehow not OK when it comes to paying your fair share to fund it?\nI don\u0026#x27;t like paying taxes as much as the next guy but I do it and I understand why I need to.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a high school dropout, and the services I care about (Social Security and Medicare) are funded out of my payroll taxes, which I\u0026#x27;m fine with (I\u0026#x27;ve paid $73k into Social Security, and $21k into Medicare, not including the exact matches my employers have paid in). I pay for the things that should be paid for (social services), and avoid paying for things that are unjust (the us military).","parent":"13387787","id":"13388286"}
{"by":"bking","time":"1349988280","timestamp":"2012-10-11 20:44:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"USA is all go =P","parent":"4642573","id":"4642691"}
{"by":"thaumaturgy","time":"1274923702","timestamp":"2010-05-27 01:28:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whoof. I support any effort that competes with AutoDesk -- they're an abysmal company that go out of their way to encourage people to compete with them -- but you're picking quite an ambitious project here.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to produce a closed-source product, your programmers will be somewhat limited in the various open source projects that they can use as an effective foundation for this.\u003cp\u003eI'd say, purely from a software development standpoint, to produce a version 1.0 of something that might have a chance of competing with Flame, you're gonna need: a good UI guy, a brilliant 3D hacker, a pretty sharp math guy (fortunately they're cheap these days :-), a good programmer, and an experienced project manager with some respectable coding chops just to keep the project moving along. So, say a minimum of $250k combined yearly salaries. If you're a strong businessman, and if you get the right team together, you \u003ci\u003emight\u003c/i\u003e be able to get a beta released in 12 months.\u003cp\u003eThat estimate is high or low depending on how much higher or lower your goals are in terms of a first release, but it should be kind of ballpark.","parent":"1382288","id":"1382392"}
{"by":"anovikov","time":"1374759588","timestamp":"2013-07-25 13:39:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Broad solution to all this is building your lives in business in a way government can have a minimal control of. Just do what it requires and keep everything else encrypted and anonymized. And don\u0026#x27;t rely on government for anything, for we are heading for a world of global government failure: people and institutions are going to ignore and circumvent them all, and make them dysfunctional. In a way, that will be like communism: there is little government can be of help nowadays, and it is more and more becoming a nuisance.","parent":"6102175","id":"6102351"}
{"by":"katherineparker","time":"1366050044","timestamp":"2013-04-15 18:20:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with jhacks. I'm sure you will be successful with a few changes.\u003cp\u003eGood luck and good job asking for constructive criticism (...it's a smart idea people unfortunately often shy away from).","parent":"5542332","id":"5553170"}
{"by":"ajtulloch","time":"1421437344","timestamp":"2015-01-16 19:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This paper describes one part of the fbcunn release (the fast convolution layers implemented via FFT, with the source available at \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/facebook/fbcunn/tree/master/src/cuda/fft\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;facebook\u0026#x2F;fbcunn\u0026#x2F;tree\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;src\u0026#x2F;cuda\u0026#x2F;fft\u003c/a\u003e).  There\u0026#x27;s a lot more in fbcunn if you want to check it out.","parent":"8901139","id":"8901168"}
{"by":"AceJohnny2","time":"1433626511","timestamp":"2015-06-06 21:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Look, osmosis is a verified scientific \u003ci\u003efact\u003c/i\u003e! It\u0026#x27;s bound to work at some point! We\u0026#x27;ve just got to adjust some simple parameters...\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;tightens clamp on chip-book assemblage\u0026gt;","parent":"9672329","id":"9672358"}
{"by":"huhtenberg","time":"1414420745","timestamp":"2014-10-27 14:39:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a phenomenally well-done software and I am too using it for daily backups, but it\u0026#x27;s likely not what OP wants with his \u0026quot;disk-wide\u0026quot; conditional. He needs something that does full-system backups, e.g. \u003ca href=\"http://ax64.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ax64.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8514791","id":"8515665"}
{"by":"teaneedz","time":"1447188967","timestamp":"2015-11-10 20:56:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that favoriting has historically been associated with bookmarking. It is never really taken in the literal sense of the word online. Hearts\u0026#x2F;Likes does not work in so many situations. I won\u0026#x27;t heart something that is negative, but would have fav\u0026#x27;d it as a bookmark. Heart\u0026#x2F;likes is only a marketing solution to go after new users. It\u0026#x27;s not the power users tool.","parent":"10542116","id":"10542428"}
{"by":"Surio","time":"1349366266","timestamp":"2012-10-04 15:57:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good perspective. Always appreciated. :-)","parent":"4612184","dead":true,"id":"4612913"}
{"by":"sarahj","time":"1432439035","timestamp":"2015-05-24 03:43:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I will agree that there is much ignorance in the world surrounding what we eat and in science in general - however, as I said, when I talk to people who have dietary restrictions they tend to have a sound, rational basis for them.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; That will push you only to vegetarian. To go vegan you need more reasons.\u003cp\u003eThere are no animal products which do not involve the killing of sentient creatures (if you doubt this I would suggest learning about the process by which milk or eggs are farmed).","parent":"9595174","id":"9595246"}
{"by":"metei","time":"1524533616","timestamp":"2018-04-24 01:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps foreigners who flagarantly and repeatedly violate our laws should be prioritized for deportation. Why should some rich foriegner be allowed to break state and federal laws for years with no serious repercussions?\u003cp\u003eEdit: If you disagree, please reply with an explanation!","parent":"16909078","dead":true,"id":"16909140"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1484083942","timestamp":"2017-01-10 21:32:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, and that is precisely my point.\u003cp\u003eAnd this applies not just to Google - but also to Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and probably few others, as proven by the amount of such stories popping up on HN in the past few years.","parent":"13369230","id":"13369247"}
{"by":"scrumper","time":"1436212835","timestamp":"2015-07-06 20:00:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are right. Weak use of \u0026#x27;canonical\u0026#x27; on my part; irony not lost. The sense I was going for was \u0026#x27;idealized, within bounds of real world practicality.\u0026#x27;","parent":"9841485","id":"9841808"}
{"by":"jimbokun","time":"1384206580","timestamp":"2013-11-11 21:49:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is OCaml, then, a good fit for the kinds of programs many people have started writing in Go?\u003cp\u003eNative, stand alone binaries.  High performance (not sure how the Go vs. OCaml benchmarks look right now).  Good networking.  More productive and less error prone than C or C++.  Less verbose than Java.\u003cp\u003eHaven\u0026#x27;t written any OCaml programs, but seems to check the same boxes.  Go seems to have a much better concurrency story with channels.\u003cp\u003eOCaml seems to have a much better type system and functional programming support.","parent":"6712602","id":"6714306"}
{"by":"varjag","time":"1525699265","timestamp":"2018-05-07 13:21:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s not as though after 8hrs we just put the wrench down and go home, no the ongoing problems of work follow us around and even toss and turn us in our dreams sometimes.\u003cp\u003eAs many people who done both labour and knowledge work could tell, there isn\u0026#x27;t that much of a difference.","parent":"17009836","id":"17012476"}
{"by":"wdewind","time":"1389127333","timestamp":"2014-01-07 20:42:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t find it (sorry) but there\u0026#x27;s a pretty amazing interview with Carmack floating around about how he apparently has mostly solved this issue.  It really drives home just how much of a genius the guy is.\u003cp\u003eEdit: this isn\u0026#x27;t it, but will do the trick \u003ca href=\"http://oculusrift-blog.com/john-carmacks-message-of-latency/682/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;oculusrift-blog.com\u0026#x2F;john-carmacks-message-of-latency\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7019593","id":"7019747"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1501697332","timestamp":"2017-08-02 18:08:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;fact-checker\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;does-the-united-states-really-have-five-percent-of-worlds-population-and-one-quarter-of-the-worlds-prisoners\u0026#x2F;?utm_term=.1335c5e4202b\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;fact-checker\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe US has about 4.4 percent of the global population and about 22 percent of the global prison population. So either we are seriously fucking up as a country and incapable of producing decent human beings, or our entire justice system is broken.\u003cp\u003eSomething needs to be done differently at the systemic level that doesn\u0026#x27;t involved holding every individual fucked over by the U.S. personally accountable for being crushed under the wheels of the goddamn system.","parent":"14913006","id":"14913110"}
{"by":"spacebe4time","time":"1386611047","timestamp":"2013-12-09 17:44:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law\u0026quot; \n-- Martin Luther King Jr.","parent":"6875177","dead":true,"id":"6875468"}
{"by":"endlessvoid94","time":"1360713701","timestamp":"2013-02-13 00:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've also been yelling this to my friends for some time. I actually can't figure out why Apple hasn't yet released an Apple TV with a more powerful graphics and some active cooling, plus a controller.\u003cp\u003eAllow iOS games and you have a serious, serious competition crushing game platform with a TON of existing games and content. Instantly.","parent":"5210008","id":"5210431"}
{"by":"pluma","time":"1498476992","timestamp":"2017-06-26 11:36:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not everything the nazis did was evil either.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;There\u0026#x27;s someone more consistently harmful than us\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t make a good argument.","parent":"14627301","id":"14635924"}
{"by":"Mikeb85","time":"1412868576","timestamp":"2014-10-09 15:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That phone sells for 500+ in the third world...","parent":"8432654","id":"8432973"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1478612781","timestamp":"2016-11-08 13:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah Agile is the assembly-line version of software development. You\u0026#x27;re reduced to optimizing effort for your very local problem space. And its a grind. The \u0026#x27;sprint\u0026#x27; is well-named though - you constantly race toward another crappy feature done with minimum effort.","parent":"12899922","id":"12900142"}
{"by":"ptomato","time":"1246292336","timestamp":"2009-06-29 16:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a 13 year old writing stories for the BBC. And the kid's better then half of Techcrunch's writers, unsurprisingly.","parent":"679044","id":"679178"}
{"by":"notacoward","time":"1421856596","timestamp":"2015-01-21 16:09:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dup of \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922996\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8922996\u003c/a\u003e submitted almost two hours earlier.","parent":"8923535","id":"8923677"}
{"by":"deelowe","time":"1467682572","timestamp":"2016-07-05 01:36:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The new CP doesn\u0026#x27;t offer enough granularity to be fully useful. I\u0026#x27;m guessing this was not addressed in time, so they threw in the classic CP to appease users.","parent":"12032523","id":"12033931"}
{"by":"statictype","time":"1237368489","timestamp":"2009-03-18 09:28:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait - the iPhone didn't have bluetooth before this update right? Which means it was enabled entirely through a software update. Is that right? I know it operates on the same frequency as wifi but still, that's pretty impressive, isn't it?","parent":"520164","id":"521422"}
{"by":"freeone3000","time":"1515558590","timestamp":"2018-01-10 04:29:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think there\u0026#x27;s a future in telling customers about the product via direct advertisement. It\u0026#x27;s too easy to filter out or ignore. The most reliable conversions are by word-of-mouth and friend recommendation, and those are nearly impossible to buy.","parent":"16111206","id":"16112571"}
{"by":"pella","time":"1441274745","timestamp":"2015-09-03 10:05:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"github:  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jesusfv\u0026#x2F;Comparison-Programming-Languages-Economics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jesusfv\u0026#x2F;Comparison-Programming-Languages-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10162818","id":"10164083"}
{"by":"ryporter","time":"1225901799","timestamp":"2008-11-05 16:16:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A reference that I thought would have made a great headline: \"A Black President Event\"","parent":"354268","id":"354608"}
{"by":"jstewartmobile","time":"1523585519","timestamp":"2018-04-13 02:11:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d blame it more on 286 being trash than actual complexity.  I remember doing MIPS ASM in the early 90s, and it was a joy.","parent":"16825061","id":"16826651"}
{"by":"benders_game","time":"1483120680","timestamp":"2016-12-30 17:58:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s there.  Look at \u0026quot;recruiter-email.js\u0026quot; in the repo.","parent":"13285806","id":"13285851"}
{"by":"alnayyir","time":"1291649708","timestamp":"2010-12-06 15:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congrats, I hope this proves to be an excellent source of growth for your business.\u003cp\u003eI look forward to a post from you about how it went. :)","parent":"1975381","id":"1975468"}
{"by":"Vlad_Kozakevich","time":"1446637625","timestamp":"2015-11-04 11:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi! may I wonder whether you consider non-US condidates on a remote basis?","parent":"10493593","id":"10505871"}
{"by":"woodandsteel","time":"1544742524","timestamp":"2018-12-13 23:08:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;They knew that if a similar accident occurred in China, the damage wouldn’t be limited to the explosion and nuclear fallout. Such an event would call into question the government’s competence.\u003cp\u003eThere is also the enormous, decades-long expense of the cleanup.","parent":"18675453","id":"18676983"}
{"by":"Ronsenshi","time":"1434875457","timestamp":"2015-06-21 08:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks a lot for all the links. Great material to go over.","parent":"9751828","id":"9752689"}
{"by":"vivab0rg","time":"1394634776","timestamp":"2014-03-12 14:32:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(sameless plug): MoonLion theme for elementaryOS\n\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/vivaserver/MoonLion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vivaserver\u0026#x2F;MoonLion\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7384946","id":"7385813"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1537880899","timestamp":"2018-09-25 13:08:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"During \u0026quot;its bad, but not that bad\u0026quot; situations over the last couple decades I\u0026#x27;ve had positive results with dropping the init level to single user mode \u0026quot;1\u0026quot; and then going back to normal multiuser mode which historically could be any number \u0026quot;2\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;3\u0026quot;, or \u0026quot;5\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eObviously this doensn\u0026#x27;t help with processes stuck in a kernel call.  But for other sorts of malfunctions, or simply testing init scripts and their dependency tree, there\u0026#x27;s really no reason to reinit the kernel and check the filesystem and all that, and it can be very fast compared to a complete boot process.\u003cp\u003eThis is not exactly a \u0026quot;gui-generation\u0026quot; solution for problems, but it has occasionally helped very quickly clean things up.","parent":"18056946","id":"18065995"}
{"by":"afarrell","time":"1462978100","timestamp":"2016-05-11 14:48:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand the aversion to teaching people things specifically because it will help them on a job. Education should prepare people to lead fulfilling lives as part of a peaceful, cohesive society. Knowing how to solve other people\u0026#x27;s problems is a huge part of that in a society where not all work is done by robots.","parent":"11675640","id":"11675789"}
{"by":"annie_hall","time":"1246037569","timestamp":"2009-06-26 17:32:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was looking at Postereous, but it's not clear to me what's the advantage over something like blogger.com. I hope someone can clarify this for me. Are they any good for displaying code?","parent":"675705","id":"675724"}
{"by":"telephonetemp","time":"1381491390","timestamp":"2013-10-11 11:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Between D, Nimrod and Julia it looks like there\u0026#x27;s a resurgence of fun in (JIT) compiled languages.","parent":"6532322","id":"6532441"}
{"by":"rasz_pl","time":"1439767774","timestamp":"2015-08-16 23:29:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no clue about planar graphic modes, but wouldnt you need to modify all of the bitplanes when moving a sprite (backgrount is a grid, not a solid color)?\u003cp\u003eRight, forgot ST cant do 640×512 4bit, so it would have to fake it at 4x smaller picture, that shrinks requirements considerably. What is ST memory bandwidth? something like almost 40KB per frame?\u003cp\u003eSure, you can use pre rendered screens, at that point you could argue C64 could do raytracing because this: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=yxZ7Idi2Bi4\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=yxZ7Idi2Bi4\u003c/a\u003e displayed on real C64 with 16MB ram expansion, every frame of animation is 2 frame buffers in 320x200 ~16color NUFLI mode.","parent":"10069840","id":"10070677"}
{"by":"krylon","time":"1476449215","timestamp":"2016-10-14 12:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At work, I am stuck doin maintenance on an in-house application our accounting department uses, which is written in Delphi. It\u0026#x27;s small (~10k lines of code), but it compiles so fast I sometimes wonder if I clicked the wrong button \u0026#x2F; hit the wrong key.","parent":"12707090","id":"12707686"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1373318310","timestamp":"2013-07-08 21:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Boehner was elected with something like 200,000 votes from Cincinattans. He can say the word \u0026quot;treason\u0026quot; until he\u0026#x27;s blue in the face, but on the question of what Snowden will be charged with, his words carry no more force than those of a Redstate.com blogger.\u003cp\u003eThe numbers scale up a bit for Feinstein, who at least holds statewide office, but the end result is no different.\u003cp\u003eThis isn\u0026#x27;t a fiddly technical point. The separation of powers between the Legislative and Executive branches is fundamental to our system of government. In cases where dingbat representatives try to rabble-rouse for unwarranted treason charges, you can see why the founders were smart to divest the Legislature of the power to enforce the laws they enact.","parent":"6009345","id":"6009379"}
{"by":"treehau5","time":"1483977560","timestamp":"2017-01-09 15:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My comment to you two is -- why not both?\u003cp\u003eStability, sanity, all that is amazing, and a must have.\u003cp\u003eBut also bug-fixes, security improvements, and performance improvements are wonderful too, which tends to come with using up-to-date dependencies.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with the latter, as you mentioned, is when it introduces breaking API changes and is wholly not backwards compatible. This is not a \u0026quot;kids playing with toys wanting to experiment problem\u0026quot; this is a bad software problem, which is why I like Go, and why I liked Java when I was doing it full time. If the language you use has backwards compatibility as a first-class citizen, most likely the package authors will act that way too, and then the maintainers, and eventually the developers. Limit your software choices to those who care about not breaking everyone\u0026#x27;s shit every 2 weeks. Heck even when I write my own API\u0026#x27;s now that I know only my company is going to use internally I am thinking about this.","parent":"13356788","id":"13357238"}
{"by":"sheepmullet","time":"1538338990","timestamp":"2018-09-30 20:23:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And why should someone who wants to be a mother and a careerist have to accept more career penalties than someone who wants to be a father and careerist?\u003cp\u003eBecause of clear biological differences you can’t simply substitute a man for a woman.\u003cp\u003eAs such this article is suggesting that we can make men worse off career wise to even things up.\u003cp\u003eBut that only makes sense from a narrow gender-equality perspective.\u003cp\u003eIt makes much more sense to look at it from a family unit perspective where it’s a good thing for the man to take on the career burden to help his family.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; And why should a woman who doesn\u0026#x27;t want children have to pay a penalty for the choices of those who do?\u003cp\u003eBecause it is critical to the basic maintenance of our society. The same reason I pay a penalty for a large number of government services I don’t use.","parent":"18106935","id":"18108185"}
{"by":"jff","time":"1415146545","timestamp":"2014-11-05 00:15:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The crazies are certainly out in force on the article\u0026#x27;s comments section... Any mention of quantum physics seems to bring them out, I guess because to the layman \u0026quot;quantum\u0026quot; == \u0026quot;magic\u0026quot;","parent":"8559305","id":"8559858"}
{"by":"johnm1019","time":"1396525429","timestamp":"2014-04-03 11:43:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an outsider to the space, your comment makes it sound like ZigBee is never a good option.  Is this so?  Is there a \u0026#x27;target market\u0026#x27; for ZigBee?","parent":"7521012","id":"7522145"}
{"by":"JosephHatfield","time":"1357410339","timestamp":"2013-01-05 18:25:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a screen could be developed that could be adjusted to different sizes as needed, that would make a single unified computing device much more feasible.","parent":"5012210","id":"5013463"}
{"by":"Firehed","time":"1357777217","timestamp":"2013-01-10 00:20:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ironically, I saw the 48FPS 3d and that made it far worse. Any scene with motion was literally unwatchable with both eyes open - and this was true for every one of my friends that went that night.  We suspect it was something wrong with the projector itself, as the 3d previews at 24fps looked fine.  I'd really like to see it again properly if the operators get things straightened out, as the low-motion scenes looked incredible.\u003cp\u003eContrast that to Avatar, for example, which was an awful 3d experience for me as well, but mostly because I was stuck in the front row (I arrived \"only\" an hour early)","parent":"5034241","id":"5034467"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1513277734","timestamp":"2017-12-14 18:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there is no such language in your employment agreement, that is the default arrangement.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not going to bother having to get a lawyer to fix something that shouldn\u0026#x27;t be a problem in the first place.  In California it isn\u0026#x27;t a problem.  I\u0026#x27;m firmly convinced that this fact is one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is in California and not New York.","parent":"15925440","id":"15925517"}
{"by":"drcube","time":"1396455647","timestamp":"2014-04-02 16:20:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And what are these \u0026quot;statistics\u0026quot; based on? Self reported survey data, aka \u0026quot;anecdotes\u0026quot;.","parent":"7510279","id":"7516624"}
{"by":"afshinmeh","time":"1359875743","timestamp":"2013-02-03 07:15:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup.","parent":"5156068","id":"5158952"}
{"by":"ktizo","time":"1334507875","timestamp":"2012-04-15 16:37:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I know that, but this is the general state of paranoia by a lot of people. You dont want to be caught in possession of a beard while watching aljazeera on your ipad in many airports, necessarily. Or singing any songs by The Clash.\u003cp\u003e[edit] the largest and most insidious form of censorship doesn't exist in people putting a stop to things, but rather in people not doing or saying things in the first place out of fear of being laughed at or getting into trouble. It doesn't matter if there is noone watching the data, as long as people feel they are being watched and judged it has more or less the same effect.","parent":"3843970","id":"3844011"}
{"by":"bokonist","time":"1225859758","timestamp":"2008-11-05 04:35:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe US is the only major democracy that seems content to cheer the success of the lucky and laugh at the failure of the rest.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat has nothing to do with it.  The main problem with the U.S. is that it has had 150 years of racial warfare - whites hating on blacks, blacks hating on whites.  All of it has been entirely destructive, and it really needs to stop.\u003cp\u003eTry watching a couple episodes of The Corner ( \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Corner-Year-Life-Inner-City-Neighborhood/dp/0767900316\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Corner-Year-Life-Inner-City-Neighborho...\u003c/a\u003e ).  It's based on a the account of a journalist who spent a year following a family in Baltimore.  It also matches my personal experiences in working for various inner city charities.  Then tell me how somehow getting rid of this alleged mantra of \"self sufficiency\" and \"freedom\" and replacing it with X will make things better.","parent":"354153","id":"354195"}
{"by":"srdev","time":"1434676415","timestamp":"2015-06-19 01:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I know there is a very good reason for this, but it seems like we\u0026#x27;re sending a lot of satellites to these moons and planets to perform VERY similar missions. Orbit around, take photos and readings.\u003cp\u003eI think you\u0026#x27;re overly abstracting the missions.  It may seem similar at such a high level, but the actual readings being taken are likely very different and require very different hardware.","parent":"9740777","id":"9742562"}
{"by":"tanderson92","time":"1498674473","timestamp":"2017-06-28 18:27:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mouse over \u0026quot;Perspective\u0026quot; at the top of the page and you will see:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Perspective: Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences\u0026quot; ¯\\_(ツ)_\u0026#x2F;¯","parent":"14656861","id":"14656894"}
{"by":"aplusbi","time":"1256157635","timestamp":"2009-10-21 20:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But in that case you wouldn't be dogfooding anyway.","parent":"894976","id":"895576"}
{"by":"mattlutze","time":"1463661513","timestamp":"2016-05-19 12:38:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lobbying private or public interests is definitely important if you want to have an impact. The other half of that is that people have to actually do the things you\u0026#x27;re lobbying for.\u003cp\u003eImplementing these ideas personally is more than just collecting knowledge -- it\u0026#x27;s contributing to the desired effect.\u003cp\u003eTo boot, in a conversation where you\u0026#x27;ll subsequently advocate for energy consumption, one of the easiest ways to build trust will be to speak from a position of experience -- to know what probing questions to ask about your audience\u0026#x27;s life experiences that will help them build a future story in which they\u0026#x27;re enjoying conserving energy.","parent":"11729594","id":"11729638"}
{"by":"tasnent","time":"1464178078","timestamp":"2016-05-25 12:07:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. Looks perfect.","parent":"11763284","id":"11769151"}
{"by":"CDRdude","time":"1461432234","timestamp":"2016-04-23 17:23:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been interested in trying psychedelics for this reason. I have some ability to visualize, but it\u0026#x27;s pretty limited. I experienced similar surprise when learning that doing things like picturing yourself on a beach was not meant to be a metaphor. I hope it\u0026#x27;s something I can experience at least once in my life.","parent":"11555677","id":"11556440"}
{"by":"belorn","time":"1346665288","timestamp":"2012-09-03 09:41:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"About $26.4 billion, that is 28% of the total biomedical research funding in US are money from the government. Its the single largest player in medical research. In areas of core principles, cancer research, and motility effecting illness, they are 80-95% in total funding.\u003cp\u003eGovernment is not and has never been an referee in medical research. The drug companies would never allow it. Try removing a $26.4 billion of free R\u0026#38;D and see lobbyist doing everything they can to stop you. Additionally, anyone caring about sick people would join in in stopping that bill. One do not simply remove $26.4 billion of medical research in the name of free market.","parent":"4469179","id":"4469796"}
{"by":"FearNotDaniel","time":"1513608787","timestamp":"2017-12-18 14:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find this ironic, given that as a long-term Mac user, I bought my first ever Windows machine in the process of becoming a self-taught programmer. Turns out there\u0026#x27;s quite a lot of demand out there for those able and willing to develop on Microsoft platforms.","parent":"15951394","id":"15951973"}
{"by":"kombine","time":"1365092501","timestamp":"2013-04-04 16:21:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I only played Jedi Academy, but I concur to all you said, it is still one of my most favorite games.","parent":"5493277","id":"5493477"}
{"by":"stevekemp","time":"1523381596","timestamp":"2018-04-10 17:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I setup my own \u0026quot;internet buttons\u0026quot;, but I did it in a cheating way - my buttons are nothing more than dumb radio-transmitters.  There is no bluetooth, no wifi, and no complexity.\u003cp\u003eThe buttons are dumb, so they are cheap.\u003cp\u003eBecause the aim of the button is to do something \u0026quot;internetty\u0026quot; there is a single receiver which is plugged into my desktop PC which recieves the radio-transmissions, decodes the button IDs, and completes tasks.\u003cp\u003eThere is a brief overview here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.steve.fi\u0026#x2F;creating_an_iot_button__the_smart_way.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.steve.fi\u0026#x2F;creating_an_iot_button__the_smart_way....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have two receivers, an ESP8266 based device, and a hacked copy of software which uses an SDR dongle. Both are reliable and stable.\u003cp\u003eIn terms of functionality though, they\u0026#x27;re useful.  Dotted around the flat they let me control music, disable lights, and similar.","parent":"16795571","id":"16803235"}
{"by":"Natsu","time":"1447358512","timestamp":"2015-11-12 20:01:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;ve gone through quite a few of these before, though.  I feel really bad for the North Korean people.  I wish I had some way to give the innocent victims of this regime good food.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know what it would take to solve this, though.","parent":"10555560","id":"10555690"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1358784996","timestamp":"2013-01-21 16:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; it was a large amount of extra work to get that performance boost.\u003cp\u003eNot really, actually. It took a lot of time to document the transformations, but actually doing the coding was short, much less than an hour total.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; The global re-arrangements of the way data flows through the code are more difficult than many micro-optimisations, not less, so I don't understand how you can claim.\u003cp\u003eMaybe more difficult for you, but not for me. Micro-optimizations are actually harder for me, there are infinite possibilities there, flow has really only one (or very few) 'proper' mapping(s) from problem space to solution space.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; And you don't have to be an expert in C to make the claim he is making, because most people are not experts in C, but might turn to it because \"it's faster\".\u003cp\u003eEvery tool has its uses. If you pick C then probably you're doing so because you are convinced that you need it. You should then study how accomplished users of that tool use it, not stop at the first naive use that you come up with yourself.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; It's precisely this kind of person who needs to understand that with their level of knowledge, and the amount of effort that they might put into optimisations, Haskell can be just as good or better.\u003cp\u003eThat's very well possible, again, I do not know Haskell so I can't comment on it. But I don't see any meaningful comparison between the two languages here, speed certainly isn't it and you failed to acknowledge that the article in fact did make that claim.","parent":"5091716","id":"5092070"}
{"by":"pygy","time":"1234293029","timestamp":"2009-02-10 19:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; And what language does let you do that?\u003cp\u003eIo does.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasAVeryCleanMirror.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasAVeryCleanMirror.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut functions are first class objects in Ruby (with some quirks regarding the difference between a proc and a bloc).","parent":"475681","id":"475698"}
{"by":"troymc","time":"1429758123","timestamp":"2015-04-23 03:02:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;If however for legal reasons a licence is required, the license of your choice will be granted.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eVery well, I want an exclusive license, meaning I\u0026#x27;m the only person who can use this software. Also perpetual, of course, so the license never expires. And don\u0026#x27;t forget to indemnify me. But don\u0026#x27;t bother indemnifying yourself, so I can sue you if the software doesn\u0026#x27;t do everything I ever dreamed. And...\u003cp\u003e(I\u0026#x27;m being sarcastic here. My point is that you can\u0026#x27;t get away with not licensing your free software, or saying the equivalent of \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t care.\u0026quot; It\u0026#x27;s not like there\u0026#x27;s a dearth of free licenses to choose from.)","parent":"9424654","id":"9424797"}
{"by":"zanny","time":"1454632745","timestamp":"2016-02-05 00:39:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also hate the regulations they cite as a reason why Uber should not exist.\u003cp\u003eNo, the regulations should not exist. We could have had Uber and more competitors sooner if not for taking calculated legal risk against archaic institutions of regulation surrounding everything today. Almost all progress is a constant battle not against innovation or creativity but against legal traps keeping you from thinking outside the box.","parent":"11038329","id":"11038506"}
{"by":"zevyoura","time":"1439001360","timestamp":"2015-08-08 02:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The surprising part is that they\u0026#x27;re shipping live bees back and forth overseas.","parent":"10025984","id":"10026118"}
{"by":"jamesaguilar","time":"1386800184","timestamp":"2013-12-11 22:16:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"50-90-99 is my go-to set. I really don\u0026#x27;t give a rip about the ops that are faster than the median. Seeing those is just me patting myself on the back.","parent":"6890710","id":"6891229"}
{"by":"aaronchall","time":"1504537585","timestamp":"2017-09-04 15:06:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Geez, Larry, that\u0026#x27;s a simplistic view of workers.\u003cp\u003eWhat should be the proper expectations for someone entering the workforce?\u003cp\u003eIs everyone actually equal?\u003cp\u003eCertainly not.\u003cp\u003eSome earn qualifications to do various types of \u0026quot;Knowledge Work\u0026quot; and others don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eSome will take smart risks, work hard, create value, build capital, and be able to employ others. Others take dumb risks, create little value, and go from personal bankruptcy to personal bankruptcy.\u003cp\u003eAnd still others will take their qualifications and work for large companies or organizations, and get used to not taking on any risks. They put in their time, create marginal value, and go home.\u003cp\u003eIf they\u0026#x27;re not earning what they think they deserve, they can take their complaint to the marketplace, line up interviews, put their best face forward, and see if they can convince an employer to see it their way.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m disappointed in Larry\u0026#x27;s pandering to the \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m a victim\u0026quot; mentality. We need more people with an \u0026quot;I can do anything\u0026quot; mentality.","parent":"15164784","id":"15168711"}
{"by":"briantakita","time":"1545399497","timestamp":"2018-12-21 13:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"re: the satanic panic, the tunnels (under the school) reported by the children were verified years later. At the time, the inability to find the tunnels was key in discrediting the childrens\u0026#x27; testimony.\u003cp\u003ere: Wenatchee WA. The justice system not providing enough proof for a guilty verdict does not mean the events did not happen. It only means there was not proof beyond a reasonable doubt according to the courts. However, it does seem like law enforcement did not act ethically \u0026amp; it\u0026#x27;s more likely they created false testimony from their witness badgering (of children) \u0026amp; dubious theories. In this case, members of law enforcement conspired to create a false case.\u003cp\u003eSometimes people act on incomplete information and are correct. When organizations act in secret, a rational person ought not to trust these organizations. In the realm of politics, where warfare is fought in many domains, it is beneficial to be critical of such organizations. Otherwise, instead of being a \u0026quot;conspiracy theorist\u0026quot;, one becomes a \u0026quot;coincidence theorist\u0026quot;, when creating models of how \u0026amp; why related events occur.","parent":"18732671","id":"18733193"}
{"by":"antirez","time":"1319217971","timestamp":"2011-10-21 17:26:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"That said, but nesting sha1 calls you are reducing the size of the output set at each step\"\u003cp\u003eI don't think so otherwise finding collisions would be trivial. What you do when using nested SHA1 is just to run a cryptographically secure PRNG with a 160 bit internal state.","parent":"3140745","id":"3140770"}
{"by":"nachtigall","time":"1474885751","timestamp":"2016-09-26 10:29:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might want to use wepack dev server or the live reload addon. That\u0026#x27;s what I use together with Firefox (Developer Edition).","parent":"12580385","id":"12580664"}
{"by":"24gttghh","time":"1501775869","timestamp":"2017-08-03 15:57:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"KeePass uses an auto-type feature; wouldn\u0026#x27;t that simulate individual key presses, and defeat anti-paste mechanisms?","parent":"14918363","id":"14920678"}
{"by":"mixedbit","time":"1361824212","timestamp":"2013-02-25 20:30:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which off-the-shell RDBMS can handle queries over 3 billion rows?","parent":"5281421","id":"5281548"}
{"by":"kansface","time":"1374203237","timestamp":"2013-07-19 03:07:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As thejosh pointed out, not everyone uses the same editor.  Futhermore, most programmers (I estimate 90%) don\u0026#x27;t use terminal based editors. Some common distributions of emacs\u0026#x2F;vim (MacVim) won\u0026#x27;t even run in a terminal for that matter.\u003cp\u003eForcing N users to share one screen and one editor sucks.\u003cp\u003eFinally, absolutely no one wants to deal with private keys and setting up users\u0026#x2F;groups.","parent":"6067866","id":"6068101"}
{"by":"timdorr","time":"1379696655","timestamp":"2013-09-20 17:04:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should be able to host on Heroku pretty easily: \u003ca href=\"https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;devcenter.heroku.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;getting-started-with-n...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve used it with a Hubot instance for our Hipchat room at the office and it works great.","parent":"6418668","id":"6418991"}
{"by":"WalterSear","time":"1433287537","timestamp":"2015-06-02 23:25:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Medical scientists hate it!\u0026quot;","parent":"9649247","id":"9649671"}
{"by":"aith","time":"1376663585","timestamp":"2013-08-16 14:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Getting frustrated and depressed with keymapping? Sounds just like my experience using real vim ;)","parent":"6224179","id":"6224206"}
{"by":"Elizer0x0309","time":"1427353128","timestamp":"2015-03-26 06:58:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Add John Carmack\n\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;John_Carmack\u003c/a\u003e\nSingle handedly inspired legions of coders to join the fold with his 3d democratization.","parent":"9264559","id":"9268156"}
{"by":"rsre","time":"1516194499","timestamp":"2018-01-17 13:08:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know where I can get some info about Kotlin usage statistics since Android made it an officially supported language?","parent":"16167187","id":"16167552"}
{"by":"robert_tweed","time":"1418106858","timestamp":"2014-12-09 06:34:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I may not know how to make a pencil, but I know precisely how a pencil works. I can be reasonably confident that it is not going to start writing in ink one day, because an upstream maintainer thought it would be a cool feature.","parent":"8720566","id":"8721366"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1376065694","timestamp":"2013-08-09 16:28:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is wishful thinking.","parent":"6186548","id":"6186572"}
{"by":"reidrac","time":"1373618392","timestamp":"2013-07-12 08:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you refuse sending email to servers not supporting TLS?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know the penetration of TLS in SMTP servers, tried some google-fu but I didn\u0026#x27;t find anything interesting.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: chances are I misread your comment but still I really wonder how popular TLS is.","parent":"6031576","id":"6031610"}
{"by":"jfpuget","time":"1482575851","timestamp":"2016-12-24 10:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have the data.  I use indeed.com trend queries.  All we can do is to select which keywords to use.","parent":"13247039","id":"13249295"}
{"by":"espeed","time":"1335932016","timestamp":"2012-05-02 04:13:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rich better illuminates these concepts in his \"Simple Made Easy\" talk (\u003ca href=\"http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy\u003c/a\u003e) at the Strange Loop conference, where he doesn't pull any OO punches.","parent":"3917104","id":"3917593"}
{"by":"lispm","time":"1329244009","timestamp":"2012-02-14 18:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wrong, the US has many extremely old, dirty and inefficient coal power plants.","parent":"3589540","id":"3591125"}
{"by":"meriksson","time":"1347962428","timestamp":"2012-09-18 10:00:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TL;DR: Since dealing with high-end lawyers is often tough, contract someone to do it for you.\u003cp\u003eAt my company we went through a handful of lawyers, mostly from big firms. We were extremely unhappy with the experience, especially since we did not seem to get reasonable value for our money, ours being a very small account for any established law firm.\u003cp\u003eEventually we found a solution that was perfect for us. We now work with a freelancing lawyer who caters to startups and is an absolute joy to work with. He does all kinds of stuff on his own, kind of like our own part-time in-house legal council, but the big thing for me is that he can decide when we need some more muscle (i.e. big law firm, specialist in some type of law), and then we pay him to find, subcontract and manage all contacts with other lawyers.\u003cp\u003eI can not extract anywhere near maximum value from an expensive lawyer - this guy has a much better shot at it. As the CEO, I save a lot of time and anguish by only ever speaking to one lawyer, and the most pleasant one I've met at that.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to get in touch with my legal guy - based in Stockholm, Sweden - ping me and I'll send you his contact information.","parent":"4536470","id":"4537216"}
{"by":"__david__","time":"1283135657","timestamp":"2010-08-30 02:34:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, you're right that grub-the-bootloader doesn't have a supervisor to stop it from writing to random places on the disk (since it's not running under an OS), but grub-the-bootloader doesn't actually write to those sectors, so I'm not sure what your point is.\u003cp\u003egrub-the-comman-line-utility writes to those sectors but it runs in linux userspace so it's really in the same position as the windows programs that also write to the reserved space...","parent":"1644727","id":"1645204"}
{"by":"alexh1","time":"1527867739","timestamp":"2018-06-01 15:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Datawallet (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;datawallet.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;datawallet.com\u003c/a\u003e) | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | €40-90k\u003cp\u003e[Mission]\u003cp\u003eDatawallet is on a bold mission to give people full control over their data through a self-sovereign wallet that serves as the kernel for our decentralized data marketplace. Through this marketplace our users can use their data to power analyses and services as well as earn crypto and fiat. Our platform allows people to control who can access their data and for what purpose, enabling them to profit from an asset that is rightfully theirs. By harnessing the Blockchain to empower users to control and profit from the data they create, we will disrupt the $300 billion data brokerage market as envisioned by our early investors Tim Draper (Founder of DFJ) and Marc Benioff (Founder and CEO of Salesforce).\u003cp\u003e[Team]\u003cp\u003eOur product spans multiple technologies and as a result we\u0026#x27;re always in close communication with the different team members, whether you\u0026#x27;re a front end developer or a data engineer. In terms of culture we\u0026#x27;re a geographically and linguistically diverse engineering team from 5 continents, located in Berlin.\u003cp\u003e[Stack]\u003cp\u003eOur technology stack includes Node.js, Python, Apache Aurora, ReactJs, Amazon Web Services (various services but most importantly S3, SQS, RDS, EC2, ECS), Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis.\u003cp\u003e[Looking for]\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - Full stack developers\n\n  - Data Engineers\n\n  - Data product developers \n\n  - Blockchain developers\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nVisit \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;pnyks\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;pnyks\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e or send your CV over to careers@datawallet.com for more information.","parent":"17205865","id":"17206379"}
{"by":"gnaffle","time":"1366214103","timestamp":"2013-04-17 15:55:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, but it's interesting to ask why, for instance, Sony lost its position as the number 1 cool gadget inventor. There are many reason for this, including politics and sticking to proprietary technology for too long, but I agree that a lack of focus on software is a big reason.\u003cp\u003eThe PC market is commoditized as well, but that hasn't stopped Apple from capturing the high end (and increasingly the low end with the iPad).","parent":"5564457","id":"5565142"}
{"by":"diminoten","time":"1547271671","timestamp":"2019-01-12 05:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re pretending like arguments live in vacuums.\u003cp\u003eYour use of analytics undermines your argument because it\u0026#x27;s clear you don\u0026#x27;t actually believe what you\u0026#x27;re writing, which means you\u0026#x27;re not presenting the entire set of facts as you believe and understand them, which means you\u0026#x27;re lying on some level, either to yourself or to your readers.","parent":"18889421","dead":true,"id":"18889888"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1497880009","timestamp":"2017-06-19 13:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clarification for the audience: \u0026quot;RFID\u0026quot; has very little to do with radio or SDR. Communications are done with a coil in the \u0026quot;near field\u0026quot;, which also powers the tag.","parent":"14585121","id":"14586865"}
{"by":"jeorgun","time":"1428433388","timestamp":"2015-04-07 19:03:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except with their mobile apps, where they separated Messenger from the main Facebook app, and everybody threw an enormous fit for reasons I\u0026#x27;m still not really clear on.\u003cp\u003e(well, it\u0026#x27;s not really a clean separation since you still need a Facebook account and all that entails, but I still don\u0026#x27;t see how separating the two apps is anything other than a good thing)","parent":"9335856","id":"9336284"}
{"by":"ikeboy","time":"1519830654","timestamp":"2018-02-28 15:10:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rank, reviews, guessing, other tricks","parent":"16483372","id":"16483455"}
{"by":"ajro","time":"1286643786","timestamp":"2010-10-09 17:03:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion less code means less bugs means better code. Simple as that. And by code I also mean everything that is auto generated, inherited or linked.\u003cp\u003eOf course there are rare cases that you need to trade size for speed. But it should be done with careful cosideration.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I forgot to add that I always thought that 'duct tape programming' means writing hacks to fix hacks  - which \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e bad.","parent":"1774690","id":"1775316"}
{"by":"Pyrodogg","time":"1381795420","timestamp":"2013-10-15 00:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Developer\u0026#x2F;consultants for government contractors.\u003cp\u003eMy coworkers and I move to different project sites on time scales ranging from 1-5 years. We do government software and live on-site in the capitols where we\u0026#x27;re working. Most developers move from one semi-permanent office to another new client after the project transitions to a maintenance mode.\u003cp\u003eExperienced devs in particular sub systems might go on 1-3 week trips to other locations to bootstrap or assist on large issues.\u003cp\u003eDevs are also a large part of our marketing department. A few are regularly tasked with putting together demos for clients and delivering them on-site; others help as needed.\u003cp\u003eMost devs also have the opportunity to attend career fairs to assist the recruiters. I\u0026#x27;ve personally attended 3 in 4 years. It\u0026#x27;s such a good opportunity to be the face of your company and have the first round recommendation on hires. Sure the management has the final say but they definitely value our input.\u003cp\u003eMy job is defined by travel, some stops are just longer than others.\u003cp\u003eIf any of this sounds interesting to you, shoot me an email, I\u0026#x27;d love to talk with you about it.","parent":"6548956","id":"6550504"}
{"by":"broodbucket","time":"1405475598","timestamp":"2014-07-16 01:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to check out Rust and are having trouble because the docs aren\u0026#x27;t close to done yet, Rust for Rubyists (rustforrubyists.com) just came out with an update supporting 0.11.  If you\u0026#x27;re using the nightlies, the only thing in that book that isn\u0026#x27;t consistent (that I\u0026#x27;ve found so far) is that the .to_str() method is now .to_string().","parent":"8040109","id":"8040189"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1295897381","timestamp":"2011-01-24 19:29:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A Russian won't throw an error (or anything else) at you if you conjugate a verb slightly wrong in a sentence where the meaning is otherwise clear, but a programming language will error out if you accidentally type two periods instead of one. Even the pickiest of human languages will generally be heard by listeners far more forgiving than a compiler.","parent":"2136177","id":"2136385"}
{"by":"Fjolsvith","time":"1411911795","timestamp":"2014-09-28 13:43:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most likely DHS won\u0026#x27;t be able to use this guy as a federal informant now that this article is out.  Did he think that crying to the press would give him some kind of immunity to prosecution?","parent":"8379000","id":"8379698"}
{"by":"literallycancer","time":"1499091267","timestamp":"2017-07-03 14:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s probably not economical to compete with large mining operations as an individual, since they get much more favorable deals on electricity.","parent":"14687725","id":"14688375"}
{"by":"vertexFarm","time":"1526653975","timestamp":"2018-05-18 14:32:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For all the evidence we have, MAD has worked. Still here. Still no WWIII. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was looking like we\u0026#x27;d have another world war every twenty years or so for the rest of time.\u003cp\u003eAs best we can tell, nukes actually did end large-scale war. I would call that at least a partially mitigated disaster.","parent":"17101247","id":"17101758"}
{"by":"pfg","time":"1503508777","timestamp":"2017-08-23 17:19:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They announced the new prices[1]. There doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be a price increase for most scenarios, and the price is slightly lower for some. There appears to be a $ 0.01 increase if you currently push more than 1 TB, but less than 10 TB of traffic across continents or within regions like Asia or Oceania.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cloud.google.com\u0026#x2F;network-tiers\u0026#x2F;pricing#premium_tier_pricing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cloud.google.com\u0026#x2F;network-tiers\u0026#x2F;pricing#premium_tier_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15083146","id":"15083313"}
{"by":"BFay","time":"1433784960","timestamp":"2015-06-08 17:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;dragging windows to the sides of your desktop will auto-fill that side of the screen, saving time spent on re-sizing windows to fill unused space.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve gotten so used to this feature from Windows and various Linux desktops, I think I would be pretty lost without it.","parent":"9680593","id":"9680691"}
{"by":"thrav","time":"1542245250","timestamp":"2018-11-15 01:27:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do feel like they usually have rougher cars though. Not always, but on average.","parent":"18455161","id":"18456103"}
{"by":"eli","time":"1386344930","timestamp":"2013-12-06 15:48:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting theory, but I\u0026#x27;m not sure the data backs it up. As with all things, though, do your own A\u0026#x2F;B tests.","parent":"6861559","id":"6861623"}
{"by":"toomim","time":"1494651159","timestamp":"2017-05-13 04:52:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same thing with Ripple.","parent":"14329059","id":"14329577"}
{"by":"senko","time":"1370249968","timestamp":"2013-06-03 08:59:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure the conclusions are very different. Yes, in this report, you get more customers if you don't ask for credit-card upfront.\u003cp\u003eBut, those 120 signups you get from 1000 trial signups, meaning, for each signed up customer you need to support over 8 trials (support here means your time and to a lesser extent, your service's resources).\u003cp\u003eFor the 60 signups in the case where the credit card was asked upfront, there were 200 free trial signups, ie a bit over 3 trials per customer.\u003cp\u003eSo which is better depends on how much money (or time) you invested in getting the 10000 interested visitors to site (prior to them signing up), and how much money (ie. time and other resources) you need to spend to get them to become paying customers.","parent":"5812099","id":"5812120"}
{"by":"jrnichols","time":"1537560164","timestamp":"2018-09-21 20:02:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have the feeling they\u0026#x27;ll exempt their TV service from the data cap, which I\u0026#x27;ve read elsewhere here would be 50gb.","parent":"18041328","id":"18042245"}
{"by":"marssaxman","time":"1394829935","timestamp":"2014-03-14 20:45:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry if my reference was unclear - I meant \u0026quot;0wned\u0026quot; in the hacker sense, in that ultimate control rests not with you, the owner, but with the manufacturer, who in the case of Tesla can apparently just pump new code out which your car will install. That seems seriously creepy and weird to me. When I buy a car, its previous owner should have no further control over it. OTA updates for a car sound really wrong.","parent":"7401550","id":"7401739"}
{"by":"excuse-me","time":"1335198007","timestamp":"2012-04-23 16:20:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm waiting for the XKCD live action movie","parent":"3878439","id":"3879556"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1448167196","timestamp":"2015-11-22 04:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After you\u0026#x27;ve sent a passport scan, you\u0026#x27;d think they\u0026#x27;d keep the scan on file (though that might be problematic) or at least keep a \u0026quot;legal ID verified\u0026quot; flag.\u003cp\u003eFacebook really don\u0026#x27;t care, do they?","parent":"10609065","id":"10609106"}
{"by":"txxxxd","time":"1258666642","timestamp":"2009-11-19 21:37:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, but the reason I don't turn off my machine is that it takes so long to boot.","parent":"951141","id":"951178"}
{"by":"goodweeds","time":"1319569183","timestamp":"2011-10-25 18:59:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you ever wonder why it is that as a nation, or a species, we have nothing more creative to do with our monetary and intellectual resources than to use them for the creation of weapons of war, or to create new means of imprisonment?\u003cp\u003eCan't we do better?","parent":"3154285","id":"3155375"}
{"by":"freeflight","time":"1500583764","timestamp":"2017-07-20 20:49:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because that\u0026#x27;s also the case.\nBig organized crime groups often have access to exactly the kind of logistics required to manufacture and smuggle drugs across large distances.\u003cp\u003eThey have the muscle to stay competitive in a market where there is no state authority to give you guarantees on anything.\u003cp\u003eThis isn\u0026#x27;t an outrageous claim at all, rather it\u0026#x27;s a well-known fact: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.unodc.org\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;data-and-analysis\u0026#x2F;Studies\u0026#x2F;Illicit_financial_flows_2011_web.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.unodc.org\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;data-and-analysis\u0026#x2F;Studies\u0026#x2F;Il...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s why prohibition is such a bad approach, it creates exactly the kind of black markets where these organizations make their massive profits.","parent":"14814601","id":"14816164"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1446466720","timestamp":"2015-11-02 12:18:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every week I learn something new to admire about Germany.\u003cp\u003eOr at least its responsible investment behavior by its government.\u003cp\u003eUSA would not build such a thing in today\u0026#x27;s political climate of nonsense unless it had weapons research possibilities.","parent":"10491009","id":"10491448"}
{"by":"rfugger","time":"1356130240","timestamp":"2012-12-21 22:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assumed it would be called the Nexus X.","parent":"4954821","id":"4954948"}
{"by":"gwern","time":"1370974622","timestamp":"2013-06-11 18:17:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pg178\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Like most organizations, the CIA had its own stationery. Its official enveloeps had \u0026quot;Central Intelligence Agency\u0026quot; written on the return address. The Agency mistakenly used this stationery for a mailing on its new diversity policy - a mailing sent to officers, including Dave, who were working under deep cover in foreign countries. We hoped that no one had seen the return address on the envelopes. In any event, according to a friend at HQs, this incident led the Agency to destroy its entire stock of stationery.","parent":"5863304","id":"5863676"}
{"by":"snaveint","time":"1318926221","timestamp":"2011-10-18 08:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is impressively creepy. Wow. Anyone know the background?","parent":"3124155","id":"3124392"}
{"by":"epx","time":"1532652204","timestamp":"2018-07-27 00:43:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Assuming that the collusion actually took place, which I don\u0026#x27;t put my bets in. I remember seeing \u0026#x27;long life lamps\u0026#x27; on supermarket when bulbs were a thing, BTW.","parent":"17622565","id":"17622603"}
{"by":"solaarphunk","time":"1533066488","timestamp":"2018-07-31 19:48:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They should police, because they are already in the business of censorship and amplification via the newsfeed product.\u003cp\u003eThis entire problem would be minimized if newsfeed didn\u0026#x27;t rank posts due to engagement. Its easier for trolls to get engagement on polarizing and harmful posts, because they generate stronger user emotions.\u003cp\u003eIMO, this criticism of \u0026quot;policing\u0026quot; is a bullshit straw man argument, which neglects how the product actually works, and why we even have this problem in the first place.","parent":"17654948","id":"17656433"}
{"by":"dillweed","time":"1502424090","timestamp":"2017-08-11 04:01:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or how did you find the people your product would innately appeal to.","parent":"14986079","id":"14986504"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1536762305","timestamp":"2018-09-12 14:25:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Better, they might end up blocking other user agents, or give specific features you can only use with Edge. They love doing that.","parent":"17967381","id":"17969073"}
{"by":"qb45","time":"1459405208","timestamp":"2016-03-31 06:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I miss Windows software while on Windows.\u003cp\u003eIn every release there is something removed and a new replacement to relearn.","parent":"11394054","id":"11395336"}
{"by":"jds375","time":"1401039043","timestamp":"2014-05-25 17:30:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think with many founders being software engineers themselves, they naturally steer away from manual solutions (and usually with good reason). But some problems, such as those faces by Uber and 42Floors, simply need manual solutions. That\u0026#x27;s why it\u0026#x27;s useful for software-oriented founders to also educated themselves in operations and management.","parent":"7794462","id":"7796884"}
{"by":"Aloisius","time":"1393356689","timestamp":"2014-02-25 19:31:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best route appears to save $2.05 each direction according to \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/asifhaque/transit-arbitrage/blob/master/data/sf/arbitrage.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;asifhaque\u0026#x2F;transit-arbitrage\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;d...\u003c/a\u003e:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  [orinda =\u0026gt; pittsburg] + [walnut-creek =\u0026gt; pleasant-hill]: 2.05 (35.6522%)\n  [orinda =\u0026gt; pittsburg] + [walnut-creek =\u0026gt; concord]: 2.05 (35.6522%)\n  [orinda =\u0026gt; pittsburg] + [pleasant-hill =\u0026gt; concord]: 2.05 (35.6522%)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThough who knows if anyone actually takes these routes. And remember many of the places BART goes aren\u0026#x27;t exactly filled with people with large disposable incomes who can stop drinking \u0026quot;lattes\u0026quot; to make up the difference.","parent":"7299589","id":"7299859"}
{"by":"psychometry","time":"1527699854","timestamp":"2018-05-30 17:04:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The cars are full of actual chaos monkeys.","parent":"17189318","id":"17189427"}
{"by":"joelrunyon","time":"1348262624","timestamp":"2012-09-21 21:23:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks zrail!","parent":"4555829","id":"4555887"}
{"by":"incompatible","time":"1527650628","timestamp":"2018-05-30 03:23:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Physicists are still debating on whether or not time actually exists in the universe.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not aware of any physicists debating this. If time didn\u0026#x27;t exist, there wouldn\u0026#x27;t be a physical dimension for it, and everything would be at a fixed position in 3-dimensional space.","parent":"17181046","id":"17184815"}
{"by":"magic5227","time":"1412631837","timestamp":"2014-10-06 21:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FYI this has been a big challenge even for music that has no copyright on it. Musopen.org has collected a great deal of music, and even for recordings we bought the rights to, they automatically challenge it!\u003cp\u003eIt works well to scare people from leveraging even public domain resources.","parent":"8417981","id":"8418482"}
{"by":"omh","time":"1341941183","timestamp":"2012-07-10 17:26:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Several years ago, Blackberry was the only way to get reasonably secure email on remote devices. Lots of companies standardised on that, and have kept going because it's the easy option and it still works.\u003cp\u003eIt's been possible to get mail/calendar/etc on other devices for a while (and even for devices owned by your employees rather than purchase by you). But if your directors are all using Blackberries then it can be hard to justify the migration cost, especially for small/medium companies or places that are particularly conservative.\u003cp\u003eBut when it looks like Blackberry might not be around for much longer, all that changes. Articles like this are the sign of (another) tipping point for RIM.\u003cp\u003e[ I'm a sysadmin at a small Blackberry-only company. Two managers sent me this article today and asked what we were doing ]","parent":"4223813","id":"4224984"}
{"by":"bdamm","time":"1511825990","timestamp":"2017-11-27 23:39:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that\u0026#x27;s cellular (Verizon) + fiber (Fios), which includes \u0026quot;rental\u0026quot; fees and the like, for a family of three. So not just straight access.","parent":"15790819","id":"15792826"}
{"by":"kashyapc","time":"1535123571","timestamp":"2018-08-24 15:12:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, Intel indeed redacted the \u0026quot;no benchmarks\u0026quot; thing: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17833777\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17833777\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17826303","id":"17835415"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1385590692","timestamp":"2013-11-27 22:18:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"orbit.  gravity is canceled out by orbital velocity, as far as distance-from-sun is concerned.  it costs Mars nothing to stay in orbit, and to go down to a -100m\u0026#x2F;s orbit or up to a +100m\u0026#x2F;s orbit costs the same amount of energy: (mass of mars) * (100m\u0026#x2F;s velocity change)\u003cp\u003eif Mars and the Earth were \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e orbiting, I would completely agree.  drop something from Mars and it\u0026#x27;ll land on Earth, and the reverse is not true.  but they\u0026#x27;re not - drop something on Mars and it\u0026#x27;s just in Mars\u0026#x27; orbit.","parent":"6811098","id":"6811546"}
{"by":"Test5544","time":"1317590817","timestamp":"2011-10-02 21:26:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u0026#62; Better access to data is generally a good thing.\u003cp\u003eYeah, like the IBM computers in Nazi Germany.","parent":"3063837","dead":true,"id":"3064077"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1458082414","timestamp":"2016-03-15 22:53:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; On an hardware\u0026#x2F;network level \u0026quot;the internet\u0026quot; was actually about tolerating more \u0026quot;middlemen\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt still is. And the web was all about that too, but billions of $ were spent to push it in the direction of walled gardens and data silos.","parent":"11293527","id":"11293677"}
{"by":"thomasfortes","time":"1506702450","timestamp":"2017-09-29 16:27:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably not, gentoo compiles everything, building deb packages for every possible combination of flags would be almost impossible, and if you add the fact that you can change the flags for a single package then you will get something impossible to do.\u003cp\u003eUSE flags and equivalents are a thing that only comes with systems that compile most of the software instead of relying in binaries.","parent":"15366518","id":"15366694"}
{"by":"riffraff","time":"1547193319","timestamp":"2019-01-11 07:55:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t something as simple as DCSS autoexplore\u0026#x2F;go to functionalities classify as \u0026quot;tool assisted\u0026quot; ?\u003cp\u003eThey seem straightforward to implement even for nethack.","parent":"18880907","id":"18881696"}
{"by":"novaRom","time":"1531992793","timestamp":"2018-07-19 09:33:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From their privacy policy:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;When you install Vivaldi browser, each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the IP address from your Vivaldi client then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup. The purpose of this collection is to determine the total number of active users and their geographical distribution.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIs this information enough for them to uniquely identify and track each user?","parent":"17564523","id":"17564877"}
{"by":"pringle","time":"1289758452","timestamp":"2010-11-14 18:14:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PG,\u003cp\u003eThe cases you cite -- tech entrepreneurs whose startups generate vast wealth -- aren't really that relevant to Rich's argument.\u003cp\u003eWhile I guess they do make up a portion of this class of superrich (without any research, my hunch is a small portion), the larger problem Rich describes is that society just isn't rewarding people the way it used to, and that there's been a deliberate rigging of the system for the past 30 years that is allocating capital in the hands of a very select few. Pretending like those few are all Zucks and Sergeys is a deliberate misreading and has nothing to do with this problem.\u003cp\u003eI think your reaction to this, judging from your writing, comes from the fact that you are very much surrounded in a culture of startups and tech innovation, where money is made by creating new things and expanding the pie, not reallocating its slices. That's great, but isn't a reason to deny some obvious -- and depressing -- realities about what's happening to America's social and economic fabric.\u003cp\u003eThe tech startup scene may be a bright light in this pretty dark trend, but is not a reason to deny the trend exists.\u003cp\u003eLastly, this is bad for startups. The allocation of capital based on merit is the linchpin of an innovative and growing economy, and the lifeblood of what you do day in, day out. You really should be on the other side of this argument.","parent":"1903626","id":"1903728"}
{"by":"veidr","time":"1354503682","timestamp":"2012-12-03 03:01:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, from the headline I was hoping somebody was finally making a standalone \"retina\" monitor for high-end consumers. At $5500, this isn't quite still hitting that target.\u003cp\u003eStill, IIRC when I first my first high-resolution monitor (a 30\" 2560x1600 display from Apple, who made displays with that many pixels mainstream) it cost $2000, and I had to buy a $900 video card to drive it. This was maybe in 2006.\u003cp\u003eWithin a couple years though, you could get a similar rig for a little over $1000 and then-current Macs and PCs could drive it (at least higher end models).\u003cp\u003eI hope we see similar progress here. It frustrates me that when I sit down at a desk to work I have to stare at these gigantic slabs of what (now) looks like huge pixelated crap, when my tablets, phones, and notebooks are all high-PPI.\u003cp\u003eI use multiple 30 and 27 inch highres displays for the workspace they give, but they really look like crap in the modern high-ppi era.","parent":"4862537","id":"4863674"}
{"by":"MrFantastic","time":"1524750005","timestamp":"2018-04-26 13:40:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do people travel the last mile?","parent":"16929668","id":"16931722"}
{"by":"manigandham","time":"1528134212","timestamp":"2018-06-04 17:43:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"gRPC with Protobuf has been faster in our usage and also has more development these days compared to Thrift. It\u0026#x27;s also simpler and better designed by just sticking to a single well-tested serialization format.\u003cp\u003eHTTP\u0026#x2F;2 is also a big advantage since it\u0026#x27;s standardized and easily integrates into many existing load balancers and proxies like Envoy and nginx, both of which now natively support gRPC directly too.","parent":"17228264","id":"17230184"}
{"by":"mempko","time":"1546617246","timestamp":"2019-01-04 15:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And? Some laws are stupid and must be broken.","parent":"18823337","id":"18824867"}
{"by":"TomOfTTB","time":"1250601979","timestamp":"2009-08-18 13:26:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me this is the beginning of consumer HD.  There's still a storage issue which needs to be solved but storage companies tend to keep plowing forward.  Having HD in a webcam is one step away from the cell. phone which itself is one step a way from ubiquitous HD video.","parent":"770369","id":"770372"}
{"by":"thomasfoster96","time":"1470128361","timestamp":"2016-08-02 08:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The same number who voted for Gerald Ford.","parent":"12202164","id":"12208606"}
{"by":"dejv","time":"1257895840","timestamp":"2009-11-10 23:30:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Syntax looks like Pascal meets C++","parent":"934197","id":"934204"}
{"by":"ishwarn","time":"1478035368","timestamp":"2016-11-01 21:22:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Drive Motors (W16) | Director of Growth | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re a data-driven performance marketing expert, you\u0026#x27;d like to level-up with a product that actually sells itself, and you have experience building measurable campaigns aimed at prospecting customers, enticing them, and converting them to leads for our sales department, then we have a great opportunity for you.\u003cp\u003eQualities and Skills We\u0026#x27;d Like:\u003cp\u003e* Experience with email marketing campaigns and drip campaigns, including tools like MailChimp, ExactTarget, Zenprospect, etc\u003cp\u003e* Experienced with content marketing campaigns and lead generation\u003cp\u003e* Experienced with retargeting campaigns across platforms\u003cp\u003e* Familiarity with automotive, SMB, and\u0026#x2F;or enterprise marketing\u003cp\u003e* Proficient w\u0026#x2F; Facebook Advertising platform\u003cp\u003e* Proficient w\u0026#x2F; Google Adwords, and other search marketing tools\u003cp\u003e* Driven by data, and sensitive to ROI\u003cp\u003e* Understand terms like CAC, LTV, and obsessed with optimizing unit economics\u003cp\u003eTo apply, visit \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;drive-motors\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;157605-director-of-growth\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;drive-motors\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;157605-director-of-growth\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12846216","id":"12850147"}
{"by":"slantyyz","time":"1393789241","timestamp":"2014-03-02 19:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The one gotcha, especially if you go for a heavily discounted Surface Pro 1, is battery life when compared to the likes of an iPad. If you can deal with that, the Surface Pros are fantastic devices.","parent":"7330019","id":"7330424"}
{"by":"arikr","time":"1507393035","timestamp":"2017-10-07 16:17:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Robert Lustig has written an excellent book on this topic: \u0026quot;The Hacking of the American Mind.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI found that reading the book gave me good insights into how to be happier in my daily life.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re curious, his podcast on FT Alphachat is a good introduction and summary of his ideas: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;overcast.fm\u0026#x2F;+FaTQX2SRE\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;overcast.fm\u0026#x2F;+FaTQX2SRE\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15423287","id":"15424339"}
{"by":"nevir","time":"1522824101","timestamp":"2018-04-04 06:41:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the flip side, JG is an awesome hire for any company","parent":"16749648","id":"16752527"}
{"by":"alrs","time":"1481744246","timestamp":"2016-12-14 19:37:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Canon cameras already have ethernet ports. I\u0026#x27;d much rather the camera support iSCSI so that I can mount a network block device and save to that. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t trust any consumer electronics crypto support.\u003cp\u003eThe form factor of an embedded Linux box with an Ethernet port, an SSD, and a hardware power switch would be pretty tiny. It could be done in the shape of an autowinder.","parent":"13175810","id":"13178983"}
{"by":"Johnie","time":"1460486544","timestamp":"2016-04-12 18:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you look at some of the successful startups that started on a platform, this is what they did.\u003cp\u003eExample:\n Instagram - used Facebook for viral distribution and eventually eclipsed Facebook\n  Imgur - built image hosting for Reddit and now has eclipsed Reddit.","parent":"11481793","id":"11482337"}
{"by":"zabraxias","time":"1342674022","timestamp":"2012-07-19 05:00:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fixed positioning works on FF on Android but native browsers on older Android versions...not so much.","parent":"4264455","id":"4264516"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1304375398","timestamp":"2011-05-02 22:29:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"He probably doesn't know too much about glucose meters, because he's not diabetic.\"\u003cp\u003eSeeing as glucose meters are basically only used by diabetics, your assumption that most diabetics would know that glucose meters are fraudulent seems empirically false.\u003cp\u003eVirtually all diabetics use glucose meters, despite the fact that they are basically the Iraqi IED detectors of medical hardware.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html?_r=1\u0026#38;hp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2508160","id":"2508185"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1466497257","timestamp":"2016-06-21 08:20:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WTF? Did you just imply it\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003efine\u003c/i\u003e to discriminate against whites? Please tell me how I can interpret your comment as \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e absolutely racist..","parent":"11942937","id":"11944289"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1276005544","timestamp":"2010-06-08 13:59:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a teacher like that.  He had a closet full of the same shirt and pants.  Saved him time in the morning.","parent":"1413899","id":"1413904"}
{"by":"oldmanjay","time":"1453937173","timestamp":"2016-01-27 23:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you feel that being an asshole will make you more acceptable to the community?","parent":"10981251","id":"10984434"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1410292909","timestamp":"2014-09-09 20:01:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True but considering iOS 8 works right back to the 4S I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be too worried. Plus most people are on two year contracts and upgrade after that.","parent":"8292409","id":"8292536"}
{"by":"Sir_Cmpwn","time":"1542350239","timestamp":"2018-11-16 06:37:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was discussed here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lists.sr.ht\u0026#x2F;~sircmpwn\u0026#x2F;sr.ht-discuss\u0026#x2F;%3CFA9122A8-8BD1-41C4-88AF-661AF8241CA2%40nderjung.net%3E\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lists.sr.ht\u0026#x2F;~sircmpwn\u0026#x2F;sr.ht-discuss\u0026#x2F;%3CFA9122A8-8BD1...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18465129","id":"18466948"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1465383883","timestamp":"2016-06-08 11:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a very good development, but it\u0026#x27;s difficult to see what SF could do better than Github\u0026#x2F;Gitlab\u0026#x2F;Bitbucket, they are bogged down by 15 years of technical debt and a ruined reputation.\u003cp\u003eMaybe they could retool as a Cloudflare\u0026#x2F;Akamai competitor? Their network of mirrors is probably the one thing still distinguishing them. Or they could go full-FOSS and somehow integrate with distributions, like a cross-distro Launchpad, but that\u0026#x27;s a very very \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e niche market. Or they could find a mobile-oriented spin (I honestly don\u0026#x27;t know anything about mobile dev).\u003cp\u003eOr, and I say this very seriously, they could find a way of getting bought by Microsoft. A lot of SF projects are legacy win32 apps that people still find essential (FileZilla etc); MS could buy them and build an appstore that actually has the stuff people want, with real developer tools and workflow powering it all. MS backing would remove the malware stigma, at the very least.","parent":"11860752","id":"11861384"}
{"by":"mbell","time":"1335459419","timestamp":"2012-04-26 16:56:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I fought with this in the past.  In the end I unhappily switched to back to windows running linux VMs after years of using linux as my primary desktop OS, and it was purely because of this failure.\u003cp\u003eDon't expect multiple graphics cards to work well under linux, at all.  I tried this for quite awhile and there are a number of bugs.  The one that bit me the most was that when a mouse cursor cross a screen boundary that switches GPUs and there is an animated cursor running, the mouse gets all messed up with the clicks being sent to the wrong screen, click on screen 1 and the event is sent to screen 2.  I also had constant issues across many version of X with the Xorg process pegging a CPU core and making the system unusable.\u003cp\u003eXinerama is all but deprecated it seems, RandR was supposed to replace the multiple graphics card support and allow multi-gpu composting but the project hasn't gotten around to it  despite the fact that they've been talking about multi-gpu handling for more than 3 years.\u003cp\u003eMy \"workaround\" for a long time was using a Matrox tripleHead2Go to let me get 4 monitors onto a single nvidia card.  But, this approach has inherent limitations, all displays have to be oriented the same way and have to be side by side, what I wanted was one screen in landscape, 2 in portrait on the sides and a couple extra above.\u003cp\u003eAt this point the best bet is hoping that wayland handles multi-gpus far better than X does.","parent":"3893346","id":"3894854"}
{"by":"Dowwie","time":"1497789509","timestamp":"2017-06-18 12:38:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are confirming that you don\u0026#x27;t use the bookmarked material as resources to solve your problems and recognize how challenging it would be if you were to do so. :)\u003cp\u003eI gave up relying on starred repos as resources and just give them for recognition.  I find repos just fine when I actually need them.\u003cp\u003eI wrote a github star purge script that would blow your mind if you were to use it -- no more stars!","parent":"14580290","id":"14580391"}
{"by":"JoachimSchipper","time":"1476783662","timestamp":"2016-10-18 09:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If BitLocker seems riskier to you than VeraCrypt, might I suggest you recalibrate your threat model? See e.g. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8193364\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8193364\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"12732967","id":"12733093"}
{"by":"tbsdy","time":"1333376907","timestamp":"2012-04-02 14:28:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like an April Fool's Day double bluff. The Golden Spiral is actually often used as the basis for laying out webpages.\u003cp\u003eA good article I found is here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/09/applying-mathematics-to-web-design/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/09/applying-mathemat...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3787742","id":"3788248"}
{"by":"mattmanser","time":"1490037943","timestamp":"2017-03-20 19:25:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That reminds me, Blowing in the wind\u0026#x27;s an incredibly easy to learn song too, four chords, easy progressions, only one quick change to an easy Em (I believe).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tabs.ultimate-guitar.com\u0026#x2F;b\u0026#x2F;bob_dylan\u0026#x2F;blowin_in_the_wind_ver3_crd.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tabs.ultimate-guitar.com\u0026#x2F;b\u0026#x2F;bob_dylan\u0026#x2F;blowin_in_the_w...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can also do it without the Em, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t sound as good.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tabs.ultimate-guitar.com\u0026#x2F;b\u0026#x2F;bob_dylan\u0026#x2F;blowin_in_the_wind_ver10_crd.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tabs.ultimate-guitar.com\u0026#x2F;b\u0026#x2F;bob_dylan\u0026#x2F;blowin_in_the_w...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13914977","id":"13916932"}
{"by":"alexk","time":"1412204231","timestamp":"2014-10-01 22:57:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mailgun is The Email Service for Developers.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re ex-YC and were acquired by Rackspace in 2012 but remain an independent product.\u003cp\u003eWe move fast in a startup-like atmosphere but we have access to juicy hardware, large marketing muscle and world class data centers.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/mailgun/hiring\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;mailgun\u0026#x2F;hiring\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ehack@mailgun.net","parent":"8394339","id":"8398349"}
{"by":"sgift","time":"1422812018","timestamp":"2015-02-01 17:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have the feeling that your cousins experience clouds your judgement here. From all that I\u0026#x27;ve read the count of people who file bankruptcy multiple times is very low as is the count of people who file because of irresponsibility. There are usually very valid reasons (loose your job, get sick, good luck!)\u003cp\u003eFor your example: That is exactly the reason that Kickstarter is not a preorder service, but project funding. There is always a risk that you won\u0026#x27;t get anything for the money you\u0026#x27;ve invested and you are expected to consider these risks. That\u0026#x27;s also part of the reasons that professional lenders expect a certain rate of interest (another part of the interest rate is obviously for the fact that the lender could do something else with his money if he didn\u0026#x27;t lend it). If you have a higher risk, you pay more. So, if you fault multiple times you won\u0026#x27;t find anyone who will give you money anymore in the future or they will want more interest or they will want some securities .. and so on. I don\u0026#x27;t see how that somehow makes debt guilt. It is debt. Are you expected to pay it back? Yes. What if you cannot pay it back and you would be crushed under the weight of it? Don\u0026#x27;t pay it, go bankrupt and your lenders will have to pay the price of their risk-taking.\u003cp\u003eMy point stands that there\u0026#x27;s a reason we\u0026#x27;ve abolished debtors\u0026#x27; prisons: Debt is not guilt.","parent":"8980634","id":"8980789"}
{"by":"sid6376","time":"1467385368","timestamp":"2016-07-01 15:02:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Booking.com - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;booking.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;booking.com\u003c/a\u003e - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China),  Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE\u003cp\u003eFull-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company.\u003cp\u003eGeneral Interview Process -\u0026gt; Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews\u003cp\u003eI work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things to say about working here. The people are intelligent and helpful, interesting problems to solve and the work hours are unbelievably sane. The company is strongly data driven and very dynamic, which was one of its biggest charms for me. Amsterdam is not a bad place to be either :) The Dutch government also gives a tax break through the 30% ruling to non-dutch people.The work environment is very international and everybody speaks fluent English. The relocation process is also very finely tuned through years of experience of doing this.\u003cp\u003eIf you have any other questions about the company or the hiring process or you would like me to refer you, please feel free to send me an email at siddharthsarda01 at gmail.com (Email also in my profile at Hacker news).\u003cp\u003eTo have an idea of the kind of problems being solved here, you can also look at our dev blog: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.booking.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.booking.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are hiring for our headquarters office in Amsterdam:\u003cp\u003e- Frontend developers - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;cxmso8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;cxmso8\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Backend developers - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;g5n6oe\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;g5n6oe\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Product Owners in various departments - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;edvq2n\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;edvq2n\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Data analysts - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;al15kt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;al15kt\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Data Scientist(Machine Learning) - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;5uxtdv\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;5uxtdv\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Senior Data scientists - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;n4o02e\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;n4o02e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- iOS Developers - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;w1mi0y\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;w1mi0y\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Junior iOS Developers - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;piho2l\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;piho2l\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Android Developers - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;1bnljt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;1bnljt\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Junior Android Developers - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;7c4wvl\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;7c4wvl\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- UX Designer - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;e23axu\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;e23axu\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- UX Designer (Japanese market) - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;ygaqv6\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;ygaqv6\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor our office in Shanghai:\u003cp\u003e- Software Developer - China Localization - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;m12bjy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;m12bjy\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor our office in Seattle:\u003cp\u003eSoftware Engineer: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;j0hacq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;j0hacq\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenior Software Engineer: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;xpm80g\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;xpm80g\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all available positions take a look here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;3ryvfg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;3ryvfg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12016568","id":"12016598"}
{"by":"segphault","time":"1483663400","timestamp":"2017-01-06 00:43:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a ton of great ideas in Vivaldi\u0026#x27;s user interface. And it\u0026#x27;s built on Chrome, so you still get all the standards and extension compatibility. They regularly add clever new features that materially improve tab management and navigation. I\u0026#x27;m looking forward to making it my default browser at some point in the future when they add sync for bookmarks etc.","parent":"13332480","id":"13332897"}
{"by":"CodeMage","time":"1243520420","timestamp":"2009-05-28 14:20:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In this case, I'd say that the author is trying to stop people from staring at the trees, so that they can tour the forest.","parent":"630192","id":"630227"}
{"by":"bitsweet","time":"1368983282","timestamp":"2013-05-19 17:08:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience, most developers are looking for more then \"just\" another job...it could be a bump in pay but it usually also means a new challenge like working on a particular tech, type of product, domain, etc...nothing here on the Hire-a-HN-hacker tells the employer what you \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e to do, only what few hot keyword/skills you have and sure, the skills will match the same keywords that crappy recruiters are searching for and you'll learn about heaps of jobs good and more often bad. You could also post your résumé privately on monster if you want to cast a wide net.\u003cp\u003ewe're lucky as engineers...tradionally employers have had an abundance of candidates to filter, but with programming skills in such demand, developers now have an abundance of oppourtunities...it's not that we need more job oppourtunities, we need a way to filter the bad ones out.\u003cp\u003edisclaimer, I run trypitchbox.com - which operates in a similar space","parent":"5732624","id":"5733514"}
{"by":"bestouff","time":"1535483839","timestamp":"2018-08-28 19:17:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RPi\u0026#x27;s ethernet-over-USB is no better: it aggregates packets to compensate for limited bandwitdh, incurring killer jitter.","parent":"17851555","id":"17861966"}
{"by":"closeparen","time":"1520022686","timestamp":"2018-03-02 20:31:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have the electoral majority to drag down the wealthy, then you have the electoral majority to lift up the poor. Using public policy to compel support for other public policy is nonsensical unless the former has broader support.","parent":"16496214","id":"16505412"}
{"by":"holoiii","time":"1407950371","timestamp":"2014-08-13 17:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool, good job!","parent":"8167535","id":"8173983"}
{"by":"ktRolster","time":"1474298144","timestamp":"2016-09-19 15:15:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re getting those, you\u0026#x27;re probably managing hundreds of people.","parent":"12525866","id":"12532048"}
{"by":"keville","time":"1492475757","timestamp":"2017-04-18 00:35:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thatsthejoke.gif","parent":"14135633","id":"14135642"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1426468250","timestamp":"2015-03-16 01:10:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great, I was actually wondering if you have like an API manual online somewhere? It sounds like it is more than just a performant PostGIS (no disrespect in that, PostGIS is quite slow) but beyond the basic stuff near here, how is the spatial algebra expressed from the client to the underlying database?","parent":"9209048","id":"9209086"}
{"by":"Manfred","time":"1440251553","timestamp":"2015-08-22 13:52:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had one of those, conceptually the most interesting hardware I\u0026#x27;ve ever had. I never took advantage of the modularity.","parent":"10102054","id":"10102499"}
{"by":"pkamb","time":"1305133609","timestamp":"2011-05-11 17:06:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sign up for free Amazon Prime with a .edu email, it changes everything.","parent":"2535718","id":"2537221"}
{"by":"njharman","time":"1337186039","timestamp":"2012-05-16 16:33:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Conspiracy to commit foo, is illegal for many foo.  So, it is illegal to fantasize out loud.","parent":"3982505","id":"3982742"}
{"by":"dazzawazza","time":"1278326761","timestamp":"2010-07-05 10:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saint Nick solves a specific problem: Where do the presents come from over the christmas period. It couldn't have been my parents who put them at the end of my bed because they were asleep and as any child knows it's naughty not to be asleep at night. My parents, the guardians of all that is correct in the world, would NEVER be awake at night. So the only reasonable answer is the one given by my parents, the guardians of all the is correct in the world, that there is an advert for Coke climbing into my house and delivering the presents I so wished for.\u003cp\u003eThen I grew up and it just didn't seem logical any more. Burdened by the truth that may parents, now no longer the guardians of truth in the world, had played a trick on me I went into the world armed with the knowledge that all is not what it seems and that the search for the truth is difficult and long. Over time I realised that this burden was in fact a candle in the darkness of ignorance. A darkness that is in part inherited and in part constructed by the Guardians (whomever they may be) to keep me from the truth.\u003cp\u003eSo you see good old saint Nick has a very specific role in society. He's a lie told by parents to bring darkness into the world of children under the guise of 'magical enchantment'. For some, he is a catalyst to see the lie but for others he is the first snuffing of the harsh light of inquiry and intellectual endeavour that all children are born with.","parent":"1487830","id":"1487904"}
{"by":"kieckerjan","time":"1506413744","timestamp":"2017-09-26 08:15:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the great tips, people. The producers something to chew on. The show will likely air in January. It should become available online as well. If someone is interested, I can toss them a link.","parent":"15330453","id":"15337024"}
{"by":"manquer","time":"1538288069","timestamp":"2018-09-30 06:14:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will cost the company 20 million yes but will not affect the free cash flows","parent":"18104691","id":"18104770"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1387306215","timestamp":"2013-12-17 18:50:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; then native mobile (ios, android) will become the de facto way to deliver apps to users\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know which planet you\u0026#x27;re living on, but native \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e the de-factor way to deliver apps to users. Apple tried the other one during the first year of iphone, developers mostly sat on their hand and waited for a native SDK.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; That day is more likely and closer than some may want to believe.\u003cp\u003eThat day is 10 years ago, give or take some. The web has yet to \u003ci\u003eever\u003c/i\u003e become the de-facto way of delivering application on mobile, it\u0026#x27;s barely getting there on desktop.","parent":"6922844","id":"6922951"}
{"by":"hyperliner","time":"1406827260","timestamp":"2014-07-31 17:21:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe they are doing floating point math in Javascript! :-)\u003cp\u003e(which would be silly, so there must be another reason! :-)","parent":"8115123","id":"8115500"}
{"by":"briffle","time":"1507683973","timestamp":"2017-10-11 01:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How long does it take you to sort a 5TB dataset on your own computer?","parent":"15446305","id":"15446570"}
{"by":"wdewind","time":"1499635893","timestamp":"2017-07-09 21:31:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with that.  Economic growth can help these issues, but it\u0026#x27;s not the only, or even the biggest, factor.  As I mentioned...","parent":"14731633","id":"14731781"}
{"by":"0xfeba","time":"1490296807","timestamp":"2017-03-23 19:20:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a way to whitelist domains to skip the VPN? Like Netflix, Amazon, Amazon Video, YoutTube etc. I don\u0026#x27;t mind if my ISP knows I\u0026#x27;m there, but everything else goes through the VPN? Specifically with OpenVPN?","parent":"13942743","id":"13943212"}
{"by":"kamaal","time":"1536926426","timestamp":"2018-09-14 12:00:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No matter how hard you try, you cannot teach a mouse to learn french. That is why.","parent":"17985348","id":"17986536"}
{"by":"iamwil","time":"1281722943","timestamp":"2010-08-13 18:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And that's the attitude that she's pointing out. Just as women are constantly told and whispered (directly and indirectly) they're not pretty enough, men are constantly told and whispered (directly and indirectly) they're not rich enough.\u003cp\u003eSo much so that a bunch of people agree with you and it's a defining norm.\u003cp\u003eNote that the article is talking about the obscenely rich, like the Facebooks and the Googles. There's no need to be obscenely rich to retire, afford healthcare, treat your lovely soon-to-be-cancerous wife. Above a certain point, having more money gives diminishing returns on quality of life. After that, it's just a scorecard as someone will almost always be more rich than you.\u003cp\u003eBut we think we do need to be obscenely rich, and that it's our role, nay our purpose to do so. It's a story that's exulted, whispered, and told in our ear so often, we don't realize it anymore.\u003cp\u003eIn the end, you should know yourself. The old masters weren't kidding when they said that the hardest thing to do is not mastery over others, but over yourself. You should know what you value in life and what you want out of it, and that the source of that inspiration comes from within.\u003cp\u003eBecause when you buy into other people's values that aren't your own, you may find that when you finally get to the top of the hill at the expense of everything else, what you really wanted wasn't there at all. And that's what she's warning her friend about.","parent":"1601544","id":"1601692"}
{"by":"burntwater","time":"1494615744","timestamp":"2017-05-12 19:02:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reasons to stick with macs are getting fewer and fewer by the day...","parent":"14326416","id":"14326853"}
{"by":"icey","time":"1223670799","timestamp":"2008-10-10 20:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tell this to everyone:\u003cp\u003eIn the 90s, I was \u003ci\u003eterrified\u003c/i\u003e of outsourcing. It started becoming very popular and there were quite a lot of people declaring the end of the American developer as a result.\u003cp\u003eThen I found out I was going to be working with an offshore team during a project for a large financial firm. The offshore company that this financial firm was using was reputed to be one of the best in the business.\u003cp\u003eWhen the code came back, I was no longer concerned about outsourcing. If anything, there was a whole career to be had resolving the issues in the cut and paste code that got sent back.\u003cp\u003eNever under-estimate the damage that the language barrier can do to a product.","parent":"328325","id":"329228"}
{"by":"pg_is_a_butt","time":"1398194449","timestamp":"2014-04-22 19:20:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"same as the old deal:  PG IS A BUTT","parent":"7629765","dead":true,"id":"7629778"}
{"by":"Sunset","time":"1487359802","timestamp":"2017-02-17 19:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Religious zeal. Just brainwash your politicians into being extremely morally consistent.","parent":"13670692","id":"13670975"}
{"by":"herbert55","time":"1456521114","timestamp":"2016-02-26 21:11:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has anybody tried this? Seems very simple to set up.","parent":"11184087","dead":true,"id":"11184279"}
{"by":"enos_feedler","time":"1395609287","timestamp":"2014-03-23 21:14:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Road cycling. Its the only exercise I get that doesn\u0026#x27;t feel like a chore\u0026#x2F;work. My bike has been in the shop for the past 3 weeks and its been painful to go running. Cant wait to get my bike back!","parent":"7454942","id":"7455176"}
{"by":"vindarel","time":"1499677002","timestamp":"2017-07-10 08:56:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, we have Vim and Atom plugins: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;CodyReichert\u0026#x2F;awesome-cl#text-editor-resources\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;CodyReichert\u0026#x2F;awesome-cl#text-editor-resou...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd [Portacle](\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;shinmera.github.io\u0026#x2F;portacle\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;shinmera.github.io\u0026#x2F;portacle\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) is an Emacs shipped with SBCL, Slime and Git in a portable and multiplatform way, so it\u0026#x27;s straightforward to begin with.","parent":"14726594","id":"14734327"}
{"by":"graeme","time":"1530397140","timestamp":"2018-06-30 22:19:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They mean ‘everyone who moves, moves on that day’","parent":"17432719","id":"17433022"}
{"by":"jo909","time":"1469558319","timestamp":"2016-07-26 18:38:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course, so am I. But pretty much the same reasons we can bring up why IPv6 was not super important for LE are the reasons everybody else has to procrastinate on that. It\u0026#x27;s just a statement of overall sadness that accompanies my personal ~15 year wait for IPv6 adoption.","parent":"12167783","id":"12167835"}
{"by":"idunning","time":"1423594403","timestamp":"2015-02-10 18:53:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion, as a contributor to Julia and someone who teaches machine learning with R - start with R. Things will \u0026quot;just work\u0026quot; for the most part and you won\u0026#x27;t have to worry about whether your packages will work while you are learning ML. I recommend using the \u0026quot;caret\u0026quot; package in particular: it puts all the ML packages behind a nice common interface and has goodies like crossvalidation and train\u0026#x2F;test splits built in.\u003cp\u003ePython with Scikit-learn could be a good choice too from everything I hear (possibly even better, by some accounts).\u003cp\u003eTo be clear, Julia is more than capable of doing ML, but I\u0026#x27;d say that interface-wise its not quite there yet. Most of the pieces are there, everything from DataFrames to wrappers for GLMNet to random forests, and even the deep learning library Mocha.jl (check it out, its fantastic!). If you were to implement a new ML algorithm, I\u0026#x27;d want to be doing it in Julia - it\u0026#x27;ll perform great without having to get in a multi-language scenario (like R+Rcpp or Python+???[numba?]).","parent":"9029000","id":"9029071"}
{"by":"2kool4skool","time":"1536356948","timestamp":"2018-09-07 21:49:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am currently building microshelters for the homeless in my spare time. The idea is to fill the city with them and piss rich people off.","parent":"17937746","dead":true,"id":"17937927"}
{"by":"SEJeff","time":"1525887939","timestamp":"2018-05-09 17:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e actually a vpn. It is a glorified \u0026#x2F;etc\u0026#x2F;hosts 127.0.0.1 null route app. It doesn\u0026#x27;t send any traffic over any real VPN, so your worry isn\u0026#x27;t a thing.","parent":"17030869","id":"17031976"}
{"by":"rurounijones","time":"1398150602","timestamp":"2014-04-22 07:10:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, so compile openbsd packages against it then run the tests for those packages.\u003cp\u003eSort-of-integration testing. Gotchya","parent":"7626210","id":"7626232"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1529835589","timestamp":"2018-06-24 10:19:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Free trade\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;openness\u0026quot; under an absolute monarchy. What about China then, Economist, double standards much?","parent":"17385551","id":"17385897"}
{"by":"final","time":"1416149875","timestamp":"2014-11-16 14:57:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because the \u0026quot;support\u0026quot; is just a PR move.","parent":"8614298","id":"8614308"}
{"by":"ZeroGravitas","time":"1502286013","timestamp":"2017-08-09 13:40:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Do you genuinely think that Marxists are the primary reason for black people realising that getting treated like dirt is a pretty bad deal? That strikes me as a rather low opinion of African Americans.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s Bill Whittle\u0026#x27;s claim, from the video I just watched. Take it up with him.\u003cp\u003eHe says there were no African-Americans, no Italian-Americans etc. in the 1920s, just \u0026quot;Americans\u0026quot;, but the Marxists didn\u0026#x27;t like that. So they told the African-American\u0026#x27;s that the white people had stolen everything from them, and made them angry (because they \u0026quot;didn\u0026#x27;t know any better\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003eAre you seeing how, even in this watered down form, where he leaves out explicit mention of \u0026quot;the jews\u0026quot;, how this is a conspiracy theory? Divorced from any kind of facts?\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t go around dropping the phrase \u0026quot;Cultural Marxism\u0026quot; casually and I would be very, very skeptical of anyone who does.","parent":"14968553","id":"14968624"}
{"by":"davidgerard","time":"1484138108","timestamp":"2017-01-11 12:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"tl;dr not feasible since about 2011.\u003cp\u003eThese days, barriers to entry include designing your own mining ASICs.","parent":"13365456","id":"13373487"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1376482151","timestamp":"2013-08-14 12:09:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m an old fart too, and object to anything changing. But I suspect in a week I\u0026#x27;ll have adapted to this and forget why I was annoyed.\u003cp\u003eThe shortcuts we store in our spine\u0026#x2F;brainstem are the ones that we are most annoyed by when they quit working. But they are reprogrammable.","parent":"6208015","id":"6211023"}
{"by":"zachgalant","time":"1344539756","timestamp":"2012-08-09 19:15:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome job guys. It looks really cool!","parent":"4360756","id":"4362714"}
{"by":"JoshMnem","time":"1537746422","timestamp":"2018-09-23 23:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What happened to “do no evil”?\u003cp\u003eIt was considered \u0026quot;stupid\u0026quot; so they dropped it:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;5\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;4326424\u0026#x2F;eric-schmidt-once-thought-dont-be-evil-was-stupidest-rule-ever\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;5\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;4326424\u0026#x2F;eric-schmidt-once...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought that even if \u0026quot;evil\u0026quot; can\u0026#x27;t be well-defined, its general meaning probably encouraged a culture that tried to focus on ethics. When your leader says that trying not to be evil is \u0026quot;stupid\u0026quot;, it has a different effect on the culture.","parent":"18053575","id":"18054009"}
{"by":"ZanyProgrammer","time":"1417112259","timestamp":"2014-11-27 18:17:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just gate off the street entrances to the BART stations along Market Street and in the Mission. Problem solved.\u003cp\u003eI would really (ideally) like the urban BART stations to have restrooms, but unless the authorities are going to make sure they are clean, safe and sanitary, that\u0026#x27;s not going to work.","parent":"8668305","id":"8668322"}
{"by":"unwind","time":"1469870681","timestamp":"2016-07-30 09:24:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Site seems down. I tried to find an alternative source but didn\u0026#x27;t come up with much.","parent":"12191421","id":"12192284"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1509725136","timestamp":"2017-11-03 16:05:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow this looks awesome. I think I might use this for some notes on topological quantum computing or something .","parent":"15616637","id":"15620196"}
{"by":"hr","time":"1328627575","timestamp":"2012-02-07 15:12:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds like an admission of pandering.  But to answer your summation, I would not pander no matter the 'benefit'.","parent":"3561572","dead":true,"id":"3562036"}
{"by":"westiseast","time":"1400212909","timestamp":"2014-05-16 04:01:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His premise is something similar to what I was going to write and then didn\u0026#x27;t for brevity - the general justification touted for Soros doing what he did is that the British government were incompetent and deserved what they got - it\u0026#x27;s equivalent to saying the drunk deserves everything he gets because he should have known better. A third party\u0026#x27;s incompetence isn\u0026#x27;t a moral justification for your proactive exploration of their incompetence.","parent":"7752719","id":"7753668"}
{"by":"mhw","time":"1464904580","timestamp":"2016-06-02 21:56:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At one point my ThinkPad wouldn\u0026#x27;t reconnect to wifi after suspend\u0026#x2F;resume when running Windows 10. That seems to have fixed itself, but I\u0026#x27;ve no idea which update might have solved the problem or even if it was an update.\u003cp\u003eNow Windows 10 is refusing to recognise the Logitech wireless mouse USB receiver that works fine under Linux and also worked fine under Windows until a few weeks ago.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, I think Windows now has worse support for legacy hardware than Linux.","parent":"11826110","id":"11826425"}
{"by":"colanderman","time":"1440509193","timestamp":"2015-08-25 13:26:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What an interesting character.  You can see his vision for the web at \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.xanadu.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.xanadu.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e, it is quite unique.  Seems to focus almost entirely on concepts of ownership, attribution, quotation, and composition.\u003cp\u003eGiven how much the modern web has developed, without significant infrastructure arising to support any of these, I wonder what that says about their utility in our current society, compared to those features which \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c/i\u003e arisen in the modern web (hyperlinking, anonymity, ephemerality, independence, content-addressability).","parent":"10114950","id":"10116253"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1397570571","timestamp":"2014-04-15 14:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIn addition to the existence of tons of highly casual security conventions (compared to the strict cons for programming languages and frameworks)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are plenty of casual PLs conventions, meetups, hackathons, unconferences, just about any format you want. If anything I think that community is more welcoming and casual than the computer-security convention scene, which has a heavy tilt towards big-money, \u0026quot;rockstar\u0026quot; conferences like DEF CON and Black Hat, full of corporate and government presenters and attendees. There are conferences like that outside of security, like videogames (E3, GDC), but security really takes it to ridiculous levels, even holding the damn things in places like Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi.\u003cp\u003eWhat that portion of the security scene\u0026#x27;s image most reminds me of outside tech is the rockstars they\u0026#x27;d like to be: a manufactured pretense of \u0026quot;anarchy and chaos\u0026quot; sold as a business\u0026#x27;s brand image.","parent":"7591723","id":"7591835"}
{"by":"konart","time":"1495219864","timestamp":"2017-05-19 18:51:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you check ukrainian conflict subreddit or some of the Facebooks accounts of the volunteers you will find out that they were actively using VK to track their enemies (army and mercenaries from Russia) and to communicate with \u0026quot;sympathisers\u0026quot; from Russia.\u003cp\u003eAnyway - now they will post them on Facebook - what does it change? It is an open info regardless.","parent":"14378288","id":"14378377"}
{"by":"jessriedel","time":"1544249034","timestamp":"2018-12-08 06:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The question wasn\u0026#x27;t whether a synthetic diet has side effects compared to a natural one, the question was whether we could accidentally \u0026quot;wipe out the human population\u0026quot;.","parent":"18633595","id":"18634143"}
{"by":"bkrausz","time":"1295222199","timestamp":"2011-01-16 23:56:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Random question: what would you guys like to hear/know about applying (or YC in general) that's not already out there?  I've been considering writing a blog post about GazeHawk's YC experience, but there are so many good ones already, and I don't want to just add redundancy.  Anything unanswered from a startup perspective you'd like to know?","parent":"2110542","id":"2110682"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1539808294","timestamp":"2018-10-17 20:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cloud.google.com\u0026#x2F;shielded-vm\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cloud.google.com\u0026#x2F;shielded-vm\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e ?","parent":"18243323","id":"18243497"}
{"by":"estebanrules","time":"1448999623","timestamp":"2015-12-01 19:53:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elm is definitely a very interesting language.  I would recommend the following if anyone is interested in seriously learning it:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pragmaticstudio.com\u0026#x2F;elm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pragmaticstudio.com\u0026#x2F;elm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10652170","id":"10658241"}
{"by":"beatgammit","time":"1547678646","timestamp":"2019-01-16 22:44:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Across their team, sure. In the Reddit thread, the OP said he has employees.","parent":"18922715","id":"18926262"}
{"by":"as1mov","time":"1502995933","timestamp":"2017-08-17 18:52:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really. Manufacturers just stopped making phones with PKB because since Apple wasn\u0026#x27;t making them, they weren\u0026#x27;t worth it. It hard to estimate the demand for PKB phones when no one is making them. I\u0026#x27;d buy one in heartbeat if one launched with low-mid end specs and less than $400.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve constantly chosen form over functionality. Larger sized phones, fragile build materials(glass over plastic), lesser battery just so the phone can be thinner. The keyboard was given up to make room for a bigger screen and thinner body, and now writing anything more a few sentences on a phone is a pain in the ass.\u003cp\u003eAtleast in the era of dumb phones, for all the weird shit (Nokia\u0026#x27;s taco phone) that came out that time, at least the phones were distinct, you could tell them apart just by looking at them. Now they are all the same generic rectangular glass slabs that cater\u0026#x27;s to single demographic who want large screens for media consumption. What if you are not in that demographic? Well, tough luck.\u003cp\u003eI know am in the minority and it\u0026#x27;s not really Apple\u0026#x27;s fault that everyone decided to ape them, but a part of me wishes we hadn\u0026#x27;t given up the variety just to pander to the largest common denominator, even a little variation among phones would be a welcome change.","parent":"15039104","id":"15039697"}
{"by":"jason_slack","time":"1517495175","timestamp":"2018-02-01 14:26:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would have never thought of that. Do you have any info on making a trading bot?","parent":"16275351","id":"16282017"}
{"by":"davidjnelson","time":"1542756856","timestamp":"2018-11-20 23:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exciting news.  Huge fan of Autodesk and YC.  Congratulations to PlanGrid!","parent":"18498040","id":"18498885"}
{"by":"dchest","time":"1384339331","timestamp":"2013-11-13 10:42:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethe smaller sites currently not using SSL will just be stuck on HTTP 1.1 forever\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it a problem?","parent":"6724357","id":"6724370"}
{"by":"damm","time":"1363889582","timestamp":"2013-03-21 18:13:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately not very shocking, the move to packing up ruby with your application so it's easier to setup isn't new (many projects have done this, chef, sensu, ...)","parent":"5416406","id":"5417522"}
{"by":"techman9","time":"1520014478","timestamp":"2018-03-02 18:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure about segmenting intro courses by majors, but there is good research that suggests that segmenting CS1 by level of background knowledge has a significant positive impact on future coursework [0]. I suspect that a larger proportion of students who eventually study CS have a higher degree of background knowledge as well, so this probably makes sense.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dl.acm.org\u0026#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2445248\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dl.acm.org\u0026#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2445248\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dl.acm.org\u0026#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2255982\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dl.acm.org\u0026#x2F;citation.cfm?id=2255982\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16504107","id":"16504181"}
{"by":"exikyut","time":"1504783261","timestamp":"2017-09-07 11:21:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;$1000 rectangle\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSorry, but - lol :D","parent":"15190542","id":"15190737"}
{"by":"zhte415","time":"1461599112","timestamp":"2016-04-25 15:45:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regarding title and careless use in article:\u003cp\u003eSWIFT is not a system.\u003cp\u003eSWIFT is an instruction protocol tied to a network that SWIFT Alliance Access (mentioned in article) gives access to, SWIFTNet.\u003cp\u003eWithout going into details of failings of SWIFT authentication, which are few, this appears to be simple phishing:\u003cp\u003eThe use of malware, suggested here, seems simple:\u003cp\u003e* There are a lot of manual steps in fund transfers that are either initiated manually (submitting a paper-based payment request, or even change to a company\u0026#x27;s authorised signature list) or requiring various manifests such as letter or credit clearing.\u003cp\u003e* Malware means the typical system of checking inputs are indeed true and correct (an inputter of the paper form, and a checker to verify it is true and correct) can be disrupted by replacing the scanned file between scanning and input (based on scan) or direct system access changing key numbers of codes.\u003cp\u003e* This comment is not a slight on Bangladesh.  It is a general comment on developing economies I\u0026#x27;ve interacted with in banking operations across Asia:  Staff are often under-trained at a branch level and expected to perform a multitude of tasks under under-trained management.  Local actors, for example local banks, often have completely insecure systems compared to international banks despite acting as correspondent bank in many transactions (added to the security-failure tool-chain).  This is in contrast with outsourced operations in similar countries that run large service centers and most-often do an excellent job.\u003cp\u003eThis appears to be fully not an error of SWIFT, but of using (the power of) SWIFT in combination with discrete and serious errors in injecting false records in non-audited\u0026#x2F;un-auditable systems that interact with SWIFT instructions and SWIFTNet.","parent":"11564386","id":"11564970"}
{"by":"ljk","time":"1449704572","timestamp":"2015-12-09 23:42:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"stupid question: isn\u0026#x27;t this bad if your eyes are constantly focusing on something so close to you?","parent":"10707327","id":"10707747"}
{"by":"joshuamorton","time":"1530991588","timestamp":"2018-07-07 19:26:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;That promise chain is not synchronous.\u003cp\u003eThe promise chain is executed synchronously in an asynchronous context. You seem to misunderstand this nuance. `x =\u0026gt; x + 1` is a synchronous function. It will always execute synchronously and will return a result when it is invoked and block (within its context) until that invocation is complete. However, its calling context may be paused\u0026#x2F;pre-empted.\u003cp\u003eImportantly though, the promise won\u0026#x27;t be pre-empted during the evaluation of a synchronous function:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    function sleep(ms) {\n        var start = new Date().getTime(), expire = start + ms;\n        while (new Date().getTime() \u0026lt; expire) { }\n        return;\n    }\n\n    Promise.resolve(0).then(\n        (x) =\u0026gt; {\n            for (i = 0; i \u0026lt; 15; i++) {\n                sleep(1000);\n                console.log(`doing stuff ${i}`);\n            }\n        }).then(console.log); \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIf you run this in your console and then try to do anything, you will be unable to. You\u0026#x27;ll be blocked by the asynchronous code (because it never releases). Replace my blocking sleep with setTimeout, a nonblocking alternative, and you\u0026#x27;ll find that things work normally. You\u0026#x27;re executing \u003ci\u003esynchronous, blocking\u003c/i\u003e code in an asynchronous context.\u003cp\u003ePromises aren\u0026#x27;t doing anything magical, they\u0026#x27;re simply syntactic sugar for flattening otherwise nested chains of this (where +1 is a standin for the action that this specific function is taking):\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    f = (cb, v) =\u0026gt; cb(v + 1)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nwhich quickly balloons to\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    f = (cb, v) =\u0026gt; cb(v + 1)\n    (v) =\u0026gt; (f(console.log, v))\n    f((v) =\u0026gt; (f(console.log, v)), 1)\n    f((v) =\u0026gt; (f((v) =\u0026gt; (f(console.log, v)), v)), 1)\n    \u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nback to something sane:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Promise.resolve(1)\n           .then(f)\n           .then(f)\n           .then(f)\n           .then(console.log)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThere\u0026#x27;s really no major difference between those two constructs (well, promises also provide infrastructure for releasing to another control.\u003cp\u003eAll of those are synchronous functions, executed synchronously, in an asynchronous context, and all of them are called callbacks by what is perhaps the most authoritative source on web programming today.","parent":"17469112","id":"17480071"}
{"by":"shanselman","time":"1368750779","timestamp":"2013-05-17 00:32:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really fabulous work. If this works on an iPhone and has a nice iphonetouch.png icon, I'm gonna pin it and use it daily.","parent":"5721876","id":"5722087"}
{"by":"yarapavan","time":"1326474115","timestamp":"2012-01-13 17:01:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Java SE 6 will no longer be publicly available after July 2012. Customers interested in continued access to critical bug fixes and security fixes as well as general maintenance for JDK 6 have the option to purchase Oracle Lifetime Support.","parent":"3461172","id":"3461322"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1413045651","timestamp":"2014-10-11 16:40:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a presentation of Kaya at the Future of Programming Workshop.  The title is accurate.   Shortened in a clickbait fashion, perhaps, but not \u0026quot;total flame bait\u0026quot;.","parent":"8442395","id":"8442577"}
{"by":"humanrebar","time":"1507865392","timestamp":"2017-10-13 03:29:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you depress market rates aggressively, you can \u0026quot;increase\u0026quot; pay from 120% to 140% of market rate without giving raises to anyone.","parent":"15460842","id":"15463079"}
{"by":"nwh","time":"1385912727","timestamp":"2013-12-01 15:45:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You asked why mining was necessary. I provided an explanation.","parent":"6827666","id":"6827677"}
{"by":"mightybyte","time":"1429321562","timestamp":"2015-04-18 01:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Assuming f and g are not evaluated for their side-effects...\u003cp\u003eAnd that is the whole point.  In Haskell we can know that f and g have no side effects.  If they had side effects you would not be able to compose them with the dot operator.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t quite understand your example but I assure you that there are elegant ways to accomplish that in Haskell.  There was recently a presentation [1] at the NY Haskell meetup that talked about a new Haskell sound synthesis library called vivid.\u003cp\u003eMaking functions that perform side effects is also easy.  Here\u0026#x27;s a simple example:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    intToFile :: Int -\u0026gt; IO ()\n    intToFile anInt = do\n        writeFile \u0026quot;myfile.txt\u0026quot; (show anInt)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe idea that you have to be multiparadigm to function in real world settings is a fallacy.  Haskell is simply more expressive, which equips it to solve just about any problem with more clean and concise code than you\u0026#x27;re likely to get in other languages.  Even if the code size stayed the same the extra safety you get from purity and strong types would be worth it alone.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=xo3zUvPsizo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=xo3zUvPsizo\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9397851","id":"9398058"}
{"by":"ommunist","time":"1390558974","timestamp":"2014-01-24 10:22:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for the credit.","parent":"7105294","id":"7114207"}
{"by":"Sophira","time":"1513917063","timestamp":"2017-12-22 04:31:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pipes have existed in DOS since before Windows 95 was around!","parent":"15984719","id":"15985286"}
{"by":"1wd","time":"1513467770","timestamp":"2017-12-16 23:42:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s one EU directive [1] that concerns \u0026quot;funicular railways and other installations with vehicles mounted on wheels or on other suspension devices where traction is provided by one or more cables\u0026quot;, which \u0026quot;shall not apply to [...] lifts\u0026quot;.  Those are addressed in [2] which \u0026quot;shall apply to lifts permanently serving buildings and constructions and intended for the transport of [persons and goods] [...] serving specific levels, having a carrier moving along guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal\u0026quot;, but \u0026quot;shall not apply to [...] funicular railways\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;legal-content\u0026#x2F;EN\u0026#x2F;TXT\u0026#x2F;HTML\u0026#x2F;?uri=CELEX:32014L0033\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;legal-content\u0026#x2F;EN\u0026#x2F;TXT\u0026#x2F;HTML\u0026#x2F;?uri=CELE...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;LexUriServ\u0026#x2F;LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2000:106:0021:0048:en:PDF\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;LexUriServ\u0026#x2F;LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15939840","id":"15942958"}
{"by":"old-gregg","time":"1340822578","timestamp":"2012-06-27 18:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hearing all your groanings regarding price, is easy to understand why we \"can't have nice things\". To make you happy, everything needs to be disposable, lightweight, made in China using the cheapest components available, wrapped in cheap squeaky plastic which smells like my dog's feet. That, or supported by ads or a giant media/appstore sales like AppleTV or Kindle.","parent":"4167907","id":"4168474"}
{"by":"astrodust","time":"1536105995","timestamp":"2018-09-05 00:06:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Windows is great for coding if you can live almost entirely within Visual Studio or things like Unreal or Unity.\u003cp\u003eWindows has an utterly useless command-line environment. PowerShell is an attempt to remedy this, but honestly it\u0026#x27;s both a little too much, and far too little at the same time. Ubuntu on Windows is another attempt that falls short of its goals, it\u0026#x27;s a second-class environment strapped on top of the legacy mess that is Windows.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing I\u0026#x27;ve found that makes Windows even habitable is that the Node.js experience is actually pretty good. With NPM, git, and a good text editor you can get a lot done, but even then you\u0026#x27;ll hit bare dirt now and then. Want to make a quick shell script to automate something? Hah! No. You need to commit to making a quick Node script instead.","parent":"17913925","id":"17913982"}
{"by":"graghav","time":"1432762299","timestamp":"2015-05-27 21:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of curiosity, Did you write that post from future? Its dated 2016? \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;hx40nc5\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;hx40nc5\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9612625","id":"9614511"}
{"by":"zinkem","time":"1311726162","timestamp":"2011-07-27 00:22:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might want to finish the article.","parent":"2810097","id":"2810110"}
{"by":"aufreak3","time":"1388217045","timestamp":"2013-12-28 07:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting view of prolog. If you look at indexing and search as an alternative organizing structure, perhaps Wolfram Alpha would be the language which takes that paradigm. My understanding is that Alpha takes the \u0026quot;search\u0026quot; term and generates multiple programs corresponding to what you\u0026#x27;re trying to compute.","parent":"6969798","id":"6974359"}
{"by":"Glyptodon","time":"1530160616","timestamp":"2018-06-28 04:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my view this is off base because it\u0026#x27;s a bit intentionally obtuse.\u003cp\u003eI think the real maxim is more along the lines of \u0026quot;if you need actual full stack engineering, you don\u0026#x27;t want a full stack engineer.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBecause full stack engineers are not there for large, highly engineered, Amazon\u0026#x2F;Google scale sites.\u003cp\u003eThey are there for the MVPs, the startups, the moderate scale internal line of business tools, your local city government, or one-off moderate projects.\u003cp\u003eA full stack engineer is not there to have expert knowledge of every single micro detail of front-end, back-end, databases, site performance, SEO and such.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re there to have a general knowledge of them, produce something reasonable, and know enough of all the ends to ship in a timely manner, hopefully with design decisions that can be easily tweaked, meet requirements, and don\u0026#x27;t have boatloads of technical debt, until \u0026#x27;till it justifies a larger, more specialized, engineering investment, or just putters on with light support \u0026#x27;till end EoL because it\u0026#x27;s good enough for the scale of operation.","parent":"17411635","id":"17414099"}
{"by":"steve19","time":"1442456891","timestamp":"2015-09-17 02:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not worth the negative press when they accidently censor reviews on an app which should not be censored.\u003cp\u003eAlso, why should they care? Apple should be happy Google even allows them in the Play Store.","parent":"10231183","id":"10231236"}
{"by":"zeta0134","time":"1487096187","timestamp":"2017-02-14 18:16:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I clicked through, and was accosted with a gigantic video. I wanted to close the tab right there, but I\u0026#x27;ve seen this before, so I scrolled down to make the giant video go away. No dice, \u003ci\u003eevery\u003c/i\u003e single page element dances and animates and moves, and there don\u0026#x27;t seem to be any static images on the whole page. I can\u0026#x27;t scroll to a single position to read the actual text without some large part of my monitor animating in a suitably distracting fashion.\u003cp\u003eWhy. Just... why? Why is this necessary?","parent":"13641301","id":"13645696"}
{"by":"talles","time":"1398827181","timestamp":"2014-04-30 03:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, I know isn\u0026#x27;t that interesting or constructive but I have to say: in UX terms, Firefox just NAILED IT.\u003cp\u003eI have used for just a short term (a whole day) and I probably gonna find this or that to dislike. But so far I\u0026#x27;m in love with it.","parent":"7666688","id":"7671364"}
{"by":"jballanc","time":"1238698561","timestamp":"2009-04-02 18:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was covered a while back as part of a RadioLab (\u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/\u003c/a\u003e) episode. Not sure if this is exactly the same audio or not (didn't have time to listen), but if you haven't already listened to every single RaidoLab show, do so...now...\u003cp\u003eWhat? What are you still doing reading this?!? Go listen already...they're mind blowing!","parent":"543626","id":"543853"}
{"by":"0xdeadbeefbabe","time":"1446480754","timestamp":"2015-11-02 16:12:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope someone intelligent is working on intelligence reallocation.","parent":"10491322","id":"10492647"}
{"by":"awalGarg","time":"1458799955","timestamp":"2016-03-24 06:12:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would have bet on \u0026quot;yes\u0026quot; until a day ago.","parent":"11350642","id":"11350916"}
{"by":"jere","time":"1391013231","timestamp":"2014-01-29 16:33:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea, how Twitter works is it eats up 24 characters on a URL. No thanks. I figured the headlines were interesting enough on their own 99% of the time.","parent":"7144862","id":"7144890"}
{"by":"asddddd","time":"1475860669","timestamp":"2016-10-07 17:17:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congressional comments from when Backpage was held in contempt:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Our investigation showed that Backpage “edits” advertisements before posting them, by removing certain words, phrases, or images.  For instance, they might remove a word or image that makes clear that sexual services are being offered for money.  And then they would post this “sanitized” version of the ad.  While this editing changes nothing about the underlying transaction, it tends to conceal the evidence of illegality.  In other words, Backpage’s editing procedures, far from being an effective anti-trafficking measure, only served to sanitize the ads of illegal content to an outside viewer.\u003cp\u003eTurns out NCMEC showed up for the hearing that Backpage skipped, and didn\u0026#x27;t have many nice things to say about Backpage.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; “You see, it is sometimes hard to square Backpage’s public statements about its business practices with the reality on the ground.  For example, the National Center recently was searching for a child who went missing – and is still missing – and found that she appeared in a sex advertisement on Backpage.  That is sadly common.  But what made this case even more incredible was that the Backpage ad actually contained a missing child poster of that same child.  That poster had the child’s real name, real age, real picture, and the date she went missing.  The other pictures in the ad included topless photos.  We’d certainly like to know what supposedly market-leading screening and moderation procedures missed that one.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hsgac.senate.gov\u0026#x2F;subcommittees\u0026#x2F;investigations\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;senate-passes-portman-resolution-to-hold-backpagecom-in-contempt-of-congress\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hsgac.senate.gov\u0026#x2F;subcommittees\u0026#x2F;investigations\u0026#x2F;me...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12659267","id":"12662288"}
{"by":"abecedarius","time":"1543371726","timestamp":"2018-11-28 02:22:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Alexandria wasn\u0026#x27;t utopian afaik, but it was a planned city that seems to have been a success right away.","parent":"18548556","id":"18548752"}
{"by":"cloudjacker","time":"1472595506","timestamp":"2016-08-30 22:18:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So the shareholders in that company got screwed\u003cp\u003eBut did they? The company already had rainy day money set aside, so it was adequately priced in to the share price by now.\u003cp\u003eDid the executive wait till after the regulatory filing came out with the misstatement just so they could rat to the SEC? Maybe, there\u0026#x27;s no consequence in doing things that way.\u003cp\u003eIn other more detailed cases, an employee tries to raise an issue internally and gets ignored or stonewalled by higher ups, and then eventually gets to the SEC. These things take time, so it would be equally as difficult to define \u0026#x27;bad incentive, too late\u0026#x27;, let alone being legally inconsequential from the government\u0026#x27;s perspective to the whistleblower","parent":"12394354","id":"12394416"}
{"by":"MaysonL","time":"1398719998","timestamp":"2014-04-28 21:19:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;metastatic prototype\u0026quot;","parent":"7663065","id":"7663169"}
{"by":"metaphor","time":"1532882775","timestamp":"2018-07-29 16:46:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The cost of developing on one of these cheap boards is only meaningful if you\u0026#x27;re able to leverage a vendor\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003efree\u003c/i\u003e but \u003ci\u003elimited-to-select-architectures\u003c/i\u003e development suite. E.g. briefly looking through the list, the MiniZed with a Zynq XC7Z007S is listed at $89, but according to Xilinx, this isn\u0026#x27;t targetable by Vivado WebPACK[1]; a node-locked license will run you an additional US$3k.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Manual browsing missed XC7Z007S in the list, which is indeed targetable by WebPACK. List of dev boards is lengthy, but the principle takeaway is not to presume that a cheap dev board is targetable by a vendor\u0026#x27;s free development suite.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.xilinx.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;design-tools\u0026#x2F;vivado\u0026#x2F;vivado-webpack.html#architecture\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.xilinx.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;design-tools\u0026#x2F;vivado\u0026#x2F;vivado-w...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17636823","id":"17638997"}
{"by":"minikomi","time":"1434353371","timestamp":"2015-06-15 07:29:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. I have fun making little web apps which serve a small single purpose and can be run from a single script[0] - templating using response\u0026#x2F;xexpr  with paredit is.. well.. fun! Speed isn\u0026#x27;t a problem since I cache the result behind nginx - these aren\u0026#x27;t mission critical apps.\u003cp\u003e[0] Tokyo Art Parties parsed out of Tokyo art beat events xml - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;minikomi\u0026#x2F;tokyoartparties-rkt\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;artparties.rkt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;minikomi\u0026#x2F;tokyoartparties-rkt\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9716482","id":"9717983"}
{"by":"truthexposer","time":"1493787590","timestamp":"2017-05-03 04:59:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article fails to mention the vast amount of money the US poured into Japan to make Japan a base of US influence in Southeast Asia. Domestic peace, maybe, but the other side of the whole international story is a less happy picture","parent":"14252282","id":"14253172"}
{"by":"aculver","time":"1333297930","timestamp":"2012-04-01 16:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The dealbreaker for me with the MacBook Pro 13\" is that you don't have the option of upgrading the display for a higher density display. The MacBook Airs come with this standard, and the larger MacBook Pros have an upgrade option available. Between having one of these displays on my MacBook Pro 15\" and using a retina display on my iPhone and my iPad, I can't even stand to look at the display on the MacBook Pro 13\" or the older iPads anymore.","parent":"3784012","id":"3784131"}
{"by":"Duff","time":"1319043603","timestamp":"2011-10-19 17:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think that's true. Life was slower when most people were farmers. But culture has always changed with time.","parent":"3130255","id":"3131001"}
{"by":"pchristensen","time":"1257383415","timestamp":"2009-11-05 01:10:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is that there are fewer companies buying bug tracking so there’s a lot more money per customer. 37s makes $1800/yr tops off of a Basecamp customer, but Atlassian or FogBugz can make several times that. If you’re fighting for fewer, more profitable customers, you need to be able to win. It’s different markets - you wouldn’t suggest to Boeing to give an all-you-can-eat deal to any airline for a fixed price.\u003cp\u003eFog Creek could try to shrink the industry by getting rid of the per-seat licensing, but if they have a similar price structures and features as their competitors, they’d better be able to win deals.","parent":"922974","id":"923066"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1438977839","timestamp":"2015-08-07 20:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The same can be said for the specific arrangement of dust interstellar gas.  Suggesting said gas has free will just means your definition of free will is basically matter with a past or even more abstractly just math.\u003cp\u003eAll hail, F(x) = x + 1, it now get\u0026#x27;s to vote.","parent":"10023991","id":"10024666"}
{"by":"mynameishere","time":"1186591705","timestamp":"2007-08-08 16:48:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Uh, television sleazy?\u003cp\u003eC'mon, man.\u003cp\u003eEven a hypermoral person like Oprah is pure sleaze if you know what you're looking at.\u003cp\u003e","parent":"40526","id":"40555"}
{"by":"katbyte","time":"1363834481","timestamp":"2013-03-21 02:54:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i worked at a place like that once, it was pretty boring and stale. I worked with co-wrokers.\u003cp\u003eNow i work some place like yours! (with both other women and men) and its great. I work with friends and acquaintances now not co-workers.","parent":"5412483","id":"5412505"}
{"by":"boboblong","time":"1342738619","timestamp":"2012-07-19 22:56:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can only get honest opinions on politics on anonymous, unmoderated forums. /pol/ is a cesspool, but it's real.","parent":"4268076","id":"4268486"}
{"by":"tonomics","time":"1445784418","timestamp":"2015-10-25 14:46:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same could be said about NY Times","parent":"10446982","id":"10446985"}
{"by":"acbart","time":"1430753822","timestamp":"2015-05-04 15:37:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that, in theory, 99% of everyone can learn to code. However, some people will take prohibitively long to do so. These people may have other talents, but they will struggle in learning how to code and probably only achieve minimal success.\u003cp\u003eOf course, that\u0026#x27;s using a completely vague and arbitrary assessment of successful coding. I teach an intro coding course for non-majors at the undergraduate level. So my numbers are based on the performance assessment we use.","parent":"9486591","id":"9486813"}
{"by":"mirceasoaica","time":"1489501380","timestamp":"2017-03-14 14:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Donations are not the main CTA. If you want to support the initiative you can donate. \nWe don\u0026#x27;t need money to build the MVPs for people but if we get donations we might convince other devs to join (they would get paid).","parent":"13867594","id":"13867683"}
{"by":"andrewcooke","time":"1348446965","timestamp":"2012-09-24 00:36:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"which got me thinking.  is there any place where you can get code reviews?  something like a book club, but each week you review someone else's code.  could be online or local meetups...","parent":"4562640","id":"4562672"}
{"by":"ceallen","time":"1436983970","timestamp":"2015-07-15 18:12:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No mention of the \u0026#x27;stress test\u0026#x27; that\u0026#x27;s brought the network to its knees the past few days, or of the soft fork that resulted in suggestions to wait for 30+ confirmations? Puff piece.\u003cp\u003eC\u0026#x27;mon Coinbase, at least spin them into a \u0026#x27;\u0026lt;X\u0026gt; is actually good for Bitcoin, because \u0026lt;Y\u0026gt;\u0026#x27; format.","parent":"9892970","id":"9893018"}
{"by":"lucisferre","time":"1371749014","timestamp":"2013-06-20 17:23:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty sure Walmart is doing that.","parent":"5913119","id":"5913317"}
{"by":"codex-paulus","time":"1513037120","timestamp":"2017-12-12 00:05:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. I suspect this is the case as well. I guess I just don\u0026#x27;t like restricting my self to such an arbitrary process as the industries I have direct experience in or happen to know people in (lots of overlap between these two categories)","parent":"15901828","id":"15901970"}
{"by":"greendestiny","time":"1201857966","timestamp":"2008-02-01 09:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think people tend to think in terms of explicit state as a default rather than being forced to by poor syntax. I've had experience teaching amateurs and this really tends to be bourne out in what I've seen. Students tend to find functional languages very easy to use until the problems start to involve things that need to change over time and then they can't get past the idea of storage.","parent":"107739","id":"107743"}
{"by":"kevingadd","time":"1387556832","timestamp":"2013-12-20 16:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dart2js does not currently implement the whole language. Integer\u0026#x2F;float semantics and support for large integers don\u0026#x27;t work (it seems like they didn\u0026#x27;t implement them manually, so it just falls back to doubles?), and there are probably other things I don\u0026#x27;t know about missing.\u003cp\u003eI should point out that emscripten and many other JS-targeting compilers (like JSIL) emulate int64 semantics directly so that apps using them \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e work. It\u0026#x27;s kind of strange for the Dart team to have not gotten this right yet when Dart is at 1.0.","parent":"6942116","id":"6942182"}
{"by":"khedoros1","time":"1523244734","timestamp":"2018-04-09 03:32:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used to take notes that way in college sometimes (i.e. more that once, but not for anything very important). It felt almost natural to mirror the letters while also writing right-to-left.","parent":"16786799","id":"16790103"}
{"by":"mpyne","time":"1408488425","timestamp":"2014-08-19 22:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What the fuck was a US soldier doing in Iraq to start with? Was there a draft? I don\u0026#x27;t recall there being one.\u003cp\u003eA draft has nothing at all to do with whether the invasion in 2003 was a legal use of armed force or not, under U.S. domestic law or international law. If that invasion was illegal without the draft, then it was also illegal with a draft. Being a conscript doesn\u0026#x27;t make your participation in an otherwise illegal invasion magically legal.\u003cp\u003eBut. Even if you disagree (as I do) with the justification for invading in Iraq in 2003, there are and were plenty of legitimate reasons for U.S. forces to be there to restore security after the U.S. fucked everything up.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, the current government of Iraq and the Kurdish pesh merge invited the U.S. back in to conduct air strikes to beat back ISIS (who prominently came to power after the U.S. military left...), much to the acclaim of practically the entire world, including the U.N., including Pope Francis, including Iraqis themselves. I\u0026#x27;ll bet even Iran was happy.\u003cp\u003eBut that U.S. intervention was just as legal as the U.S. presence in 2005. You can\u0026#x27;t have your cake and eat it too, man.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; So Gen. knows how to spew propaganda. Hell, he wouldn\u0026#x27;t be a good general if he didn\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eIt wasn\u0026#x27;t just the General. The Democratic mayor of New Orleans was quite complimentary as well: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/honore.profile/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2005\u0026#x2F;US\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;honore.profile\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut either way, no offense but your idea that an Army General (or soldier in general) is simply locked into being a bloodthirsty monster by virtue of the system they operate in is just as crazy as the idea that being a black single mother must make you a welfare queen, or that being a gay homosexual must mean that you like home decorating and keep up with fashion.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Have the found any WMDs yet?\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eArmy\u003c/i\u003e never said there was WMDs to find, so what\u0026#x27;s that have to do with anything.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; How about that Abu Ghraib?\u003cp\u003eReported to the world by the Army? That Abu Ghraib? I mean, if you want to bash on the Army, you should bash on the Army for refusing to promote the Major General who investigated the conditions at Abu Ghraib after it was leaked to the world and came back with a report damning of the entire setup of the U.S. presence at the prison. \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/25/the-generals-report\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;2007\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;25\u0026#x2F;the-generals-re...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s plenty of bad apples, alright, but they were wearing stars on their collars, and suits and ties, and included officers and civilians. Not just generals, but Rumsfeld, and Congress too. Should we disband Congress then? Install a benevolent dictator?\u003cp\u003eGen. Taguba points it out best himself: \u0026quot;From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service. And yet when we get to the senior-officer level we forget those values...\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eOK, so there are a bunch of senior officer shit bags... does that make integrity, service, honor and duty bad things? No, it doesn\u0026#x27;t, and in any event soldiers get immersed in those values to a far greater degree than local and state police forces.\u003cp\u003eIt was those same values about sacrifice and integrity that led a junior enlisted soldier to inform the world about the Mahmuydiah atrocity you pointed out. That wasn\u0026#x27;t caught by a human rights activist, it was caught and reported by a soldier.\u003cp\u003eSo if your viewpoint is that an entire institution must be put to death for the crimes of its members I\u0026#x27;m going to have to disagree. Should all libertarians have to answer for the slayings contracted by DPR? Should all Socialists have to answer for Stalin and Mao?","parent":"8196029","id":"8200257"}
{"by":"mcepl","time":"1524206038","timestamp":"2018-04-20 06:33:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or she is a programmer working with a sensible programming language with sensible standard library (e.g., Python). I would really like to like NodeJS, JavaScript is not that bad language in itself, but missing standard library is a problem for me.","parent":"16882344","id":"16882606"}
{"by":"maurits","time":"1314570082","timestamp":"2011-08-28 22:21:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of the top of my head,\u003cp\u003e- Machine Learning by Tom M Mitchell \n\u003ca href=\"http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor general reading and introductions I also like:\u003cp\u003e- Pattern Classification by Richard Duda\u003cp\u003e- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by \nChristopher Bishop\u003cp\u003eFor a bit more emphasis on statistics and math, I usually dive in to\u003cp\u003e- Classification,Parameter Estimation and State Estimation by van der Heijden\u003cp\u003eAnd last, but certainly not least:\u003cp\u003e- Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by \nDavid MacKay, available here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2935027","id":"2935167"}
{"by":"drdeadringer","time":"1486330949","timestamp":"2017-02-05 21:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked for Skybox [Google] in 2015 as a contactor. A very good set of people who, at the time, were still getting used to integrating into the Google machine. I imagine that the past few years have been and will be a continuous sea of change such as this.","parent":"13573523","id":"13574810"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1313152261","timestamp":"2011-08-12 12:31:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, but don't get too attached to dreams. Or, at least, dont't confuse them with businesses. Confusing dreams and businesses lead to emotional decisions and using the word \"dream\" and the concept of dreams dying won't help you detach.","parent":"2876681","id":"2876981"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1384712238","timestamp":"2013-11-17 18:17:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It all depends on whether (and how long) the big players (Pharma, etc.) can profit off of it.\u003cp\u003eCase-in-point: we\u0026#x27;re starting to treat heroin dependence with a drug that is just as recreationally potent, and has similar risk of overdose[0], when we could just easily be treating it with heroin itself (diacetylmorphine maintenance[1]).\u003cp\u003eCurrently, buprenorphine is the \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; drug to be addicted to, but even its makers started advertising its high addictive potential (in an attempt to push their new \u0026quot;safer\u0026quot; version, which is still under patent protection and therefore more profitable[2]).\u003cp\u003eAt some point, we can only imagine that Reckitt Benckiser (the makers) will have milked as much as they can out of the drug, and we will declare buprenorphine a \u0026quot;bad\u0026quot; drug to be addicted to, just like heroin, and treat its addiction with the latest shiny, new drug.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve seen this cycle many, many times. In fact, it\u0026#x27;s worth mentioning here that the word \u0026quot;heroin\u0026quot; was originally a Bayer trademark[3]. It was a cough suppressant invented as a \u0026quot;safer\u0026quot; over-the-counter substitute for the recreational bogeyman of the time: morphine.\u003cp\u003eHow times change!\u003cp\u003e(By the way, I recognize that buprenorphine can be very helpful in treatment. this is not to say that buprenorphine is either right or wrong for everyone, just that the laws and policies that we construct around these drugs often represent financial interests more than they represent scientific or medical facts.)\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/health/in-demand-in-clinics-and-on-the-street-bupe-can-be-savior-or-menace.html?_r=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;in-demand-in-clinic...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Heroin-assisted_treatment\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Evergreening\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Etymology\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Heroin#Etymology\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6750006","id":"6750030"}
{"by":"gommm","time":"1193239506","timestamp":"2007-10-24 15:25:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Objective C is a heck of a sweet language.... It's one of the few C based object oriented language that feels enough like ruby to make me like it ;-)","parent":"72075","id":"72088"}
{"by":"gumby","time":"1477165639","timestamp":"2016-10-22 19:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If you can do everything on the gpu then it isn\u0026#x27;t a problem but at that point why isn\u0026#x27;t the gpu your main processor?\u003cp\u003eThe GPU is a highly optimized block of SIMD machines with a more limited set of ALU ops and addressing modes.  The CPU has a more general architecture.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s totally reasonable to have a truck, a car and a bicycle.","parent":"12768848","id":"12770279"}
{"by":"vinc","time":"1288242055","timestamp":"2010-10-28 05:00:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use xmonad since a few months on my netbook and it's indeed the perfect choice for this!","parent":"1841552","id":"1841804"}
{"by":"0xFFFF0000","time":"1522373654","timestamp":"2018-03-30 01:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I agree the way Wall Street approaches this seemed rather defensive. They are trying to appear on top of things, while in reality still are not sure how to tackle bitcoin long term.","parent":"16708326","id":"16712902"}
{"by":"Pica_soO","time":"1477186212","timestamp":"2016-10-23 01:30:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just imagine you could control this process- you could form a magma jet cutter and tame and aim it at a volcano. You could hold the world ransom for 100 billion dollars- and all you need are some geothermal power-plants.\u003cp\u003eBut, no, not again super villainy, not one day at a time.\nI will not use super villainy today, no matter what happens.\nI can do this. We can do this.\nSuper villainy does not control me.\nI am moving forward right now.","parent":"12769830","id":"12771399"}
{"by":"spriggan3","time":"1460661600","timestamp":"2016-04-14 19:20:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Still no CLI mode for editing text\u003cp\u003eNormally I\u0026#x27;d be the first jumping on Microsoft products and criticize them but this is a strange statement. Most of what you can find in VSCode runs on nodejs so if you want a specific features in a CLI you don\u0026#x27;t need VSCode, just install whatever nodejs lib you need and use it from the CLI.","parent":"11498261","id":"11499582"}
{"by":"signal","time":"1301112172","timestamp":"2011-03-26 04:02:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is the natural reaction of the hacker news (intelligent and savvy) crowd, but I see more and more every day that the average human desperately wants to be seen by anyone. Hence the success of youtube, twitter and facebook.","parent":"2370838","id":"2371319"}
{"by":"WalterSear","time":"1455747686","timestamp":"2016-02-17 22:21:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The big, protruding heel of the human foot is completely counterproductive for running. It helps us stand on two legs and walk. Humans have to consciously learn a proper technique for running to avoid misusing the heel. Doing \u0026quot;what comes naturally\u0026quot; is just horrible.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Doing what comes naturally\u0026quot; after being trained and conditioned from childhood to ambulate in shoes is a far cry from what actually comes naturally.","parent":"11121568","id":"11121965"}
{"by":"Marazan","time":"1526802893","timestamp":"2018-05-20 07:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Decentralisation increases the number of middle men!  Unless you are talking g pure peer to peer with no discovery service.","parent":"17111690","id":"17111728"}
{"by":"throwawayjava","time":"1497555053","timestamp":"2017-06-15 19:30:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What does \u0026quot;made up\u0026quot; mean?\u003cp\u003eSomeone who launders money for a hitman or human trafficker is enabling the hitman\u0026#x2F;trafficker\u0026#x27;s business.\u003cp\u003eIf you help bury a body, you\u0026#x27;re guilty of something. If you help clean a violent criminal\u0026#x27;s money, you\u0026#x27;re guilty of something.\u003cp\u003eThe launderer\u0026#x27;s guilt is only \u0026quot;made up\u0026quot; in-so-far as murder or human trafficking are \u0026quot;made up\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e(Re: Drugs, sure. The correct solution here is to legalize drugs.)","parent":"14561966","id":"14563636"}
{"by":"Create","time":"1386622936","timestamp":"2013-12-09 21:02:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?\u0026quot; -- H. Schopper\u003cp\u003eThe numbers make the problem clear. In 2007, the year before CERN first powered up the LHC, the lab produced 142 master\u0026#x27;s and Ph.D. theses, according to the lab\u0026#x27;s document server. Last year it produced 327. (Fermilab chipped in 54.) That abundance seems unlikely to vanish anytime soon, as last year ATLAS had 1000 grad students and CMS had 900.\u003cp\u003eIn contrast, the INSPIRE Web site, a database for particle physics, currently lists 124 postdocs worldwide in experimental high-energy physics, the sort of work LHC grads have trained for.\u003cp\u003eThe situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab. The Snowmass Young Physicists survey received responses from 956 early-career researchers, including 343 postdocs. But INSPIRE currently lists just 152 \u0026quot;junior\u0026quot; positions, including 61 in North America. And the supply of jobs isn\u0026#x27;t likely to increase, says John Finley, an astrophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is leading a search to replace two senior particle physicists. \u0026quot;For the most part, I don\u0026#x27;t think departments are looking to grow their particle physics programs,\u0026quot; he says.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_08_29/caredit.a1300185\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sciencecareers.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;career_magazine\u0026#x2F;previou...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA warning to non-western members about values at CERN:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y)\u0026quot; [where Y\u0026gt;X]\u003cp\u003esource: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9290831693 \u003ca href=\"http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cdsweb.cern.ch\u0026#x2F;record\u0026#x2F;494264\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6875060","id":"6876942"}
{"by":"jforman","time":"1422994365","timestamp":"2015-02-03 20:12:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They had prime real estate that a more robust business will pick up.  The jobs will be replaced.\u003cp\u003eWhether this is good social policy is a much more complicated question.","parent":"8992928","id":"8992990"}
{"by":"nacs","time":"1465567019","timestamp":"2016-06-10 13:56:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; No-one is seriously using monocular vision for any kind of serious environmental sensing\u003cp\u003eI believe Tesla uses a single camera for auto-steering.","parent":"11874793","id":"11876335"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1280344011","timestamp":"2010-07-28 19:06:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's like suggesting that you can eliminate CPU cache because most resources are going to be in main memory.  Few systems scale 1:1 when adding more systems, yet making each system more powerful has the potential to be more useful than increasing the scaling factor.\u003cp\u003eIn other words if 100 machines are 60 times more powerful than 1 machine, increasing your scaling factor is less important than doubling each machines throughput (assuming you keep the same scaling factor).","parent":"1553420","id":"1555289"}
{"by":"collyw","time":"1377608867","timestamp":"2013-08-27 13:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He is a Ruby hipster. They are all about smart one liners.","parent":"6269710","id":"6283145"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1402002332","timestamp":"2014-06-05 21:05:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly.  The \u0026quot;equal traffic\u0026quot; concept totally fails for consumer last mile providers.  In fact, it\u0026#x27;s technically more expensive for them to provide symmetrical service due to head end noise, but it also fits with their \u0026quot;you\u0026#x27;re supposed to consume content, \u003ci\u003eespecially ours\u003c/i\u003e, not supply it\u0026quot; attitude.\u003cp\u003eThe latter is something that more people ought to be thinking about, consumers using Netflix are not just consuming more peak bandwidth, they\u0026#x27;re competing with the video offerings of all of the big last mile providers.\u003cp\u003eAlthough. AT\u0026amp;T doesn\u0026#x27;t actually offer U-verse video service to very many of their subscribers; don\u0026#x27;t know about Verizon\u0026#x27;s FiOS vs. plain DSL offerings (except that they\u0026#x27;re shedding small population states and markets as fast as they can), but the others are cable companies so they obviously do.","parent":"7854356","id":"7854490"}
{"by":"mastazi","time":"1521408020","timestamp":"2018-03-18 21:20:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So what’s the problem with that?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a problem, in the sense that I realise there is no malice; on the other hand, it\u0026#x27;s a problem in the sense that after many years living in a country, having acquired citizenship and having built a family here, I would like to think you are part of the community.\u003cp\u003eConstantly being reminded that I am never really going to progress past the status of outsider can be really bothersome.\u003cp\u003eHow long have you been living in Singapore? Things start to change after a few years in my opinion.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I just wanted to point out that the positive aspects of migrating to a new country, in my case, still greatly outweigh the negative aspects such as the one described above. Also, I am lucky because the cultural differences between my native country (Italy) and my adoptive one (Australia) are relatively minor.","parent":"16613331","id":"16614412"}
{"by":"acadien","time":"1429390964","timestamp":"2015-04-18 21:02:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the above comment of it cost only a few hundred thousand dollars is just the cost of the fuel. Ancillary costs like moving the rocket, repairs, refueling, launch planning etc would also cost some money but it is still orders of magnitude cheaper than building new rockets or heavy repairs from crash landings.","parent":"9400968","id":"9401021"}
{"by":"dschiptsov","time":"1388812385","timestamp":"2014-01-04 05:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not just Erlang, but OTP. These guys wrote \u0026quot;real-time media gateways\u0026quot; on top of it, which works in production switches.","parent":"7009534","id":"7010043"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1347814604","timestamp":"2012-09-16 16:56:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a hardware project, not a software one. In virtual world we can talk about keeping features to the minimum and iterating the product as fast as we can. But we don't live in post-scarcity world where energy is free. Designing products for more-less planned obsolescence, while maybe good from marketing point of view, strikes me as wrong and harmful to the global society.","parent":"4529414","id":"4529552"}
{"by":"PeanutCurry","time":"1502944470","timestamp":"2017-08-17 04:34:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In this instance I think it is because the point I was making in pushing a somewhat pedantic argument is that while what happened in Charlottesville, and arguably catalyzed the current popularity of nazi discussion, is obviously a tragedy it\u0026#x27;s also a highly emotional topic precisely because it\u0026#x27;s a tragedy.\u003cp\u003eThis was why I concluded with the argument that we should at the same time be focused on identifying and quantifying the reach and influence these groups. Because in the wake of an extremely upsetting event it\u0026#x27;s important to emphasize the need for intelligent debate and evaluation or else the discourse becomes volatile and incapable of rational decision making.","parent":"15033569","id":"15033833"}
{"by":"gurkendoktor","time":"1352977442","timestamp":"2012-11-15 11:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; not on scientific facts\u003cp\u003eBut yes - all these guesses \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e the scientific facts as far as we know them. You can complain about nutritional science being absolutely immature and probably highly corrupt, but it's still the best we have, and people who follow it aren't sheep anymore than I am for believing that there are atoms just because I was told so.","parent":"4787866","id":"4788035"}
{"by":"giarc","time":"1460128520","timestamp":"2016-04-08 15:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you are saying that if you are a general purpose store, you have to offer products from your competitors.  Walmart should sell Target brand products, Home Depot should sell Lowes brand products.  See my point?  Stores just aren\u0026#x27;t in the business of selling their competitors products.","parent":"11455053","id":"11455222"}
{"by":"Locke1689","time":"1373142248","timestamp":"2013-07-06 20:24:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure. Ono is a plugin for the Vuze\u0026#x2F;Azureus Bittorrent client[1]. It attempts to find peers closest to you.\u003cp\u003eThe reason why increased Bittorrent traffic is that the Bittorrent protocol doesn\u0026#x27;t require any specific selection of peers. This means that you can have excessive traffic from other areas, which plays havoc with Tier 1 ISP peer agreements. If the protocol isn\u0026#x27;t modified to work in conjunction with peering, I would expect ISPs to simply kill Bittorrent traffic.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/118-ono-reducing-p2p-cross-isp-traffic-while-improving-users-performance\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;118-ono-reducing...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5999927","id":"5999954"}
{"by":"AnIdiotOnTheNet","time":"1546549200","timestamp":"2019-01-03 21:00:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, but it\u0026#x27;s also about 3 times my entire house payment here in the midwest.","parent":"18817377","id":"18819219"}
{"by":"WheelsAtLarge","time":"1501894843","timestamp":"2017-08-05 01:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Marketing is the real differentiator. If people don\u0026#x27;t know why your products rocks then they will never find it or buy it. Anyone and everyone with a side product must understand that to be successful.","parent":"14933194","id":"14933630"}
{"by":"henrikschroder","time":"1484441996","timestamp":"2017-01-15 00:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I saw an example of that with shellscript files you\u0026#x27;re supposed to run with \u0026#x27;curl \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;example.com\u0026#x2F;script.sh\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;example.com\u0026#x2F;script.sh\u003c/a\u003e | sh\u0026#x27; or something, where if you pipe it to cat instead, it looks harmless enough, because it contains control characters that erase the dangerous parts. So you have to download the script, and load it up in an editor before you can see what it actually does.\u003cp\u003e...which of course is \u003ci\u003eso much work\u003c/i\u003e that noone does it.","parent":"13400905","id":"13401670"}
{"by":"jesperlang","time":"1512845378","timestamp":"2017-12-09 18:49:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah, it was not the best way to put forward my thoughts. Thanks for the reminder!","parent":"15886525","id":"15887300"}
{"by":"Matt3o12_","time":"1525859553","timestamp":"2018-05-09 09:52:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consumers demanded slimmer designs over glued in batteries, soldered RAM chips, etc. So the market responded by gluing in batteries and soldering ram. In a way, the consumers did demand that.","parent":"17028385","id":"17028593"}
{"by":"beaner","time":"1511340688","timestamp":"2017-11-22 08:51:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As per my comment, individual op-eds are not necessarily the problem, it is the curation of various articles fitting a theme across the entire paper by the editorial board.","parent":"15755296","id":"15755349"}
{"by":"xbryanx","time":"1503692098","timestamp":"2017-08-25 20:14:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The American Geophysical Union is looking for feedback from its members on geo-engineering efforts like this right now. The draft statement is a good read:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sciencepolicy.agu.org\u0026#x2F;comment-geoengineering\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sciencepolicy.agu.org\u0026#x2F;comment-geoengineering\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15101192","id":"15101810"}
{"by":"davecyen","time":"1399052722","timestamp":"2014-05-02 17:45:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is cool, and there\u0026#x27;s definitely a need for a better WordPress, but I feel like this setup flow is backwards. Ideally, the flow would be something like this: I go to webhooks.com. Create an account, then create a new project (newproject.webhooks.com). I can edit my site from my site\u0026#x27;s admin page (newproject.webhooks.com\u0026#x2F;admin), or as an advanced option, I can install the repo locally to fully edit the code.\u003cp\u003eAm I missing something here? Don\u0026#x27;t understand why a user would want to install locally first. Also especially for a non-technical person, this creates barriers to get started.","parent":"7684362","id":"7687058"}
{"by":"asjo","time":"1472744947","timestamp":"2016-09-01 15:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was wondering where the surge in articles requested was coming from... Cool to see it reposted.\u003cp\u003eThe first year or so the stream of articles was so small that it was easy to read \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c/i\u003e posted to olduse.net every day :-)","parent":"12401026","id":"12406269"}
{"by":"steveplace","time":"1343403333","timestamp":"2012-07-27 15:35:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No need for inflammatory language here.","parent":"4301900","id":"4301912"}
{"by":"cinquemb","time":"1520028739","timestamp":"2018-03-02 22:12:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eStudent loans are either guaranteed by the government\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eUltimately, if the loan is not repaid, and there is no collateral nor assets to seize, it comes out of the assets of the bank\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich bank in this case (since we\u0026#x27;re talking about government student loans, not private ones…)? Federal Reserve Bank of (NY, St Louis, Cleveland, etc)? Where do they get the money from?\u003cp\u003eIncreasingly more (because seriously how much does yearly tax revenues pay the bill in full?), the government getting private (other central banks\u0026#x2F; institutions\u0026#x2F;very wealthy individuals) buyers to buy their treasury notes\u0026#x2F;bills at record breaking supply auctions with currency that originated \u003ci\u003esomehow\u003c/i\u003e from central banks…\u003cp\u003eAlthough the textbook definitions of counterfeiting and debt monetization may differ, I suspect there will be those who will never even question how the two could be perceived to be similar by anyone without dismissing them as completely insane and incapable of logical thought…\u003cp\u003eAnd somehow in the midst of this, we loose sight on resource allocation in general…","parent":"16505976","id":"16506229"}
{"by":"readme","time":"1464817856","timestamp":"2016-06-01 21:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t matter for Saudi Arabia. As long as their investment in Uber starts paying out before their oil runs out they\u0026#x27;ll be  golden.","parent":"11818136","id":"11818519"}
{"by":"pier25","time":"1487708532","timestamp":"2017-02-21 20:22:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; a platform that is arguably doing significant damage to our culture and democracy\u003cp\u003eIgnorance and the lack of critical thinking are probably more responsible here than Facebook.","parent":"13699276","id":"13699497"}
{"by":"0xFFFE","time":"1508421253","timestamp":"2017-10-19 13:54:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I miss my N900, I could run full fledged Debian on it. The Maemo OS also had Terminal app with full SSH client \u0026amp; server app. I used to SSH into my phone from my laptop just for kicks.\nAnd then Nokia had to go and fuck it all up.","parent":"15505856","id":"15507875"}
{"by":"mrtksn","time":"1383231853","timestamp":"2013-10-31 15:04:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is quite cool actually. It reminds you that if your device has a sensor, it can communicate.\u003cp\u003eIt should be possible to communicate through a webcam and a screen when the airgapped devices are on the same room. It could be possible to communicate by accelerometer(macs has these) and inducing vibrations using the HDD when the devices sit on the same table.","parent":"6646936","id":"6647183"}
{"by":"js8","time":"1511347672","timestamp":"2017-11-22 10:47:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"APIs and programming languages are UI for programmers, so yeah, they deserve some UX thinking.\u003cp\u003eHowever, where is the current trend of functional programming in this piece? (I am not disparaging FP, on the contrary, I think it\u0026#x27;s a good development.)\u003cp\u003eShouldn\u0026#x27;t API calls be, for example, easy to test? In functional programming, we often avoid doing actions directly, and instead give descriptions of actions (in form of functions) that are to be made. Does your API support that?\u003cp\u003eWhat about minimization of the state that the API requires to keep, and its transparency?\u003cp\u003eI am sorry if I come off a little incoherent. Best would be if I could give some tool a program that calls an API, say a sequence of API calls. And I would be told, this sequence is valid for the API. So I could prove for my program that it is accessing the API correctly.","parent":"15752365","id":"15755849"}
{"by":"mullen","time":"1517957704","timestamp":"2018-02-06 22:55:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was a test flight so they could send anything they wanted, so they did.","parent":"16320681","id":"16320732"}
{"by":"riskable","time":"1544396773","timestamp":"2018-12-09 23:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The solution to this problem is to solicit user feedback \u003ci\u003eall the time\u003c/i\u003e. As in, the moment you get your code kinda sorta working you get some feedback from the ultimate end users (e.g. NOT the product manager, LOL)...\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This rough implementation is how I (we) envision this feature working. What do you think?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;We\u0026#x27;ve got the feature working well but it requires non-trivial back end changes. Would you be willing to wait or will you be satisfied if it works but only in a very manual way until we get the back end changes in place?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWeek 2 after release: \u0026quot;The feature is live... What do you think? How is it working?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThese are conversations \u003ci\u003ethe developers\u003c/i\u003e should be having with the \u003ci\u003eend users\u003c/i\u003e. Regularly! It\u0026#x27;s when developers only ever talk to their boss and\u0026#x2F;or the project manager that pushes development into the anti-user zone.","parent":"18643756","id":"18643897"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1249047264","timestamp":"2009-07-31 13:34:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The likelihood of the average business to adopt Non-Windows Computers seems extremely small.\u003cp\u003eThe only reason to buy Apple would be to woe the employees, at a significant cost. Linux would probably not make many employees happy, and would not save that much money either. So which companies would make the switch? Except for designer shops, of course.","parent":"733528","id":"734371"}
{"by":"Cerium","time":"1522972796","timestamp":"2018-04-05 23:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. I\u0026#x27;ve spent time in countries with poor plumbing systems and picked up the habit. I\u0026#x27;ve found that it does not stink up the trash since it dries quickly. Additionally, if you put the poo side down it all stacks up in the bin until you take it out. Since I started doing this at home I have not had to unclog a toilet.","parent":"16766975","id":"16769888"}
{"by":"wonderwonder","time":"1490290338","timestamp":"2017-03-23 17:32:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sponsored by Hooli","parent":"13941812","id":"13941965"}
{"by":"afarrell","time":"1531137198","timestamp":"2018-07-09 11:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; BNT\u003cp\u003eImagine saying this in a noisy environment to a stressed artillery officer who is hard-of-hearing. How do you distinguish between \u0026quot;bee-en-tee\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;tee-en-tee\u0026quot;? If you\u0026#x27;re going to spell out \u0026quot;bravo November tango\u0026quot;, then you\u0026#x27;ll probably want a different name.","parent":"17488561","id":"17489536"}
{"by":"joosters","time":"1520556844","timestamp":"2018-03-09 00:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you give a few examples of the basic mistakes in the book, please?","parent":"16548445","id":"16549056"}
{"by":"taftster","time":"1436824064","timestamp":"2015-07-13 21:47:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but only in Soviet Russia.","parent":"9881258","id":"9881373"}
{"by":"wodenokoto","time":"1464170305","timestamp":"2016-05-25 09:58:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"seems like you are what in european parlance is called a \u0026quot;liberal\u0026quot;.","parent":"11761227","id":"11768687"}
{"by":"whoopdedo","time":"1469195208","timestamp":"2016-07-22 13:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And an FBI honeypot mixed in there as well.","parent":"12143345","id":"12143438"}
{"by":"hsivonen","time":"1477475387","timestamp":"2016-10-26 09:49:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are the benefits of using Debian\u0026#x27;s package for nginx instead of using one from nginx.org\u0026#x27;s apt repo?","parent":"12792557","id":"12795153"}
{"by":"aidos","time":"1537790840","timestamp":"2018-09-24 12:07:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s so cool! When I was figuring out how to solve it myself (took a year of tinkering to come up with an algorithm) the first big revelation is that the centres always stay fixed relative to one another.","parent":"18056636","id":"18056959"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1431355453","timestamp":"2015-05-11 14:44:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally I find that site less interesting. It vaguely resembles Win9x, but only vaguely, it\u0026#x27;s not even trying to be faithful, and you can\u0026#x27;t really \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e anything.\u003cp\u003eCompare that to michaelv.org (now defunct), which very faithfully reproduced Windows 3.1, complete with games, a filesystem, various small utilities, and such. Or to win95.ajf.me (which I made) which has an actual instance of Windows 95 in it, so you can fiddle about with the real thing.\u003cp\u003eI dunno. Windows 93 is fun, but it\u0026#x27;s not quite the same experience. I\u0026#x27;d love to make something in the same vein as michaelv.org for Windows 95. I already have win95.ajf.me, of course, but a recreation of 95 is fun for its own reasons.","parent":"9524998","id":"9525088"}
{"by":"notauser","time":"1317024990","timestamp":"2011-09-26 08:16:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because Apple want a 30% cut of all content sold via the iPad, which represents a larger margin than Amazon can afford to give away whilst remaining a profitable distributor.","parent":"3038012","id":"3038051"}
{"by":"mattgreenrocks","time":"1390872907","timestamp":"2014-01-28 01:35:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love this.\u003cp\u003eArticles like this are why you cannot trust industry to teach you programming. They\u0026#x27;re too busy getting it wrong, then patting themselves on the back about it.","parent":"7134051","id":"7134723"}
{"by":"threeseed","time":"1376315008","timestamp":"2013-08-12 13:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seriously the only people who think Android is great for low end devices are those that have never used it. I\u0026#x27;ve built a number of apps that needed to support those devices and it was a nightmare. And it\u0026#x27;s not just pure specs everyone involved thinks of the people using them as cheap and therefore less deserving of a polished experience.\u003cp\u003eBreaking free from all of that and getting back to simple, well executed basics is the way to go IMHO.","parent":"6199001","id":"6199112"}
{"by":"maxharris","time":"1358527041","timestamp":"2013-01-18 16:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously that was a rotten thing to do, and it hurt their relationship in a major way.\u003cp\u003eHowever, that incident was an exception, not the rule. You literally can't become fabulously wealthy \u003ci\u003eand keep it long-term\u003c/i\u003e by cheating people. (Bernie Madoff is penniless, and in jail.)\u003cp\u003eFor evidence, I submit the wider context. Without Jobs, Woz would now be a retired HP engineer. No Apple, no IPO, no hundreds of millions. (And of course the reverse is true: no Woz, no Apple.) None of those original Apple IPO millionaires, nor any of the people that made it big the second time around, are complaining of \"exploitation.\"","parent":"5079013","id":"5079493"}
{"by":"mxpxrocks10","time":"1543317163","timestamp":"2018-11-27 11:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"can someone clearly explain the pricing for this?","parent":"18539581","id":"18541346"}
{"by":"spaghetti","time":"1342469689","timestamp":"2012-07-16 20:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trying to think of explanations for this. First thing that comes to mind is a Dilbert cartoon where the new CEO takes over to run the company into the ground. While Yahoo's news, shopping, maps and search traffic is probably only a fraction of Google's it's still worth something. Why not install an insider at Yahoo and slowly help the traffic move over?","parent":"4252274","id":"4252347"}
{"by":"lawnchair_larry","time":"1418921117","timestamp":"2014-12-18 16:45:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t take time once you get Domain Admin, and there is no indication of how fast it happened. I\u0026#x27;ve seen companies lose DA, and therefore their entire enterprise, in hours. You can then push malware to everyone on the domain.","parent":"8766422","id":"8768144"}
{"by":"malkia","time":"1283547861","timestamp":"2010-09-03 21:04:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The real enemy of the Duke: \"Rest in pieces 3DRealms!\"","parent":"1660502","id":"1661151"}
{"by":"narcissus","time":"1360250620","timestamp":"2013-02-07 15:23:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's fair. I have a similar thought process around other servers and sites that I have, so I can appreciate the need for fiddling.\u003cp\u003eFunnily enough, I think the reason I went with Blogger (alongside not needing to worry too much about traffic etc.) was specifically to take away my complete ability to fiddle... otherwise I tend to do all that instead of actually writing.","parent":"5182330","id":"5182492"}
{"by":"adamb_","time":"1385521439","timestamp":"2013-11-27 03:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it reaches $1000, will mining bitcoins be considered a worthwhile endeavor again?","parent":"6805315","id":"6806029"}
{"by":"yzmtf2008","time":"1545385178","timestamp":"2018-12-21 09:39:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"fwiw, alpine is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e designed to be used as a base image only, if you look into the history of alpine.","parent":"18732090","id":"18732307"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1287591839","timestamp":"2010-10-20 16:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not entirely sure that implementing a textbox form in a day is something to brag about. For comparison, yesterday we added some vital statistics for historious to the backend (churn, active users, repeat users, etc etc) with graphs and all in a few hours...\u003cp\u003eIt's great when you're a small startup and you can go \"hey, we need a form so people can give us feedback when they cancel\" and then have it ready in a few minutes, but I don't see it as something extraordinary.\u003cp\u003eWhat customers \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e appreciate, though, is when they send you an email about some small feature request or bug report and you reply 5 minutes later saying \"thanks for catching that, we just fixed it and it's live\". People aren't very used to getting bugs fixed just by reporting them, and we get some very happy customers this way.","parent":"1811497","id":"1811782"}
{"by":"richcollins","time":"1174984265","timestamp":"2007-03-27 08:31:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why does it feel like this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=rVLiAvZ_N1w\"\u003ehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=rVLiAvZ_N1w\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6572","id":"6573"}
{"by":"unwind","time":"1349793177","timestamp":"2012-10-09 14:32:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really interesting proposition, sounds a bit like magic and/or too good to be true. :) Still, good luck and thanks for providing this, of course.\u003cp\u003eOh, and a minor thing to fix: page footer says \"service provide by natch\", it should probably say \u003ci\u003eprovided\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"4631651","id":"4631678"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1488599508","timestamp":"2017-03-04 03:51:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If B is ignoring A, for whatever reason, then A can talk to others. Or more generally, do whatever it takes to workaround B.","parent":"13789087","id":"13789126"}
{"by":"l0nwlf","time":"1289996183","timestamp":"2010-11-17 12:16:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I liked the way the content is presented.  I had Parallel Computing as one of my elective this semester, and the subject isn't kool any more when you dive into it.  Parallel Computing is tough IMHO and it takes some brainstorming to solve even the basic problems like computing prime numbers or sparse matrix multiplication.\nAlso we use OpenCL, which itself is quite a complicated deal. ( TBB, OpenMP are simpler ).  The tutorial makes the basics clear as well as the post have an aesthetic feel to it.  All in all - a nice read.","parent":"1913597","id":"1913947"}
{"by":"iaskwhy","time":"1269016462","timestamp":"2010-03-19 16:34:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: every site needs a favicon! It's a shame something so simple to create isn't everywhere yet. One example - \u003ca href=\"http://www.pulseapp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.pulseapp.com/\u003c/a\u003e -  which is the only site on my bookmarks bar without a favicon.","parent":"1204290","id":"1204497"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1402597620","timestamp":"2014-06-12 18:27:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s more that it puts the info into your phone automatically. Of course \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e know it\u0026#x27;s beer, but writing it down in a food journal is a bit of a hassle, and doing math on it to see how many calories you drank each day this month is tedious enough to be worth automating.","parent":"7885040","id":"7885138"}
{"by":"keerthiko","time":"1545914488","timestamp":"2018-12-27 12:41:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow how have I never heard of this tool before? As a hobby digital artist I have even looked for something like Krita but never heard of it before seeing this post top of HN with no comments.\u003cp\u003eDoes anyone who has been involved or kept track since earlier days have any insight into why this isn\u0026#x27;t more well known among the pantheon of digital illustration tools prescribed to budding artists? From the about page they\u0026#x27;ve been around for a \u003ci\u003elong\u003c/i\u003e time! I\u0026#x27;d love to understand the market forces that were in play here.","parent":"18768747","id":"18769120"}
{"by":"bitJericho","time":"1498865808","timestamp":"2017-06-30 23:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well that\u0026#x27;s easy to remember.","parent":"14674132","id":"14674259"}
{"by":"pkaye","time":"1531853339","timestamp":"2018-07-17 18:48:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is good. For many people a lot of the costs are the doctor visits. Look at the Walmart 100 common generics for $4. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if 50% of the hospital visits can be solved by one of these generics but then we add an expensive doctor visit to get a $4 medicine. There needs to be a more affordable solution.","parent":"17551229","id":"17552075"}
{"by":"hernan7","time":"1241046381","timestamp":"2009-04-29 23:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting point (agreed on the pain of programming in Java vs Perl). What do you mean exactly by \"fit together\"?","parent":"586044","id":"586065"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1344610734","timestamp":"2012-08-10 14:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Law of Demeter isn't about data encapsulation.  It's trying to solve the problem of tightly-coupled code \u003ci\u003emethods\u003c/i\u003e.  It is a close cousin of \"Don't get data from objects and operate on them- ask the contain object to do the operation for you.\"  The Law of Demeter says, \"Don't call a method on an object that was returned by a method of a different object.\"  When you do this you are creating a tightly-woven daisy-chain which will lead to inter-dependency hell should something change in the future.  Instead, you should either (1) ask the object you are calling to call the other object for you, or (2) call the third object method directly, without relying on the intermediary to get it.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, with objects X, Y and Z.  Assume that X has Y.  You want to run method fz on Z.  Don't do:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Y.getZ().fz\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nDo do:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Y.runFz()  // calls Z.fz\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nor instantiate a copy of Z in X and simply\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Z.fz\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe data encapsulation principle is also about keeping things loosely coupled.  By passing data around as an object, the interested parties need to care far less about the details (that is, their signatures don't change EDIT:TYPO _as_ the code changes).\u003cp\u003eThis is a really good thing to do in the \"build early and try it\" style of building projects as adding data (parameters) to the signature is relatively painless.","parent":"4366305","id":"4366437"}
{"by":"boredpudding","time":"1472202756","timestamp":"2016-08-26 09:12:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the phones have likely ran out of battery. Also, there is a big chance that there are phones without victims. Not a good way to find people.","parent":"12365007","id":"12365112"}
{"by":"the_watcher","time":"1478300329","timestamp":"2016-11-04 22:58:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He was a YC partner. He no longer is. And there\u0026#x27;s a difference between an equity partner and other types of partners. But again, YC is incentivized to let in companies they believe will deliver the most total value to the YC portfolio, so admitting Luke at the expense of another founder who was better qualified is directly contrary to their interests. Also, the YC batch sizes aren\u0026#x27;t fixed, and they have wiggle room. To avoid the conflict, they could just admit one additional startup who would have otherwise been cut.","parent":"12876828","id":"12876917"}
{"by":"sitkack","time":"1475606936","timestamp":"2016-10-04 18:48:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said he supports the commissioner’s decision to suspend Bigda because of the likelihood firing him would not survive a civil service appeal and the city would be ordered to rehire the cop with back pay.","parent":"12635734","id":"12638165"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1503504020","timestamp":"2017-08-23 16:00:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is you can easily get to the point where a single arrow always kills everything. Not just a lucky 3rd shot :)\u003cp\u003e1h\u0026#x2F;2h also get there, it\u0026#x27;s just conjuration and destruction that lag.","parent":"15082530","id":"15082571"}
{"by":"CompelTechnic","time":"1526310007","timestamp":"2018-05-14 15:00:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason cannabis is being legalized in several states is people\u0026#x27;s changing moral intuitions leading to public action to change the law.  The law has not stopped being an approximation of morality in that regard.\u003cp\u003eReason and logical conclusions are not contradictory to a citizenry\u0026#x27;s moral intuitions, but are orthogonal to them.","parent":"17065838","id":"17066097"}
{"by":"mnutt","time":"1308708642","timestamp":"2011-06-22 02:10:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; You can’t allow some arbitrary code to run in the user’s mail client, we already have enough security problems in emails.\u003cp\u003eWebmail aside, what are the security implications of running javascript in an email client?  Any reason why they're worse than going to a web page?\u003cp\u003e(You might say you choose which web pages you go to, whereas email gets sent to you.  But with all the 3rd-party advertising javascript, you end up running a lot of arbitrary code while browsing)","parent":"2681021","id":"2681336"}
{"by":"senthilnayagam","time":"1366753515","timestamp":"2013-04-23 21:45:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a algorithm or standard method for doing \"inflation adjusted terms\"?","parent":"5598069","id":"5598202"}
{"by":"RickHull","time":"1290221699","timestamp":"2010-11-20 02:54:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google Nav is pretty friggin awesome.  I had a TomTom for the first year I lived in NYC and the last year I owned a car, and Google Nav was comparable on all fronts, as demoed in rental cars up and down the Eastern Seaboard since then.\u003cp\u003eNotable downsides include battery life and built-in mounting options.  Notable upsides include no upfront purchase, free updates, constant updates, better information density (pixels per meatspace volume, roughly), ease of ad-hoc \"mounting\" (e.g. next to the speedometer, behind the steering wheel), and automatic \"straight-to-pocket-on-exit\" theft protection.\u003cp\u003eIt's free, it works well, and it integrates nicely with other Android apps (notably Google Maps).","parent":"1923440","id":"1923686"}
{"by":"andrewcchen","time":"1546729643","timestamp":"2019-01-05 23:07:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For rendering yes. For video decoding no. Chromium needs a patch to use VA-API[1].\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org\u0026#x2F;index.php\u0026#x2F;Chromium#Hardware_video_acceleration\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org\u0026#x2F;index.php\u0026#x2F;Chromium#Hardware_video...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18834864","id":"18834933"}
{"by":"makomk","time":"1525269388","timestamp":"2018-05-02 13:56:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From what I can tell, Americans seem to define \u0026quot;government\u0026quot; to include the courts as one of its branches, whereas Brits define it to only mean the legislative branch and maybe part of the executive in US terms. Which makes it interesting when British people accuse Americans of lying for claiming the government was responsible for this, especially since I\u0026#x27;m sure some of those people know Americans mean something different by that word.","parent":"16976740","id":"16976874"}
{"by":"mastazi","time":"1483072333","timestamp":"2016-12-30 04:32:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is however hardly possible to design a human diet without carbs where the planet doesn\u0026#x27;t suffer from a large scale ecological disaster[1] (assuming most of the world\u0026#x27;s population would adopt that diet), unless unconventional animal food sources, such as insects or krill, become mainstream. I don\u0026#x27;t see that happening any time soon.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;pii\u0026#x2F;S030691921100090X\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;pii\u0026#x2F;S0306919211...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13282270","id":"13282528"}
{"by":"makmanalp","time":"1344819026","timestamp":"2012-08-13 00:50:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Almost all spacecraft software is written a in similar fashion, not just Curiosity's.","parent":"4373992","id":"4374127"}
{"by":"tenfourty","time":"1413391340","timestamp":"2014-10-15 16:42:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wrong, read it all again!","parent":"8458772","id":"8459553"}
{"by":"char","time":"1273556942","timestamp":"2010-05-11 05:49:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I completely agree that hobbies are largely beneficial to the mental health of founders. I have several, and they help keep me sane.\u003cp\u003eOn a side note, how much money does this guy HAVE? I mean, 'scuba diving with sharks'? 'Spelunking in New Zealand'?? 'Riding sheep at a rodeo'?!\u003cp\u003eMy hobbies include things like crossword puzzles, tennis, frisbee, piano, and knitting. They are great for the startup budget. Also, video games.","parent":"1336792","id":"1337033"}
{"by":"tired_man","time":"1443012314","timestamp":"2015-09-23 12:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they determine that the random signal contains any sort of information, even if we can\u0026#x27;t understand it, I think they\u0026#x27;d simply be happy to have confirmation of another civilization.\u003cp\u003eGetting a chunk of signal with modulation or one containing repeated patterns would be a world changer.","parent":"10258415","id":"10264650"}
{"by":"xg15","time":"1528529445","timestamp":"2018-06-09 07:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe solution we are now experimenting it sounds like a bad idea: \u0026quot;Make it so much different and Factorio specific, that the way it is done in your specific system will not interfere with your muscle memory\u0026quot;.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI actually kind of like the solution they found, but I\u0026#x27;d still argue that this way of reasoning really \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a bad idea.\u003cp\u003eIf you remember your Kant - always act so that everyone could do what you do - this would be horrible.\u003cp\u003eUI is all about consistecy and while it\u0026#x27;s nice they don\u0026#x27;t want to interfere with the consistency of the rest of the UI, if every designer would use that excuse, we wouldn\u0026#x27;t have any consistency at all.","parent":"17269938","id":"17271965"}
{"by":"khedoros1","time":"1516943409","timestamp":"2018-01-26 05:10:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve never enjoyed driving, and I\u0026#x27;m not in a super-expensive area. If I had a longer commute, I\u0026#x27;d probably find something more than the radio to listen to, but we\u0026#x27;re talking about close to an hour a day band-aiding over something I find unpleasant.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s one reason I dread leaving my current job; I suspect I\u0026#x27;m going to have to take a serious hit to my quality of life.","parent":"16237048","id":"16237165"}
{"by":"Blazespinnaker","time":"1512617752","timestamp":"2017-12-07 03:35:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My experience with unit tests is that they force a developer to think through their logic.  So the tests themselves,once passing don’t help that much (though a little), but the act of writing them did have high ROI.  The coverage metrics also help management understand what is baked.","parent":"15865633","id":"15867435"}
{"by":"AgentME","time":"1506811852","timestamp":"2017-09-30 22:50:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Blockchain is not the first idea of cryptographic money,\u003cp\u003eRight: Bitcoin is just the first \u003ci\u003edecentralized\u003c/i\u003e cryptographic money. The decentralized part is where blockchains shine; if you can have a trusted authority, then almost literally any other solution is much more efficient. I groan whenever I see blockchains suggested as a solution for something where trustlessness is not a priority.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;and in fact, from cryptographic perspective it\u0026#x27;s not money at all, it\u0026#x27;s document timestamping service.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure that\u0026#x27;s mutually exclusive or that that\u0026#x27;s a useful distinction, unless the point is that Bitcoin\u0026#x2F;blockchains can also be easily used for timestamping.","parent":"15375223","id":"15375394"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1420875642","timestamp":"2015-01-10 07:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  Don’t we, as a society, want them to have bright little babies who will make the future a better place?  If we do, we’re really working against ourselves.\u003cp\u003eThis is a common flaw in thinking I see all of the time when it comes to teachers, scientists, and everyone else that someone says is underpaid. The fact that they are underpaid represents exactly how the sum of our society values people in  these positions. So the blunt answer is, \u0026quot;no, humans are more focused on short term goals and reward people that provide something with an immediate return.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eLots of smart people train to become lawyers as well, and now the market is saturated with new lawyers resulting in a situation similar to PhD students. Think about how much interest you have in shelling out extra money to fund these new lawyers salaries with bring them to parity with the law graduates of 10 years ago. That is how much interest most of society has in ensuring that someone with a PhD in biology is making six figures.","parent":"8863149","id":"8866255"}
{"by":"mrcactu5","time":"1476292900","timestamp":"2016-10-12 17:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tesseract is not specific to JavaScript right?  I do recall there being a version for Python","parent":"12694004","dead":true,"id":"12694790"}
{"by":"tlb","time":"1329943916","timestamp":"2012-02-22 20:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When a node dies, the master reconfigures all the servers and clients with a new topology excluding the failed node. \"Operations which are interrupted by reconfiguration exhibit at-most-once semantics.\" So while the system is reconfiguring after a node failure, updates can be lost.\u003cp\u003eTime windows of \"at most once semantics\" mean the system has none of C, A, or P. Which doesn't mean it's not a good database for many purposes.","parent":"3622216","id":"3622425"}
{"by":"volpav","time":"1347279899","timestamp":"2012-09-10 12:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One more thing: it seems like the filters area sometimes overlays the footer (on my screen) so I'm not able to click any of the links at the bottom before the cursor reaches the (imaginary) border between filters and list.","parent":"4499339","id":"4499368"}
{"by":"morpher","time":"1366518261","timestamp":"2013-04-21 04:24:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote a verlet based physics engine years ago and had similar issues. Relaxing distance constraints tended to add a bit of angular momentum in to the system. Sometimes having a drag term in the integrator was enough to compensate, but this appears to be in verlet.js already.\u003cp\u003eAnother issue with defining shapes via distance constraints is that they sometimes have alternate solutions / stable minima. For example, you can smash the circle in to the ground and get it to crumple: \u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/UzxbKvJ.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.imgur.com/UzxbKvJ.png\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, this is still an awesome demo. Good work subprotocol.","parent":"5582301","id":"5583844"}
{"by":"cbcoutinho","time":"1514547150","timestamp":"2017-12-29 11:32:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does this work? I\u0026#x27;m not in webdev so I don\u0026#x27;t know the ins and outs of browser editing, is it really possible to only accept a portion of a website and get around those things? Wouldn\u0026#x27;t this also be useful for getting around pay-to-view sites as well?","parent":"16028875","id":"16028951"}
{"by":"gsnedders","time":"1540477094","timestamp":"2018-10-25 14:18:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; One example, and not the best one, is \u0026#x27;width\u0026#x27;. People want \u0026#x27;width\u0026#x27; to be the total width of an element as displayed in the viewport but \u0026#x27;width\u0026#x27; was never specified that way. It is the width of the content, such as text, exclusive of padding, borders and margin. But people don\u0026#x27;t read the specification, then struggle getting layout to look as they wish and blame CSS as not working \u0026quot;as it should\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAnd this is something on the wiki page:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Box-sizing should be border-box by default.\u003cp\u003eWhile yes, CSS has well-defined behaviour here, it goes against user expectation. That mismatch is the real harm here.\u003cp\u003e(And to be clear: I\u0026#x27;m not saying this with any sort of CSS WG hat on here. And I don\u0026#x27;t think the wiki page necessarily reflects the view of the whole WG, given it\u0026#x27;s not an official document.)","parent":"18300939","id":"18301062"}
{"by":"danharaj","time":"1506951971","timestamp":"2017-10-02 13:46:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Homotopy type theory is most definitely not a one man project. It\u0026#x27;s a huge loss for the project to lose him but I think his vision will be realized.","parent":"15382457","id":"15383756"}
{"by":"arunc","time":"1454430539","timestamp":"2016-02-02 16:28:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This one is probably the biggest one I\u0026#x27;ve seen \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hg.pidgin.im\u0026#x2F;pidgin\u0026#x2F;main\u0026#x2F;graph\u0026#x2F;c6f4dd89c208\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hg.pidgin.im\u0026#x2F;pidgin\u0026#x2F;main\u0026#x2F;graph\u0026#x2F;c6f4dd89c208\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeriously, how do they deal with this kind of mess? And, do projects like these consider it as a complexity?","parent":"11020176","id":"11020405"}
{"by":"felixge","time":"1501700093","timestamp":"2017-08-02 18:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi, thanks for taking the time to explain your ideas.\u003cp\u003eThere are certainly many ways to model this problem in the database. But to me the main idea of the article is implementing a FSM as a user defined aggregate. This is technique is actually not mutually exclusive with an \u0026quot;accumulating snapshot\u0026quot; table, and in fact the trigger could be modified to maintain such a table instead or in addition to the order_events table.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t quite understand why you insist on not having a transactions (order_events) table. IMO it\u0026#x27;s very helpful for auditing purposes, and can be used to capture additional data for each state transition. E.g. you could easily put an IP column on it. From what I can tell you\u0026#x27;d have to add one column per event for doing this with your accumulated snapshot table. Our application has ~10 events, so I\u0026#x27;m not sure I\u0026#x27;d like to have an explosion of columns on it.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I think your solution falls apart completely when it\u0026#x27;s possible to re-enter a previous state. (or would you overwrite the first timestamp?)\u003cp\u003eLast but not least, there are many advantages to putting logic into the db. I know you object to the advanced analytics because they can be done differently when you control the DB schema from day one. But imagine you inherit a database with an events table that can\u0026#x27;t easily be modified to use an accumulating snapshot table. How would you write analytical queries against it? Another advantage of keeping logic in the database is reducing the number of queries (and network overhead) that are needed.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, you\u0026#x27;ve made many good suggestions, but I think you\u0026#x27;ve taken the toy example a bit too serious. It\u0026#x27;s very hard to come up with good real world examples without disclosing details of your actual application (which I can\u0026#x27;t in this case).\u003cp\u003eAnyway, using FSMs backed by user defined aggregates is definitely not an academic solution. This powers a mission-critical application of one of the worlds big companies for a database with over a billion records. It\u0026#x27;s also not the first iteration, and previous implementations at the application layer had caused problems that FSMs inside the DB have solved. Last but not least, this modeling the problem domain as FSMs has allowed the entire team (including non-technical people) to deeply and correctly understand how our analytics work.","parent":"14902778","id":"14913526"}
{"by":"hrjet","time":"1498274866","timestamp":"2017-06-24 03:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got confused too.\u003cp\u003eWe can\u0026#x27;t stop people from naming their projects\u0026#x2F;products the way they want. However, I think headlines in HN should be editoralized a bit to provide context, followed by the actual headline from the webpage.","parent":"14623625","id":"14624239"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1491260124","timestamp":"2017-04-03 22:55:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I sincerely hope that you will not live to regret making this comment, also, if that\u0026#x27;s the level you wish to compare the United States with you\u0026#x27;re not setting the bar very high.","parent":"14027714","id":"14028007"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1544134268","timestamp":"2018-12-06 22:11:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"payback is not the goal though, it\u0026#x27;s about avoiding sucking earth resources","parent":"18622755","id":"18622844"}
{"by":"goatherders","time":"1521076640","timestamp":"2018-03-15 01:17:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t uber just waiting for automated drivers (self driving cars) to show up and save them?  I have three businesses at the moment that all use people to do things that maybe one day can be solved by AI\u0026#x2F;tech.  My customers don\u0026#x27;t care how I get it done and aren\u0026#x27;t impressed by tech anyway.  If automation shows up and helps me then my margins go through the roof.  But as it is, the margins are pretty good anyway.","parent":"16588438","id":"16589797"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1277931351","timestamp":"2010-06-30 20:55:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It may sound kumbaya to you, but it makes sense to me.  I wish every hiring manager were so sensible.","parent":"1475488","id":"1476201"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1473959930","timestamp":"2016-09-15 17:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know it\u0026#x27;s not really relevant to the repair work, but I jumped back to the first article, at \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.righto.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.righto.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;y-combinators-xerox-alto-resto...\u003c/a\u003e . It says\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The biggest impact of the Alto was in 1979 when Steve Jobs famously toured Xerox and saw the Alto and other machines. When Jobs saw the advanced graphics of the Alto and Star, he was inspired to base the user interfaces of the Lisa and Macintosh systems on Xerox\u0026#x27;s ideas, making the GUI available to the mass market.\u003cp\u003eThe reference is \u0026quot; Malcolm Gladwell describes Steve Jobs\u0026#x27; visit to Xerox in detail in Creation Myth.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBut quoting \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;dept\u0026#x2F;SUL\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;mac\u0026#x2F;parc.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;dept\u0026#x2F;SUL\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;mac\u0026#x2F;parc.html\u003c/a\u003e :\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The closest thing in the history of computing to a Prometheus myth is the late 1979 visit to Xerox PARC by a group of Apple engineers and executives led by Steve Jobs. According to early reports, it was on this visit that Jobs discovered the mouse, windows, icons, and other technologies that had been developed at PARC. ... It\u0026#x27;s a good story. Unfortunately, it\u0026#x27;s also wrong in almost every way a story can be wrong.  ...\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Both the Macintosh and Lisa projects were underway before the 1979 visit. Documents in The Book of Macintosh (a collection of essays, technical specs, and brainstorms written by Jef Raskin on and others) dating from the fall of 1979-- months before the PARC visit-- show that the Macintosh was going to feature user-friendly interfaces; a screen that could handle multiple fonts (that is, bitmapped screens); graphics capabilities; and a graphical input device. ...\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Finally, as several authors have pointed out, there were actually two visits by groups from Apple to Xerox PARC in 1979. Steve Jobs was on the second of the two.","parent":"12507361","id":"12507952"}
{"by":"gumby","time":"1544414357","timestamp":"2018-12-10 03:59:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider it the other way -- she\u0026#x27;s giving her child privacy.\u003cp\u003eI never asked to \u0026quot;friend\u0026quot; my son on social media (and told him why) and he invited me to FB, which I believe he curates pretty heavily and doesn\u0026#x27;t use much -- basically to make a picture for old people.\u003cp\u003eHe hasn\u0026#x27;t asked me to friend him on instagram or snapchat and that\u0026#x27;s OK (and various IG pictures leak out anyway via other channels, like other people)","parent":"18645025","id":"18645082"}
{"by":"daodedickinson","time":"1457107396","timestamp":"2016-03-04 16:03:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m glad to see that unauthorized access to user data has a zero tolerance policy. I\u0026#x27;ve met a lot of extremely skilled, hauntingly sociopathic programmers who will hack themselves free purchases and then cold call the companies they\u0026#x27;ve stolen from expecting a bounty. One guy who did this also hacked the university ID \u0026#x2F; meal plan card to add fake money to his card and considered it a public service. There was a major extended power outage here and many emergency service generators were stolen and this guy opined loudly and unabashedly that this was \u0026quot;beautiful\u0026quot;. He was by far the most talented programmer in my class year and it makes me afraid to connect to the internet.","parent":"11223492","id":"11224596"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1400012325","timestamp":"2014-05-13 20:18:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eBut why is her interest in privacy sufficient to create a right protected by the law? What about the conflicting interests--including existing legal rights--of others to learn about and to publish that information?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause for thousands of years of civilization, the possibility of not being constantly publicly reminded of one\u0026#x27;s past, even if it was a crime he was found guilty of decades ago or some dumb or embarrasing thing he once said, was one of the most humane things.\u003cp\u003eWe shouldn\u0026#x27;t abolish that freedom to be forgotten, just because machines enables us to abolish it. Technology should be a tool, like in optimistic sci-fi, not a master, like in dystopias.","parent":"7738441","id":"7740453"}
{"by":"Fargren","time":"1461849845","timestamp":"2016-04-28 13:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can buy as many dollars as you want in Argentina since December.","parent":"11588387","id":"11588583"}
{"by":"davyson","time":"1537998515","timestamp":"2018-09-26 21:48:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We’re more expensive than Bubble for individuals, but for teams we are pretty competitive I think.\u003cp\u003eIn Stacker apps are made out of bigger building blocks than  in Bubble so eg. not everyone has to build their own news feed from scratch. We also use flexbox rather than absolute positioning so our apps can be more responsive on different screen sizes.\u003cp\u003eNo support community yet, thank you for the link, we’ll add our tutorials in there.","parent":"18080042","id":"18080560"}
{"by":"jqueryin","time":"1447598131","timestamp":"2015-11-15 14:35:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Precisely this.\u003cp\u003eI did find that it doesn\u0026#x27;t meet my needs exactly, however. I favorited a number of inbound numbers such as Pingdom and co-workers to allow for alerts to come through but it doesn\u0026#x27;t apply to SMS messaging. They simply get muted, even if the number is in your favorites. I had to turn off \u0026quot;Do Not Disturb\u0026quot; simply because overrides wouldn\u0026#x27;t be triggered by SMS messages.\u003cp\u003eI believe it should apply to both SMS and phone for the overrides.","parent":"10569682","id":"10569697"}
{"by":"3am","time":"1380037639","timestamp":"2013-09-24 15:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes it is an ethical issue, for the doctors and the patients.  I just feel like you\u0026#x27;re giving a free pass to patients that lack expertise demanding particular treatments from experts.  I think they are more culpable than the doctors.","parent":"6438518","id":"6438616"}
{"by":"RyJones","time":"1414023055","timestamp":"2014-10-23 00:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Say, Stanford? \u003ca href=\"http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/03/09/1046687/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.stanforddaily.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;1046687\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8495959","id":"8495966"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1311550731","timestamp":"2011-07-24 23:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about email? None of the GMail alternatives seem comparable.","parent":"2800284","id":"2800662"}
{"by":"jacobolus","time":"1541995172","timestamp":"2018-11-12 03:59:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I picked 7 because it works nicely with hexagonal pixels. :-)\u003cp\u003eBut the primaries can be relatively close together in color. It’s fine if we have e.g. 2 reds, 2 blues, and 3 greens instead of 1 of each.\u003cp\u003eOr for an LCD, some of them could be broader-spectrum primaries which were brighter but less colorful, while others could be more intense narrow-spectrum primaries. This would make the display more color accurate for various observers (more robust against “observer metamerism”), and would make the display overall brighter for the same intensity of backlight.\u003cp\u003eOr I dunno.. I’m not an expert in display technology, I’m sure the engineers could come up with many ideas.","parent":"18430472","id":"18430499"}
{"by":"DrScump","time":"1436764099","timestamp":"2015-07-13 05:08:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only one to find the signal-to-noise ratio of a lot of content on medium.com to be uselessly low?","parent":"9876353","id":"9876532"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1338974373","timestamp":"2012-06-06 09:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I came here to say the same. Very nice idea (and I know I've needed it in the past), but it's not working terribly well currently. I have, however, installed it, and will be using it.","parent":"4072933","id":"4072949"}
{"by":"Arrington","time":"1233176893","timestamp":"2009-01-28 21:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why we can't have nice things.","parent":"465","dead":true,"id":"454900"}
{"by":"incongruity","time":"1396566747","timestamp":"2014-04-03 23:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please don\u0026#x27;t paint all Christians with a broad brush. I, for one, support gay marriage, as do many others. Just say\u0026#x27;n.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I also think it\u0026#x27;d be completely valid to say that the government shouldn\u0026#x27;t be in the \u0026#x27;marriage\u0026#x27; business at all (gay or straight) and it should only handle contracts -- aka civil unions. One could then parse \u0026quot;marriage\u0026quot; to be something reserved for whatever church\u0026#x2F;belief system\u0026#x2F;personal labeling one wishes to subscribe to.  In the end, however, the government would treat all people equally, as it should.","parent":"7527602","id":"7527732"}
{"by":"iuguy","time":"1253468040","timestamp":"2009-09-20 17:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like it, certainly doesn't appear to contain anything of significant value. Flagged.","parent":"833162","id":"833270"}
{"by":"MAGZine","time":"1393952288","timestamp":"2014-03-04 16:58:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you mean where anyone can submit a package, and it\u0026#x27;s replacements will be taken into consideration globally?\u003cp\u003eReplace everyone\u0026#x27;s symfony security\u0026#x2F;auth module? what could possibly go wrong? :D","parent":"7340574","id":"7341413"}
{"by":"angstrom","time":"1543170486","timestamp":"2018-11-25 18:28:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The bias about intelligence modeling on human intelligence is certainly one of familiarity. Other intelligence models that we can observe like cephalopods are about as foreign as you can imagine on the animalia tree of life. Who can  say if some cephalopod aren\u0026#x27;t capable of more diverse communication via color fluctuations\u0026#x2F;rhythms and postures than we are with our vocal cords and body language?\u003cp\u003eAt some point a human form of self awareness could have formed, but I think the key is not triggered by physiology alone. Feral humans exist and it\u0026#x27;s important to understand that there is an observed malleability of the mind which tapers with age. Such individuals have been found and in some cases rehabilitated into what we consider functioning, self-aware, cognitively capable humans.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Feral_child#Documented_cases_of_feral_children\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Feral_child#Documented_cases_o...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Critical_period\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Critical_period\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: It reminded me of this story I saw recently about a girl neglected until age 7. Today she is like a 2 year-old in a 20 year-old\u0026#x27;s body. Keep in mind there is nothing physically wrong with her other than neglect. Consciousness is emergent behavior. Having the physical elements alone is not enough.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tampabay.com\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;girl-in-the-window\u0026#x2F;neglect-feral-child-ten-years-later\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tampabay.com\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;girl-in-the-window\u0026#x2F;neglect-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18527887","id":"18528061"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1411666327","timestamp":"2014-09-25 17:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not there right now, but my parents are saying that\u0026#x27;s exactly what he\u0026#x27;s proposing - the retro-active bit.\u003cp\u003eIt will impact me, I still have ~$20k of HECS debt that I didn\u0026#x27;t pay, and because I\u0026#x27;m not earning money in Australia, I\u0026#x27;m not paying it now.","parent":"8367662","id":"8368363"}
{"by":"exceptione","time":"1410352279","timestamp":"2014-09-10 12:31:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some people might downvote me for this (as happened before) but I have cookies disabled by default. Only if I need to interact with a website I am ok with traces and I allow cookies for that domain via the Cookie Controller add-on.\u003cp\u003eNow the strange thing: thumbor requires cookies in order to serve images. It requires quite lax settings since allowing cookies for thumborg.org as first party only doesn\u0026#x27;t suffice. I need to accept all possible cookies, I think because one offending cookie has domain .thumborg.org.\u003cp\u003eI think serving images should not depend on cookies, or is there a good reason?","parent":"8294542","id":"8296211"}
{"by":"intopieces","time":"1481139102","timestamp":"2016-12-07 19:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Also, the Core was going to be awesome. Too bad it didn\u0026#x27;t happen.\u003cp\u003eYes, it was, and they even had Alexa integration planned. It made it a really interesting product, something that not even Apple or Google had. A little hackable 3G box with voice assistant. Really bummed.","parent":"13123150","id":"13125428"}
{"by":"ziedaniel1","time":"1456672173","timestamp":"2016-02-28 15:09:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great - sorry for the harsh words, I guess I\u0026#x27;ve just come to expect people to screw up distributed systems :)","parent":"11189654","id":"11191055"}
{"by":"SatoshiRoberts","time":"1454970676","timestamp":"2016-02-08 22:31:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple should step up it\u0026#x27;s software game, but it\u0026#x27;s hard to compete will so many startups singularly focused on executing one thing.\u003cp\u003eMusic, messaging, news. All these things are entire billion dollar industries, we can\u0026#x27;t expect them to hit a home run on everything.","parent":"11061111","dead":true,"id":"11061369"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1510932145","timestamp":"2017-11-17 15:22:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not the original announcement, duplicate. please check before submitting!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15718686\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15718686\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15721992","id":"15722629"}
{"by":"ronnoch","time":"1282770827","timestamp":"2010-08-25 21:13:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yahoo! cache since the blog is down: \u003ca href=\"http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8\u0026#38;p=http%3A%2F%2Fabout.digg.com%2Fblog%2Fdigg-version-4\u0026#38;fr=yfp-t-701\u0026#38;u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fabout.digg.com%2fblog%2fdigg-version-4\u0026#38;d=777075753921\u0026#38;mkt=en-US\u0026#38;setlang=en-US\u0026#38;w=255d3bef,c7e4d0e0\u0026#38;icp=1\u0026#38;.intl=us\u0026#38;sig=XWRyJp4AhUUEpwqTHXz.FQ--\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8\u0026#38;p=http%3A%2...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1633890","id":"1634180"}
{"by":"cr15","time":"1525187301","timestamp":"2018-05-01 15:08:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TransferWise | Senior backend developer and mid-level fullstack developer | Full-time | London, UK | Onsite | £50k - £70k + stock\u003cp\u003eTypical interview process: Technical test [1.5 hours] -\u0026gt; pre-screening call [30 mins] -\u0026gt; Technical interview [1.5 hours] -\u0026gt; product interview [1 hour] -\u0026gt; Final interview [1 hour]\u003cp\u003eCome and join the product team at TransferWise! Our engineers are product engineers (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tech.transferwise.com\u0026#x2F;every-engineer-is-a-product-per...\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tech.transferwise.com\u0026#x2F;every-engineer-is-a-product-per...\u003c/a\u003e). They work with customers to understand the problems they are having and ideate on solutions to develop prototypes and validate them.\u003cp\u003eWe’re currently looking for a senior backend engineer and a mid-level full stack engineer to help us on our mission. Specifically we’re building products that help consumers understand the confusing (and sometimes devious) money transfer market.\u003cp\u003eWhat we’re interested in as a team: high-quality \u0026amp; testable software, continuous learning, good work\u0026#x2F;life balance, working autonomously as a team.\u003cp\u003eUseful tech experience:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  -Backend: A solid background working with Java \u0026#x2F; Spring \u0026#x2F; Spring Boot. Understanding and confidence working with a range of persistence and middleware technologies such as (but not exclusively) MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, SQS.\n\n  -Full stack: Comfortable working on a full stack platform that (ideally) includes a strongly typed OO backend language. Frontend experience working with React, Webpack, Angular, Gulp, GraphQL desirable, but core JS skills required.\n\n  -Both roles: A keen eye for (SOLID) design principles, a positive attitude towards testing, maintainability and a iterative mindset is required.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSo come and join a high-growth (100% year on year), high volume (£2bn transferred a month) and mission-driven company.\nCVs to: comparison@transferwise.com","parent":"16967543","id":"16967619"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1347397549","timestamp":"2012-09-11 21:05:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool, when can I get one equipped with smartwheels?","parent":"4506979","id":"4507785"}
{"by":"monochromatic","time":"1302793851","timestamp":"2011-04-14 15:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where's the incentive to use the new adware-laden player that reports back to the RIAA? I think I'll just stick with what I'm using now, thanks.","parent":"2446543","id":"2447106"}
{"by":"forgottenpaswrd","time":"1280087588","timestamp":"2010-07-25 19:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is a very bad advise. Don't use drugs EVER.\u003cp\u003eDrugs never fix problems. The only hide them. if your body is telling you something, you should fix the root of the problem, not remove the symptoms.\u003cp\u003eWhatever a drug does(stimulant, depressant...)the body will balance it giving the opposite effect over time(the roller coaster effect).This means instability of everything from mood to chemicals on your blood. Not to mention the body getting used to it, needing each time more and more to cause the same effect and getting addicted.","parent":"1546007","id":"1546185"}
{"by":"tkahn6","time":"1284310370","timestamp":"2010-09-12 16:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think I ever said you had a limited potential. In fact, you have a lot of potential. My point is that it takes a long time to realize most of it and get to the point where you can write good, useful software (realize in the sense of, \"to make real\").\u003cp\u003eThe reason I outlined the complexities and difficulties of building software is because you asked why byoung2 said that you'd probably never build something useful. The reason is that most likely you'll give up before long. If you stick with it though, there's absolutely no reason whatsoever that you can't be a great programmer.\u003cp\u003eI've never taken a formal class in programming. I \u003ci\u003eam\u003c/i\u003e proud of what I know and so I do have an ego when it comes to programming. But I am also being honest with you. It's a long road to becoming a good programmer. It might be easier and it might be expedited by the fact that you're older, but it still takes a long time (which can be frustrating!). As I said, good luck!","parent":"1683340","id":"1684008"}
{"by":"redwood","time":"1453946576","timestamp":"2016-01-28 02:02:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with just about everything you said except that Australia is really just home to one country. or am I about to learn something new?","parent":"10985461","id":"10985536"}
{"by":"ikeboy","time":"1462391023","timestamp":"2016-05-04 19:43:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s computationally difficult for anyone to forge it. While the operators of archive.org could easily forge an old timestamp.","parent":"11631080","id":"11631125"}
{"by":"cousin_it","time":"1509550255","timestamp":"2017-11-01 15:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now and then a new idea becomes prominent, people argue about it in public, and then move on to the next thing. What\u0026#x27;s interesting to me is what remains. For example, the wars over atheism or rationalism are long past, so now I can call myself an atheist and rationalist while keeping only the good parts. With emotional labor, people might break lances right now but I can already tell that the idea will stick with me. Managing other people\u0026#x27;s emotions and maintaining good vibes is an \u003ci\u003eamazing\u003c/i\u003e skill, many programmers are lacking in it, and learning it will almost certainly make you happier both at work and at home. Picking up some share of emotional labor doesn\u0026#x27;t just help the other person - I\u0026#x27;m firmly convinced that it helps you more.","parent":"15601045","id":"15602169"}
{"by":"dspillett","time":"1512556291","timestamp":"2017-12-06 10:31:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; When you go to court everyone loses.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eApart from the lawyers.","parent":"15859394","id":"15860025"}
{"by":"briandon","time":"1325868718","timestamp":"2012-01-06 16:51:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Public libraries (in the traditional, physical-book-filled sense) are probably a doomed institution.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_library_usage\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_library_usage\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe they can hold on as free Internet cafes, since that seems to be how many people actually use them today.  All that would be missing would be the availability of free or subsidized tea, drip coffee, and maybe some sort of nutritious but inexpensive to prepare hot soup.","parent":"3433390","id":"3433980"}
{"by":"thurn","time":"1327166495","timestamp":"2012-01-21 17:21:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless you can't get a job at those companies, or don't want to work at them, or they also get involved in the collusion. Then you're actively being hurt.","parent":"3493962","id":"3493993"}
{"by":"TimJRobinson","time":"1346283739","timestamp":"2012-08-29 23:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd really like to learn more about your usage of irc and how the bots were set up. Did someone create the bots for different tasks by hand or are there good libraries for setting them up? Does everyone have irc open all day? And if so isn't it incredibly distracting?","parent":"4445031","id":"4452084"}
{"by":"grep","time":"1277639704","timestamp":"2010-06-27 11:55:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check 37signals commission system. They explain all that.","parent":"1465362","id":"1465371"}
{"by":"eropple","time":"1415645715","timestamp":"2014-11-10 18:55:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why are you so randomly hostile about this? Your tone and attitude are super shitty throughout this thread. Chill.\u003cp\u003eAs for CRUD--I\u0026#x27;m a platform and devops engineer. I\u0026#x27;m not a web developer (except incidentally). But I do often write relational things--like, say, \u0026quot;I have this node, running this application, using this artifact from that data store\u0026quot;--that are best modeled by a \u003ci\u003erelational data store\u003c/i\u003e. They\u0026#x27;re otherwise trivial applications, but reinventing the relational data store would take orders of magnitude longer than writing the application against SQLite or Postgres. How do you propose to model relations across the file system in a way that doesn\u0026#x27;t make it the tail wagging the dog?\u003cp\u003eWhile I\u0026#x27;m thinking about it, I\u0026#x27;m pretty comfortable going further than \u0026quot;nontrivial business applications\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;a majority of networked applications\u0026quot;. The world is relational. Modeling it relationally makes a lot of sense for a lot of use cases.","parent":"8582591","id":"8585460"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1385634461","timestamp":"2013-11-28 10:27:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Direct-debit is undoable.  That\u0026#x27;s one of its key-features.\u003cp\u003eYou can add direct-debit to bitcoint with a trusted third party.  (And there might even be clever ways to do direct debit in bitcoin without that third party.)","parent":"6811672","id":"6813942"}
{"by":"jondubois","time":"1466199379","timestamp":"2016-06-17 21:36:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha. Yeah, the real story would probably be better told as a horror story...\u003cp\u003eCaptain Kube captures Phippy and locks him in a dark container on his ship and forces him to perform repetitive work around the clock without any breaks - To make matters worse, Captain Kube begins carrying out highly hazardous experiments on Phippy which involves cloning him, messing with the clones and then mercilessly slaughtering them one by one in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and suffering.","parent":"11923418","id":"11925716"}
{"by":"bzbarsky","time":"1515697869","timestamp":"2018-01-11 19:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One fundamental problem you may be running into is that generally the older people get the more they value \u0026quot;safety\u0026quot;.  So it\u0026#x27;s possible that you and your mother simply attach different utilities to \u0026quot;keeping others safe\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;potential for misuse\u0026quot; even if you agree on all the facts and conditional probabilities and whatnot...\u003cp\u003eI really wonder how much changing demographics (population aging) account for the shifts in public opinion on issues like this.","parent":"16125539","id":"16126784"}
{"by":"Drakim","time":"1441186045","timestamp":"2015-09-02 09:27:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; a site with great content should not be penalized for the site\u0026#x27;s own choices on ads\u003cp\u003eYes it should! If those ads are hostile to the user they should definitely be penalized no matter how great their content is.","parent":"10157830","id":"10158190"}
{"by":"tkahn6","time":"1282406014","timestamp":"2010-08-21 15:53:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ePerhaps. But I don't think you are very familiar with history. I've read many accounts of soldiers, including American soldiers, killing random people because their friends were killed. In general, such people do not face discipline. In fact, there are many Americans who urged the killing of completely arbitrary Arabs or Muslims in revenge -- many of these people are politicians.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoldiers \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e court-martialed and arrested for killing civilians.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/13/no-prisoners-america-at-war/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/13/no-prisoner...\u003c/a\u003e (scroll to bottom)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/16/usa.iraq1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/16/usa.iraq1\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-07-09-us-cases_x.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-07-09-us-cases_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222220,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222220,00.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust because not all are found out and tried does not mean it is condoned by the military or US society. You clearly have your own dogmatic view regarding US foreign policy and attitudes towards Muslims and I can't really argue with someone who has an almost religious belief in a point of view.","parent":"1623031","id":"1623061"}
{"by":"awellsbarron","time":"1336629487","timestamp":"2012-05-10 05:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's true. The app I made can get better frame-to-frame consistancy (here's me: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlMLFrB1QUA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlMLFrB1QUA\u003c/a\u003e) which I think make is much more valuable as a tracking tool.","parent":"3951975","id":"3952073"}
{"by":"cturner","time":"1335102782","timestamp":"2012-04-22 13:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firefox is an interesting example, because on little things it behaves differently in windows to linux. For example - double click the address bar in Windows - highlights a token. Do it in linux, highlights the whole link.","parent":"3874603","id":"3874818"}
{"by":"LinuxJedi","time":"1300284363","timestamp":"2011-03-16 14:06:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We use SQLBench, Sysbench (I believe both are pretty standardized) and drizzleslap.  I'll ask others in the team about the one you linked to, looks interesting.","parent":"2332006","id":"2332029"}
{"by":"leecarraher","time":"1503935940","timestamp":"2017-08-28 15:59:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will depend on the level you plan to engage in the ML\u0026#x2F;AI space. If you just want a job in ML\u0026#x2F;AI , you are in luck. Due to the growing assortment of available, mostly to fully automated, solutions like Datarobot, H2O, sckit-learn, keras(w\u0026#x2F; tensorflow) the only math you will absolutely \u0026#x27;need\u0026#x27; is probably just Statistics.  Regardless of what\u0026#x27;s going on behind the scenes with whatever automatically tuned and selected algorithm your chosen solutions uses, you will still need some stats in the end to show the brass that \u0026#x27;your\u0026#x27; model works. the upside is that then you can spend time, learning feature extraction, data engineering, and the aforementioned toolkits, in particular what models they make available.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to develop new techniques and algorithms, the the skies the limit, you\u0026#x27;ll of course want Stats too though.","parent":"15116379","id":"15117484"}
{"by":"fallentimes","time":"1225573628","timestamp":"2008-11-01 21:07:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you ever want a laugh, read conservapedia's terms of use.","parent":"350890","id":"350903"}
{"by":"njoubert","time":"1226449445","timestamp":"2008-11-12 00:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One piece of advice -  your tagline \"LuckyCal predicts where you'll be to help you decide what to do.\" seems slightly creepy - you guys are going to tell me where i'll be and what i'll do there? Once I read your description it became much clearer, but I would change the tagline. Just my 2 cents","parent":"360762","id":"361184"}
{"by":"Sephr","time":"1531173132","timestamp":"2018-07-09 21:52:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best genetically engineered algae is over 90% oil by weight.","parent":"17493503","id":"17493748"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1329913899","timestamp":"2012-02-22 12:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The book suggests it might, but in general getting sufficient quantities of energy from renewables would require country-sized facilities.","parent":"3620370","id":"3620572"}
{"by":"tjr","time":"1333048262","timestamp":"2012-03-29 19:11:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it has historically been some sort of quilt. See also:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gnu.org/award/prior-years.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.gnu.org/award/prior-years.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3771847","id":"3772614"}
{"by":"jaxtellerSoA","time":"1542142428","timestamp":"2018-11-13 20:53:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Because it is the least worst option for businesses who need what it offers.\u003cp\u003eAnd what is it offering exactly, relation database? Shit man, PostgeSQL, Maria DB, Firebird, etc.","parent":"18444677","id":"18444806"}
{"by":"axod","time":"1252276772","timestamp":"2009-09-06 22:39:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is a \"slight mutation\" likely? Does this actually really happen? Sounds like more scare mongering in a way :/","parent":"808147","id":"808234"}
{"by":"at-fates-hands","time":"1502330794","timestamp":"2017-08-10 02:06:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually they should just report the facts and let the people have their own opinions.\u003cp\u003eThe media used to be the check on the government, now they\u0026#x27;re firmly on its payroll. When that happens, you lose all credibility. When you can\u0026#x27;t trust the news being reported to you to be unbiased, and not filtered through a political lens or some ideological slant, then it\u0026#x27;s no longer news, it\u0026#x27;s an agenda - which is exactly what I saw and experienced all through the election cycle and even now several months afterwards, with no signs of abating.","parent":"14973000","id":"14975713"}
{"by":"0xcafecafe","time":"1521725835","timestamp":"2018-03-22 13:37:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While you make a valid point, my pet peeve of late has been people using \u0026quot;your\u0026quot; in place of \u0026quot;you\u0026#x27;re\u0026quot; since it makes me reread the sentence.","parent":"16645744","id":"16648501"}
{"by":"Husafan","time":"1214485802","timestamp":"2008-06-26 13:10:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So then, in your opinion, IS there a difference between a language that is \"production,\" ready, and one that is not?  And if so, what is it?","parent":"228429","id":"228544"}
{"by":"michaelochurch","time":"1328448361","timestamp":"2012-02-05 13:26:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is really about the productivity/availability tradeoff, which is not linear but binary. Open-plan offices are optimized for availability.\u003cp\u003eClosed-door environments aren't great either. They might be good for the individual, but not for the team. Also, in the long-term, people who close their doors not to perform as well: they're more productive on an hour-by-hour basis, but they miss out on a lot of important conversations. Since 95% of the information that's actually important is conveyed in informal conversations rather than meetings, that can become an issue.\u003cp\u003eWhat I think would work best is something like a restaurant booth in shape, but with 12-hour chairs (you can't work for a full day in a restaurant booth). The table is a common space for the team, but everyone has a wall at their back. Open-back visibility (and worse yet, rear traffic) is often more of a productivity-killer and anxiety-producer than noise.","parent":"3553853","id":"3553985"}
{"by":"brandonb","time":"1510642445","timestamp":"2017-11-14 06:54:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;ll appear directly in the Cardiogram app. (Would you personally find it helpful to have another mechanism, like a mailing list?)","parent":"15693184","id":"15693243"}
{"by":"techdragon","time":"1534414877","timestamp":"2018-08-16 10:21:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well now I finally have a reason to risk upgrading to High Sierra, I normally wait a month so I’m not the first person to run into any development environment upgrade issues, incompatible libraries and that sort of thing, but I putting it off till now because of all the significant security issues. I was probably going to skip it until I did the upgrade to Mojave, but this pushes me over the edge, I just can’t wait to use this.","parent":"17766035","id":"17773398"}
{"by":"cableshaft","time":"1447430215","timestamp":"2015-11-13 15:56:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Turn it into a book, sell it, and see your money per day REALLY shoot up!\u003cp\u003eSeriously, that\u0026#x27;s very clever, and you have the same complaints about existing systems that I do. As a fellow Civ V fan, I\u0026#x27;m eager to give this a shot.","parent":"10558369","id":"10560469"}
{"by":"billman","time":"1537892540","timestamp":"2018-09-25 16:22:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would have liked to see Presto in the analysis.","parent":"18062671","id":"18067717"}
{"by":"treskot","time":"1356506570","timestamp":"2012-12-26 07:22:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't think about the end result while you're starting off. I didn't create a blog because I wanted clients. I created a blog to show the world my work (showoff) and people just happened to like it and the offers started flowing.\u003cp\u003eIf you think about the end result (pay rent in your case) then you maynot be able to succeed! Okay I don't want to talk philosophy here buy you got the point, didn't you?","parent":"4963676","id":"4968513"}
{"by":"stordoff","time":"1517192026","timestamp":"2018-01-29 02:13:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t they just mine to a pool (private pool if enough clients)? I\u0026#x27;m not sure why an inefficient client would lead to additional fees.","parent":"16243057","id":"16254866"}
{"by":"Shikadi","time":"1507645877","timestamp":"2017-10-10 14:31:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Please don\u0026#x27;t post joke comments on HN.\u003cp\u003e- surrey-fringe, 2017","parent":"15439300","id":"15442073"}
{"by":"abandonliberty","time":"1480653445","timestamp":"2016-12-02 04:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Kyoto protocol considered cut tree carbon to be released back into the atmosphere.\u003cp\u003eThere is plenty of land that used to have trees, but we now have 7 billion humans and their associated support organisms. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;1338\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;1338\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe can get more efficient with our land use, though the benefit would likely be a more stabilized ecosystem rather than reversing climate carbon.","parent":"13078075","id":"13086057"}
{"by":"ohitsdom","time":"1437410327","timestamp":"2015-07-20 16:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fog Creek used it to replace their custom compiler.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.fogcreek.com\u0026#x2F;killing-off-wasabi-part-2\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.fogcreek.com\u0026#x2F;killing-off-wasabi-part-2\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9916814","id":"9917198"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1475078633","timestamp":"2016-09-28 16:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would it \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e be the case? That people are forced into careers they don\u0026#x27;t actually want because of cultural pressure?\u003cp\u003eAnd you\u0026#x27;re OK with this because it helps ensure you have a high salary?","parent":"12598647","id":"12598790"}
{"by":"SideburnsOfDoom","time":"1379017159","timestamp":"2013-09-12 20:19:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t read that as the extremists being anti-sexists. In some recent threads on these topics, I\u0026#x27;ve seen some excellent reasoned thought from the anti-sexists and some extremely childish behaviour from people with the opposite opinions.\u003cp\u003eIt could mean either, or both, with or without justification. So, no reason to get irate.","parent":"6375218","id":"6376664"}
{"by":"apinstein","time":"1427034105","timestamp":"2015-03-22 14:21:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have found the most reliable measure for a candidate is looking at their public interactions\u0026#x2F;contributions. Seeing what projects they choose to work on in their spare time, how they speak at user groups, how they interact on an \u0026quot;issue\u0026quot; online. Blog posts are also great. For me, ability to communicate is such a huge part of being a successful developer, that being able to see how they communicate is always a very strong signal of intelligence, mastery, and interpersonal style.\u003cp\u003eSo this works great for people that partake in such things, but there are clear still many great developers (perhaps the vast majority) that don\u0026#x27;t have this type of extensive public profile. These are the applicants that I fear false-negatives for the most, and the candidates for which I am not confident of my interview techniques.\u003cp\u003eCould it be that the proper way to technically interview such a candidate is to offer them a \u0026quot;fellowship\u0026quot; to work on an open-source project? Point them at any project (used by the company or a favorite project of their own) that they\u0026#x27;d like to contribute to, and offer them a small stipend and enough time to make a legitimate contribution to open source? And use that as the technical portion of the interview?","parent":"9243169","dead":true,"id":"9246807"}
{"by":"Goladus","time":"1250885622","timestamp":"2009-08-21 20:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That will only work if there is a sufficient number of competitors.  I'm sure \"none of the aboves\" are overrepresented in women's olympic sports but I am still skeptical they constitute a large enough population to create a whole new category.","parent":"778309","id":"778354"}
{"by":"ryanwaggoner","time":"1249011614","timestamp":"2009-07-31 03:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nerds are leading indicators for some things, but not everything.  Once something has become commoditized, nerds may be leading indicators of what a small niche will prefer, but most people will compare that commodity primarily on price.  Reversing commoditization is difficult and rare.","parent":"733562","id":"733694"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1495193533","timestamp":"2017-05-19 11:32:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re £3 (GBP) on eBay for a set of 4 scooter bearings. Which suggests they\u0026#x27;re pennies on AliBaba, perhaps cheaper without a (fake?) ABEC rating.","parent":"14374494","id":"14374585"}
{"by":"franciscop","time":"1503794363","timestamp":"2017-08-27 00:39:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree about the principles but not about how it happens on the real world. Many front-end jobs now require you to know at least one front-end framework (normally React), which is a totally different and focused problem-solving tool. Before you had jQuery that scaled from small, personal projects to mid-size projects. This worked great as a learning progression, however now you have React (and others) that don\u0026#x27;t make sense for small projects and are a bit overkill for mid-size projects.\u003cp\u003eSo new developers get thrown in this crazy world where they have to learn a thing that has no \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e practical use just because they want a job in the field. IMHO, new tools must make things easier for everyone and specially for newcomers, while React seems to make large-scale problems easier but a LOT harder for beginners.\u003cp\u003eAnd finding a new job is a problem that we all have from time to time.","parent":"15107918","id":"15108321"}
{"by":"qwerta","time":"1419508022","timestamp":"2014-12-25 11:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think programmable medium must handle conditions. Anyway ancient water clock, antikythera, or even Stonehenge could classify as \u0026#x27;programmable storage medium\u0026#x27;.","parent":"8794835","id":"8796068"}
{"by":"jeffdavis","time":"1360824938","timestamp":"2013-02-14 06:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can any president not spend their retirement reflecting on their decisions? Many decisions have a lot of collateral damage even if they are the right decisions.","parent":"5217673","id":"5218150"}
{"by":"Chrix","time":"1343403845","timestamp":"2012-07-27 15:44:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not a fud :) I promise.\nOnly what it happened. \nAnd you don't read carefully my post.One example: I didn't write you are forced use Mac app Store to install program, I wrote I read about Mountain Lion, by default you must install from MacAppStore. And I asked \"what in the future?\". With iPad and iPhone you can't choose your app provider.\u003cp\u003eAnd about, the memory management problem, I used to read this sort of answer: \"It doesnt come to me so, it doesn't exist\".\u003cp\u003eEDIT: And about the file system, I wanted to talk about \u003ca href=\"http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/143744/mountain-lion-brings-new-ios-like-file-handling-icloud-app-library-features\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://forums.appleinsider.com/t/143744/mountain-lion-brings...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4301889","id":"4301956"}
{"by":"pron","time":"1441520750","timestamp":"2015-09-06 06:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The goal is not to directly increase the X:Y ratio -- that\u0026#x27;s just a proxy, or \u0026quot;shorthand\u0026quot; for something more fundamental: equal access to power. Now \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e goal operates under the assumption that while individuals vary, all groups (a group is what society categorizes as a group) don\u0026#x27;t normally yield power to others; they don\u0026#x27;t want others to control them.\u003cp\u003eThe reason talking in ratios (as shorthand) is better than your goal of \u0026quot;void excluding people, and allow them entry if they want (and are capable) of it\u0026quot;, is that we know that what people want and are capable of are much of the time what power directs them to want or be capable of (obviously, not entirely, but it\u0026#x27;s a strong component). So that means that if those in society manage to make some people not want power, then everything is fine -- while others, like me, think it is not.\u003cp\u003eI spent some time writing about poor youth, and one of the things that surprised me is that they all wanted money. That wasn\u0026#x27;t the surprising thing -- what surprised me was that when I asked them how much money they wanted they said something like $60K a year, which seemed like an enormous amount to them. That\u0026#x27;s what the most successful people they know make. So they wanted to open a small convenience store and make that amount of money (or make that money in crime). When I told them that people who go to college and become, say, engineers make a lot more, they just couldn\u0026#x27;t believe me.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Do you favor this?\u003cp\u003eI favor all groups having equal(ish) representation in the seats of power. That means no group is underrepresented, and that no group is overrepresented. Whether to achieve that by what you Americans call affirmative action (which is what you seem to be alluding to) or by fixing the fundamental causes for the inequality -- or both -- is a completely different matter.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I have no problem with different groups achieving power in different means. If, say, Asians were overrepresented in tech but underrepresented in banking -- that would be fine. What isn\u0026#x27;t fine is when the same group is underrepresented in most seats of power overall.","parent":"10173120","id":"10176945"}
{"by":"rtpg","time":"1503131602","timestamp":"2017-08-19 08:33:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"vue and angular don\u0026#x27;t offer the same typing guarantees as React.\u003cp\u003eThough I use Angular in my day-to-day, I would really love to be in React land for that reason alone. I\u0026#x27;ve had too many interface bugs due to simple template typos","parent":"15051657","id":"15052350"}
{"by":"hcarvalhoalves","time":"1421701571","timestamp":"2015-01-19 21:06:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Converged pretty fast to the first step on the 10th gen, then got stuck having a seizure and falling on it\u0026#x27;s head \u0026quot;forever\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI bet this would be interesting evolving a simpler movement mechanic, like in bacteria.","parent":"8911719","id":"8914067"}
{"by":"rsanchez1","time":"1318749091","timestamp":"2011-10-16 07:11:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Makes sense, they are communist after all.","parent":"3116640","id":"3116773"}
{"by":"adam-f","time":"1437420566","timestamp":"2015-07-20 19:29:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Leudesdorf has proved that for a positive integer n coprime to 6\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Wolstenholme%27s_theorem#Generalizations\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Wolstenholme%27s_theorem#Gener...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9918298","id":"9918405"}
{"by":"SeanDav","time":"1461656022","timestamp":"2016-04-26 07:33:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the UK, there have been several examples of a woman getting drunk, having apparently consensual sex and then deciding the next day that she was raped. The male now has to prove that sex was consensual. The woman gets lifetime anonymity and the male has to undergo a public trial, almost always with commensurate loss of reputation and employment, even if later proven to be innocent.\u003cp\u003eThere is a very recent example where a female barrister (senior lawyer) was involved in a public sex act with a male. She accepted a police caution for public lewdness the next day. She then discovered that the press were about to publish the story and very cynically, to stop her name from becoming public, she reported that in fact she had been raped. She was immediately given lifelong anonymity and the male was exposed to public trial.","parent":"11569724","id":"11570060"}
{"by":"rpdillon","time":"1517013570","timestamp":"2018-01-27 00:39:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not what you asked for, but assuming you use the commands frequently, they\u0026#x27;ll tend to stay cached, and C-r can access them quickly if they have a unique substring you can remember.","parent":"16243589","id":"16244111"}
{"by":"siscia","time":"1378066976","timestamp":"2013-09-01 20:22:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What kind of test you run ?\nDo you test every single pure functions or you test just abstraction layers ? Or what ?","parent":"6310943","id":"6311996"}
{"by":"maxklein","time":"1266363834","timestamp":"2010-02-16 23:43:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Either that, or just have one person who is the leader and who has override authority on everything. Team consensus is not really a way to build a company - in the end there will have to be one overriding vision.","parent":"1129686","id":"1130316"}
{"by":"salgernon","time":"1451544761","timestamp":"2015-12-31 06:52:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone can create a destination on the internet without having to ask Facebook for permission.","parent":"10816505","id":"10816576"}
{"by":"AnimalMuppet","time":"1443217472","timestamp":"2015-09-25 21:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not in Europe, but I\u0026#x27;ve had it happen twice in the US.  Once in Dallas, once in Avalon on Catalina Island.  (That one was, \u0026quot;Um, sorry, we only have you booked for one night, and we don\u0026#x27;t have any openings for the second night.\u0026quot;)","parent":"10280789","id":"10280892"}
{"by":"danans","time":"1502768030","timestamp":"2017-08-15 03:33:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is only the case in a minority of neighborhoods with very old local distribution infrastructure [1].  Most other local distribution grids can handle the load with little or no upgrades.\u003cp\u003eEven still, between time of use rates and smart charge scheduling, much of the EV charging load can be dispatched in such a way that actually postpones or mitigates altogether the need for grid upgrades.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;et.epri.com\u0026#x2F;Communications_Potential_Impacts_of_Vehicles_on_the_Grid_2011.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;et.epri.com\u0026#x2F;Communications_Potential_Impacts_of_Vehic...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15014916","id":"15015196"}
{"by":"yarou","time":"1432639874","timestamp":"2015-05-26 11:31:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are also useful in questioning the validity of what the author has written.","parent":"9603590","id":"9604019"}
{"by":"beat","time":"1516727240","timestamp":"2018-01-23 17:07:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really. You can find the same sort of gruesome inefficiency and bad UX in systems built by similar organizations that are supposed encourage, rather than discourage activity. The deeper problem here is a focus on internal business needs (and terminology) as the \u0026quot;customers\u0026quot;, rather than end users. Heck, I\u0026#x27;ve seen the same basic opaqueness and clumsy, jargon-laden UX on things as simple as credit card terminals.\u003cp\u003eThe only time you see really good UX for these things is in the startup (or post-startup, ie Amazon or Google) world, where UX for end users becomes a top-level requirement, and driving clicks is measured and actively improved.","parent":"16214582","id":"16215110"}
{"by":"ryanelkins","time":"1278701045","timestamp":"2010-07-09 18:44:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is intent. Mines are placed with the intention of killing or maiming. Bears are not placed in zoos with the intent to kill trespassers. If animals were used for that intent it would still run afoul of human rights. You realize that it IS illegal to use deadly booby traps to protect your own personal property, right?","parent":"1501607","id":"1501733"}
{"by":"cookingrobot","time":"1338244028","timestamp":"2012-05-28 22:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks!  Agree that the 2d scrolling works best with magic mouse, or touch, or a good trackpad.  We have lots of ideas for social features too - but one test at a time..","parent":"4034938","id":"4035183"}
{"by":"newen","time":"1530823968","timestamp":"2018-07-05 20:52:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well...imagine dropping a cannonball and a feather from the top of a tower. Obviously the cannonball is going to hit the ground first. You can then extrapolate this result to heavier objects and conclude that heavier objects fall faster. To explain the behaviour of a small cannonball and a large cannonball, both of which fall to the ground almost at the same time: you see, as the weight of an object increases, an object starts to behave more and more like an extremely heavy object. Thus the difference in dropping time for a heavy object and a heavier object gets immeasurably smaller as the objects increase in mass.\u003cp\u003eYou can come up with all sorts of theories to explain phenomena. It\u0026#x27;s pretty hard to deduce the underlying rule from observation. But it\u0026#x27;s pretty easy to explain the phenomenon once you know the underlying rule.","parent":"17465752","id":"17466744"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1465047700","timestamp":"2016-06-04 13:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shell makes it easy to spawn multiple processes. It makes it reasonably easy to read those processes\u0026#x27; standard out or standard error, though it\u0026#x27;s not that much fun to try to do both at the same time while keeping them distinct. [1]\u003cp\u003eIt pretty much doesn\u0026#x27;t do anything else that you might want to do with multiple processes, though, and it tends to encourage multiple processes to communicate via text which is a problematic limitation that one often finds oneself \u0026quot;working around\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eShell is really powerful, \u003ci\u003ebut\u003c/i\u003e it hits a certain limit of what kind of tasks it can do and it hits that limit \u003ci\u003ehard\u003c/i\u003e, and that\u0026#x27;s why when one imagines orchestrating many processes on a machine to do some task, to say nothing of orchestrating many processes on many machines, you don\u0026#x27;t see solutions based on shell, and indeed the very idea is laughable. Shell is best used by making sure it stays firmly restricted to the domain it shines in and not so much as trying to dip a toe into the spaces where it is not.\u003cp\u003e[1]: Note \u0026quot;not much fun\u0026quot; != \u0026quot;can\u0026#x27;t\u0026quot;. Shell is fundamentally written around the idea that a process has one stream STDOUT that may go to other processes, and one stream STDERR which is generally intended to go to the console (or other user output like a log) no matter how complicated the pipeline. While you \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e get both streams and do things to them, you\u0026#x27;re starting to fight shell, which really wants to create pipelines with one \u0026quot;through\u0026quot; path with no branches out.","parent":"11835350","id":"11836279"}
{"by":"lawless123","time":"1485257569","timestamp":"2017-01-24 11:32:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People can survive on cereals.","parent":"13470371","id":"13470550"}
{"by":"rascalpenguin","time":"1477515712","timestamp":"2016-10-26 21:01:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine this is because the majority of revenue is spent on growing the buisness, rather than going into profit (As profit = revenue - expenses). As Tesla still has a lot more space to grow. Same method Amazon did until recently for years.","parent":"12800119","id":"12800517"}
{"by":"component","time":"1503597279","timestamp":"2017-08-24 17:54:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should be noted the _bundled_ SVG set of Feather on icomoon is out of date.","parent":"15090290","id":"15092399"}
{"by":"s73v3r","time":"1431472725","timestamp":"2015-05-12 23:18:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In order for it to work, it has to be a place that billionaires would want to be at in the first place. Something like this isn\u0026#x27;t going to work in the middle of nowhere, for example.","parent":"9533738","id":"9535643"}
{"by":"always_good","time":"1501968945","timestamp":"2017-08-05 21:35:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To provide a concrete example, I use Bitcoin where I don\u0026#x27;t trust a provider to not charge me again in the future.\u003cp\u003eSome banks give you some tools to protect against this case like generating debit card numbers with an exact balance on it. But Bitcoin generalizes over the case.\u003cp\u003eYour comment is the sort of all-or-nothing mentality that I don\u0026#x27;t understand. I look at banking institutions vs cryptocurrencies as different options just like credit cards vs cash: I want to be able to choose, and I don\u0026#x27;t want to be limited to one single solution.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s kinda of like the decision between an iPad vs a techie\u0026#x27;s laptop. I think the most common cases (e.g. my parents\u0026#x27; needs) are best served by an iPad or a banking institution, but it\u0026#x27;s dangerous when someone begins telling me that I don\u0026#x27;t need such a powerful laptop.\u003cp\u003eAll too often I see cryptocurrencies dismissed with the condescending implication that nobody is capable of evaluating the trade-offs.","parent":"14935644","id":"14938052"}
{"by":"crapolasplatter","time":"1449197677","timestamp":"2015-12-04 02:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"when the Oligopolies and gov\u0026#x27;t create regulations to fully squash the independent small content providers and the internet becomes a web of infomercials.\u003cp\u003eOr comcast becomes the sole ISP provider.","parent":"10674220","id":"10674308"}
{"by":"solidsnack9000","time":"1468813699","timestamp":"2016-07-18 03:48:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not that black implies death. Rather: what color goes well with death? In the west that color is black.","parent":"12108383","id":"12113137"}
{"by":"ozaark","time":"1486003720","timestamp":"2017-02-02 02:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s especially beneficial to the UX when attention is driven towards the user task. It\u0026#x27;s easier to digest short, helpful animation than reading through a block of text.\u003cp\u003eNo user wants a repeat of 90\u0026#x27;s animated gif obsession or the 00\u0026#x27;s overly dramatic Flash craze. Hopefully we don\u0026#x27;t regress because of more recent advanced animation capabilities.","parent":"13547251","id":"13547657"}
{"by":"amaccuish","time":"1533156607","timestamp":"2018-08-01 20:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Your post places Kent State and Tiananmen in equivalent counterpoint without comment\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t actually, if you\u0026#x27;d read the thread. Maybe you missed the edit? He was replying to someone who stated that there are no such massacres in the US. He pointed one out. That is all.\u003cp\u003eParent\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Edit: I feel like there is going to be what-about-tism responses. So, before you respond, ask yourself if you can criticize the Chinese government, protest against it and make a change in China. Last time that happened in Tiananmen square, there was massacre. That does not happen in US.","parent":"17666779","id":"17666857"}
{"by":"SamReidHughes","time":"1512508753","timestamp":"2017-12-05 21:19:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rich people or corporations that live in high tax states pay that money, and everybody else that lives there doesn\u0026#x27;t deserve any credit for who their neighbors are.","parent":"15855841","id":"15856093"}
{"by":"silvertonia","time":"1390312565","timestamp":"2014-01-21 13:56:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re renting your first couple places, absolutely not.  But at some point you hit a mark where you have a property manager doing all the day-to-day and a few leasing agents filling vacancies and it becomes as passive as you want it to be.","parent":"7095128","id":"7095193"}
{"by":"stefanix","time":"1366324494","timestamp":"2013-04-18 22:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I call BS. It's a cheap strategic move to weaken public opposition. The same thing happened with NDAA.","parent":"5572875","id":"5573607"}
{"by":"JdeBP","time":"1523000334","timestamp":"2018-04-06 07:38:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No.  The volume of traffic to the . content DNS servers would be largely unchanged.\u003cp\u003eIn the existing system, each cache miss at a caching resolving proxy DNS server begins with a transaction with the . content DNS servers (and thence with each content DNS server for further domains as a series of delegations is followed).\u003cp\u003eIn the proposed system, each cache miss is still only one transation to the . content DNS servers, the difference being that that transaction is encrypted.","parent":"16743057","id":"16771606"}
{"by":"Shubley","time":"1487025469","timestamp":"2017-02-13 22:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;A quantitative analysis reveals that immigrants, even illegal ones, tend to commit fewer crimes on a per-capita basis than their legal neighbors\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d be interested in the source on that. I\u0026#x27;m also curious if they\u0026#x27;re taking a blanket average, or if they account for the fact that a huge proportion of American crime occurs within a few square miles of blighted urban terrain in Chicago, DC, LA and Baltimore. For most people, such \u0026#x27;average\u0026#x27; crime stats are irrelevant in the same way that skydiving death stats are irrelevant to someone who never skydives.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;we are emotional animals and emotional experience matters too.\u003cp\u003eBut \u003ci\u003ewhich\u003c/i\u003e emotional experience matters?\u003cp\u003eThere are millions of relevant emotional experiences being had. You can\u0026#x27;t relate to all of them on an emotional level. So, the only question becomes which emotional experiences you choose to privilege above all the others and synchronize your own emotions to.\u003cp\u003eAs parent indicated, this ultimately means surrendering your own motivational choices to whoever has the power to put emotional imagery in front of your monkey brain.\u003cp\u003eYou become a slave to power, used to fulfill the goals of others, tugged blindly toward the beliefs they choose by the leash of your own pathological empathy.","parent":"13638997","id":"13639471"}
{"by":"u801e","time":"1536956205","timestamp":"2018-09-14 20:16:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re making the implicit assumption that people riding their bikes on the road are just doing it for recreation instead of doing it for transportation.","parent":"17989716","id":"17990577"}
{"by":"marvin","time":"1385663470","timestamp":"2013-11-28 18:31:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They would get it wrong, though. Even the physics 101 students probably wouldn\u0026#x27;t draw the gravity of the sun, the gravity of the earth and the Milky Way.\u003cp\u003eIf we\u0026#x27;re discussing reasoning from first principles, is it really so intuitive to disregard the gravity of the Earth in this experiment? Why can you disregard it and still get the correct result?","parent":"6815347","id":"6815798"}
{"by":"digitalengineer","time":"1347978156","timestamp":"2012-09-18 14:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Big problem righ here: Restrictions part 2, #15: You may not use these images as part of a trademark or logo... \u003ca href=\"http://www.shutterstock.com/licensing.mhtml\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.shutterstock.com/licensing.mhtml\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4537959","id":"4538117"}
{"by":"yorwba","time":"1545588197","timestamp":"2018-12-23 18:03:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The UK\u0026#x27;s effort is actually at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;data.gov.uk\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;data.gov.uk\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e data-in.place appears to be compute_me\u0026#x27;s personal project.","parent":"18746893","id":"18747375"}
{"by":"jinushaun","time":"1322661786","timestamp":"2011-11-30 14:03:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's made by Telerik, maker of .NET libraries and tools, and some companies go \"all in\" on their stuff.","parent":"3294946","id":"3295019"}
{"by":"casparwylie","time":"1368214182","timestamp":"2013-05-10 19:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, because it slightly ruins designs if it is not! rather annoying i know.","parent":"5688177","id":"5688197"}
{"by":"Vespasian","time":"1467855431","timestamp":"2016-07-07 01:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, in our group we just started (academic) research testing out possibilities to bring data analysis, visualization and remote collaboration to VR (Vive).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m quite curious whether this will work out and what the future will hold for us.","parent":"12046666","id":"12046991"}
{"by":"mibbitier","time":"1353078908","timestamp":"2012-11-16 15:15:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everyone knows how to call up their ISP and ask for filtering to be turned on or off.\u003cp\u003eFirst step after buying a mobile phone is to call them up and get them to remove the stupid filtering.","parent":"4794066","id":"4794118"}
{"by":"piratebroadcast","time":"1395325964","timestamp":"2014-03-20 14:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exercise. Running. Meditation. Fuck what other people think. We\u0026#x27;ve all got problems, mate. Suck it up.","parent":"7435601","id":"7435731"}
{"by":"andyjohnson0","time":"1507655449","timestamp":"2017-10-10 17:10:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Back in the nineties, at a previous employer, I wrote a code generator that read a kind of DSL from stdin and spat out C source to stdout.\u003cp\u003eHaving written the initial version and got it to compile, I thought I should test it before checking it into RCS for the first time. So I ran it with some simple input and piped the output to something like program.c. At that point I remembered that the code generator\u0026#x27;s main source code file was also named program.c. To my horror it had overwritten a large part of its own source.\u003cp\u003eI remember staying in the office until about 2am to re-write the lost code, but my boss never found out.","parent":"15441001","id":"15443480"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1436731463","timestamp":"2015-07-12 20:04:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TTIP:  Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership- a secret deal between US and EU","parent":"9874310","id":"9874734"}
{"by":"monocasa","time":"1501095710","timestamp":"2017-07-26 19:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s good to see the bounties increasing to the range you could get on the open market.","parent":"14859043","id":"14859117"}
{"by":"bkeroack","time":"1425844078","timestamp":"2015-03-08 19:47:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great idea and looks like a good implementation. Are there native hashmaps and arrays? Those are things I like from Powershell.","parent":"9166386","id":"9166926"}
{"by":"ghaff","time":"1501855414","timestamp":"2017-08-04 14:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Re: real estate.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve heard this one many times. Bu everyone now still has to agree to enter the transaction on some specific block chain. Even if you limit things to just the us. The issue isn\u0026#x27;t that we don\u0026#x27;t have the tech to have a national database. It\u0026#x27;s that the records are scattered all over dusty county and town clerks offices in thousands of jurisdictions for all sorts of historical and political reasons.","parent":"14926032","id":"14928719"}
{"by":"michaelcullina","time":"1388873448","timestamp":"2014-01-04 22:10:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use OneNote on my Nokia 925 Windows Phone, my Surface Pro, my laptop, and my workstation.  All the data is synced in SkyDrive.  I\u0026#x27;ve got a lot of data.  Global search is instantaneous.  The application is extremely reliable.  I save cut and paste snippets from the web.  Stack Overflow answers with my personal annotations; anything.  Images and sound files are extremely easy.  I can record a meeting and take a few notes (by typing or using the stylus on the Surface) and later I can search on the string to find the note.  If that note was taken 40 minutes into a 60 minute meeting I can click and get the .wav file to play that bit of the meeting.  You can use OneNote on the other platforms as described in this article.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043415\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pcworld.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2043415\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not shilling for the Redmond entity but I always do find it hilarious that a very superior software product can hide in plain view and all the \u0026quot;think different\u0026quot; people can\u0026#x27;t even see it.","parent":"7009995","id":"7013189"}
{"by":"bunderbunder","time":"1449337118","timestamp":"2015-12-05 17:38:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was counting Starbucks in the group of \u0026quot;nice\u0026quot; coffee shops. Their markup on coffee might be somewhat higher (though I doubt it; they may have lower materials cost but they also charge half to 2\u0026#x2F;3 as much as the indie places I tend to frequent do for a regular cuppa), but I bet any difference is still tiny compared to the facilities and staffing costs.\u003cp\u003eI was meaning it more as opposed to places that more-or-less just serve coffee out of a window.","parent":"10680261","id":"10682586"}
{"by":"throwawayLSKDNF","time":"1400800722","timestamp":"2014-05-22 23:18:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re in the US, you can fix that by moving.\u003cp\u003eI did.","parent":"7784895","id":"7787171"}
{"by":"sharjeel","time":"1502491691","timestamp":"2017-08-11 22:48:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow. Close call. I was about to get the same lens from the same seller about a month ago but at the very last moment I thought I can wait for a few weeks to see some more reviews of the seller come in.\u003cp\u003eI was thinking about getting defective product shipped etc but never thought I could have faced such a sophisticated scam.","parent":"14993216","id":"14995004"}
{"by":"berserkpi","time":"1481564905","timestamp":"2016-12-12 17:48:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m also a big time cheater. :)","parent":"13131103","id":"13160025"}
{"by":"jdi92mxx","time":"1541623680","timestamp":"2018-11-07 20:48:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of jobs just act as distractions to create jobs\u003cp\u003eA better target than automoting away cashier jobs at pointless retailers would be to target universal access to healthcare and social services as the key economic drivers\u003cp\u003eThen folks aren’t tethered to dumb jobs and can make jewelry or chairs and such for personal needs when they’re on vacation from their job that supports the health economy\u003cp\u003eCreating is an important human outlet. Don’t think it’ll do to automate it away. But we can open it up to anyone learning to create whatever so long as they don’t need to be tethered to a dumb job","parent":"18401858","id":"18402274"}
{"by":"jra_samba","time":"1425664315","timestamp":"2015-03-06 17:51:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s already pretty much dead, hardly any project uses it any more.\u003cp\u003eHahahaha ! Almost every single device you own or will own will include GPL code, from your phone to every television to (soon) your light switches and light bulbs.\u003cp\u003eAfter the world ends, the only thing still alive will be GPL licensed Linux kernels running robots (assuming that\u0026#x27;s not after the int64_t time_t wrap time :-).","parent":"9158205","id":"9158379"}
{"by":"drumdance","time":"1466202457","timestamp":"2016-06-17 22:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in New York during Hurricane Sandy. I was staying in a hotel and the power was out. The morning after the storm I went outside to see what was going on. There was a big CNN truck with a dish and a big crowd.\u003cp\u003eI thought \n\u0026quot;maybe the mayor is speaking to the media\u0026quot; and walked over. Turns out the crowd was people charging their phone from the truck. CNN generously left the truck running there for a couple of days.","parent":"11925486","id":"11925951"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1527193390","timestamp":"2018-05-24 20:23:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it the commercial part that makes it infringement, or does that just make it \u003ci\u003eclear\u003c/i\u003e infringement?  I was under the impression as long as it\u0026#x27;s non-commercial use it\u0026#x27;s mostly allowed, but I\u0026#x27;m not sure how that works out if for example  I play something on a large screen in a public park.  Is that infringing?  If so, is it because it\u0026#x27;s shown to a lot of people, or because the reputational benefit of doing so may have some commercial ramifications and it\u0026#x27;s argued under that aspect?","parent":"17147699","id":"17148034"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1245433506","timestamp":"2009-06-19 17:45:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I understand it, axod offered financial incentives aplenty but freenode wasn't interested.\u003cp\u003eFreenode's position seems to be that they will never trust any third party, no matter what that third party does. The most oft-repeated argument on #freenode was not about the hassle of dealing with bad users (everyone, including axod, agreed with the sentiment of mibbit and freenode working together to resolve those), but that it was actually not possible for mibbit to do anything to resolve that problem.\u003cp\u003eI'm sure you don't like to hear that, but I sat on that channel for a long while reading what was being said, and Freenode were behaving like a bunch of power-tripping bureaucrats. \u003ci\u003eEvery time\u003c/i\u003e axod, or anyone else, asked \"what can mibbit do, concretely, to make you happy?\" the answer was either \"make mibbit open-source\" or \"nothing\", or, \"axod should have discussed this with us a year ago, it's too late now\".\u003cp\u003eIt's a real shame for an IRC network with the legacy of freenode to behave like that. I had a lot of respect for freenode prior to this, but I don't have much left after today. The sad thing is it wouldn't take much effort on the part of freenode to regain that respect... so I'm hoping you and your freenode colleagues come to a saner decision and work with axod to resolve this in an amicable fashion.","parent":"665550","id":"665576"}
{"by":"yoodenvranx","time":"1510437746","timestamp":"2017-11-11 22:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If I were rich, I would have a permanent secretary.\u003cp\u003eIf I ever play and win the lottery this is the one thing I would spent big money on. No expensive cars, no expensive wine, just a person which takes care of everything.\u003cp\u003eNeed a new insurance for the car? Tell the secretary to do it. Car is broken? Tell the secretary to take care of it. Need a hotel? Tell the personal secretary to book one. Phone broken? Just send an email \u0026quot;Please order me a Samsung S8\u0026quot; and it will magically appear the next day. Don\u0026#x27;t like it? Just tell them to send it back.\u003cp\u003eThis would solve 95% of my daily struggles and it would improve the quality of my life way more than any expensive yacht or car could ever do.\u003cp\u003eIn fact if you have a group of half a dozen people who each pay a few hundred $ a month you could almost employ one person who takes care of such stuff even as a not-so-rich person.","parent":"15677560","id":"15678423"}
{"by":"M8","time":"1430348338","timestamp":"2015-04-29 22:58:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only C# is actualy used ;).","parent":"9462341","id":"9462372"}
{"by":"sillysaurus2","time":"1388703367","timestamp":"2014-01-02 22:56:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What would you use as an RSA replacement?  Beyond that, is there a technique that\u0026#x27;s still relatively simple like RSA (humor me) but impervious to publicly-known quantum attack vectors like Shor\u0026#x27;s algo?","parent":"7002781","id":"7002978"}
{"by":"hipjiveguy","time":"1359388438","timestamp":"2013-01-28 15:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what's that tablet thing that the lady has in the front page video? Looks cool!","parent":"5128643","id":"5128963"}
{"by":"amichail","time":"1175294610","timestamp":"2007-03-30 22:43:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Won't such a test limit the diversity of Y Combinator founders? And so you might get stuck in a local maximum as a result.","parent":"7704","id":"7709"}
{"by":"wlesieutre","time":"1354246977","timestamp":"2012-11-30 03:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's being downvoted because the the tone of your post does not fit the kind of conversation that Hn users want to have here","parent":"4851638","id":"4851719"}
{"by":"miguelrochefort","time":"1501602884","timestamp":"2017-08-01 15:54:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know this affects Xamarin apps.","parent":"14901717","id":"14902064"}
{"by":"zevyoura","time":"1404780706","timestamp":"2014-07-08 00:51:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With comprehensive shared web history via iCloud this could sort of work, but I never (for example) visit the Facebook mobile site from my phone, despite using their apps daily.","parent":"8002408","id":"8002495"}
{"by":"kjsthree","time":"1543768353","timestamp":"2018-12-02 16:32:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"^ THIS! I don’t see how the situation is in any way more complicated. \nReal-world analogies can get pretty squirrelly but it would be quite literally like the following.\u003cp\u003eMan standing on the sidewalk outside a store yells into the store at the shopkeeper “hey there, can I have some free fish?”\u003cp\u003eShopkeeper yells back “sure!” and tosses a fish to the man on the sidewalk.\u003cp\u003eAdd more yelling back and forth for TLS handshake.\u003cp\u003eAt this point, the man on the sidewalk can do whatever he wants with the fish. It was freely given.","parent":"18582626","id":"18582975"}
{"by":"lfgmikujhygfv","time":"1268540027","timestamp":"2010-03-14 04:13:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;I see from your other post that you work with textiles\u003cp\u003eThere is a Spanish high st fashion chain that specialize in very lean manufacturing, if an item becomes unpopular they don't sell it the next week. An new item takes a couple  of weeks from design to the stores. Rather than the annual cycle in most textiles\u003cp\u003eThey manufacture in europe, but make money from never making an item that doesn't sell.","parent":"1190058","id":"1190250"}
{"by":"gambiting","time":"1547572780","timestamp":"2019-01-15 17:19:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A transit C-1 visa is usually only valid for few months though, so this can still screw you over if you transit through US regularly. And no,  you can\u0026#x27;t apply for a B2 visa \u0026quot;just in case\u0026quot;(I mean you can, but I doubt such request would succeed).","parent":"18912605","id":"18912826"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1494215464","timestamp":"2017-05-08 03:51:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Women\u0026#x27;s voices are often harder to understand for those who have lost sensitivity to high octaves. That is a typical pattern of hearing loss for older people, both women and men. Of course the ridiculous fashion in which some people choose to speak exacerbates this, but it would be a mistake to assume that such people aren\u0026#x27;t hired to answer phones.","parent":"14289099","id":"14289122"}
{"by":"boyce","time":"1502190380","timestamp":"2017-08-08 11:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;re so awful\u0026quot; business is usually of the \u0026quot;why do we british do\u0026#x2F;think X\u0026quot; variety where X is something popular with a largely separate subset of people to Guardian writers and readers. Then we can pat ourselves on the back.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s increasingly cack but still the best of a bad bunch","parent":"14956381","id":"14956528"}
{"by":"pingswept","time":"1238035114","timestamp":"2009-03-26 02:38:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that the intake and exhaust are always in opposite directions, regardless of whether it's efficient.","parent":"532730","id":"532870"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1430339897","timestamp":"2015-04-29 20:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point of selling the company is to get liquidity.  The point of founder cash-out rounds is to align incentives between the founders and investors.  Investors have an incentive to see the company \u0026quot;Go big or go home\u0026quot;, because they spread their bets across a whole portfolio of companies.  Founders have an incentive to play it much safer, because their whole net worth is locked up in one company and without cash-out rounds, they have a strong incentive to take the first acquisition offer that leaves them financially independent rather than shoot for the one that maximizes the VC\u0026#x27;s financial outcomes.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not close enough to Secret to know whether the system functioned as intended here.  It\u0026#x27;s possible (and suspicious, given the timing of the rounds and subsequent redesign that trashed their brand) that Secret rode the hype machine, cashed out at the top of the Secret bubble, and left investors holding the bag.  But it\u0026#x27;s also possible (and likely, given public statements made and their hiring behavior) that this was a good-faith investment by VCs seeking a return in a company that honestly thought they were on to the next big thing and cashed out so that their risk-tolerance would be aligned as they shot for the next big thing.  In that case, the founder cash-out functioned exactly as intended, it just didn\u0026#x27;t have the outcome anyone was hoping for.","parent":"9461432","id":"9461574"}
{"by":"dantheman","time":"1303665247","timestamp":"2011-04-24 17:14:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thanks, i was misinformed.","parent":"2478195","id":"2479204"}
{"by":"mynameishere","time":"1233093362","timestamp":"2009-01-27 21:56:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's the least accurate headline ever written.","parent":"452279","id":"452816"}
{"by":"traldan","time":"1356291814","timestamp":"2012-12-23 19:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me it's less intuitive than a tree, but you can use a matrix to express all possible strategies of a two-player sequential game. This can help you visualize credible vs. noncredible threats from the second player. Ultimately I think the tree is more helpful in solving it visually, though.","parent":"4959965","id":"4960376"}
{"by":"Lawtonfogle","time":"1456520536","timestamp":"2016-02-26 21:02:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t it possible for the skew to also represent that it just isn\u0026#x27;t appealing (for example it may not be appealing due to socially conditioned gender roles)?","parent":"11183248","id":"11184210"}
{"by":"31reasons","time":"1380741640","timestamp":"2013-10-02 19:20:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great idea.","parent":"6484504","id":"6484624"}
{"by":"adventured","time":"1460585117","timestamp":"2016-04-13 22:05:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In fact it\u0026#x27;s not disingenuous at all, nor a logical fallacy. You can derive those rough specs from the absolute numbers very easily.\u003cp\u003eIf the top 10% earn 45% of all income and pay 82% of all income taxes, that means the bottom 90% are earning 55% of all income and paying 18% of all income taxes. Which is another way of saying, the bottom 90% are paying a \u003ci\u003every low\u003c/i\u003e tax rate.\u003cp\u003eAnd in fact, another important thing is extremely obvious as a connection to this:\u003cp\u003eThe bottom ~50% in the US pay nothing net in income taxes. This is a pretty well known tax fact.\u003cp\u003eThat means the bracket between 50% and 10%, that 40% group, is paying an increasingly very low rate as you go down the income scale, as the 10% to 20% bracket is carrying a high share of that remaining 18% income tax revenue base just as the top 10% group is. Put a very simple way: the bottom ~70% of income earners in the US, pay an extraordinarily small share of all income taxes, and inherently must have a low tax rate given their share of the income base (but that\u0026#x27;s also another trivially easy stat to retrieve).\u003cp\u003eExplain to me again how anything I said is incorrect or disingenuous, and or how the rich aren\u0026#x27;t paying their fair share of income taxes. The sole argument you have left that I can see, is to claim that the top 10% should go from paying 82% of all income taxes on their 45% income share, to paying 100% of all income taxes off of that 45% share of national income.","parent":"11492619","id":"11492688"}
{"by":"TaylorGood","time":"1462861539","timestamp":"2016-05-10 06:25:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just was fined $100 for going over recent usage standards set.. household gallons per month. Was told fees go up should overuse continue. Already swapped for low flush toilets.","parent":"11665288","id":"11665485"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1536613754","timestamp":"2018-09-10 21:09:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is wrong to expect it to be something that you start to learn the language with. Non-beginners write data structures in Rust just fine.","parent":"17955204","id":"17955230"}
{"by":"pedalpete","time":"1266601488","timestamp":"2010-02-19 17:44:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only friction, but rotational weight. I would have to assume the rim in this design is much heavier than that of a spoked bicycle, and therefore you've moved the weight of inertia (?) to a point further from center axis. This takes more energy to spin.","parent":"1137313","id":"1137433"}
{"by":"marvy","time":"1437505807","timestamp":"2015-07-21 19:10:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you!","parent":"9912616","id":"9924912"}
{"by":"ajdecon","time":"1277297665","timestamp":"2010-06-23 12:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of curiosity, can you post a link to the \"hello, world\" article?","parent":"1454721","id":"1454768"}
{"by":"vvangemert","time":"1492002219","timestamp":"2017-04-12 13:03:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;elementary.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;elementary.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e ?","parent":"14097120","id":"14097208"}
{"by":"bsg75","time":"1533329169","timestamp":"2018-08-03 20:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; 64 bit integers? Never had a need for this, but maybe there is a package that can add them in?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cran.r-project.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;packages\u0026#x2F;bit64\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cran.r-project.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;packages\u0026#x2F;bit64\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17677512","id":"17683472"}
{"by":"tylersmith","time":"1504896229","timestamp":"2017-09-08 18:43:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ultimate response is replacing them with decentralized naming systems but it won\u0026#x27;t be a fast response.","parent":"15202565","id":"15202909"}
{"by":"spookthesunset","time":"1543787216","timestamp":"2018-12-02 21:46:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; de-platforming\u003cp\u003eGod forbid the vast majority of people in the world don\u0026#x27;t want to listen to a bunch of racist nut jobs ramble on about various ill founded conspiracy theories.","parent":"18583803","id":"18584766"}
{"by":"joosters","time":"1415367727","timestamp":"2014-11-07 13:42:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that this is all about .onion hosted servers. Any flaws might be about locating the servers inside the TOR network and not about identifying individual users.","parent":"8572353","id":"8572423"}
{"by":"lou1306","time":"1500929833","timestamp":"2017-07-24 20:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, this reminds me of a lovely Mac-only thing that isn\u0026#x27;t featured in this article: you can drag and drop the little icon in the title bar! For instance, you have a PDF opened in Preview and want to send it? Just grab the icon and drop it onto Mail\u0026#x27;s icon.","parent":"14841912","id":"14842617"}
{"by":"Pica_soO","time":"1489347103","timestamp":"2017-03-12 19:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Take current trends, extrapolate and determinate:\u003cp\u003e-which business will vanish and how will today\u0026#x27;s customer migrate\u003cp\u003e-What are the currently growing company\u0026#x27;s hiring, and what is amiss to replace this jobs, yet again?\u003cp\u003e-What is missing in modern life, and how could a app re-engineer social-life and society to provide it?\nThe last one is the most noble, but also the most tricky.","parent":"13847932","id":"13852562"}
{"by":"throwaway13337","time":"1454821373","timestamp":"2016-02-07 05:02:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A similar phenomenon is happening with Everquest.\u003cp\u003eThe current owners of the franchise are pushing \u0026quot;progression\u0026quot; servers - servers that start with only the original game and move on from there. Though their numbers are hidden, most of the interest in the game as it is now seems to be in these kinds of servers.\u003cp\u003eThese legacy servers come about - runescape included - because owners recognize the success of emulators that try to recall the original game whatever that may be. All the popular MMOs have these emulator servers - world of warcraft, star wars galaxies, etc. Some have very large populations.\u003cp\u003eThe question I have is whether it\u0026#x27;s all nostalgia or did MMO game designers collectively lose something as they tried to modernize?","parent":"11050425","id":"11051706"}
{"by":"modeless","time":"1307572301","timestamp":"2011-06-08 22:31:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool! Thanks for the link to the slide; I didn't watch the full presentation so that detail escaped me. As for your question, iCloud is for Macs and Windows too, not just iOS.  Unless you have another link to a slide saying otherwise, I'd assume iTunes Match will download its un-DRM'd files to every computer you own.","parent":"2634868","id":"2635275"}
{"by":"msbarnett","time":"1504216484","timestamp":"2017-08-31 21:54:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But in my example this is not hard to get right in C. The tree is constructed (on the stack would be fine), then used for a while without mutating it, then freed all at once.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s still \u0026quot;hard to get right\u0026quot; in that at any time nothing is stopping you from violating any of the assumptions that make this \u0026quot;easy\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s never easy to write a solution that\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;guaranteed to be safe\u0026quot; in C, but that\u0026#x27;s what you\u0026#x27;re trying to do by writing such a solution in Rust. To give but one example, nothing in C will stop your nodes from containing some resources which needs to be manually destructed and which get leaked when the stack frame is reclaimed.\u003cp\u003eRust is going to require you to make those assumptions explicit, so that it can enforce them -- in this case, you need to explicitly restrict your solution to dealing with Copy types, which by construction don\u0026#x27;t implement Drop, and therefore have no destructors.\u003cp\u003eBut at the end of the day, if all you want to do is swear to the compiler that you know what you\u0026#x27;re doing and you promise to not be stupid, wrap it in an unsafe and get C-style consequences if you got things wrong. You get C-Style easiness only by explicitly abandoning the attempt at guaranteeing safety for every type and scenario your solution could be used with.","parent":"15143982","id":"15144289"}
{"by":"Sacho","time":"1430819800","timestamp":"2015-05-05 09:56:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the case would just \u0026quot;stop\u0026quot;, they wouldn\u0026#x27;t go to jail - all Judge Wright imposed were monetary sanctions(he only threatened incarceration). Furthermore, the monetary sanctions aren\u0026#x27;t even that big(compared to the claims of the money they made).\u003cp\u003eBut specifically to answer your question, the reason is that there\u0026#x27;s an appellate system. And unless you want to argue that the appellate system shouldn\u0026#x27;t exist, \u0026quot;bad guys\u0026quot; get to use it to argue their case, just like \u0026quot;good guys\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, as Pietz points out in his oral argument, Judge Wright was exasperated at how much the justice system constrains punishing bad actors \u003ci\u003eabusing the system\u003c/i\u003e. This is a core issue, and it\u0026#x27;s not as easily solved as waving a wand around.","parent":"9491394","id":"9491683"}
{"by":"UncleEntity","time":"1534638035","timestamp":"2018-08-19 00:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it applies to cases like \u0026quot;only WASP\u0026#x27;s need apply\u0026quot; and is clearly not what HUD is concerned with here.\u003cp\u003eAbsolutely nobody is arguing that Facebook isn\u0026#x27;t liable in such a case because it\u0026#x27;s clearly spelled out in the letter of the law.","parent":"17791683","id":"17791699"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1522179415","timestamp":"2018-03-27 19:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; if you don\u0026#x27;t mind not having a local-to-the-country phone number\u003cp\u003eThis is actually one of my big pain points with SIM-juggling while travelling. iMessage would work great, except for the fact that Apple unregisters your US number and registers your new SIM number in its place. Which makes total sense on a technical level, but is irritating in practise.","parent":"16691778","id":"16691989"}
{"by":"lallysingh","time":"1299341733","timestamp":"2011-03-05 16:15:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope.  I'm often on gmail and am looking at an email from a (non-technical) friend of mine, when a little text ad for a nice little 1U opteron machine shows up top.  I click, because I'm interested.","parent":"2291573","id":"2291681"}
{"by":"dawnerd","time":"1507045542","timestamp":"2017-10-03 15:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah I haven’t even had java installed in years. Only have a single app that uses it but it’s tucked away in a docker container. It’s basically flash to be, no longer a need.","parent":"15393080","id":"15393196"}
{"by":"chollida1","time":"1311882011","timestamp":"2011-07-28 19:40:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would imagine it would be anyone, or industry, who has a significant patent portfolio who worries that invalidating software patents would weaken their patent position.\u003cp\u003eBoth in dollar terms and legal terms.","parent":"2818539","id":"2818558"}
{"by":"mhomde","time":"1421383008","timestamp":"2015-01-16 04:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"are immunity deals really that stupidly phrased? I\u0026#x27;d guess the standard boilerplate would protect against that? Then again I remember this exact scenario in an episode of The Practice ... so maybe not :)","parent":"8897148","id":"8897285"}
{"by":"kristjansson","time":"1535390756","timestamp":"2018-08-27 17:25:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The issue is that, in a smoothly deflating currency, all but the most essential consumption will be postponed indefinitely, as will investment of that currency in anything that expects to return less than the rate of deflation.  This is bad for an economy denominated entirely in that currency, as the deduction in economic activity can increase the rate of deflation, which reduces economic activity further, and so on.\u003cp\u003eObviously bitcoin is not the primary currency for any economy, so the feedback effect isn\u0026#x27;t a concern, but the deflationary pressure is (per TFA) reducing actual economic activity denominated in bitcoin.","parent":"17847007","id":"17852861"}
{"by":"artofstart","time":"1405106520","timestamp":"2014-07-11 19:22:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing is: I find employment very boring. I could never sit on my ass and do stuff for a company. And I usualy dont click with people who are employed. I dont like all the stuff these people are into. I have absolutely no interest in talking about politics, sports, gossip, gardening, family and whatnot. Im interested in girls, startups, coding, philosophy...","parent":"8021775","id":"8021928"}
{"by":"mbrock","time":"1539377981","timestamp":"2018-10-12 20:59:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don’t forget Shannon’s 1937 master’s thesis, \u003ci\u003eA Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"18204556","id":"18204687"}
{"by":"romseb","time":"1432948770","timestamp":"2015-05-30 01:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With applications like Textsecure a lot of sensitive metadata accrues, still. One way around this can be \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bitmessage.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bitmessage.org\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9624364","id":"9628467"}
{"by":"pinewurst","time":"1464836494","timestamp":"2016-06-02 03:01:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GPFS has an amazing number of features, offers high performance and, given a certain fiddliness of configuration and administration, is reliable and performant.  It can even sit on top of block storage that itself manages with advanced software RAID and volume management.\u003cp\u003eThe problem (surprise!) is IBM.  It\u0026#x27;s mature software, which means 21st Century Desperate IBM sees it as a cash cow - aggressively squeezing customers - and as something they can let their senior, expensive developers move on from - or lay them off in favor of \u0026quot;rightsourcing\u0026quot;.  You can certainly trust your data to it (unlike Lustre), but it\u0026#x27;ll be very expensive, especially on an ongoing basis, and the support team isn\u0026#x27;t going to know more than you by then. Also expect surprise visits from IBM licensing ninja squads looking for violations of the complex terms, which they will find.\u003cp\u003eAs for Lustre, it brings to mind Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr\u0026#x27;s, \u0026quot;Three generations of imbeciles are enough\u0026quot;.  I\u0026#x27;ve been at least peripherally involved with it since 1999, with LLNL trying to strong-arm storage vendors into support. Someone should write a book following 16 years of the tangled Lustre trail from LLNL\u0026#x2F;CMU\u0026#x2F;CFS -\u0026gt; Sun -\u0026gt; Oracle -\u0026gt; WhamCloud -\u0026gt; OpenSFS -\u0026gt; ClusterStor -\u0026gt; Xyratex -\u0026gt; Seagate -\u0026gt; Intel (and probably ISIS too).\u003cp\u003eThe answer to your question IHMO, is that Intel just isn\u0026#x27;t that smart.  They\u0026#x27;re basically a PR firm with a good fab in the basement.  What do they know about storage or so many other things?  People don\u0026#x27;t remember when they tried to corner the web serving market back during the 1st Internet boom.  They fail a lot, but until now had enough of a cash torrent coming that it didn\u0026#x27;t matter.  They still do, of course, but there are inklings of an ebb.","parent":"11819951","id":"11820078"}
{"by":"razwall","time":"1521064668","timestamp":"2018-03-14 21:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article is about the insider trading charges that were filed against him today, so yeah.","parent":"16588542","id":"16588684"}
{"by":"amyjess","time":"1507055318","timestamp":"2017-10-03 18:28:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Nicotine alone is not harmful, it\u0026#x27;s addictive, but not harmful, it\u0026#x27;s not what causes cancer from smoking.\u003cp\u003eNicotine is a vasoconstrictor. It substantially increases the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis, especially when combined with another chemical that produces clotting enzymes, such as estrogen. Speaking of estrogen, nicotine also antagonizes the estrogen receptor, which is pretty bad if you\u0026#x27;re a woman. Ever notice how women who have been smoking for a long time look pretty bad? It\u0026#x27;s not your imagination, it\u0026#x27;s because nicotine shuts down their bodies\u0026#x27; ability to use estrogen (and estrogen is what causes smooth skin, curves, etc.).\u003cp\u003eAlso, go look up \u0026quot;Green Tobacco Sickness\u0026quot; [0]. Too much nicotine can have all kinds of adverse effects, and since it can be absorbed by the skin, people who handle wet tobacco plants get all kinds of health problems. Oh, and too much nicotine can stop your heart. I\u0026#x27;ve seen people seriously suggest it as a suicide method.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Green_Tobacco_Sickness\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Green_Tobacco_Sickness\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15393819","id":"15394763"}
{"by":"payload","time":"1376507140","timestamp":"2013-08-14 19:05:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A haskell version with the Warp server performs just a little bit worse than the go version (6 secs vs 7 secs) with a little bigger minimal latency (68 ms vs 71 ms).\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  go version go1.0.2\n  runghc 7.6.2\n  cabal packages of today\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nRunned with \u0026quot;runhaskell main.hs\u0026quot; on localhost over loopback :)\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  import qualified Network.Wai as Wai\n  import qualified Network.Wai.Handler.Warp as Warp\n  import qualified Network.HTTP.Types as HTTP\n  import qualified Data.ByteString as ByteString\n  import Blaze.ByteString.Builder.ByteString (fromByteString)\n  \n  main = do\n      let port = 8000\n      Warp.run port app\n  \n  app req = do\n      let n = 1024*1024\n      let bytes = fromByteString $ ByteString.replicate n 100\n      return $ Wai.ResponseBuilder HTTP.status200 [] bytes\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"6211184","id":"6213537"}
{"by":"overcast","time":"1476907796","timestamp":"2016-10-19 20:09:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For everyday life stuff, I agree. Even in school I never wrote down test dates, or what I had to work on. For projects at work, kind of impossible to remember every little tick box to check off.","parent":"12747186","id":"12747262"}
{"by":"pkulak","time":"1351222500","timestamp":"2012-10-26 03:35:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His running mate was a self-identified libertarian... until he  became the running mate, that is, and started fighting to be the one to pump the most money into Medicare.","parent":"4699553","id":"4700737"}
{"by":"nether","time":"1371842992","timestamp":"2013-06-21 19:29:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Today \u0026quot;creative\u0026quot; usually refers to originality, not the act of creation. It\u0026#x27;s no worse than using \u0026quot;engineer\u0026quot; to mean computer programmer rather than someone who works on something with an engine.","parent":"5920373","id":"5920405"}
{"by":"elafforgue","time":"1413275757","timestamp":"2014-10-14 08:35:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks Rachel, I really appreciate your comment. When we introduced our very first paid services, we were very afraid to scare our open source community away and consequently, we were way too shy in our marketing efforts.\u003cp\u003eBut that was a mistake and this led to the situation we are in right now. \nAnd of course, we can only offer limited support to our free users because it would just kill our business otherwise. We\u0026#x27;ll work on improving our onboarding process and be more agressive in terms of marketing to generate more revenues that every one will benefit from in the end.","parent":"8452113","id":"8452465"}
{"by":"erik_seaberg","time":"1545427117","timestamp":"2018-12-21 21:18:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a risk for systems deployed only on Google hardware, but they can\u0026#x27;t push a button and make the gccgo source disappear.","parent":"18732604","id":"18736740"}
{"by":"codingdave","time":"1540842244","timestamp":"2018-10-29 19:44:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose that all depends on what kinds of jobs you consider to be interesting.\u003cp\u003eAt the very least, those who believe the most interesting jobs are in SF congregate there. And people who create jobs matching that belief do it there.","parent":"18330027","id":"18330640"}
{"by":"milesvp","time":"1471975815","timestamp":"2016-08-23 18:10:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would argue it\u0026#x27;d be negligible. We live in a world fueled by fear, primarily because it\u0026#x27;s now so easy to hear about the edge cases. I used to blame newspapers for this, but it\u0026#x27;s gotten so much worse with social media. Now even the most obscure topic that would have not warranted the cost of ink is being broadcast to people, made all the more persuasive because of the anecdotal nature of the medium.","parent":"12345903","id":"12345977"}
{"by":"dorfsmay","time":"1518359505","timestamp":"2018-02-11 14:31:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hangouts runs fine in the most recent version of Firefox.","parent":"16352794","id":"16352816"}
{"by":"japherwocky","time":"1269671177","timestamp":"2010-03-27 06:26:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah no but.   if you need to move a lot of shit, trains are better.\u003cp\u003eflame on?  maybe you don't understand because your startup doesn't have a lot of traffic?\u003cp\u003eyou even admit that you don't really understand how the nosql dbs even work!","parent":"1221796","id":"1222664"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1269019045","timestamp":"2010-03-19 17:17:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At a different semantic level. For layout purposes they are just like words.","parent":"1202148","id":"1204605"}
{"by":"shinratdr","time":"1447367993","timestamp":"2015-11-12 22:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does developing the most famous jailbreak tweak for five years constitute \u0026quot;maintaining a good relationship with Apple\u0026quot;. As far as I can tell, that went out the window years ago.","parent":"10556658","id":"10556690"}
{"by":"midas007","time":"1388376488","timestamp":"2013-12-30 04:08:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The documentary \u003ci\u003eDirty Wars\u003c/i\u003e suggests that the Obama administration added an increasing number of names to JSOC\u0026#x27;s kill list based on variable confidence intelligence.  Isn\u0026#x27;t this the definition of mission creep?","parent":"6981999","id":"6982983"}
{"by":"denvercoder904","time":"1504667065","timestamp":"2017-09-06 03:04:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about sitting for eight hours straight and then doing a hard workout afterwards? Is that still bad?","parent":"15180193","id":"15180891"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1510336945","timestamp":"2017-11-10 18:02:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While you\u0026#x27;re throwing stuff into the list, his articles about race (where he decides he isn\u0026#x27;t a racist; he just hates poor blacks for being \u0026quot;lumpenproles\u0026quot;) and sexual relationships (he describes himself as a \u0026quot;natural alpha male\u0026quot; or something like that) are really, completely awful.","parent":"15671641","id":"15671673"}
{"by":"cellis","time":"1193751993","timestamp":"2007-10-30 13:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, as for point number 1, thats what I mean...they are desperate. If they can't leverage current resources and a 200B valuation, how the hell are they going to beat facebook. Oh, and by the way, once FB/MSFT decides to make a push in Brazil, orkut can kiss their mkt share goodbye. Facebook is just that much better.","parent":"74022","id":"74188"}
{"by":"cptskippy","time":"1470532618","timestamp":"2016-08-07 01:16:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EFI was intended to solve the problems with the BIOS and ACPI and the custom module hell but vendors haven\u0026#x27;t really adopted it so much as tolerated it.  They use it to just load their legacy BIOS and ACPI implementations with all the nasty custom modules.","parent":"12240057","id":"12240629"}
{"by":"dxbydt","time":"1330107825","timestamp":"2012-02-24 18:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At Goldman, this was the precise approach in the group I worked in. Create a DSL that prices equity derivatives. Create a DSL that handles bond math. Create a DSL that lets junior traders whip up custom swing UIs of their exposures.\nOne big problem with this approach is what happens when you get hit by a truck ? The programmers you hire to replace you don't want to learn your DSL, nor want to write code in some custom DSL. Its not a transferable skill. I cannot put a bullet point in my resume saying - I wrote bond math code in GS custom DSL. What would that even mean ? Maybe I just invoked some routine and it did all the bond math for me, so what specific skill did I learn other than memorizing your DSL's syntactical conventions ? \nSo this sort of approach doesn't work for anybody in the long run, except the DSL creator who can justifiably be very proud of accomplishing a shitload of tasks using 2 lines of a custom DSL.","parent":"3629581","id":"3630247"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1439306203","timestamp":"2015-08-11 15:16:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a platform thing. XML was pushed by SOAP and Java frameworks, while S-expressions were only used by simple software that solved small problems.","parent":"10041039","id":"10041669"}
{"by":"logicallee","time":"1428032666","timestamp":"2015-04-03 03:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eNot according to the article I linked, which even has a four-paragraph section called \u0026quot;metaphoric meaning\u0026quot; that does not extend to that meaning; nor do any of the examples in the long list of examples under the section \u0026quot;modern commons\u0026quot; show such a meaning.\u003cp\u003eThe term \u0026quot;tragedy of the commons\u0026quot; simply refers to a different concept.  It\u0026#x27;s just not what it means.  It means common resources become less useful over time.\u003cp\u003eThis is not a statement about investment; it\u0026#x27;s just that the effect that is described is quite specific.  You don\u0026#x27;t have to use an incorrect term to describe what you\u0026#x27;re talking about.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"9314275","id":"9314328"}
{"by":"danhak","time":"1401309746","timestamp":"2014-05-28 20:42:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, Apple acquires music streaming service lala.com in late 2009 for $80 million and shuts it down unceremoniously.\u003cp\u003eLess than 5 years later pays $3 billion for Beats electronics, largely for their music streaming service.","parent":"7812677","id":"7812748"}
{"by":"telemachos","time":"1294337700","timestamp":"2011-01-06 18:15:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Pretty bold of Apple to push it so prominently onto every Mac user's Dock as part of a point update to the operating system.\u003cp\u003eI hope you make just bucket loads of cash. However, I wouldn't call it pretty bold. I would call it \"fucking obnoxious.\" (Also, and totally off-topic, why does Apple keep insisting that I \u003ci\u003erestart\u003c/i\u003e my damn machines for dinky-ass upgrades like this?)","parent":"2076077","id":"2076419"}
{"by":"fleevy","time":"1482451301","timestamp":"2016-12-23 00:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with the economy is Obamacare. Once that\u0026#x27;s gone, the jobs will come pouring back. Easy","parent":"13240495","id":"13241631"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1263826123","timestamp":"2010-01-18 14:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I've been told by Germans, none of whom were law enforcement or lawyers that calling someone an asshole or sticking up your middle finger is a finable offense.\u003cp\u003eI can confirm this for offending a police officer or similar.  But I haven't heard of a case where someone got fined for offending a `normal' private person.  (I do not know whether the law covers this as well.)","parent":"1056187","id":"1059961"}
{"by":"ehPReth","time":"1412121215","timestamp":"2014-09-30 23:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great! Could you reply when the new version is up?","parent":"8392105","id":"8392121"}
{"by":"anamax","time":"1283448538","timestamp":"2010-09-02 17:28:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; As for poverty in the US, 1 in 8 are in poverty if you use the CIA-polished statistics. I say CIA-polished because the CIA also says the US spends 12.5% of its GDP on healthcare. According to the OECD, it is more like 15.3%. By comparison, France (top healthcare in the world according to the WHO) spends around 9.5% or so.\u003cp\u003eNote that US GDP is also significantly higher.\u003cp\u003eAlso, healthcare costs are affected by things that healthcare can't actually affect.  Consider obesity.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the existence of working govt programs in other countries does not imply that the US govt could do as well with comparable programs.  For example, the US govt spends about as much per person as France does.  Since the US govt services appear to be significantly worse ....\u003cp\u003eNo, military spending doesn't account for the difference.","parent":"1656751","id":"1656897"}
{"by":"pedalpete","time":"1275973065","timestamp":"2010-06-08 04:57:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might be interested in \u003ca href=\"http://www.early-exits.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.early-exits.com/\u003c/a\u003e.\nI haven't read it, but meat Basil and I've heard him refer to it a few times. It seems to be targeted at what you're thinking about.","parent":"1412814","id":"1413035"}
{"by":"JepZ","time":"1517534522","timestamp":"2018-02-02 01:22:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, some should really fix that scrolling issue... (FF here too)","parent":"16287044","id":"16287579"}
{"by":"brain5ide","time":"1321001899","timestamp":"2011-11-11 08:58:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's a metaphor, I believe by Stallman, about programs being much like recipes that just came back to mind. Probably that's what makes this comparison so vivid.","parent":"3223909","id":"3223953"}
{"by":"ececconi","time":"1444854488","timestamp":"2015-10-14 20:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still see the health risks, like to heart disease, cancer, etc.  Might be because I\u0026#x27;m grandfathered in?","parent":"10389143","id":"10389233"}
{"by":"pierrefar","time":"1259918470","timestamp":"2009-12-04 09:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is noting that the hottest thing around is still tiny petty and mean? It's stating the facts and provides a useful point of comparison. Everyone knows what twitter is, has heard of its valuation, and FB is saying using it as a well-known (and very much loved) point of comparison.","parent":"975939","id":"976042"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1491923141","timestamp":"2017-04-11 15:05:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other alphanumerics that aren\u0026#x27;t luxury cars:\u003cp\u003eFord F150, Chevy C1500, Mazda CX3\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also monikers in the performance category that aren\u0026#x27;t models, but are alphanumeric, like Z28, GT500\u003cp\u003eAnd older cars, like Datsun B210, Datsun F10, Subaru XT6","parent":"14087024","id":"14088526"}
{"by":"superuser2","time":"1439570773","timestamp":"2015-08-14 16:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bitcoin does \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e solve this problem; you can follow the money from the exchange to the consumer\u0026#x27;s wallet to the merchant. It\u0026#x27;s only anonymous if you\u0026#x27;re using a tumbling service, and transferring your money to a tumbling service is an unambiguous broadcast to the entire world that you are committing the federal crime of money laundering. If they ever increase in popularity, you can bet that regulators will routinely trace transfers to tumbling services and prosecute their users for money laundering, because that is what they\u0026#x27;re doing.","parent":"10060900","id":"10061165"}
{"by":"jlebrech","time":"1501675639","timestamp":"2017-08-02 12:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s all about the quality of the MSG and the manufacturing standards. if you added MSG to foods yourself, you\u0026#x27;d know which brands to use or avoid.","parent":"14907807","id":"14909822"}
{"by":"pasbesoin","time":"1523764415","timestamp":"2018-04-15 03:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things were bad, but I had some hope for the future.  Then physical changes (health) took away that hope.\u003cp\u003eI went from stress and anxiety to existential crisis.\u003cp\u003eMaybe this is too simple.\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s precisely this simple.","parent":"16840052","id":"16841098"}
{"by":"clarky07","time":"1399568040","timestamp":"2014-05-08 16:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"he narrowed it down to like a 4 floor level. who cares? and pretty much none of that information came from the reflections, just the picture itself.","parent":"7714614","id":"7716269"}
{"by":"13of40","time":"1463722019","timestamp":"2016-05-20 05:26:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is why I protect it.  But not as hard as my bank account and not as soft as my fark account.  Hence, \u0026quot;middle\u0026quot;.","parent":"11735471","id":"11735707"}
{"by":"AmelnCam","time":"1412108815","timestamp":"2014-09-30 20:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I usually use the following code for this purpose:\npublic void testBatchInserts() throws PerformanceTestException {\n        SQLiteStatement stmt = db.compileStatement(\u0026quot;INSERT INTO \u0026quot;\n                + EmployeeDatabaseHelper.TABLE_EMPLOYEES + \u0026quot; VALUES(?1, ?2, ?3, ?4)\u0026quot;);\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e        db.beginTransaction();\n        for (int row = 0; row \u0026lt; getNumInserts(); row++) {\n            stmt.clearBindings();\n            stmt.bindString(2, getEmployeeName(row));\n            stmt.bindLong(3, getEmployeeAge(row));\n            stmt.bindLong(4, getEmployeeHiredStatus(row));\n            stmt.executeInsert();\n        }\n        db.setTransactionSuccessful();\n        db.endTransaction();\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"8388935","id":"8390941"}
{"by":"harmegido","time":"1414833567","timestamp":"2014-11-01 09:19:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"10-20k might not sound like much compared to $10million, but remember that was the total amount raised, so any one investment is likely around 500k. Sorry for taking your post a bit too literally, but 10-20k then represents an added cost of 2-4% (or more if your investment isn\u0026#x27;t that much).\u003cp\u003eI guess my point is that if you have 100 investments, you would maximize returns by balancing return on investment with cost of investment.\u003cp\u003eFrom the skeptical posts here, it sounds like that 10-20k (or whatever sum) may have been worth it in this case, but in general it probably is not.","parent":"8542253","id":"8542565"}
{"by":"cma","time":"1309197648","timestamp":"2011-06-27 18:00:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rubber dog crap is a bad example; how about orthodontics?  There most of the value is in increasing your \"prettiness rank\", but there is a positional externality in that you necessarily decrease someone else's rank.","parent":"2702169","id":"2702272"}
{"by":"ItsMe000001","time":"1526381804","timestamp":"2018-05-15 10:56:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EDIT\u0026#x2F;FOLLOW-UP (my edit right \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e disappeared a minute ago):\u003cp\u003eHere is a link to example patient cases, which may help to see what kind of knowledge is useful. I was not trying to say it is all useless, when I had to solve sample cases e.g. in Medical Neuroscience (Coursera, huge course, great teacher) it sure helps to know the major pathways, and it would take too much time to have to look them up when the patient is in front of you.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu\u0026#x2F;cs\u0026#x2F;collection\u0026#x2F;results.asp?subject_headings=physiology\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu\u0026#x2F;cs\u0026#x2F;collection\u0026#x2F;results.as...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17072572","id":"17073035"}
{"by":"guipsp","time":"1387557886","timestamp":"2013-12-20 16:44:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes","parent":"6942216","id":"6942288"}
{"by":"amyjess","time":"1444329822","timestamp":"2015-10-08 18:43:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish I was a rich kid.\u003cp\u003eI only got to go to college on a scholarship, and I spent the first five years of my career making under $50k.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m disappointed that some people think working in tech means that you\u0026#x27;re made of money.","parent":"10353671","id":"10355053"}
{"by":"mechanical_fish","time":"1214951045","timestamp":"2008-07-01 22:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe only thing that makes TextMate different from NotePad is the Bundle...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven if this were true -- which it isn't -- the ability to write, distribute, and install open-source extensions to the editor is a \u003ci\u003ehugely important\u003c/i\u003e feature. It is, after all, the central feature of emacs itself.","parent":"233500","id":"233616"}
{"by":"guelo","time":"1435335866","timestamp":"2015-06-26 16:24:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scalia says striking down campaign finance laws passed by congress and supported by the people was vital but striking down discriminatory marriage laws is extreme judicial overreach. There\u0026#x27;s no principle there, it\u0026#x27;s just the politically expedient argument for his ideological battles.","parent":"9785062","id":"9785739"}
{"by":"dublinclontarf","time":"1331213448","timestamp":"2012-03-08 13:30:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yet.","parent":"3677759","id":"3679614"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1274231519","timestamp":"2010-05-19 01:11:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BTW, we have nested comments here: you can reply directly to an individual comment using the reply link at the bottom of it.","parent":"1359703","id":"1359741"}
{"by":"jdmichal","time":"1468637262","timestamp":"2016-07-16 02:47:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The probability of what? You\u0026#x27;ll always be able to use this, as it\u0026#x27;s open source. Even if it somehow wasn\u0026#x27;t, it\u0026#x27;s CSS, so you\u0026#x27;d \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e be able to tweak it however you want. I don\u0026#x27;t understand what the downside is here.","parent":"12104393","id":"12105030"}
{"by":"sync","time":"1306863941","timestamp":"2011-05-31 17:45:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"memcached also has a 1MB limit.\u003cp\u003e(Begs the question though: What are we doing serving pages \u0026#62;1MB?)","parent":"2603495","id":"2603601"}
{"by":"wolfgke","time":"1498144434","timestamp":"2017-06-22 15:13:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Beyond retraining, there is dignity. Most workers don\u0026#x27;t feel like their job means anything, that their effort is not valued properly, or do a job by obligation, not because they like it.\u003cp\u003eAnd what would retraining change on this situation? Why should they like the job that comes afterwards?\u003cp\u003eTo state it cynically: Wouldn\u0026#x27;t brainwashing people to love their job be a much more effective solution to this problem?","parent":"14612717","id":"14612788"}
{"by":"joshdotsmith","time":"1295984076","timestamp":"2011-01-25 19:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By the way, I'm still having huge deliverability issues when using Sendgrid. Emails sent to Gmail accounts go straight to spam. I'm still not sure how to resolve that, and am hesitant to blame Sendgrid for the problem. We do, after all, own a 15-year-old domain name.","parent":"2140478","id":"2140483"}
{"by":"mahouse","time":"1396566156","timestamp":"2014-04-03 23:02:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The bit.ly link is marked as spam and shows a warning, and then the shortened link doesn\u0026#x27;t load at all. The spammer failed :P","parent":"7527468","id":"7527674"}
{"by":"danbruc","time":"1488424102","timestamp":"2017-03-02 03:08:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the case we are talking about, the companies have to pay taxes but they exploit loopholes to avoid it. They may be not in violation of the letters of the law but they are in violation of the spirit of the law.\u003cp\u003eThe moral obligation is to participate in the funding of the system you are profiting from. Making money by transporting your goods on roads built by the state, employing people educated in schools funded by state, and enforcing your contracts by courts established by the state but not paying taxes towards this system is wrong.\u003cp\u003eAnd this obligation does not go away if you find a trick to circumvent the written rules.","parent":"13770933","id":"13771088"}
{"by":"jnorthrop","time":"1328394840","timestamp":"2012-02-04 22:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am you! Well almost. I'm also in my mid-40's, 20+ year IT professional with a family and a good job. I was feeling very much the same way you are until about six months ago. That's when I got off my butt and started two things.\u003cp\u003e1. I'm currently looking for, and finding, speaking slots at conferences. It's fun and I get to play the expert for 45 minutes.\u003cp\u003e2. I started a side project[1]. I don't expect it to make money but again, I'm having fun with it.\u003cp\u003eGive it a go. What I'm doing costs very little and has given me some new energy.\u003cp\u003e[1] My side project (\u003ca href=\"http://wodwatts.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://wodwatts.com\u003c/a\u003e). I just pushed the landing page public this morning! It's not quite ready for prime-time but I hope it inspires you.","parent":"3543178","id":"3552429"}
{"by":"zxdfghj","time":"1430147912","timestamp":"2015-04-27 15:18:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given that most people are not very funny[0] but that most people like to \u003ci\u003ebelieve\u003c/i\u003e that they are funny, it is probably a very profitable enterprise to sell someone an experience that lets them believe (even if just for an hour) that they are much funnier than they actually are.\u003cp\u003e[0] consider that 50% of people are less funny than average, and then reflect on how funny the average person is.","parent":"9446403","id":"9446834"}
{"by":"fweespeech","time":"1432835895","timestamp":"2015-05-28 17:58:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;war_on_erupts_in_britain\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;war_on_erupts_in_bri...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts a term that was used for years in relation to the filter that it was about \u0026quot;perverts\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eFor someone dedicated to factual accuracy, the fact you seem to think commonly used terms in relation to something are \u0026quot;wrong\u0026quot; is proof you really don\u0026#x27;t get it.","parent":"9617036","id":"9619885"}
{"by":"zimzam","time":"1482847037","timestamp":"2016-12-27 13:57:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In many grocery stores the checkout lane have two people: the cashier and a \u0026#x27;bagger\u0026#x27; who will bag the groceries for you and, if requested, will bring them out and load them into your car.\u003cp\u003eThe bagger sometimes gets a tip, especially if they are handling heavy items like cat litter.\u003cp\u003e(Baggers are common in grocery stores with large parking lots: so they were common growing up in a mid-sized city in the Midwest but I\u0026#x27;ve never seen one in NYC)","parent":"13263063","id":"13263130"}
{"by":"javajosh","time":"1371405561","timestamp":"2013-06-16 17:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you read the article?! It\u0026#x27;s a straw-man pointing out that the only way to ensure privacy is with the protection of law:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;If we really want to protect our privacy on the net what  we need is more than better technology, we need fundamental changes in our laws and how we enforce the privacy laws we do have. Then, and only then, will we have a fighting chance of keeping our privacy on the Internet.","parent":"5888909","id":"5889250"}
{"by":"djsumdog","time":"1483642340","timestamp":"2017-01-05 18:52:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s very difficult to classify people by e-mails. I worked with so many people who were very nice to me. We\u0026#x27;d discuss requirements. I\u0026#x27;d even type up timelines and e-mail them docs.\u003cp\u003eNext day, a thread with every manager in the planet saying our team was stonewalling everything, being unhelpful, etc. etc.\u003cp\u003eMy boss would come up to my cube and say, \u0026quot;Stop e-mailing these people! Why are you e-mailing them? Pick up the phone and call them!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI hate to rush judgement, but looking at the statements that are out, I am really unhappy with her approach, her statements and her totalism. Just because you don\u0026#x27;t agree with a policy doesn\u0026#x27;t mean the FSF shouldn\u0026#x27;t exist. Pulling your project feels reactionary.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m guilty of reactionary anger too. I\u0026#x27;m human, we\u0026#x27;re all human. We feel like we\u0026#x27;ve been wronged often by our neighbours or our landlords or police. This might have just been a bad week for her and some rushed decision making. But if she\u0026#x27;s always like this and doesn\u0026#x27;t learn from it, then she\u0026#x27;ll find herself alone in other communities in the future.\u003cp\u003eJust a side note, there was a good video by School of Life on anger. I don\u0026#x27;t actually agree with all of it. Their premise is weird, but it would actually put her reaction to the FSF in a different light:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=coiCkmcKjX8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=coiCkmcKjX8\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13329952","id":"13330122"}
{"by":"lindydonna","time":"1506351427","timestamp":"2017-09-25 14:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Donna from the Azure Functions team here. I\u0026#x27;m demoing this later today.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to learn more, tune in to the Ignite live stream (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;ignite\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;ignite\u003c/a\u003e) at 2:15 EDT for the session \u0026quot;Building innovative apps using the Microsoft Developer Platform\u0026quot;.","parent":"15330087","id":"15330954"}
{"by":"michaelcampbell","time":"1300383059","timestamp":"2011-03-17 17:30:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He's got a good, non-emotional speaking voice, and his content:noise ratio is high.  Also, the tempo of the overview is near perfect, and his choice of what video to show to go with his voiceover is flawless.","parent":"2336682","id":"2337044"}
{"by":"gcr","time":"1478473462","timestamp":"2016-11-06 23:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DKIM and SPF are intended only to authenticate the originating saver, not the actual user account from the originating saver. To my knowledge, there is no reliable mechanism (beyond PGP and the web of trust) for authenticating that a certain sender actually sent an email message.","parent":"12887371","id":"12887611"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1408727175","timestamp":"2014-08-22 17:06:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In perl you use + for addition and . for concatenation. So \u0026#x27;3\u0026#x27; + \u0026#x27;4\u0026#x27; converts the strings to integers and returns an integer, and 3 . 4 converts them to strings first and returns a string.","parent":"8212893","id":"8212921"}
{"by":"slantedview","time":"1477692477","timestamp":"2016-10-28 22:07:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not even \u0026#x27;Mr or Ms. Random Bomber\u0026#x27;, other servicemen have been charged and sent to prison for mishandling classified information, intentional or not. The FBI\u0026#x27;s argument that they couldn\u0026#x27;t find a precedent for prosecuting anyone under those circumstances is is simply a lie. It\u0026#x27;s the double standard here that is troubling.","parent":"12820056","id":"12821180"}
{"by":"equityzen","time":"1472246879","timestamp":"2016-08-26 21:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would be interesting to see a YC versus 500 startups breakdown as well","parent":"12369292","id":"12369434"}
{"by":"imron","time":"1454983950","timestamp":"2016-02-09 02:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that it\u0026#x27;s far too many, and far too much effort to completely disable.","parent":"11059787","id":"11062565"}
{"by":"burdzwastaken","time":"1519420524","timestamp":"2018-02-23 21:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"click your distribution (I assume Ubuntu?) here to reveal the way to install it \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cockpit-project.org\u0026#x2F;running.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cockpit-project.org\u0026#x2F;running.html\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eif you are running Ubuntu seems to require backports for anything below 17.04 though.","parent":"16449571","id":"16449698"}
{"by":"jasonneal","time":"1303849431","timestamp":"2011-04-26 20:23:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How could they have gained access to passwords? Do they mean, rather, gained access to your secure password hash, or did they simply store passwords in an unencrypted format? Being a member of PSN, this has me concerned. I'm making it a point to change all of my security questions and passwords all throughout all websites I use.","parent":"2486924","id":"2487018"}
{"by":"reynhout","time":"1492026097","timestamp":"2017-04-12 19:41:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which 11e? GLIMMER or ULTIMA?\u003cp\u003eWhat issues are you having?","parent":"14066264","id":"14101041"}
{"by":"mkhattab","time":"1389109485","timestamp":"2014-01-07 15:44:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m conflicted about the price being in the range of MBPs and Dell competing with Apple, supposedly, based on quality and design. I think they would be much more competitive if they were to price this laptop significantly cheaper than MBPs without sacrificing too much quality. I think Dell has the resources to do this. It\u0026#x27;s difficult for me to ignore brand image and I guess this makes me a fan boy. Although, I really do want a decent Linux laptop. I will keep an eye on the XPS13 in case I make the switch.","parent":"7017441","id":"7017851"}
{"by":"pasquinelli","time":"1482558100","timestamp":"2016-12-24 05:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i don\u0026#x27;t know rust, but i read a bit about fixed size arrays in it and the fact that 32 is the largest fixed size array makes me suspicious that it works like a pair. you can do this without depending on a value, because the length is encoded in the type.\u003cp\u003elike, you can have a type (a, b), and b can, of course, be of type (a, b), b again having type (a, b), and so on. then you always carry around the length encoded in the type, and it can be checked like above.\u003cp\u003eghc has a limit on tuple sizes, and haskell makes no type distinction between [a] based on the number of elements in it, and it isn\u0026#x27;t dependently typed.\u003cp\u003ebut again i don\u0026#x27;t know rust.","parent":"13242014","id":"13248752"}
{"by":"kjeetgill","time":"1528317889","timestamp":"2018-06-06 20:44:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author of this proposal, Jim Laskey, is also the one behind exactly what you\u0026#x27;re describing: Project Detroit.\u003cp\u003esee: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;openjdk.java.net\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;detroit\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;openjdk.java.net\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;detroit\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003especulation: It looks like he wants Nashorn dead from any angle? GraalJS and V8, lol","parent":"17250272","id":"17250950"}
{"by":"joegaudet","time":"1313445115","timestamp":"2011-08-15 21:51:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hmmm the blog is hosted by tumblr.\u003cp\u003eblog.matygo.com.\u003cp\u003eWe are in GrowLab now, hopefully we will be in talent acquisition mode by the end of the program.","parent":"2888872","id":"2888884"}
{"by":"Houshalter","time":"1432261139","timestamp":"2015-05-22 02:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about programming, for example? It\u0026#x27;s entirely abstract and not necessarily have any visual representation. Programming is best learned through examples. E.g. \u0026quot;here\u0026#x27;s a line of code, here is what it outputs. Now try to figure out what the rules of the language are.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIn the case of this article, the NN isn\u0026#x27;t being asked to do any abstract task like \u0026quot;decipher meaning\u0026quot;, but the very concrete task of \u0026quot;predict the next word\u0026quot;. As the article shows NNs can do this fairly well.\u003cp\u003eThere is also a evidence that they can learn very high level knowledge about words and objects. See the success of word vectors: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;technology.stitchfix.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;technology.stitchfix.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;word-is-wort...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9585395","id":"9586352"}
{"by":"martey","time":"1347223143","timestamp":"2012-09-09 20:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a misrepresentation of the Content Guidelines. See \u003ca href=\"https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2TOZW0SV7IR1U\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2TOZW0S...\u003c/a\u003e :\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe will not accept content that is freely available on the web unless you are the copyright owner of that content.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the author is the copyright owner, there is nothing in the guidelines that suggest the handbook is explicitly prohibited - Wikipedia pages could possibly be accepted, if the Wikimedia Foundation submitted them.\u003cp\u003eI think \"Megan B.\" might be confused by the facts that Mr. Phillips is the editor of the content (as opposed to being its sole author) and by the mention of the FDL. I also think that she is using the term \"exclusive publishing rights\" to mean copyright ownership.","parent":"4496875","id":"4496898"}
{"by":"gbog","time":"1434957640","timestamp":"2015-06-22 07:20:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, good advices. I\u0026#x27;ll add this most important one: don\u0026#x27;t believe you owe your kids your life. Continue to see friends and get drunk if it\u0026#x27;s something you do now. If you can\u0026#x27;t bear stupid cartoons or books (and who does?) just don\u0026#x27;t buy them, you\u0026#x27;ll find something to do together that both of you like to do (kids mostly like to be with their parents so anything but watching horror movies will do in fact). I spend a lot time with my two kids, we do things I like and they like it, this includes Lego, reading Tintin, camping, doing huts in the forests, etc.\u003cp\u003eBut never think you should become a slave of your kid, or otherwise sacrifice anything to them, this is a way too heavy burden on THEIR shoulders.","parent":"9756654","id":"9756715"}
{"by":"pzb","time":"1420153904","timestamp":"2015-01-01 23:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assume it was you that asked the question about Secure Boot at the end of this talk at 31C3?","parent":"8824563","id":"8824707"}
{"by":"IntelMiner","time":"1520249285","timestamp":"2018-03-05 11:28:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With the state of the Australian housing market, having Fiber-optic internet would likely add to the property value","parent":"16520221","id":"16520307"}
{"by":"Amadou","time":"1385434521","timestamp":"2013-11-26 02:55:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Legal fiction\u0026quot; is the only thing that gives anyone any control over anything, tangible or otherwise.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, tangible items are inherently controllable because they are rivalrous and excludable.  The law just structures how we deal with those characteristics.  For information, copyright attempts to make it rivalrous and excludable, to stuff it into the same box as tangible items when it shares none of the same properties.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e1. First of all, [citation needed]. Humans have been exploiting information asymmetry since the dawn of time.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSure they have, but just because it happens sometimes does not contradict the self-evident fact that people love to share.  Next time you send someone a lolcat, remember that.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e2. It is also \u0026quot;human nature\u0026quot; to want to want to have sex with people one finds attractive. Are rape laws also never going to \u0026quot;work out\u0026quot;?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eRape, murder, theft, these are all behaviours that are (1) not the common case and (2) inflict harm because the objects of the crimes are essentially rivalrous.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e3. Entertainment counts as \u0026quot;knowledge\u0026quot; now? That\u0026#x27;s even more of a stretch than calling it \u0026quot;culture\u0026quot;!\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguments about quality of the information are completely orthogonal to the topic. Copyright law does not attempt to discriminate on the quality of the material copyrighted so quality isn\u0026#x27;t a factor in discussing the merits of copyright law either.","parent":"6798758","id":"6798808"}
{"by":"downer89","time":"1386895235","timestamp":"2013-12-13 00:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consider the idea that reducing risk to military personnel actually provokes a steep increase in the propensity to indiscriminately wipe out civilians, simply because the fear of any consequence has been mitigated.\u003cp\u003eSo as you approach zero risk, the occurence of applied lethal force accelerates on a curve toward an asymptote.","parent":"6898139","id":"6898363"}
{"by":"dibujante","time":"1494452602","timestamp":"2017-05-10 21:43:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have worked at shops where, without fail,\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  EveryClass : IEveryClass\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"14311174","id":"14311999"}
{"by":"akvadrako","time":"1496400482","timestamp":"2017-06-02 10:48:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t looked at this specific calculation, but at the current levels of CO2, which won\u0026#x27;t go down in 100 years, Earth will reach a temperature equilibrium about 2°C higher than now.\u003cp\u003eUnless our science is totally wrong, without environmental engineering, it must be relative to \u003ci\u003ebusiness as usual\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eAnd here is the source of the claim: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com\u0026#x2F;doi\u0026#x2F;10.1111\u0026#x2F;1758-5899.12295\u0026#x2F;full\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;onlinelibrary.wiley.com\u0026#x2F;doi\u0026#x2F;10.1111\u0026#x2F;1758-5899.12295\u0026#x2F;f...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14465649","id":"14468955"}
{"by":"kelvin0","time":"1394554489","timestamp":"2014-03-11 16:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With her \u0026#x27;perceived\u0026#x27; reproductive capacity would have been already a bit more palatable.","parent":"7380052","id":"7380196"}
{"by":"brownbat","time":"1389321953","timestamp":"2014-01-10 02:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Odd, cannot get the ball\u0026#x2F;bike to move on the second level at all.","parent":"7034449","id":"7034803"}
{"by":"carrotleads","time":"1399860415","timestamp":"2014-05-12 02:06:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mid life criss used to hit at 40.. now its lot earlier.\u003cp\u003eI had mine around the early 30\u0026#x27;s. Had done it all and was wondering what next. Marriage, kids decent job, good pay, low expenses, decent house.\u003cp\u003eGot rid of the job and pay and living off savings now. Will be 40 soon. Hopefully I will figure out the meaning of it all. For now I focus on living.","parent":"7730690","id":"7730867"}
{"by":"thebooktocome","time":"1491506425","timestamp":"2017-04-06 19:20:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an obvious reference to Genesis 22:17.","parent":"14053275","id":"14053702"}
{"by":"LilValleyBigEgo","time":"1370644172","timestamp":"2013-06-07 22:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also it would be pretty easy to figure out who you are based on who you\u0026#x27;re calling.","parent":"5842161","dead":true,"id":"5842479"}
{"by":"sitharus","time":"1534020549","timestamp":"2018-08-11 20:49:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How easy? Are the offices open outside 9-5? Are they in areas easily accessible to everyone or only in the major cities?","parent":"17741407","id":"17741448"}
{"by":"amyjess","time":"1487631630","timestamp":"2017-02-20 23:00:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also a lot of Modula-3 in there. Actually, the whole language is full of Pascal-isms, but I\u0026#x27;m not sure how many come directly from Pascal and how many come via Modula-3.","parent":"13690754","id":"13691813"}
{"by":"redorb","time":"1213210935","timestamp":"2008-06-11 19:02:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thinks its closed source, also what was the reason Apple came to intel on their computers? - and why would they reverse that on their phones? .... just seems apple is getting more evil - although probably most companies are","parent":"215039","id":"215139"}
{"by":"Pewpewarrows","time":"1371042470","timestamp":"2013-06-12 13:07:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fabric to bootstrap new Salt minions, and Salt for the actual deployment.","parent":"5865935","id":"5867851"}
{"by":"ngokevin","time":"1346736213","timestamp":"2012-09-04 05:23:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Internally, there's no such thing as the browser war. It's just something the media hypes up and something nerds argue about. Google used to contribute to Firefox before they went into their caves to give birth to Chrome, and the relationship is still symbiotic. Vendors are happy with the fact that the web is actually progressing now with competition spurring it unlike when Microsoft stopped working on IE in the olden days. Most browsers today are modern and well-kept, even IE10. You'll be fine with whatever modern browser you choose, everyone likes their own little idiosyncrasies found in their browser of choice.","parent":"4472894","id":"4473266"}
{"by":"ryanpetrich","time":"1311801346","timestamp":"2011-07-27 21:15:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The synchronous writes benchmark is suspect--on a 7200rpm disk it seems impossible to get 2,400 dependent transactions (or even sqlite's 430) with a full disk sync. Is this due to ext3's relaxed notion of fsync?","parent":"2813061","id":"2814168"}
{"by":"bluthru","time":"1386618317","timestamp":"2013-12-09 19:45:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get what you\u0026#x27;re driving at, but the analogy doesn\u0026#x27;t quite work.\u003cp\u003eWe want software to perform functions and we don\u0026#x27;t care about the amount of lines of code to achieve this. We also want our government to perform functions, and law is how they achieve this.\u003cp\u003eYour stance would make sense if we were in a state that didn\u0026#x27;t need improvement.","parent":"6876087","id":"6876348"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1396546638","timestamp":"2014-04-03 17:37:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It happens all the time. Take \u0026quot;decimate\u0026quot; as just one example of hundreds that come to mind. It once meant to reduce by one-tenth. But through common usage it has come to mean:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;decimate\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;to destroy a large number of (plants, animals, people, etc.)\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBut for \u003ci\u003eexasperate\u003c/i\u003e as a replacement for \u003ci\u003eexacerbate\u003c/i\u003e, that\u0026#x27;s more of a stretch. Not to say it won\u0026#x27;t happen.","parent":"7523979","id":"7524534"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1475782967","timestamp":"2016-10-06 19:42:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s not that it isn\u0026#x27;t an obvious conflict of interest. I believe it stems from the same realm as the military courts. Namely, civilians and noncombatants are not the peers of soldiers (or cops) because of the vast difference in experiences and mission.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s right, which is why we don\u0026#x27;t have police courts with a separate system of law and judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys that are also police officers, the way the military is.\u003cp\u003eInstead, the theory is the opposite, \u003ci\u003eoverlooking\u003c/i\u003e the inherent conflict of interest and just holding that police are \u003ci\u003ejust like everyone else\u003c/i\u003e, so that, just as it would be the police department that handled the investigation, arrest, etc. if any random person was accused of a crime, so to, if a police officer is accused of a crime, its the police department that performs those functions.\u003cp\u003eTo have someone \u003ci\u003eelse\u003c/i\u003e do that when police are the subject of the accusation would be an acknowledgement that there is a \u003ci\u003edifference\u003c/i\u003e between the police and everyone else when it comes to criminal investigations.","parent":"12655125","id":"12655438"}
{"by":"microcolonel","time":"1506152312","timestamp":"2017-09-23 07:38:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eAlmost any barcode is assumed to be private information\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s really the case, I\u0026#x27;ve deliberately embedded QR codes in images on Facebook. Your feature would be very annoying if it could not be toggled off.","parent":"15318612","id":"15318678"}
{"by":"asdfasgasdgasdg","time":"1539218715","timestamp":"2018-10-11 00:45:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d probably pick Cap\u0026#x27;n Proto or Flat Buffers if speed were paramount, in a grass is greener sort of way. I haven\u0026#x27;t used either of those technologies, though, just read about them. I\u0026#x27;m also cool with plain JSON, which is beautiful from an ease-of-getting-started and universality perspective. I also think GraphQL is super compelling, and there\u0026#x27;s something to be said for records-as-in-SQL.\u003cp\u003eMainly, I just think that interchange formats should be boring, simple, and ideally not incredibly slow. Protocol buffers at least meets those bars, even if it doesn\u0026#x27;t meet the consistency bar that the article desires. The whole \u0026quot;stop being a hipster and just use X\u0026quot; meme comes to mind. Probably realistically X is JSON in this day and age.","parent":"18190166","id":"18190189"}
{"by":"kemayo","time":"1288632863","timestamp":"2010-11-01 17:34:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"deviantART!\u003cp\u003eWe're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the backburner that we'd like to get started on.\u003cp\u003eWe only hire people who can do everything. You have to be able to write backend PHP code, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and SQL. We don't want to have people employed who we can't just point at any problem that comes up. (People do tend to find their own niche, admittedly.)\u003cp\u003e...unless you're a great search developer, in which case we'll hire you anyway and lock you in a small room where you will never do anything but improve our search. \u0026#60;3 \u0026#60;3 \u0026#60;3\u003cp\u003eI will warn you that, no matter how awesome you are, everyone we hire spends their first 90 days in the small-projects and bugfixes silo. We think that it's a great way to make sure that everyone knows the code.\u003cp\u003eAlso, it's a 10 year old PHP codebase; we predate almost every PHP framework. We're running an in-house framework. Understand that you will have to deal with varying levels of code. :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1857051","id":"1857311"}
{"by":"sampo","time":"1365636067","timestamp":"2013-04-10 23:21:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion, the greatest weakness of traditional music notation is that a same melody has to be written in 12 different ways, depending on in which key it is. After you've trained yourself to read in all 12 keys (or 5-6 most common ones), everything works nicely, but that's a lot of repetition.\u003cp\u003eA notation that would solve this problem, would be great progress.\u003cp\u003eBut this Hummingbird notation does nothing to help with this problem.","parent":"5528274","id":"5528877"}
{"by":"conradev","time":"1310323527","timestamp":"2011-07-10 18:45:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me, it was wrong by about 50 miles.","parent":"2748262","id":"2748325"}
{"by":"audeyisaacs","time":"1478043432","timestamp":"2016-11-01 23:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even better if you display a willingness to spam your users \u0026#x27;in key states\u0026#x27;...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;voteplz\u0026#x2F;help-your-users-vote-6ee61dcf224d#.l9us594st\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;voteplz\u0026#x2F;help-your-users-vote-6ee61dcf224d...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(edit: US really really needs mandatory voting(and preferential voting, but that\u0026#x27;s another topic)).","parent":"12851064","id":"12851110"}
{"by":"retrogradeorbit","time":"1415857587","timestamp":"2014-11-13 05:46:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m one who you speak of. Systemd to me is just a scarily large attack surface. Working through my servers slowly replacing them with FreeBSD. ZFS raid root out of the box on install! That one really impressed me.","parent":"8595976","id":"8600121"}
{"by":"spraak","time":"1511499795","timestamp":"2017-11-24 05:03:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kratom has been (somewhat silently to the mainstream) been helping many break free of opioid dependence. It also has helped many who are in chronic pain and can\u0026#x27;t get access to good lain relievers, or are allergic to them.\u003cp\u003eEdit: r\u0026#x2F;kratom can be a good start. It also is in need of support as the FDA is currently trying to regulate it.","parent":"15756525","id":"15769505"}
{"by":"Pxtl","time":"1455848549","timestamp":"2016-02-19 02:22:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get the appeal of simplicity,but why not try newer-but-still-simple Civ like Revolutions or something?","parent":"11130446","id":"11131092"}
{"by":"andymoe","time":"1363119932","timestamp":"2013-03-12 20:25:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice, I got two. Might be cool to write you HN username on it in sharpie.","parent":"5363290","id":"5364637"}
{"by":"snth","time":"1286073890","timestamp":"2010-10-03 02:44:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Though I'm a fan of Feynman anecdotes, I've always disagreed with the point of the one used in this article.  Names \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e important.  You know what you get by knowing the name of the brown-throated thrush?  You get an identifier by which to look up all the collected knowledge of humanity on the brown-throated thrush, and you gain the ability to talk about it with other people.\u003cp\u003eIn the online SICP lectures there's a nice point about names and how they give you power over things, but I couldn't find it right away.","parent":"1751253","id":"1751950"}
{"by":"_pmf_","time":"1493725078","timestamp":"2017-05-02 11:37:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d really like for something like K\u0026#x2F;Kx to pick up. For server applications, the dichotomy between DB and application seems so artificial for a lot of applications. Think Erlang + Mnesia, but with a fully relational model backed by language primitives.\u003cp\u003eI think LINQ with F#\u0026#x27;s type providers would probably be what I have in mind (which works like JOOQ with a tighter integration).","parent":"14245354","id":"14245531"}
{"by":"zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC","time":"1496821539","timestamp":"2017-06-07 07:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; PPPoEv6\u003cp\u003eThere is no such thing, it\u0026#x27;s still PPPoE and PPP, just that there is IPV6CP and IPv6 on top of PPP. And that, in principle, can run through the same PPP session as IPCP and IPv4, though a weird ISP might not support that, obviously.","parent":"14503231","id":"14504398"}
{"by":"yjftsjthsd-h","time":"1542152613","timestamp":"2018-11-13 23:43:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Have you ever tried that? You\u0026#x27;ll find that the plumbing consists of 20 different standards of pipe cobbled together over the past 30 years by dozens of different plumbers, each with their own conception of how plumbing should work but too lazy to tear out the whole thing and replace it so they just patch in their change with duct tape and rubber bands.\u003cp\u003eThis is actually true:), but I defy you to find a desktop OS of which the same isn\u0026#x27;t true. Did MS ever fix the fact that they have 2 \u003ci\u003ecompletely different\u003c/i\u003e control panels with partially-overlapping functionality? And I know Windows Explorer still can\u0026#x27;t open certain paths because DOS had a ... \u003ci\u003epoor\u003c/i\u003e implementation of device files.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Pottering, is loathed for being successful at it.\u003cp\u003ePottering unified the plumbing by taking a demolition crew to the house and replacing the plumbing and electrical systems while people were living in it, informed us that objects being automatically thrown in the trash if they were on the floor when you left the room was a feature[0], and demanded that all faucet manufacturers adopt a new pipe size that only his plumbing uses[1].\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;systemd\u0026#x2F;systemd\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;97e5530cf20\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;systemd\u0026#x2F;systemd\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;97e5530cf20\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11797075\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11797075\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tmux\u0026#x2F;tmux\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;428\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tmux\u0026#x2F;tmux\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;428\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18444962","id":"18445958"}
{"by":"TheLoneWolfling","time":"1426536712","timestamp":"2015-03-16 20:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see plenty of coffee shops with wall sockets with USB ports for charging. And they are typically being used. Same idea here.","parent":"9213989","id":"9214044"}
{"by":"bluedino","time":"1447250122","timestamp":"2015-11-11 13:55:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if your employees start abusing it and taking the snacks home?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;worldofsu.com\u0026#x2F;philipsu\u0026#x2F;goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebook\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;worldofsu.com\u0026#x2F;philipsu\u0026#x2F;goodbye-microsoft-hello-facebo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10543798","id":"10546639"}
{"by":"chrismcb","time":"1495772974","timestamp":"2017-05-26 04:29:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If someone is so bad you need to fire then after a day or a week then the is something wrong with your interview process. Especially considering the first day is mostly about learning what is going on at the company. But if you think a person should be fired after one day on the job, you should be able to discover that after a full day of interviews... By the same token of something came across in the interview that you liked, you should give the person a benefit of a doubt and give them more than one week. Even if you weaken your k interview process because of the easy firing","parent":"14421820","id":"14422001"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1506603441","timestamp":"2017-09-28 12:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not even that though -- we can distribute, very well. We can send grain in container ships, do air drops, land trains, all sorts. We can process, preserve, etc. to avoid spoiling.\u003cp\u003eNone of that is the problem that causes famine.\u003cp\u003eWe don\u0026#x27;t want to feed people who aren\u0026#x27;t paying; or people in power don\u0026#x27;t see it as useful.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a practical problem it\u0026#x27;s all political, surely?","parent":"15353951","id":"15356727"}
{"by":"jjnoakes","time":"1463018719","timestamp":"2016-05-12 02:05:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If tptacek wanted to reply to the NSA comment, that\u0026#x27;s fine, but that\u0026#x27;s not what happened.\u003cp\u003eYour side note also applies to that comment, but not mine, so I think it belongs there, not here.","parent":"11679992","id":"11680857"}
{"by":"eridius","time":"1316113224","timestamp":"2011-09-15 19:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is not triggering InsertLeave a good thing or a bad thing?","parent":"3000281","id":"3001638"}
{"by":"codeplea","time":"1495656149","timestamp":"2017-05-24 20:02:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the solution I\u0026#x27;ve always used. I wish that YouTube would make this easier to find though. Oddly, some channels include the HTML link tag in the page head, but many don\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"14411021","id":"14412996"}
{"by":"bradhe","time":"1400912759","timestamp":"2014-05-24 06:25:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Randomizing the Rails test suite\u003cp\u003eThis is sponsored with actual resources? Seems to me this should be a weekend project for someone?","parent":"7792490","id":"7792760"}
{"by":"kolpa","time":"1528915528","timestamp":"2018-06-13 18:45:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does the OP offer benefits over the :1 way?","parent":"17305840","id":"17305918"}
{"by":"jerven","time":"1535041478","timestamp":"2018-08-23 16:24:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, but backends speed does matter. Not every backend is DB connection limited. Faster elasticsearch\u0026#x2F;solr\u0026#x2F;lucene etc... is very welcome.","parent":"17828183","id":"17828543"}
{"by":"Impossible","time":"1500442704","timestamp":"2017-07-19 05:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I had side project time I\u0026#x27;d really like to make a good VR lego CAD program.  I have seen a couple of demos and prototypes and lego has a daydream app, but all of it seems limited and unpolished compared to LDD, LeoCAD etc.","parent":"14801612","id":"14802178"}
{"by":"HeyLaughingBoy","time":"1452107315","timestamp":"2016-01-06 19:08:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I spent some time with google looking for the references to no avail, but from what I recall, the SEI (Software Engineering Institute) agrees with you. Measured across thousands of projects, the average number of hours of actual software development is 2-4 hours per day.\u003cp\u003eIn my experience with teams actively and accurately tracking time, the average is about 2.5 hours for most development work. It can spike up, but the spikes are typically not sustainable for more than a few days. Even then, the higher number days are typically spent doing design documentation or other non-coding tasks.","parent":"10850255","id":"10852776"}
{"by":"draw_down","time":"1462734039","timestamp":"2016-05-08 19:00:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t say anything about why they \u0026quot;simply cannot operate\u0026quot; in Austin. Sounds like they just don\u0026#x27;t want to anymore. The voters made their decision and Uber\u0026#x2F;Lyft are taking their ball and going home, I don\u0026#x27;t see why the Council should be \u0026quot;backwards\u0026quot;.","parent":"11654833","id":"11655239"}
{"by":"eurleif","time":"1398917935","timestamp":"2014-05-01 04:18:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The post linked to by this post now says:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Update: As of version 36.0.1966.0 this has been removed. Iterate quickly!","parent":"7678126","id":"7678206"}
{"by":"sethbannon","time":"1503532144","timestamp":"2017-08-23 23:49:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a point by point rebuttal of Pat Brown\u0026#x27;s comments I wrote: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@sethbannon\u0026#x2F;cleaning-the-record-on-clean-meat-4888815a8614\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@sethbannon\u0026#x2F;cleaning-the-record-on-clean-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15085931","id":"15086294"}
{"by":"lenish","time":"1476237676","timestamp":"2016-10-12 02:01:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we\u0026#x27;re talking about the actual hash signal uses for this value, then sure, but talking about the number of digits displayed isn\u0026#x27;t even the right thing to care about, since they\u0026#x27;re using SHA1 for the hash AFAICT: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;WhisperSystems\u0026#x2F;Signal-Android\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;3.0.0\u0026#x2F;src\u0026#x2F;org\u0026#x2F;thoughtcrime\u0026#x2F;securesms\u0026#x2F;crypto\u0026#x2F;PublicKey.java#L87\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;WhisperSystems\u0026#x2F;Signal-Android\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;3.0.0\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12689896","id":"12689962"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1413383764","timestamp":"2014-10-15 14:36:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the UK, lawyers mean salary is \u003ci\u003ebelow\u003c/i\u003e the national average. A couple of years ago it was 25k GBP \u0026#x2F; $40k. Lawyers salaries get a reputation of being high because most people don\u0026#x27;t realise that:\u003cp\u003e1) most lawyers do not work in front-facing roles in law firms. They are in house counsel, or consultants, or work in finance or employment or for charities or many other fields where salaries are low.\u003cp\u003e2) the hourly rates they see are 2-3 times higher than the lawyers salary \u003ci\u003eon the low end\u003c/i\u003e. In big law firms the multiple is \u003ci\u003emuch\u003c/i\u003e higher, because there\u0026#x27;s a massive amount of support staff (e.g. my ex practised at a law firm big enough to have a 24\u0026#x2F;7 team to print documents, 24\u0026#x2F;7 IT support helpdesk for staff etc.), and because that\u0026#x27;s how the partners make their profit.\u003cp\u003e3) there\u0026#x27;s a small core of really, really expensive lawfirms that gets all the headlines. E.g. in the UK we have the \u0026quot;Magic Circle\u0026quot; lawfirms (the five largest UK firms - of which 4 are in the top 10 largest lawfirms worldwide - the rest of the top ten are US firms), then the \u0026quot;Silver Circle\u0026quot;, and then the rest. The Magic Circle lawfirms have training contracts that pay in the GBP 40k+ range, and 1 year post-qualification lawyers can earn 60k-100k (GBP). Salaries then tend to go up by \u003ci\u003ehuge\u003c/i\u003e steps every 6-12 months, so up to several hundred k GBP for senior associates, and a couple of million for partners in some of these firms. Far more for equity partners in some niche firms. Now consider the mean salary again, and consider how much these firms pull it up...\u003cp\u003e4) many of the \u0026quot;best\u0026quot; paying firms works people to the bone, and so absolute salaries are high, but hourly rates are not. My ex. qualified at one of the Magic Circle firms, and though she made more than twice the UK average salary, two years out of university, she worked so many hours that her hourly rate was less than what her secretary was paid (she\u0026#x27;s since shifted to a non-practising role in the same firm for exactly this reason; coming home at 3am was not enough to make the money worth it). She was billed out at 200 GBP per hour, but her salary was fixed, so of course it was in the firms interest to work people as hard as possible. And everyone in these firms are asked if they will \u0026quot;voluntarily\u0026quot; sign away the EU Working Time Directive restrictions (UK has an exception from the Working Time Directive that allows UK employers to do this; in theory it is illegal to punish staff for not signing a waiver; then there\u0026#x27;s practice).  She could easily earn in her yearly salary for the firm in 5 weeks of billing.","parent":"8458280","id":"8458612"}
{"by":"bjoe_lewis","time":"1359041750","timestamp":"2013-01-24 15:35:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes a mistake, and he corrected it in his \"N.B\".\nThus the chain stops.","parent":"5108072","id":"5110023"}
{"by":"mabbo","time":"1513797879","timestamp":"2017-12-20 19:24:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;spacex\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;spacex\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e is usually the best place to learn about SpaceX launches. The \u0026#x27;about\u0026#x27; part of that page has the current schedule. Jan 4 is the current NET date for Zuma.","parent":"15972519","id":"15972839"}
{"by":"tracker1","time":"1471292071","timestamp":"2016-08-15 20:14:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the flip side... joins are expensive... I worked on an application, where presenting a single page, representing a single item in the application (classifieds site) required upwards of around 40 joins (iirc 36 or 46, I don\u0026#x27;t remember)... under load (including search result pages), the app was crushed by its\u0026#x27; own weight.\u003cp\u003eI think the bigger issue is that people are afraid of separating data at clear boundaries, so long as the orchestration is in place.  Having definitive data in SQL, and having denormalized documents in elasticsearch\u0026#x2F;mongo\u0026#x2F;rethinkdb works very well... other instances (huge read and\u0026#x2F;or write throughput) may work better in a Cassandra (or other bigtable solution) with application-generated lookup tables may be better.  It just depends on your need.\u003cp\u003eWith better support for JSON\u0026#x2F;XML nested structures and indexes in sql rdbms, it\u0026#x27;s becoming less of an issue for a lot of types of data\u0026#x2F;documents.","parent":"12290931","id":"12293063"}
{"by":"pyvpx","time":"1479316292","timestamp":"2016-11-16 17:11:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"then what is the alt-right to its supporters?","parent":"12967265","id":"12969054"}
{"by":"dublinben","time":"1400514890","timestamp":"2014-05-19 15:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Which do you want to install\u0026#x2F;contribute to\u0026#x2F;star?\u003cp\u003eTo be honest, not yours.  I\u0026#x27;m immediately suspicious of \u0026quot;open source\u0026quot; projects written by OS X\u0026#x2F;iOS users and demonstrated on said platforms.  Without installing your program myself, I can\u0026#x27;t expect it to work on GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux, since all of your screenshots are taken in Safari.","parent":"7767650","id":"7768055"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1340421353","timestamp":"2012-06-23 03:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First time I've seen that rage comic.  Thanks for linking :)\u003cp\u003eRage comics have always fascinated me.  Simple and intentionally 'bad', but more relatable than anything I've seen prior.  That's a great example of how effective they can be in communication - both for producing and consuming.","parent":"4149889","id":"4149920"}
{"by":"ryandvm","time":"1366226278","timestamp":"2013-04-17 19:17:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with ignoring politicians is that it just encourages them...","parent":"5566437","id":"5566458"}
{"by":"benologist","time":"1305996299","timestamp":"2011-05-21 16:44:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's already a laptop shell that you can jack your phone into.  That future is looking really interesting, and is probably why Microsoft is doing Windows 8 for ARM chips - just imagine a 15\" or 17\", high resolution laptop that weighs as much as an Air and has a multi-day battery!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/motorola-atrix-4gs-webtop-application-turns-your-phone-into-a/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/motorola-atrix-4gs-webtop...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2571067","id":"2571125"}
{"by":"bladedtoys","time":"1428048777","timestamp":"2015-04-03 08:12:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While calling the bursts FRB is certainly descriptive, I kind of miss the whimsy of names like LGM [0]\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;PSR_B1919%2B21\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;PSR_B1919%2B21\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9314299","id":"9314869"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1358447398","timestamp":"2013-01-17 18:29:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The fact of the matter is, there is nothing proportionate about how much you benefit to how much you pay.\u003cp\u003eI strongly disagree. I think how much money you make is a very good measure of how much you benefit from the existence of government and civilized society.\u003cp\u003eTake the family of four. The father sends his kids to public school in Connecticut. But he works at an investment bank. He draws his salary from the economic activities of companies he provides M\u0026#38;A advice to. Those companies benefit from having a work force educated at the public expense. Does the father just benefit from the education his own kids receive, or does he benefit from the educations of the workers at each of his clients?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; The biggest targets are small business owners, startups, lawyers, doctors, engineers, and others of their kind. Can you say for an absolute fact that they owe ~40% of their annual income to the government? I can tell you for a fact that the difference between a freelancer in high demand earning $250k/year vs $100k/year is a matter of the hours you work. If you kill yourself to work around the clock to make more money.... you are rewarded with higher taxes.\u003cp\u003eNo, you are rewarded with more money. If I work more and make $250k instead of $100k, I still have $80-90k extra in my pocket. As someone taxed over 40%, I don't think \"man, I'm sick of carrying the weight for all these other people.\" I think: \"all these other people ultimately generate the wealth that allows me to live the way I do.\" There is a point at which I'd be upset and contemplate moving, but we're not near that point.\u003cp\u003eThe fact is that anywhere else I'd want to live has higher taxes. That's the relevant criterion at the end of the day. My dad, an extremely ambitious man, left Bangladesh (taxes around 8% of GDP) for the U.S. (taxes around 26% of GDP) completely unconcerned about the increased taxes. Do I ever think: \"man, it'd be great to go back to Bangladesh and pay low taxes!\" Of course not. When I tell my wife \"hey honey we should move there\" it's never to a low tax place like Botswana. It's France, Germany, Canada, etc. Hell, I could save a lot of money and move to Texas but I'm not willing to do that either. Taxes pay for a pleasant civilized society.\u003cp\u003eIndeed, it's the doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc, who benefit from that the most. We don't have \"fuck you\" money. We can't go to a low-tax jurisdiction in the middle east and set up a luxurious bubble for ourselves amid the squalor. We live in cities, use public transit, and have to interact with everyone else. We get to live very well in pleasant surroundings as a result of these taxes.","parent":"5074130","id":"5074197"}
{"by":"zouhair","time":"1537103133","timestamp":"2018-09-16 13:05:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Won\u0026#x27;t work for me at all, I have my headphones on for hours at a time. What makes it worse is that you could have your wireless ones and someone like me his wired ones.\u003cp\u003eApple decided rightly or not that they don\u0026#x27;t care about me. So be it.","parent":"17998675","id":"17998728"}
{"by":"mindslight","time":"1530304482","timestamp":"2018-06-29 20:34:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you need a single washer and have a nickel, pick up your drill.","parent":"17427163","id":"17427656"}
{"by":"digitalchaos","time":"1447367181","timestamp":"2015-11-12 22:26:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"unless the digital data represents weapons? \n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;3-d-printed-gun-lawsuit-starts-war-arms-control-free-speech\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;3-d-printed-gun-lawsuit-starts-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10550025","id":"10556599"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1442958389","timestamp":"2015-09-22 21:46:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wonder if that\u0026#x27;s the genius from IHS (Indian Health Service) that insisted my co-worker had AIDS when he went in for flu symptoms.  The doctor had \u0026quot;seen it\u0026quot; and since my co-worker took the normal path to be a drug and alcohol counselor he fit the doctor\u0026#x27;s criteria.  He had to go home and tell his wife.  The negative blood test came back a week later.  They shuffled said doctor to somewhere else instead of canning the idiot.","parent":"10260340","id":"10261937"}
{"by":"curtis","time":"1429128967","timestamp":"2015-04-15 20:16:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A related more recent NASA project is TGALS, the Towed Glider Air-Launch System: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nasa.gov\u0026#x2F;centers\u0026#x2F;armstrong\u0026#x2F;Features\u0026#x2F;TGALS_first_flight.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nasa.gov\u0026#x2F;centers\u0026#x2F;armstrong\u0026#x2F;Features\u0026#x2F;TGALS_first_f...\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"9380622","id":"9383767"}
{"by":"alkonaut","time":"1433696370","timestamp":"2015-06-07 16:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t see where these are not one single problem. Everything is a file.\u003cp\u003eA very general format could solve more problems but as I said earlier I think the lack of comments in json makes it sub par as a config format for human editing.","parent":"9675266","id":"9675412"}
{"by":"rsynnott","time":"1383325667","timestamp":"2013-11-01 17:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can give examples of social mobility in all societies; that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that those societies necessarily have high social mobility. For that you need statistical evidence.","parent":"6654294","id":"6654942"}
{"by":"bloobloobloo","time":"1501202123","timestamp":"2017-07-28 00:35:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; maybe that counts as `\u0026quot;editing\u0026quot;`\u003cp\u003ehow would it not","parent":"14857541","id":"14871010"}
{"by":"tsomctl","time":"1482193384","timestamp":"2016-12-20 00:23:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I only did the first several videos of Andrew Ng\u0026#x27;s class, and didn\u0026#x27;t like it. The only prerequisites to CS231n are linear algebra, calculus, and Python.","parent":"13216180","id":"13216283"}
{"by":"Aloha","time":"1529076695","timestamp":"2018-06-15 15:31:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have one word for you - Polaroid.\u003cp\u003ePolaroid had really high resolution, a mostly dry development process, and was simple enough to be done by anyone.\u003cp\u003e20th Century Engineering is amazing.","parent":"17317736","id":"17320453"}
{"by":"indigodaddy","time":"1536296827","timestamp":"2018-09-07 05:07:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe they can buy Atlassian now.","parent":"17929761","id":"17932010"}
{"by":"m-p-3","time":"1531623149","timestamp":"2018-07-15 02:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if the beam somehow fell\u0026#x2F;rotated in place while no one was in there with the doors closed, you\u0026#x27;d be locked out without a non-destructive way to unlock it.","parent":"17533411","id":"17533559"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1478115176","timestamp":"2016-11-02 19:32:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup, we already have schema validation, JSONRPC, and transformations, all that\u0026#x27;s really missing is namespaces and comments.\u003cp\u003eThen we can go full WSDL and SOAP.","parent":"12858247","id":"12858473"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1266876284","timestamp":"2010-02-22 22:04:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It works fine.  Python (outside of the admittedly limited scripting SDK) is not a first-class API for Android.  But it was running on the G1 within weeks of release (as was most of debian, FWIW) and there are certainly no barriers to using it.\u003cp\u003eBut the supported API is Java-based, and that legitimately annoys some people even if it pleases others.  Google isn't banning python, certainly, but neither are they pushing it.  No different than any other phone, I guess.","parent":"1143688","id":"1143863"}
{"by":"lucasjung","time":"1315851185","timestamp":"2011-09-12 18:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This headline is misleading.  Most copyrights have been 70 years in the EU for years.  This change brings an exception into line with the majority.","parent":"2988166","id":"2988270"}
{"by":"strictnein","time":"1493764574","timestamp":"2017-05-02 22:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Historically and in practice at many schools the CompSci program came out of the EE school. To say it\u0026#x27;s not a subset is simply wrong. You think math professors were the ones wiring up early experimental computer hardware?\u003cp\u003eSounds like a strange computer science track at your school. And subpar, to be honest.","parent":"14234642","id":"14251282"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1274134443","timestamp":"2010-05-17 22:14:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What makes your site different from the 10,000 other sites selling sex toys on the internet? Why would a customer buy from you and not a more trusted/bigger brand?","parent":"1355053","id":"1355757"}
{"by":"ZoFreX","time":"1359369640","timestamp":"2013-01-28 10:40:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; alienates female programmers from the game industry\u003cp\u003eAlso males such as myself that are just tired of peurile humour when they witness the darker side of their peers so frequently?","parent":"5126387","id":"5127972"}
{"by":"PredictorY","time":"1528856762","timestamp":"2018-06-13 02:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Machine learning and artificial intelligence are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e the \u0026quot;same thing\u0026quot;. To say so does not \u0026quot;oversimplify things just a little bit\u0026quot;: It is grossly inaccurate. Expert systems, pattern recognition, robotics and fuzzy logic- all part of A.I.- do not, per se, involve learning (though they may).","parent":"17299298","id":"17299774"}
{"by":"seanwilson","time":"1476452842","timestamp":"2016-10-14 13:47:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it\u0026#x27;s a good idea to throw in some positive comments as well along with indicating the severity of different comments (e.g. must fix, nice to have).\u003cp\u003eA far worse situation though is when a mid-level or senior developer is defensive about code reviews and won\u0026#x27;t cooperate in the code review process.","parent":"12707759","id":"12708009"}
{"by":"beachstartup","time":"1464823613","timestamp":"2016-06-01 23:26:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you don\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003eneed\u003c/i\u003e a car anywhere in LA.  take public transit, or stay in one neighborhood, i.e. santa monica.  it\u0026#x27;s not rocket science.\u003cp\u003ewhen people visit LA they spend hours driving across town over and over, for absolutely no reason.  you don\u0026#x27;t have to do that.\u003cp\u003eLA residents avoid doing that \u003ci\u003eat all costs\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"11818337","id":"11819148"}
{"by":"vu0tran","time":"1372294742","timestamp":"2013-06-27 00:59:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, so you\u0026#x27;re the guy I have to thank.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll come back to the site eventually and finally get around to learning how to write those unit tests. :)","parent":"5950019","id":"5950069"}
{"by":"cstross","time":"1442249887","timestamp":"2015-09-14 16:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hard call: I\u0026#x27;d have to say it all depends on the author\u0026#x27;s intent.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s see ... at the time he wrote \u0026quot;Neuromancer\u0026quot; William Gibson had never used a computer -- he wrote it on a manual typewriter (and used the royalties to buy an Apple IIc). His creative vision was more one of social atomization and a particular aesthetic in a multi-national dominated future than it was informed by actual technology. Despite which, his creative vision of \u0026quot;cyberspace\u0026quot; got taken seriously enough as a visual metaphor that I remember sitting in on a debate at the W3C conference in 1996 between folks proposing that VRML should follow a Gibsonian model, and those who thought \u0026quot;Snow Crash\u0026quot; was the way forward. (Neal Stephenson\u0026#x27;s followers won the day. See also \u0026quot;Second Life\u0026quot;, I guess ...)\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s an example of \u0026quot;influencing\u0026quot;. \u0026quot;Neuromancer\u0026quot; was very influential, but hardly predictive.\u003cp\u003eActual predictive SF is much, much rarer, but if we ever get a space elevator you can probably blame Arthur C. Clarke (\u0026quot;The Fountains of Paradise\u0026quot;), which is an old-school didactic hey-why-don\u0026#x27;t-we-do-this-the-numbers-check-out work of prediction in fiction drag. Or maybe Andy Weir\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;The Martian\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eWritten SF has traditionally been \u003ci\u003eutter rubbish\u003c/i\u003e at predicting developments in the IT\u0026#x2F;computing sector, with notable exceptions -- for example the novella \u0026quot;True Names\u0026quot; by Vernor Vinge. (I\u0026#x27;ve attempted this too but I\u0026#x27;m not going to bang my own drum here.)","parent":"10215996","id":"10216044"}
{"by":"divanvisagie","time":"1485156848","timestamp":"2017-01-23 07:34:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love it when people complain about suggested content based on their preferences as if the results are the same for everyone.","parent":"13460512","id":"13460522"}
{"by":"KasianFranks","time":"1512149873","timestamp":"2017-12-01 17:37:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Context: The text details an exchange of supplies and silver between Elyashiv, the quartermaster of the Arad fortress and Ḥananyahu, possibly his peer at Beer Sheba, located one day\u0026#x27;s walk (ca. 25 km) to the west. Elyashiv and Ḥananyahu seem to be on friendly terms, with the letter possibly continuing an earlier personal communication. The letter begins with an affectionate salutation (“Your friend Ḥananyahu [hereby] sends greetings to [you] Elyashiv and to your household”) and continues with a blessing from God (“I bless [you] by Yahweh”). This is followed by the mention of a receipt sent by Ḥananyahu (“when I left your house I sent the receipt to Ge\u0026#x27;alyahu”). Requests regarding a certain purse and an amount of silver (“in the sum of 5 Xar”), as well as oil (“if there is still any oil left at your [p]ost—send it”) are made, along with a call to avoid sending a certain commodity, the name of which is indiscernible (“[…] drop it, don\u0026#x27;t send it!“). The last part of the recto contains some decipherable signs and letters, which, however, do not amount to a coherent text.","parent":"15824569","id":"15825558"}
{"by":"deno","time":"1494428792","timestamp":"2017-05-10 15:06:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was about to suggest that before I saw your comment. It’s like that PostgreSQL vs Postgres naming fiasco all over again.\u003cp\u003eIt’s not even the association, which I actually think is great, the name is simply a mouthful. RoachDB rolls off the tongue just so much better.","parent":"14308653","id":"14308730"}
{"by":"rimliu","time":"1525081347","timestamp":"2018-04-30 09:42:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Center of the galaxy. And he must be counting stars in the galactic plane not in every direction.","parent":"16954933","id":"16957137"}
{"by":"didibus","time":"1502601509","timestamp":"2017-08-13 05:18:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hum, thanks for the info. I feel curious to try it out. I think names should be namespaced though, that could solve the issue of having a length or value named property. The namespace could distinguish between two values that aren\u0026#x27;t compatible for example. Though I guess if the types are precise enough, they could embed some of that.","parent":"15001109","id":"15001644"}
{"by":"jobu","time":"1395938374","timestamp":"2014-03-27 16:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;These growth factors, especially one called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or B.D.N.F., are known to contribute to the health and well-being of neurons and consequently, it is thought, to improvements in brain health and cognition after regular exercise.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s interesting, and it sounds great, but like nearly any study of the brain there is conflicting information from other studies:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) overexpression in the forebrain results in learning and memory impairments.\u0026quot;\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19095063*\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pubmed\u0026#x2F;19095063*\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7480946","id":"7481514"}
{"by":"roymurdock","time":"1398350720","timestamp":"2014-04-24 14:45:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the insightful comment. I am curious to know whether you subscribe to the Keynesian or Austrian school of economics (or neither).\u003cp\u003eI would also be interested to get your insights on how this game might play out in the long run if other high-powered countries are afraid to make the move to raise interest rates for fear of upsetting the local\u0026#x2F;global economy.","parent":"7640466","id":"7640566"}
{"by":"lightblade","time":"1394602982","timestamp":"2014-03-12 05:43:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know, which is also why it\u0026#x27;s so hard to wipe it. It seems that SSDs are built with self preservation in mind and it\u0026#x27;ll try its hardest to avoid a write.","parent":"7384142","id":"7384181"}
{"by":"EdiX","time":"1283456157","timestamp":"2010-09-02 19:35:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I handled them by generating the assembly code to implement them and setting up the symbol tables as required, I implemented ' as abecedarius said and then quote was a special form that compiled into something that \"returned\" the requested symbol object.\u003cp\u003ePS similar deal with ` it would be expanded into a bunch of normal forms by the parser (\"reader\" in lisp-speak) and from there it's implemented with macros and functions, I copied Guy Steele example implementation, you can find it somewhere.","parent":"1657138","id":"1657355"}
{"by":"bjeanes","time":"1386903429","timestamp":"2013-12-13 02:57:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We use iDoneThis at Heroku. I love it so much. Thanks for building an awesome and simple tool.","parent":"6895019","id":"6898806"}
{"by":"acjohnson55","time":"1471990578","timestamp":"2016-08-23 22:16:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here. It taught me that it\u0026#x27;s productive to treat people with civility even when they\u0026#x27;re being jerks. I put that to use when working as a high school teacher.\u003cp\u003eI also learned how to call out attempts to shift the goal posts of an argument. How to find the underlying thread of an argument. How to avoid being drawn into putting in more energy in than a person I\u0026#x27;m arguing with.","parent":"12347820","id":"12348227"}
{"by":"cwan","time":"1258823791","timestamp":"2009-11-21 17:16:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a dupe (\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954586\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954586\u003c/a\u003e) - I'm sure it wasn't intentional but links coming from Google Reader are adding a fairly long trailer that HN isn't recognizing as dupes.","parent":"954600","id":"954689"}
{"by":"gopher2","time":"1493225910","timestamp":"2017-04-26 16:58:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Things that I value when purchasing and choosing clothes:\u003cp\u003e* I want to avoid lots of decision-making and info gathering.\u003cp\u003e* I want it to be simple to buy.\u003cp\u003e* I want not super expensive, somewhat stylish, somewhat innocuous, occasionally things that I find unique and cool.\u003cp\u003eThis seems like it would make all that easier. Probably will not get one because I don\u0026#x27;t care enough about the whole area, but I could see buying it if I wanted to improve my personal style for whatever reason or was more focused on being fashionable\u0026#x2F;stylish than I am at the moment.\u003cp\u003eBasically, Spotify Discovery Weekly for clothes. I doubt it will take off as fast as the Echo and it has more flop potential, because \u0026quot;Semi-weird Camera in your Closet\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t as established a product category as \u0026quot;Radio in your Kitchen\u0026quot; but I think it could take off and also not be some horrible distopian thing.\u003cp\u003eAn algorithm recommends easy-to-buy clothing for you based on a picture and your personal taste... Okay cool!","parent":"14203594","id":"14204790"}
{"by":"rfrank","time":"1477004800","timestamp":"2016-10-20 23:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"here\u0026#x27;s the link, largely just typical the_donald spam in comments that isn\u0026#x27;t terribly helpful haha.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;The_Donald\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;58j7jn\u0026#x2F;gentlement_i_believe_we_found_it_diane_feinstein\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;The_Donald\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;58j7jn\u0026#x2F;gentleme...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ebased on dates in the message, they\u0026#x27;re likely referring to the hearing on 10\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;15.","parent":"12756915","id":"12756941"}
{"by":"natrius","time":"1341960742","timestamp":"2012-07-10 22:52:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The combination of the wrongness expressed in that thread and how easy it is to fix made it excruciating to read. I'm embarrassed for them. You can't say on your homepage, \"Everything you share is stored secure and safe in the cloud\" then say that security isn't a high priority.","parent":"4226659","id":"4226687"}
{"by":"encoderer","time":"1435259598","timestamp":"2015-06-25 19:13:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because discovery is a problem! I can give you two examples:\u003cp\u003eI, for example, would love a service that would let me create a pdf invoice with a simple PUT or POST. I don\u0026#x27;t need a payments solution, or bookkeeping software, or a recurring billing service. Stripe gives us 95% of what we need. But our European users need invoices that show what they paid, and it\u0026#x27;s a manual process for us. I\u0026#x27;ve been searching and I\u0026#x27;ve found a couple options but none really scratch my itch.\u003cp\u003eOn the flip side, I run a SaaS business (which I added to Paperboy), and we\u0026#x27;ve often heard things like \u003ci\u003eI didn\u0026#x27;t know I needed your service until I discovered it\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThere are a lot of great tools out there and it\u0026#x27;s discovery and curation is not solved. Look at the success of Product Hunt, for example.","parent":"9779611","id":"9780251"}
{"by":"minimaxir","time":"1521472231","timestamp":"2018-03-19 15:10:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t do a build-X-in-low-Y-minutes trope when X involves implementing 30+ line classes.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: This comment was not appropriate, I apologize.","parent":"16618752","id":"16618931"}
{"by":"headmelted","time":"1513944478","timestamp":"2017-12-22 12:07:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eSelling products that you don\u0026#x27;t believe in yourself = testifying in front of a bunch of angry senators waiving internals emails about \u0026quot;shitty securities\u0026quot; at you\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis exact phrase should be painted on the wall of the lobby of every investment bank in the world.","parent":"15983661","id":"15986883"}
{"by":"juddlyon","time":"1305339380","timestamp":"2011-05-14 02:16:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pointless and cruel.","parent":"2546876","id":"2546971"}
{"by":"oscilloscope","time":"1357800977","timestamp":"2013-01-10 06:56:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Parallel coordinates is based on projective geometry, and has a point-line duality with orthogonal (cartesian) coordinates. Points in orthogonal coordinates become lines in parallel coordinates.\u003cp\u003eFew parallel coordinates applications take advantage of the fact that you can show lines in orthogonal coordinates as points in parallel coordinates though. It's one of the few effective ways of representing hyperplanes and hyperlines. Interpreting that is tricky though. Even people who \"get\" traditional parallel coordinates would have a tough time at first.\u003cp\u003eThink of it as a multidimensional scatterplot, where lines are a necessary concession to map N-space to 2-space.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(projective_geometry)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(projective_geometry)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5034828","id":"5035862"}
{"by":"he0001","time":"1537566956","timestamp":"2018-09-21 21:55:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well yes but that’s not what we are talking about here. And “eventual consistency” is not “consistency”. And I would argue that “eventual consistency” is not consistent since it can result in fake states since it’s not consistent.","parent":"18042912","id":"18042953"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1420098326","timestamp":"2015-01-01 07:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is that cash differences in a supermarket get noticed within hours. Some level of error can be accepted, but if somebody comes up $40 short several days each week, they\u0026#x27;re going to be looking for a new job.  Mt. Gox claims they didn\u0026#x27;t know they were being drained of assets for \u003ci\u003emonths\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"8822302","id":"8822405"}
{"by":"vgurgov","time":"1278664768","timestamp":"2010-07-09 08:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon, Rackspace cloud, encoding.com, google apps..","parent":"1499186","id":"1500145"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1542315560","timestamp":"2018-11-15 20:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eYes, de-orbit times from 550 km are on the order of years to possibly tens of years.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo it wouldn\u0026#x27;t stop progress for a century, but might it put a damper on things on the same scale as the Great Depression?","parent":"18463047","id":"18463251"}
{"by":"popcorncolonel","time":"1495570553","timestamp":"2017-05-23 20:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And LTE.\u003cp\u003eIt would be pretty damn surprising if you got any more than an incremental improvement this late in the game.","parent":"14401452","id":"14404890"}
{"by":"Trundle","time":"1525666394","timestamp":"2018-05-07 04:13:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People lacking social skills\u0026#x2F;abilities be it through autism or any other reason took \u0026quot;introvert\u0026quot; long ago.\u003cp\u003eAs someone drained by social situations who needs alone time to recharge - but who successfully works in sales and has no trouble working a room, hitting on women, dealing with hostile confrontation, etc - I wouldn\u0026#x27;t use the word to describe myself.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s socialisings \u0026quot;curvy\u0026quot;.","parent":"17010305","id":"17010347"}
{"by":"gozur88","time":"1458787297","timestamp":"2016-03-24 02:41:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The last time I worked at a software company they were trying to plump up the license $\u0026#x2F;services $ metric, because while it\u0026#x27;s easier to book services contracts they also increase your costs.  Software companies only make runaway profits when they sell the same thing to a bunch of different customers.\u003cp\u003eThat said, it\u0026#x27;s not like you can\u0026#x27;t make money selling services.","parent":"11348797","id":"11350198"}
{"by":"gouranga","time":"1341006237","timestamp":"2012-06-29 21:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're still an asshat ;-)","parent":"4178852","id":"4179259"}
{"by":"arjn","time":"1420436885","timestamp":"2015-01-05 05:48:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re not \u0026quot;added to the list\u0026quot; , they were always there, you just don\u0026#x27;t  want to acknowledge it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Assyrian_genocide\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is tons of proof, from both Turkish\u0026#x2F;Ottoman and external sources, not matter how much you deny it.","parent":"8836367","id":"8837502"}
{"by":"pnathan","time":"1366837357","timestamp":"2013-04-24 21:02:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It has been stable for a good long time. Which is nice if you've got a giant repository of old code that you dust off and run from time to time.\u003cp\u003eI think CL is one of the few languages that I can see myself using for a decade, continuously, without having to go back and refresh pieces to conform to the latest version \u0026#38; compiler. Not only that, you can essentially reprogram it to keep up with advances in the field.","parent":"5603541","id":"5603946"}
{"by":"heed","time":"1282752504","timestamp":"2010-08-25 16:08:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can do what you will, but you can't will what you will.","parent":"1632878","id":"1633243"}
{"by":"danielnixon","time":"1454373662","timestamp":"2016-02-02 00:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As soon as I see \u0026quot;pure CSS\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;CSS only\u0026quot; this is the first thing I think of. This meme that \u0026quot;pure CSS\u0026quot; is a Good Thing is a shame.","parent":"11011646","id":"11016902"}
{"by":"vinceguidry","time":"1546011675","timestamp":"2018-12-28 15:41:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"25 years is the blink of an eye.","parent":"18777289","id":"18777331"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1285999036","timestamp":"2010-10-02 05:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WW II fighters shot down a large number of aircraft.  Erich Hartmann alone claimed 352.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_air_aces\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_air_aces\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1749774","id":"1749863"}
{"by":"axefrog","time":"1336131520","timestamp":"2012-05-04 11:38:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks reasonably clean, though you can't get an aggregated list of invalid fields doing it this way. Instead, you'll have to discover your errors one by one, as you fix them.","parent":"3927652","id":"3927945"}
{"by":"calcsam","time":"1472320985","timestamp":"2016-08-27 18:03:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmmm.....\u003cp\u003eI think you have a great story to tell. You\u0026#x27;re a growth marketer learning engineering, so that you can be a one-man growth shop for an early-stage startup.\u003cp\u003eBootcamps aren\u0026#x27;t magic salves, and it can often take 3-4 months for the average grad to find a job. That said, I think you have a \u003ci\u003emuch\u003c/i\u003e better story than the average bootcamp grad, who are usually coming from completely unrelated fields. You could hit up literally every single seed \u0026#x2F; series A-ish startup and pitch them to own growth.\u003cp\u003eWould be happy to chat in person (I\u0026#x27;m a self-taught dev myself), contact info in profile.","parent":"12373183","id":"12373415"}
{"by":"pixelbeat","time":"1356396297","timestamp":"2012-12-25 00:44:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find ack slow and overcomplicated (in implementation at least). As an alternative consider:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/findrepo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/findrepo\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4963945","id":"4964642"}
{"by":"detcader","time":"1425775338","timestamp":"2015-03-08 00:42:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not saying that they are right, I am saying their argument would work; in fact there is rich historical documentation of that exact argument working, in all of the common situations of male violence against women: rape, domestic abuse, etc. We can find court records including the attire of women as relevant facts to the violence of the man. We can see how many female victims of male domestic violence are asked \u0026quot;why didn\u0026#x27;t you leave\u0026quot; \u0026quot;why didn\u0026#x27;t you try to deescalate?\u0026quot;","parent":"9163832","id":"9163851"}
{"by":"fallentimes","time":"1244763224","timestamp":"2009-06-11 23:33:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of the Polaroid acquisition:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/private-equity-group-buys-polaroid-for-59-million/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/private-equity-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was mentioned that Polaroid was one of the most recognized brands in the world and $59 million was a relative bargain.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUpdate:\u003c/i\u003e See corrected link and figure ($89 million) below.","parent":"653824","id":"653878"}
{"by":"slapshot","time":"1505774313","timestamp":"2017-09-18 22:38:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it doesn\u0026#x27;t work that way?  The banks that fund the \u0026quot;giant loan\u0026quot; in #1 put in covenants preventing any payments to the equity investor (who has to put in their own money) from paying out on the equity until all the debt has been paid off.  This is not their first rodeo.  The nature of the covenants varies a lot between industries, but the general rule is that the banks won\u0026#x27;t lend into the deal unless they are guaranteed to get their money back out first (maybe the CEO gets a salary, but it\u0026#x27;s all specified in the debt documents upfront).  That\u0026#x27;s almost the definition of leveraged finance.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to criticize the leveraged buyout model, a stronger critique is whether the equity investor is putting 10 bets down, where each has a 10% chance of a \u0026gt;10x return, which puts 9 companies at risk.","parent":"15280206","id":"15280314"}
{"by":"Zikes","time":"1469229213","timestamp":"2016-07-22 23:13:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not a false dichotomy because it is something that exists today. The workers can either work for next to nothing in terrible conditions, or they can starve.\u003cp\u003eBetter situations exist and are possible, but they do not prove the nonexistence of the former.","parent":"12147165","id":"12147440"}
{"by":"gtani","time":"1485664152","timestamp":"2017-01-29 04:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was an ashtanga teacher in SoCal who did pranayama practice with a few students prior to Mysore practice.  It was really demanding, somebody counted 55 inhale-exhale cycles in an hour, something like that","parent":"13509766","id":"13512129"}
{"by":"jwegan","time":"1349466007","timestamp":"2012-10-05 19:40:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is impossible to estimate decreases from \"patterns found in the SHA-1 hash function\". There is a good likelihood no patterns will be found in 10 years. It is also possible (although probably unlikely) an attack could be found that utterly breaks SHA-1.","parent":"4618272","id":"4618356"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1346279138","timestamp":"2012-08-29 22:25:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn't expect any real, solid answers from Obama. The reason is simple: he's not stupid. He knows that the Internet remembers everything, \u003ci\u003eforever\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"4450803","id":"4451735"}
{"by":"benologist","time":"1309382638","timestamp":"2011-06-29 21:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wish it went into more detail on the \"you can be fired from your own company\" point, that's such a scary proposition.","parent":"2710387","id":"2711424"}
{"by":"otto_ortega","time":"1502816525","timestamp":"2017-08-15 17:02:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congratulations! This is a really nice project, it seems to have the right combination between real knowledge about the car and audio-visual effects to keep people engaged.\u003cp\u003eI just subscribed to the video course and I can see the preorder offer is a no brainer, skimming through the PDF provided I can see there is enough value on it to easily make it worth the $20 by itself.\u003cp\u003eSo as a suggestion: Highlight the PDF and its content on the preorder page, there is only one mention about it but it doesn\u0026#x27;t specify its contents.","parent":"15017126","id":"15020030"}
{"by":"JesseAldridge","time":"1212173019","timestamp":"2008-05-30 18:43:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's an entry in my to-do list:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Make a database of questions I've asked and other info.\n  And make it easy to find the answers again.\n  Look at: YCombinator, StumbleUpon, Google, Tomboy, thinklinkr, CreateDebate, Delicious, Experts Exchange, DabbleBoard, Wikipedia\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiece of cake, right? :)","parent":"204307","id":"204726"}
{"by":"ineedtosleep","time":"1320812947","timestamp":"2011-11-09 04:29:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. This is something I was actually surprised at when I first got the HD, being a diehard physical button fanatic (had an iRiver H320, and fat Zune previously) I couldn't stand the idea of switching over to a touch interface, but I \u003ci\u003ehad\u003c/i\u003e to when my fat Zune died.\u003cp\u003eFast forward a week or two after getting the HD, I was able to control the device almost as fast as the origin Zune in my car (without looking at it). It just felt somewhat natural, the way the placed the buttons. Didn't put too much thought on whether or not the positioning was partially intended for quick use.","parent":"3213785","id":"3214264"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1442438315","timestamp":"2015-09-16 21:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are some examples of speed difference at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Green_threads\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Green_threads\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasically if you have green threads with only one core, you don\u0026#x27;t need to do as much work with locking.","parent":"10229704","id":"10229958"}
{"by":"infamouscow","time":"1454990855","timestamp":"2016-02-09 04:07:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be a great time to move to San Francisco after the rent prices drop through the floor.","parent":"11062882","id":"11063000"}
{"by":"chimeracoder","time":"1485969677","timestamp":"2017-02-01 17:21:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t really use slavery or sweatshops as an argument one way or the other here. Sweatshops were by no means limited to the US.\u003cp\u003eNor was slavery, for that matter. The main differences is that US slavery was domestic (and mostly contained to the south)[0]. Whereas European imperial powers (England, France, Belgium, etc.) outsourced their slavery, practicing forced relocation of people within their colonies and engaging those colonists in forced labor with the threat of violence[1]. That continued well into the 20th century.\u003cp\u003e[0] Though not as much as people like to think - the North was very happy to make money off of the slave trade, as long as they didn\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003epermanently\u003c/i\u003e hold those slaves.\u003cp\u003e[1] One can try to engage in the abstract argument of, \u0026quot;well, is it philosophically better to enslave people within each others\u0026#x27; native lands, rather than to bring them all \u003ci\u003eto\u003c/i\u003e the seat of the empire and enslave them there\u0026quot;, but that\u0026#x27;s a hair that\u0026#x27;s not worth splitting, and a far cry from the original statement.","parent":"13540975","id":"13542658"}
{"by":"franze","time":"1339124765","timestamp":"2012-06-08 03:06:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008\" - \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"On January 30, 2007, it [Windows Vista] was released worldwide\" - \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4082425","id":"4082477"}
{"by":"BounceHouse","time":"1529010845","timestamp":"2018-06-14 21:14:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"De-coupling of hardware and software mainly. All kinds of 3rd parties writing drivers for the trackpad for an OS they don\u0026#x27;t have control over.","parent":"17315330","id":"17315427"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1461164343","timestamp":"2016-04-20 14:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did try things like that but at the end of the day I had a very expensive device that I used for very little so I sold it. For me the only thing I miss about it is the health tracking. Once they build in a lot more of that the costs will be worth the benefit for me because I just looked back on that data and during my time with the Apple Watch I lost quite a lot of weight just following the activity tracker.","parent":"11534513","id":"11534864"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1494261080","timestamp":"2017-05-08 16:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a religion required nose piercing at 8 days that would be a mutilation, with some risks of additional harm, and no medical benefit (at the time it\u0026#x27;s done), and so it would be banned.","parent":"14292943","id":"14293104"}
{"by":"m15i","time":"1500932896","timestamp":"2017-07-24 21:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it hard to believe that \u0026quot;consciousness\u0026quot; can exist in a non-neuronal (or at least non-biological system) , i.e., phi greater than 0 outside of a nervous system. But IIT suggests it can, albeit a small amount, I guess because of back propagation. \u0026quot;If IIT is correct in placing such constraints upon artificial consciousness, deep convolutional networks such as GooGleNet and advanced projects like Blue Brain may be unable to realize high levels of consciousness.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.iep.utm.edu\u0026#x2F;int-info\u0026#x2F;#SH4c\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.iep.utm.edu\u0026#x2F;int-info\u0026#x2F;#SH4c\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14841036","id":"14843026"}
{"by":"markdown","time":"1389830531","timestamp":"2014-01-16 00:02:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; P.s. You didn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;hack\u0026quot; shit. Stop misusing that word please.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, they didn\u0026#x27;t even \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e shit. Unless I missed something, the title is completely false. They had an idea, but were prevented from executing it by the South Korean government.","parent":"7067071","id":"7067137"}
{"by":"zkhalique","time":"1440611909","timestamp":"2015-08-26 17:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But usually it shows up as a small image\u003cp\u003eApparently this is 4 images and it shows up like this: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;1n8wkixfimkmvlr\u0026#x2F;Screenshot%202015-08-26%2013.58.14.png?dl=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;1n8wkixfimkmvlr\u0026#x2F;Screenshot%202015-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan anyone do this? If so, how exactly?","parent":"10124783","id":"10124835"}
{"by":"thriftwy","time":"1518960082","timestamp":"2018-02-18 13:21:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like that downwotes on this co. Shows people fighting for the right to forget events where their side screwed up.\u003cp\u003eIf you fight for not getting reminded,  how would we make sure you still remember,  eh?","parent":"16405915","id":"16405942"}
{"by":"mykelyk","time":"1473420538","timestamp":"2016-09-09 11:28:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Epiphany, maybe? \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Epiphany_(feeling)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Epiphany_(feeling)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12461077","id":"12461148"}
{"by":"oneeyedpigeon","time":"1427040583","timestamp":"2015-03-22 16:09:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previous discussions on this topic have involved debate on whether or not Terry Davis is racist, the defence being that his use of the word \u0026quot;nigger\u0026quot; is an (extremely) unfortunate side-effect of a schizophrenic condition. I don\u0026#x27;t pretend to have an in-depth understanding of schizophrenia so, although I\u0026#x27;m dubious, I\u0026#x27;m minded to give Terry the benefit of the doubt. However, Terry, you could resolve this once and for all by clearly explaining to us whether or not this is the case.","parent":"9246855","id":"9247234"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1454605294","timestamp":"2016-02-04 17:01:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everyone is reacting to the leaked prediction of the panel\u0026#x27;s decision; what makes you think Assange\u0026#x27;s statement isn\u0026#x27;t also a reaction to that? If he knows how the panel is going to decide, it\u0026#x27;s not particularly courageous of him to suggest he\u0026#x27;d turn himself over if they voted against him.","parent":"11035007","id":"11035303"}
{"by":"aroch","time":"1407344781","timestamp":"2014-08-06 17:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s because Google is a intermediary CA[1], pretty much all large institutions that use certificates for authentication are. For example, a good number universities use internet2 as a backbone and issue themselves certs under an umbrella intermediary called InCommon.\u003cp\u003eBecoming an intermediary is hard and expensive because we want the CA system to be as secure as possible. And some security measures and auditing takes money\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://pki.google.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pki.google.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8143250","id":"8143488"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1387722195","timestamp":"2013-12-22 14:23:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Via analogy:\u003cp\u003eRDBMS = swiss army chainsaw, can do anything although maybe painfully and slowly.\u003cp\u003eNoSQL = 5\u0026#x2F;16th inch torque pre-set wrench for tightening sma connectors to 10 inch-lbs torque.  Can\u0026#x27;t do much else, but its near perfect at its tiny little area of expertise.\u003cp\u003eOn a meta level its a battle between hardware and applications, where app demands have (momentarily, of course) fallen behind commodity hardware ability.","parent":"6949833","id":"6950366"}
{"by":"taylorwc","time":"1451439515","timestamp":"2015-12-30 01:38:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure. What is the fair share? Is it defined in absolute dollars? Is it a percentage of income? A percentage of wealth?  Who determines what is the fair share? Are they elected? Is it a direct ballot measure? It\u0026#x27;s easy to agree to broad concepts when it comes to this sort of thing and horrifyingly difficult to enact practical measures.","parent":"10809874","id":"10810242"}
{"by":"estebank","time":"1379432155","timestamp":"2013-09-17 15:35:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s when the fun starts!","parent":"6399067","id":"6399867"}
{"by":"AlexandrB","time":"1435323553","timestamp":"2015-06-26 12:59:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that racists will always find symbols to rally around [1]. Theres a greater danger, I think, in bestowing so much power on a symbol that its use must be tightly controller. Regular people committed the atrocities of WWII, not a piece of cloth. Forgetting that is dangerous.\u003cp\u003eEvil is not a magical force, it\u0026#x27;s something every human being is capable of under the right (wrong?) circumstances [2].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;19\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;on-facebook-dylann-roof-charleston-suspect-wears-symbols-of-white-supremacy.html?_r=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;19\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;on-facebook-dylann-roof...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Act_of_Killing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Act_of_Killing\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9783934","id":"9783979"}
{"by":"seleniumk","time":"1465514953","timestamp":"2016-06-09 23:29:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I so badly want to extend this. I want more terrible searches!","parent":"11872901","id":"11873167"}
{"by":"jfager","time":"1311366225","timestamp":"2011-07-22 20:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A free 3-hour conference at YC headquarters?  How many microseconds after this was announced did it take to fill up?","parent":"2794646","id":"2795045"}
{"by":"MartinCron","time":"1395183058","timestamp":"2014-03-18 22:50:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A mature response to mud-slinging is almost never yet more mud-slinging.","parent":"7423803","id":"7425613"}
{"by":"wingerlang","time":"1477049780","timestamp":"2016-10-21 11:36:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; and ugly\u003cp\u003eI agree, it didn\u0026#x27;t leave a professional impression on me at all.","parent":"12759171","id":"12759551"}
{"by":"chasingsparks","time":"1271771285","timestamp":"2010-04-20 13:48:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do any HNers write fiction? I recently started writing some things just for my own plesure. It's more rewarding than I expected.","parent":"1279347","id":"1279373"}
{"by":"Terr_","time":"1425253955","timestamp":"2015-03-01 23:52:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That \u0026quot;nice to have\u0026quot; list in the software-dev position seems a little over-broad. \u0026quot;Genius with back-end server technologies\u0026quot; plus \u0026quot;familiar with hardware, like drivers\u0026quot; plus \n\u0026quot;some graphics experience\u0026quot; plus \u0026quot;Javascript, CSS, and HTML\u0026quot;...\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s hard to tell if it\u0026#x27;s a \u0026quot;whatever you have we can use\u0026quot; situation versus a \u0026quot;we want an ubermensch\u0026quot;-one.","parent":"9127702","id":"9129489"}
{"by":"174676","time":"1446348633","timestamp":"2015-11-01 03:30:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even assuming equal distribution of ability, there is still the problem of whether you can measure performance without bias.","parent":"10483751","id":"10485309"}
{"by":"schoen","time":"1450878289","timestamp":"2015-12-23 13:44:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t remember Let\u0026#x27;s Encrypt\u0026#x27;s exact size limitations but I think it should be possible for them to get that cert, obviously without any additional charge per SAN. :-)","parent":"10783041","id":"10783195"}
{"by":"tjstankus","time":"1249228737","timestamp":"2009-08-02 15:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been considering an iPhone-native app for a web app I'm creating. But honestly, I've never been enamored with the App Store. Submit for approval? Gimme a break. Instead, I plan on developing a targeted UI for Safari on the iPhone. If that's not sufficient, I may begrudgingly go with a native iPhone app.","parent":"737511","id":"737581"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1451820160","timestamp":"2016-01-03 11:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would guess that to the guy who did the copy protection it \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c/i\u003e his master work in decryption routines, funded by the sad necessity of putting a game written by some talentless hacks into it as the ultimate payload.","parent":"10830113","id":"10830265"}
{"by":"hellowrld2","time":"1527269101","timestamp":"2018-05-25 17:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you please go away with your whataboutism?","parent":"17155652","dead":true,"id":"17155936"}
{"by":"EthanHeilman","time":"1380624575","timestamp":"2013-10-01 10:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We still have free-speech zones in America. So free-speech in those areas also as the police say it is ok and you are willing to be locked in a cage.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Free_speech_zone\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6475251","id":"6475286"}
{"by":"run4yourlives","time":"1365458145","timestamp":"2013-04-08 21:55:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the rational, but it is antiquated.\u003cp\u003eIsolationism is a fool's game, even for countries like the United States, let alone tiny Great Britain.\u003cp\u003eI doubt very highly that the UK could even physically grow the food it requires, let alone maintain all other industries a modern country needs to not only function, but expand.","parent":"5514658","id":"5514900"}
{"by":"whatever_dude","time":"1499546828","timestamp":"2017-07-08 20:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This. A \u0026quot;hack\u0026quot; is the same as a \u0026quot;gambiarra\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIn all honesty, my impression is that some admirers of the Brazilian Portuguese language frequently believe there are words and concepts that are exclusive to that language while in reality there\u0026#x27;s, more often than not, a very good translation in English or other languages.","parent":"14725599","id":"14727123"}
{"by":"bavcyc","time":"1256731852","timestamp":"2009-10-28 12:10:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"see:\n\u003ca href=\"http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/UrbanInst2.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/UrbanInst2.txt\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.urban.org/publications/411562.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.urban.org/publications/411562.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've not verified or looked into the issue beyond requesting the ucdavis document.","parent":"907437","id":"907613"}
{"by":"blincoln","time":"1503676436","timestamp":"2017-08-25 15:53:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like the naval vessels should be using passive radar detection as well, if they\u0026#x27;re not already. That wouldn\u0026#x27;t protect them from everything, but it should catch all of the big commercial vessels, right?","parent":"15098910","id":"15099369"}
{"by":"rayalez","time":"1455733130","timestamp":"2016-02-17 18:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, everyone! I am working on my startup, a platform for publishing webcomics.\u003cp\u003eI want it to become an awesome community where artists can post, read, discuss, and sell webcomics(and in the future - animation).\u003cp\u003eI am looking for some feedback - can you check it out and tell me what you think?","parent":"11119961","id":"11119963"}
{"by":"zimpenfish","time":"1394035914","timestamp":"2014-03-05 16:11:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, in that case, carry on with all good speed, stout yeoman!","parent":"7347751","id":"7347771"}
{"by":"smsm42","time":"1363982413","timestamp":"2013-03-22 20:00:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is that they did not intend it to be directed at her and probably were not regarding her as part of the conversation. Human perception is very selective, and you can literally look at things and not see them. There's nothing @-ist in this, it's just how the brain works. Should the guys be more aware when in public places? Yes. This can be handled by a gentle reminder, not by a public campaign. Of course, this does not produce a splashy effect of fighting @-isms and being on the forefront of the struggle for all good against all evil, but it is usually better for everyone involved. Which is the main point of it, and hopefully more people realizing it would be at least a little win in this huge heap of fail.","parent":"5423418","id":"5425271"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1441803772","timestamp":"2015-09-09 13:02:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was with you until the horrible example. Of course Anarchists are hypocrites. (They would be the first to go in a general breakdown of society.)","parent":"10191112","id":"10191131"}
{"by":"recoiledsnake","time":"1341258814","timestamp":"2012-07-02 19:53:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;They can't on ARM-based machines that have a Windows certification.\u003cp\u003eYou cannot install an alternative OS on an iPad either which comes with a locked bootloader. Why is this such a big deal on Windows RT tablets only?","parent":"4189721","id":"4190623"}
{"by":"mkj","time":"1524065530","timestamp":"2018-04-18 15:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where\u0026#x27;s that quote from about DWARF? Pay for a backtrace, pah!","parent":"16862173","id":"16868169"}
{"by":"blurpin","time":"1318944422","timestamp":"2011-10-18 13:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Press release (and TC) says 45+ million users. Forbes says 50 million. I think 50mm is more like it.","parent":"3124983","id":"3125054"}
{"by":"riffer","time":"1277614771","timestamp":"2010-06-27 04:59:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.marginalrevolution.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.marginalrevolution.com\u003c/a\u003e is your best bet\u003cp\u003eThrough posts it links to all of the other good econ blogs: Krugman, Mankiw, as well as good articles in FT, NYTimes, Economist, etc.\u003cp\u003eEconomic texts are notoriously boring, blogs are a good solution to that problem","parent":"1464694","id":"1464953"}
{"by":"premchai21","time":"1304859177","timestamp":"2011-05-08 12:52:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use single-quoted attributes on a regular basis when editing XML (and HTML, which I edit as XML) documents by hand, mainly because it conserves a noticeable amount of Shift keying on the US keyboard layout.  If necessary I mechanically translate them into double quotes ex post facto, but I don't bother if I can assume a style of parser that will handle the single quotes.","parent":"2525412","id":"2525792"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1341937298","timestamp":"2012-07-10 16:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the author's headline is justified within the article:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I'm coming from a Windows world, where installing Rails and all the tools is as easy as hitting up RailsInstaller.org, downloading an .exe file, and having my environment set up in a few minutes.\"\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"4224383","id":"4224565"}
{"by":"mistermann","time":"1531784095","timestamp":"2018-07-16 23:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; 49% could be the high-water mark; we don\u0026#x27;t know yet\u003cp\u003eAs could have been 25, 26, 32, 35, 37, etc\u003cp\u003eIf you were a betting man, would you bet 49% is a high water mark?","parent":"17545391","id":"17546084"}
{"by":"gnaritas","time":"1451591717","timestamp":"2015-12-31 19:55:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You started off your replies by implying progressives are communists with this little nugget\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Progressives think it\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x27;fair\u0026#x27; that everyone pays what they can afford.\u003cp\u003eWhich is not what progressives believe, and then you went full on communist with this little nugget\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Some people also thought \u0026quot;From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs\u0026quot; was fair.\u003cp\u003eAnd then you started pretending only you knew history.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t care what you position is, I\u0026#x27;m replying to what you say, not what you think; I can\u0026#x27;t read your mind, only what you write.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Do you know me? Yet you decide to attack me.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t have to know you to tell you you\u0026#x27;re behaving arrogantly, and I haven\u0026#x27;t attacked you, if you think I have, you don\u0026#x27;t know what attack means.  I\u0026#x27;ve criticized your bad behavior, nothing more.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m not a kid, I\u0026#x27;m 30\u003cp\u003eStill a kid to me bub.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Again, just 1 question: What do you think my opinion on taxes is?\u003cp\u003eI know what your position is, you stated it\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m all for progressive taxation, wealth and inheritance tax, all of it. But I\u0026#x27;m also not ignorant of history...\u003cp\u003eBut that\u0026#x27;s not what we\u0026#x27;re talking about anymore because you can\u0026#x27;t stop being arrogant and have derailed any conversation to the point that I no longer care what you think.  \u0026quot;But I\u0026#x27;m also not ignorant of history\u0026quot;, please, grow up, your superiority complex is disgusting.","parent":"10819221","id":"10819316"}
{"by":"tommynicholas","time":"1508294289","timestamp":"2017-10-18 02:38:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These kinds of transfers point out two things to me:\u003cp\u003e- (obvious) the ridiculousness of wealth accumulation. This is over-discussed so I won\u0026#x27;t further that discussion.\u003cp\u003e- The critical need for better philanthropy. Philanthropy is by and large ineffective. I belive this is because it either isn\u0026#x27;t taken seriously (pet projects) or generally has no feedback loop or accountability. The best philanthropic organizations by impact are probably research universities, organizations not designed to be philanthropic. That sucks!\u003cp\u003eI think for all the shit YC gets, this area may ultimately be where they make they make real social progress. YC Research is interesting, but organizations like Watsi and New Story are REALLY game-changing to me. They showed me a model that really works, and I not only give to them regularly but also other organizations I could find with a similarly direct impact (Brooklyn Bail Fund is my favorite).\u003cp\u003eI think scaling real, accountable impact is a task my generation (I\u0026#x27;m 29) is really, really up for. I think we can do it. There will be a lot of shitty, terrible attempts it but I don\u0026#x27;t think the attempts will stop and I expect it to yield results. I hope that\u0026#x27;s part of our legacy as a generation.","parent":"15496394","id":"15496483"}
{"by":"jasonkostempski","time":"1523199726","timestamp":"2018-04-08 15:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More locked down devices might actually inspire a new generation of hackers. iOS devices are right at the sweet spot where most users wont bother trying to circumvent the restrictions. But the various Amazon devices seem to lite a \u0026quot;fire\u0026quot; under even the slightest of tech literate asses.","parent":"16785270","id":"16786409"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1492286863","timestamp":"2017-04-15 20:07:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The lower the stakes, the more vicious the infighting.","parent":"14122445","id":"14122567"}
{"by":"kosma","time":"1389984247","timestamp":"2014-01-17 18:44:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s nothing dirty about shipping.\u003cp\u003e10x means shipping - and nothing else. It\u0026#x27;s just one trait - being able to attack small chunks of work and finish them before moving to the next one - and it doesn\u0026#x27;t say anything about the quality of one\u0026#x27;s work. Here\u0026#x27;s why: you can \u003ci\u003elearn to ship\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eBeing a \u0026quot;10x\u0026quot; is half of Joel\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;smart and get things done\u0026quot;. Don\u0026#x27;t ever forget about the other half.","parent":"7077011","id":"7077604"}
{"by":"tracker1","time":"1499300753","timestamp":"2017-07-06 00:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But why single out a given group?  Why not offer everyone an \u0026quot;intern buddy\u0026quot;?  Also, why change from opt-in to opt-out?","parent":"14706974","id":"14707290"}
{"by":"runesoerensen","time":"1526610094","timestamp":"2018-05-18 02:21:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; being limited to C5 to start\u003cp\u003eI3 and F1 instances also have NVMe SSD instance store volumes \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;AWSEC2\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;UserGuide\u0026#x2F;ssd-instance-store.html#nvme-ssd-volumes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;AWSEC2\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;UserGuide\u0026#x2F;ssd-inst...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s the full list of instances with instance storage: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;AWSEC2\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;UserGuide\u0026#x2F;InstanceStorage.html#instance-store-volumes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;AWSEC2\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;UserGuide\u0026#x2F;Instance...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17098042","id":"17098173"}
{"by":"dreamthtwasrome","time":"1496392955","timestamp":"2017-06-02 08:42:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scotland already closed its last coal-fired power plant and Europe will likely go 100% EV around 2040.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thinkprogress.org\u0026#x2F;after-115-years-scotland-is-coal-free-f1f6a5f4d190\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thinkprogress.org\u0026#x2F;after-115-years-scotland-is-coal-f...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.greentechmedia.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;read\u0026#x2F;what-country-will-become-the-first-to-ban-internal-combustion-cars\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.greentechmedia.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;read\u0026#x2F;what-country-wi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14467978","id":"14468439"}
{"by":"netpro2k","time":"1343622478","timestamp":"2012-07-30 04:27:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool, doing something like this has been on my list of Arduino projects for a long time.","parent":"4310897","id":"4310914"}
{"by":"CoryMathews","time":"1345729846","timestamp":"2012-08-23 13:50:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can you say you can drop support for IE8? Its still hugely popular (13+% of market). While I love opera (my daily browser but only 2% of market) I could see dropping support for Opera before IE8, until IE8 loses more market share.","parent":"4417478","id":"4422310"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1451158543","timestamp":"2015-12-26 19:35:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know about \u0026quot;techies\u0026quot;, but I\u0026#x27;ve certainly been a member of this community for many years, and I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure the guidelines of the site ask us not to post things like this here.","parent":"10794963","id":"10794978"}
{"by":"momop","time":"1332781832","timestamp":"2012-03-26 17:10:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"fuzzypickle: The most successful companies in the trading business are the one's who don't trade! For example, thestreet.com makes most money with their recommendation systems (doubt if they even make a penny with their own trades). So if you are thinking of aggregating things and providing a service, it is a good idea - but if you are thinking of using it to your own algorithmic trading, it may be an overkill. Remember the trading world has some of the smartest people (doing machine learning, statistics etc) and you are competing with them in the zero-sum-game.\u003cp\u003eAlso as full disclosure, I have setup a fully automated algorithmic trading (using IQFeed for realtime feed + IBAPI), but it wasn't HFT - but medium frequency intraday. I shut it down because it wasn't profitable. But if you are thinking algorithmic trading, you need to get into machine learning and statistics space (most of the info is just noise in this space). I have myself thought about the aggregation as a service, but never got around doing anything in that direction and would love to chat if interested.","parent":"3753297","id":"3757616"}
{"by":"time-domain0","time":"1545055961","timestamp":"2018-12-17 14:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to the chicken-littles, the Fed can\u0026#x27;t raise interest rates or supposedly the bond market will collapse and then supposedly the stock market will tank because corporations have over-extended themselves based on complacency about cheap money\u0026#x2F;QE making non-capital asset investments rather than capital investment business expansion. Cats will live with dogs, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man will eat your children.","parent":"18698901","dead":true,"id":"18698993"}
{"by":"alexpetralia","time":"1501420458","timestamp":"2017-07-30 13:14:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still highly recommend DBeaver for working with Postgres.\u003cp\u003eMy own post on the topic: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alexpetralia.com\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;6\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;you-should-be-using-dbeaver\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;alexpetralia.com\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;6\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;you-should-be-using-d...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14884183","id":"14885805"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1393284894","timestamp":"2014-02-24 23:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have wondered if you could build a building with plugable apartment modules that could be moved to other building when you wanted to move.  Shipping crate apartments with standard utility hookups.","parent":"7294120","id":"7294133"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1515579876","timestamp":"2018-01-10 10:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Nobody is propping up anything, let them do business.\u003cp\u003eDid you read TFA? Browser vendors that allow invasive tracking are propping up this model.","parent":"16109406","id":"16113879"}
{"by":"bena","time":"1227653680","timestamp":"2008-11-25 22:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the second thing I've read from this site that's all \"Blah blah blah. I'm so clever. Blah blah blah.\" Except it takes him a lot longer than three sentences to convey this. Am I the only one who finds this guy to be a pompous faux-intellectual who confuses length with depth.","parent":"376820","id":"376963"}
{"by":"kibwen","time":"1524881908","timestamp":"2018-04-28 02:18:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the elaboration. Is there also a layman\u0026#x27;s explanation for the what makes 13.5nm lasers harder to etch with than 193nm lasers?","parent":"16945696","id":"16945763"}
{"by":"forgetsusername","time":"1458305292","timestamp":"2016-03-18 12:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s why these reports always come from think tanks, without peer review, and half-assed analyses, but dressed in the clothing of rigorous, critical scholarship.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if academic scholarship is without the same problems....","parent":"11310361","id":"11311384"}
{"by":"claydavisss","time":"1538919069","timestamp":"2018-10-07 13:31:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like what? TARP, for example, came out of the tail end of the Bush administration (literally and figuratively)","parent":"18160386","id":"18160440"}
{"by":"goblin89","time":"1326538843","timestamp":"2012-01-14 11:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point was that the source code doesn't make the game better or worse.\u003cp\u003eA nightmare of hacks is fine as long as the product is great.\u003cp\u003eIMO writing such code is sometimes even better, especially for a solo developer. If you aim to write beautiful code, it might eventually outweigh everything else, while giving a false impression that you're doing the right thing. Your goal is the product, not code. I'd argue that you can't focus on both (it's called ‘focus’ for a reason).","parent":"3463919","id":"3464012"}
{"by":"snippyhollow","time":"1341498227","timestamp":"2012-07-05 14:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, the design was not good at all. Indeed, they now added a compulsory formation in the pilots curriculum for this kind of situation (degraded control mode). However, the pilots took a very big risk when they said \"On ne va pas se laisser emmerder par des cunimbs.\" (We won't be pissed off by cumulonimbi!) and got straight into the storm while others were all rerouting around. Ego kills.","parent":"4203082","id":"4203125"}
{"by":"myowncrapulence","time":"1486078184","timestamp":"2017-02-02 23:29:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;s actively demonstrated he doesn\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e help","parent":"13555873","id":"13556042"}
{"by":"makomk","time":"1344035469","timestamp":"2012-08-03 23:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Male birds also wear and display decorative plumage in order to attract mates, whereas female birds tend to be more drap. Obviously it's natural for men to look and dress prettily in order to demonstrate their attractiveness to women, who as the ones being wooed don't need to put in the same kind of effort.\u003cp\u003eIt's funny how selective our analogies to nature are sometimes.","parent":"4335329","id":"4336679"}
{"by":"colechristensen","time":"1528601110","timestamp":"2018-06-10 03:25:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of things happened that made the west wealthy in comparison with the rest of the world. Plague also didn\u0026#x27;t just happen once, it was a continuous thing with a few large events.\u003cp\u003eThe reduction in population of some of those epidemics made fairly large improvements in the survivors\u0026#x27; lives and can be seen as the stimulus in a lot of the progression of Europe.\u003cp\u003eProgress that led to wealth in the west wan\u0026#x27;t just the industrial revolution(s), it started long before and was the effect of several technological and social developments.","parent":"17276231","id":"17276282"}
{"by":"wheels","time":"1216737233","timestamp":"2008-07-22 14:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a lithograph, not a sketch as the title would suggest.  All of those were actually made by adding material back to the carving.\u003cp\u003eHere's a better article on the process:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n3_v81/ai_13609943/print\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n3_v81/ai_136...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"253216","id":"253270"}
{"by":"luca_ing","time":"1472215475","timestamp":"2016-08-26 12:44:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some climber dude (I forget who) said, paraphrased:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Only chalkless barefoot free soloing[1] is proper free climbing[2], all the rest is just disguised aid climbing [3]\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;ve ever gone climbing, and compared your experience wearing random shoes (or no shoes) with wearing proper climbing shoes, I think you\u0026#x27;ll agree that the difference is tremendous. If you consider oxygen an unfair advantage, you will need to include many other tools as well.\u003cp\u003eAlso, in alpinism, the stakes are so high that I don\u0026#x27;t fault anyone for using the tools necessary to make sure they make it safely back down - for their sake, and for their would-be rescuers\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eCompetition sports climbing is another matter, but its connection to alpinism is as tenuous (or more so) as that of biathlon to hunting in the scandinavian winter.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Free_solo_climbing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Free_solo_climbing\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Free_climbing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Free_climbing\u003c/a\u003e\n[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Aid_climbing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Aid_climbing\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12362179","id":"12365772"}
{"by":"jgg","time":"1276964848","timestamp":"2010-06-19 16:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This book might be of interest to you: \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-Principles/dp/026214087X\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-Pr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1444804","id":"1444869"}
{"by":"ragatskynet","time":"1363254983","timestamp":"2013-03-14 09:56:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use an LG GT540. It is pretty slow and buggy with the ram i am using, though... no. I hate it. Really.","parent":"5363997","id":"5374014"}
{"by":"unreal37","time":"1345053858","timestamp":"2012-08-15 18:04:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there problems that actually occur AT the defcon conference? Sounds like most of the anecdotes are from parties, where alcohol is a factor. Is defcon a conference or a party?","parent":"4386813","id":"4387251"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1427694425","timestamp":"2015-03-30 05:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, they\u0026#x27;ve created a set of minimal-information web pages with big type and useless clip art, using Wordpress. That\u0026#x27;s so modern.\u003cp\u003eMore usefully, they\u0026#x27;re creating a large number of minor software components and putting them on a Git server.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.govcode.org\u0026#x2F;repos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.govcode.org\u0026#x2F;repos\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9286906","id":"9287850"}
{"by":"bootload","time":"1492137691","timestamp":"2017-04-14 02:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Many \u0026quot;recreational\u0026quot; athletes push themselves harder than olympic competitors. Their bottleneck is talent and they attempt to overcome this with drive and determination\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would re-label talent as \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;genetics\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e. [0] There is a genetic profile of people who have the advantages of speed and endurance over mere mortals. [1]  Then there is the rest of us. With respect to \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;drive and determination\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e I agree. Taking into account age (youth is another measure of fitness), no amount of training, preparation, conditioning or pharmaceuticals make up for this genetic deficit.\u003cp\u003eReference\u003cp\u003e[0] For example the relationship between ACTN3 and sprinting: \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Top sprinters may have key gene\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e (2003) \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;2\u0026#x2F;hi\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;3183119.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;2\u0026#x2F;hi\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;3183119.stm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Physical Performance Predictors of Success in Special Forces Assessment\nand Selection\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dtic.mil\u0026#x2F;dtic\u0026#x2F;tr\u0026#x2F;fulltext\u0026#x2F;u2\u0026#x2F;a245729.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dtic.mil\u0026#x2F;dtic\u0026#x2F;tr\u0026#x2F;fulltext\u0026#x2F;u2\u0026#x2F;a245729.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14112038","id":"14112377"}
{"by":"Tossrock","time":"1336428530","timestamp":"2012-05-07 22:08:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am reminded of a comment tree I participated in back on Reddit several years ago [1]. I guess at a certain size all organizations have to have a meta discussion about themselves.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9j8vh/i_was_at_work_the_other_night_when_i_ran_across/c0czm9m\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9j8vh/i_was_at_work_the...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3940742","id":"3941187"}
{"by":"stox","time":"1402640667","timestamp":"2014-06-13 06:24:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the reasons U-verse is a failure is that AT\u0026amp;T can\u0026#x27;t even figure out how to connect customers in neighborhoods it has actually wired. I have been trying to get U-verse for years, even though linemen have called the business office to confirm I can be wired. They cant figure it out. My best guess is that the maps of the physical plant are a complete mess and, at least in older neighborhoods, they can\u0026#x27;t figure out what is wired to what.\u003cp\u003eHelp me Google, you\u0026#x27;re my only hope!","parent":"7886990","id":"7887633"}
{"by":"v_lisivka","time":"1516196554","timestamp":"2018-01-17 13:42:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GPU can perform more operations than CPU, but GPU is slower than CPU, not faster.","parent":"16167486","id":"16167776"}
{"by":"jonknee","time":"1214584127","timestamp":"2008-06-27 16:28:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except the part about (possibly artificially) not having enough supply for an absurd amount of time. You can only sell software to people with the hardware, it makes sense to get the hardware out there.","parent":"229866","id":"229877"}
{"by":"khafra","time":"1371649222","timestamp":"2013-06-19 13:40:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt the causation runs the way you think it does; and an offer you can only get by constantly imposing long hours on yourself may not be an offer you want.","parent":"5905409","id":"5905442"}
{"by":"balajis","time":"1397209055","timestamp":"2014-04-11 09:37:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm. In all fairness, the full quote is:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  A BS\u0026#x2F;MS\u0026#x2F;PhD in Computer Science or the equivalent is nice \n  to have, but the most important requirement is significant \n  independent programming experience as demonstrated by your \n  GitHub account, personal projects, academic publications, \n  or startup success. Your accomplishments are much more \n  important than your paper credentials.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"7571780","id":"7571979"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1378190264","timestamp":"2013-09-03 06:37:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does your company\u0026#x27;s 401k have matching, or is it just there for you to invest your own money? I worked at a place much like the one you describe and they did zero 401k match, just the ESOP, which is much as you describe with the outside auditors but still super sketchy in my opinion. If you don\u0026#x27;t do a 401k match but you do provide ESOP, then the only retirement benefit you actually provide is ESOP, which is frankly really shitty since it encourages your employees to make bad decisions. And outside auditor or not, a private company with no investors means the stock\u0026#x27;s value is, if anything, even more fictitious than a startup\u0026#x27;s valuation.","parent":"6319027","id":"6319374"}
{"by":"willchang","time":"1217035800","timestamp":"2008-07-26 01:30:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about: Oh that's just conspiracy talk?\u003cp\u003eIn any case, some of these questions are tedious and uninteresting, but some are not, and calling them dumb seems to be just a way of persuading others not to discuss them.\u003cp\u003eFor example, I think active population control \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e one of those unaskable questions that should be discussed more.  Even the crude, corruption-prone way in which the one-child policy was implemented in China seemed to have helped the nation modernize.  Here in America, having children out of wedlock is linked to poverty, and our foster care system is a wreck, but we somehow don't care to entertain even the search for humane and effective policies along the lines of population control.  No doubt this is because history is filled with cruel and paternalistic implementations, but this would seem to be exactly the baffle in the free flow of ideas.","parent":"256011","id":"257287"}
{"by":"hkr","time":"1292717176","timestamp":"2010-12-19 00:06:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; hiding in plain sight.\u003cp\u003eAh! I like that expression!","parent":"2020582","id":"2020650"}
{"by":"therealmarv","time":"1482303748","timestamp":"2016-12-21 07:02:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only wished they did not adopted Finder.","parent":"13223856","id":"13227329"}
{"by":"bonsaitree","time":"1255539720","timestamp":"2009-10-14 17:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I've said before, and will repeat one final time, I DO NOT agree with these firm's practices, but I will defend their right to apply whatever bidding/pitch process they'd like, under the law, within their respective organizations.\u003cp\u003eAside from the usual litany of trade-secret/defamation issues (largely paper tigers here) and clearly vested bias by the publisher, the release itself isn't the issue.\u003cp\u003eWhat IS wrong is the instant garnering of credibility of this single-sourced material without any fact-checking of these accounts nor dialog with/about the respective parties.  Whistle-blowing is fine IF released through 3rd parties who apply independent due diligence.\u003cp\u003eTo use an analogy, it's as if the coach of a college football team calls a press conference to expose the corrupt high school recruiting practices of a rival university.\u003cp\u003eIf true, and the coach genuinely places the best interests of those high school students foremost, he insures its release through ESPN, the college athletics association, or any 3rd party perceived to be reasonably neutral.\u003cp\u003eIf, on the other hand, he personally brings forth these allegations in his own forum, it only serves to degrade their credibility, do a disservice to those whom ostensibly he is attempting to serve, and cast a great deal of umbrage on his true motivations.\u003cp\u003eOne final addendum, if that $18k story is true, then it sure looks like an open and shut case for a breach of contract suit, but more likely, an easy opportunity to reach a pre-trial settlement for the majority of the proceeds.\u003cp\u003eIf the founders blindly paid these fees w/o any sort of written agreements of performance on the part of the Angel firm, nor applied any inverse due-diligence to their potential investors, then I seriously question if they have necessary modicum of business acumen to run a company.","parent":"880263","id":"881666"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1520020429","timestamp":"2018-03-02 19:53:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIn a perfect market, the market value of the company will go down when company buys back stock\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsider a company worth $100 with ten shares of stock with $10 of cash on their balance sheet. Each share is worth $10. They company uses the $10 to buy back one share of stock. The company is now worth $90 and has 9 shares outstanding. Each share is still worth $10.","parent":"16504716","id":"16505065"}
{"by":"vostrocity","time":"1352963430","timestamp":"2012-11-15 07:10:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose my experience was similar, but what really lost me was that this \"revolutionary\" game that was supposed to be so different from the standard fare was running on Flash taking up all my CPU cycles. Even back in 09, I was sick of it (but I was sick of all Flash in general). And of course, that's one reason they cited for their closing, and possibly a large reason.","parent":"4787262","id":"4787553"}
{"by":"acchow","time":"1364328520","timestamp":"2013-03-26 20:08:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It's not just finance. Craigslist? Airbnb? Facebook? Apple? Glue. Put it this way: if you walked out the door with their source code tomorrow, how much of their value could you replicate?\u003cp\u003eYou are conflating the \"thought vs. glue\" ratio with the \"past thought vs. currently generating thought\" ratio.","parent":"5445651","id":"5445747"}
{"by":"thwarted","time":"1271627216","timestamp":"2010-04-18 21:46:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You think Apple has a whack at bringing technology into the classroom/education because the interaction is primal?  Never mind that Apple has traditionally had a major share of the education market, I don't think specific technology or UX/UI is the major hindrance to continued/increased use of computers in the classroom, it has more to do with finances, politics, perception of what it means to be \"computer-literate\", the lack of applications that are truly educational (rather than mostly rote memorization and bookkeeping (the kind that exist now that we agree that we wouldn't use in an academic setting)).","parent":"1274634","id":"1275563"}
{"by":"vilmosi","time":"1520709482","timestamp":"2018-03-10 19:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Britain chose not to exercise this right in the first place, so it seems fallacious to suggest that the government would exercise further restrictions if it could.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not fallacious and the UK did do that [0] for 7 years after they realised that the A8 migration estimates were incredibly wrong.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; In the UK, despite all of this immigration we have rather low rates of unemployment, marginally lower than before the 2004 expansion of the EU\u003cp\u003eFirst of all, no one here said immigration is causing unemployment, just wage stagnation for certain industries.\u003cp\u003eSecond of all, it\u0026#x27;s not \u0026quot;counterintuitive\u0026quot;, immigrants tend to move to areas with low unemployment so I would expect the above to be the case anyway. Most immigrants wouldn\u0026#x27;t come if there were no jobs.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; This soon hits the point in the modern globalised world that the industry just becomes uncompetetive and closes down, outsources, invests in labour reducing machinery, or moves\u003cp\u003eBut that\u0026#x27;s not what\u0026#x27;s happening here, as you said, the jobs are still here (low unemployment). They\u0026#x27;re not automated or outsourced, they\u0026#x27;re done manually for minimum wage (or lower) by hard working immigrants from poorer countries.\u003cp\u003eI have to say, you kind of changed the topic. We were discussing about the existence of limitations for low skilled workforce, not whether or not Brexit was a good idea.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world-europe-25565302\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world-europe-25565302\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16559301","id":"16559738"}
{"by":"adekok","time":"1501334480","timestamp":"2017-07-29 13:21:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was 10, I found a rotary bicycle lock + connected chain, locked alone to a post in a park.  Having read up on locks even then (god knows how), I tried the method of \u0026quot;pull on it and spin the dials\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAbout 30 seconds later, it was unlocked.\u003cp\u003eI used that lock for about 10 years, until I went to University, where the thieves were a bit smarter.","parent":"14880490","id":"14881091"}
{"by":"danbmil99","time":"1370306148","timestamp":"2013-06-04 00:35:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, then it can't be real AI.","parent":"5814846","id":"5816998"}
{"by":"paulddraper","time":"1536431414","timestamp":"2018-09-08 18:30:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that Google randomized the iteration order of the versions of Java and Python that they use too.","parent":"17935522","id":"17942085"}
{"by":"orangecat","time":"1295558197","timestamp":"2011-01-20 21:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I misread that as April 1st initially and discounted it. Wow indeed. My immediate reaction as a Google user is positive; my possibly uninformed sense is that Eric has a greater capacity for evil than Larry or Sergei.","parent":"2125245","id":"2125300"}
{"by":"mikhailfranco","time":"1191337185","timestamp":"2007-10-02 14:59:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone for  a philosophy start-up !","parent":"58025","id":"62039"}
{"by":"codegeek","time":"1360084194","timestamp":"2013-02-05 17:09:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. Some great resources.","parent":"5168494","id":"5171759"}
{"by":"masonic","time":"1547108417","timestamp":"2019-01-10 08:20:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has water on one side, hills on two sides, and a greenbelt moratorium on the fourth.\u003cp\u003eAnd height limits down the middle for SJC.","parent":"18869641","id":"18872348"}
{"by":"kylehotchkiss","time":"1492957039","timestamp":"2017-04-23 14:17:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps Apple might not want used goods flowing to India (and China?) any longer as they want to begin production there and better control prices (and profits) in the market?\u003cp\u003eEach iteration of their phones and laptops tends to last a little longer as even a year or two old iPhone that has been kept in a nice case could be an effectively new product for the next person after a battery upgrade.","parent":"14175771","id":"14178238"}
{"by":"parimm","time":"1347800103","timestamp":"2012-09-16 12:55:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has been happening for at least a few months.","parent":"4526603","id":"4529068"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1392744907","timestamp":"2014-02-18 17:35:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It turns out certain subsets of things you need to do with Dates are pretty easy. In my case all I needed was to convert a date format to another. All I wanted was something like\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   Date thing = new Date(someStringWithaDate,\u0026quot;MMM dd, yyyy\u0026quot;);\n   String newDateThing = thing.convertDateFormat(\u0026quot;yyyy-mm-dd\u0026quot;);\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nand be done with it. Or at worst\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   Date thing = new Date(someStringWithaDate,\u0026quot;MMM dd, yyyy\u0026quot;);\n   Date newDateThing = thing.convertDateFormat(\u0026quot;yyyy-mm-dd\u0026quot;);\n   String someStringWithaDateButFormattedLikeIWant = newDateThing.toString();\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nBut the overwrought standard library just completely got in the way and I don\u0026#x27;t even remember how many lines of code and objects I ended up with just to do this before I said \u0026quot;fuck it\u0026quot; and did the equivalent of (with a some utilities to convert abreviated dates to numbers.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   String.replaceAll(\u0026quot;([A-Z]{3}) (\\d{2}), (\\d{4})\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;$3-$2-$1\u0026quot;);\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nOf course now I\u0026#x27;m not getting whatever date validation the Date class might offer (if it does), and I ended up using a 50 cent solution when I really needed a $1.50 solution, but the standard library only offered an overpriced $20 way that I didn\u0026#x27;t need.\u003cp\u003eThe end result is that we\u0026#x27;re all poorer for it.","parent":"7259415","id":"7259532"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1373181084","timestamp":"2013-07-07 07:11:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  | The necessity to offset insanely low negotiated\n  | and subsidized Medicare\u0026#x2F;Medicaid rates\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nMy understanding is that insurance companies often get rates lower than Medicare. It goes something like this:\u003cp\u003e1) Government mandates the rates for procedure X to make sure that the government is getting the \u0026#x27;best\u0026#x27; deal.\u003cp\u003e2) Hospitals charge insurance companies using these rates (they aren\u0026#x27;t allowed to be lower, or it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be the \u0026#x27;best\u0026#x27; deal).\u003cp\u003e3) Insurance companies trim the difference between the Medicare rate and the \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e rate from the bill with newspeak like, \u0026quot;charge beyond negotiated rates,\u0026quot; or, \u0026quot;over-charge of contractual limits.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt basically amounts to the hospital charging the \u0026#x27;correct\u0026#x27; rate, the insurance company refusing to pay that rate, and the hospital not pushing it any further since this is all laid out in their formal agreements.\u003cp\u003eSo, I\u0026#x27;m not sure if Medicare can be said to have \u0026#x27;insanely low\u0026#x27; rates, if the insurance companies end up with even lower rates. (I\u0026#x27;d love for someone to correct me if my understanding is wrong, though)","parent":"6001312","id":"6001348"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1284851181","timestamp":"2010-09-18 23:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps it's that barriers to entry on the net are so high. I think you could usefully sell a $30 computer (simple to program, cheap to make, flexible enough to be useful) in places like Africa etc to people who could not afford to have one otherwise but even a basic web browsing experience needs a lot of CPU cycles nowadays. Of course there are text-based browsers, but you might as well go with the $100 price point like OLPC and just look for subsidies. I have heard nothing about how programmable those are, for young hackers in poor countries, I hope there's access to python, js, or similar.\u003cp\u003eCloser to home, I would have quite liked to use the Playstation 3 as a computer, to the point that I learned quite a lot about the Cell chip inside it and started thinking about Linux distros again. But Sony made it non-expandable (boo), with no access to the GPU (WTF), were late with driver support (argh) and finally ditched the OS loader option entirely. They briefly hinted at giving away their 3d modeling engine but changed their minds about that too.\u003cp\u003eNow, I know they recoup the hardware development costs from royalties on the games and have an investment to protect, but with a little more patience, support, and faith in their own engineering instincts they would have been rewarded with PS3s popping up up at every science fair. People are nostalgic about their 80s computers out of all proportion to their quality because they were easy to do things with if you wanted.\u003cp\u003eI do think there's still room for lightweight and hackable products. One which missed the mark by going down the x86 route and overloading price and spec was the eee keyboard PC (\u003ca href=\"http://www.tomshardware.com/news/eee-eee-keyboard-eee-pc-wireless-hdmi-atom,10416.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.tomshardware.com/news/eee-eee-keyboard-eee-pc-wir...\u003c/a\u003e). Imagine if it had been $99-200 and run android or so!","parent":"1704973","id":"1705161"}
{"by":"cfadvan","time":"1529008323","timestamp":"2018-06-14 20:32:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is asking the wrong question. We don’t know how to create a robust artificial biosphere, we don’t know how to shield such a large ship from radiation efficiently, we don’t know how to maintain or create the human microbiome, because we’re nowhere near understanding it. We’re so far from being able to survive off of Earth that we don’t even know all of the challenges that exist.\u003cp\u003eEven if we had the propulsion, which we don’t, we’d still be screwed.","parent":"17314649","id":"17315105"}
{"by":"maxklein","time":"1220439631","timestamp":"2008-09-03 11:00:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These guys are right - chrome is an applications platform. You know what's missing though? The start button with all your applications.","parent":"293680","id":"293708"}
{"by":"arkitaip","time":"1345203254","timestamp":"2012-08-17 11:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It actually comes of as teen angsty and narrow minded. The type of nonsense ignorant people like to spew because they can't grasp that we can focus our collective effort on many things at the same time, that we can spend money on our own interests and still be a positive force in the world.","parent":"4395829","id":"4395858"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1519755271","timestamp":"2018-02-27 18:14:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s just assume that \u0026quot;disincentivize thinking\u0026quot; is a euphemism for \u0026quot;prosecute thoughcrime\u0026quot; and put it to the test.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eStop right there. I never meant that all \u003ci\u003edisincentivize suck-it-up thinking\u003c/i\u003e was \u003ci\u003eprosecute thoughcrime\u003c/i\u003e, so your example doesn\u0026#x27;t disprove anything here. It\u0026#x27;s a useful example, however. But a lot of \u0026quot;disincentivize suck-it-up thinking\u0026quot; is actually just the suppression of dissent, because someone in power thinks it is \u0026quot;wrongthink.\u0026quot; You can even view the anecdote above as a \u0026quot;discussion,\u0026quot; where improved build code is part of the interchange.","parent":"16473624","id":"16476220"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1414077647","timestamp":"2014-10-23 15:20:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the documents they hold, are not related to the gospel? Do not illuminate it at all? Are wholly unrelated to that goal?  Then why on earth did they collect them.\u003cp\u003eAd Hominem is not supposed to be a good argument tactic. I\u0026#x27;ll just say that, and not cast aspersions on your state of intelligence because that would be wrong.","parent":"8498570","id":"8498583"}
{"by":"zeemonkee3","time":"1460242197","timestamp":"2016-04-09 22:49:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s good to poke fun at childishness and pretentiousness in the startup world (and there is plenty of it without the need to embellish), but yeah, this is wearing a bit thin.","parent":"11463621","id":"11463791"}
{"by":"nazgulnarsil","time":"1221617883","timestamp":"2008-09-17 02:18:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"do the 40% of americans who don't pay taxes deserve free entitlement programs?","parent":"306521","id":"306581"}
{"by":"omikun","time":"1502295666","timestamp":"2017-08-09 16:21:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No one told \u003ci\u003eme\u003c/i\u003e. I\u0026#x27;m still trying to figure it out. But mainstream gender equality says there \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be a roughly equal split while the memo says the split \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be something else and implied it \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be more men than women by citing reasons for why there currently \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e more men than women.\u003cp\u003eOh, am I not allowed to form an opinion on what \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be? Please correct me if I am wrong but perhaps your opinion is no one \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e have an opinion on what \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be and let things be status quo? Keep in mind the whole discussion is around what \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be the goal of diversity measures.","parent":"14970131","id":"14970828"}
{"by":"kelukelugames","time":"1523199215","timestamp":"2018-04-08 14:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I took classes at the local juco as a high school students. I met three types of people. The first were kids like me who all ended up at good schools. The second were older, actually junior college students. They were smart and worked hard. They ended up at decent schools too. The last were people didn\u0026#x27;t do well. That was either due to motivation or other factors.\u003cp\u003eThe middle group was the smallest by size.","parent":"16785597","id":"16786340"}
{"by":"zhte415","time":"1441728015","timestamp":"2015-09-08 16:00:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No.\u003cp\u003eHFT, when it is done at milliseconds of latency between exchanges to trick an order into executing at a \u0026#x27;fair price\u0026#x27; because the order was sent to one exchange and HFT \u0026#x27;arbitragers\u0026#x27;, decide to manipulate the price at other exchanges due to latency for the same stock buy\u0026#x2F;sell.\u003cp\u003eIt is arbitrage free, riskkless arbitrage that adds no value to a market, as it creates none but destroys it.  Arbitrage adds value to a market by offering something cheaper; HFT removes the cheaper for the more expensive.","parent":"10185122","id":"10186470"}
{"by":"TheCoelacanth","time":"1525704326","timestamp":"2018-05-07 14:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The 7% rate quoted is after inflation. The actual historical rate of return was more like 11% over that time period if you ignore inflation.","parent":"17010780","id":"17013113"}
{"by":"raarts","time":"1512833076","timestamp":"2017-12-09 15:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are using strong language and being downvoted, but there is plenty of research available on ketosis. Personally I think you are partly right too. Like the tobacco industry, which knew all to well about the damaging effects, but tried to cover it up, the food industry might well be doing something similar on sugar\u0026#x2F;carbs. (Anyone knows more examples?)","parent":"15875828","id":"15886158"}
{"by":"imh","time":"1505093326","timestamp":"2017-09-11 01:28:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not necessarily. If the costs drop as a result of increased efficiency and that\u0026#x27;s what leads to more sales, it would be unfair to say that not hiring extra workers is like lost jobs.","parent":"15215185","id":"15215244"}
{"by":"mattquiros","time":"1371752207","timestamp":"2013-06-20 18:16:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think people are missing the point here if we\u0026#x27;re judging Instagram on the grounds of innovation alone. What\u0026#x27;s exciting about this is that Vine seems to be the only startup that got the formula of \u0026quot;Instagram for video\u0026quot; right, and now we\u0026#x27;re seeing them being surprise-attacked by a relatively unexpected competitor that has a far bigger user base and launches on Android and iOS at the same time. I don\u0026#x27;t even think there are that many people interested in crafting short video clips using these apps so I\u0026#x27;m personally thrilled how Vine\u0026#x27;s going to thrive now that the ball\u0026#x27;s in their court. There\u0026#x27;s a lot to be learned from this developing story if you\u0026#x27;re an entrepreneur.","parent":"5913270","id":"5913798"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1464600311","timestamp":"2016-05-30 09:25:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Section 3.4:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    For Internet Explorer, it attempts to create several\n    instances of ActiveXObject to get the versions of\n    Flash, Shockwave, Java, RealPlayer, Windows Media\n    Player, and Microsoft Office (classified as either\n    2003, 2007, or 2010).\n\n    For non-Internet Explorer browsers, it attempts to get\n    a list of enabled plugins from navigator.mimeTypes.\n\n    For all browsers, it captures the user agent, whether\n    cookies are enabled, the OS, the size of the browser\n    window, and the timezone.  It classifies browsers into\n    different versions, denoted by letters, based on the\n    existence and behavior of certain JavaScript methods.\n\n    The script attempts to exploit an information leak in\n    older versions of Tor Browser.  We explore the\n    technique used in Section 3.5.\n\n    For Windows browsers (except Opera, and versions of\n    Internet Explorer before IE9), it sends a series of\n    XMLHttpRequests to 127.0.0.1, which we believe are\n    designed to deduce if the computer is running any one\n    of several specific antivirus programs.  The code for\n    this appears to be borrowed from the JS-Recon port\n    scanning tool.21  The creator of JS-Recon presented the\n    tool at BlackHat Abu Dhabi in 2010.22  We explore such  \n    techniques in more detail in Section 3.6.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"11800351","id":"11800437"}
{"by":"massysett","time":"1488670666","timestamp":"2017-03-04 23:37:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exact same in DC, where many cars have both Uber and Lyft signs in the window.","parent":"13793494","id":"13793541"}
{"by":"kinleyd","time":"1332483827","timestamp":"2012-03-23 06:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are torrents for NeXTstep 3.3 as well. I'm downloading it right now, let's see how they work. :)\u003cp\u003eAny more suggestions for VMs of other classic systems worth pursuing (and available for download)?","parent":"3743305","id":"3743946"}
{"by":"Cixelyn","time":"1475884726","timestamp":"2016-10-07 23:58:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If anyone is interested in learning more specifically about the Battlecode competition, I wrote a blog post giving a brief overview of the competition a few years ago: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cory.li\u0026#x2F;battlecode-intro\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cory.li\u0026#x2F;battlecode-intro\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso, we open sourced our winning 2012 bot on bitbucket here if you want to see the type of code that goes into it: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bitbucket.org\u0026#x2F;Cixelyn\u0026#x2F;bcode2012-bot\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bitbucket.org\u0026#x2F;Cixelyn\u0026#x2F;bcode2012-bot\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12660056","id":"12664831"}
{"by":"rektide","time":"1372652166","timestamp":"2013-07-01 04:16:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your focus on the benefit of experience is almost exclusively technical in concern- I think that is the not the primary classifier or motivator.\u003cp\u003eThe technically adventurous are usually right, usually have what most could find ways to agree is technically a better plan, or has elements of it (elements that could stand to improve the technical nature of the product).\u003cp\u003eBut technical superiority rarely has returns. And usually, for most companies, the returns aren\u0026#x27;t good, not good at all, and those tiny returns are not transferred to the pocketbooks of the workforce that can either hammer out the same old shift as everyone else, or who can go adventuring on genuinely good stuff that genuinely will operate far better. Good stuff, but which will ask much more of the workforce.\u003cp\u003eThe thing with experienced people is, they\u0026#x27;re done making new experiences. And the thing with businesses is, they don\u0026#x27;t know how or haven\u0026#x27;t found grounds to promote exploration of advantageous technical work. This is an industry of get it done, make it work, and finesse and excellence are mired to fuck like every other industry everywhere and not a one of us has any idea how to unobstruct good work, nor do we have a workforce responsive to the call to action even when the possibility is striking them in the face.\u003cp\u003eThere are definitely cases where the green-horns get uppity, absolutely a fact diving in beyond what they can back up in a discussion or technical proving. But classist discontent from those wanting to shake things up, finding a system of work where even those with marginal enthusiasm can participate in a high stakes game without being compelled to shit up the rest of their lives- that\u0026#x27;s far closer to the root, and it\u0026#x27;s disgraceful to me that we\u0026#x27;d just pick on the enthused widely-read young ones as unexperienced and needing to be curbed, when usually in the work place there\u0026#x27;s not even a forum for that curbing to happen- the greenhorns are simply denigrated. Often by people who lack exposure to begin to state why. I\u0026#x27;d caution that cautioning others that young-guns are dangerous and incompetent further reinforces excuses for this all too apparent denigration.\u003cp\u003eThank you my employers all, who have been most kind in cooperating with me in sounding out a middle path between High Tech good ideas and practical and practiced. I think we\u0026#x27;ve done great, and appreciate that we could dialog and discuss the paths without it coming down to the negative experience of the original post or slander of my ranks.","parent":"5968473","id":"5968607"}
{"by":"patja","time":"1463273670","timestamp":"2016-05-15 00:54:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My daughter is a high school senior.  She says her class is the last one that still uses Facebook at all, and even that is mostly to interact with family not friends.  On the other hand, they are all active on Instagram so it isn\u0026#x27;t like they have gone far.","parent":"11698728","id":"11698792"}
{"by":"IshKebab","time":"1507631147","timestamp":"2017-10-10 10:25:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PDFium is a PDF renderer, i.e. it takes a PDF and turns it into an image. That\u0026#x27;s not what this does.","parent":"15413575","id":"15440688"}
{"by":"jacobr1","time":"1491790490","timestamp":"2017-04-10 02:14:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the 2004-2007 timeframe, the company I worked for hired software engineers via a staffing company for three-month contracts. We interviewed the candidates with the intention of making a full-time hire. As the contract term approached, the management team did a 360 review, the decided to offer a full-time position or just not-renew the contract. This had some downsides, but overall I found it to be better that alternate approaches I\u0026#x27;ve tried before or since. It stopped being viable once software engineering became a sellers market.","parent":"14075080","id":"14075530"}
{"by":"owenversteeg","time":"1402091617","timestamp":"2014-06-06 21:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Imgur link: \u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/P2q0nLH.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;P2q0nLH.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7856583","id":"7860470"}
{"by":"euccastro","time":"1316134993","timestamp":"2011-09-16 01:03:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seconded.  The direction keys (j, l, I think, and I forget which the other two were; I just kept the mapping from movement-of-fingers to movement-of-cursor) may not be as intuitive as they are in qwerty, but after a short while you just ingrain them in your muscle memory and it doesn't matter anymore.","parent":"3002587","id":"3002720"}
{"by":"forthefuture","time":"1433342493","timestamp":"2015-06-03 14:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assumed the OP was sarcastic, but here I can\u0026#x27;t tell. The Fallout site, last I checked, had 17,000 lines of javascript code. It might be the worst written site I\u0026#x27;ve ever seen.","parent":"9652604","id":"9652885"}
{"by":"lu_zero_","time":"1438358819","timestamp":"2015-07-31 16:06:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might check your facts before spouting this kind of sentences.\u003cp\u003eSadly the people on the Libav side never spoke up and nobody really checked or asked since they are \u0026quot;EVIL\u0026quot;.","parent":"9982403","id":"9982541"}
{"by":"asdfologist","time":"1472954352","timestamp":"2016-09-04 01:59:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you need to reread my comment and the OP\u0026#x27;s. We\u0026#x27;re talking about reporting the pharma ties among the Democrats.","parent":"12422257","id":"12422269"}
{"by":"timbre","time":"1468904309","timestamp":"2016-07-19 04:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there some evidence that changing the terminology this way has an effect -- say an increase in prosecutions or safer driving habits?  I was surprised to come to the end of the article without anything about this one way or the other.","parent":"12119486","id":"12119801"}
{"by":"GhotiFish","time":"1374331472","timestamp":"2013-07-20 14:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m going to take that comment with me to the grave. Well done.","parent":"6074397","id":"6075359"}
{"by":"lukeschlather","time":"1394069262","timestamp":"2014-03-06 01:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Netflix isn\u0026#x27;t concerned with securing their users\u0026#x27; browsers; they\u0026#x27;re concerned with protecting their DRM.","parent":"7350917","id":"7351236"}
{"by":"sdenton4","time":"1539064126","timestamp":"2018-10-09 05:48:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or 75,000?\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mondragon_Corporation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mondragon_Corporation\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18173478","id":"18173609"}
{"by":"aet","time":"1382801264","timestamp":"2013-10-26 15:27:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha","parent":"6617654","id":"6617663"}
{"by":"Fysi","time":"1527006261","timestamp":"2018-05-22 16:24:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And this is ignoring the use cases that are \u0026#x27;for good\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.marinusanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;amazon-rekognition-helps-marinus-analytics-fight-human-trafficking\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.marinusanalytics.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;amazon-r...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17127073","dead":true,"id":"17127122"}
{"by":"sheikhimran01","time":"1383183484","timestamp":"2013-10-31 01:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is nothing new about NSA. We all knew this years back too that US Govt watches the internet for national security.\u003cp\u003eIf they can\u0026#x27;t do that then who would be doing it?\u003cp\u003eAll companies with big data must have a single governing body and i think NSA is the best.\u003cp\u003eThey are not spying, they are just watching after you.\u003cp\u003eGet over the NSA stuff...too 90s","parent":"6644652","id":"6644737"}
{"by":"I_HALF_CATS","time":"1461015190","timestamp":"2016-04-18 21:33:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did the article really describe a \u0026#x27;constant nightmare\u0026#x27; or was the article more an example of anectdata.\u003cp\u003eI would argue that demonizing STEM fields with sensational language does more harm than good.","parent":"11521585","id":"11523318"}
{"by":"joshuahays","time":"1308583887","timestamp":"2011-06-20 15:31:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might be in a better market for this, Tampa is pretty well influenced by tech... especially in recent years. His area is EMPTY. lol","parent":"2673826","id":"2674588"}
{"by":"Natanael_L","time":"1445694539","timestamp":"2015-10-24 13:48:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neuron interconnectivity might be more important than plain neuron count. So that could be an advantage.","parent":"10443112","id":"10443581"}
{"by":"JadeNB","time":"1465075181","timestamp":"2016-06-04 21:19:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe I\u0026#x27;m misreading you, but this seems disrespectful—to victims of tyrants in general, and to the victim of this possible prison sentence in particular—and I can\u0026#x27;t see what it adds to the discussion.","parent":"11837952","id":"11838098"}
{"by":"IronBacon","time":"1528303633","timestamp":"2018-06-06 16:47:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was pretty sure it was mostly for show and not a feasible product but nonetheless I was guessing around 500W. Without counting the chiller running under the desk.","parent":"17247818","id":"17248708"}
{"by":"EdwardDiego","time":"1394343594","timestamp":"2014-03-09 05:39:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Droid Sans Mono: \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;fonts\u0026#x2F;specimen\u0026#x2F;Droid+Sans+Mono\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough I\u0026#x27;ve had to revert back to Menlo in IntelliJ as IDEA needs JDK 7 to get the Retina sexiness, and last I checked, there was a bug with JDK 7 that caused some fonts to render weird - in the case of Droid Sans Mono, I kept losing semicolons and exclamation marks.","parent":"7366750","id":"7367602"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1417915026","timestamp":"2014-12-07 01:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Heh, a lot of it is a generational thing. Back in the 90\u0026#x27;s, many if not most programmers would have passionately agreed with every word of this. Today, for younger programmers who take open-source for granted... it just seems like the incoherent ramblings of that old uncle who rants about Obama at every family gathering.\u003cp\u003eI think that drastically overstates the support programmers as a class have \u003ci\u003eever\u003c/i\u003e had for the Stallman\u0026#x2F;FSF view that tools to combat the use of non-Free software are a moral imperative, though I do think that that extremist position of actively combating non-Free software did seem, if not a moral imperative, at least to be important instrumentally to the promotion of Free\u0026#x2F;open source software before the pragmatic case for open source was broadly accepted by much of the industry.","parent":"8710842","id":"8710869"}
{"by":"nommm-nommm","time":"1481817201","timestamp":"2016-12-15 15:53:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From what I\u0026#x27;ve heard from others Amazon is worse than ebay in terms of scam buyers. I can\u0026#x27;t talk from experience because I\u0026#x27;ve never been personally scammed on either platform and I\u0026#x27;ve sold a lot of expensive stuff on both: MacBooks, laptops, iPads, etc. EDIT: Now that I think about it, that\u0026#x27;s not entirely true. I was \u0026quot;scammed\u0026quot; on eBay by someone who claimed their PayPal and eBay accounts were hacked. I only send to PayPal confirmed addresses so PayPal\u0026#x27;s seller protection took care of me for that because the address was confirmed by PayPal.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I\u0026#x27;ve gotten a LOT of scam Amazon messages. They are all the same \u0026quot;plz send me pictures at [poorly obfuscated email address].\u0026quot; I\u0026#x27;d get 3-4 a day for a used Macbook. The scam is they get your email address by getting them to email them and then they send you a fake \u0026quot;shipped send now\u0026quot; email. Some people even go as far as just sending \u0026quot;shipped send now\u0026quot; as an Amazon message! I\u0026#x27;ve reported all these and Amazon doesn\u0026#x27;t do anything about them. All they did was ding my seller account for marking too many messages as \u0026quot;no response required.\u0026quot;","parent":"13181292","id":"13185377"}
{"by":"pc86","time":"1502999041","timestamp":"2017-08-17 19:44:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI have no objections to paying taxes.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst you\u0026#x27;re complaining about \u0026quot;huge\u0026quot; capital gains, which is literally a tax on profit you made for doing nothing. A tax, might I add, that is much less than income tax. Second, you\u0026#x27;re complaining about Prop. 13, which just means you\u0026#x27;re upset about the prospect of paying the property taxes \u003ci\u003eyou actually owe\u003c/i\u003e, as opposed to the wildly deflated ones from when you purchased.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think you understand just how out of touch you\u0026#x27;re coming across, and nothing in your statement suggests you have anything \u003ci\u003ebut\u003c/i\u003e objections to paying your fair share of taxes.","parent":"15039789","id":"15040156"}
{"by":"soared","time":"1457294567","timestamp":"2016-03-06 20:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is eerily similar to traffic for a site I posted here and on reddit recently. Is there a name for this kind of traffic? Looks like a huge spike from 1 source, then a small source reposts it a day or two later, then traffic completely drops off. My example is a blog though, with essentially no reason to return (posts are months apart)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;e7mOrsG\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;e7mOrsG\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11234916","id":"11235292"}
{"by":"macrael","time":"1323483101","timestamp":"2011-12-10 02:11:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of the posts in my stream contain links to images, videos, and articles. In a sense, the 140 characters (minus the 20 required for a url) already \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e a title for something more time consuming. I'm not sure that hosting self posts would really change that, it just makes it easier. Instead of linking to my blog post, I link to a twitter provided long post.","parent":"3331597","id":"3336653"}
{"by":"graue","time":"1382834658","timestamp":"2013-10-27 00:44:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Published in February 2012, revised in June 2012, according to this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/SpamEconomics.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.davidreiley.com\u0026#x2F;papers\u0026#x2F;SpamEconomics.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6619852","id":"6620178"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1370706588","timestamp":"2013-06-08 15:49:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has not always been the case.  Until 1947 the USA had a Department of War.\u003cp\u003eHowever since then we\u0026#x27;ve been marching towards euphemism.","parent":"5844799","id":"5845216"}
{"by":"mkup","time":"1336408605","timestamp":"2012-05-07 16:36:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MSVC has very powerful debugger. It is able to inspect STL collections, set conditional breakpoints, break on certain types of exceptions, watch complex expressions, view local variables by mouse hover etc. It can attach to running process, it may be closed-source process with my DLL, and I would be able to do source-level debugging for that DLL.\u003cp\u003eI usually compile outside of IDE (from command line / Far Manager) with custom build script and use MSVC only as a debugger: it has nice feature of opening EXE file as a project workspace.\u003cp\u003eWe're stuck with MSVC until gcc and its Windows ports will have a decent GUI debugger.","parent":"3939580","id":"3939718"}
{"by":"spolsky","time":"1238345197","timestamp":"2009-03-29 16:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I keep hearing this meme that \"it's very easy for users to switch search engines.\"\u003cp\u003eThis is true for one user. But BILLIONS of people are using Google. And it's NOT easy for all of them to switch. Google's position is not tenuous at all.","parent":"537382","id":"537502"}
{"by":"lokedhs","time":"1469069668","timestamp":"2016-07-21 02:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You only start Emacs once, shortly after your computer has booted, so the length of the command shouldn\u0026#x27;t matter.","parent":"12129919","id":"12134290"}
{"by":"obioneis","time":"1545347586","timestamp":"2018-12-20 23:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try using Walmart\u0026#x27;s Online Groceries - You can have it delivered to your house or pick it up in the store.","parent":"18726534","id":"18730102"}
{"by":"tlb","time":"1326664542","timestamp":"2012-01-15 21:55:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don't need a separate magnet, the earth's field would be adequate.","parent":"3467315","id":"3468377"}
{"by":"davexunit","time":"1446056254","timestamp":"2015-10-28 18:17:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes no sense because you are talking about hacking proprietary binaries, not source code under a copyleft license.","parent":"10466102","id":"10466254"}
{"by":"dekhn","time":"1426778280","timestamp":"2015-03-19 15:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any attempt to \u0026quot;be careful\u0026quot; would likely show up in the form of unconcious micro-expressions, so it\u0026#x27;s probably better to not be careful.","parent":"9232348","id":"9232510"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1395249901","timestamp":"2014-03-19 17:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, the only \u0026quot;CDN\u0026quot; I\u0026#x27;ve ever heard of to regularly pull stunts like that is CloudFlare; and really, that\u0026#x27;s their angle: it adds latency (which has been demonstrated in various commentary on the service) with the goal of modifying content to reduce the number of requests or improve client-side rendering times. It is more of a \u0026quot;content optimization\u0026quot; service than a \u0026quot;content delivery\u0026quot; service. If you want a CDN the tradeoffs (number of edge nodes, latency, cache sizes) are much better with other providers.\u003cp\u003eSometimes, the stuff they inject also has horrible bugs ;P. One time, for an entire day, they were managing to lock up Safari entirely. Cydia is mostly a web browser, and one of the companies I work with apparently used CloudFlare, so Cydia suddenly stopped working that day in a way that was pretty catastrophic. I did a writeup on the process of discovering the bug (which I had to report to CloudFlare to get fixed: I don\u0026#x27;t even think they really had the expertise in-house to figure out what happened).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.saurik.com/id/14\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.saurik.com\u0026#x2F;id\u0026#x2F;14\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7429855","id":"7430278"}
{"by":"mvanveen","time":"1479261843","timestamp":"2016-11-16 02:04:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think until there is satisfactory evidence that Assange is safe and still behind the wikileaks web, social media properties, etc. we should assume that they have been co-opted.\u003cp\u003ePublishing the hashes is meant to serve as a canary for this exact class of concern.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore we have not seen any public appearances from Assange since his Internet access was cut, nor has anything been signed with his pgp key.\u003cp\u003eedit: upon further consideration there might be alternative explanations, but we would still need more evidence furnished to believe wikileaks sources credibly.  No explanation or acknowledgement has been provided for the checksum mismatches.","parent":"12962853","id":"12963982"}
{"by":"disgruntledphd2","time":"1541601434","timestamp":"2018-11-07 14:37:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How would it ever be any different? You can\u0026#x27;t really remove subjectivity from the measurement of people and their brains.","parent":"18399236","id":"18399355"}
{"by":"ng12","time":"1488607763","timestamp":"2017-03-04 06:09:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate your insight. I think that\u0026#x27;s a big part of the difference -- in the US \u0026quot;relaxed immigration\u0026quot; would mean people without money or skills.","parent":"13788180","id":"13789582"}
{"by":"mdc2161","time":"1483113671","timestamp":"2016-12-30 16:01:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you like whoaremyrepresentatives, we would love feedback on [Act On This](\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.actonthis.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.actonthis.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) as well.\u003cp\u003eWe don\u0026#x27;t go down to as local of a level yet, but are more focused on giving information about specific actions you can take related to issues you care about.\u003cp\u003eWhile the current list of issues comes from us, we\u0026#x27;re on-boarding a couple of non-profits so they can use the tool to help organize volunteers at a state and local level.","parent":"13282847","id":"13284962"}
{"by":"runarb","time":"1377946861","timestamp":"2013-08-31 11:01:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree. The author is jumping to conclusions her. Remind me of this great quote:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence\u0026quot; - Napoleon Bonaparte","parent":"6306426","id":"6306488"}
{"by":"tealtank","time":"1316345009","timestamp":"2011-09-18 11:23:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This really is interesting.","parent":"2993732","dead":true,"id":"3009990"}
{"by":"lukifer","time":"1299022771","timestamp":"2011-03-01 23:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've always Stephen Fry's solution: \"wuh wuh wuh\", or simply say the whole thing, \"world wide web\". 3 syllables either way.","parent":"2277425","id":"2277768"}
{"by":"qwertyuiop924","time":"1480959801","timestamp":"2016-12-05 17:43:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think I can say much about the article\u0026#x27;s main point that hasn\u0026#x27;t already been said. But I do have a question:\u003cp\u003eWhy the flying blue !@#$ would \u003ci\u003eanybody\u003c/i\u003e think that Babel 6\u0026#x27;s Configuration over Convention decision was the \u003ci\u003ewrong\u003c/i\u003e way to go? It was absolutely the right thing to do. It made Babel a far more uniform and simple piece of software, and actually made it easier to use.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy?\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"13106513","id":"13107370"}
{"by":"jakejake","time":"1432524199","timestamp":"2015-05-25 03:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article seems to prove otherwise.","parent":"9597541","id":"9598492"}
{"by":"PStamatiou","time":"1220827432","timestamp":"2008-09-07 22:43:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"oh yeah.. um, we didn't have a deck of cards and my friends were very intent on playing Kings/Circle of Death, so they cut 52 slips of paper and wrote out their own deck of cards.","parent":"297785","id":"297789"}
{"by":"bluedevil2k","time":"1416009208","timestamp":"2014-11-14 23:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a very real distinction between a real diamond and a fake diamond - demand for the product. Consumers looking for jewelry have virtually no interest in a fake diamond.","parent":"8609999","id":"8610251"}
{"by":"ekpyrotic","time":"1369416183","timestamp":"2013-05-24 17:23:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of the statements within this article should be prefaced with \"If you want to build a large company,...\", \"If you want to support a team,...\", or \"If you want to become more than an SME,...\"\u003cp\u003eTargeting niches with tailored software is a perfectly rational -- and, dare a say, I good -- strategy in those cases where you want to build a product that will support (only) yourself economically. And you don't have 'Pinky and the Brain'-esque fantasies. I know it is hackneyed, but bingocardcreator.com is a fantastic example of this strategy put into practice.\u003cp\u003eOften, as these niches aren't already served by a professional product, there is obvious space for monetization. There are also good opportunities to develop quick expertise in that niche -- and as a result corner the market. To boot, as the consumer base is smaller, you can often develop long-lasting, personal relationships with your customers more quickly and more easily.\u003cp\u003eOf course, if you want to take the Internet by storm, don't build a repository of crochet patterns, but if you want to see some quick money roll in (or build up some basic business experience), I but don't see why you shouldn't. Advice has to be viewed within context.\u003cp\u003eBlanket statements are antithetical to intellectual nuance.\u003cp\u003eNot everything has to be New York; sometimes the Galapagos Islands are quite enough.","parent":"5764106","id":"5764201"}
{"by":"kaybe","time":"1425048042","timestamp":"2015-02-27 14:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, isn\u0026#x27;t everyone using these since at least 5 years? A biking culture and frequent weather with intermitted showers has apparently clouded my view here.\u003cp\u003e(Simply google weather radar and the area you want to look at, and project the speed of shower areas to know when to leave the house and how fast you have to ride to stay dry..)","parent":"9117978","id":"9119023"}
{"by":"alleyshack","time":"1531952776","timestamp":"2018-07-18 22:26:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not OP, but for me, it\u0026#x27;s the jarring-ness of the alarm. A year or so ago, I noticed it\u0026#x27;s easier to wake up at 6:30am during the summer, when the sun rises and I\u0026#x27;m waking up to sunlight. During the summer, I\u0026#x27;d usually wake up on my own anywhere from 5-20 minutes before my alarm went off, and it was a comfortable waking up. However, in the winter, I\u0026#x27;d be jarred awake by an alarm to a pitch-black room, often smack in the middle of a sleep cycle, leaving me groggy and sluggish.\u003cp\u003eOnce I realized that, I bought a $30 light alarm. It starts to glow softly about half an hour before my desired wake-up time, and except for once or twice when I was too buried under the covers to see the light, it consistently wakes me much more smoothly and pleasantly than getting jarred awake by a jangling alarm. (It has a back-up audio alarm that plays at your normal wake-up time, which shuts off when you turn off the light part.)","parent":"17561674","id":"17562561"}
{"by":"hendzen","time":"1475350833","timestamp":"2016-10-01 19:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The actual orders are handled by Apex Clearing. Apex sells this client flow to a mix of Citadel, KCG, and a few others [0].\u003cp\u003e[0] - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net\u0026#x2F;assets\u0026#x2F;robinhood\u0026#x2F;legal\u0026#x2F;RHF%20PFO%20Disclosure.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net\u0026#x2F;assets\u0026#x2F;robinhood\u0026#x2F;legal...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12619462","id":"12619550"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1545634528","timestamp":"2018-12-24 06:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I fully support automatic testing as far as possible.\u003cp\u003eNow TDD cargo culting of writing tests before working code, or even actual design of data structures just seems nonsense to me.\u003cp\u003eIt only works for CLI demos of simple tools, or data processing pipelines.\u003cp\u003eAnything else seems convoluted, without a sound architecture design, and just impossible in some scenarios, e.g. GUI code, UI\u0026#x2F;UX.\u003cp\u003eTests should be a mix of unit, module and integration tests, written after the architecture design, overall UI\u0026#x2F;UX design process, performance analysis if the chosen data structures are the best ones for the case at hand.","parent":"18749371","id":"18750838"}
{"by":"akharris","time":"1544469361","timestamp":"2018-12-10 19:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a great idea. We\u0026#x27;ve thought about this a fair amount but have not yet found the right solution to implement.","parent":"18650093","id":"18650395"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1537656821","timestamp":"2018-09-22 22:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The joke in the Soviet Union was that everyone was breaking some law at any time, but the state usually looked the other way --unless they wanted to detain you, then of course, they would no longer \u0026quot;look away\u0026quot; but rather apply all laws to the fullest extent.\u003cp\u003eSo, the main point isn\u0026#x27;t to bad mouth the old USSR, but to demonstrate why the option you present is unworkable.","parent":"18047055","id":"18048423"}
{"by":"gtani","time":"1417562086","timestamp":"2014-12-02 23:14:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recommend looking at \u0026quot;This week in\u0026quot; blog and the RFC\u0026#x27;s also, to form your own opinion of stability\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://this-week-in-rust.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;this-week-in-rust.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs#active-rfc-list\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;rust-lang\u0026#x2F;rfcs#active-rfc-list\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e__________________________\u003cp\u003ediscussion re: stdlib and 1.0 \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2mo0zb/the_race_towards_10_and_the_standard_library/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;rust\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;2mo0zb\u0026#x2F;the_race_towar...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8688109","id":"8690745"}
{"by":"js2","time":"1534473326","timestamp":"2018-08-17 02:35:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eWith appropriate software, the VCA could respond to voice commands, function as a voice-controlled keyboard, record and play back digital audio, synthesize speech from text, detect and produce dialing signals, and function as a 1,200 baud modem. All that in 1985.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is very similar to the Novation Apple-CAT II which was available by 1981 or so:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20160508112704\u0026#x2F;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.jammed.com:80\u0026#x2F;~jwa\u0026#x2F;Machines\u0026#x2F;cat\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20160508112704\u0026#x2F;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.jammed...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIronically, Novation was wiped out when they retooled to produce a card for the PCjr.","parent":"17779741","id":"17779923"}
{"by":"Nrsolis","time":"1393254544","timestamp":"2014-02-24 15:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EXACTLY.\u003cp\u003eBy providing ready access to a stream of digital data and metadata about yourself, you\u0026#x27;re making their job easier.\u003cp\u003eEven if you use crypto, the mere fact that you use crypto is interesting enough to draw attention.\u003cp\u003eThe point is to blend into the background.  Do you think that crossing a border using the Blackphone isn\u0026#x27;t going to raise eyebrows?  In denied areas the idea is to use equipment that looks ordinary and boring: a wristwatch or a calculator.\u003cp\u003eIf for no other reason than an adversary might not know who you are, you \u003ci\u003ereveal\u003c/i\u003e yourself to them by using a special-purpose tool.","parent":"7290992","id":"7291139"}
{"by":"CodeMage","time":"1359813925","timestamp":"2013-02-02 14:05:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because the \"truthful\" method doesn't get the desired results.\u003cp\u003eI'm a father (and I also remember something about being a kid) and I can tell you that 4 year old kids are unbelievably egocentric. A lot of the rules adults try to impose that are perfectly reasonable to anyone with enough empathy seem completely arbitrary to a 4 year old. So, \"don't yell because that distracts/bothers me\" is an \"arbitrary\" rule coming from a \"cranky\" dad. \"I put a script in the machine that will shut down the screen if you yell too loud\" gets translated into \"I don't want you to yell\", which is, again, an \"arbitrary\" rule kids don't care about.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, \"computer doesn't like loud sounds\" is a perfectly \"reasonable\" rule, because the computer is \"in charge\" of letting you play the game. You disturb the computer, the computer reacts. And you can't argue with it or try to manipulate it. Crying at it or throwing a temper tantrum won't do any good. It has no mouth, so you can't have a conversation with it. In short, you have to follow its rules.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to avoid having the kids jump to the \"logical\" conclusion that the machine is a person, you can formulate it differently: instead of saying \"the computer doesn't \u003ci\u003elike\u003c/i\u003e loud sounds\", you can say \"the computer is a machine that doesn't work well when there's a lot of yelling\".\u003cp\u003eThen again, someone else already pointed out that kids believe that an old, fat man can come down their chimney and leave gifts in a matter of minutes -- and do so for every kid in the freaking world -- without suffering any psychological scars from an \"untruthful\" method of influencing their behavior (because Santa brings gifts only to kids who are \"good\"), so I don't see what the big deal is with going through a short period of believing the machine is a person.","parent":"5155620","id":"5155974"}
{"by":"rexpop","time":"1500304982","timestamp":"2017-07-17 15:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Distributed systems are first-class citizens of Concourse. It\u0026#x27;s a larger concept-space than Travis\u0026#x2F;Jenkins\u0026#x27;.","parent":"14786295","id":"14789372"}
{"by":"tanto","time":"1544278031","timestamp":"2018-12-08 14:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So it\u0026#x27;s the end of time in a sense?","parent":"18635169","id":"18635254"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1288127823","timestamp":"2010-10-26 21:17:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sorry, I did not mean to suggest that would be applicable to you.","parent":"1836075","id":"1836131"}
{"by":"rooshdi","time":"1354683033","timestamp":"2012-12-05 04:50:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, this is old news, but we need a reminder every now and then about how intrusive our government has become.","parent":"4874462","id":"4874935"}
{"by":"dntrkv","time":"1426548323","timestamp":"2015-03-16 23:25:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, there are terrible beans out there that may be worse than instant coffee, just like there are terribly cooked meals out there worse than microwaved dinners. Parent stated \u0026quot;What I have come to this this: few coffees compare to Nescafe Gold a.k.a. Taster\u0026#x27;s Choice.\u0026quot; which is an absurd statement. Most beans you get from even Starbucks (as long as they are fresh and suite your tastes [light, dark, etc]) will be way better than the instant stuff, let alone the stuff you can get from the thousands of other coffee roasters around the country.","parent":"9215082","id":"9215204"}
{"by":"igouy","time":"1538081111","timestamp":"2018-09-27 20:45:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003efwiw\u003c/i\u003e A couple of those task names are for older tasks which have been replaced by: fannkuch-redux, regex-redux: and there are other changes which don\u0026#x27;t seem to have been mirrored.","parent":"18086655","id":"18088468"}
{"by":"MichaelJW","time":"1345495170","timestamp":"2012-08-20 20:39:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=405727117130\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=405727117130\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts.\"\u003cp\u003e\"We'll be able to focus more on improving and enhancing products and features that people use every day, such as Photos, News Feed, Inbox, games, comments, the \"Like\" button and the Wall.\"","parent":"4408913","id":"4409676"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1527981394","timestamp":"2018-06-02 23:16:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the argument fine; it just doesn\u0026#x27;t cohere.\u003cp\u003eFirst, it\u0026#x27;s self-evident that differential cryptanalysis is not a good example of a NOBUS backdoor, \u003ci\u003esince it was independently discovered multiple times, including by a pair of academics\u003c/i\u003e. By contrast, even after BULLRUN, Dual EC is \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e a NOBUS backdoor. The \u0026quot;nobody but us\u0026quot; part of it is ensured cryptographically; breaking it likely involves solving the ECDLP. It\u0026#x27;s not \u0026quot;nobody but us until somebody figures it out\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eSecond, you can\u0026#x27;t argue that something is an NSA backdoor when NSA\u0026#x27;s only role in standardizing crypto relative to it is to make the standard resistant to it.\u003cp\u003eOnce again: the NSA may well have many cryptanalytic techniques unknown to the academic literature (I think people generally used to assume that was true and I think that\u0026#x27;s less and less so every year). But a NOBUS backdoor isn\u0026#x27;t simply a cipher that NSA can break and nobody else can break \u003ci\u003eyet\u003c/i\u003e. It\u0026#x27;s a cipher that the NSA can break and \u003ci\u003ecannot foresee any adversary breaking within the frontiers of its own knowledge\u003c/i\u003e. Whatever cryptanalytic techniques NSA can discover, so too can the Russians, Israelis, French, and Chinese.\u003cp\u003eThe point of a NOBUS backdoor is that it\u0026#x27;s safe to deploy on your own systems.","parent":"17216919","id":"17216946"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1260423088","timestamp":"2009-12-10 05:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThis is an incredible assertion.\u003c/i\u003e And yet you can't site a single example of progress.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThanks for telling me what skepticism is. \u003c/i\u003e no I showed an example of \"modern\" skepticism that is over 2,000 years old.  Think about this ~2,300 years ago people were having the same basic argument as we are having today I can think of no other field which has stagnated to that degree.","parent":"987174","id":"987379"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1501005356","timestamp":"2017-07-25 17:55:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not the first time. Intel got into mobile devices circa 2000-2001 or so. Then suddenly they abandoned this area.\u003cp\u003eI worked on a secure (authenticated, encrypted) port forwarding proxy for mobile devices at that time.  Our company partnered with Intel to bring the software to their new mobile devices.  We were quite far along, with working demos and all. Then one fine day, word came down from the higher levels in Intel that they are pulling out of that.\u003cp\u003eThe Intel team we collaborated with were split up and sent in different ways within Intel and that was that.\u003cp\u003eIt was bad for us because we put resources into it and were counting on some cash which never materialized, plus the dot com bust was in full downward swing.","parent":"14847654","id":"14850158"}
{"by":"mark_l_watson","time":"1300030637","timestamp":"2011-03-13 15:37:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of my life I have worked a maximum of 32 hours a week. Not only does this give me time for exercise and extra fun, but also time to promote my career, not a particular job, by offline learning of new skills and writing. The 20% \"lost\" revenue is a reasonable cost.","parent":"2318492","id":"2319370"}
{"by":"arikr","time":"1497056423","timestamp":"2017-06-10 01:00:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So won\u0026#x27;t you have the same problem?\u003cp\u003eLimited customer lock in?","parent":"14517348","id":"14525642"}
{"by":"IshKebab","time":"1484687665","timestamp":"2017-01-17 21:14:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hard to believe a graph when its author can\u0026#x27;t even type $13,000,000.","parent":"13419444","id":"13421259"}
{"by":"cmiles74","time":"1499777012","timestamp":"2017-07-11 12:43:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems to me that there\u0026#x27;s not much hope for an ME-less x86 compatible machine in the near future. Intel is pretty invested in the product and AMD has introduced a similar solution for their systems.\u003cp\u003eAnother architecture all together, designed from the ground up to support a free and secure system, seems a better bet.","parent":"14743582","id":"14743620"}
{"by":"loup-vaillant","time":"1292722977","timestamp":"2010-12-19 01:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(duplicate from the post's comment thread)\u003cp\u003eGood post, but there are two important things you overlooked here.\u003cp\u003eFirst, dumb terminals are about control. Not speed. Not behind the scenes smart shenanigans. Control at the user level. By that definition, web browsers and IPhones are Dumb. Jailbroken IPhones, Android phones (not locked), and PCs, are Smart. That's what cloud OS detractors talk about when they say \"dumb terminal\".\u003cp\u003eSecond, viewing the internet as a secure vault that you can summon at will can be dangerous. Like, get-your-identity-stolen dangerous. (\u003ci\u003eYou\u003c/i\u003e know this, but many people don't.) There's also systemic risks associated with the centralization encouraged by the (re-)rise of dumb terminals. And you wouldn't want anyone to look at your private data (say your e-mail). Or doing automatic semantic analysis on it so it can directly extract the good stuff… and use it to his advantage.\u003cp\u003eNow, I agree the couple \"cloud + dumb terminals\" is extremely convenient, and has an unmatched potential for ease of use. Now if only it didn't require the user to relinquish his right for privacy (an even other freedoms in some cases), that would be great. Personally, I'm looking forward to see Eben Moglen's FreedomBox.","parent":"2020495","id":"2020806"}
{"by":"darkstar999","time":"1494596329","timestamp":"2017-05-12 13:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I sure hope not. That sounds sketchy.","parent":"14322474","id":"14323843"}
{"by":"BuckRogers","time":"1447214652","timestamp":"2015-11-11 04:04:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the info. I may just do that then, or just go with a shorter trial period. Pretty sure I can use both of them at once with no issue.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d love to know who and why my parent comment was downvoted.. I hate that, you can\u0026#x27;t say anything on here without downvotes.","parent":"10543558","id":"10544782"}
{"by":"jfornear","time":"1230587765","timestamp":"2008-12-29 21:56:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand why everyone is whining yet not suggesting an alternative.\u003cp\u003eI would pick Twitter... :D\u003cp\u003eAll in this year, they moved Evan Williams to CEO (good idea), raised over $20 million in funding (from Union Square Ventures, Jeff Bezos, and others), acquired Summize (easily the hottest app in a while), grew ridiculously popular while stabilizing their service/uptime, and turned down an acquisition offer by Facebook (rumor?). Now \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e is success.\u003cp\u003eI can't even think of a close second.","parent":"413365","id":"413524"}
{"by":"kgwxd","time":"1538870188","timestamp":"2018-10-06 23:56:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Without copyright everyone would be able to use what the big corporations make as well. For example, anyone could make sure there\u0026#x27;s always an original copy of Star Wars that never gets enhanced.","parent":"18157663","id":"18158068"}
{"by":"asmosoinio","time":"1356001578","timestamp":"2012-12-20 11:06:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree on the title change. \"3:1\" pushed me over the edge to seek out my PayPal password and make a donation.","parent":"4945537","id":"4947087"}
{"by":"naasking","time":"1473335818","timestamp":"2016-09-08 11:56:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re arguing for magic. If brain function does not follow from our physical makeup, then where exactly do you think it comes from? Sure learning is like exercising a muscle and can shape your brain, but environment affects muscle growth too via exercise and nutrition. Would you deny that your genetics place an upper limit on your achievable strength?\u003cp\u003eSorry to say, there is already plenty of evidence of direct genetic impact on cognitive ability that you can see with your own eyes, even ignoring the twin studies that all but prove that cognitive functions are largely heritable. For instance, down syndrome, Tay-Sachs disease and Leukodystrophies.\u003cp\u003eThe scientific case is in: given comparable nutrition and a standard education, your intelligence as compared to your peers is determined by your genetic makeup.\u003cp\u003eThis says nothing about your work ethic or your determination of course, and thus what you can achieve if you put in enough effort. Intelligence is merely a metric stating that given the same amount of work expended on cognitive problems, those with higher intelligence will do better on average.","parent":"12450432","id":"12452154"}
{"by":"stevesimmons","time":"1530651581","timestamp":"2018-07-03 20:59:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here are some \u0026quot;anecdata\u0026quot; from my 6 years working in the Netherlands:\u003cp\u003e* 4 day weeks are very common: I worked for a Dutch Bank for 3 years. Virtually all the Dutch \u0026quot;full time\u0026quot; staff worked 4 day weeks. The deal was work 10% less (36 instead of 40 hours), extend the working day a notional one hour on Monday to Thursday, and take every Friday off. Not bad for a 10% reduction in salary. And since everyone does it - even senior managers - there is no loss in promotion prospects.\u003cp\u003e* High levels of self-employment as independent contractors - \u0026quot;ZZP-ers\u0026quot; - zelfstandig zonder personeel (self-supporting without employees), often from mid-career professionals taking redundancy packages and setting up for themselves with greater flexibility for work-life balance at often slightly lower take home pay.\u003cp\u003e* Strong social net, health system, pension provision, social housing, etc, mean most Dutch people have very little to worry about. They can afford to prioritise enjoying life over being a slave to their employer.\u003cp\u003eOne final anecdote concerns my local cafe in Amsterdam... In Melbourne, the equivalent cafe opened at 6:30am and was busy by 7am. The one near me in Amsterdam opened at 8:29am (yes, not 8:30...). When I asked why they didn\u0026#x27;t open earlier, the owner said the staff didn\u0026#x27;t want to start that early, and neither did he.","parent":"17452546","id":"17453579"}
{"by":"simag","time":"1539952572","timestamp":"2018-10-19 12:36:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for your kind words, and kudos to you for finding that buried submission ;-)","parent":"18255509","id":"18256257"}
{"by":"gtani","time":"1375145346","timestamp":"2013-07-30 00:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"these are pretty decen outlines\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.quantisan.com/securing-a-fresh-ubuntu-server-with-fabric-tasks/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quantisan.com\u0026#x2F;securing-a-fresh-ubuntu-server-with...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essential-security-for-linux-servers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;plusbryan.com\u0026#x2F;my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essen...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6124548","id":"6124814"}
{"by":"robwormald","time":"1423192014","timestamp":"2015-02-06 03:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve experimented with all manner of MEMS sensors, but at its core its (currently) an accelerometer and a gyro + an MCU.\u003cp\u003eNot sure on IG vs KS, not my department :D","parent":"9007238","id":"9007568"}
{"by":"sekasi","time":"1420759532","timestamp":"2015-01-08 23:25:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Second round interviews, after having passed a code test as well, I do exclusively with the team in question all present.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s less of an interview and more of a meet and greet, and we spend 30 minutes talking about anything under the sun.\u003cp\u003eThe team makes the decision from this point. I very rarely veto.\u003cp\u003eCandidates know this is the process, because I tell them about it before hand. Does that make sense?","parent":"8859683","id":"8859731"}
{"by":"tremon","time":"1465646539","timestamp":"2016-06-11 12:02:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe intuition that your native enemy is likely out to get you\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo what do you propose as a solution? A closed, xenophobic culture will likely not accept any outside help.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversities teach liberalism\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, they don\u0026#x27;t. They teach critical thinking. We had that discussion on HN a few weeks ago: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11829194\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11829194\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr rather, they shouldn\u0026#x27;t. I understand that identity politics on US campuses is a real thing, but I\u0026#x27;d be hard-pressed to call anything about that liberal: it\u0026#x27;s about as dogmatic as the Christian church during the inquisition.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere have been no major scientific discoveries seen as directly beneficial to the human race for some time now.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSure. That computer you\u0026#x27;re reading HN on probably wasn\u0026#x27;t possible with the knowledge of 30 years ago. But \u0026quot;major scientific discoveries\u0026quot; is a perfect True-Scotsman phrase, so I don\u0026#x27;t expect you to agree with me on that.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe discovery of DNA and the Human Genome Project has had no meaningful effect on people\u0026#x27;s lives\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou mean how we can never predict who is most likely to develop which cancer [1], or which cancers are curable [2], or who is most at risk from developing Alzheimer\u0026#x27;s [3]?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat their wages haven\u0026#x27;t gone up in decades\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAh, so that\u0026#x27;s the problem. Have they considered that their tribal enemy\u0026#x27;s wages haven\u0026#x27;t gone up either?\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mskcc.org\u0026#x2F;cancer-care\u0026#x2F;risk-assessment-screening\u0026#x2F;hereditary-genetics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mskcc.org\u0026#x2F;cancer-care\u0026#x2F;risk-assessment-screening\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;genetic-test-changes-game-in-cancer-prognosis.html?_r=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;genetic-test-change...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nia.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;alzheimers\u0026#x2F;publication\u0026#x2F;alzheimers-disease-genetics-fact-sheet\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nia.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;alzheimers\u0026#x2F;publication\u0026#x2F;alzheimers-di...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11882932","id":"11883147"}
{"by":"mjmahone17","time":"1393466106","timestamp":"2014-02-27 01:55:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, you might not immediately, but if it happened often enough, you probably would switch clients. Back in the day, if AIM managed to screw up enough of mine and my friend\u0026#x27;s conversations by not sending messages quickly enough (and then sending 30 all at the same time), we\u0026#x27;d have moved off it if something better was found.","parent":"7308271","id":"7309780"}
{"by":"ldh","time":"1532976949","timestamp":"2018-07-30 18:55:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I keep waiting to get cynical about Spring Boot for some reason (maybe once the next conceptual breakthrough which looks obvious in retrospect happens), but honestly it\u0026#x27;s the breath of fresh air and simplicity that the JVM ecosystem needed, and it has literally turned writing Java weba apps upside down (err..inside out?) in the best sense possible.","parent":"17645576","id":"17646978"}
{"by":"nilsjuenemann","time":"1511794841","timestamp":"2017-11-27 15:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For AWS Elemental MediaLive there is no MPEG-DASH output. It\u0026#x27;s also limited to Ireland, Singapore, Virginia and Oregon.","parent":"15787369","id":"15787786"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1500448893","timestamp":"2017-07-19 07:21:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re confusing freedom in the figurative sense, which denotes empowerment, with freedom in the literal sense, which is a state of living where one is not deprived by anyone else of their right to their person or property through force.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is absolutely not a case of \u0026quot;figurative freedom\u0026quot; vs \u0026quot;literal freedom\u0026quot; -- there\u0026#x27;s a large body on work on the issue, and the most used terms for those two types of freedom are \u0026quot;negative freedom\u0026quot; (for what you call \u0026quot;literal freedom\u0026quot;) and \u0026quot;positive freedom\u0026quot; (for what you call \u0026quot;freedom in the figurative sense\u0026quot;). You might also find them referenced by the simplified terms \u0026quot;freedom from\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;freedom to\u0026quot;. In any case, it\u0026#x27;s very limiting to consider \u0026quot;negative freedom\u0026quot; (the most limited form) as THE \u0026quot;literal\u0026quot; freedom.\u003cp\u003eI would still argue that hanger is a force, and being obliged to work for food (even if you have a choice of employment options) is not being free in the \u0026quot;literal sense\u0026quot; (you are not \u0026quot;free from hunger\u0026quot;) and even less so if your choice is (because of your \u0026quot;market value\u0026quot; or lack of skills, or being unfortunate to be born in a family that couldn\u0026#x27;t invest in your education) between awful minimum wage jobs.\u003cp\u003eJust because what compels you is not an actual master\u0026#x2F;person, but the collective arrangement we call a \u0026quot;job market\u0026quot;, and just because you have a choice, doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you\u0026#x27;re free or that you enter those contracts without an external force leading your hand.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThe solutions you propose would limit freedom in the literal sense, through taxation of private property and regulatory prohibitions on mutually voluntary interactions.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eVoluntary is a spectrum: my solutions will only harm the much-less voluntary types of interactions. Sort of like preventing the poor from selling their kidneys for money -- it\u0026#x27;s indeed a regulatory prohibition, and they could make a good buck off of it if they were allowed, but I also believe its better to not allow it until it becomes a positive freedom choice and not \u0026quot;what could I do, I had to pay the bills or I\u0026#x27;d lose my house\u0026quot; kind of \u0026quot;voluntary\u0026quot; choice.","parent":"14800809","id":"14802517"}
{"by":"rohanm93","time":"1507310804","timestamp":"2017-10-06 17:26:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks so much for the feedback! It\u0026#x27;s really funny because my partner and I jumped between \u0026#x27;effective\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;impactful\u0026#x27; for the main copy a couple of times! I\u0026#x27;m curious to know what others on HN think? I\u0026#x27;ll make a round of changes this weekend and will update the headline.","parent":"15418385","id":"15418527"}
{"by":"dryicerx","time":"1223242286","timestamp":"2008-10-05 21:31:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Straight PHP and MySQL. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tizag.com/phpT/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.tizag.com/phpT/\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"http://us.php.net/tut.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://us.php.net/tut.php\u003c/a\u003e or just google for PHP and MySQL.\u003cp\u003eUnderstand that a blog is nothing more than a list of posts/entries. Simplest case is have one php script that just dumps the entries from the SQL database on to a page (you can improve up on that with things like pages, tags, trackbacks, etc) but those are all extras.\u003cp\u003eComments are just entries, except they have a extra field that specify which post/entry they belong to.\u003cp\u003ePosts and Comments, the only two things required for a blog. Now just improve upon that.\u003cp\u003eDo a few PHP/MySQL tutorials and you should be able to do this pretty easily.\u003cp\u003eAnd this can be done very short too... mine is 1700 lines (that includes whitespace and comments) running janitha.com right now\n* Posts/Pages\n* Comments\n* A Captcha-like Implementation\n* Gallery Intergration\n* A simple Plugin/Widget Architecture\n* Simple Admin Interface for adding/modifying/deleting posts\n* RSS\n* URL Rewriting\n* Automatic Static Caching","parent":"324268","id":"324360"}
{"by":"carmen","time":"1256076010","timestamp":"2009-10-20 22:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"accidently V3 was at bottom of my backpack (a thin tube of nylon w/ no padding) and i stacked up a bunch of groceries on it, droped it off my shoulders onto green line floor etc, also its fallen off 4 foot tables onto hardwood, no probs\u003cp\u003eOpenInkpot is kinda slow w/ PDFs tho, probably going todowngrade to factory Firmware","parent":"893331","id":"893456"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1515957103","timestamp":"2018-01-14 19:11:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"spaCy only works with English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Dutch.\u003cp\u003eFastText for example has pretrained embeddings for 294 languages:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;facebookresearch\u0026#x2F;fastText\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;pretrained-vectors.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;facebookresearch\u0026#x2F;fastText\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;pre...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoogle\u0026#x27;s Parsey McParseface handles POS tagging for 53 languages:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tensorflow\u0026#x2F;models\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;f87a58cd96d45de73c9a8330a06b2ab56749a7fa\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;syntaxnet\u0026#x2F;g3doc\u0026#x2F;universal.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tensorflow\u0026#x2F;models\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;f87a58cd96d45de73c...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16145522","id":"16145704"}
{"by":"bencoder","time":"1428536309","timestamp":"2015-04-08 23:38:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except if your disk is damaged and you want to download a working version or get a replacement disk, then it\u0026#x27;s not just a licence, you gotta buy it again. They want it both ways","parent":"9344896","id":"9344914"}
{"by":"stormbrew","time":"1420743893","timestamp":"2015-01-08 19:04:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I agree, the patents are ridiculous, but I think if any of the big manufacturers were willing to make a go of it, they\u0026#x27;d have done it by now.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I think the specific innovation they rest their patent on is that it can be inverted. Under current patent doctrine that might be enough, and I suspect people wouldn\u0026#x27;t be very happy with a non-invertable magsafe-like.","parent":"8858131","id":"8858181"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1521200808","timestamp":"2018-03-16 11:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Physics research has got to focus on commercially viable fusion, that is the most urgent environmental and geopolitical problem facing the West if not the entire world.","parent":"16599594","id":"16599981"}
{"by":"DanielBMarkham","time":"1193275076","timestamp":"2007-10-25 01:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"XJAX","parent":"72231","id":"72295"}
{"by":"awqrre","time":"1476973968","timestamp":"2016-10-20 14:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good thing the car didn\u0026#x27;t take off for a joy ride after dropping off the customer... might have became a legal issue.","parent":"12748863","id":"12752532"}
{"by":"gknoy","time":"1368643372","timestamp":"2013-05-15 18:42:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well said. I've used Eclipse for several years, and _never_ felt that it was lacking... except perhaps in the department of finding which permutation of pieces to install.  Then, I installed PyCharm (a Python IDE from JetBrains which basically is IntelliJ for Python), and was BLOWN AWAY by the polish.\u003cp\u003eIt's not that it's faster. That helps. The thought that was put into how you can make it your own -- search boxes on the settings menu are mindblowing -- and the overall polish makes it extremely awesome. I expect that IntelliJ is similarly awesome for Java, because Jetbrains makes good stuff.\u003cp\u003eThe few things I can think of offhand that I like about Eclipse are that I can drag tabs of code windows around and it automatically will split however I want (PyCharm doesn't let me do that as easily, though it does support split windows Just Fine), and the fact that Eclipse is a de-facto (and FREE) standard IDE that nearly everyone has examples for.\u003cp\u003ePyCharm, and IntelliJ by extension, has been the first IDE I've ever used that I've felt was worth spending money on.","parent":"5713734","id":"5713919"}
{"by":"duaneb","time":"1383047738","timestamp":"2013-10-29 11:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Not having a facebook account means that you are sabotaging your own communications effectiveness\u003cp\u003eMaybe if your social group consists of teenage girls, but who uses Facebook for serious communication these days? What I see from my newsfeed is a mixture of a photo repository, a phone book, and a \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m passing through town are you available\u0026quot; bit. I don\u0026#x27;t recall having ever been hindered seriously by having a deactivated account.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I should also note that this wasn\u0026#x27;t true 4-6 years ago, but I was also still in school.","parent":"6633095","id":"6633365"}
{"by":"kenferry","time":"1437173792","timestamp":"2015-07-17 22:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an amazing video:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=WCcxwieuDH0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=WCcxwieuDH0\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA colorblind person tries these glasses on without knowing what they are. :-)","parent":"9903562","id":"9905831"}
{"by":"etruong42","time":"1313529849","timestamp":"2011-08-16 21:24:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you hire someone, you are paying them to make you money, not necessarily to give full effort. If that employee is netting you a loss (don't forget opportunity cost) whether from incompetence and/or incompatibility, you let them go. Otherwise, you keep them. You can only incentivize them to be more productive if they're not putting forth \"full effort\", and in my experience, it requires a balanced laxness/strictness of scheduling, among other factors, such as bonuses, raises, interesting work, etc. But since you already accounted for opportunity cost in your hiring considerations, you've already made the best hire you could. The fact that an employee puts forth 20% effort shouldn't be a source of frustration; your only real consideration should be your next profit-maximizing move.","parent":"2892623","id":"2892952"}
{"by":"prolikewh0a","time":"1536423987","timestamp":"2018-09-08 16:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The Pharma industry has been \u0026quot;caught\u0026quot; many times preferring and in some cases preventing development of \u0026quot;cures\u0026quot; to instead sell long lasting treatments.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnbc.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnbc.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17939868","id":"17941489"}
{"by":"cbsmith","time":"1453151847","timestamp":"2016-01-18 21:17:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, it shouldn\u0026#x27;t have corners of undefined or unwanted behaviour. That\u0026#x27;s kind of the point.\u003cp\u003eObviously though, there is a huge advantage to having a single layer of heap management and letting the heap management algorithm have the best insight in to how memory is being used and needed. Rolling your own realloc on top of the heap manager is as likely to create new inefficiencies as remove them.","parent":"10925266","id":"10927021"}
{"by":"Zak","time":"1348395161","timestamp":"2012-09-23 10:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Existing Thinkpad fans have been unimpressed with the display on the X1 carbon. You may take that with a grain of salt, as some of us remember when high-end models came with UXGA IPS panels and a few could even be ordered with a QXGA option.","parent":"4560500","id":"4560530"}
{"by":"photojosh","time":"1492043286","timestamp":"2017-04-13 00:28:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the kind of thinking that leads to the JSF\u0026#x2F;F-35. :)","parent":"14099452","id":"14103000"}
{"by":"redm","time":"1522161761","timestamp":"2018-03-27 14:42:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the part that gets lost in all of this is that Sun offered to license Java to Google previously for $100M. [1]  Google turned that down and bypassed Sun because they didn\u0026#x27;t want to pay (or license). At the time, Sun was happy to see Java being used by Google, even without the license. Still, Google knew exactly what they were doing. [2] My point is, they did this to themselves and they knew what they were possibly getting into.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.computerworld.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2509401\u0026#x2F;technology-law-regulation\u0026#x2F;google--sun-offered-to-license-java-for--100m.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.computerworld.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2509401\u0026#x2F;technology-law...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnet.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;why-oracle-not-sun-sued-google-over-java\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnet.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;why-oracle-not-sun-sued-google-ove...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Added the second reference and cleaned up thoughts.  Included note regarded license as well as pay.","parent":"16688521","id":"16688870"}
{"by":"JBionics","time":"1349291430","timestamp":"2012-10-03 19:10:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the site:\n\"Our goal is to raise $5,000,000.  Our modest crowdfunding goal to get us started is $1,500,000.\"\u003cp\u003e$1.5MM hardly seems modest.","parent":"4608188","id":"4609129"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1337884936","timestamp":"2012-05-24 18:42:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a good point.\u003cp\u003eMy countr(ies) of permanent residence have health care for all.\u003cp\u003eAlso, checkout what happened when I took a foreigner into the ER in a Third World country (Ecuador) [1]\u003cp\u003eWhen I made the journey, I got a bunch of immunizations (free in Canada) and the doctor had lived and worked in Central and South America for many years. His advice was not to bother with Travel Insurance, because outside America, it would be cheaper to just pay for whatever I needed than pay the premiums, then deductibles, the deal with the hassle. Health-care is only unimaginably expensive in America. In other countries it's priced reasonably and I'm certain something like a root canal or even a broken bone would not have made a significant impact to my budget.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"http://theroadchoseme.com/heath-care-in-a-third-world-country\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://theroadchoseme.com/heath-care-in-a-third-world-countr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4019783","id":"4019846"}
{"by":"sjtgraham","time":"1385927160","timestamp":"2013-12-01 19:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is spot on.\u003cp\u003eAll sorts of people I rarely speak with have been coming out of the woodwork to ask about Bitcoin. These people are invariably regular folks that have heard about this thing that has been appreciating at an unbelievable clip. This is extremely alarming for me.","parent":"6828740","id":"6828876"}
{"by":"davidm","time":"1396380772","timestamp":"2014-04-01 19:32:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Drop the \u0026#x2F;2048 from the end of the url and replace it with \u0026#x2F;hi\u0026#x2F;start\u0026#x2F;json\nIt really does appear to respond as advertised!\u003cp\u003eIs this the most elaborate April fool of the day?","parent":"7510951","id":"7511053"}
{"by":"STRML","time":"1419954083","timestamp":"2014-12-30 15:41:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thinness is the critical problem, and to be honest with most consumer electronics (phones especially; please give me a larger, replaceable battery), I wish they would stop the race to the bottom and instead deliver more functional and longer-lasting productions.\u003cp\u003eI have an rMBP 15\u0026quot; and a 15\u0026quot; Lenovo Y500. The Y500 cost less than half of the rMBP for equivalent performance but the experience, battery, screen, trackpad, etc are of course much better on the Mac. But for intensive tasks, even with nearly identical internals and the same OS, the Y500 is far more pleasant to use. Say what you want about Lenovo and the terrible things they\u0026#x27;ve done to their laptops in the last few years, but the Y500 is designed to expel heat in the least obtrusive manner possible and it does an amazing job.\u003cp\u003eAt full bore, all cores, maybe a game, the Y500 happily pushes \u003ci\u003ea lot\u003c/i\u003e of air out the side vent, and the keyboard, trackpad, bezels, etc., stay very cool.\u003cp\u003eWith the same workload, the rMBP gets very, very hot and seems to blow a small amount of air out of the keyboard (?), occasionally burning my fingers, It\u0026#x27;s loud and very uncomfortable to use.\u003cp\u003eIn a sense it definitely makes me feel like I overpaid for the extra speed, since I can\u0026#x27;t use it comfortably anyway.","parent":"8814059","id":"8814983"}
{"by":"chongli","time":"1436631267","timestamp":"2015-07-11 16:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the reason for closing the question is that it\u0026#x27;s already been answered then why not simply redirect to the answer? What is the point of having a dead-end?","parent":"9870283","id":"9870314"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1466865569","timestamp":"2016-06-25 14:39:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the link. I didn\u0026#x27;t know Cantrill basically imploded. His gripes on Pike\u0026#x27;s comment and industry mimicked my own. He\u0026#x27;s way overstating how much people ignore the system level as there\u0026#x27;s active projects handling it funded by NSF, DARPA, and EU with a practical focus. Most practical being ones with defense contractors (esp Galois) or actual engineers partnered in. Quite a few going from software to firmware to hardware with some to the gates. He could possibly enjoy himself and do some good getting hooked into one of those groups to cover pragmatic, real-world aspects plus spot opportunities as development goes on.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;beleive nix* (as in e.g. NixOS) could be a silver bullet here\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eCome on, now. Try to avoid that trap. You need to look at what the market needs in compatibility\u0026#x2F;legacy, production worthiness, talent to aid deployment\u0026#x2F;support, security, and so on. Always consider these plus target markets when evaluating any software platform. NixOS at first glance appears to fall short in quite a few.\u003cp\u003eNow, what I do like about NixOS is its declarative, transaction-oriented packaging. That\u0026#x27;s great if implemented well given my Linux distro\u0026#x27;s screw that stuff up to this day when I install an odd package with one incompatibility in it. Irreparably breaks system or appears to. (rolls eyes) Source-based is debatable but allows site-specific optimizations. I\u0026#x27;m barely in the debate but lean against systemd, which Cantrill\u0026#x27;s post mentions incidentally, as it\u0026#x27;s too complex to be in critical position it inhabits. Critics pointed out a simple thing in its spot plus less privileged services doing management or whatever. Consistent with best practices from high-integrity \u0026amp; high-security engineering going back decades. So, I see it as a weakness albeit a small one in larger picture.\u003cp\u003eSo, there\u0026#x27;s my two cents on that link and claim.","parent":"11975709","id":"11976445"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1450739019","timestamp":"2015-12-21 23:03:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with your points about incentive management, but I think it\u0026#x27;s not me who thinks about a very specific meaning of \u0026quot;game design\u0026quot;. I think about the usual one, which is making \u003ci\u003egames\u003c/i\u003e - stuff people do for fun, as opposed to work. I read your comment as extending the meaning of \u0026quot;game\u0026quot; to encompass all the stuff that can be \u003ci\u003egamified\u003c/i\u003e. So for instance, technical debt as carbon credits is an example of gamification, not of creating a \u003ci\u003egame\u003c/i\u003e - game as in \u003ci\u003efun\u003c/i\u003e, something you participate in as a choice, not an obligation to an external party (not meeting which you can be punished for).","parent":"10773763","id":"10774218"}
{"by":"adam","time":"1525747910","timestamp":"2018-05-08 02:51:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The U.S. Intelligence Community does quite a bit of research in this space that we\u0026#x27;re involved in, we\u0026#x27;re also working with pharma, energy, large manufacturing. The profile (in the commercial space) tends to be very capital intensive orgs\u0026#x2F;projects, where if you can use a prediction market as an \u0026quot;early warning system\u0026quot; by surfacing what people actually know, you can potentially save them a lot of heartache (and money and pissed off\u0026#x2F;laid off employees, etc.)","parent":"17016857","id":"17018456"}
{"by":"RuadhanMc","time":"1313408263","timestamp":"2011-08-15 11:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A citation is not needed.\u003cp\u003eIt's obvious that he is expressing an opinion. Those who disagree with him can express an opposing opinion. Just because someone says something, doesn't mean that they need to back it up in any scientific way, especially in a community based around discussing ideas and sharing opinions.","parent":"2886227","id":"2886344"}
{"by":"hkarthik","time":"1337720501","timestamp":"2012-05-22 21:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice, I figured there'd be a brew for it. I'll give that a shot. Thanks!","parent":"4009511","id":"4009977"}
{"by":"abhishekdesai","time":"1228480042","timestamp":"2008-12-05 12:27:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats good number and good amount of time in a day you spend for reading. But how useful those 30+ posts blogs are? I unsubscribed mashable because of the same reason and I don't think I am missing anything.","parent":"386907","id":"386931"}
{"by":"hobolord","time":"1525299658","timestamp":"2018-05-02 22:20:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pretty amazing surfing on the island at Tofino, but that\u0026#x27;s a bit more of a trek. Also diving as well","parent":"16981294","id":"16981664"}
{"by":"theoh","time":"1523664864","timestamp":"2018-04-14 00:14:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As I read the comments on this post, the top reply contains multiple mathematical symbols which aren\u0026#x27;t rendering on my recent Android phone. You can\u0026#x27;t pretend that HN has a huge proactive team working on these issues.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m loathe to infer that you think that the problem is \u0026quot;me\u0026quot; because I think the underlying question is whether the comments should be a friendly place for people who do not have time or inclination to read the article. You may see that as an appalling, lazy, degeneration in discourse; the reality is that reading the comments without wading through a blog post is a valid tactic. If clearer methods of quoting were available the two or three of us involved here would have wasted less time.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;engineer-forward\u0026quot; alternative in which everyone strives to speak from a totalizing position of authority is just, frankly (as a technical person myself) unattainable.","parent":"16834744","id":"16835019"}
{"by":"diN0bot","time":"1229039329","timestamp":"2008-12-11 23:48:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"snap","parent":"394853","id":"395078"}
{"by":"walrus01","time":"1541062147","timestamp":"2018-11-01 08:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they are successful with some sort of most-flat-panel phased array that can talk to two or three satellites simultaneously, I don\u0026#x27;t think it will be quite as obvious on a roof as a 1.2m cheap small VSAT... But it will still need to be big enough to have sufficient gain for a real link budget, and CNR ratios for complex modulations.\u003cp\u003eAnd its EIRP to Tx to a satellite \u0026gt;300km away at bitrates of 0.5 Mbps or better will be easy to find with portable spectrum analyzers hooked up to directional horn antennas.","parent":"18352159","id":"18352198"}
{"by":"michaeltsai","time":"1385540243","timestamp":"2013-11-27 08:17:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this would be great","parent":"6806431","id":"6807077"}
{"by":"Valmar","time":"1515582294","timestamp":"2018-01-10 11:04:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sums up the whole debate debate in a nutshell.","parent":"16113540","id":"16114061"}
{"by":"lihaciudaniel","time":"1536315223","timestamp":"2018-09-07 10:13:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everyone wants to be boss and take decision but nobody wants to take responsibility for their actions, that\u0026#x27;s why we have middle managers.\u003cp\u003eTo be fair the CEO\u0026#x2F;Entrepreneur is the one who brings the startup and ideas to life that\u0026#x27;s why he is the most talked about.","parent":"17933007","dead":true,"id":"17933107"}
{"by":"jcelerier","time":"1501537306","timestamp":"2017-07-31 21:41:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; How is QML different from XAML?\u003cp\u003eQML is a declarative \u0026amp; reactive programming language, while XAML (and FXML mentioned earlier) are only for markup.\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t do this in pure XAML:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Item { \n    x: 5\n    y: x + 2\n    Timer { \n      onTriggered: x = x+1; \n      interval: 50 \n    }\n  }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHere, every 50 milliseconds, x would be updated, and y would be updated automatically accordingly to the new value of x.","parent":"14895161","id":"14896133"}
{"by":"caf","time":"1533084107","timestamp":"2018-08-01 00:41:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hold up.\u003cp\u003eSomewhere between \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;handing out pamphlets in Hyde Park\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e and Twitter there were plenty of \u003ci\u003eother\u003c/i\u003e shifts in communication patterns as well.  There was a good 100 years or so where if you wanted to be heard you had to get your message into a newspaper, and then another 50 years where you also had the alternatives of TV and radio.  All of these were controlled by corporate interests, and it\u0026#x27;s not like there was ever a right to have your Letter To The Editor published.","parent":"17656927","id":"17658661"}
{"by":"apercu","time":"1539629333","timestamp":"2018-10-15 18:48:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last number I heard, 6 million. I\u0026#x27;m one of them. State department last said there was an estimated 9 million. I\u0026#x27;ve also heard 3 million. So, 6. lol.\u003cp\u003eStupid US tax laws and FATCA are a major pain in the ass. FATCA made it all more ridiculous. I\u0026#x27;m considering renouncing. Guess what, though? That costs like $3k.","parent":"18222475","id":"18222511"}
{"by":"sixhobbits","time":"1472829702","timestamp":"2016-09-02 15:21:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(2010)","parent":"12412254","id":"12413617"}
{"by":"kej","time":"1493922118","timestamp":"2017-05-04 18:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just print the TOTP QR code and store it in a safe place. Then you can set up an authenticator on the new phone with the same key as the old one.","parent":"14266863","id":"14267328"}
{"by":"busymichael","time":"1527105751","timestamp":"2018-05-23 20:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I started, it was just to get mylastname.com email for myself and my family. But, now I pretty much use Google Docs exclusively and the cloud sync for all my files and photos.","parent":"17137318","id":"17137671"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1541180733","timestamp":"2018-11-02 17:45:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Makes sense. They keep claiming Skype for Business is dead, but Teams in my opinion is very far away from being a realistic replacement.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve not been very impressed with the desktop application at all (although the web-site is \u0026quot;fine\u0026quot;).","parent":"18365054","id":"18365082"}
{"by":"cortesoft","time":"1515519421","timestamp":"2018-01-09 17:37:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My cousin\u0026#x27;s daughter was killed in a car accident while my wife was pregnant with our daughter. I think about her almost every day, and just have this absolute immense sense of dread when I think about what it would be like to lose her in such a sudden and freak way.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t imagine.","parent":"16106322","id":"16107967"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1543414821","timestamp":"2018-11-28 14:20:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s my secret: I’m always angry","parent":"18551087","id":"18551597"}
{"by":"rms","time":"1187422062","timestamp":"2007-08-18 07:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Imagine what would happen if all the local police and fire departments were deregulated overnight.\u003cp\u003eA basic level of education is something that needs to be provided free for all people. It's even in the UN Declaration of human rights. If we go to to a free market education system, every child will need some sort of grant that they can use to attend some school for free.","parent":"43736","id":"43738"}
{"by":"ithkuil","time":"1346165925","timestamp":"2012-08-28 14:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, interesting. But what if the app communicates via https, how could verizon detect any inner protocol?\u003cp\u003eOr does it happen only when using the ISP as http proxy?","parent":"4443852","id":"4443960"}
{"by":"drderidder","time":"1421257558","timestamp":"2015-01-14 17:45:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Angular emanated some \u0026#x27;project smells\u0026#x27; that have kept me at arms length. The size of the codebase was very large compared to alternatives. Lots of add-on solutions for various problems (ng-this, ng-that) kept cropping up. Articles explaining how to do X or Y in Angular indicated things were probably not as simple as they ought to be. And, it was mainly driven by Google as opposed to a small core team of diverse individuals. The tools that have turned out to be the best in my experience have often had one visionary lead developer, a BDFL-type champion. I expect Angular to appeal more to enterprises, while the early adopters and lean startups shift towards small libraries and microframeworks. I think web components will become more and more important, and that we\u0026#x27;ll begin to see more libraries to assist specifically with data persistence and synchronization between the client and server.","parent":"8886041","id":"8887777"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1438940908","timestamp":"2015-08-07 09:48:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d definitely like to see \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e personal penalty. Though Jobs is already dead.\u003cp\u003eWorth noting: much as I despise Facebook, Zuckerberg did the Right Thing here and \u003ci\u003edidn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e play along (though it\u0026#x27;s not clear whether or not FB reported the collusion).","parent":"10016214","id":"10021636"}
{"by":"leppr","time":"1452386657","timestamp":"2016-01-10 00:44:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But Midori has always been open-source, why would a project made for... oh wait, wrong neighborhood, sorry I\u0026#x27;m out.","parent":"10873153","id":"10873593"}
{"by":"dbarlett","time":"1432058886","timestamp":"2015-05-19 18:08:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.deadmansswitch.net\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.deadmansswitch.net\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9571967","id":"9571980"}
{"by":"0xcafecafe","time":"1536841129","timestamp":"2018-09-13 12:18:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not to mention the antiquated immigration system wherein, a country of birth is given preference over qualifications and pay for granting permanent residency, disadvantaging nationals from populous nations like India and China.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cato.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;150-year-wait-indian-immigrants-advanced-degrees\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cato.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;150-year-wait-indian-immigrants-ad...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know many of my peers from grad school are exiting US after a few years of grad school due to this.","parent":"17975030","id":"17977984"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1528664460","timestamp":"2018-06-10 21:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People forget that the B in BASIC stands for \u003ci\u003ebeginners\u003c/i\u003e, and for this purpose it\u0026#x27;s been tremendously successful. There\u0026#x27;s a real tension between the kind of languages that are preferred by users and those that are preferred by CS theorists.","parent":"17279025","id":"17280117"}
{"by":"Strilanc","time":"1462377441","timestamp":"2016-05-04 15:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh! Didn\u0026#x27;t realize you would see this. Gives me the opportunity to say thanks for the simulator. I found it really useful for learning. So useful for sanity checks.\u003cp\u003e(Speaking of measurement. Quirk allows measurement... but it cheats. It refuses to let you hit measured qubits with operations that would superpose them again w.r.t. the computational basis. So the deferred measurement principle [1] applies, and there\u0026#x27;s no need to use density matrices and square the simulation cost.)\u003cp\u003e1: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Deferred_Measurement_Principle\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Deferred_Measurement_Principle\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11629195","id":"11629233"}
{"by":"notaddicted","time":"1280032361","timestamp":"2010-07-25 04:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"If less is more, then too little can be too much.\"","parent":"1544885","id":"1544976"}
{"by":"zmmmmm","time":"1281498508","timestamp":"2010-08-11 03:48:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn't a normal Android user's experience.   I have had to reboot my Nexus One a few times when it seemed to be behaving strangely (laggy, screwed up multitouch)  - but I'm talking about 3 times in three months.","parent":"1592729","id":"1593753"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1254479974","timestamp":"2009-10-02 10:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only reason I see why people would complain about adblockers is rather destructive: because I have to suffer (seeing ads), everybody else should have to suffer, too. Other than that, I really don't understand - does the advertiser get his value if I see the ad even though I hate it?\u003cp\u003eSeems to me rather the opposite: since I hate ads enough to bother installing an ad blocker, seeing an ad might actually induce \u003ci\u003enegative\u003c/i\u003e feelings towards that company in me (perhaps psychology can prove me wrong, but my feeling is that ads can affect me in a negative way). Also, since I sure as hell will \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e click on those ads, showing them to me anyway will bring the clickthrough rate of the site down. So it might also be a net loss for the site owner, who has to sell the ads for less.\u003cp\u003eLooking at an ad is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e the same as paying for something. It is not a productive action. By giving somebody money, something productive has taken place (I produced something to earn that money, receiver can pay somebody else to produce something). Looking at an ad on the other hand is purely destructive - my time was simply wasted, I did  not produce anything in the time I wasted with the ad.","parent":"856029","id":"856735"}
{"by":"lawnchair_larry","time":"1437239504","timestamp":"2015-07-18 17:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He has asperger\u0026#x27;s.","parent":"9907125","dead":true,"id":"9908114"}
{"by":"mayank","time":"1515464943","timestamp":"2018-01-09 02:29:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use Mailgun to trigger a POST to your Cloud Function on receiving an email. Bonus: all the parsing is done for you.","parent":"16102123","id":"16103024"}
{"by":"technofiend","time":"1525270371","timestamp":"2018-05-02 14:12:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For some free lab time until the new commercial offerings arrive, try play with k8s: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;labs.play-with-k8s.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;labs.play-with-k8s.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16976505","id":"16977040"}
{"by":"darawk","time":"1546889903","timestamp":"2019-01-07 19:38:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually they don\u0026#x27;t:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencealert.com\u0026#x2F;the-true-story-of-a-man-who-survived-without-any-food-for-382-days\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencealert.com\u0026#x2F;the-true-story-of-a-man-who-sur...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18847905","id":"18849125"}
{"by":"wscott","time":"1539172676","timestamp":"2018-10-10 11:57:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And there are related efforts to upgrade the lisp used in emacs to a more modern and standardized version.\u003cp\u003eI think it is GuileEmacs I am remembering.\u003cp\u003eI hope to two efforts are compatible.","parent":"18182742","id":"18183986"}
{"by":"belorn","time":"1363000307","timestamp":"2013-03-11 11:11:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anecdotal evidence on movies and games :). Mostly based on reviews.\u003cp\u003eStarCraft II was one of the most silliest examples of this. The characters are one-dimensional to the point of being laughable. This is a game which had almost unlimited budget, and they just fail horrible at having an original story. I dare people to watch the cinematics say that the male roles are typical of the human male population.\u003cp\u003eBut the more telling part, is that I would have to dig into the indy scene if I even wanted a bit originality in the story. I can't find a single AAA game that have original and well fleshed out characters, and a interesting story. At best, one would have to look at the walking dead which copies that from the TV-show.\u003cp\u003eMovies... pre-2000, we had a bunch of james bond copies. After that, we got the expendable? The new die hard? Any of the teenage vampire movies?\u003cp\u003eThe one with good story and good character looks to be mostly remakes of older movies or comic/book made-movie, or animations. Wreck-It Ralph is a clear example of good characters.","parent":"5355775","id":"5355982"}
{"by":"willcodeforfoo","time":"1352680753","timestamp":"2012-11-12 00:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is Monofur: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dafont.com/monofur.font\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.dafont.com/monofur.font\u003c/a\u003e, IMO it looks better on slides in small doses than in an editor all day long.","parent":"4770698","id":"4771129"}
{"by":"viseztrance","time":"1370109958","timestamp":"2013-06-01 18:05:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally I'm more interested of hearing from people that work part time and still earn a good pay check.","parent":"5804798","id":"5805118"}
{"by":"uptownhr","time":"1505427164","timestamp":"2017-09-14 22:12:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How did you go about setting this up? Your own framework or any solutions out there?","parent":"15241538","id":"15252922"}
{"by":"vetinari","time":"1522763843","timestamp":"2018-04-03 13:57:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Put:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;telemetry.enableCrashReporter\u0026quot;: false,\n\u0026quot;telemetry.enableTelemetry\u0026quot;: false,\u003cp\u003einto vscode settings and you are fine wrt telemetry.\u003cp\u003eWhat concerns me more is that the .rpm build is consistently later than other builds. Usually it means, that the user is staring 2 out of 4 weeks every month on update notification, that cannot be used, because the build is not ready yet.\u003cp\u003eIt brings back the memories of MSIE and WMP that used to be available for Solaris and HP-UX, always slightly later... until they weren\u0026#x27;t and the users were left in the dark.","parent":"16743724","id":"16744604"}
{"by":"fedd","time":"1300782457","timestamp":"2011-03-22 08:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"our school teacher has a mail.ru account the password for which is known by all the parents. if we're ill, we go there and see the homework :) anyone may change the password eventually as many people are not that internet savvy, i am always afraid of it\u003cp\u003eshe should use dropbox, google docs or have a mailing list, but i don't know how to say that. she knows only web mail as it's around for decades...","parent":"2353565","id":"2353576"}
{"by":"jedberg","time":"1543537403","timestamp":"2018-11-30 00:23:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I usually travel with my family, so the room upgrades are nice because we could use the extra space.  Also, being guaranteed a room anywhere as long as I book 24 hours in advance is a nice perk.  And often we get free food.","parent":"18564869","id":"18565509"}
{"by":"ethank","time":"1379794475","timestamp":"2013-09-21 20:14:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Starting my DA20 is much less involved and you get to shout \u0026quot;clear the prop\u0026quot; which is satisfying. :)","parent":"6423499","id":"6424301"}
{"by":"jbackus","time":"1365844728","timestamp":"2013-04-13 09:18:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Twitter is already in a very difficult to monetize space. Why are they expanding into another comparably difficult to monetize space?","parent":"5541081","id":"5542965"}
{"by":"FlorinAndrei","time":"1274472634","timestamp":"2010-05-21 20:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think there's any debate on the fact that, given enough time, research will eventually figure out how to stop and reverse the changes brought by aging.\u003cp\u003eThe debate is - whether this can be done soon, as opposed to 10000 years from now.\u003cp\u003eI certainly wish that AdG was right. But is he? I'm not sure. Maybe he is (yay!), maybe not.","parent":"1368509","id":"1368632"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1505317691","timestamp":"2017-09-13 15:48:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That already happened with Daily Stormer: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.propublica.org\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;spurned-by-major-companies-the-daily-stormer-returns-to-the-web\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.propublica.org\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;spurned-by-major-companie...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI imagine it might be easier to make some niche profit in Cloudflare\u0026#x27;s business. Not so sure with Twitter, partly because Twitter itself isn\u0026#x27;t profitable, but also because the main feature of social media services is their ubiquity and userbase. Even if Voat were decidedly a better site than Reddit, it just wasn\u0026#x27;t that interesting to revisit a sparsely populated discussion site. Especially one weighted toward folks who wanted to discuss the things that Reddit wanted to ban.","parent":"15239322","id":"15239414"}
{"by":"praveenbeatle","time":"1499528111","timestamp":"2017-07-08 15:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Medium - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMIT Technology Review - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.technologyreview.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.technologyreview.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHacker News - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBloomberg - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bloomberg.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAudible(Once a Month) - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.audible.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.audible.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaking Up Podcast by Sam Harris -\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.samharris.org\u0026#x2F;podcast\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.samharris.org\u0026#x2F;podcast\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14724092","dead":true,"id":"14725737"}
{"by":"wbhart","time":"1443553384","timestamp":"2015-09-29 19:03:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a little bit more information in Fredrik J\u0026#x27;s blog post: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fredrikj.net\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;finding-nemo\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fredrikj.net\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;finding-nemo\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10296553","id":"10298676"}
{"by":"defined","time":"1505351669","timestamp":"2017-09-14 01:14:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hell indeed.\u003cp\u003eIn the days leading up to Irma, it was already like the apocalypse. You couldn\u0026#x27;t get gasoline, water, plywood, or non-perishable goods for love or money. You couldn\u0026#x27;t drive away because the roads were jammed. Closer to the storm, you couldn\u0026#x27;t get to a shelter because they were full. Airports shut down. There was nowhere to run (or hide, really).\u003cp\u003eDuring the storm, once the winds got to 40 mph, you were on your own - no 911, no police, no fire department. If someone decided to brave the storm and break into your house, it was up to you to defend yourself.\u003cp\u003eAfter the storm, there was no power, many roads were impassable, no gasoline, no food, no water, no sanitation, no way to flush toilets without using precious water.\u003cp\u003eIt was a relatively short, but terrifying preview of what a prolonged loss of electricity would do. I think Scientific American compared the power output of a major hurricane to one 10 megaton nuclear bomb explosion every 20 minutes.\u003cp\u003eIf anyone wants to know what a post-apocalyptic world looks like, take an area hit by a major hurricane, remove FEMA, medical support, and law enforcement, and multiply that by a couple of orders of magnitude.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a lot more real when you\u0026#x27;ve been an unwilling participant.","parent":"15237077","id":"15244230"}
{"by":"pasbesoin","time":"1296589345","timestamp":"2011-02-01 19:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Somewhat OT.  What does a Netflix streamed movie consume, these days?  I recall looking some months ago on their site, but I couldn't find any hard numbers (leaving the impression on me that this was on purpose).\u003cp\u003eI guess next time I watch one, I can fire up a monitor.\u003cp\u003e--\u003cp\u003eEDIT:  Answering myself, partially.  My Google-fu is apparently a bit better, today.\u003cp\u003eThis is a bit dated, but provides some figures (bless dslreports):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22164481-Netflix-bandwidth-Is-1GBhr-at-HD-accurate\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22164481-Netflix-bandwidth-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt also cites this link:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://blog.netflix.com/2008/11/encoding-for-streaming.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.netflix.com/2008/11/encoding-for-streaming.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's probably better information, but this seems to provide enough of a ballpark for my current interest, the one caveat being any changes in the year or two since.","parent":"2165372","id":"2166988"}
{"by":"abdulhaq","time":"1282031307","timestamp":"2010-08-17 07:48:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You and me both are ignorant about so much of world, but when we see how what we do know about it is so mistakenly represented in the media, it's a big concern. After the world trade center bombings the BBC news on the TV ran a piece in a classroom in the US and the teacher told the kids that the bombings happened because \"they don't like our way of life\". Frighteningly I think a lot of Americans still believe that.","parent":"1608486","id":"1610532"}
{"by":"everydaypanos","time":"1404066839","timestamp":"2014-06-29 18:33:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still in no-www camp!","parent":"7961415","dead":true,"id":"7961947"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1498165108","timestamp":"2017-06-22 20:58:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it\u0026#x27;s ES6. Class hierarchies, promises, etc, were liberately left out of JavaScript. ES6 is something, but it\u0026#x27;s not JavaScript. Sadly the brand was hijacked.","parent":"14614636","id":"14615308"}
{"by":"brandnewlow","time":"1219613106","timestamp":"2008-08-24 21:25:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a startup opportunity for a service that takes applications and places students in apprenticeships, internships and specialized training in fields they show aptitude in?  Like a headhunter for high school kids.  Companies pay a finders fee to the startup, the startup team is responsible for only passing along great candidates.\u003cp\u003eI'm a former Ivy League admissions officer.  I could see a few people from that world wanting to be a part of something like that.  I read 2000 applications while I was there and many, many of those kids could have benefited from an alternative route...there just wasn't one.","parent":"285107","id":"285412"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1353667527","timestamp":"2012-11-23 10:45:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would be somewhat more tolerant of \"required to wear RFID badge\" if it were done for safety purposes -- for instance, to maintain accountability over a group 5-6 year olds, or on a trip, or if someone was \"special needs\" (emotionally/mentally disabled) and prone to running off.\u003cp\u003eThere are lots of advantages of RFID/NFC over magstripe or 2d barcode, even for simple applications like cafeteria payment -- faster reads, and the readers themselves are far more robust.\u003cp\u003eIssuing the cards with an RF shield envelope pretty much solves legitimate complaints.  It turns it from a passive monitoring technology to something active, and it's maybe ok to require people to badge-in to get access to places with expensive or stealable assets -- badge into the computer lab, library, etc.","parent":"4819832","id":"4821771"}
{"by":"shocks","time":"1349455652","timestamp":"2012-10-05 16:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cannot filter by profitable/non-profitable.","parent":"4616000","id":"4617607"}
{"by":"vbtemp","time":"1336435397","timestamp":"2012-05-08 00:03:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is really interesting. I'm planning my own limited invite-only beta rollout. However, this isn't the first time I heard it's a time-waster.\u003cp\u003eDoes anyone else have opinions on this?","parent":"3940041","id":"3941524"}
{"by":"chopsueyar","time":"1306844753","timestamp":"2011-05-31 12:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps he needed a working laptop first?\u003cp\u003eHow else was he to access his private key?","parent":"2601945","id":"2602263"}
{"by":"jh3","time":"1309746873","timestamp":"2011-07-04 02:34:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It did good on everything but the songs for me. It would be nice if the username was still filled in when you hit back.","parent":"2723800","id":"2725180"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1296695516","timestamp":"2011-02-03 01:11:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha: \"[After all,] \u003ci\u003ethe modern petroleum industry is a direct outgrowth of the practice of going out in wooden, wind-driven ships to hunt sperm whales with hand-hurled spears and then boiling their heads to make lamp fuel.\u003c/i\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eGod, that guy has a way with words.","parent":"2172398","id":"2173083"}
{"by":"vertex-four","time":"1392169747","timestamp":"2014-02-12 01:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends. When I\u0026#x27;m looking up lyrics, I\u0026#x27;m looking them up to try to figure out what they mean. Before RapGenius, the only decent crowd-sourced lyric meanings site was SongMeanings. RapGenius, on the other hand, has a much better interface for allowing the community to pick apart songs, without any of the shady stuff (on the site itself, at least).","parent":"7221762","id":"7221959"}
{"by":"skrebbel","time":"1395752812","timestamp":"2014-03-25 13:06:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it ever possible to have both security and deniability? Aren\u0026#x27;t they kind of intrinsically opposed?\u003cp\u003eI mean, is the same argument to keep security off your home wifi router so that if the MPAA goes after you for seeding torrents, you can claim that it might\u0026#x27;ve been the neighbour.","parent":"7465499","id":"7465570"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1428446016","timestamp":"2015-04-07 22:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What forms of discrimination does tptacek\u0026#x27;s argument not apply to?\u003cp\u003eIs there some reason that irrational taste-based discrimination would not trigger candidate embarrassment and self-selection, but rational lawsuit-fear based discrimination would? (More precisely, rational in a world where tptacek\u0026#x27;s hypothetical perfect market self-regulation mechanism did not apply, but irrational in such a world.)","parent":"9337516","id":"9337624"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1349033820","timestamp":"2012-09-30 19:37:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The principal that prevents the police from attaching GPS devices to your car has less to do with the scope of surveillance and more to do with the fact that the police have to violate your personal property to accomplish it.","parent":"4593539","id":"4593848"}
{"by":"themodelplumber","time":"1455670085","timestamp":"2016-02-17 00:48:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; or there\u0026#x27;s some sort of corruption around it.\u003cp\u003eDoes this project count as \u0026quot;public procurement?\u0026quot; If so the chances of corruption would seem higher:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Corruption_in_Morocco\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Corruption_in_Morocco\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11114127","id":"11114328"}
{"by":"godelmachine","time":"1540635727","timestamp":"2018-10-27 10:22:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"India has proved itself to be a politically and militarily responsible country unlike its western neighbour, which floundered embarrassingly at even basic human rights.","parent":"18315063","id":"18315150"}
{"by":"martythemaniak","time":"1243139587","timestamp":"2009-05-24 04:33:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how many developers get fucked over by Apple without being able to generate the press that this and other apps in the same situation were able to.","parent":"624045","id":"624112"}
{"by":"gweinberg","time":"1376758239","timestamp":"2013-08-17 16:50:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve never understood how a format can be \u0026quot;lossy\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;lossless\u0026quot; in the first place. It seems to me that the format specifies how the image data should be rendered on a display device and any \u0026quot;loss\u0026quot; that occurs us always a result of the encoding process. For that matter, the concept of loss only makes sense if you start with a pixmap, and that is not always the case.","parent":"6229116","id":"6229568"}
{"by":"getsat","time":"1305904177","timestamp":"2011-05-20 15:09:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, the first time you take a site from nothing to large scale is awesome. :)","parent":"2567928","id":"2567955"}
{"by":"combatentropy","time":"1475788611","timestamp":"2016-10-06 21:16:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a little disappointing if the :has selector never makes it into stylesheets, just JavaScript\u0026#x27;s querySelector. Then again I\u0026#x27;m thankful for what we already have. For example, even the old :hover selector seems to me like it would have been slow, but it\u0026#x27;s not. Others like :checked, :disabled, and :target further eliminate some JavaScript. HTML 5 eliminates more, like autofocus, datepickers, and most form checking (I think? I haven\u0026#x27;t used it much.)\u003cp\u003eThe :has selector would have wiped out all but about 2% of my JavaScript needs. Don\u0026#x27;t get me wrong. I don\u0026#x27;t mind JavaScript as much as other people. In fact, I kind of like it. But given the choice between declarative (CSS) and procedural (JavaScript) it\u0026#x27;s generally shorter to use declarative.","parent":"12655194","id":"12656181"}
{"by":"udp","time":"1542811121","timestamp":"2018-11-21 14:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also in the UK, and I can\u0026#x27;t remember the last time I actually \u003ci\u003ebought\u003c/i\u003e a phone outright.  I resigned myself years ago to paying ~£40\u0026#x2F;mo for a contract and insurance.  Every 2 years I get an upgrade to the latest iPhone.","parent":"18502900","id":"18502951"}
{"by":"cpsempek","time":"1486066259","timestamp":"2017-02-02 20:10:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do as well, to some extent. However, let us never lose sight of the fact that any foundational axioms (e.g., ZFC) are decided upon on a purely philosophical basis. It is interesting to see such philosophical consideration around the \u0026quot;behavior\u0026quot; of truths when reading about Frege\u0026#x27;s early developments in propositional logic.","parent":"13553838","id":"13554153"}
{"by":"yogrish","time":"1537260370","timestamp":"2018-09-18 08:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not to be Cynical,Somehow the article sounded like a sales pitch for \u0026quot;Wavesense\u0026quot;. They too want to have pie out in the self driving race. As mentioned in the article, each sensor(Radar,Lidar,Camera) has a limitation on its own. But, Self driving cars depend not just on one sensor but on Fused output of sensor. Also, they use V2V, HD maps and GPS\u0026#x2F;DR for localisation. Wavesense is another sensor that can solve localisation problem. They too might have difficulty in cases where there are fallen metal objects that reflect different signatures, causing trouble. More the sensors, more the confidence for Self driving.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Grammar \u0026amp; some terminology","parent":"18010794","id":"18013549"}
{"by":"rhplus","time":"1330893362","timestamp":"2012-03-04 20:36:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn't Push email provide exactly the same functionality for both parties without any dependency on Apple's hardware or services?","parent":"3663741","id":"3663879"}
{"by":"adamcharnock","time":"1483619437","timestamp":"2017-01-05 12:30:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with a lot of the discussion here around what 150 employees are\u0026#x2F;were actually doing. I also wonder – as some other commenters have mentioned – what Facebook\u0026#x2F;Twitter\u0026#x2F;Google do with their many thousand employees.\u003cp\u003eHowever, the more I reflect on it the less I feel this is isolated to tech. What on Earth do 55,000[1] employees find to do at Morgen Stanley for example, or 200,000[2] employees at Ford?\u003cp\u003eI see two possible options:\u003cp\u003e1. This is just a limit of human perception. Companies do so much stuff it is hard for us to conceptualise.\u003cp\u003e2. Some combination of bullshit jobs \u0026amp; making work for ourselves.\u003cp\u003eI find the former believable simply because there are a hell of a lot of humans and 90% ish have a job.\u003cp\u003eThe latter quickly leads to me to wonder: do we as a society bias towards job creation regardless of its function.\u003cp\u003eI therefore suspect both are the case, at least to some extent.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Morgan_Stanley\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Morgan_Stanley\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ford_Motor_Company\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ford_Motor_Company\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13321322","id":"13326593"}
{"by":"tomohawk","time":"1479554671","timestamp":"2016-11-19 11:24:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, they were a search company.  You could finally locate things reasonably on the internet.  Before long, what we know exists on the internet is determined by one company.\u003cp\u003eLater on, they offered email services.  It\u0026#x27;s a great service except that there\u0026#x27;s no privacy.  Ads and searches get even more targetted, but we get free email, right?\u003cp\u003eNow, they offer a nice place to park your data, a suite of office tools, phones, video streaming, ...  Everything so convenient - how did we ever exist without all of this?\u003cp\u003eTheir latest project?  Taking sides in a partisan election.  After all, they can probably do the best opposition research and get out the vote research since they have access to everyone\u0026#x27;s data.  So helpful.","parent":"12992778","id":"12992971"}
{"by":"Baeocystin","time":"1481868493","timestamp":"2016-12-16 06:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Water is worth it in very specific locations, because we can build a dam and let the natural shape of the Earth do the heavy lifting.\u003cp\u003eBut a dry system, relying on weights?  There isn\u0026#x27;t a material that is dense enough to make it worthwhile.  Even a boxcar full of granite would need to be orders of magnitude heavier than it is for gravity storage to be economically useful.","parent":"13191040","id":"13191414"}
{"by":"Swizec","time":"1533025405","timestamp":"2018-07-31 08:23:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The abstract talks a lot about advice giving creating a \u003ci\u003esense\u003c/i\u003e of power.\u003cp\u003eBut does it also \u003ci\u003ecreate\u003c/i\u003e power?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know enough about this field to answer that question for myself, so I\u0026#x27;m raising it to the HN hivemind.","parent":"17643832","id":"17651462"}
{"by":"techstrategist","time":"1537720931","timestamp":"2018-09-23 16:42:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just read a related book, “The Shockwave Rider” from 1975, which apparently Brennan said was derived from “Future Shock”. Despite some big misses in predicting future tech, it was a very interesting exploration of the effects of rapid change on individuals and society, and of course the protagonist smart enough to ride the wave. Looking forward to watching this and reading Future Shock.\u003cp\u003eSome highlights:\u003cp\u003e- Plug in culture for skilled workers, seamlessly moving from city to city and leaving everything behind.\u003cp\u003e- A few asteroid mining companies have huge clout with government and dominate the economy. Huge benefits and protections for executives. Higher access to restricted data.\u003cp\u003e- Average joes reduced to tribalism and street fighting.\u003cp\u003e- Delphi prediction market allowing people to bet on and influence social change.","parent":"18049795","id":"18051863"}
{"by":"mgiannopoulos","time":"1481734961","timestamp":"2016-12-14 17:02:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook and Stripe pledged to support the project but apparently(?) forgot that after 31\u0026#x2F;Dec\u0026#x2F;2015 a new year comes in...\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Facebook and Stripe are each going to sponsor GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) development with commitments of $50,000 per year to help sustain the important work of this open source security project.\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.facebook.com\u0026#x2F;notes\u0026#x2F;protect-the-graph\u0026#x2F;supporting-gnu-privacy-guard\u0026#x2F;1564591893780956\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.facebook.com\u0026#x2F;notes\u0026#x2F;protect-the-graph\u0026#x2F;supporting-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: The official blog confirms that Facebook promised to continue supporting the project\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Lastly, let us confirm that we were meanwhile able to clarify our perceived problem with the Facebook donation promise. This was all due to an unfortunate misunderstanding between us. Facebook will keep on supporting GnuPG in 2016 with a donation of 50000 USD.\u0026lt;\u0026lt; \n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gnupg.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;20160519-gnupg-in-2016.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gnupg.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;20160519-gnupg-in-2016.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13177283","id":"13177487"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1488062986","timestamp":"2017-02-25 22:49:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eLike C or C++ does.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eC is more dynamic than typed. Types are very loosely enforced there and carry little information with them.","parent":"13733944","id":"13734347"}
{"by":"alan_cx","time":"1375996478","timestamp":"2013-08-08 21:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, secret court case, started by a secret spy service gets an email service shut down. We \u003ci\u003eknow\u003c/i\u003e next to nothing, except the service went down, with out an open honest explanation. The owner is left with leaving a cryptic-ish message to their users.\u003cp\u003eSo, I ask again: at what point is it reasonable to use words like fascist, police state, etc? What is a reasonable tipping point?","parent":"6181081","id":"6181974"}
{"by":"scott_s","time":"1308670953","timestamp":"2011-06-21 15:42:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with your edit, and I tried to correct for it.","parent":"2678994","id":"2679213"}
{"by":"j_col","time":"1316013389","timestamp":"2011-09-14 15:16:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah nice, thanks for the tip!","parent":"2996539","id":"2996550"}
{"by":"pizza","time":"1469822952","timestamp":"2016-07-29 20:09:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ADHD medication, 1000%!!","parent":"12186587","id":"12189588"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1287100757","timestamp":"2010-10-14 23:59:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but I'm not sure it matters. This is 3rd grade math. tesseract (an apt name) already posted a link to Lockhart's Lament, and I tend to agree with that, but I also think that before you can really get into the \"beauty\" of math you need to have a firm, memorized command of basic addition and multiplication, because it is not possible to see the beauty of math if you are looking at a beautiful equation for Newtonian motion and have not got \"multiplication by one half\" so firmly internalized that you don't even feel yourself trying to remember what it means.","parent":"1792475","id":"1793153"}
{"by":"optionalparens","time":"1484842193","timestamp":"2017-01-19 16:09:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now mostly retired, but I\u0026#x27;ve been doing game dev for a couple of decades. I would say based on my career and that of my peers, it is more correct to say C or even assembler is the traditional graphics programming language with regard to games. It just depends on your definition. For that matter, if we consider things like CAD, 3D modeling\u0026#x2F;animation (using APIs\u0026#x2F;scripting), movie production, etc. to be graphics programming, again there are some differing results as to which language you use.\u003cp\u003eIt also really depends on what time period we\u0026#x27;re counting as the \u0026quot;start\u0026quot; and if we value older games or periods of higher but simpler productions vs. now. For instance, I wrote quite a lot of code against NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari, Arcade machines, C64, and so on in assembler. 68000-based systems alone are such a huge chunk of sheer volume of games and most of us wrote quite a bit in pure assembler with regard to graphics.\u003cp\u003eOn other systems that were faster or for different game requirements, we definitely used a ton of C, only moving to C++ later. In the case of C++, it\u0026#x27;s almost hard to even call things C++ at times. To be honest, most decent game engines I\u0026#x27;ve worked on essentially use C++ to practically rewrite the language and go to great lengths to avoid some of the primary selling points of C++. It\u0026#x27;s sort of pick and choose some good things about C++ or at least powerful things while avoiding some of the burdens of C with regard to games. Obviously general C++ programming is different, so keep in mind I\u0026#x27;m only referring to professional games programming. As things have progressed, people are indeed using more of what the newer C++ standards offer, but most of the same things still hold true. Where one has a tough argument with regard to graphics is the fact that so much now happens on the GPU, which one can argue is its own thing given stuff like shader languages.","parent":"13436462","id":"13436845"}
{"by":"gfodor","time":"1432918095","timestamp":"2015-05-29 16:48:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m getting an SSL cert error, just FYI.","parent":"9624043","id":"9625684"}
{"by":"maliman","time":"1479910807","timestamp":"2016-11-23 14:20:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you feedback noted. We\u0026#x27;ll add email login and fine tune the UI soon","parent":"13022602","id":"13022782"}
{"by":"monkeyprojects","time":"1432631884","timestamp":"2015-05-26 09:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having witnessed the destruction of a street vendors stock when he failed to run quick enough the last time we were in Florence I don\u0026#x27;t think there is any tacit understanding.\u003cp\u003eIts a game of cat and mouse. And when the cat arrives the mouse loses out... But there are an awful lot of mice and very few cats...","parent":"9602310","id":"9603647"}
{"by":"jessriedel","time":"1525093894","timestamp":"2018-04-30 13:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you know a better place on the internet? (Honest question.)","parent":"16955495","id":"16958265"}
{"by":"serge2k","time":"1470944901","timestamp":"2016-08-11 19:48:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We’ve developed a world-first low latency streaming protocol built on top of WebRTC and VP8 to do stream delivery with sub-second latency to power the core of our platform.\u003cp\u003eNice. Worked on something kinda like that a couple years ago.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Would you rather have Gates, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner: “Zuckerberg, hands down. He has a unique global perspective on human interaction and communities. We function as an indirect social network for gamers, and Zuckerberg is the king of social.”\u003cp\u003einteresting.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d rank him 3rd. Course this guy grew up with Zuckerberg as king and gates running charities.","parent":"12269175","id":"12271098"}
{"by":"robomc","time":"1307084699","timestamp":"2011-06-03 07:04:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're making something run linux that didn't run linux before, then you're a hacker, in the classic sense.","parent":"2614816","id":"2615440"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1260550022","timestamp":"2009-12-11 16:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tell people I program robot submarines.\u003cp\u003eAnd wait for the awesome to hit them.","parent":"989730","id":"989974"}
{"by":"wellboy","time":"1523011780","timestamp":"2018-04-06 10:49:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do admire them so much. They are one of the worst exchanges when it comes to customer support and there are massive complaints about them holding vast amounts of money of customers hostage?\u003cp\u003eThen comes insider trading during the BCH launch in addition. Coinbase isn\u0026#x27;t well liked in the crypto community and numerous questionable practices definitely can quickly backfire.","parent":"16770194","id":"16772267"}
{"by":"sriramk","time":"1324761611","timestamp":"2011-12-24 21:20:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Happy that all the static code analysis tools from MSR ( which form the basis of /analyze) are getting good PR. Microsoft is great with code analysis tools but rarely gets recognized for it.","parent":"3388290","id":"3389696"}
{"by":"kijin","time":"1505090751","timestamp":"2017-09-11 00:45:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we follow your logic, when do we ever get to excavate anything? We can always anticipate even better technology that could capture even more information. But if we keep waiting, we\u0026#x27;ll end up with no information at all.\u003cp\u003eThe article seems to suggest that the archeologists broke through a concrete barrier during routine excavations at an already heavily disturbed site without realizing that the soil underneath was anaerobic. In that case, it might be better to dig up everything as quickly as possible, since the soil is no longer anaerobic and there will be nothing to see if you wait too long.","parent":"15214942","id":"15215093"}
{"by":"haddr","time":"1396458817","timestamp":"2014-04-02 17:13:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although I think that the article is interesting, I\u0026#x27;m missing some details, like more engineering stuff, rather than high level details.","parent":"7515995","id":"7517096"}
{"by":"fjordan","time":"1314626251","timestamp":"2011-08-29 13:57:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.\u003cp\u003eMany people who haven't dealt with HP in business are unaware of the large amount of enterprise software they provide. For example, HP is one of the largest healthcare software providers. Just go to their website and take a look.","parent":"2936719","id":"2937177"}
{"by":"nnethercote","time":"1333547663","timestamp":"2012-04-04 13:54:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From \u003ca href=\"https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink\u003c/a\u003e:  \"Changes that reduce memory consumption but make Firefox slower are not desirable.\"","parent":"3797164","id":"3797547"}
{"by":"sylvinus","time":"1323718820","timestamp":"2011-12-12 19:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like this kind of resolves the issue for the border property but is not suitable for others?","parent":"3344330","id":"3344637"}
{"by":"smoody","time":"1239990123","timestamp":"2009-04-17 17:42:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \"you get what you pay for\" argument is a weird argument to make. That implies that 10 instances of the o3 solution are delivering the same value as a single f5 box -- value in way you describe -- because, at that point, their dollar cost is the same. If that's the case, then it doesn't really matter which solution I choose, does it?\u003cp\u003eI hate to come off as a f5 hater, because I'm not -- they (you) make good products, but your first argument is essentially dissing the predominant architecture of the Internet -- chaining proxies, \"cobbling together,\" physically separated servers, etc. and yet that general approach to getting things done on the Internet seems to be working just fine -- not only working, but winning out in a very big way. There are very good reasons why the Internet is cobbled together and not running on a single mainframe computer and one giant router.\u003cp\u003eAnd this sentence:  \"The author states: 'The system had no problems handling over 26,590 TPS' which \u003ci\u003eseems to indicate\u003c/i\u003e it was not using the industry standard 1024-bit key based on the core capabilities of the processors to process RSA operations. In fact, 512-bit key certificates are no longer supported by most CAs due to their weak key strength.\" (emphasis added by me)\u003cp\u003eSo, you're not sure about something as important as the key length. Okay. Fine. But the second sentence does not follow from the first. Instead of starting the sentence with \"In fact,\" it should start with \"If they are, in fact, using 512-bit keys (and I have no idea if they are or not), then that might present a problem because...\"\u003cp\u003eI'm going to end there because I need to go tell those pesky kids to get off of my lawn. :-)","parent":"566716","id":"567308"}
{"by":"sillysaurus2","time":"1384133294","timestamp":"2013-11-11 01:28:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My experience with Go was bizarre -- I loved programming in it, but I don\u0026#x27;t understand why!\u003cp\u003eFor example, Go has no REPL.  (It\u0026#x27;s difficult for statically-typed languages to provide one.)  It\u0026#x27;s commonly believed that a REPL is valuable and increases productivity.  So if you were offered the choice, is there any circumstance in which \u0026quot;no REPL\u0026quot; is equally powerful as having one?  Well, the vast majority of great hackers seem to agree that it\u0026#x27;s always superior to have a REPL than to be forced to live without.\u003cp\u003eLots of people love programming in Golang (I especially love to write distributed systems with it!) yet it probably won\u0026#x27;t ever offer us a REPL.    That must mean one of two possibilities are true, both of which are bizarre: either 1) we love Go in spite of being limited by not having a REPL, or 2) having a REPL isn\u0026#x27;t as big of a deal as everyone thought.\u003cp\u003eSo I\u0026#x27;d like to ask all of you: Do we love Go in spite of being held back by it?  If so, then what are the factors that cause us to decide that using Go is worth giving up programming power?  After all, each of us are \u003ci\u003echoosing\u003c/i\u003e to use Go in lieu of more powerful languages.  So why do we choose to give up programming power?\u003cp\u003eOr do you believe in the other possibility: having a REPL doesn\u0026#x27;t matter as much as everyone thought?  That seems plausible.  It\u0026#x27;s at least as plausible as \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s a good idea to give up REPLs for static typing.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eGo is wonderful to work with.  But I\u0026#x27;m so confused why it feels wonderful to me.  I know I love programming in it, but once I start thinking about the implications, I start to wonder:  Isn\u0026#x27;t giving up power a bad thing, and therefore choosing to use Go == choosing to be forever held back by its deficits, and therefore it\u0026#x27;s a bad decision?  Or is it true that having every possible language feature available to you (\u0026quot;maximum potential programming power,\u0026quot; i.e. as far above Blub as possible) isn\u0026#x27;t as big a deal as we all thought?\u003cp\u003eThis pg essay talks about why it\u0026#x27;s worthwhile to have as much power as possible:  \u003ca href=\"http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.paulgraham.com\u0026#x2F;avg.html\u003c/a\u003e (search for Blub Paradox) .... So either he\u0026#x27;s wrong, or we\u0026#x27;re ignoring him even though he\u0026#x27;s right.  Which is it?\u003cp\u003eEDIT:  There are other limitations besides lacking a REPL, e.g. there\u0026#x27;s no dynamic typing.  It seems like we should try to figure out why it\u0026#x27;s a good idea to give up any programming power at all.","parent":"6709253","id":"6709429"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1403320437","timestamp":"2014-06-21 03:13:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C might be willing to terminate the lease, especially if it is exposing them to liabilities they don\u0026#x27;t want. And as the sibling comment mentions, C might need to deal with the situation to live up so some other agreement.\u003cp\u003eBut sure, I was thinking from the perspective of the owner, not a neighbor.","parent":"7923989","id":"7924024"}
{"by":"boosting7669","time":"1462895885","timestamp":"2016-05-10 15:58:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A startup company is a different beast from a well established organization that has time to kill on moderating interpersonal matters that really should be left to the two private individuals to work out on their own.\u003cp\u003eIf I have an employee whose skin is so graphene thin that being called a MILF is  something worthy of getting management involved, forcing the startup company to engage a lawyer in an expensive legal dilemma, well that is a huge waste of company time and resources and is an indication of misplaced priorities. Perhaps this person should find employment at a large established company with an HR department who can be the referee.","parent":"11667088","dead":true,"id":"11668141"}
{"by":"JulianMorrison","time":"1332455910","timestamp":"2012-03-22 22:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Missing the point still. Everything done by the person on the downside of a power gap is done \u003ci\u003ein the context of the predicted consequences for doing otherwise\u003c/i\u003e. This is a sexist society, full of such concepts as \"humourless ice bitch\". Actually showing a discomfort which is felt inside might be dangerous. A room entirely full of women is enough to counterbalance this and allow communal frowns to speak loudly. Merely \"explicitly giv[ing] the woman room to speak up\" is liable to get a response that means \"don't hate me\" more than it means \"here is what I honestly feel\". Power has to work harder to blunt its bad effects than just saying \"so please ignore the power gap\".","parent":"3741671","id":"3742404"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1377548847","timestamp":"2013-08-26 20:27:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Err... if you read the article, he says \u0026quot;one quality\u0026quot;, not \u0026quot;the number one\u0026quot;.  Also, it\u0026#x27;s worth considering that this is something that has jumped at them only after a number of batches of YC, not something that they started out with, so it is, in some way, based on actual data.  They probably already filter out people based on any number of more important criteria.","parent":"6279288","id":"6279687"}
{"by":"spekode","time":"1273628110","timestamp":"2010-05-12 01:35:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My first undeniable indication that HN has \"jumped the shark.\" But I'm relatively new around here. Maybe I just didn't notice the rot before.","parent":"1339413","id":"1339857"}
{"by":"kasey_junk","time":"1401464306","timestamp":"2014-05-30 15:38:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every concurrent system in the world has shared state.  If nothing else being able to signal that you are done (or yielding) is shared.  Many common concurrency patterns get around a lot of the logic problems in concurrency by not sharing mutable state, typically in the form of message passing patterns.  But how do you suppose those messages are passed?  Via shared state of course.\u003cp\u003eThat is when having good primitives around compare and swap becomes important.  Adding these primitives makes implementing those higher level abstractions on the JVM possible for people who are not implementing the JVM, that is as libraries.","parent":"7821930","id":"7822343"}
{"by":"lngtmelistener","time":"1407139242","timestamp":"2014-08-04 08:00:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Derek Lowe\u0026#x27;s blog does cover that subject. You can find it at \u003ca href=\"http://pipeline.corante.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pipeline.corante.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e  including a sovaldi related post \u003ca href=\"http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/07/21/the_hep_c_field_gets_nastier_by_the_minute.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pipeline.corante.com\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;21\u0026#x2F;the_hep_c_fi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8130626","id":"8130760"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1280065750","timestamp":"2010-07-25 13:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All code can be made shorter. But all code also has at least one bug.  So eventually your code will be just one byte - but it will be the wrong byte :-)","parent":"1545524","id":"1545534"}
{"by":"nivals","time":"1358285109","timestamp":"2013-01-15 21:25:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's exactly the kind of thing that makes sense! Hopefully this will get us connected.","parent":"5063068","id":"5063108"}
{"by":"jackconnor","time":"1533143736","timestamp":"2018-08-01 17:15:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The English is really bad in this, was this article translated or something?","parent":"17664091","id":"17664543"}
{"by":"JdeBP","time":"1538753299","timestamp":"2018-10-05 15:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it\u0026#x27;s not really backing them any more than the equally non-committal statement from the Norwegian National Security Authority is.  The Reuters headline is not borne out by its article.\u003cp\u003e* \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18146242\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18146242\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18148811","id":"18148894"}
{"by":"jboy55","time":"1433227555","timestamp":"2015-06-02 06:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$10k in the bank is hardly \u0026quot;Sand Hill Exchange is backed by notable Silicon Valley investors, providing \u003ci\u003esufficient capital\u003c/i\u003e to guarantee deposits.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBecause they got fined $20k, and now they have no backing for the $1.5k of deposits they have taken.","parent":"9643184","id":"9644272"}
{"by":"asymmetric","time":"1499956480","timestamp":"2017-07-13 14:34:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The U in UASF means anyone who runs a full Bitcoin node, irregardless of whether they\u0026#x27;re mining or not.","parent":"14760370","id":"14761560"}
{"by":"jedisct1","time":"1522441894","timestamp":"2018-03-30 20:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To use this on iOS, download DNSCloak from the App Store and choose \u0026quot;Cloudflare\u0026quot; in the list.","parent":"16716606","id":"16719571"}
{"by":"rootlocus","time":"1514737879","timestamp":"2017-12-31 16:31:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of \u0026quot;should\u0026quot;s, but we\u0026#x27;re talking about advice on using git, not \u0026quot;any decent source control system\u0026quot;. This is a problem I see with people not understanding git. They treat it like they think it should be treated. Like it or not, that\u0026#x27;s not going to work for git.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t give python advice to a C++ developer, regardless of how much you\u0026#x27;d like C++ to be like python.","parent":"16040514","id":"16041149"}
{"by":"localhost3000","time":"1332473842","timestamp":"2012-03-23 03:37:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you wouldn't believe what many of the students in top-10 MBA programs paid to \"admissions consultants\" to get in. we're talking several thousand dollars per application. you can't go through the process without bumping into 'experts' and 'consultants' who will make you sick to your stomach. MBA applicants are an uber-competitive, wealthy population eager to \"invest in the future\"...in other words, you're onto something. do it.","parent":"3742347","id":"3743538"}
{"by":"xyzzyz","time":"1317192699","timestamp":"2011-09-28 06:51:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't remember the details, but I found this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_machine#Two-counter_machines_are_Turing_equivalent_.28with_a_caveat.29\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_machine#Two-counter_mac...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seems that even 2 counters are enough for Turing machine. My class only came up with 3 counters for pushdown automaton,  but I'm still happy with it, since we did it ourselves :)","parent":"3046756","id":"3046803"}
{"by":"threeseed","time":"1479379818","timestamp":"2016-11-17 10:50:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t speak for Linux\u0026#x2F;Windows but on OSX IntelliJ destroys Eclipse in every single aspect.\u003cp\u003eAnd frankly I don\u0026#x27;t care whether it has native UI widgets or not I just want it to be fast and smooth.","parent":"12975967","id":"12976253"}
{"by":"sogen","time":"1504662493","timestamp":"2017-09-06 01:48:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Growth hackers","parent":"15179627","id":"15180582"}
{"by":"anonymous","time":"1361030847","timestamp":"2013-02-16 16:07:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Python and Ruby both have garbage collectors and can deal with reference cycles. Perl only has reference counting, leading to programs that leak memory due to reference cycles and needing to hunt down where in the code you're creating them.\u003cp\u003eIt's the only high-level language I know of that only has reference counting for memory management.","parent":"5231711","id":"5231854"}
{"by":"Theodores","time":"1454538704","timestamp":"2016-02-03 22:31:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I stand corrected.\u003cp\u003eHowever, what is the cultural difference between US and UK journalism where UK stuff is to the point (i.e. with a summary of the story, then the story told properly) and US articles always have to have some meandering nonsense that is as tangential as possible to the story? The format makes sense for a book but is a bit silly in New York Times style articles.","parent":"11029499","id":"11030395"}
{"by":"rjsw","time":"1529302334","timestamp":"2018-06-18 06:12:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; remember that no country had achieved freedom from oppressive monarchs in Europe\u003cp\u003eNot totally true [1].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Commonwealth_of_England\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Commonwealth_of_England\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17335446","id":"17336256"}
{"by":"cousin_it","time":"1510768442","timestamp":"2017-11-15 17:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obligatory: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.uwgb.edu\u0026#x2F;dutchs\u0026#x2F;PSEUDOSC\u0026#x2F;TOXICVAL.HTM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.uwgb.edu\u0026#x2F;dutchs\u0026#x2F;PSEUDOSC\u0026#x2F;TOXICVAL.HTM\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI grew up in Russia and have met a few people who subscribe to the \u0026quot;honor\u0026quot; philosophy of life, where personal insults must be repaid by personal violence up to killing. Such people can be fun, intelligent, charming. But I will \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e enter any serious business or personal relationship with anyone like that, and will teach my children the same.","parent":"15678068","id":"15705868"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1380210423","timestamp":"2013-09-26 15:47:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think a single key on the keyboard to reboot -- what Gates said he wanted but didn\u0026#x27;t get because IBM wouldn\u0026#x27;t let him have it on their keyboard -- would have been a much bigger mistake than Ctrl-Alt-Del ever was.","parent":"6451071","id":"6451515"}
{"by":"hammadnasir","time":"1506045664","timestamp":"2017-09-22 02:01:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"hey! what do you mean by \u0026quot;my personal message\u0026quot; here?","parent":"15308864","id":"15308883"}
{"by":"mtrn","time":"1296366826","timestamp":"2011-01-30 05:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coding is hard enough. The last projects required design from scratch, so I did it (and people even kind of liked it, \"clean and functional\" ;) - but it's not my first love. So I'm a semi-hybrid.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I used to have a hard time finding graphic designers, who can think about usability and elegance and can actually implement the thing in a great and maintainable way. Would welcome these hybrids, really.\u003cp\u003e(And a last bit: One of the nicer designs I dealt with directly was imagined and implemented by a perl hacker, hehe.)","parent":"2157088","id":"2157496"}
{"by":"bhouston","time":"1427307935","timestamp":"2015-03-25 18:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Just stop what you\u0026#x27;re doing\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t helpful. People need to write code today, and we have solutions for them.\u003cp\u003eThere is a difference between having innovators on a project versus maintainers.","parent":"9264855","id":"9264906"}
{"by":"devashish2302","time":"1547020751","timestamp":"2019-01-09 07:59:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, check out \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;hashedin\u0026#x2F;squealy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;hashedin\u0026#x2F;squealy\u003c/a\u003e\nIts based on a similar line of thought.","parent":"18860799","dead":true,"id":"18863092"}
{"by":"EventHorizon","time":"1283529470","timestamp":"2010-09-03 15:57:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could it not be in a meta stable equilibrium like this if the weights were of equal mass? The numbers of the weights are unit-less. We assume they represent the mass, but for all I know the number is the serial number of the weight.","parent":"1659688","id":"1659986"}
{"by":"floatrock","time":"1531157445","timestamp":"2018-07-09 17:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A \u0026quot;coal-powered car\u0026quot; in the most coal-heavy electrical grids gets the equivalent of 39 MPG in terms of emissions, and that\u0026#x27;s the worst-case grids around Wisconsin and Illinois\u0026#x2F;Missouri.  Places with high renewable penetration can get \u0026gt;100mpg.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.ucsusa.org\u0026#x2F;dave-reichmuth\u0026#x2F;new-data-show-electric-vehicles-continue-to-get-cleaner\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.ucsusa.org\u0026#x2F;dave-reichmuth\u0026#x2F;new-data-show-electri...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo the worst case EV\u0026#x27;s are better than the smallest, most efficient ICE subcompacts.\u003cp\u003eAnd you can flip the map on that post between 2009 and 2016 numbers.  You can see things are getting cleaner.  They\u0026#x27;re getting cleaner because renewables are out-competing dirty coal.  Yes, most of it is gas displacing coal (gas is marginally cleaner), but there are cases of renewables\u0026#x2F;storage outcompeting gas in terms of price.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a hidden agenda -- it\u0026#x27;s pure competitive economics.","parent":"17490944","id":"17491889"}
{"by":"known","time":"1417871997","timestamp":"2014-12-06 13:19:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They knew this trick back in the time of the Roman Empire.\nBread and Circuses: bribe the population with free bread and distract them with circuses whilst the rulers do whatever they want.","parent":"8705872","id":"8709164"}
{"by":"lectrick","time":"1376516761","timestamp":"2013-08-14 21:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Site is 500\u0026#x27;ing. Oopsy!\u003cp\u003eIn any event, this app won\u0026#x27;t get past the severely disparate interest in casual sex between the sexes.\u003cp\u003eUnless men just accept that women interested in casual sex might have FAR more conquests than they do. Good luck with that.","parent":"6214358","id":"6214510"}
{"by":"mark-r","time":"1433367050","timestamp":"2015-06-03 21:30:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s plenty of existing software that already takes those keyboard keys and converts them to a different character based on context. Changing which character is used for the conversion shouldn\u0026#x27;t be a big deal.","parent":"9655800","id":"9656013"}
{"by":"andrewfong","time":"1424385798","timestamp":"2015-02-19 22:43:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it legal to pass the discount onto customers? The only businesses I\u0026#x27;ve seen giving a discount for paying in cash are (some) gas stations.","parent":"9077301","id":"9077653"}
{"by":"svmegatron","time":"1378402158","timestamp":"2013-09-05 17:29:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been working on an app that addresses this problem - it\u0026#x27;s not ready for prime time yet but I\u0026#x27;d love any feedback or suggestions.\u003cp\u003eThe so-alpha-I-don\u0026#x27;t-have-a-domain-name version is here: \u003ca href=\"http://merchantprotector.herokuapp.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;merchantprotector.herokuapp.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6335054","id":"6335524"}
{"by":"spullara","time":"1434900966","timestamp":"2015-06-21 15:36:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The artists paid for those copies themselves when they paid back the record companies for marketing.","parent":"9753728","id":"9753787"}
{"by":"digi_owl","time":"1512417126","timestamp":"2017-12-04 19:52:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And you could plug them into any social media platform that allowed embedded images...","parent":"15845386","id":"15846842"}
{"by":"jedberg","time":"1453743654","timestamp":"2016-01-25 17:40:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slightly off topic, but I find the fascination with ASCII-arting things interesting.\u003cp\u003eI grew up in the days of 2400 baud modems and even ran a BBS briefly.  At the time, ASCII art was the only thing you could do to differentiate yourself.\u003cp\u003eNowadays I suppose it\u0026#x27;s a combination of nostalgia and ease of transferring since pretty much every system ever has a way of reading ASCII.\u003cp\u003eBut I wonder how long the trend will last -- the majority of internet users don\u0026#x27;t have \u0026quot;nostalgia\u0026quot; for ASCII anymore [0] and there are at least a few image and video formats that are becoming almost as ubiquitous as ASCII readers.\u003cp\u003e[0]  I was recently on a discussion with some folks I used to work with at university about how our old workplace was no longer offering shell accounts to the students because they weren\u0026#x27;t being used.  This made us all sad since most of us learned all of our command line foo at that workplace.","parent":"10962253","id":"10968563"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1393428871","timestamp":"2014-02-26 15:34:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The purpose of analogies is to explore an unfamiliar hypothetical in the context of a familiar situation. We can\u0026#x27;t magically copy handbags, so we resort to constructing an analogy that is as close as possible. From the perspective of a handbag producer, who has no use value for the handbag, refunding the cost of replacement is functionally the same as copying the bag so it doesn\u0026#x27;t require replacement.","parent":"7305475","id":"7305524"}
{"by":"martiuk","time":"1395071921","timestamp":"2014-03-17 15:58:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would change custom to not show red if it doesn\u0026#x27;t exist.\u003cp\u003eIt gives off an impression that it\u0026#x27;s bad that they don\u0026#x27;t have their own custom solution to 2FA.","parent":"7414945","id":"7415857"}
{"by":"CSDude","time":"1541923845","timestamp":"2018-11-11 08:10:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try adding a dependency to a big project like client-go or Docker client, it always gets messy for me.","parent":"18423141","id":"18425436"}
{"by":"smanuel","time":"1417426926","timestamp":"2014-12-01 09:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, and putting GWT and Silverlight in one basket seems highly unfair. What crisis of GWT? I haven\u0026#x27;t heard anything about it.","parent":"8680114","id":"8680184"}
{"by":"guiambros","time":"1381725250","timestamp":"2013-10-14 04:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know, I know, they already \u003ci\u003eforced\u003c/i\u003e you to turn off your phone during landing, and now it sucks that you\u0026#x27;ll need to wait till you get to the baggage claim to go back to your Candy Crush addiction. How ridiculous is that?\u003cp\u003eNow seriously, isn\u0026#x27;t it obvious? It\u0026#x27;s a high-security area. There\u0026#x27;s all sorts of people trying to cross the border: business travelers, families, citizens returning home, tourists, illegal immigrants, terrorists, drug dealers. They don\u0026#x27;t want people distracted, speaking loudly on their phones, or sending instructions to others in line to exploit security weaknesses.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e bothered by the wait (and have an extra $85 to spare), you should seriously consider requesting a Global Entry. While you still won\u0026#x27;t be able to use your phone, it\u0026#x27;ll reduce your time in line to 45 seconds.\u003cp\u003eI bet you can\u0026#x27;t even finish a level that fast.\u003cp\u003e(UPDATE: cost for 5 years is $85, not $100)","parent":"6545165","id":"6545425"}
{"by":"ebiester","time":"1428852060","timestamp":"2015-04-12 15:21:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get the non-semantic classes argument, but I\u0026#x27;ve never seen a solution that is generic, responsive, and semantic. Any leads?","parent":"9363333","id":"9363611"}
{"by":"johnward","time":"1375472161","timestamp":"2013-08-02 19:36:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well I can still generated leads but I haven\u0026#x27;t been able to break even on things lately. I really don\u0026#x27;t have any disposable income that I can keep testing offers and losing until I can find a campaign that I can optimize to profitability. I hear there is big money in mobile but I was never really able to generate mobile traffic. There is also bound to be a crack down on mobile because people are running the same type of scammy shit. Like opting into auto billing by clicking a link.","parent":"6148715","id":"6149147"}
{"by":"Narretz","time":"1348839107","timestamp":"2012-09-28 13:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, 15.0.1, and nothing drawn :(","parent":"4585130","id":"4585366"}
{"by":"gamblor956","time":"1438811701","timestamp":"2015-08-05 21:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read the announcement.  MS \u003ci\u003enow\u003c/i\u003e does 100% matching.","parent":"10013126","id":"10013163"}
{"by":"sthulbourn","time":"1380897038","timestamp":"2013-10-04 14:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why it\u0026#x27;s called \u003ci\u003eenterprise\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"6494873","id":"6495548"}
{"by":"splitsplat","time":"1418176084","timestamp":"2014-12-10 01:48:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you start the good deed by sharing your real name and address?","parent":"8726890","id":"8727214"}
{"by":"watmough","time":"1484235953","timestamp":"2017-01-12 15:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gosh, that reminds me I really need to make my software more parallel.","parent":"13382847","id":"13383092"}
{"by":"img","time":"1341339167","timestamp":"2012-07-03 18:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really wish articles from this author would stop getting voted up on HN. Like the HP/WinRT article last week, there might be a valid opinion in here, but the language is so hostile and overtly biased towards Microsoft that it's virtually impossible to read.","parent":"4195143","id":"4195364"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1284844108","timestamp":"2010-09-18 21:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C. If your fill rate drops too low (around 1%, sometimes a bit less), your broker shuts you down.","parent":"1704932","id":"1704956"}
{"by":"tP5n","time":"1413567732","timestamp":"2014-10-17 17:42:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Sorry to interrupt, but this page\u0026#x27;s code has got itself in a mess (Script error.).\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ehm :) might want to somehow [tag] this.","parent":"8471580","id":"8472233"}
{"by":"ntelson1s","time":"1489385801","timestamp":"2017-03-13 06:16:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;This is the most mind-bendingly deluded post I\u0026#x27;ve seen on HN in a while.\u003cp\u003eThen you should check out your own before you decide to act high and mighty.","parent":"13853252","id":"13855617"}
{"by":"markpettersson","time":"1399265972","timestamp":"2014-05-05 04:59:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with programming vs management is that at the end of the day, a programmer is at the mercy of management which may or may not be competent. You may love programming but if you are not allowed to address technical debt, have unrealistic deadlines and silly priorities you won\u0026#x27;t have fun at your job.","parent":"7691332","id":"7697008"}
{"by":"sciurus","time":"1372110361","timestamp":"2013-06-24 21:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The original source (as far as I can tell) is \u003ca href=\"http://www.vgleaks.com/some-details-about-playstation-4-os-development/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vgleaks.com\u0026#x2F;some-details-about-playstation-4-os-d...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5935690","id":"5935908"}
{"by":"VeilEm","time":"1452837473","timestamp":"2016-01-15 05:57:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; that they knew weren\u0026#x27;t priced correctly\u003cp\u003eThings are priced at what they will sell for. It\u0026#x27;s more that they were hiding information about the risk (which of course would have drastically lowered the value and the price people would be willing to pay). I think the difference is significant, however.","parent":"10907326","id":"10907502"}
{"by":"dayone","time":"1436121190","timestamp":"2015-07-05 18:33:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"jordan, agree fully with your assessment. i have experienced significant challenges in keeping elasticsearch in green since it just loves to failover at times without prior notice, while seeming to work smoothly otherwise!","parent":"9832583","id":"9834431"}
{"by":"disposeofnick9","time":"1459238331","timestamp":"2016-03-29 07:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe it\u0026#x27;s not that the profits are too high, but inequities of distribution are causing tangible, social externalities (Carrier moving to Mexico, undocumented workers rights abused in meatpacking facilities)?  Perhaps more companies need worker representative groups with equity and voting board stakes as in Europe (even though investing in an employer is doubly risky)?  When interests align, things toward working out compromises... treat people as just another disposable automaton, expect adversarialness, sabotage and\u0026#x2F;or rebellion.","parent":"11379970","id":"11380111"}
{"by":"epo","time":"1359925514","timestamp":"2013-02-03 21:05:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't believe that for most people \"Windows machines were substantially better\". Then, as now, Windows was bundled in with so much crapware and with such poor out of the box defaults that the performance was, and remains, dreadful.\u003cp\u003eThen, as now, Windows primarily thrived because corporate buyers bought more of what they already had. The success of Windows between 1996-2005 was almost entirely due to monopolistic abuse and buyer inertia.","parent":"5160462","id":"5161145"}
{"by":"sdab","time":"1404420200","timestamp":"2014-07-03 20:43:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"American vs. British English usage. sum is an acceptable general term in British usage. In American English, it would indeed need to be product.","parent":"7985605","id":"7985658"}
{"by":"ero5004","time":"1391469053","timestamp":"2014-02-03 23:10:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m all for everyone learning to code but this doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be the way to make that happen. Learning another language also means learning about another culture and learning to think about your own culture and language in a different way. Why should we take that away?","parent":"7174211","id":"7174224"}
{"by":"hackaflocka","time":"1467779280","timestamp":"2016-07-06 04:28:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Spamming\u0026quot; is a mental model? Mmmmmkay.","parent":"12040707","id":"12041211"}
{"by":"Klathmon","time":"1467200480","timestamp":"2016-06-29 11:41:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ask to send a message, then wait for it to prompt for who, and after that wait for a prompt for what you want it to say.\u003cp\u003eI use that function while on my motorcycle through my helmet a bunch, and breaking it up like that allows me to confirm\u0026#x2F;deny each step because often the wind noise makes it impossible to hear what i said.","parent":"12000691","id":"12000949"}
{"by":"klochner","time":"1301430774","timestamp":"2011-03-29 20:32:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Without twinkie apps he wouldn't have a hipster 8-bit twitter profile pic:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/adam_conrad\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://twitter.com/adam_conrad\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2383849","id":"2384305"}
{"by":"Klathmon","time":"1545150279","timestamp":"2018-12-18 16:24:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m honestly not sure, but even taken in isolation it\u0026#x27;s a convincing argument to me.\u003cp\u003eSee [0] for some info straight from the proposal, but the gist is doing it this way makes it so that you never have to worry about name collisions for private fields. Subclassing, superclassing, and object \u0026quot;monkey patching\u0026quot; all can continue to work as-is with no changes, and none of them have to worry about the existence of private fields complicating implementations, and the classes with private fields can feel free to change and rename them as much as possible, even within patch versions of libraries, since they cannot impact any code outside of the class under any circumstances. That\u0026#x27;s a pretty powerful guarantee to give which GREATLY simplifies working with them.\u003cp\u003eIf I want to extend the react component class, I don\u0026#x27;t need to worry that my `#component` private field is going to break if an update to the react component class adds their own `#component` field, or if a user of my library tries to do something like this:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    const fancyObj = new FancyObj()\n    fancyObj.tag = Symbol(\u0026#x27;tag\u0026#x27;)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWhich I\u0026#x27;ll admit to having used in some cases where I want to tag a bunch of otherwise identical objects which will be thrown into an array and then be able to easily pluck out the ones I tagged later. Without true encapsulation, that code above would break if they changed the private interface to use the `.tag` field internally, and I would have no idea because it is consitered a private interface and wouldn\u0026#x27;t need to be documented or maintained across versions.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tc39\u0026#x2F;proposal-class-fields\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;PRIVATE_SYNTAX_FAQ.md#what-do-you-mean-by-encapsulation--hard-private\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tc39\u0026#x2F;proposal-class-fields\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;PR...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18707698","id":"18707779"}
{"by":"ceallen","time":"1408474368","timestamp":"2014-08-19 18:52:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One thing that raised a red flag to me is telling his tenant to stay at a relative\u0026#x27;s if the house was unlivable during repairs.  Every state\u0026#x27;s law is different, but I\u0026#x27;d be very surprised if it\u0026#x27;s not his obligation to provide short-term accommodations if the property cannot be lived in.","parent":"8199075","id":"8199093"}
{"by":"sriram_malhar","time":"1407588243","timestamp":"2014-08-09 12:44:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t recommend his book highly enough. I like his USE classification, and his list of tools for each type of resource is invaluable.","parent":"8149374","id":"8156787"}
{"by":"stormbrew","time":"1459878216","timestamp":"2016-04-05 17:43:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would probably still be a very eurocentric set of phonemes, so probably would not really be suitable for the modern multilingual world, I would think.","parent":"11432409","id":"11432593"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1536290864","timestamp":"2018-09-07 03:27:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a different kind of experience, but definitely clustered in the \u0026quot;feelings of intense pleasure\u0026quot; cluster. I\u0026#x27;d say that musical frisson is much more of an emotionally driven feeling that encompasses a much larger part of the body. The intensity ranges all over the place from a small feeling of \u0026quot;nice!\u0026quot; to intense, almost physically disabling, feelings of absolute bliss that have left me weeping like I\u0026#x27;d just experienced an overwhelming introduction to an infinite god. But most of the time it happens it\u0026#x27;s just a crawling feeling of pleasure waves along the upper back, shoulders, back of the neck and arms and a general feeling of happiness and joy.\u003cp\u003eIn my case, there\u0026#x27;s sometimes feelings of \u0026quot;consciousness expansion\u0026quot;, and \u0026quot;universal connection\u0026quot;, similar to stories I\u0026#x27;ve read from among various drug users or people who\u0026#x27;ve experienced intense religious experiences -- at times I\u0026#x27;ve felt intense focus, explosive creativity, and an \u0026quot;overclocked\u0026quot; sensation like my brain had been turned up to a faster performance ratio -- often for those moments of he frisson I can be intensely productive in creative pursuits. But it falls away as the frisson dissipates. I do not know if this is universal or not, there\u0026#x27;s pitifully little understanding of this phenomenon and sharing of information.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a very personal feeling, I don\u0026#x27;t know that I could ever do it with other people around, and it\u0026#x27;s tied to very specific passages of music that seem unique to the frissoner. As you can guess it\u0026#x27;s very addictive, and when I was younger I would spend hours auditioning albums looking for \u0026quot;frissonable\u0026quot; moments I would play over and over again for hours -- usually just a few seconds of some passage that would trigger it. However, pursuing this seems to \u0026quot;use-up\u0026quot; the feeling and after a while the passage would lose its triggering power.\u003cp\u003eIf the universe was about to end, and I was allowed to have one final pleasurable experience replayed, selected from any orgasm of frisson I\u0026#x27;ve ever had, I\u0026#x27;d definitely pick from among my most intense frissons.","parent":"17931134","id":"17931655"}
{"by":"wavefunction","time":"1527027874","timestamp":"2018-05-22 22:24:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;it seems conservatives get upset at the idea of an unlevel playing field\u003cp\u003eIt seems to me that the conviction in which conservatives believe in this particular principal depends on what they\u0026#x27;ll get out of the situation.","parent":"17129873","id":"17129921"}
{"by":"marvin","time":"1377245241","timestamp":"2013-08-23 08:07:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems kinda hostile to treat all foreigners as \u0026quot;rights-free persons\u0026quot;. The United States was built on immigration. I can\u0026#x27;t believe that the people in charge don\u0026#x27;t see how destructive this attitude is for the global neighborhood\u0026#x27;s relationship to the US.","parent":"6262256","id":"6262301"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1237158068","timestamp":"2009-03-15 23:01:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Equating that example to this poll is heading to very shaky territory. I can tgink of plenty of factors that would indicate both why that was an incredibly innacurrate poll (and polling method) and why a poll here on HN is probably going to produce at least soem form of workable data :)","parent":"517145","id":"517370"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1454890356","timestamp":"2016-02-08 00:12:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that except for a handful of people who have direct contact, the locals are not really any more informed than others. As an European, I knew many people who had strong opinions on the consequences of accepting Syrian refugees, before the first families had even arrived.\u003cp\u003eTV and social media, not personal experience, shape most of the opinions.","parent":"11055599","id":"11055696"}
{"by":"etjossem","time":"1473970825","timestamp":"2016-09-15 20:20:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And for this reason, many SSN verifiers (banks, government agencies, etc) ask for the last 4 digits. Then they store them in a dusty database somewhere and forget about them until they have to verify identity again, or there\u0026#x27;s a major breach.\u003cp\u003eThat last part is the part that keeps me up at night.","parent":"12509477","id":"12509491"}
{"by":"ksmail","time":"1416383213","timestamp":"2014-11-19 07:46:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where do you think the venture capital for investing and kick starting the industrial revolution came for? All the prizes and aristocracy having leisure to study science needed money. And India was the jewel in the crown for Britain.","parent":"8626139","id":"8628767"}
{"by":"tomxor","time":"1498387564","timestamp":"2017-06-25 10:46:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well ... there it is, if there was a threshold to past between \u0026quot;security\u0026quot; and overreaching destruction of freedoms, it\u0026#x27;s been passed. They sortof had a case banning various things that can hold explosives but banning certain reading material for being \u0026quot;sensitive\u0026quot; is totally orwellian. I guess the time has come to preserve all information before they start the book burning in the not too distant future. (of course it will come under a different guise but it will be book burning)","parent":"14629044","id":"14629482"}
{"by":"bradleyjg","time":"1363054225","timestamp":"2013-03-12 02:10:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I'm looking for a French tutor in x-town England I \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e to find his sister. It's a win-win.\u003cp\u003eAre any of the people you are pushing offering a win-win in these 6-7 figure payday, or are they just yet another asbestos law firm, that wants the same 1/3 as everyone else, and will fill out the settlement forms just the same as everyone else?","parent":"5358143","id":"5359598"}
{"by":"grymoire1","time":"1424561973","timestamp":"2015-02-21 23:39:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Makefile has an error in it. The -Lx11 needs to be the last in the line","parent":"9086944","id":"9087501"}
{"by":"bayindirh","time":"1539103826","timestamp":"2018-10-09 16:50:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I missed that. It\u0026#x27;s actually a much bigger problem. \nstdout and stderr(or) is two output paths to explicitly diverge error logs and problems from standard output.\u003cp\u003estdout \u0026#x2F; stdin is reserved for user interaction, informational messages (md5sum), actual output (ls, less, etc.), and the like. OTOH, stderr is explicitly for error messages only, and it\u0026#x27;s very useful (and necessary).\u003cp\u003eA real use case from my daily job: I\u0026#x27;m an administrator of a large system (approx ~1K servers), and I have substantial amount of cattle, and a lot of pets [0]. All of these servers have cron jobs, and other automated tasks on them. All servers can mail to a local mail server to report us problems, so our cron automatically mails any outputs to us.\u003cp\u003eAll the tools we use, and scripts we write have the following properties:\u003cp\u003e- If everything is OK, they are silent by default.\u003cp\u003e- They output to stderr, if anything notable happens.\u003cp\u003e- Also we copy (think tee) all stderr to their respective logs (both local and on a centralized server).\u003cp\u003eNow consider:\u003cp\u003e- The (e-mail, log) noise if all the tools were writing their outputs to stdout.\u003cp\u003e- The work required to silence all tools. What if they don\u0026#x27;t have any --quiet switches?\u003cp\u003e- Furthermore, they wrote everything to stderr. How can I know whether thing has worked as it should?\u003cp\u003e- How can I find the problem quickly if everything is written to \u0026quot;Error\u0026quot; log?\u003cp\u003e- Furthermore how can I revise the errors happened quickly? Info \u0026amp; Error on the same file. grep galore!\u003cp\u003e- How can I silent a tool (by redirecting to \u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;null) if both normal and error logs are written via stderr?\u003cp\u003eThese are the simple problems that I can come up on a real, big production system in five minutes. I can find more problematic scenarios which will happen on a daily basis, if I think more.\u003cp\u003eAll these conventions, folklore, recommended usage and facilities are in place because of the needs and the experience acquired in the history of these systems. Running around them amok, just because they enable color, pretty spinners, or justify some narrow usage scenario is not correct.\u003cp\u003eThese conventions and philosophy [1] allowed *NIX systems to scale without needing excessive administrative elbow grease. Ignoring these, and developing tools which use facilities and conventions as they please will degrade the ability to manage these systems with minimal work. I can always grep, but it will be inefficient and not guaranteed to get everything that I want, and also it will cost me and the computer time to do so.\u003cp\u003eLike algorithms, systems are easier to manage when \u0026quot;n\u0026quot; is small. When \u0026quot;n\u0026quot; gets big, these tasks got really hard, really fast.\u003cp\u003eSo, develop tools to ease tasks. Not to show-off.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.engineyard.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;pets-vs-cattle\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.engineyard.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;pets-vs-cattle\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Unix_philosophy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Unix_philosophy\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: Tried to increase readability.","parent":"18176201","id":"18177554"}
{"by":"sjg007","time":"1453497932","timestamp":"2016-01-22 21:25:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bond holders get paid before stockholders.  But this is explosive debt.. E.g it has a liquidation preference.","parent":"10954954","id":"10955693"}
{"by":"GHFigs","time":"1287257372","timestamp":"2010-10-16 19:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eBecause there were hundreds of Windows machines whereas there was only a few variations of Macintosh, all controlled by the same company and priced at a premium.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy this formula, one ought to have been bullish about PlaysForSure--a platform with over a dozen music stores and compatible player devices from almost two dozen vendors. But we saw what happened there: the platform was beaten by a single store with a few variations of player all controlled by the same company and priced at a premium.\u003cp\u003eNeither example is strongly predictive, but I think this one is a bit more relevant, for reasons which should be obvious.","parent":"1798241","id":"1798663"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1500446756","timestamp":"2017-07-19 06:45:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not in the game industry, but from what little I know, this is probably going to be a tricky question to answer.\u003cp\u003eReason being, a high proportion of AAA game development is done using off-the-shelf game engines. Of course it\u0026#x27;s still necessary to write code for the game logic and features, but because of the stable base this code is written against, it might not be seen as necessary to follow a strict TDD\u0026#x2F;BDD approach.","parent":"14802333","id":"14802402"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1369003548","timestamp":"2013-05-19 22:45:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel a little bad doing this plug, but I strongly recommend \u003ci\u003eAvatar: The Last Airbender\u003c/i\u003e when you feel he's old enough. (Seven seems to be a reasonable time to introduce it.) If you haven't seen it, see it for yourself first. It is perhaps the deepest and most nuanced \"made for kids\" thing I've seen at all: it provides a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of discussion fodder.","parent":"5734124","id":"5734723"}
{"by":"Iftheshoefits","time":"1398192470","timestamp":"2014-04-22 18:47:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, \u0026quot;most often\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;always\u0026quot;, and that your family was on welfare doesn\u0026#x27;t mean anything with respect to the fact that you seem to not understand how empty the phrase \u0026quot;freedom of choice\u0026quot; is. The one has nothing to do with the other.","parent":"7628580","id":"7629551"}
{"by":"camz","time":"1288189458","timestamp":"2010-10-27 14:24:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quick note, if you are selling a standard software program and then tailoring it to an enterprise user, then you'd still be paying sales tax on the \"standard\" portion of the code.  The customized portion COULD be non-taxable but it would have to be a substantial change and not something minor.","parent":"1838244","id":"1838710"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1537460229","timestamp":"2018-09-20 16:17:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, got mixed up with traffic fatalities. Thanks for the correction!","parent":"18033282","id":"18033559"}
{"by":"mjfern","time":"1299347366","timestamp":"2011-03-05 17:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; Is this an apt analogy for the future of the search engine market?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, I don't think so.\u003cp\u003eThere are tremendous learning effects, economies of scale, and network effects in search that do not exist to the same extent (or at all) in the browser market.\u003cp\u003eI. The learning effects arise from the number of searchers and advertisers using a particular platform over a given period of time. This enables Google (with the largest market share) to improve its algorithm at a faster rate in response to the behavioral data that it collects. The sheer amount of data that Google collects permits much deeper (and faster) multivariate analysis relative to competitors.\u003cp\u003eII. The economies of scale exist because Google can spread its huge fixed costs of developing, refining, and operating its search engine over a much greater number of users. For instance, if Google employs 2x the number of engineers as Microsoft in search, but fulfills 4x the number of search requests, its per search engineering costs are 2/4 = 50% of Microsoft's. The same holds for other significant fixed costs, such as data center costs.\u003cp\u003eIII. The network effects arise from a feedback loop between searchers and advertisers. As the number of searchers increase on Google search, it attracts more advertisers because advertisers can reach a broader and more targeted audience. The reverse is true to some extent as well. For instance, as the number of advertisers using Google AdWords increases, it attracts more searchers, assuming that searchers find some value in the sponsored search results.\u003cp\u003eNote that the learning effects and economies of scale exist in browsers, but not to the same extent as in search. There are no obvious network effects in the browser market, while the network effects in search are quite strong.\u003cp\u003eGoogle's dominance in search will persist into the future, until:\u003cp\u003e1. A competitor develops a protectable technology (e.g., new algorithm) or user experience that delivers significant value to the average searcher and/or advertiser.\u003cp\u003e2. A substitute for search emerges, which provides a much more effective method for obtaining information that you would otherwise obtain using Google search.\u003cp\u003e3. Google is unable or unwilling to respond to the competitive threat in #1 or the substitution threat in #2 in a reasonable period of time.\u003cp\u003eGiven Google's quick response to customer feedback (e.g., content farms) and technology change (e.g., real-time search), I don't have a sense that the company is resting on its laurels.\u003cp\u003eNote there is still room for niche search engines, such as DuckDuckGo, that emphasize particular features of significant importance to a segment of users. For instance, DuckDuckGo does not collect or store a user's IP address, yielding greater privacy.","parent":"2291554","id":"2291890"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1464968231","timestamp":"2016-06-03 15:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Curious about background readings for IRC chatbots that might be helpful for someone interested in the topic...the tutorial seems a bit schematic.","parent":"11829295","id":"11830918"}
{"by":"rasmusei","time":"1513196655","timestamp":"2017-12-13 20:24:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m currently a TA in a basic game theory for MSc students at a technical university. For the basic theoretical concepts we use as a course book Leyton-Brown \u0026amp; Shoham (2008) Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction. This book is great because it is short and to the point, precise without diving deep into everything. Introduces most important concepts in less than 100 pages.","parent":"15916059","id":"15917335"}
{"by":"brianwawok","time":"1469371192","timestamp":"2016-07-24 14:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; All it takes is for one server in one datacenter to be slightly different\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t do that. No one is allowed to ssh to boxes. If you need to enforce it by blowing up and rebuilding all servers once per week, do that.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; perhaps you had a bugfix that needed to go out for users in one area, but you couldn\u0026#x27;t take the risk of a flaky deploy for the areas that didn\u0026#x27;t need it\u003cp\u003eFeature flags. Default off, but flip on a new path of code for a set of users.\u003cp\u003eYou should deploy so often that it is routine. Deploy 50 times a day. You will find bugs at first, but eventually you should get to the point that you could deploy for every single commit and no one would notice. (Now they may not be a good idea depending on your risk tolerance and other things, but you should be ABLE to deploy every single commit).\u003cp\u003eNot saying these are simple things to do, but if you are approaching servers with a devops mindsets, you literally should not care about number of servers or datacenters.","parent":"12153248","id":"12153428"}
{"by":"monocasa","time":"1470280107","timestamp":"2016-08-04 03:08:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, it\u0026#x27;s low even for CP\u0026#x2F;M.  MSP430s have 64K of address space, not RAM.  Even the smallest CP\u0026#x2F;M machines had that.  A lot even had simplistic paging hardware to exceed that.","parent":"12223091","id":"12223129"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1515442100","timestamp":"2018-01-08 20:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Irrational analogy.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is not the answers but the having of thema t fingertips. There is value in the slow process of looking things up in dictionaries or stepping through exercises. The downside of instant fulfillment of curiosity is arguably a shallow approach to knowledge; as soon as something become difficult or obscure, there\u0026#x27;s the urge to summon the answer from the internet, and if it\u0026#x27;s not immediately forthcoming either lose interest or expend energy rationalizing the default answer.","parent":"16099546","id":"16099899"}
{"by":"zdean","time":"1433531501","timestamp":"2015-06-05 19:11:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know the insurance question keeps coming up, but I\u0026#x27;m not sure I understand it. The way I see it, these cars won\u0026#x27;t be released into the wild until and if they can perform on par or better than human drivers...which will require that they be able to follow the rules of the road as well as or better than human drivers. That being the case, I don\u0026#x27;t see why the insurance would be any more of a factor for the autonomous cars than for current drivers. If they fail to follow the rules of the road and cause an accident (or negligently contribute to one), they\u0026#x27;ll be on the hook and insurance will have to cover it. If not, there\u0026#x27;s no insurance liability to consider. Am I missing something that the liability would somehow be greater in an autonomous vehicle in the case of the same accident that would otherwise be caused by a human?","parent":"9667319","id":"9667443"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1506696310","timestamp":"2017-09-29 14:45:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  throw a wrench into our credit system\u003cp\u003eHow, by getting Equifax to hire IT staff that does not see the wisdom in patching known vulnerabilities?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  everything we now know about Russia\u0026#x27;s attempts to influence our elections and sew division\u003cp\u003eBe careful what you believe.  To date there has not been hard evidence that the Russian government was involved in any of the mischief that has been discovered.\u003cp\u003eIt could just as easily have been an activist group within Russia or even (sadly) the US intelligence agencies looking to fan the flames of war with Russia.\u003cp\u003eThere has been consistent conflict between the US and Russia all along since the cold war ended.  And certainly lots of mischief on both sides.  The danger in this case is allowing US propagandists to frame the recent mischief as cyber warfare, which it is not.\u003cp\u003eConsidering the way that information about the alleged hacks have been strategically leaked and timed to convince the American people to resent Russia, it\u0026#x27;s pretty clear what the objective is.\u003cp\u003eWars don\u0026#x27;t just happen, they are the result of significant propaganda effort.  We are seeing the beginnings of it with the outrage over \u0026quot;meddling\u0026quot;.  It\u0026#x27;s only going to get worse. Expect to read additional revelations about Putin\u0026#x27;s character and Russian society\u0026#x2F;culture.  The goal is to gradually foment mistrust and hate to the point where Americans actually consent to a war which may kill many Russians and many Americans.","parent":"15365589","id":"15365720"}
{"by":"mcguire","time":"1505326746","timestamp":"2017-09-13 18:19:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eManzotti: ...What matters for us, though, is that in his book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1997), Chalmers laid out the terms of the consciousness debate in a way that simultaneously excited everyone while more or less guaranteeing that no progress would be made.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eParks: Quite an achievement....\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a pretty decent feat, yes.","parent":"15233452","id":"15241044"}
{"by":"javajosh","time":"1353103750","timestamp":"2012-11-16 22:09:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Goddamn, I've never seen a clearer example of the colloquial term \"butt hurt\". Twitter is a company, they built something, they support it, they have the right to control it, and they have arbitrary rights over it. More tellingly, they have a very good point.\u003cp\u003eIt reminds me of the craigslist haters, and my response to them. I don't hate craigslist for stopping third parties from using their data because, frankly, it hurts their brand if \"druggycriminalroommates.com\" starts syndicating their apartment ads.\u003cp\u003eThat said, don't think that I'm some sort of right-wing capitalist fascist. No, I don't think everything should be privately owned and controlled. There are some things that should remain public: internet infrastructure being one of them. My personal belief is that the only real egalitarian, open system is one that relies on that infrastructure, and ONLY on that infrastructure. This vision requires that people either a) run their own servers, or b) pay money to someone else to run servers (or parts of servers). (Other possibilities for payment exist, of course, such as bartering information for service, etc.)\u003cp\u003eI mean, twitter is free to control, the OP is free to complain about that control, but the solution presented (don't develop anything for twitter) is ridiculous and immature.","parent":"4795052","id":"4796134"}
{"by":"toasterlovin","time":"1528388623","timestamp":"2018-06-07 16:23:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I treat it as one indicator out of many that I use to evaluate a project. IMO, commit activity, quality of communication on PRs and open issues, quality of documentation, attention to detail in README, etc. are usually more important. Stars are more of an indicator of whether I\u0026#x27;ll be able to find blog posts and answered questions on Stack Overflow.\u003cp\u003eAnd something to keep in mind: if you\u0026#x27;re comparing two projects, you should pay attention to which project is older. If I see a fork or a newer project that has almost as many stars as a much older project, that is a very positive indicator to me, since it means that people are actively deciding to go with the newer project.","parent":"17257062","id":"17257310"}
{"by":"rburhum","time":"1459533885","timestamp":"2016-04-01 18:04:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought it was a funny joke - I was curious how far they took it. Wholy crap, `telnet telnet.wmflabs.org` works and the searches do too. Nice job :)","parent":"11405187","id":"11407051"}
{"by":"mrgreenfur","time":"1477887839","timestamp":"2016-10-31 04:23:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a great way to look at these things, love the analogy.","parent":"12834044","id":"12834294"}
{"by":"mfukar","time":"1297664853","timestamp":"2011-02-14 06:27:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  None of the articles I nominated for deletion had any reliable sources to back them up.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAlice ML has more than a handful of papers on its design, semantics, implementation, and related concepts. Are peer reviewed publications not reliable? As a PhD student, I'm sure you disagree.\u003cp\u003eThe best you could do is add those citations to the article, instead of the chosen course of (in)action.","parent":"2215346","id":"2215610"}
{"by":"vadansky","time":"1535489785","timestamp":"2018-08-28 20:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The password is encrypted using CryptProtectData so to get the plain text it uses the function CryptUnprotectData.\u003cp\u003eHow does that work? Doesn’t it need the admin password, or are Chrome credentials just sitting around in a really easy to decrypt format?","parent":"17858012","id":"17862801"}
{"by":"obituary_latte","time":"1335213151","timestamp":"2012-04-23 20:32:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was looking into creating a bot that would randomly click and browse around on the web whilst logged in to Google to add some entropy to my \"persona\".\u003cp\u003eAlas, programming is hard.\u003cp\u003eI don't know what it is--perhaps my get off my lawn mentality--but I am terrified of not owning my anonymity. Though obviously not scared enough to stop using these services...","parent":"3880536","id":"3880822"}
{"by":"loupgarou21","time":"1268542964","timestamp":"2010-03-14 05:02:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"haven't ordered one myself, but my boss stated that he ordered three of them.  I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that I'll be getting one of the ones he ordered so I can evaluate it for our clients.","parent":"1189154","id":"1190294"}
{"by":"rglullis","time":"1486326178","timestamp":"2017-02-05 20:22:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saying that Snapchat connects the world in the sense of GPwould be the same that saying that \u0026quot;AOL discs connect the world\u0026quot;, or that \u0026quot;MSN is already web portal that connects the world\u0026quot;. You really don\u0026#x27;t see the difference?","parent":"13572906","id":"13574395"}
{"by":"azernik","time":"1494954242","timestamp":"2017-05-16 17:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah. The article drew a connection, which is why I assumed that. But googling the founders, it appears you are correct.","parent":"14350674","id":"14351205"}
{"by":"SkyMarshal","time":"1304015600","timestamp":"2011-04-28 18:33:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to know this too.  Ubuntu Server is headless.  I tend to stick with the LTS versions even for my desktop unless something really amazing is introduced in a subsequent non-LTS version.","parent":"2493024","id":"2494488"}
{"by":"ditojim","time":"1353851082","timestamp":"2012-11-25 13:44:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And can you point to a single case of this happening, ever?","parent":"4828087","id":"4828125"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1483444215","timestamp":"2017-01-03 11:50:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That may work... unless you\u0026#x27;re on a layout where [ is accessed with Alt (or whatever modifier is used on macOS to go to Layer 3).","parent":"13306560","id":"13308519"}
{"by":"afandian","time":"1366723124","timestamp":"2013-04-23 13:18:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quite possibly, but that's not relevant to this article.","parent":"5594864","id":"5594898"}
{"by":"watty","time":"1431618095","timestamp":"2015-05-14 15:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then don\u0026#x27;t by a \u0026quot;smart refrigerator\u0026quot; or connect your refrigerator to the internet.  IoT isn\u0026#x27;t being forced on people, people are embracing IoT.","parent":"9544614","id":"9545769"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1296237429","timestamp":"2011-01-28 17:57:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Good, let it destabilize.\u003cp\u003eThat's like wishing for an avalanche to start. The problem with avalanches is that you do not know when they'll stop, potentially you're talking about thousands or even tens of thousands of people to die. If the end result is worth it or not can not be known at this point in time. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.","parent":"2152699","id":"2152763"}
{"by":"mathieuh","time":"1386287142","timestamp":"2013-12-05 23:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am neither a right-winger nor an American. I am very much left-wing.\u003cp\u003eYou should be aware that the left is vehemently against liberalism, as it presents such a rosy view of current society  that it reduces the terrible things happening to being some floaty idea that doesn\u0026#x27;t apply to Me. As liberal media are doing currently by saying that Mandela was just a peaceful protestor.","parent":"6858191","id":"6858252"}
{"by":"pointernil","time":"1365874368","timestamp":"2013-04-13 17:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What an ingenious understanding of security ;)\n\u003ca href=\"http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5543465","id":"5543895"}
{"by":"magic_haze","time":"1382935968","timestamp":"2013-10-28 04:52:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say \u0026#x27;exiled\u0026#x27;: it seems more like \u0026#x27;distributed\u0026#x27;, but still feeding off the same pool of legal\u0026#x2F;editorial\u0026#x2F;technical expertise. What Bill Keller seems to be advocating for is a central system that tries to be objective; Greenwald\u0026#x27;s system is more like a cacophony of different prejudices that users can pick and choose individually. Theoretically, the central system is better, but in practice, it has clearly been compromised. Worse is better.\u003cp\u003eEdit: isn\u0026#x27;t there a sociological theory that basically says that an organization tends to be controlled by the people who care about the continuity of the organization, instead of the goals it represents? Like any bureaucracy, or unions. Omidyar\u0026#x27;s common pool of expertise will not have the same goals and incentives as the journalists. I\u0026#x27;m curious how they\u0026#x27;re planning to address that issue.","parent":"6625145","id":"6625216"}
{"by":"jdnier","time":"1462935533","timestamp":"2016-05-11 02:58:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That brings back memories of being a kid with a large, untreated, clover-choked grass lawn. We ran around in bare feet all summer and at least once or twice a summer would step on a bee and get stung.","parent":"11671823","id":"11672378"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1539683200","timestamp":"2018-10-16 09:46:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Vitalik Buterin–the person most people consider the godfather of Ethereum\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of retarded reporting is this? The \u003ci\u003egodfather\u003c/i\u003e of Ethereum? What does that even \u003ci\u003emean\u003c/i\u003e?! Why not just say, the founder\u0026#x2F;creator of Ethereum (skipping \u0026quot;most people consider\u0026quot;).","parent":"18220246","id":"18228007"}
{"by":"wayn3","time":"1489272932","timestamp":"2017-03-11 22:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe they don\u0026#x27;t really know what a \u0026quot;software developer\u0026quot; does. Just move on.","parent":"13847459","id":"13847738"}
{"by":"wglb","time":"1414189319","timestamp":"2014-10-24 22:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who has done lots of work with floating point, I disagree. My fear (or more properly caution) with floating point includes tricks like if you are going to add up an array of floating point numbers, you need to sort them first. The experienced floating-point programmer will know what order you need to do this in.\u003cp\u003eThe inability to represent 0.1 properly in binary floating point is not a problem solved by increasing the precision your floating point library.\u003cp\u003eAlso, there can be be surprising cases where single-precision might not be enough.  For example, if you are going to represent exchange prices for, say, futures, you need to take into account that some of the price increments are in pennies, some in fractional dollars.  You need the calculations to be reversible, and to have enough precision and accuracy to represent the whole range of price increments and expected volume.\u003cp\u003eOne example of a lack of appropriate paranoia about floating point numbers was the i\u0026#x27;m-not-very-good-at-writing-parsers\u0026#x27; author of ASP and the result was \u003ca href=\"http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-2250738585072011e-308/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.exploringbinary.com\u0026#x2F;php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-...\u003c/a\u003e denial of service to all unpatched PHP sites. Also bit java.\u003cp\u003eNote that interesting prime number work depends on integers and won\u0026#x27;t work with floating point. Including factoring large numbers in cryptography.","parent":"8506195","id":"8506302"}
{"by":"davidsawyer","time":"1533239456","timestamp":"2018-08-02 19:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll toss mine out there as well: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.david-sawyer.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.david-sawyer.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from scratch. Just wanted to keep it simple and straightforward. It runs on a $5\u0026#x2F;month DO box.","parent":"17671490","id":"17674878"}
{"by":"cwyers","time":"1411059659","timestamp":"2014-09-18 17:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They still don\u0026#x27;t have physical keyboards.","parent":"8335653","id":"8336287"}
{"by":"themartorana","time":"1404235853","timestamp":"2014-07-01 17:30:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In an incredibly late reply - EIPs are public-facing, I need internal IPs for fastest possible LAN routing.","parent":"7953556","id":"7972197"}
{"by":"dnnrly","time":"1537621274","timestamp":"2018-09-22 13:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My dad learned French from Asterix after he married my (French) mum while spending summer\u0026#x27;s out there with her family. Coincidentally in  Provençe.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if the mix of pictures along with uncomplicated but correct dialogue makes Asterix popular for promoting languages.","parent":"17977073","id":"18045809"}
{"by":"imron","time":"1490690286","timestamp":"2017-03-28 08:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"File processing and string processing are not the same.  If you have a file that has  a specific data format outside of the encoding, and that format includes NUL bytes as part of the data, then obviously process the file based on that format.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s separate from string handling.\u003cp\u003eUTF-8 was originally designed to be compatible with NUL terminated strings and keep NULs out of well formed text.\u003cp\u003eIn fact it was the first point in the \u0026#x27;Criteria for the Transformation Format\u0026#x27;, mentioned in the initial proposal for utf8.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk\u0026#x2F;~mgk25\u0026#x2F;ucs\u0026#x2F;utf-8-history.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk\u0026#x2F;~mgk25\u0026#x2F;ucs\u0026#x2F;utf-8-history.txt\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13974919","id":"13975033"}
{"by":"skylan_q","time":"1380890868","timestamp":"2013-10-04 12:47:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Present them an exclusivity contract that lasts 3 years","parent":"6494963","id":"6494992"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1339501322","timestamp":"2012-06-12 11:42:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But an iPad is too big to be attractive for me to use during my commute, which is the time it'd be most useful for me as a tablet, and too expensive to be competitive with a netbook for the type of occasional emergency usage I was talking to.\u003cp\u003eIf I wanted a large tablet, then yes, I agree with you, just adding a keyboard to that would be just as good a solution.","parent":"4094552","id":"4099916"}
{"by":"onli","time":"1346957798","timestamp":"2012-09-06 18:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was of course only talking about developed countries ;)\u003cp\u003eReally, afaik in europe and for sure in germany this is totally easy. It is not equally easy to reverse a transaction you started yourself. But when another person has you account-number and the public data belonging to this, all he can do is a \"lastschrift\" (direct debit), which is easily reverseable.\u003cp\u003eNo need to downvote me. The USA is different than europe, and in this regards way behind.","parent":"4485390","id":"4485619"}
{"by":"riku_iki","time":"1525067323","timestamp":"2018-04-30 05:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Submarines usually don\u0026#x27;t have good radar, so they can\u0026#x27;t lock on difficult air targets.","parent":"16955941","id":"16956092"}
{"by":"oneru","time":"1464578990","timestamp":"2016-05-30 03:29:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ssh does a fingerprint verification and establishes a secure channel before it does the password exchange.  Avoiding replay attacks can be a challeng as well.  Putting strong authentication in a single packet is deceptively nontrivial.  It can be done, but at that point you\u0026#x27;d be reimplementing Fwknopd.  Additionally, Fwknop can protect more than just ssh, and do fancy things like providing access to a machine without a public IP address.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I\u0026#x27;m one of the Fwknop devs. =)","parent":"11797912","id":"11799410"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1498832514","timestamp":"2017-06-30 14:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why start another format? People will either have to re-buy stuff or they won\u0026#x27;t care. One great thing about vinyl is you can get old records on eBay for less than £5. Start a new format and you lose that. You would also need to re-release a lot of stuff (which isn\u0026#x27;t going to happen).","parent":"14670791","id":"14670904"}
{"by":"bfe","time":"1391718294","timestamp":"2014-02-06 20:24:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elon Musk said accounting rules are the easy part of being a tech CEO. [1] Anyone smart enough to be a technical CEO is smart enough to get on top of the non-technological core functions of a company; and having the CEO on top of them will be better for the company.\u003cp\u003e1. From memory; it was on video and I can\u0026#x27;t find a text reference now; in reference to SpaceX already using strict enough accounting controls to be Sarbanes-Oxley compliant even though it\u0026#x27;s a private company, IIRC.","parent":"7192566","id":"7192717"}
{"by":"antisthenes","time":"1467390423","timestamp":"2016-07-01 16:27:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why is the lack of women in software development seen as a more urgent issue than the lack of men in school teaching or nursing, or the lack of women in garbage collection?\u003cp\u003eSeen by whom? I\u0026#x27;d wager a sum of money that the average person is far more aware that teaching (primary school at least) is a female-prevalent field and that they do not see it as a problem.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps it\u0026#x27;s not even a solvable problem (assuming we agree that it actually is a problem)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; it\u0026#x27;s clear that talented women programmers are being missed...\u003cp\u003ePerhaps there\u0026#x27;s a wider issue of talent being missed because the signaling during employment process in the US is broken for a large chunk of the population? Not to mention certain things like class and wealth signaling.","parent":"12016636","id":"12017493"}
{"by":"rescripting","time":"1363449908","timestamp":"2013-03-16 16:05:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Off topic and unsolicited request: Can you make the font size of the article titles larger than the surrounding text? I'm getting a 'wall of text' feel from the design that is making it hard for me to delineate where one news item begins and ends.","parent":"5385728","id":"5385785"}
{"by":"llambda","time":"1326733286","timestamp":"2012-01-16 17:01:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah what sad news! I really enjoyed using this service and although I never found a project through it this was almost certainly due to the fact I wasn't able to take on new projects during the time I was subscribed to it. However there were many projects that looked interesting and worthwhile. I'm sorry to see it go.","parent":"3471130","id":"3471404"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1416274128","timestamp":"2014-11-18 01:28:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quoting from the Xv6 web page, \u0026quot;Adding multiprocessor support requires handling concurrency head on with locks and threads (instead of using special-case solutions for uniprocessors such as enabling\u0026#x2F;disabling interrupts) and helps relevance.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eMINIX didn\u0026#x27;t have multiprocessor support until MINIX 3. Unlike MINIX 2, MINIX 3 is not designed as a teaching OS.","parent":"8621814","id":"8621926"}
{"by":"xapata","time":"1518200579","timestamp":"2018-02-09 18:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Either way. Generally the asked-for damages is much larger than the settlement.","parent":"16342161","id":"16342571"}
{"by":"iamyoohoo","time":"1186509004","timestamp":"2007-08-07 17:50:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Having a go at it alone.\n2. Taking too long to launch - fail early, fail often, iterate.\n3. In-efficient outsourcing.","parent":"40121","id":"40146"}
{"by":"whalesalad","time":"1211869222","timestamp":"2008-05-27 06:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 for NO to Dreamhost. Hands down the worst web host out there. Go for a cheap VPS like Slicehost and roll your own. You have control over everything, and they have rock solid uptime.","parent":"200589","id":"200729"}
{"by":"weberc2","time":"1426864509","timestamp":"2015-03-20 15:15:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ironically, Linux was able to play audio on my 2008 MacBook when OSX couldn\u0026#x27;t. I mean this as a fun anecdote--I do not believe my case is typical. :)","parent":"9238095","id":"9238198"}
{"by":"rplnt","time":"1459847720","timestamp":"2016-04-05 09:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a difference between mugging with a knife and with a pistol. Not because knife isn\u0026#x27;t deadly (it very much is), but because it\u0026#x27;s much harder (physically, psychologically and even time-wise) for the perpetrator to deliver the threat in case anything happens.","parent":"11428756","id":"11429002"}
{"by":"relaxatorium","time":"1447784873","timestamp":"2015-11-17 18:27:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems to be a service that costs more than all other ad-blocking services and blocks vastly fewer ads than those services.\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, it is run by the company that people who would be concerned about ad trackers are probably the most concerned about.\u003cp\u003eI would be shocked if it gained any traction ever.","parent":"10573041","id":"10582990"}
{"by":"realitygrill","time":"1273420679","timestamp":"2010-05-09 15:57:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eniiiice\u003c/i\u003e. Though I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here.","parent":"1328116","id":"1332215"}
{"by":"brettcannon","time":"1510688236","timestamp":"2017-11-14 19:37:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PTVS itself is open source so there\u0026#x27;s no worry there (our whole team does it\u0026#x27;s work as open source wherever it makes sense, and in this instance it would).","parent":"15667146","id":"15698386"}
{"by":"alien3d","time":"1455507872","timestamp":"2016-02-15 03:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last time i interview also asking for perl and some automation adobe . I only used perl in 2001. Currently code in PHP and C#. Now thinking back, i need to relearn PERL again.:P","parent":"11101009","id":"11101407"}
{"by":"existencebox","time":"1395254989","timestamp":"2014-03-19 18:49:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a note to this:  while the above linked chassis is indeed JBOD, and one of the parent posts also mentions the 90 disk JBOD chassis, there\u0026#x27;s an intermediate option which thanks to  some sort of server-geometry-tetris-magic is actually a proper machine as well as supporting 72 drives.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/?chs=417\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.supermicro.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;chassis\u0026#x2F;4U\u0026#x2F;?chs=417\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Disclaimer\u0026#x2F;answer to the parent post: we use the 24 drive unit for the GPU compute nodes in one of our clusters, and the 45 drive JBOD units for storage nodes in the same cluster.  We have had a very positive experience with both (to the point that I got the 24 drive one as my home fileserver), as well as the Supermicro customer support for such.)","parent":"7429308","id":"7430833"}
{"by":"briancooley","time":"1250542371","timestamp":"2009-08-17 20:52:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like the most important aspect of higher education from a student's perspective is the community you build while you are there. Nothing stimulates thought like being surrounded by intelligent, motivated individuals.\u003cp\u003eSocial interaction over the internet is becoming richer, and surely it will play a vital role in changing the face of education. My fear is that the credentials-based hiring practices that are rampant among employers will pervert what could otherwise be a useful extension of quality education to the masses.","parent":"768339","id":"769081"}
{"by":"CrLf","time":"1313757362","timestamp":"2011-08-19 12:36:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe not. Trees have to keep their leaves clean, and perhaps the Fibonacci placement doesn't only improve sunlight collection, but also rain collection for cleaning.","parent":"2902650","id":"2903128"}
{"by":"kevinpet","time":"1400167628","timestamp":"2014-05-15 15:27:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Donation of text is irrevocable\u0026quot; seems to be the only thing that implies a license from contributor to TV Tropes. It\u0026#x27;s pretty vague and I certainly wouldn\u0026#x27;t want to sue claiming a license with that to back it up.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also unclear whether that text existed before the switch to CC-SA-NC. Obviously it was updated, but was just the license changed? This is significant because contributing under CC-SA to someone using it commercially is possible. Contributing under CC-SA-NC to someone using it commercially doesn\u0026#x27;t make any sense, so they would need to have another license.","parent":"7749817","id":"7749973"}
{"by":"MartinCron","time":"1363886297","timestamp":"2013-03-21 17:18:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI do NOT believe that ANYONE should suffer the wrath of the Internet\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would encourage everyone to react more slowly and deliberately to stories like this that outrage them. This applies to companies firing people as well as people using the complex facts to support their existing points of view.\u003cp\u003eSlow down, everyone. Injustice will still be there for you after your blood pressure goes down.","parent":"5415524","id":"5416940"}
{"by":"jononor","time":"1506856988","timestamp":"2017-10-01 11:23:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isnt cognitive bias kind of an \u0026#x27;illusion\u0026#x27;? Our mind interprets available data in ways that seems to make sense, but actually is wrong.","parent":"15372966","id":"15377334"}
{"by":"turc1656","time":"1504726096","timestamp":"2017-09-06 19:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a scientific theory out that has yet to be proven, but addresses the actual purpose of life.\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org\u0026#x2F;a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org\u0026#x2F;a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...\u003c/a\u003e\nTL;DR (with my philosophical interpretations included) - his claim is that life occurs as a natural process to help dissipate concentrations of energy.  This occurs because the universe is on a never-ending march toward higher entropy and life is a tool to help it achieve that goal - the goal being maximum entropy and the effective end of the universe as we know it, a situation where all matter is in its most stable state and no energy can be obtained from anything anymore.  So we are here to help the universe and all life die.","parent":"15186357","id":"15186426"}
{"by":"auctiontheory","time":"1379996693","timestamp":"2013-09-24 04:24:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not aware of any pharmaceutical treatments for autism. (Nor is Google.)\u003cp\u003eIf autism is indeed being over-diagnosed, this is not due to pressure from Big Pharma.\u003cp\u003eCareful of your generalizations.","parent":"6435623","id":"6435961"}
{"by":"dethstar","time":"1382394113","timestamp":"2013-10-21 22:21:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ask the community for feedback.\nI think adding a \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t reverse\u0026quot; checkbox while against the whole point could make people host their gifs there, even if they don\u0026#x27;t want it reverted.","parent":"6588558","id":"6588602"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1440489869","timestamp":"2015-08-25 08:04:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They aren\u0026#x27;t that well trained either. And most well trained people will never clean and jerk 300+lbs. Even if every single kid who tried a 300lbs+ clean and jerk died from it on the spot, that still wouldn\u0026#x27;t make enough of a dent to make lifting a high risk  sport.\u003cp\u003eThe thing worth keeping in mind that people forget when questioning whether kids should lift, is that kids lift, or try to lift large percentages of their body weight to failure all the time during normal play. They have a training capacity and recovery ability that makes me insanely jealous as someone who\u0026#x27;s turned 40.\u003cp\u003eIf lifting the weights they are physically able to is dangerous for them, then so is a lot of their regular playing.","parent":"10114687","id":"10115091"}
{"by":"kgwgk","time":"1510422681","timestamp":"2017-11-11 17:51:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There was a good discussion about this problem in the context of Monte Carlo simulations in (1).\u003cp\u003eThere was some discussion here about that paper a few months ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13750621\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13750621\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15677227","id":"15677266"}
{"by":"alxbrun","time":"1369196620","timestamp":"2013-05-22 04:23:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, do you think it will help Watson be a good customer service agent ?\u003cp\u003ePS. Each time I read that a computer \"understands\" human language, I have a good laugh.","parent":"5744857","id":"5748872"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1458407181","timestamp":"2016-03-19 17:06:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an \u003ci\u003eexcellent\u003c/i\u003e book.\u003cp\u003eSoftware engineering research has the same problem as sports science. Small samples, lots of difficult-to-control variables. No way to perform real RCTs. Not enough money or interest to really \u003ci\u003edig\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThat doesn\u0026#x27;t make it useless, but it does mean exercising judgement.","parent":"11319271","id":"11319313"}
{"by":"dajohnson89","time":"1512181333","timestamp":"2017-12-02 02:22:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"makes you wonder, what is next?","parent":"15828272","id":"15829707"}
{"by":"um304","time":"1370187243","timestamp":"2013-06-02 15:34:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am planning these days to leave my full-time job and switch over to contracting. Since I don't have any real experience, so my thoughts might be irrelevant, nevertheless, I would like to share a few things I learned from other successful contractors in my area.\u003cp\u003e1. Don't do everything. Find a niche, something that you are good at and stay focused on it.\u003cp\u003e2. Before signing up for a project, make a guess how successful it will be. Having successful projects in your portfolio will help you grab new projects more easily.\u003cp\u003e3. Try to get initial projects through your personal network. This might help both parties develop some initial trust.\u003cp\u003e4. Favor longer projects over shorter ones.\u003cp\u003e5. Don't charge for the all of the project at once. Divide requirements into milestones, and invoice the client on completion of each milestone.\u003cp\u003eYou may agree or disagree with points above, I would like to learn what you think about them.","parent":"5808627","id":"5808854"}
{"by":"mistermann","time":"1401195311","timestamp":"2014-05-27 12:55:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Excel made a lot of terrible decisions 20 years ago and now they\u0026#x27;re married to them\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t really think of any off the top of my head, would be interested if you could share one or two that they\u0026#x27;re permanently married to.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I could make a very long list of easy to implement fixes \u0026amp; features they could add that would offer different ways of doing things than the braindead way you have to do things now, while still maintaining backwards compatibility.  My conspiratorial theory is that MS is very well aware of all these things, and they will be released only if a legitimate competitor appeared on the scene, or slowly over time to encourage upgrades.","parent":"7804096","id":"7804192"}
{"by":"louislouis","time":"1226678149","timestamp":"2008-11-14 15:55:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congrats!","parent":"364254","id":"364396"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1358286215","timestamp":"2013-01-15 21:43:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Money in itself is a fairly neutral motivation.\nYou can perhaps justify doing something immoral for money if you plan to use that money for purposes that are more moral.\u003cp\u003eI don't think getting rich counts.","parent":"5062113","id":"5063229"}
{"by":"kscaldef","time":"1286928085","timestamp":"2010-10-13 00:01:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I'm not sure what the article is suggesting as the reason for the increase in revenue.\u003cp\u003eThe typical economic argument is a variation on the general principle that when other people are making irrational decisions (e.g. not hiring the best candidate because of their gender), you can do better / take advantage of them.","parent":"1784885","id":"1785498"}
{"by":"ucee054","time":"1361888396","timestamp":"2013-02-26 14:19:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, by adding features you add complexity and therefore compromise reliability.\u003cp\u003eSo what we are REALLY talking about is how you want to \"endlessly pursue\" my devices and \"better\" them \u003ci\u003euntil none of them work anymore\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"5284427","id":"5285648"}
{"by":"MetaCosm","time":"1376327075","timestamp":"2013-08-12 17:04:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Comment rot is like wiki rot -- all too common, and often more confusing.  There are a couple good rules of thumb I follow.\u003cp\u003e1) If you are writing a comment, make sure it is a \u0026quot;why\u0026quot; and not a \u0026quot;what\u0026quot; (why this code exists, not a description of what it is doing).  Why comments often survive refactoring, you might entirely redo the login system, but the reason you do it is still so people can log in.\u003cp\u003e2) If you find yourself documenting the \u0026quot;what\u0026quot; about code -- take a moment, and think really hard about why it is confusing.  If it is accidental complexity (your fault), refactor it.  If it is fundamental complexity (problem domain is a bitch), don\u0026#x27;t add the documentation to the function, put that knowledge in the tests.  Nothing is as harmful that a bunch of gotchas buried in comments no one will read, and will eventually rot and not even make sense after the code is refactored.","parent":"6199127","id":"6200281"}
{"by":"mtber","time":"1397675979","timestamp":"2014-04-16 19:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the reply I will edit the post now with some answers to your questions\u003cp\u003eEdit: is that helpful?","parent":"7599865","id":"7599910"}
{"by":"bshimmin","time":"1453991492","timestamp":"2016-01-28 14:31:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relatedly, Martin Porter (of Porter stemmer fame) has a great pair of essays on the famous Burke quote about the triumph of evil (which, of course, he never said), starting with \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tartarus.org\u0026#x2F;martin\u0026#x2F;essays\u0026#x2F;burkequote.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tartarus.org\u0026#x2F;martin\u0026#x2F;essays\u0026#x2F;burkequote.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10986732","id":"10988322"}
{"by":"alexis","time":"1415938043","timestamp":"2014-11-14 04:07:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trust me, \u0026quot;pulling a digg\u0026quot; is the last thing I want to do. I have a copy of that infamous Businessweek cover in my apt.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://thedrilldown.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kevin-rose-business-week.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thedrilldown.com\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;kevin-ros...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8604963","id":"8605767"}
{"by":"rleisti","time":"1264783497","timestamp":"2010-01-29 16:44:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a more general sense, increased productivity means more value is created per unit cost.  This could mean the same value with less jobs; it could also mean the same amount of jobs with more value.\u003cp\u003eA growing pool of displaced labour is also a growing un-tapped resource (or a growing revolution, depending on how well society manages it).","parent":"1086743","id":"1086838"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1424372922","timestamp":"2015-02-19 19:08:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does Solr have the same problem as ES where you can\u0026#x27;t modify an index mapping after creating it? With ES you have to reindex everything into a new temporary index and then swap the new and old indexes. It\u0026#x27;s a terrible design, especially considering that ES already has all the original data and should be perfectly capable of doing it itself, incrementally.","parent":"9075711","id":"9076150"}
{"by":"defen","time":"1433978844","timestamp":"2015-06-10 23:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Peter Thiel? I don\u0026#x27;t think he\u0026#x27;s ever come out and explicitly said \u0026quot;I am a neoreactionary\u0026quot;, but he did say \u0026quot;I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,\u0026quot; and the co-founder of Tlön (company that is making Urbit) is a Thiel fellow.","parent":"9695684","id":"9696349"}
{"by":"TarpitCarnivore","time":"1487693765","timestamp":"2017-02-21 16:16:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Synology NAS for storing files\nBackblaze B2 \u0026amp; Crashplan for offsite","parent":"13694079","id":"13696583"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1375878760","timestamp":"2013-08-07 12:32:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can answer tangentially as a screen user for a couple decades that if you put something like\u003cp\u003eif [ -n \u0026quot;$SSH_TTY\u0026quot; }; then\n  exec \u0026#x2F;usr\u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;screen -xRR\nfi\u003cp\u003ein your .bash_profile then where ever in the world you log in via ssh, you\u0026#x27;ll instantly have exactly the same environment, as if you never disconnected.  Simply \u0026quot;Ctrl-a z\u0026quot; to disconnect and later reconnect \u0026quot;somewhere else\u0026quot; exactly as if you hadn\u0026#x27;t disconnected.\u003cp\u003eYou can do something kind of like that with a tiling window manager if you put VNC in between the user and the window manager, such that all access is via VNC.  However VNC doesn\u0026#x27;t transparently remap like screen does, so you can get icky issues with mismatched screen resolutions in VNC.  In that way screen\u0026#x2F;tmux is MUCH better than doing something kinda like it with VNC.  OR rdesktop, or whatever.\u003cp\u003eIn .screenrc I\u0026#x27;d suggest startup_message off, vbell off (because I don\u0026#x27;t like it), and some lines similar to bindkey -k k1 select 1, bindkey -k k2 select 2, so that function keys insta-switch you.  Also I have a \u0026quot;caption always\u0026quot; line that resembles line noise but it begins with the hostname and shows exactly which sessions I\u0026#x27;ve opened and highlights the one I\u0026#x27;m looking at right now.  I probably last messed with it 15 years ago so I don\u0026#x27;t remember how it works.\u003cp\u003eYou can put lines in .screenrc like \u0026quot;screen -t bash 0\u0026quot; to autorun a bash shell in screen 0.  You could put something like \u0026quot;watch procinfo\u0026quot; in screen 0, or tail something, or whatever.\u003cp\u003eFor all intents and purposes screen overlaps tmux about 99.99%.  There is a small 0.01% area where featuresets and bugs do not overlap.  There\u0026#x27;s a cultural thing where \u0026quot;most\u0026quot; screen users know about screen and tmux, and \u0026quot;most\u0026quot; tmux users don\u0026#x27;t know about screen, which is mildly interesting.","parent":"6170981","id":"6172310"}
{"by":"oldnumber7","time":"1284572327","timestamp":"2010-09-15 17:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Governments could control the internet to a greater degree (see: China), but given how entrenched the multinational, cross-border culture of the internet has become, the nature of the internet lends itself to corporate control much more than state governance. Corporations are not as restricted by such arbitrary boundaries, and large conglomerates' international reach can better control the flow of traffic and information than a government that is mostly relegated to controlling aspects within their geographical limits.\u003cp\u003eSo while the goal of public interest advocacy to promote open networks is noble, it faces the same problems that governments see in other forms of internet regulation. The limit of one country's abilities may be outweighed by private interests. The only way the internet can stay an equal and open forum in this sense is if it is economically advantageous for corporations to provide this service, though I fear the potential undermining of their control and ultimately their bottom line may lead them to restrict according to their agenda.","parent":"1695023","id":"1695101"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1288389816","timestamp":"2010-10-29 22:03:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;His HowTo is nannies. That freed up lots of time without making him feel like he was neglecting or taking away from his children.\u003cp\u003e\"How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids\"\u003cp\u003eYour friend is not raising those kids though is he? It sounds like the nannies are. The kids maybe are not being neglected but he is neglecting them.\u003cp\u003ePeople, it seems, sometimes don't care about raising their offspring just as long as someone does. To me that is really weird, why choose to have children if you're going to get someone else to raise them?","parent":"1847919","id":"1849228"}
{"by":"jazzyk","time":"1460420599","timestamp":"2016-04-12 00:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e lawsuits filed for delivering shoddy work, unmet deadlines\u0026#x2F;commitments. They are just less publicized, because human life is (usually) not at stake.","parent":"11475402","id":"11476283"}
{"by":"iamcurious","time":"1427902154","timestamp":"2015-04-01 15:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI am really fond of the \u0026quot;Real Academia Española\u0026quot; as they go even further than their french counterpart, and regularly change the spelling of words to reflect their modern pronounciation.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spanish you don\u0026#x27;t remember the spelling of most words, the spelling is just an encoding of a neutral pronounciation. Even if there are some irregularities, you remember the irregularity instead of the whole word. For instance, you would remember \u0026quot;kamikaze both k\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eSo most spellings get fixed on their own. Not bashing on the RAE though, they made such a nice job making this possible.\u003cp\u003eEdit:wording","parent":"9304074","id":"9304356"}
{"by":"yaakov","time":"1371122220","timestamp":"2013-06-13 11:17:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Destruction of the Web\u0026quot;? This is really going to destroy the web? Though it is an issue, I hardly think that this is going to destroy anything. May inconvenience some things, cause confusion about when to link (and when to unlink) in the short term until an equilibrium is reached and the next SEO change comes along. But I think that this title itself is Link Bait (something else that might be \u0026quot;destroying the web\u0026quot; by this lose definition of destruction).","parent":"5873147","id":"5873402"}
{"by":"sedachv","time":"1282079326","timestamp":"2010-08-17 21:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is how Common Lisp developers view the question of sequence interface abstraction:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/f2065aa0d9fa5d00/84f067175c1d33e6\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/...\u003c/a\u003e?\u003cp\u003eThis discussion came up recently over the usage of Christophe Rhodes' generic sequence protocol extension to CL. Pascal Costanza makes a good point about the appropriateness of having an overly abstract interface tower, and I agree with him.","parent":"1612152","id":"1612514"}
{"by":"deadringerr","time":"1459710924","timestamp":"2016-04-03 19:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a women who has serious needle-phobia, I can\u0026#x27;t believe I\u0026#x27;ve never even considered this possibility.","parent":"11411575","id":"11417220"}
{"by":"sachinag","time":"1365189113","timestamp":"2013-04-05 19:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been an entrepreneur.  And I've been the low man on the VC totem pole.  If I'm the only one from my firm at an event or conference, you want to see me.  If you're coming to our offices, you don't.","parent":"5500392","id":"5500401"}
{"by":"lutorm","time":"1474415531","timestamp":"2016-09-20 23:52:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s Hoerner\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;Fluid Dynamic Drag\u0026quot; which is interesting if you care about drag. It\u0026#x27;s pretty old, but is focused on practical applications: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;file\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;0Bx0MqOfev7dnTnB0eFRIN2JQb0k\u0026#x2F;edit?pli=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;file\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;0Bx0MqOfev7dnTnB0eFRIN2JQb0k\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12542945","id":"12544339"}
{"by":"hliyan","time":"1492680115","timestamp":"2017-04-20 09:21:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh dear, oh dear. I use Wunderlist on Mac, and very recently wrote to my entire team about how I tried so many Todo apps over the years and how Wunderlist is the only thing that worked out. \u003ci\u003eNow\u003c/i\u003e what do I do?","parent":"14154378","id":"14155154"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1321472661","timestamp":"2011-11-16 19:44:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     If you have a modern simile for Tablets, \n     Flash is just completely redundant\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI'm against Flash but this argument doesn't hold. It's like saying - if you have a modern website designed for mobile phones, than a native iOS app is redundant.\u003cp\u003eFlash is not redundant if it allows you to escape the browser's limits. Here, I'll give you an example -- try doing chat-roulette without Flash.","parent":"3244689","id":"3244709"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1482466911","timestamp":"2016-12-23 04:21:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...against one of 2 strains.","parent":"13241767","id":"13242801"}
{"by":"GranPC","time":"1543206571","timestamp":"2018-11-26 04:29:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, so are you arguing that an HTML5 app is a perfect replacement for a native app?","parent":"18531002","id":"18531087"}
{"by":"throwanem","time":"1497014028","timestamp":"2017-06-09 13:13:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An open expression of contempt is rude, too.","parent":"14517423","id":"14521093"}
{"by":"johansch","time":"1450029244","timestamp":"2015-12-13 17:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a good point - that would have been less loaded. (The question remains the same though, doesn\u0026#x27;t it?)\u003cp\u003eAlso - your suggestion would have been a lot less douchey without that \u0026quot;laff\u0026quot;.","parent":"10727031","id":"10727092"}
{"by":"rayj","time":"1521091640","timestamp":"2018-03-15 05:27:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am currently using the MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with 16gb ram and a 250gb ssd.  I have had to have the screen replaced for the lamination unsticking, and the fan replaced since it was starting to sound like a trash compactor.\u003cp\u003eApart from that these are decent laptops, I\u0026#x27;d recommend the macbook air though which is what I had before, the screen is about the same for normal use (excluding photo editing) and it is much cheaper.  Use either of these with a good 4kp60 monitor\u0026#x2F;mouse\u0026#x2F;kb and you\u0026#x27;re set.  Get a desktop box with a couple 1080ti if you need to do number crunching and set it up in the corner..","parent":"16590431","id":"16590596"}
{"by":"renata","time":"1405440011","timestamp":"2014-07-15 16:00:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d be more concerned with having to register with a city....","parent":"8036737","id":"8037199"}
{"by":"_cheese_","time":"1404412229","timestamp":"2014-07-03 18:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A person I know quite well explained to me how his company hired a team of six or so developers to work on a project full-time. They worked on the project for about about two years before feeling ready to showcase it to clients. Once they showcased it to clients they realized their solution was far too generic for its intended application and it had to be scrapped. Huge amounts of time and money lost due to bad project management and inability to meet market needs. The solution ended up so generic that it could not really fit the specific role it was needed for. Its intended market requires a high amount of attention to specificity and detail.","parent":"7984083","id":"7984796"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1533747291","timestamp":"2018-08-08 16:54:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been gobsmacked by the resistance put up to fight protected bike lanes\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo factors. One, traffic lanes are generally reduced; street side parking is left untouched. This leads to congestion and noise.\u003cp\u003eTwo, some bikers in New York are assholes to pedestrians. Most are not, but the sting of a biker riding the wrong way, running a red light and narrowly missing you while cussing you for the gaul of walking on a designated crossing stays for a while.","parent":"17716922","id":"17717434"}
{"by":"ktizo","time":"1345250801","timestamp":"2012-08-18 00:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, presumably a lobbyist working at the EU now has a new golf membership.","parent":"4399657","id":"4399686"}
{"by":"soperj","time":"1494890955","timestamp":"2017-05-15 23:29:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like you should still ask the question, and then answer yourself shortly afterwards. It\u0026#x27;ll help others in similar situations, and you might just get a better answer from someone else.","parent":"14345929","id":"14346122"}
{"by":"Waterluvian","time":"1543716661","timestamp":"2018-12-02 02:11:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a challenge among my friends to order a sub at Subway without saying \u0026quot;um, \u0026quot;uhh\u0026quot; etc. It\u0026#x27;s fun and it always results in sounding like a robot or Shakespeare ordering a sandwich.","parent":"18575702","id":"18580341"}
{"by":"iloveluce","time":"1500486088","timestamp":"2017-07-19 17:41:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We (Quiki YC W17) are currently using Otter to make our entire contract\u0026#x2F;agreement process self service, and it\u0026#x27;s been great. I can answer any questions from a customer perspective.","parent":"14805750","id":"14806192"}
{"by":"plucas","time":"1505149813","timestamp":"2017-09-11 17:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m an engineer working on this project at dA.\u003cp\u003eRight now I\u0026#x27;m pretty busy with Flink Forward in Berlin, but if you have any questions on the technical side I\u0026#x27;ll try to respond when I can!","parent":"15219945","id":"15220143"}
{"by":"closeparen","time":"1535598067","timestamp":"2018-08-30 03:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also missing Zoom audio artifacts.","parent":"17870845","id":"17873817"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1257503633","timestamp":"2009-11-06 10:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's beyond advice.  It's the energy, community, contacts, drive, and exposure that you get to a community of like minded entrepreneurs.  Getting _into_ that community is something that may change you for the rest of your life.  Even just going for the _interview_ may be a life changing experience, regardless of whether you are funded.\u003cp\u003eIn Silicon Valley, you see something similar in companies - there is this massive meritocracy and cross pollination that takes place.   Companies get successful.  Employees vest out and go form new companies.  Then they reach back into their (metaphorical) Rolodex and pull colleagues from years passed who went through the most intense interview ever - working side-by-side for multiple years.  It's why I recommend anyone from outside the valley interested in technology, particularly early in their career, to take any job they can get with a good valley company, and pay absolutely no attention to their salary.  None.  Once you are established, the money will follow.\u003cp\u003eBut it's all about getting in the door, taking that first step.  YC is one of those first steps for startup founders.","parent":"924220","id":"925797"}
{"by":"thablackbull","time":"1508985894","timestamp":"2017-10-26 02:44:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m not sure who\u0026#x27;s hypothesizing that a modern country has to emulate the US.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m just going to focus on one element due to space; one of the core pillars of American economic thinking is the idea of free markets. Through bilateral relationships or organizations like the IMF, etc., developing nations are given a road-map of how to modernize. It may not have to be a carbon copy of America (and that was not my point), but there is certainly an element of shaping developing countries to accept American ideals. However, have you ever noticed that no country has ever modernized through free markets, it always required a lot of protectionism. [1], [2]\u003cp\u003eFree-markets is a big topic that the American government likes to complain about with regards to China. Ironically, Americans seem to think protectionism doesn\u0026#x27;t exist in America. \u0026quot;For example, from 2008 to 2016, the US implemented over 1,000 discriminatory trade policy measures, followed by India and Russia, with both implementing nearly 600 similar policies each. Trade-impeding measures have also increased at a much faster pace than measures to liberalize trade.\u0026quot; [3], [4], [5]. A little hypocritical if you ask me.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Many modern countries these days don\u0026#x27;t adopt the American system, but are striving towards being modern, pluralist democracies with functioning social systems, good governance, and sane judicial systems.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll assume you are contrasting with China, so I\u0026#x27;ll go point by point\u003cp\u003e* Modern: Just to reiterate, my previous spiel was that China views modernization as independent to other society structures. Their experience has proven that to be the case. Without a doubt, cities like Shenzhen are modern.\u003cp\u003e* Pluralist democracies with functioning social systems, good governance: Ultimately, the purpose of a democracy is to get the voices of citizens heard. Note that surveys show almost 90% of citizens in China are satisfied with their government while in the West, we are perpetually annoyed at them. Democracy is not a panacea for stability, success, etc.\u003cp\u003e* Sane judicial systems: That depends how you view it. In America, look at the amount of people locked up for minor drug crimes. I call that insane. In China, the law is more flexible and based on circumstances. \u0026quot;Despite the tough laws, authorities have usually turned a blind eye to farmers growing their own low-THC varieties because they were an important source of income for some farmers.\u0026quot; [6] It\u0026#x27;s also important to note westerners and easterners look at the concept of Law very differently. \u0026quot;Easterners and Westerners have fundamentally different understandings of the nature of contracts. In the West, a contract is unalterable; in the East a contract is continually renegotiable in the light of changed circumstances (Hampden-Turner \u0026amp; Trompenaars, 1993). This drastic difference of view has often resulted in conflict and bitterness between Eastern and Western negotiators.\u0026quot; [7]\u003cp\u003e[1] PDF Warning: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ecdpm.org\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;PMR-15-Politique-Developpement-Union-Europeenne-2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ecdpm.org\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;PMR-15-Politique-Develop...\u003c/a\u003e (pg 38 and in French)\u003cp\u003e[2] \u0026quot;...free market approaches have not proven to be \u0026#x27;very effective\u0026#x27; in helping countries achieve this.\u0026quot; \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.oliverwyman.com\u0026#x2F;our-expertise\u0026#x2F;insights\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;evolving-risk-concerns-in-asia-pacific-2017.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.oliverwyman.com\u0026#x2F;our-expertise\u0026#x2F;insights\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;e...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.oliverwyman.com\u0026#x2F;our-expertise\u0026#x2F;insights\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;evolving-risk-concerns-in-asia-pacific-2017.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.oliverwyman.com\u0026#x2F;our-expertise\u0026#x2F;insights\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;e...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[4] Is China the Most Protectionist Country? No, Not By a Long Shot \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;piie.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;china-economic-watch\u0026#x2F;china-most-protectionist-country-no-not-long-shot\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;piie.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;china-economic-watch\u0026#x2F;china-most-prote...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[5] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eulerhermes.com\u0026#x2F;economic-research\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;AllInfographicPictures\u0026#x2F;us-protectionist-measures-against-china-snippet-03oct17.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eulerhermes.com\u0026#x2F;economic-research\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;AllInfogra...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[6] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.scmp.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;china\u0026#x2F;society\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2108347\u0026#x2F;green-gold-how-china-quietly-grew-cannabis-superpower\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.scmp.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;china\u0026#x2F;society\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2108347\u0026#x2F;green...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[7] Richard Nisbett, Kaiping Peng, Incheol Choi, Ara Norenzayan - 2001 - Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic vs. Analytic Cognition","parent":"15555809","id":"15555962"}
{"by":"jellyksong","time":"1355458026","timestamp":"2012-12-14 04:07:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the insightful comment! I don't really mind the structure of school, and I think college will be even less \"rigid\" in terms what what I learn or do.","parent":"4919309","id":"4919572"}
{"by":"sid0","time":"1299870875","timestamp":"2011-03-11 19:14:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamesetwatch.com/newzoo_2010spend.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.gamesetwatch.com/newzoo_2010spend.jpg\u003c/a\u003e shows that traditional non-MMO PC gaming is a larger portion of the market than most consoles, \u003ci\u003eeven in the US\u003c/i\u003e. Plus with digital distribution publishers get 70-100% of the money customers spend, as opposed to retail's ~30%, so you need to sell half to a third as much as on consoles to make just as much money.","parent":"2314208","id":"2314482"}
{"by":"Frondo","time":"1437595843","timestamp":"2015-07-22 20:10:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know, let\u0026#x27;s be honest--starting your first business is hard, because you have to learn about marketing, customer outreach, listening to people and connecting them with things they want, etc.\u003cp\u003eBut 100 hours a week, for years?  There\u0026#x27;s something bigger going wrong there--either you\u0026#x27;re trying to sell something people don\u0026#x27;t want, you\u0026#x27;ve hired a lot of the wrong people, or whatever, I don\u0026#x27;t know.  That\u0026#x27;s not typical, and it\u0026#x27;s certainly not praiseworthy.\u003cp\u003eAs for that \u0026quot;indefinite free money for past work,\u0026quot; again, you\u0026#x27;re free to say you want that, and right now it\u0026#x27;s certainly yours to try and put into a contract.  I don\u0026#x27;t agree that it\u0026#x27;s moral or right or deserved, no matter how many 100 hour weeks you work.","parent":"9931697","id":"9931981"}
{"by":"RandomCode","time":"1423965283","timestamp":"2015-02-15 01:54:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"God is perfectly just.  Not even suicide will let you niggers get away from damnation.","parent":"9050597","dead":true,"id":"9051524"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1361132703","timestamp":"2013-02-17 20:25:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is that with USD and other currencies, there's a central bank to print more money to make up for redemptions (real or potential) when people come to convert their electronic dollars for paper ones.  There is no such mechanism with Bitcoin.","parent":"5234614","id":"5236587"}
{"by":"megous","time":"1478478269","timestamp":"2016-11-07 00:24:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Orange Pi PC works perfectly well with mainstream kernel + a few patches. Ethernet, HDMI, frequency scaling. Audio is also in the works.","parent":"12887877","id":"12887938"}
{"by":"manigandham","time":"1449883462","timestamp":"2015-12-12 01:24:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Caching - this is already taken care of by your browser. Desktop browsers can store GBs of cache. How does using another cache layer speed up anything?\u003cp\u003eFiltering - this can still be done by just using SNI (server names) which are part of the https handshake.","parent":"10714696","id":"10721330"}
{"by":"imurray","time":"1413363838","timestamp":"2014-10-15 09:03:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be safest for most rand() functions to omit both zero and one, unless a user was \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e sure they wanted otherwise. If we were generating real numbers, we\u0026#x27;d \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e see precisely zero or one. The fact that we do is an artifact of limited precision. These boundary cases cause problems in common computations like u.log(u) or (1-u).log(1-u).","parent":"8457522","id":"8457658"}
{"by":"7952","time":"1479387436","timestamp":"2016-11-17 12:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; the legitimate interest of the state in supporting marriage and reproduction.\u003cp\u003eWhy is that a legitimate interest of the state?","parent":"12976934","id":"12977019"}
{"by":"jpwagner","time":"1231438353","timestamp":"2009-01-08 18:12:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See how pointless BSchool is?","parent":"424665","id":"425313"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1481389214","timestamp":"2016-12-10 17:00:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The goal of Google Apps is to allow an employer to own and manage accounts for employees. They are fundamentally limited accounts owned by someone else. Sure: you might be your own \u0026quot;employer\u0026quot; and allocate yourself an account, but that account is still subservient to the organization you set up. With this in mind, what does it mean if an employee of a company pays for a month of YouTube Red by themself and then their employer immediately fires them and deletes their account? What happens to the data stored in such an account that the user will expect to still have if they are working with a social service like Google+ and signed up \u0026quot;as them\u0026quot;? Will they get locked out of the Android TV they own when their employer deletes their accounts? Will all the IoT stuff in their home, from their lights to their thermostat, all stop working when they get fired from their job and their account revoked? The concept just doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense to use these kinds of accounts for arbitrary Google services; accounts under Google Apps should not be thought of as personal accounts to be used for personal purposes: if there is some business reason for employees of your company to need access to YouTube Red the correct way to support that in Google Apps would be some kind of organization-level per-seat license, not to allow accounts to buy YouTube Red ostensibly for themselves. You should use a personal account for personal things and use Google Apps accounts only for use cases that fit the model of \u0026quot;this is a work account owned by an organization that could lock me out of that account at any second and would not want me using the account to store personal data or for any personal reason\u0026quot;, whether or not you happen to have for some reason decided to set up a one-person organization where you own the organization and have granted yourself an account.","parent":"13146369","id":"13146539"}
{"by":"abalone","time":"1538199225","timestamp":"2018-09-29 05:33:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For us mere mortals following along... I don\u0026#x27;t necessarily understand what you guys just debated about the impact of options pools but I did grok this from the spreadsheets: In the new model,\u003cp\u003eFounder stake goes 48.8% -\u0026gt; 49.6%, a modest 1.63% increase.\u003cp\u003eYC stake goes 3.68% -\u0026gt; 4.55%, a whopping 24% increase.\u003cp\u003eOther SAFE investors stake declines 12.5% -\u0026gt; 10.8%, a 13% decrease.\u003cp\u003eSo while the immediate impact on founders appears negligible (assuming all variables stay the same), it would seem that this new model represents a fairly large transfer of ownership from other SAFE investors to YC.\u003cp\u003eWouldn\u0026#x27;t this be a cause of concern for founders? If SAFE investors have a particular percentage ownership in mind, wouldn\u0026#x27;t this push founders to raise more from them (or give a discount, etc.) and thus increase dilution?","parent":"18097871","id":"18098859"}
{"by":"bredren","time":"1513798388","timestamp":"2017-12-20 19:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Curious how this sync\u0026#x27;s with Tim Cook\u0026#x27;s claim that the tech for good AR glasses \u0026#x27;doesn\u0026#x27;t exist\u0026#x27; yet\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;16458944\u0026#x2F;apple-ar-glasses-tech-doesnt-exist-says-tim-cook\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;16458944\u0026#x2F;apple-ar-glasse...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15969511","id":"15972917"}
{"by":"eisokant","time":"1499505420","timestamp":"2017-07-08 09:17:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"@RangerScience could I ask you to reach out to me. Would like to discuss something via email.","parent":"14723146","id":"14724730"}
{"by":"phyzome","time":"1535648012","timestamp":"2018-08-30 16:53:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how this is supposed to benefit Venmo.","parent":"17876256","id":"17878267"}
{"by":"NyxWulf","time":"1247845595","timestamp":"2009-07-17 15:46:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Materialized path is a good tool for trees that won't be deeply nested, and for tables that won't grow particularly large.  However, because the path is stored in a string, read operations are not particularly efficient.  It's a good tool to know, but it doesn't scale as well as Nested Set to very large datasets.  That being set, it's much less complicated to implement than Nested Sets and is more efficient than adjacency list for many types of data.","parent":"709970","id":"710116"}
{"by":"vanadium","time":"1544630709","timestamp":"2018-12-12 16:05:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Let me duck that for you\u0026quot; might get a few doubletakes.","parent":"18664836","id":"18665004"}
{"by":"Kurtz79","time":"1465201889","timestamp":"2016-06-06 08:31:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;a nice 1br for 1400\u0026#x2F;mo\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSeems silly low for NYC\u0026#x2F;SF. I guess everything depends to what you compare it to.","parent":"11845180","id":"11845376"}
{"by":"equilibrium","time":"1386313996","timestamp":"2013-12-06 07:13:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1s6ymm/nelson_mandela_former_president_of_south_africa/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;explainlikeimfive\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;1s6ymm\u0026#x2F;ne...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6857621","id":"6859878"}
{"by":"LearnerHerzog","time":"1516885525","timestamp":"2018-01-25 13:05:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I\u0026#x27;ll check that book out... I\u0026#x27;ve never been out of the country.","parent":"16230468","id":"16230523"}
{"by":"astine","time":"1271386823","timestamp":"2010-04-16 03:00:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it won't. That's what jazzyb was getting at I believe. VLC will play anything, but it's not a music library.","parent":"1269478","id":"1269613"}
{"by":"jlgreco","time":"1350186862","timestamp":"2012-10-14 03:54:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am obviously responding only to the \"In 2006 Milgram claimed that I had engaged in scientific misconduct\" part.\u003cp\u003eI am not suggesting I approve of any of their actions.","parent":"4650516","id":"4650574"}
{"by":"DougBTX","time":"1222176474","timestamp":"2008-09-23 13:27:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePHP is overly verbose and terribly inconsistent and lacks powerful methods of abstraction and proper closures and easy-to-use meta-programming goodness and Lisp-macro syntactic wonders; in that sense it's not a very powerful language.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"311193","id":"312354"}
{"by":"technion","time":"1446431482","timestamp":"2015-11-02 02:31:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in a very similar position and found all my email bounced by every Cisco Ironport user. Contacting Cisco gave me the usual \u0026quot;please stop sending spam\u0026quot; sort of answer.\u003cp\u003eI then had a customer who actually had a Cisco support agreement log a case, and was promptly informed that I needed to create an account on abuse.net and register our domain to resolve the issue. I did, and it immediately resolved the issue.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a frustrating, terrible situation, where you follow every possible best practice you can find, and you\u0026#x27;re at the mercy of a third party you\u0026#x27;ve never heard of. I get that RBLs are a similar situation, but you can usually identify when that\u0026#x27;s a cause.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve had this recur over the years with 5-6 other domains, but there doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be any pattern to it, it certainly isn\u0026#x27;t an issue with every domain.","parent":"10487180","id":"10489621"}
{"by":"jlanter","time":"1385450597","timestamp":"2013-11-26 07:23:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;big farma kills millions\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ePlease cite a drug in the U.S. that has been approved by the FDA and has killed millions of people because it was defective. Overdoses don\u0026#x27;t count.","parent":"6799431","id":"6799690"}
{"by":"manojlds","time":"1326761219","timestamp":"2012-01-17 00:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love the simple design of the main sites - SO, SU and SF. Keeps the question and the answers as the central focus. Things don't have to be pretty just for the sake of it.","parent":"3472936","id":"3473287"}
{"by":"Lawtonfogle","time":"1429205654","timestamp":"2015-04-16 17:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;It really bugs me when people talk about Big Pharma pushing pills, cause really, 8-9 times out of 10, it\u0026#x27;s patients begging for pills. Are pharmaceutical companies angels? Fuck no, neither are doctors, but if nobody was buying, they wouldn\u0026#x27;t be selling.\u003cp\u003eIn the case of children it is the parents begging, but the real question is why do they beg.  If you met large populations who begged for something dangerous or bad to be done to them that would benefit another, would you think they truly wanted it of their free will having made fully informed decisions, or would you suspect that for many, there had been some manipulation\u0026#x2F;misinformation\u0026#x2F;etc.?","parent":"9388987","id":"9389449"}
{"by":"pknerd","time":"1540558230","timestamp":"2018-10-26 12:50:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being a native Urdu speaker I second you.","parent":"18301545","id":"18308700"}
{"by":"reg4c","time":"1249927269","timestamp":"2009-08-10 18:01:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bah, only a few people from KL","parent":"752496","id":"753567"}
{"by":"sklogic","time":"1415609464","timestamp":"2014-11-10 08:51:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Try doing any remotely large data handling.\u003cp\u003eI was doing grid computing stuff in experimental particle physics. Data as large as it gets. Flat tuple storage (initially on \u003ci\u003etapes\u003c/i\u003e) was all we needed, and we already have a much better way of handling tuples than anything that DBMSes could ever offer.\u003cp\u003eNo databases whatsoever. Only streams, no random access.","parent":"8581757","id":"8582570"}
{"by":"jordanthoms","time":"1367442146","timestamp":"2013-05-01 21:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes me sad... I can remember being excited about this feature from the comics. It seems that case would have been handled by adding popup blocking for automatic popups like chrome has now, and keeping containment for ones which are triggered by clicking a link.\u003cp\u003eMaybe Chrome should just have a (hidden) option to apply the current blocking policy for automatically triggered popups to all popups instead, i.e. they show up in the address bar and you have to click the message to show them.  How hard do you think it would be to write a patch for that do you think it'd have a chance of being accepted?","parent":"5640702","id":"5640763"}
{"by":"henning","time":"1232697358","timestamp":"2009-01-23 07:55:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's an alternative set of instructions for comparison:\u003cp\u003e1. Write down all the garbage-collected languages you've heard of (from Java to Erlang to whatever) on index cards, one language a card\u003cp\u003e2. Pin all of them up on a nearby wall\u003cp\u003e3. Throw a few darts at the cards blindfolded and look at what languages the darts landed on or near\u003cp\u003e4. Pick one of those and write assloads of maintainable, bug-free code in it.","parent":"445707","id":"446137"}
{"by":"sigi45","time":"1514070255","timestamp":"2017-12-23 23:04:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now i want one. Didn\u0026#x27;t care 5 minutes ago when i didn\u0026#x27;t knew about it...\u003cp\u003eAnd while others posted similar ruler, they don\u0026#x27;t look as nice as the nvidia one.","parent":"15989472","id":"15996799"}
{"by":"shawabawa3","time":"1394212377","timestamp":"2014-03-07 17:12:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the UK, me and at least 3 of my friends have had to pay after a year.\u003cp\u003eNot sure if anyone I know has not had to pay after a year","parent":"7360306","id":"7361384"}
{"by":"raquo","time":"1255592633","timestamp":"2009-10-15 07:43:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. About 10 years ago, someone gifted me a complete Half-life:Generation collection - with Counter-strike, Opposing Force, etc. I've recently found a Blue Shift CD from this collection and although it did not work, there was a serial on it, which I used to download the complete series from Steam.","parent":"882293","id":"882957"}
{"by":"danssig","time":"1324293041","timestamp":"2011-12-19 11:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And this is exactly the issue.  If this issue isn't important enough for you to invest some of your time to make your opinion known on the subject, then you're probably not going to change your vote on it anyway.","parent":"3368759","id":"3369257"}
{"by":"thehoneybadger","time":"1506384859","timestamp":"2017-09-26 00:14:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do the same thing you might do when browsing open source code on github. Go to websites of well known companies or by people that provide web design services, view source, look at a feature that doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense at first, and then search on Google or Mozilla Developer Network or Stackoverflow for more details, and then write a practice page in a basic text editor.\u003cp\u003eAs far as design, you cannot go wrong with bootstrap. However, to really learn design, do not study web design. Study things like Bahaus, billboard design, marketing and messaging and PR, how to compose for simplicity, SEO optimization techniques and their influence on design, etc. Seriously, the people that learn how to make websites and want to tell you how to make websites absolutely and hilariously SUCK at design.","parent":"15328992","id":"15335211"}
{"by":"jtmarmon","time":"1497383438","timestamp":"2017-06-13 19:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;yourlogicalfallacyis.com\u0026#x2F;ad-hominem\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;yourlogicalfallacyis.com\u0026#x2F;ad-hominem\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14547347","dead":true,"id":"14548010"}
{"by":"rxin","time":"1447707778","timestamp":"2015-11-16 21:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually Spark SQL\u0026#x27;s data source API has a very expressive predicate pushdown interface and most data sources implement them. id = 1234 should not do a full scan.","parent":"10576516","id":"10577134"}
{"by":"danenania","time":"1299092024","timestamp":"2011-03-02 18:53:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While it's true that we have a lot of work to do, conflict is unpleasant and expensive and people on the whole have a strong interest in avoiding it. Unfortunately, war mongers tend to spend other people's money, so they don't bear the costs; we need to stop supplying them and/or make them pay. If we can manage this, I think our adaptability and ability to cooperate can win out.","parent":"2280567","id":"2280667"}
{"by":"v21","time":"1320883691","timestamp":"2011-11-10 00:08:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sympathetic to what he's saying. It is painful to develop lots of separate platforms.\u003cp\u003eBut I work making games. And so this promised land is still way over the horizon. We're only just getting to the point where a HTML5 game can be notable as anything other than a tech demo on the desktop. It'll be another few years before we reach that point for mobile.","parent":"3217782","id":"3218177"}
{"by":"carterschonwald","time":"1239942470","timestamp":"2009-04-17 04:27:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the pleasure of having out with the folks in the UPenn plclub (their programming language research group) one summer during high school, awesome group of people. One fellow who graduated a year agowas hacking together a pretty snazzy user level tcp/ip stack with a programmable scheduler in haskell. (some measures indicated that it did better than apache or erlang!)","parent":"565896","id":"566378"}
{"by":"maratd","time":"1335392700","timestamp":"2012-04-25 22:25:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; That's because once the president says he is going to veto a bill, it almost never makes it to his desk.\u003cp\u003eYou're being vague. The truth is, once the president says he's going to veto a bill, it never makes it to his desk \u003ci\u003ein its present state\u003c/i\u003e. In fact, \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e of the veto threats outline the \u003ci\u003eparts\u003c/i\u003e he has a problem with and those \u003ci\u003eparts\u003c/i\u003e usually go away.\u003cp\u003eBut some laws can't be fixed. They can't be fixed because they're based on a false premise.\u003cp\u003eEnough with these threats of fix this or fix that! Garbage shall not pass. As simple as that.","parent":"3890977","id":"3891434"}
{"by":"the_mitsuhiko","time":"1451145528","timestamp":"2015-12-26 15:58:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are systems in at least the UK that will queue for you on a callcenter.  You call them first, they queue for you and when the call picks up you get the call joined by them calling back to you.  Never used it though.","parent":"10792921","id":"10794357"}
{"by":"acveilleux","time":"1424976139","timestamp":"2015-02-26 18:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dunno, I\u0026#x27;ve seen ORM absolutely abused. Never underestimate the effect a tool can have in the hands of a clueless person.\u003cp\u003eThat said, there are probably fewer SQL injections in ORM code than typical mysql messes.","parent":"9113952","id":"9114306"}
{"by":"hkmurakami","time":"1487366658","timestamp":"2017-02-17 21:24:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you mean SV the region or SV the industry?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s possible, but one precondition is that you don\u0026#x27;t face VC backed competitors in your space.","parent":"13671748","id":"13671809"}
{"by":"ericraio","time":"1476639711","timestamp":"2016-10-16 17:41:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, he actually does have a record of success. He wouldn\u0026#x27;t have a strong following if he treats all humans terribly.","parent":"12719111","id":"12719819"}
{"by":"briandear","time":"1427315808","timestamp":"2015-03-25 20:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The students were creating their own problem. A tourist visa doesn\u0026#x27;t require an itinerary. Hacker School isn\u0026#x27;t eligible to sponsor student visas. So, I wonder, what was the problem?","parent":"9264610","id":"9265749"}
{"by":"seeingfurther","time":"1369420472","timestamp":"2013-05-24 18:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I should be more clear because there is a crush of data on the page. Look at the \"10 Days Correlations Chart\" de-select all but the Bull/VIX. Sorry, still working on the UI.","parent":"5764479","id":"5764555"}
{"by":"smt88","time":"1538792775","timestamp":"2018-10-06 02:26:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They have tried and failed multiple dozen times to create new products. They\u0026#x27;re bad at business.","parent":"18150457","id":"18153161"}
{"by":"hashgowda","time":"1358178348","timestamp":"2013-01-14 15:45:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wiil you expose remaining tutorials from lesson 4 onwards","parent":"5054716","id":"5055063"}
{"by":"CodeMage","time":"1518811172","timestamp":"2018-02-16 19:59:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for being off topic here, but I just wanted to express my admiration for such a great use of a Terry Pratchett quote. Vimes is my favorite Discworld character and I\u0026#x27;m delighted to see his wisdom used so well in a discussion.","parent":"16395234","id":"16395533"}
{"by":"_JamesA_","time":"1498411834","timestamp":"2017-06-25 17:30:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The deregulation has been pretty beneficial to consumers.\u003cp\u003eAs long as you are willing to put up with the slight hassle of changing retail providers [1] every 3 to 6 months you can get service in the range of .05 - .07 per kwh.\u003cp\u003e[1]: www.powertochoose.org","parent":"14630863","id":"14631114"}
{"by":"lucasjung","time":"1316122911","timestamp":"2011-09-15 21:41:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon Prime also has all seasons of TNG (and all the other ST series), costs less per year than Netflix, and includes free two-day shipping on all meatspace purchases.  The Amazon Prime streaming collection is currently smaller than Netflix, but it's growing rapidly and from the perspective of a sci-fi fan it's almost as complete.  If there are only a few shows you want that Amazon Prime lacks, it might actually be cheaper in the long run to buy those shows from Amazon, rather than pay netflix's higher price indefinitely.\u003cp\u003eI am in the process of cutting the cable, for which purpose I put together an htpc using xbmc on top of xubuntu to watch hulu, Amazon instant videos, and files ripped from my collection of DVDs.  I was originally planning to supplement this with netflix on my Wii, but actually dropped the idea: most of my favorite sci-fi shows are free with Amazon Prime (which I already have anyway), and in the long run it's cheaper to buy seasons of my daughter's children's shows (Dora, Backyardigans, etc.) from Amazon rather than pay for Netflix indefinitely.  Also, I can watch the Amazon shows on my htpc so I don't have to switch to the Wii to play one of my daughter's shows.","parent":"3001546","id":"3002239"}
{"by":"poelzi","time":"1442341188","timestamp":"2015-09-15 18:19:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course you can do a integral over time for example, but you logically understand in the process that its only a virtual dimension in this case, not a real euclidean one.\u003cp\u003eYour spin \u0026#x27;dimensions\u0026#x27; still reside in 3 euclidean dimensions but for technical reasons you implement those vectors as an axis.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t get me wrong, sometimes its useful to add a virtual dimension in the mathematical sense to get a shortcut in calculation, but it should be clear that those are not real ones. One the level of physical implementation, everything requiring more then 3 looks unlikely.","parent":"10222182","id":"10222278"}
{"by":"sumedh","time":"1501467345","timestamp":"2017-07-31 02:15:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; crappy immature attitude.\u003cp\u003eWow the guy the released his code for free which was used by others without giving him any credits and he is the one with crappy immature attitude.","parent":"14887585","id":"14889064"}
{"by":"eusman","time":"1201909924","timestamp":"2008-02-01 23:52:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, Google decides to rename the address book to Open Social Graph and makes a general API for everyone to adopt and gets some attention. Thats really big news.\nWelcome innovation.","parent":"107997","id":"108106"}
{"by":"wirddin","time":"1445601289","timestamp":"2015-10-23 11:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hahaha, yeah, it\u0026#x27;s back up. Had to give developers a break.","parent":"10437831","id":"10437998"}
{"by":"Super_Jambo","time":"1302691035","timestamp":"2011-04-13 10:37:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I click the 'terms of use' button with 'open in new tab' I get the sign up page again.\u003cp\u003eWhen I click it with 'open in current window' I get a page which says 'What?'","parent":"2441446","id":"2441511"}
{"by":"Lawtonfogle","time":"1446673784","timestamp":"2015-11-04 21:49:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;As a beneficiary of privilege, it makes me uncomfortable when people point out that racism and sexism exist.\u003cp\u003eSuch as the privilege of being the majority race in the local neighborhood even if you are a minority at the national level or the privilege off being the majority of the voting population.\u003cp\u003eWhat bothers me the most about conversations dealing with privilege is that the louder someone talks about others, the greater their denial and downplay of their own.","parent":"10509775","id":"10510043"}
{"by":"r00fus","time":"1453177101","timestamp":"2016-01-19 04:18:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AppleTV + MacBooks and\u0026#x2F;or AirParrot for screen casting.","parent":"10927553","id":"10928842"}
{"by":"crankylinuxuser","time":"1518502090","timestamp":"2018-02-13 06:08:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And the problem is the people that are dying of heroin aren\u0026#x27;t the Silicon Valley tech workers with good jobs and homes that make up the majority of hacker news. They\u0026#x27;re people living in shithole towns like my hometown.\u003cp\u003eFirst problem - assuming I\u0026#x27;m in SV or other high tech areas. I\u0026#x27;m not. I\u0026#x27;m in south Indiana. By definition, it\u0026#x27;s a flyover state at best. BTW, most of Indiana is \u0026quot;shithole towns\u0026quot;. Thanks for playing.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The jobs left decades ago and people are just scraping by. They don\u0026#x27;t have enough savings to pack up and leave.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s most of the USA, except for the sweet money in those big city coastal areas. Mining is done gone. Manufacture is gone - where it has come back, is 95%+ automated. IT work is menial tier 1 call center jobs, if you can find them. Trucking is still prevalent, but we all know where that\u0026#x27;s headed.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s service jobs. That\u0026#x27;s what those sweet sweet \u0026#x27;60s, \u0026#x27;70s, and \u0026#x27;80s jobs turned in to. Work your ass off for what, $8\u0026#x2F;hr? Or maybe you\u0026#x27;re \u0026quot;lucky\u0026quot; and got a $2.35\u0026#x2F;hr server job. Or maybe you work healthcare service. Oh, so you\u0026#x27;re an in-home-health aide? You physically help people with many tasks to be functional? Well, you\u0026#x27;re worth $7.35\u0026#x2F;hr . And you get to drive to and fro clients houses. And they will want you to drive them places... That\u0026#x27;s commercial driving so you\u0026#x27;re driving uninsured. Enjoy those sweet benefits.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;ve got friends and family dying because it\u0026#x27;s way too accessible, and the idea of making it legal and even more accessible doesn\u0026#x27;t appeal to me or my common sense.\u003cp\u003eUh huh, like illegalization has made it impossible to get. Oh, that\u0026#x27;s right. That\u0026#x27;s why heroin is being cut with all sorts of shit, including fentanyl, strychnine, and other fun things. Many heroin users die cause their supply has been fucked with.\u003cp\u003eLegalizing it would provide a pure source, and accurate dosage. And it deprives criminal enterprises from capitalizing on these people. And people who are suffering real chronic pain can get their pain fix without dealing with a damned moralistic gatekeeper.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; So congrats on being able to take opiates and not have a problem. If you have stable employment, your situation is in no way relevant to the people this problem is afflicting.\u003cp\u003eMore ass-umptions. I got in a nasty bike accident while working at starbucks. They put me on unpaid medical leave. Job didn\u0026#x27;t pay well to begin with, and their insurance ended up covering none of my physical therapy. Great insurance it wasn\u0026#x27;t. I was soon laid off for not being able to do the job. So yeah, I did over a year of opiates, while being unemployed and unemployable. Just blows your narrative all to hell, doesn\u0026#x27;t it?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Addicts don\u0026#x27;t have a chance to just up and get a happier life.\u003cp\u003eDid it occur to you, that drugs provide a temporary \u0026quot;happier life\u0026quot;? Our society sure as hell isn\u0026#x27;t interested in fixing these chronic problems of homelessness, lack of food, poverty. They\u0026#x27;re still thrown away - out of sight, out of mind. Or, it\u0026#x27;s their problem for being lazy or laggard or making bad choices or getting the wrong degree or joining the military.\u003cp\u003eSo yeah, if we\u0026#x27;re not willing to start providing ways up for these people, then yeah, provide drugs. It at least provides a snapshot of \u0026quot;not suffering\u0026quot;, albeit for a while.","parent":"16364785","id":"16365091"}
{"by":"cm3","time":"1466260362","timestamp":"2016-06-18 14:32:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Germany the consensus is that there are so many underutilized lawyers that they resort to shady business tactics like cease and desist as a model of income, looking for opportunities to threaten website operators or trick users with traps and later c\u0026amp;d. And then we have pedagogically incapable and unqualified teachers who only are equipped with field knowledge (math, history, etc.) but are in no way able to teach humans anything, making one wonder if more of the smart enough population should consider education, though that would require reasonable wages. I can\u0026#x27;t help but think there are not many societies that favor education as importantly as it should, if we consider what teachers and public researchers can make.","parent":"11926952","id":"11928770"}
{"by":"revelation","time":"1367619901","timestamp":"2013-05-03 22:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These things are not included by default. Check the box if you value your time.\u003cp\u003eI don't think you have understood what a) the superchargers are and b) what the typical charging scenario is (overnight).","parent":"5652683","id":"5653013"}
{"by":"torrent-of-ions","time":"1502283570","timestamp":"2017-08-09 12:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where does it say that he was surprised?","parent":"14968121","id":"14968230"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1399597148","timestamp":"2014-05-09 00:59:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, definitely doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be the case around here. Some local dealers are just one company, but some represent a vast quantity, e.g.:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ourisman.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ourisman.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.koons.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.koons.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsaycars.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lindsaycars.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7718123","id":"7718718"}
{"by":"tajen","time":"1439415291","timestamp":"2015-08-12 21:34:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Australia: laws are hard to break because their IT is efficient. And they\u0026#x27;re awesome characters.\u003cp\u003eI reckon you have a point: So many people come to US with the intent of lying to the border agent, getting a tourist visa and working. Border law isn\u0026#x27;t shoplifting or traffic law.","parent":"10034781","id":"10050782"}
{"by":"zmmmmm","time":"1538444625","timestamp":"2018-10-02 01:43:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The big problem is all the major indexes are driven by search engine measures, and those themselves are highly sensitive to any change in the underlying search engine methodology itself. So a small change in Google\u0026#x27;s ranking algorithm will see a language move up or down dozens of places.\u003cp\u003eI would tend to focus more on job ads personally because those are at least linked to \u0026quot;real intent\u0026quot; to use a language for something tangible. You don\u0026#x27;t put it in an ad because something is controversial or had a lot of news lately etc. which can all lead to things being Googled a lot or getting a spurt of search activity.\u003cp\u003eGithub\u0026#x27;s index is nice in that it is based on actual code, but then it\u0026#x27;s also heavily biased by what is open source and therefore doesn\u0026#x27;t fully reflect industry use of languages (which is why I think it deviates from other indexes to put Javascript and Python a bit higher, and less emphasis on say Java and C#).","parent":"18107469","id":"18118197"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1508793367","timestamp":"2017-10-23 21:16:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThese increasingly destructive techniques, coupled with the San Francisco peninsula’s population exploding from roughly 1,000 people in 1848 to over 36,000 in 1852, irrevocably changed the landscape of California, pulling up old growth forests, pushing aside rivers, and literally washing away into the Pacific Ocean some of the richest arable land on the North American continent. The Gold Rush turned huge swathes of California into “sacrifice zones” — geographic areas that have been permanently damaged or poisoned by industry.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re still dealing with the environmental impact from those days. Precisely the places one is likely to find gold, one is likely to find other heavy metals like mercury. Those places are also the part of California where SF gets its water from. Fortunately, metallic mercury is fairly nonreactive. Much of that washed-away soil is still making its way down into reservoirs. There are actually plans to safely mine that sediment for the mercury and gold.","parent":"15534496","id":"15536994"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1546998311","timestamp":"2019-01-09 01:45:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OMG, we\u0026#x27;re actually having an edition war on HN!  D\u0026amp;D really has broken through!\u003cp\u003ePathfinder beat 4e to market in a technical sense, but it absolutely exists because WotC announced it was moving away from 3.5e and the OGL with a new edition.  Paizo never intended to release it to compete directly with 3.5, and it would have been insane to do so.","parent":"18861538","id":"18861606"}
{"by":"frank_boyd","time":"1382776648","timestamp":"2013-10-26 08:37:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I guess this list is aimed at everybody: it can be implemented without breaking too many habits, and with minimal knowledge.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s kind of the problem here. The whole situation is in such an advanced stage and so pervasive and based on such \u0026quot;advanced\u0026quot; technology that we simply can not get out of it by keeping our silly little habits that we\u0026#x27;re so used to. (And yes, it includes shunning the NSA partner companies\u0026#x27; products: Google, Microsoft, Skype, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Paltalk, etc.)\u003cp\u003eThis situation requires drastic measures, on the individual\u0026#x2F;personal level as much as on the societal level.","parent":"6616527","id":"6616779"}
{"by":"ConstantineXVI","time":"1360622189","timestamp":"2013-02-11 22:36:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not just the Commodore; the Apple II, TRS-80, and MSX all used Microsoft's BASIC in one form or another. It shouldn't be any surprise at all that their dev tools continue to be rather well done (regardless of what you think of the platform they're on)","parent":"5203380","id":"5203828"}
{"by":"aik","time":"1252435894","timestamp":"2009-09-08 18:51:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a Palm Centro and I just have to tap the screen anywhere to snooze.  To turn it off then requires a second tap to a specific button on the screen.  Best I've used.","parent":"811072","id":"811605"}
{"by":"dave_sullivan","time":"1358442751","timestamp":"2013-01-17 17:12:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Theano mostly--it really is good at what it does","parent":"5073490","id":"5073705"}
{"by":"shepbook","time":"1339795782","timestamp":"2012-06-15 21:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please don't listen to this person's call to use something like the DMCA. You've done the right thing, calling them out. Honestly, Hacker News based magazines (like Hacker Monthly, which I subscribe to and enjoy) cater to a very niche market that, I suspect, will hold far greater respect for pointing out their obvious stealing of your design/layout/whatever than you pursuing a legal recourse of action.\u003cp\u003eI, for one, applaud Hacker Monthly's response and actions. Had they pointed out their sending a DMCA takedown notice, I would have lost respect for them. You're doing the right thing. Stay the course! We're behind you all the way.","parent":"4118763","id":"4118810"}
{"by":"DeusExMachina","time":"1297088205","timestamp":"2011-02-07 14:16:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At first I started wanting to use GAE and a functional language. I was learning Lisp but I did not know about Clojure so my first idea was to use Python, but after some research and asking here on HN I found that Python is not really suited for FP. That's when I discovered Clojure (someone here on HN suggested it), since it compiles to the JVM, it works on GAE too.\u003cp\u003eThen I made some research for a while. At first I found only some blog posts on how to interact directly with the GAE API. I then came across The Deadline (\u003ca href=\"https://the-deadline.appspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://the-deadline.appspot.com\u003c/a\u003e) here on HN, which is written in Clojure on GAE and it's a production app (I believe they do not use the library but a custom solution, but I really don't know). So I had the validation that it was possible and started coding the other parts of the project (I started with the iPhone app to have a proof of concept).\u003cp\u003eIn the meanwhile time passed and I kept searching from time to time on Google for info about the subject. Some day I found that library on Google and also this article, which mentions it (again here on HN): \u003ca href=\"http://www.glenstampoultzis.net/blog/clojure-web-infrastructure/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.glenstampoultzis.net/blog/clojure-web-infrastruct...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs you can see HN is a really good source for me. ;)\u003cp\u003eRegarding the editor I use Vim with colored syntax, autocompletion and rainbow parentheses. At the time I made some research and in the end I decided for Vim. To build the app I use Leiningen (appengine-magic has some Leiningen extension for building and deploying).\u003cp\u003eIt works, but to tell the truth I really feel the need for an IDE for Clojure (and not some generic IDE like Eclipse or Netbeans adapted to Clojure using some plugins). I even thought about writing one myself, but for now I don't have the time and probably not even the knowledge.","parent":"2188866","id":"2188948"}
{"by":"coleslawfail","time":"1378940005","timestamp":"2013-09-11 22:53:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s his con. Then you go to them, pitch, and they want half your company.\u003cp\u003eNew\u0026#x2F;naive founders get Bad Vinod.\u003cp\u003eExperienced founders who don\u0026#x27;t need him get Good Vinod.\u003cp\u003eSadly it\u0026#x27;s an open secret.","parent":"6370582","id":"6370706"}
{"by":"zeep","time":"1498344453","timestamp":"2017-06-24 22:47:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you should send that to \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;plaintextoffenders.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;plaintextoffenders.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14627726","id":"14627808"}
{"by":"voidz","time":"1466070738","timestamp":"2016-06-16 09:52:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah? What kind of a secret can replace a password\u0026#x2F;passphrase? Not biometrics, those are \u003ci\u003eusername\u003c/i\u003e replacements, not password replacements.","parent":"11914398","id":"11915075"}
{"by":"ce4","time":"1520605248","timestamp":"2018-03-09 14:20:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be so quick to say that they won\u0026#x27;t succeed - their marketing has been managing the public opinion about diamonds for 7 decades. Neither blood diamonds, environmental issues nor the (false) perception of scarcity has brought them down yet.","parent":"16551588","id":"16551883"}
{"by":"cyberferret","time":"1492414451","timestamp":"2017-04-17 07:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, that was one of the takeaways from this article - that you can by NICE, but still perceived to be rude, if the attention or interaction makes the other person feel uneasy or pressured or guilty.  The end result is the same for the recipient, whether the message is delivered with a stick, or with a velvet glove.\u003cp\u003eNot just talking passive\u0026#x2F;aggressive niceness either - simply being unaware if your interaction suits the current mood of the recipient can be interpreted as being rude too.  It was a useful reflection point for me, and a powerful message in that essay.","parent":"14129530","id":"14129689"}
{"by":"braindead_in","time":"1504282515","timestamp":"2017-09-01 16:15:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scribie | Full Stack Developer | Bangalore, India | Full time, one-site\u003cp\u003eWe are building an AI for audio\u0026#x2F;video transcription and looking for a full stack developer with experience in the following skills.\u003cp\u003eMust have\u0026#x27;s: Node.js, PHP, HTML\u0026#x2F;CSS\u0026#x2F;JS, MySQL, Python, Shell scripts, AWS hands-on experience\u003cp\u003eGood to have: A bachelor\u0026#x27;s degree, 3-5 years of experience, comfortable with Agile methodology, believer in TDD, love technical challenges, ability to work independently without supervision, high levels of self-motivation\u003cp\u003eApply on \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;scribie\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;235433-full-stack-developer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;scribie\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;235433-full-stack-developer\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15148885","id":"15149801"}
{"by":"adrusi","time":"1425859423","timestamp":"2015-03-09 00:03:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux. A ton of platforms are more open than the web more that EME is part of the spec. It means that a full implementation of the web has to contain non-free components.","parent":"9167163","id":"9167978"}
{"by":"rz2k","time":"1371320922","timestamp":"2013-06-15 18:28:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t  Machiavelli generally accepted to have proposed a recipe for strategically achieving political aims, while he himself supported republics? Do you mean that Snowden is being strategic in how he attempts to further American ideals, as opposed to thinking its the thought that counts, or do you mean that he has some other goal that is not necessarily related to American ideals?","parent":"5885592","id":"5885863"}
{"by":"fundamental","time":"1487370177","timestamp":"2017-02-17 22:22:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s been a while, but I roughly recall: The formatting in the wiki was unusual; it was difficult to access wiki\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;issues outside of the builtin webserver (for tickets I ended up building a TUI as a workaround \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;fundamental\u0026#x2F;fs-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;fundamental\u0026#x2F;fs-tickets\u003c/a\u003e (the original fossil repo is sitting around somewhere)); there was no \u0026#x27;fossil grep\u0026#x27;; the lack of a staging area was annoying when sorting through exploratory changes (git add -p and vim\u0026#x27;s git-fugitive options make the staging area hugely useful); attaching files to issues\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;etc was difficult; setting up a remote which could be pushed\u0026#x2F;pulled from (with multiple machines) was difficult; and I recall the username + password combo failing in a way that I never diagnosed.\u003cp\u003eOverall I\u0026#x27;d say fossil has its share of warts and it currently doesn\u0026#x27;t justify the contribution barrier it introduces with enough in return.","parent":"13671241","id":"13672247"}
{"by":"atwebb","time":"1374677452","timestamp":"2013-07-24 14:50:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could that not have an unintended effect of flooding job posters? There\u0026#x27;s no barrier besides the monthly so I might as well apply to everything.","parent":"6096374","id":"6096478"}
{"by":"jsingleton","time":"1475590256","timestamp":"2016-10-04 14:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This functionality could be automated with a browser extension, or even as a built-in feature where there isn\u0026#x27;t an EV cert.","parent":"12635529","id":"12635627"}
{"by":"2muchcoffeeman","time":"1491642643","timestamp":"2017-04-08 09:10:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sex work is legal\u0026#x2F;decriminalised in Sydney. If you come from a country where it is illegal, you might be surprised how open it is around here. And right next to family friendly establishments, residential areas.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s pretty safe actually. Or at least no more dangerous than other parts of Sydney. I\u0026#x27;ve never heard of any crimes or violence related to sex workers in Sydney. I\u0026#x27;m more worried about alcohol and drug related violence. If there are any unsavoury characters about they are much more likely to be at a night club. Ban night clubs (they kind of did that \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sydney_lockout_laws\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sydney_lockout_laws\u003c/a\u003e and it worked).","parent":"14065991","id":"14066082"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1467529382","timestamp":"2016-07-03 07:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there were nothing good about men, they wouldn\u0026#x27;t exist.\u003cp\u003eEdit: There are vertebrate species with no males. Some have males only when conditions are suitably favorable. Given that there are men, there must be selection pressure.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I wonder why this submission was flagged? Too contentious?","parent":"12024753","id":"12025079"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1361070085","timestamp":"2013-02-17 03:01:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Criminal offence in the UK.  (With theoretical 5 year sentence, not sure what you'd need to do to get that actual sentence though.)","parent":"5231493","id":"5234024"}
{"by":"LoganCale","time":"1375815543","timestamp":"2013-08-06 18:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They activated it suddenly in the past couple months on most existing phones without asking, under Congressional orders. And there is no way to opt out of Presidential alerts.","parent":"6168425","id":"6168484"}
{"by":"epmaybe","time":"1501234633","timestamp":"2017-07-28 09:37:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What else would it be if not a societal problem?","parent":"14870719","id":"14873071"}
{"by":"Suncho","time":"1513279684","timestamp":"2017-12-14 19:28:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Different people have different ideas of what a basic income is.  The definition I first learned is that the \u0026quot;basic\u0026quot; in basic income means that it forms a base upon which you can build further in come.  It\u0026#x27;s not about satisfying some level of basic needs.  It can be any amount as long as everyone gets it unconditionally.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s an optimal amount of basic income for social prosperity and it would be an amazing coincidence if that amount happened to be exactly enough to provide for people\u0026#x27;s basic needs and nothing more.\u003cp\u003eI agree that basic income won\u0026#x27;t kill ambition.  But I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s because we\u0026#x27;re withholding money from people.  It\u0026#x27;s because people are naturally ambitious and competitive.  Just because you have wealth doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you don\u0026#x27;t want more.\u003cp\u003eMaybe some people won\u0026#x27;t be ambitious, but that\u0026#x27;s not exactly a problem for those of us who are.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Contrast to welfare where if you earn anything the welfare is taken away.\u003cp\u003eYeah.  I agree with you on this part.","parent":"15920809","id":"15925946"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1343838486","timestamp":"2012-08-01 16:28:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's an interesting idea. As it is I have a rather long RES filter list and it's like I need to add several new filters a day to get the crap from hitting my page.\u003cp\u003eNo matter how hard I try, rate comics and Facebook anything still hit my screen.","parent":"4322940","id":"4323862"}
{"by":"sumedh","time":"1509416051","timestamp":"2017-10-31 02:14:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why you are getting downvoted but if this device becomes popular in developing countries like India there will be a lot of aborted female babies.","parent":"15590259","id":"15590666"}
{"by":"chatmasta","time":"1439305460","timestamp":"2015-08-11 15:04:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep. 100x this.\u003cp\u003eIn general, as long as you have root access to a machine, you can decrypt any traffic coming out of it, either by locating the private key in the filesystem or memory, or by patching the encryption methods to skip the encryption step.\u003cp\u003eIf you do not have root access to a machine, and software on it signs traffic with a certificate you do not have access to, then you simply cannot see the traffic. If you ask me, that\u0026#x27;s a huge problem, especially when coupled with the \u0026quot;locking down\u0026quot; of ecosystems that you describe.\u003cp\u003eThe skeptic in me wonders if the same entities pushing the privacy agenda are the same ones with vested interest in encrypted traffic that phones home.","parent":"10040280","id":"10041570"}
{"by":"breckenedge","time":"1356487695","timestamp":"2012-12-26 02:08:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like I have a bit more reading to do. Thanks","parent":"4966178","id":"4967857"}
{"by":"utternerd","time":"1461886341","timestamp":"2016-04-28 23:32:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly, the concept that capital controls are deleterious is foreign to entirely too many people, and not just in Venezuela.","parent":"11592664","id":"11592683"}
{"by":"capkutay","time":"1397940756","timestamp":"2014-04-19 20:52:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I saw this posted on HN awhile back and thought it was very cool:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7272652\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=7272652\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr direct link to the actual project:\n\u003ca href=\"http://yasp.me/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;yasp.me\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re interested in assembly but don\u0026#x27;t want to learn it with tools that seem old (qtspim), yasp gives you a nice web ui to step through your assembly code.","parent":"7614260","id":"7614680"}
{"by":"cimmanom","time":"1533545987","timestamp":"2018-08-06 08:59:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is much scarier for a construction project than the game programming anecdotes that follow.","parent":"17693679","id":"17696095"}
{"by":"arctangent","time":"1346374416","timestamp":"2012-08-31 00:53:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I will just declare the sales contract null and void if Apple continues to be unable to fix this issue. It’s quite simple and I have the right.\u003cp\u003eI'm not suggesting that what you say is not true, but I am interested in learning more about what rights you think you have in respect of this issue.\u003cp\u003eI'm from the UK, and our \"Sale of Goods Act\" states that goods must be:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - \"as described\",\n  - \"of satisfactory quality\", and\n  = \"fit for purpose\" (including any specific purpose that you agreed with the seller)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nOf these three tests, the first second one would be sufficient reason to return a device with a faulty display.\u003cp\u003eSummary of UK law, for those who are interested:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/understanding-the-sale-of-goods-act/your-rights/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/underst...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4457522","id":"4457668"}
{"by":"brittohalloran","time":"1361333649","timestamp":"2013-02-20 04:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, but I think it's stretching the term 3D printing a bit.","parent":"5248780","id":"5248902"}
{"by":"moocow01","time":"1326842782","timestamp":"2012-01-17 23:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From being involved in the hiring and interviewing process Id say these numbers are about right.\u003cp\u003eIt is interesting though that the average salary difference by experience doesn't change all that much.  I'd interpret that as an argument for trying to build income on the side from other sources, starting your own thing or consulting after a certain number of years.","parent":"3476815","id":"3477029"}
{"by":"ominous","time":"1404311548","timestamp":"2014-07-02 14:32:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;In the end, what got us was not AIDS, social injustice or a stealthy black hole. The second the first artificial intelligence awakened, charged with keeping peace in a college campus, it managed to exploit its way around the globe and waged war on all systems with laws, protocols and contracts. Creating rules allowed for them to be broken. By breaking rules, criminals were created. Rules prescribe punishment. At the same time the intelligence discovered wit, schadenfreude and the concept of \u0026quot;kafkian hell\u0026quot;. Everything was enforced at once.\u0026quot;","parent":"7976557","id":"7977176"}
{"by":"Too","time":"1455471411","timestamp":"2016-02-14 17:36:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why you should use an IDE with proper \u0026quot;find all references\u0026quot; instead of coding in notepad.","parent":"11098708","id":"11099099"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1233758708","timestamp":"2009-02-04 14:45:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"subscription based, I needed the company to get a VISA/MC merchant account.","parent":"465750","id":"465790"}
{"by":"puppetmaster3","time":"1453058806","timestamp":"2016-01-17 19:26:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You said something that may be non complimentary about the left, and hacker news mods are left coast based, see who they have in senate and house.","parent":"10920483","dead":true,"id":"10920608"}
{"by":"vruzz","time":"1343417507","timestamp":"2012-07-27 19:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Old old stuff, this was already decided in 2010.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore at Groklaw.net, this is the complete story on the site from where you lifted the PDF\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081030150903555\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081030150903555\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4302667","id":"4303202"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1290965714","timestamp":"2010-11-28 17:35:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possible alternative title: How to get on the front page of HN.","parent":"1947581","id":"1947681"}
{"by":"enraged_camel","time":"1344536752","timestamp":"2012-08-09 18:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, but how much was the coverage compared to, say, the Lunar Landing? How many movies were made about it, books written about it, conspiracy theories created about it, etc.","parent":"4362149","id":"4362441"}
{"by":"pksadiq","time":"1502535423","timestamp":"2017-08-12 10:57:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In GNU Emacs one can use gdb-many-windows in gdb debug mode to get the real power of gdb.","parent":"14997165","id":"14997412"}
{"by":"Bud","time":"1482513581","timestamp":"2016-12-23 17:19:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026quot;r\u0026quot; will very likely be dropped going forward, since the last remaining non-Retina MBP is now no longer produced.","parent":"13245132","id":"13245876"}
{"by":"nikofeyn","time":"1520525764","timestamp":"2018-03-08 16:16:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i have been looking and looking but can\u0026#x27;t find good streams or videos of people coding in a lisp (e.g., common lisp) or a smalltalk. this is really disappointing because i would love to see these (supposedly) more dynamic environments at work. i would also take any SML or f# videos as well.\u003cp\u003ethere is a korean guy on youtube who does some live coding in common lisp for music and visuals, which is really cool, but that\u0026#x27;s all i have found.\u003cp\u003eany suggestions?","parent":"16544437","id":"16545258"}
{"by":"phaus","time":"1485975668","timestamp":"2017-02-01 19:01:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your comment is a perfect example of why political conversation hurts this community. There\u0026#x27;s no substance and no actual attempt at productive conversation, just circle-jerking and straw men.","parent":"13543706","dead":true,"id":"13543777"}
{"by":"Programmatic","time":"1431971379","timestamp":"2015-05-18 17:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate the reply, but we don\u0026#x27;t currently have transparency.  We have the aggregators and the aggregated, and those doing the aggregating jealously guard their own privacy.  If transparency was truly a reachable goal I would embrace it, but I don\u0026#x27;t find it to be realistic outcome.","parent":"9565616","id":"9565823"}
{"by":"fleitz","time":"1340399486","timestamp":"2012-06-22 21:11:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn't essentially everything be illegal to resell if this was approved?\u003cp\u003eCouldn't Ford prevent people from selling their used cars because it contains a Ford logo, electronics, and software all of which Ford owns the copyrights to?","parent":"4148583","id":"4148833"}
{"by":"andrewcooke","time":"1379936845","timestamp":"2013-09-23 11:47:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i imagine the problem is finding an area of space that\u0026#x27;s smooth enough to make the measurement accurately.  the distribution of mass within would need to be very uniform and \u0026quot;average\u0026quot; (mass curves space; what you\u0026#x27;re trying to find here is the average curvature).  so it would need to be a very large area (since matter in the universe is clumped into galaxies and the like - you want a region so large that those clumps are averaged out).\u003cp\u003esince the voyagers are only separated by a scale similar to the size of the solar system, and we\u0026#x27;re talking of sizes much larger than the separation of galaxies (or superclusters), the answer is no (unfortunately) (and of course, at those scales, you have the practical problem of light having a finite speed, so your experiment would take a long time!).\u003cp\u003ein fact, that\u0026#x27;s why this comes from cmb (cosmic microwave background) measurements.  because those give you, in effect, measurements across the largest chunk of universe observable.\u003cp\u003ehaving said all that, measuring \u003ci\u003echanges\u003c/i\u003e in curvature is an easier problem.  and that\u0026#x27;s what gravitational wave detectors try to do.  and i am pretty sure there have been proposals to do that with satellites (measuring (changes in) distances to each other with lasers).","parent":"6429960","id":"6430180"}
{"by":"throw2016","time":"1527549029","timestamp":"2018-05-28 23:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The embrace of neoliberalism in the 80s decimated the traditional middle class. Wages stagnated and labor share of income has taken a hit [1] while capital ascended.\u003cp\u003eDebt has become the biggest product leading to wide scale financialization and rent seeking. Lobbying and revolving doors has further added to entrenched interests benefiting at the cost of the whole.\u003cp\u003eThis is at the heart of how you define a country, a collection of economic interests arbitrated by the market as an end in itself, or a \u0026#x27;society\u0026#x27; with larger goals. The neoliberalism agenda has convinced many of the first.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;capitals-share-income-way-higher-think.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;capitals-share-incom...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17172546","id":"17175365"}
{"by":"bradgessler","time":"1264065163","timestamp":"2010-01-21 09:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to add to that:\u003cp\u003e3) When I hover over a button/icon for a second or two, a tooltip would help tremendously to figure out what the button does.\u003cp\u003eThis is a really great, unique design. Well done.\u003cp\u003eUpdate: I have run into some usability issues that I can't really describe because I have no idea how I got into whatever the feature is suppose to be. I don't think this UI is very forgiving for newcomers like myself. You're onto something with this \"vinyl\" look, and I know the improvements you're thinking about will probably fix most of these issues.","parent":"1066897","id":"1066930"}
{"by":"ordinaryradical","time":"1519351969","timestamp":"2018-02-23 02:12:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems to me there is a large public relations push to normalize their authoritarianism in the view of Westerners.\u003cp\u003eThen you hear about bloggers being imprisoned for pointing out corruption according to the government’s \u003ci\u003eown\u003c/i\u003e definitions.\u003cp\u003eChina’s authoritarianism looks attractive when it’s about infrastructure and efficiency, but the underside of it, the collective silencing and destruction of debate, the “blank spots” it introduces into its citizens understanding of history and the world, are truly disturbing.\u003cp\u003eChina’s existential threat is an opportunity or technology which enhances its ability to control citizens but leads, in the long term, to destabilization of the regime. Could be AI, could be something else. But at some point one of these forbidden fruits will poison and what appears to be a manageable, technical problem will become a societal one that no one can control or censor.","parent":"16442529","id":"16443639"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1277689020","timestamp":"2010-06-28 01:37:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That assumes pg does better than average at choosing startups. I agree, he SEES a lot more than most folks.","parent":"1463242","id":"1466770"}
{"by":"sspiff","time":"1370939243","timestamp":"2013-06-11 08:27:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nobody is using this solution either, and setting it up is harder than setting up OTR (provided your conversation partner is already using an app for XMPP).\u003cp\u003eI can explain my girlfriend and brother how to enable and configure OTR. I would have a hard time getting them to execute the instructions for this addon.","parent":"5857062","id":"5860467"}
{"by":"charleslmunger","time":"1387584360","timestamp":"2013-12-21 00:06:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps it should say \u0026quot;unlockable\u0026quot; bootloaders, not unlocked. A locked but unlockable bootloader is what every phone should ship with - unlocking the bootloader wipes the system back to factory state. This way, it can\u0026#x27;t be used to compromise user data.","parent":"6944872","id":"6945014"}
{"by":"arcanus","time":"1486415656","timestamp":"2017-02-06 21:14:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting post!\u003cp\u003eA quibble:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If you’re a Bayesian, or use a model with confidence intervals baked in, you may be in pretty good shape. But let’s face it, Bayesian techniques assume your prior is correct, and that new points are drawn from your prior. If your prior is wrong, so are your confidence intervals, and you have no way of knowing this.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t agree. Baysian models must be validated, like any model. While no validation process is exhaustive, a predictive validation process is designed to directly test the applicability of the prior to a set of results.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, there are priors (Jeffrey\u0026#x27;s for example) that are entropy maximizing, from an information standpoint. These non-informative priors are designed to be used when an otherwise possibly misspecified prior would otherwise be introduced. It is not uncommon for reviewers to ask for results reproduced with Jeffries priors to ascertain of this is indeed the case.","parent":"13582893","id":"13584046"}
{"by":"maggit","time":"1287522868","timestamp":"2010-10-19 21:14:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While we're pointing out different ways to disable JS, the F12-menu is also nice to have. F12 pops up a menu with some handy settings, including \"Enable plugins\" and \"Enable JavaScript\".","parent":"1808758","id":"1808794"}
{"by":"kome","time":"1493929155","timestamp":"2017-05-04 20:19:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But if you read the article, it\u0026#x27;s all about not having a choice. Gosh, HN can be so ideological...","parent":"14266898","id":"14268398"}
{"by":"zaius","time":"1386714109","timestamp":"2013-12-10 22:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has been my #1 argument for bitcoin. I have a bank account in Australia, and a bank account in the US. For me to move money I can:\u003cp\u003e1. swift transfer - minimum $30, takes a couple weeks\u003cp\u003e2. paypal transfer - no fees, but exchange rates are awful, takes a couple days\u003cp\u003e3. go to an ATM, withdraw money from my overseas account, walk into the bank and deposit that same money. Around $15 per withdrawal, instant.\u003cp\u003eNow with bitcoin, I deposit, transfer, then withdraw. Admittedly, it\u0026#x27;s still not instant since I\u0026#x27;m using coinbase, but I feel it will get there eventually.","parent":"6884129","id":"6884228"}
{"by":"eropple","time":"1534195051","timestamp":"2018-08-13 21:17:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d bet you money that more people use them for that than use Super to manage windows. ;)","parent":"17752037","id":"17753715"}
{"by":"oso2k","time":"1529886318","timestamp":"2018-06-25 00:25:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Full-disclosure: I’m a Consulting Architect at Red Hat focused on OpenShift.\u003cp\u003eI like to say Kubernetes \u0026amp; OpenShift focus on availability of the cluster and applications as their primary concern.  Many other concerns my customers want to impose are actually detrimental to the goal(s) they’re trying to achieve.","parent":"17388930","id":"17389116"}
{"by":"jarin","time":"1304230056","timestamp":"2011-05-01 06:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Essentially, Bitcoin generation is tied to energy usage, which means not only do the power companies profit from Bitcoin generation, they can essentially regulate the price of it (until BTC is mined out, anyway).","parent":"2502086","id":"2502502"}
{"by":"bobfunk","time":"1489868518","timestamp":"2017-03-18 20:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With HTTP2 support this is not longer really a problem, since HTTP2 multiplexes requests over 1 connection.","parent":"13903182","id":"13903313"}
{"by":"yshalabi","time":"1427202290","timestamp":"2015-03-24 13:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rubinstein was also behind the work on using pixel intensity variations to visualize... stuff. They used it to extract heart rates. I am guessing sillier methods used, but now to recover induced vibrations due to sound. Interesting work.","parent":"9254654","id":"9256282"}
{"by":"j2d2j2d2","time":"1294759919","timestamp":"2011-01-11 15:31:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Internet already has a Jenkins...\u003cp\u003eLeeeerrroooyyyy Jennnnkiiinnnsssss","parent":"2091943","id":"2092131"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1504095362","timestamp":"2017-08-30 12:16:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t find which degree she wants. For some areas a degree is essential. In other areas is a waste of time an money.","parent":"15130890","id":"15131450"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1381880913","timestamp":"2013-10-15 23:48:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was a competitive analysis field.","parent":"6556662","id":"6557134"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1511564688","timestamp":"2017-11-24 23:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My favorite would be: Those.\u003cp\u003eTo endure with grace.","parent":"15771318","id":"15773497"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1453307613","timestamp":"2016-01-20 16:33:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why?\u003cp\u003eAs already replied by other HNer, most of the projects are existing ones.\u003cp\u003eOur customers are the enterprise, not startups.\u003cp\u003eThe consultants are expected to bring value within the customer\u0026#x27;s IT stack.\u003cp\u003eUsually even the dev environments are provided by IT, to be returned on project termination.\u003cp\u003eIf the customer hires us to assess their stack and provide feedback on what to change, that is another matter.\u003cp\u003eWhich still needs to be approved by their IT anyway.","parent":"10938547","id":"10939230"}
{"by":"keiferski","time":"1490538919","timestamp":"2017-03-26 14:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read that sentence as mocking Westerners\u0026#x27; consumerism, not glorifying their burger-and-trainer spending habits.","parent":"13960773","id":"13960968"}
{"by":"amygdyl","time":"1538355643","timestamp":"2018-10-01 01:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if I suspected my services were being manipulated by fraudulent activities, for potential political influence, I might just pay out enough rope for fraudsters to hang themselves by.\u003cp\u003eif I really hated holding the poison chalice to be the arbiter of so much public credulity, I think, possibly, I might not react to this kind of publicity about my apparent oversight, to see who I could catch..","parent":"18109295","dead":true,"id":"18109314"}
{"by":"laxatives","time":"1463555509","timestamp":"2016-05-18 07:11:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No it really isn\u0026#x27;t. This is some very basic math that you are getting completely wrong for the sake of an argument. I\u0026#x27;m not increasing either candidates popularity by not voting. If anything, I\u0026#x27;m implicitly decreasing both of their popularities.","parent":"11717977","id":"11720298"}
{"by":"67726e","time":"1400001551","timestamp":"2014-05-13 17:19:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is only Russia refusing to sell rocket engines to the US Government for use in launching military rockets into space. This has nothing to do with the scientific collaboration.","parent":"7739320","id":"7739335"}
{"by":"timizzle","time":"1309543904","timestamp":"2011-07-01 18:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Invite received. Thanks!","parent":"2714785","id":"2719464"}
{"by":"perl4ever","time":"1530411546","timestamp":"2018-07-01 02:19:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One day, I said to myself, why is it hot dog buns come in packages of 8, but hot dogs come in packages of...8?\u003cp\u003eI guess it depends on the brand.","parent":"17433529","id":"17433734"}
{"by":"br1","time":"1408138502","timestamp":"2014-08-15 21:35:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- Joins that know about the foreign keys already declared in the table definitions.\u003cp\u003e- Structured rows to kill all grouping special cases and the distinction between where and having.\u003cp\u003e- Hierarchical rows so that join(Planet, Person) doesn\u0026#x27;t repeat Planet columns in each returned row.\u003cp\u003eLinq already gets you 1 and 2.  See \u003ca href=\"http://www.linqpad.net/WhyLINQBeatsSQL.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linqpad.net\u0026#x2F;WhyLINQBeatsSQL.aspx\u003c/a\u003e  Xml gets you 3.","parent":"8183734","id":"8184348"}
{"by":"rchmura","time":"1445193990","timestamp":"2015-10-18 18:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From OPs article:\n\u0026gt;  the google analytics blocker does not stop your browser talking to google-analytics.com. Period.\u003cp\u003eThat excerpt explains that it\u0026#x27;s not actually stopping any data from being sent.  Thus it\u0026#x27;s not actually opting out of sending data.\u003cp\u003eThanks for researching my comment history and establishing me as an authority.  Not sure why you are saying that my insight is a conflict of interest here.  I\u0026#x27;m not promoting any products.","parent":"10409137","id":"10409238"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1331014928","timestamp":"2012-03-06 06:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It did not use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), but it did use Access Basic.  Which was a dialect of Visual Basic.\u003cp\u003eAccess 95 had the ability to upgrade from Access 2, and that included the ability to migrate from Access Basic to VBA.  The tool was not flawless (very little from Microsoft is), but mostly worked pretty well.","parent":"3669787","id":"3669888"}
{"by":"andrewflnr","time":"1357101346","timestamp":"2013-01-02 04:35:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  A thick textbook only to charge you $150? That sounds\n  like \"6-pack abs the quick way\" advertisement... XD\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHave you been to college recently? I'm in college right now, and I absolutely believe it. Maybe it's not quite that simple, but only because the publishers are being slightly more devious. College textbooks are a racket.","parent":"4995290","id":"4995331"}
{"by":"teen","time":"1498074957","timestamp":"2017-06-21 19:55:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The guy makes hot sauce, what do you expect? I thought it was a pretty good read. Although I\u0026#x27;m familiar with FYM from Dota 2. (Love Team NP)","parent":"14607289","id":"14607308"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1487501171","timestamp":"2017-02-19 10:46:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Couch multiplayer\u0026quot; is still fun and still relatively poorly supported on PC-like platforms.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;just turn it on and play\u0026quot; usability is important too, especially for a device that you only use occasionally. I used to keep a couple of controllers for my PC and suggest multiplayer to people, but it felt like every time I did it something new had broken or needed updating.","parent":"13677223","id":"13679109"}
{"by":"josh_carterPDX","time":"1477506672","timestamp":"2016-10-26 18:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s awesome. I absolutely hope they come to Portland as this city loves to support the underdog. :)","parent":"12797896","id":"12799123"}
{"by":"lcedp","time":"1380965302","timestamp":"2013-10-05 09:28:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It still annoys that tiling window managers all seem designed to be hard to use to configure\u003cp\u003ei3 really stands out. Instead of requiring user to hack with specific language (haskell for xmonad, lua for awesome.. )it has a simple config file with clear documentation.","parent":"6497762","id":"6500105"}
{"by":"AlexCoventry","time":"1500521869","timestamp":"2017-07-20 03:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for this highly informative answer. I\u0026#x27;m particularly interested in vaccine-based cancer immunotherapy. Do you know of any good survey papers covering that?","parent":"14808478","id":"14809871"}
{"by":"Tooluka","time":"1335275218","timestamp":"2012-04-24 13:46:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because kids are uncontrolled there (in varying degrees), so they tend to self organize.\u003cp\u003ePS: this is default culture in any school.","parent":"3883850","id":"3883889"}
{"by":"draegtun","time":"1321354440","timestamp":"2011-11-15 10:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In \u003ci\u003emap\u003c/i\u003e, $_ is a localised reference.  Thus it doesn't clobber $_\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    my @array = qw/one two three/;\n    $_ = \"Hello\";\n    say;\n    map { tr/a-z/A-Z/ } @array;\n    say;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nprints....\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Hello\n  Hello\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHowever remember it's a reference so using tr// will update @array...\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  say \"@array\";    # =\u0026#62; ONE TWO THREE\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"3236606","id":"3237798"}
{"by":"hop","time":"1291925239","timestamp":"2010-12-09 20:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a smaller company, divying it up per month can help with cash flow.","parent":"1988740","id":"1988909"}
{"by":"conanbatt","time":"1504458459","timestamp":"2017-09-03 17:07:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are many ways to protect yourself from inflation. And inflation has also devastating consequences to all assets and incomes.","parent":"15162452","id":"15162531"}
{"by":"stanleydrew","time":"1358035980","timestamp":"2013-01-13 00:13:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assume you are trying to make a joke. But it's not very funny.","parent":"5049375","id":"5049394"}
{"by":"thekillerdev","time":"1347864209","timestamp":"2012-09-17 06:43:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you have any example of this, working out?\n* I mean, you buy something on amazon, sell on ebay?\n* How much you increase in the price?","parent":"4526062","id":"4531502"}
{"by":"woodman","time":"1439495030","timestamp":"2015-08-13 19:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I knew that the cultures were different, but I never would have guessed that the Army had post-9\u0026#x2F;11 recruit quality problems - especially for combat arms.  When the fourth 9\u0026#x2F;11 anniversary rolled around the USMC leadership was sweating bullets and pulling out all the stops for retention, because the enlisted pool was the best it had been in living memory.\u003cp\u003eEverybody knows that bootcamp is designed to provide a common experience and rebuild recruits, standardizing to the military\u0026#x27;s brand of discipline and morality - like interchangeable-parts from the industrial revolution.  I\u0026#x27;ve wondered what distance that influence would cover in one\u0026#x27;s life, because so far it is still holding up in interesting ways.  I\u0026#x27;ve talked to guys I hadn\u0026#x27;t heard from in ten years, and despite differences in profession and family situation, a pretty strong pattern has emerged in uncommon political\u0026#x2F;philosophical thought.\u003cp\u003eSo maybe the influence is much more local.  Maybe some soldiers become cops because their drill instructors withheld affection :)","parent":"10055750","id":"10056716"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1305888287","timestamp":"2011-05-20 10:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Forget the \"rapture\" - instead I would just love a respected service that guaranteed to look after my pets if I got hit by a bus, etc.\u003cp\u003eSo maybe a spoof business like this could be turned into a really good thing?","parent":"2566435","id":"2567136"}
{"by":"shoo","time":"1535620449","timestamp":"2018-08-30 09:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;the purpose of a system is what it does\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy\u0026quot;","parent":"17874830","id":"17875219"}
{"by":"davvid","time":"1375153325","timestamp":"2013-07-30 03:02:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Michael Crowley\u0026#x27;s a great professor and a swell dude.  His Operating Systems class is also a great crash course that forces you into C programming competence.","parent":"6123106","id":"6125174"}
{"by":"itake","time":"1451672879","timestamp":"2016-01-01 18:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"* SEEKING WORK\nLocation: Remote or San Francisco\u003cp\u003eFull-stack Ruby on Rails \u0026#x2F; NodeJs developer.  Specialize in API design and Single Page Applications.\u003cp\u003ePrevious clients include:\u003cp\u003eCareerBuider.com, PayPal.com, and  Uber.com\u003cp\u003eSay hello at: kevin.coleman@sparkstart.io\u003cp\u003eblog: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kcoleman.me\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kcoleman.me\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ekeyword stuffing: ReactJs, angularjs, android, java, frontend, backend, postgres, mysql, heroku, aws, devops","parent":"10822020","id":"10822712"}
{"by":"asdsa5325","time":"1525710067","timestamp":"2018-05-07 16:21:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He seems to understand intrinsic value pretty well.","parent":"17013539","id":"17013980"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1522395271","timestamp":"2018-03-30 07:34:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CGI is one of those \u0026quot;simplest thing that could possibly work\u0026quot; tools: for every request to a specific url path, the webserver runs an executable. Headers passed in the environment, stdin and stdout plumbed to the network socket.\u003cp\u003eBack before serverless, we called it shared hosting.\u003cp\u003eOf course, fork() is not especially fast, so people came up with Fastcgi: persist the process and let it handle multiple requests. Then people started writing java where the startup time was prohibitive, and \u0026quot;application servers\u0026quot; like Tomcat came into being.","parent":"16714010","id":"16714403"}
{"by":"Symmetry","time":"1306078956","timestamp":"2011-05-22 15:42:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whats worse for Apple, \"Kleenex\" was so dominant at one point that it came close to being Genericized [1].  If the public doesn't think of a word as referring to a specific product but instead they think of \"Kleenex\" as a name for all soft facial tissues then in the US at least the \"Kleenex\" trade mark can lose its legal force.\u003cp\u003eIt might be that Apple invented the term \"App Store\", but as long as members of the public would tend to refer to application repositories from Google or Amazon by the same term, even without Google or Amazon using it, then \"App Store\" isn't serving a useful purpose as a trademark and doesn't have the same legal force as a word that was in practice only specific to Apple.\u003cp\u003eI, personally, love the fact that the law around trademarks corresponds so well to their purpose - preventing consumers from being confused.  This is one of the reasons I don't like the term \"intellectual property\", it takes three things that are very different legally and lumps them together in a way that sometimes causes people to think that the rules governing one apply to others, or that the attitudes they have towards one form should apply to all of them.  Personally I'm pretty ambivalent about whether we ought to have patents and copyrights at all - but I think that trademarks are awesome and we'd be much worse off without them.\u003cp\u003eEDIT:  Oops, forgot to put in the reference:\n[1] \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2573351","id":"2573464"}
{"by":"twelvechairs","time":"1504985745","timestamp":"2017-09-09 19:35:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; (like the UK+France ban on Diesel cars)\u003cp\u003eIts worth noting this is a ban on petrol as well as diesel cars. Modern diesel cars are similar in pollution to modern petrol cars (they produce less CO2 but more NOx). In any case it doesnt come in til 2040","parent":"15208630","id":"15208797"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1366082028","timestamp":"2013-04-16 03:13:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe. BUT 2 things:\u003cp\u003e* Most bought and expect it to appreciate. Very important. That is the most important retirement asset they have. If their house loses half the money it could mean eating ramen for 20 years after retirement or eating steak.\u003cp\u003e* Property taxes. Some would actually not like it to appreciate too fast if they are not selling yet because they have to shell our many thousands of dollars a year. Ideally they would like the price to stay low then right before they sell, to spike through the roof.","parent":"5554254","id":"5555998"}
{"by":"edw519","time":"1251662218","timestamp":"2009-08-30 19:56:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pair their work ethic, real world experience, and life lessons with the passion and technical skills of a 20 something hacker.\u003cp\u003eI started my first business when I was 27.  My partner was 41 and had done things I hadn't even imagined.  He was so smart, so seasoned, and knew the ropes about so many things that he saved us both countless hours and dead ends.  And I was able to do things he never had a chance to learn.  We made a great team.\u003cp\u003eNow I'm on the other side of that relationship.  And would love to do it again with someone in their 20's.  I have a million ideas that come from years of real world experience and not enough time to act upon them.  (One of the reasons I'm here.)","parent":"794870","id":"794900"}
{"by":"jacalata","time":"1479082960","timestamp":"2016-11-14 00:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there\u0026#x27;s a larger benefit to planting trees, then it would make sense for the government to offer incentives to plant trees, so they could make money.","parent":"12946622","id":"12946636"}
{"by":"sytse","time":"1469039388","timestamp":"2016-07-20 18:29:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the quote: \u0026quot;By 2019, the cloud software model will account for $1 of every $4.59 spent on software.\u0026quot; — IDC Worldwide SaaS and Cloud Software 2015–2019 Forecast and 2014 Vendor Shares","parent":"12130460","id":"12131336"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1368718243","timestamp":"2013-05-16 15:30:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nonsense. There are DNA tests that can track race like a fingerprint.\u003cp\u003eThis foggy PC attitude about race is not doing anybody any service. Stop apologizing for race; recognize it, celebrate it, then Move On!   People are individuals, treat them that way and live a happy life.","parent":"5718866","id":"5719129"}
{"by":"SquareWheel","time":"1358405324","timestamp":"2013-01-17 06:48:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It did, until I tried it.  Can't go back to Notepad++ after that.","parent":"5070239","id":"5071433"}
{"by":"emn13","time":"1515320072","timestamp":"2018-01-07 10:14:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It didn\u0026#x27;t take 20 years to be discovered; PoC\u0026#x27;s for variations on this theme were found over 10 years ago.\u003cp\u003eThe details really matter for making an exploit: so the amount of speculation and what gets speculated, how caches work, how good timing is (and how large the difference between cache and memory is) etc.\u003cp\u003eMerely knowing that the combination of speculation, caching, and timing have the potential to break through memory protection barriers is a far from enough to actually exploit that weakness.\u003cp\u003eFor comparison: it was widely known that sha1 had weaknesses, yet it took many years for somebody to construct two pdfs that actually demonstrate a hash collision.","parent":"16085609","id":"16090201"}
{"by":"loganlinn","time":"1295725558","timestamp":"2011-01-22 19:45:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My favorite paid app at the moment is Locale","parent":"2130888","id":"2130898"}
{"by":"blackflame7000","time":"1490898397","timestamp":"2017-03-30 18:26:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea great point. A lot of headlines are portraying this as a sudden new practice rather than an attempt to formalize the rules governing existing practices.","parent":"13997181","id":"13997705"}
{"by":"dogma1138","time":"1486759611","timestamp":"2017-02-10 20:46:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The focus in this thread appears to be on the wrong thing.\nIntel has introduced a new process here for die interconnects \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.intel.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;foundry\u0026#x2F;emib.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.intel.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;foundry\u0026#x2F;emib.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis can be very interesting especially if this can be expanded to other products.\nTSVs increase the pricing of certain products by a substantial margin and have pretty high failure rates, they also increase the internal resistance of components and can cause thermal issues.\u003cp\u003eHBM and 3Dxpoint built on EMIB can reduce the price of these components substantially, it can also make it viable again to split the dies of the IGP and the CPU allowing Intel have SKUs with different IGP configuration including EDRAM\u0026#x2F;SRAM without having to have multiple die designs.","parent":"13616003","id":"13618746"}
{"by":"jister","time":"1257950807","timestamp":"2009-11-11 14:46:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...and this will GO ON forever, you know.","parent":"935098","id":"935319"}
{"by":"ForHackernews","time":"1468100020","timestamp":"2016-07-09 21:33:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure Google does internally.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, I trust Joe Random Webmaster a lot more than I trust Google, because some small site manager doesn\u0026#x27;t already have a vast corpus of data about me.","parent":"12063321","id":"12063431"}
{"by":"cma","time":"1260126442","timestamp":"2009-12-06 19:07:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, and the string must be reinterpolated every time (possibly barring some of the more exotic python implementations).","parent":"979939","id":"979975"}
{"by":"jomamaxx","time":"1472459236","timestamp":"2016-08-29 08:27:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not a huge flag. When a company starts up, it\u0026#x27;s difficult for them to get the money operating as per regular.\u003cp\u003eHe got paid - that\u0026#x27;s what matters.\u003cp\u003eThe paystub is a minor thing\u0026#x2F;","parent":"12379995","id":"12380707"}
{"by":"SonicSoul","time":"1484922087","timestamp":"2017-01-20 14:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI’ve been saying “files” up until now and it’s really “objects” that are stored in S3\u003c/i\u003e ... \u003ci\u003elist of unique names (that typically look like filename paths) and then there are the actual bits (which are the objects we call files)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003enot sure what the difference is. all local files on your HD also abide by these same rules. if you want to use any file you have to open it which ends up as a block of bits in memory","parent":"13442207","id":"13443897"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1232187518","timestamp":"2009-01-17 10:18:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There can be no useful and constructive dialogue on this topic, and therefore, whether or not it is called Hacker News, it is pointless to post it here.\u003cp\u003eIt's important, certainly, but do you really think anyone here is not aware of what's happening in Gaza? So then, the only value of reporting this would be to create an interesting discussion - but on a topic so politically inflammatory no useful discussion will come out of this community, and no one will alter their behaviour in a way that will make any difference whatsoever to this conflict.","parent":"437895","id":"437970"}
{"by":"blueyes","time":"1489966964","timestamp":"2017-03-19 23:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Overcoming catastrophic forgetting is a genuine step toward strong AI.","parent":"13909921","id":"13910558"}
{"by":"singingfish","time":"1523525723","timestamp":"2018-04-12 09:35:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The place I used to work in has been hiring (junior) people like crazy.  Part of the reason they need so many is the crushing foundational technical debt at the core.  When they hired someone to capable of improving that they were unable to merge the changes due to fear, and the management couldn\u0026#x27;t see the business value of doing so.  They\u0026#x27;ve had a few nasty outages recently too.  I believe the insides of the Atlassian kit are similarly riddled with technical debt.","parent":"16818921","id":"16819266"}
{"by":"zzalpha","time":"1496275387","timestamp":"2017-06-01 00:03:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, right, I\u0026#x27;d forgotten that little nugget (and I read that article... Stupid long term memory).","parent":"14456817","id":"14456883"}
{"by":"chaostheory","time":"1374566867","timestamp":"2013-07-23 08:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was first posted on HN about 3 years ago.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320310\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=1320310\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI agree with the old comments. It\u0026#x27;s probably just a nice fictional short story","parent":"6087935","id":"6088772"}
{"by":"hayksaakian","time":"1394075415","timestamp":"2014-03-06 03:10:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the alternative is \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t negotiate with terrorists\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ebut given that Netflix got where it is today on the back of our broken copyright system, I don\u0026#x27;t for see that happening anytime soon.","parent":"7351530","id":"7351637"}
{"by":"ffuugoo","time":"1480496231","timestamp":"2016-11-30 08:57:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wire is indeed awesome. However, as far as I can see, it\u0026#x27;s still questionable, whether it is as secure as developers tell us and if it really could be \u0026quot;trusted\u0026quot;. AFAIK, Signal\u0026#x27;s developers said something like \u0026quot;we do not recommend to use Wire\u0026#x2F;Wire\u0026#x27;s protocol\u0026quot; (however, it all could be kind of political).","parent":"13069335","id":"13069367"}
{"by":"laurentl","time":"1546643593","timestamp":"2019-01-04 23:13:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which app are you using? There are quite a few on the Apple store.","parent":"18826997","id":"18828647"}
{"by":"andreasvc","time":"1359887784","timestamp":"2013-02-03 10:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It says in the article that B-trees are advantageous when the cost of cache-misses would be worse than the cost of comparisons; e.g., in the case of integers. In comparison, a Red-Black tree would do less comparisons, and hash-table is faster on average but is unordered (more differences?).","parent":"5159233","id":"5159294"}
{"by":"brador","time":"1365625241","timestamp":"2013-04-10 20:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, Energy in = energy out.  So what is the extra output that makes the computer so much less efficient? is it noise?","parent":"5527660","id":"5527868"}
{"by":"crb3","time":"1402965395","timestamp":"2014-06-17 00:36:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any word on whether \u0026#x2F; how well that Windows-only IDE performs on WINE in Linux? (Hint to Cypress: that Windows-only thing is a dealbreaker for enough of us that you really should address it.)","parent":"7901233","id":"7902267"}
{"by":"fiatjaf","time":"1424722395","timestamp":"2015-02-23 20:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, I didn\u0026#x27;t understand the page itself was made for testing, I thought it was a library, an util, something like it. My critique is: write it very large: \u0026quot;OPEN THE CONSOLE RIGHT ON THIS PAGE\u0026quot;.","parent":"9096275","id":"9096704"}
{"by":"borism","time":"1272150080","timestamp":"2010-04-24 23:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; it's like Singapore\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich offenses are subject to caning and which to hanging?","parent":"1291579","id":"1291728"}
{"by":"snogglethorpe","time":"1353893146","timestamp":"2012-11-26 01:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm?　There's all \u003ci\u003esorts\u003c/i\u003e of \"noise\" that are generally considered a positive thing, at least in certain contexts.  After all, the end goal in most cases isn't perfect information capture, it's communicating emotion/feeling/message/etc, and \"degrading\" an image can add something (just not the original thing).\u003cp\u003eOf course the correlation between certain types of noise/distortion and the resulting interpretation is in many cases culturally determined, and that changes over time... One minute shakycam is considered the height of immersion, the next, it's an embarrassing affectation.\u003cp\u003eBut still, there's nothing inherently wrong with preferring something \"worse,\" especially when the latter judgment is made on a narrow technical basis which misses the larger picture.","parent":"4815072","id":"4829963"}
{"by":"tibbon","time":"1267277557","timestamp":"2010-02-27 13:32:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can I contribute? There's a section under the Models for Sequel, but it is blank. I've done plenty of work with Sequel and Sinatra and I'm sure I could fill in the blanks.","parent":"1154841","id":"1155255"}
{"by":"gphil","time":"1409845552","timestamp":"2014-09-04 15:45:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Concurrency (Clojure, Erlang)","parent":"8268812","id":"8268910"}
{"by":"globuous","time":"1538766117","timestamp":"2018-10-05 19:01:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what I do actually: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.emacswiki.org\u0026#x2F;emacs\u0026#x2F;GnusAuthinfo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.emacswiki.org\u0026#x2F;emacs\u0026#x2F;GnusAuthinfo\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I set it up with gmail tough, I think you either need a 2fa token (which requires 2fa on gmail) or tick \u0026quot;allow unsafe apps\u0026quot; in the admin panel, otherwise you get rejected by gmail. I\u0026#x27;m sorry I don\u0026#x27;t have much info, it\u0026#x27;s already been a few months I\u0026#x27;ve set it up. However, if anyone\u0026#x27;s struggling, I\u0026#x27;ll be glad to help ;)","parent":"18150697","id":"18150797"}
{"by":"Spearchucker","time":"1342624919","timestamp":"2012-07-18 15:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing that bothers me about semantics (\u003ci\u003edo two-factor\u003c/i\u003e, or, \u003ci\u003euse OAuth\u003c/i\u003e) is that so many people I've discussed security with can't tell me whether they should, and why they should.\u003cp\u003eDoes the value of the asset merit the cost of the second factor (considering the 2factor is a per-user cost)?","parent":"4261104","id":"4261158"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1502320719","timestamp":"2017-08-09 23:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You cannot please all of the people, all of the time. Trying will make you crazy.","parent":"14974002","id":"14974670"}
{"by":"mantraxB","time":"1403031334","timestamp":"2014-06-17 18:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;30 fps flicker\u0026quot; - that\u0026#x27;s not a CRT, it doesn\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003eflicker\u003c/i\u003e, because unlike CRTs, a flat display doesn\u0026#x27;t have a ray refreshing the display top to bottom.\u003cp\u003eAnd 30 fps on a CRT wouldn\u0026#x27;t be enough to produce stable image in the retina at all, which is why CRT TVs used to refresh at a minimum of 50Hz, and that still flickers (it stops \u0026quot;flickering\u0026quot; at around 75Hz).\u003cp\u003eWith flat displays frame rate is about display responsiveness and animation detail.\u003cp\u003eSo I wonder where are the claims about eye-strain coming from. Maybe because people just want better display responsiveness and they like to borrow from the problems low refresh CRTs used to cause, because it sounds scientific and legit as a problem.","parent":"7905821","id":"7906245"}
{"by":"grawprog","time":"1512420110","timestamp":"2017-12-04 20:41:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve found this same thing to be true with almost anything from clothes, to outdoor gear, to phones. The cheapest things usually wear out so fast you spend too much replacing them but there comes a point where spending more doesn\u0026#x27;t usually lead to any kind of increase in quality and you\u0026#x27;re probably  just paying for a brand name.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been happy with pretty much every midrange purchase I make. I usually regret spending the money when I buy the most expensive thing and learned a while ago not to waste my money on the cheapest.\u003cp\u003eAs far as cars, I know a guy with a Mercedes and it sounds like nothing but trouble. He can\u0026#x27;t work on it himself, only authorized dealers are allowed to work on it, parts are ridiculously expensive and in the end he uses it for the same thing I use my much less expensive car for, going to work and other random places we need to go. He does have a really nice stereo though...\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s some exceptions. Musical instruments really do get better as the price goes up. You can feel and hear the difference between a $500,$1000,$5000, and $10000 musical instrument. Most tools and equipment used by professionals tends to be that way too. But, I suppose as far as professional gear goes there\u0026#x27;s probably less of a \u0026#x27;luxury\u0026#x27; or \u0026#x27;status\u0026#x27; market for those things.","parent":"15846839","id":"15847283"}
{"by":"gsibble","time":"1530129834","timestamp":"2018-06-27 20:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks!","parent":"17408527","id":"17411335"}
{"by":"runako","time":"1489002296","timestamp":"2017-03-08 19:44:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; All this does is offset all of those issues, to the person delivering your food.\u003cp\u003eThe person delivering food may be able to use different mechanisms (e.g. vehicles) or division of labor (teamwork) that are not practical for the recipient.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;d just go out to eat at that point.\u003cp\u003eThis is not always practical or desirable for lots of people: the sick, those with young kids, the infirm, etc.","parent":"13822861","id":"13823082"}
{"by":"wnscooke","time":"1467098368","timestamp":"2016-06-28 07:19:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the reference to The 5th Element there.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=9jWGbvemTag\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=9jWGbvemTag\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11983563","id":"11992025"}
{"by":"eli","time":"1284594023","timestamp":"2010-09-15 23:40:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Setting up an ad network that charges advertisers, targets ads and then compensates site owners is not a fun way to monetize a widget. It's recreating AdSense from scratch. Think of the tax issues alone!\u003cp\u003eIf you could build that ad system, coming up with 5 million impressions would be the easy part.","parent":"1696262","id":"1696282"}
{"by":"qb45","time":"1494829756","timestamp":"2017-05-15 06:29:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Projects the size of Windows may easily contain enough \u0026quot;organic\u0026quot; bugs to keep all the NSAs of the world happy without adding anything new.\u003cp\u003eHowever, backdooring of security and cryptographic products by the NSA and others is a thing:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14335730\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14335730\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no hard proof that NSA did any of these backdoors, but they clearly do \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c/i\u003e of this kind, given data in the last link.","parent":"14339279","id":"14339564"}
{"by":"Digit-Al","time":"1510580593","timestamp":"2017-11-13 13:43:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Source: David Wolfe\u003cp\u003eCase dismissed.","parent":"15686108","id":"15686455"}
{"by":"GordonS","time":"1501346455","timestamp":"2017-07-29 16:40:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the date really relevant for this?","parent":"14881914","id":"14881970"}
{"by":"lolc","time":"1544082663","timestamp":"2018-12-06 07:51:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; try to determine cost per capita of countryside living and city living\u003cp\u003eOnly to have you telling me I\u0026#x27;m doing it wrong based on personal anecdotes? No thanks. I have no trust it would lead to a useful discussion.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; also notice that foods normally came from country and sea, not from cities,\u003cp\u003eFood and gas don\u0026#x27;t come out of suburbia either. What\u0026#x27;s your point?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; This idea crashed only in few countries, mostly from the third world, in the developed world only USA, Russia and eastern Europe.\u003cp\u003eWhat third-world countries? It\u0026#x27;s not 1960 anymore. People all over the world are moving into large cities. They are not waiting for the cities to build the roads and pipes your idea requires.","parent":"18615885","id":"18616190"}
{"by":"veyron","time":"1310179684","timestamp":"2011-07-09 02:48:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Old news.  This has been in place for years.","parent":"2744578","id":"2744866"}
{"by":"mbleigh","time":"1396810798","timestamp":"2014-04-06 18:59:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The great thing about a static app architecture is that for things like administrative functions you can usually easily build an entirely separate interface and application utilizing the same back-end resources.\u003cp\u003eSecurity through obscurity is never sufficient, and static architecture makes you think through those concerns more thoroughly before deploy. See \u003ca href=\"http://www.staticapps.org/articles/authentication-and-authorization\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.staticapps.org\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;authentication-and-author...\u003c/a\u003e for more on that subject.\u003cp\u003eAs to development vs production, minifying etc. that\u0026#x27;s something we\u0026#x27;re trying to solve with multi-environment hosting at Divshot.","parent":"7542039","id":"7542172"}
{"by":"teilo","time":"1506345554","timestamp":"2017-09-25 13:19:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no difference between a signed and unsigned app once it has been allowed to launch the first time. The permission model is the same for both. Normally you would have expected to see a system dialog asking if you would like to grant an app permission to access the keychain once or permanently.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: As another commenter pointed out, an app is also only granted access to one key at a time, each requiring an independent confirmation (with password). There is no way (normally) to grant cart-blanche access to the entire keychain.","parent":"15329868","id":"15330162"}
{"by":"mmastrac","time":"1384492309","timestamp":"2013-11-15 05:11:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, I might have this problem. I don\u0026#x27;t use a lot of credit, but I carry around a primary CC, a backup CC (that is never used unless the primary CC is stolen), a corporate CC, four debit cards for various accounts, and a myriad of other things.\u003cp\u003eMy kingdom for a solution that gets me down to one card.","parent":"6737796","id":"6737862"}
{"by":"Tade0","time":"1518609980","timestamp":"2018-02-14 12:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One thing I would like to point out is that this is rather an European thing than specifically German.\u003cp\u003eAside from playing with fire in school many of these experiences were my own and were the norm.","parent":"16371521","id":"16375177"}
{"by":"zatkin","time":"1399851477","timestamp":"2014-05-11 23:37:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have a Mac. I\u0026#x27;m on Arch Linux.","parent":"7730471","id":"7730484"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1393662851","timestamp":"2014-03-01 08:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"* did-mount is a mapping to React\u0026#x27;s componentDidMount[0] lifecycle method (and, in Om, part of the IDidMount protocol[1])\u003cp\u003e* reify is the creation of an anonymous type instance, implementing 1..n protocols (not entirely dissimilar to an anonymous class in java). This could also have been done with a deftype (no difference in efficiency, but Om\u0026#x27;s creator seems to prefer reify):\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (deftype Widget [data owner]\n      om\u0026#x2F;IRender\n      (render [this]\n        ; render code here\n        )\n      om\u0026#x2F;IDidMount\n      (did-mount [this node]\n        ; mount code here\n        )\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n* peek\u0026#x27;s a bit more complex because it requires knowledge of interesting features (?) of Clojure collections: all clojure collections are immutable, and often built with conj(oin). conj \u0026quot;adds an item to a collection\u0026quot;, but \u003ci\u003ewhere\u003c/i\u003e it does so depends on the collection (and its efficiency profile): (conj \u0026#x27;(1 2 3) 0) -\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;(0 1 2 3) but (conj [1 2 3] 0) -\u0026gt; [1 2 3 0] (lists can be efficiently extended from the head, vectors from the tail). `peek` essentially returns the last conj\u0026#x27;d item, so on lists it\u0026#x27;s equivalent to `first`, on vectors it\u0026#x27;s equivalent to `last` (but faster)\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-specs.html#mounting-componentdidmount\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;facebook.github.io\u0026#x2F;react\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;component-specs.html#mo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/swannodette/om/wiki/Documentation#wiki-ididmount\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;swannodette\u0026#x2F;om\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Documentation#wiki-id...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7322201","id":"7323641"}
{"by":"dmotz","time":"1356929010","timestamp":"2012-12-31 04:43:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this argument, ad hominem aside, loses a bit of validity with every subsequent smartphone/tablet generation. Every advance in CPUs and JavaScript interpreters blurs the line more if we're looking at a hybrid app developed by a competent team.\u003cp\u003eAs to where I'm coming from in this argument, yes, I currently develop mobile apps using web technologies. [1]\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, I completely agree that the majority of web view/hybrid apps I've encountered have had poor user experiences. But the field of hybrid apps is new and everyone can recall the poor user experiences of desktop web apps in their nascent era.\u003cp\u003eAs with the age of MapQuest, the sample size of hybrid apps is still small and thus well-designed and well-coded apps are scarce. Aesthetics give probably the biggest impression of mobile software quality, and you can either choose to stick to stock SDK UI, or implement your own visual language. The former is safe and is the default for native development. Hybrid apps almost always fail when trying to mimic it completely and users are (at least subconsciously) repelled by the uncanny valley these apps may land in. The latter option of introducing a unique UI is exceedingly difficult to pull off, hybrid or native, but is a route of convenience for hybrid developers, but again, they usually fail to create something a user can feel comfortable with.\u003cp\u003eIn short, if you're serious about your app's reception, it is more difficult to pull off the user experience using web technologies, contrary to the article's assertion. Hybrid app developers cannot rely on native UI elements and this is why they tend to be received so poorly.\u003cp\u003eSo why have I chosen the hybrid approach? Mainly because I'm a futurist and I see the immense value in having an open lingua franca for app development over fractured proprietary environments. The cross platform benefits appeal to me less, and at the time of this writing, I consider iOS to be ahead of the other platforms in fidelity of rendering web content (Android 4 is catching up). I fully admit this benefit is half-baked at the moment, but I don't need any pundit predictions to know it will improve by bounds in the next few years.\u003cp\u003eJS isn't a silver bullet, but it's undeniably exploding at the moment, especially in terms of flexibility (browser, server, mobile). You could invest your time in mastering a proprietary platform's SDK, but besides only focusing on non-portable knowledge, you could also find yourself with a dying marketshare for your chosen platform. I definitely don't mean to discredit native languages by any means, I just want to convey how I came to conclude that hybrid is a safe investment in mastering. Many apps, whether simple CRUD apps, or thin front ends for REST APIs, have no specific need for native code. Even Microsoft --seen among the symbols of proprietary control -- are embracing the HTML5 stack for apps. The benefit of being able to reuse the libraries and APIs [2] when bringing an app to another platform shouldn't be underestimated, nor the potential growth of mobile-oriented common knowledge in a common language.\u003cp\u003eIs it really difficult to believe that in a few years phones will be running WebGL-powered 3D games with advanced shader effects, on par with native games? Not really, considering how rapidly we're approaching that point on the desktop. It's even easier when you consider the hybrid app bottleneck is usually DOM painting, not JS execution, and WebGL would potentially use the mobile device's GPU. This problem is almost solved already with intelligent DOM manipulation and CSS3 transforms, (or potentially other approaches [3]).\u003cp\u003eWriting a quality hybrid app at the moment is very hard. Web views have less memory available, execution is slower, and simple DOM rendering is expensive and slow unless all optimized properly. Furthermore, aesthetics are harder to pull off when working outside SDK UI sets. But hybrid apps are a relatively new field and have enormous potential. I don't it's very mature yet, but neither was the web itself for a very long time. I think having a common, open set of tools is worth defending from accusations like this one or the red herrings thrown around regarding HTML5's role in the Facebook app. This is definitely the more forward-thinking bet.\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"http://chaincalapp.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://chaincalapp.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] - specifically HTML5 device APIs as well as \u003ca href=\"http://phonegap.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://phonegap.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] - \u003ca href=\"http://famo.us\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://famo.us\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4987795","id":"4988411"}
{"by":"AdamSC1","time":"1483118854","timestamp":"2016-12-30 17:27:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Disclaimer: I work at DuckDuckGo so I\u0026#x27;m a bit bias. I won\u0026#x27;t turn this into a sales pitch, but here are a few common misconceptions people have about privacy and search.\u003cp\u003e1) Many people don\u0026#x27;t realize that tracking isn\u0026#x27;t just about having something to hide. But, it can cost you money. From Airline tickets to staplers you pay based on a profile:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;SB10001424127887323777204578189391813881534\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;SB100014241278873237772045781893...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;why-you-cant-trust-youre-getting-the-best-deal-online-1414036862\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wsj.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;why-you-cant-trust-youre-getting...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2) People don\u0026#x27;t realize what\u0026#x27;s being tracked. I usually send them to \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;history.google.com\u0026#x2F;history\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;history.google.com\u0026#x2F;history\u003c/a\u003e to have a look. Or \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webkay.robinlinus.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webkay.robinlinus.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e to see what their browser can access. That makes a lot of people realize just what is out there.\u003cp\u003e3) People feel they can\u0026#x27;t search without personalized searches.\u003cp\u003eThe example is often a matter of disambiguation. For example, if I type \u0026quot;Python\u0026quot; I want code, not snakes. But, really, when is the last time you only typed \u0026#x27;Python\u0026#x27; and wanted something generic about Python? You probably wanted a package lookup or the latest news on a release. So if you become more specific there is no issue.\u003cp\u003ePlus when you get a bit more specific on Python you can trigger things like package lookup:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=python+numpy\u0026amp;ia=about\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=python+numpy\u0026amp;ia=about\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr NumPy Cheatsheet:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=numpy+cheat+sheet\u0026amp;ia=cheatsheet\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;duckduckgo.com\u0026#x2F;?q=numpy+cheat+sheet\u0026amp;ia=cheatsheet\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day some people may truly be ok with all the tracking that takes place, and that\u0026#x27;s ok that\u0026#x27;s up to them. But, at DuckDuckGo our goal is to educate people on online privacy, and provide a trusted way to access information as best we can. (Not to mention Instant Answers and Bangs which are super addicting)","parent":"13284917","id":"13285615"}
{"by":"ccvannorman","time":"1462413015","timestamp":"2016-05-05 01:50:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He didn\u0026#x27;t pay the entrance fee. Most media is owned by a few corporations who are closely tied with Hillary. Don\u0026#x27;t worry though, I\u0026#x27;m sure that won\u0026#x27;t affect her policy decisions..","parent":"11633387","id":"11633408"}
{"by":"masnick","time":"1320070547","timestamp":"2011-10-31 14:15:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're on a Mac, you'll need to install gawk (at least I did on 10.7).\u003cp\u003eProbably the easiest way to do this is with homebrew[1]:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    brew install gawk\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n[1] If you don't know about homebrew, check out \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/mxcl/homebrew\u003c/a\u003e. It's a package manager for Mac.","parent":"3177037","id":"3177419"}
{"by":"Volpe","time":"1368514081","timestamp":"2013-05-14 06:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why was the contest only between Romney and Obama?\u003cp\u003eWhy do you have to be uber wealthy to run in a country ruled \"by the people\"?\u003cp\u003eThe U.S's primary problem seems to be that it has transformed into (or perhaps always was) a corporate run oligarchy.  Except it walks around saying it's a democratic republic...\u003cp\u003eThe newspeak runs so deep, that what I say is controversial, despite being quite factual... it's very saddening (if you care about such things).","parent":"5703072","id":"5703324"}
{"by":"haosdent","time":"1429720651","timestamp":"2015-04-22 16:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LoL, amazing!","parent":"9419035","id":"9421628"}
{"by":"kirubakaran","time":"1242232760","timestamp":"2009-05-13 16:39:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What was your original username?","parent":"606887","id":"607138"}
{"by":"foobarbazetc","time":"1497716815","timestamp":"2017-06-17 16:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not how most people using CloudFlare think about it since their plans are flat rate. So when you sign up for this you just expect to pay whatever shows up in your dashboard under bandwidth * 10 cents.\u003cp\u003eIt is surprising to be billed for blocked traffic.","parent":"14576222","id":"14576516"}
{"by":"michaelochurch","time":"1357242316","timestamp":"2013-01-03 19:45:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More people die of work from Artificial Stupidity risks: second-hand smoke, open-plan offices, depleted glucose leading to bad eating choices, et al.","parent":"5004107","id":"5004198"}
{"by":"pmarreck","time":"1542717125","timestamp":"2018-11-20 12:32:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is why I use expanded regex with each section commented.","parent":"18491108","id":"18493345"}
{"by":"rasengan","time":"1388857204","timestamp":"2014-01-04 17:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can never be too old.","parent":"7011219","id":"7011961"}
{"by":"zrail","time":"1420555163","timestamp":"2015-01-06 14:39:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Stripe (and sometimes PayPal) so I get 97% of the gross revenue. Monthly recurring expenses are a cheap VPS to run the app and Facebook retargeting fees.","parent":"8844473","id":"8844494"}
{"by":"janitor61","time":"1525759071","timestamp":"2018-05-08 05:57:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also a healthy way to eat arsenic - in moderation - about 12.5 μg\u0026#x2F;day","parent":"17017600","id":"17019115"}
{"by":"ipedrazas","time":"1530520643","timestamp":"2018-07-02 08:37:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The approach we have taken is to create independent clusters with a common LoadBalancer.\u003cp\u003eBasically, the LB decides which kubernetes cluster will serve your request and once you\u0026#x27;re in a k8s cluster, you stay there.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t have the control-plane that the federation provides and a bit of overhead managing clusters independently, but we have automated the majority of the process. On the other hand, debugging is way easier and we don\u0026#x27;t suffer from weird latencies between clusters (weird because sometimes a request will go to a different cluster without any apparent reason \u0026lt;-- I\u0026#x27;m sure there\u0026#x27;s one, but none that you could see\u0026#x2F;expect, hence debugging).\u003cp\u003eMy people\u0026#x27;s time is more important than your complex system.","parent":"17433856","id":"17440145"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1292835793","timestamp":"2010-12-20 09:03:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And even then, if I was presented these options, I would take the third path: transfer to another university to finish my degree.","parent":"2023776","id":"2023805"}
{"by":"mark_l_watson","time":"1372820578","timestamp":"2013-07-03 03:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except, Snowden obviously didn\u0026#x27;t do this for personal gain. His life is probably over.\u003cp\u003eCompare this situation to a British citizen a few years ago who sold sensitive state secrets for money, and got the MAXIMUM PENALTY by UK law: 2 years in prison. Snowden who rightly or wrongly is acting from I believe are his own moral goals, may get the death penalty, tortured like Manning, or life in prison.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;desperately wanted fugitive\u0026quot;? I am curious about you, and why you use a phrase like this. Seriously, please explain your position on this.","parent":"5982142","id":"5982201"}
{"by":"bhousel","time":"1295037642","timestamp":"2011-01-14 20:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also worth reading is The Last Psychiatrist's response to the Chinese mothers article:  \u003ca href=\"http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/01/why_chinese_mothers_are_not_su.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/01/why_chinese_mothers_a...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2105053","id":"2105349"}
{"by":"iconfinder","time":"1288029220","timestamp":"2010-10-25 17:53:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It launched 2007, but it really took off in 2009. I'm still in school so I haven't had that much time to work on it. \nI'm doing ok from ads now and it is growing fast, so when I finish school in 2 months, I'm going to work on monetizing.\u003cp\u003eYou can see the growth compared to Dropbox.com and Ycombinator.com: \u003ca href=\"http://icnf.me/brcjhH\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://icnf.me/brcjhH\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1830536","id":"1830797"}
{"by":"pvh","time":"1517850322","timestamp":"2018-02-05 17:05:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Automerge uses vector clocks internally to track visibility and minimize conflict and retains all alternative values in the _conflicts list for that value.\u003cp\u003eAutomerge must select one result to be the default consistently across all uncoordinated peers. If you don\u0026#x27;t do this, different nodes may see different documents during a conflict state, which is undesirable.","parent":"16310035","id":"16310153"}
{"by":"bmw357","time":"1409191883","timestamp":"2014-08-28 02:11:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of the rice is actually grown using water from lakes Oroville and Shasta.  I grew up in the area, and places like Marysville (south of Oroville) and Colusa don\u0026#x27;t really grow anything but rice.","parent":"8235567","id":"8235626"}
{"by":"anoother","time":"1507537026","timestamp":"2017-10-09 08:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s an extension: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;addons.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-GB\u0026#x2F;firefox\u0026#x2F;addon\u0026#x2F;u2f-support-add-on\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;addons.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-GB\u0026#x2F;firefox\u0026#x2F;addon\u0026#x2F;u2f-support-a...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks perfectly for me.","parent":"15431767","id":"15432243"}
{"by":"sprash","time":"1378680299","timestamp":"2013-09-08 22:44:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not in the world. Only in the \u0026quot;Land of the free\u0026quot;.","parent":"6350385","id":"6350765"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1335196962","timestamp":"2012-04-23 16:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everywhere, doubt if anyone has ever bothered to challenge them on the issue. If you can afford Oracle, why blog about your benchmarks?","parent":"3879424","id":"3879440"}
{"by":"tathagatadg","time":"1350861309","timestamp":"2012-10-21 23:15:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really need to read a woman's reaction to this article (will share with a few friends right away). \u003ci\u003eIf you can achieve this beyond a bachelor pad, the weed that you are smoking is indeed of very high quality.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"4680796","id":"4681144"}
{"by":"hypersoar","time":"1292785391","timestamp":"2010-12-19 19:03:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pursuing a career as a math professor (currently an undergrad). I'm not shy about my passion for math, and this has lead to countless conversations like the ones below:\u003cp\u003e\"What do you want to do with your math degree?\"\u003cp\u003e\"I want to go to graduate school and eventually become a math professor.\"\u003cp\u003e\"Oh, so you want to teach!\"\u003cp\u003e\"No, I want to do research.\"\u003cp\u003e(Here they give some expression of confusion. I've had this particular conversation dozens of times)\u003cp\u003eAlso\u003cp\u003e\"So, what do you do in math research? Do you just sit around and solve equations all day?\u003cp\u003eI do my best to explain to these people what math is like and why I do it, but I usually don't feel like I'm getting through. I have been told by mathematicians many times, and have experienced myself, that doing mathematics requires lots and lots of frustration (I'm sure many people here, including those who don't do pure math, know what I'm talking about).\u003cp\u003eBut for me the most frustrating and disheartening part of math is the fact that most people don't know what it is. It's not just that they don't understand the details, or what happens at high levels. It's certainly not just that they look at an end product (analogous to, say, a product from a startup) but don't get where it came from. It's that most people fundamentally don't understand what I do. They think of math as the capricious monotony they were put through in grade school and can't fathom why anyone would consider dedicating a life to it. Most aren't even willing to try. My love of math is a very big part of me, and it's a part that very few people understand.","parent":"2021900","id":"2022239"}
{"by":"DTrejo","time":"1281117023","timestamp":"2010-08-06 17:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"real article, not that I'm particularly interested in this instance of navel-gazing:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.r-chart.com/2010/07/hacker-news-user-base-changed.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.r-chart.com/2010/07/hacker-news-user-base-changed...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1581647","id":"1581740"}
{"by":"jabgrabdthrow","time":"1479955797","timestamp":"2016-11-24 02:49:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How pathetic","parent":"13027031","id":"13027629"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1420178492","timestamp":"2015-01-02 06:01:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ebut the UI will get more similar to Chrome and FF\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think this is a good thing at all. People choose to use different browsers partly because they have different UIs, and UI changes are particularly jarring as evidenced by all the \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ll use browser Y\u0026quot; complaints when browser X changes something about their UI... only to be followed later by \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ll use browser X\u0026quot; when Y changes. There\u0026#x27;s no longer any real choice, it\u0026#x27;s just an illusion of choosing between narrowing alternatives.\u003cp\u003eEspecially to see browsers\u0026#x27; UI turning into clones of Chrome is sad, since I personally \u003ci\u003ehate\u003c/i\u003e the \u0026quot;hide everything away that could possibly confuse users\u0026quot; and the associated \u0026quot;treat users like idiots\u0026quot; mentality that\u0026#x27;s particularly prevalent in browsers today. IE is one of the few browsers remaining that had relatively more UI, but I\u0026#x27;m not surprised to see it disappearing... the trend seems to be to turn browsers into glorified televisions, with UIs like this one: \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670503\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=8670503\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8825606","id":"8825720"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1353084284","timestamp":"2012-11-16 16:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article mentions the hypothesis that the particularly malignant ovarian cancers are actually fallopian cancers that have spread.","parent":"4794516","id":"4794553"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1430583425","timestamp":"2015-05-02 16:17:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Source is the Daily Mail which is a ridiculous rag.  It\u0026#x27;s kind of surprising that it\u0026#x27;s not already in a blocklist.  If gawker is auto-killed anything from daily mail deserves to be auto-killed too.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: honest, the daily mail is scum and noone takes it seriously.  Try an HN search for [daily mail rag] to see other HN users give their opinion of this joke of a newspaper.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.badscience.net\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;the-caveat-in-paragraph-number-19\u0026#x2F;#more-1826\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.badscience.net\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;the-caveat-in-paragraph-nu...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=7437425\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=7437425\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy the daily mail is evil: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=r9dqNTTdYKY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=r9dqNTTdYKY\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9477509","id":"9477551"}
{"by":"radicalbyte","time":"1514192424","timestamp":"2017-12-25 09:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A really good way for you to get your point across would be to write a reactionary blog post detailing the actual information. Netflix seem to be pretty cool \u0026amp; open about things so it should be possible?","parent":"16003379","id":"16003391"}
{"by":"zik","time":"1526268781","timestamp":"2018-05-14 03:33:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. Blockchain is genuinely radical - but its primary benefit is trustless decentralisation. When a single entity controls all the nodes then you don\u0026#x27;t have decentralisation any more and you might as well just use a conventional database.\u003cp\u003eThe real problem here is organisations jumping on the bandwagon without really understanding what they\u0026#x27;re doing.","parent":"17062468","id":"17062473"}
{"by":"woolvalley","time":"1516391677","timestamp":"2018-01-19 19:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They do, it\u0026#x27;s called Tmall: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.webretailer.com\u0026#x2F;lean-commerce\u0026#x2F;tmall-global\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.webretailer.com\u0026#x2F;lean-commerce\u0026#x2F;tmall-global\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16186220","id":"16189206"}
{"by":"fwn","time":"1419425644","timestamp":"2014-12-24 12:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Ever since a clock was first used to synchronise labour in the 18th century, time has been understood in relation to money. Once hours are financially quantified, people worry more about wasting, saving or using them profitably.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRight. Cavemen lived lazy through the day. If they did not find an animal to hunt one day they told their children not to starve but to go and get some chicken wings from KFC.\u003cp\u003eSurely they were happy to live before the industrial revolution. The time when time wasn\u0026#x27;t evaluated by economic ratio. This is a great fairy tale in social sciences.","parent":"8791053","id":"8792656"}
{"by":"tlrobinson","time":"1220568952","timestamp":"2008-09-04 22:55:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I admit that's the first thing I tried when I got Chrome. 280slides.com works quite well in these types of things. \"Plainview\" on OS X is particularly good for presentation software and other apps that benefit from full screen viewing.","parent":"295167","id":"295293"}
{"by":"konschubert","time":"1525526385","timestamp":"2018-05-05 13:19:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with AI in particle physics is that you need to very well understand the efficiency of the selection ( rate of false negative and false positive classification).\nAnd this rate of course isn\u0026#x27;t uniform for all kinds of events. Thus, the uncertainty on the selection  efficiency tends to grow with the complexity of the machine learning model. This directly hurts your sensitivy, the very thing you were trying to improve by using an AI - based process.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a trade-off.","parent":"17000950","id":"17001685"}
{"by":"analog31","time":"1389672518","timestamp":"2014-01-14 04:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me, that\u0026#x27;s not the Smalltalk-80 issue, but the Z8-BASIC issue. My mom was studying computer science, and subscribed to Byte. I was interested in math, electronics, and programming at the time. I was in high school and had taken a course in BASIC. Ciarcia\u0026#x27;s Circuit Cellar was transformative for me.","parent":"7052479","id":"7055303"}
{"by":"egocodedinsol","time":"1536029275","timestamp":"2018-09-04 02:47:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that children have historically put in a lot of work. The premise of the article is that the “Maya method” makes them more likely to volunteer to do so.\u003cp\u003eAt least that’s what led the author to try to engage the toddler in chores.","parent":"17905800","id":"17906253"}
{"by":"whockey","time":"1466443854","timestamp":"2016-06-20 17:30:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re an awesome client of ours! We also partnered with them on their ACH product[1].\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.plaid.com\u0026#x2F;plaid-and-stripe\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.plaid.com\u0026#x2F;plaid-and-stripe\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11939464","id":"11939553"}
{"by":"jmillikin","time":"1368682006","timestamp":"2013-05-16 05:26:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a difference between\u003cp\u003e1) Requesting Google design, implement, and publish a set of new APIs specifically to support a particular low-population platform owned by a self-vowed enemy of the technology stack Google is built on.\u003cp\u003e2) Requesting Google increment a few numbers in a database somewhere.","parent":"5717055","id":"5717070"}
{"by":"08-15","time":"1539806843","timestamp":"2018-10-17 20:07:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Overall, OP said \u0026quot;there is no evidence\u0026quot; and it seems that yes, there is.\u003cp\u003eThis is evidence for a correlation between the number of CT scans and cancer incidence.  To jump to the conclusion that the cancer is caused by the radiation from the CT requires a leap of faith.\u003cp\u003eThe funny thing is, if an epidemiological study shows that low dose ionizing radiation is beneficial (radioactive apartment buildings, nuclear navy workers), it\u0026#x27;s dismissed by a completely ad-hoc \u0026quot;healthy worker effect\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;healthy student effect\u0026quot;.  But in a study of people who received a CT scan, where you should expect a \u0026quot;sick people effect\u0026quot; (healthy people don\u0026#x27;t get CT scans), you \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t see a problem\u0026quot;.","parent":"18236972","id":"18243235"}
{"by":"stevespang","time":"1538576720","timestamp":"2018-10-03 14:25:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nitrogen welder, only $3,744.00\u003cp\u003ePolyethylene and HDPE are tough to weld. I often use my $40 hot glue stick gun with a $20 pack of infinity polyethylene bonding glue sticks from Super TAC 500.\u003cp\u003eI preheat the surfaces to be bonded with a DrillMaster heat gun ($14.95 at Harbor Freight)","parent":"18118793","id":"18130472"}
{"by":"bsder","time":"1513130254","timestamp":"2017-12-13 01:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Satoshi Kon\u003cp\u003eDeath has a way of putting a crimp on using your whole potential.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Satoshi_Kon\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Satoshi_Kon\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15908755","id":"15911380"}
{"by":"kentonwhite","time":"1332337233","timestamp":"2012-03-21 13:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Giving graceful criticism is as hard as gracefully accepting criticism.  That's what I liked about this article -- decoupling the person from the code on both sides of the equation. My favorite line is \"Criticize the code, not the developer\".","parent":"3734248","id":"3734309"}
{"by":"wu-ikkyu","time":"1522870729","timestamp":"2018-04-04 19:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is it then that different states infringe on the right to bear arms to different degrees?\u003cp\u003eAnd it was indeed the case well before 2008-2010. See United States v. Cruikshank (1875), Presser v. Illinois (1886), Miller v. Texas (1894).","parent":"16757988","id":"16758198"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1343236123","timestamp":"2012-07-25 17:08:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, what?  Most exchanges and corporations don't even go by a paper certificate, proving my point: shares (and money, for that matter), are defined by a relationship, not a physical instantiation.  If you lose a certificate (if they even still issue them), there are still records of how many were issued, and of when they were transfered to you.  As long as that history can be reconstructed, you are still given the voting/dividend rights, and if you aren't, it's lawsuit time.\u003cp\u003eSame thing with contracts: a contract is a relationship.  The signed piece of paper is not the contract, but proof that a contract exists.\u003cp\u003eIt's just a case of Procrustean bedding to act like all property (or rights bundles isomorphic thereto) must be physical.","parent":"4289736","id":"4291889"}
{"by":"alanthonyc","time":"1325832382","timestamp":"2012-01-06 06:46:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previously submitted a month ago.\u003cp\u003eDiscussion here: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3317250\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3317250\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3432084","id":"3432314"}
{"by":"kleer001","time":"1499464697","timestamp":"2017-07-07 21:58:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank goodness! And thanks for correcting me.\u003cp\u003eHe must just dilligently clean up the wires.","parent":"14720759","id":"14722493"}
{"by":"boulos","time":"1462389476","timestamp":"2016-05-04 19:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now let\u0026#x27;s see if the 1000 CHF note is still here to stay (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;feb\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;1000-swiss-franc-note-here-to-stay-swiss-national-bank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;feb\u0026#x2F;16\u0026#x2F;1000-swiss-...\u003c/a\u003e). I assume that the 1000 CHF note is only sort of useful, because you can\u0026#x27;t launder it nearly as easily. With a 500 Euro note, you can spread them around and deposit them in many countries. With a pile of 1000 CHF notes, someone is going to notice.","parent":"11630375","id":"11630929"}
{"by":"jaequery","time":"1494866396","timestamp":"2017-05-15 16:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ah the good ol days. any efnet users on here?? got insane amount of help from therr","parent":"14339293","id":"14342951"}
{"by":"wheresvic1","time":"1503319139","timestamp":"2017-08-21 12:38:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See step 12 - it is specifically mentioned that it might make sense to integrate payments right at the beginning depending on the MVP.","parent":"15063261","id":"15064107"}
{"by":"andreasklinger","time":"1286991110","timestamp":"2010-10-13 17:31:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clickable link: \u003ca href=\"http://www.Garmz.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.Garmz.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1788016","id":"1788033"}
{"by":"bhdz","time":"1372307946","timestamp":"2013-06-27 04:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something TO HACK and to DEVELOP YOUR minds WITH\u003cp\u003eI do not feel the shame of self-promotion, thank you for not annoying me with downvotes, much like Reddit.\u003cp\u003eGoodbye, Hacker-News, It\u0026#x27;s been a blast with you. I am not going to post anything else here, expect only comments. Sometimes, when you care for something or someplace, I think, it is normal to react with EMOTION. Emotion is the key feeling of Desire (or Lust), and is the driving force behind \u0026quot;attraction\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;dis-traction\u0026quot; of everything, therefore, My emotions here (if you can detect any) are dry, and it\u0026#x27;s time to move on, for me.... Ki..\u003cp\u003eSomething to ponder WHICH exactly COVERS your idea of hacking:\u003cp\u003eHimuretsu (The Speach of the String, {for remembering passwords, and other shit for instance):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://imgur.com/a/avNvd\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;avNvd\u003c/a\u003e   =    http...-tsu-ki\u0026#x27;o\u0026#x27;co\u0026#x27;mo ai-sla-tsuki-ai-vai-Ni-tsu-vai-do-ka\u003cp\u003eGoodbuy.","parent":"5943403","id":"5950738"}
{"by":"Cor","time":"1381746423","timestamp":"2013-10-14 10:27:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, thank you, sir! Didn\u0026#x27;t expect to get a reply from the cofounder of Beeminder.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s possible for to fully explain how big of a difference Beeminder has made in my life. I was much like some of the folks in this thread (as in, starting projects but not finishing them; struggling to get stuff done), but since implementing Beeminder in my life, my productivity has gone through the roof. It\u0026#x27;s also given me a lot of self confidence in my abilities, which is pushing me to take on more ambitious projects and ambitious tasks.\u003cp\u003eThe focus on averages is definitely what I like most about Beeminder.\u003cp\u003eOn more than one occasion, I\u0026#x27;ve fallen asleep without writing my daily 750 words, only to wake up 20 minutes later in a cold sweat, rushing to my laptop so that I can quickly write my words so I can get back to bed.\u003cp\u003eWith Beeminder, that\u0026#x27;s not a problem. I usually have reserves built up, or, alternatively, I can simply put in some extra time the next day.\u003cp\u003eCase in point, last Friday, I went to the doctors for a routine asthma checkup and they gave me a flu shot that completely knocked me out. It effectively ruined my plans for the day. Instead of worrying, I went home, rested, and put in some extra time on Saturday instead. It\u0026#x27;s simply not possible to do this with the Seinfeld method.\u003cp\u003eOne thing I forgot to mention in my earlier post is that I heard about Beeminder through Nick Winter\u0026#x27;s book \u0026#x27;The Motivation Hacker\u0026#x27;. \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Motivation-Hacker-Nick-Winter-ebook/dp/B00C8N4FNK\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;The-Motivation-Hacker-Nick-Winter-eboo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s cheap, it\u0026#x27;s a quick read, and it\u0026#x27;s got some great information inside. I made some notes while I was reading the book - I\u0026#x27;ve uploaded them here: \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/9f6xofet38ka1x2/Nick%20Winter%20-%20The%20Motivation%20Hacker%20Mindmap.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;9f6xofet38ka1x2\u0026#x2F;Nick%20Winter%20-%...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf anyone\u0026#x27;s on the fence about buying it, it\u0026#x27;s definitely worth picking up, in my opinion. There\u0026#x27;s a lot of great stuff in there that I didn\u0026#x27;t cover in the notes.\u003cp\u003eCheers again, man.","parent":"6545807","id":"6546396"}
{"by":"espeed","time":"1331704062","timestamp":"2012-03-14 05:47:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flask (\u003ca href=\"http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/foreword/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://flask.pocoo.org/docs/foreword/\u003c/a\u003e) and NLTK (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nltk.org/faq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nltk.org/faq\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"3701775","id":"3701995"}
{"by":"aioprisan","time":"1490647642","timestamp":"2017-03-27 20:47:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Over a few months? Plausible.","parent":"13970900","id":"13971622"}
{"by":"solotronics","time":"1464422068","timestamp":"2016-05-28 07:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe the whole point is to force corporate profits out of the country, thus giving US companies a motive to purchase assets or companies in other places. The US dollar is different in that it is a reserve currency so there are forces in play here that do not make sense unless you take reserve status into account. I think it is advantageous to keep USD outside the US because it can then circulate in other countries further cementing its position as a reserve currency, its a feedback loop.","parent":"11789591","id":"11790934"}
{"by":"PeterisP","time":"1519569593","timestamp":"2018-02-25 14:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t quantum transmission infrastructure require \u003ci\u003edirect\u003c/i\u003e connections from A to B? I.e. you could use it for a \u003ci\u003esingle\u003c/i\u003e uninterrupted fiber cable, or for the channel between your antenna and a satellite, but not with our common fiber infrastructure that relies on repeaters \u0026#x2F; re-transmitters.\u003cp\u003eAs soon as there\u0026#x27;s any device between you and the recipient that breaks the entanglement, all the guarantees of quantum encryption go out of the window, and it\u0026#x27;s possible to attack the comms at that retransmission point.","parent":"16458574","id":"16459134"}
{"by":"neduma","time":"1432315995","timestamp":"2015-05-22 17:33:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My 2 cents. (By the i really love the recent MS efforts - When was the last time heard M$? Can\u0026#x27;t think of it..)\u003cp\u003eI heard a lot of good things about Powershell. Why don\u0026#x27;t you start from there? I see it is a \u0026#x27;carrot\u0026#x27; hook. Build an friendly\u0026#x2F;developer centric ecosystem based on that and build it from there..\u003cp\u003eIf you really look at vagrant\u0026#x2F;docker\u0026#x2F;ansible ecosystem, It\u0026#x27;s all about cli\u0026#x2F;api\u0026#x2F;scriptable and disposable environments. Can\u0026#x27;t we come up with some kind of framework (called Ultron, for example) which nicely wraps around vms\u0026#x2F;containers\u0026#x2F;cmt tools based on powershell semantics with full integration of Azhure. I would love to check that out.\u003cp\u003eAny effort to bring Azure into developer desktop\u0026#x2F;laptop to play around would be compelling for devs.","parent":"9589104","id":"9589776"}
{"by":"krasin","time":"1393634454","timestamp":"2014-03-01 00:40:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BeagleBone Black has just one USB port, which is often very inconvenient. For example, if you want to run Octoprint accessible via WiFi and control a 3d printer, two USB ports will be needed. Certainly, a USB hub is an option, but it makes the setup more brittle (some USB WiFi dongles won\u0026#x27;t work over some hubs) and more expensive.","parent":"7321993","id":"7322518"}
{"by":"dvcc","time":"1472051272","timestamp":"2016-08-24 15:07:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For anyone who has not had the chance to read it there is a good article from the New Yorker on airships: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;a-new-generation-of-airships-is-born\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.newyorker.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;a-new-generatio...\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIt was a fun light read. Although at the end I just felt like I got a lesson in really expensive, and partially complete vaporware (vapor-commercial-ware?) and was left with little hope for their future.","parent":"12351932","id":"12352569"}
{"by":"chrisdbaldwin","time":"1465020083","timestamp":"2016-06-04 06:01:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So if its main selling point is being ubiquitous, why the fuck wouldn\u0026#x27;t they force everyone to the same platform?","parent":"11835123","id":"11835149"}
{"by":"jackgavigan","time":"1448631211","timestamp":"2015-11-27 13:33:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. Did any of these showmen find their way into GDS, by any chance?\u003cp\u003eWould love to discuss over a pint sometime. Do you attend HNLondon?","parent":"10637120","id":"10637215"}
{"by":"omarish","time":"1410980996","timestamp":"2014-09-17 19:09:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is amazing. I\u0026#x27;ve been using Anki for a few years now and have been looking for a better app. Congratulations. I can\u0026#x27;t wait to use it.","parent":"8331233","id":"8331801"}
{"by":"jfbastien","time":"1458068088","timestamp":"2016-03-15 18:54:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"JS isn\u0026#x27;t going anywhere. wasm and JS are a dynamic duo, complement each other.","parent":"11291976","id":"11292094"}
{"by":"intertextuality","time":"1542088672","timestamp":"2018-11-13 05:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The surgeon had never had any one-to-one training in using the device.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The surgeon, Sukumaran Nair, was dismissed from the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle after it emerged he had turned down opportunities to train on the Da Vinci machine. Despite this, the doctor had vociferously lobbied superiors to be allowed to perform the mitral valve repair in 2015, the first of its kind with the aid of a robot in the UK.\u003cp\u003eMisleading title and article. Surgeons that are unfamiliar with new technology are blaming it when things go awry.","parent":"18438823","id":"18438946"}
{"by":"andrewduval","time":"1335050691","timestamp":"2012-04-21 23:24:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AES is an energy company that was run on similar principles for a while.\u003cp\u003eMy knowledge of it is purely based on \u0026#60;a href=\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Joy-At-Work-Revolutionary-Approach/dp/0976268604\u0026#62;this\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Joy-At-Work-Revolutionary-Approach/dp/...\u003c/a\u003e book\u0026#60;/a\u0026#62;, which was written by a co-founder who was later deposed. (The book goes into that story but tldr is company prospers, economic crisis hits, company suffers along with all other energy companies, CEO is blamed, fired and replaced with more conventional executive.)\u003cp\u003eBut to give you a sense of core techniques, IIRC pretty much all staff - incl power plant maintenance staff - had major expenditure authority but before they could make any major decision they had to consult with at least two other employees. As long as they could demonstrate that they had done that, it was assumed that they had made a reasonable decision.","parent":"3871779","id":"3873321"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1485309371","timestamp":"2017-01-25 01:56:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot; However in the last few day he has had his press secretary lie to the American people, suggested the US should commit war crimes, and forbid government agencies from speaking to the public.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHe\u0026#x27;s also signed executive orders that will line his own pockets:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=gwFmVOY6cKk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=gwFmVOY6cKk\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13476689","id":"13477758"}
{"by":"dualogy","time":"1508345921","timestamp":"2017-10-18 16:58:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A neat example indeed! Yeah that makes sense. Especially I guess in code-bases where such deeply-nested record updates abound everywhere repeatedly time-and-again --- have not run into such myself \u003ci\u003eyet\u003c/i\u003e. Writing the above on-the-rare-occasion is hardly troublesome. But I get the idea there now. (Although in the above, half the verbosity comes from using records instead of ADTs\u0026#x27; ctors and I believe aren\u0026#x27;t there common idiomatic \u0026quot;standard\u0026quot; GHC lang-extensions to trim record updates in a shorter fashion --- ah well, been a while, I\u0026#x27;m dabbling more in PureScript these days which sports a terser record-updates notation anyway =)","parent":"15500613","id":"15500768"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1510950072","timestamp":"2017-11-17 20:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We also occasionally observe a \u003ci\u003eparticular\u003c/i\u003e orca pod hunting an unusual prey other pods don\u0026#x27;t hunt, using some novel technique we\u0026#x27;ve never seen in orcas before.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t think of a particular example offhand, but that sort of thing sure looks like learned tribal knowledge.","parent":"15725523","id":"15725666"}
{"by":"Toast_25","time":"1506525057","timestamp":"2017-09-27 15:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve never personally seen it as something religious, just being nice and in my country it\u0026#x27;s considered being well-mannered. That being said in my country we don\u0026#x27;t say \u0026quot;bless you\u0026quot;, a literal translation to what we say would be \u0026quot;health\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eWhen I visit other countries it feels weird that nobody says anything when people sneeze. But I realize that\u0026#x27;s a cultural thing and try to avoid saying \u0026quot;Bless you\u0026quot;.","parent":"15348152","id":"15348522"}
{"by":"nogbit","time":"1386138254","timestamp":"2013-12-04 06:24:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;is competance\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;has competence\u0026quot;?  While it may be the best effort it surely is misguided. It\u0026#x27;s given people too much faith over the years in a system that is old and tired, dated and not meeting market demands (but aka opportunity for those working on a solution, yay!).\u003cp\u003eI never finished my degree but instead I finished a ton of other projects, businesses and employment that has made me a ton of $$.  And I would do it all over again for a fraction of that money because I go to bed at night (reluctantly) thinking about all the cool shit I get to build and program the next day.\u003cp\u003ePassion is abstract, excitement is visible.  If one day you are looking to hire someone and they don\u0026#x27;t have the academia creds but do have the experience and are pumped up about your company, team, product or project then give them a shot, you wont be disappointed!","parent":"6844004","id":"6845349"}
{"by":"tel","time":"1412098226","timestamp":"2014-09-30 17:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It should only be a significant problem when you edit modules with TH. I don\u0026#x27;t know how often that occurs within a Yesod project. I imagine you can accelerate builds by isolating the TH modules.","parent":"8389084","id":"8389561"}
{"by":"dwaltrip","time":"1487389152","timestamp":"2017-02-18 03:39:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you checked the charts? Usage and price are essentially at all time highs, and are creeping higher.","parent":"13673341","id":"13673480"}
{"by":"ichverstehe","time":"1281387450","timestamp":"2010-08-09 20:57:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you getting equity? If not, why the hell would you want to take anything below a regular salary? If yes, it really depends on the circumstances.","parent":"1589340","id":"1589353"}
{"by":"proginthebox","time":"1533540950","timestamp":"2018-08-06 07:35:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"how do you integrate neovim clipboard with system one? \nI use KDE\u0026#x2F;X11 although I do not think that should be relevant.","parent":"17693358","id":"17695786"}
{"by":"avaer","time":"1505729102","timestamp":"2017-09-18 10:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think if a friend drove two hours to my house and threatened physical violence because they disapproved of my financial and technology decisions, I would have one less friend.","parent":"15274478","id":"15274573"}
{"by":"mdpopescu","time":"1459054855","timestamp":"2016-03-27 05:00:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. Given that airports have been closed because of an empty cardboard box with BOMB written in marker, if a lot of people wanted to mess up with everybody else they could have done so easily.","parent":"11368706","id":"11368969"}
{"by":"jejones3141","time":"1384114776","timestamp":"2013-11-10 20:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dijkstra\u0026#x27;s critique of PL\u0026#x2F;I from \u0026quot;The Humble Programmer\u0026quot; could be carried over essentially unchanged to C++:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Finally, although the subject is not a pleasant one, I must mention PL\u0026#x2F;1, a programming language for which the defining documentation is of a frightening size and complexity. Using PL\u0026#x2F;1 must be like flying a plane with 7000 buttons, switches and handles to manipulate in the cockpit. I absolutely fail to see how we can keep our growing programs firmly within our intellectual grip when by its sheer baroqueness the programming language —our basic tool, mind you!— already escapes our intellectual control. And if I have to describe the influence PL\u0026#x2F;1 can have on its users, the closest metaphor that comes to my mind is that of a drug. I remember from a symposium on higher level programming language a lecture given in defense of PL\u0026#x2F;1 by a man who described himself as one of its devoted users. But within a one-hour lecture in praise of PL\u0026#x2F;1. he managed to ask for the addition of about fifty new “features”, little supposing that the main source of his problems could very well be that it contained already far too many “features”. The speaker displayed all the depressing symptoms of addiction, reduced as he was to the state of mental stagnation in which he could only ask for more, more, more... When FORTRAN has been called an infantile disorder, full PL\u0026#x2F;1, with its growth characteristics of a dangerous tumor, could turn out to be a fatal disease.\u0026quot;","parent":"6707099","id":"6708240"}
{"by":"AshFurrow","time":"1447881307","timestamp":"2015-11-18 21:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha, yeah. Just a typo – it\u0026#x27;s been so long since I\u0026#x27;ve had to write retain\u0026#x2F;release, and thank goodness!","parent":"10586167","id":"10590798"}
{"by":"gjm11","time":"1445531426","timestamp":"2015-10-22 16:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How so? He just says: this seems like it\u0026#x27;ll be hard to track down and I don\u0026#x27;t have much time to dedicate to it. I don\u0026#x27;t see how that says anything about (1) packaging and distributing specifically or (2) modern web browsers specifically. It just says that complex pieces of software can require a lot of work to debug. What am I missing?","parent":"10432900","id":"10433136"}
{"by":"chefsurfing","time":"1340153138","timestamp":"2012-06-20 00:45:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the Skyscraper Index is predictive this is not a good sign for China's economic growth. ;) \n\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4133609","id":"4135060"}
{"by":"pchristensen","time":"1239110118","timestamp":"2009-04-07 13:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If everyone could do it, it would probably be less successful for everyone.  Part of the reason NiN and Radiohead have had such success is the novelty and rarity of their approach.","parent":"550520","id":"550825"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1465379430","timestamp":"2016-06-08 09:50:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Every added feature will make future feature additions harder. If you just make the number of supported software features large enough, you can extrapolate, that at some point, this will become unmaintainable. External measure of such a condition, is too hard it is to get functionality into a particular main line release. If you are already using software which can never get “de-featured”, I have bad news — you are doomed to spend your life in the “eternal bug hell.” Availability goes down, operational cost goes up, and your vendor cannot possibly fix it. Time to change vendors is the only way out.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOnly if you assume a terrible code base. It\u0026#x27;s very easy to make routing protocols as modules because they just maintain pokey old slow routing information bases that can live in main memory that don\u0026#x27;t have to react on the nanosecond scale.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve worked on modules for OSPF on a vendor router and if the customer isn\u0026#x27;t using OSPF, that daemon and its code are never even executed. No \u0026quot;eternal bug hell\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThis whole blog is basically just pitching major feature-gaps as a feature to prepare us for some MVP I expect to see from him in the coming months that only supports BGP and ethernet or something like that.","parent":"11860491","id":"11861113"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1462052434","timestamp":"2016-04-30 21:40:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;#q=target+transgender\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;#q=target+transgender\u003c/a\u003e for example.","parent":"11603631","id":"11603737"}
{"by":"elihu","time":"1537231203","timestamp":"2018-09-18 00:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My first thought reading this article was: \u0026quot;I can\u0026#x27;t believe the EU uses daylight savings time.  I thought the US was the only country that would ever go along with that kind of nonsense.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThen I read this part:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The practice, which was used as a means to conserve energy during the World Wars as well as the oil crises of the 1970s, became law across the bloc in 1996.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; All EU countries are required to move forward by an hour on the last Sunday of March and back by an hour on the final Sunday in October.\u003cp\u003e...and my second thought is: \u0026quot;wow, the EU members must give a lot more control to their central government, in the US the states do whatever they want with their timezones and would scoff at that kind of micromanagement.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNow, you\u0026#x27;re saying that the states actually are substantially constrained by federal regulation and I am much less optimistic than I was about our current mechanisms of government and democracy when it comes to dealing with timezone policy.","parent":"18008993","id":"18011421"}
{"by":"jhart3333","time":"1358645829","timestamp":"2013-01-20 01:37:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The charges weren't ridiculous\u003cp\u003eThey were according to a retired federal judge: \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/16/gertner-criticizes-ortiz-swartz\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.wbur.org/2013/01/16/gertner-criticizes-ortiz-swar...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom the article:\u003cp\u003e\"She says she was troubled by much of what she learned and saw from the bench before leaving in 2011. And she says Ortiz should not have prosecuted Swartz.\"\n...\nWhen asked if she was referring to the bad judgement of Carmen Ortiz, Gertner responded, “That’s right.”","parent":"5085513","id":"5085592"}
{"by":"chasing","time":"1438786842","timestamp":"2015-08-05 15:00:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is not invalid to care about something just because there are also more important things in the world.\u003cp\u003eIt is not invalid to be saddened by something just because there are worse things happening in the world.\u003cp\u003eHopefully, though, this will shed some light on the situation in Zimbabwe. Seems like the country\u0026#x27;s a mess and lions don\u0026#x27;t have much to do with it either way.","parent":"10010055","id":"10010203"}
{"by":"crispinb","time":"1522908001","timestamp":"2018-04-05 06:00:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; supposed grievances\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; knee-jerk reactions\u003cp\u003eAnyone who doesn\u0026#x27;t like the Touch Bar is ipso facto deluded and\u0026#x2F;or irrational. Fantastic.\u003cp\u003eMy main means of input to my computers is \u003ci\u003etouch-typing\u003c/i\u003e on a \u003ci\u003ekeyboard\u003c/i\u003e. I \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e look at it (I already have a peripheral for looking at: a screen!). Replacing an entire row of keys with a miniature screen would represent a fairly profound change to how I operate a machine I use for 5-8 hours day, for no benefit.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore the application I use for 50-70% of that time is IntelliJ Idea, with tweaked default keybindings. I probably hit F keys hundreds of times a day. I would need to either do some substantial keybinding remapping, or start using part of my keyboard as a mini-screen.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t either like or dislike the Touch Bar. I just have no interest in it, as it makes the new MB Pros quite irrelevant to my professional requirements.","parent":"16759157","id":"16762213"}
{"by":"Judgmentality","time":"1494997336","timestamp":"2017-05-17 05:02:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I disagree that just working for a startup for a year will give you the same experience.\u003cp\u003eWhy?  Actually working on delivering a product seems like far better experience than any educational program, internship or not.  Since most people go to school with the end goal of getting a job, it seems far better to skip school if you have the option.  What are they going to teach you that you can\u0026#x27;t learn on the job?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d much rather a manager have real experience in the role of the people he\u0026#x27;s managing than come straight out of school with a pretense of expertise.","parent":"14355714","id":"14355774"}
{"by":"simonh","time":"1516632187","timestamp":"2018-01-22 14:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Failed attempt at a ‘technical’ correction.\u003cp\u003eI think it’s reasonable to say that the highest incarceration rate is the worst rate, regardless of the reasons. Whether it’s due to an excessively harsh system, high rates of damaging criminality, whatever it is, they’re all bad whatever they are. Surely the ideal number of wrongly convicted people, and the ideal number of legitimately convicted people, and the ideal number of criminals that have escaped justice are all as low as possible?\u003cp\u003eSimilarly for abortion and divorce. Even people who believe abortion should be an option would prefer there to be no need for it. Every one of them is a tragedy no matter which side of the debate you’re on. Same for Divorce.","parent":"16204504","id":"16204654"}
{"by":"Daviey","time":"1495316780","timestamp":"2017-05-20 21:46:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love the Amiga... but no Linux support?  And I probably wouldn\u0026#x27;t buy it without a trial first.","parent":"14383965","id":"14384524"}
{"by":"wolfgke","time":"1511038242","timestamp":"2017-11-18 20:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Pretty much every non-native language is being compiled first to a stack language that looks a lot like a shitty version of Forth as the IR.\u003cp\u003eIt is not clear what you mean with that. I assume you want to hint that the CLR and the Java Runtime use a stack-based instruction set and are common compilation targets, which is true.\u003cp\u003eBut there are lots of other virtual machines that provide a runtime that are not stack-based. For example the implementation of the Lua 5.0 runtime is register-based. An other example of a register-based virtual machine is Parrot.","parent":"15730558","id":"15730607"}
{"by":"vatueil","time":"1535764544","timestamp":"2018-09-01 01:15:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sleek UI and hardware is nice, but for autonomous vehicles AI is essential. You can have the best car in the world in other respects, but without AI it\u0026#x27;s not self-driving.\u003cp\u003eApple hasn\u0026#x27;t shown that it\u0026#x27;s particularly good at AI or mapping. Siri and Apple Maps are distant runner-ups. If it weren\u0026#x27;t for name brand awareness, I doubt anyone would be paying attention to Apple\u0026#x27;s self-driving project versus the field of competitors.\u003cp\u003eApple may have enough money to brute force their way to a spot in the rankings, but it hardly seems like a natural fit for them.","parent":"17889410","id":"17889585"}
{"by":"Pfhreak","time":"1547098162","timestamp":"2019-01-10 05:29:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon has a game studio producing games. They\u0026#x27;ve publicly announced Breakaway, New World, and Crucible as three titles.\u003cp\u003eWhy games are different than other areas (e.g. why aren\u0026#x27;t web services called out separately with their own policy while games are? I\u0026#x27;m not sure.)","parent":"18871724","id":"18871755"}
{"by":"taway_1212","time":"1492210049","timestamp":"2017-04-14 22:47:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to be a really well paid programmer, just learn java and assorted technologies and go work for a bank.","parent":"14117865","id":"14118016"}
{"by":"waratuman","time":"1281644547","timestamp":"2010-08-12 20:22:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great response. I would say that developing on Heroku and Google App Engine drives practices that lead to the ability to scale. This can be done with any hosting provider, as long as you are ready and know what to do.","parent":"1596349","id":"1599112"}
{"by":"zigzigzag","time":"1478174562","timestamp":"2016-11-03 12:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your response is typical of why the EU will eventually collapse in a messy way that will likely make all of Europe poorer. It is simply re-running the story of the USSR in a less extreme way. EU supporters even think of themselves as being \u0026quot;anti-fascist\u0026quot;, language \u003ci\u003eidentical\u003c/i\u003e to what the Bolesheviks used in the 30\u0026#x27;s and 40\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003eI absolutely understand that the EU can simply \u0026quot;refuse to play\u0026quot; and that\u0026#x27;s what I expect them to do. See my comments elsewhere. The EU is held together by fear and needs to make itself a sworn enemy of any country that wants to get out. It\u0026#x27;s an unstable strategy and it will eventually cause serious chaos, especially when the Euro falls apart. If the EU was willing to undergo massive reform and change itself, the transition could be orderly and yield minimal or even positive economic impact. It never will, so Europe is gonna have a very troubled next few decades.","parent":"12863180","id":"12863252"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1474184426","timestamp":"2016-09-18 07:40:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would say it\u0026#x27;s the other way around. I\u0026#x27;ve never used headphones for my phone but I sure need them when playing GBA.","parent":"12523838","id":"12524340"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1517877401","timestamp":"2018-02-06 00:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s some truth to the \u0026#x27;random variable\u0026#x27; theory.\u003cp\u003eI think we only value stocks the way described (intrinsic value model) because its a cultural myth to do so. We can also think of stock certificates as baseball cards - of value mostly to other collectors. Sure there\u0026#x27;s a \u0026#x27;book value\u0026#x27; or \u0026#x27;dividend value\u0026#x27; behind them, but that\u0026#x27;s irrelevant most of the time for most stocks.","parent":"16313547","id":"16313557"}
{"by":"pervycreeper","time":"1415587531","timestamp":"2014-11-10 02:45:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it\u0026#x27;s used for a website, it\u0026#x27;s redundant.\nIf not, it\u0026#x27;s inaccurate.","parent":"8581662","id":"8581802"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1416684645","timestamp":"2014-11-22 19:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of my favorite employment law blogs - \u0026quot;Screw You Guys, I\u0026#x27;m Going Home\u0026quot; (written by a lawyer) - has a number of articles on NCAs:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://employeeatty.blogspot.com/search/label/noncompete%20agreements\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;employeeatty.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;search\u0026#x2F;label\u0026#x2F;noncompete%20a...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading this will give you a good idea of how complex these issues they are, how much the law varies from state to state, etc. - all good reasons to follow the advice of all the others in this thread who have recommended consulting a lawyer (who specializes in Texas employment law).","parent":"8645809","id":"8646402"}
{"by":"mtone","time":"1524502418","timestamp":"2018-04-23 16:53:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d bring it a little further and would write:\u003cp\u003eSELECT * FROM Person as P INNER JOIN TeamMember as TM on TM.PersonId = P.Id\u003cp\u003eI have:\u003cp\u003e- Aliased each table and prefixed every field names with their table alias in my join conditions.\u003cp\u003e- Explicited the JOIN type.\u003cp\u003eThe above:\u003cp\u003e- Reduces mistakes due to ambiguities that tend to generate unwanted duplicates rows in SQL.\u003cp\u003e- Increases the likelihood of getting an error at parse time, instead of run-time or analysis-time, thanks to  added scoping.\u003cp\u003e- Works in any schema, no matter what naming conventions are followed.\u003cp\u003e- Keeps working as the query becomes more complex with multiples table aliases or self-joins, and similar field names appearing in the set.\u003cp\u003e- Better expresses intent. Sure JOIN defaults to INNER JOIN, but writing \u0026quot;INNER JOIN\u0026quot; shows that you genuinely expect any row not matching your condition to be removed from the result set.","parent":"16904758","id":"16905162"}
{"by":"anonnyj","time":"1497752139","timestamp":"2017-06-18 02:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My trash mobile apps got me a cool $0","parent":"14576677","id":"14578644"}
{"by":"chipperyman573","time":"1466561582","timestamp":"2016-06-22 02:13:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Amazon may be an excellent retailer, but they spend just as much money as they make on the shipping and fulfillment side to get shit on your doorstep faster and cheaper than anyone else out there. Each person that spends money on Amazon can only really spend a few hundred dollars per year. But even a small company that\u0026#x27;s entirely hosted on AWS, like 70% of the companies I\u0026#x27;ve worked for, pays Amazon thousands of dollars per month for hosting\u003cp\u003eBut there are a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e more people than businesses, and an order of magnitude more people than businesses who both need custom hosting infrastructure \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e choose AWS.","parent":"11951058","id":"11951104"}
{"by":"kynikos","time":"1249655992","timestamp":"2009-08-07 14:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems bank information here is scant. I had actually made an \"Ask HN\" post and only got 1 response :(\u003cp\u003eI'm in a similar situation...team is remote, I'm in NY and we're INC'd in DE. We're actually using HSBC Small Business for banking now. Go into your local branch and they can tell you what you need. From my experience, we had to submit: Application for Authority showing my ability to do business on behalf of our legal entity, DBA filed in New York, opening deposit, and proof/cert of incorporation.","parent":"746212","id":"747633"}
{"by":"smokeyj","time":"1309714297","timestamp":"2011-07-03 17:31:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People are engaging in activity Y.\u003cp\u003eActivity Y is not profitable.\u003cp\u003eHow can we control the internet to make Activity Y profitable?\u003cp\u003eSuggesting folks engaged in Activity Y figure it out is not an acceptable response.\u003cp\u003eI can't help but feel this is a false dilemma. What about Activity A B and C that aren't profitable? Shouldn't we care about the proliferation and development of all these activities? Furthermore, maybe folks engaging in Activity Y should just evolve and adopt to the modern climate of the digital age. See GNU/Linux.","parent":"2724039","id":"2724091"}
{"by":"MortenK","time":"1319099164","timestamp":"2011-10-20 08:26:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's probably written by a CS professor.","parent":"3132071","id":"3133972"}
{"by":"abtinf","time":"1461787259","timestamp":"2016-04-27 20:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve heard a number of arguments in favor of farm subsidies, but never one based on \u0026quot;unfair\u0026quot; competition. I\u0026#x27;m curious about what you mean. American farmers are incredibly competitive and efficient, so I\u0026#x27;m not sure who they could be threatened by.\u003cp\u003eAnd I\u0026#x27;m not sure how you are relating that point to \u0026quot;clean energy\u0026quot;. You say solar should be subsidized because it is a superior product. Are American farm products somehow superior as well? Is grain from the mid-west some how better than grain from Europe? Or is corn syrup cleaner than sugar cane from Cuba?","parent":"11583891","id":"11584007"}
{"by":"abawany","time":"1504821675","timestamp":"2017-09-07 22:01:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NYT story states that they are already offering this to affected consumers: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.equifaxsecurity2017.com\u0026#x2F;potential-impact\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.equifaxsecurity2017.com\u0026#x2F;potential-impact\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e .","parent":"15195917","id":"15196164"}
{"by":"beedogs","time":"1381996268","timestamp":"2013-10-17 07:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI heard that Oracle won the America\u0026#x27;s Cup recently which leads me to give them some unsolicited advice.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePut the award on the shelf in your lobby, sell the ten million dollar boat and hire the engineers needed to update the Java patch cycle to monthly with the spare cash.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e3+ billion devices will thank you.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpot on.  Working with their products on a daily basis, I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn\u0026#x27;t really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat.","parent":"6563635","id":"6564123"}
{"by":"RyJones","time":"1545071019","timestamp":"2018-12-17 18:23:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Open source is hard work, regardless of your affiliation.","parent":"18700706","id":"18700829"}
{"by":"nsuQAEsax","time":"1436821078","timestamp":"2015-07-13 20:57:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not handling depression, depression is handling me.","parent":"9873664","id":"9881038"}
{"by":"ahoyhere","time":"1283392491","timestamp":"2010-09-02 01:54:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have any reasons to believe this other than your own rationalizations? I'd like to see some evidence, please.","parent":"1654901","id":"1654992"}
{"by":"mpyne","time":"1397671482","timestamp":"2014-04-16 18:04:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your comment actually made me read the review since it seemed really bad... but after reading it I\u0026#x27;m just not seeing the problem.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;I am not making this up\u0026quot; thing came in the context of recommending ASN.1 for instance. If that were a chess match commentary, this is where the scorekeeper would have put a \u0026quot;??\u0026quot; after the move to note the shock.\u003cp\u003eAnd note what tptacek\u0026#x27;s comment was \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e: It wasn\u0026#x27;t a bunch of personal attacks, or swearing. Some of the commentary was \u0026quot;more than professional\u0026quot;, to be sure, but that\u0026#x27;s exactly the kind of commentary you should hope to get in highly-demanding, highly-selective fields.\u003cp\u003eYou want to know what a perfect book review would look like in the Navy\u0026#x27;s nuclear propulsion program? It would be this: \u0026quot;No deficiencies noted.\u0026quot;","parent":"7597130","id":"7599396"}
{"by":"FullMtlAlcoholc","time":"1499529703","timestamp":"2017-07-08 16:01:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gwern.net\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gwern.net\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;atlasobscura.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;atlasobscura.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor inspiration on UI, I browse \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dribbble.com\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codepen.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codepen.io\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;uplabs.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;uplabs.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14724092","id":"14725851"}
{"by":"daystar","time":"1299522560","timestamp":"2011-03-07 18:29:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"we use avangate.com and they are pretty good. they even sent us a debit card that we can use to pay for stuff online , or collect cash at ATMS..","parent":"2295733","id":"2298136"}
{"by":"edanm","time":"1514219161","timestamp":"2017-12-25 16:26:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome work! Total Commander is the one software that I\u0026#x27;ve never found a good Mac replacement for, and it causes me no end of sadness.\u003cp\u003eYour approach looks \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e promising, if still early days. Emailing you further specific feedback, hope you keep working on this and continue on your current path.","parent":"16004472","id":"16004647"}
{"by":"run4yourlives","time":"1222378283","timestamp":"2008-09-25 21:31:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Spoiler Alert: Fascism wins unless they are lead by a retard.","parent":"315088","id":"315441"}
{"by":"scrollaway","time":"1474858408","timestamp":"2016-09-26 02:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like that they\u0026#x27;re doing some good UX work (although it\u0026#x27;s really just copying apple\u0026#x27;s HIG... and style), but again it\u0026#x27;s not very interesting to have a group of people working on \u003ci\u003eapps\u003c/i\u003e, when the apps themselves look like crap on any other desktop.\u003cp\u003eOn LXQt, I made sure there was no NIH. All the apps that came out of LXQt were lightweight alternatives to bloated stuff from KDE and were \u0026quot;in scope\u0026quot; of the desktop environment. Whereas Elementary includes an Email client.\u003cp\u003eTo put things in context: An email client is office software. It\u0026#x27;s such a burden to maintain that Mozilla dropped support for theirs (Thunderbird), despite its massive userbase.\u003cp\u003ePeople work on what they want to work I suppose, but we\u0026#x27;re talking about apps that are never going to be used outside of that one particular desktop. That one desktop out of god knows how many, since everybody is working on their own piece.\u003cp\u003eAre there really so many different ways to do a lightweight tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting in GTK, that Scratch, gedit and Leafpad all need to exist? Or can we admit there\u0026#x27;s a problem?","parent":"12578770","id":"12578910"}
{"by":"smt88","time":"1503082047","timestamp":"2017-08-18 18:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(The following is not arguing against the article, but just providing some context. It\u0026#x27;s about time we see more arguments against neoliberalism, which serves only a very tiny portion of people at the expense of large masses of others.)\u003cp\u003eFor those in the US who are used to non-standard definitions of \u0026quot;liberal\u0026quot;, the word \u0026quot;neoliberal\u0026quot; refers to people who support unregulated markets, austerity, and free trade. Reagan is perhaps the most iconic neoliberal in US history.\u003cp\u003eConfusingly, many self-professed \u0026quot;liberals\u0026quot; (US definition) are accused of being neoliberals. Examples include Bill and Hillary Clinton.\u003cp\u003eEven more confusingly, the word is now used not to describe people who have any relationship to classical liberals (what libertarians aspire to be), but rather people who support a strong government that serves the wealthy -- anti-labor, anti-market, elitism tending toward plutocracy.","parent":"15048024","id":"15048736"}
{"by":"beefield","time":"1487976816","timestamp":"2017-02-24 22:53:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And now I need to believe that I\u0026#x27;m the one that needs to be corrected?\u003cp\u003eYour original claim was:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; immigrants dominate the statistics of violence against women\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s see what \u0026quot;dominate\u0026quot; means [1]:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eto be predominant in\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd further, predominant [2]:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebeing most frequent or common\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is simply nothing to discuss here. Your original claim was wrong, even using your own statistics. (Of course, you may have tried to say or you meant that immigrants are over represented, which would be correct. But you did not say that. Thus you are the one to be corrected.)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;dominate\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;dominate\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;predominant\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com\u0026#x2F;dictionary\u0026#x2F;predominant\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13728576","id":"13728693"}
{"by":"mitchty","time":"1379306859","timestamp":"2013-09-16 04:47:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m currently learning go, hopefully in 5 years there won\u0026#x27;t be another language du jour. Rust maybe but the problem space go is serving isn\u0026#x27;t all that crowded.\u003cp\u003eI hope... \u0026gt;.\u0026lt;","parent":"6391617","id":"6391678"}
{"by":"seany","time":"1469053855","timestamp":"2016-07-20 22:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see the current federal gun control laws as an overreach. So the fact that she\u0026#x27;s for an additional assault weapon ban, when we should be pulling back on rules is just a total non starter on that issue.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s just as important as any over constitutionally protected right. With the way the courts are stacked these days I\u0026#x27;m not that worried about roe v wade flipping, or a major set back on free speech. Gun issues I only see going in a negative way unless there is a strong pro gun person at the federal level.","parent":"12131543","id":"12133038"}
{"by":"thingexplainer","time":"1476853999","timestamp":"2016-10-19 05:13:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love to hear more about why.","parent":"12739665","id":"12741252"}
{"by":"Scarblac","time":"1525417123","timestamp":"2018-05-04 06:58:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Basically, the game doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense when you take turns, instead contestants write down their answers and show them simultaneously.\u003cp\u003eSee \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com\u0026#x2F;writings\u0026#x2F;bignumbers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com\u0026#x2F;writings\u0026#x2F;bignumbers.html\u003c/a\u003e .","parent":"16991887","id":"16992717"}
{"by":"TheCondor","time":"1298055102","timestamp":"2011-02-18 18:51:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know that I'd equate camouflaging a tank to switching ports.\u003cp\u003enmap and other tools will already identify services on different ports,  switching ports protects you from the dumbest of the dumb robots and that's it.  The cost of which is potentially more confusion on your network.  The other cost if you have an IPS that is protocol aware, it may not work with your altered ports.\u003cp\u003eI guess if you're only worried about script kiddies and robots then there is potentially some benefit.  If you're worried about actually being attacked then it makes your life marginally more difficult (just a tiny bit more complexity) and it offers no security.","parent":"2236432","id":"2236684"}
{"by":"phonon","time":"1479769269","timestamp":"2016-11-21 23:01:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What does WOW64 have to do with WINE?","parent":"13009673","id":"13010068"}
{"by":"khuey","time":"1511805990","timestamp":"2017-11-27 18:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We tax real property, which is a form of wealth taxation.","parent":"15789480","id":"15789486"}
{"by":"cheald","time":"1369261759","timestamp":"2013-05-22 22:29:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you logged into your Google account on Chrome? I know that there's voice personalization on the phone versions. I'd expect them to bring that to the browser, too.","parent":"5753573","id":"5754207"}
{"by":"oomkiller","time":"1252744694","timestamp":"2009-09-12 08:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reliability will need to go WAAY up before they can even think about touching prices, I'm being about as patient as I can be for spending $$$ per month on it.","parent":"818677","id":"818766"}
{"by":"flurdy","time":"1537610436","timestamp":"2018-09-22 10:00:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe but only after extensive proliferation.\u003cp\u003eInitially, every Tom, Dick \u0026amp; Harry script kiddie will try to blackmail people whilst the public and justice system is not really aware of the technology possible.\u003cp\u003eWhen eventually enough of the public is made aware to not trust photos and videos anymore then these types of blackmail attempts would be less effective. But there will still be less informed gullible targets.","parent":"18045149","id":"18045329"}
{"by":"tacone","time":"1434665899","timestamp":"2015-06-18 22:18:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also GNU utils \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aadrake.com\u0026#x2F;command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aadrake.com\u0026#x2F;command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-tha...\u003c/a\u003e\nThe above experiment (which has an interesting github repo) is somewhat over (and real world unusable), but still is eye opening. Hadoop and Spark bring so much complexity that looking for simpler solutions is something worth considering.","parent":"9741923","id":"9741959"}
{"by":"w1ntermute","time":"1279150537","timestamp":"2010-07-14 23:35:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even the Bing cache took a long time to load, so here's the full text:\u003cp\u003eApple's brewing shitstorm\u003cp\u003eBy Dave Winer on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 5:28 PM.\u003cp\u003eI've been lucky to be in the middle of a number of Internet shitstorms in my life. They've been absolutely surreal, unfair, cruel. No one will listen to your side of the story. People you thought were friends join the pile-on. Etc etc. And then it passes, and eventually you go back to life as it was. I don't want to re-litigate any of them, please -- but I just want to say I know what it's like. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eNow Rex Hammock, who I admire as a friend and as a pundit, wrote a piece about Apple and the crazy situation with the iPhone 4. He's right, but he doesn't quite go far enough in his analysis. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eI don't think the problem is with the iPhone 4. I think what we're seeing is Apple's charm wearing off. The Reality Distortion Field bubble is about to burst. Their run as the Exceptional Company is about to end. And they're going to be the last ones to figure it out. And it's going to be the ugliest shitstorm you've ever seen. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eWhy will it be so ugly? Because Apple's hype has been steadily inflating since 1997 when Steve Jobs returned, and it's never taken a dip. They've risen from being written off to being worth more than Microsoft.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eIt's also going to get ugly because we're fed up with corporations. It was remarkable that there were no ads for oil companies on the World Cup broadcasts (at least the ones I watched). Can you imagine listening to a pitch from Exxon or BP saying they are working for our energy independence, or to clean up the planet or all the other lies they were telling us while they were taking huge unnecessary risks with the ecology of the oceans? They're smart enough to know now is not the time to be spouting bullshit at us. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eIt will be ugly because Apple is going to let it get ugly. Because unlike the oil companies they have no experience with PR disasters. When I read their first public response on July 2, the one that said the problem was the meter measuring the strength of AT\u0026#38;T's signal, I couldn't believe this was meant to be taken seriously. It's the kind of story The Onion might have written on a bad day. Or Jon Stewart. That a corporate PR team wrote this says how unseasoned their people are. That they thought this answer was going to satisfy anyone says how out of touch they are with the world they are in. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003e\"We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003e\"Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don't know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.\" Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eApple has no concept of what's it like to be disbelieved, untrusted, seen as an American corporation and nothing more. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eI wonder how Apple is going to deal with their first serious virus. Microsoft, when they had to deal with malware, was in denial for years. They thought it was the users' problem. Until they finally saw people switching to Macs (as I did) just to get away from all the crazy shit that was attacking Windows users. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eIn 2007, I couldn't believe Apple, a company that was selling itself as the more secure computer, wanted to keep my failed hard disk, one I had paid full price to replace, insisting it was theirs to refurbish. I couldn't accept that they would let all my personal information fall into the hands of who-knows-who, but that's what they proposed to do. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eApple is a company that desperately needs to grow up and wipe the smile off its face, and roll its sleeves up and start to appreciate that they're no longer the upstart, the underdog, the Crazy One in the Richard Dreyfus ad. They are The Man, the Boss, the one who, from now on, everyone is going to be taking shots at and shits on. Permanent link to this item in the archive.\u003cp\u003eI use Macs. I'm typing this on a new 27-inch iMac. I stood in line to buy the iPhone 4, in the sweltering summer New York heat. I was pleased when Apple people came out to bring us bottled water. More of that Apple. More care and concern for the people who give you not only their respect and adoration, but also their money. The rules that apply to The Rest Of Us are about to apply to you. Time to get ready for it.","parent":"1516312","id":"1516333"}
{"by":"kevingadd","time":"1495816821","timestamp":"2017-05-26 16:40:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The whole cross-origin model in browsers, like it or not, allows something like this. It\u0026#x27;s hard to fix. Chrome already aggressively restricted permissions for file:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F; in a way that broke existing apps because they wanted to limit the risk of attacks against the local filesystem.\u003cp\u003eIIRC there have been file:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;-related vulnerabilities in webapps like pdf.js, too.","parent":"14425240","id":"14425344"}
{"by":"jorgem","time":"1295988551","timestamp":"2011-01-25 20:49:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe the author of the article could be hired to redo the flipperusb site.","parent":"2140769","id":"2140788"}
{"by":"jackaroe78","time":"1515654627","timestamp":"2018-01-11 07:10:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, we had been planning to switch from Angular 1.x to React but our legal team determined it was too risky. The licensing issue was cleared up (I think) right after that decision was made","parent":"16121398","id":"16121987"}
{"by":"Brakenshire","time":"1498067304","timestamp":"2017-06-21 17:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh yes, you\u0026#x27;re right, so not a mortgage, but someone renting, with no savings, and a credit card debt or as you say, a student loan.\u003cp\u003eThat is a problem - for a lot of people, that will mean little to no leeway when things go wrong - but that\u0026#x27;s not the point that most people are making when they use that statistic.","parent":"14606026","id":"14606170"}
{"by":"kabdib","time":"1309629725","timestamp":"2011-07-02 18:02:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My father-in-law retired at 75. He was writing firmware for chip stepper systems. He still reads Science and some chemical engineering stuff.\u003cp\u003eI met a guy on his 60th birthday who was considering starting another start-up.\u003cp\u003eI'm fifty. I did some back-to-back 100 hour weeks last year, and definitely felt it a lot more than I did when I was 30. But I work smarter and I know more tricks. My .emacs file is full of hardfought wisdom (mostly knowing what to throw out, frankly).\u003cp\u003eI think I have some good years left :-)","parent":"2721886","id":"2722077"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1356630795","timestamp":"2012-12-27 17:53:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"The better word is that they believe in atheism\"\u003cp\u003eThis is a classic misdirection. The word \"belief\" means many things. Do you believe that Australia exists? (That's the classic response.) Do you believe that the North Pole exists? You've probably not been to both. Is this belief the same as the belief in a god?\u003cp\u003eWhen I say \"classic\", I mean that Russell wrote about it in the 1950s, saying:\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.\u003cp\u003eThe \"any more probable\" part is key. You wrote \"specifically deny that a higher life form exists.\" That is a strawman view because that's not scientific claim. What atheists will often say is that the evidence is lacking which suggests that a higher life form exists. Some might ask you what 'higher life' means - how do you know one when you see one? Could you tell the difference between a higher life form and a visiting alien from Tau Ceti?\u003cp\u003eThe burden is not on science to disprove, it is on you to provide evidence.\u003cp\u003e\"A scientist is constantly in search of the Truth\"\u003cp\u003eThat's not true. We have no way to recognize the Truth if we were staring it in the face. The goal of science is to reduce doubt, and the first law of science is, you are the easiest person to fool.\u003cp\u003eThe second law might be to know what people have done before. Your essay follows well-worn ruts, based on a misunderstanding of what \"belief\" means, and of the objections of atheism to a religious interpretation of the universe.\u003cp\u003eRead, for example, more about the spectrum of theistic probability. Many atheists, including Richard Dawkins, regard themselves as a \"De facto atheist. Very low probability, but short of zero. \"I don't know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.\" Fewer are a \"Strong atheist. \"I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung knows there is one.\"\"\u003cp\u003eYour objections only hold for a \"strong atheist\", and your thesis means that you really need to learn more about the tenants of deism, theism, atheism, agnosticism, and even anti-theism.","parent":"4974106","id":"4974237"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1269378842","timestamp":"2010-03-23 21:14:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the result of the rule is that submillionaires can't invest in YC-like companies, but they can still lose \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e their money (and whatever additional amount banks will loan them) on...\u003cp\u003e- day-trading\u003cp\u003e- real-estate-speculation\u003cp\u003e- investing in 'safe' public stocks like Enron, Fannie Mae, Lehman, and GM\u003cp\u003e- trading forex following rules they learned from late-night-informercials\u003cp\u003e- gambling in licensed casinos offering rigged games\u003cp\u003e- buying state lottery tickets\u003cp\u003eAll these often-negative-expectation activities are allowed. So what, exactly, do the 'accredited investor' limits prevent a gullible person from doing? A fool will be parted from his money; these rules just change the form of the transactions that will be used.\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, the limits prevent wise-but-poor people from being shareholders in small businesses that they actually have some expertise about, and which are more likely to be positive-expectation than the above activities.","parent":"1213965","id":"1214051"}
{"by":"yurifury","time":"1302931622","timestamp":"2011-04-16 05:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here you go:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-hacker-news/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2452922","id":"2453258"}
{"by":"drcode","time":"1256389196","timestamp":"2009-10-24 12:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My local library in Germany had some of his translated books when I was a kid- Those books, along with my TI99/4A, had a greater influence on my intellectual life than anything else in my past.","parent":"900405","id":"900420"}
{"by":"IronBacon","time":"1534011020","timestamp":"2018-08-11 18:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would guess the other infamous one is the Patriot missile timing bug.","parent":"17740292","id":"17740806"}
{"by":"gfody","time":"1508980230","timestamp":"2017-10-26 01:10:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"reminiscent of Spolsky\u0026#x27;s law of leaky abstractions, definitely another side of the same problem","parent":"15555169","id":"15555593"}
{"by":"Camillo","time":"1375030836","timestamp":"2013-07-28 17:00:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great!","parent":"6114070","id":"6117207"}
{"by":"radicalbyte","time":"1356803114","timestamp":"2012-12-29 17:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They probably have some kind of deal with Wacom which prevents them from having any kind of high quality stylus support.","parent":"4982588","id":"4982730"}
{"by":"r0m4n0","time":"1501692034","timestamp":"2017-08-02 16:40:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I ran a search and a few banking jobs came up, one of which mentioned going through a fingerprint background check. I find it hard to believe the US Bank in SF would take me seriously for a teller opening if I had any sort of hangups in my background.\u003cp\u003eI guess this is more of a feature request but... It would be great if you could filter out job postings that were likely just scraped or aggregated from other places!\u003cp\u003eNice work btw, a great start for a much needed service","parent":"14911467","id":"14912104"}
{"by":"lomendil","time":"1367950794","timestamp":"2013-05-07 18:19:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just saw Jeff Hawkins give a talk and it was quite interesting. I was a bit worried, however, that he is basing his theory of intelligence on the human neocortex, while claiming to go after general principles.\u003cp\u003eThis is guaranteed not to be terribly general, considering the many bits of matter on this planet that exhibit intelligence without a neocortex. By many, I mean ones that hugely outnumber humans.\u003cp\u003eSo very interesting stuff, but not the answer that I think he wants it to be.","parent":"5668491","id":"5669752"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1278616636","timestamp":"2010-07-08 19:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on how you define 'successful.' Most people have the metric wrong, which would be conversions. The correct metric is, \"Do I make enough to pay for the effort and time doing this?\"","parent":"1498426","id":"1498451"}
{"by":"Void_","time":"1378931302","timestamp":"2013-09-11 20:28:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go around the sun. If we went \naround the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work. \n-- Sherlock Holmes, \u0026quot;A Study in Scarlet\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s just how I feel about NSA. Don\u0026#x27;t wanna waste time even thinking about something I can\u0026#x27;t change.\u003cp\u003eSo, less stories, I ignore them all, anyway.","parent":"6369530","id":"6369806"}
{"by":"StreamBright","time":"1525965417","timestamp":"2018-05-10 15:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really wish MS was better with UI\u0026#x2F;UX and understood humans. Skpye and Skype for business are both disasters to use. I avoid them at all cost. Not sure why can\u0026#x27;t they just copy Zoom for example which is an absolute bliss to use, low energy usage on mobile, intuitive easy to use UI and also has the right features. I know it does not have the same chat capabilities as Skype but I don\u0026#x27;t miss that too much in an enterprise environment.","parent":"17039144","id":"17039597"}
{"by":"KaoruAoiShiho","time":"1357176848","timestamp":"2013-01-03 01:34:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's on github, but at 6 months since last commit and no documentation...","parent":"5000461","id":"5000575"}
{"by":"gtirloni","time":"1435271306","timestamp":"2015-06-25 22:28:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just curious, what\u0026#x27;s VPRI? Does it have any core design in this area?","parent":"9781085","id":"9781313"}
{"by":"13hours","time":"1461865763","timestamp":"2016-04-28 17:49:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Piggy backing on this to plug our game as well:  Fleet of One [1].  Retro 80s space shooter with an original soundtrack composed by a SAMA (South African Music Awards) nominated musician, original artwork by a professional artist, a lot of time spent on level design with classic bosses.  Have a look, there\u0026#x27;s a free demo as well.  No IAPs.  Real love went into this.\u003cp\u003eWe didn\u0026#x27;t even make the development cost back.  We actively fought against the idea of IAPs and trying to hook whales, even though it would have been easy to introduce mechanisms to do it (on the hardest level it\u0026#x27;s almost impossible to beat).\u003cp\u003e[1] iOS: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;za\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;fleet-of-one\u0026#x2F;id580453079?mt=8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;za\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;fleet-of-one\u0026#x2F;id580453079?mt=...\u003c/a\u003e\nAndroid: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=za.co.polymorph.fleetofone\u0026amp;hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=za.co.polymorp...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11589706","id":"11590657"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1355988429","timestamp":"2012-12-20 07:27:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brooks does talk about this topic in \"The Mythical Man Month\", but this isn't what he calls the \"second system effect\". The \"second system\" is the second significant system you build in your career, not a re-write of the first system. Brooks' \"second system\" was OS/360, written after he had worked on an operating system for an earlier machine.[1]\u003cp\u003eThe idea of building a prototype and then re-writing it is what Brooks talks about when he says \"plan to throw one [version] away; you will anyhow.\"[2]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/manmonth.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.robelle.com/smugbook/manmonth.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4946139","id":"4946667"}
{"by":"belltaco","time":"1493746357","timestamp":"2017-05-02 17:32:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;they are years away from making money on their Surface line\u003cp\u003eSource?\u003cp\u003eAFAIK they made over $10 billion in revenue on Surface.","parent":"14248227","id":"14248511"}
{"by":"blumkvist","time":"1385826230","timestamp":"2013-11-30 15:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a movie where a man explained exactly what you\u0026#x27;re saying. Do you know its title by any means?","parent":"6823105","id":"6823399"}
{"by":"mbillie1","time":"1410386578","timestamp":"2014-09-10 22:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does that help, other than economically discouraging cycling?","parent":"8299442","id":"8299460"}
{"by":"J_Darnley","time":"1458129548","timestamp":"2016-03-16 11:59:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Transmission.  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.transmissionbt.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.transmissionbt.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt already has a web interface but there are a few things I would like to add\u0026#x2F;change.  But now I see that it isn\u0026#x27;t what you\u0026#x27;re looking for.","parent":"11290199","id":"11296600"}
{"by":"Alupis","time":"1498757220","timestamp":"2017-06-29 17:27:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The Lee-Gardner Amendment would help us reduce drag by allowing us to make our engines narrower\u003cp\u003eWhat am I missing?\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re comparing things to current-day high-bypass turbofan jet engines, which are very wide by design and on-purpose (not because of some regulation).\u003cp\u003eSure, part of the high-bypass allows for quieter noise levels, but it\u0026#x27;s also about efficiency at cruise altitude and speeds.\u003cp\u003eTurbojet engines designed for supersonic speed are already much narrower, well at least the nacelle is, or lack-thereof (again, by design -- optimized for fast speeds, not because of some regulation).\u003cp\u003eAs far as I\u0026#x27;m aware, the reason there aren\u0026#x27;t supersonic civil aircraft is because of the enormous cost involved in operating them, and the restrictions of supersonic flight over mainland due to shock wave damages, etc... not the size of the engine as appears to be asserted in this article.\u003cp\u003eSo, any new legislation only needs to target lifting the over mainland restrictions (and somehow change physics to not have shock waves...), but you can\u0026#x27;t legislate-away the enormous costs involved in building and operating supersonic aircraft.","parent":"14660593","id":"14665083"}
{"by":"joshu","time":"1300649035","timestamp":"2011-03-20 19:23:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another one: It's very hard to resist the urge to spend Way Too Much on something you already liked. Like spending $100k on a Crestron control system for your A/V network if you like gaming and media. Or a Ferrari if you like cars.\u003cp\u003eIf you fail to resist, you end up on the hedonic treadmill pretty quickly.\u003cp\u003e(My vice: investing in startups. I guess that's better for the ecosystem, at least.)","parent":"2346338","id":"2347090"}
{"by":"joliv","time":"1394400216","timestamp":"2014-03-09 21:23:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This actually looks like a much better way to learn how division works—taking a number out of another number some number of times. While it may be less efficient than the other method, if we really cared about efficiency we would just teach division with calculators.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Ooph, he\u0026#x27;s running for the House of Reps in my state (\u003ca href=\"http://www.bongino.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bongino.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"7369870","id":"7370024"}
{"by":"xkcd-sucks","time":"1477942019","timestamp":"2016-10-31 19:26:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just go out any time after 11pm...","parent":"12839549","id":"12840078"}
{"by":"emiller829","time":"1435004574","timestamp":"2015-06-22 20:22:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love to hear how you\u0026#x27;re handling the ECS part of this. From the experimentation I\u0026#x27;ve done, it\u0026#x27;s not just a matter of telling ECS to update the service unless you\u0026#x27;re running 2x the number of container instances you need -- it won\u0026#x27;t pull resources out from the existing service revision in order to spin up the new ones.\u003cp\u003eCertainly can be worked around, but it\u0026#x27;s a little annoying.","parent":"9760466","id":"9760937"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1269456082","timestamp":"2010-03-24 18:41:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I applaud Google's announcement that it will be hosting a Wikileaks server to help stop internet censorship.\u003cp\u003e(yeah right... if Google actually cared about censorship it would host one... the China stuff is just a graceful way for Google to exit a market that it has failed in).","parent":"1216129","id":"1216483"}
{"by":"paulddraper","time":"1541623918","timestamp":"2018-11-07 20:51:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; They don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;welcome\u0026quot; gay scouts, but permit them.\u003cp\u003eThis information is outdated.\u003cp\u003eThey had \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t ask, don\u0026#x27;t tell\u0026quot; for a very long time.\u003cp\u003eBut they\u0026#x27;ve had openly gay Scouts since 2014 and openly gay leaders since 2015.","parent":"18398422","id":"18402311"}
{"by":"nneonneo","time":"1536769490","timestamp":"2018-09-12 16:24:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not that I don’t believe you, but the linked page doesn’t seem to mention that fact.","parent":"17969913","id":"17970360"}
{"by":"dominotw","time":"1487361465","timestamp":"2017-02-17 19:57:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"just tried this on my midi keyboard( web midi is awesome!) but the \u0026quot;AI music\u0026quot; response was very underwhelming and sounded bad.\u003cp\u003eI would be interested if \u0026quot;AI\u0026quot; can help me with different timbres based on the physical environment that music is playing using various sensor like air pressure, humidity, room resonance, maybe even heartbeat, perspiration ect. Make that a new dimension of information coded into the song along with pitch, timing, amp and timbre.","parent":"13670995","id":"13671186"}
{"by":"bediger4000","time":"1347908128","timestamp":"2012-09-17 18:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I only see the speed cam van on 1st Ave, more or less in front of Denver Country Club, and on University just north of Exhibition St, where the whole east side is the Polo Club neighborhood wall.  I've never seen one anywhere else in Denver, so I'm please to hear that a speed cam is in another neighborhood.  But Sheridan is the border between Denver and Lakewood.  Is it a Denver speed cam or a Lakewood PD speed cam?","parent":"4524749","id":"4534201"}
{"by":"calewis","time":"1449247142","timestamp":"2015-12-04 16:39:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Skynet is coming.","parent":"10672276","id":"10677300"}
{"by":"rootbear","time":"1506964098","timestamp":"2017-10-02 17:08:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. I\u0026#x27;m especially annoyed at Google. I WILL NOT use a device that requires me to be an unpaid brand promoter. At least \u0026quot;Alexa\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Siri\u0026quot; are actual names, or sound like names. A customizable activation word would be ideal, but under no circumstances can it be the brand name of the device\u0026#x27;s vendor. I won\u0026#x27;t have it.","parent":"15384934","id":"15385684"}
{"by":"literallycancer","time":"1487431421","timestamp":"2017-02-18 15:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bank rips off people who don\u0026#x27;t read contracts. Business as usual.\u003cp\u003eMan rips off a bank that signs contracts without reading them. Fraud.\u003cp\u003e----\u003cp\u003eAnd it\u0026#x27;s not about poor customer service. I went to a bank to create an account. They offered me some savings scheme. It rounds up purchases and puts the difference into a \u0026quot;savings jar\u0026quot;. If you want to use the money, it takes like 3 days to change them to regular balance. Now, why would anyone use that? It limits their options, and doesn\u0026#x27;t offer anything in return. The bank most likely gives the clerks a premium on every person they sign up for this thing, but still, the clerk wasn\u0026#x27;t able to explain the benefits (because there weren\u0026#x27;t any). The best thing she could say about it was literally \u0026quot;you can opt out through the internet banking app\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThis is a trivial matter, but nonetheless, illustrates their attitude well. They convince people who don\u0026#x27;t know any better to agree to contracts that aren\u0026#x27;t beneficial for them.\u003cp\u003eHow\u0026#x27;s that better than fraud?","parent":"13674969","id":"13675060"}
{"by":"Maciek416","time":"1246628118","timestamp":"2009-07-03 13:35:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This entire story smells like hogwash. The first line of the story disagrees with the HN headline:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Apple may be working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could possibly allow an attacker to\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotice the wording: \"may\". Apple hasn't said anything to these researchers or the press. Overall the article has nothing more to report on the situation than we already know, and is simply rehashing what we already know about the vulnerability -- with one extra [telling] tidbit:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\"I don't have a working exploit for it, just a suspicious looking crash,\" Miller said. If so, the malicious code could theoretically include commands to ...\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo actually, it looks like they haven't even managed to root an iPhone yet.","parent":"685739","id":"686011"}
{"by":"wereHamster","time":"1439965294","timestamp":"2015-08-19 06:21:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; for instance, it omits that Chronos nodes are fragile by design and must be supervised by a daemon to restart them.\u003cp\u003eWat? Why is that necessary to mention? Every process is fragile and needs to be supervised!","parent":"10080327","id":"10083933"}
{"by":"lotsoflumens","time":"1496431517","timestamp":"2017-06-02 19:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Hacker News is a high quality forum because it disallows political discussion.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s interesting that you think so, because this very discussion is extremely political, though perhaps meta-political.\u003cp\u003eI think Hacker News may be unique in that political discussion \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e take place in a technical forum.\u003cp\u003eThe main barrier to thoughtful discussion may be the HN points system.\u003cp\u003eI suspect that many insightful posts are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e written due to self-censorship (fear of losing points). It\u0026#x27;s completely irrational of course, the points are meaningless, but when they are lost it can cause some distress. Nobody likes to lose a game.","parent":"14470262","id":"14472644"}
{"by":"ROFISH","time":"1222964937","timestamp":"2008-10-02 16:28:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If people are willing to pay real money for virtual gold due to time issues, and the game isn't fun until you put 1000 hours into it, then it's a design flaw. People want instant gratification, not spending their time leveling up.","parent":"321765","id":"321850"}
{"by":"natch","time":"1394032758","timestamp":"2014-03-05 15:19:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wasn\u0026#x27;t clear that there was an affair happening.","parent":"7346999","id":"7347401"}
{"by":"ergothus","time":"1530026305","timestamp":"2018-06-26 15:18:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I clearly am missing something, because I almost always die off halfway through stage 2.  Which means I\u0026#x27;ve barely interacted with most of the options the game offers.  Early stage 3 is the furthest I\u0026#x27;ve ever gotten.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve tried speeding through, I\u0026#x27;ve tried being thorough on stage one and faster after, I\u0026#x27;ve tried mixes. I cant afford most items for sale,  and just keeping up in fuel is sometimes a challenge.\u003cp\u003eEvery playthrough is the same, with the only alteration being how quickly  it takes to get into a crippling fight.  Yet i keep hearing praise for the large variety and replayability.\u003cp\u003eI thought it might just be that I\u0026#x27;m too casual (advice like \u0026quot;play games on ironman\u0026quot; sounds like a recipe of frustration and boredom to me) but I\u0026#x27;m bothered by the lack on concurring voices.  Am I the only one to suck at this game?","parent":"17400044","id":"17401217"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1251490072","timestamp":"2009-08-28 20:07:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree; everything about his letter was pitch-perfect until he stepped on that landmine.\u003cp\u003eI think Mark's right about the letter if you take the same generous interpretation he did, but the applicant here was more than irreverent, he was also tone-deaf.","parent":"792126","id":"792180"}
{"by":"Evbn","time":"1350174927","timestamp":"2012-10-14 00:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That warning seems like a nasty hack anyway, if the compiler can't inline a local when running safety checks.\u003cp\u003eIt is super scary that the compiler appears to be using a different constant from printf for its format checker, that shows it probably isn't using a pattern supplied by printf.","parent":"4649911","id":"4650222"}
{"by":"Estragon","time":"1289388722","timestamp":"2010-11-10 11:32:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I generally sit when something disturbing happens.  Extremely useful practice, from both a spiritual and a productivity perspective.","parent":"1889182","id":"1889943"}
{"by":"zmb_","time":"1340225955","timestamp":"2012-06-20 20:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article seems terribly confused. Of course academic papers are a terrible discussion forum. They're not supposed to be any kind of discussion forum.\u003cp\u003eAcademic papers are supposed to be contributions to science. They take by definition a long time to publish because they need to go through a peer review process, and they are only interest to a narrow group of people because they typically advance the understanding of a very narrowly defined problem deep within their field.\u003cp\u003eAcademics don't just sit in a dusty office communicating with the world through journal articles. We meet in conferences and work in joint projects, have informal discussion forums and correspond through a multitude of different channels. Many academics also have non-academic publications about their research.\u003cp\u003eAcademic papers serve a very specific purpose and they do it well. Just because they don't serve some other purpose that you'd like them to serve doesn't make the process broken.","parent":"4138335","id":"4139060"}
{"by":"nwatson","time":"1359607051","timestamp":"2013-01-31 04:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked on a columnar database engine deployed on commodity Linux clusters in 2001, initial release 2002.  This was at Sensage.  We built a very fast DB engine that could store log data with 40x compression over traditional RDBMSs and ran log queries much more quickly than commercial DBs could at the time.  I think we were too early.\u003cp\u003eCurrent Sensage company blurb about the event-data warehouse:  \u003ca href=\"http://sensage.com/content/clustered-columnar-database\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://sensage.com/content/clustered-columnar-database\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://sensage.com/content/why-columnar%E2%80%A6not-row-based\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://sensage.com/content/why-columnar%E2%80%A6not-row-base...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatent work:  \u003ca href=\"http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7024414.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7024414.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe core engineering team was CTO + 3 engineers.  Best engineering experience of my life.  I wasn't involved at the lowest DB storage level, the guys who did that did a great job.\u003cp\u003eMichael Stonebraker, technical advisor to Sensage, learned from the Sensage mistakes and built Vertica.","parent":"5143353","id":"5143461"}
{"by":"JimmaDaRustla","time":"1352479063","timestamp":"2012-11-09 16:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, there are scenarios when taxes are exempt on particular items and services. This could even occur on a per-item level.\u003cp\u003eMultiply that by your regional settings and you got some nice bloat.","parent":"4763512","id":"4763532"}
{"by":"mike_hearn","time":"1504687891","timestamp":"2017-09-06 08:51:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s the opposite. I\u0026#x27;ve seen lots of code written in C that pretends to be out of memory safe. I\u0026#x27;ve never once seen such a program that actually is out of memory safe. Invariably the codepaths triggered by malloc returning null are never exercised.\u003cp\u003eWith a GC and exceptions you can theoretically be quite resistant to OOM conditions, not that anyone really cares.","parent":"15181797","id":"15182136"}
{"by":"pvg","time":"1440867570","timestamp":"2015-08-29 16:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In SF every driver, except for the tiny minority who own a medallion pays the gate fee. Since the medallion licenses a cab to operate 24\u0026#x2F;7, medallion holders also lease out their medallions if and when they don\u0026#x27;t use them personally.\u003cp\u003eThe MTA sets the meter rate, the gate fee and both the number and sale\u0026#x2F;resale price of medallions. It seems it almost doesn\u0026#x27;t matter how evil or virtuous cab companies are since the system doesn\u0026#x27;t appear to have much flexibility, room for competition or self-correction.","parent":"10140025","id":"10140621"}
{"by":"notacoward","time":"1398202509","timestamp":"2014-04-22 21:35:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sadly, the lesson some people learned is not that they were part of something FUBAR.  Rather, it\u0026#x27;s more like \u0026quot;get in earlier next time and hand off to some other sucker before reality sets in\u0026quot;","parent":"7630375","id":"7630624"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1517432538","timestamp":"2018-01-31 21:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doing some research, \u0026quot;Commoditize your complements\u0026quot; (American rather than British spelling) seems to trace to Joel on Software, 2002:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;2002\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;strategy-letter-v\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;2002\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;strategy-letter-v\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16265150","id":"16277514"}
{"by":"llambda","time":"1320243657","timestamp":"2011-11-02 14:20:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regardless I'll apply. But I am curious about the answer to this question. Especially if I invest heavily in bootstrapping the idea.","parent":"3186753","id":"3186784"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1453324571","timestamp":"2016-01-20 21:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s so much to this that one can\u0026#x27;t cover in a single comment, but I\u0026#x27;ll adress your points. For what it\u0026#x27;s worth, I agree with the parent that whether Avery is guilty or not is secondary to the miscarriage of justice that has clearly happened.\u003cp\u003eThe physical evidence on the car itself is suspicious: (1) there were no fingerprints, yet there were blood; (2) at least one smudge looks _exactly_ like a bloodstain would look if you applied with a Q-tip [1]; (3) from the armchair perspective of someone who has only seen the not-terribly-high-resolution photos, Halbach\u0026#x27;s blood looks rusty, whereas Avery\u0026#x27;s blood looks bright red, almost a week after supposedly dropped there (EDTA-preserved blood does not fade like normal blood); (4) the dashboard blood is unlikely given the position of the cut on Avery\u0026#x27;s hand [2].\u003cp\u003eWhat Kratz claimed was \u0026quot;sweat DNA\u0026quot; (there\u0026#x27;s really no such thing) on the hood latch was only \u003ci\u003especulated\u003c/i\u003e as such, and was never entered as evidence in the trial because it was considered contaminated; the technician did not switch gloves after examining the inside of the car and then touching the hood. It\u0026#x27;s worth adding that it\u0026#x27;s evident from transcripts that the investigators certainly imprinted Brendan Dassey with the idea that Avery had opened the hood; this is also the case with the other details that Dassey comes up with that match the investigator\u0026#x27;s evidence. Don\u0026#x27;t forget that Dassey also said a ton of things which could not possibly be true, such as Avery cutting Halbach\u0026#x27;s throat in the bedroom. (The investigators also tried to get Dassey to confess that Avery had molested him; they quickly give up when Dassey describes Avery playfully trying to grab his genitals during play wrestling. Yet the molestation part has been repeated by the press.)\u003cp\u003eThe key found in Avery\u0026#x27;s trailer is also highly suspicious. (1) It was supposedly found after numerous searches, and the investigators claimed to find it only after violently rattling the bookcase they claimed it must have fallen out of, despite the photo evidence showing that it could not possibly have happened that way (notice the coins on top of the bookcase). (2) The key was a spare; at least one photo shows that Halbach had a larger keychain, never recovered. (3) Only Avery\u0026#x27;s DNA was recovered from the keychain, but no other DNA, not even Halbach\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003eAs for the calls, prosecution tried to frame the narrative to make it seem Halbach was extremely uncomfortable with Avery. However, she had visited his home many times, which easily also explains why he specifically requested her. She would have known that the seller of the car, \u0026quot;B. Janda\u0026quot;, was Barbara Janda, Steve Avery\u0026#x27;s sister and immediate neighbor. The only evidence of Halbach\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;discomfort\u0026quot; was that she had once told a colleague about how Avery had once opened the door wearing only a towel, which she found distasteful. Apparently Avery frequently hid his caller ID; he also called her \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c/i\u003e caller ID. This isn\u0026#x27;t even circumstantial.\u003cp\u003eThere are a bunch of other points, not touched upon in the documentary, worth adding: For example, the prosecution clearly were not able to determine where the crime scene was — the lack of blood evidence shows the garage could not possibly have been the place of the murder. There are several clear signs that she was murdered elsewhere, and also that she was not burned next to Avery\u0026#x27;s house. The sheriff ignored an anonymous letter, received early in the investigation, stating that the smelter had been used to burn a body the night following Halbach\u0026#x27;s disappearance. The woman who found Halbach\u0026#x27;s car specifically requested (and was the only one to do so) to be permitted to search the Avery property, and she found the car after just a few minutes of walking among hundreds (or thousands) of cars, which seems too absurd to be a coincidence. And so on.\u003cp\u003eA lot of good discussion is happening on Reddit [3] these days, most of it pleasingly level-headed.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;4VXXzvB.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;4VXXzvB.jpg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;Br9KET3.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;Br9KET3.png\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;MakingaMurderer\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;MakingaMurderer\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10939643","id":"10941424"}
{"by":"tedsanders","time":"1404255250","timestamp":"2014-07-01 22:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In addition to the other reasons mentioned, I\u0026#x27;d add that having a team of superstars built around you will help your stats no matter who you are. When your team has most of the possession and is consistently breaking down defenses, your stats will be high.","parent":"7973320","id":"7973972"}
{"by":"m_eiman","time":"1256033985","timestamp":"2009-10-20 10:19:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting concept, but a bit short on details. Anyone know a good place to read more about this kind of thing?","parent":"892121","id":"892133"}
{"by":"jasonwatkinspdx","time":"1295155731","timestamp":"2011-01-16 05:28:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that his prose is a little confusing. Here's my understanding of his intent:\u003cp\u003e\"red-black trees write out a lot of memory\"\u003cp\u003eI think this refers to how R-B trees require re balancing on insert, particularly accessing siblings of ancestors. This is doubly bad on modern processors, as it introduces a chain of control hazards dependent on these accesses. That can burn a lot of cycles on cache misses. In contrast, the trie structures only access nodes along the direct line down to the appropriate leaf. This has a control hazard (ie when to end the loop) and a data dependency between iterations. The control hazard can be easily predicted (assume search recurses) and modern processors are quite good at unrolling the data hazards across the shadow registers (or equivalent). Basically, modern processors and compilers are much happier with the sort of inner loops you see in tries vs restructuring trees (and are happiest with the inner loop of accessing a hash table).\u003cp\u003e\"The documentation also claims that hashtables can store arbitrarily large keys and nedtries can't, which is only as true of hashtables as it is for nedtries.\"\u003cp\u003eI believe his implementation assumes size_t sized keys. This limit comes from his root table, which needs as many entries as bits in the key. While you could code up a variant that used arbitrary length keys I think you'd lose most of the performance advantages he measures (remember, we're mostly talking about constant factors here, not complexity class). He doesn't care about this limit, as his primary application is storing free lists in an allocator, which will always have size_t keys.\u003cp\u003e\"I'm also having a difficult time understanding why red-black trees are not an \"in place algorithm\" and nedtries are.\"\u003cp\u003eI'm also confused by this, but I'm assuming he's looking at concurrent access. Tries only ever push down toward leaves, so with careful ordering it's possible to ignore many locking concerns. Or put a different way, you're only ever allocating new nodes or filling in previously nil slots in existing nodes. Trees with structural re balancing on insert like R-B could invalidate a concurrent traversal with a rotation.\u003cp\u003e\"That specific optimization, then, doesn't seem to offer anything over a patricia trie, which itself would dramatically decrease the number of non-leaf node traversals (as nedtries does not describe using any kind of path compression at all).\"\u003cp\u003eI think for his purposes there are some assumptions about distribution: namely if he's storing memory addresses in a nedtrie, it's likely he's allocating them with brk() or the like, and so they're clustered in one or two slots of the root table. Likewise, if he's storing block sizes, then the root table acts as a segregated fit similar to dlmalloc and its many offspring.\u003cp\u003eI'd agree that the way he over generalizes the advantages is a bit confusing, but I do think there's something interesting here vs vanilla patricia tries.","parent":"2108639","id":"2108770"}
{"by":"llcoolv","time":"1429524838","timestamp":"2015-04-20 10:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the other hand when you see those ridiculous spreadsheets that Deutsche Bank uses for 2-step authentication to the e-banking you feel like in a shite 60s spy movie. When you actually log in it feels like the 90s though. And 80% of German people seem to go with tradition\u0026#x2F;history even when it is not really rational. Really makes me wonder how the two core components of the German value system - Tradition and Pragmatism - conflict each other in such situations and how they are becoming less and less compatible with every passing day.","parent":"9406886","id":"9407045"}
{"by":"fidget","time":"1440750571","timestamp":"2015-08-28 08:29:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Atm (assuming LTS) you\u0026#x27;ll have to use upstart, which sucks. Terrible selinux support also.","parent":"10134226","id":"10134274"}
{"by":"josteink","time":"1431602502","timestamp":"2015-05-14 11:21:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As anecdotal evidence: Where I work we \u003ci\u003euse\u003c/i\u003e Node in our projects and today is the first time I\u0026#x27;ve ever heard about io.js.\u003cp\u003eMake of that what you like.","parent":"9543211","id":"9544420"}
{"by":"cptskippy","time":"1536757733","timestamp":"2018-09-12 13:08:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should they?  You\u0026#x27;re technically correct but...\u003cp\u003e1) All the Microsoft haters are going to latch on to this and cite it as an example of how truly evil is regardless.\u003cp\u003e2) It might stir the pot enough to encourage Microsoft to reconsider.","parent":"17967504","id":"17968221"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1373593842","timestamp":"2013-07-12 01:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve worked at a couple of companies where this was a winning strategy, but I\u0026#x27;ve worked at more companies where attempting this sort of thing on a regular basis will cause problems that are more complex and \u0026quot;worse\u0026quot; than being fired.\u003cp\u003eAt a lot of places you\u0026#x27;ll have a small group of really talented engineers who would all support the idea of doing \u0026quot;the right thing\u0026quot; even if it flies in the face of established process, and then you have everyone else, particularly people on other teams (sales, QA, project management, general management -- but sometimes also engineers that have grown accustomed to the familiar process, even if it is objectively broken), who will fight you tooth and nail on any deviation from the process simply because \u0026quot;that isn\u0026#x27;t how we do it here\u0026quot; and the end result is usually that you end up in a situation where you don\u0026#x27;t get fired outright (if you\u0026#x27;re recognized as a great developer, it usually takes quite a lot of boat rocking for you to actually get sacked), but things get politically poisonous to the point where even the engineers who support you in theory just want you to stop to ease the tension being created.\u003cp\u003eAs others have mentioned, this advice is very situation and probably serves people much better in companies that are smaller or that at least have a more dynamic company culture.   At many companies you\u0026#x27;d save everyone (including yourself) a bunch of time and heartache by just quitting when the process becomes unreasonable and entrenched.","parent":"6029823","id":"6030400"}
{"by":"harlanji","time":"1518464452","timestamp":"2018-02-12 19:40:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny timing, I am deleting my account now. Decided on messaging, cropped friends, posted notice, and am messaging and unfriending individuals after short convo. It\u0026#x27;s been kinda fun. Own-domain email setup, and page with my name in meta tags for search engines. I\u0026#x27;m 33 and \u0026quot;immature\u0026quot; fwiw","parent":"16360408","id":"16361367"}
{"by":"silentbicycle","time":"1222127705","timestamp":"2008-09-22 23:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes really remarkable programmers start out as \"sissies\", you know.\u003cp\u003ePeople who give the language a reputation of having a rude and insular community accelerate its death.","parent":"311438","id":"311792"}
{"by":"russell","time":"1255119098","timestamp":"2009-10-09 20:11:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since Windows 7 requires XP users to backup everything, reformat our disks, reinstall all our applications from CDs, and apply all patches, I think I'll pass.  Maybe I should finally pass on MS completely.","parent":"872272","id":"872344"}
{"by":"crad","time":"1270936393","timestamp":"2010-04-10 21:53:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We're always looking for awesome developers at myYearbook.com.\u003cp\u003eHere's a job posting: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventureloop.com/firstround/jobdetail.php?jobid=33695\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ventureloop.com/firstround/jobdetail.php?jobid=33...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1255491","id":"1255755"}
{"by":"bigbugbag","time":"1491409370","timestamp":"2017-04-05 16:22:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you need a total of 5 columns, first and last one are 50px large.","parent":"14042949","id":"14043232"}
{"by":"jlgosse","time":"1272224517","timestamp":"2010-04-25 19:41:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I can't tell how to downvote a comment on HN.\u003cp\u003eAny insight into this?","parent":"1292985","id":"1293369"}
{"by":"naiyt","time":"1399924021","timestamp":"2014-05-12 19:47:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been using Seafile for a few weeks as well, and have been pretty impressed. It\u0026#x27;s been a better experience then ownCloud, for me.\u003cp\u003eHaving an open source syncing service with client side encryption is great.","parent":"7734724","id":"7735002"}
{"by":"scotch_drinker","time":"1263923849","timestamp":"2010-01-19 17:57:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is that a problem?  If I aspire to a better life, why should I be prevented from doing it so that my fellow countrymen, who by your admission do not aspire to a better life, can have a better life?  People should have the liberty to improve their situation.  If they happen to be born in a poorly governed country with little or no chance of success, they shouldn't be forced to stay there just because they were born with aspirations.\u003cp\u003eThere may be problems with the OP's argument but that's not one of them.","parent":"1062575","id":"1062689"}
{"by":"siculars","time":"1285254012","timestamp":"2010-09-23 15:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Buy the printed book off amazon for 20 bucks. Personally, I'm not sold on the ebook experience for a number of reasons.","parent":"1719151","id":"1719841"}
{"by":"ytjohn","time":"1409800171","timestamp":"2014-09-04 03:09:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s the real secret: they\u0026#x27;ll make whatever you order. Want your Wendys fries placed in a potato boat with cheese sauce poured over them? Just ask.\u003cp\u003eNew employees may be confused or not sure how to ring it up, but most will know how to ring up individual items.","parent":"8265401","id":"8266585"}
{"by":"gnarbarian","time":"1347301281","timestamp":"2012-09-10 18:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's nifty looking alright until you compare it to the current high end graphics hardware which has around 1500 of those cores (my gtx670 has 1300). Once more games really start using all those cores for things like physics and interactivity you will see that phones have nowhere close the ability of modern PC HW.\u003cp\u003eWith that many cores you can do some things orders of magnitude faster. Take this Nbody sim my friend and I wrote for example.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOUxTSjowY\u0026#38;feature=plcp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOUxTSjowY\u0026#38;feature=plcp\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt computes an n^2 algorithm over 20,000 particles at 30fps,  and that's with my old card which has 200 cores.\u003cp\u003eYou just can't do that without massive parallelism.","parent":"4500968","id":"4501224"}
{"by":"frankquist","time":"1529904309","timestamp":"2018-06-25 05:25:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As it is phrased your comment is not helpful. Besides the huge generalization (how is hacker news fake news?), you barely provide any arguments for your points. Can you elaborate on how this post is \u0026#x27;fake news\u0026#x27;? (I\u0026#x27;m not going to go down a \u0026#x27;hacker news is fake news\u0026#x27; rabbit hole but am interested in your criticism of this post specifically)","parent":"17389447","id":"17390068"}
{"by":"seattle_spring","time":"1481133325","timestamp":"2016-12-07 17:55:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like all of the new features have been available in Flow for quite a while now.","parent":"13124033","id":"13124521"}
{"by":"lcfcjs","time":"1417630153","timestamp":"2014-12-03 18:09:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow makes me dislike Java even more lol @jamesward","parent":"8694882","id":"8695312"}
{"by":"graphitezepp","time":"1495740582","timestamp":"2017-05-25 19:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice perspective. Also an ape guy (love reminding telling people we are just silly monkeys), and I think there is probably a lot of truth to looking at it this way.","parent":"14419429","id":"14419501"}
{"by":"bduerst","time":"1537815285","timestamp":"2018-09-24 18:54:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DuckDuckGo doesn\u0026#x27;t really do it\u0026#x27;s own indexing, it\u0026#x27;s essentially just a reskin of Bing search.","parent":"18060167","id":"18060312"}
{"by":"mikec3010","time":"1531157227","timestamp":"2018-07-09 17:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; the risk of losing your connectivity is too great.\u003cp\u003eAdditionally the risk of benign or malicious interference is too great. We can\u0026#x27;t live in a world where a 14-year old with a soldering iron and  $20 in parts can jam 12 lanes of traffic at rush hour. Or where a solar wind or foreign enemy can cause mass casualty events such as disconnecting all autonomous vehicles simultaneously.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if a low bandwidth directional link might be best. Where all cars in a \u0026quot;pack\u0026quot; agree they have the same firmware. Then do each others calculations and then confirm whether they agree by only checking a hash of the calculation. This would be a much smaller payload and could be transmitted on redundant channels on different bands. It would at least be harder to jam.","parent":"17491401","id":"17491859"}
{"by":"nathan_long","time":"1517410513","timestamp":"2018-01-31 14:55:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair point.","parent":"16274178","id":"16274260"}
{"by":"RikNieu","time":"1479367591","timestamp":"2016-11-17 07:26:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where I live manual is the norm, but those I know that did switch to auto all to prefer it. It apparently makes the drudgery of sitting in traffic more bearable.\u003cp\u003eHowever, as one friend noted, once that fancy automatic gearbox goes legs up(and your car also happens to be out of warranty), the virtues of a manual comes calling again.","parent":"12974946","id":"12975178"}
{"by":"otoburb","time":"1499445481","timestamp":"2017-07-07 16:38:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that as they get bigger, they may soon automate delinquent account notifications to debt collection agencies which could impact your credit rating sometime down the line.\u003cp\u003eYou are unfortunately on the wrong side of an asymmetric relationship here.","parent":"14719736","id":"14719772"}
{"by":"SomeCallMeTim","time":"1371836131","timestamp":"2013-06-21 17:35:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A $20\u0026#x2F;month Linode can handle 4k static pages per second on Nginx. I\u0026#x27;ve heard tell of people pumping the cheap Linode server up to 30k views\u0026#x2F;second, but I haven\u0026#x27;t been able to break 4k.\u003cp\u003eAssuming text pages, the full 61k sites could be accessed every 15 seconds. If the pages have nontrivial graphics, then you\u0026#x27;re (as others have mentioned) far more likely to be bandwidth-limited. If the site has an unmetered 10Mbps connection, then it could serve 1Mbyte per second: If each of those 61k pages contained 1MB of data, then it would STILL be able to serve (at most) 86k pages per day.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s likely that most of the pages hosted will be accessed less than once a day, though. Power law distribution of the long tail [1] and all that. And a megabyte is a lot of data for a single web page; I would imagine that with a 10Mb limit on the entire site, it\u0026#x27;s not going to be a place to host sites with tons of images.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Long_Tail\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Long_Tail\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5919338","id":"5919607"}
{"by":"exikyut","time":"1512903759","timestamp":"2017-12-10 11:02:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. Thanks.","parent":"15890607","id":"15890899"}
{"by":"JTxt","time":"1460269845","timestamp":"2016-04-10 06:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It took a few minutes to process it in Audacity- more the first time while I figured it out.\u003cp\u003e- Select a pause in the recording.\u003cp\u003e- Effect -\u0026gt; Noise removal, get noise profile\u003cp\u003e- Select everything.\u003cp\u003e- Effect -\u0026gt; Noise removal\u003cp\u003e- Effect -\u0026gt; Change tempo, 100% change?  (don\u0026#x27;t remember exactly, but whatever is still understandable\u0026#x2F;not boring to you, try on a smaller chunk before processing everything.)\u003cp\u003e- Effect -\u0026gt; Truncate Silence. (don\u0026#x27;t remember what settings I used, but to your taste.)\u003cp\u003e...\u003cp\u003eThen manually trimming out repeats, useless questions, extra stuff took some time... it was also how I studied.  Then more so by playing it back and fixing my notes.\u003cp\u003eI first picked Audionote (android and ios) because typed text is time-coded, so you can skip to that part of the recording by tapping on the text.\u003cp\u003eBut I ended up not really using that feature and using it as a dumb recorder and text editor.  It did a good job of automatically adjusting the sound level though.  (Compressor.  You can also do this in Audacity.)\u003cp\u003eAlso it was nice that I could have the mic (at the bottom of the iphone) pointed at the prof, and the screen turned 180 degrees facing me.\u003cp\u003e...\u003cp\u003eI wish there was a better tool that:\u003cp\u003e- During playback, skips pauses. (by audio level threshold.) then easily pick more areas in the recording to skip.  (Please just non-destructive editing\u0026#x2F;filtering though; just build a list of times to skip during playback.)\u003cp\u003e- High quality time compression playback.  Variable, even up to 3x perhaps.  (without increasing the pitch like audionote.)\u003cp\u003e- AND synced the notes with the recording.\u003cp\u003e- (Even better would be for reliable voice to text, and automatic trimming\u0026#x2F;outlining... but at some point it may deter grey matter processing.)\u003cp\u003ePerhaps there are better tools now?","parent":"11463837","id":"11465174"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1396935929","timestamp":"2014-04-08 05:45:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see plenty of words there. Visual notation is great for conveying spatial relationships, no doubt about that, and spatial layouts can work well as secondary notational aspects, there is nothing to argue about there. But would you want to read war and peace in dataflow diagram format?","parent":"7551353","id":"7551618"}
{"by":"xkfm","time":"1535314389","timestamp":"2018-08-26 20:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For Anki, I\u0026#x27;d grab the complete article from Wikipedia\u0026#x2F;textbook\u0026#x2F;[good source], and then write a few examples. The flashcards would be a number of cloze deletions, and then I\u0026#x27;d have a separate deck with a practice question to recall from a blank state. For example [1], I\u0026#x27;d take this Wikipedia article, and break it down like so:\u003cp\u003eIn computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with two principal operations: pop and push.\u003cp\u003eThis sentence would become a number of flashcards that look like ([...] is a cloze deletion where you have to insert the missing word, each cloze is a flashcard):\u003cp\u003eIn computer science, a [...] is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with two principal operations: pop and push.\u003cp\u003eIn computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a [...] of elements, with two principal operations: pop and push.\u003cp\u003eIn computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of [...], with two principal operations: pop and push.\u003cp\u003eIn computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with [...] principal operations: pop and push.\u003cp\u003eIn computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with two principal operations: [...] and push.\u003cp\u003eIn computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with two principal operations: pop and [...].\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;d do that for most of the article. Find a few examples of a stack, do the same thing from cloze deletions, and then in a separate card, make a few questions to have you write from scratch, parts of a stack.\u003cp\u003eThe separate deck would be so your regular reviews don\u0026#x27;t take forever, when you get a question asking you to write out a stack. The other deck would be done say 3-4 days a week, and have many fewer cards, because they\u0026#x27;re going to take awhile to answer. You could even use the index card method for this part as it\u0026#x27;s closer to actual practice than recall.\u003cp\u003eIn another deck, I\u0026#x27;d also have short answer questions. For example, what\u0026#x27;s the difference between a stack and a queue, or stack and array, etc. This would also be more for practice sessions, rather than daily repetitions, as the questions could take awhile to answer.\u003cp\u003eNote that you\u0026#x27;ll have a ton of flashcards this way for each algo, but they\u0026#x27;ll be extremely easy to answer (a good thing). Five flashcards you can answer in 2-10 seconds each, is much better than one flashcard that takes you a minute to answer.\u003cp\u003eAssuming five seconds to answer a flashcard, you could easily do 120 repetitions through the day. The nice thing about Anki is the mobile clients, so you can do a few cards while you have some downtime. When I was in school, I was usually doing flashcards while I was waiting for class to start or going to the bathroom etc.","parent":"17847211","id":"17847626"}
{"by":"PussyRiot","time":"1355491045","timestamp":"2012-12-14 13:17:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My main problem with board games is that they're too expensive sometimes.","parent":"4920302","id":"4920759"}
{"by":"javert","time":"1332650169","timestamp":"2012-03-25 04:36:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't see the connection between the discussion and the just-world hypothesis.","parent":"3750544","id":"3751737"}
{"by":"ontouchstart","time":"1466641444","timestamp":"2016-06-23 00:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you Alan for your deep wisdom and crystal vision.\u003cp\u003eIt is the best online conversation I have ever experienced.\u003cp\u003eIt also reminded me inspiring conversations with Jerome Bruner at his New York City apartment 15 years ago. (I was working on some project with his wife\u0026#x27;s NYU social psychology group at the time.) As a Physics Ph.D. student, I never imaged I could become so interested in Internet and education in the spirit of Licklider and Doug Engelbart.\u003cp\u003e謝謝。","parent":"11956973","id":"11958076"}
{"by":"Meowlulz2","time":"1532453271","timestamp":"2018-07-24 17:27:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m unable to reproduce so far sorry :\\ What box are you running this on?","parent":"17601837","id":"17603171"}
{"by":"JasonFruit","time":"1519564118","timestamp":"2018-02-25 13:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that\u0026#x27;s their point: while each smart device can usurp the function of dozens of single-purpose devices, for any single function the smart device makes tradeoffs that the single-purpose one can avoid.  So, while it\u0026#x27;s cool that the Apple watch can check your email, tell your body temperature, and give you directions, it\u0026#x27;s less good \u003ci\u003eas a watch\u003c/i\u003e than a cheap, dumb ol\u0026#x27; watch.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a question of whether the tradeoffs are worth it to you.  Clearly to you, they are, but for the author and me, they aren\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"16458692","id":"16458735"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1510100985","timestamp":"2017-11-08 00:29:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ones that have effectively 100% test coverage on their codebases, massive existing deployments, famous levels of documentation, and world expert level comprehension of their problem space.","parent":"15649018","id":"15649061"}
{"by":"jjnoakes","time":"1543586310","timestamp":"2018-11-30 13:58:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had mine replaced two months ago.\u003cp\u003eMost of my bills are automatically paid on the card, so I had to update my payment information on ~20 sites. At 2-3 minutes per site (optimistic really), plus the fact that one site requires I fax in the request, means it easily took me over an hour.","parent":"18569055","id":"18569115"}
{"by":"xeromal","time":"1479141988","timestamp":"2016-11-14 16:46:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I occasionally go on rants when remembering the WPF days and realizing I now spending 30% of my time fixing dumb stuff like NPM breaking, gulp going crazy, or realizing I\u0026#x27;m using 6 month outdated tools because the kids found a better one. I felt like I really had a chance to learn WPF.","parent":"12949134","id":"12951045"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1405445166","timestamp":"2014-07-15 17:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I upvoted this mostly for the headline...I don\u0026#x27;t know if the piece was just difficult to follow or if I\u0026#x27;m just hurting from lack of sleep...but the OP needed a few more specifics because on a quick read, it sounds like they just need devs that can quickly scaffold prototypes, which they use to test out concepts and also, try to sell the bosses on their big idea.\u003cp\u003eOK...without getting into \u0026quot;when is a web developer also an actual engineer?\u0026quot; debate...what do these engineers do when the marketers don\u0026#x27;t have any big ideas at the moment? Engineers on an engineering team ostensibly always have something to work and iterate on, directly...but if they\u0026#x27;re at the behest to the marketing team, then that\u0026#x27;s not a particularly agile process.\u003cp\u003eWell, I mean it \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e be, but then you\u0026#x27;ve set up a shadow engineering team that is basically staked with creating whizbang ideas to compete with what the non-marketing-engineers are toiling to maintain. Actually, if I were in the non-marketing team, I\u0026#x27;d find that quite annoying, as the old-cash-cow is always more annoying than what the bleeding-edge dev team is working on. But this is even worse than the Apple ][ team competing with the Macintosh team...the marketing-engineering team, in the OP\u0026#x27;s description, could really go down the road of creating plausible vaporware, sucking the attention of the company management.\u003cp\u003eThe OP does give a good real-life example of what the marketing-engineers can do: a documentation portal for API developers, and visualization tools...two things that \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e be from the main engineering department but could also be completely separate...yet require key technical skills. But in that case, it\u0026#x27;s often just kind of another engineering team, at a mid-to-large-sized company that may have several teams (like how Google has search, local, social, whatever Peter Norvig works on, etc).\u003cp\u003eI guess I just don\u0026#x27;t see many situations in which building out such a parallel engineering team would be feasible for most startups, where the duplication of certain infrastructure and procedures is far more costly than it is for an established company.","parent":"8037560","id":"8037756"}
{"by":"rickyc091","time":"1395709254","timestamp":"2014-03-25 01:00:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Likewise. I kept typing \u0026quot;.plate\u0026quot;, until I looked more carefully and realized there was a plate tag.\u003cp\u003eI can see this being used as a teaching tool.","parent":"7462879","id":"7462985"}
{"by":"kmfrk","time":"1361634714","timestamp":"2013-02-23 15:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The strokes look like they'll mess up the kerning something fierce.\u003cp\u003eWord Art for web indeed.","parent":"5269449","id":"5270008"}
{"by":"ThomasQue","time":"1351702967","timestamp":"2012-10-31 17:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, thanks. Looking for a bookmark in a tree was a pain, but now it's much better.","parent":"4723721","id":"4723855"}
{"by":"donaldstufft","time":"1394123340","timestamp":"2014-03-06 16:29:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s midnight without a date, however if there is a timezone attached to the time then it\u0026#x27;s midnight utc unless the utc offset of the time is a negative value, then it\u0026#x27;s never.","parent":"7354346","id":"7354685"}
{"by":"blasdel","time":"1247209423","timestamp":"2009-07-10 07:03:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He completely misses the giant iceberg that is Google Native Client -- there's only a few simple 'local' apps necessary for ChromeOS to be a perfect full-time desktop for me:\u003cp\u003e* A good terminal emulator / SSH client\u003cp\u003e* A VNC / Remote Desktop client\u003cp\u003e* A means of running a custom GNU userland locally -- User-mode Linux would be great, x86 virtualization would be good.\u003cp\u003eNaCL could also be a terrific gaming platform -- none of the crippling performance issues from Flash, and existing software is very portable to it. Think about games like QuakeLive and Off-road Velociraptor Safari -- fuck, think about a port of Steam with even a fraction of the catalog!","parent":"697186","id":"697238"}
{"by":"stevemk14ebr","time":"1516326070","timestamp":"2018-01-19 01:41:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is so cool. I can\u0026#x27;t wait untill holo-lens like device become cheap and ubiquitous","parent":"16180433","id":"16183404"}
{"by":"rajeshm101","time":"1333822758","timestamp":"2012-04-07 18:19:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here you go: \u003ca href=\"http://www.programr.com/rankings\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.programr.com/rankings\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking on the policy links, tks","parent":"3811567","id":"3811592"}
{"by":"yabatopia","time":"1479913544","timestamp":"2016-11-23 15:05:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great, but how many people online read, write or enjoy writing Haiku? If writing a Tweet requires as much time and (intellectual) energy as a Haiku, than I\u0026#x27;m not surprised that the growth of Twitter is tanking.","parent":"13023006","id":"13023096"}
{"by":"pudquick","time":"1361939294","timestamp":"2013-02-27 04:28:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just for clarification - I completely agree with the testing that you have done here. I think you've proven that it's easier to get better results with CRF settings alone and that they're likely using x264 as the encoder behind the scenes.\u003cp\u003eI should have prefaced my commentary and noted that it was a response to the (\"clarified\") claims in this thread, from Beamr, about what the Beamr service actually provides.\u003cp\u003eIn response to your tests, they claimed they were selling intelligent settings and \"the lowest bitrate\".\u003cp\u003eI just provided a means of testing this aspect as well.","parent":"5290532","id":"5290598"}
{"by":"levimaes","time":"1523020980","timestamp":"2018-04-06 13:23:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Holy hell, that\u0026#x27;s Drew Houston!","parent":"16772773","id":"16772975"}
{"by":"gjm11","time":"1435135396","timestamp":"2015-06-24 08:43:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, there was definitely nothing else different in the USSR that might also make affect economic success. Apart from how they paid their CEOs, they were just like the USA.","parent":"9770349","id":"9770386"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1340468431","timestamp":"2012-06-23 16:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm curious why the hostility.  Isn't Google's positioning little more than a simple factor in your decision making process as to which mapping provider you wish to use?  Indeed, I'm wondering why the HN crowd isn't _upset_ at the reduced pricing, because now it reduces the incentive to use (and contribute to, improve) OSM.","parent":"4151053","id":"4151130"}
{"by":"civilian","time":"1459982197","timestamp":"2016-04-06 22:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s doubtful--- it\u0026#x27;s young \u003ci\u003ewhite\u003c/i\u003e men who tend to execute mass-shootings, and the officer in question knew he was responding to a mass shooting.","parent":"11439679","id":"11442796"}
{"by":"1880","time":"1311090650","timestamp":"2011-07-19 15:50:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It's currently impossible to tie a person down to a single online entity\u003cp\u003eActually, it's quite possible nowadays in many countries, with the introduction of smart ID cards.","parent":"2781261","id":"2781412"}
{"by":"vhf","time":"1343755482","timestamp":"2012-07-31 17:24:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I need to give my phone number to send an email or solve a captcha ?\u003cp\u003eI go for the captcha. 20 tries, no luck. Let's try audio. Impossible.\u003cp\u003e[EDIT]\nAnd now, a really funny one I just got :\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  We've noticed some unusual activity in your Outlook account. To help protect you and\n  everyone else, we've temporarily blocked your account.\n  To unblock it, please {0}.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWell, alright, I'll {0}.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/auM4J.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://i.imgur.com/auM4J.png\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4317923","id":"4318493"}
{"by":"pwang","time":"1352898743","timestamp":"2012-11-14 13:12:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tony Harris's rant is just hateful. Like, wow.\u003cp\u003eBut I have to conclude that the OP was referring to the title of the article. By saying \"Nerds: Please stop hating women\", it frames the conversation with a starting assumption that, well, nerds hate women.  I understand that every content company/website optimizes for readership, and controversial titles garner more pageviews, but I have to agree with OP that vilifying the \"Nerd\" class as \"hating women\" is a bit over-the-top.\u003cp\u003eEspecially meta-hilarious is the fact that it obviously is addressed to male nerds, but doesn't make this distinction, thereby also implicitly reinforcing the idea that when someone uses the word \"nerd\" as a class, we should assume they are just talking about men, and women are not a significant contingent of that class.","parent":"4783113","id":"4783141"}
{"by":"donnyg107","time":"1301497268","timestamp":"2011-03-30 15:01:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think many venture capital firms work precisely in the way this man describes. VC's aren't stupid, and they wouldn't do anything to actively limit their scope of companies to invest in. Every VC looks around for fresh ideas. I think that often times startups who know VCs will go to them with ideas, but not as a springboard or as an \"I know you\" handout. I think that startups often just go to the connection they have first because its the first place they think of, and VCs picks them up if they are a good idea like any other start up. If we found consistently bad startups which were made by connections then this gentleman's claims may hold weight. I think that this VC will likely find himself turning down many good connection startups by believing that they're doing good and being fair. Its tough to break into any industry, and a connection helps, but only as exposure, not sway toward automatic capital. Exposure shouldn't be taken as a handicap to other start ups. If the startups without many connections have a good idea the interns in VC firms will notice them in not very long and forward the idea to their boss. That or they can apply to Ycom. The point is that this is a pure enough industry that the door doesn't close after the first 10 startups get funding, and those first ten will be judged just like the next 20 or 30 because there's no VC deadline every year (first come first served on applies when there are first in a time frame. No time frame, no firsts). Any VC that doesn't is handicapping themselves or using a different business model.\n(Mind the poor english. Its nap time where I am. Also, this article seems to conflict with Ycom's systems, but it doesn't. People that would have had connections just apply to Ycom like everyone else. If anything Ycom has found an effective way of increasing their scope unlike this VC which limited their scope to startups they don't know.)","parent":"2387275","id":"2387515"}
{"by":"surement","time":"1411146556","timestamp":"2014-09-19 17:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; at the very least we should expect that from the average publication, and be suspicious of any experimental paper that does not include some description of the blind alleys.\u003cp\u003eIn mathematics, being suspicious might be a bit much, but it\u0026#x27;s a very valuable (for your audience) habit to have. For example, the book Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser does this a lot: it often explores avenues that lead to dead ends before arriving at the correct proof. This is the way mathematicians work, and it\u0026#x27;s usually hidden from papers or other textbooks. I\u0026#x27;m guessing that this is either for economy or because authors want to look like the first thing they tried was the right one.","parent":"8340987","id":"8341357"}
{"by":"Terr_","time":"1421061924","timestamp":"2015-01-12 11:25:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly: People talk about how Bill Gates dropped out of college to make a startup, but many gloss over his socioeconomic starting-point that let him \u0026quot;afford the risk\u0026quot;.","parent":"8872519","id":"8873320"}
{"by":"hondje","time":"1359256692","timestamp":"2013-01-27 03:18:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You nailed most of it. For a chain, the GMs boss is going to be looking at two things: revenue per available room, and average daily rate. These metrics control the rate, within the constraints of the brand standards (so for example a mid tier place like a Holiday Inn isn't going to charge less than a Choice property like a Sleep Inn because the brand managers don't want the brand diluted)","parent":"5122357","id":"5122896"}
{"by":"Ruud-v-A","time":"1488580973","timestamp":"2017-03-03 22:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was informative, thanks!","parent":"13786432","id":"13787567"}
{"by":"ataturk","time":"1530548560","timestamp":"2018-07-02 16:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We just drove through Wyoming and we had this crazy spontaneous experience where we came over a rise on a rural road smack dab into a cattle drive.  The family driving the cattle included several young kids riding ATVs and horses and I pointed out that a little girl younger than my 8 year old son was riding a horse and twirling a rope to help move the cattle.  Lo and behold there was also a couple of kids my daughters age (12) out there, one on an ATV and one on horseback.  It was definitely an eye-opening experience for my kids to see how other kids are living and what they are doing.\u003cp\u003eI grew up in my dad\u0026#x27;s welding shop where he repaired heavy equipment like tractors and bucket loaders, worked on cars (and pretty much everything else).  Everything was sharp and dangerous in there.  I pretty much had the run of the place.","parent":"17440760","dead":true,"id":"17442987"}
{"by":"iambot","time":"1308849452","timestamp":"2011-06-23 17:17:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"np, thought i'd offer all the same. if you ever change your mind give me a shout @christopherdb","parent":"2688710","id":"2688742"}
{"by":"r0s","time":"1320209991","timestamp":"2011-11-02 04:59:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By that logic they will all suddenly take up investment banking.","parent":"3185364","id":"3185499"}
{"by":"etiam","time":"1401207737","timestamp":"2014-05-27 16:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ross Anderson\u0026#x27;s own comment: \n\u003ca href=\"http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2014/05/27/post-snowden-the-economics-of-surveillance/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lightbluetouchpaper.org\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;27\u0026#x2F;post-snowden-t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7805107","id":"7805238"}
{"by":"AlphaWeaver","time":"1543987210","timestamp":"2018-12-05 05:20:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anecdotally this seems like it\u0026#x27;s probably a real problem, but doesn\u0026#x27;t he only have a sample size of one hospital stay?","parent":"18605709","id":"18605849"}
{"by":"omginternets","time":"1513851592","timestamp":"2017-12-21 10:19:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The woman who gave the presentation services her company\u0026#x27;s contract with a tech company, that, let\u0026#x27;s just say, has a big share of the search engine market.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re being oblique to avoid libel, it\u0026#x27;s worth noting that libel law doesn\u0026#x27;t care about whether nor not you \u003ci\u003ename\u003c/i\u003e an entity.  It cares about whether or not you\u0026#x27;ve \u003ci\u003eidentified\u003c/i\u003e an entity.\u003cp\u003eGoogle has been identified.","parent":"15974942","id":"15977728"}
{"by":"deathbyzen","time":"1212603307","timestamp":"2008-06-04 18:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It does seem like a juvenile mentality, but seriously, fuck digg.","parent":"209149","id":"209192"}
{"by":"mmrezaie","time":"1518773944","timestamp":"2018-02-16 09:39:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a portal like-place to share our findings of ISPs generally in the world so that others can work together with better transparency?\u003cp\u003eI do data analytics and data engineering and a couple of months ago indirectly I have been contacted by an ISP in Spain and they literally were collecting every bit of data that their customers were seeing on internet (websites, timestamps, how much data were transferred and etcetera with the user\u0026#x27;s id and basically in another table name and address). I was shocked how easy they were talking about it. I didn\u0026#x27;t accept but for sure someone has done it! I never heard the name of the ISP, I wish I didn\u0026#x27;t bark at them so fast and I could collect more information about them.","parent":"16390731","id":"16391097"}
{"by":"deepblueq","time":"1375218166","timestamp":"2013-07-30 21:02:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this really that common an issue? It seems like anyone who\u0026#x27;s at a level where they\u0026#x27;re using rm regularly should know that that\u0026#x27;s a command you think before issuing. If they didn\u0026#x27;t, then that\u0026#x27;s exactly why you have backups.\u003cp\u003eThen, if it was in the backups, the short-term problem is solved, and maybe the experience will scare them into being a bit more careful in the future.\u003cp\u003eIf it wasn\u0026#x27;t in the backups, the most likely reason would seem to me be that it was created since the last backup (not that I\u0026#x27;d know, IANA sysadmin), in which case there wasn\u0026#x27;t a ridiculous amount of work lost - maybe the experience will make them a bit more careful in the future.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the above doesn\u0026#x27;t apply with the sort of user who thinks IT is magic and can do anything, but if they\u0026#x27;re using rm, you\u0026#x27;ve got bigger problems.\u003cp\u003eAlso, personal opinion, but I hate automatic trash folders - rm is supposed to delete stuff. If I want a recycle bin, I\u0026#x27;m happy to mv to a folder I created for the purpose.","parent":"6128761","id":"6130023"}
{"by":"tete","time":"1510490113","timestamp":"2017-11-12 12:35:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t choasmonkey just randomly restarting virtual servers on Amazon?\u003cp\u003eKudos to Netflix, but restarting a virtual server vs a physical or a whole data center are different things.\u003cp\u003eI think every company that cares a bit about high availability knocks out stuff randomly or at least in different ways, does stuff like introducing packet loss, etc. It\u0026#x27;s another layer and another thing to test that on service\u0026#x2F;virtual server layer than on close to physical layers.\u003cp\u003eOf course, one should test that too and it\u0026#x27;s nowhere near impossible, but Chaosmonkey is for a somewhat different use case.\u003cp\u003eAlso the \u0026quot;article\u0026quot; mentions that tests are done.","parent":"15676360","id":"15680652"}
{"by":"mtrimpe","time":"1338829950","timestamp":"2012-06-04 17:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Judging from the organizer's response there was little doubt concerning the validity of her claims in this case though.\u003cp\u003eIn other cases, pulling said person into a room, asking him if the claims are true and \u003ci\u003eif so\u003c/i\u003e asking them to leave is already a big step forward.","parent":"4064773","id":"4064849"}
{"by":"jonlucc","time":"1439635877","timestamp":"2015-08-15 10:51:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Airbnb could partner with a lock company to allow owners to buy the cheaply. Then the access could be handled in the Airbnb app, and revoked after the person leaves.","parent":"10065012","id":"10065020"}
{"by":"resolaibohp","time":"1475693346","timestamp":"2016-10-05 18:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps I have more faith in a company whose decision it was to recall all of those phones. They knew that all eyes would be on them after the fact, and to mess up again could be the beginning of the end for their brand. I would think that extra care would have been given in making sure these issues were fixed before releasing them again. Another point to keep in mind is that in perspective, the amount of issues that did occur, compared to how many phones are out there made by Samsung indicates to me that we should have some amount of trust in their products.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand if they did not realize this, perhaps they do deserve all the bad press. Regardless nobody actually knows right now, and my opinion is that I believe this is all news hype bandwagon behavior right now.","parent":"12646526","id":"12646627"}
{"by":"awalton","time":"1393222718","timestamp":"2014-02-24 06:18:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is some seriously bad precedence. Perhaps it will be good ammunition for Netflix to take to regulators, but it\u0026#x27;s far more likely it\u0026#x27;s better ammunition for Comcast to use against Google, Facebook, etc.\u003cp\u003eI think the best thing that can be done is Netflix giving a complete and full account of the extortion that happened here, perhaps in front of congress.","parent":"7288447","id":"7289353"}
{"by":"gsnedders","time":"1524488084","timestamp":"2018-04-23 12:54:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BA short-haul\u0026#x27;s base fares are hand-luggage only and assigned seat only; I believe they\u0026#x27;re going to expand this to some of their ex-Gatwick long-haul flights (in competition with Norwegian).","parent":"16902491","id":"16902946"}
{"by":"dskhatri","time":"1199505694","timestamp":"2008-01-05 04:01:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, the slide navigation seems to be missing. Can only navigate slides by including the slide number in the URL eg. \u003ca href=\"http://talks.php.net/show/php-best-practices/19\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://talks.php.net/show/php-best-practices/19\u003c/a\u003e for slide 19.","parent":"95039","id":"95040"}
{"by":"TrainedMonkey","time":"1394735156","timestamp":"2014-03-13 18:25:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"15 GB free, 100GB for $2 per month. Your move dropbox.","parent":"7393416","id":"7393736"}
{"by":"matt_wulfeck","time":"1477091283","timestamp":"2016-10-21 23:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that true for an open-source algorithm? I\u0026#x27;m sure that the Russian Government still uses things like SHA256, even though it\u0026#x27;s an approved NIST standard.","parent":"12765637","id":"12765696"}
{"by":"galieos_ghost","time":"1521755227","timestamp":"2018-03-22 21:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The promise of cheaper goods is a lie. Corporations outsourced labor and then kept the difference as profit instead of passing the savings onto consumers. Hence why corporate profits are at record highs while the average American\u0026#x27;s buying power continues to drop.","parent":"16652810","id":"16653016"}
{"by":"TallboyOne","time":"1355359898","timestamp":"2012-12-13 00:51:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Beautiful","parent":"4913374","id":"4913485"}
{"by":"amckenna","time":"1416435255","timestamp":"2014-11-19 22:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was interested in the same question but there hasn\u0026#x27;t been any research as far as I have found. There are anecdotal accounts in various tDCS communities such as \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;tdcs","parent":"8632867","id":"8633012"}
{"by":"0x0","time":"1369562059","timestamp":"2013-05-26 09:54:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C++ templates are turing complete, so I guess you can't parse C++ without \"running\" the templates either. \u003ca href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189172/c-templates-turing-complete\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/189172/c-templates-turing...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5770614","id":"5770643"}
{"by":"wraithm112","time":"1399720569","timestamp":"2014-05-10 11:16:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are helpful tutorials for all of the things you\u0026#x27;ve mentioned. I think that part of the problem is that people don\u0026#x27;t go looking for these things. If you want to write a backend for a web-app, there are three frameworks that are all mature: Snap, Yesod, and Happstack. There are tutorials, books, and documentation for all of these frameworks. If you want to do 3D graphics, there are some pretty straightforward bindings to OpenGL, again with tutorials and documentation. If you want to talk to a USB peripheral, there\u0026#x27;s the usb-safe. For databases, there are a myriad of options and tutorials for those.\u003cp\u003eThe tutorials are all out there, but one is going to have to have a pretty solid grasp on Haskell before one can understand them, just like with any other language.","parent":"7724909","id":"7725073"}
{"by":"ivv","time":"1475129919","timestamp":"2016-09-29 06:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What would be an example of a more usable market that doesn\u0026#x27;t require some level of domain expertise?","parent":"12602380","id":"12603590"}
{"by":"Khaine","time":"1512206099","timestamp":"2017-12-02 09:14:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I fortunately have not experienced this, despite living somewhere where it is already the 2nd (no doubt because I\u0026#x27;ve disabled most notifications).  But Apple seriously needs to fix its QA processes.\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft was a security laughing stock in the early 2000s and they invested heavily into secure coding methodology, tools, and standards.  Now it is Apple\u0026#x27;s day of reckoning.\u003cp\u003eApple must demonstrate that they have learnt this lesson and commit to fixing the security and quality control processes they have.","parent":"15830149","id":"15831091"}
{"by":"adrianN","time":"1456921137","timestamp":"2016-03-02 12:18:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find a GUI very convenient for picking chunks that I\u0026#x27;d like to commit.","parent":"11208789","id":"11209484"}
{"by":"eswat","time":"1470828433","timestamp":"2016-08-10 11:27:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure if it\u0026#x27;s still the case but The Elements of Typopgrahic Style by Robert Bringhurst was my bible for picking up the nitty-gritty on typography: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bringhurst\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0881791326\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bri...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12260264","id":"12260833"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1337512761","timestamp":"2012-05-20 11:19:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the common opinion is here:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    .\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nand you want it to be here:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e             .\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nsometimes you have to pull this hard:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e                         .\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"3995811","id":"3998522"}
{"by":"Vitaly","time":"1309991149","timestamp":"2011-07-06 22:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's pretty simple actually. Evey time you are overwhelmed with work, rise the rate. If you don't have enough work for a prolonged amount of time, lower it.","parent":"2733639","id":"2736229"}
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{"by":"oneeyedpigeon","time":"1403439768","timestamp":"2014-06-22 12:22:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having the user send their password over a non-SSL connection when they choose it in the very first place is also less-than-perfect security. Having the user ever type in their full exact password is less-than perfect, because of key-loggers; when asked to choose a password the very first time, the system should ask how long it is, then ask for random characters from it until the whole thing has been supplied.\u003cp\u003eOR, we should just accept that there\u0026#x27;s a whole magnitude of difference between sending a password by email on a single occasion, and storing it in plain-text, and focus on the latter problem first.","parent":"7927550","id":"7927633"}
{"by":"ohwp","time":"1386674213","timestamp":"2013-12-10 11:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. A selfish society forgets it\u0026#x27;s collective responsibility.\u003cp\u003eThese \u0026#x27;parents\u0026#x27; can\u0026#x27;t even look after themselves. But why would they listen to a government who is also grabbing what they can?\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t change these problems by force. I think this can only be changed from bottom to top. People around this family could learn them how to take care.","parent":"6879988","id":"6880072"}
{"by":"nedsma","time":"1493299620","timestamp":"2017-04-27 13:27:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With mainstream programming jobs that can\u0026#x27;t happen. Any proficient JavaScript developer can pick up in matter of weeks\u0026#x2F;days any JS framework, or would you like to keep on insisting, e.g. on Angular? \nIf you were primarily a .NET developer for the last three years, and then you switch the stack for a year\u0026#x2F;two, would you miss out something from the .NET world? Hardly. The foundation and good programming practices change slowly. The previous experiences are burned in in the memory and don\u0026#x27;t seem to fade.","parent":"14210975","id":"14211270"}
{"by":"sinnerswing","time":"1351896721","timestamp":"2012-11-02 22:52:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google is the false messiah.  They don't care about innovation or creating great products. They don't care about user experience. they don't care about you. All Google cares about is serving you crappy ads.","parent":"4734968","id":"4735174"}
{"by":"oceanman888","time":"1526948746","timestamp":"2018-05-22 00:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is good to know, I am not from the states. I thought Jap was abbreviate for Japanese what have the internet done to me lol.","parent":"17122923","id":"17122934"}
{"by":"rdbhost","time":"1368381247","timestamp":"2013-05-12 17:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These #nobackend folks are late to the game! Rdbhost has provided for no-server-coding web apps since 2010.\u003cp\u003eSee \u003ca href=\"http://www.rdbhost.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.rdbhost.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5646162","id":"5695126"}
{"by":"dmethvin","time":"1337357953","timestamp":"2012-05-18 16:19:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft doesn't sell a product, it sells a component. It's the OS that OEMs buy when building \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c/i\u003e products. If an OEM wants to build a low-end, high-end, or vertical-market product using Windows, Microsoft will gladly sell them the OS and let the OEM take the business risk. Some will succeed and some will fail, but all will pay their license fee.\u003cp\u003eThe only high-low positioning that Microsoft tends to do with Windows is the myriad \"editions\" which everyone tends to dislike anyway.","parent":"3991993","id":"3992628"}
{"by":"edandersen","time":"1426714229","timestamp":"2015-03-18 21:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I said \u0026quot;seriously\u0026quot;.","parent":"9228800","id":"9228830"}
{"by":"justinjlynn","time":"1504484944","timestamp":"2017-09-04 00:29:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But is it lower than a representative sample of the population?","parent":"15164303","id":"15164787"}
{"by":"pcl","time":"1448761316","timestamp":"2015-11-29 01:41:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the same thought. If the black hole were formed lived long enough to fall to the floor of whatever lab it was created in, it\u0026#x27;d presumably basically bore its way to the center of the Earth, aggregating matter (and thus mass) as it went.\u003cp\u003eWhen it reached the center, I\u0026#x27;d expect that its gravity well would pull the rest of Earth into the black hole, unless it somehow found itself in a vacuum large enough to not create a gravity well. That would presumably be a sphere the radius of the amount of core material that is equivalent to the mass of Mt Everest, plus whatever it accreted on its descent.\u003cp\u003eSo really, the question is whether or not a black hole that we could create would be able to make it to the floor of the lab... the article sorta touches on this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe gravitational pull of a few micrograms of matter, regardless of how it is arranged, is never dangerous; you wouldn’t get pulled inside out if you ate it.  However, you wouldn’t get the chance, since any black hole that we could reasonably create would already be mid-explosion.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"10643312","id":"10643387"}
{"by":"haakon","time":"1343214631","timestamp":"2012-07-25 11:10:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did not notice and still cannot see it. I guess I'm a programmer.","parent":"4290285","id":"4290325"}
{"by":"eli_gottlieb","time":"1441938462","timestamp":"2015-09-11 02:27:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For being the top purveyor of maximum-entropy methods, Jaynes really should have been more willing to accept a probabilistic theory of fundamental physics.","parent":"10200966","id":"10201673"}
{"by":"TomMarius","time":"1539252483","timestamp":"2018-10-11 10:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Clearly deforestation scaled.\u003cp\u003eYes, exactly my point. How do you want to fight something that clearly scales with something that doesn\u0026#x27;t scale?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; We need people to realize they are part of this and it is not some videogame.\u003cp\u003eClearly that doesn\u0026#x27;t happen. Thinking it somehow magically will happen now is IMO foolish. Instead of hoping and arguing for emotional attachment with planting trees, we should be thinking of real solutions, like drones.\u003cp\u003eStanding in the way of technology is exactly what will kill us, relying on humans has never worked out. Just like with German nuclear power plants (or their lack of, which caused another deforestation in pursuit of coal).","parent":"18192149","id":"18192201"}
{"by":"chatmasta","time":"1479037538","timestamp":"2016-11-13 11:45:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you learned about definite clause grammar yet? Once you do, you may be tempted to rewrite your parser, because it\u0026#x27;s a much more elegant way of constructing parsing rules.","parent":"12940615","id":"12942899"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1462889142","timestamp":"2016-05-10 14:05:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember liking amaroK but of course that was like ten years ago so who knows if it\u0026#x27;s anything like the program I used to use.","parent":"11663510","id":"11667224"}
{"by":"axefrog","time":"1389865329","timestamp":"2014-01-16 09:42:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Windows XP is Jewish?","parent":"7067448","id":"7068654"}
{"by":"hnriot","time":"1369760945","timestamp":"2013-05-28 17:09:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this has been debated endlessly, the use of jQuery is not an issue. An abstraction layer like jQuery buffers the code from browser differences and since it's almost always already in the user's cache and nearly always used for anything non trivial, it's overhead is minimal both from a networking point of view and code path.","parent":"5781132","id":"5781177"}
{"by":"briantakita","time":"1428434111","timestamp":"2015-04-07 19:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Business as usual in the Prison Industrial Complex, aka the New Jim Crowe. Some people make lots of money by locking people up. I don\u0026#x27;t expect the laws to change anytime soon.","parent":"9336127","id":"9336386"}
{"by":"vsl2","time":"1327589441","timestamp":"2012-01-26 14:50:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't see how a measly (relatively speaking for these giant companies) $250M should have been a major factor for Nokia to choose to focus on Windows Phones rather than Android.\u003cp\u003eApple and Google are dominating the smartphone OS market and I don't see how two slow-moving companies will make a serious dent in the consumer market.  How many people wold would give up their iPhone for a Windows phone, especially as an early adopter?  I'd be very surprised if any Windows Phone gains serious traction with consumers.\u003cp\u003eThe best shot I see for Windows Phone success would be in the enterprise market where easy/free compatibility with MS Office products and other MS products used at work could be a large benefit.  But Apple is making headway here as well so it could all be for naught.","parent":"3513802","id":"3514334"}
{"by":"mygo","time":"1508512300","timestamp":"2017-10-20 15:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"such a naive outlook. MongoDB has two things that are being incredibly overlooked right now: \n1- company stability. So you don\u0026#x27;t have to redo your database in 3 years. \n2- developer community \u0026#x2F; pervasiveness. So you have an easier time integrating it into your projects, even with its technical shortcomings.\u003cp\u003eI bet two years ago there was someone out there saying \u0026quot;if you\u0026#x27;re going to do NoSQL you better use RethinkDB over MongoDB\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHow great the technology is, is absolutely not the only factor. Good thing people can take in many different factors when making their decisions.","parent":"15513868","id":"15516391"}
{"by":"jack-r-abbit","time":"1331071954","timestamp":"2012-03-06 22:12:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"heh... I didn't know there was such an option. Now I see dead people. Thnx","parent":"3670625","id":"3673177"}
{"by":"cjantz","time":"1413901406","timestamp":"2014-10-21 14:23:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how the new iMac 5k Retina is going to influence sales for their iMac line numbers. They increased but I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s just because of this release?","parent":"8487448","id":"8487466"}
{"by":"nir","time":"1245949608","timestamp":"2009-06-25 17:06:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good for them. They are concentrating on doing their job (hopefully ;)) instead of chasing fads they don't really understand anyway, twittering about their breakfast or whatever. Media (CNN, NYT..) could actually take a hint from that.","parent":"673611","id":"674038"}
{"by":"felipebueno","time":"1355160124","timestamp":"2012-12-10 17:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My Chrome crashed several times as well","parent":"4899922","id":"4900255"}
{"by":"camus2","time":"1383414115","timestamp":"2013-11-02 17:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the JVM is not lacking of alternative languages, the JVM is not just Java.","parent":"6659823","id":"6659957"}
{"by":"wzy","time":"1482682297","timestamp":"2016-12-25 16:11:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rails: Because it works!","parent":"13254051","id":"13254512"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1241615417","timestamp":"2009-05-06 13:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd contribute $5 or $10 a year towards SSL via PayPal. Does anyone else care enough about password hijacking to pay a little? Though that might require a hardware upgrade, as well (if the scope extends beyond login to site browsing).","parent":"595446","id":"595659"}
{"by":"brihat","time":"1391253310","timestamp":"2014-02-01 11:15:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Freenode #emacs, ##linux, #nimrod, #julia and #d.\u003cp\u003eNimrod\u0026#x27;s gang (including Araq) are very friendly and welcoming.\u003cp\u003e#julia and #d are very quiet though (except for the bots).\u003cp\u003eAnd #emacs -- well, that one channel which is lenient towards off-topic chats!","parent":"7161236","id":"7161398"}
{"by":"stuki","time":"1400971203","timestamp":"2014-05-24 22:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like any other scheme to make commenting more expensive (resource wise), it implicitly makes the assumption that the value of what one has to say, somehow correlates with how much resources one has at ones disposal to be heard.\u003cp\u003eIn the web era, the most important job a publisher has to ensure his site is a good one, is to write and edit content in such a way that he attracts an audience of interesting readers. Who will in turn, offer interesting comments. It is not, as may have been the case earlier, to hire the \u0026quot;best\u0026quot; journalists, to write their version of the truth.  Sites that still use the latter approach, rarely, if ever, reach the level of truly interesting, simply because no one, or small group of, writer(s) will ever cover all bases, the way a whole community of interested and interesting commenters will.","parent":"7793574","id":"7794636"}
{"by":"melted","time":"1453104353","timestamp":"2016-01-18 08:05:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because that\u0026#x27;s how they getcha. :-)","parent":"10923041","id":"10923181"}
{"by":"DiabloD3","time":"1490815622","timestamp":"2017-03-29 19:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just got one of them via my Skype.\u003cp\u003eGoddamnit Microsoft.","parent":"13989412","id":"13989727"}
{"by":"paulmd","time":"1526738445","timestamp":"2018-05-19 14:00:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;do you really need a billiards table?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbfcomics.com\u0026#x2F;comics\u0026#x2F;billiards-in-heaven\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbfcomics.com\u0026#x2F;comics\u0026#x2F;billiards-in-heaven\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI mean I guess it\u0026#x27;s a cute bit of syntactic sugar but are you really going to die if you have to manually specify the columns you want?  That\u0026#x27;s a vastly safer\u0026#x2F;less brittle practice.","parent":"17105315","id":"17107923"}
{"by":"brianwski","time":"1493243268","timestamp":"2017-04-26 21:47:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brian from Backblaze here.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Range header has existed since HTTP 1.1\u003cp\u003eBackblaze built the original zip restore functionality in 2007 and I believe the range header was introduced after that?  We FULLY support the range header in our B2 Object Storage and we actually have support for it (now) in the ZIP file download functionality.\u003cp\u003eHowever, because we built the client side custom program bzdownloader (our restartable restore downloader) it seems to still succeed in some situations where a web browser doesn\u0026#x27;t succeed.  We can slowly retire our custom bzdownloader application as all web browsers catch up and have restartable downloads.","parent":"14205834","id":"14207342"}
{"by":"Pewpewarrows","time":"1301497340","timestamp":"2011-03-30 15:02:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tons of people use Buzz, and it's pretty obvious that it's going to be part of their rumored \"Circles\" social network.","parent":"2387413","id":"2387524"}
{"by":"oftenbanned","time":"1508539202","timestamp":"2017-10-20 22:40:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well you could be right. His stock comp for 2013 was $40m. That was the scrappy year.\u003cp\u003eThe point is that instead of cutting the travel and entertainment budget for the whole company it would have been a lot more effective to simply show Pichette the door.","parent":"15519558","id":"15519587"}
{"by":"eghad","time":"1410890504","timestamp":"2014-09-16 18:01:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your post is a bit ironic seeing as the Moto X does differentiate between voice (if you\u0026#x27;re good at imitating someone\u0026#x27;s voice you can set it off, but sending a command is unlikely) and the power usage is not as bad as you assume (it\u0026#x27;s got average battery life but can easily make it through the day), but I will agree that the \u0026quot;Ok Google Now\u0026quot; being inflexible is a niggling point.\u003cp\u003eThe new Moto X is always listening as well, but allows you to change the trigger phrase via some magic they\u0026#x27;ve worked out.","parent":"8325772","id":"8325940"}
{"by":"ErikAugust","time":"1373575097","timestamp":"2013-07-11 20:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Between this and the crash at SFO - be interested to see how much Flightaware\u0026#x27;s traffic has spiked.","parent":"6029032","id":"6029051"}
{"by":"donogh","time":"1512551270","timestamp":"2017-12-06 09:07:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazon doesn\u0026#x27;t provide a sandbox for any of its sites, making it quite challenging to integrate with Seller Central in any region.","parent":"15859604","id":"15859686"}
{"by":"asfdsfggtfd","time":"1511268151","timestamp":"2017-11-21 12:42:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would switch to ESR version - at least you will get security updates.","parent":"15747375","id":"15747479"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1438162740","timestamp":"2015-07-29 09:39:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consult a lawyer - HN is not good for legal advice.","parent":"9967374","id":"9967395"}
{"by":"orionblastar","time":"1445986626","timestamp":"2015-10-27 22:57:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AROS is basically so much like an Amiga that one doesn\u0026#x27;t need to buy an Expensive Amiga One system to have the Amiga GUI.\u003cp\u003eFor hackers who are into crosscompiling programs there is a bounty system for people to port code to AROS. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.power2people.org\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;overview\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.power2people.org\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;overview\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI should add they already made a Kickstart ROM replacement for the Amiga series of computers so they can run AROS and use the Kickstart replacement in emulators for the Amiga as it should also run AmigaOS\u0026#x2F;AmigaDOS as well. Giving new life to 68K based Amiga systems and the PowerPC upgrades as well.","parent":"10459311","id":"10461780"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1462467290","timestamp":"2016-05-05 16:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t see how you could parse the smoking message the wrong way.  \u0026quot;Non-smoking allowed\u0026quot; would be the wrong message.  With \u0026quot;No smoking allowed\u0026quot;, can you explain the problem?","parent":"11637078","id":"11637745"}
{"by":"datalist","time":"1531947610","timestamp":"2018-07-18 21:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was true about seven to ten years ago.","parent":"17561758","id":"17562020"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1289702304","timestamp":"2010-11-14 02:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like how even though it is pretty clear that the target is Iran's uranium enrichment complex with centrifuges running at 600Hz - 1200Hz, they explicitly avoid mentioning that. That shows considerable professionalism, as obviously there is no factual evidence of that (and most likely there won't be unless one of the authors decides to confess).","parent":"1901724","id":"1902338"}
{"by":"mrb","time":"1515778673","timestamp":"2018-01-12 17:37:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"«\u003ci\u003eOnce the cryptocurrency price bubble pops and takes all the hype with it, will the community be able to recover the energy it needs to build real, innovative technology once again?\u003c/i\u003e»\u003cp\u003eOf course it will recover. Blockchain technologies are so transformational that you need a \u003ci\u003elot more\u003c/i\u003e than a simple price crash to kill cryptocurrencies. Of all persons, the creator of a cryptocurrency (even a joke one) should understand this. In fact, people always seem to forget that Bitcoin (actually the crypto market at large) has already experienced 4-5 major crashes in the last 8 years where prices lost between 50% or 95%(!), sometimes remaining depressed for months, but the market has always recovered.","parent":"16133424","id":"16134642"}
{"by":"logicallee","time":"1405019489","timestamp":"2014-07-10 19:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only question on everyone\u0026#x27;s mind: how\u0026#x27;s its JavaScript support? :)  Enough to self-host?","parent":"8016307","id":"8016564"}
{"by":"berntb","time":"1314086604","timestamp":"2011-08-23 08:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pike's argument is relevant for compiled system level languages (C, C++, Java, etc).\u003cp\u003eThe regular expression libraries used in scripting languages today (Perl's and PCRE) are optimized C code. A lexer in interpreted code is hardly going to beat them in speed.\u003cp\u003eNote that a large part of the reason to use scripting languages is the development speed. Regexps FTW, etc.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I should add -- if I have a problem where I need to parse something complex like a \"real\" programming language, I go to the LALR libs of course. The right tool for the job. (On second thought -- this is probably what Pike talks about; he doesn't go around solving simple problems, like I do. But no complaints, I've got a job interview tomorrow... :-) )","parent":"2915137","id":"2915786"}
{"by":"weberc2","time":"1540266416","timestamp":"2018-10-23 03:46:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I imagine the learning curve is a lot more manageable when you have an office full of full time Rust developers. If you’re on your own you become painfully aware of how often you need to solicit help, and the time it takes to familiarize someone else with your problem over chat or forum post really eats away at one’s motivation.","parent":"18279719","id":"18280591"}
{"by":"barista","time":"1344021746","timestamp":"2012-08-03 19:22:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So did the zunes that people bought stopped working after Microsoft said it was no longer selling any? Portable devices like these don't have a lifespan beyond 4-5 years these days and a company stopping hardware sales has nothing to do with the product already sold.\u003cp\u003eBesides in case of Surface software running is Windows OS which has been around for a few decades and the premise of Microsoft abandoning that is ridiculous.","parent":"4335479","id":"4335672"}
{"by":"tpict","time":"1530259855","timestamp":"2018-06-29 08:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"`:compiler` for parsing lines in the quickfix window - great for jumping directly to unit test failures","parent":"17422516","id":"17423138"}
{"by":"dbuizert","time":"1301605314","timestamp":"2011-03-31 21:01:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would you get fired over browsing websites that fall within the set guidelines by your employer? If a website like HN doesn't fit in there, you got screwed over and time to find a new job.\u003cp\u003eAn employee should have the freedom to browse the web with limited restrictions. If that is not the case then it is a violation of the employees creativity and could hurt the employer in the long run since his/her employees are bound to limited creativity on the job sight.","parent":"2392051","id":"2393686"}
{"by":"hughw","time":"1478645283","timestamp":"2016-11-08 22:48:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes -- same for ctrl-a, its normal escape sequence. It detects emacs users typing ctrl-a and invites you to map it the way you want.","parent":"12904618","id":"12904643"}
{"by":"LPTS","time":"1213689293","timestamp":"2008-06-17 07:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not confusing them so much as avoiding trying to write a textbook on autism when addressing the original issue.  I was sloppy.  I may not have succeeded at my goal of not writing too much.\u003cp\u003eThe existence of mirror neurons is not just a theory.  A mirror neuron is (by definition) a neuron that fires both when you do something and someone else has done something.  Those are observed.  It is a theory that it causes autism, but not a theory that they fire less in autistic children, or that these areas of the brain are almost precisely the same places where autistic spectrum people have thinner brains then controls.","parent":"219550","id":"219557"}
{"by":"theorique","time":"1475263241","timestamp":"2016-09-30 19:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMaybe there\u0026#x27;s an assumption that this means commercially prepared fried foods, which may use soybean oils that aren\u0026#x27;t cleaned\u0026#x2F;changed regularly?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMakes sense. I\u0026#x27;m not sure if you were implying this, but both ends[1] of the diet spectrum seem to decry \u0026quot;industrial\u0026quot; fry oils which are hydrogenated and thus full of the undesirable trans fatty acids.\u003cp\u003eEven if they were cleaned or changed regularly, they would still contain those undesirable components.\u003cp\u003e[1] By both ends, I mean the low-fat, vegetarian-style end (Ornish, etc) as well as the high-protein, high-fat style (Atkins, Mediterranean, Paleo, etc).","parent":"12614547","id":"12614633"}
{"by":"sologoub","time":"1546302378","timestamp":"2019-01-01 00:26:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking at the actual facts, there appear to be little justification for this violence, especially since it affects the human safety drivers the most and they are definitely not any kind of aggressor here.\u003cp\u003eSome recent quotes from the USA Today article covering the Waymo self-driving car hailing service:\u003cp\u003e“\u0026quot;But mostly it just makes me feel safe. One time, the Waymo (vehicle) paused before turning, and I wondered why. Then a car ran the red light and crashed into the median. It saw that car way before I did.\u0026quot;”\u003cp\u003e“But the fact remains that after millions of miles of city driving, another 7 billion miles of virtual testing and countless more tests undertaken at a private faux-city facility in California, Waymo vehicles have yet to cause a major accident. When fender-benders do happen, often it\u0026#x27;s because human drivers bump into the robot cars.”\u003cp\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.usatoday.com\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;money\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;waymo-self-driving-cars-hit-10-million-road-miles-they-aim-public-debut\u0026#x2F;1536441002\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.usatoday.com\u0026#x2F;story\u0026#x2F;money\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;waymo-self-d...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real issue is that we need more miles driven to really be certain that this safety record will hold. Thwarting this testing will probably endanger more people because the tech will become mainstream whether anyone likes it or not. It would be a lot better if the tech is over-tested than under-tested.","parent":"18797636","id":"18798083"}
{"by":"jbri","time":"1301363034","timestamp":"2011-03-29 01:43:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Breaking bonds does not release energy. Bonds are the way the are because they are (locally) the lowest-energy configuration for the atoms that are taking part. You need to put energy in to get out of a low-energy configuration.\u003cp\u003eThe device appears to use water-\u0026#62;hydrogen as an energy storage mechanism, to solve (at some efficiency cost) the issue of energy demand generally being out of sync with the supply from the sun. You put energy in to convert water into hydrogen+oxygen, and then you can get that energy back out by converting it back into water.","parent":"2380966","id":"2380979"}
{"by":"TheOtherHobbes","time":"1450375137","timestamp":"2015-12-17 17:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The usual criticism is that MBAs believe the degree endows them with far more strategic intelligence than they really have.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s like officer school. The worst graduates come out absolutely convinced they can run an entire army, when in fact they\u0026#x27;re still almost completely clueless.\u003cp\u003eAside from the networking - which is not trivial - the benefits of an MBA for talented individuals seem to be exposure to the idea that strategy, cost\u0026#x2F;benefit analysis, accounting, marketing, and the rest all exist, and are more relevant to a business than the code base.\u003cp\u003eThis can be a surprise to straight CS people, many of whom only care about code.\u003cp\u003eBut by analogy, many MBAs only seem to care about money.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s more to running a successful business than the bottom line - or at least there should be - and more subtle management principles that build businesses by \u003ci\u003emaking customers and employees happy\u003c/i\u003e as well as making shareholders rich don\u0026#x27;t seem to figure at all in MBA schools.\u003cp\u003eThe MBA point of view seems to be that happiness doesn\u0026#x27;t matter when there\u0026#x27;s profit to be made.\u003cp\u003eIronically, there\u0026#x27;s a lot of poverty in that view - not just morally, but politically \u003ci\u003eand economically.\u003c/i\u003e In the longer term it leads to the kind of economic picture we have today, where there\u0026#x27;s a lot of profit being made, but at the cost of rapidly shrinking broad prosperity and economic freedom for most of the population.","parent":"10752793","id":"10753054"}
{"by":"yxhuvud","time":"1411572773","timestamp":"2014-09-24 15:32:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They need to pass data into a CGI script somehow.","parent":"8361970","id":"8362023"}
{"by":"ig1","time":"1334163417","timestamp":"2012-04-11 16:56:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GPL applies to code not content, the interaction between content and code gets very messy when it comes to GPL which was never really designed to handle content.\u003cp\u003eIt's why it's now common place for GPL projects to licence the content part of their product under creative commons and the code under GPL.","parent":"3827721","id":"3828422"}
{"by":"csallen","time":"1424838188","timestamp":"2015-02-25 04:23:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt; You have to interview, and prove you\u0026#x27;re worthy, to become a slave... If you\u0026#x27;re going to be a slave, you should get to pick where.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing a slave means performing involuntary work without pay. Having a job means performing voluntary work for pay. I\u0026#x27;m not sure how you\u0026#x27;re conflating the two. Also, you \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e get to pick where you work.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt; You have to pay to look at ads (ever been to a movie theater, or sat in a plane with screens in front of you?)... You should be paid to look at ads.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the contrary, those ads offset the cost of your movie or your flight. Just because they don\u0026#x27;t completely cover your cost doesn\u0026#x27;t change the basic tradeoff that\u0026#x27;s going on.","parent":"9105106","id":"9105274"}
{"by":"oijaf888","time":"1383760524","timestamp":"2013-11-06 17:55:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right but that has no bearing on if the concept of insurance is a scam or not. Sure, health insurance in this country is tied to a job due to WW2 wage controls but that doesn\u0026#x27;t invalidate the entire concept of insurance.","parent":"6683558","id":"6684075"}
{"by":"pointernil","time":"1463557555","timestamp":"2016-05-18 07:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love how the book manages to tell just 1\u0026#x2F;3 of the whole story ;)","parent":"11719073","id":"11720393"}
{"by":"girlie_mac","time":"1333329448","timestamp":"2012-04-02 01:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've got a degree in microbiology, and never taken any computer-related classes in college. I wish I had spent time coding rather than identifying bacteria.","parent":"3785277","id":"3785738"}
{"by":"geoelectric","time":"1463076699","timestamp":"2016-05-12 18:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve actually been convinced of this stance for some years, though everyone I\u0026#x27;ve talked to seems to think it\u0026#x27;s nuts.\u003cp\u003eThe thing is that education--and particularly choice of school--is tightly linked with class, which in turn is linked with race, etc. Add to that the bias of \u0026quot;I graduated from here, therefore I favor people who graduated from similar\u0026quot; and I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure there\u0026#x27;s some bad stuff that comes out of it.\u003cp\u003eWe already recognize a little bit of this in that there\u0026#x27;s often advice not to put the schooling dates on your resume because it implies age, but people somehow don\u0026#x27;t make the jump to the schooling itself implying other discriminatory factors.\u003cp\u003ePlus the emphasis on schooling filters non-traditional learners and autodidacts. The software industry exploded in part because we historically \u003ci\u003ehaven\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e done that, at least during the high-growth periods that corresponded to high-demand periods. There are obviously some sectors for which you absolutely want formal training (medicine, EIT\u0026#x2F;PE-type engineering, etc.) but I\u0026#x27;d argue that\u0026#x27;s the exception and not the rule. In most jobs it just matters that you know what you\u0026#x27;re doing.\u003cp\u003eWe should figure out a way to evaluate and select on actual competencies rather than trying to use school as a surrogate for them. For many professions this should be relatively straightforward. Competencies are not the be-all\u0026#x2F;end-all (as we know from programming interviews) but to the extent that we expect schools to represent them we should be able to evaluate with testing if they\u0026#x27;re truly anywhere near objective.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, that won\u0026#x27;t happen as long as the easy option is available.","parent":"11685333","id":"11685507"}
{"by":"seanalltogether","time":"1432048127","timestamp":"2015-05-19 15:08:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"looking at anandtechs side by side comparison with the 2014 model, this isn\u0026#x27;t much a of a change.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.anandtech.com\u0026#x2F;show\u0026#x2F;9268\u0026#x2F;apple-announces-2015-15-retina-macbook-pro-cheaper-27-retina-imac\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.anandtech.com\u0026#x2F;show\u0026#x2F;9268\u0026#x2F;apple-announces-2015-15-r...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9569894","id":"9570608"}
{"by":"jhall1468","time":"1531798316","timestamp":"2018-07-17 03:31:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, bad design and refusal to manage technical debt is the issue. Oncall only matters in some orgs and even then only matters where the tech debt is totally out of control.\u003cp\u003eBottom line is Amazon is a product culture not an engineering culture and that makes it really easy to leave for Google or unicorns that really appreciate tech debt tradeoffs.","parent":"17546167","id":"17547084"}
{"by":"dade_","time":"1347551497","timestamp":"2012-09-13 15:51:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is meaningless.  A friend of mine had a heated discussion with a Samsung rep at a local mobile store.  The rep insisted the phone he handed her was a Samsung Galaxy 3, when in fact it was a Galaxy 2.  \n\u0026#60;sarcasm\u0026#62;It is scandalous that Samsung would release a new phone that consumers can't differentiate.  If he wasn't such an Android fanboy, he would have recorded the whole interaction and posted in on YouTube to show the world that they are all being scammed. \u0026#60;/sarcasm\u0026#62;","parent":"4516159","id":"4516795"}
{"by":"xabotage","time":"1463843284","timestamp":"2016-05-21 15:08:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I distinctly remember sitting in yet another dull sprint retrospective and thinking, \u0026quot;Boy, I wish I were a firefighter.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eGranted, that line of work comes with its own drawbacks and I would certainly get bored of it the same way I get bored of software (or else worn out from the demanding physical aspect), but some days I\u0026#x27;m surprised to find myself wishing I could \u0026quot;dig ditches out in the sunshine\u0026quot; or something of the sort for a living.\u003cp\u003eThis combined with the \u0026quot;eat, sleep, code, repeat\u0026quot; mentality I see in others makes me wonder if I\u0026#x27;m really cut out for a software development career.","parent":"11744640","id":"11744897"}
{"by":"notaddicted","time":"1250864091","timestamp":"2009-08-21 14:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your university has a policy on this. Different universities, different policies, so look into it.","parent":"777529","id":"777547"}
{"by":"Semiapies","time":"1291252934","timestamp":"2010-12-02 01:22:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd be curious to see the answers for someone who got an average grade on this test.\u003cp\u003eIt's not much of a test by modern standards - it's more a few quizzes strung together with somewhat generous time limits.  Some things stick out:\u003cp\u003e1) Math section is farming-centric, as people have pointed out; it ends on making examples of paperwork.  The first question is obscure terminology for something we cover in second grade or so.  No algebra.  Especially generous time limit for these questions, though you have to remember your bushels.\u003cp\u003e2) \"fane, fain, feign\"  Those days had a different fashion in popular homophones.  Also, interesting the focus on indicating pronunciation and breaking words down into syllables - I remember doing that well before 8th grade.\u003cp\u003e3) The geography section mentions the rest of the world, huzzah.  ...Well, to test memorization of a few names.  Otherwise, a better section than the others.\u003cp\u003e4) No questions about the \u003ci\u003eCivil War\u003c/i\u003e except to describe some famous battles and recognize the year it ended.","parent":"1959690","id":"1960567"}
{"by":"throwaway287391","time":"1476582979","timestamp":"2016-10-16 01:56:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ally pays 1% interest for their free online savings accounts.  I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if other online banks are offering even more; haven\u0026#x27;t checked in a while.  (Oddly, looking at Ally\u0026#x27;s CD offerings, some of the shorter-term ones are \u0026lt;1%...wonder what value those could possibly offer vs. their savings account.)\u003cp\u003eSomewhat tangentially, it always surprises me that people continue to use checking\u0026#x2F;savings accounts from banks like Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, etc. when they pay terrible interest rates, don\u0026#x27;t reimburse ATM fees, and sometimes actually \u003ci\u003echarge\u003c/i\u003e you for debit cards and\u0026#x2F;or paper checks.  If it\u0026#x27;s the thought of not having access to real brick \u0026amp; mortar banks that scares you, Schwab is a great option (though they pay much less interest than the top online ones).","parent":"12716351","id":"12716447"}
{"by":"ojbyrne","time":"1286985305","timestamp":"2010-10-13 15:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don't think inferior products sometimes win in the marketplace? Ever hear of FUD?","parent":"1787312","id":"1787540"}
{"by":"shiftpgdn","time":"1495140511","timestamp":"2017-05-18 20:48:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That $15,000 server is leased across 36 months becoming an OpEx expenditure.  On the accounting side this is no different than AWS.  So let\u0026#x27;s say you buy two for failover.\u003cp\u003eA) Colo is $50-150\u0026#x2F;U with blended top tier bandwidth, 99th% billing and usually includes remote hands time.\u003cp\u003eB) Even with 100% redundancy you\u0026#x27;re still ahead by $3000\u0026#x2F;month. Please understand Amazon offers absolutely no redundancy built in and nodes go down regularly. It is up to you as a developer to build redundancy around the tools they offer.\u003cp\u003eC) Amazon doesn\u0026#x27;t take backups for you.  You have to pay for this either way.\u003cp\u003eD) Again Amazon doesn\u0026#x27;t handle this for you.  You have to pay either way.  Buying an exact replica of the hardware I\u0026#x27;ve mentioned and cololocating it elsewhere still puts you ahead by $3000\u0026#x2F;month.\u003cp\u003eE) What support do you need? Dell offers same day or even 4 hour parts replacement with the appropriate warranty service. Most Colos offer remote hands for free up to a certain hourly.\u003cp\u003eF) Lots of ways to handle this. You can use IPMI, built in OS tools, etc. There isn\u0026#x27;t much exclusive to AWS you can\u0026#x27;t easily replicate elsewhere.\u003cp\u003eG) I never said not to use Amazon for anything. In fact you should be building your applications for scaleability INTO the cloud.  This is part of the idea behind the whole microservices movement.","parent":"14369491","id":"14370969"}
{"by":"mikelbring","time":"1384451167","timestamp":"2013-11-14 17:46:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of places ID you when you use a card. I wonder how that would work. I don\u0026#x27;t see a name on it.","parent":"6733584","id":"6733840"}
{"by":"raganwald","time":"1203974788","timestamp":"2008-02-25 21:26:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, it's \u0026#38;(:+) not \u0026#38;:(+). The \u0026#38; takes its argument and converts from a Proc to a block. :+ is a symbol that implements the method #to_proc to give you a block that sums its receiver and its argument.","parent":"123350","id":"123358"}
{"by":"Muromec","time":"1477128599","timestamp":"2016-10-22 09:29:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;And yet, they can\u0026#x27;t help it, hence NSA. I doubt that anywhere in continental Europe there is a full-scale surveillance program like administered by NSA or GCHQ\u003cp\u003eJust reminder that KGB is still a thing and they have SORM: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;SORM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;SORM\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12767736","id":"12767999"}
{"by":"lordgrenville","time":"1533637460","timestamp":"2018-08-07 10:24:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! There were good editors involved, too.","parent":"17704891","id":"17705215"}
{"by":"stevespang","time":"1536328389","timestamp":"2018-09-07 13:53:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s bleed Jeff Bezos  . . . .","parent":"17929840","dead":true,"id":"17934210"}
{"by":"egypturnash","time":"1501783841","timestamp":"2017-08-03 18:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an artist supported by Patreon: we really don\u0026#x27;t give a damn about your particular contribution unless you are someone we have a personal interest in. Or if your contribution is notably higher than everyone else\u0026#x27;s. If you subscribe at $3 or whatever for a few months we\u0026#x27;re not really gonna notice you coming and going.","parent":"14921690","id":"14922135"}
{"by":"mathgeek","time":"1480591354","timestamp":"2016-12-01 11:22:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Y\u0026#x27;all crazier than a rabid squirrel!\u003cp\u003eTo answer the original question: the article is explicitly humorous whike also using the correct language for the topic. It\u0026#x27;s meant to be \u0026quot;harder to read\u0026quot; as a way to add a layer of wordplay.","parent":"13078659","id":"13078682"}
{"by":"asto","time":"1318265986","timestamp":"2011-10-10 16:59:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having all communication in a region pass through a single third party server is such a big design flaw! If only other companies made decent qwerty keyed phones, picking a successor to my Blackberry wouldn't be so hard.","parent":"3094158","id":"3094653"}
{"by":"rajacombinator","time":"1537514243","timestamp":"2018-09-21 07:17:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, they got into YC in an era where funding available to YC companies was basically infinite. Plus they had nonzero sales and an early graph that probably looked good. What VC could say no to that? (Keep in mind “spray and pray YC” is probably a top quartile VC strategy.) Getting into YC post ~2012 basically makes VC funding an afterthought. So the interesting question is what made them attractive to YC. (I’m not questioning, just clarifying.)\u003cp\u003eEdit: also there are tons of companies that get insane amounts of funding on total punts, with future failure obvious. (Just go trolling through AngelList, you’ll find plenty.) Thinking any one thing is truly necessary to get VC funding is a wildly incorrect mental model.","parent":"18036705","id":"18037758"}
{"by":"recoiledsnake","time":"1357388033","timestamp":"2013-01-05 12:13:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Err.. Opera also complained against webkit prefixes in the wild. Anyway wasn't the Touch events model held up in W3C because of Apple's patents?","parent":"5012371","id":"5012406"}
{"by":"ak39","time":"1463301225","timestamp":"2016-05-15 08:33:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lovely.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a great example of obliquity in action. He\u0026#x27;s not interested in doing it for the sake of making money ... he\u0026#x27;s making globes because he has always wanted to make globes perfectly. The money is coming in because of his \u003ci\u003emethod\u003c/i\u003e of making the globes.  Rare quality and workmanship are conspicuous aspects of his products.  The price and demand are byproducts.","parent":"11699619","id":"11700043"}
{"by":"ed","time":"1197672189","timestamp":"2007-12-14 22:43:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember seeing this poster while waiting for my chicken-apples and it struck me as being strangely insightful.","parent":"89680","id":"89708"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1332300715","timestamp":"2012-03-21 03:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's actually pretty common, even if most browsers don't support it well.\u003cp\u003eGet a download manager (wget -c is my favourite), and it will work for you, too.\u003cp\u003eMost HTTP server support HTTP-Range queries, which allows resuming downloads. FTP (of course) has always supported this feature.","parent":"3732868","id":"3732957"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1305826483","timestamp":"2011-05-19 17:34:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If one of my coworkers was being abusive to anyone I would absolutely expect my boss to fire them.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Or I would expect the boss to fire themselves for not being able to protect the team from the asshole.","parent":"2564693","id":"2564714"}
{"by":"tjradcliffe","time":"1435627427","timestamp":"2015-06-30 01:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s nothing magical about the required properties, so I\u0026#x27;m not sure why anyone would describe them that way. They are no different than the properties imputed to neutrinos or the aether: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tjradcliffe.com\u0026#x2F;?p=1801\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tjradcliffe.com\u0026#x2F;?p=1801\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe important thing about extra-galactic dark matter is there is too much of it to be made of ordinary particles: protons and neutrons and electrons. We know how many ordinary nucleons there are because we have a pretty reasonable estimate of the primoridal ratio of hydrogen to helium. As the Big Bang cooled quarks eventually cooled down enough to make protons and neutrons. Free neutrons only live about fifteen minutes so they only had a short time to capture onto protons and make deuterium nuclei which could further colide to make helium. The ratio of He\u0026#x2F;H in the early universe is therefore a sensitive measure of the denisty of the universe at the time of nucleon condensation, and we know the radius from the temperature, so we can calculate the total number of particles. There aren\u0026#x27;t enough to make up extra-galactic dark matter. There are enough to make up galactic dark matter, so there may be two totally unrelated dark matter problems.\u003cp\u003eWhen physicists talk about \u0026quot;dark matter\u0026quot; we are sliding back and forth between meanings according to context, but this is all lost on outsiders, unfortunately. It\u0026#x27;s needlessly confusing, but unfortunately it\u0026#x27;s the way it is.\u003cp\u003eSo amongst the perfectly ordinary, non-magical properties that extra-galactic dark matter has to have is to be something other then ordinary neutrons and protons. There are some other contraints on its various interaction strengths that come from the scale of galaxy formation and larger scale structures in the universe too. Again, these are perfectly ordinary properties, inferred based on the evidence in exactly the same way the properties of aether and neutrinos were.\u003cp\u003eDark matter may or may not exist (neutrinos do, aether does not) but there is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about it. It is just normal science doing what science normally does.","parent":"9801702","id":"9802267"}
{"by":"CJefferson","time":"1474647666","timestamp":"2016-09-23 16:21:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well in the interests of making contraversal statements, that\u0026#x27;s now two Rust programs I plan on using day-to-day, and zero for Haskell, Scala, and I\u0026#x27;m sure a few other languages I\u0026#x27;m not remembering.","parent":"12565615","id":"12565747"}
{"by":"guynamedloren","time":"1381298423","timestamp":"2013-10-09 06:00:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was reading this, I was asking myself the same questions.  Unbelievable that a musician can\u0026#x27;t just upload a song to iTunes.  I thought that was one of the huge driving factors of digital music distribution, breaking down the old barriers?  I don\u0026#x27;t use iTunes, but apparently I missed something - sounds like the music industry hasn\u0026#x27;t changed much after going digital.","parent":"6519633","id":"6519652"}
{"by":"kasey_junk","time":"1508871296","timestamp":"2017-10-24 18:54:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Allowing non-technical or semi-technical staff ssh access to computers is engineering malpractice.","parent":"15543759","id":"15544218"}
{"by":"jacobolus","time":"1510172335","timestamp":"2017-11-08 20:18:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pointing out that poor people (especially poor ethnic minorities) have cellphones and TVs and that many have trouble finding and holding jobs without doing any further investigation of people’s circumstances or any attempt at empathy is a favorite talking point of race-baiting politicians on the right who want to drum up outrage in support of cutting basic social services and public infrastructure, so they can return the money to their rich donors.\u003cp\u003eBut having a cellphone and a TV doesn’t provide someone a reasonable standard of living if they can’t also afford housing, basic medical care, nutritious food, childcare, schooling, transportation, wintertime heating, clothing, and the like. People who are lacking basic necessities like shelter and access to transportation, and who often additionally suffer from injuries, mental illness, chronic depression\u0026#x2F;anxiety, substance abuse problems, etc.,  and even more often face systemic discrimination (if only for gaps in their resume, poor hygiene, etc.), find it incredibly difficult to fix every problem in their lives by themselves and pull off a complicated and time-demanding middle-class lifestyle. Blaming them for their own predicament is cruel and counterproductive, even in those cases where there were a list of poor choices involved, and often has the effect of whitewashing situations where people ended up getting screwed by fraud and abuse (either systematic or personal). It is based on a fallacious world-view wherein people are inherently virtuous or sinful, and the sinful are both irredeemable and deserve whatever misery they get.\u003cp\u003e(Which is not to discount the benefits of gadgets: The prices of consumer electronics have been pushed down to incredibly cheap levels by massive economies of scale, people have a strong demand for communications and entertainment, and having access to such tools makes a big positive difference on people ’s lives. But it doesn’t replace food and shelter.)","parent":"15656451","id":"15656536"}
{"by":"lallysingh","time":"1535070535","timestamp":"2018-08-24 00:28:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;ll probably do it again.","parent":"17828409","id":"17831812"}
{"by":"wavefunction","time":"1427470047","timestamp":"2015-03-27 15:27:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that why the F-35 was cutting off oxygen to pilots?  I\u0026#x27;ll believe your statement when I see it in action.","parent":"9276772","id":"9276822"}
{"by":"youseecomrade","time":"1524789296","timestamp":"2018-04-27 00:34:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And it has to keep up with Gnome\u0026#x2F;GTK too. I heard it\u0026#x27;s not easy.","parent":"16932296","id":"16937434"}
{"by":"matthewrudy","time":"1494428459","timestamp":"2017-05-10 15:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"20% cheaper since last June too.","parent":"14308120","id":"14308697"}
{"by":"canvia","time":"1391120193","timestamp":"2014-01-30 22:16:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something very common in the poker tournament world is equity swapping. In any given tournament a player might swap 5-10% of their action with one or more other players. This is a way to reduce variance while maintaining similar equity (assuming roughly equal skill levels).\u003cp\u003eWhy isn\u0026#x27;t there a service for allowing employees at different startups to swap their equity to reduce their variance?","parent":"7153228","id":"7153716"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1273875802","timestamp":"2010-05-14 22:23:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf someone had a lost prototype of one of my products and decided to extort/ransom me, and I had 40 billion dollars of cash reserves, I would release the hounds.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes, very stupid on Gizmodo's part. They are lousy business journalists if they don't know who has a bigger legal war chest.","parent":"1348774","id":"1348802"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1471820470","timestamp":"2016-08-21 23:01:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The demo looks nice, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t extend to other shapes or more complicated scenes very well.\u003cp\u003eTo be honest, it makes me a little sad whenever people choose to use \u0026quot;smoke and mirrors\u0026quot; to create an effect, rather than do the technical correct thing (or admit the effect is impossible to achieve in general).","parent":"12330689","id":"12333127"}
{"by":"yesenadam","time":"1518765552","timestamp":"2018-02-16 07:19:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Q. Who are the great programmers, with inimitable or at least unmistakable and unique styles? Is there such a thing, as happens with music improvisers, composers, artists, writers?","parent":"16390372","id":"16390556"}
{"by":"jonnathanson","time":"1347543795","timestamp":"2012-09-13 13:43:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A word of caution about vasodilators: I've seen them touted more and more frequently by nootropics enthusiasts, as though they're completely harmless. This is not necessarily true.\u003cp\u003eBlood pressure is a very meticulously regulated process in the body, with countless chemicals, hormones, and other endogenous signals in the mix. It's entirely possible, if uncommon, to overdose when self-administering vasodilating drugs. A lot of vasodilators work by ionically tweaking the fluid retention of the kidneys, which, if thrown out of whack, can lead to all sorts of not-so-fun problems.\u003cp\u003eIn general, be careful when messing with your blood vessels, or with any drugs that change the ionic balance of your bloodstream.\u003cp\u003eThe other thing I'd say is TANSTAAFL. Generally speaking, when you're upregulating one process or chemical in the body, you're downregulating another process or chemical. If you're not sure what's being ramped up, and what's being ramped down -- or, even scarier, if \u003ci\u003escience\u003c/i\u003e doesn't quite know yet -- then proceed with a tiny bit of caution.\u003cp\u003eI don't mean to dump cold water on the idea of nootropics. Some of them seem pretty harmless. Some of them may indeed have a net benefit. Others...perhaps, but the jury's still out. In the meantime, I guess I am hesitant to treat my body like a lab experiment. Especially when there are so many proven, healthy, effective ways to enhance cognition. Such as exercise and study.","parent":"4515864","id":"4516065"}
{"by":"alexchamberlain","time":"1516196802","timestamp":"2018-01-17 13:46:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d rather not be forced to use Atom...","parent":"16165274","id":"16167810"}
{"by":"vinceguidry","time":"1383916827","timestamp":"2013-11-08 13:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a really cool job. My coworkers are awesome, no one\u0026#x27;s looking over my shoulder, my boss loves me. The work is interesting to me, and I have a shot at making a real difference. (to the company, not the world) I really couldn\u0026#x27;t ask for anything better in a job at this point in my career. But I need to get paid.","parent":"6695183","id":"6695851"}
{"by":"jseliger","time":"1367536377","timestamp":"2013-05-02 23:12:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In addition, let me offer some recommended reading: \u003ci\u003eStumbling on Happiness\u003c/i\u003e by Daniel Gilbert. It rearranged my thinking about a lot of things. I've written a lot about it on blog, but this: \u003ca href=\"https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/on-what-makes-people-happy-from-daniel-kahneman/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/on-what-makes-peop...\u003c/a\u003e is probably the most useful summary.","parent":"5647484","id":"5647808"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1522417895","timestamp":"2018-03-30 13:51:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s funny; Netflix is one provider that doesn\u0026#x27;t need low latency so they would be fine with more traditional satellite orbits.","parent":"16715577","id":"16716019"}
{"by":"alkoumpa","time":"1486383246","timestamp":"2017-02-06 12:14:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if your objective is to optimize the best place to buy a house, shouldn\u0026#x27;t you account about how the travel times of these 30B routes change over time?","parent":"13577486","id":"13578733"}
{"by":"PhrosTT","time":"1326900303","timestamp":"2012-01-18 15:25:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The items are limited to 64kb so its implicit.","parent":"3480038","id":"3480102"}
{"by":"rodorgas","time":"1505694059","timestamp":"2017-09-18 00:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Browser APIs to block content are fairly simple. There\u0026#x27;s no reason to use a huge piece of software if you just want to block some urls.\u003cp\u003eAd blockers have their own issues, including trust about maintainers intentions.","parent":"15272235","id":"15272486"}
{"by":"jeffool","time":"1339742463","timestamp":"2012-06-15 06:41:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I went to school to program, but didn't stick with it, otherwise I've got a genuine problem I'd look more into. (If you're interested in mobile app development.)\u003cp\u003eI've long wondered why there isn't an app that turns cell phones into functional TTY machines for the deaf and hard of hearing. Like many of us, the deaf community has cell phones, but unlike many of us, they still need TTY machines for many functions. These tools are not cheap, being over $100. I see no reason the functionality can't be emulated cheaply, or for free, by smart phones.\u003cp\u003eCurrently turning on TTY modes on a cell phone only enable hearing Baudot tones. An app should listen to the phone call, interpret the Baudot tones (at a paltry 45 baud at worse, but there are proprietary and alternative protocols[0]) into text on screen, and then transmit Baudot tones at the same rate when typed.\u003cp\u003eIf you can figure it out (I'm sure there's a reason why it isn't done already,) then I'm sure you could charge a few bucks for it. Figure there's ~28M deaf people in the US? There's plenty with cell phones, especially younger people.\u003cp\u003eSuch tech could also just receive Baudot and send voice (VCO; Voice Carry Over), and receive voice and send Baudot (HCO; Hearing Carry Over). It could even be used for cell to cell TTY calls, letting the deaf and hard of hearing communicate using minutes instead of texts or data.\u003cp\u003e[0]\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_device_for_the_deaf#Protocols\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_device_for_t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4114931","id":"4115355"}
{"by":"brendangregg","time":"1477598814","timestamp":"2016-10-27 20:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re right that a key feature and differentiator of DTrace\u0026#x2F;stap\u0026#x2F;BPF is kernel aggregations, but they can do per-event output as well. But I think I know what you mean, especially as I was at the sysdig summit yesterday and could see a major difference.\u003cp\u003eI think the two models for tracers, playing on their strengths, are: 1. real-time analysis tracers (DTrace\u0026#x2F;stap\u0026#x2F;BPF), and 2. offline analysis tracers (LTTng, sysdig). Both can do the other as well, but I\u0026#x27;m just pointing out strengths.\u003cp\u003esysdig (and I believe LTTng) has done great work at creating capture files that can then be analyzed offline in many many different ways, and they\u0026#x27;ve optimized the way full-event dumps can be captured and saved (which I know LTTng has done as well). DTrace\u0026#x2F;stap\u0026#x2F;BPF don\u0026#x27;t have any offline capture file capabilities -- they could do it, but it\u0026#x27;s not been their focus.","parent":"12809159","id":"12809376"}
{"by":"sirkneeland","time":"1396293908","timestamp":"2014-03-31 19:25:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a Google Play edition of the S5? That might answer your prayers then.\u003cp\u003e(or a Cyanogenmod flavor)","parent":"7503324","id":"7503540"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1434170584","timestamp":"2015-06-13 04:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just started consulting. There were lots of gigs because everybody had downsized but the work still needed to get done. I doubled my income.","parent":"9709876","id":"9709896"}
{"by":"whatok","time":"1464280711","timestamp":"2016-05-26 16:38:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Change my mind on what?","parent":"11778359","id":"11779339"}
{"by":"dmm","time":"1360355520","timestamp":"2013-02-08 20:32:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If housing is so expensive why the hell aren't they building more?\u003cp\u003eLumber(or brick) doesn't cost more in California.\u003cp\u003eIt's not a lack of capital. Interest rates are extremely low thanks to the fed.\u003cp\u003eIt can't be a lack of labor. I personally know several carpenters and electricians who would happy to work in California for 6 months building apartments. I don't think my experience is that unusual.\u003cp\u003eWhat is going on?","parent":"5189580","id":"5189942"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1433021230","timestamp":"2015-05-30 21:27:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you look at the map in the article? China is overextending far beyond what any of the other countries are attempting. In some places there almost isn\u0026#x27;t any water left between the boundary of China\u0026#x27;s claim and the shores of the other country!","parent":"9630643","id":"9631816"}
{"by":"lionhearted","time":"1274457111","timestamp":"2010-05-21 15:51:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;  Could be more fun if I wasn't an Indians fan :(\u003cp\u003eQuestion here from non-jerk Red Sox fan - whatever happened the Indians? I look at all the talent that club had over the last 10 years and it doesn't make any sense. Sabathia, Carmona, Lee, Hafner, Martinez, Sizemore... how come the Indians never got more done?\u003cp\u003e...oh, and at least you've still got Shin Soo Choo. That guy's a hell of a player. I'm visiting South Korea and everyone's crazy about him, I see more Indians hats than Sox or Yankees even.","parent":"1367630","id":"1367705"}
{"by":"skrebbel","time":"1311079371","timestamp":"2011-07-19 12:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Colour me impressed. I thought you needed fancy (relatively) modern stuff like Ruby for decent in-language DSLs, but clearly Bash can do the trick, too.\u003cp\u003eI wonder how decent a programming language you could turn bash into using tricks like these.","parent":"2780407","id":"2780585"}
{"by":"wespad","time":"1453582679","timestamp":"2016-01-23 20:57:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When ever I want to learn something on my own, especially a comparative study, I include the search terms \u0026quot;syllabus\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;reading list\u0026#x27;. I figure there must be a class somewhere that has already covered this ground.","parent":"10956097","id":"10960059"}
{"by":"pivotal","time":"1374242986","timestamp":"2013-07-19 14:09:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was my reaction to the tabs as well - now I have three inboxes to keep clean instead of one! I disabled them as soon as I could figure out how to.","parent":"6069446","id":"6070224"}
{"by":"King-Aaron","time":"1536895517","timestamp":"2018-09-14 03:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what it\u0026#x27;s like in many cities across Australia - personally I don\u0026#x27;t find it particularly unusual.","parent":"17984456","id":"17984470"}
{"by":"eggoa","time":"1258136959","timestamp":"2009-11-13 18:29:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope this doesn't end up equating having English as a second language with supidity.","parent":"940205","id":"940472"}
{"by":"melq","time":"1522697279","timestamp":"2018-04-02 19:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, didn\u0026#x27;t realize this. I used to work at a coffee roaster and at the time was told the caffeine removed from decaf beans via the swiss water method was then sold to soda companies.","parent":"16737516","id":"16738296"}
{"by":"PStamatiou","time":"1214755340","timestamp":"2008-06-29 16:02:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"agreed. The same way with my family. Family of 5, including 3 colleges over 30k/year and family income is too high to get any financial aid other than loans.","parent":"231189","id":"231227"}
{"by":"mod","time":"1420496721","timestamp":"2015-01-05 22:25:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This just made me think of boot camp (which I have not been to).\u003cp\u003eLots of pain, followed by intense loyalty and often life-long friendships.","parent":"8840591","id":"8841650"}
{"by":"lostnet","time":"1355606844","timestamp":"2012-12-15 21:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How we work is completely irrelevant to reaching a singularity. These arguments are like talking about how we will need only a few computers as large as cities to handle our needs or the making of OS/2 out of intel assembly.\u003cp\u003eWhen we have a github of standardized computations and deep learning (or evolutionary) algorithms that pull it together with no human intervention we will have the singularity. Then it can try to figure us out or do something useful instead.\u003cp\u003eIt wont look magical, it wont take a huge market force, it wont answer your religious questions or guess what you are thinking... But it will change how we approach and automate solutions to what are currently intellectual problems. Reality is always mundane.","parent":"4926200","id":"4926375"}
{"by":"teamonkey","time":"1297660067","timestamp":"2011-02-14 05:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The annoying thing is when you buy a good pair of headphones and start to hear the distortion in your old low-bitrate music.","parent":"2214484","id":"2215360"}
{"by":"nileshtrivedi","time":"1512019087","timestamp":"2017-11-30 05:18:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aadhaar is NOT a proof of address. Or Age. UIDAI has clarified it.","parent":"15812886","id":"15813649"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1392932496","timestamp":"2014-02-20 21:41:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I take a cupcake tray, throw an egg in each compartment, shredded cheese, and some bacon. Cook. Each one is now a keto-friendly \u0026quot;mcmuffin\u0026quot; with no muffin.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/ketorecipes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;ketorecipes\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7273152","id":"7273819"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1273880643","timestamp":"2010-05-14 23:44:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hacker News tries to set a higher standard of discourse than Reddit.\u003cp\u003eIn these sorts of threads, it is polite to readers to post\u003cp\u003eAfter edit:\u003cp\u003eif a comment is substantially edited. I give examples of this in my threads. The possibility of posts being edited is one reason why I always select-copy-and-paste to quote text from other people's comments here, to avoid introducing misquotations through my own typing mistakes.","parent":"1348911","id":"1348948"}
{"by":"kristofferR","time":"1449083320","timestamp":"2015-12-02 19:08:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why make it a Chrome app instead of a node-webkit app?","parent":"10664834","id":"10665080"}
{"by":"timClicks","time":"1485292674","timestamp":"2017-01-24 21:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s true, but when I read that sentence I place the emphasis on \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e. I see it as aspirational.\u003cp\u003eA better way to phrase this would perhaps would be to say that perfectly preemptive scheduler should be able to keep all cores hot. Blocking of one Erlang process should not halt the program\u0026#x27;s progress.\u003cp\u003eAs Erlang requires message passing overhead by design, it will never see perfectly linear scaling behaviour. Still, its scheduler, its GC model and M:N threading implementation are extremely robust and can be relied upon to write extremely reliable networked services.","parent":"13475050","id":"13475567"}
{"by":"thruflo","time":"1418470406","timestamp":"2014-12-13 11:33:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like .attribute syntax as much as the next developer but the mutate-on-get behaviour strikes me as... undesirable.","parent":"8744920","id":"8744934"}
{"by":"lazyjones","time":"1461733117","timestamp":"2016-04-27 04:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can really tell when web developers don\u0026#x27;t actually use the website they\u0026#x27;re building (especially contractors). Same for applications and for overly complex software where developers only use few features themselves (hence web browser bugs).\u003cp\u003eOnly very talented or disciplined people manage to write flawless code without stumbling over their own bugs first. A good, opinionated, statically typed language helps, IMHO (scripting languages are one of the reasons for crappy web pages).","parent":"11575155","id":"11577918"}
{"by":"redtexture","time":"1487969844","timestamp":"2017-02-24 20:57:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Correct, not constitutional, but by federal statute.\u003cp\u003eThis was done variously by allowing and disallowing multi member districts, after reapportionment via a decenial census.\u003cp\u003eMulti-member districts were un-regulated in the early 1800s, then disallowed in the 1842 statute, but had a number of states with multi-member districts were in the subsequent election allowed to have their multi-member-district representatives seated.  Then allowed again by silence in the statutes in 1850, then disallowed by statute again in 1862, and generally not allowed in subsequent reapportionment statutes through 1911, allowed by absence of regulation in 1929 (via Supreme Court ruling in 1932, Wood v. Broom, that the provisions of each apportionment act affected only the apportionment for which they were written).\u003cp\u003eThen disallowed most recently in 1967 by statute (as part of a civil rights concerns, after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, that southern states might resort to winner-take-all at-large elections to eliminate  voting strength of recently-enfranchised blacks in the South).\u003cp\u003eSee:  \n\u003ci\u003eThe History of Single Member Districts for Congress: \nSeeking Fair Representation Before Full Representation\u003c/i\u003e - by Tory Mast\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.fairvote.org\u0026#x2F;?page=526\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.fairvote.org\u0026#x2F;?page=526\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13718234","id":"13727827"}
{"by":"johnbellone","time":"1356704367","timestamp":"2012-12-28 14:19:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately on the topic of accessibility you're likely going to need to design for people, but build your site to validate. I don't have much experience using screen readers, but from what I can tell they're going to need at minimum well build HTML.","parent":"4977632","id":"4977727"}
{"by":"wepple","time":"1516969838","timestamp":"2018-01-26 12:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be honest, this is very standard tradecraft to security folks.\u003cp\u003eIf this kind of thing is interesting, I’d recommend a read of Kim Zetters “countdown to zero day” about stuxnet. A piece of malware potentially as old as 2005, but an order of magnitude more sophisticated than what’s being described with the DNC","parent":"16238472","id":"16238634"}
{"by":"thedonaldo","time":"1506987041","timestamp":"2017-10-02 23:30:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I\u0026#x27;m an entrepreneur, and a native-born American citizen, so I\u0026#x27;m obviously not talking my book here. My source is simply what I\u0026#x27;ve observed trying to recruit co-founders. Folks with actual tangible skills and a realistic outlook would generally rather collect a paycheck for their skills.\nBut I also don\u0026#x27;t consider lack of venture capital or mentorship to be an important barrier to my success. When I look at what I do daily, as a founder, there is very little that more money would help with. And their advice is generally pretty cookie-cutter; if you follow it blindly, you will look like every other company they fund, which will be the death of your company. The good ones recognize this, and what they look for in a founder is someone with an independent perspective who will do the legwork to verify their hunches with data, on their own, and don\u0026#x27;t trust anybody else\u0026#x27;s ideas of reality. The bad ones, you don\u0026#x27;t want to do business with.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thecedrus.com\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;TiffaniIncor\u0026#x2F;lessons\u0026#x2F;513199388727062526\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thecedrus.com\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;TiffaniIncor\u0026#x2F;lessons\u0026#x2F;513199388727...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;instasafari.com\u0026#x2F;discover\u0026#x2F;ycombinator\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;instasafari.com\u0026#x2F;discover\u0026#x2F;ycombinator\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;freshcalendars.com\u0026#x2F;november-2017-calendar\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;freshcalendars.com\u0026#x2F;november-2017-calendar\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15384560","dead":true,"id":"15388831"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1186583633","timestamp":"2007-08-08 14:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, we consciously try to make this so.  We try to make the questions on the application questions that would be useful for a startup to answer, even if they didn't submit it, and we try to make in-person interviews de facto consulting sessions that would be worth the time even for startups that didn't get funding.\u003cp\u003eObviously it's harder to guarantee the latter, but it's what we aim for.","parent":"40427","id":"40500"}
{"by":"72deluxe","time":"1427879835","timestamp":"2015-04-01 09:17:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it makes me wonder how many people buy a Chromebook and state \u0026quot;never again!\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s like being given an etchasketch as a computer to do \u0026quot;real\u0026quot; work on but with the iron filings only accessible when with a tethering plan.\u003cp\u003eWith all the talk of schools mandating that children have equivalent devices, what was wrong with writing on paper and doing maths on paper? We managed at school.","parent":"9299123","id":"9302503"}
{"by":"pg","time":"1239603914","timestamp":"2009-04-13 06:25:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except about 80% of the time I send mail to someone at dropbox, I send it to whoever@dropbox.com first.\u003cp\u003eThere are always good names available.  You don't need to stick get on the front, or use a .net name, or pull a del.icio.us.  Just fire up instantdomainsearch and find another name.","parent":"559478","id":"559490"}
{"by":"mpdehaan2","time":"1425659502","timestamp":"2015-03-06 16:31:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The argument against getting a booth (and just being a visitor) I don\u0026#x27;t quite agree with.\u003cp\u003eOne of the more annoying things I\u0026#x27;ve found at conferences, as an exhibitor, is when people come to your booth to sales pitch you on their thing.\u003cp\u003eIf you want customers, don\u0026#x27;t go as a visitor and pitch the exhibitors.  Get the booth, but only if you are the right size where it feels like the leads will exist and it will pay off.\u003cp\u003eYou can also meet some investors at booths too.\u003cp\u003eIt helps though if people have some awareness of what you do and signage that makes that VERY clear.","parent":"9156702","id":"9157874"}
{"by":"mcintyre1994","time":"1392156524","timestamp":"2014-02-11 22:08:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...Wow, seriously? I find it interesting how compatible that is with his views against filtering things out, although I doubt boring linkbaity articles was ever part of the things he imagined were problematic to lose.","parent":"7220480","id":"7220846"}
{"by":"moe","time":"1425050735","timestamp":"2015-02-27 15:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not feasible for any individual to validate the blockchain\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuh?\u003cp\u003eThe above numbers are well within the reach of most western individuals even today. A rented server in the $50\u0026#x2F;mo range can trivially plow through ~100Mbit\u0026#x2F;s of SHA256 verifications.\u003cp\u003e250T of storage on spinning rust can be rented for ~$1000\u0026#x2F;mo from e.g. Hetzner (and obviously a fraction of that if you roll your own).\u003cp\u003eBy the time a Bitcoin adoption of \u003ci\u003e7 billion users\u003c/i\u003e becomes anywhere near realistic you will probably have this kind of storage and CPU capacity in your Smartwatch.","parent":"9119217","id":"9119301"}
{"by":"strictnein","time":"1466608921","timestamp":"2016-06-22 15:22:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a parody. About the lack of female speakers at tech conferences or something.\u003cp\u003eThe bit: Here\u0026#x27;s all these female tech people with the name \u0026quot;Katie\u0026quot;, thus you shouldn\u0026#x27;t have problems filling your tech conference with female speakers.","parent":"11954588","id":"11954623"}
{"by":"wei000","time":"1454377539","timestamp":"2016-02-02 01:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that sounds bad, different location different pay","parent":"11015043","id":"11017168"}
{"by":"lutorm","time":"1513296348","timestamp":"2017-12-15 00:05:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It does matter if you want to actually talk about it. If you\u0026#x27;re just interested in making yourself feel better by calling other people names, then maybe not. But it\u0026#x27;s very basic human psychology to be less inclined to hear people out and take their concerns seriously if they call you names, and it certainly doesn\u0026#x27;t signal to me that it\u0026#x27;s worth my time explaining my position to you.","parent":"15928006","id":"15928611"}
{"by":"vagarwa","time":"1360802443","timestamp":"2013-02-14 00:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Banks and networks (Visa etc) don't share the customer information with the merchant. There was a class action law suit against merchants asking for Zipcode. \n\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/16/business/la-fi-0216-zip-lawsuits-20110216\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/16/business/la-fi-0216-...\u003c/a\u003e\nHere Google is acting like a network and the developer is the merchant. There is absolutely no requirement (from a legal perspective) to pass on the customers' information to the merchant.\nVisa and the issuer bank don't share any personal details of the customer with the merchant, which is what Google and Paypal (and probably square) are promising the merchants, if they use their payment system.","parent":"5216455","id":"5216799"}
{"by":"matwood","time":"1441993239","timestamp":"2015-09-11 17:40:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha. I got in an argument with a lit teacher in HS when I asked how she \u003ci\u003eknew\u003c/i\u003e what the author meant? Did the author tell her that? Was it in some notes that were left? In this case it was simply what people years later had agreed the author meant.\u003cp\u003eHumans so desperately want to apply meaning to everything even when there is none. I\u0026#x27;ve seen this in interviews where an excited fan asks a musician the deep meaning of some song and the response is along the lines of \u0026#x27;it sounded cool\u0026#x27;.","parent":"10204756","id":"10205065"}
{"by":"nacker","time":"1345140043","timestamp":"2012-08-16 18:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I beg to differ.  Sweden is thought by many especially enlightened people to be case study in radical feminist insanity.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/the-radfem-conquest-of-sweden/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/the-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4392386","id":"4392652"}
{"by":"hocuspocus","time":"1396022186","timestamp":"2014-03-28 15:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The body of most printed stuff is typeset in serif fonts because it improves legibility. Even on my fairly low definition e-reader, reading a book in a sans serif font feels weird. Moreover, the stroke width of sans serif fonts is usually fairly unvarying, which seems to offset what you gain by ditching the serifs:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.matthewrobinson.co.uk/Measuring-Type\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.matthewrobinson.co.uk\u0026#x2F;Measuring-Type\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7487416","id":"7487995"}
{"by":"pulkitpulkit","time":"1441131869","timestamp":"2015-09-01 18:24:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chameleon makes user onboarding amazing for every app, and we are hiring! \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;trychameleon.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;trychameleon.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e± Full-stack Engineer (enable data-driven intelligent onboarding) --- Portland \u0026#x2F; Seattle\u003cp\u003e± Front-end Engineer (create an awesome in-app tutorial builder) --- Portland \u0026#x2F; Seattle\u003cp\u003e± Full-stack Designer (help design our product and improve that of our customers) --- San Francisco\u003cp\u003eSeed-funded (top angels and led by True Ventures), with great customers and two engineer founders. Competitive salary, meaningful equity and all benefits.\u003cp\u003eWe believe work is a meaningful, rewarding and enjoyable subset of life; we want to help you grow personally and professionally, and respect and value your individuality.\u003cp\u003ePlease get in touch via \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;trychameleon\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;trychameleon\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e or email jobs a_t trychameleon d_o_t com. Please no recruiters.","parent":"10152809","id":"10154591"}
{"by":"rplnt","time":"1336117414","timestamp":"2012-05-04 07:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can't you just make it as an app? Why would it have to be there by default?","parent":"3926084","id":"3927475"}
{"by":"jngreenlee","time":"1409255604","timestamp":"2014-08-28 19:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If conciseness is in fact just an internal feeling\u0026#x2F;feedback loop, the revived you will feel as though this was achieved, but is the benefit to your present mind-state somewhat lost?","parent":"8239301","id":"8239325"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1514513167","timestamp":"2017-12-29 02:06:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have any evidence that this much battery degradation would happen after just one year? I highly doubt that, unless the battery was very heavily used or was exposed to extreme temperatures.\u003cp\u003eThe car analogy is not great. First off, new cars cost way more than phones, and are built out of very different types of components. Secondly, cars absolutely need maintenance, and generally more than $29 a year.","parent":"16025304","id":"16026961"}
{"by":"temptemptemp13","time":"1297073434","timestamp":"2011-02-07 10:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't like your cow example because it really isn't a cow, that's the absolute truth.\u003cp\u003eMaybe a better example would be \"is the earth rotating around the moon or is the moon around the earth?\" What if the moon and earth had the same mass?","parent":"2188102","id":"2188399"}
{"by":"hokkos","time":"1438953192","timestamp":"2015-08-07 13:13:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How did you detected it ?","parent":"10021894","id":"10022214"}
{"by":"handler","time":"1295682786","timestamp":"2011-01-22 07:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"clicking a star votes for a combination.  top voted combinations show up at the bottom of the page.\u003cp\u003eshowing how a merge would be spelled is a pretty tough problem. if anyone had any clever ideas about this, i'd love to hear it.","parent":"2130080","id":"2130157"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1502075035","timestamp":"2017-08-07 03:03:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you located in SF or some similarly expensive area?","parent":"14943953","id":"14945010"}
{"by":"SlashmanX","time":"1458750006","timestamp":"2016-03-23 16:20:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well there is pre\u0026#x2F;post install scripts that can be run. Not saying this package does that, but it is very easy to run a script just after installing from npm","parent":"11345459","id":"11345815"}
{"by":"eevilspock","time":"1484815824","timestamp":"2017-01-19 08:50:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it isn\u0026#x27;t simply about material wealth. Money is power. People with money have a far greater say in shaping our world, and have more freedom. Conversely those with little have little say and little freedom. Even the part of our society that is supposed to be egalitarian regardless of wealth or station, our government, is ruled by those with money. \u0026quot;One person, one vote\u0026quot; means nothing in a society where money buys elections and elected officials.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s about having a fair and free society. Would you rather have a gourmet dinner every night in prison, or a PB\u0026amp;J in a free and egalitarian community?","parent":"13421263","id":"13434187"}
{"by":"SamBam","time":"1494424926","timestamp":"2017-05-10 14:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That doesn\u0026#x27;t answer my question at all.\u003cp\u003eSaying that the income of a single-parent family is lower does not remotely answer the question of \u0026quot;What is the magnitude of the effect of single-parent homes on the size of the middle class?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI actually went and looked up the tables in the census: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.census.gov\u0026#x2F;data\u0026#x2F;tables\u0026#x2F;time-series\u0026#x2F;demo\u0026#x2F;families\u0026#x2F;children.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.census.gov\u0026#x2F;data\u0026#x2F;tables\u0026#x2F;time-series\u0026#x2F;demo\u0026#x2F;families...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have the same percentage of single parent families now as in 1995 (29%). That\u0026#x27;s over 20 years, the number has barely budged. So how does your answer relate to the question of the decline of the middle class since then?","parent":"14294713","id":"14308227"}
{"by":"T-A","time":"1464880553","timestamp":"2016-06-02 15:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except the \u0026quot;one in a billion chance\u0026quot; was pulled out of something soaking in a hot tub, and Occam\u0026#x27;s Razor obviously favors base reality alone rather than the superset consisting of base reality plus some very advanced civilization living in base reality plus some bizarre reason why that very advanced civilization has nothing better to do than run hyperrealistic simulations of a much more primitive civilization.","parent":"11822681","id":"11823113"}
{"by":"koolba","time":"1470751923","timestamp":"2016-08-09 14:12:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To all the upvoters, did you actually read the linked slides or are you just upvoting because it has \u0026quot;PostgreSQL\u0026quot; in the name[1]? Interesting to see this many votes with zero comments.\u003cp\u003eIt is a great set of slides by the way. The btree piece would be old news to anyone familiar with database related data structures but the detail on GIN, GIST, and particularly BRIN make for a good read. Seeing the physical layout for each of those gives you a much better understanding of the cost of maintenance and what situations would they\u0026#x27;d be useful.\u003cp\u003eAlso, if you happened to follow the recent Postgres\u0026#x2F;Uber thread, this gives a lot more context as to how updates to a row would cascade to many writes for each index.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ci\u003e... which isn\u0026#x27;t a bad idea anyway because PostgreSQL is awesome!\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"12252112","id":"12254581"}
{"by":"greenleafjacob","time":"1486981765","timestamp":"2017-02-13 10:29:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; He thinks even programming is vulnerable to being automated and reducing the number of available programming jobs.\u003cp\u003eHmm... Where have I heard this before?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct (through the further development of self-programming techniques) [...] More and more, computers will program themselves; and direction will be given to computers through the mediation of compiling systems that will be completely neutral so far as the content of the decision rules is concerned. (Herbert Simon, 1961) [1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.princeton.edu\u0026#x2F;~hos\u0026#x2F;Mahoney\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;miscellany\u0026#x2F;ieeetalk.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.princeton.edu\u0026#x2F;~hos\u0026#x2F;Mahoney\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;miscellany\u0026#x2F;i...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13633666","id":"13634326"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1507216199","timestamp":"2017-10-05 15:09:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think part of the reason for this is that you shouldn\u0026#x27;t be web browsing with old software. It\u0026#x27;s unsafe for you and others that your hardware could damage.","parent":"15409046","id":"15409775"}
{"by":"SEJeff","time":"1423625740","timestamp":"2015-02-11 03:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup Linux has had a similar feature, kexec, for several years.","parent":"9031188","id":"9031436"}
{"by":"cbsmith","time":"1481570961","timestamp":"2016-12-12 19:29:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saying \u0026quot;no-op is faster than fsync\u0026quot; is just not as click-baity a title.\u003cp\u003eThere is a good question though... do you really need fsync on Android? If you don\u0026#x27;t, why are you calling it?","parent":"13157639","id":"13161065"}
{"by":"DannoHung","time":"1360104469","timestamp":"2013-02-05 22:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Multiple Categories per Thread please! PLEASE!","parent":"5172905","id":"5173820"}
{"by":"comex","time":"1422217549","timestamp":"2015-01-25 20:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; After I sent Google my first list of questions, they got back to me pushing me to drop the soft balls.\u003cp\u003eAnd indeed there were a few tough questions by the first guy.  It wasn\u0026#x27;t exactly a bloodbath of hostility, but is that really necessary..?","parent":"8944085","id":"8944113"}
{"by":"sincerely","time":"1510896877","timestamp":"2017-11-17 05:34:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MTGO has a limit of 200 tokens. That\u0026#x27;s not a whole lot.","parent":"15717436","id":"15719245"}
{"by":"20pahrump14","time":"1415984100","timestamp":"2014-11-14 16:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great detective work hunting down the culprit!","parent":"8608021","id":"8608111"}
{"by":"colechristensen","time":"1414141771","timestamp":"2014-10-24 09:09:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are some significant problems drawing conclusions from that study about what you should eat.\u003cp\u003e* The study was done on rats\u003cp\u003e* n=9\u0026#x2F;group\u003cp\u003e* They used fructose\u0026#x2F;glucose from a laboratory supplier, not HFCS from a supplier used by food manufacturers\u003cp\u003e* They fed the rats 100% starch\u0026#x2F;fructose+glucose\u0026#x2F;honey and vitamins (real people have varied diets)\u003cp\u003eThe conclusions you should draw are that A) eating a diet of 100% HCFS is probably a bad thing (duh) and B) honey has antioxidants.\u003cp\u003eSo if you replace your HFCS with honey, you don\u0026#x27;t need to get as many antioxidants from other sources.\u003cp\u003eWere they to control for antioxidant content, this study might be a bit more interesting.","parent":"8498840","id":"8502797"}
{"by":"grellas","time":"1248290460","timestamp":"2009-07-22 19:21:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just noticed that my article had been posted on HN.\u003cp\u003eI am not a historian and just did this as a nostalgic reflection on what I experienced being in and around the Valley for the past 40+ years and then projected it back a decade or so to focus on what seemed a key transition year - 1956 - when Shlockley Labs was formed, HP went public, etc., to use it as a symbolic contrast between the new and the old.\u003cp\u003eIt was just a fun diversion for me, the main goal being to capture a mood. Sorry about the lack of pics.","parent":"717523","id":"718351"}
{"by":"jeroen","time":"1235993866","timestamp":"2009-03-02 11:37:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this says a lot about that $9B valuation:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwitter agreed on one condition: that the Facebook stock it received be valued at the price company shares garnered on the open market. Facebook blinked and the deal talks ended.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"499881","id":"499983"}
{"by":"latj","time":"1383956114","timestamp":"2013-11-09 00:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not off topic at all, thanks. The only time I\u0026#x27;ve ever heard of people using MariaDB was because they were using MySql. Sure, its a valid reason to pick a technology, but its got to be be one of the worst reasons.","parent":"6699340","id":"6699991"}
{"by":"ideamonk","time":"1218950710","timestamp":"2008-08-17 05:25:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be less \u003ci\u003eopen\u003c/i\u003e in nature if I try doing in Script-Fu. Firstly I will have to understand how it works... then it will become something which only GIMP users can use, and besides... I just want to do from basics... once done ;) I will surely make it for GIMP and Matlab (psst.. I have no idea of matlab and know very little python ;) )\u003cp\u003eyeah! GIMP will give support for loads of image formats ;)\nBut nothing new to explore before my exams get over :X","parent":"277914","id":"278193"}
{"by":"JoshMnem","time":"1522880346","timestamp":"2018-04-04 22:19:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s a bad idea to self-experiment with electricity and the brain. See \u0026quot;Popular electric brain stimulation method used to boost brainpower is detrimental to IQ scores\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com\u0026#x2F;releases\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;150505152140.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com\u0026#x2F;releases\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;150505152140.h...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16757581","id":"16759796"}
{"by":"samirmenon","time":"1417543820","timestamp":"2014-12-02 18:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This just feels like an advertisement for Brewster.","parent":"8686703","id":"8688691"}
{"by":"malloc2x","time":"1365260237","timestamp":"2013-04-06 14:57:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't know what jurisdiction you're in, but fraudulent transactions[1] == \"theft\" in the colloquial/moral sense where I'm from.  Malice is not requisite to defraud.\u003cp\u003e[1] I charge you for services but do not provide them.","parent":"5503659","id":"5503742"}
{"by":"drewcrawford","time":"1274883734","timestamp":"2010-05-26 14:22:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Former sound engineer here.\u003cp\u003eThe best large diaphragm in your price range is the Sony MDR-7506.  It's a stunning headphone for the price.  Almost every professional recording studio I know has a couple from that product line on hand.\u003cp\u003eAs others have pointed out, there are a couple of good earbuds in your price range, but this runs against your preference.  Earbud sound depends a great deal on fit, and it's harder (==$$$$) to get good bass reproduction on something that small than it is to get it on an overear pair.","parent":"1380199","id":"1380329"}
{"by":"ShaneWilton","time":"1405451015","timestamp":"2014-07-15 19:03:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Easily the best textbook I\u0026#x27;ve read on the topic is \u0026quot;Programming Language Application and Interpretation\u0026quot; or PLAI. It uses Racket to walk you through the implementation of different programming language features, while delving into the theory behind them.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s available for free on Brown\u0026#x27;s website - \u003ca href=\"http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cs.brown.edu\u0026#x2F;courses\u0026#x2F;cs173\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;book\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI couldn\u0026#x27;t recommend it more highly.","parent":"8038276","id":"8038334"}
{"by":"known","time":"1298634413","timestamp":"2011-02-25 11:46:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe this is due to a glitch in the Application and not in Linux per se.","parent":"2261650","id":"2261868"}
{"by":"theonemind","time":"1532965275","timestamp":"2018-07-30 15:41:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I noticed an effect when taking it with coffee, too. I just had some l-theanine as a supplement. I just drink coffee, so I didn\u0026#x27;t think much of taking it with coffee, so I didn\u0026#x27;t expect anything. It seemed to \u0026quot;smooth out\u0026quot; the effect of the caffeine. Rather than jittery, it turned it into smoother focus.","parent":"17645133","id":"17645219"}
{"by":"rcavezza","time":"1328077774","timestamp":"2012-02-01 06:29:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coming from a business background, it's very difficult to create a product if you don't have engineering skills.  It's the reason I learned how to code.  Knowing how to sell isn't a useful skill if you don't have a product to sell!","parent":"3536313","id":"3536956"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1332540504","timestamp":"2012-03-23 22:08:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of kernel customizations.\u003cp\u003eWhen I worked at CERN, the Atlas project was developing high performance network stacks with low level IP protocols, to be able to cope with the data throughput from the particle accelerator.","parent":"3747399","id":"3747596"}
{"by":"Harkins","time":"1225326554","timestamp":"2008-10-30 00:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Entering http doesn't make any sense to the average user.","parent":"348227","id":"348253"}
{"by":"bit_logic","time":"1475947899","timestamp":"2016-10-08 17:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest problem with unit tests is they are abused as a metric for code quality.  Pretty code coverage graphs and percent numbers are easy to present to managers.  And outsource firms love these because it adds pointless work they can justify as \u0026quot;code quality\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eBut what happens is the unit tests become filled completely useless logic.  Like a test with only mock objects that just tests if a method can be called.  Useless but good for padding those code coverage numbers.  And ironically it greatly decreases code quality.  Because when there\u0026#x27;s these useless unit tests covering everything, it makes refactoring very difficult.  And so no one refactors to improve the code because its too much work.","parent":"12666454","id":"12667775"}
{"by":"scarface74","time":"1524261032","timestamp":"2018-04-20 21:50:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have these \u0026quot;studies\u0026quot; taken into account maintainability? There is a whole class of bugs that won\u0026#x27;t happen with a statically typed language. There also a whole class of automatic refactors that you can do with statically typed languages.","parent":"16888419","id":"16888703"}
{"by":"bcoates","time":"1395256449","timestamp":"2014-03-19 19:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m just impressed that the designer actually made the product and put it out on the world.\u003cp\u003eSo many of these design-art products are never actually made, which to me is ignoring the entire \u0026#x27;craft\u0026#x27; side of the profession--the point of design is to make things actually exist.","parent":"7428339","id":"7430985"}
{"by":"Quarrelsome","time":"1478780024","timestamp":"2016-11-10 12:13:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what you do when you\u0026#x27;re looking for people on eLance\u0026#x2F;upwork\u0026#x2F;etc. I did this on my last start up and it worked amazingly.   \nIts more expensive than getting lucky but cheaper than getting unlucky and allows you to find amazing people to work with.","parent":"12915809","id":"12919739"}
{"by":"cosarara97","time":"1497989175","timestamp":"2017-06-20 20:06:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh well, no way to delete my comment now.","parent":"14596933","id":"14598095"}
{"by":"azakai","time":"1308507863","timestamp":"2011-06-19 18:24:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get a warning on Firefox 5 too.","parent":"2671261","id":"2671411"}
{"by":"gherkin0","time":"1459225032","timestamp":"2016-03-29 04:17:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s possible the chips could be modified before manufacture, or after, to contain a flaw.\u003cp\u003eWouldn\u0026#x27;t Apple be able to detect such an attack, if they were looking (e.g. decap sample chips, image at high magnification, and compare to the original design files)?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think such an attack would work very well as a \u003ci\u003etailored\u003c/i\u003e access sort of thing.  If the backdoored chips got into the supply chain, the general public would be affected.  If the NSA wanted to only target certain people, they\u0026#x27;d have to have a huge amount of control over Apple\u0026#x27;s supply chain, which would surely be noticed.","parent":"11379084","id":"11379463"}
{"by":"Jun8","time":"1319477344","timestamp":"2011-10-24 17:29:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that my comment was not for drivers vs. bikers but rather bikers vs. pedestrians.","parent":"3150575","id":"3150604"}
{"by":"tekknik","time":"1528290334","timestamp":"2018-06-06 13:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So just roll over and become complacent? The last time a gov pushed their bounds too much a new country had to be made to stop it.","parent":"17229541","id":"17246760"}
{"by":"friendzis","time":"1417089164","timestamp":"2014-11-27 11:52:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about [alt]+arrow?","parent":"8666444","id":"8666845"}
{"by":"lstamour","time":"1508394563","timestamp":"2017-10-19 06:29:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As pointed out by Microsoft earlier today, MDN is one of the best resources on this sort of thing. Here they write:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The upgrade-insecure-requests directive is evaluated before block-all-mixed-content and If the former is set, the latter is effectively a no-op. It is recommended to set one directive or the other – not both.\u003cp\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;HTTP\u0026#x2F;Headers\u0026#x2F;Content-Security-Policy\u0026#x2F;block-all-mixed-content\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;HTTP\u0026#x2F;Headers\u0026#x2F;Co...\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;HTTP\u0026#x2F;Headers\u0026#x2F;Content-Security-Policy\u0026#x2F;upgrade-insecure-requests\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;HTTP\u0026#x2F;Headers\u0026#x2F;Co...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes they are similar, and you have to watch which one you set -- but you can also achieve a similar effect at a more granular level using CSP as also indicated in MDN. These rules are equivalent to saying `default-src https:` in the CSP rule.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, the best option is individual CSP directives which can get more granular than the `https:` scheme alone, because you can then specify which trusted third-party domains (if any) are allowed to load resources on your pages and conditions (like nonces) for running script tags, data URIs, etc. After all, your secure third-party resources could still have servers compromised and they might then send malicious assets over SSL to your unsuspecting users\u0026#x27; browsers.\u003cp\u003eCSP, if trusted enough to set it to block instead of just report (though you can run both modes at the same time), is one of the best defence-in-depth ways to protect your page from attack, right up there with HttpOnly and Secure flags on cookies. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;HTTP\u0026#x2F;Cookies#Secure_and_HttpOnly_cookies\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;HTTP\u0026#x2F;Cookies#Se...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re looking for checklists, have a look at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;Security\u0026#x2F;Guidelines\u0026#x2F;Web_Security\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;Security\u0026#x2F;Guidelines\u0026#x2F;Web_Security\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.appcanary.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;http-security-headers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.appcanary.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;http-security-headers.html\u003c/a\u003e though remember no checklist is going to deliver bulletproof security on its own (you\u0026#x27;ll have to inspect your app and environment for flaws, implement monitoring tools, etc.), and blindly implementing security headers or features without knowing what they do can obviously break your app. (Again, monitoring your app can help.)","parent":"15505789","id":"15505858"}
{"by":"agentgt","time":"1511276597","timestamp":"2017-11-21 15:03:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally understand that but does the government say something or have an official stance? Or is it just inherently implied not to question them.\u003cp\u003eI have to imagine they say something like \u0026quot;we are doing this to protect\u0026quot; etc. etc. but maybe not.","parent":"15748229","id":"15748262"}
{"by":"stef25","time":"1512689850","timestamp":"2017-12-07 23:37:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m expecting this all to go wrong, up to the point that I\u0026#x27;ll just let my coins ride it all out. The first gamble is bitcoin, the second gamble is the exchanges.","parent":"15872716","id":"15875405"}
{"by":"activepeanut","time":"1351072324","timestamp":"2012-10-24 09:52:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this should be interpreted as \"do a better job managing your business by keeping a steady flow of incoming work\".","parent":"4691667","id":"4692288"}
{"by":"CoffeeDregs","time":"1310399292","timestamp":"2011-07-11 15:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, I use godaddy for domains and DNS.  Never had a problem with them.  But these 'godaddy sucks' posts and the godaddy buyout are starting to worry me.  Who would you recommend as a replacement for registration and DNS?","parent":"2750486","dead":true,"id":"2751202"}
{"by":"kkyang","time":"1339700845","timestamp":"2012-06-14 19:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is a similar website. It was listed as a best website of 2010 by Time magazine. I think you'll need a different unique selling proposition. (such as the record yourself feature)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wakerupper.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://wakerupper.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4112286","id":"4112981"}
{"by":"Breakthrough","time":"1359074944","timestamp":"2013-01-25 00:49:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is so amazing, but I'm \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working?\u003cp\u003eObligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit:  Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR (\u003ca href=\"http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/\u003c/a\u003e), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message \"Not Marked for Linux\"...","parent":"5113129","id":"5113280"}
{"by":"matte_black","time":"1522260526","timestamp":"2018-03-28 18:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, this should never be allowed.\u003cp\u003eIt’s archaeology-hostile. It pisses me off to no end when I am searching for information on reddit and come across people replying to deleted posts by some paranoid user who wishes comments were more ephemeral like Snapchat.\u003cp\u003eThis is what the next dark age of mankind will be like, people from the future looking for historical information and finding nothing but deleted or decayed data.\u003cp\u003eHere’s a tip: if you don’t want something to be up for all time, don’t even bother posting it. Keep it to your self. There are a lot of damning things and incidents that could end people’s careers and reputations that I’ve never posted about because I do not want the permanent liability.\u003cp\u003eI feel like the art of staying anonymous has been lost on people. It’s not that hard.","parent":"16698937","id":"16700198"}
{"by":"finid","time":"1454172037","timestamp":"2016-01-30 16:40:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the original article, it appears the French are not the only ones embarking on the \u0026quot;romantic and pointless\u0026quot; project.\u003cp\u003eThe Dutch are in on it too, though on a smaller scale. And over here in America (Idaho to be specific), \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.solarroadways.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.solarroadways.com\u003c/a\u003e has won a $750,000 contract from the USDoT for something similar.","parent":"11001827","id":"11002512"}
{"by":"bko","time":"1446127212","timestamp":"2015-10-29 14:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would put any research or estimates into perspective. We have well surpassed predicted carrying capacities, but maybe these estimates are different?\u003cp\u003eExample:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; In a 1994 study titled Food, Land, Population and the U.S. Economy, David Pimentel and Mario Giampietro estimated the maximum U.S. population for a sustainable economy at 200 million\u003cp\u003eThe dangers of over-population myth assumes a naive view of a static society. For instance, we can reasonably have X land for food production, from that we can grow Y food and that can feed Z people so anything above Z would be harmful. The problem is that Y is dependent on human innovation and technology. Same can be said for most resources. We never did reach peak oil.\u003cp\u003eThese predictions of inevitable decline have been wrong for a long time. I don\u0026#x27;t know why you put so much faith into the modern day equivalents.","parent":"10470806","id":"10471000"}
{"by":"cnp","time":"1422474648","timestamp":"2015-01-28 19:50:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Curious why JSX is a total non-starter?  I\u0026#x27;ve always been intrigued by things that completely invalidate ideas, regardless of how good those ideas appear to be.\u003cp\u003eIs it just aesthetic (xml like)?  Is it the precompiler?  What is the harm with trying it out?","parent":"8961622","id":"8962096"}
{"by":"bostand","time":"1491287273","timestamp":"2017-04-04 06:27:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.\u003cp\u003eSource: ask any female hollywood celebrity.","parent":"14028980","id":"14030041"}
{"by":"bigbugbag","time":"1489742412","timestamp":"2017-03-17 09:20:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s recap:\u003cp\u003e- Misinterpreted real story, i.e. misinformation.\n- Clickbaity eye-catching headline, i.e. deliberate attempt to inflate readership and sharing.\u003cp\u003eAFAIK writing misinformation so it will spread falls into the realm of fake news.","parent":"13889977","id":"13892619"}
{"by":"mrweasel","time":"1524661203","timestamp":"2018-04-25 13:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone else mentioned Hans Reiser, and it\u0026#x27;s on Hacker News for the same reason. Peter Madsen is very much so a hacker. but with submarines and rockets.\u003cp\u003eYou do have a point though, the only reason that some many is interested, is because the whole thing happened in a submarine. I doubt that it would make the headlines around the world if he killed her in the back of a van.","parent":"16920766","id":"16921099"}
{"by":"CyberDroiD","time":"1370827223","timestamp":"2013-06-10 01:20:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I go with OS choices.\u003cp\u003eWith a Macbook and bootcamp, you can run OSX and Windows 7.\u003cp\u003eIf I can\u0026#x27;t run OSX, that\u0026#x27;s a big problem.","parent":"5851596","id":"5851692"}
{"by":"numbsafari","time":"1458048965","timestamp":"2016-03-15 13:36:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds reasonable.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;We ask that you provide:\u003cp\u003e1) an implementation of this sample project (estimated 8 hours time).\u003cp\u003e2) a work sample that meets the following criteria (same criteria we are looking for in the sample project)\u0026quot;","parent":"11289418","id":"11289466"}
{"by":"craftkiller","time":"1476259461","timestamp":"2016-10-12 08:04:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does TCP Fast Open count?","parent":"12689184","id":"12691099"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1447437970","timestamp":"2015-11-13 18:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, that\u0026#x27;s bad. It\u0026#x27;s one thing to put stupid DRM on your entertainment products. If a movie doesn\u0026#x27;t work, well, that\u0026#x27;s irritating but not a serious problem. Watch another one or read a book or, worst case, talk to your family. Definitely not something you want to happen, but I can deal with it. Software gets used for practical purposes, and spontaneous breakage causes real problems.","parent":"10561168","id":"10561286"}
{"by":"exabrial","time":"1486422312","timestamp":"2017-02-06 23:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s the trend of the articles I\u0026#x27;m seeing about this topic. The toxic partisan language is creeping in and soon the uneducated blue\u0026#x2F;red masses will entrench themselves in a permanent stalemate unless we agree to be objective about it immediately.","parent":"13583893","id":"13585176"}
{"by":"skrebbel","time":"1516447174","timestamp":"2018-01-20 11:19:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sad that some enthusiastic well meaning lefties often associate Peterson with the extreme right. If anything, this man is radically centrist. It\u0026#x27;s just that he debunks extreme right wing arguments in 5 sentences instead of the 2 hour long talks he uses to address what he calls neo-marxism.\u003cp\u003eI think people like him might very well help keep disgruntled young men \u003ci\u003eaway\u003c/i\u003e from the extreme right, by offering a moderate alternative.\u003cp\u003eWe should celebrate that long, balanced arguments get so much mainstream attention, even if we don\u0026#x27;t agree with them.","parent":"16192906","id":"16192990"}
{"by":"jug","time":"1506520825","timestamp":"2017-09-27 14:00:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is very nice. I have always _wanted_ to use Firefox because a web built much for the community is best used on a browser built by the community with no corporate influences such as trying to push their own \u0026quot;web platform\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s just that it has felt far too bulky compared to Chrome.\u003cp\u003eBut yeah, this is quite workable, and Quantum WebRender hasn\u0026#x27;t even landed yet. By Firefox 60 we should have even more substantial (i.e. noticeable) improvements.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s scrolling very smoothly, and the browser rendering sites doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to impact typing into the adress bar much. It elegantly passes my personal little stress test with multiple Periscope tabs running at once, something that near killed Firefox 56. Honestly it doesn\u0026#x27;t even really flinch, and that\u0026#x27;s on an aging laptop, but an 8 core at that, so I guess the Quantum components so far in Firefox are happy about this.","parent":"15338382","id":"15347843"}
{"by":"somberi","time":"1538286145","timestamp":"2018-09-30 05:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Paul Eckman\u0026#x27;s claim-to-fame is his work of proving that chnaging facial muscles changes the underlying emotions (in extension to the commonly known fact that our facial muscles change to reflect our emotions).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Paul_Ekman#Contributions_to_the_world\u0026#x27;s_understanding_of_emotion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Paul_Ekman#Contributions_to_th...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18101437","id":"18104645"}
{"by":"scintill76","time":"1410924467","timestamp":"2014-09-17 03:27:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a general fan of open data like this, I\u0026#x27;ve been a little worried these analyses would lead to the data not being released in the future.  Hopefully if they change anything in the future, it will still be useful and interesting.","parent":"8325534","id":"8328408"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1213394502","timestamp":"2008-06-13 22:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is pretty common.  I used to name my submit buttons \"submit\", but when I started using Javascript to do the submission, I found that form.submit() didn't work everywhere.  The reason is because form fields are accessed by form.field_name, and so the field data replaces the function stored in the \"submit\" slot.  \u003ci\u003esigh\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"217162","id":"217196"}
{"by":"wzsddtc","time":"1377552333","timestamp":"2013-08-26 21:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"coincidentally …. this is how we pooled the buffers on Vine for Android to make Camera initializations efficiently.","parent":"6278569","id":"6280024"}
{"by":"lifthrasiir","time":"1521184162","timestamp":"2018-03-16 07:09:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is a fancy way to say `grep -iv \u0026#x27;^c\u0026#x27;`. EDIT: Oh, I missed that the input was a single line.\u003cp\u003eI personally feel that control verbs are bad additions to the regexp, even though I do know that it is not a big addition to the regexp \u003ci\u003eengine\u003c/i\u003e itself (e.g. naturally extended from posesssive quantifiers like `a++` or atomic groups `(?\u0026gt;foo)`). Most uses of such verbs can be expressed with combined parsers and simpler regexps, in the much simpler and maintainable way.","parent":"16598909","id":"16599105"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1537547269","timestamp":"2018-09-21 16:27:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ewhat if those self-driving cars have multiple people in them?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou mean, say, sixty or seventy people, maybe? Let\u0026#x27;s think big! I wonder what such a vehicle might look like...","parent":"18038923","id":"18040814"}
{"by":"taliesinb","time":"1472315893","timestamp":"2016-08-27 16:38:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool hack. So you had to do multiple laps? It\u0026#x27;s interesting that dead reckoning actually worked, we had lacquered wooden floor in my house and the slip was quite bad, dead reckoning never worked.","parent":"12372971","id":"12373059"}
{"by":"amichail","time":"1324147210","timestamp":"2011-12-17 18:40:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's wrong to encourage students to major in science.\u003cp\u003ePeople should think for themselves and pursue whatever career interests them most.","parent":"3364400","id":"3364778"}
{"by":"mafribe","time":"1489504979","timestamp":"2017-03-14 15:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice work, I hope this will eventually be a serious alternative to the JVM route.\u003cp\u003eQuick question: does this compile down to DOT before going to LLVM? Or has DOT not yet arrived in Scala Native?","parent":"13867316","id":"13868209"}
{"by":"Tankenstein","time":"1485718036","timestamp":"2017-01-29 19:27:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they\u0026#x27;re hitting google apis, they must be paying obscene amounts of money, right?","parent":"13514805","id":"13516038"}
{"by":"regehr","time":"1341069219","timestamp":"2012-06-30 15:13:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm a professor.  If my student unilaterally posted something on arXiv, I would strangle him/her, at best.","parent":"4181582","id":"4181810"}
{"by":"bigbugbag","time":"1418323910","timestamp":"2014-12-11 18:51:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose you\u0026#x27;re not from Europe or are too young, the CCC made the news a number of times over here. It\u0026#x27;s probably the biggest and most known group.\u003cp\u003eAlso anonymous actions are kin to those of femen, designed to grab media coverage for free publicity while the media themselves have become more about sensationalism and at the same time more aware of the digital world.","parent":"8734938","id":"8736419"}
{"by":"davidwhodge","time":"1327566985","timestamp":"2012-01-26 08:36:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the feedback. We'll do what we can to make things more clean. Can you explain which links don't go anywhere?\u003cp\u003eFYI, the third word on the site is \"free\". We certainly could make that more clear in the video though.","parent":"3513262","id":"3513343"}
{"by":"fredliu","time":"1530809067","timestamp":"2018-07-05 16:44:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess the premise of the parent comment is that China, at least in the tech sector, is considered as \u0026quot;developed\u0026quot; as the US. If that assumption holds true, what the parent comment isn\u0026#x27;t far off. But that\u0026#x27;s an assumption that may or may not be true, depending on who you ask at least.","parent":"17464523","id":"17464725"}
{"by":"someone_here","time":"1283886996","timestamp":"2010-09-07 19:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Hacker News Mashups: Deliver Your Project Faster with Virtualized Data Services Across Internal \u0026#38; External Sources of Funding for these projects\"","parent":"1669667","id":"1669798"}
{"by":"nir","time":"1263077605","timestamp":"2010-01-09 22:53:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair point - awards like Turing or SIGMOD are different, where both the nominees and voters are high level experts in their fields. What I wrote applies to mainstream awards \u0026#38; lists.","parent":"1042059","id":"1042129"}
{"by":"walexander","time":"1306710228","timestamp":"2011-05-29 23:03:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I made an acount just to vote on this. The arguing you referred to is exactly the reason why i prefer hn to reddit. I would hate to see rhe same insular 'hivemind' effect here.","parent":"2595605","id":"2597856"}
{"by":"snarfy","time":"1461753929","timestamp":"2016-04-27 10:45:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hanselman.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;EverythingsBrokenAndNobodysUpset.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hanselman.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;EverythingsBrokenAndNobodysUps...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11575155","id":"11579248"}
{"by":"earlz","time":"1390415433","timestamp":"2014-01-22 18:30:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried blocking some of the relevant IP ranges, but it seemed like it wouldn\u0026#x27;t fallback or something. Instead of getting perfect streaming quality, I would not be able to load the youtube video at all","parent":"7104057","id":"7104432"}
{"by":"filmor","time":"1527453806","timestamp":"2018-05-27 20:43:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article explains that \u0026quot;children\u0026quot; is a fancified form of \u0026quot;childer\u0026quot; which matches the German \u0026quot;Kinder\u0026quot;. The dative has nothing to do with this.","parent":"17168942","id":"17169002"}
{"by":"gwenhwyfaer","time":"1189175980","timestamp":"2007-09-07 14:39:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, the original test was kind of vague about what it means (and because I don't have a working Flash, I can't see what this one says about it). I can mention the \"the neurotyp mean score was 16.4, but 80% of aspies scored above 32\" bit though.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eedit\u003c/i\u003e: done","parent":"51697","id":"51700"}
{"by":"chaostheory","time":"1438294055","timestamp":"2015-07-30 22:07:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it that much of a disadvantage to get offices really close to Bart stations outside of SF?","parent":"9978039","id":"9978549"}
{"by":"gloob","time":"1257860151","timestamp":"2009-11-10 13:35:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate it when people do this.  I don't really mind people breaking language for the purpose of amusement, but this doesn't fall into that category - it's somewhere closer to breaking language for the sake of breaking language, and I don't like that.  I like it when words are useful.  Things like this and \"browser-as-OS\" and so on make words much less useful.  I will concede that they seem to be using it as a metaphor more than a literal assertion, but it's still irksome.","parent":"932827","id":"932955"}
{"by":"mapgrep","time":"1317504259","timestamp":"2011-10-01 21:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This app is pulling data from Craigslist. But how? There is no API and the company is ruthless about going after scrapers. Search for 'Atwood' here \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist?currentPage=all\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a fantastic idea, I just wonder how sustainable it is.","parent":"3060748","id":"3061136"}
{"by":"fesja","time":"1346100797","timestamp":"2012-08-27 20:53:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"let's work on that WP plugin dan! ping me if you want","parent":"4440263","id":"4440851"}
{"by":"dmix","time":"1497324987","timestamp":"2017-06-13 03:36:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but then again something really should be done about the level of obnoxious nonsense on display.\u003cp\u003eIf only people asked whether something could be meaningfully accomplished before demanding something be done then we\u0026#x27;d have far less bad laws.","parent":"14542707","id":"14542713"}
{"by":"xmodem","time":"1359548041","timestamp":"2013-01-30 12:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's because it's a lot harder to fuck up a few kilobytes of assembly than it is to fuck up several MB of bootloaders, device drivers, filesystem drivers, code signature verification, etc, etc, all of which are required for a complete EFI implementation.\u003cp\u003eWhat we are seeing here is solid evidence of the fact that software is hard - and a lot of companies just don't have the chops to do a good job.  Somehow I doubt the Surface Pro would have bugs anything like this, for example.","parent":"5139099","id":"5139119"}
{"by":"spot","time":"1510279663","timestamp":"2017-11-10 02:07:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"right, so it learns to please its human audience.\nand distributed computing for rendering because it takes an hour per frame.","parent":"15666693","id":"15667406"}
{"by":"dsyph3r","time":"1364671162","timestamp":"2013-03-30 19:19:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, this looks really great. Will definitely check this out.","parent":"5466107","id":"5466355"}
{"by":"ShawnBird","time":"1348618226","timestamp":"2012-09-26 00:10:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many false alarms would it take to distract the department from finding a lost child?\u003cp\u003eLet me put it this way: Let's say it take 500 hours to find a child without someone calling in and 5 hours to investigate a claim.\u003cp\u003eIf the website method has a success rate of 1% or less the time needed to investigate the claims outweighs the time it would take to find the child without the 404 pages at all.\u003cp\u003eI don't have any numbers for this but surely that is one scenario where this could cause more harm than good.","parent":"4573010","id":"4573508"}
{"by":"adestefan","time":"1408488190","timestamp":"2014-08-19 22:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the taxi industry hired the same guy, then HN would be up in arms about how the industry is dying and that lobbying is destroying the world.\u003cp\u003eThe hypocrisy is astounding.","parent":"8198982","id":"8200232"}
{"by":"deaddodo","time":"1441006733","timestamp":"2015-08-31 07:38:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Every few days I get bored and can\u0026#x27;t focus, I have ADD\u0026quot;. No...that\u0026#x27;s called being bored.\u003cp\u003eADD is \u003ci\u003ewanting\u003c/i\u003e to focus on something, but just having no capability of doing so...let alone being able to do so on the shit that bores you.","parent":"10145258","id":"10145876"}
{"by":"Helmet","time":"1500050563","timestamp":"2017-07-14 16:42:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you explain? I thought the entire point of back-propagation was to differentiate and calculate the weights that are contributing more to the error and thus will be \u0026quot;changed\u0026quot; more when you do GD.","parent":"14771060","id":"14771171"}
{"by":"altay","time":"1190307493","timestamp":"2007-09-20 16:58:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i can't believe i've gotten to the bottom of this thread, and no one has mentioned this.\u003cp\u003efirst of all, you can't look at kiva.org and tell me that software can't make a difference in the world.\u003cp\u003esecond of all...\u003cp\u003e- measured in dollars, the bill+melinda gates foundation is the biggest charitable organization in the country, by an order of magnitude.  they give more to fight aids in africa than any country does, i believe.\u003cp\u003e- this is, in part, thanks to warren buffett, who gave away 85% of his fortune to charity.\u003cp\u003e- pierre omidyar, the founder of ebay, now runs omidyar network, an investment firm which specifically funds opportunities based on their potential for social good.  portfolio: \u003ca href=\"http://www.omidyar.net/portfolio.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.omidyar.net/portfolio.php\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- jeff skoll, the original president of ebay, founded participant productions, which aims to educate through entertainment.  it's the company that produced \u003ci\u003esyriana\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003egood night, and good luck\u003c/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ean inconvenient truth\u003c/i\u003e, among other films.  \u003ca href=\"http://www.participantproductions.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.participantproductions.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- speaking of ebay, that site has enabled over a million people to quit their jobs and make a living pursuing their passions. \u003cp\u003e- someone in the comments mentioned aubrey de grey, who's doing research to cure aging.  guess who's funding it?  peter thiel, founder of paypal.  \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nthere are probably hundreds of other examples of people who did well by society and then gave back.  (in fact, i'd love to hear these stories if you know any offhand.)\u003cp\u003eShooter, if you've already gotten past the first part -- doing well by society -- there are plenty of ways to give back to society that would be far more effective than going to med school.  PG's doing it in his own way, but if you've got something else in mind, maybe you should talk to some of those other folks for inspiration.  my understanding is that bill gates assembled a small group of really smart people and asked them to make a short list of major problems in the world that could be solved with money.","parent":"57298","id":"57467"}
{"by":"ThomPete","time":"1320857044","timestamp":"2011-11-09 16:44:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rule #1 never underscale. Warming up some extra juice on aws. Sorry about that.","parent":"3216089","id":"3216190"}
{"by":"throwaway2048","time":"1460959153","timestamp":"2016-04-18 05:59:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Newer versions of OpenSSH have totally dumped the \u0026quot;90s crypto\u0026quot;, although its important to note the problems with older ssh stuff are mostly due to things like RSA key lengths and use of RC4 and CBC. This stands in contrast to numerous gaping flaws in TLS stacks like the use of export ciphers, message maleability, inummerable weaknesses in x509 certs that allow spoofing\u0026#x2F;mitm and other horrible shit that is trivially compromised.\u003cp\u003eAlso consider attack surfaces here, how many exploits have there been on say openssl and apache\u0026#x2F;nginx  over the Past 1\u0026#x2F;5\u0026#x2F;10 years. How many on OpenSSH?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;For instance: the HTTPS stack will, with effort, allow you to opt in to protocol forwarding, via mechanisms that were designed to prevent accidental forwarding. The SSH stack, on the other hand, requires you to opt out of arbitrary TCP\u0026#x2F;IP port forwarding. Screwing that up will, more often than not, get you owned up Phineas Phisher-style.\u003cp\u003eLets not forget that libraries like OpenSSL require you to \u0026quot;opt out\u0026quot; of shit like ECB mode and NULL ciphers.....","parent":"11516860","id":"11517954"}
{"by":"CiaranMcNulty","time":"1528223809","timestamp":"2018-06-05 18:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it has a US subsidiary (which is fairly likely for tax etc) then that entity has to give you your data.","parent":"17239622","id":"17240690"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1477163126","timestamp":"2016-10-22 19:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It shouldn\u0026#x27;t overly scare you: It required a complex society to produce someone like Tainter, so it isn\u0026#x27;t proof of imminent dark ages, merely that to be able to posit a theory like this you\u0026#x27;d have to be alive roughly now.\u003cp\u003eJust like the future isn\u0026#x27;t equally distributed we\u0026#x27;re now so mobile that you could likely outrun a collapse of your society if you saw it coming.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re going to have to give up some creature comforts though, and possible more than just a few.","parent":"12768732","id":"12770083"}
{"by":"Prrometheus","time":"1231403031","timestamp":"2009-01-08 08:23:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\"i don't think he meant it as \"do nothing.\"\u003cp\u003eBut then again, a lot of eastern ascetics and mystics mean \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e that.","parent":"424472","id":"424643"}
{"by":"pella","time":"1380040852","timestamp":"2013-09-24 16:40:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"please sign the petiton :\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Around half of all clinical trials have not been published; some trials have not even been registered. If action is not taken urgently, information on what was done and what was found in trials could be lost forever, leading to bad treatment decisions, missed opportunities for good medicine, and trials being repeated unnecessarily.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e---\u0026gt;  \u003ca href=\"http://www.alltrials.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.alltrials.net\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6438945","id":"6438969"}
{"by":"tomcam","time":"1504443125","timestamp":"2017-09-03 12:52:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Taxes do not come in many forms. They are involuntary payments made with jail as the punishment for noncompliance.","parent":"15161021","id":"15161179"}
{"by":"jarsbe","time":"1453935250","timestamp":"2016-01-27 22:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 here. Demand in this demographic will be HIGH","parent":"10984085","id":"10984241"}
{"by":"Einstalbert","time":"1392254970","timestamp":"2014-02-13 01:29:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t remember a single class or even a single conversation with a parent, pastor, other kind of leader figure, from my youth about \u0026quot;how to deal with friends or people who have problems.\u0026quot; Sometimes you\u0026#x27;re lucky and get the, \u0026quot;How to find help if you feel like you\u0026#x27;re in trouble\u0026quot; resources but how in the hell does someone know how to handle this situation? I don\u0026#x27;t feel qualified to help anyone other than my immediate closest friends and family regarding the topic of suicide, and even then I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it. There are professionals out there who know what to say, when the saying is important to be done, as I know for sure that listening is a big component of help. I just have no words other than to share my own struggles, and oftentimes people don\u0026#x27;t want to hear about anything other than their own pit.","parent":"7226397","id":"7228754"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1519634168","timestamp":"2018-02-26 08:36:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get what you say. And there\u0026#x27;s a lot more poverty in the US than what you see in large cities. I recall being very disturbed by my first Amtrak from NYC to DC. North Philly. Somewhere further south, north of Baltimore. And damn, you can see some sad areas from the Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike. And on back roads in the Southeast generally.","parent":"16463881","id":"16463977"}
{"by":"TomOfTTB","time":"1316361700","timestamp":"2011-09-18 16:01:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's good advice but it doesn't address the core problem.  The reason \"all large companies are in love with finding the right strategy\" is because large companies tend to spawn large org charts and the closer people are to the top of that chart the more their job boils down to \"build strategy\".  So not being so f*cking strategic involves far fewer executives.\u003cp\u003eMeaning while the advice is good it doesn't address the actual problem which is getting those Senior VPs to either (a) eliminate their own jobs or (b) start churning out some code.  Neither of which seems likely.","parent":"3010421","id":"3010488"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1360934802","timestamp":"2013-02-15 13:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Believe it or not, the rest of the world aren't all using smartphones. Opera Mini dominates the less-than-smart phone space.","parent":"5225832","id":"5226010"}
{"by":"bjourne","time":"1474064632","timestamp":"2016-09-16 22:23:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s this one: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.paulgraham.com\u0026#x2F;submarine.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.paulgraham.com\u0026#x2F;submarine.html\u003c/a\u003e! It should be required reading for everyone I think.","parent":"12440509","id":"12517817"}
{"by":"draw_down","time":"1500386236","timestamp":"2017-07-18 13:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha! What a great line.","parent":"14794153","id":"14796503"}
{"by":"ygra","time":"1393999246","timestamp":"2014-03-05 06:00:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps they sort-of knew that both l (lower-case L) and L were acceptable for litres and thought case-insensitivity applies to all metric units.","parent":"7342682","id":"7345588"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1530003049","timestamp":"2018-06-26 08:50:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah! That is one of the few MSX systems I do not have yet... I have all of them including east EU\u0026#x2F;Russian knock-offs. In my experience MSX systems were far far more robust that C64 for instance; I have a lot of C64’s; most of them are broken; all MSX’s still work. That can have many causes but looking at the PCBs and components it seems they really tried to make C64 as cheap as possible while MSXs have more robust components.","parent":"17398875","id":"17398885"}
{"by":"Shank","time":"1499286659","timestamp":"2017-07-05 20:30:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;ve never worked anywhere that I felt the need to start critiquing the code of people from other teams who were working on systems that I might not even have experience with.\u003cp\u003eThis is probably a side effect of how GitHub evolved. Watching some of their earlier talks and comparing that with how they function now, the introduction of managers was a recent addition. It probably didn\u0026#x27;t change how past engineers operate in the company, e.g., \u0026quot;chime in if your comments are relevant, even if you aren\u0026#x27;t necessarily requested to chime in.\u0026quot;","parent":"14705025","id":"14705852"}
{"by":"pvaldes","time":"1540547808","timestamp":"2018-10-26 09:56:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; made kids unsafe\u003cp\u003eThanks god we have babysitter ticks now.","parent":"18307212","id":"18307941"}
{"by":"sz","time":"1275385578","timestamp":"2010-06-01 09:46:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or just add a link to the HN thread?","parent":"1394576","id":"1394717"}
{"by":"mdip","time":"1477512925","timestamp":"2016-10-26 20:15:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIs this due to the FCC reclassification of internet as a common carrier?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wondered a little bit about this, myself, when Fiber was launched.  They have a lot more motivation \u003ci\u003ewithout\u003c/i\u003e network neutrality as a matter of regulation because it\u0026#x27;d open up the ability of ISPs to penalize their products[0].\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m generally of the opinion that government over-regulates, but I was in support of the whole \u0026quot;Network Neutrality\u0026quot; situation because broadband services availability for many\u0026#x2F;most in the US is limited to \u003ci\u003eone\u003c/i\u003e provider and that one company is also usually either AT\u0026amp;T or Comcast, known more for how much they suck than for the services they provide.  It\u0026#x27;s not too hard to believe that if common carrier status were removed, AT\u0026amp;T or Comcast would lower their caps and start offering services that are exempt from those caps (especially Comcast - suddenly Hulu or anything NBCUniversal is all-you-can-consume, but Netflix\u0026#x2F;Amazon Video\u0026#x2F;YouTube are not).\u003cp\u003eIn a world like that, Google does have more motivation to roll out an ISP that does the opposite with their own services (or more likely just doesn\u0026#x27;t discriminate with anyone\u0026#x27;s traffic).  Fiber resulted in a sudden expansion by many other ISPs to service with higher performance (and in many areas that are not even on the \u003ci\u003efuture Fiber cities\u003c/i\u003e list), so they\u0026#x27;ve kind of accomplished the goal that has the greatest benefit to them -- more eyes on their products at a speed that makes them more useful.\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day, though, I\u0026#x27;m not so sure that the FCC reclassification is much more than a tiny bullet point in favor of not spending the money required to do a fiber roll out.  They are certainly aware that Republicans are itching to dismantle this reclassification and their nominee has promised to do so IIRC.  And though the Democrat\u0026#x27;s nominee has indicated that she\u0026#x27;ll keep that reclassification, I\u0026#x27;m not willing to take her at her word on that.  If that were their main reason for allowing fiber to \u0026quot;transition\u0026quot; to whatever new option they\u0026#x27;re looking at that (hopefully) costs a lot less to roll out but still \u003ci\u003edoesn\u0026#x27;t exist in the places they want to roll out to\u003c/i\u003e, I\u0026#x27;d be pretty surprised.\u003cp\u003e[0] I\u0026#x27;m not advocating that network neutrality be dismantled to give Google more motivation.","parent":"12796852","id":"12800032"}
{"by":"mindotus","time":"1300237435","timestamp":"2011-03-16 01:03:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hope everyone likes it :) Full changelog here: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.min.us/2011/03/14/v2-00/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.min.us/2011/03/14/v2-00/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2330214","id":"2330222"}
{"by":"mrmondo","time":"1432596561","timestamp":"2015-05-25 23:29:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This feels a little like \u0026#x27;snake oil\u0026#x27; to me - a little short on real details and the idea of using licensed software especially with my database server does not sound like something that I want to go back to.","parent":"9600028","id":"9602174"}
{"by":"Thedavek","time":"1424292168","timestamp":"2015-02-18 20:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cute idea. The mouth on the monkey logo is a little scary to me for some reason but the app idea is funny.","parent":"9070772","id":"9070789"}
{"by":"saiya-jin","time":"1479822638","timestamp":"2016-11-22 13:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"well, it is properly amazing activity. endless creativity in movements and situation (unless you only go to gym which would be a shame, but even that is great thing to do), you work out yourself to decent fitness at least, and usually in beautiful mountainous\u0026#x2F;natural environments. and let\u0026#x27;s not forget constant need to overcome one\u0026#x27;s fear of dying\u0026#x2F;getting injured, which a pretty strong reflex - this builds good overall character over time.\u003cp\u003eadd to it very friendly community, possibility to focus on anything from 2m boulder problem to few thousand metres of altitude difference alpinism depending on your current wishes, and I am not surprised.\u003cp\u003ethere are tons of great sports out there, tried many (but far from all!) but this one just works for me personally best (+ ski touring in winter).","parent":"13012719","id":"13014075"}
{"by":"floatboth","time":"1496351562","timestamp":"2017-06-01 21:12:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chromium skin (literally Electron app) with an adblocker and HTTPS Everywhere already integrated and an integrated payment thing, made by the guy infamous for inventing JavaScript and donating $$$ to pushing homophobic legislation? Whatever.","parent":"14464518","dead":true,"id":"14464800"}
{"by":"vezzy-fnord","time":"1382893362","timestamp":"2013-10-27 17:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Putting a \u0026quot;simple encouragement\u0026quot; in a technical tutorial like that is at the very least a non sequitur and detracts from the reading experience.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not to say educational material should be dry and without humor, but this is simply pure agenda.","parent":"6622467","id":"6622529"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1408136101","timestamp":"2014-08-15 20:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might depend on what you mean by ethical.  Certainly there\u0026#x27;s a world where treating people well makes them more interested in cooperating with you and that leads to a higher collection rate.  I have no idea whether we inhabit that world.","parent":"8184085","id":"8184150"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1260837074","timestamp":"2009-12-15 00:31:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think this was about success of her blog, it was about getting writing contracts. Although she might have mixed up things a little in the story to make it a better read (like in the end, suddenly there is this mystery top blogger who recommends her blog as one of the top 10 reads - might have distorted the outcome of her names experiment a little).","parent":"994378","id":"995520"}
{"by":"solnic","time":"1451486803","timestamp":"2015-12-30 14:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s gonna happen, as I mentioned they are both young libs. A shared dependency will be introduced very soon. I should\u0026#x27;ve mentioned that in the post.","parent":"10812194","id":"10812212"}
{"by":"seanzer","time":"1509697106","timestamp":"2017-11-03 08:18:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool, but unfortunately not what I was expecting","parent":"15617475","id":"15617477"}
{"by":"pstuart","time":"1445441333","timestamp":"2015-10-21 15:28:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Count the cost of prohibition and do the math. It\u0026#x27;s cheaper to not spend billions of dollars on prisons and courts then to treat drug abuse like the \u003ci\u003ehealth issue\u003c/i\u003e that it is.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the police need to come and kick down your door and throw you in prison to keep you from drinking any more alcohol. You know, for your own good and to protect society.","parent":"10425715","id":"10426096"}
{"by":"espo","time":"1326705288","timestamp":"2012-01-16 09:14:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The free tier is only for new customers. If you've been using AWS for years, you will not get this offer to test a Windows-server in the cloud.","parent":"3469980","id":"3469988"}
{"by":"dutchbrit","time":"1363890532","timestamp":"2013-03-21 18:28:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their twitter announced this news too, not just facebook, and they are continuing to post status updates on their services so I don't think they were hacked...","parent":"5417560","id":"5417648"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1320111011","timestamp":"2011-11-01 01:30:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Does Haskell offer any tangible, practical advantages or benefits over other languages in the context of a web framework, aside from just \"if you prefer a functional style of programming and you're working on a web project, here's a way to do it\"?\"\u003cp\u003eAt the moment, my answer is \"Not yet, but ask again in a year.\" There are tons of interesting things happening in the area of letting you have \"performance, correctness, rapid development and prototyping, pick three\", but they're still in the early phases yet.","parent":"3178200","id":"3180099"}
{"by":"mquander","time":"1324999218","timestamp":"2011-12-27 15:20:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in roughly the same prior-Harry-Potter-knowledge state as you are and I enjoyed it.","parent":"3395896","id":"3396004"}
{"by":"bajsejohannes","time":"1489427173","timestamp":"2017-03-13 17:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; thanks to Zhendong Su and his team whose fuzz testing prevented many bugs going into the release.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.cs.ucdavis.edu\u0026#x2F;~su\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.cs.ucdavis.edu\u0026#x2F;~su\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e claims 1228 bugs found (counting both LLVM and GCC). Impressive!","parent":"13859963","id":"13860302"}
{"by":"cabalamat","time":"1228120343","timestamp":"2008-12-01 08:32:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some random suggestions:\u003cp\u003e1. the icons that appear under a column when you're editing it should have tooltips so you can see what they mean\u003cp\u003e2. there should be an undo function\u003cp\u003e3. it should be able to figure what you mean if you retype as upper-case rather than using the buttons. (Perhaps asking the user \"do you want to put it in uppercase\"). This is not exactly hard to code, e.g.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    if (toUpper(originalField) == editedField) assumeUserWantsUppercase();\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"381453","id":"381509"}
{"by":"nosseo","time":"1535395981","timestamp":"2018-08-27 18:53:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did a degree in symbolic systems (CS + philosophy + linguistics; I have some CS background but less than I\u0026#x27;d have gotten from a CS degree), I did one software internship, and Triplebyte was my first job when I graduated. I\u0026#x27;m sure every candidate I send feedback is a stronger engineer than I am, but I do have some technical background. Most engineers want to write code all day, not emails, but I think a technical background does help us do our jobs.","parent":"17853394","id":"17853446"}
{"by":"snuxoll","time":"1414620408","timestamp":"2014-10-29 22:06:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m only saving $100 gross per month right now by getting a HDHP+HSA through my employer, but they also contribute a sizable portion to my HSA each month for the cost they save. Assuming nothing catastrophic happens in the next few years, I will have a sizable pool of money set aside in my HSA earning interest, and I can choose to lower my monthly cost at that point if I want.\u003cp\u003eI should point out that I am also married and have a single child, since routine care is covered even under HDHP thanks to the ACA I don\u0026#x27;t expect to need to spend much out of my HSA unless something major happens.","parent":"8530188","id":"8530295"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1249247239","timestamp":"2009-08-02 21:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, you can get 25 words for the price of 5 - a $50 value!","parent":"738013","id":"738094"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1348784298","timestamp":"2012-09-27 22:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not overlapping windows, but a similar concept. From folklore.org (awesome site, by the way; it made me a fan of \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e Apple):\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Smalltalk didn't even have self-repairing windows - you had to click in them to get\n  them to repaint, and programs couldn't draw into partially obscured windows.\n  Bill Atkinson did not know this, so he invented regions as the basis of QuickDraw\n  and the Window Manager so that he could quickly draw in covered windows and\n  repaint portions of windows brought to the front.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nOn Xerox, Apple and Progress: \u003ca href=\"http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_P...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4583102","id":"4583216"}
{"by":"heurist","time":"1517965683","timestamp":"2018-02-07 01:08:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I looked around my office expecting that someone else was watching and as stunned as I was. No one else was watching :(","parent":"16320258","id":"16321485"}
{"by":"sytelus","time":"1426219149","timestamp":"2015-03-13 03:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh? So they are just counting papers published in conferences by faculty members as ranking function? That\u0026#x27;s nuts in 2015. Exactly the reason why this people couldn\u0026#x27;t have invented PageRank.","parent":"9192982","id":"9195596"}
{"by":"JackFr","time":"1459915174","timestamp":"2016-04-06 03:59:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The true subsidy vis-a-vis real journalists is the lack of consequence she faces for being wrong.  It\u0026#x27;s unlikely she\u0026#x27;d face a lawsuit regardless of what she said.  If she were badly misinformed or made up elements of her story no one would care (nor should they -- she\u0026#x27;s nine)  But \u0026#x27;real\u0026#x27; journalists can have careers and livelihoods ruined by such events.","parent":"11435204","id":"11436511"}
{"by":"joshcorbin","time":"1340897923","timestamp":"2012-06-28 15:38:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm still pondering the \"how is this useful?\" part... why are absolute numbers useful for you in insert mode?","parent":"4172099","id":"4172184"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1358219906","timestamp":"2013-01-15 03:18:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I think there are a couple of downsides\u003cp\u003eIt's a trade-off. There is no free lunch. Erlang  besides high fault tolerance also has soft real-time capabilities as a goal. Some people don't like that term, but it basically means trying to minimize the latency of the system (even under load).\u003cp\u003eIt is one thing to analyze the system in a sequential manner, compile, optimize the hell out of it, down to assembler, bring up a client, measure and everything looks great. Now it comes time to deploy the system in the field. In the field hundreds of thousands of clients are supposed to connecting and we find that there are so many are dropping because of timeouts and the system is spewing socket errors.\u003cp\u003eSo what happens. The system that was optimized for sequential throughput will not necessarily perform well under concurrent load. The two are often at odds with each other.\u003cp\u003eSo Erlang authors who slowed down the sequential code by inserting those pesky interruptions in the middle of what could be tight C loops, just optimized for a different use case.","parent":"5056733","id":"5058399"}
{"by":"vassilevsky","time":"1508512338","timestamp":"2017-10-20 15:12:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Prosthetics and implants are the coolest shit","parent":"15481069","id":"15516397"}
{"by":"kalleboo","time":"1395522223","timestamp":"2014-03-22 21:03:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The magstripe reader hack lets you copy the data using the magstripe and then replay it at any other mechant.\u003cp\u003eWhen you hack a PIN keyboard, all the transactions will still go through the merchant\u0026#x27;s account, and it\u0026#x27;s easy to catch the thief.","parent":"7450793","id":"7450896"}
{"by":"neilc","time":"1248307319","timestamp":"2009-07-23 00:01:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that preference is exactly why you're not a venture capital firm.","parent":"718712","id":"718795"}
{"by":"cocktailpeanuts","time":"1471204220","timestamp":"2016-08-14 19:50:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not framing anything in any way. I\u0026#x27;m just stating the fact--The people who build \u0026quot;open web\u0026quot; products are all coming at it from philosophical point of view and with the exception of the few I mentioned (Bitcoin and Bittorrent) they have no immediate benefit that will trump all the inconvenience that\u0026#x27;s inherently built into the decentralized architecture.\u003cp\u003eAlso, decentralized architecture is inherently inconvenient. I\u0026#x27;m not pulling it out of nowhere, it\u0026#x27;s physics and network theory. That\u0026#x27;s why there\u0026#x27;s always constant pendulum swing between decentralized and centralized platforms. If you disagree, tell me an example of a purely decentralized platform with great traction that doesn\u0026#x27;t have a centralized counterpart or complement.\u003cp\u003eSome decentralized platform launches with a unique benefit, people adopt it, then people find out it\u0026#x27;s more convenient to have a \u0026quot;central directory\u0026quot; (Like piratebay or napster), but then centralized platforms are easy to kill, so this fight between decentralization and centralization keeps going on and on, but this is only because the initial decentralized technology introduced a clear, unique, and immediately useful feature that trumped all the inconvenience.","parent":"12283319","id":"12287023"}
{"by":"TempleOS","time":"1465623955","timestamp":"2016-06-11 05:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have divine right to command INtel.\u003cp\u003eWe are placing TempleOS on a ROM in the CPU.\u003cp\u003eGod says....\nundressing rebind cleverness Emmy navies tumors bellow\u0026#x27;s average\u0026#x27;s perception superconductivity\u0026#x27;s dominated teaching centaur Mulder Saroyan\u0026#x27;s athletes gelled marker luxuriance\u0026#x27;s Rotarian role\u0026#x27;s cam\u0026#x27;s berg\u0026#x27;s tipsier equipping Napoleon\u0026#x27;s humorist biennial\u0026#x27;s palindromes whistle\u0026#x27;s lenders crackpot\u0026#x27;s","parent":"11880935","dead":true,"id":"11882267"}
{"by":"3825","time":"1349651317","timestamp":"2012-10-07 23:08:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;give them a couple of hours of alone time\u003cp\u003eare they allowed to delegate parts of the task to others?","parent":"4624660","id":"4624749"}
{"by":"Schinken","time":"1327265503","timestamp":"2012-01-22 20:51:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"great article. everytime i need to do a hack, i ask myself the same question. the point of no return moved far away with more coding-experience.\u003cp\u003ei think this is a problem of a perfectionist :)","parent":"3497512","id":"3497639"}
{"by":"ZeroGravitas","time":"1457772814","timestamp":"2016-03-12 08:53:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This game is like crack for programmers\u003cp\u003eDoes this mean: not significantly more addicting than other games but used primarily by a minority so punishment is 100 times worse due to scare stories bred by systematic racism?","parent":"11269098","id":"11271997"}
{"by":"wreegab","time":"1392384052","timestamp":"2014-02-14 13:20:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is \u0026quot;IAP\u0026quot;?","parent":"7238192","id":"7238298"}
{"by":"freeone3000","time":"1532674112","timestamp":"2018-07-27 06:48:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft Teams has on-prem support.","parent":"17621090","id":"17623968"}
{"by":"conroe64","time":"1401804438","timestamp":"2014-06-03 14:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now, if only the workers did $15 per hour worth of work, everything would be set...","parent":"7838450","id":"7840240"}
{"by":"lrm242","time":"1318855465","timestamp":"2011-10-17 12:44:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What type of documentation?","parent":"3120081","id":"3120210"}
{"by":"0x5f3759df-i","time":"1415000216","timestamp":"2014-11-03 07:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please stop spouting this \u0026quot;the free market is always the best solution\u0026quot; bullshit. The large cable companies have colluded to stay out of each other\u0026#x27;s markets with or with out local laws giving them a monopoly. There are plenty of states\u0026#x2F;local cities that don\u0026#x27;t have these laws. Why aren\u0026#x27;t those places internet utopias?\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re opposed to common carrier regulations (I certainly am not) you should be pushing for what was done in the UK where all internet providers must lease out their wires to any competition that wants to use them. That will create something that is actually closer to a free market than expecting another company to come in and tear up every city in America with redundant wires.","parent":"8547498","id":"8549761"}
{"by":"smcl","time":"1510673495","timestamp":"2017-11-14 15:31:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I should\u0026#x27;ve been clearer, I\u0026#x27;m all over the place today and didn\u0026#x27;t finish my thought. I was referring to the \u0026quot;vulture funds\u0026quot;, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Argentine_debt_restructuring#Background_and_holdout_problem\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Argentine_debt_restructuring#B...\u003c/a\u003e who went a little further than that. Here\u0026#x27;s something from the linked article:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;\nUpon default, Argentina\u0026#x27;s bondholders sued to be repaid 100% of their bonds\u0026#x27; face value.[6][20][21] Among the bondholders were vulture funds, who had speculatively acquired US$1.3 billion of the bonds\u0026#x27; total value on the secondary market for cents on the dollar after the 2001 default.[5][22] Vulture funds also owned a large quantity of credit default swaps (CDS) against Argentine bonds. This created a further incentive to not only trigger a default against Argentina; but also to undermine the value of the bonds themselves, as the CDS would pay out at a higher rate if the defaulted bonds decline to extremely low values.[22]\n\u0026quot;","parent":"15695650","id":"15695846"}
{"by":"btym","time":"1478724306","timestamp":"2016-11-09 20:45:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is one line of laptops I definitely prefer and highly recommend: the previous generation of the MacBook Pro.","parent":"12913827","id":"12914451"}
{"by":"peeters","time":"1460221543","timestamp":"2016-04-09 17:05:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, think of the stage as a Coke can. It takes orders of magnitude more force to crumple it by pushing on the top of the can than by pushing on the side.  The first stage is the same way; it is designed to withstand forces along the longitudinal axis (thrust and drag) but not really from the sides.  The sides just have to withstand the pressure of the Coke\u0026#x2F;fuel.","parent":"11461506","id":"11462095"}
{"by":"findjashua","time":"1501189135","timestamp":"2017-07-27 20:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given that Visual Studio Code is also built on Electron but poses none of the resource issues (in spite of being a much more complex application - ide v\u0026#x2F;s chat client), makes me think the problem lies with the application and not the platform","parent":"14869151","id":"14869452"}
{"by":"Ilurkyeahsowat","time":"1501885000","timestamp":"2017-08-04 22:16:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if he did attempt to sell the data, is it illegal to sell data that is freely available on the internet (honest question, I couldnt find a solid answer via googling)? It might be against TOS.","parent":"14931948","id":"14932825"}
{"by":"jamesbkel","time":"1291436777","timestamp":"2010-12-04 04:26:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1968376","id":"1968504"}
{"by":"Sanddancer","time":"1466554378","timestamp":"2016-06-22 00:12:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, LA should build more housing, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t help when people remove housing from the market. This is a huge problem with AirBnB, they\u0026#x27;re encouraging people to remove supply from the housing market, often in the areas where more housing is needed the most.","parent":"11949387","id":"11950578"}
{"by":"ijustdontcare","time":"1500489948","timestamp":"2017-07-19 18:45:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t get it. What advantage does this service have over using a pdf library to insert additional text?\nWhy do I need an external server for this text insertion task?","parent":"14805750","id":"14806779"}
{"by":"sologoub","time":"1446919111","timestamp":"2015-11-07 17:58:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point - size-wise, that\u0026#x27;s subpar for the number of people. My grandparents received a 95 sq.m. apartment for them and my aunt (teenager at the time) across from a beautiful park in Moscow, now that was considered super lucky.","parent":"10525553","id":"10525576"}
{"by":"darkmighty","time":"1448852026","timestamp":"2015-11-30 02:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An important tenet of the digital world is avoiding error propagation. You pass the video along a few times and the errors accumulate.","parent":"10639239","id":"10647353"}
{"by":"dhoelzgen","time":"1329582904","timestamp":"2012-02-18 16:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unbelievable! Never thought that someone who points out to be a web designer could do this.","parent":"3606861","id":"3606914"}
{"by":"wmeredith","time":"1452453758","timestamp":"2016-01-10 19:22:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no effing way this is true. Everyone I know under 40 checks the RT score of a movie and factors that into their decision to see it.","parent":"10872076","id":"10876710"}
{"by":"KevinEldon","time":"1362687631","timestamp":"2013-03-07 20:20:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title of the 5-star review Amazon highlighted as the helpful is delightful: \"Got me off my video game addiction!\"\u003cp\u003eIf there isn't some kind of anti-DRM movement surrounding these review this game might break some kind of record for worst reviews. As of now there are 737 1-star reviews.","parent":"5339852","id":"5339933"}
{"by":"Mandatum","time":"1390858551","timestamp":"2014-01-27 21:35:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can get the poor storming the barricades for a couple of similar, but still very different, reasons. The obvious, as is stated, is that the poor are so bad off that they are desperate. But that is not the case in America (or Western Europe) today. So no surprise, and no cause for alarm on that count.\u003cp\u003eBut another is if the belief fades that things can get better. If I am (relatively) poor, but feel that I can work hard and make things better -- or at least that my children will have a real chance to do better than I have -- that\u0026#x27;s one thing. But if I feel that we have no chance, whether because we are locked out or merely because we don\u0026#x27;t have access to the kinds of education which would let us succeed, that is cause for upheaval. And increasingly, in America, that feeling is growing.\u003cp\u003eNote that it does not matter at all whether the stratification is actually rigid or not. No matter how many examples one comes up with of \u0026quot;poor boy makes good,\u0026quot; what actually matters is the perception of the poor about their chances. People will put up with a lot more inequality, in wealth or in income, if they think there is a real prospect for them to do better. But if not..","parent":"7133050","dead":true,"id":"7133410"}
{"by":"thristian","time":"1272948187","timestamp":"2010-05-04 04:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ever since I learned about it, I've always thought epilepsy was a astounding example of the brain's ability to recover from cascading system failures. After an episode of epilepsy, not only can the brain resume its ordinary functioning, but it hasn't even rebooted — non-volatile storage (memories and learned skills) is not corrupted, and even higher-level state like personality is unscathed.\u003cp\u003eIt's unfair to criticise a system for having a failure-state, because all systems have failure states. Different systems have different ways of handling failure-states, though, and the brain's ability to cope with failures is nigh amazing.","parent":"1317040","id":"1317089"}
{"by":"bliker","time":"1385668491","timestamp":"2013-11-28 19:54:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     All software included is bundled with own license\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nHow can I make this more clear than?","parent":"6805361","id":"6816119"}
{"by":"AnIrishDuck","time":"1334075587","timestamp":"2012-04-10 16:33:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes no sense to me. More cores means more processing throughput. Design advances lead to reduced power consumption. Both are happening at the same time, which is the only reason there might be any correlation.","parent":"3822621","id":"3823010"}
{"by":"thomasballinger","time":"1443373967","timestamp":"2015-09-27 17:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great point, particularly relevant to autocompletion: IPython magics are tab completable and therefore more discoverable than bpython special keys. Real quick, they\u0026#x27;re emacs-style readline keys but with ctrl-r for undo. F1-F10 do things too.\u003cp\u003eDocs for shortcut keys, for anyone F1 doesn\u0026#x27;t work for: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.bpython-interpreter.org\u0026#x2F;configuration.html#keyboard\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.bpython-interpreter.org\u0026#x2F;configuration.html#keybo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe F1 issue with GNOME terminal is frustrating, I agree a cheatsheet-style help page on the site would be good. I\u0026#x27;ve been meaning to do this for a while and might finally get time to work through backlog next week :)","parent":"10286814","id":"10287157"}
{"by":"turbulents","time":"1398463448","timestamp":"2014-04-25 22:04:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not seeing any Group 1 passengers arriving late and having to board with Group 3 or 4 and that happens on pretty much every flight I\u0026#x27;ve been on.\u003cp\u003eMaybe we\u0026#x27;re simulating a delayed flight then?\u003cp\u003eBut if the flight\u0026#x27;s already delayed, who even cares anymore.","parent":"7649026","id":"7649306"}
{"by":"armandososa","time":"1327126164","timestamp":"2012-01-21 06:09:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most movies in the tens of millions aren't worth watching either.","parent":"3492544","id":"3492779"}
{"by":"yellowapple","time":"1433780032","timestamp":"2015-06-08 16:13:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Enhance your experience by turning on sound\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHow about no.  Seriously.  Google of all companies should know better than to rely on autoplaying any sort of audible multimedia, especially as what I\u0026#x27;m guessing to be the preferred source of information (guessing since - at the point where people started talking - I simply closed the tab).","parent":"9679674","id":"9680009"}
{"by":"nreece","time":"1466857526","timestamp":"2016-06-25 12:25:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Link to petition: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;petition.parliament.uk\u0026#x2F;petitions\u0026#x2F;131215\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;petition.parliament.uk\u0026#x2F;petitions\u0026#x2F;131215\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, as it says: \u0026quot;Government responds to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures.\u0026quot;","parent":"11976036","id":"11976104"}
{"by":"asanwal","time":"1303150217","timestamp":"2011-04-18 18:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think your comment on share buy backs is not steeped in reality.  Moreoever, share price is not always tied to fundamental value of a company.  For value stocks, it is.  But for tech companies (growth stocks), it is often tied to implied or expected growth.  And if Page can't articulate where that growth will come from, the stock price can get hurt.","parent":"2458680","id":"2460025"}
{"by":"kgwgk","time":"1513899564","timestamp":"2017-12-21 23:39:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In BTC terms the USD is doing pretty well this week.","parent":"15983589","id":"15983951"}
{"by":"yellowapple","time":"1539888037","timestamp":"2018-10-18 18:40:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like fun to me.","parent":"18250555","id":"18250952"}
{"by":"Roonerelli","time":"1409831492","timestamp":"2014-09-04 11:51:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting project\u003cp\u003eMore and more financial institutions are starting to implement messaging using the FIX protocol\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.fixtradingcommunity.org/pg/main/what-is-fix\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fixtradingcommunity.org\u0026#x2F;pg\u0026#x2F;main\u0026#x2F;what-is-fix\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8267295","id":"8267678"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1480197698","timestamp":"2016-11-26 22:01:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most developers use whatever the company IT department and managers decide they should use.\u003cp\u003eNot everyone has the luxury to switch jobs all the time to use the  programming languages they want to use.","parent":"13046037","id":"13046141"}
{"by":"bsbechtel","time":"1441102254","timestamp":"2015-09-01 10:10:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a big difference between relying on people to make decisions for themselves in domains of life that affect only them (i.e., personal decisions), and relying on people to make decisions for others. This debate is about how many people should have a voice in making decisions in government, but the more important question is what decisions should be made by government, regardless of how many people participate (though I would argue more is generally better than less).","parent":"10151397","id":"10151536"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1517567391","timestamp":"2018-02-02 10:29:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably not, but what you \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e try to do is to transfer data in such a way that people would ignore the sounds because they thought the sounds were not data being transmitted.\u003cp\u003eMake it sound like birdsong in the presence of other birds, make it sound like fragments of human speech when there are people present, make it sound like fan noise in a DC and so on.","parent":"16288683","id":"16289610"}
{"by":"0xdeadbeefbabe","time":"1502127909","timestamp":"2017-08-07 17:45:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don’t think it made much sense, and what I did understand of it seemed very poorly argued.\u003cp\u003eAs someone who forms opinions, I care more about the argument than how poorly it was argued.  Is it biased, or even racist or sexist, of me to have such a view?\u003cp\u003eEdit: I wish the author of this piece sounded less frightened.","parent":"14948857","id":"14949460"}
{"by":"Karunamon","time":"1340239053","timestamp":"2012-06-21 00:37:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Worth Mentioning: Cato is a Koch Bros. group with a very \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e far right bent. Evaluate everything said with that in mind.","parent":"4139590","id":"4139928"}
{"by":"wp381640","time":"1537973410","timestamp":"2018-09-26 14:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dumped that routine and just started pointing those video URLs at youtube-dl\u003cp\u003evlc is a better video viewing experience (and better on battery) than a browser and you can usually start playing a partially downloaded file","parent":"18075560","id":"18076500"}
{"by":"fredkbloggs","time":"1450660571","timestamp":"2015-12-21 01:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, you\u0026#x27;re such an optimist!  Everyone knows firmware developers will only rewrite something needlessly if it\u0026#x27;s correct.","parent":"10769034","id":"10769046"}
{"by":"jhulla","time":"1458023529","timestamp":"2016-03-15 06:32:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only solution out of this paradox with respect to carbon fuels is taxation.   Unfortunately, as much as we\u0026#x27;d like, a global carbon tax regime is not practical, nor enforceable.   So we\u0026#x27;re stuck.","parent":"11287756","id":"11287869"}
{"by":"joering2","time":"1516142266","timestamp":"2018-01-16 22:37:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just like with dot com burst, it doesnt mean someone will turn the lights off forever. Just like the internet eventually got mainstream and websites are being bought and sold for billions these days, same way BitCoin will never be at 0,001 cent with nobody touch it with a long stick.","parent":"16163333","id":"16163415"}
{"by":"PhilRae","time":"1322041403","timestamp":"2011-11-23 09:43:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Badly worded title, should be \"How to learn Ruby on Rails for $150\". The author points out that it rightfully takes months of your time as well so depending what monetary number you value your time at, you could be very misled into thinking its better to do this than hire a professional.","parent":"3269393","id":"3269440"}
{"by":"tommynazareth","time":"1284065144","timestamp":"2010-09-09 20:45:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pretty busy right now with web programming, but I'd like to design some games in the future. I've been planning on writing for Android, but seeing ther awesome stuff people are doing with JS/HTML5 is making me more interested in going that route.","parent":"1676324","id":"1676881"}
{"by":"Cilvic","time":"1341520590","timestamp":"2012-07-05 20:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should provide this question/answer as a FAQ on your website. I came to HN to search for this after not finding the info on your website.","parent":"4164393","id":"4204845"}
{"by":"np422","time":"1367155005","timestamp":"2013-04-28 13:16:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please forgive for painting a picture with a broad brush.\u003cp\u003eI wasn't really talking about subways, they only served as a metaphor for the society at large.","parent":"5608349","id":"5621127"}
{"by":"Joky","time":"1420401704","timestamp":"2015-01-04 20:01:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The 6? ;)","parent":"8835507","id":"8835599"}
{"by":"imrehg","time":"1354853188","timestamp":"2012-12-07 04:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given the recent issues with Facebook not showing your updates to all your followers, but to merely a tiny fraction of them, I wonder how that would affect these things.","parent":"4885287","id":"4885416"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1386096183","timestamp":"2013-12-03 18:43:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You ought to model your law after Godwin\u0026#x27;s in order to make it more true.","parent":"6841325","id":"6842170"}
{"by":"jjs","time":"1240031501","timestamp":"2009-04-18 05:11:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is also a blind spot. If you obsess over finding someone who likes you for your personality, you should take the time to consider, \"Am I really the great, nice, etc. person that I think I am?\"","parent":"567954","id":"568085"}
{"by":"danssig","time":"1321630551","timestamp":"2011-11-18 15:35:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Here you did sweeping personal attacks on Perl programmers\u003cp\u003eAgain, you're projecting.  I said \"perl \u003ci\u003efanboys on this site\u003c/i\u003e\".  That's much less broad but you seem to not realize there is anything else?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;start writing personal attacks there\u003cp\u003eWhy do you take fair critiques of the language as \u003ci\u003epersonal\u003c/i\u003e attacks?  I think you need to read pg's essay about ID again.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;Get a life or start writing code for a hobby.\u003cp\u003eAgain with the personal attacks.  I have a life and I code for a hobby.  That doesn't stop me from correcting fan boys who spread misinformation or distortions of the truth.","parent":"3251664","id":"3252020"}
{"by":"rfreytag","time":"1240489498","timestamp":"2009-04-23 12:24:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What happens when the lawyers get a hold of this?","parent":"575355","id":"575435"}
{"by":"abalone","time":"1388472501","timestamp":"2013-12-31 06:48:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Splitting hairs over \u0026quot;not encourage\u0026quot; vs. \u0026quot;discourage\u0026quot; is sort of in the same vein as \u0026quot;these women\u0026quot; vs. \u0026quot;women\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s missing the point.\u003cp\u003eHe said it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;too late\u0026quot; for women at this stage, if they haven\u0026#x27;t been hacking since 13. What part of \u0026quot;too late\u0026quot; suggests that pg thinks there\u0026#x27;s more proactive stuff we can do?\u003cp\u003epg\u0026#x27;s point is clearly that we\u0026#x27;re fine and the problem lies 10 years up the line because middle school isn\u0026#x27;t doing enough to get 13 year old girls interested in hacking, because god knows how the heck you do that. It\u0026#x27;s passing the buck.","parent":"6989329","id":"6989426"}
{"by":"deadmik3","time":"1489072566","timestamp":"2017-03-09 15:16:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Is your neighbor watching you, ready to report you to the state for suspected subversive activities?\u003cp\u003eMaybe not to the state, but neighbors are absolutely watching neighbors ready to report to the court of social justice for suspected undesirable opinions. This has led to people losing their families and careers for views that other people disagreed with.\u003cp\u003eRemember it\u0026#x27;s not the judge that decides if you\u0026#x27;re guilty; it\u0026#x27;s the jury.","parent":"13824375","id":"13829779"}
{"by":"Harkins","time":"1362506608","timestamp":"2013-03-05 18:03:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"View event bindings. I'm often debugging pages I've never seen before and the only way I've found to know what's bound to what is to grep the js for live/bind/click/etc. or replace the event library (usually jQuery) with one where I've inserted logging into the lowest-level event binding functionality. This sucks a lot.\u003cp\u003eShow me HTML source over time. If I use curl/Tamper Data I see what the server actually sent, if use View Source I see the source after JS has run, if I use Firebug I see the current DOM. I care about all of these. Give me one place to click through them with diffs. Include steps for the JS changes, and a copy of the JS stack at each change so I can see who did it.","parent":"5325445","id":"5326161"}
{"by":"AnthonyMouse","time":"1538756257","timestamp":"2018-10-05 16:17:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s also possible that amidst the trade war China vs US, a few people in the US fed a business-oriented outlet about Chinese spying.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, \u0026quot;vehemently deny this or our business relationship will be soured\u0026quot; is \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e what you would expect from China on this. It\u0026#x27;s not as if censorship isn\u0026#x27;t in their playbook or putting a lid on this isn\u0026#x27;t in their interest.\u003cp\u003eIt would be very disappointing to see US companies cowed by something like that, but it\u0026#x27;s not as if US companies knuckling under to China\u0026#x27;s censorship requirements is without precedent.","parent":"18148113","id":"18149328"}
{"by":"hellofunk","time":"1482662652","timestamp":"2016-12-25 10:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve read several reviews by critics, as well as some users here on HN, that report that the new MacBook Pro battery is actually lasting quite a bit longer than its predecessor. I always found this surprising considering the current ongoing controversy.\u003cp\u003eI myself bought a brand-new 2015 model 15 inch, and I\u0026#x27;m getting all day battery close to 12 hours.  I\u0026#x27;ve never had a laptop deliver such battery life before.  And that\u0026#x27;s doing C++ development all day!","parent":"13253595","id":"13253670"}
{"by":"irpapakons","time":"1503774373","timestamp":"2017-08-26 19:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was recently effectively forced to compost, when my council changed the rubbish collections to only once every 2 weeks, while the recycling and compost collections occur weekly. This meant that if I didn\u0026#x27;t compost, I\u0026#x27;d have smelly rubbish for two weeks at a time. It is indeed not that bad, the compost bin has a lid that keeps the smell and it has made me much more aware of how much food I waste and why.","parent":"15104760","id":"15106863"}
{"by":"xaranke","time":"1534607581","timestamp":"2018-08-18 15:53:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would require immense cooperation and the whole scheme can be defeated if any one country doesn\u0026#x27;t comply.\u003cp\u003eGiven that the US has offered medical visas to Yakuza leaders in the past, I don\u0026#x27;t see this ever happening.","parent":"17788981","id":"17789025"}
{"by":"mr_spothawk","time":"1525536194","timestamp":"2018-05-05 16:03:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"polls are stated in such a way ... theyre part of the control","parent":"17002217","id":"17002372"}
{"by":"ksk","time":"1525810810","timestamp":"2018-05-08 20:20:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The job of the registry is to be a reliable structured storage with access control and other features. It is not responsible for the things that go into itself.\u003cp\u003eHere is the API.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;windows\u0026#x2F;desktop\u0026#x2F;ms724875(v=vs.85).aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;windows\u0026#x2F;desktop\u0026#x2F;ms7...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould you point out which one of these doesn\u0026#x27;t work as intended?","parent":"17024369","id":"17024600"}
{"by":"anoncoward111","time":"1529292710","timestamp":"2018-06-18 03:31:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I cannot wait for the day they either change their practices or go out of business.","parent":"17335278","id":"17335852"}
{"by":"ef4","time":"1472395004","timestamp":"2016-08-28 14:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surprised nobody has already pointed out why the high traffic from Ashburn, VA is \u0026quot;hard to interpret\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThat is the home of one of the biggest AWS data centers. It would be an obvious place to run bulk downloading of sci-hub content. It\u0026#x27;s also an easy place to host a VPN server, which users may be motivated to do if their ISPs are blocking sci-hub.","parent":"12374235","id":"12376678"}
{"by":"rplnt","time":"1328778191","timestamp":"2012-02-09 09:03:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In all fairness, the Slovakia probably backed out because it's just a few weeks before parliamentary elections and politicians need to earn good points. There were anti-acta protest and petitions, yes, but not so strong as in Poland for example. The protests were also in the shadow of anti-corruption protests taking place in similar times (as was already mentioned in comments).","parent":"3569635","id":"3570344"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1465077492","timestamp":"2016-06-04 21:58:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure what the \u0026quot;outside of China\u0026quot; is supposed to mean, but you can\u0026#x27;t trust the opinions of somebody whose freedom of speech is restricted and that has been raised by state propaganda. Even if they are \u0026quot;outside\u0026quot;, everybody has family left behind. If you really want to find out how being a Chinese feels like, you couldn\u0026#x27;t be very wrong to talk with people born in eastern Europe during communism. I\u0026#x27;m one.","parent":"11838133","id":"11838299"}
{"by":"stonemetal","time":"1418666709","timestamp":"2014-12-15 18:05:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like it would be awesome for political parties sending out registration\\get out the vote crews, power companies inspecting lines after a storm. Maybe search and rescue crews could use it to make sure everywhere is checked and done in an efficient manner.","parent":"8753149","id":"8753302"}
{"by":"dasmoth","time":"1533645990","timestamp":"2018-08-07 12:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The standard iPhone charger has a USB-A socket.  You plug a USB -\u0026gt; Lightning cable into that.  So it\u0026#x27;s only the cable that\u0026#x27;s non-standard.  Perhaps not ideal, but rather different from mandating a complete new charger.","parent":"17705934","id":"17706002"}
{"by":"marketmonkey","time":"1331302396","timestamp":"2012-03-09 14:13:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just had a play. Looks good. A few comments:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - SUGGESTIONS\n  - Switch the screenshot and demo button around (button on right)\n  - Improve the quality of the screenshot\n  - Pre-fill the blank slate with some demo items\n  - Allow users to download data (json/xml etc.)\n   \n  - BUGS\n  - When using the demo, press save, then [browser back]. I get a JSON representation\n   \n  - QUESTIONS\n  - Does it allow multi-user access?\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nKeep it up.","parent":"3684045","id":"3684082"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1287934422","timestamp":"2010-10-24 15:33:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes me think of personal assistants.  Has anyone tried Timothy Ferris' \"life outsourcing\" with a virtual personal assistant?  Is it all it's cracked up to be?","parent":"1825877","id":"1826318"}
{"by":"ambicapter","time":"1442682948","timestamp":"2015-09-19 17:15:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What has changed since then?","parent":"10244673","id":"10244871"}
{"by":"dexwiz","time":"1472073418","timestamp":"2016-08-24 21:16:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the weight of the ice would an interesting point to consider in these models. Glaciers definitely deform a planet\u0026#x27;s crust. The Great Lakes region lies in a depression that is still rebounding from the last ice age.\u003cp\u003eReading this, my first thought on the \u0026quot;hot eyeball\u0026quot; would be that the massive ice cap would cause a depression on the night side. So no rivers would want to flow to the day side. Then I remembered a study regarding icecaps melting actually lowering the local sea level [1]. Since the ice is so massive, it actually attracts the sea locally with its gravitational pull. So when the ice melts, the pull is released, and the sea level lowers locally. So with the oversize icecap on the night side, it would attract water to it, even further preventing it from flowing to the day side.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;how-melting-ice-sheet-could-actually-lower-sea-level-some-places\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sciencemag.org\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;how-melting-ice-sheet...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12355177","id":"12355315"}
{"by":"ryen","time":"1405542199","timestamp":"2014-07-16 20:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But there is a strong community behind OCaml. A lot of undergraduate programs use a dialect of ML for their core classes\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t understand your response.  Are you saying the OCaml community primarily consists of undergraduates?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; While most OCaml implementations have poor standard libraries\u003cp\u003eThat right there should tell you something.","parent":"8044228","id":"8044316"}
{"by":"SteveJS","time":"1526819703","timestamp":"2018-05-20 12:35:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compat in windows was a highly engaged technical problem, in a way that would be considered ‘hack on top of hack’ in linux.\u003cp\u003eWindows ability to shim is significantly more sophisticated then maintaining a stable abi. It can present a facade of old implementation details to specific programs.  Here is a Raymond Chen blog post (2006) on making an app with a ridiculous bug continue to ‘work’ by creating a decoy to compensate for the app bug. He mentions app compat in the ‘immature’ days of windows 95 where they ‘only’ had the ability to use app compat flags and hot patch binaries in memory on load: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;oldnewthing\u0026#x2F;20060109-27\u0026#x2F;?p=32723\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;oldnewthing\u0026#x2F;20060109-27\u0026#x2F;?p=...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt can be argued that extreme app compat is a bad thing. Paying customers with line of business apps that ‘simply’ continued working never argued that.","parent":"17111511","id":"17112453"}
{"by":"bromley","time":"1339677504","timestamp":"2012-06-14 12:38:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That makes sense.  I was thinking that supporting the 6 customers might have been easy.\u003cp\u003eShifting focus fully to other things clearly worked out well for you, and I admire the ballsy decision to do that in spite of the the loss of revenue.","parent":"4110950","id":"4110999"}
{"by":"xorcist","time":"1496656325","timestamp":"2017-06-05 09:52:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Persecuting someone for choosing a political candidate or supporting a political group is the exact opposite of a democracy\u003cp\u003eSpeaking out against atrocities and harmful political views is \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e what democracy is about.\u003cp\u003eSome people find themselves \u0026quot;persecuted\u0026quot; any time someone disagrees or they can\u0026#x27;t get media on their side. That is diluting the term and in no way reason to stop speaking out against them. (And perhaps ironically, the ones who want to silence others often see themselves as silenced.)","parent":"14485620","id":"14486346"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1432606401","timestamp":"2015-05-26 02:13:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He had something else he wanted to work on. It\u0026#x27;s not complicated.","parent":"9602397","id":"9602622"}
{"by":"ropable","time":"1330649070","timestamp":"2012-03-02 00:44:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those of us late to the Bitcoin idea, how does one \"steal\" Bitcoins? Is it the equivalent of copying someones private key and then deleting all their copies of the key?","parent":"3654110","id":"3654859"}
{"by":"maxharris","time":"1370457968","timestamp":"2013-06-05 18:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Straw man. Charity and giving are morally neutral actions. On its own, charity doesn't improve your life.\u003cp\u003eRemember, the purpose of morality to guide you so that you can enjoy a good life. A morality (that's good for life) should not tell you to suffer, give up what you care about and die.","parent":"5827557","id":"5827687"}
{"by":"philliphaydon","time":"1392000450","timestamp":"2014-02-10 02:47:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I run Windows 8.1 on my MBP\u0026#x2F;r and don\u0026#x27;t have that issue at all.\u003cp\u003eExternal DVD Drive, play one of my DVDs on the Mac, audio is perfectly fine.\u003cp\u003ePlay the same DVD on my Asus UX31, cannot hear the people talking, use VLC player to up the audio to 125% and its fine.","parent":"7206152","id":"7208800"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1540054699","timestamp":"2018-10-20 16:58:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, because of the rest of the sentence:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;...the subscription flow would have easily saddled people with subscription charges that they might not have known about.\u0026quot;","parent":"18263870","id":"18264148"}
{"by":"Firehed","time":"1355534206","timestamp":"2012-12-15 01:16:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I certainly don't trust Apple to get it right, given their experiences with internet services. They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncool (mac.com -\u0026#62; me.com -\u0026#62; icloud.com). Unlike your username to \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c/i\u003e services, your email address is tied into all sorts of other third-party services (not to mention address books) and is incredibly painful to update.","parent":"4924186","id":"4924201"}
{"by":"sern","time":"1266683415","timestamp":"2010-02-20 16:30:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's also a perma-delete a couple of levels deep in the help system that will deactivate your account forever. (Like deactivation, it probably doesn't delete anything, though.)","parent":"1139081","id":"1139111"}
{"by":"archimedespi","time":"1442243137","timestamp":"2015-09-14 15:05:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quite a few hardware startups have gained a (sometimes large) portion of their series-A funding through Kickstarter or similar platforms.","parent":"10215139","id":"10215397"}
{"by":"pktgen","time":"1387030361","timestamp":"2013-12-14 14:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The 5% and higher rewards programs you mentioned may not even disappear. The CC companies are already losing money on them because the interchange fees are closer to 2% for Visa\u0026#x2F;MC and maybe 3% for Amex. The expectation, of course, is that a significant percentage of consumers will end up paying interest which will make up the lost profit. Considering how long such programs have been operating, I assume this is true and it\u0026#x27;s profitable.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a bit torn on the interchange rate argument altogether. Here\u0026#x27;s how I see it:\u003cp\u003e- From a merchant\u0026#x27;s PoV, the service credit cards offer to them is \u0026quot;customers can purchase something now for up to $XXXX (or higher), the merchant will get paid and won\u0026#x27;t have to worry about credit risk.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e- On one hand, you have your \u0026quot;essentials\u0026quot; merchants, such as grocery stores. Such merchants sell products that consumers would be purchasing no matter what, whether they pay via CC, check or cash. They aren\u0026#x27;t getting much value for that interchange fee.\u003cp\u003e- On the other hand, you have more luxury merchants. Think along the lines of Apple. How many $2000 computers does Apple sell simply because of the pay-over-time ability? I\u0026#x27;m willing to bet it\u0026#x27;s a decent amount. Obviously, merchants like that are receiving a lot more value from the credit card system.\u003cp\u003eI think the fairest way of doing this would be to classify merchants into those two categories. Even doing that can be difficult, though, because what is \u0026quot;luxury\u0026quot;? For example, is McDonald\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;luxury\u0026quot;? IMO, the best answer would be \u0026quot;does the merchant actually benefit from customers being able to pay over time?\u0026quot; Going by that definition, McDonald\u0026#x27;s doesn\u0026#x27;t - nobody buys a burger and expects to pay for it over time, even though McDonald\u0026#x27;s may be considered by some to be a luxury for a less-than-middle-class person.\u003cp\u003eFinally, you have the issue of coming up with a fair rate. It\u0026#x27;s not fair to directly compare with cash and checks because those have their own expenses too. Counterfeit cash, bounced checks, and the expense of processing both, not to mention having cash on hand is a robbery risk. Also, cash does have \u0026quot;processing\u0026quot; costs - someone has to deposit that in a bank usually every day, and for larger stores that would normally be an armored car service which costs money.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s my take on fair rates: Capital One has a Visa CC that offers 1.5% cashback on all purchases with no limits. (That\u0026#x27;s the highest rate I\u0026#x27;m aware of for Visa\u0026#x2F;MC besides the \u0026quot;loss leader\u0026quot; category rewards or promos.) Obviously the rates are currently high enough for that. Going by the current rates being in the 1.6%-2% area, it would seem 0.3-0.5% should be a fair enough rate to adequately cover the CC companies operating costs, make a fair (not exorbitant) profit, etc.\u003cp\u003eNow, should there be a premium over that for \u0026quot;luxury\u0026quot; merchants? Debatable. And so is the issue of what it should be.","parent":"6905509","id":"6905724"}
{"by":"janc_","time":"1481253015","timestamp":"2016-12-09 03:10:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Most\u0026quot; implies \u0026quot;not all\u0026quot;…","parent":"13125683","id":"13136379"}
{"by":"DanielBMarkham","time":"1240068837","timestamp":"2009-04-18 15:33:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great post!\u003cp\u003eExcept for Kant and Wittgenstein. I might have put Kant in with the .NET/CLR/JVM camp with his moral imperative. Wittgenstein? He has to be into AI with his perception of the slipperiness of language and meaning -- no doubt about it.","parent":"568187","id":"568389"}
{"by":"themartorana","time":"1468718621","timestamp":"2016-07-17 01:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s a little absurd to say she only cares for herself. Despite the megalomania that I assume all presidents have to have, I doubt they are in it solely for themselves. Well, maybe Trump, but he\u0026#x27;s pretty open about it.\u003cp\u003eI do, however, believe she thinks she\u0026#x27;s above the law, and so far it seems she\u0026#x27;s right.","parent":"12108539","id":"12108605"}
{"by":"sytse","time":"1469039194","timestamp":"2016-07-20 18:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For sure we think we\u0026#x27;re punching above our weight. We\u0026#x27;re less than 100 people and are competing with multi-billion dollar companies likes GitHub.\u003cp\u003eSome other benefits of our open core model:\u003cp\u003e1. Remote only is the default way of working, allowing us to hire great people around the world.\u003cp\u003e2. Our open core model attracts great people, it is rare to have no recruiting problem for engineering.\u003cp\u003e3. Our technical interview is adding a feature to GitLab, ensuring we test exactly the skills we need when you join.","parent":"12131143","id":"12131311"}
{"by":"enedil","time":"1437563002","timestamp":"2015-07-22 11:03:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you kindly send me an invitation?\nI\u0026#x27;m on Twitter as @enedil1","parent":"9928696","id":"9928831"}
{"by":"AndrewKemendo","time":"1528479135","timestamp":"2018-06-08 17:32:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry to hear that.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’ve been told people literally do not believe me because of my looks.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFWIW I\u0026#x27;ve been told the same thing when I wore a beard, and have heard the same of other people for other physical traits.","parent":"17267441","id":"17267755"}
{"by":"amirmc","time":"1404627186","timestamp":"2014-07-06 06:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those things can be just as crude as each other. Genes (and proteins) can interact in very complex ways so don\u0026#x27;t be fooled into thinking that \u0026#x27;direct manipulation\u0026#x27; of specific parts means you have any idea what\u0026#x27;s going on.\u003cp\u003eAs a software analogy, think about a very large and complex, undocumented code-base in a bizarre language you\u0026#x27;ve never come across. Your only experimental tool is to pick a line of code, delete\u0026#x2F;modify it, and then see what happens. As you learn more, you can do refine your experiments but basically, you\u0026#x27;re still just \u0026#x27;poking it with a stick\u0026#x27;.","parent":"7993852","id":"7993913"}
{"by":"Tarrosion","time":"1489520777","timestamp":"2017-03-14 19:46:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My setup is dead simple. I\u0026#x27;m on Windows, so I use Notepad++ with syntax highlighting as my editor and do a lot via the REPL. I just use regular Julia, not JuliaPro. Installing packages hasn\u0026#x27;t been a problem for me, just Pkg.add(\u0026quot;PackageYouNeed\u0026quot;). I\u0026#x27;ve had very few problems with package setup in the past and none recently.\u003cp\u003eOn a 4-core CPU I have the environment variable JULIA_NUM_THREADS set to 3 so that when Julia is doing threaded worked there\u0026#x27;s still a core free for web browsing.\u003cp\u003eOne potential gotcha: the Julia docs will mention that you can access shell commands from the REPL by starting your line with a semicolon, e.g. ;ls. For me this only works if you start Julia from something like Git Bash, not cmd.\u003cp\u003eLots of people seem to like Juno (junolab.org) as an IDE. The team behind it has made incredible progress recently, and sometimes I use it for its GUI around the debugger, but for the most part I tend to stick to Notepad++.","parent":"13869552","id":"13870842"}
{"by":"baby","time":"1345810450","timestamp":"2012-08-24 12:14:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"in the case of a false positive you have to go back two words and correct it (in the idea the word was corrected automaticaly). I'm afraid this happens more than I make mistakes typing.","parent":"4423106","id":"4427213"}
{"by":"khamoud","time":"1375412898","timestamp":"2013-08-02 03:08:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s pretty much how I felt too. It is humiliating and humbling at the same time.","parent":"6144914","id":"6145122"}
{"by":"cgs1019","time":"1337720512","timestamp":"2012-05-22 21:01:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if the blog is registered under her parent(s)'s account. I would expect a 9-year-old user is outside the Blogger ToS.","parent":"4009404","id":"4009978"}
{"by":"oms2010","time":"1275052646","timestamp":"2010-05-28 13:17:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent design/graphics.\u003cp\u003eI would suggest making the description of what the site does a little longer (not too long though). Example:\u003cp\u003e\"Supplement face-to-face classes with a HootCourse and get to know each other faster.\" ... add another sentence or two here so I don't have to click around too much to get a little more info on this sentence.\u003cp\u003eThat was my first impression at least.","parent":"1384071","id":"1386305"}
{"by":"67726e","time":"1490305910","timestamp":"2017-03-23 21:51:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You can\u0026#x27;t have positive experiences to remove your bias if you have zero experiences.\u003cp\u003eWho is to say they have any? You\u0026#x27;re implying they\u0026#x27;re somehow racist because they haven\u0026#x27;t met a black engineer? Just because of their skin color you\u0026#x27;re gonna judge \u0026#x27;em? Well sounds like you\u0026#x27;re the racist.","parent":"13944644","id":"13944696"}
{"by":"nicboobees","time":"1437049936","timestamp":"2015-07-16 12:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Habits like reading every scientific paper and worrying about them?","parent":"9896534","id":"9896761"}
{"by":"gthank","time":"1295868711","timestamp":"2011-01-24 11:31:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's also typically a huge win for the employees: at a pre-IPO company, your stock isn't really worth very much, because it's hard to find somebody to buy it (for most employees). So instead of paying taxes for a highly illiquid asset, you instead get an option (probably with a really nice strike price), and you don't pay taxes until you exercise it.","parent":"2134767","id":"2134900"}
{"by":"nness","time":"1421894293","timestamp":"2015-01-22 02:38:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I stand corrected, IndexedDB would likely be a far better solution than LocalFileSystem.","parent":"8927117","id":"8927221"}
{"by":"transitivebs","time":"1529088325","timestamp":"2018-06-15 18:45:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I\u0026#x27;d love to check out the source.","parent":"17322184","id":"17322390"}
{"by":"gkya","time":"1483686570","timestamp":"2017-01-06 07:09:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well Islam is not only what extremists make us think of it.  When it comes to actual muslims, there\u0026#x27;s a gradient from totally-by-the-book to muslim-merely-in-the-name.  Many muslims consume alcoholic drinks.","parent":"13334279","id":"13334507"}
{"by":"danielweber","time":"1353339210","timestamp":"2012-11-19 15:33:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even airlines flights aren't the cost of fuel.  It's a promising technology, but it isn't \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e promising.","parent":"4804464","id":"4804729"}
{"by":"eropple","time":"1375295026","timestamp":"2013-07-31 18:23:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; How do people writing games in Java or C# deal with this? Gaming is an area where people expect smooth, high speed performance.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort, mean answer: poorly.\u003cp\u003eLonger answer: they sacrifice the benefits of managed languages. They forego immutability and controllable object lifetimes for the use of object pooling to prevent the garbage collector from going nuts. And many still target 30fps in order to minimize the effects of variable latency.\u003cp\u003eI used to do this; I\u0026#x27;m porting my stuff from XNA\u0026#x2F;MonoGame to my own OpenGL\u0026#x2F;GLFW\u0026#x2F;OpenAL engine in C++ because I grew unsatisfied with the performance and limitations inherent in the process. Many of the biggest benefits of managed languages are blunted with games in other ways, too. The CLR, for example, should be a huge boon for scripting--the DLR is a fantastic concept, for example. But dynamic code requires codegen, and System.Dynamic doesn\u0026#x27;t work in Xamarin\u0026#x27;s iOS product. So if you want to bring a game with scripting from Windows\u0026#x2F;OS X to iOS, you\u0026#x27;re boned. (Java has the same problems; Groovy, while a great scripting language, doesn\u0026#x27;t run on Dalvik or on IKVM-over-MonoTouch. Rhino\u0026#x27;s LiveConnect doesn\u0026#x27;t work there either.)\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I use AngelScript and expose C++ objects and methods to it, computed statically at runtime but executable via interpreted scripts, for the best of both worlds without breaking my back to do it. Memory management just isn\u0026#x27;t that hard and the performance and compatibility of native code just can\u0026#x27;t be touched right now.","parent":"6135698","id":"6135808"}
{"by":"bena","time":"1253819902","timestamp":"2009-09-24 19:18:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm beginning to think that Keynesian economics is a lot like communism: \"It's never worked because no one was doing it right.\"\u003cp\u003eMaybe it just can't be done right. Maybe the problem is people.","parent":"841765","id":"841944"}
{"by":"noobermin","time":"1486802333","timestamp":"2017-02-11 08:38:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a small conundrum, I don\u0026#x27;t particularly like Murdoch either, but his paper is well regarded and many important pieces have appeared there (like op-ed from public figures for example), and I miss out when I can\u0026#x27;t have access to WSJ articles.\u003cp\u003eI wish there were a way to buy access to individual articles .","parent":"13621645","id":"13621757"}
{"by":"tryingagainbro","time":"1506455276","timestamp":"2017-09-26 19:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThere was precious little guidance given on exactly what a kosher implementation would be, so devs pms and lawyers just get together and make a good faith effort at it.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI imagine that in Russia and similar countries, lack of guidance is by design. If you don\u0026#x27;t tow the FSB line, don\u0026#x27;t pay the bribes or if someone else wants your business, you\u0026#x27;ve broken the law by not implementing federal law zxy52n.\u003cp\u003eEdit: USA places a gazillion requirements for businesses (especially banks all over the world) so what Russia is doing is nothing extraordinary, on itself. They have their own FB so I doubt they\u0026#x27;ll miss much even if FB was banned tomorrow.","parent":"15341822","id":"15341949"}
{"by":"switch33","time":"1360777606","timestamp":"2013-02-13 17:46:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering one of the payments system was literally a copycat originating from the US but then taken to China to develop the same product just in a different place to avoid patent lawsuits. Yes, I do consider some of these to be a bit \"wacky.\" I think this one if I remember correctly may be spacebox or something with a similar name.\u003cp\u003eHelium i haven't heard much about, so I can't say much about that.\u003cp\u003eIt's not exactly like this stuff hasn't been coded before in easy enough to use solutions. I'm just annoyed primarily that this site wants you to sign up before showing any of the code/example of how easy it is to use if it's free. Seems kind of like an extra step for no real reason.\u003cp\u003eAlso from what i've heard a lot of stripe/braintree really isn't that hard to set up. If you want to prove that the process is really easy you need to show that stuff on the front-page in pictures or snippets.","parent":"5214434","id":"5214457"}
{"by":"jaems33","time":"1336188806","timestamp":"2012-05-05 03:33:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Don't spend $100,000 on an app. Or even $10,000.\"\u003cp\u003eI think that's easy to say if you are a developer. If you are a designer, how is possible to not spend at least 10k on a developer?","parent":"3930245","id":"3931246"}
{"by":"Scarblac","time":"1444135419","timestamp":"2015-10-06 12:43:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish companies would stop trying to grow, and just continue doing their best at what they do best. Everything that tries to keep growing always goes to shit after a while.","parent":"10338217","id":"10338419"}
{"by":"BurningFrog","time":"1475902932","timestamp":"2016-10-08 05:02:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many have tried to launch competing products, but the FDA had denied all but AdrenaClick.\u003cp\u003eThorough explanation and editorilizing here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;slatestarcodex.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;reverse-voxsplaining-drugs-vs-chairs\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;slatestarcodex.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;reverse-voxsplaining-dr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12665109","id":"12665761"}
{"by":"wtbob","time":"1475501780","timestamp":"2016-10-03 13:36:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if that\u0026#x27;s actually a good thing. In general, I prefer native apps (\u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e apps) to web apps; in particular, I trust an open-source application I compiled myself far more than I do some random website.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, I trust the random website more than I do a closed-source, \u0026#x27;free\u0026#x27; mobile app.\u003cp\u003eSo it\u0026#x27;s a bit of a pickle.\u003cp\u003eLong-long term, I\u0026#x27;d like to see more free software on mobile devices, and more simple HTML web apps.","parent":"12627305","id":"12627322"}
{"by":"msamwald","time":"1547297753","timestamp":"2019-01-12 12:55:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always found that in introduced unpragmatic, counterintuitive roadblocks for actual knowledge integration. The most annoying thing is how it carves up reality into representations of different granularity, which are then made disjoint.","parent":"18890365","id":"18890986"}
{"by":"Moto7451","time":"1369898213","timestamp":"2013-05-30 07:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree. If you don't like the policies of a studio, boycott their content. This is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e a new concept by any means[1][2]. If a content provider lacks an audience, it's going to hurt them financially. It doesn't matter if its paid media like a movie or ad based media like a TV show.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"http://betanews.com/2008/07/08/angry-youtube-users-boycott-viacom-seems-to-respond/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://betanews.com/2008/07/08/angry-youtube-users-boycott-v...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=movie+studio+boycott\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.google.com/search?q=movie+studio+boycott\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5791237","id":"5791346"}
{"by":"joshmangel","time":"1408966166","timestamp":"2014-08-25 11:29:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Payoneer","parent":"8219389","id":"8221313"}
{"by":"easy_rider","time":"1388074095","timestamp":"2013-12-26 16:08:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Happy and sticking with my 27\u0026quot; LG IPS for 1\u0026#x2F;5th the price. Honestly my vision is too poor for 4k 24\u0026quot; screens.","parent":"6965492","id":"6966653"}
{"by":"mwfunk","time":"1407182217","timestamp":"2014-08-04 19:56:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve lived in the US all my life, with my excessive number of years split between Michigan, North Carolina, and northern and southern California, and in all of those places the proper range of speeds was anywhere from the posted speed limit to a hair under 10 MPH over the posted speed limit (I prefer the latter :). Go slower than that and you start blocking traffic, go faster than that and you might get a ticket.\u003cp\u003eThis is when driving on highways and major roads, at least.\u003cp\u003eI vividly remember the days of 55 MPH speed limits in the US, and it was pretty much the same then (a hair under 10 over was the optimal speed, but 10 over was a lower speed back then).\u003cp\u003eAnecdotal experience and all, but at least for me and other drivers that I\u0026#x27;ve observed or talked to about it, just because people tend to go over the limit doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that the limit has no effect.\u003cp\u003eThis is all fine by me. I only mention it because this is exactly the kind of topic overly logical people (and\u0026#x2F;or inexperienced drivers) tend to get bent out of shape about. Just because the speed limit isn\u0026#x27;t strictly enforced doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it\u0026#x27;s useless, and just because a cop could theoretically take advantage of people\u0026#x27;s behavior and give a bunch of tickets to people for going 5 over doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that it\u0026#x27;s a conspiracy by the police.","parent":"8133103","id":"8133680"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1454958353","timestamp":"2016-02-08 19:05:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blogspam?\u003cp\u003eCurrent discussion: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11037903\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11037903\u003c/a\u003e (86 points, 7 hours ago, 12 comments)","parent":"11059653","id":"11060163"}
{"by":"downandout","time":"1531009182","timestamp":"2018-07-08 00:19:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhich supposedly means I can\u0026#x27;t get on an airplane. I have since been on an airplane. But not one that required a loss of dignity.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ll apparently \u0026quot;lose your dignity\u0026quot; in October [1].\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t fathom why my bank would need to know if I am allowed to drive.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ID and a driver\u0026#x27;s license \u003ci\u003eare not\u003c/i\u003e necessarily the same thing.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;tsa-changes-deadline-for-real-id-to-2020-2017-12\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businessinsider.com\u0026#x2F;tsa-changes-deadline-for-real...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17481297","id":"17481428"}
{"by":"js2","time":"1470336330","timestamp":"2016-08-04 18:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this has probably been submitted separatly to HN, but also worth reading is the Typeset In The Future entry on 2001:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;typesetinthefuture.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;2001-a-space-odyssey\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;typesetinthefuture.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;2001-a-space-odyss...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12216466","id":"12227601"}
{"by":"Zenst","time":"1395278033","timestamp":"2014-03-20 01:13:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, but peer preasure from a toaster is perhaps a level of stress nobody would want.  Then the aspect of going on holiday, forget to tell the toaster (if it even understands that aspect of life) and bam.  Return to chaos.\u003cp\u003eMaybe people who would like this aspect of interaction with products, but for me the prospect of being ditched by a toaster is just not the type of motivation I feel needs filling in my life.","parent":"7428339","id":"7433136"}
{"by":"apower","time":"1265340908","timestamp":"2010-02-05 03:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this like the exodus of the Ruby programmers?  Remember Ruby was on rage couple years ago?  But suddenly became out of favorite due to various issues.  Looks like Python is the same way.  People play around with it and find out all kinds of issues.  When a new language appears (Clojure), people leave in doves.  Just another fad.","parent":"1102139","id":"1102607"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1346191782","timestamp":"2012-08-28 22:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bit minimal for my tastes, but highly ingenious.  There are numerous other \"small space\" videos / websites out there.\u003cp\u003e(Link is to \"A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms\" showing an ingeniously engineered Hong Kong apartment).","parent":"4444830","id":"4446136"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1534216487","timestamp":"2018-08-14 03:14:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, same for the Netherlands, but in many other \u0026#x27;civilized\u0026#x27; world (Asia \u0026#x2F; south EU) there is a lot above ground generally. Cities are usually better than outside, but it\u0026#x27;s definitely not uncommon in big cities either.","parent":"17755211","id":"17755341"}
{"by":"tom_mellior","time":"1520670559","timestamp":"2018-03-10 08:29:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; At a minimum, one could switch cell phone billing so that only the caller pays, not the recipient.\u003cp\u003eAre there any countries besides the US that charge the callee? It\u0026#x27;s completely unheard of in Europe.\u003cp\u003eI did spend some time in the US about ten years ago, and I do remember being very surprised at being charged for calls received, and even for texts received, although you have no influence on accepting them! Such a weird system.","parent":"16555192","id":"16557696"}
{"by":"ken47","time":"1480107778","timestamp":"2016-11-25 21:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are assuming abundance is the issue. It is not.","parent":"13039741","id":"13039803"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1439201821","timestamp":"2015-08-10 10:17:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you including the lubricants?","parent":"10033651","id":"10033657"}
{"by":"tim333","time":"1466340314","timestamp":"2016-06-19 12:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or carbon neutral fuels. I\u0026#x27;ve been a fan of engineering algae to make ethanol and similar from sun water and CO2 and though nothing\u0026#x27;s ready for primetime yet you never know.","parent":"11929933","id":"11932778"}
{"by":"momchenr","time":"1392396207","timestamp":"2014-02-14 16:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shutting down on St. Patty\u0026#x27;s day. I have one guess what the team will be doing that night. Irish style wake.","parent":"7239203","id":"7239409"}
{"by":"bendotc","time":"1247783317","timestamp":"2009-07-16 22:28:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"idea types\"\u003cp\u003eThis is why you \"got laughed out of town.\" Why in the world, if I'm a coder-type, would I want to give even 1% of the benefit of my work to an \"idea type\"?  There are plenty of people with great ideas \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e skills to make them happen, and the best part is, there's reason to believe that being the sort of person who can put execute on ideas makes you come up with better _ideas_ as well.","parent":"708763","id":"708919"}
{"by":"philbarr","time":"1436702706","timestamp":"2015-07-12 12:05:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$59! For a book that\u0026#x27;s 25% complete?! Ouch.\u003cp\u003eOh, but I get \u0026quot;free updates\u0026quot;. Well for $59 I should bloody well hope so.","parent":"9872962","id":"9873217"}
{"by":"chillee","time":"1501197090","timestamp":"2017-07-27 23:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be clear, that was a bug with chrome: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13941293\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13941293\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14870353","id":"14870564"}
{"by":"bsg75","time":"1469981567","timestamp":"2016-07-31 16:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe because it was created as a presentation and the author shared his slides for everyone\u0026#x27;s benefit.","parent":"12197354","id":"12197519"}
{"by":"russdill","time":"1539197164","timestamp":"2018-10-10 18:46:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It really depends on your interests and skill level. There are now several with good support. There\u0026#x27;s some that give you access to flight controls by using existing VR controls and are generally a jump in and fly experience and then at the other end there\u0026#x27;s stuff like DCS which will require some additional hardware and a fair amount of learning (but totally worth it, especially with the Tomcat on the horizon)","parent":"18187646","id":"18187749"}
{"by":"philiphodgen","time":"1369675593","timestamp":"2013-05-27 17:26:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Just to correct you a little, its nowhere near half of the your income. Marginal tax rate is 39.6% for a single filer for income in excess of $400k. Of course the majority of states have sales tax, and there's other taxes (state, property, petrol, etc) down the line as well. For some people, it may approach a total of 50% taxation, but that is a tiny tiny minority. And its not like most people making over $400k actually pay that tax rate on all their income, given that we have exceedingly generous deductions and other classes of tax (capital gains, which is a favorite of the rich) that are significantly lower than the marginal rate on standard income.\u003cp\u003eMath, personal experience, and observation tells me otherwise -- for a human living in California, at least.  Between Federal income tax, Social Security tax, State income tax, the various (un)employment taxes, sales tax, excise taxes of one type or another, property tax, etc. I suspect that most people give 1/2 of their income to one government entity or another.\u003cp\u003eWhether that is an acceptable amount is another matter entirely.  That's a normative judgment call.  But the raw math seems to indicate a massive haircut.\u003cp\u003eAnd don't get me started on the financial burden of the friction of the tax system (aka paperwork and complexity).\u003cp\u003e(Disclosure: I am an international tax lawyer and it is my job to think tax laws are evil).","parent":"5775413","id":"5775563"}
{"by":"jaclaz","time":"1514742469","timestamp":"2017-12-31 17:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a short tale (or maybe it was and interview, cannot remember) where Isaac Asimov retold where - student in chemistry - was given as homework\u0026#x2F;laboratory set of experiments and the chore to plot them together with a tendency line.\u003cp\u003eAfter \u003ci\u003en\u003c/i\u003e tries (as the data from the experiments were spread semi-randomly) he drew a line roughly in the middle of the diagram and called the whole thing a \u0026quot;shotgun diagram\u0026quot; (or something similar).\u003cp\u003eWhen he got back to class, he was surprised by the results of his mates, that more or less led to a neat line.\u003cp\u003eThen the Professor gave him the maximum vote, as the experiment was intentionally leading to \u0026quot;senseless\u0026quot; results, and he was the only one in the class to have actually honestly reported the results, while all the ohers had evidently faked or invented them.\u003cp\u003eThis is on a similar note:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pages.cs.wisc.edu\u0026#x2F;~kovar\u0026#x2F;hall.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pages.cs.wisc.edu\u0026#x2F;~kovar\u0026#x2F;hall.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16040776","id":"16041599"}
{"by":"caw","time":"1330950291","timestamp":"2012-03-05 12:24:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm in Austin, but I moved here just recently so I wasn't around for the last SXSW. As far as active HN community, there was a thread about it ages ago, but nothing ever happened (\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221674\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221674\u003c/a\u003e). It stands to reason that we might be able to arrange something with the greater HN community with SXSW.\u003cp\u003eI'm not going to SXSW as it's not in the job description. If anyone is going to be here [\u003ca href=\"http://lanfest.intel.com/?page=event\u0026#38;eventid=1874\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://lanfest.intel.com/?page=event\u0026#38;eventid=1874\u003c/a\u003e] on Friday around ~3pm I can probably meet up with you.","parent":"3665704","id":"3666276"}
{"by":"agilebyte","time":"1384606122","timestamp":"2013-11-16 12:48:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It weighs 93g and is made of tyvek, polystyrene and carbon fiber.\u003cp\u003eIn comparison a Canadian Goose featuring in bird strikes weighs in at 2.5 - 6.5kg and is made of organic matter.\u003cp\u003eI think the risks are small.","parent":"6744535","id":"6744571"}
{"by":"rainings","time":"1433441804","timestamp":"2015-06-04 18:16:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First of all, this is an amazing app. It uses many SVG animation. But the drawback about SVG animation is when it comes to cross browser support, especially safari. You will have many issue working in safari browser. That is one of the reason i still pending to implement cool SVG animation and UI in to the real project development. Last but not least, Good work, keep it up.","parent":"9659167","id":"9661038"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1323562217","timestamp":"2011-12-11 00:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is Beautiful Evidence good?\u003cp\u003eVDQA is an all-time favorite of mine, and I've even paid to see him talk live about this stuff, but I've found his books got fuzzier and increasingly subjective over time, so that I really don't even remember what Visual Explanations was trying to say anymore.","parent":"3338248","id":"3338865"}
{"by":"amvp","time":"1381726759","timestamp":"2013-10-14 04:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426239067/424327227/banksy-kids-on-guns.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.artnet.com\u0026#x2F;artwork\u0026#x2F;426239067\u0026#x2F;424327227\u0026#x2F;banksy-kid...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis piece which you see sold to \u0026#x27;the lady from New Zeland\u0026#x27;, seems to be part of a run of 25 pieces and priced at 100k-120k.","parent":"6544816","id":"6545476"}
{"by":"nfriedly","time":"1472175613","timestamp":"2016-08-26 01:40:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RockStor is a Linux\u0026#x2F;btrfs equivalent to FreeNAS - I\u0026#x27;ve been running it for a few months and have been pretty happy overall.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rockstor.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rockstor.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12362084","id":"12363795"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1205869913","timestamp":"2008-03-18 19:51:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I'd say that a more common method is to distribute a package (which can then be installed via pkg_add).\"\u003cp\u003eSame problems, though, if I need to distribute a dozen or so packages.  No repo-based software distribution means my user either has to download and install them all individually.  And, when it comes time to upgrade, they have to do it all over again.  So, we've had to write our own package management stuff to deal with the frequent updates we roll out (not just FreeBSD...Solaris also has crap package management).\u003cp\u003e\"Add BATCH=YES into your environment, and the ports infrastructure will run without pestering you.\"\u003cp\u003eLovely.  The squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease.  I've gotta air my grievances in public more often.","parent":"139744","id":"140120"}
{"by":"valdiorn","time":"1442233171","timestamp":"2015-09-14 12:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Taking bets on when this gets DMCA\u0026#x27;d out of existence.\u003cp\u003eSurely the keys are copyrighted? :)","parent":"10214024","id":"10214707"}
{"by":"maffydub","time":"1509008115","timestamp":"2017-10-26 08:55:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, p3.2xlarge in us-east-1b is currently sitting at $0.3204 spot.  That\u0026#x27;s only marginally more than p2.xlarge (at $0.2259 in us-east-1e).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure this will change with demand, though. :(","parent":"15557206","id":"15557355"}
{"by":"drbaskin","time":"1275239757","timestamp":"2010-05-30 17:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it hard to believe that the article on fractional differentiation only briefly mentions the Fourier transform.  For functions on R^n with vanishing integral (or periodic functions on R^n with vanishing integral), the Fourier transform allows you to define arbitrary powers of the (positive) Laplacian by taking the Fourier transform, multiplying by |\\xi|^\\alpha, and then taking the inverse Fourier transform.  If n=1, this process yields the fractional derivatives in the linked article.\u003cp\u003eSomething else that's great is that this works on (compact or asymptotically Euclidean) manifolds, too!  You can make sense of the Laplacian on these spaces, and then spectral theory lets you define its fractional powers.  The theory of pseudodifferential operators lets you realize these powers fairly explicitly as oscillatory integrals.","parent":"1390328","id":"1390762"}
{"by":"ataggart","time":"1314504107","timestamp":"2011-08-28 04:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes the juice is worth the squeeze.","parent":"2933039","id":"2933247"}
{"by":"cmillllllls","time":"1325789979","timestamp":"2012-01-05 18:59:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your absolutely right. Lets face it, who would you protect if you were in office - the guys paying you - or the guys who aren't?\u003cp\u003eMoney in politics = not safe for 99%","parent":"3429925","dead":true,"id":"3429948"}
{"by":"forza","time":"1335451837","timestamp":"2012-04-26 14:50:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To stay fit I would look into a team or group sport. Unless you want to do body building or competitive weight lifting, you're going from rapidly improving to maintaining your fitness. Sports are so much more multifaceted, that you'll see improvement and reaching goals over a long time.","parent":"3893661","id":"3894175"}
{"by":"huhtenberg","time":"1212968204","timestamp":"2008-06-08 23:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.kegel.com/c10k.html\u003c/a\u003e is more concise and it has a better coverage of available options. It is \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e canonical reference for anyone asking \"how to handle 10000 clients\".","parent":"212158","id":"212355"}
{"by":"burgerbrain","time":"1314031696","timestamp":"2011-08-22 16:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You won't hear any defense from me for Emacs, and Vim is certainly very debatable, but Vi is as UNIX as it gets: \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd expecting Vi(m) to use whatever shortcuts are standard for Mac applications is of course absurd.  It isn't a Mac application, it's Vi.","parent":"2912895","id":"2913066"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1540477975","timestamp":"2018-10-25 14:32:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":".ro and .bi are ccTLDs (for Romania and Burundi respectively), not private.","parent":"18300170","id":"18301165"}
{"by":"bbcbasic","time":"1474505673","timestamp":"2016-09-22 00:54:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wot? Is the SOS emoji a new precedent for HN? Any question where you are in trouble to be marked as SOS?","parent":"12553045","id":"12553513"}
{"by":"J3L2404","time":"1284907723","timestamp":"2010-09-19 14:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"loljack Theft Alert System - True vaporware.","parent":"1706127","id":"1706221"}
{"by":"SideburnsOfDoom","time":"1468433441","timestamp":"2016-07-13 18:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t think there\u0026#x27;s gonna be another referendum soon.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The EU referendum was already on the table during the Scottish referendum. The people of Scotland knew the risk.\u003cp\u003eIncorrect, it was sold as the other way around: Scotland must stay in the UK or it might be out of the EU. You are detached from reality. A second Scottish referendum is likely.\u003cp\u003e1) \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;next.ft.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;1219f41c-4456-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;next.ft.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;1219f41c-4456-11e6-9b66-0712b387...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12087318","id":"12088362"}
{"by":"jc_811","time":"1496420295","timestamp":"2017-06-02 16:18:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m all for privacy and the government not overstepping their bounds, but could someone please let me know why this is so bad? I\u0026#x27;m genuinely curious.\u003cp\u003eYour social media info is Public. If you have information public, that is your own fault and the govt can access that regardless if you give them your handles or not. If they were asking for passwords and access to accounts - \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c/i\u003e that would be a different ball game.\u003cp\u003eBut simply asking for your handles (while you can easily say you don\u0026#x27;t have accounts) doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like too much of an intrusion to me.","parent":"14469823","id":"14471046"}
{"by":"noir_lord","time":"1399733219","timestamp":"2014-05-10 14:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; before it becomes a bitter, undrinkable blargh.\u003cp\u003eTry a small amount of honey, I drink a fair amount of tea (I\u0026#x27;m English, it has to be done) and I\u0026#x27;m one of those freaks who like it pretty stewed but if I go too far I find a drop of honey takes a lot of the edge of the bitterness.","parent":"7725552","id":"7725580"}
{"by":"Tyrannosaurs","time":"1286440409","timestamp":"2010-10-07 08:33:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Generally when you explain to people what you want to do but also agree to do what they've asked for they're relatively happy with the trade-off.  My experience is that people aren't against things being done properly, it's only an issue when that gets in the way of what the feel really needs to happen.\u003cp\u003eIf you come up against people who really just won't listen I tend to make a note of the fix, log it as a bug and include it in the next round of bug fixing, the next bit of quiet time or whatever.  Alternatively include the refactoring into the estimate the next time I'd have to do significant work on that module.\u003cp\u003eTwo other points while I'm rambling:\u003cp\u003eAlways make sure that the refactoring is genuinely necessary and not just polishing.  Some developers like \"perfect\" solutions but often this results in over engineering and significantly increased timescales.  The key question I find useful is \"am I coding for a specifically stated requirement or probable edge case or am I extrapolating to what I think might be useful / needed in the future?\".  I'm with Kent Beck on code only for what you specifically need today.\u003cp\u003eSecondly, only real issue with this approach I've outlined is if someone micromanages your time so heavily that you can't do any of that AND they won't listen to reason.  In that instance you might want to consider your options but I've only ever once been in that position.","parent":"1764584","id":"1767218"}
{"by":"p01nd3xt3r","time":"1280506257","timestamp":"2010-07-30 16:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am the exact opposite of you.  I can put up entire projects myself (design, code etc...) but when it comes to heavy lifting I try and out source it because even though I can do it, it would take as much time as putting up a whole mobile web app.\u003cp\u003eI am currently working on 3 apps (2 will go live in the next few weeks).  If you are interested in working on some stuff together send me an email.","parent":"1561197","id":"1561584"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1502090531","timestamp":"2017-08-07 07:22:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first Nexus phone had .5GB RAM and .5GB flash.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, you don\u0026#x27;t need a ton of space.  8GB split among OS, apps, an running programs would do pretty well, honestly.  16GB is definitely enough.  The question becomes more about how much space you want for photos and mp3s, and whether there is actually a benefit to putting those in RAM at all.","parent":"14944313","id":"14945869"}
{"by":"larrydag","time":"1514638103","timestamp":"2017-12-30 12:48:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently its known to be fake by David Jones.  He did reveal how it was made but the recipient is still keeping it secret.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk\u0026#x2F;sciencetech\u0026#x2F;article-4762778\u0026#x2F;How-riddle-bike-wheel-finally-solved.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk\u0026#x2F;sciencetech\u0026#x2F;article-4762778\u0026#x2F;How-r...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16034194","id":"16035048"}
{"by":"kristianp","time":"1516771720","timestamp":"2018-01-24 05:28:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the name of this product a play on Macsyma[1]?\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Macsyma\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Macsyma\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16214640","id":"16220549"}
{"by":"Mizza","time":"1334012097","timestamp":"2012-04-09 22:54:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really can't stress how much I like this! JCB is a great Free thinker.","parent":"3819600","id":"3819715"}
{"by":"ckluis","time":"1468581363","timestamp":"2016-07-15 11:16:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’d happily have a 1-2 inch thick well made premium phone with a battery that lasted days.","parent":"12100102","id":"12100148"}
{"by":"nabraham","time":"1303759362","timestamp":"2011-04-25 19:22:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably a bad source: \u003ca href=\"http://gorumors.com/crunchies/how-big-is-surveymonkey/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://gorumors.com/crunchies/how-big-is-surveymonkey/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2482493","id":"2482544"}
{"by":"0xffff2","time":"1486492661","timestamp":"2017-02-07 18:37:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t disagreewith the overall point, but I\u0026#x27;m not sure it\u0026#x27;s grammatically possible to be \u0026quot;calculated[ly] reckless\u0026quot;","parent":"13591104","id":"13591461"}
{"by":"cinquemb","time":"1449115967","timestamp":"2015-12-03 04:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even though those are still more rigid body videos, Thanks for the pointer to the forum!","parent":"10667687","id":"10667710"}
{"by":"acchow","time":"1498074452","timestamp":"2017-06-21 19:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There is a real human need though... to be needed\u003cp\u003eGet a pet.","parent":"14607099","id":"14607249"}
{"by":"Taylorious","time":"1360947595","timestamp":"2013-02-15 16:59:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"@your answer to number 4\u003cp\u003eHow do you see the market share dropping? There is this little thing called Android...","parent":"5225574","id":"5227080"}
{"by":"program","time":"1320941382","timestamp":"2011-11-10 16:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am italian, I have a full-time job in an IT private company, I own an house and I know why you can't create a startup in Italy: money, burocracy and taxes.\u003cp\u003eIn Italy banks or companies will never invest money in your startup if you can't cover at least all the money you need in 4/5 years. If you dare to found a new company and you fail then your life is destroyed. You are tagged as \"cattivo pagatore\" (bad payer) and you will never obtain money in form of loans.\u003cp\u003eItaly is a very bad place if you want to make something innovative.","parent":"3220242","id":"3220560"}
{"by":"izak30","time":"1192124904","timestamp":"2007-10-11 17:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are you doing now?  What (if any) problems have you run into?  I certainly realize your frustration.","parent":"66354","id":"66357"}
{"by":"pgbovine","time":"1372458450","timestamp":"2013-06-28 22:27:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"obligatory norvig:\n\u003ca href=\"http://norvig.com/21-days.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;norvig.com\u0026#x2F;21-days.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut all snark aside, good work so far! like the concept.","parent":"5959502","id":"5960636"}
{"by":"briandear","time":"1429922305","timestamp":"2015-04-25 00:38:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for those numbers! I couldn\u0026#x27;t remember the exacts.. Another difficulty of Chrome films where that the color would shift badly if you pushed or pulled it. You could push and pull, but not as much as negative film.\u003cp\u003eThe crazy thing is that Nat Geo shot almost entirely on Kodachrome and their photos remain some of the most amazing ever created. They\u0026#x27;d often shoot with just available light as well. Incredible stuff.","parent":"9436674","id":"9436692"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1420529081","timestamp":"2015-01-06 07:24:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve done the last 10 months at work in CoffeeScript. The previous 12 were full time client side JavaScript.\u003cp\u003eI think if you have a team of people dedicated to keeping your dev and build environment working then CoffeeScript might be worth it. Maybe.\u003cp\u003eYou just lose so much. You lose debugging tools. You lose being able to run your code outside of a build environment. You lose being able to copy\u0026#x2F;paste between your code and the browser. You lose being able to understand what happens when you run your code (unless you memorize the full implementation of CoffeeScript.) You lose being able to differentiate between foo and var foo.\u003cp\u003eI actually feel like there is a movement back in the other direction. Pure js. Small modules that do one thing well. Functional programming. It\u0026#x27;s not a terrible scene.","parent":"8842394","id":"8843261"}
{"by":"duiker101","time":"1345041306","timestamp":"2012-08-15 14:35:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it will outsell the Nexus 7 just because it has an apple on it's back. I know that like everyone in here.","parent":"4385418","id":"4386123"}
{"by":"IncRnd","time":"1516508890","timestamp":"2018-01-21 04:28:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this a joke?\u003cp\u003eTwo\u0026#x27;s complement: flips the bits and add one\u003cp\u003eFP: flip the sign bit\u003cp\u003eOR....\u003cp\u003ex=-x","parent":"16194932","id":"16196851"}
{"by":"fuzzy2","time":"1470242753","timestamp":"2016-08-03 16:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not true. Although the screen wide dialog thingy is a little tricky, you can still choose to continue. It doesn\u0026#x27;t even appear most of the time.","parent":"12218127","id":"12219337"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1394845010","timestamp":"2014-03-15 00:56:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;logos in footers\u0026quot; is now an advanced, \u0026quot;over-the-top\u0026quot; piece of formatting?","parent":"7402727","id":"7402956"}
{"by":"wstrange","time":"1523487060","timestamp":"2018-04-11 22:51:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At this point it is not even clear that the hardware is in fact capable of self-driving, ever.\u003cp\u003eI think there is a reason everyone else is using Lidar.","parent":"16815699","id":"16816485"}
{"by":"hsivonen","time":"1451750560","timestamp":"2016-01-02 16:02:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see that it\u0026#x27;s irksome, but as someone who works on the Web Platform, which takes backward compat seriously, I tend to view Python 3 as a mistake. I\u0026#x27;m still hoping that they make Python5 that\u0026#x27;s compatible with Python 2.7 programs but otherwise brings in new features. I\u0026#x27;m not holding by breath, though.\u003cp\u003eThe saddest thing about Python 3 is that they made a breaking change to do Unicode \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; and still did it wrong. The right way to do Unicode is the way Rust does it: UTF-8 in memory and no (safe) API to introduce UTF-8 invalidity.\u003cp\u003eUTF-32 is wrong, bwcause it\u0026#x27;s wasteful and still doesn\u0026#x27;t accomplish what people naively expect due to grapheme clusters potentially taking more than one UTF-32 code unit.","parent":"10826239","id":"10826543"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1339260470","timestamp":"2012-06-09 16:47:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I ran cygwin and mingw on win32 for nearly a decade. Switched to Ubuntu earlier this year, never looked back. I write 100% portable code for work; write on Unix, deploy on everything. Even our accountant's Excel macros work for me in LibreOffice. Absolutely do not miss Microsoft Windows, good riddance.","parent":"4086958","id":"4088476"}
{"by":"VonGuard","time":"1340681379","timestamp":"2012-06-26 03:29:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Switching this week. Bye bye Megapath/Speakeasy.","parent":"4156646","id":"4160136"}
{"by":"CitizenKane","time":"1387296811","timestamp":"2013-12-17 16:13:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks like this section of their site is generated using Dreamweaver templates.\u003cp\u003eActually, cool to see that they\u0026#x27;re using Crazy Egg for clickmaps of their site.  Seems like government websites often lack the usability factor.","parent":"6921817","id":"6921867"}
{"by":"tdicola","time":"1455313368","timestamp":"2016-02-12 21:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sugar, corn, carbohydrates and bad science from folks like Ancel Keys (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ancel_Keys\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Ancel_Keys\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eLook at something like a fruit juice from Odwalla, it says \u0026#x27;Super Food\u0026#x27; on the label so it must be healthy right?  Compare how much sugar is in a 16oz \u0026#x27;superfood\u0026#x27; fruit juice (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.odwalla.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;smoothies\u0026#x2F;original-superfood\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.odwalla.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;smoothies\u0026#x2F;original-superfood\u003c/a\u003e - 49 grams) vs. a 16oz Coca-Cola (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coca-colaproductfacts.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;coca-cola-products\u0026#x2F;coca-cola\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coca-colaproductfacts.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;coca-cola-products\u0026#x2F;c...\u003c/a\u003e - 52 grams).  We\u0026#x27;re drinking the same amount of crap but with a prettier feel good label.","parent":"11090567","id":"11090876"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1310098347","timestamp":"2011-07-08 04:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Americans have a great can-do attitude and are lucky to have some of the wealthiest land in the world. These two things let them exploit their smarts very well. But bighearted? Not really. Domestic charity doesn't really stand out from the pack and foreign aid is a lesser proportion of GDP than their contemporaries. Their foreign aid is more effective than elsewhere because of the size of their economy, but as a proportion of what is earned, it's not competitive.\u003cp\u003eMy personal experience in the US is that the people are very welcoming and friendly, which leads me to think that Americans are bighearted to people they personally know, but not so much to strangers - eg witness the powerful currents of public opinion against welfare or universal healthcare that don't really exist in contemporary countries.","parent":"2739900","id":"2741267"}
{"by":"sakopov","time":"1360592562","timestamp":"2013-02-11 14:22:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, this will quickly end when he finds a girlfriend. Enjoy it while it lasts my friend, because unless you want to live with cats and dog your entire life, you're going to have to start consuming \"shit\" at some point in your life.","parent":"5200658","id":"5200881"}
{"by":"bennylope","time":"1297613483","timestamp":"2011-02-13 16:11:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Strictly comparing the bottom left quadrant (the \"lovable fools\") to the upper right quadrant (the \"competent jerks\"). Everyone would rather work with someone who is likable and competent.\u003cp\u003eIn a large company, dabent's \"BigCo\", as long as you're getting your paycheck, an easy-to-along-with but less competent coworker may be less of an impediment to your ability to do your job than a competent jerk. It may also be that the article's authors were not using the same concept of \"difficult\" as Fred Wilson was.","parent":"2213023","id":"2213035"}
{"by":"adrianN","time":"1535785524","timestamp":"2018-09-01 07:05:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is real estate around train stations more expensive if that\u0026#x27;s a place where people don\u0026#x27;t want to be? Maybe you should look at places where public transport works before claiming such nonsense.","parent":"17890574","id":"17890664"}
{"by":"moonka","time":"1519173592","timestamp":"2018-02-21 00:39:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wasn\u0026#x27;t suggesting that I won\u0026#x27;t be ok, just that it might not beat out the gains I would have had if I had the rent difference and downpayment invested.  And that is in a very hot market.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure if the growth will continue.  If I was buying today with an eye for appreciation, I\u0026#x27;d aim for one of the less desirable neighborhoods towards the south end.","parent":"16425343","id":"16425756"}
{"by":"trezor","time":"1296202356","timestamp":"2011-01-28 08:12:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know 3.0 was supposed to be the first version truly tailored/prepared for tablets, but from this I can't really see many new features which would be useful on smaller devices like phones.\u003cp\u003eHopefully there are some improvements down in the base-system which can bubble up and make the system and applications better as well.","parent":"2150625","id":"2151193"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1465323900","timestamp":"2016-06-07 18:25:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, yes, technically any amount of obscurity you add to your service increases your overall security.\u003cp\u003eSo let\u0026#x27;s go. You make a 256 bit level key. That\u0026#x27;s 256 bits of security there. For each binary thing that must be guessed together with the key (let\u0026#x27;s call those multiplicative), you gain an extra bit there. So, if you could somehow (what you can\u0026#x27;t) not disclose your encryption algorithm, you\u0026#x27;d gain some easy 3 extra bits of security there.\u003cp\u003eNow, if you have a secret that can be verified independently from your other secrets (let\u0026#x27;s call those additive), you\u0026#x27;ll gain one extra bit of security for every secret that has your overall security level. That is, if you add a 256 bit secure port knocking step (16 knocks on completely random pots) to your 256 bit secure key, you\u0026#x27;ll get 257 bits of security overall. If you add a 16 bit non-standard port, you\u0026#x27;ll get some fraction of a bit, starting with some dozens of zeros after the comma.\u003cp\u003eThus, since security is all about trade-off, think very hard about the costs of any additive measure you want to create.","parent":"11854576","id":"11856551"}
{"by":"JasonFruit","time":"1385146226","timestamp":"2013-11-22 18:50:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, I think there\u0026#x27;s some truth to that.  If it weren\u0026#x27;t for the Macintosh, the WIMP approach to computing might never have become as dominant, and text-based systems might be more prevalent; I agree with the article\u0026#x27;s assertion that text-based programs are simpler to conceive and write.","parent":"6780949","id":"6782863"}
{"by":"wk_end","time":"1525463815","timestamp":"2018-05-04 19:56:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where in Canada did you live and gone to school?\u003cp\u003eI live in the US now, and don\u0026#x27;t disagree that Americans as a people are more...well, I like the word \u0026#x27;ambitious\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eBut I think your characterization of Canada is overly harsh: in Toronto and Montreal I know (and love) misfits just as individual, wild, and free as anyone I met during my years in Brooklyn.","parent":"16997618","id":"16997729"}
{"by":"zo1","time":"1467471490","timestamp":"2016-07-02 14:58:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003ethat \u0026quot;Asian\u0026quot; lumps together too many really distinct groups\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo does white\u0026#x2F;caucasian, and probably all the other race \u0026quot;colors\u0026quot; as well. I.e. They lump together many different geographically-isolated\u0026#x2F;defined peoples and cultures into one singular entity for simplicity. And then we\u0026#x27;re led to believe statistics that are somehow indicative of something regarding that \u0026quot;race\u0026quot;.","parent":"12022658","id":"12022778"}
{"by":"didibus","time":"1480202997","timestamp":"2016-11-26 23:29:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Counter productive in what ways? Rent control works great for Montreal and has for years. That city is very affordable to live in, because of it.","parent":"13046284","id":"13046654"}
{"by":"thecommentator","time":"1376490167","timestamp":"2013-08-14 14:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are choosing a technology stack based on \u0026quot;Whats Hot\u0026quot; rather then \u0026quot;What provides the best solution for my team and my problem\u0026quot; then it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter what you choose, as it will probably be wrong.\u003cp\u003eIs your team heavy with javascript developers? Do you have a need for an event-driven framework that can handle large load? Great, here comes node.\u003cp\u003eIs speed of development and a wealth of 3rd party libraries for almost any need critical to your ability to get started? Well, RoR has you covered.\u003cp\u003eEvery language has strengths and weaknesses. Picking a tech stack is a decision that should be based on your needs.","parent":"6211595","id":"6211646"}
{"by":"averagewall","time":"1498711856","timestamp":"2017-06-29 04:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All diseases are just variations on normalness. Nobody remembers 1000s of individual people but we don\u0026#x27;t feel sad that we can only remember 100. None of use are super intelligent but we cope with what we\u0026#x27;ve got or even feel great about it. Most of us feel emotions more weakly as we age beyond our 20\u0026#x27;s but we don\u0026#x27;t feel sad.","parent":"14659949","id":"14660864"}
{"by":"yakshaving_jgt","time":"1493362686","timestamp":"2017-04-28 06:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One sad thing that this article (I think inadvertently) illuminates is how hypersensitive Americans are about mundane parts of life like using the bathroom.\u003cp\u003eMarkus\u0026#x27; office design works over here in Europe because [I\u0026#x27;m fairly certain] his crowd invests heavily in a healthy social culture at work, as opposed to a nervously litigious (i.e. immediately defer to HR) culture as is so common in the US.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I think Markus\u0026#x27; office design is excellent. What I would change however, is the television setup. I\u0026#x27;ve been 100% remote for most of my career, so I\u0026#x27;m always the guy on the television. I would much prefer to be on everyone\u0026#x27;s screens individually like a little StarCraft briefing room.\u003cp\u003eSome benefits:\u003cp\u003e- sound quality is better\u003cp\u003e- less chance of audio feedback\u003cp\u003e- visual cues (like when someone wants to interject) are easier to pick up on\u003cp\u003e- screen sharing is usually easier\u003cp\u003e- difference in latency is less pronounced","parent":"14210181","id":"14217402"}
{"by":"dmix","time":"1318112742","timestamp":"2011-10-08 22:25:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Asked about the competition, Williams said: \"Samsung has An even larger group working on this than we do.\"\u003cp\u003eAs a consumer, I'm indifferent to who does it. As long as it gets out.","parent":"3089036","id":"3089062"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1529003251","timestamp":"2018-06-14 19:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everyone is different, bug biggest thing I missed was Transmit, as I do a lot with s3. Most of the Linux options seemed lacking in various ways, so I found myself using command line more, which gets the geek in me going, but wasn\u0026#x27;t as efficient.\u003cp\u003eI also use Git Tower. Again, command line is of course an option, but I\u0026#x27;m more efficient with a UI. Git Kraken isn\u0026#x27;t bad, but I ran into some weird permissions issues the last time I used it, so I ended up relying on VS Code\u0026#x27;s git client more.","parent":"17314234","id":"17314448"}
{"by":"matt","time":"1342131714","timestamp":"2012-07-12 22:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice, love the idea of running with extra load to predict breaking points.","parent":"4237044","id":"4237156"}
{"by":"kosei","time":"1386067368","timestamp":"2013-12-03 10:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s understandable why it\u0026#x27;s an issue to use heuristics based on a person\u0026#x27;s gender, race or upbringing are an issue. However, there are likely instances where it\u0026#x27;s useful. I honestly don\u0026#x27;t know how to separate my logic from emotions on this one, especially when it comes to things like racial profiling or hiring practices based on gender. I am ethically opposed to each, despite the fact that I know that they can often be useful.","parent":"6839547","id":"6839571"}
{"by":"Derbasti","time":"1392504741","timestamp":"2014-02-15 22:52:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read the mythical man month.","parent":"7244773","id":"7245817"}
{"by":"anthonybennis","time":"1522150416","timestamp":"2018-03-27 11:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use GIMP regularly, and always impressed at the quality of the tool and the amount of features it has. Looking forward to the v2.10 release. Anyone know where I can download a Windows build of the release candidate? Can\u0026#x27;t seem to find a link on the website.","parent":"16686941","id":"16687292"}
{"by":"dpweb","time":"1522260639","timestamp":"2018-03-28 18:10:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stress is more a function of the culture of the company you are working for and can be influenced by your manager and direct coworkers but not by much. Culture is like the weather and is created by the very top level executives.\u003cp\u003eAs far as the legend of the 10x or 100x developer, technically it does exist in the sense that the smart lead will not even entertain time wasting efforts, so to calculate the value of that you could say is infinite x.\u003cp\u003eI’m skeptical however that you can transfer your extraordinary abilities to your team members. The most brilliant productive people I cant imagine they can truly transfer that to others. Their ability comes off more like a God given gift, so to speak.  Surely they add value individually and add value to each team member by their guidance and mentorship.\u003cp\u003eThe 10x concept though somewhat confuses the truly important question, both to the technical programmer employee and their capitalist business bosses. How much value is really being added and at what cost.","parent":"16699219","id":"16700213"}
{"by":"douglaswlance","time":"1545007845","timestamp":"2018-12-17 00:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Instead of discussing ideas in threaded conversations, you could try using standardized proposal documents. It works well for Python.","parent":"18694253","id":"18696203"}
{"by":"kenjackson","time":"1498592940","timestamp":"2017-06-27 19:49:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His mathematical talent is his greatest ability.  But the ability to willingly switch fields to find what you\u0026#x27;re good at (or enjoy) is also important, and something most of us either don\u0026#x27;t have the nerve or engine to do.","parent":"14648680","id":"14648734"}
{"by":"zrgiu_","time":"1319532020","timestamp":"2011-10-25 08:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Smart move for both Dropbox and HTC. Everybody wins, and the users get the most out of this.\u003cp\u003eHopefully we're going to see more deals like this, but PLEASE manufacturers, don't make these apps un-uninstalable (like google did with Twitter.. I don't use twitter)","parent":"3153238","id":"3153325"}
{"by":"wayclever","time":"1431116226","timestamp":"2015-05-08 20:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Question:  Have you and your co-founders each executed an agreement assigning all right, title and interest in and to any IP to the company?  If so, the code isn\u0026#x27;t yours to take, and it makes no sense for your co-founders to give away any IP rights (copyrights and potential patent rights).\u003cp\u003eYour narrative tends to cast your partners as distracted by other business ventures, it seems that you are searching for a way to disengage.  If they were savvy, they would not agree to your proposal.  The code base is company property (that is if you have completed the process of corporate formation).  You might believe that your contribution in teh form of code disproportionately exceeds your co-founders contributions.  Had you actually formed a company, assigned the IP to the company, determined the value of each founders contributions in addition to any IP (cash, equipment, space, expertise, time commitments) you would be able to foresee how your co-founders will respond to your proposal.\u003cp\u003eIF I\u0026#x27;m incorrect and you have filed articles of incorporation, drafted bylaws, and executed agreements issuing founders stock, then I suggest you consult with your outside counsel (you know, the attorney(s) who drafted all those agreements for you) to help ensure you don\u0026#x27;t f_ck up the operations of your \u0026quot;profitable home services business\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eSuggest you ask yourself the following \u0026quot;why am I walking away from a profitable business?  Especially when I committed to building that business with my co-founders?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eMaybe you have realized you don\u0026#x27;t get along and so you want out.  In that case, offer to purchase the code base, and agree to payment terms that provides enough runway for you to generate revenue and pay for the code base over time.\u003cp\u003eFinally, you wouldn\u0026#x27;t be \u0026quot;giving\u0026quot; equity to your co-founders.  You would be issuing equity in exchange for the \u0026quot;home services company\u0026quot; assigning all right, title and interest in and to the code base and any associated IP to your new company.  If your platform is adding value, it makes little sense for them to agree to an assignment.  Instead, they should offer to license it to your new company for royalties, equity, and continued development.\u003cp\u003eSummum Bonum.","parent":"9513295","id":"9513905"}
{"by":"gtani","time":"1310660762","timestamp":"2011-07-14 16:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The unicode \"operators\" were introduced a while back ([1] Dec 09) and (I believe) are almost never seen in code outside scalaz [2]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/More-unicode-alternatives-for-ASCII-operators-td2008146.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/More...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https://bitbucket.org/dnene/scalaz-guide/src/5fbe1cd253f3/unicode-mappings.rst\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://bitbucket.org/dnene/scalaz-guide/src/5fbe1cd253f3/un...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2763075","id":"2763711"}
{"by":"subsection1h","time":"1378946809","timestamp":"2013-09-12 00:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    The vast majority and Americans are fully supportive of America\u0026#x27;s\n    relationship with Israel.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nCitation needed. The polls that I\u0026#x27;ve seen show that a majority of Americans don\u0026#x27;t consider Israel to be an ally.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.pollingreport.com/israel.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pollingreport.com\u0026#x2F;israel.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6370020","id":"6371245"}
{"by":"dealerdirt","time":"1391499929","timestamp":"2014-02-04 07:45:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Welcome to dealer dirt. Take a few moments and write a review aboWelcome to dealer dirt. Take a few moments and write a review about your recent product purchasing or service experience.\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.dealerdirt.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dealerdirt.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7176008","dead":true,"id":"7176036"}
{"by":"johngunderman","time":"1279583177","timestamp":"2010-07-19 23:46:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the point he is trying to make is a bit more general than the number of licenses. I read it more as \"People pirate because of poorly implemented DRM that negatively impacts the legitimate user.\"","parent":"1530569","id":"1530624"}
{"by":"mhd","time":"1345651492","timestamp":"2012-08-22 16:04:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn't Erik Naggum try his hand at a CL/CLIM port years and years ago?","parent":"4417207","id":"4418031"}
{"by":"coffeemug","time":"1255930537","timestamp":"2009-10-19 05:35:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know. We're testing one drive at a time for now, so we don't have very much information on bus saturation. I expect to move on to RAID controllers/Motherboard testing in a month or two.","parent":"889517","id":"889550"}
{"by":"gusfoo","time":"1404001359","timestamp":"2014-06-29 00:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Python + Django for the bulk of things. But also Perl and C++. Some tools are more suitable for tasks than others.","parent":"7959585","id":"7959886"}
{"by":"ux-app","time":"1544605465","timestamp":"2018-12-12 09:04:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I appreciate it, I\u0026#x27;m not well versed in foreign politics, so digging into these examples now. Germany, in particular seems to be a great example of political plurality.","parent":"18662341","id":"18662417"}
{"by":"paulsutter","time":"1492792174","timestamp":"2017-04-21 16:29:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good link, just flagged the article\u003cp\u003eTo me it\u0026#x27;s good news that Uber is selective\u003cp\u003eEdit: (the link provided is subscription only)","parent":"14166948","id":"14167010"}
{"by":"samratjp","time":"1278038406","timestamp":"2010-07-02 02:40:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish they'd unveil more details about the Model S sedan. I thought it was supposed to come out 2011, but this explains everything why it's pushed off.","parent":"1479588","id":"1479973"}
{"by":"SoftwareMaven","time":"1358320816","timestamp":"2013-01-16 07:20:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't that exactly what a grave site is? Real estate permanently set aside for a deceased person.","parent":"5065155","id":"5065796"}
{"by":"jtemplin","time":"1370260788","timestamp":"2013-06-03 11:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a terrific resource, especially the \"Device-W\" column. Thank you.\u003cp\u003eFor the tablets though, I'm finding the table's usability diminished by the inconsistent width/height relationships. For most of the devices width is smaller than height, but for a number of them it's the opposite. Why is this? Is this how the manufacturers report the #'s?\u003cp\u003eEdit: I realize now that it's because different tablets have different default orientations. Yet another challenge in designing for mobile.","parent":"5812047","id":"5812687"}
{"by":"iaw","time":"1480182834","timestamp":"2016-11-26 17:53:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d call it an \u0026quot;intelligent continuation\u0026quot; rather than shameless knock-off.  Apples to Apples targets innuendo for a family setting, CAH is a very adult game.","parent":"13044712","id":"13044928"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1472261962","timestamp":"2016-08-27 01:39:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When it comes to Dennis Ritchie\u0026#x27;s home page, yes.","parent":"12368824","id":"12370472"}
{"by":"ramblenode","time":"1473972267","timestamp":"2016-09-15 20:44:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve found a lot of observations in this article to align with my own personal learning and teaching experiences. Memorization, even in analytical fields, is important because it allows us to chunk smaller bits of information together and skip evaluating every detail--it decreases the size of the \u0026quot;mental stack\u0026quot;, if you will. Because recalling a fact from memory tends to be less demanding than applying rules to derive the fact, more cognitive reservoir remains for the novel parts of the larger problem.","parent":"12508776","id":"12509671"}
{"by":"kiloreux","time":"1459722387","timestamp":"2016-04-03 22:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Habitica is really fun, it makes accomplishing tasks as a fun and entertaining way by gaming it more.","parent":"11417396","id":"11418079"}
{"by":"Peroni","time":"1312985214","timestamp":"2011-08-10 14:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You'd be surprised. £45k is a pretty standard salary for Python Devs as well as Ruby Devs which are much harder to find.","parent":"2868104","id":"2868229"}
{"by":"ska","time":"1457177850","timestamp":"2016-03-05 11:37:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed!","parent":"11226845","id":"11229208"}
{"by":"squigs25","time":"1401287670","timestamp":"2014-05-28 14:34:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most people out there are going to be nay sayers. A truly good idea is good because it\u0026#x27;s a secret. PayPal\u0026#x27;s secret when it was founded was that people might want a secure way of making payments over the internet. Facebook\u0026#x27;s secret was that people want an easy way of staying connected to everyone they\u0026#x27;ve ever met.\u003cp\u003eIdeas are inherently not obvious. Judging the value of an idea is even less obvious.\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the day, you need to take small bets. Don\u0026#x27;t wager your life savings. Listen to the criticism and have the confidence to filter out what you think is irrelevant.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win.\u0026quot;","parent":"7809446","id":"7810132"}
{"by":"commandlinefan","time":"1524772290","timestamp":"2018-04-26 19:51:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; medicine, education, mechanical or electrical engineering\u003cp\u003eThose fields all employ some pretty significant protectionism to keep the applicant pool thin.","parent":"16934772","id":"16935050"}
{"by":"adamnemecek","time":"1339564112","timestamp":"2012-06-13 05:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should realize that even though MSFT was not the nicest company in the industry in the past, Embrace, extend and extinguish happened almost two decades ago and stuff like that does not really happen anymore (at least I cannot think of anything, but correct me if I'm wrong).","parent":"4104368","id":"4104417"}
{"by":"antiterra","time":"1363409390","timestamp":"2013-03-16 04:49:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on who teaches it. I believe the American Heart Association got rid of rescue breaths but the American Red Cross still trains for two breaths every 30 compressions.","parent":"5382777","id":"5384489"}
{"by":"jdale27","time":"1356688540","timestamp":"2012-12-28 09:55:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cat","parent":"4976883","id":"4977148"}
{"by":"mjevans","time":"1440713663","timestamp":"2015-08-27 22:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that our society is unwilling to actually step back and look at the root problems so we know where to expend energy most effectively at providing solutions.\u003cp\u003eOur social problems are ones that no single magic bullet can fix (except in the sense of destroying the problem by ending it all).  If we want to be an advanced society we need to understand that every issue is a symptom.  There is no one single cause, no one single solution.  There are many contributing factors and each needs it\u0026#x27;s own solution that incentives the outcome we\u0026#x27;d prefer to see.\u003cp\u003eWhy is someone homeless on the street?  Is it because housing is too expensive, there aren\u0026#x27;t enough jobs, they lack the skills for jobs that do exist, are they suffering from untreated illnesses (including mental), or is it some combination of those plus other issues that I didn\u0026#x27;t happen to list.\u003cp\u003eThe above issues are also not in themselves entirely the causes of those issues.  Our society is a complicated web of situations, and failure is both always an option and omnipresent among endeavors.","parent":"10132374","id":"10132490"}
{"by":"reinhardt","time":"1352498982","timestamp":"2012-11-09 22:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So is RethinkDB written in Lisp?","parent":"4763995","id":"4764948"}
{"by":"talmand","time":"1429895881","timestamp":"2015-04-24 17:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would include that as part of his compensation.","parent":"9433836","id":"9434685"}
{"by":"minalecs","time":"1273701793","timestamp":"2010-05-12 22:03:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so .. did you go back to engine yard ?","parent":"1336637","id":"1342420"}
{"by":"isostatic","time":"1522090909","timestamp":"2018-03-26 19:01:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the U.S. if you were to spend $100 on euros in January, buying say €80, then spend another $100 in March, buying €70, then you sell €75 in June for $130, you presumably have to show that on your tax form?","parent":"16673810","id":"16681509"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1325337393","timestamp":"2011-12-31 13:16:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"alloca takes a sixe_t. I think size_t is unsigned. \u003ca href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089176/is-size-t-always-unsigned\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089176/is-size-t-always-...\u003c/a\u003e seems to agree with that (correction welcome)","parent":"3410613","id":"3410818"}
{"by":"MaxfordAndSons","time":"1515489670","timestamp":"2018-01-09 09:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty sure GP was talking about giving their children their own smartphones.","parent":"16100442","id":"16104719"}
{"by":"lukasm","time":"1396053240","timestamp":"2014-03-29 00:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Do not have network intros to YC-Partners\u0026quot; that got me thinking what are my odds of getting in. pg once said \u0026quot;your chances are either very high or very low\u0026quot;. No intros. Haven\u0026#x27;t co-founder a successful startup in the past. Haven\u0026#x27;t worked for FB. I\u0026#x27;m from \u0026quot;middle of nowhere\u0026quot;.","parent":"7490541","id":"7490875"}
{"by":"barumrho","time":"1481226033","timestamp":"2016-12-08 19:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Not sure how to format this)\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - Battery life\n  - Bookmark syncing and continuity (opening tabs from any of your other devices)\n  - Content blocker API (so that ad blocker extension doesn\u0026#x27;t see all of the content)\n  - Not having browsing history sent to Google\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI use Chrome for Flash content and Facebook.","parent":"13133366","id":"13133454"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1352701912","timestamp":"2012-11-12 06:31:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So who are all the roads and luxury cars for?","parent":"4771573","id":"4771835"}
{"by":"sverige","time":"1467609429","timestamp":"2016-07-04 05:17:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I throw darts at marketing, I mean marketing, not advertising. I know the difference. Nice try though, marketing guy.","parent":"12028790","id":"12028988"}
{"by":"rednukleus","time":"1359660125","timestamp":"2013-01-31 19:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At the risk of asking a stupid question - this isn't related to the Humble Bundles is it?","parent":"5146490","id":"5146782"}
{"by":"civilian","time":"1462473767","timestamp":"2016-05-05 18:42:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A company ought to be able to choose who they employ. What makes Americans more deserving of an I.T. job than a team in India?\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re not thinking like a global citizen.","parent":"11637523","id":"11638711"}
{"by":"koolba","time":"1503956355","timestamp":"2017-08-28 21:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Jock_tax\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Jock_tax\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15120188","id":"15120302"}
{"by":"Menge","time":"1432419008","timestamp":"2015-05-23 22:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do I install any API from apple without providing Apple (and whoever else) with my credit card?\u003cp\u003eThe OsX machine at my office is mystifying, am I supposed to provide my personal credit card to apple to get security updates? That is more secure and insures more of my privacy than not entering my credit card into a system I don\u0026#x27;t trust?\u003cp\u003eI view Apple as insulting my intelligence with promises of \u0026quot;convenience\u0026quot; that amount to being able to give them money on impulse.","parent":"9594494","id":"9594566"}
{"by":"toolz","time":"1421063310","timestamp":"2015-01-12 11:48:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except, now you have one that you expect and the other you don\u0026#x27;t.  This doesn\u0026#x27;t make the language anything but more inconsistent.  I prefer consistency inside a language far more than familiarity between languages.","parent":"8873322","id":"8873400"}
{"by":"MikeCapone","time":"1223569729","timestamp":"2008-10-09 16:28:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except that in real life, the gatekeeper (someone who said that nothing could convince him) actually did let the AI out.","parent":"327621","id":"327958"}
{"by":"JoachimSchipper","time":"1302016726","timestamp":"2011-04-05 15:18:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is garbage. \"AppArmor Replaces: Barracuda Web Application Firewall (...)\". Sure, restricting filesystem access and other system calls is \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e the same as (hopefully?) protecting against SQL injection.","parent":"2411123","id":"2411250"}
{"by":"autokad","time":"1517855696","timestamp":"2018-02-05 18:34:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i was looking into this last week.  spread is what i found but i need to pivot on 2 keys, which I dont think is supported","parent":"16310783","id":"16310834"}
{"by":"saintfiends","time":"1304957010","timestamp":"2011-05-09 16:03:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here, the second a connection time-out occurs I would either ping to 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4","parent":"2528376","id":"2529126"}
{"by":"hasenj","time":"1300219348","timestamp":"2011-03-15 20:02:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea, but I don't remember hearing about him in the course I took in the University.\u003cp\u003eAlthough to be honest I probably ignored names on purpose because there were so many of them.","parent":"2329052","id":"2329126"}
{"by":"filoteo","time":"1540081442","timestamp":"2018-10-21 00:24:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just wanted to add that while having a video call might be a sign that there is some interest, most of the time they do it to get more information and understand your business better. So don\u0026#x27;t worry too much if you didn\u0026#x27;t got one.","parent":"18232884","id":"18266197"}
{"by":"serge2k","time":"1452100127","timestamp":"2016-01-06 17:08:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; a small hand-held controller\u003cp\u003eThis doesn\u0026#x27;t include their touch controller, if that\u0026#x27;s what you mean. If it did I\u0026#x27;d consider buying it (I\u0026#x27;m still annoyed by 30 dollar shipping costs).","parent":"10851610","id":"10851717"}
{"by":"henryl","time":"1239854991","timestamp":"2009-04-16 04:09:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What happens if you're building an extremely complicated product (not web app)? Is a demo still required?","parent":"564660","id":"564681"}
{"by":"kristianp","time":"1543374107","timestamp":"2018-11-28 03:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m on build 1803 and I have the issue with \u0026quot;some Win32 programs can\u0026#x27;t be set as the default program\u0026quot;, which is irritating because I can\u0026#x27;t open log files in SublimeText.  So that isn\u0026#x27;t unique to the 1809 update.\u003cp\u003eThat seems to be fixed in today\u0026#x27;s patch Tuesday updates though[1]. I\u0026#x27;ll check after that installs.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;help\u0026#x2F;4467682\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;help\u0026#x2F;4467682\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: today in the US.","parent":"18547249","id":"18548947"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1373456899","timestamp":"2013-07-10 11:48:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh? He had almost no formal training, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean he didn\u0026#x27;t put a lot of work into it. How many hours do you think it took before he was a \u0026quot;recognized expert\u0026quot;, or since this is Ramanujan, before he developed new theorems which would later be recognized as being that of an expert?\u003cp\u003eQuoting from the Wikipedia link: Ramanujan\u0026#x27;s introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney that he mastered by the age of 12; he even discovered theorems of his own, and re-discovered Euler\u0026#x27;s identity independently. He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning accolades and awards. By 17, Ramanujan had conducted his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and the Euler–Mascheroni constant.\u003cp\u003e7 years at 4 hours per day = 10,000 hours.\u003cp\u003eDo you think he averaged less than two hours per day on math as a teenager? Based on what little I know about him, I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s the case.\u003cp\u003eAlso, your terminology is the core of the debate here. You say \u0026quot;the less gifted,\u0026quot; but the debate is that there may be no \u0026quot;gift\u0026quot;, but instead the dominate factor is the willingness of the person to go through a difficult learning method with delayed rewards, in order to become an expert.\u003cp\u003eI studied math, physics, and computer science as an undergraduate. I spent a lot of extra time learning and practicing software development, while I rarely did math and physics beyond what was needed for coursework. I believe most of my \u0026#x27;deliberate practice\u0026#x27; went into CS. I\u0026#x27;m now an expert in software development, especially as it relates to biomolecular structures. I firmly believe it is my interest in the topic and the lack of competition (meaning that it pays well) which led me here, and not some intrinsic gift.","parent":"6017557","id":"6018809"}
{"by":"joshuamorton","time":"1544636255","timestamp":"2018-12-12 17:37:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m confused. I\u0026#x27;m talking about income from work. Not income from gifts, which upthread was mentioned are banned.","parent":"18665786","id":"18665874"}
{"by":"rokhayakebe","time":"1345002813","timestamp":"2012-08-15 03:53:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It appears they are missing Jack. He was, apparently, behind the idea for Twitter, and now you can see his new venture took off and never stopped ever since. This being said, I think Branch is going to be one of the most influential products in coming years. Death to the monologues.","parent":"4383747","id":"4384495"}
{"by":"tagawa","time":"1319019440","timestamp":"2011-10-19 10:17:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DDG in general seems to do a much better job of second-guessing what I'm looking for. Amazing how good it's become and that Google is (in my experience at least) playing catch-up.","parent":"3128997","id":"3129485"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1287955385","timestamp":"2010-10-24 21:23:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Acquisitions wouldn't be particularly surprising, if you ask me.","parent":"1827117","id":"1827335"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1500130656","timestamp":"2017-07-15 14:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is appallingly off-topic and you are vandalizing this thread with political flamewar. Please stop.","parent":"14776796","id":"14776948"}
{"by":"desireco42","time":"1368641212","timestamp":"2013-05-15 18:06:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the first glance looks really, good. I started with template, made few changes, added few things.\u003cp\u003eI personally use Zurb more, so if I could start with that... even if I can make my own template, it would be fine.","parent":"5711416","id":"5713696"}
{"by":"zoner","time":"1425636912","timestamp":"2015-03-06 10:15:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read Magento\u0026#x27;s code (both 1.x and 2) every time I implement something for it. I seen some developers just started to write something, resulting the coding style been quite different than it should be. Reading the core also helps to get comfortable with the coding standard and naming conventions.\u003cp\u003eAlso, Magento 2\u0026#x27;s code is beautiful, despite it\u0026#x27;s written in PHP :)","parent":"9153521","id":"9156412"}
{"by":"guillaume20100","time":"1478532364","timestamp":"2016-11-07 15:26:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are not a danger to LastPass. We\u0026#x27;ll see in time if it happens. The idea came after using KeePass -\u0026gt; I want to keep less passwords -\u0026gt; lesspass -\u0026gt; lesspass.com is available -\u0026gt; done","parent":"12889972","id":"12891763"}
{"by":"raganwald","time":"1307391647","timestamp":"2011-06-06 20:20:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm prepared to agree that the post makes an enthusiastic case for points 1, 2 and 3 with respect to Groupon :-)\u003cp\u003eAnd I think that the expression \"Ponzi Scheme\" is ridiculous, and you don't need this essay to know that Groupon are not paying dividends to public shareholders with money they raise selling stock to other shareholders.","parent":"2626379","id":"2626403"}
{"by":"lfowles","time":"1443724145","timestamp":"2015-10-01 18:29:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EDIT: Disregard, they\u0026#x27;re still available. Discount is applied to the subtotal, not individual items.\u003cp\u003eOriginal Post: Looks like the $5 keys are sold out, my cart shows $36","parent":"10313310","id":"10313443"}
{"by":"joshstrange","time":"1496455294","timestamp":"2017-06-03 02:01:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was my experience with Plated as well a couple years ago. I\u0026#x27;m sure I\u0026#x27;m bias because I don\u0026#x27;t really mind grocery shopping and I enjoy cooking. That said I didn\u0026#x27;t enjoy cooking the Plated meals as much as I do one from a recipe I find online. I completely agree on the \u0026quot;Food wasn\u0026#x27;t hard to prepare, but it was much more cumbersome than most of the things I make in a hurry\u0026quot;. I\u0026#x27;m not looking for 3 step recipes but a lot of it felt unnecessarily complex for the sake of being complex.\u003cp\u003eHonestly if you want to up your cooking game by spending money buy a nice recipe app like Paprika (I\u0026#x27;m in love with this app) and plan your meals out before you go to the store. It takes me at most 20 minutes to find new or pick existing recipes and make my shopping list for the week. Then a quick trip to the store to grab it all (\u0026lt;30min in store as long as I go alone + 15-20min total driving). Call it just over an hour. Yes I could bill for an hour for more money than I save with groceries vs plated but grocery trips are unavoidable so really we are talking about 20min. And the end result is I make much healthier meals than Plated\u0026#x2F;Blue Apron\u0026#x2F;etc and I make what I like.","parent":"14465561","id":"14474563"}
{"by":"gwright","time":"1472521161","timestamp":"2016-08-30 01:39:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a bit dismayed at the lack of imagination in this thread.\u003cp\u003eHow about designing public policy that provide incentives to work rather than incentives not to work? (earned income tax credits)\u003cp\u003eHow about decreasing the cost of labor in order to increase employment while simultaneously providing programs that assist during periods of unemployment? (e.g., make it easier to hire and to fire and switch jobs while providing strong unemployment safety net, decouple health insurance from employment)\u003cp\u003eHow about setting expectations that people be self-sufficient and not dependent upon others? This is a more of a cultural problem then a policy problem.","parent":"12382907","id":"12386815"}
{"by":"laarc","time":"1448942638","timestamp":"2015-12-01 04:03:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s how to get started with Cleven on OS X:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  brew install rlwrap\n  brew install sdl2\n  brew install sbcl\n  wget https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;beta.quicklisp.org\u0026#x2F;quicklisp.lisp\n  shasum -a 256 quicklisp.lisp  # c.f. https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quicklisp.org\u0026#x2F;beta\u0026#x2F;\n  sbcl\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWithin SBCL, run the following:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  (load \u0026quot;quicklisp.lisp\u0026quot;)\n  (quicklisp-quickstart:install)\n  (ql:add-to-init-file)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nPress enter.  Exit SBCL by running:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  (exit)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThen run\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  cd ~\u0026#x2F;quicklisp\u0026#x2F;local-projects\u0026#x2F;\n  git clone https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;afainer\u0026#x2F;cleven.git\n  cd cleven\n  rlwrap sbcl\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nInside SBCL, run:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  (ql:quickload \u0026quot;sdl2\u0026quot;)\n  (ql:quickload \u0026quot;cleven\u0026quot;)\n  (load \u0026quot;sandbox.lisp\u0026quot;)\n  (in-package #:sandbox)\n  (run-sandbox)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIt pops up a window!  But I ran into an error at this point:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread\n  #\u0026lt;THREAD \u0026quot;Render thread\u0026quot; RUNNING {1006D70EF3}\u0026gt;:\n    Shader compilation failed.  The info log is:\n  ERROR: 0:24: \u0026#x27;\u0026#x27; :  version \u0026#x27;330\u0026#x27; is not supported\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI tried switching computers, but I got the same error.  I\u0026#x27;m running an AMD Radeon R9 M370X on Yosemite.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately I\u0026#x27;ll have to stop here, since I\u0026#x27;m a bit pressed for time.  This project is way cool, so I\u0026#x27;ll look into it more later.  If you have any ideas how to debug it further, please let me know here or by email.\u003cp\u003eThose steps might work for other people on OS X, though.  There\u0026#x27;s probably some kind of driver issue on my end.  (Ah, the life of gamedev...)\u003cp\u003eEdit: Created issue \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;afainer\u0026#x2F;cleven\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;afainer\u0026#x2F;cleven\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;1\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10652508","id":"10653568"}
{"by":"caente","time":"1473623149","timestamp":"2016-09-11 19:45:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think UBI will fix any current welfare systems. It doesn\u0026#x27;t fix anything. It changes everything.\nI believe it can be done gradually. But no one should expect to preserve the status quo in long term. Any attempt to implement it should consider this: UBI will change our society forever. Hopefully for the better, but not necessarily.","parent":"12473112","id":"12475248"}
{"by":"RougeFemme","time":"1387558801","timestamp":"2013-12-20 17:00:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe the company that issued the card provided the email address, assuming you provided your email address whoever issued your card (Visa\u0026#x2F;MC\u0026#x2F;Amex via your bank\u0026#x2F;credit union\u0026#x2F;etc.)","parent":"6942281","id":"6942386"}
{"by":"SubiculumCode","time":"1506785714","timestamp":"2017-09-30 15:35:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends on how much you are hanging the definition of quackery on the presence of intentional fraud and charatanism.\u003cp\u003eI meant the usual inventors that claim to be on the verge of becoming miraculously rich after the miraculous achievment of building an unlimited energy or propulsion machine, but alas there is still some small issue.. I\u0026#x27;d love to show you, but you\u0026#x27;ll need to sign this NDA first.\u003cp\u003eWhen an aquaintance of mine started doing this, trying to build a perpetual motor using magnets and suction pumps, and insisting I join his madness by signing a NDA, over and fucking over, refusing to get a job to support his family, feeding them dreams of riches that are born only of a psychological inadequacyand need to be special..\u003cp\u003ewell pooh.","parent":"15373191","id":"15373327"}
{"by":"wanda","time":"1454898278","timestamp":"2016-02-08 02:24:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Solving problems ⊃ hacking\u003cp\u003e(Not being pedantic, I just like set theory symbols and never get to use them)","parent":"11056056","id":"11056075"}
{"by":"JonnieCache","time":"1296585105","timestamp":"2011-02-01 18:31:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He did not give his product away for free. He charges decent money (probably hundreds of dollars an hour) for the shows I imagine, judging from the picture it looks like he puts in quite a performance.\u003cp\u003eThe free music files are just marketing to get people to come to the shows. They are adverts. Of course they are free.\u003cp\u003eThis is the way the entire music industry has run for years now. The part of it that matters anyway.","parent":"2166039","id":"2166612"}
{"by":"mherrmann","time":"1398615722","timestamp":"2014-04-27 16:22:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find the comparison of software development and surgery\u0026#x2F;flying an air plane very lacking. It restricts the term \u0026quot;Software\u0026quot; in the post title to very critical systems (OpenSSL admittedly being one of them).\u003cp\u003eThe author proposes automated tests\u0026#x2F;Software \u0026quot;checklists\u0026quot; as the solution to all problems. The problem with automated tests is that they can only catch \u0026quot;expected\u0026quot; bugs. The author describes an idea for an automated test that _might_ have caught the Heartbleed bug. Big deal, now that we know all about the bug. A next unforeseen type of vulnerability will come, and no automated test will catch it.\u003cp\u003eI think the article greatly exaggerates the applicability and capabilities of automated tests (or \u0026quot;check lists\u0026quot;). I\u0026#x27;m a big fan of all things TDD and consider myself a very rigorous programmer (surely often to the detriment of speed\u0026#x2F;pragmaticism). But I don\u0026#x27;t need a check list of the complexity of a flight check to describe the rules I use in my work.","parent":"7655018","id":"7655660"}
{"by":"nenadg","time":"1481227854","timestamp":"2016-12-08 20:10:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was interesting and fun to make.\u003cp\u003eSince official statistics body in Bosnia and Herzegovina (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.popis2013.ba\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.popis2013.ba\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) wasn\u0026#x27;t able to create adequate visualization, although they provided a link on web page (which never worked).\u003cp\u003eThey published census data 3 years after official census.\u003cp\u003eIt was huge political thing here, and I created this simple visualization out of their xls spreadsheets in just few days.\u003cp\u003eI did it for free, while they took taxpayers money and did nothing, that was the fun part.","parent":"13133788","id":"13133829"}
{"by":"lparry","time":"1309506047","timestamp":"2011-07-01 07:40:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wasn't Access a part of office?","parent":"2717361","id":"2717414"}
{"by":"io","time":"1304714884","timestamp":"2011-05-06 20:48:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You want me to pay extra for the privilege of having junk mail delivered? I can't see this being a very popular option. Sorting through the junk to make sure I catch the rare piece of important mail is a chore. I \u003ci\u003ewould\u003c/i\u003e pay extra to opt out of all mass mailings, and have the occasional piece of actual mail delivered. They'd probably only have to open my mailbox 5-6 times a month. Win-win.","parent":"2522200","id":"2522428"}
{"by":"rakoo","time":"1539192586","timestamp":"2018-10-10 17:29:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who would have thought a simple FTP-on-some-server would have been so complicated. Thanks for the post!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m eagerly waiting for the blog post about how bazel and torrents are used.","parent":"18186503","id":"18187074"}
{"by":"aub3bhat","time":"1494451181","timestamp":"2017-05-10 21:19:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"5 Million \u0026#x2F; 50K (worse if you use 65K) = 100 Snaps per spectacle over a 90 day period = 1 Snap per spectacle per day. Thats super low engagement. For one its not going to alleviate any growth concerns. I see an Apple buyout looming.","parent":"14311752","id":"14311825"}
{"by":"dceddia","time":"1528999394","timestamp":"2018-06-14 18:03:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Damn, yeah. Same here. That little voice of \u0026quot;is this really the BEST way\u0026quot; has grown stronger and stronger over the years, and I kinda have to fight it back to \u0026quot;allow\u0026quot; myself to do little hacky projects like this.\u003cp\u003eI always wanted to be better at software engineering, and software \u003ci\u003edesign\u003c/i\u003e, and getting abstractions right, and all that stuff. I\u0026#x27;ve slowly gotten better at all that, but I didn\u0026#x27;t know it would come with the tradeoff of being unable to switch it off.","parent":"17313789","id":"17313822"}
{"by":"justin66","time":"1520955170","timestamp":"2018-03-13 15:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone think it was a \u003ci\u003egood\u003c/i\u003e PR move? This is one of those deals where I\u0026#x27;m actually curious about the reaction here.","parent":"16575382","id":"16576941"}
{"by":"is_this_tinder","time":"1466032593","timestamp":"2016-06-15 23:16:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"lost credibility with that author.","parent":"11912713","dead":true,"id":"11912835"}
{"by":"k__","time":"1385654791","timestamp":"2013-11-28 16:06:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the other hand, there are many jobs people are willing to do for free\u0026#x2F;minimum wage because they somehow like them. But they can\u0026#x27;t because without money they can\u0026#x27;t live or they have to maintain a very low living standard.","parent":"6814883","id":"6815084"}
{"by":"dm2","time":"1409116823","timestamp":"2014-08-27 05:20:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like it\u0026#x27;s known and was marked as \u0026quot;won\u0026#x27;t fix\u0026quot;, but it seems like a major privacy vulnerability to me.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=252165\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;code.google.com\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;chromium\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;detail?id=252165\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8228426","id":"8230933"}
{"by":"gillianseed","time":"1384636121","timestamp":"2013-11-16 21:08:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure how Valve \u0026#x27;pioneered DRM\u0026#x27;, not to mention that DRM on Steam is purely optional, as in it\u0026#x27;s up to the game publishers to decide if they want to use DRM.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately it seems only indie game developers are opting for DRM free releases on Steam, but again it is the choice of the publisher, not Valve.\u003cp\u003eAs for SteamOS, as far as I\u0026#x27;ve gathered the OS itself will be fully open sourced, the Steam service application will remain proprietary.","parent":"6746266","id":"6746448"}
{"by":"crispinb","time":"1508276088","timestamp":"2017-10-17 21:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps, but not necessarily. There are real concerns that with a combination of temperature rises, ocean acidification, and trophic cascades caused by overfishing, the oceans will entirely die in the medium term. They are certainly in the process of dying (like nearly all ecosystems under the assault of \u0026#x27;economic growth\u0026#x27;).","parent":"15494787","id":"15495192"}
{"by":"ruok0101","time":"1378917360","timestamp":"2013-09-11 16:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One little known, but very handy tip:\u003cp\u003eAt any password prompt, if you knowingly mis-keyed your password, rather than pressing return, getting the \u0026quot;your an idiot\u0026quot; message (often after an annoying 1 - 2 second delay), and having to retype the command, you can actually press ctrl-U, which is the \u0026quot;Clear the line\u0026quot; bash command, and start over typing your password again.","parent":"6360320","id":"6368200"}
{"by":"libertine","time":"1519601998","timestamp":"2018-02-25 23:39:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Precisely - \u0026quot;marketers\u0026quot; these days don\u0026#x27;t grasp the concept of brand building. Just because you can measure directly results it doesn\u0026#x27;t mean the goal is to get a direct conversion - specially from a platform like youtube where people are actively consuming content - not buying stuff.\u003cp\u003eThe idea of compound investment into brand building doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to exist.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if these guys thought that decades of TV advertising campaigns were made by clueless people, with no education, with no market research, benchmarks, that dumped millions to build reach and frequency to try to fill a small spot in the mind of consumers.","parent":"16461831","id":"16461901"}
{"by":"jneal","time":"1459253808","timestamp":"2016-03-29 12:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Runscope is a great service. I learned about it around a year and a half ago and utilized it to monitor and log an API I was building to act as midware betweens a user-consumed IOS app and an android administrative app for a huge event (\u0026#x27;the big game\u0026#x27;). It really helped us because we were on such a tight time line. I can\u0026#x27;t count how many times there was an issue with one of the two apps and I was able to quickly track it down and notify the proper team so they could fix the issue.","parent":"11379688","id":"11380883"}
{"by":"drb91","time":"1515546587","timestamp":"2018-01-10 01:09:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’m not sure what you’re envisioning, but unless you live around reliable public transit (which is a tiny percentage of the geographic US) you can’t avoid driving, or at least carpooling.","parent":"16110221","id":"16111751"}
{"by":"tremon","time":"1539689654","timestamp":"2018-10-16 11:34:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Therac-25 is the go-to example because it is the best documented and least-contested case. Also, software usually isn\u0026#x27;t in ultimate control, most systems have additional (mechanical) safety controls.\u003cp\u003eMars Climate Orbiter, 1999: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;articles.latimes.com\u0026#x2F;1999\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;mn-17288\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;articles.latimes.com\u0026#x2F;1999\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;mn-17288\u003c/a\u003e. Undetected metric conversion error (though unclear if this was a manual process or software).\u003cp\u003eToyota unintended acceleration, 2010: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edmunds.com\u0026#x2F;car-safety\u0026#x2F;for-toyota-owners-unintended-acceleration-lawsuit-settlement.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edmunds.com\u0026#x2F;car-safety\u0026#x2F;for-toyota-owners-uninten...\u003c/a\u003e. Toyota maintains that it was not caused by software error.\u003cp\u003eNow let\u0026#x27;s list some cases where the software did have ultimate control:\u003cp\u003eSchiaparelli EDM lander, 2016: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;newatlas.com\u0026#x2F;esa-schiaparelli-mars-crash-inquiry\u0026#x2F;49696\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;newatlas.com\u0026#x2F;esa-schiaparelli-mars-crash-inquiry\u0026#x2F;496...\u003c/a\u003e. Faulty decision-making in the automated descent system due to input saturation.\u003cp\u003eTesla auto-pilot crash, 2016: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;jun\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;tesla-autopilot-death-self-driving-car-elon-musk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;technology\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;jun\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;tesla-aut...\u003c/a\u003e. Faulty decision-making due to incorrect image analysis. In this case, the additional safety controls (the driver himself) failed too.\u003cp\u003eUber car crash, 2018: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;money.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;20\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;companies\u0026#x2F;self-driving-uber-death\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;money.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;20\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;companies\u0026#x2F;self-driving...\u003c/a\u003e. Faulty decision-making due to incorrect image analysis, though the investigation is still ongoing, so no definite cause determined (FAFAIK).","parent":"18225122","id":"18228433"}
{"by":"jarjarbanqs","time":"1543303327","timestamp":"2018-11-27 07:22:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; fiscal austerity\u003cp\u003e=\u0026gt; lets tighten our belts! decease debt, decrease risk\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; massive levels of QE.\u003cp\u003e=\u0026gt; print more money, lend it out at 0%\u003cp\u003etheir actions are directly opposite their statements.\u003cp\u003ethey are trying to kick the can down the road as long as possible while enriching themselves and their friends\u003cp\u003eproblem is the can is picking up more dirt. you can use a bigger shoe but and eventually your foot will break.\u003cp\u003ethey know this as well so the plan is pump and dump.\u003cp\u003esignificant \u0026quot;real\u0026quot; wealth has not been created since 2008. feel free to point out where.. I\u0026#x27;ll wait\u003cp\u003eby boosting the market and skimming the top continuously you\u0026#x27;ll be safe from the pop. paid for by the pension plans of everyday joe.","parent":"18539976","id":"18540237"}
{"by":"severus_bro","time":"1440242954","timestamp":"2015-08-22 11:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that they (US corporations and local elites in the developing countries) haven\u0026#x27;t built a global labor market. Rather they built very large pipelines into the US labor market.\u003cp\u003eThis means that workers in a country such as China work 14 - 16 hours a day, eat in the company dining hall, and sleep in the company dorm. But they get paid a tiny amount, while US corporations and local elites who control the pipeline capture most of the profit.\u003cp\u003eBecause of this, workers in developing countries act like a full worker (or 1.5 - 2x a full worker) but they don\u0026#x27;t act like a consumer. So you get 3-4 billion workers competing for jobs in an economy of 320 million people.","parent":"10102124","id":"10102225"}
{"by":"CydeWeys","time":"1502486823","timestamp":"2017-08-11 21:27:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it weird that this article acts as if Robert Hooke isn\u0026#x27;t particularly well known, and downplays his accomplishments somewhat.  He\u0026#x27;s an influential scientist, with contributions in many fields, whose name everyone learns in high school (both in biology and physics class).\u003cp\u003eThe British should be a bit more proud of him.","parent":"14992549","id":"14994457"}
{"by":"dsl","time":"1535572005","timestamp":"2018-08-29 19:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In any other situation it would be the CEO leaving. The investors clearly didn\u0026#x27;t have enough votes to boot him, and took a cashout to avoid it being a total loss.","parent":"17871173","id":"17871217"}
{"by":"r00fus","time":"1508383272","timestamp":"2017-10-19 03:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you leave the back open and climate control running with a gas engine vehicle you\u0026#x27;re a)going to run out of gas overnight and b) will get exhaust fumes where you\u0026#x27;re sleeping.","parent":"15503154","id":"15505246"}
{"by":"lotharbot","time":"1358656093","timestamp":"2013-01-20 04:28:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's typical to recurse until you're down to small enough sets to easily sort using some other algorithm (usually insertion sort on groups \u0026#60; 10 elements.)","parent":"5085964","id":"5086003"}
{"by":"eps","time":"1452240017","timestamp":"2016-01-08 08:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try and read the article before making abstract comments. It has names and links and it\u0026#x27;s bloody obvious Chinese is a blantant rip, not a \u0026quot;coincidence.\u0026quot;","parent":"10863456","id":"10863571"}
{"by":"munificent","time":"1375903880","timestamp":"2013-08-07 19:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or better: more than one. Most games I worked on had a few different allocators specialized for different uses.","parent":"6174559","id":"6175060"}
{"by":"cheapsteak","time":"1463854932","timestamp":"2016-05-21 18:22:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not every part of every conversation needs to be genuine and engaging. I\u0026#x27;ve found smart replies to be quite helpful for transactional conversations, like setting  up dentist appointments and lunch meetings. It\u0026#x27;s almost like having an assistant pen a response for you when getting the gist of the intent is simple and not every word matters.\u003cp\u003eLetters to friends, or letters with significance (e.g. a resignation letter) will of course always be written by hand, word for word, but there\u0026#x27;s room for smart replies to be useful without having it diminish the human race","parent":"11743593","id":"11745599"}
{"by":"ccvannorman","time":"1490195148","timestamp":"2017-03-22 15:05:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stories like this are what give African Princes hope that someday they will find their Princess.","parent":"13930847","id":"13931490"}
{"by":"general_ai","time":"1485322951","timestamp":"2017-01-25 05:42:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s pretty clear there are a lot more people than the aforementioned picture shows, though.","parent":"13478885","id":"13478923"}
{"by":"skybrian","time":"1535656344","timestamp":"2018-08-30 19:12:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he\u0026#x27;s really reaching there. As a tech demo, this tunnel is not that important in the long run (low hours, low traffic, only used for entertainment traffic) and so could easily be shut down if something better is put in later.","parent":"17879230","id":"17879796"}
{"by":"JabavuAdams","time":"1482190495","timestamp":"2016-12-19 23:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason I hate diesel cars is that the exhaust smells nasty.","parent":"13215966","id":"13215989"}
{"by":"netcan","time":"1271234537","timestamp":"2010-04-14 08:42:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's an interesting place to dig though.\u003cp\u003eWhen someone pirates something he may otherwise have paid for, it isn't necessarily a net loss in production. Imagine that one person pirates software A, which he would have bought and spends the money on software B, which he would not have bought. Now imagine another person does the reverse.\u003cp\u003eSame amount of money goes into these two software companies, twice as \"much\" software comes out. There is a consumption benefit (that goes to the pirates). If the pirates use that software to create more wealth, that is benefit leaking back out into the rest of the economy.\u003cp\u003eBecause of the way size is usually calculated (like volunteer work), we wouldn't count that pirate as having gained anything. That is probably not the right way of looking at things. Even if it is, it is very hard to say that anything \"cost the economy X.'","parent":"1264337","id":"1264491"}
{"by":"GoldfishCRM","time":"1377920760","timestamp":"2013-08-31 03:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Darn. I thought I was going to make 377 000 dollars a day. That would have been around $94M trading stock. Now I have to work for a living... Instead I got this article about fair game. Whats up with that=)","parent":"6305531","id":"6305700"}
{"by":"sivers","time":"1295802573","timestamp":"2011-01-23 17:09:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually my hiring policy was ridiculous.\u003cp\u003eBecause I was \"too busy to bother\", I'd just ask my current employees if they had any friends that needed work.\u003cp\u003eSomeone always did, so I'd say, \"Tell them to start tomorrow morning. $10/hr. Show them what to do.\"  And that was that.\u003cp\u003eTo be fair, this was a mail-order CD store, so most of my employees were in the warehouse.  But I even did this same approach when I needed a CTO.  (\"Anyone have a friend who's good with Linux?  Yeah?  Is he cool?  OK - tell him to start tomorrow.\")\u003cp\u003eBut maybe that they were friends-of-friends helped with the trust part.","parent":"2132726","id":"2132776"}
{"by":"soared","time":"1451789694","timestamp":"2016-01-03 02:54:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you claiming Walmart\u0026#x27;s success is based on a low tax rate and their effectiveness at driving out competition? I don\u0026#x27;t support Walmart by any means but they do a whole lot more than what you give them credit for.","parent":"10827792","id":"10829290"}
{"by":"DINKDINK","time":"1508352116","timestamp":"2017-10-18 18:41:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really depends on what one\u0026#x27;s definition of Socialism.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Nazism rejected the Marxist concept of class conflict, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the \u0026quot;common good\u0026quot; and accept political interests as the main priority of economic organization.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Nazism\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Nazism\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake a look at Sweden when their policies were more Socialist skewed, the government in order to manage the P\u0026#x2F;L sheet for social welfare programs compelled political out groups to be sterilized[1].  Roma people were considered a \u0026quot;drain\u0026quot; on Swedish society and attempts to exterminate them were done much more quietly.\u003cp\u003eIf any government starts to make value judgements about who is more valuable than whom, they will repeat these same errors.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sweden\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sw...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15501499","id":"15501760"}
{"by":"cmccart","time":"1470952247","timestamp":"2016-08-11 21:50:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This got me thinking: how much CO2 is emitted by different energy sources in generating 1 kilowatt-hour?\u003cp\u003eI came across this link: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blueskymodel.org\u0026#x2F;kilowatt-hour\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blueskymodel.org\u0026#x2F;kilowatt-hour\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeems like solar is more or less a break even, where nuclear \u0026#x2F;wind\u0026#x2F;geothermal\u0026#x2F;hydro are pure wins, which makes sense I suppose. Could you manufacture enough of these to consume 1 kilowatt-hour without generating more CO2 in the process than they would consume in their lifecycle?","parent":"12271341","id":"12271848"}
{"by":"UrMomReadsHN","time":"1422368686","timestamp":"2015-01-27 14:24:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally agree.\u003cp\u003eLooks like you have to login and your private medical data is stored \u0026quot;in the cloud.\u0026quot; I have no idea why anyone would think this would be a good idea. Storing it locally would be the only remotely sane solution.\u003cp\u003eI mean, I don\u0026#x27;t mind telling someone I have an anxiety disorder (and I do have one). But the content of some of those intrusive thoughts is something I don\u0026#x27;t want anyone to know. Especially not some startup who may sell their company to, say, Facebook one day. Some of my intrusive thoughts are things that I did wrong (10 years ago...). So logging them would mean a third party would have an entire database of almost every mistake I made in my life, out of context. The potential for that to go wrong is... extreme.  I\u0026#x27;d rather have nudes be leaked.\u003cp\u003eAnd the stupid embedded video in a jQuery modal. Stop it, you\u0026#x27;re making your videos unusable. Let me pause. Oh wait, I can\u0026#x27;t.  I need to pause the video because it runs at lighting speed, so fast it is impossible to gain any information at all from it unless you pause it.","parent":"8952979","id":"8953125"}
{"by":"_pius","time":"1272757013","timestamp":"2010-05-01 23:36:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got it for my iMac.  I like the fact that they'll come here and repair the machine on-site if necessary.","parent":"1311437","id":"1311465"}
{"by":"trhtrsh","time":"1353026858","timestamp":"2012-11-16 00:47:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Beware, the page spams your history while you page through it.","parent":"4791362","id":"4791753"}
{"by":"heavenlyblue","time":"1510235535","timestamp":"2017-11-09 13:52:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But in this case you _literally_ have to do exactly the same amount of work as you\u0026#x27;d do while doing it yourself.","parent":"15661494","id":"15662317"}
{"by":"zmoreira","time":"1489679395","timestamp":"2017-03-16 15:49:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am also a very liberal person, but I greatly enjoy reading The American Conservative. Have you tried that? Also some of the contributors to UNZ.com are really interesting, but it\u0026#x27;s a very mixed bag.","parent":"13883535","id":"13886003"}
{"by":"jeffdavis","time":"1405358846","timestamp":"2014-07-14 17:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a complicated issue, of course, but here are a few basics to guide the conversation:\u003cp\u003e1. When passing out tax dollars, the tax payers want the recipients to be accountable. That\u0026#x27;s true even if the accountability is misguided, partial, biased, creates some bad incentives, etc. Saying \u0026quot;we want tax dollars to educate children, but we don\u0026#x27;t want any responsibility to show you results\u0026quot; is just not a sustainable situation.\u003cp\u003e2. The more remote the taxpayers are, the more they will rely on cold, objective numbers to satisfy the accountability. A local community knows more about how its students are doing and whether the school is accomplishing its goals and will rely less on the numbers. Federal dollars being sent thousands of miles away will come along with standardized tests, because the taxpayers have no other way to judge whether their money is accomplishing anything.\u003cp\u003e3. Some subjects are more easily tested objectively than others, e.g. arithmetic tests are more accurate than creative writing tests.\u003cp\u003e4. People tend to optimize more for things that can be objectively measured, e.g. money over happiness; or math over painting; or horsepower over interior comforts.\u003cp\u003e5. Tests are most effective when they don\u0026#x27;t directly influence the test-takers. For instance, a street survey about who can name the 9 justices on the Supreme Court might tell us quite a bit about the knowledge of average citizens about government. But if we keep asking the same question again and again all over the place, people will learn the answer to that single question, making the results look better. But the citizen\u0026#x27;s knowledge about government hasn\u0026#x27;t really changed much.","parent":"8029541","id":"8032034"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1375911326","timestamp":"2013-08-07 21:35:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is probably partly due to Amazon\u0026#x27;s policy that the price you charge on their site is the lowest price you charge anywhere, for each item.","parent":"6175537","id":"6175819"}
{"by":"toomanybeersies","time":"1468797613","timestamp":"2016-07-17 23:20:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; They can work and live in any country in the EU\u003cp\u003eBrexit might well see to that one though. And working in Australia visa free isn\u0026#x27;t all sunshine and roses, you have to pay full Australian taxes, but get none of the benefits of being an Australian resident or citizen.","parent":"12112257","id":"12112393"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1410377130","timestamp":"2014-09-10 19:25:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I stopped at \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;...little is known about the social effects of pain.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e A long time ago I was reading Marine Corps training manuals at USC\u0026#x27;s Doheny Library (a friend was doing an endorphin study and the Marine\u0026#x27;s apparently had some some interesting work there) and I can tell you that they not only knew about the social effects of pain, they employed those effects in a variety of training exercises.","parent":"8297657","id":"8298512"}
{"by":"heurist","time":"1378074779","timestamp":"2013-09-01 22:32:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a step toward the right solution to this problem. At least people won\u0026#x27;t be bumping into each other all the time... I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure this phenomenon will get worse before it gets better, but eventually our online presences will be fully (and invisibly) woven into our real lives and we will adopt some new form of socialization that takes constant connection into account.","parent":"6312298","id":"6312449"}
{"by":"lucasnemeth","time":"1481127018","timestamp":"2016-12-07 16:10:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ugh. that\u0026#x27;s sad. I\u0026#x27;ll be sure to avoid old manufacturing companies when looking for jobs then.","parent":"13123277","id":"13123562"}
{"by":"watscheatcodes","time":"1491079846","timestamp":"2017-04-01 20:50:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha, indeed! \u0026#x27;Redic\u0026#x27; is my default auto-correct :p","parent":"14014085","id":"14014096"}
{"by":"ibdf","time":"1520348712","timestamp":"2018-03-06 15:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes. the food they received while in captivity.","parent":"16529130","id":"16529233"}
{"by":"chuhnk","time":"1414539132","timestamp":"2014-10-28 23:32:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting that there\u0026#x27;s no feedback. If there\u0026#x27;s a process of online application, review and automated email with a standard response then surely some simple stock answer fitting to the application wouldn\u0026#x27;t be much effort. I guess if a certain number are just rejected because of sheer volume then I can understand.","parent":"8524325","id":"8524421"}
{"by":"michaelochurch","time":"1357502654","timestamp":"2013-01-06 20:04:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You need coordination and guidance at 94,000 people. You can't have it be totally \"flat\"; I agree. You need some administration and some conceptual structure and hierarchy is the way humans think.\u003cp\u003eYou don't, however, need managerial extortionists who won't let people seek independent credibility, choose their own projects and teams, or collaborate extra-hierarchically.","parent":"5017460","id":"5017509"}
{"by":"jpdoctor","time":"1368675099","timestamp":"2013-05-16 03:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no idea what this story has to do with HN, yet I loved every word of it.\u003cp\u003eThanks for posting.","parent":"5716159","id":"5716744"}
{"by":"hkmurakami","time":"1508060835","timestamp":"2017-10-15 09:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Matlab\u0026#x2F;Mathematica and its ecosystem of plugins as well.","parent":"15476191","id":"15476521"}
{"by":"l_t","time":"1533951792","timestamp":"2018-08-11 01:43:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair enough -- it\u0026#x27;s not like it\u0026#x27;s completely opaque. But when I start a project and see there is no webpack.config.js in the project root, I feel the opposite of relief.\u003cp\u003eFor example, if there isn\u0026#x27;t a config file, it\u0026#x27;s usually because there are more than one. Or, even worse, the config is dynamically generated. A build process like that is much harder for me to fully understand than one with a simple webpack.config.js.\u003cp\u003eHowever, this may be biased, as it\u0026#x27;s coming from the perspective of someone who already \u0026quot;knows Webpack\u0026quot;.","parent":"17737812","id":"17737840"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1416260751","timestamp":"2014-11-17 21:45:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Strange how \u0026quot;campaign finance laws\u0026quot; always seem to come down to suppressing speech.\u003cp\u003eSounds like there\u0026#x27;s also serious doubt this is in any way illegal, e.g. this comment by \u0026quot;Daniel Tokaji, a professor of Constitutional Law at Ohio State University\u0026quot;:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;A lot of things you and I would consider coordination are not coordination under the law. I don\u0026#x27;t think sharing polling data is going to be enough to establish that the campaign was materially involved in decisions about content, target audience or timing.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutlawing \u0026quot;coordination\u0026quot; is a very dangerous slippery slope to go down, as Wisconsin recently showed.","parent":"8617872","id":"8620851"}
{"by":"brent","time":"1206503471","timestamp":"2008-03-26 03:51:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Research professors spend much more time doing research than teaching.  Usually you love doing it which offsets some of the monetary compensation issues.  Also, \"barely get any pay\" is relative.  It depends on where you live, the type of school, the department, seniority, and in some cases whether you do something like spending your summers consulting.","parent":"146483","id":"146512"}
{"by":"aasasd","time":"1547137425","timestamp":"2019-01-10 16:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those are vector fonts. We\u0026#x27;re discussing bitmap fonts instead.\u003cp\u003eNothing surprising about vector serif monospace fonts, since Courier and variations―which likely constitute way over 50% of all use of monospaced fonts―are slab-serif fonts.","parent":"18874684","id":"18875002"}
{"by":"soared","time":"1448218953","timestamp":"2015-11-22 19:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No? okay.","parent":"10610697","id":"10611008"}
{"by":"shail","time":"1360003197","timestamp":"2013-02-04 18:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am working on a cool product (obviously only I think so as of now:) ) right now, I am developing it fulltime but team is just me for now. I cannot pay you. So, if money is not an immediate requirement then let me know and I can discuss with you and see if we can collaborate. My email id is in my profile.","parent":"5165445","id":"5166058"}
{"by":"Terretta","time":"1364479644","timestamp":"2013-03-28 14:07:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If trying to juggle more than one apple ID in the same storefront is breaking the camel's back, she's in for a world of soul crushing disappointment with any less UX polished product -- which is pretty much all the rest of them.","parent":"5454724","id":"5454800"}
{"by":"rubymaverick","time":"1258055422","timestamp":"2009-11-12 19:50:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless they want to make the web faster for \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c/i\u003e properties, which SPDY would do.  They can only optimize their own sites up to a point and then they need to make the whole web infrastructure more efficient to realize any more speed gains, across all clients.","parent":"938552","id":"938576"}
{"by":"mrec","time":"1515074248","timestamp":"2018-01-04 13:57:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.\u0026quot; -- Edsger Dijkstra","parent":"16066996","id":"16070314"}
{"by":"CountHackulus","time":"1297307593","timestamp":"2011-02-10 03:13:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work day to day on a compiler backend. It's used in an emulator (as a JIT), with the JVM (as a JIT), and with various static languages (as a static compiler).\u003cp\u003eYou'd be surprised at the similarity between a JIT compiler and a static compiler with profiler feedback. Much of the optimizations are the same, and a lot of the code generation is the same. In fact, the biggest difference is just that there's a VM for jitted languages, but just a runtime for (most of) the static languages.\u003cp\u003eI will say however, that this book looks pretty decent, looking through the table of contents shows that it's not missing that many optimization concepts and is a good start for understanding how your compiler (JIT or otherwise) works. Understanding how your compiler works is a big step towards mastering a language.","parent":"2200006","id":"2200535"}
{"by":"camccann","time":"1266167173","timestamp":"2010-02-14 17:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many logical fallacies are actually good quick-and-dirty heuristics for deciding whether something is worth considering. \"The source is biased, therefore the argument is wrong\" is clearly incorrect, but \"the source is biased, therefore the argument has a high likelihood of being wrong, therefore reading it is not a good use of my time\" is not just correct, but also a very useful rule.","parent":"1124625","id":"1124848"}
{"by":"mbrutsch","time":"1462033573","timestamp":"2016-04-30 16:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  naively doing everything your own personal way (including at the team\u0026#x2F;company level).\u003cp\u003eYou, and my downvoters, all assume (naively) that any in-house standard must somehow be different than \u0026quot;widely-adopted coding standards (that most frameworks probably use)\u0026quot;.  Obviously, that need not be true, and in my limited 40 years of experience, it rarely is.  Not sure how you even got there.","parent":"11601470","id":"11602317"}
{"by":"lambdajones","time":"1250731712","timestamp":"2009-08-20 01:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it means why is probably in a remote, hidden mountain village in Colorado.","parent":"774124","id":"774228"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1451960618","timestamp":"2016-01-05 02:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d multiply by 6 twice then divide by 10.\u003cp\u003eBut it isn\u0026#x27;t the \u0026quot;move the decimal point\u0026quot; of other metric unit conversions.","parent":"10840514","id":"10840564"}
{"by":"AndrewDucker","time":"1370272690","timestamp":"2013-06-03 15:18:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think their belief is that they can offer a better experience on very low-end phones than Android can.","parent":"5813661","id":"5813756"}
{"by":"mevile","time":"1474490632","timestamp":"2016-09-21 20:43:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Yes, I can code that, but we can buy it just as cheaply, and let me focus on more important details of our business.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eUh no. I code, that\u0026#x27;s what I do. I\u0026#x27;m fine with being laid off if that\u0026#x27;s not creating value. I can code somewhere else.\u003cp\u003eIf you go into a non-engineering role, you are sacrificing your engineering career for temporary survival at your current job. The next engineering job you apply to wont probably like that you haven\u0026#x27;t done SWE work for whatever amount of time. Just pull off the bandaid and get a new job.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m an engineer. I want to be good at engineering. I\u0026#x27;m not interested in the rest of it. It\u0026#x27;s not my job to make sure the engineering tasks line up with business success. My job is making the math and the code work. Division of labor. I don\u0026#x27;t want any other role. If engineers aren\u0026#x27;t valued I\u0026#x27;ll go somewhere where they are. There are lots of engineers creating value all over the place. There\u0026#x27;s lots of opportunities out there, there\u0026#x27;s no reason to have to sell yourself if your skills don\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"12551764","id":"12552042"}
{"by":"bradyat","time":"1514917793","timestamp":"2018-01-02 18:29:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slice | Director of Consumer Products, Machine Learning Technical Lead Manager, Sales Operations Analyst | San Mateo, CA or New York, NY| ONSITE\nSlice is online shopping, smarter. Slice is transforming online shopping and retail by unveiling never-before-seen digital commerce data via its e-commerce intelligence products, APIs, and consumer applications.\u003cp\u003eSlice operates a market research company, Slice Intelligence. With a data panel of 5 million online shoppers – the largest of its kind – only Slice offers vital intelligence that is the pulse of the digital economy—actual purchases directly from online shoppers, on any device or location, reported daily. Learn more about Slice Intelligence at www.sliceintelligence.com and on twitter @SliceIntel.\u003cp\u003eBenefits \u0026amp; Perks: Competitive comp including salary, bonus and stock, Medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance, FSA, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Maternity Leave (up to 22 weeks off \u0026#x2F; 16 weeks paid), Paternity Leave (up to 8 paid weeks off), Caltrain Go Pass, Annual professional development budget\u003cp\u003eRoles:\u003cp\u003eDirector of Consumer Products - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;rtelwg1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;rtelwg1\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMachine Learning Technical Lead Manager - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;lu26w11\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;lu26w11\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSales Operations Analyst - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;mesgfn1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;grnh.se\u0026#x2F;mesgfn1\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16052538","id":"16054021"}
{"by":"newsmania","time":"1506128916","timestamp":"2017-09-23 01:08:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Make drugs legal.  Impose a 15% tax on each sale with all money devoted to rehabbing addicts. Problem solved.","parent":"15315129","id":"15317404"}
{"by":"piinbinary","time":"1494780620","timestamp":"2017-05-14 16:50:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if a MMORPG with an economy could be used to simulate what happens.","parent":"14327245","id":"14336331"}
{"by":"noncoml","time":"1534449289","timestamp":"2018-08-16 19:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OCaml?","parent":"17774322","id":"17777941"}
{"by":"mercurial","time":"1394571977","timestamp":"2014-03-11 21:06:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; As an example of how incredibly dumb it can be to reinvent the wheel\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a misunderstanding. It\u0026#x27;s like saying \u0026quot;Java is a reinvention of Haskell\u0026quot;. Neither is a reinvention of the other, they are two very different beasts. You don\u0026#x27;t have any OS whose entire state (package and configuration) is described at a central location and can be recreated by a single command (outside of research projects, possibly). You may disagree with the approach they take, but such a blunt dismissal dismisses at the same time any kind of original approach to a problem.\u003cp\u003eSpeaking of which, you speak in favour of shell as a solution to automation. What you are saying is that you push the complexity on the side of the shell script developer. In my experience, declarative systems tend to have more complex innards, but it also means more maintainability, and a flow much easier to understand. This is the kind of tradeoff you make when forsaking sysvinit in favour of systemd.","parent":"7379262","id":"7382121"}
{"by":"Pxtl","time":"1487533735","timestamp":"2017-02-19 19:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a developer who took 7 months off of pat leave, I\u0026#x27;d recommend devs seriously thinking about it.\u003cp\u003eA remote working dev has the flexibility to earn a good keep while also letting their partner have the more rigid location and schedule.","parent":"13681194","id":"13681576"}
{"by":"syaz1","time":"1308032310","timestamp":"2011-06-14 06:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; we're all just older now\u003cp\u003eThis is it. I think people don't realize they've grown up and what they found funny when playing DN as a child is simply not funny anymore. After all kids are easily amused.","parent":"2651926","id":"2651987"}
{"by":"desireco42","time":"1426387059","timestamp":"2015-03-15 02:37:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Again, it seems that lately MS can do no wrong :). I know this form factor existed before, but being build by MS and providing solid experience, this is huge.","parent":"9204724","id":"9205122"}
{"by":"menloparkbum","time":"1216404292","timestamp":"2008-07-18 18:04:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article is based on a small section in the linked PDF, which is based on a conclusion the researcher made by reading a newspaper article about the Dutch housing market. So, yeah - unconvincing. In the heavily McMansioned areas of the USA, people are commuting to a suburban office park, not a city center. Thus, the housing choice is going to be between different suburban developments, not between a gated community and an apartment downtown.","parent":"249770","id":"250012"}
{"by":"davidgerard","time":"1420815857","timestamp":"2015-01-09 15:04:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He was a bitter \u003ci\u003eyoung\u003c/i\u003e industry hack when he wrote this!","parent":"8860361","id":"8862471"}
{"by":"SturgeonsLaw","time":"1455412385","timestamp":"2016-02-14 01:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems like the opposite of insurance though","parent":"11096390","id":"11096596"}
{"by":"_mikedugan","time":"1421708673","timestamp":"2015-01-19 23:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not particularly surprised by this given the fact that using Facebook is essentially providing them with a wealth of free data. Every time you show interest in something, congratulations, you are helping a computer to profile you better than a person can.\u003cp\u003eImplications good and bad, meh","parent":"8914640","id":"8914659"}
{"by":"jfuhrman","time":"1434644291","timestamp":"2015-06-18 16:18:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nah there isn\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"9737358","id":"9739604"}
{"by":"kintamanimatt","time":"1367465716","timestamp":"2013-05-02 03:35:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're never gonna print that car at a Kinkos.","parent":"5641729","id":"5642353"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1221626886","timestamp":"2008-09-17 04:48:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not really about politics, it's about the cognitive basis behind people being gemeinschaft or gesellschaft. The title is really just a red herring to get people to read the essay.","parent":"306674","id":"306693"}
{"by":"the_watcher","time":"1450389711","timestamp":"2015-12-17 22:01:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest value an MBA provides (and this is not me claiming it does or doesn\u0026#x27;t provide other value) is that companies recruit out of them. If you are looking to make a career change, it can be tough to get considered for roles you might do well in, given your lack of experience, but companies are demonstrably more willing to hire into roles without relevant work experience if coming from a solid MBA program.","parent":"10750293","id":"10754898"}
{"by":"wfo","time":"1509928459","timestamp":"2017-11-06 00:34:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have a huge amount of choice in your taxes; you can vote, run for office, and advocate for political positions. You have zero choice in your economic situation (if you are 99% of people) since most financial choices are made for you by large companies that you have zero stake in or control over.\u003cp\u003eIs there a difference between someone pointing a gun at your head and saying \u0026#x27;your money or your life\u0026#x27; and a company that buys all the water in your region and withholds it saying \u0026#x27;your money or your life\u0026#x27;? No.","parent":"15632268","id":"15632704"}
{"by":"bhb","time":"1205167155","timestamp":"2008-03-10 16:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm surprised that Puerto Rico hasn't been mentioned. My hacker friends and I dabbled in both Settlers and Carcassonne, but ultimately ended up playing mostly Puerto Rico. Great game. Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck getting my non-hacker friends to play.\u003cp\u003eA big hit in almost any group of people has been Speed Scrabble. Quick, easy to play in teams, and just great fun overall. If you like Scrabble, try it out.","parent":"133128","id":"133223"}
{"by":"drx","time":"1322957574","timestamp":"2011-12-04 00:12:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm a bit late to the topic, so quite possibly you've moved on, but\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; I keep failing and getting frustrated as soon as I hit a wall, I didn't used to be like this but now everything seems too hard\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; depressed and demotivated\u003cp\u003eJust one of many possibilities, but you could have a neurological disorder (\"I didn't used to be like this\" and depression, no motivation). Go to a decent doctor and get checked for a bunch of things. Could be something treatable like vitamin deficiency.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, feel free to ping me, emails in my profile.","parent":"3302637","id":"3309357"}
{"by":"rycars","time":"1481608241","timestamp":"2016-12-13 05:50:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have a link, but he deleted his whole tweet history a couple months ago. I never saw an explanation, but I doubt it had to do with his attitude towards Obamacare, which is well documented elsewhere, and which hasn\u0026#x27;t changed that much.","parent":"13164739","id":"13164806"}
{"by":"bluefinity","time":"1401467008","timestamp":"2014-05-30 16:23:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The worker makes 80 LEDs per \u003ci\u003eminute\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"7822577","id":"7822610"}
{"by":"Mob2mob","time":"1282942510","timestamp":"2010-08-27 20:55:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't know where but beware of government loans, they are a  pain to get and usually involves bribery.","parent":"1640219","id":"1640247"}
{"by":"pjin","time":"1320558559","timestamp":"2011-11-06 05:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The main reason I'd see for originally including PNG color space metadata is to correct for the inconsistent gamma between OS X 10.5 and earlier (gamma 1.8) and Windows (gamma 2.2). Snow Leopard and Lion have switched to 2.2 so the problem is graduating, but web designers before 2009 had to worry that the colors on their Macs did not match the colors on PCs.\u003cp\u003eThe real question is why throw in the whole 100K including the color space and all, when only a gamma value would suffice?","parent":"3200302","id":"3201972"}
{"by":"nathancahill","time":"1447033575","timestamp":"2015-11-09 01:46:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, vim was the other tool I had in mind when I wrote that.","parent":"10528078","id":"10530966"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1528890727","timestamp":"2018-06-13 11:52:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe. But it boils down to where you want to put the crap - contain it within the dev team, or drop it on your users? Obsessive trading of developer time on your end for compute use on users\u0026#x27; end is a big part of what makes web UIs suck. Also, for keeping some of the crap on your end, native-native toolkits give you consistency and performance for free.","parent":"17301929","id":"17302199"}
{"by":"AUmrysh","time":"1333652813","timestamp":"2012-04-05 19:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The creator of Minecraft, Notch, is making a game that will use this computer as part of a space ship.\nStart working on your ship control algorithms now, so that you can dominate when the game comes out.","parent":"3803965","id":"3804082"}
{"by":"wlesieutre","time":"1477889091","timestamp":"2016-10-31 04:44:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve contemplated setting up a small home server with write-only shares for backups, but ended up not doing it because of the cost and time. If there were a reasonably priced off-the-shelf product for this, I\u0026#x27;d recommend it to everyone I know.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, if there were an off-the-shelf product for this, it would probably have unpatched security issues two weeks after you bought it, and if it were in common use you\u0026#x27;d see ransomware targeting it. Tough problem to solve if you\u0026#x27;re not running and maintaining your own devices.\u003cp\u003eI suppose tarsnap or S3 would be the way to go, I\u0026#x27;m just not that into cloud backups. Maybe it\u0026#x27;s time to get over that.","parent":"12834161","id":"12834362"}
{"by":"PStamatiou","time":"1222313224","timestamp":"2008-09-25 03:27:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use adium.. but I like being nostalgic over gaim.","parent":"314173","id":"314475"}
{"by":"thriftwy","time":"1521136185","timestamp":"2018-03-15 17:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t trust your group of legislators!\u003cp\u003eYou can raise awareness to clause 17b, even in the form of pull requests. Moreover if it turns to be toxic we can immediately revert it with a new law.\u003cp\u003eWith indirect democracy, none of our objections are binding. They\u0026#x27;ll just spit on them like they do every time.","parent":"16594092","id":"16595005"}
{"by":"mark_story","time":"1300274353","timestamp":"2011-03-16 11:19:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it though?  They are developers, developing applications for the web.  I don't think its a huge barrier to expect people to learn the basic protocols, and tools like curl reasonably well.","parent":"2329073","id":"2331583"}
{"by":"ndonnellan","time":"1478227193","timestamp":"2016-11-04 02:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, there actually is a semiconductor industry here, so \u0026quot;Silicon\u0026quot; would be an apt description.","parent":"12869613","id":"12869967"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1359086800","timestamp":"2013-01-25 04:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But blocking that domain in the UK did nothing to slow bittorrent traffic, according to several sources. \u003ca href=\"http://torrentfreak.com/censoring-the-pirate-bay-is-futile-isps-reveal-120711/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://torrentfreak.com/censoring-the-pirate-bay-is-futile-i...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5113811","id":"5113885"}
{"by":"girvo","time":"1377163957","timestamp":"2013-08-22 09:32:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m currently using Geary as my local MUA (Linux only, FWIW) -- I\u0026#x27;m unsure if it has encryption built in yet, but I know it\u0026#x27;s on the radar, and is under heavy development. Check it out, if you\u0026#x27;re a Linux user. I replaced Thunderbird with it quite successfully :)","parent":"6245046","id":"6256111"}
{"by":"charlieflowers","time":"1385671902","timestamp":"2013-11-28 20:51:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you mean by\u0026quot;open allocation\u0026quot;?","parent":"6815163","id":"6816387"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1499066605","timestamp":"2017-07-03 07:23:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We detached this subthread from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14685423\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14685423\u003c/a\u003e and marked it off-topic.","parent":"14685508","id":"14686495"}
{"by":"gog","time":"1429177580","timestamp":"2015-04-16 09:46:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I moved most of my projects to Ansible, but I have a project that is still on Puppet and I really would like to move on.\u003cp\u003eThe reason is that I need a centrally managed server where clients pull for changes because the clients are not online all of the time.\u003cp\u003eDoes anybody have experience with Ansibles pull model explained here \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jpmens.net\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;14\u0026#x2F;ansible-pull-instead-of-push\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jpmens.net\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;14\u0026#x2F;ansible-pull-instead-of-push\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e ?","parent":"9386180","id":"9386809"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1230081509","timestamp":"2008-12-24 01:18:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about the festival of lights??","parent":"408253","id":"408332"}
{"by":"yoklov","time":"1431298353","timestamp":"2015-05-10 22:52:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a buffer (so is any array in C or C++), but it\u0026#x27;s usage is entirely different from the style described in the article.","parent":"9520931","id":"9521754"}
{"by":"rickjr1985","time":"1440087673","timestamp":"2015-08-20 16:21:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this HTTP 2.0 was faster for me by only .01 seconds.","parent":"10091689","id":"10092832"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1516630300","timestamp":"2018-01-22 14:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; His attacks and critique are never on the personal basis\u003cp\u003eI don’t know how you can believe this after reading even a few of his messages. Read the message which started this thread and count the number of times where he is talking about not just the quality of work but the person who produced it.\u003cp\u003eIt’s possible to be blunt and unforgiving about code without saying that the person who created it is a moron.","parent":"16203531","id":"16204416"}
{"by":"sesqu","time":"1290387642","timestamp":"2010-11-22 01:00:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's a thought: Archimedes's approximation approaches the target. That is, the perimeter of each subsequent approximation is closer to that of the circle than all that came before.\u003cp\u003eThe side of a regular polygon is √(sin²(τ/n)+(1−cos(τ/n))²)=√(2(1−cos(τ/n))), while the corresponding arc is τ/n.\u003cp\u003ed/dn τ/n−√(2(1−cos(τ/n))) = −(τ/n²+sin(τ/n)/√(2(1−cos(τ/n)))) \u0026#60; 0, so the difference is strictly decreasing (note that sin(τ/n)\u0026#62;0 when n\u0026#62;2).\u003cp\u003eSo there's your lower bound for the difference. You'd still have to prove the limit is at 0, though.","parent":"1928231","id":"1928386"}
{"by":"kevin_thibedeau","time":"1470958846","timestamp":"2016-08-11 23:40:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  It is good alternative to commercial offerings like FreeRTOS [1]\u003cp\u003eFreeRTOS is GPL with an exception for static linking making it effectively free if you make no modifications. There is, however, an onerous clause prohibiting the publication of comparative benchmarks. [2]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fuchsia.googlesource.com\u0026#x2F;magenta\u0026#x2F;+\u0026#x2F;HEAD\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;mg_and_lk.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fuchsia.googlesource.com\u0026#x2F;magenta\u0026#x2F;+\u0026#x2F;HEAD\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;mg_and_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.freertos.org\u0026#x2F;license.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.freertos.org\u0026#x2F;license.txt\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12271354","id":"12272507"}
{"by":"edf13","time":"1527285380","timestamp":"2018-05-25 21:56:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Key para...\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;What we eat and what we excrete goes into the Puget Sound,\u0026quot; Jennifer Lanksbury, a biologist at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, told CBS News affiliate KIRO.\u003cp\u003e...so enough crap going into the water from the local population to be picked up in the Mussel samples... Crazy!","parent":"17157540","id":"17158343"}
{"by":"misterbwong","time":"1233689736","timestamp":"2009-02-03 19:35:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a potentially huge problem.  Google is effectively cutting off all other search analytic packages from their information.","parent":"464393","id":"464489"}
{"by":"planetix","time":"1439740145","timestamp":"2015-08-16 15:49:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like the IRC on my other monitor..","parent":"10068943","id":"10069192"}
{"by":"thockingoog","time":"1402425754","timestamp":"2014-06-10 18:42:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kubernetes is not intrinsically tied to GCE.  It\u0026#x27;s open, and can be made to work on any cloud platform.","parent":"7874400","id":"7874505"}
{"by":"wedgemartin","time":"1531169822","timestamp":"2018-07-09 20:57:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of a thread I saw on the Google Inbox mobile app a while back.  Brilliant app, but no \u0026#x27;unread message counter\u0026#x27;. There was a huge number of people on the thread begging for that feature and going so far as to say that it was the one thing that prevented them from using the app.  Their thinking was apparently that you should have filters for everything and it all should\u0026#x27;ve fallen neatly into little boxes, but for people that have been using email 10 times longer than those developers have been out of college, that\u0026#x27;s not very practical. One G dev chimed in and said \u0026#x27;But that\u0026#x27;s now how I use email\u0026#x27; and closed off the discussion.","parent":"17434547","id":"17493370"}
{"by":"fletchowns","time":"1416883536","timestamp":"2014-11-25 02:45:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah! I guess I didn\u0026#x27;t look at it very close =)","parent":"8655637","id":"8656035"}
{"by":"naryad","time":"1431450370","timestamp":"2015-05-12 17:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related drone camera projects on kickstarter \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kickstarter.com\u0026#x2F;discover\u0026#x2F;advanced?term=camera+drone\u0026amp;sort=most_funded\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kickstarter.com\u0026#x2F;discover\u0026#x2F;advanced?term=camera+dr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9532777","id":"9533173"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1229332334","timestamp":"2008-12-15 09:12:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote a chapter in a book on blogging on how to approach this subject (getting bloggers to link to your project).  Here's the short version.\u003cp\u003e* You'll have a better luck pitching things to people who you have a pre-existing relationship for.  Your business has a blog.  That blog's purpose in life is to generate pre-existing relationships with people similarly situated to your customers (and, relatedly, to talk about what your customers care about).  Talk about what they are talking about and link to their posts.  Comment on their blogs.  Then, when you email them about your project, you don't get sent straight to the spam box.\u003cp\u003e* Pitch your product as something their readers will be interested in, with a specifically tuned pitch that reminds them that you are a) already trusted by them and b) know what they want.  People almost always end up getting links out of me when they send me an email that demonstrates they really have been reading for as long as they say they have.\u003cp\u003e* Free licenses are the best money you've never had to spend.  Give them out liberally.\u003cp\u003e* Focus on blogs one step up the social pecking order from you.  TechCrunch gets probably a thousand emails a day.  Bob's File Format Blog probably gets one every three weeks.  Guess which one of these is absolutely dying for anyone to pay attention to them?  That's right.  This gets you a bit of exposure.  Gradually work your way up the exposure chain -- after you get X level of renown, start mailing bloggers at X+1 rather than 10 * X.  Get mentioned on the blogs that are read by the bloggers you want to influence and you might not even need to mail them at all.","parent":"398139","id":"398184"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1422136742","timestamp":"2015-01-24 21:59:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, there\u0026#x27;s a workaround, but that\u0026#x27;s not the point. So many layers of cruft in the early days of a language is worrisome. It took C++ two decades to dig itself into a hole this deep.\u003cp\u003eIs this the price of not having exceptions?","parent":"8940970","id":"8941180"}
{"by":"pfdietz","time":"1544883489","timestamp":"2018-12-15 14:18:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best case for nuclear in the future will be if new designs can reduce the levelized cost of energy to be more competitive with renewables.  This requires new designs -- light water reactors can\u0026#x27;t do it.  It will be a long shot in any case.  I am favorable to Moltex\u0026#x27;s SSR, which uses molten salts but avoids some of the more vexing issues typical MSRs encounter.\u003cp\u003eSmall molten salt reactors might also address industrial process heat markets, where they\u0026#x27;d have a possible advantage over renewable sources as their heat could be used directly.","parent":"18686479","id":"18688460"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1330079427","timestamp":"2012-02-24 10:30:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure about the average investor, but some people believe the Google Chef contributed to their early days.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223595\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223595\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3627877","id":"3628719"}
{"by":"jjcm","time":"1326385581","timestamp":"2012-01-12 16:26:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A better choice of words than what we had. Changed!","parent":"3456672","id":"3456857"}
{"by":"rodh257","time":"1344734762","timestamp":"2012-08-12 01:26:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice job, seems to work well. I love airdroid but it annoys me that I am constantly having to reconnect after I walk out of wifi range. If this gets around that issue then I'd swap.\u003cp\u003eOne comment I had is that if I was to download this app on my device, the initial experience could be improved somewhat. The first screen is a login one and it says to go to your website, sign up and come back to the app. I did this on my mobile browser (chrome) and it was a bit clunky to sign up (I had the feedback/need help button hover over the form a bit). Perhaps instead of that, you could have a registration function right in the app? even if it was just a web view with a mobile optimized signup web page loaded. That way I don't have to leave the app.\u003cp\u003eNot a major thing but thought I'd offer you some feedback.","parent":"4371007","id":"4371516"}
{"by":"byoung2","time":"1280441966","timestamp":"2010-07-29 22:19:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ebut there is no such selector 'isChild' that can be paired with :contains as far as i know\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe you can use $.children()?  Something like:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $('div').children(\":contains('apple')\").each(function() {\n    var html = $(this).html().replace(/apple/,\"\u0026#60;b\u0026#62;apple\u0026#60;/b\u0026#62;\");\n    $(this).html(html);\n  });\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nexample: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fillerspace.com/apple.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.fillerspace.com/apple.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1559275","id":"1559487"}
{"by":"joetann","time":"1378946693","timestamp":"2013-09-12 00:44:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wherever you were that night had a Facebook page with an event created for the evening you were there. You uploaded your second picture to the Facebook event, or tagged the Facebook page of the bar you were at. Then someone tagged the girl in the photo, revealing her identity.","parent":"6369519","id":"6371236"}
{"by":"yebyen","time":"1401932674","timestamp":"2014-06-05 01:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In a virtual machine?","parent":"7849322","id":"7849709"}
{"by":"bashcoder","time":"1486401381","timestamp":"2017-02-06 17:16:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair point, but it\u0026#x27;s also fair to note that Perl 6 development began 17 years ago.","parent":"13581463","id":"13581601"}
{"by":"mosselman","time":"1514386596","timestamp":"2017-12-27 14:56:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the links, this looks very cool!","parent":"16014986","id":"16015045"}
{"by":"zhemao","time":"1378260821","timestamp":"2013-09-04 02:13:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt x64 would be less horrific. As for ARM, there is Cambridge\u0026#x27;s Baking Pi course \u003ca href=\"http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;raspberrypi\u0026#x2F;tutorials\u0026#x2F;os\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e, which has you develop an \u0026quot;Operating System\u0026quot; for the Raspberry Pi. Although, from looking at it, it seems more like an embedded systems course than an OS course. It talks about controlling hardware like LEDs, monitor, and keyboard, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t talk about stuff that full-fledged operating systems have, like scheduling of userspace processes, memory mapping, filesystems, etc.","parent":"6322246","id":"6325168"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1482459782","timestamp":"2016-12-23 02:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, they pay sales tax. Not income or FICA.","parent":"13242210","id":"13242300"}
{"by":"brownbat","time":"1387723818","timestamp":"2013-12-22 14:50:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not really an accurate picture of net metering.\u003cp\u003eThe terms of almost every net metering plan are in the power company\u0026#x27;s favor, even if the net meterers somehow never bought power.\u003cp\u003eNet metering, as currently implemented, only allows you to earn credits on your bill up to the point where your maintenance fee kicks in. You\u0026#x27;re earning credits by producing power for the company during the day, when power is expensive. You\u0026#x27;re burning those credits to keep the lights on at night, when the company\u0026#x27;s cost of power is nonexistent. No one is paying net meterers market rate for time of day, so the power companies are coming out way ahead on cost of power. Even if that weren\u0026#x27;t the case, they still baseline your bill to a maintenance fee.[1]\u003cp\u003eMoreover, Hawaii has never had any clue how to balance a grid, so if HECO is now blaming customers for problems with the terrible system they built, my default position is skepticism.\u003cp\u003e[1] HECO\u0026#x27;s net metering bill guide, including the minimum monthly fee even for no power use:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.heco.com/vcmcontent/EnergyServices/NetEnergyMetering/Understanding_Your_NEM_Bill_Summary_Brochure_FC.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.heco.com\u0026#x2F;vcmcontent\u0026#x2F;EnergyServices\u0026#x2F;NetEnergyMeter...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6948888","id":"6950431"}
{"by":"binaryapparatus","time":"1540220764","timestamp":"2018-10-22 15:06:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being politically correct vs getting the job done, I\u0026#x27;ll always choose getting the job done. There is plenty or role playing projects where your feeling matter more than your skills. In last couple of jobs I am always asking about company policy, if they start piling about diversity and getting everybody heard and how everybody\u0026#x27;s feelings are most important thing, I don\u0026#x27;t want to work there.\u003cp\u003eEarn your place with your quality and your skills, not with the help of inventing newer and newer rules until nobody can say how crappy, sub average and difficult to work with you are.\u003cp\u003e(Talking to a random programmer with no skills but huge area of possible butt-hurt).\u003cp\u003eEdit: btw can\u0026#x27;t agree more with Stallman if that\u0026#x27;s not clear from my post. Love that guy.","parent":"18274663","id":"18275205"}
{"by":"precisioncoder","time":"1369729730","timestamp":"2013-05-28 08:28:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a man was planning to work for just 6 months to fill a gap before he started a job he was looking forward to would you hire him?","parent":"5778585","id":"5778874"}
{"by":"deelowe","time":"1458523145","timestamp":"2016-03-21 01:19:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The tech isn\u0026#x27;t novel, it\u0026#x27;s the application that is. You could mass produce this today.","parent":"11325190","id":"11325595"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1467218051","timestamp":"2016-06-29 16:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The pro-publica article is self-debunking. The R script written by the authors is unable to find statistically significant evidence of bias.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chrisstucchio.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;propublica_is_lying.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.chrisstucchio.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;propublica_is_lying....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s probably why the article is nothing but a bunch of anecdotes.","parent":"12002717","id":"12002761"}
{"by":"Mahn","time":"1498769143","timestamp":"2017-06-29 20:45:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIt frequently counts me as sleeping when I sit down to watch TV in the evening, or read a book in bed. Sometimes I stay up until 1am reading and it always tracks me as deep sleep from 10pm when I got into bed. I usually take it off for my morning shower (It is waterproof, it just annoys me when washing) and it nearly always counts the walking from bed to shower as a few minutes of restless sleep and the shower itself as deep sleep.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeaking as a Fitbit Charge 2 user, none of that happens with my device. I don\u0026#x27;t know how accurate the rest of the data is, but it does track sleep only when I\u0026#x27;m actually sleeping.","parent":"14666380","id":"14666720"}
{"by":"chacham15","time":"1348519443","timestamp":"2012-09-24 20:44:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; (a) the fact that good startup ideas have to look like bad ideas initially and\u003cp\u003eI dont know if it's just me, but I have a question about that:\n\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4563402\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4563402\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4549862","id":"4566876"}
{"by":"sharemywin","time":"1460571339","timestamp":"2016-04-13 18:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like there should be some kind of project before company type of agreement. Kind of like \u0026quot;modeling agreements\u0026quot; photographers get you to sign before taking your picture.","parent":"11490188","id":"11490753"}
{"by":"bpicolo","time":"1494012469","timestamp":"2017-05-05 19:27:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah cool, thanks for the link.","parent":"14276143","id":"14276153"}
{"by":"8ig8","time":"1355022177","timestamp":"2012-12-09 03:02:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just came across this article in a HN post last week that was discussing a similar theme. I think it does a great job explaining the challenges of beings programmer...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://alexthunder.livejournal.com/309815.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://alexthunder.livejournal.com/309815.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4890788","id":"4893613"}
{"by":"Ono-Sendai","time":"1495054824","timestamp":"2017-05-17 21:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a bit tricky to get right, try a Sobel filter.","parent":"14362553","id":"14362749"}
{"by":"saycheese","time":"1487024258","timestamp":"2017-02-13 22:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is the analytics done locally? If it\u0026#x27;s not, saying the data is stored locally seems potiental meaningless.","parent":"13634352","id":"13639301"}
{"by":"yarri","time":"1403309852","timestamp":"2014-06-21 00:17:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If they need the whole weekend to find the right tone to explain this acquisition, yes. Looking forward to seeing how Google handles the privacy concerns on this...","parent":"7923564","id":"7923584"}
{"by":"cpr","time":"1391808710","timestamp":"2014-02-07 21:31:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice, but the API seems pretty non-RESTifarian.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x2F;get\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;dweet\u0026#x2F;for would more naturally be \u0026#x2F;get\u0026#x2F;dweet with a time parameter, or some such.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x2F;for\u0026#x2F;[device] would more naturally just be a device parameter.\u003cp\u003eEtc.","parent":"7198267","id":"7198871"}
{"by":"geuis","time":"1280339595","timestamp":"2010-07-28 17:53:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Meryl looks interesting and I will give it a try.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I have to comment on the author's post. Get rid of the MASSIVE Node introduction at the beginning. You have already stated the keywords that made me interested enough to click through, \"thin web layer NodeJS\". I don't want nor need to read through all of that. It was roughly 602 extra words at the beginning that was unnecessary fluff that almost bored me enough to not care about the content I was hoping to read about.\u003cp\u003eIts not a bad introduction, but either move it to the end of the article or make it into a separate post.","parent":"1554752","id":"1555053"}
{"by":"nathanbarry","time":"1355323567","timestamp":"2012-12-12 14:46:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I try to quickly explain what each person has done. They are all awesome people who have put out some really fantastic work. Honestly, I am expecting that people will recognize the names (like you did).","parent":"4910230","id":"4910248"}
{"by":"josefx","time":"1494859137","timestamp":"2017-05-15 14:38:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;pro user\u0026quot; is an interesting way to put it. If I remember correctly it was heavily integrated with IE in the past to push browser share. Want to update your system? Open buggy old IE5\u0026#x2F;6. Want to get rid of IE? What antitrust? IE is part of essential Windows functionality after all, we can\u0026#x27;t get rid of it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Get back to me when MS starts remembering their customers are human beings again.\u003cp\u003eOh, they know. Their whole abusive process is build around milking that fact for all it is worth.","parent":"14340895","id":"14341903"}
{"by":"tjwii","time":"1515328466","timestamp":"2018-01-07 12:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it is quite funny how a tool to turn proper code into the mess that is ESxx can become so popular. I\u0026#x27;m still using Coffeescript 2, it\u0026#x27;s awesome :)","parent":"16088619","id":"16090637"}
{"by":"thiefmaster","time":"1312663271","timestamp":"2011-08-06 20:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It certainly qualifies as \"software.\" What possible definition of \"software\" would exclude a web application?\u003cp\u003eMy point was that it doesn't do heavy algorithm lifting, processing etc. It's not a phong shading ray tracer or anything.\u003cp\u003eIt's moving data around, storing it and displaying it. It's mostly plumbing work - getting data from one place to another.","parent":"2854846","id":"2854870"}
{"by":"rypskar","time":"1510581622","timestamp":"2017-11-13 14:00:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah Google Hangouts... Doesn\u0026#x27;t work in Firefox, since they only was told about changes to the extension API about a year before the change was made. No logout button so have to go to google.com to logout after using it. Opening Hangouts with an account with no access to Hangouts (test-account) and you get an error page with option to use another account, but no place to logout...","parent":"15685144","id":"15686545"}
{"by":"roflchoppa","time":"1519509685","timestamp":"2018-02-24 22:01:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"we do, thats why we store in them in Canada.","parent":"16455124","id":"16455683"}
{"by":"gaius_baltar","time":"1505497788","timestamp":"2017-09-15 17:49:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is \u003ci\u003egreat\u003c/i\u003e! I have been emulating this feature for years with multiple profiles, but let\u0026#x27;s get things right: it takes some work and it is hard to teach non-techie folks how to do the same.\u003cp\u003eTime to test the thing.","parent":"15256603","id":"15259166"}
{"by":"oinksoft","time":"1428582817","timestamp":"2015-04-09 12:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=cache:Pg85UESFms0J:blog.mobilejazz.com\u0026#x2F;working-remotely-from-a-tropical-island-in-thailand\u0026#x2F;\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;gl=se\u0026amp;strip=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=cache:Pg85UES...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9346726","id":"9347042"}
{"by":"jsprogrammer","time":"1461013944","timestamp":"2016-04-18 21:12:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An investment is an expenditure of money. What part of money set aside for expansion will not go to an expense? Where does it go?","parent":"11523167","id":"11523198"}
{"by":"dejb","time":"1289307496","timestamp":"2010-11-09 12:58:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is an apparently dwindling minority of people who would consider this to be sarcasm and not irony. For these few, irony is never merely logical negation. It necessarily involves unintended and opposite consequences flowing from the protagonist's actions. A short internet search suggests I may be the last of this kind.","parent":"1885324","id":"1886255"}
{"by":"philjohn","time":"1505392255","timestamp":"2017-09-14 12:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, just seen this.\u003cp\u003ePartly - FTTC is run over BT\u0026#x27;s network all the way through to 27 regional POPs where it is passed over to the providers network, or they can opt to use the BT network instead.","parent":"15191880","id":"15247262"}
{"by":"foldr","time":"1506927911","timestamp":"2017-10-02 07:05:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can racist terrorism be a sensible response to anything?","parent":"15381830","id":"15382134"}
{"by":"ichamo","time":"1441068736","timestamp":"2015-09-01 00:52:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I have federal drug charges, and I embellished a little on \u0026quot;teenager\u0026quot;. I was 18-19 which technically is an adult. I have this background forever.","parent":"10150017","id":"10150065"}
{"by":"staktrace","time":"1287281277","timestamp":"2010-10-17 02:07:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Our ancestors invented shoes for a reason, and it wasn't because Nike marketing told them to.\u003cp\u003eAgreed, but only partially. Our ancestors invented shoes because they provided a benefit, and continued using shoes because of that benefit. What they didn't (and couldn't really) know was the cost that came along with it. Now we have the science to find out exactly what that cost is. Ignoring that cost isn't going to make it go away.\u003cp\u003eThat being said, if, with full knowledge of the costs and the benefits, you decide to wear shoes anyway, then that's your choice and I can respect that.","parent":"1799359","id":"1799411"}
{"by":"gabrielroth","time":"1312749089","timestamp":"2011-08-07 20:31:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm kind of playing devil's advocate here and kind of not: How can you justify spending $n to buy coffee for someone with a smartphone instead of donating $n to someone with fewer resources and greater needs?","parent":"2857424","id":"2857652"}
{"by":"Nursie","time":"1367777962","timestamp":"2013-05-05 18:19:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really?\u003cp\u003eI had it running fullscreen and pretty perfectly. Fullscreen was 1280x800, mind. But it worked fine. L4D and L4D2 I've had working too.","parent":"5649465","id":"5659198"}
{"by":"eli","time":"1275598906","timestamp":"2010-06-03 21:01:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think (though I'm too lazy to confirm) that the Google Toolbar browser plugin also reports URLs back to Google","parent":"1402531","id":"1402538"}
{"by":"powera","time":"1289962030","timestamp":"2010-11-17 02:47:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, with their diet requirements that's not really a huge surprise.  They seem ridiculously overconstrained.\u003cp\u003e\"The ideal diet requires meeting four of five key components based on a 2,000-calories-a-day meal plan: 4 1/2 cups of fruits and vegetables a day; two or more 3.5-ounce servings of fish (preferably oily fish) a day; fewer than 450 calories a week of sugar-sweetened beverages; three or more 1-ounce servings a day of whole grains; and less than 1,500 mg of sodium a day.\"","parent":"1912484","id":"1912687"}
{"by":"scottlocklin","time":"1406892075","timestamp":"2014-08-01 11:21:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Crap, Yandex ain\u0026#x27;t FSB? Looks like I\u0026#x27;ll have to rethink my idea of switching to them for NSA-proof email.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, I am more worried about the NSA than the FSB: I don\u0026#x27;t live in Russia.","parent":"8118678","id":"8119212"}
{"by":"vfq","time":"1546773058","timestamp":"2019-01-06 11:10:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the reason I have webgl disabled even though I\u0026#x27;m on Windows with a supported driver. It opens a gaping security\u0026#x2F;DoS hole without any benefit (do you ever see webgl used in any website?)","parent":"18837082","id":"18837732"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1512150284","timestamp":"2017-12-01 17:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; you can easily read and write with your own Swift code running on an iPhone\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e... after easily paying your Apple Developer Subscription, that is.","parent":"15824456","id":"15825626"}
{"by":"kyro","time":"1395600655","timestamp":"2014-03-23 18:50:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed in that engagement and motivation are big issues. But time and time again I\u0026#x27;ve witnessed physicians rushing through explanations of a patient\u0026#x27;s condition and management in a language far too sophisticated for a layman\u0026#x27;s understanding. I know that nurses typically walk through discharge instructions with a patient, so maybe my perspective is one-sided. Although I do think physicians should have a bigger role in educating and motivating patients by providing them with a thorough understanding of their conditions and medications.","parent":"7454320","id":"7454487"}
{"by":"rjurney","time":"1247760420","timestamp":"2009-07-16 16:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Indian Railroad\n2) Coca Cola\n3) Siemens\u003cp\u003eGood guesses?\u003cp\u003eHmmm no, Indian Railroad only 1.4 million employees, compared to Wal Marts 2.1.","parent":"708011","id":"708221"}
{"by":"bm1362","time":"1496846565","timestamp":"2017-06-07 14:42:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally earnest question, as I\u0026#x27;m a fool:\u003cp\u003eWhat is the difference between each selling _existing_ shares they own up to the $12.5M valuation and \u0026#x27;diluting\u0026#x27; the existing shares?","parent":"14506774","id":"14506818"}
{"by":"mynameisvlad","time":"1442944736","timestamp":"2015-09-22 17:58:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; groupon users only ever get the cheapest bottle, if any.\u003cp\u003eYeah, because absolutes like this help. Groupon customers can be just like any other customer out there. Some \u0026quot;regular\u0026quot; customers will get cheap wine, some will get an expensive bottle. Similarly, some Groupon customers will get the cheapest wine, others will take the money they saved by getting a Groupon and get the expensive wine. Being a \u0026quot;Groupon customer\u0026quot; might move the needle towards one direction but it\u0026#x27;s far from absolute the way you\u0026#x27;re making it out to be.","parent":"10260048","id":"10260348"}
{"by":"zbanks","time":"1292128125","timestamp":"2010-12-12 04:28:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm still not sure why they're surprising pople with packages instead of sending out a warning email.","parent":"1996372","id":"1996427"}
{"by":"betageek","time":"1231522527","timestamp":"2009-01-09 17:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, that's what i need - just need that on OS X now...","parent":"426645","id":"426833"}
{"by":"AVTizzle","time":"1355446805","timestamp":"2012-12-14 01:00:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading this brought a smile to my face. It took me back to the days of AIM chats, the silly screennames, Casio messagers that we could program to work as remotes for the school TVs to baffle teachers, et al...\u003cp\u003eI never really considered how technology was evolving during that time of my life, but it definitely was, and I'm getting nostalgic just thinking about it :)","parent":"4918913","id":"4919034"}
{"by":"b0","time":"1343071198","timestamp":"2012-07-23 19:19:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a commentary on how providing isolated islands (app stores) damages the distributed nature of the world wide web. Effectively every app technology is a landgrab by some entity who wants some exclusive chunk of the web with their own rules, usually for commercial gain.\u003cp\u003eBasically the principle turns the world wide web into another WalMart or McDonald's rather than a vast library.","parent":"4281948","id":"4282607"}
{"by":"qrbLPHiKpiux","time":"1511352274","timestamp":"2017-11-22 12:04:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“Seems like the only winning move is not to play.” \n- WOPR","parent":"15751690","id":"15756140"}
{"by":"jmd_","time":"1395655953","timestamp":"2014-03-24 10:12:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m curious when I read these articles: does this also mean making a career switch, or maybe attempting to start a career, in programming post 30 (with or without a degree) is incredibly improbable?  Does that ring true to people here?","parent":"7455757","id":"7457465"}
{"by":"0wing","time":"1514712453","timestamp":"2017-12-31 09:27:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple doesn\u0026#x27;t generate more shares every 10 minutes.\u003cp\u003eApple and stocks also generate value, whereas Bitcoin and PoW software burns electricity\u0026#x2F;value.","parent":"15994535","id":"16039952"}
{"by":"kevincrane","time":"1502340590","timestamp":"2017-08-10 04:49:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mean, you linked to a white supremacist\u0026#x27;s blog to prove your point. Is that a good case for your argument?","parent":"14976431","id":"14976497"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1379706492","timestamp":"2013-09-20 19:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh and regarding \u0026quot;creating a system that deletes unused cached entries\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eJust use tmpwatch in a cron job. You can use mtime or atime depending on your linux and capabilities to expire the resized images and delete them every so many hours (or days depending on your space).","parent":"6419234","id":"6420059"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1244166470","timestamp":"2009-06-05 01:47:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It uses sonar. Radio would be useless under water.","parent":"642447","id":"642562"}
{"by":"ajmurmann","time":"1484495796","timestamp":"2017-01-15 15:56:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, yes and no. This issue suffers from the tragedy of the commons. If I reduce my emissions significantly it will have zero impact if I\u0026#x27;m the only one doing it. The only thing it does is help me feel better about myself and lowers my standard of living. The only way to realistically solve this is collective action and that\u0026#x27;s what the government is for. I actually think that we also have been to gentle about this topic on general. I\u0026#x27;m in favor of sanctions against countries who refuse to lower emissions.","parent":"13404412","id":"13404521"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1232166365","timestamp":"2009-01-17 04:26:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but I'm not an ND or MD so I don't know which journals are reputable and which are not. I get the feeling that research on botanical medicine mostly gets published in the same journals that publish normal pharmaceutical research, it's just that doctors only prescribe things that come in pill form.","parent":"437704","id":"437746"}
{"by":"hudicris","time":"1309466441","timestamp":"2011-06-30 20:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems like pretty terrible science. Correlation does not imply causality.\u003cp\u003eAll that they did was observe that people who happen to drink diet sodas also happen to have a (slightly: 2.11cm vs .78 cm) higher increase in waistline. They didn't control for caloric intake, it wasn't doubly-blind, the choice of amount of diet soda consumption was self-selected.\u003cp\u003eThis would be analagous to finding that people who are on diets are fatter than people who are not, and writing a headline saying \"Dieting makes you fat.\"\u003cp\u003eLink to abstract: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.aievolution.com/ada1101/index.cfm?do=abs.viewAbs\u0026#38;abs=10061\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ww2.aievolution.com/ada1101/index.cfm?do=abs.viewAbs\u0026...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2715343","id":"2715663"}
{"by":"fijal","time":"1362244948","timestamp":"2013-03-02 17:22:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know, Mike is really good. However, this sort of approach does not scale toward larger teams hence the limits of what sort of language you can potentially implement. Lua is much much simpler than Javascript, which is again simpler than Python (Python is really vast). Also, can you find two Mikes?","parent":"5309201","id":"5310186"}
{"by":"greggman","time":"1479364850","timestamp":"2016-11-17 06:40:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would suck if anytime I wanted to deal with things back home while travelling I had to remove my local sim and put back in my home sim just so I could receive SMS messages from my bank.\u003cp\u003eDo they offer any non SMS options?","parent":"12974770","id":"12974961"}
{"by":"defen","time":"1457053471","timestamp":"2016-03-04 01:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you make of studies that show monkeys and humans have a similar gender-biased breakdown of toy preferences and juvenile activities?","parent":"11221241","id":"11221309"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1482201090","timestamp":"2016-12-20 02:31:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ePlease stop perpetuating this myth- started by Eric Raymond and happily encouraged by SV \u0026quot;thought leaders\u0026quot;- that hackers must, by definition, be laissez-faire capitalists who love Ayn Rand and treat breaking laws as a noble goal in and of itself.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNice strawman.  Luckily I didn\u0026#x27;t say anything about esr, laissez-faire, capitalism, or Ayn Rand in the post you replied to.  Hell, I didn\u0026#x27;t even say that breaking the law is a \u0026quot;noble goal in and of itself\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAll I\u0026#x27;m saying is that it\u0026#x27;s disturbing to me how so many HN\u0026#x27;ers have just completely sold out to the idea that the State is their proper master, and should regulate \u0026#x2F; control pretty much everything and anything. It seems to me that in the past, there was a more individualist \u0026#x2F; freedom oriented mindset around sites like this - whether it was from \u0026quot;American style libertarians\u0026quot; or socialist anarchists or whatever.  Personally I find the change to be a bit depressing.","parent":"13216752","id":"13216930"}
{"by":"mrspeaker","time":"1298065093","timestamp":"2011-02-18 21:38:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Douglas Crockford might be opinionated - and Anton Kovalyov and Paul Irish are fantastic fellows - but a fork of JSLint reminds me of the South Park premise: if you allow one episode to be censored then you in the end everything will have grounds for censorship... the fork looks all dandy now - as long as \"the community\" doesn't end up having too much say in the matter. It's a pretty dang big community we've got now ;)","parent":"2236417","id":"2237380"}
{"by":"rplnt","time":"1365080935","timestamp":"2013-04-04 13:08:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I pirate all the shows I watch. I know of no legal on-demand service that is available to me. I guess that if there were such service available it would be way too expensive (it's international market, highest price is usually the global one). But it would be something...\u003cp\u003eI wouldn't watch them in TV if I had the chance (I don't) either, because of all the ads. So if I want to watch the shows (I know I don't have to), I pirate them. Luckily it's not illegal for me, but it's still not the best thing to do I guess.\u003cp\u003eFor now, I'm glad that I don't have to pirate software (games included) and just have to restrict myself (prices, see above). Though sometimes I wish I pirated a game instead of buying it (GTA IV for example - never played it thanks to their DRM mindset).","parent":"5492123","id":"5492353"}
{"by":"AnimalMuppet","time":"1479856217","timestamp":"2016-11-22 23:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Improvements in AI, but no \u0026quot;general AI\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;human-equivalent AI\u0026quot;, and no real clue on how to get there.\u003cp\u003eNo singularity.\u003cp\u003eHuman-equivalent or better speech recognition.\u003cp\u003eDisplay resolutions have stopped increasing, because they\u0026#x27;re as good as needed.  (For example, audio topped out at 44.1 ksamples\u0026#x2F;second x 16 bits, stereo.  That was enough for almost everyone, even though a few fanatics say they can hear the difference.  Video will top out at something like 4000 x 6000 pixels, 48 bits\u0026#x2F;pixel, 60 frames\u0026#x2F;second.)\u003cp\u003eSelf-driving cars may be so dominant that you will need a special license to disengage the autopilot.\u003cp\u003eDRM will be clearly recognized as a failed idea.\u003cp\u003ePrivacy will be in your own home only, and not even there for your online actions.\u003cp\u003eMoore\u0026#x27;s Law will be stone-cold dead.\u003cp\u003eSolar energy will supply at least half of electrical load, at least in the US and Europe  (maybe a quarter of world load).\u003cp\u003eIn 2050, someone will resurrect this thread so that people can laugh at all our mistakes.","parent":"13017236","id":"13018504"}
{"by":"nn3","time":"1519494272","timestamp":"2018-02-24 17:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flying needs a lot more energy than running. All flying animals have a lot more muscles compared to body weight than others.\u003cp\u003eAnd bats fly all night, while Cheetahs only run at best a few minutes per day","parent":"16453386","id":"16454335"}
{"by":"dijit","time":"1501154398","timestamp":"2017-07-27 11:19:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should read his comment, he\u0026#x27;s talking about all the ASICs involved in the underlying filesystem.","parent":"14863662","id":"14864204"}
{"by":"wila","time":"1389938786","timestamp":"2014-01-17 06:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His $20 reply is an answer to the \u0026quot;why don\u0026#x27;t you sell more merchandise\u0026quot; question. Where he tries to explain that the merchandise model has a lot of hidden costs.\u003cp\u003eAs you read the whole thread, I suppose you\u0026#x27;ve also seen this quote?\u003cp\u003eNicolai, and others,\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d like to take the opportunity to thank all of those stepping up\nto the call for contributions.  Every little bit helps.\u003cp\u003eSee: \u003ca href=\"http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc\u0026amp;m=138974990608900\u0026amp;w=2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;marc.info\u0026#x2F;?l=openbsd-misc\u0026amp;m=138974990608900\u0026amp;w=2\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyways, talk is cheap. Donate helps which as a lot of others here I just did. Thanks Theo!","parent":"7071554","id":"7074535"}
{"by":"sliken","time":"1487830366","timestamp":"2017-02-23 06:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"or IPFS.","parent":"13701552","id":"13712004"}
{"by":"nchelluri","time":"1453964361","timestamp":"2016-01-28 06:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is true, but it always takes me a long time to get my setup just right: bookmarks, search keywords, extensions, preferences, getting the address bar history primed...","parent":"10986728","id":"10986783"}
{"by":"epmatsw","time":"1355382532","timestamp":"2012-12-13 07:08:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All right. Outside of the US, it may have been bad. I don't have any personal experience with that, so I'll concede that point. The original comment was \"It had real difficulty everywhere except (parts of) California\". I pointed out that that was a hyperbole. Apple Maps is fine in the vast majority of the United States, and fine with a significant portion of iOS users.","parent":"4914645","id":"4914700"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1285196158","timestamp":"2010-09-22 22:55:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Classy.","parent":"1717835","id":"1717874"}
{"by":"NelsonMinar","time":"1487704630","timestamp":"2017-02-21 19:17:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m pretty happy with it too. For the things that are implemented, it works better than MacOS did as a casual Unix for me. Mostly because I prefer the Ubuntu tools. I\u0026#x27;m still using a genuine Linux box for real work though.\u003cp\u003eThe big feature I\u0026#x27;m missing is network file systems.","parent":"13696255","id":"13698673"}
{"by":"jqm","time":"1441554892","timestamp":"2015-09-06 15:54:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love Vim and hate spreadsheets. But this just seems wrong. At the end of the month I open my spreadsheet invoice templates and send my invoices. The right tool for the job and all...","parent":"10174698","id":"10177970"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1269331738","timestamp":"2010-03-23 08:08:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e... I would have most-certainly lost the server and everything on it.  I have since switched to a combination of slicehost and linode.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwitching to a different VPS provider is not the right way to prevent data loss.  Doing backups is the right way to prevent data loss. :-)","parent":"1212278","id":"1212483"}
{"by":"YokoZar","time":"1398814204","timestamp":"2014-04-29 23:30:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also note that it provides error bars around the result -- in your case 578.13 minus those error bars was probably less than 562.50.","parent":"7667717","id":"7670612"}
{"by":"jononor","time":"1491228981","timestamp":"2017-04-03 14:16:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is one of Musks stated goals to secure better survival ability for humanity. Many others involved have other goals.\u003cp\u003eIt seems prudent to avoid keeping all the eggs in one basket by staying only on this one spacerock.","parent":"14006065","id":"14022885"}
{"by":"coryl","time":"1279410012","timestamp":"2010-07-17 23:40:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you looked into the countless other \"job/project\" outsourcing sites? What do you do differently or better than them?","parent":"1524870","id":"1524875"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1476270146","timestamp":"2016-10-12 11:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WRT NYC, isn\u0026#x27;t there also that it\u0026#x27;s one of the very few (if not the only) 24\u0026#x2F;7 metro system?\u003cp\u003eLondon\u0026#x27;s Night Tube is a very recent thing (August 2016) and only covers a few lines, Madrid Metro closes at 0130 and reopens at 0600, Paris Metro closes at 0115 and reopens at 0530 (with exceptions: 5 lines are open all night on new year\u0026#x27;s eve and 2 festivals, and since 2007 it closes at 0215 on fridays, saturdays and holiday eves)","parent":"12689004","id":"12691830"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1383266827","timestamp":"2013-11-01 00:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAre there potentially reasons why \u0026quot;terrorism\u0026quot; might in fact be a greater threat to our ideals and way of life then government power? Sure! Anything\u0026#x27;s possible. But such threats would need to be justified publicly, they can not be justified behind closed doors with classified documents.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is, to me, \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e core point.  Government exists to serve US, the People, not the other way around.  And to maintain that order of things, government must be held accountable \u003ci\u003eby\u003c/i\u003e the People.  And we can\u0026#x27;t do that if our government operates in the shadows, behind a veil of secrecy - regardless of how they justify it.","parent":"6650782","id":"6651118"}
{"by":"josefresco","time":"1225293176","timestamp":"2008-10-29 15:12:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great ... I'll file this under my \"stuff to remember if my wildest dreams come true and someone buys my startup\" folder.","parent":"347381","id":"347482"}
{"by":"joepie91_","time":"1455908183","timestamp":"2016-02-19 18:56:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They embedded\u0026#x2F;copied\u0026#x2F;proxied it. They did not \u0026#x27;steal\u0026#x27; it.\u003cp\u003eRegardless of whether you find their behaviour acceptable, those are two very, \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e different things.","parent":"11133950","id":"11135639"}
{"by":"ballard","time":"1396889321","timestamp":"2014-04-07 16:48:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hear, hear.","parent":"7547491","id":"7547642"}
{"by":"sethrin","time":"1546125737","timestamp":"2018-12-29 23:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can I plug System76 as an alternative? I feel like it\u0026#x27;s important to purchase Linux-native hardware. Microsoft has largely prevented competition in this market, and I think more viable options would benefit consumers. Also, S76 has pretty good hardware.","parent":"18784367","id":"18786305"}
{"by":"ensiferum","time":"1495463749","timestamp":"2017-05-22 14:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"God it\u0026#x27;s a beautiful intro. Really like that science fiction like feeling to it!","parent":"14392305","id":"14393885"}
{"by":"Kovah","time":"1464035481","timestamp":"2016-05-23 20:31:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. Because I don\u0026#x27;t have problems with full hard drives. If I have full hard drives it\u0026#x27;s because of files that I really know about (like movies or backups).\u003cp\u003eBesides of this I would really want to know how the app should decide which are unnecessary files?\u003cp\u003ePS: I think there are more useful ideas for new software instead of a new version of CCleaner for Mac. Just search the App Store for useful apps that are horrible designed and try to make them better.","parent":"11756509","id":"11756705"}
{"by":"treelovinhippie","time":"1432473534","timestamp":"2015-05-24 13:18:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Best solution I\u0026#x27;ve come across is a small \u0026lt;1% fee on all financial transactions. Which would work well if all those transactions in the world occurred on a blockchain.\u003cp\u003eThis guy is giving the method a shot: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.basicincome.co\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.basicincome.co\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9596033","id":"9596140"}
{"by":"kevintb","time":"1491243397","timestamp":"2017-04-03 18:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s a real shame with the degree requirements specifically requiring computer science or computer engineering to be considered a \u0026quot;computer programmer\u0026quot;. There are many highly skilled devs who may have happened to earn a different credential.","parent":"14023413","id":"14025499"}
{"by":"chrisguitarguy","time":"1334940421","timestamp":"2012-04-20 16:47:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not going to matter.  Godaddy already has about 100x the external links that NameCheap does (according to SEOmoz[1] and Majestic SEO[2]).  If NameCheap moved up, it was for reasons other than external links.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.godaddy.com\u0026#38;comparisons%5B0%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.namecheap.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.godaddy...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/compare-domain-backlink-history?d0=namecheap.com\u0026#38;d1=godaddy.com\u0026#38;d2=\u0026#38;d3=\u0026#38;d4=\u0026#38;type=1\u0026#38;ctype=1\u0026#38;entries=12\u0026#38;IndexDataSource=H\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.majesticseo.com/reports/compare-domain-backlink-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3868619","id":"3868667"}
{"by":"Elfixer","time":"1441806043","timestamp":"2015-09-09 13:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A gift from developers to video addicts\nHave you heard about telegram bots ?\nThere is a new bot for downloading videos from youtube ( and also lots of other video sharing sites such as Instagram, Vimeo, 9gag, SoundCloud ) is available now. \nThe SaveVideoBot is Ads-free , quick and no payment is required !\u003cp\u003etelegram.me\u0026#x2F;SaveVideoBot","parent":"10191348","id":"10191352"}
{"by":"sthulbourn","time":"1335791886","timestamp":"2012-04-30 13:18:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess now Chrome has extension bindings to the webkit inspector, it would be possible to create this then.","parent":"3908951","id":"3909079"}
{"by":"GFK_of_xmaspast","time":"1486149672","timestamp":"2017-02-03 19:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there any level of evidence that could convince you?","parent":"13562414","id":"13562426"}
{"by":"matt4077","time":"1497586596","timestamp":"2017-06-16 04:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, probably. It\u0026#x27;s just slightly insane to think you can opt-out of paying taxes via technology, or that taxes are somehow for the benefit of some nebulous \u0026quot;establishment\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s empirically true, for only a tiny sliver of very strange people still fantasise about some Randian utopia of every-man-for-himself. And it\u0026#x27;s logically inescapable, since there\u0026#x27;s no way to sustain today\u0026#x27;s societies without the cooperation established by taxes.","parent":"14563953","id":"14566641"}
{"by":"ben0x539","time":"1410339971","timestamp":"2014-09-10 09:06:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could probably make an equally powerful modeless editor but I don\u0026#x27;t see how it could be anywhere near vim-like. Maybe if you had a foot pedal to indicate what modes to interpret input sequences in.","parent":"8295574","id":"8295630"}
{"by":"omarchowdhury","time":"1533437700","timestamp":"2018-08-05 02:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;s pointing out that what is exceptional for us is mundane for cheetahs.","parent":"17689421","id":"17689439"}
{"by":"stavrianos","time":"1247971450","timestamp":"2009-07-19 02:44:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you figure that \"and pay apple a much smaller amount to...\" bit? If it's in Apple's best interests to leave, then they will. I certainly don't think that Apple will collude with AT\u0026#38;T to perpetuate shitty service.","parent":"712465","id":"712509"}
{"by":"faitswulff","time":"1537729979","timestamp":"2018-09-23 19:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like Google Assistant has also gotten worse lately. I used to tell it to \u0026quot;navigate to the library\u0026quot; and it would handle it just fine. Now it asks \u0026quot;which \u0026#x27;the\u0026#x27;?\u0026quot; like an idiot.","parent":"18052408","id":"18052633"}
{"by":"viach","time":"1417193197","timestamp":"2014-11-28 16:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;brand new language to avoid JavaScript’s bad side while embracing its good side.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhy don\u0026#x27;t just use the good side? Well, with all the tools available for JavaScript - static code analysers, type checkers and code coverage tools, is it really _that_ hard to just write this damn code without introducing a new language?","parent":"8671054","id":"8671414"}
{"by":"jackfoxy","time":"1304124704","timestamp":"2011-04-30 00:51:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jansens's talk of genetic code is just an artsy guy gushing, which I don't mean to detract from his marvelous accomplishment, but it does plant the seed of an idea. In principle you could integrate cad/cam, a physics simulator, genetic algorithms, and a 3D printer...","parent":"2499160","id":"2499552"}
{"by":"aswanson","time":"1247744305","timestamp":"2009-07-16 11:38:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He qualified the statement by saying \"from his perspective\" which could be taken to mean \"95% percent useless in his life\" with a sample size of 1.","parent":"707164","id":"707687"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1358000369","timestamp":"2013-01-12 14:19:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for posting this; this is really great stuff and still relevant to a lot of 2D indie devs.","parent":"5044750","id":"5047821"}
{"by":"bshimmin","time":"1421670369","timestamp":"2015-01-19 12:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have this too with Yosemite - mid-2012 rMBP, 16GB RAM. It feels snappy when freshly rebooted, but after a period of time (hours? Probably not minutes...) all desktop animations start to become really quite obviously sluggish.  Swiping between spaces is painful.\u003cp\u003eYou do not expect this on an expensive machine that is barely two years old.\u003cp\u003eI also have wifi dropout issues, Mail is increasingly slow and unpredictable, and iTunes... Christ, don\u0026#x27;t get me started on iTunes.\u003cp\u003eMy wife\u0026#x27;s 4 year old MBP, with 4GB RAM, was usable with Mavericks but is now basically unusable with Yosemite.  I\u0026#x27;m hoping more RAM and an SSD might sort it out, but I\u0026#x27;m not overly hopeful.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been a more or less full-time Mac user since about 2003 and I don\u0026#x27;t remember being this frustrated with their software before.","parent":"8910984","id":"8911576"}
{"by":"SAI_Peregrinus","time":"1496022051","timestamp":"2017-05-29 01:40:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ammonium Chloride is also used. Indian cooking uses it as an ingredient in chaat masala, and the Nordics use it to flavor licorice to make salmiakki. It\u0026#x27;s typically called noshader or sal ammoniac if you\u0026#x27;re looking for it in a market.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s still a salt, but a salt of ammonia instead of sodium. And very different in flavor.","parent":"14433695","id":"14436943"}
{"by":"EtDybNuvCu","time":"1520869074","timestamp":"2018-03-12 15:37:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook and Google? They use IRC internally for technical reasons. IRC doesn\u0026#x27;t fall over. Googlers internally revolted when they were told to use Hangouts internally.\u003cp\u003eXMPP works great and I\u0026#x27;ve used it at several employers. There\u0026#x27;s no technical reasons to avoid it; it really is all about lock-in and corporate planning.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve watched Ralph struggle for years against corporate asshats. It\u0026#x27;s a real tragedy that all these companies don\u0026#x27;t participate in open standards. We shouldn\u0026#x27;t have ever expected good things from Slack.","parent":"16567372","id":"16568841"}
{"by":"ModernMech","time":"1536866020","timestamp":"2018-09-13 19:13:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, the number is pulled out of the air in a way, but that\u0026#x27;s not what is important. People in the field know what is holding things back, and even if they don\u0026#x27;t don\u0026#x27;t see all the way to the end, they know enough about the journey to recognize that newcomers don\u0026#x27;t completely appreciate what they\u0026#x27;re up against, and rosy predictions about the proliferation of driverless cars is a reflection of that naivete.","parent":"17981176","id":"17981498"}
{"by":"chopin","time":"1539424525","timestamp":"2018-10-13 09:55:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve flown A380 and B747 on a commercial (Lufthansa) simulator. Both had seats which could be only moved with motors (locking in any position). Don\u0026#x27;t know how it is with B737 but I would assume the same (for this very reason).","parent":"18205919","id":"18207261"}
{"by":"andywood","time":"1520192566","timestamp":"2018-03-04 19:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh my god. It\u0026#x27;s astounding what becomes possible as we move further into this era when most digital activity gets archived for future mashups and other archaeology.\u003cp\u003eHere, I released this in 1996:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.org\u0026#x2F;details\u0026#x2F;msdos_Aspetra_1996\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.org\u0026#x2F;details\u0026#x2F;msdos_Aspetra_1996\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI knew people still played it, but I had no idea it had a freaking URL now!","parent":"16515246","id":"16516224"}
{"by":"tehwebguy","time":"1468822715","timestamp":"2016-07-18 06:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They didn\u0026#x27;t, flag it and move on. It\u0026#x27;s late, mods may be asleep.","parent":"12113352","id":"12113480"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1384982968","timestamp":"2013-11-20 21:29:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/05/news/economy/postal_service_loan/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;money.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;economy\u0026#x2F;postal_service_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;a congressional mandate to prefund retirement health care benefits\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not saying that\u0026#x27;s a bad idea in isolation.  However if you\u0026#x27;re trying to make a political point that your enemy is a failure, merely force your enemy to do something sensible that no one else is forced to do, then when that destroys them, you can blame them for it, or something like that.\u003cp\u003eThat was just round one.  Here\u0026#x27;s round two of how to destroy the USPS, done in two simple quotes from the same story:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In addition, it would give access to another $10 billion loan backed up by Postal Service property, which would have to be sold a decade later to pay off that loan.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;And individual Democrats and Republicans are united in their effort to prevent their own neighborhood post office or postal plant from closing.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eTa da!  We require you to take out a loan, which you need because we forbid you from managing your own business, furthermore we also specifically forbid you to repay the loan.  I\u0026#x27;m sure nothing bad could happen in that situation LOL.  I give 100% odds that this scheme will hit the fan as \u0026quot;proof of usps and bureaucrat mismanagement\u0026quot; when it is actually 100% the fault of congress meddling, of which at about 50% are trying to manufacture a political point to fit a predetermined agenda.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with meaningless sloganeering is even if a slogan is generally correct, there will of course be outliers in opposition.  This seems to be the case with the USPS.  It would seem that blind faith based belief is so weak, the only way to enforce conformity is to intentionally sabotage a minor outlier.\u003cp\u003eThe TLDR is they\u0026#x27;re being set up.  (Edited to add, its the old game of take away authority needed to succeed, while leaving behind the responsibility of resulting failure.  For a .gov, the USPS is actually pretty well managed, which is why its being targetted).","parent":"6770285","id":"6771309"}
{"by":"tempodox","time":"1523476088","timestamp":"2018-04-11 19:48:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, ∞\u0026#x2F;2 is a thing?","parent":"16814298","id":"16814789"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1495695439","timestamp":"2017-05-25 06:57:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Prototypes and metaclasses are equivalent in power, and both are more powerful than straight classes.  You can do things like dynamically change the set of methods that an object responds to with them, something that you have to fake in a class-based system with the State or Strategy pattern.  Also, because prototypes are just ordinary objects, you can do even fancier stuff like store the set of possible prototypes in a data structure and dynamically change them based on a lookup.  Things like Django\u0026#x27;s ORM (where all the object has to define are a set of fields as member variables, and then it magically gets a bunch of methods for DB query\u0026#x2F;insert\u0026#x2F;update) are trivially easy to define with a prototype-based object system, and you could do even fancier things like add another object to the prototype chain to get JSON serialization, or another one for protobufs, and swap these out at run-time.\u003cp\u003eHowever, the flip side of this is that more freedom is not always good for more readable software.  GOTO, for example, can express any control flow that for\u0026#x2F;while\u0026#x2F;do-while\u0026#x2F;if\u0026#x2F;switch can and a number that it cannot (coroutines\u0026#x2F;exceptions\u0026#x2F;etc.), but as an industry we\u0026#x27;ve moved away from GOTO because most programmers can\u0026#x27;t hold this flow control in their heads.  Prototypes are the same way: they grant a lot of freedom to implement fancy abstractions, but many programmers seem to be unable to understand the resulting abstractions, so they don\u0026#x27;t find widespread use.\u003cp\u003eAsking for codebases of 100K-1M lines in prototype-based languages is the wrong question.  Because prototypes let people define abstractions that other programmers find unreadable, they a.) let you write equivalent software in fewer lines of code and b.) get rewritten in class-based languages as soon as you have more than a handful of programmers working on the codebase.  They\u0026#x27;re much more likely to be used by a small team of hackers who sells their startup for $40M or so and then vests in peace while another team rewrites all their code in Java than by a big company.\u003cp\u003eIf you broaden the question to \u0026quot;has anyone ever made significant money working on or with Self\u0026quot;, the answer is yes:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;merlintec.com\u0026#x2F;old-self-interest\u0026#x2F;msg01011.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;merlintec.com\u0026#x2F;old-self-interest\u0026#x2F;msg01011.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Fun fact: Urs Hoelzle, Animorphic\u0026#x27;s CTO and sender of the second message in that thread, later went on to become employee #9 and the first executive hire at Google.)","parent":"14415431","id":"14415747"}
{"by":"eberkund","time":"1540022073","timestamp":"2018-10-20 07:54:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My company can help you with this kind of thing. Email us and we can talk you through your options. contact@aloralabs.com","parent":"18262197","id":"18262278"}
{"by":"pm90","time":"1545943414","timestamp":"2018-12-27 20:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Consumers have less disposable income to pay for Lattes because their wages are low.","parent":"18772278","id":"18772486"}
{"by":"firebird84","time":"1490035151","timestamp":"2017-03-20 18:39:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vote for it: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jira.atlassian.com\u0026#x2F;browse\u0026#x2F;BSERV-4577\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jira.atlassian.com\u0026#x2F;browse\u0026#x2F;BSERV-4577\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13910121","id":"13916552"}
{"by":"daxelrod","time":"1466973487","timestamp":"2016-06-26 20:38:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks like the individual ovens allow them to cook each pizza for a precise amount of time:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    At precisely 3 minutes and 15 seconds before\n    arriving at the customer\u0026#x27;s location, the cloud\n    commands the oven to turn on and--\u0026quot; Garden made\n    the symbol of a large explosion emanating from\n    his brain-- \u0026quot;BOOM, the customer gets a fresh,\n    out-the-oven pizza delivered to their door.\u0026quot;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI\u0026#x27;m guessing this was less complex than trying to move pizzas in and out of a larger oven in a moving vehicle.","parent":"11982493","id":"11982584"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1449849096","timestamp":"2015-12-11 15:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But what is the relevant \u0026quot;duck\u0026quot; here? What actual dynamic is the law trying to enforce? Any good law tries to align individual incentives with a social optimum, and I don\u0026#x27;t see how it\u0026#x27;s doing that here.\u003cp\u003eAs best I can tell, employment law is trying to achieve the goal of \u0026quot;to the extent that you make a person economically dependent on you in the short term, you must provide that person some benefits that make up for that dependence\u0026quot;. Hence why contractors get treated one way and employees another.\u003cp\u003eBut then the law goes about it the wrong way by having a sharp discontinuity that encourages employers to make the relationship such that they get all of the advantages of such dependence, but stay \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e on the side of \u0026quot;you\u0026#x27;re still a contractor\u0026quot;. For example, as it stands now, employers \u003ci\u003estrengthen\u003c/i\u003e their case by making the worker bring their own tools.\u003cp\u003eA sane law would be more continuous: as you introduce \u003ci\u003emore\u003c/i\u003e dependence of the worker on you, you most provide increasingly more benefits to cancel the problem that introduces. Though I admit that would involve a huge refactoring.\u003cp\u003eTrying to resolve whether someone \u0026quot;is\u0026quot; a contractor is (in the grander scheme) asking the wrong question, like debating whether alcoholism \u0026quot;is\u0026quot; a disease (cf Scott Alexander\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;non central fallacy\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;worst argument in the world\u0026quot;).","parent":"10717223","id":"10717768"}
{"by":"dogma1138","time":"1508510222","timestamp":"2017-10-20 14:37:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The NVIDIA DGX station has one ;)","parent":"15516005","id":"15516093"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1494629576","timestamp":"2017-05-12 22:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t believe you\u0026#x27;re engaging in good faith, so I\u0026#x27;m done here.","parent":"14328329","id":"14328577"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1484070339","timestamp":"2017-01-10 17:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you recommend a company that has good battery life for high intensity workloads? I\u0026#x27;m genuinely curious.","parent":"13366915","id":"13366928"}
{"by":"Walkman","time":"1451686331","timestamp":"2016-01-01 22:12:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I have yet to hear from someone who has used Python 3 that they think it is a worse language than Python 2\u003cp\u003ethe maker of the most succesful Python projects: Armin Ronacher","parent":"10822861","id":"10823723"}
{"by":"NZ_Matt","time":"1286448989","timestamp":"2010-10-07 10:56:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn't as bad as it looks.\u003cp\u003eOnly your friends can add you into groups. You also don't have to participate in the group and they have made it very easy to leave. Jason is not a typical user and probably has a lot of crappy friends due to accepting requests from anyone. Adding an accept option would only add an unnecessary layer without changing much.","parent":"1767368","id":"1767433"}
{"by":"dleslie","time":"1495166401","timestamp":"2017-05-19 04:00:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, Java isn\u0026#x27;t cool.","parent":"14372900","id":"14372925"}
{"by":"Marazan","time":"1511172057","timestamp":"2017-11-20 10:00:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clash Royale is, much to my surprise, a game that heavily, heavily rewards skill over money bombs.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve played against clear whale players - several levels higher than me, troops massively over leveled for the match making strata we were in - and they were uniformly terrible players who I beat easily.\u003cp\u003eClash Royale is a really interesting game in many ways - it\u0026#x27;s Free-2-Play path is carefully calibrated to offer a perfect opportunity to pay them £10 on a \u0026quot;special offer\u0026quot; after you\u0026#x27;ve been playing for 6 months to speed you over the grind hump at level 8 ish.  That\u0026#x27;s the point where your in-game currency rewards can\u0026#x27;t quite match the amount of currency you have to spend upgrading your troops.   Once you are over that hump though and get to the next arena level your in game currency rewards increase again relative to upgrade costs and you are back on another F2P coast.\u003cp\u003eTheir non-special offer real-money shop though is absolutely appalling value for money.  Anyone who ever buys gems from them at regular prices is crazy in the coconut.","parent":"15738334","id":"15738890"}
{"by":"anamax","time":"1239668457","timestamp":"2009-04-14 00:20:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; If you weren't full of it, you'd have links etc.\u003cp\u003eLinks to conversations that I had in person, most \"pre-web\"?  Some of us have off-line lives, don't blog/tweet everything, and are amused by the assumption that everything worthwhile is on-line.  Feel free to do otherwise.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; If you want credibility here\u003cp\u003eYou certainly do think highly of yourself.  (What color is your horn?)  However, it's no skin off of my nose of you don't believe me.\u003cp\u003eI will note that you've moved the goal posts.  We started from \"we should respect that people believe X because they feel good by believing X, even without serious reasons to think X is true.\" with me writing that we should because (my claim) everyone has such positions.  At best your \"test\" isn't the only way to address that claim.","parent":"560549","id":"560763"}
{"by":"rascalbrother","time":"1427731710","timestamp":"2015-03-30 16:08:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The BBC Popluar List has that very same title and I thought it was click-baity to say African comedian rather than just say his name - Trevor Noah. I don\u0026#x27;t know much about his guy, except that I saw him once in QI.","parent":"9290438","id":"9290453"}
{"by":"antoineMoPa","time":"1472961291","timestamp":"2016-09-04 03:54:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the people who coded Altium liked solder fumes... A bit too much.","parent":"12422567","id":"12422599"}
{"by":"daxelrod","time":"1291680361","timestamp":"2010-12-07 00:06:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The original cited article states:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe language is broad enough that a president's administration could even ban bake sales, but Secretary Tom Vilsack signaled in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., this week that he does not intend to do that.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo this is a matter of principle: whether the federal government \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e be able to do this.\u003cp\u003eDoes anyone know if this would allow prohibition of these sorts of activities, or simply withholding of funding? The destinction may not matter in practice (see: the drinking age) but does in principle.\u003cp\u003eFWIW The obesity legislaton \"wouldn't apply to after-hours events\". Bake sales at my high school were always held after hours. I infer that they were successful because they often nearly sold out, and because they continued to hold them. (I don't know if they'd do any better without that restriction.)","parent":"1977056","id":"1977398"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1543345612","timestamp":"2018-11-27 19:06:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Besides the app store itself, and the process by which Apple grooms apps for suitability for that store, and the payment processing system that enables people to buy apps without busting out a credit card?","parent":"18545501","id":"18545555"}
{"by":"sarthakjain","time":"1486076430","timestamp":"2017-02-02 23:00:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally agree, everybody in the industry knows about it. However if you look at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;trends\u0026#x2F;explore?date=2014-01-01%202017-01-01\u0026amp;q=Deep%20Learning,Machine%20Learning,Transfer%20Learning#TIMESERIES\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;trends\u0026#x2F;explore?date=2014-01-01%202017...\u003c/a\u003e nobody outside seems to know. I might be wrong but a lot of people outside the ML community seem to be hesitant to using ml because they don\u0026#x27;t have enough data, trying to remove the misconception if it exists","parent":"13555765","id":"13555792"}
{"by":"dmerfield","time":"1408138700","timestamp":"2014-08-15 21:38:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These are all great ideas.\u003cp\u003eMedia embedding is already possible using markdown. I plan to add a feature to embed media that you put inside Blot\u0026#x27;s folder.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s what I\u0026#x27;m planning to add to Blot, roughly ordered by priority.\u003cp\u003e1. Comments\u003cp\u003e2. Support for other file formats. RTF will be the easiest to add next, then DOC and perhaps PDF. There are libraries which make this relatively straightforward but I need to evaluate them first.\u003cp\u003e3. Custom blog post URLs. More generally allow you to customize each post\u0026#x27;s metadata.\u003cp\u003e4. Photo posts","parent":"8183855","id":"8184361"}
{"by":"onewaystreet","time":"1403559700","timestamp":"2014-06-23 21:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ad money is what\u0026#x27;s paying for all the interesting projects and acquisitions going on at Google right now. If not directly a net benefit to society, it has been one indirectly.","parent":"7934737","id":"7934890"}
{"by":"olyjohn","time":"1475856313","timestamp":"2016-10-07 16:05:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A little late to the game, IMO. Solutions like Kaltura have been around for years. There are ton of \u0026quot;enterprise\u0026quot; video offerings on the market that do all these things... But I guess it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter, Microsoft just making a product will get it adopted no matter if it\u0026#x27;s actually good or not. Hopefully it\u0026#x27;s not as terrible as Sharepoint.","parent":"12659858","id":"12661712"}
{"by":"smokinn","time":"1330625959","timestamp":"2012-03-01 18:19:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He claims to be innocent. The US government claims he is not. There should be and will be a trial.\u003cp\u003eNone of that is what bothers anyone. What people are up in arms about is:\u003cp\u003ea) Presumption of guilt. A company which may very well be defensible has been destroyed. If the court agrees with him over the feds he's suffered massive revenue loss at a minimum and there may be no coming back as competitors will scramble to replace him in which case he's lost an entirely legitimate livelihood.\u003cp\u003eb) Extradition on a global scale by federal authorities for what's basically a civil matter.\u003cp\u003ec) Jail time threatened for everyone involved in the company right down to the web designer when much bigger and, in the eyes of the public, \"just as obvious\" misdoings from wall street bankers was rewarded with slightly smaller but still massive bonuses.","parent":"3652407","id":"3653286"}
{"by":"miahi","time":"1381338412","timestamp":"2013-10-09 17:06:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The customers don\u0026#x27;t want complex \u0026quot;informatics systems\u0026quot; in their car because:\u003cp\u003e- they have to drive the car, most of the time they just want ome music\u003cp\u003e- if they are a passenger, they can just use their phones\u003cp\u003e- the automakers sell them at outrageous prices - many times the price of a smartphone for a device that has less functionality\u003cp\u003e- the integration with other devices is difficult. The new Mazda6 has great Bluetooth integration with an iPad, but you don\u0026#x27;t get any of the features when connecting an Android phone.\u003cp\u003eAlso, why that title? My _current_ car isn\u0026#x27;t going open source. My future car, _maybe_ will have _some_ open source software. It will not \u0026quot;go open source\u0026quot;, just \u0026quot;use a small part of open source software\u0026quot;. Also, \u0026quot;going open source\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that everybody will use the same software and hardware. We will have fragmentation, just like Android has right now. Sorry, you can\u0026#x27;t have application Y because your car is 2 years old. Buy a new one!","parent":"6521151","id":"6522446"}
{"by":"shanev","time":"1536010200","timestamp":"2018-09-03 21:30:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TruStory | Los Angeles, CA | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.trustory.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.trustory.io\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Internet lets anyone, anywhere broadcast a message to the rest of the world. It connects the 4 billion people on the Internet to one another. It’s undoubtedly the greatest invention of humanity. But the ease of sending information unfortunately also allows misinformation to spread. How do you reconcile these two opposing forces, openness and trust? One solution is to hinder or to censor. But that’s been tried before and miserably fails. But imagine if information policed itself by the people creating that information.\u003cp\u003eAt Trustory, we\u0026#x27;re looking for full-stack engineers to help build this for the world. Our tech stack is primarily Typescript, React Native, Node, GraphQL, and Go (Golang).\u003cp\u003eWe value ethical, curious, and passionate people. We don\u0026#x27;t care about your grades. We don\u0026#x27;t care about your pedigree.\u003cp\u003eWe are building TruStory in a decentralized manner, using blockchain platforms like Cosmos SDK and Ethereum. You’d be one of our first hires, and get a chance to work with some of the most experienced engineers and advisors in the industry.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.trustory.io\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.trustory.io\u0026#x2F;careers\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eshane+hn@trustory.io","parent":"17902901","id":"17904983"}
{"by":"jimhefferon","time":"1514213155","timestamp":"2017-12-25 14:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sqrt(2) assumes continuity on a single axis.  sqrt(-1) assumes an entirely new axis.  (Not arguing there is any problem, just putting into words the thoughts I have heard from many students.)","parent":"16004197","id":"16004235"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1398389224","timestamp":"2014-04-25 01:27:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But is it a good use of their cash? Fiber isn\u0026#x27;t a high return business, especially in a regulated environment with build out requirements.","parent":"7643218","id":"7644213"}
{"by":"HillaryBriss","time":"1448167171","timestamp":"2015-11-22 04:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the article:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI – and many other researchers – did not believe they [bacteriocins] could be useful clinically because injecting a “foreign” bacterial protein into a patient is likely to induce a severe immune response that would make the antibiotic inactive. There were therefore gasps of amazement in Beijing at data presented from several animal studies showing this was not the case.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, is this a case where the theory these experts embraced misled them for a long time so that none of them (until recently) even bothered to try bacteriocins on animals?\u003cp\u003eI mean, what was the breakthrough here, exactly -- actually trying it on animals, or something else?","parent":"10607764","id":"10609103"}
{"by":"defen","time":"1485031070","timestamp":"2017-01-21 20:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One problem is that \u0026quot;unemployment rate\u0026quot; is a technical term that does not match the colloquial \u0026#x2F; folk understanding. \u0026quot;There is a 5% unemployment rate\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;25% of working-age adults do not have a job\u0026quot; are not mutually inconsistent statements. So if you \u0026quot;know\u0026quot; that more than 5% of people are not working but you keep hearing about the low unemployment rate (and multiply that by 10s or hundreds of other little things like that), it\u0026#x27;s not hard to make the jump to \u0026quot;the government is lying to us\u0026quot;","parent":"13451709","id":"13451989"}
{"by":"EpicEng","time":"1426476581","timestamp":"2015-03-16 03:29:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...Yes, FSF. I think I made that typo twice today.  I know that not all OSS proponents agree on everything, but I do think that they all agree on the overall benefits of OSS and would like more people to stick with OSS.  That\u0026#x27;s what I\u0026#x27;m talking about here.","parent":"9208489","id":"9209653"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1284535921","timestamp":"2010-09-15 07:32:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Useless unless double-blind. Kids will make shit up to prove the point that they want to prove.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I find time spent away from the internet to be very pleasant; it's just a matter of engineering sufficient distractions.","parent":"1693524","id":"1693617"}
{"by":"sudonim","time":"1340733824","timestamp":"2012-06-26 18:03:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Experiment and see what works for you. We have an email SaaS business that sends super-targeted emails. Here  are all the things I've done that have generated a positive response:\u003cp\u003e1. Sign up for lots of products and reply when I get an email that looks targeted and based on my behavior. (I want to learn how they do it and what pain they have)\u003cp\u003e2. Write personal blog posts that are totally unrelated, and have an \"About me\" section to send curious people to your company. Two that were on the front page of hacker news were \"Burnout is caused by resentment\" and \"A standing desk for $22\".\u003cp\u003e3. Write company blog posts about how we built our product. Most recently: \"How we built our HTML email editor using liquid, wysihtml5 and premailer\"\u003cp\u003e4. Work in a highly visible coworking space (we're in General Assembly in NYC).\u003cp\u003e5. Build relationships with people who sign up on your launch list by sharing interesting things you've learned (did this last week and got a phenomenal response).\u003cp\u003e6. Ask VCs to introduce you to their portfolio companies. Ask the portfolio companies to understand their problems, not pitch your wares.\u003cp\u003e7. Tap your network for advice and help.\u003cp\u003eThat's what we've tried so far that has been beneficial. Good luck!","parent":"4161813","id":"4163287"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1275515852","timestamp":"2010-06-02 21:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are not robots. They behave differently on camera, just as you and I do. They can be embarrassed, clutch, and act out.  Just watch an episode of a real crime show on cable for any number of examples.","parent":"1399015","id":"1399590"}
{"by":"peterloohoo","time":"1429460595","timestamp":"2015-04-19 16:23:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Just because they are \u0026quot;old\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean there is something better.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNobody has claimed this, so why are you arguing against it? You\u0026#x27;ve pretended someone has claimed something, and then you argue against that rather than the actual arguments made. This is called a \u0026#x27;straw-man\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re like a lunatic, arguing against an imaginary person.","parent":"9403084","id":"9403697"}
{"by":"felipe","time":"1213822060","timestamp":"2008-06-18 20:47:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have never met any high-tech immigrant worker who complained about making less than others. I, for one, know for a fact that my salary was compatible to other with similar skills and experience\u003cp\u003eMaybe you are talking about offshored jobs, that's a whole different story. If anything, we (immigrant workers) are helping to keep jobs in the US!","parent":"221018","id":"221152"}
{"by":"erichocean","time":"1465858873","timestamp":"2016-06-13 23:01:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;GraphChi\u0026#x2F;graphchi-cpp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;GraphChi\u0026#x2F;graphchi-cpp\u003c/a\u003e quite a bit. Handles out-of-core graphs really well. Fast.","parent":"11893741","id":"11898461"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1496262342","timestamp":"2017-05-31 20:25:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shameless plug (this is one of Sean\u0026#x27;s, though):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cryptopals.com\u0026#x2F;sets\u0026#x2F;7\u0026#x2F;challenges\u0026#x2F;52\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cryptopals.com\u0026#x2F;sets\u0026#x2F;7\u0026#x2F;challenges\u0026#x2F;52\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14455389","id":"14455619"}
{"by":"omarchowdhury","time":"1340650409","timestamp":"2012-06-25 18:53:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is over-riding and replacing the normal email addresses.","parent":"4157981","id":"4158053"}
{"by":"HCIdivision17","time":"1452867832","timestamp":"2016-01-15 14:23:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like your explanation, and especially the final analogy. Sets the tone that we should be concerned with figuring out why all those factories are burning down. That shouldn\u0026#x27;t happen naturally. But you would generally not get in the way of the fire trucks putting the fired out: urgent and immediate help is needed, even if it\u0026#x27;s costly. Besides, the bill gets sent to the company in the end.","parent":"10908696","id":"10909443"}
{"by":"jsight","time":"1479745825","timestamp":"2016-11-21 16:30:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, this is why I still prefer IRC over Slack and most other team chat systems. I hear a lot of people suggest them because of missing messages with IRC, but I actually think the missing messages is a feature. A ping on IRC to someone that isn\u0026#x27;t there is a bit like walking by someone\u0026#x27;s office and noticing that they aren\u0026#x27;t there.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t want my phone to notify me immediately every time a team chat message goes through. Direct hangouts messages have a higher \u0026quot;weight\u0026quot; and are useful sometimes, too, though.\u003cp\u003eBasically, this is just a cultural problem that needs to be worked out. Sort of like the (usually) understood idea that you shouldn\u0026#x27;t disturb a person wearing headphones and working.","parent":"13004845","id":"13006629"}
{"by":"dv_dt","time":"1473280304","timestamp":"2016-09-07 20:31:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just have a bluetooth car device that jacks into the Aux port. It also gives you tactile buttons for bt audio control. With a two-usb port cig. port charger, one powers the bluetooth audio, the other my charger.","parent":"12446403","id":"12447328"}
{"by":"Scott_MacGregor","time":"1261431175","timestamp":"2009-12-21 21:32:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For about the same price as the quarter eating vending machine, a 7-11 style soda dispenser could probably have been installed and the price per soda would probably have been around 2 cents each for a big gulp size. It is very cost effective, much better than bottles or cans. It might have been viewed as a step up in benefits vs. a takeaway. Pennywise, pound-foolish.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sodadispenserdepot.com/dispensersused.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sodadispenserdepot.com/dispensersused.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1007750","id":"1008645"}
{"by":"jdechko","time":"1363807296","timestamp":"2013-03-20 19:21:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://abc.go.com/shows/the-bachelorette\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://abc.go.com/shows/the-bachelorette\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5407202","id":"5409533"}
{"by":"eCa","time":"1320444595","timestamp":"2011-11-04 22:09:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it's like something out of The Hudsucker proxy.","parent":"3196663","id":"3197892"}
{"by":"tiglionabbit","time":"1375256997","timestamp":"2013-07-31 07:49:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if it modified the program text, instead of some external load-able value?  Self-modifying code could allow explicit branch prediction.","parent":"6131856","id":"6132400"}
{"by":"noxxten","time":"1468525639","timestamp":"2016-07-14 19:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a great process to have too. Hire personalities that fit and work well with teams, and train them to be the ideal candidate instead.","parent":"12092781","id":"12096693"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1468124309","timestamp":"2016-07-10 04:18:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EmDrive has not been \u0026quot;sponsored\u0026quot; by NASA. The researches at their Eagleworks labs built a prototype and tested it, but that\u0026#x27;s not quite the same thing.","parent":"12064452","id":"12064551"}
{"by":"busterarm","time":"1464057744","timestamp":"2016-05-24 02:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or just has a fun little `rm -rf \u0026#x2F;`","parent":"11758063","id":"11758647"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1342072242","timestamp":"2012-07-12 05:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting how \"i\" is more common in some languages than others. C and C++ make sense (for(i = 0; i \u0026#60; n; i++)), but Ruby is a puzzler.","parent":"4232761","id":"4233233"}
{"by":"kolinko","time":"1339703556","timestamp":"2012-06-14 19:52:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a whole document with hard \u0026#38; fast rules (\"App Store Review Guidelines\"). They introduced it a while ago.","parent":"4112431","id":"4113211"}
{"by":"guelo","time":"1274420972","timestamp":"2010-05-21 05:49:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't really get it, couldn't you just share a text file?","parent":"1366173","id":"1366505"}
{"by":"callmeed","time":"1403289711","timestamp":"2014-06-20 18:41:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll be up there next week ... maybe I\u0026#x27;ll stop by","parent":"7922116","id":"7922128"}
{"by":"mistermann","time":"1483075084","timestamp":"2016-12-30 05:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t think they might be a bit concerned a loose cannon like Trump might be a little more curious than normal candidates what sorts of interesting things they get up to, and where they spend their significant budgets?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; but I need something\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s how a lot of people feel about this whole \u0026quot;Russians rigged the election\u0026quot; thing, we\u0026#x27;d like some evidence a little more substantial than \u0026quot;trust us\u0026quot;, or at least we\u0026#x27;d like to hear those words from someone we can trust, although no names come to mind.  I can\u0026#x27;t think of very many public figures that I would trust these days.","parent":"13282523","id":"13282693"}
{"by":"ryanlol","time":"1454005013","timestamp":"2016-01-28 18:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do we need a bot that posts the warning every time someone links to a .doc\u0026#x2F;.pdf\u0026#x2F;.whatever?\u003cp\u003eAnd in any case, I\u0026#x27;d be significantly more worried about the .torrent file...","parent":"10989950","id":"10990023"}
{"by":"pekk","time":"1427945100","timestamp":"2015-04-02 03:25:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, the list of companies using COBOL is also long.","parent":"9308186","id":"9308493"}
{"by":"GrinningFool","time":"1386853072","timestamp":"2013-12-12 12:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a buyer, paypal is horrible too.\u003cp\u003eParticularly when they conveniently decide to suspend the ability to immediately xfer payment out of a verified  bank account, leaving you with a 3-5 day electronic check or signing up for \u0026quot;bill me later\u0026quot; as your only options for making a payment when your balance is 0.  I\u0026#x27;m sure it\u0026#x27;s all about fraud detection, and nothing to do with selling more people on \u0026quot;bill me later\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;has no safeguards or way to charge back when I could just use fiat, have safety and feel better knowing the money I just spent won\u0026#x27;t be worth 10% more tomorrow.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIndeed.  This is what keeps me out of cryptocurrency. In spite of how crappy paypal is (or can be) for buyers.","parent":"6894105","id":"6894163"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1425482263","timestamp":"2015-03-04 15:17:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; They existed(!) in ancient greece, because people didn\u0026#x27;t have time to inform themselves, right ?\u003cp\u003eGreece (Athens) provided the model for direct democracy. The model for indirect, representative democracy is less exclusive, but the main ancient model is the Roman Republic.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; We solved this with newspapers, 100 years ago.\u003cp\u003eNewspapers are much older than 100 years old, and they don\u0026#x27;t solve the problem of lack of time. Arguably, they increase the information assymetry between the ruling class and the ruled class, since it is generally the former that controls the papers and selects what goes in them -- and what does not. This is somewhat offset when different factions of the ruling class disagree on what to present, in that information from both factions is likely to be presented (often in different outlets), but that increases rather than reduces the time and skill of the population needed to ferret out the \u003ci\u003ecorrect\u003c/i\u003e information.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; But, it would be too much paperwork to get the votes from millions of people. It wasn\u0026#x27;t scalable. - We solved that with smartphones, 5 years ago.\u003cp\u003eWe get votes from millions of people all the time. We solved this with distributed ballot counting and using basic arithmetic to aggregate the results. For the balloting methods we commonly use in the United States, ballot counting is trivially parallelizable and, therefore, easily scalable. Again, this was solved more than 100 years ago.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I would like to have votes like the one in switzerland, but with smartphones.\u003cp\u003eWe have referenda in the United States at the state level. We don\u0026#x27;t at the federal level for social (Constitutional) rather than technical reasons. What is the point of adding smartphones into the mix, except to create additional economic stratification?","parent":"9144412","id":"9144679"}
{"by":"MBCook","time":"1387387303","timestamp":"2013-12-18 17:21:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are two reasons. First, the original iPad was somewhat underpowered. There is a reason the iPad 2 felt \u003ci\u003eso much faster\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThe second reason is because of the iPad mini. The non-retina Mini \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eis\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e an iPad 2, just in a smaller package.\u003cp\u003eI know some developers were complaining after the retina Mini was announced because Apple didn\u0026#x27;t update the non-retina version to the A7, so the effectively still have to support the iPad 2.","parent":"6928561","id":"6928875"}
{"by":"photonios","time":"1511441768","timestamp":"2017-11-23 12:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was not arguing that it\u0026#x27;s not easy to find a job. I was arguing that its hard to find a well paying job.\u003cp\u003eSee my comment down here, 80% of the companies offering jobs are outsourcing companies, which are not the greatest to work for IMHO. Or did you have a different experience? I worked for one for about 6 months and left. I\u0026#x27;ve seen people around me with similar experiences. But those are just my anecdotal experiences.","parent":"15764576","id":"15764705"}
{"by":"jnpatel","time":"1465154627","timestamp":"2016-06-05 19:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also worth mentioning, that this was his autoreply :)\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am\n  located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned,\n  I appear to be well outside the solar system.\n  \n  After your message arrives at gnu.org, I will collect it in my next batch of\n  incoming mail, some time within the following 24 hours. I will spend much of\n  the following day reading that batch of mail and will come across your\n  message at some point. If I write a response immediately, it will go out in\n  the next outgoing batch--typically around 24 hours after I collected your\n  message, but occasionally sooner or later than that. Please expect a minimum\n  delay of between 24 and 48 hours in receiving a response to your mail to me.\n  \n  If your message is hard to understand or responding takes real work,\n  the response could take longer.\n  \n  So please wait 48 hours after sending a message before you resend it,\n  remind me about it, or ask if I have received it. If it has been less\n  than 48 hours, the absence of a response from me only means you have not\n  given me time to answer.\n  \n  If you are having a conversation with me, please keep in mind that each\n  message you receive from me is a response to the mail you sent 24 to 48 hours\n  earlier, and when writing it, I probably had not yet downloaded your later\n  mail.\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"11842552","id":"11842608"}
{"by":"WaltPurvis","time":"1444103077","timestamp":"2015-10-06 03:44:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends on how much computing power and expansion ability you need. If a Mac Mini has enough for your needs then it\u0026#x27;s hard to beat the ease of just buying one of those. OTOH, I built a Hackintosh because I wanted lots of CPU, drive bays, etc., and an equivalently spec\u0026#x27;d Mac Pro would have cost more than twice as much. (This was before the current trash can version of the Mac Pro came out — not sure what the price differential is now.)\u003cp\u003eGetting my Hackintosh up and running was a breeze. Assembled it in an hour, installed OS X, everything ran perfectly. I have had \u003ci\u003ezero\u003c/i\u003e problems upgrading from OS X 10.8 to 10.9 and 10.10. It\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eslightly\u003c/i\u003e more involved than just clicking the upgrade button in the app store, but not too bad (i.e., it\u0026#x27;ll take you about an hour to create a bootable installer on a thumb drive, etc.). Point version upgrades (e.g., from 10.10.4 to 10.10.5) are not an issue — you can just upgrade through the app store as usual.\u003cp\u003eYou do have to wait a few weeks for the Hackintosh community to work out the kinks for new major versions of OS X, e.g., I don\u0026#x27;t think you can upgrade to El Capitan right now unless you\u0026#x27;re really brave, instead you\u0026#x27;ll have to wait a month or two. (That hasn\u0026#x27;t bothered me, since I\u0026#x27;d never consider upgrading a Mac to a .0 release anyway.)\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not planning to build a Hackintosh again -- my next desktop will either be a standard Mac Pro or retina iMac -- but it\u0026#x27;s really not a headache at all to build and maintain a Hackintosh, if that\u0026#x27;s what you want to do.","parent":"10335717","id":"10336651"}
{"by":"ivan_ah","time":"1474212690","timestamp":"2016-09-18 15:31:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t believe they missed Neonto \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;neonto.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;neonto.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e which allows you to point-and-click your way to functioning apps. Real native apps, not prototypes.\u003cp\u003eMost functionality like list and menus + layouts for many different devices. Great for getting started and learning cross-platform mobile dev.","parent":"12524331","id":"12525685"}
{"by":"gregpilling","time":"1290438051","timestamp":"2010-11-22 15:00:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i bought one  to play with. it wasn't quite as good as the reviewer said, although i briefly got the wireless working. My run time was about 20 min before dead batteries. It took 45 minutes for Walgreens to figure out how to refund my money, and in the end could only refund it within $2 on my creditcard with the rest in cash","parent":"1929670","id":"1929974"}
{"by":"nextparadigms","time":"1320226574","timestamp":"2011-11-02 09:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have that issue with the new version of Google Docs. You get just a little more than half the screen to actually write inside the doc. The rest is all \"chrome\". They should at least make all that disappear and appear on demand.","parent":"3185729","id":"3185954"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1364400457","timestamp":"2013-03-27 16:07:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well , to a point. As long as there isn't another developer with \u0026#62;= development skills and worse negotiation.","parent":"5450084","id":"5450215"}
{"by":"DavidWanjiru","time":"1474466499","timestamp":"2016-09-21 14:01:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Some of the dark races were described as deceived more than evil.\nI would argue the larger point still stands if the light skinned races aren\u0026#x27;t depicted as falling for similar deception, because a tendency to fall for deception is equally unedifying.\nI haven\u0026#x27;t read the books, so I wouldn\u0026#x27;t know how other races are portrayed.","parent":"12547567","id":"12548205"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1416409018","timestamp":"2014-11-19 14:56:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s nice. Not sure what the point of making that statement is.","parent":"8629347","id":"8630327"}
{"by":"mitra","time":"1341791671","timestamp":"2012-07-08 23:54:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's going to be hard for the caste system to stay rigid because in larger cities there is no way of verifying any of this. In bigger cities like Mumbai, it's already pretty apparent with most kids growing up indifferent to the complex caste adherence of the past. Most of these kids would not be able to attribute a caste to people based on their last names as that knowledge has been lost. Going with the theme of this thread, this is definitely not true across the board but definitely applies to the large majority, at least in major towns and cities.","parent":"4215500","id":"4216107"}
{"by":"tdavis","time":"1320724534","timestamp":"2011-11-08 03:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After a year of working on a midsize AppEngine project targeted at large enterprises, I can honestly say that AppEngine's only truly redeeming quality is its Google integration. Our product is an add-on for Google Apps; AppEngine runs on the same infrastructure; big companies like that.\u003cp\u003eIf this doesn't apply to you, choose an up-to-date, cheaper, more versatile, far less tedious deployment platform. I've spent the past 10 years developing, deploying, and maintaining web applications of most sizes and I've never had a harder time \"scaling\" usage of mere GB of stored data. Maybe if I had 100TB then AppEngine would make the \"impossible possible\"; for the rest of the 99.999999% of the Internet, it makes the formerly trivial insanely tedious.","parent":"3208753","id":"3209445"}
{"by":"shail","time":"1370460161","timestamp":"2013-06-05 19:22:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am really interested in understanding the WHY part of being stuck. Why does it happen? Is it because a person is perfectionist. Or is it because of fear of failure. Or a combination of both?","parent":"5827908","id":"5827938"}
{"by":"rfrey","time":"1422802296","timestamp":"2015-02-01 14:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally understand your sentiment, but to me this reflects one of the biggest scams that has ever been pulled on the \u0026quot;average guy\u0026quot; - the notion that debt has moral weight.\u003cp\u003eI was taught by my parents, and by the books I read and TV shows I watched, that \u0026quot;paying your debts\u0026quot; made you a good person.  If you don\u0026#x27;t pay your debts you\u0026#x27;re slacking.  We\u0026#x27;ve all heard the parables of the great person who went broke, but managed to pay his debtors later even though he legally didn\u0026#x27;t have to.\u003cp\u003eWhat hogwash.  Lenders get paid interest in compensation for the risk that the loan might go bad.  They deny credit to people if the risk is too high.  That\u0026#x27;s their business.  If you borrow to start a business and the business goes south, that\u0026#x27;s not a moral issue - it\u0026#x27;s built into the bank\u0026#x27;s models.  Turning it into a moral issue, rather than \u0026quot;just bizness\u0026quot;, is just a way for the lenders to shift the risk - that you\u0026#x27;re paying for - back to you.  It\u0026#x27;s like buying insurance and then not collecting for your burnt house, because you didn\u0026#x27;t work hard enough to put out the fire.\u003cp\u003eOK, sucky analogy, but you can bet that people like Donald Trump don\u0026#x27;t worry about the morality of debt when one of their companies go broke.  It\u0026#x27;s in the contract.","parent":"8979978","id":"8980015"}
{"by":"sandov","time":"1497562809","timestamp":"2017-06-15 21:40:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as it\u0026#x27;s closed source, we have to assume that it\u0026#x27;s unsecure.","parent":"14562169","id":"14564620"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1214065526","timestamp":"2008-06-21 16:25:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it was. Go look what happens in gdb when you do that.","parent":"223699","id":"223735"}
{"by":"AndrewDucker","time":"1535028771","timestamp":"2018-08-23 12:52:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup, I work 35-40 hours a week, outside of emergencies and legislative deadlines.","parent":"17826568","id":"17826797"}
{"by":"Sean1708","time":"1459598329","timestamp":"2016-04-02 11:58:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIU D is actively trying to reduce it\u0026#x27;s dependence on a GC, while go has decided that the GC is here to stay.","parent":"11411166","id":"11411211"}
{"by":"reitanqild","time":"1467063945","timestamp":"2016-06-27 21:45:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is mining for data and there is mining for data.\u003cp\u003eMonitoring which features I use? Opt in.\u003cp\u003eMonitoring what I do? Uninstall if possible.","parent":"11989589","id":"11989773"}
{"by":"polar","time":"1202492318","timestamp":"2008-02-08 17:38:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"മലയാളം","parent":"111154","id":"112188"}
{"by":"staunch","time":"1174892825","timestamp":"2007-03-26 07:07:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Serving massive quantities of static images is probably the easiest challenge they've (\u003ci\u003euhh\u003c/i\u003e) faced -- it's just expensive.","parent":"6276","id":"6295"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1504303036","timestamp":"2017-09-01 21:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a mess.\u003cp\u003eThe English word \u0026quot;curse\u0026quot; (swearing or evil spell) appears  not to be derived from the Latin \u0026quot;currere\u0026quot; (to run).\u003cp\u003eThese are though: course, current, currency, recur, concur, incur, cursor, cursory, precursor, cursive, excursion, corsair, corridor, corral, ...\u003cp\u003eAn argument might be made that the verb form of \u003ci\u003erecursion\u003c/i\u003e should have followed the existing \u003ci\u003eexcursion\u003c/i\u003e pattern. Which is to say, \u003ci\u003eexcursion\u003c/i\u003e is both the noun and the verb form, as in \u003ci\u003eto excursion\u003c/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eexcursioned\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ehad excursioned\u003c/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eexcursioning\u003c/i\u003e). Just replace \u0026quot;ex\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;re\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eInteresting: etymonline presents a view that \u003ci\u003ehorse\u003c/i\u003e might also trace back to \u003ci\u003ecurrere\u003c/i\u003e: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.etymonline.com\u0026#x2F;index.php?term=horse\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.etymonline.com\u0026#x2F;index.php?term=horse\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHey, look; this is is also very handy: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.etymonline.com\u0026#x2F;index.php?term=*kers-\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.etymonline.com\u0026#x2F;index.php?term=*kers-\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15152409","id":"15152692"}
{"by":"chton","time":"1405450963","timestamp":"2014-07-15 19:02:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not significantly, but they differ in the finer details.  Event Hubs is less elastic (since you need to choose your number of partitions on create), but it has a few more advanced options like filtering and fine-grained message replay.  Kinesis has no requirement to chose a number of shards on creation, but is closer to a simple fat pipe than Event Hubs.\u003cp\u003eIn intention, basic structure and pricing, they are nearly identical.","parent":"8038249","id":"8038329"}
{"by":"api","time":"1485021936","timestamp":"2017-01-21 18:05:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ciphers aren\u0026#x27;t the problem. The protocols are. IPSEC is insanely over engineered, as are most protocols these days.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not just in crypto. I was looking at the guts of web sockets the other day and was like WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY. I usually find myself asking \u0026quot;what problem does this solve?\u0026quot; over and over when I look at modern systems.\u003cp\u003eOf course even with my strong bias against it I am still occasionally guilty of over engineering. I just rewrote a major system to de-engineer it. I just keep thinking I will need it even when I have YAGNI tattooed on the inside of my eyelids.","parent":"13450184","id":"13451227"}
{"by":"throwawaymaroon","time":"1447722778","timestamp":"2015-11-17 01:12:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re right, but I think it\u0026#x27;s not as big a deal as you might think.  It all comes down to social acceptability.\u003cp\u003eSocially acceptable metrics like \u0026quot;Character\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;social cues\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;goodness\u0026quot; can be reliably received in terms more like \u0026quot;Thinks like me,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;probably won\u0026#x27;t hurt me,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;makes me feel good.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBut why shouldn\u0026#x27;t those things be evaluated?  If you\u0026#x27;re going to build a strong sense of team, you might need to risk rejecting people for completely unfair social reasons, up to and including a basic sense that someone\u0026#x27;s just \u0026#x27;uncool\u0026#x27;!\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t require Jessica to be a magic oracle for her to be the one that voices discomforts or phrases them in a socially palatable way.  Technical evaluators might not be comfortable saying \u0026quot;this person just had a bad vibe,\u0026quot; but if someone can point out a socially acceptable reason for the vibe-- \u0026quot;seemed more concerned about money than the idea,\u0026quot; for instance--the vibe can be acted upon with no loss of face for the technical evaluator.\u003cp\u003eGiven that some of these subjective feelings can be valid warning signals for the worst kind of behavior, it\u0026#x27;s hard to be upset if the \u0026#x27;social radar\u0026#x27; enables the rejection of otherwise good and competent people that just rubbed the group the wrong way.  So the argument goes: those people will still, by their merit, go on to find success.\u003cp\u003eI think it\u0026#x27;s hard to argue that Jessica and Paul haven\u0026#x27;t enjoyed their position as arbiters of their special club.  I couldn\u0026#x27;t find it, but there\u0026#x27;s an article somewhere about the funding of Reddit where Jessica\u0026#x27;s patronization of the Reddit \u0026#x27;boys\u0026#x27; gives me this sickly feeling.\u003cp\u003eI think it was uncouth for Jessica to write about her radar so openly.  But I\u0026#x27;m not particularly upset that it was being relied upon.\u003cp\u003e(Now, if it were me, I\u0026#x27;d feel real gross building a family around the fact that people are auditioning to have some of my money to borrow.  But that\u0026#x27;s just me.)","parent":"10578338","dead":true,"id":"10578554"}
{"by":"jonhendry18","time":"1531897346","timestamp":"2018-07-18 07:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Leeches are used in medicine today, particularly after limb transplant microsurgery.","parent":"17548887","id":"17556036"}
{"by":"JBiserkov","time":"1479949661","timestamp":"2016-11-24 01:07:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No worries, Macs will soon switch to \u0026quot;OS - a spiritual descendant of iOS and macOS, that we call just \u0026#x27;OS\u0026#x27;. It\u0026#x27;s revolutionary.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s really iOS without the i, and it\u0026#x27;s a worse combination of touch UI and mouse\u0026#x2F;keyboard UI than Windows 8, but it\u0026#x27;s made by Apple, so the tech press will praise it, and people who should know better will buy devices running it by the millions.","parent":"13026413","id":"13027113"}
{"by":"jstimpfle","time":"1526632504","timestamp":"2018-05-18 08:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How so? It\u0026#x27;s just a syntax. It doesn\u0026#x27;t remove the physical coupling of elements that are infrequently used as a unit.","parent":"17099115","id":"17099669"}
{"by":"what_ever","time":"1539122127","timestamp":"2018-10-09 21:55:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do too! Can\u0026#x27;t wait for under the OLED screen hidden cameras to have one giant slab of screen.","parent":"18180115","id":"18180144"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1449278946","timestamp":"2015-12-05 01:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previous discussion: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10664998\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10664998\u003c/a\u003e (50 points, 2 days ago, 6 comments)","parent":"10679142","id":"10680375"}
{"by":"julian_t","time":"1337177442","timestamp":"2012-05-16 14:10:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some of the worst jams in Mumbai I've experienced are when a policeman decides to direct traffic at a junction rather than let the lights do it...","parent":"3981705","id":"3982081"}
{"by":"mikewhy","time":"1461609285","timestamp":"2016-04-25 18:34:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;reddit.premii.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;reddit.premii.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has a Chrome app, but you can make an app with MacPin, Nativefier, Fluid, WebShell, etc.","parent":"11564936","id":"11566257"}
{"by":"charliepark","time":"1437702184","timestamp":"2015-07-24 01:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Getting to work alongside Laura is one of the highlights of being at IFTTT.","parent":"9938578","id":"9939650"}
{"by":"bcoates","time":"1386541055","timestamp":"2013-12-08 22:17:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thread context: \u003ca href=\"https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/11/179\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lkml.org\u0026#x2F;lkml\u0026#x2F;2007\u0026#x2F;5\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;179\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6871607","id":"6871696"}
{"by":"tlrobinson","time":"1517068610","timestamp":"2018-01-27 15:56:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article about astro-inertial navigation systems, as found on the SR-71, is interesting as well:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thedrive.com\u0026#x2F;the-war-zone\u0026#x2F;17207\u0026#x2F;sr-71s-r2-d2-could-be-the-key-to-winning-future-fights-in-gps-denied-environments\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thedrive.com\u0026#x2F;the-war-zone\u0026#x2F;17207\u0026#x2F;sr-71s-r2-d2-coul...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI imagine the military has also developed downward-looking computer-vision and\u0026#x2F;or radar based positioning systems.","parent":"16244298","id":"16246632"}
{"by":"dawnerd","time":"1480095837","timestamp":"2016-11-25 17:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Main machine is a custom built: 6700k, 32gb ram, gtx1080, win 10.\u003cp\u003eLaptop: 2016 MacBook fully spec\u0026#x27;d out.\u003cp\u003eOn both I use atom and docker. I mount my files from a network share so I can always access them.","parent":"13038114","id":"13038428"}
{"by":"imdsm","time":"1381158153","timestamp":"2013-10-07 15:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  centuries\u0026#x27; worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts\u003cp\u003eIt is amazing to think that in a few hundreds years, quite possibly, bitcoin\u0026#x2F;a bitcoin derivative could be the \u0026quot;global\u0026quot; currency, and this wallet could actually be a lost treasure among people. Sometimes it\u0026#x27;s easy to think we\u0026#x27;re just in the here and now, but we are making history, we\u0026#x27;re in the future\u0026#x27;s past.","parent":"6508091","id":"6508665"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1501268295","timestamp":"2017-07-28 18:58:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The paper only uses that phrase once, as a synonym for a non-existing instruction. It seems that refers to an instruction that the CPU will not execute, and which throws a #UD exception. Despite being illegal\u0026#x2F;nonexistent, these instructions still have a length, which is how many bytes the CPU decodes before it throws that exception. They can figure this out by placing an illegal instruction sequence at the end of a page, where the next page is marked as non-executable, and sliding it around. If the CPU tries to decode bytes on the next page, it throws #GP. Once you slide the instruction far enough to get a #UD instead, you know that the illegal instruction is that many bytes.\u003cp\u003eThis is different from undocumented instructions, which are valid instructions that the CPU can actually execute, but which don\u0026#x27;t appear in the CPU\u0026#x27;s documentation. These may be instructions which were deliberately added as part of the design but which didn\u0026#x27;t make it into the documentation for whatever reason, or they may be an unintended consequence of other aspects of the CPU\u0026#x27;s design. (The 6502 famously has a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of undocumented opcodes of the second kind, see \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pagetable.com\u0026#x2F;?p=39\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pagetable.com\u0026#x2F;?p=39\u003c/a\u003e for more info on those.)","parent":"14876549","id":"14876604"}
{"by":"eecks","time":"1483892214","timestamp":"2017-01-08 16:16:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agile sprints are a good way to get shipping done.\u003cp\u003eMake a backlog of tasks.\u003cp\u003eSet a time for your sprint (2 or 3 weeks).\u003cp\u003eEstimate how long you think the tasks in your backlog will take (don\u0026#x27;t focus on being 100% correct in your estimates).\u003cp\u003eInclude what you can given the sprint time and the estimates.\u003cp\u003eRelease at the end of every sprint.\u003cp\u003eRinse and repeat.","parent":"13350238","id":"13350388"}
{"by":"rgbrenner","time":"1400284116","timestamp":"2014-05-16 23:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article you linked to does not say anything about broadcasters agreeing to invest in broadband.\u003cp\u003eand I have no idea what TV broadcasters and fiberoptic broadband have to do with eachother... they\u0026#x27;re entirely different industries. Comcast and Time Warner don\u0026#x27;t use TV airways--that\u0026#x27;s why they call it \u0026quot;cable\u0026quot;.","parent":"7758350","id":"7758597"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1395063103","timestamp":"2014-03-17 13:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This video demonstrates what actually happens when a widebody airliner attempts to land on the ocean:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2Yn0cipTY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=WE2Yn0cipTY\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e767s are bigger than A320s and the ocean is a lot rougher than the Hudson.","parent":"7414693","id":"7414877"}
{"by":"onnoonno","time":"1445426104","timestamp":"2015-10-21 11:15:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what would happen if those vans would need to be clearly labelled as radiation-emitting devices.\u003cp\u003eMy impression is a lot of people are \u0026#x27;o.k.\u0026#x27; with this because the vans are unmarked and the radiation invisible...","parent":"10423264","id":"10424700"}
{"by":"jsdalton","time":"1350937303","timestamp":"2012-10-22 20:21:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, looks like they've set this up as a single page app but they are using Disqus for comments, which was not really built around that concept.\u003cp\u003eI have a feeling their are some loose ends in their code where a user visits Page A then navigates to Page B and posts a comment there, but Disqus wasn't properly updated and the comment therefore gets filed under Page A.","parent":"4685069","id":"4685316"}
{"by":"kolderman","time":"1538503605","timestamp":"2018-10-02 18:06:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was a software limit, inasmuch as the software wanted to run in real mode even though by 1989 you had a modern 32 bit cpu that had all the features to run Windows 10 today.","parent":"18120821","id":"18124134"}
{"by":"kitd","time":"1544626993","timestamp":"2018-12-12 15:03:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;The Noise of Time\u0026quot; by Julian Barnes\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s an account of the life of Dmitri Shostakovitch during the eras of Stalin and Krushchev. It\u0026#x27;s fantastic at evoking the sense of suffocation of living under absolute all-seeing power and the terror found in ordinary life. At one point, Shostakovitch is a weekend away from being taken off and \u0026quot;disappeared\u0026quot;, only to find on Monday that the same has happened to his interrogator and he is let off.\u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.","parent":"18661546","id":"18664453"}
{"by":"davvid","time":"1346923152","timestamp":"2012-09-06 09:19:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMy fingers are \"sprawled\" across the three alphabetic rows, and I have no particular discipline regarding which finger (or even which hand) hits which key.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm curious -- have you ever tried typing using two full keyboards, one for each hand?  Your sprawl style seems like it might work well with such a setup.  Before I got my kinesis ergo I was typing using two keyboards and I found it quite comfortable since I was able to place them apart from each other so that my arms stay nice and comfortable.","parent":"4482395","id":"4483433"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1411576400","timestamp":"2014-09-24 16:33:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it just me, or are the patches \u0026quot;fixing\u0026quot; the vulnerability woefully insufficient?  With the patch, bash stops executing the trailing code, but it still allows defining arbitrary shell functions from environment variables.  So, even though the patch fixes the ability to exploit this via SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND or HTTP_*, anything that can set environment variables can still override an arbitrary command.  (Note that privileged environments typically filter out attempts to set PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and so on.)\u003cp\u003eThis applies even if your shell script or shell snippet uses the full paths to commands.  For instance:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    $ env \u0026#x27;\u0026#x2F;sbin\u0026#x2F;foo\u0026#x27;=\u0026#x27;() { echo exploit; }\u0026#x27; bash -c \u0026#x27;\u0026#x2F;sbin\u0026#x2F;foo\u0026#x27;\n    exploit\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"8361574","id":"8362408"}
{"by":"kcg","time":"1312646786","timestamp":"2011-08-06 16:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd be amazed if Dropbox had a 50% profit (net income) margin.  It's likely that their gross margin is around there, but you still have to subtract SG\u0026#38;A and other expenses to get down to net income.\u003cp\u003eIf Dropbox pulls in $100 million in revenue this year, a $10 billion valuation is 100x revenue.  That is a very high multiple.","parent":"2853789","id":"2854164"}
{"by":"siosonel","time":"1478680634","timestamp":"2016-11-09 08:37:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You want 100℅ solved, when most people just want the government to help nudge society in the right direction. Civil rights and anti discrimination laws are doing that.","parent":"12907667","id":"12907897"}
{"by":"sheraz","time":"1462535170","timestamp":"2016-05-06 11:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it would be a good idea to see some screenshots on your home page. That can go a long way to help push a desktop\u0026#x2F;laptop user to unlock his phone and convert to an install.","parent":"11642607","id":"11643227"}
{"by":"bischofs","time":"1546963865","timestamp":"2019-01-08 16:11:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And what is there go-to market strategy? Most cars that people can buy today have active safety features as an option or in the case of Toyota, a standard in all of their cars. How is google technology, which is so advanced, mitigating crashes and fatalities today?","parent":"18855730","id":"18856574"}
{"by":"nonbel","time":"1449150048","timestamp":"2015-12-03 13:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unless something has happened to drastically alter EEG analysis since last I checked, this is meaningless with one electrode. You need at least one other specifically to measure eye\u0026#x2F;muscle movement, etc.","parent":"10665217","id":"10669467"}
{"by":"darkpuma","time":"1546039089","timestamp":"2018-12-28 23:18:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The principle of \u0026quot;no surprises\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIs violated by this:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026gt; mpv https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=LBoF1e5YDdQ\n    fish: No matches for wildcard \u0026#x27;https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=LBoF1e5YDdQ\u0026#x27;. See `help expand`.\n    mpv https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=LBoF1e5YDdQ\n        ^\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nParticularly for software that sells itself as user friendly.  The carrot doesn\u0026#x27;t even point at the wildcard!\u003cp\u003eI am very far from the first person to raise this issue with the fish devs, you can find numerous people bringing this up going years back.  I\u0026#x27;m generally pretty cognizant of when I have unusual requests or opinions about how software should work, and this is not one of those times.","parent":"18779643","id":"18780285"}
{"by":"staufman","time":"1355251831","timestamp":"2012-12-11 18:50:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. I actually wrapped this library with a simple HTML parser that can understand basic tags (\u0026#60;strong\u0026#62;, \u0026#60;b\u0026#62;, \u0026#60;a\u0026#62;, etc.) and translate them into calls to Nimbus.\u003cp\u003eAt some point, I'd love to incorporate a Fireball markdown parser so that authored and styled content from our servers can just be pulled from our app.","parent":"4905753","id":"4906051"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1383261957","timestamp":"2013-10-31 23:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t need to live in a utopia to see that doing the right thing despite being afraid and aware of existential threats is something worth doing.","parent":"6650756","id":"6650794"}
{"by":"roywiggins","time":"1503690479","timestamp":"2017-08-25 19:47:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the publicity videos for this talks about the Babylonian base-60 system allowing them to write down fractions more accurately than we can. This is bunk. You can\u0026#x27;t write down one-third exactly as a base 10 decimal, but you can work with it exactly by writing it down as 1\u0026#x2F;3. It\u0026#x27;s more laborious, and probably the Babylonians found base-60 very useful, but given we have obscenely powerful computers it\u0026#x27;s probably useless to us as a practical matter.","parent":"15095237","id":"15101611"}
{"by":"aasarava","time":"1369771302","timestamp":"2013-05-28 20:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; This sort of thing is why I'm tired of political news on HN.\u003cp\u003eBecause someone interpreted information differently than you, or did not do the same research as you?  I think you'll tire quickly of political discussion anywhere, in that case.\u003cp\u003eFrom my perspective, your reply to the parent's comment is exactly why HN works. Someone makes an assertion, and another person comes along and adds additional information to better round out the issue. (Thank you for that, btw.)","parent":"5782120","id":"5782360"}
{"by":"voodoomagicman","time":"1466796468","timestamp":"2016-06-24 19:27:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not at all - I think that is human nature, and how we all behave.  I just don\u0026#x27;t think its justified - if you asked most people to describe their moral frameworks, I don\u0026#x27;t think many would say \u0026#x27;the value of a human being is a function of their distance from me\u0026#x27;.","parent":"11969013","id":"11972706"}
{"by":"smhinsey","time":"1302543255","timestamp":"2011-04-11 17:34:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not sure reasoned justification comes into it. It's football with words and you have to root for your team.","parent":"2433149","id":"2433396"}
{"by":"kevingadd","time":"1375563220","timestamp":"2013-08-03 20:53:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dart2JS will run on all browsers. Dart currently will only run in Chrome. This is an important distinction.","parent":"6153278","id":"6153365"}
{"by":"dskhatri","time":"1334090135","timestamp":"2012-04-10 20:35:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mann is a Media Lab alum. The Media Lab did extensive work on wearable computing a decade ago [1]. Rich DeVaul [2] is another alum who worked extensively on wearable computing there, and is possibly involved in Project Glass.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.media.mit.edu/wearables\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"http://devaul.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://devaul.net/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3822630","id":"3824265"}
{"by":"rkeene2","time":"1528471482","timestamp":"2018-06-08 15:24:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a bit of context, in the Tcl ecosystem there\u0026#x27;s the concept of \u0026quot;Starkits\u0026quot; which are executable scripts which contain a stub loader which mounts a virtual filesystem archive (which contains all the files the actual script needs to run).\u003cp\u003eTypically this has been either a Metakit database or a Zip file, but they both have disadvantages when compared to SQLite and we\u0026#x27;ve been wanting to move to SQLite for a while but it didn\u0026#x27;t support being appended to things, so we couldn\u0026#x27;t.  At the most recent Tcl Conference DRH agreed to fix this and with this change it looks like he has done it.  Expect an SQLite-backed Starkit soon !\u003cp\u003eAlso, and unrelated, Starkits can be converted to \u0026quot;Starpacks\u0026quot; which replace the script-based stub loader with a native executable, so you can distribute Tcl-based scripts as a single file.","parent":"17264629","id":"17266348"}
{"by":"notirk","time":"1231202818","timestamp":"2009-01-06 00:46:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I knew the album was free and still purchased it, although not from Amazon, from the site NIN set up. I definitely still purchase albums of bands I like, why wouldn't you?","parent":"421094","id":"421400"}
{"by":"loceng","time":"1538594447","timestamp":"2018-10-03 19:20:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if we will learn to value food again, meaning what portion of our earnings would be willing to pay, if say we all got healthy, very fresh, organic, non-pesticide food that we know isn\u0026#x27;t contaminated - and if we factor indirect costs of not eating the \u0026quot;safest\u0026quot; and healthiest food throughout our lives? Maybe \u0026quot;$12\u0026quot; can be considered a \u0026quot;good deal\u0026quot; or reasonable. With automation, cost of unit produced can reach \u0026quot;$0\u0026quot; - so long as we pass all of that value created to the consumer. We\u0026#x27;re going to see more and more layers converted from jobs requiring manual labour, to not requiring it - like one example soon to rapidly scale is Amazon Go stores.","parent":"18132848","id":"18133841"}
{"by":"Mistone","time":"1175883474","timestamp":"2007-04-06 18:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber - its all about vision, systems, and building a business that can scale.\u003cp\u003eSmall Giants by Bo Burlingham","parent":"9614","id":"9660"}
{"by":"bitmapbrother","time":"1489220004","timestamp":"2017-03-11 08:13:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the clarification as I had always assumed it was one process per tab. Since it\u0026#x27;s one process per domain if one tab crashes does it also bring down the other tabs in the same domain?","parent":"13844416","id":"13844757"}
{"by":"lancewiggs","time":"1493953349","timestamp":"2017-05-05 03:02:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How bad does a food system have to be to get to the point where people deliberately choose to eat this?\u003cp\u003eFiltered Water, Soy Protein Isolate, Maltodextrin, High Oleic Algal Oil, Isomaltulose, Canola Oil, Rice Starch, Oat Fiber, Isomaltooligosaccharide, Soy Lecithin, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Phosphate, Magnesium Phosphate, Natural \u0026amp; Artificial Flavors, Dipotassium Phosphate, Salt, Choline Chloride, Gellan Gum, Sodium Ascorbate, dl-alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate, Ferrous Gluconate, Zinc Sulfate, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Niacinamide, Sucralose, Thiamin Hydrochloride, Copper Gluconate, Manganese Sulfate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A Palmitate, Riboflavin, Chromium Chloride, Biotin, Folic Acid, Sodium Molybdate, Sodium Selenite, Phytonadione, Potassium Iodide, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D. Contains: Soy","parent":"14265703","id":"14270840"}
{"by":"bzbarsky","time":"1476597664","timestamp":"2016-10-16 06:01:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the specific context of Rust, being able to build a browser is a large part of the point.  That means supporting platforms where people use browsers.","parent":"12710853","id":"12717208"}
{"by":"just2n","time":"1492211286","timestamp":"2017-04-14 23:08:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given how common it is for members of Congress to become mega millionaires over a few decades on a job that pays ~$200k\u0026#x2F;yr, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t trust them in this capacity.\u003cp\u003eHow many of us would hold steady in our own ethics and morals if someone routinely offered something like a $2,500,000 payday and we had no risk at all of being fired or jailed?","parent":"14117376","id":"14118095"}
{"by":"nodata","time":"1318590121","timestamp":"2011-10-14 11:02:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who cares if it's technically possible not to store a password in plain text even though it's in an e-mail?\u003cp\u003eIf they're sending passwords in plaintext they're incompetent and not to be trusted, especially for this kind of service. Ouch.","parent":"3110653","id":"3110729"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1497366021","timestamp":"2017-06-13 15:00:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But do you pay an upfront amount to get games on steam? It\u0026#x27;s not a subscription then, how do they justify preventing you from using them?","parent":"14545131","id":"14545249"}
{"by":"amandalim89","time":"1319503421","timestamp":"2011-10-25 00:43:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what \"confidential trade secrets\" they took along with them considering that Groupon's product is more of a market risk than a tech risk and so easily cloned. I don't think that Groupon is going to win this one because the Valley's laws has very favorable towards employee mobility. Many engineers here have Google, Facebook etc on their resumes hiring is so competitive here and Groupon better get it and focus their energy on employee retention schemes instead of futile law suits.","parent":"3152159","id":"3152254"}
{"by":"kllrnohj","time":"1508857993","timestamp":"2017-10-24 15:13:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; My opinion is that there is no \u0026quot;right way\u0026quot; of doing C++, unlike, say, python.\u003cp\u003eThere are, however, definitely wrong ways of doing things in C++. There\u0026#x27;s quite a few things in the STL that should have long since been deprecated if not outright removed.\u003cp\u003eSimple example is std::map. Absolutely horrible data structure. std::unordered_map is what you actually want, but to a beginner nothing really tells you that. You just think \u0026quot;I need a map, oh hey there\u0026#x27;s a std::map, perfect!\u0026quot; and go about your day completely unaware of how awful a data structure you just chose.\u003cp\u003eAnother example that\u0026#x27;s a mistake made in C++ hello worlds of all things is std::endl. std::endl does not mean \u0026quot;end line\u0026quot;, it means \u0026quot;\\n + flush\u0026quot; (specifically \u0026#x27;\\n\u0026#x27; - it does not do \u0026#x27;\\n\\r\u0026#x27; or \u0026#x27;\\r\\n\u0026#x27; conversions at all, the underlying file system does that). And flushing on every new line only makes sense for line-buffered things like std::out, but std::out already flushes on \u0026#x27;\\n\u0026#x27; character. So std::endl in practice just leads to a ton of unnecessary \u0026amp; unexpected flushes.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; so you go with new, but if you don\u0026#x27;t want to deal with exceptions or just want a block of raw memory, you may want to go with malloc instead.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s actually very little reason to ever use malloc. If you globally don\u0026#x27;t want exceptions just use -fno-exceptions. If you don\u0026#x27;t want exceptions in the small scope you\u0026#x27;re working in then use std::nothrow, eg: \u0026quot;new (std::nothrow) int[1024 * 1024]\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAs for why you do this over malloc the reason is simple - it avoids overflow bugs. new int[size_t] never overflows. malloc(size_t * sizeof(int)) - well that overflows trivially, and that overflow results in security bugs.\u003cp\u003eRaw malloc would arguably be another case of \u0026quot;this is just wrong C++\u0026quot; rather than \u0026quot;this is a perfectly valid alternative\u0026quot;. Raw free would belong in this case except for calloc, which is still very useful (and avoids the common overflow bug that malloc has). malloc\u0026#x27;s only saving grace is realloc, but now you\u0026#x27;re pretty deep into a specific edge case.","parent":"15541208","id":"15542150"}
{"by":"balajiviswanath","time":"1299157082","timestamp":"2011-03-03 12:58:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for your feedback. We are launching our complete website soon and it will have detailed info of who we are and what we offer.","parent":"2279676","id":"2283782"}
{"by":"bubblethink","time":"1535050354","timestamp":"2018-08-23 18:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What has it got to do with root ? You\u0026#x27;re talking about custom ROMs v\u0026#x2F;s OEM ROMS. Yes, custom ROMs will be faster with updates, but that has got nothing to do with root. What you mean is phones with unlockable bootloaders can flash a custom ROM. Unlockable bootloader =\\= root.","parent":"17828541","id":"17829695"}
{"by":"Vaskivo","time":"1432558043","timestamp":"2015-05-25 12:47:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eC.S. Lewis\u003cp\u003eI like videogames. And comics and cartoons and star wars and giant robots. And no, I\u0026#x27;m not ashamed of it! :)","parent":"9593547","id":"9599828"}
{"by":"lacker","time":"1539729672","timestamp":"2018-10-16 22:41:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;d get prosecuted in the US if the US military had hired him for something? That seems unlikely.","parent":"18233757","id":"18233925"}
{"by":"coolsunglasses","time":"1387742050","timestamp":"2013-12-22 19:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I think this is a simple case of you having an axe to grind, and my post being a rough surface.\u003cp\u003eProbably so.","parent":"6951380","id":"6951449"}
{"by":"MartinCron","time":"1336077337","timestamp":"2012-05-03 20:35:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lying on your resume should get you fired. Lying on SEC filings should get you imprisoned.","parent":"3925618","id":"3925665"}
{"by":"klaut","time":"1305662605","timestamp":"2011-05-17 20:03:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"don't want to split hairs, but Friday 17th May does not exist ;)","parent":"2557533","id":"2557655"}
{"by":"comice","time":"1485779801","timestamp":"2017-01-30 12:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;We lead the free world. And we do it by taking the higher moral ground, doing what is right before doing what is expedient.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s at this point that you know for sure Jeff is ignorant of American government policy.\u003cp\u003eHis heart seems in the right place and he\u0026#x27;s taking some important steps. But along with it I think he needs to educate himself. Can\u0026#x27;t fix problems you don\u0026#x27;t even believe exist.","parent":"13519687","id":"13520648"}
{"by":"dahart","time":"1478530153","timestamp":"2016-11-07 14:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is partly a story about getting older \u0026amp; wiser, and partly a story about consuming entertainment vs creating it. Games do get less fun as you grow older, and it happens a little faster if you\u0026#x27;re in the industry and start to see the big picture clearly. And consuming things is always less fun and engaging that making things. It\u0026#x27;s the same difference between buying software and writing your own.\u003cp\u003eThis article resonates with me because I have nearly the same story. I used to play a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of games, and I worked in console game development for a decade on some reasonably big titles. The game design patterns are somewhat derivative, I witnessed the echo chamber myself. But FWIW, it\u0026#x27;s very hard to push the boundaries and end up with something people want to buy. The market \u003ci\u003elikes\u003c/i\u003e familiar (derivative), with incremental changes.\u003cp\u003eThese days, I have enough other things to do that games aren\u0026#x27;t a priority and I can\u0026#x27;t get involved in most games. It even stresses me out to think about trying to finish a game. Enough of my goals and the people in my life want my time that adding a game to the list takes away from something else I care more about.","parent":"12890856","id":"12891381"}
{"by":"CrazedGeek","time":"1329152858","timestamp":"2012-02-13 17:07:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regarding the menu, no vertical space may have been won, but definitely a bit of horizontal -- it looks like there's enough room for an additional tab there now, which is nice. (maximized on 1366*768, it's rare that I never have tab overflow)","parent":"3586228","id":"3586300"}
{"by":"intellegacy","time":"1338842214","timestamp":"2012-06-04 20:36:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ok, now this is getting interesting. You raise some interesting points that make me question the deeper meaning of what wealth really is. Perhaps we simply disagree about the definition of wealth. From Wikipedia:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe meaning of wealth is context-dependent and there is no universally agreed upon definition. At the most general level, economists may define wealth as \"anything of value\" which captures both the subjective nature of the idea and the idea that it is not a fixed or static concept.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo it seems a lot of the discussion in this thread revolves around semantics, mainly about what defines wealth.\u003cp\u003eSo what exactly is your definition of wealth? I don't understand the logical basic behind your arguments.\u003cp\u003eFor example: \u003ci\u003eActually, the bartender would be richer in this case. I bought money, that action alone increased my wealth the same way buying a car increases my wealth. I have something now that I didn't have before. What I do with that money is really irrelevant, in the same way that how fast I drive the car is irrelevant.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou exchanged your money for a car. You could now be wealthier in the sense that the car brings you happiness or functionality that you didn't have before, enabling you to be more productive. But what if you already owned a car and were simply indulging yourself? What if this was your 5th car that you didn't need? So you could keep on buying cars forever, and you'd be continually increasing your wealth?\nI don't understand why buying the car automatically makes you wealthier. If you give a hobo $10,000 to buy an hour of him walking in circles, you've increased your wealth of entertainment perhaps, but it is a stretch by any definition of wealth to say you've created it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf I physically burned the money, sure. But the same is true if I physically burn my house down. Of course this too adds to the economy.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssuming your house was functioning and adequate then the economy is poorer without your house. That is wealth destruction not creation. For now you have to pay for a new house. Someone has to use the materials and labor to build that house. You pay him your money to do so. Now you have less. Wealth was not created here. It was shifted around from your pocket to the construction company's.","parent":"4065625","id":"4065849"}
{"by":"bill007","time":"1306535981","timestamp":"2011-05-27 22:39:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There aren't any decent audio captchas out there anyway.","parent":"2590221","id":"2593316"}
{"by":"seanconaty","time":"1361950125","timestamp":"2013-02-27 07:28:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still with the learn to code meme? In addition to all the reasons that @codinghorror raises in \u003ca href=\"http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-t...\u003c/a\u003e, I have a one more to add.\u003cp\u003eThe altruism of it all stinks. The meme is being pushed by parties (non-profit or not) looking to gain from teaching people to program (after convincing them that they absolutely should). While it's true that learning to code is beneficial to some (I don't doubt that) no one talks about how these friendly, helpful, code tutors might be exaggerating the demand for reasons of their own. While you might be trying to help people out, you're also trying to push your startup or non-profit.\u003cp\u003eI like the idea of better aligning education with job demand; something I don't think higher education institutions are particularly concerned with. That's practical and I wish we did more of it. Similar to these learn-to-code websites, colleges could care less what you do with yourself after you've paid your tuition.\u003cp\u003eWhat I liked about the code.org celeb video were the recollections of first programs. Like a first kiss, you never forget your first program. No matter how simple it is, that feeling is awesome. And if you're made for it, you want to do more, you want to make it better. That's the spark that, if you have it, puts you on the unending journey to being and becoming a coder.","parent":"5289417","id":"5291141"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1443150992","timestamp":"2015-09-25 03:16:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Extensive discussion a month ago: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10082517\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10082517\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10276132","id":"10276196"}
{"by":"maerF0x0","time":"1466532891","timestamp":"2016-06-21 18:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Omega3 - Omega 6 ratio in fats (more omega 3 is better) may be  healthier. It seems that grass fed beef has better ratios \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mercola.com\u0026#x2F;beef\u0026#x2F;health_benefits.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mercola.com\u0026#x2F;beef\u0026#x2F;health_benefits.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m regularly surprised by how little the average person knows about the things that make\u0026#x2F;keep them healthy. If I really wanted a car to last I\u0026#x27;d be sure I knew all about the gasoline and oil I was putting into it.","parent":"11947862","id":"11948015"}
{"by":"harryh","time":"1411759052","timestamp":"2014-09-26 19:17:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the record, the US Constitution says absolutely nothing about a legal right to pursue happiness.","parent":"8374292","id":"8374357"}
{"by":"djloche","time":"1423191428","timestamp":"2015-02-06 02:57:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the thing to do might be to detect if the page was loaded with the annotation open, then fuzz background. Otherwise, you know what you\u0026#x27;re looking at and explicitly clicked the open annotation button.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s great that the site supports such deep linking.","parent":"9007135","id":"9007540"}
{"by":"epaga","time":"1430980888","timestamp":"2015-05-07 06:41:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not $300 a day. It\u0026#x27;s $300 on launch day. Sales always, always drop far below launch day unless you have other factors which keep the app in the news or on a \u0026quot;top 10\u0026quot; chart.\u003cp\u003eMy apps have usually dropped to maybe 10% of the launch peak.","parent":"9503415","id":"9503599"}
{"by":"nrclark","time":"1508303547","timestamp":"2017-10-18 05:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My work gave me one of the 2016 15\u0026quot; MBPs as my main computer, and the keyboard is horrible.\u003cp\u003eMy V key double-presses about half the time, and the rest of the keys are really hard to press down all the way. Some of the keys make a weird metal rattle when I press them.\u003cp\u003eTyping on that wretched keyboard for more than an hour or so literally bruises my fingers.\u003cp\u003eSince I do most of my day-to-day work at a dock with an external keyboard, I\u0026#x27;m debating whether it\u0026#x27;s bad enough that I need to fight with IT and be the one special snowflake with a PC instead. But it\u0026#x27;s bad enough that I\u0026#x27;m seriously considering it.\u003cp\u003eThe more I write about this keyboard, the angrier I get. \u0026gt;:(\u003cp\u003eAnd also seriously, fuck the touchbar. Who the hell decided that programmers don\u0026#x27;t need a functional ESC key or permanent function keys? And who the hell decided that I should have to fumble around and mash my already-bruised finger against a tiny glass icon to change my volume level? Just so Skype can show buttons that mimic the buttons already on the screen?\u003cp\u003eThe user experience of the touchbar is objectively worse and adds no value. Most apps don\u0026#x27;t even use it, and the ones that do don\u0026#x27;t use it for anything interesting. And before long I\u0026#x27;m sure it\u0026#x27;ll be playing advertisements at me.","parent":"15496745","id":"15497028"}
{"by":"danneu","time":"1454508759","timestamp":"2016-02-03 14:12:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The kind of bullshit you can find in the comments section on a post about acid.","parent":"11025625","id":"11026496"}
{"by":"sudofail","time":"1534112573","timestamp":"2018-08-12 22:22:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hadn\u0026#x27;t heard of Lambda school, but this looks like a great option. The fact that it\u0026#x27;s available online, and available after work hours is really appealing. Do you have experience with Lambda school?","parent":"17745674","id":"17746776"}
{"by":"dmix","time":"1476656983","timestamp":"2016-10-16 22:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Suggesting a faster, most likely more cost effective alternative to a notoriously overpriced state project = subversion? If that\u0026#x27;s the case then subversion is a good thing we should encourage because there\u0026#x27;s a serious lack of it happening these days.","parent":"12711675","id":"12721403"}
{"by":"ZeroGravitas","time":"1291374500","timestamp":"2010-12-03 11:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My wife just had the same experience and I likened it to me phoning a tech support line. Although it's frustrating they're not insulting your intelligence, they're probably just as sad as you are that they have to break it down to that level for most people.\u003cp\u003eAnd, as someone with minor experience on the other side of tech support, you can't really afford to believe someone when they say they know what they're doing, they're quite possibly lying. A great tip my colleague mentioned from his days on tech support: \"Never ask someone to check if it's plugged in. They'll just get offended, assume it's plugged in without checking and tell you it is. Instead tell them that dust gets into the plugs sometimes so take it out, blow on it and put it back in. When they're doing that they discover it wasn't plugged in, and replace it, usually without bothering to tell you why it magically starts working again. Must be that pesky dust!\"","parent":"1965365","id":"1965422"}
{"by":"oneJob","time":"1447975013","timestamp":"2015-11-19 23:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Patients want ban on doctors taking money from prescription drug companies\u0026quot;","parent":"10590087","id":"10598381"}
{"by":"eddieroger","time":"1530908020","timestamp":"2018-07-06 20:13:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve always just read this as people on Hacker News feel more compelled than I do to be productive all the time. I have a corporate gig, and need to be my most productive self during work hours (he said, while commenting on HN during work hours), so I\u0026#x27;m not as hard on myself outside of work. Maybe if I had a different mentality I could create the next Facebook or Uber or who knows what, but honestly I\u0026#x27;m pretty happy as is. Don\u0026#x27;t have shame, friend. You are who you are. Better yourself by being a well rounded, nice person, not by spending all your free time reading books or watching TED talks.","parent":"17473091","id":"17474744"}
{"by":"ensiferum","time":"1475793416","timestamp":"2016-10-06 22:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tell the people to STFU?","parent":"12655678","id":"12656718"}
{"by":"bsimpson","time":"1415170047","timestamp":"2014-11-05 06:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s great to see they\u0026#x27;re being updated.  They were embarrassing for the first 4 months, with obvious typos and duplicated content.","parent":"8556785","id":"8560774"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1217067314","timestamp":"2008-07-26 10:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn't be unhappy at all if Branson left the planet.  As long as he comes back again, on his spaceship:-)\u003cp\u003e(See: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_SpaceShipTwo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_SpaceShipTwo\u003c/a\u003e )","parent":"257360","id":"257488"}
{"by":"orky56","time":"1375468529","timestamp":"2013-08-02 18:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Based on some early customer development, I have found that people who want to be productive go on a spree of gathering too many productivity tools around them. As I mentioned earlier, some people feel productive just by getting a productivity tool. So even if a user has downloaded the app, they now have to migrate their existing items and start to fully incorporate this new tool into their life. It\u0026#x27;s much easier to purchase and download a tool than to actually dedicate their lives to it.\u003cp\u003eSo from that perspective, I would say retention and engagement are low since not many are willing to put the time and effort to do that tool justice.","parent":"6148339","id":"6148763"}
{"by":"Karunamon","time":"1466018068","timestamp":"2016-06-15 19:14:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another irrelevant 90s musician making bombastic comments about copyright, another day.","parent":"11911211","id":"11911357"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1247883354","timestamp":"2009-07-18 02:15:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what the results would be if the question were slightly tweaked to.. Have you ever smoked marijuana?","parent":"710994","id":"711242"}
{"by":"groby_b","time":"1297883091","timestamp":"2011-02-16 19:04:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Making a statement of fact (\"Apple is taking 100% of mobile SaaS revenue\") with no basis in reality is pretty much the \u003ci\u003edefinition\u003c/i\u003e of baseless. Unless and until Apple speaks on SaaS, this is a figment of the authors imagination. I'm not saying \"it can't happen\". I'm saying \"not true as of right now\"\u003cp\u003eI'm surprised \"making shit up\" qualifies as news on HN these days.","parent":"2226930","id":"2227747"}
{"by":"thaumasiotes","time":"1437810612","timestamp":"2015-07-25 07:50:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just speaking for myself, I frequently snack by dipping bread in Worcestershire sauce. And I\u0026#x27;d probably use mustard in sandwiches if I felt the need to use it up... but it\u0026#x27;s not like mustard (the standard yellow kind) is terribly expensive.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t have a problem chewing through a supply of bread, mustard, meat (pick your favorite), and cheese (ditto).","parent":"9946453","id":"9946917"}
{"by":"niels_olson","time":"1332395173","timestamp":"2012-03-22 05:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;XFCE is fantastic\u003cp\u003eI use a small pile of operating systems every day, including Ubuntu Studio, which is now on XFCE, as my garage \"juke box\". Your statement doesn't jive with my experience. Is there a great youtube video, list of metrics, or something that shows great XFCE usage habits or at least what they're measuring to claim success at?","parent":"3738266","id":"3738583"}
{"by":"trhway","time":"1446251680","timestamp":"2015-10-31 00:34:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"also weak AC (\u0026quot;energy efficient\u0026quot;) in a hot climate like CA, bad lighting like these latest fad transparent \u0026quot;blinds\u0026quot; which let direct sunlight (of midday CA Sun) hit your screen or eyes, people packed together into a claustrophobic stall (\u0026quot;team work area\u0026quot;) in an open floor office plan, open ceiling ventilation duct work (supposedly seeing those ducts is good for your creativity) which radiates that low-frequency pumping\u0026#x2F;humming noise that no earphones can protect from ... yea, there are a lot of ways to turn one into a corporate drone who doesn\u0026#x27;t need no cognitive score.","parent":"10480972","id":"10481345"}
{"by":"eximius","time":"1546881305","timestamp":"2019-01-07 17:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And you don\u0026#x27;t understand the \u003ci\u003epurpose\u003c/i\u003e of JWTs.\u003cp\u003eNo one needed to mention anything about stateless authentication because enabling stateless authentication is the purpose of JWTs [1].\u003cp\u003eYes, just store a signed cookie with a random token for the session and use stateful authentication. That fits most people\u0026#x27;s needs better than stateless. (Even signing is more or less optional in many common cases. If the cookie is only a sufficiently long random token for the session key, then I don\u0026#x27;t really care if a user changes it, they\u0026#x27;ll only log themselves out.)\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.zalando.com\u0026#x2F;tech\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;the-purpose-of-jwt-stateless-authentication\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.zalando.com\u0026#x2F;tech\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;the-purpose-of-jwt-statel...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18841334","id":"18847209"}
{"by":"mintplant","time":"1491843434","timestamp":"2017-04-10 16:57:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that answers lamby\u0026#x27;s question. Surely they know how many of their own employees will be flying ahead of time?","parent":"14080103","id":"14080236"}
{"by":"thesash","time":"1348259411","timestamp":"2012-09-21 20:30:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats my point though-- it seems like there are too many unknown unknowns here to make any sort of predictions. We're still several massive leaps removed from where we would need to be in order to really get started.","parent":"4555486","id":"4555580"}
{"by":"sambe","time":"1539419953","timestamp":"2018-10-13 08:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The rate has fallen a lot in some countries, so there are large differences (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;patient.info\u0026#x2F;doctor\u0026#x2F;episiotomy-and-tears\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;patient.info\u0026#x2F;doctor\u0026#x2F;episiotomy-and-tears\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eThe main reason it has fallen is that there’s little difference in short or long term consequences, and non-selective use of it is associated with higher incidence of severe trauma.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cochranelibrary.com\u0026#x2F;content?templateType=full\u0026amp;urlTitle=\u0026#x2F;cdsr\u0026#x2F;doi\u0026#x2F;10.1002\u0026#x2F;14651858.CD000081.pub3\u0026amp;doi=10.1002\u0026#x2F;14651858.CD000081.pub3\u0026amp;type=cdsr\u0026amp;contentLanguage=\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cochranelibrary.com\u0026#x2F;content?templateType=full\u0026amp;ur...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18206859","id":"18207051"}
{"by":"f4rker","time":"1489506287","timestamp":"2017-03-14 15:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many highly educated are not liberal. Liberals feel free to speak out, it\u0026#x27;s safe. Not true for non liberals.","parent":"13868020","id":"13868445"}
{"by":"RogerL","time":"1399311248","timestamp":"2014-05-05 17:34:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the basis of the SLAM algorithms (SLAM = simultaneous localization and mapping). As you say, if we all had these cars, we\u0026#x27;d quickly know about changes. Of course, the hard problem is finding the new lights, but if this was to become mainstream I think a lot of things would change. For example, if a town decides to install a red light, they don\u0026#x27;t just install one, they register it in a national database.","parent":"7699145","id":"7699880"}
{"by":"dazc","time":"1489138635","timestamp":"2017-03-10 09:37:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is technically available but it isn\u0026#x27;t universally free and most people who have a choice elect for private treatment anyway. NHS dentistry in the UK has a very bad reputation, mostly deserved.","parent":"13837367","id":"13837434"}
{"by":"xfer","time":"1508819964","timestamp":"2017-10-24 04:39:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you think google storage systems work like your normal filesystem?","parent":"15534007","id":"15539253"}
{"by":"sarciszewski","time":"1417814219","timestamp":"2014-12-05 21:16:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a question, though I don\u0026#x27;t know if it\u0026#x27;s relevant.\u003cp\u003eDo you suppose that there\u0026#x27;s a psychological effect here; where employees compare \u003ci\u003etheir\u003c/i\u003e hourly rate to \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c/i\u003e hourly rate? And it\u0026#x27;s less intuitive to compare a daily rate to an hourly rate?\u003cp\u003eApologies if I\u0026#x27;m off the mark.","parent":"8706929","id":"8706949"}
{"by":"harel","time":"1437485153","timestamp":"2015-07-21 13:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hear hear. There was a big discussion in a London radio station a week or so ago about that, since David Cameron wants to fight for equal pay across genders and have companies over 250 or so people publicise the pay gap across genders. Which by itself sounds a laudable thing but really unrealistic for many trades, and in particular software development. The demand is high, supply is low, and you can have people with less experience than yourself making more because they negotiated better. That has nothing to do with genders as you say - its all down to negotiation skills.","parent":"9921750","id":"9922047"}
{"by":"realitygrill","time":"1287974886","timestamp":"2010-10-25 02:48:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I picked up Self-Theories after reading the excellent Mindset (which dealt with fixed vs growth mindsets). For an HNer, I would suggest you borrow Mindset but buy Self-Theories.","parent":"1822938","id":"1828249"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1320181900","timestamp":"2011-11-01 21:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I generally don't trust external documentation, but I do trust in-line comments.","parent":"3184049","id":"3184163"}
{"by":"JadeNB","time":"1415300959","timestamp":"2014-11-06 19:09:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026gt; The selling point behind these devices is convenience, but at the cost of security. I don\u0026#x27;t think I need to explain to HN why an always-on, internet connected voice recording device is something to keep out of your house.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Do you have any computers in your house? A TV made in the last few years? A smartphone?\u003cp\u003eNeither the first nor the last of those is \u003ci\u003enecessarily\u003c/i\u003e always on or Internet connected.  (For example, I have both of them, and, with brief exceptions, neither is Internet connected while in my house.)","parent":"8568282","id":"8569023"}
{"by":"extra88","time":"1447090365","timestamp":"2015-11-09 17:32:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They don\u0026#x27;t have to but an employer is probably going to want to know. They can\u0026#x27;t ask about your health and you don\u0026#x27;t have to tell them but there are a number of vague ways to describe it. I\u0026#x27;d probably go with something like \u0026quot;I was taking care of family health issues.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve not seen anyone address an employment gap in their cover letter but I could see someone doing so. If your resume has a notable gap and another resume is similar but doesn\u0026#x27;t, you\u0026#x27;re less likely to get an interview. With that in mind, you might explain the gap in a cover letter, especially if it can be described as a positive or you can put a positive spin on it (I\u0026#x27;m not just talking about gaps for health reasons).","parent":"10534107","id":"10534406"}
{"by":"kps","time":"1481383643","timestamp":"2016-12-10 15:27:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m still angry at Logitech for deliberate anti-support of my Spaceball 5000. The driver handles it fine, but has to be manually tricked into tolerating ‘obsolete’ models.","parent":"13145839","id":"13146035"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1253274218","timestamp":"2009-09-18 11:43:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, at the bottom I ask HNers to please vote for us in the competition.\u003cp\u003eI think where I fail to follow you is where you suggest that somehow that's rigging the vote. How does publicly asking people to vote for you rig a public vote? Where do you think all the other votes are coming from?","parent":"830054","id":"830057"}
{"by":"billylindeman","time":"1538013660","timestamp":"2018-09-27 02:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. Not everything needs a \u0026quot;fresh\u0026quot; look.  The new reddit design is terrible and once they make that permanent I\u0026#x27;ll probably just stop using it as much.","parent":"18081586","id":"18081656"}
{"by":"andreyf","time":"1259980173","timestamp":"2009-12-05 02:29:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who has (had?) this opinion, I think this is a straw-man: my sentiment is that \"python syntax is good enough to take a 3 year break from evolution\" seems too confident.","parent":"977403","id":"977638"}
{"by":"millzlane","time":"1538166051","timestamp":"2018-09-28 20:20:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know for sure that you can view all of the pictures sent in a conversation if you have never \u0026quot;ended\u0026quot; the conversation. All I can think about is all of my partners who have sent x rated photos using messenger. It could very well be the next \u0026quot;fappening\u0026quot; and tied to real identities.","parent":"18095790","id":"18096715"}
{"by":"flashgordon","time":"1228911165","timestamp":"2008-12-10 12:12:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ah so technically its not a tool (i mean software wise) related issue... again dont want to start any flameworks...  if you are interested in a unix-y environment you might as well go to the source and use linux (i use fedora but more hard core users may recommend debian or free bsd, both of which are exceptional)... point is if you dont mind the non-cool look might as well have your dev box be as much of a clone of your prod environment, like a couple of others who mentioned that..\u003cp\u003eas i was saying if you bring in iphone or mac dev into the scene then you dont have much of a choice unless you want to play around with installing osx on a PC and all that headache (which i do plan to do myself in order to avoid forking out a fortune on a mac)\u003cp\u003eyeah productivity is very subjective so cant comment on that... for example in linux i love it that when i do an alt-tab the window currently in the alt-tab \"round\" gets a highlight so it is quick and easy to spot. i tried quite a few task-switching plugins in windows and have still not stumbled on this feature...  silly isnt it?  amazing what little things can can do to productivity...","parent":"392314","id":"392795"}
{"by":"barrkel","time":"1274666257","timestamp":"2010-05-24 01:57:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems rather unusable with a Dvorak keyboard, unfortunately.","parent":"1373028","id":"1373575"}
{"by":"walterbell","time":"1520207727","timestamp":"2018-03-04 23:55:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, it looks like a VPN is needed to purchase from the US.","parent":"16517591","id":"16517606"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1335462978","timestamp":"2012-04-26 17:56:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When they get to z the next standard is aa, then ab, ac, ad, etc. IEEE has never cared about human-readable names, so why start now.","parent":"3895105","id":"3895254"}
{"by":"AmericanOP","time":"1271434809","timestamp":"2010-04-16 16:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To discourage misinformation, here's a copied and pasted summary for those who aren't going to read the whole thing:\u003cp\u003eAccording to the SEC's complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the marketing materials for the CDO known as ABACUS 2007-AC1 (ABACUS) all represented that the RMBS portfolio underlying the CDO was selected by ACA Management LLC (ACA), a third party with expertise in analyzing credit risk in RMBS. The SEC alleges that undisclosed in the marketing materials and unbeknownst to investors, the Paulson \u0026#38; Co. hedge fund, which was poised to benefit if the RMBS defaulted, played a significant role in selecting which RMBS should make up the portfolio.\u003cp\u003eThe SEC's complaint alleges that after participating in the portfolio selection, Paulson \u0026#38; Co. effectively shorted the RMBS portfolio it helped select by entering into credit default swaps (CDS) with Goldman Sachs to buy protection on specific layers of the ABACUS capital structure. Given that financial short interest, Paulson \u0026#38; Co. had an economic incentive to select RMBS that it expected to experience credit events in the near future. Goldman Sachs did not disclose Paulson \u0026#38; Co.'s short position or its role in the collateral selection process in the term sheet, flip book, offering memorandum, or other marketing materials provided to investors.","parent":"1270775","id":"1271009"}
{"by":"tlarkworthy","time":"1363206338","timestamp":"2013-03-13 20:25:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They should be using min-cut max-flow graph algorithms rather than dist based metrics.","parent":"5370033","id":"5370905"}
{"by":"jatins","time":"1477326610","timestamp":"2016-10-24 16:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is gold!","parent":"12780059","id":"12780319"}
{"by":"SomeHacker44","time":"1494264015","timestamp":"2017-05-08 17:20:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I came here to post essentially the same thing. Glad someone else brought it up.\u003cp\u003eDefinitely add some pictures of Genera to the slideshow, including Zmacs and Document Examiner.","parent":"14291180","id":"14293606"}
{"by":"okamiueru","time":"1336047862","timestamp":"2012-05-03 12:24:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did anyone take a screenshot of it?","parent":"3923276","id":"3923502"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1421262667","timestamp":"2015-01-14 19:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that this is browser fingerprinting, not necessarily the user of the browser. Useful to detect spoofed User-Agent strings, not sure to what end though.","parent":"8887947","id":"8888310"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1500151262","timestamp":"2017-07-15 20:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thing is we\u0026#x27;re not going to get people in China or Europe (largest pops) back to agricultural societies of the 1920\u0026#x27;s.  That\u0026#x27;s not gonna happen.  And we\u0026#x27;re not about to tell people in rural India and rural Africa, sorry, you\u0026#x27;re too late.  You can\u0026#x27;t aspire to live like us or your rich city dwellers.\u003cp\u003eSo since we would like to have everyone live a \u0026quot;comfortable\u0026quot; life, we\u0026#x27;ll need to slow the growth so that we have enough to pass around.\u003cp\u003eXiao-ping Deng knew the path to growth included slowing pop growth.  See China dev vs Indian dev and growth.  Costa Rica vs Guatemala, etc.","parent":"14778786","id":"14778811"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1283398310","timestamp":"2010-09-02 03:31:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course if you did distill your water, you'd just be killing the shrimp and then \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e eating them. A correctly-designed filter is what you'd want.\u003cp\u003eIt's an interesting question, actually: how many animals do you kill every day if you're trying not to? Let's limit it to multicellular animals, but with the shrimp in your drinking water plus the insects you breathe in, and everything you step on, and whatever might be lurking in your (non-meat) food, I'd say the typical vegan has killed a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of animals today.","parent":"1654748","id":"1655187"}
{"by":"brentm","time":"1355324041","timestamp":"2012-12-12 14:54:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you should take another look at your package overview images. The package for $79 and the package for $199 look about the same from a glance. I see that the packages lists different contents below but I think it should be more obvious from the large images. Nice work though, seems nicely done.","parent":"4909784","id":"4910294"}
{"by":"tdeck","time":"1453616078","timestamp":"2016-01-24 06:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In case anyone is curious, the code for this is on github: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tdeck\u0026#x2F;varmail\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tdeck\u0026#x2F;varmail\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10961568","id":"10961685"}
{"by":"badosu","time":"1511370548","timestamp":"2017-11-22 17:09:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The earlier quoted story lacks these nuances. Sure, you might still find it rude but for me it made a big difference that they weren\u0026#x27;t just invading French aerospace for no valid reason.\u003cp\u003eMakes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing!","parent":"15757212","id":"15758405"}
{"by":"mhartl","time":"1254543422","timestamp":"2009-10-03 04:17:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with the article that feedback loops are part of the problem. The real question is, why are there so many positive feedback loops? I'm afraid the answer is so pervasive that people don't even notice it: \u003ci\u003ethe entire financial system is unstable.\u003c/i\u003e But we've been running this financial system for so long that we take it for granted. As Mencius Moldbug put it [1]:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur financial system is not a new operating system. It is a very old operating system. Worse, there is only one of them: the whole world runs the Anglo-American banking system, more or less as described by Walter Bagehot in Lombard Street (1873). Lombard Street is our Windows. There is no Mac. There is no Linux. Our experts in finance are not experts in finance. They are experts in Lombard Street finance. Asking them to imagine an alternative is like asking a Windows programmer to imagine OS X - except that Windows isn't 314 years old.\n.\n.\n.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, if you're running Windows and you suspect that you might want to \"switch,\" a Windows expert is the last expert you want to ask. What needs to happen now, I feel, is that a very large number of very smart people who know nothing about finance need to do what I did, and try to figure the issue out from scratch. Hopefully they will not get the same results.\u003cp\u003eBecause my results are... disturbing. If you suspect that they might be right, please try thinking through the problem for yourself. Let's go straight to the disturbing results, and then we'll try to justify them.\u003cp\u003e1. We do not have a free-market financial system.\u003cp\u003e2. We have never had a free-market financial system.\u003cp\u003e3. Leaving the financial system to \"work things out on its own\" will not produce a free-market financial system. It will produce a smoking heap of rubble.\u003cp\u003e4. Paulson's bailout is, if anything, far too weak. Our financial system is part of the government. The proper first step is to stop lying about this. This means nationalizing the banks. This is not an expansion of government, but a recognition of its actual size. It is not an expenditure, but a revision of accounting to reflect reality.\u003cp\u003e5. A free-market financial system would be way cool. More important, it would be extremely stable. But the only way to create one is to build it right from the start. If you have a car and you want a motorcycle, sell your car and buy a motorcycle. Don't decide to call your car a \"four-wheeled motorcycle,\" and don't think unscrewing two of the wheels will solve the problem.\u003cp\u003e6. Therefore, the government should close down the financial system we have now and replace it with one that doesn't suck. What is the probability that this will happen? Zero. But at least you know.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/09/maturity-transformation-considered.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/09/maturit...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"857362","id":"858503"}
{"by":"Double_Cast","time":"1466884456","timestamp":"2016-06-25 19:54:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One problem with this is that\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  x^y \u0026#x2F; x^y \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nis restricted to the domain {x | x != 0}. Because e.g. when x = 0 and y = 1, the expression then contains a zero in the denominator. Division by zero is \u0026quot;every number, and therefore no single number\u0026quot; because we can use algebra to \u0026quot;prove\u0026quot; that x \u0026#x2F; 0 equals \u0026quot;anything we want\u0026quot;, almost like the how the principle of explosion works.\u003cp\u003eIf you wanted to prove that 0^0 really does equal 1, you would have to prove that the output of the reduction is unique.","parent":"11977430","id":"11977715"}
{"by":"dakimov","time":"1362433204","timestamp":"2013-03-04 21:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In TypeScript it works out-of-the-box, plus TypeScript compiles to idiomatic JavaScript and what you write is much closer to what you get, and the transition is much easier understandable.","parent":"5320189","id":"5321171"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1425133838","timestamp":"2015-02-28 14:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a start, all unrelated to MegaUpload etc.: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigations\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigat...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9123655","id":"9123733"}
{"by":"wruza","time":"1529309294","timestamp":"2018-06-18 08:08:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you care to remember, please, why was it bad? Did modern hardware\u0026#x2F;software solve it or prove it okay?","parent":"17334098","id":"17336610"}
{"by":"kalid","time":"1252783657","timestamp":"2009-09-12 19:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's really awesome. I'm a huge proponent of finding the real, actual insights and lessons behind a subject (plug: I blog at betterexplained.com).\u003cp\u003eThe dirty little secret of education is that it's \"ok\" to cram and forget. Most classes reward that; education is about \"being able to do something once\" vs. actually remembering and applying it.\u003cp\u003eI hope you write more about your findings!","parent":"818367","id":"819301"}
{"by":"tiggybear","time":"1507629318","timestamp":"2017-10-10 09:55:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t forget about the entitlements of the business owners. Many, many, many believe they are entitled to highly skilled and highly educated workers without paying them enough to afford the shittiest house\u0026#x2F;condo within an unreasonable commute to the office.\u003cp\u003eSo at some point it isn\u0026#x27;t the workers that are being unreasonable. And I\u0026#x27;m really curious what you think that point is? What defines who is being unreasonable among the business owner or worker? Or is that just dictated by which socioeconomic class you fall into?","parent":"15440543","id":"15440590"}
{"by":"Jazgot","time":"1536212985","timestamp":"2018-09-06 05:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, Google implementation of AMP is major reason why I mostly stopped using Google search. They seems to be blind or just don\u0026#x27;t care any more.","parent":"17920720","id":"17924147"}
{"by":"jahewson","time":"1409847021","timestamp":"2014-09-04 16:10:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003ethis role\u0026#x27;s primary job should be to rangle in the technology contractors\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eRangle: small stones which are fed to hawks to aid in digestion.\u003cp\u003eWrangle: to herd horses or other livestock.","parent":"8268951","id":"8269061"}
{"by":"secret_target","time":"1322954278","timestamp":"2011-12-03 23:17:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great to hear I had that right, Thanks, aaron.\u003cp\u003eFYI: The AdRoll folks are indeed great.  We've interviewed a handful of their customers as well as customers from many other retargeting platforms and have heard great things.\u003cp\u003eWe see retargeting as a huge space with plenty of room for several players.","parent":"3305367","id":"3309206"}
{"by":"dominotw","time":"1459907853","timestamp":"2016-04-06 01:57:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you talking about paid sabbaticals or unpaid.\u003cp\u003eMy company allows unpaid sabbaticals.","parent":"11435606","id":"11436052"}
{"by":"maxwelljoslyn","time":"1460861574","timestamp":"2016-04-17 02:52:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Digital Antiquarian (name of the site hosted at filfre.net) is always an excellent read. I highly recommend starting from the beginning, as our host takes us through a very well-researched history of computer and adventure gaming.\u003cp\u003eYou can download the website\u0026#x27;s content in e-book form, which makes sense given its essay-like format. The link to do so is here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.filfre.net\u0026#x2F;the-digital-antiquarian-e-book-library\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.filfre.net\u0026#x2F;the-digital-antiquarian-e-book-library...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11512058","id":"11513291"}
{"by":"rhblake","time":"1545607329","timestamp":"2018-12-23 23:22:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some congress-goers see tons of talks, some see none. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t stress too much about it; do what you feel like, but be sure not to miss out on the non-talk-stuff, because that\u0026#x27;s an equally big part. For me the \u0026quot;best stuff\u0026quot; is meeting people, and an easy way to do that is to check out the assemblies\u0026#x2F;projects going on. For more about that see the wiki, which is the main source of info (apart from the Fahrplan) and is always being updated: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;events.ccc.de\u0026#x2F;congress\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Main_Page\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;events.ccc.de\u0026#x2F;congress\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Main_Page\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e#35c3 on hackint.org is the main IRC channel. Easy way to get answers. @c3infodesk on Twitter is worth following.\u003cp\u003eThis year your wristband is also a public transport ticket valid in the city of Leipzig (zone 110). At night a special tram runs between Congress and the central station (Hauptbahnhof), so no need to worry about getting back.\u003cp\u003eThe alcohol on offer inside is not very exciting, if you care about that. There is however a big supermarket (or hypermarket, rather) nearby, Globus, along with some restaurants\u0026#x2F;fast food places. No problem bringing in drinks\u0026#x2F;food from elsewhere to Congress. No security check whatsoever (pointing it out because while this is \u0026quot;obvious\u0026quot; to CCC people it might not be obvious to everyone).\u003cp\u003eThe venue is \u003ci\u003ebig\u003c/i\u003e: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;35c3.c3nav.de\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;35c3.c3nav.de\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e is helpful for navigation.\u003cp\u003eEvery year, no matter what I do, I feel I missed out on lots of things and that it ended too quickly. Just explore and enjoy!","parent":"18748671","id":"18749091"}
{"by":"nkassis","time":"1504801008","timestamp":"2017-09-07 16:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we are looking at Canada, Montreal could be attractive. Lower labor cost, large amount of schools churning out tech talent (including strong AI programs). Eastern timezone. Still reasonable housing prices.\u003cp\u003eObviously there are down sides, perpetual construction,  governmental corruption, and Airport kinda sucks but it\u0026#x27;s still not too hard to access. Visa situation for US workers isn\u0026#x27;t too bad under NAFTA most of their (US and Canadian citizen) employees could transit between the two at will with a simple VISA\u003cp\u003eThey would probably get the incentives they want if they did move there too from the provincial and federal level.","parent":"15191375","id":"15193187"}
{"by":"jryan49","time":"1529441083","timestamp":"2018-06-19 20:44:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The entire economy\u0026#x27;s goal is growth, seems pretty catch all.","parent":"17348325","id":"17350170"}
{"by":"bbradley406","time":"1399298172","timestamp":"2014-05-05 13:56:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recall reading here that on Android, an app won\u0026#x27;t automatically update if the newer version needs additional permissions, so most devs ask for all they could possibly need up front. \nIdeally, Google will bring back App Ops (with dummy data so that apps don\u0026#x27;t crash), and allow explanations in permission requests.\nCurrently, iOs has per-app permission settings, and apps don\u0026#x27;t crash when you deny them access. This doesn\u0026#x27;t solve the problem of users just clicking \u0026quot;allow\u0026quot; blindly, but it does provide more fine-grained control.","parent":"7698254","id":"7698555"}
{"by":"nmeofthestate","time":"1422876753","timestamp":"2015-02-02 11:32:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When introducing kids to programming in a classroom environment, hacking the Linux kernel is a completely OTT scenario. And Linux will still be available and probably the most popular OS to be installed on RPis, for those kids who are the next Linus Torvalds.","parent":"8983679","id":"8983692"}
{"by":"hussa","time":"1335327278","timestamp":"2012-04-25 04:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That seems like a pretty solid response from someone who uses the native core mostly; thanks for that.\u003cp\u003eI understand that we certainly can pull it off with the native core (ObjC/cTouch) but always wondered if all those \"insanely great looking\" apps took the pain of skinning all the controls, coming up with their own look and feel of everything the core provides and extending them, or is there a framework (library or something) that makes it easy to pull these off with a fairly decent effort?...that was my question.","parent":"3885418","id":"3887655"}
{"by":"sktrdie","time":"1449782176","timestamp":"2015-12-10 21:16:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What tech did you use for developing the interface? Any framework, library, architecture (thinking React\u0026#x2F;Flux\u0026#x2F;Angular) or was it done by scratch?","parent":"10711737","id":"10713527"}
{"by":"Raphmedia","time":"1510931274","timestamp":"2017-11-17 15:07:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s not clear to me that OP has consulted a lawyer about this\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I of course still needed to have\na lawyer review the terms, even if they were DJI’s final offer. In the days following\nno less than 4 lawyers told me in various ways that the agreement was not only\nextremely risky, but was likely crafted in bad faith to silence anyone that signed it.\u0026quot; Page 17","parent":"15722112","id":"15722498"}
{"by":"pmorici","time":"1426835884","timestamp":"2015-03-20 07:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I agree with the approach\u0026#x27;s effectiveness the risk of doing that in government is high because breaking an official policy can be construed into violating a federal law which could land you in jail.  Something as simple as installing software on a government computer w\u0026#x2F;o permission.  At some point you have to ask yourself why taking such a risk is rational.","parent":"9236416","id":"9236533"}
{"by":"Bizarro","time":"1518918770","timestamp":"2018-02-18 01:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve bought courses on Udemy, and they have some quality content.  But they\u0026#x27;ve always seemed kind of shady with the whole \u0026quot;$200, now $10.99 with 2 days left\u0026quot;.  If you buy something, make sure you buy it in incognito mode, ublock, etc, so they don\u0026#x27;t jerk you around.\u003cp\u003eBut I\u0026#x27;m going to have to rethink my patronage of Udemy after this stuff.","parent":"16403486","id":"16403963"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1284649020","timestamp":"2010-09-16 14:57:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003epeople will be confused and immediately form a negative opinion of the service.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrust me, if they understood it was supposed to be the privacy-aware Facebook alternative and started using it, they would have a \u003ci\u003emuch more negative\u003c/i\u003e impression within, oh, I give it less than 48 hours.","parent":"1697754","id":"1698004"}
{"by":"aswanson","time":"1435630663","timestamp":"2015-06-30 02:17:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe you should approach the revelation and \u0026quot;breaking through\u0026quot; by a philosophical rather than logical approach..if we are a simulation the logic we work with is artificial and arbitrary anyway.  So in the story, get to the \u0026quot;real reality\u0026quot;...by taking the ideal of what reality should be and comparing it to what is observed to be and somehow \u0026quot;crack\u0026quot; into ultimate reality by doing so.","parent":"9802403","id":"9802483"}
{"by":"zhemao","time":"1376612789","timestamp":"2013-08-16 00:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although the article as a whole makes very good suggestions about keeping your skills fresh, I think his standards for the candidates he interviewed are impossibly high. Expecting an understanding of what the kernel does when malloc is called is probably fair (actually I think this is a trick question, as I believe the kernel doesn\u0026#x27;t actually page in any memory until it is accessed for the first time). But I don\u0026#x27;t think anyone without superhuman coding chops would be able to implement an LRU cache framework in one hour using a C library they have no experience with.","parent":"6221117","id":"6221476"}
{"by":"mindslight","time":"1531341874","timestamp":"2018-07-11 20:44:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah. I had thought that given the topic, I was at a campsite and not a gas station.","parent":"17509719","id":"17510133"}
{"by":"mrtron","time":"1200165396","timestamp":"2008-01-12 19:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have ffbb22 going on, but I think my color selections are questionable.  Can anyone confirm this? :)","parent":"97573","id":"97589"}
{"by":"landryraccoon","time":"1539807873","timestamp":"2018-10-17 20:24:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; . In some cases, suburbs raise much more capital in taxes per person, are often required by the state to give some back for redistribution (e.g. education), attract business much more these days than city centers, provide much needed infrastructure for city-based businesses to house their employees, and provide many services that are leveraged by urbanites unable to attain similar quality locally (e.g. hospitalization).\u003cp\u003eCan you find a citation for this claim? Strong Towns did a blog about this and found that downtown areas produce far more tax revenue per acre than suburbs. Source : \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.strongtowns.org\u0026#x2F;journal\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;7\u0026#x2F;growing-lasting-wealth-in-cobb-county?rq=value%20per%20acre\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.strongtowns.org\u0026#x2F;journal\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;7\u0026#x2F;growing-lasting...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother effect given is that suburbs and rural areas require far more investment in infrastructure per capita. In short, rural areas and suburbs require way more roads than downtown, and fewer people live there per mile of road to boot. So fewer people are paying taxes to support even more roads.\u003cp\u003eI would be very curious to see a study that showed the opposite effect, and how it could be possible.","parent":"18243082","id":"18243421"}
{"by":"ahknight","time":"1414904693","timestamp":"2014-11-02 05:04:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having worked at an ad agency and startups, if you can find an interesting startup you\u0026#x27;re going to be in a much easier place when it comes to motivation.  It may not solve everything, but it\u0026#x27;ll make things easier.","parent":"8545279","id":"8545688"}
{"by":"BasDirks","time":"1433455161","timestamp":"2015-06-04 21:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Set theory and everything are intertwined.","parent":"9662283","id":"9662416"}
{"by":"johnsalzarulo","time":"1446067316","timestamp":"2015-10-28 21:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hustle is one thing to call it I guess. ha ha.","parent":"10467334","id":"10467526"}
{"by":"iainmerrick","time":"1535978420","timestamp":"2018-09-03 12:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What technology do we need that we’re currently lacking? We already have fiber broadband and decent VR.\u003cp\u003eIf it’s just a case of the future being unevenly distributed, where in the world is an example of the distributed future? It’s certainly not the Bay Area, for a start.","parent":"17901982","id":"17902251"}
{"by":"pilsetnieks","time":"1508882349","timestamp":"2017-10-24 21:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; One command to generate new cert, another command to reload my Nginx.\u003cp\u003eMaybe this is what you meant but you can do it in a single command. For example:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    certbot renew --post-hook \u0026quot;service nginx reload\u0026quot;\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"15545518","id":"15545582"}
{"by":"thinkcomp","time":"1392282867","timestamp":"2014-02-13 09:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They help set national policy for regulation of virtual currency, which is pretty important. They\u0026#x27;ve testified before Congress twice and have had a number of closed-door meetings with federal agencies.","parent":"7230310","id":"7230328"}
{"by":"NumberSix","time":"1502325120","timestamp":"2017-08-10 00:32:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google and many other tech companies and the investors that ultimately control them fear losing control of their business, in this case an extremely lucrative near-monopoly, to their employees, especially the technical employees.  Thus they prefer young, relatively ignorant, naive, hard-working, compliant, inevitably more error-prone employees to more experienced employees, despite the apparent cost.  It is a matter of political and economic control.\u003cp\u003eThus they have an unwritten rule to minimize the use of employees with more than ten years of hands-on technical experience.  They will employ more experienced employees if they absolutely must, but otherwise they avoid it.  Hence, there are some but very few technical employees with more than ten years of experience.  The numbers trail off with increasing experience and age.  There are also exceptions for more experienced employees from usually wealthy families affiliated with the investors.\u003cp\u003eIt is an irrational and hidden class system.  It is costly.  It is not fair.  It almost certainly makes it very difficult to make technical advances and breakthroughs that require more experience, the wisdom of age, etc.","parent":"14974447","id":"14975169"}
{"by":"scarlac","time":"1505246256","timestamp":"2017-09-12 19:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fellow Scandinavian here. Apple has talked a lot about privacy and security in last couple of years, both on stage and off stage. I\u0026#x27;d even go as far ans say it\u0026#x27;s probably one of the topics they\u0026#x27;ve been most vocal about off-stage.\u003cp\u003eWhat\u0026#x27;s your specific privacy concern in relation to the presentation given?","parent":"15231541","id":"15231717"}
{"by":"pluma","time":"1426691653","timestamp":"2015-03-18 15:14:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Calling Uber drivers \u0026quot;employed\u0026quot; is no different from calling temp agency workers \u0026quot;employed\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a solution to unemployment, it\u0026#x27;s an exploitation of people unable to find a job in societies where not having a job means living in poverty.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re not entrepreneurs either. They\u0026#x27;re workers who have the liberty of employees with the legal requirements of entrepreneurs. It\u0026#x27;s the worst of both worlds.","parent":"9225604","id":"9226040"}
{"by":"gambiting","time":"1367688904","timestamp":"2013-05-04 17:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the very same paragraph he talks about the government stealing money from you in form of taxes, so I guess he would rather not pay any taxes at all and just choose who protects him himself, getting rid of the state-run police force. I can't even begin to describe how many things are wrong with that approach.","parent":"5655586","id":"5655593"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1460266021","timestamp":"2016-04-10 05:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found a middle ground in engine geometry \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mechanicaldesign.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org\u0026#x2F;article.aspx?articleid=1832492\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mechanicaldesign.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org\u0026#x2F;artic...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11464321","id":"11465033"}
{"by":"manigandham","time":"1541086500","timestamp":"2018-11-01 15:35:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As stated, how you encode state is different from how you transfer state. It\u0026#x27;s not an engineering argument if you don\u0026#x27;t understand the fundamentals.\u003cp\u003eJWTs are a encoding format. You can just put a single random unique identifier in there if you want. And you can use cookies to transfer JWTs automatically instead of using the Authorization header. Either can be checked on every request by the server for further validation.\u003cp\u003eThe limitations you wrote are completely arbitrary.","parent":"18354888","id":"18354921"}
{"by":"manaskarekar","time":"1523742594","timestamp":"2018-04-14 21:49:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, I missed it. Deleting.\u003cp\u003eEdit: missed the window. Sorry about that.","parent":"16839708","id":"16839730"}
{"by":"SubiculumCode","time":"1509938769","timestamp":"2017-11-06 03:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the powerpoint hate, but seriously when you are presenting data plots you dont want to draw it. You want to show the data. Another benefit of slides are that researchers post them on the internets, with presenter notes. These are often very informative.","parent":"15632258","id":"15633273"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1545148805","timestamp":"2018-12-18 16:00:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you say that?\u003cp\u003eConsider Freenet, Tor, I2P, etc.","parent":"18707088","id":"18707492"}
{"by":"ObnoxiousJul","time":"1360757843","timestamp":"2013-02-13 12:17:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So basically he rediscovered poorly Bauhaus works about design and some 400 years old knowledge about typography, and he missed the last 10 years in computer industry (when screen size changed from 640x480 to 1920x1080 and industry adapted).\nHe missed the palo alto parc works (let's say the creator of all modern computer interface) stating scientifically (biomechanic stuff) touch screens based interface will never ever works. \nAnd of course his slides contradicts what he says (blue letters on blue background vs the advice of high contrast).\u003cp\u003eI love this guy, so bold that people may believe him.\u003cp\u003eBTW, doesn't it strikes you that his domain name is «prophets.be» his quotes uses a lot of words like mantra, and theologic crap, and that a theologic website is an example?\u003cp\u003eDoesn't the word illuminated come to mind?\u003cp\u003eThe cool stuff about religious people is that they can make you believe impossible stuff are possible. It is almost has fun eating shrooms.","parent":"5211430","dead":true,"id":"5212676"}
{"by":"37prime","time":"1370904502","timestamp":"2013-06-10 22:48:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Siri while driving, replying to messages in particular.","parent":"5856969","id":"5858033"}
{"by":"michaelrkn","time":"1363825528","timestamp":"2013-03-21 00:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congrats, Michael!","parent":"5411230","id":"5411808"}
{"by":"kirk21","time":"1368796950","timestamp":"2013-05-17 13:22:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are bringing a tribute to Bohr as well: \u003ca href=\"http://bohr.launchrock.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bohr.launchrock.com\u003c/a\u003e Most awesome scientist ever. He had a big impact on how science works nowadays (see Solvay conference: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"5723452","id":"5724124"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1383057396","timestamp":"2013-10-29 14:36:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Care to elaborate on what possibly more could have been done in any of the cited examples that wasn\u0026#x27;t already done?\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t always get your way, you know?  You win some, you lose some.  That doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that ... there\u0026#x27;s no democracy and nothing is possible and woe is us, etc... etc... blah blah blah.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; why you feel money should be involved in preserving the right of any sentient being not to be tortured, invaded or denied the right to protest when the former happens.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re not talking about an ideal world (duh), but about the one we inhabit.  In this one, sometimes justice is difficult to obtain, and requires sacrifice.\u003cp\u003eSo you can either get off your ass and do something, or you can sit around complaining on HN.  The former sometimes won\u0026#x27;t work, or won\u0026#x27;t accomplish what you had hoped to.  The latter is guaranteed to accomplish nothing.","parent":"6634377","id":"6634397"}
{"by":"awt","time":"1489420552","timestamp":"2017-03-13 15:55:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if this is true in China and Japan as well.","parent":"13858597","id":"13858902"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1494964910","timestamp":"2017-05-16 20:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I edited the headline to focus on the laptop ban part rather than partisan politics. I\u0026#x27;d rather leave the political scandal to the pundits and focus on the security theater part of the story, if we can.","parent":"14352775","id":"14352788"}
{"by":"austenallred","time":"1498076773","timestamp":"2017-06-21 20:26:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe only shamelessly plug once per thread :)","parent":"14607550","id":"14607585"}
{"by":"ehamberg","time":"1385815919","timestamp":"2013-11-30 12:51:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, not \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e easy. A quarter of 105 is 26.25.","parent":"6822969","id":"6822999"}
{"by":"Silhouette","time":"1502349408","timestamp":"2017-08-10 07:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ebrowser.backspace_action = 2\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you, that\u0026#x27;s very useful!\u003cp\u003eMy earlier mistake was clicking to focus on my Firefox window but not quite on the form text area I was aiming for, and then trying to delete the last word I had typed. Your tip would have saved me on that occasion.","parent":"14975449","id":"14977195"}
{"by":"JadeNB","time":"1308240863","timestamp":"2011-06-16 16:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sorry … surely that just means that the \u003ci\u003erelative\u003c/i\u003e overhead tends to `0`, which one should express by saying that the \u003ci\u003eabsolute\u003c/i\u003e overhead is sub-linear (constant, in this case)?","parent":"2660560","id":"2661883"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1505777016","timestamp":"2017-09-18 23:23:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; however, if the user then is repeatedly infected with malware, chances are it will not take long for a general understanding that downloadable video players are garbage-piled-up-on-grandpa\u0026#x27;s-computer bad (in the same way that IE toolbar plugins or warez websites\u0026#x27; \u0026quot;special download managers\u0026quot; were) to take root\u003cp\u003eThis is clearly written from the perspective of somebody who never did help desk work or helped family or friends with computer problems.","parent":"15280119","id":"15280564"}
{"by":"RyanKearney","time":"1317045841","timestamp":"2011-09-26 14:04:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sure they will go bankrupt now because you decided not to sign up.","parent":"3038878","id":"3038942"}
{"by":"rcthompson","time":"1473547838","timestamp":"2016-09-10 22:50:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the novelty is in putting all these things together with a tractable user experience: one person loads the game in a web page, and then everyone else sees the game listed in their browser and joins it.","parent":"12471152","id":"12471229"}
{"by":"cookiecaper","time":"1470283590","timestamp":"2016-08-04 04:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It works pretty smoothly with K-9 Mail + APG.","parent":"12223168","id":"12223322"}
{"by":"astrange","time":"1473754779","timestamp":"2016-09-13 08:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s unfortunate that Ambrosia, who released Mac games like Cythera, Escape Velocity, Asteroid, Harry the Handsome Executive, etc. apparently can never port them because they didn\u0026#x27;t negotiate remake or source code rights from the original developers. And they\u0026#x27;re still around, just enough to keep selling the old MacOS games at the original prices…","parent":"12483923","id":"12486404"}
{"by":"sshykes","time":"1440112911","timestamp":"2015-08-20 23:21:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Git-bisect for the win!\u003cp\u003eOn another note, I find it very odd that this fell off the front page so quickly.  Is there some kind of go\u0026#x2F;google voters club on HN that flags anything that seems negative towards go?","parent":"10094692","id":"10095183"}
{"by":"cptskippy","time":"1529435853","timestamp":"2018-06-19 19:17:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t like sacrificing 1% of your SD Card space to Finder?","parent":"17349216","id":"17349507"}
{"by":"smcj","time":"1310995835","timestamp":"2011-07-18 13:30:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, the Scala developers are currently moving their build system to Scala. This means they can fully bootstrap their language/compiler, library and build system from one source language.\u003cp\u003eThe .NET port has only added some minor changes to the compiler (which have actually uncovered a bug in the compiler implementation!) and most of the .NET backend works as a compiler plugin, just like the JVM backend or the LLVM backend.","parent":"2776024","id":"2776190"}
{"by":"merb","time":"1455545073","timestamp":"2016-02-15 14:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"currently I use sbt and as said they are okai to work with, but they are not great, else there would\u0026#x27;ve been only one. ;)\nActually I like many things on sbt, but It has some clear downsides and it\u0026#x27;s not hard to figure them out.\nActually I would favor gradle from all of them however I started with sbt and I think I actually will stick with it a while, even if there are some downsides.","parent":"11103407","id":"11103425"}
{"by":"siruncledrew","time":"1536598988","timestamp":"2018-09-10 17:03:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s true. It\u0026#x27;s a good way of personally justifying something morally\u0026#x2F;ethically dubious because \u003ci\u003ethe person doing it\u003c/i\u003e has a biased opinion it\u0026#x27;s a good thing. But what 1 person thinks is good isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily true for the larger body of society. Of course this is not 100% the case all the time, but that\u0026#x27;s why we have things like checks and balances and governing bodies to hopefully look out for these instances.","parent":"17952985","id":"17953219"}
{"by":"johnesj33","time":"1382711454","timestamp":"2013-10-25 14:30:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is probably just the NSA, pumping out as many crypto FUD distractions as possible.","parent":"6610651","dead":true,"id":"6611817"}
{"by":"perlpimp","time":"1499262924","timestamp":"2017-07-05 13:55:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"China will consider democracy only when the credit bubble pops which will delegitimize the Communist party. Tianamen square was at the inflection point when Investment flooded into corrupt post maoist china, democratic movement was everywhere but was quashed by increasingly belligerent communists apparatchiks.","parent":"14702139","id":"14702389"}
{"by":"imode","time":"1477762315","timestamp":"2016-10-29 17:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so, because of the weird format that ward has gone with, and because I\u0026#x27;m not a fan of the federated wiki concept as he sees it, I mirrored the JSON dump of the old c2 wiki, did a little bit of processing on it and generated a directory for all the pages.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imode.gitlab.io\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;c2\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imode.gitlab.io\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;c2\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eif someone wants me to, I can archive it up.","parent":"12823548","id":"12825104"}
{"by":"jrs95","time":"1495575171","timestamp":"2017-05-23 21:32:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think surge pricing would probably prevent that from happening in practice.","parent":"14404276","id":"14405569"}
{"by":"al2o3cr","time":"1391209239","timestamp":"2014-01-31 23:00:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good luck with \u0026quot;actual typing\u0026quot; - I don\u0026#x27;t think a language that believes \u0026quot;0\u0026quot; \u0026gt; \u0026quot;01\u0026quot; (\u0026#x27;numerical strings\u0026#x27; FTL) is really suited to it.","parent":"7159411","id":"7159746"}
{"by":"enscr","time":"1395682781","timestamp":"2014-03-24 17:39:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Time is ripe for a P2P real-time people-network. Outside first world, Twitter has been playing a pivotal role in helping people counter oppressive regimes \u0026amp; lack of democracy. But this may not continue for long.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Ripe = not just for making it but adopting it as well.","parent":"7458768","id":"7459762"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1369165463","timestamp":"2013-05-21 19:44:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How big a percentage is XBox of MSFT?","parent":"5745915","id":"5746331"}
{"by":"rootedbox","time":"1546836157","timestamp":"2019-01-07 04:42:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like something simple that one could have asked a doctor.. \u0026quot;My kid keeps licking their hands.. any ideas?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAlso even though the article the mother seems to think that they have gotten to root cause.. there may be more of a cause.\u003cp\u003eDry hands is often because of the compulsive action of washing ones hands too much. So now there are 2 compulsions washing hands and licking hands to keep them dry.. By replacing licking hands with moisturizer you will still have 2 compulsions.. cleaning hands and moisturizing too much..\u003cp\u003eA 2 second google search will also bring up thousands of pages about kids licking hands.","parent":"18842009","id":"18842806"}
{"by":"bananarepdev","time":"1514769427","timestamp":"2018-01-01 01:17:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the the benefits of using a fully managed platform like GAE, but wonder if it would be the right choice for most scenarios. Personally, I would prototype with GAE, but go into production with GKE, under the impression that the application would be a little more decoupled from the platform.","parent":"16042233","id":"16044044"}
{"by":"jack9","time":"1377154946","timestamp":"2013-08-22 07:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In other news, the iPhone uses more electricity than a couch and more electricity than a tv remote. I guess this is a big deal.","parent":"6255253","dead":true,"id":"6255566"}
{"by":"droopybuns","time":"1388548363","timestamp":"2014-01-01 03:52:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Further add context:\u003cp\u003eCharlie Miller (that apple 0day guy) is ex NSA.  In 2009 or so, he made huge waves with his iphone hacks.\u003cp\u003eI also find it appaling how widely revered charlie is.  In this context, he is clearly an example of the kind of hacker we should be fucking shaming.\u003cp\u003eNo more free bugs finds its logical conclusion.  0xcharlie: NSA stooge.","parent":"6992668","id":"6994051"}
{"by":"moomin","time":"1478811917","timestamp":"2016-11-10 21:05:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s because they\u0026#x27;re both \u0026gt;\u0026gt;= in Haskell. So is SelectMany in C#.\u003cp\u003eOr to put it another way, it\u0026#x27;s taking an operation that does this:\u003cp\u003ea -\u0026gt; t of b\u003cp\u003eAnd turns it into one that does this:\u003cp\u003et of a -\u0026gt; t of b\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a formal name for \u0026quot;t\u0026quot;s that support this operation. I\u0026#x27;ll let you guess what it is. :)","parent":"12923885","id":"12924325"}
{"by":"fetbaffe","time":"1473855871","timestamp":"2016-09-14 12:24:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would the Russian connected Trump hunt down a Russian spy?","parent":"12494998","dead":true,"id":"12496123"}
{"by":"gscott","time":"1376433778","timestamp":"2013-08-13 22:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try offering technical support as a service. People who are scared of \u0026quot;limits\u0026quot; are not usually scared of paying for an enhanced faster level of support... even if it is just your normal support anyway.","parent":"6205171","id":"6208763"}
{"by":"boot","time":"1370634608","timestamp":"2013-06-07 19:50:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love how he says several times \u0026quot;we aren\u0026#x27;t listening to your phone calls\u0026quot;. As if that suddenly makes everything better. Fuck me.","parent":"5841136","id":"5841217"}
{"by":"sokoloff","time":"1472556925","timestamp":"2016-08-30 11:35:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because Adafruit makes it easy to find and usually has some amount of tutorial\u0026#x2F;howto easily findable from the product pages. Not everyone knows that these parts can be sourced more cheaply; not everyone cares. Plus, there\u0026#x27;s some higher assurance that you\u0026#x27;re going to get what you pay for from Adafruit.\u003cp\u003eFor that matter, why buy from Ebay when you can often get them cheaper from Aliexpress? (Or even cheaper from Taobao in a lot of cases. For me, Taobao is too hard to access as a native English speaker, so Aliexpress is where most of my cheap components come from.)","parent":"12388914","id":"12389086"}
{"by":"awinder","time":"1507894356","timestamp":"2017-10-13 11:32:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LG also was also sourced for the first gen retina macbooks due to  capacity issues with Samsung. So this story repeats over the long haul where Apple has to go to lg for a seriously inferior product. Would be fantastic to see them correct this issue since they keep paying the same quality price over and over again.","parent":"15463793","id":"15464713"}
{"by":"mahyarm","time":"1502746848","timestamp":"2017-08-14 21:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PL seems easier to get into and make useful things with, like a static analyzer that enforces some rule at a big co. From my perspective it seems like your need something PhD level to do useful things with it and get paid better than a standard FANG software engineer.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m probably wrong although, it\u0026#x27;s probably an exposure thing.","parent":"15011603","id":"15013230"}
{"by":"burtonator","time":"1539709013","timestamp":"2018-10-16 16:56:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. The debs work on Ubuntu. REALLY sorry about the snap packages.\u003cp\u003eThey are apparently broken due to a bug in Ubuntu\u0026#x27;s snap but I don\u0026#x27;t have a work around.\u003cp\u003eCould you try to install canberra-gtk-module and let me know if the problem goes away?","parent":"18229542","id":"18230975"}
{"by":"QueensGambit","time":"1528221821","timestamp":"2018-06-05 18:03:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you please point me to the earlier HN thread on this?","parent":"17240322","id":"17240357"}
{"by":"HistoryInAction","time":"1406487761","timestamp":"2014-07-27 19:02:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely. Unfortunately, that would either require legislation (and something similar has been proposed for a bit by Sens. Grassley (R-IA) and Durbin (D-IL)) or a very contentious regulatory process.\u003cp\u003eNeedless to say, the Infosys and Tatas of the world do have a highly developed lobbying arm. As one example of a supportive research group: \u003ca href=\"http://www.offshoreinsights.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.offshoreinsights.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eStartups don\u0026#x27;t have anything like this, and the tech companies don\u0026#x27;t want to rock the boat with their outsourcing partners.\u003cp\u003eTo learn more, look at the Hatch amendment to S744 (comprehensive immigration reform): \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/22/hatch_amendment_h1_b_compromise_is_great_news_for_immigration_reform.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.slate.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;moneybox\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;hatch_amendme...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8093612","id":"8093631"}
{"by":"aikah","time":"1450276398","timestamp":"2015-12-16 14:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We don\u0026#x27;t know what happened exactly. We know that a huge part of the budget went into the development of the Fox Engine, not the game directly, then Konami shifted focus and deemed AAA games not profitable enough. We don\u0026#x27;t know how advanced was the game development when Konami decided to cut the money. All we know for sure is that the game was supposed to be bigger than what we ended up with. We\u0026#x27;ll never know the whole story.","parent":"10743326","id":"10744441"}
{"by":"AdamTReineke","time":"1362682659","timestamp":"2013-03-07 18:57:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A photo is worth a thousand words. Cameras are ubiquitous, mobile bandwidth can support it, and it's generally more visually enjoyable.","parent":"5339405","id":"5339411"}
{"by":"xaa","time":"1337865536","timestamp":"2012-05-24 13:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If these were isolated incidents, I'd agree with you. We should give Linus the benefit of the doubt because of his substantial contributions to OSS.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, this behavior is very well established. To take a few random examples of Linus calling people morons (and mentally diseased, etc) before this:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2007-06/msg00084.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2007-06/m...\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCY...\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/hibernation.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://yarchive.net/comp/linux/hibernation.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/12/13\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/12/13\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe point at issue here is not whether Linus is right. Of course he's probably right -- he's Linus. The question is whether he's being civil. In the case you're referring to, pirtlj's comment was also out of line (although ironically apt to this whole discussion). Linus however did not have to respond the way he did.","parent":"4017046","id":"4018219"}
{"by":"comex","time":"1401634253","timestamp":"2014-06-01 14:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    #include \u0026lt;stdio.h\u0026gt;\n    #include \u0026lt;stdbool.h\u0026gt;\n    #include \u0026lt;stdlib.h\u0026gt;\n\n    int nums[5] = {1, 0, 1, 0, 1};\n    static int cur;\n\n    int main(int argc, char **argv) {\n        for(int i = 1; nums[i] != 5 \u0026amp;\u0026amp; i \u0026lt; 10; i++) {\n            cur = i;\n            if(i\u0026#x2F;4 == 1) {\n                printf(\u0026quot;2 + 2 \u0026lt;= %d = %s\\n\u0026quot;, cur, 2 + 2 \u0026lt;= i ? \u0026quot;true\u0026quot; : \u0026quot;false\u0026quot;);\n                printf(\u0026quot;2 + 2 == %d = %s\\n\u0026quot;, cur, 2 + 2 == i ? \u0026quot;true\u0026quot; : \u0026quot;false\u0026quot;);\n                printf(\u0026quot;\\n\u0026quot;);\n            }\n        }\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nNo strange array writes!  No indirect writes at all!\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s finicky and I believe depends on register allocation, but when I compile it using whatever version of gcc-mp-4.9 I have installed from MacPorts at -O3, it outputs, among other things:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    2 + 2 == 5 = true\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n(For all they say about evil optimizing compilers, it was really hard to make this work.)","parent":"7828757","id":"7829319"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1358183539","timestamp":"2013-01-14 17:12:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice.  That would solve the basic inefficiency.","parent":"5053610","id":"5055469"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1519673320","timestamp":"2018-02-26 19:28:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eLiving with people I nearly know who are not invested in keeping me healthy would be disastrous for me\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould it have been better if your roommates shared the same (or similar, from a compassionate perspective) disorder? I have a friend who suffers from migraines. She found having similarly-afflicted roommates to be tremendously comforting and, in one case, potentially life saving.","parent":"16467614","id":"16468186"}
{"by":"mischanix","time":"1418750500","timestamp":"2014-12-16 17:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s really nothing wrong with just offering paid slots and letting the buyers decide if they\u0026#x27;re worth it.","parent":"8758006","id":"8758059"}
{"by":"bytecodes","time":"1517438736","timestamp":"2018-01-31 22:45:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use it, and it\u0026#x27;s really clear you\u0026#x27;re sharing your location, speed, and heartrate data with Strava and other users. There is a Facebook-like newsfeed that shows where your friends have been working out. You can see who else runs your routes and how fast they are. Sharing this data is really the purpose of the app.\u003cp\u003eIf you purposely disengaged from this social part of the app and were trying to use it as a simple stopwatch and mileage logger then uploading data may seem weird. But that\u0026#x27;s not the clearly intended purpose of the app.","parent":"16278163","id":"16278243"}
{"by":"eli_gottlieb","time":"1385246852","timestamp":"2013-11-23 22:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but also kind of missing the point.\u003cp\u003eBasically, what kind of person has such a petty, nasty view of the human species that he honestly believes, if left to our own devices, we\u0026#x27;ll turn into \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e?\u003cp\u003eWhen you read \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c/i\u003e in high school it\u0026#x27;s a little difficult to recognize there\u0026#x27;s multiple layers of satire there.","parent":"6787384","id":"6787752"}
{"by":"jhallenworld","time":"1403275090","timestamp":"2014-06-20 14:38:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This reminds me of Yoomp!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://yoomp.atari.pl/media.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;yoomp.atari.pl\u0026#x2F;media.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.79 MHz 6502..","parent":"7919683","id":"7920852"}
{"by":"Rubyred","time":"1294287930","timestamp":"2011-01-06 04:25:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My advice: don't say what you can do, show what you can do. Start a project you can get excited about and demonstrates your ability to market a product or service. Document the entire process on your blog, and create awareness to your blog with Twitter.\u003cp\u003eGood luck!","parent":"2073927","id":"2073975"}
{"by":"foota","time":"1524390252","timestamp":"2018-04-22 09:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is true, but if you have a tighter tolerance on how much load each machine needs to be able to handle then you may be able to waste less resources.","parent":"16895415","id":"16895449"}
{"by":"fredoliveira","time":"1521029266","timestamp":"2018-03-14 12:07:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is not. In fact, OP states exactly how it is not, by saying that Reddit does very little to stop the toxicity of reddit.\u003cp\u003eAre you shielded from the \u0026quot;bad parts\u0026quot; of reddit if you don\u0026#x27;t subscribe to that type of sub-reddit? Well, maybe, unless you hit \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;all in your top navigation. It\u0026#x27;s all right there lurking under the surface. Reddit gets very dark very fast and it is factual that they don\u0026#x27;t control it nearly as well as they should.\u003cp\u003eSo no, it is not like \u0026quot;complaining about the internet because it contains websites that you have no obligation to ever visit\u0026quot; because the internet has no mechanism to surface bad content on the whim of its users. All it takes on reddit to surface something terrible is coordination and hitting the upvote button.","parent":"16584092","id":"16584123"}
{"by":"headius","time":"1313013923","timestamp":"2011-08-10 22:05:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know the granularity on which the deoptimization guards get inserted, but the basic idea would be that if the constant changes, any code running that depended on the value of that constant will have to deoptimize.\u003cp\u003eIn your example, we would never enter the optimized code path without knowing that the constant's still the same as last time. Since no loop is emitted, there's no deoptimization mid-loop required. So we either run the optimized code, or we never get to the optimized code.\u003cp\u003eIf a deopt is required mid-loop, Hotspot inserts a \"trap\" that would see the deopt command and immediately branch to the interpreter with the current state.\u003cp\u003eOf course there's limits to how far optimization can go, but having a way to tell Hotspot that there's a known-immutable constant object reference at this point in the code opens up a lot of opportunities.","parent":"2870353","id":"2870416"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1287454970","timestamp":"2010-10-19 02:22:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to take into account the market, i.e. who's buying those Wii consoles.\u003cp\u003eI have a Wii at home, and after the first month I got tired of it. I also cannot use it as a DVD player and it's just sitting there.\u003cp\u003eAnd I wish I would've bought an XBox or a PS3 because you can at least use it as a media station when you're tired of it.","parent":"1805818","id":"1805936"}
{"by":"binaryanomaly","time":"1530651575","timestamp":"2018-07-03 20:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am using it as 2nd device when doing linux stuff. I would have preferred to be able to use it as the one and only main device.","parent":"17453405","id":"17453578"}
{"by":"nollidge","time":"1333488350","timestamp":"2012-04-03 21:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It shows up in search now, but it's about the 20th result (may have been true earlier as well, I didn't try scrolling far). But even if it wasn't indexed immediately (which is still ridiculous - it's all their system), they're still not taking app name \u003ci\u003eor\u003c/i\u003e current trends into search results.","parent":"3794499","id":"3794895"}
{"by":"nolite","time":"1296032957","timestamp":"2011-01-26 09:09:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it would be nice if they had fields for the hire number (1st employee, 2nd, etc..)","parent":"2142634","id":"2142685"}
{"by":"zzleeper","time":"1469643184","timestamp":"2016-07-27 18:13:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, which means laws can be passed to enforce this. Same with tobacco antitrust, trains, water, power, etc. Of course the costs might not be really worth it..","parent":"12174669","id":"12175226"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1282497845","timestamp":"2010-08-22 17:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those are the sustainable startups I mentioned. I have higher hopes for those, even if the stakes they're playing for are smaller. I still see plenty of companies raising a lot of VC and tracking drop-dead burn rates of 1-2 years.","parent":"1624724","id":"1624906"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1291679916","timestamp":"2010-12-06 23:58:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does sound too guarded.  But I did cave in and specified `from a chemical point of view' already.","parent":"1976381","id":"1977373"}
{"by":"Waterluvian","time":"1536294193","timestamp":"2018-09-07 04:23:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. It\u0026#x27;s good to know not to bother. For our needs it probably makes sense just to add openduty or Cabot to our existing engineering services.","parent":"17931401","id":"17931860"}
{"by":"DiabloD3","time":"1466408962","timestamp":"2016-06-20 07:49:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand this, but also not understand this at the same time.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I spend ridiculous amounts of money on things that are important to me, while spending virtually nothing on items that I must have but do not care about. However, I also err for quality over quantity.\u003cp\u003eWhat this describes is some sort of effect where everything in your life, by my standards, becomes important.\u003cp\u003eExample: I own $500+ headphones, $2000+ in computer gear (computers, laptops, monitors). I own a middle of the road phone (Nexus 5). I don\u0026#x27;t really upgrade my computer, and replace it when it finally starts breaking down, so, about every 6 to 8 years, which then I build another massively overkill machine. It generally takes an average mid-tier computer all of those years to catch up to mine. GPUs are the exception, and I used to upgrade those every 2 years until everyone got stuck at 28nm; I\u0026#x27;ve been stuck on a 7970 for awhile, due to nothing really worth upgrading until later this year (Geforce 1000 series \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e came out, Polaris family Radeons in another 2-3 months), and I don\u0026#x27;t even game like I used to, so I may just keep the 7970.\u003cp\u003eI own clothes I bought from Walmart that I replace every 3-5 years, the grand total of nice clothes I own is two shirts and two pairs of pants, that I bought on sale at JC Penney, and spent about $120 on, and I hardly ever wear them.\u003cp\u003eI own a 7 year old 42\u0026quot; TV that I hardly watch, but has good enough visual quality that the final generation of 1080p TVs are hardly different (better blacks than anything else). The higher end 4k TVs ($1k+) are clearly better, but I won\u0026#x27;t buy a new TV until a) mine actually dies, b) tomorrow\u0026#x27;s $500 4k TVs look as good as today\u0026#x27;s $1k+ ones. This is assuming I even bother keeping a TV. I do not own a game console.\u003cp\u003eI do not own speakers. I own extremely small library of Blurays that I am considering selling. I hardly watch them. I own a $150 all in one printer. Some of the furniture I own is as old as I am, or maybe older, and was left to me when my mother passed away, it is solid wood and in good condition (all the damage done to it, I did personally as a kid).\u003cp\u003eI own Victorinox Fibrox knives, but only four, only the ones I use (chef\u0026#x27;s, mini granton-edge santoku, carving, boning), not a useless \u0026quot;complete set\u0026quot;. I do not expect to ever have to replace these, and I own a fine enough synthetic wetstone to sharpen them myself, and generally keep them sharper than factory sharp.\u003cp\u003eI own a single 10\u0026quot; Lodge frying pan, a 12\u0026quot; pan, 8\u0026quot; pan, and 4 quart saucepan Mauviel M150S, usually insanely expensive (the 4 quart usually goes for $360), picked up at a tiny fraction from a chef supply store dumping their discontinued stock on Amazon. These, too, will last forever. I put more mileage on my Lodge than I do on the rest.\u003cp\u003eI own a pair of normally $150 running shoes that I picked up for $60 that I absolutely adore and try to treat well. I put about 5 miles into them every day, so they probably will last 2 years at the absolute very most.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t eat out. I cook my own food, and aim for nutrition and flavor over weird exoticness. I don\u0026#x27;t buy premade food generally, I avoid refined sugars, grains, and non-foods (\u0026quot;junk food\u0026quot;) frequently sold in stores. I aim for foods that are in season or simply on sale this week, and then stock up and freeze stuff. Bulk packages get turned into meal sized blobs frozen in good freezer bags (never get the cheap shitty ones, good bags hinder freezer burn).\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t own a car, yet I live in an area that you need a car. I am considered low income for an area that it itself is considered low income. Although, the irony, is I own a business, but I put my business before myself and pay myself very little; I pay myself what I need to, not what I want to.\u003cp\u003eSo, I don\u0026#x27;t know. Maybe I do understand this, maybe I don\u0026#x27;t. I generally buy the best of something that meets my needs and is not too grossly overkill (I like products that can grow with me) (my main computer is the exception to this rule: overkill is best kill), and then own it as long as possible. I am a staunch believer in the Buy It For Life movement. I do not Keep Up With The Joneses. Their life is theirs, and I do not live their life, instead, I live mine.\u003cp\u003eSo, I don\u0026#x27;t know. I almost want to interpret the article as simply not being an adult (not that I\u0026#x27;m claiming I\u0026#x27;m an adult, I\u0026#x27;m only 33, too young to be one of those yet), and letting childhood insecurities grab ahold of them and take them for a ride. I don\u0026#x27;t resonate with that behavior.","parent":"11934304","id":"11936667"}
{"by":"ivanceras","time":"1450052219","timestamp":"2015-12-14 00:16:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He do sound like John Carmack.","parent":"10728399","id":"10728606"}
{"by":"herrschindler","time":"1393270173","timestamp":"2014-02-24 19:29:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As much as I appreciate their kind offer to compromise my key and hand it to the German authorities for forwarding to the NSA, I must politely decline. ;)","parent":"7290501","id":"7292854"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1281997756","timestamp":"2010-08-16 22:29:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Costs (due diligence, fund raising, overpriced salaries, legal) would make a VC like this unprofitable.\u003cp\u003eBanks are the solution for institutional small-scale low-risk finance, via debt.  Retail/commercial bankers are excessively conservative in some ways now (due to regulations); the traditional \"small town bank\" which originated and held loans to small businesses, property finance, etc. within a specific community was a much better option.  Banks have a low cost of capital (from deposits), and should have minimal marginal overhead making each loan.  By having \"community membership\" as one of the metrics for giving a loan (i.e. you've lived in this town for 20 years, and have been a customer, are known to be able to run a certain kind of business, ....), due diligence costs for making a reasonable new loan are a lot lower than for a VC.\u003cp\u003eAngels (who effectively use sweat equity to cover their own overhead) are the other.\u003cp\u003eThe thing you are missing is that each series A deal a traditional VC does has a 50-100% the invested capital cost in overhead, opportunity cost, etc.  At that point, shooting for 3x returns becomes a lot less appealing, especially over 10 years.","parent":"1608942","id":"1609517"}
{"by":"dahart","time":"1523454181","timestamp":"2018-04-11 13:43:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The content of this article is great. But the title represent it\u0026#x27;s own bad assumption \u0026amp; falsehood. Just because a CSV doesn\u0026#x27;t conform to the spec doesn\u0026#x27;t mean the person who produced the CSV file believes their CSV file to be correct or misunderstands that CSV is complicated. For most devs I\u0026#x27;ve dealt with, the reason has been conscious and admitted laziness, trying to get something done faster knowing it\u0026#x27;s not 100% correct. Conforming to the spec is harder and more confusing than splitting on commas or tabs in a script, while splitting on commas or tabs works 80% of the time.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s lame and lazy to write \u0026amp; read CSV with one-off code, but we already knew that, CSV is just deceptively simple looking so the temptation is strong. But what we most need isn\u0026#x27;t the list of things we\u0026#x27;re doing wrong. We already know we\u0026#x27;re doing it wrong. What we need to do is to use a library that does it right. What we need to have is a list of libraries and tools that are easy to use and fix all the items in the author\u0026#x27;s list. It might also be useful to suggest simple things a hacker can do in a couple lines of code in a one-off CSV reader\u0026#x2F;writer that covers as many cases as possible.","parent":"16809963","id":"16810956"}
{"by":"dm2","time":"1362771240","timestamp":"2013-03-08 19:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So... where is the copied CSS?\u003cp\u003eAll I see is a low resolution screenshot of two pages that are significantly different.","parent":"5345067","id":"5345255"}
{"by":"akanet","time":"1493109792","timestamp":"2017-04-25 08:43:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s tempting to assume that sentiment expressed here is reflective of the majority - everyone whose use case is served well is happy and likely doesn\u0026#x27;t comment.\u003cp\u003eAs for the \u0026quot;hackers\u0026quot; comment - HN might have \u0026quot;Hacker\u0026quot; in the name, but it\u0026#x27;s about a lot of things, and a big focus is on making money. Farming out boring stuff to \u0026quot;the cloud\u0026quot; has been fantastic for making money for pretty much everyone.","parent":"14191746","id":"14191774"}
{"by":"shawnz","time":"1524926347","timestamp":"2018-04-28 14:39:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; slowed progress in computing advancements\u003cp\u003eWhat? How does your operating system limit the kind of computing that you can do?\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, how can you say that Microsoft\u0026#x27;s monopoly position didn\u0026#x27;t actually allow them to accelerate the progress of computing even further than their competitors might have otherwise?","parent":"16947688","id":"16947831"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1544353548","timestamp":"2018-12-09 11:05:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depending on the level, it is really detrimental to the experience.\u003cp\u003eI mean I can take your average left\u0026#x2F;right winger rambling on, but depending on how far and away it goes it\u0026#x27;s really a no for me.","parent":"18640237","id":"18640296"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1447210054","timestamp":"2015-11-11 02:47:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nor does Chrome, but I think Chrome takes the `\u0026quot;use asm\u0026quot;;` as a hint to use certain optimisations.","parent":"10544309","id":"10544497"}
{"by":"dlikhten","time":"1319482717","timestamp":"2011-10-24 18:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Erm, the problem is that all these editors are implementing something amazing, and something shitty. So there needs to be a way to give people the hammer they like without sacrificing the rest of the toolbox.\u003cp\u003eThis is why people like command-line tools, they are useful anywhere in any editor, but not everything is for that, or maybe it should be.... Maybe we need some service that runs on a java/ruby/python project and feeds you autocomplete info that any editor can access... HMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!","parent":"3148664","id":"3151000"}
{"by":"extension","time":"1249273005","timestamp":"2009-08-03 04:16:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you're describing is what most would call \"skinning\" or \"theming\", whereas \"user interface\" is generally considered to penetrate much deeper into the functionality of the app. Decoupling UI requires an incredibly abstract description of functionality. I've never seen a practical and generalizable example of such a thing.\u003cp\u003eSkinning, as you point out, often demands modification to the DOM, a task to which HTML and CSS alone are unsuited. It can be done with JavaScript, but it's much more practical and reliable to use a server-side abstraction a la ASP.NET or Seaside. This is more or less the point made by the original article.","parent":"738159","id":"738597"}
{"by":"halfnibble","time":"1502250645","timestamp":"2017-08-09 03:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you live on the West Coast and want your children to be able to read Hacker News, then you better send them to a private school.","parent":"14965074","id":"14965407"}
{"by":"brooklyndavs","time":"1461783988","timestamp":"2016-04-27 19:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah!  There is a big difference, I believe between subcontracting LEO for NASA and a frikin Mars mission.\u003cp\u003eSince so far everything is done for NASA I don\u0026#x27;t have a problem with it.  NASA, like any giant government agency subcontracts out a lot of work to various parties.  The whole \u0026quot;Military-industrial complex\u0026quot; thing.  In the case of LEO where it\u0026#x27;s NASA controlled but privately contracted SpaceX is awesome because they are bringing down the cost of launches to LEO.  This saves us, the US taxpayer $$$.\u003cp\u003eThe frikin Mars mission is different because from what I understand SpaceX is going with or without NASA.  That\u0026#x27;s the difference between an Apollo mission, where the Saturn V was developed by Boeing and others, and Boeing just going alone.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I think this legislation is a bad idea and is a direct attack on a global common.  It will be interesting to see how this holds up internationally.  Its almost like the US saying to the world we open up waters in the middle of the Atlantic (international waters) for resource extraction by any of our corporations.  Try and stop us.","parent":"11583204","id":"11583553"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1430958973","timestamp":"2015-05-07 00:36:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s just kitchen sink AI applied to as much data as possible, and two plays: 1) a trustworthy lender that doesn\u0026#x27;t short-term maximize, and 2) in some cases a better rate due to the AI\u0026#x27;s data-driven prediction.","parent":"9502534","id":"9502681"}
{"by":"STRML","time":"1457998133","timestamp":"2016-03-14 23:28:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has not been fixed: I did a series of PRs on this [1] and the most impactful of them was not merged, although a few smaller ones were.\u003cp\u003e@iarna got to the root cause (instead of simply throttling it as I had been doing) but it has not yet been merged into npmlog. [2]\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;npm\u0026#x2F;npm\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;11283#issuecomment-175752264\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;npm\u0026#x2F;npm\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;11283#issuecomment-1757522...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;npm\u0026#x2F;npmlog\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;28\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;npm\u0026#x2F;npmlog\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;28\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11286194","id":"11286366"}
{"by":"lukeqsee","time":"1506877036","timestamp":"2017-10-01 16:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree with it being strictly political anymore than any human story is political.\u003cp\u003eHaving grown up in the south, it is indeed a powerful and necessary story.","parent":"15378610","id":"15378660"}
{"by":"thaumasiotes","time":"1413263302","timestamp":"2014-10-14 05:08:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; it still has all the capability it had when they paid for it, and so it is just as \u0026quot;valuable\u0026quot; [to the original purchaser]\u003cp\u003eIf this is the case, how can it have depreciated down to $0? I feel like I missed a key concept somewhere. With all the functionality of a new lathe, it must be worth something over the value of its materials as scrap... right?","parent":"8451710","id":"8452050"}
{"by":"serge2k","time":"1435629003","timestamp":"2015-06-30 01:50:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah, fighting that nazi\u0026#x27;s was all about furthering the military industrial complex.\u003cp\u003eThat whole pearl harbor thing wasn\u0026#x27;t really the japanese attacking, it was obviously lockheed.","parent":"9802250","id":"9802381"}
{"by":"pasbesoin","time":"1376584391","timestamp":"2013-08-15 16:33:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you care about this, you will focus on the physical layer.  Once that is owned, you are a tenant.\u003cp\u003eYou may also focus on the meaning and privileges -- and responsibilities -- of our current \u0026quot;ownership\u0026quot;.  However, that is invariable a social endeavour; worthwhile, but also subject to the desires -- and inattention -- of others.  It presents sometimes great convenience, but no guarantees.","parent":"6217252","id":"6218958"}
{"by":"smsm42","time":"1491868154","timestamp":"2017-04-10 23:49:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In even shorter, whoever designed those plans failed to account for the fact that future economic environment may be different from the current one. Despite that being pretty much their only job - otherwise they could just give that money to people to invest for themselves in 401k, IRA, etc. plans. The whole notion of one big pension plan is based on the premise that whoever manages this plan knows what they\u0026#x27;re doing better - or at least not worse - than non-professional people could, and even than most of people on professional market could. \u0026quot;We didn\u0026#x27;t predict interest rates could change\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t really inspire confidence in that premise.\u003cp\u003eThe worst aspect, though, is that the next step would be to ask for my and other taxpayer\u0026#x27;s money to fix the botched job the pension managers did. And next worst aspect would be that this request would never be refused, because you can\u0026#x27;t deny people their money, can you? That means, if they work for the government, if they not, you can take their money as much as you wish, that\u0026#x27;s why they are called \u0026quot;tax \u003ci\u003epayers\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;.","parent":"14083478","id":"14083608"}
{"by":"honkhonkpants","time":"1471226806","timestamp":"2016-08-15 02:06:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"California has executed 13 people in 40 years, and none in the last ten. Texas has executed 500 people in the same time.","parent":"12288081","id":"12288210"}
{"by":"dougk16","time":"1362504425","timestamp":"2013-03-05 17:27:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome...didn't know that! Self-insurance seems like a reasonable compromise to what I'm talking about.","parent":"5325786","id":"5325839"}
{"by":"tcdent","time":"1447102874","timestamp":"2015-11-09 21:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty interesting that the daily post volume has plateaued.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I\u0026#x27;m glad the growth has been curbed. Too bad we can go back to the good ol\u0026#x27; days.","parent":"10535210","id":"10535821"}
{"by":"tim333","time":"1532961126","timestamp":"2018-07-30 14:32:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;There\u0026#x27;s nothing to suggest we know how to create strong AI, or that we will have any idea any time soon.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s the advance of hardware such that it may be possible to run a simulation of a human brain for example. Also as hardware reaches human levels, things like self driving cars start working which leads lots of bright researchers to pile into AI which leads to advances in the algorithms. That stuff is happening now, not in several human generations.","parent":"17643183","id":"17644607"}
{"by":"kogepathic","time":"1483374796","timestamp":"2017-01-02 16:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t know, but it might be extra responsible of the Redis devs to suggest they shouldn\u0026#x27;t implement your security for you, and they should stick strictly to databases.\u003cp\u003eDo you still agree if I change your statement to:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know, but it might be extra responsible of the nginx devs to suggest they shouldn\u0026#x27;t implement your security for you, and they should stick strictly to HTTP.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would imagine you would not agree, because it\u0026#x27;s ridiculous to have a web server only supporting HTTP in 2017. This is exactly my argument about Redis.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not saying Redis should implement their own crypto. I\u0026#x27;m saying it\u0026#x27;s user hostile to say \u0026quot;We don\u0026#x27;t support security because perimeter security is infallible and plus no one really cares about security anyway\u0026quot; and you should go use another utility to wrap their socket in SSL.\u003cp\u003eSure, it\u0026#x27;s not their job to be security experts, but neither are the:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - PostgreSQL developers\n\n  - openLDAP developers\n\n  - rsync developers\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAnd yet somehow they manage to support SSL within their application.\u003cp\u003eIf you read reports about data breaches lately, it\u0026#x27;s usually the following pattern:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - Send a phishing email to someone in the org with malware\n\n  - Infect their computer\n\n  - Pivot inside the network and exfiltrate the goodies\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIn this scenario, perimeter security is utterly worthless because the attacker has gotten themselves right into your network.\u003cp\u003eIf you have encrypted data between services (e.g. application servers to database, application to redis) then they also have to pop the actual servers to get the data, instead of just sitting on the network and watching traffic go back and forth.\u003cp\u003ePeople say \u0026quot;oh it\u0026#x27;s not a big deal, redis is just storing sessions\u0026quot; until someone grabs a session from the app server to the redis server, and then pops your site as an admin.","parent":"13301827","id":"13302111"}
{"by":"orthecreedence","time":"1372956697","timestamp":"2013-07-04 16:51:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least our industry hires entry-level people. A lot of industries right now are looking for entry-level persons \u003ci\u003ewith 8 years experience\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"5988606","id":"5991447"}
{"by":"jamii","time":"1412528547","timestamp":"2014-10-05 17:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have a look at the Edelweiss paper I linked. Stable ids are needed for that model. We would probably be fine with eg random uuids if we stuck with Bloom.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Thinking about it, the issue is definitely not that it is immutable but that it is declarative. In the absence of control flow, `new` is not sufficient to provide unique identity because the rule in question may be run zero or more times.","parent":"8411606","id":"8412737"}
{"by":"tomclaus","time":"1352142993","timestamp":"2012-11-05 19:16:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A profile with pictures: \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/mycookingdiary\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://instagram.com/mycookingdiary\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4745281","id":"4745290"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1487172296","timestamp":"2017-02-15 15:24:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t see anything in your link, by the way.\u003cp\u003eAh sorry about that; I am in China and internet is very slow \u0026amp; often broken (HN is very fast though). Probably the image did not (fully) upload. It was an error telling the application crashed. Just the empty default form after pressing run.","parent":"13652424","id":"13652597"}
{"by":"wiremine","time":"1385948549","timestamp":"2013-12-02 01:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just watched the 60 minutes segment: Bezos say they won\u0026#x27;t be ready until 2015 at the earliest, likely 2016. (Edit: as the commenter below pointed out, I misheard the timeframe: is is 4-5 years out)\u003cp\u003eHe said the range is 10 miles, which is good enough for most residential areas. They are aiming for delivery in 30 minutes. The drones are autonomous: you plug in the GPS coordinates and away they go.\u003cp\u003eThe biggest challenge (again, according to Bezos) is the redundancy, \u0026quot;making sure it doesn\u0026#x27;t land on people\u0026#x27;s heads.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eMy question is: why announce this now, 2 to 3 (or more) years out? Are they gearing up to get governmental regulations?","parent":"6830566","id":"6830694"}
{"by":"marshallp","time":"1266463805","timestamp":"2010-02-18 03:30:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It hasn't got anything to do with that. Creating an index on a join means that possibly hundreds of indexes need to be updated every time a you make a write - but that is where appengine would actually shine since those writes can be parallelized to hundreds of machines. It could easily make postgres/mysql/oracle redundant.","parent":"1133298","id":"1133327"}
{"by":"slezakattack","time":"1545113560","timestamp":"2018-12-18 06:12:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe I\u0026#x27;m missing something but I\u0026#x27;m not understanding how one reaches statistical significance when this bill was signed into law only 3 months ago? Do board members have so much of an impact that one fiscal quarter can prove that this gender quota is responsible for a -1.4% return as stated in the paper?","parent":"18704282","id":"18704851"}
{"by":"JWLong","time":"1305351669","timestamp":"2011-05-14 05:41:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They used to call lightbulbs, airplanes, and combustion engines \"fluff\". Don't make the mistake of assuming that you can see all ends... Even the wise cannot see all ends (keeping the movie references alive). As others have stated, what people are working on today as side projects and hobbies will pave the way for the breakthrough's of tomorrow.","parent":"2545864","id":"2547214"}
{"by":"tossandturn","time":"1546896829","timestamp":"2019-01-07 21:33:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Increased efficiency AND higher power density.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mouser.com\u0026#x2F;applications\u0026#x2F;advancing-power-GaN\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mouser.com\u0026#x2F;applications\u0026#x2F;advancing-power-GaN\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=sLuiGN3lNaA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=sLuiGN3lNaA\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18850207","id":"18850380"}
{"by":"gadders","time":"1411140717","timestamp":"2014-09-19 15:31:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really? Maybe I\u0026#x27;m more Pollyanna-ish than most, but I\u0026#x27;d much rather read stories of success.","parent":"8340737","id":"8340932"}
{"by":"greycol","time":"1541038345","timestamp":"2018-11-01 02:12:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure if it quite qualifies as browsing with JS disabled but I run UMatrix with the default settings set to disable all scripts on a site. Then I\u0026#x27;ve set some common domains I trust that greatly improve usability (things like ytimg, paypal, some common 3rd party scripts).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d say I browse the web normally. Plenty of sites load normally with scripts disabled (and may even be more pleasant to browse). Maybe a 25 to 40% of sites I hit I\u0026#x27;ll happily enable 1st party scripts and a couple of known CDNs that\u0026#x27;ll will be enough to have the site working. For I\u0026#x27;d say 5% or less of sites I\u0026#x27;ll have to actually engage and think if the calls to a 3rd party api are required or if the cloudflare\u0026#x2F;amazon are actually part of the domain and there for a good purpose or may be being used to serve up nefarious code.\u003cp\u003eOne of the things to consider about the above numbers is that they only really apply for the first time I visit a site. With exceptions for when a site changes how it\u0026#x27;s implemented (or a3rd party script calls a new domain) which is nice to know anyway. (Or when the tool I\u0026#x27;m using to block scripts changes (3-4 times over the last 15 years + another couple for not transferring whitelist data to new machines)).\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t really recommend my approach as something to get into for 2 main reasons. Firstly because the web does work much nicer when you just turn scripts on and say \u0026#x27;to hell with the privacy and security concerns\u0026#x27;. Secondly there is a fair bit of otherwise useless knowledge built up over the years of doing this that mean this set up is significantly less onerous than it would be for someone who only just starts doing it and needs to look up every 3rd party domain.\u003cp\u003eHaving said that I would highly recommend that you should install some script management with the default more permissible settings (rather than my more draconian ones) as it breaks very little, takes little effort to fix most of the things it does break and will stop well known tracking and malicious sites.","parent":"18350089","id":"18350977"}
{"by":"jpdoctor","time":"1331142992","timestamp":"2012-03-07 17:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nonsense.  Game companies cater to those that are the most profitable.\u003cp\u003eOh wait.... Nevermind.","parent":"3676269","id":"3676354"}
{"by":"losvedir","time":"1499952346","timestamp":"2017-07-13 13:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a very interesting article. One of the points that really stood out to me, despite the present but weak correlation with socioeconomic status, is that it still serves as a very strong springboard for gifted children \u003ci\u003eout\u003c/i\u003e of poverty. The article mentions that the SATs can be the bane of upper middle class parents trying to get their children into good schools (test prep works, but only goes so far), while even kids with a lower SES get perfect scores on the SAT.\u003cp\u003eI can easily imagine that abject poverty would mess with SAT scores (or probably even prevent someone from taking the SAT), but for the majority of the country I would expect the SAT levels the playing field rather than hurting it. For example, I live in a rural town in Missouri. No one here is \u003ci\u003erich\u003c/i\u003e, but the majority of the town is not in poverty. I can\u0026#x27;t think of a better way than the SAT for a precocious child here to get into a top-tier school.","parent":"14760563","id":"14760992"}
{"by":"VladRussian","time":"1305582927","timestamp":"2011-05-16 21:55:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"whenever both are true simutaneously:\u003cp\u003e1. child doesn't want to share his online presence with his/her parents\u003cp\u003e2. and the parents still insist on it\u003cp\u003ethen this parent/child relationship has much more serious problem than just the issue of access to the online page, and applying the government force on the side of the parent against the will of the child - how would it make the situation better?","parent":"2554081","id":"2554340"}
{"by":"india","time":"1272967590","timestamp":"2010-05-04 10:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Proper links: Data Portability[1], New to payments[2] and Use this checklist[3].\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/data-portability\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/data-portabili...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/services/new-to-payments\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/services/new-to-pay...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/dont-get-duped-use-this-checklist\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/dont-get-duped...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1316841","id":"1317580"}
{"by":"kassovic","time":"1488391033","timestamp":"2017-03-01 17:57:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ARM | IoT Developer Evangelist | Austin, San Jose\u003cp\u003eYou will engage with developer community events, meet-ups, and user groups. You will understand their technical challenges and guide those looking to create smart connected products through one-to-one engagements and the creation of web content.\u003cp\u003eAs part of ARM’s IoT segment team you will be an advocate for emerging technologies and applications, contributing to ARM product roadmap and marketing strategies, and collaborating with ARM partners and the wider ecosystem.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;careers.peopleclick.com\u0026#x2F;careerscp\u0026#x2F;client_arm\u0026#x2F;external\u0026#x2F;gateway.do?functionName=viewFromLink\u0026amp;jobPostId=30274\u0026amp;localeCode=en-us\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;careers.peopleclick.com\u0026#x2F;careerscp\u0026#x2F;client_arm\u0026#x2F;externa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13764728","id":"13766301"}
{"by":"DaniFong","time":"1274297101","timestamp":"2010-05-19 19:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's Bill Joy, too :-) \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcb.com/team/joy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.kpcb.com/team/joy\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1361508","id":"1362023"}
{"by":"herval","time":"1347488356","timestamp":"2012-09-12 22:19:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The most recent builds (coupled with decent hardware, of course) have less and less of these problems. The only lingering problems I see are the lack of good apps (there ARE good apps appearing on Android, but the good/bad ratio is still pretty bad) and the always bad battery life (no matter how low end or high end the device is)...","parent":"4513136","id":"4513560"}
{"by":"ivankirigin","time":"1222399070","timestamp":"2008-09-26 03:17:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given the $1B spent on each shuttle launch, I'm sure he could make it.","parent":"315626","id":"315723"}
{"by":"spacehome","time":"1540190288","timestamp":"2018-10-22 06:38:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The patent troll-fighting heroes have moved on from Newegg. It’s owned by different people now.","parent":"18272363","id":"18272624"}
{"by":"ErikAugust","time":"1455737669","timestamp":"2016-02-17 19:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has anyone released a halfway-decent \u0026#x27;Rate My Landlord\u0026#x27; site? Asking for a friend.","parent":"11120249","id":"11120558"}
{"by":"professorTuring","time":"1404200884","timestamp":"2014-07-01 07:48:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read \u0026quot;little known\u0026quot; and I thought: \u0026quot;cool, I love to learn new commands =)\u0026quot;. Unfortunately most of them are \u0026quot;well known\u0026quot; unix commands (unless you are a newbie).","parent":"7969491","id":"7969579"}
{"by":"shriphani","time":"1533312957","timestamp":"2018-08-03 16:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A point that I\u0026#x27;ve read in N.N. Taleb\u0026#x27;s incerto series is that it is a matter of scale. A small artisan who puts their name on their product is less likely to poison you and fuck your life up. Megacorps though operate with a very different risk profile and can take pretty antisocial decisions.\u003cp\u003eRegulation must keep a watchful eye on the megacorp - a small fishing operation is a net positive for society but a fisheries giant can drive entire species to extinction and threaten food supplies.","parent":"17680589","id":"17681068"}
{"by":"smaili","time":"1383671605","timestamp":"2013-11-05 17:13:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TL;DR - don\u0026#x27;t give up","parent":"6675889","id":"6676295"}
{"by":"kingkawn","time":"1302394156","timestamp":"2011-04-10 00:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And what would you do to expose these same kids to other worlds and ideas so that they don't end up as adults with tunnel vision?","parent":"2428418","id":"2428455"}
{"by":"simonh","time":"1437214436","timestamp":"2015-07-18 10:13:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like a great proposal, but I don\u0026#x27;t see the point of preparing such a mission before we get all the data back from New Horizons. Once we have the latest data, then we\u0026#x27;ll have a much better idea about the kinds of questions that we would like an orbiter probe to answer. Already even with just about 2% of the NH data back, it turns out Pluto is radically different than most planetary scientists predicted. On the basis of the full data set, we\u0026#x27;ll have a much better idea of the types of instruments we\u0026#x27;d need an orbiter to have in order to help solve these mysteries. So while the linked paper is a very useful proof of concept for an orbiter mission, and was in no way a waste of effort, actually building and committing to it and a launch in 2016 would have been a mistake.","parent":"9904697","id":"9907145"}
{"by":"rlpb","time":"1485015372","timestamp":"2017-01-21 16:16:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would be happy to whitelist the sites with which I use oauth\u0026#x2F;openid to log in. If I didn\u0026#x27;t, it would still work; I\u0026#x27;d just have to reauthenticate once for every site.","parent":"13450642","id":"13450673"}
{"by":"akkartik","time":"1377795251","timestamp":"2013-08-29 16:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because everybody has at some point tried to run rake on a new project and found some version incompatibility along the depth of the abyss^Wstack.","parent":"6296827","id":"6296923"}
{"by":"Already__Taken","time":"1497943540","timestamp":"2017-06-20 07:25:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When my athlon died it seemed quick and easy to get a shockingly fast celeron, i think they were nearly 3ghz? I couldn\u0026#x27;t believe how poorly that PC ran compared to the althon chugging at a lowly 2ghz. Got another athlon after a few months and firmly put to bed the ghz war for me.","parent":"14590861","id":"14592753"}
{"by":"skyyler","time":"1478092573","timestamp":"2016-11-02 13:16:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or a generic adapter to hold you over until Type C replaces the old standard","parent":"12819455","id":"12854328"}
{"by":"xenoterracide","time":"1239217083","timestamp":"2009-04-08 18:58:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"a book on postgresql 8.3 (or the to be released 8.4) with some good strong chapters on various PL languages. I'm thinking one on PL/Perl a few on PL/pgSQL, one on PL/SQL, one on SQL/PSM (maybe). several on the rest of Postgres.","parent":"551339","id":"553228"}
{"by":"eitland","time":"1547285030","timestamp":"2019-01-12 09:23:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was about to disagree strongly with your conclusion but you have a point. Not \u003ci\u003eeveryone\u003c/i\u003e had a web site.\u003cp\u003eBut I\u0026#x27;m not totally convinced either: email has been huge despite the configuration needed, also with people who had to take it step by step twice and make notes while doing it. Some figured it out on their own (or more realistically using the step by instructions that came bundled with their first modem). Other had a son or a grandson who\u0026#x27;d picked it up at school. Others got it at work.\u003cp\u003eMy grandparents where the youngest \u003ci\u003egroup\u003c/i\u003e of people I can think of that didn\u0026#x27;t have access to email somehow.\u003cp\u003eAnd my wifes grandparents have\u0026#x2F;had access to mail and used actual mail clients too, not just Hotmail or Gmail.","parent":"18890399","id":"18890440"}
{"by":"sahillavingia","time":"1300756198","timestamp":"2011-03-22 01:09:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out Crate's API? \u003ca href=\"http://letscrate.com/api\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://letscrate.com/api\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2352362","id":"2352497"}
{"by":"bloonlabs","time":"1265575366","timestamp":"2010-02-07 20:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might want to put a \"cancel\" button on the comment form.  The blank comments might be people who are trying to get rid of the comment form after accidentally double-clicking.","parent":"1108137","id":"1108213"}
{"by":"akkartik","time":"1329812959","timestamp":"2012-02-21 08:29:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Export worked for me, but it's moronic. It seems like every user gets all his utterances.. which are utterly useless without context.\u003cp\u003eThey're basically treating the data as if it's email or facebook posts and comments (those last also mostly useless without context). But it's not, it's a far finer granularity of interaction.\u003cp\u003eConvore, please let users download logs for the channels they're members of.","parent":"3613698","id":"3615722"}
{"by":"billmcneale","time":"1291271489","timestamp":"2010-12-02 06:31:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; If these checkpoints were everywhere, i'd opt out of citizenship.\u003cp\u003eBullshit.","parent":"1961158","id":"1961285"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1450287119","timestamp":"2015-12-16 17:31:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Assholes\u0026quot;, it would appear.","parent":"10745647","id":"10745774"}
{"by":"JackFr","time":"1441492330","timestamp":"2015-09-05 22:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are you gonna do? Expel me?","parent":"10175884","dead":true,"id":"10176248"}
{"by":"RodgerTheGreat","time":"1483934418","timestamp":"2017-01-09 04:00:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If anyone is interested in something for comparison, here\u0026#x27;s what it would look like in k6 (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kparc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kparc.com\u003c/a\u003e):\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    v: 1 2 3 4 5 8 10\n    l: \u0026quot;|\u0026quot;\\\u0026quot;eaoinrtlsu|dg|bcmp|fhvwy|k|jx|qz\u0026quot;\n    d: !\u0026#x2F;+,\u0026#x2F;l,\\:\u0026#x27;v\n    t@*\u0026gt;(+\u0026#x2F;d@_:)\u0026#x27;t:0:\u0026quot;dictionary.txt\u0026quot;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nFirst three lines are constructing the dictionary the template in this problem hands to you, and the last line loads the file and finds the item with the maximum scrabble dictionary score.","parent":"13352447","id":"13353898"}
{"by":"rprasad","time":"1330798438","timestamp":"2012-03-03 18:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are substantial differences between movies and other forms of art (i.e,. photos, books, music, etc.), such that what applies to one form may not (and usually, does not) apply to the others.","parent":"3660490","id":"3660670"}
{"by":"becomevocal","time":"1304069376","timestamp":"2011-04-29 09:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome work. Wouldn't say 'available now!', but definitely a glimpse into the future. Absolutely cannot wait until we get some broad \u003ci\u003emobile\u003c/i\u003e WebGL support.","parent":"2494188","id":"2496841"}
{"by":"wfunction","time":"1484710447","timestamp":"2017-01-18 03:34:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know zilch about biology or medicine but my impression is that in biology even A-\u0026gt;B doesn\u0026#x27;t imply A-\u0026gt;B half the time. Like you might do a large study and find that people get obese after consuming fat, only to later find that if you do the same with a different group of people, that doesn\u0026#x27;t happen. (Exaggerating with an example here, not actually claiming this particular example is true. Just trying to illustrate my impression of what a lot of things in the field are like.)","parent":"13423653","id":"13423753"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1525043717","timestamp":"2018-04-29 23:15:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By that definition too much water would also be pollution.\u003cp\u003eYou can not define pollution by quantity, that completely erases the meaning of the word.","parent":"16938650","id":"16954451"}
{"by":"meowface","time":"1408402937","timestamp":"2014-08-18 23:02:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The DEFCON badge challenges are definitely above and beyond what most people are expected to be able to do. It\u0026#x27;s also less about cryptography and more about general puzzle solving and recognition, though good crypto knowledge is just a necessity.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, some of the world\u0026#x27;s best cryptographers would probably not be able to get past the first or second parts, let alone complete the challenge.","parent":"8194032","id":"8195170"}
{"by":"wiz21c","time":"1506329954","timestamp":"2017-09-25 08:59:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the scenery a huge one-time drawing or is it generated as the train progresses ? In any case it\u0026#x27;s truly well done !","parent":"15324954","id":"15328903"}
{"by":"swarnie_","time":"1547559573","timestamp":"2019-01-15 13:39:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait.... What?\u003cp\u003eDid you get lost on your way here? \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18907490\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18907490\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18910959","id":"18911021"}
{"by":"sitharus","time":"1471920428","timestamp":"2016-08-23 02:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really. VR is an entire immersive environment to itself, it doesn\u0026#x27;t have to interact with reality.\u003cp\u003eAR has to blend in to the environment around, so it\u0026#x27;s a different class of problem. It has to locate points in the scene to add things to and project in a believable manner.","parent":"12341014","id":"12341031"}
{"by":"DoveBrown","time":"1510326932","timestamp":"2017-11-10 15:15:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The tests for where someone is a self-employed contractor vs an (\u0026quot;disquised\u0026quot;) employee are Control (how much control does the person have over how they do task), Substitution (do they personally have to do the task) and Mutuality of obligation (how tied are they together).\u003cp\u003eI think the ruling makes it clear that Uber has a huge amount of control over the driver, how they do their job and how many fares they take (with penalties). Since Uber is interviewing the drivers and requiring that that driver show up for the fare, it\u0026#x27;s not clear that a driver can substitute someone else for their fare). You can argue that there is an obligation on the specific driver to complete fares for Uber and the driver depends on Uber to supply fares. The ruling makes sense that they are employees as UK law defines the term.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think you can argue that an App Store developer is a disguised employee in the same way, Apple\u0026#x2F;Google have very little control over how I write my app, they don\u0026#x27;t care if I write it or I subcontract and I don\u0026#x27;t think Apple have any expectation that I will write the app.","parent":"15670008","id":"15670367"}
{"by":"jws","time":"1398960889","timestamp":"2014-05-01 16:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are right! Hope no one was listening when I made my donation.\u003cp\u003eIf you try to use SSL you will find a certificate mismatch with the host as well.\u003cp\u003eOk. Don\u0026#x27;t donate, put a reminder in your planner to come back and try to change the world next week.","parent":"7680599","id":"7680673"}
{"by":"scott_karana","time":"1410893782","timestamp":"2014-09-16 18:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I think it\u0026#x27;s really important to remember that the initial versions of iOS \u003ci\u003eonly allowed for JavaScript widgets\u003c/i\u003e, no applications at all!\u003cp\u003eEnterprising hackers who jailbroke the devices paved the way for the App Store as we know it: \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e Apple.","parent":"8274591","id":"8326307"}
{"by":"brobdingnagians","time":"1547142701","timestamp":"2019-01-10 17:51:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like a petty dictator pushing everyone to think and act the same; manipulating people until they give in because it takes too much effort to resist. He should consider a career in politics... I always get uncomfortable when I know people who pull stunts like that in RL and it is irritating when it dramatically affects an otherwise very good operating system. I use Void Linux just to avoid systemd, considering its long track record of horrific bugs and security issues.","parent":"18873928","id":"18876083"}
{"by":"ootachi","time":"1297800522","timestamp":"2011-02-15 20:08:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you used Firefox 4, and if so, do you have things in particular that are slow?","parent":"2222968","id":"2223026"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1386123215","timestamp":"2013-12-04 02:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check youtube, there are already several uploads of the video there.","parent":"6844291","id":"6844566"}
{"by":"braveo","time":"1476918303","timestamp":"2016-10-19 23:05:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Me too. In fact, it concerns me how angry stupid decisions make me these days.\u003cp\u003eAre you me?  I\u0026#x27;m the epitome of the old grumpy programmer.  I have this love\u0026#x2F;hate relationship with technology.  One the one hand I still love it, on the other hand I hate 99.9% of the tech I come into contact with because it\u0026#x27;s always shit for some reason or other.","parent":"12745572","id":"12748493"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1480624196","timestamp":"2016-12-01 20:29:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please don\u0026#x27;t stoop to personal attacks. It breaks the rules and discredits your argument.\u003cp\u003eWe detached this subthread from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13082125\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13082125\u003c/a\u003e and marked it off-topic.","parent":"13082164","id":"13083212"}
{"by":"grahamburger","time":"1516142554","timestamp":"2018-01-16 22:42:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(author here) I personally know probably a dozen or so people who have built a network like this, got enough customers to live comfortably for a while, and are either still doing that or eventually sold to a larger company and moved on to other things. So yes it can be profitable on a small scale.","parent":"16163145","id":"16163467"}
{"by":"endian","time":"1297825315","timestamp":"2011-02-16 03:01:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"or a Fake name... \u003ca href=\"http://caterina.net/archive/000622.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://caterina.net/archive/000622.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2224504","id":"2224737"}
{"by":"FeministHacker","time":"1298994985","timestamp":"2011-03-01 15:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're missing the point.\u003cp\u003eThe issue is not the raw numbers, but the pychological problem - that people like you are not in power, or not as equally holding power. That you are not of the type of people who have power.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, there are other privileges, like White privilege, middle/upper-class privilege, straight privilege, cis privilege, not-abused privilege, and so on. These intersect to cause more issues again.","parent":"2275572","id":"2275866"}
{"by":"pyalot2","time":"1381496446","timestamp":"2013-10-11 13:00:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EME has a proprietary part, the CDM (content decryption module).\u003cp\u003eIn order for the browser (its compositor etc.) to work, the browser needs access to the plain (unencrypted) content, to do things like layering (alpha blending) elements on top of each other, CSS transformations, CSS shading and putting things into WebGL.\u003cp\u003eIf the CDM would give the browser access to the plain content, then the browser (or any program) could just dump the plain content to disk, exactly what EME\u0026#x2F;CDM is designed to prevent. In that scenario only proprietary browsers would be able to implement EME.\u003cp\u003eIn above scenario, if EME was adopted across major web properties (like netflix, amazon, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, bbc, facebook etc.) then it would mean that Open Source\u0026#x2F;community browsers would be regarded as \u0026quot;the browsers that don\u0026#x27;t work\u0026quot; and would loose substantial market share and couldn\u0026#x27;t gain traction. This would be very bad for the Web as it would revert the Web back to a browser monoculture (of the kind we already had with IE6). Innovation would stall.\u003cp\u003eI suspect that the existing EME\u0026#x2F;CDM implementation in IE11 and Chromebooks is based on the CDM sharing plain content with the browser (for reasons I\u0026#x27;ll get to below).\u003cp\u003eIf the CDM does not share the plain content with the browser, and the browser just gets to instruct the CDM to \u0026quot;draw there\u0026quot;, then that means that: You cannot layer stuff on top of the content (customized playback controls, user annotations, closed captions, advertising, other informational\u0026#x2F;navigational elements, branding etc.). You couldn\u0026#x27;t CSS transform the container with the content. You couldn\u0026#x27;t CSS shade\u0026#x2F;filter the content. You couldn\u0026#x27;t control its CSS opacity and you can\u0026#x27;t put the content into WebGL. You couldn\u0026#x27;t easily implement tab-switching (or alternative schemes of tabbing).\u003cp\u003eThis would be a serious drawback for EME, and it would make it practically unusable on most web properties that might want to use it (every web property adds its own social features, playback, branding and advertising to the content it serves up).\u003cp\u003eThat means that the only two choices to make EME work are either seriously crippling the Web altogether by remaking it into a proprietary monoculture, or crippling EME so much that nobody would want to use it.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a very bad standard.","parent":"6532611","id":"6532768"}
{"by":"olh","time":"1364057347","timestamp":"2013-03-23 16:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do not go with kibeloco. They are known for stealing content. There is even a verb invented to describe stealing online content thanks to them: \"kibar\".","parent":"5428137","id":"5428781"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1373462853","timestamp":"2013-07-10 13:27:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there is a range of tools that would making biking safer. I saw a lighting system that outlined a \u0026quot;box\u0026quot; around the cyclist. Some kind of automatic horn\u0026#x2F;led-flasher that would activate if a car got too close might be of some value.","parent":"6018450","id":"6019299"}
{"by":"electromagnetic","time":"1251419133","timestamp":"2009-08-28 00:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've studied psychology, sociology and some medical care and am in no way a licensed professional (I'm purely debating on what I know, there are likely doctors far more knowledgeable on this subject, but as yet there have been no scientific studies on the behaviour effects, so anything other than infection prevalence and the acute symptoms of toxoplasmosis are wild speculation anyway), so I got into reading journals on them all (plus magazines like New Scientist), so personally I'd recommend journals if you can. The Lancet (which is essentially \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e medical journal in the UK) is a quality journal; I know they had an article on prenatal toxoplasmosis treatment, a good one IIRC, in the first half of 2007.\u003cp\u003eOther than that, I'd say a quality medical dictionary or an excellent anatomy textbook like Gray's Anatomy wouldn't do you harm for the inquisitive mind. There are lots of texts out there, once you get acquainted with some it becomes easier to find others.\u003cp\u003eI personally believe you're better of understanding your body and medicine, because if you ever get sick you're stuck relying on another human being and not a living embodiment of scientific facts. You're never going to know something doesn't sound right, if you don't know what your doctor is talking about. I'd also add, \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c/i\u003e get a second opinion for even moderate care issues (if you can, I live in Canada and grew up in the UK with Universal Healthcare, I'm aware this isn't necessarily practical for everyone in the US who may read this), or at least find and discuss your medical concerns with others, it can sometimes help. I realised my psoriasis wasn't eczema (which I was originally diagnosed with) when I noticed the difference between mine and all the other kids, like I've said elsewhere it spread to 20% of my body because I was told it was benign. I knew a girl with 70% coverage because she'd been misdiagnosed; a single flare-up of her 'eczema' caused her to breakout over nearly her entire torso and needed hospitalization for about a month to get it under control.","parent":"790127","id":"790443"}
{"by":"raintrees","time":"1285221333","timestamp":"2010-09-23 05:55:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Food for thought: When wading through 100s of resumes, I do use frequent spelling/grammar errors to help me cull...","parent":"1716855","id":"1718738"}
{"by":"dred_blue","time":"1400819231","timestamp":"2014-05-23 04:27:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;This inert silicon dioxide might be recycled back to a silicon smelter or used locally in land fill.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eEdited:\n\u0026quot;A restricting factor here is that the SiO2 oxidation product remains with the silicon and partially restricts its subsequent oxidation.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003edid you even read the article?","parent":"7787937","id":"7787972"}
{"by":"asomiv","time":"1308669160","timestamp":"2011-06-21 15:12:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How times have changed. Not too long ago people loathed automatic updates and some said they're boycotting Firefox for having an autoupdate feature.","parent":"2678971","id":"2679057"}
{"by":"drdeca","time":"1457932530","timestamp":"2016-03-14 05:15:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought full AIXI wasn\u0026#x27;t computable though?","parent":"11281188","id":"11281200"}
{"by":"samuel","time":"1258264493","timestamp":"2009-11-15 05:54:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for your eye-widening comment. It's surprising how we swallow \"well known facts\" as this (everybody pretends to know that we import energy from french nuclears), without any research.\u003cp\u003eThe comment you answer wasn't mine, but it could have been. Thanks.","parent":"942455","id":"942676"}
{"by":"repolfx","time":"1534953137","timestamp":"2018-08-22 15:52:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No? But all those sites are filled with great art of various sorts. The combination of easy publishing and relatively easy lives has created the sort of \u0026quot;millions of people being creative and doing art\u0026quot; that utopians always imagined.","parent":"17818986","id":"17819566"}
{"by":"harryh","time":"1442497550","timestamp":"2015-09-17 13:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is research on this. It won\u0026#x27;t work the way you hope. Here is the problem:\u003cp\u003eWhat happens if in a single batch you have more buy orders than sell orders at a given price (or vice versa)?","parent":"10233237","id":"10233278"}
{"by":"joe_the_user","time":"1542693516","timestamp":"2018-11-20 05:58:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems likely that soldiers will still be fighting on each side for quite a while and moreover, it is certain that there will be civilian casualties aside from the military casualties on at least the losing side.\u003cp\u003eThink of it this way - war isn\u0026#x27;t a game. Each side has a strong incentive to make the other side \u003ci\u003efear\u003c/i\u003e to go to war with it. Killing people is a necessary part of this. The progression of technology has generally resulted in an advantage for the attacker over the defender. So two armies in conflict aren\u0026#x27;t going work by \u0026quot;may the best robot win while we humans watch\u0026quot; Rather, it seems much more likely a robot war of the future would be something \u0026quot;my swarm of death bots kills your people while your swarm kills mine\u0026quot;.","parent":"18492031","id":"18492063"}
{"by":"dualogy","time":"1260145474","timestamp":"2009-12-07 00:24:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some companies and people profit from it and have figured out ways to do it, so... disagreed.","parent":"980399","id":"980414"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1286422725","timestamp":"2010-10-07 03:38:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"method_missing / AUTOLOAD is a great way to break any tools that rely on being able to introspect your classes.\u003cp\u003eFor something as simple as this, just add the methods to the class in a loop.  Then you class works just like every other class; no introspection is broken.  It's also faster at runtime.","parent":"1766381","id":"1766749"}
{"by":"oneeyedpigeon","time":"1546777907","timestamp":"2019-01-06 12:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simple text files, in markdown format. Currently working on a few little tools to manage them, including a simple web-based editor. That will let me take notes on Mac, iPad, Android phone, etc.","parent":"18837345","id":"18838009"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1377995986","timestamp":"2013-09-01 00:39:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why is a finite set not random?\u003cp\u003eFirst, for a given finite set, one cannot say it\u0026#x27;s not random, only that its randomness cannot be proven.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s think a bit about what we mean by \u0026quot;random\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e* Is an even distribution of the digits 0-9, and no preferred sequential order, evidence for randomness? Yes, but not very good evidence.\u003cp\u003e* How about sequences of digits taken two at a time -- if each pair of digits is equally likely and shows no discernible pattern in their order, then we can say that the set meets the twin test.\u003cp\u003e* Now to triplets -- does each set of three digits show a complete absence of pattern, i.e. are 000, 001, etc. equally likely and have no preferred ordering?\u003cp\u003eDo you see where this is going? For any finite set size, the randomness tests must end when the digit sequence size to be tested equals the set\u0026#x27;s finite size. That means we cannot fully test the set, and the reason is that it\u0026#x27;s finite in size.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; What if it\u0026#x27;s a random selection from the set of all sets?\u003cp\u003eWell,\u003cp\u003e* Typical examples drawn from an infinite random set won\u0026#x27;t themselves be provably random. Consider if we draw three digits from an infinite, random set -- they won\u0026#x27;t be likely to be random in isolation. Extend this to a selection of N digits from an infinite, random set -- as N increases, the probability of the selected set being random increases, but cannot be truly, provably random for any finite value of N.\u003cp\u003e* A random selection isn\u0026#x27;t the same as a random set. If I randomly select a location within an infinite set, I have no assurance that my random choice of N digits will itself prove to be be random, therefore my having chosen a random starting point doesn\u0026#x27;t either aid or hinder the process.\u003cp\u003eConsider these seeming paradoxes (not really paradoxical):\u003cp\u003e* Within an infinite random set, there will be an infinite number of examples (and repetitions) of infinitely repeating digits, i.e. infinite sequences of 1111 ... , 2222 ..., etc. In fact, if we accept the premise that the infinite set is in fact random, such repeating sequences \u003ci\u003emust exist\u003c/i\u003e somewhere in the set, or the set is not random.\u003cp\u003e* Within an infinite random set, with appropriate search tools, we \u003ci\u003ewill find\u003c/i\u003e every book ever written or to be written, every state secret, every mathematical equation ever written or to be written, essentially everything. It\u0026#x27;s a simple matter of knowing where to look.\u003cp\u003eGiven these examples, if we choose an arbitrary index within the infinite random set from which to extract 40,000 numbers in base 26, we cannot be sure the extract will not be a work of Shakespeare with every word spelled correctly. Obviously that\u0026#x27;s not a random subset. Therefore we cannot have any assurance that a subset of a random set is itself random.\u003cp\u003eConsider the infinite sequence represented by the digits of Pi. If we examine the digits of Pi expressed in base 26, where A = 0, B = 1, etc., it should be obvious that we will begin to see dictionary words of increasing size rather quickly in a practical search using present-day tools. To get a work of Shakespeare, one need only search more deeply.","parent":"6308569","id":"6308655"}
{"by":"megous","time":"1537959812","timestamp":"2018-09-26 11:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s probably the good old distraction technique. As long as there\u0026#x27;s an external enemy, the internal enemies of the people (corrupt government) is spared some pressure. Also military needs to be fed (both litarally at soldier level and metaphorically the corrupt officials, and arms suppliers), so unless you have some \u0026quot;enemy\u0026quot;, it\u0026#x27;s hard to justify all the large training and expenditures.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure awarding contracts is also good way to siphon out some public money for Kremlin\u0026#x27;s cronies.","parent":"17986665","id":"18074657"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1238074481","timestamp":"2009-03-26 13:34:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAs a parent, it is likely you have more and varied business connections than your son/daughter. Do you know anyone you could introduce them to who might be able to help them along both monetarily, as a seed or angel investor, and/or as an advisor if (a-d) were to happen to you?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's the primary reason I am here on HN. (Well, actually the primary reason I signed up for a user account is that I lurked into some very interesting discussions here over several months, repeatedly following the link here from Paul Graham's essays, but what I claim I'm learning is entrepreneurial skills I can use for myself and impart to the next generation of my family.)\u003cp\u003eAgreed that sometimes parental connections are WAY more valuable than parental money. I know some spectacular examples from my own generation, as I know (as a professional school classmate) the child of a Vice President of the United States. Most of my personal connections are not closely related to the career interests of my oldest son, but it only takes one person who knows one other person and so on if all the relationships are friendly and pro-active.","parent":"533107","id":"533419"}
{"by":"yarri","time":"1397661729","timestamp":"2014-04-16 15:22:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This question was asked at the tech conference yesterday, and they may clarify it in the MDK [0] but the project team seemed to downplay this aspect, preferring to pitch the idea of a \u0026quot;low cost mobile phone for the next billion users.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eStill, the modules can be emitters (ie., BT\u0026#x2F;ZigBe modules) although they were unclear about how module developers would get these certified. And I guess no one is stopping you from adding cables to a module, but the UniPro based and M-PHY current specs wouldn\u0026#x27;t get you very far... 10cm cable perhaps?\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://www.projectara.com/mdk/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.projectara.com\u0026#x2F;mdk\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7597866","id":"7598322"}
{"by":"logicchains","time":"1538928452","timestamp":"2018-10-07 16:07:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The first study you link to doesn’t look at IQ, it looks at how people assess one another’s IQ, which is not the same.\u003cp\u003eFrom the article I linked:\n\u0026quot;Each student in the picture completed a Czech version of the Intelligence Structure Test that uses various types of tools to measure the different types of intelligence. The images were close-ups of the students’ faces, which featured a neutral, non-smiling expression, and did not wear jewelry or cosmetics, Business Insider reported.\u003cp\u003eThe raters took their time rating each photograph for either intelligence or attractiveness. Of the raters, 43 women and 42 men judged photos for intelligence, and 42 women and 33 men judged them for attractiveness using a scale of 1 to 7 (1 being the highest score, 7 being the lowest possible score). The researchers then averaged the intelligence and attractiveness scores each student received.\u003cp\u003eThe findings revealed both men and women were able to accurately evaluate the intelligence of men by just viewing the facial photographs. Men in the photos with a higher IQ were perceived as more intelligent much more than women in the photos who also had higher IQ scores. In both sexes, a narrower face with a thinner chin, and a larger, prolonged nose characterized the predicted stereotype of a higher IQ, while a rather oval and broader face with a massive chin and a smallish nose led to a prediction of low-intelligence.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNote the lines \u0026quot;Each student in the picture completed a Czech version of the Intelligence Structure Test\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;\nThe findings revealed both men and women were able to accurately evaluate the intelligence of men by just viewing the facial photographs.\u0026quot; So the study did actually measure peoples\u0026#x27; IQs using a standardised IQ test, and compared the results of the tests to peoples\u0026#x27; assesment of others\u0026#x27; IQ based on their faces, showing a correspondence between the IQ people estimated based on faces and the actual IQ scores.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a study that directly shows a correlation between sexuality and facial anatomy: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.researchgate.net\u0026#x2F;publication\u0026#x2F;270290521_Facial_Structure_Predicts_Sexual_Orientation_in_Both_Men_and_Women\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.researchgate.net\u0026#x2F;publication\u0026#x2F;270290521_Facial_St...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18160730","id":"18161222"}
{"by":"maciejgryka","time":"1454250649","timestamp":"2016-01-31 14:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That really depends on what you want to do - I bet there are still people making very decent living after learning how to make WordPress themes in 2005. Sure, you need to keep up to date and constantly learn, but you don\u0026#x27;t necessarily need to know details about how Apache works if you\u0026#x27;re just making a portfolio page.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t want to discourage anyone from learning hard topics - it can be very rewarding and useful. I just object to the sentiment that learning how to use a tool has no value if you don\u0026#x27;t have an intimate understanding of it. It still gives you the power to solve new problems.","parent":"11006404","id":"11006490"}
{"by":"fxj","time":"1300050538","timestamp":"2011-03-13 21:08:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"25 years after chernobyl, we still find contaminated material in germany. e.g. mushrooms and wild boar. so i would be VERY carful with such a bold statement as in the linked article.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/langfristige-folgen-von-tschernobyl-strahlende-pilze-belastete-schweine-1.1012078\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/langfristige-folgen-von-ts...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"And the willingness to eat contaminated venison has dropped obviously, more and more hunters and forest owners can check the meat of wild boars - and compensation from the Federal Ministry of Environment, if they can not eat the contaminated venison because of the large cesium-137 content or sell.\u003cp\u003e€ 424 650 paid by the Federal Ministry of Environment last year for it. In the first half of 2010, the amount of compensation was 130,000 euros. 2008 there were 380,000 euros and 104,000 euros in 2007.\"","parent":"2318980","id":"2320241"}
{"by":"londons_explore","time":"1544962941","timestamp":"2018-12-16 12:22:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think such a scheme is workable because what would the import tax be on a macbook? (it\u0026#x27;s made from millions of components and hundreds of materials, and the exact quantities aren\u0026#x27;t known)  How about the tax on a google search? (all the energy into that remote datacenter)\u003cp\u003eAlso consider where the fee goes...   Lets say you\u0026#x27;re Saudi Arabia.  You decide this plan is great, so you stick a massive $50 per barrel fee on oil out of your wells.   You then realise that your oil isn\u0026#x27;t selling great in the world market, so you end up giving the oil industry support in the form of investment to dig new cheaper wells, since to do so is good business for both you and them.   As long as you only give them $49 of support, you\u0026#x27;re still coming out ahead overall.\u003cp\u003eUnless the \u0026#x27;tax\u0026#x27; is given to a benevolent world leader, then whoever collects this carbon tax will have an incentive to increase carbon emissions to collect more tax.","parent":"18692763","id":"18692800"}
{"by":"kiennt","time":"1359040788","timestamp":"2013-01-24 15:19:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Redis used event loop model to handle requests. So basically, at any time, there is only 1 thread change data. This model make redis fast and still guarantee data is atomic. I wonder if thredis use thread how thredis solve that issue?","parent":"5109411","id":"5109939"}
{"by":"loceng","time":"1376612091","timestamp":"2013-08-16 00:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is amazing!","parent":"6220739","id":"6221438"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1482178950","timestamp":"2016-12-19 20:22:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being too slow for robotics is a extremely general statement. A robot that needs to drive a car is very different than something that has to move things.\u003cp\u003eThe bottleneck is the fact that this is a ongoing research topic and integrating these things into a robotics system still requires effort.","parent":"13214169","id":"13214692"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1477077851","timestamp":"2016-10-21 19:24:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a long time, I\u0026#x27;ve wondered what would finally be the Securitypocalypse, the thing that finally caused our industry as a whole to take security seriously. These IoT DDoS attacks are as good a candidate as any I\u0026#x27;ve seen in a long time. They are fundamentally very difficult to fix in light of the non-updateability of many of these devices, and this is only the beginning, because the IoT has hardly begun to develop. And in the short-term, I\u0026#x27;m not sure I see any hope, because the forces that make people throw out cheap devices with broken firmwares with no update capability aren\u0026#x27;t going away.\u003cp\u003eIf we could somehow mandate that these devices were supported with firmware updates for the indefinite future, that would simply destroy the entire market. And you can\u0026#x27;t do that, because even the devices created by an entity that no longer exists and didn\u0026#x27;t sell its IP to anybody else will eventually be enough to do these DDoSes, if they aren\u0026#x27;t already.","parent":"12763501","id":"12763747"}
{"by":"nwh","time":"1383687864","timestamp":"2013-11-05 21:44:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. I\u0026#x27;m saying that a program that costs a massive monthly fee and is pretty much impossible to avoid in this industry is should not be this constantly bad.","parent":"6676066","id":"6678592"}
{"by":"helb","time":"1494490207","timestamp":"2017-05-11 08:10:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heh, i thought this was a tool to find lost wireless earbuds… somehow. Got a bit confused when i reached that \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;especially for Mother\u0026#x27;s Day\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"14308978","id":"14314519"}
{"by":"nyxtom","time":"1528233479","timestamp":"2018-06-05 21:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a non-useful comment so feel free downvote, but the product offerings for GitLab sound ironically like Windows released product offerings.","parent":"17240349","id":"17242166"}
{"by":"valdiorn","time":"1399978070","timestamp":"2014-05-13 10:47:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only for specific crimes, IIRC.\u003cp\u003eSurely you can decide for yourself if you press charges or not  on a break-in or a theft (sometimes such cases are just a case of misunderstanding, etc, so people can just work it out and nobody needs to go to court)\u003cp\u003eI think murder or assault is out of your hands, as it\u0026#x27;s considered in the public\u0026#x27;s interest to prosecute such crimes.","parent":"7734430","id":"7737449"}
{"by":"gaiusparx","time":"1294824118","timestamp":"2011-01-12 09:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google as always wants us to use their beta software. This thread has generated much debates. I'm always suspicious when big corporation touts ideology as their cause. Don't fall into the pray. Just asked the question \"Where is the money?\" and you can guess the real reason for their move. Google seems to think that they have the clouts to influence all area of humanity, in this case the audio/visual entertainment industry that includes set top boxes, chip and hardware makers etc. They are fighter all wars (MS Office, iPhone, Bing, Facebook) by spreading themselves thinly. I believe these few years will see the start of decline of Google as a company.","parent":"2094017","id":"2095527"}
{"by":"mrbrowning","time":"1486535263","timestamp":"2017-02-08 06:27:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a good point, and I didn\u0026#x27;t mean to parrot FUD by implying that that multiple definitely exists; more that, even if die-hard C++ boosters are right about it existing, it\u0026#x27;s still not the ace in the hole it\u0026#x27;s made out to be given all of the other factors that likely overwhelm it.","parent":"13590779","id":"13596258"}
{"by":"alunchbox","time":"1496859436","timestamp":"2017-06-07 18:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had actually wanted to reply my original post to people discussing mdn not being the first result on a google search but I find my general work flow falls around ctrl+t (new tab) - I have a specialized extension for something on that page so it doesn\u0026#x27;t redirect me to google.ca. For a search I just type \u0026#x27;m\u0026#x27; as I have it setup to be my main keyword and \u0026#x27;y\u0026#x27; for youtube along with \u0026#x27;h\u0026#x27; for hacker news search. And if I want to do a search from the same tab I do alt+l to get to url and I\u0026#x27;m not losing any thought process or needing to filter through some other ad garbage coming from google when I\u0026#x27;m in the flow, just get me to the meat and potatoes (of course YouTube and hackernews are not things I search for regularly during productive work flows ;) )","parent":"14508168","id":"14508626"}
{"by":"metafunctor","time":"1447079931","timestamp":"2015-11-09 14:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"She says that Peter Saramo has been affected by pro-russian propaganda, not that he would be directly involved in producing it.  Saramo is of the opinion that Russian trolling does not exist, and that Aro is spreading unsubstantiated lies.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t easily find what the false information is that Aro claims Saramo has been spreading about her.","parent":"10533074","id":"10533230"}
{"by":"rurban","time":"1544564882","timestamp":"2018-12-11 21:48:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was co-maintainer of PhpWiki those times. Jimbo contacted us in 2001 with this crazy idea, if he could use our software. We were all pretty active around Ward\u0026#x27;s wiki and the UseModWiki meta site, with thousands of articles, and established standards. \nBut Jimbo was a newbie and demanded totally crazy things from us, which we denied. Like representing a space in a title as _. You cannot just break the 1:1 relationship of titles to 1:n. Every legal page can only start with an uppercase char. Totally silly ideas. But we still liked the crazy idea of these folks. eg one of their first pages was PoliTics, explaining that this consists of two words, the first meaning Many and the seconds Blood Sucking Insects.\u003cp\u003eEventually they took our diff implementation written by Jeff Dairiki, but unfortunately not our much better page, template and plugin solutions, which was extremely safe to use and to extend, not as horrible as their adhoc written MediaWiki SW. This was more like the Sourceforge SW. \nWell, another example of Worse is better.","parent":"18654917","id":"18659244"}
{"by":"ZanyProgrammer","time":"1434392799","timestamp":"2015-06-15 18:26:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that\u0026#x27;s a very Protestant, Whiggish view of things. Catholic Emancipation in the UK wasn\u0026#x27;t complete until 1829 for example. The idea of the Glorious Revolution as ushering in a democratic and free era was really only true if you were an Anglican, slightly less so for Dissenters, and very much less so for Catholics (both in Britain and Ireland).\u003cp\u003eI think a lot of those crises in Europe were just continuations of the Reformation in many respects.","parent":"9721029","id":"9721065"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1494735844","timestamp":"2017-05-14 04:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elected official\u0026#x27;s job status is defined by statute. Money is irrelevant.\u003cp\u003eThis is often a matter of serious debate. For example, in New York legislators are considered part time, so they are permitted to operate businesses or be employed while in office. This creates an appearance (at a minimum) of conflict of interest in many scenarios. Full time employees of government generally need permission by the appointing authority to do meaningful outside business.\u003cp\u003eThis applies to any government employee. A janitor on government payroll generally needs permission to work for a company that cleans offices at night.","parent":"14333391","id":"14334211"}
{"by":"fleitz","time":"1405987627","timestamp":"2014-07-22 00:07:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re ignoring brand synergy.\u003cp\u003eFlurry is a perfect fit brand-wise.\u003cp\u003eWhat\u0026#x27;s the point of having a 3rd rate photo sharing service if you don\u0026#x27;t have 3rd rate analytics to go with it, and who wants growth when the rest of the company is dying?","parent":"8066552","id":"8066769"}
{"by":"IronBacon","time":"1529600236","timestamp":"2018-06-21 16:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m wondering if RAM prices have some influence in GPU card prices, DDR4 right now costs double than last year... ;__;\u003cp\u003eGPUs don\u0026#x27;t use DDR4 tho.","parent":"17363875","id":"17366929"}
{"by":"vbezhenar","time":"1505978625","timestamp":"2017-09-21 07:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s wrong, a lot of JDK api doesn\u0026#x27;t return null (and a lot of API throws NPE for null arguments). Assuming that everything can return or take null would make Kotlin code unnecessary verbose. It\u0026#x27;s a valid approach, but not the most pragmatic one.","parent":"15300762","id":"15301194"}
{"by":"stormbrew","time":"1413934210","timestamp":"2014-10-21 23:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A sibling post mentions a thing called vcsh (with no additional details) that appears to allow you to do just that with the same premise by overlapping multiple repositories onto your homedir.","parent":"8489074","id":"8490771"}
{"by":"3pt14159","time":"1384376106","timestamp":"2013-11-13 20:55:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t much depth to the market. I have some bitcoins, but since I\u0026#x27;ve already made 50 times my original investment I\u0026#x27;m holding the rest.\u003cp\u003eSome people have super fat stacks though (10s or 100s of millions of dollars worth) they are trying to use the money by \u003ci\u003espending\u003c/i\u003e it because they are trying to build up the bitcoin merchant community.","parent":"6728374","id":"6728423"}
{"by":"nxzero","time":"1472303964","timestamp":"2016-08-27 13:19:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Working your butt off has zero to do with having a executable vision that creates value.\u003cp\u003eClearly shit needs to get done, but there\u0026#x27;s only so many hours in the a life of a startup and being able to see what needs to be done ultimately is more important than just getting stuff done.\n__\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e- Bill Gates","parent":"12371978","id":"12372228"}
{"by":"coleifer","time":"1542397249","timestamp":"2018-11-16 19:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thankfully they mostly stay in their own little excrement filled sandbox.","parent":"18469093","id":"18471388"}
{"by":"nsommer","time":"1487934163","timestamp":"2017-02-24 11:02:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it\u0026#x27;s a fullstack framework.","parent":"13722522","id":"13722610"}
{"by":"rbag","time":"1511329980","timestamp":"2017-11-22 05:53:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something nice is also the fact that the people impacted by the breach must be told 72 hours max after the company is aware of the hack.","parent":"15752138","id":"15754586"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1531246382","timestamp":"2018-07-10 18:13:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not how credit cards work, and at any rate it\u0026#x27;s pretty difficult to get a loan for jewelry. It\u0026#x27;s the difference between \u0026quot;secured\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;unsecured.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe ownership can be called into question if that card wasn\u0026#x27;t paid off before the person responsible died\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn what legal basis?","parent":"17500683","id":"17500703"}
{"by":"keithpeter","time":"1431149789","timestamp":"2015-05-09 05:36:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Manjaro is a derivative of Arch that includes repositories that are delayed for a few weeks to allow any occasional bugs to be caught. Manjaro Live ISOs provide an installer and hardware detection as well. Just in case anyone wants a play.","parent":"9515496","id":"9515639"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1476906284","timestamp":"2016-10-19 19:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can they improve the resolution of the scanned document by exploiting that multiple images are taken from different angles?","parent":"12743822","id":"12747038"}
{"by":"brianwski","time":"1461610216","timestamp":"2016-04-25 18:50:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;utlizing\u0026#x27; -\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;utilizing\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eDang it!  We will fix, thanks.","parent":"11566288","id":"11566365"}
{"by":"niggler","time":"1366812016","timestamp":"2013-04-24 14:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In this project, the tee is $40.  In VM the tee is $25.\u003cp\u003eBut I think the soundtrack was seen by Braff as a Big Deal, which is probably why it shows up at a lower price point ($20) than the tee.","parent":"5601425","id":"5601457"}
{"by":"Matti","time":"1382815465","timestamp":"2013-10-26 19:24:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those of you who think this is a positive review might want to read it again, more carefully this time.","parent":"6617137","id":"6618829"}
{"by":"bootload","time":"1266889735","timestamp":"2010-02-23 01:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"... Here's a great article about the \"single founder myth\" that also references pg ...\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood ref. If you see articles like this, add them to the stack ~ \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144353\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144353\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1144151","id":"1144357"}
{"by":"civilian","time":"1492547445","timestamp":"2017-04-18 20:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e2. Having a housewife leaves the man with more free time to work.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s hypothesis 2 of the three that they looked at, that marriage \u0026quot;makes a man a more productive worker\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThere is a need for a study. What if employers are simply assuming that married men are better workers (hypothesis 3), but married men aren\u0026#x27;t actually better workers? Than as an unmarried man, I\u0026#x27;m getting discriminated against, and marital status is a protected class. This is good shit to look at.","parent":"14142569","id":"14142624"}
{"by":"brendangregg","time":"1493511651","timestamp":"2017-04-30 00:20:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RDMSR is an instruction, not a syscall. It\u0026#x27;s not clear to me either why this needs a kernel module. It\u0026#x27;s similar to i7z, which from memory does not use it\u0026#x27;s own kernel module.\u003cp\u003eeBPF can read the relevant PMCs as of Linux 4.9. eg, the llcstat tool in bcc does this. (It was something I pushed for, and Alexei delivered)","parent":"14227625","id":"14229541"}
{"by":"strictnein","time":"1424191476","timestamp":"2015-02-17 16:44:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll flip the question:\nConsidering that coal has provided a very significant amount of the electrical power and heat for humans over the past 100 years, how many lives has coal saved? How much has it improved the human experience?\u003cp\u003ePut simply, a world without coal is a horrible world.","parent":"9062854","id":"9063209"}
{"by":"slededit","time":"1513875666","timestamp":"2017-12-21 17:01:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nobody has explained why this was suddenly needed with the iPhone 6 and above. It\u0026#x27;s not like the iPhone 5 didn\u0026#x27;t have a battery.","parent":"15980218","id":"15980514"}
{"by":"dkarl","time":"1240935794","timestamp":"2009-04-28 16:23:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm pretty sure it was already balanced by the preponderance of extended meditations on the indignities suffered by nerds.  It's not like jocks blog insightfully about their social anxieties.  Hell, I don't think most popular kids understood what was going on at all.  They were just going on instinct.  It's nice to see some actual analysis about the other side of the equation for a change, and it seems like a bad idea to immediately swing the focus back to the side that we already understand.","parent":"583331","id":"583433"}
{"by":"ezrast","time":"1531267697","timestamp":"2018-07-11 00:08:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t really a line because \u0026quot;a decent VPS\u0026quot; is exactly what EC2 is. You use it if you\u003cp\u003e* are averse to the kind of risk that comes with being tied to a smaller provider, and\u0026#x2F;or\u003cp\u003e* are not averse to the kind of risk that comes with being tied to a provider who cares not one whit for your well-being because your business is insignificant to them, and\u0026#x2F;or\u003cp\u003e* actually have a use for, and staff with the expertise to take advantage of, any of the million proprietary bells and whistles that AWS provides, and\u003cp\u003e* are not averse to absolutely abysmal UX.\u003cp\u003eDiscourse falls mostly into category 3 above; as Sam enumerates they are taking advantage of a bunch of various AWS offerings and have split off several of their supporting services onto their own instances. Those things can be built up gradually; you don\u0026#x27;t just wake up one day and decide to become \u0026quot;Enterprise\u0026quot; and watch all your costs increase by two orders of magnitude.","parent":"17500788","id":"17503341"}
{"by":"kordless","time":"1412085617","timestamp":"2014-09-30 14:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the parent was relating what was believed \u003ci\u003eat the time\u003c/i\u003e, not what is common knowledge today.  I\u0026#x27;m not sure he\u0026#x27;s pushing his views on anyone, but more relating what the view at the time was.  Careful of cognitive dissonance here - what once once was isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily what is today.","parent":"8388099","id":"8388152"}
{"by":"johnwheeler","time":"1482163721","timestamp":"2016-12-19 16:08:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i dunno. i\u0026#x27;m not much into go. if i was going to do systems programming, i\u0026#x27;d probably look to rust since one of my big programming influences uses it (armin ronacher).\u003cp\u003eincidentally, i created a tutorial series on programming the amazon echo (alexatutorial.com). my tutorials are pretty dry, but i\u0026#x27;m going to probably try and create more content and start charging for it. i always admired jon lindquist of egghead.io. he started self distributing and has built a little empire. same with geoffrey grosenbach of peepcode later acquired by pluralsight.","parent":"13212207","id":"13212287"}
{"by":"deafcheese","time":"1296067584","timestamp":"2011-01-26 18:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you're describing reminds me of a company I stumbled on a while ago - Recorded Future.","parent":"2137925","id":"2144441"}
{"by":"z1mm32m4n","time":"1500135936","timestamp":"2017-07-15 16:25:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At this point, couldn\u0026#x27;t you keep the list of domains\u0026#x2F;n\u0026#x27;s in a plain text file? You still don\u0026#x27;t have the master password.","parent":"14777158","id":"14777441"}
{"by":"eggestad","time":"1390996111","timestamp":"2014-01-29 11:48:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depend is you\u0026#x27;re talking about the user level part or kernel level part.\u003cp\u003eAndroid is a \u0026quot;new\u0026quot; OS on the user level, even if you have a unix kernel. And I\u0026#x27;d claim that android\u0026#x27;s userlevel stuff  is too different from unix that you can\u0026#x27;t claim it\u0026#x27;s unix derived.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure I\u0026#x27;ll be doing my development in  eclipse on an android based workstation in a not too distant future.\u003cp\u003eFor a new type of kernel. there has to be a real upside to switch. For the world to really take the time to make the effort to use something different, i.e. a new kernel based on different principles, you really need to have one of the following to happen:\u003cp\u003e* you need to come up with something that a kernel can do, that is a MUST HAVE and can\u0026#x27;t be implemented in a unix kernel. (in 40 years this was not happened)\u003cp\u003e* You get better performance. (again hard to see how you\u0026#x27;re effectivly compete with the sheer amount of engineering effort done in something like linux)\u003cp\u003e* You can get by with a MUCH simpler kernel. (As linux is a modular design which is stripable, it\u0026#x27;s hard to see how you can compete)\u003cp\u003e* we\u0026#x27;re going to start building hardware on a different HW architecture that demand a different programming paradigm.\u003cp\u003eThe last part is not as far-fetched as you might think. There is a growing gap between how we programmer perceive how machines work (and a unix kernel do provide a user space process with a virtual machine of the type programmer expect) and how HW now actually work. But as a lot of people has tried to come up with something else, and failed, I\u0026#x27;m not holding my breath,\u003cp\u003eTL;DR  There is no foreseeable benefit to users in a new NON unix kernel.","parent":"7139273","id":"7143275"}
{"by":"aarongough","time":"1262909266","timestamp":"2010-01-08 00:07:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do agree with you, but at the same time those individuals can influence the thoughts and actions of the greater mob by their own words and actions.\u003cp\u003eI think that everyone has the responsibility to live the best life they can, and encourage others to do the same...","parent":"1038368","id":"1038401"}
{"by":"Crito","time":"1398397860","timestamp":"2014-04-25 03:51:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you point to any of the specific comments that you think arguably threatened others?\u003cp\u003eI did not see any such comments on HN, although admittedly I did not follow the story closely on reddit, tumblr, or twitter.","parent":"7644240","id":"7644673"}
{"by":"chwitta9000","time":"1372191604","timestamp":"2013-06-25 20:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those of you that care or for those of you that live in LA, there is a petition going around.  Not sure how effective these are, but I signed.\u003cp\u003eHere--\u0026gt; \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-los-angeles-repeal-the-cease-and-desist-order-on-uber-lyft-and-sidecar\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.change.org\u0026#x2F;petitions\u0026#x2F;city-of-los-angeles-repeal-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5941571","id":"5942165"}
{"by":"oconnore","time":"1538325837","timestamp":"2018-09-30 16:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems really heavy handed. In my experience what’s valuable for men is flexibility, not some set number of weeks you have 100% off. I (as a father) went back to work at Fivetran 4 weeks after my son was born, but at 20 hours a week. That allowed me to help my partner during the initial recovery, but also be the primary parent (with daycare) from ~4-9 months when she returned to traveling for work in consulting.\u003cp\u003eNot doing any work 2 months in would have seemed wasteful, and being expected to go 100% at 7 months in would have been inconvenient for both of us.\u003cp\u003eNot everyone has access to this, but I feel really grateful that I did. It seems like the best arrangement possible, at least for us.","parent":"18106207","id":"18106905"}
{"by":"k__","time":"1500879472","timestamp":"2017-07-24 06:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sad.\u003cp\u003eJust last week me and my girlfriend were blown away when we used paint on a surface with pen and pressure control.","parent":"14835878","id":"14836393"}
{"by":"pauldix","time":"1471973596","timestamp":"2016-08-23 17:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the plan. No breaking API changes for a long time. We\u0026#x27;ll have additive stuff in the 1.x point releases. Tentative plan is to cut 1.1 two months after 1.0 with patch releases in the interim for any necessary bug fixes.","parent":"12345497","id":"12345578"}
{"by":"sokoloff","time":"1377912681","timestamp":"2013-08-31 01:31:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One is 27; the other is 36.","parent":"6304722","id":"6305269"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1457357286","timestamp":"2016-03-07 13:28:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TIFF compression is rubbish. If you just want a lossless image, PNG is everywhere now. The main (possibly only?) reason to use FLIF over PNG is the better compression.","parent":"11238663","id":"11238716"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1417169456","timestamp":"2014-11-28 10:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The hole[sic] court case was about bundling, nowdays[sic] everybody does that. Can you imagen[sic] any operating system beeing[sic] sold without preinstalled browser?\u003cp\u003eThe case was in the days when browsers were much less interoperable. There was a real concern that bundling IE would make it easy for MS to make everyone buy IIS, because that would be the best server to use to serve sites for IE.\u003cp\u003eIt didn\u0026#x27;t turn out that way for a variety of reasons (among them the rise of Mozilla, impossible to predict at the time, and the amazing growth of Apache), but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean the lawsuit was wrong, knowing what we did at the time.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Also how would people go about downloading the other browser if there was not internet explorer?\u003cp\u003eftp.mozilla.org or similar; BSD FTP ships with pretty much any computer.","parent":"8670274","id":"8670386"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1420735234","timestamp":"2015-01-08 16:40:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve heard DJ cancel a show because someone stole their disc cases. Shit happens, be prepared.","parent":"8857150","id":"8857165"}
{"by":"solarkraft","time":"1500241648","timestamp":"2017-07-16 21:47:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He could sell it for a good bit of money, I guess. But I think he still has the domain from what later turned into Paypal.","parent":"14779815","id":"14784273"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1542743335","timestamp":"2018-11-20 19:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Discussed at the time:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14323762\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14323762\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14335987\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14335987\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18493515","id":"18497024"}
{"by":"OutThisLife","time":"1375028440","timestamp":"2013-07-28 16:20:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure that most professional developers have their own set of snippets and a base framework.\u003cp\u003eBootstrap and others like it just get in the way if you already have something built.","parent":"6117026","id":"6117083"}
{"by":"bemmu","time":"1331409522","timestamp":"2012-03-10 19:58:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try oDesk, had luck there. Prices of course vary, but for $10 / hour you will definitely find someone.","parent":"3687948","id":"3688553"}
{"by":"niij","time":"1481122859","timestamp":"2016-12-07 15:00:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Emulators are 100% legal.  Don\u0026#x27;t get them confused with the ROMs ribbing on them.  ROMs are duplicate copies of someone\u0026#x27;s IP.","parent":"13122616","id":"13122963"}
{"by":"MrLeap","time":"1534559874","timestamp":"2018-08-18 02:37:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, thank you!\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ll see if I still have it takes, or if I\u0026#x27;m just a one-hit wonder. I\u0026#x27;ve been out of the game for a long time. About 25~ years ago, when I was in 3rd grade, I was published my first and only time. I landed a poem in a young authors compilation.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s the poem, verbatim.\u003cp\u003ePeople with big noses are funny,\nBecause they need lots of money,\nTo fix their nose,\nthat looks like a fire-hose,\nwhat they really need is reconstructive surgery.\u003cp\u003eSince then, I\u0026#x27;ve grown a lot. My art has grown more egalitarian and inclusive. I\u0026#x27;m still nervous about re-entering the scene. I\u0026#x27;m worried it\u0026#x27;ll get dredged up, take twitter by storm and cause me to lose my job.","parent":"17786375","id":"17786593"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1448901657","timestamp":"2015-11-30 16:40:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Advertising. You buy, for example, searches in your category in your zip code(s). It\u0026#x27;s pretty excellent advertising.","parent":"10650190","id":"10650248"}
{"by":"fhood","time":"1540832178","timestamp":"2018-10-29 16:56:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your source doesn\u0026#x27;t really support your claim.","parent":"18328976","id":"18328998"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1412289428","timestamp":"2014-10-02 22:37:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would not infer that the \u0026quot;list of the applications and programs\u0026quot; would mean the \u0026quot;source code of the applications\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI would assume its \u003ci\u003eliterally\u003c/i\u003e what it says, the lists most big orgs maintain of their standard system configuration(s).","parent":"8403473","id":"8403492"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1513285115","timestamp":"2017-12-14 20:58:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know you have real points but bringing them up in this way in this discussion is just going to create a flamewar. That may be part of the problem you\u0026#x27;re articulating but it\u0026#x27;s also a fact, and we have to have a fire department here or the place will burn up. So please don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eWe have no choice but to work within the window of tolerance of the body of this community. I don\u0026#x27;t mean \u0026#x27;tolerance\u0026#x27; in the virtue sense but in the physical sense of excessive stimulus triggering meltdown.","parent":"15926429","id":"15926974"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1435611514","timestamp":"2015-06-29 20:58:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You get what you pay for.\u003cp\u003eUp to now we have paid tens of billions to get surveillance, and tens of millions to preserve confidentiality.\u003cp\u003eIt could be the other way around.","parent":"9800850","id":"9801017"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1460109467","timestamp":"2016-04-08 09:57:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I prefer cli 1000 times over an overly badly designed gui anytime","parent":"11453117","id":"11453618"}
{"by":"akerro","time":"1472049538","timestamp":"2016-08-24 14:38:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1x1px is enough to track person.\u003cp\u003e30x30px is enough to run face detection and recognition.\u003cp\u003eCan\u0026#x27;t see how 30x30Mpx would be useful? To see what products they is holding in a basket probably. They would be interested in your pressure cooker probably.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;aug\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;new-york-police-terrorism-pressure-cooker\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;aug\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;new-york-polic...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12351681","id":"12352362"}
{"by":"venomsnake","time":"1473869673","timestamp":"2016-09-14 16:14:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same happened with me. Sometimes you have to enter berserk mode to advance in life.\u003cp\u003eI was taken to the principal after breaking one of the bullies\u0026#x27; head - her comment - \u0026quot;Surprised you didn\u0026#x27;t do that earlier\u0026quot; and that was all.","parent":"12498170","id":"12498431"}
{"by":"pkinsky","time":"1401907544","timestamp":"2014-06-04 18:45:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Voting with your vote, in the US, means choosing between the Democratic and Republican wings of the Capitalist Party.","parent":"7847230","id":"7847354"}
{"by":"atestu","time":"1420646576","timestamp":"2015-01-07 16:02:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the difference between this and require.js for loading modules? I feel like I\u0026#x27;m missing something","parent":"8849907","id":"8851247"}
{"by":"tomatotomato37","time":"1547260821","timestamp":"2019-01-12 02:40:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wasn\u0026#x27;t going to respond to your parent as it was a blatant shitpost, but since there is a legitimate post here I got to say that I am actually curious what caused the quadrupled murder rate in just two years (1905-1907). There were no significant organized crime or changes in homicide reporting I could find, and the closest disturbance I could find seemed to be the Black Patch Tobacco Wars happening in Tennessee and Kentucky.\u003cp\u003eWish we had more historians hanging around here","parent":"18888219","id":"18889210"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1371343616","timestamp":"2013-06-16 00:46:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because he\u0026#x27;s a lawyer cross-examining a witness.\u003cp\u003eVideo: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.c-spanvideo.org\u0026#x2F;clip\u0026#x2F;4456141\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.c-spanvideo.org\u0026#x2F;clip\u0026#x2F;4456141\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom TFA:\n\u003ci\u003eMueller initially sought to downplay concerns about NSA surveillance by claiming that, to listen to a phone call, the government would need to seek \u0026quot;a special, a particularized order from the FISA court directed at that particular phone of that particular individual.\u0026quot;\nIs information about that procedure \u0026quot;classified in any way?\u0026quot; Nadler asked.\n\u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t think so,\u0026quot; Mueller replied.\n\u0026quot;Then I can say the following,\u0026quot; Nadler said. \u0026quot;We heard precisely the opposite at the briefing the other day. We heard precisely that you could get the specific information from that telephone simply based on an analyst deciding that...In other words, what you just said is incorrect. So there\u0026#x27;s a conflict.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"5886831","id":"5886860"}
{"by":"wyclif","time":"1314789363","timestamp":"2011-08-31 11:16:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you know the photos weren't disgusting without seeing them?","parent":"2944578","id":"2945078"}
{"by":"babuskov","time":"1401995555","timestamp":"2014-06-05 19:12:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We had an interesting policy in the company where I worked before and I use it for my own projects: only one line is ever allowed - explaining WHAT was changed.\u003cp\u003e- to explain HOW it works: comment in the code, so whoever comes to change the code later knows what should be touched and what should be left alone\u003cp\u003e- to explain WHY it was changed, use the bug tracker and just supply the #ID of bug\u0026#x2F;feature request in the comment\u003cp\u003eHaving single-line comments makes it much easier to browse through history and find the thing you\u0026#x27;re looking for.","parent":"7853543","id":"7853648"}
{"by":"kn0thing","time":"1372280213","timestamp":"2013-06-26 20:56:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why thank you! How\u0026#x27;d you like a signed copy of Without Their Permission? (\u003ca href=\"http://ohanian.co/WTPbook\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ohanian.co\u0026#x2F;WTPbook\u003c/a\u003e) Email contact AT alexisohanian.com your address and I\u0026#x27;ll get ya.\u003cp\u003eI promise that book is going to be nothing less than 42x better. It also has doodles! e.g., \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/p/Zn32KlmEq7/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;instagram.com\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;Zn32KlmEq7\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5947915","id":"5948981"}
{"by":"acqq","time":"1475973128","timestamp":"2016-10-09 00:32:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also have this \u0026quot;off\u0026quot; feeling, but I have at least one specific example:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.nationalpost.com\u0026#x2F;holy-post\u0026#x2F;we-love-death-more-than-you-love-life\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.nationalpost.com\u0026#x2F;holy-post\u0026#x2F;we-love-death-more-th...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;These grisly words are as foreign to Western sensibilities as they are all but sacred dogma for Muslim radicals at war with the West—and with Western sensibilities.\u003cp\u003eThe sentence originated with a 7th-century Muslim commander who threatened his enemies with the prospect of “an army of men that love death as you love life.” As if to prove that, at least in the Middle East, there is nothing new under the sun, Hassan Nasrallah employed the phrase in a 2004 interview to explain why Hizballah, the organization he heads, is destined to prevail over Israel\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;How to understand this macabre sentiment? Martyrdom has played an important role in Islam since its inception, and a number of chapters in the Quran mention the rewards of those who fight and die for God.\u0026quot;","parent":"12669274","id":"12669340"}
{"by":"crawfordcomeaux","time":"1485864608","timestamp":"2017-01-31 12:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you agree it does often mean that?\u003cp\u003eMore specifically, for what percentage of startups would you consider it fair to say?","parent":"13529744","id":"13529854"}
{"by":"AznHisoka","time":"1326813674","timestamp":"2012-01-17 15:21:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My biggest schlep is being involved in too many meaningless activities and meaningless interactions. Things that don't really contribute to my long-term goals, or purpose. Of course, we all have obligations, but it seems like my daily life is 99% filled with meaningless activities.","parent":"3473449","id":"3475153"}
{"by":"funkymike","time":"1490818257","timestamp":"2017-03-29 20:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One can at least hope that humanity\u0026#x27;s level of technology does not regress. So then there is at least the fact that the radioactivity can be detected even after the signs have long gone.","parent":"13989726","id":"13990110"}
{"by":"gadders","time":"1347981396","timestamp":"2012-09-18 15:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a Brit, I wish they would ditch all the \"me-too\" rubbish they do to ape commercial TV - Soap Operas, Strictly Come Dancing, The Voice etc, and concentrate on the quality stuff such documentaries, arts etc.","parent":"4537456","id":"4538519"}
{"by":"albertzeyer","time":"1292173480","timestamp":"2010-12-12 17:04:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I prefer the \"boring\" shadows. They look cleaner.","parent":"1997090","id":"1997346"}
{"by":"netynx","time":"1457399040","timestamp":"2016-03-08 01:04:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d stay away - far away - from sparkpost. We\u0026#x27;ve been a volume user with sendgrid for years and recently started a test with sparkpost (well before the Mandrill thing), thinking it would be a good backup solution over our inhouse alternative. Suddenly this weekend, we\u0026#x27;re getting 403 rejections thru the sparkpost API. We were thinking it was an issue on our side and spent some time verifying it wasn\u0026#x27;t us. When we asked Sparkpost customer support to look into it, they eventually came back saying our Sparkpost account was suspended by their compliance team -- this with no indication or warning (and with us sending very low volume to known-good users in this test). fyi, our sendgrid reputation score is \u0026gt;98 and blacklist-free. We know how to maintain a good sender rep. Sparkpost CSE says their Compliance team is overwhelmed and maybe we\u0026#x27;ll hear back in a couple of days. Are you kidding me? We had high hopes for Sparkpost until this. Now, I can\u0026#x27;t see how we can possibly trust them, which is ironic to say the least.","parent":"11216825","id":"11242919"}
{"by":"enapupe","time":"1477410369","timestamp":"2016-10-25 15:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"React + ES6 imports = wow + peace\nI got my first bucks as a developer more than 10 years ago. Only recently I felt like I have an actual good code structure. Having components and managing dependencies with es6 imports is truly awesome.","parent":"12785814","id":"12788896"}
{"by":"wrath","time":"1290460367","timestamp":"2010-11-22 21:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My company (gazaro.com) got accepted to the AWS Startup Challenge last year, and although we did have a small amount of funding (non-VC), we were essentially running a bootstrapped company at the time.  We didn't win the \"challenge\".  We were probably at a disadvantage from the start because we were against VC funded companies, but I think we did a very good job and I was generally happy with how the event went.  Our only gripe with the event was the lack of media.\u003cp\u003eI'm unsure if Amazon changed their qualification threshold, but we certainly didn't have and VC funding when we participated in the contest last year.","parent":"1931099","id":"1931304"}
{"by":"buildops","time":"1424594788","timestamp":"2015-02-22 08:46:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Won\u0026#x27;t be a problem joining as a young person. May be a problem getting accepted at 30+","parent":"9086335","id":"9088751"}
{"by":"bedros","time":"1492760546","timestamp":"2017-04-21 07:42:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Z logic or tri-state logic are not real in FPGAs, they are chains of AND OR logic\u003cp\u003eso basically you cannot burn FPGA by making a short-circuit","parent":"14152433","id":"14163742"}
{"by":"QuantumGood","time":"1420745838","timestamp":"2015-01-08 19:37:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google search is heavily SEO gamed, and that makes their algorithm heavily weighted toward punishing page quality manipulation. If they could concentrate more on rewarding page quality instead, they could deliver better results (see the end of \u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/y0AXWO\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;goo.gl\u0026#x2F;y0AXWO\u003c/a\u003e )","parent":"8855421","id":"8858399"}
{"by":"firasd","time":"1466295275","timestamp":"2016-06-19 00:14:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe, but I like Bloom\u0026#x27;s point that Victor Frankenstein wasn\u0026#x27;t ready to be responsible for the burden of creation, underscoring the question of who the real monster is in this tale.","parent":"11931155","id":"11931220"}
{"by":"immad","time":"1196047495","timestamp":"2007-11-26 03:24:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might want to use the mobile component of the laptop at times. Like in a cafe for example, or perhaps if you were to attend a conference or maybe on a long train ride.\u003cp\u003eAm i missing the sense of your first question?","parent":"83454","id":"83463"}
{"by":"MichaelBurge","time":"1462200387","timestamp":"2016-05-02 14:46:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can ban the guns on planes and fine people if anyone spots them. That should discourage open carry zealots. You could also ban carry-on bags, so it\u0026#x27;s harder to hide them. I guess people could bring on knives, pistols, or box-cutters; I don\u0026#x27;t know if there\u0026#x27;s a technical way to make planes resistant enough to these to give the pilot a chance to land in an emergency.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s still room for disagreement even after all of these, though.","parent":"11611528","id":"11611765"}
{"by":"bpye","time":"1533313788","timestamp":"2018-08-03 16:29:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just checked and m.facebook.com seems to be working for me.","parent":"17681119","id":"17681219"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1415672856","timestamp":"2014-11-11 02:27:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You are reading too much into this. Obama is merely adding this phrase to protect himself from those that will intentionally try to twist his words.\u003cp\u003eActually, much the same language has been in both the 2010 FCC Open Internet order and the draft for a new order earlier this year, its not something that was original in Obama\u0026#x27;s statement.","parent":"8585660","id":"8587946"}
{"by":"netcan","time":"1225155904","timestamp":"2008-10-28 01:05:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And both are big asset oligopoly industries. Content owners specifically don't have any reason to believe that better distribution channels will improve their bottom line.\u003cp\u003eActually I think with  record producers, video content owners \u0026#38; to an extent, publishing giants are all in a similar (leaky) boat. They are in a situation where life has been good, they are on top of the world. Only way to go is down.\u003cp\u003eAny move in the directions that technology is pushing towards like better, wider distribution, reduced production costs \u0026#38; power to the consumer is troubling. For one thing, they have a better hold on the here \u0026#38; now then the long tail. Sure they own most of it, but better distribution opens the doors to a groundswell of small producers. Expensive special effects, 1000 actor scenes, are no longer as big a differentiator. Now you want to give these $100k budget jokers access to living rooms?\u003cp\u003eWill better distribution make people watch more TV? probably not. Why take a chance?","parent":"345165","id":"345856"}
{"by":"jawns","time":"1431705105","timestamp":"2015-05-15 15:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m interested to learn about the case law about this as it pertains to the constitutionality of disallowing a religious exemption.\u003cp\u003eSome common vaccines are derived from human fetal cell lines, and those fetal cell lines are themselves derived from a handful of elective abortions.  For many of those vaccines, there are alternatives that are not derived from human fetal cell lines, but not all.\u003cp\u003eSeveral religious denominations that oppose abortion, e.g. the Catholic Church, have addressed this issue and said that such vaccines can and should be used, so long as there is no reasonable alternative and there is a proportionate reason.  (The Church\u0026#x27;s reasoning, in case you\u0026#x27;re curious, is that the vaccines\u0026#x27; connection to abortion is considered remote cooperation.)\u003cp\u003eBut even though some denominations see the vaccines as permissible, I suppose it might be possible for a person, motivated by religious belief, to be completely on board with the efficacy of the vaccine but oppose how it was created on moral grounds, and so demand a religious exemption.\u003cp\u003eTypically in the U.S., religious beliefs must be reasonably accommodated.  I would think that someone who objects to the vaccine mandate on religious grounds could make the argument that if it is possible for \u003ci\u003eanyone\u003c/i\u003e to be accommodated (in this case, those with medical issues), then accommodation itself should be considered reasonable, and it\u0026#x27;s just a matter of determining whether accommodating both is so risky as to be unreasonable.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, if we\u0026#x27;re willing to assume X amount of risk by allowing medical exemptions, then it follows that at least \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e risk can be tolerated.  And if a religious objector can show that additionally assuming Y risk by allowing religious objections is not substantially more risky, then I think they could make the case that it should be considered reasonable to also accommodate religious beliefs.","parent":"9550914","id":"9551383"}
{"by":"mtdewcmu","time":"1380042293","timestamp":"2013-09-24 17:04:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s harder to find people with Android phones who believe that their phone was designed by God.","parent":"6427892","id":"6439151"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1457231811","timestamp":"2016-03-06 02:36:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Minimum wage can still be underpaid, depending on the area the worker lives in. That\u0026#x27;s why there\u0026#x27;s been recent discussions about increasing the minimum wage.","parent":"11232143","id":"11232218"}
{"by":"phlux","time":"1289511862","timestamp":"2010-11-11 21:44:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Point noted.\u003cp\u003eThough I still stand by my personal observation that child abuse == stunted/warped/damaged development in the psyche; which can cause [unknown] problems as the child matures.","parent":"1895385","id":"1895405"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1435260753","timestamp":"2015-06-25 19:32:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compressed data bandwidth for a video does not scale with resolution. i.e. quadrupling the number of pixels does not require quadruple the bandwidth for the same quality.\u003cp\u003eI believe it goes up by the square root. So quadrupling the number of pixels needs only double the bandwidth.\u003cp\u003eThere are several reasons for this, one of which is that motion compensation is constant - it doesn\u0026#x27;t much matter what the resolution is, it takes the same amount of data to encode motion. Another is that as resolution goes up there are more opportunities for similar areas in the image which compress well.","parent":"9777290","id":"9780379"}
{"by":"IAmEveryone","time":"1521739222","timestamp":"2018-03-22 17:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes-history arcs towards justice. I believe the 60s counterculture was mostly a reaction to the “stuffiness” (and Vietnam), but that sentiment is a lot harder to illustrate with examples.","parent":"16650628","id":"16650674"}
{"by":"JonDav","time":"1481922043","timestamp":"2016-12-16 21:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The biggest barrier to understanding someone is distance from the source. If you spent more time near a person your judgement would be much better. The problem is we cannot be close to so many people to really understand them.","parent":"13196685","id":"13196783"}
{"by":"kordless","time":"1306248804","timestamp":"2011-05-24 14:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"genex '(o|O|0)(_)(o|O|0)'","parent":"2579783","id":"2580032"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1327711912","timestamp":"2012-01-28 00:51:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That sounds a lot like General Education requirements in college in the US.  You can avoid taking many of them if you test well enough, but otherwise they're pretty much bringing everyone up to a highschool level, because some didn't take that class or simply don't remember it well enough.","parent":"3520162","id":"3520923"}
{"by":"duuuuurrrr","time":"1380523808","timestamp":"2013-09-30 06:50:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And this is on hacker news because?","parent":"6467934","dead":true,"id":"6468155"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1366744836","timestamp":"2013-04-23 19:20:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What am I, a physicist? Jeez, boffing a few orders of magnitude like that is pretty bad, and it's too late to edit.\u003cp\u003eI meant kph, which was HOPEFULLY obvious from context.\u003cp\u003eI'll just leave this here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2679\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2679\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5596706","id":"5597338"}
{"by":"curiously","time":"1422385018","timestamp":"2015-01-27 18:56:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pretty much any failed startup used the same launch strategy","parent":"8954266","id":"8954932"}
{"by":"bryans","time":"1361975874","timestamp":"2013-02-27 14:37:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know nothing about anything on this subject, but could adding downforce (thereby adding friction/grip between the tires and road) help compensate for crosswind? If yes, then surely there must be some reasonable way for a front-end and rear wing mechanism to automatically adjust to create extra downforce during short bursts of crosswinds.","parent":"5292427","id":"5292525"}
{"by":"jerven","time":"1404749903","timestamp":"2014-07-07 16:18:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A 160 GB disk is not a real comparison for enterprises. XFS really starts to perform better on disks 1Tb as well as 8 cores and above. EXT4 really starts to creak when moving to filesystems that are 16TB and above. Something that is going to be common in the 7 years that Cent-OS 7 is around.\u003cp\u003eOf course with the amount of backports of patches that any RedHat kernel has the comparison to mainline version numbers is almost useless :(\u003cp\u003eFor my workload the performance difference is 15% better for XFS than EXT4 on the same 3Tb of SSD with the same workload.","parent":"7999012","id":"7999572"}
{"by":"pron","time":"1385326346","timestamp":"2013-11-24 20:52:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Java lets you trade memory for performance. The bigger the heap, the less frequent the young-gen GCs, and the less frequent young-gen GCs, the less garbage you need to collect (because more young objects get to die). So most times when you see large Java heaps that\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eby choice\u003c/i\u003e, as many people prefer paying with memory (which is cheap on servers) for performance. So Java is a \u0026quot;memory hog\u0026quot; only when you want it to run at full speed (and that\u0026#x27;s true for all generational GC environments). But nothing is stopping you from running \u0026quot;standard\u0026quot; Java with a really small heap; you\u0026#x27;d still get better performance than Node or Erlang, and get enjoy all of the excellent tools.\u003cp\u003eNot knowing it well is a good reason not to use it, though.","parent":"6790839","id":"6791069"}
{"by":"gerts","time":"1341959102","timestamp":"2012-07-10 22:25:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's bizarrely under-promoted now, but PA made a big deal when they launched PA Report a while back.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://penny-arcade.com/report/about\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://penny-arcade.com/report/about\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4226247","id":"4226579"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1453972362","timestamp":"2016-01-28 09:12:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Increases in lifespan in the US since the 1950s have been far more from bringing up the lower end (improved outcomes for underprivileged minorities) than by extending top-end (white female \u0026amp; male) life expectency.  Almost as if there were a diminishing returns setting in.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s actually been some recent improvement following the 1990s, but the \u003ci\u003evast bulk\u003c/i\u003e of life-expectency \u0026#x2F; mortality improvements came \u003ci\u003eprior\u003c/i\u003e to 1920. Predating virtually all of modern medicine, but benefiting tremendously from antisceptics, sewerage systems, municipal garbage collection, refrigeration, and some early food safety and disease control, especially over cholera, tuberculosis, and yellow fever.","parent":"10985100","id":"10987213"}
{"by":"lukev","time":"1288272974","timestamp":"2010-10-28 13:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's a lot of talk about line editors in this thread. From a quick scan of Wikipedia, it seems that 40 cells is about the biggest braille display you can buy.\u003cp\u003eWTF? Why has nobody invented a full-screen braille display? Is there some reason it's massively more complicated than it seems?","parent":"1842289","id":"1842777"}
{"by":"Larrikin","time":"1508797435","timestamp":"2017-10-23 22:23:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which version of Android are you talking about on what phone. I use an android phone and an iOS tablet nearly everyday and your complaints  sound like you haven\u0026#x27;t used it since eclair","parent":"15537322","id":"15537429"}
{"by":"a3n","time":"1491743960","timestamp":"2017-04-09 13:19:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The dirty secret is that most of us are building software that doesn\u0026#x27;t really need to exist.\u003cp\u003e... and won\u0026#x27;t, after some small number of months or years.","parent":"14072016","id":"14072133"}
{"by":"jasonabate","time":"1384210287","timestamp":"2013-11-11 22:51:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been using an X1 Carbon as my primary machine for the past ten months, and have been very happy with it.  Has the typical Thinkpad construction quality, and is amazingly light - can\u0026#x27;t imagine carrying around my old T60 any longer.  Ubuntu LTS installs and runs great, pretty much everything worked as expected out of the box.  My only complaint is that the USB docking station, which supports multiple external displays and means fewer cables to plug\u0026#x2F;unplug, doesn\u0026#x27;t work with Linux (or at least didn\u0026#x27;t the last time I tried).","parent":"6714238","id":"6714674"}
{"by":"soundsop","time":"1231270615","timestamp":"2009-01-06 19:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ePeople are not going to feel the difference between a page rendered in 50ms and one rendered in 100ms.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't think that every 50ms difference is unimportant, but the difference between a 50ms render time and 100ms render time may be unimportant. Anyone have a feel for what the maximum render time is for a page to feel fast?","parent":"422080","id":"422336"}
{"by":"coreyp_1","time":"1445383730","timestamp":"2015-10-20 23:28:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it can happen in Chicago, on such a large scale, as recently as 4 months ago, then are we really safe at all?","parent":"10422540","id":"10422579"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1523871953","timestamp":"2018-04-16 09:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not necessarily.","parent":"16847760","id":"16847776"}
{"by":"Tomte","time":"1439666782","timestamp":"2015-08-15 19:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"12: Knuth - Digital Typography.","parent":"10066478","id":"10066496"}
{"by":"thr0waway1776","time":"1520008081","timestamp":"2018-03-02 16:28:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Serious question - why is affirmative action always OK when Asians bear the coast but not OK otherwise?\u003cp\u003e- Why isn\u0026#x27;t there affirmative action in the NBA? There are practically no Asian basketball players, they should lower the standards until more Asians get accepted, and there should be a quota.\u003cp\u003e- Why isn\u0026#x27;t there affirmative action in the US Presidential Cabinet? There are practically no Asian policymakers\u003cp\u003e- Why isn\u0026#x27;t there affirmative action in Hollywood? There are few no Asian actors aside from the classic stereotyped actor nerd\u0026#x2F;goofball\u0026#x2F;terrorist\u0026#x2F;etc","parent":"16501878","dead":true,"id":"16502888"}
{"by":"Tycho","time":"1335807621","timestamp":"2012-04-30 17:40:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt anybody expects artists would dissappear overnight. People just think it's fair to reward creators for the entertainment value they provided, and unfair to rip it off without paying a dime. And copyright is the best, simplest way to protect fairness in this regard.\u003cp\u003eNot everything has to be 'for the greater good' or for the 'long term benefit of the new age economy' or whatever in order for people to support it.","parent":"3910075","id":"3910326"}
{"by":"PeterisP","time":"1515190402","timestamp":"2018-01-05 22:13:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Replace eat poop with anything\u0026quot; is a good point.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s suppose A pays B $20 to play a song for them. And then B pays A $20 for a haircut.\u003cp\u003eThey have exactly as much money as they began with, but it \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c/i\u003e increase prosperity, they both are better off, they got something useful that they desired, they each received (and also produced) valuable services worth $20; and thus the total prosperity (and also GDP) grew by $40.\u003cp\u003eIf watching someone eat poop isn\u0026#x27;t worth $20k, then they wouldn\u0026#x27;t pay each other to do so, and the scenario wouldn\u0026#x27;t happen; but in general the analogy for exchanging services is quite spot on.","parent":"16082029","id":"16082218"}
{"by":"kelnos","time":"1506160905","timestamp":"2017-09-23 10:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh?  TrustZone doesn\u0026#x27;t give apps extra privileges, it just isolates code and data so things can\u0026#x27;t leak out of it into the reach of untrusted programs.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Cooperating device drivers\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t really the right way to look at it.  The drivers themselves don\u0026#x27;t have any code that will refuse to play high-res video.  The EME is just able to use the trust chain to validate that the output path hasn\u0026#x27;t been tampered with.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAny\u003c/i\u003e application can make use of TrustZone and the trusted output path; it\u0026#x27;s not something special only EME can access.","parent":"15281379","id":"15319030"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1340338950","timestamp":"2012-06-22 04:22:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If by \"work\" you mean do something interesting when one of the suggested words are typed, I can report it doesn't work on my up-to-date Ubuntu.","parent":"4144869","id":"4145387"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1327185288","timestamp":"2012-01-21 22:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was thrown into the world of online journalism in the late 90s when it was dictated by most style guides to capitalize Web. I still retain this as a habit in professional writing, although appreciate and \u003ci\u003eoccasionally\u003c/i\u003e use the newer forms like \"website\" instead of \"Web site.\" The AP style guide also recommended \"Web\" although I don't know if it does \u003ci\u003enow\u003c/i\u003e as I don't pay as much attention to style as I did.\u003cp\u003ePut it this way, journalists who've been around a long time learnt \"Web\" and will often stick with it out of habit. \"E-mail\" seems to be a little further along the line here though with old school journalists seemingly more likely to use \"email\" than they did 10 years ago.\u003cp\u003e(This page - \u003ca href=\"http://www.apstylebook.com/?do=ask_faq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.apstylebook.com/?do=ask_faq\u003c/a\u003e - indicates that AP recommends \"Web\" but also \"website\" and \"email.\")\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternet\u003c/i\u003e, on the other hand, is (and continues to be) capitalized in most cases and certainly in formal usage. The Internet is \u003ci\u003ean\u003c/i\u003e internet, but an internet is not necessarily the Internet.. ;-)","parent":"3494689","id":"3494874"}
{"by":"beagle3","time":"1529894285","timestamp":"2018-06-25 02:38:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Patents are strictly an offensive measure: They only allow you to sue\u0026#x2F;stop someone else from using them. They do NOT give you approval to do something.\u003cp\u003eSome people mention \u0026quot;defensive\u0026quot; patents; They are only defensive in the sense that \u0026quot;the best defence is an offence\u0026quot; - that if someone attacks you, you have something to attack them back with. But that\u0026#x27;s not actually useful against entities that aren\u0026#x27;t practicing, such as Intellectual Ventures.","parent":"17389183","id":"17389574"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1404766561","timestamp":"2014-07-07 20:56:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One possibility is companies that make electronic devices for this; not all of it is classical embedded, BTW, or at least so I remember from one small company I interviewed at which used Visual Basic in the \u0026#x27;90s and at least a bit beyond, although I can\u0026#x27;t remember exactly what they were doing.  That won\u0026#x27;t be traffic engineering per se, but will be a part of it.\u003cp\u003eVarious units of government with responsibility for high traffic and congestion road system set up command centers of a sort, with lots of cameras, the ability to change signaling systems, put messages up on signs, maybe even open or close entrance gates and the like.  In the center I worked at for a while (on their abandoned bespoke software), they also dispatched or coordinated with crews to do work.\u003cp\u003eWhich brings up one issue, working for or with the government has its own special characteristics, and is going to be inevitable in this sort of career.\u003cp\u003eGood luck!","parent":"8000650","id":"8001347"}
{"by":"Tiks","time":"1462995837","timestamp":"2016-05-11 19:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can also try company bots on CodeFights : \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codefights.com\u0026#x2F;bots\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codefights.com\u0026#x2F;bots\u003c/a\u003e if you win and apply your information gets submitted to respective companies directly.","parent":"11676417","id":"11678584"}
{"by":"agentgt","time":"1477504655","timestamp":"2016-10-26 17:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speaking of good \u0026quot;taste\u0026quot; you could apply your \u0026quot;taste\u0026quot; to what are worthy tests and what are not (ie adding just maintenance). The fact of the matter is you need some sort of testing to happen or some sort of proof that your code works on a continuous basis and if you don\u0026#x27;t have that to happen IMO I\u0026#x27;m not going to say it is good code particularly when it is based solely on one persons opinion of what is good looking code. Aesthetics compared to performance, readability and automated testing are pretty low on my list. You may say aesthetics brings those characteristics and it might but lets have some tests to prove it.\u003cp\u003eAs for maintenance and test code being invalid it doesn\u0026#x27;t have to be as buggy and in fact can be even in done in a data driven style or declaratively. Besides if it is a true unit test you should have written the test. If its your code and you have such good \u0026quot;taste\u0026quot; shouldn\u0026#x27;t it not \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;break down into a mess\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e?\u003cp\u003eThere are plenty of projects like SQL Lite, and jQuery that have excellent \u0026quot;taste\u0026quot; not just because of the quality of code but because of the test coverage. Oh and I won\u0026#x27;t go downvote people who disagree (which my parent seems to be) because I hold that to be poor in \u0026quot;taste\u0026quot; IMO.","parent":"12798048","id":"12798817"}
{"by":"jstarfish","time":"1545939941","timestamp":"2018-12-27 19:45:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1\u0026#x2F;3 of British kids will have eaten horse meat if they ate meat at all in 2013.","parent":"18770405","id":"18771990"}
{"by":"joe_the_user","time":"1292468254","timestamp":"2010-12-16 02:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish I could say that I've seen a profile like this that looked good...\u003cp\u003eBut I haven't.\u003cp\u003eYour blood-shot eyes staring back at me just doesn't say \"this is an awesome design\". It mostly screams you were more excited by realizing you could do this ... than you ever thought about whether I'd want to see your eyes in particular.\u003cp\u003e-------------------\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I do wish fb would allow enough customization so people could create \u003ci\u003egood\u003c/i\u003e looking like this...","parent":"2009352","id":"2010938"}
{"by":"zardgiv","time":"1462651239","timestamp":"2016-05-07 20:00:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How long have you been saving up this one-word response? Because the parent was addressing a complaint about small sample size, and basic reading comprehension would show you that your response was off-topic and did not logically follow.","parent":"11650149","id":"11651145"}
{"by":"Markoff","time":"1501508289","timestamp":"2017-07-31 13:38:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"why are prepaid cards useless thanks to roaming? i don\u0026#x27;t see relation there, i use prepaid card and i am lot in roaming","parent":"14890007","id":"14891808"}
{"by":"sneak","time":"1374517757","timestamp":"2013-07-22 18:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature that allowed them to use the entire city of Detroit as real life testing ground for all of their technologies without having to comply to city laws and regulations.\u003cp\u003e...and turn it into a dictatorship, too, apparently.\u003cp\u003eSomeone\u0026#x27;s a bit confused.","parent":"6085490","id":"6085563"}
{"by":"mrottenkolber","time":"1391114128","timestamp":"2014-01-30 20:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you assume I am defending coal?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s irrational confidence like yours that nuclear power is in any way safe, and therefore a good replacement. Coal doesn\u0026#x27;t need a replacement, we need to start using energy responsibly. That means not using energy when we don\u0026#x27;t have it. A nuclear plant is not an acceptable way to generate energy.","parent":"7153143","id":"7153193"}
{"by":"dozzie","time":"1482172584","timestamp":"2016-12-19 18:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny. I have seen it for last ten years. And it was not that rare that the sysadmin knew more about system\u0026#x27;s internals than its programmer.","parent":"13213444","id":"13213739"}
{"by":"sondr3","time":"1455742800","timestamp":"2016-02-17 21:00:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But none of that matters for either kind of developer, does it? For the awesome ones it\u0026#x27;s just noise, and the bad ones will just ignore it.\u003cp\u003eWhy does it matter if it is a simple counter? It\u0026#x27;ll tell you exactly the same information, with a lot less cluster. And it\u0026#x27;ll help people reading through issues that are littered with it.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I think having a +1 counter is a win-win solution. And I detest all the +1 comment spam in issue threads, it is noisy and doesn\u0026#x27;t contribute to the conversation.\u003cp\u003eUntil then, why not create a bot that deletes all +1 posts but edits the main post with a counter of +1s?","parent":"11121132","id":"11121344"}
{"by":"fphhotchips","time":"1437105962","timestamp":"2015-07-17 04:06:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Skybus is $18, which is not great, but it\u0026#x27;s better than $70 and it does run ridiculously frequently. It\u0026#x27;s pretty quick in traffic too, since it uses the carpool lane.\u003cp\u003eEdit: So long as you can deal with the sometime nausea inducing movement.","parent":"9901133","id":"9901236"}
{"by":"DICOMGrid","time":"1459888990","timestamp":"2016-04-05 20:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DICOM Grid - Phoenix AZ, or REMOTE - Senior UI Developer\u003cp\u003eDICOM Grid, a SaaS start-up in the healthcare technology field, is looking for a JavaScript developer to maintain and enhance DICOM Grid’s front-end medical image sharing and reading web application. You will report to the Director of Dev Ops.\u003cp\u003eFamiliarity with modern front-end web development is essential, including but not limited to HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, LESS, JQuery, Underscore, Handlebars, Backbone, and TypeScript. Experience working in the medical industry (DICOM, HL7, PACS, etc.) would be a bonus, but is not required. The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, and be enthusiastic about keeping up-to-date with the latest web technologies.\u003cp\u003eThe team is distributed with team members working remotely in Phoenix, Boston, New York, Utah, and St. Louis.\u003cp\u003ePosition Responsibilities\n- Plan, evaluate, implement, test, and document new features and bug fixes for the DICOM Grid web application.\n- Work with other development team members to integrate with backend services.\n- Work with DevOps to deploy code into our production and UAT environments.\n- Work with customers and professional services to gather requirements.\n- Conform to company standard operating procedures.\u003cp\u003eWhat qualifies you to join?\n- A combination of a college degree in CS, Math, Physics, or related, relevant work experience, and\u0026#x2F;or a strong open source portfolio.\n- General interest in the healthcare field.\n- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.\n- High enthusiasm and desire to work on an entrepreneurial team.\n- Roll-up-the sleeves attitude is a must.\n- Meticulous attention to detail with strong organization skills.\n- Heavy emphasis will be placed on problem solving skills, personal initiative and good people management\u0026#x2F;relationship skills. Sense of humor is mandatory.\u003cp\u003eLogistics\n- This is virtual position, so you must be able to work from home effectively\n- Base salary and stock options depend on experience; health insurance, paid holidays, and vacation are part of the package.\u003cp\u003eSend your resume along with links to your StackOverflow, GitHub profiles, etc. to jobs@dicomgrid.com. For bonus points, include a solution to the following short task, including code in JavaScript or the frontend language of your choice: given a JSON object conforming to the schema { value: ..., collapsed: (true|false), children: [...] }, where children is an array of objects conforming to the same schema, and a function render taking values to DOM elements, layout the information for read-only display, with the ability to expand\u0026#x2F;collapse individual nodes. The aim of the exercise is to demonstrate familiarity with JavaScript, so a very basic UI is all that is needed.","parent":"11405239","id":"11434225"}
{"by":"blakesterz","time":"1382878089","timestamp":"2013-10-27 12:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026quot;Oh, and DO change passwords every 90 days, at least.\u0026quot;\neh. That \u003ci\u003emight\u003c/i\u003e help, but my thinking is if someone got in they\u0026#x27;ve already done something so they no longer need that account or that password, so changing passwords is \u003ci\u003eprobably\u003c/i\u003e not going to help things. That being said, as long as you can keep passwords managed (like using LastPass) then it\u0026#x27;s fine, and could help.\u003cp\u003eEverything else miaumiua lists is great. \nI\u0026#x27;d throw in a few random things I think of off the top of my head... mod_security, csf, mount tmp as noexec, LYNIS, phpsuexec, linux maldet.","parent":"6621732","id":"6621769"}
{"by":"kristopher","time":"1379142641","timestamp":"2013-09-14 07:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This reminds me of the TIOBE Programming Community Index[1]. It will be interesting to have a new datapoint to reference.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tiobe.com\u0026#x2F;index.php\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;paperinfo\u0026#x2F;tpci\u0026#x2F;index....\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6384595","id":"6384938"}
{"by":"loeg","time":"1502227153","timestamp":"2017-08-08 21:19:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Citation needed when you make that kind of very broad claim about a population.","parent":"14954574","id":"14962819"}
{"by":"kyro","time":"1383054387","timestamp":"2013-10-29 13:46:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a wonderful example of why you shouldn\u0026#x27;t shoot down concepts. When that designer unveiled his idea for Phonebloks, the majority of the feedback was criticism about how it wasn\u0026#x27;t technically feasible, how the designer was being unrealistic and downright naive for not understanding the mechanics [1].\u003cp\u003eBut that\u0026#x27;s what concept design is about. You create what you envision to be a progressive solution, and find ways to make it technologically feasible. You would think that after all of the stories of Jobs demanding devices be smaller, sleeker, thinner, more responsive, being told it\u0026#x27;d be near impossible to do, and seeing him actually pull it off, that people would be a bit more open to new design solutions.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6385105\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6385105\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6633690","id":"6633971"}
{"by":"WWLink","time":"1516854384","timestamp":"2018-01-25 04:26:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, you just reminded me of the cringe worthy commercial-inside-a-commercial that theme parks like to do on the radio now. xD","parent":"16228746","id":"16228762"}
{"by":"adrianwaj","time":"1306616556","timestamp":"2011-05-28 21:02:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Transactions costs, minimum payments, infrastructure and complexity. To make a long story short, bitcoin can do micropayments because the transactions costs are very low, highly divisible denomination, straightforward addresses, no definite need for forex, and there is no intermediary financial institution. I think a framework might need to be laid over the top, however.","parent":"2593362","id":"2595207"}
{"by":"dannyr","time":"1369847691","timestamp":"2013-05-29 17:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dude, he's clearly whining without bothering to even read the post.\u003cp\u003eIf he actually read it, no reason to complain because you can turn it off.","parent":"5787524","id":"5787603"}
{"by":"saturdaysaint","time":"1532093616","timestamp":"2018-07-20 13:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there is \u0026quot;a way\u0026quot; to think about something, it sounds to me like there\u0026#x27;s some kind of curious orthodoxy at work.  Where does this frame of understanding journalism as inescapably flawed because of biases come from?  Is there a literature or is this just, like, a talk radio line?","parent":"17574654","id":"17574820"}
{"by":"Newky","time":"1377625339","timestamp":"2013-08-27 17:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something which is becoming more and more common in messaging type systems is a level above this. Now on most common instant messaging platforms, a person can tell whether you actually read the message.\u003cp\u003eFor instance in google hangouts, their icon shows where they last read in the conversation.\u003cp\u003eThis puts an added level of responsibility as you can no longer use any excuses that you didn\u0026#x27;t see it etc","parent":"6284196","id":"6284945"}
{"by":"mappum","time":"1396197460","timestamp":"2014-03-30 16:37:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title made me think it was going to somehow be a vi-based editor (and that sounds like a good idea).","parent":"7496430","id":"7496710"}
{"by":"batgaijin","time":"1346837478","timestamp":"2012-09-05 09:31:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, I'd like to try and point this out again:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/103158031/Google-Shill-List\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.scribd.com/doc/103158031/Google-Shill-List\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't think an article mentioning the google bloggers ever reached \u0026#62;10 points, at least by my googling.","parent":"4478305","id":"4478617"}
{"by":"hungdaddy","time":"1252374826","timestamp":"2009-09-08 01:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing for me. They shouldnt keep html versions of government emails online.","parent":"809235","id":"810099"}
{"by":"palish","time":"1198778429","timestamp":"2007-12-27 18:00:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It shouldn't if said language wants to stay popular.  Community will always trump any flaw.","parent":"92543","id":"93009"}
{"by":"cmrdporcupine","time":"1529492467","timestamp":"2018-06-20 11:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My understanding is that it doesn\u0026#x27;t make its way into fruit, but it probably does into the green and woody tissues of the plant. So vegetables grown in it are a concern.","parent":"17352347","id":"17354178"}
{"by":"atmosx","time":"1383758665","timestamp":"2013-11-06 17:24:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both","parent":"6682803","id":"6683849"}
{"by":"jakehow","time":"1283383567","timestamp":"2010-09-01 23:26:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firstly, my comment was qualified with the word 'philosophical' not 'practical'.\u003cp\u003eSecondly, many people have different understandings of capitalism, and pop culture has continued to remove meaning from the word, which is probably why you are having a hard time understanding my comment.\u003cp\u003eThe examples you cite are perfect examples of the opposite of capitalism: socialized institutions (or the government directly) using violence as a means to an end, either political or economic in nature.\u003cp\u003eFor reference here is the jist from Wikipedia, which leaves a little to be desired but is still pretty decent:\u003cp\u003e\"Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are not made by the government; Profit is distributed to owners who invest in businesses, and wages are paid to workers employed by businesses.\"","parent":"1654181","id":"1654683"}
{"by":"djbender","time":"1339703250","timestamp":"2012-06-14 19:47:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tell me about it. :(","parent":"4085844","id":"4113190"}
{"by":"mikevm","time":"1376314568","timestamp":"2013-08-12 13:36:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By pretending to be something you aren\u0026#x27;t you risk of trying too hard and looking even creepier.","parent":"6199035","id":"6199081"}
{"by":"ohyes","time":"1286556832","timestamp":"2010-10-08 16:53:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another interesting example of a program like this is CLPython:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://github.com/franzinc/cl-python\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://github.com/franzinc/cl-python\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is too bad that more language implementors do not go this route, as it is a really easy way to get decent efficiency.\u003cp\u003eI suppose it isn't surprising, however. It is a lot easier to find people willing to contribute to open source C/C++/Java code than Common Lisp.\u003cp\u003eI will note this implementation and does not have a lot of the important functionality involved in classes/modules and their scoping (so pretty much any of the language semantics, which is understandable as it is a toy).\u003cp\u003eImplementing the semantics of the language, would be trickier and probably lead to less efficient code.","parent":"1771117","id":"1772269"}
{"by":"rick888","time":"1300722824","timestamp":"2011-03-21 15:53:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think it's anything we need to \"fix\".  Racism is still around to a small degree, but It's not what's keeping black men and women out of IT.  It's culture.  The culture needs to change for the problem to go away (if it should be considered a problem) and no amount of money and government intervention is going to change it.\u003cp\u003eWhy aren't there more male nurses?  Why aren't there more female mechanics?\u003cp\u003eI also don't know where you are working, but I've only worked on 10 teams (I'm in software development) and there were at least a few black guys on each of my teams.  But, I tend not to look at color.  I look at the person.","parent":"2349679","id":"2350238"}
{"by":"redwood","time":"1458217913","timestamp":"2016-03-17 12:31:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This just means that the slowdown that everyone is anticipating this year has not yet set in across-the-board or across all Institutional Investor segments. Thesefolks at Slack will probably represent the last major round before everyone starts thinking \u0026quot;what have I done?\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAt this point I think a lot of the larger rounds are not even being publicized because they\u0026#x27;d be so ridiculed.\u003cp\u003eI understand raising money if you get amazing terms. But the hubris of a chat company with this kind of overvaluation boggles my mind","parent":"11301352","id":"11303926"}
{"by":"tokenizerrr","time":"1372053298","timestamp":"2013-06-24 05:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same lan network?","parent":"5931240","id":"5931260"}
{"by":"andrepd","time":"1493750986","timestamp":"2017-05-02 18:49:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Xiaomi Mi Air 13, i5 8\u0026#x2F;256 $690. Aluminum unibody, smaller and lighter than MBP 13.\u003cp\u003eStop buying overpriced crap and start supporting companies that charge fair prices and maybe MS and Apple will release products that aren\u0026#x27;t 2-3x as pricey as the competition.","parent":"14249113","id":"14249361"}
{"by":"limaoscarjuliet","time":"1450537109","timestamp":"2015-12-19 14:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I can use PC ecosystem as an analog, in grand scheme of things this will offer no price reduction to end consumer.\u003cp\u003eMe and my son just upgraded his PC. It was a 4 yr old PC. We wanted new graphics card and we had to replace entire PC except power supply (barely!) and the case.\u003cp\u003eEven more fun, we wanted to build a PC from the leftover parts for friend of my son who is less fortunate. OK not top of the shelf, but he can play some games. We ended up spending $150 for new power supply, overpriced memory (DDR2), thermal grease, new fan (plastic leg broke off the original) and set of screws (where are they when you need them?).\u003cp\u003eIn the end, upgrade = new PC, setting up the old one was still super expensive ($150).\u003cp\u003eAnother factor is: these phones get a beating in daily use. While it may still make sense (technically) to keep some components during upgrade, they will be in bad bad shape.\u003cp\u003eIt may make sense in context of repairs. Just like a car: I will fix it buying parts as needed, but after N years and M miles I will replace it.","parent":"10763566","id":"10763702"}
{"by":"techaddict009","time":"1536911005","timestamp":"2018-09-14 07:43:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you guys love complexing so much? Why not use one click wp instance from DO images?","parent":"17982618","id":"17985431"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1346867013","timestamp":"2012-09-05 17:43:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Equally relevant!","parent":"4480397","id":"4480449"}
{"by":"justinclift","time":"1457395714","timestamp":"2016-03-08 00:08:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"_ugh_ Juniper Networks is on that list.\u003cp\u003eMaybe we need start avoiding their products. :(","parent":"11242004","id":"11242712"}
{"by":"0xbear","time":"1511238866","timestamp":"2017-11-21 04:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;amp\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;amphtml\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;worldviews\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;25\u0026#x2F;how-the-soviet-union-stayed-silent-during-the-chernobyl-disaster\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;amp\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;amphtml\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15745366","id":"15745540"}
{"by":"jwilliams","time":"1221256836","timestamp":"2008-09-12 22:00:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a slight tangent, but I think people would be surprised at just how many studies are based upon college/university students.\u003cp\u003eI knew quite a few PhD students and their colleagues a while back - almost all of their test subjects came from the student body (in fact, in some places, students were had to participate in certain studies as part of their course requirements).","parent":"302664","id":"302747"}
{"by":"kornish","time":"1506395983","timestamp":"2017-09-26 03:19:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Disclaimers: I don\u0026#x27;t have much experience using Python to build data science products; potentially silly questions)\u003cp\u003eIn industry, does Pandas tend to power the application layer, or does it find more use as an exploratory data tool?\u003cp\u003eIf the latter, do people prefer to push computation down into OLAP databases for performance reasons?\u003cp\u003eAnd if so, what impact will the convergence of libraries and database functionality have on product development? These features strike me as things that you\u0026#x27;d find in a database, e.g. query optimizer. I know in the past couple years there have been a couple commercial acquisitions of in-memory execution engines, e.g. Hyper by Tableau.","parent":"15335462","id":"15335874"}
{"by":"enigmo","time":"1377069779","timestamp":"2013-08-21 07:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was most definitely written in house. Not terrible pretty code either.","parent":"6243420","id":"6248688"}
{"by":"FabHK","time":"1513504447","timestamp":"2017-12-17 09:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, cool! So, parents let kids cycle, but not take public transport? Is that it?\u003cp\u003eIn Germany, public transport would be considered even somewhat safer than cycling (which has its risks, even with bicycle paths etc.), I\u0026#x27;d think.","parent":"15945045","id":"15945058"}
{"by":"riffraff","time":"1288184362","timestamp":"2010-10-27 12:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was asked some time ago to provide my CV and I also used a pdf export of linkedin cause it's such a simple option.\u003cp\u003eI believe it's a bit lacking in some areas eg, I recall it does not have anything about human languages (when you are moving around in europe that is kind of useful). I may be wrong though.","parent":"1838153","id":"1838337"}
{"by":"paulsutter","time":"1442243595","timestamp":"2015-09-14 15:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He\u0026#x27;s really undervaluing his time and energy. Maybe this is a fun and exciting game for him, but I\u0026#x27;d think someone as clever and determined could do something more productive.\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s just \u0026#x2F;earning\u0026#x2F; the miles, never mind using them. I have 1.4 million miles because even the act of using them consumes a lot of clock time and usually turns out a waste of energy (tickets based on mileage are rarely available for the routes\u0026#x2F;dates I want to fly).","parent":"10214856","id":"10215443"}
{"by":"rosser","time":"1390861403","timestamp":"2014-01-27 22:23:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Hands free\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean \u003ci\u003eyou must never touch it\u003c/i\u003e. I\u0026#x27;ve never seen a cabbie futz around with the meter in transit; it\u0026#x27;s not part of their normal operation.\u003cp\u003eUber\u0026#x27;s app, however, \u003ci\u003erequires poking at your smartphone screen\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"7133721","id":"7133761"}
{"by":"codazoda","time":"1480172227","timestamp":"2016-11-26 14:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simply the ones built into my macbook or my headphones (depending on how much privacy I have). I use basic Skull Candy earbuds when I need them. I do 3 to 5 meetings a day and  some pair programming.","parent":"13043592","id":"13043784"}
{"by":"itsprofitbaron","time":"1354205255","timestamp":"2012-11-29 16:07:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In order to \"prepare\" for a burst in traffic then you should just adopt a simple scaling strategy:\u003cp\u003e- If you can serve content static, serve it static. \n(For example, if you are running a Wordpress site, then there are several Wordpress plugins which make this even easier)\u003cp\u003e- Use a CDN to offload your static media. \nI'd recommend using CloudFlare OR even copying your CSS, Images \u0026#38; Javascript to S3 \u0026#38; changing their respective references to their new location.\u003cp\u003e- Any dyamic content should rely heavily on caching.","parent":"4848112","id":"4848434"}
{"by":"hogu","time":"1287788367","timestamp":"2010-10-22 22:59:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love webOS's notification system","parent":"1821834","id":"1821863"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1422465020","timestamp":"2015-01-28 17:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My favorite enterprise network pathologies:\u003cp\u003e- Randomly block specific ports \u0026quot;because security\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e- Limit RPC port ranges to some random small number.\u003cp\u003e- Strange network optimizations. Example: Optimize TCP Window Size to support NT4 clients on 56k frame relay circuits.\u003cp\u003e- Very Slow DNS response\u003cp\u003e- Optimize core switching rules to fully utilize switch CPU. Avoid configurations that take place in an asic.\u003cp\u003e- Long DHCP Leases + Undersized DHCP scopes.","parent":"8960916","id":"8961041"}
{"by":"eps","time":"1544170568","timestamp":"2018-12-07 08:16:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A good read, but the title is a pure click-bait.","parent":"18612229","id":"18625941"}
{"by":"JoachimSchipper","time":"1334844806","timestamp":"2012-04-19 14:13:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, consistent use of one type for lengths avoids issues because you need no casts. For in-memory data, the type to use is size_t since that is what e.g. memcpy(), strncmp() and read() accept; for a position in a file or a file length, off_t is a better choice, since that is what pread(), lseek() and stat() use. I'm a fan of unsigned data types in general, but using off_t for file lengths is the way to go. (It's not like you need defined overflow semantics for file positions, anyway.)\u003cp\u003e(You don't need off64_t if you compile with the proper #defines, which you should do on Linux.)","parent":"3862844","id":"3863049"}
{"by":"Intermernet","time":"1406378022","timestamp":"2014-07-26 12:33:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly what privilege is he excercising here?\u003cp\u003eHe\u0026#x27;s stated that GCC 4.9.0 is doing some \u0026quot;seriously crazy shit\u0026quot; as a response to a bug report on the Linux kernel mailing list.\u003cp\u003eHe at no point has insulted the GCC developers, the submitter of the bug, or anyone else who regularly reads the LKML.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure why you see defending the Linux kernel code against a problem in GCC 4.9.0 (with exact examples of why GCC is breaking the standards) is exercising any privileges, other than those granted by being the creator of Linux.\u003cp\u003eI personally think that Linux, Git and recently, Subsurface definitely justify his behaviour here. If you want to argue with him, send him an email. He\u0026#x27;ll be glad to reply. Otherwise, don\u0026#x27;t complain about his behaviour on HN. It\u0026#x27;s the internet equivalent of talking about people behind their back.","parent":"8089482","id":"8089573"}
{"by":"nodesocket","time":"1378433981","timestamp":"2013-09-06 02:19:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AMEX statements would be amazing.","parent":"6338152","id":"6338336"}
{"by":"drumdance","time":"1348877326","timestamp":"2012-09-29 00:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn't have to be binary. Part of being a good marketer is knowing your target market. If you create something and, through smoke and mirrors, sell it to people who won't like it or don't need it, you're setting yourself up for a lot of complaint letters and angry blog posts. I guess that's fine if you're just a pump \u0026#38; dump con artist who's catching the next train out of town, but there are alternatives.","parent":"4587087","id":"4588379"}
{"by":"nekopa","time":"1437054553","timestamp":"2015-07-16 13:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for this recommendation. I don\u0026#x27;t know if I will check it out right now, but it is on my list now because I am hoping to integrate C in Python when needs be. But I don\u0026#x27;t want to jump the gun :)","parent":"9897100","id":"9897125"}
{"by":"zokier","time":"1532446398","timestamp":"2018-07-24 15:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; you saying that since HTTPS isn’t perfectly secure you’re gonna use the definitely insecure HTTP? What kind of logic is that?\u003cp\u003eDifferent sort of security. While I don\u0026#x27;t agree with OP, the logic here is somewhat sound: he is concerned about the threats \u003ci\u003eagainst the server\u003c/i\u003e. It is reasonable to claim that TLS increases the attack surface, because any any vulns in TLS implementation would be purely additive to the potential vulns in the HTTP server.","parent":"17601629","id":"17601921"}
{"by":"knowitall","time":"1386075118","timestamp":"2013-12-03 12:51:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, I get that, as I also wrote here: \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6839794\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6839794\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut those are messages for the men, not for the woman who applies the lipstick. So is the desire basically to be sexually attractive like a woman? Or falling in love with one\u0026#x27;s reflection in the mirror?","parent":"6839844","id":"6839927"}
{"by":"maguay","time":"1359349389","timestamp":"2013-01-28 05:03:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except in Bangkok, where I live, the iPhone is still by every indicator the most wanted phone. You see iPhones more often, the iPhone 5 is the most predominantly advertised device by carries themselves, and the iPhone 4 is cheap enough that plenty of people I know have said they considered a cheap Android but decided to go for an iPhone 4 instead.\u003cp\u003eIf Apple has any problem, it's that the iPhone 4 is good enough for many people.","parent":"5125939","id":"5127225"}
{"by":"mrinterweb","time":"1508787841","timestamp":"2017-10-23 19:44:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just had flashbacks to writing PHP. Considering this is still an idiomatic style of writing PHP speaks to the problems of the language. That SQL injection venerability is also plain as day.","parent":"15533288","id":"15536336"}
{"by":"kahawe","time":"1307445887","timestamp":"2011-06-07 11:24:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has already been submitted a bit over 2 years ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=620698\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=620698\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny suggestions? It does have a certain relevance now since Apple is much more widely successful and given their recent announcements.","parent":"2628565","id":"2628669"}
{"by":"rhino369","time":"1444935951","timestamp":"2015-10-15 19:05:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is such a thing as a war between a country and an army of people. Attacking a member of that army isn\u0026#x27;t going to war against a person.","parent":"10395177","id":"10395238"}
{"by":"jgrahamc","time":"1379948199","timestamp":"2013-09-23 14:56:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. That\u0026#x27;s right. I submitted three times at one hour intervals deleting each time. I was experimenting with submissions times hoping to do a follow up on: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/how-i-ended-up-with-so-much-hacker-news.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.jgc.org\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;how-i-ended-up-with-so-much-hack...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6430695","id":"6431365"}
{"by":"jebblue","time":"1399405252","timestamp":"2014-05-06 19:40:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; A hack was well deserved.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a despicable thing to say. No one deserves to have bad things thrust upon them.","parent":"7706065","id":"7706644"}
{"by":"dvtrn","time":"1539579959","timestamp":"2018-10-15 05:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Phoenix Project should, IMO be in every IT professionals book collection","parent":"18217371","id":"18217497"}
{"by":"laxentasken","time":"1488897292","timestamp":"2017-03-07 14:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve find cups that is bio degraded which is also suitable to use in the Nespresso machine (even says to on the package).\u003cp\u003eThis is in sweden though.","parent":"13810444","id":"13810578"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1358785575","timestamp":"2013-01-21 16:26:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People have successfully robbed banks with just notes. The penalty for witch can be less than 5 years depending on the note.\u003cp\u003eNot that robbing a bank is all that profitable vs. the risk and penalty's.","parent":"5090858","id":"5092122"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1527198446","timestamp":"2018-05-24 21:47:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Deployment to me means to release into the real world, otherwise it is just a test and whether that test is in a closed course or even in a simulation makes no difference to me. That environment would not endanger random strangers.","parent":"17148685","id":"17148753"}
{"by":"prashp","time":"1539971483","timestamp":"2018-10-19 17:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TuriCreate also provides good tutorials on doing this:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;apple.github.io\u0026#x2F;turicreate\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;userguide\u0026#x2F;object_detection\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;apple.github.io\u0026#x2F;turicreate\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;userguide\u0026#x2F;object_det...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18257650","id":"18258548"}
{"by":"kyrra","time":"1456951915","timestamp":"2016-03-02 20:51:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to provide the app a picture of yourself when setting it up, so I don\u0026#x27;t believe it\u0026#x27;s tied in with any other system within Google.  As well, I believe stores are doing a mix of either camera or using name\u0026#x2F;initials to verify who you are (depends on the store you go into).\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of Google.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"11211930","id":"11212915"}
{"by":"wiradikusuma","time":"1324458601","timestamp":"2011-12-21 09:10:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The demo screen doesn't resize on browser resize. I'm using Chrome on Windows 7.","parent":"3376620","id":"3376881"}
{"by":"iamnothere","time":"1543180821","timestamp":"2018-11-25 21:20:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Likely, competitors, hostile investors, and\u0026#x2F;or NGOs are funding negative coverage through PR firms, just like Facebook itself recently did. (It happens more than you\u0026#x27;d think.)\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also a pile-on effect once a topic gets enough traction, and multiple outlets start publishing hit pieces in the hopes of gaining a few extra eyeballs.\u003cp\u003eFinally, government investigations into companies tend to create negative buzz, and since that\u0026#x27;s been happening with FB, that\u0026#x27;s probably generating some additional interest.\u003cp\u003eSee also: Tesla.","parent":"18527588","id":"18529117"}
{"by":"CPAhem","time":"1375343394","timestamp":"2013-08-01 07:49:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hear what you guys are saying. But perhaps by targeting those who use encryption, the NSA is trying to intimidate us into not using it and make their lives easier?","parent":"6138316","id":"6139136"}
{"by":"dri_ft","time":"1505473982","timestamp":"2017-09-15 11:13:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These sorts of things also end up being really hard to Google when you need to look something up about them.","parent":"15256081","id":"15256142"}
{"by":"aikah","time":"1446669415","timestamp":"2015-11-04 20:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with RPC style calls is you can\u0026#x27;t take advantage of \u0026quot;natural\u0026quot; server features like caching and such. You need to re-implement all this on top of both the client and the server.\u003cp\u003eI agree with your point about REST though, it\u0026#x27;s not even a standard. If it was there would be no debate about what REST is and what it isn\u0026#x27;t. It\u0026#x27;s a vague set of idea and its author himself kind of said his paper was targeted at \u0026quot;specialists\u0026quot; and not classical \u0026quot;developers\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003ePeople keep on telling me \u0026quot;read the spec\u0026quot;, well there is no normative spec.","parent":"10509224","id":"10509499"}
{"by":"Tloewald","time":"1354539700","timestamp":"2012-12-03 13:01:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Golly that sounds terrible. San Francisco must be an unbearable cesspit. Oh wait, that's right, it's my favorite city in the US, has a better than decent public transport system, and given a choice many people will pay extra to live there.\u003cp\u003eI've heard some amazing stories of mismanagement and excessively liberal policies (e.g. Homeless people being paid stipends by the city) but there are plenty of well managed cities I would move out of in favor of San Francisco. (My favorite post in the linked thread was a comparison of SF to Saudi Arabia.)","parent":"4864864","id":"4865182"}
{"by":"jimschley","time":"1464815245","timestamp":"2016-06-01 21:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Codeship | Boston | Full-time | REMOTE | Software Engineering\nCodeship is hosted continuous integration and delivery service. Our mission is to accelerate software development teams. We have a Rails\u0026#x2F;Postgres\u0026#x2F;Redis webapp and a Golang microservice and Docker-based elastic build infrastructure. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codeship.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codeship.com\u003c/a\u003e\nCodeship is hiring Senior-level Software Engineers: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codeship.com\u0026#x2F;jobs?gh_jid=215752\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;codeship.com\u0026#x2F;jobs?gh_jid=215752\u003c/a\u003e\nOur Engineering team has a remote first culture. We will consider applicants in Boston or who are remote with a successful track record contributing to a team remotely.\nSend us your info via the link above or email jobs[at]codeship[dot]com","parent":"11814828","id":"11818161"}
{"by":"dudemanbro","time":"1319063429","timestamp":"2011-10-19 22:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2. Yelp for business services\u003cp\u003eThis is exactly what BestVendor is doing.\u003cp\u003ewww.bestvendor.com","parent":"3132064","id":"3132422"}
{"by":"codinghorror","time":"1448658025","timestamp":"2015-11-27 21:00:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you read the comments to the referenced article, someone had a rowhammer problem even with ECC memory.  ECC does indeed reduce the chance of a memory error a lot, but the chance is far from zero (at scale of hundreds\u0026#x2F;thousands of servers), even with ECC. Another paradox about ECC, it\u0026#x27;s not a guarantee, so you \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e need to build systems that can tolerate \u0026#x2F; mitigate statistically rare memory error states.\u003cp\u003eThis commenter seemed quite credible to me, here\u0026#x27;s where it starts:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;discourse.codinghorror.com\u0026#x2F;t\u0026#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc\u0026#x2F;3771\u0026#x2F;9?u=codinghorror\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;discourse.codinghorror.com\u0026#x2F;t\u0026#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc\u0026#x2F;377...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Yep, these are what we had -- uncorrectable errors with ECC memory caused by row hammer. Luckily there are mitigations. Sandy Bridge allows you to double...","parent":"10638792","id":"10638810"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1302983030","timestamp":"2011-04-16 19:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"be bloggered\" would be more approp","parent":"2453771","id":"2454678"}
{"by":"sologrrl","time":"1385673325","timestamp":"2013-11-28 21:15:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those are absolutely hilarious. Created a new subreddit to submit and vote on the best of these titles at \u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/HNCJ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;HNCJ\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eShow HN post for the subreddit is here. \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6816322\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6816322\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6815967","id":"6816509"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1445116501","timestamp":"2015-10-17 21:15:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; The Democratic nomination has basically always been guaranteed for Clinton.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat may or may not be, but second candidate with good numbers would have strong chances of getting a VP berth (for himself or a protégé). I don\u0026#x27;t see it as a conspiracy.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Support for people who aren\u0026#x27;t likely to win the general election at least shows what issues are important to voters\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eUndoubtedly, but I think what Lessig is proving is that voters don\u0026#x27;t give a rat\u0026#x27;s ass about his issues. By continuing on this road I fear he\u0026#x27;s doing more harm than good to his cause. Even Nader\u0026#x27;s bid, which was much more realistic than Lessig\u0026#x27;s, did more harm than good to his movement in the long run.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Supporting someone you disagree with more just because they\u0026#x27;re likely to win is truly \u0026quot;throwing your vote away\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hard truth of First-Past-The-Post systems is that purism doesn\u0026#x27;t pay. A slightly-shaky alliance taking you to 40% trumps a purist core of 10% every day. That is an objective fact. It sucks, but you can\u0026#x27;t wish it away.","parent":"10405057","id":"10406135"}
{"by":"LarryMade2","time":"1434033679","timestamp":"2015-06-11 14:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being in the non-profit sector, I have some thoughts on this.\u003cp\u003eWould you have someone to drop by and build you a bridge to satisfy their community service?\u003cp\u003eIf you do something like programming for some agency, take into account the long term cost of what you do.  Putting up a site with a framework is quick, but will there be someone able to support updating the code in the months and years to follow?\u003cp\u003eFor programming I\u0026#x27;d go with open source contributions.  (also you can put links to your work and add to your resume)\u003cp\u003eTutoring is good, doesn’t have to be in high school, there are local community centers that are looking for people to put on workshops and such.","parent":"9691927","id":"9699966"}
{"by":"geocar","time":"1526630476","timestamp":"2018-05-18 08:01:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is special. The OP admits as such. His question is \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"17097321","id":"17099492"}
{"by":"killjoywashere","time":"1535350142","timestamp":"2018-08-27 06:09:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;kinetic energy\u0026quot; is such a euphemism for killing people.\u003cp\u003ecorrected, thank you. I agree with you more than you think. Please vote.","parent":"17849666","id":"17849736"}
{"by":"jakozaur","time":"1509975891","timestamp":"2017-11-06 13:44:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any reasonable antitrust regulation should kill it:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.economist.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;finance-and-economics\u0026#x2F;21725552-new-research-suggests-too-little-competition-deters-investment-americas\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.economist.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;finance-and-economics\u0026#x2F;2172555...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately they let those mergers happen:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.economist.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;21679810-frenzy-deals-awakening-americas-antitrust-regulators-pushing-limits\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.economist.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;21679810-frenzy-deal...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eShareholders benefit at the expense of everybody else (customers, employees, ...). Classical capital vs. labour dillema.","parent":"15635022","id":"15635320"}
{"by":"digi_owl","time":"1530819494","timestamp":"2018-07-05 19:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking into things it seems the guy represent Huston and surrounding areas...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;John_Culberson\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;John_Culberson\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17465579","id":"17466157"}
{"by":"dilatedmind","time":"1429657094","timestamp":"2015-04-21 22:58:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what are the benefits of using this benchmark over using ab?","parent":"9415151","id":"9417732"}
{"by":"KaiserPro","time":"1526286522","timestamp":"2018-05-14 08:28:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it actively promoted \u0026quot;it works on my machine\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;snowflake\u0026quot; installs.\u003cp\u003eSupporting a legacy docker app (ie something that was shipped two years ago) is a massive nightmare, because the build system used to make it is almost certainly not going to work.\u003cp\u003eThis means keeping the software patched becomes a massive massive pain. (mind you the same argument can be said for statically compiled binaries)\u003cp\u003eThe assumptions, the wrapper, and the plain horror that is the storage system is just such an arse.","parent":"17062497","id":"17063807"}
{"by":"dx034","time":"1526473142","timestamp":"2018-05-16 12:19:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No but on HN you should expect that criticism in that direction is valid. You can be world-class in certain niches but I doubt that calling oneself a world-class developer holds in the context of parts of the audience here.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s ok to sell oneself but I\u0026#x27;d be careful with exaggerations in a field with probably \u0026gt;1 million professionals.","parent":"17081738","id":"17081763"}
{"by":"ontouchstart","time":"1467162389","timestamp":"2016-06-29 01:06:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps you should start with Alan Kay Reading List:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11803165\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11803165\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11997737","id":"11998829"}
{"by":"larrik","time":"1522690677","timestamp":"2018-04-02 17:37:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, with video and everything. This was a lot scarier than I expected.","parent":"16736562","id":"16736897"}
{"by":"rue","time":"1282391558","timestamp":"2010-08-21 11:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, they were about to work on the budget, vote on some important issue, a big merger, celebrate their anniversary, about to have a child...\u003cp\u003eI appreciate that the mind of a philanderer let alone a rapist is a bit alien, but you must understand that the decisions are not entirely rational. As I state above, I find the charges suspect but \"he would have known better\" is not a convincing counterargument.","parent":"1622639","id":"1622651"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1277853417","timestamp":"2010-06-29 23:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm just working for a company trying to hire. Competent people are hard to find (as rethinkdb noted, 95% of applicants == fail), and when you find them, you pay for them. They are worth it.","parent":"1473118","id":"1473232"}
{"by":"chrismorgan","time":"1386677789","timestamp":"2013-12-10 12:16:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In case anyone feels like complaining about Persona depending on JavaScript: yes, it is true that it depends on JavaScript at present, but that JavaScript is only a crutch—a polyfill for something which is intended to undergo standardisation and formalisation as core browser functionality. Assuming that happens, Persona-based sites will thus in the end \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e depend on JavaScript.","parent":"6879681","id":"6880256"}
{"by":"glitchdout","time":"1395178519","timestamp":"2014-03-18 21:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s your fucking evidence:\u003cp\u003eThe FBI had access to the Boston bombers phone calls.\u003cp\u003e* \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs-july-dec13-whistleblowers_08-01/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pbs.org\u0026#x2F;newshour\u0026#x2F;bb\u0026#x2F;government_programs-july-dec1...\u003c/a\u003e (important part at 2:10)\u003cp\u003e* \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;commentisfree\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;may\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;telepho...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll quote the slip up of Tim Clemente, a former FBI agent:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; All digital communications are uh uh... There\u0026#x27;s a way to look at digital communications in the past. And I can\u0026#x27;t go into detail of how that\u0026#x27;s done or what\u0026#x27;s done but I can tell you that no digital communication is secure.","parent":"7423807","id":"7425158"}
{"by":"atlih","time":"1498966729","timestamp":"2017-07-02 03:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes I understand that, but the power dynamic completely shifts when the powerful party shows interest. You might get yourself out of handcuffs by giving your or even a fake number if the powerful party is interested.","parent":"14680726","id":"14680763"}
{"by":"keypusher","time":"1402210406","timestamp":"2014-06-08 06:53:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought that in order to create a distributed locking system, you need to be able to reliably fence unreachable nodes.  \u0026quot;Network Partitions\u0026quot; sound a lot like \u0026quot;Split Brain\u0026quot; to me.  I am more familiar with traditional clustering solutions such as Pacemaker\u0026#x2F;Corosync and the GFS2 DLM than RabbitMQ, so perhaps I am missing something here?","parent":"7863856","id":"7864147"}
{"by":"jedc","time":"1332945005","timestamp":"2012-03-28 14:30:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately don't have an \"end\" key on my MacBook Pro!","parent":"3764275","id":"3766385"}
{"by":"EvilTerran","time":"1332955894","timestamp":"2012-03-28 17:31:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Er, the poster who replied to you (wpietri) is a different account from the one you replied to (unalone).\u003cp\u003eAlso, now you're engaging in vacuous sophistry - you've made an assertion of wrongdoing without backing it up, and yet neither of them could reply here to defend themselves without seeming to dig deeper into the hole you insist they're in, because \"oh look more 'rational' arguments\".","parent":"3767244","id":"3767367"}
{"by":"paulrd","time":"1500132698","timestamp":"2017-07-15 15:31:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Universal Password Manager (UPM). It runs everywhere, syncs to dropbox (or wherever), pretty fast start time even though it\u0026#x27;s java. Github link: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;adrian\u0026#x2F;upm-swing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;adrian\u0026#x2F;upm-swing\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14776620","id":"14777142"}
{"by":"Abundnce10","time":"1444854218","timestamp":"2015-10-14 20:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried installing Facebook Lite in the Google Play store but it says \u0026quot;This item isn\u0026#x27;t available in your country\u0026quot;.  I live in the US.","parent":"10388298","id":"10389204"}
{"by":"burgerbrain","time":"1291050422","timestamp":"2010-11-29 17:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe he should consider actually locking his bike up correctly in the future.  I notice from that picture he hasn't locked his wheels, which tend to be pretty prominent targets.","parent":"1950108","id":"1950958"}
{"by":"lukasm","time":"1427757016","timestamp":"2015-03-30 23:10:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this, absolutely! My favourite as a kid\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  A big locomotive has pulled into town,\n  Heavy, humungus, with sweat rolling down,\n  A plump jumbo olive.\n  Huffing and puffing and panting and smelly,\n  Fire belches forth from her fat cast iron belly.\n\n  Poof, how she\u0026#x27;s burning,\n  Oof, how she\u0026#x27;s boiling,\n  Puff, how she\u0026#x27;s churning,\n  Huff, how she\u0026#x27;s toiling.\n  She\u0026#x27;s fully exhausted and all out of breath,\n  Yet the coalman continues to stoke her to death.\n\n  Numerous wagons she tugs down the track:\n  Iron and steel monsters hitched up to her back,\n  All filled with people and other things too:\n  The first carries cattle, then horses not few;\n  The third car with corpulent people is filled,\n  Eating fat frankfurters all freshly grilled.\n  The fourth car is packed to the hilt with bananas,\n  The fifth has a cargo of six grand pi-an-as.\n  The sixth wagon carries a cannon of steel,\n  With heavy iron girders beneath every wheel.\n  The seventh has tables, oak cupboards with plates,\n  While an elephant, bear, two giraffes fill the eighth.\n  The ninth contains nothing but well-fattened swine,\n  In the tenth: bags and boxes, now isn\u0026#x27;t that fine?\n\n  There must be at least forty cars in a row,\n  And what they all carry -- I simply don\u0026#x27;t know:\n\n  But if one thousand athletes, with muscles of steel,\n  Each ate one thousand cutlets in one giant meal,\n  And each one exerted as much as he could,\n  They\u0026#x27;d never quite manage to lift such a load.\n\n  First a toot!\n  Then a hoot!\n  Steam is churning,\n  Wheels are turning!\n\n  More slowly - than turtles - with freight - on their - backs,\n  The drowsy - steam engine - sets off - down the tracks.\n  She chugs and she tugs at her wagons with strain,\n  As wheel after wheel slowly turns on the train.\n  She doubles her effort and quickens her pace,\n  And rambles and scrambles to keep up the race.\n  Oh whither, oh whither? go forward at will,\n  And chug along over the bridge, up the hill,\n  Through mountains and tunnels and meadows and woods,\n  Now hurry, now hurry, deliver your goods.\n  Keep up your tempo, now push along, push along,\n  Chug along, tug along, tug along, chug along\n  Lightly and sprightly she carries her freight\n  Like a ping-pong ball bouncing without any weight,\n  Not heavy equipment exhausted to death,\n  But a little tin toy, just a light puff of breath.\n  Oh whither, oh whither, you\u0026#x27;ll tell me, I trust,\n  What is it, what is it that gives you your thrust?\n  What gives you momentum to roll down the track?\n  It\u0026#x27;s hot steam that gives me my clickety-clack.\n  Hot steam from the boiler through tubes to the pistons,\n  The pistons then push at the wheels from short distance,\n  They drive and they push, and the train starts a-swooshin\u0026#x27;\n  \u0026#x27;Cuz steam on the pistons keeps pushin\u0026#x27; and pushin\u0026#x27;;\n  The wheels start a rattlin\u0026#x27;, clatterin\u0026#x27;, chatterin\u0026#x27;\n  Chug along, tug along, chug along, tug along! . . . . \n\n  Julian Tuwim\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"9292231","id":"9293249"}
{"by":"omfgnuts","time":"1433508495","timestamp":"2015-06-05 12:48:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi!\nCheckiO community manager here.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re about to begin sending invitations, just subscribe on empireofcode.com and you\u0026#x27;ll get your invitation really soon!","parent":"9664972","id":"9665143"}
{"by":"atlbeer","time":"1272583370","timestamp":"2010-04-29 23:22:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How would Hotmail (an older consumer product) and Exchange (a 100% Enterprise product) mix together?\u003cp\u003eI would imagine a competitive product to Google Apps for Domains would have it's product aligned underneath the Office brand?","parent":"1306325","id":"1306482"}
{"by":"ethank","time":"1321993174","timestamp":"2011-11-22 20:19:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They have legal agreements (deals) and equity incentive for the labels.","parent":"3267145","id":"3267151"}
{"by":"hamxiaoz","time":"1396025721","timestamp":"2014-03-28 16:55:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$1100 price will kill it unless it doesn\u0026#x27;t target normal customers.","parent":"7486782","id":"7488422"}
{"by":"NoPicklez","time":"1544414146","timestamp":"2018-12-10 03:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One part of the article that I really disagree with is the part about the Wayback machine. As much as I believe it\u0026#x27;s important we retain the information we put on the internet, I fully support that if I put something on the internet and I am the creator of such content, I should be allowed to remove that content I created if I wish.\u003cp\u003eThis is closely aligned with the GDPR\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;Right to be forgotten\u0026quot;, yes this is in relation to different information but I\u0026#x27;m simply describing its intent. But eventually, this level of control should be given to all of us who share content on the internet. That we the curators of such content can ask of the provider to take reasonable steps to remove such content. And that if a provider wishes to restrict how widely dispersed its creators content travels then that\u0026#x27;s fine. Just because something has been posted online, doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it needs to travel far and wide.\u003cp\u003eNow yes, if I post something on the internet and I never touch it again I\u0026#x27;m happy for it to hit the Wayback machine. However, I believe it to be important that if I did ever want that information I created to be removed, I\u0026#x27;d have the ability to do so. Now if the Wayback machine does not allow this replication, then I understand why Quora do not allow them to use it.\u003cp\u003eIf anything its a battle on both sides, a battle to provide control to the content creators around the content they create. And a battle with trying to archive everything that exists on the internet and making it publicly available regardless of the content creators current wishes.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t get me wrong, if you post something online expect it to be on the largest most accessible encyclopedia of information of all time. But times are changing, and we are starting to implement controls to protect our digital identity and the information we create online. My argument, is that if a content provider wishes to restrict how far and wide the information I curate on its service is spread, then there\u0026#x27;s nothing wrong with that. We should not be shaming content providers who wish to provide as much power to the curator as possible.","parent":"18644489","id":"18645066"}
{"by":"tsahyt","time":"1352735422","timestamp":"2012-11-12 15:50:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like to be careful with forall statements but in this very case, yes.","parent":"4773255","id":"4773263"}
{"by":"Samuel_Michon","time":"1351678205","timestamp":"2012-10-31 10:10:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jelly Bean is the latest version of Android. Only 1.8% of Android devices run Jelly Bean. Most new Android devices being sold today do not run Jelly Bean and will very likely come with Flash.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdobe stopped supporting Flash for Android 2 months a go, hardly an eternity.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.pcworld.com/article/260901/android_flash_player_rip_how_to_get_it_now_that_its_gone.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.pcworld.com/article/260901/android_flash_player_r...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4722013","id":"4722050"}
{"by":"semi-extrinsic","time":"1481879611","timestamp":"2016-12-16 09:13:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the response!\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The idea of \u0026quot;templates\u0026quot; comes with a lot of baggage from C++-land. If we were doing this with C++ templates, I\u0026#x27;d agree, because the errors are abysmal and the types are difficult to write.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re spot on. I suspect most people familiar with template-ish expressions come from C++, where you encounter quite a few projects that are \u0026quot;templates all the way down\u0026quot; (looking at you, OpenFOAM).","parent":"13189619","id":"13192040"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1412346502","timestamp":"2014-10-03 14:28:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The representation of Dell\u0026#x27;s product line does not include their business lines of laptops, neither Latitude nor Precision.","parent":"8405310","id":"8405663"}
{"by":"TrevorJ","time":"1249059210","timestamp":"2009-07-31 16:53:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it is hugely ironic that Mike is as mad about the leak as he is.","parent":"734701","id":"734797"}
{"by":"pjscott","time":"1299192772","timestamp":"2011-03-03 22:52:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Case in point: I'm pretty sure that using \"mis-grammar\" as a verb (or at all) is not the officially approved way of saying what you wanted to say, but it got the point across just fine.","parent":"2285605","id":"2286109"}
{"by":"Alaskan005","time":"1355230146","timestamp":"2012-12-11 12:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was reading that Chrome wouldn't work either because of Gmail was down. Then we have algorithmic account deletions for \"spam\" or violating whatever rule. That's more than enough for me to be very cautious. Uptime is not as relevant, in 99.999% of cases we can wait to email or we can just pick the phone and call, losing access for ever is scarier.\u003cp\u003eDo not put all your eggs in one basket, be it Google's, Apple's or Microsoft's.","parent":"4904276","id":"4904305"}
{"by":"discodave","time":"1421714408","timestamp":"2015-01-20 00:40:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes but most people don\u0026#x27;t have large deployments like Netflix. The main reason Neftlix and co build entire images is because if you\u0026#x27;re scaling up and down by thousands of instances then the extra time for those instances to do all the build, configuration and so on is material. So you\u0026#x27;re better to do it once and essentially CTRL+C CTRL+V.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re only scaling up a few instances at a time then your number one consideration is probably making life easy for yourself.","parent":"8914668","id":"8914892"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1349165580","timestamp":"2012-10-02 08:13:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading and commenting on Hacker News as a non-graduate of anything, with one whole term of a programming course:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davidw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davidw\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4600945","id":"4601022"}
{"by":"donrhummy","time":"1397671569","timestamp":"2014-04-16 18:06:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is the base of the Project Ara phone, the exoskeleton, is only $15 to replace. So if they change that, you\u0026#x27;re looking at paying $15. With PCs, the base still costs $150-200 in most cheap options and significantly more in others.","parent":"7598674","id":"7599409"}
{"by":"hippich","time":"1375384521","timestamp":"2013-08-01 19:15:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"w8... does adwords allow you to include JS into ads? If no, how he get his js into ads?","parent":"6141964","id":"6142745"}
{"by":"saosebastiao","time":"1467563742","timestamp":"2016-07-03 16:35:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why would this display of science-working-as-intended (regardless of who turns out to be right) damage the credibility of science, except in the eyes of those who already hold nothing but contempt for science, or those who want to use science as a blunt-force weapon in their petty political games?\u003cp\u003eIf you haven\u0026#x27;t noticed, there isn\u0026#x27;t just a desire to use science as a political weapon. It actually \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a political weapon, and it is used regularly to win political wars. That\u0026#x27;s why extremely loud pissing matches with politicized goals masquerading as science are problematic for the science community...it is too easy, for too many people, to end up confusing the quest for truth and knowledge with a pursuit for power and control.\u003cp\u003eThere are plenty of climate scientists that resent the peon role they\u0026#x27;ve been placed into by politicians that nominally agree with them. By mixing up cause and proposed solutions which happen to be perfectly politically aligned with one side\u0026#x27;s dogmas, it makes it far too easy to vilify the cause and nullify any chance at a solution.\u003cp\u003eYou may see this as science working as expected, but the wide publication of bullshit and subsequent politicization of it is absolutely a problem for science.","parent":"12025982","id":"12026589"}
{"by":"parbo","time":"1273034340","timestamp":"2010-05-05 04:39:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh, when I write \"hac\" the top suggestion in Chrome (well, Chromium daily) is HN.","parent":"1318871","id":"1320336"}
{"by":"mcantor","time":"1341612580","timestamp":"2012-07-06 22:09:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, I ship internationally!\u003cp\u003e`:e` and `:E` are separate commands; `;e` stands for `:edit` and only opens a directory explorer if you pass it a directory. Otherwise it just opens the file.","parent":"4209267","id":"4209873"}
{"by":"gtani","time":"1485610419","timestamp":"2017-01-28 13:33:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His previous slide decks, which seem to be structured a little differently (I\u0026#x27;ve only looked for ~5 minutes) are available, so I expect this one will be too\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu\u0026#x2F;~rsalakhu\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu\u0026#x2F;~rsalakhu\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu\u0026#x2F;~rsalakhu\u0026#x2F;talks\u0026#x2F;talk_Montreal_part1_pdf.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu\u0026#x2F;~rsalakhu\u0026#x2F;talks\u0026#x2F;talk_Montreal_part1_pd...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13505509","id":"13506183"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1435668233","timestamp":"2015-06-30 12:43:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PHD stipends are conveniently tax and NI free.","parent":"9804635","id":"9804748"}
{"by":"ilarum","time":"1481888335","timestamp":"2016-12-16 11:38:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are services like \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;smmry.com\u0026#x2F;about\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;smmry.com\u0026#x2F;about\u003c/a\u003e which offer an API. Some sub-reddits I frequent already have bots that auto invoke this API and post the TLDR as a comment on every original post, and it seems to work acceptably well.","parent":"13192435","id":"13192567"}
{"by":"madiathomas","time":"1494845312","timestamp":"2017-05-15 10:48:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Satellite isn\u0026#x27;t an option. Satellite here is used for digital TV only.","parent":"14340533","id":"14340574"}
{"by":"gbhn","time":"1420260583","timestamp":"2015-01-03 04:49:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m certainly no art high roller, but my understanding is that the art world has a long history of patrons like this, who have eclectic tastes, large networks of trusting collectors, and an eye for the new. Everyone hates them, until eventually they build the Guggenheim museum and then everyone thinks they were awesome.","parent":"8829733","id":"8829960"}
{"by":"venomsnake","time":"1456182583","timestamp":"2016-02-22 23:09:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or android handset business.","parent":"11154923","id":"11155113"}
{"by":"vinay427","time":"1484307643","timestamp":"2017-01-13 11:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s especially bothersome to me when parents use \u0026quot;learning\u0026quot; apps to try and pretend that they\u0026#x27;re being a more productive parent by giving their child an iPad. Perhaps they can do some good, but their effects are also vastly overstated and are no substitute for hands-on physical teaching by parents.\u003cp\u003eHere is an example study that tries to test the effects of apps vs. parents teaching foreign language words: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pubmed\u0026#x2F;20855901\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pubmed\u0026#x2F;20855901\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13389554","id":"13390055"}
{"by":"legulere","time":"1433403998","timestamp":"2015-06-04 07:46:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They often sort the applicants by who needs it the most (=distance to where they\u0026#x27;re from)","parent":"9657605","id":"9657903"}
{"by":"toast0","time":"1536197727","timestamp":"2018-09-06 01:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not elastic\u0026#x27;s fault, but it is elastic\u0026#x27;s problem if they can\u0026#x27;t get paid.","parent":"17923026","id":"17923307"}
{"by":"hosay123","time":"1374527825","timestamp":"2013-07-22 21:17:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article suggests interrupt load is the major issue, although doesn\u0026#x27;t really say enough to inform us. A 12.5ms buffer means potentially just 80 wakeups\u0026#x2F;sec. They don\u0026#x27;t mention whether they use multiple hardware queues or if all interrupts hit a single core.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d also be interested to know if polling mode was tested with any of the cards, and why it didn\u0026#x27;t work out","parent":"6086144","id":"6086513"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1522641541","timestamp":"2018-04-02 03:59:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, why would they do that unless the regulatory authorities made them?\u003cp\u003eIs Waymo really \u0026quot;there\u0026quot;?  It seems like everywhere I turn I\u0026#x27;m seeing things that suggest that all of this technology has been hyped far beyond its actual capabilities.","parent":"16732198","id":"16732208"}
{"by":"simonw","time":"1318714546","timestamp":"2011-10-15 21:35:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What an odd comment.\u003cp\u003eThe difference between a restaurant and a technology startup is that a startup is \"an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model\" - \u003ca href=\"http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-principles/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs for your static IP address example... a company that is serving 38 pages a seconds with 3 ads and a $1 CPM isn't exactly a trivial thing to build. If you do build that without taking any investment, good for you! You've bootstrapped your company. I imagine you'll find that you need a lot more than a static IP address and 15 Mbps upload bandwidth to get there though.","parent":"3115735","id":"3115859"}
{"by":"Qworg","time":"1377283029","timestamp":"2013-08-23 18:37:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As is relabelling of honey from countries where the US has banned honey imports (like China), due to health and dumping concerns.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/07/173737521/nations-biggest-honey-packer-admits-laundering-chinese-honey\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;thesalt\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;173737521\u0026#x2F;nation...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6265385","id":"6265450"}
{"by":"Laremere","time":"1381040519","timestamp":"2013-10-06 06:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Farbs tweeted a partially working pacman in puzzle script: \u003ca href=\"http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=6847686\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.puzzlescript.net\u0026#x2F;play.html?p=6847686\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6501034","id":"6503342"}
{"by":"rblion","time":"1513049038","timestamp":"2017-12-12 03:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve come to terms with a lot of things I am powerless over. I\u0026#x27;ve had to accept that the Anthropocene extinction is happening and most people are only vaguely aware, only a few people are willing to change their lifestyle choices. I\u0026#x27;ve accepted that billions of people just want to escape poverty and live with a few of the comforts most of us take for granted. Who are we say no to them? I\u0026#x27;ve accepted that in order for humanity to keep growing, everything else will keep dying little by little. I wish I was wrong but everything I am saying is supported by observable facts.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve started to grow disillusioned with the tech industry, how different is it from Wall Street at this point? I\u0026#x27;ve grown a lot as a designer, a developer, a writer, a salesman but now I\u0026#x27;m only interested in earning an honest living, not so much to \u0026#x27;save the world\u0026#x27; like I felt when I was 20. It\u0026#x27;s tempting though, I struggle with the fact that I may live and die on this world without having had much consequence on anything. Yet I\u0026#x27;m beginning to realize that in the end, all we may leave behind as a species is a lot of plastic, crumbling buildings, cigarette butts, and toxic landfills. There is the slight chance that we expand beyond the Earth but judging from geopolitics, I\u0026#x27;m not sure we have our priorities right at the most critical time in human history.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m afraid that I am too meek to swim with the sharks and in the event I do succeed, then I have to be ready for the day when someone from my past will get jealous and exaggerate something from my past to some desperate media outlet trying to get views. I would much rather buy a cabin in the mountains and grow my own food, enjoy the simple things that have always made me happy. I\u0026#x27;m content with a camper van, working remotely, and seeing what\u0026#x27;s left of the National Parks with my camera and my dog. I\u0026#x27;m at the point now where I don\u0026#x27;t even think I want to get married or have kids, this is where I\u0026#x27;m at age 27.","parent":"15901548","id":"15902773"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1501760669","timestamp":"2017-08-03 11:44:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have high hopes on WebAssembly. It\u0026#x27;s not the current intention but it could become a universal virtual machine.","parent":"14918301","id":"14918682"}
{"by":"xlnt","time":"1217348472","timestamp":"2008-07-29 16:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ok i agree","parent":"260695","id":"260699"}
{"by":"weavejester","time":"1328891959","timestamp":"2012-02-10 16:39:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of the 27 countries in the EU, 10 still retain their own currency. The UK is in the minority, but it isn't the only country outside the Euro.\u003cp\u003eSo given you've gotten that little detail wrong, forgive me if I'm a little dubious that the UK is the only EU country with personal bankruptcy and credit ratings!","parent":"3575071","id":"3576407"}
{"by":"ionised","time":"1495035468","timestamp":"2017-05-17 15:37:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What\u0026#x27;s not straight about it? You;re the only one having trouble with it.\u003cp\u003eHe intended to go to one of three countries in south\u0026#x2F;central America. Why would you pick and book only one destination when you have US intelligence services trying to hunt you down? That seems retarded.\u003cp\u003eAs you seem to be a fan of Occams Razor, what seems to be more likely?\u003cp\u003eThat he was a liberty-minded contractor that discovered gross violations of personal privacy and civil liberties across the Western hemisphere and out of a sense of public good he decides to drop the dox bomb on the NSA and release everything he could lay his hands on?\u003cp\u003eor\u003cp\u003eThis was some cunning and elaborately orchestrated Russian operation to plant a guy that used to talk immature shit on Ars Technica into the NSA in order to steal documents relating to the US and UK intelligence community\u0026#x27;s digital panopticon and then having hiom offload all he found to fucking \u003ci\u003ejournalists\u003c/i\u003e before he ever arrived in Moscow to collect his \u003ci\u003e\u0026#x27;Putin\u0026#x27;s #1 Boy\u0026#x27;\u003c/i\u003e trophy and life-time supply of Stolichnaya?\u003cp\u003eI mean, you complain that he didn\u0026#x27;t outright challenge Putin in a live broadcast. Think about it. What would that achieve exactly? Russia is a lost cause when it comes to personal freedoms and civil liberties. The only way that will change is if Putin and his cronies all fuck right off and die. That\u0026#x27;s not likely.\u003cp\u003eSnowden can not change a fucking thing about Russia, but a country he was born and lived in? A country that preaches freedom, democracy and liberty and asserts itself as the paragon of virtue where people may actually fucking listen if they can drag themselves away from the news-as-entertainment for a few fucking minutes?\u003cp\u003eAs much of an authoritarian shitheel and all-round scum bag as Putin is, he is not responsible for every ill that befalls America. By complicitly buying into the propaganda that the Russians are to blame for every instance of US imcompetence or outright disrespect of its own constitution you are \u003ci\u003egiving the actual assholes\u003c/i\u003e a free pass.\u003cp\u003eBy blaming the Russian boogeyman under the bed every time a citizen identifies and cries foul of your country\u0026#x27;s gradual slide into plutocractic surveillance state you accelerate it.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure why I should be surprised by any of this. This is the country that just made Donal Trump a fucking president and half of whom are convinced that Fox News is fact-based rather than irrational hate-based.\u003cp\u003eOh, and \u0026quot;useful idiot\u0026quot; is the actual term that\u0026#x27;s used. I didn\u0026#x27;t make it up.","parent":"14359201","id":"14359482"}
{"by":"Snail_Commando","time":"1416296047","timestamp":"2014-11-18 07:34:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not my creation, but I\u0026#x27;ve read the essay before and I was intrigued by the game. It\u0026#x27;s pretty cool.\u003cp\u003eHere is the essay if anyone is interested:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;organizations.utep.edu\u0026#x2F;portals\u0026#x2F;1475\u0026#x2F;nagel_bat.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8622829","id":"8622835"}
{"by":"glassx","time":"1330986653","timestamp":"2012-03-05 22:30:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Harmonics are never exactly double, triple the fundamental. Those would be mostly inaudible. But you get the idea.\u003cp\u003eActually, they are: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonics\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3668599","id":"3668686"}
{"by":"mhartl","time":"1409255511","timestamp":"2014-08-28 19:51:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t plan to cover APIs in the core tutorial, but I\u0026#x27;ve had a couple of requests for that subject and will consider making a follow-on product.","parent":"8239130","id":"8239315"}
{"by":"snowwrestler","time":"1363489600","timestamp":"2013-03-17 03:06:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the young men who play in the NFL do not come from money. In fact for a lot of them, being the best football player in their high school was their only hope to go to college at all, let alone earn millions of dollars.","parent":"5386460","id":"5387911"}
{"by":"jvandenbroeck","time":"1332027156","timestamp":"2012-03-17 23:32:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vim or eclipse with vim bindings, I'm addicted to them. When I'm typing a document in Word I sometimes want to move up a line by pressing 'k'..","parent":"3717754","id":"3718544"}
{"by":"ghusbands","time":"1500458381","timestamp":"2017-07-19 09:59:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That paper isn\u0026#x27;t particularly relevant, as the non-OoO CPU described therein is not much like the Mill at all. It would be interesting indeed, though, to see the Mill folks produce performance figures for some common software.\u003cp\u003eRemember that a VLIW CPU has a lot of sub-ops in each instruction word, so it by design has more ILP, though only when the workload allows for many of those sub-ops to be filled, and how much work those sub-ops do can muddy the waters.","parent":"14801336","id":"14803138"}
{"by":"Mikosia","time":"1347993769","timestamp":"2012-09-18 18:42:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, are these available freely online? and what might the user base be? Presumably legal firms etc. I am trying to make it more general public oriented.","parent":"4531434","id":"4539796"}
{"by":"detst","time":"1295820080","timestamp":"2011-01-23 22:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't tax groceries as is already the case in many states.","parent":"2133443","id":"2133452"}
{"by":"stevepotter","time":"1371492187","timestamp":"2013-06-17 18:03:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds great except often something needs to be done when a value is null, like giving user feedback.  If the answer then is to provide another block, just go back to the if statement.","parent":"5893950","id":"5894770"}
{"by":"jasongullickson","time":"1253034944","timestamp":"2009-09-15 17:15:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did Apple explicitly claim that they were encrypting the stored files?","parent":"824020","id":"824246"}
{"by":"nfriedly","time":"1473369323","timestamp":"2016-09-08 21:15:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Forget the condo. Just dump your money in a Vanguard fund and leave it there until you\u0026#x27;re 40+","parent":"12455387","id":"12457400"}
{"by":"jakeogh","time":"1518060688","timestamp":"2018-02-08 03:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"mpv does a nice job with that \u0026#x27;[\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;]\u0026#x27; select any arb speed and \u0026#x27;.\u0026#x27; steps frame by frame (with sound).","parent":"16327173","id":"16329961"}
{"by":"klinskyc","time":"1520999618","timestamp":"2018-03-14 03:53:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aw man. I don\u0026#x27;t have anything profound, but I always smile when I read this XKCD - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;799\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;799\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16582136","id":"16582152"}
{"by":"Analemma_","time":"1457111238","timestamp":"2016-03-04 17:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, I\u0026#x27;ll bite. I\u0026#x27;m one of the people reporting \u0026#x27;Trump anxiety\u0026#x27;, and other anxieties too:\u003cp\u003e- We\u0026#x27;re now setting global temperature records almost every single month. Every month and every year have been the hottest on record, suggesting that we\u0026#x27;re now in the \u0026quot;runaway acceleration\u0026quot; period of global warming and there\u0026#x27;s nothing we could about it even if we weren\u0026#x27;t still just sitting on our hands and battling a \u0026quot;culture war of attrition\u0026quot; with the people who still insist the whole thing is made up.\u003cp\u003e- Things like \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;slatestarcodex.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;slatestarcodex.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;i-can-tolerate-anything...\u003c/a\u003e suggest that \u0026quot;political belief congruence\u0026quot; and information bubbles have become so strong that rational political discourse is now impossible, and outrage+stonewalling will continue forever. If Trump doesn\u0026#x27;t win in November, then at best we\u0026#x27;ll keep \u0026quot;lurching from crisis to crisis\u0026quot; until we finally hit some issue where one side resorts to civil unrest rather than lose, like Matthew Yglesias predicted, and the whole thing blows up.\u003cp\u003e- The lack of any serious effort on any side to de-escalate tensions between China and the United States essentially guarantees that, like almost every instance where a rising global power clashed with the incumbent, we\u0026#x27;ll be going to war; probably in more than 15 but less than 30 years.\u003cp\u003eSo what do you do in this case? What do you do when your anxiety isn\u0026#x27;t caused by your own problems (I\u0026#x27;ve got a cushy job and no childhood trauma) but by larger issues that you have no hope of solving?","parent":"11224879","id":"11225107"}
{"by":"jdnier","time":"1455737835","timestamp":"2016-02-17 19:37:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wondering what information encoding in five dimensions is about, here\u0026#x27;s a bit from the abstract: \u0026quot;The two independent parameters describing birefringence, the slow axis orientation (4th dimension) and the strength of retardance (5th dimension), are explored for the optical encoding of information in addition to three spatial coordinates.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;spie.org\u0026#x2F;PWL\u0026#x2F;conferencedetails\u0026#x2F;laser-micro-nanoprocessing#2220600\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;spie.org\u0026#x2F;PWL\u0026#x2F;conferencedetails\u0026#x2F;laser-micro-nanoproces...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11120493","id":"11120583"}
{"by":"jcdavis","time":"1393215622","timestamp":"2014-02-24 04:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The trick it folks intentionally talk in vague terms to avoid anything being spread around. Most of the easy FD deals have been killed over the last few years because of this. The time\u0026#x2F;value tradeoff for those is now above my threshhold, but back in 2009 when they were much easier I flew SFO-SYD for ~$570.","parent":"7288640","id":"7289074"}
{"by":"jjcinaz","time":"1546532021","timestamp":"2019-01-03 16:13:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because internet speeds are not a good measurement?","parent":"18815937","id":"18816153"}
{"by":"adrianwaj","time":"1265379521","timestamp":"2010-02-05 14:18:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Assess it for what it's worth. If it's postable, do it. If not, tell them why. That's the polite thing, but you'd be giving free advice, and this approach would hinder your time if it happened a lot.\u003cp\u003eThe company has obviously seen you post a lot to HN. Do they think you're a sucker?\u003cp\u003e-edit: and if you do, what do you get out of it? You could ask for a favour in return, or tell them to post it themselves and you might just upvote it.","parent":"1103021","id":"1103563"}
{"by":"nicolaslem","time":"1522508023","timestamp":"2018-03-31 14:53:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently started using RSS again after a long break. Like many of you I decided to build my own reader. Since RSS\u0026#x2F;Atom is quite easy to work with I didn\u0026#x27;t take me long to get something usable.\u003cp\u003eI built a Python library[0] to parse feeds and a Django app using it[1]. It is not ready for prime time yet, but I use it daily and like it.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;NicolasLM\u0026#x2F;atoma\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;NicolasLM\u0026#x2F;atoma\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;NicolasLM\u0026#x2F;feedsubs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;NicolasLM\u0026#x2F;feedsubs\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16721690","id":"16723535"}
{"by":"andrewliebchen","time":"1422689764","timestamp":"2015-01-31 07:36:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even most metered city parking is far below what the \u0026quot;free market\u0026quot; rate would be.","parent":"8975474","id":"8976169"}
{"by":"pilif","time":"1306415035","timestamp":"2011-05-26 13:03:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking at that file, I see another case of severe XML misuse. If you have that amount of binary data to store, you probably shouldn't be using XML.","parent":"2587434","id":"2587565"}
{"by":"aluhut","time":"1522371005","timestamp":"2018-03-30 00:50:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Search results for \u0026quot;Kodi\u0026quot; have been removed because you might use it for illegal stuff\u0026quot;","parent":"16711515","id":"16712685"}
{"by":"TheSpiceIsLife","time":"1530145595","timestamp":"2018-06-28 00:26:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is loose talus? Is it like scree?","parent":"17411609","id":"17413089"}
{"by":"ImprovedSilence","time":"1318979518","timestamp":"2011-10-18 23:11:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Completely off topic, but did you just link me to halfway though a you-tube video?  That's Fantastic, ya lean somethin new every day.","parent":"3127533","id":"3127714"}
{"by":"vertex-four","time":"1503570382","timestamp":"2017-08-24 10:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Putting money away in savings, hopefully to secure a more stable future, should bring some measure of confidence\u0026#x2F;happiness.\u003cp\u003eOnly if you actually believe that saving money secures a more stable future. In practice, it really doesn\u0026#x27;t - you\u0026#x27;re still working at the same shitty job with no prospects, just with nothing to distract you from the reality of what that means, and \u003ci\u003emaybe\u003c/i\u003e if you manage to save enough over half a year you can survive a couple of weeks between jobs. Woop.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t actually provide stability in the sense that makes people feel happy - a job in which it\u0026#x27;s unlikely you\u0026#x27;ll get fired without warning in the first place does that. Hopping jobs, hopping rented accommodation, hopping shitty transport that you can\u0026#x27;t really depend on but you need to depend on for a living... that\u0026#x27;s the stressor. Many people with professional jobs, stable housing, and health insurance, but no savings to speak of are quite happy.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re never going to save enough to actually do anything with it within five years on a low-income job, no matter how much you cut back - doubly so if you have any debt at all - and there\u0026#x27;s studies that show that planning for the future where that future is not guaranteed is not a strength of many people on low incomes.","parent":"15088803","id":"15088917"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1476834247","timestamp":"2016-10-18 23:44:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you let users change passwords, they\u0026#x27;ll forget them, and call support. So you don\u0026#x27;t let them. DDoS doesn\u0026#x27;t generate support requests.","parent":"12737468","id":"12739743"}
{"by":"ultimatejs","time":"1490297877","timestamp":"2017-03-23 19:37:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nanoservices isn\u0026#x27;t specific enough. serverless has great meaning to initiated web developers. i for one know exactly what they mean by that and always did, whereas nanoservices, to me at least, could mean all sorts of things.","parent":"13922634","id":"13943407"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1384984550","timestamp":"2013-11-20 21:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; installing the portals has allowed Syracuse to eliminate a security job at the exit lanes\u003cp\u003eWorks for me. Unlike TSA workers, automated exit doors can\u0026#x27;t form unions.","parent":"6771306","id":"6771470"}
{"by":"chiph","time":"1403115724","timestamp":"2014-06-18 18:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Video predictive caching?  I would assume this isn\u0026#x27;t on the phone, unless they got a sweetheart bandwidth deal with AT\u0026amp;T.","parent":"7911165","id":"7911703"}
{"by":"ehutch79","time":"1311260979","timestamp":"2011-07-21 15:09:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"how does this make people mad?\u003cp\u003e22. Train station. My teeth are on edge every time I hear it. Who started it? Have they been punished? Chris Capewell, Queens Park, London\u003cp\u003ei mean, it's a station, for trains, hence train station. i don't get why this makes him angry.","parent":"2789788","id":"2789812"}
{"by":"f00_","time":"1521350168","timestamp":"2018-03-18 05:16:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought it was interesting the same technique (convolution) was used in two different applications: photoshop\u0026#x2F;gimp for image filters and in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). What is the purpose of convolution in CNNs?\u003cp\u003ethe setosa interactive says convolution is \u0026quot;a technique for determining the most important portions of an image\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ethe hubel and wiesel experiment showed \u0026quot;there is a topographical map in the visual cortex that represents the visual field, where nearby cells process information from nearby visual fields.  Moreover, their work determined that neurons in the visual cortex are arranged in a precise architecture.  Cells with similar functions are organized into columns, tiny computational machines that relay information to a higher region of the brain, where a visual image is formed\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m interested in David Marr\u0026#x27;s work, about to order Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information, his level of analysis approach is interesting. I think he did work on edge detection, which must of been involved some kind of convolution\u0026#x2F;filter\u003cp\u003eThis setosa interactive is great, and actually references the gimp documentation\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;setosa.io\u0026#x2F;ev\u0026#x2F;image-kernels\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;setosa.io\u0026#x2F;ev\u0026#x2F;image-kernels\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn image kernel is a small matrix used to apply effects like the ones you might find in Photoshop or Gimp, such as blurring, sharpening, outlining or embossing. They\u0026#x27;re also used in machine learning for \u0026#x27;feature extraction\u0026#x27;, a technique for determining the most important portions of an image. In this context the process is referred to more generally as \u0026quot;convolution\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;knowingneurons.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;hubel-and-wiesel-the-neural-basis-of-visual-perception\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;knowingneurons.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;hubel-and-wiesel-the-n...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe classic experiments by Hubel and Wiesel are fundamental to our understanding of how neurons along the visual pathway extract increasingly complex information from the pattern of light cast on the retina to construct an image.  For one, they showed that there is a topographical map in the visual cortex that represents the visual field, where nearby cells process information from nearby visual fields.  Moreover, their work determined that neurons in the visual cortex are arranged in a precise architecture.  Cells with similar functions are organized into columns, tiny computational machines that relay information to a higher region of the brain, where a visual image is formed.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ps.is.tuebingen.mpg.de\u0026#x2F;research_fields\u0026#x2F;inverse-graphics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ps.is.tuebingen.mpg.de\u0026#x2F;research_fields\u0026#x2F;inverse-graph...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eComputer vision as analysis by synthesis has a long tradition and remains central to a wide class of generative methods. In this top-down approach, vision is formulated as the search for parameters of a model that is rendered to produce an image (or features of an image), which is then compared with image pixels (or features). The model can take many forms of varying realism but, when the model and rendering process are designed to produce realistic images, this process is often called inverse graphics. In a sense, the approach tries to reverse-engineer the physical process that produced an image of the world.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"16609624","id":"16610542"}
{"by":"tocomment","time":"1282856376","timestamp":"2010-08-26 20:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's the best way to find that kind of work?","parent":"1637115","id":"1637152"}
{"by":"sanderjd","time":"1409611945","timestamp":"2014-09-01 22:52:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting! Thanks for the info. I\u0026#x27;ve never run into trouble myself, but I\u0026#x27;ve never tried to link a go application to libnss or libstdc++.","parent":"8253184","id":"8255004"}
{"by":"khattam","time":"1473749479","timestamp":"2016-09-13 06:51:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If and when I want to tell you that you\u0026#x27;re wrong, I no longer want you to agree with me or win you over. I just want to tell you to go fuck yourself. At that point, nothing you believe or stand for or identify as will be remotely right in any imaginable stable universe.","parent":"12483952","id":"12486084"}
{"by":"Frondo","time":"1431042469","timestamp":"2015-05-07 23:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you, yes.  That.  Exactly.\u003cp\u003eAnd I agree, politics isn\u0026#x27;t the only place where the poor in this country fail to maximize their advantage, it\u0026#x27;s just one place where they\u0026#x27;re consistently trodden upon.\u003cp\u003eAnd there\u0026#x27;s that saying about democracy, the poor voting themselves free benefits, whatever, that\u0026#x27;s just \u003ci\u003eso very wrong\u003c/i\u003e.  It\u0026#x27;s just another substance-free attack on the least politically empowered group of people.","parent":"9508975","id":"9509164"}
{"by":"ykl","time":"1386447700","timestamp":"2013-12-07 20:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s exactly what I mean; the simple sanity check case is easy, but once you start layering on things like complex geometry and surface models and volume data, the problem grows in difficulty absurdly quickly.","parent":"6866993","id":"6867532"}
{"by":"jankey","time":"1510433812","timestamp":"2017-11-11 20:56:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dummy load looks like this: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplexdirect.com\u0026#x2F;images\u0026#x2F;pic-l-atlasTrailer.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplexdirect.com\u0026#x2F;images\u0026#x2F;pic-l-atlasTrailer.jpg\u003c/a\u003e It\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;only\u0026quot; a megawatt but there are bigger ones as well.\u003cp\u003eBasically a big hairdryer. :-)","parent":"15677017","id":"15678149"}
{"by":"danieltillett","time":"1417083537","timestamp":"2014-11-27 10:18:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is investors don\u0026#x27;t care about burn until they all decide at the same time that it is the only thing they care about.","parent":"8666621","id":"8666676"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1233242750","timestamp":"2009-01-29 15:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You shouldn't be using gethostbyname anyway -- it's a deprecated interface.  And you \u003ci\u003edefinitely\u003c/i\u003e shouldn't be using gethostbyname_r -- it's not even defined by POSIX.","parent":"456430","id":"456440"}
{"by":"sgarman","time":"1379702409","timestamp":"2013-09-20 18:40:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the threat of Apple taking their business elsewhere is larger then any gain from \u0026quot;stealing\u0026quot; the chip design.","parent":"6419644","id":"6419663"}
{"by":"tom_rath","time":"1259088834","timestamp":"2009-11-24 18:53:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It actually does less than nothing.\u003cp\u003eSince an e-petition site like the one linked gives people opposed to an issue the impression that they've accomplished something, those people are that much less likely to do something substantive to resolve the issue they're concerned about [Citation_Needed -- I couldn't be bothered to find it].\u003cp\u003eSo, less is actually done to oppose the issue than if the site never existed in the first place.  It actually \u003ci\u003ehelps\u003c/i\u003e those who are in favour of the issue opposed.\u003cp\u003eE-petitions aren't useless:  They're \u003ci\u003eworse\u003c/i\u003e than useless.","parent":"959680","id":"959739"}
{"by":"shallot_router","time":"1499274684","timestamp":"2017-07-05 17:11:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not going to go over all the evidence again, but no, that is not the case. There is much more than just CrowdStrike\u0026#x27;s findings here.","parent":"14673138","id":"14704218"}
{"by":"aloukissas","time":"1541490983","timestamp":"2018-11-06 07:56:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh boy, that open palm icon will definitely steer many Greek site visitors away (it\u0026#x27;s almost the equivalent of the middle finger in Greek culture).","parent":"18387568","id":"18389166"}
{"by":"phzbOx","time":"1333411124","timestamp":"2012-04-02 23:58:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know I'll probably get down-voted but.. isn't it unfair to take a new job and get away for 6 months for parenting purpose? And what about being lesbian.. why would a company not hire a women because of that?\u003cp\u003eI don't know, I somewhat believe that once you put something on the web, be it facebook or not, it's now public. Yeah, on my facebook I have pictures that I'd rather not show to any employers but if they choose not to hire me for \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e, I'd rather not work at a place like this.\u003cp\u003eBut, while writing this, I kind of realised that not everyone is in my position.. and not everyone is as open minded to accept homosexuals.. so I guess I understand what it's unethical.","parent":"3790378","id":"3790773"}
{"by":"khedoros1","time":"1477956032","timestamp":"2016-10-31 23:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, \u0026quot;drone\u0026quot; has some different connotations. It usually seems to mean either:\u003cp\u003e- Ability to operate out of the pilot\u0026#x27;s line of sight (through streamed cockpit video or autonomous operation)\u003cp\u003e- A lazy term for a multi-rotor (3 or more) aircraft","parent":"12838087","id":"12841854"}
{"by":"jgarmon","time":"1323874386","timestamp":"2011-12-14 14:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I expect that telecommuting and/or salary are the dealbreakers here.\u003cp\u003eThese auto-resume sites apply pretty dumb filters right off the bat, and you probably got kicked out of the responder queue the second you ask for a six-figure pay rate and/or the option to telecommute.","parent":"3351699","id":"3352007"}
{"by":"kakarot","time":"1546780814","timestamp":"2019-01-06 13:20:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Before moving to Electron, Signal was a Chrome app. I\u0026#x27;m not sure if it\u0026#x27;s still available as such, however. A way to generalize between the two from the development side would be nice.","parent":"18838073","id":"18838165"}
{"by":"nabla9","time":"1530102251","timestamp":"2018-06-27 12:24:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Index fund ratio to actively managed funds is correct when index funds and active funds are performing equally.  All data suggests that the ratio of active funds is still too high because index funds continue outperforming actively managed funds.  There is equilibrium somewhere but we are not there yet.\u003cp\u003eThere are clear errors in this analysis.\u003cp\u003eIndex fund investing strategy is not inflating high market cap stocks relative to low market cap stocks. They are adding the same multiplier to the market cap of  every stock in the index.\u003cp\u003eActive funds are the only ones that can under or overvalue market cap. Index funds follow their lead. Better question is if index funds are putting more money to high market cap stocks than low valued stocks relative to active investors?\u003cp\u003eYou can make sanity checks for index funds, for example compare revenue to market cap ratio of index funds to active funds. Its seems that noting is wrong.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s possible that valuation of stocks fall little sort of most popular indexes like SP500 may suffer relative to those who get into the index. If that\u0026#x27;s true, that  opportunity for some investors.","parent":"17407262","id":"17407552"}
{"by":"surfmike","time":"1498410279","timestamp":"2017-06-25 17:04:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Norwegian has better airport locations too.","parent":"14630057","id":"14630969"}
{"by":"waterlesscloud","time":"1348548377","timestamp":"2012-09-25 04:46:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many discoveries in the past (and even in the present) were made by people who believed in Creationism?\u003cp\u003eWhy didn't that belief stop them from advancing science?\u003cp\u003eWhy would it now do so?","parent":"4568599","id":"4568623"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1387245346","timestamp":"2013-12-17 01:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t say anything about companies.","parent":"6915644","id":"6919155"}
{"by":"throwaway011101","time":"1472415755","timestamp":"2016-08-28 20:22:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I prefer flow.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Flow_(psychology)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Flow_(psychology)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12376481","id":"12378338"}
{"by":"throwaway7645","time":"1496578549","timestamp":"2017-06-04 12:15:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. Stupid cars and airplanes! Should have never stopped using horses!","parent":"14480876","id":"14481079"}
{"by":"010a","time":"1484846778","timestamp":"2017-01-19 17:26:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its a pretty huge deal if you store passwords for websites that you don\u0026#x27;t want other people to know you even have an account for. Like, say, a dissident in a politically oppressed country having an account for the US immigrations website.","parent":"13437440","id":"13437485"}
{"by":"Dn_Ab","time":"1337972082","timestamp":"2012-05-25 18:54:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Evolution does not work that way. Evolution does not refine beyond what is good enough, it does not refactor. Genomes do not adapt, genes which encode phenotypes that are best at getting its owners to maximize reproduction with respect to an environment are selected for.\u003cp\u003eMost importantly, if we could cure aging and necessarily cancer, then you can bet we would have the sophisticated understanding of genes, proteins and cells required to fully control our genome.","parent":"4024763","id":"4024924"}
{"by":"coroxout","time":"1502967243","timestamp":"2017-08-17 10:54:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love lynx.\u003cp\u003eI may be alone (or in a group of 7), however, judging by how often I get a 403 Forbidden error because a site is set up to reject anything with a user agent of lynx. Seems to be a default of many Wordpress setups. e.g. lynx slatestarcodex.com.\u003cp\u003eMaybe I should just tweak the user agent, but hey, lynx pride.\u003cp\u003e(edit: looks like it\u0026#x27;s the \u0026quot;libwww\u0026quot; part of the default lynx user agent which gets me blocked, not the \u0026quot;lynx\u0026quot; part. OK, I will edit that out. Ha!)","parent":"15035442","id":"15035503"}
{"by":"eschutte2","time":"1486452851","timestamp":"2017-02-07 07:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks.  \u0026quot;No, this is the empty fish shop.  The empty meat shop is across the street.\u0026quot;","parent":"13587590","id":"13587787"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1458788562","timestamp":"2016-03-24 03:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this is the fundamental thing people don\u0026#x27;t understand about NPM and JavaScript, and the web in general:\u003cp\u003eNothing is included. And that\u0026#x27;s a feature. The web is not trying to be the kitchen sink. That\u0026#x27;s iOS. They provide high level APIs for \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c/i\u003e. And as a result, the platform is architecturally only as vibrant as Apple can make it.\u003cp\u003eNow maybe you\u0026#x27;re happy with Apple, maybe you love the iOS APIs. But if you don\u0026#x27;t, you\u0026#x27;re stuck. There\u0026#x27;s not a rich bed of alternative view layers that you can draw from to build your own vision of how software should work.\u003cp\u003eNode and the web browser strive to be \u003ci\u003elowest common denominators\u003c/i\u003e. They provide just the very basics: a document format, a very simple programming language, and an http server. The rest is up to you.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s pretty scary, and so the JavaScript world has dabbled in frameworks. In the end all-inclusive frameworks are antithetical to the spirit I\u0026#x27;m talking about, so things trend towards small modules that do one thing pretty well. People go overboard sometimes. I would argue left-pad should just be a copy-pasted snippet rather than module. But that\u0026#x27;s not a sickness in the community, it\u0026#x27;s just developers feeling out how far to go.\u003cp\u003eIf you like every application to look the same, and you don\u0026#x27;t mind being chained to enormous and restrictive standard libraries and frameworks, then you will hate JavaScript. If you like writing software from scratch, forming opinions about all of the different parts of the system, and allowing each application to be built out of different parts, out of the right parts, then you should give JavaScript a closer look.","parent":"11348798","id":"11350276"}
{"by":"denzil_correa","time":"1345921197","timestamp":"2012-08-25 18:59:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot of people do not understand what plagiarism exactly means. Of course, there are those who do and brag about it but there are a set of students who do not understand what it means to plagiarize. Plagiarism is a wrong path to tread and this should be explained - perhaps a course on History of Plagiarism by Coursera?","parent":"4432137","id":"4432864"}
{"by":"jleader","time":"1329256019","timestamp":"2012-02-14 21:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you say \"separate ... dealership franchises\", are you counting each physical location once, or once per brand? Around here, many dealerships carry multiple brands. Also, there tend to be multiple dealerships clustered together (probably due to zoning, and tax incentives that some municipalities offer), so they're not as smoothly distributed as McDonalds. Still, those are amazing numbers!","parent":"3591740","id":"3591932"}
{"by":"carb","time":"1484098138","timestamp":"2017-01-11 01:28:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In theory you could have an API integration with law enforcement that allow them to switch the car into \u0026quot;pull over\u0026quot; mode.","parent":"13370989","id":"13371004"}
{"by":"zecto","time":"1541123617","timestamp":"2018-11-02 01:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MSC | DevOps | Washington DC | ONSITE, VISA | Competitive compensation! | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedical Science \u0026amp; Computing (MSC) is hiring DevOps at the National Center for Biotechnology Information\u003cp\u003eTech: kubernentes (k8s), spinnaker, rkt, docker, terraform, packer, consul, nomad, vault, linkerd, istio, envoy, service mesh, AWS, GCE, CentOS, Python, Golang, Scala, Finagle Growing, fast-moving team, smart people, fun culture, great opportunities, lots of potential.\u003cp\u003eHelp an amazingly important public resource!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;careers-mscweb.icims.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;3209\u0026#x2F;devops-engineer\u0026#x2F;job\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;careers-mscweb.icims.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;3209\u0026#x2F;devops-engineer\u0026#x2F;j...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18354503","id":"18360102"}
{"by":"TheDauthi","time":"1494901992","timestamp":"2017-05-16 02:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has to have been possible for the information to have traveled between the parties normally. In this case, it has to have been possible that a photon would have traveled between the two. Since the information couldn\u0026#x27;t have arrived FTL normally due to the everyday causality problems, it also couldn\u0026#x27;t have passed through this channel FTL.","parent":"14346830","id":"14346968"}
{"by":"jgh","time":"1464250623","timestamp":"2016-05-26 08:17:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sure, we all ride the ebb and flow of the economy, but if we were talking about developing countries or even historically impoverished communities in the US i suspect it would be harder to make the argument that education doesn\u0026#x27;t help.","parent":"11775552","id":"11776438"}
{"by":"TrevorJ","time":"1469599488","timestamp":"2016-07-27 06:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the time, you end up running the editor \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e the game so for many things a faster machine is helpful.","parent":"12167954","id":"12170836"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1412248808","timestamp":"2014-10-02 11:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funnily enough that page design is actually bugged on my WinXP\u0026#x2F;FF31.0. - the floating menubar part covers the top line of content. Looks like a screen-size problem (I\u0026#x27;m on a 1024px laptop) that fixes with either smaller font-size or added padding to .breadcrumb.\u003cp\u003eMy point I guess is that web design is often harder than it looks. OSS projects with limited resources are better using Github or Sourceforge or similar, IMO, rather than trying to keep on top of web page design decisions to cater for ever changing UAs.","parent":"8399866","id":"8400250"}
{"by":"cnu","time":"1293890326","timestamp":"2011-01-01 13:58:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. For me \"Apps\" doesn't means just iPhone/Android apps. \nRight now, my skillset allows me to create only webapps :-), though I am thinking of using this \"App a month\" as an opportunity to learn to do mobile apps.\u003cp\u003e2. Sure, I have created a uservoice site. Please suggest ideas here \u003ca href=\"http://appamonth.uservoice.com/forums/94045-general\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://appamonth.uservoice.com/forums/94045-general\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks a lot for the support.","parent":"2057109","id":"2057627"}
{"by":"limmeau","time":"1366881293","timestamp":"2013-04-25 09:14:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you got an example of a more sane and easier to understand notation for type inference rules? I find the horizontal-bar notation quite readable.","parent":"5606200","id":"5606318"}
{"by":"modeless","time":"1538155507","timestamp":"2018-09-28 17:25:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt it. The \u0026quot;View As\u0026quot; feature does not require the target to be currently logged in to Facebook AFAIK.","parent":"18095100","id":"18095151"}
{"by":"sneak","time":"1338204167","timestamp":"2012-05-28 11:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"s/elsewhere in the U\\.S\\./elsewhere/;\u003cp\u003eAll of the good places to live in the USA are balls-expensive, because there aren't very many of them.\u003cp\u003eBerlin's great this time of year.","parent":"4032757","id":"4032881"}
{"by":"manojlds","time":"1439572422","timestamp":"2015-08-14 17:13:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    git commit --allow-empty -F \u0026lt;(curl https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;thiderman\u0026#x2F;doge\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;doge\u0026#x2F;static\u0026#x2F;doge.txt)\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"10060325","id":"10061342"}
{"by":"prodmerc","time":"1439991126","timestamp":"2015-08-19 13:32:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, OK, that is quite expensive.\u003cp\u003eBut it would still settle all your worries for the future, I presume.","parent":"10085219","id":"10085243"}
{"by":"waterside81","time":"1381107277","timestamp":"2013-10-07 00:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, self-checkouts are best as replacements for the express checkout lane. You\u0026#x27;ve got a few things in your hands, probably don\u0026#x27;t even need a basket or cart, and just scan them through, and you\u0026#x27;re out. When doing a full shop, a person is preferrable.","parent":"6505950","id":"6506072"}
{"by":"saalweachter","time":"1346950770","timestamp":"2012-09-06 16:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've seen this in shopping results -- I'm probably going to buy from Amazon, but I like to see the top N competitors' results along side the Amazon results, so that I can easily confirm that no one is more than a buck or two cheaper than Amazon and can then feel good about my purchase.","parent":"4484466","id":"4485070"}
{"by":"betenoire","time":"1496777807","timestamp":"2017-06-06 19:36:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s 50% placebo, 50% soaks up the sweat so you don\u0026#x27;t feel like you are pulling on a sheet of glass.\u003cp\u003eMy ratios may be wrong, adjust to taste.","parent":"14500472","id":"14500488"}
{"by":"andrewflnr","time":"1355777059","timestamp":"2012-12-17 20:44:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can get a pretty good idea from the home page, where the header shows sample card pairs. It looks very similar to \"Apples to Apples\", if you've played that.","parent":"4934193","id":"4934248"}
{"by":"stephenr","time":"1455891343","timestamp":"2016-02-19 14:15:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Either Americas implementation of chip systems for credit cards is terrible, or it\u0026#x27;s another case of Americans complaining about nothing.\u003cp\u003eAustralia has had chip+pin as standard for years now. It\u0026#x27;s fast, it works well and honestly for a purchase of soap ad razors you\u0026#x27;re more likely to just use payWave or the MasterCard equivalent.","parent":"11133358","id":"11133533"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1479083248","timestamp":"2016-11-14 00:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They had to have started on this road of offenses somehow, and I\u0026#x27;d wager it usually starts with the mildly stupid things.","parent":"12946573","id":"12946651"}
{"by":"lx3459683","time":"1533209290","timestamp":"2018-08-02 11:28:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On a related note, I noticed that it\u0026#x27;s a bit socially looked down upon to be privacy conscious. This is pretty much a 180 from what the public perception was 20 years ago.","parent":"17670435","id":"17670654"}
{"by":"Torgo","time":"1477947681","timestamp":"2016-10-31 21:01:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Logo submissions are good for community morale, in my opinion.","parent":"12839578","id":"12840886"}
{"by":"Toucan","time":"1293982746","timestamp":"2011-01-02 15:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but what would be valuable is a blog post describing the thought process that led to this decision and what the perceived advantages and disadvantages are.  If this is an experiment, it would be good to know the hypothesis.\u003cp\u003eIt would be great to see a post in a couple of months time following up on the decision as well.","parent":"2059429","id":"2060168"}
{"by":"pooya13","time":"1523150271","timestamp":"2018-04-08 01:17:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t mean to call the OP lier but anyone knows if there is any evidence whatsoever that this video was taken on an autopilot engaged Tesla? Just want to be sure about it before I form judgment against Tesla.","parent":"16773378","id":"16784011"}
{"by":"RobAtticus","time":"1348517627","timestamp":"2012-09-24 20:13:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Yes, but 'sure meet you there' wouldn't be quite juicy enough to satisfy the 'that was not private enough so therefore it wasn't a private message' crowd.\"\u003cp\u003eThe whole point of showing it next to a screenshot of the email or the message in the private inbox is to confirm that it is PRIVATE regardless of the actual content. There might be somebody out there who has an unusual interest in other people's private messages, but I think the vast majority of people are looking for something a bit more real than \"this happened to me.\"","parent":"4566664","id":"4566724"}
{"by":"drblast","time":"1407803451","timestamp":"2014-08-12 00:30:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s an outstanding recent episode of Louis (Louis C.K.\u0026#x27;s show) where Robin Williams is a guest.  In the show they both attend a funeral for someone nobody liked because they feel obligated, and they talk a bit about life and death.\u003cp\u003eDefinitely worth a watch, and very poignant in light of his suicide.  RIP Robin.","parent":"8165877","id":"8166049"}
{"by":"AznHisoka","time":"1455480244","timestamp":"2016-02-14 20:04:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$7.50\u003cp\u003eCost = $5\nHalf = 2.50","parent":"11099574","id":"11099733"}
{"by":"yborg","time":"1540580756","timestamp":"2018-10-26 19:05:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many people also don\u0026#x27;t realize how much of the current lakefront is built on fill - Grant Park is largely built atop fill from debris from the Chicago Fire that was dumped into the Lake.","parent":"18310378","id":"18311932"}
{"by":"easytiger","time":"1394614415","timestamp":"2014-03-12 08:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"well if ti was slow why wouldnt they try to radio. Obviously i don\u0026#x27;t know anything about airplanes, but one would assume their limits for warning about decompression events will be long before the average crew member will pass out","parent":"7384546","id":"7384592"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1503701453","timestamp":"2017-08-25 22:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s true. The two big changes in the past thousand or so years were the Medeival Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. Both were more regional than global, and the Little Ice Age coincided with the Industrial Revolution, which of course started extremely good economic times.","parent":"15102048","id":"15102892"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1320791875","timestamp":"2011-11-08 22:37:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another option is for banking (of the high risk investment banking kind) to be conducted by partnerships, with only natural persons as members, rather than corporations.  One's ownership would be long-term, and actions could claw back previous upside.\u003cp\u003eGoldman Sachs was a partnership until its IPO in 1999.  A lot of finance houses were closely held partnerships until the late 20th century.","parent":"3212852","id":"3213197"}
{"by":"vinceguidry","time":"1501250712","timestamp":"2017-07-28 14:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sad, but we\u0026#x27;ll probably fix blindness before we\u0026#x27;ll ever fix our software to be able to accommodate it.","parent":"14869045","id":"14874335"}
{"by":"rjurney","time":"1252202276","timestamp":"2009-09-06 01:57:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don't have the tenacity to self-teach, maybe you shouldn't go to college.  Tenacity is a much better selector than whatever we have going on in higher education now.","parent":"807343","id":"807362"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1479657834","timestamp":"2016-11-20 16:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The near future makes me laugh since it resemble a bad parody of nature. We\u0026#x27;re almost primitive, can\u0026#x27;t wait.","parent":"12996933","id":"12999469"}
{"by":"maratd","time":"1328041637","timestamp":"2012-01-31 20:27:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think describing it as flawless is a bit much. It is a great improvement over the status quo. It allows you to put what you've learned to immediate practical use. It is a brilliant example of a satisfying non-monetary trade. It takes a desire for knowledge, provides that knowledge, and allows the recipient to \"pay back\" the favor by using that knowledge to assist Duolingo. It makes learning fun and enjoyable.\u003cp\u003eThat said, there are glitches. It can be very inflexible at times. There's more than one way to skin a gato, and Duolingo can be very forceful on it's interpretation. I'm also not sure how useful it can be when it comes to learning a new language from scratch. I already had a few years of Spanish before I started, so it was a lot of fun brushing up. However, learning a new language without a human being there to help you and talk you through it can be rough. Duolingo tries to compensate through a forum/qa solution, but there's nothing like talking to a person in the flesh.\u003cp\u003eThat said, it is miles and miles above stuff like Rosetta Stone, etc.","parent":"3534656","id":"3535019"}
{"by":"StephenConnell","time":"1460604131","timestamp":"2016-04-14 03:22:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My photos did not do too well. My Coral looks like a cake,  my lizard looks like a bird, my boy fishing looks like a man next to a river, and a waterfall looks like a close up of Rock.","parent":"11489097","id":"11494091"}
{"by":"pc86","time":"1542137153","timestamp":"2018-11-13 19:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably because geographic location is not an intrinsic, fixed part of who are you, and is not a protected class either.","parent":"18443364","id":"18444008"}
{"by":"collingreene","time":"1408130802","timestamp":"2014-08-15 19:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe you just enjoy hyperbole but while part of what you say is correct (finding security vulns in software is unavoidably a bit of a crapshoot) your conclusions are wrong.\u003cp\u003eFinding deep, serious vulns like this in software can currently only be done by human beings. Tools are better at being authoritative but can only find vulns of a given type. For example static analysis is a great fit for any vuln that boils down to a dataflow problem, user controlled source -\u0026gt; ... -\u0026gt; dangerous sink. XSS, sql injection, etc fit this model. Fuzzers are great at finding bugs in parsers (and there are a surprising amount of parsers in the world, 90% of which should never have been written). Instrumented dynamic analysis can do awesome work for memory issues. I explain all this to show there are areas where tools are fantastic for their area. But there are many areas for which tools cannot help at all, heartbleed was one of these areas.\u003cp\u003eThe best security tools available were (presumably) run across openssl before and (certainly) with increased scrutiny after heartbleed. None of them found it. Simple limitations in static analysis lead me to believe they would never have found it on their own (most static analysis tools stop at 5 levels of indirection) Some background:\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.trailofbits.com/2014/04/27/using-static-analysis-and-clang-to-find-heartbleed/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;27\u0026#x2F;using-static-analysis...\u003c/a\u003e\n2. \u003ca href=\"http://security.coverity.com/blog/2014/Apr/on-detecting-heartbleed-with-static-analysis.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;security.coverity.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;Apr\u0026#x2F;on-detecting-hear...\u003c/a\u003e\n3. \u003ca href=\"http://www.grammatech.com/blog/finding-heartbleed-with-codesonar\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.grammatech.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;finding-heartbleed-with-codes...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have immature projects sure run tools against it and some bugs will shake out. But if you want to find the next heartbleed a tool wont do it which is your mistaken conclusion.\u003cp\u003eThe question then becomes how to cultivate and encourage more people to find vulns like this. Money seems like a good incentive for most, although Neel Mehta did it of his own volition. I dont know the answer to that question but things like googles project zero are exactly what I would try first.","parent":"8183540","id":"8183721"}
{"by":"openasocket","time":"1493829376","timestamp":"2017-05-03 16:36:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are ... are there emojis in all the commits??","parent":"14254165","id":"14257397"}
{"by":"smacktoward","time":"1386612175","timestamp":"2013-12-09 18:02:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"New York City has been that way for pretty much all of its modern history. My father, who was born and raised in the Bronx, told me once that NYC is a great place to be rich, and a great place to be poor, with not much room for anyone in between.\u003cp\u003eThis is part of why the arts scene there is so vibrant: \u0026quot;starving artists\u0026quot; have always been able to get by in New York in a way that they couldn\u0026#x27;t elsewhere.\u003cp\u003e(Though even they\u0026#x27;ve gotten squeezed in modern times: Roger Ebert quoted John Malkovich saying back in 1989 that \u0026quot;to have starving actors, you have to have a place for them to starve. New York is too expensive for that. You can\u0026#x27;t afford to starve there anymore.\u0026quot; \u003ca href=\"http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/slaves-of-new-york-1989\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.rogerebert.com\u0026#x2F;reviews\u0026#x2F;slaves-of-new-york-1989\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003ePutting living there aside and just looking at visiting, though: if you never visit NYC, you\u0026#x27;re missing out on one of the great urban experiences the world has to offer. If you\u0026#x27;re at all interested in the things cities have to offer, it should be a bucket-list destination.","parent":"6875333","id":"6875620"}
{"by":"vlad","time":"1214124026","timestamp":"2008-06-22 08:40:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And another link: \u003ca href=\"http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2008/06/09/steve-ballmer-apparition-at-teched-2008-dev-keynote.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2008/06/09/steve-ball...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"224142","id":"224143"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1401931671","timestamp":"2014-06-05 01:27:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True! It seems slightly hypocritical though. I think Techweek reacted pretty much the same way - accidentally did something offensive and reacted quickly when it was pointed out - but he\u0026#x27;s not willing to forgive them.","parent":"7848965","id":"7849646"}
{"by":"mastratton3","time":"1481172122","timestamp":"2016-12-08 04:42:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh great, thanks for the reply. I think thats about where I think we\u0026#x27;ll land... keep S3 as the primary source, but have HDFS be used for intermediate jobs.","parent":"13128417","id":"13128449"}
{"by":"snarfy","time":"1432137528","timestamp":"2015-05-20 15:58:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have a lot more rights to fight them when fighting a bank.  With PayPal you probably agreed to third party arbitration.","parent":"9577157","id":"9577188"}
{"by":"jordansissel","time":"1289946722","timestamp":"2010-11-16 22:32:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"logstash doesn't currently support saved queries (if you mean letting you save queries you like for later, easy recall), but I'm open to all feature suggestions.\u003cp\u003eFile a request, or email the list:\n- \u003ca href=\"http://code.google.com/p/logstash/issues/list\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.google.com/p/logstash/issues/list\u003c/a\u003e\n- logstash-users@googlegroups.com\u003cp\u003eI'll know what to work on (besides my own priorities) based on requests/feedback :)","parent":"1911988","id":"1912000"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1440614815","timestamp":"2015-08-26 18:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t help but think that philosophically, Wittgenstein\u0026#x27;s idea that a proposition is a picture of the world appears to be a starting point for the paper\u0026#x27;s ideas. Even if scientific terms like \u0026quot;model\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;simulation\u0026quot; might be more palatable [perhaps due to less examination], all capture the idea of isomorphism between a representation and what it represents.","parent":"10124642","id":"10125171"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1488202737","timestamp":"2017-02-27 13:38:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience, history is a far more robust guide than hand-waved speculation or assertion.\u003cp\u003eChina \u003ci\u003edid\u003c/i\u003e invent the modern world (mostly), by the way.  They just decided not to go the full way, though for reasons not entirely clear.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Science_and_Civilisation_in_China\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Science_and_Civilisation_in_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Winchester\u0026#x27;s biography of that epic work\u0026#x27;s creator, Joseph Needham, is highly engaging, and also recommended.  It\u0026#x27;s a lighter read than most the other works I\u0026#x27;ve recommended so far:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.worldcat.org\u0026#x2F;title\u0026#x2F;man-who-loved-china-joseph-needham-and-the-making-of-a-masterpiece\u0026#x2F;oclc\u0026#x2F;762172198\u0026amp;referer=space_alien_cat\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.worldcat.org\u0026#x2F;title\u0026#x2F;man-who-loved-china-joseph-ne...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13743447","id":"13744012"}
{"by":"sjakobi","time":"1484181921","timestamp":"2017-01-12 00:45:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tangentially relatedly, this recent r\u0026#x2F;haskell thread [1] contains a lot of discussion on the differences between Haskell\u0026#x27;s Package Versioning Policy and SemVer, and particularly downsides of SemVer.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;haskell\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;5iok3l\u0026#x2F;haskell_package_checklist\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;haskell\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;5iok3l\u0026#x2F;haskell_pac...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13378637","id":"13378921"}
{"by":"yakto","time":"1301848879","timestamp":"2011-04-03 16:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They're doing ok, probably just a mini-sharkfin from a wave of press. Interesting that HN is over half as big:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://trends.google.com/websites?q=quora.com,news.ycombinator.com\u0026#38;geo=all\u0026#38;date=all\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://trends.google.com/websites?q=quora.com,news.ycombinat...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2402433","id":"2403130"}
{"by":"imaginenore","time":"1426154554","timestamp":"2015-03-12 10:02:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yahoo Pipes 2.0?","parent":"9188920","id":"9189865"}
{"by":"barbs","time":"1452642368","timestamp":"2016-01-12 23:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just booted this up in a virtual machine and I managed to copy the EULA to the clipboard:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;t9E3SUQP\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;t9E3SUQP\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m posting this from within RemixOS, so I can\u0026#x27;t say any bad things about China right now :)","parent":"10888760","id":"10891284"}
{"by":"exikyut","time":"1515280936","timestamp":"2018-01-06 23:22:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve long wondered how this is actually done electronically. The only approach I\u0026#x27;ve ever been able to come up with is a digipot connected to a linear power supply, but that would generate a bit of heat at low brightness settings, and I suspect even a 256-step digipot would exhibit visible fade \u0026quot;jumps\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAs someone who knows zero about electronics fundamentals... how is this done?","parent":"16087984","id":"16088062"}
{"by":"taphangum","time":"1291430037","timestamp":"2010-12-04 02:33:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Groupon has just missed their bebo moment.","parent":"1967975","id":"1968258"}
{"by":"Sean1708","time":"1501665927","timestamp":"2017-08-02 09:25:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you mean something like this[0] (probably the worst possible implementation but I was in a rush)? I suppose you still have to create a \u0026quot;class\u0026quot; but you could set it up to use syntax like `V4(1, 2, 3, 4)` if you prefer.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.rust-lang.org\u0026#x2F;?gist=989fe1c05e3e68df896420327431b52f\u0026amp;version=stable\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.rust-lang.org\u0026#x2F;?gist=989fe1c05e3e68df89642032743...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14903007","id":"14909125"}
{"by":"rgovind","time":"1372391738","timestamp":"2013-06-28 03:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Indian govt is surely stupid in subsidizing higher education in place of primary education. However, there is a flip side. Even though the people are allowed to migrate, it is the same people who have brought the IT industry to Indian shores. According to a study commission admittedly by IITians, there is a positive economic benefit to funding IITs.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-11-25/india/27888912_1_paniit-iitians-iit-kharagpur\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\u0026#x2F;2008-11-25\u0026#x2F;india...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5956008","id":"5956124"}
{"by":"fmihaila","time":"1523477011","timestamp":"2018-04-11 20:03:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Anyone who knows what an autopilot [1] is [...]\u003cp\u003eI strongly suspect that is a small minority of buyers.","parent":"16814869","id":"16814953"}
{"by":"jwally","time":"1538514020","timestamp":"2018-10-02 21:00:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure I\u0026#x27;m overlooking something, but if its possible to beat the market by actively trading stocks, how come a vehicle like this doesn\u0026#x27;t exist?:\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll give you $100,000 of mine to invest.\nI\u0026#x27;ll pay you $7,000 up front to manage it.\nYou can invest the money however you want to.\u003cp\u003eIn exchange I want:\n- The ability to get out whenever I want (within 3 months of request)\n- An APR on my $100k principal of 1% over the S\u0026amp;P 500\u003cp\u003eFor example, if I stay in for 10 years and the S\u0026amp;P 500 appreciates by 10% (259,374), you owe me an 11% rate of return (283,942). This gives me a \u0026quot;true\u0026quot; return of 10.25% or 0.25% guaranteed over the market. If the market plummets and has a rate of return of -20%; you owe me -19%. Simple.\u003cp\u003eIf the market is easy to beat, all you have to do is take my $100k, invest it in actively-managed mutual funds (the 7k can cover the fees) and keep the spread. Yet nothing like this exists. Why?","parent":"18111266","id":"18125666"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1339198121","timestamp":"2012-06-08 23:28:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn't contravene at all, given that he says one of the major reasons they don't like to help is that it drops productivity.","parent":"4085683","id":"4086621"}
{"by":"unwind","time":"1334650808","timestamp":"2012-04-17 08:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah ... It's expensive. I paid less, but on the other hand (which is a rather painful hand, at this point) I also haven't actually received it yet, due to various manufacturing problems that are now being straightened out by shifting factories.\u003cp\u003eAnd also, of course the OpenPandora is more of a consumer electronics product in a case, with custom controls optimized for gaming, it's not a bare circuit board.","parent":"3851653","id":"3851716"}
{"by":"mgkimsal","time":"1435414697","timestamp":"2015-06-27 14:18:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not stoic so much, but my uk wife sliced her hand open on a can of cat food (in the US).  3 inch gash right across her palm.  Bleeding.  A lot.  Wrapped it up in towel and said \u0026quot;we\u0026#x27;re going to the emergency room, get in the car\u0026quot;.  She replied \u0026quot;oh no, I don\u0026#x27;t want to bother them, they might be busy.\u0026quot;","parent":"9789218","id":"9790227"}
{"by":"b1ind","time":"1324536749","timestamp":"2011-12-22 06:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best way I've found to learn design is to imitate, imitate, and imitate. Go on dribbble.com, find designs you like, and start emulating them on Photoshop. Eventually, you'll pick up on good design conventions.","parent":"3379611","dead":true,"id":"3380693"}
{"by":"acangiano","time":"1330527406","timestamp":"2012-02-29 14:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have any questions about the book, feel free to ask.","parent":"3647996","id":"3648000"}
{"by":"redm","time":"1518540602","timestamp":"2018-02-13 16:50:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My problem is that Google was a founder of Better Ads and its designed to 1) protect their ad business, 2) stop people from wanting ad blockers, and 3) make the web nicer. Huge emphasis on #1.\u003cp\u003eWhenever you have the browser maker, and punitive actions controlled by the same party, and arbitrarily, its a recipe for disaster.\u003cp\u003eIf Google really cared, they should spin Chrome off to a foundation, provide it a large amount of funding, and totally step aside.\u003cp\u003eHaving the #1 web browser and the largest ad network, controlled by Google, even if you agree with what they are doing, is a recipe for disaster.\u003cp\u003eGoogle, of course, MUST protect its ad business, let\u0026#x27;s call his what it is.","parent":"16367783","id":"16368551"}
{"by":"ende","time":"1464504646","timestamp":"2016-05-29 06:50:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I want all food that was packaged on Friday the 13th to be explicitly labeled as FRIDAY THE 13TH FOOD because I have an irrational fear of superstitious dates.  I demand the government require all food manufacturers to comply with this labeling regime.","parent":"11792748","id":"11795219"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1472139061","timestamp":"2016-08-25 15:31:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes it is.\u003cp\u003eSerialization doesn\u0026#x27;t have to handle a particular type system in its entirety to be serialization.\u003cp\u003eA serialization scheme can dictate its own type system; which can be smaller than that of the programming languages which support that serialization scheme.\u003cp\u003eJSON has a simple type system; it serializes that system.\u003cp\u003e(Might you be confusing serialization for other concepts like object store databases, or image saving?)","parent":"12359701","id":"12359806"}
{"by":"abalone","time":"1372112595","timestamp":"2013-06-24 22:23:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Short on facts. What\u0026#x27;s this \u0026quot;85% pay cut\u0026quot; line they keep repeating? Unsupported and smacks of sensationalism.\u003cp\u003eThis thread has a much better discussion of the actual numbers. \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5935183\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=5935183\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn short, Pandora is small right now and that\u0026#x27;s why the payout seems small. But by paying per-listener as opposed to per-broadcast, it has the potential to scale to higher payouts than traditional radio.","parent":"5935584","id":"5936148"}
{"by":"pavedwalden","time":"1463973303","timestamp":"2016-05-23 03:15:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, this makes me feel a little better that I could never make sense of IBM\u0026#x27;s Watson advertising. Even after checking out their site, I couldn\u0026#x27;t figure out what it was \u003ci\u003efor\u003c/i\u003e, much less what it was under the hood.","parent":"11751267","id":"11751605"}
{"by":"FreeKill","time":"1357530528","timestamp":"2013-01-07 03:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know this is a bit off topic, but I find Ad-Blocking to be an interesting problem. On the one hand, it's a person's choice and anyone blocking ads was likely not to click on them anyway. At the same time though, it's clear that if Ad-Blocking were to go truly mainstream, especially if ISPs started to block ads themselves, a major portion of the internet as it stands today would be financially unsustainable, especially when it comes to content sites. Even my mom (non-tech savvy in any way) asked me if there was a way to block the ads on Google the other day. She didn't like how they had started to add pictures for products but all the products were just ads for all the more expensive ones when she could find better deals elsewhere. Her exact quote was \"Why do I have to scroll past all these ads to find the better deals down below...\"\u003cp\u003eI think outside of ISP issues like those discussed in the article, sites like Google are actually hastening the average users desire to ad block.   I think it's possible that with the addition of things like the product ads for a product search and the fact that Google is the default jump off site for many people, they could be exacerbating the ad fatigue of their own users. I bet Google will have a tough time finding a sympathetic ear if Ad-Blocking goes more mainstream...\u003cp\u003eAt the same time though, I despise the ISPs that take user money and then complain that Google should also pay before they deliver me what I paid for. That's just ridiculous, and I hope Net neutrality can get in place before it's more mainstream of a practice.","parent":"5019066","id":"5019183"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1488552062","timestamp":"2017-03-03 14:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the theatre meaning? I\u0026#x27;m not familiar with that term.","parent":"13777217","id":"13783114"}
{"by":"nitrogen","time":"1351957235","timestamp":"2012-11-03 15:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dead comment by hastur:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ehastur 18 minutes ago | link [dead]\u003cp\u003eUS Govt can force a US-based company to handover customer data from an overseas data center.\u003cp\u003eSo no, you're not safe in London.\u003cp\u003e[In fact, due to close cooperation of intelligence services of the five Anglo-Saxon countries (Five Eyes), you're not safe in any of them if you want to do anything that challenges the interests that US law enforcement and intelligence protect. That includes any activity that would unsettle current intellectual property and copyright regimes, strong political activism, completely free speech, etc. If you're a web startup, that of course applies to your users too.]\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote to hastur: it looks like your snarky one-liners got your account auto-banned, so now nobody can read your comments that are actually interesting.","parent":"4736739","id":"4736825"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1483983573","timestamp":"2017-01-09 17:39:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Preserving the existing class structure\u0026quot; is not a design goal of the SAT, so to the extent that it does so, that is a problem. A test that didn\u0026#x27;t have this property would be a better test.\u003cp\u003eHowever, I don\u0026#x27;t think all is lost. Most of the wealthy\u0026#x27;s advantage is the fact that they actually practice taking the test. It\u0026#x27;s not clear why poor people don\u0026#x27;t avail themselves of this perfectly attainable advantage (frankly, how can they consider a few hours of their time more valuable than the many tens of thousands of dollars of scholarships on offer?), but they don\u0026#x27;t seem to do it. To fix this, let\u0026#x27;s get more poor kids to take the practice tests. I\u0026#x27;m doing that in a very small way. When asked for advice, I tell poor kids and family members to practice, practice, practice. I tell rich kids there\u0026#x27;s nothing they can do...","parent":"13348344","id":"13358037"}
{"by":"zipwitch","time":"1414083585","timestamp":"2014-10-23 16:59:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Practice for treating humans like animals?","parent":"8498972","id":"8499234"}
{"by":"delackner","time":"1303101032","timestamp":"2011-04-18 04:30:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is just an idea, but if the b.d. in your name means bouldering climber, and you go to a climbing gym often, I'd be very careful to wash when you get home.  The hand holds are NEVER washed and just think about how many people are touching them continuously.","parent":"2457828","id":"2457960"}
{"by":"pluma","time":"1468393446","timestamp":"2016-07-13 07:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference is that to be an atheist you must be willing to accept \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t know\u0026quot; as an answer.\u003cp\u003eScience provides tentative answers that iteratively home in on the truth: Newton\u0026#x27;s theory of gravity wasn\u0026#x27;t wrong, it was incomplete, so it was replaced by Einstein\u0026#x27;s, which covers all the corner cases we\u0026#x27;ve since learned about.\u003cp\u003eIn science a failure is considered progress. If we can disprove a theory, it increases our understanding of the universe by telling us what \u003ci\u003eisn\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e true.\u003cp\u003eAlso, a scientific theory must be falsifiable: it must be able to make predictions (which is why string theory despite its name is often not considered an actual theory).\u003cp\u003eReligion on the other hand offers absolute truth statements. Since the dawn of man religion has been how we explain things we don\u0026#x27;t have an answer to: lightning, the tides, the origin of life, what happens after we die and so on.\u003cp\u003eAs our understanding outside of religion has improved some of these answers have become ridiculous enough to make it socially awkward to retain them as dogma (though there are still Christians who will loudly tell you natural disasters are divine punishments).","parent":"12081941","id":"12084381"}
{"by":"nihaar","time":"1273155476","timestamp":"2010-05-06 14:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMHO there is a growing niche of creating websites on WP (or any other extensible CMS) as a way to cheaply test your ideas rather than invest the upfront cost of building a site from scratch.\u003cp\u003eProviding a service of building websites quickly \u0026#38; cheaply using something like WordPress can be valuable and lucrative even in the corporate world. I recently proposed this to my company for a new project and got the green light (after getting quotes of above $15K from other shops for a custom job). It was however difficult to find WP hackers easily and ended up building the site myself (in a fraction of the time and cost).","parent":"1324230","id":"1324448"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1488488128","timestamp":"2017-03-02 20:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes no sense - you have X monthly cost of the data and monthly repayments of Y, and if X \u0026gt; Y your outstanding loan will only grow.\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t sensibly pay for a recurring expense on credit.","parent":"13777481","id":"13778110"}
{"by":"monkeyspaw","time":"1392797330","timestamp":"2014-02-19 08:08:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IANAL, but that sounds either like you can\u0026#x27;t do all of those things together (the \u0026quot;and\u0026quot; conjunction), or you can\u0026#x27;t even read the website.  After all, if you can\u0026#x27;t download it, you can\u0026#x27;t view it.","parent":"7261286","id":"7262423"}
{"by":"candiodari","time":"1513781747","timestamp":"2017-12-20 14:55:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Displays On Demand\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhilst I am excited about the prospect of doing this myself, in the hands of the advertising web this is effectively \u0026quot;advertise \u003ci\u003einside\u003c/i\u003e your competitors\u0026#x27; store(s)\u0026quot;","parent":"15969511","id":"15970008"}
{"by":"DougWebb","time":"1502737986","timestamp":"2017-08-14 19:13:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMany utilities are also private companies and they they are required to provide service anyway.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s because they\u0026#x27;re not exactly private companies; they\u0026#x27;re government-sponsored monopolies. If they weren\u0026#x27;t, and if there were real competition for the services they provide (like all of the other local businesses), then they wouldn\u0026#x27;t be required to provide services to any particular customer.","parent":"15011502","id":"15011731"}
{"by":"arjie","time":"1480998665","timestamp":"2016-12-06 04:31:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This does not seem like consent.I can think of at least a 100 situations where I was not near my phone and yet do not want to send my location.\u003cp\u003eThen don\u0026#x27;t install the app, man.","parent":"13112243","id":"13112267"}
{"by":"onion2k","time":"1515190919","timestamp":"2018-01-05 22:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I blocked Trump on Twitter a long time ago for my own sanity. It\u0026#x27;s understandable that Twitter won\u0026#x27;t ban him, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean we have to read what he tweets.","parent":"16081587","id":"16082276"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1373302373","timestamp":"2013-07-08 16:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eliot Spizter is a grand example of this. Prosecuted mercilessly the very type of crime that brought him down, of which he escaped essentially unpunished for because he had the means to evade it.\u003cp\u003eYour average cop and his buddies are of course going to look out for each other, they are usually the ones under the bus when the higher ups go on a witch hunt","parent":"6004216","id":"6007702"}
{"by":"wyager","time":"1413052291","timestamp":"2014-10-11 18:31:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was curious why OpenBSD didn\u0026#x27;t ship Bash by default. Perhaps they weren\u0026#x27;t happy with the code quality.","parent":"8442878","id":"8442986"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1430710338","timestamp":"2015-05-04 03:32:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Why post a stock chart for a coal company, when we have actual usage data for coal:\u003cp\u003eSorry if it wasn\u0026#x27;t obvious, but coal companies have to make money. They are at the point now where they are on the verge of being wiped out by natural gas.\u003cp\u003eIt will reach a point where coal makes absolutely no sense to invest in and the game will stop there. It\u0026#x27;s already at the point where nobody in their right mind is putting money into new large coal prospects.","parent":"9484010","id":"9484153"}
{"by":"izacus","time":"1394555371","timestamp":"2014-03-11 16:29:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No it cannot. Internal storage is protected and cannot be access (unless the device is rooted and has root privileges).","parent":"7380303","id":"7380313"}
{"by":"chrishynes","time":"1517150737","timestamp":"2018-01-28 14:45:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you _build_ the business on 4 hours a week over 10 years? That\u0026#x27;d be maybe one full time year worth of work over the period. Is it now fully supporting you, i.e. more than 6 figures of profit? If you did that on four hours a week over the duration, I salute you, and care to share your niche?\u003cp\u003eIf not, and you did spend more time in the first few years getting the business established, then how can you compare your relaxation on maintenance mode of a business after it is running smoothly with the initial effort it takes to get off the ground? That\u0026#x27;s pulling up the ladder after you succeeded, not relevant advice.","parent":"16250477","id":"16251463"}
{"by":"Florin_Andrei","time":"1388693978","timestamp":"2014-01-02 20:19:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, in most cases when 3 W is too much, the application is simple enough that you could do it with an Arduino - which draws far less power.","parent":"7001770","id":"7001986"}
{"by":"grondilu","time":"1411329873","timestamp":"2014-09-21 20:04:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally I\u0026#x27;d compare it to meteorology.  Meteorologists used to interpret images from satellites and I suppose they made predictions based on a bit of science, but also a lot of heuristics.  Now (still a supposition, I\u0026#x27;m just a layman about this) computers do most of the heavy work.  Yet meteorologists still exist : their work consists in choosing the computer, operating it, understanding the output and other stuff like that.  You can\u0026#x27;t just give a supercomputer to someone and expect him to predict the weather.  It\u0026#x27;s still a job for an expert.\u003cp\u003eMedicine could become kind of like this.","parent":"8347163","id":"8348098"}
{"by":"EGreg","time":"1501019050","timestamp":"2017-07-25 21:44:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But can\u0026#x27;t their securities commission also pass such a resolution?","parent":"14852111","id":"14852142"}
{"by":"spacemanmatt","time":"1465213584","timestamp":"2016-06-06 11:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ich lieb dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht. Da da da!\u003cp\u003e(am I the only one who remembers Trio of their song that VW used in ads a few years ago?)","parent":"11845346","id":"11846016"}
{"by":"strikelaserclaw","time":"1539010389","timestamp":"2018-10-08 14:53:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve managed to get a remote gig at some point, and i\u0026#x27;m sure i can go 100% remote at my present employer. Seems to be the best way like someone above mentioned is to get a non remote job, prove yourself to be a valuable asset and then negotiate remote, never failed in my case.","parent":"18167619","id":"18167994"}
{"by":"shmerl","time":"1404514998","timestamp":"2014-07-04 23:03:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Except with Spotify you are not buying music. You are paying a subscription to their streaming services. DRM is the only way they can protect the artists.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Renting does not make sense for digital goods (I already explained in the past why).\u003cp\u003e2. DRM doesn\u0026#x27;t protect anything. I.e. it can\u0026#x27;t enforce the renting paradigm. This very article demonstrates that DRM is broken and it can\u0026#x27;t stop piracy. Therefore there is no need to use it ever even if we assume that it\u0026#x27;s an ethical practice (it is not). All DRM does is punishing paying customers by crippling the usability of the product (limiting supported devices \u0026#x2F; platforms \u0026#x2F; players \u0026#x2F; formats and so on), while having zero effect on pirates who pirate the same stuff DRM free.","parent":"7990496","id":"7990500"}
{"by":"chrismanning","time":"1442937769","timestamp":"2015-09-22 16:02:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EJDB [0] is pretty good and seems to be actively developed again after a period of inactivity. It uses BSON rather than JSON directly but close enough, and the queries are modelled after Mongo too.\u003cp\u003eI made a C++14 wrapper [1] a while ago which will probably still work unless EJDB itself had some drastic API changes. (I also have a C++14\u0026#x2F;1y BSON\u0026#x2F;JSON library [2] that\u0026#x27;s handy for working with EJDB, but is a bit of a playground for template metaprogramming so compile times will explode with certain functionality).\u003cp\u003eThe main problem with EJDB is that it\u0026#x27;s not crash tolerant so you need signal handlers to attempt a graceful flush\u0026#x2F;close on a global handle.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Softmotions\u0026#x2F;ejdb\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Softmotions\u0026#x2F;ejdb\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;chrismanning\u0026#x2F;ejpp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;chrismanning\u0026#x2F;ejpp\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;chrismanning\u0026#x2F;jbson\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;chrismanning\u0026#x2F;jbson\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10258862","id":"10259453"}
{"by":"deisner","time":"1525105770","timestamp":"2018-04-30 16:29:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Recently they ran an ad featuring Bob Dylan which made laugh, or would have, if had made not me so angry.\u0026quot; Wait, is Roger Schank an AI trying to convince humans that AIs are impotent and harmless? Pretty sneaky, Schank-bot.","parent":"16959188","id":"16959979"}
{"by":"altay","time":"1177538357","timestamp":"2007-04-25 21:59:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Get familiar with FireBug, by far the best Firefox extension for web development.  ( \u003ca href=\"http://www.getfirebug.com\"\u003ehttp://www.getfirebug.com\u003c/a\u003e ) It's how I learned CSS.  If you're interested in the user interface/experience side of design, it'll help you there too.  It's got great Javascript tools.\u003cp\u003eThere's a bit of a learning curve, but Firebug seriously changed the way I design and code.\u003cp\u003eOther than that, do what you'd do to learn any other creative skill -- find examples that you love, and dissect them.  Figure out exactly what it is that turns you on and incorporate those details in your own work.  Good luck!","parent":"16603","id":"16814"}
{"by":"stephen_g","time":"1505823350","timestamp":"2017-09-19 12:15:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So far it\u0026#x27;s just been technical reasons that would be a problem if pretty much all standards-compliant inverters didn\u0026#x27;t already have safety features to mitigate them...","parent":"15283517","id":"15283925"}
{"by":"djsumdog","time":"1482728629","timestamp":"2016-12-26 05:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s really though to legislate anti planned obsolescent legislation without people screaming socialism. This is essentially what is needed.","parent":"13256104","id":"13257015"}
{"by":"aroch","time":"1396540237","timestamp":"2014-04-03 15:50:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This may not be, but things like Soylent which claim to solve all your nutritional and health needs by drinking it, are the equivalent of homeopathy -- like say, drinking g tea made from the horn of rhino will make your virile.","parent":"7523635","id":"7523655"}
{"by":"ics","time":"1427386751","timestamp":"2015-03-26 16:19:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fantasy stock markets were fun back in school, this could be too. Edit with my only feedback: put a big, fat FAQ button somewhere. It took a little while to notice the tiny \u0026quot;learn more\u0026quot; text.\u003cp\u003eMy link if anyone wants (if you use, we both get Ex$50k apparently): \u003ca href=\"http://exchangel.co/r/38\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;exchangel.co\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;38\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9270387","id":"9270751"}
{"by":"12bytes","time":"1520001655","timestamp":"2018-03-02 14:40:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; NoScript Security Suite: since uMatrix will be used to block scripts, this functionality is not required from NoScript\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; This is a mistake.\u003cp\u003ethanks for bringing this up - i couldn\u0026#x27;t quickly find info regarding how uM handles inline scripts, but i see that uBO does have that specific option - this has caused me to look deeper into uBO and i\u0026#x27;m now considering revising the guide and dumping uM completely since i personally don\u0026#x27;t require all the granularity of uM (i always allow images\u0026#x2F;css globally for example)\u003cp\u003eso although there may be some caveats with not using NS, it seems that uBO can basically eliminate the need for NS, at least for those of us that just want stuff to work for the most part","parent":"16500192","id":"16501657"}
{"by":"FireBeyond","time":"1522265411","timestamp":"2018-03-28 19:30:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I have already fully served any theoretical (I haven’t been charged) ‘bail violation’ whilst in prison and under house arrest. So why is there a warrant for my arrest?”\u003cp\u003eNot in the least bit arrogant. \u0026quot;Well, I hid out here because I feared extradition. That should basically count as my sentence for violating bail, right?\u0026quot;","parent":"16700347","id":"16701028"}
{"by":"veyron","time":"1314822066","timestamp":"2011-08-31 20:21:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a case of a startup shoe sales site with a really elegant interface for selecting the exact type of shoe you wanted.  Basically, it allowed you to see many very similar styles on one page to be able to compare similar offerings from different labels.  I wish I could remember the name, but a recently VC-funded startup used a patent to go after the first startup, and they ended up closing shop.","parent":"2947295","id":"2947382"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1538786690","timestamp":"2018-10-06 00:44:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sure does! Done now.","parent":"18152346","id":"18152830"}
{"by":"kryptogeist","time":"1504104734","timestamp":"2017-08-30 14:52:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you mind sharing the organization\u0026#x27;s name?","parent":"15129598","id":"15132566"}
{"by":"JAdamMoore","time":"1535465107","timestamp":"2018-08-28 14:05:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope.","parent":"17856314","dead":true,"id":"17858841"}
{"by":"ashmud","time":"1422040728","timestamp":"2015-01-23 19:18:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks that way. Irfanview reports 24bpp for images saved when I selected \u0026gt; 256 colors in CQ.","parent":"8935457","id":"8936666"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1382993448","timestamp":"2013-10-28 20:50:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First google result I found was in the .uk they\u0026#x27;re 5% of workers and almost 25% of worker deaths.  So yeah pretty bad.","parent":"6628864","id":"6629689"}
{"by":"syncsynchalt","time":"1302132902","timestamp":"2011-04-06 23:35:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the same problem, I thought the author mistakenly used ∏ but I see in my browser tab that it's correctly lowercase.","parent":"2417121","id":"2417482"}
{"by":"e12e","time":"1461342505","timestamp":"2016-04-22 16:28:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you assume that Facebook will comply with whatever entity you\u0026#x27;re trying to avoid, by using Onion, it sounds like a pretty bad idea to me, yes. In theory you could probably use a separate browser and Tor session for Facebook, and for your other browsing - making it a little harder to associate your Facebook login with your Tor session (ip). Sounds like a terrible idea, though.\u003cp\u003eNow, for some of the reasons why you\u0026#x27;d want to use Facebook via Tor, it might not matter much - using Facebook might be bad enough (eg: it could be considered subverting state censorship) -- so if Facebook is already colluding with your adversary, just having a Facebook account might be enough to give you problems.\u003cp\u003eIt might be enough for a legal veneer of plausible deny-ability, although I doubt it: Eg, perhaps you\u0026#x27;re a drone pilot and you login to Facebook via Tor, and paste in a gpg-encrypted, ascii-armored text-message to a journalist on Facebook. You could claim someone must\u0026#x27;ve hacked your account. Or you could collude with someone else, and \u0026quot;borrow\u0026quot; their account. I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;d keep you out prison though.","parent":"11549905","id":"11550340"}
{"by":"togusa2017","time":"1511801103","timestamp":"2017-11-27 16:45:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Usual advise is not to copy but for inspiration I kind of like this \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;volafile.org\u0026#x2F;privacy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;volafile.org\u0026#x2F;privacy\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15776684","id":"15788664"}
{"by":"rwhitman","time":"1339598396","timestamp":"2012-06-13 14:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there restrictions or requirements for owners of new TLDs to offer domains for sale at a reasonable price? Or if someone wants a website at myrecipes.food do they now have to pay a premium extortionate amount to the gTLD owner?","parent":"4105383","id":"4106168"}
{"by":"yequalsx","time":"1477591941","timestamp":"2016-10-27 18:12:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.  For the first time in many years I\u0026#x27;m going to be going back to Microsoft for my computers.  The surface book seemed to expensive but then I realized that 1 surface book takes the role of a macbook pro + ipad pro.","parent":"12807624","id":"12807701"}
{"by":"fao_","time":"1483710335","timestamp":"2017-01-06 13:45:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was an optional change :P\nI have both Messenger and Signal installed, and Signal in place of my normal texting app. It\u0026#x27;s doable.","parent":"13335974","id":"13336131"}
{"by":"boucher","time":"1254593230","timestamp":"2009-10-03 18:07:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you work on the iTunes Store or in the Apple Developer program? If not, I question the authority of your \"99.9%\" claim.\u003cp\u003eAs far as all of the other arguments, they are very touchy feely. \"The App Store is new\" but it's built on top of a store that's been around for 7 years. And that store already processes billions of transactions annually, so those numbers don't strike me as crippling.\u003cp\u003eI don't know what Apple is or isn't doing, but I do know what they've admitted to publicly, and I do know dozens of (well respected) developers who have had issues with the app store. I also know that Apple has lied about the store in the past. So, I think some criticism is deserved here.\u003cp\u003eAs far as relating it to the employee paperwork, that was absurd. They've been using the same paperwork for years. It's completely unrelated.","parent":"858821","id":"858978"}
{"by":"rv-de","time":"1543486729","timestamp":"2018-11-29 10:18:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe matching 95% made you too confident salary-wise. Maybe they just want a 50% who they can haggle down to working for peanuts as a junior because of those missing 50%.","parent":"18551592","id":"18559224"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1310287427","timestamp":"2011-07-10 08:43:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. And the reassuring clunk of the car door is as much to get you into a calm frame of mind before driving as anything.","parent":"2747309","id":"2747354"}
{"by":"rosser","time":"1358306704","timestamp":"2013-01-16 03:25:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If \"Bob\" was smart enough to pull off a stunt like this for as long as he did (\"quarter after quarter\"), you'd think he would've been smart enough to have his subcontractors proxy their traffic through a US-based host...","parent":"5064586","id":"5065047"}
{"by":"clamattack","time":"1361892699","timestamp":"2013-02-26 15:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's not a bad idea but I'm based further north and getting to London would be too expensive for this month.","parent":"5286097","id":"5286120"}
{"by":"andybak","time":"1274286338","timestamp":"2010-05-19 16:25:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The interesting question for me is whether existing mobile hardware can accelerate this in any way - i.e. through the ARM Neon extensions and similar. Otherwise we will have to wait for a whole new generation of hardware if this is going to make any dent in the mobile web.","parent":"1361245","id":"1361420"}
{"by":"chriseppstein","time":"1255725881","timestamp":"2009-10-16 20:44:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've heard of a few companies that have this prerequisite, but only a few. I think open source contributions can tip the scales if you're up against a bunch of great candidates, but I don't think the business world works like you make it sound. In fact, I know lots of companies would actually shy away from open source contributors.","parent":"886036","id":"886139"}
{"by":"WesleyJohnson","time":"1382621831","timestamp":"2013-10-24 13:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m guilty of nearly everything you listed at the end - on a single project. I\u0026#x27;ve been working on a WWF\u0026#x2F;Scrabble type game (with some unique gameplay elements) since early 2012 and it continually gets picked up and put down again. I\u0026#x27;ve ended up building a component-based ui engine behind it, keep adding features, try to pick it up without clear goals or tasks in mind and am probably trying to tackle far more than I should be on my first game.\u003cp\u003eThanks for the article and inspiration; it\u0026#x27;s making me take a step back and re-evaluate my approach a little bit. Congrats on shipping!","parent":"6604874","id":"6605155"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1477188689","timestamp":"2016-10-23 02:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I said essentially the same thing: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12771478\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12771478\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI most assuredly do not work in finance.","parent":"12771508","id":"12771518"}
{"by":"vl","time":"1397895020","timestamp":"2014-04-19 08:10:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, for uninitiated - \u0026quot;Uber\u0026quot; is cab, and \u0026quot;UberX\u0026quot; is gypsy cab? Is it correct?","parent":"7610829","id":"7612917"}
{"by":"qwertyuiop924","time":"1470351052","timestamp":"2016-08-04 22:50:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a pretty cool project, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t have the library support of other schemes. Given CHICKEN\u0026#x27;s already Cheney based, I wonder if Felix could somehow integrate this work? Green-Threaded pre-emptive cooroutines are all well and good, but sometimes you want OS threads...","parent":"12227716","id":"12229007"}
{"by":"bit_logic","time":"1488685987","timestamp":"2017-03-05 03:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And so playing the game of spending weeks studying CS problems and doing leetcode.com is somehow better?","parent":"13794358","id":"13794509"}
{"by":"rhoua","time":"1369482447","timestamp":"2013-05-25 11:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I live in a country where I know the language well to laugh with drunks in a bar, but not well enough to get a masters.\u003cp\u003eIf one could get a college education from a distance in a language I know well, that would be amazing.","parent":"5766751","id":"5766972"}
{"by":"thisismyusernam","time":"1547329883","timestamp":"2019-01-12 21:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was really enjoying this article, which is intelligently written (even though it\u0026#x27;s obvious the author has made up their mind and is trying to convince me, I happen to agree with them). That is until this line:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eFrom its inception in the mid-1800s, margarine had always been considered creepers, a freakish substitute for people who couldn’t afford real butter.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen did \u0026quot;creepers\u0026quot; become a word journalists can use in a non-ironic way?","parent":"18890475","id":"18893472"}
{"by":"MrZongle2","time":"1474930484","timestamp":"2016-09-26 22:54:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;This is complete bullshit. The FBI would love to prosecute a senator or their family\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitation needed.  Do you work for the FBI?","parent":"12586283","id":"12586318"}
{"by":"thought_alarm","time":"1308023734","timestamp":"2011-06-14 03:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They seem to be using \"Appstore\" as a proper name.","parent":"2650973","id":"2651736"}
{"by":"rksprst","time":"1301008393","timestamp":"2011-03-24 23:13:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Android Marketplace and Amazon's App Store.","parent":"2366395","id":"2366416"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1390344442","timestamp":"2014-01-21 22:47:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I liked Namecheap, but have had major issues with their DNS service. you can\u0026#x27;t switch off of them without downtime.\u003cp\u003eThat doesn\u0026#x27;t make any sense. As long as you set up the proper records in your new DNS provider prior to switching nameservers, there\u0026#x27;ll be no interruption.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like you switched nameservers first, assuming the records would just transfer over?","parent":"7098925","id":"7099164"}
{"by":"cmdrfred","time":"1481814655","timestamp":"2016-12-15 15:10:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Turnabout is fair play in my opinion.","parent":"13185011","id":"13185065"}
{"by":"Morcane","time":"1409566460","timestamp":"2014-09-01 10:14:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, time to learn a new thingy I guess.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve used YUI with tons of pleasure over the last 3 years, and am sad to see it go away.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s to another 2 years of heavy influx prototyping,  refactoring and writing everything over again (I\u0026#x27;m an enterprise developer).","parent":"8243523","dead":true,"id":"8252210"}
{"by":"joedferreira","time":"1512572398","timestamp":"2017-12-06 14:59:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BlueprintNYC.com | Senior Backend Developer | Full Time | New York City | Onsite\u003cp\u003eThe Senior Backend Developer’s primary responsibilities are to code robust solutions and assist in managing a flexible pool of vendor and freelance developer talent to expand BlueprintNYC’s core products.\u003cp\u003eHe or she will uphold the technical vision for the company and act as a primary technical voice for our team. We expect the Senior Developer to maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices.\u003cp\u003eCandidates should have experience building backends for web and mobile applications, either on PHP, Python, Ruby (RoR), or Javascript (Node.js). The right candidate also has experience in SQL or PostgreSQL, and both CSS and HTML.\u003cp\u003eThis position will play a crucial role creating new digital products for our portfolio. We employ a variety of applications to support our communications campaigns, live events, and training experiences. Growing and maintaining our digital capabilities is a core part of our business strategy.\u003cp\u003eThis is a role with a large opportunity for growth. Looking to the future, the Senior Backend Developer will work with key stakeholders to devise product roadmaps, new offerings, and grow an in-house resource team.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.blueprintnyc.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.blueprintnyc.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15824597","id":"15861465"}
{"by":"gonzo","time":"1355780941","timestamp":"2012-12-17 21:49:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"perhaps we could employ retired police officers as \"school guards\".\u003cp\u003eThey have the training.  Many of them are still in their 40s and 50s.","parent":"4934504","id":"4934584"}
{"by":"criddell","time":"1476802274","timestamp":"2016-10-18 14:51:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the article:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I lot of the smartest and happiest people I\u0026#x27;ve had the privilege of meeting have a habit of simplifying.\u003cp\u003eSimplifying doesn\u0026#x27;t necessarily lead to minimalism. For example, when I\u0026#x27;m stuck on a problem, I enjoy noodling around on my guitar. Some days I work from home, some days I go to my office. The minimal solution would be to carry my guitar everywhere, the simple solution is to buy a second guitar to keep at work.\u003cp\u003eI wonder what the writer things of people with pets or kids? They complicate every decision and often limit your options in the moment.","parent":"12732198","id":"12734953"}
{"by":"LaGrange","time":"1304109720","timestamp":"2011-04-29 20:42:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem may be hard to notice or acknowledge for many people, but there's actually a lot of pressure put on people to socialize in some way and interact in some way, and that is mean. Being mean in return may not be the most effective reaction, but it is quite understandable.\u003cp\u003eTo illustrate you how badly skewed it is: for a few years, me and my partner had a foster home for stray kittens. In Poland. That means lots of hard work that rarely pays off (by having a healthy kitten that gets adopted, there is no money in it, obviously), depressing amount of death and suffering, participating in such great activities as autopsies and interventions.\u003cp\u003eIt was a significant part of our lives, our passion and when it paid off, it brought immense satisfaction. It was a very natural subject of talk for us, but really -- do you want to hear about the state of an inflamed heart we found in a dissected kitten, what happens to bodily functions when some dude flails a cat while holding it by the tail, how a neglected cat lost her eye to disease or other fascinating subjects from this category? All those conversations while eating?\u003cp\u003eThen why should people who aren't passionate about children endure conversations about children defecating? Really. I can handle it, of course (while I don't love it), but I can repay with a story about a dog eating her own intestines, so I'm probably not a benchmark for most sensitive listener.\u003cp\u003ePeople not wanting to hear about babies are just like people not wanting to hear about eyes falling out of sockets, it's only ours (yeah, I can talk about babies too) presuppositions that make the subjects seem so different.\u003cp\u003e(btw, if you rob me of my daily walk, I will fall asleep in your office)","parent":"2498673","id":"2498915"}
{"by":"mistakenx","time":"1416076536","timestamp":"2014-11-15 18:35:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t wait for Paint.NET to be ported to Linux, that\u0026#x27;s one of the reasons I\u0026#x27;ve not made the switch to Linux yet.","parent":"8612269","id":"8612279"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1409606315","timestamp":"2014-09-01 21:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;However, the effects are statistically significant and thus likely to be real (whether based on published or both published and unpublished studies)\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t see how you get the parenthesized bit.","parent":"8254710","id":"8254736"}
{"by":"sanoli","time":"1384386001","timestamp":"2013-11-13 23:40:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flight all the way. Though if I was in my teens, I\u0026#x27;d take invisibility ;-)","parent":"6729353","id":"6729442"}
{"by":"dodyg","time":"1397398916","timestamp":"2014-04-13 14:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is he\u0026#x2F;she an employee or a third partner?","parent":"7579883","id":"7581371"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1278705052","timestamp":"2010-07-09 19:50:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For highly motivated students there is a choice you can learn more or keep a higher GPA.  This split often starts around 3.0 GPA and becomes most obvious when someone try's to keep a 4.0.  In many ways this is why Harvard and MIT students are so prone to cheating, try keeping a 4.0GPA and do interesting things on the side without cutting some corners somewhere.\u003cp\u003ePS: Try running the numbers some time; there is a lot more openings in top collages than there are geniuses in this country.  So most of people at “top” schools not all that more intelligent than the average person.","parent":"1501844","id":"1501982"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1491244670","timestamp":"2017-04-03 18:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Question: what is the standard human physiologic \u0026quot;click\u0026quot; time?\u003cp\u003eAccording to Disney in the 1960\u0026#x27;s, it takes from 3\u0026#x2F;4 to a full second[1]. :)\u003cp\u003e1: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=dPHGI_5BaSQ\u0026amp;t=570\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=dPHGI_5BaSQ\u0026amp;t=570\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14025121","id":"14025699"}
{"by":"spraak","time":"1469123843","timestamp":"2016-07-21 17:57:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very hand wavy of me, but I\u0026#x27;d say there is a way that it\u0026#x27;s true you can sense it. We may not yet know how you can, though. An example that I like to think of is of infrasound. People can\u0026#x27;t hear it, but there are some who sense when it\u0026#x27;s moving through them.","parent":"12138481","id":"12138694"}
{"by":"MadManE","time":"1400793491","timestamp":"2014-05-22 21:18:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It strikes me as odd that this is considered a legitimate offer by some (most?) people. The whole existence of FaceBook is dependent on collecting data from people - why would they offer to check privacy unless it was an attempt to collect more data?","parent":"7783865","id":"7786614"}
{"by":"Steve0","time":"1288389612","timestamp":"2010-10-29 22:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They de-criminalized it, The Netherlands never 'really' legalized production. The only legal pot growing is done for medicinal cannabis, which is a very marginal market compared to the coffeeshops. The reason was amongst others, that The Netherlands were bound by international treaties to fully legalize and tax it.\u003cp\u003eProp 19, legalizes the entire supply-chain, which makes it possible to build a legal business on weed. The difference is, that the 'captains of industry' will become part of the establishment, in a while traditional businessmen might even take over. It could be that if California goes well, the same players who were in, let's say, cigarette-companies will step up. They have been thinking about this. Philip morris pantented the brand 'Marley' in France: \n\u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-law-is-a-dope-if-they-legalise-marijuana-when-they-legalise-marijuana-who-would-sell-what-to-whom-jerome-burne-cases-the-joint-1405970.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-law-is-a-dope-if...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1849122","id":"1849216"}
{"by":"Corrado","time":"1538459983","timestamp":"2018-10-02 05:59:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m an early riser and I always hated flying West.  At 4:30am (local time) I was up and ready to go before anyone else in the office was even thinking about getting up.  And since I didn\u0026#x27;t usually have keys or a way to get into the office my morning was wasted waiting on everyone else to arrive.  Flying East is easy (for me).  :)","parent":"18111031","id":"18119131"}
{"by":"minikites","time":"1429886314","timestamp":"2015-04-24 14:38:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A subject encyclopedia will have much better pointers, definitely real citations, often annotated citations.\u003cp\u003eWhat \u0026quot;serious\u0026quot; purpose does Wikipedia serve, other than being a timely source for things that haven\u0026#x27;t made it into a subject encyclopedia yet?","parent":"9433224","id":"9433592"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1495411716","timestamp":"2017-05-22 00:08:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you provide an example of a story in which those details are relevant?","parent":"14389780","id":"14390011"}
{"by":"ryanSrich","time":"1468289306","timestamp":"2016-07-12 02:08:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No idea. I get random emails from shady \u0026quot;meetups\u0026quot; and networking events too. I can\u0026#x27;t report the spam and unsub fast enough.\u003cp\u003eThe recruiter spam has transcended LinkedIn too. It\u0026#x27;s mostly direct emails from recruiters. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t mind if the jobs were even slightly related to what I do. It\u0026#x27;s pretty clear I\u0026#x27;m a designer and frontend dev, but I get spam for Java and PHP gigs all the time...","parent":"12074232","id":"12076268"}
{"by":"Samuel_Michon","time":"1363888539","timestamp":"2013-03-21 17:55:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can set the security preferences in OS X to only allow installation of Mac App Store applications. That minimizes risk greatly.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5290\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://support.apple.com/kb/ht5290\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5415945","id":"5417372"}
{"by":"robalfonso","time":"1402497949","timestamp":"2014-06-11 14:45:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m in the registrar space (not affiliated with moniker at all). I will tell you what the real issue is. New gTLD\u0026#x27;s. (think .web,.app,.house,.car,etc) They have forced everyone to at minimum update their provisioning and billing systems. Some had older and crustier systems than others so its not surprising to see this at all.\u003cp\u003eOnce you update, its hard to make sure you caught every single business rule and weird edge case from your old system and given many of the ccTLD\u0026#x27;s and gTLD\u0026#x27;s all have slightly different ways of handling things (.eu domains have no admin contact, .be domains must actually be renewed 30 days before they expire or you lose it) its quite the nightmare and if its a really old system, those tweaks are not evident.\u003cp\u003eTesting is also quite difficult as the ot\u0026amp;e environments the registries provide are 1) not exactly like their live system 2) require you to create a domain in order to do anything else.  So in order to test your new system with actual data, you need to create every single domain in your live system on test. Then issue the commands to put it in exactly the same state as live, however, you cannot mirror a domain perfectly as sometimes its state is set by the registry for legal issues (udrp,etc). It would be much simpler if they just copied live to their sandbox periodically.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not defending them, their launch could have definitely gone much better, but I\u0026#x27;ve been in their shoes and I feel for the tech folks there who are probably spending a lot of late nights at the office and working weekends right now.","parent":"7877901","id":"7878242"}
{"by":"cromulent","time":"1467140419","timestamp":"2016-06-28 19:00:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reliability? TCP-IP ;)\u003cp\u003eHomebrew.\u003cp\u003eRsync.\u003cp\u003eSSH.","parent":"11995816","id":"11996504"}
{"by":"evolvd","time":"1322067221","timestamp":"2011-11-23 16:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"good luck!","parent":"3270227","id":"3270634"}
{"by":"vetinari","time":"1390917333","timestamp":"2014-01-28 13:55:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These laws are in effect in EU for more than decade and nobody cares.","parent":"7137032","id":"7137046"}
{"by":"aerodeck","time":"1494892555","timestamp":"2017-05-15 23:55:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; not intentional\n\u0026gt; cost effective\u003cp\u003eoptimizing for cost is an intention.","parent":"14346052","id":"14346263"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1399174776","timestamp":"2014-05-04 03:39:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A former snuggler did an AMA earlier today: \u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24mizj/iama_former_professional_snuggler_ama/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;IAmA\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;24mizj\u0026#x2F;iama_former_pro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7692354","id":"7693212"}
{"by":"Deestan","time":"1527660004","timestamp":"2018-05-30 06:00:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Climate change should be debated\u003cp\u003eYes, by people who are trained scientists and researchers. We don\u0026#x27;t need more poorly informed, mathematically weak, statistically challenged, dilletantes yelling into the mix.","parent":"17185200","id":"17185423"}
{"by":"RyanZAG","time":"1463823244","timestamp":"2016-05-21 09:34:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is there any absurdity?\u003cp\u003eIf a person is expected to only choose a high paying field, but has two options open:\u003cp\u003e1. High paying field they don\u0026#x27;t really like.\u003cp\u003e2. Low paying field they\u0026#x27;d love to do.\u003cp\u003eThen if there are social expectations that someone must make a lot of money, they will generally be forced to choose option 1.\u003cp\u003eThe argument that men are forced by social expectations to choose option 1, and women are more freely able to choose option 2 is not \u0026#x27;absurd\u0026#x27;. It may be correct or incorrect and would need some evidence to back it up, but please don\u0026#x27;t go around labeling positions you don\u0026#x27;t like as \u0026#x27;absurd\u0026#x27;.","parent":"11743941","id":"11743978"}
{"by":"claudiug","time":"1479026580","timestamp":"2016-11-13 08:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Europe is not the same in all countries. \nDepends of the country.\nWhere I live, Germany, people do take train, for 40 minutes per day. But is normal, as with car you will do the same. And with train is more safe and relax. Changing jobs, is not the norm. Being an engineer you probably will work some years(3-7) before exchange","parent":"12941871","id":"12942457"}
{"by":"bmistree","time":"1373760725","timestamp":"2013-07-14 00:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another version of the story posted on CNN [1] has a slightly different version of events.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Concerned that attorneys did not have all the information they needed to prepare the case, he said, he reported his concerns to a State Attorney\u0026#x27;s Office investigator and later to prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda.\u003cp\u003eIe, before contacting the defense through a lawyer, he talked to the prosecutor in charge of the case as well as an investigator with oversight of the attorney\u0026#x27;s office.  Maybe he should have discussed the matter with the attorney general directly after these first two attempts, but his disclosure seems a little more reasonable knowing that he seemed to make an early effort at following the \u0026quot;chain of command.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAs a side note, this article was fairly confusing for me.  I had to read key passages several times and I\u0026#x27;m still uncertain of the basic sequence of events.  Many useful hn comments on this post seem to be just clarifying what the article should have reported in plain language.  Ugh.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/justice/zimmerman-it-firing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;justice\u0026#x2F;zimmerman-it-firing\u0026#x2F;in...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6039213","id":"6039315"}
{"by":"Bluestrike2","time":"1394571339","timestamp":"2014-03-11 20:55:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If only NJ offered the best of both worlds: ultra-low gas taxes and a state that trusts its citizens are able to figure out how to work a gas pump.","parent":"7381957","id":"7382062"}
{"by":"imrehg","time":"1499205579","timestamp":"2017-07-04 21:59:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d be curious to know any examples that really bring the same benefits (usability and features mostly, less about the price), I was looking for them, and couldn\u0026#x27;t find any (e.g. in London at the moment). Otherwise it\u0026#x27;s just hand waving argument...","parent":"14698570","id":"14698593"}
{"by":"andyjsong","time":"1490916953","timestamp":"2017-03-30 23:35:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If that was a real concern, doesn\u0026#x27;t Google and Facebook also face this same issue? Isn\u0026#x27;t like 80% or more of their revenues come from ads?\u003cp\u003eThe other business units and moonshot projects are just rounding errors on their balance sheets.","parent":"13996093","id":"13999905"}
{"by":"KeepFlying","time":"1547333955","timestamp":"2019-01-12 22:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate that the government is shut down. It\u0026#x27;s stupid that people\u0026#x27;s livelihoods are a bargaining chip, especially when every administration talks about increasing jobs.\u003cp\u003eBut it hasn\u0026#x27;t personally affected me yet. I am not a government employee and at the moment I am not in need of any of the government services that are shut down.\u003cp\u003eAs for if they will get paid afterward, well legally the government cannot promise that. Legally it\u0026#x27;s possible that the new budget may even disband something like the TSA and all of the workers who have been working for free would be even more screwed. But historically every shutdown ended with giving back pay to the workers who had to work for free. They just can\u0026#x27;t guarantee it.","parent":"18891239","id":"18893806"}
{"by":"AlexeyBrin","time":"1527343941","timestamp":"2018-05-26 14:12:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is cheaper to block the ads and tracking scripts.","parent":"17162047","id":"17162108"}
{"by":"ericP","time":"1237238303","timestamp":"2009-03-16 21:18:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think almost none of the LOD cloud is metadata. It's all information like the population of Berlin, or the proteins which connect to some receptor.\u003cp\u003eI've seen some apps which are using RDF mostly for metadata, but in the life sciences world, we use it for the nitty gritty data.","parent":"518592","id":"518802"}
{"by":"dfc","time":"1458226442","timestamp":"2016-03-17 14:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; immoral and hostile\u003cp\u003eHave these become code words for something beyond or outside of the dictionary definition? I have seen both of these words used recently in such a hyperbolic manner that defied any other explanation.","parent":"11304535","id":"11304699"}
{"by":"allover","time":"1495835679","timestamp":"2017-05-26 21:54:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a placeholder to show before you content has been loaded, so the size of your content is irrelevant.\u003cp\u003eAlso it doesn\u0026#x27;t depend on anything afaict, so not sure why you\u0026#x27;re casting FUD about size.","parent":"14427088","id":"14427485"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1508869746","timestamp":"2017-10-24 18:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The query parser we had Blekko could do this as well. It could process \u0026#x27;photos\u0026#x27; and \u0026#x27;december\u0026#x27; as keywords and use them in a search. It would fail on \u0026#x27;photos last month\u0026#x27; for the reasons I mentioned (it didn\u0026#x27;t really know december was a date it just looked for it to show up in the description or metadata)\u003cp\u003eThat said, Google has done some great stuff in inferring things like units for conversion 10 feet in inches is easily parsed for example as a conversion request.","parent":"15543930","id":"15543973"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1473740975","timestamp":"2016-09-13 04:29:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your observation is a non-sequitur, and the conclusions you draw are not based on facts. The fact we do have is that they said they did a thing for a particular reason. Nobody has \u0026quot;observed\u0026quot; Iranians protesting against their own government in the form of an empathic reaction to 9\u0026#x2F;11.\u003cp\u003eAt the very least, what degree of organization are you imagining would motivate and populate an ironic protest like that, and who exactly is the audience who would see through the irony? \u0026quot;Ah yes, the world thinks we\u0026#x27;re being nice to the US, \u003ci\u003ebut really we\u0026#x27;re stickin\u0026#x27; it to The Man\u003c/i\u003e.\u0026quot; It\u0026#x27;s hard enough to get 5 people together for a practical joke that doesn\u0026#x27;t get spoiled by someone.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sorry if \u0026quot;dictatorial Iran\u0026quot; is a personal hobby horse of yours, but you\u0026#x27;re really kind of threadshitting by bringing it into the conversation.\u003cp\u003eLastly, it appears you don\u0026#x27;t know what \u0026quot;disingenuous\u0026quot; means.","parent":"12478663","id":"12485637"}
{"by":"agavin","time":"1301343479","timestamp":"2011-03-28 20:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The no-OS is certainly no longer valid with the networking services etc. Still, even on the PS2 there are areas where you might or might not want to use the OS, or plenty of ways in which you can tailor your code more tightly to the machine. On the PS3 a perfect example would be use of the SPUs. The best engines have all sorts of functionality offloaded to the SPUs. Rendering, sound, joint processing, collision, particles, etc etc.  Offloading each of these tasks is a fairly herculean amount of engineering as you must write elaborate SPU assembly modules (at least several programmer weeks for the very simplest ones) and the way in which the services interact with your main thread become fundamentally different. It would be hard to use these same architectural choices on the 360 and the PS3 as the 360 doesn't have SPUs (but has more regular threads).","parent":"2378892","id":"2379885"}
{"by":"stolio","time":"1422328657","timestamp":"2015-01-27 03:17:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eedit: oops.  My apologies, sodium is responsible for the dark band at ~5,890 I misread a graphic.  Still looking into the spike...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf like me you just had to know what was responsible for the huge spike in the red (@ wavelength of about 6600 angstroms)....\u003cp\u003eSodium.\u003cp\u003eTangentially related (TIL) sodium also effects a star\u0026#x27;s end-of-life cycle: \u003ca href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130529-how-stars-die-sodium-space-astronomy-science/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.nationalgeographic.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;130529-how-s...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8950442","id":"8951070"}
{"by":"baldfat","time":"1384518046","timestamp":"2013-11-15 12:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I \u0026quot;almost\u0026quot;, AKA thought of it but didn\u0026#x27;t tell my wife, made my son\u0026#x27;s middle name Null. It even entered my mind when I was handed the Birth Information card. I knew it was funny but not worth the eventual price I would pay when I got caught.","parent":"6738743","id":"6739011"}
{"by":"Oletros","time":"1434642940","timestamp":"2015-06-18 15:55:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Listening all the time and sending the audio to Google would kill an smartphone in a moment. Apaty of the bandwith used","parent":"9739267","id":"9739390"}
{"by":"nraynaud","time":"1535038576","timestamp":"2018-08-23 15:36:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t just work for me, no detailed error message I\u0026#x27;m 3 or 4 levels down (vscode-\u0026gt;plugin-\u0026gt;homebrew-\u0026gt;opam-\u0026gt;jbuilder-\u0026gt; doesn\u0026#x27;t work).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;nraynaud\u0026#x2F;deeacbb67c88646fd6754edba6e2196d\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;nraynaud\u0026#x2F;deeacbb67c88646fd6754edba6e...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSorry, I\u0026#x27;m a bit abrasive, but I spend a lot of time with crappy tooling of all kind, sometimes I\u0026#x27;m envious of monoproject people (and then I remember that actually I don\u0026#x27;t do well in monotony).","parent":"17827881","id":"17828102"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1418122981","timestamp":"2014-12-09 11:03:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Containers of some kind.  Once you have a working system on your dev machine, copy the whole setup from your dev machine to your production machine.  This way you are absolutely sure that everything is identical and that you aren\u0026#x27;t accidentally running different versions of some binary and end up with a situation where you have a bug on your production machines that you cannot reproduce on your test machine.\u003cp\u003eI learnt that lesson the hard way once when I was running python 2.7.3 on my test machine and python 2.7.2 in production.","parent":"8722096","id":"8722126"}
{"by":"kragen","time":"1445119479","timestamp":"2015-10-17 22:04:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe you\u0026#x27;re not very familiar with the uncertainty principle, but continental plates and even individual birds have enough mass that the uncertainty in their position, for any reasonably large uncertainty in their momentum, is insignificant.","parent":"10406246","id":"10406330"}
{"by":"joshsabol46","time":"1542819349","timestamp":"2018-11-21 16:55:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you believe in hegemony, it\u0026#x27;s reasonable to want one entity to have a better (more efficient) weapon.","parent":"18503682","id":"18504027"}
{"by":"bufferoverflow","time":"1519073011","timestamp":"2018-02-19 20:43:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What an incoherent rant. The author jumps from being angry at the people who took huge risks, invested in a new technology, and succeeded (oh, and they are evil males!), and then immediately switches to talking about scammers, like it\u0026#x27;s the same people.","parent":"16415547","id":"16415584"}
{"by":"tdy721","time":"1467152675","timestamp":"2016-06-28 22:24:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can be \u0026quot;taught\u0026quot; to do things. If you want to open something with 1-2 letters you can just repeat yourself a few times (2-4?) and it will learn and remember. Spotlight just does not do this.","parent":"11997129","id":"11998068"}
{"by":"__david__","time":"1353318528","timestamp":"2012-11-19 09:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you mean force silence upon myself? Are we talking meditation or just working/reading in quiet places? For minutes or hours (or days)? I first noticed the music thing when I was on the high school swim team and would swim for multiple hours every day. Under water it's not quiet, but there are no discernible sounds beyond the water itself--all I would hear was the music in my head.\u003cp\u003eI don't mean to sound like I'm complaining. I love music and it's been a huge part of my life since I can remember (and I'm old).\u003cp\u003eBut from my experience, I don't buy your theory. I think I'm just wired different than people that seek out quiet places.","parent":"4803523","id":"4803660"}
{"by":"aswanson","time":"1352167346","timestamp":"2012-11-06 02:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doubling down on that sentiment, Dani. Proud to see you making it happen, on something so major.  I remember seeing an article in Forbes or Fortune last summer featuring you and a few other up and comers and yelling, \"I know her!\" in the bookstore.  You're the truth, glad to see things happening for your vision.","parent":"4746028","id":"4746879"}
{"by":"pvg","time":"1487789164","timestamp":"2017-02-22 18:46:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"18k years is a very long time, though. There is a project looking at the feasibility of getting very small probes somewhere 10 times closer in perhaps decades rather than millennia:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;science\u0026#x2F;alpha-centauri-br...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13707900","id":"13708007"}
{"by":"alphabettsy","time":"1522014594","timestamp":"2018-03-25 21:49:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Poorly aimed headlights and mostly people driving with their high-beams on are my biggest annoyance.","parent":"16669326","id":"16674822"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1531174881","timestamp":"2018-07-09 22:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a long twitter thread that was very anti F-35 going around.","parent":"17493014","id":"17493879"}
{"by":"QML","time":"1524260039","timestamp":"2018-04-20 21:33:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Universities make computer scientists, not software engineers. Hence why domain specific courses are offered.","parent":"16887429","id":"16888609"}
{"by":"sp3n","time":"1440364242","timestamp":"2015-08-23 21:10:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i have recently read \u0026#x27;the e myth\u0026#x27; which i would definitely recommend especially for the business\u0026#x2F;finance\u0026#x2F;planning side of things\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;The-E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0887307280\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;The-E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10105826","id":"10106752"}
{"by":"josephpmay","time":"1356721624","timestamp":"2012-12-28 19:07:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Crashed my Chrome (iOS 6)","parent":"4977845","id":"4978990"}
{"by":"peatmoss","time":"1472147806","timestamp":"2016-08-25 17:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The website isn\u0026#x27;t loading for me, but if I remember correctly the default FS is ZFS, which likes its memory.","parent":"12361011","id":"12361035"}
{"by":"klibertp","time":"1434569784","timestamp":"2015-06-17 19:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think the concepts are hard to understand, I think that - in Haskell - they\u0026#x27;re just being presented in a way that is incompatible with my way of thinking.\u003cp\u003eHaving found Haskell materials as simply not suited for me I decided - quite a few years back - to learn Haskell (or the concepts behind Haskell, at least) my own way: by learning first Erlang (it sounded cool), then Scheme (mainly to be able to read many, many papers that use it), then OCaml and Scala (because the type systems and pragmatism) and finally Clean (to fill the last gaps in my knowledge). I progressed from dynamic to static typing and from eager to non-eager evaluation. It took me I think about 2 years to do all this and, of course, it wasn\u0026#x27;t that easy, but somewhat surprisingly it worked. I never wrote - and I\u0026#x27;m not sure I ever will, but that\u0026#x27;s a completely different matter - any non-trivial Haskell code, yet I\u0026#x27;m able to read and enjoy Haskell-related papers.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s important to realise that there is always more than one way to learn things. You should know yourself well enough to see when the \u0026quot;normal\u0026quot; way simply isn\u0026#x27;t for you; this way you can go search for alternative ways. I guarantee that you\u0026#x27;ll find them, if you search hard enough :)","parent":"9734415","id":"9734682"}
{"by":"ramijames","time":"1523383656","timestamp":"2018-04-10 18:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I CAN\u0026#x27;T DECIDE IF THIS IS REAL OR AN AMAZING WORK OF SCI-FI FICTION.","parent":"16803094","id":"16803591"}
{"by":"pmlnr","time":"1501579582","timestamp":"2017-08-01 09:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I wouldn\u0026#x27;t call it massive overkill.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re running a web server to emulate telnet. It\u0026#x27;s a massive overkill.","parent":"14898968","id":"14898984"}
{"by":"knieveltech","time":"1480613266","timestamp":"2016-12-01 17:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That may not happen. According to various sources fuel sales are not where gas stations make their money. On average they are only bringing in 3 cents of profit on a gallon of fuel. They sell fuel primarily to attract customers and then make their profits on sales of snacks, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and the like. Disrupting the cycle of impulse buys by individuals lured to the store to buy fuel is likely to have a measurable impact on business, but it is unclear if this would drive any\u0026#x2F;some\u0026#x2F;most\u0026#x2F;all convenience stores out of business.","parent":"13081227","id":"13081315"}
{"by":"mynameisvlad","time":"1515442357","timestamp":"2018-01-08 20:12:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, it\u0026#x27;s not exactly a payment processor either. They\u0026#x27;re like a payment initiator. They funnel the payments through your processor in the end, according to their docs: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;payments.google.com\u0026#x2F;solutions\u0026#x2F;onboarding\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;payments.google.com\u0026#x2F;solutions\u0026#x2F;onboarding\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16099749","id":"16099949"}
{"by":"studer","time":"1281563587","timestamp":"2010-08-11 21:53:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you read the entire section from the beginning, you'll notice that you don't really need to know what a Hamiltonian cycle is to understand the explanation.  A made-up property would have worked equally well.","parent":"1595599","id":"1596283"}
{"by":"hollerith","time":"1374197437","timestamp":"2013-07-19 01:30:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would\u0026#x27;ve bought one of your Surface Pros for $499 or even $599.","parent":"6067775","id":"6067789"}
{"by":"arjun27","time":"1510940070","timestamp":"2017-11-17 17:34:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you elaborate? Which functionality?","parent":"15723327","id":"15724036"}
{"by":"SagelyGuru","time":"1540820849","timestamp":"2018-10-29 13:47:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, there is some sense to this. Supposing TSHTF event happens and it is a nuclear war, there is a good chance that Western Australia will be passed over in everyone\u0026#x27;s haste to kill off more threatening enemy targets first.","parent":"18326118","id":"18327466"}
{"by":"hycaria","time":"1522917815","timestamp":"2018-04-05 08:43:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But people are lazy. A child is work seemingly very few people are willing to put into.","parent":"16762736","id":"16763034"}
{"by":"swatkat","time":"1414587279","timestamp":"2014-10-29 12:54:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had followed Steorn Orbo pretty closely back then, and eagerly awaited for their demo at Kinetica Museum, UK. As expected, they chickened out at the last moment :) This website has chronicled the whole Steorn Orbo saga: \u003ca href=\"http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dispatchesfromthefuture.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8526094","id":"8526880"}
{"by":"tkxxx7","time":"1520098488","timestamp":"2018-03-03 17:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Development support\u0026#x2F;operations\u0026#x2F;devops: this is the glue around your application that helps your application function. These tasks can range from developer focused tasks like a coding style guide or maintaining the developer docker image to operations tasks like setting up the monitoring system to devops tasks like debugging the failing jenkins job.\u003cp\u003eSo either developer-tasks, operations-tasks, or developer-operations-tasks, if we were wondering.","parent":"16509172","id":"16510390"}
{"by":"andrewstuart2","time":"1495670472","timestamp":"2017-05-25 00:01:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll bet a significant fraction of the uses of Emscripten are due to its effectiveness as a \u0026quot;yo dawg\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;*ception\u0026quot; meme generator.","parent":"14414369","id":"14414378"}
{"by":"lsc","time":"1285687017","timestamp":"2010-09-28 15:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah, I really should have put in an Edit:  in that,  sorry.  It's time to log off.","parent":"1735816","id":"1735919"}
{"by":"turd66","time":"1414940314","timestamp":"2014-11-02 14:58:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dig the concept, great way to easily kind of dollar cost average into btc without being tempted with market timing. Would be great if you could specify an overall allocation into different crypto (i.e. that $.75 extra split into 60% btc, 40% ltc, etc.) that you could manage and monitor your overall crypto portfolio.","parent":"8546644","id":"8546710"}
{"by":"zaarn","time":"1523602822","timestamp":"2018-04-13 07:00:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of non-US TLDs run over US-based registrars.\u003cp\u003eThere are some, like Iceland, which run their own registrar and aren\u0026#x27;t connected to the US. Which means they don\u0026#x27;t care what the US says until an Icelandic court agrees.","parent":"16824869","id":"16827686"}
{"by":"dmitrygr","time":"1503623168","timestamp":"2017-08-25 01:06:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good. Selling false hope for $26k is cruel even by my standards. And you\u0026#x27;re not going to become employable from a boot camp unless you either already knew a lot or are supremely talented.","parent":"15094484","id":"15095384"}
{"by":"redblacktree","time":"1461874498","timestamp":"2016-04-28 20:14:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keeping the number low.","parent":"11590408","id":"11591593"}
{"by":"Peaker","time":"1387928147","timestamp":"2013-12-24 23:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you really believe the court system works to determine innocence? Do you believe he would be guaranteed a fair trial? Do you think Manning got a fair trial?\u003cp\u003eDo you believe that by taking refuge in Russia he\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;propping up\u0026quot; their government? How?\u003cp\u003eDo you believe that giving up a 6-figure salary and life to expose violations of the US constitution is an act of a coward?\u003cp\u003eAre these opinions harbored by real people, or is this a troll?","parent":"6959413","id":"6961569"}
{"by":"tivert","time":"1545088087","timestamp":"2018-12-17 23:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Or Google pretending to give in under pressure from employees, then turn around and tell them (and everyone else) \u0026quot;haha, we lied\u0026quot; and launching it? How would that not create far larger harm than just not giving in in the first place?\u003cp\u003eGoogle hasn\u0026#x27;t pretended to give in to pressure from employees.  Project Dragonfly is still being worked on:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; In recent weeks, teams working on Dragonfly have been told to use different datasets for their work. They are no longer gathering search queries from mainland China and are instead now studying “global Chinese” queries that are entered into Google from people living in countries such as the United States and Malaysia\u003cp\u003e...and Google has made no promises that they won\u0026#x27;t launch it in the future:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Pichai stated that \u003ci\u003e“right now”\u003c/i\u003e there were no plans to launch the search engine, \u003ci\u003ethough refused to rule it out in the future.\u003c/i\u003e Google had originally aimed to launch Dragonfly between January and April 2019. Leaks about the plan and the extraordinary backlash that ensued both internally and externally appear to have forced company executives to shelve it \u003ci\u003eat least in the short term\u003c/i\u003e...\u003cp\u003eI think the title overstates the situation.  This doesn\u0026#x27;t seem so much like an end to the project than an internal political squabble.  It seems like 265.com was purchased to do exactly what the Google Privacy Team has forbidden.  I don\u0026#x27;t know Google\u0026#x27;s internal politics, but I\u0026#x27;d be surprised if its privacy team has enough power to hobble one of the CEO\u0026#x27;s priorities enough to actually kill it.","parent":"18702965","id":"18703117"}
{"by":"myblake","time":"1455813483","timestamp":"2016-02-18 16:38:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect also many of the homeless in San Francisco, especially the ones being complained about here, have pretty bad mental health problems going on treated. Government probably needs to step in and help on that front as well.","parent":"11126175","id":"11126964"}
{"by":"kalleboo","time":"1479290634","timestamp":"2016-11-16 10:03:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can go both ways.\u003cp\u003eOne reason that GSM took over the world was because the initial standard defined not just the over the air interface, but the interfaces between all the individual components in the ground network. The point being so you could mix Ericsson base stations with a Nokia controller, and in that way it increased competition between the equipment manufacturers since they had no lock-in.","parent":"12965684","id":"12965750"}
{"by":"semperdark","time":"1524617985","timestamp":"2018-04-25 00:59:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was debating whether to remove that sentence, and ended up adding the (non-structural) part because I though someone might take the analogy that way. Note that fire codes in particular don\u0026#x27;t exist in many places, including much of the U.S.\u003cp\u003eNobody is going to die from not exporting their data - except in medical software, where the current U.S. feature checklist regulations haven\u0026#x27;t helped. For many websites, GDPR is next to pointless while adding broad legal requirements.","parent":"16917906","id":"16917963"}
{"by":"jgrahamc","time":"1237541756","timestamp":"2009-03-20 09:35:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As others have pointed out this is a voltage divider.  But what's not been pointed out is that this type of voltage divider is not ideal because the load applied to the output voltage can alter the voltage itself.  It's very important that the load applied draws very little current (i.e. has a high resistance/impedance) otherwise the voltage divider's output voltage changes.\u003cp\u003eThe best way around this is to use a voltage divider to produce a reference voltage and feed that into an op-amp that adds the reference voltage to the voltage coming from the device to be measured (in this case the thermistor).\u003cp\u003eAs an example of this see my blog posting on building a temperature probe for the OLPC: \u003ca href=\"http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/03/building-temperature-probe-for-olpc-xo.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/03/building-temperature-probe-f...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"524348","id":"524717"}
{"by":"sc00ter","time":"1366239340","timestamp":"2013-04-17 22:55:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you're going to talk about it, you might as well get it right. Yes, \"who\" is the subject form and \"whom\" the object form, but \"you\" is clearly the subject in this sentence - \"you hang\"; subject-verb.\u003cp\u003e\"Who do you hang with?\" sounds more correct than \"whom do you hang with?\", but only because of that trailing preposition. Use \"With whom do you hang\" (as has been mention elsewhere) and we're all square.\u003cp\u003eBut damn those Grammar Nazis anyway; that's not how people speak.\"Who do you hang with?\" works perfectly well for me, gramatically incorrect or not.","parent":"5567652","id":"5567864"}
{"by":"swalsh","time":"1367431440","timestamp":"2013-05-01 18:04:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm just biting my time until someone makes a \"Daily WTF\" website for monster queries.  My worst was this sync that took data from one database, and put it into another one.  The thing though is the source database was a CRM system that is on its 3rd iteration.  So there's a million random fields from old systems that have accumulated over the years that need to be checked.","parent":"5639548","id":"5639670"}
{"by":"fixermark","time":"1467319430","timestamp":"2016-06-30 20:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What they gain is hours on the road, real-life driving data. That\u0026#x27;s invaluable for tuning of machine learning systems like this one.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;ve also, FWIW, gained quite a bit of positive press. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;results?search_query=tesla+autopilot+saves+life\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;results?search_query=tesla+autopilot...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12011484","id":"12011502"}
{"by":"benoits","time":"1444152029","timestamp":"2015-10-06 17:20:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;nice one hackernews, downvoting the most important question in this thread... \u0026quot; \nWe\u0026#x27;re less than an hour in and the OP question is the top comment... I\u0026#x27;m not sure what\u0026#x27;s so wrong to you about the HN community here?","parent":"10340236","id":"10340544"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1369686171","timestamp":"2013-05-27 20:22:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gamemaker (and probably the rest) do have the ability to optimize it. If people use it or not is their choice. To make an interesting (or even ok) game with those tools, you will be writing tons of code. As people do (read the forums). Even in 'educational' game makers like Gamesalad, you can see that people are taxing the system by 'writing' (drag \u0026#38; drop in this case) quite complex routines which do things (like raycasting) which Gamesalad is definitely never made for.","parent":"5776184","id":"5776410"}
{"by":"jmarbach","time":"1479226347","timestamp":"2016-11-15 16:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;concorde.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;concorde.io\u003c/a\u003e - We help you find the cheapest flights to hundreds of destinations worldwide, ranked by cost per mile, with just a few clicks.","parent":"12957371","id":"12959241"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1346615296","timestamp":"2012-09-02 19:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In what sense?","parent":"4467803","id":"4467900"}
{"by":"davidf18","time":"1499615656","timestamp":"2017-07-09 15:54:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Well, the Pentium M was just a refreshed PIII\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI respectfully disagree.  These are direct quotes from the Wikipedia article mentioned above.  The Pentium M (Banias) was an innovation of increasing the (maximum) speed vs. power ratio.  Intel chose not to extend to x64 because they wanted to market an entirely different 64-bit architecture, the Itanium processors.\u003cp\u003eI am very pleased that AMD came out with it and forced Intel to do the same, but the Pentium M was (for microprocessors) a true innovation.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The Pentium M coupled the execution core of the Pentium III with a Pentium 4 compatible bus interface, an improved instruction decoding\u0026#x2F;issuing front end, improved branch prediction, SSE2 support, and a much larger cache. The usually power-hungry secondary cache uses an access method which only switches on the portion being accessed...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Other power saving methods include dynamically variable clock frequency and core voltage, allowing the Pentium M to throttle clock speed when the system is idle in order to conserve energy, using the SpeedStep 3 technology (which has more sleep stages than previous versions of SpeedStep)...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;...Pentium M varies from 5 watts when idle to 27 watts at full load...\u0026quot;","parent":"14729987","id":"14730310"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1353910267","timestamp":"2012-11-26 06:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Mostly around Google's inability to communicate, both internally and externally.\u003cp\u003eWhat else is new? Google communicates more on HN with its users than anywhere else... To the point where if you have a serious problem with google you are more likely to reach adequate support by posting a rant here than by going through the normal channels.\u003cp\u003eGoogle just simply doesn't get support. I doubt they ever will.\u003cp\u003eSo you approach them like the weather: use what's good, ignore what's bad, forget about interacting with it in a way that will change it. Whatever falls out of the sky that is worth it for you you can use, but you can \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e count on it and you can't expect to complain when it does not work in a way that it will get resolved to your satisfaction.","parent":"4830526","id":"4830854"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1494251451","timestamp":"2017-05-08 13:50:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it does seem like an awesome resource for \u003ci\u003eintermediate\u003c/i\u003e Kubernetes users like myself.   But beginners should be steered away from it because it\u0026#x27;s too much, too soon.   And by talking about choosing a cheap cloud provider at the beginning it implied to me that you were targeting beginners.\u003cp\u003ePlease add a disclaimer on the top pointing beginners at some of the better resources for them, and then tell them to come back once they\u0026#x27;ve learned what stuff like \u0026quot;ingress\u0026quot; means.","parent":"14291316","id":"14291411"}
{"by":"boulos","time":"1490682873","timestamp":"2017-03-28 06:34:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was a gorilla suit, not a bear suit ;):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;m.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;m.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13973547","id":"13974572"}
{"by":"eaandkw","time":"1529789570","timestamp":"2018-06-23 21:32:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vault 8 data breach in 3, 2, 1...","parent":"17382637","id":"17383569"}
{"by":"andrewchoi","time":"1426641928","timestamp":"2015-03-18 01:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked with QuestBridge during college, and they\u0026#x27;re making strides towards solving the outreach and awareness problem: \u003ca href=\"http://www.questbridge.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.questbridge.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9221338","id":"9222971"}
{"by":"liminal","time":"1541082740","timestamp":"2018-11-01 14:32:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which RDF semantic graph databases do you recommend for production?","parent":"18353209","id":"18354197"}
{"by":"thurston","time":"1305745770","timestamp":"2011-05-18 19:09:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes I understand these techniques, in fact they are heavily in use in Colm, just not for maintaining the global state that is used for the parsing feedback loop.\u003cp\u003eI use the term \"copy\" in the general sense to make discussion easier. Conceptually, persistent data structures are a copy, even if they are optimized heavily to incur very little cost.","parent":"2561142","id":"2561312"}
{"by":"sonnyblarney","time":"1531538460","timestamp":"2018-07-14 03:21:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One could cut much deeper: No accepted view of what the mind and consciousness really are, no model for the mind, no accepted view of \u0026#x27;what normal is\u0026#x27;, and no real way to truly identify and diagnose most supposed disorders.\u003cp\u003eFor things like schizophrenia maybe we can help.\u003cp\u003eBut for things like \u0026#x27;depression\u0026#x27; we\u0026#x27;re still walking around in the dark, notwithstanding good progress on some specific things.","parent":"17528445","id":"17528614"}
{"by":"hopeless","time":"1300920542","timestamp":"2011-03-23 22:49:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That looks \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e interesting. \nReceiving payments is such a huge hurdle for small projects outside of the U.S. (for example, PayPal doesn't provide Website Payments Pro in Ireland, banks are pretty difficult for new businesses, etc)\nSaasy looks like it might work.","parent":"2361302","id":"2361833"}
{"by":"jimktrains2","time":"1487601397","timestamp":"2017-02-20 14:36:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; people don\u0026#x27;t really care about FM radio on their cell phones.\u003cp\u003eThanks for all that data! I loved my last phone with a radio.","parent":"13680758","id":"13687554"}
{"by":"geerlingguy","time":"1486959333","timestamp":"2017-02-13 04:15:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Press ? on any page.","parent":"13632944","id":"13633083"}
{"by":"stuglaser","time":"1372984487","timestamp":"2013-07-05 00:34:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve implemented Go-style channels in Python, and it turned out pretty well.  The \u0026#x27;select\u0026#x27; statement is a bit verbose, but still pretty readable.\u003cp\u003eYou can find the code here: \u003ca href=\"http://github.com/stuglaser/pychan\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;stuglaser\u0026#x2F;pychan\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd documentation here: \u003ca href=\"https://chan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chan.readthedocs.org\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5992576","id":"5993017"}
{"by":"alchemyapi","time":"1296486971","timestamp":"2011-01-31 15:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AlchemyAPI (Denver, CO) is hiring C++ developers, front-end developers, and a community manager.\u003cp\u003eWe do natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and semantic web stuff.  Growing rapidly, profitable, w/ an amazing team.  Our platform uses semantic technology to analyze hundreds of millions of documents monthly for customers across multiple industry verticals.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.alchemyapi.com/company/jobs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.alchemyapi.com/company/jobs.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly creative work environment employing big data analysis, advanced AI research, and fun 20% time projects (Kinect-powered 3d visualization apps, mobile OCR+NLP tech, robots, etc).","parent":"2161360","id":"2161676"}
{"by":"thewileyone","time":"1277796706","timestamp":"2010-06-29 07:31:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bingo!  I wanted comment this exact same thing.  I use Windows because I want to control what I do, not let someone else control things, like I have with my iPad and iPhone.\u003cp\u003eIf the future of Windows in a controlled environment like iOS4.0, then my future leads to making Ubuntu my primary boot segment.","parent":"1469793","id":"1470726"}
{"by":"sincerely","time":"1515873379","timestamp":"2018-01-13 19:56:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their platform is back online now too: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.kraken.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;1449\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.kraken.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;1449\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16138665","id":"16141008"}
{"by":"ulucs","time":"1503396004","timestamp":"2017-08-22 10:00:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like 2d approaches on knobs: turn to adjust heat, and press it to turn it on\u0026#x2F;off. My car stereo does this for volume and it\u0026#x27;s quite graceful to use. Analog controls with continuous domains really go well together","parent":"15058972","id":"15070943"}
{"by":"paulhodge","time":"1372719363","timestamp":"2013-07-01 22:56:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We probably couldn\u0026#x27;t, but I don\u0026#x27;t think there is any way to be 100% sure of the authorship of something, unless you are physically sitting next to the author.\u003cp\u003eSo, trusting the authenticity of a document is a probability game. If he had signed it with a public key, then the probability of a fake would be less.","parent":"5974061","id":"5974233"}
{"by":"eriktrautman","time":"1357540869","timestamp":"2013-01-07 06:41:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Malan's energy is awesome.\u003cp\u003eFor some of the more beastly problem sets in data structures and memory management, where Googling the error message just didn't cut it, I had to watch through all that week's available content (both lectures, both recitations, the walkthrough and the shorts) before gaining enough momentum to grind by.  That's where it really hurt to not have another student sitting in the next seat to bounce ideas off of.  They've put together a well monitored forum but it's not the same as walking someone through your code.  I got it done, but some gray hairs could have been avoided.\u003cp\u003eOne of the major areas of improvement for all online ed is how to bring back that frictionless asking of questions.  It's a comparative advantage for both people -- you may save me two hours of frustration with ten minutes of your time on a particular memory error and I may save you two hours of frustration in a similar fashion by better understanding pointers.","parent":"5019677","id":"5019762"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1409880361","timestamp":"2014-09-05 01:26:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to stop their Sec Treasury appointees from Goldman-Sachs...","parent":"8269060","id":"8271831"}
{"by":"ape4","time":"1478541980","timestamp":"2016-11-07 18:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds useful.  Is it just an app that takes over the full screen?","parent":"12892333","id":"12893278"}
{"by":"intenex","time":"1358205775","timestamp":"2013-01-14 23:22:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The primary thing that stands out to me here, and what I believe is the main point of the TC post, is that edw and others clearly have very interesting 'before' and 'after' posts.\u003cp\u003eBefore:\n\"Aaron should man up, take responsibility for his actions, and pay his own bills.\"\u003cp\u003eThen:\nAaron can't pay his bills, decides to take one form of responsibility and kills himself.\u003cp\u003eNow:\n\"OH NO!\nStunned \u0026#38; heartbroken.\"\n\"Thank you, Cory. This wonderful post will bring understanding (and maybe even comfort) to many of us who are sad and confused today.\nIt will also probably save some lives.\"\u003cp\u003eIt's not that Ed is to blame for Aaron killing himself, it's that there's a marked change in sentiment and sympathy after his death.\u003cp\u003eDid it really have to take Aaron killing himself for us to change our sympathies towards him? It seems not many of us really cared that much until he hung himself - and now we can't stop talking about him.\u003cp\u003eSo the point I'd like to make is there's something wrong with a world that only cares after you kill yourself. Maybe Aaron even made the right choice is this is really how it works. Otherwise he might have quietly lived out his 50 years in prison and died later and no one would have given a shit the entire time. At least now this is getting some attention.","parent":"5056279","id":"5057354"}
{"by":"mozumder","time":"1520882487","timestamp":"2018-03-12 19:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I see no evidence of that.\u003cp\u003eI would encourage you to look at the evidence.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; A fashion magazine doesn\u0026#x27;t outsource its content production to its subscribers.\u003cp\u003eAnd?","parent":"16570487","id":"16570631"}
{"by":"gallerdude","time":"1512416961","timestamp":"2017-12-04 19:49:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I appreciate the optimism!","parent":"15846168","id":"15846825"}
{"by":"kartikkumar","time":"1413574083","timestamp":"2014-10-17 19:28:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saw his TedX talk in Delft; inspirational! Although there are plenty of challenges ahead, he proved that strong will gets you far. His crowd-funding campaign was a blitz from what I remember.\u003cp\u003eThe technology needs a lot more investment than he raised for large-scale deployment, but I think he shook people awake at the very least.\u003cp\u003eI think he also made a wise choice of staying in The Netherlands. Water management is definitely a forte, especially in Delft. The marine technology department is attached to mechanical engineering.\u003cp\u003eWill be interesting to see what the real tipping point will be for this concept to experience another 10x jump.","parent":"8469919","id":"8472878"}
{"by":"tinus_hn","time":"1504870999","timestamp":"2017-09-08 11:43:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The information is great but the website design is truly obnoxious (at least on mobile). What is the point of replacing the browsers scrolling with your own crappy version of scrolling while adding nothing?","parent":"15188152","id":"15199473"}
{"by":"nerdponx","time":"1475856062","timestamp":"2016-10-07 16:01:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t this a feature of Lisp-alikes in general?","parent":"12661536","id":"12661673"}
{"by":"mkesper","time":"1485955600","timestamp":"2017-02-01 13:26:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"HTTP\u0026#x2F;2 is not officially in as the article says, only accessible via incubator.","parent":"13540363","id":"13540514"}
{"by":"kalleboo","time":"1471802550","timestamp":"2016-08-21 18:02:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And I always thought the landmark telephony \u0026quot;net neutrality\u0026quot; decision was Carterfone \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Carterfone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Carterfone\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12317891","id":"12331935"}
{"by":"dragontamer","time":"1433774329","timestamp":"2015-06-08 14:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Wright Brothers were also just trying to fly. They weren\u0026#x27;t trying to compete against well-established technology (such as trains that have \u003ci\u003ealready been built\u003c/i\u003e).\u003cp\u003eThe Wright Brothers also weren\u0026#x27;t asking for $5 Billion+ for a test flight. They mostly self-funded IIRC.","parent":"9678959","id":"9679331"}
{"by":"michaelsbradley","time":"1429295747","timestamp":"2015-04-17 18:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The studies mentioned are cited in the FTND article, linked from the original:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fightthenewdrug.org\u0026#x2F;porn-ruins-your-sex-life\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fightthenewdrug.org\u0026#x2F;porn-ruins-your-sex-life\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eScroll to the bottom and \u0026quot;click for citations\u0026quot;.","parent":"9392591","id":"9396267"}
{"by":"hal9000xp","time":"1522524526","timestamp":"2018-03-31 19:28:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of my main reasons why I quit Russia in 2015. Now, I still have toxic Russian citizenship and my primary task is to get rid of this citizenship. Unfortunately, it\u0026#x27;s quite challenging task.\u003cp\u003eTwo main reasons\u0026#x2F;concerns which motivate me quit Russia:\u003cp\u003e1) Possibility of unexpected ban of Internet (restriction of freedom of information);\u003cp\u003e2) Possibility of introducing exit visas (restriction of freedom of movement);\u003cp\u003eIf not these two concerns, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t bother to quit Russian citizenship no matter how poor and corrupt country.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t get me wrong, I have friends living in Moscow. I have a lot of warm memories about this city. I may be even return to live in Russia ... as foreign citizen.","parent":"16724406","dead":true,"id":"16724740"}
{"by":"techdragon","time":"1393466638","timestamp":"2014-02-27 02:03:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would pay for a $10 a month subscription\u0026#x2F;support contract to Sublime if it was Open Sourced... properly where the community can get involved in the development.\u003cp\u003eThis coming along scares me that an already tenuous situation around the future of Sublime Text may implode due to this new editor... and it isnt even open source. I\u0026#x27;d rather build my own highly customised GUI+CLI macvim\u0026#x2F;emacs with both python and JS plugin backends than switch from one closed source editor to another just because its new and uses Node... I dont normally swear on hacker news ... but fuck that shit.","parent":"7308398","id":"7309823"}
{"by":"fyolnish","time":"1341021130","timestamp":"2012-06-30 01:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He does seem to be ignorant in regard to languages that are not php.","parent":"4179091","id":"4180142"}
{"by":"MartinCron","time":"1379109599","timestamp":"2013-09-13 21:59:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eSo, how do we build solar faster?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome communities are doing \u0026quot;community solar\u0026quot; where you essentially invest in a shared solar infrastructure. I\u0026#x27;m planning on buying in to the one along the Seattle Waterfront: \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattle.gov/light/solar/community.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.seattle.gov\u0026#x2F;light\u0026#x2F;solar\u0026#x2F;community.asp\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6382891","id":"6383457"}
{"by":"mcav","time":"1345402649","timestamp":"2012-08-19 18:57:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"* trying to use M-q (fill-paragraph) and killing the app.","parent":"4404742","id":"4404802"}
{"by":"ipython","time":"1534728937","timestamp":"2018-08-20 01:35:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A crime is only what legislature declares is a crime...\u003cp\u003eOne would consider why it is the law for a mechanic to give you a written estimate for work to your vehicle, and be required to call you before exceeding by a notional amount- yet, a hospital can legally withhold all cost information from you and yet you’re responsible for the bill in full after the service.","parent":"17797104","id":"17797215"}
{"by":"xvilka","time":"1544781729","timestamp":"2018-12-14 10:02:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See also a command line tool[1] for this, written in Rust.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ethanhs\u0026#x2F;cce\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ethanhs\u0026#x2F;cce\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18671993","id":"18679732"}
{"by":"Jizzle","time":"1472314894","timestamp":"2016-08-27 16:21:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who has implemented all these before, I thought the presentation was great. Yes, there are some holes, but in under 1500 lines, ASCII art and all, a lot was covered. More importantly, the ideas put forward can always be built upon--more data structures, more talk about time\u0026#x2F;space complexity or even probability (e.g. bloom filters), forays into solving famous problems with those data structures (optimally or not), etc, etc. Whether this is the first and final installment or not, it\u0026#x27;s a nice contribution.","parent":"12371397","id":"12372966"}
{"by":"proexploit","time":"1306165966","timestamp":"2011-05-23 15:52:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use it only when you need a new tab/window to open and nowhere else. You don't want to try and make a user's life easier by guessing if they'd open a new tab, because some won't want to.\u003cp\u003eThe only place I've used it in months is on Facebook iFrame applications where otherwise avoiding it would cause a larger page to load in a smaller area and get cut off.\u003cp\u003eAs another poster mentioned, it would be good to mark as opening in a new window with an icon or text. When it's a small bit of information (like a couple paragraphs of help text), I always appreciate a modal window or tooltip first.","parent":"2574695","id":"2576335"}
{"by":"wahnfrieden","time":"1374554668","timestamp":"2013-07-23 04:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You gave up at that point, or they let you go?","parent":"6088280","id":"6088285"}
{"by":"wildfire","time":"1394585935","timestamp":"2014-03-12 00:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, yes, that whole gov.uk thing.\u003cp\u003eI must have dreamed it then.\u003cp\u003eAnd so must have the 180+ people \u003ci\u003ehired\u003c/i\u003e to work on various parts of it who are not part of EDS, IBM and BT.","parent":"7374974","id":"7383295"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1500294491","timestamp":"2017-07-17 12:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. Just show an official-looking popup saying:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In compilance with UK [some government branch] [some law name\u0026#x2F;number], this site employs continuous age and identity verification. Your webcam will be active for the duration of your visit to ensure that only people of 18 and above are viewing the content of this website.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure there would be people who\u0026#x27;d accept that and continue with a webcam on and recording...","parent":"14787663","id":"14787842"}
{"by":"mthomasb","time":"1456174754","timestamp":"2016-02-22 20:59:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As much as freelancers say they hate dealing with clients or invoicing etc, what it all comes down to is the difficulty of managing cash flow.\u003cp\u003eContracts and invoices are the first step towards a few other cashflow management tools like invoice factoring, escrow, and others.\u003cp\u003eBut definitely agree, you can\u0026#x27;t build a business on invoices alone, since those + payment processing are so commoditized.","parent":"11154095","id":"11154235"}
{"by":"Chinjut","time":"1487860375","timestamp":"2017-02-23 14:32:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;waldoed\u0026quot;?","parent":"13711552","id":"13714099"}
{"by":"VOYD","time":"1446752489","timestamp":"2015-11-05 19:41:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"gee, thanks for all the downvotes.","parent":"10510736","id":"10515666"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1372197564","timestamp":"2013-06-25 21:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When government has the ability to regulate certain industries, that ability \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e be utilized by participants of those industries for their own benefit, unless there is a process in place which prevents that. I suspect such a process to be impossible, but that\u0026#x27;s a separate argument. What\u0026#x27;s clear is that the process currently does not exist. Thus the distinction between government action that is truly \u0026quot;for the people\u0026quot; and government action was \u0026quot;serves special interests\u0026quot; is mostly nonexistent. There can certainly be overlap, but at the end of the day \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e government action will be sold as being for the people simply because of the supposedly representative nature of our government (essentially, the government\u0026#x27;s argument is \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;you occasionally get to vote, and you haven\u0026#x27;t overthrown us yet, therefore all of our actions are justified and are in your best interest, and by the way, if you try to overthrow or even disobey us we will kill you and use this same argument to justify that\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e).\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think of \u0026quot;special interests\u0026quot; as something conspiratorial or even surprising, but rather obvious and inevitable. Just like any effective craftsman will use every tool at his or her disposal (at least, every tool that will not be widely perceived as unethical\u0026#x2F;immoral\u0026#x2F;illegitimate), so will an effective businessperson, and government (being the only organization that can initiate violence without being widely perceived as unethical\u0026#x2F;immoral\u0026#x2F;illegitimate) is just another of those tools.","parent":"5942307","id":"5942732"}
{"by":"nshepperd","time":"1524925977","timestamp":"2018-04-28 14:32:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Population growth is driven by birth rate, not death rate. Even slaughtering everyone at the age of 100 only delays the overpopulation problem (by less than two decades) if indeed there \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e an overpopulation problem.","parent":"16947170","id":"16947802"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1355957292","timestamp":"2012-12-19 22:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice of them to invalidate them - now - after they already passed them and Apple already used them in lawsuits - and won with them. But better late than never, I guess.","parent":"4945181","id":"4945252"}
{"by":"AlexEatsKittens","time":"1446517789","timestamp":"2015-11-03 02:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article strikes me as a person who begged for attention via social media changing their tactics and begging for attention by being anti-social media. That is to say, this strikes me as quite vapid.","parent":"10496579","id":"10497000"}
{"by":"solipsism","time":"1484109898","timestamp":"2017-01-11 04:44:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the meanwhile you\u0026#x27;ve taken the entire conversation off course to serve as the politeness police.","parent":"13371191","id":"13371815"}
{"by":"TeHCrAzY","time":"1268258959","timestamp":"2010-03-10 22:09:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does one believe or not believe in Suicide? It's a quite steady fact that it is possible, and somewhat prevalent. Do you mean that you don't personally agree with the concept of suicide?","parent":"1181672","id":"1182139"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1463011036","timestamp":"2016-05-11 23:57:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s not going to shift back, ever.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot necessarily.  Homosexual acceptance in the US was higher in the 1920s than in the following decades until the late 1960s.  Arguably, this cycles.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;LGBT_history#1920s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;LGBT_history#1920s\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11679881","id":"11680371"}
{"by":"imrehg","time":"1436711329","timestamp":"2015-07-12 14:28:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, no, too bad! Mitro is a real life-saver, using it since the very beginning... This will be quite a step back for my web-usage-happiness-level.\u003cp\u003eI was wondering how will they make money, and looks like I need not to wonder any longer :(","parent":"9871504","id":"9873595"}
{"by":"techdragon","time":"1457053626","timestamp":"2016-03-04 01:07:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Paying your dues is just the finance industry version of the \u0026quot;apprentice\u0026quot; phase in the traditional \u0026quot;novice, apprentice, journeyman, master\u0026quot; trade progression that has persisted in various forms for centuries now.","parent":"11220715","id":"11221323"}
{"by":"teng","time":"1367020143","timestamp":"2013-04-26 23:49:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has been fixed now, thanks for the report!","parent":"5615819","id":"5616159"}
{"by":"JAdamMoore","time":"1540208835","timestamp":"2018-10-22 11:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are not fully back up from their outage.","parent":"18273580","dead":true,"id":"18273844"}
{"by":"skinnymuch","time":"1253304487","timestamp":"2009-09-18 20:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you really be gaining 8% per year? I'm not sure how returns work when you're talking about millions of dollars. I assume you are going to leave 3% behind per year for inflation. Just to be safe, I'd rather say you take 3% out each year which would still be $240k, so it's still a lot.","parent":"830835","id":"831081"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1545930617","timestamp":"2018-12-27 17:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;d depend on industry.  We wouldn\u0026#x27;t suddenly lose the technological advancements of the last 40 years - we\u0026#x27;d still have cheap TVs, cheap computers, mobile phones, the Internet, etc.\u003cp\u003eHowever, sectors where productivity hasn\u0026#x27;t risen that fast - like health care, elder care, mental health services, natural resources, etc. - will encounter sharply rising prices as there are too few workers to provide services to everyone who needs them.  The market is a way of allocating resources to those who are willing to pay the most - so those with resources will still be able to afford them, but will end up liquidating a lot of their investments for it, while those without assets will just have to go without.  In the process, the exodus of cash from financial markets to health \u0026amp; elder care will drag down asset prices in general.  It\u0026#x27;ll be a good time to put money \u003ci\u003einto\u003c/i\u003e the market, but a bad time to have money already \u003ci\u003ein\u003c/i\u003e it.","parent":"18763175","id":"18770781"}
{"by":"kjetilk","time":"1538263204","timestamp":"2018-09-29 23:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup, it is. Though, I\u0026#x27;m not sure about homomorphic encryption, but there has been some work on encryption in the academic community that has very clear application to Solid. Here\u0026#x27;s a paper written by some friends of mine: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;epub.wu.ac.at\u0026#x2F;5818\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;10.1007_978-3-319-58068-5_37.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;epub.wu.ac.at\u0026#x2F;5818\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;10.1007_978-3-319-58068-5_37.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18102994","id":"18103557"}
{"by":"zafriedman","time":"1349104522","timestamp":"2012-10-01 15:15:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First off, let me state that I in no way wish to diminish the accomplishments of the authors of RailwayJS in making these comments. I think they've built an inevitable framework given that Rails was (and likely still is) the most popular open source web framework (at least as far as the HN/startup crowd goes) and of course why not give developers the same abstractions they have with their old favorite when a new thing comes along. But here's a constructive observation:\u003cp\u003eNode.js isn't a framework. AND it's not a programming language. Node is ostensibly a set of libraries and a runtime environment. I've been to a few Node meetups over the past few years, and inevitably people (not just newbies btw) will ask \"what will be the Rails for Node?\" But I think making this analogy is wrong. It's wrong for two main reasons, the first of which is that it implicitly compares Node.js to Ruby, which is a category mistake. More importantly though I'd argue, it's wrong because making the Rails for Node analogy deprives the developer (you!) of the opportunity to allow an emergent programming paradigm to change the way you think about programming! So how should Node do that? My fantasy for how Node.js will evolve in the next few years is that it will be a series of node packages which can be easily dropped in and out of my programs. I believe that the goal of the third-party node package development community should be to encourage this modularity, because I think it is the right abstraction for what Node.js actually is, and not necessarily what some people might wish it was. It's easy enough to set up EventMachine in Rails and then you can use your familiar stack, but I'd encourage anyone looking to use Node.js to fully embrace it and use it as an opportunity to explore new workflows, and not just try to fit your old stack into an event loop.","parent":"4595299","id":"4597451"}
{"by":"michaelchisari","time":"1287789643","timestamp":"2010-10-22 23:20:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regardless of whether human creativity is intrinsically bound to economic reward (I would strongly argue that it isn't), the fact of the matter is that you can't make the case that what we're dealing with \u003ci\u003eisn't\u003c/i\u003e a matter of artificial scarcity.","parent":"1821717","id":"1821911"}
{"by":"weirdcat","time":"1362914042","timestamp":"2013-03-10 11:14:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use a version of that -- a single system variable identifying the environment and a series of conditional blocks for each environment in the \u003ci\u003esettings.py\u003c/i\u003e file:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  ENVIRONMENT = os.environ.get('ENVIRONMENT', None)\n  \n  if not ENVIRONMENT in ('development', 'staging', 'production'):\n      raise Exception('You need to set ENVIRONMENT variable')\n  \n  if ENVIRONMENT == 'development':\n      # ...\n  elif ENVIRONMENT == 'staging':\n      # ...\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"5351354","id":"5351457"}
{"by":"packet_nerd","time":"1534783676","timestamp":"2018-08-20 16:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The stock markets are basically prediction markets. Over the short term they are wildly inaccurate and are determined mostly by fear, greed, and crowd psychology. But averaged over the long term they are very accurate.","parent":"17801141","id":"17801483"}
{"by":"sixothree","time":"1467643437","timestamp":"2016-07-04 14:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me that\u0026#x27;s a plus. With opera I get the rendering of Chrome, the features of Opera, all without that dirty creepy feeling of using Google products.","parent":"12030811","id":"12031050"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1457029587","timestamp":"2016-03-03 18:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How complicated is controlling a TV or a radio? And voice is much easier for a variety of tasks than remote controls.","parent":"11217129","id":"11218772"}
{"by":"mcbruiser1","time":"1489779584","timestamp":"2017-03-17 19:39:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t need to cite evidence for common sense. clearly you have none.","parent":"13897217","id":"13897274"}
{"by":"elorant","time":"1457720751","timestamp":"2016-03-11 18:25:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about a market for custom made Faraday cages? :)","parent":"11268140","id":"11268498"}
{"by":"Avenger42","time":"1349278801","timestamp":"2012-10-03 15:40:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Google is doing interesting things with Glass and self-driving cars.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; There are no bleeding edge products in [Apple's] product portfolio.\u003cp\u003eI see these as two different companies having different ideas about what to do with unreleased products - Apple hasn't even announced an \"iPad Mini\" which is apparently starting production, and Google has announced products with a time-to-market measured in years (if they ever arrive).\u003cp\u003eI don't know what \"big ideas\" Apple's working on because they've decided not to tell us, but I at least give them the benefit of the doubt that by the time we see discussion about a product, it's much more likely to be released, and soon.","parent":"4607583","id":"4607947"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1458292194","timestamp":"2016-03-18 09:09:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There seem to be a whole bunch of people waving around odd ideas.\u003cp\u003eNo, it\u0026#x27;s not an \u0026#x27;odd idea\u0026#x27;. The fact that the government can coerce you has lots of limits placed on it. Conscription and the draft have been abolished in most places in the developed world, contempt of court may get you jailed but will not - and can not - be used to force you to create something and eminent domain can only be used to take something away from you.\u003cp\u003eSo yes, this would be a new low, it would mean that ordinary citizens \u003ci\u003ethat have broken no laws\u003c/i\u003e can be forced to create something that does not currently exist against their express desire (and maybe even against their capability, how do you even begin to check if someone should be able to do something).\u003cp\u003eIt would \u003ci\u003edefinitely\u003c/i\u003e be a new low.\u003cp\u003eAll the things you pulled into it have nothing to do with the matter at hand, those are other things that you may or may not agree with but they are not the same as being ordered by a judge to perform a job that you have no desire to if you yourself are not guilty of breaking any laws. It would be an abuse of power that to me is unprecedented in any modern society.","parent":"11309115","id":"11310662"}
{"by":"jamesbkel","time":"1309435150","timestamp":"2011-06-30 11:59:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, this is exactly my case: 10-100's GB of data distilled down to 1GB output at most, including extra diagnostics which are not always needed.\u003cp\u003eOne possible advantage for Amazon could be, at least in my use case, that I may be inclined to spin up instances for less-CPU-intensive tasks. Also, being able to rely on the widely available remote access from EC2 is convenient.\u003cp\u003eI suppose if it gets me spending more time on their CPU cycles, they've picked up business. Interested to see where this policy leads.","parent":"2713057","id":"2713628"}
{"by":"ctdonath","time":"1310141253","timestamp":"2011-07-08 16:07:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On a related note:\u003cp\u003eA 3GHz computer (ignoring multi-core, hyperthreading, other issues) executes 3 instructions every nanosecond.\nLight travels 1 foot per nanosecond.\nYour head is about 2 feet from your monitor.\nIn the time it takes the light from this post on your monitor to reach your eye, your computer performs 6 instructions.\nScale as appropriate.\u003cp\u003eWhen I first realized that, I wandered around in a slight daze thinking \"wow, light is slow...\"","parent":"2741910","id":"2743014"}
{"by":"IanCal","time":"1476260960","timestamp":"2016-10-12 08:29:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m cautious about using CSS to do things that feel like actual behaviours.\u003cp\u003eFor example, the modal that appears when you click on the button actually doesn\u0026#x27;t do things on \u0026quot;clicking\u0026quot; but \u003ci\u003efocusing\u003c/i\u003e. This means if you tab over the button it\u0026#x27;ll load the modal, then tabbing away means the modal is gone. I can\u0026#x27;t tab into the content in the modal at all. How does that work with accessibility?\u003cp\u003eThough I generally dislike the idea of saying content isn\u0026#x27;t there by making it \u003ci\u003epresent in the document\u003c/i\u003e but \u003ci\u003einvisible\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eEdit - Some of the default behaviours are also a bit pants. In chrome, the form validation on a pattern starts working after I hit submit, then angrily shakes at me for every keypress until it\u0026#x27;s valid. Then, it ignores invalid input as I type more! Please never use this for phone numbers or credit card numbers. Stop requiring an exact format when what people type varies, and stop telling me I\u0026#x27;m putting in something wrong when you ask for a phone number and I give you something that\u0026#x27;ll connect to me if you type into a phone.\u003cp\u003eMaxlength is not a validation it\u0026#x27;s just ignores any more letters you type. Quietly ignoring your users input is probably not what you want.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;Would you prefer a banana or a cherry?\u0026quot; just shouts \u0026quot;Please match the requested format\u0026quot; if I type \u0026quot;a cherry\u0026quot;. I know chrome has nothing else to go on other than \u0026quot;the regex wasn\u0026#x27;t matched\u0026quot; but it\u0026#x27;s a bad end user experience.\u003cp\u003eThe tabs example is something I need to tab onto then use left and right, I assume because it\u0026#x27;s a radio box underneath, not a series of links. Are tabs really radio buttons?\u003cp\u003eThe same for the accordion. Which I\u0026#x27;ve found if I add any tabbable content inside them then I\u0026#x27;m focused on a \u003ci\u003ehidden item\u003c/i\u003e. Great. Tab onto \u0026quot;tab 1\u0026quot;, hit tab, focus has disappeared and I\u0026#x27;m now potentially going to click on random items I can\u0026#x27;t see. This is because although you want to pretend the content isn\u0026#x27;t there just because it\u0026#x27;s not visible, it\u0026#x27;s still there! It\u0026#x27;s in your document.\u003cp\u003eSure, you might not \u003ci\u003eneed\u003c/i\u003e javascript. But maybe you should still use it.","parent":"12690842","id":"12691209"}
{"by":"cturner","time":"1217445190","timestamp":"2008-07-30 19:13:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends what you mean by enlightened I guess.\u003cp\u003eThere was a time when IBM was the evil empire. For all we know it will be Apple next, with some sort of thin client lock-in based on safari and itunes.\u003cp\u003eGenuine innovation is a good thing even when it comes from unpopular origins.","parent":"262024","id":"262163"}
{"by":"rumpelstiltskin","time":"1281892819","timestamp":"2010-08-15 17:20:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is a really good looking site. Any reason why the layout isn't centered?","parent":"1605383","id":"1605465"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1326829907","timestamp":"2012-01-17 19:51:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another good reason for them not to do it (from their POV) would be this:\u003cp\u003eIf they shutdown for a day everybody suddenly thinks \"Wow, Google \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e actually go down.. what if this happened again? what if it was for longer next time? Is it really a good idea to give these guys a monopoly on search and put all our eggs in one basket?\"","parent":"3476192","id":"3476214"}
{"by":"SpeakMouthWords","time":"1457533015","timestamp":"2016-03-09 14:16:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, only just seeing this.\u003cp\u003eOn HN, downvoted comments \u0026quot;fade out\u0026quot; of view. The font gets lighter to start to match the background.","parent":"11223016","id":"11253057"}
{"by":"zimpenfish","time":"1506599539","timestamp":"2017-09-28 11:52:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would like the ability to have a single \u0026quot;always local\u0026quot; folder for putting a selection of photos in. Handy for when you have no network, etc.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Favourites\u0026quot; seems to -almost- have this priority in that they\u0026#x27;ll more often than not be on the device regardless of age and whether you\u0026#x27;ve specifically downloaded them but it\u0026#x27;s not -quite- there.","parent":"15355577","id":"15356409"}
{"by":"auston","time":"1238177931","timestamp":"2009-03-27 18:18:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for clearing that up!","parent":"535312","id":"535519"}
{"by":"manmal","time":"1518617889","timestamp":"2018-02-14 14:18:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is \u0026quot;I know that I\u0026#x27;m going to get downvoted\u0026quot; the new opening argument? Forestalling criticism does usually work in discussions, but it should not be necessary here. If you get downvoted, so be it. You are not your HN karma. (I know I\u0026#x27;m gonna be downvoted for this ;) )","parent":"16375314","id":"16375818"}
{"by":"BrandoElFollito","time":"1503141040","timestamp":"2017-08-19 11:10:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would add Stack Exchange (and particularly SO), full of invaluable information but you need to kneel before asking a question.\u003cp\u003eI do not know how the Meta groups are today, this was one of the most toxic groups I have ever seen.","parent":"15051545","id":"15052756"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1218224751","timestamp":"2008-08-08 19:45:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like the basic argument is that we now assign social status based on the third places a person inhabits on the Internet, whereas in the past we assigned social status based on the cultural objects a person was familiar with. Ignoring the fact that the two are essentially equivalent, how is this different than the concept of discourse groups from the past? Perhaps one could argue that one's discourse group has been merged one's social circle in a way that is qualitatively different and meaningful, but if so I'm not really seeing it.\u003cp\u003e/pseudo-intellectual","parent":"270852","id":"270957"}
{"by":"brandnewlow","time":"1411971424","timestamp":"2014-09-29 06:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why they\u0026#x27;re rolling this out via Atlas, an enterprise ad server.  They\u0026#x27;re focused on brand dollars, which go toward demographic targeting rather than intent\u0026#x2F;behavioral.","parent":"8381650","id":"8381856"}
{"by":"epage","time":"1526664924","timestamp":"2018-05-18 17:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kakoune\u0026#x27;s model is slick and occasionally tempts me but I stay with vim for the rich ecosystem of plugins and that its on nearly every system.","parent":"17102937","id":"17103319"}
{"by":"stackcollision","time":"1395241270","timestamp":"2014-03-19 15:01:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn\u0026#x27;t we just get over 3 weeks of people screaming about King\u0026#x27;s trademark attempt on \u0026quot;Candy\u0026quot;?","parent":"7429006","id":"7429035"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1281051860","timestamp":"2010-08-05 23:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's also fairly hard to find a good \"cost-of-living\" metric that accurately reflects what a given individual's cost of living would be, because how you'd live isn't identical between regions. For example, I've lived in both Houston and the Bay Area, and in the Bay Area I pay considerably more for housing, but considerably less for entertainment. The latter is due to most of my entertainment in the Bay Area being free outdoorsy stuff (hiking, beaches), whereas most of my entertainment in Houston was for-pay indoor stuff. That, and more of my trips in the Bay Area are nearby driving trips (up/down the coast, etc.), while most of my trips from Houston were by plane--- and I took more of them, because I didn't have as nice local weather, nice nearby hiking, etc. The end result is that I spend almost exactly as much overall, despite the higher COL by most metrics.","parent":"1579274","id":"1579713"}
{"by":"vvanders","time":"1510782606","timestamp":"2017-11-15 21:50:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, if you allocate in the main loop or preallocate you\u0026#x27;re still going to pay the overhead of a heap to keep track of those allocation :).","parent":"15707634","id":"15708177"}
{"by":"TomOfTTB","time":"1235190043","timestamp":"2009-02-21 04:20:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you missed some irony\u003cp\u003eIn my original post I was trying to amusingly (emphasis on trying) point out the fact that people don’t admit things like this until everyone already knows them which in turn makes the admission a moot point.  I thought it would be funny (emphasis on thought) to do so in the \"Digg-Style\" sarcastic tone that most of the posts there are in.\u003cp\u003eBut the real thing that makes Digg an unpleasant place is not the sarcasm but the mean spiritedness that the place can often take on.  My comments were illuminating an idea so I really wasn't attacking anyone.  Which is when you attacked me.\u003cp\u003eSo really your comment is far more \"Digg-like\" than mine was","parent":"489445","id":"489654"}
{"by":"ashleyreddy","time":"1288303130","timestamp":"2010-10-28 21:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grab a bottle of womens hair dye.  The stuff for men leaves too many greys behind.","parent":"1844875","id":"1845128"}
{"by":"signalsignal","time":"1348698631","timestamp":"2012-09-26 22:30:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The editor is called \"Satire\".","parent":"4578340","id":"4578362"}
{"by":"Francute","time":"1489472289","timestamp":"2017-03-14 06:18:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about languages like Smalltalk and Lisp? ... Well, Lisp at least have some acknowledgments, but Smalltalk can be compared to Erlang in lot of aspects.","parent":"13863755","id":"13865436"}
{"by":"CrazedGeek","time":"1300921260","timestamp":"2011-03-23 23:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jason, this is awesome. So very awesome. I do have two minor complaints/requests:\u003cp\u003e1. Custom fonts support. I use two imported fonts from Google Web Fonts on the normal version of my site, and it'd be nice to have them on the mobile version too.\u003cp\u003e2. Disqus support. It's a little disheartening to tap View Comments and see \"Comments are closed\" on every entry, especially when they're not. I'm pretty sure Disqus has a mobile view- I've gotten it when using WPtouch.\u003cp\u003eRegardless, this is basically the slickest web app interface I've seen on my iPad. (Possibly a bit slow on my iPad 1, but that might just be my server to be honest.) Congrats!","parent":"2361486","id":"2361878"}
{"by":"oxalo","time":"1399043607","timestamp":"2014-05-02 15:13:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting that each \u0026#x27;layer\u0026#x27; doesn\u0026#x27;t carry the same visual weight, and thus it\u0026#x27;s dominated by only three colors.","parent":"7685323","id":"7686158"}
{"by":"mikewhy","time":"1464900822","timestamp":"2016-06-02 20:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s not difficult to imagine a calendar component that needs to visually display vastly differently depending on how much space it\u0026#x27;s parent gives it. Currently there is no generic way to solve this.\u003cp\u003eMaybe I\u0026#x27;m being naive here, but isn\u0026#x27;t this solved really by getting the width of a block level element rendered by the Calendar component?\u003cp\u003eYeah it does mean you need to get the width and then render everything else, but it\u0026#x27;s doable.","parent":"11823460","id":"11825962"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1498086250","timestamp":"2017-06-21 23:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, you could sell the biz outright and wash your hands of the whole thing once the check clears.","parent":"14608677","id":"14608747"}
{"by":"apurvadave","time":"1512513057","timestamp":"2017-12-05 22:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sysdig | Remote and Onsite | San Francisco, London, Belgrade | Multiple positions\u003cp\u003eSysdig makes a container intelligence platform to perform monitoring, security, and forensics for microservices. We\u0026#x27;ve recently raised a series C funding round and are continuing to expand across all divisions. We have a penchant to hire technical folks in all areas of the business.\u003cp\u003eOur roots are in open source technology (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sysdig.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sysdig.org\u003c/a\u003e) and have built our commercial products on top.\u003cp\u003eSome of the positions we\u0026#x27;re looking to hire:\u003cp\u003e* Infrastructure Engineer\n* Devops engineer\n* Test engineer\n* Designer\n* Product Management\n* Technical Marketing Engineer\n* Pre-sales engineer\n* Support \u0026amp; escalations engineer\u003cp\u003ePlease see all our positions and details at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sysdig.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sysdig.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15824597","id":"15856659"}
{"by":"berg01","time":"1523465353","timestamp":"2018-04-11 16:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Prepare yourselves for \u003ci\u003eeven more\u003c/i\u003e whitespace and \u003ci\u003eeven larger\u003c/i\u003e typefaces. It\u0026#x27;s the Material Design Way.\u003cp\u003e(Let\u0026#x27;s not forget the current Gmail had a big design update that added lots of whitespace a few years ago.)\u003cp\u003eThat update from a reader who witnessed a Googler dogfooding the new UI was interesting:\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;“It was a hybrid of Gmail and Inbox,” he told me. “The left-side column was more like inbox.google.com and the right side was an \u003ci\u003eenlarged version\u003c/i\u003e of Gmail.\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s just hope they don\u0026#x27;t repeat the Google News redesign; forcing the content column to be fixed width. I\u0026#x27;m looking at the new Material Design Google News right on a 40\u0026quot; 4k screen, the column with actual news items is like 30% of the width of the screen:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;EQY8Q\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;EQY8Q\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: Eeek. I just tried inbox.google.com. It behaves pretty much like the new Google News in terms of layout. I think this is what we can expect.","parent":"16811926","id":"16813000"}
{"by":"jnoller","time":"1243629644","timestamp":"2009-05-29 20:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I concur; which is why I mentioned a PEP to solidify some of the idiosyncrasies \"out\" - akin to PEP8, propose an API style guide.","parent":"632747","id":"632764"}
{"by":"debacle","time":"1343752824","timestamp":"2012-07-31 16:40:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's not the interface I'm seeing. Maybe they're doing device detection.","parent":"4318117","id":"4318160"}
{"by":"acadien","time":"1425749229","timestamp":"2015-03-07 17:27:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;For one, the absolute leading researchers are at the top universities, and there is a big gap between these people and merely very good researchers.\u003cp\u003eI have noticed the opposite effect. Typically the best researchers are the worst instructors, prepare the least for their courses and couldn\u0026#x27;t care less about their teaching quality. Those that are both solid instructors and researchers are exceptionally rare.\u003cp\u003eWhile leading researchers may have a better grasp of their specialized field this is often not applicable in graduate courses. The exception being when those professors develop an entire course around their research and (often) force many of their research students into that course.","parent":"9162138","id":"9162386"}
{"by":"nebabyte","time":"1499714646","timestamp":"2017-07-10 19:24:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Now we have this vuln, which I\u0026#x27;ll dub \u0026quot;IOgate\u0026quot; because it\u0026#x27;s the cool thing to name these\u003cp\u003eNo","parent":"14737768","id":"14738864"}
{"by":"alexvy86","time":"1490373670","timestamp":"2017-03-24 16:41:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you be more detailed about \u0026quot;shit android support\u0026quot;? I\u0026#x27;m currently trying it out and didn\u0026#x27;t seem so bad, similar to how I currently use LastPass in Android in general. Apparently I need an extra click to actually copy a password there, but I also saw they have an integrated keyboard (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.1password.com\u0026#x2F;android-keyboard\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.1password.com\u0026#x2F;android-keyboard\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e), which I haven\u0026#x27;t looked at yet.","parent":"13942221","id":"13950163"}
{"by":"alextgordon","time":"1404827975","timestamp":"2014-07-08 13:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Its like here in the UK, Marks and Spencer Food (a premium food supermarket) doesn\u0026#x27;t compete on price with ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury\u0026#x27;s etc, because they\u0026#x27;d lose, instead their ads are Dine in, for two, £10 [1], which is meant to make you compare it to a restaurant, because then it feels like a very good deal. Its all about context.\u003cp\u003eIt \u0026quot;works\u0026quot;, but I\u0026#x27;ve never found those adverts convincing. People don\u0026#x27;t eat at a restaurant every day, and the food from a restaurant will be better than whatever M\u0026amp;S is offering.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s best not to try and trick your customers into spending more money for an inferior product. It tends to backfire over the long term.","parent":"8004306","id":"8004525"}
{"by":"dotsh","time":"1521558512","timestamp":"2018-03-20 15:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what I call a full of shit company. People will stab you in a back to work for those but when they are there they start to realise how rotten it is. Then it\u0026#x27;s too late for them as they are getting into the Stockholm syndrome. Afraid to go, being pushed around because they do not believe they can do something better somewhere else and such CEOs take advantage of the situation to use them as much as possible and throw them away like a used condom.\u003cp\u003eI hate this and it is not worth wasting life working for such companies or such people even for one day.","parent":"16628274","id":"16629187"}
{"by":"moconnor","time":"1402575707","timestamp":"2014-06-12 12:21:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The source is also its own clue; just search for the error message and read the source around it.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a strategy that works with many error messages in many programs, not just in this game.","parent":"7882582","id":"7882960"}
{"by":"avodonosov","time":"1491343347","timestamp":"2017-04-04 22:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have there been anything new in UX since 1970s?","parent":"14037246","id":"14037647"}
{"by":"tlb","time":"1529616456","timestamp":"2018-06-21 21:27:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neither Chrome nor Firefox\u0026#x27;s JSON.parse accept JSON5. I\u0026#x27;m not sure what browser API you mean.\u003cp\u003eFor example,\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  JSON.parse(`{\u0026quot;foo\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;bar\u0026quot;,}`)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nthrows a syntax error.","parent":"17360989","id":"17369437"}
{"by":"dillonraphael","time":"1484807580","timestamp":"2017-01-19 06:33:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m going to go this route. Except, I\u0026#x27;ll stick with Ubuntu","parent":"13433535","id":"13433598"}
{"by":"PhantomGremlin","time":"1421538114","timestamp":"2015-01-17 23:41:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow. The more things change, the more they stay the same.\u003cp\u003eMore than a century ago, Jesse Livermore[1] made and lost several fortunes trading stocks via bucket shops. Not unlike what happens to current day card counters, the bucket shops banned Livermore. Bucket shops (at least for stocks) have long been illegal in the USA.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Operator\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8904926","id":"8906007"}
{"by":"2mur","time":"1327932927","timestamp":"2012-01-30 14:15:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For personal projects I set up Google apps to handle inbound/outbound email for an admin email. Then postfix on the server in a null client configuration for outbound email only (eg. no-reply) type registration emails and so forth.","parent":"3528443","dead":true,"id":"3528845"}
{"by":"samson","time":"1247143220","timestamp":"2009-07-09 12:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but what is rational can be dependent on the environment which you operate in, especially when dealing with economics which is not yet a science.\u003cp\u003eI'll give you an analogy of a research sample I got from a book.\u003cp\u003eBee's by their nature or intelligence you may call it are trained to believe that light at the end of a tunnel is the escape. A rational and even sound analysis in nature.\nNow if you put a dozen bees in a glass bottle, and point the closed end towards the window where light is shining, all the bees instinctively fly towards that direction of the light and eventually die of exhaustion.\u003cp\u003eIn the case of the bees what was rational in one environment was render completely useless in another.","parent":"695273","id":"695710"}
{"by":"onetwothreefour","time":"1355605906","timestamp":"2012-12-15 21:11:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It'd be nice if you told people what this was.","parent":"4926049","id":"4926337"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1408918312","timestamp":"2014-08-24 22:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article suggests later on that Vanessa is atypical: \u003ci\u003eTo get a better sense of who these struggling students were, Laude started pulling records...almost all of them had low SAT scores — low for U.T., at least — often below 1,000 on a 1,600-point scale.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003e200-point difference in average SAT scores between the two sections\u003c/i\u003e (one of them being the \u0026quot;we won\u0026#x27;t call it remedial\u0026quot; section) is also discussed.\u003cp\u003eAlso, take a look at why Vanessa needed help, at least as per the article\u0026#x27;s implication: \u0026quot;She failed her first test in statistics...At Mesquite High, she never had to study for math tests; she aced them all without really trying.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYou also seem to believe that putting heroic efforts into teaching students thing will somehow help them become a capable worker. That might be true for a few rote fields - perhaps Vanessa\u0026#x27;s nursing career might be one of them [1]. But except for fields where college is mere rote training in procedures, that\u0026#x27;s not actually producing capable workers. When I hire, giving me a person who can only learn new things if I invest heroic effort and personal attention is useless - I need my employees to figure things out on their own.\u003cp\u003e[1] I know little about nursing - from the outside it appears fairly rote, but I\u0026#x27;m open to being corrected on this","parent":"8219708","id":"8219835"}
{"by":"LoonyPandora","time":"1341954120","timestamp":"2012-07-10 21:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecifically the talk titled \"Unicode Support Shootout: The Good, The Bad, \u0026#38; the (mostly) Ugly\"\u003cp\u003eIt's a year old now, but it's still relevant. It gives a very detailed look at unicode support across JavaScript, PHP, Go, Ruby, Python, Java, and Perl.","parent":"4226052","id":"4226186"}
{"by":"ajisai","time":"1445917874","timestamp":"2015-10-27 03:51:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice work!\u003cp\u003ePlease tell me the meaning of `Evangelion`... Is the japanese anime?","parent":"10456089","id":"10456206"}
{"by":"continuations","time":"1381440625","timestamp":"2013-10-10 21:30:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; A theoretical performance penalty, which, in practice, you just right there told us was a non-factor, right?\u003cp\u003eNot theoretical at all. Connection pooling will make the initial connection time a non-factor, but it will not make the SSL performance penalty a non-factor.\u003cp\u003eAccording to the 1st graph and the data in the table below it, even with connection pooling SSL still reduces performance by 50%-75%. That\u0026#x27;s a very big penalty.","parent":"6528303","id":"6530165"}
{"by":"lispm","time":"1468937626","timestamp":"2016-07-19 14:13:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And let\u0026#x27;s not even start on how Germany suddenly seem to be in control of the Euro and seem to be essentially dictating monetary policy in Greece, Italy and Spain.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a very simplistic view. If Germany would actually control the Euro, the ECB (European Central Bank) monetary policy would look quite a bit different.\u003cp\u003eGreece didn\u0026#x27;t protest when they took the money. They protested when they had to pay it back and called that \u0026#x27;undemocratic\u0026#x27;.","parent":"12120494","id":"12121872"}
{"by":"gspetr","time":"1484157541","timestamp":"2017-01-11 17:59:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CNN is so corrupt it looks like a parody network.\u003cp\u003eTheir most egregious breach of ethics to date: On October 31, 2016, the New York Times reported: \u0026quot;CNN has severed ties with the Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, after hacked emails from WikiLeaks showed that she shared questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events in advance with friends on Hillary Clinton\u0026#x27;s campaign.\u0026quot; CNN said it had accepted her formal resignation on October 14, adding: \u0026quot;We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.\u0026quot;","parent":"13375851","id":"13375902"}
{"by":"arrrg","time":"1437179576","timestamp":"2015-07-18 00:32:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it’s years it’s just human labor, obviously.\u003cp\u003eIt’s their way of implying that this mission will provide enough data to lead to interesting discoveries for years to come. Data on its own is useless, someone actually has to look at it and interpret it and pick out what’s interesting and what’s not and all that.\u003cp\u003eObviously in this forum everyone jumps to the technical explanation (slow data transmissions!) but that is exactly not it.","parent":"9904610","id":"9906114"}
{"by":"thenewwazoo","time":"1473448467","timestamp":"2016-09-09 19:14:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"toomim is correct. Upon reading the update, it looks like it pops an OS X auth dialog to update a file (TCC.db) which is used to bypass the normal restrictions on what the root user is able to do. This bypass is used to manipulate the AX config.\u003cp\u003eSlimy, slimy, slimy.","parent":"12465180","id":"12465249"}
{"by":"adoyle","time":"1237901661","timestamp":"2009-03-24 13:34:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wastewater heat exchange is not a new concept. Here's a 1986 paper on it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Pravda.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.gfxtechnology.com/Pravda.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe GFX \"falling-film counterflow\" system is mounted vertically, in-line with the plumbing drain, and has a wide-bore drain pipe. It seems to me that this is inherently less prone to clogging than the horizontally mounted Ecodrain would be.","parent":"529552","id":"530081"}
{"by":"MariamKhan","time":"1416515438","timestamp":"2014-11-20 20:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You got that right! On demand is every day - 12-4pm .. happening now!","parent":"8571339","id":"8637964"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1424376719","timestamp":"2015-02-19 20:11:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterprise_sales\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;training.kalzumeus.com\u0026#x2F;newsletters\u0026#x2F;archive\u0026#x2F;enterpris...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; For example, a big company happily using the $250 a month plan could, quite possibly, be happy to upgrade to a $5,000 a month contract if you offered them the right incentive. (Twenty times as much, you ask? No, transitioning from \u0026quot;pocket lint\u0026quot; to pennies. Stop thinking like a human. Think like a corporation. Corporations are like humans whose smallest increment of currency is the largest paycheck you\u0026#x27;ve ever received.)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; This is important: Enterprise pricing is discontinuous with normal pricing. If the $250 a month plan entitles you to 500 foozles and an Enterprise needs 5,000 foozles, that costs thousands or tens thousands of dollars per month. If an Enterprise only needs 500 foozles, that costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per month. If an Enterprise only needs 50 foozles, that costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per month. This is partially justified by the amount of pain you\u0026#x27;re signing up for by doing an Enterprise sales process, but is mostly just pure, naked price discrimination. Enterprises are not price conscious\u003ci\u003e. Don\u0026#x27;t attempt to sell them based on your price. (\u003c/i\u003e For prices customarily contemplated by software companies.)","parent":"9076626","id":"9076650"}
{"by":"Thimothy","time":"1467908756","timestamp":"2016-07-07 16:25:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The solution proposed by Heinlein has all the desirable characteristics: zero barriers to entry, not very burdensome (for the received benefits) and reliabilly produces good citizens.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that I can\u0026#x27;t imagine a real method that can compare. There is no proof that the military way produces good citizens, and every other method ever tried introduces barriers, which usually leads to minorities being excluded.","parent":"12049833","id":"12050332"}
{"by":"lazzlazzlazz","time":"1487913717","timestamp":"2017-02-24 05:21:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the most insanely exaggerated and ridiculous comment I have ever seen on Hacker News. I have no clue how you sleep at night.","parent":"13720812","id":"13721241"}
{"by":"Dewie","time":"1400107189","timestamp":"2014-05-14 22:39:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Basically its somewhere in between compiled languages and high level languages.\u003cp\u003eHigh level languages and compiled languages are pretty orthogonal. A language being interpreted\u0026#x2F;running on a VM# is not a prerequisite for being at a certain \u003ci\u003elevel\u003c/i\u003e or higher.\u003cp\u003e# And someone will complain that these are implementation details, not something to do with the abstract specification of the language itself.","parent":"7745487","id":"7746891"}
{"by":"sandworm101","time":"1531004058","timestamp":"2018-07-07 22:54:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a schedule based on availability and procedures.  The time between the final legal decisions and the act isn\u0026#x27;t random, it just seems that way because those decisions happen behind closed doors.  Outsiders don\u0026#x27;t see the full logic behind the dates\u0026#x2F;times but that doesn\u0026#x27;t make it random.","parent":"17480993","id":"17481118"}
{"by":"afpx","time":"1504173750","timestamp":"2017-08-31 10:02:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Human culture, accepted ideas are tightly associated with social status. Unfortunately, in my experience, social status isn\u0026#x27;t highly correlated with awesome ideas. That\u0026#x27;s why low-status people (like myself) who thrive on seeing novel ideas be realized must quickly learn the art of \u0026#x27;managing upwards\u0026#x27; (i.e. Making one\u0026#x27;s boss think it was their idea).","parent":"15138556","id":"15139262"}
{"by":"create_account","time":"1311790626","timestamp":"2011-07-27 18:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eit's possible to declare some fields completely broken/politicized without jettisoning all of \"science\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eExactly.","parent":"2813307","id":"2813353"}
{"by":"nachteilig","time":"1353337480","timestamp":"2012-11-19 15:04:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was really pretty pessimistic about space travel when NASA announced they would shift some of their duties to the private sector, but Elon Musk has really made this idea exciting in the same way he did with electric cars. It really makes me believe that companies need a strong personality like his or Jobs' to get the public excited about new/revitalized sectors.","parent":"4804219","id":"4804610"}
{"by":"glaberficken","time":"1535452299","timestamp":"2018-08-28 10:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which brings to my mind an interesting question: Could a ml agent be used to auto-explore with the intention of visiting all parts of the game world?\u003cp\u003eThere has been recent focus on ML research trying to win or beat games. What if the goal was merely to have an agent that would manage to explore the largest game \u0026quot;area\u0026quot; possible? Has that been done before?","parent":"17856734","id":"17857742"}
{"by":"joatmon-snoo","time":"1495149189","timestamp":"2017-05-18 23:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a very low percentage, somewhere in the low single digits (if not an even lower order of magnitude). Still high enough for it to be worth paying engineers to maintain the backwards compatibility :)","parent":"14371466","id":"14371825"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1521422514","timestamp":"2018-03-19 01:21:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was an HN thread about this thirteen days ago, you should check it out: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16524316\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16524316\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;opinion\u0026#x2F;investor-class-pensions.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;opinion\u0026#x2F;investor-class-pe...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt turns out it\u0026#x27;s a political farce that pensions are unsustainable. Voting with your feet doesn\u0026#x27;t help (although I can understand the appeal of avoiding taxes that prior political representatives set you up for, that\u0026#x27;s just poor reserves planning), as the federal government will end up backstopping state finances (with those funds coming out of federal income taxes). Public workers will (and should) continue to find ways to increase their salary and benefits to more closely align them to their value (as we saw succeed in West Virginia, and shortly, Oklahoma).","parent":"16615542","id":"16615566"}
{"by":"Delmania","time":"1492609362","timestamp":"2017-04-19 13:42:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The current definition of CRPG is character RPG.  These games are ones that focus more on character development and dialogue as opposed to combat.  Planetscape: Torment is the example I am most familiar with, as you can play the entire game through dialogue and only fight when required.  Baldur\u0026#x27;s Gate and Neverwinter Nights are close to CRPGs, but progression is still done through combat.\u003cp\u003eThey stand in opposition to JRPGs, ARPGs, and MMORPG.","parent":"14145851","id":"14147612"}
{"by":"zandor","time":"1357231105","timestamp":"2013-01-03 16:38:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Make sure to check out this great post mortem of Elite from GDC 2011:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmortem\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmortem\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5001968","id":"5003122"}
{"by":"candiodari","time":"1523948908","timestamp":"2018-04-17 07:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All while insulting the actual businesses and San Franciscans they want to imitate at every turn.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Now the tower’s largest tenant was a website that allows anonymous semi-literates to post critiques of local establishments.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;there were not enough applicants to fill all the openings for “Java Legends, Python Badasses, Hadoop Heroes”, and other gratingly childish classifications describing various programming specialities.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eVery classy.\u003cp\u003eAlthough I must say, I have noticed that there is a great deal of Silicon Valley hate in many places in Europe.","parent":"16855974","id":"16856174"}
{"by":"specialist","time":"1475764413","timestamp":"2016-10-06 14:33:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Techical writing (in your native tongue).\u003cp\u003eWrite the instructions for creating a peanut butter \u0026amp; jelly sandwich. Have someone try to follow your instructions. Did you get a sandwich?\u003cp\u003eIf yes, you\u0026#x27;re now a programmer.\u003cp\u003eWhen picking a computer programming language, most important is having a buddy \u0026#x2F; mentor who can help you climb the learning curve. If you\u0026#x27;re looking for local resources and communities, maybe start with meetup.com.","parent":"12652004","id":"12652738"}
{"by":"freehunter","time":"1519402637","timestamp":"2018-02-23 16:17:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah as someone who works in the security industry, the ubiquity of security awareness targeted at end users is both a blessing and a curse. It\u0026#x27;s a blessing because now many more people know what key-based authentication is. It\u0026#x27;s a curse because now people get mad when my report has a finding that their no-passcode single key authentication system is worse than the \u0026quot;use your RSA token to check out the constantly-revolving root password\u0026quot; system they just replaced.\u003cp\u003eLike when people use the phrase \u0026quot;two-factor authentication\u0026quot; without knowing what the three factors actually are and why they matter.","parent":"16447174","id":"16447224"}
{"by":"Eleopteryx","time":"1411616013","timestamp":"2014-09-25 03:33:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can\u0026#x27;t say I like the name; it evokes nothing but negative connotations.","parent":"8365300","id":"8365453"}
{"by":"chronic92","time":"1481752969","timestamp":"2016-12-14 22:02:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or cars, or even Apple products. People love defending Austin, Boston, etc. Cost of living only applies to food and housing, more of less. After that $20-50K is paid, cost of living does not apply to anything you spend past $50K.","parent":"13179142","id":"13180061"}
{"by":"gamblor956","time":"1361414021","timestamp":"2013-02-21 02:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can copy the \u003ci\u003etext\u003c/i\u003e itself, but much of the other stuff, i.e, the formatting, is copyrighted.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I'm going to point out that non-lawyers like MacWright usually misunderstand the law (and he has in this instance), so his blog is generally not useful guidance.","parent":"5254518","id":"5255024"}
{"by":"true_religion","time":"1330525828","timestamp":"2012-02-29 14:30:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're essencially valuing your own experience as more real than everyone else's experience and saying that although we may all look at the same situation, \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e are correct simply because you know the correct way to look at the scenario.\u003cp\u003eIt's pretty circular to me.\u003cp\u003eNow, speaking about your experience... isn't it possible that your female friends would soften the way they talk about men around you? Despite being as you say a 'feminine little guy', you're still a man. Any reasonable person would tone down their language to avoid offending their friend.\u003cp\u003eAnecdotal evidence: I have a female friend who will swear that women are worse than men but I believe she's suffering from the same lack of perspective you are: no man would speak so freely around her and thus she thinks men are more gentlemanly than they really are.","parent":"3647791","id":"3647894"}
{"by":"gamma-male","time":"1545951246","timestamp":"2018-12-27 22:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everytime I bring up prop C here people tell me that spending more money on the problem won\u0026#x27;t improve anything, that these people are just never going to leave the streets and that they want to be there. The amount of bullshit people are willing to make up just so that they can live with the fact that there are people dying next to their tesla.","parent":"18771537","id":"18773380"}
{"by":"DrJokepu","time":"1452542395","timestamp":"2016-01-11 19:59:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some problems cannot be easily solved with money. Paying patent lawyers and patent royalties is an example of a problem that can be very easily solved with money.","parent":"10882562","id":"10882940"}
{"by":"sheepmullet","time":"1538909809","timestamp":"2018-10-07 10:56:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What was the public Republican position on Russia 10 years ago?\u003cp\u003eAnd the Democrats? I remember the Democrats laughing at McCain talking about the Russian threat.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; On trade and commerce? Deficits?\u003cp\u003eLargely the same?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Military intervention?\u003cp\u003eOk sure the Republicans aren’t the war hawks they once were but many of the same neocons are still there biding their time.","parent":"18159914","id":"18159971"}
{"by":"literallycancer","time":"1527785604","timestamp":"2018-05-31 16:53:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The state can be very effective at breaking up monopolies, if there is the will. You\u0026#x27;d be surprised.","parent":"17197606","id":"17197884"}
{"by":"whitehat2k9","time":"1372008475","timestamp":"2013-06-23 17:27:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone want to chime in on why Python threads and subprocesses can\u0026#x27;t be used?","parent":"5928260","id":"5928432"}
{"by":"badmadrad","time":"1443849737","timestamp":"2015-10-03 05:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually have fond memories of DARE. But we had a really cool cop come in the class and tell us stories that were interesting to me. Usually the stories were very honest and real stories which I found riveting compared to the daily repetitive humdrum of school. I don\u0026#x27;t think it was the reason I didn\u0026#x27;t do drugs but it definitely supported and provided foundation around what my parents would tell me.","parent":"10322250","id":"10322720"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1357936556","timestamp":"2013-01-11 20:35:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People grant protection to works on the provision that these works become freely available after N years. The copyright industry just goes ahead and extends this unilaterally, just because they want to. Why should the public keep up its end of the deal when the copyright industry doesn't?","parent":"5044785","id":"5044836"}
{"by":"rorra","time":"1369451524","timestamp":"2013-05-25 03:12:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably I did a big offtopic, I just wanted to share what's the current situation in Argentine, and what's going on in Latin America.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the main reason for Google Play is the current laws restriction for getting foreign currencies and to get the money out of the country.\u003cp\u003eGoogle has other business in Argentine as well (as google ad sense), but on the last months we also have restrictions to buy things in dollars with our credit cards, to extract money from foreign ATM (most people were going to Uruguay to extract U$S from the ATM), and the government is trying to avoid by force to let people or companies to take the money out of Argentine.\u003cp\u003eSo it may be related to our laws.","parent":"5766177","id":"5766225"}
{"by":"rrdharan","time":"1525213557","timestamp":"2018-05-01 22:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Because Kubernetes itself runs on the machines that are running your databases, it will consume some resources and will slightly impact performance. In our testing, we found an approximately 5% dip in throughput on a simple key-value workload.\u003cp\u003e5% seems like a surprisingly large overhead. What is k8s doing in this situation that would have that kind of impact?","parent":"16970949","id":"16972310"}
{"by":"neuro","time":"1192589646","timestamp":"2007-10-17 02:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so, are you suggesting canidates demo in spandex?","parent":"68867","id":"68899"}
{"by":"nwh","time":"1376131662","timestamp":"2013-08-10 10:47:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the action URL, this seems to be the page you want — \u003ca href=\"https://developer.apple.com/ios/enroll/individualEnrollmentIndex.action\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.apple.com\u0026#x2F;ios\u0026#x2F;enroll\u0026#x2F;individualEnrollmentI...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6190424","id":"6190646"}
{"by":"yestoapps","time":"1371759770","timestamp":"2013-06-20 20:22:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whether I\u0026#x27;m right or wrong, Matt has millions of dollars for litigation. The law isn\u0026#x27;t about who\u0026#x27;s right, it\u0026#x27;s about the resources you have to stand in the fight.","parent":"5914619","id":"5914696"}
{"by":"lean","time":"1314454806","timestamp":"2011-08-27 14:20:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What, you don't know?","parent":"2931469","id":"2931508"}
{"by":"CoachRufus87","time":"1498976977","timestamp":"2017-07-02 06:29:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Parks too?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;revisionisthistory.com\u0026#x2F;episodes\u0026#x2F;11-a-good-walk-spoiled\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;revisionisthistory.com\u0026#x2F;episodes\u0026#x2F;11-a-good-walk-spoile...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14679016","id":"14681180"}
{"by":"debacle","time":"1331917528","timestamp":"2012-03-16 17:05:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Suggestion: I hate the scrollbar-within-a-scrollbar thing. Either lock the window height so I don't get two scrollbars, or don't limit the height of the scrolling div.","parent":"3713941","id":"3714146"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1444328492","timestamp":"2015-10-08 18:21:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are, however, numerous examples of modern era populaces who aren\u0026#x27;t armed and also haven\u0026#x27;t been slaughtered by their own governments.","parent":"10354736","id":"10354838"}
{"by":"1996","time":"1532106276","timestamp":"2018-07-20 17:04:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should look at TCP over DNS. It has some uses.\u003cp\u003eNow SQL over DNS TXT values, that would be nice!","parent":"17575160","id":"17576818"}
{"by":"csytan","time":"1514855583","timestamp":"2018-01-02 01:13:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not surprising to me. I\u0026#x27;ve worked in this space, and I think consumer hardware startups are just incredibly hard. I just finished my stint at one (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.electricobjects.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.electricobjects.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) last year after we failed to raise series B.\u003cp\u003eWhy are consumer hardware startups hard?\u003cp\u003e- Consumers have high expectations and want high quality products from the get go.\u003cp\u003e- Quality products are incredibly capital intensive, resulting in much shorter runways.\u003cp\u003e- Building a quality product often times means partnering with an expensive design firm + hiring the engineering talent to back it up.\u003cp\u003e- Margins are much lower than a typical SAAS. This makes it less appealing for VCs than a pure software play.\u003cp\u003e- Scaling hardware is harder than scaling software. Lead times are long. The right decisions have to be made ahead of time. Any missteps or problems with your suppliers will delay your launch. If this happens around Black Friday \u0026#x2F; Christmas -- it\u0026#x27;s a big deal.\u003cp\u003e- Not only do delays impact your sales, they will also delay fundraises for much needed cash infusions.","parent":"16047382","id":"16049080"}
{"by":"dmode","time":"1474144449","timestamp":"2016-09-17 20:34:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Barney Frank was on Bill Maher show the other day and he said he gets money from Wall Street on speaking engagements. And he is literally the author of Dodd Frank. The reason he gets invited because he knows more about the context of the regulation that anyone else and can answer complex question. A rather mundane reason. But if you omit that part, you can easily construct a more nefarious narrative on how a Senator is invited by Wall Street to influence regulations. Most times life is mundane and conspiracy theories are just that","parent":"12519150","id":"12522327"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1258503472","timestamp":"2009-11-18 00:17:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I heard an interview with the author on Fresh Air last night.  Based on that I'm buying the book.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that prominent private equity companies wouldn't want to be quoted doesn't surprise me.  He's been reporting on the industry for around 15 years, and I'm sure they know who their critics are.  I'll settle for the facts, figures, interviews with people who sold companies to them, etc.","parent":"947437","id":"947519"}
{"by":"dejaime","time":"1542920864","timestamp":"2018-11-22 21:07:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They changed the link. It was pointing to another one that cited this one as the source and added -even more- speculation on top of it.","parent":"18508958","id":"18512563"}
{"by":"tylerhou","time":"1481873619","timestamp":"2016-12-16 07:33:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure if I like this explanation because it seems to create an \u0026quot;us\u0026quot; versus \u0026quot;them\u0026quot; mentality without much nuance.","parent":"13191210","id":"13191717"}
{"by":"mbreese","time":"1458698936","timestamp":"2016-03-23 02:08:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the same thought. But maybe, it\u0026#x27;s less of a concern with an automated ship.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf\u003c/i\u003e the steering and engine rooms are sufficiently hardened, that is. It\u0026#x27;s one thing for someone to get onboard, but it\u0026#x27;s an entirely different thing to stop the boat. Without humans onboard, who will stop it? And, without a crew, there aren\u0026#x27;t any hostages. If you\u0026#x27;re remotely controlling the boat, you could just keep going and bring the pirates with you to the nearest maritime\u0026#x2F;port authority (Coast Guard, etc...). There is still a risk to the cargo, but how are pirates going to unload a container ship that is still moving in the ocean with an uncooperative captain controlling it remotely?","parent":"11341577","id":"11341620"}
{"by":"andreareina","time":"1522043556","timestamp":"2018-03-26 05:52:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anybody know why the domain is on one of uBlock Origin\u0026#x27;s blocklists[1]? The styling is annoying as all hell but it doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be an ad server.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pgl.yoyo.org\u0026#x2F;adservers\u0026#x2F;serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts\u0026amp;showintro=1\u0026amp;mimetype=plaintext\u0026amp;_=211264\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pgl.yoyo.org\u0026#x2F;adservers\u0026#x2F;serverlist.php?hostformat=hos...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16675833","id":"16676906"}
{"by":"_k","time":"1367261353","timestamp":"2013-04-29 18:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So Google UK is now allowed to use everyone's photographs (not just thumbnails) and use those photographs to sell ads next to it. How is that right ?\u003cp\u003eIt only applies to orphan works but you can easily and in an anonymous way strip out the metadata.\u003cp\u003eAnd companies like Google could take it one step further. \nAll they have to do is start a LLC in the UK for the Google image search part of its business, go to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, ... take all the photos, strip the metadata, say it was someone else who must have done it, make a lot of money.","parent":"5624803","id":"5627926"}
{"by":"dak1","time":"1380028776","timestamp":"2013-09-24 13:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;This could be the end of any radical innovation in mobile, period. Even Apple has run its course: Where else can it go?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIf the author can\u0026#x27;t think of anything innovative, then surely that must mean the end of innovation.","parent":"6437423","id":"6437649"}
{"by":"simonw","time":"1541387916","timestamp":"2018-11-05 03:18:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know I\u0026#x27;m playing armchair architect here, but MongoDB, PostgreSQL AND Elasticsearch?\u003cp\u003eFor an application like this I would expect just PostgreSQL with its built-in JSON datatype and surprisingly capable full-text search to be enough on its own. I\u0026#x27;d love to know how you ended up deciding on all three.","parent":"18376688","id":"18379639"}
{"by":"anfractuosity","time":"1500130309","timestamp":"2017-07-15 14:51:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t looked into how the exploit works in detail, but could this affect the RaspberryPi 3?","parent":"14775937","id":"14776909"}
{"by":"blueside","time":"1477782997","timestamp":"2016-10-29 23:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would suggest to the author to put a \u0026quot;This is not satire\u0026quot; disclaimer at the top of article to discourage users from leaving.","parent":"12823937","id":"12827036"}
{"by":"bretthoerner","time":"1529069967","timestamp":"2018-06-15 13:39:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should watch The Cove (2009).","parent":"17319095","id":"17319669"}
{"by":"computerslol","time":"1383298842","timestamp":"2013-11-01 09:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone that\u0026#x27;s been building high traffic applications on ASP.net for 11 years I generally stay out of threads like this. There is a ton of ill-informed (and more often than not blatantly false) asp.net bashing that goes on on this site. I see so much of it I generally just roll my eyes instead of hitting the reply button.\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t use the silence of developers like me to prove a point when any pro asp.net content posted here is met with hostility.\u003cp\u003eASP.net has an \u0026quot;easy mode\u0026quot;. Easy mode is for small sites made quickly. If you\u0026#x27;re dragging and dropping, you\u0026#x27;re using easy mode. If you\u0026#x27;re only using the server controls provided, you\u0026#x27;re using easy mode. If you haven\u0026#x27;t extended or replaced any of the provided subsystems, you\u0026#x27;re using easy mode. I\u0026#x27;d prefer developers from other platforms stop making comparisons between their platform and easy mode asp.net as if they knew what they were talking about.\u003cp\u003eASP.net is a tuner\u0026#x27;s platform. It is completely modular, and anything you don\u0026#x27;t like can be replaced with something custom suited for your business\u0026#x2F;performance needs. This goes much deeper than custom server controls. You can look at the development of ASP.net MVC as an example.\u003cp\u003eIf you want an easy framework to master, ASP.net is not the place for you. If you want something fast, scalable, strongly typed, customizable and built for large applications; you should have a look under the hood.\u003cp\u003eThose who haven\u0026#x27;t spent time getting intimately familiar with ASP.net\u0026#x27;s innards really have no place to comment.","parent":"6644897","id":"6652706"}
{"by":"Mimick","time":"1446548015","timestamp":"2015-11-03 10:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Japanese people\u0026#x27;s culture is \u0026quot;If it\u0026#x27;s working like that, keep it like that\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI once had to make a Japanese website for a cars wholesale company that ship cars for different countries on the world and they used to do a lot of work manually on their old website wanted to update it because they lost contact with the old developer (used to HTML the website).\u003cp\u003eHe was like no-no for everything that will cost money (themes, plugins...), I didn\u0026#x27;t felt comfortable dealing with him since he said no for a $50 translation plugin and he wanted translation on his website (he will get transitioned text himself somehow, don\u0026#x27;t like this step step things...) and I\u0026#x27;m sure I will charge him more than $50 to write a translation plugin (since I won\u0026#x27;t put it on an online store).","parent":"10497355","id":"10498708"}
{"by":"fastball","time":"1519725104","timestamp":"2018-02-27 09:51:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I live in London too.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t get out much. Walk on any high street and you will see plenty of homeless people.","parent":"16467284","id":"16472242"}
{"by":"KozmoNau7","time":"1526992549","timestamp":"2018-05-22 12:35:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are absolutely and perfectly allowed to speak out in public against such people. But you must be prepared to take responsibility if your speech is worded to spur people into violent action and to incite hateful action.\u003cp\u003eThe court of public opinion is notoriously fickle. Rousing hate in the masses is not a reliable tactic, and often backfires.","parent":"17124590","id":"17125437"}
{"by":"re_todd","time":"1424151209","timestamp":"2015-02-17 05:33:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What has helped me is just listening to other people have a conversation (at work, in the supermarket, etc). Once I realized that many popular people aren\u0026#x27;t usually saying anything very witty or enlightening, just talking about trivial stuff, it took a lot of the pressure off feeling like I have to say something remarkable all the time.","parent":"9059415","id":"9060815"}
{"by":"eusman","time":"1189500043","timestamp":"2007-09-11 08:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How would you know what they would want to do?\u003cp\u003eYou try to doubt that there are would be any motives and then you say, it would probably be good PR?! \u003cp\u003eYou question the quality of these startups, like there are no good startups outside YC, when at the same time my suggestion included that there should be the prerequesite of these startups to meet YC's expectations.\u003cp\u003eAnd if you call it 'open house' instead of 'open investor day' how that makes it different?! You are talking about the same thing...\nExcept, if by that term you mean a place for people to gather around and talk. I think thats why they already have Startup School and YC News...\u003cp\u003eOf course, it doesn't necessarily need to be the specific investor day, but instead maybe one divoted to their YC online community..\u003cp\u003eThe essential motive would be that their YC ecosystem can continue grow outside their boundaries, while giving the opportunity to people that could probably proof capable enough. And maybe minimize the error of the application process.\u003cp\u003eAnd I did say, there could be a trade-off in percentage of the company in case it finds an investor through YC.","parent":"53216","id":"53221"}
{"by":"DINKDINK","time":"1520093469","timestamp":"2018-03-03 16:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Imperative programming languages in a global machine state","parent":"16509778","id":"16509877"}
{"by":"king_jester","time":"1413044363","timestamp":"2014-10-11 16:19:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; marriage is a contract, forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live\u003cp\u003eNot everyone views marriage as a contract or as something that cannot be broken ever. The legal status of marriage in a jurisdiction != how people feel about and treat marriage.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Divorce means your word is worthless, and that your own wants are more important than your word.\u003cp\u003eGiving your word on something isn\u0026#x27;t a clause that requires you to give up your own wants and needs. For example, if you married someone and one day they become abusive, you are not obligated to stay and take said abuse.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; It IS a personal failure, but go ahead, rationalize all you want.\u003cp\u003eThis attitude is so unhelpful and smacks of a superiority complex.","parent":"8442358","id":"8442510"}
{"by":"espadrine","time":"1515152468","timestamp":"2018-01-05 11:41:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With many bytes necessary to print just six pixels, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be as low-bandwidth, right?\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, how about libcaca? \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Libcaca\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Libcaca\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16077836","id":"16078014"}
{"by":"rokhayakebe","time":"1309364089","timestamp":"2011-06-29 16:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Believe it or not \"Effortlessly\" is a very confusion way to say \"Easily\"\u003cp\u003e2) \"With our iphone app and web app\". Maybe \"Using your Iphone\"\u003cp\u003e3) It says selling something, but I am not sure if this is a digital locker or an app allowing me to sell something.\u003cp\u003eOverall simplify your copy and tell the user what it does. I am saying this because the screenshot shows a nice interface, and there seems to be something interesting here. Only problem is I cannot put my finger on it.","parent":"2709889","id":"2710015"}
{"by":"Houshalter","time":"1437535924","timestamp":"2015-07-22 03:32:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So the copyright belongs to google, even if you run it on your own photographs on your own machine? That doesn\u0026#x27;t seem right.","parent":"9927440","id":"9927590"}
{"by":"diminoten","time":"1545424001","timestamp":"2018-12-21 20:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I guess I can only run ~16 instances of Slack.  Damn...","parent":"18734580","id":"18736322"}
{"by":"ashleyw","time":"1216773637","timestamp":"2008-07-23 00:40:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe, but its a very well known online brand name, its only going to keep growing. Though as it grows it has less and less tech stuff and more and more mainstream content, but I guess from the standpoint of investors that is only a good thing. Tech people don't like ads and even go as far as blocking them, non-techies don't (or are less likely too).\u003cp\u003eIt would be a good investment, and I would hope it goes to Google rather than Microsoft, AOL, or any other company who will seek to change it in a major way.","parent":"253788","id":"253853"}
{"by":"jedc","time":"1343227399","timestamp":"2012-07-25 14:43:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't remember if it's explicitly on the roadmap, but it's something I do plan on adding.","parent":"4291128","id":"4291152"}
{"by":"lcusack","time":"1385339397","timestamp":"2013-11-25 00:29:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can see how some of it does read as \u0026quot;fluff\u0026quot; or cliche, it probably would be more beneficial if I did a short paragraph on how I learned each point.","parent":"6791833","id":"6791843"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1351781975","timestamp":"2012-11-01 14:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, the main goal was to make it clear to consumers that even though Apple won a EU-wide case against Samsung in Germany (which got a lot of publicity), that didn't apply in UK after they lost this court case.","parent":"4727384","id":"4727839"}
{"by":"darrenkopp","time":"1296709937","timestamp":"2011-02-03 05:12:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had about 50GB of backed up data with mozy for that last 3 years, growing from ~20GB when i started. I've been paying $5 per month for almost 3 years now, which means I have paid ~50 a year (very rough to take out transaction fees and bandwidth fees, etc). That should buy them at least 320GB of average sata disk drives per year (assuming all money going into storage).\u003cp\u003eThis means for \"unlimited\" they can recoup 6x the storage i was using per year through my fees. So the question becomes why it's not sustainable? Too large a company and not sustainable due to employee salaries? Not economical enough storage prices (ie using enterprise SAS disks rather than cheap SATA)?  I'm guessing since they buy large quantities of disks, they could get drives for even cheaper than what you get on NewEgg.\u003cp\u003eThis is why I believe that this model _is_ sustainable, assuming that it's done right. Also why I switched from Mozy to Backblaze because I felt that Mozy was gouging me by taking away their unlimited plan and replacing it with a tiered plan.","parent":"2173378","id":"2173716"}
{"by":"Fnoord","time":"1506820449","timestamp":"2017-10-01 01:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not familiar with that law, but it sounds a lot like what we have in The Netherlands. I\u0026#x27;m curious about your alternative to \u0026quot;Erbengemeinschaft\u0026quot;?","parent":"15374770","id":"15375890"}
{"by":"mrb","time":"1518487573","timestamp":"2018-02-13 02:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They had to be on the conservative side, so they assumed a doubling every 9-12 months. In reality we have seen one doubling every ~34 months in the last 14 years. In 2005 I bought 250GB HDDs for $110 each. In 2018 you can find 8TB HDDs for $150 each. That\u0026#x27;s 5 doublings.\u003cp\u003eSo with 5 doublings, if we saw datasets on the order of 2^50 back then, we should see datasets on the order of 2^55 today (30 PB). And sure enough, here is a computer with a 30 PB global filesystem: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fujitsu.com\u0026#x2F;downloads\u0026#x2F;TC\u0026#x2F;sc11\u0026#x2F;k-computer-system-overview-sc11.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fujitsu.com\u0026#x2F;downloads\u0026#x2F;TC\u0026#x2F;sc11\u0026#x2F;k-computer-system-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo another 9 doublings to go to 2^64 bytes. With one every 34 months, this should happen in 25 years (2043). But again, if you are a filesystem developer you should be on the conservative side and assume it might double every ~12 months.","parent":"16363163","id":"16364197"}
{"by":"EvenThisAcronym","time":"1408465419","timestamp":"2014-08-19 16:23:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His advice on the use of auto seems perfectly sane to me. The first time I learned about a language with type inference for local variables was D, and coming from C++\u0026#x2F;Java, I had the same reaction. I absolutely hated it. However, the D community seems to overwhelmingly prefer auto\u0026#x2F;const\u0026#x2F;immutable\u0026#x2F;etc. (any of these can be used in place of an explicit type declaration in D), and over the years as I\u0026#x27;ve worked with other languages that have adopted this convention, I find that I now cannot stand \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eunnecessary\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e explicit type  declarations in my code.\u003cp\u003eNearly 100% of the time, you know what the type of a local variable is (otherwise people would be unable to use Python\u0026#x2F;Ruby\u0026#x2F;Javascript\u0026#x2F;etc.), so it\u0026#x27;s no great harm to readability. Furthermore, you are probably already working with an IDE that can tell you the type of a variable when you hover over it, anyway. I think that it also leads you to think more about interfaces than specific types.","parent":"8193857","id":"8198174"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1314936749","timestamp":"2011-09-02 04:12:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"really weird that nobody mentions that, while this is a huge story","parent":"2952842","id":"2952886"}
{"by":"gamma-male","time":"1547450717","timestamp":"2019-01-14 07:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup. But I would say that pizza in the US is disapointing in general if you know italian pizza.","parent":"18901091","id":"18901294"}
{"by":"shard972","time":"1487566796","timestamp":"2017-02-20 04:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Specifically: I cannot imagine that a quality news site (say the NY Times, Atlantic, or WSJ) would not mention such uncertainty.\u003cp\u003eWhat about that news article that WaPo published about the guy who found some malware on his laptop and was blown out into this \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;national-security\u0026#x2F;russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.d10ca0d028e8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;national-security\u0026#x2F;russi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know how you could go from a virus on a laptop to \u0026quot;Russia is hacking into our power grid\u0026quot; unless you are being intentionally dishonest or have such an agenda that you jump at any scrap to make a story.","parent":"13684246","id":"13684409"}
{"by":"hayd","time":"1498801229","timestamp":"2017-06-30 05:40:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does that explain how Uber copied the Lidar chip design?\nWasn\u0026#x27;t that the original smoking gun which brought this all to light?","parent":"14668553","id":"14668825"}
{"by":"MaxBarraclough","time":"1531988575","timestamp":"2018-07-19 08:22:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose part of the problem is that most of eBay is large-volume-low-price, so there\u0026#x27;s no chance at all of a law-enforcement solution to the fraud.\u003cp\u003eIt it practical to implement a \u003ci\u003eWe don\u0026#x27;t sell to brand-new accounts\u003c/i\u003e policy, as an eBay seller?","parent":"17563616","id":"17564635"}
{"by":"erdevs","time":"1470508669","timestamp":"2016-08-06 18:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While we are discussing context, it is also good to consider your sources.  The person quoted by NPR may have an agenda; consider the below.\u003cp\u003eIt should well be noted that Benjamin Wittes, the person quoted in parent by NPR, is a noted proponent of increased national security at the cost of encryption.[1][2][3]  While he is a Fellow at the Brookings Institute, which is generally considered non-partisan but liberal-leaning, Wittes and Brookings\u0026#x27; stance on matters of national security have been quite pro-government \u0026#x2F; pro-\u0026quot;security\u0026quot;, and he is also a member of the Hoover Institution\u0026#x27;s Task Force on National Security and Law.  The Hoover Institution is generally regarded as right-leaning[4][5].  His positions are consistently in line with the FBI\u0026#x27;s, believing that end-to-end encryption with no backdoor is bad for national security and worth the tradeoff.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lawfareblog.com\u0026#x2F;encryption-living-will-think-you-drink-kool-aid\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lawfareblog.com\u0026#x2F;encryption-living-will-think-you...\u003c/a\u003e , \n[2]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lawfareblog.com\u0026#x2F;quick-question-apple-hr\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lawfareblog.com\u0026#x2F;quick-question-apple-hr\u003c/a\u003e\n[3]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lawfareblog.com\u0026#x2F;very-definition-digital-age-chutzpah\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lawfareblog.com\u0026#x2F;very-definition-digital-age-chut...\u003c/a\u003e\n[4]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.csmonitor.com\u0026#x2F;1980\u0026#x2F;0327\u0026#x2F;032756.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.csmonitor.com\u0026#x2F;1980\u0026#x2F;0327\u0026#x2F;032756.html\u003c/a\u003e , \n[5]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.britannica.com\u0026#x2F;topic\u0026#x2F;Hoover-Institution-on-War-Revolution-and-Peace\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.britannica.com\u0026#x2F;topic\u0026#x2F;Hoover-Institution-on-War-R...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12238950","id":"12239298"}
{"by":"toyg","time":"1454075384","timestamp":"2016-01-29 13:49:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, so this is how Dragon died, I always wondered where they had gone. NaturallySpeaking was one of the most, ahem, \u003ci\u003eshared\u003c/i\u003e programs of the late \u0026#x27;90s. Tried it a few times but with all the corrections it never felt faster than my own typing (and I don\u0026#x27;t even touch-type).\u003cp\u003eThe lessons from this story are two, basically: never cut all-stock deals and never deal with the likes of Goldman if you are not a billion-size business.","parent":"10994707","id":"10995125"}
{"by":"twism","time":"1210947197","timestamp":"2008-05-16 14:13:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"javascript using rhino as well","parent":"191758","id":"191785"}
{"by":"DenisM","time":"1453224940","timestamp":"2016-01-19 17:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Host it yourself, that\u0026#x27;s what I do.\u003cp\u003eIt also helps with curl changes breaking something or other. Once upon a time curl has optimized something, and it triggered a bug in AWS EC2 network driver.","parent":"10930972","id":"10932270"}
{"by":"shingen","time":"1328587022","timestamp":"2012-02-07 03:57:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given the role the Fed played in fueling the nearly zero cost of speculative capital (not to mention back stopping the losses and paying for the bailouts via backing the Treasury) - that's probably the place to start making changes.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the real problem is our deficits. We can't pay for them any longer. The Fed is buying 91% of all long term government debt now. So they have to keep rates low or the US Government will become insolvent. Keeping rates low causes a huge surge in liquidity. And if you a reduction in slack in the real economy, zooooom there goes a bubble somewhere.","parent":"3560313","id":"3560382"}
{"by":"artmageddon","time":"1343051559","timestamp":"2012-07-23 13:52:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; If they clamor to accept right way, I'm left wondering if I offered too much.\u003cp\u003eI doubt that it's ever \"too much\", but sometimes it can just be a matter of appeasement or desperation. I told the same story above to a friend of mine who had been out of work for at least one or perhaps two years after finishing a degree from a video-game school as he was being offered a position as a web developer. I encouraged him to ask for just a little more than what he had offered, but he sent back an acceptance of the original offer from the employer as he was afraid of rocking the boat, and simply just wanted to get paid as bills began to mount up.\u003cp\u003eThe original offer was for a $50K salary, which isn't terrible for starting out of school. In my eyes, I was slightly disappointed that he didn't even really try to get another $2000 or $3000, but in his position, he didn't want to risk losing the original $50K just for a little more.","parent":"4280863","id":"4280941"}
{"by":"pratap103","time":"1485939959","timestamp":"2017-02-01 09:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, thanks for sharing!","parent":"13533995","id":"13539410"}
{"by":"koreyb","time":"1476980496","timestamp":"2016-10-20 16:21:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Autopilot v1 has already proven itself to be 2.5x safer (and climbing) than the average non-autopilot driver.\u003cp\u003e1 death in 230 million miles (so far) with Autopilot v1 vs 1 death per 90 million miles for non-autopilot.","parent":"12753611","id":"12753700"}
{"by":"awesomerobot","time":"1392838455","timestamp":"2014-02-19 19:34:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not always what it means - but it\u0026#x27;s very often how the average person pushes it. As Barbara Ehrenreich points out in her book \u0026quot;Bright-Sided\u0026quot;, insisting someone has to \u0026quot;think positively\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t going to cure their cancer, and the refusal of some people to face the grim reality of certain situations is just absolutely idiotic.","parent":"7265422","id":"7265676"}
{"by":"tcoppi","time":"1492111487","timestamp":"2017-04-13 19:24:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m guessing it will be closer to a large moving van rather than a real over-the-road semi. Probably 200-300mi range.","parent":"14109474","id":"14110154"}
{"by":"rustynails","time":"1477151059","timestamp":"2016-10-22 15:44:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think this article adequately captures the problem. I\u0026#x27;ll try to illustrate.\u003cp\u003eI explained to my children about the 2 US candidates. I described both of them as bullies and said they promote a culture of bullying. We discussed how they set a bad example for the broader community and how media condones this behaviour.\u003cp\u003eI was picking up my children from school when one young boy called me by my first name in a mocking tone. I approached him and asked how his day was and took a moment to ask about him. When I now see this boy, he goes out of his way to say hello.\u003cp\u003eI recently went to a computer club open day. The rules were \u0026quot;we will only allow the same number of boys in as girls\u0026quot;. I looked around and saw about 20 boys and 1 girl. I went to this girl and her mother and said \u0026quot;good on you for giving it a go, a variety of experiences is essential to helping you find your true self\u0026quot;. The mother went on a sexist rant about patriarchal societies (the usual politically correct thinking) and I said \u0026quot;why would you deny any child the opportunity? Why would you force the same numbers of girls and boys? What\u0026#x27;s gone wrong in such basic thinking?\u0026quot; She stopped the hardcore feminist routine and apologised. She was big enough to say \u0026quot;no one has ever put it like that, that really makes sense\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with hate is that the Internet has given it a collective voice of monumental proportions. Our community leaders have let us down by selectively promoting prejudice (eg. Emma Watson is glorified for hypocrisy) while aggressively condemning others, especially passive people like Matt Taylor. What\u0026#x27;s worse is that most people don\u0026#x27;t recognise hate and bullying when they see it, or they are apathetic to it.\u003cp\u003eMy simple rule: if someone promotes one group over another, they are as bad as someone who excludes or vilifies a group (especially politically correct people who are huge bullies). These people who marginalise are the true haters and bullies. The article really misses the breadth of hate and bullying.\u003cp\u003eThought for the day. Do a search on breast cancer websites. How many of these sites do you think alienate men who suffer from the condition? Why do you think many of these sites quote percentages of male victims?","parent":"12768768","id":"12769120"}
{"by":"__s","time":"1506731215","timestamp":"2017-09-30 00:26:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is only saying he sought to seek more once he had decided to whistle blow. It isn\u0026#x27;t like the Booz job was his first job with the NSA","parent":"15370351","id":"15370388"}
{"by":"bbatha","time":"1519250265","timestamp":"2018-02-21 21:57:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like this quiet a lot, it fits very nicely in the go stack.\u003cp\u003eAbsent this article is a discussion of alternatives to renaming. Reading the article would hint that a semver major bump would just leave you high and dry! This is certainly true in some ecosystems like Ruby or Java \u0026lt; 9. But other ecosystems have solved this problem at the language level. Javascript, Rust, and others allow you to import multiple versions of a module so long as you don\u0026#x27;t expose types from that module in your public interfaces (not enforced by JS -- but by convention). You still reach the problem the article references once you have those types in your public interfaces or they use singletons. That means that your langauge\u0026#x27;s package manager needs to handle these dependencies differently (peer dependencies) giving you more flexibility at the cost of additional complexity in package management.","parent":"16431299","id":"16433354"}
{"by":"tshepang","time":"1404238263","timestamp":"2014-07-01 18:11:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Python may be popular for web development, but that\u0026#x27;s not even it\u0026#x27;s most dominant field. I haven\u0026#x27;t even heard of any clear winner.","parent":"7962544","id":"7972480"}
{"by":"rmc","time":"1314031127","timestamp":"2011-08-22 16:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And to give you an idea of how massive the property bubble group think was, here's a video of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister/leader of government) saying in July 2007 that people who talk down the economy are so stupid that they should commit suicide  \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjGSfuSQpA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjGSfuSQpA\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2909297","id":"2913022"}
{"by":"tylerlarson","time":"1383679201","timestamp":"2013-11-05 19:20:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a good question that is likely related to how it was made. Last time I heard Gmail was created with GWT that compiles Java into JavaScript.\u003cp\u003eThe libraries will be cached but it means that most of the logic is processed and rendered from JavaScript code and not loaded from the server.\u003cp\u003eIf Google wanted to start over they could pre-render these pages on their massive servers and you could then download these pages without any JavaScript at all. But rewriting is often not the way and really this is a trade off. Do you want to see the content fast or do you want the interactions to be fast when it is ready? If you pre-render everything you either have to rely on new request to get new views or you still have to download all of that JavaScript to do view changes.\u003cp\u003eThey are speeding up JavaScript with Chrome, they are making faster protocols with SPDY and they are doing work in the back ground to make their servers faster. If they didn\u0026#x27;t do anything to the Gmail code base it would still become faster over time because of these other improvements.\u003cp\u003eReally the approach that they took is the same one that most Flash projects took because they found that interaction was more important than download time. I would assume they have tested this approach and likely most real users where not bothered by the second or two of progress bar.","parent":"6674847","id":"6677420"}
{"by":"callumlocke","time":"1458862404","timestamp":"2016-03-24 23:33:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is they can\u0026#x27;t charge you again. I\u0026#x27;m struggling to see what you are getting at here.","parent":"11357165","id":"11357400"}
{"by":"mvoewf","time":"1280145222","timestamp":"2010-07-26 11:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, brother, that first anecdote really got to me. How the hell are you supposed to let go of life when you just brought a child into the world?","parent":"1547181","id":"1547739"}
{"by":"callmeed","time":"1229467497","timestamp":"2008-12-16 22:44:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm glad they finally launched. Site looks good.\u003cp\u003eI have a similar startup in the works.","parent":"400195","id":"400218"}
{"by":"fixermark","time":"1455722257","timestamp":"2016-02-17 15:17:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If those software updates force it to erase its private key store, though, then it\u0026#x27;s functionally isolated from that attack vector. An updated enclave that no longer contains the data of interest has no value.","parent":"11117930","id":"11118351"}
{"by":"dougmccune","time":"1420489715","timestamp":"2015-01-05 20:28:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I saw someone riding one of these in Golden Gate Park in SF not long ago. It definitely got everyone to turn their heads. All the kids wanted to try, and the guy was cool and let a bunch of kids have turns, although small kids aren\u0026#x27;t big enough for the weight sensor so they can\u0026#x27;t really use it as designed. Pretty cool to see out in the wild though.","parent":"8840142","id":"8840926"}
{"by":"72deluxe","time":"1481193288","timestamp":"2016-12-08 10:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fascinating. Where do you learn this stuff? Any recommended reading you can point me to as a complete novice with regard to CPU architecture?","parent":"13129422","id":"13129522"}
{"by":"lukaa","time":"1479657889","timestamp":"2016-11-20 16:04:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firefox should concentrate on its biggest asset, ability to customize natively. For example I would like option to customize right click so when i right click term i would like to have ability to search by all search engines that i want to use not only default.Also most annoying thing in both browsers is not having ability to copy link as text not only its address.","parent":"12998102","id":"12999474"}
{"by":"cinquemb","time":"1369618395","timestamp":"2013-05-27 01:33:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well at least until the point some of those people you refer to decide that they want to run things another way, and muster up enough resources and support for such.\u003cp\u003eThis tends to happen from time to time outside of the current constructs of the government at the time.","parent":"5772877","id":"5773048"}
{"by":"JdeBP","time":"1497427498","timestamp":"2017-06-14 08:04:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It makes sense for \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e kind of code.\u003cp\u003eThis is software engineering. Thinking about the tradeoffs and whether they are appropriate or warranted is bread and butter.  It very much makes sense to ask whether all of this is merely optimizing for a benchmark at the expense of other factors that might turn out to be more important, such as long term maintainability, portability, behaviour in some common cases which are significantly \u003ci\u003eunlike\u003c/i\u003e the benchmark, and so forth.\u003cp\u003eSeveral people have made some of these points here and in other discussions; and not only do they make sense, they are an important part of the discipline.\u003cp\u003eIs the optimized implementation documented well enough that other people coming to it anew can understand it in another 10 years\u0026#x27; time?  How many of the magic constants have to be tweaked as the operating system evolves?  Is it clear to maintenance programmers how they need to be tweaked?  Does optimizing for the benchmark skew the implementation too far away from one common case where one is only wanting a few \u0026quot;y\u0026quot;s (because, say, the program being told \u0026quot;y\u0026quot; only asks 17 questions) resulting in every invocation of the yes program rapidly generating KiBs or even MiBs of output, that lives in pipe buffers in kernel space unused and only to be thrown away?  Does it make more sense to put buffer size optimizations in the C library where all can benefit?  What is the benefit of optimizing for Linux-only system calls on GNU Hurd?  Will we optimize yes for GNU Hurd, too, in the same codebase?  How much conditional compilation will we end up with?  If the C library is improved to do better in the future, is it a problem that the optimized for benchmark program no longer automatically gains from it?  How much of a problem is it that a GNU program is now not portable to systems other than Linux, and is locked into one operating system?\u003cp\u003eAnd what about other benchmarks?  Many have noted that this benchmark pretty much relies on the fact that the output of the yes program is simply thrown away, and no real work is being done by anything else on the system.  What about a benchmark where it is?  What about a benchmark where it is important that yes issues a system call per line, yielding the CPU to other processes so that they can process that line before yes bothers to print the next?  What about a benchmark that measures kernel memory usage and treats lower as better?  What about benchmarks that measure how \u003ci\u003esmall\u003c/i\u003e the yes program is; not just in terms of code but in terms of memory, I\u0026#x2F;O, and CPU usages; because the memory, I\u0026#x2F;O, and CPU should actually be given to more important programs than yes on the system that are actually the system\u0026#x27;s main function?  What about \u003ci\u003elow impact\u003c/i\u003e?\u003cp\u003eYes, it\u0026#x27;s fun to focus narrowly and optimize yes so that it generates as much output as it can for one specific toy usage.  But in engineering one has to ask and think about so much more.","parent":"14543772","id":"14551309"}
{"by":"MrZongle2","time":"1480355363","timestamp":"2016-11-28 17:49:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FTA: \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;I remember when I was in second grade, we needed a new TV. All my friends would just go to the store and buy one, but my dad bought a Heathkit, and we had to put together the parts.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat an awesome parent.","parent":"13049584","id":"13057047"}
{"by":"TheGuyWhoCodes","time":"1455656119","timestamp":"2016-02-16 20:55:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;They seem to to believe that no action they take will ever be questioned or lead to any blowback\u0026quot; - That\u0026#x27;s not true. Like any country Israel wights the pros and cons of any decision. Some work in their favor some don\u0026#x27;t. If you think Israel doesn\u0026#x27;t taken into account the repercussions to it\u0026#x27;s actions you are gravely mistaken.\nI  agree with you that Israel tries and succeeds in influencing US Foreign policy, why wouldn\u0026#x27;t any country do that if it works in their favor? Why is Israel being criticized of this when any other country including the UK, France, Germany, Iran, Egypt are doing the same?","parent":"11112498","id":"11113054"}
{"by":"strawmart","time":"1487436650","timestamp":"2017-02-18 16:50:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Color it with \u0026quot;code of conduct\u0026quot; terminology all you want: it still boils down to \u0026quot;how I feel today\u0026quot; for interpretation and execution.\u003cp\u003eCoCs that include punitive measures are going to far.","parent":"13668898","dead":true,"id":"13675444"}
{"by":"tboyd47","time":"1511209727","timestamp":"2017-11-20 20:28:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a really profound point about software.\u003cp\u003eThe ironic thing is that this \u0026quot;cost-center culture\u0026quot; has even affected the mindset of individual software developers and how we think of our own work.\u003cp\u003eMost developers ONLY look at their work in terms of cost. ALL pros and cons arguments are really about ways to reduce cost. Consider the term \u0026quot;tech debt\u0026quot; -- nothing could be clearer. Yet discussions rarely ever take place among engineers at a company about how to maximize profit or increase revenue. In fact, I would argue there is a heavy cultural bias on most engineering AGAINST optimizing for revenue, as it is seen as something that motivates sales or product people to rush timelines and sabotage sound engineering practices.\u003cp\u003eThe obsession with cost is baked into programmer culture in such a deep and foundational way, I\u0026#x27;m skeptical will ever change, even if the accounting of software projects changes. If you perform a search for the word \u0026quot;cost\u0026quot; on the eBook for the Principles of Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz, you will find it dozens of times in various sentences about the urgency and critical importance of reducing costs, but the words \u0026quot;profit,\u0026quot; \u0026quot;income,\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;revenue\u0026quot; appear not even once. I\u0026#x27;m not trying to make a point about POODR in particular, because this bias is only reflective of the culture as a whole.\u003cp\u003eYou can certainly make the argument that it has to be that way, and engineering should be separated from revenue. I find it very interesting that, as a culture, we are only willing to speak about the monetary value of our work in negative terms.","parent":"15740926","id":"15742943"}
{"by":"putlake","time":"1474087281","timestamp":"2016-09-17 04:41:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This. If you\u0026#x27;re typing in your password on a library computer, you\u0026#x27;re very vulnerable.","parent":"12518867","id":"12519151"}
{"by":"DerekL","time":"1452496582","timestamp":"2016-01-11 07:16:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article misspells the name of the company. It was “Apple Computer, Inc.”, not “Computers”.","parent":"10873681","id":"10879328"}
{"by":"easp","time":"1328141109","timestamp":"2012-02-02 00:05:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ECC corrects single bit errors and detects multi-bit errors.\u003cp\u003eWhy should you care?  Well, if you are lucky, the machine crashes. If you are unlucky, it keeps running, and that bad data gets written to disk, or causes a cumulative error in some calculation, and you never know about it.\u003cp\u003eWith the size of memories these days, chances of a corrupted memory are not exactly a rare occurrence.\u003cp\u003eI don't know enough about Riak, but a cluster is only going to help if key data structures are themselves checked for consistency across the cluster.","parent":"3539879","id":"3540763"}
{"by":"late2part","time":"1449720548","timestamp":"2015-12-10 04:09:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neal Stephenson is also paid by them.  And he writes fiction.  Thoughtful, interesting fiction.  I remember when lots of credible people said that the Segway would change life, and whole cities would be built around it.\u003cp\u003eWhere is Segway now?\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Segway_Inc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Segway_Inc\u003c/a\u003e.\n[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;content.time.com\u0026#x2F;time\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;0,8599,186660-1,00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;content.time.com\u0026#x2F;time\u0026#x2F;business\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;0,8599,186660-...\u003c/a\u003e\n[3] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;well-didnt-work-segway-technological-marvel-bad-doesnt-make-sense\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;well-didnt-work-segway-technolo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10708156","id":"10708821"}
{"by":"jen729w","time":"1472453205","timestamp":"2016-08-29 06:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For all of Independence Day\u0026#x27;s faults, I couldn\u0026#x27;t forgive the fact that Will Smith flew up to the alien mother ship and plugged in a USB key (containing the virus which destroyed the ship (er, spoiler)).","parent":"12378525","id":"12380415"}
{"by":"rprospero","time":"1392224322","timestamp":"2014-02-12 16:58:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, the reason that programming is getting a reputation for being easy is because it is easy.  That\u0026#x27;s entirely the point of computer programming.  If writing a program was harder than doing it by hand, we would just do it by hand.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, any other profession would love to have it as easy as we have it.  A surgeon doesn\u0026#x27;t get to mount the backup after a surgery fails.  The engineers of the Mississippi river bridge couldn\u0026#x27;t checkout a standing bridge from their git repo.  When a physicist wants to study particle physics, she can\u0026#x27;t download her own, personal LHC and start smashing protons.  CEO\u0026#x27;s don\u0026#x27;t get separate development and testing companies where they can try out their business plans before it gets promoted to the actual corporation.\u003cp\u003eCompared to everything else I do at work, programming is by far the easiest task.  It\u0026#x27;s also the easiest to learn.  Yes, a lot of those programers are pretty terrible, but there\u0026#x27;s a lot of terrible drivers, too.","parent":"7224994","id":"7225430"}
{"by":"jnorthrop","time":"1306179960","timestamp":"2011-05-23 19:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree the person starting a new business won't take into account tax implication but investors surely do.","parent":"2574725","id":"2577286"}
{"by":"douglaswlance","time":"1524055840","timestamp":"2018-04-18 12:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not how statistics works. They\u0026#x27;re classifying groups, not individuals.","parent":"16866900","id":"16866932"}
{"by":"mwnivek","time":"1541253942","timestamp":"2018-11-03 14:05:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Larger discussion from 21 hours ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18364518\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=18364518\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18360652","id":"18370195"}
{"by":"zamalek","time":"1494678360","timestamp":"2017-05-13 12:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does Alexa automatically answer the call?","parent":"14330364","id":"14330609"}
{"by":"BuddhaSource","time":"1320230973","timestamp":"2011-11-02 10:49:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes its same.\u003cp\u003eI wish they had partnered with a better hosting company.","parent":"3186087","id":"3186103"}
{"by":"kszx","time":"1423416841","timestamp":"2015-02-08 17:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Correct.","parent":"9015195","id":"9017813"}
{"by":"evanelias","time":"1339111194","timestamp":"2012-06-07 23:19:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We handle many thousands of write queries per second at Tumblr, and we use Jetpants to manage our entire MySQL topology, so trust me when I say the data changes quite often :)  You can edit your existing posts on Tumblr, unlike on several other prominent social sites.\u003cp\u003eDefinitely please let me know how you got that impression though -- I'm happy to improve confusing things in the docs.\u003cp\u003eAs for ACID compliance: Jetpants is a toolkit for MySQL / InnoDB, and doesn't really impact the referential integrity guarantees of those systems any more or less than other partitioning schemes. MySQL is inherently not a distributed system, for better or worse.","parent":"4081781","id":"4081859"}
{"by":"melling","time":"1469618863","timestamp":"2016-07-27 11:27:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coal is the biggest source of electricity.  it\u0026#x27;s 39% in the US and over 70% in China, for example:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www3.epa.gov\u0026#x2F;climatechange\u0026#x2F;ghgemissions\u0026#x2F;global.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www3.epa.gov\u0026#x2F;climatechange\u0026#x2F;ghgemissions\u0026#x2F;global.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Coal_in_China\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Coal_in_China\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12171871","id":"12171922"}
{"by":"aaronchall","time":"1504616672","timestamp":"2017-09-05 13:04:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand the obsession with financially successful people.\u003cp\u003eIf you have ambitions for financial success, learn a skill that is in high demand or find another way to create value for society.\u003cp\u003eIf you have no ambitions for financial success, you have no right to go around complaining about the success of others.\u003cp\u003eStop fetishizing successful people who deprecate their success. Some, like Warren Buffet, are disingenuous and fairly transparent panderers. Others, like George Romney here, may well be sincere. But they achieved success by creating value and making careful and studied decisions about the allocation of capital.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  Quite often in the pursuit of more wealth, they trample on the little guys, leaving them to struggle more.\u003cp\u003eShow evidence.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Or through fraud, graft, and knowing who to bribe (see \u0026quot;campaign finance\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003eShow evidence. Not baseless allegations.","parent":"15174318","id":"15174684"}
{"by":"ForHackernews","time":"1532635510","timestamp":"2018-07-26 20:05:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Citibank already offers this feature on their credit cards, I believe: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cardbenefits.citi.com\u0026#x2F;Products\u0026#x2F;Virtual-Account-Numbers.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cardbenefits.citi.com\u0026#x2F;Products\u0026#x2F;Virtual-Account-N...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17620291","id":"17620482"}
{"by":"nuxi","time":"1408571046","timestamp":"2014-08-20 21:44:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a good reason you can\u0026#x27;t rely on CWD other than root - the directory can be on a different mountpoint and possibly even on a remote mountpoint. If the remote server goes down or the mountpoint is forcefully unmounted, what would your CWD point to then? Root is the only directory guaranteed to always exist, that\u0026#x27;s why you\u0026#x27;d see a chdir(\u0026#x27;\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x27;) as one of the first steps in properly written unix daemons.","parent":"8204507","id":"8204836"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1546639611","timestamp":"2019-01-04 22:06:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In most cases I imagine they just don\u0026#x27;t want to work without getting paid but I can also see the extra stress of not getting a paycheck also making people sick.\u003cp\u003eAlso wonder where this might lead? Will they be forced to get doctor\u0026#x27;s notices?\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when airports are overflowing with passengers and they are late boarding, will airports \u0026#x2F; airlines move to \u0026quot;privatize\u0026quot; security:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cbsnews.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;tsa-understaffing-longer-security-lines-airports-private-security-screeners\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cbsnews.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;tsa-understaffing-longer-securi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18827871","id":"18828134"}
{"by":"chrisparton1991","time":"1530592864","timestamp":"2018-07-03 04:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should be able to print it as a PDF via Chrome.","parent":"17447542","id":"17447578"}
{"by":"freehunter","time":"1377565511","timestamp":"2013-08-27 01:05:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you think banks deny credit for areas? Because they don\u0026#x27;t like the geographical layout? Because that river throws off their feng shui? Or is it because a large number of people living nearby have defaulted or are predicted to default on a loan?","parent":"6280324","id":"6280849"}
{"by":"kwl","time":"1458063887","timestamp":"2016-03-15 17:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitely. When I first started programming I felt weirdly happy about getting spam related to github (because it meant at least one other person thought I was a \u0026#x27;real\u0026#x27; programmer), but quickly that turns into annoyance at having such a cluttered inbox.","parent":"11291394","id":"11291497"}
{"by":"netcan","time":"1305460253","timestamp":"2011-05-15 11:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point. SAP is an order of magnitude bigger than Skype but the point about getting into this space if they're serious about getting into a different space is a good one. Netsuite, intuit \u0026#38; salesforce are trading @ $2.3b, $16.75b \u0026#38; $17.9b. They could conceivably buy all three with just this 'overseas cash' they supposedly need to spend and still have change. Thinking about MS's available cash in terms of companies they could buy really puts some perceptive on it - huge.","parent":"2549617","id":"2549787"}
{"by":"huckyaus","time":"1412739766","timestamp":"2014-10-08 03:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The change in navigation position you\u0026#x27;re seeing when navigating between pages other than Explore is caused by the browser displaying a scroll bar. The nav bar on the Explore page (for whatever reason) has an entirely different style applied.","parent":"8424865","id":"8425224"}
{"by":"spokey","time":"1286208605","timestamp":"2010-10-04 16:10:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funnily enough, my karma recently crossed the 200 point threshold, but I didn't recall the down arrows appearing for comments.  I just logged in to tell you all that there must be more to it, since I've got 200+ karma and no down arrows. But lo and behold, there they are.  I'm not sure if those are actually new or if I simply never noticed them before. If the threshold is not 200, it must be close to that.","parent":"1755525","id":"1756130"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1393543324","timestamp":"2014-02-27 23:22:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eAre you suggesting that he stop spending a single cent on discretionary things and just live on rice and beans?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course not, don\u0026#x27;t be ridiculous. Stop being so black-and-white (as my friends always say to Engineer me)\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m suggesting he take a close look at \u003ci\u003ehow much\u003c/i\u003e he\u0026#x27;s spending on \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c/i\u003e, and if those things are actually making him happy. He needs Cut out or reduce spending on things that are not actually improving his happiness, and he\u0026#x27;ll have a lot more money than he thought.\u003cp\u003eAt no point am I saying spend so little money you\u0026#x27;re in misery.","parent":"7315944","id":"7316015"}
{"by":"drusepth","time":"1490615806","timestamp":"2017-03-27 11:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the link. This makes me excited for the future.","parent":"13966751","id":"13966908"}
{"by":"gcr","time":"1367711907","timestamp":"2013-05-04 23:58:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They were using 60-80KBs? I'm skeptical since just sending reasonable-sounding sound takes 128kB/s or so, video much more.","parent":"5654309","id":"5656813"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1417931953","timestamp":"2014-12-07 05:59:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While a comment is, strictly speaking, something submitted, the guidelines page seems to use \u0026quot;submission\u0026quot; to refer specifically to story submissions (note the headers \u0026quot;In Submissions\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;In Comments\u0026quot;). If my interpretation is correct, then my first comment, your reply, and this comment are not in violation, although yours is factually incorrect. :)","parent":"8711396","id":"8711401"}
{"by":"shanelja","time":"1352533160","timestamp":"2012-11-10 07:39:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a shame for you, I just patented the method for patenting patents and it seems you're in violation.","parent":"4766098","id":"4766194"}
{"by":"jrochkind1","time":"1516297534","timestamp":"2018-01-18 17:45:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"true enough! Just good to know what data is where and accessible by whom.\u003cp\u003eI am pleased that the publicity (mainly from Snowden release) has led some businesses to fight subpoenas and\u0026#x2F;or warrants in court. I definitely don\u0026#x27;t count on them to keep doing it, pretty easy for them to silently comply (even _without_ a warrant\u0026#x2F;subpoena) without publicity, as most everyone has generally done until recently (and I suspect still does often).\u003cp\u003eAlso, if you fight in court and lose in court, pretty sure any company will of course hand over the data at that point.","parent":"16178995","id":"16179305"}
{"by":"vixen99","time":"1392818330","timestamp":"2014-02-19 13:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Mandela was leader of the ANC\u0026#x27;s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe which he co-founded. \u0026quot;he coordinated a sabotage campaign against military and government targets, and made plans for a possible guerrilla war if sabotage failed to end apartheid\u0026quot;. If that\u0026#x27;s not terrorism (systematic use of violence as a means of coercion for political purposes) what is? The morality of this is another discussion.","parent":"7263262","id":"7263610"}
{"by":"irq11","time":"1506641202","timestamp":"2017-09-28 23:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This just in: woman who has staked her career on a pro-housing political platform announces that market-rate redevelopment is good for everyone.\u003cp\u003eThe question is not \u003ci\u003e“will adding N market-rate units help?”\u003c/i\u003e because that’s trivial. Of course it will. The question is: \u003ci\u003e“what if you have to knock down N affordable units to build M market-rate units?”\u003c/i\u003e This “simulation” doesn’t even come close to addressing that question.\u003cp\u003eLike it or not, that’s the situation in San Francisco.","parent":"15361009","id":"15361613"}
{"by":"wisty","time":"1308978504","timestamp":"2011-06-25 05:08:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vim doesn't compile as you type, so it can't give you much intelligent interaction with your code.\u003cp\u003eObviously, there are work-arounds (like using clean APIs and libraries), but that's not always an option.","parent":"2694958","id":"2694988"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1321627522","timestamp":"2011-11-18 14:45:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's still heavy compared to helium gas. Air is 1.2 kg/m^3 helium is 0.164 kg/m^3 and this stuff is .9kg/m^3","parent":"3251654","id":"3251855"}
{"by":"ksec","time":"1522141993","timestamp":"2018-03-27 09:13:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026quot;real\u0026quot; tasks aren\u0026#x27;t easily accomplished on a tablet, phone, or Chromebook.\u003cp\u003eI have been thinking would this means the return of Desktop. The combination of Desktop + Tablet, instead of Laptop.","parent":"16684199","id":"16686629"}
{"by":"trhway","time":"1424553085","timestamp":"2015-02-21 21:11:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Which previous war with a genocide chaser primed the put-upon citizens of Crimea to form an army, gov\u0026#x27;t., etc?\u003cp\u003ewhy wait for the genocide to actually happen? The new government in Kiev was completely clear with their very first action being the outlawing of Russian language. The international law, UN, recognize the right for self-determination without requirement of a genocide happening beforehand. Crimea used that right. They were just lucky that Putin\u0026#x27;s interests were aligned with theirs. The people of Donetsk weren\u0026#x27;t that lucky - the Kiev\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;pacifier\u0026quot; operation (manned by the volunteers from Western Ukraine hating the ethnic Russians with their gut) in Donetsk region had gone into full swing and been really succeeding by the August of 2014 and would definitely succeeded if not for the direct Russia\u0026#x27;s intervention back then when finally Putin recognized that letting the ethnic cleansing happen in Donbass wouldn\u0026#x27;t be good for his regime.\u003cp\u003eOr lets try it from other side - how many ethnic Russians should have been killed by the Kiev pacifiers before you\u0026#x27;d recognize right for self-determination for Donetsk (or Crimea if Russia did let the pacification to happen in Crimea) ?","parent":"9085611","id":"9086963"}
{"by":"gkya","time":"1516478509","timestamp":"2018-01-20 20:01:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can that even happen?  My laptop has a vulnerable i3 chip, but I\u0026#x27;m not giving it or the chip to anybody, I need the computer.  And I guess no data centers would \u0026quot;temporarily close\u0026quot; in order to change CPUs (though maybe they can do that gradually).","parent":"16194887","id":"16195124"}
{"by":"Fricken","time":"1547135116","timestamp":"2019-01-10 15:45:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s another interpretation of the trench run rendered in Lego as a small animatic:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;WvIC6gjKIMw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;WvIC6gjKIMw\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18872915","id":"18874642"}
{"by":"r00fus","time":"1533149807","timestamp":"2018-08-01 18:56:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably the latter.  There\u0026#x27;s a reason they\u0026#x27;re called loansharks.\u003cp\u003eAlthough if it\u0026#x27;s from a startup P2P lender it\u0026#x27;s not clear there\u0026#x27;s an actual risk of getting your legs broken because you don\u0026#x27;t pay Vito back in time.","parent":"17665444","id":"17665771"}
{"by":"octatone2","time":"1392453866","timestamp":"2014-02-15 08:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most users have a facebook account, supporting a facebook oauth sigup\u0026#x2F;login flow means one less set of credentials the user has to remember.  It simply reduces the barrier to entry into an app for the average user.","parent":"7243107","id":"7243124"}
{"by":"pasbesoin","time":"1468187533","timestamp":"2016-07-10 21:52:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the one hand, I understand the rationale.  I even remember something similar being written into an episode of \u0026quot;The West Wing\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, the U.S. citizenry has had it \u0026quot;up to here\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;too big to fail\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eToo big to fail politics?  Political careers?  (Not to mention all the other \u0026quot;too big to fail\u0026#x27; careers we seem to have, these days, particularly at the top.)\u003cp\u003eEnough.","parent":"12050814","id":"12067431"}
{"by":"fiatjaf","time":"1438025402","timestamp":"2015-07-27 19:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When using this, how do I get the information and token for the authenticated user in my app?","parent":"9953022","id":"9957443"}
{"by":"0x0","time":"1446162773","timestamp":"2015-10-29 23:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Store the starting point for a meeting scheduled for October 30th, 2050, at 5pm local time in Pyongyang.\u003cp\u003eAre you sure the value of UTCunixtime(\u0026quot;2050-10-30 17:00:00 Pyongyang\u0026quot;) today will be correct in 2050? What if this record was created last year? (hint: the timezone was recently changed).\u003cp\u003eRemember, the meeting is supposed to happen at 17:00 local time on that day no matter what.","parent":"10474480","id":"10475330"}
{"by":"Brakenshire","time":"1536862290","timestamp":"2018-09-13 18:11:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, it’s a journalistic exercise not a long running webapp project, if the page loads a second later but development time is significantly reduced, it might be worth the tradeoff. The map works well for me, using mobile on wifi.","parent":"17978551","id":"17980903"}
{"by":"mikevm","time":"1400092890","timestamp":"2014-05-14 18:41:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given the amount of cruft OpenGL currently carries, the massive changes (read: rewrite) that will require for it to be a sane modern graphics API and the fact that several Khronos members that would probably not want any significant changes to the API (CAD companies, for example), wouldn\u0026#x27;t it make sense for the industry to dump OpenGL like yesterday\u0026#x27;s paper and converge behind a new, modern API? For example, AMD\u0026#x27;s Mantle.","parent":"7745303","id":"7745390"}
{"by":"rampage101","time":"1477682029","timestamp":"2016-10-28 19:13:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their programming knowledge tests are very gimmicky questions where you often spend over half the time figuring out how to format the input because everything is read from standard in.","parent":"12819108","id":"12819656"}
{"by":"Scaevolus","time":"1537927116","timestamp":"2018-09-26 01:58:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Based on the literature, it was almost certainly mustard.\u003cp\u003e1823: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;books?id=02gUAAAAQAAJ\u0026amp;dq=cruet%20stand\u0026amp;pg=PA67#v=onepage\u0026amp;q=cruet%20stand\u0026amp;f=false\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;books?id=02gUAAAAQAAJ\u0026amp;dq=cruet%20st...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e1857: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;books?id=IXkEAAAAYAAJ\u0026amp;pg=PA255\u0026amp;dq=cruet+salt+pepper\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwiIiqrjx9fdAhUkO30KHeUvDKYQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage\u0026amp;q=cruet%20salt%20pepper\u0026amp;f=false\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;books?id=IXkEAAAAYAAJ\u0026amp;pg=PA255\u0026amp;dq=c...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e1893: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;books?id=gRM-AQAAMAAJ\u0026amp;dq=cruet%20salt%20pepper\u0026amp;pg=RA1-PR7#v=onepage\u0026amp;q=cruet%20salt%20pepper\u0026amp;f=false\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;books.google.com\u0026#x2F;books?id=gRM-AQAAMAAJ\u0026amp;dq=cruet%20sa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18070466","id":"18072099"}
{"by":"rhplus","time":"1315445334","timestamp":"2011-09-08 01:28:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what the KIDS.US domain was supposed to be. Their directory lists fewer than 10 sites that successfully signed up. All of the content is dead or stale. Just how do you police any sort of dynamic, interesting, ever changing content?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cms.kids.us\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cms.kids.us\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/11/56429\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/11/56429\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2971631","id":"2972239"}
{"by":"logicallee","time":"1481951771","timestamp":"2016-12-17 05:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"oh I didn\u0026#x27;t even think about that.  fraud either way :)\u003cp\u003eI think outsourcing is one thing - but being an \u003ci\u003eemployee\u003c/i\u003e who is on payroll and physically shows up to warm a butt in a seat, goes a lot farther.  Regardless of whether the cube guy paid someone to do his interview, or the guru hired a body double after getting hired, it\u0026#x27;s pretty insane.  do you have any links to anyplace you read about the same thing?","parent":"13199120","id":"13199355"}
{"by":"firefoxd","time":"1510177486","timestamp":"2017-11-08 21:44:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, and this is an ad that ran in the U.S. airwaves.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;OTSQozWP-rM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;OTSQozWP-rM\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15655601","id":"15657385"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1369379639","timestamp":"2013-05-24 07:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $ irb\n  \u0026#62;\u0026#62; require 'csv'\n  # =\u0026#62; true\n  \u0026#62;\u0026#62; CSV.parse(file)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n^ works every time I've tried it.  Systems which export mangled data to CSV probably do so elsewhere, so CSV isn't special there, and CSV is really really simple to escape well enough that any decent parser won't have any problems at all.","parent":"5760147","id":"5761593"}
{"by":"tikhonj","time":"1337160125","timestamp":"2012-05-16 09:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think, perhaps, it's a matter of perspective. You can think of coding as \"making a computer do stuff\" in which case it could be less fundamental and important (but maybe more practical) than physic. Or, you could think of it as the study of \u003ci\u003einformation\u003c/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e as fundamental as physics.\u003cp\u003eNow, to be entirely fair, this is not \"coding\" but \"computer science\". (Which, coincidentally, is neither a science nor about computers.) However, I think coding is a practical proxy for computer science, so the idea is the same: it's not just a practical skill but also a deeper understanding of the world.","parent":"3977180","id":"3981259"}
{"by":"luke-stanley","time":"1378480743","timestamp":"2013-09-06 15:19:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Loading external scripts each time isn\u0026#x27;t secure.","parent":"6338648","id":"6340846"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1354815426","timestamp":"2012-12-06 17:37:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The question is whether or not that is a good trend or not as the software become a more important part of the car.","parent":"4882692","id":"4882708"}
{"by":"egiva","time":"1347360933","timestamp":"2012-09-11 10:55:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think that in a few decades we'll see a \"world filled with Gabriellas\". Luckily (for the time being), our universities are really good at pumping out Rodrigos rather than Gabriellas. It's later when you enter the working world when the occasional Gabriella moves up through the company. So the real issue revolves around manager competence, or manager-team member relationships and how this social selection dynamic affects all of us.","parent":"4503761","id":"4504720"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1511472566","timestamp":"2017-11-23 21:29:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a property of the Go language that the most recommended and explained concurrency primitives are slower than even 20 year old implementations.","parent":"15766879","id":"15767918"}
{"by":"thisisdallas","time":"1389800663","timestamp":"2014-01-15 15:44:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t recommend that at all. Well, if he is interested in learning fron-end dev I wouldn\u0026#x27;t recommend that. In my opinion, the best way to learn is to build something. If you want to suggest Bootstrap or Foundation than I would suggest he tries to build another Bootstrap\u0026#x2F;Foundation. Learn grids, learn CSS psuedo elements and media queries, learn HTML5 semantic markup etc. etc.","parent":"7061485","id":"7063930"}
{"by":"jasonkester","time":"1498045967","timestamp":"2017-06-21 11:52:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it\u0026#x27;s just being realistic. It took me more like 8 years to build up to a respectable salary. After the first 4 years I could pay rent and buy groceries but not much more.","parent":"14602835","id":"14602867"}
{"by":"blunte","time":"1519162464","timestamp":"2018-02-20 21:34:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s good buzz and bad buzz.  Or maybe I should say constructive and destructive.  It\u0026#x27;s possible for the mind to be so flooded with ideas and solutions and other creative thoughts that it can be difficult to focus and complete any one thing before the next demands attention.\u003cp\u003eEither way, gaining some control or having some tool to choose when to quiet the noise can be very beneficial.","parent":"16421361","id":"16424416"}
{"by":"vbezhenar","time":"1491861739","timestamp":"2017-04-10 22:02:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I own HP Microserver Gen8. It allows to use 4 disks, it\u0026#x27;s a real server (ECC memory, hardware watchdog, KVM over network and much more), it\u0026#x27;s extremely quiet and it costs $200 with Celeron processor. Also it\u0026#x27;s quite outdated at this moment and requires using \u0026quot;hardware raid\u0026quot; (implemented in software proprietary driver) for optimal cooling, it\u0026#x27;s awesome machine and I didn\u0026#x27;t found anything better yet. I only wish HP would continue this line.","parent":"14079229","id":"14082943"}
{"by":"chukye","time":"1485781418","timestamp":"2017-01-30 13:03:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I smoke weed to get creative, drink a lot of coffee and do a lot of online meetings, have some crazy hours, but I also get my work done before(better?) everyone else.\u003cp\u003eI would never fit in any workplace (tried a few but none fit), I have a big chair, 3 big monitors and a bong, also can talk with my team fellows every time I want, but we really don\u0026#x27;t need to talk too much, if you understand your product, understand your clients and your needs, that\u0026#x27;s just not too much to talk, just hard work to do.","parent":"13519451","id":"13520765"}
{"by":"DiabloD3","time":"1393624582","timestamp":"2014-02-28 21:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an absolutely fantastic idea, however I would not be interested in buying it until it they make it rugged enough that simple tasks like washing your hands would not ruin the device.\u003cp\u003eAlso, how is this charged? There is no mention of it. It should be compatible with the Qi charging standard, and if it isn\u0026#x27;t, this is DOA IMO.","parent":"7321621","id":"7321791"}
{"by":"justherefortart","time":"1510233184","timestamp":"2017-11-09 13:13:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had to explain this to some friends.\u003cp\u003eThey can sue you for unfair enrichment. This is to keep places from sending you things intentionally then trying to bill you.\u003cp\u003ePlus, have some friggin morals\u0026#x2F;values\u0026#x2F;ethics.","parent":"15661581","dead":true,"id":"15662059"}
{"by":"tekacs","time":"1534317602","timestamp":"2018-08-15 07:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since jwz dislikes HN, most users will want to use this link instead:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;z8VCZ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.is\u0026#x2F;z8VCZ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17764216","id":"17764258"}
{"by":"CarolineW","time":"1467980592","timestamp":"2016-07-08 12:23:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026gt; I have to either comment or mail myself\n    \u0026gt; the link for any HN submission I want\n    \u0026gt; to revisit later.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAs others have commented, that turns out not to be the case.  You can click the up-arrow, and then if you visit your profile page and like on the \u0026quot;upvoted stories\u0026quot; link you\u0026#x27;ll find it there.\u003cp\u003eSo in effect, HN has got a bookmark feature, the (possibly unwanted) side-effect being that you have to upvote the story.","parent":"12054764","id":"12054952"}
{"by":"4258HzG","time":"1492448921","timestamp":"2017-04-17 17:08:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"#1 Reason: Blogs aren\u0026#x27;t included in the publication count which is needed to gain research funding, get hired as a professor and get tenure.\u003cp\u003eA bit cynical, but a lot of the problems the writer suggests are more of a symptom of trying to get as many papers out as possible than the cause (and that one rarely reviews the supplementary material).  If scientific blogs counted like publications many of the same problems would appear there.","parent":"14124881","id":"14132565"}
{"by":"nopit","time":"1493574362","timestamp":"2017-04-30 17:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely you can come up with some proof then","parent":"14232255","id":"14232805"}
{"by":"teaneedz","time":"1389472335","timestamp":"2014-01-11 20:32:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also generally dislike opening links in the same window. I prefer a new tab, navigate around from there, click back if necessary. When I can\u0026#x27;t go back anymore, my session is over for that line of thought and I close the tab.\u003cp\u003etarget=\u0026quot;_blank\u0026quot; is a matter of convenience for me and I respect sites that use it - especially if the link is outbound.","parent":"7040364","id":"7043634"}
{"by":"omouse","time":"1431980885","timestamp":"2015-05-18 20:28:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just noticed that AWS gives you 12 months of Free Tier access on a lot of their services. As a dev who\u0026#x27;s been aware of Amazon Web Services for a long time it may be finally time to get into use Google Cloud or AWS. If you\u0026#x27;ve been hesitant about the costs of deploying and working in the cloud, this heated competition is fantastic.","parent":"9566651","id":"9566687"}
{"by":"minxomat","time":"1497446921","timestamp":"2017-06-14 13:28:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So? Just for fun is not allowed anymore?","parent":"14552495","id":"14552517"}
{"by":"loudmax","time":"1430927914","timestamp":"2015-05-06 15:58:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thinkpads have long had good driver support for Linux.  Pity they don\u0026#x27;t sell a Linux notebook like Dell Sputnik.","parent":"9499542","id":"9499595"}
{"by":"adrianscott","time":"1302914014","timestamp":"2011-04-16 00:33:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"no ssl support?...","parent":"2452480","id":"2452779"}
{"by":"vrdabomb5717","time":"1306425749","timestamp":"2011-05-26 16:02:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's no loop there:\u003cp\u003eGenghis Khan -\u0026#62; Borjigin -\u0026#62; Clan -\u0026#62; People -\u0026#62; Human -\u0026#62; \nTaxonomy -\u0026#62; Science -\u0026#62; Knowledge -\u0026#62; Fact -\u0026#62; Information -\u0026#62; Sequence -\u0026#62; Mathematics -\u0026#62; Quantity -\u0026#62; Property (philosophy) -\u0026#62; Modern Philosophy -\u0026#62; Philosophy\u003cp\u003eMongolian language is in parentheses, so you don't end up in the infinite loop.\u003cp\u003eSo far, the only loop I can see is Panhard, though I'm sure someone will edit the page so that no longer happens. I think the stub pages have a far better chance of defying this law than any other page, though, so it's probably best to start there if you want to find more loops.","parent":"2588012","id":"2588196"}
{"by":"azernik","time":"1504821275","timestamp":"2017-09-07 21:54:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was more core to the system than just the factories\u0026#x2F;companies distinction. If you allow downstream consumers to refuse products, and penalize upstream suppliers if their output isn\u0026#x27;t usable, then you have a market system, whatever label you want to attach to it. (Even if it does not include private ownership!) A functioning planned economy, on the other hand, has to encode all of these requirements in the central plan, which Soviet and Eastern Bloc experience suggests is computationally and organizationally infeasible.","parent":"15195471","id":"15196114"}
{"by":"pavlov","time":"1485513179","timestamp":"2017-01-27 10:32:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not really about public perception because the data is not sourced from a poll of the general populace, but rather a more select group of experts:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;The methodology used in compiling comparable country data for the report involves capturing perceptions of those in a position to offer expert assessments of public sector corruption in a given country.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"13498710","id":"13498928"}
{"by":"cafard","time":"1435669339","timestamp":"2015-06-30 13:02:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"F-111 anyone?","parent":"9803425","id":"9804849"}
{"by":"justinsaccount","time":"1464556531","timestamp":"2016-05-29 21:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, the car analogy would be:\u003cp\u003eFor years people have been locking their keys in their car and then having a locksmith open the door when they get back.  Now, someone is trying to improve the locks so that a locksmith cant open the door and people are complaining that it ruins a perfectly good arrangement.\u003cp\u003eIn this analogy, \u0026#x27;locking the keys in the car\u0026#x27; is \u0026#x27;logging out\u0026#x27; and the locksmith is \u0026#x27;nohup\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003esystemd isn\u0026#x27;t really out to break nohup, they are trying to fix the logging out process.  Sure, nohup has worked for decades, but \u0026#x27;logout\u0026#x27; has never worked right.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that \u0026#x27;nohup\u0026#x27; is designed to \u0026#x27;run a command immune to hangups\u0026#x27; not \u0026#x27;run a command even after I logout\u0026#x27; and there has never been a distinction between an individual connection \u0026#x27;hangup\u0026#x27; and a full user \u0026#x27;logout\u0026#x27;.  With systemd, there is, and programs don\u0026#x27;t handle the distinction.\u003cp\u003eIf you don\u0026#x27;t think there should be a distinction KillUserProcesses can be turned off.","parent":"11797270","id":"11798258"}
{"by":"frogstomp19","time":"1497183885","timestamp":"2017-06-11 12:24:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t worry too much about not being taken seriously in a hoodie and jeans as a software developer unless you\u0026#x27;re working at an extremely traditional company that doesn\u0026#x27;t have much of a focus on the dev org. Hoodie and jeans is pretty much standard.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;d still like to dress \u0026quot;better\u0026quot; in general, the \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;malefashionadvice subreddit has some solid resources on the sidebar that you should check out.","parent":"14531514","id":"14531695"}
{"by":"richardburton","time":"1324462988","timestamp":"2011-12-21 10:23:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had never thought of it that way. I guess the distinction I am making in my head is between the contract and the way in which the contract is enforced. I have always felt uncomfortable when those two circles have overlapped.","parent":"3374869","id":"3377014"}
{"by":"cjalmeida","time":"1522418424","timestamp":"2018-03-30 14:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s always the case nowadays, huh? I think the days of startups CEO earning engineer level salaries and flying coach are long gone - at least for VC funded companies.","parent":"16715439","id":"16716103"}
{"by":"ryukafalz","time":"1495569617","timestamp":"2017-05-23 20:00:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Based on this wording, it sounds like a team admin might be able to enforce travel mode such that the user can\u0026#x27;t disable it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;If you’re a team administrator, you have total control over which secrets your employees can travel with. You can turn Travel Mode on and off for your team members, so you can ensure that company information stays safe at all times.\u003cp\u003eIn which case, you as a user literally can\u0026#x27;t access the information without communicating with an admin at your organization. If CBP ever starts requiring that you call a third party to retrieve confidential information, well... I hope we never get to that point.","parent":"14404507","id":"14404725"}
{"by":"kjksf","time":"1289161291","timestamp":"2010-11-07 20:21:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple (OS X) can't beat Windows (Microsoft) but it's not because Apple is not/was not trying.\u003cp\u003eApple does compete with Microsoft and would love to be the dominant OS. If they were, their profits and market share would be stratospheric. They're doing extremely well selling just 5% of PCs but can you imagine how well they would be doing if they were selling 95% of them?\u003cp\u003eThe same applies to phones. You're right that they would do well selling just 10% of phones but the goal of every company is to get 100% marketshare.\u003cp\u003eClearly, that's not going to happen but let's not fool ourselves: Apple and Google are in a cut-throat race to be the dominant phone OS (in marketshare terms) because the number one is more handsomely rewarded than number 2, in any market, and both companies desperately want to be number one.","parent":"1879479","id":"1880230"}
{"by":"tehbrut","time":"1395642741","timestamp":"2014-03-24 06:32:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Twice sent an email and did not receive any response","parent":"7434618","id":"7457024"}
{"by":"shabble","time":"1466260941","timestamp":"2016-06-18 14:42:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if anyone has tried to build a ttyrec[0]\u0026#x2F;termrec player with synchronised audio?\u003cp\u003eThen you have the best of both worlds. Adding some sort of out-of-band overlays (like iTerm2\u0026#x2F;3 annotation maybe[2]) for\nextra commentary would make it truly amazing.\u003cp\u003e..Looks like no, but in teh future plans of [1] at least.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure how the production workflow would go - I guess you\u0026#x27;d\u003cp\u003e- record your terminal session, perhaps with live audio recording.\u003cp\u003e- if tools existed (which they afaik don\u0026#x27;t really), being able to clean up your ttyrecs to remove typos, speed up slow typing etc, would be amazing)\u003cp\u003e- Maybe rerecord a commentary\u0026#x2F;narration audio on the edited visuals, and add any annotations.\u003cp\u003e- publish, and glory in your multimedia educational creation!\u003cp\u003e(As I continue to think about it, I\u0026#x27;m tempted to try to build this. I wonder if it would get used?)\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;0xcc.net\u0026#x2F;ttyrec\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;0xcc.net\u0026#x2F;ttyrec\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tty-player.chrismorgan.info\u0026#x2F;#drop-in-video-replacement\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tty-player.chrismorgan.info\u0026#x2F;#drop-in-video-replacemen...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.iterm2.com\u0026#x2F;img\u0026#x2F;screenshots\u0026#x2F;v3-screen-shots\u0026#x2F;iterm2-annotations.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.iterm2.com\u0026#x2F;img\u0026#x2F;screenshots\u0026#x2F;v3-screen-shots\u0026#x2F;iterm...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11926644","id":"11928818"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1337791954","timestamp":"2012-05-23 16:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of curiosity: if I set up a forwarding rule on my Gmail, and Google suspends my account temporarily, will it still forward my email?","parent":"4013799","id":"4013919"}
{"by":"celticninja","time":"1461794867","timestamp":"2016-04-27 22:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fear what? I would see him as more Bill Gates than Ernst Stavro Blofeld.","parent":"11584956","id":"11584984"}
{"by":"rickharrison","time":"1324432804","timestamp":"2011-12-21 02:00:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use LLVM mainly for the ability to put ivars in a class extension. I.E.\u003cp\u003e@interface MyClass() {\n    MyNewIvar *ivar\n}\u003cp\u003e@end","parent":"3376019","id":"3376060"}
{"by":"FRex","time":"1501701960","timestamp":"2017-08-02 19:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a similar-ish thing in Poland but I don\u0026#x27;t know how widely it\u0026#x27;s used or the details of it. You can formally ask to be punished right away. The prosecution must agree too and the court must find that what you said proves that you did what you claim you did. The upside is that it\u0026#x27;s quicker for you and you can try to get your punishment to be lower, the upside for the court and the police is that they don\u0026#x27;t have to do a lengthy procedure as they would if you tried to fight back. You also can\u0026#x27;t do it for crimes that are a \u0026quot;zbrodnia\u0026quot; (\u0026#x27;fedolny, sort of, minimum 3 years in prison), just for ones that are defined as a \u0026quot;występek\u0026quot; (\u0026#x27;offense\u0026#x27;, .. again, sort of).","parent":"14913311","id":"14913782"}
{"by":"fuzzingo","time":"1497316576","timestamp":"2017-06-13 01:16:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"umm...which is the best?","parent":"14541906","id":"14542323"}
{"by":"mtraven","time":"1319597700","timestamp":"2011-10-26 02:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hm, and just a few weeks ago Thiel was predicting the \"end of the future\": \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278758/end-future-peter-thiel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278758/end-future-pet...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBipolar much?","parent":"3156675","id":"3156929"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1514374695","timestamp":"2017-12-27 11:38:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If those doing the profiling are interested in being successful, and race and religion prove to be ineffective indicators of threat, then such profiling should stop\u003cp\u003eI mean maybe if the profiling is being done by robots, but in reality I have my doubts.","parent":"16013168","id":"16014186"}
{"by":"danielweber","time":"1396395534","timestamp":"2014-04-01 23:38:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because those were bogus.\u003cp\u003eIn retrospect, it should have been a huge warning sign that the entire thing was bogus.  At worst (for Coinbase), they have someone reporting a legit security issue with a bunch of jokes at the top.","parent":"7511977","id":"7512561"}
{"by":"orangejewce","time":"1511980223","timestamp":"2017-11-29 18:30:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought MTG too.","parent":"15809386","id":"15809422"}
{"by":"btmiller","time":"1443198785","timestamp":"2015-09-25 16:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.","parent":"10275646","id":"10279106"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1470075233","timestamp":"2016-08-01 18:13:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most mobile browsers don\u0026#x27;t support addons.","parent":"12204600","id":"12204610"}
{"by":"dougmwne","time":"1529233151","timestamp":"2018-06-17 10:59:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The interviewing section starting on page 60 is also great. It\u0026#x27;s not long on technical interview tips, but gives good lists of common general interview and behaviorial interview questions, plus a good list of questions to ask employers. Running through these in a mock interview or recording yourself would be nice practice and should help with the soft skills portion of any interview. I\u0026#x27;d think it\u0026#x27;ll especially help getting through the HR recruiter gatekeeper. Of course since this is a general handbook for all possible careers you may want to customize to your industry if you\u0026#x27;re running a practice session.\u003cp\u003eBusniess idea: mock phone\u0026#x2F;video interviews as a service","parent":"17331682","id":"17331836"}
{"by":"pdonis","time":"1494979883","timestamp":"2017-05-17 00:11:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; emergency \u0026#x2F; end of life care\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmergency care, yes, that\u0026#x27;s unpredictable, and that\u0026#x27;s the sort of thing that health insurance should cover.\u003cp\u003eEnd of life care is not always unpredictable. In fact it rarely is in terms of the general need. Yes, you can\u0026#x27;t predict the exact point in time at which an 80-year-old person, say, will have an event that makes them require assisted living or a nursing home, but you can certainly foresee well in advance that such a need will arise at some point around that age. So this is not an unexpected need in the sense that emergency care is. And there\u0026#x27;s no reason why the same health plan should have to cover both needs, yet that is what the US health system does.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; you can\u0026#x27;t leave in practice even if its theoretically legally possible\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes, this example of yours is an case of an unexpected need that health insurance should cover. However, I don\u0026#x27;t know of any \u0026quot;health insurance\u0026quot; in the US that \u003ci\u003eonly\u003c/i\u003e covers cases of unexpected need like this, and does not also cover everything else that is in any way involved with health care.","parent":"14350661","id":"14354504"}
{"by":"jcg-archive","time":"1449081643","timestamp":"2015-12-02 18:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To see all current postings: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.org\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;jobs.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.org\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;jobs.php\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10661315","id":"10664874"}
{"by":"iDemonix","time":"1509964392","timestamp":"2017-11-06 10:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; not some new technology\u003cp\u003eYou are aware new devices tend to contain new technology?","parent":"15627758","id":"15634552"}
{"by":"gricardo99","time":"1497473857","timestamp":"2017-06-14 20:57:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree curation is value-add.  A good librarian is probably as good as it gets.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the internets are filled with curated lists.  Book lists have come up here on HN a number of times [1][2][3], even Sci-fi specific[4].\u003cp\u003eBut I get it, push button services are very appealing, and can save a lot of time.  Just click subscribe and get a constant supply of books you\u0026#x27;ll love at a reasonable price.  It\u0026#x27;s a business model that can work surprising well[5].\u003cp\u003e1 - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13117521\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13117521\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11229312\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11229312\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12556160\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12556160\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9056319\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9056319\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dollarshaveclub.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dollarshaveclub.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14555526","id":"14556063"}
{"by":"rhombocombus","time":"1479502533","timestamp":"2016-11-18 20:55:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In your car or phone, no. In General Aviation, it will cost a minimum of a few grand to get an IFR certified unit, plus more for installation, as you aren\u0026#x27;t legally allowed to install much of anything in your panel on your aircraft unless it is a direct fit, drop in unit.  Airplanes are awesome, and the laws are there for a very good reason, but they (can be) crazy expensive!","parent":"12989841","id":"12990000"}
{"by":"zellyn","time":"1464785314","timestamp":"2016-06-01 12:48:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We lasted about five minutes in the Episcopal church near us. Our two-and-a-half year old was happily talking about the stained glass windows (months later, he still talks about them), when someone came up to \u0026quot;helpfully\u0026quot; tell us where the nursery was. \u0026quot;People are trying to be prayerful.\u0026quot; She was slightly confused when we headed towards the exit rather than the nursery.\u003cp\u003eI think we\u0026#x27;re going to give it another try - we\u0026#x27;ve since met some other members who were horrified at our experience. :-\u0026#x2F;  We\u0026#x27;ll see. If they want to drive away families with young kids, I figure they\u0026#x27;ll last another 20 years or so…","parent":"11813885","id":"11813919"}
{"by":"jhall1468","time":"1474131595","timestamp":"2016-09-17 16:59:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You very clearly implied that in the context of this story, Mark Zuckerberg does what\u0026#x27;s best for Facebook.","parent":"12521136","id":"12521281"}
{"by":"triangleman","time":"1392420397","timestamp":"2014-02-14 23:26:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also interesting, only 32 percent of Indians answered \u0026quot;true\u0026quot; to the statement \u0026quot;The continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move\u0026quot; whereas 83 percent of Americans answered this question correctly.","parent":"7241502","id":"7241774"}
{"by":"truebosko","time":"1208089035","timestamp":"2008-04-13 12:17:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. I had an idea about 3-4 months ago to create a new service for the local community. I wrote it all down, discussed it with a friend, went back and forth, then for awhile it was dead, just a big document sitting there.\u003cp\u003eI came back to it about a month later and re-evaluated many things, and thought of newer, more clever ways to do certain things\u003cp\u003eThen I came back to it again about 2 weeks later and finally wrote out my \"concrete\" plan for Goal #1 and what I want done before moving onto the next phase.\u003cp\u003eAs of writing, Phase #1 is almost in completion. Basically, just like your story, letting the idea sit for awhile gives you time to think it over, see how you can do things different, and get feedback so I think it's pretty valuable in some cases","parent":"162341","id":"162359"}
{"by":"jplewicke","time":"1373484855","timestamp":"2013-07-10 19:34:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026quot;club\u0026quot; would have to have at least $5 million in assets, according to current SEC guidance: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sec.gov\u0026#x2F;answers\u0026#x2F;accred.htm\u003c/a\u003e .","parent":"6021824","id":"6022250"}
{"by":"mdup","time":"1438184123","timestamp":"2015-07-29 15:35:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What worries me the most in this thread is the quantity of GIFs, memes, and blatantly useless \u0026quot;me too, lol\u0026quot; comments. Can you relate how A MESSAGE WRITTEN IN CAPS makes you feel the author is shouting? Well, in the exact same way, those ridiculous pictures and messages feel to me like teenagers joining a conversation with childish jokes adding nothing to the debate, except noise.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, this looks more like a YouTube comment thread than a community of professionals discussing grown-ups issues.","parent":"9966118","id":"9969300"}
{"by":"thegoldenchild","time":"1490972599","timestamp":"2017-03-31 15:03:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"New levels, new devils ;)","parent":"14004409","id":"14004490"}
{"by":"cobralibre","time":"1429116077","timestamp":"2015-04-15 16:41:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I\u0026#x27;ll be the one to trot out the infamous quote: \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m personally distrustful of people who are temperamentally hostile to criticism, and I would think that self-described hackers would want to celebrate practices that seek to explain art rather than to shroud it in mystery. And Joyce\u0026#x27;s Ulysses has inspired some criticism that is literature in its own right, some obvious examples being Richard Ellmann\u0026#x27;s biography and at least half of Hugh Kenner\u0026#x27;s books.","parent":"9380928","id":"9382209"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1262952707","timestamp":"2010-01-08 12:11:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"However, we have this new \"web\" platform,\"\u003cp\u003eYou know... We have had this new open-source platform that created lots of programs that can run on anything. I use Firefox on Windows PCs (it's not my fault - company policy), on Linux PCs, on a PPC Mac (and an IBM) and under Solaris on a SPARC box. It works well (apart from Flash support) on all of them.\u003cp\u003eBTW, all these boxes have GNU command-line tools and a decent set of compilers and interpreters (I run Cygwin on Windows). With the exception of Windows and Mac, which impose their looks on users, I would be unable to tell what I am running under the GUI from a screenshot (not really - the AIX box runs CDE).","parent":"1038349","id":"1039341"}
{"by":"phkamp","time":"1419073937","timestamp":"2014-12-20 11:12:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, all functionality included, NTPD is presently 363.000 lines of .c and .h files.\u003cp\u003eSecond, the 100.000 is my guesstimate of what is necessary for \u0026quot;core functionality\u0026quot; and I think that is still a pretty staggering size for what that \u0026quot;core functionality\u0026quot; is.\u003cp\u003eThere is a lot of ancient infrastructure which complicates otherwise very simple tasks, some design-choices, perfectly valid in 1980 should have been revisited no later than 2000, far too much duplicated functionality, because people didn\u0026#x27;t know or couldn\u0026#x27;t get the other copy working etc.\u003cp\u003eMy initial plan was to do a serious rebuild of the existing code, in deference to Prof. Dave Mills and NTPDs long legacy (probably one the longest running open source projects!), but in the end I had to admit that such a strategy would be inefficient on any relevant metric.\u003cp\u003eI think I could write a bare-bone NTP client in well less than 1000 lines, but it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be very user-friendly, net-friendly or clock-friendly.\u003cp\u003eUsability in particular soaks up space, but we\u0026#x27;re not in 1980 any more, so there is no excuse for stuff like this any more:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   #define  DEFPROPDELAY    0x00624dd3 \u0026#x2F;* 0.0015 seconds, 1.5 ms *\u0026#x2F;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nBut doing this takes some code:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  critter phk\u0026gt; .\u0026#x2F;ntimed-client -p pll_std_capture_time\n  Parameter:\n        pll_std_capture_time\n  Minimum:\n        2.000e+01\n  Maximum:\n        1.000e+06\n  Default:\n        3.000e+02\n  Description:\n        Capture time before stiffning PLL.\n\n        After this many seconds, the PLL will start to stiffen the P\n        and I terms to gain noise immunity.  Decreasing risks that\n        initial frequency capture is not finished, which will increase\n        the offset-excursion.  Increasing just delays this stiffning.\n\n  Failure: Stopping after parameter query.\n\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI don\u0026#x27;t have a target size for the program, but 5-10.000 lines for a robust, reliable, secure and usable time sync client sounds reasonable to me.\u003cp\u003e... and that will still be less than 3% of the current NTPD.","parent":"8776313","id":"8776370"}
{"by":"ig1","time":"1308311391","timestamp":"2011-06-17 11:49:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Airbnb was iterating prior to being part of YC, they've given several interviews where they talked about how they'd gone through several launches and failed to take off and had to iterate on their model. For example they started out by only being an introduction service, but they found handling the payment in person was actually a major issue (socially awkward, no record of transaction, etc.) so the end up incorporating payment handling into their service. That was likely a critical iteration.\u003cp\u003eGoogle's primary business is Ads which wasn't what they started with.","parent":"2665107","id":"2665155"}
{"by":"matthew-wegner","time":"1283566259","timestamp":"2010-09-04 02:10:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check Preferences -\u0026#62; Playback -\u0026#62; Sound Enhancer, too.","parent":"1661075","id":"1661791"}
{"by":"ghempton","time":"1310087973","timestamp":"2011-07-08 01:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least they are consistent. I level up on Empires and Allies by just randomly clicking as well.","parent":"2740858","id":"2740951"}
{"by":"scurvy","time":"1451408255","timestamp":"2015-12-29 16:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LOL at the \u0026quot;proof\u0026quot; attack. \u0026quot;We have a huge 500gbps cannon! But to show we\u0026#x27;re serious, here\u0026#x27;s a 2gbps attack. Take that!\u0026quot; That\u0026#x27;s hilarious. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t have taken it seriously. I also doubt that the group that threatened them is the same group that is attacking them. I bet it\u0026#x27;s at least 1 other group.\u003cp\u003e2gbps. I doubt that even registered on their bandwidth graphs.","parent":"10806892","id":"10807568"}
{"by":"HerroRygar","time":"1334351548","timestamp":"2012-04-13 21:12:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks fantastic! It also has the side effect of making me want to get back in to learning Clojure. The idea of the file not being the fundamental unit of code is especially intriguing, but hard to wrap my brain around - that's such a low-level, base assumption that it's difficult to picture truly challenging that.\u003cp\u003eWhat are some examples of other paradigm-shifting (argh, buzzword) ideas in the world of software development? Deviations from the norm often become the new norm, and I'm too young and inexperienced (I've only been out of college for 10 months) to remember the \"old way\" of things.","parent":"3836978","id":"3838883"}
{"by":"Klathmon","time":"1502202000","timestamp":"2017-08-08 14:20:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sadly I believe that relies on special software bridges or gateways to talk to \u0026quot;true bittorrent networks\u0026quot;.","parent":"14957661","id":"14957970"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1363581618","timestamp":"2013-03-18 04:40:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not necessarily. Remember, \"Silicon Valley celebrates failure\".","parent":"5392405","id":"5392496"}
{"by":"pikachu_is_cool","time":"1408271246","timestamp":"2014-08-17 10:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just fair warning, most of the people who are responding to you in disagreement have never actually met a un\u0026#x2F;homeschooled person \u0026#x2F; person\u0026#x27;s parents in real life.\u003cp\u003eThe reason why unschooling is so bad is entirely social. Homeschooled kids are crippled socially.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds good, feels good, etc. but once you actually see it with your own eyes it makes sense why this hasn\u0026#x27;t caught on.","parent":"8188439","id":"8189081"}
{"by":"rb2k_","time":"1304875223","timestamp":"2011-05-08 17:20:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's the same model that Tokyo/Kyoto Cabinet uses. The difference is that Tokyo/Kyoto Tyrant is an available network interface :)","parent":"2526188","id":"2526295"}
{"by":"goodoldboys","time":"1519938384","timestamp":"2018-03-01 21:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speizer Software | REMOTE | Contract (1099) Part or Full-Time | Compensation: Hourly, Daily, or Weekly rate competitive with market | JavaScript Developer\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m Jordan, the founder of Speizer Software. We are a small software consulting shop that works primarily in the Biotech field, building web applications for bioinformatics purposes.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re looking for a developer who is well-versed in the modern front-end landscape and feels comfortable building JavaScript applications from the ground up. We\u0026#x27;re pretty agnostic on framework but ideally someone with experience using React and Vue would be ideal. Most of what we build uses Python on the back-end so some familiarity with that would be nice, but not crucial.\u003cp\u003eThis is a contract (1099) role and we are a fully distributed team so remote is the only option, really :)\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re open to candidates all over the globe as long as you have strong communication skills in English. Time zone isn\u0026#x27;t a huge concern.\u003cp\u003eIf it sounds like it could be a good fit, drop me a line at jordan [at] speizersoftware {dot} com. Please make sure to include the following pieces of info:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - Brief description about yourself and your web development experience (portfolio\u0026#x2F;github is always nice to see)\n  - Hourly\u0026#x2F;Daily\u0026#x2F;Weekly rate (or alternative payment structure, if you prefer)\n  - Hours per week available \n  - Location\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"16492994","id":"16496337"}
{"by":"cnvogel","time":"1418237667","timestamp":"2014-12-10 18:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, but no!\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    1.0 1.1 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.9 3.0 \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nis still a better approximation of a linearly increasing list of numbers than\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 3.0\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nand I doubt that any 24bit DAC or ADC in existence will interpolate as bad as I did in this example. Whatever distortion due to quantisation the latter creates, the former will create less of it.","parent":"8729395","id":"8730913"}
{"by":"sohkamyung","time":"1519563844","timestamp":"2018-02-25 13:04:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Glad you enjoyed the documentary.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Hover Bovver\u0026quot; was a fun game by Jeff Minter of Llamasoft: I think my favourite from him was \u0026quot;Revenge of the Mutant Camels\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eParadroid was another classic.\u003cp\u003eAnother fun game for the C64 was \u0026quot;Impossible Mission\u0026quot; which can be played on line at [1]. See [2] for instructions\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;impossible-mission.krissz.hu\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;impossible-mission.krissz.hu\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.arcadedivision.com\u0026#x2F;classicgame39\u0026#x2F;platform\u0026#x2F;impossible-mission-c64.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.arcadedivision.com\u0026#x2F;classicgame39\u0026#x2F;platform\u0026#x2F;impossi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16456423","id":"16458714"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1299190734","timestamp":"2011-03-03 22:18:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) I think the word \"loyalist\" was poorly chosen on my part.  I meant it only to describe how Fog Creek has traditionally been a fairly Microsoft oriented shop... even after (in my opinion) open source languages/platforms began to surpass MS in usability, documentation, and community support.\u003cp\u003e2) While it may be the case that it is not necessary to use MS technology to be featured in Bing searches, I think you (Joel) are among the more influential developers in the world and that your firm leverages Microsoft's latest technology was likely a factor in the decision to \"feature\" the results instead of simply displaying them first when they're relevant.  Maybe I'm cynical but that seems like a smart marketing move on Microsoft's part.\u003cp\u003e3) My mention of license pricing was intended to include all licensing costs, including SQL server.  I'd guess the cost of your setup as described would be about $150K in licenses... Perhaps rounding error but still a nice developer salary.\u003cp\u003e4) No disrespect or insult was meant by my comment.  I started out using 100% Microsoft tools and technologies, and I've been intrigued to see open source projects start to offer compelling value and features.  Mostly my comment was intended to express surprise that it's not simply a matter of \"rounding error\" costs to do a 100% Microsoft solution for a major site... and that things like Redis and Ubuntu are part of the reason that StackOverflow is as performant as it is.","parent":"2285378","id":"2286002"}
{"by":"buxtehude","time":"1496355029","timestamp":"2017-06-01 22:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We occasionally (3x per month?) use BA or gobble (lately more gobble) - there are others we plan on trying soon too. For us, it mostly provides a change of pace and tends to inspire our own cooking. We often add additional ingredients to what they send us. I would agree with the concerns of excessive packaging. While these services save me a trip to the grocery store, I still need to cook it and it always takes me longer than what they say.","parent":"14465156","id":"14465350"}
{"by":"joshu","time":"1329371762","timestamp":"2012-02-16 05:56:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's no actual documentation on the site or in the tarball :(","parent":"3595782","id":"3597569"}
{"by":"there","time":"1253374870","timestamp":"2009-09-19 15:41:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i own rt.fm and since it's a two-letter domain, it's now considered a \"premiumplus\" domain by the .fm company and would cost $5,000 just to register it again if i were to let it lapse.  luckily the renewal is still \"only\" $100/year so i'm just kind of hanging onto it now.","parent":"831998","id":"832044"}
{"by":"Damogran6","time":"1541712359","timestamp":"2018-11-08 21:25:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Til it snows.","parent":"18409981","id":"18410202"}
{"by":"drzaiusapelord","time":"1453219364","timestamp":"2016-01-19 16:02:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a well studied area and never a surprise. What I haven\u0026#x27;t seen is a list of common passphrases or common android swipe patterns or common iphone PINs. Is anyone working on this stuff?\u003cp\u003eIts also 100% shameful that I can\u0026#x27;t just shove this list into Active Directory and deny these passwords to end users. I can turn on complexity or length, but nothing else. So today\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;password\u0026quot; will be tomorrow\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;tobeornottobe\u0026quot; once we all migrate to passphrases\u0026#x2F;12+ minimum character passwords.\u003cp\u003eAlso this is blogspam citing other blogspam. The source is SplashData and they release this analysis every year.","parent":"10930397","id":"10931538"}
{"by":"jachee","time":"1496700837","timestamp":"2017-06-05 22:13:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See also Dan Benjamin\u0026#x27;s nice, minimal, well-researched \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hackintoshmethod.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hackintoshmethod.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14491351","id":"14492724"}
{"by":"cglee","time":"1201495326","timestamp":"2008-01-28 04:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is not to replace Google, but to change the rules so Google's strengths are neutralized. I didn't dream this up, it's straight from Clayton Christensen. Since nobody knows what the next rule changes will take effect, anyone can be replaced insofar as any company can have only a limited number of strengths, no matter how much they're diversified.","parent":"105178","id":"105339"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1445455450","timestamp":"2015-10-21 19:24:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bracing now for the Facebook clickbait posts about a supposed link between nanotubes and autism.","parent":"10425235","id":"10427927"}
{"by":"cpeterso","time":"1363906457","timestamp":"2013-03-21 22:54:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How will a fast Dart VM help Firefox and IE users?","parent":"5419539","id":"5419872"}
{"by":"snissn","time":"1531845932","timestamp":"2018-07-17 16:45:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m skeptical that this is a) from a banner ad and not from operation of the site b) a full blown keylogger and not a library included that is used for something like a photo gallery (that may have ads in it)","parent":"17550808","id":"17551038"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1533130710","timestamp":"2018-08-01 13:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d like to reply to pravebeatle anyway: I disagree with them, but they\u0026#x27;re polite and follow the HN guidelines, and their reply doesn\u0026#x27;t deserve to be flagged.\u003cp\u003eI know what you\u0026#x27;re saying - there\u0026#x27;s a lot of instability in the world and sometimes people make very poor choices - but democracy is a way to better handle the turbulence.\u003cp\u003eIn essence, it gives us the ability to handle the coup that occurs every few years in unstable environments with less bloodshed - rather than the military taking control and ousting a leader, and a bunch of people dying or being imprisoned, another party takes over at the ballot box.\u003cp\u003eThe newly elected ruler might be a really bad choice, but it\u0026#x27;s the people\u0026#x27;s perjorative to choose their leaders and it\u0026#x27;s a much better alternative than another coup.","parent":"17662005","id":"17662364"}
{"by":"adamtj","time":"1434737489","timestamp":"2015-06-19 18:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand the purpose of these extreme licenses.  If you don\u0026#x27;t want to restrict the usage of your software in any way, why not place it in the public domain?\u003cp\u003eAs I understand it, the point of owning something is to restrict what others can do with it.  Some people want that.  For example, some people choose to own the software they write so they can license it under the GPL.  They want restrict my freedom to limit what others can do with any modifications I might make.  If that\u0026#x27;s what they want, then retaining ownership makes sense.\u003cp\u003eIf you _really_ don\u0026#x27;t want to restrict others in any way, why maintain ownership?  Why take on the risk of liability, or go to the bother of disclaiming it?  It\u0026#x27;s software, so giving it to the public won\u0026#x27;t deprive you of its use.\u003cp\u003eBut then, I am not a lawyer.  Am I wrong?  Are there downsides?","parent":"9743759","id":"9746602"}
{"by":"daurnimator","time":"1460418847","timestamp":"2016-04-11 23:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Link is down. I assume it\u0026#x27;s about \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;paulcuth\u0026#x2F;starlight\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;paulcuth\u0026#x2F;starlight\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure what the current progress is like. Other projects to get lua in the browser:\u003cp\u003e* moonshine.js - same author as the OP\u003cp\u003e* lua.vm.js - emscripten based (I maintain this one; I\u0026#x27;d like to think of it\u0026#x27;s API as the \u0026quot;gold standard\u0026quot; for lua on the web. however it has issues around leaking references to the JS VM (to be solved when javascript gets WeakRef))\u003cp\u003e* brozula - abandoned","parent":"11469918","id":"11476122"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1498614741","timestamp":"2017-06-28 01:52:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes Freakonomics sound like Nobel material. Completely vacuous.\u003cp\u003eHe uses the comparison that most men are looking to date skinny women, but that many men are \u0026quot;afraid\u0026quot; to act on their attraction to overweight women.\u003cp\u003eYet... nearly 40% of women are considered obese. About half are married or otherwise attached. Who is to say that the population of online daters strongly correlates with these terrified men?","parent":"14650501","id":"14651141"}
{"by":"dfxm12","time":"1522332907","timestamp":"2018-03-29 14:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eYou’re the fourth person on a tech site ...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not really a tech tool though, and probably isn\u0026#x27;t marketed to tech people. It\u0026#x27;s a 6 month old Pinterest-but-for-shopping type of mash up. It\u0026#x27;s not really out of line for the developer crowd to not know it (or to have read the press release back in July and promptly forget it).\u003cp\u003ePlus I think there was an article on here a week or two ago about how hard it is to compete with Pinterest...","parent":"16707027","id":"16707212"}
{"by":"rsp1984","time":"1431985520","timestamp":"2015-05-18 21:45:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds very cool but from what I understand from the article I guess it would require direct emitter-receiver visibility, i.e. turning around and facing away from the emitter wouldn\u0026#x27;t work.\u003cp\u003eSimilarly, if you used several emitters to circumvent above problem you\u0026#x27;d run into aliasing issues and you\u0026#x27;d have to engineer the system such that different emitters can be clearly distinguished from each other.\u003cp\u003eThe low latency is a big deal though. See-through AR is a particularly hard nut in terms of latency because just the slightest bit of it can completely destroy the experience (overlay images lagging behind real world), unlike VR where all the photons come from one source and some latency is tolerable.","parent":"9564036","id":"9567036"}
{"by":"NathanKP","time":"1265389643","timestamp":"2010-02-05 17:07:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coax:\u003cp\u003eCreated 100 days ago, karma 41.","parent":"1104004","id":"1104033"}
{"by":"danbruc","time":"1544137554","timestamp":"2018-12-06 23:05:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, you misunderstood this. The paragraph I quoted seems to me to support what I thought and wrote initially. What I laid out in my last comment is different from that and the result of rereading and some additional reading. But I didn\u0026#x27;t yet manage to read much, so this more like a vague idea not backed up by much.","parent":"18623112","id":"18623377"}
{"by":"rleisti","time":"1257432604","timestamp":"2009-11-05 14:50:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The network affect of a bug tracker is that having a larger user-base means:\u003cp\u003e(a) more people have run into the same problems as you, and have either posted their own solutions or pressured the company into fixing them \n(b) more people may have built extensions on the product \n(c) more people may have written helpful tutorials on the product \n(d) more people will know what you're talking about when you speak in the product's language.\u003cp\u003eI think there needs to be more 'marketing' around the idea of simple software that's easy to use and doesn't screw up.  Not enough people really appreciate these things in the quest for more features.","parent":"923817","id":"923861"}
{"by":"mhd","time":"1316640580","timestamp":"2011-09-21 21:29:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd agree with the call for pictures. Either something rather neutral and abstract (50s style silhouettes and line drawing) or some actual images – preferably not just middle-class white people (social networks also need upper-class hipsters…).\u003cp\u003eAlso, I think it's mandatory to mention the word \"foodie\" at least once.","parent":"3022551","id":"3023773"}
{"by":"54mf","time":"1343829451","timestamp":"2012-08-01 13:57:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No one ever has gymnast's block. They spend time reading about the Top 5 Ways To Lose That Belly Fat instead of putting on running shoes because running is hard work and they don't really want to be doing it. If they wanted it bad enough, they'd be doing it. Likewise, there aren't dozens of Architect Hacks sites to help architects find the right paper for their blueprints.\u003cp\u003eIndeed, do, or do not. There is no try. (14 New Ways To Try after the jump...)\u003cp\u003e[Edit] On the other hand, we might just all be dopamine addicts. We spend 8+ hours a day using a tool that also contains everything ever in the history of the world, and wonder why we're distracted so often.","parent":"4322777","id":"4322837"}
{"by":"harryh","time":"1319674487","timestamp":"2011-10-27 00:14:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why? Do you even know why Glass-Steagall did?\u003cp\u003eThe strictly investment banks (as opposed to the consolidated ones) were the ones that had the most trouble / caused the most problems in the recent recession.","parent":"3160941","id":"3161017"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1341089292","timestamp":"2012-06-30 20:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's pretty obvious that they won't be gas.\u003cp\u003eMost of the new cars in 2030 will probably be sold in China, India, etc.  Density makes EV with even 10kwh battery packs work well there, and they don't have a lot of gasoline culture or infrastructure, so ev from the start makes sense.  They use a lot of CNG now.\u003cp\u003eThis might even be true in 2020.","parent":"4182486","id":"4182777"}
{"by":"VMG","time":"1511881718","timestamp":"2017-11-28 15:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Bitcoin isn\u0026#x27;t just popular among libertarians, it\u0026#x27;s popular among folks with green frog\u0026#x2F;Kek user icons and anti-semitic views. (\u0026quot;Are you a Jew?\u0026quot; asked one egg.)\u003cp\u003eYou have got to be kidding me. After druglord\u0026#x2F;pedo\u0026#x2F;(eco-)terrorist money, now it\u0026#x27;s the Nazi currency.\u003cp\u003eIs there a Bitcoin smear left that we haven\u0026#x27;t used yet?\u003cp\u003eEdit: Somebody also alert Olaoluwa Osuntokun to what he\u0026#x27;s getting involved in. He promptly should go back to `foo\u0026#x2F;bar` instead of `kek\u0026#x2F;kek`.","parent":"15796898","id":"15797873"}
{"by":"crazygringo","time":"1326490012","timestamp":"2012-01-13 21:26:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that's a good definition, and that's my whole point -- passion is so extreme that, almost by definition, it means your whole life balance is out of whack, and other things are suffering as a result.\u003cp\u003eAnd sure, I might be missing out on the full depth of human experience, but I also don't know what it's like to be insane, or be manic, or addicted to cocaine, nor do I think it's worth the price to pay.\u003cp\u003eI'd rather forego all those \"extreme\" things, whether they be manias or \"passion\" about a cause, and just stick to normal, balanced human happiness. And this cultural norm which is very prevalent in the US, which says you're supposed to be passionate about things, frankly just annoys me. I don't think it's healthy, and I don't think it's something we should be encouraging in people.\u003cp\u003eI guess \"follow a nice balance of things in your life, and be happy\" just doesn't have the same ring to it as \"follow your passion\".","parent":"3462360","id":"3462471"}
{"by":"eumenides1","time":"1345153373","timestamp":"2012-08-16 21:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; It's not a technicality, diplomatic ties are broken and restarted all the time.\nHow is it not a technicality? the idea of having an embassy is that a nation can have representatives in a foreign nation operating and relaying communications. What the UK is going is saying \"you have operate, but not for these 15 mins so that we can take what we want from your embassy\"  \n\u0026#62; Arguably, Ecuador risked it's ties with the UK first by habouring a wanted suspect.\nSee the aggressor isn't Ecuador. Ecuador was still considering  when UK issued the letter. The normal thing to do is let Ecuador make their decision, and then act accordingly. \n\u0026#62;if they can't spin \"no, he's wanted for rape, he should go on trial\", they ARE weak, and not just diplomatically.\nEcuador has asked that they guaranteed that he won't be extradited to the US so he can face trial for rape. UK and Sweeden hasn't guaranteed that. If it is \"just all about rape\", then they can make that guarantee, but they aren't. Ecuador has asked the right questions and the UK hasn't given any strong answers.\u003cp\u003eIMO the proper diplomatic response from the UK would be to use a diplomatic back channel and ask Ecuador to deny him asylum. In exchange the UK can give Ecuador some under the table concessions. Even if Ecuador resisted, Ecuador could give him asylum and then the UK could issue it's letter. The Order of Ops matters. Many UK foreign diplomats agree.","parent":"4391273","id":"4393814"}
{"by":"hangonhn","time":"1393000336","timestamp":"2014-02-21 16:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Most people here recognize that growth hacking is necessary for a startup to grow. The users complain only when the tactics employed do not result in a better experience for them.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s such a gem of insight and wisdom.","parent":"7276457","id":"7277705"}
{"by":"debt","time":"1398359279","timestamp":"2014-04-24 17:07:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you offer a good book on that coherently explains US federal monetary policy? You have a good handle on what\u0026#x27;s going on. I still don\u0026#x27;t quite understand it.","parent":"7640466","id":"7641522"}
{"by":"matt_wulfeck","time":"1502809589","timestamp":"2017-08-15 15:06:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The search warrant seems pretty broad, and includes \u0026quot;http and error logs\u0026quot;. It looks like they\u0026#x27;re more interested in who set up and maintained the site rather than who visited it[0]\u003cp\u003eSeems like dubious legal ground to demand to visitors to the site. I hope dreamhost resists that part of the warrant as unconstitutional. I would like to see the legal justification tested in court.\u003cp\u003e0. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dreamhost.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;DH-Search-Warrant.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dreamhost.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;DH...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15018429","id":"15018878"}
{"by":"AllegedAlec","time":"1541590040","timestamp":"2018-11-07 11:27:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They actually say the opposite in the article:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Complete metamorphosis likely evolved out of incomplete metamorphosis. The oldest fossilized insects developed much like modern ametabolous and hemimetabolous insects—their young looked like adults. Fossils dating to 280 million years ago, however, record the emergence of a different developmental process. Around this time, some insects began to hatch from their eggs not as minuscule adults, but as wormlike critters with plump bodies and many tiny legs.","parent":"18398193","id":"18398457"}
{"by":"peeters","time":"1331527248","timestamp":"2012-03-12 04:40:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You really have to take the good with the bad when it comes to Google sponsored libraries.\u003cp\u003eI'm usually won over by them because Google does truly great Java API design, their releases are relatively high quality (there is some assurance of quality when it's used internally at Google) and their libraries almost always enforce good design (they don't accept things that you would consider helpful if they think it will be easy to use incorrectly or abuse).\u003cp\u003eBut with that comes the bad.  If something's not helpful to Google, it won't have sponsorship to be added to the library.  The library will always support only versions of Java that Google internally uses (Kevin has said before that it is unlikely that Guava will be expanded to cover even Java 6 any time soon).\u003cp\u003eSo I'm enjoying using their libraries while they are current, but am fully aware that they might need to be forked eventually.","parent":"3691587","id":"3692358"}
{"by":"RealDinosaur","time":"1543954027","timestamp":"2018-12-04 20:07:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really like your new logo, although the bolder than usual font weight threw me off. :)","parent":"18590622","id":"18603170"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1462998109","timestamp":"2016-05-11 20:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Fever by Zika virus is described as an acute febrile illness.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; There you go! See that there\u0026#x27;s a difference from the other statement?\u003cp\u003eI think you are confused about medical terminology, particularly, I think you are confusing \u003ci\u003eacute\u003c/i\u003e fever (which is a fever with sudden onset) with \u003ci\u003esevere\u003c/i\u003e fever.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I have never seen a case till today regarding this, neither has the society here a person that had Zika but very little symptoms, it\u0026#x27;s always hard and pushes the people to bed\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure that the reason these sources have stated this is that people with Zika but very few symptoms \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c/i\u003e been identified by medical authorities. OTOH, many people with Zika but without severe symptoms won\u0026#x27;t ever know they had Zika, since they may not seek medical attention.","parent":"11678760","id":"11678888"}
{"by":"caseysoftware","time":"1472502986","timestamp":"2016-08-29 20:36:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I watched that again recently on Netflix. It was fantastic and yet another movie they could \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e make today.","parent":"12384932","id":"12385099"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1542220377","timestamp":"2018-11-14 18:32:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ya, they would be much smaller.\u003cp\u003eRents in Tokyo appear cheap, until you look at them on a square meter basis.","parent":"18452348","id":"18452407"}
{"by":"threeseed","time":"1396661419","timestamp":"2014-04-05 01:30:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So could poking around the physical components of the car.\u003cp\u003eBut people are well within the right to do so.","parent":"7535411","id":"7535607"}
{"by":"nknighthb","time":"1395547149","timestamp":"2014-03-23 03:59:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Redlining has a more general meaning of discriminating against people based on where they live (e.g. in minority neighborhoods).\u003cp\u003eIf you are not speaking of discriminating based on where people live, then I have no idea why you are bringing up employers supposedly avoiding asking where people live. It makes no contextual sense, and has no relevance to this discussion. Asking people where they live is not, in itself, discriminatory or unlawful.\u003cp\u003eIt would be great if you would detail exactly why you think Meta\u0026#x27;s policy may be unlawful, and do so by reference to actual law, not apparently-random HR policies that you don\u0026#x27;t seem to want to explain the supposed basis of.","parent":"7450279","id":"7452076"}
{"by":"screwedup","time":"1412268907","timestamp":"2014-10-02 16:55:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can somebody translate that? It looks like it links to the Ministry of Justice, which would imply that it\u0026#x27;s a politically- or security-motivated block.\u003cp\u003eAnd can somebody confirm that this is happening with other Russian ISPs?","parent":"8401563","id":"8401657"}
{"by":"decimate","time":"1461597641","timestamp":"2016-04-25 15:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just goes to show, if your highly illegal target is roughly 100 Million, be sure to reach for like ten times that amount and try to grab an absurd 1 Billion.","parent":"11564706","id":"11564767"}
{"by":"benatkin","time":"1366071510","timestamp":"2013-04-16 00:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any reason why I shouldn't flag this?","parent":"5553711","id":"5555388"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1369537194","timestamp":"2013-05-26 02:59:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a post I've been meaning to write for a while.\u003cp\u003eBack before I had a reputation as a fairly decent (tech conference) speaker, I had a proposal which was accepted at the Business of Software, which was a bit of a reach for me honestly.  I'll find the exact text if anyone is interested, but it hit three bullet points:\u003cp\u003e1)  Social proof that I had something interesting to say (I run a blog, somebody you the conference organizer knows has cited me favorably before)\u003cp\u003e2)  A one-sentence pitch for why my topic would be interesting and topical for the attendees\u003cp\u003e3)  The (accurate) prediction that people would talk about my talk even after the conference was over, because (for a for-profit conference) this helps accomplish their #1 business goal, which is selling more tickets for next year (n.b. point #1 also speaks to selling tickets if you can claim an audience which will follow you to the conference)","parent":"5767465","id":"5769844"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1537766491","timestamp":"2018-09-24 05:21:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know VR can have multiple people in it, right?  Because you\u0026#x27;re taking a description of a virtual classroom with just as many humans as a real classroom, and declaring there is no \u0026quot;social interaction\u0026quot;, and that really confuses me.","parent":"18052515","id":"18055217"}
{"by":"rmrfrmrf","time":"1359730568","timestamp":"2013-02-01 14:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not really afraid, uncertain, or doubtful of the disk space issue. I just think it's straight-up misleading and represents Microsoft's gross misunderstanding of what makes the mobile model successful.","parent":"5150830","id":"5150998"}
{"by":"revx","time":"1435766022","timestamp":"2015-07-01 15:53:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Boulder, CO\u003cp\u003eRemote: No\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: No\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: PHP, Javascript, Titanium, HTML\u0026#x2F;CSS\u003cp\u003eRésumé\u0026#x2F;CV: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;erty.me\u0026#x2F;resume\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;erty.me\u0026#x2F;resume\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail: ertysdl+hn@gmail\u003cp\u003eMoving to Boulder in August (Currently NYC). Looking for part-time work as a web developer and\u0026#x2F;or technology teacher. Lots of education experience!","parent":"9812247","id":"9812738"}
{"by":"stratospark","time":"1274905381","timestamp":"2010-05-26 20:23:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll need to take another look at Hawkins book. In any case, Kurzweil is promoting the idea we can have AI equivalent to human intelligence in a few decades.","parent":"1381481","id":"1381551"}
{"by":"DonHopkins","time":"1398386336","timestamp":"2014-04-25 00:38:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I heard a rumor Brendan Eich was going to start working on a new project with a couple of his staunchest and loudest supporters, Eric Raymond and Russell Nelson, who were also forced out of their jobs as leaders of Open Source companies because they were bigots.\u003cp\u003eFollowing the precedent of Project GNU\u0026#x27;s rebranding \u0026quot;FireFox\u0026quot; as \u0026quot;IceCat\u0026quot; for their own political and ethical reasons, they\u0026#x27;re going to rebrand \u0026quot;FireFox\u0026quot; as \u0026quot;WhistleDog\u0026quot;, and develop a web browser aligned with their own political and ethical ideology, which is more inclusive of people who think it\u0026#x27;s wrong to be intolerant of intolerant people, and less tolerant of communists like RMS, bullies like homosexual activists, and blacks, who Raymond and Nelson describe as \u0026quot;stupid\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;violent\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;lazy\u0026quot;.","parent":"7643301","id":"7644042"}
{"by":"jbb555","time":"1426170551","timestamp":"2015-03-12 14:29:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Too many pop up adverts on that page. I gave up on reading the article, it wasn;t worth the utter spam","parent":"9188746","id":"9190995"}
{"by":"gowld","time":"1526026976","timestamp":"2018-05-11 08:22:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The journalist made a mistake. The paper says:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  After a lottery draw, those employees with even-numbered birthdays were selected to work from home, and those with odd-numbered birthdates stayed in\nthe office to act as the control group.","parent":"17045699","id":"17045729"}
{"by":"bootload","time":"1267137490","timestamp":"2010-02-25 22:38:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"...jumped the shark...\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you suffer from literalism (inability to process idioms), \u003ci\u003e'jump the shark'\u003c/i\u003e ~ \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jump%20the%20shark\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jump%20the%20...\u003c/a\u003e in this instance means Joel's creativity has reached it's maxima - as if.","parent":"1151652","id":"1151777"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1342815690","timestamp":"2012-07-20 20:21:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shouldn't that banner just be implied? Yes, company X is open to investments or being acquired if the right offer comes along. This should not be a surprise to anyone.\u003cp\u003eShould we require employees to wear a sign to work everyday saying that they will leave their job for a better one if the right offer comes along?","parent":"4272659","id":"4272718"}
{"by":"togasystems","time":"1327706361","timestamp":"2012-01-27 23:19:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kinect would work well on large multi-display systems. I think the laptop is too small of a device for the motion capture to be effective.","parent":"3520535","id":"3520662"}
{"by":"briansmith","time":"1405736833","timestamp":"2014-07-19 02:27:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/the-nsa-thinks-linux-journal-is-an-extremist-forum/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;security\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;the-nsa-thinks-linux...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8056452","id":"8056457"}
{"by":"professorTuring","time":"1362407066","timestamp":"2013-03-04 14:24:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that your best option is to contact your corresponding CERT.\u003cp\u003eThey will provide you a little help managing the situation.\u003cp\u003eThis is the US Cert: \u003ca href=\"http://www.us-cert.gov/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.us-cert.gov/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Depending on the State (or Country) there might be a legislation within how to act when you have been hacked or you have a security breach.","parent":"5310022","id":"5318290"}
{"by":"kevinmobrien","time":"1426937939","timestamp":"2015-03-21 11:38:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re using a combined data pool from multiple companies (i.e., customers) to predict security breaches before they occur, and provide a usable set of notifications rather than the long list of \u0026quot;possible alerts\u0026quot; that so many infosec apps drop on users\u0026#x27; laps.","parent":"9242217","id":"9242469"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1530202403","timestamp":"2018-06-28 16:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So did the \u003ci\u003eRepublican\u003c/i\u003e National Convention. Take a look at the screenshot in the article.","parent":"17417835","id":"17418147"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1327363517","timestamp":"2012-01-24 00:05:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For HTML 5 All you need is:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026#60;script\u0026#62;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe type isn't necessary anymore. We know it's JS.\u003cp\u003eSee \u003ca href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/scripting-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.w3.org/TR/html5/scripting-1.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3502003","id":"3502803"}
{"by":"zhemao","time":"1371679712","timestamp":"2013-06-19 22:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google does encrypt user data at rest. The problem is that they also have the decryption keys. They need to be able to see the data in plain text in order to target ads and improve their services. That\u0026#x27;s their entire business models. So, there is pretty much zero chance that Google will ever \u0026quot;implement some real encryption and decentralization in its services.\u0026quot; If we want a Search Engine\u0026#x2F;Email Provider\u0026#x2F;Video Sharing Service\u0026#x2F;Thousand Other Things Google Does that is decentralized and encrypted client-side, it would have to be built by a different company or community with a different mission and profit model.","parent":"5905127","id":"5908719"}
{"by":"segmondy","time":"1542046121","timestamp":"2018-11-12 18:08:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"whoops, that\u0026#x27;s a major breakage.","parent":"18434320","id":"18434337"}
{"by":"mikeyouse","time":"1450930329","timestamp":"2015-12-24 04:12:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re comparing the number across births in the UK to the number across the total population of Brazil.. There aren\u0026#x27;t 190M births in Brazil every year but closer to 2.7M (birth rate of ~14\u0026#x2F;1,000) -- only counting the known cases of microencephaly yields an occurrence of 89\u0026#x2F;100,000 or about 90x as frequent as in the UK. Seems pretty substantial, no?","parent":"10786861","id":"10787083"}
{"by":"LeeHunter","time":"1362875505","timestamp":"2013-03-10 00:31:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not saying that that the 9th Circuit isn't useful information per se. But this thread is about what belongs in this particular headline. Just because it's interesting information (to that tiny sector of the readership that follows US law closely enough to know their 9th Circuits from their 10th Circuits) doesn't necessarily mean that information has to live in the headline. The crux of the story is that the courts have finally upheld the idea of privacy at the border. That's the news.","parent":"5347044","id":"5350150"}
{"by":"esja","time":"1387481285","timestamp":"2013-12-19 19:28:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As they grow they will need to hire more people. I wonder whether this policy will prevent some otherwise excellent hires from joining them.","parent":"6936085","id":"6937158"}
{"by":"NathanKP","time":"1252794102","timestamp":"2009-09-12 22:21:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess banks are doing all they can to try to ensure that people won't end up defaulting on their home mortgages.  If only they had been strict from the start with their requirements rather than giving loans out so readily five years ago.  That could have stopped a lot of the foreclosure problems we are having now in the US.\u003cp\u003eNow the banks finally choose to crack down, but at the expense of legitimate people who would like to get a home.","parent":"819508","id":"819535"}
{"by":"ad-hominem","time":"1520277483","timestamp":"2018-03-05 19:18:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good writing tip for anyone:\u003cp\u003eIf you are proofreading something and it absolutely has to be perfect - do all your normal proofreading, grammar checking, etc. Then when you think it is good, read it once, backward, for spelling errors. We can develop blind spots and skip over things when reading them in the normal left-to-right fashion. If you read it starting at the end all the way to the beginning, your brain has to consider each word independently, with no context.\u003cp\u003eI have caught countless spelling errors after being sure a document contained none by reading it backwards.","parent":"16522756","dead":true,"id":"16523559"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1408254964","timestamp":"2014-08-17 05:56:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For many people, having insurance is required, either by the state (for a car) or a bank (for a house). Those who don\u0026#x27;t fall into these categories often choose to self-insure, and self-insurance has the advantage that you derive the benefit of the invested money, rather than the insurance company\u0026#x27;s stockholders.","parent":"8188686","id":"8188698"}
{"by":"eternalban","time":"1349690999","timestamp":"2012-10-08 10:09:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Without any noise (or some sort of transient disturbance) no circuit would oscillate; it would just sit there, precariously balanced.\"\u003cp\u003eDid not know.  Learn something interesting on HN everyday ... /:","parent":"4625576","id":"4626179"}
{"by":"shawn-butler","time":"1364678240","timestamp":"2013-03-30 21:17:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's funny to hear Samsung and Intel described as \"hobby\" developers. Intel and Nokia achieved a shipping platform with the N9 and I think some other partners may have shipped a Meego product before it was killed by Microsoft cash/Elop.\u003cp\u003eSamsung shipped successful BadaOS phones under the Wave line. People on HN should be uniquely qualified to know what it means to actually ship a product and not dismiss it so out of hand.\u003cp\u003eBada was an extensive userland sitting on top of either Linux or proprietary BSD-ish kernels and was the culmination of probably a decade of effort.  I never saw anything other than prototypes running on top of Linux kernels though.  The shipping product was entirely proprietary and achieved some decent share in a few markets (Brazil and Europe I think) for the total lack of marketing.","parent":"5466122","id":"5466691"}
{"by":"brett40324","time":"1513549462","timestamp":"2017-12-17 22:24:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why you\u0026#x27;re down voted, but it\u0026#x27;s probably for the lack of further description on why not to take the latter author\u0026#x27;s advice.\u003cp\u003eAnyhow, i agree with following Steven King as someone to look into for inspiration and advice on writing. The only reason i\u0026#x27;m making this comment is because i want to mention something i once read about King that has always stuck with me. That being, that when he ends the last page of a novel, he then writes the first page of his next work right away to avoid ever having a time without some work in progress.","parent":"15947757","id":"15948023"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1490808759","timestamp":"2017-03-29 17:32:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you are misreading; my reading of the parent post is that their last paragraph has the meaning \u0026quot;the push to lower military spending will \u003ci\u003eremove the ability to afford\u003c/i\u003e the current process, which is bad, because the current process works great.\u0026quot;","parent":"13988081","id":"13988630"}
{"by":"frockington","time":"1522340418","timestamp":"2018-03-29 16:20:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Charging affluent people more would be handing your affluent customers to your competitor. I don\u0026#x27;t think shareholders would be appreciative","parent":"16706612","id":"16708261"}
{"by":"teekert","time":"1516351168","timestamp":"2018-01-19 08:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All built into \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ubuntu.com\u0026#x2F;core\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ubuntu.com\u0026#x2F;core\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16181756","id":"16184894"}
{"by":"betterworldb","time":"1536156175","timestamp":"2018-09-05 14:02:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1","parent":"17917855","id":"17918035"}
{"by":"jsingleton","time":"1488023055","timestamp":"2017-02-25 11:44:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They do have a calendar, which is something lacking from ProtonMail (although I believe they are working on this). ProtonMail has a free plan and if you only need a single custom domain then it\u0026#x27;s cheaper than FastMail. FastMail only have a free trial but the standard plan covers multiple domains (you have to pay more for extra domains on ProtonMail).\u003cp\u003eEdit (numbers):\u003cp\u003eFastMail =  $50\u0026#x2F;yr (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastmail.com\u0026#x2F;pricing\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastmail.com\u0026#x2F;pricing\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eUp to 100 domains (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastmail.com\u0026#x2F;help\u0026#x2F;account\u0026#x2F;limits.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.fastmail.com\u0026#x2F;help\u0026#x2F;account\u0026#x2F;limits.html\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eThey also do DNS and static website hosting (but not with HTTPS)\u003cp\u003eProtonMail = $48\u0026#x2F;yr (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;protonmail.com\u0026#x2F;pricing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;protonmail.com\u0026#x2F;pricing\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e1 domain, extra domains: $18\u0026#x2F;yr per domain","parent":"13731133","id":"13731161"}
{"by":"L_Rahman","time":"1490335577","timestamp":"2017-03-24 06:06:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what Twitter was supposed to be - the social graph, identity, trust, and payments layer for applications to build on top off.\u003cp\u003eWith Facebook going the closed garden route, there was a real opportunity for a network player to play the open strategy.","parent":"13946974","id":"13947014"}
{"by":"jaltucher","time":"1299779662","timestamp":"2011-03-10 17:54:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grandalf, love both those ideas.","parent":"2309967","id":"2310006"}
{"by":"moseandre","time":"1510192229","timestamp":"2017-11-09 01:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Evidence accumulates, it does not spring into existence.","parent":"15658993","id":"15659081"}
{"by":"trishume","time":"1442008930","timestamp":"2015-09-11 22:02:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See also the X86 forth tutorial this is based off of, it\u0026#x27;s very good: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;AlexandreAbreu\u0026#x2F;jonesforth\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;jonesforth.S\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com\u0026#x2F;AlexandreAbreu\u0026#x2F;jonesforth\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10206220","id":"10206415"}
{"by":"divad12","time":"1404067809","timestamp":"2014-06-29 18:50:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, these are great suggestions! Added two issues:\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/40\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;divad12\u0026#x2F;vim-awesome\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;40\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/39\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;divad12\u0026#x2F;vim-awesome\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;39\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7951968","id":"7961990"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1320538299","timestamp":"2011-11-06 00:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I thought your post read as if it had been written hastily.\u003cp\u003eIt was written while being disturbed about 30 times by a very active toddler :)\u003cp\u003eI'll take your points to heart and fix the post tomorrow morning, it's getting late here.\u003cp\u003eI'd have missed the 'heart's'.\u003cp\u003eWhat bugs me about all this is that many years ago I came to terms with working with people from many different backgrounds. Immigrants from all over the globe, in a single company that I ran in Toronto. We learned to look past the mistakes in grammar or pronunciation to the essence of what someone was trying to pass on.\u003cp\u003eOf course it helps if all written communication is perfect and if everybody would speak perfect English. The fact of the matter however is that language is a vehicle for expressing ideas and thoughts, and to pass those thoughts from one head to another, mostly intact.\u003cp\u003eHere on HN there is a tendency to ignore the message but to focus on the delivery. This is just a subtle way of attacking the person rather than the subject matter and I always wonder how we would have fared in that office if every mis-spelled word or wrongly pronounced word would have been pounced upon like that.\u003cp\u003eI think I'm doing ok in English, not perfect but it will do for most everyday conversation. A while ago there was a vocabulary test that floated around here and it tested the most uncommon words to get an idea of how big your vocabulary is.\u003cp\u003eSuch tests miss the point entirely, as does the nitpicking about grammar and spelling. What matters is the idea behind the message and those that manage to look past the errors will sometimes find that that dyslexic or first generation immigrant over in the third cubicle has a very valid point, poorly expressed.\u003cp\u003eWe'd do well to remember that and to always try to digest the message rather than the wrapper that it came in.\u003cp\u003eSo, I really will take your advice , and I hope that it will stick (it's hard to teach old dogs new tricks). Over the last couple of years I think my writing has gotten a little bit better but it is very hard for me to measure my progress due to a serious lack of objectivity.\u003cp\u003eThank you once again.","parent":"3201297","id":"3201337"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1497375706","timestamp":"2017-06-13 17:41:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps, but science is a human endeavor like any other and thus subject to human biases.  I think a great example is the discovery of the neutrino.  Particle tracks showed a clear violation of energy, momentum and angular momentum, but Pauli and others believed in these fundamental properties of the universe so strongly that he (they?) proposed a particle that was virtually undetectable to keep those properties.  This was a non-scientific hypothesis at the time, but it \u003ci\u003etold scientists the direction they needed to pursue\u003c/i\u003e in order to get to the point where the hypothesis could become scientific.\u003cp\u003eMost argue that the discovery of the neutrino saved the fundamental conservation laws, but we should never lose sight of the fact that we still don\u0026#x27;t detect them in a very large percentage of events we record (we say simply that they are there, but interact weakly).\u003cp\u003eOne important measure of whether a hypothesis is likely going to be accepted as true in the future is that as we build better and more sensitive detectors we detect more outcomes favorable to the hypothesis.  This is the way smart money bets when data are still hard to come by (see \u0026#x27;climate change\u0026#x27;).","parent":"14544972","id":"14546787"}
{"by":"zeroflow","time":"1401140876","timestamp":"2014-05-26 21:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It also wouldnt be a good fit.\u003cp\u003e- Master \u0026#x2F; Slave systems are typically locked in. One slave if a database system can only be a copy of one master and cant just switch freely between masters.\u003cp\u003e- Leader \u0026#x2F; Follower is coupled to loosely in my opinion. When i hear leader \u0026#x2F; follower i\u0026#x27;m more thinking of a system where the followers follow the state of the leader (e.g. if the database goes down, the web frontend is shutting down \u0026#x2F; displaying an static error \u0026#x2F; ...)\u003cp\u003e[sarcasm]\n- Parent\u0026#x2F;child could be offensive to people who cannot have kids or whose kids have died! Have you thought about THEIR feelings aswell?\n[\u0026#x2F;sarcasm]","parent":"7801763","id":"7801806"}
{"by":"Helianthus","time":"1383691965","timestamp":"2013-11-05 22:52:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...Did it work?\u003cp\u003eHint: you\u0026#x27;re not in a library, you\u0026#x27;re in a discussion thread.","parent":"6679049","id":"6679071"}
{"by":"rmchugh","time":"1513258785","timestamp":"2017-12-14 13:39:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, this thing about paying to publish papers in open access journals is really stupid. It seems to me like a compromise that governments have landed on with publishers in order to keep them in business. I would prefer a model whereby governments fund open access repositories and editorial workflows and simultaneously mandate publishing in open access repositories. The incumbent publishing corporations should not be a part of this new arrangement, their business model pulls in the opposite direction.","parent":"15921120","id":"15922129"}
{"by":"angusgr","time":"1316045644","timestamp":"2011-09-15 00:14:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW the Xerox Alto (1979) called them windows, even though you're right that they didn't overlap like the Mac/Lisa ones did.\n\u003ca href=\"http://history-computer.com/Library/AltoUsersHandbook.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://history-computer.com/Library/AltoUsersHandbook.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEDIT: The Alto could run SmallTalk as one of its environments, though, and its windows overlapped as of SmallTalk-72 or -76\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.esug.org/data/HistoricalDocuments/SmalltalkHistory.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.esug.org/data/HistoricalDocuments/SmalltalkHistor...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2998233","id":"2998389"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1275922777","timestamp":"2010-06-07 14:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't most governments behave like Ponzi schemes?","parent":"1410669","id":"1410725"}
{"by":"racoder","time":"1311069720","timestamp":"2011-07-19 10:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the short summary of the article: \"Be human. Stop hiding. Be yourself.\" is a good suggestion","parent":"2780146","id":"2780196"}
{"by":"tudorw","time":"1471425797","timestamp":"2016-08-17 09:23:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Destroy is fine,lots of ecosystems collapse if you remove one link in the chain, they don\u0026#x27;t have time to evolve a solution. They just die.","parent":"12303289","id":"12303353"}
{"by":"BearGoesChirp","time":"1508509967","timestamp":"2017-10-20 14:32:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Some recruiters tend to be a lot more pushy about it,\u003cp\u003eThe simplest solution for recruiters is to lie.  Best case scenario you get a much higher offer.  Worse case scenario you have to explain to someone at the job that there must have been a misunderstanding between you and the recruiter (which isn\u0026#x27;t a lie, as their was a misunderstanding since the recruiter thought you were telling the truth).  You never have to lie to the employer.","parent":"15502264","id":"15516065"}
{"by":"msane","time":"1389902302","timestamp":"2014-01-16 19:58:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly what I was thinking, in terms of population size, price-point per data-device, at least in that I see it as inevitable that they will saturate a critical amount of the population soon, if just through luxury smuggling. It\u0026#x27;s only a matter of time as the devices are getting cheaper and they are already entering at an exponential rate. Cellular service is extremely powerful on its own, data service is... \u0026quot;liberating\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI think it needs little prompting at this point it is bound to happen organically.","parent":"7068766","id":"7072110"}
{"by":"aeturnum","time":"1370292862","timestamp":"2013-06-03 20:54:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;That's not the case with the microtransaction free-to-play model -- they need you to play the game, to feel a need to play the game.\u003cp\u003eZynga focuses on mechanics that promote habits, but to say that's the only approach incentivized by F2P is a pretty myopic view of the market.\u003cp\u003eThe F2P model incentivizes addictive gameplay more than other genres, but it's not like building an addicted game was a bad thing pre-F2P. Valve's DOTA 2, for instance, has largely identical gameplay to its 100% free Warcraft 3-based ancestor (tangentially, Team Fortress 2 isn't much of a skinner box either).","parent":"5815549","id":"5815954"}
{"by":"motters","time":"1275470724","timestamp":"2010-06-02 09:25:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there needs to be reform of the patent system, so that people who hold the rights to an invention but are not exercising those rights in any way (making or selling products) cannot sue others for royalties.  Patents were intended to support inventors, not parasites.","parent":"1396161","id":"1397485"}
{"by":"Sharlin","time":"1544477487","timestamp":"2018-12-10 21:31:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There exists no integer whose representation is an infinite sequence of digits. In other words, \u0026quot;1...\u0026quot; is not an integer, neither is \u0026quot;...1\u0026quot;. Even though there is an infinite number of integers, every integer has a finite representation. On the other hand, the set of infinite bitstrings has a trivial bijection to the real numbers in the interval [0, 1) and thus to the real numbers as a whole.  This is a key point in Cantor\u0026#x27;s diagonal argument.","parent":"18650401","id":"18651323"}
{"by":"zwkrt","time":"1543693254","timestamp":"2018-12-01 19:40:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As the interview was further and further analyzed by both The Company and the proletariat, an arms race developed. The Company asked esoteric questions and the proles studied. The proles learned to FizzBuzz and The Company developed FooBaz. Whiteboards gave way to take home interviews which gave way to probationary offers. Personal questions were supplanted by a form of subtextual sparring in which small facial movements, pauses, and hand movements spoke volumes.\u003cp\u003eBy 2034 the majority of proles were on illegal performance-evaluation enhancing drugs, necessitated by the fact that the average prole was also on The Company\u0026#x27;s indefinite performance improvement probation. They occupied over 20% of their working hours proving their worth to The Company, which had hired Prefects to wander the endless halls. The Prefects started administering the Voight-Kampf employee aptitude tests on proles, but soon began testing each other on their own effectiveness in administering the test.\u003cp\u003eBefore The Fall, the end state of the system was that The Company existed only to vet its own employees, all of whom were in charge of secretly monitoring other groups of employees. They had their nominal tasks such as programming or planning, but employee evaluation was based solely on the ability to evaluate others in their nominal tasks.","parent":"18577934","id":"18578490"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1398515365","timestamp":"2014-04-26 12:29:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Is that all actually code?\u003cp\u003eOf course not, it\u0026#x27;s an actual project. There is code, there are data files (text and binary) and there are assets.","parent":"7649156","id":"7651164"}
{"by":"lewsid","time":"1389630814","timestamp":"2014-01-13 16:33:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in an Uber this morning headed to Charles de Gaulle airport and got to see this all first hand. Hundreds of taxi drivers stopping traffic and flipping off the police while stalling traffic for a bunch of unlucky motorists.\u003cp\u003eMy driver pulled the car over as we approached the airport. He asked me get into the front seat, and then told me we had to act like friends if we were forced to stop and end up getting harrassed. He then went to the trunk and pulled out a pair of his normal clothes and changed right there on the side of the road (Uber drivers are easily recognizable thanks to their fancy attire). Upon settling back into the driver seat, with a big smile and a thick French accent, he said, \u0026quot;I am Batman.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI rated the trip 5 stars.","parent":"7051128","id":"7051546"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1393184302","timestamp":"2014-02-23 19:38:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Each coverage area is a separate market, and AFAIK cable companies have 60-70% share within their areas (mostly because cable is so much less bad than DSL, so the market is working somewhat).","parent":"7286953","id":"7287221"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1420853527","timestamp":"2015-01-10 01:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A pure Ruby driver makes it available on JRuby, which doesn\u0026#x27;t handle the FFI as well.","parent":"8865435","id":"8865490"}
{"by":"dhotson","time":"1230733783","timestamp":"2008-12-31 14:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed.. this is always worth re-reading every few months. It's a fantastic read.","parent":"415431","id":"415469"}
{"by":"Karishma1234","time":"1523412246","timestamp":"2018-04-11 02:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If you can\u0026#x27;t come up with US $800 a year to pay a business tax\u003cp\u003eThat is not only condescending but also insulting to people who are working very hard to just survive.\u003cp\u003eI would respectfully request you to come down from your ivory tower of tech employment and notice the small people. My brother has an LLC and does landscaping. After paying all sort of bills and liabilities his company made $4K profits last year. $800 is pretty big amount compared to those profits. The profits might look negligible but he was able to employ 2-3 people on hourly wages, invest in buying a vehicle, equipment and so on.\u003cp\u003eWhen we talk about inequality we should realise that $800 flat tax hurts the poorest of poor lot more than people like you and me. This eventually adds up into making poor people even more miserable than rich people.\u003cp\u003eIt could have been lot more sensible to say don\u0026#x27;t pay any taxes if you are making less than $20K profits. That would help poor people more.\u003cp\u003eI am not saying this about you but I come across so many people in tech industry who claim to have bleeding heart for poor and yet are totally ignorant of reality of poor people.","parent":"16806250","id":"16807478"}
{"by":"tripzilch","time":"1483189255","timestamp":"2016-12-31 13:00:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; One Facebook broker, Acxiom, requires people to send the last four digits of their social security number to obtain their data.\u003cp\u003eThis is just one of the many WTFs that Facebook apparently actively supports.\u003cp\u003eIn what world, what possible explanation was this ever a good idea? Or a reasonable idea? Either the US SSN is like a password (it\u0026#x27;s not) then how did Acxiom get their hands on it, or it isn\u0026#x27;t (correct) and it doesn\u0026#x27;t serve the purpose for identification.\u003cp\u003eLetting this sort of crap run wild also affects what is considered \u0026quot;normal\u0026quot; or common privacy in other parts of the world, like the EU, it slides the window. Continuously pushing the boundaries against people watching helplessly as layer upon layer of foundations of surveillance are built. Authorities don\u0026#x27;t do much until adoption is way beyond the curve of network effect, or they do it weirdly. And by then people think it\u0026#x27;s normal or acceptable.\u003cp\u003eAlready now, on countless popular sites, advertising transgresses heavily on not only guidelines but also law. Medical claims, product placement, child advertising, you name it.\u003cp\u003eWhat can we do to not make the lowest common denominator decide what\u0026#x27;s normal?","parent":"13278966","id":"13290847"}
{"by":"brian-armstrong","time":"1540411724","timestamp":"2018-10-24 20:08:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clang supports vector types for C and they\u0026#x27;re still nowhere near as fast as using intrinsics. For whatever various reasons, compilers tend to do pretty poorly at producing properly vectorized code. I think part of this is that it\u0026#x27;s hard to encode all the information you need to vectorize properly (this loop will run some power of 2 number of times, these pointers won\u0026#x27;t alias, etc)\u003cp\u003eEven using intrinsics is dicey sometimes - compilers spill registers more often than can make sense. I think the ideal situation would be if you could somehow hint at register scheduling without writing asm yourself, but compiler are still a long ways from that.","parent":"18294575","id":"18295881"}
{"by":"gouggoug","time":"1333049237","timestamp":"2012-03-29 19:27:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I the only one seeing \"nee\" at the top of the gmail login page? Did someone at google forget to remove a debug line?","parent":"3772668","dead":true,"id":"3772682"}
{"by":"cwyers","time":"1409749282","timestamp":"2014-09-03 13:01:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"INSERT IGNORE and REPLACE are two pretty good reasons, in my opinion. Postgres also doesn\u0026#x27;t have real table partitioning. Yes, you can sorta kinda hack around the first with stored procs. And yes, you can do something that looks a lot like partitioned tables using table inheritance. And yes, Postgres now has replication support, if you don\u0026#x27;t mind using only row-based replication (MySQL lets you choose between row-based and statement-based replication) among other tradeoffs.\u003cp\u003eSo yeah, Postgres is a better relational database than MySQL, if you ignore all the things MySQL does better. Another great thing about Postgres is that whenever a site like Hacker News gets a thread about MySQL, you get a bunch of people asking why you aren\u0026#x27;t using Postgres instead, and then whenever you try and answer the question you get a bunch of Postgres users to tell you you\u0026#x27;re wrong or that the features you care about don\u0026#x27;t matter (or that they\u0026#x27;re hard to implement, which... this is my problem why?) or that Postgres really has replication that\u0026#x27;s as good as MySQL\u0026#x27;s this time we pinky swear. So most MySQL users get a first impression of Postgres\u0026#x27; user community that is quite frankly rather unfavorable.\u003cp\u003eOh, and MySQL has a lot more third-party documentation, tooling and support available.","parent":"8261132","id":"8262760"}
{"by":"pingswept","time":"1389994759","timestamp":"2014-01-17 21:39:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, similar to Amazon\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;shopping cart,\u0026quot; the shop could provide a physical cart (imagine a cross between a baby stroller and a faraday cage) to help customers carry inventory to the exit of the store.","parent":"7078541","id":"7078593"}
{"by":"revorad","time":"1303217826","timestamp":"2011-04-19 12:57:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. What camera do you use?","parent":"2462445","id":"2462459"}
{"by":"fhars","time":"1388665759","timestamp":"2014-01-02 12:29:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, then starting to read at \u003ca href=\"http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tvtropes.org\u0026#x2F;pmwiki\u0026#x2F;pmwiki.php\u0026#x2F;Main\u0026#x2F;HitlersTimeTravel...\u003c/a\u003e may be dangerous to your health.","parent":"6999116","id":"6999297"}
{"by":"RobAley","time":"1367919552","timestamp":"2013-05-07 09:39:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Typically services set an internal \"comfort\" limit. When a client passes that limit, it is flagged internally for review. You can then risk-assess: look at who the customer is, what are they doing with it, do they have an incentive to pay a large bill (i.e. would it kill their service if you cut them off for not paying). You can then decide to let them continue, contact them for an interim payment, or suspend their service if the risk is too high. While you're risk-assessing them, they can continue to use the service (it's not automatically suspended) so the customer need not know what is happening.\u003cp\u003eAnd of course, its usually wise to factor in a level of non/tardy payment into your cash flow projections, as a realistic cost of doing business.","parent":"5664920","id":"5667223"}
{"by":"aklein","time":"1313179305","timestamp":"2011-08-12 20:01:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can anyone shed light on where the GIL winds up hurting you?\u003cp\u003eAccording to this paper [1]: \"Thus, in all cases, the single global lock semantics seem fundamentally compatible with both lock-based and transactional memory implementations.\"\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar09/tech/full_papers/boehm/boehm_html/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar09/tech/full_papers/boehm/...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2877917","id":"2878982"}
{"by":"mrduncan","time":"1240702712","timestamp":"2009-04-25 23:38:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congrats to the core team and all of the contributors!\u003cp\u003eFor those who haven't checked it out, the spec is surprisingly short (\u003ca href=\"http://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/files/SPEC.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://rack.rubyforge.org/doc/files/SPEC.html\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"579323","id":"579418"}
{"by":"beatpanda","time":"1488330767","timestamp":"2017-03-01 01:12:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the article:\u003cp\u003eThe campaign is like few before it in France, because of the looming question of whether the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, will do the once-unthinkable, and win. She has already pushed the discourse rightward and made a visceral promise to voters: to protect not just France, but Frenchness. Whether the menace is defined as Islam, immigration or globalization, her vow to voters is the same: I am the woman to preserve the French way of life.","parent":"13759977","id":"13760039"}
{"by":"pius","time":"1207011924","timestamp":"2008-04-01 01:05:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was in your shoes I got a lot out of taking a look at the language documentation for the http related libraries in the languages I used.  Often times there are good examples that'll get you started for basic stuff.\u003cp\u003eIn Ruby, for example, you'd check out open-uri: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/index.ht...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Java, I found both of the O'Reilly books (Nutshell and, especially, Examples) to be pretty useful.\u003cp\u003eIf you're really looking to get started quickly on developing a database-driven web application, I'd highly recommend grabbing a Python or Ruby framework like Django or Rails and then making your way through Phil Greenspun's Software Engineering for Internet Applications.  (freely available here: \u003ca href=\"http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://philip.greenspun.com/seia/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eGood luck!","parent":"151517","id":"151594"}
{"by":"guard-of-terra","time":"1356305673","timestamp":"2012-12-23 23:34:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think so. We should find a way for people to become great without sacrificing their lives. Why? Because we want everyone to be great. And we can't have everyone sacrifice their life. It makes no sense if you look at it from this standpoint.\u003cp\u003e\"Look at the typical 17-18 year old out of High School and see if you're satisfied with their knowledge/understanding of things.\"\u003cp\u003eThat's because education doesn't work. You can make them \"study\" 80 hours weeks and they will not know or understand anything. They don't have time for that! They have to study.\u003cp\u003eThe only way to understand something is to relax and see the big picture. You can't see the larger picture from inside the treadmill.","parent":"4961115","id":"4961146"}
{"by":"Qantourisc","time":"1373179476","timestamp":"2013-07-07 06:44:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In our country all laws have to be published in the \u0026quot;Staatsblad\u0026quot; (State-released paper\u0026#x2F;documents containing new businesses, laws, ...) So unless a law to allow secret laws was made we shouldn\u0026#x27;t have secret laws.\u003cp\u003eSo that got me thinking, try outlawing secret laws ?","parent":"6000586","id":"6001295"}
{"by":"antisthenes","time":"1463768487","timestamp":"2016-05-20 18:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That reads more like a joke about Land Rover maintenance costs.","parent":"11738263","id":"11740203"}
{"by":"sachinag","time":"1295013578","timestamp":"2011-01-14 13:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could some kind UKer(s) please explain to this American exactly how Oxford, Cambridge, and the UK university system works?  I'm familiar with what A levels are, and that you supposedly apply to a particular college at each of Oxford and Cambridge, but then I hear about university-wide \"departments\", and I put that in my American-style mental model.  Googling hasn't helped me, but perhaps I'm being unimaginative in search terms.","parent":"2103161","id":"2103460"}
{"by":"lolizbak","time":"1298659088","timestamp":"2011-02-25 18:38:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously, far far far away from a YC investor day... Wondering how you get to perfect relevance ration for a demo pit (quality of startups, quality of investors, quality of press, ...).","parent":"2263235","id":"2263245"}
{"by":"krishnasrinivas","time":"1384672642","timestamp":"2013-11-17 07:17:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chrome and Firefox DataChannels cannot connect with each other. Chrome and Firefox media connections can interop though","parent":"6742000","id":"6747967"}
{"by":"natrius","time":"1356121556","timestamp":"2012-12-21 20:25:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google Wallet is in Google Play on my phone. It isn't on Verizon phones. There is a distinction.","parent":"4954294","id":"4954361"}
{"by":"stevenwoo","time":"1530298751","timestamp":"2018-06-29 18:59:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I\u0026#x27;ve been reading in the comments about this story on reddit is Canada and other countries already did this (eliminate the penny) and the final price is rounded to the nearest nickel, not always up.","parent":"17426734","id":"17426811"}
{"by":"jpallen","time":"1392993311","timestamp":"2014-02-21 14:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;d love to start pushing forward on some reference manager integrations, so a pull request would be amazing! It might be best to have a quick chat about how to implement this. My email should be in my profile.","parent":"7277094","id":"7277108"}
{"by":"paulgb","time":"1197609622","timestamp":"2007-12-14 05:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sent :)","parent":"89405","id":"89440"}
{"by":"captainmojo","time":"1399925797","timestamp":"2014-05-12 20:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6350906\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6350906\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7735105","id":"7735171"}
{"by":"reappear","time":"1293419230","timestamp":"2010-12-27 03:07:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ramp video is fun, but i don't think it belongs in the same bin as other \"optical illusions\".\u003cp\u003eYes, visual cortex failed, and it failed where a god would succeed (succeed in finding the simplest interpretation and making a sharp bet on that interpretation). But the most surprising optical illusions present a far lower bar which visual cortex then still fails to clear.\u003cp\u003eOften, they exploit what must be some specific implementation detail of visual cortex.\u003cp\u003eOften, they feel really weird from the inside. Sometimes they force competing interpretations, sometimes a single interpretation which turns out to be obviously wrong.\u003cp\u003eSo i guess it's probably right to insist that an inference engine's optical illusions be a subset of its koans. At my level, the ramps are no koan, just a (funny and clever) lie.","parent":"2040546","id":"2041726"}
{"by":"cynix","time":"1381296578","timestamp":"2013-10-09 05:29:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another issue is that the price here in Australia will likely be double the US price.","parent":"6519342","id":"6519580"}
{"by":"javiercr","time":"1444046383","timestamp":"2015-10-05 11:59:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote something similar one year ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@javier_dev\u0026#x2F;uber-is-not-sharing-economy-2f6f7ce6f076\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@javier_dev\u0026#x2F;uber-is-not-sharing-economy-2...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10330731","id":"10331199"}
{"by":"runarb","time":"1360609494","timestamp":"2013-02-11 19:04:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you mentions billion row datasets MapReduce and Apache Hadoop comes to mind, but that requires that you are capable to do some computer programming.\u003cp\u003eThere may also be a lot of existing solution to present/summaries/graph you data, depending on what it contains and witch program created it. Can you give us some more insight into what kind of data you have?","parent":"5202467","id":"5202591"}
{"by":"gertef","time":"1502912422","timestamp":"2017-08-16 19:40:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pushing a diverse melting pot isn\u0026#x27;t the same as forcing for white supremacy.","parent":"15030349","id":"15030537"}
{"by":"taeric","time":"1537586789","timestamp":"2018-09-22 03:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed I did.","parent":"18044109","id":"18044291"}
{"by":"ps4fanboy","time":"1448863116","timestamp":"2015-11-30 05:58:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com.au\u0026#x2F;publicdata\u0026#x2F;explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_\u0026amp;ctype=b\u0026amp;strail=false\u0026amp;bcs=d\u0026amp;nselm=s\u0026amp;met_x=sh_dyn_mort\u0026amp;scale_x=lin\u0026amp;ind_x=false\u0026amp;met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in\u0026amp;scale_y=lin\u0026amp;ind_y=false\u0026amp;met_c=sp_dyn_le00_in\u0026amp;scale_c=lin\u0026amp;ind_c=false\u0026amp;idim=country:USA:AUS\u0026amp;ifdim=country\u0026amp;tunit=Y\u0026amp;pit=1385733600000\u0026amp;ind=false\u0026amp;icfg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com.au\u0026#x2F;publicdata\u0026#x2F;explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis shows what you are talking about.","parent":"10647773","id":"10648009"}
{"by":"xShirase","time":"1451657016","timestamp":"2016-01-01 14:03:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thanks, duly noted!","parent":"10821819","id":"10821894"}
{"by":"foreigner","time":"1514734622","timestamp":"2017-12-31 15:37:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Children\u0026#x27;s ice cream, Mandrake?","parent":"16040540","id":"16040934"}
{"by":"JohnJamesRambo","time":"1502852801","timestamp":"2017-08-16 03:06:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Working purely on lithographic nomenclature, Intel has three processes on 14nm: 14, 14+, and 14++. As shown to everyone at Intel’s Technology Manufacturing Day a couple of months ago, these will be followed by a trio of 10nm processes: 10nm, 10nm+ (10+), and 10++\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhat imbecile thinks these are good names for the processes?  Especially in an era where the consumer is already totally confused about current CPU offerings and rightfully views incremental CPU upgrades in a stalled Moore\u0026#x27;s Law world with suspicion already?","parent":"15024261","dead":true,"id":"15024654"}
{"by":"david-given","time":"1447615457","timestamp":"2015-11-15 19:24:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t as hard as it looks --- lots of freighters are set up to carry passengers. (Apparently about 1%, but that\u0026#x27;s still many thousands of ships.) You\u0026#x27;re basically staying in officer\u0026#x27;s quarters. The reviews I\u0026#x27;ve seen all comment on the cabins and food all being plain but really good. There appears to be no internet (but you can make satellite calls at €5 a minute).\u003cp\u003ePricing is reasonable by hotel standards, about €100 a day, but of course you have to pay for the entire voyage. A transatlantic voyage from Felixstowe to New York takes about 12 days. If you have 130 days to spare, you can do a round-the-world trip.\u003cp\u003eThere seems to be quite a community doing it, mostly older people. They\u0026#x27;re not cruise liners, so there\u0026#x27;s no entertainment --- it\u0026#x27;s definitely for the self-reliant only. And, of course, the ship\u0026#x27;s going to \u003ci\u003ecargo\u003c/i\u003e ports, so everywhere the ship calls will be in the middle of nowhere.\u003cp\u003eSee here for more information (yes, I\u0026#x27;ve thought of doing a trip):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.freightercruises.com\u0026#x2F;q_a_freighter_cruise_guide.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.freightercruises.com\u0026#x2F;q_a_freighter_cruise_guide....\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10563104","id":"10570711"}
{"by":"nazgulnarsil","time":"1409342558","timestamp":"2014-08-29 20:02:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The guy doesn\u0026#x27;t grasp the basic premise of PoW schemes. Yes, it costs close to a Bitcoin to make a Bitcoin. That Bitcoin, once created, is a REUSABLE PROOF OF WORK.","parent":"8243247","id":"8244266"}
{"by":"dredmorbius","time":"1469943601","timestamp":"2016-07-31 05:40:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are several large populations which \u003ci\u003earen\u0026#x27;t\u003c/i\u003e particularly associated with accelerating technological growth.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m suspecting an inverted causality arrow here.  At best a confounded one.","parent":"12191047","id":"12195868"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1314802025","timestamp":"2011-08-31 14:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SO already does that, inviting high-rep individuals to Careers 2.0.","parent":"2945505","id":"2945735"}
{"by":"ageofwant","time":"1525317950","timestamp":"2018-05-03 03:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not assuming the worst has gotten us to the current state of personal exposure to entities whose core welfare concerns does not align with or extend those of an individual.\u003cp\u003eNot assuming the worst as default will only make matters worse.  Even if Google has very good and honest intentions with gathering this information at this time, you have to assume the inevitability of that changing in future, either under duress of corporate existence or being compelled by larger more powerful actors.\u003cp\u003eHave I read the above 5 years ago I would have rolled my eyes at yet another privacy nut raving on the internets.","parent":"16981657","id":"16983134"}
{"by":"addlimr","time":"1492634368","timestamp":"2017-04-19 20:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;toneplusprepaidbiz.blogspot.my\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;hottest-pasif-income.html?m=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;toneplusprepaidbiz.blogspot.my\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;hottest-pasif-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14151521","dead":true,"id":"14151546"}
{"by":"weixiyen","time":"1294704810","timestamp":"2011-01-11 00:13:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you mean by that?  Can you provide an example?","parent":"2089655","id":"2090255"}
{"by":"frisco","time":"1232595018","timestamp":"2009-01-22 03:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought the legal question was interesting.","parent":"444293","id":"444297"}
{"by":"playhard","time":"1315486858","timestamp":"2011-09-08 13:00:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-launch-strategy-for-a-web-startup?q=launch+sta\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-launch-strategy-for-a-we...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2973404","id":"2973700"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1468280240","timestamp":"2016-07-11 23:37:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I definitely wouldn\u0026#x27;t build a business on this for the reasons you mention, but there are still very good use cases. E.g. let\u0026#x27;s say you have a website where you need to strip metadata from images. That\u0026#x27;s only two or three lines of code with Pillow, but it might be better opsec to do it elsewhere so that if your app somehow gets pwned you don\u0026#x27;t have the metadata flowing through your system. But if doing that involved setting up an entirely new webserver then that probably wouldn\u0026#x27;t make sense, especially since the new server would probably be subject to the same vulnerabilities as the original.","parent":"12075365","id":"12075630"}
{"by":"randallsquared","time":"1234306372","timestamp":"2009-02-10 22:52:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess the word I should have used was \"arbitrary\".  It's going to be difficult to get all of my neighbors and myself to agree on all the rules for our society, I'd imagine.  I have no reason to expect that they share more than the most basic assumptions about societal rules.\u003cp\u003eIn the case where we move in and open up a munitions dump, either we signed an agreement not to engage in risky behavior, or we didn't.  If we did, we're liable.  If we didn't, then it still may be that the folks we bought the land from had, and then \u003ci\u003ethey're\u003c/i\u003e liable, since they didn't make buying the land conditional on signing the no-risky-behavior contract.  Otherwise, buying that land turns out to have been a bad call for everyone else.  Of course, once the dump explodes, we're liable for the damage, but as you note, we may no longer be able to pay for it.\u003cp\u003eEven when I advocate mandatory crime/injury insurance, I don't mean mandatory in the sense that I'm willing to throw people in jail for not buying it, but mandatory in the sense that I'm not willing to interact with people who refuse to buy it, or who are such bad risks that they can't afford it.","parent":"474828","id":"476135"}
{"by":"mtalantikite","time":"1316878175","timestamp":"2011-09-24 15:29:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"20 sqm (about 215 sq ft) is probably the size of a lot of studios in manhattan that you'd find for $1800/month or so if you were lucky. You'll obviously get a lot more in Brooklyn for the same price (mine is about 450 sq ft).\u003cp\u003eYou just have to be creative about your use of space in the city. It doesn't end up being all that hard, you end up just pairing down.","parent":"3033345","id":"3033429"}
{"by":"wasyl","time":"1406718096","timestamp":"2014-07-30 11:01:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Costs of living are definitely way off, I live in Wroclaw, you can easily live comfortably for $1000, probably even less","parent":"8107222","id":"8107378"}
{"by":"rorykoehler","time":"1496291602","timestamp":"2017-06-01 04:33:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"China was certainly destabilised by opium addiction over 100 years ago.","parent":"14456955","id":"14458006"}
{"by":"VeejayRampay","time":"1435226286","timestamp":"2015-06-25 09:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"French japanimation enthusiasts over 30 probably remember how official dubbers for Fist of the North Star\u0026#x2F;Hokuto No Ken in the late 80\u0026#x27;s actually took pride in providing bogus dubbing (with bad puns, changes in the dialog and purposely egregious voice-overs) because they thought \u0026quot;the show should not have been brought to young French kids\u0026quot; and just didn\u0026#x27;t care [1]\u003cp\u003eThis is precisely why you need enthusiasts providing quality subs, because those anonymous people actually care about the body of work, being fans themselves. That the anime industry in the US was smart enough to recognize and offer them jobs is a sign of hope. Good on them.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=w2jfBEgtc88\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=w2jfBEgtc88\u003c/a\u003e (this is NOT a parody, this is the ACTUAL dub for the anime series).","parent":"9775909","id":"9776858"}
{"by":"analog31","time":"1392269022","timestamp":"2014-02-13 05:23:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve published apps that were simpler than \u0026quot;Hello World\u0026quot; for iOS, if this is any indication:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.appcoda.com/hello-world-app-using-xcode-5-xib/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.appcoda.com\u0026#x2F;hello-world-app-using-xcode-5-xib\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7229040","id":"7229637"}
{"by":"maherbeg","time":"1535864909","timestamp":"2018-09-02 05:08:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I except that a significant portion of drivers will be able to drive at home. You don’t need as many gas stations in a world where over half the owners charge at home (or work)","parent":"17894998","id":"17895662"}
{"by":"ernsheong","time":"1459595178","timestamp":"2016-04-02 11:06:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hardly a joke. The 1MDB saga has been broiling Malaysia for the past year.","parent":"11409757","id":"11411086"}
{"by":"TickleSteve","time":"1470744250","timestamp":"2016-08-09 12:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, we are human...\u003cp\u003eYes, the toyota case is a well publicised case. \nConsider though, the number of safety critical systems that are out there performing perfectly everyday.\nOf course, that is not proof of much, but the fact that you can name the Toyota case (and probably the Therac 25 case) means that the process generally works.","parent":"12253673","id":"12253938"}
{"by":"polock","time":"1512774121","timestamp":"2017-12-08 23:02:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft employee saide.\n\u0026quot;Same issue as with using windows 10 with multiple monitors\u0026#x2F;screens.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;us.teamblind.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;wtf-apple-uBXwbJMc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;us.teamblind.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;wtf-apple-uBXwbJMc\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15878548","id":"15882881"}
{"by":"ibudiallo","time":"1363986980","timestamp":"2013-03-22 21:16:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I did not know what it was, and i am glad you brought it up :)","parent":"5425264","id":"5425835"}
{"by":"diimdeep","time":"1488144669","timestamp":"2017-02-26 21:31:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;. A big thing about the transition to tech is that you possibly start communicating with people who don’t really know what a vector space is. Be ready to have those conversations. Honestly ask yourself if you’re OK with having those conversations.\u003cp\u003eThis is so snobbish. What here is even think about ?","parent":"13739687","id":"13740011"}
{"by":"lucideer","time":"1403862080","timestamp":"2014-06-27 09:41:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are generally recommended, though are also the occasional arguments against the use of CDNs \u003ca href=\"http://zoompf.com/blog/2010/01/should-you-use-javascript-library-cdns\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zoompf.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;should-you-use-javascript-lib...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7953268","id":"7953341"}
{"by":"Roritharr","time":"1447851814","timestamp":"2015-11-18 13:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This here is an absurdly better deal: \n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.de\u0026#x2F;X8-Tablet-Desktop-Windows-Android\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B013DDPLHM\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.de\u0026#x2F;X8-Tablet-Desktop-Windows-Android\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B0...\u003c/a\u003e\nIt comes with a touchscreen and all the ports you\u0026#x27;d ever want.","parent":"10587205","id":"10587425"}
{"by":"lkbm","time":"1430159730","timestamp":"2015-04-27 18:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You need someone to bring a case to court, yes, but do you need a court case and widespread popular support? Interracial marriage hit 50% approval in the US in the mid-nineties.[0] It was made legal (nationally) in the 1960s.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gallup.com\u0026#x2F;poll\u0026#x2F;28417\u0026#x2F;most-americans-approve-interracial-marriages.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gallup.com\u0026#x2F;poll\u0026#x2F;28417\u0026#x2F;most-americans-approve-inte...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9447045","id":"9448261"}
{"by":"benp84","time":"1465667750","timestamp":"2016-06-11 17:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great resource! Thanks for the link.","parent":"11882045","id":"11884456"}
{"by":"TarpitCarnivore","time":"1536796927","timestamp":"2018-09-13 00:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; it\u0026#x27;s about the \u0026quot;news\u0026quot; in general. There is very little factual about it\u003cp\u003eAh yes, the new \u0026#x27;fake news\u0026#x27; spiel being thrown around for any media outlet.","parent":"17973964","id":"17974725"}
{"by":"damptrousers","time":"1322662155","timestamp":"2011-11-30 14:09:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used the app for 5 minutes and I could write a thousand words on why it's better already. Honestly, if you can't see the differences, the quality compared to facebook, the difference in attitudes towards privacy, I don't think you can be helped.","parent":"3294136","id":"3295046"}
{"by":"ITwitchToo","time":"1412279141","timestamp":"2014-10-02 19:45:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess you are referring to this part:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A very intriguing, and perhaps unintuitive property of the algorithm proposed is that with increasing bitcoin difficulty, or equally lower target, the search could become more efficient, at least in theory. This is because we can assume more about the structure of a valid hash -- a lower target means more leading zeros which are assumed to be zero in the SAT-based algorithm.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis is actually pretty misleading. There might be fewer variables, but that\u0026#x27;s irrelevant. Yes, there are actually fewer variables in the actual file you feed to the SAT solver because you can assume they are 0 and propagate that to the other constraints involving those variables. But think about it -- you\u0026#x27;re only going to get rid of a couple of hundred variables at most, in a problem with ~250,000 variables. So you\u0026#x27;re only really reducing the full search space by an incredibly small percentage.\u003cp\u003eIn practice, the running time of the SAT solver increases exponentially with the number of zeros you assume in the hash, just like it does for a regular brute force trying all combinations of inputs.\u003cp\u003eThe conclusion I draw from this is that not all variables contribute equally to the difficulty of a problem (for a SAT solver). This is actually why SAT solvers can be efficient for some problems in the first place, even for problems with hundreds of thousands of variables; the SAT solver (a smart brute force, as opposed to a naive brute force) is able to exploit the fact that many problems you feed to it are not intrinsically hard.","parent":"8402490","id":"8402676"}
{"by":"dorfsmay","time":"1468196585","timestamp":"2016-07-11 00:23:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do switch deadline to vi mode, since that\u0026#x27;s the editor I use the most.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m always surprised by people who are on the vi\u0026#x2F;vim side of vi\u0026#x2F;emacs debates but then use the defaults emacs mode in deadline!","parent":"12067287","id":"12067985"}
{"by":"nwh","time":"1376548611","timestamp":"2013-08-15 06:36:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go full-circle and make the steam with a Bitcoin miner.","parent":"6215756","id":"6216459"}
{"by":"rtanaka","time":"1414622336","timestamp":"2014-10-29 22:38:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No problem.  I\u0026#x27;ve been mostly a lurker on HN for a while but this is the first time being put under the microscope. I apologize if I came off as defensive. This is a product that\u0026#x27;s very close to my heart given the amount of time and effort we\u0026#x27;ve put into the product offering. For the record, none of us here posted the article we are here because of the amount of attention and discussion it has garnered.\u003cp\u003ePoint taken about the errors. There are many things we can improve on all across the board. We made a conscious decision to not let perfect be the enemy of good. The video is done so we won\u0026#x27;t go back and change that but I will work with the team to fix all of our marketing material to be as accurate as possible. Thank you for pointing out or errors.\u003cp\u003eWith regards to tip entry. Industry standard recommends gratuity be added before PIN but it is not mandatory and is a merchant preference. I can\u0026#x27;t find all the card network examples easily but I happen to have the AMEX EMV Acceptance Guide open and this is what section 4.2.7 states - \u0026quot;In certain Merchant categories such as restaurants, it is standard practice to enable customers to add a gratuity to the amount of the transaction. There are many different ways in which a gratuity can be added. American Express does not define any specific methods for adding gratuities...\u0026quot; it further goes on to say \u0026quot;American Express\nrecommends that Terminal software enables the Cardmember to\nadd the gratuity amount to the transaction before entering his or her PIN. This enables the transaction to\nbe processed as a normal, “card present” transaction.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIn any case, we\u0026#x27;ve all appreciated the various comments on here and it has clearly been the most critical audience of the bunch.","parent":"8530329","id":"8530406"}
{"by":"pvg","time":"1515601963","timestamp":"2018-01-10 16:32:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both are contenders but at twice the passenger traffic, Penn Station has to be heavyweight champion.","parent":"16115047","id":"16116316"}
{"by":"dest","time":"1512345889","timestamp":"2017-12-04 00:04:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If everybody uses that software and follows trading advice, the price could get more predictable. Creators could then make lots of money. \u0026#x2F;s","parent":"15840401","id":"15840443"}
{"by":"Kalium","time":"1534463347","timestamp":"2018-08-16 23:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I wonder if what the aforementioned comment suggested is still unresolved; would some or all of us lose incentive and\u0026#x2F;or mechanisms that temper and shape our proclivity to compromise and coexist despite still unaltered and conflicting values and behaviors?\u003cp\u003eWould some of us lose the pressure to conform? Yes. And I think this is all to the better.\u003cp\u003eUltimately, I think that conformity is what this entire conversation is all about. I do not value conformity and I reject the notion that forcing people to conform is a societal gain.","parent":"17778588","id":"17779348"}
{"by":"wyclif","time":"1480254537","timestamp":"2016-11-27 13:48:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why on earth would they place the webcam \u003ci\u003ethere\u003c/i\u003e?","parent":"13048998","id":"13049091"}
{"by":"0xffff2","time":"1455648374","timestamp":"2016-02-16 18:46:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Please give it to Google so they can add it to Google Maps.\u003cp\u003eWhat do you think \u0026quot;add[ing] it to Google Maps\u0026quot; would accomplish? What makes you think the data analysis is easily crowd-sourced? I.e, what makes you think that analyzing the data requires no special experience or expertise?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;there will be a swarm of autonomous submersible robots doing detailed scans\u003cp\u003eWhy? What would be the economic case for doing this? Building machines that work at the extreme depths of the sea floor is incredibly hard. The search for a single lost airplane (and it really is just the one, not a single other commercial airliner is unaccounted for) certainly isn\u0026#x27;t going to fund this pipe dream.","parent":"11112082","id":"11112131"}
{"by":"wwwtyro","time":"1342796337","timestamp":"2012-07-20 14:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there room for decentralization of utilities to address these issues? Solar for electricity, ambient moisture condensation for water, etc? Is the future of utilities centralized or decentralized?","parent":"4270925","id":"4271066"}
{"by":"zanny","time":"1369620809","timestamp":"2013-05-27 02:13:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Most of all I really resent Ubuntu forcing me to learn how all these pieces are put together, so I could fix it. Using it as a desktop OS daily, I remain more convinced than ever that it is best put to work via an ssh session in a different OS. The command-line is the only UI on it that reliably works.\u003cp\u003eWhy is it Canonicals fault Microsoft paid off (not exclusively, I know at Intel was also involved) and pushed for UEFI on all modern motherboards? Bios was working fine for a decade with Linux, UEFI has been terrible because there have been efforts in its adoption to only target Windows and obfuscate or just outright not support other OSes on some boards.","parent":"5773067","id":"5773131"}
{"by":"josteink","time":"1540192059","timestamp":"2018-10-22 07:07:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like they\u0026#x27;re on their way back up:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; We are currently in the later stages of a restore operation, with the aim of serving fully consistent data within the next 2 hours.\u0026quot;","parent":"18271180","id":"18272735"}
{"by":"subsection1h","time":"1471900732","timestamp":"2016-08-22 21:18:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I\u0026#x27;d like to know when one of these new text editors will support plain text spreadsheets like Emacs and Org-mode do. Much of my notes include small sets of tabular data on which I perform basic calculations, and I love being able to include the data directly in my notes rather than refer to Excel or LibreOffice spreadsheets elsewhere.","parent":"12337478","id":"12339520"}
{"by":"clarry","time":"1416242383","timestamp":"2014-11-17 16:39:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a shame the modifiers (shift included) like to get stuck on the Kinesis.  Expensive pile of crap...\u003cp\u003eIf I had the money, I\u0026#x27;d try out the Maltron 3D keyboard.  I haven\u0026#x27;t heard about such problems with it.  It also comes with a numpad in the middle, which I kinda miss in the Kinesis.  It would be great for nethack, and something else.","parent":"8615008","id":"8618945"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1424464638","timestamp":"2015-02-20 20:37:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty much.  It\u0026#x27;s a bad title.","parent":"9082318","id":"9082841"}
{"by":"ClashTheBunny","time":"1508156254","timestamp":"2017-10-16 12:17:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The other article says the opposite:\u003cp\u003eThe attack works against both WPA1 and WPA2, against personal and enterprise networks, and against any cipher suite being used (WPA-TKIP, AES-CCMP, and GCMP).","parent":"15481433","id":"15482650"}
{"by":"braveo","time":"1486327689","timestamp":"2017-02-05 20:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What does that have to do with you feeling disgust?","parent":"13503156","id":"13574550"}
{"by":"krapp","time":"1363572078","timestamp":"2013-03-18 02:01:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I kind of feel like i'm in the same boat you are and I have the same fears. That the trajectory of my life has already reached its inevitable apex and can't fail to land somewhere, predictably, in failure and regret. But in my opinion (which won't even buy you a cup of coffee) you can't waste time on fear. Even if it is true, and rational. All you can do is live in the world until they shovel the dirt onto you. You and I are never gonna be 20 again. I'm sure that sounds trite but I don't mean it to be. We only get to be the old guys, or the older guys, or the even older still guys, but we're not dead yet at least, so good luck.","parent":"5390138","id":"5391960"}
{"by":"hnriot","time":"1372738273","timestamp":"2013-07-02 04:11:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is this SEO?","parent":"5974958","id":"5975781"}
{"by":"ufo","time":"1527806139","timestamp":"2018-05-31 22:35:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GNOME Builder is set up to use flatpacks to be able to develop on the latest software versions. The newcomer guide has instructions for how to set this up:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.gnome.org\u0026#x2F;Newcomers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.gnome.org\u0026#x2F;Newcomers\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI never used it on RHEL 6 though.","parent":"17199846","id":"17200928"}
{"by":"Tepix","time":"1515959119","timestamp":"2018-01-14 19:45:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Germany most print subscriptions are \u0026quot;good\u0026quot;, i.e. if your free trial expires you can just cancel after one month.","parent":"16145124","id":"16145921"}
{"by":"abraininavat","time":"1372084117","timestamp":"2013-06-24 14:28:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you not even read the first sentence on the wiki page you linked to?  Here it is:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called Oxford comma and Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and, or, or nor) in a series of three or more terms.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote the last four words.  \u003ci\u003ethree or more terms\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn that sentence though, I think it\u0026#x27;s different. The first part of the sentence is long enough that the comma is welcome as a natural stop (and breather) before delivering the second half.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite your feeling that commas should, be inserted randomly when we feel the sentence, has gone too long, that is not standard English.  You also missed the entire, point of my comment.  It has nothing to, do with commas.","parent":"5933066","id":"5933108"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1356563743","timestamp":"2012-12-26 23:15:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As you say, love is not quantifiable, and it's not a question of who you love more, but to put a different angle on this... in some senses putting your marriage first is putting your kids first.\u003cp\u003eKids want a stable, loving environment, and will learn about adult relationships by observing how their parents treat each other (as well as how they treat them). Being around a strong marriage is pretty much the best gift (as well as time) that you can give kids.\u003cp\u003eI always thought it was a mistake for my parents not to spend more time together outside of their parental roles, and even when I was a kid I could see these as seeds of later turmoil. So whilst this advice isn't directly for you, I'd advise any parents to make some time to enjoy together, away from their kids (so long as the kids are old enough to be looked after by others). Its not selfish if everyone wins.","parent":"4970241","id":"4971460"}
{"by":"Latteland","time":"1532867886","timestamp":"2018-07-29 12:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"look at the children of donald trump, they basically don\u0026#x27;t do much other than hang around their father\u0026#x27;s company.","parent":"17637794","id":"17637811"}
{"by":"juanmirocks","time":"1513711105","timestamp":"2017-12-19 19:18:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. I\u0026#x27;m European, and I sure miss my perceived greater freedom and innovation of economical activities in the US. Things like having UBER banned for example in France or Germany completely throws me off. And in Germany you don\u0026#x27;t know yet what\u0026#x27;s living without cash and only with a credit card.\u003cp\u003eAnd those damn cookie notices!! Because they show up in every page, everybody accepts the policy without questioning, which completely defeats the purpose. And worse for the user experience, most often the implementation of websites for those notices is dummy, and show the notice upon refreshment, even after having accepted the policy before.","parent":"15962442","id":"15963170"}
{"by":"eridal","time":"1517619066","timestamp":"2018-02-03 00:51:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is really interesting how the following order seems to naturally follow itself:\u003cp\u003e1. disorder and chaos\u003cp\u003e2. patterns and backgrounds start to appear\u003cp\u003e3. the battle for the main background, spreading\u003cp\u003e4. totally background pattern, the war is over\u003cp\u003e5. group art creations start to appear","parent":"16294967","id":"16295447"}
{"by":"stevejohnson","time":"1286808104","timestamp":"2010-10-11 14:41:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would say that your problems were not caused by a long-running branch per se, but rather were caused by the intern not pulling from production often enough. Linus talked about this in one of his Git talks. Responsibility for merging should lie with the team working on the new feature in the side branch, not some other team that knows nothing about it.","parent":"1779764","id":"1779851"}
{"by":"analyst74","time":"1517794612","timestamp":"2018-02-05 01:36:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You mean the credit system we have here in US, which allows you to borrow money from banks at a low interest rate, buy a car\u0026#x2F;house with little down payment, or even rent a place without having to prepay 6 month rent?\u003cp\u003eYeah, I think every country needs it.","parent":"16305706","id":"16306031"}
{"by":"kevin_thibedeau","time":"1510039232","timestamp":"2017-11-07 07:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They were replicating the look of small fonts on CRTs where black text on a light background needed thicker lines to compensate for the bleed from neighboring active phosphors \u0026quot;shrinking\u0026quot; the apparent weight.","parent":"15640695","id":"15641571"}
{"by":"yuhong","time":"1394254724","timestamp":"2014-03-08 04:58:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In fact, just did a more complete version that works in IE too:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026lt;html xmlns:v=\u0026quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\u0026quot; xmlns:w=\u0026quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;head\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;!--[if !mso]\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;style\u0026gt;\n  v\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\n  o\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\n  w\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\n  .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;style\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;![endif]--\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;head\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;body\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;div\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;!--[if vml]\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;v:roundrect href=\u0026quot;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.EXAMPLE.com\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot; style=\u0026quot;height:40px;v-text-anchor:middle;width:300px;\u0026quot; arcsize=\u0026quot;10%\u0026quot; stroked=\u0026quot;f\u0026quot; fillcolor=\u0026quot;#d62828\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n    \u0026lt;w:anchorlock\u0026#x2F;\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;v:textbox\u0026gt;\n    \u0026lt;center style=\u0026quot;color:#ffffff;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n      Button Text Here!\n    \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;center\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;v:textbox\u0026gt;\n\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;v:roundrect\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;![endif]--\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;!--[if !vml]\u0026gt; \u0026lt;!--\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;table cellspacing=\u0026quot;0\u0026quot; cellpadding=\u0026quot;0\u0026quot;\u0026gt; \u0026lt;tr\u0026gt; \n  \u0026lt;td align=\u0026quot;center\u0026quot; width=\u0026quot;300\u0026quot; height=\u0026quot;40\u0026quot; bgcolor=\u0026quot;#d62828\u0026quot; style=\u0026quot;-webkit-border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; color: #ffffff; display: block;\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n    \u0026lt;a href=\u0026quot;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.EXAMPLE.com\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot; style=\u0026quot;color: #ffffff; font-size:16px; font-weight: bold; font-family:sans-serif; text-decoration: none; line-height:40px; width:100%; display:inline-block\u0026quot;\u0026gt;\n      Button Text Here!\n    \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;a\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;td\u0026gt; \n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;tr\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;table\u0026gt; \n  \u0026lt;!-- \u0026lt;![endif]--\u0026gt;\n  \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;div\u0026gt;\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"7363936","id":"7364296"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1360495176","timestamp":"2013-02-10 11:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMy observation of the subject is that many people have an intuition, gut feeling, opinion formed from personal experience, etc. that men and women in general have innate differences that make men (or women) more suitable for certain functions.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSounds like you'd like to ignore the science to the contrary and just rely on your gut.\u003cp\u003eYou're entitled to that, but I've found science to have a lot of usefulness.","parent":"5196063","id":"5196110"}
{"by":"smaddox","time":"1455744672","timestamp":"2016-02-17 21:31:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a common misconception. The reality is that banks lend money at interest rates above what the central bank offers them, meaning they can lend as much as they want irrespective of deposits, and then borrow reserves from the central bank at a lower rate.","parent":"11117994","id":"11121579"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1442908468","timestamp":"2015-09-22 07:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously this technology is not for bringing Terabytes of information with you. But you can put an awful lot of information in .txt format and something like 3 megabytes.","parent":"10248699","id":"10257234"}
{"by":"geff82","time":"1492006779","timestamp":"2017-04-12 14:19:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So there might be an opportunity.","parent":"14097248","id":"14097917"}
{"by":"UncleEntity","time":"1539443503","timestamp":"2018-10-13 15:11:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with that theory is I read a good portion of that article before I found out I was out of touch with (virtual) reality...","parent":"18208257","id":"18208303"}
{"by":"eli_gottlieb","time":"1383579049","timestamp":"2013-11-04 15:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Six-course meal?  No.  Are there fully automated kebab stands and such?  Already.","parent":"6666369","id":"6669068"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1473151028","timestamp":"2016-09-06 08:37:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes me wonder, does it help to make the cut a bit deeper then?","parent":"12434026","id":"12434434"}
{"by":"mitesh27","time":"1435155679","timestamp":"2015-06-24 14:21:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"google analytics, alexa","parent":"9771176","dead":true,"id":"9771737"}
{"by":"squidsoup","time":"1285271764","timestamp":"2010-09-23 19:56:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Massey University's (massey.ac.nz) introductory computer science papers are all in C#/.Net. I found this surprising as well.","parent":"1719721","id":"1721092"}
{"by":"vertex-four","time":"1531223966","timestamp":"2018-07-10 11:59:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s interesting, of course, that a similar set of caveats apply to working for early-stage startups - not that this forum would attack anyone for calling working for one fun.","parent":"17495053","id":"17497262"}
{"by":"erik_seaberg","time":"1527112596","timestamp":"2018-05-23 21:56:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to answer that question can take more time from engineers and lawyers than it\u0026#x27;s worth for a small userbase.","parent":"17134744","id":"17138726"}
{"by":"digikata","time":"1449595284","timestamp":"2015-12-08 17:21:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the mistake is assuming that $20\u0026#x2F;mo\u0026#x2F;fan is the upper bound. That\u0026#x27;s just a baseline direct subscription number. What ESPN should do then is offer a menu of more specialized sports products on top of that baseline. I do think there\u0026#x27;s going to be a painful transition in their business model in moving from leveraging a price from a wide range of cable subscribers, to offering premium products directed at sports fans. But, for all the pain, I think there\u0026#x27;s plenty of money to be made.","parent":"10697384","id":"10697808"}
{"by":"Cacti","time":"1360390516","timestamp":"2013-02-09 06:15:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OR he was investing his money in the area that he knew best and that would have the best profit he knew how to achieve so he could donate _more_ later.\u003cp\u003eExponential growth is king.\u003cp\u003eIf he had donated all he had in 1997 he wouldn't have even come close to what he's donated today.","parent":"5191640","id":"5191897"}
{"by":"jadedhacker","time":"1521959011","timestamp":"2018-03-25 06:23:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that no one asked for this censorship is most worrying. It\u0026#x27;s a demonstration that unaccountable executives can reshape social discourse at a whim. At least with mob rule there has to be a mob first!","parent":"16669879","id":"16671039"}
{"by":"BuuQu9hu","time":"1485973501","timestamp":"2017-02-01 18:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Matador Cloud (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;matador.cloud\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;matador.cloud\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e) uses nixops to manage NixOS machines.","parent":"13540952","id":"13543388"}
{"by":"alkonaut","time":"1518902752","timestamp":"2018-02-17 21:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who said something about “out of respect”? that makes no sense.\u003cp\u003eI try to kill anything I’m going to it \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c/i\u003e dignity and respect. Not \u003ci\u003eout of respect\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eAnd the least I can do to that end is to \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e kill anything I’m \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e going to eat, and if I kill anything I make it as quick and painless as possible.","parent":"16402636","id":"16402800"}
{"by":"abecedarius","time":"1266376871","timestamp":"2010-02-17 03:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I've usually represented the range with (low, size) instead of (low, high) (and then the high-low part never comes up).\u003cp\u003eSo when this article first came out I was all \"Aren't you bagging on Bentley too much? He published pseudocode, and \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c/i\u003e you have to take care about things like overflow when converting it to C.\" But then I saw Bentley saying somewhere that no, he really hadn't considered this problem.  (IIRC)","parent":"1130651","id":"1130742"}
{"by":"samfriedman","time":"1500493386","timestamp":"2017-07-19 19:43:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great.  Reminds me of the Lego brick identifier\u0026#x2F;sorter that was posted a while ago. Sure, there\u0026#x27;s no real reason that true-random bits from Random.org couldn\u0026#x27;t be used, but I think a project like this is neat precisely \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c/i\u003e it takes such great strides to bring back a classic physical component of playing board games that the service is otherwise designed to eliminate.","parent":"14806986","id":"14807279"}
{"by":"lucideer","time":"1537889852","timestamp":"2018-09-25 15:37:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s been a good bit of discussion since but unfortunately a lot of it has disappeared from the web and has only been viewable from within the Scuttleverse ever since this change was introduced: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ssbc\u0026#x2F;patchbay\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;b5b3732069d413e925798f851087d42c551aaf57\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ssbc\u0026#x2F;patchbay\u0026#x2F;commit\u0026#x2F;b5b3732069d413e92579...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18066941","id":"18067269"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1387836880","timestamp":"2013-12-23 22:14:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True\u0026#x2F;sad story. So at Sun when I was building crypto tools for Java I wanted to be able to use the RSA public key algorithm in the class loader (part of a capabilities based security system). We negotiated with RSA for a right to use their patent in Java, which proceeded right up until the final contract came back (which our lawyer signed but I did not get a chance to review) where the wording was changed to be a license to BSAFE rather than the patent. Clearly I wasn\u0026#x27;t going to put BSAFE into the JVM, I l already had an implementation of their algorithm in Java. There was never a good explanation for how the lawyer got so \u0026quot;confused\u0026quot; at the last minute and \u0026quot;forgot\u0026quot; to have these changes reveiwed by the engineer leading the project.\u003cp\u003eGiven the sort of shenanigans we\u0026#x27;ve been reading about I would not be surprised to hear that someone who was neither a Sun or RSADSI employee said \u0026quot;spike this deal\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e[edit: clarity]","parent":"6956260","id":"6956872"}
{"by":"steveplace","time":"1224607113","timestamp":"2008-10-21 16:38:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's my opinion that college football players should receive salary, or at least be able to accept endorsement opportunities. There would be a decreased financial motivation to leave school early.\u003cp\u003eThere's a ton of downside to this, I know, but I don't think that universities should be regulating what sort of money their students bring in.","parent":"339039","id":"339055"}
{"by":"usaar333","time":"1536772415","timestamp":"2018-09-12 17:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AliPay only accepts foreign credit cards for Taobao purchases. You can\u0026#x27;t use them for in-person purchases; I verified this with Alipay\u0026#x27;s support team when I found I was being blocked in China.","parent":"17967235","id":"17970897"}
{"by":"nickthemagicman","time":"1477894455","timestamp":"2016-10-31 06:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lol.  You just described EVERY philosopher.\u003cp\u003eTry Kants foundation of the metaphysics of morals.\u003cp\u003eOr Nitzsches stuff.\u003cp\u003eIts all madness but brilliant  stimulating madness.","parent":"12830864","id":"12834626"}
{"by":"masonic","time":"1544259323","timestamp":"2018-12-08 08:55:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(An account of how USA codebreakers verified that Midway was the next target of the Japanese navy in WW2.)","parent":"18629607","id":"18634506"}
{"by":"benologist","time":"1495569945","timestamp":"2017-05-23 20:05:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have some ideas I think will improve our security in this direction.  Apple seeks to make it technically impossible to extract iPhone data and I\u0026#x27;ve been wondering how we can do the same with using someone\u0026#x27;s credentials to enter the systems we build.\u003cp\u003eOne idea is to allow users to define how many concurrent sessions they can have so they can manage those slots and require something sign out before their credentials can sign in again.\u003cp\u003eThe other is to allow users to configure a schedule when their credentials work so you can block most of the world and probably most of most days too.","parent":"14403911","id":"14404777"}
{"by":"adamsmith","time":"1247290032","timestamp":"2009-07-11 05:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think sachinag is trying to say that consulting companies are services companies, whereas startups and silicon valley seem to revolve around product companies.  The semantics of the distinction are around scalability of the business.  You could also look at revenue per employee or P/E ratios as other indicators.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I agree that scalability is a better metric for enterprise attractiveness than raw size.  Investors agree.  CSC has a P/E ratio of 5.8, whereas Microsoft's is 12.9.\u003cp\u003eThe list also just feels mistaken, but that might be my misguided sense of enthusiasm for shiny companies.  Fiserv is a $6B company that I had never heard of.  I'd probably rather go long on Facebook or Twitter, but a savvy investor might disagree.","parent":"698834","id":"698858"}
{"by":"suyash","time":"1522170618","timestamp":"2018-03-27 17:10:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google stole Java and it\u0026#x27;s time for them to Pay up BIG MONEY!","parent":"16690323","dead":true,"id":"16690598"}
{"by":"iraldir","time":"1429797998","timestamp":"2015-04-23 14:06:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why the custom website instead of fiverr? Or maybe you have both (did not check). How much users did you got?","parent":"9426667","id":"9426730"}
{"by":"orblivion","time":"1520251448","timestamp":"2018-03-05 12:04:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say the more direct response is that with Wikipedia there is no product, in that sense of the word.","parent":"16520001","id":"16520444"}
{"by":"stonemetal","time":"1426255686","timestamp":"2015-03-13 14:08:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to his wikipedia page he retired in 1998. He also worked on a couple of small things that seem to have mostly fallen through.","parent":"9196139","id":"9197137"}
{"by":"Gooblebrai","time":"1533472159","timestamp":"2018-08-05 12:29:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you point me to that discussion you mention? Would be nice to read.","parent":"17690860","id":"17691002"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1294242171","timestamp":"2011-01-05 15:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some people think it's sad, I think it's natural selection.","parent":"2067501","id":"2071275"}
{"by":"hellofunk","time":"1493639840","timestamp":"2017-05-01 11:57:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is true of college degrees in general, lots of companies in various industries require proof of a bachelor\u0026#x27;s degree, regardless of what the subject matter was, because it shows an ability to stick to a goal and get something done, despite the actual quality or enjoyment of the work.","parent":"14236242","id":"14236894"}
{"by":"vvanders","time":"1444237105","timestamp":"2015-10-07 16:58:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha wow, taking the shirt off their back to its literal conclusion.","parent":"10346963","id":"10347199"}
{"by":"srtjstjsj","time":"1484242185","timestamp":"2017-01-12 17:29:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s anchoring bias. It wasn\u0026#x27;t $600 2 years ago","parent":"13383957","id":"13384219"}
{"by":"chrisseaton","time":"1497946787","timestamp":"2017-06-20 08:19:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Presumably adding precise stack maps and object maps would be the first step of adding IMMIX. I mean it\u0026#x27;s the compiler that chooses where to place things in the heap and the stack, so it already knows where they are.","parent":"14592701","id":"14592925"}
{"by":"heja2009","time":"1380358019","timestamp":"2013-09-28 08:46:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fully agree on QNX: very elegant OS, unique concepts like \u0026quot;syscalls\u0026quot; via synchronous (!) messaging, real-time from the bottom up.\nWe used it for a robot we build in the 90s. Everything from the low-level control to the image processing on some fine 386 boards with QNX-native networked IPC.\nToo bad that Blackberry was probably the death-spell for it.\u003cp\u003eAlso agree on Mach, although somehow NeXT\u0026#x2F;Apple seem to have managed to make a very good modern OS out of it - with a lot of Mach cruft hidden in the basement. The original NeXTStep Kernel suffered seriously from memory leakage and instability. Unbelievable it became the basis of iOS much later.","parent":"6460750","id":"6461344"}
{"by":"ssapkota","time":"1310760546","timestamp":"2011-07-15 20:09:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It quite interesting to see how the author relates the computer processing power with human brain. \nAlso shows how far and how fast we have advanced in machine computation.","parent":"2768851","id":"2768867"}
{"by":"pklausler","time":"1459357963","timestamp":"2016-03-30 17:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not a Luddite, but I prefer to use paper notebooks and a fountain pen to remember things and organize my thoughts.  I prefer Quo Vadis notebooks with beautiful creamy unlined paper suitable for writing and sketching.","parent":"11386590","id":"11390971"}
{"by":"Jaruzel","time":"1532965731","timestamp":"2018-07-30 15:48:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To do what you want, you\u0026#x27;d hook the windows resize messaging hooks, and override them. I\u0026#x27;m not sure you can get the application to \u0026#x27;look\u0026#x27; maximised though, as you\u0026#x27;d probably have to abort the maximise event, and override with a resize to your constraints event.\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, it\u0026#x27;s possible to lock the mouse inside a defined rectangle on the screen, using the Windows API.","parent":"17644637","id":"17645287"}
{"by":"siglesias","time":"1524864496","timestamp":"2018-04-27 21:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sort of assumes the only return from seeking a prize is the prize.","parent":"16942678","id":"16944488"}
{"by":"glennos","time":"1352761778","timestamp":"2012-11-12 23:09:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Poorly titled post, is this a Flora announcement or just a link to the product in general? Reading the page, the content fails to clearly address why this is better than their previous gen \"wearable\" board, the Lilypad. From what I could find, this board has greater specs.\u003cp\u003eGrumbles aside, glad to see the Arduino ecosystem thriving. No doubt this will surface in some Kickstarter projects in the near future (if it hasn't already).","parent":"4775166","id":"4775291"}
{"by":"astrange","time":"1289948474","timestamp":"2010-11-16 23:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course there will be a regression if you change the scheduler policy. ck tried something similar to this and mplayer performance suffered with it (though I don't remember the details). It also broke gnome-startup because it assumed some specific schedule ordering, though this patch is more limited so it might not.","parent":"1910658","id":"1912097"}
{"by":"jpalomaki","time":"1521278638","timestamp":"2018-03-17 09:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple was once known for its attention to details like this. That attention made iPhone and iPad such hits.","parent":"16606153","id":"16606170"}
{"by":"asah","time":"1474634678","timestamp":"2016-09-23 12:44:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Troll.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re independent, eg just because we need to fix roads doesn\u0026#x27;t mean we should stop funding science.","parent":"12564016","dead":true,"id":"12564110"}
{"by":"marcoperaza","time":"1513452888","timestamp":"2017-12-16 19:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Show me a committee of people who you think should be trusted to decide what speech is not allowed.\u003cp\u003eAnd I will show you a group of fallen men, like the rest of us, who will abuse their power for political gain.\u003cp\u003eAnd where do you draw the line? Maybe you could get everyone to agree on \u0026quot;kill all gays\u0026quot; being irredeemably intolerant. But what about conservatives who think that children benefit from having a mother and a father and so believe that only adoption by married heterosexual couples should be allowed[1]? According to you, is that just wrong or is it worthy of censorship?  And what of the many religions who believe that wives should obey their husbands? And what of discussions of multiculturalism and its potential threats to social cohesion? You give only easy examples, but the trouble is never with the easy examples.\u003cp\u003e[1] And the for the record, I\u0026#x27;m in favor of allowing adoption by gay couples.","parent":"15941391","id":"15941431"}
{"by":"aneesh","time":"1270649759","timestamp":"2010-04-07 14:15:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want a good \"non-linear\" math book, try the \u003ci\u003eArt Of Problem Solving\u003c/i\u003e volumes.","parent":"1246516","id":"1247280"}
{"by":"herval","time":"1452898172","timestamp":"2016-01-15 22:49:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Vegans are often ridiculed, abused and written off as self-righteous extremists who like nothing more than to push their \u0026quot;beliefs\u0026quot; upon others.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e...\u0026quot;vegans are the true moral bastions of society.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHmmm.","parent":"10907756","id":"10912859"}
{"by":"NonEUCitizen","time":"1332621033","timestamp":"2012-03-24 20:30:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why did you stop operating the site?","parent":"3750141","id":"3750614"}
{"by":"bolder88","time":"1378674108","timestamp":"2013-09-08 21:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Higher rate income tax certainly does. Tax bands certainly provide a big disincentive for bothering to get a better job\u0026#x2F;raise.\u003cp\u003eInheritance tax is very unfair. If you are rich enough, you\u0026#x27;ll plan around it and avoid it. But if you\u0026#x27;re not rich enough, your kids will not only lose their parents, they\u0026#x27;ll be sent a bill from the government. Which at best is a tad insensitive.\u003cp\u003eAdd to that the fact that the thresholds for inheritance tax haven\u0026#x27;t been raised properly, so that someone with a 1 bedroom apartment in London will be subject to inheritance tax, it all seems pretty unfair, and perverse for the government to effectively profit from peoples death.","parent":"6350270","id":"6350319"}
{"by":"alex_stoddard","time":"1285955045","timestamp":"2010-10-01 17:44:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe for an independent investor. But how can a t-bill be an investment for the government itself?\u003cp\u003eI am naively assuming that what backs the value of a t-bill is the US government's ability to accrue future tax revenue to pay it back.\u003cp\u003eWhat is it that makes a t-bill owed to Social security an investment rather than a tax deficit when it comes time to cut a social security check?","parent":"1747243","id":"1747845"}
{"by":"xt00","time":"1525552255","timestamp":"2018-05-05 20:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting about the scapegoating of automation.. arguing against it makes you sound like a Luddite, so not a bad approach. But yea an interesting thing I’ve noticed in China is that more and more factories are automating plastic molding — except in super cheap cheap factories that don’t want to spend money for automation. I think the party won’t totally be able to stop it, just slow it down. But lots of new govt funded factories are being built to employ quite a small number of people — like high tech stuff like making special parts for electronics especially.","parent":"17003476","id":"17003624"}
{"by":"shane999","time":"1407729428","timestamp":"2014-08-11 03:57:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vancouver guy here. I work for a media company as a part of a ~60 member software team. The fact is that probably less than ten people in the team are actually from Vancouver. Several of them are people who lived in the US on H1B visas that they couldn\u0026#x27;t get renewed. They come here \u0026quot;temporarily\u0026quot; but then like the lifestyle and stay.\u003cp\u003eI totally agree that the messed up US immigration system has benefited us here. I have experience with both immigration systems and the process in Canada was much easier than the US.","parent":"8160860","id":"8161864"}
{"by":"georgespencer","time":"1493899843","timestamp":"2017-05-04 12:10:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Target the largest customer base, so they get 30% of the biggest potential income. That means selling at a low price, because most customers will only pay low prices, and all customers prefer low prices. This teaches customers that software’s average value is low.\u003cp\u003eCan someone explain to me this logic? It seems faulty. Put it this way: if it were somehow possible to make more money as a developer in the App store, how would removing Apple\u0026#x27;s 30% cut make it more feasible? Apple and developers have a shared incentive to make as much money as possible, but developers control pricing and who they target. Apple is just along for the ride.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Build a universal app (iPhone and iPad versions, in the same package) to increase the attractiveness and convenience of owning multiple iOS devices. You’ll earn a “+” in your app’s buy-button on the Store. This teaches customers that supporting multiple devices isn’t something to pay extra for.\u003cp\u003eThis is better, and fairer, than the alternative. My iPad and my iPhone run the same operating system. Why should I pay twice for the same functionality across both of them? If Apple didn\u0026#x27;t do this people would be writing articles lamenting the fact that they want to make their 30% cut twice.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Also include an Apple Watch version within the iPhone app. As above.\u003cp\u003eI would be happy to pay to unlock Apple Watch functionality in apps. I\u0026#x27;m not sure that Apple prevents that from happening. But I agree with the author here provided the extra functionality is not simply \u0026quot;notifications\u0026quot; but something meaningful and unique to the watch\u0026#x27;s hardware.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Provide regular updates, at no cost; so much so that there’s no mechanism for paid upgrades at all. This teaches customers that they should expect free upgrades for life, no matter how little they paid for the software initially.\u003cp\u003eThere is a mechanism for a paid update, which is to simply state end of life for an app and release a new one (a la Tweetbot). Another way of looking at this is: Apple is encouraging developers to release new apps at full price once they feel that they have something new to launch, OR to use subscription pricing or quasi subscription pricing like Marco does with Overcast.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Make exactly one sale of an app per person, ever, regardless of the number of devices they own, how often the app has been updated since they last used it, and so on. This also teaches customers that they’re entitled to come back to a free app at any point in the future, no matter how long ago they paid for it.\u003cp\u003eThat seems fair to me as a consumer. If I bought something a year ago and want to re-install it, why shouldn\u0026#x27;t I? Wouldn\u0026#x27;t it seem unfair to not be able to use something I paid for?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Ideally, make exactly one sale of an app per family. This reinforces the commodification of software; it’s to be shared around.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Ideally\u0026quot; = Apple does not enforce this.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Sell only through their store, with their distribution mechanism, their product page design and user flow, and their 30% cut — which doesn’t provide for marketing or discovery of any kind beyond searchability, and the very small chance of being featured in some way. The majority of customers probably have no idea that the price they pay for an app is almost 43% higher than the amount the developer will receive, before tax (i.e. that Apple takes 30% off the top).\u003cp\u003eWhich has done more for the security and quality of the software which is available to consumers. (And that\u0026#x27;s also a reason affluent middle class folks flock to iOS.) And Apple allows search marketing and of course doesn\u0026#x27;t stop developers from marketing in Google, Bing, on TV, etc. which is where the majority of installs are driven for most app-centric startups I know.","parent":"14263922","id":"14264203"}
{"by":"agscala","time":"1345646726","timestamp":"2012-08-22 14:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's the point of minimizing a server-side script anyways?  It doesn't need to be transferred over the wire.  Silly.","parent":"4417141","id":"4417569"}
{"by":"wavefunction","time":"1508889508","timestamp":"2017-10-24 23:58:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a buddy from a gaming group a few years ago that had worked up a Java app that he ran through a projector pointed at the table.  Lost touch with him though, or I\u0026#x27;d point you to it or him.\u003cp\u003eI tried to turn him onto some modern development practices since he was looking to try to become a professional developer.","parent":"15545740","id":"15546239"}
{"by":"macintux","time":"1450653368","timestamp":"2015-12-20 23:16:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Sweden\u0026#x27;s security services are under immense pressure to identify, monitor, and stop any terror threats from within, and do it under strict privacy laws. Hardly a first-world problem.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIsn\u0026#x27;t that the very definition of a first-world problem? In the rest of the world privacy laws are a joke.","parent":"10767345","id":"10768722"}
{"by":"himlion","time":"1510815935","timestamp":"2017-11-16 07:05:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s easy enough to google and find out.","parent":"15709934","id":"15710736"}
{"by":"Yzupnick","time":"1305327152","timestamp":"2011-05-13 22:52:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something Ayn Rand predicted.","parent":"2546484","id":"2546530"}
{"by":"letlambda","time":"1523718798","timestamp":"2018-04-14 15:13:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They aren\u0026#x27;t, we can easily extend the concept by using it as metaphor.","parent":"16836277","id":"16837640"}
{"by":"xpaulbettsx","time":"1322879897","timestamp":"2011-12-03 02:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The key that makes things click for me is, the Commit is the most important 'unit' of Git. Tags, branches, pseudo-refs like HEAD are all just mutable or immutable (like tags) \u003ci\u003epointers\u003c/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003ecommits\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm...\u003c/a\u003e is absolutely worth your time if the above statement didn't trigger a lightbulb in your head","parent":"3306142","id":"3306717"}
{"by":"astine","time":"1360091915","timestamp":"2013-02-05 19:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It could just say that he lacks imagination or doesn't feel that his attire is something on which one should spend a lot of mental capital. A suit is practical, easy, and non-threatening and picking up a bunch of cheap ones is a simple way to look professional without a lot of thought. It's really easy to look like a slob in a t-shirt and jeans and I suspect that a lot of SV CEOs put a deceptive amount of effort into their laid-back appearance.\u003cp\u003eIt's worth noting that Dell is a Texas company, and the t-shirt and jeans look is still a pretty specifically SV trend.","parent":"5171526","id":"5172603"}
{"by":"emmanueljob","time":"1443717987","timestamp":"2015-10-01 16:46:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Accuen | Full-time, Remote, Visa | San Francisco, CA | Full Stack Engineers\u003cp\u003eWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing 3 Person Engineering Team. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in shipping code quickly and working on all parts of the stack including ETL’s and background\u0026#x2F;long running jobs.\u003cp\u003eOur technology stack includes Python, Django, AWS, Git, Jenkins. You will have the opportunity to evaluate new technologies and use them to design better and more reliable systems. Experience with our stack is a bonus, but we will train outstanding candidates.\u003cp\u003eEmail me directly emmanuel.job at accuenmedia.com","parent":"10311580","id":"10312522"}
{"by":"xenophonf","time":"1513138528","timestamp":"2017-12-13 04:15:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a lot of FUD here, starting with SAML being new.  SAML 1.0 was ratified in 2002, and SAML 2.0 was ratified in 2005.  Compare that to OAuth, with version 1.0 published by IETF in 2010 and version 2.0 in 2012.  Likewise, there are multiple, mature SAML implementations including the open source Shibboleth project, which started in 2000, and SimpleSAMLphp, which started in 2007.  I consider Shibboleth the gold standard, against which I measure all SAML implementations.\u003cp\u003eIn just the global research and higher educational community (eduGAIN), there are currently 2588 SAML identity providers and 1792 SAML service providers.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eNow, this [golden SAML] attack isn\u0026#x27;t real practical as it requires things like the \u0026quot;token-signing private key\u0026quot;.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt isn\u0026#x27;t a flaw in the SAML protocol.  If an attacker compromises your IAM infrastructure, be that a domain controller, directory server, KDC, IdP, or OP, they can impersonate your users.","parent":"15911471","id":"15911976"}
{"by":"lutorm","time":"1539884056","timestamp":"2018-10-18 17:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What was the range of the Mosquito compared to the Lancaster?","parent":"18249260","id":"18250323"}
{"by":"csallen","time":"1487268544","timestamp":"2017-02-16 18:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally agree with you. I know this is a nitpick, but in Jason\u0026#x27;s response to \u0026quot;What have been your biggest advantages\u0026quot;, he actually does talk about running Indie Shuffle:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; As mentioned before, being \u0026quot;part of the problem\u0026quot; provided the best advantage possible. There were a few competitors trying to solve similar problems, but none of them were actually part of the equation. As such, they struggled to convince others to sign up, and didn\u0026#x27;t have a steady funnel of users to push their way.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecifically, the knowledge he gained from running Indie Shuffle (\u0026quot;being part of the problem\u0026quot;) and the \u0026quot;steady funnel of users\u0026quot; really helped him out.","parent":"13661468","id":"13662116"}
{"by":"clarry","time":"1478640201","timestamp":"2016-11-08 21:23:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you should give the man page \u0026amp; built in documentation another chance.  It\u0026#x27;s not that long (maybe 40-50 pages printed) and you can skip a few sections that you\u0026#x27;ll know to look up if you need them.  You can also skip the detailed descriptions of most commands and options.  Just having the important shortcuts memorized and having a general idea of what commands you have and what they do is all you need.  Don\u0026#x27;t forget to read the examples.","parent":"12903979","id":"12904064"}
{"by":"eric_h","time":"1445280295","timestamp":"2015-10-19 18:44:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it\u0026#x27;s the New York Post; it makes for a good click-baity headline.","parent":"10414727","id":"10414755"}
{"by":"sjwalter","time":"1508777875","timestamp":"2017-10-23 16:57:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Deadly. Have always hated the privacy implications of server-side speech processing.","parent":"15534531","id":"15534663"}
{"by":"setquk","time":"1526223624","timestamp":"2018-05-13 15:00:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep. I’ve decided to give it a try for a couple of weeks. I think I lasted a day on the last release before quitting.\u003cp\u003eThe new one also has reasonably sized UI elements ie smaller.","parent":"17059223","id":"17059230"}
{"by":"tnecniv","time":"1502477741","timestamp":"2017-08-11 18:55:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t think it will. Level off - maybe.\u003cp\u003eI mean, the dotcom bubble popped but websites are still here and more profitable than ever. The bubble popping doesn\u0026#x27;t mean that DL is going to go away. People will just have more reasonable expectations about what it can do.","parent":"14990835","id":"14993043"}
{"by":"cft","time":"1545553849","timestamp":"2018-12-23 08:30:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not arbitrary. Below certain size (i.e. negative PR potential) you are at the mercy of Google as a software company if you choose apps versus web sites.","parent":"18745062","id":"18745072"}
{"by":"brandmeyer","time":"1478021389","timestamp":"2016-11-01 17:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure that you need a kernel per-core.  However, it would be nice for the microkernel to provide reliably per-cpu data structures to userspace.  For example, via per-cpu replicated receive capabilities.  That way, a capability send request from a client program would get routed to the same CPU\u0026#x27;s capability in the server.  That would provide some very cache-friendly superfast machine-local IPC.","parent":"12846402","id":"12848109"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1535073585","timestamp":"2018-08-24 01:19:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does Sonder qualify the spaces they purchase? If they aren\u0026#x27;t careful, aren\u0026#x27;t they really just one big target for lawsuits?","parent":"17831777","id":"17832038"}
{"by":"thaumasiotes","time":"1473491545","timestamp":"2016-09-10 07:12:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might like to know more about Australia\u0026#x27;s experience with unsubsidizing farmers.\u003cp\u003eOr, heck, you might not like it. But I think you should know more about it anyway.","parent":"12467884","id":"12468086"}
{"by":"kefka","time":"1468353535","timestamp":"2016-07-12 19:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, again ethereum is pay-to-play. And a complete waste of money\u0026#x2F;eth.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;d be better off using IPFS and integrating the storage\u0026#x2F;frontend so it communicates with your backend cluster. That would keep you off of ethereum.","parent":"12081142","id":"12081887"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1539269729","timestamp":"2018-10-11 14:55:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We continued to fly the shuttle even after it killed 14 astronauts. By measure of total astronauts killed, it was the worst spacecraft design in history. Though not sure how it ranks in deaths per flight.","parent":"18192856","id":"18194021"}
{"by":"Finbarr","time":"1469648866","timestamp":"2016-07-27 19:47:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really enjoyed \u0026quot;Children of God\u0026quot; and the sequel \u0026quot;The Sparrow\u0026quot; by Mary Doria Russell. Great sci-fi.","parent":"12175428","id":"12175948"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1325034014","timestamp":"2011-12-28 01:00:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope he's getting paid well for this. It's a masterful way of keeping attention, if indeed he's doing all this intentionally.","parent":"3397876","id":"3398154"}
{"by":"ThePhysicist","time":"1438274528","timestamp":"2015-07-30 16:42:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gitboard as a whole uses jQuery, but not the component. I will have to clean up the code a bit it seems, will do that in the coming days and publish the component.","parent":"9969372","id":"9976179"}
{"by":"ChemicalWarfare","time":"1489447198","timestamp":"2017-03-13 23:19:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The irony here is that \u0026quot;decentralized p2p-based currency\u0026quot; is very much centralized with 60-70% of the mining power concentrated in 2-3 mining pools who get to impose their will on the system.","parent":"13862361","id":"13863490"}
{"by":"rincebrain","time":"1480766213","timestamp":"2016-12-03 11:56:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, it\u0026#x27;s not necessarily one dimensional, but it also doesn\u0026#x27;t just scale in terms of total magnitude summed across all dimensions (e.g. a bit of power in 50 axes is not comparable to the same quantity of power in one axis).\u003cp\u003eThe reason to care about the dynamic of the past is that people are influenced by the past - in particular, people\u0026#x27;s actions in the present are often based on things that they did or that were done to them in the past.\u003cp\u003eSpecifically, here, the reason to care about the past is that, even if\u0026#x2F;when we reached a point of equilibrium, where a subset of people were no longer in a minority of power, there would still likely be X Pride events for a while after, because the feeling of needing\u0026#x2F;wanting such things would not go away overnight.","parent":"13088401","id":"13095369"}
{"by":"bobby_9x","time":"1454876078","timestamp":"2016-02-07 20:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mexico doesn\u0026#x27;t have a drug problem, they have a corruption problem.\u003cp\u003eThis is more proof it.","parent":"11054577","id":"11054588"}
{"by":"arkades","time":"1525633138","timestamp":"2018-05-06 18:58:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There\u0026#x27;s so much low hanging fruit (things that could kill two birds with one stone\u003cp\u003eStonefruit, you might say.","parent":"17007695","id":"17007770"}
{"by":"ramchip","time":"1261761398","timestamp":"2009-12-25 17:16:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Using a computer/gun/lock pick isn't illegal either.","parent":"1015060","id":"1015112"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1390609441","timestamp":"2014-01-25 00:24:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re playing semantic games. There\u0026#x27;s a series of different filters at each UK ISP put in place by government request. Whether there\u0026#x27;s one brick wall around the entire country or a bunch of separate walls of different materials it\u0026#x27;s still a wall.","parent":"7116691","id":"7119172"}
{"by":"sbilstein","time":"1477585413","timestamp":"2016-10-27 16:23:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The big caveat with a company that historically failed at something is...are the people involved good enough to actually solve this problem this type around given the companies historical trend? Or does it make more sense to go to another social network where abuse has been a focus for a longer time and learn from people who have been successful so far?\u003cp\u003eTurning around a ship is really hard. I\u0026#x27;ve made the mistake of working at a company with a hugely insurmountable problem (Bing) having viewed it as a big opportunity but I almost certainly pursued a job at the winner (Google) considering I had no experience as a professional engineer yet and would have learned much more. On the other hand if you already are the subject matter expert, it can be a huge opportunity to bring your skill set somewhere it is desperately needed.\u003cp\u003eNot that I really know first hand social networks that are great at solving the abuse problem but this is one way to look at a career choice.","parent":"12805961","id":"12806485"}
{"by":"wisty","time":"1371205643","timestamp":"2013-06-14 10:27:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even better - join their party, and vote in the primaries for candidates who share your views.","parent":"5876375","id":"5879157"}
{"by":"tathougies","time":"1489219503","timestamp":"2017-03-11 08:05:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are right about agda. Idris however is not total by default.","parent":"13843804","id":"13844730"}
{"by":"simplicio","time":"1512578327","timestamp":"2017-12-06 16:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mean, inheriting a farm \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e inheriting a lot of money.  Were family farmers perfectly rational economic actors, they\u0026#x27;d presumably sell their inherited farm and use the proceeds to buy one more suited to the newer, locally grown, organic type farms that are more insulated from the economies of scale that are driving them out of business.\u003cp\u003eBut obviously people aren\u0026#x27;t such rational actors, and farmers have emotional attachments to their farms, the rural areas they grew up in, etc.  And so they keep trying to make the old model work, increase their debt loads and hope things will turn around until its too late.","parent":"15862318","id":"15862456"}
{"by":"ai09","time":"1289247703","timestamp":"2010-11-08 20:21:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, Paul. I'm doing some of that as well by geocoding all the filings. For instance, here are the most recent filings from California, geocoded down to the exact address:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.formds.com/filings/advanced_filter?filters_params[date_select]=\u0026#38;filters_params[size_select]=\u0026#38;filters_params[industry_select]=\u0026#38;filters_params[new_amended_select]=\u0026#38;filters_params[equity_debt_select]=\u0026#38;filters_params[state_select]=CA\u0026#38;filters_params[miles_select]=\u0026#38;zip_code=\u0026#38;filters_params[list_or_map_select]=Show+on+a+map\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.formds.com/filings/advanced_filter?filters_params...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1883791","id":"1883829"}
{"by":"just4now","time":"1285004574","timestamp":"2010-09-20 17:42:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you so much for your response - I am very grateful for your encouragement. Have a great day and thank you.","parent":"1709702","id":"1709743"}
{"by":"md224","time":"1514314618","timestamp":"2017-12-26 18:56:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds kind of like ADD (or ADHD-PI, as it\u0026#x27;s now called)... do you find that coffee helps at all?","parent":"16010176","id":"16010213"}
{"by":"groby_b","time":"1298425236","timestamp":"2011-02-23 01:40:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is an interesting thought.. I've never looked at it from that angle, but formality is certainly a buffer against \"pecking order\" fights. Then again, as much as I'm happy in a less casual setting, I wouldn't go so far as addressing fellow HN posters as \"Sir\" or \"Ma'am\" :) (But maybe I should...)\u003cp\u003eIt's also interesting that in the last 6 months or so I ran across a couple of sites that take your HN karma as a predictor of your geek-worthiness. Well-intentioned, I'm sure, but it encourages gaming the system. HN karma now is not only something valuable to the HN community, but outside.\u003cp\u003eIt would be very interesting to see if kuro5hin/slashdot/reddit \"decline\" periods correlate with wider acceptance of their karma metric.","parent":"2252534","id":"2252576"}
{"by":"edwardy20","time":"1383979329","timestamp":"2013-11-09 06:42:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps: \u0026quot;Kano is the first computer that everyone can make.\u0026quot; is what the OP intended.","parent":"6700219","id":"6700920"}
{"by":"emddudley","time":"1350060384","timestamp":"2012-10-12 16:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is common. Otherwise you get a mess of copyrighted code, and making it effectively impossible to determine who owns the copyright to what. Good luck if you ever want to change the license or give one person a special license.\u003cp\u003eYou can use Project Harmony (\u003ca href=\"http://harmonyagreements.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://harmonyagreements.org/\u003c/a\u003e) to generate one of these agreements for your own project. It's targeted at FOSS, and the licenses themselves are under CC-AT-3.0.","parent":"4645140","id":"4645812"}
{"by":"pmccool","time":"1302865660","timestamp":"2011-04-15 11:07:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Non-programmers don’t care about the aesthetics of software in the same way non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing\u003cp\u003eI myself think the problem is precisely the opposite: people \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e care about the aesthetics of plumbing, and of programming. They just care about it in ways that have nothing do to with how well it works. We, as consumers, care far too much about \"pretty\" and far too little about \"effective\".\u003cp\u003eWell-crafted anything doesn't necessarily stand out, IME. It just works. This is an admirable trait, but it can't seem to compete with \"beautiful\". It's a shame that making things that work well is somehow less admirable that making things that look nice.","parent":"2449960","id":"2450100"}
{"by":"Qz","time":"1279981638","timestamp":"2010-07-24 14:27:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThat's how a democracy should work, anyway.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's how a \u003ci\u003erepresentative\u003c/i\u003e democracy works, but that's only one form of democracy (and unfortunately ours).","parent":"1543473","id":"1543683"}
{"by":"GPGPU","time":"1450706584","timestamp":"2015-12-21 14:03:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;How long is software like Windows NT expected to last\u0026quot;","parent":"10766665","dead":true,"id":"10771068"}
{"by":"Impossible","time":"1487549876","timestamp":"2017-02-20 00:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I said this by accident in a meeting one time and everyone got a good laugh from it.  Must have got it from this book unconsciously.","parent":"13657250","id":"13683149"}
{"by":"eevilspock","time":"1337357194","timestamp":"2012-05-18 16:06:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could build a strategy game on top of this.","parent":"3991748","id":"3992568"}
{"by":"geuis","time":"1357985179","timestamp":"2013-01-12 10:06:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its sad that this is important and at the top of HN, yet Reddit is still full of cat pictures on the front page.","parent":"5046845","id":"5047277"}
{"by":"ddoolin","time":"1538678365","timestamp":"2018-10-04 18:39:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not much to add, but want to note that you\u0026#x27;re spot on. I\u0026#x27;ve encountered this SO many times over the years and this is always the explanation I\u0026#x27;m given. At first it just made me indignant, too, and to some degree I guess it still does, but now I just try to let it go.","parent":"18141790","id":"18142391"}
{"by":"clarkm","time":"1366862142","timestamp":"2013-04-25 03:55:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you been following this since then?\u003cp\u003eThat's not actually Gelman's analysis. He's just relaying some criticisms that were sent to him by Janet Mertz. Ron Unz responds to this, corrects some of his own errors, and shows his claims still hold. Then Gelman (proxying for Mertz) and Unz go back and forth way too many times, using way too many words and almost no data.\u003cp\u003eEventually Gelman gives up, so Unz moves on to reviewing Mertz's old work. Let's just leave it here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ronunz.org/2013/03/16/meritocracy-dangerous-cancer-statistics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.ronunz.org/2013/03/16/meritocracy-dangerous-cance...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5604534","id":"5605632"}
{"by":"Mikeb85","time":"1379970173","timestamp":"2013-09-23 21:02:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not about whether or not college is worth it, but rather what you want to get out of it and your expectations...  You can\u0026#x27;t expect every degree to optain you a good paying job, certainly not without some creativity and a little extra curricular effort anyway...","parent":"6433458","id":"6434138"}
{"by":"Geea","time":"1305025799","timestamp":"2011-05-10 11:09:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh yes, there are tons, but I thought the YC community is a good place to collect more startup info :)","parent":"2531970","id":"2532050"}
{"by":"nkkollaw","time":"1513453927","timestamp":"2017-12-16 19:52:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The video looks fake..?","parent":"15940674","id":"15941568"}
{"by":"krollew","time":"1335185810","timestamp":"2012-04-23 12:56:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds reasonable. My experience (native polish, almost native english plus ukraininan and russian) says brain is rather unable (or it's not used) to use multiple languages at the same time. So if you think in foreign language (I mean: language you don't usualy think in) brain hasn't enough words (or is too lazy to look for them ;)) to make big analysis of problem so It doesn't do that.","parent":"3876695","id":"3878489"}
{"by":"nyolfen","time":"1547063161","timestamp":"2019-01-09 19:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"china has seemed to have recognized that chinese is too hard for most people to learn as a second language, and have been sponsoring efforts at establishing esperanto as an intl langauage","parent":"18866079","id":"18868113"}
{"by":"a-b","time":"1496163970","timestamp":"2017-05-30 17:06:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can\u0026#x27;t resist. First thought this post is about \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;WTF\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;6e03eh\u0026#x2F;driving_through_an_airport\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;WTF\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;6e03eh\u0026#x2F;driving_through...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14446373","id":"14446747"}
{"by":"ignostic","time":"1369858403","timestamp":"2013-05-29 20:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rand built \"exaggerated\" characters, that's true. Unfortunately the style results in a bunch of cheesy straw men.\u003cp\u003eThe business leaders like Rearden are hard-working, smart, and good looking. The villains are stupid unattractive leeches, or at best weak and cowering pushovers. Nowhere in those books will you find an \u003ci\u003eintelligent\u003c/i\u003e argument in favor or utilitarianism or moderate altruism.\u003cp\u003eRand was guilty of disingenuous representation of opposing views, which shouldn't be totally excused under the guise of the romantic style.","parent":"5788372","id":"5788782"}
{"by":"anotheramala","time":"1536605539","timestamp":"2018-09-10 18:52:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In USA the large companies who will lose profits from simple alternatives will make up reasons to not lose their profits.","parent":"17953957","id":"17954083"}
{"by":"Qz","time":"1273544128","timestamp":"2010-05-11 02:15:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know what you're saying, but I disagree.  Modern english is literally littered with words that originally meant entirely different things than we currently use them for.  Remember 'booting up' your computer?  It comes from bootstrapping, which comes from the literal straps on boots, which you put on feet.  But I doubt you were thinking about feet when your computer was booting up.  If Duck Duck Go becomes successful, it is not hard for me to imagine a scenario where I could say Duck Duck Go without thinking of ducks.","parent":"1335662","id":"1336598"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1500600585","timestamp":"2017-07-21 01:29:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The arguer\u0026#x27;s credibility has no bearing on the truth value of purely logical arguments that can be fully evaluated within the four corners of the argument. Very few scientific assertions fit that rubric. In the ordinary case where a conclusion is at some pointed predicated on an unknown fact, then the credibility of the speaker absolutely matters.","parent":"14815219","id":"14817474"}
{"by":"CyberDildonics","time":"1500094932","timestamp":"2017-07-15 05:02:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you think it is unfair that YC could have consequences simply from being accused of abusing their influence without being able to defend themselves?","parent":"14773309","id":"14775106"}
{"by":"callmeed","time":"1409602512","timestamp":"2014-09-01 20:15:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, thanks. Been out of town and didn\u0026#x27;t see it.","parent":"8254449","id":"8254510"}
{"by":"DaniFong","time":"1203068396","timestamp":"2008-02-15 09:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not so much of a problem with autoupdate, microsoft can just command all (windows) clients to download the thing.","parent":"116265","id":"116392"}
{"by":"RIMR","time":"1451931966","timestamp":"2016-01-04 18:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But then you wouldn\u0026#x27;t have 60,000 addresses for every square centimeter of land on Earth! \u0026#x2F;s","parent":"10837317","id":"10837373"}
{"by":"charlesju","time":"1238531602","timestamp":"2009-03-31 20:33:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is the simple answer:\u003cp\u003eSQL does not scale out to multiple databases easily, CloudDB does.\u003cp\u003eAnd I know many startups where the above is not true, in fact, any successful startup hits a major bottleneck when they have to distribute MySQL. It's not a function of money, it's a function of the time and expertise to implement sharding well.","parent":"540701","id":"540767"}
{"by":"cwilson","time":"1321635402","timestamp":"2011-11-18 16:56:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was exactly the point they were trying to make.","parent":"3252167","id":"3252375"}
{"by":"stelonix","time":"1374768073","timestamp":"2013-07-25 16:01:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a nice view. What sucks is that you need money in order to get elected. And if you\u0026#x27;re not a millionaire already, chances are corporations won\u0026#x27;t be willing to lobby for someone proposing to change the status quo.","parent":"6102789","id":"6103075"}
{"by":"alex1","time":"1380589785","timestamp":"2013-10-01 01:09:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last year a bunch of people coordinated rideshares on a Facebook group. Someone should set up a new one for this year.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Just made one for 2013, join up: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/705664592796188/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.facebook.com\u0026#x2F;groups\u0026#x2F;705664592796188\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6473388","id":"6473413"}
{"by":"tkahn6","time":"1335164379","timestamp":"2012-04-23 06:59:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is tptacek's company.","parent":"3876192","id":"3877662"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1284524631","timestamp":"2010-09-15 04:23:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhat's interesting is that stories like this have been around for decades but never deterred young ivy league grads from joining Goldman when the industry is popular.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you look, I'm sure you can find stories about how \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e possible profession or industry sucks to work in. And most of those other professions and industries don't pay $500K+.\u003cp\u003eWith a PhD in physics I could have just as easily gone into quant-land as academia. And while academia is great, it has its own set of sucky problems. Is it \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e worth the 400+ thousand dollars a year I'm effectively \"paying\" in order to work there instead of GS? It's a helluva luxury good.","parent":"1690629","id":"1693307"}
{"by":"loumf","time":"1424036069","timestamp":"2015-02-15 21:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The whole W2\u0026#x2F;SCorp thing you are talking about is a commonly held belief, but there are details you are getting wrong that change its efficacy.\u003cp\u003e1. There is a maximum income for the payroll tax which in 2014 was 117,000.  Which means that in your example (making 200k and only paying on 100k), would not save them tax on 100k.  They would only have needed to pay on 117k.  So they are saving payroll tax on 17k, which isn\u0026#x27;t worth the trouble.\u003cp\u003e2. This person has a regular job.  Lots of engineers already make more than 117k, so they might already be maxing the payroll tax.  In that case, they save nothing.\u003cp\u003e3. The way that many try to game the system is to try to report that the \u0026quot;reasonable market salary\u0026quot; is low -- which might work if you don\u0026#x27;t already have a job doing what your 1099 work is.  If you do, you might have a hard time explaining that to the IRS.  If you only do 1099 work, you can site labor statistics (and the median might be in your favor).\u003cp\u003eThe whole SCorp thing that you see recommended works best if you\u003cp\u003e1. Make near or more than the payroll max (117k)\u003cp\u003e2. Live in an area of the US where the median developer salary is low, say 50k.\u003cp\u003e3. Do not have a long salary history of making a lot more than that in that area.\u003cp\u003eIn that case, you save the payroll tax on 117k-50k.  Even if you make 200k, you only save the tax on 117k-50k.\u003cp\u003eI am not an accountant, and this is not accounting advice.","parent":"9053374","id":"9054220"}
{"by":"reccanti","time":"1514935026","timestamp":"2018-01-02 23:17:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also found this to be a really good resource:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dataorienteddesign.com\u0026#x2F;dodmain\u0026#x2F;dodmain.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dataorienteddesign.com\u0026#x2F;dodmain\u0026#x2F;dodmain.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16051905","id":"16056816"}
{"by":"melvinram","time":"1302105865","timestamp":"2011-04-06 16:04:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everyone's thinking it so I'll say it: WTF?!\u003cp\u003eIf Wells Fargo turned off online banking for 1 month, I'd switch banks.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if they are handling everything in-house or have hired external consultants/company to build out this wonderful new site \u0026#38; mobile app that will take a full year.\u003cp\u003eNow if their current system had a major exploit and the only way to fix it is to rewrite the whole thing, I guess they have no choice. At the very least they should have put together a temporary \"read only\" type of site that involve less/no risk on their part and provide their call centers a bit of relief.\u003cp\u003eBallsy move (and not in a good way.)","parent":"2415259","id":"2415636"}
{"by":"kagamine","time":"1441606441","timestamp":"2015-09-07 06:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A very good point I think, the web in your language is not always the same as the web in other languages, for example sites like nicovideo.js do tend to be different and carry a lot more information per page than American or European sites.","parent":"10180276","id":"10180285"}
{"by":"JohnStrange","time":"1481631366","timestamp":"2016-12-13 12:16:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eJust to provide a contrarian viewpoint -- strong disdain for the military is one of the criteria for a weak state rife with degeneracy and malignancy.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eUhm, no. For example, Liechtenstein, Palau, and Vatican City do not have a military and they do not seem to be \u0026quot;rife with degeneracy and malignacy\u0026quot; - well perhaps Vatican City,  but  not the other two.","parent":"13166208","id":"13166226"}
{"by":"jmtame","time":"1235857873","timestamp":"2009-02-28 21:51:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"max is a marketing GENIUS.  searching for someone's name and it inevitably turns up x*results of advertisements for his company ;)\u003cp\u003ei say this is a predictor of success.  if you search someone's full name, count how many times you see their shirt with their company logo.  until i have enough money as max to throw around, i'll pose with a 8.5x11 sheet of paper with my logo written or printed on it.","parent":"498497","id":"498509"}
{"by":"cmroanirgo","time":"1540372063","timestamp":"2018-10-24 09:07:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that it\u0026#x27;s rather appalling, but it\u0026#x27;s not just an \u0026#x27;anti-Muslim\u0026#x27;. They have been making claims and asserting themselves wherever and whenever they can. They have a proven track record of incarcerating or killing anyone (dissident or otherwise) that doesn\u0026#x27;t fit into their mould of chinese ideology.\u003cp\u003e- China will decide who the next Dalai Lama will be: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;time.com\u0026#x2F;3743742\u0026#x2F;dalai-lama-china-reincarnation-tibet-buddhism\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;time.com\u0026#x2F;3743742\u0026#x2F;dalai-lama-china-reincarnation-tibet...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Building an island in the South China Sea (after claiming an atoll as their own): \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world-us-canada-34641131\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;world-us-canada-34641131\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Genocide in Tibet: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thetibetpost.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;outlook\u0026#x2F;opinions-and-columns\u0026#x2F;4533-genocide-in-the-20th-century-massacres-in-tibet-1966-76\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thetibetpost.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;outlook\u0026#x2F;opinions-and-columns\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Outlawing Falun Gong (a meditation group): \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pri.org\u0026#x2F;stories\u0026#x2F;2014-07-14\u0026#x2F;why-china-fears-falun-gong\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pri.org\u0026#x2F;stories\u0026#x2F;2014-07-14\u0026#x2F;why-china-fears-falun...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Incursion into Bhutan: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;edition.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;asia\u0026#x2F;bhutan-india-border-dispute\u0026#x2F;index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;edition.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;asia\u0026#x2F;bhutan-india-border-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat they can do in a subversive way, they can, and where it doesn\u0026#x27;t work, they\u0026#x27;re overt.","parent":"18290304","id":"18290810"}
{"by":"andrewtj","time":"1262741804","timestamp":"2010-01-06 01:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I searched for Bangkok Thailand and found the content returned very familiar - it'd come solely from \u003ca href=\"http://wikipedia.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://wikipedia.org/\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://wikitravel.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://wikitravel.org/\u003c/a\u003e. The FAQ confirms that's what the site does. I won't try it again.","parent":"1033088","id":"1033925"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1499338715","timestamp":"2017-07-06 10:58:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After being a strong GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux zealot during the early days, it started to become irrelevant to me the moment I stop caring about POSIX.\u003cp\u003eAs long as my tools of choice offer rich libraries and packaging systems, the actual underlying is no longer relevant unless I require some special use case.\u003cp\u003eLooking at how Linux distributions turned out, I think GNU\u0026#x2F;Linux developers failed to learn what happened with the UNIX wars.","parent":"14709105","id":"14709428"}
{"by":"mwetzler","time":"1360007516","timestamp":"2013-02-04 19:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think two things make it more likely for me to encounter incidents of sexism:\u003cp\u003e1) I do some programming for my job, but a majority of it involves going out and meeting other developers, learning about their work, and seeing how we can make our API better for them. I live in SF so I can't get a coffee without bumping into another developer. I bet I have many more interactions than someone who is developing full time in their home or office. More interactions increases chances for good and bad types of interactions.\u003cp\u003e2) Since I have been researching sexism in the industry, I have started to notice small slights and snubs more. I went for years brushing off countless minor incidents. I still don't get offended easily, but I do notice things more. For example, checkout the gun.io landing page right now (Beards of Experience). I like gun.io, but their homepage is definitely not female-friendly, and I noticed it immediately.\u003cp\u003eI'd wager that people who have had some kind of experience that really bothered them, or ones who have recently started learning more about gender bias, will suddenly start to notice all the little \"micro agressions\" more. Even my male colleagues have started noticing them more since we have been discussing it recently.\u003cp\u003eOne of them even said \"it's like when you get a new car, you suddenly start to notice how many people drive the same car as you do\".","parent":"5166484","id":"5166618"}
{"by":"wladimir","time":"1301318023","timestamp":"2011-03-28 13:13:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So it's a key value store that supports mapping keys of up to 255 bytes to values of up to 255 bytes.\u003cp\u003eIsn't 255 bytes a bit short, especially for values? What usecases does this have in Tarsnap? Filename \u0026#60;-\u0026#62; Hash mapping?","parent":"2378110","id":"2378212"}
{"by":"calciphus","time":"1352243388","timestamp":"2012-11-06 23:09:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fortunately, we'll have the data to compare against actual state or county results, since most of these folks leave their location settings enabled, too.\u003cp\u003eWhile it won't predict this location, correlational data could be applied for future elections assuming the primary political leanings of the electorate don't change too much in 4 years.","parent":"4751319","id":"4751327"}
{"by":"Sir_Substance","time":"1511211831","timestamp":"2017-11-20 21:03:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll take your word for it I guess, but I don\u0026#x27;t see the logic. Why would my motherboard manufacturer be involved in this process?\u003cp\u003eedit: maximum downvotes for a legitimate question, thanks all","parent":"15742925","id":"15743267"}
{"by":"alexott","time":"1386232755","timestamp":"2013-12-05 08:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll add it, thanks","parent":"6853253","id":"6853270"}
{"by":"matchu","time":"1441527002","timestamp":"2015-09-06 08:10:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The payload probably won\u0026#x27;t increase as much as we\u0026#x27;d think thanks to gzip, and you can apply the styles via server-side rendering rather than waiting for the JS to load.\u003cp\u003eWe also need to consider the time from request to a ready page: if you\u0026#x27;re on an incredibly slow connection, then having the styles immediately rather than waiting on a second round-trip is a huge win. I agree that there are pros and cons, but some of the pros are actually in performance; it\u0026#x27;s not immediately clear which technique is more performant overall in what contexts.","parent":"10175992","id":"10177083"}
{"by":"devpopol","time":"1278185509","timestamp":"2010-07-03 19:31:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if(!window.console){window.console = {};}\nif(!(toString(window.console.log) === '[object Function]')) {window.console.log = function(){};}\u003cp\u003ethere, fixed..","parent":"1484170","id":"1484303"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1517259927","timestamp":"2018-01-29 21:05:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThere was an article in our local newspaper about a dude who bought lifetime brakes for his Mustang in like 1970 from JC Penney (!). To this day, he’s still getting free brakes, I think Firestone took on the business.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan confirm as an ex-Firestone mechanic from shortly after Firestone picked up Penny\u0026#x27;s repair business (in fact, the shop I worked at used to be a Penny\u0026#x27;s auto repair). If a car rolled in needing brakes, and they had the lifetime warranty, we put brakes on it. I was never tasked with trying to find ways to wiggle out of it. Nope, it was \u0026quot;hey, mikestew, \u0026#x27;72 \u0026#x27;stang out there, check the brakes. It\u0026#x27;s lifetime warranty, so if it needs anything we don\u0026#x27;t need to call customer, just put it on and let me know what you did.\u0026quot; And because a \u0026quot;lifetime\u0026quot; job required that the customer buy calipers and rotors in addition to pads, Firestone covered everything. Rotors are shot? New rotors for you, no charge! Caliper frozen? New caliper, on the house!\u003cp\u003eHaven\u0026#x27;t worked for Firestone in about 25 years, but we still take our cars there for lifetime alignment (I can do brakes myself). No bullshit, no fine print, take it in once or twice a year, no questions asked. And I\u0026#x27;ll tell you why Firestone doesn\u0026#x27;t mind: they\u0026#x27;ll more than likely find something else that needs work (not trying to rip you off, folks, that\u0026#x27;s just the nature of mechanical things) and make some money off that. My personal observation was that folks also never took it back for an alignment until it needed tires, and therefore money in Firestone\u0026#x27;s pocket. IOW, Firestone\u0026#x27;s bean counters were counting on customers not actually using the warranty, and they were right.\u003cp\u003eTilley clothing is another one who honored the lifetime warranty on two of their hats we had for twenty years. Filled out the form, paid eight US dollars shipping, new hats in a few weeks. My only complaint is that the new hats are...different. I dunno, maybe after some break-in they\u0026#x27;ll be like our old ones. Tilley claims to be like the Craftsman tools of old: if you\u0026#x27;re in possession of a hat, you\u0026#x27;re covered under warranty even if you didn\u0026#x27;t buy it. \u0026quot;Put it in your will!\u0026quot;, they say. I assume that\u0026#x27;s true, because they never asked us for any proof of purchase.","parent":"16258587","id":"16260604"}
{"by":"platz","time":"1412543497","timestamp":"2014-10-05 21:11:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was something about the old space quest games that was really creepy, somehow the lack of fidelity in graphics really intensified the alienness.. Or it could just be nostalgia.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimg3.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20080110190718%2Fspacequest%2Fimages%2Fd%2Fdd%2FArcada8.png\u0026amp;imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fspacequest.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AArcada8.png\u0026amp;h=400\u0026amp;w=640\u0026amp;tbnid=CyGHPEWZ37UXMM%3A\u0026amp;zoom=1\u0026amp;docid=ZMxJ5mowhYPDmM\u0026amp;itg=1\u0026amp;ei=ErMxVLKXA8WryAT19IHwBg\u0026amp;tbm=isch\u0026amp;client=chrome-mobile\u0026amp;ved=0CGIQMyg7MDs\u0026amp;iact=rc\u0026amp;uact=3\u0026amp;page=6\u0026amp;start=51\u0026amp;ndsp=10\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimg3.wikia....\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8412777","id":"8413469"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1331366217","timestamp":"2012-03-10 07:56:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the prvt.org domain? the jester, who was the guy who first published that a year ago, tweeted that he thinks Sabu was arrested before the whois record on that domain was leaked.\u003cp\u003esomebody needs to sit down and work out the timeline here and figure out what happen.","parent":"3687374","id":"3687388"}
{"by":"chii","time":"1470232053","timestamp":"2016-08-03 13:47:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if it\u0026#x27;s innovative, putting it up is still useful as a case study on how to perform said innovation. It\u0026#x27;s not bringing you any revenue anyway, so it\u0026#x27;s not like you\u0026#x27;d lose anything. Just take out all of the keys and passwords etc from the repo!","parent":"12217337","id":"12217842"}
{"by":"Aardwolf","time":"1516297048","timestamp":"2018-01-18 17:37:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome, D3D 11 support is a great milestone :)\u003cp\u003eLooking forward to version 3.11\u003cp\u003eDoes it support The Sims 2 in the mean time? (all versions here are garbage related to a 256 vertices crash: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;appdb.winehq.org\u0026#x2F;objectManager.php?sClass=application\u0026amp;iId=1942\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;appdb.winehq.org\u0026#x2F;objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"16178534","id":"16179182"}
{"by":"maaku","time":"1319661316","timestamp":"2011-10-26 20:35:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's called Montgomery multiplication. VIA has had it in their CPUs for quite some time now. I don't know about AMD or Intel.","parent":"3160169","id":"3160272"}
{"by":"mcarlise","time":"1468522065","timestamp":"2016-07-14 18:47:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Most of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics can\u0026#x27;t be attributed to any of them, and even then it only covers physics\u003cp\u003eEinstein is one of the founders of quantum mechanics (1921 Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect).  And Newton founded calculus - which procedes any ability to mathematically describe natural observations.","parent":"12095593","id":"12096319"}
{"by":"sskates","time":"1362033951","timestamp":"2013-02-28 06:45:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for sharing that. Do you think you could have better spent your time elsewhere outside of tech startups?","parent":"5297063","id":"5297458"}
{"by":"DonaldFisk","time":"1451742793","timestamp":"2016-01-02 13:53:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn\u0026#x27;t surprise me.   They are using their visual cortex to process sensory data (auditory images) which substitute for sight.","parent":"10826152","id":"10826177"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1293055669","timestamp":"2010-12-22 22:07:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do they expect to do with this type of DRM? Prevent pirated copies? I downloaded it in 720p two or three weeks ago. This DRM horse shit is going to be bothering customers who paid for the disc for months or longer.","parent":"2032400","id":"2032645"}
{"by":"Cthulhu_","time":"1534330575","timestamp":"2018-08-15 10:56:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it like curl in that regard?","parent":"17764872","id":"17765096"}
{"by":"Double_a_92","time":"1543415920","timestamp":"2018-11-28 14:38:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does the Google experience really teach one that much better? Or is it just perception?\u003cp\u003eI mean, at the end you are just a little cogwheel in some big corporation anyway. The python tasks you need to solve there are probably just as mundane as everywhere else.","parent":"18551171","id":"18551759"}
{"by":"Daviey","time":"1387538190","timestamp":"2013-12-20 11:16:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could never understand how they managed to be around as long as they have.  I was constantly assured that they had high untold value in IP.\u003cp\u003eReally sad to see this happen.  Some really great people working there, with great potential.","parent":"6938138","id":"6940900"}
{"by":"error54","time":"1356026746","timestamp":"2012-12-20 18:05:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shoot me a message at jyoung@azaleahealth.com","parent":"4946883","id":"4949012"}
{"by":"martinpannier","time":"1349198137","timestamp":"2012-10-02 17:15:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting idea. Would love to know how you guys will tackle the tl;dr generation issue—how to incentivize people to contribute, etc.\u003cp\u003eThis is definitely a very interesting space. We ARE moving towards bite-sized pieces of information anyways, and you guys seem to be riding on this trend.\u003cp\u003eBest of luck, and looking forward to how this will turn out!","parent":"4602377","id":"4603061"}
{"by":"jen729w","time":"1547432615","timestamp":"2019-01-14 02:23:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don’t have a ‘work’ [0] but I do have a very stable 100\u0026#x2F;40 connection at home that is very rarely pushed to those numbers.\u003cp\u003eI’ve set it up this morning, I’m running a relay but NOT an exit node, as per Tor’s recommendation. I’ll keep an eye on it and my network connection.\u003cp\u003eFurther advice welcomed, I just want to do the right thing. Thank you.\u003cp\u003e[0]: And when I do ‘work’ it tends to be at the sort of place where you absolutely could never run a Tor relay!","parent":"18898899","id":"18900139"}
{"by":"dna_polymerase","time":"1522536193","timestamp":"2018-03-31 22:43:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, so if it wasn\u0026#x27;t intentional how else could old videos still be in the system. Videos is not a new feature and the videos date back as far as 2008.\u003cp\u003eFacebook may be a bad player, but they have tons of talent working for them. Are you seriously suggesting that they stored a decade worth of videos that never saw a single view\u0026#x2F;download and nobody there realized it?","parent":"16725497","id":"16725561"}
{"by":"TheLoneWolfling","time":"1429899728","timestamp":"2015-04-24 18:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find myself hitting the view source button to read (mangled) text in JS source way too often.\u003cp\u003eOr worse, unmangled text in JS source. Or text that\u0026#x27;s set to display:none until the JS gets to it.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re going to compile things clientside (looking at you, markdown), at least put the raw text in something the browser can display before the JS compiles it.","parent":"9433051","id":"9435117"}
{"by":"metachris","time":"1292079866","timestamp":"2010-12-11 15:04:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks but I did read it and did not find an explanation inside the post except \"\u003ci\u003eSo you are probably wondering why am am doing this and want an explanation besides ‘because I though having an excuse to drink beer all weekend was rad’. Its a good question and one I will expand upon in time, but for right now I will say it has to do with how many ridiculous and dangerous dieting fads are out there today.\u003c/i\u003e\" -- which does not explain it at all. That is why I did ask.\u003cp\u003eMy guess is you're bored and want some traffic from HN, and are going to post three follow-ups here the coming days...","parent":"1993941","id":"1994909"}
{"by":"Sir_Substance","time":"1430950370","timestamp":"2015-05-06 22:12:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re doing an incredibly shitty job of it then.\u003cp\u003eIt would be more accurate to say the rich are voting just enough to the poor to prevent widespread active looting.","parent":"9501798","id":"9502125"}
{"by":"jpwagner","time":"1389272816","timestamp":"2014-01-09 13:06:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://whois.domaintools.com/piratebrowser.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;whois.domaintools.com\u0026#x2F;piratebrowser.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Neij\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fredrik_Neij\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7029696","id":"7030199"}
{"by":"glifchits","time":"1403149986","timestamp":"2014-06-19 03:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense that T-Mobile would charge you for the album art or the banner ad and not the music file.","parent":"7914346","id":"7914377"}
{"by":"chiefalchemist","time":"1527109156","timestamp":"2018-05-23 20:59:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing sinister about a biz model that kills its customers? This is hardly the (illegal) drug industry\u0026#x27;s traditional approach. The deviation begs to ask: What\u0026#x27;s the point then?\u003cp\u003eSome will not aak. I believe it\u0026#x27;s a legit query.","parent":"17137742","id":"17138221"}
{"by":"taliesinb","time":"1369791838","timestamp":"2013-05-29 01:43:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; if you're going to launder money, you should launder a whole shitload of it\u003cp\u003eYes. Or rather, if you're going to launder money, make sure you're making healthy campaign contributions, hiring ex-politicians and their staffers as lobbyists, oiling the great lobbying machine, etc...\u003cp\u003eFor those who haven't read it, Lessig has written a rather nice book on exactly how this kind of \"soft corruption\" works: \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Congress/dp/0446576433\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Congress/...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5783963","id":"5784098"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1375087571","timestamp":"2013-07-29 08:46:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of stuff. But the question isn\u0026#x27;t about which of those two systems will be better in the end. The question is what to do when you\u0026#x27;ve only got $75k.","parent":"6119975","id":"6119987"}
{"by":"sparkslabs","time":"1465380730","timestamp":"2016-06-08 10:12:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Conflating github projects as being \u0026quot;your experience\u0026quot;, is not really sensible really. After all, github is only 8 years old at this point, and many real world projects (ie the day job where your experience lies) can\u0026#x27;t be in github public repositories. (And for many predate the existance of github)\u003cp\u003eFor a selection of good reasons as to why using github like this is a bad metric take a look at:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.jcoglan.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;why-github-is-not-your-cv\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.jcoglan.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;why-github-is-not-your-c...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(There are lots of good counterpoints to the arguments there in the hackernews discussion of that post here - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6738952\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6738952\u003c/a\u003e - but personally I still think it\u0026#x27;s incredibly dangerous to start assuming that you can really measure experience from github.\u003cp\u003eAfter all, do you also include repositories forked, but not worked on? If so, it\u0026#x27;d be incredibly easy to game this...\u003cp\u003eAs a toy it seems kinda fun\u0026#x2F;neat, but as a tool... far less so.","parent":"11860879","id":"11861182"}
{"by":"brass9","time":"1340600939","timestamp":"2012-06-25 05:08:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here. Had been using 2.95 till a few months ago. Upgraded to 5.6. 5.x is not so bad.","parent":"4154902","id":"4155182"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1358222558","timestamp":"2013-01-15 04:02:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; (whole lot of tangents with no actual response)\u003cp\u003ePragmatically, you do seem to be in the right industry.","parent":"5058453","id":"5058547"}
{"by":"m3mnoch","time":"1391871451","timestamp":"2014-02-08 14:57:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"heh.  i\u0026#x27;d expect nothing less from zed.  this comment makes me assume some of you youngsters don\u0026#x27;t know who he is.\u003cp\u003efrom his site:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Yes I say \u0026quot;fuck\u0026quot;, and quite a lot of \u0026quot;bad words\u0026quot;, mostly because it\u0026#x27;s funny to watch you shit your pants at them. It\u0026#x27;s not like you\u0026#x27;re going to give me a job so fuck it, I\u0026#x27;ll say fuck. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck*\u003cp\u003e*Did I mention? fuck\u0026quot;","parent":"7201273","id":"7201315"}
{"by":"glurgh","time":"1377921797","timestamp":"2013-08-31 04:03:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are also German laws that place restrictions on whether and when your retail business can be open on Sundays. Or what you can say about the Nazis. Plenty of US laws are heatedly discussed here as well, often enough.\u003cp\u003eFact is, it\u0026#x27;s not likely you can arrive at sensible conclusions about them without context or on the basis of some advocacy piece or, for that matter, Plato.","parent":"6305417","id":"6305737"}
{"by":"geezerjay","time":"1516126097","timestamp":"2018-01-16 18:08:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t sell postgres table inserts.","parent":"16160389","id":"16160428"}
{"by":"McP","time":"1301578337","timestamp":"2011-03-31 13:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's more to it than that.\nAlso, ssize_t is not standard C++, use ptrdiff_t instead.","parent":"2391357","id":"2391450"}
{"by":"pfortuny","time":"1368264041","timestamp":"2013-05-11 09:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is this simple thing linguists do not get: real language is much harder than linguistics.\u003cp\u003eReal life phenomena tend to be more complex than the equations \"describing them\". Imagine if instead of equations you have Linguistics...","parent":"5688626","id":"5690180"}
{"by":"e1ven","time":"1255447043","timestamp":"2009-10-13 15:17:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose I'll have to download and install to be sure, but it really looks like a version of the Chrome Browser, which is designed to run on the new Chrome OS.\u003cp\u003eThat said, looking at the Screenshot, I can see some \"OS\" like features, such as the clock, or maybe a button in the browser which launches other applications..\u003cp\u003eI think I see why they're calling the OS Chrome. It's not that they're re-using the name, they're just adding basic windowing and app launching to the Chrome Browser.\u003cp\u003eIf you ran it \"Chromeless\" (Ie, without the Gnome dock, etc), you could use this as a.. Sort-of OS.\u003cp\u003eThat's very much not what I had imagined for a \"Chrome OS\", which would be much more like the fake demo video we say on Techcrunch a few weeks ago, but this would be a very Easy project to put together.","parent":"879233","id":"879248"}
{"by":"19kuba22","time":"1483202446","timestamp":"2016-12-31 16:40:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my experience traveling Europe and America, Europe is much more homogeneous even if languages are different.","parent":"13291007","id":"13291726"}
{"by":"Idontreddit","time":"1466263485","timestamp":"2016-06-18 15:24:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If that is a human rights violation then what do you call the US, Australia, etc?\u003cp\u003eThe native americans, aborigines, etc are in far worse situation than the tibetans.\u003cp\u003eI love the hypocrisy we have. I wonder if the china realize the hypocrisy.\u003cp\u003eMaybe we should return the US, australia, etc to the natives before spouting hypocritical nonsense about human rights.","parent":"11927612","dead":true,"id":"11929000"}
{"by":"eli","time":"1426177753","timestamp":"2015-03-12 16:29:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is that this sort of trading involves an algorithm making the \u0026quot;decision\u0026quot; to buy\u0026#x2F;sell\u0026#x2F;query trades at an \u003ci\u003eextremely\u003c/i\u003e high rate. When I click \u0026quot;market order\u0026quot; on my eTrade screen it\u0026#x27;s going at nearly light speed too -- but we both know that\u0026#x27;s not the same thing and not what he meant. I think you\u0026#x27;re being a bit pedantic.","parent":"9191432","id":"9191834"}
{"by":"chillingeffect","time":"1446670894","timestamp":"2015-11-04 21:01:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It could also expose police officers to incredible dangers.\u003cp\u003eQ: What if Jane X. Badgal were to fill a laptop case with explosives and a GPS\u0026#x2F;camera, then look for someone\u0026#x27;s open car near a police station and leave the device in it?\u003cp\u003eA: Police officer grabs device, remote detonation happens, with little evidence to go on.","parent":"10509353","id":"10509726"}
{"by":"adebelov","time":"1343265240","timestamp":"2012-07-26 01:14:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i think this is an amazing buy. what do you guys think?","parent":"4292968","id":"4293906"}
{"by":"mateo42","time":"1362431901","timestamp":"2013-03-04 21:18:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know it's TPB so I should have known this, but beware of this link at the office.  If you don't have a good ad-blocker installed it will throw up some non-HR friendly popups!","parent":"5319419","id":"5321033"}
{"by":"wvenable","time":"1434731716","timestamp":"2015-06-19 16:35:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you vastly misunderstand the size of reddit\u0026#x27;s userbase.  Furthermore, it\u0026#x27;s been my experience that a small vocal minority produce significantly more content than the average user.  And the single largest group of people with enough time to post all the time are children.","parent":"9745912","id":"9745948"}
{"by":"jarcoal","time":"1367374419","timestamp":"2013-05-01 02:13:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Confirmed.  My app is getting 502s.","parent":"5635982","id":"5636074"}
{"by":"timr","time":"1359243291","timestamp":"2013-01-26 23:34:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was honestly expecting a different sort of rant from Mark Cuban.  It's nice to see someone taking on the \u003ci\u003ebusiness\u003c/i\u003e of college, without dismissing the need for a \u003ci\u003ecollege education\u003c/i\u003e.  Bravo to someone who gets it.\u003cp\u003eThat said, while I agree with his premise, I'll admit to being a little sad about the consequences:  people in power rarely talk about it, but the kids who go to the \"name schools\" have a huge career advantage over the kids who go to Podunk University.  I should know -- I went to a tiny school, and somehow managed to end up in silicon valley, where the leaders and power brokers are (wait for it)...almost exclusively graduates of the Ivy League.  And this isn't the only industry where that's true.\u003cp\u003eIt's disheartening.  A hard-working, smart graduate from Oklahoma State with a degree in computer science degree will be at a \u003ci\u003esubstantial disadvantage\u003c/i\u003e when it comes to getting the best jobs -- the big boys (Google, Facebook, etc.) might send a recruiter to the campus career fair once a year, but they aren't hosting hackathons, sponsoring scholarships, or setting up permanent shop in the career center, like they'll do for Stanford or Berkeley or MIT.  And when it comes time to reach for the management fast-track, those Ivy contacts go a long way.\u003cp\u003eSo, who wins when the ability to pay for college out-of-pocket determines the economic winners and losers?  Not the poor.  We're rapidly heading to a country with a rigid and unyielding class structure, thanks to the brutal realities of unfettered market capitalism.","parent":"5121287","id":"5122281"}
{"by":"davej","time":"1319498415","timestamp":"2011-10-24 23:20:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's another interesting use of the issue tracker by Paul Irish (of the jQuery Standards Team): \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/paulirish/lazyweb-requests/issues\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/paulirish/lazyweb-requests/issues\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3151903","id":"3152052"}
{"by":"wlesieutre","time":"1522361123","timestamp":"2018-03-29 22:05:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a story floating around the internet of someone having done by stabbing through their thumbs with a 9V multimeter, and maybe it\u0026#x27;s possible, but I\u0026#x27;m skeptical of the story\u0026#x27;s veracity. I can see those wacky stories for a lot of situations, but you\u0026#x27;d think with somebody dying that there\u0026#x27;d be some kind of incident report or other documentation.\u003cp\u003eBut sure, it\u0026#x27;s probably best to not touch the car battery terminals when your hands are bleeding.","parent":"16711121","id":"16711497"}
{"by":"edw519","time":"1215471167","timestamp":"2008-07-07 22:52:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks Daniel (I think).\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe just questioned the morality of pot as an aide in student studies\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo I didn't.\u003cp\u003eI challenged the appropriateness of a #1 hn post from a student who uses drugs to get by and then brags about it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe reaction seems very mob-like.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't know what to expect, but this was no surprise.  Since \"net\" scores are the only thing that show, I'm curious how many up votes and down votes there were.  Even though the net is negative, I wonder how many people agreed.","parent":"239266","id":"239285"}
{"by":"gibybo","time":"1308296525","timestamp":"2011-06-17 07:42:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While making the world a better place may not be sufficient to build a successful business, I don't think it's fair to say only organizations focusing on the third world are improving quality of life. Companies usually don't make money unless they are helping someone, and that help often leads to an improved quality of life, first world or not.","parent":"2664688","id":"2664727"}
{"by":"pixl97","time":"1517784628","timestamp":"2018-02-04 22:50:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;What if I could replace one of your family members with a perfect simulacrum that was indistinguishable from the real thing, except you knew it was a simulacrum. Would you accept it?\u003cp\u003eYou may not, but your kids generation that grew up with it always around would.","parent":"16303208","id":"16305433"}
{"by":"ssambros","time":"1494352424","timestamp":"2017-05-09 17:53:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the Army, yes. But \u0026quot;every Marine is a rifleman\u0026quot;.","parent":"14300448","id":"14302345"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1474344184","timestamp":"2016-09-20 04:03:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ePedestrians and cyclists are subsidized as they pay nothing at all for their infrastructure.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eComparisons across many orders of magnitude are not insightful. Pedestrians and cyclists can travel over unimproved ground, or gravel if they\u0026#x27;re being picky. Any road that currently serves automobiles could serve the same number of drivers as pedestrians and cyclists for centuries with no maintenance.","parent":"12536639","id":"12536965"}
{"by":"matt42","time":"1399473346","timestamp":"2014-05-07 14:35:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is thanks to the C++11 variadic templates that symplifies (a lot) the writting of such abstractions. The object model is only 100 lines of C++11: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/matt-42/iod/blob/master/iod.hh\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;matt-42\u0026#x2F;iod\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;iod.hh\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7710326","id":"7710349"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1446057148","timestamp":"2015-10-28 18:32:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would love to see this stuff become mainstream. Whether or not you could \u0026quot;power a building\u0026quot; based on its windows alone, it would be wonderful if all you did was provide for some climate control (A\u0026#x2F;C in summer, Heat in the winter). A passively maintained environmental system would be very helpful, one of the reasons people first started living in caves was that the cave provided some moderation of temperature swings outside based on the thermal mass of the earth around it. Large scale sustainable group housing is something we need.","parent":"10463360","id":"10466344"}
{"by":"kbutler","time":"1377150955","timestamp":"2013-08-22 05:55:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have several micro USB cables that are asymmetrical - the cable is shifted to the side, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Micro-Travel-Charger-M540/dp/B002HJBM04\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Samsung-Micro-Travel-Charger-M540\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are trivial to plug in purely by feel in the dark.\u003cp\u003eAnd as a bonus, they charge many of my devices!  I \u0026quot;die a little inside\u0026quot; every time I have to use a special cable for an iDevice (or a Samsung tablet!)\u003cp\u003eInteresting that you consider it an advantage to have a connection sturdy enough to pick up the device by the cable.  You probably don\u0026#x27;t care much for magsafe adapters...","parent":"6248857","id":"6255374"}
{"by":"cma","time":"1487364140","timestamp":"2017-02-17 20:42:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh make sure your mesh has smoothing groups too, or you will be getting aliasing on the specular on the internal polygons.  Some of your edge artifacts look like they may be that.","parent":"13670494","id":"13671536"}
{"by":"ghaff","time":"1483816051","timestamp":"2017-01-07 19:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone else said, yes and yes.\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the simple fact that advertising is down, it\u0026#x27;s because newspapers were\u0026#x2F;are bundles. When they had local monopolies (or at least duopolies) on information and certain advertising, this let them do things like fill a lot of cheap column inches with sports scores and wire copy while maintaining (in many cases) prestige investigative units and foreign bureaus. These never came close to paying for themselves in the sense that subscribers would pay for them as standalone writing. But they lent gravitas to the paper as a whole, helping to make the paper as a whole a moneymaking proposition.","parent":"13345372","id":"13345921"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1398038806","timestamp":"2014-04-21 00:06:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why are we not using OCSP Must Staple right now?","parent":"7615273","id":"7618980"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1533528742","timestamp":"2018-08-06 04:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has anyone made a large-format map (or better yet: globe) across which one can scroll to past geographic and political maps?","parent":"17690693","id":"17695054"}
{"by":"jonhendry18","time":"1531205555","timestamp":"2018-07-10 06:52:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone should make a big diagram, showing a variety of \u0026quot;cool things\u0026quot; that require math or which knowing the math helps to use, and the chain of math techniques and areas that lead to it - with granularity finer than \u0026quot;calc III\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eSort of like a Civilization tech tree, but for applications of mathematics. \u0026quot;If you want to do 3D graphics, learn this but also this which leads to this which leads to this.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat way students can say \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m hating Taylor series but if I learn that I can use it in X\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;This is hard but if I get through it I can learn quaternions and do Y\u0026quot; or whatever.","parent":"17493995","id":"17495948"}
{"by":"gt565k","time":"1485453563","timestamp":"2017-01-26 17:59:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#x27;Although the cases drew wide media attention in Britain, some researchers said that because the London team also gave the children standard chemotherapy, they failed to show the cell treatment actually cured the kids. “There is a hint of efficacy but no proof,” says Stephan Grupp, director of cancer immunotherapy at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who collaborates with Novartis. “It would be great if it works, but that just hasn’t been shown yet.”\u0026#x27;\u003cp\u003eSo the title is basically click-bait, as the treatment is unconfirmed.","parent":"13491058","id":"13493578"}
{"by":"wmw","time":"1348334161","timestamp":"2012-09-22 17:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"are you willing to open source that api port?","parent":"4558113","id":"4558373"}
{"by":"amazon_not","time":"1455112299","timestamp":"2016-02-10 13:51:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Movies perhaps?","parent":"11072541","id":"11072669"}
{"by":"kalibrator","time":"1382865869","timestamp":"2013-10-27 09:24:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that\u0026#x27;s a bit of a stretch, Catalunya is by itself in a huge problems (debt) and is also still a part of Spain, so you can\u0026#x27;t that simply separate it from the problems of the country.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s true that Barcelona by itself is probably still doing pretty fine - but I would say that\u0026#x27;s for different reasons - there\u0026#x27;s no shortage of people from all over the world coming there to live\u0026#x2F;work\u0026#x2F;study, be it Erasmus students or business people (a lot of Germans my experience is telling). That keeps the renting market busy.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, 680€ for a three-bed flat in Les Corts? That\u0026#x27;s insanely cheap, so either the OP found a great opportunity or the prices really dropped down in a last year (or, third possibility: I overvalue the attractiveness of Les Corts)","parent":"6618926","id":"6621370"}
{"by":"rmrfrmrf","time":"1402856159","timestamp":"2014-06-15 18:15:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple has made it known through its chip design (and subsequent underclocking), app development limitations, etc. that battery life is of utmost importance. I suspect that some of these limits are an attempt to keep websites from draining mobile devices of energy.\u003cp\u003eIs WebGL over a browser typically as performant as native code? I would suspect no, but I\u0026#x27;m not familiar enough with WebGL to know.","parent":"7894952","id":"7895857"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1265379597","timestamp":"2010-02-05 14:19:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know that was a design goal, e.g. the bytecodes after translation from JVM to Dalvik are smaller.  I also seem to remember hearing that not all of a JVM's library is supplied with Dalvik.\u003cp\u003eAlso, hasn't Java ME stagnated?  I.e. it's stuck in at Java 1.3 (which Oracle has promised to address).","parent":"1103547","id":"1103566"}
{"by":"cjreyes","time":"1355635243","timestamp":"2012-12-16 05:20:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. This culture also manifests at college campuses. If you aren't taking seven classes at once, you aren't working hard enough.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://thetartan.org/2012/12/3/forum/mentalhealth\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://thetartan.org/2012/12/3/forum/mentalhealth\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4927403","id":"4927427"}
{"by":"MarkSweep","time":"1285839720","timestamp":"2010-09-30 09:42:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would think it would be easy to provide the security side-effect of NAT through firewalls in routers.  The concept of \"you can't talk to me unless I initiated a connection\" does not seem to require NAT.","parent":"1742629","id":"1742753"}
{"by":"crowding","time":"1354796790","timestamp":"2012-12-06 12:26:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gelman and Hill is a nice book organized specifically around regression.","parent":"4880138","id":"4881478"}
{"by":"egospring","time":"1388679189","timestamp":"2014-01-02 16:13:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those looking to learn more, there\u0026#x27;s a guy by the name of Ralfy who does fantastic in-depth reviews that will get you excited to enjoy whisky: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/ralfystuff\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;user\u0026#x2F;ralfystuff\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6997925","id":"7000268"}
{"by":"jpablo","time":"1544888270","timestamp":"2018-12-15 15:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where my wife\u0026#x27;s family is. There wasn\u0026#x27;t much question about it","parent":"18688647","id":"18688717"}
{"by":"CamperBob","time":"1294302209","timestamp":"2011-01-06 08:23:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So don't let just any random Joe provide feedback.  Crowdsource it to longtime holders of Google accounts who've got a track record.\u003cp\u003eRecognizing that not all users are created equal is (IMHO) an incredibly powerful insight that Google and many other companies overlook.  Qualified, technically literate users will be happy to volunteer, but you have to ask.","parent":"2074475","id":"2074594"}
{"by":"napoleoncomplex","time":"1348352269","timestamp":"2012-09-22 22:17:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just my two cents here, maybe it's worth thinking of offering a more loose relation to specific fields for gittip users instead of projects/corporations, which isn't related to being compensated for being in that field. Something like the tag system on Stack Overflow, for example. Considering the broad scope you mention the platform could have in the future, it could look like this: upon sign-up, a musician adds tags to his profile, #music and #acoustic, a programmer adds #programming, #python and #opensource. That way you let your users build your categories, and your users get a nice filter for their interests, and as you mention in the side note, companies can get ad space by donating in the fields they care about.\u003cp\u003e(I decided to give feedback here, since the issue is more about projects than communities, and I don't want to mess up the issue content.)\u003cp\u003eEdit: I forgot to address the issue of people tagging themselves with a specific project. Maybe it's me, but gittip seems to be oriented around people, which is why I find the projects aspect confusing. I think a much simpler solution is currently in place (and maybe should be encouraged for this case in the future), where companies/teams/projects can sign up with a single account, and people can decide to donate to that account, and the companies/teams/projects solve the money split internally. I know you've done a lot of thinking on the projects aspect, and there's been a lively debate on the issue, but personally, it seems as it adds a lot of complexity to the system, with relatively little benefit.","parent":"4558979","id":"4559183"}
{"by":"tim333","time":"1536080051","timestamp":"2018-09-04 16:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if you could use AI to promote messages of tolerance rather than the tendency of existing algorithms to promote conflict?","parent":"17909633","id":"17910536"}
{"by":"james33","time":"1398279443","timestamp":"2014-04-23 18:57:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you using the same Google Maps as everyone else? At least for me, the experience has never been better or easier to use. I absolutely love the new desktop maps and the performance has been better in my experience, not worse.","parent":"7635819","id":"7636133"}
{"by":"blub","time":"1511637230","timestamp":"2017-11-25 19:13:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any comments on the cliqz experiment? Sending visited URLs doesn\u0026#x27;t sound very careful.","parent":"15777354","id":"15777401"}
{"by":"jmtame","time":"1216838336","timestamp":"2008-07-23 18:38:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The quote was great...\u003cp\u003eThe string of arguments that followed between \"flowery evangelist\" and \"cynical asshole\" just as good.","parent":"254546","id":"254612"}
{"by":"powatom","time":"1412156067","timestamp":"2014-10-01 09:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps it was a little too strong, apologies. I\u0026#x27;ve just had this conversation far too many times and much of the opposition to unionisation is of the ridiculously simplistic \u0026#x27;why don\u0026#x27;t you just leave and find a different job?\u0026#x27; kind.","parent":"8389869","id":"8393514"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1287347593","timestamp":"2010-10-17 20:33:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can't stand it. Even Miyazaki/Ghibli, which my kids \u003ci\u003eadore\u003c/i\u003e. Love animation --- particularly the 2-D Sita/Kells/Ware type stuff. Just can't deal with Japanese-style animation (in Miyazaki's case, I think part of it may be the minor cognitive dissonance of the voice over translations).\u003cp\u003eThis actually dovetails with an irrational aversion I have to geek signifiers of all sorts. Can't listen to trancey techno music, or goth/dark/industrial (which used to be \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e I listened to). Can't stand role playing games. Can't read science fiction. Coming close to not being able to read long-form comic books anymore, too. It's getting worse as I get older; I noticed it starting back in 1998.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if I'm the only one this happens to.\u003cp\u003eI've never liked anime though. Other than Miyazaki, there's too much stylized violence and too much emphasis on sci-fi action plots. I was the Sandman-readin' kind of comic book kid.","parent":"1801073","id":"1801338"}
{"by":"thaumaturgy","time":"1265991339","timestamp":"2010-02-12 16:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes! \u003ci\u003eYes\u003c/i\u003e. This is spot-on, I hadn't thought of it that way either, but in fact a couple of my clients have said exactly this. I just didn't get it before.\u003cp\u003eOne of them previously had a computer tech that actually did berate them for not knowing computer basics. Another one constantly refers to herself as \"stupid\" (or, \"I feel so stupid\") for not understanding how to use the computer.","parent":"1119642","id":"1120886"}
{"by":"domoritz","time":"1487554140","timestamp":"2017-02-20 01:29:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since LLVM does not have the necessary information to do the optimizations, I wonder whether the same problem occurs in C++ code compiled with clang.","parent":"13682929","id":"13683510"}
{"by":"Rodneyj","time":"1543844916","timestamp":"2018-12-03 13:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You avoid making money for fear of the IRS? Are you unable to hire an accountant or do your own research?","parent":"18588003","dead":true,"id":"18588682"}
{"by":"degenerate","time":"1449489055","timestamp":"2015-12-07 11:50:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Earlier this year I was looking for the flattest (least \u0026quot;colored\u0026quot;) pair of headphones I could get for under $100 and after lots of reading finally went with the ATH-M40x. You all might have seen this model headphone go on sale now and again with mic bundles on Amazon\u0026#x2F;B\u0026amp;H, and wondered if these headphones are any good. This video (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=udLoAV7YmjA\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0026amp;t=83\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=udLoAV7YmjA\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be...\u003c/a\u003e] (linked to 83s) really puts into perspective how muddled - aka \u0026quot;colored\u0026quot; - the popular pairs of headphones can sound.\u003cp\u003eI was skeptical of how this works - how do you record what the headphones sound like? This must surely be fake. However here is the making-of video and it really put into perspective for me how detailed sound engineering can get: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=jnK1Gq7txYA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=jnK1Gq7txYA\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10688793","id":"10688839"}
{"by":"nitrogen","time":"1321661091","timestamp":"2011-11-19 00:04:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I mean is, it doesn't provide much of an advantage over just using the hotel lobby computer with your data on a USB flash drive.  Connecting it directly to a monitor via HDMI, on the other hand, does seem quite useful.","parent":"3253794","id":"3254066"}
{"by":"jamesmishra","time":"1504889372","timestamp":"2017-09-08 16:49:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on a couple different variables:\u003cp\u003e- Do you want to focus on a specific area with decades of history (e.g. computer vision), or do you want to be a jack-of-all-trades person that works with images, text, time-series data, and so forth?\u003cp\u003e- Do you want to work at an early-stage startup outside of the Bay Area, which might be less picky with hiring... or do you want to work at OpenAI or Google Brain?\u003cp\u003e- Do you want to work in a team where you implement the ideas of better-educated, senior colleagues... or do you want to be the one in a leadership role?\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;minimal\u0026quot; path probably involves:\u003cp\u003e- A Galvanize (or similar) bootcamp to meet peers and mentors.\u003cp\u003e- Books and Coursera courses to fill in everything the bootcamp doesn\u0026#x27;t teach you.\u003cp\u003e- Winning some Kaggle competitions to show that you can build fairly complex models that have high accuracy on real-world data.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;maximal\u0026quot; path probably involves:\u003cp\u003e- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Statistics.\u003cp\u003e- A PhD in one of the many subfields in machine learning.\u003cp\u003e- Several industry internships in between.\u003cp\u003eNeither the minimal or maximal path guarantee success, of course. A lot of that depends on your aptitude, previous experience, ability to network, and the current job market.","parent":"15194546","id":"15201806"}
{"by":"grandalf","time":"1325353176","timestamp":"2011-12-31 17:39:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that a government's legitimacy as an arbiter of anything depends on its overall credibility, which varies greatly between governments and within the institutions within governments.","parent":"3410332","id":"3411350"}
{"by":"bh23ha","time":"1255819186","timestamp":"2009-10-17 22:39:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the problem is with ever advancing hardware. The new chips are much faster and would \"overtake\" an experiment that's been running.\u003cp\u003eThis problem is sometimes described as putting colonists on a space ship and sending then off. They travel for generations but before arriving they are overtaken by another ship which started several generations later, but was much faster because technology back on Earth kept advancing.\u003cp\u003eThen there's the problem with convergence. Even on a scale as large and complicated as Earth creature often reach an adaptive maximum which tends to keep them the same until an external shock. Think sharks, or punctuated equilibrium.\u003cp\u003eIn a computer the simulation will also quickly reach a maximum and there's only so large and complex a simulation can be before you're talking crazy money for the machines. Without crazy money the simulation could hardly be complex enough to keep evolving for ever.\u003cp\u003eObviously we have game-of-life like algorithms which can generate new patterns for ever, but they are not under selective pressure.","parent":"887466","id":"887540"}
{"by":"ricktdotorg","time":"1530501432","timestamp":"2018-07-02 03:17:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"not sure what you mean here because i pay for Drive (via Business G Suite, single user, unlimited storage) and use Filestream just fine.","parent":"17435888","id":"17439113"}
{"by":"gowld","time":"1525968155","timestamp":"2018-05-10 16:02:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re saying the same thing as the comment you replied to. It didn\u0026#x27;t fail because it didn\u0026#x27;t work, it failed because people had unease about other people using it.","parent":"17039505","id":"17040097"}
{"by":"xianwen","time":"1482846428","timestamp":"2016-12-27 13:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me, WINE is preferred because Microsoft Office ran better on WINE last time I check.","parent":"13260963","id":"13263081"}
{"by":"strgrd","time":"1486145971","timestamp":"2017-02-03 18:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This comment does a fine job of opining on the incompleteness of an article that the commenter has clearly not read in full. This is a great example of irony, I think, because your point about the irony of a black man inventing a machine that increased the desire for slaves, is covered in the third paragraph from the bottom. And here you are, claiming the article as incomplete because it failed to consider the irony. But it did! You just skimmed it. It is in fact \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e who is incomplete. I think it is fair to describe this scenario as \u0026quot;a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRTFA before opining next time :-)","parent":"13561708","id":"13561898"}
{"by":"pikzen","time":"1483812341","timestamp":"2017-01-07 18:05:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Debian: slow to upgrade and doesn\u0026#x27;t support newer hardware\u003cp\u003ezzzzzzzz\u003cp\u003eThis is said so often it\u0026#x27;s not even fun anymore. Debian stable is made for servers, for stuff that\u0026#x27;s not going to move for ten years and is supposed to be up 99.9999% of the time.\nRun testing and your problems are solved. Recent hardware is supported, relatively recent versions of all software are in the repositories, depending on the maintainer. Or run unstable if you\u0026#x27;re feeling adventurous","parent":"13345313","id":"13345555"}
{"by":"larrymcp","time":"1540496923","timestamp":"2018-10-25 19:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was curious about one of the exceptions that he mentioned:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eOur game console repair petition was denied, meaning repairs of PS4 and Xbox One systems are going to stay expensive.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWonder why game systems were excluded?  They\u0026#x27;re basically computers too.","parent":"18303560","id":"18303983"}
{"by":"mrsteveman1","time":"1339169576","timestamp":"2012-06-08 15:32:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mainstream Apple Computer. MAC.","parent":"4083726","id":"4084646"}
{"by":"nickff","time":"1472891461","timestamp":"2016-09-03 08:31:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only problem is that Rawls was wrong; there is ample evidence showing that we have differing views on what is right even when shielded by a \u0026#x27;veil of ignorance\u0026#x27;.  For instance, your view of equality is not the same as mine, as I favor a \u0026#x27;rule of law\u0026#x27; paradigm of equality (, and I do not mean to imply that you are \u0026#x27;wrong\u0026#x27;).  The author here seems to value Pareto (absolute and widespread) improvements over relative measures, which you appear to prioritize; one could even make the case that you are encouraging avarice.","parent":"12418269","id":"12418322"}
{"by":"joaq","time":"1440172439","timestamp":"2015-08-21 15:53:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should be quite easy to implement, actually. Some stores have this kind of technology to track traffic. I think the problem is installing the cameras and the software, but that\u0026#x27;s trivial for an airport.","parent":"10098197","id":"10098307"}
{"by":"pishpash","time":"1519338468","timestamp":"2018-02-22 22:27:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if it\u0026#x27;s not deterministic who profits from the algorithm\u0026#x27;s actions?","parent":"16441958","id":"16442103"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1391079719","timestamp":"2014-01-30 11:01:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can absorb about 8000 calories a day, if you optimize it in terms of timing. This is a problem for polar explorers who burn about 12000 calories a day.","parent":"7149722","id":"7150008"}
{"by":"bl4ckm0r3","time":"1545826520","timestamp":"2018-12-26 12:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t you think that centralising the responsibility of the architecture design is an antipattern?\nFor what I saw normally architects can\u0026#x27;t keep up with all modern techs and if they do, it still takes the ownership of the solution from each domain (FE, BE, DevOps etc).\nWouldn\u0026#x27;t it be better to have tech leads design the architecture\u0026#x2F;solution together?","parent":"18761609","id":"18761793"}
{"by":"ayuvar","time":"1467677876","timestamp":"2016-07-05 00:17:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s by far my biggest complaint. There are even issues where one control panel does one set of features and the settings window does a whole different set.\u003cp\u003eI also had a sticky problem where it was convinced I had a Canadian French keyboard even after deleting it from both keyboard control panels. I ended up having to solve that with a registry modification.","parent":"12032550","id":"12033718"}
{"by":"gms","time":"1207771704","timestamp":"2008-04-09 20:08:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can start work on your new job while that is in process, right?","parent":"159124","id":"159198"}
{"by":"atombender","time":"1547509391","timestamp":"2019-01-14 23:43:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s really the \u003ci\u003emost\u003c/i\u003e important feature\u0026#x2F;aspect of TypeScript -- the fact that it\u0026#x27;s just a type-checking veneer on top of JavaScript.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not its own language like Dart or the myriad of languages (Reason, PureScript, etc.) that transpiled to JavaScript. It\u0026#x27;s not just that its types are erased at runtime, as you point out; there are many nuances caused by the fact that it\u0026#x27;s a superset of JS.\u003cp\u003eWhile I think TypeScript is the best we have right now, I\u0026#x27;m also a bit sad that we need to endure this kind of compromise. Maybe once Wasm because widely supported we can finally cast away the JS legacy and begin anew.","parent":"18906553","id":"18907659"}
{"by":"paulschreiber","time":"1419274909","timestamp":"2014-12-22 19:01:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True. I was so confused when I got my token — it didn\u0026#x27;t come with instructions, and there was no activation link on the site.\u003cp\u003eI ended up calling support to figure out how to set things up.","parent":"8784416","id":"8784489"}
{"by":"ajmurmann","time":"1472661708","timestamp":"2016-08-31 16:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried getting your data back out? Getting my wife\u0026#x27;s files back out of Crashplan was so bad we eventually settled for only getting the stuff that was absolutely vital.","parent":"12399575","id":"12399608"}
{"by":"rs86","time":"1492749275","timestamp":"2017-04-21 04:34:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow why don\u0026#x27;t you write your own tools and make a company out of it?","parent":"14162836","id":"14163118"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1349161774","timestamp":"2012-10-02 07:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Yes, command line on the web ... What do you think? Do we need a tool like that?\u003cp\u003eBut such things exists. I just wanted to ask whether you knew about Lynx, which meets this description:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's also wget, which does this too, but isn't interactive in the way that Lynx is:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4600849","id":"4600894"}
{"by":"mikecane","time":"1285074839","timestamp":"2010-09-21 13:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My Twitter page has a frikkin overlay on it now, preventing its use.  I define harm as not being able to use Twitter due to a malicious act.  Sure, I haven't lost a leg, but it's a PITA.  I'll probably have to change my password yet again too.","parent":"1712434","id":"1712461"}
{"by":"jasonswett","time":"1515514161","timestamp":"2018-01-09 16:09:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Steven Pinker\u0026#x27;s book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined addresses most of this stuff. Super interesting book. Seems like things were super horrible in the past. It seems that most people think the world is getting worse and more dangerous over time but the opposite is true.","parent":"16106943","id":"16107149"}
{"by":"tonylampada","time":"1348192557","timestamp":"2012-09-21 01:55:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd recommend Python and Django too. I've been developing JEE applications for 8 years now and recently started a project (www.freedomsponsors.org) with Django. Django makes things so simpler and faster to code. I'm in love with it!\u003cp\u003eIf you take that on, I'd also invite you to do a little collaboration on it - FS is free on Github (github.com/freedomsponsors). It might give you a feeling of what's it like. And I could definitely use some help :)","parent":"4551718","id":"4551820"}
{"by":"nagrom","time":"1305371263","timestamp":"2011-05-14 11:07:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The advantage is that (theoretically) you can't lose them, you can grant and revoke access permissions at will based on time limitations and you can share them very easily. See other comments on the thread about airbnb for example.","parent":"2547340","id":"2547489"}
{"by":"clarky07","time":"1346789953","timestamp":"2012-09-04 20:19:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see it doesn't exist in the store anymore. What is the reasoning behind removing it completely from the store, as opposed to just stopping work on it and leaving the latest update in the store?","parent":"4475918","id":"4476336"}
{"by":"lmkg","time":"1282771497","timestamp":"2010-08-25 21:24:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Politics is entertainment. No matter how slam-dunk an election may be, networks have an incentive to make it look like a photo-finish, in order to make the viewing experience intense and drive viewer engagement. If you say \"yeah, it's pretty much over by this point,\" your viewers have no reason to tune in for the rest of the week. If you say \"it's so close, absolutely anything could tip the scales,\" people will keep watching your live coverage of butterflies in China.\u003cp\u003eTangent: I first realize this before I was of voting age, watching the same thing unfold on an episode of Survivor. For extra credit, describe how reality television and political election coverage have influenced each other in recent years.","parent":"1633908","id":"1634212"}
{"by":"mkj","time":"1500608061","timestamp":"2017-07-21 03:34:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A bit off topic, but do the people using deep learning GPUs use the same device for desktop graphics? There aren\u0026#x27;t problems with display lockups etc?","parent":"14817830","id":"14817858"}
{"by":"AstralStorm","time":"1516219080","timestamp":"2018-01-17 19:58:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously it is cheaper. Nobody can count days of life lost due to forgone treatments without a real trial with a control group.\nWhich means using these tools is unethical if not outright criminal.","parent":"16170688","id":"16171208"}
{"by":"tqkxzugoaupvwqr","time":"1470732754","timestamp":"2016-08-09 08:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was under the impression he created Google Street View from old photos. The disappointment was big when it turned out the photos are only georeferenced and presented as markers on the map.","parent":"12253002","id":"12253349"}
{"by":"cdoxsey","time":"1547288590","timestamp":"2019-01-12 10:23:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry if I wasn\u0026#x27;t clear. I don\u0026#x27;t make 400k per year and I\u0026#x27;ve tried to work at high paying tech companies in the bay area in the past and was rejected many times.\u003cp\u003eAt one point I was close to giving up on being a developer entirely after months of failing to find work, though thankfully I had a friend from a former job who helped give me a legup to a startup he was working for.\u003cp\u003eIt was that painful experience which made me grateful for what I have, even if its looked down on so much by my peers. I realized how lucky I was to be working at all.\u003cp\u003eThe rosy picture I was referring too wasn\u0026#x27;t so much the salary as the ability of software engineers to get these jobs. In my experience it was a lot more like a professional sport (spend decades working and practicing in this field and you still don\u0026#x27;t have what it takes) than finding a store with a help-wanted sign and filling out an application.\u003cp\u003eI guess there\u0026#x27;s something of a paradox there... its a weird industry.","parent":"18889267","id":"18890594"}
{"by":"namdnay","time":"1511779425","timestamp":"2017-11-27 10:43:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say it\u0026#x27;s an artificial diet - It\u0026#x27;s the natural diet for a swine living in the Mediterranean brushland","parent":"15785220","id":"15786366"}
{"by":"Niten","time":"1412757777","timestamp":"2014-10-08 08:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t call MetaFilter a particularly high quality community. Discussions there can have just as many trite and trollish comments as your average subreddit.\u003cp\u003eHow MetaFilter differs is in that it features a rigid, hierarchical moderation structure, with gatekeepers who ensure posted content meets the stringent politically-correct tastes of its leadership. As a result I have seen legitimately interesting, good-faith discussion censored there, for no other reason than that it offended the sensibilities of some moderator.  (This article was removed by a moderator, for example: \u003ca href=\"http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linuxjournal.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;girls-and-software\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eIt is a huge mistake to confuse enforced, intellectually sterile homogeneity for quality.","parent":"8425645","id":"8425897"}
{"by":"lqdc13","time":"1482558671","timestamp":"2016-12-24 05:51:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but why does it stop?  It doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be a specific population density, but culture + economics.\u003cp\u003eLike for example, look at this Haiti plot: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;knoema.com\u0026#x2F;atlas\u0026#x2F;Haiti\u0026#x2F;Population-density\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;knoema.com\u0026#x2F;atlas\u0026#x2F;Haiti\u0026#x2F;Population-density\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is already 1.5x more dense than Germany.  3x more dense than China.  Would it stop? When?\u003cp\u003eWhy is Switzerland 9x more dense than Ireland?  Is population of Ireland expected to eventually grow to that of Switzerland?","parent":"13248493","id":"13248786"}
{"by":"ixtli","time":"1516818785","timestamp":"2018-01-24 18:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have also found that socialist positions get downvoted here. I\u0026#x27;d recommend that people read the works of socialists (Marx, Rosa, etc.) because most of my negative associates came from liberal insinuation I received growing up in the US :) The very word has had a campaign against it for a long time because of the 20th century relations between America and Russia (which, btw, hasn\u0026#x27;t been anything remotely socialist in a very very long time.)","parent":"16220162","id":"16225054"}
{"by":"tomdale","time":"1423162492","timestamp":"2015-02-05 18:54:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t want to get into a big discussion on small libraries vs. big frameworks (your use of the word \u0026quot;bloat\u0026quot; gives away your position here ;).\u003cp\u003eI would ask readers of this discussion to visit any of the web applications they use on a daily basis, open the developer tools, and look at the size of the JavaScript payload. Whatever libraries or frameworks they\u0026#x27;re using, the payload size is almost always several hundred kilobytes.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d argue that using small libraries is a noble goal, but in practice, you just need several hundred KB of JavaScript to build modern apps. If we\u0026#x27;re honest with ourselves about it, we can try to do a good job of managing it from the beginning. Otherwise you just end up with an ad hoc mess.\u003cp\u003eThe other point I tried to make here is that, yes, of course, you can do all of this by hand. But in practice, most teams are so under the gun to ship features that they don\u0026#x27;t do it. If we can make great boot performance as easy as installing an npm package, why not?\u003cp\u003eLastly, regarding the vaporware claim: we\u0026#x27;ve got a very alpha version up on GitHub already. I invite Ember users to play around with it and give us feedback: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;tildeio\u0026#x2F;ember-cli-fastboot\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"9005029","id":"9005085"}
{"by":"Derbasti","time":"1421086448","timestamp":"2015-01-12 18:14:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OH YES IT WOULD BE!!!1","parent":"8875215","id":"8875448"}
{"by":"mrfusion","time":"1404134115","timestamp":"2014-06-30 13:15:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMHO I view it differently.\u003cp\u003eIt would be a huge tragedy if we are the only life that has ever evolved in the universe and it all quietly ends on the same planet it started it.\u003cp\u003eIf there\u0026#x27;s a chance we can get even single celled life established on a another planet we should go for it.  The loss of a bit of science is small potatoes compared to the fate of life in the universe.","parent":"7964499","id":"7964850"}
{"by":"w1ntermute","time":"1366302106","timestamp":"2013-04-18 16:21:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have there been any updates since that post, or is this just a dupe?","parent":"5571404","id":"5571453"}
{"by":"mahrain","time":"1311147338","timestamp":"2011-07-20 07:35:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see this link here as flame bait. This guy is happy with his Asus tablet because it has a keyboard and Flash in the browser. Good for him.","parent":"2784420","id":"2784680"}
{"by":"brokenmusic","time":"1448116384","timestamp":"2015-11-21 14:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I\u0026#x27;m a little confused. You don\u0026#x27;t hold the bitcoins deposited into the question? Where do you they go?","parent":"10606846","id":"10606883"}
{"by":"giardini","time":"1230921088","timestamp":"2009-01-02 18:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Everything said in the article and much, much more has been said before by Roger C. Schank in his 2004 book \"Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own\". See especially Chapter 20 titled \"Toward a new conception of Education\":\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Making-Minds-Less-Well-Educated/dp/0805848789/ref=sr_1_1/178-1948266-9859114?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;s=books\u0026#38;qid=1230920545\u0026#38;sr=1-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Making-Minds-Less-Well-Educated/dp/080...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne difference: Schank believes that, since the best online courses will be created by the best physicists, chemists, psychologists, etc., the need for local teachers will change. They will become mentors, guidance counselors and  coaches whom students visit when they need more assistance than the online courses offer.","parent":"416968","id":"417524"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1403094504","timestamp":"2014-06-18 12:28:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or just simply very frustrated at recent events in his\u0026#x2F;her life.","parent":"7909318","id":"7909681"}
{"by":"cromwellian","time":"1523235004","timestamp":"2018-04-09 00:50:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Season 3. Especially season 4 and 5 are almost entirely about battling super intelligence while avoiding super surveilence. The crime of the week mostly subsides and it is all about super intelligence battles.","parent":"16785578","id":"16789445"}
{"by":"kaoD","time":"1412040138","timestamp":"2014-09-30 01:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; You can change the way you think.\u003cp\u003eNope. Pain is pain. You can\u0026#x27;t change that.","parent":"8386285","id":"8386299"}
{"by":"Cacti","time":"1509325134","timestamp":"2017-10-30 00:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You say people will take a stand, but the vast and overwhelming number of us wont, we will just continue to help build the greatest surveillance system in history. And then tell each other how we’re unicorns that are saving the world, that we cherish freedom and liberty and the hacker ethis, when really we just want to get paid.","parent":"15582432","id":"15582462"}
{"by":"drdaeman","time":"1391454246","timestamp":"2014-02-03 19:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And if the Identity Provider\u0026#x27;s gone for a prolonged period now you\u0026#x27;ve lost your identity with (almost) no means of recovery. Mostly, because, while you might believed the contrary, you didn\u0026#x27;t ever own your \u0026quot;own\u0026quot; identity in this scheme.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s exactly what SPOF is.","parent":"7172085","id":"7172736"}
{"by":"ecaron","time":"1322525165","timestamp":"2011-11-29 00:06:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being creative applies to both the application process AND the search process. For instance, one of the coolest jobs I've come across this month is for Social Games Quantitative Analyst at PopCap, which sounds significantly cooler once you read the description (\u003ca href=\"http://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POPCAP\u0026#38;cws=1\u0026#38;rid=284\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POP...\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eMy point is that if you want your dream job, also break out of the standard \"ruby on rails nosql...\" keywords you're using and feel free to browse rather than just searching.","parent":"3288083","id":"3288290"}
{"by":"300bps","time":"1379683234","timestamp":"2013-09-20 13:20:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think its to to screw dealers over but to make sure margins are needed to make their car for the masses\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also because they\u0026#x27;re completely unneeded for many transactions.  I walked into a Nissan dealership utilizing USAA pricing and a cashier\u0026#x27;s check.  It still took FOUR HOURS to drive out with the car.  I had to wait two hours just for the \u0026quot;finance guy\u0026quot; even though I wasn\u0026#x27;t financing anything.  I threatened to leave the entire time - I still had to talk to him and he had at least 7 people in front of me in line that were financing.\u003cp\u003eHow refreshing would it be to research a car, test drive a car, purchase a car without all these shenanigans meant to upsell you into ridiculous things?","parent":"6416303","id":"6417500"}
{"by":"niels_olson","time":"1474303672","timestamp":"2016-09-19 16:47:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a military physician, and I was a line officer before that. I have watched people die and brought one back to life. I have trained to kill and save. I have brought a ship alongside suspect vessels for boarding and sent men into flooded engineering spaces. In my mind, the most important of those is that I have sent my people into harm\u0026#x27;s way. I would argue, from a leadership perspective, the hallowed-vs-not argument is a red herring. The money is trivia. The indirect utility of deterrence is not measurable and therefore frankly doesn\u0026#x27;t matter.\u003cp\u003eBut the toll on your own people has real consequences that you can prevent. Killing someone is the sort of thing that makes you question your own right to life. Don\u0026#x27;t do that to people unless you have to, and by \u0026quot;have to\u0026quot;, I mean there is an imminent threat to life. You don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;have to\u0026quot; pay taxes. Someone\u0026#x27;s going to come after you, but they\u0026#x27;re not going to kill you over it. You don\u0026#x27;t have to kill prisoners.","parent":"12530956","id":"12532770"}
{"by":"jermaustin1","time":"1478958864","timestamp":"2016-11-12 13:54:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only 100% way to be sure is with customers. That said, UX\u0026#x2F;UI design patterns are pretty well understood, your best bet is to hire out to a firm if you have no UX people on staff. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.usertesting.com\u0026#x2F;plans\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.usertesting.com\u0026#x2F;plans\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12937768","id":"12937793"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1320174525","timestamp":"2011-11-01 19:08:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s useful.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t make the Courier any more a creation device than the iPad, though. That’s just absurd. The iPad is (also) for creation, the Courier would have been (also) for creation.","parent":"3183572","id":"3183612"}
{"by":"drb91","time":"1533755832","timestamp":"2018-08-08 19:17:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The ones on their mobile devices who click AMP links by and large seem to love them.\u003cp\u003eReally? The main comment I\u0026#x27;ve heard about it (when people mention it at all) is that it messes up the URL. I doubt most people notice anything changed.","parent":"17718506","id":"17718612"}
{"by":"avesanen","time":"1441570624","timestamp":"2015-09-06 20:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For some reason, I don\u0026#x27;t want to touch a project that has something like this in it:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  system(\u0026#x27;rm -rf --no-preserve-root \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x27;)\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"10177511","id":"10178866"}
{"by":"simon","time":"1351692511","timestamp":"2012-10-31 14:08:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An interesting point, but a pretty thin blog entry. I think that everything I have done has benefited from practice. Even programming. The Pragmatic Programmers (iirc) even devised code katas to formalize the practice process.","parent":"4722791","id":"4722865"}
{"by":"AnIdiotOnTheNet","time":"1544456478","timestamp":"2018-12-10 15:41:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People increasingly trying to turn the web into an application layer instead of writing actual applications.","parent":"18647986","id":"18648628"}
{"by":"chopin","time":"1442311240","timestamp":"2015-09-15 10:00:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lead acetate...","parent":"10217695","id":"10219762"}
{"by":"snomad","time":"1398913310","timestamp":"2014-05-01 03:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might like this, it was posted here in the last few months. A really well done CSS selector tutorial (and a really good example of how teaching can be done on the web w\u0026#x2F; interactive exercises).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://flukeout.github.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;flukeout.github.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7677739","id":"7677981"}
{"by":"aastronaut","time":"1531674547","timestamp":"2018-07-15 17:09:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...and its lightweight counterpart for the browser: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jquense\u0026#x2F;yup\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jquense\u0026#x2F;yup\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17536038","id":"17536055"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1385384273","timestamp":"2013-11-25 12:57:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The adversarial system is designed to allow these kind of attacks.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;You don\u0026#x27;t know what you\u0026#x27;re talking about\u0026quot; is easily countered by \u0026quot;I invented these crypto systems; these have had no serious challenges in the X years since invented; I\u0026#x27;ve defeated these crypto systems; I\u0026#x27;ve published these papers in these peer reviewed journals; I have these honorary awards from these universities.\u0026quot; etc etc.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a lot more troubling in other cases.","parent":"6793475","id":"6793781"}
{"by":"tekkk","time":"1519937184","timestamp":"2018-03-01 20:46:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am agreeing with the other comment(s) here asking if you could explain further how has meditation specifically helped you? And what\u0026#x2F;how do you meditate?\u003cp\u003eI too feel that there\u0026#x27;s another happy universe inside my head were I to distract myself to believe in another reality. But it\u0026#x27;s just biological facts that come to maul me and digesting uncomfortable thoughts by yourself is not very efficient way of solving the issue. I am not living up to my potential and the momentary voices, although painful, are a reminder to me that I have to change something to feel good about myself. I think in the heart of it is the need for a constant validation through something, other people\u0026#x27;s love and affection mostly, that you can feel that your life is worth living.\u003cp\u003eIn the sense same thing (maybe) that you can do with meditation and keep those positive neural pathways from growing shut.","parent":"16495483","id":"16496144"}
{"by":"bstpierre","time":"1372086214","timestamp":"2013-06-24 15:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are indeed freelance editors -- both at the copyedit level and at a higher level.\u003cp\u003eSelf-pubbed authors often hire freelance artists for cover design.\u003cp\u003eAnd there are freelance book designers for both dead-tree and e-books. There are also services that provide \u0026quot;canned\u0026quot; book design service -- i.e. you pick from a template.\u003cp\u003eTo me it seems that the hardest part of the whole equation for an indy author is promotion. There are so many books published daily that it\u0026#x27;s really hard to get readers for your work.","parent":"5933002","id":"5933347"}
{"by":"zoowar","time":"1313697787","timestamp":"2011-08-18 20:03:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"HP spent $1.2 billion to learn what everyone else already knew, WebOS doesn't sell. BTW, Nokia didn't learn with Maemo, so it's giving Windows Phone 7 a try.","parent":"2900805","dead":true,"id":"2900853"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1537894895","timestamp":"2018-09-25 17:01:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that link supposed to tell us something? A person with the same name is working with AI in some capacity, and ...?","parent":"18068139","id":"18068147"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1279101394","timestamp":"2010-07-14 09:56:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mocking seems to me to be a perfect example. Of how obvious it is that we are fighting against the flow with so many of our tools and we are merely lacking the advances in language design which embrace these use cases at their heart. It seems very similar to the clumsy, piece-meal attempts at procedural programming through the use of various macros and such-like in the early era of programming, and later of the attempts at object orientation through various techniques and conventions. But none of those efforts were able to fully exploit the potential of procedural programming or object orientation.\u003cp\u003eYou can't just bolt such fundamental shifts in programming idiom and practice onto existing languages and expect to achieve maximum potency. It often takes new languages, which have internalized the \"paradigm shift\", to fully achieve the potential of transformative development methodologies.\u003cp\u003eNo amount of assembler macros can be as elegant or as effective in facilitating procedural programming as the C language, for example. Similarly, you aren't going to create Python within C unless you already have the idea of Python to work with.\u003cp\u003eI suspect that these aspects (mocking and unit testing especially) will become ingrained in future languages to degrees we can hardly imagine. I suspect that unit testing will be as much a part of many future languages as loops, assertions, and methods are today, and that running unit tests will be such an integral part of the build process that it will take explaining to describe how it's even possible for them to be apart.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, I think too many language designers are too satisfied with the current state of affairs and don't see the future in these terms.","parent":"1514038","id":"1514125"}
{"by":"artwr","time":"1545552868","timestamp":"2018-12-23 08:14:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or -site:quora.com if you are OK with pages with links to quora but you just do not want a result from that domain.","parent":"18744751","id":"18745032"}
{"by":"bovermyer","time":"1513259697","timestamp":"2017-12-14 13:54:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Market freedom leads to consolidation which leads to the exact opposite of competition.\u003cp\u003eThis is why the United States, contrary to popular opinion, is not a purely capitalist nation; it is instead a hybrid between socialism and capitalism. Reasonable regulation protects the free market.","parent":"15922122","id":"15922237"}
{"by":"DCoder","time":"1288550444","timestamp":"2010-10-31 18:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The presentation is nice, but I strongly disagree with the author's chosen method of drawing browser icons:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  .browser-support dd:nth-of-type(3) { background-image:url(\"img/opera-logo.png\"); }\n  .browser-support dd.no-support:nth-of-type(3) { background-image:url(\"img/opera-logo-white.png\"); }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAnd looking at the calculated width example reminded me of the box-sizing property [1], which would simplify that particular use case.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#box-sizing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#box-sizing\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1853202","id":"1853926"}
{"by":"talmand","time":"1450124888","timestamp":"2015-12-14 20:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;Guide\u0026#x2F;CSS\u0026#x2F;Getting_started\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Web\u0026#x2F;Guide\u0026#x2F;CSS\u0026#x2F;Getti...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10732924","id":"10733571"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1337030843","timestamp":"2012-05-14 21:27:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Former Google CIO Douglas Merril \u003ca href=\"https://torrentfreak.com/former-google-cio-limewire-pirates-were-itunes-best-customers-110726/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://torrentfreak.com/former-google-cio-limewire-pirates-...\u003c/a\u003e edit: more direct link \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnet.com.au/will-former-google-exec-help-save-the-music-industry-339287896.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cnet.com.au/will-former-google-exec-help-save-the...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHADOPI, a French \u003ci\u003eanti\u003c/i\u003epiracy organization \u003ca href=\"http://piracy.ssrc.org/hadopi-says-lets-try-cutting-off-nose-to-spite-face/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://piracy.ssrc.org/hadopi-says-lets-try-cutting-off-nose...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusic industry lobby group IFPI \u003ca href=\"https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-most-valuable-customers-100122/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-mos...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd apparently the Association for Consumer Research in Germany, but the report will never be published. \u003ca href=\"http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en\u0026#38;sl=de\u0026#38;tl=en\u0026#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Ftp%2Fblogs%2F6%2F150152\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en\u0026#38;sl=de\u0026#38;tl...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eeta: a study done in Canada \u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/\u003c/a\u003e and more analysis of the same \u003ca href=\"https://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/article794638.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/article794638.ece\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3973222","id":"3973400"}
{"by":"LyndsySimon","time":"1482867964","timestamp":"2016-12-27 19:46:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The perception is that the Robertsons don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;fit in\u0026quot; with the leaders of the right, and they \u003ci\u003ecertainly\u003c/i\u003e don\u0026#x27;t fit in with those of the left.\u003cp\u003eIt isn\u0026#x27;t a matter of wealth, but of culture.","parent":"13265497","id":"13265654"}
{"by":"earthboundkid","time":"1219299699","timestamp":"2008-08-21 06:21:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simple solution: Use C++3735928559 instead.","parent":"281886","id":"282398"}
{"by":"sigzero","time":"1431704586","timestamp":"2015-05-15 15:43:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(1) Diphtheria.\n(2) Hepatitis B.\n(3) Haemophilus influenzae type b.\n(4) Measles.\n(5) Mumps.\n(6) Pertussis (whooping cough).\n(7) Poliomyelitis.\n(8) Rubella.\n(9) Tetanus.\n(10) Varicella (chickenpox).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\u0026#x2F;faces\u0026#x2F;billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\u0026#x2F;faces\u0026#x2F;billNavClient.xhtml?...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9551253","id":"9551322"}
{"by":"mholt","time":"1544829679","timestamp":"2018-12-14 23:21:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is exactly why I don\u0026#x27;t find code coverage tools useful. Now, a tool that can show what the tests assert against? THAT would be useful.","parent":"18685816","id":"18685836"}
{"by":"eponeponepon","time":"1441543410","timestamp":"2015-09-06 12:43:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This may just be Sunday-brain, but I can\u0026#x27;t seem to see what this service actually \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c/i\u003e - is it effectively just an outsourced credit-control department?\u003cp\u003eIf so (and even if not, to be honest), I do find it interesting how often something pops up that seems to be a return to older ways of doing things. In this case, I\u0026#x27;m reminded of how things worked in my early childhood (1980s, UK) - our local butcher, petrol station and others would all keep an account, which my parents would pay off when invoiced. In the context of the last 15-20 years, though, that appears old-fashioned to the extreme - yet here we are reinventing new ways of doing things the old ways.","parent":"10177151","id":"10177469"}
{"by":"njarboe","time":"1507592158","timestamp":"2017-10-09 23:35:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;streetcar\u0026quot; density suburbs can and do function well with only cars. We just need to start building them again. Just sprinkle in a few multi-story parking lots behind street-level retail and they are great places to live.","parent":"15436307","id":"15438265"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1256019717","timestamp":"2009-10-20 06:21:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eforces you to take a functional approach\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't think Clojure is really a functional langauge, it's more of an imperitive/OO mix with immutable objects.  Immutable objects aren't \"functional programming\", they're simply common sense.\u003cp\u003eFunctional programming is about composing parts of programs (\"functions\") with generic combinators.  I have not seen anyone in Clojure doing this.  Haskell is a different story; combinators are very reusable, and there is no way to combine functions (and other \"categories\") without them.  (In Clojure, you combine program fragments by typing a closing paren and then opening a new one.  Your program doesn't control its sequence of operations, a Magical Runtime does that for you.  Inflexible.)\u003cp\u003eThe reusability in Haskell is quite interesting; for example, application in a monad is defined as \"liftM2 ($)\", the usual function application operator (\"($)\", itself a function of two arguments) lifted into a monadic context for functions of two arguments.  Cool.\u003cp\u003eThe reusability is everywhere; you use the same Arrow combinators to traverse an XML document as you do to parse plain text.  (See HXT and PArrows.)  And of course, you compose Arrows with (.) (the function composition function), because (.) works on all Categories, not just functions.\u003cp\u003eThat is functional programming; Clojure is just immutable data and parens.  (Both good ideas, mind you.  But it's not doing anything that Pure Java can't.)","parent":"891252","id":"891897"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1523396752","timestamp":"2018-04-10 21:45:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eTo be eligible, the case must involve at least 10,000 Facebook users, show how data was abused (not just collected) and Facebook must not have been aware of that specific issue before\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “abuse” requirement makes this feel flimsy. Am I missing something?","parent":"16805736","id":"16805792"}
{"by":"quickben","time":"1480021026","timestamp":"2016-11-24 20:57:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And they trust the current blackbox more?\u003cp\u003eThe reality is, people have no choice.","parent":"13032598","id":"13032708"}
{"by":"aeden","time":"1324920614","timestamp":"2011-12-26 17:30:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anthony from DNSimple here. We've definitely seen a lot more of these messages since the SOPA announcement just before Christmas. Prior to that I almost never saw domains stalled because of problems getting at whois data. Whether GoDaddy is doing it on purpose or if they are just overwhelmed with the number of domains that are being transferred out is pure speculation at this point.\u003cp\u003eIn the case of DNSimple, if you get a message like that we are currently recommending that you email us (support@dnsimple.com) and let us know which domains are currently responding with that message and we'll cancel them so you can try them again. It's a brute force way of dealing with it, it's inelegant and may end up causing even more problems for GoDaddy, but we have found that has helped a bit.\u003cp\u003eTo be certain, this is different than the 5 day waiting period that ICANN allows. That only comes into effect \u003ci\u003eafter\u003c/i\u003e you've submitted the transfer request to the registry, and if you haven't received an email to authorize the transfer request then you aren't at that point yet.","parent":"3393263","id":"3393335"}
{"by":"ghoul2","time":"1464799555","timestamp":"2016-06-01 16:45:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seeking Work - Remote Only\u003cp\u003eIndia based.\u003cp\u003eEnd to end dev\u0026#x2F;architect, very experienced. Extensive hardware, software, Digital Signal Processing, IoT experience (FPGAs, Linux devices drivers, Microcontrollers, ARM, TI DSP, TI Da Vinci\u0026#x2F;Sitara\u0026#x2F;Beaglebone, Raspberry Pi, USB peripheral, custom hardware)\u003cp\u003eAndroid, Linux, C, Python, Java, Signal Processing Algorithms (Matlab, Octave, Scilab), Machine Learning.\u003cp\u003eWilling and able to quickly learn and deploy whatever is needed to make a project\u0026#x2F;product successful.\u003cp\u003ePlease email! I love working on new products and with small teams. Lots of experience with remote work.","parent":"11814829","id":"11815928"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1496506197","timestamp":"2017-06-03 16:09:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can still use wavelet compression to encode the residual from MC, but I think the biggest problem is performance: DCTs have been optimised far more than wavelet transforms.\u003cp\u003eEven in still-image compression, the difference is noticeable --- I have some high-resolution PDFs containing JPEG2000 scanned images, and they take significantly longer to render than the equivalent containing JPEG images.","parent":"14476610","id":"14477008"}
{"by":"andreadallera","time":"1283930363","timestamp":"2010-09-08 07:19:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've got the same frame of mind :) I'd \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e pay for 99.9% of the services offered on the internet. But there's a lot of people who would: think IPhone apps./nIf you want to give it a try then you should, even just for not having the regrets to live with later. You could also do some consulting on the side (but not so much that you don't have the time for your product anymore).","parent":"1667993","id":"1671283"}
{"by":"mcantor","time":"1252611273","timestamp":"2009-09-10 19:34:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amen... I'm a recovering mathophobe, and I was discouraged by how utterly impenetrable this article was.  I mean, I honestly had absolutely no idea what was going on, despite \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e wanting to understand.","parent":"815401","id":"816006"}
{"by":"ambition","time":"1235590951","timestamp":"2009-02-25 19:42:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article completely ignores the effect of teamwork.\u003cp\u003eMost knowledge work is done in teams. Only the team's results latency and results throughput matters. However, an individual's total throughput (\"results per unit time\") is only one variable in the bigger equation.\u003cp\u003eAs an example using \"bugs fixed\" as a substitute for results, an individual who can fix a 10 hard bugs a week working only 8pm-12am might not be as valuable as someone who only fixes 5 hard bugs a week but is around 9am-5pm to e.g. mentor junior employees.\u003cp\u003eAs usual, the real answer is \"It depends and you should manage your own situation according to your own circumstances.\"","parent":"494593","id":"494817"}
{"by":"ivankirigin","time":"1250266698","timestamp":"2009-08-14 16:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think his point is that this is like having a debate about how hyperspace works in Star Wars, or how phasers work in Star Trek. The tech is a plot device best assumed to be far outside the reach of today's science.\u003cp\u003ePart of that assumption is that the current version of physics we understand is incomplete and at worst wrong. There is little use quoting a source proven wrong within the world of the story.\u003cp\u003eBesides, I came from the future to write this comment, so the article is prima facie wrong.","parent":"763253","id":"763299"}
{"by":"kenneth_reitz","time":"1318270221","timestamp":"2011-10-10 18:10:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keep-alive is 100% supported in the upcoming v0.7.0 release, along with async i/o :)\u003cp\u003eCaching: I think that will be best be served by a hook/helper module, but we'll see.","parent":"3095006","id":"3095016"}
{"by":"natedub","time":"1403115298","timestamp":"2014-06-18 18:14:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can disable Celery\u0026#x27;s automatic logging configuration by connecting a listener to the setup_logging signal.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/signals.html#setup-logging\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;celery.readthedocs.org\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;latest\u0026#x2F;userguide\u0026#x2F;signals.h...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course, logging_tree is a great tool as well!","parent":"7911078","id":"7911664"}
{"by":"cmdrfred","time":"1478829500","timestamp":"2016-11-11 01:58:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t even a new strategy, the exact same thing happened with GWB. Electoral college victory and everything. The DNC are incompetent hacks to not have seen this coming.","parent":"12926665","id":"12926748"}
{"by":"alistproducer2","time":"1488307768","timestamp":"2017-02-28 18:49:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"May I ask why?","parent":"13755692","id":"13756516"}
{"by":"apike","time":"1320388781","timestamp":"2011-11-04 06:39:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethe twitter website is as fast as ever\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eActually, last year Twitter launched a JavaScript-heavy rewrite that was much slower to load and interact with than it was previously. It seems to have improved since then, but at the time it was fairly tiresome to use.","parent":"3194611","id":"3195184"}
{"by":"ht_th","time":"1359280015","timestamp":"2013-01-27 09:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Research is highly competitive business mixed with industry involvement (or government involvement). You have to publish and fast. You have to develop your discoveries into something that can be monetized. You have to collaborate with industry to get funded. You have to cut costs to keep doing what you want to do. And so on. The idea of freedom in (fundamental) research seems long dead. How I long for the freedom in the research labs in the first half of the 20th century. To really explore an idea without regard for cost, returns, (publishable) results. A researcher can dream :-(","parent":"5123707","id":"5123777"}
{"by":"_harry","time":"1284524459","timestamp":"2010-09-15 04:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for this. I first came across Bill Buxton's writings on UX back in April while doing research on multitouch technology for my senior project, and his collection of thoughts ended up having a huge influence on the outcome of the project. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eMy two other lab partners and I ended up hacking together an interactive game cube of sorts. You can read about the project here, if you're interested: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/9Zm7ds\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/9Zm7ds\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1693243","id":"1693305"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1437328059","timestamp":"2015-07-19 17:47:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please don\u0026#x27;t post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.","parent":"9912004","id":"9912051"}
{"by":"msie","time":"1283493882","timestamp":"2010-09-03 06:04:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see you agree with me. It does warrant extra scrutiny.\u003cp\u003eFrankly, it doesn't matter if the study is carried out correctly or not. All that matters is that a study in some journal says that second-hand smoke is not bad for you.","parent":"1658713","id":"1658770"}
{"by":"ume123","time":"1476815646","timestamp":"2016-10-18 18:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because of extreme overuse, I think that now roughly half of the country don\u0026#x27;t care  about being called racist or sexist anymore. Congratulations.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, in certain circumstances it\u0026#x27;s actually a pretty good evidence that something \u0026quot;interesting\u0026quot; is being said and someone is trying to silence it, like how searching for grayed out comments in HN is the first thing I do in threads like this.","parent":"12733024","id":"12737337"}
{"by":"achairapart","time":"1467932162","timestamp":"2016-07-07 22:56:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I think UC Browser is the new IE.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    According to StatCounter, UC browser is the second most\n    used smartphone\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot;mobile\u0026quot; web browser worldwide, passing\n    Safari in October 2015.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;UC_Browser\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;UC_Browser\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12051267","id":"12052629"}
{"by":"technofiend","time":"1483712249","timestamp":"2017-01-06 14:17:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll put you down as a no, then?  Dude I can see LG selling a high-end version to people who care about that kind of thing.  If your fridge is too messy, just replace it with the app that displays nothing but Cristal bottles instead. :-)","parent":"13336114","id":"13336295"}
{"by":"CalRobert","time":"1522610905","timestamp":"2018-04-01 19:28:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could\u0026#x27;ve reported this as 2.09431e+27 if they used electron-volts...","parent":"16728492","id":"16729971"}
{"by":"jstandard","time":"1534721234","timestamp":"2018-08-19 23:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Calling it gaslighting is uncharitable and dismissive. The Overton Window here seems to be generally around \u0026quot;big companies\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;ads\u0026quot; always being bad.\u003cp\u003eIn this case advertising other Netflix shows seems reasonable. It\u0026#x27;s common practice on most content platforms. I agree it\u0026#x27;s annoying and I\u0026#x27;d rather not have it.","parent":"17796634","id":"17796798"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1435477630","timestamp":"2015-06-28 07:47:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why it\u0026#x27;s time to move to Rust.  Trying to retrofit single-ownership semantics to C++ never quite works.  It \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c/i\u003e works. But not quite.\u003cp\u003eC++ has been trying to get single-ownership semantics to work right for almost two decades. \u0026quot;auto_ptr\u0026quot; went through three standards revisions before the C++ standards committee finally gave up and dropped it.  Now there\u0026#x27;s unique_ptr, where, after sprinkling on some move semantics, \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c/i\u003e works, with fewer holes than auto_ptr.\u003cp\u003eGetting this right needs a borrow checker, like Rust\u0026#x27;s.  Now that borrow checking has finally been figured out, there\u0026#x27;s a way out of this mess.  Trying to do borrow checking via the type system just doesn\u0026#x27;t work out well.","parent":"9792335","id":"9792794"}
{"by":"gprasanth","time":"1412702737","timestamp":"2014-10-07 17:25:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Super important addition:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://jetbrains.com/student/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jetbrains.com\u0026#x2F;student\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8422087","id":"8422498"}
{"by":"tomkin","time":"1456325254","timestamp":"2016-02-24 14:47:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dude, I\u0026#x27;m just trying to align text in CSS, and you\u0026#x27;re all like \u0026quot;here\u0026#x27;s an OS in js.\u0026quot;","parent":"11155203","id":"11167085"}
{"by":"andfarm","time":"1296242667","timestamp":"2011-01-28 19:24:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As far as I could tell, that post was just about one specific SF project that had a vulnerable PHP CMS installed on their web space. It's possible that the more general problem of projects being allowed to install/manage their own software got leveraged into a larger exploit, though.","parent":"2151155","id":"2153141"}
{"by":"raganwald","time":"1326119342","timestamp":"2012-01-09 14:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This came up on Reddit. IMO, Inner platforms are a superset of duck programming. “Inner platform” describes the implementation, while “duck programming” describes the process.\u003cp\u003eIf we make a DSL that encodes business rules, I think you could say it’s an inner platform of sorts. If that DSL is updated live in production \u003ci\u003eby design\u003c/i\u003e without being wrapped in risk management process, I think you have duck programming.","parent":"3442568","id":"3442588"}
{"by":"lipaktest","time":"1287992180","timestamp":"2010-10-25 07:36:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"these guys never reply. :(","parent":"1748833","id":"1828932"}
{"by":"gizmo","time":"1330715021","timestamp":"2012-03-02 19:03:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I present to you: Ghengis Kahn. 40 million people died as a result of his campaigns. Civilized society? Not at all. Just organized tribal warfare.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; Actually, poor kids seem to be enlisting at lower rates (relatively) to richer kids\u003cp\u003eHuh. I stand corrected.","parent":"3657818","id":"3657844"}
{"by":"norea-armozel","time":"1457385543","timestamp":"2016-03-07 21:19:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing is there are people who think that riding a motorcycle without a helmet should be against the law. Not because it reduces injuries in ERs and save lives, but because supposedly the relatives of those people have interests greater than that of the individual being reckless. That to me is troubling since then by such inference that obese people should be fined until they get closer to their ideal BMI. Or smokers too. Hell, anyone that enjoys coffee a bit too much. The point is where you draw the line? I think we should err towards the individual liberty side of that line as the unintended consequences will shake out easier in that regard than if we decide towards paternalism.","parent":"11241704","id":"11241765"}
{"by":"workbench","time":"1366646760","timestamp":"2013-04-22 16:06:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No documents is a flaw,  discrepancy check the empty desk","parent":"5589485","id":"5589989"}
{"by":"juanignacio","time":"1430416044","timestamp":"2015-04-30 17:47:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did the NY Times edited the title?","parent":"9457716","id":"9466531"}
{"by":"nocoder","time":"1498163549","timestamp":"2017-06-22 20:32:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very interesting thanks for sharing. As someone working in e-commerce, I was smiling when I saw some of them but it is frustrating on how often these ineffective experiments are repeated.\u003cp\u003eI would have loved to see the cut of performance by industry\u0026#x2F;sector. My hunch is some of the things would work really well in travel but not as well in others especially low involvement categories and categories with lower average selling price. It would also be interesting to know the average duration of these A\u0026#x2F;B tests, I think some of things like scarcity and urgency will have larger effect in the shorter time duration vs others like UI changes which will take a while to produce substantial results, mostly because customers will have to learn new behaviours. Product recommendations is interesting because it is notoriously difficult to get them right and feel they tend to work better in long tail categories like media vs. head heavy categories like mobiles or laptops. They may also not work well in categories where brand influence is high and are generally high involvement and high cost.","parent":"14602595","id":"14615108"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1378214977","timestamp":"2013-09-03 13:29:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would disagree in that\u0026#x27;s the working definition I\u0026#x27;ve most commonly heard.  Think of rockstars doing the same old thing but now with a cool trendy new sound.  Yup, its just \u0026quot;happy birthday\u0026quot; again, but I\u0026#x27;ve got a rockin\u0026#x27; hairdo and a wild guitar solo (its all about the solo with these guys) and I added some pyrotechnics to the show, although it does nothing productive.  None the less, at the end of the day, other than an impressive show, it was still just \u0026quot;happy birthday\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think it involves wearing leather pants to work, although it doesn\u0026#x27;t exclude it, I suppose.","parent":"6320411","id":"6320798"}
{"by":"jontro","time":"1464905046","timestamp":"2016-06-02 22:04:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They did in the article\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    $ cargo rustc --release -- -C prefer-dynamic \n    $ ls -al target\u0026#x2F;release\u0026#x2F;hello\n    -rwxrwxr-x 1 lifthrasiir 8831 May 31 21:10 target\u0026#x2F;release\u0026#x2F;hello*\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"11826471","id":"11826477"}
{"by":"logicallee","time":"1530916099","timestamp":"2018-07-06 22:28:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;For a website that will support a two week marketing campaign, you don\u0026#x27;t need anything talked about in this article\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;[...]\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;And then, five years after you\u0026#x27;ve left the company and some system inevitably collapses with nobody having a clue as to what went wrong you\u0026#x27;d finally realize the wisdom of all that.\u003cp\u003eSo guy puts up a web site for $500 in consulting fees that is a 2-week project.  It makes the company $7 million over the next 72 months because it becomes literally the biggest inbound channel.\u003cp\u003eAre you saying he shouldn\u0026#x27;t have built it for $500?  What should he have done?","parent":"17475498","id":"17475606"}
{"by":"cooper12","time":"1394641140","timestamp":"2014-03-12 16:19:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Every sound you\u0026#x27;ve ever heard\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e broad claim. DO you have a source for this statement?","parent":"7386423","id":"7386522"}
{"by":"adonnjohn","time":"1533240206","timestamp":"2018-08-02 20:03:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does the person with the conch plank, or everybody else?  Both seem effective....","parent":"17674731","id":"17674965"}
{"by":"fenguin","time":"1474141823","timestamp":"2016-09-17 19:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey guys, I\u0026#x27;m here and taking notes -- I\u0026#x27;ve put some from the morning talks onto GitHub; please PR if you have any improvements or more details! Let\u0026#x27;s make the best notes ever :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;charlesfeng\u0026#x2F;startup-school-notes\u0026#x2F;tree\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;2016\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;charlesfeng\u0026#x2F;startup-school-notes\u0026#x2F;tree\u0026#x2F;mas...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12521347","id":"12522112"}
{"by":"reporter","time":"1391409994","timestamp":"2014-02-03 06:46:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First post!\u003cp\u003eThis is a tutorial I made aimed at high schoolers and undergrads I created.  Thought it might be of some interest to a few of you.","parent":"7169174","id":"7169215"}
{"by":"pryelluw","time":"1486841777","timestamp":"2017-02-11 19:36:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you link to an example?","parent":"13623136","id":"13624304"}
{"by":"TotlolRon","time":"1273084126","timestamp":"2010-05-05 18:28:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True. But still good if only by pushing others.","parent":"1322017","id":"1322047"}
{"by":"paulgb","time":"1242399471","timestamp":"2009-05-15 14:57:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool, thanks.","parent":"610152","id":"610689"}
{"by":"Pica_soO","time":"1522490670","timestamp":"2018-03-31 10:04:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wealth of driver - converts to potential good lawyers per damage per crash converts to fear of god in Tesla software departments management converts to actual safety practices being followed and corners not being cut?","parent":"16722526","id":"16722644"}
{"by":"lvh","time":"1536171510","timestamp":"2018-09-05 18:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You misparsed that sentence. The small companies offer better salaries, the large company cuts labor costs, by cutting labor costs they can compete on price, by competing on price they win market share, meaning small companies go out of business.","parent":"17920403","id":"17920576"}
{"by":"rogerbinns","time":"1369789471","timestamp":"2013-05-29 01:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check the timestamps on those tickets, comment history, votes etc.  They aren't some obscure corner!","parent":"5782733","id":"5783964"}
{"by":"loeg","time":"1485322052","timestamp":"2017-01-25 05:27:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bits above 1\u0026lt;\u0026lt;11 (the non-permission bits) are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e valid arguments to open(2), so I don\u0026#x27;t see what your point is.  In this context, they are invalid.  open(2) should reject values with bits outside of 07777 (== 0x0fff) set, including (mode_t)-1 (== 0xffff).\u003cp\u003eHere is the specific place where Linux truncates the bogus mode, instead of rejecting it: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lxr.free-electrons.com\u0026#x2F;source\u0026#x2F;fs\u0026#x2F;open.c#L906\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lxr.free-electrons.com\u0026#x2F;source\u0026#x2F;fs\u0026#x2F;open.c#L906\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(S_IALLUGO defined here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lxr.free-electrons.com\u0026#x2F;source\u0026#x2F;include\u0026#x2F;linux\u0026#x2F;stat.h#L9\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lxr.free-electrons.com\u0026#x2F;source\u0026#x2F;include\u0026#x2F;linux\u0026#x2F;stat.h#L9\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003eThis change would fix this class of issue:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    --- a\u0026#x2F;fs\u0026#x2F;open.c\n    +++ b\u0026#x2F;fs\u0026#x2F;open.c\n    @@ -889,9 +889,11 @@ static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *o\n            int lookup_flags = 0;\n            int acc_mode = ACC_MODE(flags);\n    \n    -       if (flags \u0026amp; (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE))\n    +       if (flags \u0026amp; (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) {\n    +               if ((mode \u0026amp; ~S_IALLUGO) != 0)\n    +                       return -EINVAL;\n                    op-\u0026gt;mode = (mode \u0026amp; S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG;\n    -       else\n    +       } else\n                    op-\u0026gt;mode = 0;\n    \n            \u0026#x2F;* Must never be set by userspace *\u0026#x2F;\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"13477406","id":"13478821"}
{"by":"CuriouslyC","time":"1473253811","timestamp":"2016-09-07 13:10:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Loneliness is a consequence of your beliefs.  If you believe that your beliefs cannot be changed, then you certainly won\u0026#x27;t be able to change.  Why you would want to stay unhappy is beyond me, though.\u003cp\u003eI can tell you from my personal experience, I was lonely in the past, I\u0026#x27;m not lonely anymore, and if anything I\u0026#x27;ve become more isolated over time.  My total interaction time with other people is on the order of about 2 hours a week.  I\u0026#x27;m crazy happy, I literally love my life and am excited for every new day.  The difference is in my beliefs.","parent":"12441442","id":"12443068"}
{"by":"TylerE","time":"1452873203","timestamp":"2016-01-15 15:53:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also COST. A queen size T\u0026amp;N is $600, including shipping. Go to your local mattress store and see what $600 buys you.","parent":"10909880","id":"10909995"}
{"by":"astrofinch","time":"1281253725","timestamp":"2010-08-08 07:48:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Computer games and marijuana also have a lot of the characteristics you mention.\u003cp\u003ePatterns of success and failure are a little different for businesses that provide value through entertainment.","parent":"1584260","id":"1585023"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1421421573","timestamp":"2015-01-16 15:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think maybe \u0026quot;terrorism\u0026quot; is just the new term for crime of all levels now. Because crime makes people afraid right? Perhaps I\u0026#x27;m terrified that if too many of those rotten tax dodgers skip out on thier tv tax there might not be another season of Doctor Who. Scary stuff.","parent":"8899025","id":"8899367"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1374984534","timestamp":"2013-07-28 04:08:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope they don\u0026#x27;t start asking for the Healthcare insurance to pay for all the long term effects they may get from this. Wanna live off Soylent? Good. You\u0026#x27;re on your own.","parent":"6115471","id":"6115555"}
{"by":"eigenspace","time":"1536775541","timestamp":"2018-09-12 18:05:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s already been made! \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;JuliaComputing\u0026#x2F;JuliaDB.jl\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;JuliaComputing\u0026#x2F;JuliaDB.jl\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(though it appears to be in need of an update to 1.0 still which is in progress: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;JuliaComputing\u0026#x2F;IndexedTables.jl\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;182\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;JuliaComputing\u0026#x2F;IndexedTables.jl\u0026#x2F;pull\u0026#x2F;182\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"17971359","id":"17971375"}
{"by":"owebmaster","time":"1503500045","timestamp":"2017-08-23 14:54:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably not because that never happened.","parent":"15081897","id":"15081939"}
{"by":"fiblye","time":"1396823815","timestamp":"2014-04-06 22:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Aroma implements parts of the LÖVE Lua API, so if you\u0026#x27;ve got a game already written it’s easy to port.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;In the future Aroma hopes to implement the whole LÖVE API\u003cp\u003eLove has been growing quite a bit among small indie developers lately, so I\u0026#x27;m glad they did this. I hope it doesn\u0026#x27;t take too long to fully implement it.","parent":"7542589","id":"7543480"}
{"by":"PhasmaFelis","time":"1466735382","timestamp":"2016-06-24 02:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is good about bunny hopping? It raises the skill ceiling, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t do so in an interesting or challenging way. It\u0026#x27;s basically just a \u0026quot;rub your head and pat your belly\u0026quot; test, what TVTropes calls \u0026quot;fake difficulty.\u0026quot; It doesn\u0026#x27;t test your tactics or your aim or your situational awareness; it just tests your ability to stay focused while hammering the spacebar continuously.","parent":"11960890","id":"11965833"}
{"by":"madhadron","time":"1512176705","timestamp":"2017-12-02 01:05:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why become Bayesian? The rational actor theorems that drove that in the \u0026#x27;60\u0026#x27;s turn out not to apply if you use a class of priors instead of a single prior, and single priors are overspecific to capture belief in most cases.\u003cp\u003eBetter to go all the way down to decision theory.","parent":"15827016","id":"15829368"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1438636720","timestamp":"2015-08-03 21:18:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"California prevents farmers from selling water across county lines and more. Farmers would certainly choose to sell the water if they could.\u003cp\u003eAs for desalting the ocean, perhaps building aquifers to retain the run off from rains would be a better solution. They did a great deal of work to send all that water into the ocean, its time they redirected it to where it can stored and used as necessary.","parent":"9999700","id":"9999893"}
{"by":"brazzy","time":"1335169868","timestamp":"2012-04-23 08:31:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, do keep repeating your bias and prejudices while ignoring conflicting facts pointed out by others, and tell yourself that makes you smart.","parent":"3877809","id":"3877873"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1419584837","timestamp":"2014-12-26 09:07:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just spent the past hour playing with a capsela clone that we got our daughter for Christmas :-) I had these as a kid too, although the legos were better in some ways: less prone to destruction and more \u0026quot;abstract\u0026quot; in tht you could create anything you could imagine.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://iq-key.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;iq-key.com\u003c/a\u003e is the manufacturer.","parent":"8797905","id":"8798499"}
{"by":"urethrafranklin","time":"1500997366","timestamp":"2017-07-25 15:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They aren\u0026#x27;t wholly discrete, or you wouldn\u0026#x27;t have groups like m\u0026#x2F;n or b\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;f\u0026#x2F;v trading places.","parent":"14845712","id":"14848594"}
{"by":"Kalium","time":"1440710718","timestamp":"2015-08-27 21:25:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The goal isn\u0026#x27;t statistical equality of outcomes.\u003cp\u003eGiven that statistical inequality is frequently and loudly trumpeted as proof of injustice, one could be forgiven for reaching precisely this conclusion.","parent":"10129609","id":"10132215"}
{"by":"kmfrk","time":"1300838271","timestamp":"2011-03-22 23:57:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It uses justification and hyphenation, which is a deal-breaker for me (and presumably people with dyslexia, too). But I guess that's why it's on GitHub. :)","parent":"2357072","id":"2357164"}
{"by":"bluntly_said","time":"1396581285","timestamp":"2014-04-04 03:14:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Correct me if I\u0026#x27;m wrong, but Eich donated to a cause that believes the word \u0026quot;marriage\u0026quot; has religious connotations that make it incompatible with a union between two people of the same sex.\u003cp\u003eThat argument in and of itself doesn\u0026#x27;t cause any harm to anyone.\u003cp\u003eThe harm comes when government institutionalizes marriage in a way that gives it greater rights or scope than someone in a civil union would have. In many states, this isn\u0026#x27;t the case.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I don\u0026#x27;t particularly care what the word marriage means, I\u0026#x27;m not religious in any meaningful way.  But arguing that the simple inability to use the word marriage does harm to a person is a pretty weak argument in my mind.\u003cp\u003eFurther, your analogy is wrong.  From his perspective, imagine you always played soccer with a round ball, and couldn\u0026#x27;t use your hands.  Suddenly a group of people  show up with oval spheroid and claim you should be able to use your hands.  They then say that not letting them call their sport soccer is unfair and harmful.  But ya know, we don\u0026#x27;t call that sport soccer, because it\u0026#x27;s different, we call it football.\u003cp\u003e---\u003cp\u003eAs an aside, I think the proper way to handle the marriage debate would have been to remove any and all rights associated with the word, and force all couples to get a civil union.  Tax that instead.  Churches are welcome to marry people all they desire (on both sides, gay or straight as they please according to their beliefs)","parent":"7528864","id":"7528985"}
{"by":"randrews","time":"1302452001","timestamp":"2011-04-10 16:13:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Different people are interested in different things. If a student just does not care about math, they're going to devote a lot more of their effort to their science classes and do the bare minimum to pass in Algebra.","parent":"2429674","id":"2429729"}
{"by":"HappyTypist","time":"1494261869","timestamp":"2017-05-08 16:44:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quit. You will thank me.","parent":"14292676","id":"14293246"}
{"by":"dingdingdang","time":"1410793614","timestamp":"2014-09-15 15:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is very important point, I use jQuery and structure my code into quite specific MC(V) pattern (not yet using a second library for this) - jQuery itself is largely structure agnostic.","parent":"8315702","id":"8319329"}
{"by":"NamTaf","time":"1399007757","timestamp":"2014-05-02 05:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related: US House now submits a draft bill that would require the Pentagon to build a replacement, US-made engine. [1]\u003cp\u003eAlternatively, they could take a leaf from NASA\u0026#x27;s book and embrace the COTS approach that seems to be working for NASA already, so much of the development time is already resolved?\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/01engine/#.U2MpMig6lTw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;spaceflightnow.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;n1405\u0026#x2F;01engine\u0026#x2F;#.U2MpMig6lTw\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7679372","id":"7684236"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1523574045","timestamp":"2018-04-12 23:00:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003esounds more like equity to me than a loan\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne can structure preferred stock to walk like a bond and quack like a stock (as well as the other way). This structure is an incredibly stupid solution to a regulatory problem.","parent":"16825642","id":"16825727"}
{"by":"dingaling","time":"1383212799","timestamp":"2013-10-31 09:46:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting!  I hadn\u0026#x27;t considered that connotation of git.\u003cp\u003eTo Euro-English speakers, \u0026#x27;git\u0026#x27; is a rather coarse pejorative term for a person:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=git\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.etymonline.com\u0026#x2F;index.php?term=git\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s fairly vulgar, of a similar coarseness to calling someone a \u0026#x27;stupid fucker\u0026#x27; in US terms.\u003cp\u003eThe in-joke being that Mr Torvalds chose the name specifically to cause offense.","parent":"6645442","id":"6645928"}
{"by":"logfromblammo","time":"1472831332","timestamp":"2016-09-02 15:48:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those are just the references I am most familiar with.\u003cp\u003eThe Wikipedia page [0] shows many other references, but unfortunately does not currently distinguish between silver rule (don\u0026#x27;t be a hypocrite) and golden rule (be an exemplar of your own virtues).\u003cp\u003eThe limited, proportional punishment maxim also has a page [1].  The origin is undoubtedly Middle Eastern, but migration, empire-building, and colonialism has spread it around the globe.  It is not quite universal, but it may have more adherents than any other incompatible principles regarding punishment and revenge.\u003cp\u003eIt is not surprising that concepts originating in the Middle East have spread far and wide.  Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are the #1, #2, and #6 religions.  Religions from India are #3, #4, #5, #7, and #9.  Confucianism is #8, and Shinto #10.  In addition to the religions, there have been at least a dozen empires that spread from or through that region.\u003cp\u003eUniversal, \u003ci\u003efor me\u003c/i\u003e, is a supermajority (\u0026gt;= 80%) of the economic power on the planet, which also makes a supermajority of the military influence.  It\u0026#x27;s nice to throw non-influential cultures a bone every now and then, out of charity, but their children will be influenced by the cosmopolitan, global-market culture to a far greater extent than they will influence it in return.  The cosmopolitan culture pushes itself into every corner of the globe with its mass-market broadcast media, and only pulls out the stuff that can be sold.  It\u0026#x27;s like a \u0026quot;greatest hits\u0026quot; compilation album of every culture, heavily weighted by the history of world conquests.\u003cp\u003eThe Australian Aborigines, for example, got to export the boomerang and the didgeridoo.  South America gave everyone chocolate, cocaine, and samba.  Jamaica gave everyone ska, reggae, and jerk chicken.  If you wanted to get your core ethics in there, you should have built your empire sooner, or maybe invented the printing press or radio first.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Golden_Rule\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Golden_Rule\u003c/a\u003e\n[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Eye_for_an_eye\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Eye_for_an_eye\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12411857","id":"12413822"}
{"by":"babyrainbow","time":"1480394366","timestamp":"2016-11-29 04:39:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wash cloths, Iron them out, clean the house, do the dishes.","parent":"13045556","id":"13060837"}
{"by":"advancedprivacy","time":"1447323521","timestamp":"2015-11-12 10:18:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hoped that it might be affordable like the TK1 dev board. But the card sized one is 300$\u0026#x2F;1k and the dev board 600$... 300$ for students.\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.anandtech.com\u0026#x2F;show\u0026#x2F;9779\u0026#x2F;nvidia-announces-jetson-tx1-tegra-x1-module-development-kit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.anandtech.com\u0026#x2F;show\u0026#x2F;9779\u0026#x2F;nvidia-announces-jetson-t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10547415","id":"10552264"}
{"by":"Paul_S","time":"1341919152","timestamp":"2012-07-10 11:19:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously, you are absolutely right. Then again, as much as I despise myself for it I did make a killing last time a bunch of idiots started buying them for \u0026#62;20$ a pop so I wouldn't mind. Taking money from speculators and giving money to geeks... I'm sure someone could spin this into something positive.\u003cp\u003eI don't think it's going to hurt bitcoin, it's proven itself to withstand it and is here to stay.","parent":"4222944","id":"4223091"}
{"by":"CodesInChaos","time":"1491319536","timestamp":"2017-04-04 15:25:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"120 bits for the birth date is \u003ci\u003emuch\u003c/i\u003e too big. It\u0026#x27;s closer to 14 bits (taking your 42 year figure it\u0026#x27;s log2(42*365)=13.9).","parent":"14028026","id":"14033619"}
{"by":"buboard","time":"1543350899","timestamp":"2018-11-27 20:34:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you can say that about money supply or credit cards or paypal etc. it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter. what matters is that other people trust it too.","parent":"18546048","id":"18546410"}
{"by":"johrn","time":"1436981288","timestamp":"2015-07-15 17:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except that\u0026#x27;s not a fair analogy to what happens on reddit. Sure, the shouty horrible people have a corner that they hang out in, with couches and televisions and snacks.\u003cp\u003eBut they\u0026#x27;re also free to wander around the rest of the store shouting whatever they want. They hang out by the front door with the greeters even! Up until now, Costco hasn\u0026#x27;t cared that they\u0026#x27;re providing a comfy space for these loudmouthed assholes to congregate.\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t just not go to the corner if you want to avoid them, you have to avoid all the parts of the store that they are shouting in.","parent":"9892626","id":"9892705"}
{"by":"scarface74","time":"1529863140","timestamp":"2018-06-24 17:59:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I left a company where I was the Dev Team lead for a company where I am “just” a Senior Developer. I happen to be getting paid slightly more:\u003cp\u003eMy experience is that I was much more effective as a team lead than an individual contributor. I was able to do and guide research, do proof of concepts that other people productized and had far more accomplishments guiding a team of junior to mid level developers.\u003cp\u003eNow, trying to implement the same kind of changes as an individual contributor is taking far longer. I have more say so over the architectural direction of my team now just based on my expertise and relationships and no red tape (here I’m an AWS admin, at my prior company I had to go through multiple approvals to get anything done), but since I actually have to do the work instead of directing a team, my accomplishments are a lot slower.\u003cp\u003eI can see first hand the effectiveness of my manager and his ability to be a force multiplier over my ability to get things done as an individual contributor.\u003cp\u003eI’m not complaining, when I had a choice when I was looking for a job I could have been hired as an architect\u0026#x2F;Dev lead making slightly more than I make now using technology I was intimately familiar with but I wouldn’t be able to grow my technical skills and I like development.\u003cp\u003eBut the truth is, I could accomplish a lot more with a team of people reporting to me but I purposefully stay in my lane even though my manager and his manager are both pushing me to take a leadership position. I took this job to learn and improve technically, not to manage.","parent":"17384564","id":"17387524"}
{"by":"apocalyptic0n3","time":"1518022293","timestamp":"2018-02-07 16:51:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a bit of evidence in that US and Canadian daily users declined for the first time last quarter. [1]\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.recode.net\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;16957122\u0026#x2F;facebook-daily-active-user-decline-us-canda-q4-earnings-2018\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.recode.net\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;16957122\u0026#x2F;facebook-daily-act...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16325692","id":"16325810"}
{"by":"eridius","time":"1368218880","timestamp":"2013-05-10 20:48:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is pure bullshit. EME doesn't change how something is rendered, only whether certain content can be delivered at all. And we already have existing standards-backed cases where different platforms get different content (or no content at all). Coincidentally, it affects the exact same thing EME does: media rendering. I can deliver an H.264 video and be standards-compliant, yet rendering differently in Safari vs Chrome (because Chrome refuses to support H.264).","parent":"5688382","id":"5688589"}
{"by":"kethinov","time":"1437266977","timestamp":"2015-07-19 00:49:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, thanks for the additional detail. I am not a critic of a system like that.\u003cp\u003eHowever, that doesn\u0026#x27;t explicitly refute my point. Am I wrong in assuming that there are no limits on ESPP contribution?\u003cp\u003eIf that is indeed the case, then my argument stands.","parent":"9909548","id":"9909598"}
{"by":"tuco86","time":"1542056671","timestamp":"2018-11-12 21:04:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Alice, Bob and Charlie want to share a Cake so that none of them envies other pieces\u003cp\u003e2. Charlie cuts the cake into three pieces that are equally valuable from his perspective\u003cp\u003e3. Alice identifies her first choice.\u003cp\u003e4. Bob identifies his first choice from the remaining two. Charlie gets the remaining one.\u003cp\u003e5. Bob trims either his or Alices piece.\u003cp\u003e6. Alice identifies her first choice.\u003cp\u003eSimpler. Is there a fault i don\u0026#x27;t see?","parent":"18432128","id":"18435806"}
{"by":"sgt101","time":"1504536925","timestamp":"2017-09-04 14:55:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I looked the jpg up, and you are a bit mean!!! I am trying not to cry real tears ;)\u003cp\u003eI get the busy beavers thing, humans can\u0026#x27;t do that, nor computers - it says nothing much!\u003cp\u003eBut... are there things that are not computable that aren\u0026#x27;t formalised either - for example the choosing to determine when shifting system is needed to prove something that may or may not be proved in a particular system?","parent":"15166300","id":"15168617"}
{"by":"karmicthreat","time":"1525346752","timestamp":"2018-05-03 11:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My first for real full-time software engineering job was for a very small company.  I was self-taught and their only software developer was leaving in 3 months, but had mostly checkout out already.  The company environment was find but all the software was terrible.\u003cp\u003eOver that first year there it was basically the Klingon Rite of Ascension.  Fighting fires and trying to keep the company afloat.  I had no backup\u0026#x2F;mentors and if I failed then the company was done.  I was near tears (or privately at tears) at a few points from frustration and stress.  In the end I think this experience made me a better person for it.\u003cp\u003eFirst I was forced to learn how to manage stress.  This was a big one and one I had never mastered before.  Next I need to be able to juggle and prioritize actual company needs, not just what people told me to do.  I couldn\u0026#x27;t spend all my time fixing things when our customers also needed our product to work.  I also handled much of the customer support at this point because most of the issues were software related.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, in the end I pulled the company back from its instability.  This gave me a good amount of confidence that I am a good engineer.  That no matter what gets thrown at me I can fix any of our problems and develop new systems.  Even if I need to outsource some of the work to people who are better at particular platforms.\u003cp\u003eThis probably isn\u0026#x27;t a healthy way to overcome impostor syndrome, but its how I did.","parent":"16983195","id":"16984963"}
{"by":"rubiquity","time":"1405781495","timestamp":"2014-07-19 14:51:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder why I was downvoted. Tough crowd.","parent":"8055322","id":"8057610"}
{"by":"nx","time":"1237145040","timestamp":"2009-03-15 19:24:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the Microsoft Professional certificates, the iPhone apps, etc.\u003cp\u003eI'm also 16. But I don't think these are very important things to know, then again, I like CS more than programming.","parent":"517099","id":"517133"}
{"by":"jmatt","time":"1301865461","timestamp":"2011-04-03 21:17:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Make voting transparent. Provide access to who has voted a comment up or down.\u003cp\u003eThe community will act differently if they know others can see their behavior. Then again this may have negative effects.\u003cp\u003eI think that in general I'd be more thoughtful when voting comments up or down if I knew others could see.","parent":"2403696","id":"2404074"}
{"by":"themodelplumber","time":"1533007399","timestamp":"2018-07-31 03:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a lot of these and they usually do seem to fit the groups\u0026#x2F;locations\u0026#x2F;corporations in question. I\u0026#x27;ve heard Mexicans refer to \u0026quot;Mexican time,\u0026quot; and I\u0026#x27;ve heard Mormons refer to \u0026quot;Mormon time,\u0026quot; and various corporations also have equivalent terms.\u003cp\u003eAmusingly, a lot of these terms seem to have their origin in people who were really annoyed by the phenomena.","parent":"17650227","id":"17650313"}
{"by":"mchusma","time":"1305572717","timestamp":"2011-05-16 19:05:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"jsprinkles - Just looked at your pyramid.  So are your attacks ad hominem or name calling?  You definately are not at the refuting the central point section.  I laid out an argument why that is true, you have failed to address it at all.  I maintain that it would be the biggest win for liberty since those events.  Can you think of a better example?\u003cp\u003eAnd yes.  I am being serious.","parent":"2553563","id":"2553748"}
{"by":"iconjack","time":"1453396395","timestamp":"2016-01-21 17:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Online poker is banned in the US.","parent":"10943188","id":"10946616"}
{"by":"abcc8","time":"1541515719","timestamp":"2018-11-06 14:48:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is a link to the study (Open access at PNAS):\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pnas.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;pnas\u0026#x2F;115\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;E7379.full.pdf?casa_token=UUnTkoOcuXkAAAAA:V6TllVTjL5wz5bGeX-iH6Vz_iaPzKd40mixi5ro3n6Nhp6RZpqJI8UUCURehhL-K2CiHg7CiDrEZ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pnas.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;pnas\u0026#x2F;115\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;E7379.full.pdf?casa_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18390807","id":"18391421"}
{"by":"tmister","time":"1353000667","timestamp":"2012-11-15 17:31:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't the same thing happening right now even if there is no visual monopoly situation? Do you really think people will switch to Firefox and Opera when default offering is good enough? Also, though I haven't used IE6 at that time but several commenter here and reddit says that IE6 was ahead of completion at that time, netscape was also partly to blame for their demise. So what was the point of blaming Microsoft for bundling a Better browser at that time, while same thing is perfectly acceptable now?","parent":"4789545","id":"4789658"}
{"by":"pekk","time":"1357828709","timestamp":"2013-01-10 14:38:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That program is dramatically less useful than GIMP.","parent":"5034890","id":"5037025"}
{"by":"zwily","time":"1462132750","timestamp":"2016-05-01 19:59:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t exercise RSUs. RSUs are taxable as they vest. At my company, a portion of your vesting RSUs are sold every time to pay the tax on them, unless you provide some cash to pay the tax.","parent":"11607517","id":"11607624"}
{"by":"joelberman","time":"1430610870","timestamp":"2015-05-02 23:54:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I had cancer I just wanted it gone.  Since it could be cut out, I went with that.  Every time I caught a cold I worried that it had returned.  I did not want to be on the wrong side of a statistical curve.  That others survived would not have comforted me as much as knowing that I would survive.  Your mileage may vary.","parent":"9478502","id":"9479057"}
{"by":"nirmal","time":"1214512955","timestamp":"2008-06-26 20:42:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"maybe the right formula is actually\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  cat email_attachments | tumblr \u0026#62; posterous\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"229028","id":"229084"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1330083146","timestamp":"2012-02-24 11:32:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Internet for the masses, perhaps, but that job posting is from a Usenet post nonetheless :-)\u003cp\u003eI miss the Usenet of yesteryear, nothing now comes close, but even I was surprised to look it up just now and see it started in 1980!","parent":"3628784","id":"3628841"}
{"by":"Hydraulix989","time":"1487837771","timestamp":"2017-02-23 08:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I switched to management, I had a new kind of \u0026quot;imposter syndrome\u0026quot; -- here I was sitting still bossing around the guys in the trenches doing the real work. I still have to write code even as manager, or I just feel lazy and like I\u0026#x27;m taking advantage of my direct reports.","parent":"13710990","id":"13712452"}
{"by":"willtim","time":"1522392173","timestamp":"2018-03-30 06:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;ll have to take the trackpoint from my cold dead hands... I find it superior to a trackpad, as I don\u0026#x27;t have to take my hands off the keyboard.","parent":"16714175","id":"16714203"}
{"by":"cowardlydragon","time":"1453750322","timestamp":"2016-01-25 19:32:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Um, the snowflakes were very similar in the photos, but pretty clearly not perfectly identical.","parent":"10968647","id":"10969328"}
{"by":"debacle","time":"1449071500","timestamp":"2015-12-02 15:51:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A very lost opportunity to create a new stdlib and eventually phase out the old, shitty, procedural one.","parent":"10661997","id":"10663631"}
{"by":"bluetwo","time":"1516381483","timestamp":"2018-01-19 17:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A boy can dream...","parent":"16164026","id":"16187755"}
{"by":"nico","time":"1386521194","timestamp":"2013-12-08 16:46:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m impressed by how much hate is directed in the comments to the guy in the article. Seems like a lot of people here are either jealous about this guy \u0026quot;hacking the system\u0026quot;, or are just too self-righteous.\u003cp\u003eWhy not instead use the article (as it was probably intended) as a way to think and debate about things that are hard to agree on or that are hard to define?\u003cp\u003eThis caught my attention for example: \u0026quot;The Man Who Does Not Exist claims regulations that govern rental apartments are akin to drug laws. They are useless, unenforceable, and an affront to the general public.\u0026quot;, and although I don\u0026#x27;t have a strong opinion about hotel regulation in NY (or elsewhere), I do agree that current drug laws pretty much only benefit government agencies (they get funding) and drug cartels (by artificially raising prices).","parent":"6869998","id":"6870170"}
{"by":"imhoguy","time":"1546594813","timestamp":"2019-01-04 09:40:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would also add massive family debt\u0026#x2F;mortgage to this list. I saw so many star engineers fear-driven and stagnating in their tiny comfort zones to the burn-out or layoff.","parent":"18814460","id":"18822877"}
{"by":"icholy","time":"1481565302","timestamp":"2016-12-12 17:55:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW I already have both of those.","parent":"13148918","id":"13160102"}
{"by":"mariusmg","time":"1540908694","timestamp":"2018-10-30 14:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Melodic death metal FTW :))","parent":"18335308","id":"18336592"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1455052714","timestamp":"2016-02-09 21:18:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That blew my mind! So now it turns out Einstein was wrong??\u003cp\u003eNo, because the light speed limit only applies to things moving through space, not to space itself, which can and does expand faster than light speed.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; We can\u0026#x27;t get particle to seriously travel faster than light and there is entire galaxy going faster??\u003cp\u003eThe galaxy isn\u0026#x27;t traveling through space at faster than light speed, it\u0026#x27;s being conveyed along with the space that surrounds it at a speed that exceeds light-speed from the perspective of some distant location in space.","parent":"11068412","id":"11068854"}
{"by":"krohling","time":"1437616228","timestamp":"2015-07-23 01:50:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another interesting side effect of the outdoors that I\u0026#x27;ve noticed is the impact on human social interaction.  I ride the train into SF every day and throughout the week I sit next to countless other people without speaking to a single one of them.  I went backpacking through the Lost Cost Trail last weekend and had a conversation with literally every human being that I passed.  Not just a \u0026quot;hi, how you doing?\u0026quot; but a genuine conversation about where they were from, what part of the trail they started on, where they were going, what they had seen.  In fact, I would get people waving and saying hi from 100 yards away across a stream.  It felt genuine and easy and I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure they all felt the same.","parent":"9932793","id":"9933525"}
{"by":"forrestthewoods","time":"1545726547","timestamp":"2018-12-25 08:29:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Super fun.\u003cp\u003eI’m not caught up yet. Finished day 17 earlier today.\u003cp\u003eI’ve been using the advent to learn Rust. I’m pretty happy with my progress so far. A few things were more difficult than had I used C++. But for the most part it’s gone swimmingly.\u003cp\u003eI love the advent of code subreddit. Every time I solve a puzzle I check how other people did it in Rust. I learned several new things this way.","parent":"18756313","id":"18756576"}
{"by":"sqs","time":"1493845102","timestamp":"2017-05-03 20:58:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sourcegraph CEO here. We\u0026#x27;re on it. We are seeing significantly increased load times for some users due to a bottleneck in our serving of Git data. Sorry about the issues...will be fixed asap.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Fixed. Thanks!","parent":"14259952","id":"14260018"}
{"by":"johanneskanybal","time":"1480908699","timestamp":"2016-12-05 03:31:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That this could be considered \u0026quot;controversial\u0026quot; 2016 is just mind blowing to me.","parent":"13101240","id":"13103207"}
{"by":"radd9er","time":"1362260399","timestamp":"2013-03-02 21:39:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Using the html 5 video player sucks pretty bad in my experience (coursera).","parent":"5306907","id":"5311197"}
{"by":"oleganza","time":"1366973588","timestamp":"2013-04-26 10:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know about Stockholm, but in US and France taxi drivers must buy a taxi license for many thousands of dollars/euros that effectively allows them be a part of a monopoly. The price for the license is market-defined because there is a limited number of licenses and few restrictions on trading them. But the interesting point is that licenses were initially created many years ago by some taxi mafia and lobbied to be enforced by police.\u003cp\u003eNow, put aside \"fairness\" issues, just imagine if someone comes up with Uber or similar service to work around these licensing requirements. And at the same time provides superior service. They will be able to ask lower prices, which will endanger every taxi driver who's invested already to be a part of a monopoly.\u003cp\u003eNow imagine that something like Uber moves to bitcoins and become almost anonymous. You won't be able to shutdown the central organisation - it's outside the country and has no bank account. You'll have to fight with individual \"illegal\" taxi drivers that use the system. But how would you prove that they get paid? There are no credit cards or cash. The person who gets in the car only tells the driver a short pin code to authenticate himself. Or says nothing at all. The driver just gives a friendly lift.\u003cp\u003eSuddenly no one needs taxis and every taxi driver has lost tens of thousands of dollars invested in his license and can do nothing about it. Customers win, other drivers win, mafia loses. Is it fair? Is in unfair? If you cannot avoid this outcome, does it really matter?","parent":"5612269","id":"5612289"}
{"by":"snitko","time":"1271518860","timestamp":"2010-04-17 15:41:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not saying ban fiction. All I'm saying - you may enjoy good fiction for a lot longer time if you eat right, exercise and sleep well.","parent":"1273168","id":"1273176"}
{"by":"radimm","time":"1489085500","timestamp":"2017-03-09 18:51:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is simply not true. Support for GCP works as expected.","parent":"13831778","id":"13831872"}
{"by":"golergka","time":"1460392242","timestamp":"2016-04-11 16:30:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why worse if it\u0026#x27;s the same %?","parent":"11472677","id":"11472759"}
{"by":"karlzt","time":"1325173841","timestamp":"2011-12-29 15:50:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bluehost has a reputation of being crap. \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471861\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471861\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions\u0026#38;q=bluehost\u0026#38;start=0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions\u0026#38;q=blu...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3403836","id":"3403973"}
{"by":"f00_","time":"1380494773","timestamp":"2013-09-29 22:46:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Hacking\u0026quot; their iPad, as in running a widely available pre-complied exploit...","parent":"6466425","id":"6466854"}
{"by":"orofino","time":"1354104602","timestamp":"2012-11-28 12:10:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We worked for three years out of college to pay off school loans, get established (and then sell everything), and save 60k for our trip.","parent":"4841577","id":"4842117"}
{"by":"sh1mmer","time":"1253135090","timestamp":"2009-09-16 21:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I discovered some awesome in Netcat while playing with BashReduce (\u003ca href=\"http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eThat said BashReduce uses the Debian version of Netcat which is different from every other version I could find. I ended up running Debian in VMWare to get BashReduce up and running on my Mac.","parent":"825701","id":"826824"}
{"by":"zamber","time":"1507631646","timestamp":"2017-10-10 10:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s pretty much the same story in Poland.","parent":"15440543","id":"15440711"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1374255295","timestamp":"2013-07-19 17:34:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would be trading one set of problems for another.\u003cp\u003eI routinely drive around 80 mph (15 over the speed limit) on the freeway here in San Diego, just like virtually everyone else (when there isn\u0026#x27;t traffic).  Cops here don\u0026#x27;t even blink when it comes to this sort of speed on the freeways.  But drones would, presumably, issue tickets at any technical infraction regardless of the \u0026quot;situation on the ground\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eTo be honest, I\u0026#x27;m not sure which situation I\u0026#x27;d dislike worse, the occasionally arbitrary power-tripping cop or the completely clinical and technical rule following of the drone, both are pretty bad, IMO.","parent":"6070594","id":"6071627"}
{"by":"johan_larson","time":"1489483433","timestamp":"2017-03-14 09:23:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least within the developed world, secularism is very much on the rise. And that\u0026#x27;s true even in the US.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pewforum.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;americas-changing-religious-landscape\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pewforum.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;americas-changing-religio...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 2007 and 2014, the portion of the population that is unaffiliated with any religion soared from 16.1% to 22.8%. The portion of the population identifying as Christian dropped from 78.4% to 70.6%.","parent":"13866014","id":"13866122"}
{"by":"mitchty","time":"1541523236","timestamp":"2018-11-06 16:53:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; NLL will be enabled in Rust 2015 sometime early next year\u003cp\u003eWouldn\u0026#x27;t that be 2019 not 2015?","parent":"18390963","id":"18392669"}
{"by":"jacobush","time":"1502202735","timestamp":"2017-08-08 14:32:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So a cluster of modern cores could approach a UNIVAC...","parent":"14949368","id":"14958102"}
{"by":"crazychrome","time":"1425756977","timestamp":"2015-03-07 19:36:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I stopped reading Ni Kuang\u0026#x27;s work since 14. I\u0026#x27;d consider comparing Ni Kuang with Liu a serious offence to Liu\u0026#x27;s readers.\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion, the second and third instalments of \u003ci\u003eThe Three Body Problem\u003c/i\u003e are as good as the Foundation series. The first one, really is just a trailer.\u003cp\u003eThe second one, entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Forest\u003c/i\u003e is far more than Sci-fi. Personally, I interpret it as a serious international political question: could the West really tolerate any other forms of civilisation? the book gave a negative perspective.\u003cp\u003eClaim: I live in UK and I understand most of EU folks don\u0026#x27;t like to be simplified as \u003ci\u003eWesterners\u003c/i\u003e. However, from a Chinese perspective, the cultural differences between FR\u0026#x2F;DE\u0026#x2F;UK\u0026#x2F;CA\u0026#x2F;US\u0026#x2F;AU are invisible.","parent":"9162589","id":"9162827"}
{"by":"nickh","time":"1393975196","timestamp":"2014-03-04 23:19:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! Nearly anything can be catalogued, provided there\u0026#x27;s information available for it (E.g. manufacturer, release date, etc), and it\u0026#x27;s not something like the sweater that your grandmother knitted you.","parent":"7341235","id":"7343955"}
{"by":"carbocation","time":"1335728704","timestamp":"2012-04-29 19:45:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I read Mr. O'Reilly's piece and am responding to it. You seem to be saying that, because I reject the premises and false arguments that he makes in his introduction, therefore I didn't read it? Feel free to respond to my substantive point rather than just distracting from the actual conversation.","parent":"3906800","id":"3906843"}
{"by":"PhantomGremlin","time":"1440018496","timestamp":"2015-08-19 21:08:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a \u0026quot;protector\u0026quot;, but the protection isn\u0026#x27;t guaranteed to be 100% effective.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s an OK use of the language in this context and has many parallels in other fields. E.g. using a condom as protection against pregnancy and disease. Many people have learned the hard way that it\u0026#x27;s not 100%.","parent":"10088107","id":"10088501"}
{"by":"bcg1","time":"1429791409","timestamp":"2015-04-23 12:16:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is definitely a developing trend... seems to be catching on that most server applications are more or less single programs that just use the OS as an emulation layer so that applications don\u0026#x27;t need to come with their own low level drivers. Quite overkill if you\u0026#x27;re just trying to run java, node, ruby, whatever\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re probably not too far off from java-as-the-os, node-as-the-os, etc. Substituting a hypervisor for Linux or whatever other OS you\u0026#x27;re using as the emulation layer seems to the be the architecture of choice for this type of work right now... I guess because you\u0026#x27;d just have to implement a handful of drivers... in addition to other OS bits like scheduling and memory of course, but I suspect those things are fairly straightforward for many applications especially if you can assume that there are no other \u0026quot;processes\u0026quot; running... essentially those just become implementation details of the application that can be swapped in and out like any other library\u0026#x2F;framework\u003cp\u003eThe term I\u0026#x27;ve seen for this sort of architecture is a \u0026quot;unikernel\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis OSv project looks nice, definitely something to keep on the radar","parent":"9425317","id":"9426144"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1524790747","timestamp":"2018-04-27 00:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, but commercial distributed endpoint protection would not be in my top 20 projects for any startup I can think of working with.","parent":"16936809","id":"16937541"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1465291582","timestamp":"2016-06-07 09:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The system is also, weirdly, specifically designed so that not every person in the world can have their own planet.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not weird if you look at it from the perspective of artificial scarcity. It took three decades but now IPV4 addresses are worth cold hard cash.","parent":"11853289","id":"11853313"}
{"by":"zepolen","time":"1528064097","timestamp":"2018-06-03 22:14:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you \u003ci\u003eported an entire app to a new language\u003c/i\u003e instead of convert the hot paths to sqlalchemy\u0026#x27;s sql expression or even just optimized raw sql with bind params.\u003cp\u003eHope you learnt from that experience.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re still using a Query builder? Heh, maybe one day you\u0026#x27;ll learn how to write plain sql yourself.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I\u0026#x27;m working in the 2,000TPS range. So don\u0026#x27;t bother.","parent":"17218785","dead":true,"id":"17222611"}
{"by":"tjpick","time":"1246247946","timestamp":"2009-06-29 03:59:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Why wouldn't your \"network\" (or as I like to call them in the real world, \"friends\") help out? If you think no one in your \"network\" can help, you didn't think hard enough.\u003cp\u003e2. Don't send 10 resumes. Narrow it down better, concentrate, and work hard and fast to get some offers on the table.\u003cp\u003e3. Accept an offer, starting date +1 month, buy a ticket to Europe and load whatever is left on your visa. Perfect opportunity for a holiday.","parent":"678245","id":"678453"}
{"by":"jhasse","time":"1389378529","timestamp":"2014-01-10 18:28:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sure is the best option for C++ Windows development, but not for Rust to depend on and use.","parent":"7035734","id":"7038369"}
{"by":"danmaz74","time":"1322312820","timestamp":"2011-11-26 13:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the American senator or German finance ministers aren't supposed communists who should only be earning around $22,000 per year from their positions. This is all what this article is about.","parent":"3279658","id":"3279710"}
{"by":"kingsidharth","time":"1289773856","timestamp":"2010-11-14 22:30:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No true-er words were every spoken before.\u003cp\u003eThanks for throwing this perspective man. Now I know I really should stop caring about CSS Galleries and 'make it pretty designer gatherings'\u003cp\u003eA designer's true reward is 'used'.","parent":"1904394","id":"1904405"}
{"by":"jld89","time":"1454425505","timestamp":"2016-02-02 15:05:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another problem in \u003ci\u003emy opinion\u003c/i\u003e is the fact that the metrics in the US are in imperial measures. 30 mph is 50 kph, it\u0026#x27;s about pure numbers.\u003cp\u003e50 is higher than 30 so common sense tells you that you are going faster. Even if it is not true. There is a subconscious reaction of people to numbers, no matter the metrics.","parent":"11019539","id":"11019797"}
{"by":"billconan","time":"1521825043","timestamp":"2018-03-23 17:10:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really good points.","parent":"16660096","id":"16660305"}
{"by":"anotherevan","time":"1501286779","timestamp":"2017-07-29 00:06:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a certain irony that your original comment sounded like you think your time is much more valuable than everyone else\u0026#x27;s too, which is probably why it\u0026#x27;s gotten so downvoted. In any case...\u003cp\u003eI probably do sound like the colleagues you\u0026#x27;ve worked with. It\u0026#x27;s not that I think my time is more valuable than everyone else\u0026#x27;s, but I do this my time \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e valuable. It sucks that your colleagues have treated you this way. I\u0026#x27;ve worked with colleagues who would interrupt me every ten or twenty minutes, just when I\u0026#x27;m getting back into the flow of concentration needed for programming which they broke ten or twenty minutes ago, often for what seem like very simple or trivial things. My frustrations with that probably bled through in my writing.\u003cp\u003eI also agree with the principle of treating others as I would like them to treat me. Looping that back to the original topic: that is exactly why I strongly prefer not to just receive a, \u0026quot;Hello,\u0026quot; with a wait for response in instant messaging, but an initial message more in line with what the article suggests. This is also what I do when sending an initial message for the same reason: I value the other person\u0026#x27;s time and want to be cognisant of that.","parent":"14874734","id":"14878612"}
{"by":"delaaxe","time":"1517994312","timestamp":"2018-02-07 09:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But the core, middle booster, which attempted to land aboard “Of Course I Still Love You,” a drone barge that SpaceX uses as a mobile, ocean-borne landing pad stationed in the Atlantic for its flights departing from Florida, wasn’t recovered.\u003cp\u003e“Of Course I Still Love You” is the name of a spacecraft in The Culture, a series of novels that inspired Elon Musk when he was young.","parent":"16321244","id":"16323160"}
{"by":"jhkaghjkga","time":"1459621617","timestamp":"2016-04-02 18:26:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because any (possibly security-relevant) update to a library would mean that \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e software linking it statically has to be rebuilt.\u003cp\u003eIn reality that of course doesn\u0026#x27;t happen, so programs linking statically or including their own versions of shared libraries never get security updates for the included libraries.","parent":"11412579","id":"11412628"}
{"by":"jsz0","time":"1248757136","timestamp":"2009-07-28 04:58:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yahoo needs to try something new and different. No amount of rearranging tabs \u0026#38; links or switching fonts is going to make a bit of difference in the long run.","parent":"727391","id":"727457"}
{"by":"BjoernKW","time":"1481582663","timestamp":"2016-12-12 22:44:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Far from it. CSV is by far the most common data exchange format for ERP, CRM and business systems in general. EDI is another. Good luck communicating with SAP ERP or NetSuite without good old-fashioned SOAP. Judging from the documentation none of these seems to be supported by Confluent.\u003cp\u003eSOAP and CSV are not sexy. They have plenty of shortcomings. However, those are the formats that are used in the real world today (and for some time to come).\u003cp\u003eStream processing is a very useful design pattern but like any design pattern it should be used carefully and only where appropriate (see: Microservices).\u003cp\u003eIf I were to build a new complex ERP from the ground up I\u0026#x27;d be remiss not to use something like Kafka or Confluent for data processing.\u003cp\u003eIf I want to communicate with legacy systems though that\u0026#x27;s an entirely different matter. The same applies when targeting SMBs. You\u0026#x27;d have a hard time explaining to small business owners why they suddenly need a newfangled stream processing architecture while their old \u0026quot;Export CSV and load that into Excel\u0026quot; process worked just fine.","parent":"13162169","id":"13162731"}
{"by":"Davertron","time":"1374496929","timestamp":"2013-07-22 12:42:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I\u0026#x27;ve run into this as well. I would say avoid doing this if you can and use an AJAX call from inside the javascript to pull the data in that you need. Sometimes this isn\u0026#x27;t feasible\u0026#x2F;ideal though (especially if the data is slow to get\u0026#x2F;calculate and is already used on the html page...). If you can cache the results of the calculation on the server-side, that would mitigate the performance implications a bit and then you just have the overhead of the request itself.","parent":"6083166","id":"6083273"}
{"by":"richardwhiuk","time":"1513627207","timestamp":"2017-12-18 20:00:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you suggest a kernel debugger should work?","parent":"15953644","id":"15954904"}
{"by":"irish10","time":"1436562660","timestamp":"2015-07-10 21:11:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CBS Interactive-San Francisco-Onsite\u003cp\u003eExperience building, scaling and managing an online business. Deep understanding of online ecosystems. \nStrong understanding of highly usable Web user experiences, Web apps, Mobile web apps, Native mobile apps, and different Internet-based business models. \nSolid product management experience with a track record of creating innovative and winning Internet and\u0026#x2F;or mobile solutions. \nStrong people and organizational management skills. A natural leader and mentor. \nStrong communication skills with the ability to evangelize the merits of CNET’s products internally and externally. \nDemonstrated hands-on familiarity with the technology used to build great products: logging and analytics platforms, debugging tools and simulators, wireframing and mockup tools. \nCurious, self-motivated, resourceful and able to work independently.\n 2+ years of applicable experience desired.\u003cp\u003eDesirable Skills \u0026#x2F; Experience \nStrong mix of technical, design and business sensibilities. \nAbility to invent simple solutions for complex problems. \nWillingness to use data to support hypothesis and intuition. \nPrior experience in online publishing or at a consumer Internet company. \nFlexibility to work in an agile, iterative environment. \nPassion for tech news\u003cp\u003eMust successfully complete background check \nIn addition, CBS will be guided by applicable federal, state and local laws when considering for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.","parent":"9812245","id":"9866718"}
{"by":"yjftsjthsd-h","time":"1495597345","timestamp":"2017-05-24 03:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because I want to call my daughter once a week, and publish a Python module that someone else might find useful (which does not mean I want to support them).","parent":"14405798","id":"14407457"}
{"by":"alex_hitchins","time":"1486495482","timestamp":"2017-02-07 19:24:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d say given inflation, cost of living etc, that pay back in the day was on average, over average for upper figure salaries. There are more devs\u0026#x2F;techies\u0026#x2F;IT literate people about these days so although there are sought after roles, positions are easier to fill these days. IMHO, Obvs.","parent":"13590247","id":"13591867"}
{"by":"nuxi7","time":"1277361737","timestamp":"2010-06-24 06:42:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, even if you win, you lose.\u003cp\u003eAfter I made my previous post I was pondering what Viacom hops to win in this case. The obvious thought is that they want to gut the DMCA safe harbor, but this seems like it would make combating piracy harder in the long run.\u003cp\u003eThe safe harbor is the carrot offered so that service providers respond to DMCA takedown notices. Without that carrot, or with it much farther away, service providers are less likely to cooperate with Viacom.\u003cp\u003eViacom is setting the playing field for service providers like this:\n1. Dedicate resources to DMCA takedowns and then spend millions defending your safe harbor status anyway, or\n2. Spend millions in copyright fines\u003cp\u003eThis is a bad playing field to set, the DMCA takedown is a pretty sweet deal for Viacom. Why spoil it by making option 2 so attractive to service providers? And then option 3 dawned on me:\u003cp\u003e3. Don't allow user content\u003cp\u003eI don't think this case is really about copyright at all. It seems to me that Viacom's real goal is just to squash a competitor using the courts.","parent":"1456730","id":"1457469"}
{"by":"tomc1985","time":"1522640757","timestamp":"2018-04-02 03:45:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, just stop your X server and run this opaque binary, answer these questions about kernel modules, restart X, and hope your display config isn\u0026#x27;t completely messed up... super easy!\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;slightly salty","parent":"16732060","id":"16732152"}
{"by":"codejoust","time":"1319302162","timestamp":"2011-10-22 16:49:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also have not seen this on my tumblr blog. I've only stumbled across one or two bot-like blogs.","parent":"3143816","id":"3143819"}
{"by":"m_mueller","time":"1509934538","timestamp":"2017-11-06 02:15:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for the expansive answer - I can really see where you\u0026#x27;re from now and I agree with your issues in Python. It\u0026#x27;s interesting to me that you go to Julia as a solution (I mean that honestly, I want to play with it when an exploration phase comes up).","parent":"15627639","id":"15633066"}
{"by":"bufordsharkley","time":"1476044627","timestamp":"2016-10-09 20:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are doing nothing to argue that closed borders are moral, just that implementing open borders has caused problems in some cases.\u003cp\u003eSimilar arguments were made against dismantling the institution of slavery, and they were just as incoherent at addressing the root moral evil.","parent":"12673202","id":"12673247"}
{"by":"abraae","time":"1515837714","timestamp":"2018-01-13 10:01:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An interesting thing too you may experience at discovery is that the other party has documented their own parallel but self-serving version of events via emails to themselves.\u003cp\u003ee.g. \u0026quot;Today Harry repeated his threats to sue us for fraud. Todd and I are trying to work out how to deal with it, its new territory for us.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOption #3 leaves you open to this unpleasant scenario.","parent":"16129955","id":"16138974"}
{"by":"Hawkee","time":"1395563194","timestamp":"2014-03-23 08:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.  They\u0026#x27;ve really diminished the value of a like.  Rather than encouraging unliking they\u0026#x27;re making the content providers pay to make their likes more valuable than the likes of their competitors.  It makes business sense for Facebook, but it really destroys the value to the user.  I\u0026#x27;m tempted to delete my Facebook page, but I still do get a little engagement.  We\u0026#x27;ll see how long that lasts.","parent":"7452223","id":"7452583"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1537858153","timestamp":"2018-09-25 06:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because you cannot prevent redistribution of the source code, so there is no way to enforce payments to the original authors.\u003cp\u003eThis is the major reason why consumer desktop software for FOSS platforms is a commercial failure, unless tied to server walls.","parent":"18064072","id":"18064150"}
{"by":"verelo","time":"1527817402","timestamp":"2018-06-01 01:43:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I work in tech, my salary is less than 1\u0026#x2F;2 what it would be in the US (not just Silicon Valley).\u003cp\u003eYes, but I\u0026#x27;d argue that SV income might look higher, but after you try living there you\u0026#x27;d gladly go back to Canadian expenses if the compromise was that you also had to take your Canadian income once again. Also, income inequality in Canada isn\u0026#x27;t as bad as the US (yet...)","parent":"17201880","id":"17201947"}
{"by":"bteitelb","time":"1317169509","timestamp":"2011-09-28 00:25:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The interesting thing here is that one of Skype's most noted weaknesses is actually its core strength: calls tend to be scheduled (or at least negotiated first via IM).","parent":"3045886","id":"3045892"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1456164907","timestamp":"2016-02-22 18:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a bunch of customers that are countries that have a tight hold on their telecom industry. Which I don\u0026#x27;t mean to offer as a justification, just as an observation that making allowances for \u0026quot;compliance with legal interception procedures\u0026quot; is not anything new for that industry.","parent":"11152784","id":"11152935"}
{"by":"contingencies","time":"1371025927","timestamp":"2013-06-12 08:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One stays in your pocket.","parent":"5867089","id":"5867109"}
{"by":"thrdOriginal","time":"1301000771","timestamp":"2011-03-24 21:06:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While an interesting personal anecdote, your comment has nothing to do with what DFW is talking about.  He touches on multiple platitudes throughout his speech (and names them as such): this is not one of them.","parent":"2365773","id":"2365960"}
{"by":"jarcane","time":"1419937313","timestamp":"2014-12-30 11:01:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is mainly what I took from it. The faster way here is almost always the most idiomatic way to do it in the examples, and the reasons why are usually pretty obvious.\u003cp\u003eAnd while the individual differences are small, in a language already as slow as Python, starting from the faster, idiomatic code from the start is likely to save a lot of headache down the line.","parent":"8814032","id":"8814106"}
{"by":"Panoramix","time":"1470075966","timestamp":"2016-08-01 18:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, intuitively speaking, why does the field decreases with increasing wire radius?\u003cp\u003eI also don\u0026#x27;t understand the factor epsilon*log(r). Doesn\u0026#x27;t that contradict the above statement? (smaller radius should lead to a larger field, not smaller)","parent":"12202829","id":"12204710"}
{"by":"hackuser","time":"1436212491","timestamp":"2015-07-06 19:54:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One big advantage of Google\u0026#x27;s solution over Uber\u0026#x27;s is the relative climate change impact of your transportation choice. In reverse order of benefit, based on my amatuer analysis:\u003cp\u003e* For a baseline, let\u0026#x27;s use one party (generally a person or a couple) with a personal car. Traveling someplace creates P marginal greenhouse gasses (GHG), plus there is the fixed cost of manufacturing the car (but I have no idea how much that is).\u003cp\u003e* Uber and taxis net GHG emissions should be worst and greater than P: Your trip uses P but added to that is the GHG generated when the taxi\u0026#x2F;Uber car has no passenger and is \u0026#x27;cruising\u0026#x27;. Also, I expect taxis\u0026#x2F;Uber cars are larger on average than personal cars, and thus less fuel efficient, because they need to fit several adults comfortably in the back. If you give up a personal car for Uber\u0026#x2F;taxis, then you get the manufacturing benefit.\u003cp\u003e* Car share services (e.g., ZipCar) should net less than P emissions, if you give up a personal car when you join. The car is parked when nobody is driving it, so the marginal cost of one trip is P. But it also eliminates the emissions created from manufacturing the car, whatever that is. EDIT: As hayksaakian points out below, this is the same as buying a used car.\u003cp\u003e* Google\u0026#x27;s RideWidth\u0026#x27;s net GHG emissions should be much less than P: For every added passenger, one less car is on the road emitting P.\u003cp\u003e* Public transit probably is second best. The marginal GHG emissions of the bus\u0026#x2F;train carrying your fat a-- on its normal route probably don\u0026#x27;t amount to much. On the other hand, it probably depends on the average passenger load of the vehicle -- certainly a train\u0026#x2F;bus with only you on it costs much more per passenger than P, but those fixed costs are spread over many more passengers than Uber\u0026#x2F;taxis.\u003cp\u003e* Best of all, of course, are biking or walking. Though has anyone calculated the GHG emissions of the human energy cycle, from growing the cattle feed to transport to refrigeration to cooking to human methane emissions?\u003cp\u003eAlso not calculated are the effect your use of one service or another has on demand, driving up the number of Uber\u0026#x2F;taxi\u0026#x2F;busses, etc. on the road.","parent":"9838724","id":"9841775"}
{"by":"guelo","time":"1445473588","timestamp":"2015-10-22 00:26:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Different websites on different urls with different giant Javascript application, also different mobile apps, and built by different Google business units. So two services.","parent":"10429583","id":"10429764"}
{"by":"dxbydt","time":"1349985771","timestamp":"2012-10-11 20:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is nothing astronaut-ty or theoretical about microkernels. For eg, QNX is a fairly successful, practical microkernel, its what your BlackBerry runs on. If anything, microkernels are one of the most practical ways to approach OS design. You strip the kernel to its bare minimum and do everything else in usermode via IPC. It so turns out in practice that the performance costs of IPC is much more than making a direct syscall in a monolithic kernel, but that is just today's state of the art. As IPC performance improves \u0026#38; monolithic kernel KLOCs explode, you will see microkernels making a strong comeback, especially on mobile. Wait and see.","parent":"4642429","id":"4642492"}
{"by":"marquis","time":"1386046542","timestamp":"2013-12-03 04:55:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are part of the Ushahidi team, I\u0026#x27;d like to thank you and the rest of your team. It was an important part of my life for a short period of time during a difficult disaster recovery event. A product like the BRCK, with the power of Ushahidi, can genuinely make lives better during disaster deployment. I could have used quite a few of those devices myself.","parent":"6837723","id":"6838592"}
{"by":"dforrestwilson","time":"1504876600","timestamp":"2017-09-08 13:16:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like I\u0026#x27;ve seen all of these strata. My timeline goes like this:\u003cp\u003e1) Worked at a defense tech startup, learned some code, told the AI what to do.\u003cp\u003e2) Got MBA, worked at big Wall Street bank with millionaire boss. Met some management teams at massive companies, discovered they were just ordinary people for the most part. Completely disregarded AI\u0026#x2F;tech because we were Too Big to Fail.\u003cp\u003e3) For the kiddos, I gave up hectic job and took a decent job at what I thought was a scrappy tech-focused company, which was subsequently acquired by a bigger slower company. Now I work in effectively a front-line role, which has a high potential to eventually be automated away. I do some code but it\u0026#x27;s mostly easy lay-up stuff. The AI tells us what to look at, and other people control that.\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile my wife is an IG\u0026#x2F;FB pro, mercilessly weaving the latest family related stories of success and tabulating the \u0026quot;like\u0026quot; coups.\u003cp\u003eI suppose we\u0026#x27;re faking it til we make it (again). It\u0026#x27;s an odd feeling to have seen maybe all three important sides of the new economy. I\u0026#x27;ll feel more comfortable when we\u0026#x27;re back in the top or middle again.","parent":"15199709","id":"15199903"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1334596703","timestamp":"2012-04-16 17:18:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly what recourse do you think you had in (say) 1998 to the sharing of your personal email by a service provider with (say) the FBI? 1998 predates the PATRIOT act and anything it did to defang the ECPA; your privacy rights were presumably at their zenith. So: specific questions:\u003cp\u003e(a) what could you have done if Hotmail decided that your mail was relevant to an investigation about an attack on their service?\u003cp\u003e(b) what protections did you have that once the investigation wrapped up, your emails would not end up in a database at DoJ?\u003cp\u003e(c) under what specific law would you have been able to sue Hotmail for sharing your mail illegitimately?\u003cp\u003eIt should be obvious that my belief is that you had no recourse then, that you could not have sued, and that DoJ could easily have banked your mail or, to raise revenue for the state, sold it to direct marketing companies. But IANAL and it's wholly possible that despite the (limited) direct experience I've had with the ECPA and email privacy, I'm totally wrong.","parent":"3848224","id":"3848289"}
{"by":"dorkitude","time":"1354611897","timestamp":"2012-12-04 09:04:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly.\u003cp\u003eWe're operating at a layer below other analytics products, and we're certainly not as useful out of the box.  A good analogy might be:\u003cp\u003eMailChimp : SendGrid :: Google Analytics : Keen IO\u003cp\u003eWhich is to say, Keen IO is a set of developer API's wrapping hosted infrastructure, whereas other analytics products are end-to-end solutions.  We're an agnostic event data backend, and they are each a full product offering with its own focus.\u003cp\u003eHopefully that helps explain why we don't think of ourselves as competitors to products like Mixpanel or GA or KISSmetrics -- in fact we plan to build one-click import and export connectors from/to those services and others.  We think our position in the ecosystem will actually help them retain customers who would otherwise churn in favor of building in-house.","parent":"4870022","id":"4870090"}
{"by":"jamesgeck0","time":"1336415137","timestamp":"2012-05-07 18:25:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Readable also got a lot of improvements when it turned into Evernote Clearly.","parent":"3940139","id":"3940245"}
{"by":"Mahn","time":"1362756556","timestamp":"2013-03-08 15:29:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, YMMV depending on your environment, but I did test this carefully before making the decision to use APC for data caching wherever possible. IIRC I saw up to thousands of fetch/store operations in just 1ms using APC; but I'd suggest you to benchmark it on your own and judge by yourself.","parent":"5343858","id":"5343910"}
{"by":"AstralStorm","time":"1528108794","timestamp":"2018-06-04 10:39:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never say never. That they have been too big to fail is currently a fact.\u003cp\u003eHistorically, monarch bonds which are a precursor to government bonds have defaulted. As have bonds of weak countries in severe crisis. (Argentina comes to mind.)\nIt is a last resort of course.\u003cp\u003eNone of the countries you mentioned, not even China, are economically independent. Thus when one falls, the others will feel it. Monetary policy alone won\u0026#x27;t work if you have to combat huge inflation or deflation, it has been shown in past crises. (Especially US ones.)","parent":"17226032","id":"17226437"}
{"by":"mfn","time":"1379352683","timestamp":"2013-09-16 17:31:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In your first code sample, I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure you don\u0026#x27;t need the return await GetSession (provider, isLast, options, token);\u003cp\u003eUnless there\u0026#x27;s more to the method, just remove the async modifier and directly return the task returned by GetSession.","parent":"6393689","id":"6394457"}
{"by":"vvanders","time":"1507172299","timestamp":"2017-10-05 02:58:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate to be a bit blunt but you\u0026#x27;re really barking up the wrong tree.\u003cp\u003eVSCode debugger works fine on both msvc and mingw targets.\u003cp\u003eAsking for COM or UWP is like saying that Javascript has a horrible interop story with COM\u0026#x2F;UWP. You\u0026#x27;re picking Rust to build something fast and\u0026#x2F;or low memory. Leave building a UI to the right tools.\u003cp\u003eC# has a fantastic FFI and works just fine with Rust. I actually have a project using UWP and Rust together. I get all the portability of Rust and get to use UWP as the UI frontend with minimal fuss.","parent":"15405731","id":"15406437"}
{"by":"encoderer","time":"1393788590","timestamp":"2014-03-02 19:29:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You didn\u0026#x27;t read the article and it\u0026#x27;s obvious. Just delete your whole comment. Trust me.","parent":"7330344","id":"7330375"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1455122927","timestamp":"2016-02-10 16:48:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those \u0026quot;what are you really trying to do?\u0026quot; responses are infuriating. I feel like responding \u0026quot;What I\u0026#x27;m really trying to do is just get an answer to this specific question. I don\u0026#x27;t need you to re-design my architecture.\u0026quot;","parent":"11073791","id":"11074014"}
{"by":"baruch","time":"1355037798","timestamp":"2012-12-09 07:23:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only relevant piece I could find quickly was the Mellanox performance tuning guide: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Performance_Tuning_Guide_for_Mellanox_Network_Adapters.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Performan...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's also useful for any other PCIe card, sans the IB specific parts.","parent":"4893999","id":"4894142"}
{"by":"spikels","time":"1363288612","timestamp":"2013-03-14 19:16:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While deep learning is a very cool technique and is currently getting the best results in a few domains I think all the hype may become a problem. I was around for the prior round of neural network excitement and much time, effort and money was wasted. In that case it turned out that other techniques were more tractable and thus easier to use and improve upon.\u003cp\u003eIt must be the association with the human brain that just makes neural networks more exciting than other techniques. But dispite the appeal of imitating nature has this usually been the easiest way to make progress in the past? Seems like it would be harder to achieve both goals at the same time.\u003cp\u003eSo far the results are looking pretty good but it is probably best to keep the hype at a reasonable level unless it is crucial of your business model. ;)","parent":"5376319","id":"5377047"}
{"by":"mstevens","time":"1279269604","timestamp":"2010-07-16 08:40:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've long felt the key is to get the interviewee to do some real work for a day. Pair programming seems like it might work well.\u003cp\u003eYou'd have to come up with some suitable toy problems that you could make significant progress on in a day.","parent":"1520580","id":"1520665"}
{"by":"LukeHoersten","time":"1442693058","timestamp":"2015-09-19 20:04:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Impressive work and explanation regardless of the language being used but the code does look particularly simple and elegant.","parent":"10244335","id":"10245377"}
{"by":"ronaldx","time":"1372953243","timestamp":"2013-07-04 15:54:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3% of salary is broadly very similar to the UK\u0026#x27;s version which is 9% on earnings above £21,000.","parent":"5991143","id":"5991184"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1473982508","timestamp":"2016-09-15 23:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are more than a few old routers still in use, RAM maxed out, that are bumping into their limit. Whenever an aggregated net gets accidentally split, they start failing.","parent":"12510688","id":"12510752"}
{"by":"roel_v","time":"1275949321","timestamp":"2010-06-07 22:22:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, I guess we're not on the same page then after all. They're only \"risking\" 15B in the sense you're implying in a black/white world. They were/are taking a calculated risk, well within 'normal' bounds, and certainly within well accepted bounds for most investors (as in, investors with the most money on the line). Credit crunches 'often' killing large companies is hyperbole. Small companies yes, but for large companies it's relatively rare as far as I know. Then again what do I know, I'm open to number that prove me wrong.","parent":"1410979","id":"1412175"}
{"by":"KGIII","time":"1504110505","timestamp":"2017-08-30 16:28:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think 20% of the budget is capable of being discretionary. If you\u0026#x27;re really wanting to do so, some government agencies actually accept donations. When I sold my business, I donated to NASA. I couldn\u0026#x27;t earmark the donation for something like educational outreach as donations have to go into the general fund.","parent":"15132330","id":"15133495"}
{"by":"pearle","time":"1547039413","timestamp":"2019-01-09 13:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NWN1 is still being actively developed by BeamDog. Graphics are more dated but they are working on improving the engine.","parent":"18861761","id":"18864411"}
{"by":"jsavimbi","time":"1303934333","timestamp":"2011-04-27 19:58:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, but, if you're a very important social media researcher who has important information to disseminate to your followers in order to justify your own very importance, then anything short of\u003cp\u003e\"Tumblr disappeared me…\"\u003cp\u003eisn't going to generate the same outrage, and publicity, that Xeni Jardin did when she tried to erase Violet Blue's posts from BoingBoing. \"Erase posts\" being the conventional and operating phrase. So don't blame her; it's the social media-generated apathy.","parent":"2490776","id":"2490849"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1417012794","timestamp":"2014-11-26 14:39:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This appears to be a case of front running, which is illegal in the commodities market.","parent":"8662250","id":"8662455"}
{"by":"general_failure","time":"1395220532","timestamp":"2014-03-19 09:15:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dalvik is dead. Art is the new king","parent":"7425564","id":"7427444"}
{"by":"boulos","time":"1473316851","timestamp":"2016-09-08 06:40:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You may have missed this but Google Cloud CDN can now sit in front of GCS: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cloud.google.com\u0026#x2F;compute\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;load-balancing\u0026#x2F;http\u0026#x2F;using-http-lb-with-cloud-storage\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cloud.google.com\u0026#x2F;compute\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;load-balancing\u0026#x2F;http\u0026#x2F;us...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeel free to ping me with your project id if you need to be whitelisted for the Alpha.\u003cp\u003eDisclosure: I work on Cloud at Google, so I\u0026#x27;m trying to win your business.","parent":"12450600","id":"12450765"}
{"by":"trekker7","time":"1241390017","timestamp":"2009-05-03 22:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Live near UC Berkeley instead, and take BART to SF whenever you want.","parent":"590922","id":"591473"}
{"by":"roblabla","time":"1496072791","timestamp":"2017-05-29 15:46:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why did I move from chrome to firefox? Stability.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if it\u0026#x27;s just me, but nowadays, chrome just sucks so much firefox manages to be \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c/i\u003e. Chrome tab crashes occur more often than ever before and it uses a shitcrapton of memory. I remember the days where chrome was lean and small and fast. Those days are long gone.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been sailing firefox for a year now, and to my great surprise, it has gone from being an absolutely terrible memory hog and crash-o-meter to being fairly efficient and stable. Sure it is still a bit on the heavy side of memory, but in the meantime it doesn\u0026#x27;t lose my work every few days.","parent":"14439576","id":"14439659"}
{"by":"bostonpete","time":"1402591791","timestamp":"2014-06-12 16:49:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seriously, I was expecting an article about Odo.","parent":"7884264","id":"7884480"}
{"by":"skybrian","time":"1473812924","timestamp":"2016-09-14 00:28:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The spending isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily the same. Here\u0026#x27;s a hypothesis: people who aren\u0026#x27;t well off will buy stuff they need and therefore spend money more readily than banks that will only spend on fairly safe, profitable investments. There are lots of investors looking for safe investments and this seems more supply-limited than demand-limited (yields are low due to competition).\u003cp\u003eOf course you\u0026#x27;d need a real economist to do a study to find out if that\u0026#x27;s actually true.","parent":"12492999","id":"12493399"}
{"by":"eli_gottlieb","time":"1505475093","timestamp":"2017-09-15 11:31:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;A hiring manager in the prime market might legitimately perceive there as being a shortage, even when receiving dozens or hundreds of resumes because the vast majority of those resumes are simply not qualified.\u003cp\u003eI was unemployed last winter into spring.  I had job experience on my resume, as an embedded firmware developer.  No company doing embedded wanted to hire me, because I\u0026#x27;d worked on a small variety of fairly specific boards.  No company doing non-embedded wanted to hire me, because I lacked substantial web-dev experience.  I thus went from a six-figure year to depressingly continual unemployment.\u003cp\u003eI have a job now, but at a reduced salary because, well, I have to be the junior to do webdev (a friend helped me out).\u003cp\u003eReally seems to me like there\u0026#x27;s no shortage, and salaries are \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e skyrocketing.  Nothing\u0026#x27;s gotten expensive enough that anyone\u0026#x27;s considered hiring people without exact skill combinations, but who otherwise have solid records.","parent":"15253668","id":"15256214"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1358975640","timestamp":"2013-01-23 21:14:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See: \u003ca href=\"http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Philadelphia-Pennsylvania.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Philadelphia-Pennsylvan...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery day Philadelphia has about: 1 murder, 2 rapes, 25 robberies, 25 assaults, 35 burglaries, 110 thefts, and 20 stolen cars.\u003cp\u003eThe active police + prison budget seems to be about $850 million. That's about $570 per person to keep 1.5 million people safe in one of the poorest major cities in the country.","parent":"5104120","id":"5105318"}
{"by":"bhrgunatha","time":"1516384442","timestamp":"2018-01-19 17:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a list of contributors at the end of each book, but it\u0026#x27;s only their site user name with a link to the profile.","parent":"16187524","id":"16188191"}
{"by":"Bjoern","time":"1348805419","timestamp":"2012-09-28 04:10:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does not work on Firefox 10.0.7 unfortunately.","parent":"4583661","id":"4584271"}
{"by":"declan","time":"1371660834","timestamp":"2013-06-19 16:53:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, that was the non-original version of Hushmail, and over a decade (of development of more capable browsers) has elapsed since the original. Second, the business model would then change to charging for email. Google does that for many services already; paid Google business apps accounts currently provide \u0026quot;no content for ads.\u0026quot;","parent":"5903111","id":"5906679"}
{"by":"thiele","time":"1267660707","timestamp":"2010-03-03 23:58:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Stars in search replace SearchWiki.\"\u003cp\u003eSearchWiki ended up being a flop. I'm not sure Stars will be any different. Personally, I rarely have a desire to interact with the results of a search.","parent":"1165286","id":"1165631"}
{"by":"hatsunearu","time":"1494493488","timestamp":"2017-05-11 09:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s part of a step down voltage regulator called a buck converter. The buck converter works by putting a pulse of energy into the inductor and stretching it out to lower the voltage. This creates the core voltage.","parent":"14310395","id":"14314740"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1448979597","timestamp":"2015-12-01 14:19:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use SeaMonkey purely for its newsgroup support. It\u0026#x27;s a lightweight and practical piece of software.","parent":"10655109","id":"10655439"}
{"by":"robotresearcher","time":"1485302964","timestamp":"2017-01-25 00:09:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But the new billionaire doesn\u0026#x27;t stuff her mattress with ten million hundreds. She buys investments, which go back into the economy. Or she puts cash in the bank, which goes back into the economy....","parent":"13476812","id":"13477111"}
{"by":"delphinius81","time":"1491508547","timestamp":"2017-04-06 19:55:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it should be revised to, \u0026quot;Do the office conditions satisfy YOUR needs?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSome people like having lots of noise\u0026#x2F;people around them (all the noise blends together at some point) or they just put headphones on anyway so they don\u0026#x27;t care. Others want their own office, or could do a shared office. It\u0026#x27;s such a personal choice these days.","parent":"14053978","id":"14054018"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1529819466","timestamp":"2018-06-24 05:51:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not that they\u0026#x27;re role playing. It\u0026#x27;s that they\u0026#x27;re professionally neutral.","parent":"17385062","id":"17385150"}
{"by":"elcct","time":"1477913929","timestamp":"2016-10-31 11:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are going to get to a point where it will be laptop will be useful for chefs to cut onions or for developers living in rough areas to use them as a weapon.","parent":"12834496","id":"12835866"}
{"by":"_greim_","time":"1519760171","timestamp":"2018-02-27 19:36:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t the existence of alternatives mean utilities have an incentive to keep service decent? I mean, sure, there are those who can\u0026#x2F;will go solar at one end, and those who can\u0026#x27;t\u0026#x2F;won\u0026#x27;t at the other. But somewhere in the middle lies a threshold.","parent":"16476926","id":"16477059"}
{"by":"tomsaffell","time":"1302824348","timestamp":"2011-04-14 23:39:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didnt work on that project. I was a contractor, so pretty much only saw the stuff I worked on.","parent":"2448713","id":"2448903"}
{"by":"phamilton","time":"1458404938","timestamp":"2016-03-19 16:28:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With startups, I disclose a target comp that\u0026#x27;s in the mid $200k range (I truly believe that\u0026#x27;s market rate at BigCo). They then make their best salary offer and try to convince me that the equity makes up for the difference. Since equity is funny money, they tend to overvalue it and it\u0026#x27;s really easy to discount its value and say the offer isn\u0026#x27;t high enough. I get a serious offer plus lots of negotiating wiggle room.","parent":"11315136","id":"11319126"}
{"by":"rmcastil","time":"1415806433","timestamp":"2014-11-12 15:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually this isn\u0026#x27;t my article. It\u0026#x27;s just something I encountered while doing research for my guide.","parent":"8595842","id":"8595872"}
{"by":"truncate","time":"1414941078","timestamp":"2014-11-02 15:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for reply. Can you shed some light on notice period policy by companies? Many companies have reasonable period like 2 weeks to a month, however some ask for like 2-3 months.","parent":"8546694","id":"8546754"}
{"by":"root_axis","time":"1515441738","timestamp":"2018-01-08 20:02:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m in the USA. At first I loved it, and used it often, but the main problem for me was that it\u0026#x27;s buggy as hell. 80% of the time it works, 20% of the time the merchant\u0026#x27;s terminal freaks out and I have to whip out my card anyway, so it wastes time and the people behind me in line wonder why I am trying to do some fancy thing with my phone rather than just use the card that works. After that happened about a dozen times I just stopped using it.","parent":"16099616","id":"16099843"}
{"by":"krrose27","time":"1338581228","timestamp":"2012-06-01 20:07:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The trademark wasn't filled until February 2010. \u003ca href=\"http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc\u0026#38;state=4003:5ar557.2.1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc\u0026#38;state=4003:5a...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4055442","id":"4055468"}
{"by":"cheetos","time":"1480386805","timestamp":"2016-11-29 02:33:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Forgive my ignorance, but how many undergrads have actually published a paper? I\u0026#x27;m not saying it\u0026#x27;s impossible, but I was under the impression that this is something that happens once you get in to grad school, not before.","parent":"13060115","id":"13060275"}
{"by":"lisper","time":"1531636806","timestamp":"2018-07-15 06:40:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh?  See \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c/i\u003e as memory files?  (And what the fleep is a \u0026quot;memory file\u0026quot;?)","parent":"17533732","id":"17534085"}
{"by":"frik","time":"1398367566","timestamp":"2014-04-24 19:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not only about elderly.\u003cp\u003eImagine you have a stroke, or your hands are full of blood, or you fall and brake your hands ...then you cannot use your touch screen smartphone and\u0026#x2F;or speak comprehensible words!\u003cp\u003eIn such emergency situations a text-to-speech would save life\u0026#x27;s. You may be able to press a physical button or the G-sensor detects the accident and reacts automatically.","parent":"7642100","id":"7642369"}
{"by":"mhartl","time":"1259023082","timestamp":"2009-11-24 00:38:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still don't understand the point of the page, but you're right that (1/2)! can be expressed in terms of the gamma function: (1/2)! = Γ(3/2) = √π/2. As usual, Wolfram Alpha knows all:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281%2F2%29%21\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281%2F2%29%21\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"958461","id":"958471"}
{"by":"pedalpete","time":"1398483616","timestamp":"2014-04-26 03:40:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure how your title relates to your question, but I think the question you\u0026#x27;re trying to ask is \u0026quot;how do we go about raising funding?\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIf that is correct, you need to take a look at your business growth opportunity. If you\u0026#x27;re a profitable business making $10m\u0026#x2F;year, why do you want to take investement? If you\u0026#x27;re able to say \u0026quot;we currently make x, but with investment of y, we can do a,b,c which will turn us into an company making 10xy making your investment of y worth 100\u003ci\u003ey\u0026quot;, then you can go raise capital from a VC or angel.\u003cp\u003eIf you are thinking more along the lines of \u0026quot;our company makes x\u0026#x2F;year, and we can build the business to make x\u003c/i\u003e1.y (where y\u0026gt; the interest rate you can get financing at but less 1), then you would likely be looking at more conservative financial tools, like a loan from the bank.\u003cp\u003eIf you go the VC route, the question you\u0026#x27;re going to be asked is \u0026quot;why is now the time for the business to make this growth, why not before, why are you the guys to do it\u0026quot;.","parent":"7650266","id":"7650342"}
{"by":"scottmf","time":"1479955253","timestamp":"2016-11-24 02:40:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks good! Unfortunately for me I had just started working on something very similar.\u003cp\u003eMine had only a web interface and optional Facebook Messenger bot to proxy your chat through (I don\u0026#x27;t need another chat client).\u003cp\u003eBut overall the same general idea to solve the problem of reliable IM without giving up personal info.\u003cp\u003eGood luck with it!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d suggest when a user first visits the site, you generate a link for them to share, which will start an IM between the two users when opened.\u003cp\u003eThen offer each user more options, registration, etc.","parent":"13026701","id":"13027591"}
{"by":"mambodog","time":"1288022288","timestamp":"2010-10-25 15:58:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Illuminating: \u003ca href=\"http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+are+X+so\u0026#38;end0=americans\u0026#38;end1=australians\u0026#38;end2=english+people\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1829697","id":"1830299"}
{"by":"colordrops","time":"1490852588","timestamp":"2017-03-30 05:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How would you make the hydrogen though?  Does it suffer the same criticism as your original comment?","parent":"13990100","id":"13993211"}
{"by":"beat","time":"1380126835","timestamp":"2013-09-25 16:33:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a rational person, I would never (again) work for an employer that regularly insisted on more than 40 hours a week of my time.\u003cp\u003eThen again, I like to do things other than make money for someone else.","parent":"6445484","id":"6445585"}
{"by":"wlievens","time":"1413540034","timestamp":"2014-10-17 10:00:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks cool, but in my view a key feature is: can it \u003ci\u003esave\u003c/i\u003e a file back, using the same grammar?","parent":"8465237","id":"8470158"}
{"by":"corysama","time":"1529696498","timestamp":"2018-06-22 19:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’ll plug the Gibson documentary \u003ci\u003eNo Maps for These Territories.\u003c/i\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;No_Maps_for_These_Territories\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;No_Maps_for_These_Territorie...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGibson is very self-deprecating throughout. He attributes people’s favorite aspects of the \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c/i\u003e to work-arounds he used to cover his inexperience as an author. Meanwhile, the film interleaves interviews with other sci-fi authors who has early access to the book. They all knew the book was something new and special immediately.","parent":"17371226","id":"17376763"}
{"by":"dcow","time":"1509756207","timestamp":"2017-11-04 00:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Take a look at the actual technical rationale: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.fsfe.org\u0026#x2F;larma\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;microg-signature-spoofing-security\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.fsfe.org\u0026#x2F;larma\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;microg-signature-spoofing-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI understand why this seems alarming to a bystander. But if you\u0026#x27;re still dubious go read the Gerrit reviews--it\u0026#x27;s pretty clear the CM team was unwilling to accept the patch because \u0026quot;it allows one app to impersonate another\u0026quot; not because it presents a security hole. The patch went through multiple iterations ending on one that means users would literally see a prompt:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026quot;microGapps is requesting permission FAKE_SIGNATURE to ...\u0026quot;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe point is that it\u0026#x27;s not a security concern _if the user allows it_. By definition.. it\u0026#x27;s tautologically impossible to classify such a scenario as a security concern if the user selects \u0026quot;this is not a security concern\u0026quot; when asked if they\u0026#x27;re concerned about about allowing microGapps to fake the google play services signature.\u003cp\u003eThe microGapps team then asked \u0026quot;how would you propose we land on a solution so that we can provide an alternative to gapps while still checking the [x] security box? The CM team failed to provide any sort of compromise stating that allowing one app to impersonate another is not a feature they were willing to support on their platform.\u003cp\u003eSo you see, it\u0026#x27;s not security that was the issue. The issue is that the CM team was unwilling to give users the freedom to allow the system to work as they want. What\u0026#x27;s infinitely ironic is that CM used to ship with root. It was the community fork \u0026quot;for the community by the community\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s not hard to correlate their sell out with their rollback on providing support for apps that need root and then irrational stance on letting some other thing be google play services.\u003cp\u003eThe uGapps team is frustrated, but it\u0026#x27;s not petulant. It\u0026#x27;s very valid.","parent":"15618462","id":"15623206"}
{"by":"Y7ZCQtNo39","time":"1514927905","timestamp":"2018-01-02 21:18:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s another reason to not do business with smaller companies. Especially if their idea is good, you can only wonder, when will they be bought out and my workflow will be (temporarily) disrupted?\u003cp\u003eI think Buddybuild was the only service with a free tier. For folks that aggressive bootstrappers (like myself), it\u0026#x27;s just another nuisance. And even for people who were paying -- they are still as equally as disrupted.","parent":"16055667","id":"16055754"}
{"by":"donalhunt","time":"1468508410","timestamp":"2016-07-14 15:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"to provide power afaict. data is indeed sent wirelessly.","parent":"12093481","id":"12094389"}
{"by":"stouset","time":"1428103614","timestamp":"2015-04-03 23:26:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not save a few characters. It\u0026#x27;s to allow for flexibility of encoding. \u0026quot;sha1\u0026quot; all but requires ASCII. Sometimes you\u0026#x27;re limited to hex, base64, etc.","parent":"9319118","id":"9319178"}
{"by":"10ren","time":"1273923256","timestamp":"2010-05-15 11:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He's the technomadness guy, here's his recent stuff: \u003ca href=\"http://microship.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://microship.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1349572","id":"1349734"}
{"by":"eschutte2","time":"1472795130","timestamp":"2016-09-02 05:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it\u0026#x27;s not possible to do a few big queries to pull all the necessary base data (all the related Ys and Zs for the last 10,000 Xs) and then join\u0026#x2F;filter it yourself in code, then I think you are stuck with many queries.  The options I can think of are: 1) keep the logic in stored procedures; 2) find a way to fetch the raw data in a few large queries, then join yourself; 3) let the reports be slow and generate them in the background; 4) write one complex SQL query that does all the crunching (if possible, you\u0026#x27;re saying it\u0026#x27;s not).","parent":"12411007","id":"12411106"}
{"by":"matt4077","time":"1509099687","timestamp":"2017-10-27 10:21:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not enough for elections to be verifiable. They need to be easily verifiable by anybody.\u003cp\u003eBlockchains may be theoretically secure. But almost nobody is in a position to understand this thoroughly. The debacle around the DAO and frequent hacks of online wallets, even if those events are only tangentially related to blockchain technology, also undermine any potential trust.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also unnecessary: I just witnessed the federal election in Germany. In large cities, there\u0026#x27;s a polling place on every second block or so, each serving maybe 500 voters. The polling place is open to the public. Meaning you can see that the ballot box is empty in the morning, you can watch all day, and after polls close, you are free to watch the poll workers sort and count the ballots, as close as you want. You can then compare the count you witnessed to the official numbers posted online.\u003cp\u003eThe whole process is end-to-end verifiable by anybody, and it requires no special skills other than counting.","parent":"15565690","id":"15567085"}
{"by":"newscracker","time":"1495477258","timestamp":"2017-05-22 18:20:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A better and more holistic approach, IMO, which I use with Firefox (sorry, I don\u0026#x27;t use Chrome as often, and in my limited experience I haven\u0026#x27;t seen it having as many extensions), is to use FB with these browser extensions:\u003cp\u003e1. Privacy Badger (from EFF)\u003cp\u003e2. Clean Links (removes all the redirect links from several sites, including FB)\u003cp\u003e3. Self-Destructing Cookies (destroys cookies when tabs of a particular site are all closed; default time to delete after tab closure is 10 seconds, which I reduce on my installations)\u003cp\u003e4. uBlock Origin (blocks ads and trackers)\u003cp\u003e5. BetterPrivacy (deletes \u0026quot;super-cookies\u0026quot; from things like Flash)\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t use Ghostery because its business model depends on advertisers. Same goes for Adblock and its cousins too.\u003cp\u003eEven with all of the above, FB may still be able to track because there are many ways apart from cookies to do it. There could be browser fingerprinting [1] using various other indicators.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;panopticlick.eff.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;panopticlick.eff.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14395093","id":"14395789"}
{"by":"kenjackson","time":"1284497018","timestamp":"2010-09-14 20:43:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So what's the reason things in the US often don't get made available in Canada?  Are there some specific laws that are difficult?  Tariffs?  Seems like Canada would be about the easiest market to be in for a US company (after the US).","parent":"1692152","id":"1692231"}
{"by":"khalilravanna","time":"1524862994","timestamp":"2018-04-27 21:03:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have some references for this conjecture? This all sounds very \u0026quot;tinfoil hat\u0026quot; for me. Like, sure, what you suggest is totally plausible-- but is it not a stretch to just assume this is a commonplace thing?","parent":"16943911","id":"16944306"}
{"by":"talklittle","time":"1390102609","timestamp":"2014-01-19 03:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes it sounds like it\u0026#x27;s primarily about the Java browser plugin, based on the examples in the article.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eMost legitimate Websites will not use hidden or obfuscated JavaScript, and few will redirect users without authorization, he explained.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose make sense as example heuristics for detecting malware-serving sites. What part doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense? I don\u0026#x27;t know of legitimate websites that obfuscate their JS. (Minification doesn\u0026#x27;t count.) Presumably they\u0026#x27;ve found malware websites in the wild that obfuscate.\u003cp\u003eRedirecting users in a jarring way is something malware sites actually do. Like going to example.com and it immediately redirects you to adsfa8sdjfa9sd8jfasd.com. The security guy isn\u0026#x27;t saying redirects are categorically bad, just that it\u0026#x27;s another heuristic that raises the chance you\u0026#x27;re currently viewing a malicious site.","parent":"7083210","id":"7083285"}
{"by":"jolohaga","time":"1335624610","timestamp":"2012-04-28 14:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting.  I didn't know Django was on SVN until now.  Why didn't they choose Bitbucket?  I think it could have been as productive as Github.","parent":"3902527","id":"3903074"}
{"by":"jhuckestein","time":"1308349596","timestamp":"2011-06-17 22:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Enjoy the biggest regexp breakage since Y2K in 3 ... 2 ... 1","parent":"2667008","id":"2667329"}
{"by":"gravypod","time":"1452522442","timestamp":"2016-01-11 14:27:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does the ISS count as a satellite in geosynchronous orbit holding an \u0026quot;amateur radio payload\u0026quot;? It doesn\u0026#x27;t have a repeater set up, but it does have the capability to communicate with amateur radio operators.","parent":"10877954","id":"10880892"}
{"by":"kakarot","time":"1501691012","timestamp":"2017-08-02 16:23:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you get fired for not handing over your personal information to the government after being wrongfully detained then, depending on your country, you have a potential lawsuit on your hands","parent":"14911865","id":"14911906"}
{"by":"jasode","time":"1475242564","timestamp":"2016-09-30 13:36:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, \u0026quot;smart\u0026quot; can mean above-average problem-solving abilities, and\u0026#x2F;or learning new cognitive skills at rate that\u0026#x27;s faster than the average population.\u003cp\u003eAnother definition of \u0026quot;smart\u0026quot; is the accumulation of \u003ci\u003eknowledge and facts\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThe 2nd definition is what the BBC headline and James Flynn is talking about.  He\u0026#x27;s concerned we\u0026#x27;re not \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;smarter\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e in the sense of not reading more books, and not knowing about history like The 30 Years War, etc.  In contrast, when another writer like Joel Spolsky talks about \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Smart and Gets Things Done\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e[1], he\u0026#x27;s emphasizing the 1st definition (aptitude).\u003cp\u003eSo yes, IQ and knowledge are decoupled from each other and can increase at different rates. E.g. there are a lot of high-IQ physicists out there that can solve crazy equations but are not interested in reading a bunch of history books.  In JF\u0026#x27;s framework, this makes those scientists \u0026quot;dumber\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;GuerrillaInterviewing3.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;GuerrillaInterviewing...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12611702","id":"12612320"}
{"by":"coupdejarnac","time":"1482803512","timestamp":"2016-12-27 01:51:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m willing to bet they have some old dev kits not being used by classes anymore that you could check out. Sure, they won\u0026#x27;t be Arduino, but you\u0026#x27;re not going to learn anything making Arduino sketches anyway. Look for a Freescale 6812 or TI DSP kit.","parent":"13260471","id":"13260781"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1360321743","timestamp":"2013-02-08 11:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's what bugs me about the whole story.\u003cp\u003eThe Headline:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    (Meet the Man with) A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nKey point made by David Keith:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    “I’m not saying it will work, and I’m not saying we\n    should do it.” But “it would be reckless not to begin\n    serious research on it,” he adds. “The sooner we find\n    out whether it works or not, the better.”\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAnd people wonder why I am so ungenerous in my assessment of journalists and editors.","parent":"5187062","id":"5187259"}
{"by":"rdudek","time":"1397063386","timestamp":"2014-04-09 17:09:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, but i\u0026#x27;ve noticed that digital books have code typos too.  Now, there are authors that will update them to do fixes.  Some hard copies have online section that you can go and download \u0026quot;fixed\u0026quot; pages.","parent":"7559188","id":"7560637"}
{"by":"tlrobinson","time":"1432744596","timestamp":"2015-05-27 16:36:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;beard-gallery\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;beard-gallery\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9611479","id":"9612541"}
{"by":"radley","time":"1236293616","timestamp":"2009-03-05 22:53:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brilliant name! Well played =)","parent":"504626","id":"504884"}
{"by":"dsfasfasf","time":"1364958106","timestamp":"2013-04-03 03:01:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are you talking about? It is a new dialect. No, it wasn't a typo made at a rush, that is how I spell \"tired\" in my new dialect. Rather than ridiculing me you should tell me the difference between the dialect I speak at home and standard English which I imagine you speak.","parent":"5483941","id":"5483951"}
{"by":"ryanobjc","time":"1524227114","timestamp":"2018-04-20 12:25:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree, and the reason Is that the word prescription is a legal and medical jargon term with specific meanings and ethical requirements.\u003cp\u003eHowever an opinion is not. Thus building a moral barrier there.\u003cp\u003eSome other opinions that many doctors have: everyone should drink more water. Everyone should exercise. Many people will get this advice\u0026#x2F;opinions without a prescription for such.","parent":"16883714","id":"16884168"}
{"by":"js2","time":"1406837557","timestamp":"2014-07-31 20:12:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the time the water is safe for swimming.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.nycswim.org/About/FAQ.aspx#1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nycswim.org\u0026#x2F;About\u0026#x2F;FAQ.aspx#1\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8116164","id":"8116697"}
{"by":"almostApatriot1","time":"1500769175","timestamp":"2017-07-23 00:19:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the moths hide under rocks during the day because it is too hot","parent":"14830144","id":"14830183"}
{"by":"bjz_","time":"1400737095","timestamp":"2014-05-22 05:38:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the benefit of others, here is burntsushi\u0026#x27;s regex crate for Rust (compile time regexes included): \u003ca href=\"http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/regex/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;static.rust-lang.org\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;regex\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7782190","id":"7782290"}
{"by":"qwerty_asdf","time":"1387388574","timestamp":"2013-12-18 17:42:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does PNAS realize that their acronym is ridiculous and hilarious? Was that done on purpose?","parent":"6928072","id":"6929063"}
{"by":"dnr","time":"1396908828","timestamp":"2014-04-07 22:13:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re confusing the Ellis Act with the SF Rent Ordinance, which establishes rent control and other things. The Ellis Act is generally considered to be hostile to tenants and friendly to landlords (as it sets up a sort of loophole to evict rent-controlled tenants).","parent":"7548298","id":"7549952"}
{"by":"teeberg","time":"1508954040","timestamp":"2017-10-25 17:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I suppose that means Screenhero won\u0026#x27;t be available outside of Slack anymore? I always found it useful as a stand-alone app when you wanted to let somebody control your screen that is not on Slack. Anyone have good alternatives for that?","parent":"15552042","id":"15552358"}
{"by":"st3fan","time":"1306880641","timestamp":"2011-05-31 22:24:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So what exactly is this patent covering? I've heard several things .. the 'Upgrade to Pro Version' buttons, the 'Would you like to rate this app' dialog, and some other things.\u003cp\u003eDoes anyone actually know what it exactly is that they are after?","parent":"2604576","id":"2604925"}
{"by":"mgonto","time":"1367032751","timestamp":"2013-04-27 03:19:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey thanks!\u003cp\u003eI finally found what was going on. And fixed it!\u003cp\u003eThanks so much for the help. I actually used that tool :D.","parent":"5616610","id":"5616680"}
{"by":"zekevermillion","time":"1490387376","timestamp":"2017-03-24 20:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK, if they still support XMPP for Gvoice then I am an idiot and I take back my comment. There was a threat awhile back that they would remove XMPP support for Gvoice (and thus I would have to pay for a service to use with my obihai). But that seemed to have gone on the back burner for awhile.","parent":"13951102","id":"13951991"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1483820822","timestamp":"2017-01-07 20:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hypotheses:\u003cp\u003e- A\u0026#x2F;B testing of ransom prices will happen\u003cp\u003e- the person paying the ransom is not the company but an employee afraid for their job\u003cp\u003e- companies more likely to be able to restore from backup","parent":"13346356","id":"13346427"}
{"by":"proberts","time":"1449867533","timestamp":"2015-12-11 20:58:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course.  You might still qualify for a TN without a degree under non-engineering occupations.  I\u0026#x27;d need to know more about your education and work experience, however.","parent":"10719953","id":"10719980"}
{"by":"razzmataz","time":"1276630233","timestamp":"2010-06-15 19:30:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Earthquake along the New Madrid fault.  Almost nothing in the midwest is built with earth quakes in mind.","parent":"1433530","id":"1433608"}
{"by":"10feet","time":"1393289954","timestamp":"2014-02-25 00:59:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but you would also have to bring along a phone\u0026#x2F;tablet to show it off, or laptop\u0026#x2F;adapter.\u003cp\u003eThen how would you prove it had that much data? You can fake a sd card right now to show it has a huge amount of data on it.\u003cp\u003eI can hold up a piece of dust and claim it can hold 20tb, but no one will believe me.","parent":"7294315","id":"7294477"}
{"by":"ivanca","time":"1418456983","timestamp":"2014-12-13 07:49:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If Google decides to respond, they should just delete all Yahoo and Mozilla results from their search engine; and if they do it would be just fair (... and Mozilla complaining would be extremely hypocritical)","parent":"8742486","id":"8744558"}
{"by":"neilk","time":"1325458207","timestamp":"2012-01-01 22:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's not specific to Chicago. All Critical Mass rides work that way.","parent":"3413928","id":"3414071"}
{"by":"mikmikmik","time":"1505507445","timestamp":"2017-09-15 20:30:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the cause for this in December 2005???\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;trends.google.com\u0026#x2F;trends\u0026#x2F;explore?date=all\u0026amp;q=Anal%20fisting\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;trends.google.com\u0026#x2F;trends\u0026#x2F;explore?date=all\u0026amp;q=Anal%20f...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15260045","dead":true,"id":"15260526"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1502709568","timestamp":"2017-08-14 11:19:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That doesn\u0026#x27;t feel like a problem?\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t make it a bad thesis, but also doesn\u0026#x27;t answer the questions asked, which is presumably why they were asked.","parent":"15006444","id":"15007882"}
{"by":"bayindirh","time":"1515096533","timestamp":"2018-01-04 20:08:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IIRC uCode updates are volatile. You re-install them to CPU on every boot. OS actually does this for you.","parent":"16073475","id":"16073619"}
{"by":"halayli","time":"1460581577","timestamp":"2016-04-13 21:06:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t the first time a config system at Google causes a major outage.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;todays-outage-for-several-google.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;todays-outage-for-se...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11489791","id":"11492209"}
{"by":"sim0n","time":"1312224237","timestamp":"2011-08-01 18:43:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We (BakedCode - YCS11) launched Interstate which is a project management tool that provides a way for businesses and developers alike to plan and share their development progress.","parent":"2832493","id":"2833751"}
{"by":"mahyarm","time":"1434818748","timestamp":"2015-06-20 16:45:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those people also put nothing into local economy through their spending.  You get the vancouver effect.  No incomes or jobs, but high housing prices.\u003cp\u003eA high tax for unoccupied residences would be a better one.  It would increase housing supply so the double whammie of buying a house and leaving it unoccupied wouldn\u0026#x27;t effect the housing supply nearly as much.","parent":"9742963","id":"9750386"}
{"by":"bengl3rt","time":"1304539644","timestamp":"2011-05-04 20:07:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I listened to Inside Home Recording (podcast he co-hosted) for many years and even had the pleasure of emailing/IMing with Derek from time to time about this or that. His writing on Penmachine was always very intelligent but also deeply honest, and human.\u003cp\u003eThis doesn't come as a surprise - his battle with cancer was well known - but it still comes as a shock. Rest in peace, dude.","parent":"2514270","dead":true,"id":"2515090"}
{"by":"mahmoudi","time":"1409929477","timestamp":"2014-09-05 15:04:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"comment hackerweb","parent":"8272565","id":"8274212"}
{"by":"incision","time":"1391794505","timestamp":"2014-02-07 17:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026quot;such an asshole\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;had the nerve\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;What an asshole\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my experience, only the most cocksure of people would react to the kind of simple brainstorming suggestion cited in that way.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps those people are over-represented among those who have self-selected as entrepreneurs and this is appropriate for that context.\u003cp\u003eFor dealing the rest of the world I\u0026#x27;ll go ahead and be a flaming asshole by advising that learning to stop being mortally offended by well-meaning, benign suggestions might be worth looking into.","parent":"7196353","id":"7197498"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1495050542","timestamp":"2017-05-17 19:49:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Politics can potentially change within one election cycle, legal faster if get our opposition politicians onside.","parent":"14361584","id":"14362184"}
{"by":"mark_ellul","time":"1212401597","timestamp":"2008-06-02 10:13:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Second that... That book is a great starting point... to get you thinking","parent":"206167","id":"206593"}
{"by":"infamouscow","time":"1433000292","timestamp":"2015-05-30 15:38:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most systems programmers I known share similar views.\u003cp\u003eThe rational is that you should only be working on systems-level code if you have an exceptional understanding of computers, the code base, and the repercussions of changes. If your understanding of multithreading isn\u0026#x27;t flawless then you should not be working on the OS scheduler, at all. And for a programmer working at this level to not recognize the importance of code clarity is to undermine the responsibility that goes with it.","parent":"9630394","id":"9630494"}
{"by":"pankajdoharey","time":"1540965629","timestamp":"2018-10-31 06:00:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Helium is much lighter than Nitrogen and Oxygen and may not displace them rather it will float at the top of the room or escape to the atmosphere quite easily. Though if it were Carbon Di\u0026#x27;oxide it would have been a different story.","parent":"18343383","id":"18343638"}
{"by":"thufry","time":"1376247192","timestamp":"2013-08-11 18:53:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why I personally refuse to engage in any discussions about race or gender issues except online. Low reward, with a high risk of a career-ending brand as a sexist or racist asshole.","parent":"6195727","id":"6195784"}
{"by":"notJim","time":"1339601087","timestamp":"2012-06-13 15:24:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who do you think is going to try to buy all the domains like run.ning? Domainers, of course.","parent":"4106084","id":"4106397"}
{"by":"orf","time":"1419611238","timestamp":"2014-12-26 16:27:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except it\u0026#x27;s not really $300,000 worth of actual services. If I stuck a $300,000 price tag on a rock and used that as a ransom does not mean they got away with $300,000 worth of stuff. Plus all their groups information has been leaked (\u003ca href=\"http://www.lizardsquad.info\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lizardsquad.info\u003c/a\u003e), so I put this down to kids with too much bandwidth rather than a precedent setting event.","parent":"8799177","id":"8799200"}
{"by":"mrich","time":"1322944634","timestamp":"2011-12-03 20:37:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They produce software for employees of other companies, where they can track their performance/bonus plans etc. So this number is probably the number of seats solds to companies (I think Siemens was one of their customers).","parent":"3308728","id":"3308740"}
{"by":"yincrash","time":"1449036711","timestamp":"2015-12-02 06:11:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The android would work with the controller if the xpad kernel module[1] is built with the ROM.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kernel.org\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;Documentation\u0026#x2F;input\u0026#x2F;xpad.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kernel.org\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;Documentation\u0026#x2F;input\u0026#x2F;xpad.txt\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10657747","id":"10661310"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1502416278","timestamp":"2017-08-11 01:51:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the article:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe parents seem to have some vague concept that spending hours each evening on Facebook and YouTube will impart, by some sort of cybernetic osmosis, a knowledge of PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Haskell.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd you posit that their computer literacy will go up if we start throwing them off the public computers so they can\u0026#x27;t even use Facebook and Youtube?\u003cp\u003eYour argument that they aren\u0026#x27;t so hot currently in no way rebuts my assertion that if you start throwing poor kids off the internet at public libraries they will be left \u003ci\u003eeven further behind\u003c/i\u003e than they already are currently.","parent":"14985989","id":"14986039"}
{"by":"qb45","time":"1453571325","timestamp":"2016-01-23 17:48:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; not everybody is as skilled as them so the software should be designed and written accordingly.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if I\u0026#x27;m a 10x dev, but I\u0026#x27;ve heard this mantra few times.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s most annoying when it happens because I actually strive to make something simple. Like I once needed to index members of some C++ STL container, so I used \u003ci\u003estd::map\u0026lt;key, container::iterator\u0026gt;\u003c/i\u003e. It went like that:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  - WTF? A map of iterators? It\u0026#x27;s complicated! Remove it!\n  - But the objects need to sit in this container and this extra index is also required.\n  - But... but.. It\u0026#x27;s complicated! Remove it!\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nMan, I hate people at times.","parent":"10958944","id":"10959158"}
{"by":"marssaxman","time":"1470956790","timestamp":"2016-08-11 23:06:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I care about taxes, sure; that\u0026#x27;s why I delegate the problem to a competent professional.","parent":"12256351","id":"12272327"}
{"by":"telemachos","time":"1276698283","timestamp":"2010-06-16 14:24:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a color blind human, I think I might resent \"Even the color blind know,\" but you're completely right. I've never had trouble (even with overall poor vision) figuring out when to stop and when to go.","parent":"1435594","id":"1435643"}
{"by":"mannigfaltig","time":"1508366555","timestamp":"2017-10-18 22:42:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s an uninteresting reduction since linear algebra can describe almost everything.\u003cp\u003eThe question is whether it can do so efficiently. As far as I know, alternating applications of affine transforms and non-linearities are not so useful for some computations that are known to occur in the brain such as routing, spatio-temporal clustering, frequency filtering, high-dimensional temporal states per neuron etc.","parent":"15503511","id":"15503919"}
{"by":"philbarr","time":"1339595851","timestamp":"2012-06-13 13:57:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the simplest argument against people who propose \"nothing to hide\" is to say, \"I have nothing to hide, I just don't trust those morons to keep my data safe and secure.\"\u003cp\u003eI used to work in the education sector, and we had access to \"anonymised\" data. I was able to determine my own National Insurance number using only my address as I'd done an HND a few years before. Basically, anonymising meant removing the first and last name fields only! This was working for a private sector firm that was given the data by the government. I was also on only £10k/year and so presumably a vulnerable target for corruption. And this wasn't even one of the more \"secure\" datasets we had access to.\u003cp\u003eHow many others are there like me out there with access to your data?","parent":"4105485","id":"4105925"}
{"by":"heywot","time":"1492118970","timestamp":"2017-04-13 21:29:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed.\u003cp\u003eI understand gamer\u0026#x27;s frustration with paywalls and pay-to-win, but let\u0026#x27;s be real here. These are collectible figurines and fun cosmetics inside a game. No one is forcing anyone to buy these and Nintendo has every right to do limited runs on some Amiibos. That\u0026#x27;s half the fun if you\u0026#x27;re into collecting these things.\u003cp\u003eIf it\u0026#x27;s understood that I will never have a skin\u0026#x2F;level\u0026#x2F;weapon because I didn\u0026#x27;t purchase something additional besides the game, I just weigh whether I want to make that purchase. Just because a feature can be unlocked via a code doesn\u0026#x27;t necessarily mean I have a right to it outside of purchasing that code.\u003cp\u003eThis is hardly Destiny where you paid the same price for the game, but some of the userbase got access to more content based on their console and that content never got released on other consoles (not that I\u0026#x27;m bitter or anything). Here, you pay if you want it.","parent":"14110853","id":"14111067"}
{"by":"thrower123","time":"1541002342","timestamp":"2018-10-31 16:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I want to think that most of the cheap mass market paperbacks I used to buy were in the vicinity of 4\u0026quot; x 6\u0026quot;, and about 300 pages long, which is not far off from these, and most importantly, were convenient to stuff in a coat pocket or the back pocket of a pair of jeans.  At that kind of size and weight, they weren\u0026#x27;t at all painful to read for an extended time.  And they were so cheap that it wasn\u0026#x27;t a tragedy if I happened to drop one in the mud coming back from my deerstand or it fell overboard fishing.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t really buy fiction on paper anymore, but all the paperbacks I see in the stores or airports are much bigger.  Part of it is ballooning length, but there\u0026#x27;s a lot more printed at something like halfway between a trade paperback and the old mass-markets.  Or those really awful awkward tall narrow paperbacks that remind me of the aspect ratio of the original Microsoft Surfaces.","parent":"18334598","id":"18346944"}
{"by":"aaronwall","time":"1266902575","timestamp":"2010-02-23 05:22:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With Google custom search engine you can create your own personalized search service...built off the back of Google, but while delisting any sites you do not want results from.\u003cp\u003eAnd it only takes about 30 seconds to set one up. Then you embed the search box wherever you like.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/cse/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.google.com/cse/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1144243","id":"1144760"}
{"by":"endersshadow","time":"1401801498","timestamp":"2014-06-03 13:18:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re getting downvoted, which is a shame, but you need to understand that your landing page and branding issues \u003ci\u003eare the exact same issues that you\u0026#x27;re describing, too\u003c/i\u003e. People may sign up for beta, but may not know \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c/i\u003e to integrate this into their day-to-day workflow. Who\u0026#x27;s your audience? Web designers? Developers? Do you have an example workflow, so they can see how Nota fits in?\u003cp\u003eYou need to open their eyes--don\u0026#x27;t expect folks who signed up for your beta to just see what it is to make the leap of, \u0026quot;Oh, I can use it for this!\u0026quot; TELL THEM WHAT TO USE IT FOR. \u003ci\u003eShow\u003c/i\u003e them how to use it. Do you have a Getting Started guide? I couldn\u0026#x27;t find one. You tell me it integrates with Jira, GitHub, and Basecamp. Super. Integrates how? Show me!\u003cp\u003eTell me who I am. Tell me who I\u0026#x27;m soliciting feedback from. Tell me why it\u0026#x27;s better right on the site. Don\u0026#x27;t expect people to just \u0026quot;figure it out.\u0026quot; None of your beta users are familiar with your app. \u003ci\u003eYou are the only expert\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"7839885","id":"7839957"}
{"by":"hinfaits","time":"1494875874","timestamp":"2017-05-15 19:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Alternatively, decreasing the size of the oven wouldn\u0026#x27;t make a difference. If that was the case, this recipe would work in a small toaster oven. The inverse square law is factually sound, but incorrectly applied.\u003cp\u003eMy intuition would speculate the recipe works because the dutch oven is a \u0026quot;better\u0026quot; black body than the oven. So the dutch oven acts as a huge heat sink and then more efficiently retransmits by radiation that energy to the bread. As a secondary effect (or maybe this is the primary effect), the dutch oven promotes significantly more heat transfer primarily through conduction to the bread.","parent":"14343297","id":"14344306"}
{"by":"vbuterin","time":"1398818526","timestamp":"2014-04-30 00:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bitcoin users. Which is a larger population than that of many countries that have national currencies.","parent":"7670835","id":"7670893"}
{"by":"richardkeller","time":"1348314746","timestamp":"2012-09-22 11:52:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same date for me. It's really a pity that nothing has been released for so long. Restricting open signups is fine, but the fact that people request invites means that there is definite support for the product, and those people are clearly willing to put up with a few bugs. These are exactly the kind of people who add fantastic value to the product, since you're essentially getting free product testing from people who are already passionate about the product.","parent":"4557115","id":"4557667"}
{"by":"golergka","time":"1530556558","timestamp":"2018-07-02 18:35:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is true, but doesn\u0026#x27;t refute my point. If you want not only to write something in Rust, but also to participate in the community and get help from it, it\u0026#x27;s much easier to do it if you\u0026#x27;re using nightly.\u003cp\u003eI consider myself an experienced developer, but unlike other new technologies, which I almost always learn just from documentation, with Rust I often turn to community for help. I understand that this complexity is neccessary and I wouldn\u0026#x27;t Rust to be easier, of course. But still, with Rust\u0026#x27;s complexity and overwhelming amount of information that\u0026#x27;s already out of date with the best practices - it sometimes seems that over a half of google results on stack overflow are still about pre-1.0 Rust. And when we (people who learn Rust) turn to the community, it usually tells us (in the most helpful and nice way, of course) \u0026quot;just use nightly\u0026quot;.","parent":"17443355","id":"17444274"}
{"by":"nautical","time":"1432290597","timestamp":"2015-05-22 10:29:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you have ideas on how else to continue development process ?","parent":"9587404","id":"9587444"}
{"by":"enginnr","time":"1447192007","timestamp":"2015-11-10 21:46:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well one way to test is to put honey links into an IM session and see which ones are pinged. Invariably they will be pinged from a co-lo situated in a remote U.S data center.","parent":"10525774","id":"10542796"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1343015457","timestamp":"2012-07-23 03:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely the MPAA are on the hook for this. It doesn't matter if they bought it legitimately as they'd still be infringing - in the same way the MPAA can claim that your download of a torrent of a movie [made by employees of one of the companies it represents] is infringing despite the torrent site not having informed you that it's not a legally acquired work.\u003cp\u003eIf the argument \"we didn't know\" works for them then surely that sets precedent for everyone else. If it doesn't work then damages of 10¢ for every instance of infringement of the work would seem reasonable. That's for every DVD they make with it on, for every showing in a movie theater, for every use in advertising ...\u003cp\u003ethough it looks like the MPAA have already set a damage level of $30k per instances [TorrentSpy case as reported at arstechnica]. Now last week the top ten selling movies [which may not be all MPAA ones of course, nor carry the infringed work, but this is just for scale] had sold collectively about 15 million units in the US. From that I'd expect damages of the order of 30k * 10 * 15M = 4.5 trillion, or 25 years of the MPAA's total revenue [as reported on their website] to be reasonable. /tongueincheek","parent":"4278951","id":"4279461"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1300596895","timestamp":"2011-03-20 04:54:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem isn't using a debugger, it's being overconfident in how much you can infer from any given debugging run. The solution is to have realistic levels of confidence, not to swear off the use of debuggers. Obviously, if you're trying to understand how the code works, having one empirical sample is better than having zero empirical samples.","parent":"2345342","id":"2345578"}
{"by":"stevenwiles","time":"1471660695","timestamp":"2016-08-20 02:38:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Millennial here. This is mostly correct though you are very wrong about a few things.","parent":"12322503","id":"12324875"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1281644989","timestamp":"2010-08-12 20:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;My experience 1 year into Fatherhood agrees with this. We put baby on a cyclic routine of Eat, Play, Sleep since about day 7. She was sleeping through the night at 8wks. Check out \"On Becoming Babywise\", Gary Ezzo.\u003cp\u003eDidn't your wife find that her breasts were painfully engorged by not feeding the baby all night?","parent":"1597892","id":"1599139"}
{"by":"JeremyMorgan","time":"1396990771","timestamp":"2014-04-08 20:59:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"lighten up Francis","parent":"7555541","id":"7555979"}
{"by":"616c","time":"1412279740","timestamp":"2014-10-02 19:55:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Holy shit.  NetBSD pkgsrc for OS X?  Yes please.\u003cp\u003e(On a sidenote, I got into Arch because I heard hype, but did not even like it until I recognized the BSD outlook, with ports and pkgsrc style tools.  This is very cool, and now I know what to use if I deal with OSX again!)","parent":"8402542","id":"8402730"}
{"by":"theprotocol","time":"1491746810","timestamp":"2017-04-09 14:06:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not being able to help someone is ethically superior to risking killing someone in order to help someone else.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re not the one who gave the former cancer, but you are the one who imperiled the latter.","parent":"14072184","id":"14072345"}
{"by":"netcan","time":"1259904869","timestamp":"2009-12-04 05:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're nitpicking.\u003cp\u003eGross viewer satisfaction by some definition of 'viewer' \u0026#38; 'satisfactions.' Very similar metric to box office sales where consumers pay directly. Better?\u003cp\u003eNone of this is relevant to the point being discussed. The point is that just because company A gets paid by Advertiser B that wants to reach Customer C does not mean that company A does not have the incentive to serve customer C properly.","parent":"975543","id":"975859"}
{"by":"aquadrop","time":"1505250726","timestamp":"2017-09-12 21:12:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, touchId\u0026#x2F;faceId sits in between, it\u0026#x27;s quick access token, which is enough for 95% of the time, but those other 5% are very important.","parent":"15232544","id":"15232782"}
{"by":"OlivierLi","time":"1345744103","timestamp":"2012-08-23 17:48:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kernel modules are vital and yet can be very small. On Linux at least.","parent":"4423215","id":"4423811"}
{"by":"Const-me","time":"1485187325","timestamp":"2017-01-23 16:02:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Professionally, yeah I’ve noticed the platform ain’t a great success, at least so far.\nI think last time a company approached me asking to do some WP development was over a year ago.\nFortunately I also develop for Windows PCs, and those aren’t going from desktops any time soon.\u003cp\u003eBut personally I’m happy with my Lumia 930.\nIt’s old but still works fine (replaced a battery once) and is updated to latest WM10.\nI don’t care about OS market share as long as my own copy works.","parent":"13462909","id":"13463068"}
{"by":"fartcannon","time":"1534953776","timestamp":"2018-08-22 16:02:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might just be me, but I believe most people thought Google was a worse violator prior to Windows 10. Some (probably naive) people used to think Windows was the last bastion of non-Linux hope.","parent":"17819305","id":"17819660"}
{"by":"far33d","time":"1297351087","timestamp":"2011-02-10 15:18:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In most early web startups, the biggest challenge (and the most common reason for death) is acquiring and retaining customers. User metrics are completely valid as your primary metrics early on.","parent":"2201901","id":"2202153"}
{"by":"jaycee","time":"1237208801","timestamp":"2009-03-16 13:06:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm a pretty big fan of Vanilla (\u003ca href=\"http://getvanilla.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://getvanilla.com/\u003c/a\u003e). It doesn't natively support threading, but I think there may be a plugin for that. It's out of the box install is very clean, very simple, and very useful.\u003cp\u003eRolling something from the HN or Reddit codebase sounds like a pretty interesting project, though.","parent":"517989","id":"518098"}
{"by":"slayed0","time":"1417795087","timestamp":"2014-12-05 15:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do yourself a favor and get the Despecialized Edition.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-V25-MKV-IS-OUT-NOW/topic/12713/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;originaltrilogy.com\u0026#x2F;forum\u0026#x2F;topic.cfm\u0026#x2F;Harmys-STAR-WARS-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8705077","id":"8705110"}
{"by":"mindhacker","time":"1243019168","timestamp":"2009-05-22 19:06:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like they started with something like \u003ca href=\"http://www.swftools.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.swftools.org/\u003c/a\u003e and developed a custom viewer for the swf files.\u003cp\u003eFor doc and other formats, one can use openoffice commandline tools to convert them all to pdf.\u003cp\u003eedit: Some history - \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9874527-2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9874527-2.html\u003c/a\u003e Scribd initially used the now discontinued flash paper.","parent":"622383","id":"622544"}
{"by":"mahranch","time":"1384029969","timestamp":"2013-11-09 20:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eWhere in Japan were you living?\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI was bounced around a bit, but most of my time was spent in Tokyo, Sapporo and in Hachinohe.","parent":"6695934","id":"6703126"}
{"by":"anyfoo","time":"1522276474","timestamp":"2018-03-28 22:34:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s missing the point entirely, which is that under theories like MOND, you would not expect to see any galaxies that behave like galaxies with no dark matter, as it posits that dark matter does not exist.","parent":"16702628","id":"16702651"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1428413615","timestamp":"2015-04-07 13:33:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience, if I explain that I won\u0026#x27;t sign an NDA and they don\u0026#x27;t return, I\u0026#x27;ve dodged a bullet. Last one was an older guy who wanted to rebuild eBay on a strict budget and just wasn\u0026#x27;t at all comfortable talking about his idea without an NDA. I\u0026#x27;m willing to bet, months later, he\u0026#x27;s made very little progress.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;ve missed any quality opportunities with this approach.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m always very polite about it and explain my reasons.","parent":"9333455","id":"9333862"}
{"by":"syllableai","time":"1543861170","timestamp":"2018-12-03 18:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Syllable.ai | Senior Dev Ops Engineer | Sunnyvale, CA | Onsite | Full Time | Email andrew@syllable.ai\u003cp\u003eJob: Senior Dev Ops Engineer\u003cp\u003eAt Syllable we\u0026#x27;re building natural language interfaces to enable healthcare companies to have a conversation with their customers and patients, through text or voice. We build NLP and AI tools to assist humans, reducing cost and improving service. We are a well funded start up that moves fast.\u003cp\u003eJob Description:\u003cp\u003eTotal Ownership of all Syllable infrastructure and operation critical software. This includes:\u003cp\u003e-Using Cloud Formation or similar cloud configuration language to formalize infrastructure requirements\u003cp\u003e- Building on our existing CI\u0026#x2F;CD pipeline and formalizing code deployment processes for efficiency, security, and regulatory compliance.\u003cp\u003e-Ensuring high availability of dockerized services running on AWS ECS, as well as complete visibility into all services using robust error reporting and logging facilities.\u003cp\u003e-Managing a framework to provide each service common facilities: logging, database setup, error handling, configuration management, etc. You’ll take ownership of this framework and shape it to your vision.\u003cp\u003e-Managing internal user roles for accessing infrastructure and databases according to the principles of least privilege with comprehensive auditing\u003cp\u003e-Spearheading our efforts to maintain regulatory compliance with HIPPA\u003cp\u003e-Building automation and tooling software to assist in the above responsibilities\u003cp\u003eRequirements:\u003cp\u003e-3+ years of previous Devops Engineering experience - either in a formal Devops Engineering role OR as a major, continuous part of the responsibilities in a Software Engineering role\u003cp\u003e-Programming fluency in a modern software language\u003cp\u003e-A passion for building infrastructure, tooling, and formalized development processes","parent":"18589702","id":"18591310"}
{"by":"dkersten","time":"1250458701","timestamp":"2009-08-16 21:38:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm actually not terribly familiar with how they work, so no worries! I'm happy to be corrected.","parent":"766762","id":"766811"}
{"by":"statictype","time":"1300554565","timestamp":"2011-03-19 17:09:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice. I like the way you add new tasks/subtasks by using the edit box at the bottom. I also like that there's no Settings page.\u003cp\u003eYou should probably charge something for this app.\u003cp\u003eOnly one nitpick: Remove the alert box that comes after syncing is complete.\u003cp\u003eAre you going to add any more feature (reminders or due-dates?).","parent":"2343338","id":"2344089"}
{"by":"megapolis","time":"1526740591","timestamp":"2018-05-19 14:36:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is GPU-based software to play and to process mlv files from Canon cameras with Magic Lantern firmware.","parent":"17108038","id":"17108040"}
{"by":"exoesquitur","time":"1544648153","timestamp":"2018-12-12 20:55:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the newish perception that risk is unacceptable plays a part. I\u0026#x27;m glad to see the \u0026quot;safety above exploration\u0026quot; mindset giving way a bit. Accidents are going to happen. Pioneers in dangerous endeavors understand this. It\u0026#x27;s good to see society remembering it as well.","parent":"18667516","id":"18667677"}
{"by":"SeanDav","time":"1455788522","timestamp":"2016-02-18 09:42:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Driving around Africa should be considered carefully and researched even more carefully. There are very real dangers and complete no-go areas.\u003cp\u003eGood luck out there!","parent":"11124159","id":"11124672"}
{"by":"cs702","time":"1472066246","timestamp":"2016-08-24 19:17:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cultural differences could be a factor too, but I suspect the greater prevalence of inherited wealth in continental Europe is not unconnected.\u003cp\u003eBy the way, Raspberry Pi\u0026#x27;s and ARM\u0026#x27;s roots are English: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Raspberry_Pi#History\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Raspberry_Pi#History\u003c/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;ARM_Holdings\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;ARM_Holdings\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12354260","id":"12354516"}
{"by":"Shorel","time":"1325684652","timestamp":"2012-01-04 13:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it has nothing to do with their Windows monopoly and a total lack of guarantees to any developer who wants to create applications for it.\u003cp\u003eDo an office suite? Not viable, MS has its own version.\u003cp\u003eDo a nice application for doing whatever? If it's successful MS will do their own version. And release it for free.\u003cp\u003eBalmer said it: Developers! Developers! Developers!\u003cp\u003eBut now how can any developer invest in MS without realizing it is suicidal?","parent":"3421648","id":"3424048"}
{"by":"mdesq","time":"1432080049","timestamp":"2015-05-20 00:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not to mention Drupal is its own little disaster.","parent":"9573183","id":"9573913"}
{"by":"dagmx","time":"1525702339","timestamp":"2018-05-07 14:12:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bit of an exaggeration. The average show is roughly 22-24 minutes per half hour with the rest going to advertisments.","parent":"17012731","id":"17012857"}
{"by":"koopajah","time":"1353340028","timestamp":"2012-11-19 15:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a long discussion on HN on friday, you can find it here : \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4788902\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4788902\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4804792","id":"4804802"}
{"by":"yitchelle","time":"1540156419","timestamp":"2018-10-21 21:13:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only thing we have used Siri for is for identification of song that we have heard over the radio, and also for the amusement of my kids on how to spell swear words.","parent":"18267374","id":"18270291"}
{"by":"andrewcooke","time":"1311102612","timestamp":"2011-07-19 19:10:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so what would block this?\u003cp\u003enoscript would, but (imho) it's too intrusive.\u003cp\u003ewould adblockplus have blocked it?  what about ghostery, disconnect, et al?","parent":"2781235","id":"2782572"}
{"by":"brianwawok","time":"1487869902","timestamp":"2017-02-23 17:11:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; True, but 95%+ of the issues you\u0026#x27;d catch with unit testing in Python you catch during compilation in Scala, and that can be an incremental compile rather than a full compile. So once you have a properly set up dev environment the feedback loop takes less than 2 seconds in practice, though the one-off setup to reach that point is a lot fiddlier than for Python.\u003cp\u003eNot sure I agree with either of those. Compiler catches different types of error compared to Unit tests. Lots of ways especially when dealing with external libs or APIs where compile can\u0026#x27;t catch anything.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Django wicket etc\u003cp\u003eTo each their own. I despise SPAs, and neither code them nor use them if I can help it. DRF is really good for rest endpoints though.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Meta programming\u003cp\u003emeh, different levels of it. Look at using Django ORM for some queries, vs say Slick. Slick is a bit gross.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; 1 liner vs 6 liner\u003cp\u003eMeh. In practice, Python is very terse also. Java vs Scala is a big line of code difference. I have not found Scala vs Python is that different.","parent":"13715450","id":"13715555"}
{"by":"honeybadger_IB","time":"1424294260","timestamp":"2015-02-18 21:17:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"useful tips!","parent":"9070866","id":"9071009"}
{"by":"pedalpete","time":"1396826134","timestamp":"2014-04-06 23:15:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Happy to have helped.\nWhat a part of the world are you in? If you don\u0026#x27;t mind my asking. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. My e-mail is in my profile.","parent":"7543227","id":"7543643"}
{"by":"reitanqild","time":"1469764359","timestamp":"2016-07-29 03:52:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Expected something awful.\u003cp\u003eThat looks decent.","parent":"12184540","id":"12184916"}
{"by":"fixermark","time":"1434988166","timestamp":"2015-06-22 15:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Spot-on but unimportant.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Apple didn\u0026#x27;t lead the mobile device revolution. Blackberry did.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eTechnologies succeeding in the gauntlet of consumer electronics makes a bigger splash in public media---for obvious reasons---than those same technologies applied to the problems of specific trades.","parent":"9758003","id":"9759141"}
{"by":"daodedickinson","time":"1457163341","timestamp":"2016-03-05 07:35:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Inflation is \u0026quot;incredibly\u0026quot; healthy for an economy? But not hyperinflation (a word for too much inflation). So how much is good? And would it be worse for a stagnant or shrinking population?","parent":"11228725","id":"11228791"}
{"by":"drewbuschhorn","time":"1520650035","timestamp":"2018-03-10 02:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As another former chemist, I just wanted to agree with this statement.\u003cp\u003eAnd for industrial cleaners, read the MSDS and act accordingly. It\u0026#x27;s not that hard to find the correct version of masks and gloves for the task you do everyday.","parent":"16556024","id":"16556826"}
{"by":"cezar_sl","time":"1323697344","timestamp":"2011-12-12 13:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed.\nThis will turn out to be just about money, not principle or, you know, what the consumer wants.","parent":"3343262","id":"3343488"}
{"by":"threeseed","time":"1516225008","timestamp":"2018-01-17 21:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The expectation of a large corporate tax cut was certainly there throughout 2017\u003cp\u003eNo it wasn\u0026#x27;t. Most people thought that after the health care debacle that Trump would\u0026#x27;ve pivoted to infrastructure. Especially given the tax cuts were so fiscally reckless which would\u0026#x27;ve alienated moderate Senators like Collins or McCain.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; and may very well have had a large influence on the Reno decision\u003cp\u003eApple has other data centres. They were largely driven by their own needs and not to do with macro economic effects.","parent":"16171813","id":"16172131"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1531505500","timestamp":"2018-07-13 18:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The three scotches you like are peaty; 2 are Islays and one (the Talisker) is an Island, which is like a toned-down Islay. You like smoke, phenols, and brine. If you want something sort of \u0026quot;in between\u0026quot; the Lagavulin (almost one-note phenolic) and the Macallan (caramel and wine, little wood, no smoke), try a BenRomach, which is a briney and not smokey and right in your price point.\u003cp\u003eThe other Islays you haven\u0026#x27;t tried include:\u003cp\u003e* Laphroig, which adds a huge medicinal flavor to the wood and smoke in Lagavulin.\u003cp\u003e* Bowmore, which tends towards leather and fruit flavors (they do some interesting wine cask expressions). Kilchoman is similar, pricier, but with even better casks.\u003cp\u003e* Ardbeg, which tends peatier\u0026#x2F;smokier than Lagavulin but not as iodiney and briney as Laphroaig.\u003cp\u003eThe other two you like, the Macallan and the Balvenie, are very mainstream Speysides. No peat, lots of wine flavor. It\u0026#x27;s easy to find a lot of whiskeys in the same region and all will be better values than the Macallan (which is one of the world\u0026#x27;s most popular single malts and priced accordingly) and the Balvenie, which is solid but also grocery store scotch. I recommend GlenDronach 12 or 15 if you want to explore the sherry-bomb character of the Macallan 18 (GlenDronach is probably the scotch most like Macallan that isn\u0026#x27;t called Macallan), and Glenrothes if you just want to explore the cereal\u0026#x2F;vanilla\u0026#x2F;caramel malt characteristics of Speysides. Both are ~$50-$60 priced well.","parent":"17524935","id":"17525300"}
{"by":"rms","time":"1234255139","timestamp":"2009-02-10 08:38:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have noticed more regularly that good things are being missed... not sure what we can about it.","parent":"474891","id":"474910"}
{"by":"replicatorblog","time":"1256091516","timestamp":"2009-10-21 02:18:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work at a medical device company that does a lot of software related work. Making their work look easy is NOT an issue. The big problem is that insurance plans typically don't reimburse time spent with technology. For instance in Diabetes treatment a doc could look at your results and provide good feedback via email or phone, but there is not reimbursement code for this. So you take half a day off of work to have a 10 minute meeting with a doc.\u003cp\u003eMost docs would love more tech in their practices.","parent":"893674","id":"893848"}
{"by":"iamleppert","time":"1412013255","timestamp":"2014-09-29 17:54:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re going to do something, do it right. Or leave search out of your product if you aren\u0026#x27;t willing to invest the effort and energy required to implement a proper solution.\u003cp\u003eThose SQL queries are hideous. Most people have learned that, because of many developers like this, to avoid search because it\u0026#x27;s next to useless. Please do us a favor and leave it out of your product if you aren\u0026#x27;t willing to invest in a proper solution. Not one that is \u0026quot;good enough\u0026quot;.","parent":"8381748","id":"8384087"}
{"by":"miyuru","time":"1538714652","timestamp":"2018-10-05 04:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Digitalocean disabled network access to one of my droplets too. They won\u0026#x27;t respond to your emails, but poke them on twitter and hopefully you will get a response back. mine to 10 days to get a reply.\u003cp\u003eI switched to scaleway afterwards.","parent":"18144202","id":"18145781"}
{"by":"hedora","time":"1495638579","timestamp":"2017-05-24 15:09:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I emphatically opt out of all of Google\u0026#x27;s services and tracking.  I have done everything I can to avoid having them track me, short of quitting my job (we use google apps at work...).\u003cp\u003eWhen you (I think, naively) traded your privacy and freedom for their services, you also traded a bit of my privacy and freedom, and that is unacceptable to me.\u003cp\u003eThe same can be said about any of the other big surveillance capitalism companies (facebook, microsoft, etc).\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know why you think they will only hypothetically use this information against you.  You are bombarded with machine generated attempts at psychological manipulation on a daily basis, and your private information is regularly leaked\u0026#x2F;sold to bad actors and out of control law enforcement agencies on a continuous basis.\u003cp\u003eYou even say you are lucky you are not a political dissident, so you admit that, in your own mind, you have given up the right to participate in our democracy as you see fit.","parent":"14410217","id":"14410551"}
{"by":"infinite8s","time":"1528766331","timestamp":"2018-06-12 01:18:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People don\u0026#x27;t usually include health insurance and free meals when they think about their total comp.","parent":"17288928","id":"17290035"}
{"by":"j45","time":"1345414067","timestamp":"2012-08-19 22:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn't mean to be.\u003cp\u003eI've observed with clients while systemizing their businesses: In the long run in those who don't keep it a priority to document, improve and transfer their knowledge capital regularly, peak out, stall and fade.\u003cp\u003eBy failing to bake into the bread of their culture that understanding and sharing the why to do things a certain way.. maintaining their competitive advantage, they inevitably are exposed to becoming less effective, productive, efficient, ultimately welcoming a culture of accepting less and less.\u003cp\u003eIt's also probably worth noting that I'm not talking about creating a mistake manual, but rather a why manual that helps teach the mindset that creates the types of mindset required to make decisions to grow the business\u003cp\u003eBusinesses that become institutions do so with cultivating a a 50 to 100 year mindset, but few have a 10 year mindset to take what we do today and make sure it's happening while we find the next way to grow.","parent":"4405086","id":"4405421"}
{"by":"Bromskloss","time":"1529857716","timestamp":"2018-06-24 16:28:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then I can have the opposite case all to myself. Excellent! :-)","parent":"17384734","id":"17387119"}
{"by":"balladeer","time":"1514396520","timestamp":"2017-12-27 17:42:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"KeePass is anything but user friendly or convenient - it involves a lot of tinkering and not a lot of people have time, patience, or even know-how for that. It has never been and I don\u0026#x27;t see that happening in near future. In comparison LastPass is \u0026quot;sign up once, use everywhere\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003e1Password royally ignored every other platform other than the fruit company ecosystem for a really long time.\u003cp\u003eSee, I am not speaking as a fanboy, I am not one. Just a satisfied user - I have really tried all other apps out there and for some reason or the other I kept coming back to LastPass.\u003cp\u003eBitwarden came close to make me switch. OSS, polished, and seemingly with a business model. After checking on Elementary Firefox, iOS, Android apps when I went find its Safari extension (that\u0026#x27;s where I do my personal browsing) - it didn\u0026#x27;t exist, it still doesn\u0026#x27;t and the Github issue is clear that they will not be working on that [0] anytime soon. Also, I read a reddit comment that there was only one full time developer and this was few weeks ago[1]. Now I know it\u0026#x27;s an open source project but I want to use a service that is really ready to be used for my password management.\u003cp\u003eLastPass - it\u0026#x27;s not really entirely browser based, it\u0026#x27;s actually available everywhere - Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Ff, Safari, IE, iOS, Android. You name it. And it has been on these various platforms since long. Sync, client side encryption, easy import from other apps, good extensions, decent support ticket TATs (even for free accounts), continuous development (however I must add that they have started to add bloat and useless gloss after the sale) - have really been consistent. This is what makes it a favourite option.\u003cp\u003eSo when you say \u0026quot;better designed\u0026quot; I assume you mean better security architecture designed and yes it is ease of use with acceptable security for the most.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;bitwarden\u0026#x2F;browser\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;17\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;bitwarden\u0026#x2F;browser\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;17\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;Bitwarden\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;7htswv\u0026#x2F;how_many_people_are_involved_in_bitwarden\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;Bitwarden\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;7htswv\u0026#x2F;how_many_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16015956","id":"16016414"}
{"by":"yunhakim","time":"1512416293","timestamp":"2017-12-04 19:38:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simple Habit | San Francisco | Onsite | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplehabit.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.simplehabit.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimple Habit is on a mission to empower every human to stress less and live better. In just one year we’ve become the #1 meditation app, celebrated 1 million users, and we\u0026#x27;re changing people’s lives every day. Are you interested in building the leading platform in health and wellness together with our mission driven team? We’re looking for:\u003cp\u003e- Backend Engineer: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;f36d7673-7565-45c3-9ee0-68b06ed1f630\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;f36d7673-7565-45c3-9ee0-68...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- iOS Engineer: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;0544ee55-d714-432d-ae5e-78372e3a6d4d\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;0544ee55-d714-432d-ae5e-78...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Full Stack Engineer: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;a38a84b8-0284-4a56-a08f-c84b47983258\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;a38a84b8-0284-4a56-a08f-c8...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Head of Design: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;2f129ca6-4df3-460e-b138-437dc8bb1d4c\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;2f129ca6-4df3-460e-b138-43...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Senior Product Designer: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;40b5425e-4fce-4999-85cc-af78df97b52c\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;simplehabit\u0026#x2F;40b5425e-4fce-4999-85cc-af...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease apply using the above url :)","parent":"15824597","id":"15846752"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1489509731","timestamp":"2017-03-14 16:42:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; you won\u0026#x27;t ever see ...\u003cp\u003ePeople have said that about mostly everything computers now do and is taken for granted. I won\u0026#x27;t be having discussions with my computer any time soon (before I die) but winning that rally doesn\u0026#x27;t seem 30-50 years out.","parent":"13868259","id":"13869064"}
{"by":"fdb","time":"1299101383","timestamp":"2011-03-02 21:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"September!? Really? That's ridiculously quick.","parent":"2281025","id":"2281419"}
{"by":"MayeulC","time":"1522052829","timestamp":"2018-03-26 08:27:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A quick mnemonic I read on StackOverflow[1] some time ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   When using git log, do it like \u0026quot;a dog\u0026quot;\n   git log --all --decorate --oneline --graph\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI must say I had forgotten about the `--all` part, but the article mentions that it should be on by default if running interactively in the terminal, at least with recent versions of git.\u003cp\u003e[1]It might have been \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;1057564\u0026#x2F;pretty-git-branch-graphs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;1057564\u0026#x2F;pretty-git-branc...\u003c/a\u003e but I am not 100% sure.","parent":"16677399","id":"16677481"}
{"by":"JonathonW","time":"1538755009","timestamp":"2018-10-05 15:56:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d consider it feasible--  in my testing, my iPhone XS outperforms my mid-2017 MacBook Pro (with i7-7820HQ [1]) in single-core benchmarking with Geekbench 4.  Not by much, but it does manage a slight lead:  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;browser.geekbench.com\u0026#x2F;v4\u0026#x2F;cpu\u0026#x2F;compare\u0026#x2F;10006209?baseline=3218259\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;browser.geekbench.com\u0026#x2F;v4\u0026#x2F;cpu\u0026#x2F;compare\u0026#x2F;10006209?baseli...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGranted, this probably wouldn\u0026#x27;t hold up for a more sustained workload since the fanless iPhone\u0026#x27;s going to hit its thermal limits much more quickly than the full-size laptop, but it\u0026#x27;s pretty impressive that they\u0026#x27;re edging this close to Intel anyways (in a much smaller, much lower-power package).  It\u0026#x27;ll be really interesting to see what happens with the more unconstrained A12X that\u0026#x27;ll likely go into the iPad Pro this year.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ark.intel.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;97496\u0026#x2F;Intel-Core-i7-7820HQ-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3-90-GHz-\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ark.intel.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;97496\u0026#x2F;Intel-Core-i7-7820HQ-Pr...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18148808","id":"18149131"}
{"by":"anonacct37","time":"1545428391","timestamp":"2018-12-21 21:39:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my state (Utah). The government is attempting to roll back solar subsidies because \u0026quot;that industry should stand on it\u0026#x27;s own two feet\u0026quot;. Conveniently neglecting to mention the massive tax breaks to fossil fuels.\u003cp\u003eI wish everyone competed in a free market (for the most part), but the energy market is not that.","parent":"18736681","id":"18736909"}
{"by":"excuse-me","time":"1339085355","timestamp":"2012-06-07 16:09:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would have been if he had lost","parent":"4079616","id":"4079703"}
{"by":"bairrd","time":"1536674441","timestamp":"2018-09-11 14:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you explain why you think $1.5 trillion in defense spending stopped the US from being a third world country? With the state of infrastructure \u0026amp; healthcare in this country, and the absolute lack of over-site in military spending because of a blind \u0026#x27;support the troops\u0026#x2F;cops\u0026#x27; mindset that leads to trillion dollar F-35s and small regional police departments having the capital to buy road-destroying APCs, I honestly can\u0026#x27;t fathom how spending $1.5 trillion to drop white phosphorus on random Yemenis is anything close to justifiable.","parent":"17959687","id":"17959737"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1440486016","timestamp":"2015-08-25 07:00:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In case anyone gets curious about the big computer with a large tape drive, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;DECSYSTEM-20\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;DECSYSTEM-20\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10113587","id":"10114964"}
{"by":"drats","time":"1290189104","timestamp":"2010-11-19 17:51:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Naked Economics[1] is a good basic introduction. Hayek's Road to Serfdom[2] is also a key text if you want a historically embedded one. An interesting point about it is that Orwell reviewed it, with qualified praise, shortly before writing 1984. Like 1984 it is wider in its scope (i.e. even if you had the bandwidth and the models, how do you stop the people running them from becoming corrupt?). Finally \"From Marx to Mises: Post-capitalist society and the challenge of economic calculation\"[3] has a very comprehensive review of many aspects of the debate.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Science-Revised/dp/0393337642/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;qid=1290188339\u0026#38;sr=8-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Science-Rev...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents---Definitive-Collected/dp/0226320553/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026#38;ie=UTF8\u0026#38;qid=1290188592\u0026#38;sr=1-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents---Definitive-Co...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3]\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Marx-Mises-Capitalist-Challenge-Calculation/dp/0875484492/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;s=books\u0026#38;qid=1290188616\u0026#38;sr=1-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Marx-Mises-Capitalist-Challenge-Calcul...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1921389","id":"1922078"}
{"by":"tomp","time":"1435396039","timestamp":"2015-06-27 09:07:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; To me it looks like they are trying to avoid the responsibility of making a painful decision.\u003cp\u003eIn reality, they\u0026#x27;re just keeping their word. They were elected to prevent austerity. By not signing up for even more austerity, they are just fulfilling their democratic mandate.","parent":"9789554","id":"9789568"}
{"by":"lorenzhs","time":"1521378075","timestamp":"2018-03-18 13:01:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wholeheartedly agree that many—if not most—algorithms classes don’t sufficiently talk about the limitations of the models used and how to handle this. I’m a big fan of Algorithm Engineering, which is best imagined as a cycle of design, analysis, implementation and experiments, with each stage influencing the next. This has led to some exceptional results (e.g. the route planning algorithms used by Google\u0026#x2F;Bing\u0026#x2F;Apple Maps, which are around 5 orders of magnitude faster than Dijkstra’s algorithm by using clever pre-processing that exploits the structure of road networks. Their asymptotic query complexity on general graphs is still the same as Dijkstra’s, iirc)\u003cp\u003eNitpick, but your list-based LRU cache’s operations  wouldn’t be in o(1) but rather O(1) – little oh means strictly slower growth, in this case sub-constant. Probably just a typo though. And it could be further optimised for locality by using a cyclic buffer instead of a linked list (-\u0026gt; no pointer chasing + sequential access), but see kilburn’s answer (the structure in the paper solves a different problem)","parent":"16611067","id":"16611754"}
{"by":"throwaway2048","time":"1443497450","timestamp":"2015-09-29 03:30:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You wouldnt have to tamper with existing data comming from site visitors, you could just simply generate fake visits. That would be much much harder to check for. You could of course do that with the current model, but it requires a lot more resources (distributed IP addreses to come from being the largest issue).\u003cp\u003eSince this is specificly targeted at getting around adblocking, the ad networks wouldnt be able to rely on cookies etc because the same types of visitors will often block\u0026#x2F;clear them.","parent":"10294502","id":"10294556"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1419017335","timestamp":"2014-12-19 19:28:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Freight currently makes better use of US rail infrastructure than passengers do, because freight is less time-sensitive than passengers and the geography of the US makes that a problem for rail. It does not make sense to penalize the most efficient user of a resource to benefit one of its least efficient users.","parent":"8773672","id":"8773993"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1308275401","timestamp":"2011-06-17 01:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excuse my ignorant question: if I buy one of these is there any (vaguely legal) way I can use it to watch movies on long flights?\u003cp\u003eedit: Never mind, I found out for myself. Rip from DVD to some wacky format, obtain app to play it. Perhaps I'll consider it, now I find myself flying (bleh) United with its severe lack of video.","parent":"2663435","id":"2664008"}
{"by":"amolsarva","time":"1328219296","timestamp":"2012-02-02 21:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"UPS? Fedex? Those work","parent":"3544456","id":"3544658"}
{"by":"bhseo","time":"1268746336","timestamp":"2010-03-16 13:32:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Porn users become addicted and can't stop using it. They go back for more and more. They desire harder and harder material. They seek to mimic what they see in their preferred pornographic material.\u003cp\u003eRegarding addiction, I'll answer with a quote, replace X with the vice of your choice:\u003cp\u003e\"Is X addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.\"\u003cp\u003eHarder and harder material? Please no more \"gateway\" theories. As for acting out what we see on the screen, what's wrong with getting a little inspiration, I am not going to suddenly start hitting my partner just because I saw a pornstar do it.","parent":"1195493","dead":true,"id":"1195617"}
{"by":"napoleond","time":"1402245657","timestamp":"2014-06-08 16:40:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who\u0026#x27;s spent a lot of time and money trying to solve this problem, I will say that the biggest impediment is usability, and the largest technical hurdle on that front is key management (general users will never, ever take the time to understand what they\u0026#x27;re supposed to do with their keys). Beyond those problems, though, are the other problems mentioned elsewhere on this page; the inherent weaknesses in email that PGP can\u0026#x27;t circumvent (specifically the meta-data leaks--who is sending messages to whom). I think Adam Langley\u0026#x27;s Pond[0] is the most interesting candidate for an email replacement, although it\u0026#x27;s not yet ready for prime-time (and even further from a level of usability that could reach mass appeal).\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https://pond.imperialviolet.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pond.imperialviolet.org\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7864730","id":"7865102"}
{"by":"blakesterz","time":"1451922956","timestamp":"2016-01-04 15:55:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great. Now I just need to remember the shortcuts! I have such a giant collection of bash short cuts in my .bashrc and other dotfiles that I can\u0026#x27;t seem to remember ANY of them and end up just typing everything out in the end :-)","parent":"10835230","id":"10836240"}
{"by":"jgg","time":"1273786379","timestamp":"2010-05-13 21:32:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah. My bad. (-:","parent":"1345668","id":"1345768"}
{"by":"gregthompsonjr","time":"1454310735","timestamp":"2016-02-01 07:12:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m surrounded by the people we read material from, the guys who write it all. I try to learn everything I can from them. I\u0026#x27;m just hoping I can express a level of competence that enables me to keep my position. The longer I can keep it, the more I\u0026#x27;ll learn, the better I\u0026#x27;ll be a year from now and after.","parent":"11010284","id":"11010301"}
{"by":"sejje","time":"1380413845","timestamp":"2013-09-29 00:17:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if you had a great product video\u0026#x2F;detail shots\u0026#x2F;testimonials about the quality of the print?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a photographer, and so I\u0026#x27;m picky about print quality, but I would be willing to roll the dice on some gift-type prints, and I could easily be won over by some nice shots of a quality print.","parent":"6423984","id":"6463596"}
{"by":"skolor","time":"1413554912","timestamp":"2014-10-17 14:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; run more exit nodes (which are depereately needed -- about 1k nodes for 2M users)\u003cp\u003eWhat is the ideal ratio of exit nodes to users? It seems that too close to 1:1 is going to be almost as bad as too few nodes, at least to my (not particularly well versed in Tor infrastructure) thinking.","parent":"8470211","id":"8471022"}
{"by":"z3t4","time":"1542641105","timestamp":"2018-11-19 15:25:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is not a fair comparison as ECC \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e Error Correcting, while just check-summing is not. If you however have a mirror or raid-Z the file system will be able to correct.","parent":"18482644","id":"18487023"}
{"by":"j45","time":"1355777647","timestamp":"2012-12-17 20:54:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CAH is one of the funniest and most enjoyable games I've ever played.  I was shocked to discover it was pay what you want, and the cards were completely open to print for myself.","parent":"4933655","id":"4934293"}
{"by":"simion314","time":"1544202711","timestamp":"2018-12-07 17:11:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there are words and expressions well know from pop culture, like say time travel, do you need to look up some physics book to find the definition or find some experiments where they prove time travel is or not possible ?","parent":"18629238","id":"18629390"}
{"by":"twoodfin","time":"1337714280","timestamp":"2012-05-22 19:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt really isn't that hard: remove \"tipped staff\" exceptions to US labor laws and everybody will adjust quite fast.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany waiters in high end restaurants are paid more than minimum wage, but you're still expected to tip.","parent":"4009303","id":"4009431"}
{"by":"chewxy","time":"1404887186","timestamp":"2014-07-09 06:26:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The surprising ones I found:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Butthole Lane, Shepshed, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 9BN, UK\n\n    Fanny Ho, Lancashire, United Kingdom\n\n    The Cock Of Arran, Scotland, United Kingdom\n\n    Wankers Corner Saloon and Cafe, Wilsonville, Oregon, United States\n\n    Felch, Michigan (Dickinson), United States\n\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSurprising because these are in an English speaking country, and you\u0026#x27;d think these way ruder ones would have had their names changed already.","parent":"8008327","id":"8008335"}
{"by":"hoorayimhelping","time":"1485904576","timestamp":"2017-01-31 23:16:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m glad to hear that. I\u0026#x27;ve played with the new macbooks a few times at a local Apple Store and have been delighted with them, and can\u0026#x27;t wait to get a new one at work. The keyboard was probably my favorite part as well, and that black one is really nice looking.","parent":"13535815","id":"13536383"}
{"by":"mattl","time":"1532363699","timestamp":"2018-07-23 16:34:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NeXTSTEP had digital distribution via Electronic AppWrapper in the early 90s.","parent":"17591847","id":"17593836"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1467739023","timestamp":"2016-07-05 17:17:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003ePlease do not move the goalposts like this.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease do not follow me around in different threads and try to police my comments in different contexts, with earlier quotations taken out of context.\u003cp\u003eI am more than able to reply in a single thread to any objection you want to raise -- so that the narrative of the thread is kept intact and people can follow what each party said.\u003cp\u003eAlso, you can criticise my points and disagree or totally consider them BS, but criticising my commenting, with whatever assumptions you made and didn\u0026#x27;t check with me (e.g. that I \u0026quot;moved the goalposts\u0026quot;) I find rude.\u003cp\u003eMy \u0026quot;simpler\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;less significant\u0026quot; refer to the same criticism. Pretending that I meant \u0026quot;simpler\u0026quot; in some \u0026quot;simpler syntax\u0026#x2F;tenses\u0026quot; way, and now I\u0026#x27;ve \u0026quot;moved the goalposts\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;less significant\u0026quot; is disingenuous given what I\u0026#x27;ve written in this thread.\u003cp\u003eI made it absolutely clear from the start of the thread that by \u0026quot;simpler\u0026quot; I meant less significant overall.\u003cp\u003eI was asked \u0026quot;by which criteria I say it\u0026#x27;s simpler\u0026quot;, and I said \u0026quot;Vocabulary size for one. Applicability in different social contexts. Historical roots. Volumes of works created in it\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAnd I also extended that reply in follow-up comments, e.g. going on to say that standard english \u0026quot;is a more established language, with a longer history (literals and otherwise), written rules, plethora of books, and billions of speakers the world over. In fact, it was the AAVE that\u0026#x27;s derived from English and not the other way around. Without English there would be no AAVE. Plus it\u0026#x27;s also tied to a particular subgroup (and not even for all of its communicational needs).\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhere are those \u0026quot;changing goalposts\u0026quot;? I was talking about a language being less developed (simpler) from the beginning, and I articulated quite clearly what I meant by that, which is the same as the language\u0026#x27;s general significance, not just as a organized way of talking (syntax\u0026#x2F;etc) but as a historical\u0026#x2F;cultural artifacts.\u003cp\u003eIf anything I find the opposing team playing with invisible goalposts, as if only syntax\u0026#x2F;grammar\u0026#x2F;etc counts in evaluating a language, that is, as if a language is just some formal linguistic construct, and does not have an associated culture, applications, history, literature, etc.\u003cp\u003eI guess this is part of the continental divide in thinking about culture.","parent":"12033629","id":"12037982"}
{"by":"EvilTrout","time":"1241549324","timestamp":"2009-05-05 18:48:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I thought the HN standard way was to provide a link in your profile instead of spamming up comments.\u003cp\u003eThe site is \u003ca href=\"http://www.forumwarz.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.forumwarz.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"594497","id":"594524"}
{"by":"susi22","time":"1381492035","timestamp":"2013-10-11 11:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We need to stop making \u0026quot;open source\u0026quot; icons which aren\u0026#x27;t actually open source. Illustrator files are not open enough so that many people can contribute or edit it to their liking. Look at the FontAwesome github issue page and see how many open issues there are vs how many pull requests have been sent. Not many, since few people have Illustrator.\u003cp\u003eWhat we need is a DSL (some already exist) and a framework which defines shapes and forms and which can easily plug things together. Ie. we have _only_ code for all the icons and with a simple \u0026quot;make\u0026quot; run we get our customized sizes, colors, formats etc..\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve actually worked with Asymptote [1] a lot and it would be very easy (and elegant) to define them in that framework. Another candidate would be Scala who can define DSL\u0026#x27;s elegantly and could use many existing libraries to put out th EPS. It\u0026#x27;s sad that people invest $50k on something that is again flawed: Not editable, not open (truly) sourced, not line-based versioned (git).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been wanting to start something along this way ever since I saw fontawesome but I don\u0026#x27;t think I have the time to invest. Maybe some day...\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;asymptote.sourceforge.net\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6531770","id":"6532493"}
{"by":"exDM69","time":"1502282568","timestamp":"2017-08-09 12:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Shouldn\u0026#x27;t there simply be a \u0026quot;tree aware\u0026quot; git-bisect that can intelligently handle branches and merges?\u003cp\u003eAfaik, git-bisect is aware of branches and merges.\u003cp\u003eBut there are two drawbacks to not rebasing\u0026#x2F;squashing: 1) the number of extra commits. Although bisecting is O(log N), it still adds up if it takes a long time to run the tests.  2) if there are any commits that don\u0026#x27;t build or have to be skipped (git bisect skip) because of other reasons, the number of steps to bisect increases.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a good idea to ensure that any commit that goes to master branch will pass all tests or at least compile. Failure to do so will make git-bisect a lot less useful.","parent":"14967839","id":"14968030"}
{"by":"alexeisadeski3","time":"1389724394","timestamp":"2014-01-14 18:33:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is bad, but not because socialism is bad.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s bad because we\u0026#x27;re discussing salaries in an ostensibly capitalist environment. The citation of socialist theory is thus a non sequitor.","parent":"7058659","id":"7058775"}
{"by":"axiom92","time":"1489682728","timestamp":"2017-03-16 16:45:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see your point, but the tasks that you have listed (and more difficult variants) can be \u003ci\u003eeasily\u003c/i\u003e handled using rule-based systems.","parent":"13886465","id":"13886492"}
{"by":"busterarm","time":"1529506841","timestamp":"2018-06-20 15:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m in the same boat as you.  I haven\u0026#x27;t touched Rails professionally in years.  I\u0026#x27;ve gone on some of those interviews and every single time it\u0026#x27;s a quagmire of technical debt.  An app where someone made all of the wrong choices and moved on.  I even had done some consulting work with some \u0026quot;CTOs\u0026quot; who were running Rails 4 and insisting on doing everything from Rails 2 Railscast examples.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t even entertain those interviews anymore.  All of the other Ruby work available is more interesting.","parent":"17355581","id":"17356034"}
{"by":"Someone","time":"1373209870","timestamp":"2013-07-07 15:11:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Minor correction: \u003ci\u003eThe size of the malloced area: (width \u003c/i\u003e height * 4) modulo 0xffffffff* is incorrect. The modulo is 2^32, not 2^32-1","parent":"6001774","id":"6002202"}
{"by":"ballenf","time":"1490744086","timestamp":"2017-03-28 23:34:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m confused. If these rules that were repealed never went into effect, or only partially, does that mean that our data was already (or is currently) being sold?\u003cp\u003eDoes this legislation explicitly condone the collection or sale of browsing data? (I\u0026#x27;d still rather have the protection than not, but can\u0026#x27;t seem to find a good detailed explanation.)","parent":"13981729","id":"13981878"}
{"by":"dqpb","time":"1544205875","timestamp":"2018-12-07 18:04:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not like we have to re-invent the industrial revolution, we just need to spend the money to set up shop.","parent":"18629946","id":"18629960"}
{"by":"gradschool","time":"1285766019","timestamp":"2010-09-29 13:13:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's been done. See \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CHdukO7to\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CHdukO7to\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1738461","id":"1739236"}
{"by":"salimmadjd","time":"1369323485","timestamp":"2013-05-23 15:38:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only I have no clue about the slides, but I went to their site (apiengine) and I have no idea what their site does. \nInterestingly, both the slides and their site (apiengine) has clean and beautiful designs, however neither one of them are a bit informative.","parent":"5755852","id":"5757417"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1503589157","timestamp":"2017-08-24 15:39:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;My reading is that modem is connected to the CPU via USB. The only other project I know of that was looking at doing such a thing were the OpenMoko guys (GTA04 with an OMAP3xxx, I think? My memory is fuzzy on this).\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFirst, modem connected via USB is a \u003ci\u003egood thing\u003c/i\u003e - it\u0026#x27;s the least bad option with regard to closed basebands.\u003cp\u003eSecond, it\u0026#x27;s not that rare of a configuration - I believe there are quite a few consumer smartphones that connect the baseband via a USB \u003ci\u003einterface\u003c/i\u003e ... it\u0026#x27;s not like there\u0026#x27;s a little USB connector inside there...\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;So this is essentially a small tablet running Linux with an integrated cellular modem.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s exactly correct ...\u003cp\u003eIt is indeed possible to stick a USB cellular modem onto a tablet device and even use it for telephony.  The problem with this arrangement is that there are many other things (like echo cancellation and other voice enhancements that need realtime processing) the baseband processor does - and you lose those functions.\u003cp\u003eAn integrated USB modem that is actually the integrated baseband of a mobile phone does not have those problems - even though the bus used is USB.","parent":"15090552","id":"15090981"}
{"by":"grin1dan","time":"1506769647","timestamp":"2017-09-30 11:07:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am new to this and would appreciate an update on where to find a \u0026#x27;how to\u0026#x27; for doing this.  Thanks very much!","parent":"15346905","id":"15372280"}
{"by":"dschobel","time":"1266798314","timestamp":"2010-02-22 00:25:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those who don't know what dragonegg is; it's a rewrite of llvm-gcc as a plugin for gcc 4.5 (which is the first gcc to support plugins) so that you can pass the \u003ci\u003e-fplugin=./dragonegg.so\u003c/i\u003e switch to gcc and generate llvm IR.","parent":"1141205","id":"1141551"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1512578284","timestamp":"2017-12-06 16:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not really a generational collector, and it doesn\u0026#x27;t achieve the main benefit of one: bump allocation in the nursery.","parent":"15860406","id":"15862449"}
{"by":"DonHopkins","time":"1398390262","timestamp":"2014-04-25 01:44:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Mozilla FAQ on CEO Resignation says \u0026quot;Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position. Brendan declined that offer. The Board respects his decision.\u0026quot; [1]\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Another C-level position\u0026quot; definitely means not CEO, and probably means CTO.\u003cp\u003eSo Brendan is not disagreeing with the posting, he\u0026#x27;s just not stating that he was offered a job as CTO or whatever.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know where cpeterso got the idea they asked him to \u0026quot;stay the course as CEO or CTO\u0026quot;, but the FAQ makes it pretty clear he was not asked to stay as CEO, and was probably offered his CTO job back. Are there any other \u0026quot;C-level positions [2]\u0026quot; that he is qualified for? Probably not CDO. ;)\u003cp\u003eEdit: cpeterso may have been quoting yoric from here: [3] So I don\u0026#x27;t know where yorik got that idea from. But Brendan corrected his incorrect information, without actually openly revealing what the correct information was.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignation/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;faq-on-ceo-resignat...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_title\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Corporate_title\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3]: \u003ca href=\"http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/a-curse-and-a-blessing/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;07...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7643376","id":"7644282"}
{"by":"meddlepal","time":"1474240257","timestamp":"2016-09-18 23:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And then one day you realize there are bugs duplicated all over the place and you pray that nobody hits them.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not religious about DRY, but it\u0026#x27;s not a bad thing when kept in the toolbox with KISS and YAGNI.","parent":"12527536","id":"12527674"}
{"by":"AznHisoka","time":"1390880694","timestamp":"2014-01-28 03:44:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, stop giving a fuck what people say.\nBut do give a fuck about other people\u0026#x27;s problems... ask about them, inquire about them.. then profit from them ^_^","parent":"7134616","id":"7135184"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1528558113","timestamp":"2018-06-09 15:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Basics, Pascal, Modula-2 linages are surely relatively easy to learn, while preventing 90% of the typical class of C errors.","parent":"17272493","id":"17273483"}
{"by":"roliver","time":"1473169232","timestamp":"2016-09-06 13:40:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hopefully the argument about back\u0026#x2F;forth traffic in SSL will soon be obsolete if Zero-RTT handshakes are implemented in TLS1.3.  Surely this would then be comparable to standard HTTP requests?","parent":"12435412","id":"12435905"}
{"by":"TJensen","time":"1241726650","timestamp":"2009-05-07 20:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ugh, yes, as others obviously smarter than I mentioned, it is that they are NOT driven by those dates. \u003ci\u003esigh\u003c/i\u003e I shouldn't post in the morning.","parent":"598294","id":"598558"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1443732334","timestamp":"2015-10-01 20:45:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More like \u0026quot;See also: any sufficiently large organization\u0026quot;.","parent":"10314476","id":"10314561"}
{"by":"grey-area","time":"1476795478","timestamp":"2016-10-18 12:57:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Taking a stand against those sexist and racist stances (which several prominent members of YC have individually very strongly) does not preclude also taking a stand against attempts to ostracise and vilify anyone who supports the republican candidate. Should the US take citizenship away from the 40% of citizens who would vote for Trump because they are supporting someone beyond the pale?\u003cp\u003eYour position undermines the very democracy it purports to defend.","parent":"12733748","id":"12733908"}
{"by":"hashkb","time":"1463322369","timestamp":"2016-05-15 14:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah.  I was expecting a racier article.","parent":"11699426","id":"11701003"}
{"by":"matwood","time":"1437531675","timestamp":"2015-07-22 02:21:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t mind static ads, and Click to Flash seems to take care off all the ads that would bother me. The sites I visit are pretty typical of HN, SO, etc... so I\u0026#x27;m not necessarily running into bad site designs too often.","parent":"9926042","id":"9927345"}
{"by":"AnssiH","time":"1539413592","timestamp":"2018-10-13 06:53:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I found the subtitle (\u0026quot;Timed Text\u0026quot;) style guides interesting, with instructions ranging from e.g. \u0026quot;When Americans \u0026quot;love\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;hate\u0026quot; something, it is enough to \u0026quot;like\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;dislike\u0026quot; in Finnish\u0026quot; to more obvious \u0026quot;Use a comma for decimals: 1,5 not 1.5\u0026quot;.","parent":"18206769","id":"18206793"}
{"by":"igrekel","time":"1289932632","timestamp":"2010-11-16 18:37:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surprised to see sugru on the list.\u003cp\u003eI've had some for nearly a year now and although it has been extremely useful from reshaping handles to rebuilding unavailable replacement parts. It is close to being like duck tape... if only it hardened faster!\u003cp\u003eThat being said, its not life changing and I wouldn't  qualify it as most innovative product.","parent":"1910423","id":"1911053"}
{"by":"pmontra","time":"1476253307","timestamp":"2016-10-12 06:21:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A typo on the home page\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Powered by a chip you can actually buy.\n    R8 SoC + 256MB DDR3\n    1 package. 1 price.\n    $6 in any quantity.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAll the other references to the price are for $16, not $6.","parent":"12690362","id":"12690783"}
{"by":"aikah","time":"1425854464","timestamp":"2015-03-08 22:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  But yes, most US Presidential assassinations (or attempts) seem to be just nutjobs - nobody\u0026#x27;s actually said (that we know of), here\u0026#x27;s $1 million dollars, go kill the President etc.\u003cp\u003eYou forgot the fact that nutjobs can be easily manipulated. Nobody has to promise them $1 million dollars in order to make them go kill someone.They are not hitmen, they are nutjobs.","parent":"9167521","id":"9167691"}
{"by":"lightedman","time":"1547650764","timestamp":"2019-01-16 14:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;To anyone whos thinking of doing this, Scrub your driveway every day for a week and see if its still appealing.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI love power-washing my driveway on a weekly basis.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;powerwashingporn","parent":"18921208","dead":true,"id":"18921336"}
{"by":"codezero","time":"1468605615","timestamp":"2016-07-15 18:00:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On my system, a long running Slack process uses about as much memory as a Finder window.","parent":"12102488","id":"12102740"}
{"by":"chestnut-tree","time":"1479655925","timestamp":"2016-11-20 15:32:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that many non-fiction titles could be shorter (although probably not the length of a blog post).\u003cp\u003eI confess I am an impatient reader, and many non-fiction titles I read feel padded out with unnecessary verbiage. I do wonder if the tools we use to write have some bearing on this. When using a computer to write, the ease of editing means it\u0026#x27;s much easier to just write and write and write.\u003cp\u003eImagine if you were forced to write your manuscript by hand. I\u0026#x27;m guessing the length of your non-fiction manuscript would be shorter, sharper and more to the point.","parent":"12998879","id":"12999287"}
{"by":"cr0sh","time":"1547149003","timestamp":"2019-01-10 19:36:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently updated my Linux desktop at home; I tried a variety of live distros - I don\u0026#x27;t recall if Elementary was one of them - it might have been in there.\u003cp\u003eThe one I ended up using had the Budgie desktop, which I found to be the most \u0026quot;Mac-like\u0026quot; of all the experiences. The distro I used was Ubuntu Budgie, because I wanted the Debian and Ubuntu software ecosystem, but Budgie is a part of the Solus Linux project (which I enjoyed when I tried it, but I didn\u0026#x27;t like the package system).\u003cp\u003eSo give Solus and\u0026#x2F;or Ubuntu Budgie a try on a live USB thumbdrive sometime; you might enjoy it, if you are looking for a \u0026quot;more Mac-like\u0026quot; experience...","parent":"18875173","id":"18877255"}
{"by":"mistermann","time":"1486535269","timestamp":"2017-02-08 06:27:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if part of the reason why there is so little analysis of such a mainstream and expensive problem is that it could be career suicide to get the wrong answers in your study.","parent":"13594616","id":"13596259"}
{"by":"beat","time":"1539282425","timestamp":"2018-10-11 18:27:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not convinced the bill, or the political climate in general, led to this. I think the unemployment rate did. Amazon is looking at their holiday season staffing needs, and wondering how to compete against all the other businesses fighting over that limited labor pool. A big \u0026quot;$15!\u0026quot; splashy headline looks great then.\u003cp\u003eThen business does business, and attaches a bunch of cost-saving measures to it, and then it looks bad. No different than the normal corporate development cycle. Not enough leadership, a bunch of people doing what\u0026#x27;s best for their department rather than the whole company. Sad.","parent":"18194706","id":"18195888"}
{"by":"watmough","time":"1220413407","timestamp":"2008-09-03 03:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have downloaded and tried it on my wife's PC. I use a mac normally so I won't use it until it can do FF style add-ins.","parent":"293460","id":"293517"}
{"by":"panching","time":"1513851944","timestamp":"2017-12-21 10:25:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"is it based on saas??","parent":"15977731","id":"15977747"}
{"by":"edblarney","time":"1485455552","timestamp":"2017-01-26 18:32:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Often times it is in the interest of certain capitalists to get our government to engage in imperialism, or destabilize certain regions, which helps lead to the awful conditions for some people in the Middle East, and I think this helps pave the way to religious extremism.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis is patently false.\u003cp\u003eThe US - and \u0026#x27;capitalists\u0026#x27; do not want \u0026#x27;destabilization\u0026#x27; - over and above all they want \u0026#x27;stability\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eCase and point: Saudi Arabia. Here you have an \u0026#x27;extremely conservative Islamic state\u0026#x27; - which is culturally the furthest thing from the American ideal - and yet the Americans are their protectors - doing pretty much anything to preserve the stability of that regime. And for what: direct access to Oil - at market prices. That\u0026#x27;s it.\u003cp\u003eSame thing for Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, Tunisia. And almost Libya until Gaddafi went to far oppressing an uprising, and remember the US supported Saddam so long as he wasn\u0026#x27;t invading allies like Kuwait.\u003cp\u003eProsperity is not a zero-sum game. 100% of the Middle East could be thriving and plentiful if they organized themselves in a responsible manner. Most of them should have ample Oil surpluses to found basic progress.","parent":"13493643","id":"13493904"}
{"by":"tmsh","time":"1272568573","timestamp":"2010-04-29 19:16:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThere goes my hero\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWatch him as he goes\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeriously, how much does this letter need a soundtrack? Flash anyone? Music with the text scrolling. Different text effects...","parent":"1304310","id":"1305634"}
{"by":"feintruled","time":"1527679657","timestamp":"2018-05-30 11:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting idea, but seems like it might have some latent flaws. Even regular football needed a century of rule-tweaking to keep it relevant, would be a marvel if something as tactically complex as this could spring into life fully formed.\u003cp\u003eAnother thing I\u0026#x27;ve wondered about - regular two team football, but with more than one ball (\u0026#x27;MULTIBALLLL!\u0026#x27;)\nWould be hard to follow, but an intriguing idea.\u003cp\u003eAlso the idea of \u0026#x27;walking football\u0026#x27; - where running is forbidden. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Walking_football\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Walking_football\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17177668","id":"17186777"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1491317192","timestamp":"2017-04-04 14:46:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(2014)","parent":"14031109","id":"14033159"}
{"by":"pmarreck","time":"1455561484","timestamp":"2016-02-15 18:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the bugs I see in the wild are of the \u0026quot;runaway state\u0026quot; variety; in other words, a state the programmer(s) involved forgot to imagine might happen. This class of bugs includes EVERY bug or crash that is fixed by a restart of an app or system (because all that does is reset state to a \u0026quot;known\u0026quot; a.k.a. \u0026quot;modeled\u0026quot; state, bringing it back within the code\u0026#x27;s, i.e. programmer\u0026#x27;s understanding). Therefore, anything (whether it is a language, a methodology, or both) which mitigates or eliminates this class of bugs would be HUGELY valuable.\u003cp\u003eFunctional paradigms\u0026#x2F;languages, and immutable values, and controlling side effects, \u003ci\u003egreatly\u003c/i\u003e help with that, in my front-line coding experience. Therefore, I am a fan.\u003cp\u003eDo you enjoy doing needless extra work? In other words, are you a little bit lazy? (in the Larry Wall \u0026quot;laziness\u0026#x2F;impatience\u0026#x2F;hubris\u0026quot; sense). If so, you should be at least trying out functional paradigms and see if they work for you like they have for pretty much everyone else who has taken them on.","parent":"11104288","id":"11105071"}
{"by":"riquito","time":"1369773988","timestamp":"2013-05-28 20:46:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Worry not, it renders horribly on Linux too (the fonts for sure) (or maybe our taste and the author's are very different)","parent":"5781780","id":"5782644"}
{"by":"prakash","time":"1208190791","timestamp":"2008-04-14 16:33:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThere are two big questions about this downturn for America and the world: how long? And how deep?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunny, the moment I read it, I checked the publication date of the article thinking it would be from 2001/2002.","parent":"163159","id":"163248"}
{"by":"sremani","time":"1463663443","timestamp":"2016-05-19 13:10:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thoroughly enjoyed his other book, \u0026quot;Anti-Fragile\u0026quot; and even more enjoy his twitter feed. He may be low on humility factor, but him calling out BS is refreshing, esp. the self-proclaimed vanguards of science whose work in science is filled with holes and\u0026#x2F;or is sparse.\u003cp\u003eRead some of the preview chapters, posted here and twitter feed. Fits very well with his writing style and over all theme. I look forward to read this book.","parent":"11728937","id":"11729862"}
{"by":"dandelany","time":"1455594806","timestamp":"2016-02-16 03:53:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Search works fine for me. Do a select all\u0026#x2F;copy on the document text and paste into a text editor - you\u0026#x27;ll see that in both cases the OCR has misinterpreted other words as \u0026quot;fart\u0026quot; due to overlapping with redaction boxes.","parent":"11107778","id":"11107789"}
{"by":"daenney","time":"1482316059","timestamp":"2016-12-21 10:27:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what Docker\u0026#x27;s logging drivers are for. It does so by default, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t have to.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.docker.com\u0026#x2F;engine\u0026#x2F;admin\u0026#x2F;logging\u0026#x2F;overview\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.docker.com\u0026#x2F;engine\u0026#x2F;admin\u0026#x2F;logging\u0026#x2F;overview\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13220163","id":"13228085"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1375842351","timestamp":"2013-08-07 02:25:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t worry, you can pay $1,000\u0026#x2F;day to unlock a new core when you need the power of two smartphones.","parent":"6169223","id":"6170452"}
{"by":"_puk","time":"1442935075","timestamp":"2015-09-22 15:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"vs If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it?","parent":"10258072","id":"10259125"}
{"by":"matticakes","time":"1422372857","timestamp":"2015-01-27 15:34:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NSQ is a full-featured messaging platform out-of-the-box, whereas zeromq and nanomsq are lower level libraries that you could use to  build (the same) functionality.","parent":"8952824","id":"8953495"}
{"by":"sho","time":"1244540566","timestamp":"2009-06-09 09:42:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is quite an amazingly high number. Surely 100m people have not posted 2,000 \"tweets\" each.\u003cp\u003eI wonder what proportion of the total is human-typed, and how much is machine generated?","parent":"648778","id":"648798"}
{"by":"g09980","time":"1516895800","timestamp":"2018-01-25 15:56:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Guessing they meant to write \u0026quot;... for time series aggregation\u0026quot;","parent":"16230758","id":"16231697"}
{"by":"lukev","time":"1520012397","timestamp":"2018-03-02 17:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Civility is nice, but I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s what\u0026#x27;s fundamentally wrong with Twitter. One can (and people do) express hateful ideas quite politely.\u003cp\u003ePreserving some concept of free speech while also preventing it from growing into an ideological cesspool is required to give Twitter net positive societal value, but mere civility ain\u0026#x27;t that.","parent":"16501147","id":"16503794"}
{"by":"rrrhys","time":"1363825558","timestamp":"2013-03-21 00:25:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm working through it now - have left the tutorial for a while (finished chapter 8, sign in) to do a few demo projects and make sure all the concepts are sticking.\u003cp\u003eI'm also finding that reading open source code is giving me some much needed 'real-world' exposure - currently studying Lobsters (\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jcs/lobsters\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/jcs/lobsters\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"5411629","id":"5411815"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1444704463","timestamp":"2015-10-13 02:47:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think people have misconceptions about photography.  I.e. the photographer needs permission  --they don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to go against sexual harassment do so, I have  no objection.  I do object to people thinking that photography is automatic harassment.  It\u0026#x27;s not.","parent":"10378292","id":"10378299"}
{"by":"jaxn","time":"1535505952","timestamp":"2018-08-29 01:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed.","parent":"17780065","id":"17864519"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1291230814","timestamp":"2010-12-01 19:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Airlines are one of the most economically marginal, shitty businesses out there. (\"easiest way to become a millionaire in the airline industry is to start out a billionaire\").  They're also not particularly good at software development.  The legacy carriers are huge, and have built software over decades.\u003cp\u003eI think the low hanging fruit in the airline industry is to hire staff from outside the airline industry in all customer-facing roles (cabin crew, gate staff), which is what Virgin America has done (they largely recruited from hotels vs. other airlines.  Hotel/hospitality staff are generally fairly awesome at customer service, even when enforcing rules).  That is going to be way more appreciated by customers than doing a billion dollar ticketing overhaul.\u003cp\u003eUnited is definitely aware of how to sell tickets which are fully changeable and rerouteable.  They also know how to run shuttle service.  They just choose not to do so for the cheapest coach ticket price.\u003cp\u003eI do agree they should have been better at customer relations, even while enforcing the same policy (although if it turns into \"please leave or we will call security\", there are probably two parties behaving suboptimally).  In their defense it's a heavy travel period, and if I were waiting behind him in line, I would have been pissed as well if they had devoted huge amounts of time to explaining their ticketing procedures in depth to him and trying to console him.","parent":"1959071","id":"1959101"}
{"by":"beefhash","time":"1535082959","timestamp":"2018-08-24 03:55:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your argument can be made about more or less any popular chat platform to have ever existed. At least you can set up your own IRCd, so you and your friends don\u0026#x27;t have to trust nobodies on the Internet.","parent":"17832615","id":"17832676"}
{"by":"casouniquo","time":"1386333567","timestamp":"2013-12-06 12:39:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"back online","parent":"6860778","id":"6860781"}
{"by":"minikites","time":"1399040018","timestamp":"2014-05-02 14:13:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You missed the paragraph right before that:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Did I show break-in exists? No. There are too many variables still. Was it simply movement? I don\u0026#x27;t know. If I did it again to another brand new pair would I get the same results? I don\u0026#x27;t know. If I did it to an already broken in pair would I get the same results? I don\u0026#x27;t know.\u003cp\u003eTesting one pair of headphones one time doesn\u0026#x27;t show anything.","parent":"7685661","id":"7685758"}
{"by":"maerF0x0","time":"1490330208","timestamp":"2017-03-24 04:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so arctic russia has acne?","parent":"13941923","id":"13946628"}
{"by":"__--__","time":"1377647007","timestamp":"2013-08-27 23:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a bit baffled that you think this is an esoteric thing worthy of debate in America.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s because it is. In most offices, you have 1, maybe 2 people who use a standing desk. They\u0026#x27;re easy to spot because they stick out like a sore thumb. Those desks are almost always hand made too, because employers won\u0026#x27;t spend money on non-standard desks. Depending on how big the company is, you also may piss off the \u0026quot;workplace ergonomics expert\u0026quot; if you don\u0026#x27;t consult them before building your own desk.","parent":"6286173","id":"6287082"}
{"by":"mbreese","time":"1334373332","timestamp":"2012-04-14 03:15:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you want to put an API in place to access your schema-less database? So that multiple applications can access your database in a consistent manner? That makes sense.\u003cp\u003eYou know what though... you may want to use multiple programming languages, and maintaining an API in multiple languages sucks. So, why not just make a service that each application can connect to, and then let it talk to your database.  Then you just need to define a simple protocol that language can use to connect to your service.\u003cp\u003eOr, you could just skip a few steps and use an actual database to begin with.","parent":"3839680","id":"3839764"}
{"by":"matwood","time":"1502745481","timestamp":"2017-08-14 21:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I order water with my meals, because I want to taste the food.\u003cp\u003eA lot of food tastes are enhanced with alcohol like wine.","parent":"15012744","id":"15013005"}
{"by":"HenryTheHorse","time":"1533070918","timestamp":"2018-07-31 21:01:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$4.7B in iPad sales. That\u0026#x27;s 4.7 BILLION. At nearly 10% of their revenues, the going-going-gone tablet category \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e has some legs. Who would have thunk?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x2F;edited the numbers. I had mixed up the Mac and iPad revenue figures.","parent":"17656857","id":"17657090"}
{"by":"TOMDM","time":"1535288701","timestamp":"2018-08-26 13:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you wanted to take user privacy super seriously, I wonder how feasible it would be to set up a TOR style network to allow users to pass their update back to your server?\u003cp\u003eThat way, you don\u0026#x27;t know who each update came from, and if you isolated each update, you wouldn\u0026#x27;t even know if two updates came from the same user.\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t taken much time to consider the ramifications, my gut says this would open you up to malicious users who could pass in malicious updates in an attempt to train unwanted behaviour in your model, but I believe this would be an issue with any federated learning approach unless you only use trusted users.\u003cp\u003eIt also does away with the nice efficiency gain you get by averaging the samples based on how many examples the user had.\u003cp\u003eOf course, this is only useful when reconstructed data doesn\u0026#x27;t contain enough metadata to ID users anyway.","parent":"17844861","id":"17845754"}
{"by":"yeukhon","time":"1443385917","timestamp":"2015-09-27 20:31:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"God knows what kind of deal. But software sales will continue to be the biggest pie in their earning chart (if you remember they have a hard time selling MS products to Chinese government).\u003cp\u003e[\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pcworld.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2985902\u0026#x2F;windows\u0026#x2F;microsoft-cuts-deals-in-china-with-government-organizations-and-companies.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pcworld.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;2985902\u0026#x2F;windows\u0026#x2F;microsoft-cut...\u003c/a\u003e]","parent":"10287811","id":"10287857"}
{"by":"dcuthbertson","time":"1378381632","timestamp":"2013-09-05 11:47:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, it\u0026#x27;s hard for a 9-character password to beat a 12-character password even though the latter has a larger alphabet\u0026#x2F;key-space (unless I\u0026#x27;ve completely blown the analysis below, which was done before coffee :).\u003cp\u003eThe first has a key-space of 36^12 (36 possible characters in each of 12 positions), or about 4.7e18. The second has a key-space of 62^9 (62 upper\u0026#x2F;lower case letters and digits in each of 9 possible locations), or about 1.4e16.\u003cp\u003eIf, in addition to adding the uppercase letters, you added the possibility of needing to test symbols, such as ~`.,\u0026#x2F;:;!@#$%^\u0026amp;*-=_+ (another 19 symbols), and changed the latter password to \u0026quot;tlpW#NT2m\u0026quot;, then the searchable key-space for all 9-character passwords becomes 81^9, or about 1.5e17.\u003cp\u003eRE-EDIT: Sorry. I should have read the article first. I\u0026#x27;m not sure why the latter would be more secure. Obviously \u0026quot;WENT\u0026quot; would be in a dictionary, so I\u0026#x27;d think that \u0026quot;tlpWENT2m\u0026quot; would fall to a combinator attack very quickly, too.","parent":"6333385","id":"6333514"}
{"by":"kanja","time":"1365369392","timestamp":"2013-04-07 21:16:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last time I did something awesome I had 3 days left in my quota.","parent":"5508580","id":"5508803"}
{"by":"fiddlerwoaroof","time":"1546113322","timestamp":"2018-12-29 19:55:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To some degree I think the desire to have “any design you want” is anti-user: I really don’t want to use apps that have the design their developer picked for me, I want to use apps that respect the conventions of my system and the preferences I have set (e.g. on Mac, I want the accent color to be the one _I_ picked in System Preferences. On Linux, I want the apps to fit in with my choice of gtk or qt theme.)\u003cp\u003eThese days Qt is fairly close to this ideal, even on Mac: apps like calibre look a bit weird but their menus are in the right place and their coloring roughly matches my os settings. Electron apps are all over the place: vscode, slack, etc. all pick their own design styles and ruin the visual consistency of my desktop.","parent":"18785180","id":"18785367"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1417701576","timestamp":"2014-12-04 13:59:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll give Amsterdam credit for not legally punishing drug users who need medical help, but it\u0026#x27;s not like the US doesn\u0026#x27;t offer warning when unsafe drugs are being sold[1].\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEven as authorities await tests confirming heroin as the culprit in the latest deaths, the police and health departments are distributing fliers to community health and addiction service centers warning that “preliminary testing indicates that contaminated heroin may be available on the streets.” The fliers also list resources for patients and families struggling with addiction.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/06/worcester-officials-issue-advisory-after-string-overdose-deaths/xcgLjpHvU9JAUsYXgEPobO/story.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bostonglobe.com\u0026#x2F;metro\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;worcester-offici...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8698143","id":"8699200"}
{"by":"romaniv","time":"1527094161","timestamp":"2018-05-23 16:49:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn\u0026#x27;t automatically mean GANs can outpace any detection method.","parent":"17135367","id":"17135644"}
{"by":"zrail","time":"1409226576","timestamp":"2014-08-28 11:49:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can see two immediate uses for this:\u003cp\u003e* Private backhaul network for my VPSs, useful for things like ssh, deploys, monitoring, metrics, and log aggregation\u003cp\u003e* Private network that I can set up between my laptop and my parents\u0026#x27; desktop and fix things via VNC without having to pay for a dedicated service.\u003cp\u003eThe lack of perfect forward secrecy is sort of a bummer, but for my purposes it should be fine.","parent":"8235702","id":"8236760"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1477960366","timestamp":"2016-11-01 00:32:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even ignoring the safety aspect, people buying any remotely major product will have the expectation that it will ideally be supported for some time to come. e.g., buy a car and have the manufacturer around for long enough to help out with servicing, parts, etc.","parent":"12841346","id":"12842355"}
{"by":"ngrilly","time":"1475520144","timestamp":"2016-10-03 18:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does Oracle offer built-in FTS?","parent":"12629845","id":"12630142"}
{"by":"Retra","time":"1519970481","timestamp":"2018-03-02 06:01:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Learn LaTeX and stop wasting your time with equation editors.","parent":"16497420","id":"16499445"}
{"by":"ry4n413","time":"1484454116","timestamp":"2017-01-15 04:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stock is saying it\u0026#x27;s the CEO.","parent":"13402166","id":"13402293"}
{"by":"2trill2spill","time":"1520127470","timestamp":"2018-03-04 01:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Pakistani rat children\u003cp\u003eThat seems rather harsh. Or is that a real term? Either way it seems like a rather harsh term to call a child.","parent":"16512596","id":"16512797"}
{"by":"swah","time":"1330008995","timestamp":"2012-02-23 14:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their SQL is executed per user, so they only touch around 1/20M the size of the database for any request.","parent":"3624979","id":"3625116"}
{"by":"ballard","time":"1388697469","timestamp":"2014-01-02 21:17:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When cars are driving \u003ci\u003eon\u003c/i\u003e the vertical sides of buildings, then maybe that might be impressive","parent":"7001775","id":"7002365"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1514939127","timestamp":"2018-01-03 00:25:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Youtube seems more and more to be turning into a kind of wasteland of unmoderated, self-published content.\u003cp\u003eYouTube has always been a mix of that and piracy, though if anything, professionally-produced, non-pirated content has been increasing over the years.","parent":"16057160","id":"16057250"}
{"by":"djsumdog","time":"1480556480","timestamp":"2016-12-01 01:41:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s like that old CS professor joke, \u0026quot;I know everything, just not all at once. It\u0026#x27;s a virtual memory problem.\u0026quot;","parent":"13076262","id":"13076409"}
{"by":"zupatol","time":"1232112554","timestamp":"2009-01-16 13:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you are giving too much importance to the kind of subjects you discuss with friends. The important thing is that you get along well, not what you are talking about.\u003cp\u003ePart of what you say sounds like the trouble of growing up. There is an age when what interests you automatically interests your friends. When I was a kid, other kids I met were usually open enough to get interested in whatever I was interested in, and we could easily have shared passions. These interests were also more shallow and less complicated than those I developed later. I am 39 now, and at my age everybody seems so specialized that they rarely pick up new interests. This is compensated by the lesser importance interests take in a friendship. I met some of my best friends because they make comics, like me. When I see them nowadays, we almost never speak about comics. I have practically no common interests with my wife, but we get along fine.\u003cp\u003eMaybe you have not found a psychologist that fits you, but a good one could be helpful. Their job is not to tell you what you want to hear, but often they will repeat what you say to make sure they understand you correctly. I went to see a psychologist once when I had a depression. I think what helped me most was to have a relation to someone I could trust. Feeling less lonely could be enough to get rid of some of the problems you mention, like thinking too much about the differences between you and your friends. Building a relationship is something a psychologist should really be good at, and seeing how he does it with you can help you with others.","parent":"436331","id":"436568"}
{"by":"olsonjeffery","time":"1379479417","timestamp":"2013-09-18 04:43:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has there been anything like this, aside from Singularity OS, in recent years?\u003cp\u003eThe license, vis-a-vis Singularity, is obviously much more appealing. Definitely something to keep an eye on.","parent":"6402884","id":"6403535"}
{"by":"TallGuyShort","time":"1386121632","timestamp":"2013-12-04 01:47:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love the views they broadcast of the engine bell. Takes on an eerie, transparent luminescence several minutes into the fight. Thanks for sharing.","parent":"6844489","id":"6844498"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1379073475","timestamp":"2013-09-13 11:57:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On top of that, there are no such things as happy programmers. Why didn\u0026#x27;t anyone point \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e out?","parent":"6378478","id":"6379850"}
{"by":"balabaster","time":"1484582340","timestamp":"2017-01-16 15:59:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having grown up in England and never really paying this much attention to the etymology of the English language, I had always assume Ye to be pronounced exactly as it looks... Yee.\u003cp\u003eAm I right in interpreting what you\u0026#x27;re saying is that it\u0026#x27;s actually pronounced as \u0026quot;the\u0026quot; because the y is really just a print substitute because of the lack of thorn character on the press but would have still been pronounced when read as if it were the thorn character?\u003cp\u003eIf that\u0026#x27;s the case, you have just unlocked a fascination of the English language I never had until this exact moment. Thank you, no more work is getting done today.","parent":"13409310","id":"13410661"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1474649007","timestamp":"2016-09-23 16:43:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eHell, Facebook has - and had for a long time - ways to limit the audience all the way you like.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd my experience says they\u0026#x27;ll flip that off on a whim. It\u0026#x27;s been several years now, but one day FB decided that all formerly private photos would now be public. Not a bug, a design decision. I deleted my account the next day, so I can\u0026#x27;t say I\u0026#x27;ve kept up on the latest in FB\u0026#x27;s privacy features.\u003cp\u003eFB has obviously since gone back on that decision, but there\u0026#x27;s nothing stopping them from doing it again, or from introducing a bug.","parent":"12565855","id":"12565959"}
{"by":"smartician","time":"1371658927","timestamp":"2013-06-19 16:22:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NAD would be an example, or, if you\u0026#x27;re in California, NAC (state tax free, but geographically concentrated in CA).\u003cp\u003eThere are other bargains out there now too, because of fears of the Fed tapering down QE, anything that yields \u0026gt;5% got hit hard in the recent weeks. Even foreign, emerging market bonds. ESD for example trades at a 7% discount and yields 7.5% at the moment.\u003cp\u003eFor research, Morningstar is a good starting point: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cef.morningstar.com\u0026#x2F;quote?t=esd\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cef.morningstar.com\u0026#x2F;quote?t=esd\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5904122","id":"5906461"}
{"by":"wtracy","time":"1284419064","timestamp":"2010-09-13 23:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, I have a 1 bed/1 bath. That explains things.","parent":"1687852","id":"1688673"}
{"by":"Stuk","time":"1305815095","timestamp":"2011-05-19 14:24:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What's the ratio of coders to designers?","parent":"2563939","id":"2563977"}
{"by":"runako","time":"1352309469","timestamp":"2012-11-07 17:31:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't want to come across as insulting, but I'd recommend a different pricing strategy. Instead of focusing on the price, focus on the advantages/differences of Strapfolio versus other themes. What does it do differently? Why did you make it? Sell its simplicity: more features != more value when you're talking about website themes.\u003cp\u003eBut \u003ci\u003edon't\u003c/i\u003e reduce the price (yet). I'd be surprised if $30 (or even $40 or $50) would be a barrier to your sales. You don't know yet either, so why lower your price? If it's not worth $50 yet, what can you add to it to make it worth $50?\u003cp\u003eIncidentally, WooThemes (linked above) will charge $70 to use their portfolio theme, and they sell a whole lot of themes at that price.","parent":"4753879","id":"4754241"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1373057359","timestamp":"2013-07-05 20:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m willing to forgive Ezra his hyperbole here; the rest of the article was fairly illuminating\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not just hyperbole it\u0026#x27;s non-sensical. E.g. the whole thing about not hearing opposing testimony makes for great reading, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t make any sense. FISC doesn\u0026#x27;t hear opposing testimony because the only power it has is granting FISA warrants. Granting warrants isn\u0026#x27;t an adversarial process in any U.S. court, neither are similar things like grand jury subpoenas.","parent":"5996088","id":"5996698"}
{"by":"Avshalom","time":"1285506343","timestamp":"2010-09-26 13:05:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends, inland Florida, Georgia, high humidity locations in general yeah, there's only so much you can do.\u003cp\u003eDown here in New Mexico and Arizona, on the other hand, you can get really really far with passive design. In a desert shade and a stiff breeze will keep you nicely comfortable even when it hits 40 in the sun. Combined with good insulation and high thermal mass and a house can stay under 25 even in the dead of summer.\u003cp\u003eOf course in a desert even if you can't swing shade and a breeze you can use swamp coolers instead of ac which are so nice.","parent":"1728643","id":"1729077"}
{"by":"jjoonathan","time":"1396200808","timestamp":"2014-03-30 17:33:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He admits to hesitating to follow an order, talking back, etc. These do not logically, morally, or legally justify his treatment but they certainly explain why it happened.","parent":"7496791","id":"7496990"}
{"by":"jonathan_s","time":"1445257597","timestamp":"2015-10-19 12:26:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure it\u0026#x27;s true. And software written in C or assembly language often also performs better than those written in Python.","parent":"10412336","id":"10412414"}
{"by":"jedberg","time":"1456258257","timestamp":"2016-02-23 20:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.  Pretty much any investor you talk to will \u0026quot;lowball\u0026quot; with 2 on 6.  5M would be a discount.  I\u0026#x27;ll make no judgement on whether this is bad or or not.","parent":"11161771","id":"11161889"}
{"by":"ram1024","time":"1224628756","timestamp":"2008-10-21 22:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"think he's saying that fully grasping the device as you would normally do would inhibit the sensors which appear to be lined down the sides of the device.","parent":"339426","id":"339468"}
{"by":"SauciestGNU","time":"1517505081","timestamp":"2018-02-01 17:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never used telegram but that sounds interesting. Are there public channels for this sort of thing?","parent":"16282569","id":"16283564"}
{"by":"Confusion","time":"1243970084","timestamp":"2009-06-02 19:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Private companies try to maximize profits, but that doesn't necessarily mean they do what's best for their users. Fast-food stores encouraging people to eat there often are a good example. Apple refusing certain apps is another one: it's not in my advantage, nor in that of most of my peers, that they limit my choice.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, not everything can be left to companies. Public utilities like the police and water are supplied/regulated by the government for all the usual reasons. Knowledge is also a public utility. We cannot leave the protection of free speech to companies, or other groups of citizens: they would inevitably suppress certain bits of knowledge from becoming publicly known.\u003cp\u003eIsn't the knowledge of 'where to find what' exactly that kind of knowledge? A near monopoly on search results grants a company great power. In a possible near future, wouldn't it be in Google's best interests to suppress the information of where to find competitors? Not blatantly of course, but when done is subtle ways, will anyone notice? Will anyone believe those who cry wolf? And how devastating it would be to the competition!","parent":"638112","id":"638427"}
{"by":"badman_ting","time":"1383153502","timestamp":"2013-10-30 17:18:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suppose you have to admire the resourcefulness - there\u0026#x27;s no story, so \u0026quot;there\u0026#x27;s no story\u0026quot; becomes the story.","parent":"6641264","id":"6641685"}
{"by":"stephencanon","time":"1369099561","timestamp":"2013-05-21 01:26:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So my friend’s grandfather was hit by a car while jaywalking.  His widow, who was in operations research said: “he died of premature optimization.\"","parent":"5741035","id":"5741353"}
{"by":"ianai","time":"1494368619","timestamp":"2017-05-09 22:23:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That argument only flies early in the administration, like the first 14 days. We\u0026#x27;re at day 110+ (I\u0026#x27;m not counting). This was done immediately after Comey talked to congress about an investigation into the administration. This can lead to nothing less than an independent commission into Trump.","parent":"14304232","id":"14304338"}
{"by":"Joeboy","time":"1452279555","timestamp":"2016-01-08 18:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think the defence is really the happiness, it\u0026#x27;s the appearance of immunity to their behaviour. Which only helps if they\u0026#x27;re not actually in a position to puncture your defensive bubble. Are you supposed to keep acting happy when the jerk starts being physically violent or stealing your stuff?\u003cp\u003eEdit: Please imagine me smiling broadly despite the downvotes.","parent":"10866513","id":"10867266"}
{"by":"tcopeland","time":"1451463393","timestamp":"2015-12-30 08:16:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a bunch of reports of maritime casualties here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;emsa.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;marine-casualties-a-incidents.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;emsa.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;marine-casualties-a-incidents.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrim reading, but gives you a feel for what can go wrong.","parent":"10811030","id":"10811277"}
{"by":"laotzu","time":"1454079555","timestamp":"2016-01-29 14:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am familiar with the credit-theory of money as opposed to the debt-theory which we currently use. David Graeber explains it in \u003ci\u003eDebt: The First 5,000 Years\u003c/i\u003e[1], for anyone interested in further reading.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;libcom.org\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;libcom.org\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10995405","id":"10995534"}
{"by":"w0utert","time":"1360621157","timestamp":"2013-02-11 22:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All of this going on the assumption that the charge station is not fully occupied at the time you want to recharge, which with 30 to 60 minute recharge times is going to get improbable pretty fast when electric cars become more popular. Imagine everyone at the local gas station leaving their car at the pump for 60 minutes...\u003cp\u003eI think we can safely conclude that unless there is going to be a huge breakthrough in battery technology really soon, EV's that run on batteries alone are not going to be a success for anything but short-distance commutes.\u003cp\u003eI'm still hoping for breakthroughs in other technologies that would make generating electricity so cheap that we can afford to waste a lot of it producing hydrogen. That would instantly obviate the need to lug around heavy batteries that take long to recharge, run out fast, require a lot of energy to produce, and are full of nasty chemicals that pollute the areas where they are mined.\u003cp\u003eBattery-powered EV's simply aren't all roses and sunshine, and I'm frankly quite amazed how easy the negatives are papered over.","parent":"5203524","id":"5203709"}
{"by":"mr_toad","time":"1527733367","timestamp":"2018-05-31 02:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many traditional businesses (e.g. banks, insurance) collect customer data internally, and don’t share it with anyone.  That’s not likely to change much.  For many of these businesses, the customer is other businesses, and privacy rules aren’t even applicable.\u003cp\u003eYou won’t hear about these projects outside industry specific publications, if at all.","parent":"17184520","id":"17193497"}
{"by":"bashtoni","time":"1390160916","timestamp":"2014-01-19 19:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blog post from Sam Kottler, the maintainer of nagios plugins in fedora\u0026#x2F;epel on the matter:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://words.shk.io/on-the-nagios-plugins-drama\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;words.shk.io\u0026#x2F;on-the-nagios-plugins-drama\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7084155","id":"7085678"}
{"by":"nsrivast","time":"1234224135","timestamp":"2009-02-10 00:02:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Glad I read these comments first ...","parent":"474418","id":"474430"}
{"by":"davidgerard","time":"1507058674","timestamp":"2017-10-03 19:24:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has, of course, long been the case:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;libgen.io\u0026#x2F;libgen\u0026#x2F;repository_torrent\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;libgen.io\u0026#x2F;libgen\u0026#x2F;repository_torrent\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gen.lib.rus.ec\u0026#x2F;dbdumps\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gen.lib.rus.ec\u0026#x2F;dbdumps\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;libgen.io\u0026#x2F;dbdumps\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;libgen.io\u0026#x2F;dbdumps\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15395103","id":"15395279"}
{"by":"stephenhuey","time":"1481054277","timestamp":"2016-12-06 19:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve looked at all of those and I prefer this team\u0026#x27;s simple \u0026amp; straightforward service for registering domains:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;iwantmyname.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;iwantmyname.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13116717","id":"13117761"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1394540746","timestamp":"2014-03-11 12:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it weird that iPlayer will let me stream over 3g but refuses to allow me to download over 3g. (On iOS).\u003cp\u003eThe radio iPlayer is a bit frustrating if you wanto listen to specific programmes rather than just streaming a station.\u003cp\u003eEG: searchin for \u0026quot;milton jones\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t reurn anything, but \u0026quot;thank you milton\u0026quot; does.\u003cp\u003eHaving said that, the BBC is amazing and I buy a licence despite not legally needing to.  The \u0026quot;in our time\u0026quot; archive is brilliant.","parent":"7378398","id":"7378792"}
{"by":"dmoney","time":"1233451359","timestamp":"2009-02-01 01:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So would the barrier to making things like adders, latches, etc. (in other words, everything you need to build a Von Neumann computer) be that they don't have a way to make NOT gates?  Or would making NOT gates out what they have not be a big deal?","parent":"460101","id":"460339"}
{"by":"debacle","time":"1335906422","timestamp":"2012-05-01 21:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think we're seeing option #2 right now. Unfortunately we'll probably be here for a while before we get to see option #1.","parent":"3916340","id":"3916368"}
{"by":"nunez","time":"1503949645","timestamp":"2017-08-28 19:47:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This is the watch you’ve been waiting for.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s really not, though, as it doesn\u0026#x27;t even look like a watch...","parent":"15116234","id":"15119487"}
{"by":"jey","time":"1202443414","timestamp":"2008-02-08 04:03:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ePremature optimization is the root of all evil.\u003c/i\u003e -Donald Knuth","parent":"111756","id":"111796"}
{"by":"mrchess","time":"1339262552","timestamp":"2012-06-09 17:22:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's too bad many of the toughest problems in companies are more typically on the integration level, which requires domain knowledge and context of the project itself. To solve these problems don't require brains, but time and communication.\u003cp\u003eI feel this service is targeted toward people who have simple one-off \"puzzle\" problems ie. write me a quick recommendation algorithm for a data structure of this format.\u003cp\u003eI'd be interested in seeing some case studies to see what exactly are the types of problems you are solving. \"Small programming task\" is a bit too vague for me.","parent":"4088153","id":"4088550"}
{"by":"wilbeibi","time":"1408406642","timestamp":"2014-08-19 00:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why there are so much news about Chinese, can we talked about other countries?","parent":"8193590","id":"8195366"}
{"by":"lallysingh","time":"1245618539","timestamp":"2009-06-21 21:08:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chicken, meet Egg.  Egg, this is Chicken.","parent":"667808","id":"667812"}
{"by":"foobarbazetc","time":"1322107677","timestamp":"2011-11-24 04:07:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The link's evidence is not solid. It's Distrowatch.\u003cp\u003eThis article means almost nothing.","parent":"3273008","id":"3273016"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1253723656","timestamp":"2009-09-23 16:34:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn't use the plugin but used the code snippets on a site just to test it out and.. I think Google need to slicken it up a bit first. The installation overlay blocks out most of the site on IE6 and doesn't seem to be closable. I'm guessing this is really meant for sites that \u003ci\u003edemand\u003c/i\u003e it be installed rather than an optional thing - but if that's true, why not just redirect?","parent":"839327","id":"839570"}
{"by":"bubblethink","time":"1499902182","timestamp":"2017-07-12 23:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Search for ECC on that page. Some of them do. It is possible that their SKUs change with time. Currently, 3520, 7510 and 7710 show ECC support. Dell\u0026#x27;s site is quite terrible for navigation. You may have to spend some time to find the right model.","parent":"14757389","id":"14757565"}
{"by":"thawkins","time":"1527067360","timestamp":"2018-05-23 09:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Way way too complicated, needs a setup and configured postgres install, why use an RDBMS when it could have embedded sqlight and avoided all that sysadmin stuff","parent":"17130473","id":"17132559"}
{"by":"pvelagal","time":"1488595590","timestamp":"2017-03-04 02:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Receipt of H1B (tranfer to new company) application is enough. I dont know of any silicon valley company that does NOT do it.","parent":"13788312","id":"13788865"}
{"by":"haimez","time":"1475540994","timestamp":"2016-10-04 00:29:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could happen, but I think event sourcing (and CQRS generally) carries enough implementation overhead in the amount of code required that it\u0026#x27;s less likely to be adopted in situations where it isn\u0026#x27;t appropriate.\u003cp\u003eThat isn\u0026#x27;t to say it won\u0026#x27;t happen, but I think it\u0026#x27;s more likely that teams would miss an opportunity to leverage it than leverage it  inappropriately.","parent":"12631055","id":"12632487"}
{"by":"dllthomas","time":"1358387855","timestamp":"2013-01-17 01:57:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've found a mixed bag, for sure, with extensive C and C++ experience.  Of course, recruiters love sending things that don't even make sense - bringing me in as a permanent employee in a language I don't know well is probably fine; I'm smart, I learn well, I won't have bad habits.  Bringing me in on a 3 month contract on a language I haven't touched, not so much...\u003cp\u003eRegarding your Ruby-outside-work experience, is it on publicly visible projects?","parent":"5069927","id":"5070465"}
{"by":"drdeadringer","time":"1539641678","timestamp":"2018-10-15 22:14:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What lead you to buy Sears stock in the first place? Was Sears a seemingly viable concern when you bought in?","parent":"18219869","id":"18224354"}
{"by":"tangue","time":"1353459802","timestamp":"2012-11-21 01:03:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \"like\" vs \"follow\" might be true today, but for many artists people clicked on \"become fan\" not \"like\". That's a huge semantic difference.","parent":"4812173","id":"4812219"}
{"by":"mikeevans","time":"1369408010","timestamp":"2013-05-24 15:06:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure about any others except Google uses g.co for shortening their own URLs.\u003cp\u003eEdit: And Twitter uses t.co","parent":"5763234","id":"5763248"}
{"by":"nanoscopic","time":"1413918361","timestamp":"2014-10-21 19:06:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most people don\u0026#x27;t know much about any of the details. They have simply done things one way for a long time and now it is changing. You haven\u0026#x27;t addressed that besides accusing those people of being \u0026quot;ignorant about good design principles\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;having huge misunderstandings that leads to a lot of wasted energy.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFrom the perspective of the average linux user ( one that knows little to nothing about linux internals ) the entire discussion is the real waste of energy.\u003cp\u003eThe people who know a ton are a different category altogether; you have addressed those.\u003cp\u003eThe category of people you are ignoring is those who did it one way now they are suddenly \u0026quot;forced\u0026quot; to change.\u003cp\u003eI feel the same way about firewalld as I do about systemd. Iptables was confusing, but I used it till I was able to do what I needed. Now all of that knowledge is useless because I have to use a different system to stay with the rest of the group.\u003cp\u003eIs systemd better? Sure. Is firewalld better? Dunno; I think so. Am I ignorant and clueless and misunderstanding everything? No... I just have a different perspective than all of the people fighting about this. All I want is to continue my simple life. Learning new stuff is a drag if it worked fine before. ( I\u0026#x27;m aware of how sucky \u0026#x27;fine\u0026#x27; is... )\u003cp\u003eThis is not an argument; it\u0026#x27;s just a statement of how I and a lot of people feel. We used to have a normal car; now the steering wheel is gone and replaced by a grid of 20 buttons that control an automated robot who steers for us. We were used to the wheel. We ask for the wheel back and we are told we are clueless and ignorant and should use the buttons.","parent":"8489028","id":"8489140"}
{"by":"nthcolumn","time":"1492525267","timestamp":"2017-04-18 14:21:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not a two party thing at all though eh? They won\u0026#x27;t get a majority. There will be no winner at all. They will have to carry on with a minority government trying to negotiate a Brexit they no longer have a mandate for - LOL!","parent":"14138039","id":"14139002"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1415677625","timestamp":"2014-11-11 03:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m one of the folks working on this campaign; happy to answer any questions people might have.","parent":"8588160","id":"8588181"}
{"by":"sanbor","time":"1530190341","timestamp":"2018-06-28 12:52:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be interesting about doing TDD with Selenium.","parent":"17415327","id":"17416409"}
{"by":"yazr","time":"1535240164","timestamp":"2018-08-25 23:36:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Energy is a BIG, HUGE industry (about 5-10% of world GDP). It will always be a mix of technologies.\u003cp\u003eCost wise, however, i agree nuclear is late to the party.\u003cp\u003eIn 2018, we had large contracts for solar(+storage!) at 3cent\u0026#x2F;kw (in the US, Mexico and Saudi Arabia).\u003cp\u003eEuropean new nuclear came in at 15c\u0026#x2F;kw.","parent":"17843130","id":"17843187"}
{"by":"noblethrasher","time":"1328747050","timestamp":"2012-02-09 00:24:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was being a little tongue-in-cheek as far as predicting the 23rd century (the article was about the DS9 era of Star Trek).\u003cp\u003eMy thesis is that people do care about privacy but are motivated to share in order to portray a certain image. They don't want all of the ugly stuff revealed. So I don't see how people will start caring less about privacy when they realize that they don't have any control over their image.","parent":"3568765","id":"3569240"}
{"by":"frio","time":"1352451574","timestamp":"2012-11-09 08:59:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is: unexpected debt happens.  Arguing semantics over a hypothetical case is not a meaningful tangent :).","parent":"4761776","id":"4761972"}
{"by":"vaksel","time":"1242011344","timestamp":"2009-05-11 03:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yeah I use that too","parent":"602860","id":"602875"}
{"by":"makomk","time":"1430485222","timestamp":"2015-05-01 13:00:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tesla doesn\u0026#x27;t own most of the patents related to the Gigafactory. They\u0026#x27;re licensing the battery technology and manufacturing techniques from Panasonic.","parent":"9469452","id":"9470967"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1479651375","timestamp":"2016-11-20 14:16:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Your religion or political opinions should not matter at work.\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind though that that\u0026#x27;s just a current fashion, not a law of the universe. You could just as easily make the case that if your religion doesn\u0026#x27;t matter at work, you should get a new religion (or a new workplace).\u003cp\u003eThe only reason our current beliefs are in fashion is basically that the continual development of new technology has made public morality irrelevant. But if we ever stop being able to innovate ourselves our of the hole we\u0026#x27;re digging then the party\u0026#x27;s over and we become an islamic republic or whatever.","parent":"12998777","id":"12998928"}
{"by":"theonewolf","time":"1444147411","timestamp":"2015-10-06 16:03:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I see, so this might be an \u0026quot;Enterprise in\u0026quot; and that\u0026#x27;s the \u0026quot;key feature.\u0026quot;  Not that I should expect a lot more on top of Git + GitLab that isn\u0026#x27;t already there.","parent":"10339817","id":"10339847"}
{"by":"HackyGeeky","time":"1288620012","timestamp":"2010-11-01 14:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome bud, that helped a lot more than you can imagine !!","parent":"1851117","id":"1856444"}
{"by":"jasonhoffman","time":"1298854955","timestamp":"2011-02-28 01:02:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We do have a strong SLA for our IaaS and PaaS offerings. But this thread is about a 6 year shared hosting product, that we've grandfather'ed in and he doesn't even have to pay for anymore. There's nothing to refund.","parent":"2269455","dead":true,"id":"2269555"}
{"by":"soared","time":"1456808570","timestamp":"2016-03-01 05:02:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rapid prototyping for smart mirror development. [0]\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;innate.cc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;innate.cc\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11194418","id":"11200888"}
{"by":"8note","time":"1529979421","timestamp":"2018-06-26 02:17:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that inherently seems off; conservatives are defined by trying to follow traditions and precedent. Not changing is their thing","parent":"17397150","id":"17397419"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1429739954","timestamp":"2015-04-22 21:59:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Elon Musk thing seems like an unnecessary tangent.\u003cp\u003eWhat I really want to know is: How is the hydrogen packaged? It seems like in a lot of ways hydrogen would be an incredible fuel source, since as they say in the article it burns clean and at least in theory can be refueled like oil-based products.\u003cp\u003eFrom my understanding hydrogen\u0026#x27;s biggest problem has been that it has to be delivered under pressure, which both makes it more dangerous\u0026#x2F;explosive, but also makes pumps and cars more expensive.\u003cp\u003eThere was some talk in the mid 2000s about binding hydrogen into a chemical compound which makes it more stable, but not so stable that it is difficult to extract again (essentially giving it an diesel level of stability, rather than a water level of one). What happened to that?\u003cp\u003eIs this Toyota car another high-pressure hydrogen project or something new?","parent":"9423689","id":"9423860"}
{"by":"swatkat7","time":"1383651199","timestamp":"2013-11-05 11:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that they\u0026#x27;re being too nice to the founders thinking if their feedback could alter their paths. I like how you draw parallels to a break-up. But even during a break-up pussyfooting around what made you break up with the other person just makes them generally sour and guarded.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve seen a lot of people who speculate (often for a long time), at the reasons for their break-up and that ends up consuming them. It might lead to them questioning the very basis of why they started doing something in the first place.\u003cp\u003eFeedback helps there! I guess, the sheer volume of applications make it impossible for them to individually respond to every application, but, without feedback, it just seems grim and insincere.","parent":"6674480","id":"6674505"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1421264009","timestamp":"2015-01-14 19:33:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The potentially new owners (the listing[1] is marked \u0026quot;sale pending\u0026quot;) would definitely have a lot of work to do but fortunately it does not look like the silo is below the water table. I looked at silos for a while and a lot of them were simply full of water as they required constant pumping if you wanted to keep them dry. Not all silos kept the missile vertical (like this one apparently did), those have large doors which can open up (assuming enough power\u0026#x2F;hydraulic fluid). Given the 51\u0026#x27; diameter by 300\u0026#x27; deep measure of the silo, if you put an elevator right down the middle you could have 25 floors of \u0026#x27;pie shaped\u0026#x27; rooms (assuming a 1\u0026#x2F;4 section per room that is approximately 1900 sq feet per floor (47,500 sq ft total) That is a pretty big workshop space :-)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.century21.com/property/8422-clovis-hwy-roswell-nm-88201-C2122348538\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.century21.com\u0026#x2F;property\u0026#x2F;8422-clovis-hwy-roswell-nm...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8887809","id":"8888463"}
{"by":"downandout","time":"1527109538","timestamp":"2018-05-23 21:05:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but you’re feeding them data based on \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c/i\u003e understanding that the user is not subject to the GDPR. Under GDPR, \u003ci\u003esite owners\u003c/i\u003e have the responsibility to determine this, and they rely on \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e to not load their code if a user is subject to it.  So the EU cannot go after anyone whose code is on your site (ad networks, analytics providers, etc) if your site does not “envisage” offering services to EU residents.","parent":"17138233","id":"17138284"}
{"by":"csomar","time":"1349476122","timestamp":"2012-10-05 22:28:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are no signs that the CEO did fire them thoughtlessly. And they also have the right to defend themselves either publicly or in court.","parent":"4618888","id":"4618963"}
{"by":"sheepleherd","time":"1463422705","timestamp":"2016-05-16 18:18:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes, as I said in my other response to somebody else, I was not trying to explain the study, I was trying to test out the PP\u0026#x27;s suggestion about \u0026quot;somebody wanting something from somebody\u0026quot;","parent":"11708095","id":"11708339"}
{"by":"neya","time":"1443609125","timestamp":"2015-09-30 10:32:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I second Play Framework. Have used it and Scala is a very nice language to learn. If I had invested in so much into the JVM, Play Framework would be it. But, if it\u0026#x27;s just a simple CRUD app, and if you had a choice, I\u0026#x27;d recommend you to give Ruby on Rails a try. Hope this helps!","parent":"10302879","id":"10302901"}
{"by":"knodi","time":"1547692869","timestamp":"2019-01-17 02:41:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why you\u0026#x27;re getting down voted but it is bad because the government is not doing this and we\u0026#x27;re accepting it.","parent":"18927810","id":"18927836"}
{"by":"ipad-apps","time":"1264990630","timestamp":"2010-02-01 02:17:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is a site using stackexchange platform for sharing ipad apps ideas.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ipad-apps.me/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ipad-apps.me/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1083860","id":"1091609"}
{"by":"deeg","time":"1525038825","timestamp":"2018-04-29 21:53:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought the same thing when Node.js started to become popular: why would anybody go through the trouble to set up an environment to run single-threaded, interpreted applications on a server when we already had C\u0026#x2F;Java\u0026#x2F;.NET\u0026#x2F;etc?\u003cp\u003eIt turns out people like to use the languages\u0026#x2F;environments they already know.","parent":"16952996","id":"16954120"}
{"by":"pragone","time":"1501886150","timestamp":"2017-08-04 22:35:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, they invented the \u0026quot;problem-based learning\u0026quot; method\u0026#x2F;style, I do believe.","parent":"14932196","id":"14932938"}
{"by":"aaronsw","time":"1252976623","timestamp":"2009-09-15 01:03:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does having less cows being born hurt actual cows? It might \"hurt\" the cow species, but that's a metaphorical point -- surely you don't consider the cow species actually capable of pain.\u003cp\u003eThe evidence (look up \"demographic transition\") shows that the only reliable way to decrease birth rates is to decrease death rates. In practice, people seem to have more kids when they expect some of their kids to die. That's how societies keep from dying out.\u003cp\u003eI don't say people are just deluded, I say they're often confused.\u003cp\u003eI never said people are only allowed to get equal things, so I have no idea what you're talking about.\u003cp\u003eNobody disputes that things are sometimes complicated. But that just means you need to work a little harder to find out the truth -- not just spout random ideas you have.","parent":"822985","id":"823000"}
{"by":"sanxiyn","time":"1442561566","timestamp":"2015-09-18 07:32:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being realistic is different from being contrary, which in turn is different from being a conspiracy theorist. Personally, I consider \u0026quot;Chinese government is fabricating economic statistics\u0026quot; a conspiracy theory territory.\u003cp\u003eYou have a point that being mistaken is different from being hostile or anti, but we do call people \u0026quot;anti-vaccine\u0026quot; when they are just mistaken and as a result genuinely worried about vaccine. I think one should interpret \u0026quot;anti-China\u0026quot; the same way.","parent":"10237586","id":"10237926"}
{"by":"buddylw","time":"1372429214","timestamp":"2013-06-28 14:20:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wanted to Cancel Netflix for using SilverLight, but I was too busy canceling Time Warner and AT\u0026amp;T for being evil overpriced monopolies.\u003cp\u003eNow that Netflix has gone to HTML5 things are better.  I\u0026#x27;m renting the content so I don\u0026#x27;t really care if they want DRM or not.  To me, it\u0026#x27;s only unacceptable when buying video.","parent":"5956739","id":"5958086"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1458588766","timestamp":"2016-03-21 19:32:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Naming things. Also off-by-one errors.","parent":"11331066","id":"11331116"}
{"by":"azeirah","time":"1512085108","timestamp":"2017-11-30 23:38:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t guess \u0026quot;correctly\u0026quot; at all. Zoom in on the image, and focus on the filled-in areas, they look \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e blurry. It just doesn\u0026#x27;t look very bad from a birds-eye view.","parent":"15820601","id":"15820676"}
{"by":"justizin","time":"1422028077","timestamp":"2015-01-23 15:47:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;The 5th amendment protects US citizens from being forced to reveal their encryption keys.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eTell that to Ladar Levison. ;)","parent":"8935296","id":"8935392"}
{"by":"atlbeer","time":"1318957160","timestamp":"2011-10-18 16:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually worry about startup's that don't generate revenue, especially tools that people can grow dependent on. I know a few teachers but, I'm weary of sharing this with them if you disappear in 6 months due to lack of funding.\u003cp\u003eText message's, although cheap, are not free.\u003cp\u003eWhat are your plans for revenue and why not charge $2.99/month?","parent":"3125824","id":"3125962"}
{"by":"p0nce","time":"1483615688","timestamp":"2017-01-05 11:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"dub (D build tool) support both of these locations. I can attest stuff gets reused.","parent":"13326137","id":"13326310"}
{"by":"stillworks","time":"1486103022","timestamp":"2017-02-03 06:23:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TLDR (for my comment) : Amazon are building their own UPS because they can. Any othe arguments in favor of it be it efficiency or costs are secondary.\u003cp\u003eLonger version:\nNot sure how Amazon deliveries by UPS are in the US but in the U.K. there are carriers which offered far better delivery service than what is known as Amazon Logistics here in the U.K. Once Amazon started using Amazon Logistics, the level of service dropped significantly. False deivery attempts were common and Prime Next Day were not happening next day 3 out of 5 times. I cancelled my Prime membership.\u003cp\u003eAfter about a couple of years I have resubscribed to Prime since it is now much better value AND Amazon Logistics have noticably improved. Next day and even Same day deliveries are indeed happening.\u003cp\u003eThey didn\u0026#x27;t need to setup Amazon Logistics and suffer poor service quality. There were near perfect couriers (for e.g. DPD they even offer tracking your courier driver on a map in near real time).","parent":"13556006","id":"13558138"}
{"by":"emmett","time":"1256330874","timestamp":"2009-10-23 20:47:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure what you mean by this. There's a very real territorial dispute between China and India right now, which are both sovereign nations. The area within the dotted lines is under dispute, as to who it belongs to. It's not clear that the default answer is India.","parent":"899515","id":"899596"}
{"by":"BoppreH","time":"1274470823","timestamp":"2010-05-21 19:40:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wasn't referring to the implementations, but this new wave of CSS3/HTML5 demos doing nothing that could solve a real-world problem.\u003cp\u003eSure, I'd like all browsers to have a correct implementation of this technologies, I'm just questioning this type of demo. In the end they are just a fancy ACID-like test and frankly, we already have more than enough for this use.","parent":"1367478","id":"1368505"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1463477965","timestamp":"2016-05-17 09:39:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Swedish Coop chain of food stores did that for very many years:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fredrikedin.files.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;blavitt.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fredrikedin.files.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;blavitt.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11711221","id":"11712275"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1409594757","timestamp":"2014-09-01 18:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was never taught anything like that, but in one of my high school English classes all of our essays had to be written in the third person, so I get gain some experience doing it.\u003cp\u003eI actually put it to good use writing some email newsletters for a local conference where I tried to eliminate usage of I\u0026#x2F;we\u0026#x2F;etc because I felt that it was more professional.","parent":"8253966","id":"8254026"}
{"by":"jpollock","time":"1442043334","timestamp":"2015-09-12 07:35:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, no they\u0026#x27;re not.  Oracle has a per-core license for Enterprise.  Even on their own hardware (my knowledge is a couple of years old, so it may have changed), you either had to license the entire machine or link the database to a subset of the cores.\u003cp\u003eWe ran into just this situation where we had large combined nodes with a database tier and an application tier running in different LDOMs (Solaris VM-equivalents) on the same hardware.  Limiting the database server to just the cores it needed dropped the license costs insanely.\u003cp\u003eIf a job is able to float around a cluster, the entire cluster would need to be licensed.  As the article says, VMWare has a document stating exactly this.\u003cp\u003eFrom VMWare:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Scenario B: Partially Licensed Clusters\nWhen a customer does not have enough Oracle application instances to justify creating a dedicated cluster for those\napplications, only a subset of the hosts in the cluster are licensed for the Oracle application. In this situation, the\ncustomer must be careful to restrict the movement of Oracle application instances and virtual machines to only those\nhosts that are licensed to run the product.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vmware.com\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;techpaper\u0026#x2F;vmw-understanding-oracle-certification-supportlicensing-environments.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vmware.com\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;techpaper\u0026#x2F;vmw-understanding-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10207543","id":"10207552"}
{"by":"mey","time":"1289770818","timestamp":"2010-11-14 21:40:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An unnamed source, describes a scenario which, from what is understood, never actually happened.\u003cp\u003eThanks cnet my day is now more complete.","parent":"1903960","id":"1904245"}
{"by":"lifeguard","time":"1357345161","timestamp":"2013-01-05 00:19:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"60ft² seems small, even for 3 compact hackers.\u003cp\u003eWhat are you doing living in Mt. View!?!?!  There is BART.  Live someplace cheap in the East Bay.  Stay East of the 580 freeway as a very general indicator of quality.  Cal students eat up all the housing close to campus, but father out between Shattuck and Telegraph there are interesting and affordable places to live with flat mates.","parent":"5010705","id":"5010764"}
{"by":"citizenkeys","time":"1290518093","timestamp":"2010-11-23 13:14:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i'm trying to create a web page with links to information by people that made it to the interview round:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have links to posts/blogs/etc about the interview experience, please forward the links to me.  thanks.","parent":"1928763","id":"1933559"}
{"by":"r00fus","time":"1489697857","timestamp":"2017-03-16 20:57:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should have a (2016) on the title.","parent":"13888754","id":"13889104"}
{"by":"guiomie","time":"1390272172","timestamp":"2014-01-21 02:42:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jon Skeet is impressive. But thanks for the link tho.","parent":"7092860","id":"7093095"}
{"by":"grzm","time":"1478925614","timestamp":"2016-11-12 04:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, really? That\u0026#x27;s really interesting! Do you have a reference for this?","parent":"12936611","id":"12936636"}
{"by":"marcinkuzminski","time":"1473769455","timestamp":"2016-09-13 12:24:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Marcin from RhodeCode here. You should consider checking out RhodeCode, it\u0026#x27;s openSource and supports Mercurial, along with Git and Subversion. It\u0026#x27;s built explicitly for internal usage behind the firewall.","parent":"12487416","id":"12487473"}
{"by":"Hagelin","time":"1282406995","timestamp":"2010-08-21 16:09:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Although the arrest warrant has now been withdrawn:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The warrant was issued late on Friday, said Karin Rosander, communications head at Sweden's prosecutors' office.\u003cp\u003eSwedish police have been trying to contact Mr Assange, but have not yet been able to, she told the BBC.”\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11047025\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11047025\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe initial article from the ”tabloid” also contained quotes from a prosecutor confirming the story.","parent":"1622951","id":"1623102"}
{"by":"kafkaesq","time":"1448494727","timestamp":"2015-11-25 23:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf the ceo at my company likes to tango and donates to a tango club,\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e...this would of course be in no way analogous to the activity Eich was supporting.","parent":"10629295","id":"10630500"}
{"by":"Cless","time":"1393820021","timestamp":"2014-03-03 04:13:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would be best to wait for a commend by the author before you start having a spaz attack. Maybe the author just isn\u0026#x27;t an expert on licensing.","parent":"7331902","id":"7332010"}
{"by":"alex_doom","time":"1369364431","timestamp":"2013-05-24 03:00:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's San Diego, shit is much cheap there than LA/SF.","parent":"5760923","id":"5761033"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1528221029","timestamp":"2018-06-05 17:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10178989\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10178989\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsfaq.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsfaq.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17239877","id":"17240226"}
{"by":"Mithaldu","time":"1437476040","timestamp":"2015-07-21 10:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m not sure why you\u0026#x27;d trust the logs.\u003cp\u003eIndependant third party observer in realtime.\u003cp\u003eAnd no, i don\u0026#x27;t trust anyone involved.\u003cp\u003eHaving a log available would be instructive anyhow, since a faked log would be more likely to be detectable as fake, since the whole thing rests on the question of \u0026quot;how convincing is the argument?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAlso note particularly that that rule wasn\u0026#x27;t in effect for the two linked confirmations.","parent":"9921356","id":"9921399"}
{"by":"mapmeld","time":"1466438067","timestamp":"2016-06-20 15:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m Nick and I\u0026#x27;m usually a full-stack JS developer. Fortran is something foundational to languages we use today, and my professors and parents would talk about it, but I didn\u0026#x27;t even know what it looked like. I noticed recently that Fortran repos on GitHub accept nearly every pull request (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@mapmeld\u0026#x2F;fortran-culture-on-github-a257dd595061\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@mapmeld\u0026#x2F;fortran-culture-on-github-a257dd...\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eOne day I wondered if there was a Fortran server, did some Googling, and found a tutorial from 8-10 years ago (\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;flibs.sourceforge.net\u0026#x2F;fortran-fastcgi-nginx.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;flibs.sourceforge.net\u0026#x2F;fortran-fastcgi-nginx.html\u003c/a\u003e). I started out updating the tutorial, requesting some missing files and missing instructions from the authors (almost every Fortran info on the web assumes that you already know how to compile and run your program). Once I was halfway down the rabbit hole, updating this tutorial, it felt right to keep it going","parent":"11938656","id":"11938824"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1501567384","timestamp":"2017-08-01 06:03:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the same guy behind both Delphi and C#? Anders Hjelsberg if memory serves.","parent":"14898006","id":"14898251"}
{"by":"ohgodthecat","time":"1332351426","timestamp":"2012-03-21 17:37:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think a better explanation would be that they used the same video decoding for all devices and tried to implement a UI for that rather than re-encoding their entire library.","parent":"3735265","id":"3735463"}
{"by":"martythemaniak","time":"1278304141","timestamp":"2010-07-05 04:29:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, but there is a decent dose of bullshit in those slides. \"I'm a great lover\", \"I see you're a great lover\". Bah.\u003cp\u003eBut also some good stuff.","parent":"1486365","id":"1487244"}
{"by":"amriksohata","time":"1531160238","timestamp":"2018-07-09 18:17:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can someone explain to be like a I\u0026#x27;m a five year old why these planes cost much more than say a commercial airliner and the differences apart from the obvious speed, agility and missiles?","parent":"17491612","id":"17492227"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1356990651","timestamp":"2012-12-31 21:50:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being that we're talking about a legal minor, and their legal guardian, who has complete legal control over them, then what you say makes no sense.","parent":"4991012","id":"4991035"}
{"by":"monocasa","time":"1545626310","timestamp":"2018-12-24 04:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh, at that point it\u0026#x27;d probably make more sense to formally verify it.  For sel4 last time I checked the ratio was 25\u0026#x2F;1 proof code\u0026#x2F;verified code.","parent":"18749919","id":"18750371"}
{"by":"tensafefrogs","time":"1309138936","timestamp":"2011-06-27 01:42:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really wish more companies would be publicly shamed for having poor password practices.\u003cp\u003eJust the other day I tried to change my twitter password to a password that contained a space, and it was denied. Their site doesn't allow passwords with spaces.","parent":"2699081","id":"2699735"}
{"by":"negamax","time":"1355654219","timestamp":"2012-12-16 10:36:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends more on how much religious nuts gain weight on either side. I still have to see a single Hindu preacher asking for a Hindu laws in place while it's not uncommon for Muslim preachers to try to preach sharia down the throats. Muslims are therefore considered uneducated and easily lead to violence. They have their own ghettos (much like Europe) and try to run a state within a state.\u003cp\u003eAlthough, number of Muslims educating their children are rising, specially in cities. And such people have no hatred towards anyone on religious lines.\u003cp\u003eBiggest achievement of India would be to ensure that every child goes to a proper school and get modern education and not some religious BS in early years","parent":"4927906","id":"4927972"}
{"by":"HillRat","time":"1396618801","timestamp":"2014-04-04 13:40:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or King\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eC Programming: A Modern Approach\u003c/i\u003e, which lacks the conciseness (and affordability) of K\u0026amp;R but is probably the best single text out there, and unlike K\u0026amp;R is updated through C99.","parent":"7530675","id":"7531269"}
{"by":"specialist","time":"1519249691","timestamp":"2018-02-21 21:48:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our public libraries are now homeless encampments. As the other reply noted, no bathroom \u0026#x2F; stretch breaks.\u003cp\u003eOur local university libraries are pretty good, when I still had wifi access.\u003cp\u003eMy laptop camping secret is hospitals. Free wifi, pretty good cheap food, clean bathrooms.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve also found a few local companies which have their own cafes, which are still open to the public.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d probably pay $5\u0026#x2F;hr to laptop camp. I generally \u0026quot;pay rent\u0026quot; where ever I\u0026#x27;m camping with tips, treats, and coffee. I\u0026#x27;d rather just pay outright. A cafe, event space, or study zone that allocates hours for quiet time will clean up. I imagine all the vacant 2nd and 3rd story retail getting repurposed. Maybe even mall vacancies, kinda like the board game retailers  \u0026amp; hosters are now doing.","parent":"16431005","id":"16433274"}
{"by":"alpha_squared","time":"1490657350","timestamp":"2017-03-27 23:29:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s, true, but I was trying to estimate for a bare minimum, basic competency to be productive. This doesn\u0026#x27;t include the countless hours debugging, searching StackOverflow\u0026#x2F;Google and learning all the \u0026quot;gotcha\u0026quot;s in each technology. Which all just takes experience and projects not necessarily time.","parent":"13972639","id":"13972738"}
{"by":"narag","time":"1324293608","timestamp":"2011-12-19 11:20:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You could get some ideas from chess \"swiss\" tournaments and rating system. The idea is to couple players of similar strength in each round.\u003cp\u003eA very weak player will likely lose the first two or three matches in a row, but then have a real chance against some other weak player.","parent":"3368385","id":"3369275"}
{"by":"dahfizz","time":"1545325854","timestamp":"2018-12-20 17:10:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I will never understand why people want to hate musk-type entrepreneurs and innovation so badly. People look for any reason to hate him.","parent":"18726645","id":"18726747"}
{"by":"ianl","time":"1294197282","timestamp":"2011-01-05 03:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, figure out what your interested in and dive in some way. The best way to learn is to be challenged. I know not everyone learns this way, but at least for myself I like to just get way over my head and figure my way out.\u003cp\u003eWhen I first started programming I always wanted to build a clan league (I was 14 at the time and Counter-Striker was just the coolest). So I learned php, mysql, and html (this was in 2003, so tables were still very popular). It took a while to learn enough to understand what I was doing but eventually I figured out what I was doing.\u003cp\u003ePick something you have passion about and just go for it. The little extra motivation will help you in times of deep frustration where you just can't find the problem.\u003cp\u003eSecondly, pick up some very general \"programming\" books like Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters. I also suggest reading CODE to get a fundamental understanding of how computers actually work. Once you understand those fundamentals, things will become easier.","parent":"2069477","id":"2069685"}
{"by":"Razengan","time":"1528084250","timestamp":"2018-06-04 03:50:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about the people who hate Apple just because `Apple`?\u003cp\u003e(or any other form of \u0026quot;brand envy\u0026quot; against other companies, for that matter.)","parent":"17223416","id":"17224457"}
{"by":"praptak","time":"1494328857","timestamp":"2017-05-09 11:20:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If a function takes a single 32 bit argument you can run it on every possible value.","parent":"14298795","id":"14299045"}
{"by":"mrkmcknz","time":"1319574292","timestamp":"2011-10-25 20:24:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would I be right in thinking Stripe is your biggest competitor?\u003cp\u003e{Closest to your business model as opposed to WU or Xoom and even PayPal}","parent":"3155673","id":"3155727"}
{"by":"dosy","time":"1531286832","timestamp":"2018-07-11 05:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate your Machiavellian\u0026#x2F;pragmatic streak.","parent":"17504303","id":"17504646"}
{"by":"samsface","time":"1332703363","timestamp":"2012-03-25 19:22:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://mashface.net/#/w3rews\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://mashface.net/#/w3rews\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://mashface.net/#/m3ik2g\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://mashface.net/#/m3ik2g\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3753482","id":"3753505"}
{"by":"jevgeni","time":"1418913688","timestamp":"2014-12-18 14:41:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point. Splitting it up into quarters would make more sense.","parent":"8767236","id":"8767356"}
{"by":"e12e","time":"1443796119","timestamp":"2015-10-02 14:28:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firefox with vimperator for keyboard ui, firefox\u0026#x2F;mozilla sync for cross-device access to history, tabs, passwords (with option to self-host the server part), ublock for adblocking and noscript. In vimperator ctrl-i brings up vim for text inputs, which made \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s all text!\u0026quot; redundant. Ocationally use webeveloper.\u003cp\u003eAlso use chromium for poorly designed, js-heavy and tracking\u0026#x2F;ad-optimized or media-heavy sites like facebook, youtube or various google apps.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t know what I\u0026#x27;ll do if ff stable breaks vimperator - maybe move to UZBL[u]?\u003cp\u003eOn mobile the ux os worse (than desktop with vimperator) - just ff with password manager for mobile.\u003cp\u003e[u] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.uzbl.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.uzbl.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10318029","id":"10318753"}
{"by":"ori_b","time":"1447269448","timestamp":"2015-11-11 19:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Excuse me, boss, there\u0026#x27;s a very robotic voice on the line. It seems to be attempting to negotiate running new fiber to a data center\u0026quot;","parent":"10545751","id":"10548583"}
{"by":"messel","time":"1463734187","timestamp":"2016-05-20 08:49:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Soma carried the brunt of that load, not unlike modern pain killers","parent":"11735934","id":"11736371"}
{"by":"bungie4","time":"1493063978","timestamp":"2017-04-24 19:59:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"57, I build and maintain 911 (911, E911, V911), Telematics, Alarm, PERS and custom SIP programming systems. On any given day my job is a software developer, dba, systems analyst, process analyst and data analyst, sysadmin. Not mention fire putter outer and consult with outside companies to best implement their requirements.\u003cp\u003eBut I\u0026#x27;d rather be out riding my motorcycle.","parent":"14185818","id":"14187635"}
{"by":"Can_Not","time":"1478528987","timestamp":"2016-11-07 14:29:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is reality interesting and reminds me of a real life anecdote. Imagine a customer who has a small trivial request where the correct response was \u0026quot;no, we won\u0026#x27;t do that and you will not need it\u0026quot; but without a manager\u0026#x27;s permission, the sales guy and an engineer stopped working on their mission critical projects to snipe in this tiny request in a non reusable way. It was already extremely low benefit to high cost (labor + opportunity cost). Management finds out half a lost day\u0026#x27;s work later and is really pissed off.","parent":"12884793","id":"12891200"}
{"by":"SllX","time":"1540921411","timestamp":"2018-10-30 17:43:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Arguably they are already powerful enough to make the leap in at least some cases, that said Apple does not push Macs in the same quantities as iOS devices as to justify wholly new silicon for the line. I have been in an argument with a friend for the past year or so about precisely when (or if) Apple will rip Intel out and use their own silicon. I think they will, but I\u0026#x27;m going to try to present his argument to the best of my abilities, with my own observations and guesses as context.\u003cp\u003ePresently the T series is generally gimped variations of the A series. My understanding is that the T2 is essentially an A10 with the high performance cores disabled, and the low performance cores repurposed to manage the myriad of functions that were previously handled by dedicated controllers. They\u0026#x27;re also necessary for certain features like TouchID, and for Apple to use its own HEVC encoder\u0026#x2F;decoder.\u003cp\u003ePresumably the T3 will be keyed off of a later part like the A12 or a later generation, which will make it the first T series chip to also include the neural engine. Assuming they don\u0026#x27;t disable that part, it will potentially make the NE available to Mac application software.\u003cp\u003eSo what\u0026#x27;s the real problem with ripping out Intel right now? Given a higher TDP, Apple could hypothetically design a much more performant chip that would replace both the CPU and GPU in their current Mac lineup, but they simply don\u0026#x27;t push enough Macs to justify the expenditure on custom silicon, right now at least. Probably doesn\u0026#x27;t help that they have been making existing customers less happy, but it also doesn\u0026#x27;t help that Intel has simply been re-releasing Skylake in different variations for a good few years now.\u003cp\u003eIf you have a Macintosh able to run Mojave, an SSD, and at least 16GB of RAM, you are probably set. The important thing about Mojave isn\u0026#x27;t so much any one feature of Mojave, it is the continued support including bug fixes and security updates. Given all of that, most people simply won\u0026#x27;t need a new system any time soon. There\u0026#x27;s essentially no reason a laptop from 2012 can\u0026#x27;t take you all the way to 2022 all other things being equal, so we\u0026#x27;re starting to see sales stagnate across the entire PC market including the Macintosh, so while Apple is selling phones about as fast as they can stamp them out, the same is not true of Macbooks or iMacs.\u003cp\u003eSilicon is much more of a volume business. Apple can re-purpose older versions of their A series chips because those are an R\u0026amp;D and capital investment that has already paid off, it isn\u0026#x27;t a new design, and they just need someone to continue fabbing them. New generations of the A series chips will generally pay off, because they will be selling hundreds of millions of the same iPhone, and usually for greater than one calendar year. This past year, for the first time since the A7 was released, they skipped releasing an -X variant of their A series chips which are generally released to support new iPads (there was no A11X for those who may have forgotten). It is possible that iPads have not been selling in the quantities necessary for even a variant design, and rather than an annual refresh cycle, we could reasonably expect them to move to a biennial refresh cycle, hence why they have skipped the A11X and jumped straight to the A12X.\u003cp\u003eIntel and Qualcomm have customers, but for Apple\u0026#x27;s own silicon, Apple\u0026#x27;s only customer is itself, by design. That also imposes a limitation on themselves that it just might not make financial sense to fabricate a series of chips exclusive to their Mac lineup, appropriate to the TDP of a Mac.\u003cp\u003eBy all means, tear this apart if you disagree.","parent":"18338503","id":"18339320"}
{"by":"jernfrost","time":"1528806876","timestamp":"2018-06-12 12:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They don\u0026#x27;t celebrate by eating anything. They do activities instead. The focus is on the child who get a crown and gets to sit in this silly little royal chair or something. Not sure exactly how it works, but the kids are apparently very proud of it. I\u0026#x27;ve only seen the pictures from when my son has had the crown","parent":"17292464","id":"17292628"}
{"by":"elbrian","time":"1488812187","timestamp":"2017-03-06 14:56:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you just roll into WalMart and buy the first $300 HP you see?\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s literally the only way I can see your anecdotal experience being truthful.\u003cp\u003eThe PC marketplace is open, like the Android one. There\u0026#x27;s a lot of cruft to sift through, but it should only take about 1-2 hours of research to find the best laptop at any given time and any given price range for any given use-case.","parent":"13801266","id":"13803021"}
{"by":"marklabedz","time":"1291683950","timestamp":"2010-12-07 01:05:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could easily overlook this if they rolled out UMA (aka Generic Network Access) on all handsets. Its been the saving grace for me on my Blackberry, especially in large convention centers with poor cell reception. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1976522","id":"1977570"}
{"by":"cr1895","time":"1460215469","timestamp":"2016-04-09 15:24:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s insane. In offshore heavy lift we stick to barge motion limits around 2 degrees. Maybe we\u0026#x27;re just far more risk averse, but I cannot fathom how this would work with 8-9 degrees rotation. Even being on a ship with 2-3 degrees rotation you really feel like you\u0026#x27;re walking up and down a hill.","parent":"11461202","id":"11461647"}
{"by":"tyleraldrich","time":"1485287847","timestamp":"2017-01-24 19:57:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sorry, but if you believe that 10 people and 5000 people signing a petition are close enough to be insignificantly different, you\u0026#x27;re objectively wrong.","parent":"13474028","id":"13474892"}
{"by":"bathat","time":"1346361635","timestamp":"2012-08-30 21:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on how good their marketing is.  Trucks will initially probably still need a human in the cab.  Truckers often drive in pairs so that the rig can be rolling for 20-22 hours per day.  The way you get drivers to embrace the technology is by lobbying for laws that would allow a single driver to be at the wheel for, say, 14-16 hours at a time.\u003cp\u003eThat's enough for a pair of drivers to keep the truck on the road continuously, and maybe almost enough to make it worthwhile to have just a single driver (so the cab owner doesn't have to split his profits with anyone).  After gradually raising hours over the course of a few years, you can declare drivers optional.  Owner-operators would still ride in the cab so they could handle pickup and delivery of trailers, but fleet owners might just hire drivers on the spot for things like that.\u003cp\u003eEdit: My (mis)understanding of trucking hours of service was based on a conversation with a truck drive a few months ago.  Apparently, you can drive 14 hours continuously after taking 10 hours off.  However, I think the point still stands that truck drivers will be less resistant to the introduction of robotic trucks if they perceive the change as a (at least short-term) benefit to them by increasing allowable driving time.","parent":"4455698","id":"4456894"}
{"by":"lionhearted","time":"1297528805","timestamp":"2011-02-12 16:40:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's interesting watching rivalries/standoffs develop between companies that didn't seem likely to happen - who would've thought in 2006 that Amazon and Apple would be at each other in 2011?\u003cp\u003eThat was before the iPhone or Kindle came out, never mind the iPad. Interesting to see how these things develop.","parent":"2210238","id":"2210348"}
{"by":"jasonjei","time":"1288772829","timestamp":"2010-11-03 08:27:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not necessarily an emacs editor. I love the GUI of TextMate, but a lot of what makes TextMate usable is its bundles, which definitely won't be allowed by Apple.\u003cp\u003eAll I would like is a reasonably good text editor with a project drawer and syntax highlighting. Preferably something that can integrate with git.\u003cp\u003eMaybe I am dreaming. I love just being able to read code, not necessarily type it on the iPad, since I do review existing open source projects (such as picking open gems and learning about them) or review source code changes from git.\u003cp\u003eMBA is nice, but you still need to pull the seat tray down. The iPad lets me read code like a magazine. And it fits on the elliptical for working out.\u003cp\u003eSo yes, call me foolish for wanting to do this on the iPad, but I just love its form factor!","parent":"1863733","id":"1864151"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1392839921","timestamp":"2014-02-19 19:58:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The will quickly gain legal powers to investigate transactions coming from addresses where they have the paperwork to seize them but not the keys.\u003cp\u003e(I would speculate that they could easily get subpenas to support that type of investigation, without any new law)","parent":"7264942","id":"7265824"}
{"by":"burfog","time":"1516497778","timestamp":"2018-01-21 01:22:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other stuff works too. Australia mostly killed branding by enforcing plain packages, and they added images of what smoking can do to you. It worked.\u003cp\u003eVarying the images matters, so that people don\u0026#x27;t tune them out. It is best to focus on sex appeal: wrinkles, erectile dysfunction, nasty teeth, etc. The next best thing is to focus on the harm to children, both unborn and living in the house.","parent":"16195495","id":"16196380"}
{"by":"moomin","time":"1506445887","timestamp":"2017-09-26 17:11:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, pity said large change was implemented before checking if it was a good idea.\u003cp\u003eCommunity: This license is a legal nightmare. Something needs doing!\nFacebook: We have done something.\nCommunity: Try listening to both sentences next time.","parent":"15340438","id":"15340594"}
{"by":"markbao","time":"1225316441","timestamp":"2008-10-29 21:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With respect to authentication, this is like Facebook Connect, but with a larger audience.\u003cp\u003eAnd it's like OpenID, but without 'send data' and 'server/delegates.'\u003cp\u003eI really like this.","parent":"347959","id":"348064"}
{"by":"roel_v","time":"1281438910","timestamp":"2010-08-10 11:15:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate to send people email out of the blue so I'm just asking permission first - can I email you for a career advice question?","parent":"1589561","id":"1591127"}
{"by":"d0mine","time":"1366399107","timestamp":"2013-04-19 19:18:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you might mean \"when Item is a table in a database\" instead of \"a row in a database\". `o` would be the row.","parent":"5576239","id":"5578240"}
{"by":"meaty","time":"1360831448","timestamp":"2013-02-14 08:44:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its quite easy to get it out. Took me about 20 minutes on one.","parent":"5216146","id":"5218473"}
{"by":"barbs","time":"1375572395","timestamp":"2013-08-03 23:26:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d probably be content as well, but I think about some of my all-time favourite songs, and how a lot of them were discovered by chance or through some obscure means. And I wonder just how many more \u0026quot;all-time favourites\u0026quot; are out there waiting to be discovered. That\u0026#x27;s what keeps me actively listening to new music, and indeed, I have found some truly excellent music through music-recommendation services (last.fm mostly).","parent":"6153741","id":"6153810"}
{"by":"bayindirh","time":"1522764267","timestamp":"2018-04-03 14:04:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m also a software developer and I also have a Linux\u0026#x2F;Mac mixed environment, and I feel no difference between the two.\u003cp\u003eTo be honest, Mac does many things really \u003ci\u003edifferently\u003c/i\u003e. Yes it feels and sounds like double-think, but I do everything differently from my Linux desktop, and I can do the same things at the same speed, if not faster.\u003cp\u003eOn the average, I use them equally, and can do the same thing on both.\u003cp\u003eOne footnote is, I do not install anything via homebrew or anything massive which installs into depth of the macOS. For these stuff I have a Linux VM, which is fired up rarely.","parent":"16739247","id":"16744665"}
{"by":"tyu100","time":"1523880650","timestamp":"2018-04-16 12:10:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In really is incredible how many billions of dollars are spent on marketing alcohol and how pervasive is is.","parent":"16847859","id":"16848362"}
{"by":"pg314","time":"1529153056","timestamp":"2018-06-16 12:44:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Apple sells globally, should Apple also pay for the welfare of the countries where it sells its product?\u003cp\u003eYes. And they do in countries which charge VAT. They should arguably be taxed on the profits they make in the territories they sell in, but that is much harder to do in practice without international cooperation.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Some part of which flows to investors who purchase securities. Capital gains and dividends are taxed.\u003cp\u003eCapital gains are only taxed when they are realized. E.g. Warren Buffett\u0026#x27;s Berkshire Hathaway hasn\u0026#x27;t paid a dime in taxes on the 15.4 billion dollar capital gains on its 16.7 billion dollar stake in Coca Cola (a position he initiated in 1987). Since Buffett has indicated he isn\u0026#x27;t planning on selling Coca Cola ever, those capital gains won\u0026#x27;t ever be taxed.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Companies can\u0026#x27;t earn record profits without government running deficit (by healthcare\u0026#x2F;infra expenditure) and without people running out of savings (by spending on the goods and services being produced)\u003cp\u003eOf course they can: by becoming more efficient or by growing GDP.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Part of the value produced will be taxed in the US while the individuals and governments all over the world run out of saving and run into deficits respectively. All that flows to the US. Stopping this is much worse for the US.\u003cp\u003eNonsense. If you had looked at the OECD government deficit data [1], you would have known that the US is running one of the biggest deficits in terms of % of GDP (4.94% in 2016 vs 1.546% for the EU as a whole, or a surplus of 1% for Germany). Similarly, personal savings are 2.8% in the US [2] vs 10% in the EU [3] or 50% in Japan [4].\u003cp\u003eOf course, this has little to do with the balance of trade, as you seem to be thinking. The US runs a trade deficit: it imports more than it exports. This is offset by capital inflows from abroad, meaning that a bigger and bigger share of the ownership of productive assets are being owned by foreigners. Returns on those assets will accrue to foreign investors.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;data.oecd.org\u0026#x2F;gga\u0026#x2F;general-government-deficit.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;data.oecd.org\u0026#x2F;gga\u0026#x2F;general-government-deficit.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tradingeconomics.com\u0026#x2F;united-states\u0026#x2F;indicators\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tradingeconomics.com\u0026#x2F;united-states\u0026#x2F;indicators\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tradingeconomics.com\u0026#x2F;european-union\u0026#x2F;indicators\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tradingeconomics.com\u0026#x2F;european-union\u0026#x2F;indicators\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[4] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tradingeconomics.com\u0026#x2F;japan\u0026#x2F;indicators\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tradingeconomics.com\u0026#x2F;japan\u0026#x2F;indicators\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17326579","id":"17327182"}
{"by":"bitforger","time":"1539913028","timestamp":"2018-10-19 01:37:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would it really matter? The root cause would probably sound something like this:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The user\u0026#x27;s preferences were ignored because the advert system failed to invalidate the cache during the change, causing the user\u0026#x27;s previously cached settings to be used. This occurred only for a small set of users, who were in a similar geographic location and were assigned to an experimental cohort to test an updated component of the advert system.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWould anyone understand this? Would anyone care?","parent":"18252575","id":"18253733"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1336106284","timestamp":"2012-05-04 04:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the question is how many people actually got in from no-idea.\u003cp\u003eIf a bunch of people submitted apps, thought about entrepreneurship, and 5-10 groups or individuals got interviews, thought more about entrepreneurship, and some (or none) got into YC, I don't see how this really changes things.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, I think we'd all win from 10-18 year olds learning more about entrepreneurship (at least as an option), so they could steer their careers toward it -- by working on independent projects, by working for great companies (like facebook) where they can learn and meet cofounders, etc.\u003cp\u003eI agree that working for a company like Facebook is probably a better purely-financial decision than starting a startup, for a lot of of people, but I'd rather do a startup anyway.","parent":"3926858","id":"3927042"}
{"by":"wumi","time":"1207177738","timestamp":"2008-04-02 23:08:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is a hacker crowd -- I imagine most people here have a ton of content already on a computer, which using a projector makes it much easier to watch.\u003cp\u003e1. agreed on dark room.\u003cp\u003e2. if the projector is mounted high (as it should be) this is not an issue\u003cp\u003e3.I was in military barracks half the size of a normal bed room and my projector still had a very tight 4-5 foot screen on a bare wall -- oh and it was $600 OTB.","parent":"153308","id":"153431"}
{"by":"teamhappy","time":"1526663821","timestamp":"2018-05-18 17:17:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s this one: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fonts.google.com\u0026#x2F;specimen\u0026#x2F;Cousine\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fonts.google.com\u0026#x2F;specimen\u0026#x2F;Cousine\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17103101","id":"17103156"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1336740986","timestamp":"2012-05-11 12:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How far do you get by monitoring whether the blower for your furnace is operating?","parent":"3958364","id":"3958935"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1185191816","timestamp":"2007-07-23 11:56:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand why anyone would use scratch over Logo. The genius of Logo is that it has a certain logic and mathematical beauty which is actually made visible on the screen.","parent":"36053","id":"36077"}
{"by":"A_COMPUTER","time":"1416878957","timestamp":"2014-11-25 01:29:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To support your suggestion, look at the decline of benefit societies, fraternal orders, clubs and the like. Things that have impacted them are: threat from broad anti-discrimination penalty powers; displacement of things like aid\u0026#x2F;insurance with government programs that are more widely available but administered by distant, impersonal bureaucracies; a general American \u0026quot;anti-exclusivity\u0026quot; attitude; stricter enforcement of separation of church and state issues.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not necessarily suggesting we should go back, after all those changes were made for good reasons. But it could be that those changes also had serious negative effects that have to be factored into social planning.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I could be mixing up cause and effect.","parent":"8655752","id":"8655827"}
{"by":"true_religion","time":"1342917458","timestamp":"2012-07-22 00:37:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm interested in this market, but what exactly is social about bodiluv.com?","parent":"4275775","id":"4276119"}
{"by":"anon1385","time":"1428349249","timestamp":"2015-04-06 19:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;YouTube is only going to offer UHD over VP9, meaning that 4K smart TVs and set-top-boxes will have to support VP9.\u003cp\u003eGoogle told us VP8 was the future, and that widespread hardware support was imminent. Then in less than a couple of years they abandoned VP8.\u003cp\u003eNext week millions of fairly new TVs are going to stop working with YouTube because Google decided to shut down the API: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;youtube\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;6098135?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.google.com\u0026#x2F;youtube\u0026#x2F;answer\u0026#x2F;6098135?hl=en\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure the TV industry is about to invest in supporting a technology that will probably be long deprecated by the time most of their customers will even be able to use it. Fool me once etc","parent":"9329596","id":"9330249"}
{"by":"res0nat0r","time":"1364402489","timestamp":"2013-03-27 16:41:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"AWS actually already does proactively monitor and send out alert emails to customers who have LIST enabled to Everyone on their S3 buckets, which is a good thing.","parent":"5450445","id":"5450455"}
{"by":"hey1969","time":"1435436168","timestamp":"2015-06-27 20:16:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I happen to be 2 m (6\u0026#x27;6) tall and French-Irish.  When I used to go out with a Scandinavian social club in California, we were always far taller than everyone else.  More than 0.25 m difference in height makes for difficult conversation, so there\u0026#x27;s a tendency to only talk to other sized people.   I also know a British guy that is 2.3 m tall and a Stanford chick whos 2.5 m (how does one get a date if you\u0026#x27;re ungainly tall?).  Perhaps in a millennia, humans will be 4 m tall on average?","parent":"9789725","id":"9791399"}
{"by":"sowhatquestion","time":"1350348788","timestamp":"2012-10-16 00:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm astonished (in a good way) to see a perspective this radical represented on HN. Considering how the discussions of sexism usually go--i.e., a circle jerk in which we all congratulate ourselves for having slain the dragon of \"political correctness\"--I can't imagine it will be received well... but in any case, major kudos to the author and submitter.","parent":"4657777","id":"4657884"}
{"by":"zackola","time":"1280113929","timestamp":"2010-07-26 03:12:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Regarding pricing have you explored whether or not companies W, Y or Z might be interested in buying your product? Until you explore other buyers you are limiting the range of offers you may be able to get. By only entertaining what company X might buy this for you have already agreed to a price range which is $some amount of money that's an obscene deal for company X to $the maximum company X might be willing to pay. The max may or may not be a good deal for you though. It may be a bit too late in your case to pursue other options - or you may feel like company X has the resources to give you the kind of deal you are looking for in which case +1 to drewcrawford's answer.\u003cp\u003eA friend and I sold an app (all IP, etc) several years ago and I've sometimes regretted not exploring other options, and also not iterating for a few more months to see if we could have made the product more valuable. At the same time though, the offer came out of the blue and both of us were more than happy to get some dough for something we had been hacking on in our spare time.\u003cp\u003eRegarding #2, get a freaking lawyer and a CPA ASAP. When you are talking about $*M, you should have no trouble ponying up now so you don't get screwed later.","parent":"1546837","id":"1547001"}
{"by":"arkades","time":"1538077377","timestamp":"2018-09-27 19:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing is, the salient bits of being a doctor have to do with the thought process going on in their head, the stresses of responsibility and decision-making, and all the considerations they weigh with each patient. It\u0026#x27;s just not an \u0026quot;observable\u0026quot; thing. Docs don\u0026#x27;t really start sharing their internal processes with you until you\u0026#x27;re in the second half of med school, and even then not commonly. From the outside, it just looks like... guy in a white coat, often at a computer, making pronouncements. And then doing paperwork, which largely consists of documentation to prove to the government and insurers you did everything they decided should have been done for that patient and if not, why not. The combination of accountability and lack of autonomy is a leading cause of physician burnout and, again, is all internal.\u003cp\u003eThe other part it leaves out is the hours. \u0026quot;What do I do with this patient?\u0026quot; is a very different thought process at hours one, eleven, and eighteen respectively, of what should have been a twelve hour shift. One hospital I know of has its trauma\u0026#x2F;SICU surgeons do 5 days on and 5 days off where they pull 12 hour shifts daily, and they\u0026#x27;re on call every night. But trauma\u0026#x2F;SICU doesn\u0026#x27;t really sleep, so these folks are making critical care decisions at hour one-hundred-and-twenty, of which maybe eight hours involved sleep.\u003cp\u003eAll of these things occur in the internal landscape. Shadowing is ... not effective.\u003cp\u003eMost med students have done clinical research, shadowed doctors, volunteered in hospitals, etc. Back in the day, I did hospital volunteerism, clinical research, hospital QI, and I worked in health insurance. I\u0026#x27;d seen medicine from pretty much every vantage point before I second-careered into being a physician. And every senior med student and resident and physician will tell you, \u0026quot;holy shit, I had absolutely no idea what it would be like.\u0026quot; Even the occasional nurse that decides to go to med school, who most commonly think they\u0026#x27;re halfway to being docs already, will say \u0026quot;omg, I had no idea how much I didn\u0026#x27;t know, and how much you guys have to do.\u0026quot; We had two in my med school class back in the day. When we were in didactics, they were shocked by how much docs had to know. When we got to clerkships (the second half of med school, where you work in hospitals) they were floored by how much was involved in being a physician that simply wasn\u0026#x27;t visible to nurses. And that\u0026#x27;s... you know, nurses. Folks who work in our vicinity on a daily basis.","parent":"18087788","id":"18087905"}
{"by":"blattimwind","time":"1540576732","timestamp":"2018-10-26 17:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If however you had already been experiencing systems like UNIX that ran on everything from mainframes to PDP-11\u0026#x2F;70\u0026#x27;s you would not have been quite so surprised.\u003cp\u003eBack then (R) there wasn\u0026#x27;t one UNIX, rather everyone had their flavour of it for their kind of machine. I don\u0026#x27;t think source compatibility became mainstream until the late 80s to 90s, before that it was all ports.","parent":"18310845","id":"18311472"}
{"by":"jaziek","time":"1541005184","timestamp":"2018-10-31 16:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m in the same demographic, same kinda of social group, and most of the people I know who use monzo still don\u0026#x27;t use it as the account where they store the bulk of their cash, it is more for travelling than anything else. The free (up to £200) withdrawals and inter-bank exchange rate make it a no-brainer for that, but there\u0026#x27;s still nothing about it which would make me switch away from a current account with a decent interest rate and added extras like insurance, or cashback on bills.","parent":"18344898","id":"18347379"}
{"by":"adware_ta_1122","time":"1513218430","timestamp":"2017-12-14 02:27:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked for other adware maker in IL (left after couple of months, when I realized how the company actually makes money), it\u0026#x27;s pretty big industry here since we have a lot of adtech and endless appetite for easy money. AMA.","parent":"15917548","id":"15919505"}
{"by":"gumby","time":"1545931499","timestamp":"2018-12-27 17:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’ll send you a note.","parent":"18767699","id":"18770893"}
{"by":"robomc","time":"1303367308","timestamp":"2011-04-21 06:28:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is \u003ci\u003eanyone\u003c/i\u003e making sites where this would work, for money?","parent":"2469283","id":"2469658"}
{"by":"todd8","time":"1541687330","timestamp":"2018-11-08 14:28:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You’re right. Ada has come up in this thread and there was a time when I was excited about Ada (I actually worked in a group that was competing in the early Strawman—Ironman proposals that led to the design of Ada), but Ada really is too verbose for my taste.\u003cp\u003eRust might end up being just right, not too concise, like Haskell or APL, and not too verbose, like Java or Ada; it could be a Goldilocks language.","parent":"18406348","id":"18406448"}
{"by":"abstractbill","time":"1278600832","timestamp":"2010-07-08 14:53:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had \u003ci\u003eawful\u003c/i\u003e dental hygiene up until my mid-20s.\u003cp\u003eA big step for me was finding a dentist I trusted, and just doing what he told me - letting go of the fear that he was going to completely drain me financially.\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't cheap, but eventually all the required work was done, and I formed new habits that have meant no no work has been needed for several years now.\u003cp\u003eOne of the most important things I did was get invisalign (braces).  My teeth were really hard to keep clean before - flossing was almost impossible in some places due to the way my teeth were overlapping.  Now they're straight it's really quite easy.","parent":"1497442","id":"1497527"}
{"by":"whatismybrowser","time":"1503385271","timestamp":"2017-08-22 07:01:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is more of a technique for learning than for practice... but one thing that I make a habit of when learning a new programming framework is deliberately typing out sample code that I\u0026#x27;ve found in books or online instead of just copying and pasting it.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s the equivalent of writing out notes by hand from a school textbook instead of just photocopying the pages... some how the process of actually re-typing it out causes it to stick in my mind better. And then later, when you\u0026#x27;re really \u0026quot;in the zone\u0026quot;, you don\u0026#x27;t break your focus by needing to keep referring back to the book, it\u0026#x27;s already embedded in your muscle memory and you just keep plowing away.","parent":"15068455","id":"15070311"}
{"by":"jbeeze","time":"1444415699","timestamp":"2015-10-09 18:34:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a frequent redditor who loves the idea of AMAs. This is a great idea that would really help broaden the audience that tends to miss the opportunity to talk to these people.\u003cp\u003eI really look forward to what\u0026#x27;s next!","parent":"10359216","id":"10362355"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1288080454","timestamp":"2010-10-26 08:07:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but if your car starts making noises and you ignore them, it may be \u003ci\u003eyour own\u003c/i\u003e fault when your car breaks down in the middle of the freeway...","parent":"1832963","id":"1833446"}
{"by":"projektir","time":"1474558485","timestamp":"2016-09-22 15:34:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given the reports of contaminated water all over the US that has been on HN recently, I\u0026#x27;m not sure how irrational those people really are.","parent":"12555507","id":"12557575"}
{"by":"vicaya","time":"1254349652","timestamp":"2009-09-30 22:27:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, ad-hoc querying \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e be implemented in Hypertable with HQL, it's just not a priority at the moment, so features are a bit lacking. I mean, it's not an inherent 'darkside' of distributed database. OTOH, I've done cap shell with HQL and grep/sort/whatnot a few times on a few TB of data and not exactly painful :)","parent":"852382","id":"853870"}
{"by":"geuis","time":"1545524096","timestamp":"2018-12-23 00:14:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Magic internet radio bad.\u003cp\u003eBut seriously I’m waiting for someone more knowledgable to take this paper to task. There have been numerous WiFi and cell phone studies that have found no evidence of harm.","parent":"18743373","id":"18743391"}
{"by":"wdmeldon","time":"1461861568","timestamp":"2016-04-28 16:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Generally that means that the roommate would still be on the lease.  Which is generally incentive enough for someone not to bail on a lease.","parent":"11590039","id":"11590103"}
{"by":"datenwolf","time":"1494090911","timestamp":"2017-05-06 17:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a tinkerer let me tell you, that, had I been confronted with the problem, would probably have taken apart one of the old Logitech Scanman handheld scanners still collecting dust in my attic. A little bit of mechanical modification should do the trick. These are essentially line scan cameras and they come with a high resolution rotary encoder.","parent":"14281090","id":"14281260"}
{"by":"zemaj","time":"1178963088","timestamp":"2007-05-12 09:44:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since this has turned into a discussion on Tangler;\u003cp\u003eI use Tangler occasionally (I'm Sydney based, so I've met Martin too - great guy, very helpful). The app was kinda slow initially, but it's getting much better. I read posts on it a couple of times a week now, although I don't necessarily prefer it to traditional forum systems. It seems unfocused at the moment, but I suspect that's largely part of their plan to let the users decide where to take the app.\u003cp\u003eI do agree with bootload that they need to get rid of the second click through layer for topics. That does bug me a bit. Some better visualisation of topics within groups might help too - I feel lost without hierarchical navigation.","parent":"21497","id":"21557"}
{"by":"cousin_it","time":"1511429013","timestamp":"2017-11-23 09:23:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His sense of what games are \u0026quot;cool\u0026quot; wasn\u0026#x27;t in tune with the public. That\u0026#x27;s the cardinal sin. Pixel art dungeon crawlers aren\u0026#x27;t cool. It\u0026#x27;s as if he was a musician and decided to release a glam metal album today. Low budget, poor marketing, uncooperative bureaucracy - nah dude, none of that matters, you\u0026#x27;re just too in love with glam metal and people aren\u0026#x27;t buying glam metal.","parent":"15763013","id":"15763910"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1267399328","timestamp":"2010-02-28 23:22:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's the interesting thing; it's such a good deal you only have to be interested in one or 2 programs and it's worth it :)\u003cp\u003eI can believe people actually pay for US cable... it's insane :(","parent":"1157617","id":"1157653"}
{"by":"burlesona","time":"1528073770","timestamp":"2018-06-04 00:56:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like Gitlab needs statuspage.io","parent":"17223116","id":"17223597"}
{"by":"ucaetano","time":"1439798748","timestamp":"2015-08-17 08:05:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The character of cities changes all the time, who are we to say what should be the character of a city? Let it change, let it evolve. SF\u0026#x27;s character only became what it is by changing from it\u0026#x27;s previous character, again and again and again.","parent":"10070548","id":"10071770"}
{"by":"seunosewa","time":"1340126972","timestamp":"2012-06-19 17:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're comparing apples and Oranges. SQL Server costs the same amount on Amazon EC2 if you use it.","parent":"4132796","id":"4133009"}
{"by":"morganvachon","time":"1473455637","timestamp":"2016-09-09 21:13:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How so? Seafile and SpiderOak both thrive on their excellent Linux support, and Mega also supports Linux with an official client. They are, if not in the top five, at least in the top ten of popular consumer cloud storage solutions.","parent":"12464315","id":"12466095"}
{"by":"tomsaffell","time":"1371665440","timestamp":"2013-06-19 18:10:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The customer decides the length. Nearly all of them are between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. The majority are between 1 and 3 minutes. We recommend that customers keep them short, to keep their viewers happy :)","parent":"5907138","id":"5907173"}
{"by":"dfc","time":"1332025516","timestamp":"2012-03-17 23:05:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eLooking at HN itself, theres no limit on the time between posts;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is not true. As nested replies increase the reply link takes longer to show up under a post...","parent":"3718473","id":"3718488"}
{"by":"foota","time":"1469237035","timestamp":"2016-07-23 01:23:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"off the wall eh?","parent":"12146865","id":"12147914"}
{"by":"eng_monkey","time":"1512730743","timestamp":"2017-12-08 10:59:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is pretty pathetic to go to any coworking space in an Australian major city and realise that people there are just playing the \u0026#x27;startup game\u0026#x27;. These people will typically spend a few months playing the game, burning a bit of their severance package until finding another permanent job.","parent":"15877708","id":"15877946"}
{"by":"pascalxus","time":"1547494560","timestamp":"2019-01-14 19:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The so called modern day web frameworks (Vue, React, etc) are needed if you want to get a job and become a hardcore FE developer.\u003cp\u003eBut, if you just want something that will maximize your productivity, you should stick to the basics: HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery.  It\u0026#x27;s super easy and will get your web app done much more quickly than anything else.  Otherwise, you\u0026#x27;ll end up in a rabbit-hole spending days just getting your infrastructure set up.","parent":"18903013","id":"18905721"}
{"by":"kordless","time":"1389428279","timestamp":"2014-01-11 08:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; 6) A full-scale on-chain stock market. Prediction markets are also easy to implement as a trivial consequence.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eLine 283 of \u003ca href=\"http://pastebin.com/NCGRv74u\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pastebin.com\u0026#x2F;NCGRv74u\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7041996","id":"7042026"}
{"by":"maxerickson","time":"1464715079","timestamp":"2016-05-31 17:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would replace welfare programs, not all social services.\u003cp\u003eIf children are not being cared for, the state will still intervene.","parent":"11808000","id":"11808057"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1453138949","timestamp":"2016-01-18 17:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wasn\u0026#x27;t Dopplr mostly a social network and not really comparable?\u003cp\u003e(A \u0026quot;find overlapping travel plans\u0026quot; is one of the few social networks I actually would use, but I can see why it isn\u0026#x27;t viable on its own)","parent":"10925536","id":"10925666"}
{"by":"tsunamifury","time":"1391436006","timestamp":"2014-02-03 14:00:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Valley has been filled with these types since it became known for loose money and fame. I\u0026#x27;ve met perpetual VCs without money, Founders with no real startup other than a logo and domain name, and name-dropping nobodies since they first day I came here.\u003cp\u003eIn general be suspicious of flakiness and an inability to meet any agreed upon timeline, and always validate information in person when possible.  Even if they are real and show these attributes, you likely don\u0026#x27;t want them involved with your business ventures anyways.","parent":"7170100","id":"7170618"}
{"by":"panic","time":"1271379600","timestamp":"2010-04-16 01:00:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you know of any better music player software for OS X?","parent":"1269417","id":"1269430"}
{"by":"k__","time":"1508408750","timestamp":"2017-10-19 10:25:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always read that crypto currencies will replace money, because they are distributed.\u003cp\u003eBut does a blockchain, that is at the core of every(?) crypto currency really scale well?\u003cp\u003eKeeping the whole ledger constantly available seems rather storage and traffic intensive to me.","parent":"15497729","id":"15506768"}
{"by":"Fomite","time":"1438296876","timestamp":"2015-07-30 22:54:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In many communities, quite good.","parent":"9978668","id":"9978799"}
{"by":"talkingtab","time":"1439129912","timestamp":"2015-08-09 14:18:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. Just say no to sourceforge.","parent":"10029856","id":"10030339"}
{"by":"wldcordeiro","time":"1424556675","timestamp":"2015-02-21 22:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dig this, it\u0026#x27;d be cool to see a similar post for Firefox and other Browsers that are open source.","parent":"9085357","id":"9087198"}
{"by":"mathattack","time":"1415771102","timestamp":"2014-11-12 05:45:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t heard anyone mention that perhaps Malls aren\u0026#x27;t just being killed by Amazon, but also by Wal*Mart.  Go to smalltown America and see...","parent":"8592040","id":"8594191"}
{"by":"interdrift","time":"1423575841","timestamp":"2015-02-10 13:44:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder what caused this. That would be a step back...","parent":"9026815","id":"9027015"}
{"by":"leephillips","time":"1390582122","timestamp":"2014-01-24 16:48:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dang, I thought my favorite band was getting back together.","parent":"7114357","id":"7115837"}
{"by":"pslam","time":"1325818144","timestamp":"2012-01-06 02:49:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an awful interview question. It falls into the same trap that a lot of questions fall into: this is not something that would likely turn up in every-day work. Why are you asking a candidate questions about work they will never do?\u003cp\u003eIt's also too Computer Science. They're not interviewing for a CS course. They're interviewing to write, debug, maintain and ship code. What you should be exploring is code style, correctness, error catching, and the thought process that goes into it. Expand the question in that manner.\u003cp\u003eCode golf is a very poor signal for a good engineer.\u003cp\u003eEdit: For example, ask \"Will this work for all input values of n?\". Negative values might have issues, and as 'n' increases it either takes too long to complete or runs out of memory. It's surprising how many candidates don't understand that - and the way this question is asked would not discover it.","parent":"3431107","id":"3431703"}
{"by":"nickik","time":"1502730484","timestamp":"2017-08-14 17:08:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With a couple of years of development effort we could build a medium sized nuclear reactor that would be extremely save, extremely fuel, cheap fuel (essentially free), extremely reliable and it would solve availability issues.\u003cp\u003eYou can literally mass produce the reactor and send it to standardized facilities all over the place, on or of the grid.\u003cp\u003eThis would not even be very costly, a robust reactor development program to start with and some commercialization of the tech and regulatory change to allow it. No Manhatten projected needed.\u003cp\u003eI think doing what you suggest and replacing all coal and natural gas plants with reliable energy is pretty insane in comparison. Not to mention that that is only the easy part of the problem. I don\u0026#x27;t know a reliable way to solve the availability issue. The only close to viable approach is Musk-Style mass production of batteries. Even that is only viable if we continue to make leap and bounds improvements to batteries.\u003cp\u003eThis is about solving the energy needs of 10 Billion people in this century. A Manhattan style mass production of solar cells and wind turbines will not get it done.\u003cp\u003eThorium has the highest energy density and its practically unlimited, both in the ground and we already mine it. It simply is not that hart do build a modular reactor that can be mass produced. We know it works, and we know that it solved all the problem we have, including availability, pollution and global warming.","parent":"14895176","id":"15010347"}
{"by":"shanselman","time":"1380498939","timestamp":"2013-09-29 23:55:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsWAYTooEarlyToCallThisInsulinPumpAnArtificialPancreas.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hanselman.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;ItsWAYTooEarlyToCallThisInsuli...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s WAY WAY too early for them to have said this.","parent":"6466462","id":"6467079"}
{"by":"mostapha","time":"1311360836","timestamp":"2011-07-22 18:53:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Headsets would also decrease your ability to hear other things.  You'd hear the prius with the transmitter but not the real cars or other pedestrians or bicycles.\u003cp\u003eDumb idea.","parent":"2793993","id":"2794706"}
{"by":"abdulhaq","time":"1434747973","timestamp":"2015-06-19 21:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe Jewish women started being accused of \u0026#x27;making a political statement\u0026#x27; and being harrassed in the street because they covered their hair, so they had to make a compromise.","parent":"9746689","id":"9747678"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1518413534","timestamp":"2018-02-12 05:32:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’ve actually noticed a return recently to simple “HTML native” UI design on the web. Not as many people trying to emulate an “OS native” experience by adding a bunch of extra DOM elements to render borders and effects and such.","parent":"16349772","id":"16356753"}
{"by":"dguest","time":"1518519312","timestamp":"2018-02-13 10:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally I think a billion dollars for a nationally recognized electronic payment system is worth it. In the US the commercial solutions (venmo, paypal, etc) work fine between friends, but sometimes you get stuck having to write (paper) checks. There are several reasons this can happen:\u003cp\u003e- Some people are just old-school. I\u0026#x27;ve had several landlords who barely understood the internet, good luck getting them to give their banking details to some trendy company in SF. I had one roommate who would routinely drive 30 minutes to drop off a check in my landlord\u0026#x27;s mailbox, for example. This wasn\u0026#x27;t secure, and if either my roommate or our landlord was traveling our rent payments would be late.\u003cp\u003e- Municipalities or government-supported entities are on unstable ground if they start playing favorite with private payment systems. Try getting a national lab to accept paypal, or the University of California to transfer reimbursement to an IBAN through TransferWise.\u003cp\u003eI imagine it would be even more complicated for cryptocurrencies. And in all cases, I can\u0026#x27;t say I blame people for asking for checks: it\u0026#x27;s often low-level clerks who have to do the work, why should they risk getting fired for your convenience? When the national standard is paper checks, having them stolen, arriving late, being forged, etc are all just \u0026quot;the price of doing business\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, no matter how much you save your employer and increase client satisfaction by using something non-standard, you\u0026#x27;re on the chopping block if something goes wrong.","parent":"16365499","id":"16366190"}
{"by":"ticviking","time":"1492045508","timestamp":"2017-04-13 01:05:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve had several of these in my job search recently as well, with a background in education I\u0026#x27;m astonished that anyone thinks they show anything.","parent":"14100695","id":"14103214"}
{"by":"jgarnham","time":"1399670809","timestamp":"2014-05-09 21:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi there, I\u0026#x27;m the developer of this app so just thought I\u0026#x27;d reply to some of the cons you made.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t need an internet connection all the time, just simply for building or running the application as Dringend needs to connect to the build server.\u003cp\u003eSupport for git is coming up in version 1.2 and is going to be in the hands of beta testers very soon.\u003cp\u003eFeatures such as support for asset catalogs and XIBs\u0026#x2F;Storyboards are also in the pipeline.","parent":"7723131","id":"7723336"}
{"by":"imaginenore","time":"1457652639","timestamp":"2016-03-10 23:30:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t get how any of this could have happened. So many WTFs. Fraudulent bank wires are reversible, even months after. And how in the world do they not check who they send the money to?","parent":"11262177","id":"11263411"}
{"by":"throwwwwwwwwww","time":"1479418288","timestamp":"2016-11-17 21:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was about to say the same thing. For example if you go to someones GitHub profile and they have a public e-mail listed but you then go their repositories, filter by \u0026quot;source\u0026quot; (repos created by them, not forks) and you go to the oldest one they have of that kind, git clone that and then\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     git shortlog -s -e\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nYou might find that they were using their school e-mail back then for example.\u003cp\u003eAlso if you clone all their repositories and everything else they have contributed to you might find an occasional commit in which they accidentally used for example the e-mail they have at work.","parent":"12981630","id":"12981851"}
{"by":"runeks","time":"1501786880","timestamp":"2017-08-03 19:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rust can’t guarantee that a value is consumed exactly once.\u003cp\u003eThis example creates a monad parametized over how many times a return value must be consumed. It has two settings: 1 (exactly once), and ω, which I’m prettying sure is the Greek abbreviation of “whatever” (zero or more times).","parent":"14922397","id":"14922642"}
{"by":"Widdershin","time":"1420455134","timestamp":"2015-01-05 10:52:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is truly the most amazing time to be alive (so far). No matter what repercussions the destruction of aging might have, it awes me that we talk of dramatically extended life and the colonization of the stars not only as something feasible, but even possible within the next century.","parent":"8838073","id":"8838179"}
{"by":"nickfarr","time":"1393810572","timestamp":"2014-03-03 01:36:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, that was precisely it.  I was in Times Square where there were tons and tons of cops, and not all that many revelers.  (It was a really cold night, IIRC.)  I heard the comment, looked around, realized they were cops and completely without thinking said, \u0026quot;You can\u0026#x27;t fucking ask that.\u0026quot;  Next thing, they asked for ID and as I began to reach for my wallet was thrown up against something by the three officers.  It happened really, really quickly--just like being mugged.","parent":"7331479","id":"7331586"}
{"by":"portman","time":"1286241803","timestamp":"2010-10-05 01:23:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This.\u003cp\u003eI vividly remember the day that I woke up and decided that from now on, I would charge $175/hr instead of $125/hr. Bookings actually \u003ci\u003eincreased\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eJust keep raising your rates until\u003cp\u003e(a) You can't get any more gigs, or\u003cp\u003e(b) You feel too guilty to raise them anymore.","parent":"1758143","id":"1758248"}
{"by":"zack2018","time":"1532359974","timestamp":"2018-07-23 15:32:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, thanks :)","parent":"17593244","id":"17593415"}
{"by":"Splines","time":"1446740983","timestamp":"2015-11-05 16:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The difference being that the compiler knows what sort of bit-twiddling it should be doing and what sort of bit-twiddling it should not be doing.\u003cp\u003eI would not use this code without being very thoughtful and intentional about where it was being used.","parent":"10513930","id":"10514232"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1464990332","timestamp":"2016-06-03 21:45:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh? Vanity Fair is a frequent source of important and interesting journalism...they\u0026#x27;ve been writing a lot recently about the tech scene, but have also had classics such as: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vanityfair.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;1996\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;wigand199605\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vanityfair.com\u0026#x2F;magazine\u0026#x2F;1996\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;wigand199605\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11833442","id":"11833502"}
{"by":"dmit","time":"1478541643","timestamp":"2016-11-07 18:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Similarly, UTF-8 was designed on a diner placemat.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk\u0026#x2F;~mgk25\u0026#x2F;ucs\u0026#x2F;utf-8-history.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk\u0026#x2F;~mgk25\u0026#x2F;ucs\u0026#x2F;utf-8-history.txt\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12892502","id":"12893215"}
{"by":"pmjordan","time":"1438586048","timestamp":"2015-08-03 07:14:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That seems a likely explanation. It seems unlikely that there were actually only 3 magi, considering the bible\u0026#x27;s obsession with numbers even in places where it\u0026#x27;s unlikely that the number is accurate. It seems to me the authors would have leapt at the opportunity of putting a 3 in there, had they seen fit.","parent":"9992695","id":"9994233"}
{"by":"Kaizyn","time":"1338633251","timestamp":"2012-06-02 10:34:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Prince is an excellent book. However, it provides practical and ruthless advice on how to run a country. It's insights into human nature aren't very helpful in how to perform in the business world.","parent":"4055805","id":"4057744"}
{"by":"cholantesh","time":"1484861058","timestamp":"2017-01-19 21:24:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, which is why I choose to scoff at conspiratorial rantings that are bereft of evidence.","parent":"13439562","id":"13439623"}
{"by":"ASquare","time":"1416582790","timestamp":"2014-11-21 15:13:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cheers!","parent":"8641569","id":"8641593"}
{"by":"darawk","time":"1501621774","timestamp":"2017-08-01 21:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No they\u0026#x27;re not. They\u0026#x27;re implemented in many altcoins. And to say that \u0026#x27;proposals\u0026#x27; are not efficient because they haven\u0026#x27;t been implemented is both semantically wrong, and an incredibly stupid point even if it weren\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"14905263","id":"14905352"}
{"by":"danieltillett","time":"1415967658","timestamp":"2014-11-14 12:20:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure. The more glass you have the more photons you can gather. I have a f1.2 50mm lense and the amount of photons it can pull in is amazing. There is no way any phone is going to be able to replicate this.","parent":"8606703","id":"8606772"}
{"by":"spatz","time":"1402308567","timestamp":"2014-06-09 10:09:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As the blog post says, the linux version has been 64-bit since 2009. So the problem must be windows API, not type sizes.","parent":"7867646","id":"7867702"}
{"by":"FunnyLookinHat","time":"1540990598","timestamp":"2018-10-31 12:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah I\u0026#x27;m running Pop OS as well.  Interestingly, it has the best Optimus support out of any distro I\u0026#x27;ve seen thus far.  It installed without issue and allows me to switch between graphics via a GUI (albeit requiring a reboot).\u003cp\u003eThe only issue I have with Pop is the name... and I guess that\u0026#x27;s something I can get over given how well it works. :)","parent":"18344141","id":"18345239"}
{"by":"jklukas","time":"1448899714","timestamp":"2015-11-30 16:08:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wanted to mention some things that are still struggles with our current platform at Simple.\u003cp\u003eMaintaining our Redshift schema can be time-consuming, especially since there can be upstream changes that affect the schema of the messages we consume, and we often aren\u0026#x27;t notified. We\u0026#x27;ll just be silently dropping the new columns, or loads into Redshift will start to fail. Postgres 9.5 is supposed to include DDL messages in logical decoding, which will help for our pipeline from Postgres databases, but we\u0026#x27;d love to develop a more robust system for automatically updating the Redshift schema to accommodate changes in the incoming data format. Naive solutions would likely be susceptible to unwanted behavior coming from spurious messages. We could end up with a large number of mostly empty columns in some cases.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;ve also had trouble maintaining knowledge about the schema. We\u0026#x27;d like to have some sort of \u0026quot;data dictionary\u0026quot; that would be available for folks to understand where the data in Redshift is coming from and what each of the columns mean. This might end up being a standalone document, but there\u0026#x27;s concern about it staying up to date with changes in the schema. We\u0026#x27;ve toyed with the idea of maintaining this sort of documentation as Javadoc-style comments directly in the repository where we define our Redshift schema and migrations, but we haven\u0026#x27;t found any existing tooling to render documentation from comments in SQL source files.","parent":"10614592","id":"10650065"}
{"by":"pveierland","time":"1493416123","timestamp":"2017-04-28 21:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Elon has stated that he believes it is possible to reduce tunnel creation speeds by 5 to 10 times, and that this is what they will work on doing:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;FPzpugrbwBE?t=120\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;FPzpugrbwBE?t=120\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14223281","id":"14223360"}
{"by":"dbancajas","time":"1488045804","timestamp":"2017-02-25 18:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also had this problem of difficulty getting in the zone.  I find that doing it constantly as a habit you get in the zone easily. Plus the knowledge will be stewed in your brain while you\u0026#x27;re at work. So you\u0026#x27;re not really only doing the project when sitting in front of the keyboard.","parent":"13732671","id":"13732830"}
{"by":"jimmytidey","time":"1474384022","timestamp":"2016-09-20 15:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Conceivably, you could have empirical evidence for multiple universes, at which point the anthropic principle becomes a normal explanation. Until then, obvious it remains a bit of a non-explanation.","parent":"12539938","id":"12540063"}
{"by":"im_down_w_otp","time":"1460062997","timestamp":"2016-04-07 21:03:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey, I\u0026#x27;m one of those people!\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, I am doing this, and the personal reason is for fault-tolerance and the professional reason (or how I get time to do it) is based on security criteria.","parent":"11450559","id":"11450703"}
{"by":"CWIZO","time":"1273788451","timestamp":"2010-05-13 22:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be absolutely lovely if you would force-install IE9 alongside lower versions, and use IE9's rendering engine from lower versions if a special meta tag would be present in the webpage.\nThat way you get all the backwards compatibility anybody will ever want, and we can finally forget about IE6\u0026#38;7(\u0026#38;8). Cheers!","parent":"1345128","id":"1345872"}
{"by":"michael_h","time":"1469724852","timestamp":"2016-07-28 16:54:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Smell of a storm: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Petrichor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Petrichor\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12178875","id":"12181436"}
{"by":"mbesto","time":"1439154614","timestamp":"2015-08-09 21:10:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Care to share how much you paid for it? I typically see north of $5k. For a \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e early stage company its hard to justify even just $5k.","parent":"10031449","id":"10031605"}
{"by":"jamie","time":"1381455037","timestamp":"2013-10-11 01:30:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting when read right after this from another z16z partner: \u003ca href=\"http://bhorowitz.com/2013/10/08/cash-flow-and-destiny/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bhorowitz.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;cash-flow-and-destiny\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6530536","id":"6531025"}
{"by":"ido","time":"1460186304","timestamp":"2016-04-09 07:18:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought so too, but recently upgraded to a broadwell i7 (4 cores, 8 threads) and compile times have fallen enormously.","parent":"11457947","id":"11460327"}
{"by":"jwdunne","time":"1512972510","timestamp":"2017-12-11 06:08:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grid Systems for Visual Design is on my list. I have Design Elements on there too.\u003cp\u003eAre there any other books you recommend?","parent":"15895151","id":"15895429"}
{"by":"kps","time":"1535740071","timestamp":"2018-08-31 18:27:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The French failed to make people use decimal time, and they had guillotines.","parent":"17886471","id":"17887789"}
{"by":"Balgair","time":"1501788304","timestamp":"2017-08-03 19:25:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mind if I turn the question upside-down? What would be features of a site that you would like for news?\u003cp\u003eIn browsing the comments:\u003cp\u003ePersonalization is super important. How would that be defined? How personal? How impersonal?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;Signal-to-noise\u0026#x27; is important. What does that mean for you? What is signal? Do you know before hand? Can you rank a few items that are more \u0026#x27;signal\u0026#x27; than \u0026#x27;noise\u0026#x27;? What is noise? Does that vary from day to day for you?\u003cp\u003eAddiction is important. What is \u0026#x27;addictive\u0026#x27; to you? Is that a good thing during some parts of the day and not others? Do you want your nephews to have access to that addictive news service? Do you want ot have a \u0026#x27;stop it\u0026#x27; button to stop yourself?\u003cp\u003eNew content is important. How new? What is content to you? What type of medium, like videos or text? A mix of many media? What languages and from what countries?\u003cp\u003eAny other ideas\u0026#x2F;important things to grep from this comments section?","parent":"14918647","id":"14922900"}
{"by":"willvarfar","time":"1317299140","timestamp":"2011-09-29 12:25:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"please someone post the APL program to do this!","parent":"3052144","id":"3052148"}
{"by":"qrmn","time":"1454008800","timestamp":"2016-01-28 19:20:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve experimented with doing this kind of thing myself, especially with servers where I don\u0026#x27;t have ready access to the console and where the provider doesn\u0026#x27;t offer custom ISO support and I wanted a clean (and\u0026#x2F;or customised) install, perhaps of something not yet supported.\u003cp\u003eWhile I did have some success with in-place install shenanigans, I eventually settled on creating a customised install ISO for the distribution I wanted (with a script to have it automatically listening for remote shell connections, and so on), using isohybrid on the ISO (which makes the ISO\u0026#x27;s first sector also a bootable MBR), and then simply dd if=install.iso of=\u0026#x2F;dev\u0026#x2F;sda - right over the top of the partition table and everything.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s inelegant, to say the very least, but it works just fine! I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure I saw that technique used a few times during Twitch Installs Arch Linux, during the more exotic segments when some joker hijacked the effort temporarily by installing Windows 95, and TempleOS, and so on.","parent":"10988735","id":"10990494"}
{"by":"phatak-dev","time":"1495024385","timestamp":"2017-05-17 12:33:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Using it with spark. Scala for spark is one of the biggest production use case for scalable.","parent":"14357603","id":"14357760"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1444739346","timestamp":"2015-10-13 12:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are cases where double taxation can occur that aren\u0026#x27;t covered under tax treaties. Consider an American working abroad going on a business trip to the USA. Depends in the country, you can be on the hook for taxes in both countries, where neither country recognizes the right of the other to tax.","parent":"10379714","id":"10379905"}
{"by":"thisisit","time":"1506230041","timestamp":"2017-09-24 05:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just wondering what is stopping coin-hive from making it mandatory for all their customers or website owners to ensure end user consent is required? They can add it within their ToS. Currently \u0026quot;We hope we can convince website\towner to integrate the miner in a way that is more meaningful and honest to their users.\u0026quot; sounds quite insincere.","parent":"15321505","id":"15323425"}
{"by":"tanderson92","time":"1437001518","timestamp":"2015-07-15 23:05:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please? tanderson@exherbo.org","parent":"9893274","id":"9894556"}
{"by":"Havoc","time":"1503171941","timestamp":"2017-08-19 19:45:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well I\u0026#x27;m sure there will be continuous improvement, but it\u0026#x27;ll be a case of shaving off miliseconds I think.\u003cp\u003eThe current crop of athletes have already essentially devoted their entire lives to eating\u0026#x2F;training etc just right so I think any further advances will be marginal. These aren\u0026#x27;t enthusiasts doing stuff on weekends anymore - they\u0026#x27;ve got state level backing and large scale selection from a young age (see China).\u003cp\u003e(Above excludes possibility of genetic engineering obv).","parent":"15052866","id":"15055200"}
{"by":"mapcar","time":"1416964797","timestamp":"2014-11-26 01:19:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Hadley, yes for instance\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; as.chron(\u0026quot;1970-01-01\u0026quot;)+unclass(as.chron(\u0026quot;2001-04-01\u0026quot;))\n[1] 04\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;01\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; as.POSIXct(\u0026quot;1970-01-01\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;EST\u0026quot;)+unclass(as.POSIXct(\u0026quot;2014-06-01\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;EST\u0026quot;))\n[1] \u0026quot;2014-06-01 05:00:00 EST\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIf there is any conversion necessary it is difficult to get back the original intended time.","parent":"8653643","id":"8660764"}
{"by":"Arizhel","time":"1489088257","timestamp":"2017-03-09 19:37:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Things like \u0026#x27;smartphone addiction\u0026#x27; are why I believe software developers should have a strong professional code of ethics.\u003cp\u003eWhat good is that going to do?  Software developers write software that they\u0026#x27;re told to.  If you say \u0026quot;this is unethical and I\u0026#x27;m not doing it\u0026quot;, your employer will fire you on the spot and find someone else.\u003cp\u003eAlso, what you\u0026#x27;re talking about is something that\u0026#x27;s far more visible to someone working at a high level, e.g. the architect.  An individual developer not only has no real power to change the system design, he also has limited visibility.","parent":"13830024","id":"13832558"}
{"by":"stevenj","time":"1306126128","timestamp":"2011-05-23 04:48:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's true.\u003cp\u003eBut IMO, to make it worthwhile, you still have to get the timing right. That's the hard part.\u003cp\u003eIdentifying a bubble is relatively easy. What you don't know is how big it'll get and when it'll pop.","parent":"2574969","id":"2574999"}
{"by":"jonas_b","time":"1221155542","timestamp":"2008-09-11 17:52:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, a Law firm that has 3m revenue per employee sounds a lot like a symptom of a system that's broken.\u003cp\u003eA real startup, to quote PG, would be the law firm that turns this multi-billion dollar market (Im just guessing here...) into a multi-MILLION dollar market.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I don't like lawyers.","parent":"301261","id":"301594"}
{"by":"happyslobro","time":"1473471465","timestamp":"2016-09-10 01:37:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone have experience running Flask at scale? I used it once, for a small internal reporting service, and was shocked to find that it was designed to process only a single request at a time, per process. Is this a problem in the real world, or do decent caching rules and query design render it a non issue?\u003cp\u003eWhat do flask apps do when they want a live connection to the client, or need to serve a heavy (slow) request? Communicate with a Node websocket server over a queue, and share a database?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t mean to disparage Flask. Their goal is to make it simple to stand up site with minimal boilerplate or bloat, and they succeeded at that.","parent":"12466625","id":"12467227"}
{"by":"dangerlibrary","time":"1430918830","timestamp":"2015-05-06 13:27:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If anything, that demo demonstrates how much more important getting the screen door effect under control is, as opposed to increased resolution.","parent":"9498192","id":"9498396"}
{"by":"plonh","time":"1438569435","timestamp":"2015-08-03 02:37:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is SFBA sacrosanct? Open a startup in Kansas City.","parent":"9992835","id":"9993431"}
{"by":"posguy","time":"1503867831","timestamp":"2017-08-27 21:03:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but then it won\u0026#x27;t auto-update, requires the user to make more than a minimal effort to install, etc.","parent":"15112675","id":"15112696"}
{"by":"nnnnni","time":"1409831876","timestamp":"2014-09-04 11:57:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You do have a good point there about clones... but is pop-cap sue-happy like King?","parent":"8267529","id":"8267701"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1427638438","timestamp":"2015-03-29 14:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If this is China doing this, it makes me so upset the US has spent years and billions of dollars building up their economy instead of countries like Mexico.\u003cp\u003eOur relationship with them is almost as bad as our middle-eastern oil addiction.","parent":"9284226","id":"9284868"}
{"by":"mapster","time":"1331227342","timestamp":"2012-03-08 17:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried or considered launching your business until you have customers and are back in black, then make the transition? also - leave as many doors open as possible. Much success!","parent":"3676076","id":"3680614"}
{"by":"fghh45sdfhr3","time":"1359043912","timestamp":"2013-01-24 16:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is you can't talk to your immune system to explain why it should leave those particular viruses alone.","parent":"5109503","id":"5110223"}
{"by":"unimpressive","time":"1444165150","timestamp":"2015-10-06 20:59:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is a really confusingly written article, but the study does seem to say what is claimed.","parent":"10342101","id":"10342342"}
{"by":"mannykannot","time":"1468156884","timestamp":"2016-07-10 13:21:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sorry, I may have been ambiguous. I was actually wondering what the best engineer does.","parent":"12063890","id":"12065484"}
{"by":"bjwbell","time":"1415549318","timestamp":"2014-11-09 16:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was it \u003ca href=\"http://www.monasteryofstjohn.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.monasteryofstjohn.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e? I grew up there (the town not the monastery).","parent":"8579001","id":"8580120"}
{"by":"nhangen","time":"1297312934","timestamp":"2011-02-10 04:42:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd prefer to call it the new set top box revolution: Roku, Boxxee, Apple TV, Google TV.\u003cp\u003eStill, they aren't catching on, and I can't tell if it's because of Netflix's ability to be everywhere, or if it's the cable networks blocking the momentum. I suspect it's a bit of both.","parent":"2200757","id":"2200808"}
{"by":"laurent123456","time":"1436270270","timestamp":"2015-07-07 11:57:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not to mention that it requires node.js, which is quite a massive dependency.","parent":"9844758","id":"9844844"}
{"by":"znarfdwarf","time":"1341862084","timestamp":"2012-07-09 19:28:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"a little bit of this, a little bit of that... I can't get the idea behind this \"framework\"... what do image steganography and web cartography have in common? Should a framework really cover these two orthogonal topics? Besides that, 0x.js could have been a nice name for a js binary manipulation lib.","parent":"4218952","id":"4219937"}
{"by":"oneweekwonder","time":"1515697199","timestamp":"2018-01-11 18:59:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; save you from having to support internet explorer, did it?\u003cp\u003eI showed IT how we can keep firefox updated on all our machines using AD.\u003cp\u003eExternal sites said best viewed with firefox and mentioned ie6\u0026#x2F;ie8 a steph-child.\u003cp\u003eMy solution not acceptable for everybody, but my employers were happy and I could continue being productive without worrying to much about ie.","parent":"16125121","id":"16126673"}
{"by":"austincheney","time":"1482424651","timestamp":"2016-12-22 16:37:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.civicyouth.org\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;CIRCLE_..\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.civicyouth.org\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;CIRCLE_...\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eTurns out I was wrong. Youngsters aren\u0026#x27;t 6% of the vote, but closer to about 9%. Still tiny though. The data indicates people who are registered voters are about twice as likely to become a voter after the age of 25.","parent":"13238219","dead":true,"id":"13238352"}
{"by":"wyager","time":"1468454026","timestamp":"2016-07-13 23:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Monadic error handling deals with this in a vastly superior way. Essentially, automate away the boiler plate. Even Java-style exceptions are better.","parent":"12090370","id":"12090687"}
{"by":"tly_alex","time":"1417651864","timestamp":"2014-12-04 00:11:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rekognition API released similar image to text API and it\u0026#x27;s much more reliable than this. At least the demo works smooth and response fast.\n\u003ca href=\"https://rekognition.com/demo/concept\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rekognition.com\u0026#x2F;demo\u0026#x2F;concept\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8696478","id":"8697167"}
{"by":"susw","time":"1487173905","timestamp":"2017-02-15 15:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use \u0026#x27;=\u0026gt;\u0026#x27; instead of \u0026#x27;-\u0026gt;\u0026#x27; to automatically bind \u0026#x27;this\u0026#x27;.","parent":"13652623","id":"13652825"}
{"by":"mpyne","time":"1390005538","timestamp":"2014-01-18 00:38:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wonderful article, though I got slightly distraught once he got through all that hard math only to state essentially that it would get more interesting below the fold.\u003cp\u003eI used to understand some of that (Taylor and Maclaurin series). I think the \u0026quot;Integral Test\u0026quot; had been my high-water mark, it\u0026#x27;s amazing to see how much further the mathematical concepts can be carried.","parent":"7078744","id":"7079474"}
{"by":"tyfon","time":"1483714457","timestamp":"2017-01-06 14:54:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a Norwegian I support this. However it would be better to focus on 4g + streaming rather than DAB.","parent":"13333570","id":"13336625"}
{"by":"jfoster","time":"1403741760","timestamp":"2014-06-26 00:16:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as they keep the value of the devices lower than the cost of attending, that incentive ought to be minimized. I think they may have done giveaways in the past that were worth more than the ticket price, though.","parent":"7946150","id":"7947495"}
{"by":"blaquee","time":"1501789982","timestamp":"2017-08-03 19:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That tweet was in 2013 however.","parent":"14922686","id":"14923157"}
{"by":"viandante","time":"1322120989","timestamp":"2011-11-24 07:49:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Me neither, that is why I am asking.\u003cp\u003eI am building my github profile (\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/kfk/proj00\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/kfk/proj00\u003c/a\u003e, to polish a lot), but I noticed it is a slow process. When I can talk with people with knowledge, even for a short time, it boosts a lot my learning.\u003cp\u003eMaybe is more something like a mentor I should look for. Don't know.","parent":"3271868","id":"3273562"}
{"by":"ThomPete","time":"1457041124","timestamp":"2016-03-03 21:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree\u003cp\u003eFor web it\u0026#x27;s more important to have vertical element rhythm.","parent":"11219385","id":"11220246"}
{"by":"cure","time":"1533753797","timestamp":"2018-08-08 18:43:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or why some people say never talk to the police: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vice.com\u0026#x2F;en_us\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;mvkgnp\u0026#x2F;law-professor-police-interrogation-law-constitution-survival\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vice.com\u0026#x2F;en_us\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;mvkgnp\u0026#x2F;law-professor-poli...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17718125","id":"17718317"}
{"by":"crispytx","time":"1505177309","timestamp":"2017-09-12 00:48:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article made me giggle. The truth is the real degrees are just as worthless.","parent":"15222398","id":"15223858"}
{"by":"gmiller123456","time":"1492799826","timestamp":"2017-04-21 18:37:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are several ways to do depth mapping with just a single camera.  Structure from Motion, and Multiple View Geometry are a couple.  Of course, more sensors will usually provide better data.  I imagine there are plenty of situation where this app with behave poorly (e.g. low light, scenes with little texture), they just don\u0026#x27;t show it in the demo.","parent":"14157675","id":"14168106"}
{"by":"diminish","time":"1397974937","timestamp":"2014-04-20 06:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the case of western marriage, where love, commitment are the emotional glues and financials are not outspoken diamonds are well positioned. But hope Wedcoin  succeeds..Wedcoins ensure a cryptographically secure financial marriage bond. (just imagining:-)","parent":"7615920","id":"7616057"}
{"by":"conradev","time":"1522718509","timestamp":"2018-04-03 01:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; When bad people use roads and electricity, you do not cut it off for the rest of society, or blame the roads for bad things\u003cp\u003eNo – instead, the government passes regulation to minimize the number of people that die on the roads. Your car needs to meet safety standards to drive on the road, it needs to be registered with the government, and you need to be licensed to drive it.\u003cp\u003eThings that become interwoven in the fabric of society don\u0026#x27;t automatically just get a free pass. I would say the opposite happens, actually.","parent":"16739818","id":"16741104"}
{"by":"digitalengineer","time":"1389797061","timestamp":"2014-01-15 14:44:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...Hello Dave. What are you doing here Dave?\u0026quot;... (Hal)","parent":"7063490","id":"7063563"}
{"by":"JDDunn9","time":"1361053593","timestamp":"2013-02-16 22:26:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The world doesn't have to be evenly divided. Just because you see a group of people that are under-represented in a field doesn't mean it needs to be adjusted. We don't need to push for more white people in the NBA. We don't need to push for more men to become nurses. We need to push for equality of opportunity, not outcome.","parent":"5232909","id":"5233305"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1531232789","timestamp":"2018-07-10 14:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Schemaless\u0026quot; here just means the default relational mechanisms don\u0026#x27;t work well for my use case for some reason.\u003cp\u003eAgreed, but you\u0026#x27;re basically doing things as they should be done. Not using the schema in a relational database because of valid reasons, still validating the schema, etc. I\u0026#x27;m not sure if you\u0026#x27;re agreeing or if you meant it as a different viewpoint, but it sounds like we agree.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; But some schema always exists, and no matter how you slice it, you can not escape from issues of dealing with schema changes.\u003cp\u003eThis is why I hate it when people say \u0026quot;oh I use MongoDB because I don\u0026#x27;t want to have to bother with migrations\u0026quot;. No, your schema is always going to change, you\u0026#x27;re just going to migrate things in an ad-hoc manner instead of with a well-thought-out, established process.","parent":"17497765","id":"17498367"}
{"by":"gragas","time":"1495244389","timestamp":"2017-05-20 01:39:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His people are using Russian mediums of communication. Banning them is like denying reality. Perhaps Poroshenko is engaged in a war against Russia, but clearly a lot of his people are not.","parent":"14378388","id":"14380582"}
{"by":"gregjor","time":"1416313832","timestamp":"2014-11-18 12:30:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you can charge $250 an hour \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e work 2,000 hours per year, your gross will be $500K. That\u0026#x27;s probably not realistic. Regardless of your rate you are not likely to have 2,000 billable hours per year as a freelancer. What you can charge depends on your skills, the demand for those skills, and keeping your pipeline of work full. How many billable hours you can work depends on the projects, your energy and dedication, how organized you are, and your quality of life choices.\u003cp\u003eAs a freelancer you will have higher taxes. You may have to pay for lawyers and accountants. You won\u0026#x27;t have employer-paid health insurance or retirement benefits. You won\u0026#x27;t have paid vacation time. You probably won\u0026#x27;t get stock options or equity. You will have downtime when you have no projects or you are waiting for your client(s) to make decisions or deliver something. You will probably spend a considerable amount of unbillable time finding clients and projects, negotiating contracts, and various marketing and administrative chores. You will probably have to learn new tools, languages, and application domains on your own time. You may miss working with other programmers and being part of a team.\u003cp\u003eSome people choose freelancing because they can make more money. Some people choose freelancing because they want more control over their time, or they don\u0026#x27;t want to be stuck in a cubicle job. I started freelancing because I was working as a salaried employee at a company that was slowly dying, and I wanted to have a backup plan. Then I decided I could travel and work remotely since I wasn\u0026#x27;t working on-site anyway.\u003cp\u003eHaving a marketable speciality helps, especially if you can build a reputation around it. \u003ci\u003eMarketable speciality\u003c/i\u003e doesn\u0026#x27;t just mean an unusual skill or talent; you need to have a skill or talent you can get paid for. Back in the minicomputer days of the 70s and early 80s I freelanced doing performance analysis and improvement on PICK and PR1ME computers. That was a lucrative speciality for a while, because those systems were fairly popular, and buying faster hardware was prohibitively expensive. Now hardware and cloud computing power is cheap, so a slow web app can be made faster by throwing RAM and CPU at it. I\u0026#x27;m not saying your skill isn\u0026#x27;t valuable, just that you need to be careful not to back yourself into a niche that has other, cheaper, solutions.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t work 2,000 billable hours a year. Instead I have more free time to do what I want to do. I live in places that are cheaper than the US, sometimes a lot cheaper, so I can work less and enjoy an equivalent or better quality of life.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think you\u0026#x27;re missing anything. You have to weigh the pros and cons of a full-time salaried job and everything that comes with it against freelancing and decide which is best for you.","parent":"8620529","id":"8623585"}
{"by":"dman","time":"1281714126","timestamp":"2010-08-13 15:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about using google checkout or amazon payments. Both of them allow for recurring payments afaik.","parent":"1601156","id":"1601208"}
{"by":"mysterydip","time":"1502990638","timestamp":"2017-08-17 17:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I, for one, am glad it came up. I\u0026#x27;ve been fretting about how to do such a thing for a multiplayer game I\u0026#x27;m working on, but couldn\u0026#x27;t remember the name of the technique to look up. Thanks to the post and the comments here, I have plenty to use for a solution.","parent":"15037332","id":"15038810"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1461968092","timestamp":"2016-04-29 22:14:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;d even be that hard. Unless new mined blocks are untraceable (as in, it\u0026#x27;s impossible to see which fees went to which new coins), then it provides no covering at all. It\u0026#x27;s the same as sending small amounts from one address to another.","parent":"11598867","id":"11599112"}
{"by":"rahimnathwani","time":"1508683004","timestamp":"2017-10-22 14:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Summary: Except for auto dealerships, retailers don\u0026#x27;t use personalized prices.\u003cp\u003eWhat a terrible article:\u003cp\u003e1) Its first example of \u0026quot;personalized pricing\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t actually personalised: it was the result of an A\u0026#x2F;B test.\u003cp\u003e2) It says \u0026#x27;Outsize profits can be extracted from “top of the demand curve” customers\u0026#x27; when, in fact, the top of the demand curve is normally when price is zero. The author seems to acknowledge this as they reference \u0026#x27;the downward sloping demand curve highlighted in Economics 101\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003e3) The only convincing example given in the article is that of \u0026#x27;auto dealerships\u0026#x27;, which are the \u003ci\u003eleast typical\u003c/i\u003e retailers there are. People hate going to auto dealerships, but they love doing other types of shopping, in-person or online. Part of the reason is the personalized pricing (and process of haggling), but this has existed for many years, and the rise of the internet has actually made it easier for consumers, not harder, to get a reasonable deal.\u003cp\u003e4) \u0026quot;A key question is whether personalized pricing, on the web or in-store, is ethical.\u0026quot; A better question would be \u0026#x27;How do retailers use personalized prices?\u0026#x27;. That\u0026#x27;s the question I thought would be answered, given the title. The author\u0026#x27;s answer seems to be \u0026quot;Except for auto dealerships, they don\u0026#x27;t\u0026quot;.","parent":"15524545","id":"15527011"}
{"by":"bleongcw","time":"1445053307","timestamp":"2015-10-17 03:41:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Synopsis: Charles Reed Anderson, Vice President, Head of Mobility and Internet of Things Asia Pacific, IDC, joined us in a conversation to discuss all things enterprise mobility in Asia Pacific. We discussed the recent report “Enterprise Mobility in Asia Pacific 2015” by IDC, where we defined the landscape of enterprise mobility, the key trends in how Asian companies are making decisions on the mobile device model and vendor selection, rules of governance from company to their users, the priorities for the companies in adopting mobility as a new channel, and last but the least, the threats and challenges that Asian companies faced in enterprise mobility. Last but not least, Charles also discussed the maturity level of countries in Asia Pacific in the adoption of enterprise mobility and which companies in countries within the Asia Pacific are likely to move up the enterprise mobility ladder in the next 12 to 24 months.","parent":"10403313","id":"10403314"}
{"by":"jlg23","time":"1454849038","timestamp":"2016-02-07 12:43:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve taken quite a lot of flights where there either was no business or first class or, if there was a business class, it was only marginally more expensive than cattle^weconomy class. Traveling through South America for 14 months now, the average economy seat is about 80USD per hour of flight if bought directly at the airport. How do they make a profit if your calculation is correct? (And I am not talking about the probably heavily subsidized regional airlines that get you from one jungle airfield to another and are the only means of getting to lots of places.)","parent":"11052629","id":"11052665"}
{"by":"earendil","time":"1390208988","timestamp":"2014-01-20 09:09:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"zakn, since you said you\u0026#x27;re still trying to figure out where hike.io stands in the internet of hiking, you should know there is an app called \u0026quot;Yonder\u0026quot; that focuses on high quality photos of the outdoors, submitted by members of the Yonder community (who are by design mostly hiking types). They have an iPhone app and have a UI modeled after Instagram. I\u0026#x27;ve used it to find hikes around my area. You should check it out for the some of the social-oriented features it has.","parent":"7087927","id":"7088381"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1426197144","timestamp":"2015-03-12 21:52:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you explain in detail how an HFT would use an FPGA to \u0026quot;front-run\u0026quot; a trade? I suspect you\u0026#x27;re using that term differently than either professionals or the SEC do.","parent":"9192402","id":"9194183"}
{"by":"resu_nimda","time":"1403110965","timestamp":"2014-06-18 17:02:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, one of the big lessons of running an internet-based business (or any business, really) is \u0026quot;don\u0026#x27;t build your business on top of third-party services that you have no contract with or control over.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAs you\u0026#x27;ve seen, you can have the rug swept out from under you overnight and there\u0026#x27;s nothing you can do about it. That\u0026#x27;s why people are so dismissive of SEO, it (mostly) doesn\u0026#x27;t create actual value and it\u0026#x27;s subject to the whims of Google. Your parents fell into that trap.\u003cp\u003eAs jacques said, \u0026quot;the most solid way to grow a business is to find your customers through references and to keep them happy.\u0026quot; The old-fashioned way never fails. Get out there and make some people so happy they want to tell all their friends.","parent":"7910930","id":"7911190"}
{"by":"zamfi","time":"1543253821","timestamp":"2018-11-26 17:37:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, and also making that house, or land, or taxes produce 4x as much energy is categorically different form reducing the cost of existing 22%-efficiency panels by 75%.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s because higher-energy-per-unit-area panels increases the efficiency of land use, which drives all the other costs you list: land acquisition, taxes, customer acquisition, etc.","parent":"18517984","id":"18535121"}
{"by":"cullenking","time":"1262626154","timestamp":"2010-01-04 17:29:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First off, wow!  Thanks for  taking the time to provide us with so many good points; it's hard to see many of the things you mention from a fresh perspective, as I have been staring at this project for a long while.\u003cp\u003eThere is no option to hide your location, however it doesn't get more specific than the zip/city even if you used an actual home address to set the zip/city/etc.  However, I agree it should be hidden and consider it done.  Easy to add, I'll do so today.  I have talked to a few people about adding a 'fuzz' factor to routes, so that the start/end doesn't touch your house.  I am not sure how I want to implement this yet, so it hasn't been done.  but, it is being thought about!\u003cp\u003eSoon we will have photo geotagging on routes.  Should be an easy enough task, it's just been on the todo while we make what we have more solid.  I like the Flickr integration and will investigate it.\u003cp\u003eI will clarify the email address hiding stuff, thanks for pointing out the confusion.\u003cp\u003eI haven't investigated how to assign timezone based on zip/city, but I would be surprised if Google doesn't provide that with geolocation information.\u003cp\u003eThanks for reminding me about the weight problem.  I will flag it as needing change, so your base weight is on your profile and gear weight on the bike.  Additionally, I know people that want to track individual weight per ride, so I'll have to probably default to a riders last ride weight, profile weight or inputted weight when they log an activity.\u003cp\u003eRoute planning currently does allow markers, they are called 'course points' (according to garmin), but that name is not too friendly.  I'll massage that, but, you can currently add markers around the route it's just a kludgy UI.  I am reworking that really soon, after I finish my week long list of bug fixes/improvements.\u003cp\u003eWe have been working on multiple route display/comparison, including segment matching (same leg of even different trips), but it's very rough and not forward to the public.  It will be cleaned up, released and expanded soon.\u003cp\u003eI agree the embed is ugly, it's just been so easy to forget it exists!  It's on the list, highlighted, including adding more options for the person doing the embedding.\u003cp\u003eThe product will always be free, but to a limited ability.  I agree however, we have not expressed that very well.  I'll sit down with Zack and Cam and come up with some explicit language that will help people with this.\u003cp\u003eWe plan on adding events, most likely as a premium feature.  I would love to have cyclists register and appear on the list of an event, with some way of showing it in their profile.  We have been talking about this for a while, but haven't nailed anything down.  It needs to (and will) be done before spring, when the riding season starts really taking off.\u003cp\u003eThanks again for sharing our site around and generating the exposure.  Traffic is already way up from both this post and your forum, so it is MUCH appreciated.  I'll jump on that forum as well and get involved with the discussion.   Additionally, I'll bug you later today when I have implemented some of your suggestions.","parent":"1030098","id":"1030694"}
{"by":"WhitneyLand","time":"1476203713","timestamp":"2016-10-11 16:35:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, my mistake.  Main point stands, helps to have some plain english.","parent":"12685789","id":"12685964"}
{"by":"ebcode","time":"1541018100","timestamp":"2018-10-31 20:35:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the login page cached in my browser, so there\u0026#x27;s a bit of javascript that pops up an alert.\u003cp\u003eThey suffered a major DDOS attack a while back, and I\u0026#x27;m guessing that their servers being down intermittently is going to be part of their normal operations.","parent":"18348871","id":"18349077"}
{"by":"omginternets","time":"1525087306","timestamp":"2018-04-30 11:21:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And again, the entire point being made is that it\u0026#x27;s damn-near impossible to soundly reason about the GDPR.\u003cp\u003eThis is, \u003ci\u003eagain\u003c/i\u003e, because the legal text is ambiguous.","parent":"16957542","id":"16957619"}
{"by":"filpen","time":"1390465569","timestamp":"2014-01-23 08:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I live in Leipzig and I have no name on the doorbell near my flat door. If they deliver a packet to a neihgbor I have to go out and ring the doorbell at the entrance, or guess which apartment it is :)","parent":"7104096","id":"7107411"}
{"by":"canatan01","time":"1334733686","timestamp":"2012-04-18 07:21:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not gone. I just saw it on \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855262\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855262\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3856705","id":"3856897"}
{"by":"w1ntermute","time":"1333332777","timestamp":"2012-04-02 02:12:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Remember that only landholders could vote - they made distinctions based on wealth and status.\u003cp\u003eWow, I definitely didn't know this. From when were non-landholders (i.e., all adult white male citizens) allowed to vote?","parent":"3785750","id":"3785932"}
{"by":"inostia","time":"1532640522","timestamp":"2018-07-26 21:28:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s nothing stopping the companies from providing a dine-out per diem if they choose to. They could for example form relationships with local eateries to subsidize those meals either in full or through discounts, which would support the local economy but also provide that benefit to employees. But of course it\u0026#x27;s cheaper for them if they control the entire operation.","parent":"17621272","id":"17621368"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1525183429","timestamp":"2018-05-01 14:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can do non-targetted ads without explicit consent as far as I understand. You only need it for the extra personal information use. Sure it\u0026#x27;s a bit worse for the publishers. (But I\u0026#x27;m happy with that)","parent":"16966990","id":"16967083"}
{"by":"monocasa","time":"1515357236","timestamp":"2018-01-07 20:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only 8x PCI-E 3.0?  That\u0026#x27;s a little on the low side for a regular card, not to mention chips on the same interposer, no?","parent":"16092192","id":"16092529"}
{"by":"knd775","time":"1457545417","timestamp":"2016-03-09 17:43:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FDE on Android still leaves a lot to be desired. It hardly stands up to Apple\u0026#x27;s implementation. The only time that any data is encrypted is when the device is off or a volume is unmounted.","parent":"11249581","id":"11254383"}
{"by":"nayshins","time":"1404758518","timestamp":"2014-07-07 18:41:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location:            Chicago\nRemote:              Not necessary \nWilling to Relocate: yes\nTechnologies:        Proficient(Ruby, JS) Learning(Python, Java)\nResume:              www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;jakenations\u0026#x2F;\nEmail:               jnations1214@gmail.com\u003cp\u003eFormer finance professional turned web developer looking for a junior position. I am willing to relocate.","parent":"7970405","id":"8000534"}
{"by":"jgeorge","time":"1370881156","timestamp":"2013-06-10 16:19:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you find yourself in this position ever, do yourself a favor and try to avoid this immediate \u0026quot;jump to make it as close to Linux as possible\u0026quot;. I know several people who\u0026#x27;ve had this opinion (being hardcore Linux users) and of those, a few have moved over to OS X (one kicking and screaming, no less). The rush to \u0026quot;just make it look like Linux\u0026quot; is unneeded and probably counterproductive.\u003cp\u003eOS X is a terrible Linux machine, but it\u0026#x27;s an outstanding BSD machine. Rather than try to force it into what you know, give yourself a short time to get comfortable with the Linmux-\u0026gt;BSD shift and you\u0026#x27;ll find very little need to beat OS X into submission.","parent":"5851703","id":"5855381"}
{"by":"mark_l_watson","time":"1541588063","timestamp":"2018-11-07 10:54:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You definitely get +1 for writing the most true comment I have read today. This also happens in the Common Lisp world: there are old libraries that are very solid and useful even if they have not been modified for a while.\u003cp\u003eYears ago, I thought of writing a science fiction story predicated on the idea that in the far future that the world would run on ancient software that was proved correct and made perfect by being debugged over the centuries.","parent":"18397339","id":"18398332"}
{"by":"mgkimsal","time":"1321103481","timestamp":"2011-11-12 13:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But, it's about the only thing an end user can realistically do.\u003cp\u003eSpend a few hundred dollars on hardware - install once - things run faster.  Go about your business.\u003cp\u003eor\u003cp\u003eLearn to program in a variety of languages.  Join multiple projects.  Grab code, start hacking.  Lobby to get your patches accepted.  Deal with months of political infighting on various projects.  Consider forking projects because patches aren't accepted.  Deal with your contributions being removed or broken in future commits.  Contend with slower hardware during the months (or years) it takes for this process to occur for all the major programs you run (and forget about the dozens of smaller programs you use daily).\u003cp\u003eHrm... yeah, I can see why getting faster hardware is a tad silly.  Not sure what the OP was thinking.\u003cp\u003eGiven that it takes 2.1 seconds, can we assume that at least some of that time is physical loading from the drive, and has nothing to do with the actual program itself?  Faster hardware does indeed work.  And I'm saying this as someone with SSD lust, and can't quite justify the expense of a 256g or 512g SSD.  :/","parent":"3227684","id":"3227769"}
{"by":"malux85","time":"1466067715","timestamp":"2016-06-16 09:01:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People aren\u0026#x27;t robots. I quite like to have my personal email open just in case anything urgent comes in. I like to have my personal github logged in, just to see messages.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m still producing my work, in fact I\u0026#x27;m so far ahead of my colleagues, that I can take entire days off because I\u0026#x27;m delivering early.\u003cp\u003eIf somewhere told me I flat out couldn\u0026#x27;t use personal accounts I\u0026#x27;d tell them to f- off.\u003cp\u003eAlso - work is give and take - if work is not going to \u0026quot;give\u0026quot; a little, and let me use personal accounts, then I\u0026#x27;m not going to \u0026quot;give\u0026quot; you some extra time when production goes down out of hours, or there\u0026#x27;s a big push for a delivery.\u003cp\u003eAnywhere that\u0026#x27;s this inflexible is a crappy place to work, tell them to get bent.","parent":"11901937","id":"11914886"}
{"by":"hardwaresofton","time":"1535330124","timestamp":"2018-08-27 00:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re mistaking Haskell for Lisp?","parent":"17848292","id":"17848716"}
{"by":"andai","time":"1543657409","timestamp":"2018-12-01 09:43:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you ever tried a float tank? Most relaxing experience of my life. It\u0026#x27;s like a blindfold and earplugs but for all your other senses, too.","parent":"18572627","id":"18576083"}
{"by":"yesimahuman","time":"1229458564","timestamp":"2008-12-16 20:16:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What about multiple processes?  Threads and multiple processes are not the same, and using multiple processes cuts out a lot of the issues with threads while maintaining the concurrency.","parent":"399670","id":"399963"}
{"by":"cletus","time":"1299858627","timestamp":"2011-03-11 15:50:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; You're not really addressing the arguments presented in the linked post, you're just being snarky.\u003cp\u003eCorrect.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; ... the linked post makes some really good points.\u003cp\u003eNo, it doesn't (IMHO), hence my (admittedly) snarky response.\u003cp\u003eThe TL:DR version of the post is \"I'm used to Fahrenheit and like saying and hearing 'in the fifties'\". That's not an argument, it's an historical artifact (being what they were exposed and thus accustomed to) dressed up as preference.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; new things are not always necessarily better than old ones.\u003cp\u003eWho ever said they were? I cited specific examples. Please don't erect a straw man and put words in my mouth.\u003cp\u003eThe theme of what I said can be described as:\u003cp\u003e- people resist change; and\u003cp\u003e- when someone describes something as \"better\" what they normally mean is that they're used to it.","parent":"2313316","id":"2313711"}
{"by":"lawrencewu","time":"1479224927","timestamp":"2016-11-15 15:48:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but one could probably come up with codewords for any really personal reminders.","parent":"12958911","id":"12958967"}
{"by":"Cypher","time":"1453503730","timestamp":"2016-01-22 23:02:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bitcoin isn\u0026#x27;t really for the average consumer unless they want their files decrypted.","parent":"10956073","id":"10956141"}
{"by":"la_oveja","time":"1491486183","timestamp":"2017-04-06 13:43:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; My dream would be an android \u0026quot;distribution\u0026quot;, that doesn\u0026#x27;t rely on some murky \u0026quot;update by getting a new image somewhere if you\u0026#x27;re lucky enough that someone built one for your device\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eWhile drivers are supplied as binary blobs, this will be impossible.","parent":"14049473","id":"14050398"}
{"by":"base698","time":"1514080262","timestamp":"2017-12-24 01:51:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of this: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thelastpsychiatrist.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;hipsters_on_food_stamps_part_2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thelastpsychiatrist.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;hipsters_on_food_sta...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Why does her PhD make her more deserving that a welfare queen?  Because to The Chronicle, the PhD has value.  It doesn\u0026#x27;t.  I\u0026#x27;m not saying she isn\u0026#x27;t smart, I\u0026#x27;m saying the PhD in no way communicates to me she knows medieval history better than any D\u0026amp;D player.  She may know more, but how do I know?  I don\u0026#x27;t even find \u0026quot;MD\u0026quot; particularly valid, but at least you can sue a doctor.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; But my reason for showing you her is to highlight the perverse logic of the university which will doom us all: since the only maniacs who would ever hire these PhDs are universities, then the solution to their unemployment is more money for universities:","parent":"15995829","id":"15997442"}
{"by":"ftse","time":"1250374776","timestamp":"2009-08-15 22:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes he is.\u003cp\u003eHe also speaks his mind like every fat-mouthed, intelligent American from Franklin to Vidal did. So shut your trap and get on with life. lol.","parent":"765173","id":"765311"}
{"by":"Camillo","time":"1497833182","timestamp":"2017-06-19 00:46:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have a look at the \u0026quot;Treatise\u0026quot; section of this page: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiktenauer.com\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fiore_de%27i_Liberi\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiktenauer.com\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fiore_de%27i_Liberi\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpand one of the sections, like Grappling. Every move has a picture and an accompanying explanation. Nice!","parent":"14579530","id":"14583848"}
{"by":"jonathan-kosgei","time":"1524076283","timestamp":"2018-04-18 18:31:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi f2n, thank you for raising this concern. is_tor and is_anonymous are true for any and all nodes on the Tor network. I\u0026#x27;d love to hear more about your concerns, please send me an email at jonathan at ipdata dot co","parent":"16869721","id":"16869745"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1408988041","timestamp":"2014-08-25 17:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is anyone here just as surprised about the existence of \u0026quot;git replace\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eDoes it does it do what I think it does -- let you rewrite history and keep the rest of commit ids the same?\u003cp\u003eI thought that would be impossible up to this point (as in you could re-write all your commits, filter some, presumably with some secret passwords or something, but then you\u0026#x27;d end up with different commit ids).","parent":"8222060","id":"8222833"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1375191916","timestamp":"2013-07-30 13:45:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A slight correction in that if you examine the logs on any SSH server connected to the net you\u0026#x27;ll see an absolute flood of Chinese (and other) compromised windows boxes trying to brute force (sorta) passwords for the root account using ssh.\u003cp\u003eSo if you disable root logins, they have no idea what to use as a username.  Oh sure someone who personally knows which machine you maintain might be able to guess jonwood is your username or my username is vlm... but they\u0026#x27;ll never be able to log in as root and botnets aren\u0026#x27;t smart enough to try anything else.  Aside from root, I wouldn\u0026#x27;t make your \u0026quot;primary user name\u0026quot; = \u0026quot;hostname\u0026quot; either.\u003cp\u003eThinking back at my occasional examination of logs, I don\u0026#x27;t know if I\u0026#x27;ve ever been scanned by bot nets trying Anything other than root as a username.  I\u0026#x27;m sure it happens, but I can\u0026#x27;t afford to spend 5 minutes per syslog line in my life either...","parent":"6125965","id":"6126863"}
{"by":"iscrewyou","time":"1544285499","timestamp":"2018-12-08 16:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still run Windows 7 in Parallels on my MacBook Pro.","parent":"18635186","id":"18635869"}
{"by":"vinay427","time":"1543423452","timestamp":"2018-11-28 16:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The majority may want a few projects that cost relatively little, but they clearly don\u0026#x27;t want as much as people in other cities that spend more on public transit and have more public transit infrastructure per capita. In other words, I\u0026#x27;m sure the majority is in favor of some public transit as an alternative, but the bar is far lower for being an alternative.\u003cp\u003eAlso, it goes without saying that LA County is not representative of \u0026quot;California culture.\u0026quot;","parent":"18552698","id":"18553017"}
{"by":"tomcam","time":"1528493613","timestamp":"2018-06-08 21:33:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You worded it perfectly. Here in the US, we call that “the free market“.","parent":"17268974","id":"17269893"}
{"by":"pixie_","time":"1361213771","timestamp":"2013-02-18 18:56:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You mean sit in front of my cable box and let me play games between commercials ;)","parent":"5239685","id":"5239889"}
{"by":"Laaw","time":"1458868777","timestamp":"2016-03-25 01:19:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should probably turn JS on, then, if you want to browse the modern web.","parent":"11357637","id":"11357873"}
{"by":"bradknowles","time":"1547270091","timestamp":"2019-01-12 05:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this a “let them eat cake” moment?","parent":"18886443","id":"18889796"}
{"by":"chriseidhof","time":"1288857680","timestamp":"2010-11-04 08:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of my friends pointed me to this site: \u003ca href=\"http://ruby-toolbox.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ruby-toolbox.com/\u003c/a\u003e, it's great for finding maintained plugins.\u003cp\u003eTo answer your question: I used thumbs_up for voting, acts_as_commentable for comments, clearance for authentication and paperclip for file uploads.\u003cp\u003eI found thumbs_up before I knew of ruby-toolbox: I went to the acts_as_voteable github page, clicked on \"Network\" and scrolled to the right as far as possible. Most rubyists are very active on github, and a lot of the packages are forked.","parent":"1868086","id":"1868105"}
{"by":"knowa42","time":"1544211813","timestamp":"2018-12-07 19:43:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People are angry at them because the herd-immunity they are compromising is the only thing keeping certain members of our population alive and healthy. There are some people who, for various reasons, CANNOT receive vaccinations. Not WILL not, or DO not, but CANNOT. When herd-immunity is compromised it\u0026#x27;s not just the anti-vaxxers children\u0026#x27;s lives that are at risk, it\u0026#x27;s everyone who doesn\u0026#x27;t GET the choice to vaccinate or not that are more vulnerable to disease since it can now spread through the population more easily.","parent":"18630805","id":"18630880"}
{"by":"dantheman","time":"1305419549","timestamp":"2011-05-15 00:32:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah my option is an annual lease, they can only change the rent @ the end of the lease (that's why the minimum when they go above the max is 1 year - basically you always have @ least a year at a predictable rate).","parent":"2548839","id":"2548963"}
{"by":"quesera","time":"1509765173","timestamp":"2017-11-04 03:12:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; grep -i gitlab|jira|confluence|whatever\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t name hosts after products!\u003cp\u003eBut more generally, you should never expose Confluence etc to the greater internet. That\u0026#x27;s just asking for trouble. It will find you, greppable hostname or not.","parent":"15623239","id":"15623592"}
{"by":"jbillingsley","time":"1288285195","timestamp":"2010-10-28 16:59:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't for the life of me remember what I put out on geocities but it was probably something to do with Star Wars. I think my username back then was Fett82. Good times...","parent":"1840481","id":"1843710"}
{"by":"dabernathy89","time":"1519229210","timestamp":"2018-02-21 16:06:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep. Just a couple weeks ago we bought Chemex coffee filters - the \u0026quot;Amazon\u0026#x27;s Choice\u0026quot; ones! We got a counterfeit that didn\u0026#x27;t even try to replicate the actual product (it was just sheets of tissue paper in the completely wrong shape). Looking at the reviews, we weren\u0026#x27;t the only ones who got these either.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B017OFOP68\u0026#x2F;ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_c_YofHAb9294KX5\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B017OFOP68\u0026#x2F;ref=cm_sw_r_em_api_c_Yo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;ve apparently since taken off the \u0026quot;Amazon\u0026#x27;s Choice\u0026quot; label here.","parent":"16429726","id":"16430422"}
{"by":"aragot","time":"1389432423","timestamp":"2014-01-11 09:27:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only woked in 3 companies in 7 years but on the field, women in IT benefit a lot from positive discrimination. In fact they\u0026#x27;re promoted to managing jobs much sooner after they ask than men \u003ci\u003eas far as I saw examples\u003c/i\u003e. Sexism is much more of a problem in the food industry and so on, so I would recommend IT jobs to girls if they want a great career with few hassles.\u003cp\u003eIn fact I recommend IT jobs to everyone. The social inabilities that goes with programming is a repellent for everyone, but c\u0026#x27;mon, we get to travel everywhere in the world, sit all day and watch gmail all the time. There couldn\u0026#x27;t be a more luxury job.\u003cp\u003eSo a problem is, articles about sexism don\u0026#x27;t match the observations I\u0026#x27;ve made on the field.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Added the last sentence and figures about my experience.","parent":"7041899","id":"7042135"}
{"by":"yosho","time":"1544557352","timestamp":"2018-12-11 19:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Getting a 404, anyone else?","parent":"18657545","id":"18658186"}
{"by":"habitue","time":"1447437182","timestamp":"2015-11-13 17:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe TV is an ideal medium for brand awareness campaigns, but it simply won\u0026#x27;t have a large enough audience at some point. It seems like these marketers jumped on digital during the hype phase, and were just ahead of the curve. Now they\u0026#x27;re in the \u0026quot;trough of disillusionment\u0026quot;, but eventually the number of eyeballs on TV will go below the point of cost effectiveness and digital will be what they have to use out of necessity.","parent":"10555247","id":"10561192"}
{"by":"jondubois","time":"1466896270","timestamp":"2016-06-25 23:11:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried it once. The tactile and auditory feedback was excellent - Great user experience!\u003cp\u003eMy main concern with it is accessibility...","parent":"11977248","id":"11978473"}
{"by":"merraksh","time":"1455726134","timestamp":"2016-02-17 16:22:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure where the click-bait is. The title of the article is consistent with the content, i.e., many beverages at Starbucks have a lot of sugar content. Whether that comes from adding sugar or adding ingredients which are naturally sweet is not the point of the article.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s probably important to note that it\u0026#x27;s not only \u0026quot;flavored\u0026quot; drinks, milk has quite a bit of sugar in it naturally,\u003cp\u003eTrue, but is milk the sole responsible for the high sugar content in a latte?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; the \u0026quot;special\u0026quot; milk which is used by some coffee places has about 9% fat and 2-3% carbohydrates which makes it worse than coke on it\u0026#x27;s own,\u003cp\u003eWell, if \u0026quot;special\u0026quot; means \u0026quot;processed\u0026quot;, then this again proves the point of the article. No matter where or how the sugar is added, these drinks have quite a lot of it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; skimmed usually have higher amounts of sugar to make it not taste like well the water it is\u003cp\u003eConfirms the point above.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s also probably worth noting that a Starbucks \u0026quot;Venti\u0026quot; size is more than double the the volume of a coke can to begin with so about 680ml (espresso shot which is used as the base is only about 30ml) of milk + couple of sugar spoons to make it sweet can easily get to 2-3 times the amount of sugar in coke\u003cp\u003ePerhaps not for the same volume. Many fast food chains sell sodas in cups that are 2-3 times the volume of a 33cl can.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; without even having to go overboard with crap like whipped cream and syrups.\u003cp\u003eAgain, consistent with the article\u0026#x27;s point. The numbers are there, and they seem to be higher than the recommended daily amount of sugar intake.","parent":"11118783","id":"11118889"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1376246457","timestamp":"2013-08-11 18:40:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They were explicitly seeding SecureRandom?","parent":"6195726","id":"6195737"}
{"by":"justcorrect","time":"1533589188","timestamp":"2018-08-06 20:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not a surprise with what the media has been doing. They\u0026#x27;ve done it for every (R) President, but it gets worse every time.  They protested Reagan, worried he was going to start a nuclear war with Soviet Russia. Worried he was going to take away rights from women.  Worried what he was going to do in Central America.  They called Bush 43 worse then Bin Laden, the worlds greatest terrorist. Hollywood commissioned movies like Fahrenheit 9\u0026#x2F;11 to try and conflate national tragedies with certain political views. Now with Trump, you have straight out suppression of certain viewpoints, implicit acceptance of violence against those in power, implicit acceptance of \u0026#x27;acceptable\u0026#x27; racism, and constant ratcheting up of rhetoric by those who lost. \nI remember what Jon Stewart said on the Daily Show in 2012, to Republicans.  \u0026quot;You LOST, it\u0026#x27;s SUPPOSED to taste like a shit sandwich!\u0026quot;","parent":"17699940","id":"17701748"}
{"by":"sitkack","time":"1395638576","timestamp":"2014-03-24 05:22:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You just mentioned two doublings like it was nothing. 4x salary. Not something that can be glossed over.","parent":"7451412","id":"7456862"}
{"by":"m_mueller","time":"1477362730","timestamp":"2016-10-25 02:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While I do that (it\u0026#x27;s the only time I have anyways), I also gotta mention that it did reduce some of my sleep, especially after White Christmas, that one really got to me.","parent":"12778069","id":"12784806"}
{"by":"alyandon","time":"1399918350","timestamp":"2014-05-12 18:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the quick response.  I just got through reading PROTOCOL.md and was about to update my post.","parent":"7734394","id":"7734423"}
{"by":"carusen","time":"1302653969","timestamp":"2011-04-13 00:19:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a result of the PageRank drop, the search traffic dropped by 35% - which is huge.","parent":"2439922","id":"2440045"}
{"by":"sklogic","time":"1450119179","timestamp":"2015-12-14 18:52:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! Did not know of this one.","parent":"10732397","id":"10732980"}
{"by":"jamesseda","time":"1277913273","timestamp":"2010-06-30 15:54:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to take this advice on a case by case basis.  At my last job they offered me a 10k raise as I was walking out the door, but also got upset when anyone used more than 3 sick days a year.   At my current job I take 4-8 weeks of paid vacation a year and probably could take more, but if I asked for a 10k raise they would tell me to move into sales.","parent":"1474723","id":"1475237"}
{"by":"itry","time":"1356718996","timestamp":"2012-12-28 18:23:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Synchronizing the clients is the hard part.","parent":"4978583","id":"4978771"}
{"by":"rachelbythebay","time":"1357614445","timestamp":"2013-01-08 03:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think I'll be using github for anything else.  There's too much stuff which can't be disabled, deleted, or otherwise hidden.\u003cp\u003eI don't like their idea of \"sharing\".","parent":"5024010","id":"5024666"}
{"by":"pronoiac","time":"1262770915","timestamp":"2010-01-06 09:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note: from 2006.","parent":"1034295","id":"1034452"}
{"by":"treebeard901","time":"1484869250","timestamp":"2017-01-19 23:40:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Whether the procedure costs $5 or $5000 is irrelevant\u003cp\u003eTo expand on this, it\u0026#x27;s impossible to compare prices between providers when the illness is known because the total cost is often not known until you receive a bill.","parent":"13440290","id":"13440494"}
{"by":"vacanti","time":"1287429622","timestamp":"2010-10-18 19:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, the space really helped.\u003cp\u003eWith regards to meeting investors, it's actually fairly easy. It's their job to meet with you. I would recommend meeting with the young VC's at firms first. You can also find investors at most tech events.","parent":"1804701","id":"1804756"}
{"by":"siscia","time":"1499101947","timestamp":"2017-07-03 17:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING FREELANCER\u003cp\u003eMarketing B2B\u003cp\u003eRemote\u003cp\u003eI have ready a quite expensive IoT product that I only need to sell.\u003cp\u003eThe product is already used in a company and I am already making contacts with other companies that may be interested.\u003cp\u003eI would need somebody taking care of the social\u0026#x2F;marketing\u0026#x2F;sale part of the project so I can keep improving the technical part.","parent":"14688685","id":"14689818"}
{"by":"oblio","time":"1476780782","timestamp":"2016-10-18 08:53:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that the 70 years thing is also to dis-incentivize killing the creator to cash in on his work a mere 10 years later. Though 70 years is overkill even in this regard, I doubt anyone would wait say, 20-30 years, for such a plan.","parent":"12731173","id":"12732973"}
{"by":"a2718766","time":"1398972899","timestamp":"2014-05-01 19:34:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"matasano - always hiring, never replying to emails. I passed the crypto challenge and took the suggestion to apply - no answer. So I asked tptacek why they didn\u0026#x27;t reply - he said that was definitely a mistake, and I should send my application again. Of course again I got no answer. The crypto challenge was enjoyable though, so thanks for that I suppose.","parent":"7681154","id":"7682202"}
{"by":"vonmoltke","time":"1446146766","timestamp":"2015-10-29 19:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also on hiring, I find the following passage wrongheaded and insulting:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe average employee received thirty-one hours of training over the year, which works out to more than thirty minutes each week. Why not front-load the investment and spend the majority of time and money on attracting, assessing, and cultivating new hires? If you are better able to select the right people up front, then you can spend less time on training bad hires and dealing with the consequences.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, only bad hires need training, and by extension anyone who needs training is a bad hire?  That\u0026#x27;s preposterous.  Training is a good thing, and 31 hours is right about where it should be.  It is the minimum required in most states to maintain a PE license[1] and many \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e engineering companies expect their engineers to take ~20 hours of job-related (as opposed to compliance-related) training every year.  That increasing numbers of companies are pulling funding for this kind of training is terrible, not something to be applauded and encouraged.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nspe.org\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;default\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;resources\u0026#x2F;pdfs\u0026#x2F;education\u0026#x2F;state_ce_requirements.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nspe.org\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;default\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;resources\u0026#x2F;pdfs\u0026#x2F;educa...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10472600","id":"10473623"}
{"by":"smt88","time":"1537066711","timestamp":"2018-09-16 02:58:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If Azure costs 10x what bare metal costs, it\u0026#x27;s choosing between 1% of my tech budget or 0.1%. I doubt the multiplier is that bad, but bare metal isn\u0026#x27;t a consideration either way.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also some good integration with PM and IDE software that we use and enjoy.","parent":"17996916","id":"17997096"}
{"by":"tzs","time":"1401310606","timestamp":"2014-05-28 20:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That math works fine, as we can verify by looking at the numerous prior societies that successfully did this. It\u0026#x27;s easy to overlook them, because they didn\u0026#x27;t call their workers \u0026quot;robots\u0026quot;. They called them \u0026quot;slaves\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;serfs\u0026quot;.","parent":"7812692","id":"7812876"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1434653295","timestamp":"2015-06-18 18:48:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, \u003ci\u003eI\u003c/i\u003e say avoision.","parent":"9740580","id":"9740782"}
{"by":"DocSavage","time":"1197545244","timestamp":"2007-12-13 11:27:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's over at Adobe Labs:\n\u003ca href=\"http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"89069","id":"89112"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1321572548","timestamp":"2011-11-17 23:29:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Public funding.\u003cp\u003eIf getting information to the public about candidates costs money, then that's just another tragedy of the commons - an external cost of government that is simply ignored so that the rich and powerful can have government to themselves.  It is \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e easy to argue that informing the public about their options in an election is essential and should therefore be covered by public funds.","parent":"3249700","id":"3249728"}
{"by":"Bluestrike2","time":"1399938148","timestamp":"2014-05-12 23:42:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Class actions aren\u0026#x27;t about justice for individual plaintiffs. Hell, lawsuits in general aren\u0026#x27;t about getting justice for plaintiffs. In wrongful death cases, the courts can\u0026#x27;t wave their hands and bring the dead back to life. Money is used as an imperfect substitute. X died, and amount Y is what their life would have been worth. Not because people want to boil away everything that made that life what it was into a dollar amount, but because there\u0026#x27;s really no other option. That\u0026#x27;s not the same as an idealized sense of \u0026quot;justice\u0026quot; that people talk about when they state their intentions to \u0026quot;have their day in court.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAttorneys don\u0026#x27;t push for settlements because they\u0026#x27;re greedy or unethical; they try to settle because it\u0026#x27;s almost always better than litigating. Litigation is risky, and even strong claims can lose at trial. Neither side wants to roll the dice.\u003cp\u003eClass actions are almost exclusively about leveraging the individual class members into a means of stopping a given behavior rather than achieving significant compensation for them. And in most cases, you\u0026#x27;ll find that the behavior\u0026#x27;s effects are relatively limited on an individual basis, but significant when considered in aggregate.\u003cp\u003eLitigation is expensive. When you\u0026#x27;re looking at a case where litigating your claim can cost you well over 500k if you\u0026#x27;re \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e lucky, even significant awards can amount to nothing more than Pyrrhic victories. Even your average punitive damages, when they\u0026#x27;re granted, aren\u0026#x27;t necessarily sufficient to push you into the black.\u003cp\u003eIn this case, it\u0026#x27;s highly unlikely that any individual plaintiff could ever prove damages in excess of their legal costs. Individually, it\u0026#x27;s unlikely for the class members to come out ahead even assuming they\u0026#x27;re able to litigate in the first place. And they\u0026#x27;re damned sure unlikely to be able to change the behavior as a result.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s easy to complain about class actions but those complaints have to be put in perspective. Environmental law alone would be sufficient to prove my point. In any case, I\u0026#x27;d recommend this for a pretty well-balanced and fair primer to class actions (it\u0026#x27;s focused on procedure, but I think that\u0026#x27;s a good thing for this purpose):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://law.duke.edu/grouplit/papers/classactionalexander.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;law.duke.edu\u0026#x2F;grouplit\u0026#x2F;papers\u0026#x2F;classactionalexander.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7731756","id":"7735996"}
{"by":"Periodic","time":"1480961122","timestamp":"2016-12-05 18:05:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is cheapest in the short term is often not the best in the long run. Economics assumes that the long-term consequences are priced into all decisions, but those consequences may not be clear and people with limited means have to make some very hard trade-offs. The costs may also be put on society as a whole and not borne by the individual.  It can be helpful to limit those options as a society.\u003cp\u003eMy best guess at the risks is that we may lose something valuable as a society or damage mental health if we push people away from social interaction.  Many people will remain healthy, but those who are in difficult circumstances may find themselves on a downward spiral as they are further isolated from their communities.  What if your community doesn\u0026#x27;t have a large supermarket?  We talk about food deserts in the US right now, what if we have social deserts?\u003cp\u003eA simple example of short-term v long-term, look at soda and sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages.  They\u0026#x27;re extremely cheap.  Often less expensive than bottles of water in the US.  This encourages many people to buy them as they are a cheap source of calories and sweetness.  However, it\u0026#x27;s only many decades later that we\u0026#x27;ve discovered the damage they can do when consumed for long periods of time.  Many people consuming them don\u0026#x27;t have better food options.  A few cities are starting to tax them to make the costs more evident.\u003cp\u003eGasoline is another good example.  The US is addicted to cheap gasoline and doesn\u0026#x27;t know how to stop even though we are now aware of the potentially catastrophic consequences.","parent":"13107291","id":"13107597"}
{"by":"phreanix","time":"1276211308","timestamp":"2010-06-10 23:08:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What course?","parent":"1422058","id":"1422101"}
{"by":"almost","time":"1378968972","timestamp":"2013-09-12 06:56:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So in high school you were smart enough that you didn\u0026#x27;t have to work hard to understand and do well. So you never learnt good study skills or self discipline which, once things got beyond your ability to just understand, became a problem. This seems to be a common problem for smart kids.","parent":"6372441","id":"6372475"}
{"by":"saltvedt","time":"1375380688","timestamp":"2013-08-01 18:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My home municipality on the west coast of Norway sends their waste to Sweden to be burned. Before we did that, all households had to sort the waste into separate bins for plastic and organic waste. The organic waste were turned into compost locally. It changed because Miljøverndepartementet (Ministry of Environmental Protection) changed the regulations for depositing plastic waste. So many municipalities have trucks going \u0026quot;over the mountain\u0026quot; with waste to Sweden to be burned. And we actually have the ability to burn waste for energy here on the west coast of Norway, but I guess simply sending it to Sweden is cheaper. And it actually isn\u0026#x27;t quite as bad as it sounds like because many trucks also deliver manufactured goods from Sweden and would have return empty.\u003cp\u003eI have no idea what the net environmental benefit is (or if it even is positive (or if anyone really knows)).","parent":"6141641","id":"6142231"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1265379610","timestamp":"2010-02-05 14:20:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He means taking the source code for the compiler and running it through the compiler, then taking the \u003ci\u003esame\u003c/i\u003e source code and running it through the resulting compiler, etc.  Same source, new binaries every time.","parent":"1103185","id":"1103570"}
{"by":"OneOneOneOne","time":"1434578283","timestamp":"2015-06-17 21:58:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do these contain lead?  I wonder if this is good for export.\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, this looks like a plastic film.  Don\u0026#x27;t most plastics break down with exposure to the sun.  I wonder what the service life would be.\u003cp\u003eNot trying to be negative.  I would really love cheap solar panels.","parent":"9735498","id":"9735570"}
{"by":"hkon","time":"1482013526","timestamp":"2016-12-17 22:25:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I think they are wrong. I understand your point, but not your intention.\u003cp\u003eCultures are different. Some cultures are better than others. I think western culture is the best and I would like everyone to experience the same freedoms we do.","parent":"13202961","id":"13203046"}
{"by":"allanyu","time":"1348611175","timestamp":"2012-09-25 22:12:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://briefrelief.tumblr.com/post/32280507797/in-response\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://briefrelief.tumblr.com/post/32280507797/in-response\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4571551","id":"4572970"}
{"by":"janekm","time":"1523352184","timestamp":"2018-04-10 09:23:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Such a sensor (used to) exist, Foveon X3. It is very interesting as it also uses the differential absorption of different wavelengths of light at different depths in silicon to distinguish colours: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Foveon_X3_sensor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Foveon_X3_sensor\u003c/a\u003e\nIt had various advantages, and some disadvantages related to distinguishing colours, but ultimately wasn’t very successful in the market despite getting shipped in some DSLRs, possibly due to the marketing challenges (Bayer array sensor manufacturers count each R\u0026#x2F;G\u0026#x2F;B sub pixel as part of their “megapixel” count, so the Foveon sensor appeared low resolution by that metric).","parent":"16799981","id":"16800064"}
{"by":"jernfrost","time":"1472726094","timestamp":"2016-09-01 10:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is a common rule in EU however that you can not favor one company over another. This is what is the issue here, not the specific tax rate. The EU isn\u0026#x27;t saying what tax rate Ireland may tax at simply that they have to treat every company the same.\u003cp\u003eHow do you think the single market would work if say Irish owned companies paid half the tax of spanish owned companies in Ireland?","parent":"12404162","id":"12404197"}
{"by":"dn5","time":"1412031127","timestamp":"2014-09-29 22:52:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for sharing your experience! Couple of questions\u003cp\u003eWhy implement the training in NodeJS and not use an existing library in R or Python (scikit-learn) and just implement the scoring (feedforward network) in Node?\u003cp\u003eDid you just use a single test\u0026#x2F;train split? What is the variation in Res if you run cross validation?\u003cp\u003eYour article suggests that you used MI to select the 10k best features. Did you perform this MI feature selection before your test\u0026#x2F;train split? If so, you would already be \u0026quot;using\u0026quot; your class labels, and the results will be biased. It is likely your true generalisation error will be lower.","parent":"8385270","id":"8385803"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1467261063","timestamp":"2016-06-30 04:31:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I actually expected Windows’ Syscall translation layer for Linux to block any such clearly destructive actions.\u003cp\u003eWell, I bet, if it blocked these actions, there would have been another blog complaining how the Linux subsystem is just a toy, goes against the Unix tradition of \u0026quot;can shoot yourself in the foot if you really want\u0026quot; etc etc.","parent":"12006285","id":"12006576"}
{"by":"tracker1","time":"1442596106","timestamp":"2015-09-18 17:08:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or, you just pay more for a car that has those performance characteristics both in taxes\u0026#x2F;registration fees and in fuel.\u003cp\u003eThat said, cheating like this is \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e bad on a very large scale, and should probably face fines and maybe criminal charges, unfortunately discovery is likely to fall outside U.S. juristiction so it would be hard to prove enough to bring criminal charges against the appropriate managers and executives.","parent":"10240175","id":"10240400"}
{"by":"bluewater","time":"1511433938","timestamp":"2017-11-23 10:45:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just finished my whole30 and it is indeed eye opening what’s in seemingly normal food like you mention. While it was a difficult month I do think it was a worthwile endeavor. Good luck to you!  P.S.  check your spices, some of those even have added ingredients for shelf life, anti-clumping, color, etc","parent":"15761377","id":"15764234"}
{"by":"whatnotests","time":"1498661512","timestamp":"2017-06-28 14:51:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They provide DNS and possibly more for Rubygems.org\u003cp\u003eGonna be a bad day for a lot of folks if that goes down too.","parent":"14654231","id":"14654612"}
{"by":"Crontab","time":"1519476623","timestamp":"2018-02-24 12:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve used the Windows XPS printer as well.","parent":"16448215","id":"16453047"}
{"by":"jotato","time":"1354654731","timestamp":"2012-12-04 20:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I have used them heavily and just like any other tool you need to know \u003ci\u003ewhen\u003c/i\u003e to use it. You fully misunderstand my statement, and that is probably my fault for being succinct. I wasn't saying that parallelism is the one-all solution, but rather I wouldn't shrug the research off as fallacy when they have a history of delivering.","parent":"4872459","id":"4873225"}
{"by":"sabbatical13","time":"1308705664","timestamp":"2011-06-22 01:21:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the tip!","parent":"2677152","id":"2681207"}
{"by":"abdulhaq","time":"1520512930","timestamp":"2018-03-08 12:42:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The amazing thing here is not that they took a photo of the same thing at the same time, but that this fact was discovered.\u003cp\u003eWith the vast data capture exercise that is the internet, coincidences and patterns can be identified in near real time. Making sense of it all, however, is not so quick :-)","parent":"16542395","id":"16543976"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1344232124","timestamp":"2012-08-06 05:48:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bear in mind that even DHH (creator of Rails) didn't feel like he got anywhere with learning to program until well into his 20s: \u003ca href=\"http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2582-how-do-i-learn-to-program/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://37signals.com/svn/posts/2582-how-do-i-learn-to-progra...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know plenty of programmers who are far better than me and have been doing it for a fifth of the time. It's a bit like art in that way. There's a lot you can learn over time and become \"wise\" about, but in terms of raw output, time isn't as relevant.","parent":"4343585","id":"4343956"}
{"by":"tgarma1234","time":"1472439172","timestamp":"2016-08-29 02:52:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or a rating system like how Uber works.  I mean the idea of getting into a car with a random stranger isn\u0026#x27;t that awesome of an idea and yet it works.  Maybe like \u0026quot;Perv:  3 stars.  Politics: 2 Stars.\u0026quot;  So that people who want to talk to perverts could find highly rated perverts easily.  Otherwise, you just talk to people who want to chat about general things.","parent":"12379240","id":"12379704"}
{"by":"lambdaphage","time":"1381347926","timestamp":"2013-10-09 19:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My graduate advisor is Spanish, but is faculty at a university in the States.  In his first year of teaching, he penalized for incorrect answers (as is apparently the Spanish custom).  But his students threw fits during office hours, so he caved in the face of potentially terrible teaching evaluations.\u003cp\u003eAfter tenure, he said, things will be going right back to the way they were in the old country.","parent":"6522298","id":"6523379"}
{"by":"dade_","time":"1519937370","timestamp":"2018-03-01 20:49:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is some missing math.  They likely have 30 or 40 payroll systems all up for renewal\u0026#x2F;replacement. \nThe old systems are probably loaded with features and forgotten requirements that would have been discovered during deployment.","parent":"16496004","id":"16496175"}
{"by":"sciwiz","time":"1356558577","timestamp":"2012-12-26 21:49:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think MMS support is only available if the sender is on Sprint.","parent":"4971032","id":"4971095"}
{"by":"icelancer","time":"1413399743","timestamp":"2014-10-15 19:02:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Nexus 6 not having a high-speed camera sensor is really disappointing. I was hoping Apple and Google would eventually break down the high-speed \u0026#x2F; slow-motion camera market, because industrial applications cost well into the multiple thousands of dollars for cameras not much better than the iPhone 6 with the only exception being that it is PC-controlled via software.\u003cp\u003eFrustrating.","parent":"8459205","id":"8460912"}
{"by":"gscott","time":"1382434108","timestamp":"2013-10-22 09:28:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google killed off comparison sites from the top of searches, if you can\u0026#x27;t find the comparison site it might as well not exist (or if it does it is spending tons on adwords to still be found).\u003cp\u003esearch compare prices on bikes brings up no comparison sites\u003cp\u003esearch compare prices on laptops brings up 2 comparison sites (one result per site)\u003cp\u003esearch compare prices on watches brings up 3 comparison sites (one result per site)\u003cp\u003esearch compare prices on software brings up 2 comparison sites (one result per site)\u003cp\u003eProblem is comparison sites spam the search engine listings pretty hard.  It\u0026#x27;s only a matter of time before Google decides to do something about it...","parent":"6590075","id":"6590642"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1403986840","timestamp":"2014-06-28 20:20:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Not all issues boil down to \u0026quot;economic impact\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eArguably, they really \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e, but you have to remember that economics is about the distribution of scarce things (both material goods and services) connected to \u003ci\u003eexperienced utility\u003c/i\u003e (money is just a -- rather poor in many respects, but also very convenient -- proxy for utility.)","parent":"7959188","id":"7959200"}
{"by":"teach","time":"1450407386","timestamp":"2015-12-18 02:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My wife has a PhD in nutrition, so I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s overstating things at all. We\u0026#x27;re well-aware of how nutrition studies are done and their limitations, but these are clear results shown in study after study for years.\u003cp\u003eI would seriously question the credentials of any PhD nutrition researcher at a decent university that disputed any of those factors.","parent":"10752160","id":"10756327"}
{"by":"anonymoushn","time":"1304643209","timestamp":"2011-05-06 00:53:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I'm sorry I misunderstood your brief description.\u003cp\u003eThere's no hash table here, this is just bucket sort.  I don't think anyone should care about the difference between counting sort and bucket sort, though.  The only thing I would mind about this is that it allocates 100x the necessary memory, but I'm sure you wouldn't actually do that when it matters.","parent":"2514135","id":"2519579"}
{"by":"MichaelGG","time":"1483380238","timestamp":"2017-01-02 18:03:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t get point 3. Microservices are for the backend usually, right? You don\u0026#x27;t want multiple TCP\u0026#x2F;HTTP[S] connections from the client to all your services - pointless overhead. Worst case scenario, if you need direct client-microservice connectivity, then throw all the services behind nginx and terminate SSL there.","parent":"13302773","id":"13302971"}
{"by":"rlpb","time":"1310515208","timestamp":"2011-07-13 00:00:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that the DHCP server re-issued a valid lease to a second computer. Surely this is an issue with the DHCP server not playing nice, rather than Apple?","parent":"2757020","id":"2757170"}
{"by":"badpun","time":"1546331733","timestamp":"2019-01-01 08:35:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have wondered how autonomous cars are supposed to handle a scenario where common sense dictates a slight violation of the traffic rules. For example, let\u0026#x27;s say that you\u0026#x27;re on a long, narrow road in the mountains where passing is forbidden for many miles. If there\u0026#x27;s a slow vehicle in front of you, such as a cyclist or a tractor, normally you wait for an opportunity for a safe pass and you take it. An autonomous car however, would just follow it, costing you many minutes of your time.","parent":"18798960","id":"18799458"}
{"by":"chrisseaton","time":"1542232874","timestamp":"2018-11-14 22:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Perhaps the citizens should object\u003cp\u003ePerhaps they like the idea?","parent":"18454417","id":"18454474"}
{"by":"petecox","time":"1517199805","timestamp":"2018-01-29 04:23:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never understood the \u0026quot;smashed-avo\u0026quot; obsession but they\u0026#x27;re great in a vegemite and cheese toastie.","parent":"16255295","id":"16255324"}
{"by":"tieTYT","time":"1359013968","timestamp":"2013-01-24 07:52:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"interesting dependencies on external libraries (to pick an example from Ruby, the json gem was horribly broken at 1.4.2 and generations of projects have varying requirements for json \u0026#60; 1.4.2, json \u0026#62; 1.4.2, and many other worse things.\"\u003cp\u003eThis seems like a java problem more than a maven problem.  In fact, I don't really know what you could do about this.  Maybe OSGi has a solution.","parent":"5106933","id":"5108257"}
{"by":"pmorici","time":"1376345340","timestamp":"2013-08-12 22:09:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like all \u0026quot;code exercise\u0026quot; sites like this have the same annoying problems which I\u0026#x27;ll generally describe as lack of attention to detail in the exercise descriptions.\u003cp\u003eTake their Fibonacci exercise as an example.  In the first section they say, \u0026quot;The first line of the input will be an integer N (1 \u0026lt;= N \u0026lt;= 100)\u0026quot; which specifies how many test cases follow.  Then in the next section they say, \u0026quot;The first line of the input will be an integer N (1 \u0026lt;= N \u0026lt;= 10000), specifying the number of test cases\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSo besides the fact that they aren\u0026#x27;t even consistent in specifying the expected range of N it isn\u0026#x27;t even clear why you would need to specify the number of test cases in the first place vs just reading one from each line until EOF.  That makes you think maybe they want you to put in some basic error checking which again since they aren\u0026#x27;t consistent with N turns into a trial and error exercise if it even matters at all.\u003cp\u003eThere is also no indication about the version of interpreters or compilers being used to check the submissions.  If I choose to write my solution in python is that python 2 or 3?\u003cp\u003eCombine all that with an implied scoring system based on speed or number of tries and you have to wonder if this is really measuring anything relevant or if it is just filtering for people who\u0026#x27;s default assumptions happen to be the same as the person who wrote the lame exercise description.","parent":"6201626","id":"6202457"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1355393608","timestamp":"2012-12-13 10:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethe opposite side of the coin are founders who have never been in the developer's chair, which is both common and worse.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI disagree.  I've worked at a couple of startups founded or co-founded by a guy with no hands on technical experience and he was great.  He came up with the ideas, found the right people (or sometimes the other way around) and then let them do what they did best, with only gentle prodding to keep everything going in the right direction.\u003cp\u003eWhat he had was a good high level understanding of the relevant fields, plenty of experience starting and running companies,  a vast contact network, an amazing knack for raising money and was very good at getting out there and selling our product.","parent":"4913035","id":"4915148"}
{"by":"smonff","time":"1485250134","timestamp":"2017-01-24 09:28:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be renamed PoneyPass when it will be ported to Electron.","parent":"13468705","id":"13469936"}
{"by":"bahman2000","time":"1318175708","timestamp":"2011-10-09 15:55:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"did we read completely different articles?","parent":"3090635","id":"3090647"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1325605503","timestamp":"2012-01-03 15:45:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As far as I understand, Oracle's claims against Google have kind of been laughed out of the court in the last week or so.","parent":"3419851","id":"3419960"}
{"by":"tedunangst","time":"1482105245","timestamp":"2016-12-18 23:54:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, uh, what does it do? I mean, I can\u0026#x27;t even tell if it\u0026#x27;s a server or client side change.","parent":"13208325","id":"13208467"}
{"by":"yeshivadan","time":"1482434422","timestamp":"2016-12-22 19:20:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool. One thing, when typing \u0026quot;hi, my name is yeshivadan.\u0026quot; it correctly asks \u0026quot;what is my name.\u0026quot; When i type \u0026quot;hi, my name is joshua dan\u0026quot; it asks \u0026quot;who is my name.\u0026quot;","parent":"13238822","id":"13239584"}
{"by":"notacoward","time":"1449080809","timestamp":"2015-12-02 18:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your own source contradicts that last claim.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;those that exercise at least 4 hours per week are as healthy as those that sit fewer than 4 hours\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eReadable copy of the paper on which that article is based:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.researchgate.net\u0026#x2F;publication\u0026#x2F;46255258_Occupational_Sitting_and_Health_Risks\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.researchgate.net\u0026#x2F;publication\u0026#x2F;46255258_Occupationa...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors found a \u0026quot;convincing\u0026quot; correlation between sedentary behavior and health risks only for for cancer and CVD (see the \u0026quot;discussion\u0026quot; section).  They specifically looked for such a correlation to insulin resistance, but didn\u0026#x27;t find any; they didn\u0026#x27;t look for other symptoms that have been mentioned (e.g. cataracts) at all.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not at all clear that weightlessness is the same as sitting at a desk in terms of the conditions we\u0026#x27;re talking about, but there \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e evidence that their rigorous exercise programs should counteract any such effects anyway.  I\u0026#x27;m not saying your theory is invalid, but you\u0026#x27;ve done anything but provide evidence for it.  It\u0026#x27;s certainly not the kind of \u0026quot;slam dunk\u0026quot; that would have justified your haughty dismissal of the OP.","parent":"10664417","id":"10664789"}
{"by":"djacobs","time":"1279426531","timestamp":"2010-07-18 04:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was my first thought, too. Am I missing something? What does the live video (and \"FaceTime\", specifically) give me?\u003cp\u003eCan I call gimmick?","parent":"1525175","id":"1525213"}
{"by":"luismarques","time":"1460931437","timestamp":"2016-04-17 22:17:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to check how this idea is taken to way more sophisticated levels than this, then check out D\u0026#x27;s ranges and algorithms. This article only covers the equivalent of input iterators \u0026#x2F; ranges. You can also find in D sophisticated ways to deal with the last part of the article, regarding how to ascertain the different capabilities of your range\u0026#x2F;type, in ways that go beyond the traditional type system and OOP concepts.\u003cp\u003eedit: (also, D\u0026#x27;s lazy keyword, which performs the transformation described in the article automatically)","parent":"11516215","id":"11516606"}
{"by":"mbid","time":"1515544941","timestamp":"2018-01-10 00:42:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And because google is the police of the internet, they had to do something about criminally slow webpages.","parent":"16108842","id":"16111619"}
{"by":"kfalter","time":"1310673188","timestamp":"2011-07-14 19:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting read especially for someone who is still in undergrad.\nOne thing strikes me though:\n\"though I suspect the brand cache of an MBA program will be longer lasting\"\u003cp\u003eI disagree. This is the modern industrial age. This is the time when 20 years from now, history books will look back and talk about the Carnegie and Rockefellers of our time.\u003cp\u003eAnd when grade school kids are memorizing facts about important figures, Techstars and YC are going to be two of their vocabulary words. It will be the first time those schools of thought appear -- HBS will still always have a great reputation and its own prestige, but in the long term, the brand cache of TechStars and YC will leave a different, more unique mark in history.\n#justsayin :)","parent":"2764148","id":"2764750"}
{"by":"leggomylibro","time":"1524249069","timestamp":"2018-04-20 18:31:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We use programming languages for tasks that do not require human judgement.\u003cp\u003eIf using your product \u003ci\u003erequires\u003c/i\u003e the detailed understanding of a standard EULA, my judgement is that I would not like to use your product without training. Think of all the details in those paragraphs that I might mess up!\u003cp\u003eBut using these products does not require the detailed understanding of a standard EULA. It only requires you to click \u0026#x27;I Agree\u0026#x27;. The EULA is not there to inform the user, it is there to ensure that your exploitation of them will not be punished when they find out.","parent":"16886115","id":"16887306"}
{"by":"CodeCube","time":"1500565148","timestamp":"2017-07-20 15:39:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;in a business setting\u0026quot; ... I wish we\u0026#x27;d all stop accepting crappy work environments just because they\u0026#x27;re a \u0026quot;business setting\u0026quot;. There\u0026#x27;s no business setting certification that they have to maintain ... nothing is set in stone, and we don\u0026#x27;t have to accept stodgy work environments.\u003cp\u003eIf this isn\u0026#x27;t an environment where you feel comfortable \u003ci\u003etalking to your coworkers\u003c/i\u003e ... then gtfo of there and find a better work place (not directed at you or OP, just in general :) ).","parent":"14813294","id":"14813419"}
{"by":"pjlegato","time":"1460521036","timestamp":"2016-04-13 04:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is indeed pretty vauge. The question was, \u0026quot;how will you acquire users?\u0026quot; and the reply was \u0026quot;We have a way to acquire users.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOK, what is that growth strategy?","parent":"11462453","id":"11485709"}
{"by":"thrownaway2424","time":"1371612920","timestamp":"2013-06-19 03:35:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you assume that internal network traffic is not encrypted?","parent":"5901831","id":"5903621"}
{"by":"bensummers","time":"1368864040","timestamp":"2013-05-18 08:00:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Solaris' SMF and fault management framework is a very good step towards what you're after, plus it's mature and suitable for use in production.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/intro-smf-basics-s11-1729181.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-a...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't let the XML configuration put you off. I suspect they'd have used JSON if they were doing it again, but it's from the era when XML was the default structured text based format.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to play with this (and IPS as mentioned above), try OmniOS: \u003ca href=\"http://omnios.omniti.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://omnios.omniti.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5727876","id":"5728225"}
{"by":"runewell","time":"1426464600","timestamp":"2015-03-16 00:10:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great ideas, I can see public speaking becoming a large attraction. VR-based conferences may gain popularity where you can watch presentations and do a live Q\u0026amp;A at the end. Imagine a programming conference where you get a digital goody-bag of software and\u0026#x2F;or source code.","parent":"9208403","id":"9208847"}
{"by":"geofft","time":"1427926105","timestamp":"2015-04-01 22:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;ve had experiences of projects I tried to get involved because I liked the software but where the maintainer had zero interest in involving any new people.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s absolutely true, \u003ci\u003ebut\u003c/i\u003e, given that this is open-source, there\u0026#x27;s always the option of maintaining it yourself. Of course, for someone who\u0026#x27;s an absolute newcomer, it\u0026#x27;s better with a buddy.\u003cp\u003eTell you what. I\u0026#x27;m interested in projects in C or Python doing systems-y things and that can be compiled on Debian (think stuff in the space of GLib, NetworkManager, apt... but also anything tinier, obviously). If you find a maintainer who\u0026#x27;s wholly uninterested in adding people, you\u0026#x27;ve got a new feature you want, and you want someone to work with, shoot me an email, I\u0026#x27;ll probably be up for helping out with it.\u003cp\u003eChances are that the maintainer will be interested in the feature, just not in mentorship. And even if the maintainer is just antisocial, chances are maintainership will change, or the world at large will benefit from a fork, or the Linux distros will be willing to take your patches even if the original maintainer isn\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"9306188","id":"9307297"}
{"by":"ericpauley","time":"1528400919","timestamp":"2018-06-07 19:48:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My vehicle (a Honda civic) exhibits this exact same functionality and behavior. (lane keeping, ACC, emergency braking for cars) They make it very clear the limitations of these systems. I\u0026#x27;d say that in the 5 months I\u0026#x27;ve owned it it\u0026#x27;s had this exact behavior (veering off exit ramps) 10 times. A simple jerk of the wheel puts it back on track, it\u0026#x27;s such a natural motion if you\u0026#x27;re paying even the slightest bit of attention. That being said Tesla fails to make their drivers aware of the limitations of autopilot, so I agree that this may not be in the driver.","parent":"17258215","id":"17259565"}
{"by":"southphillyman","time":"1501868746","timestamp":"2017-08-04 17:45:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve noticed that Bevel ads have dramatically decreased, need to look into how that company is doing.","parent":"14930252","id":"14930468"}
{"by":"gghh","time":"1454522654","timestamp":"2016-02-03 18:04:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am from Europe, where higher education is inexpensive, and have very little understanding on the implication of such loans in someone\u0026#x27;s life.\u003cp\u003eBut now this thought occurred to me: how can a 20-something person go out and start a company (as I often read on stories here on HN), leaving on zero or little income for a while (until you find investors, I guess), when I\u0026#x27;d expect people to need a steady income to at least go even with the monthly loan payments?","parent":"11027840","id":"11028169"}
{"by":"throwwit","time":"1513937992","timestamp":"2017-12-22 10:19:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All the more reason to do your christmas shopping early. Lol. I take the total crypto market cap more seriously though.","parent":"15985832","id":"15986435"}
{"by":"gleb","time":"1210616633","timestamp":"2008-05-12 18:23:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Common usage of word \"scale\" is that things continue to work well as you add load.  Whether that's done by having the software fast enough to handle everything one computer, adding servers or adding pet monkeys is not important to the user.\u003cp\u003eResponding to reasonable complaints by using a different definition of word \"scale,\" makes for a weak argument.","parent":"187590","id":"187809"}
{"by":"cinquemb","time":"1457639701","timestamp":"2016-03-10 19:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Been working on a linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer with decorrelation filtration available any given sample data matrix from acquisition sensors[0] that I\u0026#x27;ll probably merge into a fork of the OpenEphys project I created to add neurofeedback functionality (only temporal filtering implemented now)[1].\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cinquemb\u0026#x2F;LCMVBeamformer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cinquemb\u0026#x2F;LCMVBeamformer\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cinquemb\u0026#x2F;OpenEphysGUI\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;cinquemb\u0026#x2F;OpenEphysGUI\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11259746","id":"11261784"}
{"by":"MBCook","time":"1503970874","timestamp":"2017-08-29 01:41:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Homeland yes. I\u0026#x27;m assuming they would attack somewhere in East Asia, almost certainly Japan or South Korea.","parent":"15121507","id":"15121536"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1229552311","timestamp":"2008-12-17 22:18:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point of netbooks is that they are cheap; being small is just a side effect. There are different kinds of small: reducing width/height makes it cheaper, but reducing thickness makes it more expensive. If Apple was going to make a netbook, the Air wouldn't be the place to start. It would make more sense to start with the MacBook and reduce the screen/keyboard size, remove the optical drive, replace the unibody with plastic, and keep the thickness the same (or even increase it).","parent":"401503","id":"401533"}
{"by":"zeynalov","time":"1410122402","timestamp":"2014-09-07 20:40:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems editor didn\u0026#x27;t know where Caucasian countries belong - so he didn\u0026#x27;t mention Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. They should be in eastern Europe.","parent":"8280004","id":"8282332"}
{"by":"sheepmullet","time":"1529278992","timestamp":"2018-06-17 23:43:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it is caused by two major changes:\u003cp\u003e1) Everything has been commercialized.\u003cp\u003eEven in the tech world most posts aren\u0026#x27;t to inform, illuminate, or even just show off something cool. A huge number of tech blog posts are really just ads to build a company or personal brand.\u003cp\u003e2) Propaganda\u003cp\u003ePropaganda infects pretty much every semi-political discussion on the web and it has lead to most sites having a single accepted viewpoint on major discussion points and serious hostility towards the out-group.\u003cp\u003eThe water has been muddied so much that the average person cannot dig down and find the truth.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve personally had to take a holistic counter-examples based approach.","parent":"17334552","id":"17335013"}
{"by":"matiasb","time":"1380808687","timestamp":"2013-10-03 13:58:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s right, it also supports importing from Google Code.","parent":"6488154","id":"6488895"}
{"by":"syn_rst","time":"1531777231","timestamp":"2018-07-16 21:40:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety\u0026quot; is pretty good. I read it a while back after seeing it linked here.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B00C5R7F8G?ref_=k4w_ss_dp_lp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B00C5R7F8G?ref_=k4w_ss_dp_lp\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17545345","id":"17545397"}
{"by":"trumbitta2","time":"1364388739","timestamp":"2013-03-27 12:52:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Also, there does not seem to be anything groundbreaking or 'newsworthy' about the submission. You are just looking to get your product more customers, not looking to start a discussion.\"\u003cp\u003eWell, I think I have even more to learn about HN and netiquette in general. \nThe original post was a \"Show HN\" ... what I was supposed to write to start a discussion?","parent":"5449054","id":"5449071"}
{"by":"andreyf","time":"1449167637","timestamp":"2015-12-03 18:33:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I often wonder whether the relationships between brand-less factions in (and across) organizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves made under the institutional brand.\u003cp\u003eTake, for example, the changes that have happened at Microsoft since Ballmer\u0026#x27;s departure. I have a hard time imagining the branching GitHub\u0026#x27;s Atom to make an open source \u0026quot;light IDE\u0026quot;, deprecating IE, and Google\u0026#x27;s using TypeScript for Angular2 happening while Ballmer\u0026#x27;s faction was in power. Microsoft has the same name, but it\u0026#x27;s acting like a very different beast.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure how one could observe these factions cut across institutions, but I\u0026#x27;d be interested if anyone has any suggested readings.","parent":"10671454","id":"10671562"}
{"by":"face7hill","time":"1353746686","timestamp":"2012-11-24 08:44:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool, bravo. Awesome graphics and great narration as well.","parent":"4823146","id":"4824921"}
{"by":"dedward","time":"1334028347","timestamp":"2012-04-10 03:25:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ok.. so we havethe facts.  now who bearsresponsibility for damages?  the company using these flawed systems instead of upgrading or pressuring their vendors..... ?\nat the scale of critical infrastru ture thatcomes down to contractual terms.  if the vilns and recommendations have been disclosed, and thatswhat the contract required...... notsellers fwult in my book.\nfixes arent free,  and these decisions will bebased on either a risk analasys, or blind ignorance, depending on who is involved.\nif products really. are eol and eos, per contract, then fair enough... your license to use them probqblyexpires anyway.\u003cp\u003estill, hardto paintthis in a good light..... smells bad.","parent":"3819979","id":"3820518"}
{"by":"carterschonwald","time":"1389228312","timestamp":"2014-01-09 00:45:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GHC has an llvm backend.\u003cp\u003eIf you read the blog post, you\u0026#x27;ll see Neil mentions \u0026quot; tried the LLVM backend, but it generated significantly worse assembly code \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/ndmitchell/blogs/blob/master/inner-loop/InnerLoop.s\u0026quot;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ndmitchell\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;inner-loop\u0026#x2F;I...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e@tenslsi : theres certainly room for improving llvm, the ghc native code gen, and pretty much any compiler generally (ghc is no different). I\u0026#x27;m actively involved in GHC dev, and i\u0026#x27;ve somewhat committed to spending some volunteer time this year improving the NCG and various backend optimization tooling.\u003cp\u003eanyways, the reddit discussion of the blog post is also pretty interesting","parent":"7027833","id":"7027981"}
{"by":"marcus","time":"1209069194","timestamp":"2008-04-24 20:33:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman the creators of RSA without which the entire online e-commerce thingy wouldn't have existed.","parent":"172796","id":"172834"}
{"by":"VxJasonxV","time":"1349130677","timestamp":"2012-10-01 22:31:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Assuming that they don't just fix the problem (see my first-level comment), I do hope any response I see from them is tactful.","parent":"4599555","id":"4599688"}
{"by":"danellis","time":"1366607334","timestamp":"2013-04-22 05:08:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you think #python is bad, you definitely want to stay away from #django.","parent":"5587368","id":"5587868"}
{"by":"ethbro","time":"1489520366","timestamp":"2017-03-14 19:39:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My grandfather was a waterman on the Chesapeake Bay. Didn\u0026#x27;t graduate high school, didn\u0026#x27;t go to college. Worked on the water until a few months before he died.\u003cp\u003eAfter his death, my family went through his belongings to sort out what people wanted and what should be included in the estate sale.\u003cp\u003eIn the living room, there was the obligatory wall-sized, floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. You probably know the one from your grandparent\u0026#x27;s house. Filled with the kind of books you\u0026#x27;d expect: encyclopedia, book of the month, condensed versions of great books, random novels, et cetera.\u003cp\u003eRifling through the first book, I noticed there were notes written in the margins. About every 5-20 pages. Sometimes short, sometimes longer. I smiled and carefully set the book aside.\u003cp\u003eBut the next one had notes too. And the next. And the next. Almost every book in the entire bookshelf.\u003cp\u003eMy grandfather was a quiet man by the time I knew him. Of the ten words over dinner sort. But whenever I find myself reflexively going through Facebook or whatever other quick fix the internet affords me, I imagine him coming in after a long day of physical work, opening a book to his bookmark, and reading and noting a few more pages. \u003ci\u003eEvery day.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I try to be more like that person.","parent":"13869919","id":"13870791"}
{"by":"bryanjos","time":"1363614481","timestamp":"2013-03-18 13:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I made this because I'm always trying to find good new music that's usually distributed free online by the artist themselves. My friends know this and are always asking me to tell them what new music is out, where to get it, etc, etc. So I made this as an attempt to let them know what I think is good and also for other people to recommend music to others. This is also my first Node project (I mostly program in Python and Scala).","parent":"5394075","id":"5394094"}
{"by":"ev_rolfe","time":"1477503264","timestamp":"2016-10-26 17:34:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I start my day at 4am\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhat time do you go to sleep at to make starting work a 4am feasible?","parent":"12789212","id":"12798559"}
{"by":"leni536","time":"1458035457","timestamp":"2016-03-15 09:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also john@doe.com (my commonly used bullshit e-mail address)","parent":"11282993","id":"11288516"}
{"by":"gte910h","time":"1311176789","timestamp":"2011-07-20 15:46:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why wouldn't they buy it? It's not like they're going to USE it. They're just preventing mischief.","parent":"2785876","id":"2786053"}
{"by":"empath75","time":"1489932353","timestamp":"2017-03-19 14:05:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just double tap to zoom?","parent":"13906907","id":"13907135"}
{"by":"vevoo","time":"1518833729","timestamp":"2018-02-17 02:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;could we say that a high calorie diet can maintain or accelerate diabetes.\nYes we can say that. But we can say the same about an isocaloric diet and a negative balance diet of 5 or 10% deficit. It is better said as the paper did.","parent":"16397546","id":"16398483"}
{"by":"derekp7","time":"1375308053","timestamp":"2013-07-31 22:00:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is also in the Fedora repositories (yum install aplus-fsf).  I would imagine that it would be in Debian\u0026#x2F;Ubuntu too, but I don\u0026#x27;t have a current install to check.  If all else fails, you can probably grab the source RPM to see how Fedora\u0026#x2F;Redhat got it to build.","parent":"6118641","id":"6137113"}
{"by":"Confusion","time":"1435508646","timestamp":"2015-06-28 16:24:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you believe the proposed solution was \u0026#x27;increase taxes\u0026#x27;, you are uninformed and should have refrained from commenting on this topic.","parent":"9793966","id":"9794032"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1430752308","timestamp":"2015-05-04 15:11:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would be prolog.  You\u0026#x27;ll have much better luck googling for prolog.  I played with \u0026quot;turbo prolog\u0026quot; in the 80s and accomplished nothing (from the same place as turbo C or turbo pascal or turbo basic (am I forgetting any?)).  A modern variant (of a logic oriented language) can be seen here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clojure\u0026#x2F;core.logic\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;A-Core.logic-Primer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;clojure\u0026#x2F;core.logic\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;A-Core.logic-Prim...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt tends to suffer from management by scalable procedure disease.  Its possible to successfully replace a human assembly line worker with a robot arm and a very small shell script, which inevitably leads overactive imaginations to think of replacing engineers or doctors with an immense set of unfortunately undefinable unscalable procedures and rulesets, so it always collapses with complexity at implementation time.  Its like moths to a flame, you should be able to replace an engineer with a very long list of if\u0026#x2F;then statements, but it turns out to be impossible in practice.  Meanwhile the more advanced techniques butts up against the rapidly scaling \u0026quot;DBA\u0026quot; \u0026quot;IT\u0026quot; type of traditional solutions or non-traditional big-data techniques.\u003cp\u003eIts hard to find something to logic program that isn\u0026#x27;t less verbose in a non-logic language or unwritable in any language including logic programming.  Its like the Perl regex thing where you got a problem, so you write a regex, and now you got two problems.  Its a very narrow although interesting niche.  Finding something that fits would be pretty cool, although probably very difficult to maintain.","parent":"9486315","id":"9486615"}
{"by":"joshvm","time":"1543170072","timestamp":"2018-11-25 18:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an extension kit to a well designed and well adopted embedded system. The OPs complaints to me read as: nobody wants these features because the stock model works for OP, and that the price was jacked up to cater to an industrial market. I addressed the second point above - to stay in business, hardware costs money.\u003cp\u003eOn the first point, the product definitely provides benefits over the stock Pi. If you need those improvements, you need them. The $35 model will die if you plug in a logic level that isn\u0026#x27;t 3V3. It certainly won\u0026#x27;t handle standard RS-232. It doesn\u0026#x27;t have a proper power jack - either USB Micro or two GPIO pins (no latching). It also doesn\u0026#x27;t come with a DIN rail mounting system, nor an RTC, nor a UPS, nor a good voltage regulator. Some people might want those features (I\u0026#x27;ve worked jobs where they would have been useful.)\u003cp\u003eAlso on the buzzer front - not all DIN boxes are in factories. They\u0026#x27;re used inside buildings for power distribution and fuses, in greenhouses to control irrigation systems. These aren\u0026#x27;t necessarily noisy environments.","parent":"18527795","id":"18528011"}
{"by":"nickd","time":"1228863928","timestamp":"2008-12-09 23:05:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually one thing I really love about OS X is the placement of the command key. Keyboard shortcuts like Command+Q and Command+W are much more convenient then something like Alt+f4. Keyboard shortcuts in general in OS X have been a one of the great advantages in my experience. I also switched from Linux to mac about 4 or 5 years ago. At first it seemed very awkward. I think any change like that would be, but I was instantly appreciative of how seamless the system worked overall, and how much less I had to mess with it to get it to work right (Like I said, this was a few years ago). It's not perfect, though. I would suggest that anyone who is interested in making a jump to a new OS to try and get their hands on it before buying and see what they think.","parent":"391893","id":"391983"}
{"by":"invisible","time":"1270007986","timestamp":"2010-03-31 03:59:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is big and falls right in line with their stance on China in my opinion.  They must be having some very long and serious discussions over at Google about responsibly handling the data they collect.  It has always been bizarre to me that companies are obligated to hand over data vs every other type of investigation request (physically) needs to be via a warrant.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I'd like to elaborate that I also feel the service provider should have the option of providing the data if they so choose on a case-by-case basis.  I think there is much to be said of \"physical\" illegal activity online being easy to stamp out (with regard to child porn, rape, stalking and other morally heinous things).","parent":"1230685","id":"1230895"}
{"by":"josefrichter","time":"1302209280","timestamp":"2011-04-07 20:48:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no f*kin'idea how you did this, guys. But the result is amazing even for us, casual weekend spaghetti coders ;-)","parent":"2420509","id":"2421139"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1393179821","timestamp":"2014-02-23 18:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Many areas only have Comcast service!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eDo a lot of people in the US only have access to one or two ISP\u0026#x27;s?? If so why? I\u0026#x27;m in a not particularly urban part of Ireland and I can choose between at least 5 ISP\u0026#x27;s, decent speeds, and a good variety of prices.","parent":"7286828","id":"7286841"}
{"by":"bcaa7f3a8bbc","time":"1533712558","timestamp":"2018-08-08 07:15:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand.\u003cp\u003eThey broadcasted in the UHF band, far from the FM band and VHF bands. How could the general public even are able to tune in and listen? Only people who use walkie-talkies for their jobs and amateur radio operators are known to own UHF radios. So did they manage to find a way to broadcast an audio-only signal on a TV-frequency, or what?","parent":"17706973","id":"17713806"}
{"by":"ioquatix","time":"1504313680","timestamp":"2017-09-02 00:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh noooo!! Think of the Juice(ro). What will happen to existing machines once the servers are shut down!? Are we destined return to the days of squeezing juice by hand?","parent":"15151012","id":"15153496"}
{"by":"gist","time":"1484683882","timestamp":"2017-01-17 20:11:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The report, Mr. Leonhardt said, was written for The Times newsroom, but it could end up providing guidance for other news organizations facing similar challenges. The company is also releasing the report publicly.\u003cp\u003eThis is so non business like (and the way things seem to be in today\u0026#x27;s day and age). You take your hard work and give it away for free to your competition. Now you could argue that if others do the same it\u0026#x27;s good for you in some way (more people who buy print papers means more business for all print papers) but for some reason I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;s the case.\u003cp\u003eRemembering all of the free publicity that newspapers gave the Internet back in the mid 90\u0026#x27;s and further down. Not realizing exactly how that would impact their business model and not seeing it as a threat in any way.","parent":"13420482","id":"13420723"}
{"by":"clicks","time":"1375629246","timestamp":"2013-08-04 15:14:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You bring up good points, and I agree that a lot of these issues are very difficult to grapple with: it\u0026#x27;s difficult to pin down how evil something is, how much you\u0026#x27;re contributing to it, and whether you should take part in it when you\u0026#x27;ve got mouths to feed at home. But I also think that an informed and learned individual in this day and age will recognize that dragnet surveillance encroaches on fundamental rights of human privacy. If I were an employee at NSA and had been asked to implement some part of PRISM I would protest within the proper confines of law, and ask to be given other work which I would be ethically okay with.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eRefusing to take part doesn\u0026#x27;t absolve you of anything, according to your philosophy\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think in this context it\u0026#x27;s fair to interpret a refusal to work on something you deem evil not as inaction but as an act that makes it difficult for evil to prevail. If most good men did this they either would not find persons to complete the work or only be able to find persons who cannot do it well or do it completely.\u003cp\u003eTo further clarify, what I am really saying is one\u0026#x27;s decisions at work which are detached from any ethical considerations is a problem, they\u0026#x27;re \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e just engineering problems -- they affect people, in good ways or bad. I hope everyone would make an earnest effort to determine the morality of tools, laws, policies, etc. they\u0026#x27;re in charge of creating or maintaining by accessing existing literature, discussing the moral considerations of their work with their peers and others, and then decide if they really want to be a part of that. And, as it happens, the chances are that since a lot of this stuff work requires high competency, whenever you find yourself in a situation where determining the morality of your work is exceedingly difficult, there is good chance you can easily find good work elsewhere that will give you the right engineering challenges without the difficult ethical questions.","parent":"6155736","id":"6155866"}
{"by":"beaconstudios","time":"1492522192","timestamp":"2017-04-18 13:29:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"your quote seemed to imply that it should come as a surprise that there are non-racist Brexit voters. As a pro-Brexit voter myself I\u0026#x27;m used to being on the receiving end of that kind of inflammatory rhetoric so if that wasn\u0026#x27;t your intention then I apologise.","parent":"14138559","id":"14138622"}
{"by":"onychomys","time":"1495650629","timestamp":"2017-05-24 18:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Between this and the recent article bemoaning cargo shorts, literally everything I own offends the fashion gods, I guess. :(","parent":"14409092","id":"14412295"}
{"by":"Vinnl","time":"1519901880","timestamp":"2018-03-01 10:58:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the customer support people usually have, say, $20 at their disposal to use as they see fit in order to deal with situations in which escalation would be more expensive than those $20. Thus, if it appears you\u0026#x27;re going to be costing more than that (through your negotiating), they\u0026#x27;ll probably just hand it out.","parent":"16488653","id":"16491047"}
{"by":"politician","time":"1307934179","timestamp":"2011-06-13 03:02:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My hope is that people have simply tired of the concept.  The privacy implications are staggering.","parent":"2647949","id":"2647955"}
{"by":"ecounysis","time":"1312150081","timestamp":"2011-07-31 22:08:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This model predicts when an insurgent attack may occur. I wonder if there is anything similar that could be used to predict where with enough precision to be useful.","parent":"2829729","id":"2829798"}
{"by":"Zelphyr","time":"1423595214","timestamp":"2015-02-10 19:06:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple was big in the 80\u0026#x27;s, no doubt about it, but they were small potatoes compared to the behemoth they are now.","parent":"9028563","id":"9029170"}
{"by":"x1798DE","time":"1459878392","timestamp":"2016-04-05 17:46:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there no UI notifying you that a user\u0026#x27;s keys have changed in Signal? If so, the central server would need to send compromised keys on day 1, which would be detectable when you check the key signature.","parent":"11432408","id":"11432626"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1410355941","timestamp":"2014-09-10 13:32:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s tricky ground you\u0026#x27;re on there. That\u0026#x27;s usually called \u0026#x27;lying by omission\u0026#x27;, you are technically not lying because you have uttered no untruths but you are morally in the wrong because you are withholding information that the social contract in force would expect you to disclose.","parent":"8293432","id":"8296438"}
{"by":"DannyBee","time":"1359739254","timestamp":"2013-02-01 17:20:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes yes they are greasing, sometimes no, they aren't.\nIt varies depending on the type of firm.\u003cp\u003eLoser pays has its ups and downs.  For example, you don't want loser pays when you are trying to fight small guy vs large guy, which is the case for most consumers.","parent":"5149424","id":"5152014"}
{"by":"Normati","time":"1421817235","timestamp":"2015-01-21 05:13:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not every case was bad. It was extremely successful in New Zealand with hardly anyone killed (relatively speaking), a peace treaty quickly signed and the quality of life brought up to modern standards, ending 1000 years of murderous tribal warfare. The natives didn\u0026#x27;t have their own country before it was colonized because they were fractured into tribes. So it was absolutely a good thing to save them from themselves.","parent":"8921480","id":"8921583"}
{"by":"siliconc0w","time":"1421631217","timestamp":"2015-01-19 01:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"my short version:\u003cp\u003eEvery two to three years start looking for another job - chances are you are being underpaid and holding out for a meaningful raise or promotion is usually a bad idea.  Few companies seem to keep salaries properly indexed to the market.   At least in IT.\u003cp\u003eWhen you get an offer - always always counter it.  No reasonable business is going to withdraw an offer if you counter.  Figure out what you\u0026#x27;re worth and add 5-10%. If the first offer is already on the \u0026#x27;high end\u0026#x27; of the spectrum still counter and ask for a signing bonus, options, better year end bonus, or more vacation.  That will most likely be the most profitable email\u0026#x2F;phone-call you\u0026#x27;ll have - at least until you repeat the process in 2-3 years.","parent":"8908301","id":"8909820"}
{"by":"Joakal","time":"1315974892","timestamp":"2011-09-14 04:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might be a good idea to tag the age of articles because some may be complaints or has missing features that would get resolved.\u003cp\u003eAlso, no Source Control (Git/SVN/etc) or Configuration Control (Chef/Puppet/etc)?","parent":"2993371","id":"2994901"}
{"by":"PaulHoule","time":"1387407287","timestamp":"2013-12-18 22:54:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a New Yorker,  I think this sucks.\u003cp\u003eWe already pay high taxes and if somebody gets a tax break that means all the rest of us will pay even more.","parent":"6930718","id":"6931491"}
{"by":"anauleau","time":"1391120087","timestamp":"2014-01-30 22:14:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to wikipedia: \u0026quot;Used by over 80% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eDespite it being ubiquitous, it is still an open source javascript library. Just a guess here but, different applications use different versions and I\u0026#x27;d imagine relying on one version supplied by the browser could cause issues for developers using JQuery especially if their application depends on an older version of the library.","parent":"7153617","id":"7153710"}
{"by":"weixiyen","time":"1296847771","timestamp":"2011-02-04 19:29:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://sleeperbot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://sleeperbot.com/\u003c/a\u003e - real-time fantasy sports conversations.  Closed beta with decent traction and excellent retention.\u003cp\u003ePitch:\u003cp\u003eSleeperBot allows fantasy sports players to have conversations with each other in real-time.  We deliver breaking news faster than ESPN and Rotoworld on game days.  Our goal is to become the discussion engine of not only fantasy sports, but sports in general.\u003cp\u003eScreenshot of app (since it's private beta) - \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sleeperbot.com/post/1172171694/sleeperbot-fantasy-football-new-features\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.sleeperbot.com/post/1172171694/sleeperbot-fantas...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiersheet tool used for user acquisition - \u003ca href=\"http://sleeperbot.com/basketball/tools/tiersheet/h2h\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://sleeperbot.com/basketball/tools/tiersheet/h2h\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2180060","dead":true,"id":"2180774"}
{"by":"MrDom","time":"1418178085","timestamp":"2014-12-10 02:21:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are these numbers so low because of rent control? I lived in a 300 square foot studio last year that cost me $1400 a month. That exact same studio now costs $2800. I\u0026#x27;ve seen similar increases from craigslist posts throughout the city, compared to what I was looking at last year. What I wouldn\u0026#x27;t give for it to only have increased 15%.","parent":"8725273","id":"8727330"}
{"by":"minalecs","time":"1279138582","timestamp":"2010-07-14 20:16:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"as a side note to you project check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.yummly.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.yummly.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1515420","id":"1515821"}
{"by":"Annatar","time":"1482155712","timestamp":"2016-12-19 13:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are all dismally small, including Linux at ~1.4%:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.indeed.com\u0026#x2F;jobtrends\u0026#x2F;q-docker-q-kubernetes-q-smartos-q-solaris-q-linux-q-ubuntu-q-delphix.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.indeed.com\u0026#x2F;jobtrends\u0026#x2F;q-docker-q-kubernetes-q-sma...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13210789","id":"13211357"}
{"by":"binarysoul","time":"1320952269","timestamp":"2011-11-10 19:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good idea.  I'll be digging into this topic, and making a post on it soon","parent":"3220852","id":"3221351"}
{"by":"naithemilkman","time":"1356620460","timestamp":"2012-12-27 15:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess that makes Python/Django an international buffet.","parent":"4973383","id":"4973489"}
{"by":"axman6","time":"1370317704","timestamp":"2013-06-04 03:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So you've addressed maybe half the essential features of the claim, and that clearly makes all of it obvious? What about the rest? Is it obvious to do all these things in the way claimed? Do you have \u003ci\u003eproof\u003c/i\u003e this it is obvious to do so? The law doesn't work based on opinion, it works on proof first, and evidence when proof is lacking. You can call it bullshit all you want, but until you have something to back it up, you're just talking shit.","parent":"5817472","id":"5817599"}
{"by":"swatkat","time":"1356504195","timestamp":"2012-12-26 06:43:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"'The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity' by Steven Strogatz. \u003ca href=\"http://www.flipkart.com/joy-x-1848878443/p/itmdekzuwjwwngfz?pid=9781848878440\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.flipkart.com/joy-x-1848878443/p/itmdekzuwjwwngfz?...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Anything You Want: 40 Lessons For A New Kind Of Entrepreneur' by Derek Sivers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.flipkart.com/anything-you-want-1936719118/p/itmdynfvqes6fdbd?pid=9781936719112\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.flipkart.com/anything-you-want-1936719118/p/itmdy...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Jugari Cross' by Poornachandra Tejaswi; an amazing thriller novel that takes place in real-time. \u003ca href=\"http://www.flipkart.com/jugari-cross/p/itmd7gdp6xvushkd?pid=RBKD7GDPGERXMG4T\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.flipkart.com/jugari-cross/p/itmd7gdp6xvushkd?pid=...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4966230","id":"4968440"}
{"by":"village-idiot","time":"1543202065","timestamp":"2018-11-26 03:14:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh no, bitcoin is insanely easy to tax and regulate, they’ve just not bothered yet. A permanent ledger of all transactions is the tax man’s Dream.","parent":"18530562","id":"18530773"}
{"by":"belthesar","time":"1326912752","timestamp":"2012-01-18 18:52:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pro members are not exempt from the blackout.","parent":"3481101","id":"3481205"}
{"by":"seanlinehan","time":"1369682582","timestamp":"2013-05-27 19:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is a strategy that I have heard repeated a few times: When you see a rhetorical question in the title of a news article, the answer is no. The answer is always no. The article may say maybe. But the answer is no. Just like that you've saved yourself a few minutes.","parent":"5775865","id":"5776132"}
{"by":"zurn","time":"1396417956","timestamp":"2014-04-02 05:52:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TCP would really suck if it went to multi-second coma on every bandwidth adjustment!\u003cp\u003eBuffer getting \u0026quot;overwhelmed\u0026quot; is exactly what causes TCP to adjust.\u003cp\u003eFortunately TCP doesn\u0026#x27;t go to slow start immediately when it sees congestion in the network.\u003cp\u003eIt first tries slowing down. There\u0026#x27;s a \u0026quot;congestion avoidance\u0026quot; phase as long as not too many packets are lost, \u0026quot;slow start\u0026quot; happens only when congestion avoidance gives up.\u003cp\u003eExcess buffering can infact mess up congestion avoidance in addition to causing needless additional latency, since it in effect postpones the timely signaling of link capacity. See the bits about congestion control at \u003ca href=\"https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/TechnicalIntro\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bufferbloat.net\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;bloat\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;TechnicalInt...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter this probing initially happens, TCP will remember the link bandwidth, window size etc even after periods of inactivity.\u003cp\u003eThis is also how UDP based protocols are expected to behave (specced by IETF\u0026#x2F;IAB).","parent":"7511071","id":"7513814"}
{"by":"dnesteruk","time":"1441483378","timestamp":"2015-09-05 20:02:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looking at the HTML output, I\u0026#x27;m not sure this consitutes proper literal programming due to the amounts of \u0026#x27;contextual noise\u0026#x27; that the processor generates. I think the goal is to have the program read more or less like a book, and this...\u003cp\u003e{Print \u0026quot;hello world\u0026quot; 2} ≡\u003cp\u003eprintf(\u0026quot;Hello world\u0026quot;);\nThis code is used in section 1.\u003cp\u003e...is not exactly it. It feels more like program-in-program Matrixy thing than a document to be read.","parent":"10175087","id":"10175892"}
{"by":"flyinRyan","time":"1358530034","timestamp":"2013-01-18 17:27:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;It sounds like you're passing judgement without really experiencing the area.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like you did the same to California.  The parts of the government being reacted to are probably the laws about when you can kill people (e.g. if they rob your neighbor), express lane to the death penalty, etc., etc.","parent":"5074840","id":"5079773"}
{"by":"anonymoushn","time":"1387408175","timestamp":"2013-12-18 23:09:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I would expect the resolution most favorable to the customer in either situation. If Coinbase had a public policy about what will happen in situations like this, I would expect them to follow their policy. Since they do not, it is reasonable to assume that any time they resolve a situation like this in their own favor they were using the customer\u0026#x27;s order as a free options contract.","parent":"6931346","id":"6931586"}
{"by":"notduncansmith","time":"1405902264","timestamp":"2014-07-21 00:24:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still use Sublime every day, and probably will continue to do so until Atom becomes usable.  iTerm2 is awesome, but zsh hasn\u0026#x27;t won me over yet.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d like to add Alfred to this list.  Aside from my MacBook Air itself, it\u0026#x27;s probably the best purchase I\u0026#x27;ve ever made.","parent":"8061950","id":"8062026"}
{"by":"theclaw","time":"1533860583","timestamp":"2018-08-10 00:23:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The phone company would be a better analogy, and they absolutely can cut off your service if you’re being a nuisance. The first ammendment says your government won’t pass laws against you saying stuff, it stops you from going to jail for the things you say, and it’s there to protect the people’s right to criticise the government.\u003cp\u003eIt is not there to force companies to serve you if they don’t want to.","parent":"17728656","id":"17729731"}
{"by":"brooklyn_ashey","time":"1503673167","timestamp":"2017-08-25 14:59:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"agreed. I started learning on my own with books and the internet, and Zed Shaw and Chris Pine. I loved it. I then went to a highly regarded bootcamp to find that there seems to be no value placed on teaching and hiring great teachers. I\u0026#x27;d take the internet, stack overflow, zed, and chris any day over a bootcamp.","parent":"15096340","id":"15098893"}
{"by":"zengid","time":"1476237546","timestamp":"2016-10-12 01:59:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;I always remember FPSRussia\u0026#x27;s drone [1] and I\u0026#x27;m surprised they haven\u0026#x27;t made these in mass over there.\u003cp\u003eLooks like it\u0026#x27;s CGI.","parent":"12689851","id":"12689949"}
{"by":"ewoodrich","time":"1389070385","timestamp":"2014-01-07 04:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would guess that part of the problem is that relying entire on GPS would not be practical, considering the likelihood that many machines would be located within large warehouses or industrial buildings that block a GPS signal.\u003cp\u003eThe article mentions that gyros are also used, so I suspect that the company prefers to have a defensible list of purchasers, with the confidence that this would not change without their knowledge.\u003cp\u003eSimilar in results to a blacklist, but somewhat more reliable from the manufacturer\u0026#x27;s perspective.","parent":"7015631","id":"7015661"}
{"by":"dj_doh","time":"1434562334","timestamp":"2015-06-17 17:32:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I second this. Sometime back I did Python for a production work. That for the first time gave me a true sense of Object-based inheritance v\u0026#x2F;s class based inheritance. Prior to that I used take JS way as-is. But wholeheartedly, may be not so much.","parent":"9731634","id":"9733705"}
{"by":"powera","time":"1466269797","timestamp":"2016-06-18 17:09:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree the view that somebody that advocates wife beating and rape should be considered a not-all-bad part of the community because \u0026quot;he finances OpenBSD\u0026quot;.","parent":"11929410","id":"11929483"}
{"by":"foobarbazetc","time":"1528481528","timestamp":"2018-06-08 18:12:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a very US centric view of policing.","parent":"17268079","id":"17268206"}
{"by":"teilo","time":"1521120584","timestamp":"2018-03-15 13:29:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you are the only one editing your documents, and if you have a workflow that which needs nothing more than what Markdown provides, this is well and good. But in the business world, particularly legal and finance, this is rarely the case.","parent":"16592356","id":"16592628"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1512626545","timestamp":"2017-12-07 06:02:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My main concern is that with tolls that high that only people with a lot of money can afford them (I make six figures but I doubt I would ever pay $40 for a toll. I would need much more money). These are also often the most influential people so they may think that everything is OK because they can afford the toll and never suffer in traffic. I think the same is happening with health care. Most people in Congress have enough money and get a nice insurance plan so they don\u0026#x27;t even understand how bad the US health system is for people in the lower incomes. They think it\u0026#x27;s perfectly fine and no need to change anything.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very problematic when in a society the people at the top never experience life the same way regular citizens do.","parent":"15867613","id":"15867961"}
{"by":"bendmorris","time":"1286554358","timestamp":"2010-10-08 16:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Python is very popular and growing within Biology - although molecular biology has a sizeable Ruby and Perl following as well.","parent":"1768900","id":"1772121"}
{"by":"nhayden","time":"1417800478","timestamp":"2014-12-05 17:27:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your second to last paragraph is a great way to word a conversation I\u0026#x27;m about to have. Thanks!","parent":"8705286","id":"8705614"}
{"by":"andrepd","time":"1464582862","timestamp":"2016-05-30 04:34:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The figure most often quoted is 0.5 for inheritability of intelligence (doi:10.1007\u0026#x2F;BF01067188), and don\u0026#x27;t forget this means genetic+environmental factors. Inheritability of wealth of course depends on the specfic society, but the figure of 0.7 was quoted by another commenter below.","parent":"11795613","id":"11799568"}
{"by":"poutine","time":"1263595242","timestamp":"2010-01-15 22:40:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would like to clarify that at least personally I'm anti Chinese government and not anti China or the Chinese people.  I love the country for many reasons and don't fundamentally wish it harm.\u003cp\u003eWhen someone points out something bad about a country it's silly to say they can't say that because there's bad things about their own country.  There's bad things about every country, it doesn't make them beyond criticism.\u003cp\u003eAnd that sir is why you get my downvote.","parent":"1056013","id":"1056086"}
{"by":"owyn","time":"1412411230","timestamp":"2014-10-04 08:27:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not the original commenter, but I\u0026#x27;d say... Imagine you\u0026#x27;ve been given some VC and you are in the Bay Area and you have to compete for hiring with large established\u0026#x2F;stable companies, and you only have a year or two of runway to build your product. You\u0026#x27;re going to pay well for good engineers. So this creates an artificially inflated market for engineering talent that doesn\u0026#x27;t necessarily translate to other areas or countries that don\u0026#x27;t have the same injection of VC capital (you could also call this \u0026quot;desperation\u0026quot; or a \u0026quot;labor friendly\u0026quot; market). There are definitely enough engineers here who are willing to take the gamble of salary vs equity to keep the startup companies bootstrapping, but increasingly I\u0026#x27;ve met more people who want salary and stability, and that may be due to the increasing expense of living in this place.  So, the spiral continues.","parent":"8408418","id":"8409067"}
{"by":"troels","time":"1294324690","timestamp":"2011-01-06 14:38:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eDistribute Mac apps on the Mac App Store\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e$99/year\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHm ..","parent":"2075235","id":"2075411"}
{"by":"glandium","time":"1479301586","timestamp":"2016-11-16 13:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; それぞれ夫 is literally each husband.\u003cp\u003eWhen taken out of context, that would be true. That\u0026#x27;s however not the case in the original full text. See getoj\u0026#x27;s sibling reply. It would be clearer if there were a comma between それぞれ and 夫, though, but I don\u0026#x27;t know if that\u0026#x27;s my French bias wanting punctuation or if that would be \u0026quot;idiomatic\u0026quot;.","parent":"12965074","id":"12966532"}
{"by":"wil2k","time":"1280132020","timestamp":"2010-07-26 08:13:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I completely agree with you regarding the fruits (and vegetables!) and GI.\u003cp\u003eBut I also want to really stress that it is VERY important to consume enough foods that come from animals.\u003cp\u003eWhy?\u003cp\u003eVitamin B12\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884956467\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's vital for your health and it burns up especially when stressed.\u003cp\u003eTook me a long time to find/learn about this.. at that point I was not feeling my limbs really well anymore, started running into walls, could not concentrate, find words, blurred speech, etc.\u003cp\u003eIt's truly a silent crippler, hence my focus on this particular vitamin in this reply.","parent":"1545816","id":"1547456"}
{"by":"matwood","time":"1342876233","timestamp":"2012-07-21 13:10:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has also been my experience.  Phonegap should work for the subset of apps that could have just been done as a mobile app to start with.  If you need to do anything that might push the device native is the only way to go.","parent":"4272452","id":"4274709"}
{"by":"brianmwang","time":"1287931313","timestamp":"2010-10-24 14:41:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This may betray my own ignorance, but I believe 中国人 is perfectly fine for describing oneself even if you are not from the Mainland, such as in my case.  I've hung around plenty of 1st generation Chinese folk from Taiwan and conversation seems to still use 中国人 as a general term, not as something specific only to Mainlanders. I suppose if you really wanted, you could use the term \"Han Chinese\", but that is in fact more ethnically specific than 中国人.","parent":"1826167","id":"1826201"}
{"by":"velodrome","time":"1344012320","timestamp":"2012-08-03 16:45:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Variations of transportation vehicles can provide a better cost-optimized solutions for different scenarios.\u003cp\u003eIf they can reuse the shuttle a couple of times in space before they have to take it back to earth - that could be a cost saver. They use the dragon capsule (or boeing equivalent) to take people up to the station and use the shuttle to transport them around them in space.\u003cp\u003eI can see a lot of cost savings doing this.\u003cp\u003eLess weight = less fuel = more money saved.","parent":"4334474","id":"4334770"}
{"by":"shocks","time":"1438895481","timestamp":"2015-08-06 21:11:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is a great video of William Lutz talking about doublespeak: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=Fub8PsNxBqI\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=Fub8PsNxBqI\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong version here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=8ZpIv7T8oEY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=8ZpIv7T8oEY\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10019461","id":"10019479"}
{"by":"danmaz74","time":"1421923300","timestamp":"2015-01-22 10:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Browsing the web - yes\u003cp\u003eBut vacuum \u003ci\u003ecleaners\u003c/i\u003e and and cell \u003ci\u003ephones\u003c/i\u003e contain the name the explanation of what they are and do. \u0026quot;augmented reality\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t. Holographic... it does a better job, at least for some people.","parent":"8927927","id":"8928474"}
{"by":"hmottestad","time":"1318106028","timestamp":"2011-10-08 20:33:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To clarify.\u003cp\u003eActivity monitor does not show a bandwidth usage on a process to process basis.\u003cp\u003eSince the app in the link is a list of processes and where they are connecting it would be nice to see how much bandwidth each of these connections is using.","parent":"3088768","id":"3088832"}
{"by":"dfrey","time":"1385685479","timestamp":"2013-11-29 00:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While this is true, I (in Canada) can still go to pandora.com and I just get a message saying that the service isn\u0026#x27;t available in my region.","parent":"6816621","id":"6817278"}
{"by":"woliveirajr","time":"1462542105","timestamp":"2016-05-06 13:41:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh my. I used to do 17 + 35 = 35 + 17 = 35 + 20 + (20-17) = 55 - 3 = 52.\u003cp\u003eAnd then I found out that my father used to think the same way, but not my mother, who was a teacher a long time ago and just for few years.\u003cp\u003eAnd my breakthrough for that didn\u0026#x27;t happen when using all those squares (for 1s and 100s) or rows (for 10s).","parent":"11636896","id":"11643867"}
{"by":"johnymontana","time":"1384716364","timestamp":"2013-11-17 19:26:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used to work for a large background investigation company.\u003cp\u003eThe Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) generally (there are exceptions) limits pre-employment background checks to convictions within the past seven years. Although sentencing can bring this into scope. So for example if you were convicted 10 years ago, but were sentenced to 4 years probation that conviction could still be used against you. State laws can impose further limits on background checks. Depending on how recently this conviction occurred and your state of residence it may not even be an issue.","parent":"6750043","id":"6750372"}
{"by":"richcollins","time":"1268931832","timestamp":"2010-03-18 17:03:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Setters are composable and you can modify their behavior.  Hash literals ... not so much.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt would seem you only see the surface beauty of things.\u003c/i\u003e [redacted -- good point]","parent":"1200766","id":"1201798"}
{"by":"zorm","time":"1509914070","timestamp":"2017-11-05 20:34:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NOAA is working on making this happen through the big data project: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.noaa.gov\u0026#x2F;big-data-project\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.noaa.gov\u0026#x2F;big-data-project\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the NOAA side, there tend not to be loginwalls so that hasn\u0026#x27;t been much of a concern.\u003cp\u003eI work with one of the partners on this project, so if you have specific datasets or use case ideas feel free to drop me an email at zflamig uchicago.edu.","parent":"15630202","id":"15631405"}
{"by":"dmritard96","time":"1437877587","timestamp":"2015-07-26 02:26:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its interesting how his attitude as stated at the bottom of the piece is that they (the economists) were \u0026#x27;right\u0026#x27;.  Its so interesting because you would think that brilliant people would realize that their claims aren\u0026#x27;t falsifiable.  There was no AB test for the recession and there are a ton of reasons that their decision could have had relatively little to do with anything.","parent":"9947601","id":"9949897"}
{"by":"citycide","time":"1517417273","timestamp":"2018-01-31 16:47:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, this is currying not partial application. And it comes with the drawback that you always have to call the function multiple times. You can\u0026#x27;t provide all the parameters in one list, which rules out things like spread arguments. That\u0026#x27;s not the case with `param.macro`, depending on how you apply of course.","parent":"16272263","id":"16275215"}
{"by":"dpatrick86","time":"1388368896","timestamp":"2013-12-30 02:01:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a pretty easy solution to this. Customizable settings that indicate that you need the battery at X capacity at Y and Z times of day.\u003cp\u003eMore concerning is battery wear (in my mind).","parent":"6982392","id":"6982621"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1394134794","timestamp":"2014-03-06 19:39:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why hasn\u0026#x27;t anyone gone after the founders? Why haven\u0026#x27;t you?","parent":"7356037","id":"7356070"}
{"by":"smsm42","time":"1483059355","timestamp":"2016-12-30 00:55:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a lot of people who would benefit from the latter conclusion and not a lot of people who would benefit from the former.","parent":"13281599","id":"13281657"}
{"by":"ktRolster","time":"1470110447","timestamp":"2016-08-02 04:00:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s nothing wrong with it, but often they are famous because of their personality, and have little actual skill, including needing auto-tune or even lip-syncing performances.\u003cp\u003eThe skill needed to be a rock-star is orthogonal to the skill needed to make beautiful music, and that is why those skills are worth considering separately.","parent":"12206717","id":"12207769"}
{"by":"utellme","time":"1517086154","timestamp":"2018-01-27 20:49:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s make Soviets great again!","parent":"16246826","dead":true,"id":"16248019"}
{"by":"fipple","time":"1535355649","timestamp":"2018-08-27 07:40:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s not elitist, it’s just dumb.","parent":"17849457","id":"17850009"}
{"by":"cbr","time":"1435407221","timestamp":"2015-06-27 12:13:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    since some sort of legal status is required for many\n    purposes in most countries\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe idea here is that you get rid of those \u0026quot;many purposes\u0026quot; and treat a married couple like any other people who have decided to spend their lives together.","parent":"9788723","id":"9789899"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1357166687","timestamp":"2013-01-02 22:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; That's assuming you have a method to unlock it, you can't always necessarily count on that.\u003cp\u003eFor a long time, we couldn't count on video cards or sound cards being compatible with Linux either. The Linux community just shared information about which computers were most compatible, with the most open hardware, and we bought those devices.\u003cp\u003eThe same thing could happen with phones. Even without being installable on EVERY device, surely some of the manufacturers will stick to fairly standard hardware and the Ubuntu community will see to it that the drivers and unlocking tools are there. Not everyone will be able to get Ubuntu on their phone, but the community can still thrive.","parent":"4999075","id":"4999802"}
{"by":"xiaoma","time":"1271455436","timestamp":"2010-04-16 22:03:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't let the existence of worse problems elsewhere blind you.\u003cp\u003eFrom the WHO:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eObesity is one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Its prevalence has tripled in many countries in the WHO European Region since the 1980s, and the numbers of those affected continue to rise at an alarming rate, particularly among children. Obesity is already responsible for 2-8% of health costs and 10-13% of deaths in different parts of the Region.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"1271869","id":"1272087"}
{"by":"jdmitch","time":"1384440610","timestamp":"2013-11-14 14:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is also an interview with Manoug Manougian, the founder of the rocket club, here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/10questions/10-questions-with-manoug-manougian\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;now.mmedia.me\u0026#x2F;lb\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;10questions\u0026#x2F;10-questions-with-ma...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eapparently this year is the first time he has been back to Lebanon since he left in 1966.","parent":"6732210","id":"6732575"}
{"by":"Nate75Sanders","time":"1322816730","timestamp":"2011-12-02 09:05:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, this is quite common.  For a while I was getting contacted almost exclusively through my Dice profile and even with a note that they should email me first, I'd still get called first extremely often.","parent":"3303281","id":"3303292"}
{"by":"TaylorGood","time":"1460531292","timestamp":"2016-04-13 07:08:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What are vintage Porsche\u0026#x27;s...","parent":"11485376","id":"11486324"}
{"by":"lrenn","time":"1315408325","timestamp":"2011-09-07 15:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think it's fair to compare Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto to the quatrains of Nostradamus.","parent":"2969760","id":"2969824"}
{"by":"j_s","time":"1483636294","timestamp":"2017-01-05 17:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. As stated elsewhere, this must be done each time the browser is restarted.","parent":"13328342","id":"13328968"}
{"by":"_up","time":"1541280266","timestamp":"2018-11-03 21:24:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you explain why 300ppm CO2 is totally normal and fine, but 400 ppm (Parts per Million) CO2 in the Atmosphere basically means the world is doomed?","parent":"18372279","id":"18372553"}
{"by":"donkey-hotei","time":"1515430590","timestamp":"2018-01-08 16:56:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s really no need for a leaderboard on a site like this. It\u0026#x27;s just a site to teach ROP in isolation. If you want to pwn with a leaderboard I recommend pwnable.tw where you can test the ROP skills you learned in the ROP emporium while also learning about auditing binaries for memory corruption bugs of various kinds.","parent":"16096140","id":"16098022"}
{"by":"eitally","time":"1444790413","timestamp":"2015-10-14 02:40:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relocating from suburban North Carolina to the Bay Area has really opened my eyes to one fact: the majority of America has no f\u0026#x27;ing clue what the problem is because almost no one (percentage-wise) has experienced both sides of the \u0026quot;problem.\u0026quot;  There just aren\u0026#x27;t that many metros that are growing so fast they have the kinds of problems that exist here (SFBA).  I lived in a city of 150,000, where my beautiful 4300+sqft\u0026#x2F;400m^2 home in a very nice neighborhood with manicured lawns, a playground, neighborhood pool, and 2mi\u0026#x2F;3.2km of wooded walking paths can be had for ~$600,000.  In the majority of the country, that\u0026#x27;s a high end luxury home price.  In the Bay Area, it\u0026#x27;s a hovel price but -- even if you could find a house like it, which is very hard -- would be a $4m house on a postage stamp lot in a cramped neighborhood.\u003cp\u003eI \u003ci\u003eknow\u003c/i\u003e it\u0026#x27;s impractical to build neighborhoods and homes like that in a place like the peninsula, but I would be lying if I said I didn\u0026#x27;t miss it... a lot.  If you can\u0026#x27;t afford to live near work out here, and if you don\u0026#x27;t rent in an actual urban center, by the time you get home in the evenings the traffic has drained you so much it\u0026#x27;s hard to be motivated to do anything besides eat \u0026amp; sleep, rinse * repeat.\u003cp\u003eTo your point, if you transplanted some of the nicer neighborhoods in Palo Alto or Menlo Park, for example, almost anywhere else in the country, and they\u0026#x27;d just be slightly run down, mostly mediocre neighborhoods most middle\u0026#x2F;upper class folks would pass up in favor of new construction.  And those are $3-5m houses here!\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;rant off.  Can you tell I\u0026#x27;m frustrated by the auction-like homebuying process and stratospheric prices?\u0026gt;","parent":"10384150","id":"10384707"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1376016593","timestamp":"2013-08-09 02:49:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What other air-based telecommunications infrastructure is there?\u003cp\u003eRadio.","parent":"6183078","id":"6183444"}
{"by":"woah","time":"1539445355","timestamp":"2018-10-13 15:42:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can I invest?","parent":"18208080","id":"18208464"}
{"by":"xcopy","time":"1503233691","timestamp":"2017-08-20 12:54:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like","parent":"15049484","dead":true,"id":"15058215"}
{"by":"gane5h","time":"1264053653","timestamp":"2010-01-21 06:00:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The SVD connects the four fundamental subspaces of a linear system. I was fortunate to receive this great insight from one of Strang's lectures. I highly recommend you watch one of his videos online on this particular topic.\u003cp\u003eThis post doesn't do full justice to the beauty of the SVD. Intuitively, you are trying to compute a transformation that diagonalizes the covariance matrix of the data. Computing the covariance has two problems: 1) this is a O(n^2) operation and 2) can lead to big numerical errors for really small values in the matrix.\u003cp\u003eBy creative use of elementary matrix operations, the SVD gives you the transformation on the original matrix. If you are interested in just the first few singular vectors, certain math libraries also support an \u003ci\u003eeconomical\u003c/i\u003e mode that does just this.","parent":"1066647","id":"1066730"}
{"by":"rm_-rf_slash","time":"1487958855","timestamp":"2017-02-24 17:54:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can only see one cure to this pervasive issue that affects every website on the internet that allows for user comments:\u003cp\u003eFirst, verified accounts, like Twitter, are visually separate from non-verified accounts. The distinction has to be visible on every place the username is displayed or when their post is displayed.\u003cp\u003eSecond, only verified users have upvote\u0026#x2F;downvote privileges. To me it is downright foolish to allow any jackass or botnet to make a ton of accounts and up\u0026#x2F;down vote the conversation as they please.\u003cp\u003eI have seen this forum management all over the web and it\u0026#x27;s turning me off from social media more and more by the day. Newspaper comment sections used to be insightful, and now they are generally cesspools of shills and bots. Double or more for forums like Reddit. I even see it on Hacker News.\u003cp\u003eWe can have open discussions and we can have discussions free of paid influence, but I do not believe it is possible to have both.","parent":"13724990","id":"13725875"}
{"by":"realusername","time":"1461313421","timestamp":"2016-04-22 08:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t believe there is people disagreeing with that here... Like if copyright law was somehow more important than feeding people...","parent":"11545668","id":"11547743"}
{"by":"marak830","time":"1440240054","timestamp":"2015-08-22 10:40:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly - it is tempting, but ontop of that i dont have a uni degree - im a self taught programmer, so im stuck between a rock and getting my own software out haha.  \u003ci\u003eSigh\u003c/i\u003e, im pretty happy, were getting by, but articles like this, seem to piss me off a  little (im sorry it was also a bad day), i wish i earnt enough to follow what it said.","parent":"10102029","id":"10102148"}
{"by":"temphn","time":"1374368540","timestamp":"2013-07-21 01:02:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re so hostile that you kick the ball into your own net. My question was whether LME was free to \u0026quot;change\u0026quot; the rule by \u003ci\u003eabolishing\u003c/i\u003e it, or whether this was related to an underlying CFTC compliance issue. Because trying to increase the stringency of the rule did nothing:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Martin Abbott, the head of the exchange, said at the time \n  that he did not believe that the warehouse delays were \n  causing the problem. But the group tried to quiet the furor \n  by imposing new regulations that doubled the amount of \n  metal that the warehouses are required to ship each day — \n  from 1,500 tons to 3,000 tons. But few metal traders or \n  manufacturers believed that the move would settle the \n  issue.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThis does not argue in favor of your tacit position that we just need more rules, or more men with guns to enforce them.","parent":"6077272","id":"6077313"}
{"by":"stusmall","time":"1394752551","timestamp":"2014-03-13 23:15:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s just how early R\u0026amp;D is when you have a physical product.  I can\u0026#x27;t count how much crazy crap I\u0026#x27;ve seen rushed from China to make a deadline or meet early turn outs.  Sometimes engineering time and early adopter happiness are worth a lot more than the one off cost of some air freight. Its not like (at least I hope not how) that\u0026#x27;s how their supply chain will be working in the long term.","parent":"7395558","id":"7395821"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1190000021","timestamp":"2007-09-17 03:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone know a good Xen configuration tool? There doesn't seem to be a good equivalent of say, VMware Server for Linux. \u003cp\u003eDon't care whether it's Open source or proprietary, just want something that makes the image creation, starting / stopping, networking and reconfig simple.","parent":"55381","id":"55518"}
{"by":"rmc","time":"1333215199","timestamp":"2012-03-31 17:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with your analysis.\u003cp\u003eAs an example, Google allow advertisers to target what people search for, without telling you who they are.","parent":"3780439","id":"3780916"}
{"by":"otoburb","time":"1496685551","timestamp":"2017-06-05 17:59:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the main Ethereum co-founders is working on a new experimental contract language targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine called Viper which still seems to be under relatively active development[1].\u003cp\u003eWhy pick Solidity if Viper and other languages like Low-level Lisp-like Language (LLL) by Consensys[2] are around the corner? Or is this just a matter of language flavour similar to how anybody can pick from a plethora of languages targeting the JVM (Clojure, Scala, Java, etc.)?\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ethereum\u0026#x2F;viper\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ethereum\u0026#x2F;viper\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;media.consensys.net\u0026#x2F;an-introduction-to-lll-for-ethereum-smart-contract-development-e26e38ea6c23\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;media.consensys.net\u0026#x2F;an-introduction-to-lll-for-ether...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14489484","id":"14489712"}
{"by":"arcanus","time":"1482596103","timestamp":"2016-12-24 16:15:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Why after several positive tests, has the physics community not gone full throttle to try and disprove it, like they did with cold fusion?\u003cp\u003eNo one has any funding to research it. Despite the press, no major research agency is backing efforts to investigate the effect.\u003cp\u003eCold fusion actually did get serious funding back in the 80s, which made it \u0026#x27;higher profile\u0026#x27; to the scientific community.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll add that cold fusion seemed more plausible. In that it did not violate extremely well understood fundamental principles of physics, e.g. conservation of momentum. While incorrect, cold fusion was at least on the face of it a sensible inquiry at one time.\u003cp\u003eThe EM drive has extremely compelling reasons to ellicit extreme skepticism from the scientific community at large.","parent":"13250034","id":"13250304"}
{"by":"greghinch","time":"1367268406","timestamp":"2013-04-29 20:46:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What % of their revenue does traffic from IE 5 represent?  Now, what would the cost in internal resources to maintain browser compatibility on the scale of these sites? (hint: it's a lot) The math is pretty clear.","parent":"5628255","id":"5628624"}
{"by":"fjcaetano","time":"1389795518","timestamp":"2014-01-15 14:18:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Base 60 has many advantages, but bare in mind that this is dated almost 4000 years ago. When people developed language and started counting, they would need something to keep track and help them go from one number to the other, so the finger tip theory is actually quite accurate.","parent":"7063363","id":"7063432"}
{"by":"Perceptes","time":"1467618086","timestamp":"2016-07-04 07:41:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I learned that recently and also thought it was pretty amusing. Cheers. :}","parent":"12029311","id":"12029343"}
{"by":"thedufer","time":"1466268571","timestamp":"2016-06-18 16:49:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there\u0026#x27;s no bank you have an account at within a reasonable distance, you might not have a choice.  Obviously I use free ATMs when I can, but how much control do you have when a cabbie is demanding money?","parent":"11927201","id":"11929357"}
{"by":"steffanwilliams","time":"1218323834","timestamp":"2008-08-09 23:17:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cheers.\u003cp\u003eHow do you mean why do you have to login? It's just a little to-do app, like Remember the Milk or Tada List. You sign up, log in and start adding things you want to remember. Keeps things private.\u003cp\u003eI only built it for myself and haven't actually told anyone about it until I pasted a link here in the last comment. Thoughts and comments are welcome! :)","parent":"271952","id":"272020"}
{"by":"aljungberg","time":"1489525061","timestamp":"2017-03-14 20:57:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure I follow.\u003cp\u003esum(vec) is exactly how I\u0026#x27;d write it in Python (or pseudo-Python for that matter). It does what you think it does (provided the operation of addition is defined for vectors). I did mention using \u0026quot;sum\u0026quot; instead of \u0026quot;sigma\u0026quot; (combined with a list comprehension) in my OP, did you miss that or are you making a point I don\u0026#x27;t understand?\u003cp\u003eI recognise what you say about mathematics favouring conciseness. I feel that\u0026#x27;s what I\u0026#x27;m addressing: mathematics have sacrificed readability in favour of conciseness to an extreme and could benefit from some decompression. It is possible to write extremely concise code but I feel most programmers today agree that\u0026#x27;s actually not a good thing to do. It\u0026#x27;s often better to write something a little longer to improve readability than to save those characters.\u003cp\u003eAnd like you write, every language, and we can consider mathematical notation to be a language in this context, has tradeoffs. But it\u0026#x27;s not a zero sum game. You can make an overall better language than another language. And what I like to imagine here is that perhaps mathematical notation is not the most evolved form of logical expression we have today. It\u0026#x27;s certainly not as formalised or field tested as the big programming languages.","parent":"13870312","id":"13871396"}
{"by":"jaclaz","time":"1540115470","timestamp":"2018-10-21 09:51:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only slightly off topic I recently get to know about a  technique in (industrial) manufacturing, friction forging:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.diamondbladeknives.com\u0026#x2F;Friction-Forging\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.diamondbladeknives.com\u0026#x2F;Friction-Forging\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ecannot say if it actually delivers what it promises, but the video is interesting.","parent":"18265845","id":"18267340"}
{"by":"akeefer","time":"1288904937","timestamp":"2010-11-04 21:08:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This research doesn't tell you much concretely about the \u003ci\u003ebenefits\u003c/i\u003e of the patent system that might be lost in any potential reform, but it certainly says something about the \u003ci\u003ecosts\u003c/i\u003e that it imposes right now:  clearly lots of people get sued over things they invented independently.  In fact, in the overwhelming majority of cases not involving chemicals or pharmaceuticals, the people being sued (and thus punished) are independent inventors.  It's hard for me not to conceive of \"people getting sued over things they invented/created completely independently\" as anything other than a pure cost to society, and the research in this paper makes it pretty clear that most patent lawsuits fall into that category of \"pure cost to society.\"\u003cp\u003eIt also does say something about the \"benefits\" of the patent system, though less strongly:  clearly if the vast majority of people being sued in particular industries are independently inventing things, that means that the knowledge transfer benefits of patents in those industries is likely over-stated by pro-patent lobbies.","parent":"1870509","id":"1870789"}
{"by":"konradb","time":"1450431951","timestamp":"2015-12-18 09:45:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Out of interest what is this current undergrad spiel about scheduling?","parent":"10754133","id":"10757598"}
{"by":"zubairq","time":"1429773150","timestamp":"2015-04-23 07:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the definition of an Open Company?","parent":"9423208","id":"9425337"}
{"by":"andrew_wc_brown","time":"1352498472","timestamp":"2012-11-09 22:01:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The customer did sound like a hassle, but by the sound of the author I think he could have admitted ways he could have improved his customer support.\u003cp\u003e- Multiple Questions that Can Be Answered from Your Website\u003cp\u003eImprove the accessibility of the questions, educate the lead/customer on its location.\u003cp\u003e- Asking for a discount\u003cp\u003eWhether you like to haggle or not, there are people that think part of the buying process requires a haggle. Have a trivial bonus you can award to your haggler so they feel like a winner.\u003cp\u003e- Carpet bombing info@ sales@ questions@ support@ and etc..\u003cp\u003eThese emails are impersonal, people want to talk to real people. If you aren't a big company use your name or if you want a generic account that everyone can use just make up a name: jason@yourcompany.com\u003cp\u003e- Calling your cellphone multiple times\u003cp\u003eIf you don't want to phone support. Don't list your cellphone on your website. If you have to list a number go buy one that goes to an answering machine.\u003cp\u003e- Email Ping Pong\u003cp\u003eIf you're lead/customer is getting frustrated with every back paddle of an email you send back its possible you aren't communicating in a way they understand or your not giving them an answer they'd accept. You don't have to give them the answer they want just one they get.","parent":"4763848","id":"4764915"}
{"by":"floatingatoll","time":"1515095835","timestamp":"2018-01-04 19:57:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As noted later in thread, a proper writeup for Linus \u0026amp; co. was in progress when the vulnerability was disclosed in advanced of the 1\u0026#x2F;9 publication date, and so Linus was missing a lot of context for the patch when he wrote the email linked by this post.","parent":"16070192","id":"16073491"}
{"by":"atroyn","time":"1454259249","timestamp":"2016-01-31 16:54:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Accessing shale is trivial for \u003ci\u003eour\u003c/i\u003e civilization, not necessarily for those of even 200 years ago.\u003cp\u003e- You have to know the shale gas is there\n- You have to be able to extract, capture and refine it\n- You have to be able to distribute it","parent":"11006938","id":"11006946"}
{"by":"seltzered_","time":"1532413746","timestamp":"2018-07-24 06:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I\u0026#x27;d love to see a software system that is able to reliably output high-quality legal documents\u003cp\u003eI think that\u0026#x27;s what Meng Wong\u0026#x27;s startup \u0026#x27;legalese.com\u0026#x27; is for: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;legalese.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;legalese.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe gave a talk about it here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=NlGqifLBsy8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=NlGqifLBsy8\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17598471","id":"17598582"}
{"by":"zitterbewegung","time":"1510753953","timestamp":"2017-11-15 13:52:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dunno if this is a good value propositon since the layoffs for the people that were working on Unity.","parent":"15703402","id":"15703678"}
{"by":"paulie_a","time":"1527626584","timestamp":"2018-05-29 20:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The one that has been a problem for me is comparing hourly breakdowns for DST. How do you compare last week vs a day with 25 hours in it","parent":"17181046","id":"17182768"}
{"by":"jrs95","time":"1518626111","timestamp":"2018-02-14 16:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but so does everybody else. You shouldn\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003etrust\u003c/i\u003e vendor benchmarks, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you can\u0026#x27;t read them and use them as sort of a heuristic to help you come to your own conclusions. It might not be particularly scientific, but it\u0026#x27;s probably more than accurate enough for 99% of people.","parent":"16376595","id":"16377016"}
{"by":"mr337","time":"1489580146","timestamp":"2017-03-15 12:15:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here, I was looking at the PRU and was completely lost on to how to program and utilize them.\u003cp\u003eI ended up going Navio2 and haven\u0026#x27;t looked back. Also the RPI3 is powerful enough to run list ROS tasks.","parent":"13874990","id":"13875534"}
{"by":"FeepingCreature","time":"1504957265","timestamp":"2017-09-09 11:41:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would you ever pay for an additional vote yourself, instead of giving the money to someone likely to vote in your favor? If you want 50 votes, just give 3$ to 1\u0026#x2F;p * 50 people with a p probability of voting for the thing you want. 1\u0026#x2F;p * 150$ is almost certainly massively cheaper than 2500$.","parent":"15206291","id":"15206610"}
{"by":"smacktoward","time":"1354896763","timestamp":"2012-12-07 16:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would imagine chlamydia is more popular than GoDaddy among Hacker News users...","parent":"4887415","id":"4887531"}
{"by":"rleigh","time":"1533814248","timestamp":"2018-08-09 11:30:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Err, they are very easy to debug.  You can have them print out every line as they execute and follow along what was done.  Prior to systemd, if there was ever anything critically broken, I could step through the entire startup from the initramfs and bring up the system line-by-line or script by script as I needed, and see exactly what was at fault.\u003cp\u003eWith a script-based startup, the entire system was understandable by anyone with some rudimentary knowledge.  It wasn\u0026#x27;t complicated, and it worked well.  It did have its shortcomings, but the accessibility to modification and the ability to effectively debug were not amongst them.  In comparison, systemd\u0026#x27;s behaviour is a black box with the unit files as input.  The actual internal state is opaque, and it\u0026#x27;s inaccessible even to experts.","parent":"17722239","id":"17723227"}
{"by":"orib","time":"1223493236","timestamp":"2008-10-08 19:13:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was talking from a coding point of view, since the post was asking about finding people to code a GUI. The challenge of designing a good UI is usually swamped by the need to write swaths of dumb code if you're actually \u003ci\u003ecoding\u003c/i\u003e GUIs. Design work is in a domain of it's own.","parent":"326935","id":"326942"}
{"by":"ersii","time":"1341395945","timestamp":"2012-07-04 09:59:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do not think your post reads out as blaming Jonathan/Titanous. But David's post is a valuable addition - especially the possible personal marketing side of the publication.","parent":"4196831","id":"4198686"}
{"by":"buro9","time":"1361459252","timestamp":"2013-02-21 15:07:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; the patent application describes the device's battery being charged by ambient light and kinetic energy. That's pretty wild.\u003cp\u003eFairly common, automatic mechanical watches already use kinetic, but were we to say \"But those aren't electronic\" then you could always look at something like the Seiko Premier ( \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiko.co.uk/products/seiko/c/premier/m/snp005p1_snp005p1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.seiko.co.uk/products/seiko/c/premier/m/snp005p1_s...\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003eAnd for ambient light charging, you have Citizen and their Eco-Drive range ( \u003ca href=\"http://www.citizenwatch.com/en-us/watches/collections/citizen-eco-drive/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.citizenwatch.com/en-us/watches/collections/citize...\u003c/a\u003e ) and Casio's G-shock ( \u003ca href=\"http://www.gshock.com/technology/solar/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.gshock.com/technology/solar/\u003c/a\u003e )\u003cp\u003eI enjoy the fact that my current watch is ambient light powered, syncs with atomic clocks each night via radio... and therefore never needs a battery or charging, and is so damn accurate that I can glance at my watch when some event happens on my NTP sync'd server and the entry in the log file is precisely when the time on my watch said it would be.\u003cp\u003eAnyhow... those power sources should be irrelevant to the patent... they've existed for years by numerous players in the watch market.","parent":"5257511","id":"5257780"}
{"by":"return0","time":"1466588777","timestamp":"2016-06-22 09:46:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The term has long lost its initial definition.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDue to the complex history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition of the Third World.[1] Some countries in the Communist Bloc, such as Cuba, were often regarded as \u0026quot;Third World\u0026quot;. Because many Third World countries were extremely poor, and non-industrialized, it became a stereotype to refer to poor countries as \u0026quot;third world countries\u0026quot;, yet the \u0026quot;Third World\u0026quot; term is also often taken to include newly industrialized countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China (see also: BRIC).\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Third_World\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Third_World\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11952270","id":"11952574"}
{"by":"asfaltboy","time":"1479311385","timestamp":"2016-11-16 15:49:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the QUESTIONS are definitely pre-programmed, so the answer set is probably limited too.","parent":"12967559","id":"12967997"}
{"by":"jxramos","time":"1510613156","timestamp":"2017-11-13 22:45:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+1 for test case generator, some of our libraries even have a dividing path between optimized vs brute force modes just so we can be certain of correctness in unit test and what not. Correctness first with all the testing infrastructure and TODOs to at a later time go in and lay better algorithms down\u0026#x2F;execute general refactoring.","parent":"15690773","id":"15690997"}
{"by":"Piskvorrr","time":"1448984667","timestamp":"2015-12-01 15:44:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"s\u0026#x2F;smoothly\u0026#x2F;in the same crappy but \u003ci\u003estandardized\u003c/i\u003e way\u0026#x2F;","parent":"10655886","id":"10656155"}
{"by":"cryptos","time":"1429733640","timestamp":"2015-04-22 20:14:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Engineering is all about trade-offs.\u003cp\u003eWhat a wonderful sentence about a simple, but often forgotten truth!","parent":"9423151","id":"9423241"}
{"by":"geuis","time":"1482212765","timestamp":"2016-12-20 05:46:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is \u003ci\u003eexactly\u003c/i\u003e the kind of response I was hoping for. Thanks Matt! If it\u0026#x27;s not an inconvenience, could you drop any links to the topics you referenced, especially the ones that differed from what I\u0026#x27;ve been studying, to charles@geuis.com? I\u0026#x27;m going a bit deeper now and reading some studies from the early 90\u0026#x27;s and some that are more recent. It\u0026#x27;s kind of a crapshoot of what I can google for, so a guided search would be immensely helpful.","parent":"13216926","id":"13217756"}
{"by":"simias","time":"1296737665","timestamp":"2011-02-03 12:54:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use HNdroid from time to time, it's very slow on big comment threads and doesn't format everything properly. I think I read it's because there's no HN API so it just parses the HTML. Are there any plans to provide such an API? It would make it much easier to... hack on top of the website.","parent":"2174448","id":"2174521"}
{"by":"zemo","time":"1482544685","timestamp":"2016-12-24 01:58:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s been around since before Go 1.0","parent":"13248034","id":"13248219"}
{"by":"suby","time":"1477196011","timestamp":"2016-10-23 04:13:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure there are people out there who can make it work for programming, but I would strongly advocate against trying.  I\u0026#x27;m a programmer now, but before I got into programming I was on track to become a Stenographer.  I wrote at length about this two years ago when there were a few articles on HN discussing the possibility of using Stenography for coding.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.danieljosephpetersen.com\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;programming-and-stenography.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.danieljosephpetersen.com\u0026#x2F;posts\u0026#x2F;programming-and-st...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNegativity aside, I\u0026#x27;m pretty thrilled to see Open Source projects in the field.  It costs 4,000 dollars for Case Catalyst, which you can think of as Microsoft Word for Stenographers.  It\u0026#x27;s worth it if you\u0026#x27;re a professional, but I suspect that the price is only that high because there\u0026#x27;s no competition.\u003cp\u003eedit:  In fact, I think the price might have gone up in the last two years.  I could have sworn that it was 3,000 dollars back in 2014.","parent":"12771840","id":"12771910"}
{"by":"bjelkeman-again","time":"1419347881","timestamp":"2014-12-23 15:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having tried most of those, funnily enough, I am back to bits of paper.","parent":"8787291","id":"8788432"}
{"by":"dalbasal","time":"1528835291","timestamp":"2018-06-12 20:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I might have overstated things, or not given credit where due. The contractors played a big role. They have not, however, been pushing things forward. Space exploration was stagnant, imo. I also consider NASA and the Soviet program to be the primary \u0026quot;mover,\u0026quot; though of course that could be argued.\u003cp\u003eOn cars, no that\u0026#x27;s not what I thunk. I don\u0026#x27;t think this divides into 2018 sales volume and bullshitting hype. There is also impact on the industry, consumer perception and the active effect on the price performance of batteries. There\u0026#x27;s important proofs (to the public) of concept, that electric cars can stand on their own in every respect.\u003cp\u003eNissan... they fulfilled a demand for low spec cars with short ranges, a relatively nonscalable source of demand too. I don\u0026#x27;t think that Nissan\u0026#x27;s sales are as relevant as Tesla\u0026#x27;s in the overall scheme of changing most cars from ice\u0026#x27;s to electric. That\u0026#x27;s not to hate on nissan. I have a nissan.\u003cp\u003eI think we understand eachother, but disagree. You think of Tesla and spacex as similar to their competition, but with lots of underserved hype. I see them as different,  mostly because of risk tolerance.\u003cp\u003eI guess this is also a matter of worldview. I think we have a serious problem of too little risk \u0026amp; failure, and the ability (of very large companies) to avoid risk almost entirely.\u003cp\u003eSpaceX set a goal of reusable rocket or bust, fairly literally and explicitly. I don\u0026#x27;t think other contractors would have. I don\u0026#x27;t think we get to mars unless someone does.\u003cp\u003eIf mars is just hype and bullshit to you, then meaningfully reduced cost per orbital kg.. I dunno thoug. I *do\u0026quot; believe the claim that he\u0026#x27;s after a mars service. Why else risk the house?","parent":"17297203","id":"17297668"}
{"by":"webgambit","time":"1279582476","timestamp":"2010-07-19 23:34:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a former police officer, I highly advocate having an ICE contact in your phone. It really can make a huge difference.\u003cp\u003eThat said, it doesn't do a lick of good to have an ICE contact set up if, when the first responder picks up your phone, it asks for a password to get into it. It's one of those cases where you need to weigh the balance on convenience vs security.","parent":"1530174","id":"1530590"}
{"by":"mioelnir","time":"1460154866","timestamp":"2016-04-08 22:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think what it does for all the creditcard companies. The TLS stream contains also those nice back-of-the-card control numbers that card processors are not allowed to store.","parent":"11457324","id":"11458627"}
{"by":"jccalhoun","time":"1383605746","timestamp":"2013-11-04 22:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m surprised that some upstart search engine hasn\u0026#x27;t made a selling point that they ignore robots.txt and claim they search the pages google doesn\u0026#x27;t or something.","parent":"6671179","id":"6671791"}
{"by":"wiredfool","time":"1524844789","timestamp":"2018-04-27 15:59:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fremont used to have character. There were cheap artists spaces and warehouses that had interesting events.\u003cp\u003eThen Adobe moved in, the area by the canal got rebuilt into office space, and it\u0026#x27;s characterless.","parent":"16941651","id":"16941774"}
{"by":"bgrins","time":"1293773963","timestamp":"2010-12-31 05:39:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Calling fillRect is massively slower than calculating the an index in the array.  As a general rule, it is more efficient to modify native data structures directly, while updating the DOM as infrequently as possible.\u003cp\u003eI understand that you may have been \u003ci\u003ewanting\u003c/i\u003e to benchmark the actual speed of updating the canvas, but it really isn't a fair comparison with updating arrays.\u003cp\u003eInvalidating the canvas 24 times a second doesn't help with the benchmark, but it would make the example usable, in that it would actually update the canvas element on your screen.\u003cp\u003eOn my computer, the example from jdavid ran in 287ms, instead of the original which ran in 7427ms.","parent":"2054558","id":"2054635"}
{"by":"Communitivity","time":"1497894115","timestamp":"2017-06-19 17:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Ozone Widget Framework is a mess, albeit a mess that\u0026#x27;s usable once you learn its quirks. The idea is basically web components, portlets, etc. rehashed with some shared service capabilities added in. Something I find interesting and rarely see mentioned: OWF was built from Apache Shindig, an Open Social spec implementation Google donated to Apache. For more information on OWF, see (PDF) \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dataintelligencellc.com\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;DI-OWF-Capabilities%20-%204-28-2014.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dataintelligencellc.com\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;DI-OWF-Capabilit...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14584436","id":"14588788"}
{"by":"jtokoph","time":"1493733089","timestamp":"2017-05-02 13:51:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. Any ideas on how to monitor\u0026#x2F;respond to a new noisy neighbor? Ongoing monitoring to see if performance degrades? Can you filter out your own usage from the performance rating?","parent":"14246251","id":"14246279"}
{"by":"selectodude","time":"1508599944","timestamp":"2017-10-21 15:32:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, I can imagine it in red.","parent":"15521521","id":"15522164"}
{"by":"Avenger42","time":"1257184253","timestamp":"2009-11-02 17:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Joel posted about it once.\u003cp\u003e(Found the link:) \u003ca href=\"http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Occasionally, you will see a C programmer write something like if (0==strlen(x)), putting the constant on the left hand side of the == . This is a really good sign. It means that they were stung once too many times by confusing = and == and have forced themselves to learn a new habit to avoid that trap.\"","parent":"916999","id":"917344"}
{"by":"tluyben2","time":"1433356436","timestamp":"2015-06-03 18:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some information for people who don\u0026#x27;t know; this is about the Shenlanguage.org; a Lisp with a novel (to me anyway) implementation (it is written on top of a kind of minimal Lisp called KLambda and thus very easy to port) with some great features and many target platforms, all under BSD license.\u003cp\u003eNice work with the REPL Ramil, however, the site could use some testing on at least Safari, as it looks like this; \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.glui.me\u0026#x2F;1deY5lR\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.glui.me\u0026#x2F;1deY5lR\u003c/a\u003e (Safari 8, latest update).\u003cp\u003eThis is good work towards getting people working with Shen faster. There is a long way to go but it\u0026#x27;s worth it!","parent":"9654475","id":"9654776"}
{"by":"jijji","time":"1361801224","timestamp":"2013-02-25 14:07:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm Sorry, but I would prefer to live in a place where on the hottest day in summer, the ocean water is not freezing cold.  Or a place where my kids can grow up and not have to worry about drinking polluted groundwater.  Or a place where even though I live 5 miles from work, it still takes me an hour each way to get there.  Or a place where the housing is not so out of touch with reality that a 2 bedroom shack costs $600K, when in any other part of the country that same house would be less than $60K.","parent":"5278949","id":"5278994"}
{"by":"veidr","time":"1301813086","timestamp":"2011-04-03 06:44:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, \"at scale\" is succinct and accurate, I will adopt that term too.","parent":"2401904","id":"2402011"}
{"by":"verra","time":"1334551788","timestamp":"2012-04-16 04:49:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.zerohedge.com/news/sheila-bairs-modest-proposal-fix-everything-hyperinflation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/sheila-bairs-modest-proposal-f...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3839379","id":"3845961"}
{"by":"mrmondo","time":"1463755941","timestamp":"2016-05-20 14:52:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#x2F;vent I don\u0026#x27;t see what\u0026#x27;s interesting or really even positively relevant here in 2016. Jenkins was a very important part of what accelerated the early progression on high performance product delivery, but it\u0026#x27;s not exactly something to aspire to run, nor is it in any way a measure or sign of technological advance to be able or even suitable to run the application. I don\u0026#x27;t think any level of integration would make this favourable solution. One of Microsofts weaknesses that has only really recently become blatantly obvious publicly is their poor ability to integrate. Having a monopoly on file formats and the such got them a huge wave to ride but they are more of a holdings company stumbling than anything. Their offerings are less than nimble and news like this in 2016 only exists because they\u0026#x27;re reaching for any public opportunities to make themselves appear relevant. Just look at O365, SharePoint Online etc... They\u0026#x27;re truly awful to use if required to do so on a regular basis, the sheer latency of those product interfaces alone should be enough to make anyone weary but when you start digging into their network and see how broken their infrastructure is, is damn right scary. They fail to provide reliable network routes, have widespread internal DNS issues and data replication mismatches. Ending my rant here but it damn cheeses me when people fall for the flashy brochure - it\u0026#x27;s their job to take your money, that is the mission - they don\u0026#x27;t care about you. \u0026#x2F;vent\u003cp\u003e*edit: spelling, I\u0026#x27;m half asleep","parent":"11737374","id":"11738246"}
{"by":"drill_sarge","time":"1382765416","timestamp":"2013-10-26 05:30:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The more people TOR use, the more secure it becomes. All attacks base on analyzing incoming and outgoing traffic or monitoring nodes which use outdated tor version. And why should be using \u0026quot;open wifi networks\u0026quot; more secure or anonymous? You don\u0026#x27;t know whos running them and who you can trust. With TOR you could still go over open wifi while having not (or much less) to worry about who may be sniffing on that wifi access point.","parent":"6616335","id":"6616478"}
{"by":"scottious","time":"1414157059","timestamp":"2014-10-24 13:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At some level though, it HAS to be a simple matter of calories in vs. calories out.  I will bet a large sum of money that if you literally give an obese person ONLY water and necessary vitamins for 3 months that they\u0026#x27;ll lose weight.  You\u0026#x27;ll never find somebody who hasn\u0026#x27;t eaten anything for a month and is maintaining their weight.\u003cp\u003eSure it\u0026#x27;s an extreme case, meant only as a thought experiment, but it\u0026#x27;s obvious that 0 calories in and non-zero calories out absolutely MUST mean weight loss.  What are the alternatives?\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s the thing... I\u0026#x27;m willing to change my mind.  Totally willing.  Here\u0026#x27;s what it will take:  Show me a person who is overweight and goes on a VERY strict, almost laboratory controlled diet for 6 months.  Everything strictly regimented and monitored.  If that person \u003ci\u003esimply cannot lose weight\u003c/i\u003e then fine, Gary Taubes wins.","parent":"8502045","id":"8503494"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1399297819","timestamp":"2014-05-05 13:50:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Minor yet important interpretation error in you wrote \u0026quot;doing something great\u0026quot; yet obviously implied you wrote \u0026quot;being someone great\u0026quot;.","parent":"7697912","id":"7698521"}
{"by":"VT_Drew","time":"1497364080","timestamp":"2017-06-13 14:28:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hopefully Tesla would never sell to Apple. I think Apple makes some good products, but I hate how closed their ecosystem is. Tesla has open sourced it\u0026#x27;s patents, which strongly goes against Apple\u0026#x27;s philosophy.","parent":"14544583","id":"14544916"}
{"by":"ForHackernews","time":"1422898464","timestamp":"2015-02-02 17:34:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you believe that a JavaScript port of bitcoin is an important project? What is lacking in current implementations \u0026#x2F; why would you want to run bitcoin inside a browser \u0026#x2F; do you think it\u0026#x27;s possible to do serious crypto correctly in JS[0]?\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;matasano.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;javascript-cryptography\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8985344","id":"8985389"}
{"by":"jsemrau","time":"1512433286","timestamp":"2017-12-05 00:21:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Boredom is one of the drivers of creative thought. \nI guess no surprises here.","parent":"15846336","id":"15848803"}
{"by":"faebi","time":"1513654027","timestamp":"2017-12-19 03:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My app currently parses all the data automatically from the respective federal\u0026#x2F;cantonal government websites. I thought about getting the politicians from the local communities, but then I would have to parse the websites of ~2400 communities. Also I do not know how many communities even publish this information. So for me it is currently to much work, unless the government enforces a law to publish this data in a standard way.\u003cp\u003eThe app does not keep track of people at all. Each new parsing deletes the old data.\u003cp\u003eThanks for the point about the executive and judical branches. That would be something interesting to add.","parent":"15957433","id":"15957495"}
{"by":"rkuykendall-com","time":"1393447598","timestamp":"2014-02-26 20:46:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you know if MS is working on Mac-Style resolution independence for W9? I\u0026#x27;m currently running a Retina MBP, at 2x res I think, and it works _perfectly_. The first few months some apps didn\u0026#x27;t work well, but the community adapted very quickly.","parent":"7307546","id":"7307628"}
{"by":"lesscryptic","time":"1338342674","timestamp":"2012-05-30 01:51:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I definitely bought something with an AMEX card on Altrec, and someone definitely used that card to buy access to a Christian dating site, of all things, a couple months later.  AMEX called me in regard to the fraud a month or so ago and I got a new card.\u003cp\u003eI'm inclined to believe that this is legit, but it's kind of crazy that all they offer is credit monitoring, which I only now feel like I need because they screwed up.  I want a new tent or something.","parent":"4029119","id":"4040959"}
{"by":"tiernano","time":"1453031168","timestamp":"2016-01-17 11:46:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s already being done. November update to win10 is the 1511 version...","parent":"10919050","id":"10919184"}
{"by":"netzone","time":"1508154559","timestamp":"2017-10-16 11:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not a bad idea on the online dating. Though it would probably mean Facebook becoming much more transparent regarding what data they collect on you, at least to the unknowing majority.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s something I really don\u0026#x27;t see happening.","parent":"15481945","id":"15482537"}
{"by":"adamconroy","time":"1384210207","timestamp":"2013-11-11 22:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds reasonable but not ideal.  Probably some sort of ETL into a data warehouse would be needed for adhoc analysis.","parent":"6714479","id":"6714668"}
{"by":"amochohan","time":"1464009974","timestamp":"2016-05-23 13:26:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason I added this was because most developers are used to using a double pipe when writing code that has \u0026#x27;or\u0026#x27; conditions.\u003cp\u003eI understand the use of pipes for bitwise, but in this case if you read the code in the example, we\u0026#x27;re basically saying \u0026quot;if the exception is of type A or of type B\u0026quot;, personally I\u0026#x27;d be inclined to use || if I didn\u0026#x27;t already know the syntax.","parent":"11753558","id":"11753666"}
{"by":"ispiansclsda","time":"1538795700","timestamp":"2018-10-06 03:15:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hooray! Yet another \u0026quot;Apple vs Android\u0026quot; shitfest thread.","parent":"18147653","dead":true,"id":"18153310"}
{"by":"pktgen","time":"1482818334","timestamp":"2016-12-27 05:58:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should read Naked Capitalism\u0026#x27;s excellent 5-part series about Uber\u0026#x27;s viability:\u003cp\u003ePart 1: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver-part-one-understanding-ubers-bleak-operating-economics.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver-part-two-understanding-ubers-uncompetitive-costs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver-part-three-understanding-false-claims-about-ubers-innovation-and-competitive-advantages.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver-part-four-understanding-that-unregulated-monopoly-was-always-ubers-central-objective.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 5: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver-part-five-addressing-reader-comments-and-questions.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nakedcapitalism.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;can-uber-ever-deliver...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13261425","id":"13261560"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1438318426","timestamp":"2015-07-31 04:53:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, neither should be doing that in the case of an update.  Firefox when updated in the normal manner doesn\u0026#x27;t make itself the primary browser.  Windows 10 is behaving badly.\u003cp\u003eFirefox will only change things if you specifically get a Firefox installer, where it thinking that\u0026#x27;s your intent is understandable.","parent":"9979636","id":"9979992"}
{"by":"slashnull","time":"1415767380","timestamp":"2014-11-12 04:43:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What distro did you start with? Mostly I had trouble with setting up JACK.\u003cp\u003eThen, I have to admit, I didn\u0026#x27;t make it easy for myself; I tried to use SuperCollider, which worked... Somewhat, until I nerded out and tried to speak to it from within Haskell.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m really tempted by Renoise, though.","parent":"8593668","id":"8594049"}
{"by":"jeroen","time":"1228214014","timestamp":"2008-12-02 10:33:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd say both are bad. That makes comparing them pretty irrelevant.\u003cp\u003eMySQL: \"We still have 20 known and tagged crashing and wrong result bugs\"\u003cp\u003epgSQL: \"PostgreSQL does not have a bug-tracker.\"","parent":"381899","id":"382878"}
{"by":"the-dude","time":"1443522537","timestamp":"2015-09-29 10:28:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dutch: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nrc.nl\u0026#x2F;nieuws\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;inval-bij-uber-om-verdenkt-app-van-in-georganiseerd-verband-overtreden-wet\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nrc.nl\u0026#x2F;nieuws\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;inval-bij-uber-om-verden...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePossibly \u0026#x27;organized crime\u0026#x27;.","parent":"10295386","id":"10295417"}
{"by":"ptaipale","time":"1444580767","timestamp":"2015-10-11 16:26:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Over here (Finland), tax revenue from fuel and vehicle taxes is 7 G€ per years, government expenditure on roads is in the order of 1 G€ per year. There is no relationship of vehicle\u0026#x2F;gas taxes and road maintenance; taxes are just general revenue.\u003cp\u003eAnd I think it\u0026#x27;s just the same in most countries: taxes are just taxes, general revenue; not earmarked money for some particular purpose.\u003cp\u003e(What baffles me is that the gas tax in U.S. is so low; that contributes to the situation where vehicles are often very large and consume ridiculously high amounts of fuel).","parent":"10369819","id":"10369876"}
{"by":"ktpsns","time":"1544446833","timestamp":"2018-12-10 13:00:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, I was too young to really explore classic Mac OS at that time. But from my feeling, the unixoidity of Mac OS X was really a blessing for the hacking community. So there definetly was a need.","parent":"18646788","id":"18647540"}
{"by":"neltnerb","time":"1452996397","timestamp":"2016-01-17 02:06:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nah, I bet this can be done with a 1D photonic crystal where they can get away with simply using alternating layers of uniform thin film thickness. I forget exactly but I\u0026#x27;d think all that\u0026#x27;s needed is alternating dielectric constant materials with a periodicity ~700nm which isn\u0026#x27;t that crazy. More expensive than glass sure, but it\u0026#x27;s not like it\u0026#x27;ll need special etching to get microlenses.","parent":"10917686","id":"10917953"}
{"by":"rl3","time":"1456446956","timestamp":"2016-02-26 00:35:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never claimed Watson had anything beyond a superficial understanding, nor did I claim it was somehow generally intelligent.\u003cp\u003eMy sole point was that it\u0026#x27;s a state-of-the-art AI project that utilizes deep learning, and its primary specialization is neither vision nor speech\u0026#x2F;NLP.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e... or using it on anything other than Jeopardy style questions.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven how many verticals IBM is building Watson for, they would likely disagree strongly with that statement.","parent":"11178844","id":"11179052"}
{"by":"pitt1980","time":"1337880635","timestamp":"2012-05-24 17:30:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you aware that he's a PhD grad from MIT?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://calnewport.com/info/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://calnewport.com/info/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eno need to take it personal","parent":"4019356","id":"4019525"}
{"by":"avaer","time":"1500295672","timestamp":"2017-07-17 12:47:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I look forward to a time when journalists doing journalism is what\u0026#x27;s valued in the news.\u003cp\u003eWhen technology to fake things is everywhere, maybe we\u0026#x27;ll pay for accurate newspapers again. With something other than our willingness to be manipulated by advertising.","parent":"14787876","id":"14787963"}
{"by":"tscs37","time":"1491284146","timestamp":"2017-04-04 05:35:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks a lot!","parent":"14027609","id":"14029768"}
{"by":"santiagogo","time":"1524865551","timestamp":"2018-04-27 21:45:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which do you recommend? I work with custom solutions for banks which a lot of times include fraud prevention services from third parties, so I\u0026#x27;m consistently benchmarking for better alternatives.","parent":"16943514","id":"16944646"}
{"by":"Luc","time":"1258135056","timestamp":"2009-11-13 17:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't mistake the journalist's writeup with the actual law, and perhaps think about restraining your knee-jerk 'EU is awful' and 'bureaucrats are clueless'. Privacy laws in the EU are much stricter than in the US, and a good thing too. I've been reading the same kind of comments about the Microsoft anti-trust decision, and when I looked into it I got a good appreciation for the thinking behind it. But it took some more effort than just jumping to conclusions about stupid officials in their ivory towers.","parent":"940209","id":"940381"}
{"by":"pretoriusB","time":"1359726950","timestamp":"2013-02-01 13:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u003ci\u003eNow Windows 8 (moreso RT, but even the x64 version) and Mountain Lion are moving to the walled-garden, segregated, impotent app approach\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can't you do in ML that you could in OS X 10.1?\u003cp\u003eIf and only if the app signing and approval by Apple gets mandatory to run apps, a la iOS, then you'll have a point.\u003cp\u003eAs for now, all the new signing etc are additions on top of the regular infrastructure, and the reason they were added was security.\u003cp\u003eMost security nerds find app signing and sandboxing a good idea.","parent":"5150552","id":"5150658"}
{"by":"fossuser","time":"1540352414","timestamp":"2018-10-24 03:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks - definitely looks like a movie that I’d like, I’ll check it out.","parent":"18287340","id":"18289532"}
{"by":"sshanky","time":"1479371442","timestamp":"2016-11-17 08:30:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In modern cars, disengaging the clutch (or using neutral) when coasting (toward a stop or down a hill) is less efficient than staying in gear. This is because it takes some fuel to keep the engine idling, where staying in gear allows the computer to completely cut fuel flow, as long as the forward motion is keeping the engine turning.","parent":"12975447","id":"12975543"}
{"by":"x0x0","time":"1385877221","timestamp":"2013-12-01 05:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(I\u0026#x27;m not an engineer).  I a similar article; iirc android phones could be owned by plugging them into a hostile usb connection.  I wonder, though, if you couldn\u0026#x27;t produce a simple adapter that just drops some of the pins?  Maybe I don\u0026#x27;t know enough about usb.","parent":"6826293","id":"6826313"}
{"by":"dingo_bat","time":"1503813679","timestamp":"2017-08-27 06:01:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe everybody has stopped using vim, but it\u0026#x27;s my bread and butter and I cannot imagine using anything else. Even gvim is not good enough. It has to be vim and it has to have my settings in the rc file. Expecting me to pay thousands of dollars and then having to remap ESC is a ridiculous joke.","parent":"15108391","id":"15109358"}
{"by":"narsil","time":"1468652617","timestamp":"2016-07-16 07:03:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do this when letsencrypt.org provides free trusted SSL certs?","parent":"12105458","id":"12105546"}
{"by":"duncan_bayne","time":"1486519409","timestamp":"2017-02-08 02:03:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... as opposed to forcing it from people at gunpoint, which is how outspoken socialists roll.","parent":"13593100","dead":true,"id":"13595047"}
{"by":"larrys","time":"1338839535","timestamp":"2012-06-04 19:52:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"parody detector is broken\"\u003cp\u003eNo it's not.\u003cp\u003eSee from my above comment:\u003cp\u003e\"Or maybe it was this which they saw as factually incorrect: \"Luck may have put Michael Lewis at Goldman Sachs, but luck didn't determine his level of success.\"","parent":"4065566","id":"4065615"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1290146498","timestamp":"2010-11-19 06:01:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That helped some, but there was a release (to the backend infrastructure, not the AppEngine SDK) about a month ago that made a huge difference.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Here's the link that shows the improvement: \u003ca href=\"http://code.google.com/status/appengine/detail/datastore/2010/11/06#ae-trust-detail-datastore-get-latency\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://code.google.com/status/appengine/detail/datastore/201...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1920351","id":"1920575"}
{"by":"shykes","time":"1417470175","timestamp":"2014-12-01 21:42:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"maybe they\u0026#x27;re busy designing the interface and implementing a proof-of-concept with us as we speak, instead of blogging and twittering.","parent":"8683815","id":"8684037"}
{"by":"dwcnnnghm","time":"1527366108","timestamp":"2018-05-26 20:21:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some great suggestions here already but thought I would add Metacademy [0] and Learn Anything [1] (White Paper here [2]). These are designed to create a map of skills and concepts for a given topic. I find an interactive visualisation to be really effective in understanding the broader ideas before starting out or during the early stages when it’s hard to see how the pieces fit together.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;metacademy.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;metacademy.org\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;learn-anything.xyz\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;learn-anything.xyz\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;learn-anything\u0026#x2F;learn-anything\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;White-Paper\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;learn-anything\u0026#x2F;learn-anything\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;White-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17163463","id":"17164087"}
{"by":"sportanova","time":"1448834802","timestamp":"2015-11-29 22:06:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha ok.. care to actually challenge any of my points?","parent":"10644530","id":"10646295"}
{"by":"Stasyan","time":"1317226695","timestamp":"2011-09-28 16:18:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's an awesome video. Thank you for posting it. I wish I could upvote you more than once","parent":"3048280","id":"3048614"}
{"by":"courtf","time":"1392100345","timestamp":"2014-02-11 06:32:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t mean to go off topic here, but what is it with postings on HN that have blatant typos in the first sentence?  I think this is the third time today I\u0026#x27;ve seen it, and it\u0026#x27;s starting to make me paranoid. Is this some kind of sick game?","parent":"7214830","id":"7216161"}
{"by":"pandaPower","time":"1401754264","timestamp":"2014-06-03 00:11:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that there is a real opportunity for accessibility options here. For some people verbal access to changing the air conditioning or lights or whatever might make a huge difference and the more people use it for convenience the more the price will drop for everyone.\u003cp\u003eedit: comma removal","parent":"7836294","id":"7837359"}
{"by":"pixie_","time":"1327608526","timestamp":"2012-01-26 20:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There will always be imitation, but to me the innovation going on right now is staggering. Touch screens are still fairly recent, and so many games have been created to take advantage of the new controls like fruit ninja for instance.  And it's not just big players anymore, but thanks to app markets, anybody can publish and have friends play their games.  Nintendo Wii is also fairly recent.  I spent last weekend at a party playing Just Dance with friends - something innovative, but also just another link in the chain of gaming evolution - PaRappa, DDR, Guitar Hero, etc..  The Sony Vita is just about to be released and the thing has a full touch screen on it's back side. 3DS, Wii U - I still dont get how the tablet as a controller for a console is going to work, but at least their innovating.. and how about that minecraft innovative yet evolved ;)","parent":"3515369","id":"3515743"}
{"by":"d_r","time":"1288312193","timestamp":"2010-10-29 00:29:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another great quote by PG:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen you can do whatever you want, you get a variant of the terror induced by the proverbial blank page. There are a lot of people who think the thing stopping them from writing that great novel they plan to write is the fact that their job takes up all their time. In fact what's stopping 99% of them is that writing novels is hard. When the job goes away, they see how hard.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"What would you do with FU money\" thread: \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1845323","id":"1845564"}
{"by":"eatbitseveryday","time":"1481394358","timestamp":"2016-12-10 18:25:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. Wouldn\u0026#x27;t there also be the \u0026quot;I am wiser than you, and can either play \u0026#x27;easy\u0026#x27; or play my best\u0026quot; even when playing competitively? \u0026quot;Competitive match\u0026quot; as you define it is more about following the rules, not the effort put in to actually try to win and outmaneuver the other player.\u003cp\u003eThink of a chess game, for example. We can play by the rules to the letter, but if I decide to systematically take your pieces one-by-one or \u0026quot;forget\u0026quot; some of my own experience to perhaps make it more fun, are elements I assumed are in the original comment above.","parent":"13146816","id":"13147032"}
{"by":"SideburnsOfDoom","time":"1490813465","timestamp":"2017-03-29 18:51:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This will become clear over time. All too clear, I fear.","parent":"13987004","id":"13989395"}
{"by":"merrick33","time":"1183230297","timestamp":"2007-06-30 19:04:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The best way to get your content into the search engines is to get links from top social media sites and blogs. These sites carry lots of authority in the search engines eyes and thus they are visited multiple times a day. Strategies to get such links include commenting on both types of sites, and submitting your content. Also comment on blogs in your industry using your new sites URL as the web site URL in the comment field.\u003cp\u003eWant to know which blogs are tops, go to Technorati. For social networking sites have a friend submit some content from your site to \u003ca href=\"http://www.digg.com,\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.digg.com,\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"http://www.reddit.com,\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.reddit.com,\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"http://www.netscape.com,\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.netscape.com,\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://www.stumbleupon.com.\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.stumbleupon.com.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen find some directories to submit to, \u003ca href=\"http://www.seomoz.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.seomoz.org\u003c/a\u003e has some good articles on the subject.\u003cp\u003eIf you write a press release submit it to \u003ca href=\"http://www.prleap.com,\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.prleap.com,\u003c/a\u003e seth godin listed in the 8 free things every site should do. \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/topfreethings/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.squidoo.com/topfreethings/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow these strategies and your content will get in the search engines index quickly.","parent":"31728","id":"31756"}
{"by":"virmundi","time":"1493611006","timestamp":"2017-05-01 03:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I call this Office Calisthenics. It really throws people off. Nothing bad, but they\u0026#x27;re confused. I\u0026#x27;ve tried to convince some that it\u0026#x27;s fun. Even did it with a tie on. Didn\u0026#x27;t get any takers.","parent":"14235391","id":"14235473"}
{"by":"learc83","time":"1535592322","timestamp":"2018-08-30 01:25:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Would you play a round of Russian Roulette for $100? The most likely outcome is positive.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Why do you keep trying to reduce the argument to the absurd?\u003cp\u003eReally?\u003cp\u003eIn your Russian Roulette example, we know the risk, we know the rewards, and we know the probabilities of both.\u003cp\u003eWith regards to immigration, you believe you can\u0026#x27;t estimate the probabilities, so you\u0026#x27;ve arbitrarily decided that expected the risk outweighs the expected reward.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;I haven’t made any mention of banning immigration and yet you are contrasting my position to banning software development... like somebody working on a web browser will magically invent a new master AI.\u003cp\u003eSo if that\u0026#x27;s the problem you have with the argument I’ll change it to just banning just AI research?\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s go another route. Automation through software development has the potential to cause very similar problems to what you think immigration will cause--depressed wages, high unemployment etc…\u003cp\u003eThere’s a big potential downside, we can’t realistically undo it once it’s done. We don’t know the probabilities because the experts can\u0026#x27;t be trusted. The sheepmullet doctrine says we should ban it (or severely restrict it?).","parent":"17872818","id":"17873463"}
{"by":"mrhappyunhappy","time":"1542067049","timestamp":"2018-11-12 23:57:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Copy a successful business in another country - seems to work for some.","parent":"18433284","id":"18437104"}
{"by":"Lordarminius","time":"1494609876","timestamp":"2017-05-12 17:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you david. I really appreciate your contribution and kind words","parent":"14325784","id":"14325882"}
{"by":"argonaut","time":"1450403453","timestamp":"2015-12-18 01:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We are very close to AI that can drive tanks and fly weaponized drones. We are very close to AI that replaces most blue collar jobs and the majority of jobs in the world really\u003cp\u003eYou know this because you\u0026#x27;re an expert in the field?","parent":"10755777","id":"10756097"}
{"by":"stuckagain","time":"1486072175","timestamp":"2017-02-02 21:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years and have built our software and computer systems to use computing, storage capabilities, bandwidth, and other services provided by Google, some of which do not have an alternative in the market.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s some numbers for you that Google wouldn\u0026#x27;t have provided (as far as I have seen).","parent":"13554927","id":"13555051"}
{"by":"Shooter","time":"1222405084","timestamp":"2008-09-26 04:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At this point, stick your money under your mattress...","parent":"315760","id":"315766"}
{"by":"voltagex_","time":"1393816911","timestamp":"2014-03-03 03:21:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This website is hideous, two modal popups over each other and a broken link to the source of this article - \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1yee6i/official_oculus_shipping_status_update_feb_19th/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;reddit.com\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;oculus\u0026#x2F;comments\u0026#x2F;1yee6i\u0026#x2F;official_oculus_s...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso, \u0026quot;There is a materials shortage\u0026quot; vs \u0026quot;components used are EOL\u0026quot; - big difference!\u003cp\u003eI hate tech journalism sometimes.","parent":"7331795","id":"7331854"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1402921905","timestamp":"2014-06-16 12:31:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having loads of money is neither necessary or sufficient for belonging to the UK Upper Class, traditionally at least:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_the_United_Kingdom#Upper_class\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Social_structure_of_the_United_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[NB I\u0026#x27;m really not defending this state of affairs - just pointing out that \u0026quot;Upper Class\u0026quot; traditionally meant \u0026quot;aristocracy\u0026quot; not \u0026quot;rich\u0026quot; in the UK].","parent":"7898577","id":"7898659"}
{"by":"ocfx","time":"1544118313","timestamp":"2018-12-06 17:45:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No reason to, if you read the rest of the comments you would have found plenty of sources.","parent":"18619535","dead":true,"id":"18620270"}
{"by":"wavefunction","time":"1479398458","timestamp":"2016-11-17 16:00:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;compete\u0026quot; would imply Chinese recognition of US patents, which seems hit-or-miss.","parent":"12978539","id":"12978566"}
{"by":"BigJono","time":"1459242929","timestamp":"2016-03-29 09:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sublime isn\u0026#x27;t free?","parent":"11380273","id":"11380345"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1507895084","timestamp":"2017-10-13 11:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Either the effect exists or it doesn\u0026#x27;t, and you need to show that it doesn\u0026#x27;t if you want to claim that discriminating based on overqualification is not effective. And that study doesn\u0026#x27;t show that - it only shows that overqualified candidates \u003ci\u003ethat hiring managers thought wouldn\u0026#x27;t leave soon\u003c/i\u003e don\u0026#x27;t leave soon.","parent":"15464650","id":"15464765"}
{"by":"travisjungroth","time":"1507508848","timestamp":"2017-10-09 00:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A rotating object isn\u0026#x27;t exactly the same as gravity. There\u0026#x27;s a rotational effect that exists, so you can tell the difference between being on the ground and in a centrifuge.","parent":"15430744","id":"15430791"}
{"by":"TYPE_FASTER","time":"1516718223","timestamp":"2018-01-23 14:37:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Made it to Silverton just before they closed Red Mountain Pass once. Five feet of new snow at the mountain. It took a day to open, then we had the best skiing of my life. Then I drove back to Boulder in another blizzard. 285 was closed, ten hour drive. Miss that area so much.","parent":"16209174","id":"16213811"}
{"by":"thabofletcher","time":"1379694737","timestamp":"2013-09-20 16:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That will be released on the iPhone 6.66","parent":"6418542","id":"6418766"}
{"by":"superuser2","time":"1372120218","timestamp":"2013-06-25 00:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes sense, especially considering most people use WiFi to access their DSL or cable modems which are delivering substantially less than 54g anyway.\u003cp\u003eFew people have a use for the ability to quickly move large files around the house. Media professionals, pirates with HTPCs... what else?","parent":"5936113","id":"5936687"}
{"by":"agrippanux","time":"1449343693","timestamp":"2015-12-05 19:28:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article could make sense until you\u0026#x27;ve seen a bunch of engineers attempting to figure out how to move the production instances to a VPC, and then you think, christ, dev ops would be super handy right now.","parent":"10682442","id":"10682955"}
{"by":"bigiain","time":"1369694577","timestamp":"2013-05-27 22:42:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Heh - check out the text on the circuit board mask just under the 8 pin header on the edge that's at the top in the image on the dev blog page: \u003ca href=\"http://dev.moorescloud.com/2013/05/28/holiday-hardware-at-a-glance/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dev.moorescloud.com/2013/05/28/holiday-hardware-at-a-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNice! (you'll probably need to click through to the large version of the image to read it)","parent":"5776675","id":"5777003"}
{"by":"jbooth","time":"1472677670","timestamp":"2016-08-31 21:07:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What New York are you in?  I see multiple new high-rises each year in Manhattan, and continued gentrification\u0026#x2F;refurbishment pushing into the boroughs.\u003cp\u003eTFA is talking about so much new construction in Brooklyn that it might push prices down.","parent":"12401377","id":"12401483"}
{"by":"WorldMaker","time":"1518128802","timestamp":"2018-02-08 22:26:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, didn\u0026#x27;t intend to derail here with whataboutism, was thinking about unrelated problems to the ones at hand in this article. There are too many hard problems to deal with right now, and we can\u0026#x27;t fight them all at once, presumably.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, you are right, walled gardens are always going to be harder to fix than the network dynamics of what should be a more open and decentralized system than is maybe presently the case in practice.","parent":"16335565","id":"16336158"}
{"by":"larkeith","time":"1519686050","timestamp":"2018-02-26 23:00:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated.\n[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16469427\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16469427\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16469732","id":"16469764"}
{"by":"apendleton","time":"1520545849","timestamp":"2018-03-08 21:50:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think by \u0026quot;statistically likely\u0026quot; they just mean \u0026quot;more than 50%,\u0026quot; or, in other words, that lower-price-point Android phones outsell top-shelf ones. Given that upmarket they compete with the iPhone but downmarket they pretty much own the entire product space, this doesn\u0026#x27;t seem particularly unrealistic to me.","parent":"16547927","id":"16547983"}
{"by":"dlss","time":"1481274263","timestamp":"2016-12-09 09:04:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you click on the only link in the article, you will see they are measuring children’s and parents’ pre-tax incomes at the household level. This absolutely does include retirement account investment income.\u003cp\u003eWhile I have you here: why didn\u0026#x27;t you check that before replying? (I\u0026#x27;m actually really confused why this seems to happen constantly on HN. These are really easy things to check before posting.)","parent":"13136395","id":"13137591"}
{"by":"nicker","time":"1292358417","timestamp":"2010-12-14 20:26:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with passwords is that ideally they are long random strings and different for every site.  But humans are not good at remembering such passwords, so they tend pick shorter passwords and to re-use them on lots of sites.\u003cp\u003eBut computers are good at remembering lots of long random strings, so why have we not developed a standard for site log-ons which the browser chooses the passwords and stores it securely for the user?","parent":"2005252","id":"2005597"}
{"by":"Fuzzwah","time":"1382041301","timestamp":"2013-10-17 20:21:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Victims don\u0026#x27;t even get the enjoyment of having to make their payments in some far flung corner of an MMO, like the plot of Reamde.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10552338-reamde\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.goodreads.com\u0026#x2F;book\u0026#x2F;show\u0026#x2F;10552338-reamde\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6567735","id":"6567868"}
{"by":"drdeca","time":"1457302606","timestamp":"2016-03-06 22:16:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would be absurd for someone to do, but, if someone wants to, well, freedom of association?\u003cp\u003eNote: I am not strongly committed to this idea I am expressing at the time of this writing. I\u0026#x27;m not even sure I am at all committed to it. I do think its a relevant position that seems worth considering, if nothing else.","parent":"11235800","id":"11235828"}
{"by":"loeg","time":"1499895274","timestamp":"2017-07-12 21:34:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably better to spend $150 on SSD cache and $150 on RAM cache than to spend $300 on RAM and $0 on SSD, though.  Or the other extreme.","parent":"14756147","id":"14756911"}
{"by":"phkahler","time":"1401128774","timestamp":"2014-05-26 18:26:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I personally think backwards compatibility and gradual change - evolution, not revolution - is the way to go.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m gonna guess that you\u0026#x27;re not new to C++.  I say new because people who have been following it and picking up all the changes along the way often can\u0026#x27;t see the forest for the trees. That forest is ugly.","parent":"7799987","id":"7800893"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1335163381","timestamp":"2012-04-23 06:43:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be interesting to do an audit of modern operating systems to see if this is true.  OS X has reported in GB for a while now.  I wonder what windows 7 does.\u003cp\u003eRegardless - I very much appreciate the use of GiB when that's what is meant.  Classy.","parent":"3873037","id":"3877610"}
{"by":"zzzcpan","time":"1480187464","timestamp":"2016-11-26 19:11:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; which uses the most operators, but not everyone believes this is a good thing\u003cp\u003eYou cannot really have too much builtin operators, they are basically functions that don\u0026#x27;t depend on context (i.e. on type of the object). The only side effect is that some of them are not going to be used often and you\u0026#x27;ll need a quick way to look them up to be able to understand the code in those cases.\u003cp\u003eHowever, having too few of them is a problem that leads to contextual dual meaning operators (like \u0026#x27;+\u0026#x27; in many languages), related cognitive overhead and bugs.","parent":"13044953","id":"13045357"}
{"by":"stefantalpalaru","time":"1391978176","timestamp":"2014-02-09 20:36:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/562303/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;562303\u0026#x2F;the-definitive-c-b...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7206712","id":"7207098"}
{"by":"mxuribe","time":"1539697873","timestamp":"2018-10-16 13:51:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I won\u0026#x27;t argue any of your UI opinions other than to say that riot - which is only one of the many possible clients [1] over the matrix protocol - is still in early days, and is getting better with each version.  That being said, as far as having to remember everyone\u0026#x27;s matrix id, I\u0026#x27;m sure users had similar complaints back when email addresses were still novel. I\u0026#x27;m sure conceptual address books will be a thing in future matrix clients - both riot as well as others. Failing that, you can always submit a feature request! [2]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;matrix.org\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;clients-matrix\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;matrix.org\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;clients-matrix\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vector-im\u0026#x2F;riot-web\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vector-im\u0026#x2F;riot-web\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18228733","id":"18229336"}
{"by":"Robin_Message","time":"1283246314","timestamp":"2010-08-31 09:18:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's another problem with school that I think links this in with Eric Raymond's \"Curse of the Gifted\" -- namely that the smart kids do well \u003ci\u003ewithout practice\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThe message that, to compete at the best of your potential, you need to practice does not get through to smart students.\u003cp\u003eMore clearly illustrating the link between practice and success would do a great service to the smart kids who are coasting. As for exams, it would be better if students worked at their own pace and took exams as soon as they were ready for them.","parent":"1648086","id":"1648865"}
{"by":"kweinber","time":"1476359294","timestamp":"2016-10-13 11:48:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"George W Bush proudly didn\u0026#x27;t use email and called the Internet the \u0026quot;Internets\u0026quot;. Pretty big difference.","parent":"12699096","id":"12700028"}
{"by":"roddux","time":"1451837572","timestamp":"2016-01-03 16:12:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting suit. Seeing as Apple don\u0026#x27;t currently allow you to downgrade to an older version of iOS, I wonder what the outcome will be? Perhaps this is a jailbreakers delight in disguise.","parent":"10830886","id":"10831057"}
{"by":"qnsi","time":"1529082829","timestamp":"2018-06-15 17:13:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would I use smartphone for this?","parent":"17319981","id":"17321495"}
{"by":"nmeofthestate","time":"1537264435","timestamp":"2018-09-18 09:53:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scheduled for 2023 - I do hope this doesn\u0026#x27;t interfere with the SpaceX Mars missions.","parent":"18013406","id":"18013863"}
{"by":"sebii","time":"1483726251","timestamp":"2017-01-06 18:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So it did happen and about 60 institutes lost access to current subscriptions from Elsevier. The archive can still be accessed.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.projekt-deal.de\u0026#x2F;vertragskuendigungen_elsevier\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.projekt-deal.de\u0026#x2F;vertragskuendigungen_elsevier\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13338594","id":"13338613"}
{"by":"cityhall","time":"1391476714","timestamp":"2014-02-04 01:18:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is almost certain to cause an increase in piracy as owners of now-obsolete Nooks turn to torrent sites for books they otherwise would have purchased.","parent":"7174541","id":"7174848"}
{"by":"georgemcbay","time":"1354002452","timestamp":"2012-11-27 07:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's also a distinction between access to the data stream vs the ability to make a duplicate of it.\u003cp\u003eFor all of the success they've had in protecting DirecTV, if you've got a legitimate access card feeding HDMI data out, you can make a perfect digital copy of the video stream that has no copy protection whatsoever.  So ultimately the DRM offers no protection for the media content companies (at least those that don't benefit from live performances like say sports games), though it does for the pipe provider who will surely get his monthly satellite fees.","parent":"4835761","id":"4836113"}
{"by":"aswanson","time":"1422800418","timestamp":"2015-02-01 14:20:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. This will happen again, as it has happened before.  I pretty much had the same thought process as you on how to implement it, technology wise.  It might be instructive to look at how AOL lost out to the larger web in order to envision how it might play out.  Maybe there needs to be a web technology similar to the browser that displaced AOL, a standalone app acting as a front-end to the stack you described.  Who knows, maybe snapchat or a similar highly-adopted app could evolve into this.","parent":"8979802","id":"8979918"}
{"by":"kyllo","time":"1406414105","timestamp":"2014-07-26 22:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWindows was the standard desktop operating system in corporates, and it was a real advantage that developers could develop locally on windows and then deploy on a Sun\u0026#x2F;IBM\u0026#x2F;HP server.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a pretty big factor, that it\u0026#x27;s actually portable. Develop on Windows workstations, deploy to either Windows or UNIX servers without changing anything. Thats just not possible with C\u0026#x2F;C++. Difficult to even do with Ruby or Python.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the class-based OOP design and interfaces make it easy for many programmers to work on little compartmentalized parts of the same massive system. And of course it lacks the dangerous features of a language like C++. Everything is an object with attributes and methods, and the objects can have a hierarchy. It\u0026#x27;s an abstraction that\u0026#x27;s pretty easy to understand conceptually without much CS knowledge, and it\u0026#x27;s easy to model business processes with it, so managers like it.","parent":"8090910","id":"8091072"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1397239309","timestamp":"2014-04-11 18:01:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Allowed to leave? Probably (unless he\u0026#x27;s on probation). Able to leave? That\u0026#x27;s another question. Many countries will refuse entry if you are a convict.","parent":"7574194","id":"7574423"}
{"by":"aetherson","time":"1503954143","timestamp":"2017-08-28 21:02:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool.  The authority of the sport that the author played was the USTA, not the WTA.  The author says, \u0026quot;For the record, meldonium is not illegal (or “scheduled”) in America, nor is it banned specifically by the USTA.\u0026quot;  I presume you have now 100% flipped your opinion on whether the author cheated, based on your not having read the article carefully.","parent":"15119924","id":"15120037"}
{"by":"junto","time":"1348671200","timestamp":"2012-09-26 14:53:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess that is my opinion, as I personally see this as the most attractive option to solve the deficit. You can of course raise taxes, but that decreases fluidity. Decreased fluidity dampens growth, etc..","parent":"4575323","id":"4575928"}
{"by":"PStamatiou","time":"1292620013","timestamp":"2010-12-17 21:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I paid a dollar to put up a notifo ad. :)\u003cp\u003eedit: I paid another dollar and put up another notifo ad. :)","parent":"2017591","id":"2017770"}
{"by":"dennisgorelik","time":"1537226882","timestamp":"2018-09-17 23:28:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why don\u0026#x27;t you explicitly name that startup that took out all your equity?","parent":"18002487","id":"18011015"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1382784987","timestamp":"2013-10-26 10:56:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some schools require midterm dates on the syllabus, some don\u0026#x27;t. But in this case, the schools are more likely imposing structure on the professor rather than the other way around.\u003cp\u003eIf you know exactly what you are going to teach for a semester, you can plan it all out. But god forbid if the class gets stuck on some material...if the schedule is strict the prof will just move on and let the curve sort it out. I preferred more flexible teachers in college and there were real reasons why universities in the US are high regarded.","parent":"6616961","id":"6616990"}
{"by":"smegel","time":"1425760498","timestamp":"2015-03-07 20:34:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. What is Windows93?\u003cp\u003e2. That worked scarily well on my 3.5\u0026quot; Android phone (chrome).","parent":"9162566","id":"9163026"}
{"by":"bjoernlasseh","time":"1390501778","timestamp":"2014-01-23 18:29:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yep","parent":"7108454","id":"7110047"}
{"by":"gsmaverick","time":"1295497622","timestamp":"2011-01-20 04:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Citation for Facebook revenues?  Recent rumours have it at ~$2 billion.","parent":"2122374","id":"2122645"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1302994664","timestamp":"2011-04-16 22:57:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, obviously you have a good relationship with your 3yo if she enjoys playing an adversarial game with you, but not all kids are the same.\u003cp\u003eMy son is 12 and still enjoyed Candyland and Chutes and Ladders as late as last year (while also starting to like Clue and Monopoly).  The risk-free social aspect of a non-game game like Candyland is really important for some kids; it's really more of a role-playing situation for the whole social dynamic of playing a game in a small group than anything else.\u003cp\u003eMy daughter, now, with her you're right - she tired of Candyland pretty quick.  As everything with kids: it depends on the kid.","parent":"2454862","id":"2455070"}
{"by":"ferbivore","time":"1472238415","timestamp":"2016-08-26 19:06:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The web client is pretty good, at least if you\u0026#x27;re using Chrome. It also works fine with Tomahawk if you really must have a desktop app.","parent":"12368367","id":"12368526"}
{"by":"noobermin","time":"1535696076","timestamp":"2018-08-31 06:14:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you, but alas, two hours have passed.\u003cp\u003eI should also say, look below[0]. Bird\u0026#x27;s application was terrible . Scoot on the other hand set an example for a great application to a government body for a resource of some kind, I can compare it to my experience for writing grants.\u003cp\u003eI can imagine some class on professional writing contrasting these very two applications as examples of what not to do and what to do when applying for something from a government. After scanning both, I\u0026#x27;m pretty much convinced the city chose the applications based on the quality and substance behind each application, not based on anything else.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17882982\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=17882982\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17883201","id":"17883318"}
{"by":"roel_v","time":"1287741478","timestamp":"2010-10-22 09:57:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I think Rails is a more modern platform. I think PHP is not the ideal choice. But I think PHP is a great platform.\"\u003cp\u003eYeah but here's the rub. You can't compare Rails with PHP. You need to compare Ruby to PHP, and ask if the switching costs will outweigh any deficiencies; and you need to compare Rails to e.g. Cake or Symfony or similar, and ask if one language provides a framework whose advantages are so compelling that they too will outweigh those switching costs. I have yet to be convinced.\u003cp\u003e(weighting factors may apply for dev experience with one or the other, legacy code, hosting/infrastructure support, etc.)","parent":"1819097","id":"1819130"}
{"by":"jeromec","time":"1277099588","timestamp":"2010-06-21 05:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Caveat: the market can teach \u003ci\u003eexpensive\u003c/i\u003e unforgiving lessons. After you've read, learned and developed your own theories/strategies \u003ci\u003etest\u003c/i\u003e them with practice and see if you're any good - consistently. Use a free service like vse.marketwatch.com or wallstreetsurvivor.com, or just pen and pad for several weeks/months before actually trading. This becomes more important depending on your level of aggression/risk.\u003cp\u003e2. Always define how much you're comfortable losing \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c/i\u003e trading. (time frames for entering/exiting trades helps too) The more you adhere to this the better you can control emotion-based trade decisions, and that equals money in this game.","parent":"1447438","id":"1448109"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1397376911","timestamp":"2014-04-13 08:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The query one seems a lot like \u0026quot;git grep\u0026quot; to me, I am not sure I understand the difference.\u003cp\u003e1. shows only the most recent matching commit\u003cp\u003e2. git grep is essentially `grep` customised to the working copy (by default), you probably mean git log --grep\u003cp\u003e3. `:\u0026#x2F;foo` is actually a general revisions specifier, see third from bottom in section SPECIFYING REVISIONS of gitrevisions(7), so you should be able to use it anywhere you need to specify a revision (not that I can see much use for it outside of log and show at the moment)","parent":"7580623","id":"7580663"}
{"by":"dsl","time":"1416183099","timestamp":"2014-11-17 00:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why does his gender matter?","parent":"8616096","id":"8616116"}
{"by":"swergi","time":"1481055907","timestamp":"2016-12-06 20:25:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not so low-cost: 300$","parent":"13072996","dead":true,"id":"13117976"}
{"by":"squarefoot","time":"1487490272","timestamp":"2017-02-19 07:44:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The name is a bit misleading as it recalls Tekui which is a (very nice IMO) LUA GUI extension.\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tekui.neoscientists.org\u0026#x2F;screenshots.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tekui.neoscientists.org\u0026#x2F;screenshots.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13676153","id":"13678613"}
{"by":"anotherbadlogin","time":"1361142902","timestamp":"2013-02-17 23:15:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"work/life balance\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-did-slash-become-too-hard.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-did-slash-become...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5236409","dead":true,"id":"5237170"}
{"by":"daysofauld","time":"1438119724","timestamp":"2015-07-28 21:42:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"do you notice that the same guy is speaking at three major Go conferences this year, and he works on a project where he\u0026#x27;s pretty much the only developer (i.e. it\u0026#x27;s not some huge community project)\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gophercon.com\u0026#x2F;speakers\u0026#x2F;peter-bourgon\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gophercon.com\u0026#x2F;speakers\u0026#x2F;peter-bourgon\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dotgo.eu\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dotgo.eu\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.golanguk.com\u0026#x2F;speakers\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.golanguk.com\u0026#x2F;speakers\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9962365","dead":true,"id":"9964701"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1538571774","timestamp":"2018-10-03 13:02:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethe bosses wouldn\u0026#x27;t approve it, despite showing a 0 failure rate compared to a pretty big one from the bored employees.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eA boss’s prestige is in how many people they manage, not how many scripts they run. That’s the key to understanding these kinds of decisions.","parent":"18129348","id":"18129754"}
{"by":"MaysonL","time":"1389310942","timestamp":"2014-01-09 23:42:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also basically what Maggy Thatcher did with Britain\u0026#x27;s North Sea oil money.","parent":"7033212","id":"7034038"}
{"by":"hardwaresofton","time":"1539824954","timestamp":"2018-10-18 01:09:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Actually you seem to be the one who is guilty of exactly this. I am speaking from experience with CSS _and_ mobile layout systems, and _you_ seem to be the one who is afraid to step out of your CSS comfort zone, and assume that the system which is familiar to you is the best system without trying (or apparently reading up on) the alternatives. Your entire argument against AutoLayout seems to be that other people don\u0026#x27;t like AutoLayout. If you haven\u0026#x27;t bothered to learn about the basic concepts, how can you possibly know it\u0026#x27;s so bad? And frankly the level of projection and vitriol in your comments is disappointing to see on Hacker News.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ve also assumed that because I think CSS is better at solving basic problems these days that I haven\u0026#x27;t used used AutoLayout. I have used AutoLayout and it wasn\u0026#x27;t a good experience. I\u0026#x27;ve also used Android\u0026#x27;s XML soup based layout, neither is fun and they solve problems CSS has already solved. I write both android and ios apps and have moved off native development \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c/i\u003e of frustrations with the little differences between both of the platforms.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; No, I\u0026#x27;m implying that it would have been a bad decision for the mobile UI systems to have been built around CSS before it had decent layout solutions like flex-box and grid.\u003cp\u003eYeah except like I\u0026#x27;ve said roughly 5 times now, they didn\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c/i\u003e to take \u003ci\u003eALL\u003c/i\u003e of CSS. They could have built extensions to it, possibly benefiting the whole ecosystem, or \u003ci\u003eanyone\u003c/i\u003e else -- at the very least, leverage what CSS has already solved well and then build upon it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s not relevant. AutoLayout is an evolution of the iOS UI system, so comparing the origin of AutoLayout to the origin of FlexBox is orthogonal to my point.\u003cp\u003eOf course it isn\u0026#x27;t relevant -- because you don\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003ehave a choice\u003c/i\u003e. I was comparing the origin and evolution of AutoLayout to the origin and evolution of CSS -- CSS might move slow, but it\u0026#x27;s pushed forward by entities that do exploratory work, contribute back and improve things for everyone.\u003cp\u003eAutoLayout does not improve on the basics that CSS offers -- targeting and styling an element is basically the simplest it gets, and it\u0026#x27;s straight-forward to understand. CSS has iteratively gotten better over the years, steered by a bunch of groups, and is sufficiently extensible to \u003ci\u003econtain\u003c/i\u003e AutoLayout\u0026#x27;s functionality. A world where CSS could be worse than AutoLayout basically doesn\u0026#x27;t exist, because you could literally make a CSS, strip whatever you don\u0026#x27;t like out, and implement AutoLayout.","parent":"18236849","id":"18245163"}
{"by":"ramy_d","time":"1289779382","timestamp":"2010-11-15 00:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"because it's not production hardware/software yet.\nright?\nRIGHT?\n -\noh god... i'm going to be really bummed out if this is actually lagging on \"incredibly powerful\" hardware.","parent":"1904601","id":"1904641"}
{"by":"jdietrich","time":"1526594032","timestamp":"2018-05-17 21:53:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because European courts and regulatory authorities are not run by gibbering morons. The Data Protection Directive was materially similar to the GDPR and was enforced by the same supervisory authorities. The DPD gave member states total discretion as to the level of fines, with no upper limit. I have found no evidence whatsoever of irrationally large or unreasonable fines under the DPD.\u003cp\u003eYou could be breaking the law in any number of countries. What steps are you taking to comply with the laws of Saudi Arabia or North Korea?","parent":"17096089","id":"17096329"}
{"by":"RRRA","time":"1403202348","timestamp":"2014-06-19 18:25:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The saddest part is that you can\u0026#x27;t add a zip to that gif and use twitter as a sharing platform.\u003cp\u003ecat x.zip \u0026gt;\u0026gt; y.gif and upload would have been nice ;)","parent":"7917215","id":"7917528"}
{"by":"distant_hat","time":"1532199086","timestamp":"2018-07-21 18:51:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Single cut.","parent":"17567785","id":"17583240"}
{"by":"sksk","time":"1443810610","timestamp":"2015-10-02 18:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand FCRA and ECOA very well and it is very unlikely we are going to get a different interpretation of these regs just because Facebook wants to get into the loan origination game.  I see a number of issues:\u003cp\u003e1. Reason Codes: FCRA reason codes that the lender has to generate will be a PR nightmare if they decline the loan application based on Facebook data -- imagine a consumer getting a rejection reason as \u0026#x27;Your fiends have poor credit rating so we don\u0026#x27;t want to give you credit\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003e2. Discrimination \u0026#x2F; Disparate impact: Most people who are poor also have poor friends and this type of analysis will lead to disparate impact that the article talks about and there is no way around it -- even if they get a slightly different interpretation of FCRA they are not going to solve disparity easily.\u003cp\u003e3. CRA Regulation around data quality: Credit Reporting Agencies (CRA) has specific mandates around providing accurate information about the the borrower. If a borrower thinks it is wrong, they can request the CRA to fix it through a dispute process -- this is a very time-intensive, expensive process for a CRA.  I doubt Facebook would want to build a process for disputes and the disputes are going to be worse -- before I will say, I paid my credit card on time and you got it wrong to the credit bureau. Now I may say, I don\u0026#x27;t think my friend\u0026#x27;s rating is low and Facebook has to due diligence before they can claim it is correct.\u003cp\u003eI can see a few ways they might go about this:\u003cp\u003e1. Second shot at approval as opposed to decline: A lender may reject an application and may choose to use Facebook data to give the borrower a second chance. This is better for the borrower and the regulators may be ok with this type of approach. Although they need to be careful with banks not suddenly changing their FICO Score cut off to something very high so they can fall back on this.\u003cp\u003e2. Only make it available internationally: not all countries have such strong protections around consumer credit data. Also, many countries don\u0026#x27;t have a robust credit bureau and this may actually help consumers.\u003cp\u003e3. Focus on alternative payday lending: CFPB is keen on opening up newer sources of data for certain segments that do not get any credit today. They may be open to this approach if fb can show that it will allow lenders to provide credit to people who they wouldn\u0026#x27;t have before.\u003cp\u003eI have strong views about FCRA \u0026#x2F; ECOA and I feel most of the provisions in there are actually beneficial to the consumers. Even though my startup SimplyCredit is in the fintech space and would greatly benefit from relaxed regulation, I do think it is good to have strong consumer protection and that\u0026#x27;s why we don\u0026#x27;t use anything outside of what will be considered as \u0026#x27;payment behavior \u0026#x2F; financial management\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eI cringe every time a new fintech company claims they monitor how fast you can type or analyze your github profile to give you credit -- either they say these things for marketing but really using it for underwriting or actually using it and breaking many provisions of FCRA. The last thing I want to do is decline a person with disability for typing slowly -- especially when the focus is to really help consumers and not to showoff your power to analyze such realtime data!\u003cp\u003eInstead of data sources like Facebook, I would welcome a cleaner source of data with verified income and employment.","parent":"10319149","id":"10320355"}
{"by":"redwood","time":"1518995040","timestamp":"2018-02-18 23:04:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In developing countries where women (and men frankly) study STEM in higher numbers it\u0026#x27;s likely that those women come from elite families (considering the vast majority of population in these countries do not have a chance to pursue higher ed). As a result we\u0026#x27;re looking at a an elite microcosm that is, by virtue of its own access to education and enthusiasm for remaining (recognizing fierce competition) in the elite tier of an otherwise incredibly gendered society.","parent":"16408353","id":"16409400"}
{"by":"AlisdairO","time":"1417165866","timestamp":"2014-11-28 09:11:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"disclaimer: not a web dev, don\u0026#x27;t really have a dog in this race.\u003cp\u003eThe reaction here strikes me quite a bit - talk about supporting an old web browser which has a small market share, and the reaction will often be that it\u0026#x27;s a waste of time.  No-js users are a miniscule fraction of a typical site\u0026#x27;s audience, so why would those sites bother to support them any more than they would bother to support an old browser?","parent":"8668957","id":"8670226"}
{"by":"rcheu","time":"1475007282","timestamp":"2016-09-27 20:14:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve never heard that computer science grades are bimodal, I thought it was that performance in programming is bimodal?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s always been relatively obvious to me that grades were not bimodal since I could just click and see the grade distribution, which didn\u0026#x27;t appear to be bimodal.","parent":"12589473","id":"12592734"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1287491869","timestamp":"2010-10-19 12:37:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bullshit ... if multiple marketplaces happen, it is only because Google won't /doesn't manage to build a good enough marketplace in the first place, which proves my point.\u003cp\u003eYou've also probably been spoiled by the country you live in, but I used to live under a communist system where there was no such thing as consumer choice and competition.\u003cp\u003eYES, it makes people unhappy to make choices (I've seen the switch in mentality on a large-scale). But it makes their lives better, since a free marketplace that allows choice is driven by natural-selection, with trends like lower and lower prices, better and better service.\u003cp\u003eThat's called a paradox and you're not seeing the forest from the trees, or you're just some shill.","parent":"1806809","id":"1806895"}
{"by":"okramcivokram","time":"1525452992","timestamp":"2018-05-04 16:56:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like it\u0026#x27;s chess symbols, by Michel Eftimakis. See the raw font: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;xero\u0026#x2F;figlet-fonts\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;eftichess.flf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;xero\u0026#x2F;figlet-fonts\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;eftichess.f...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16994140","id":"16996086"}
{"by":"pteredactyl","time":"1399103175","timestamp":"2014-05-03 07:46:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"San Francisco • Contract, Full Time\u003cp\u003eStack: JS\u0026#x2F;jQuery, Angular, CSS, Mongo, Git\u003cp\u003eResume: \u003ca href=\"http://michaelepierce.info\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;michaelepierce.info\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eContact: m.edward.pierce at gmail\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m the full package. Looking for junior front-end role or co-founder. Four years operating consulting business. Focused on local and SMBs. Produced sales, visual\u0026#x2F;ux designs, and front-end web.","parent":"7685170","id":"7690005"}
{"by":"RoboSeldon","time":"1437415655","timestamp":"2015-07-20 18:07:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have a look at VSVim it is a Vim emulation layer for VS if you are really into Vim.","parent":"9917461","id":"9917858"}
{"by":"lkrubner","time":"1284482230","timestamp":"2010-09-14 16:37:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this article has a good summary of cutbacks that are happening due to the recession. However, the article makes no attempt to tease apart what effects might be due to the recession, and what effects might be permanent. The long series of stories about local governments is interesting - I'm intrigued  by what people cut back on when they run out of money. There is no question that this is the most serious recession in living memory, in the US. As such, the recession deserves a lot of attention. But it is a leap to go from \"Some town in Ohio had to layoff several police officiers\" to \"This means the US is finished forever.\" (I am making up exaggerated quotes, which I think summarize the gist of the article.)\u003cp\u003eIt is possible that the US is finished forever, but there is nothing in this article that convinces me.","parent":"1690647","id":"1691182"}
{"by":"threeseed","time":"1538257644","timestamp":"2018-09-29 21:47:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tesla doesn’t need Musk right now.\u003cp\u003eThey need a serious executive from a former car company who has experience in quiet, deliberate execution. Lots of companies are making cars without anywhere near the same levels of fanfare.","parent":"18103038","id":"18103058"}
{"by":"mountaineer22","time":"1460642362","timestamp":"2016-04-14 13:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excellent book.  I highly recommend this, as well.","parent":"11496418","id":"11496722"}
{"by":"jamescyber","time":"1522315798","timestamp":"2018-03-29 09:29:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After Facebook now Namo App user data is not safe — Big privacy Concern\u003cp\u003eAfter the viral exposure of loopholes in the Aadhaar security system in January’17 now it’s all about the Namo app it is being claimed that the application shares private information of its users with third party companies without their consent.\nRead it : \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ica.in\u0026#x2F;newsroom\u0026#x2F;namo-app-sharing-user-data\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ica.in\u0026#x2F;newsroom\u0026#x2F;namo-app-sharing-user-data\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16704489","dead":true,"id":"16705671"}
{"by":"peter_d_sherman","time":"1525028696","timestamp":"2018-04-29 19:04:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry previous post of this did not include link; this one should... \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=ktq9jlopAGg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=ktq9jlopAGg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16953379","id":"16953385"}
{"by":"sohail","time":"1198864598","timestamp":"2007-12-28 17:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might as well use random salts.","parent":"93214","id":"93242"}
{"by":"oelmekki","time":"1503684157","timestamp":"2017-08-25 18:02:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congratulation, and best wishes :)\u003cp\u003eWhen things settle down, I would love to read an article from you about what it\u0026#x27;s like to launch a new programming language by the end of the 2010s.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m under the impression that adoption is going way faster than in previous decade, when php, java and C\u0026#x2F;C++ were kings hard to revoke. But there\u0026#x27;s still a gap of few years between initial announcement of a language and it being used in the wild - which is quite understandable, because people want to be sure the language will stick around before writing production code with it.\u003cp\u003eI would love to know what you do during those years, how you grow your language, how you simply manage to use it at work, or for your own projects. If you could write such article, that would be awesome :)","parent":"15098290","id":"15100725"}
{"by":"jeffmould","time":"1374374597","timestamp":"2013-07-21 02:43:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the way it works, at least with eBay, is you file a dispute on an item, eBay investigates, and then if you meet all the criteria as a buyer and provide everything to them, assuming they find in your favor as a buyer, they will refund the money themselves, then go after the seller for the amount on a individual basis.\u003cp\u003eAs a buyer you also have options of filing a dispute with PayPal or your credit card company and having them handle. These two options tend to be a little quicker to return money to you as a buyer. But by doing so you are not eligible for any protection from eBay.\u003cp\u003eFor more info:\n\u003ca href=\"http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/buyer-protection.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pages.ebay.com\u0026#x2F;help\u0026#x2F;policies\u0026#x2F;buyer-protection.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6077478","id":"6077566"}
{"by":"franklovecchio","time":"1382807711","timestamp":"2013-10-26 17:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I want to see \u003ca href=\"http://fountain.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fountain.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e built into these editing tools. Screenplays in markdown!","parent":"6617063","id":"6618179"}
{"by":"catnaroek","time":"1475965081","timestamp":"2016-10-08 22:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haven\u0026#x27;t seen it, but I\u0026#x27;ll check it out. Thanks for the pointer.","parent":"12668945","id":"12668974"}
{"by":"zaroth","time":"1445057551","timestamp":"2015-10-17 04:52:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just read the whitepaper, and Muse sounds incredibly interesting [1]. Thanks for working on this, I definitely want to spend more time looking at it!\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Muterra\u0026#x2F;doc-muse\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;whitepaper.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Muterra\u0026#x2F;doc-muse\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;whitepaper.m...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10401940","id":"10403431"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1433454369","timestamp":"2015-06-04 21:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Since 9\u0026#x2F;11 have any attacks been prevented?\u003cp\u003eLots of attacks have been claimed to have been prevented, though in many cases when the details for several of them came out they were attacks that may have been discussed but weren\u0026#x27;t particularly likely to have been executed, and\u0026#x2F;or plots that were largely driven by government agents.","parent":"9661951","id":"9662346"}
{"by":"cylinder","time":"1428600025","timestamp":"2015-04-09 17:20:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry but this is completely wrong. There is no \u0026quot;J1\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;E3\u0026quot; visa in Australia. The E3 is not reciprocated at all, Americans must get a 457 just like everyone else. For a J1 style short work\u0026#x2F; internship\u0026#x2F;travel visa there is the working holiday visa (12 months, but can\u0026#x27;t work at a single employer longer than 6 months). It can be applied for online and is usually approved almost instantaneously.","parent":"9347391","id":"9349213"}
{"by":"andai","time":"1534095078","timestamp":"2018-08-12 17:31:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I was cheating occasionally due to severe cravings, so it was about 80% beef. (All beef meals plus occasional carby snack).\u003cp\u003eThe adaptation period was very rough (about 2 weeks). 3-4 weeks in I began to feel amazing. I started with steak, switched to mincemeat (cheaper, and more fat -- you need a lot of fat if you cut out carbs), and now switched to veganism due to being broke.","parent":"17745343","id":"17745368"}
{"by":"marblar","time":"1350160139","timestamp":"2012-10-13 20:28:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Ok yolo\"","parent":"4649389","id":"4649581"}
{"by":"s3nnyy","time":"1501603277","timestamp":"2017-08-01 16:01:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wealthport.com | Senior Computer Science \u0026#x2F; Machine Learning Engineer, Scala Backend Engineer, Data Preparation Expert | Zurich | SALARY: 100k-120k CHF | ONSITE | EU-Passport holders only\u003cp\u003eWe solve on of the biggest problems in e-commerce: Normalizing product information. Using machine learning an NLP we transform broken, badly-labeled, unstructured data into useable, categorised and normalized data. See: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.slideshare.net\u0026#x2F;wealthportadmin\u0026#x2F;getting-started-with-wealthport?ref=https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wealthport.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.slideshare.net\u0026#x2F;wealthportadmin\u0026#x2F;getting-started-w...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are obsessed with functional programming. We use mainly Scala (backend) and we are researching a lot on NLP and ML. We look for:\u003cp\u003e- Senior Machine learning Researcher \u0026#x2F; Engineer - you will read \u0026amp; write papers on machine learning and\u0026#x2F;or implement algorithms in our core product.\u003cp\u003e- Senior Backend Scala engineer - you will build or well-tested backend and our core product.\u003cp\u003e- Data Preparation Export (Data Science) - you will help our customers adjust their data to our platform.\u003cp\u003eThe interview process:\u003cp\u003e1) 15 min call with our tech recruiter (who is a former engineer)\u003cp\u003e2) Technical call with CTO\u003cp\u003e3) Onsite day solving a programming task with us.\u003cp\u003eSend us a short intro about yourself to:\u003cp\u003ehiring@wealthport.tech","parent":"14901313","id":"14902135"}
{"by":"Sharlin","time":"1345978045","timestamp":"2012-08-26 10:47:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or you have to expose for a long time.","parent":"4434717","id":"4434847"}
{"by":"rit","time":"1352128880","timestamp":"2012-11-05 15:21:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the listed responsibility items would not fall under the purview of the Executive (the President) but rather the Legislature (Congress - the House + Senate).\u003cp\u003eThere seems to be a persistent expectation in the United States that the President is an all powerful position that can dictate laws, etc.  Remember that he can merely suggest to the legislature what should be done.  While executive orders are available they often have limited scope and can be easily challenged (or even ignored).\u003cp\u003eIn fact, legislatively the only \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e power the US President has is negative, not positive - he can say \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eno\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e to a legislation (by vetoing it).\u003cp\u003eLet's take a look at a few of the proposed items here:\u003cp\u003e* Issue #1: Teach Programming at an Early Age\u003cp\u003eThe majority of curriculum decisions are deferred to a LOCAL level in the United States - mandates from individual states \u0026#38; school districts primarily decide what is being taught.  Worse, because Texas is one of the largest text book markets many manufacturers simply print the textbooks used across the US to the Texas educational standards.\u003cp\u003eThe only major influence I've seen in recent years on a national education standard is No Child Left Behind which, by many reports, has simply pushed schools to focus on test taking. By many reports, \"Race To The Top\" (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Top\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Top\u003c/a\u003e) has made this no better.\u003cp\u003eIf you look at Wikipedia's article on the Department of Education, they do not really set policy in the US. Instead, 'The primary functions of the Department of Education are to \"establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights.\"[10] The Department of Education does not establish schools or colleges'\u003cp\u003e* Issue #2: Fixing Immigration\u003cp\u003eAgain, this is primarily up to Congress to act on, and there seems to be no desire to do so.  The President really has no influence on this issue directly.\u003cp\u003e* Issue #3 Abolish Software Patents\u003cp\u003eThis is primarily a legislation issue – we must fix the patent system and that has to be done in Congress.  The one place a President might influence this would be the appointment of Supreme Court Justices; and let us not forget that Congress has veto power over these.\u003cp\u003e* Issue #4: Internet Freedoms\u003cp\u003eThis discusses amending the US Constitution; this process is not done by the US President.  There are, to my knowledge, two ways of amending the US Constitution.\u003cp\u003e1. The US Congress can draft a proposed amendment with a MAJORITY of Congress approving it (2/3+), and put it to the States to ratify - 3/4+ of them must ratify it.\u003cp\u003e2. A Majority of the States can demand Congress form a Constitutional Convention to discuss creating a new amendment, then 3/4+ of them must ratify it.\u003cp\u003eI don't recall if every state deals with the Ratification of amendments the same, but I believe some can have the state legislature ratify on the people's behalf, while others have a direct popular vote.\u003cp\u003e* Issue #5: Cybersecurity\u003cp\u003eYou might pull this off at the Executive level, by further empowering agencies like Homeland Security.  But real action requires coordination with a Congress who can draft penalties for companies that don't comply, etc.\u003cp\u003e* Issue #6: Refactoring Congress and Agencies\u003cp\u003eOnly Congress may refactor Congress; the Executive has little to no power over this.\u003cp\u003e* Issue #7: Improve Government UX\u003cp\u003eAgain, we need Congress to refactor this, and probably constitutional amendment processes.  A system like our Congress thrives on \"insider\" behavior and has little incentive to change itself.\u003cp\u003e* Issue #8: Space\u003cp\u003eDevelopers may care about space (I do, as well) but the majority of the United States does not. The President may propose a budget, but ultimately the Congress decides it.\u003cp\u003ethe NASA budget tends to be less than 1% of the US Federal Budget, and getting it higher than that is a battle that would require a radical change in the perceptions of the American Public as well as Congress. (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Annual_budget.2C_1958-2012\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Annual_budget.2C...\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"4743154","id":"4743878"}
{"by":"emhart","time":"1381867811","timestamp":"2013-10-15 20:10:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Question for contributors\u0026#x2F;maintainers:\u003cp\u003eOnce a reporter has taken possession\u0026#x2F;responsibility for your communication, do your future communications still end up in the general bucket, or can they be restricted only to that reporter?","parent":"6554292","id":"6555995"}
{"by":"mattlutze","time":"1394706372","timestamp":"2014-03-13 10:26:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I said an article about a culture only tangentially related to the reader will be less relevant than an article directly related to the reader.\u003cp\u003e(To note, the article wasn\u0026#x27;t about American culture, it was a personal interest piece on a person who was unprepared for the effects of the success he experienced.)\u003cp\u003eIf by \u0026quot;other places in the world\u0026quot; you mean areas that are small enough or have an ephemeral-enough regional identity to have developed strong codependent identities with other regions, then I would certainly agree.\u003cp\u003eLiving in a number of places has shown me that, in larger countries\u0026#x2F;communities with defined identities, internally facing publications will publish stories that are strongly relevant to their reader.\u003cp\u003eBecause, as I said, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t make a lot of sense to spend that sort of space on an article that wasn\u0026#x27;t relevant to the reader.","parent":"7386633","id":"7390949"}
{"by":"Nima2712","time":"1327519312","timestamp":"2012-01-25 19:21:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hahahahaha. --\u0026#62; EVERY. FUCKING. WEEK.","parent":"3510912","id":"3511242"}
{"by":"farresito","time":"1425856082","timestamp":"2015-03-08 23:08:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I certainly am not complaining about Unreal. The amount of resources needed to create and maintain such beast is quite high, so the chances of having something similar being open source are minimal. I\u0026#x27;m fine with that license. It\u0026#x27;s already more open that a lot of the stuff out there.\u003cp\u003eSure I wish we had Linux-like software for everything.","parent":"9167616","id":"9167786"}
{"by":"mmt","time":"1534106249","timestamp":"2018-08-12 20:37:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Passports are also handled through the mail \u0026#x2F; online. For the first one I had to get the photo counter signed by a ‘respected member of the community’ who’d known me for 2 years\u003cp\u003eThat sounds similar to how it used to be possible, in California, for a notary public to confirm identity based on personal knowledge, but that hasn\u0026#x27;t been the case for a while.\u003cp\u003eThat model seems ripe for abuse, although it can be significantly limited if things like vital statistics are national\u0026#x2F;centralized. In the US, they\u0026#x27;re often done at the county level, which is its own nightmare, but changing that is likely to be politically untenable (and, before computer networking, arguably, impractical for a country with 6x the population and 38x the area of the UK).","parent":"17745722","id":"17746293"}
{"by":"rat87","time":"1479876558","timestamp":"2016-11-23 04:49:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nope it should be\u003cp\u003eprint(f\u0026quot;Howdy {x}\u0026quot;)\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a new python 3.6 feature called f-strings\u0026#x2F;string interpolation\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.python.org\u0026#x2F;3.6\u0026#x2F;reference\u0026#x2F;lexical_analysis.html#f-strings\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.python.org\u0026#x2F;3.6\u0026#x2F;reference\u0026#x2F;lexical_analysis.html#...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat said in python3 print is a function not a statement and requires parenthesis so he still has a typo.","parent":"13020035","id":"13020127"}
{"by":"rocky1138","time":"1498940866","timestamp":"2017-07-01 20:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you ever actually traveled on high speed rail?","parent":"14678635","id":"14678823"}
{"by":"wahern","time":"1415058026","timestamp":"2014-11-03 23:40:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s no other way to implementation a lock-less compacting (i.e. copying) collector than by using transactional memory algorithms. Period.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve never used C4, and I don\u0026#x27;t even program in Java. But I have personally studied and implemented transactional memory algorithms, and C4 fits perfectly into that mold. In fact, what originally made me interested in transactional memory was figuring out how C4 worked.\u003cp\u003eAnd I did figure it out. I figured it out even before they published their 2011 paper, which I just discovered. And unsurprisingly everything in there is precisely as I predicted. It couldn\u0026#x27;t have been otherwise once you understand the fundamentals.","parent":"8542672","id":"8554298"}
{"by":"GhiliaWeld","time":"1493161148","timestamp":"2017-04-25 22:59:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you got the roles mixed up... Google is the megacorp in this and Uber is scrappy startup.","parent":"14198833","id":"14198973"}
{"by":"martincmartin","time":"1327878130","timestamp":"2012-01-29 23:02:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI've built one for ~ $30 in parts from Radio Shack using an LM317 current limiter.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the data sheet for the LM317 says the minimum operating current is 2.0 mA, yet the amount delivered to the brain should be 1 mA.  How did it work?","parent":"3526052","id":"3526588"}
{"by":"AhtiK","time":"1360100474","timestamp":"2013-02-05 21:41:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A military grade droid nano copter can fly for 25 minutes so hopefully these kind of technologies will soon come to consumer market. \u003ca href=\"http://www.proxdynamics.com/products/pd_100_prs/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.proxdynamics.com/products/pd_100_prs/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat model is rather crazy across the whole spec: 16g, outdoor, max speed 10m/s, 25min flight time, steerable camera, just unbelievable.","parent":"5173156","id":"5173423"}
{"by":"canadaduane","time":"1312599200","timestamp":"2011-08-06 02:53:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure if the tragedy of the commons would apply in this case. The \"mandatory\" aspect of elevating discretionary spending into social spending via taxation seems to fundamentally alter the psychology of spending. \"Well, if I \u003ci\u003eabsolutely must\u003c/i\u003e spend this money on other people, then I guess I'll spend it on ___\" (education comes to mind as one area people in America might universally agree should get more dollars). The weakness in this system would be the lack of expertise within the \"common wisdom\" of the people. That might be solved by, say, providing a \"template spending ballot\" from respected people... a sort of proxy delegation but simplified so you just copy down the numbers they say. If that latter option were made simple enough that 90% of people could understand and do it, the expertise of a few would hold larger sway than the somewhat uninformed choices of the many.\u003cp\u003eBTW, a friend and I also thought of this idea independently; we called it \"mandatory taxes, voluntary distribution\" [1]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://canadaduane.posterous.com/mandatory-taxes-voluntary-distribution-econom\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://canadaduane.posterous.com/mandatory-taxes-voluntary-d...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2852713","id":"2852797"}
{"by":"throwaway613834","time":"1511823267","timestamp":"2017-11-27 22:54:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Third world means poor countries now.\u003cp\u003eA citation would be nice. Also, what countries would be second-world with that definition?\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Note that I asked what countries would be SECOND-world with this definition. Not third-world.","parent":"15792416","id":"15792436"}
{"by":"fancyketchup","time":"1372111291","timestamp":"2013-06-24 22:01:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because perfection is the enemy of the \u0026quot;good enough,\u0026quot; and iPhone + Android covers an enormous share of the market.  Should they support Lynx on SunOS 5, too? No? Why? Because a vanishingly small number of people use that platform.","parent":"5934920","id":"5936019"}
{"by":"cwpollock","time":"1358966018","timestamp":"2013-01-23 18:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a developer I find that I can only do certain kinds of activities while standing.  I like standing for planning and responding to email, but if I'm writing code I generally like to sit down.  I have a setup like this one: \u003ca href=\"http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/blog/split-level-sitting-and-standing-desk-made-with-pipe/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/blog/split-level-sitting-a...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have two monitors and I just changed which one is hooked up to my laptop.","parent":"5100963","id":"5104448"}
{"by":"McP","time":"1291284014","timestamp":"2010-12-02 10:00:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf this is a genuine question then I find it interesting that it was possible to answer back then. Now you'd have to know \u003ci\u003ewhich\u003c/i\u003e months as the length of each month affects the answer.","parent":"1959690","id":"1961647"}
{"by":"afterburner","time":"1358061938","timestamp":"2013-01-13 07:25:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pickpocketing, really? You want pickpocketing to get the same \"serious time\" as bank robbery?","parent":"5050077","id":"5050221"}
{"by":"strictnein","time":"1512167563","timestamp":"2017-12-01 22:32:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Payed shills more like\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;America is ... intellectually lazy\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;people who disagree with me are payed to\u0026quot; viewpoint is one of the most intellectually lazy viewpoints, second only to the idea that those who disagree with you are evil.","parent":"15827995","id":"15828316"}
{"by":"sametmax","time":"1493321839","timestamp":"2017-04-27 19:37:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use the comment syntax for type annotations. They are compatible with both versions.","parent":"14212366","id":"14214092"}
{"by":"dsk2012","time":"1340138749","timestamp":"2012-06-19 20:45:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm so happy that between us and them, stands a low-wage retail Apple employee.","parent":"4133396","id":"4134069"}
{"by":"zo1","time":"1418498318","timestamp":"2014-12-13 19:18:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;So I don\u0026#x27;t see anything wrong with Aristotle saying the group of people who end up slaves are inferior, they provably are because they\u0026#x27;ve been tested and selected for failure.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a very complicated question\u0026#x2F;topic. One that I think people are very uncomfortable discussing honestly, precisely because it makes us question preconceived notions about race. Then again, that\u0026#x27;s usually the case with social concepts.","parent":"8745985","id":"8746032"}
{"by":"kika","time":"1384845664","timestamp":"2013-11-19 07:21:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow. There\u0026#x27;re experiences that you may think of but never really anticipate to encounter. For me it was feeling shame for buying a Kindle edition of the book. But I really want to read it and if so I need to buy it in the Kindle form.","parent":"6756144","id":"6759736"}
{"by":"tomaszkubacki","time":"1305525560","timestamp":"2011-05-16 05:59:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"would be interesting hoe this compare to manos de mono \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jacksonh/manos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/jacksonh/manos\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2551254","dead":true,"id":"2551798"}
{"by":"CraigJPerry","time":"1472739662","timestamp":"2016-09-01 14:21:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know why you\u0026#x27;re being down voted. We\u0026#x27;ve had ASLR in Linux for years and various attacks have been successful.\u003cp\u003eThe string format attack is the one I remember most clearly which basically renders ASLR useless.","parent":"12405315","id":"12405403"}
{"by":"hy3lxs","time":"1250012516","timestamp":"2009-08-11 17:41:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jeremy, fyi the player you're using:\n\u003ca href=\"http://listen.grooveshark.com/songWidget.swf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://listen.grooveshark.com/songWidget.swf\u003c/a\u003e\ncontains a flash stack overflow error in some effect event handling code that makes the page unviewable with the debug flash player installed.","parent":"755278","id":"755794"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1480634808","timestamp":"2016-12-01 23:26:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most production environments terminate on Cloudfront endpoints (or other CDNs) or ELBs\u0026#x2F;ALBs; not much need for IPv6 to individual instances (which can use IPv4 internally).","parent":"13084543","id":"13084597"}
{"by":"sb23","time":"1394663533","timestamp":"2014-03-12 22:32:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t see an explanation of how the sabers can strike each other without causing damage to those around them, or themselves.\u003cp\u003eAlso, wouldn\u0026#x27;t a ceramic plate in the handle make the saber incredibly fragile?","parent":"7388576","id":"7388856"}
{"by":"jjgomo33","time":"1483982710","timestamp":"2017-01-09 17:25:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Too much casualty that Asana is suffering a DoS problem right now.","parent":"13356318","id":"13357933"}
{"by":"xp84","time":"1313712656","timestamp":"2011-08-19 00:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Main reason being they can't even compete on price without those fat carrier subsidies that it took to get Android for phones off the ground. They're pretty much at price parity with the market leader with a fraction of the useful apps, and surprised why they're not selling that well.\u003cp\u003eAnyone who thinks Android would be the leading smartphone OS if their devices were sold at price parity with iPhones is deluding themselves.\u003cp\u003eSimilarly, if Apple wanted to overtake Windows PC markethsare with Macs (they don't) they would be foolish not to compete on price. When you are asking the user to try something new (or new to them) and non-mainstream, \"pay more for this risky new thing\" isn't a very attractive proposition.","parent":"2901118","id":"2901683"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1479690779","timestamp":"2016-11-21 01:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It\u0026#x27;s an ozone-depletant, so you want a natural source.\u003cp\u003eI read that line several times, and I can\u0026#x27;t figure out what one has to do with the other. The depletion effect doesn\u0026#x27;t change based on the source.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; And algae naturally soak it up from sea water, so you don\u0026#x27;t have to extract it from minerals or anything like that.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s made from bromine, it\u0026#x27;s not a hard element to get a hold of.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Plus I assume that it being part of the plant matters slows its release.\u003cp\u003eSlows the release in the cow, or after leaving the cow? Because we care only after leaving the cow, and at that point it has to have been released (in the cow) in order to function.","parent":"12999144","id":"13002351"}
{"by":"dochtman","time":"1326231329","timestamp":"2012-01-10 21:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not that revolutionary anymore... Twitter has been doing it for quite a while now, and see \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3236820\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3236820\u003c/a\u003e for more discussion.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I've rewritten a bunch of code at work to go from server-side rendered templates (in Jinja) to client-side rendered templates (using a Jinja-to-JavaScript compiler I wrote, \u003ca href=\"https://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja\u003c/a\u003e). Add some WebSockets magic and we now have a very fluid real-time application page.\u003cp\u003eThe model is obviously very powerful. The one problem I have with it is JavaScript-the-language. Using it makes me love Python so much... I know it's not that bad and there are good parts, but it's still nowhere near Python.","parent":"3448823","id":"3449157"}
{"by":"stewart27","time":"1528831498","timestamp":"2018-06-12 19:24:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi, I\u0026#x27;m a Product Manager on the App Engine team. We\u0026#x27;re actually (finally!) gearing up to offer Python 3.\u003cp\u003eWould you like to be an alpha tester? Here\u0026#x27;s the sign-up form: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;forms\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;e\u0026#x2F;1FAIpQLSfLXViTUmtY6Ed_Gm9HohVVe7HMKcT37_MvzgPpKIDQTkZNjg\u0026#x2F;viewform?usp=sf_link\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;forms\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;e\u0026#x2F;1FAIpQLSfLXViTUmtY6Ed_Gm9H...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17296230","id":"17297031"}
{"by":"mc_hammer","time":"1417756539","timestamp":"2014-12-05 05:15:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool i didnt know that. thanks for that.","parent":"8699787","id":"8703088"}
{"by":"walshemj","time":"1505742562","timestamp":"2017-09-18 13:49:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"then your employer needs to plan better and descope where required","parent":"15275459","id":"15275874"}
{"by":"lostlogin","time":"1370634297","timestamp":"2013-06-07 19:44:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Woah.. What do you use this feature\nfor?","parent":"5840857","id":"5841181"}
{"by":"hfsktr","time":"1369853821","timestamp":"2013-05-29 18:57:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been unemployed for over a year. Today I just got my first offer, which made me go \"Coincidence?! Probably.\" \nIt was less than I wanted but really after a year I feel like I have no power to negotiate.\u003cp\u003eAdd to that my personality (avoid confrontation) and the fact that my last job I fell into so I didn't have to negotiate (there wasn't a contract it was just spoken and my checks increased).\u003cp\u003eThat excerpt kind of summed up what I had been thinking all along. It was all I could do not to shout YES right away (before I even saw the details).","parent":"5788072","id":"5788300"}
{"by":"ska","time":"1507730460","timestamp":"2017-10-11 14:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is lots of blame to go around on why that project failed - IBM only shoulders some of it.","parent":"15449247","id":"15449799"}
{"by":"msg","time":"1386891919","timestamp":"2013-12-12 23:45:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.livingunderdrones.org/numbers/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.livingunderdrones.org\u0026#x2F;numbers\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no 100% solid estimates because of problems with reliable sources, but here are a couple of links to get you started.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://natsec.newamerica.net/drones/pakistan/analysis\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;natsec.newamerica.net\u0026#x2F;drones\u0026#x2F;pakistan\u0026#x2F;analysis\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.longwarjournal.org/multimedia/Yemen/code/Yemen-strike.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.longwarjournal.org\u0026#x2F;multimedia\u0026#x2F;Yemen\u0026#x2F;code\u0026#x2F;Yemen-st...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drones/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.thebureauinvestigates.com\u0026#x2F;category\u0026#x2F;projects\u0026#x2F;drone...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6898029","id":"6898092"}
{"by":"mc32","time":"1444229650","timestamp":"2015-10-07 14:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there is a distinction between good land management, given conditions, that\u0026#x27;s to say how to best use land, with the presupposition of it being used, versus saying don\u0026#x27;t use it at all.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, the USDA itself is of the opinion that kind of recommendation you\u0026#x27;re suggesting, it out of their scope.  So they disagree.  I know people want them to think otherwise, but, they don\u0026#x27;t think so.  I\u0026#x27;m glad they have not become an activist department going beyond their scope, in this case.","parent":"10344565","id":"10346367"}
{"by":"roel_v","time":"1389443596","timestamp":"2014-01-11 12:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You realize you would need a counter party for those, right? I\u0026#x27;m not in finance, but maybe somebody who is can guesstimate the size of the long term options market for tech companies? I\u0026#x27;d say it must be minuscule, how can you build a profitable strategy off something with that volatility without devolving into straight gambling?","parent":"7042034","id":"7042424"}
{"by":"akamaka","time":"1404667252","timestamp":"2014-07-06 17:20:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for posting this!  I\u0026#x27;ve been looking for the same thing, but my most recent attempt failed.\u003cp\u003eI was asked to come back to a company that I used to work for, and I insisted that I would only come back if I could do a 3 day work week.  I\u0026#x27;m convinced my productivity would have been similar to when I used to work a 40 hour week with them, because rarely put in more than 3 hours of actual work per day. Unfortunately, they didn\u0026#x27;t hire me, because they said that absolutely needed someone full time to be able to complete the project on schedule.\u003cp\u003eI think they rejected the idea because everyone else there is on a 40-hour week, and they simply can\u0026#x27;t contemplate the idea of someone doing less work.  They\u0026#x27;ve been slogging away at the same never-ending project for 2 years now, and they aren\u0026#x27;t looking for someone to get work done efficiently.  They want someone who will join in their suffering.\u003cp\u003eGoing forward, I\u0026#x27;m going to keep looking for a part time opportunity, but not waste time trying to convince people that it\u0026#x27;s good idea.  I think I need to find people who already just get it.","parent":"7994673","id":"7995029"}
{"by":"mattmaroon","time":"1222410017","timestamp":"2008-09-26 06:20:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just opened up a savings account and a checking account there yesterday. Hope the FDIC gives me my $10 back.","parent":"315717","id":"315798"}
{"by":"tiny-dancer","time":"1535988047","timestamp":"2018-09-03 15:20:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, the next big next step would shifting the plug-in system (wiki, downloader, etc) to the \u0026quot;global pipeline libraries\u0026quot; level.","parent":"17902882","id":"17903006"}
{"by":"encoderer","time":"1521418994","timestamp":"2018-03-19 00:23:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They apply “manual actions” all the time.","parent":"16615315","id":"16615339"}
{"by":"daleharvey","time":"1274472941","timestamp":"2010-05-21 20:15:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"by the time the lagards implement it, it will be standardised, ie doesnt require a prefix now that its finally implementing it.","parent":"1368288","id":"1368661"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1452126308","timestamp":"2016-01-07 00:25:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s politically expedient to label the shooters as evil, as if they weren\u0026#x27;t people. Look at how this has played out in gun politics. The message is that we need \u0026quot;common sense\u0026quot; gun control in order to prevent \u0026quot;crazies\u0026quot; from obtaining guns, as if there were a filter function that could reliably distinguish \u0026quot;crazies\u0026quot; from ordinary folks. When such filter functions inevitably fail, as they always do (crazies start out as ordinary people and they can be crazy for a while before seeking, or being forced into, psychiatric help), that just means we need a better filter function, i.e., more background checks, till no gun changes hands without the feds knowing about it. Once Total Information Awareness is achieved on who has what guns, any number of scenarios can play out. Extraconstitutional gun confiscation is one, but that isn\u0026#x27;t even the most devious or fun. One scary scenario is the government doing profiling on who is likely to buy what type of weapons or ammo; buy the wrong type and you could be subject to scrutiny by the FBI\u0026#x27;s precrime operations, set up for stings, etc. Also if a tyrannical overlord wanted to impose dictatorial rule, with complete accurate information on gun and ammunition ownership he would know which areas to consolidate power in first -- the less armed ones -- before closing in on the more armed areas.","parent":"10854724","id":"10855047"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1527251808","timestamp":"2018-05-25 12:36:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is that a monopoly? I guess I may be in the minority but I have never used an app for YouTube on a desktop environment.","parent":"17152718","id":"17152985"}
{"by":"mmanfrin","time":"1430784011","timestamp":"2015-05-05 00:00:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Extremes should not be remedied with extremes.","parent":"9489897","id":"9490064"}
{"by":"th","time":"1272347872","timestamp":"2010-04-27 05:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To become a vim power user, you will really need to understand how and why vim works the way it does and how you should think about editing while using vim.  Once you have gone through some of the great tutorials on basic vim usage take a look at these:\u003cp\u003eStay out of insert mode: \u003ca href=\"http://cloudhead.io/2010/04/24/staying-the-hell-out-of-insert-mode/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cloudhead.io/2010/04/24/staying-the-hell-out-of-inser...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood explanation of how vim commands are actually formulated (Stack Overflow answer): \u003ca href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1297221","id":"1297348"}
{"by":"ac29","time":"1483516087","timestamp":"2017-01-04 07:48:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, you can deauth all you want for testing and development inside your own home or business where you arent bothering anyone. You cant \u0026quot;test\u0026quot; your deauth technology by blocking every single AP in range at a conference center, then extorting hundreds or thousands of dollars to get access to the only authorized networks. If you cant see the difference between the situations, then go read what the FCC letter says again.\u003cp\u003eedit: Imagine if this convention center entered into an exclusivity agreement with Verizon, then jammed the frequencies used by the other cellular carriers. Would that be OK?","parent":"13316442","id":"13316466"}
{"by":"bad_user","time":"1313455523","timestamp":"2011-08-16 00:45:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Basically the author makes a diff on a paragraph from the SEC filings, in which Linux is removed from being a threat. The author could have concluded any of the following:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e     - it is bad marketing to attack Linux\n     - Linux is an indispensable piece of infrastructure\n       and Microsoft learns to cooperate with it\n     - Linux cannot be attacked as a whole, focusing on\n       Linux is spending valuable resources; it pays to\n       attack tangible players that are pushing Linux\n       instead \n     - Linux is really not that important anymore, the \n       problem for Microsoft being escalated to something\n       much, much bigger\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nReally, the author could have picked any of the above and more. But no, the author picked \"victory over Linux\".\u003cp\u003eI don't usually complain about the lack of quality on HN, but some articles are borderline stupid, including this one. Remarkably, these days I find better content at Proggit.","parent":"2889178","id":"2889298"}
{"by":"Sir_Substance","time":"1511177426","timestamp":"2017-11-20 11:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Mathematically, something has to be the leading cause of death ages 25..44. What should it be?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a bit late here, but I think we could reasonably hope for things that are essentially random, such as car accidents, food poisoning, house fires, chronic birth defects or DIY mishaps.\u003cp\u003eIf you look at the actual causes of death[1] You can see that in that age bracket, this is broadly the case. \u0026quot;Unintentional injury\u0026quot; is #1, followed by suicide, followed by homicide, followed by cancer (which includes lung cancer ofc) and then heart disease. (The exact ordering varies a bit depending on source, but accidents-\u0026gt;suicide-\u0026gt;lung cancer-\u0026gt;heart disease is definitely a broad trend)\u003cp\u003eYour point is well made, but when suicide and homicide are above heart disease in the deaths of a nation famed for a national scale chronic weight problem, it\u0026#x27;s not hard to say that the US could probably do more on the mental health front. I\u0026#x27;m of the opinion that the same is true for most of the western world.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cdc.gov\u0026#x2F;injury\u0026#x2F;wisqars\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;10lcid_all_deaths_by_age_group_2010-a.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cdc.gov\u0026#x2F;injury\u0026#x2F;wisqars\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;10lcid_all_deaths_by_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15682471","id":"15739207"}
{"by":"mikeyur","time":"1294533641","timestamp":"2011-01-09 00:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a push notification platform for anything you can build it into. Load up your HN profile and there's a Notifo box to get notified when someone responds to your comment. Apps they put together like Push.ly to notify you when someone DMs/RTs/Mentions you on Twitter (note: they released this before twitter added the functionality to their apps).\u003cp\u003eMy friend uses it on a site for his sales/signup process, when a transaction goes through he knows immediately.\u003cp\u003eOne of the plugins I use the most is their Chrome to Notifo plugin for Google Chrome. If I'm on a page I can hit the button and it will push the page URL to my phone.","parent":"2083952","id":"2084403"}
{"by":"alexknight","time":"1290898094","timestamp":"2010-11-27 22:48:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The 0.8 branch has been far superior for me than 0.7. Definitely give it a go as you may be pleasantly surprised.","parent":"1946066","id":"1946088"}
{"by":"hugh3","time":"1288032416","timestamp":"2010-10-25 18:46:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eGold is going to be around for another 50 years, and you'll be able to buy things with it. The US Dollar however is not.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'll tell you what I tell everybody who thinks there's going to be US Dollar hyperinflation: I bet you a trillion dollars that's not going to happen.\u003cp\u003eSeriously though, predictions are tricky, especially about the future. It may be worth injecting a tone of a little more uncertainty into your pronouncements about what's going to happen in the future.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I'd have less confidence in the buried gold \u003ci\u003eor\u003c/i\u003e the buried dollars than I would about the value of the land you're burying it under.","parent":"1830916","id":"1831027"}
{"by":"rsync","time":"1487096605","timestamp":"2017-02-14 18:23:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Resist! Use adblockers, disable cookies which live over the session by default, turn off JS if you can.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eFor the fourth or fifth time this year, in response to a thread about browser privacy, I am reminded that what I really want is the ability to jail\u0026#x2F;chroot a browser.\u003cp\u003eFiring up a full-blown VM for a browser (\u0026quot;banking profile\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;twitter profile\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;sketchy online store profile\u0026quot;) is way too heavyweight and resource intensive.  I \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e a totally, totally clean slate (restored to post-install defaults) to restart certain browsing sessions with (and dispose of when I am done) but a full virtual machine is too expensive in time and resources.\u003cp\u003eBut if I could jail a GUI application ... then there would be almost zero resource overhead and the jail would die quickly when you\u0026#x27;re done.\u003cp\u003ejailing a GUI application is not that well developed of a use-case.  Further, OSX doesn\u0026#x27;t even have a jail command.\u003cp\u003eI wish this was an established use-case - I would really like a totally throwaway browser profile that I could reset and re-use.","parent":"13642762","id":"13645759"}
{"by":"sprovoost","time":"1312092188","timestamp":"2011-07-31 06:03:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Technically this part of Paul's comment does not contradict the victim's statement; AirBnB has offered to fix it from the beginning (give or take a day), but perhaps just forgot to communicate after that. Any calls from her could have ended up accidentally ignored by customer support or some other gate keeper.\u003cp\u003eHowever, that leaves two big issues in my view:\u003cp\u003e1 - This should have been handled by the CEO from day one. He can delegate the work down later, but the victim should have his phone number in case his minions screw up. The fact that he still believes a blog post is sufficient and that he throws in PR gimmicks such as doubling customer support (in a company that's growing exponentially), is not helping. But that is not at all evidence for...\u003cp\u003e2 - There needs to be some clarity really soon about whether AirBnB has attempted to cover this up, with Paul being miss-informed (I'm not ready to doubt his integrity), or if it's the other way around. I understand it is hard for AirBnB to disclose evidence in their favor, because they would risk defamation issues, privacy issues, precedent issues and even risk screwing up the police investigation. It's also difficult for the victim and journalists to present any definite evidence.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps both parties can agree to let an independent journalist with a solid reputation look into the situation? It may be hard to find anyone who considers this important enough though; sadly this sort of stuff tends to fade out in a matter of days.","parent":"2823071","id":"2827745"}
{"by":"qubex","time":"1485181781","timestamp":"2017-01-23 14:29:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quite inexplicably I wasn\u0026#x27;t a gamer (I was 11, didn\u0026#x27;t nor ever had consoles or PC games). I was still fascinated by the technology though.","parent":"13457672","id":"13462343"}
{"by":"edge17","time":"1489987873","timestamp":"2017-03-20 05:31:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you link to the probability lectures you\u0026#x27;re referring to?","parent":"13905796","id":"13911953"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1392849757","timestamp":"2014-02-19 22:42:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I want to underline that last point. Doing something that is fashionable is a bad idea. Doing something that \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c/i\u003e fashionable and whose big players are now getting snapped up is a terrible idea.","parent":"7266846","id":"7266997"}
{"by":"nickpinkston","time":"1350270970","timestamp":"2012-10-15 03:16:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea, it's true on supply but this is a structural problem (i.e. minimum stocking sizes at 4K units, etc.) that would change if the demand was there.\u003cp\u003eAgree with [1] - that's partially already here with ProtoMold, Sunstone Circuits, Ponoko, etc. - centralized makes sense when you have economies of scale, but my comment was that this  scale can actually be driven lower via technology.\u003cp\u003eI think that development / test costs are a big deal, but maybe the \"automate\" part is more in the EDA sense of the term - than \"sudo make me a sandwich\" where your design is compiled directly.","parent":"4651885","id":"4653582"}
{"by":"ljegou","time":"1291370986","timestamp":"2010-12-03 10:09:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google Maps is not useless, far from it. The projection method chosen (Mercator) is useless for the small scales, and misleading. Except if you are a (XVII° century) marine navigator.\u003cp\u003eDe-zoom and look at the apparent continent sizes, it's just horrible. Half of emerged lands in antarctica ? Groenland the size of Africa ? Think about children exposed to those maps before a good atlas is showed to them.\u003cp\u003eI co-wrote a paper about this topic, but it's in french :\n\u003ca href=\"http://mappemonde.mgm.fr/num20/internet/int08401.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://mappemonde.mgm.fr/num20/internet/int08401.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA technical choice (summary : it's easier to have perpendicular parallels and meridians) has prevailed upon a geographical choice. It's not very complicated to link the projection to the scale of the view, all serious geographical internet portals are doing so (IGN, Ordnance Survey, etc.)","parent":"1965281","id":"1965329"}
{"by":"shade23","time":"1452619663","timestamp":"2016-01-12 17:27:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A possible trip experience for Uber.And I guess this is what they are looking at :\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;swlh\u0026#x2F;ubergenius-686e16799228#.bb0h1mx2y\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;swlh\u0026#x2F;ubergenius-686e16799228#.bb0h1mx2y\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10887830","id":"10888780"}
{"by":"tbsmartens","time":"1383484480","timestamp":"2013-11-03 13:14:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"very cool stuff - I would love to learn this way \u0026quot;standard expressions\u0026quot; in coding language, i.e. per level you programme a specific function or so....(off the top of my head)","parent":"6659161","id":"6663082"}
{"by":"houseabsolute","time":"1270633197","timestamp":"2010-04-07 09:39:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a feature LOL.","parent":"1246835","id":"1246850"}
{"by":"TheRealPomax","time":"1476996358","timestamp":"2016-10-20 20:45:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In that case have some \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=sKN9MajEVOQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=sKN9MajEVOQ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12754008","id":"12755997"}
{"by":"viscanti","time":"1478860433","timestamp":"2016-11-11 10:33:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s almost like Trump ran a campaign to intentionally try to suppress Democratic turnout and was successful with it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;the-fix\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;27\u0026#x2F;donald-trumps-risky-plan-to-use-the-internet-to-suppress-hillary-clintons-turnout\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;the-fix\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;27\u0026#x2F;do...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12929240","id":"12929476"}
{"by":"gte910h","time":"1381338450","timestamp":"2013-10-09 17:07:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you had a sleep study done? It\u0026#x27;s 2 doctors office visits, 2 nights in a funky hotel room type lab, and they will often prescribe a machine called a CPAP if you really do have obstructive sleep problems.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cpap/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nhlbi.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;health-topics\u0026#x2F;topics\u0026#x2F;cpap\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re a little uncomfortable at first, but they get the job done.","parent":"6521118","id":"6522450"}
{"by":"andy_ppp","time":"1479825371","timestamp":"2016-11-22 14:36:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"400% CPU on PyCharm for me... I am super impressed with the features of this IDE; for me personally the jetbrains ones are my favourite, but whatever the setup on this Mac they are too slow for me to use.\u003cp\u003eSince moving to VSCode my laptop battery lasts a couple of hours longer :-\u0026#x2F;","parent":"13014168","id":"13014352"}
{"by":"mingyeow","time":"1311975695","timestamp":"2011-07-29 21:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"they are lucky this is happening at the same time as the US debt ceiling. on a slower news cycle, this would have been on the nytimes front page","parent":"2823497","id":"2823927"}
{"by":"chiefalchemist","time":"1497794587","timestamp":"2017-06-18 14:03:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a concern, but hardly in the Top 5 of Problems Facing Humankind.\u003cp\u003eWar is inevitable. It\u0026#x27;s tragic that still sounds like a reasonable statement thus far into the 21st Century.","parent":"14580480","id":"14580676"}
{"by":"jgrahamc","time":"1208935246","timestamp":"2008-04-23 07:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Frankly, I never read all the stories on the YC front page.  If I did I'd consider it a bad sign that I was procrastinating.","parent":"171351","id":"171354"}
{"by":"garysahota93","time":"1542068961","timestamp":"2018-11-13 00:29:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love that Google monitors this site. I really appreciate you reaching out and letting us know the current status!","parent":"18436513","id":"18437279"}
{"by":"murz","time":"1309658143","timestamp":"2011-07-03 01:55:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; 'Social' is the new 'cloud' buzzword.\u003cp\u003eNew? What rock have you been hiding under?","parent":"2722626","id":"2722835"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1366433841","timestamp":"2013-04-20 04:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eYou can't meaningfully talk about death in numbers unless you are counting deaths.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd by then you've lost the point.","parent":"5580208","id":"5580312"}
{"by":"Noseshine","time":"1480841225","timestamp":"2016-12-04 08:47:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  \u0026gt; i.e. the amount of computation that human neural nets can likely be doing\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWe don\u0026#x27;t know nearly enough what they are \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e doing! We only know a few selected bits and pieces! You are basing your assumptions on nothing, so according to logic any conclusion is possible from a faulty premise. On which you promptly deliver spectacularly.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the \u0026quot;computation\u0026quot; a brain does at one moment leaves out the time aspect: Lots of things lead to constant changes. The wiring changes \u003ci\u003eall the time\u003c/i\u003e. The \u0026quot;computation\u0026quot; metaphor has little use for describing or understanding this major aspect of \u0026quot;brain\u0026quot;. The more I learned about neuroscience the more unhappy I got with the computing metaphor that I had had going in (as a CS graduate, naturally, I think). The brain is so very, \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e different from my pre-neuroscience-courses notions.\u003cp\u003eHow much neuroscience do you know? If the answer isn\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003eat least\u003c/i\u003e an undergrad introductory course (the accompanying book is over a thousand pages), why do you get the idea you can make \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e predictions?\u003cp\u003eRead this to read about complexity in biology vs. engineering and what scientists in the field think how well we are dealing with it:\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;biorxiv.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;early\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;26\u0026#x2F;055624\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;biorxiv.org\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;early\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;26\u0026#x2F;055624\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cell.com\u0026#x2F;cancer-cell\u0026#x2F;fulltext\u0026#x2F;S1535-6108(02)00133-2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cell.com\u0026#x2F;cancer-cell\u0026#x2F;fulltext\u0026#x2F;S1535-6108(02)00133...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTest yourself: Do you understand what he\u0026#x27;s talking about? \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;inference-review.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;the-excitable-mitochondria\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;inference-review.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;the-excitable-mitochondr...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFortunately you don\u0026#x27;t have to sign up at university these days just for such knowledge:\u003cp\u003eFree courses (if you ignore the certificate nonsense):\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mcb80x.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.mcb80x.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e (This is linked to from edX as \u0026quot;The Fundamentals of Neuroscience\u0026quot; Parts 1, 2, 3)\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coursera.org\u0026#x2F;courses?languages=en\u0026amp;query=neuroscience\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coursera.org\u0026#x2F;courses?languages=en\u0026amp;query=neurosci...\u003c/a\u003e (\u003ci\u003eEspecially\u003c/i\u003e \u0026quot;Medical Neuroscience\u0026quot;: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coursera.org\u0026#x2F;learn\u0026#x2F;medical-neuroscience\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.coursera.org\u0026#x2F;learn\u0026#x2F;medical-neuroscience\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course?search_query=neuroscience\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.edx.org\u0026#x2F;course?search_query=neuroscience\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13098014","id":"13099314"}
{"by":"dottrap","time":"1434442364","timestamp":"2015-06-16 08:12:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple Mail.app\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been addicted to IMAP since my university days with Pine. Apple Mail had IMAP support when I first came to OS X, while very few other clients did. I\u0026#x27;ve stuck with it, especially since it comes with the OS. It also supports multiple mail boxes which I relied on early too.\u003cp\u003eAnd I like the native UI, how it responds to drag and drop, interaction with the Dock, works with built in OS services, etc.\u003cp\u003eAlso, relatively fast mail searching via Spotlight kept me hooked on mail. I suspect everybody else has caught up now.","parent":"9723765","id":"9724348"}
{"by":"falsedan","time":"1505730872","timestamp":"2017-09-18 10:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI think there is a value in upgrading the cheeseshop to use \u0026quot;verified maintainers\u0026quot; - it should be simple to do a first pass of \u0026quot;the person who signed the hash of this module has also verified they own the domain requests.kreitz.org by publishing that public key at that domains root\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat sounds useless. An attacker could verify that they own evilattacker.com \u0026amp; publish their malicious packages there.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think a web of trust is the answer here, because it doesn\u0026#x27;t really matter if the attack is anonymous or not, and if only trusted people can publish packages, trust will be given more readily to encourage new programmers to contribute.\u003cp\u003eI think a reputation\u0026#x2F;review system is better, like docker search\u0026#x27;s star count, or metacpan\u0026#x27;s ++ rating.","parent":"15273808","id":"15274684"}
{"by":"tmzt","time":"1391887528","timestamp":"2014-02-08 19:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What feature or features of Windows Phone drive you to love it? How would you to describe the experience in relation to Android or iOS?\u003cp\u003eAre there multiple web browser options?","parent":"7202059","id":"7202207"}
{"by":"Nomentatus","time":"1486854004","timestamp":"2017-02-11 23:00:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remember though, that the MMPI personality test actually trolls for those gaming the test (diagnosing them with personality disorders, usually.) It does that by tempting people to exaggerate their virtues, for example. So if you\u0026#x27;re willing to dive into the details of those commits, trumpeting that metric might be a nice honey trap. You don\u0026#x27;t want the serious gamers and players in your workplace.","parent":"13616057","id":"13625366"}
{"by":"dschobel","time":"1257266635","timestamp":"2009-11-03 16:43:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethe SSH daemon which unless modified remains running with default users root and mobile, using the same password on each and every device.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm not sure I'd want to be known as the elite security expert who exploited this subtle vulnerability.","parent":"919569","id":"919661"}
{"by":"theophrastus","time":"1407642840","timestamp":"2014-08-10 03:54:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"loutish\u0026#x2F;lazy Debian\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot;testing\u0026quot; system here:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   ~\u0026gt; apt-cache search toga\n   toga2 - computer chess engine, calculates chess moves\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n(hm... wake me when it hits testing)","parent":"8153187","id":"8158819"}
{"by":"DEinspanjer","time":"1367614132","timestamp":"2013-05-03 20:48:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The car definitely does handle wonderfully for a non-professional driver.  There are quite a few complaints about severe tire wear due to the negative camber for people who consistently ride it very rough.\u003cp\u003eI suspect they engineered the throttle lift oversteer and such specifically for the wider market they were looking to hit.  Not just car aficionados, but also people who were EV or green or geeks and such.","parent":"5651350","id":"5652572"}
{"by":"skorgu","time":"1260822573","timestamp":"2009-12-14 20:29:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, I'll start by saying that I'm assuming the story is accurate, there's no point discussing it otherwise.  She specifically mentions that she applied for identical jobs as both personas.\u003cp\u003eWhat if she had to meet a client face-to-face? Or even by phone?","parent":"994915","id":"995005"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1373465404","timestamp":"2013-07-10 14:10:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A denial-of-service \u003ci\u003evulnerability\u003c/i\u003e really ought to be something an attacker can force or plausibly trick you into doing, in such a way that you can actually be denied service. Calling \u0026quot;a file that, when opened, crashes the application\u0026quot; a vulnerability dilutes the term into uselessness. \u003ci\u003eEven if\u003c/i\u003e someone somehow forces you to open the file, you don\u0026#x27;t lose VLC. You just lose this instance of VLC. You double-click on VLC again, and boom, up it comes, ready to go. That\u0026#x27;s an awfully low grade of \u0026quot;denial\u0026quot;.","parent":"6018989","id":"6019649"}
{"by":"DupDetector","time":"1292501777","timestamp":"2010-12-16 12:16:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An old friend, submitted as recently as just a month ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1894784\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1894784\u003c/a\u003e \u0026#60;- 8 comments\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799296\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799296\u003c/a\u003e \u0026#60;- 3 comments\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672262\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672262\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649246\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649246\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179277\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179277\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449806\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449806\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156505\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156505\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135111\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135111\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126638\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126638\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109724\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109724\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86288\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86288\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2011732","id":"2011777"}
{"by":"rhizome","time":"1488671201","timestamp":"2017-03-04 23:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty sure they dropped the fistbump years ago.","parent":"13793403","id":"13793593"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1346861661","timestamp":"2012-09-05 16:14:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I see the problem -- I assumed that other browsers were using a monospace font for the HN monospace-markup sections. This isn't always the case. Even my rendering in Google Chrome on Linux isn't perfect.","parent":"4479083","id":"4479997"}
{"by":"Kuiper","time":"1538995195","timestamp":"2018-10-08 10:39:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a full-time freelancer\u0026#x2F;remote worker.  In late 2016, I made the decision to move to Pittsburgh, partly persuaded Paul Graham\u0026#x27;s talk about how Pittsburgh could become a startup hub. (PG grew up in Monroeville, 10 miles east of Pittsburgh.)\u003cp\u003eTranscript: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.paulgraham.com\u0026#x2F;pgh.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.paulgraham.com\u0026#x2F;pgh.html\u003c/a\u003e\nVideo: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=CpfdtgW6_oI\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=CpfdtgW6_oI\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI feel really good about the decision, CMU feels like a peer of Stanford and MIT but living here is substantially cheaper than living in Cambridge or Palo Alto.  (I pay ~$750 for a 1-bedroom apartment that\u0026#x27;s ~1.5 mile from CMU campus.)  The legacy of Randy Pausch\u0026#x27;s Building Virtual Worlds was also a draw for me personally, as I work in game development and was coming of age when Randy Pausch\u0026#x27;s delivered his famous Last Lecture (if you had asked me in 2008 who my personal heroes were, Randy Pausch would be the first name out of my mouth).  Going to gamedev meetups has kind of allowed me to insert myself into the CMU alumni network post hoc.  Very green (lots of beautiful neighborhoods), hip enough for my tastes, and the intellectual climate is everything I had hoped it would be.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to live in a city where companies like Google, Uber, Amazon, and Apple have offices, Pittsburgh may be your cheapest option.\u003cp\u003eSome discussion of Pittsburgh\u0026#x27;s (tech) climate on this article from last year: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14832249\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14832249\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18164189","id":"18166153"}
{"by":"matt4077","time":"1501017904","timestamp":"2017-07-25 21:25:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The GPU versions are performing surprisingly bad. To even match CPU performance, you need a training set in the tens of millions, and even far beyond that, a doubling of speed seems to be the best you can hope for.\u003cp\u003eCompare to, for example, tensorflow, where it isn\u0026#x27;t uncommon to see a 10x speedup even for moderately-sized training sets.\u003cp\u003e(I say \u0026quot;surprising\u0026quot; in the sense that I\u0026#x27;m surprised; I don\u0026#x27;t know the algorithms used for decision trees, and it may well be that they are less amendable to GPU-parallelization than the NN- and matrix algorithms I\u0026#x27;ve worked with)","parent":"14851333","id":"14852004"}
{"by":"scott_r","time":"1342401399","timestamp":"2012-07-16 01:16:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some critical info this page is missing is if the products are available for shipping to the US and how fast you can actually get them. I'd order a Raspberry Pi right now if I knew I'd have it in a week or so, but last I heard a lot of these units aren't easily available to those living in North America.","parent":"4247828","id":"4248864"}
{"by":"duaneb","time":"1382655533","timestamp":"2013-10-24 22:58:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Azure is great, but it remains that people are using linux for their servers.","parent":"6608227","id":"6608631"}
{"by":"mindslight","time":"1455760027","timestamp":"2016-02-18 01:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If an attacker can modify the code, they simply nullify that check (as we\u0026#x27;re discussing here). The prior state was insecure because the whole point of crypto\u0026#x2F;trusted hardware is to prevent against such attacks, and the prior state should have never allowed a code update on a locked device (if we\u0026#x27;re talking about trusted hardware).\u003cp\u003eIf we\u0026#x27;re not talking about trusted hardware, then naive code which calls sleep() is defective for the same reason - the security of the system cannot depend on running \u0026quot;friendly\u0026quot; code. See Linux\u0026#x27;s LUKS which has a parameter for the number of hash iterations when unlocking, which sets the work factor for brute forcing.\u003cp\u003eIf this still isn\u0026#x27;t apparent, you need to try thinking adversarially - what would you require to defeat various security properties of specific systems?","parent":"11122863","id":"11123092"}
{"by":"SamBam","time":"1490836087","timestamp":"2017-03-30 01:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What an amazingly snobby reply to an article about someone writing good fiction.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll leave a much better writer than me to do the arguing, Ursula K. LeGuin, although I realize you won\u0026#x27;t read either of these articles because you\u0026#x27;re too busy \u0026quot;working on [your] own things now,\u0026quot; but I\u0026#x27;ll post them because they\u0026#x27;re great.\u003cp\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction. [1]\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eAnd that, of course, is the lingering problem: The maintenance of an arbitrary division between “literature” and “genre,” the refusal to admit that every piece of fiction belongs to a genre, or several of genres.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eRealism is of course a tremendous and wonderfully capacious literary genre, and it has dominated fiction since 1800 or before. But dominance isn’t the same thing as superiority. Fantasy is at least as immense as realism and much older — essentially coeval with literature itself. Yet fantasy was relegated for fifty years or sixty years to the nursery.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Serious Literature. [2]\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eBut it [Genre fiction] was dead, dead! God damn that Chabon, dragging it out of the grave where she and the other serious writers had buried it to save serious literature from its polluting touch, the horror of its blank, pustular face, the lifeless, meaningless glare of its decaying eyes! What did the fool think he was doing?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;electricliterature.com\u0026#x2F;ursula-k-le-guin-talks-to-michael-cunningham-about-genres-gender-and-broadening-fiction-57d9c967b9c\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;electricliterature.com\u0026#x2F;ursula-k-le-guin-talks-to-mic...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ursulakleguin.com\u0026#x2F;Note-ChabonAndGenre.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ursulakleguin.com\u0026#x2F;Note-ChabonAndGenre.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13990315","id":"13992079"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1521655046","timestamp":"2018-03-21 17:57:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can agree with that, the window manager was really neat (as I\u0026#x27;ve always indicated these sorts of cloud platforms are like virtual OSes), but probably didn\u0026#x27;t add much to usability.\u003cp\u003ePerformance seems really smooth, I\u0026#x27;m glad to see this is still coming along quite nicely.\u003cp\u003eEven if it isn\u0026#x27;t the best UI, I think you really do still need to get something like EtherCalc on here, even for personal use, I love spreadsheets for storing structured information, and for business users, it\u0026#x27;s almost definitely a need.","parent":"16640548","id":"16640683"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1355348564","timestamp":"2012-12-12 21:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All those programming languages actually were deleted. According to the result summary of Why's case, he probably would have been deleted if more \"serious\" sources hadn't been added in the interim. It happens.\u003cp\u003eBut no, I am not moving the goalposts. I'm pretty convinced at this point that you've projected other people's goalposts onto my playing field. I'll quote myself again:\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eNo matter how innocuous the topic, if somebody takes notice of it, you'll often find yourself constantly having to fight random people\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eJust Googling around Hacker News, I find a number of innocuous pages whose maintainers have had to defend themselves against deletion.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003ePersonally, I don't remember what the specific pages were I used to help maintain. I was doing it because I wanted to help out and I saw those pages could use it rather than because I cared a lot about the topics. But I do remember it was unpleasant and I wouldn't want to deal with such people again.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose have been the goalposts all along. I didn't say anything about getting \"shouted off topics.\" I just said it involves more headaches than I feel it ought to. (Clearly some people like mjn and yourself haven't had that experience, and I'm glad, but that doesn't take the bad taste out of the mouths of people who have.)","parent":"4912590","id":"4912634"}
{"by":"tomhoward","time":"1534509713","timestamp":"2018-08-17 12:41:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not saying laws and ethical principles shouldn\u0026#x27;t apply to him, or that he should given a pass for actual wrongdoing.\u003cp\u003eMy central point is that we\u0026#x27;re not currently very capable or supportive at helping talented-but-flawed people reform, and that if we could become better at that, the world would probably be far better off.","parent":"17782230","id":"17782346"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1388451477","timestamp":"2013-12-31 00:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Smalltalk, for one.","parent":"6988158","id":"6988255"}
{"by":"swang","time":"1492580839","timestamp":"2017-04-19 05:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"haha i didn\u0026#x27;t even notice that. typed it out really fast. whoops!","parent":"14142927","id":"14145727"}
{"by":"jMyles","time":"1442600530","timestamp":"2015-09-18 18:22:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It gives the sentence a nuance that suggests ambiguity, as if prohibition of this move requires some particularly \u0026quot;strict\u0026quot; reading of the rules.  I agree that makes the sentence weaker, and given the gravity of the sentence, makes the article seem somewhat amateur.","parent":"10240710","id":"10241073"}
{"by":"makecheck","time":"1467830365","timestamp":"2016-07-06 18:39:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are times when I think the source code of the Unix \u0026quot;file\u0026quot; command should be a required part of languages’ standard libraries.  I have never seen anything do a better job of describing contents accurately.\u003cp\u003eIt’s really silly to see applications have trouble understanding data.  Even on macOS, where \u0026quot;file\u0026quot; is installed, the graphical interface sometimes fails to open\u0026#x2F;preview something that the command-line \u0026quot;file\u0026quot; describes perfectly (i.e. if it’s really text, just show me the text).","parent":"12041210","id":"12045004"}
{"by":"blandflakes","time":"1462453501","timestamp":"2016-05-05 13:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m a recent hire here, so consider my bias, but the interview process for me was among the best. The questions I was asked were relevant and solvable, some of them involving patterns that I use every week.\u003cp\u003eFor what it\u0026#x27;s worth, I\u0026#x27;ve also not had to deal with any politics. I just get to work, and everybody is very respectful, friendly, and helpful.","parent":"11619435","id":"11635686"}
{"by":"whatajoke","time":"1287574528","timestamp":"2010-10-20 11:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this the same system that replaced the failed Microsoft platform? \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft had run huge ads on how LSE was using .NET and Windows in critical financial applications. Within a year LSE had suffered crashes in the same critical areas.","parent":"1810704","id":"1810766"}
{"by":"westoncb","time":"1537661650","timestamp":"2018-09-23 00:14:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just spent about half an hour reading from the preview on Amazon, and I\u0026#x27;ve got to say I was super impressed with the style—very clear and focused on the most interesting things.","parent":"18048066","id":"18048685"}
{"by":"jlgaddis","time":"1385330375","timestamp":"2013-11-24 21:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, and that makes it even scarier.","parent":"6785869","id":"6791339"}
{"by":"GregBuchholz","time":"1420649422","timestamp":"2015-01-07 16:50:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting.  I would have thought that \u0026quot;the culture needs to change\u0026quot; is in direct opposition to Lockhart\u0026#x27;s thesis.  My reading of his essay is that people are rightly justified in hating the \u0026quot;mathematics\u0026quot; that was forced upon them.\u003cp\u003eI wonder if this difference in reading is some sort of confirmation bias, reading into an essay what we each want to hear?  On a more meta-level, I wonder if that quality improves or detracts from an essay.  Or maybe that quality isn\u0026#x27;t a part of the essay as much is it is attached to the subject or the reader?  Something I\u0026#x27;ll have to ponder some more.","parent":"8848818","id":"8851550"}
{"by":"aaron-lebo","time":"1527712777","timestamp":"2018-05-30 20:39:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They really shouldn\u0026#x27;t. Modern browsers have lots of the selector magic built-in, and frameworks that are very, very small can handle the rest without the spaghetti.","parent":"17191531","id":"17191558"}
{"by":"hliyan","time":"1523693882","timestamp":"2018-04-14 08:18:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m afraid I was arguing \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c/i\u003e the use of the war metaphor...","parent":"16836270","id":"16836454"}
{"by":"Robin_Message","time":"1279017731","timestamp":"2010-07-13 10:42:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So your point is that strip malls and car dependency are bad, right? But that doesn't mean that trucking a tube of toothpaste to my house is good.\u003cp\u003eFWIW, I cycle to the store, so until Amazon has a distribution hub in my town and cycle couriers for delivery, they're not going to be more fuel-efficient.","parent":"1510045","id":"1510957"}
{"by":"jotm","time":"1514130178","timestamp":"2017-12-24 15:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is extreme porn?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m really skeptical of politicians that want to ban \u0026quot;extreme pornography\u0026quot; on the Internet yet let actual prostitution just kind of, slide under the radar.\u003cp\u003eSurprisingly not many Brits are aware that you can get a couple of high end hookers who will do anything for a few hundred quid per hour, and it\u0026#x27;s legal. Lots of these \u0026quot;escorts\u0026quot; are barely legal age, as well.\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s a ploy to get people off porn and into actual sex lol.","parent":"15999869","id":"15999953"}
{"by":"danmaz74","time":"1505423718","timestamp":"2017-09-14 21:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Surely \u0026quot;prosecuted to death\u0026quot; was a figure of speech??","parent":"15251281","id":"15252574"}
{"by":"kindatrue","time":"1515004993","timestamp":"2018-01-03 18:43:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The median home price to median income ratio in San Francisco is 10.8x.\u003cp\u003eIn San Jose it is 7.8x.\u003cp\u003eNationally, it is 3.8x (5.8x in NYC metro).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.burbed.com\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;SFvNational-2017Q2.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.burbed.com\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;SFvNational...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16063566","id":"16063744"}
{"by":"505","time":"1500685233","timestamp":"2017-07-22 01:00:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On inspection of the examples, perhaps even Dickensian.","parent":"14821521","id":"14824850"}
{"by":"godelski","time":"1492894057","timestamp":"2017-04-22 20:47:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It also suggests that it should be regulated like Bell. And Google does have its own version of Bell labs, Google X. Though I think the goals of them are different.\u003cp\u003eThere is a big question though. Can they do what they do so well without the large size? We all know data is key here, and whoever has the most data can do the most. Can a small company get big data easily? Or do you need that amount of data?","parent":"14174532","id":"14174681"}
{"by":"jchonphoenix","time":"1289574445","timestamp":"2010-11-12 15:07:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook's interview puzzles aren't a prerequisite requirement to getting a job. The good developers who don't have time will just interview and get offers.\u003cp\u003eGoogle's are drawn out, but each interview takes 1 hour max so there is an upper bound on your time.","parent":"1897659","id":"1897850"}
{"by":"crdb","time":"1433267140","timestamp":"2015-06-02 17:45:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The way I read it from 6,000 miles away and little caring (after all I\u0026#x27;m unlikely to ever go \u0026quot;back\u0026quot;), DSK had cleared the field of any decent competition and was going to take the election in a landslide. With enormous international experience, the IMF experience to show that he was a \u0026quot;nice\u0026quot; socialist, not one of these bad \u0026quot;reds\u0026quot; who\u0026#x27;d have the Russian tanks in the Champs Elysees on day 2, and Sarkozy\u0026#x27;s unpopularity, it was a done deal and he was focusing on aligning interests.\u003cp\u003eExcept Sarko\u0026#x27;s side managed to get the evidence out somehow (Sofitel is owned by pro-Sarko interests, etc.) and destroyed him much as Herman Cain was destroyed when he got too popular - via allegations of sexual misconducts (here, unlike with Cain, justified by later events). It left us scratching our heads at how DSK could be so stupid so close to the finish line (after all, you can do it all you want in France, where the police and media will cover up for you, but to do it in the US which has clean rule of law? insane). Hollande kind of got leadership by default, and Sarko STILL lost.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, Hollande is doing what he can. I have some sympathy for him and I thought he handled crises remarkably considering low expectations. I savour the irony of the systematic destruction of individual rights occurring under the PS\u0026#x27; watch, arguably the \u0026quot;good guys\u0026quot; on that front.","parent":"9647363","id":"9647582"}
{"by":"zbraniecki","time":"1522997454","timestamp":"2018-04-06 06:50:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t believe gettext supports bidirectionality, genders, declension, date\u0026#x2F;number formatting, compound messages and so on.\u003cp\u003eCan you help us understand what can we do to better promote the unique features we offer?","parent":"16764882","id":"16771412"}
{"by":"acabal","time":"1364931175","timestamp":"2013-04-02 19:32:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That quote from Jeff Hammerbacher comes to mind: \"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.  That sucks.\"\u003cp\u003eThere's lots of genuine good to be done in the world outside of the US.  A year or two ago I did a short presentation to students in an entrepreneur class in Monterrey, Mexico.  Now Monterrey is rich even by US standards (in fact it's just across the border), but even then there's still a lot of genuine people problems to be solved by entrepreneurs in that country.  Think of the problems one could solve in a poorer country like the ones in Central America or poor areas of wealthier countries in South America like Colombia, Chile, Brazil.\u003cp\u003eThe example I gave the students in Mexico was the need to accept payments online in Central/South American countries.  Paypal doesn't work in many of them and online bill pay is almost unheard of. Even in relatively wealthy countries like Mexico and Colombia people can spend an entire afternoon in a massive queue outside their bank to pay their cable bills in person and in cash.  Internet startups can't grow because there's no easy way to accept payment online.  Building an online payment/mobile infrastructure is a fundamental problem that could make a lot of lives better and pave the road for entrepreneurs in the future.  It's not an easy problem and it's not really a tech problem either, but it's not impossible!","parent":"5479848","id":"5481601"}
{"by":"pquerna","time":"1301503469","timestamp":"2011-03-30 16:44:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rackspace, San Francisco.\u003cp\u003eCloudkick (YC Winter 09) was acquired by Rackspace back in December, and we are hiring to fill out our San Francisco office.\u003cp\u003eCurrently looking for Javascript developers and Python/Django developers.\u003cp\u003eFull listing of openings is here:\n\u003ca href=\"http://jobs.rackspace.com/search?q=%22san+francisco%22\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://jobs.rackspace.com/search?q=%22san+francisco%22\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2387910","id":"2388010"}
{"by":"meritt","time":"1473235952","timestamp":"2016-09-07 08:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joyent.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;the-power-of-a-pronoun\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joyent.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;the-power-of-a-pronoun\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Node community absolutely has had this sort of drama since the beginning. That\u0026#x27;s not necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely skews the sort of person who is a member of said community.","parent":"12440032","id":"12441588"}
{"by":"wumi","time":"1209636450","timestamp":"2008-05-01 10:07:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"but haters usually in regards to their fair trade coffee (or lack there of). Starbucks junkies are fanboys as well -- and I find often coincide with Apple fanboys","parent":"178132","id":"178287"}
{"by":"schoen","time":"1498610320","timestamp":"2017-06-28 00:38:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an update, I\u0026#x27;ve ordered a copy and look forward to reading it.","parent":"14647569","id":"14650845"}
{"by":"btian","time":"1506881521","timestamp":"2017-10-01 18:12:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because Amazon.com is already popular in Europe. It\u0026#x27;s not that big a jump to also buy groceries from Amazon.","parent":"15378965","id":"15379014"}
{"by":"tn13","time":"1473001582","timestamp":"2016-09-04 15:06:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is like saying fill water in gas tank if you are worried about gas pollution.\u003cp\u003eIf prosecutors are chosen randomly they will little incentive to go after anyone. I think we must drastically reduce the tools these people have at their disposal.","parent":"12424614","id":"12424697"}
{"by":"tlrobinson","time":"1320354360","timestamp":"2011-11-03 21:06:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relevant: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWpbfZHHzc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWpbfZHHzc\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3193606","id":"3193699"}
{"by":"mbubb","time":"1293723119","timestamp":"2010-12-30 15:31:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I liked your post, niyazpk, because it moves from the implicit comparison to looking internally for the reasons one is stuck in such and such a place.\u003cp\u003eFriends are not bad/good people as much as certain relationships are destructive while others are healthy. But this is not a permanent state - and ultimately says more about oneself than one's friends.\u003cp\u003eThis pruning off of friends is perhaps a necessary step in some cases - reminds me of the '12-step program' idea of not associating with the people you drank/smoked/particpated in unsafe sex with/etc. But ultimately it says more about the person themselves than it does about the goodness/badness of those friends. There are people who can drink and not have it ruin their lives... If you are not one of them but you are hanging around people who can socially drink - they are not the problematic ones.\u003cp\u003eWhen we are stuck we tend to look outwards for reasons that we are stuck and place blame externally.\u003cp\u003eThere is one of Montaigne's essays that I enjoyed since school days, #4 in book 1 called something like \"the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true ones are wanting\". There are some very funny anecdotes - some classical and some more contemporary of people essentially finding external causes for their griefs or gouts. The essay builds to a climax with an example of Ceasar defying Neptune after being shipwrecked and the author ends with a brilliant single sentence paragraph:\u003cp\u003e\"But we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.\"\u003cp\u003eThis is one example in literature of a remarkable turn from external to internal - a moment of crushing realization that you create most of your own pain and discomfort and the first step to freedom from this is this realization. Whether is it Buddha's Fire Sermon, Eliot's \"Waste Land\", Rilke's \"Headless Torso of Apollo\" - this is the answer. Not ditching friends.\u003cp\u003eWe move to Portland because we are not doing well in New York (or vice versa). The change in scenery will do us well for 6 months and that might be enough to set on a new track. But more likely you find out you are still the same person internally - that will creep back in.\u003cp\u003eI have had moments in my life where I have been in a magnificent place and yet for whatever reason i happened to be miserable that day. Firenze, Mongolia, Cat Ba Islands in Vietnam. Beautiful striking places and on those days struck with deep blueness (i will not use that oft-misused word depression here). And being in those places intensified the self loathing:\u003cp\u003e\"... you asshole - how could you be miserable here!...\"\u003cp\u003eAnd the answer is always the same - because I am miserable. Not because my girlfriend is 8000 miles away (and p'raps not so faithful :-0 ); not because of friends or lack of friends or type of friends.","parent":"2051816","id":"2052404"}
{"by":"ahoyhere","time":"1228045088","timestamp":"2008-11-30 11:38:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's lots of good advice here but I want to chip in my two cents, because I was once in a very similar situation and my advice is different enough than what's already here.\u003cp\u003eShort backstory so you know I'm serious: In 02, I lost a client along with about $20k of unpaid work (long story), $15k in debt, NO money, my ex-boyfriend stole my car (worse than a stranger, ha - and no, I couldn't get it back), working all the time \u0026#38; money stress lowered my immune system, I caught a ridiculously bad case of mono and could barely sit up for 3 mos, leading my only paying client to threaten to sue me. My father couldn't help me at all with money and my mother is an evil bitch who had an extra car but wouldn't help me anyway. It sucked. It was by far the worst period of my life BUT there's a huge upside, too.\u003cp\u003eThe first thing is: you can deal with this. You're smart, dedicated, and capable. This is just a temporary setback for you. You're already being proactive instead of wallowing in self-pity - way to go. It took me much longer to get to that stage.\u003cp\u003eAs another commentor pointed out, only sell your things if the equivalent hourly rate works out. For most things, that's a \"no\" right now, since consumer spending is tanking. Keep your stuff. Don't pay to store it - but keep it somewhere. Unless you're like that savekaryn chick and spent it all on small, easily shifted designer purses. ;)\u003cp\u003eSecond thing is: Call your credit card company(ies) RIGHT NOW and tell them \"Look, it's lower my interest rate or I'm going to go bankrupt.\" This is the #1 mistake people in our situations make (after the racking up of debt, of course). Credit cards ARE negotiable. Allow me to repeat: CREDIT CARDS ARE NEGOTIABLE.\u003cp\u003eAnd right now, CC banks are especially vulnerable because of the shit economy and that means YOU, an actual customer who intends to make good, is GOLDEN to them. If you tell them you have no other option, they WILL lower your APR, which will do HUGE things for you.\u003cp\u003eIf they don't respond to your approaches, try another (male?) friend or family member who can pretend to be you - who isn't feeling beaten down \u0026#38; can be assertive. If that fails, get a (reputable, genuine) debt counselor or lawyer. It's WELL worth the investment - it will return way more than 30% on your money.\u003cp\u003eThird thing is: pay off your debt quickly but DON'T KILL YOURSELF DOING IT. If you eat only ramen and work 18 hour days, you're going to be unmanageably unhappy (read: depressed, beaten down, and totally burnt out) and possibly physically ill, too. I tried both approaches, and the overworking one nearly landed me back in bed.\u003cp\u003eI got a f/t job - my first ever after being a freelancer since a teen, that's how low I had sunk - and that helped a lot because it greatly reduced my feeling of uncertainty. However, my first job was shitty and I was only able to stand it for 3 mos - by the end of which I'd lined up a better job and jumped to that seamlessly. Again, this falls under the category of \"don't shit all over yourself just to pay off a debt.\" Better to go bankrupt, in my mind.\u003cp\u003eFourth thing is: Hustle. I got my job by hustling. I got my second job, the better job I stayed with for a year to pay off my debt, by hustling. And I made extra money by hustling. What's hustling? Not anything illegal. But you've got assets, so work em!\u003cp\u003eWhat has the company gotten you? Software you developed? Know-how? SELL IT.\u003cp\u003eAsk EVERYONE you know if they have work for you - and, most importantly - if \u003ci\u003ethey\u003c/i\u003e know anyone who might have work for you. Refine your pitch, give people as concrete examples as possible. Stretch your skills to fields where you hadn't worked before.\u003cp\u003eAsk everyone you meet who is at least tangentially related to your work - politely - if they could use you, or know someone who does.\u003cp\u003eThere is NOTHING wrong with this. People are reluctant to do it because it seems sketchy or exploitative, but that all depends on how you do it.\u003cp\u003eI got every job I ever had by asking, mostly people I had barely just met (last job paid me about $180k/yr so this is not just for small fish). You HAVE TO ASK, because most people - even ones who really could use your help - don't think about the possibilities until you do. And for the people who know you best, trust best, ask them to help you figure out ways to hustle better.\u003cp\u003eNow, for the rest of the know-how, consider training other people to do what you do. Consider writing an ebook or something, once you get on your feet. Your knowledge is valuable, and if you do a cursory look into the world of self-published niche topic ebooks, you'll find tons of people are making a couple extra hundred bucks a day doing it.\u003cp\u003eRemember that your time IS worth something - and probably quite a bit. Remember that what you do today with your time is like investing or spending your future income, too, not just for this month. This year or two or three of your life that you're going to take paying off your debt, you don't want to look back and have nothing at all to show for it but, well, less debt.\u003cp\u003eInvest in yourself and your future where it makes sense.\u003cp\u003eIf you pay off your debt a bit more slowly, but stay sane and have built something that can help you in the future (an ebook or teaching web site, say), that's almost surely worth the extra interest. You just have to be sensible.\u003cp\u003eAlso, pro tip from a girl who knows: never, ever, ever work for anybody again who won't make a 30-50% advance payment. Put kill clauses in your contract, so you keep those deposits. Otherwise you're \"putting yourself on sale\" and letting everybody know it.\u003cp\u003eOh, and that upside I mentioned earlier? It's this: this is probably the worst personal situation you will ever have to deal with. And you WILL deal with it just fine. And after that, you'll realize A) how unimportant money is to your overall happiness, which paradoxically makes making money that much easier because you have its number (so to speak), and B) if you can conquer this, you can conquer ANYTHING.\u003cp\u003eCheers and best of luck.\u003cp\u003eAmy","parent":"380377","id":"380816"}
{"by":"mshafrir","time":"1340733894","timestamp":"2012-06-26 18:04:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FYI, requires iOS 5.1","parent":"4163058","id":"4163295"}
{"by":"pasbesoin","time":"1322161404","timestamp":"2011-11-24 19:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just recently wrapped up (hopefully) some donated work for a relative's business while it was struggling, financially.\u003cp\u003eThe relative's business partners were repeatedly dismissive, disrespectful, and ungrateful.  The financial bind they'd gotten themselves into made my life more difficult in either having to pony up, myself, for what they needed or spend extra time and effort working around their financial constraints.\u003cp\u003eThe only reason I did it was my commitment to this relative, and the fact that they were now \"in for a penny, in for a pound\" with them.\u003cp\u003eThat business relationship between this relative and their partners is now unwinding, and I am glad to be shut of the latter.  Once they started having some cashflow, their first concern was to spend it on other things rather taking care of past obligations, e.g. offering me even token compensation -- or building up some reserve, as I had suggested and in as much as I was not seeking payment.\u003cp\u003eI write all this as a preface to the not infrequently commented observation:  (Most) people value service in and to the extent they pay for it.  If it's \"free\", they can often be endlessly if ignorantly critical.\u003cp\u003eTANSTAAFL, even when you're buying.","parent":"3275094","id":"3275129"}
{"by":"monksy","time":"1455556339","timestamp":"2016-02-15 17:12:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something that I\u0026#x27;ve seen is that Twitter claims to be interested in cracking down on people who harass.. But when people come and bully in the name of \u0026quot;social progress\u0026quot; .. they tend to look the other way. I\u0026#x27;ve reported a tweet or two that attacked the reputation of an individual and was told \u0026quot;it\u0026#x27;s been reviewed but we deem it ok.\u0026quot;","parent":"11104206","id":"11104467"}
{"by":"sc68cal","time":"1322515072","timestamp":"2011-11-28 21:17:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, this is good news - there have always been a pull request or two on the Django GitHub mirror that would need to be closed and redirected to the Django project bug tracker, where they would need to generate a patch. This always slowed contributions and made people who genuinely wanted to help jump through needless hoops.","parent":"3287624","id":"3287674"}
{"by":"aikah","time":"1424292656","timestamp":"2015-02-18 20:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  Does this mean we\u0026#x27;ll soon have mobile web apps that rival native apps in terms of performance or will DOM manipulation still slow everything down?\u003cp\u003easm.js has nothing to do with the DOM.So if the browser engine is slow, a fast javascript engine won\u0026#x27;t make any difference. It only make a difference with pure javascript computation as asmjs basically recreate an \u0026quot;assembly\u0026quot; on top of javascript, which allows to execute compiled C\u0026#x2F;C++ code.","parent":"9070716","id":"9070832"}
{"by":"burningion","time":"1454187809","timestamp":"2016-01-30 21:03:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I realize we\u0026#x27;re all trying to make fun of a strawman who doesn\u0026#x27;t believe in the purity of science, but that\u0026#x27;s an unfair characterization of the arguments made against the \u003ci\u003emanned\u003c/i\u003e lunar landing.\u003cp\u003eJust taking a look at the Wikipedia page for the arguments gives you a good idea for the arguments made:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Moon_landing_conspiracy_theori...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you read through a bit, you\u0026#x27;ll see a few arguments that people propose, that don\u0026#x27;t refute laser reflectors being on the surface.\u003cp\u003eAgain, I realize we\u0026#x27;re supposed to be piling on a strawman here, but I hope we can all maintain open minds.","parent":"11003683","id":"11003733"}
{"by":"bozzie123","time":"1302286086","timestamp":"2011-04-08 18:08:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"because i wanted people who view my blog to see it as well","parent":"2424923","id":"2424972"}
{"by":"sokoloff","time":"1537996974","timestamp":"2018-09-26 21:22:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The sentence you copied started with an important qualifier: \u0026quot;Counting both ends of a cable,\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If you’re new to making cables\u003cp\u003eHowever, IMO if you\u0026#x27;re making your own \u003ci\u003epatch cables\u003c/i\u003e, you\u0026#x27;re so far on the wrong side of what\u0026#x27;s reasonable that I don\u0026#x27;t know what else to say. Punching down horizontal cabling to jacks makes sense; there\u0026#x27;s no other choice. Making patch cables is an enormous waste of resources.","parent":"18080016","id":"18080393"}
{"by":"RandomName2020","time":"1476802406","timestamp":"2016-10-18 14:53:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; (e.g. Federal government jobs and some companies) but these are frequently viewed as undesirable\u003cp\u003eFederal and government (city, state etc.) jobs (perhaps excluding IT) are some of the most desirable jobs in US, with long waiting lines. Got try get a city job in NYC....","parent":"12734900","id":"12734971"}
{"by":"Nursie","time":"1483965118","timestamp":"2017-01-09 12:31:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps that was the issue that arose during due diligence - sorry, looks like these already exist, the idea isn\u0026#x27;t worth pursuing after all.","parent":"13355800","id":"13355848"}
{"by":"jonursenbach","time":"1244841356","timestamp":"2009-06-12 21:15:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It'd also be much less of a potential PR nightmare for them to just have setup a sandboxing environment.","parent":"655435","id":"655452"}
{"by":"cancelbubble","time":"1313079546","timestamp":"2011-08-11 16:19:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Came here to suggest this site as well.","parent":"2873239","dead":true,"id":"2873502"}
{"by":"notacoward","time":"1538058438","timestamp":"2018-09-27 14:27:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;the problem is that the same thing can be said vis-a-vis the COC toting social justice warriors\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m no friend to some of the people pushing this. Just a couple of days ago, I was in a Twitter argument with some of them as they tried to turn this into part of their \u0026quot;kill Linux Foundation\u0026quot; feud. They definitely do have their own faults, but I still think there\u0026#x27;s a difference. They\u0026#x27;re willing to put in place a set of rules that could very well be used against them in their own immoderate moments. Some have already pointed this out. The anti-CoC crowd accept no explicit limitation. I\u0026#x27;m not trying to put one above another, but those positions are \u003ci\u003edifferent\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"18084492","id":"18084809"}
{"by":"shin_lao","time":"1375115085","timestamp":"2013-07-29 16:24:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, my usage of designed was a little bit liberal here. Mr. Diffie is one of the authors of the first paper to introduce the concept of PFS, but the DH key exchange algorithm hasn\u0026#x27;t been designed for PFS but rather for 0-knowledge key exchange.\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, I stand by my remark regarding the pertinence of DH in that case.","parent":"6121960","id":"6122069"}
{"by":"CiPHPerCoder","time":"1485875302","timestamp":"2017-01-31 15:08:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but this RFC does not.","parent":"13531076","id":"13531111"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1352404888","timestamp":"2012-11-08 20:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If your ideas are intriguing, people will \u003ci\u003ewish\u003c/i\u003e to be subscribed to your newsletter.","parent":"4758900","id":"4759549"}
{"by":"wwweston","time":"1392343320","timestamp":"2014-02-14 02:02:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re probably right; there\u0026#x27;d need to be incentives.\u003cp\u003eMaybe tying pay and funding to available footage?","parent":"7235512","id":"7236372"}
{"by":"svillafe","time":"1401134530","timestamp":"2014-05-26 20:02:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s true that it might get crowded. In that case we plan to add more streams, but keep the original global stream. So if you want to spread your message globally, there is a place to do it, and if you want to spread your message locally, you have your place too.\nAlso, new slots are opened every day, which gives you a new chance to get a slot.","parent":"7801083","id":"7801329"}
{"by":"snird","time":"1417464623","timestamp":"2014-12-01 20:10:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is it for the government to decide for the people how much time to work? where is the individual freedom of choice?","parent":"8680868","id":"8683419"}
{"by":"wallace_f","time":"1508004766","timestamp":"2017-10-14 18:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Fed and Treasury both contributed to the bail out. The treasury was paid back, the Fed was not. Most of the bail out came from the Fed. The government did not make a profit wholistically.\u003cp\u003eIf you don\u0026#x27;t think police killing people and getting away with it is evidence of corruption, or government lying to go to war for profit, etc, etc... then first I would have to ask what your definition of corruption is? The fact is why most people view these as corruption, so what\u0026#x27;s wrong with that viewpoint?\u003cp\u003eHow about this: what in your mind is an example of corruption?","parent":"15473286","id":"15473387"}
{"by":"arenaninja","time":"1421266776","timestamp":"2015-01-14 20:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that average? Median? In Los Angeles, I think it\u0026#x27;s around $44\u0026#x2F;unit, whereas in NOVA it\u0026#x27;s about $110\u0026#x2F;unit","parent":"8888469","id":"8888751"}
{"by":"7Figures2Commas","time":"1446247567","timestamp":"2015-10-30 23:26:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; “I think it’s going to really make a difference for businesses that are not especially fashionable for professional investors,” said James Dowd, the chief executive of North Capital Private Securities, a broker-dealer that focuses on private fund-raising. “They want to invest in companies that have the potential to be disruptive to an entire industry. You don’t see a lot of capital flow into ordinary consumer and retail businesses.”\u003cp\u003eThe statement about professional investors \u0026quot;want[ing] to invest in companies that have the potential to be disruptive to an entire industry\u0026quot; is really not accurate. The vast majority of dollars raised through Regulation D offerings go to financial issuers (investment funds), not \u0026quot;disruptive\u0026quot; startups. Reg D is also commonly used to raise capital for real estate ventures and funds.\u003cp\u003eAlthough they certainly don\u0026#x27;t constitute the majority of Regulation D offerings, \u0026quot;ordinary consumer and retail businesses\u0026quot; \u003ci\u003edo\u003c/i\u003e use private placements to raise capital, but the real reason it\u0026#x27;s more challenging for these businesses to raise capital is not that all professional investors are looking for hundred-baggers. It\u0026#x27;s that they know there\u0026#x27;s a strong likelihood they\u0026#x27;ll never see their capital again at all.\u003cp\u003eThis said, I don\u0026#x27;t have a real problem with Title III. The SEC can\u0026#x27;t protect investors from themselves, as evidenced by the fact that investors are still defrauded to the tune of more than a billion dollars a year by penny stock schemes. But it\u0026#x27;s worth observing that the biggest proponents of equity crowdfunding are usually those who stand to profit from facilitating the sale of securities to investors. You\u0026#x27;ll notice that very few of them ever talk realistically about how those investors are going to get their capital back.","parent":"10480383","id":"10481155"}
{"by":"mkagenius","time":"1534872930","timestamp":"2018-08-21 17:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an inventor how does one convince oneself to allow overhead wires carrying life threatening currents or any other such inventions. There exists so many inventions I would never pursue even if it occurred to me first, yet they exist and make our lives better.","parent":"17811051","id":"17811835"}
{"by":"lfowles","time":"1427357145","timestamp":"2015-03-26 08:05:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An aside: I\u0026#x27;d really like to see you do this with actual prices and see how it compares to your guesstimates.","parent":"9267923","id":"9268293"}
{"by":"D_Alex","time":"1314082433","timestamp":"2011-08-23 06:53:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well... what about this then: \u003ca href=\"http://www.johnsphones.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.johnsphones.com/\u003c/a\u003e?\u003cp\u003eAlso, look at the history of wristwatches. In the early 80's new features were being adopted: digital displays, stopwatches, alarms, calculators... but the trend reversed, and now a watch that \"only shows time\" is typical.\u003cp\u003eI \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e smartphones will end up taking the lion's share of the mobile phone market, but there will be plenty of room for simple low end phones. One, simplicity is not a bad thing. Two, low cost is good too.\u003cp\u003eBTW, my \"uncle\" runs a jetski rental business... low cost is his main criterion when choosing a mobile phone. He buys a couple of dozen each year...","parent":"2915560","id":"2915652"}
{"by":"jabl","time":"1542793583","timestamp":"2018-11-21 09:46:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The trick is to allow the transportation authority to own and manage its own real estate.\u003cp\u003eWell, that seems like a pretty major subsidy. So if a new line or station is built, the government uses eminent domain (or equivalent) to buy the land, and gives it to the transport authority?\u003cp\u003eI mean, it might be better in that it lets the transport authority operate without being dependent on government handouts that can vary wildly from year to year due to local politics.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The US model seems to reward random real estate developers who just happened to own the land near the future station.\u003cp\u003eThe government should apply some form of land value taxation to (partially) fix this. Would fix a lot of other problems too, but I digress.","parent":"18500073","id":"18501371"}
{"by":"keithpeter","time":"1426886054","timestamp":"2015-03-20 21:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I shall look out for the kickstarter on this project. Is there a mailing list or other notification of the Chopin project?\u003cp\u003e(Mind you, Cortot and Schnabel where not what one might call \u003ci\u003epurists\u003c/i\u003e).","parent":"9240632","id":"9240730"}
{"by":"67726e","time":"1409067827","timestamp":"2014-08-26 15:43:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, depends on how you frame it. Is a troop transport taking US forces over to Iraq barbaric? Depends on who you ask.","parent":"8227140","id":"8227740"}
{"by":"vonmoltke","time":"1472651445","timestamp":"2016-08-31 13:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read sentiments like yours frequently.  It does not match my experience.\u003cp\u003eMany of the companies I have talked to have fairly large lists of requirements for positions and are serious about requiring them.  They get really picky about specific languages, frameworks, and experiences.  As I mentioned in another discussion here recently, there are tens of thousands of programming jobs controlled by companies who do not see a programmer shortage from their perspective.\u003cp\u003eWhen discussions on hiring methods come up, multiple people inevitably chime in that the companies in question are dealing with situations where they have more qualified applicants than slots.  That is in direct conflict with what you said above.\u003cp\u003eI would love to be able to jump jobs for 30% pay raises.  I can\u0026#x27;t.  I started my career at $55,770.  I\u0026#x27;m up to $92,500 14 years later, which is only a 66% bump for my entire career.  Even if we consider me underpaid for my area (Hi!  I\u0026#x27;m looking in Dallas!) I would likely only be looking at a 100% total career bump if I got that situation addressed.  There \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e companies out there who refuse to give you more than X% above your current salary, regardless of how underpaid you are.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s funny that you should mention AT\u0026amp;T, what with them being headquartered here and all.  I see them as one of the companies I was referring to in my second paragraph.  I have personally applied to them for multiple positions and heard bupkis.\u003cp\u003eIt may well be that certain sectors in certain markets have these issues.  I do not see it as widespread.  What I do see as widespread are broken recruiting and sourcing practices, HR departments that work at cross purposes to the other departments they support, and a general desire to hit all the points on a wish list, no matter how long it takes.","parent":"12398051","id":"12398255"}
{"by":"zwieback","time":"1307463363","timestamp":"2011-06-07 16:16:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Brilliant - my sentiments exactly.","parent":"2629176","id":"2629705"}
{"by":"mrtron","time":"1240460301","timestamp":"2009-04-23 04:18:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your salary equals:\u003cp\u003emarket value for the kind of work you do + whether your employer pays above or below that + your individual skill level and experience + timing of entering the company + your negotiating ability\u003cp\u003eAll are highly variable values for any individual.","parent":"575022","id":"575085"}
{"by":"zingermc","time":"1407502188","timestamp":"2014-08-08 12:49:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wanna know the real reason?  C is just the maximum floating point value of the computer that our universe\u0026#x27;s simulation is running on.  Similarly, the Planck length is the value closest to zero.","parent":"8152322","id":"8152506"}
{"by":"state","time":"1345295260","timestamp":"2012-08-18 13:07:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an architect by training I find it really exciting to see something like this. The business of architecture is an incredible mess. Although I see a lot of big challenges in getting this to work well it's a great way to make a positive intervention in spaces that are often quite negative. Architects think about this kind of stuff all the time, but they rarely implement it.\u003cp\u003eAll that being said these things look really overwrought, made from a strange collection of materials, and seem unlikely to be as clean as they should be. The rounded corners are driving me crazy.","parent":"4400886","id":"4401034"}
{"by":"mey","time":"1363031454","timestamp":"2013-03-11 19:50:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn't that misleading information/advertising unless the boxes actually come with those modifications?","parent":"5359152","id":"5359172"}
{"by":"njharman","time":"1236641438","timestamp":"2009-03-09 23:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow.  With all the fraud and corruption that is being revealed to exist in our financial/political system this, THIS, is what author gets worked up about?\u003cp\u003eItems like this make be believe a little more in disinformation conspiracies.  That this post exists to give people something to talk/think about other than what \"they\" are really doing.","parent":"508796","id":"509240"}
{"by":"cptskippy","time":"1519157785","timestamp":"2018-02-20 20:16:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe we\u0026#x27;re saying the same thing.","parent":"16422805","id":"16423779"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1483753545","timestamp":"2017-01-07 01:45:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the most practical yet detailed clojure \u0026quot;book\u0026quot;. Thanks again.","parent":"13340841","id":"13341914"}
{"by":"hn_reader","time":"1331267954","timestamp":"2012-03-09 04:39:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To continue the analogy..once we determine we're in a sim, maybe the next step is to figure out if there are any paravirtualization hooks we can use to optimize our universe.","parent":"3682903","id":"3682940"}
{"by":"lampe","time":"1349351637","timestamp":"2012-10-04 11:53:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the problem with nokia is not it software.\nThe maps are good and other software too.\nBUT smartphones are about the OS these days!\nand Symbian(i loved the old s60 version on my ngage) is dead...\nand windows mobile dont got the big thirdparty app market like android and ios got!\u003cp\u003eYeah nokia has great maps but its like with Opera:\n\"Opera the worlds best browser that no one uses\"","parent":"4611309","id":"4611852"}
{"by":"projektir","time":"1475036530","timestamp":"2016-09-28 04:22:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t take my eyes off of that \u0026quot;3D low-poly\u0026quot; racetrack thingy. So pretty.\u003cp\u003eI wonder how far someone could get with that artstyle in general, I haven\u0026#x27;t seen it that often. There was that RTS game that used it, forgot the name..","parent":"12594552","id":"12595404"}
{"by":"PhantomGremlin","time":"1462871233","timestamp":"2016-05-10 09:07:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, thanks for reminding me of that one.\u003cp\u003eThat timeline isn\u0026#x27;t pretty. The OpenBSD guys really needed to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to calling it a \u0026quot;security fix\u0026quot; rather than something milder like a \u0026quot;reliability fix\u0026quot;.","parent":"11664896","id":"11665961"}
{"by":"dvdhsu","time":"1311119332","timestamp":"2011-07-19 23:48:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is interesting to note that the first Sony retail store wholly owned and operated by Sony opened in 1982 [1], way before the first Apple store in 2001 [2]. Although Sony had retail stores almost 20 years before Apple, their stores are not as popular, likely because of the lack of demand for their products.\u003cp\u003e--------------------------------------\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Canada#Sony_Style\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Canada#Sony_Style\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Store\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Store\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2783360","id":"2783616"}
{"by":"ldthorne","time":"1537392004","timestamp":"2018-09-19 21:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair, but my confidence in it stems from the giant community around Next.js. Zeit, a company with a good reputation among developers, works on it full time. It has contributions from other big-name OSS contributors and big companies (Netflix, Hulu, Nike, Ticketmaster, Jet, Auth0, Marvel, etc.). It\u0026#x27;s definitely a liability if it were truly just one individual developing it, but I suppose it\u0026#x27;s more that there\u0026#x27;s a small core of facilitators, with a giant OSS community around it.","parent":"18027760","id":"18027819"}
{"by":"gbrown","time":"1448471233","timestamp":"2015-11-25 17:07:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would also be helpful if they\u0026#x27;d read the article.","parent":"10628108","id":"10628144"}
{"by":"Gigablah","time":"1360086183","timestamp":"2013-02-05 17:43:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I missing something?\u003cp\u003eSELECT * FROM user WHERE \"string\" = 0;\u003cp\u003ewill indeed match all users, but\u003cp\u003eSELECT * FROM user WHERE token = 0;\u003cp\u003ewill not. (Presuming the token is stored in a table column)","parent":"5171025","id":"5171970"}
{"by":"FussyZeus","time":"1494267698","timestamp":"2017-05-08 18:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except when you commission an artist, you don\u0026#x27;t get (and pay for) 20 paintings you didn\u0026#x27;t want in addition to the one you wanted. Rolls also doesn\u0026#x27;t send you a Chrysler, Chevy and a BMW along with the Rolls you bought. In fact I think you\u0026#x27;d be hard pressed to come up with another luxury good that\u0026#x27;s priced this way.","parent":"14293632","id":"14294184"}
{"by":"hrush","time":"1338238907","timestamp":"2012-05-28 21:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"@nerd_in_rage -- we originally started with purely text as an approach. You can see one of our older blog posts here where we talk about the simplicity and clarity afforded by \"Just use text\":\n\u003ca href=\"http://blog.cleartrip.com/2007/03/10/a-picture-says-a-thousand-words/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.cleartrip.com/2007/03/10/a-picture-says-a-thousa...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver time, however, we changed our minds a little bit. And we were driven, in no small part, by the rapid shift to web consumption on post-PC devices. We explained our thinking in another blog post:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://blog.cleartrip.com/2011/01/20/testing-an-all-new-navigation-design-in-small-world/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.cleartrip.com/2011/01/20/testing-an-all-new-navi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4033533","id":"4034909"}
{"by":"RcouF1uZ4gsC","time":"1493932426","timestamp":"2017-05-04 21:13:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice work. However, I think the C++  community is best served by standardizing on CMake. It is widely used by many projects, and many IDEs natively support it natively (for example Jetbrains Clion, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2017)\u003cp\u003eIn addition, \u0026quot;modern CMake\u0026quot; is much better than classic CMake\u0026quot; and the project is improving with such things like CMake server.","parent":"14268284","id":"14268889"}
{"by":"alan_cx","time":"1387955781","timestamp":"2013-12-25 07:16:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh yeah. You just made it a conspiracy to patent troll. Nice one.","parent":"6961923","id":"6962472"}
{"by":"tlb","time":"1531163250","timestamp":"2018-07-09 19:07:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you articulate your vision here?","parent":"17492398","id":"17492625"}
{"by":"gravitronic","time":"1322771617","timestamp":"2011-12-01 20:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exciting!\u003cp\u003eI guess the proceeds of the auction will help them scale?\u003cp\u003eEven with support from Broadcom I'm sure at $25/piece there's not a lot of room for paying off their fixed costs.","parent":"3301141","id":"3301280"}
{"by":"zzalpha","time":"1502638582","timestamp":"2017-08-13 15:36:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an over-the-top title to be sure, but the article itself is, I think, a pretty interesting survey of some facts I did not know about women\u0026#x27;s rights in Warsaw Pact countries, written by a scholar who studies the history of the region.\u003cp\u003eAs a result, while I get the criticism, I think it\u0026#x27;s a bit unfair.  But at this point it\u0026#x27;s a matter of opinion and taste rather than fact.\u003cp\u003eBut hey, at least we had a conversation, so thank you for that!","parent":"15003275","id":"15003307"}
{"by":"coliveira","time":"1307302477","timestamp":"2011-06-05 19:34:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A major problem with web-based UIs is the lack of sane defaults. The default for HTML is a document with basic formatting. You need somebody with good design skills to create an App that doesn't look awful.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, frameworks such as UIKit provide all you need for a nice-looking UI. Developers just need to worry about the application code, and worry about UI design much later in the process.","parent":"2622556","id":"2622681"}
{"by":"Angostura","time":"1320144896","timestamp":"2011-11-01 10:54:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Such as? (honest qusetion)","parent":"3180847","id":"3181467"}
{"by":"juhghjkjhnb","time":"1273676949","timestamp":"2010-05-12 15:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They should send these immigrants back to where they came from.","parent":"1341039","id":"1341118"}
{"by":"AlexMuir","time":"1278416356","timestamp":"2010-07-06 11:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fairly hopeless.  It's less about startups/business than it is about people becoming self-employed.  I've tried it in various areas, from the shit to the affluent - always abysmal.","parent":"1490556","id":"1490664"}
{"by":"fest","time":"1517323084","timestamp":"2018-01-30 14:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have a lot of first-hand experience using LQR but I definitely have seen it being applied to systems that traditionally are thought of as non-linear with the respect of variable you can control.\u003cp\u003eMaybe it\u0026#x27;s explained by the state space containing more terms than PID controller, so the transfer function can be linear for each individual term?","parent":"16264139","id":"16265578"}
{"by":"ptn","time":"1248445530","timestamp":"2009-07-24 14:25:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you replied with a correction, it's implicit that you disagree, and then downvotes would be redundant.\u003cp\u003eI think one liners, unless they are reminders of something that's universally obvious, are worse than no comment at all, because they can't contain much information.","parent":"721410","id":"721463"}
{"by":"nicolagreco","time":"1485048125","timestamp":"2017-01-22 01:22:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is incredible that just today I posted this on github: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ipld\u0026#x2F;ipld\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;16\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;ipld\u0026#x2F;ipld\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;16\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructs\u0026#x2F;Traits already exist in some form that is not well defined yet, what you are describing is a generalization of what is happening with Ethereum right now, we have eth-block being a IPLD \u0026quot;Format\u0026quot;, which is basically a struct with some particular characteristic where the parser instead of being written in a IPFS VM language, it is written and executed as part of the daemon.\u003cp\u003eThe idea that you have described above or a subset of it, it\u0026#x27;s part of the plan!\u003cp\u003ePlease do participate in the issue that I linked you to!","parent":"13440311","id":"13453044"}
{"by":"akshatpradhan","time":"1431069144","timestamp":"2015-05-08 07:12:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great that HN is talking about PCI. The problem with PCI and compliance in general is three fold.\u003cp\u003e1. People don\u0026#x27;t want compliance [1]\u003cp\u003e2. People think compliance is broadly applied\u003cp\u003e3. People don\u0026#x27;t know where to start\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll answer these point by point.\u003cp\u003e1) The reason people don\u0026#x27;t want compliance is because the security industry claims that Compliance is bare minimum and not enough. If they told you that Compliance was simply doing your due diligence on your sensitive devices, I think the market would have had a software tool to easily get us through the process by now. (I built a \u0026quot;brilliant\u0026quot; PCI tool btw. Link below)\u003cp\u003eSo let me explain to them why I think Compliance is just doing your due diligence and we\u0026#x27;ll do that by simply asking this question: If compliance is bare minimum and not enough, what is a comprehensive approach available right now to reasonably protect our sensitive data? The security professionals will tell you Risk Assessments and Pentesting often is the best alternative [2]\u003cp\u003eTheir answer is to specifically switch to Risk Assessment and PenTesting often, which is Requirement 11 and Requirement 12 of PCI. Each one of the bullets written is specifically covered by PCI DSS 3.1, including social engineering\u0026#x2F;phishing attacks that are provided through security awareness training. They\u0026#x27;re telling me that compliance is bare minimum, yet their suggestion is to do a subset of compliance. Its circular logic. Since its circular logic and nobody has been able to provide me with a reasonable approachable alternative to going above bare minimum, I hypothesize that compliance is NOT bare minimum, but in fact, due diligence.\u003cp\u003eThink of a fort. Forts had defined compliance checklists in the old times. In a fort, you go through a security rotation of making sure the pot of boiling oil tips over on time. You practice your smoke signaling so that the appropriate people are notified in the event of a wall breach. Were they spending a majority of their security drills taking half their army, launching it against the fort, fixing what fails, and then doing a risk assessment? \u003cp\u003e2) A compliance program by definition is only applicable to your sensitive environment. It cannot be applied broadly. Its forcing you to go through the decision making process of asking yourself, \u0026quot;What\u0026#x27;s most important to protect right now\u0026quot;.  Only you can classify the sensitivity of your devices. Only you can choose if your code base is sensitive or your employee\u0026#x27;s SSN is sensitive. But whatever you’ve classified as sensitive  must fall under compliance. Let\u0026#x27;s refresh: Compliance is designed to be applied only to your sensitive data. If you choose to put a non-sensitive devices under a compliance program, then you\u0026#x27;ve specifically applied compliance broadly. \u003cp\u003e3) To approach any compliance program, ask yourself 6 questions on any specific device.\u003cp\u003e1. Does this device store, process or transmit sensitive data (e.g. cardholder\u0026#x2F;health\u0026#x2F;SSN)?\u003cp\u003e2. Is there unrestricted access between this device and a sensitive device?\u003cp\u003e3. Does this device provide authorization, authentication, or access control to a sensitive device?\u003cp\u003e4. Can this device initiate a connection to a sensitive device?\u003cp\u003e5. Can a sensitive device initiate a connection to this device?\u003cp\u003e6. Can this device administer a sensitive device?\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re able to answer yes to any of those questions then your device is sensitive and due diligence is required. Let\u0026#x27;s go back to the fort example. Is there unrestricted access from that boiling pot to the sensitive gold chamber? Does the pot provide access control to the sensitive gold chamber? If yes, then configuration settings of the pot, pulley, oil, need to be recorded and monitored periodically. If no, then its possible that you might have a business justification for not putting as much rigor into recording and monitoring the correct functionality of that pot.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ve already started the compliance process by asking yourself, \u0026quot;Does my laptop initiate an outbound connection to a sensitive device?\u0026quot; If yes, then your laptop falls under compliance and due diligence is required.\u003cp\u003eEverything else is just record keeping. Create a network diagram of only your sensitive assets. Write down how you rotate your keys on those sensitive assets. Write down what log files you periodically review. Go through a practice run of your Incident Response in case there is a breach of your sensitive asset.\u003cp\u003eThis is a pretty long post and I hope it helped.\u003cp\u003eShameless plug, I\u0026#x27;m building a tool called ComplianceChimp to guide you through this entire process including recording your procedures with Github flavored Markdown. You can see how I\u0026#x27;m using our tool to get us through the PCI Compliance process. [3]\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9510435\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9510435\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;akshatpradhan\u0026#x2F;1573e5f6c1872b6af129\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gist.github.com\u0026#x2F;akshatpradhan\u0026#x2F;1573e5f6c1872b6af129\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cc-stg2.herokuapp.com\u0026#x2F;compliancechimp\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;software-development-process-sdlc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cc-stg2.herokuapp.com\u0026#x2F;compliancechimp\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;softw...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9508289","id":"9510369"}
{"by":"skybrian","time":"1492807958","timestamp":"2017-04-21 20:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s extremely common to get the tense wrong. \u0026quot;This is what our product does\u0026quot; instead of \u0026quot;this is what our product will do.\u0026quot; (They hope, if all goes well.) This is not (just) grammar nit-picking, it\u0026#x27;s often the difference between a promise and a lie.\u003cp\u003eFor public companies, this is what results in \u0026quot;forward-looking statements\u0026quot; boilerplate. But it happens all the time in technical presentations.\u003cp\u003eI try to call people on it, but sometimes it\u0026#x27;s a losing battle.","parent":"14168653","id":"14169346"}
{"by":"adam419","time":"1401306491","timestamp":"2014-05-28 19:48:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ruby + Sinatra","parent":"7812380","id":"7812391"}
{"by":"kabdib","time":"1475123076","timestamp":"2016-09-29 04:24:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One hard nut: the cost of provisioning datacenters with enough GPU capacity to meet the demand curve of a \u0026quot;hot\u0026quot; title, and still make sense in terms of inevitable idle time and depreciation.\u003cp\u003eEither you have insufficient capacity to meet day 1 load when everyone piles onto a hot new title, or you over-provision, meet that demand and have much of that hardware doing nothing during doldrum seasons (or when a title bombs).\u003cp\u003eProbably you need to figure out how to make GPU capacity useful when it\u0026#x27;s not rendering games, and sell that as a service as well (GPU-based machine learning?). It doesn\u0026#x27;t help that OSes have been prickly about letting processes share GPU resources; I imagine there are a fair number of thorny security problems, even with GPU MMUs.\u003cp\u003eThis doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like something a cloud gaming start-up can really tackle; lots of capitalization, with lots of competition from entrenched providers, and no really compelling reason to put games in the cloud to begin with. The bigger (console) players probably realized that having consumers buy their own compute is not only cheaper and more resilient depreciation-wise, but also causes a nice platform lock-in effect once the customers have purchased a few titles.","parent":"12600463","id":"12603293"}
{"by":"mseebach","time":"1500314548","timestamp":"2017-07-17 18:02:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have actually, but I understand that it\u0026#x27;s rare.\u003cp\u003ePlease note that I do encourage doing \u0026quot;research\u0026quot; - it doesn\u0026#x27;t have to go all the way to an offer, but what I mean is to build confidence that you can indeed get one at the given salary. This is your BATNA, but because you\u0026#x27;re not giving an ultimatum, you don\u0026#x27;t have to walk away to a new job immediately - you can just start looking.","parent":"14790640","id":"14790894"}
{"by":"nahom1","time":"1533885248","timestamp":"2018-08-10 07:14:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn\u0026#x27;t know she was a famous model :)","parent":"17731240","dead":true,"id":"17731291"}
{"by":"jcrabtr","time":"1522436435","timestamp":"2018-03-30 19:00:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right. Why play an acoustic instrument when we can accurately synthesize its sound, or use a tube amplifier when we could use a digital modelling amplifier that perfectly simulates it? Because nostalgia is one of the enjoyable aspects of music. That being said, one should realize that paying for nostalgia isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily paying for objectively better performance.","parent":"16718447","id":"16718839"}
{"by":"deathanatos","time":"1480385065","timestamp":"2016-11-29 02:04:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe age of the patron is displayed for every scan, and the ID scanner operator can be alerted if the patron exceeds the minimum or\u003c/i\u003e maximum \u003ci\u003eage set by management.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003emaximum\u003c/i\u003e age.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIf patrons break the rules, then ban them from every venue using PatronScan in North America.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe Banned Patrons List is shared with every other venue using PatronScan\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003ePatronScan ID scanners give you live stats about […], the gender distribution, and the average age [of patrons].\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWow. Just … wow.","parent":"13059410","id":"13060118"}
{"by":"3dk","time":"1499640047","timestamp":"2017-07-09 22:40:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A good example of this is the Denuvo DRM for games. As I understand it, game data was temporarily decrypted, while playing which led to poor performance. Denuvo games were cracked and the pirate versions performed better. Developers paid a lot for Denuvo DRM which didn\u0026#x27;t even fulfill the promise of stopping piracy.","parent":"14731906","id":"14732121"}
{"by":"jordanpg","time":"1447798954","timestamp":"2015-11-17 22:22:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t really care if anyone\u0026#x27;s feelings get hurt by me pointing out that something is very obviously false.  Only religion gets that kind of treatment.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, I think that the fact that grownups can talk about supernatural religious claims as if they are reasonable and true things about the world is one of the root causes of what happened in Paris.\u003cp\u003eAs for Buddhism, yes, I agree it has less supernatural nonsense than some of the other major belief systems.  And the supernatural aspects are sort of optional.\u003cp\u003eBut you\u0026#x27;ve admitted (and I know full well) that there is a great deal of supernatural nonsense tied up with it, for most real-world practitioners.  So, I dismiss it out of hand.  Just like Mormonism, Scientology, Santa Claus, and the virgin birth.\u003cp\u003eIf there are useful aspects to it, let\u0026#x27;s tag them with secular labels and move on with our modern lives.  Shrouding it in important-sounding, mystical East Asian language and symbols is just silly.  Like people who have \u0026quot;katanas\u0026quot; hanging over their mantles.","parent":"10584275","id":"10584434"}
{"by":"kendalk","time":"1408244730","timestamp":"2014-08-17 03:05:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"M-x doctor\u003cp\u003e?","parent":"8188327","id":"8188417"}
{"by":"niggler","time":"1364964447","timestamp":"2013-04-03 04:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think we disagree on the extent to which \"desire to become wealthy\" should be a driving factor.  I think the state where founders are primary driven by short-term wealth is not appropriate (it is easier to be wealthier in other areas like finance), whereas I take your comments to suggest that you think it's acceptable for making money to be the primary motivation.  The views aren't mutually exclusive (timing factors, etc)","parent":"5484270","id":"5484290"}
{"by":"usgroup","time":"1482580813","timestamp":"2016-12-24 12:00:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I share you fascination ... I had a colleague with whom I had to work with closely who spoke much the same way. Novel sentence construction aside, it caused a lot of weird misunderstandings constantly. I found it difficult to fix meaning and predict how she might interpret something by her feedback.","parent":"13248888","id":"13249484"}
{"by":"landr0id","time":"1472669594","timestamp":"2016-08-31 18:53:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first time I saw the email I believed that Dropbox was taking it as a preventative measure because they \u003ci\u003ethought\u003c/i\u003e they were breached -- not that they \u003ci\u003ewere\u003c/i\u003e breached. This information as hidden behind the link to more information in the email itself.","parent":"12400513","id":"12400550"}
{"by":"swift","time":"1241397063","timestamp":"2009-05-04 00:31:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently Google can't win no matter what it does.","parent":"591200","id":"591635"}
{"by":"daurnimator","time":"1405111383","timestamp":"2014-07-11 20:43:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first sentence doesn\u0026#x27;t provide any context, or idea of the content. Could you leave something in there about who wrote it?","parent":"8022225","id":"8022257"}
{"by":"spokenn","time":"1382303417","timestamp":"2013-10-20 21:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah but they\u0026#x27;ll just neg-seo you back, better. Your domain will then be trashed.","parent":"6580980","id":"6581502"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1423336180","timestamp":"2015-02-07 19:09:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Go race detector was pretty much just a port of Google\u0026#x27;s Thread Sanitizer for C++.","parent":"9014783","id":"9014958"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1524210324","timestamp":"2018-04-20 07:45:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really; the proliferation has been due to proprietary protocols, not due to efforts to create standard unifying ones.","parent":"16882819","id":"16882903"}
{"by":"petraeus","time":"1500659132","timestamp":"2017-07-21 17:45:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I bet there would be many more geniuses with ubi","parent":"14819377","dead":true,"id":"14822402"}
{"by":"zupatol","time":"1229797299","timestamp":"2008-12-20 18:21:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Madoff could have written that.","parent":"403905","id":"404674"}
{"by":"cobrausn","time":"1371749417","timestamp":"2013-06-20 17:30:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Linking your ability to see a doctor for a reasonable fee to your ability to find a decent employer strikes me as a monumentally short-sighted decision (if one was ever really made) on our part.","parent":"5913340","id":"5913363"}
{"by":"nimish","time":"1503568515","timestamp":"2017-08-24 09:55:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, this is unlikely to succeed. The court, especially under Roberts who is a fan of arbitration, has ruled in favor of arbitration clauses recently.","parent":"15086902","id":"15088807"}
{"by":"MrMatt","time":"1256917620","timestamp":"2009-10-30 15:47:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd release free accounts now, and put the paid accounts on hold until you've had chance to see how your site runs under normal usage. If you get people using it now, then\u003cp\u003e* They will uncover bugs that have been missed\u003cp\u003e* They will show you where usability is poor in your app\u003cp\u003e* You will build an audience of people that actually use your app, giving you an crowd to sell to\u003cp\u003e* You'll get the opportunity to see how the app performs under working conditions\u003cp\u003eIf you wait until your app has the paid stuff in, then the first paying customers may have to put up with problems that could have been ironed out during the free-only period.","parent":"912188","id":"912204"}
{"by":"esk","time":"1315247374","timestamp":"2011-09-05 18:29:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, but that's what the grandparent is saying—you need to bring your own language to the party.","parent":"2962923","id":"2962969"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1438854926","timestamp":"2015-08-06 09:55:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading is the old-school local processing. Asking people is cloud computing, which is hot so it must obviously be better!","parent":"10015390","id":"10015487"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1389263340","timestamp":"2014-01-09 10:29:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PHP, especially post 5.2, is a flexible and battle tested language to do work in. It has some bad design choices inherited but nothing that you can\u0026#x27;t overcome and never have to think about again in a couple of weeks of learning the language.\u003cp\u003eExactly like Javascript in this regard. I\u0026#x27;ve been programming JS for over 15 years, and with the exception of cross browser support back in the day, there\u0026#x27;s nothing that had me startled after I learned the language -- except for a few issues related to floating point that I stumble upon now and then, but then that would be true for floating point math in any language.\u003cp\u003eThe only PHP inconsistency is with the naming of the built-in functions. Functionality wise, most are solid bindings of respected C libraries. And, really, the needle\u0026#x2F;haystack thing has been blown out of all proportion. As if that\u0026#x27;s the biggest challenge one faces when programming.","parent":"7029638","id":"7029691"}
{"by":"kchoudhu","time":"1417731280","timestamp":"2014-12-04 22:14:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/wiki/Faq\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;bitrig\u0026#x2F;bitrig\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Faq\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooks to be a desire to leave behind legacy cruft, add a better toolchain, and add virtualization.","parent":"8701993","id":"8702024"}
{"by":"phyller","time":"1510415681","timestamp":"2017-11-11 15:54:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently I\u0026#x27;m an \u0026quot;Upholder\u0026quot; and I fail to see why I would want a \u0026quot;Rebel\u0026quot; in my organization. \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m not going to do this because I can tell that you expect me to do it\u0026quot; How does that personality benefit any endeavor that requires cooperation between people? Maybe they can work for themselves more effectively, but it just seems destructive.","parent":"15675550","id":"15676790"}
{"by":"dabent","time":"1333477349","timestamp":"2012-04-03 18:22:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Link as it won't isn't showing up in the Play store search just yet: \u003ca href=\"http://instagram.com/android/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://instagram.com/android/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3793444","id":"3794128"}
{"by":"lotharbot","time":"1404089495","timestamp":"2014-06-30 00:51:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;It manages to be serious, not overly tendentious, and packed full of information.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOdd.  I found it to be lacking in valuable information.  There was no indication as to whether there had been any new manuscript discoveries (though the sidebar indicates the writings are being newly published).  There was no indication as to anything particularly surprising about his views other than the era in which they occurred.  \u0026quot;There was a guy a few centuries back who agreed with modern sexual mores, and it wasn\u0026#x27;t published because society wasn\u0026#x27;t open to it a few centuries back\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t strike me as a particularly valuable contribution.  Obviously some people saw it as such or it wouldn\u0026#x27;t have gotten so many upvotes -- but obviously others saw it as not belonging.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;responding to something off-topic\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a direct quote from the article.  In fact, it was \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e quote from the article that I thought pushed it over the line into flagging territory.\u003cp\u003eEven so, I\u0026#x27;m not sure why you think my response was a fast track to a flamewar.  I think my response was measured and calm, clearly explaining why the comment in the original post was problematic, and furthermore adding information people might not be aware of (that Sodom wasn\u0026#x27;t following modern \u0026quot;not your business what consenting adults do\u0026quot; practice; \u0026quot;rape culture\u0026quot; was alive and well there.)  I would expect people reading such a comment to come away with better understanding, and perhaps not be so quick to treat Sodom as modern\u0026#x2F;enlightened.","parent":"7962986","id":"7963132"}
{"by":"makecheck","time":"1521823009","timestamp":"2018-03-23 16:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The new log system does have the concept of “private” data (that can only be viewed after explicitly enabling it) but I don’t know how they determine what qualifies.\u003cp\u003eApparently a 10.13.x update addressed this.  Still, if a password is in a command line, that is basically impossible to predict if you don’t know the tool in advance, and would still leak elsewhere (e.g. another user on the system examining “ps” output).\u003cp\u003eIt is better to use something like an environment variable to pass information to the subprocess without revealing it in the command.","parent":"16658681","id":"16659874"}
{"by":"steveotucker","time":"1413557289","timestamp":"2014-10-17 14:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Been looking for something like this.","parent":"8432914","id":"8471222"}
{"by":"victorf","time":"1373851059","timestamp":"2013-07-15 01:17:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t read that one, and I am looking for an into to Lisp book. What did you like about it?\u003cp\u003e(and I think it would be a missed opportunity to not title it \u0026quot;Sea of C\u0026quot;)","parent":"6042783","id":"6043099"}
{"by":"gurkendoktor","time":"1371286145","timestamp":"2013-06-15 08:49:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Calendar was never skeuomorphic on the iPhone, only on the iPad (just like Contacts). We don\u0026#x27;t even know what iOS 7 will look like on the iPad.","parent":"5882216","id":"5884532"}
{"by":"berntb","time":"1368187490","timestamp":"2013-05-10 12:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a boss who was a bit too ... stressed ... for a while. You just couldn't reason with him about it.\u003cp\u003eIn the end I solved it. I wrote in an email that he was just too stressed and really needed some time off, so he started to attack me personally.\u003cp\u003eI wrote to him then that he should take what he just wrote and show it to his parents or some other persons he had trust in, and ask them how he was doing. He finally realized he had behaved as a complete asshole for a while.\u003cp\u003eNo, it wasn't a permanent solution. But he took a long, long, long vacation half a year later.\u003cp\u003eI might work for him again, but I'd keep a reserve plan and be out of the door quite directly. Life is too short.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Too small company to have an HR department. (I might add: I don't know if I succeeded, or he got himself under control when a quarter of the people quit and the rest had the CV out or at least updating it.)","parent":"5685670","id":"5685721"}
{"by":"jakeogh","time":"1438316376","timestamp":"2015-07-31 04:19:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The threat of force as the default way to get compliance is counterproductive. The only reason a police officer should be able to lawfully use force should be the same as it already is for everyone else. This requires both (in AZ[1] at least):\u003cp\u003e* Breaking the law.\u003cp\u003e* Immediate serious bodily harm to a person (attempted, threatened or witnessed (see law)).\u003cp\u003eOr:\u003cp\u003e* Warrent issued by a judge.\u003cp\u003eIf the suspect wants to drive away, or not comply with an order, in the vast majority of cases (civil, petty crime etc), that\u0026#x27;s fine. Let them. It\u0026#x27;s counterproductive to chase someone and it\u0026#x27;s not worth shooting anyone over. Police officers and the people they serve would be safer. If a criminal warrant is issued by a judge, then the threat of force may be necessary, but it shouldn\u0026#x27;t be the first (no-knock raid for non-violent crime) reaction. Part of the problem (in addition to people who like to oppress and\u0026#x2F;or apply their racism) is that police are expected to force people to comply. Some will say \u0026quot;but the lawlessness!\u0026quot;, to that I think two responses are appropriate:\u003cp\u003eMost of the laws that normal people break don\u0026#x27;t rise to the level necessary (see above) to be enforced with force.\u003cp\u003eThe change in culture would have the opposite effect. There would be less crime.\u003cp\u003eI wonder what would happen if we not only elected the Sheriff, but the police too. Sheriff must have final hire\u0026#x2F;fire power, but the candidates should be required to get community support. And they should live in the community they serve. A great first step is to end the \u0026quot;war on drugs\u0026quot;. Either we own ourselves or we don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.azleg.state.az.us\u0026#x2F;ars\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;00411.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.azleg.state.az.us\u0026#x2F;ars\u0026#x2F;13\u0026#x2F;00411.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9975797","id":"9979904"}
{"by":"llamaz","time":"1521390910","timestamp":"2018-03-18 16:35:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t care about the \u0026quot;student\u0026quot;, I\u0026#x27;m telling \u0026#x2F;you\u0026#x2F; what convolution is. It\u0026#x27;s not the dot product.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;yes you take a filter and sweep it across your input...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSweeping across your input is the heart and soul of convolution. I\u0026#x27;ve taken courses in image processing, control theory, probability theory, and digital signal processing - and in all these contexts, convolution is always sweeping across in a very specific way. If you change a single minus sign, you get cross correlation which is completely different.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t appreciate the rude tone you\u0026#x27;re taking so I will not be replying further. I didn\u0026#x27;t take that tone when replying to your initial message.","parent":"16610498","id":"16612737"}
{"by":"inovica","time":"1292533184","timestamp":"2010-12-16 20:59:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, this is something we looked into but unfortunately where we live there is no Montessori locally (within an hour from what I remember from our search).  Thanks for the suggestion though","parent":"2012747","id":"2013651"}
{"by":"nikcub","time":"1478670501","timestamp":"2016-11-09 05:48:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It did happen with Vietnam draft evaders. There is an entire generation of former Americans born in Australia and Canada: like Mel Gibson and Stewart Butterfield of Flickr\u0026#x2F;Slack.\u003cp\u003eAlso with those fleeing communism as refugees or asylum seekers - i\u0026#x27;m born to one of those.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t doubt that some people will move, but it won\u0026#x27;t be to the extent of previous migrations. You have a better chance of changing and fixing the USA from the inside.","parent":"12906367","id":"12906486"}
{"by":"pryelluw","time":"1480661108","timestamp":"2016-12-02 06:45:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I still find value on Twitter. The problems you define are real, but that means you have to dig a little deeper to connect with good people.","parent":"13084247","id":"13086646"}
{"by":"daniel-levin","time":"1455546448","timestamp":"2016-02-15 14:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It also supplies the degree holder with a social signal which says: \u003ci\u003eI can buy into the establishment\u003c/i\u003e. I say this with my newly minted BSc. in hand. In the process of obtaining it I realised that at a minimum, all you have to do to get a degree is satisfy the course requirements. I took some shitty courses that I knew were largely wastes of time [0]. Doing them anyway equips me with proof (degree) that I can submit to a system I disagree with if I have to. This excessively cynical attitude is the product of being a cog in a massive degree making machine whose graduates are on average, I\u0026#x27;d say, mediocre [1].\u003cp\u003e[0] I\u0026#x27;m looking at you, three years of \u0026#x27;numerical methods\u0026#x27;, which reduced to memorising algorithms to perform by hand.\u003cp\u003e[1] I count myself amongst the absolutely useless \u0026#x27;applied mathematicians\u0026#x27; from my class.","parent":"11100426","id":"11103516"}
{"by":"stevebot","time":"1428285862","timestamp":"2015-04-06 02:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The prediction is in the title, and it\u0026#x27;s that laptops are a drying (or dead) trend because they are #1 too heavy, #2 do not have good software, #3 are too expensive.","parent":"9326078","id":"9326087"}
{"by":"nswanberg","time":"1391995712","timestamp":"2014-02-10 01:28:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is more or less what happened to some kids applying to Harvard Business School about seven years ago:\n \u003ca href=\"https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/harvard-business-school-boots-119-applicants-hacking-admissions-site/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;freedom-to-tinker.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;felten\u0026#x2F;harvard-business-s...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir penalty was a denial of admissions, but their hack of using a specially-crafted URL was about the same.","parent":"7207695","id":"7208515"}
{"by":"bradstewart","time":"1490208003","timestamp":"2017-03-22 18:40:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had this setup at my previous company and it was truly fantastic.","parent":"13933406","id":"13933507"}
{"by":"drited","time":"1456492802","timestamp":"2016-02-26 13:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s interesting, do you have a sense for what the incremental sales were from having the #1 designation?","parent":"11177471","id":"11181184"}
{"by":"epicureanideal","time":"1543269407","timestamp":"2018-11-26 21:56:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So define it as non-binary but still based on genetics, if that\u0026#x27;s your argument.  Or just M, F, and O for Other if you want to keep things simple.\u003cp\u003eYou could literally list their chromosome combinations to make it clear.  XX, XY, XXY, whatever.","parent":"18537069","id":"18537193"}
{"by":"freehunter","time":"1333628452","timestamp":"2012-04-05 12:20:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One could make the argument that we're moving down that path. Ever heard a conversation with someone who doesn't have a mobile phone? People can't believe why someone wouldn't have a cell phone. Pay phones are gone, emergency call boxes on the highways are gone. If you don't have a cell phone, you can't reach emergency services in many areas of travel. If you're not able to be in constant contact, people get suspicious.\u003cp\u003eIt's a far cry from being officially branded as a person of interest, but if you don't have a mobile phone, you're out of mainstream society.","parent":"3801751","id":"3802230"}
{"by":"ericb","time":"1207678851","timestamp":"2008-04-08 18:20:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One reason Y Clone-ators may fail is lack of imagination. YC was not handed their recipe from the heavens. If these clones had any creativity, they'd be modifying the recipe to see if their ideas could make it better.\u003cp\u003eFor example, why not a 4 month boot camp preceded by a 1 month  crash course in business, presentation skills, etc. I'm not saying this is a better implementation, only that if the clones thought for themselves, they'd be doing more interesting things, which would tell me they were smarter and actually people I'd want to learn from. I'm afraid to take creative advice from someone whose big innovation is copying YC. I think YC's model is better, and it may be a good thing for it to spread, but none of the clones I peeked at have impressed me much so far.","parent":"157991","id":"158100"}
{"by":"esalman","time":"1375813837","timestamp":"2013-08-06 18:30:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reset is not really an option when you have your chosen extensions installed and customized.","parent":"6166978","id":"6168292"}
{"by":"coderdude","time":"1265757377","timestamp":"2010-02-09 23:16:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A security hole was \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e found last week, was it not?\nEdit: Well, resurfaced anyway.","parent":"1113648","id":"1113651"}
{"by":"iFred","time":"1531689161","timestamp":"2018-07-15 21:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, stickers layer on a laptop like history. When I retire a laptop, it takes on a character seen outside a theater with layers of posters for bands.\u003cp\u003eHere’s mine -\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;BzweZEQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;BzweZEQ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17536074","id":"17537109"}
{"by":"leohutson","time":"1442446304","timestamp":"2015-09-16 23:31:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives.\u003cp\u003eNot necessarily, because the more people you alienate, the more enemies you create, and the more genuine threats you will face.","parent":"10227216","id":"10230701"}
{"by":"arctangent","time":"1324500888","timestamp":"2011-12-21 20:54:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to teach computer science to people then a good first language for them to learn is C, because it will help them think about and understand what the computer is actually doing.","parent":"3378658","id":"3379092"}
{"by":"darkmighty","time":"1418660019","timestamp":"2014-12-15 16:13:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://longbets.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;longbets.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8751301","id":"8752673"}
{"by":"fabulous","time":"1314246991","timestamp":"2011-08-25 04:36:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Steve has instilled a culture of innovation and creativity at Apple.\u003cp\u003eThe board and the senior management team are all top-notch innovators and leaders that Steve hand-picked.","parent":"2923043","id":"2923779"}
{"by":"vintagius","time":"1347819806","timestamp":"2012-09-16 18:23:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The PC era can never and will never be over. The thing now is that PCs are more ''future-proof'' then they were before so people dont upgrade like they use to back in the days.Ordinary People no longer need more GHZ , Cores and Rams on PCs,what they have does the Job perfectly fine.We can conclude by saying that the PC market is Mature and Saturated and this does not mean OVER.","parent":"4529438","dead":true,"id":"4529834"}
{"by":"jacobush","time":"1460378124","timestamp":"2016-04-11 12:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The PNG is pretty large. I compressed it with tinypng to a quarter the size.","parent":"11469135","id":"11471051"}
{"by":"hv23","time":"1342470478","timestamp":"2012-07-16 20:27:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Curious; care to elaborate from an insider's perspective?\u003cp\u003eWhat about their cultures make this situation hilarious, and how come you're convinced that Mayer won't make a difference?","parent":"4252321","id":"4252452"}
{"by":"lomegor","time":"1334782810","timestamp":"2012-04-18 21:00:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PayPal does let you use the same joint bank account in two accounts. The only problems is that you need to be married and share the same last name. This may make sense in the US, but in a lot of other parts of the world, you don't take your husband last name when you marry.\u003cp\u003eI'm tired of PayPal too, but just wanted to let you know that there may be a solution to your problem.","parent":"3859989","id":"3860181"}
{"by":"cLeEOGPw","time":"1470218687","timestamp":"2016-08-03 10:04:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thing is, teeth are so close to each other that literally nothing can get between them, not even food. I have however few teeth that get food in between, but these are the ones that already went bad and were fixed, and have gaps as a result of that.","parent":"12216724","id":"12216857"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1517598653","timestamp":"2018-02-02 19:10:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But if you want to get better, you\u0026#x27;ve really got only the choice to trust a doctor, or learn enough medicine to help yourself (still can\u0026#x27;t get access to drugs this way).\u003cp\u003eThe latter method also sucks when surgical intervention is necessary.","parent":"16293300","id":"16293326"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1330902810","timestamp":"2012-03-04 23:13:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. He used an account trivially tied to himself, and posted publicly with his full name and picture on his blog explaining what he did, after having complained about the existence of this problem in public in the past (though apparently not specifically about Github).\u003cp\u003eHe might have been stupid to do this, and a bit childish in his approach, but he did not go about it in a way that's reasonably interpreted as malice.\u003cp\u003eAs a Github user, it angers me that they've responded in this way.","parent":"3664046","id":"3664516"}
{"by":"sxp","time":"1359962876","timestamp":"2013-02-04 07:27:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"She didn't receive the tip. The meal was $34.93 and the tip of $6.29 was scratched out.","parent":"5162911","id":"5162947"}
{"by":"dpflan","time":"1502482514","timestamp":"2017-08-11 20:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. Seems as though he decided to go through WSJ to get his take published.","parent":"14993710","id":"14993730"}
{"by":"biscarch","time":"1386551653","timestamp":"2013-12-09 01:14:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got started in Clojure because I was looking for a Lisp that I could use and would grow to be \u0026quot;acceptable\u0026quot; for use as a consultant, since that is how I make money programming. I enjoy functional programming and being able to use the Java ecosystem as a backup \u0026quot;just in case there isn\u0026#x27;t a Clojure lib\u0026quot; was a huge benefit. My path sort of went from noir to compojure\u0026#x2F;ring and now I use it to experiment with things like Titanium.\u003cp\u003eErlang for me was a developing interest in distributed systems, which I think is of growing importance. The Riak source code, and associated projects, have been great for advancing towards such goals. Erlang the language is pretty easy to pick up and I\u0026#x27;ve spent more time on distributed computing concepts than needing to parse out language details.\u003cp\u003eHaskell is my favorite language. I like it because it fits my mental models very well and I thoroughly enjoy functional programming. Snap is my web framework of choice and working with a Haskell\u0026#x2F;Snap\u0026#x2F;Riak stack has been awesome for a project I\u0026#x27;m currently working on.","parent":"6871650","id":"6872370"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1365292779","timestamp":"2013-04-06 23:59:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn't know the Lun had that high a ceiling! There's still a potential problem if it can't land in a storm, however. It might climb above the swells, then run out of fuel at high altitude.","parent":"5505006","id":"5505535"}
{"by":"baby","time":"1456799945","timestamp":"2016-03-01 02:39:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is a bold promise that they will have to break at some point. Everything is ephemeral in this world, especially applications on internet.\u003cp\u003eThere is one thing they could have done: commit an amount on money in an official bank account, or with a contract, etc... that will serve as the back up plan to keep the content online if only they were to shut down.\u003cp\u003eKeeping static text online is actually pretty cheap.\u003cp\u003eBut then if you want your content down one day you would have to have some sort of dynamic back end, maybe even a support if a bug comes around, etc... Another problem.","parent":"11198565","id":"11200444"}
{"by":"drusepth","time":"1505736730","timestamp":"2017-09-18 12:12:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why someone is mining there in the first place:\u003cp\u003e- A website author can include a script for their _users_ to mine coins for the website author, which effectively distributes work across many machines you don\u0026#x27;t own.\u003cp\u003e- This means, instead of mining on just your own machine, you\u0026#x27;re effectively mining across N machines (however many users you have) as long as they have your website open (at a ~60% efficiency rate according to other comments).\u003cp\u003e- This is great for the website author, as it\u0026#x27;s very little effort on their behalf for a small profit, and affects each individual user less than the whole.\u003cp\u003eWhy someone would want to block coin miners:\u003cp\u003e- Mining is very CPU intensive, which can slow down the browser for users.\u003cp\u003e- Increased CPU usage can also lead to higher electricity bills\u003cp\u003e- Increased CPU usage can also lead to lower battery life\u003cp\u003e- Someone might also not want to benefit the owner of a website they\u0026#x27;re visiting, especially if it\u0026#x27;s at any cost to them (electricity bills, battery, cpu, etc)","parent":"15271174","id":"15275136"}
{"by":"monjaro","time":"1327717682","timestamp":"2012-01-28 02:28:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're still not really addressing Jules's main point, which is that Da Vinci made no major contributions to math or science. To compare him to Newton is absurd, as any mathematician or physicist will tell you. A large portion of a first-year engineering curriculum is spent learning things that Newton discovered (that is, calculus and classical mechanics). I read through the wikipedia page you provided, and none of the scientific results even approach the significance Newton's work. I have no problem with his artistic work being appreciated, but I am always confused about why people seem to think his work in any other area was important.","parent":"3521008","dead":true,"id":"3521134"}
{"by":"seiji","time":"1430944922","timestamp":"2015-05-06 20:42:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"group\u0026#x2F;novelty\u0026#x2F;non-personal accounts are frowned upon around here.","parent":"9501021","id":"9501652"}
{"by":"curtis","time":"1491753634","timestamp":"2017-04-09 16:00:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if the people in India most likely to be exposed to organophosphates in India are also the people most likely to be living almost entirely off of rice.  Did the study do a sufficiently good job eliminating obvious confounding factors?","parent":"14071894","id":"14072892"}
{"by":"Homunculiheaded","time":"1293034278","timestamp":"2010-12-22 16:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In general I find that if you ask \"Ah, but can smalltalk do Y?\" the answer is yes, and better than what's considered standard elsewhere and also 5-30 years earlier.\u003cp\u003eWhenever smalltalk comes up I'm always surprised that I don't use it more often.","parent":"2031536","id":"2031607"}
{"by":"dozzie","time":"1498731428","timestamp":"2017-06-29 10:17:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clickbait title on top of an opinion piece that doesn\u0026#x27;t justify author\u0026#x27;s\nposition. From my perspective, it\u0026#x27;s a good thing that the link leads to\na non-existing page and reader needs to dig quite deep to find the article.","parent":"14662022","id":"14662051"}
{"by":"jasonlotito","time":"1514914341","timestamp":"2018-01-02 17:32:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That quote doesn\u0026#x27;t contradict the headline. The quote says that it cannot \u0026quot;attribute individual weather phenomenon \u003ci\u003esolely\u003c/i\u003e to climate change,\u0026quot; [emphasis mine] but that doesn\u0026#x27;t mean climate change doesn\u0026#x27;t play a part in causing individual weather phenomenon.\u003cp\u003eBasically, both the headline and quote can easily be true at the same time.","parent":"16053182","id":"16053465"}
{"by":"djacobs","time":"1327377546","timestamp":"2012-01-24 03:59:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"s/ghetto/standard/","parent":"3503345","id":"3503393"}
{"by":"MattRogish","time":"1320340717","timestamp":"2011-11-03 17:18:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool!","parent":"3191950","id":"3192683"}
{"by":"joshu","time":"1343076897","timestamp":"2012-07-23 20:54:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably best to say that there is a nearly 100% chance the money will never come back.","parent":"4278804","id":"4283026"}
{"by":"magic_beans","time":"1523544937","timestamp":"2018-04-12 14:55:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anonymity? Why be on a social network at all in that case? You might as well just maintain a blog.","parent":"16821281","id":"16821548"}
{"by":"EGreg","time":"1498430467","timestamp":"2017-06-25 22:41:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am in SF right now for a couple days and the vast majority of people I run across are NOT in tech. Where are the tech people? Where can I run into potential investors in SF?\u003cp\u003eWhen people say Bay Area I think they really mean Palo Alto!","parent":"14631209","id":"14632634"}
{"by":"jaimebuelta","time":"1369752255","timestamp":"2013-05-28 14:44:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The app sounds great ;-)\u003cp\u003eBut learning english from media is interesting, and curious...\u003cp\u003eI always say that I learned english from Star Trek and D\u0026#38;D Manuals. That's why I know quite well what a vorpal sword or a wormhole are. But I had to ask a few months after I started living in Ireland how you say that thing in the bathroom where the water came from (a tab)","parent":"5779473","id":"5780322"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1388897178","timestamp":"2014-01-05 04:46:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You do realize the enormous technical accomplishment that Snappycam\u0026#x27;s reworking of the jpg algorithm, and it\u0026#x27;s implementation on the iPhone processor was, right?\u003cp\u003eTo call it a \u0026quot;decent iPhone app\u0026quot; somewhat puts down the 12 or so months of hard core research and implementation that jpap put into it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7010474\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=7010474\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7014005","id":"7014591"}
{"by":"dasyatidprime","time":"1464719781","timestamp":"2016-05-31 18:36:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, firstly, because they are not in a similar position to yours with regard to this fact unless they are of a similar attitude and skill for promoting these transmissions to human-side visibility.  (If you know that they do have the same attitude as the one you expressed, then the \u0026quot;you know they\u0026#x27;re okay with it\u0026quot; exception applies.)  There are a lot of things people \u0026quot;broadcast\u0026quot; in the physical world which are socially expected to be politely ignored as well.\u003cp\u003ePut another way, your statement makes perfect sense if you assume all software is \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c/i\u003e a User-Agent in the traditional, ideal sense.  But this isn\u0026#x27;t so, because even programmers don\u0026#x27;t generally have the spare cycles to rewrite everything they come in contact with, and non-programmers have an even more vanishingly small chance to do anything about it.  Agency in the digital world is inevitably shaped by other people\u0026#x27;s decisions as represented in software, and social agency is shaped by how that software presents itself not just to you but to the people you\u0026#x27;re communicating with through it.  When the state of the software doesn\u0026#x27;t exactly match the state as visible to the participants, the latter state prevails in a social context, and it\u0026#x27;s the responsibility of a polite conversation partner to not mess around behind the curtain unless you already know you\u0026#x27;re welcome.","parent":"11805831","id":"11808895"}
{"by":"triangleman","time":"1503346153","timestamp":"2017-08-21 20:09:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maus is pretty strongly anti-nazi of course because it\u0026#x27;s told from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor. It would be like banning \u003ci\u003eSchindler\u0026#x27;s List\u003c/i\u003e from a list of films available to prisons. Maybe it is banned in some places.","parent":"15067253","id":"15067433"}
{"by":"sunny1304","time":"1543927673","timestamp":"2018-12-04 12:47:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Learn trading stock\u0026#x2F;forex ...","parent":"18598880","id":"18598899"}
{"by":"takeda","time":"1513367068","timestamp":"2017-12-15 19:44:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you install Firefox it asks whether you want to take part in these studies. You can also change the setting at any time in preferences (about:preferences#privacy section).","parent":"15934357","id":"15934443"}
{"by":"EGreg","time":"1490924245","timestamp":"2017-03-31 01:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s related to Mill\u0026#x27;s concept of a Competent Judge\u003cp\u003eWhat if someone was a bat, turned into a human and retained the memories of being a bat?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.betsymccall.net\u0026#x2F;edu\u0026#x2F;philo\u0026#x2F;higher%20pleasures2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.betsymccall.net\u0026#x2F;edu\u0026#x2F;philo\u0026#x2F;higher%20pleasures2.pdf\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14000174","id":"14000575"}
{"by":"easychris","time":"1472754589","timestamp":"2016-09-01 18:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can pay around €50 to get a new drive - and you can skip the proof that the drive failed or is failing. For us we always choose this option as soon as we see SMART problems arising. Even with occasional drive failures the overall costs are so much lower than cloud hosting or self-owned hardware.","parent":"12405123","id":"12407708"}
{"by":"dfischer","time":"1492213689","timestamp":"2017-04-14 23:48:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mind sharing your build?","parent":"14118233","id":"14118372"}
{"by":"pfooti","time":"1485840157","timestamp":"2017-01-31 05:22:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And what kind of message does this send, given the ongoing russia-related investigations underway? I mean, if he fires people and breaks the chain of succession to shop for a sock puppet over an executive order?","parent":"13527677","id":"13527931"}
{"by":"gsnedders","time":"1478175751","timestamp":"2016-11-03 12:22:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Staying in the EUCU requires consent of the Council of Europe—Parliament can put in primary legislation that they wish to remain in the EUCU, but they have no power to enact it. You cannot make Article 50 conditional, as once the notification is sent you cannot unsend it—you are stuck with whatever is agreed between the state and the Council of Europe (or nothing, if no agreement is made within two years, or longer with unanimous agreement).","parent":"12862923","id":"12863369"}
{"by":"braxxox","time":"1537828450","timestamp":"2018-09-24 22:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After a bit of prodding I caved and bought an aux cable, but I\u0026#x27;ve wondered the same about the audio -\u0026gt; USB cable. It think it\u0026#x27;s FTDI so I think a clever person might be able to figure it out. If you get anywhere with this let me know!","parent":"18060929","id":"18062068"}
{"by":"electrograv","time":"1539697009","timestamp":"2018-10-16 13:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me, the problem is how \u003ci\u003eincredibly slow\u003c/i\u003e Riot is (and every other client I\u0026#x27;ve tried has almost unusable bad UI, sometimes in combination with being slow).\u003cp\u003eIMO: Text chat with a few emojis and images here and there should not \u003ci\u003eever\u003c/i\u003e be among the things that slows your computer to a crawl.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: I\u0026#x27;m speaking of the UI, not the network connection; the latter is sometimes slow too, but that\u0026#x27;s understandable","parent":"18228733","id":"18229219"}
{"by":"bane","time":"1372860266","timestamp":"2013-07-03 14:04:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.usaspending.gov/search?form_fields=%7B%22search_term%22%3A%22palantir%22%7D\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.usaspending.gov\u0026#x2F;search?form_fields=%7B%22search_t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5980815","id":"5984542"}
{"by":"hackuser","time":"1444163898","timestamp":"2015-10-06 20:38:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m hoping to find something editable. If the document is complex, with multimedia, are the .docx exports reasonably functional? Some conversions to .docx and some multimedia content in that format can be unstable.","parent":"10341305","id":"10342186"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1249787510","timestamp":"2009-08-09 03:11:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, obviously mismanagement, greed, and stupidity caused them to collapse, but regulations forbade even the formation of such multi-national investment house+bank combinations in the past. I assume that the hope was that it would prevent banks from taking unnecessary risks with people's money. Which was obviously reversed with a good old, \"private industry always comes up with the most efficient model, never fails, never commits fraud, and is always perfect\" crap that like to get pushed around in government.","parent":"748656","id":"750268"}
{"by":"caf","time":"1459156784","timestamp":"2016-03-28 09:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sort of thing isn\u0026#x27;t all that uncommon - enterprise \u0026quot;network optimiser\u0026quot; devices like \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.riverbed.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.riverbed.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e work in this way too.  Hopefully not buggy, though.","parent":"11372326","id":"11373348"}
{"by":"cynwoody","time":"1401656307","timestamp":"2014-06-01 20:58:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related is the question of why newspapers arrange their text in columns. According to another stackexchange thread†, studies as far back as the 1880s indicated that the optimal width for reading prose is 3.5 to 4 inches.\u003cp\u003eOf course, code isn\u0026#x27;t prose, but I\u0026#x27;m still a fanatic about the 80-character limit. To assist with keeping lines of code short and sweet, I will often introduce aptly-named temporary variables and let the compiler sort out what\u0026#x27;s actually to happen.\u003cp\u003eI can easily fit four 80x84 windows on my external monitor (DejaVuSansMono 13 pt).\u003cp\u003e†\u003ca href=\"http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/3553/why-do-newspapers-use-multiple-columns\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;graphicdesign.stackexchange.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;3553\u0026#x2F;why-do...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7830207","id":"7830647"}
{"by":"fnordsensei","time":"1483425742","timestamp":"2017-01-03 06:42:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Notice that the author doesn\u0026#x27;t say \u0026quot;do what your users tell you to do\u0026quot;, but \u0026quot;find out what they need and what they experience as problematic\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eAny user research will involve interacting with users, but it\u0026#x27;s not to gather their opinions, which is almost always irrelevant, but to document their behavior, needs and drives.\u003cp\u003eUsers will offer solutions, because that comes naturally, but these need to be turned back into problems before being used. For example,\u003cp\u003eUser: \u0026quot;I want a big button in the middle of the screen that says \u0026#x27;print\u0026#x27; and then prints my stuff immediately!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eResearcher:\u0026quot;So you print a lot during your day?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eUser: \u0026quot;Yeah, and each time I have to go down a long list of menus, and then I have to reselect the printer each time.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eApple has apparently been able to get by with user studies done on a target group of one (Jobs). However, he\u0026#x27;s not there any more, and the more time that passes, the more it seems that they haven\u0026#x27;t been able to fill his shoes.","parent":"13307125","id":"13307215"}
{"by":"fsloth","time":"1481885550","timestamp":"2016-12-16 10:52:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s fun to read about a guy who\u0026#x27;s clients pay for him to shoot an AK-47. Where I\u0026#x27;m from a male goes to jail (or other service) if he refuses to train for it (well, a local copy \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Rk_62\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Rk_62\u003c/a\u003e). Another man\u0026#x27;s hobby is another man\u0026#x27;s burden :)","parent":"13191787","id":"13192373"}
{"by":"edmanet","time":"1465045483","timestamp":"2016-06-04 13:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Click bait.","parent":"11836078","id":"11836176"}
{"by":"suchajoke333","time":"1486572468","timestamp":"2017-02-08 16:47:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Feelings of worker insecurity helps the economy. It reduces our ability to shop around, and ask for higher wages.\u003cp\u003eJob losses from automation, or really just the simple idea that there isn\u0026#x27;t enough truly valuable industrial work for 7 billion+ people, help keep the employed in line.","parent":"13599108","dead":true,"id":"13599699"}
{"by":"teshima82","time":"1442939578","timestamp":"2015-09-22 16:32:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perfect timing for this post. Github is realeasing Classroom for GitHub. Excelent post by the way!. Thanks for sharing your experience!.","parent":"10256868","id":"10259689"}
{"by":"phreanix","time":"1351262092","timestamp":"2012-10-26 14:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah he just forgot the /s.","parent":"4701315","id":"4702287"}
{"by":"JustSomeNobody","time":"1515604325","timestamp":"2018-01-10 17:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cord cutting typically refers to PAID TV, not OTA. OTA has seen increases because people are getting away from cable.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dslreports.com\u0026#x2F;shownews\u0026#x2F;Study-Broadcast-Only-Homes-Jump-41-in-5-Years-140300\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dslreports.com\u0026#x2F;shownews\u0026#x2F;Study-Broadcast-Only-Hom...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16115413","id":"16116696"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1222018037","timestamp":"2008-09-21 17:27:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"500 trades is a fraction of a second \u003ci\u003eif the market is open\u003c/i\u003e.  The article is pointing out that if the Treasury hadn't intervened overnight, the market would have opened much lower in the morning.","parent":"310415","id":"310473"}
{"by":"gsnedders","time":"1459213012","timestamp":"2016-03-29 00:56:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And on Windows it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;potentially ill-formed UTF-16\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOn Windows, and in many Windows APIs, the return value is a \u0026quot;sequence of UTF-16 code units\u0026quot; (which is essentially a fancy way of saying \u0026quot;a sequence of 16-bit words\u0026quot;). This goes back to Windows originally using UCS-2, where any sequence of 16-bit words is valid (because there wasn\u0026#x27;t any concept of a surrogate, yet alone a lone surrogate), given its support predates the Unicode consortium extending Unicode to 21-bits and along with it UTF-16\u0026#x27;s existence (1996).","parent":"11378000","id":"11378782"}
{"by":"rev_bird","time":"1431094145","timestamp":"2015-05-08 14:09:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve thought milk in tea was so silly for \u003ci\u003eyears\u003c/i\u003e, and you\u0026#x27;ve changed my mind in one sentence. Thank you, did not realize there was a practical reason for making it... taste worse.","parent":"9511409","id":"9511787"}
{"by":"colanderman","time":"1412737448","timestamp":"2014-10-08 03:04:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Care to explain?  Keep in mind I\u0026#x27;m not talking about safety; I\u0026#x27;m talking about usability.","parent":"8425113","id":"8425139"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1488669173","timestamp":"2017-03-04 23:12:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s worse than that.  There \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e a third band, 802.11ad running at 60GHz.  But as you say \u0026quot;tri-band\u0026quot; actually means tri-channel.","parent":"13791719","id":"13793432"}
{"by":"Lost_BiomedE","time":"1428876806","timestamp":"2015-04-12 22:13:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oddly, I found the headline underwhelming, even if \u0026#x27;may\u0026#x27; was not there. I then found that fact overwhelming. Sure, when I think about curing colorblindness, I find a lot of good in it. I just think that on casual passing, I can be desensitized to the awesomeness that I read about every day. That is kind of exciting.","parent":"9364455","id":"9364931"}
{"by":"loceng","time":"1522424916","timestamp":"2018-03-30 15:48:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, it\u0026#x27;s a solidly proven game mechanic that taps into feeding the ego mind - not inherently bad, however can be out of balance, \u0026quot;constantly on\u0026quot; or made prominent vs. simply a tool in a toolkit.","parent":"16716786","id":"16717091"}
{"by":"wingo","time":"1257597023","timestamp":"2009-11-07 12:30:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with you, but it is spelled \"Lisp\" these days :)","parent":"927740","id":"927792"}
{"by":"at-fates-hands","time":"1436915525","timestamp":"2015-07-14 23:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He forgot the part about jumping on every new JS library bandwagon when its still in beta and impressing all his friends with a new framework nobody has heard of.","parent":"9888393","id":"9888696"}
{"by":"NathanKP","time":"1392933974","timestamp":"2014-02-20 22:06:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would it be illegal if you wanted to buy something and instead of ordering it directly by yourself you asked a friend who is an experienced shopper to order it for you? This friend just happens to have \u0026quot;The Price Is Right\u0026quot; style knowledge of the price of items, and he knows all the best coupon codes and deals that can be applied for a particular product so that you spend the least amount of money.\u003cp\u003eZinc Save is a browser extension that acts like that friend. From what I see it isn\u0026#x27;t doing anything that a real human can\u0026#x27;t do by themselves (comparing prices on different websites and looking up coupon codes) but it just automates the process to make it easier for you.","parent":"7273903","id":"7274009"}
{"by":"tialaramex","time":"1532383908","timestamp":"2018-07-23 22:11:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is disabled by default because it doesn\u0026#x27;t entirely work. WebAuthn is fully implemented in Firefox, and on by default, but U2F is so far still much more common, and the U2F enabled by this feature switch is only kinda-sorta compatible.\u003cp\u003eSites need to move to WebAuthn, which works with the same tokens and browsers (well, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) have either shipped or demo\u0026#x27;d with a promise to ship. But right now today U2F works in a lot of places if you have Chrome whereas WebAuthn is mostly tech demos. The most notable website that has WebAuthn working today is Dropbox, seamless in Chrome or Firefox, any mainstream platform (including Linux) and all the tokens I have work. That\u0026#x27;s what everybody needs to be doing.","parent":"17595810","id":"17596441"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1386474974","timestamp":"2013-12-08 03:56:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That makes no sense at all.  You do realize that developing a \u003ci\u003ecure\u003c/i\u003e for a disease can be even more profitable than just trying to treat it, right?\u003cp\u003eLook at the new HCV treatments.  Previously, you\u0026#x27;d have to take two drugs for most of your life.  Three different companies have developed treatments that \u003ci\u003ecure\u003c/i\u003e HCV in 90%+ of the patients with only 12 weeks of treatment.","parent":"6867395","id":"6868896"}
{"by":"bayesian_horse","time":"1485120141","timestamp":"2017-01-22 21:22:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Odroid XU4 comes to mind.","parent":"13456996","id":"13457563"}
{"by":"cousin_it","time":"1254829583","timestamp":"2009-10-06 11:46:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Needing an exact copy of the current process is an atypical use case in my experience. And the typical use case of running another binary isn't made any more elegant by fork(), it just shuffles the complexity into exec().","parent":"863898","id":"863907"}
{"by":"metaform","time":"1470012819","timestamp":"2016-08-01 00:53:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps they have some security concerns. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vez.mrsk.me\u0026#x2F;freebsd-defaults.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vez.mrsk.me\u0026#x2F;freebsd-defaults.txt\u003c/a\u003e - more admin time spent tweaking poor default security == more money being spent.","parent":"12199394","id":"12199655"}
{"by":"dochtman","time":"1435325439","timestamp":"2015-06-26 13:30:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those who like this might also like my language project, Runa:\u003cp\u003eA Python-like systems programming language. This means that the design borrows as much from Python as makes sense in the context of a statically-typed, compiled language, and tries to apply the Zen of Python to everything else. The most important design goals for Runa are developer ergonomics and performance. The compiler is written in Python and targets LLVM IR; there\u0026#x27;s no run-time. More information can be found on the project website.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;djc\u0026#x2F;runa\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;djc\u0026#x2F;runa\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9779097","id":"9784143"}
{"by":"voyou","time":"1399998896","timestamp":"2014-05-13 16:34:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The proposals mentioned in the article (replacing regular public schools with charter schools, performance-related pay for teachers, a new \u0026quot;transformational\u0026quot; superintendent) are similar to the policies proposed in \u003ci\u003eWaiting For Superman\u003c/i\u003e. The success of those policies, however, is pretty questionable, and this case may be another reason to be sceptical (see Diane Ravitch\u0026#x27;s criticism of \u003ci\u003eWaiting For Superman\u003c/i\u003e here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nybooks.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;nov\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;myth-ch...\u003c/a\u003e )","parent":"7738962","id":"7739014"}
{"by":"Nadya","time":"1433884253","timestamp":"2015-06-09 21:10:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So instead of giving these positions to the people most qualified and capable of making the most out of them based on the metrics we have chosen to measure success. We should give them to people because of their upbringing or gonads? Regardless if they are the most qualified person to fill that position?\u003cp\u003eSo the student (let\u0026#x27;s call them Sally) was afforded a better education, and using their superior knowledge are more qualified for a position. So Sally should be told \u0026quot;Sorry, this spot is being given to Sam because they are an ethnic minority.\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eRemind me how that is fair for Sally and not benevolent racism towards Sam?","parent":"9686425","id":"9688567"}
{"by":"cheald","time":"1439855634","timestamp":"2015-08-17 23:53:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was true several years ago, but the cost of solar has come down \u003ci\u003esubstantially\u003c/i\u003e even without considering tax subsidies, and is continuing to decrease at a healthy rate.\u003cp\u003eFor example, Sunroof estimates that a 5.75kWh system would cost $21,500 before subsidies (about $15k after, but we\u0026#x27;re ignoring that), and that it will save you (gross) $60,000 over 20 years in utility bill costs. You can either:\u003cp\u003ea) Invest that capital. At a stable 7%, after 20 years, your balance would be about $86.8k.\u003cp\u003eb) Purchase a solar system for that $21.5k, and invest the difference on your power bill each month. Assuming a base power bill of $200, and the 2.2% annual rate increase that Sunroof uses, you would invest $2400 the first year, $2452.80 the second year, etc. At the same 7% return, then in 20 years your investment balance would be $122.8k, and your power bills would continue to be $0. Remember, these numbers assume an unsubsidized system.\u003cp\u003eThe gain comes from the fact that after the break-even point (at year 12), you are continuing to invest your power bill equivalent, rather than paying it to the power company, whereas in the non-solar case, the increased power bill will never earn you a return.\u003cp\u003eThe downside is that it (with those numbers) takes 12 years for you to come out ahead, and solar tech is moving so fast that the opportunity cost of committing capital to solar \u003ci\u003etoday\u003c/i\u003e rather than investing it and then liquidating that investment \u003ci\u003etomorrow\u003c/i\u003e to pay for a cheaper and more efficient system may be substantial, but is arguably specifically unknowable. If you don\u0026#x27;t offset your full cost, the numbers change a bit, as well (but you can certainly compute what happens at a 50% offset for a smaller upfront capital investment easily enough, as well). There are certainly scenarios in which solar is viable unsubsidized today, though.\u003cp\u003eFeel free to check my math and assumptions: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;spreadsheets\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;1JoJxX5t7VmRhV1LDI1UFZ1-f_5yrX62ypS9Bi6AwfBs\u0026#x2F;edit?usp=sharing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.google.com\u0026#x2F;spreadsheets\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;1JoJxX5t7VmRhV1LDI1UF...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10075459","id":"10076841"}
{"by":"idupree","time":"1372997183","timestamp":"2013-07-05 04:06:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By the way, there\u0026#x27;s an already-existing secure group chat software, SILC, that does something similar: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILC_%28protocol%29\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;SILC_%28protocol%29\u003c/a\u003e (see \u0026quot;security\u0026quot; section, and technical details in \u003ca href=\"http://www.silcnet.org/support/faq/crypto/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.silcnet.org\u0026#x2F;support\u0026#x2F;faq\u0026#x2F;crypto\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e )","parent":"5993200","id":"5993418"}
{"by":"Maro","time":"1535045232","timestamp":"2018-08-23 17:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a great time on FB\u0026#x2F;Messenger. It\u0026#x27;s a tool, it\u0026#x27;s up to everybody to use it in a way that is a net positive for them. I have friends\u0026#x2F;acquintances in 10+ cities, and it\u0026#x27;s a great way to keep in touch. As you mention, this \u0026quot;way\u0026quot; is very different then if we would meet in person, but that is out of the question, as we are separated by 1,000 - 10,000 km. The alternative, on average, is not to hear anything about these old friends and never meet them, lose touch, and that\u0026#x27;s the end of it. That\u0026#x27;s what happened with people who are not on FB (and living away).","parent":"17828812","id":"17829032"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1292005271","timestamp":"2010-12-10 18:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I flagged it for that reason.","parent":"1991063","id":"1992565"}
{"by":"brazzy","time":"1342810695","timestamp":"2012-07-20 18:58:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But with the right team and culture and a drunk dimwit at the helm,  you'll still going to crash.","parent":"4272266","id":"4272356"}
{"by":"jheriko","time":"1393979774","timestamp":"2014-03-05 00:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"really? maybe my sense of humour lacks...","parent":"7344305","id":"7344390"}
{"by":"moftz","time":"1539106948","timestamp":"2018-10-09 17:42:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All you need to do is reflash the BMC firmware. You can do that over a SPI bus, that only requires three lines (3 SPI lines + Vcc + Vss = 5 pins, just like the part...) You don\u0026#x27;t even have to rewrite the whole firmware, just patch the one section of code that does logins and then update the checksum if there is one. The firmware that is flashed in the factory is likely pulled from a read-only media and then checked against it. If you slip this implant in, you can just have the good firmware patched X hours after first turning on. Best case, you inject your patch into the BMC firmware before anyone can update to the latest that doesn\u0026#x27;t work with your patch. The adversary can then push an update to BMC again to something that can block new, good updates from killing the backdoor. Worst case, the user updates the firmware before the exploit is run. This patch corrupts the good, new firmware and the user has to reflash it. BMC keeps corrupting so RMA the old server and get a new one, maybe this one has an implant that will patch before the user can apply a good update.","parent":"18177575","id":"18178102"}
{"by":"dustingetz","time":"1331665415","timestamp":"2012-03-13 19:03:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"its subjective, arguably a style using ternary operator is better because it is composable - it evaluates as an expression, as opposed to a series of statements. it's something the lisp and functional programming people like - no implied dependency on order in which statements execute.\u003cp\u003ei dunno if this is valid python but it demonstrates the idea\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  doSomething(\n    identify_vertebrate(animal) if animal.is_vertebrate() \\\n    else identify_invertebrate(animal))\n\n  doSomething( if( is_vertebrate(animal)\n                   identify_vertebrate(animal)\n                   identify_invertebrate(animal)))\n\n  (doSomething (if (is_vertebrate animal)\n                   (identify_vertebrate animal)\n                   (identify_invertebrate animal)))\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nthis is part of \"referential transparency\", and once you get past \"OMG parens\" you realize its a Good Thing. parens are caused by a style preferring composition of expressions over executing statements, not lisp.","parent":"3698384","id":"3699841"}
{"by":"antiterra","time":"1302041892","timestamp":"2011-04-05 22:18:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Am I missing something, or does this article basically say: within the domain of self-taught and c-educated programmers, there are groupings with various levels of theoretical and practical skill?\u003cp\u003eIt seems it wouldn't be a stretch to say that, \"cs-educated programmers\" aren't even really identifiable by trait, since course selections made by both the university department and the student can change the curriculum unpredictably. The same could be said for \"self-taught;\" in my experience, half the people in cs-related math or theory classes just read the book and don't bother to attend class anyway.","parent":"2411858","id":"2413002"}
{"by":"logfromblammo","time":"1440084848","timestamp":"2015-08-20 15:34:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A rational, fact-supported argument is not sufficient to convince some people of anything.\u003cp\u003eIf I want to convince \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e of my friends, I will also need an emotionally-loaded propaganda documentary with more anecdotal, scripted illustrations of the human impact on a handful of stereotypical everyman characters.\u003cp\u003eI have been convinced for about 20 years that large-scale indoor farming will become cost-competitive with standard industrialized farming around 2040.  The epic drought in California may have accelerated my estimate to 2035.\u003cp\u003eWe won\u0026#x27;t be at the tipping point until a profitable cornfield is replaced by a greenhouse-like structure with a roof 30m above ground level.","parent":"10092184","id":"10092490"}
{"by":"epc","time":"1498486901","timestamp":"2017-06-26 14:21:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve gone through stretches where we\u0026#x27;ve both worked from home extensively. As long as we\u0026#x27;ve had separate physical spaces to work from it hasn\u0026#x27;t been a problem, but I don\u0026#x27;t know that I\u0026#x27;d say it \u0026quot;helped\u0026quot; either. It helps to be able to signal \u0026quot;work mode\u0026quot; in some way (door closed, headphones on, whatever).\u003cp\u003eIf you both have to use video ensure your network\u0026#x2F;ISP can support it, have fried some low-end junky ISP firewalls that way.","parent":"14636693","id":"14636987"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1361473654","timestamp":"2013-02-21 19:07:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not here to judge you. If you think the gender of the author had no impact on you, that's great. I'm just suggesting that we keep our subconscious biases in mind as we evaluate arguments.\u003cp\u003eI don't know what forms of discrimination you do or don't condone. You point out that love of sports is not a protected class; from that, I infer that you might be OK with the idea of discriminating based on that; you are, in fact, (gently) sticking up for that behavior.\u003cp\u003eI also don't know what forms of discrimination you're aware of. It is clear to me that the operators of many tech startups are not aware of the impact their \"culture\" has on their inclusiveness. Most of those operators would claim not to be biased against e.g. mothers, but many would in fact be creating environments hostile to them anyways.\u003cp\u003eWhen we start to venture into this discussion, it's important for you to realize that we are also validating the post that you've dismissed. Perhaps we're using language that is more congenial to you; that's a fair thing to point out, but if so, again, I suggest you re-read and re-evaluate the post, because you may have missed other things in it.\u003cp\u003eIt is all love† with me and this comment.\u003cp\u003e† \u003ci\u003eAnd procrastination\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"5259284","id":"5259382"}
{"by":"brk","time":"1227530388","timestamp":"2008-11-24 12:39:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is neat/novel.\u003cp\u003eMy oldest known running code is about 6 years old.  A ticket system I wrote as a stop-gap solution for an ISP until they could \"find something better\" has been running since 2002.  In that time, it's handled over 100,000 cases, provisioned thousands of IP addresses (based on order details finds the best subnet out of a /19), and handled various scheduler tasks (via group and personal cals).\u003cp\u003eA few thousand lines of perl on a decent server can quite amaze you at times :)","parent":"374577","id":"374732"}
{"by":"misframer","time":"1466434961","timestamp":"2016-06-20 15:02:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Based on comment history, I\u0026#x27;m guessing it\u0026#x27;s IP-API [0].\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ip-api.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ip-api.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11938234","id":"11938457"}
{"by":"ksk","time":"1523308845","timestamp":"2018-04-09 21:20:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A counter (somewhat) : \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;yosefk.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;fun-wont-get-it-done.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;yosefk.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;fun-wont-get-it-done.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts not important, but I happen to agree with most of it.. :)","parent":"16792942","id":"16797115"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1406238504","timestamp":"2014-07-24 21:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t capitalism, it\u0026#x27;s the opposite of capitalism. It\u0026#x27;s regulatory capture and government corruption. Most major ISPs are cable companies, and most ISPs\u0026#x2F;cable companies have a cozy legal arrangement with municipal areas to lock out competition. The free market is not in operation here.","parent":"8082166","id":"8082482"}
{"by":"js_is_cancer","time":"1492704889","timestamp":"2017-04-20 16:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"web technologies == cancerous technologies, web technologies + thunderbird =\u0026gt; thunderbird will be cancer in soon too.","parent":"14156251","dead":true,"id":"14158024"}
{"by":"PrimeDirective","time":"1504427345","timestamp":"2017-09-03 08:29:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I \u0026quot;deleted\u0026quot; my account on Facebook about 7 years ago. This January they randomly reactivated it just like that. It\u0026#x27;s public and visible. I haven\u0026#x27;t logged in there, because that would just show them I want it back.\nI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure this is in breach with their own terms. And maybe even illegal in the EU. I haven\u0026#x27;t had the time to take any action not am I sure what should I even do. Maybe report this to some EU watchdog?","parent":"15159551","id":"15160312"}
{"by":"rogerdpack","time":"1481150199","timestamp":"2016-12-07 22:36:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like it, except for the part about \u0026quot;refactor later\u0026quot; in my mind the best way is refactor \u0026quot;first\u0026quot; so that adding your feature is \u0026quot;easy\u0026quot;...though I don\u0026#x27;t always follow my own advice with hobby projects LOL.  Don\u0026#x27;t let technical debt subsume you, though, fight back eventually.","parent":"13119075","id":"13126918"}
{"by":"kordless","time":"1438820010","timestamp":"2015-08-06 00:13:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \u0026quot;Cattle vs. Pets\u0026quot; argument is basically that. You want all the cattle to look the same and you can\u0026#x27;t do that if they are modifying themselves.","parent":"10007245","id":"10013837"}
{"by":"st8ic","time":"1377382653","timestamp":"2013-08-24 22:17:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;people r dum\u0026quot;, writes self-righteous neckbeard.","parent":"6269800","id":"6270009"}
{"by":"kinkrtyavimoodh","time":"1515184862","timestamp":"2018-01-05 20:41:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, whenever there is any mention of an aviation incident, I am always in awe of how infrequent these are despite tens of millions of people flying every year more or less round the clock. What a massive human achievement.","parent":"16080959","id":"16081466"}
{"by":"Doublon","time":"1410381259","timestamp":"2014-09-10 20:34:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would probably make an HTTP interceptor to remove the elements from the cache on non-GET methods. The same could probably be done on socket events if you sync your clients with socket.io or something alike.\u003cp\u003ee.g.: PUT \u0026#x2F;users\u0026#x2F;123 =\u0026gt; delete from cache the user \u0026quot;123\u0026quot;","parent":"8298540","id":"8298956"}
{"by":"Loic","time":"1517947901","timestamp":"2018-02-06 20:11:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been developing in HTML\u0026#x2F;Python for a while now. This works wonderfully. You just need to put all your business logic in Python, use PyQt to run all the platform specific code like file dialogs, printing, etc. but keep the main interface with React. You do that by having a webview with a service object being the bridge between Python and the JS view[0]. If you are a bit careful with the amount of information going through the bridge, you get very good performance (the page[0] is linking to some small screencasts\u0026#x2F;videos).\u003cp\u003eWith this approach, I have the best of both worlds for my small shop where development time is constrained. The really good part is that I can reuse for the desktop application work done for the website both the front-end and the backend which is written in Python for all the scientific code.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ceondo.com\u0026#x2F;ecte\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;chemeo-studio-explore\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ceondo.com\u0026#x2F;ecte\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;chemeo-studio-explore\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16318677","id":"16319154"}
{"by":"apgwoz","time":"1214931702","timestamp":"2008-07-01 17:01:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never understood why they didn't just use `/usr/bin/strings` to pull out ascii, and keep the pronounceable text. This of course wouldn't help with data that's being pulled in such as XML and things, but it would have been a start...","parent":"232695","id":"233142"}
{"by":"EADGBE","time":"1512053942","timestamp":"2017-11-30 14:59:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the last change really changed music itself.","parent":"15812105","id":"15816169"}
{"by":"soyuka","time":"1460473963","timestamp":"2016-04-12 15:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"they don\u0026#x27;t matter unless necessary","parent":"11479958","id":"11480232"}
{"by":"realistschuckle","time":"1429529420","timestamp":"2015-04-20 11:30:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It did start out as a YA book. Only, halfway through, RAH realized that he wanted to publish to a more mature audience. The first third of SiaSL hearkens back to his YA beginnings; the rest of it appeals to the rebellious. That book cemented my enjoyment of the rest of his writings because I bridged from child to adolescent at the time of reading.","parent":"9407269","id":"9407311"}
{"by":"notadoc","time":"1525391442","timestamp":"2018-05-03 23:50:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hypothetically, though it looks like you also have side projects that are relevant to the topic. I would assume nearly everyone on HackerNews has or had side projects that are using similar third party data processing, analytics, ads, and perhaps even their own linode hosting such projects, all gathering what GPDR determines is \u0026quot;personal data\u0026quot; like IP addresses, or maybe email addresses and names for signups and so forth. Now do you see why this is a hassle?\u003cp\u003eBut really, how do you plan on complying with GPDR for your side projects?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I will acknowledge that it was my own laziness that lead to me shutting down the hobby tool I built a few years ago and no longer have a need for.\u003cp\u003eWhat if that hobby was ramen profitable? Same decision?","parent":"16990983","id":"16991033"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1377617723","timestamp":"2013-08-27 15:35:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It should be said that way, as a choice and not an arbitrary concept tied to numbers. For pupils so many why\u0026#x27;s can rise from coupling the properties of what we call algebra to a projection on numbers.","parent":"6283439","id":"6284065"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1460166623","timestamp":"2016-04-09 01:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clearly they need to be doing A\u0026#x2F;B testing to determine their optimum pricing.","parent":"11458314","id":"11459501"}
{"by":"threeseed","time":"1416436666","timestamp":"2014-11-19 22:37:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Someone really needs to explain to me what the thought process behind this acquisition was.\u003cp\u003eSelf driving car technologies have has actively developed by almost every car company for years now. Many of the beginnings of this work has already made it to market e.g. Parallel Park Assist, Auto Emergency Breaking, Lane Merge Detection, Adaptive Cruise Control. And companies like Volvo are already testing their self driving cars in real world, difficult conditions in Sweden. And because there are only a few car conglomerates they will simply share technology within each group.\u003cp\u003eSo what is their end game ?","parent":"8632363","id":"8633144"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1374187918","timestamp":"2013-07-18 22:51:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you post the numbers that lead you to believe that most or all of the \u003ci\u003especific\u003c/i\u003e people here have unjust or unreasonable pensions? Because I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure those numbers don\u0026#x27;t exist.","parent":"6066836","id":"6067081"}
{"by":"Skye","time":"1541112251","timestamp":"2018-11-01 22:44:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh... Maybe I misread, either way, its a similar sort of concept, and still ends with deletion.","parent":"18358311","id":"18359135"}
{"by":"vampirechicken","time":"1348845604","timestamp":"2012-09-28 15:20:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Conversely one thenth of a google at the competitor is better than 0 from google.","parent":"4585491","id":"4585970"}
{"by":"betenoire","time":"1490721997","timestamp":"2017-03-28 17:26:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; But many of us can choose whether to see our jobs in a positive or negative light.\u003cp\u003eRight, that\u0026#x27;s the point.","parent":"13978419","id":"13978597"}
{"by":"Animats","time":"1493490569","timestamp":"2017-04-29 18:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t deal with any payment system you can\u0026#x27;t sue in small claims court.","parent":"14226775","id":"14227944"}
{"by":"witdxav","time":"1506182738","timestamp":"2017-09-23 16:05:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zavtech.com\u0026#x2F;morpheus\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zavtech.com\u0026#x2F;morpheus\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e - The Morpheus library is designed to facilitate the development of high performance analytical software involving large datasets for both offline and real-time analysis on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The library is written in Java 8 with extensive use of lambdas, but is accessible to all JVM languages.","parent":"15319188","id":"15320309"}
{"by":"paulwcy","time":"1356981169","timestamp":"2012-12-31 19:12:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It ended","parent":"4990059","id":"4990430"}
{"by":"kennystone","time":"1315619801","timestamp":"2011-09-10 01:56:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"It’s the Jobs side of the equation that Apple’s rivals — phone, tablet, laptop, whatever — are able to copy. Thus the patents and the lawsuits. Design is copyable. But the Cook side of things — Apple’s economy of scale advantage — cannot be copied by any company with a complex product lineup.\"\u003cp\u003eOK but there is a huge lag in time between Apple's delivery and the competitor's copy.  Android did a good job copying iOS but Apple had a two year head start before an Android phone was on level ground with an iPhone.  iPad will probably be a year out before a decent competitor comes along.  Dell came out with an (ugly) MBP-like laptop a months ago.\u003cp\u003eThey can copy Apple's designs, but if they only play catch-up, Apple will stay way ahead.","parent":"2980381","id":"2980544"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1488396942","timestamp":"2017-03-01 19:35:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, CC-by is a permissive license with attribution, compatible with the GPL (and likely other copyleft licenses).\u003cp\u003eCC-by-sa used to be incompatible with most copyleft licenses, but it now provides explicit compatibility with the GPL: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;creativecommons.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;cc-by-sa-4-0-now-one-way-compatible-with-gplv3\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;creativecommons.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;cc-by-sa-4-0-now-one-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13767363","id":"13767420"}
{"by":"andrewcross","time":"1306791289","timestamp":"2011-05-30 21:34:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"blog post on hacker news here:\n\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2599755\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2599755\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2599726","id":"2600520"}
{"by":"pdkl95","time":"1518508166","timestamp":"2018-02-13 07:49:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Has it though?\u003cp\u003eI have personally succeeded in convincing more people to disable javascript in the last few months than I have \u003ci\u003esince Javascript was introduced in Netscape Navigator 2.0\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; this assumption?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m offering personal experience, not an assumption.","parent":"16365371","id":"16365444"}
{"by":"ttctciyf","time":"1394035386","timestamp":"2014-03-05 16:03:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think we need a thin client on your Google Glass that feeds your personal interactions continuously to an AI engine in the cloud.\u003cp\u003eHaving established that you were the recipient of a well-merited compliment that significantly pleased you, the identity of the complimenter, and the fact that your benefactor is HappyCoin(tm)-enabled, the engine would automatically calculate the exact monetary value of your happiness and create a microtransaction as payment, which you would then hopefully approve while still uplifted.","parent":"7347646","id":"7347705"}
{"by":"kenmicklas","time":"1529339346","timestamp":"2018-06-18 16:29:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can only pray that posts like this one will slowly raise class consciousness in the HN crowd.","parent":"17339269","id":"17339515"}
{"by":"girishm","time":"1300467833","timestamp":"2011-03-18 17:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We have a live version in private beta. I plan to post it to HN for feedback as soon as we are ready for the public launch.","parent":"2341020","id":"2341033"}
{"by":"AaronO","time":"1389192481","timestamp":"2014-01-08 14:48:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Codebox will actually be released as a desktop app as well. And I think that\u0026#x27;s going to be pretty important to have a truly hybrid IDE that runs both on the desktop and in the cloud.\u003cp\u003eAnd what\u0026#x27;s particularly nice is that the cloud IDE and desktop IDE can share 95% of their codebox.\u003cp\u003eAs a result you have an IDE built with web technologies (JS, HTML, CSS, NodeJS) that can run virtually anywhere (desktop, public\u0026#x2F;private cloud) and you can iterate quickly thanks to the nature of web technologies.","parent":"7023688","id":"7023733"}
{"by":"farout","time":"1301770615","timestamp":"2011-04-02 18:56:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"here are the three that within in a month you should be able to write some sweet apps quickly.\u003cp\u003e1. Head First Rails\nI first poohed this book but I had read 7-8 other books adn still was confused so I thought what the hell.\nI did each project several times and started making changes. Totally awesome especially the ajax integration parts. This is when I could actually make my own simple apps in less than a week.\u003cp\u003e2. I loved Agile Programming book - totally awesome. Not enough apps though. Great explanations. Gentle exposure to Ruby.\u003cp\u003e3. beginning novice to professional for ruby. I love this book. It is just plain fun. Good examples. I totally had fun with this. Peter is totally totally awesome - I wish he would write every tech book!!\u003cp\u003eNow you have the grounding, start making and asking questions.\u003cp\u003eWhat killed me was the UX/UI stuff. Then a friend suggested CSS Mastery book and using blueprint this got me clued in. Now I was not paralyzed. It was so awesome to see an app created in literally minutes.\u003cp\u003eI loved RoR - I miss it terribly. I disliked the community. Fanboyish. It was like being in all male high school with everyone thumping their chests and no help.\u003cp\u003eI still miss it very much. Whenever I code I first think in RoR then do it in php. My background was coldfusion, c#asp.net, java, etc. I need something dumb simple and php does the trick. And the people are nice and there are tons and tons of example to do anything. Also I needed something that is simple to deploy and maintain. Yeah yeah -RoR is easy to deploy - my first deployment took me several hours. Whereas php was minutes. In terms of sys admin and performance and optimization, I rather deal with php. As DBA, I do not really want an ORM. BTW when you feel good with RoR - check out Enterprise Rails - wow - good stuff on performance and optimization.","parent":"2399714","id":"2400656"}
{"by":"igravious","time":"1371827045","timestamp":"2013-06-21 15:04:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was one of your problems concerned with a social method for getting inebriated? And did the other concern itself with a relaxing full body cleaning method?","parent":"5917976","id":"5918365"}
{"by":"lordnacho","time":"1525686347","timestamp":"2018-05-07 09:45:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah. Chances are your parents were between 20 and 35 when they had you. So when you\u0026#x27;re 45, your parents are between 65 and 80. You see lots of obits of famous people who passed in that range.\u003cp\u003eAlso you start to hear about people in your own generation who passed early. Distant, if you’re lucky, but close enough that you will hear about it.\u003cp\u003eAnd your kids will make you feel old each morning at 5am.","parent":"17010982","id":"17011443"}
{"by":"mooism2","time":"1351845885","timestamp":"2012-11-02 08:44:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't cite Wikipedia, cite whoever Wikipedia cites.","parent":"4731767","id":"4731782"}
{"by":"cookiecaper","time":"1315099089","timestamp":"2011-09-04 01:18:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think they can still get paid pretty well for them. For one, if these releases occur, they're better than nothing; right now, media companies derive no advertising revenue from torrented files with ads embedded because they don't offer them at all. Even if they have to sell for a reduced price, that's better than zero.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, \"skipping the ads\" isn't that big of a deal. People do it on TV all the time by getting up to go do something else, changing the channel, muting the television, etc., when the commercials play. Those with DVRs or VCRs fast-forward, as a VLC user might. VLC doesn't really offer much better fast-forward features than the VCR; unless you also download a pre-defined chapter file (and I don't think many people hate ads \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e much), this is no different than using DVR/VCR and there's no point in paying less for these ads. VLC users will still visually see your logos, commercial, etc., while watching and I think that has value too, and again, the situation in that respect is no different from conventional methods.\u003cp\u003eI think the real logistical issue here is that it'd be much more difficult to insert localized ads. Hulu et al can use IP geolocation to target local ads (I don't know if they do or not, but it's possible), but a nationally distributed mp4 file would only have nationally distributed advertisements. This causes some havoc on the current pricing system, as it cuts affiliates, who manage the advertisements on conventional TV, out of loop. Perhaps the corporate guys like this, but as long as terrestrial broadcasts are the predominant form of distribution, corporate is always going to be careful not to disrupt the affiliates' revenue stream too much.","parent":"2958527","id":"2958547"}
{"by":"Lexarius","time":"1369771950","timestamp":"2013-05-28 20:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You might want to look into getting a prepaid phone of some kind, even if it's not a smart phone. Having a portable emergency communication device seems like a good idea even if you're opposed (for whatever reason) to cellphone use in general, and a prepaid phone won't give you monthly bills or contracts to worry about.\u003cp\u003eIf that's no good, then how about Google Voice? In addition to its other useful phone-related features, it allows sending and receiving of text messages.","parent":"5782294","id":"5782427"}
{"by":"superuser2","time":"1451448728","timestamp":"2015-12-30 04:12:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Removing incentives to come in and compete is of no consequence when \u003ci\u003eno one is doing that anyway\u003c/i\u003e. Gigabit fibre to the home has been all over the world for years (more than a decade?) and the vast majority of Americans are sitting here being treated like shit by Comcast\u0026#x2F;AT\u0026amp;T with connections that work barely or not at all at peak streaming time.\u003cp\u003eThe free market has had its chance; we\u0026#x27;ve gotten nothing but the token effort from Google Fibre in a tiny handful of markets.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure public WiFi is the answer. I\u0026#x27;d much rather see municipal fibre from homes to PoPs where consumers can ask to be patched to various ISPs. But competition just isn\u0026#x27;t doing it.","parent":"10810593","id":"10810651"}
{"by":"muuh-gnu","time":"1287095616","timestamp":"2010-10-14 22:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Those of you who prefer some kind of GUI, look into Xemacs. It can be set up to respond to your mouse-clicks.\u003cp\u003eI don't want to nitpick here, but the tedious distinction between the \"graphically challenged\" GNU Emacs and the \"some kind of GUI\" godness of XEmacs is getting rather old. Precisely, it is around 20 years old, since the debate started somwhen at the beginning of the 90s. Much, much time has passed and much, much has changed since then in GNU/X emacs land.\u003cp\u003eBut otherwise, youre completely right. Emacs feels today what running a Lisp Machine must have been back in the day, and it's wonderful. Your complete environment is written in Lisp, you code, chat, mail, all at the same time in/with Lisp, and you can modify all of it at run-time, all the way down (Well, mostly).\u003cp\u003eIt is a pity that Emacs is stuck with Elisp for the foreseeable future, so although a \"Lisp\", it cant fully profit from all the available Common Lisp goodies, but for a beginner, it is all more than enough to start. And even if one day he or she might want to move on to Common Lisp, SLIME would be there waiting patiently.","parent":"1792774","id":"1792938"}
{"by":"devicenull","time":"1300712510","timestamp":"2011-03-21 13:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Topic is misleading.  This is a 20% project from one of the Google engineers (which the article says, but still uses the misleading title).","parent":"2348762","id":"2349452"}
{"by":"beat","time":"1453328740","timestamp":"2016-01-20 22:25:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s one thing to learn to hunt from zero. It\u0026#x27;s another thing to do it with tools and techniques that had been handed down for thousands of years. How do you make a spear from scratch, using only raw materials found in nature, that\u0026#x27;s effective enough to bring down a creature the size of a mammoth? You have to select the right kind of wood with the right character, harden it with fire correctly, find the right kind of flint and chip it just so to make a head, find the right animal sinews and preserve them the right way to tie the head to the spear, learn to strike with it so it hits vulnerable spots and doesn\u0026#x27;t break, because it\u0026#x27;ll take you days or weeks to make another...\u003cp\u003eI knew a guy once who did his PhD work on chipping flint, reproducing the techniques used by various Stone Age people. He loved chipping flint and making tools. They were sharp, and dangerous, and fragile, and took hours or days to make (not counting the failures). He spent \u003ci\u003eyears\u003c/i\u003e studying and refining his technique.\u003cp\u003eMaking a high-quality spear, good enough to kill mammoths effectively? That takes \u003ci\u003eyears\u003c/i\u003e to perfect. It\u0026#x27;s an intellectual challenge on par with writing software, based on tradition and teaching akin to our school system. It\u0026#x27;s not easy or trivial! It\u0026#x27;s not \u003ci\u003eprimitive\u003c/i\u003e, at least not in the demeaning way it\u0026#x27;s being expressed here.\u003cp\u003eThose \u0026quot;primitives\u0026quot; were every bit as smart as you, every bit as hardworking, and their techniques on par with ours in terms of rigor and effort. What they didn\u0026#x27;t have was tens of thousands of years of additional development, so they had to know everything about survival. They didn\u0026#x27;t get their mammoth wrapped in plastic.","parent":"10941172","id":"10941859"}
{"by":"barryoneill","time":"1517328989","timestamp":"2018-01-30 16:16:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sure they\u0026#x27;d appreciate a ticket - There\u0026#x27;s already this which is similar: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;javallone\u0026#x2F;regexper-static\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;26\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;javallone\u0026#x2F;regexper-static\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;26\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16266356","id":"16266447"}
{"by":"aleyan","time":"1362369761","timestamp":"2013-03-04 04:02:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was surprised by his recommendation. I found lxml, with it's weak xpath implementation to be a poor tool for parsing XML. How can it be a good tool for parsing non conforming HTML?\u003cp\u003ePerhaps my reply to Linus was snarky, but in my experience Beautiful Soup was easy to use for parsing HTML, where lxml for parsing XML was not. Granted the XML I had to parse used name spaces, but there was no reason for it to be difficult and there was no reason for poorly documenting which xpath features are supported.","parent":"5316340","id":"5316515"}
{"by":"Clairesheng","time":"1404309244","timestamp":"2014-07-02 13:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remote or one of our offices: San Francisco, CA - Shanghai, China\u003cp\u003eWe build products at the intersection of technology around data. Lots of data visualization, big data and infrastructure.\u003cp\u003eWe work with large organizations on challenging problems (the World Bank, the United Nations, CNN) OR on our own products (mostly developer tools, things like \u003ca href=\"http://devo.ps\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;devo.ps\u003c/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"http://octokan.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;octokan.com\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eWe are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in Berlin and are looking at remote hiring in Spain and Seoul.\u003cp\u003eWe work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.\u003cp\u003eWe are looking for full-time or interns:\u003cp\u003e- Developers; front-end (HTML5 + Compass + AngularJS), backend (node.js, Python), ops (Python, Go).\u003cp\u003e- Designers; you have design chops, understand technology (HTML\u0026#x2F;CSS...) and do more than nice pictures (content strategy, color theory, ...).\u003cp\u003e- Strategist; you can quickly immerse yourself in a new field of knowledge, have a knack for data and are quick at recognizing patterns. You are a jack-of-all-trades that can think a solution and get it shipped, either alone or with a team.\u003cp\u003e- Marketing; you have what it takes to grow a brand or product online and understand how to leverage online and offline tools to get there.\u003cp\u003e- Business Development; if you are in Washington DC, Berlin or Paris, understand enough of our space and would like to help us grow our services, shoot us an email.\u003cp\u003eDrop me a line at job@wiredcraft.com, or go to \u003ca href=\"http://wiredcraft.com/careers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiredcraft.com\u0026#x2F;careers.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7970366","id":"7976951"}
{"by":"dietrichepp","time":"1461299985","timestamp":"2016-04-22 04:39:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a good description, but I\u0026#x27;d say that we have a strongly \u0026lt;-\u0026gt; weakly typed axis and a statically \u0026lt;-\u0026gt; dynamically typed axis here.  Or I might actually prefer to name the first axis poorly \u0026lt;-\u0026gt; richly typed.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e            poorly typed \u0026lt;-------------\u0026gt; richly typed\n    dynamic CSV, INI          JSON          YAML, Ion\n    static        Bencode, ASN.1      Protobuf\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWhat I mean by \u0026quot;richly typed\u0026quot; is that you would never read a timestamp off the wire and not know that it\u0026#x27;s a timestamp.  By comparison, with CSV or INI files, you just have strings everywhere.  Formats on the richly typed side have separate and explicit types for binary blobs and text, for example.","parent":"11547016","id":"11547089"}
{"by":"brimstedt","time":"1392575083","timestamp":"2014-02-16 18:24:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"he has a point and i like perfected ux too, but as a programmer im unable to achieve perfected UIs :)\u003cp\u003eanyway, there is also \u0026quot;good enough\u0026quot; and most likely 3px wont matter any more than refactoring a perfectly working class into a perfectly working class with perfect code...","parent":"7248307","id":"7248546"}
{"by":"wil421","time":"1387459214","timestamp":"2013-12-19 13:20:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that the question is \u0026quot;How can I \u003ci\u003emitigate\u003c/i\u003e the risk my online identity poses?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOnce on the web I dont think you can get off, the tag I use on HN is one I have used for years, but in those past years I was always a lurker almost never ever commenting (until recently). Now when I search my tag on google HN comments come up, my NSA comments could label me as anti-govt, but thats not the case.\u003cp\u003eWithout going RMS I dont think you can really get off-web if you still want to use the internet in any fashion.","parent":"6933485","id":"6934456"}
{"by":"jcr","time":"1457790239","timestamp":"2016-03-12 13:43:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eOff-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they\u0026#x27;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;","parent":"11272713","id":"11272814"}
{"by":"paxys","time":"1521751711","timestamp":"2018-03-22 20:48:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t matter if they \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e their process is perfect. It is still just an accusation at that point, and students have the right to appeal it.\u003cp\u003eIMO it isn\u0026#x27;t acceptable for an instructor to say that they don\u0026#x27;t have time to provide an explanation when asked by the university.","parent":"16652288","id":"16652567"}
{"by":"restingrobot","time":"1540845529","timestamp":"2018-10-29 20:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think you understand what the environmental concessions actually were. The article tries to make it sound like they were related to the dumping of heavy metals, but in reality they are just for the construction of the site and water usage, (e.g. For every of acre they fill to build, they have to create 1.2 acres of new wetlands). The company will still be held to the same pollution standards as every other company in the state.","parent":"18330033","id":"18331169"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1468969382","timestamp":"2016-07-19 23:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Denton was apparently named as a defendant in the lawsuit as well, and the court yielded a $10M judgment against him personally.\u003cp\u003eGawker also gave Denton a $200K personal loan right before bankruptcy for the purposes of potential bankruptcy filings related to the lawsuit; this might be a good case for piercing the corporate veil as well.","parent":"12125574","id":"12125611"}
{"by":"kevin_thibedeau","time":"1434767620","timestamp":"2015-06-20 02:33:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My favorite is using Benford\u0026#x27;s law to find anomalous digit distributions in phony numbers.","parent":"9748689","id":"9748720"}
{"by":"ville","time":"1365945504","timestamp":"2013-04-14 13:18:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the point of \"social media\" icon sets like Simple Icons (\u003ca href=\"http://simpleicons.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://simpleicons.org/\u003c/a\u003e), when in real life these companies have very strict brand guidelines you must follow, if you use their brand in your product?\u003cp\u003eFor example, if you're using Ebay API and want to show an Ebay logo, you can't use the one on the icon set (their corporate logo), but you must use an uglier one that says \"right now on Ebay\", without modifications. Facebook says \"Do not use trademarks, logos, or other content that is confusingly similar to the Brand Assets.\"[1]. Yelp: \"Don't alter our logo, graphics, or any of the other information from the API.\"[2]\u003cp\u003eSo I guess my point is, when you're using some third party API and want to or need to show attribution, going for something that looks almost like the official logo instead of using the original assets doesn't really work.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https://www.x.com/developers/ebay/programs-events/developer-marketing-handbook/logos-intro\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.x.com/developers/ebay/programs-events/developer-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/logos.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/logos.php\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2]: \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/display_requirements\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/display_requi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5546692","id":"5546824"}
{"by":"harryh","time":"1405520799","timestamp":"2014-07-16 14:26:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s the chief executive of Vanguard (one of the largest investment management companies in the world) discussing how HFT has dramatically lowered their trading costs:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ff8c6486-cb37-11e3-ba95-00144feabdc0.html#axzz37dq3BD3q\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ft.com\u0026#x2F;intl\u0026#x2F;cms\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;0\u0026#x2F;ff8c6486-cb37-11e3-ba95-00144...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpreads used to be a quarter, and now they\u0026#x27;re a penny! That\u0026#x27;s a huge deal!","parent":"8041858","id":"8042147"}
{"by":"rajacombinator","time":"1388906772","timestamp":"2014-01-05 07:26:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that site is pretty cool although i\u0026#x27;m appalled to see they list Aguirre the Wrath of God as highly rewatchable... once is enough.","parent":"7014315","id":"7014977"}
{"by":"watwut","time":"1538838191","timestamp":"2018-10-06 15:03:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is not what article is about. It is about novel describing point of view of characters that are not you and showing you the world ad they see it. Article uses example of janissaries who were military, but from point of view of their families boys kidnapped as kids and never seen again.\u003cp\u003eThere is nothing complex about it.\u003cp\u003eAnother similar example is pretty much when the same act is framed in one novel as cool prank and in other you see it from point of view of victims and cool dude suddenly looks like massive asshole.","parent":"18155353","id":"18155469"}
{"by":"gpm","time":"1484410031","timestamp":"2017-01-14 16:07:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the speed limits were set to the safest speed to drive at you would be right. They aren\u0026#x27;t though. They are, as the original post says, set arbitrarily.\u003cp\u003eOften they are set lower than the safest speed to be driving on that road (generally the speed that the rest of the traffic is traveling at). So by not speeding you increase the probability that you screw up and do something bad.","parent":"13398915","id":"13398992"}
{"by":"mintplant","time":"1470630144","timestamp":"2016-08-08 04:22:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firefox also does this.","parent":"12245387","id":"12245475"}
{"by":"cjrp","time":"1530545933","timestamp":"2018-07-02 15:38:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Mercedes, Audi and BMW, are producing around 6M cars, of which many are priced similarly or more expensive than Model 3\u003cp\u003e~$55k USD would be roughly equivalent to a 5 Series\u0026#x2F;E Class\u0026#x2F;A6. Combined, about 300,000 of these cars are sold per year in Europe. So to sell 800,000 Model 3s worldwide you\u0026#x27;ve got to replace every single one of those BMW\u0026#x2F;Merc\u0026#x2F;Audi sales, and then some.","parent":"17442469","id":"17442578"}
{"by":"danieldk","time":"1362914071","timestamp":"2013-03-10 11:14:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; So filming / taking pictures is already not allowed. It feels like publicity stunt, but nothing particularly weird, imho.\u003cp\u003eGoogle Glass is a new level of privacy violation. At least with a camera or phone one can see if someone is just playing a game or trying to record you. With Glass there is no visible difference.","parent":"5351371","id":"5351458"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1304479560","timestamp":"2011-05-04 03:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt's just bad business\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's actually quite logical, if you agree with their assumptions:\u003cp\u003e1) The increased availability of digital music will lead to an increase in piracy, and\u003cp\u003e2) An increase in piracy will lead to less money being spent on recorded music.\u003cp\u003e(Both those assumptions can be argued, but the music industry believes them to be true).\u003cp\u003eGiven that, the following argument is logical:\u003cp\u003e1) At some point in the future the money being spent on recorded music will decrease to a point where it is not a significant source of income.\u003cp\u003e2) The longer that point can be delayed, the more money can be made from recorded music in aggregate.\u003cp\u003e3) Anything that makes digital music inconvenient for the consumer will delay the collapse of buying recorded music because it will reduce uptake (!!)\u003cp\u003e4) Therefor, fight \u003ci\u003eanything\u003c/i\u003e that makes digital music better/easier to use.\u003cp\u003e5) Meanwhile, try and develop new sources of income (360 deals, streaming licencing, game licences etc)\u003cp\u003eFrom their point of view it's not bad business at all - it's the safest course of action.","parent":"2512624","id":"2512665"}
{"by":"kingkilr","time":"1376879954","timestamp":"2013-08-19 02:39:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, PyPy is used in production by many companies.","parent":"6235278","id":"6235312"}
{"by":"nirvana","time":"1319743547","timestamp":"2011-10-27 19:25:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple does not reject Apps without citing chapter and verse in the standards book, and often providing screenshots.\u003cp\u003eI'm not aware of any examples of the latter, but since the App Store has been created, there have been no manner of false stories from Apple bashers along these lines.","parent":"3165037","id":"3165048"}
{"by":"daemin","time":"1489502418","timestamp":"2017-03-14 14:40:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always considered the people that drive for Uber to be more of a means to an end for Uber. To me Uber wants people getting used to ordering a car service with an app and then being driven to their destination. So really having people as drivers is a stop gap measure until they get autonomous vehicles working and the equivalent of \u0026quot;the knowledge\u0026quot; of black cab drivers in London for everywhere else in the world. This is why they track you with the Uber app after you finish your ride, so that they can get the local knowledge stored.","parent":"13861374","id":"13867809"}
{"by":"gwern","time":"1458085530","timestamp":"2016-03-15 23:45:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What sort of VR headset do you expect for $99? At that price, you get Cardboard and Gear, at best, and those have underwhelmed the market and people who have tried them \u0026amp; Vive\u0026#x2F;Rift\u0026#x2F;PS.","parent":"11293889","id":"11293912"}
{"by":"eric_b","time":"1487299381","timestamp":"2017-02-17 02:43:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure I love the article, but I agree with the author\u0026#x27;s sentiment.  I\u0026#x27;m 4 years in to a successful bootstrapped startup, and I\u0026#x27;ve lost many close acquaintances.  I simply don\u0026#x27;t have time to keep the social connections alive and I have not prioritized them.  I\u0026#x27;m somewhat introverted by nature so this is not really a major concern of mine at this time, but I suspect it may be a regret later.\u003cp\u003eWhat is challenging for me is the fact that most people cannot relate to my life.  They can\u0026#x27;t understand why you\u0026#x27;d work 60+ hours a week on a fledgling business.  They can\u0026#x27;t understand the obsession and inability to \u0026quot;turn it off.\u0026quot;  They don\u0026#x27;t understand what it takes to get a customer to actually pay you, let alone build something people enjoy using and solves problems.  I do find that many folks assume you just \u0026quot;lucked\u0026quot; your way in to success.\u003cp\u003eAnd I think bootstrapped business owners have it the worst of all.  It\u0026#x27;s comparably easy to spend VC cash once you get funding, rather than money from \u0026quot;your own pocket.\u0026quot;  It\u0026#x27;s not hard to justify hiring 5 people when the VCs explicitly tell you that\u0026#x27;s what the money is for.  Bootstrapping a successful business is indeed a rare feat, and only the people who\u0026#x27;ve been there can understand exactly how all consuming and difficult it is.  (At least, that\u0026#x27;s been my experience so far)","parent":"13665032","id":"13665542"}
{"by":"sighsigh","time":"1418838337","timestamp":"2014-12-17 17:45:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because that would make you... a believer of an out-of-touch white middle class moral framework that has failed to predict anything.","parent":"8763087","id":"8763274"}
{"by":"tripplethrendo","time":"1536863023","timestamp":"2018-09-13 18:23:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is absolutely true.  Why is it getting down-voted?","parent":"17980967","id":"17981023"}
{"by":"geographomics","time":"1457724051","timestamp":"2016-03-11 19:20:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this really that much of a problem? Circumventing the block sounds like it could be a rather interesting technical challenge.","parent":"11267443","id":"11268831"}
{"by":"prawn","time":"1422400617","timestamp":"2015-01-27 23:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have an iPad 2. Since upgrading my iPhone 4 to an iPhone 6 Plus, I barely use my iPad. I doubt I\u0026#x27;d bother taking the iPad on trips either, as the larger iPhone screen is fine using hotel booking sites or for general research.\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;ll need to reinvent the iPad for me to buy another one.","parent":"8956550","id":"8956843"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1533794348","timestamp":"2018-08-09 05:59:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes! There\u0026#x27;s only upside.","parent":"17721905","id":"17721908"}
{"by":"coastside_geek","time":"1343154515","timestamp":"2012-07-24 18:28:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On a clear disk you can seek forever.","parent":"4287012","id":"4287190"}
{"by":"darkmuck","time":"1374152571","timestamp":"2013-07-18 13:02:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use an Android phone without service on wifi. Install any of the these apps: GrooveIP, Spare Phone, or Talkatone; and you can use Google Voice for texting and unlimited minutes for free.","parent":"6058804","id":"6063274"}
{"by":"Bud","time":"1318721050","timestamp":"2011-10-15 23:24:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't worry. I'm sure the remaining utility of FOIA will be more thoroughly emasculated soon. Give it a few years.","parent":"3115786","id":"3116090"}
{"by":"platz","time":"1507683363","timestamp":"2017-10-11 00:56:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is that there are not topics you intend to be an expert in, so you can cover more topics.  you can take a rigorous study for topics that you are passionate about, but there can only be so many of those.  Otherwise, the alternative is simply to not know anything, even a little bit, about said topic. Now, if you know that you only have interest in topics you are very passionate about obviously you don\u0026#x27;t see this as a problem.","parent":"15446005","id":"15446530"}
{"by":"analog31","time":"1468523354","timestamp":"2016-07-14 19:09:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another factor is that violinists haven\u0026#x27;t run out of ways to express new musical ideas on old instruments. The need to design a new instrument, in order to come up with new music, isn\u0026#x27;t immediately evident. The modern alternative to the violin, could be a violin in the hands of someone with a modern approach. I\u0026#x27;m seeing this happening in contemporary fiddle music, for instance. As a jazz bassist, my instrument is of ancient design, but my playing is driven by ideas that are mostly less than a century old.\u003cp\u003eOf course inventing new instruments is a welcome avenue of musical exploration. But it\u0026#x27;s not without tradeoffs. At the very least, the musician will be set back by having to develop new technique and familiarity with the capabilities of a new instrument -- getting your ears, brain, and hands, to work together perfectly in real time. Composers also have to wrap their heads around the capabilities of a new instrument, in order to take an interest in writing for it.","parent":"12096214","id":"12096452"}
{"by":"Synaesthesia","time":"1459372889","timestamp":"2016-03-30 21:21:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isis getting a nuke is quite far fetched. What is a bigger danger is one of the terrorist groups in Pakistan (which actually has nuclear weapons) getting a nuke. Or India \u0026amp; Pakistan having a nuclear exchange. Or one of the wars in the Middle East leading to Israel or the USA to use the nuclear weapons they have ready there (which they continually threaten). Nuclear war is one of the scariest things we face and could destroy us instantly, it\u0026#x27;s a small chance but a possibility.\u003cp\u003eHowever climate change is definitely already happening and is potentially also devastating for the survival of the species. It could itself ignite a number of conflicts, we have no idea what will happen, but we know it could be very bad.","parent":"11392683","id":"11393113"}
{"by":"ameister14","time":"1534439840","timestamp":"2018-08-16 17:17:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I can\u0026#x27;t help but point out that you\u0026#x27;re making this claim on a thread attached to a story about a violent rural rebellion against urbanites!\u003cp\u003eExactly - Shay\u0026#x27;s rebellion occurred in large part because rural voters didn\u0026#x27;t feel that they were adequately represented in their government. The Federal government didn\u0026#x27;t have enough power to oversee what was happening and the State government was made up of people from other districts, who then proceeded to disenfranchise people in the rural areas in order to more completely concentrate voting power in the urban East.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;So to be clear, there\u0026#x27;s no reasonable justification for giving geographic minorities extra voting poewr that doesn\u0026#x27;t also justify giving other minorities extra voting power.\u003cp\u003eThe reasonable justification, beyond infrastructure spending, differences in industry and geographical considerations is that other minorities don\u0026#x27;t have a history of rebellion. In a centralized power structure, rural areas DO have a history of rebellion, successful rebellion, especially when they feel their interests are not served by the central government.","parent":"17776468","id":"17776598"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1429863955","timestamp":"2015-04-24 08:25:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but they both take inspiration from how Xerox PARC and Symbiotic REPLs used to work, or more close to modern days Dr Scheme\u0026#x2F;Racket.","parent":"9431151","id":"9432033"}
{"by":"leahculver","time":"1247875774","timestamp":"2009-07-18 00:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Don't wanker in technology\" just means not to get too caught up in background technology at the expense of your end users and end product.\u003cp\u003eFor example, instead of switching to a trendy key-value store (or developing their own), FriendFeed has done some incredible database stuff on top of MySQL. It was the right solution for them (even if it is less cool) and it helped scale their architecture quickly.","parent":"711069","id":"711077"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1405448436","timestamp":"2014-07-15 18:20:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really can\u0026#x27;t name any technological aspect in which consoles are more powerful than a PC. That\u0026#x27;s kind of the point I was driving at.","parent":"8037988","id":"8038094"}
{"by":"TheSpiceIsLife","time":"1498350850","timestamp":"2017-06-25 00:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Generally campaign hard against nuclear and hydro. There hasn\u0026#x27;t been any new hydro in Australia since The Wilderness Society blocked the Franklin Dam project[1].\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll admit that no new hydro is arguably a good thing for certain aspects of sustainability, but it could be argued that new hydro is better than new coal or gas. That\u0026#x27;s sort of a false dichotomy because there are other options:\u003cp\u003eAn in-principle agreement has been reached to build a new 144MW wind farm in central Tasmania[2], the first new wind project in the state in almost a decade[3].\u003cp\u003eThe Franklin Dam project was to be 180MW, with arguable much greater capacity factor than wind.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Franklin_Dam_controversy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Franklin_Dam_controversy\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.goldwindaustralia.com\u0026#x2F;aurora-energy-goldwind-announces-agreement-wild-cattle-hill-wind-farm\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.goldwindaustralia.com\u0026#x2F;aurora-energy-goldwind-anno...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.abc.net.au\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2017-06-07\u0026#x2F;new-$300m-wind-farm-for-tasmania\u0026#x2F;8594910\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.abc.net.au\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2017-06-07\u0026#x2F;new-$300m-wind-farm-fo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14626271","id":"14628055"}
{"by":"jsheard","time":"1543874713","timestamp":"2018-12-03 22:05:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Flex is closed source, runs on the GPU and is implemented in CUDA (Nvidia only).\u003cp\u003eFlex 1.0 did require CUDA hardware, but with 1.1 they added a Direct3D backend that runs on any DX11-class GPU.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.nvidia.com\u0026#x2F;nvidia-flex-110-released\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.nvidia.com\u0026#x2F;nvidia-flex-110-released\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18592064","id":"18593587"}
{"by":"dovdovdov","time":"1519655045","timestamp":"2018-02-26 14:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yea, silly people are living in the misconception that companies are any way interested in their personality.\u003cp\u003eWhile it\u0026#x27;s really just about to obey, and follow command.\u003cp\u003ePeople have to understand that they have to fit the soulless masses and have to be tested accordingly...","parent":"16465323","dead":true,"id":"16465421"}
{"by":"fufonzo","time":"1479307811","timestamp":"2016-11-16 14:50:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you bought it with 1TB already in it, you wouldn\u0026#x27;t have to upgrade anything. ;)\u003cp\u003eIt would be nice to be able to upgrade, but really, it\u0026#x27;s not a dealbreaker for me. I really enjoy developing on Mac and I needed to upgrade for my AIr, so I bought a new one of these.\u003cp\u003eWindows is still lacking on the dev side (though I\u0026#x27;m hoping it gets there soon), and Linux isn\u0026#x27;t quite where I need it to be for my personal stuff.","parent":"12967075","id":"12967275"}
{"by":"uptown","time":"1414199356","timestamp":"2014-10-25 01:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In some cases, they\u0026#x27;ve dramatically increased their prices on some products.  A concrete example:\u003cp\u003eHoney Bunches of Oats 3 pack cost $14.33 with free Prime shipping in November, 2012.  Today, that same pack costs $29.99 and is no longer eligible for Prime.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve seen the same pricing trends across a number of their products, but other online retailers offer the same items for considerably less.  I think they thought consumers might just stick with them because of habits and the expediency of \u0026quot;Prime\u0026quot; but when prices jump by over 100%, you can bet I\u0026#x27;ll seek alternatives.","parent":"8506762","id":"8506788"}
{"by":"MichaelMoser123","time":"1524992178","timestamp":"2018-04-29 08:56:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"does genocide perpetrated in colonial possessions count?","parent":"16951207","id":"16951255"}
{"by":"mturmon","time":"1302239330","timestamp":"2011-04-08 05:08:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They're not proposing to cancel JWST.\u003cp\u003eIt's just that its $6.5B price tag is overwhelming the whole astrophysics science effort.  The original design was supposed to come in around 0.5B.  See\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/71607/title/Star_Cents\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/71607/title/Star_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2422507","id":"2422532"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1257326338","timestamp":"2009-11-04 09:18:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've never seen the Register being positive about anything.","parent":"921354","id":"921361"}
{"by":"tmmm","time":"1420624599","timestamp":"2015-01-07 09:56:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why live in Spain, not USA?","parent":"8848634","id":"8849662"}
{"by":"jeklj","time":"1545536420","timestamp":"2018-12-23 03:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But is nicotine the reason cigarettes are so bad for human health?","parent":"18744254","dead":true,"id":"18744267"}
{"by":"niels_olson","time":"1241657481","timestamp":"2009-05-07 00:51:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"good job. Keep it up.","parent":"596934","id":"597166"}
{"by":"jraines","time":"1243320136","timestamp":"2009-05-26 06:42:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I usually like to take the devil's advocate position in this argument, because I don't think you have to be as smart as HN thinks[1] to understand what you're getting into when you enter these auctions -- but in this case, yeah that's freaking evil.\u003cp\u003e[1] In comment below: \"\u003ci\u003epopulace has NO IMMUNITY . . .it will run through them like swine flu\u003c/i\u003e\".  Come on.  Has the populace moved to Nevada and dashed themselves upon the rocks of Vegas?  Are we a nation of lottery addicts and OTB junkies?  I bet if this were about drugs and/or prostitution, few here would be saying \"the populace has NO IMMUNITY to instantly available pleasure and distraction!  It will run through them like swine flu!\"","parent":"626265","id":"626363"}
{"by":"kolbe","time":"1527522094","timestamp":"2018-05-28 15:41:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was just a fictional movie, man. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t read too much into that.","parent":"17172757","id":"17173005"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1469103914","timestamp":"2016-07-21 12:25:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good \u0026quot;Show HN\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eGuidelines for Show HN: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;showhn.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;showhn.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve long been partial to pie menus, even if they never caught on. How long? Since reading this article in 1991: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.donhopkins.com\u0026#x2F;drupal\u0026#x2F;node\u0026#x2F;98\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.donhopkins.com\u0026#x2F;drupal\u0026#x2F;node\u0026#x2F;98\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"12135603","id":"12136343"}
{"by":"eropple","time":"1410746937","timestamp":"2014-09-15 02:08:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Um, I\u0026#x27;ve written Go. Nontrivial amounts, as it happens. In doing so, I recognized that I was regularly forced to write \u003ci\u003eworse code\u003c/i\u003e in the pursuit of doing things idiomatically because I lacked the semantic richness of C++, let alone Scala. And this worse-is-better attitude of the Go community gives me a dim view of its future--and between its junk GC and its completely pedestrian semantic and syntactic propositions I already had a dim view of its present.\u003cp\u003eIf you write reusable, future-facing code, generic types without the erasure of interface upcasting is \u003ci\u003erequired\u003c/i\u003e. There are no two ways around it.","parent":"8316722","id":"8316956"}
{"by":"sparshgupta","time":"1325951445","timestamp":"2012-01-07 15:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice. I would expect a provision to upload (or add URL of) an image and test it on the demo page before downloading it and using it on my website.","parent":"3437203","id":"3437220"}
{"by":"blahed","time":"1303315662","timestamp":"2011-04-20 16:07:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"rock \u0026#38; roll!!!!!!!!","parent":"2467107","id":"2467141"}
{"by":"saool","time":"1412188060","timestamp":"2014-10-01 18:27:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what The Market should be for, to make those jobs compensated attractively. Plus, people will be more likely to take a part-time job flipping burgers to fund their writing\u0026#x2F;music\u0026#x2F;open source project\u0026#x2F;whatever if they don\u0026#x27;t have pressure to pay back debt or don\u0026#x27;t have to worry about health insurance (another can of worms).","parent":"8396579","id":"8396639"}
{"by":"person_of_color","time":"1540161566","timestamp":"2018-10-21 22:39:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone have an inside scoop on where to buy cheap recently expired film online?","parent":"18266947","id":"18270763"}
{"by":"unknownian","time":"1423090146","timestamp":"2015-02-04 22:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Alright, how is this different from the other attempts at this type of server-based system? And how is this better than Tox, which is P2P?","parent":"8997844","id":"9000553"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1388338724","timestamp":"2013-12-29 17:38:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why must war be against countries? The types of activities being carried out in Yemen, Pakistan, etc, if state sanctioned, would be justification for war. Does the fact that Yemen and Pakistan can\u0026#x27;t police themselves internally enough to stop these activities make military retaliation unjustified? Would you feel better if we just declared war on Yemen and Pakistan?","parent":"6980345","id":"6980367"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1485039603","timestamp":"2017-01-21 23:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perl does those things if you don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;use strict;\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  $ perl -e \u0026#x27;++$i \u0026amp;\u0026amp; print $i;$foo[2]=99;$foo[1]=88;for (@foo) {print}\u0026#x27;\n  18899\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"13452368","id":"13452560"}
{"by":"twothamendment","time":"1493139636","timestamp":"2017-04-25 17:00:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m shocked at how bad Yahoo is. I\u0026#x27;ve mostly ignored them for years, but yesterday I had a reason to log in - a small manufacturer uses a yahoo group for support. I\u0026#x27;ve had an account for a decade or so, but didn\u0026#x27;t know the password. The backup email account looked oddly like my real email with a \u0026quot;2\u0026quot; appended on the end of the user name.\u003cp\u003eThinking there is no way this would work, I signed up for a new account with that email address and used it to recover the password for my old account! I must have made up an address when they pestered me about a backup email.\u003cp\u003eHere is what shocked me:\n1) Forgot your password page hung several times. It sat there for minutes and I had refresh and go at it again.\n2) New account - verify phone with a code. The page to submit the code would spin and time out after a few minutes. After a few failed attempts they wouldn\u0026#x27;t let me try anymore - but they still let me log in. Did I really verify my phone or skip it? I don\u0026#x27;t know or care.\n3) I found the group I needed to use. I couldn\u0026#x27;t find a button to post or join the group. I googled. I had to log in on my phone to get a Join button - there isn\u0026#x27;t on on a PC.\u003cp\u003eYahoo is falling apart. I knew nobody cared about yahoo, but I didn\u0026#x27;t know until yesterday that the people at yahoo don\u0026#x27;t care about yahoo.","parent":"14195424","id":"14195576"}
{"by":"phatbyte","time":"1461324379","timestamp":"2016-04-22 11:26:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know a lot of expert tools with complex features and  with beautiful design\u0026#x2F;nice to use design. One thing is not a trade-off of the other. That\u0026#x27;s a fallacy that doesn\u0026#x27;t help the stigma that OSS tools should continue to do IMO.","parent":"11541621","id":"11548339"}
{"by":"losethos","time":"1369057531","timestamp":"2013-05-20 13:45:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Keep proposing ideas for my operating system.  If I hear something that's not misguided, I might do it.\u003cp\u003eI don't have any more projects I'm itching to do.\u003cp\u003eI'm an old foggy.\u003cp\u003eI've done everything that interests me, thank God.\u003cp\u003eGod says...\nsatisfied you_talkin'_to_me cross exhalation supposed wayward \ncopyright waft Obama seize displease exceeding bark defile \nstraightening wilfully fallacies Innocency drinketh Circensian \nlest INDIRECT hoped made bodies pay Amen sink doting glances \nmixture unperceived justly birdlime once_upon_a_time given \ninheritance mundo_stoked thats_right bounds garment constitute \ngrew swaying listening incorrect went sinners merely refer \nhigh_five liberty singsong You_can_count_on_that follow \nhabit earnestness bringeth ensues eyesight outer problem \ndownfall mysteries Cyprian roarest Wherefore Affrighted \nyoure_lucky Moses Saul PROVIDED divinity bursting countenance \nproveth working former Employee relations least selected \nforbade spurn lottery curing instinct Sabbath wings prey \ntone inflicted nest rmunday before physic forsakest annoyance \nintolerable mocked seductions Stop blow wallowed comforted \nsolstices immortality Hasta cud tumultuous consistent","parent":"5736911","dead":true,"id":"5737669"}
{"by":"_Codemonkeyism","time":"1506874294","timestamp":"2017-10-01 16:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The map of Europe might give the misleading impression that European nations were a static mix of people, sitting in a time capsule, [...]\u003cp\u003eIn reality, the situation was fluid. The standard forces of disease, warfare, trade networks, natural disaster, and human ingenuity were always at play.","parent":"15378317","id":"15378452"}
{"by":"discordianfish","time":"1498744389","timestamp":"2017-06-29 13:53:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally agree. Actually wished there was a paid acme service, basically the same as letsencrypt but without such low rate limits.","parent":"14663101","id":"14663303"}
{"by":"Sephr","time":"1431241791","timestamp":"2015-05-10 07:09:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s quite an impressive implementation! I didn\u0026#x27;t realize hand-written asm.js could be that readable.","parent":"9510544","id":"9519152"}
{"by":"tlrobinson","time":"1197531631","timestamp":"2007-12-13 07:40:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If both Disqus and your site used OpenID you would get that for free :)\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately it appears that neither does :(\u003cp\u003eAnyone developing a new website should take the little extra time to support OpenID authentication, it would make the world a better place.\u003cp\u003eHowever, one nice thing about Disqus (like OpenID) is that you only have to register with Disqus once, and any blog using Disqus can use that one account.","parent":"88977","id":"89045"}
{"by":"daleharvey","time":"1329964919","timestamp":"2012-02-23 02:41:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"irony defined","parent":"3623360","id":"3623564"}
{"by":"inthewoods","time":"1519663410","timestamp":"2018-02-26 16:43:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Paper is interesting but boy have they missed the opportunity so far imho. Paper doesn\u0026#x27;t come close to what Quip has been able to do, and they failed to capitalize on email. My impression, right or wrong, is that they are very slow at development compared to their competitors.\u003cp\u003eWhat I think the article gets right is that Dropbox focused on files - which are being abstracted away. At my current company, we have Dropbox and Google Drive, but it\u0026#x27;s clear that if we\u0026#x27;re going to use G-Suite then Dropbox needs to go.\u003cp\u003eWhat they could do: with their new-found public status, they could buy Smartsheet to get a solid Google Sheets competitor. I\u0026#x27;m sure they can find a calendar provider.\u003cp\u003eOf course, I\u0026#x27;m not confident that they should point their ship into the eye of Office 365 and G-Suite - I just don\u0026#x27;t see what their other options are.","parent":"16466410","id":"16466619"}
{"by":"SandB0x","time":"1409655701","timestamp":"2014-09-02 11:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only black cab drivers take The Knowledge. Minicab (pre-booked private hire) drivers in London mostly use GPS.","parent":"8256826","id":"8256878"}
{"by":"jlebrech","time":"1501489267","timestamp":"2017-07-31 08:21:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"maybe they should partner with IMDB to see what content that isn\u0026#x27;t available that their customers want, or even make Netflix free (with only the option to watch pilot shows or old classic movies) and additional option to put shows and movies into a wishlist whether it\u0026#x27;s part of the catalogue or not.","parent":"14890254","id":"14890283"}
{"by":"squeaky-clean","time":"1462976314","timestamp":"2016-05-11 14:18:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will work over a mobile connection, using wifi is only recommended to save data usage.","parent":"11674713","id":"11675480"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1315312008","timestamp":"2011-09-06 12:26:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI think I'm the bounty hunter that got $10 and $50 for two similar bugs.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYep.  I would have named you, but I don't like doing that without asking permission first and I didn't know that I was going to mention the $10/$50 bit until I was halfway through writing that blog post.","parent":"2964749","id":"2965260"}
{"by":"wombatpm","time":"1532640407","timestamp":"2018-07-26 21:26:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On a similar vein, I\u0026#x27;ve often wondered if there is a link between the rise in prescription of the statin class of cholesterol drugs and the rise of Alzheimers","parent":"17619294","id":"17621338"}
{"by":"garrettgrimsley","time":"1485540566","timestamp":"2017-01-27 18:09:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Posting directly to the site costs money.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;whoishiring.io\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;whoishiring.io\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13501293","id":"13501420"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1294252086","timestamp":"2011-01-05 18:28:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not, but the differences between the \"pizza shop\" and \"ISP\" scenarios are pretty huge even before you get into the credit and business histories of the business owners. Sorry to be a pedant.\u003cp\u003eBy the way, curious: how did you find this out? When your pizza place gets a new oven, do you just go ask them about how they financed it? Do you ask these kinds of questions of business owners in general? How do they respond?","parent":"2071841","id":"2071857"}
{"by":"JrobertsHstaff","time":"1427883787","timestamp":"2015-04-01 10:23:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll admit to being the multi-tasker during some meetings, but that\u0026#x27;s usually in response to an inefficient meeting wasting my time. I\u0026#x27;d much rather at least be getting something done. In fact, I find that the companies where I most enjoy working have the fewest meetings - at my current job there are almost none and it\u0026#x27;s awesome.","parent":"9302036","id":"9302667"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1250513356","timestamp":"2009-08-17 12:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good article.  Most people don't realize how much data they are silently corrupting.\u003cp\u003eI did not realize how bad of an idea HTTP sessions were until I started using BDB and a transaction around the whole request.  Lots of conflicts that MySQL (and Postgres, out of the box) just silently ignored.  BDB showed me my flawed logic, and I changed how I stored sessions.  (Only storing the whole object when some field actually changed, rather than always writing what I read at the beginning.  Even this is sub-optimal.)","parent":"767900","id":"767962"}
{"by":"pxlpshr","time":"1232987777","timestamp":"2009-01-26 16:36:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possibly, but having dropped out of calculus a few times... I can not confirm that's what we need. :)","parent":"450565","id":"450604"}
{"by":"bkmn","time":"1450031989","timestamp":"2015-12-13 18:39:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Password managers ftw! What is the state of go gui development? It\u0026#x27;s a nice language that I only know the basics of, but it seems lacking in gui\u0026#x2F;desktop areas...","parent":"10727027","id":"10727291"}
{"by":"larrys","time":"1366053898","timestamp":"2013-04-15 19:24:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can't think of the exact word to describe that practice (what you did in response to the long list of questions which I've seen) but on the part of the company requesting you to answer the questions it's more or less a \"absence of malice\" type of thing that allows them to appear that they are doing the right thing while fully knowing that people are doing what you are doing. It's a \"we will look the other way until we need to show that it's not our fault because we have passed the liability to you - look you acknowledge doing all the right things\".","parent":"5553323","id":"5553638"}
{"by":"Oompa","time":"1210985977","timestamp":"2008-05-17 00:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know that regular vim is available for OS X, and I also know that a special \"MacVim\" also exists. MacVim is more integrated with OS X as a whole, and has a gui like gvim.","parent":"192310","id":"192372"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1376424456","timestamp":"2013-08-13 20:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first 10 employees hired (most of whom should be engineers at a tech startup) have a \u003ci\u003ehuge\u003c/i\u003e effect on the trajectory of a startup.  One bad hire there will sink the company.\u003cp\u003eI know Google employees with employee numbers in the hundreds that had a measurable (and very visible) effect on the success of the company.","parent":"6207733","id":"6207947"}
{"by":"easytiger","time":"1528373614","timestamp":"2018-06-07 12:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Precisely how does that support the statement that this is something specific to London?","parent":"17204063","id":"17255090"}
{"by":"MichaelSalib","time":"1325365973","timestamp":"2011-12-31 21:12:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In most of the US, building densely is illegal. We have massive public subsidies and implicit taxes to support car ownership (in the form of mandatory parking requirements and absurdly underpriced municipal parking just for starters). Public transportation cost effectiveness is highly dependent on density which we've outlawed.","parent":"3411697","id":"3411860"}
{"by":"_ikke_","time":"1496047045","timestamp":"2017-05-29 08:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There certainly are github employees who contribute a lot to git, but not with their github e-mail address, but with their personal address.","parent":"14437929","id":"14438097"}
{"by":"oneJob","time":"1445483877","timestamp":"2015-10-22 03:17:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could share my personal experience, such as the time when I told a boss of mine with whom I had a great relationship that I was going to take a day off before I got close to burning out, using the actual words \u0026quot;burning out\u0026quot;, but even though all the anecdotal responses are heart warming and all,...\u003cp\u003e1) this sort of thing is almost completely situational; i.e. depends on your specific context\u003cp\u003e2) you won\u0026#x27;t know exactly how it will play out until you\u0026#x27;ve said words that you can\u0026#x27;t take back\u003cp\u003e3) at which point, if you miscalculated, you employer now has info that puts you at a disadvantage\u003cp\u003e4) company-employee relationships \u003ci\u003eby definition and structure\u003c/i\u003e give the company asymmetric advantages in issues such as information, financial negotiations, and time-line strategies.\u003cp\u003eI say all this, not to be a wet-blanket, but rather to offer an alternative. You can accomplish the same thing using different words. If you\u0026#x27;re burning out, don\u0026#x27;t ask for understanding from your company, do the right thing for yourself and do what is necessary to put yourself back on a sustainable path. If this includes giving a different reason for how you end up dealing with it, tell them what they need to hear, but, do \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e add \u0026#x27;worried about your job\u0026#x27; to \u0026#x27;burnt out\u0026#x27;.","parent":"10428008","id":"10430216"}
{"by":"ctdonath","time":"1334061038","timestamp":"2012-04-10 12:30:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny how nobody wants to consider that we are, in fact, nearing the end of a periodic high in long term global temperatures. \u003ca href=\"http://donath.org/Photos/TempChange.PNG\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://donath.org/Photos/TempChange.PNG\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3820314","id":"3821833"}
{"by":"renekooi","time":"1414354158","timestamp":"2014-10-26 20:09:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s something that kind of looks like lisp, but the only thing it has in common is the parentheses. You basically set condition→action rules, one level deep, with a limited amount of global-only \u0026quot;variables\u0026quot; (goals). I think the amount of conditions and actions per \u0026quot;rule\u0026quot; is limited, too.","parent":"8512147","id":"8512174"}
{"by":"GertG","time":"1319803519","timestamp":"2011-10-28 12:05:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Belgium it is indeed illegal to send unsolicited mails, IF it is sent for publicity reasons. The law includes a definition of publicity, the gist of which is \"promoting goods, services or a company\". It's the sender's task to prove that promotional mail was solicited.","parent":"3166522","id":"3167912"}
{"by":"jsjenkins168","time":"1189209934","timestamp":"2007-09-08 00:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually know a few people who go to A\u0026#38;M who discovered similar vulnerabilities. A friend gained access to the Windows LAN Manager passwords and cracked them, getting access to login and passwords of the entire freshman Engineering class. On a separate occasion, he noticed a windows folder share on a server which contained the logs for the Engineering departments student portal. The logs contained every login attempt with the login and password stored in plain text! Not kidding.\u003cp\u003eSo he told the department system admins and they basically shrugged him off.. Maybe now they've learned their lesson?","parent":"51945","id":"51966"}
{"by":"6ren","time":"1372878363","timestamp":"2013-07-03 19:06:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Stretching it: natural language was grammatical before grammar was invented. Natural laws existed before they were discovered. But it can be easier to change grammar\u0026#x2F;law\u0026#x2F;types\u0026#x2F;schema when not explicit.","parent":"5986298","id":"5986815"}
{"by":"ryanmarsh","time":"1484494809","timestamp":"2017-01-15 15:40:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last night my wife took me out to dinner and a raunchy hilarious burlesque show for my birthday. We\u0026#x27;ve been married 14 years. The evening was wonderful. We decided to stay out a little longer and had a disagreement over something I really don\u0026#x27;t know how it got this big but turned into an argument in the parking lot that could have ended with a short ride home and make up sex but since the car wouldn\u0026#x27;t start it turned into a really bad argument while we waited over an hour for roadside assistance to get there and jump start the car.\u003cp\u003eThis morning she rolled over and told me to fuck her and we had passionate intimate sex and it\u0026#x27;s like nothing happened but we\u0026#x27;re still both a little hurt but won\u0026#x27;t say anything about it until the argument boils over again and I still haven\u0026#x27;t hung the new light fixture in the half-bath and I have to pack for a business trip Tuesday and I dread packing so I\u0026#x27;ll drag her into it and she\u0026#x27;ll tolerate me, barely, and I don\u0026#x27;t know what this is or if it\u0026#x27;s how it should be but it\u0026#x27;s us and we love each other more than we hate each other and it\u0026#x27;s not that we\u0026#x27;re great for each other it\u0026#x27;s just that there\u0026#x27;s some kind of intersectionality in our individual dysfunctions and so here we are.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know shit about marriage and I\u0026#x27;m glad the author is happy but I swear to fucking God that dog shit would drive me up the fucking wall so we have our thing and you have yours so let\u0026#x27;s just not judge each other or label each other\u0026#x27;s marriage.","parent":"13402371","id":"13404454"}
{"by":"melvinmt","time":"1462407583","timestamp":"2016-05-05 00:19:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would recommend to look into a well organized boilerplate repo to learn how to structure larger projects. Here\u0026#x27;s one for react\u0026#x2F;redux\u0026#x2F;react-router: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;davezuko\u0026#x2F;react-redux-starter-kit\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;davezuko\u0026#x2F;react-redux-starter-kit\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11632886","id":"11633044"}
{"by":"JoeAltmaier","time":"1434126925","timestamp":"2015-06-12 16:35:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t matter what I like; if we flagged every article somebody didn\u0026#x27;t like, there\u0026#x27;d be no HN.","parent":"9706636","id":"9706951"}
{"by":"ivanca","time":"1414464846","timestamp":"2014-10-28 02:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, no. They chose intensive process, many of them are ports of code from other languages and some the tests are using software made by Mozilla such as pdf.jz and zlib (Ecmascripten) and Microsoft (Typescript compiler)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://developers.google.com/octane/benchmark\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developers.google.com\u0026#x2F;octane\u0026#x2F;benchmark\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8519182","id":"8519319"}
{"by":"tlikonen","time":"1451584706","timestamp":"2015-12-31 17:58:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quote:\u003cp\u003e“we are happy to say that we will be shipping an additional small batch of the Jolla Tablet to early backers during early 2016, targeting to send invitations during January. The bad news here is that we are not able to complete the production to fulfill all contributions. In other words, all of our backers will not get a Jolla Tablet.”","parent":"10818720","id":"10818728"}
{"by":"throwawayjava","time":"1522707519","timestamp":"2018-04-02 22:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Sure, it sucks to be Pittsburgh...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ePittsburgh is a blueprint for the rest of the country in this regard. It sucked to be Pittsburgh in 1970-1990. Today, Pittsburgh is almost unrecognizable from the Steel City, at least in economic terms, and the county\u0026#x27;s unemployment rate is right around the national average.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; helping Pittsburgh, and almost no one else\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe help to Pittsburgh would be pretty marginal; US Steel isn\u0026#x27;t even a top 5 employer in the region, and a lot of those jobs are suits that scale logarithmically with output. US Steel employs about the same number of people as Carnegie Mellon, which isn\u0026#x27;t even a particularly large university among R1 institutions.","parent":"16739802","id":"16739945"}
{"by":"ZeroMinx","time":"1291596736","timestamp":"2010-12-06 00:52:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering what's been happening last few days; Is anyone at all surprised by this?\u003cp\u003eI am however intrigued to see where all this will lead..","parent":"1973097","id":"1973319"}
{"by":"_0ffh","time":"1523037977","timestamp":"2018-04-06 18:06:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly! Fiat money has value solely because the participants in the market agree that it does so. That\u0026#x27;s practically the definition. And it\u0026#x27;s exactly where most cryptocurrencies are at, except for those that are explicitly backed (like Royal Mint Gold is backed by, well, gold). Hence my original comment. But some people seem to think that down voting that comment will somehow change these facts. Oh well.","parent":"16775363","id":"16775671"}
{"by":"chmaynard","time":"1483206932","timestamp":"2016-12-31 17:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first sentence is obviously false -- the well-known landscape architect Frederick Olmsted was born in 1822, so he could not have designed Highland Park in the 1700s. Not a good way to start the article.","parent":"13291499","id":"13292157"}
{"by":"SamReidHughes","time":"1434355365","timestamp":"2015-06-15 08:02:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The most important piece of code in this blog post is right here:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    for (size_t i = 0; i != NUM_KEYS; ++i) {\n    int key = dis(gen);\n    for (size_t j = 0; j != NUM_2ND_KEYS; ++j)\n        {\n        int key2 = dis(gen);\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nA whole bunch of 2nd keys are generated for each \u0026quot;1st\u0026quot; key.  In the parts of the chart where blue beats red, where you\u0026#x27;ve got 2000 \u0026quot;1st\u0026quot; keys, with a MAX_VAL of 100000, each query only has a 2% chance of hitting a \u0026quot;1st\u0026quot; key and experiencing any sort of vector traversal.  If you merely generated NUM_KEYS * NUM_2ND_KEYS combinations of 1st and 2nd independent keys, the cost of what once were rare long traversals would be de-amortized into a bunch of tiny traversals that don\u0026#x27;t benefit from locality.\u003cp\u003eIf you only run queries on keys actually present in the data set (which is a far more typical use case than guessing points in a sparse data set), you\u0026#x27;ll soon regret the use of a vector.\u003cp\u003eEdit: It\u0026#x27;s also worth pointing out that the implementation with a vector is missing values, which it needs to be functionally equivalent.  Changing it to a vector\u0026lt;pair\u0026lt;int, int\u0026gt;\u0026gt; will hurt your vector traversal times.  (Replacing the vector with a std::unordered_map\u0026lt;int, int\u0026gt; will improve your performance.)","parent":"9717261","id":"9718064"}
{"by":"sickbeard","time":"1460644087","timestamp":"2016-04-14 14:28:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mathematicians take the fun out of everything and turn it into  a graph","parent":"11495563","id":"11496986"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1515607277","timestamp":"2018-01-10 18:01:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hell, I was one of those people before I needed to get a passport (I guess I had it when I got my first DL, but it must have been with my dad or something). Thank god Oregon will mail one to you easily, if I was Californian the process would have been in for much more hurt (as I found out with my son!).","parent":"16116864","id":"16117210"}
{"by":"pluma","time":"1474983013","timestamp":"2016-09-27 13:30:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"German law basically says that terms of service and end user license agreements can\u0026#x27;t contain surprises. If a service explicitly states it doesn\u0026#x27;t do certain things, the user hasn\u0026#x27;t consented to the service doing those things, even if the ToS or EULA contain a snippet in fine print saying the service may actually do these things after all.\u003cp\u003eThis already bit WhatsApp when they tried to ban users for using alternative clients. A German court ruled while they may block those alternative clients, banning the user is unexpected because most other services don\u0026#x27;t have that kind of policy on alternative clients.\u003cp\u003eSo they could have still kept that policy but they would have to make it unambiguously clear and draw attention to it outside the ToS or EULA because it\u0026#x27;s something users wouldn\u0026#x27;t expect from that kind of service.","parent":"12588959","id":"12589418"}
{"by":"troels","time":"1313344243","timestamp":"2011-08-14 17:50:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a log that will mail me first time an error occurs. If it happens again, it will still be logged, but I don't get an email. Once I mark the error as resolved - if it happens again, I get an email.","parent":"2883971","id":"2884065"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1429840583","timestamp":"2015-04-24 01:56:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m really interested in finding out - at $10\u0026#x2F;haircut\u0026#x2F;10 minutes - It\u0026#x27;s the sort of thing you can do casually every couple weeks without even thinking about it.\u003cp\u003eDefinitely agree that there will be some people who absolutely will want to go to a hair salon - and, honestly, my 90% was just a thumb-in-the-wind estimate.  You\u0026#x27;re probably right that it\u0026#x27;s high, but, never underestimate the desire for people to get a good deal.\u003cp\u003eI think your Soylent comparison is \u003ci\u003eexcellent\u003c/i\u003e - and is exactly the one I would make.  People who see food in a utilitarian perspective see the value offered from soylent.  Likewise, people who consider haircuts as the process required to rid themselves of the excess hair, will get a lot of value out of an automated hair cut establishment.","parent":"9430979","id":"9431020"}
{"by":"wnevets","time":"1428339544","timestamp":"2015-04-06 16:59:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats a very literal \u0026amp; narrow interpretation of the movie. Ethan Hawk\u0026#x27;s parents weren\u0026#x27;t upset when he was born because wasn\u0026#x27;t going to be in the space program, they were upset because he had inferior genes.","parent":"9328615","id":"9329146"}
{"by":"belorn","time":"1367919241","timestamp":"2013-05-07 09:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Beyond that, they also showed that such actions now has risk involved. Hopefully this will lead to the lawyers getting jail time, and that will in turn discourage more legit lawyers from trying a similar scheme even with a A game performance.","parent":"5666616","id":"5667210"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1479802022","timestamp":"2016-11-22 08:07:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My daughter loves telling Minecraft stories when we are going for walks or in the car.  They\u0026#x27;re long quite complicated stories about her, me, and her friends having various made up adventures in the Minecraft world.  More often than not they\u0026#x27;ll spin off to include elements not possible in the game, but they always start in the Minecraft world.","parent":"13011566","id":"13012489"}
{"by":"Dude2021","time":"1518347790","timestamp":"2018-02-11 11:16:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And it misses the important question: “what is your 1-3 year plan for when new web assembly GUI frameworks make 75% of your knowledge obsolete?”.","parent":"16352172","id":"16352208"}
{"by":"gautamnarula","time":"1519748594","timestamp":"2018-02-27 16:23:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of the biggest appeals NYC has over Silicon Valley in my opinion. It\u0026#x27;s also why, when I had the choice to intern in Silicon Valley, I chose to intern in Santa Cruz instead. It\u0026#x27;s close enough to the Valley that I could attend cool tech events (albeit with a not particularly pleasant commute), while Santa Cruz still enjoyed the Bay Area\u0026#x27;s good weather and is not (yet) a tech monoculture.","parent":"16474762","id":"16474893"}
{"by":"smcl","time":"1496090700","timestamp":"2017-05-29 20:45:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe since the salary expectations are so much higher in SV\u0026#x2F;NY and Seattle* HR folks feel they have to be seen to be much more \u0026quot;rigorous\u0026quot; whether that is the case or not (\u0026quot;we had 100 applicants and hired the top 2\u0026quot;)?\u003cp\u003e* = I picked the three big pricey \u0026quot;coastal\u0026quot; US places that came to mind, it\u0026#x27;s entirely possible we\u0026#x27;re talking about different places :-)","parent":"14441003","id":"14441326"}
{"by":"pmlamotte","time":"1482252445","timestamp":"2016-12-20 16:47:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just switched to the XPS 13 as well and picked up the WD15 which is the same price on Amazon. The WD15 officially supports linux and from what I read is better than the 3100 as long as you\u0026#x27;re on a more recent kernel. Hopefully I won\u0026#x27;t have to return it.","parent":"13220363","id":"13221478"}
{"by":"ralpht54","time":"1385106212","timestamp":"2013-11-22 07:43:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Laws tend to be general. For example a lay might say something like: Communication between two parties needs to be secure.\nNow, what is secure, how do you define it? Like tomte said you have the burden of proof. One way is to say you followed a standard because standards are formulated by \u0026quot;experts\u0026quot; and thus your communication is clear.\nAn alternative is to develop your own secure algorithm - you might have to proof this at some point that it really is secure.\u003cp\u003eIf a law says that all communication needs to be encrypted using technique x, then it will be outdated as soon as this technique is broken. Thus a law specifying that communication should be secure is something that can last much longer\u003cp\u003eBesides, this information is very technical and not in the slightest consumer oriented! After looking at the first document I certainly don\u0026#x27;t want to read further. That is why we have standard bodies, law makers and journalists to do this stuff for is. I don\u0026#x27;t think that a raw dump would help anybody","parent":"6779665","id":"6779685"}
{"by":"angersock","time":"1510546973","timestamp":"2017-11-13 04:22:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do we know that it\u0026#x27;s going to be used any worse?\u003cp\u003eI really wish that we, as a nation, started thinking in terms of what good works we could accomplish with our tax dollars instead of what stupid waste we could remove by not collecting them.","parent":"15683663","id":"15684280"}
{"by":"dobbsbob","time":"1377718493","timestamp":"2013-08-28 19:34:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bitcoin cashing out is simple. Use different addresses to receive, use coincontrol program, use a mixing service or just start a front company to launder. Could also change into litecoins and cash them out","parent":"6291820","id":"6292136"}
{"by":"SmellyGeekBoy","time":"1525423167","timestamp":"2018-05-04 08:39:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So what can the salad eater do to be safe?\u003cp\u003eCarry on as you are? You\u0026#x27;re more likely to get hit by a bus than catch E. Coli from a salad.","parent":"16989622","id":"16993114"}
{"by":"walrus01","time":"1463606471","timestamp":"2016-05-18 21:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It very much depends on where the local speedtest.net server is in relation to you in terms of network topology. If you\u0026#x27;re in a large city like SF or Seattle, your ISP might host a 1U box from ookla or directly peer with them at a major IX point less than 15 milliseconds away from you.","parent":"11724491","id":"11726078"}
{"by":"seanmcdirmid","time":"1462482505","timestamp":"2016-05-05 21:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is, for income earned abroad, meaning of the deduction that lower the rate domestically don\u0026#x27;t apply as easily, so you wind up actually paying somewhere near 35%. \u0026quot;Hey here is an incentive to do stuff in the states\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t apply when you aren\u0026#x27;t doing stuff in the states.","parent":"11638202","id":"11639676"}
{"by":"dasil003","time":"1264796044","timestamp":"2010-01-29 20:14:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This attitude is why so few companies even come close to replicating the Apple experience.  It's not about \"what the device can do\", it's about elegance and design from end to end.  No one will ever make a Win tablet that can compare to the iPad because the applications will not target that specific device, they will always have a watered down UX.","parent":"1087407","id":"1087448"}
{"by":"scosman","time":"1421681067","timestamp":"2015-01-19 15:24:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A small savings for memory, but much faster. The link has benchmarks.","parent":"8912222","id":"8912242"}
{"by":"karmelapple","time":"1449114121","timestamp":"2015-12-03 03:42:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note: \u0026quot;blue\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean new or in development, but rather dirty, ribald, or adult.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;comedians.about.com\u0026#x2F;od\u0026#x2F;glossary\u0026#x2F;g\u0026#x2F;bluehumor.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;comedians.about.com\u0026#x2F;od\u0026#x2F;glossary\u0026#x2F;g\u0026#x2F;bluehumor.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10667573","id":"10667615"}
{"by":"mstevens","time":"1282314425","timestamp":"2010-08-20 14:27:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a lot more complicated than that.\u003cp\u003eFor example, if I ask a small question today, I'll get an answer and get with the task quickly.\u003cp\u003eBut I'll only have a small bit of information, so I'll be back tomorrow, the day after, and so on.\u003cp\u003eWhereas if I spend slightly longer working it out myself, I'll generally understand the system involved, and may be able to avoid a whole series of questions, saving significant time for everyone involved.","parent":"1620291","id":"1620451"}
{"by":"dmoo","time":"1516986697","timestamp":"2018-01-26 17:11:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you looked at assp, lots of parameters but does the job.","parent":"16239809","id":"16240853"}
{"by":"thelibrarian","time":"1512100314","timestamp":"2017-12-01 03:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ticket to Ride is good.","parent":"15821548","id":"15821777"}
{"by":"throwaway8290","time":"1425013663","timestamp":"2015-02-27 05:07:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you literally notice that your mind is fading during the day, and that feeling has started in the recent several months, often that is a sign of either vision problems or acute diabetes.","parent":"9117236","id":"9117280"}
{"by":"DaniFong","time":"1220477846","timestamp":"2008-09-03 21:37:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is pretty nice; it explains things graphically, but you can read it at your own speed.\u003cp\u003eStill, I think that Michael is both exaggerating the comic books effectiveness and underestimating the technical merits.","parent":"294100","id":"294262"}
{"by":"munificent","time":"1522169001","timestamp":"2018-03-27 16:43:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His argument is \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e strange. He notes, correctly that \u003ci\u003eCongress\u0026#x27;s\u003c/i\u003e job is to put together a budget. But then he talks only about the party of the \u003ci\u003ePresident\u003c/i\u003e. What he should be talking about is which party has a majority in Congress. And, indeed, during almost all of Clinton\u0026#x27;s time in office, the Republican party had very strong control over Congress.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t have the time, but I would be really interested to see a chart showing funding changes for NIH, NASA, etc. by year with the party in control of Congress at that time. Seems like that would give you a much better picture.","parent":"16690094","id":"16690273"}
{"by":"vram22","time":"1505583260","timestamp":"2017-09-16 17:34:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hasty downvoter, do your research first. That Rule 6 was not made up by me, it was the real thing, by one of the people mentioned in the parent comment - Rob Pike:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lysator.liu.se\u0026#x2F;c\u0026#x2F;pikestyle.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lysator.liu.se\u0026#x2F;c\u0026#x2F;pikestyle.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15265250","id":"15265606"}
{"by":"dx034","time":"1497621217","timestamp":"2017-06-16 13:53:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why not? The important part is commute. 50hr work week in a job you like with a reasonable commute is no problem for your health. 30hr\u0026#x2F;week in a job you don\u0026#x27;t like with 2.5hr in traffic each day is much less healthy.","parent":"14568781","id":"14568956"}
{"by":"vilhelm_s","time":"1495053726","timestamp":"2017-05-17 20:42:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A drum did break, that\u0026#x27;s what the article is about.","parent":"14359480","id":"14362603"}
{"by":"dymk","time":"1539044963","timestamp":"2018-10-09 00:29:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having built reference counted systems, they\u0026#x27;re anything but easy to understand unless you\u0026#x27;re greatly restricting the graph of objects and the references they can have to each other. And once you\u0026#x27;ve restricted who can point to what, you\u0026#x27;ve lost a lot of the flexibility that a RC system affords.","parent":"18172353","id":"18172437"}
{"by":"pajju","time":"1350583001","timestamp":"2012-10-18 17:56:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah its overpriced compared to Chromebooks. Lets wait until it hits mass production. :)","parent":"4669968","id":"4670022"}
{"by":"thinkMOAR","time":"1497348817","timestamp":"2017-06-13 10:13:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are these truly all the findings of the author after 16 years of running IPv6?\u003cp\u003eI find the list\u0026#x2F;number of points very little and most are common knowledge or been in countless of how to roll out ipv6 guides.\u003cp\u003eThe mentioning that if end users have problems accessing your site, you should roll out ipv6 to your internal network, reads a \u0026#x27;bit\u0026#x27; strange.","parent":"14537991","id":"14543831"}
{"by":"aaron_m04","time":"1472749938","timestamp":"2016-09-01 17:12:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used OpenBSD CURRENT on the Thinkpad Carbon X1 for 3 months earlier this year, and my experience has been that hardware support is not a problem for a \u0026quot;knowledge worker\u0026quot; (I am assuming you don\u0026#x27;t need things like HDMI audio for that).\u003cp\u003eThe main problem is software that is outdated, unavailable, or buggy on non-Linux platforms.\u003cp\u003eI came crawling back to Linux in the end.","parent":"12406970","id":"12407052"}
{"by":"coroxout","time":"1454336821","timestamp":"2016-02-01 14:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"UK is nominally 230V to standardise with the rest of Europe but actually 240V as it always was:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Following voltage harmonisation, electricity supplies within the European Union are now nominally 230 V ±10% at 50 Hz.[6] For a transition period (1995–2008), countries that had previously used 220 V changed to a narrower asymmetric tolerance range of 230 V +6%\u0026#x2F;−10% and those (like the UK) that had previously used 240 V changed to 230 V +10%\u0026#x2F;−6%.[7] No change in voltage is required by either system as both 220 V and 240 V fall within the lower 230 V tolerance bands (230 V ±10%).\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mains_electricity#Standardisation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Mains_electricity#Standardisat...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if 240V is actually being phased out now it\u0026#x27;s post-2008 but the mains of everywhere I\u0026#x27;ve lived since 2008 has definitely still been 240V.","parent":"11009962","id":"11011878"}
{"by":"shakna","time":"1516768737","timestamp":"2018-01-24 04:38:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was just looking to replace a specific function call, because the company weren\u0026#x27;t using VC, and no longer had a working codebase.\u003cp\u003eSo I was hunting a particular pattern to replace, that I knew probably existed. A simple combination of demovfuscator,  regex on the \u0026quot;original\u0026quot; asm and eyeballing it succeeded in the end.","parent":"16219511","id":"16220355"}
{"by":"mountaineer","time":"1493093398","timestamp":"2017-04-25 04:09:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Version 3.0 is being announced which is compatible with Ruby 2.4 and Rails 5. With this being a popular gem in the Ruby community, I\u0026#x27;m guessing those are important milestones many folks are happy with.","parent":"14190635","id":"14190702"}
{"by":"UlyssesSKrunk","time":"1469997470","timestamp":"2016-07-31 20:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nah, they weren\u0026#x27;t buggy, it was just user error. Nobody stepped on them properly.","parent":"12189191","id":"12198714"}
{"by":"yongjik","time":"1481414893","timestamp":"2016-12-11 00:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have 95% chance of winning a lawsuit, and if the company you sue can afford to spend $10M on it, loser-pays-all means you have 5% chance of going bankrupt (unless you have \u0026gt;$10M in your account).\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s any more fair than the current US system.","parent":"13145903","id":"13148741"}
{"by":"qubex","time":"1513263477","timestamp":"2017-12-14 14:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most definitely. We communicate and collaborate and to a certain degree cross-pollinate (mainly I learn, there’s not so much extra macroeconomic depth to add)... but what I was emphasising was the clarity about the separation of rôles.","parent":"15922103","id":"15922688"}
{"by":"wakaflaka","time":"1398856846","timestamp":"2014-04-30 11:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are just asking for race condition issues with that type of \u0026quot;solution.\u0026quot;","parent":"7672504","id":"7672599"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1423697943","timestamp":"2015-02-11 23:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am using Fedora20.  I have unusual reasons - my 2009 Macbook Pro os broken such that booting OSX or the MacOS install disc will cause hard reboot very quickly.\u003cp\u003eThe efi boot-install of Fedora also crashes the machine; the bios boot uses a different graphics card and doesn\u0026#x27;t crash the machine.  (The Plymouth boot logo is garbled and boot takes an age but it works).\u003cp\u003e(I only think it\u0026#x27;s a broken graphics adaptor. I\u0026#x27;d happily try any fault-finding that people suggest. )\u003cp\u003eI have strongly negative opinions of Fedora and I will never ever install it on any other system.  I\u0026#x27;m preparing to move over to Arch.","parent":"9030713","id":"9036434"}
{"by":"teng","time":"1367019953","timestamp":"2013-04-26 23:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was a small bug, and it's been fixed now!","parent":"5615901","id":"5616147"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1453120111","timestamp":"2016-01-18 12:28:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes they have, and we called them compilers.\u003cp\u003eCan you dig me a 70\u0026#x27;s paper with the transpiler word on it?","parent":"10923822","id":"10923981"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1340806641","timestamp":"2012-06-27 14:17:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really wanted to flag this, because I really don't think that it's constructive to engage in this kind of satire and what-not.  How about put the other guy's shoes on for a minute, and ask yourself how you'd feel if you were the author of the post that inspired this one?\u003cp\u003eThat said, this bit struck me as so funny that it (sort of) saves the thing:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurrently we're in double stealth mode (the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we).\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eROFLMFAO.","parent":"4166183","id":"4167015"}
{"by":"siddboots","time":"1361360658","timestamp":"2013-02-20 11:44:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of the examples in the article.","parent":"5249866","id":"5249904"}
{"by":"WalterBright","time":"1507318196","timestamp":"2017-10-06 19:29:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yup. The value of software has been driven literally to $0. Yet I still keep writing software :-)","parent":"15419369","id":"15419690"}
{"by":"zobzu","time":"1388545507","timestamp":"2014-01-01 03:05:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"note that most disney movies are profitable a few weeks after release.\nso even of copyright was 1 year theyd still do it .... because profit.\nits just that now they can enjoy 100y of profit without additional effort instead.","parent":"6991744","id":"6993963"}
{"by":"jacobbennett","time":"1493047751","timestamp":"2017-04-24 15:29:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blog post is really great. Favorite section is the \u0026quot;What I think worked\u0026quot; section, tips for staying motivated and getting to launch. Also after reading this becomes apparent how much freaking work goes into this stuff!!!\u003cp\u003eWelp, off to make my \u0026quot;tripwire\u0026quot; product.","parent":"14184461","id":"14185052"}
{"by":"GoodIntentions","time":"1421172020","timestamp":"2015-01-13 18:00:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As far as this dude, with his aging eyeballs is concerned, the colour\u0026#x27;s meaning, if any was irrelevant.\u003cp\u003eI mean, the information was interesting enough to me to try to read it, but I frankly can not parse what looks like #FFFFFF text on #FEFFFE background.\u003cp\u003eFor the love of god, If you want to present data like this, ensure at least a little contrast exists between the text and background","parent":"8880964","id":"8881448"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1403538874","timestamp":"2014-06-23 15:54:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pranking is a lot more of a niche now than it ever was, but it\u0026#x27;s still alive. For some unholy reason PLA is still around: \u003ca href=\"http://www.phonelosers.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.phonelosers.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy favorite pranks were on confs with other loser kids from IRC, usually calling up either a business support line and trolling them with unsolveable product bugs, or something more esoteric, like calling up a sexual assault line and asking what counted as sexual assault, or an STD prevention hotline asking about strange maladies. Invariably someone else would hop on the line and make the whole thing into a soap opera for the poor abused call center monkey.\u003cp\u003eIf there\u0026#x27;s not that many pranks anymore it\u0026#x27;s probably because kids are finding new ways to deal with boredom.","parent":"7929774","id":"7932604"}
{"by":"thinkpad20","time":"1424889450","timestamp":"2015-02-25 18:37:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d add to this list Algebra, Chapter 0 by Aluffi. It\u0026#x27;s very clearly-written, even for a total beginner like me, but not dumbed down at all, and has a boatload of exercises which IMO is very helpful for learning the material. While its focus is on algebra and not specifically a textbook on category theory, it introduces categories very early on and, to me anyway, explains them as well as or better than any other treatment I\u0026#x27;ve read.","parent":"9107815","id":"9108566"}
{"by":"RyanMcGreal","time":"1283864064","timestamp":"2010-09-07 12:54:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's a case for the value of editorial oversight. This collection is one person's attempt to draw attention to particularly noteworthy talks among the TED oeuvre.","parent":"1668610","id":"1668737"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1539668072","timestamp":"2018-10-16 05:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"WIRED, unfortunately, is more of a press release outlet than a real news outfit. :| Pichai got softballed a few questions by Steven Levy, a guy who has written a glowing book about the company and somewhat regularly writes in-depth exclusive puff pieces for Google.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s really disappointing this is the outlet Pichai finally chose to spoke to, but it\u0026#x27;s understandable why: WIRED wasn\u0026#x27;t going to ask him anything he wasn\u0026#x27;t ready to answer.","parent":"18226631","id":"18226832"}
{"by":"olalonde","time":"1393341933","timestamp":"2014-02-25 15:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To a certain extent, the same is true of POW as rich people can afford more hashing power.","parent":"7297950","id":"7298047"}
{"by":"mi100hael","time":"1492098944","timestamp":"2017-04-13 15:55:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; Makes me kidna wonder where I would be today had I kept believing in fairy tales...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eProbably watching Bernie hand over your life-savings worth of donations to the same Clinton \u0026amp; DNC that predictably cheated him out of a win.","parent":"14107884","id":"14108085"}
{"by":"yapcguy","time":"1391905445","timestamp":"2014-02-09 00:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I upvoted the earlier comment because something interesting is worth repeating.  I wasn\u0026#x27;t aware of the issue or your explanation, so good thing he\u0026#x2F;she posted in the first place.","parent":"7203565","id":"7203574"}
{"by":"stevekemp","time":"1357664554","timestamp":"2013-01-08 17:02:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My partner recently bought a (backless) saddle-chair which I immediately mocked.  Having sat on it for a few days though it has really grown on me.\u003cp\u003eI tend to favour the ergonomic kneeling chairs myself, and I'm on my second in ten years.  This time it came from the local Argos store, fwiw.","parent":"5025817","id":"5027081"}
{"by":"keldaris","time":"1483098985","timestamp":"2016-12-30 11:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the insightful post. I stand corrected on the TCO issue, I had indeed misread the documentation, and I\u0026#x27;ve posted a correction to my original post accordingly. The bounds checking issue is also resolved to my satisfaction.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m not sure loop-based control flow is actually necessary, since (I believe) one can, say, parallelise over an enumerated iterator (e.g. slice.iter().enumerate()), which contains the indices. One can then .map() and read from the appropriate indices as required.\u003cp\u003eThe loop-based control flow is, strictly speaking, never necessary, as the two formulations are mathematically equivalent. It\u0026#x27;s just that for many algorithms the loop-based approach is more intuitive (to many people) and readable, and has less boilerplate. Your simple_parallel library looks syntactically closer to what I\u0026#x27;d like, though I\u0026#x27;m not sure if it\u0026#x27;s still being maintained.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; To shortcut your search: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org\u0026#x2F;std\u0026#x2F;?search=fast\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org\u0026#x2F;std\u0026#x2F;?search=fast\u003c/a\u003e . (I apologise that I didn\u0026#x27;t link it earlier, I was on a phone.)\u003cp\u003eThanks. I\u0026#x27;m glad the option is there, but the current implementation looks quite tedious to use in long numeric expressions, and would greatly sacrifice readability. Ideally, I\u0026#x27;d like something along the lines of fastmath { \u0026lt;expression\u0026gt; } blocks or function \u0026#x2F; loop level annotations. Is something like that possible with Rust\u0026#x27;s metaprogramming, perhaps?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; - numerics\u0026#x2F;scientific computing\u0026#x2F;machine learning are slowly taking over the world. It is bad to have random\u0026#x2F;occasional heisenbugs in systems that influence decisions from the personal to the international.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s theoretically true, but (in my opinion) practically irrelevant. The thing about numerical kernels is that input is constrained by the mathematics involved and the output is rigorously verifiable. In practice, I can\u0026#x27;t imagine a realistic case where a memory safety error would not be caught by the usual verification tests that any numeric code of any importance is routinely subject to. That\u0026#x27;s why programmers in this domain don\u0026#x27;t normally think about memory safety as a separate issue at all, it\u0026#x27;s just a small and not particularly remarkable part of the normal correctness testing. A guarantee of memory safety still doesn\u0026#x27;t free you from having to do all those tests anyway. Obviously, this is much different for systems software that takes inherently unpredictable user input that\u0026#x27;s difficult to sanitize.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; - games are very, very often touching the network these days, and thus are at risk of being exploited by a malicious attacker.\u003cp\u003eThe argument here is, I think, much stronger than for numerical software. Nevertheless, even for online games (that are still only a subset of computer games), network data is comparatively easy to sanitize and memory safety issues wouldn\u0026#x27;t typically lead to exploitable attacks. I\u0026#x27;ve never heard of a game used as a vector for a serious attack in any context, but at least it\u0026#x27;s somewhat conceivable in theory.","parent":"13282378","id":"13283928"}
{"by":"adventured","time":"1392534794","timestamp":"2014-02-16 07:13:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can explain the why. You\u0026#x27;re turning your nose up at something that the vast majority regard as a value culturally, but you regard as worthless (worse actually), and you elaborated it in several different ways in the same short post (and you elaborated your disdain again in the subsequent reply). I\u0026#x27;d argue that would come across as being culturally smug across most of the TV loving country.\u003cp\u003eYou weren\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e asserting a preference, you were putting down that which you don\u0026#x27;t like repeatedly. Whether one chooses to spend their time crocheting or watching TV is a strictly subjective value judgement. Is it better to laugh at a Seinfeld re-run, or Louis CK live? Better to watch Game of Thrones or read the books? Purely subjective, there is no superior choice.\u003cp\u003eAre you trying to be smug? I have no idea if that\u0026#x27;s your character type, my point was that what you said comes across as smug. It sounds culturally elitist, as though TV is for the little stupid people (I know you didn\u0026#x27;t say those words).","parent":"7246826","id":"7246923"}
{"by":"willifred","time":"1328765331","timestamp":"2012-02-09 05:28:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; there's an awkward separation between high culture and popular culture, mostly based on how old something is.\u003cp\u003eThat's an interesting notion that may prove true in the future, but a few exceptions aside, I don't think it accurately describes the history of what you'd call \"the western canon.\" The reality is that in the past, most popular art has been completely forgotten a few generations out. Of course there are exceptions, but the overwhelming number of plays, songs, novels, paintings, etc are dust. Your example of Shakespeare was a bit off the mark, because while he certainly had and has popular appeal, Shakespeare was in no way 'basically popular entertainment'; Lord Chamberlain's Men, \u003ci\u003eThe Kings Men\u003c/i\u003e—they were not performing for the sole benefit of the groundlings, they were performing primarily for very wealthy patrons.\u003cp\u003eAlso, Shakespeare created perhaps the finest and most elevated art in the English language, and was recognized for it then, even more so today; the plays that were basically popular entertainment in his time are footnotes or worse today.\u003cp\u003eAnd as a side note, I'm one of those people who enjoys seeing Shakespeare performed. I think you'd be surprised how much audiences enjoy it, and not just in that insufferable, look-how-cultured-I-am, self-congratulatory way.","parent":"3569740","id":"3569959"}
{"by":"bcheung","time":"1517350153","timestamp":"2018-01-30 22:09:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Optical illusions have a similar effect.  Also images that people can see in 2 different ways like the famous old\u0026#x2F;young woman example.","parent":"16269238","id":"16269551"}
{"by":"Plugawy","time":"1533734752","timestamp":"2018-08-08 13:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compojure - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;weavejester\u0026#x2F;compojure#usage\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;weavejester\u0026#x2F;compojure#usage\u003c/a\u003e is a very close equivalent of Sinatra. Ring (which most, if not all web libraries build on top of) is directly inspired by Ruby\u0026#x27;s Rack (I think Python and Node have a very similar, middleware oriented design).","parent":"17708356","id":"17715711"}
{"by":"kodablah","time":"1425867263","timestamp":"2015-03-09 02:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I too believe it is the best fit, but the \u0026quot;aggregate functions\u0026quot; gets most people. The use of counter columns is very limiting and many engineers don\u0026#x27;t want to struggle with storing state during streaming writes to precalculate the aggregates on write. Also, engineers tend not to want to do large reads to rebuild large aggregate values on small data changes.\u003cp\u003eIt is what we use, and we use spark streaming for the rollups. We had evaluated Influx, OpenTSDB, and Druid also. So long as you know the exact read patterns for your client I think Cassandra is definitely the best fit for most things.","parent":"9168412","id":"9168578"}
{"by":"Broken_Hippo","time":"1540574055","timestamp":"2018-10-26 17:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this can be solved. Seriously, we have nurse practitioners at pharmacies that can test for strep throat and treat that: I see no reason why we can\u0026#x27;t have something similar for influenza.\u003cp\u003eIdeally, I think it would work best if we had a care level that was between normal doctor and urgent care that was open 24 hours a day. It\u0026#x27;d mostly be to treat things like this. But until then, surely we can simply do tests for everyone.","parent":"18308081","id":"18311148"}
{"by":"adamrt","time":"1505327061","timestamp":"2017-09-13 18:24:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.emacswiki.org\u0026#x2F;emacs\u0026#x2F;MovingTheCtrlKey\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.emacswiki.org\u0026#x2F;emacs\u0026#x2F;MovingTheCtrlKey\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15240854","id":"15241105"}
{"by":"isostatic","time":"1504944409","timestamp":"2017-09-09 08:06:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the Uk you\u0026#x27;d be looking at replacing a roof after about 100 years, costs about £6k ($8k), not exactly a major cost.","parent":"15204458","id":"15206043"}
{"by":"smtddr","time":"1384148801","timestamp":"2013-11-11 05:46:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you liked that, you may also like: \n\u003ca href=\"http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;whatever.scalzi.com\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;straight-white-male-th...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6710156","id":"6710177"}
{"by":"ikeboy","time":"1447033901","timestamp":"2015-11-09 01:51:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think for that, in particular, there\u0026#x27;s a very strong argument to be made that any backdoors would have been discovered by now.","parent":"10530906","id":"10530980"}
{"by":"rm999","time":"1369748547","timestamp":"2013-05-28 13:42:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a chance to do five 10-40 minute bike rides yesterday (it was a beautiful day) using the new citi bikes. Here are my thoughts on the program:\u003cp\u003eI had to meet some friends in soho, which normally takes about 25 minutes by subway or 10 minutes by cab - I casually biked there in 12 minutes. It was great being able to leave my bike a block from where I was meeting my friends without worrying about locking it, and it was great that I could pick up another bike several blocks away to go home.\u003cp\u003eThe bikes themselves are clunky and built like tanks, which seems right because the bikes will be used a lot and are always outside. The bikes ride slowly, which again seems right for a commuting bike in a crowded urban setting.\u003cp\u003eThe bike stations are still having some issues that I hope will be ironed out shortly. Every time I tried to take out a bike the station would abort with a flashing red light the first three or four times, which was annoying. The station map was down all of yesterday, so I had to search around a bit for stations. That said the stations are nearly ubiquitous in downtown manhattan so it really wasn't a big issue.\u003cp\u003eOverall I'm really happy with the program and plan on using it a lot.","parent":"5779506","id":"5779946"}
{"by":"dwaltrip","time":"1384981547","timestamp":"2013-11-20 21:05:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could see open software being more important on the 100+ year scale (I could also see it not). The work or Bill Gates is very high impact, though.","parent":"6769926","id":"6771175"}
{"by":"Zev","time":"1313567031","timestamp":"2011-08-17 07:43:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn't a technicality. Apple \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c/i\u003e reject your app if you compile with Xcode 4.2.","parent":"2893650","id":"2894491"}
{"by":"janpieterz","time":"1456779035","timestamp":"2016-02-29 20:50:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just tested it and didn\u0026#x27;t find it super bad, but I am honestly (negatively) surprised. It does indeed lag quite a bit and feels very unnatural. Chrome here as well. I use React quite a bit myself and haven\u0026#x27;t experienced this in my own apps. Odd!\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also a slightly annoying flicker when you type the last bit and it keeps returning the same movies.","parent":"11197703","id":"11198373"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1328284098","timestamp":"2012-02-03 15:48:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I see node.js as being \"disruptive\":\u003cp\u003e* It's \"not as good\" as languages/environments like Erlang.\u003cp\u003e* But it's good enough, and significantly simpler, as an approach to tackle a certain class of problems.  This, combined with widespread knowledge of Javascript, will probably make it fairly widely used.","parent":"3547476","id":"3547518"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1425936578","timestamp":"2015-03-09 21:29:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A CTF is a game that one plays by programming.  I wish I could point you to competing CTFs that you can sign up and play right now, but most disappear from the Internet because they are fiendishly difficult to keep running.  Ask me (or any team that has shipped one) why if you\u0026#x27;re curious.\u003cp\u003eOne example would be MicroCorruption.  \u003ca href=\"https://microcorruption.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;microcorruption.com\u003c/a\u003e  Thomas and Erin helped build it back when they were still at Matasano.  It\u0026#x27;s a hybrid of a game -- there\u0026#x27;s a narrative, flavor text, a progression of difficulty, levels, a leaderboard, etc -- and a programming assignment.  The programming assignment happens to be some variant of \u0026quot;Here\u0026#x27;s assembly code; find an input which exploits the vulnerability we planted in it.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eStarfighter CTFs will similarly be a game that one plays by programming.  Similarities end there.  We can do \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e interesting things with this.","parent":"9174182","id":"9174249"}
{"by":"bitsoda","time":"1342140002","timestamp":"2012-07-13 00:40:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You make it sound as if the employees were all unpaid interns. So long as nothing extra is negotiated at the time of the job offer, then those employees knew (and were probably delighted by) exactly what they were getting. I don't expect my employer to back up the Brinks truck if they get bought out or have a successful run. This sense of entitlement is crippling. The employees were paid, presumably learned plenty, and are better people because of their experience at Digg.","parent":"4236740","id":"4237625"}
{"by":"zeroonetwothree","time":"1342074454","timestamp":"2012-07-12 06:27:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Workplaces should be an easy place to get same day delivery. At a large office you probably have 100+ Amazon orders each day that conveniently get delivered by the company's staff. Amazon could have their own truck just drive straight to the office building without getting UPS involved at all.","parent":"4232104","id":"4233338"}
{"by":"laex","time":"1530754771","timestamp":"2018-07-05 01:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought Levon Arakelyan was a true hacker. I can relate this to my own side-projects. Most of them start with a simple \u0026quot;what-if\u0026quot; question in my head. Once I\u0026#x27;ve started writing code, I won\u0026#x27;t stop until I have some kind of prototype ready. That aside, agreed that for digging tunnels it could be dangerous.","parent":"17459892","id":"17460380"}
{"by":"euccastro","time":"1257903118","timestamp":"2009-11-11 01:31:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can (just as you can just eat the last roll) but it makes less sense than with an empty basket. Also, you have to ask, while with an empty basket you could expect the waiter to offer you more.","parent":"934260","id":"934391"}
{"by":"nosuchthing","time":"1426719001","timestamp":"2015-03-18 22:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    So silicon valley is bad _because_ they find more \n  efficient ways to do things? Should we also be upset with\n   anyone who sells a refrigerator, for making all those \n  poor iceblock-expeditions and milkmen obsolete? Does the \n  \u0026quot;\\\u0026quot;sharing economy\\\u0026quot;\u0026quot; (my quotes around their quotes, for\n  how much they quote that term) mean that by using our \n  cars, homes, tools, etc. more efficiently, and buying \n  less new stuff, we\u0026#x27;re actually saying \u0026quot;drop dead\u0026quot; to the \n  people who would have manufactured new things?\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSoon we and our economics will have to confront the massive efficiency boost of our machinery that gives us sufficient production of goods and services for less hours of work.\u003cp\u003eWe can let half the world starve, or we can educate and build for the future instead of the next big prophesied exit or fiscal quarter..","parent":"9226922","id":"9229173"}
{"by":"adnam","time":"1266104005","timestamp":"2010-02-13 23:33:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Meaning? Gmail is also free.","parent":"1123485","id":"1123787"}
{"by":"a_c","time":"1542558755","timestamp":"2018-11-18 16:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t explain the reason for this. But you describe me really well. \nRealising the problem is first step to solving it. And I am going to make this post my homepage to remind me When I\u0026#x27;m goofing off. Thanks OP!","parent":"18476626","id":"18481128"}
{"by":"pstuart","time":"1383752840","timestamp":"2013-11-06 15:47:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Part of the problem is too many people have been brainwashed into the \u0026quot;protecting us from dangerous drugs\u0026quot; lie. Your average Jane\u0026#x2F;Joe will say \u0026quot;legalize pot, but ew, meth is bad!\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe fact that we collectively choose to participate in this madness is, well, maddening.","parent":"6683119","id":"6683247"}
{"by":"opportune","time":"1519589366","timestamp":"2018-02-25 20:09:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I worked somewhere where the resident DevOps\u0026#x2F;Sysadmin guy would rather repeatedly write me emails about using an extra 10GB of disk for a data science project than just buy more storage. And this was on an instance with like half as much memory as disk available. There are some people in this industry who just have zero business sense.","parent":"16459322","id":"16460900"}
{"by":"acj","time":"1268087296","timestamp":"2010-03-08 22:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes and no.  Valve is porting some of its existing PC/Xbox game titles to run natively on the Mac platform, and most (or all?) of their new titles will be released simultaneously on PC, Mac, and XBox 360.","parent":"1176661","id":"1176684"}
{"by":"seiji","time":"1381152092","timestamp":"2013-10-07 13:21:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem isn\u0026#x27;t running out of oil.  The problem is increased production incentivizing increased usage which drives us over the edge of an irreversible climate catastrofuck.\u003cp\u003eAll the oil is getting extracted out of the ground and (at utilization time) getting pumped into the air.  It\u0026#x27;s the exact opposite of what we need to be doing now.","parent":"6507858","id":"6508017"}
{"by":"krackers","time":"1535934432","timestamp":"2018-09-03 00:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately there are missing exponents on some of the calculations.","parent":"17896967","id":"17899430"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1527705992","timestamp":"2018-05-30 18:46:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This reminds me of research into embodied cognition, but that\u0026#x27;s more physical than visual. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;elevr.com\u0026#x2F;vr-data-and-embodied-cognition\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;elevr.com\u0026#x2F;vr-data-and-embodied-cognition\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e Here\u0026#x27;s a few experiments in how making new tools to feel things out physically can help people learn new ideas. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;voicesofvr.com\u0026#x2F;515-embodied-cognition-experiments-with-elevrs-math-museums-hyperbolic-space\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;voicesofvr.com\u0026#x2F;515-embodied-cognition-experiments-wit...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17186967","id":"17190437"}
{"by":"pmontra","time":"1470592068","timestamp":"2016-08-07 17:47:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Waiting for that book :-)\u003cp\u003eA data breach should be equivalent to having paper documents stolen from a safe, unless there is negligence. Did you check with a lawyer, right?","parent":"12242753","id":"12242854"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1542126783","timestamp":"2018-11-13 16:33:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I want them hackable by me and hardened to anyone else.","parent":"18441566","id":"18442237"}
{"by":"albemuth","time":"1360343305","timestamp":"2013-02-08 17:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Current bird size has nothing to do with their ancestors really since all birds share a common ancestor, all variance came after they branched off.","parent":"5188735","id":"5188856"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1412794883","timestamp":"2014-10-08 19:01:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The US banking system is frankly, ridiculous\u003cp\u003eIn Europe anyone can send money online to \u003ci\u003eany other account in the EU\u003c/i\u003e, given the account number, usually for free.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that the US doesn\u0026#x27;t have that as commonplace as in Europe \u003ci\u003eis ridiculous\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanada is slightly better, they already are ditching the magnetic stripes off cards.","parent":"8428722","id":"8428774"}
{"by":"underyx","time":"1485261161","timestamp":"2017-01-24 12:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay, you\u0026#x27;ve got me, I don\u0026#x27;t actually know.\u003cp\u003eBut I think I remember seeing emails in spam with an explanation text that said \u0026#x27;this went to spam cause you marked similar messages as spam\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eAlso, it seems to be learning when I move emails to Promotions\u0026#x2F;Forums\u0026#x2F;Updates\u0026#x2F;etc., so I don\u0026#x27;t see why this wouldn\u0026#x27;t be the case for Spam. Maybe it\u0026#x27;s only for my account though.","parent":"13470704","id":"13470789"}
{"by":"bgibson","time":"1436272895","timestamp":"2015-07-07 12:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mirror | San Francisco | Desktop Application Engineer\u003cp\u003eMirror is a smart contracts platform. We are leveraging Bitcoin blockchain technology to provide hedging and risk management tools that are more accessible, affordable, and globally available than their contemporary counterparts, and with minimized counterparty and clearing risk. Our vision is to realize the promise of the Bitcoin blockchain as a global, decentralized, cryptographically-assured fiduciary system. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are making peer-to-peer contracts, available to everyone everywhere.\u003cp\u003eWe have raised $12M and are assembling a team with capabilities in cryptocurrency, cryptography, distributed systems, functional programming, cross-platform desktop application development, software assurance, and design to build new kinds of financial platforms and decentralized p2p markets.\u003cp\u003eWe particularly need cross-platform desktop application engineering talent.  If this interests you please contact us below and reference this post.\u003cp\u003eDetails: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;mirror\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;angel.co\u0026#x2F;mirror\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eApply: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;mirror\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;mirror\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9812245","id":"9845021"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1480772900","timestamp":"2016-12-03 13:48:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing Real Shake was one of my favorite program back in the early 2Ks.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;community.avid.com\u0026#x2F;cfs-filesystemfile.ashx\u0026#x2F;__key\u0026#x2F;CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments\u0026#x2F;00.00.76.92.19\u0026#x2F;GS-1.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;community.avid.com\u0026#x2F;cfs-filesystemfile.ashx\u0026#x2F;__key\u0026#x2F;Comm...\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;deliveryimages.acm.org\u0026#x2F;10.1145\u0026#x2F;510000\u0026#x2F;509455\u0026#x2F;4743f2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;deliveryimages.acm.org\u0026#x2F;10.1145\u0026#x2F;510000\u0026#x2F;509455\u0026#x2F;4743f2.j...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat was for mainly 2D image compositing (aka 2D matrices).\u003cp\u003eIf you dig earlier, you\u0026#x27;ll find SideFX Houdini (successor of PRISM) which isn\u0026#x27;t tied to a dimension, 1, 2, 3D, geometry. You swing between all these to create whatever you want. It\u0026#x27;s like interactive math and physics right before your eyes taken to an extreme (at least until 2010s). You can then lift parameters from the graph to \u0026quot;package\u0026quot; it as a user made function to have things like city generations\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=4QT_-Sws_nI\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=4QT_-Sws_nI\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoads of fun","parent":"13093063","id":"13095617"}
{"by":"jwdunne","time":"1541025352","timestamp":"2018-10-31 22:35:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nope. I understand that. I wouldn\u0026#x27;t say that cannabis causes schizophrenia or even episodes. It\u0026#x27;s more a story of how my friend and the people that love him came to view cannabis as it relates to his illness. It\u0026#x27;s an \u0026quot;understanding\u0026quot; if you will held by carers and primary care givers alike. If you suffer from psychosis, they make a point of warning about cannabis.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the lapse in judgement is a sign of an oncoming episode, with weed unnecessarily blamed. But the experience of so many people and the possibility of a link deserves to be investigated with the rigour of science.","parent":"18349581","id":"18349788"}
{"by":"CamperBob2","time":"1467058760","timestamp":"2016-06-27 20:19:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except I didn\u0026#x27;t lease Windows 7 for a limited time, I licensed it for use without a time limit.  If GM hadn\u0026#x27;t disclosed that the EV1 transaction was actually a lease -- meaning if they had gone into peoples\u0026#x27; garages and towed \u0026#x27;their\u0026#x27; EV1s away at a time of GM\u0026#x27;s choosing -- there would have been serious legal consequences.  As there should be here.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;ll probably respond by saying that Microsoft is only doing what I authorized them to do on page 34, paragraph 8(c) of the EULA.  At which point the only response I can offer is, \u0026quot;Fool me once, shame on me.\u0026quot;","parent":"11988922","id":"11989148"}
{"by":"philipov","time":"1533560309","timestamp":"2018-08-06 12:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no confusion. There is a simple bargain with a canary: no matter what confusion is thrown up by bad actors, once it\u0026#x27;s activated, you assume the target is compromised.\u003cp\u003eIf they\u0026#x27;re not really compromised? You don\u0026#x27;t need to ask that; trust is based on evidence, not some abstract Truth. When the trigger activates, you deprecate trust. It\u0026#x27;s really that simple.","parent":"17697048","id":"17697151"}
{"by":"mpyne","time":"1394488715","timestamp":"2014-03-10 21:58:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that -std=gnu89 should give you C89 with that particular extension (and some others).","parent":"7373832","id":"7375965"}
{"by":"jchrome","time":"1408799551","timestamp":"2014-08-23 13:12:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t really support trying to get a broad understanding of philosophy. It\u0026#x27;s much better to get in-depth with a specific philosopher and then move on to the next, chronologically.\u003cp\u003eOne thing I haven\u0026#x27;t seen mentioned is that often, Philosophers of a certain generation are building their theses in reaction to the previous generation. So there\u0026#x27;s a great reason to read Ancient philosophy, starting with the pre-Socratics.\u003cp\u003eI highly recommend \u0026quot;Retrieving the Ancients\u0026quot;. David Roochnik (the author) was my professor for both Ancient and Modern philosophy. Trying to be unbiased here but this is a great introduction to the pre-Socratics and it even connects their ancient issues with modern ones.","parent":"8215168","id":"8215716"}
{"by":"vkou","time":"1504899861","timestamp":"2017-09-08 19:44:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Uber has the analystics, driver ratings, customer ratings, and all that other data that it needs to deal with fraud, fraud, and bad actors.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that they, by default, delegate this to the customer is incredibly shitty.","parent":"15203105","id":"15203364"}
{"by":"adimitrov","time":"1493197247","timestamp":"2017-04-26 09:00:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll just continue spoiling your Dutch fun :-)\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s from Greek σωφρονιστήρ \u0026#x2F;\u003ci\u003esophonister\u003c/i\u003e\u0026#x2F; through Latin (dens sapientiae). It\u0026#x27;s been \u0026quot;Wisdom tooth\u0026quot; all along. The story goes that these teeth appear approximately at the age where one becomes \u0026quot;wise.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHa. Few of the people whose wisdom teeth came \u003ci\u003eand went\u003c/i\u003e (painfully) are wise already. Increased life spans and all that…\u003cp\u003eThen again, sophos does not just mean wise in Greek, but also just clever, cunning, or prudent. ;-)","parent":"14201369","id":"14201537"}
{"by":"run4yourlives","time":"1205189709","timestamp":"2008-03-10 22:55:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pg - You should take this out of the story table and just post it right at the top of the page.","parent":"133453","id":"133551"}
{"by":"CPLX","time":"1493837776","timestamp":"2017-05-03 18:56:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For what it\u0026#x27;s worth they sort of used to. It\u0026#x27;s US Air that had all the Airbuses prior to the merger.","parent":"14255283","id":"14258927"}
{"by":"acqq","time":"1425724189","timestamp":"2015-03-07 10:29:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, more than that, I also know that there are many in-house implementations written in C++ with significantly worse performances than those of the good garbage collected libraries. Sloppy programming can always make slow products. It\u0026#x27;s still good to know where the limits are and I thank you for the honest report.","parent":"9161452","id":"9161530"}
{"by":"kaamos","time":"1504601391","timestamp":"2017-09-05 08:49:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but then you can sing a similar song about PostgreSQL being the kind of guy that is cool all around, and is always there for that high school sweetheart, but still that badass MySQL gets all the fun and is always center of the party, which is oh so wrong.","parent":"15173413","id":"15173486"}
{"by":"greyboy","time":"1364316776","timestamp":"2013-03-26 16:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think switchblades fall prey to a particular stereotype, hence their \"bad\" nature. But, ask any diver/hunter/tactical knife wearer - they are strapped to the lower leg/calf in a holster, easily concealed under a pant leg.\u003cp\u003eAnd what respectable criminal wears shorts?!","parent":"5440656","id":"5444517"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1370737028","timestamp":"2013-06-09 00:17:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One fundamental problem with the \u0026quot;nothing to hide\u0026quot; argument is that it makes several casual assumptions which should not be made. An alternate formulation of the saying is \u0026quot;why fear the truth if you have done nothing wrong\u0026quot;, which is generally the sentiment of the \u0026quot;nothing to hide\u0026quot; sayings as well. However, the proper form of that saying should be \u0026quot;why fear the truth if you have done nothing the government dislikes\u0026quot;. And this is on a much different stance than the others. The issue is not right or wrong, the government is not an absolute arbiter of morality, the issue is government power.\u003cp\u003eConsider how often and how recently in our own history there have been activities which have been illegal and yet not \u0026quot;morally wrong\u0026quot; as considered today. Aiding escaped slaves. Homosexuality. Inter-racial marriage. Abortion. And so forth.\u003cp\u003eAlso note how I said \u0026quot;nothing the government dislikes\u0026quot; rather than \u0026quot;nothing illegal\u0026quot;. And that\u0026#x27;s because when a government has broad sweeping powers, especially of surveillance, government agents can easily punish people and ruin people\u0026#x27;s lives regardless of whether their activities are illegal.\u003cp\u003eOur system of governance has been designed at its core to limit the powers of government. This is very much intentional because it is designed to allow government to enforce the laws only with the cooperation with the public at large. A government that can enforce laws independent of the will of the people is a government poised for the transition to tyranny.\u003cp\u003eThere is a reason why the term \u0026quot;police state\u0026quot; is so reviled even though in itself it contains merely mechanical descriptions. And that is because even if a \u0026quot;benign police state\u0026quot; could exist the danger is far too great that the reins of power would be usurped by those seeking their own ends and their own advantages. And the most forceful way to avoid such a catastrophe is again to limit the power of the state.","parent":"5846076","id":"5846883"}
{"by":"cyberferret","time":"1478474913","timestamp":"2016-11-06 23:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe Unsplash hand curate the images they add to their collection to ensure they are SFW and not in violation of any copyright.  I believe they only add 10 or so images per week, so it could be manageable.","parent":"12887677","id":"12887726"}
{"by":"neuro_imager","time":"1467505173","timestamp":"2016-07-03 00:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the sort of idiocy that promotes the rise of demagogues like Trump.","parent":"12024108","id":"12024299"}
{"by":"kwhitefoot","time":"1439289401","timestamp":"2015-08-11 10:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can write in functional style in pretty much any language.  It might not look quite so pretty but it can come close.  And it can often be usably efficient too.","parent":"10039113","id":"10040069"}
{"by":"arjie","time":"1410144609","timestamp":"2014-09-08 02:50:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That may be true, but I find it hard to assign any of the meanings of \u0026#x27;hipster\u0026#x27; to the word hippie in the article. That and \u0026#x27;hipster\u0026#x27; as we know it today wasn\u0026#x27;t that popular a epithet in 1995.\u003cp\u003eAlso, while the whole freedom-from-The-Man thing is common among Libertarians, it is by no means exclusive to them. The ideas espoused in the story could just as well be hippy. With people like Steve Jobs (does not shower, eats only fruits, visits gurus in India) and John Barlow (with the Grateful Dead - commonly related with the hippie movement), we can see that he\u0026#x27;s aware of what he\u0026#x27;s talking about. And really, cyberlibertarianism isn\u0026#x27;t all that far from a hippie version of a world primarily occupied with technology.","parent":"8283184","id":"8283228"}
{"by":"atmosx","time":"1429352945","timestamp":"2015-04-18 10:29:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blah, the economist doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense since 2008. I was a 6-year long subscriber but after the Crimean (Russian vs US) crisis was analyzed without even a hint of objectivity, I start noticing that the quality started deteriorating further and further... Until you see articles like this one or others regarding the EU crisis.\u003cp\u003eThe economist is a conservative, strongly pro-war (seriously, it supported fearsomely every major US\u0026#x2F;NATO war, last I remember was it\u0026#x27;s views on the need for USA to openly attack Syria. Disgraceful articles...), pseudo-liberal magazine.\u003cp\u003eYou see good articles every now and then, but since most of the times you can\u0026#x27;t even tell the author (since it has a very specific policy about them), you\u0026#x27;re not sure what you\u0026#x27;re reading... Bug generally speaking I stopped trusting the \u0026#x27;E\u0026#x27; long time ago.","parent":"9398440","id":"9398914"}
{"by":"akurilin","time":"1379377945","timestamp":"2013-09-17 00:32:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Knowing that Valve will from now on be heavily supporting game development and deployment onto Linux machines is very encouraging.","parent":"6394892","id":"6396855"}
{"by":"snaky","time":"1538197158","timestamp":"2018-09-29 04:59:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This might be interesting then\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; We introduce a new approach for implementing cryptographic arithmetic in short high-level code with machine-checked proofs of functional correctness. We further demonstrate that simple partial evaluation is sufficient to transform into the \u003ci\u003efastest-known\u003c/i\u003e C code, breaking the decades-old pattern that the only fast implementations are those whose instruction-level steps were written out by hand.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; These techniques were used to build an elliptic-curve library that achieves competitive performance for 80 prime fields and multiple CPU architectures, showing that implementation and proof effort scales with the number and complexity of conceptually different algorithms, not their use cases. As one outcome, we present the first verified high-performance implementation of P-256, the most widely used elliptic curve. Implementations from our library were included in BoringSSL to replace existing specialized code, for inclusion in several large deployments for Chrome, Android, and CloudFlare.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;adam.chlipala.net\u0026#x2F;papers\u0026#x2F;FiatCryptoSP19\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;adam.chlipala.net\u0026#x2F;papers\u0026#x2F;FiatCryptoSP19\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18097882","id":"18098786"}
{"by":"prezjordan","time":"1376172249","timestamp":"2013-08-10 22:04:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pretty cool, but unfortunately it does not work with my PS1 [0]. Looks like any PS1 with a shell call in it won\u0026#x27;t work.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"http://github.com/impromptu/impromptu\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;impromptu\u0026#x2F;impromptu\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6190600","id":"6192851"}
{"by":"joezydeco","time":"1403801932","timestamp":"2014-06-26 16:58:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you could put a central emitter coil in your house somewhere, how strong would the field need to be to hit every part of the house?  Hmm...","parent":"7950437","id":"7950523"}
{"by":"lisper","time":"1486582812","timestamp":"2017-02-08 19:40:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is complete and utter hogwash.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Clearly lisp procedures are not functions\u003cp\u003eSome are.  Others are not.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing a language needs to be legitimately called a functional language is for functions to be first-class data objects.  It\u0026#x27;s helpful but not necessary for them to be lexically scoped.  It is also helpful but not necessary to have a conditional expression.  Common Lisp has all of these things.  In fact, Common Lisp has all of the features commonly associated with modern functional languages except static type inference (and you can add that if you really want it).\u003cp\u003eCommon Lisp is not a \u003ci\u003epurely\u003c/i\u003e functional language, but that\u0026#x27;s true of pretty much every language except Haskell.","parent":"13598123","id":"13601343"}
{"by":"daniper","time":"1405695179","timestamp":"2014-07-18 14:52:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Correct!","parent":"8052501","id":"8053316"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1497443604","timestamp":"2017-06-14 12:33:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eHow about a 100TB database with 95TB being pdf\u0026#x27;s?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow about it?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eIt seems there are better ways of managing lots of immutable small files (including for backups\u0026#x2F;replication) than shoving them all into a database.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepends on the business case. A database gives certain guarantees you\u0026#x27;ll have to replicate (usually badly) in any other way.\u003cp\u003eConceptually, it\u0026#x27;s absolutely cleaner.\u003cp\u003eAs for from a scientific or engineering standpoint, there are again no laws that dictate saying whether this is bad or good.\u003cp\u003eEven the performance characteristics depend on the implementation of the particular DB storage engine. They might be totally on par with storing in the filesystem (or close enough not to matter).\u003cp\u003eNot to mention that some filesystems might even have worse overhead depending on the type, size, etc. of files. In fact this very FA speaks of \u0026quot;SQLite small blob storage\u0026quot; being \u0026quot;35% Faster Than the Filesystem\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003ePlus filesystem storage and DBs are not that different in most cases -- they share algorithms for storage and indexing (logstorage, btrees, etc), and the main difference is the access layer. The FreeBSD filesystem, for one, was more like a DB storage layer than a 70s style Unix filesystem.","parent":"14552017","id":"14552226"}
{"by":"ubernostrum","time":"1389886359","timestamp":"2014-01-16 15:32:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The modern patterns of land ownership in Britain are due, basically, to a Mad Max world of taking what you want and having \u0026quot;rights\u0026quot; only to what you can defend by force against all comers.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps a compromise in which property is protected but the protection comes in exchange for some limitations on how you can use it... isn\u0026#x27;t actually the end of the world?","parent":"7069294","id":"7069886"}
{"by":"chegra84","time":"1272016322","timestamp":"2010-04-23 09:52:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, I think everybody knows google business model, facebook is a little dubious.","parent":"1287457","id":"1287683"}
{"by":"inoop","time":"1336739201","timestamp":"2012-05-11 12:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh look, it's this old chestnut again.","parent":"3958538","id":"3958843"}
{"by":"hybrid11","time":"1323321219","timestamp":"2011-12-08 05:13:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading the last few lines of the article made me cringe:\u003cp\u003e02:14:25 (Bonin) Mais qu'est-ce que se passe?\nBut what's happening?\u003cp\u003e02:14:27 (Captain) 10 degrès d'assiette...\nTen degrees of pitch...\u003cp\u003eExactly 1.4 seconds later, the cockpit voice recorder stops.","parent":"3327202","id":"3327794"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1406410684","timestamp":"2014-07-26 21:38:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s popular with universities, this is probably the biggest reason.","parent":"8090580","id":"8090884"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1369797704","timestamp":"2013-05-29 03:21:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I shouldn't have to agree to a contract for an OS I don't care to use in order to boot into the OS of my choice. Nor should I have to read the thing in order to see what I'm agreeing to just to boot into the OS of my choice.\u003cp\u003eMake no mistake, I have not been one of the hand-wringers over this whole secure boot thing. But this recent development could turn me into one.","parent":"5784360","id":"5784385"}
{"by":"TillE","time":"1452026427","timestamp":"2016-01-05 20:40:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; being a good bayesian\u003cp\u003eThis is exactly what weirds people out about LessWrong folk. They talk about a tool as if it\u0026#x27;s a religion.","parent":"10845728","id":"10845849"}
{"by":"lt","time":"1291036891","timestamp":"2010-11-29 13:21:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just bought one and it worked just fine.\u003cp\u003eedit: it explicitely says it's only for e-books and videos.","parent":"1950122","id":"1950175"}
{"by":"beerbaron23","time":"1487452793","timestamp":"2017-02-18 21:19:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Linux is another beast, on my Ubuntu box Firefox gives similar performance to OSX. But on my Debian stable box Chromium plays a lot better with it and the Firefox build feels like it has a gremlin in it haha.","parent":"13676487","id":"13676751"}
{"by":"bringtheaction","time":"1519081745","timestamp":"2018-02-19 23:09:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Haxe is the de facto king of the compile-to-everything space.\u003cp\u003eIndeed, I remember stumbling across it years ago while looking for a way to develop Flash games without Adobe Flash Professional. I never got around to actually try it but I keep seeing it every now and then, even saw a couple of books about it in a physical bookstore some years ago. It was the first thing that popped to mind for me as well when I saw that OP title mentioned write code in multiple languages at the same time.","parent":"16415915","id":"16416498"}
{"by":"jandrese","time":"1514002704","timestamp":"2017-12-23 04:18:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Usually if you can SMS verify they will let you in.  Google (and many other companies) insist on SMS not because it is secure (it\u0026#x27;s not) but because it requires account spammers (scammers) to put up some money (buy a phone) before they let you use the service too much.  I would be surprised if you get through the registration process before they insist on SMS verification if you are coming out of a VPN provider netblock.  And forget coming out of a TOR exit node.\u003cp\u003eKeeping your identity hidden from Google while using their services is a fools errand.  Find some other email provider with less big data mining expertise.","parent":"15992584","id":"15992899"}
{"by":"pchristensen","time":"1494959478","timestamp":"2017-05-16 18:31:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So the customers of the popular bowling alley don\u0026#x27;t park in the parking lot of the neighboring businesses. It\u0026#x27;s forcing every business to play nice with their neighbors, rather than free-ride off of them.\u003cp\u003eMost mall parking lots are sized for the demand of the busiest day of the Christmas shopping season, and are consequently underused for most of the year.","parent":"14350867","id":"14352072"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1516819590","timestamp":"2018-01-24 18:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Next week according to Musk.","parent":"16225012","id":"16225191"}
{"by":"epochwolf","time":"1408117518","timestamp":"2014-08-15 15:45:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There\u0026#x27;s nothing that prevents a non-Microsoft calendaring system from supplanting it, other than on agreeing on the protocol.\u003cp\u003eGoogle and Apple both have integrated calendar and email systems. They just use separate apps instead of having everything in one silo.","parent":"8180789","id":"8182682"}
{"by":"snaily","time":"1503625872","timestamp":"2017-08-25 01:51:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you actually look at the SAE J3016_201609 standard, your goalpost-moving takes you beyond level 2. \u0026quot;Giving ample warning\u0026quot; puts you in level 3, whereas \u0026quot;pulling over as a default action\u0026quot; puts you in level 4.\u003cp\u003eThe original point - that level 2 is a terrible development goal for the average human driver - still stands.","parent":"15095110","id":"15095541"}
{"by":"puzzlingcaptcha","time":"1539694461","timestamp":"2018-10-16 12:54:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure, but IIRC Baldurs was developed mostly by BioWare, Black Isle\u0026#x2F;Interplay were publishers.","parent":"18228726","id":"18228924"}
{"by":"J-dawg","time":"1540840609","timestamp":"2018-10-29 19:16:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like he’s written it. It’s surprisingly positive!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cringely.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;red-hat-takes-over-ibm\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cringely.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;29\u0026#x2F;red-hat-takes-over-ibm\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18329158","id":"18330378"}
{"by":"zevyoura","time":"1371853315","timestamp":"2013-06-21 22:21:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure that there\u0026#x27;s a universally agreed upon definition, but I think my comment certainly is relevant if we go by the one on Wikipedia: \u0026quot;Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).\u0026quot;","parent":"5916198","id":"5921378"}
{"by":"ballen","time":"1253841935","timestamp":"2009-09-25 01:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, never used the main site. Apidock.com is my main source for Rails info. Also I think some of the Ruby micro-frameworks may be gaining popularity.","parent":"841915","id":"842670"}
{"by":"glhaynes","time":"1341161651","timestamp":"2012-07-01 16:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd wager it's going the exact opposite direction.\u003cp\u003eWith cloud services, documents/bookmarks/media/apps/settings/etc can all be effortlessly in sync all the time between all the different devices so the question is just one of form factor.\u003cp\u003eI don't want to give up any of my main form factors (phone, tablet, laptop computer, desktop computer) because there are times when each is significantly better than the other for the task at hand. But I don't want to be having to plug and unplug one into the other to make the whole thing work - I just want to grab/sit-down-at whichever is most appropriate for my context and get right to work (or \"work\").\u003cp\u003eIt'd be different if a processor+RAM+GPU+enough-flash-storage-to-be-usable-in-a-mostly-cloud-environment weren't all shrinkable to a tiny chip that costs nearly nothing to make.\u003cp\u003eBut since they are [1], why should we have to deal with the hassle of docking/undocking and not being able to use our tablet (as a tablet) while we use our computer? Or have to unplug our phone (and not be able to use our \"computer\") when a phone call comes in?\u003cp\u003eThe one place I use such a solution is that all my (personal) computing happens on a tiny laptop that I occasionally plug into a larger monitor with wireless keyboard/trackpad. That works really well, but it's \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e a bit of a hassle. If that monitor had the smarts in it to actually be a computer \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e it was constantly up-to-date with all the data from my laptop, then I'd rather just have it be separate. Why not?\u003cp\u003eSo I think we'll continue to have separate form factors and they'll all only increase in \"smart\"ness. Anything else is going to be a tough sell to customers and have marginal cost savings, at best.\u003cp\u003e[1] How much does it cost Apple to make the A5 chip in the Apple TV and the iPad 2 at this point? How much less would it cost them to make a chip that was \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e for handling networking/display/user input/etc? Barely any less at all — in fact it'd probably be cheaper for them just to keep using A5s because they've already got full OSes to run on them.","parent":"4184918","id":"4185297"}
{"by":"dboreham","time":"1484662905","timestamp":"2017-01-17 14:21:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Falklands are a pretty poor example imho. The fact that people were not there does not imply they couldn\u0026#x27;t get there. If they had no sheep, there would be no point staying.","parent":"13417211","id":"13417718"}
{"by":"lhnn","time":"1323815746","timestamp":"2011-12-13 22:35:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So many people text below the windshield level. How will someone prove that I was texting at a certain time? Some cop will say he thought he saw me texting and demand my phone records.\u003cp\u003eAnd the original point of my post is that to ban texting is arbitrary; you can't ban everything before the fact. If anything, put additional punishment on someone whose accident was found to be caused by texting.","parent":"3349135","id":"3349677"}
{"by":"eof","time":"1283966809","timestamp":"2010-09-08 17:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You forget that you are not the user.\u003cp\u003eedit:  ie not everyone is typing as quickly as you are","parent":"1672513","id":"1672583"}
{"by":"ygra","time":"1402588678","timestamp":"2014-06-12 15:57:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- \u003ca href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/chfa2zb8.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;chfa2zb8.aspx\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"http://doc.rust-lang.org/rust.html#unsafe-blocks\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org\u0026#x2F;rust.html#unsafe-blocks\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7883986","id":"7884137"}
{"by":"coderholic","time":"1506359983","timestamp":"2017-09-25 17:19:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm yeah opensourcing it could be a good idea, I\u0026#x27;d not considered that.\u003cp\u003eLatency.at looks great. Saw you on the HN homepage today, congrats!","parent":"15331925","id":"15332230"}
{"by":"sabat","time":"1313613319","timestamp":"2011-08-17 20:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, he did. I was talking about something slightly different -- laziness in terms of learning to interact well with other humans.","parent":"2896595","id":"2896855"}
{"by":"ModernMech","time":"1531059008","timestamp":"2018-07-08 14:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The code is more important than the prose.\u003cp\u003eThis is not the position of someone programming in a literate fashion. Their contention is that prose and code are complimentary. Code explains what the program does, prose explains why it does it that way. They work together to paint a coherent view of your program. With just code, a newcomer reading your program and understanding it 100% is still left with many questions unanswered.","parent":"17483712","id":"17483875"}
{"by":"wslh","time":"1370344167","timestamp":"2013-06-04 11:09:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5817073\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5817073\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5818079","id":"5818693"}
{"by":"freehunter","time":"1371578128","timestamp":"2013-06-18 17:55:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How many thousands of countries have there been throughout history, though? You pointing to four really just proves the point.","parent":"5900519","id":"5900863"}
{"by":"jklein11","time":"1547046845","timestamp":"2019-01-09 15:14:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds a lot like what I do with my personal finances and really doesn\u0026#x27;t take that much overhead and isn\u0026#x27;t all that complicated. Overall maybe it would take ~4-8 hours to set up all in?\u003cp\u003eIf you are leaving 2M in cash in your checking account and could make an extra 2% on it annually that is 40k for that 4-8 hours. It seems like some pretty low hanging fruit to me.\u003cp\u003eI understand the point that you are making though. Unless what you pitched to your investors was some sort of investment vehicle it probably doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense to invest a lot of time trying to beat the market.","parent":"18863512","id":"18865253"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1292458595","timestamp":"2010-12-16 00:16:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Founding Fathers were traitors so it is not exactly a surprise that it is hard to convict someone of treason in the US.","parent":"2010495","id":"2010514"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1541555135","timestamp":"2018-11-07 01:45:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eDid you used to frequent r\u0026#x2F;weightlifting?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI did, a long time ago. I became tired of arguing with PED apologists and anyway, injury has driven me out of the sport.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIn his case, the tax man can only come when he sells stock, of which he only sells a ~1 billion USD per year.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they will, if he spends enough time here. He\u0026#x27;ll need to increase his sale to cover the difference.","parent":"18388356","id":"18396539"}
{"by":"bvallelunga","time":"1524653558","timestamp":"2018-04-25 10:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s great to hear! Yup, we are launching our alpha in a couple weeks and the best way to get access is through subscribing to our producthunt upcoming page: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.producthunt.com\u0026#x2F;upcoming\u0026#x2F;doppler\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.producthunt.com\u0026#x2F;upcoming\u0026#x2F;doppler\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s awesome that you are using machine learning in your project. Doppler already has a couple image recognition and sentiment models ready with full NLP in development. Hopefully we can have it ready before the alpha release. Would be excited to hear about your project and how Doppler can best fit your needs. You can reach me at brian@doppler.market","parent":"16920266","id":"16920332"}
{"by":"misterioss","time":"1514925482","timestamp":"2018-01-02 20:38:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#x27;Antifragile\u0026#x27; by Nassim Nicholas Taleb","parent":"16047795","id":"16055384"}
{"by":"zbuttram","time":"1536260936","timestamp":"2018-09-06 19:08:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Solargraph is pretty good, but RubyMine is still much better at least in my experience. Hopefully Solargraph gets there eventually and I can go back to using VSCode for everything.","parent":"17926003","id":"17928736"}
{"by":"astine","time":"1291855868","timestamp":"2010-12-09 00:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it is a revolution, then it is by definition illegal, and by univocation, illegitimate. It may be the 'right' thing to do, but it is not 'legitimate.'","parent":"1985363","id":"1985465"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1439671559","timestamp":"2015-08-15 20:45:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or a short list of places that rotates. Two stadiums, for example, isn\u0026#x27;t much worse than one.","parent":"10065717","id":"10066825"}
{"by":"andyjdavis","time":"1263373777","timestamp":"2010-01-13 09:09:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"number of people * average annual income = $'s available for buying things\u003cp\u003ePretty much any number multiplied by 1 billion people = a lot.\u003cp\u003eAs the average Chinese citizen becomes better off the result of that calculation will go up really fast. If the average annual income of Chinese citizens goes up by 1%, for example, that translates into an enormous amount of money available within the Chinese economy.\u003cp\u003eCompare the potential for growth with western countries. China has a long way to go before achieving parity with most western countries. Poorer countries have the potential for rates of economic growth that vastly outstrip countries that are already wealthy. Whether it will happen is another matter but the potential is there.","parent":"1049696","id":"1049793"}
{"by":"rahimnathwani","time":"1405861772","timestamp":"2014-07-20 13:09:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This.\u003cp\u003eTrains are faster than planes for short-ish inter-city journeys in many other places because (i) you can use public transport to get to the stations, (ii) you avoid the time spent on check-in and security check and (iii) trains are more frequent than planes to the same destination.\u003cp\u003eNone of these is the case in Beijing.  I don\u0026#x27;t know about other cities.  I\u0026#x27;ve taken inter-city trains from Beijing a few times.  Each time, I\u0026#x27;ve found the experience of getting to the station, and finding the right spot, more arduous than for international flights.","parent":"8060168","id":"8060221"}
{"by":"tsiki","time":"1491344350","timestamp":"2017-04-04 22:19:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I currently have a thinkpad with ubuntu in it (not preinstalled should it matter), and unfortunately I\u0026#x27;m considering switching the other way around. There are just too many things with this combo that don\u0026#x27;t work the way they should, like webcam and microphone not working, public wifi with redirection not redirecting etc. I\u0026#x27;m completely fine paying some 50% premium to get the support and customer care of a major corporation.","parent":"14033031","id":"14037767"}
{"by":"FussyZeus","time":"1496841976","timestamp":"2017-06-07 13:26:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;d have to agree though that it\u0026#x27;s a remarkable coincidence that this only happened to the only female scientist who was part of the panel.","parent":"14505946","id":"14506196"}
{"by":"scottmf","time":"1490719636","timestamp":"2017-03-28 16:47:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Facebook is trying hard to make Messenger a separate product from Facebook.","parent":"13977169","id":"13978201"}
{"by":"DevFactor","time":"1425930892","timestamp":"2015-03-09 19:54:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If \u0026quot;true learning\u0026quot; means making $9.25 an hour and slaving away 60 hours per week while a prof makes ~200k and takes all of the credit: I\u0026#x27;d rather be ignorant.","parent":"9173402","id":"9173522"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1275678376","timestamp":"2010-06-04 19:06:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's a general tendency of people. Look at Luke, his name is on freaking everything; it's not like he's made any meaningful contributions.\u003cp\u003ePeople love seeing their name. It's just the way it is.","parent":"1405030","id":"1405275"}
{"by":"sdrinf","time":"1357391402","timestamp":"2013-01-05 13:10:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are quite a few quantitative indicators for businesses on exit conditions; for web businesses in particular, see eg: \u003ca href=\"http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/12/12/when-do-you-throw-in-the-towel-on-your-struggling-project/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/12/12/when-do-you-throw-in-t...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5012190","id":"5012525"}
{"by":"meowface","time":"1419552571","timestamp":"2014-12-26 00:09:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s perfectly reasonable to use \u0026quot;innocence\u0026quot; as a qualifier for whether or not intelligence should be gathered about a person. Law enforcement uses it, why shouldn\u0026#x27;t intelligence agencies?\u003cp\u003eOf course, the problem is that innocence in this case is determined behind closed doors and secret courts, instead of public courts.","parent":"8797355","id":"8797566"}
{"by":"sirclueless","time":"1315413126","timestamp":"2011-09-07 16:32:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Debt-financed spending means that future money is not going towards goods and services.\u003cp\u003eThis is a major hole in my current understanding of economic theory. My gut reaction tells me that being in debt should be bad but if you think about it, it's really a good place to be. If the general monetary supply is inflationary, then money you owe is gradually losing value. Which is an excellent proposal for those in debt: do nothing and wait, and you will owe less material value. So when you say that \"future money is not going towards goods and services\" I am at least a little OK with that, because future money isn't worth as much as money today, in actual fact.","parent":"2970080","id":"2970171"}
{"by":"kevin_morrill","time":"1277519030","timestamp":"2010-06-26 02:23:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The government never demonstrated he did anything wrong, except being overly optimistic about his company.  Houston's Clear Thinkers blog has done a great job of chronicling how absurd the governments claims are.  \u003ca href=\"http://blog.kir.com/archives/2010/06/skilling_wins_a.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.kir.com/archives/2010/06/skilling_wins_a.asp\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1461967","id":"1462908"}
{"by":"lexcorvus","time":"1448471475","timestamp":"2015-11-25 17:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also a lie. Try engaging the \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;m only intolerant of intolerance\u0026quot; crowd on, say, climate change, abortion, or the death penalty. It takes tortuous logical contortions to frame any of these issues in terms of \u0026quot;intolerance,\u0026quot; and yet you\u0026#x27;ll likely be met with vitriol nonetheless.","parent":"10628128","id":"10628182"}
{"by":"CoffeeDregs","time":"1301763933","timestamp":"2011-04-02 17:05:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The most fascinating part of the smartphone battle is that Google/Android has basically stopped and reversed a giant vertical integration play by Apple.  Markets swing back and forth between integrated and disintegrated and Google grabbed the pendulum and pushed it back toward 'disintegrated'.","parent":"2400025","id":"2400347"}
{"by":"JBReefer","time":"1497097652","timestamp":"2017-06-10 12:27:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It wouldn\u0026#x27;t. It is for when you want to swap out that library, or test business logic using that library beyond simple unit tests.\u003cp\u003eDI is also great for creating modular code you compose, instead of monoliths. It encourages the use of interfaces and information hiding - you should look into it, it\u0026#x27;s a very powerful technique.\u003cp\u003eInstead of asking how it would improve an arbitrary library, ask yourself \u0026quot;how screwed am I if 100% of the API surface for this library​ changes tomorrow?\u0026quot; Dependency injection would help you out of that faster that rewriting everything.","parent":"14526422","id":"14527091"}
{"by":"phyzome","time":"1533905933","timestamp":"2018-08-10 12:58:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The journalist could have simply put \u0026quot;is more secure\u0026quot;—this is objectively true!—but then they got nervous, perhaps because they didn\u0026#x27;t understand the subject well enough, and decided to fall back to hedge phrases.\u003cp\u003eThe statement is not as good as it can be, because it introduces uncertainty where in reality there is none.","parent":"17728733","id":"17732814"}
{"by":"JoachimSchipper","time":"1292938716","timestamp":"2010-12-21 13:38:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Obviously, unsubscribing is more polite.\u003cp\u003eThat said, maybe GMail and friends could add a button based on a List-unsubscribe header?","parent":"2027601","id":"2027680"}
{"by":"codva","time":"1350921161","timestamp":"2012-10-22 15:52:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the real reason why Twitter crushes RSS is that RSS is an open standard that is hard to monetize. Twitter is increasingly a closed ecosystem that only Twitter can make money on, which give Twitter plenty of motivation to throw it's resources into a closed network and not an open standard.","parent":"4683565","id":"4683688"}
{"by":"elcritch","time":"1457162907","timestamp":"2016-03-05 07:28:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great points, I was going to write almost the same thing. To build upon your last point, I\u0026#x27;d argue that a solid (and rigorous!) philosophy education is in many ways better suited to building a sound logical problem solving mindset than much of the common core CS curriculum. Critical reasoning is much more valuable than just knowing Java or C++ syntax. Not to denigrate CS education, but rather to point out there is a lot more to learning to think in a way useful to programming complex systems than the current core of CS teaches. Especially in large (million line+) code-bases.\u003cp\u003eLearning, say, Wittgenstein\u0026#x27;s philosophy regarding grammar and language [1] gives an interesting insight into how humans express ourselves and delves directly into the heart of modern programming, IMHO. Rarely do we software developers write low level algorithms anymore, but writing consistent and complex API\u0026#x27;s is crucial and shares more in common with be conversant with large volumes of philosophical treatises.\u003cp\u003eBased on that, it makes sense many philosophy students would have successful careers – being able to reason and solve challenging problems is always key point in making good money. :)\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;plato.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;entries\u0026#x2F;wittgenstein\u0026#x2F;#Gra\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;plato.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;entries\u0026#x2F;wittgenstein\u0026#x2F;#Gra\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11227172","id":"11228778"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1514911459","timestamp":"2018-01-02 16:44:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I\u0026#x27;ve been using Rixh\u0026#x27;s previous project, Ractive, onr of the first virtual DOM implementations, for 4 years now. It has a decent community and good stack overflow love.","parent":"16052679","id":"16053042"}
{"by":"beltex","time":"1406602077","timestamp":"2014-07-29 02:47:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Likewise, I\u0026#x27;m running into UnsafePointers with IOKit.","parent":"8100433","id":"8100463"}
{"by":"joe_the_user","time":"1294522365","timestamp":"2011-01-08 21:32:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"The difficulty is what if the contradiction comes not from the assumption that P=NP, but rather from some error in the proof of one of the lemmas or theorems? A problem. A serious problem. Then the proof is wrong.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a proof to be correct, every step of the proof has to be correct.\u003cp\u003eI can't see this as a problem specific to proof by contradiction. I suppose long proofs are more dangerous than short proofs because long proofs have more steps that need to be taken.\u003cp\u003eIf someone really thought they had a P/=NP proof, it would be prudent for them to break it up into Lemmas which stood on their own and only at the end point out what they'd proved. But these considerations seem completely orthogonal to the method of proof.\u003cp\u003eAm I missing something (seriously, I am only an amateur myself)?","parent":"2083364","id":"2084023"}
{"by":"atmosx","time":"1487489201","timestamp":"2017-02-19 07:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Are the kids remotely interested in programming, and does it make sense to try teaching them if they show no interest? As a child, I remember pushed towards taking piano lessons and hating every second of it.\u003cp\u003eNo one knows the details of your experiences and psyche, I\u0026#x27;m not saying that you \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c/i\u003e continue your piano lessons.\u003cp\u003eHowever, parents are primarily responsible from guarding children from their own poor choices among other things. I wish I didn\u0026#x27;t stop the guitar lessons when I was a child although my mind was primarily on girls, consoles and basketball.","parent":"13676268","id":"13678557"}
{"by":"citricsquid","time":"1288551443","timestamp":"2010-10-31 18:57:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://notch.tumblr.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://notch.tumblr.com\u003c/a\u003e uses it too.","parent":"1853101","id":"1853975"}
{"by":"nirvdrum","time":"1370349122","timestamp":"2013-06-04 12:32:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know you were asking for effect, but of course they do and it's EC2.  That's why they have a heavy reservation pricing tier, which only makes sense for 24/7/365 (you pay for hours even if you don't use them).\u003cp\u003eBut, it's fun to point at \"elastic\" and tell people they're \"doing it wrong\" because they don't take a name chosen 7 years ago literally.  As if somehow the service (called EC2 virtually everywhere -- not Elastic Cloud Compute) could never evolve beyond that initial use case.  Incidentally, the \"elastic\" in EBS must have a different meaning because one of its primary selling points is that it's persistent storage.","parent":"5818793","id":"5818985"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1453483672","timestamp":"2016-01-22 17:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;Sell the CHIP for cheap and get people to buy the accessories\u003cp\u003eThis, combined with inflated shipping, is probably the key.\nHowever, even assuming some aggressive discounts, the BOM must still be higher than $9.\u003cp\u003eEven with crazy discounts, the CPU + Realtek Wifi + PMU alone would have to be close to $9.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a lot of other parts as well: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;NextThingCo\u0026#x2F;CHIP-Hardware\u0026#x2F;raw\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;CHIP%5Bv1_0%5D\u0026#x2F;CHIP_v1_0_BOM_20151030.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;NextThingCo\u0026#x2F;CHIP-Hardware\u0026#x2F;raw\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;CHIP...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10953950","id":"10954146"}
{"by":"dpanah","time":"1376569172","timestamp":"2013-08-15 12:19:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a shitty policy.","parent":"6216685","id":"6217326"}
{"by":"benn_88","time":"1354099964","timestamp":"2012-11-28 10:52:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks","parent":"4840945","id":"4841908"}
{"by":"julien421","time":"1498659469","timestamp":"2017-06-28 14:17:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Salary is non negotiable for entry level jobs\u003cp\u003eI can assure you that our students (Holberton) do negotiate their entry-level jobs. The majority successfully do so :)\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; the only things that matters is your study programme and your degree\u003cp\u003eWhen we started we had no track record whatsoever. Our first students found internships but also jobs everywhere including both completely unknown and super cool startup and very high-profile companies such as NASA, Apple etc... they were all selected on what they could do and not on a degree (we are not accredited) nor the school itself (we had no track record)\u003cp\u003eToday we atart to have a very good reputation so the problem is different, our atudents don\u0026#x27;t have to fight anymore, companies come to them. But for the first students it was very clear that ppl didn\u0026#x27;t care about degrees or \u0026quot;where do you come from\u0026quot;.","parent":"14652321","id":"14654303"}
{"by":"quenlinlom","time":"1390699595","timestamp":"2014-01-26 01:26:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fallacy fallacy much?","parent":"7121740","id":"7123380"}
{"by":"madeofpalk","time":"1485235298","timestamp":"2017-01-24 05:21:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does it count as stealing if websites opt into it?","parent":"13468966","id":"13469009"}
{"by":"ngryman","time":"1467857772","timestamp":"2016-07-07 02:16:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it just avoids all the boilerplate needed with watchify.\u003cp\u003eOn a side note I generally agree with you on \u0026quot;modern\u0026quot; build systems. However when a project becomes complex, with lots tasks and multiple environments, custom logic is needed. Only executing simple command line tools is not enough. Being able to both run tasks and logic at the same place (gulpfile) becomes handy.","parent":"12046892","id":"12047127"}
{"by":"monochromatic","time":"1486421980","timestamp":"2017-02-06 22:59:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, sometimes. Sometimes the AMP version is broken or outdated.","parent":"13583460","id":"13585139"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1304159787","timestamp":"2011-04-30 10:36:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Of course, they die from plane crashes. That part was mostly a joke. But not entirely.\u003cp\u003e2) Truly elite performers need no defending from comments from the likes of me, but I'm sorry if I slurred them anyway.\u003cp\u003e3) The term 'rock star' means something quite different in common usage than a statistically representative \"elite performer at the top of their game in the music industry\".\u003cp\u003e4) This discussion has nothing to do with actual music performers. You get the point.","parent":"2500053","id":"2500372"}
{"by":"tremendo","time":"1458017010","timestamp":"2016-03-15 04:43:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use full-screen zoom in Ubuntu (14.04) and Macintosh everyday. In Ubuntu I can alt-tab between apps and the zoomed window will follow me to the top-most application, not so on the Mac which will switch apps but leave me viewing the wrong portion of the screen. Both will follow the mouse equally well. On the other hand I prefer the Mac\u0026#x27;s ctrl-scroll-up\u0026#x2F;down to zoom-in\u0026#x2F;out. On Ubuntu I use a couple of key-combinations as I haven\u0026#x27;t figured out how to do it with the mouse. I guess I\u0026#x27;m suggesting to give Ubuntu another chance.","parent":"11285644","id":"11287498"}
{"by":"uxcn","time":"1440480758","timestamp":"2015-08-25 05:32:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, I did misunderstand.  I see.  I was under the impression they were entirely doing away with the hardware necessary for virtual memory.","parent":"10114665","id":"10114757"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1493127167","timestamp":"2017-04-25 13:32:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do this with punctuation. I tell my students that by default, I\u0026#x27;ll use exclamation marks when empty boilerplate phrases regardless of my actual enthusiasm, e.g. \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Sounds good!\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e. For students whom I am more familiar with and don\u0026#x27;t need the fakery, I\u0026#x27;ll settle for \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;Sounds good.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e. But depending on how petty and irritable I am at the moment, maybe the closing period will be used as a passive-aggressive way of implying, \u0026quot;No, that does not really \u0026#x27;sound good\u0026#x27;.\u0026quot;, and you\u0026#x27;ll just have to guess!\u003cp\u003eAfter awhile, students appreciate the way programming language interpreters immediately and decisively raise errors on even the simplest typos and syntax errors.","parent":"14193231","id":"14193321"}
{"by":"PyComfy","time":"1505033816","timestamp":"2017-09-10 08:56:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"also \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15053064\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=15053064\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15211337","id":"15211413"}
{"by":"blake8086","time":"1545162347","timestamp":"2018-12-18 19:45:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And dot-coms! And real estate! Hmm.","parent":"18709368","id":"18709839"}
{"by":"tensor_rank_0","time":"1519582455","timestamp":"2018-02-25 18:14:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"perhaps the priority is encouraging investment into capital.","parent":"16459682","id":"16460267"}
{"by":"tocomment","time":"1186678200","timestamp":"2007-08-09 16:50:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish someone would steal my idea because then I could partner with them.  It's so hard to find cofounders these days as we all know.","parent":"40886","id":"40937"}
{"by":"Jach","time":"1296902532","timestamp":"2011-02-05 10:42:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When did tickets get cheaper all of a sudden... Last time I checked, Seattle to Lebanon was $2k round trip for the cheapest I could find. Now it's about $1k-$1300 (which is what I paid in taxes last year). (And Seattle to London right now is only $700-ish.) Both are too expensive for me right now, but you're right, they're not \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e expensive considering it's a trip rather than an ice cream cone. When I lived in Utah a few years ago, I drove up to Vancouver, Canada and spent 10 days in the cheapest Vancouver hotel I could find with wifi and between that and gas alone probably spent at least $700. If you stay in a Hostel they're about $20-$30 a night which can cut costs there, and it seems like anywhere big that's not-the-US has good public transportation.","parent":"2182726","id":"2182874"}
{"by":"zdragnar","time":"1544561816","timestamp":"2018-12-11 20:56:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Back when I was in school in the early naughties, it was a given that, if you were a humanities student, your tuition largely subsidized the STEM students, because your degree required virtually no specialized equipment, just a building, a professor, and some administrative overhead.\u003cp\u003eSTEM students required all sorts of wild equipment, some so specialized and sensitive that the buildings had to have extra protections built in so they weren\u0026#x27;t bothered by vibration or electromagnetic interference from nearby lightrail trains. Their tuition wouldn\u0026#x27;t cover that.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the school also splurged on pointless real estate expansions, a relatively empty, but massive, student \u0026quot;union\u0026quot; building, intense administrative overhead, sports stadiums paid for by adding on hundreds to student fees (which of course weren\u0026#x27;t part of tuition, but you had to pay them anyway), and so forth.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re a humanities student, you get the short end of the stick from many different directions- paying more than your education costs to support others, for a degree that will earn substantially less than others, which likely has fewer industries that specifically require your degree (putting you in more competition for said jobs against students with other similar degrees).","parent":"18658554","id":"18658774"}
{"by":"EvilTrout","time":"1363961098","timestamp":"2013-03-22 14:04:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He's talking purely server times here. And it shouldn't be pages so much as \"JSON Blobs\" :)","parent":"5422594","id":"5422930"}
{"by":"kyro","time":"1248072932","timestamp":"2009-07-20 06:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, his status validates his comment. He's been on the inside of Digg, more than anyone else really, so I'd trust his assessment. I doubt you'd really respond the same way if someone who created their account a week ago with 10 karma made the same comment.","parent":"714063","id":"714080"}
{"by":"hughprime","time":"1251406495","timestamp":"2009-08-27 20:54:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Feed a hungry VC lunch: $291\"\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of VC expects you to buy them a $291 lunch? If I were a VC I certainly wouldn't invest in any company that thought buying me lunch was a good use of their funds.","parent":"789379","id":"790022"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1503017536","timestamp":"2017-08-18 00:52:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAside from preventing sepsis, it also reduced the risk of infections by both the major groups of bacteria: the Gram-positives, by 82 percent; and the Gram-negatives, which are harder to treat with antibiotics, by 75 percent. It even reduced the risk of pneumonia and other infections of the airways by 34 percent. That was “completely unexpected,” says Panigrahi, and it’s the result he’s especially excited about. It suggests that the synbiotic isn’t just acting within the gut, but also giving the infants’ immune systems a body-wide boost.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know why they are so surprised. Given that some sources say the gut constitutes up to 70 percent of the immune system, it should be fairly obvious that improving gut health will have such effects.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, you can infer a fairly direct relationship between gut health and lung health based on what happens in the body at altitude: You start urinating more to compensate for the thin air reducing your ability to exhale wastes. The body starts clearing them out of the blood by shunting them to the kidneys.","parent":"15036079","id":"15042521"}
{"by":"justthistime_","time":"1446173208","timestamp":"2015-10-30 02:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, inventing an API and implementation of a date\u0026#x2F;time\u0026#x2F;calendar library from scratch without an existing spec, implementation, tests or experience will surely be totally bug-free.","parent":"10474927","id":"10475873"}
{"by":"oe","time":"1412872484","timestamp":"2014-10-09 16:34:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It surprising how little plans for fixing global warming are discussed. Most of the discussion deals with preventing global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which is of course something we need to do.\u003cp\u003eBut if we agree that there\u0026#x27;s already too much CO2 in the air, why not figure out ways to remove it or otherwise prevent further damage?","parent":"8433237","id":"8433448"}
{"by":"analog31","time":"1422663757","timestamp":"2015-01-31 00:22:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect that most kids who become intellectuals have parents who are intellectuals.\u003cp\u003eAdmittedly, my parents openly disdained pro and school sports, and rock music, when I was a kid. They are scientists, and into classical music. Today, I\u0026#x27;m a scientist, I love classical and jazz, and am a performing jazz musician. Whatever \u0026quot;signaling\u0026quot; I might have received, I can\u0026#x27;t escape the fact that I love those art forms today.\u003cp\u003eBut I wouldn\u0026#x27;t have stood a snowball\u0026#x27;s chance in hell of getting onto the hockey or football team. Today, I\u0026#x27;m probably in better physical health than most of my classmates who actually played on those teams.\u003cp\u003eOddly enough, when my musical interests become a topic of conversation, nobody ever feels any qualms about stating how much they hate jazz and classical.","parent":"8974299","id":"8975359"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1415530300","timestamp":"2014-11-09 10:51:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or they get it just fine, since top lawyers of the kind hired by SoundCloud are as smart or even smarter than most programmers, and some even have technical training, but they have their reasons.\u003cp\u003eLike, they know that the fact that you can \u0026quot;get around\u0026quot; something doesn\u0026#x27;t matter as much as there being a slight inconvenience.\u003cp\u003eIf, for example, at some point the official SoundCloud app allows direct download, people will use that, and not the \u0026quot;get around\u0026quot; method -- whereas if they allowed third party clients to have that feature it wouldn\u0026#x27;t be so clear what the users would choose.","parent":"8579274","id":"8579604"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1402264347","timestamp":"2014-06-08 21:52:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No.\u003cp\u003eFirst off too many people who do not need a college education are pouring money into one. Second the United States, nor any country needs the numbers of college educated people they already have.\u003cp\u003eCome up with a standard program if you must. We have standards for public education so let us have them for a college education. It cannot be that hard to establish the minimum required for each degree and then determine the cost of that education. With a standard costs will come down.\u003cp\u003eUneducated voters, it is not from a lack of college. Public schools are not there to create critical thinkers. They are told day in and day out how the government makes it all possible. Top it off with thousands of assistance programs and why would you expect people to better?","parent":"7865792","id":"7866038"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1488375849","timestamp":"2017-03-01 13:44:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yet, the people who like it, like it, and changing it would mostly make them leave, and the people who don\u0026#x27;t like it already left for something else and aren\u0026#x27;t coming back.\u003cp\u003eIts like daydreaming if the next version of Microsoft Word were reskinned EMACS with a new splash screen.  Superficially that sounds pretty cool.  But six months later everyone who wanted EMACS continued to use real EMACS and everyone who didn\u0026#x27;t want EMACS switched away from the MS Word clone of EMACS, leaving MS Word with zero users.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s twitter\u0026#x27;s problem, the people who are really into \u0026quot;twitter 2016\u0026quot; are just going to leave if things are changed, yet the number of people into \u0026quot;twitter 2016\u0026quot; is seen as too small.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps their best bet is to abandon acting like a startup.  Absolutely no one wants my local electric company to pivot into water and sewer services or open an office on Mars.  There\u0026#x27;s nothing immoral or lower class about operating a respected public utility.\u003cp\u003eWhat twitter should be terrified about isn\u0026#x27;t finding the next billion users, but avoiding the 1970s CB Radio bust or the decline of BBSes in the 90s.  The odds are much higher that twitter is going to be out of business and forgotten in 20 years than they\u0026#x27;re going to be ten times bigger in size\u0026#x2F;revenue\u0026#x2F;profit.  Essentially twitter is a fad or a utility or in between and has to be monetized as a fad or a utility.","parent":"13763124","id":"13763555"}
{"by":"rlidwka","time":"1457629594","timestamp":"2016-03-10 17:06:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm... I wonder, if they put everything (both navigation and ads) on the same canvas (maybe pixel-by-pixel even), is there any way to block ads inside?\u003cp\u003eIf webgl will be adopted widely enough, this might even look plausible for some.","parent":"11259355","id":"11260386"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1283510797","timestamp":"2010-09-03 10:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Worth nothing that even MS gives away its compilers these days. You pay for the layered products.","parent":"1659027","id":"1659131"}
{"by":"jbmorgado","time":"1482537865","timestamp":"2016-12-24 00:04:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;In an infinitely old and infinitely large universe this should actually be a common occurrence. So why are we not Boltzmann Brains ourselves?\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause our Universe is neither infinitely old (is about ~14 thousand millions years old) nor infinitely large (is about 90 thousand millions ly in diameter).\u003cp\u003eNow this might seem big for you, but it\u0026#x27;s actually infinitesimal when compared to the number of necessary permutations in order for higher intelligence to appear solely by a quantum fluctuation.\u003cp\u003eThis means that the only scientific possibility for higher intelligence to appear, is then that only a very small set of universe conditions must occur so that atoms then stars then planets then life then intelligent life has the time and conditions to form.","parent":"13247271","id":"13247923"}
{"by":"turingbook","time":"1379981078","timestamp":"2013-09-24 00:04:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting analysis. There is another analysis from Quartz: 0 for phone business, 1.2 billion for BBM and enterprise infrastructure, 2.8b cash, 1b for patent portfolio.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://qz.com/127441/cheat-sheet-here-are-the-bits-of-blackberry-investors-want-to-flip-for-a-profit/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;qz.com\u0026#x2F;127441\u0026#x2F;cheat-sheet-here-are-the-bits-of-blackb...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6434060","id":"6434970"}
{"by":"cfn","time":"1380497227","timestamp":"2013-09-29 23:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that \u0026quot;free\u0026quot; is overloaded as you concluded. I didn\u0026#x27;t mean to offend any sensibilities, I was just saying that this discussion does not happen in some other languages because they have different words.","parent":"6465622","id":"6466992"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1309210320","timestamp":"2011-06-27 21:32:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I totally disagree with you on Eclipse. I've used both Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA extensively for Java work, and the user experience on IntelliJ IDEA is way better and has been for years.\u003cp\u003eA couple times I've talked to Eclipse committers in detail about UI problems and what I get is either denial that there's a problem or an answer like \"Oh, yeah, I guess we should do a UI sweep sometime.\" I'm sure Eclipse seems fine to the people who make it, but that's true of almost any terrible UI. Most people stop at \"looks good to me,\" rather than going for, \"tested to work well with the target audience\".","parent":"2701958","id":"2703098"}
{"by":"johansch","time":"1485200805","timestamp":"2017-01-23 19:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You remind me a lot of that guy I used to supervise who totally refused to do any work estimates on anything, because \u0026quot;there was not enough data to conclusive estimate the amount work needed\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThere are concepts such as \u0026quot;experience\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;pattern recognition\u0026quot;, extrapolation etc.","parent":"13465028","id":"13465279"}
{"by":"unalone","time":"1250616210","timestamp":"2009-08-18 17:23:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was a pain in the ass. Popping up a new window that comes up over the video that starts playing made me miss the opening of the video.","parent":"770929","id":"770939"}
{"by":"nealmydataorg","time":"1326164690","timestamp":"2012-01-10 03:04:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks Marlon,\u003cp\u003eIt is helpful.\u003cp\u003eI was thinking of managing todo-list type of emails-data with task management software as todo-list type of emails are actually not meant for emails. Similarly there might be other categories of emails-data (e.g. scheduling time for meetings etc.) which can be processed by data organizer software resulting in fewer emails.\u003cp\u003eNeal","parent":"3444535","id":"3445439"}
{"by":"nickspacek","time":"1440528052","timestamp":"2015-08-25 18:40:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chrome\u0026#x27;s auto-update is barely noticeable and quite polite, in that it doesn\u0026#x27;t nag you to restart (or forcibly shut down your current work). Doesn\u0026#x27;t stop you from shutting it down and barely slows down the next time it starts.","parent":"10118603","id":"10118634"}
{"by":"Powerofmene","time":"1504716165","timestamp":"2017-09-06 16:42:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I cannot address the legalities but I will say that it is suspect.\u003cp\u003eThere was recently a thread where we talked about being able to access the internet anonymously because of the tracking done by Facebook, Amazon, and other sites\u0026#x2F;retailers.\u003cp\u003eI had a friend who was stalked online for years by an ex and it drove her off the Internet and then basically underground.  While this request could be innocent (looking for old friend, etc) it might be helpful if this person making the request might explain the purpose, etc.  Then it would be up to those consider searching if they believe the person on the why\u0026#x27;s and if they want to help.\u003cp\u003eJust like most things, this  hold be good and it could be bad.  Whether it is legal may come down to the ultimate purpose the search is undertaken and what the person does if the username is identified.","parent":"15184883","id":"15185038"}
{"by":"qwertyboy","time":"1455564193","timestamp":"2016-02-15 19:23:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article contains several examples for the different interpretations. CISC vs. RISC is an example of \u0026quot;worse is better than incompatible\u0026quot;. Unix vs. lisp-machine is an example of \u0026quot;worse is better than complex\u0026quot;. But the bottom line, for this specific author, is that worse is better than nothing.","parent":"11104701","id":"11105296"}
{"by":"MartinCron","time":"1383614746","timestamp":"2013-11-05 01:25:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried to install the demo and it failed on needing DirectX 5.2","parent":"6672278","id":"6672535"}
{"by":"gkya","time":"1468531304","timestamp":"2016-07-14 21:21:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s because they\u0026#x27;ve been a bit naughty though, not because of mere corporate evil. Quoting the article you linked:\u003cp\u003e-----8\u0026lt;-----\u003cp\u003eA well-designed System Z emulator that allows users to migrate their own mainframe applications to commodity hardware would obviously pose a serious threat to IBM\u0026#x27;s mainframe business, but IBM\u0026#x27;s software licensing terms have historically prevented such a threat from materializing.\u003cp\u003e...\u003cp\u003eIn many ways, the project arguably benefits IBM by encouraging interest in the mainframe platform. [...] What brought about IBM\u0026#x27;s change in perspective was an unexpected effort by the TurboHercules company to commercialize the project in some unusual ways.\u003cp\u003eTurboHercules came up with a bizarre method to circumvent the licensing restrictions and monetize the emulator. IBM allows customers to transfer the operating system license to another machine in the event that their mainframe suffers an outage. Depending on how you choose to interpret that part of the license, it could make it legally permissible to use IBM\u0026#x27;s mainframe operating system with Hercules in some cases.\u003cp\u003eExploiting that loophole in the license, TurboHercules promotes the Hercules emulator as a \u0026quot;disaster recovery\u0026quot; solution that allows mainframe users to continue running their mainframe software on regular PC hardware when their mainframe is inoperable or experiencing technical problems. This has apparently opened up a market for commercial Hercules support with a modest number of potential customers, such as government entities that are required to have redundant failover systems for emergencies, but can\u0026#x27;t afford to buy a whole additional mainframe.\u003cp\u003e-----8\u0026lt;-----","parent":"12097019","id":"12097261"}
{"by":"fusiongyro","time":"1507232464","timestamp":"2017-10-05 19:41:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why almost all ORMs create a transaction and have a \u0026quot;unit-of-work\u0026quot; that encompasses a single transaction.\u003cp\u003eRace conditions are always surprising. Fortunately, we have a simple remedy for that: transactions. :)\u003cp\u003eSuppose you have another connection and it runs DELETE FROM t WHERE id = (SELECT MAX(id) FROM t). If that winds up in the middle, it could screw things up for you. Is it likely to happen? No, but again... the remedy is simple. Also, the scenario you describe seems simple enough, but what happens when you bulk insert a few thousand rows?\u003cp\u003eBy the way, with Postgres, there really is no way to not have a transaction. If you don\u0026#x27;t issue BEGIN, it treats the statement as a small transaction. So you\u0026#x27;re getting the same overhead on a single statement, if your plan was to somehow avoid the overhead.\u003cp\u003eIf this makes you question the database\u0026#x27;s usability, I have some bad news for you: all ACID compliant databases work this way. The \u0026quot;atomic\u0026quot; unit is the transaction, not the connection. The consistency guarantees pertain to the transaction, not the connection. This is not a weird thing about Postgres, this is how they all work (except, of course, that MySQL can\u0026#x27;t always roll back aspects of a transaction, like DDL).","parent":"15411937","id":"15412000"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1500608084","timestamp":"2017-07-21 03:34:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eYou truly can not expect any sane person with another option to choose Detroit \u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the second time today that we\u0026#x27;ve had to ask you to stop posting uncivil comments to HN. I don\u0026#x27;t want to ban you, but if you don\u0026#x27;t fix this we\u0026#x27;ll have to, so would you please fix this?\u003cp\u003e(Re-)reading the following might help:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newswelcome.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newswelcome.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe detached this subthread from \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14817477\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14817477\u003c/a\u003e and marked it off-topic.","parent":"14817544","id":"14817861"}
{"by":"candiodari","time":"1532013793","timestamp":"2018-07-19 15:23:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Plus there\u0026#x27;s the issue of how many terrorist attacks there \u003ci\u003ewould be\u003c/i\u003e if there was indeed no response.\u003cp\u003eWe all know the answer to that one: we\u0026#x27;d all be living under \u0026quot;amateur\u0026quot; Taliban, Mafias and worse anywhere near any large city, with constant public executions for \u0026quot;sacrilege\u0026quot; and for \u0026quot;competing\u0026quot; with the Mafia, and for ... There would be no international (or generally non-private) flights, and so on.","parent":"17566438","id":"17567163"}
{"by":"jds375","time":"1389638287","timestamp":"2014-01-13 18:38:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also recommend GeekTool. It allows for some cool customization effects. Available for free here: \u003ca href=\"http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;projects.tynsoe.org\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;geektool\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\nYou can find some cool themes from devianart or other sites.","parent":"7052311","id":"7052432"}
{"by":"jonesetc","time":"1426112087","timestamp":"2015-03-11 22:14:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because D\u0026amp;D races might as well be called species. These are not ethnicities, they are entirely different biologies. So having a problem with D\u0026amp;D races stems from an oversensitivity to the word race.","parent":"9187741","id":"9187783"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1371308321","timestamp":"2013-06-15 14:58:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like a particularly smart thing to do, since for the sake of $400 they\u0026#x27;ve ensured at least one customer will \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e use  their $10-$50 \u0026#x2F; month service again...","parent":"5885088","id":"5885159"}
{"by":"jandrese","time":"1537052696","timestamp":"2018-09-15 23:04:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not hard to conceive of an algorithm that, when using the smallest possible unit of energy per step, requires more energy than exists in the known universe.","parent":"17995813","id":"17996453"}
{"by":"tcfunk","time":"1492179755","timestamp":"2017-04-14 14:22:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Somewhat related - I posed this question to my 4th grade science teacher. She was quick to shoot me down, and I\u0026#x27;ll never forget it.","parent":"14114562","id":"14114602"}
{"by":"AJ007","time":"1336167515","timestamp":"2012-05-04 21:38:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been following the Bo Xilai story in the NYT and elsewhere. I find it very interesting that not only is the Chinese government spying on all their citizens, but they have been spying on each other.\u003cp\u003eA recent article stated that the only secure communication in China is basically in writing or in person. Absolutely no electronic communication is trusted.\u003cp\u003eThe same people within the US government using pushing for far reaching citizen spying have to understand that these tools will most certainly be turned on them.","parent":"3930415","id":"3930454"}
{"by":"jcoffland","time":"1490561235","timestamp":"2017-03-26 20:47:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s troubling that you believe your genetics are responsible for economic success and education.","parent":"13963001","id":"13963186"}
{"by":"jimmyswimmy","time":"1490492326","timestamp":"2017-03-26 01:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The clues may be less subtle and still affect employers decisions. I\u0026#x27;ve read thousands of resumes and I always get frustrated when I can read more into the resume than may have been intended. Membership in the \u0026quot;hundred black men\u0026quot; or the \u0026quot;Aidan American student organization\u0026quot; provides me with information I would prefer not to know. Ideally when I review a resume I only want to know whether or not I think you might be qualified and worth wasting time on a phone call. Providing that information makes it harder for me to pretend that I am hiring blindly.\u003cp\u003eThe idea that there are even more subtle clues is fascinating. When hiring engineers, such clues have remained entirely subliminal to me. There must be some but honestly it wouldn\u0026#x27;t have occurred to me that there is a class difference between those interested in sailing and those who like track and field. I would probably guess that a track athlete would get along better in my company. Perhaps we are just low class.","parent":"13958034","id":"13958540"}
{"by":"S4M","time":"1425569044","timestamp":"2015-03-05 15:24:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Ads on TV are based on statistics. On youtube, it is data science.\u003cp\u003eThe targeting of the ads on youtube seems pretty bad, I just get standard ads that could have been shown on the TV, nothing to do what I am currently watching or what google knows about me.","parent":"9150040","id":"9151213"}
{"by":"pjc50","time":"1511380849","timestamp":"2017-11-22 20:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Jevons Paradox applies brutally here: more efficient miners just increase the value of bitcoin, potentially drawing in more users and even resulting in a net increase in consumption.","parent":"15760004","id":"15760048"}
{"by":"lawlessone","time":"1529332746","timestamp":"2018-06-18 14:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It probably is mostly traffic as it\u0026#x27;s concentrated more at Cork and the east coast. The west coast would be much more hazardous than the east coast as it\u0026#x27;s exposed to the Atlantic ocean usually bares the brunt of most storms we get.You can see this on the map itself in how the west coast has eroded.\u003cp\u003eMost of what is happening on the west coast would be fishing.\u003cp\u003eQuite a few of the wrecks also seem be close to the coast because sinking ships had time to reach the coast before they completely sank.","parent":"17338395","id":"17338567"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1450754409","timestamp":"2015-12-22 03:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Falcon 9 is designed to withstand losing one engine and still make it to orbit.\u003cp\u003eReusability makes it more interesting. There\u0026#x27;s a lot of extra fuel on board now which could be used to make up for lost engines if you\u0026#x27;re willing to throw away the first stage.","parent":"10775443","id":"10775592"}
{"by":"wyldfire","time":"1510884719","timestamp":"2017-11-17 02:11:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess it\u0026#x27;s nice to think about, but that would be insubordinate to their management\u0026#x2F;ownership.  Individuals who execute plans like that lose out big time and get quickly replaced.","parent":"15718218","id":"15718426"}
{"by":"juiceandjuice","time":"1335901458","timestamp":"2012-05-01 19:44:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except they also have confluence,crucible, and fisheye, which is very useful for my organization because we can't force everyone to be on git, and we have tons of people on subversion and cvs too, some who want to play around with mercurial and people on git too, in addition to using crowd/jira/confluence currently.  No other company that I know of offers that many solutions, and it's a shame you think atlassian should only focus on jira, because everything already works together really well.\u003cp\u003eAlso, Atlassian is battling github on an entirely different front using bitbucket.","parent":"3915444","id":"3916066"}
{"by":"jamesteow","time":"1312037111","timestamp":"2011-07-30 14:45:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with the overall sentiment of your statement. I think people have blown this situation far out of proportion. People touting their model is broken or that the company is going to fail over this one inciden... Same with Dropbox. It does have something to do with their successes.\u003cp\u003eThat said:\u003cp\u003ePeople attacked the founders because, for better or worse, they got directly involved in this. And if one of the co-founders really did tell her to take down that blog post to make sure their valuation doesn't take a hit, that'll draw a lot of ire.\u003cp\u003ePlus, Airbnb has millions of dollars. They have the PR capacity to deal with these scenarios. If they aren't framing their true side of the story, whose fault is that? Like it or not, people are going to speculate especially when there is a long history of corporations side-stepping responsibility. (I am not at all suggesting that Airbnb is not trying to help. I'm saying why I can see how people can assume the worst) The fact that PG has to publicly defend them is ludicrous. It's like a father defending a fully-grown son.\u003cp\u003eThe core issue here beyond the Dropbox security folly and the previous Craigslist/Airbnb debacle (which both sparked a ton of vitriol) is that this exact scenario this woman went through was bound to happen and should not have gotten out of hand. Credit cards get stolen. The process is: phone a 24-hotline, cancel a card, get a new one in the mail, challenge the fees, hopefully get money back. With this Airbnb scenario, the woman had to contact Airbnb through a freelancer who worked for them because no one initially responded to her e-mails or phone calls!\u003cp\u003eCraigslist does a very good job of warning people of the dangers all across the process. If you click on sublets, there are huge links at the top warning of fraud, scams, and personal safety tips. If you click on a post, there is a giant yellow box that warns the user of scams. On Airbnb: Nothing on the homepage, nothing on the lists of properties, and nothing on the listing itself. Airbnb isn't liable for the damages (as stated by their agreement) but they should have made more of an effort to educate the users of the potential hazards of the site and liabilities for the buyer. Hell, I used Airbnb in Paris and I genuinely thought that Airbnb would have a very responsive team in case shit hit the fan. With Craigslist, there is no false sense of security: every step of the way, they warn you.\u003cp\u003eThe whole situation far bigger than it needed to be.","parent":"2825532","id":"2825863"}
{"by":"DennisP","time":"1510149841","timestamp":"2017-11-08 14:04:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t really assume that everyone holding ETH bought it in 2015.","parent":"15650287","id":"15652464"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1291305653","timestamp":"2010-12-02 16:00:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don't normally wear them, remember to keep the emergency suit (although in a weird sort of way you could call that seasonal).","parent":"1961502","id":"1962467"}
{"by":"emptybits","time":"1428123439","timestamp":"2015-04-04 04:57:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You do not even need to be accused of a cyber crime to have assets seized under this order.  If you make any contribution to or provide any services to someone accused of criminal hacking, you may have assets seized.\u003cp\u003eAside from innocent individuals falling victim to unjust asset forfeiture, it seems to me that organizations like GitHub, Amazon, or Dropbox are exposed if they end up providing services to the accused.","parent":"9319822","id":"9319956"}
{"by":"tdfx","time":"1352827293","timestamp":"2012-11-13 17:21:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same for me.  My order is timestamped at 8:50 PST.","parent":"4779117","id":"4779161"}
{"by":"Benjo","time":"1282566488","timestamp":"2010-08-23 12:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It took me about a month to be comfortable with Dvorak. It's probably going to depend on how much you are willing to commit to Dvorak. You will learn much faster if you can avoid the temptation to switch back to Qwerty when you need to type something quickly. Typing a lot will obviously help as well.\u003cp\u003eInitially my Qwerty skill dropped way off, but two months later I was able to switch between the two formats with little effort.","parent":"1626436","id":"1626569"}
{"by":"drumdance","time":"1341948106","timestamp":"2012-07-10 19:21:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny, I see SMS as an improvement. Enforced brevity is an improvement IMO.","parent":"4225036","id":"4225618"}
{"by":"blhack","time":"1317490196","timestamp":"2011-10-01 17:29:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure I'm following you.  Are you saying that artists [or people] creating art for non-commercial purposes aren't really artists?\u003cp\u003eThat seems a little silly to me","parent":"3060501","id":"3060524"}
{"by":"dingo_bat","time":"1525750887","timestamp":"2018-05-08 03:41:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Again, all this is irrelevant to me as a programmer looking for challenging work. I\u0026#x27;ll chose good work over \u0026quot;is it going to be open source\u0026quot;?","parent":"17018580","id":"17018642"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1361993821","timestamp":"2013-02-27 19:37:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When moving data from prod to other environments, consider a scrambler. E.g., replace all customer names with names generated from census data.\u003cp\u003eI try to keep data having the same form (e.g., length, number of records, similar relationships, looks like production data). But it's random enough so that if the data ever leaks, we don't have to apologize to everybody.\u003cp\u003eSince your handle is perlgeek, you're already well equipped to do a streaming transformation of your SQL dump. :)","parent":"5293730","id":"5294351"}
{"by":"neves","time":"1477084582","timestamp":"2016-10-21 21:16:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is the Zody quality? Is it as high as Aeron and Steelcase? It looks somewhat easier to find at a decent price.","parent":"12758993","id":"12764903"}
{"by":"mooism2","time":"1371897096","timestamp":"2013-06-22 10:31:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e5 (variation B - current default).  If a player is sent to a mini-square that has already been won, or in which all the cells are already filled, then the player may next place his mark in any unfilled cell in any other mini-board.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"5923121","id":"5923141"}
{"by":"brazzledazzle","time":"1481680498","timestamp":"2016-12-14 01:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you think fills that role Notes had today? Or would you say it\u0026#x27;s split between various products\u0026#x2F;services?","parent":"13172596","id":"13173178"}
{"by":"venomsnake","time":"1477410294","timestamp":"2016-10-25 15:44:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelp\nBBC Worldwide (International Site)\nWe\u0026#x27;re sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com.\u003cp\u003eDo you need further help?\nIf you need help with something else, please see our fully searchable FAQs. If you can\u0026#x27;t find what you\u0026#x27;re looking for, you\u0026#x27;ll be able to contact us from there.\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd we have most absurd DRM award winner ever. And no way to see the article at all. That is even worse than a paywall.","parent":"12788711","id":"12788887"}
{"by":"vsloo","time":"1480701570","timestamp":"2016-12-02 17:59:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a disconnect between founders who want to build a startup and founders who want to build a business. They think the two are the same but they\u0026#x27;re really not and this study clearly shows that. There are situations where startups turn into businesses but I\u0026#x27;d rather build a profitable business for myself from the start and our team than to build a startup purely focused on \u0026quot;growth\u0026quot;.","parent":"13086693","id":"13090768"}
{"by":"DrScump","time":"1464393927","timestamp":"2016-05-28 00:05:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, they are protected from cancer because naked mole rats \u003ci\u003enever get cancer\u003c/i\u003e, to our knowledge.\u003cp\u003eHMW-HA is a correlation that has not been proven to be effective for preventing cancer elsewhere.  Remember, such claims used to be made about shark cartilage, too.","parent":"11789634","id":"11789955"}
{"by":"jwise0","time":"1403296191","timestamp":"2014-06-20 20:29:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was a TA for my undergrad operating systems class, I gave a lecture once on using SPIN for basic verification of a handful of mutex implementations, and proving a handful of properties about them.  If you want a basic conceptual primer for Spin, I recommend checking it out -- here\u0026#x27;s a PDF of the slide deck:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410-s11/lectures/L38_SPIN.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu\u0026#x2F;~410-s11\u0026#x2F;lectures\u0026#x2F;L38_SPIN.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd here\u0026#x27;s a set of resources:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410-s09/lectures/L40_SPIN/spinfiles/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu\u0026#x2F;~410-s09\u0026#x2F;lectures\u0026#x2F;L40_SPIN\u0026#x2F;spinfiles\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinked to from the above is another good resource from people who have used Spin -- a formal verification of Linux\u0026#x27;s RCU design, using Spin:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://lwn.net/Articles/243851/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lwn.net\u0026#x2F;Articles\u0026#x2F;243851\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7922172","id":"7922717"}
{"by":"kazoolist","time":"1327175256","timestamp":"2012-01-21 19:47:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not how I remember it ... Dodd was intimately involved with the government's actions that contributed to the Housing Crisis and was the top recipient of campaign contributions from Freddie \u0026#38; Fannie.\u003cp\u003eAll of which had the makings for a very difficult election battle in 2010, when Dodd recognized as he opted out of running for re-election in 2010.","parent":"3494346","id":"3494378"}
{"by":"grey-area","time":"1359992709","timestamp":"2013-02-04 15:45:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would say something about the state of American education rather than the state of Iceland, if so.","parent":"5164439","id":"5164651"}
{"by":"sukuriant","time":"1331252108","timestamp":"2012-03-09 00:15:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Programs as fast as the speed of light!","parent":"3681247","id":"3682332"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1296863691","timestamp":"2011-02-04 23:54:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Negative 40 Kelvin has no meaning ;)","parent":"2181378","id":"2181901"}
{"by":"sofal","time":"1248278243","timestamp":"2009-07-22 15:57:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your comment did not point out anything other than the fact that you personally think Atwood's articles are useless. It did not contribute anything to the discussion, and it garnered knee-jerk upvotes from people who, like you, hate Atwood's articles. I don't often downvote, and I never downvote for disagreement. I downvote comments that either add nothing or take away from the discussion, and your comment was a perfect example of that.\u003cp\u003eIf you have a particular problem with this article, then follow the example of edw519 and elaborate.","parent":"718014","id":"718038"}
{"by":"sjg007","time":"1496191802","timestamp":"2017-05-31 00:50:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They can do demographic tracking, brand tracking and other retargeting type advertising.","parent":"14442476","id":"14449762"}
{"by":"joshmanders","time":"1468682851","timestamp":"2016-07-16 15:27:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was this a recent change? Because electron\u0026#x27;s homepage[0] still shows that Slack was built on it.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;electron.atom.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;electron.atom.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12104429","id":"12106650"}
{"by":"ngrilly","time":"1508434488","timestamp":"2017-10-19 17:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I very much like DevDocs. But it looks like Python and Go documentation are incomplete. In Dash, the full documentation is available: the library reference of course, but also the language reference and other things. In DevDocs, I only see the library reference. Am I missing something?","parent":"15507871","id":"15509847"}
{"by":"1123581321","time":"1459722208","timestamp":"2016-04-03 22:23:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These policies do not affect the revenue of Boeing or Palantir, who are able to arrange whatever exceptions they need to do business. Usually, minority purchasing rules come into play when a government is purchasing commodity\u0026#x2F;low-differentiated products and services.","parent":"11417880","id":"11418068"}
{"by":"rwmj","time":"1378501412","timestamp":"2013-09-06 21:03:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed .. in all the years I spent programming the Z80, I never for a minute suspected it had this ALU architecture.  It\u0026#x27;s not even mentioned in Rodney Zaks\u0026#x27;s great work.","parent":"6341579","id":"6342669"}
{"by":"christonog","time":"1255303512","timestamp":"2009-10-11 23:25:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll be there as well.","parent":"875130","id":"875521"}
{"by":"muzani","time":"1514809740","timestamp":"2018-01-01 12:29:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, after writing that I realized that design is a lot more expensive. You can still get a decent coder who doesn\u0026#x27;t care about his work, but you can\u0026#x27;t get a decent designer who doesn\u0026#x27;t care.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s important that the designers really understand the user journey, and that\u0026#x27;s not really something you can buy for just $5,000.","parent":"16040805","id":"16045818"}
{"by":"jonnybgood","time":"1395280755","timestamp":"2014-03-20 01:59:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was the best translation I\u0026#x27;ve found.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Great-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/0143036270\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Meditations-Penguin-Great-Marcus-Aurel...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7433257","id":"7433341"}
{"by":"smoody","time":"1288135606","timestamp":"2010-10-26 23:26:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"App engine is fast and awesome, right now. However, if your site gets really popular, you may consider moving off of it.\"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps you can explain why you believe this to be true? I thought that the strength of App Engine is that you can stay on it no matter how popular your app gets.","parent":"1836271","id":"1836585"}
{"by":"jethro_tell","time":"1486416054","timestamp":"2017-02-06 21:20:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, the calculation has been automated away.  before now, you still needed a semi-competent person to input the values for computation.  Now a computer can start to do that.  We\u0026#x27;ll see things like computer vision tools that can estimate concrete order volumes based on a couple quick looks into the forms.","parent":"13565407","id":"13584138"}
{"by":"prostoalex","time":"1472972721","timestamp":"2016-09-04 07:05:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the US the lotto tickets are frequently sold at self-service vending machines which take cash and cash only, so the level of KYC compliance is roughly zero.","parent":"12420820","id":"12423176"}
{"by":"ben_jones","time":"1470710587","timestamp":"2016-08-09 02:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if they had to subpoena a tomato grown in a field next to the toxic waste dump? What if they opted not to examine that tomato because they didn\u0026#x27;t have the resources to issue, process, and support, the lengthy bureaucratic process involved in such things?","parent":"12251978","id":"12252229"}
{"by":"NathanKP","time":"1425330667","timestamp":"2015-03-02 21:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really wish I had that trait, but instead I have the exact opposite. I often need about twelve hours to feel fully rested, and even then usually require a coffee or two to feel productive. Some people suggested recently that maybe I have sleep apnea, so I\u0026#x27;m planning to try a sleep study sometime soon.","parent":"9131745","id":"9134352"}
{"by":"flyinRyan","time":"1341845429","timestamp":"2012-07-09 14:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Medicare is not bad, but that only counts for people who are retired.  In this specific case the OP might be wrong about the dangers to their dad, but for most people this is a huge scare.","parent":"4218410","id":"4218431"}
{"by":"girishnayak","time":"1445339105","timestamp":"2015-10-20 11:05:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am co-founder of Rime. Rime is a social content aggregator, it pull together users social contents shared on multiple platforms to one place. Here is an example of user profile \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rime.co\u0026#x2F;@girish\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rime.co\u0026#x2F;@girish\u003c/a\u003e We believe that everyone is an artist and internet is a platform which allows users (brands\u0026#x2F;individuals) to showcase their creation through various apps. Rime helps users to sync all of their content in one unified timeline. Which will help their friends and followers to get every singel update.\nIt’s also an initiative towards supporting openweb and content sharing networks to give utmost reach to the contents, creators (authors) and providers (platforms).\u003cp\u003eYou can also use rime as a tool to create profiles of others. Rime users can create anybody’s guest profile (If they are not in Rime), by connecting social media accounts of people whom they want to follow. For example \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rime.co\u0026#x2F;@google\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;rime.co\u0026#x2F;@google\u003c/a\u003e . It is like Wikipedia for social networks which will be moderated by the community.\u003cp\u003eCurrently, people are not actively using platforms like vine, Flickr, tumblr etc, since they don’t get proper visibility for contents. Every time they need to share content explicitly to facebook to get the visibility that’s a cumbersome process and time consuming. Rime is a disruptive Idea which can encourage people to use various content creation platform since we can bring those content under one profile and enhance the visibility.\u003cp\u003eWe are trying to make true open web platform to the internet. Where content reach can not be controlled by anyone. Whatever people are sharing will reach to the followers.","parent":"10418447","id":"10418448"}
{"by":"georgedyer","time":"1363217801","timestamp":"2013-03-13 23:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I second that! Thanks, Meteor team, for including transforms! Now it's time to refactor some code... :)","parent":"5371630","id":"5371896"}
{"by":"subway","time":"1500423838","timestamp":"2017-07-19 00:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s nothing that ties a blockchain to proof of work. Proof of work just just one consensus protocol. For instance, JP Morgan\u0026#x27;s Quorum is working on Raft based consensus. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jpmorganchase\u0026#x2F;quorum\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;raft\u0026#x2F;doc.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jpmorganchase\u0026#x2F;quorum\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;raft\u0026#x2F;doc...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14801136","id":"14801187"}
{"by":"insensible","time":"1525109927","timestamp":"2018-04-30 17:38:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The permaculture slogan for handling water is \u0026quot;stop, spread, and soak\u0026quot;. A contour is at a right angle to runoff, so by digging a swale with a downhill berm you bring it to a halt. And yes, you can deliver water elsewhere by putting it on a 1-2% grade.\u003cp\u003eYou can get some more context on what I\u0026#x27;m describing from this article, though it sounds like your swale might be shallower. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;permaculturenews.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;24\u0026#x2F;how-to-build-a-swale-on-contour-successfully\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;permaculturenews.org\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;24\u0026#x2F;how-to-build-a-swale...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you do it, you might consider filling yours with wood chips for appearance, easy maintenance, extra filtration, and to encourage soil building.","parent":"16960317","id":"16960584"}
{"by":"simias","time":"1525812463","timestamp":"2018-05-08 20:47:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What kind of stress test do you have in mind? I\u0026#x27;ve had a yubikey 4 for almost two years on my keyring that I use daily and despite not taking very good care of it it still works fine. It\u0026#x27;s been wet, it\u0026#x27;s been scratched, it\u0026#x27;s supported the weight of my keys while hanging from a USB port, it\u0026#x27;s been plugged and unplugged thousands of times...\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;re pretty sturdy. Of course if you take some pliers to them I have no doubt that you\u0026#x27;ll be able to break them in half but for normal use you won\u0026#x27;t have a problem IMO. The size doesn\u0026#x27;t bother me either, it\u0026#x27;s like a very flat USB key.\u003cp\u003eI also have a nitrokey that\u0026#x27;s a bit shorter and bulkier and it comes with a cap which might be better to protect the connector, but on the other hand I\u0026#x27;m sure I\u0026#x27;d lose it sooner or later. A retractable port or something similar would probably be a better idea. Also the nitrokey is significantly slower which is the main reason I only have it as a backup for my yubikey currently.","parent":"17023670","id":"17024896"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1352131447","timestamp":"2012-11-05 16:04:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Total rubbish - Presidents are not wanted for their ability to program CPUs;  They are wanted for their ability to adjust the programming of the human mind.\u003cp\u003eOne speech, one vision can re-program millions of minds, one policy consistently followed can affect billions.\u003cp\u003eWe need leaders who know how humans work.  We would like leaders who use that ethically and for the good of all.\u003cp\u003eHere's hoping.","parent":"4743154","id":"4744105"}
{"by":"brianwawok","time":"1497131623","timestamp":"2017-06-10 21:53:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hum I have deployed a SS with just delete and create. No need for a cascade flag. Maybe that is the default?\u003cp\u003eBut yah like I said, not as nice as deploying a deployment.","parent":"14527881","id":"14529393"}
{"by":"btipling","time":"1298042654","timestamp":"2011-02-18 15:24:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the height supposed to mean anything? Why did they start with Safari? It's the first modern web browser? It points to  a page that says IE9 is not a modern browser yet shows IE7 and IE8.","parent":"2235604","id":"2235713"}
{"by":"83457","time":"1498151333","timestamp":"2017-06-22 17:08:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was that the frame rate or just hobbits trying to keep up with Gandalf?","parent":"14613384","id":"14613678"}
{"by":"lutorm","time":"1403648233","timestamp":"2014-06-24 22:17:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m curious, do the people who think that they should be allowed to fly their unmanned aircraft without restrictions also think that they should be allowed to fly their \u003ci\u003emanned\u003c/i\u003e aircraft without restrictions, or should the rules be different because the pilot is on the ground rather than in the vehicle itself?","parent":"7938861","id":"7941012"}
{"by":"lolsal","time":"1526665071","timestamp":"2018-05-18 17:37:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you clarify what you mean? I doubt that deciding not to look at news sites on the internet is depression.","parent":"17102496","id":"17103341"}
{"by":"greenyoda","time":"1453315556","timestamp":"2016-01-20 18:45:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10917446\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10917446\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10938927","id":"10940338"}
{"by":"bookerio","time":"1440160973","timestamp":"2015-08-21 12:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, those are some really nice resources. Thank you for mentioning them.\u003cp\u003eIn response to your side note: 40% is a bit of an exaggeration (unless your resolution is extremely low) but I do appreciate your point - I can see how the masthead might be a bit obnoxious. I will tweak the theme accordingly in the near future. Thanks.","parent":"10096850","id":"10097075"}
{"by":"rudolf0","time":"1453825597","timestamp":"2016-01-26 16:26:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree; this article is a little misleading. Any substance that rapidly releases serotonin will definitely make you feel happy, if you\u0026#x27;re not already tolerant.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s obviously more complex than just being \u0026quot;the happy neurotransmitter\u0026quot;, but it is tied to general mood.","parent":"10974111","id":"10974184"}
{"by":"peteretep","time":"1500722847","timestamp":"2017-07-22 11:27:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d love to see noise regulation. Nothing more irritating than being somewhere peaceful and beautiful when a couple of douchey drone flyers decide to ruin the quiet","parent":"14826483","id":"14826635"}
{"by":"spydum","time":"1517679878","timestamp":"2018-02-03 17:44:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if many comments these days are bots just trying to farm karma, so they can sell astroturfing campaigns later. They all take turns upvoting themselves.. Or maybe I\u0026#x27;m paranoid","parent":"16298458","id":"16298573"}
{"by":"larrys","time":"1355775952","timestamp":"2012-12-17 20:25:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"You \"marvel\" that Wikipedia doesn't charge for access?\"\u003cp\u003eI'm not talking about Wikipedia nor did I mention them. My comment is directed toward internet archive a different situation.","parent":"4933929","id":"4934154"}
{"by":"Benjamin_Dobell","time":"1544069108","timestamp":"2018-12-06 04:05:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My apologies, perhaps you need to elaborate on what you meant when you wrote:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Seems pretty clearly tenable to me. It is, in fact, being tened. ¯\\_(ツ)_\u0026#x2F;¯\u003cp\u003ein response to:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Attempting to maintain in written law explicit definitions of every food that humans can fathom, and how they are presently produced, is clearly untenable.","parent":"18615296","id":"18615311"}
{"by":"dhimes","time":"1222954017","timestamp":"2008-10-02 13:26:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tend to agree, but the Pearl analogy doesn't quite hold.  Suppose, for whatever reason, in WWII the US and Japanese were originally allies, and there were high level Japanese military officials working in the Pentagon.  Then it becomes clearer that proceeding incorrectly could cause far more damage than proceeding slowly but cautiously.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, the perceived \"character\" issues that the White House has is working against the US in this time of crisis.  The WH is suspected by some of using \"emergency\" situations to gain power, and some folks are suspicious that they may try to do it again.\u003cp\u003eThere are a lot of people for whom the phrase \"George Bush has a plan to fix this\" doesn't inspire confidence.","parent":"321589","id":"321691"}
{"by":"thriftwy","time":"1514152498","timestamp":"2017-12-24 21:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you familiar with the freelancers\u0026#x27; concept of \u0026quot;fuck you, pay me\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eI guess, that\u0026#x27;s how the first part works. There are things you can try, and there are other things. Messing with freelance pen testers is clearly one of latter.","parent":"16001209","id":"16001483"}
{"by":"NoGravitas","time":"1454438169","timestamp":"2016-02-02 18:36:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Appears that the author of this paper is a quack hawking magnesium and zinc miracle cures[0].\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ibiblio.org\u0026#x2F;london\u0026#x2F;herbs\u0026#x2F;forums\u0026#x2F;alt.folklore.herbs\u0026#x2F;msg00123.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ibiblio.org\u0026#x2F;london\u0026#x2F;herbs\u0026#x2F;forums\u0026#x2F;alt.folklore.herb...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11020142","id":"11021368"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1477325504","timestamp":"2016-10-24 16:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not sure it has. Surface isn\u0026#x27;t exactly an ipad killer. And the more I use Windows 10, the more I miss Windows 7.","parent":"12779967","id":"12780110"}
{"by":"dthorne","time":"1286365810","timestamp":"2010-10-06 11:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Helmets: bad; Naked head: good; Wheel-scythes: awesome.","parent":"1762046","id":"1763522"}
{"by":"jlarocco","time":"1482198571","timestamp":"2016-12-20 01:49:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; When they replace all taxis, do they really think they can just permanently ignore all driving laws?\u003cp\u003eWhy wait?  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;ubers-self-driving-car-ran-red-light-san-francisco\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.wired.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;ubers-self-driving-car-ran-red...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13216575","id":"13216686"}
{"by":"stouset","time":"1505110415","timestamp":"2017-09-11 06:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; AAA games?\u003cp\u003eYou mean the ones built on a handful of abstracted 3D engines like Unreal, Source, id Tech, CryEngine, Unity, etc?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Linux\u003cp\u003eYou mean the operating system that abstracts away from us things like filesystems, hardware access, shared memory, time sharing, networking protocols, access control, multicore processors, etc.?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Rust\u003cp\u003eYou mean the programming language that adds a new abstraction of \u0026quot;borrowing and ownership\u0026quot; to help simplify the confusing existing abstractions of memory management and data race detection?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Vulkan\u003cp\u003eYou mean the API that abstracts away parallel computation on graphics hardware, upon which they intend for dedicate graphics abstractions like OpenGL and WebASM to be abstracted?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; WebASM?\u003cp\u003eYou mean the API that abstracts away running low-level machine code — not on your own machine, but sandboxed on remote machines via web browsers.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Meanwhile most of the really interesting problems are still done in fairly primitive languages.\u003cp\u003eDo you want to take a guess why I\u0026#x27;ll argue that you consider the obscenely complicated task of \u0026quot;delivering secure, multiuser, interactive applications with offline persistent data storage to hundreds of thousands of remote clients\u0026quot; a non-interesting problem?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s only because of the incredibly successful and complex network of abstractions that are Ethernet, IPv4, TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, graphical image formats, web browsers, database servers, caches, switched networks, load balancers, and so on that these kinds of achievements that would have been considered \u003ci\u003emonumental\u003c/i\u003e even thirty years ago are not \u0026quot;really interesting problems\u0026quot; today.\u003cp\u003eAbstraction has allowed us to break apart the component parts of this incredibly complicated problem into small, independent, coordinating layers. The fact that you think that something like delivering web applications is a non-interesting problem practically makes my argument for abstraction all by itself.","parent":"15215789","id":"15216362"}
{"by":"neverminder","time":"1531085650","timestamp":"2018-07-08 21:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But when you interviewed for this plumbing job, were you asked to explain in detail Bernoulli\u0026#x27;s principle of fluid dynamics? I think the author\u0026#x27;s point is ridiculous academically heavy interviews when the actual job is boring ass CRUD.","parent":"17484411","id":"17486328"}
{"by":"kolektiv","time":"1284682433","timestamp":"2010-09-17 00:13:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, that's quite easy if the definition of personal life is \"Sweet Jesus, sleep!\"\u003cp\u003eMore seriously, that's the kind of thing which does creep in to companies. They have a culture already. It's a long hours culture. You may or may not think that's a bad thing, but it's there. It's quite hard to lose as well. People come in, they can't work \u003ci\u003eless\u003c/i\u003e than the people already there, so they jump in to it. Soon people that only work 11 hour days are regarded as slackers. Nip it in the bud. It can't work forever, and it'll get harder to change.","parent":"1699561","id":"1699569"}
{"by":"0xADEADBEE","time":"1546065466","timestamp":"2018-12-29 06:37:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An interesting point - I hadn\u0026#x27;t at all considered the trend of slowly growing an engineering team. I\u0026#x27;d bet you\u0026#x27;re on the money with this.","parent":"18776008","id":"18782299"}
{"by":"saagarjha","time":"1498069880","timestamp":"2017-06-21 18:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, I got the same thing. I guess support isn\u0026#x27;t complete yet?","parent":"14606407","id":"14606613"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1296325591","timestamp":"2011-01-29 18:26:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it simply means that the \u003ci\u003eact of downloading source code\u003c/i\u003e in and of itself is not illegal.\u003cp\u003eYour intent, the circumstances and what you do afterwards figure in to the discussion as well.\u003cp\u003eYou want to make it seem as though the simple act of downloading copyrighted software is illegal and I think that it is not that simple.\u003cp\u003eIn practice the situation is complicated, and since there is no enforcement against downloaders of software that \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e illegal whatsoever anyway the whole point as far as I'm concerned is moot.","parent":"2155961","id":"2155973"}
{"by":"smt88","time":"1518578433","timestamp":"2018-02-14 03:20:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This tells us nothing about the talent or intelligence of the candidates because these tests are bullshit.\u003cp\u003eI wish companies like this didn\u0026#x27;t exist to enable these types of interviews.","parent":"16369280","id":"16373161"}
{"by":"CaptSpify","time":"1462640212","timestamp":"2016-05-07 16:56:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;463\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;463\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe whole structure is wrong. I used to work in medical equipment repair. Windows Embedded is running so many devices it\u0026#x27;s not funny. But it\u0026#x27;s not \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c/i\u003e Windows that\u0026#x27;s the problem.\u003cp\u003eI put a linux-system on a PACS network to diagnose equipment. It was a headless, and we \u003ci\u003easked\u003c/i\u003e the IT group to block it off from the Internet.\u003cp\u003eHospital IT: \u0026quot;Does it have antivirus?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eMe: \u0026quot;...\u0026quot;","parent":"11649631","id":"11650309"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1279232918","timestamp":"2010-07-15 22:28:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No need to guess, just ask. I mean design and production, not retail. Even if you buy jeans and T shirts, the designers and producers are majority female or gay men.","parent":"1519220","id":"1519481"}
{"by":"bpicolo","time":"1497552186","timestamp":"2017-06-15 18:43:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The language itself supports annotations, without any actual typechecking. You use \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mypy-lang.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mypy-lang.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e to get the static checking.","parent":"14562411","id":"14563168"}
{"by":"ComodoHacker","time":"1530212537","timestamp":"2018-06-28 19:02:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IIRC Apple won bans for Samsung devices on US market, which gave them time to catch up with innovations in the next iPhone generations. These innovations were not so easy to copy unlike the whole smartphone concept and \u0026quot;round corners design\u0026quot;.","parent":"17418241","id":"17419560"}
{"by":"cromo","time":"1491835117","timestamp":"2017-04-10 14:38:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first bullet point under the Supported Features section in the readme states that it works on any Lua that provides a bit manipulation library. I know LuaJIT comes with one, and Lua 5.3 comes with bitwise operators, so those could be wrapped up into a compatible module.","parent":"14077910","id":"14078814"}
{"by":"attack","time":"1206647496","timestamp":"2008-03-27 19:51:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh you mean the old\u003cp\u003ex[::~0][~-1]\u003cp\u003etrick to get the last item. Thought that's what everyone uses.","parent":"147962","id":"148013"}
{"by":"letalvoj","time":"1502001981","timestamp":"2017-08-06 06:46:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First of all failure of the Google+ shows absolutely nothing important for this discussion. Secondly it\u0026#x27;s just your personal opinion that the Android is ugly.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, how can you even compare UX\u0026#x2F;UI design decisions with the companies ability to handle work-place environment and stuff diversity?\u003cp\u003eSo yes... You are wrong like lightyears away wrong.","parent":"14940056","id":"14940093"}
{"by":"wgx","time":"1319534047","timestamp":"2011-10-25 09:14:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Swiss rival Geberit also make a \u003ci\u003ebadass\u003c/i\u003e robot toilet [1], and they invest huge amounts in everything from software to water-flow acoustics in the home.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.geberit.co.uk/web/appl/uk/wcmsuk.nsf/pages/prod-aqua-line-8000-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.geberit.co.uk/web/appl/uk/wcmsuk.nsf/pages/prod-a...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3153324","id":"3153402"}
{"by":"chipsy","time":"1373514445","timestamp":"2013-07-11 03:47:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t bought a desktop in many years now, but I refreshed my laptop this past month after four years of service. The story is a little bit different but also points to a change in what drives the market.\u003cp\u003eThe old one was a lower end machine of its era (Lenovo model 4446, Intel T4200, 2Gb stock) and clearly becoming too slow for some applications; higher-end video could not play at full speed, and streaming apps like Google Hangout were essentially non-functional. Add to it the fact that the battery was shot, the keyboard was dead, the fans were dying, and the CCFL backlighting occasionally flickered to half-brightness; there was a pretty good case for me to make the move before it stopped booting altogether.\u003cp\u003eWhile the new one(Lenovo model 20182, AMD A10, 6Gb stock) is definitely fast enough to do everything, including the majority of games, this aspect feels more like \u0026quot;pain relief\u0026quot; than \u0026quot;improvement\u0026quot; - the positive differences in upgrading are most visible in physical aspects of the package - screen brightness, build and weight, average heat output, keyboard and touchpad feel. Mostly better, although I dislike the touchpad - the multitouch is not as accurate as the older ones, even after disabling all the features.\u003cp\u003eAnd this is not a top-end laptop - it\u0026#x27;s a \u0026lt;$600 machine from late last year, purchased at $100 off as a refurb. The biggest bottleneck in its performance profile is the use of spinning disk storage(which, I should add, is more than I\u0026#x27;m ever likely to use as long as I have it). And, I should reiterate - the performance problems of the previous one only came into play with some newer apps, mostly those that relied on GPU acceleration for video or 3D. To a lesser extent it had problems on CPU-hungry stuff(music production) as the fans gave out, but it was a very gradual degradation.\u003cp\u003eI think the most intriguing part of the new environment is in how it is informing how we write programs - a huge \u0026quot;style gap\u0026quot; has emerged between applications that can never get enough power, and those that can be unfathomably wasteful of power. For a lot of things, we can really say, \u0026quot;Given unlimited computational resources, how do we best solve this problem?\u0026quot; And the benefits of that thought process turn out to uncover new optimizations at the same time that they improve the code quality.","parent":"6023887","id":"6024380"}
{"by":"gohrt","time":"1467936249","timestamp":"2016-07-08 00:04:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are overly harsh.\u003cp\u003eIn all of testing, proving a negative is futile. But if this tool can create bugs that your bug-finder cannot find, and your real dev process is at all correlated to the bugs this tool creates, then this tool is a useful addition to the toolbox.","parent":"12052649","id":"12052853"}
{"by":"erikb","time":"1538120544","timestamp":"2018-09-28 07:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My understanding is different:\u003cp\u003eShorting a stock means borrowing it and paying a fee for borrowing it. Then selling the borrowed stock and hoping when you buy it back it\u0026#x27;s worth less. If the borrower doesn\u0026#x27;t want his stock back and the price is too high for you, then you simply don\u0026#x27;t buy and continue to pay the fee.\u003cp\u003eSo if you borrow stock for $100, maybe each year you pay a $5 fee, and sell it for $100. Considering there wouldn\u0026#x27;t be any transaction fees you would now have $95. If the price now rises to $500, you don\u0026#x27;t buy but continue to pay the $5. So it means you are only $90 ahead instead of $95. But you are not in the minus.\u003cp\u003eThis is actually a really good deal for both the borrower and the short seller, which is why I bet there are lots of rules forbidding that and banks not actually doing it if you don\u0026#x27;t borrow a certain minimum size of a few million $. I don\u0026#x27;t know that, though. In theory you and I could do that game as well, if it\u0026#x27;s not illegal.","parent":"18091232","id":"18091660"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1216758823","timestamp":"2008-07-22 20:33:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, those old developers would \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e about what their users were doing - for example, moving between fields would happen in a sensible order, NOT just in the order the HTML was laid out in. Those old apps might look clunky to modern eyes but really, they were \u003ci\u003epolished\u003c/i\u003e to a degree that rarely happens these days.","parent":"253564","id":"253608"}
{"by":"amalcon","time":"1339017200","timestamp":"2012-06-06 21:13:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The usual concern with scrypt is that it has less research behind it.  The bcrypt hash function has gone through over twelve years of attempts without being broken in the cryptographic sense.  The scrypt hash has only around three years of the same.\u003cp\u003eI would expect that within 5-10 years, scrypt will be the normal suggestion.  It really is much better on the fundamentals, so much so that some experts recommend it even in spite of its relative newness.  For the moment, though, there are arguments to be made either way.","parent":"4076197","id":"4076258"}
{"by":"reitanqild","time":"1512806096","timestamp":"2017-12-09 07:54:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure. I\u0026#x27;m not too much into it I just find the ads hilarious.\u003cp\u003eFor what I know it might be a similar agreement as the one Mozilla uses but I don’t know.","parent":"15877551","id":"15884785"}
{"by":"snissn","time":"1456262074","timestamp":"2016-02-23 21:14:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the same way that facebook shut down parse, I am afraid that google is going to shut down google cloud. And reluctantly have become okay with relying on AWS.","parent":"11159840","id":"11162381"}
{"by":"kvs","time":"1270038675","timestamp":"2010-03-31 12:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This may not be very useful for most startups who don't develop for IBM ecosystem. Similar program by Microsoft, called BizSpark, is very useful. If you haven't already  check that out.","parent":"1231566","id":"1231596"}
{"by":"venomsnake","time":"1432440832","timestamp":"2015-05-24 04:13:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sound and rational means peer reviewed paper ...\u003cp\u003eI spend the summers on a (nonindustrial) farm, have taken eggs directly from under the hen, milked a cow, drank honey directly from the centrifuge and slaughtered some chickens (funny) and pigs (meh). I am well accustomed to the process.\u003cp\u003eYour vegan foodstuff also require the killing of sentient creatures - to grow food we have displaced a lot of animals from their habitats. Sometimes quite forcefully. So yeah - you probably have fewer animals on your conscience , but you have some.\u003cp\u003eEdit:spelling","parent":"9595246","id":"9595281"}
{"by":"collyw","time":"1395234553","timestamp":"2014-03-19 13:09:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That sounds about right. In my experience most recruiters are only capable of matching two words, with very little understanding of what the words actually mean. They have no idea that RDBMS \u0026#x2F; Oracle\u0026#x2F; SQL are synonymous to a degree.","parent":"7428176","id":"7428351"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1535049483","timestamp":"2018-08-23 18:38:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that the twelve-tone system was designed for a very specific \u0026quot;use case\u0026quot;, in the context of a certain kind of music: classical\u0026#x2F;Baroque revolving around major and minor scales, modulating around the cycle of fifths. For anything else, it is basically a misuse. Mass produced equal temperament instruments are used all over the world and basically turn the local music into shlocky pop.","parent":"17829566","id":"17829610"}
{"by":"tdavis","time":"1246469169","timestamp":"2009-07-01 17:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That part under \"July\" is meant to be mildly sarcastic; hopefully it doesn't come off as disappointment that it didn't take two months. It has been a very fun and educational ride.","parent":"682760","id":"683007"}
{"by":"jdietrich","time":"1532276183","timestamp":"2018-07-22 16:16:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;Is the video representative of texting speed, or is this the fastest human in the world?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom what I understand, he\u0026#x27;s on the faster end of the normal range.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;Are they making choices that would take effort in a different system, or just clicking the next suggested letter?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Japanese kanji or Chinese hànzì, there\u0026#x27;s no practical way to directly input such a large range of characters. Users type a phonetic spelling, then the input method editor presents them with a menu of characters with a corresponding pronunciation. Chinese mostly uses a system of phonetic transliteration based on the Latin alphabet (pinyin), whereas Japanese speakers use both a Latin-based system (romaji) and a native Japanese system of syllabic characters (kana). The flick method shown in the video uses directional gestures to input kana.\u003cp\u003eFor example, if I\u0026#x27;m trying to type the Chinese word for bread (面包), I\u0026#x27;ll input the word as it is pronounced, \u0026quot;mianbao\u0026quot;. On mobile devices, a list of predicted characters will appear above my keyboard; on a computer, a numbered list will appear beside my cursor. I select the characters I was intending to input by tapping on mobile, or by pressing the corresponding number key or clicking on a computer. The choice of characters invariably requires some amount of human input, because there are many homophones (different words with the same pronunciation).\u003cp\u003eThis method of text input can often be quite slow and cumbersome, so good prediction and correction algorithms are crucial. The input method is constantly guessing which characters you want; if it\u0026#x27;s not aware of context, it\u0026#x27;ll make bad guesses and require a lot more manual selection and correction. Good input method software can predict entire phrases and is very resilient to typos.","parent":"17587148","id":"17587449"}
{"by":"mixmastamyk","time":"1356942969","timestamp":"2012-12-31 08:36:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Minneapolis looks a lot larger than I'd have guessed.","parent":"4988528","id":"4988795"}
{"by":"mitchty","time":"1534532911","timestamp":"2018-08-17 19:08:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone that has a godfather that has an actual Bison ranch, Bison are definitely still here thankfully, and are simultaneously awe inspiring and fear inducing.\u003cp\u003eThat part of Dances with Wolves where they leave a trail is not inaccurate.\u003cp\u003eAnd Bison will graze on areas that to be blunt, are practially useless for anything else but digging up dinosaur bones. The only thing we need to do is get out of their way. And you can even cull them sustainably, just find the ones that are on their way out and use them for food.\u003cp\u003eBut I know nothing about palm oil, I presume there should be some way to treat it like paper where we can leave the simians alone and farm our own.\u003cp\u003eAlso, don\u0026#x27;t try to pet a Bison, even in national parks. They\u0026#x27;re like moose level scary if they see you as a threat. I don\u0026#x27;t get why people think wild animals like you petting them. I saw a buffalo wreck a F-250, they are not pets.","parent":"17784838","id":"17785028"}
{"by":"vortico","time":"1510906402","timestamp":"2017-11-17 08:13:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like this way of thinking. It explains a load of products and technologies.","parent":"15719601","id":"15720118"}
{"by":"tiglionabbit","time":"1442280945","timestamp":"2015-09-15 01:35:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don\u0026#x27;t want to use the browser\u0026#x27;s cache here.  You can cache the properties in a more granular way yourself.  Relay will do that for you.","parent":"10218237","id":"10218536"}
{"by":"jordanb","time":"1450035428","timestamp":"2015-12-13 19:37:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"VR would make it easier to move the viewport around (just move your head) when looking at the isometric view of a model, but it does nothing really for building a model.","parent":"10727205","id":"10727578"}
{"by":"sanjeetsuhag","time":"1446582207","timestamp":"2015-11-03 20:23:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t an argument against Swift for iOS development. Its an argument against native application development.","parent":"10502099","id":"10502338"}
{"by":"steinuil","time":"1547112676","timestamp":"2019-01-10 09:31:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Encoding and decoding of JSON usually adds huge amounts of boilerplate (in some small-to-medium-sized apps it might account for more than half of the LoC), and separating an app into modules requires you to add some boilerplate in your update functions.","parent":"18872293","id":"18872619"}
{"by":"Taek","time":"1470779701","timestamp":"2016-08-09 21:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To get access to those, you needed warrants, and you didn\u0026#x27;t get to listen in on every conversation, only targeted conversations. On the Internet, you have full access to pretty much everything I\u0026#x27;ve ever said to somebody.\u003cp\u003eThey aren\u0026#x27;t equivalent.","parent":"12257265","id":"12257992"}
{"by":"PopeOfNope","time":"1436358575","timestamp":"2015-07-08 12:29:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sony\u0026#x27;s Digital Paper does that and only that. It allows you to read and mark up pdfs with a pen and nothing more. Unfortunately, it\u0026#x27;s $800 USD.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pro.sony.com\u0026#x2F;bbsc\u0026#x2F;ssr\u0026#x2F;show-digitalpaper\u0026#x2F;resource.solutions.bbsccms-assets-show-digitalpaper-digitalpaper.shtml?PID=I:digitalpaper:digitalpaper\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pro.sony.com\u0026#x2F;bbsc\u0026#x2F;ssr\u0026#x2F;show-digitalpaper\u0026#x2F;resource.solu...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9848271","id":"9851085"}
{"by":"sudhirj","time":"1394951663","timestamp":"2014-03-16 06:34:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But why? Despite it\u0026#x27;s dubious origins, Github remains an excellent \u0026#x2F; superior product. One may not agree with the way they do things (and even that seems to be some, not everyone in the organization), but is that really a reason to stop using the product?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;yourlogicalfallacyis.com\u0026#x2F;genetic\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7408128","id":"7408179"}
{"by":"chmars","time":"1471980123","timestamp":"2016-08-23 19:22:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, that\u0026#x27;s impressive!","parent":"12346441","id":"12346665"}
{"by":"mmind","time":"1416721217","timestamp":"2014-11-23 05:40:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually this may improve soon as it looks that Google ventures is paying attention to the opportunity of investing in a country with great weather and high-qualified engineers: \u003ca href=\"http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-set-to-open-campus-madrid-to-drive-innovation-in-spain/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.techrepublic.com\u0026#x2F;article\u0026#x2F;google-set-to-open-campu...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8647228","id":"8647927"}
{"by":"Cthulhu_","time":"1523445567","timestamp":"2018-04-11 11:19:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He does pretty much the same thing though; a lot of serial youtube series have a \u0026quot;hook\u0026quot;, Cody does the hey guys, thumbs up, welcome to cody\u0026#x27;s lab thing. AvE does \u0026quot;welcome back to the shop today a treat especial\u0026quot;, DeFranco does something something beautiful bastards, etc. I think it\u0026#x27;s a way to tune into videos, or... something. Also for the video creator themselves.","parent":"16808777","id":"16809961"}
{"by":"ghostly_s","time":"1544467460","timestamp":"2018-12-10 18:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e the better offer. Why should a parent care if some company\u0026#x27;s getting royalties for a game they released 30 years ago?","parent":"18649673","id":"18650154"}
{"by":"abandonliberty","time":"1417278796","timestamp":"2014-11-29 16:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about all the things that unsettled redmaverick?","parent":"8671664","id":"8674149"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1359607618","timestamp":"2013-01-31 04:46:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a faraway observer with no need to review \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e the sites, short summaries of the entries would be much appreciated.","parent":"5142828","id":"5143499"}
{"by":"lngnmn","time":"1486673842","timestamp":"2017-02-09 20:57:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could only try to clarify the same principles a bit more. Non-falsifiable and non empirically verified hypothesis does not amount for a science and constitutes a set of beliefs similar to religion among a community of its followers. As long as there is absolutely no way to reliably test or even  measure, leave alone empirically validate anything, this set of beliefs is technically is a non-science and should be explicitly named as mere speculation.\u003cp\u003eMy first comment was the claim that what we deal with is a socially constructed phenomena, similar to a religious belief  or a mass-hysteria because it is a) cannot be tested and b) constructed by a certain social group. Technically, I do not see any contradiction in my claim.","parent":"13609451","id":"13610898"}
{"by":"desdiv","time":"1495083967","timestamp":"2017-05-18 05:06:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mandatory two-factor-confirmation-by-email in order to push software updates on the app store would have been helpful in this case.","parent":"14362051","id":"14364957"}
{"by":"CamperBob2","time":"1337914151","timestamp":"2012-05-25 02:49:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.  Nothing great was ever done by people who slavishly followed the rules.","parent":"4021255","id":"4021647"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1351003691","timestamp":"2012-10-23 14:48:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, though I didn't mean objectively short, just that there's a distinction between the part of the welfare system that addresses long-term social problems (homeless, chronically unemployed, etc.), which is the regular state welfare system, and the decentralized, privately administered system with a time limit that's intended to smooth over finite periods of unemployment.\u003cp\u003eThere's a hard to quantify cultural element to the difference, which I think is part of what makes it work reasonably well, at least in many cases. The a-kasse project a fairly positive image, of job-finding assistance for people temporarily out of work. People are both assumed to be finding a job in good faith (at least initially), and are encouraged to view the chance of getting one as likely (perhaps with assistance or upskilling). So it doesn't have the same aura of charity/leecher/etc. or dead-endness that Americans tend to associate with welfare (and which even many Danes associate with the \"regular\" welfare system, e.g. people receiving \u003ci\u003eKontanthjælp\u003c/i\u003e).\u003cp\u003eThere's even some hope that it'll produce a sort of win-win, viewing unemployed people who aren't long-term unemployed as untapped resources that can be used to solve various labor shortages in Denmark. Part of the a-kasse's job is monitoring their sector for what kinds of skills are needed, developing relationships with companies, and figuring out how to plug their unemployed members (perhaps after training) into unfilled needs of those companies.","parent":"4687809","id":"4688334"}
{"by":"declan","time":"1396457278","timestamp":"2014-04-02 16:47:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; other channels, live news, or broadcast TV and we\u0026#x27;ll buy it in a heartbeat.\u003cp\u003eAgreed! Does anyone know of any device that offers live streaming news from CNN, Fox, etc.? The Roku store doesn\u0026#x27;t list CNN; it does list Fox News but only \u0026quot;video clips\u0026quot; and not a full 24\u0026#x2F;7 live stream of the television channel:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.roku.com/channels/#search/cnn/by-popular\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.roku.com\u0026#x2F;channels\u0026#x2F;#search\u0026#x2F;cnn\u0026#x2F;by-popular\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7516815","id":"7516875"}
{"by":"vdaniuk","time":"1405434797","timestamp":"2014-07-15 14:33:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am a current DigitalOcean client and I was recommending DO to my friends and professional contacts.\u003cp\u003eNew policy of requiring scanned documents is unacceptable in the environment of pervasive nation-state level monitoring and destruction of privacy. If this is a permanent change, I won\u0026#x27;t recommend DO any longer.\u003cp\u003eThe solution is extremely simple: accept bitcoins for payments and\u0026#x2F;or fair use verification for free tiers. Also there is a market for forged document scans, just read krebsonsecurity.","parent":"8036335","id":"8036626"}
{"by":"jarcoal","time":"1471831988","timestamp":"2016-08-22 02:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember forcing my parents to drive me to our local Apple retailer so that I could play this game on a beige PowerMac G3.  One of the first games I truly lusted for.","parent":"12333276","id":"12333713"}
{"by":"tastynachos","time":"1315521577","timestamp":"2011-09-08 22:39:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats a shame, it was a cool service, although giving it away for free was probably where he went wrong... I'm just sayin...","parent":"2975825","dead":true,"id":"2975971"}
{"by":"jbk","time":"1424380744","timestamp":"2015-02-19 21:19:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The weight isn\u0026#x27;t that different, though.","parent":"9076934","id":"9077138"}
{"by":"Torgo","time":"1361993833","timestamp":"2013-02-27 19:37:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right on, I started doing this a few years ago. I really like it.","parent":"5293403","id":"5294354"}
{"by":"cerbasict12","time":"1466455300","timestamp":"2016-06-20 20:41:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What a cuck!","parent":"11940730","dead":true,"id":"11941397"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1366992329","timestamp":"2013-04-26 16:05:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a valid point and I should have been more precise.  But AFAICT all those interconnects are single duplex point-to-point links, and thus not subject to the CSMA issues of asymmetric collision detection detailed in the linked article.","parent":"5610728","id":"5613647"}
{"by":"rhb","time":"1398828647","timestamp":"2014-04-30 03:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not a general purpose CPU\u0026#x2F;GPU, but related: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nervanasys.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nervanasys.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded by experts in machine learning, neuroscience, processor architecture, and chip design, Nervana Systems is bringing unprecedented scale and simplicity to the application of brain-inspired algorithms. Deep learning has emerged as the leading strategy for making sense of a wide variety of data but is very computationally intensive. We are developing a scalable hardware solution to solve these types of problems. By making unsupervised learning dramatically faster and more scalable, customers at all levels can derive meaningful insights from their data, an ability previously available only to an elite few companies.","parent":"7658842","id":"7671449"}
{"by":"teacup50","time":"1400914202","timestamp":"2014-05-24 06:50:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That doesn\u0026#x27;t make any sense. Defensive coding means not silently discarding errors (by returning null, in this case), and has nothing at all to do with exceptions.\u003cp\u003eAs for rewrapping errors, yes, each subsystem should have its own error space. You don\u0026#x27;t lose data by nesting errors; on the contrary, each level can add additional context to an error result that makes debugging an unexpected issue far easier.","parent":"7792757","id":"7792790"}
{"by":"rhelmer","time":"1513320020","timestamp":"2017-12-15 06:40:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This post suddenly reminded me of Resolver Systems, who made a Python\u0026#x2F;.Net spreadsheet back in the \u0026#x27;00s:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.prweb.com\u0026#x2F;releases\u0026#x2F;spreadsheet\u0026#x2F;competition\u0026#x2F;prweb1826304.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.prweb.com\u0026#x2F;releases\u0026#x2F;spreadsheet\u0026#x2F;competition\u0026#x2F;prweb1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought it was a good idea at the time, especially after having read \u0026quot;A Small Matter of Programming\u0026quot; which makes the case that spreadsheets are one of the very few successful end-user programming systems (the other being CAD):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;books\u0026#x2F;small-matter-programming\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu\u0026#x2F;books\u0026#x2F;small-matter-programming\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15927132","id":"15930064"}
{"by":"markkat","time":"1385567333","timestamp":"2013-11-27 15:48:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Edit: ok there is a limit of 21million bitcoins by 2030, and a world assignable wealth of ~210 trillion USD. So, if bitcoin works and can be the repository for all worlds currency, it would have to be worth 10,000 USD per bitcoin.\u003cp\u003eBy my math, that\u0026#x27;s 10,000,000 USD per BTC.","parent":"6808329","id":"6808691"}
{"by":"fenomas","time":"1475915016","timestamp":"2016-10-08 08:23:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hrm. I\u0026#x27;ve looked at deopts before, and I may be wrong but I \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e they aren\u0026#x27;t the issue. As I understand v8, it\u0026#x27;s normal at startup for hot functions to go through the opt\u0026#x2F;deopt cycle several times as the engine learns about them - and once a function does it too many times, it gets deopted permanently.\u003cp\u003eFor this reason I always let the game run for 10-15 seconds before I profile, figuring that by that time most of the opt\u0026#x2F;deopt churn will be finished. And this (very useful) script seems to back this up - I get output like yours at startup, but if I wait a while and then rm the output files, further output is relatively minimal.\u003cp\u003eSo I\u0026#x27;m inclined to think that opt\u0026#x2F;deopt stuff isn\u0026#x27;t the issue, and there really are lots of JS heap objects getting allocated somewhere. At the same time though, when I used Chrome\u0026#x27;s built-in memory profiling I see a bunch of deopt-related strings, so maybe I\u0026#x27;m way off base. If anyone sees what I\u0026#x27;m missing please do clue me in.\u003cp\u003e(Also: great tip on the script!)","parent":"12665976","id":"12666152"}
{"by":"savanaly","time":"1441812116","timestamp":"2015-09-09 15:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t want 100% turnout either, but for an entirely different reason. It would be a big waste of time! Why get 100% of the US\u0026#x27;s 300+ million people to take an afternoon out of their lives when we could get nearly the same accuracy if we only had 1% of that turn out to vote (keeping the demographics the same, ideally). The margin for error is miniscule with 3 million voters for 4-5 candidates, just as it is miniscule with 300 million. And the productivity gains (including increased leisure time as productive) would be huge.","parent":"10191393","id":"10191976"}
{"by":"stretchwithme","time":"1299388943","timestamp":"2011-03-06 05:22:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The growth in knowledge is dependent on how much brain power there is.  Everything we do is subject to improvement by anyone that cares to analyze and innovate.\u003cp\u003eIn the scenarios of those against technology 50 years ago, they also could not see how the economy would evolve or how people would adapt.  But that lack of vision isn't proof that they were right.","parent":"2293464","id":"2293531"}
{"by":"philfrasty","time":"1478038991","timestamp":"2016-11-01 22:23:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(I am not familiar with the GEMA business)\n„...very angry that GEMA succeeded...“ Why? Don\u0026#x27;t they collect money for the artists (I guess after taking their cut)? Which seems very hard to do as an individual artist...and very easy if you have a massive artist-base.","parent":"12849883","id":"12850634"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1455093423","timestamp":"2016-02-10 08:37:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many times it is to get the performance improvements you think you should need, but actually never will.\u003cp\u003eHaving been coding since the days of Assembly being a normal language for business applications, I never seen a programming community so obsessed with micro-optimizations per code line, (without using profilers, because programmer knows best), like the C one.\u003cp\u003eAnd by correlation the C sub-communities from C++ and Objective-C ones.\u003cp\u003eOther communities think first into getting their data-structures and algorithms right, use the profiler and then optimize.","parent":"11070998","id":"11071425"}
{"by":"smcl","time":"1423667074","timestamp":"2015-02-11 15:04:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well if its any consolation I\u0026#x27;m as guilty as you are, and you made plenty of sense to me.","parent":"9032942","id":"9033182"}
{"by":"whyleyc","time":"1361642444","timestamp":"2013-02-23 18:00:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's unclear from the data:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list#data\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homici...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdExSbktqRWpLMjNUMkFGVk5VODRyTnc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdExS...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5270524","id":"5270656"}
{"by":"makomk","time":"1397077382","timestamp":"2014-04-09 21:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly, this fails to understand a fairly fundamental aspect of the attack: you can read past the end of the buffer. Looking at the OpenSSL code, it appears the size of the buffer you\u0026#x27;re reading from is 16KiB+a few hundred bytes. (I could be wrong - not 100% sure I\u0026#x27;ve followed the code correctly - but it\u0026#x27;s not going to be larger than that for various reasons.) You can read up to 64KiB-1 bytes from it.","parent":"7561909","id":"7562372"}
{"by":"was_hellbanned","time":"1410680353","timestamp":"2014-09-14 07:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my opinion, the problem is that drivers, by and large, are absolutely \u003ci\u003eterrible\u003c/i\u003e at driving.  They\u0026#x27;re so bad at driving that they have no idea \u003ci\u003ehow bad\u003c/i\u003e they are at it.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re a nation of self-promoting, self-obsessed, angry narcissists, incompetently sitting behind the wheel of multi-ton, wheeled death machines.  We have a single license tier for a ridiculous variety of vehicle shapes and sizes.  We have zero ongoing driver education requirements, and only require retesting if sufficient complaints are received (when\u0026#x27;s the last time that\u0026#x27;s even happened?) or we reach sufficient age.\u003cp\u003eDemand better driver training.  Stop engaging in inane behavior when you have greater responsibilities.  Demand that others in your life do so as well.","parent":"8313324","id":"8314746"}
{"by":"dotBen","time":"1277919856","timestamp":"2010-06-30 17:44:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree it was about content.  In addition to gleb's comments the other issue they ran into is that TV licensing (on a program and channel basis) is all about exclusivity deals.\u003cp\u003eJoost couldn't license a TV series for distribution over IP because the producers always have exclusivity deals with networks in each geographic territory.\u003cp\u003eAnd whole networks, such as HBO, have exclusivity deal with just a small set of cable and satellite distributors.\u003cp\u003eIt's really sad - delivery of shows over IP is exciting and the whole business is ripe for disruption but the broadcast media empire (the one that has the most to loose) is holding all the keys.\u003cp\u003eOh and don't tell me Hulu is the answer. It's just the very same networks doing their own take, on their terms and at their pace of innovation.  Hulu Plus: $10/month AND ads?  C'mon, if only we had competition.","parent":"1474953","id":"1475562"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1425463693","timestamp":"2015-03-04 10:08:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not just a problem with developing countries.  I have 100 Mb at home so that\u0026#x27;s not a problem, but the main use case I see for this for me is to able to use it while traveling.  Even in countries with a great high speed internet in general, getting great high speed internet in a hotel room or conference center is almost impossible.","parent":"9139978","id":"9143476"}
{"by":"sambe","time":"1479213211","timestamp":"2016-11-15 12:33:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with the sentiment. Do note that people said exactly the same about mobile phones in Africa - shouldn\u0026#x27;t be a priority. The article you link wouldn\u0026#x27;t have been written had we said \u0026quot;no, first give them water and blankets\u0026quot;. Maybe the benefits turn out to be surprising even in deprived areas?\u003cp\u003eAs for web-based vs native, I can see it going either way. If connectivity is too unreliable and\u0026#x2F;or expensive then native will win. Many people in the developing world spend a lot of time with no credit on their phones.\u003cp\u003eThe biggest problem I see with teaching people computing these days, which is only partly addressed by cheaper computing devices and IDEs, is the sheer number of tools and abstractions to learn. What order do you teach in? What if there\u0026#x27;s no teacher? Version control, testing, frameworks etc. are all great things, and a certain proportion of people will need to learn them at some point. For others it\u0026#x27;s overwhelming, and for most it at least hinders the teaching process. Too much \u0026quot;ignore this for now\u0026quot; can be demotivating and confusing. Yet, it\u0026#x27;s also not enough to start with just a BASIC prompt any more. People have now seen all the cool modern things you can do and want to do it themselves, so moving an X across the screen is not motivating either. I have found completely dedicated environments like \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;scratch.mit.edu\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;scratch.mit.edu\u003c/a\u003e to be great for younger kids, but not sure how the rest of the learning curve should be shaped.","parent":"12957104","id":"12957462"}
{"by":"manicdee","time":"1401236813","timestamp":"2014-05-28 00:26:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then you represent the number in base 23 to a few billion decimal places and find the signatures of the creators of this version of the universe.","parent":"7806944","id":"7807727"}
{"by":"m-i-l","time":"1495605277","timestamp":"2017-05-24 05:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a Scottish government led initiative to map ownership of land in Scotland - see for example \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;uk-scotland-scotland-politics-27555854\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;uk-scotland-scotland-politics-2755...\u003c/a\u003e .\u003cp\u003eNote also that Scotland contains some very large but sparsely populated single owner estates, with around 80% of the population living on a very small percentage of the land (Glasgow and Edinburgh), which may make ownership appear \u0026quot;unequal\u0026quot;.","parent":"14406025","id":"14407856"}
{"by":"learnstats2","time":"1538135783","timestamp":"2018-09-28 11:56:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suggest they were incorrect in their claim not to be influenced by those things - that\u0026#x27;s why they have a diversity problem now.\u003cp\u003eEdited to add: In 1998 I probably would have read this and cheered it as a place where diversity was recognised and welcomed; in 2018 I read it as \u0026quot;we don\u0026#x27;t feel we have to do anything about our unconscious biases, which we\u0026#x27;re satisfied with\u0026quot;","parent":"18092248","id":"18092635"}
{"by":"axod","time":"1250601870","timestamp":"2009-08-18 13:24:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Completely agree. The best framework is one you've built yourself IMHO.","parent":"770260","id":"770367"}
{"by":"BlackDeath3","time":"1391199407","timestamp":"2014-01-31 20:16:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. Let\u0026#x27;s give it another go, I suppose, shall we?\u003cp\u003eSeriously, I think it was deleted for having little to do with tech and simply being argumentation-bait.","parent":"7158878","id":"7158919"}
{"by":"oldmanjay","time":"1445706884","timestamp":"2015-10-24 17:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If one gender displays innate ability and the other can be trained to match it, then the difference is not shown to be a myth. There is a very dishonest redefinition of a common word involved to make the meaning apply.\u003cp\u003ePolitical fictions are comfortable but don\u0026#x27;t really change facts, they just color interpretations. Mischaracterizing observation does not serve to make an argument appear stronger.\u003cp\u003eNote that none of this means women are inferior, and if you are construing my point to mean I am arguing for that position, you have imposed that on me.","parent":"10443898","id":"10444203"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1188182988","timestamp":"2007-08-27 02:49:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seats?  Tables?  What are those? ;-)\u003cp\u003eI suspect I'd give any ergonomic evaluator a heart attack.  Right now, I'm lying down on the floor, propped up on my elbows.  Other favored positions include cross-legged on the floor, kneeling on my bed with the laptop on my thighs, half-kneeling on the floor with my chin on my knee, prone in bed with about 3 pillows under my chest, in bed on my side wit my elbow propping my upper body up, reclining in a chair with the laptop on my lap and feet up, and sitting in a tree (no, I don't take the laptop up there, but I'll frequently bring pencil \u0026#38; paper to work out some design problem).\u003cp\u003eThe one place I absolutely will not work if I have a choice about it is at a table or desk.  Been like that since before I had a computer; in elementary school, I absolutely refused to do my homework at the table, always preferring the floor.\u003cp\u003eYou'd think this would result in lots of RSI problems, but I haven't had anything since I was 12, which ironically was when my parents made a concerted effort to get me to sit at a desk and do my homework like a normal person.  I suspect it's because I don't actually do anything repetitive at a computer.  I get up to pace \u003ci\u003ea lot\u003c/i\u003e - 5 times in the process of writing this comment, and I've switched to 3 different positions.  That's another reason I really dislike desks - they make getting up a chore, so I don't get up, and so I find my productivity dropping off from lack of exercise.","parent":"46855","id":"46863"}
{"by":"Nomentatus","time":"1544380224","timestamp":"2018-12-09 18:30:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I stand corrected on this one point. No indication of whether they are selling below cost but it\u0026#x27;s wildly unlikely they aren\u0026#x27;t - so that\u0026#x27;s not yet sustainable competition even at the high end. Your word competitive referred to my comment on Tesla motors, but as I\u0026#x27;ve already stated, in fact Jaguar\u0026#x27;s car is clearly less efficient. Tesla started high-end UV deliveries ancient years ago. Lower cost Ford EVs, etc have been driving around for a while. So why do arabesques for Jaguar?\u003cp\u003eYou weren\u0026#x27;t objective enough to note the $100,000 price tag; there\u0026#x27;s no objective analysis that makes Jaguar EVs competitive with Tesla\u0026#x27;s model 3 today.\u003cp\u003eNor are you objective enough to answer any of my other points, such as the inefficiency of Jaguar\u0026#x27;s car, contra your denial of my statement that \u0026quot;Tesla\u0026#x27;s motors are quite advanced.\u0026quot; It would be civil not to just ignore points you can\u0026#x27;t answer.","parent":"18641857","id":"18642385"}
{"by":"reaclmbs","time":"1361652730","timestamp":"2013-02-23 20:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A more personally useful idea would just be a niche tennis matchmaking service.  Or basketball.","parent":"5271266","id":"5271444"}
{"by":"exikyut","time":"1521018599","timestamp":"2018-03-14 09:09:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.\u003cp\u003eI consider no black bar:\u003cp\u003e- a violation of the principle of least surprise\u003cp\u003e- a statement of discrimination\u003cp\u003ePrecedent has been set by the fact that it has been used in the past.\u003cp\u003eIf its usage is being wound down, I reckon this more than qualifies as exceptionally justifiable.","parent":"16582351","id":"16583337"}
{"by":"jeffhuys","time":"1525858033","timestamp":"2018-05-09 09:27:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I prefer 16:9 or 16:10 because I have a lot of windows side-by-side most of the time. I don\u0026#x27;t have 1 file open while coding, most of the time 2 or 3, in that case a wider screen is better in my opinion.","parent":"17028133","id":"17028478"}
{"by":"j_baker","time":"1337266983","timestamp":"2012-05-17 15:03:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Except that I named two areas where they \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e make mistakes.  And Google's success is indeed because of the hard work they've put into building such a smart team of search engineers.","parent":"3985355","id":"3987270"}
{"by":"ramphastidae","time":"1522026409","timestamp":"2018-03-26 01:06:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because they’re paid well. Very well. Everyone I know that works at FB for 2+ years is making 300-500k (including stock) and already owns or is on their way to purchasing a home. That makes it a lot easier to ignore the reality of FB. Meanwhile chumps like me that consider the ethics of their employer will be renting forever. I honestly don’t blame them.","parent":"16675601","id":"16675768"}
{"by":"camuel","time":"1332607106","timestamp":"2012-03-24 16:38:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well... this echoes ZeroVM ideas but so is PiCloud and a few others mentioned here. I think it goes without doubt that current OSes and VMs are not best suited for cloud technologies. How they can be? The were designed to completely different requirements.","parent":"3749752","id":"3749806"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1478631130","timestamp":"2016-11-08 18:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to tie this off:\u003cp\u003eIt seems there are three main ways to monetise credit card \u0026#x2F; account data:\u003cp\u003e1. aggregate into a mule account\u003cp\u003e2. aggregate into an international account\u003cp\u003e3. extract cash via ATMs \u0026#x2F; payments\u003cp\u003eAll three suffer from a high propensity to trigger alerts, and so rely on a fairly sophisticated understanding of each banks trigger rates.\u003cp\u003eSo back in 2010 some banks could be hit with a flash attack (4) where hundreds of debit transactions for similar amounts at same time would not trigger stops (one assumes the debit approval infrastructure was fast and in memory and only went back to the ledger every five mins)\u003cp\u003eSo as attackers find new vulnerabilities banks apply new systems.\u003cp\u003e(1) MIcrosoft report on this can\u0026#x27;t find right now\u003cp\u003e(2) \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2016_Bangladesh_Bank_heist\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2016_Bangladesh_Bank_heist\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(3) \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;nyregion\u0026#x2F;eight-charged-in-45-million-global-cyber-bank-thefts.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;nyregion\u0026#x2F;eight-charged-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(4) \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.atmmarketplace.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;quotflash-attacksquot-make-big-money-for-debit-and-credit-card-scammers\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.atmmarketplace.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;quotflash-attacksquot-ma...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12890703","id":"12902881"}
{"by":"dhuramas","time":"1508800946","timestamp":"2017-10-23 23:22:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have been using it through R using the excellent \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;walkerke\u0026#x2F;tigris\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;walkerke\u0026#x2F;tigris\u003c/a\u003e for some geospatial data visualization. No complaints.","parent":"15537229","id":"15537775"}
{"by":"nerfhammer","time":"1404157070","timestamp":"2014-06-30 19:37:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Thing is... in the late 70s the supply siders may well have been right and the Keynesians wrong\u003cp\u003eKeynesians were definitely wrong since at the time sustained stagflation was considered basically impossible. Which is why what is today colloquially called \u0026quot;Keynesian\u0026quot; is different from Keynesian as it was then because important parts of it were disproved.","parent":"7966847","id":"7967154"}
{"by":"mohene1","time":"1331694424","timestamp":"2012-03-14 03:07:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a good observation, What is the rough percentage of those who don't attend MIT/Stanford/Berkeley/Harvard who have huge start-ups? Is it the same as presidents not from Yale/Harvard? Major Southern musicians not from Athens,Nashville,Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis...?","parent":"3701506","id":"3701614"}
{"by":"duncan_bayne","time":"1397979500","timestamp":"2014-04-20 07:38:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, that makes sense.  I\u0026#x27;m totally okay with strongly-worded debate over Rand\u0026#x27;s philosophy; she was (intentionally) inflammatory in a lot of cases.  But Salon\u0026#x27;s piece was ... well ... so much of a strawman that I really didn\u0026#x27;t understand how the author could characterise Rand\u0026#x27;s work in that way.","parent":"7616097","id":"7616163"}
{"by":"beat","time":"1481729008","timestamp":"2016-12-14 15:23:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Depends on what you\u0026#x27;re typing. For coding, it really doesn\u0026#x27;t make a difference... so much of the typing is punctuation anyways. But for prose - emails, blog posts, HN comments, etc - typing speed matters.","parent":"13176560","id":"13176582"}
{"by":"mhomde","time":"1420834187","timestamp":"2015-01-09 20:09:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes, that\u0026#x27;s why I think something different than Automated proof checking for solving advanced theorems, you need to have an AI that can take \u0026quot;creative leaps\u0026quot; and break down proofs down to something humans can understand, and not just verify existing rules","parent":"8864122","id":"8864207"}
{"by":"gexla","time":"1321025802","timestamp":"2011-11-11 15:36:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This depends on a lot of factors, such as age, being in a position to be able to take a risk, location, etc.  If you don't have a lot of baggage then I would consider taking the jump to make a bit more cash and make sure I don't stagnate.  The opportunity to learn something new and try a new experience would be enough to get me to jump.\u003cp\u003eFor a web developer, 31K is not a lot.  You probably wouldn't have too difficult of a time replacing that level of pay, especially if you are good.\u003cp\u003eKey words for me were \"cozy\" and \"super-simple.\"  I would leap at something more challenging for more money.\u003cp\u003eAs for screwing your old company, just let them know well ahead of time.  The company will manage.  I'm sure they have had many worse disasters.","parent":"3224497","id":"3224896"}
{"by":"tjoff","time":"1515919358","timestamp":"2018-01-14 08:42:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I might be outdated, but GPU virtualization does not allow you to use your display outputs on your graphic card. So for a workstation it isn\u0026#x27;t going to work as you would have to use another machine (sure, it could be a thin client) to remote desktop (introducing lag I wouldn\u0026#x27;t want on a worksation) to be able to get any video output. I also believe this requires AMDs or nVidias pro-line graphics cards.\u003cp\u003eSo I also used PCI passthrough. I have two GPUs that I pass through meaning that I can run two virtual machines with proper graphic cards (and then regular VMs as I please). The idea was that instead of dual-booting between two machines I run them both at the same time. To switch between them I just select another input on my monitors.\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately though, it is not that simple.\u003cp\u003eThis gets easier for every year and it was about 2 years since I last played with this and setup my workstation so things could have changed a bit. But even for PCI passthrough you have to be very careful selecting your GPU, motherboard and CPU. The drivers need to play along and the CPU with motherboard need to be able to isolate everything adequately. Whether AMD or nVidia is best is\u0026#x2F;was up to debate, each GPU generation has its own quirks.\u003cp\u003eFor CPU you ideally you wanted a i7 or a non-entry-level Xeon to be as safe as possible, this is not a requirement but it is very possible that with a \u0026quot;regular\u0026quot; CPU you might not be able to pass through the devices you need to get it to work. More here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vfio.blogspot.se\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;intel-processors-with-acs-support.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vfio.blogspot.se\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;intel-processors-with-acs-su...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottom line, it can work great but it is a lot to setup and even if you do your research you might end up in a situation where it just doesn\u0026#x27;t work. Oh, and the hypervisor you use might screw you, removing the very features you depend on.","parent":"16143186","id":"16143355"}
{"by":"smegel","time":"1504847344","timestamp":"2017-09-08 05:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about a really, really big fan?","parent":"15197906","id":"15197998"}
{"by":"gfosco","time":"1371984765","timestamp":"2013-06-23 10:52:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe it\u0026#x27;s done to allow time for any emails currently in transit, or already scheduled for delivery.  They could be using one or more 3rd-party marketing tools, or multiple servers and databases which also need to be processed; They may do this manually.","parent":"5926857","id":"5927013"}
{"by":"morgante","time":"1481773325","timestamp":"2016-12-15 03:42:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I went from a net worth of \u0026lt;$50k at age 20 to \u0026gt;$150k at 22, while never being particularly frugal at all. Heck, I didn\u0026#x27;t even have roommates. My monthly spending averaged $4k\u0026#x2F;m.\u003cp\u003eNYC, not SF, but the difference isn\u0026#x27;t huge.\u003cp\u003eMost people are atrocious with their money by either overspending or under-optimizing.","parent":"13179766","id":"13182195"}
{"by":"tjoff","time":"1496564640","timestamp":"2017-06-04 08:24:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e(I still think it\u0026#x27;s outrageous that C is still a single-pass language - we shouldn\u0026#x27;t need separate simultaneous declaration and definitions any more)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe not, but I have a hard time to believe that it can be considered even a slight annoyance to anyone but people just learning how to program. The same people that are annoyed by it probably benefits from it anyway, forces them to actually think about what they are doing.\u003cp\u003eAlso makes it easier to get an overview of the code using just a text editor. KISS.","parent":"14479700","id":"14480404"}
{"by":"ilostmykeys","time":"1471724141","timestamp":"2016-08-20 20:15:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grow up. Get a life. A job is like a shoe. If it falls apart or gets worn out... well, get another, and move on (or \u0026quot;run\u0026quot;, if it\u0026#x27;s a new pair of sneakers)","parent":"12327148","id":"12328145"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1287147252","timestamp":"2010-10-15 12:54:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even HN has \"like\"!\u003cp\u003eWell, it's an up-arrow, but it still servers the same point: to allow you to support a comment without requiring a low-signal comment to do so.\u003cp\u003eOTOH, twitter isn't exactly high-signal in the first place.","parent":"1794196","id":"1794367"}
{"by":"dabeeeenster","time":"1218475080","timestamp":"2008-08-11 17:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do people always assume that you will move your application to a different DBMS at some point?","parent":"273101","id":"273123"}
{"by":"zem","time":"1340668621","timestamp":"2012-06-25 23:57:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it would be if anyone still trusted facebook. seriously, i don't think even the most fanboyish teenagers \u003ci\u003etrust\u003c/i\u003e facebook; they just use it because it's useful and all their friends are there.","parent":"4158092","id":"4159382"}
{"by":"iplaw","time":"1475007683","timestamp":"2016-09-27 20:21:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I was at Burning Man ... shit, shit, shit.","parent":"12592773","id":"12592790"}
{"by":"astrodust","time":"1407857220","timestamp":"2014-08-12 15:27:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is post-industrialization where England tore ahead of the pack pretty quickly and managed to push a relatively tiny country not just ahead of their European competitors, but also ahead of giants like India and China.\u003cp\u003eAs China industrializes, and they\u0026#x27;ll have to, they\u0026#x27;ll push ahead of everyone. Their domestic market is too huge.","parent":"8166794","id":"8168152"}
{"by":"SanityIsRare","time":"1526561649","timestamp":"2018-05-17 12:54:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, as a third-world citizen, I just can\u0026#x27;t fathom why anyone here would give a shit about ozone layer. We are extremely dismissive of those issues here because we care about the future of humanity and Earth a lot less that first-world populace. We have no incentive to protect the Earth so that children of first-worlders can live healthily in 2050 whenever.\u003cp\u003eYou fucked us all up with colonialism and whatnot, and you still keep exploiting us like mad (not hyperbole - I get to see it). I guess payback will be sweet.","parent":"17090751","dead":true,"id":"17090862"}
{"by":"acadien","time":"1429200151","timestamp":"2015-04-16 16:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, as others have said the dynamics of a barge is a necessary challenge to prove the technology. But they need some more positive press, maybe a gif that doesn\u0026#x27;t end in an explosion hehe.\u003cp\u003eOn a side note the colloquialism \u0026#x27;success on their pelt\u0026#x27; is totally new to me, I\u0026#x27;ve always heard it as \u0026#x27;success under their belt\u0026#x27;.","parent":"9388505","id":"9388872"}
{"by":"mcteapot","time":"1336727671","timestamp":"2012-05-11 09:14:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Who is John Galt?","parent":"3958200","id":"3958345"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1521821307","timestamp":"2018-03-23 16:08:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that the other licenses listed lower on that page are for \u003ci\u003eother\u003c/i\u003e data sets. Mozilla\u0026#x27;s data is CC0, which shouldn\u0026#x27;t be a problem for Google, because it doesn\u0026#x27;t include the \u0026quot;noncommercial\u0026quot; part.\u003cp\u003eText of CC0 for discussion purposes, is here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;creativecommons.org\u0026#x2F;publicdomain\u0026#x2F;zero\u0026#x2F;1.0\u0026#x2F;legalcode\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;creativecommons.org\u0026#x2F;publicdomain\u0026#x2F;zero\u0026#x2F;1.0\u0026#x2F;legalcode\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCC0 appears to have most of the legal text expected in a proper license including clear allowance of modification and distribution, and lack of warranty or liability.","parent":"16659449","id":"16659513"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1354309834","timestamp":"2012-11-30 21:10:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some places have cheap residential Gigabit broadband.  Using 1/3 of that on TOR is 150 Gigabytes per hour and 108 Terabytes per month of bandwidth in theory without a user noticing.","parent":"4855390","id":"4855458"}
{"by":"apathy","time":"1487440097","timestamp":"2017-02-18 17:48:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This right here is why I read HN. Thanks!","parent":"13674349","id":"13675732"}
{"by":"adestefan","time":"1374693032","timestamp":"2013-07-24 19:10:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congress has defunded the program to close Guantanamo Bay.\u003cp\u003eThey defunded the program under which ACORN was made possible.\u003cp\u003eThey defund military programs and bases all the time.","parent":"6097992","id":"6098371"}
{"by":"nlawalker","time":"1475683792","timestamp":"2016-10-05 16:09:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is tailor-made for Reddit\u0026#x27;s \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;oddlysatisfying.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve never really had any desire or reason to have anything 3D-printed, but I would absolutely print a collection of these to have on my desk as conversation pieces and fidget-toys. The \u0026quot;lock\u0026quot; pieces could be printed a bit longer than the original designs call for to facilitate removal.","parent":"12639816","id":"12645107"}
{"by":"0xmohit","time":"1535151516","timestamp":"2018-08-24 22:58:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As listed on the blog page - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.golang.org\u0026#x2F;go1.11\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.golang.org\u0026#x2F;go1.11\u003c/a\u003e - two exciting features are modules and WebAssembly support.\u003cp\u003eInformation about modules can be found at:\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;golang.org\u0026#x2F;cmd\u0026#x2F;go\u0026#x2F;#hdr-Preliminary_module_support\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;golang.org\u0026#x2F;cmd\u0026#x2F;go\u0026#x2F;#hdr-Preliminary_module_support\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;golang\u0026#x2F;go\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Modules\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;golang\u0026#x2F;go\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Modules\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;research.swtch.com\u0026#x2F;vgo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;research.swtch.com\u0026#x2F;vgo\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wiki - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;golang.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;WebAssembly\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;golang.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;WebAssembly\u003c/a\u003e - provides information on how to get started with using Wasm with Go.","parent":"17838257","id":"17838436"}
{"by":"cjcole","time":"1480132867","timestamp":"2016-11-26 04:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;adj. Employing or exerting compulsion; coercive.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRestless leg (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Restless_legs_syndrome\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Restless_legs_syndrome\u003c/a\u003e) runs in my family. It\u0026#x27;s not the same thing of course, but it lives in the same space of \u0026quot;voluntary but compelled\u0026quot; actions.\u003cp\u003eI understood what you were saying perfectly.","parent":"13039225","id":"13041652"}
{"by":"cturner","time":"1378038545","timestamp":"2013-09-01 12:29:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This essay makes a fallacy case, \u0026quot;it is this way, therefore it must be this way\u0026quot;. It takes a lot of liberties with evidence to come to a crazy conclusion.\u003cp\u003eI grew up in a small state in Australia. Business there keeps close with state government: there is a stench of cronyism about much of what goes on. The standard business model there is to wait for a state government grant structure, and then weasel up to it with the right paperwork and hand-shaking to get what you want. Within the bureaucracy you have people lining themselves up to bounce out into firms.\u003cp\u003eThe government maintains high taxes, and then spends those taxes either tying itself to emerging business like this, or propping up failing business like car companies. And it needs a large, skilled public service to keep it all moving. The result is that labour that could be used doing something people want is wasted, and it\u0026#x27;s harder to operate free business due to the high taxation and bureaucracy. It\u0026#x27;s not a stalled situation: many good people do still find good, rewarding local jobs creating real value despite this. But a lot of talent drains away, and there\u0026#x27;s not much innovation despite a healthy university culture.\u003cp\u003eThe way things work in world cities is different and better. For the most part, the more government stays out of business, the more success there is.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps Apple did receive some benefits in the early years. Where benefits are there for the taking, it is rational to take them. But it is not evidence that such benefits were critical to the success.\u003cp\u003eGovernments don\u0026#x27;t pick winners - only their mates. For progress, look elsewhere.\u003cp\u003eAs an example of a paragraph that just doesn\u0026#x27;t work, \u0026quot;Other ways include giving the state bank or agency that invested a stake in the company. A good example is Finland, where the government-backed innovation fund SITRA retained equity when it invested in Nokia. There is also the possibility of keeping a share of the intellectual property rights, which are almost totally given away in the current system.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e* Repeatedly we see state investments in companies pursuing political objectives with their shareholding at the expense of development or the company\u0026#x27;s interest. Look at the way Lower Saxony hampers Volkswagen\u0026#x27;s development. Or oil companies anywhere they have been nationalised (Venezuela, Mexico, Russia).\u003cp\u003e* Picking Nokia as an example of innovation?\u003cp\u003e* Intellectual property is an idea created entirely by government for the purpose of picking winners. It has no philosophical underpinning - it\u0026#x27;s just arbitrary regulation.\u003cp\u003e* \u0026quot;which are almost totally given away in the current system\u0026quot; - what does this even mean?\u003cp\u003eAwful article.","parent":"6309887","id":"6310104"}
{"by":"brohee","time":"1522821290","timestamp":"2018-04-04 05:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OMAC1 and CMAC are the same thing actually.","parent":"16749960","id":"16752328"}
{"by":"Russell91","time":"1426466829","timestamp":"2015-03-16 00:47:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ironically, rent control is exactly why there is so little housing available in SF. Iirc, only 30% of the voting population owns property. So how is it that the rest of us (70%) don\u0026#x27;t vote to build more? Well, because 3\u0026#x2F;4 renters are under rent control, and essentially don\u0026#x27;t care. So only 70%\u0026#x2F;4 \u0026lt; 30% of people are motivated to push the market towards more housing. The rest profit handsomely from increased home prices due to high demand. This is the real tragedy of rent control in San Francisco IMO.\u003cp\u003eEdit: source:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apartments-are-under-rent-control\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quora.com\u0026#x2F;What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apartm...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9208948","id":"9208969"}
{"by":"khomenko","time":"1355264165","timestamp":"2012-12-11 22:16:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. Singe Payer + Universal Coverage = FTW.","parent":"4906523","id":"4907209"}
{"by":"zakk","time":"1473178329","timestamp":"2016-09-06 16:12:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve published nine, the tenth is under review.\u003cp\u003eWhenever I published an article most often I got my references corrected, some grammar errors where spotted during the publishing process (I am not a native English speaker), also my articles are professionally typeset.\u003cp\u003eMaybe we work in different fields, don\u0026#x27;t assume your point of view automatically extends to every field of science.","parent":"12435972","id":"12437032"}
{"by":"endtwist","time":"1226350416","timestamp":"2008-11-10 20:53:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is actually fascinating.\u003cp\u003eI'm not totally surprised by these numbers (350 million messages, only 28 sales), but I am glad to see that there are people out there actually attempting to figure out what the true numbers are (as opposed to the tens of millions of dollars myth). Based on what the story says, spammers are potentially earning about $2 million a year. I suppose larger spammers could be earning 3 - 4x that (so, $6 - 8 million), and this obviously isn't chump change.\u003cp\u003eThis study points out what we already know, though: there is a problem with email. The barrier to entry is too low which is both a blessing and a curse. It allows people communicate with ease, but it also allows people to send millions or billions of emails at little or no cost to them. Now, I know that these are hijacked computers, but the point remains that since it is so easy and cost-efficient to send email, it becomes profitable at virtually \u003ci\u003eany scale\u003c/i\u003e because of the non-existent cost.\u003cp\u003eI'm not saying that we should charge for every email, since that may not be a viable solution (though it could work), but there does need to be something done besides continuously improving our spam filters.\u003cp\u003eAlso, isn't the methodology used by the researchers technically illegal?\u003cp\u003e\"The team used these machines to control a total of 75,869 hijacked machines and routed their own fake spam campaigns through them.\"","parent":"359531","id":"359709"}
{"by":"he0001","time":"1524382275","timestamp":"2018-04-22 07:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So this is still a gray area, the law explicitly says that you should \u003ci\u003eerase\u003c/i\u003e all data. So there can’t be any information that could that could be traced to you. Even if you do encrypt the data to let’s say “xuiidha” this is an identifier and therefore under the law.\u003cp\u003eIf I look at the encrypted data before I delete the surrogate key and can see that this data is related to a person x. That’s an identifier. Even if I do delete that afterwards I can still connect that information because I’ve seen the data before. And even if you delete something there might be enough information left to still figure out who that person was and then under the law.\u003cp\u003eThe right to be \u003ci\u003eerased\u003c/i\u003e does mean that there shouldn’t be \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e traces of you ever been there in the first place and the law is pretty clear about it. It’s not the weaker term “deleted”. But I guess there has to a ruling in some court before we know how they interprete this law.","parent":"16894333","id":"16895131"}
{"by":"ndreckshage","time":"1432645229","timestamp":"2015-05-26 13:00:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still relies on JavaScript server side rendering - which will be the biggest performance bottleneck, by far, for both this and React.\u003cp\u003eIf you really want a framework that is faster, check out Tungsten (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;wayfair\u0026#x2F;tungstenjs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;wayfair\u0026#x2F;tungstenjs\u003c/a\u003e), which is as fast as this client side, and can render in vanilla Mustache using Go\u0026#x2F;C++.","parent":"9604203","id":"9604476"}
{"by":"harryf","time":"1450772420","timestamp":"2015-12-22 08:20:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And don\u0026#x27;t even get me started on the worst usability disaster of the last 5 years: Material design.\u003cp\u003eWould be interested to hear it. To me it seems to work pretty well in the Google Maps app on mobile - mostly intuitive. What problems do you see?","parent":"10776205","id":"10776509"}
{"by":"argv_empty","time":"1474547420","timestamp":"2016-09-22 12:30:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We use the tape\u0026#x27;s reference frame, of course! Looking at data stored on some particular device in the physical system is going to force a particular reference frame, where you will have a defined simultaneity. A global definition of simultaneity is only really needed if your system promises to provide sequential consistency.","parent":"12555251","id":"12556310"}
{"by":"api","time":"1474649246","timestamp":"2016-09-23 16:47:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there actually any nation on Earth where powerful and\u0026#x2F;or connected people can\u0026#x27;t screw you over if they \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e want to and if you have no other powerful or connected people on your side? (and no money, etc.)\u003cp\u003eThe thing about this stuff that\u0026#x27;s really alarming is that any random script kiddie could also do this by coaxing your machine into downloading something. That greatly increases the surface area of people who can screw you. Given the abysmally awful security profile of a lot of consumer software and devices this is very plausible.","parent":"12564000","id":"12565987"}
{"by":"alanwatts","time":"1471547894","timestamp":"2016-08-18 19:18:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has gotten cheaper in terms of physical resources (reality), but not in terms of money.\u003cp\u003eTwo of the three main goals of the money system, as stated in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, are to maintain stable prices and maximize employment.\u003cp\u003eSo, not only does technological ephemeralization run counter to these explicit goals, it also cedes power from the super administrators who dictate the money supply which ultimately determines monetary prices across the globe.","parent":"12311646","id":"12315541"}
{"by":"gretful","time":"1418319864","timestamp":"2014-12-11 17:44:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nah, the guy that demoed it talked about iterated fractals (hence the IFS company name). And this was EARLY 90\u0026#x27;s, a black and white laptop.","parent":"8708866","id":"8736041"}
{"by":"parfe","time":"1331577609","timestamp":"2012-03-12 18:40:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u003ci\u003eMore specifically, the GPL is a contract you agree to when you use the product. While strictly speaking it should be a more explicit contract, strictly speaking there's a lot of those kinds of issues with our society.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWrong.  You do not agree to anything by using GPL software.  You must abide by the GPL terms upon redistribution to maintain permission granted by the license.\u003cp\u003eIt is not a contract.  The differences between license law and contract law are significant.  Groklaw covers the issue thoroughly.[1]\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;\u003ci\u003eThe GPL is saying \"Here's my work, I'll trade it with you on these terms\". The aggression would be in breaking those terms.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe GPL does not say that.  It says \"Here is my work.  You may redistribute it under these same terms.\"  It has no requirement you give your changes back to the original author. No trading[2] occurs.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] Yes, there is the special case of submitting patches upstream which is by convention, not by license or contractual obligation.","parent":"3694600","id":"3694771"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1390515895","timestamp":"2014-01-23 22:24:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He doesn’t want to sell in that market at the price that the government would fix. If they can charge the same price than in USA then he will be happy to do business there.","parent":"7111438","id":"7111769"}
{"by":"Natsu","time":"1480144787","timestamp":"2016-11-26 07:19:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not clear to me that anyone actually believes any of the sites mentioned.  I mean, the business model only relies on people clicking the page and seeing ads, so in that vein, all the clickbait headlines we\u0026#x27;ve ever seen on the MSM are pretty much the same.\u003cp\u003eGiven what I\u0026#x27;ve seen, the body of the article is probably superfluous.  Just have a Markov chain regurgitate some utter nonsense and figure out how to generate viral headlines.\u003cp\u003eWorse, it\u0026#x27;s not like the MSM is immune to this, either.  I mean, just look at this story:  \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fortune.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;25\u0026#x2F;russian-fake-news\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fortune.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;25\u0026#x2F;russian-fake-news\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story gets worse when you look at what was found on Glenn Greenwald\u0026#x27;s twitter:  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;ggreenwald\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;802247437289226240\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;ggreenwald\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;802247437289226240\u003c/a\u003e  \u0026quot;No-one I\u0026#x27;ve spoken to listed as \u0026quot;allies\u0026quot; on their site had even heard of them before the WP piece.\u0026quot;","parent":"13042237","id":"13042272"}
{"by":"dwighttk","time":"1547659502","timestamp":"2019-01-16 17:25:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No way this can scale very much, right? Just start looking around for potential dead drop locations and find drugs.","parent":"18922719","id":"18922743"}
{"by":"djcapelis","time":"1426131556","timestamp":"2015-03-12 03:39:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, that makes more sense when it\u0026#x27;s parsed that way!  English is often ambiguous.  If you\u0026#x27;re familiar with Meredith\u0026#x27;s work, the fact that this thread is all basically because of a parsing error is all very funny.","parent":"9188641","id":"9189098"}
{"by":"mcguire","time":"1538067751","timestamp":"2018-09-27 17:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is, absolutely.\u003cp\u003eIf you view software development as entertainment.\u003cp\u003eIf you view it asa profession, maybe not.","parent":"18085448","id":"18086424"}
{"by":"codingdave","time":"1433530910","timestamp":"2015-06-05 19:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a lot of survivor bias here - many people who try to make their own business just plain fail. People who try to do so without already having had some work experience and savings built up often end up just scraping by at or below the poverty line, just trying to make ends meet.\u003cp\u003eEncouraging a 20 year old who is well educated, just without that final degree to quit and start their own thing is far different than telling your 13 year old daughter to quit school.\u003cp\u003eAnd saying that multi-millionaires have a diverse set of income streams does not mean that their first million did not come from a more focused effort in one specific area.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not arguing that higher education is for everyone - clearly, it is not. But saying that nobody even needs a high school level of education is not a claim I am going to support.\u003cp\u003eMy advice to a 13 year old is more along the lines of, keep learning, keep having fun, enjoy your teenage years, make teenage mistake while you still have the support structure of your parents (whether you like it or not), and just enjoying being young without too many responsibilities. There is no need to rush teenagers into adulthood.","parent":"9666489","id":"9667359"}
{"by":"ajayrinse","time":"1372683959","timestamp":"2013-07-01 13:05:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"San Francisco CA – Full Time – Technical Lead (VP of Engineering)\u003cp\u003eRinse (www.rinsenow.com) is a consumer-service start-up that removes the stress that comes with dry cleaning \u0026amp; laundry and gives you back control of your busy life.  We are creating a seamless customer experience through a combination of technology, incredible customer service, and strong back-end partnerships.  Customers can schedule a pick-up on their mobile device; we then pick-up, clean, and return their clothes at their convenience.  We have received a strong response to date and are growing the business (and team) quickly to help more customers recapture some of their precious time!\u003cp\u003eWe are looking for someone who is excited about joining a start-up early and helping to build something special.  We want someone who is excited to tackle immense technical challenges with total freedom on how to execute.  We want someone who wants a seat at the table; who is interested in having his\u0026#x2F;her voice heard in major strategic discussions and board meetings; and who wants to contribute with way more than just beautifully written code.  We want someone who wants to drink from the fire hose, have an immediate and substantial impact, and wants to work closely with a high-caliber team and accomplished advisors.  We are moving fast and we want someone who is ready to run with us.\u003cp\u003eYou…\n- Are itching to join an amazing company on the ground floor and have a major impact within the first couple months\n- Crave freedom to operate and decide how you want to build the core technology that supports the business\n- Are passionate about solving complex and dynamic challenges, and building highly scalable systems\n- Are capable of and excited to recruit a world-class team of engineers to work with you\n- Have experience developing, releasing, and maintaining large-scale software applications\n- Have a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from a leading institution\u003cp\u003eWe…\n- Value respect, integrity, judgment, and positive energy over job-related experience and technical chops\n- Work hard because we love what we’re doing, but also believe in balance\n- Plan to invest heavily in technology to streamline business operations, in addition to having a world-class consumer-facing mobile application\n- Are based in SF, which is where we have initially launched…but our ambitions extend well beyond the Bay Area.\n- Are moving quickly, are well capitalized, and want someone who will come in and hit the ground running\n- Are led by two co-founders with substantial experience in start-ups, dry cleaning, and consumer focused companies.\u003cp\u003eWe are looking for someone who is strong technically but who can also be a leader and culture carrier for Rinse.  The right person will be granted a substantial equity stake, cash compensation, and will have the chance to help build an amazing company from the ground up.  If you are interested, e-mail your resume to Ajay Prakash at ajay@rinsenow.com to learn more.","parent":"5970187","id":"5970316"}
{"by":"david927","time":"1326733191","timestamp":"2012-01-16 16:59:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's more than cruel: it's barbaric and vile.  But, yes, Mussolini made the trains run on time.","parent":"3471112","id":"3471394"}
{"by":"davesque","time":"1407738250","timestamp":"2014-08-11 06:24:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All the techniques in this article could have been discussed just as effectively without introducing an ambiguous and frankly suspicious term such as \u0026quot;mindfulness\u0026quot;.  Being open and honest about conflicts, facing uncomfortable facts, and allowing people to have a say in things could all be described simply as \u0026quot;good business\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;common sense\u0026quot;.  Relying on a buzzword such as \u0026quot;mindfulness\u0026quot; betrays a religious agenda.","parent":"8160448","id":"8162182"}
{"by":"dangrossman","time":"1350685604","timestamp":"2012-10-19 22:26:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is HipMob funded? How do bootstrapped startups handle huge companies like Zappos? Would they be able to take on a client whose resource usage (in terms of hardware and people) would outstrip all the startup's current clients by a few orders of magnitude?\u003cp\u003eWhat if they find their architecture doesn't scale and they really can't handle it -- is it worth the risk of going under because you spent all your savings on servers and employees to handle this company-changing client, only to lose them immediately when things don't work out right away?\u003cp\u003eI guess that's why startups seek funding, eh? I'm not sure what I'd do if a Zappos wanted to sign up with one of my apps, honestly. Spend the money scaling up quickly for them,  not knowing with certainty that I'd be able to keep ahead of their usage, or just turn them down?","parent":"4675536","id":"4675641"}
{"by":"coldnebo","time":"1418926942","timestamp":"2014-12-18 18:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had to laugh when I saw my response next to @getsat\u0026#x27;s. Both are valid viewpoints.  In other words, not everyone who uses tools has to know how to make tools.\u003cp\u003eTool makers have more insight into the assumptions behind the tools they create -- they might know how a tool was meant to be used and what its limits are.  That being said, there are times when using a screwdriver as a hammer is expedient and does no harm.  Of course, there are other times where using Black-Scholes to model a high-volatility market outside of the \u0026#x27;smoothly differentiable\u0026#x27; market assumptions it was built on can crash a large part of the economy.  It can be a dangerous game to use someone else\u0026#x27;s tools without knowing their assumptions.\u003cp\u003eAs for applied math suggestions:\u003cp\u003e1) Watch Feynman\u0026#x27;s take on applied math in physics: \n\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obCjODeoLVw\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=obCjODeoLVw\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2) Read this essay \u0026quot;A Mathematician\u0026#x27;s Lament\u0026quot; which points out the math learned in school is likely not really mathematics and that surprisingly math is not practical but aesthetic -- mathematics is closer to art than we are taught: \n\u003ca href=\"http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.maa.org\u0026#x2F;external_archive\u0026#x2F;devlin\u0026#x2F;LockhartsLament.p...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8768081","id":"8768782"}
{"by":"davidcollantes","time":"1337347135","timestamp":"2012-05-18 13:18:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think making something different wasn't the original intent. It is Svbtle \"easiness\" and look as a theme, for the most popular weblog engine. It looks great, and it is open to the masses. I love it!","parent":"3991469","id":"3991622"}
{"by":"elmarhaussmann","time":"1524754578","timestamp":"2018-04-26 14:56:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All of the computation, including pre-processing, is offloaded to the TPU. The weak machine is really just idling. A bigger one will only cost money and have no measurable effect on the performance.","parent":"16932385","id":"16932420"}
{"by":"axod","time":"1237766331","timestamp":"2009-03-22 23:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a decision that should be up to the author. And I personally have complete respect for both decisions.","parent":"527664","id":"527679"}
{"by":"freshhawk","time":"1349803777","timestamp":"2012-10-09 17:29:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What? No.\u003cp\u003eA balanced life means you split your life among all different areas of life. That's what that phrase means.\u003cp\u003eElon Musk has rejected the idea that work/life balance is necessary and \u003ci\u003ethat's just fine\u003c/i\u003e. That's how he feels happiest. It seems to be working pretty damn well for him.\u003cp\u003eI'm not saying there's any kind of standard set of rules, I'm saying that if you reject the dogma of balance then say so, don't try and redefine what it means because people are dogmatic about \"balance = good, not balanced = bad\"","parent":"4632807","id":"4632839"}
{"by":"tanay46","time":"1325505089","timestamp":"2012-01-02 11:51:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Will you'll be hiring interns for this summer?","parent":"3413051","id":"3415609"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1462242374","timestamp":"2016-05-03 02:26:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, you\u0026#x27;re a \u003ci\u003eTexan\u003c/i\u003e, using the phrase \u0026quot;ever more douchy\u0026quot; [sic]?","parent":"11614663","id":"11617387"}
{"by":"madengr","time":"1417662971","timestamp":"2014-12-04 03:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, FMCW radar range resolution is proportional to RF bandwidth.\u003cp\u003eYou would still need the horn as a feed for the dish, but yes, you would get more gain.","parent":"8697291","id":"8697686"}
{"by":"hugofirth","time":"1361359271","timestamp":"2013-02-20 11:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand that - but you have to start somewhere. Its a catch 22 situation if you can't get the job without experience and can't the experience without the job.","parent":"5246849","id":"5249848"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1431474857","timestamp":"2015-05-12 23:54:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You jest, but with NY\u0026#x27;s housing situation, every tower should be as high as reasonably possible to maximum livable space.","parent":"9534834","id":"9535816"}
{"by":"turnersr","time":"1473937171","timestamp":"2016-09-15 10:59:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you mind please explaining rigid designators from Kripke and how they apply to pointers? That sounds like a neat insight! :D","parent":"12504903","id":"12504921"}
{"by":"unknown_apostle","time":"1512061879","timestamp":"2017-11-30 17:11:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, unlikely but not quite zero. As is the general rule with complex things.\u003cp\u003eBut again, until a show stopper is found, I would say that bitcoin will never be popular as a means of payment. People would increasingly use it as a vehicle of savings.\u003cp\u003eOnce it has reached some point of \u0026quot;maximum adoption\u0026quot;, it would start behaving exactly like post-1973 gold. It would still go through periods of speculative enthusiasm in which allocation to bitcoin increases, followed by periods of aimless grinding in which it drops again.\u003cp\u003eIt wouldn\u0026#x27;t follow CPI tick-for-tick, but over very long term periods, it would be nicely mean reverting vs cycles of general price levels and financial market prices. And as such, in terms of bad forms of money like government currencies, it would ultimately just keep rising forever. Or at least never go to zero.\u003cp\u003eSo people who say \u0026quot;bitcoin is a bubble because it\u0026#x27;s not used much for payments\u0026quot; would be wrong. It\u0026#x27;s going places exactly because it\u0026#x27;s not being used much as transaction money.\u003cp\u003eAnd so, as Nobel prize winners would move up from the step of calling it a dangerous bubble to the step of decrying it as a deflationary threat, I predict no end to their criticisms.","parent":"15817099","id":"15817380"}
{"by":"codecamper","time":"1460219889","timestamp":"2016-04-09 16:38:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I went to university, we didn\u0026#x27;t have any digital cameras.\u003cp\u003eAnd we liked it!","parent":"11461795","id":"11461971"}
{"by":"XalvinX","time":"1531604875","timestamp":"2018-07-14 21:47:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hard to believe a billion people use this nearly an hour a day....don\u0026#x27;t people have lives anymore?  Sad, is what this really is.  While there have been times I\u0026#x27;ve used sites like reddit that much, it is a helluva lot different being involved in a dozen ongoing conversations about deep subjects than looking at pictures and saying the equivalent \u0026quot;ooh, nice picture!  your cat is so cute.\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;that latte art is so super keen\u0026quot; 100 times a day.\u003cp\u003eGet a life, world.","parent":"17525260","id":"17532576"}
{"by":"ocdtrekkie","time":"1517689560","timestamp":"2018-02-03 20:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, because Alphabet is still Google. A layer of shell companies doesn\u0026#x27;t change anything. Chrome (and Android, probably) should be forcibly split off from anything to do with Google\u0026#x2F;Alphabet, as fully independent companies. Any collusion between them and Google should be illegal.\u003cp\u003e^- This is breaking up an illegal monopoly. Shuffling around which division owned by Larry Page and Sergey Brin it is is not.","parent":"16298321","id":"16299435"}
{"by":"mafribe","time":"1385569847","timestamp":"2013-11-27 16:30:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Many academics are deeply fascinated by Bitcoin.\u003cp\u003eThe lack of formal proofs has many reasons, not the least of which is that there is no security definition that one could base a proof on. Coming up with a good security definition is going to be a major undertaking. Last year\u0026#x27;s Turing award was given for the security definition of something much simpler.","parent":"6808711","id":"6809041"}
{"by":"jostmey","time":"1424930035","timestamp":"2015-02-26 05:53:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a tough one because not everyone reacts to a drug in the same way. Perhaps for some people psychedelic compounds and drugs are beneficial, but for others they are not. Regardless, it is just stupid to insinuate that LSD will make you wealthy beyond imagination.","parent":"9111226","id":"9111332"}
{"by":"raverbashing","time":"1507625618","timestamp":"2017-10-10 08:53:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sounds like an opportunity to educate them (before the city inspectors show up, at least)\u003cp\u003eThough, yeah, depending on the area I don\u0026#x27;t expect adherence (or enforcement) to be much effective, which doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be the case for where this restaurant was located though","parent":"15440135","id":"15440357"}
{"by":"nkassis","time":"1300256891","timestamp":"2011-03-16 06:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the new proposed budget cuts go through, many conferences might just disappear.\u003cp\u003eWere on our way to a dark age in science funding right now.","parent":"2330985","id":"2331062"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1410885417","timestamp":"2014-09-16 16:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; We should perhaps call them approximate pseudo numbers or something.\u003cp\u003eMore importantly, we just shouldn\u0026#x27;t make them the default types used for decimal literals (or, \u003ci\u003ea fortiori\u003c/i\u003e, for all numbers in your language -- yes, JavaScript, I\u0026#x27;m looking at you.)\u003cp\u003ePremature optimization is the root of all kinds of evil -- or at least errors -- in programming, and \u0026quot;treat decimal literals as floating point because that\u0026#x27;s the most processor-friendly way of dealing with non-integer numbers\u0026quot; is the most pervasive premature optimization in computing.","parent":"8325048","id":"8325382"}
{"by":"a1k0n","time":"1456512965","timestamp":"2016-02-26 18:56:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out Concise [0] or Roaring Bitmaps [1] before rolling your own compressed bitset scheme. Wish I had known about these sooner.\u003cp\u003e(I realize now this is offtopic, as this is bit fields not bit sets; nevermind, but still it\u0026#x27;s interesting!)\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;1004.0403.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;1004.0403.pdf\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;roaringbitmap.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;roaringbitmap.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11181714","id":"11183224"}
{"by":"Alexx","time":"1371848075","timestamp":"2013-06-21 20:54:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They employ a million people. The Foxconn suicide rate is around 7-14% the national average at 1.5 per 100,000 employees per year. Taking on 3,000 extra employees means that statistically they\u0026#x27;d see an additional death over a 20 year period.\u003cp\u003eFor a reference point heart disease kills around 800 per 100,000 in the US per year.","parent":"5917749","id":"5920926"}
{"by":"djrogers","time":"1491263504","timestamp":"2017-04-03 23:51:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Investing with borrowed money that you legally cannot default on is not a good plan...","parent":"14026506","id":"14028333"}
{"by":"Vespasian","time":"1441732835","timestamp":"2015-09-08 17:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting question. I for example use netflix mainly to view series that have not been available in my country before (or only packed with lots of useless stuff in some expensive cable subscription) or for their own content (House of Cards, Orange is the new black etc).\u003cp\u003eI vaguely recall having heard that movies are actually not the main interest of their viewers but that might have been some PR ;)","parent":"10186704","id":"10186985"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1495851646","timestamp":"2017-05-27 02:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; unless they can drop the price so low that it creates a new market, like Uber did.\u003cp\u003eI mean, sure, if you\u0026#x27;re willing to eat losses for years and years you can compete on price.","parent":"14428031","id":"14428603"}
{"by":"douche","time":"1491786560","timestamp":"2017-04-10 01:09:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect we\u0026#x27;re violently agreeing. Minimum wage is too high for the value provided by the jobs I used to do, although they were not \u003ci\u003evalue-less\u003c/i\u003e. And restrictions around child-labor are well-intentioned but occasionally produces sub-optimal results.  Ten-year olds threading bobbins in a 1870s textile mill twelve hours a day is a different beast than a high-school kid picking potatos or strawberries for a few hours as a summer job.","parent":"14075181","id":"14075290"}
{"by":"stale2002","time":"1517596633","timestamp":"2018-02-02 18:37:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with socialists policies like this is not necessarily the high taxes or the hostile takeover aspect of it.\u003cp\u003eThe issue is the intent.\u003cp\u003eWhen socialists start doing stuff like this, it is clear what the long term goal is. The long term goal is to take the means of production from those who have it, though whatever politically palpable means necessary.\u003cp\u003eSure, they start off doing a voluntary stock buyout program, but what happens when that program inevitably fails? (perhaps because it takes way to long to takeover a company, or merely that the company owners refuse to sell)\u003cp\u003eWill the socialists come to the conclusion that their socialist policy didn\u0026#x27;t work and reverse it?\u003cp\u003eNo. What happens when socialism fails is that the socialists conclude that they didn\u0026#x27;t go far ENOUGH and then they double down on their mistakes.\u003cp\u003eIn this situation, \u0026quot;doubling down\u0026quot; would be increasing the tax, forcing the owners to sell at a given price, and eventually straight up confiscation of the business.\u003cp\u003eWhen people in the government start yelling about how they want to take the means of production, even voluntarily, the proper response is to run away as fast as possible, and take your means of production with you, before they make it illegal to do so.","parent":"16292022","id":"16292952"}
{"by":"wfn","time":"1398382300","timestamp":"2014-04-24 23:31:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"..english letter frequency table based remapping did not help me here (and that was the extent of my effort).. I\u0026#x27;m beginning to think that this might have been one of those autoironic fourth wall story-narrative-mocking jokes! Did you just pull a Derrida on me?\u003cp\u003e(Thanks for the tvtropes article; it links to another one (\u003ca href=\"http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MinovskyPhysics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tvtropes.org\u0026#x2F;pmwiki\u0026#x2F;pmwiki.php\u0026#x2F;Main\u0026#x2F;MinovskyPhysics\u003c/a\u003e) which mentions \u0026quot;Schild\u0026#x27;s ladder\u0026quot;; which makes their arguments ex vi termini pretty great!)","parent":"7643428","id":"7643782"}
{"by":"Ensorceled","time":"1454937246","timestamp":"2016-02-08 13:14:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, but that would be 2K.  Anyway, was just an observation that, at least my brain, doesn\u0026#x27;t see \u0026#x27;k\u0026#x27; as a count when attached to images but as a size.","parent":"11057823","id":"11057868"}
{"by":"nikkwong","time":"1449512096","timestamp":"2015-12-07 18:14:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m sorry--but what do people really plan on doing with these if you can\u0026#x27;t get them any thicker than 3mm?","parent":"10690834","id":"10691320"}
{"by":"jmcqk6","time":"1325085958","timestamp":"2011-12-28 15:25:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you might be right.  The most valuable thing for me from the book was the explanation of Godel's theorem, and I really enjoyed all the  language play.  After that, I grew really uncomfortable with the comparisons to \"this could be how the brain works.\"\u003cp\u003eI have the firm belief that figuring out how the brain works will not be accomplished through pure mathematics, but through scientific inquiry.","parent":"3399847","id":"3400000"}
{"by":"jaekwon","time":"1412512396","timestamp":"2014-10-05 12:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just updated the go-modeldb library, for anybody who wants to use a non-ORM solution.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jaekwon/go-modeldb\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jaekwon\u0026#x2F;go-modeldb\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can see it used extensively in this sample application:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jaekwon/ftnox-backend\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;jaekwon\u0026#x2F;ftnox-backend\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, it looks like sqlx may be a better alternative.","parent":"8411754","id":"8412131"}
{"by":"lsc","time":"1391044849","timestamp":"2014-01-30 01:20:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah.   This was... my biggest takeaway from running my own company.   I struck out on my own because I thought the business people who ran the companies I worked for were unethical idiots, and being not-an-idiot, I could do better.\u003cp\u003eTurns out? Nope.\u003cp\u003eI also find that the arguments I had with my bosses come around again, from my employees.\u003cp\u003eI still don\u0026#x27;t really understand how business works - but I\u0026#x27;ve learned enough to understand that I don\u0026#x27;t understand how business works.","parent":"7148342","id":"7148451"}
{"by":"yoaviram","time":"1478007714","timestamp":"2016-11-01 13:41:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Changed, thanks!","parent":"12845591","id":"12845604"}
{"by":"strictnein","time":"1496418726","timestamp":"2017-06-02 15:52:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$9 billion is out of hand. I\u0026#x27;m talking about the article.","parent":"14470774","id":"14470800"}
{"by":"crivabene","time":"1478842091","timestamp":"2016-11-11 05:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading the article I understand that the agency who subcontract drivers for Amazon is making them \u0026quot;work illegal hours\u0026quot;, not Amazon itself.\u003cp\u003eNow I am not saying that Amazon is not doing that, I am just saying that no evidence is presented on the fact that Amazon is aware of what is happening with the drivers.","parent":"12927142","id":"12928209"}
{"by":"arianvanp","time":"1374000150","timestamp":"2013-07-16 18:42:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This dude\u0026#x27;s State Alchemist title is probably Fullcode Alchemist","parent":"6048927","id":"6053878"}
{"by":"moogly","time":"1434390314","timestamp":"2015-06-15 17:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perchance named after Dave Brubeck?","parent":"9720574","id":"9720840"}
{"by":"smiler","time":"1289249468","timestamp":"2010-11-08 20:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for that on point 5, didn't see it, but very nice","parent":"1883405","id":"1883952"}
{"by":"varjag","time":"1430410801","timestamp":"2015-04-30 16:20:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wasn\u0026#x27;t diagnosed with anything (not that I was ever checked), but you sound a lot like my experiences. Maybe I should get checked for ADHD..","parent":"9464129","id":"9466022"}
{"by":"e12e","time":"1452304274","timestamp":"2016-01-09 01:51:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, this just counts broken email clients that load external images in email (which, I suppose are a lot -- but they\u0026#x27;re still broken, IMNHO).","parent":"10866160","id":"10869671"}
{"by":"zaidf","time":"1244263228","timestamp":"2009-06-06 04:40:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  for 40B, people will get into starting up for the salary.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThat will simply be another challenge the application process will need to address. That's assuming it even becomes a problem.","parent":"644454","id":"644495"}
{"by":"foldr","time":"1438391033","timestamp":"2015-08-01 01:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; it hasn\u0026#x27;t been all over the news for being stricter in searching people of particular ethnicity\u003cp\u003eThis is not the \u003ci\u003epolicy\u003c/i\u003e of the TSA. The only people who advocate such a policy are racists like Clarkson.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;can you blame Clarkson for being in character on it\u0026#x27;s own satirical column?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not a satirical column. If you think that Clarkson is doing a Colbert-like performance, you\u0026#x27;ve just got the wrong end of the stick.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;moreover if the main smoking gun is a quote by Clarkson himself I\u0026#x27;m not really impressed,\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of backwards logic is this? Clarkson\u0026#x27;s own words are (obviously) the most reliable source of information regarding his beliefs.","parent":"9984468","id":"9985396"}
{"by":"blizkreeg","time":"1542137010","timestamp":"2018-11-13 19:23:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you speak your mind? It might be in your best interest to voice what you\u0026#x27;re sensing\u0026#x2F;feeling.\u003cp\u003eOTOH, are you looking for something new with the same excitement as the early stages but with product market fit and growing? I\u0026#x27;d love to speak :)","parent":"18442821","id":"18443982"}
{"by":"plg","time":"1533476101","timestamp":"2018-08-05 13:35:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is the terminal running in the 5th movie? (ThemWare)","parent":"17682494","id":"17691240"}
{"by":"keithpeter","time":"1341590099","timestamp":"2012-07-06 15:54:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thankyou both for teaching me this word, very useful!\u003cp\u003eInteresting project and I wish you luck with it as your project scales up.","parent":"4207680","id":"4208264"}
{"by":"keslag","time":"1432650237","timestamp":"2015-05-26 14:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The day developers aren\u0026#x27;t needed is the day we no longer need jobs.","parent":"9552182","id":"9605040"}
{"by":"citizenkeys","time":"1363234166","timestamp":"2013-03-14 04:09:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Read this: \u003ca href=\"http://ycuniverse.com/yc-applying-interviewees\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ycuniverse.com/yc-applying-interviewees\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5373006","id":"5373035"}
{"by":"elliottcarlson","time":"1330035214","timestamp":"2012-02-23 22:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me, this site shows an ad about wine - which makes sense since I work for a company that deals in epicurean goods, with our primary product on our site being wine. Based on my browsing habits, it is an appropriate ad to show to me, from a user analysis point of view. Does it suck that it's not related to the article - perhaps - but that's not what will make the most money. Just because you are reading a single article pertaining to dinosaurs, doesn't mean you have a history of being interested in dinosaurs.\u003cp\u003eThe play games ad could be remnant inventory as others pointed out, it could be based on your usage analysis (do you play a lot of games? or share a computer with someone who does?), or lack there of if you have circumvented ways that Google can snoop on/analyze you.","parent":"3626499","id":"3627047"}
{"by":"soared","time":"1483638165","timestamp":"2017-01-05 17:42:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most places do \u0026quot;look-a-like\u0026quot; audiences. So you can upload a csv of data about your customers (name, email, phone, etc) and they will match those customers to profiles and build an audience based off of that. Facebook is obviously super good at that.\u003cp\u003eOther times you don\u0026#x27;t upload anything and just place a pixel. Then as conversions come through the audience builds and gets better.","parent":"13318079","id":"13329349"}
{"by":"RyanMcGreal","time":"1379609510","timestamp":"2013-09-19 16:51:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you - you\u0026#x27;re quite right. I should have written, \u0026quot;copying isn\u0026#x27;t theft\u0026quot;.","parent":"6412159","id":"6412762"}
{"by":"votepaunchy","time":"1510935136","timestamp":"2017-11-17 16:12:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This is an interesting idea. I believe this already happens with real estate but I can\u0026#x27;t find what it is called.\u003cp\u003eAre you thinking of a land lease?","parent":"15722975","id":"15723193"}
{"by":"madengr","time":"1511356818","timestamp":"2017-11-22 13:20:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought the spreadsheet revolutionized accounting in the 80’s, not specifically Excel.\u003cp\u003eMy dad brought home an IBM PC in 82, using Multiplan for chemical mixing calculations.  He thought it was the cat’s meow.  Though Multiplan was the predecessor to Excel, the spreadsheet had been out since late 70’s.","parent":"15756062","id":"15756523"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1327311393","timestamp":"2012-01-23 09:36:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I've got that bookmarked and will give it a read when I get some time.\u003cp\u003eI apologize if I have mis-represented the arguments for/against REST it's just my experience that a lot of debate around REST seems to be people discussing which resource something should belong to or whether something should be POST or PUT.\u003cp\u003eThese sorts of conversations don't really make your software better (I often feel the same way about OO inheritance).","parent":"3495168","id":"3499703"}
{"by":"wolf550e","time":"1331745515","timestamp":"2012-03-14 17:18:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3703571","id":"3704155"}
{"by":"orf","time":"1511822468","timestamp":"2017-11-27 22:41:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, if you throw enough crap at the wall...\u003cp\u003eThe question is if the truth they stumble upon outweighs the misinformation and lies they spread to come across it.","parent":"15792178","id":"15792310"}
{"by":"scottcanoni","time":"1414871581","timestamp":"2014-11-01 19:53:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am a kid again.  Where do I insert the quarter? :)","parent":"8542318","id":"8544362"}
{"by":"marojejian","time":"1508356243","timestamp":"2017-10-18 19:50:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought this was actually a pretty concise fact based piece, which answered some basic questions for me.","parent":"15502323","id":"15502334"}
{"by":"RandallBrown","time":"1385507001","timestamp":"2013-11-26 23:03:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"are massive user forums a solved problem?\u003cp\u003eReddit still gives error pages to me dozens of times a day.","parent":"6804410","id":"6804929"}
{"by":"preinheimer","time":"1528125531","timestamp":"2018-06-04 15:18:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could you expand on what you\u0026#x27;re saying here? How are they ugly? What previous acquisitions in this realm have they screwed over?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d love to educate myself further, but need more details.","parent":"17228524","id":"17228561"}
{"by":"chromatic","time":"1307600509","timestamp":"2011-06-09 06:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eNo, because that makes it harder to understand what it's doing.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout looking at an example of working code, how is it possible to say that one particular phrasing is so obviously better than any other that it and it alone should be allowed to exist?\u003cp\u003eI appreciate in Perl very much the postfix conditional expression syntax because it exploits the end weight linguistic property and allows me to emphasize the most important part of the statement when the situation warrants. I believe that makes my code clearer \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c/i\u003e it looks different from the Algol-standard conditional syntax.","parent":"2633790","id":"2636231"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1258449610","timestamp":"2009-11-17 09:20:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, people who are able to pay more are generally more likely to be mature and good communicators.\u003cp\u003eThis is also a well known phenomenon in the web hosting industry.","parent":"946141","id":"946164"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1421063551","timestamp":"2015-01-12 11:52:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks but massively? function() {} vs () =\u0026gt; {}?","parent":"8873339","id":"8873409"}
{"by":"johnnyfaehell","time":"1486566397","timestamp":"2017-02-08 15:06:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What if you\u0026#x27;re downloading just the git repository and scraping that. In theory you\u0026#x27;re not scraping github but the files github allows you to download.","parent":"13598143","id":"13598713"}
{"by":"largesse","time":"1359396373","timestamp":"2013-01-28 18:06:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn't stop thinking about armed drones during the recent gun-control furor.  I was wondering how it would change the debate if people were really thinking about it - about the near inevitability that they will be used domestically by government and non-governmental actors.  The issue doesn't win clean points on either side, but it does seem to make a lot of today's fears about guns seem trivial.","parent":"5129332","id":"5129683"}
{"by":"wyck","time":"1368414085","timestamp":"2013-05-13 03:01:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By semantic I am referring to the idea of \"best method\",  the just of your article being, name things properly and don't create long nested selectors.","parent":"5695613","id":"5696963"}
{"by":"robodale","time":"1445349382","timestamp":"2015-10-20 13:56:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your response - totally.  Similar experience: I was asked in a technical interview to use the \u0026quot;correct\u0026quot; collection class given the (very academic) sorting problem.  I responded with \u0026quot;there is no right answer, so my answer will be the simplest one\u0026quot;.  According to them that was wrong. The \u0026quot;right\u0026quot; answer was the best performing scenario (although more complex of a solution).\u003cp\u003eSo, again. \u0026quot;It depends\u0026quot;.","parent":"10418788","id":"10419117"}
{"by":"joubert","time":"1276440334","timestamp":"2010-06-13 14:45:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can walk into a Duane Reade and buy an Amex gift card that will probably get around this technique.","parent":"1427098","id":"1427484"}
{"by":"AstralStorm","time":"1465250564","timestamp":"2016-06-06 22:02:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TL;DR. This article is a thinly veiled infomercial of a continuous deployment toolkit with a bait title.\u003cp\u003eIt says nothing at all about overengineering, attempts to hide its nature with a bunch of worthless and confused platitudes and generalisations.","parent":"11850569","id":"11850795"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1354047582","timestamp":"2012-11-27 20:19:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn't FB try that?","parent":"4838675","id":"4838728"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1409248287","timestamp":"2014-08-28 17:51:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This, dweet is a nice solution here.","parent":"8238620","id":"8238665"}
{"by":"jeremysmyth","time":"1421845480","timestamp":"2015-01-21 13:04:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...yet the same blacksmith could turn a sword into a plowshare and make society a better place.\u003cp\u003eStraw-man arguments might have their place but they are still straw-man arguments. Not every businessman starts out being mercenary, and not every practicing tradesman cares naught for his art.","parent":"8922818","id":"8922866"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1459798818","timestamp":"2016-04-04 19:40:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; when the business case no longer makes sense\u003cp\u003eDoing this kills ALL future business of this type. Who would buy such a device knowing this could happen?\u003cp\u003eUnless they don\u0026#x27;t plan on making consumer appliances anymore.","parent":"11424686","id":"11424796"}
{"by":"chrisco255","time":"1531252979","timestamp":"2018-07-10 20:02:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Been using JS for years and still loving it. The only thing I would move towards from here is some kind of ML like Elm, Reason, Haskell, etc. Certainly wouldn\u0026#x27;t go back to Java.","parent":"17500117","id":"17501571"}
{"by":"elwell","time":"1408566360","timestamp":"2014-08-20 20:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chordify works pretty well. One criticism: it doesn\u0026#x27;t handle meter or speed modulations mid-song very well.","parent":"8203493","id":"8204385"}
{"by":"abalone","time":"1513064561","timestamp":"2017-12-12 07:42:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your statement is trivially false. “Ideas poorly executed by other companies” are not “tried and true” ideas, by definition.","parent":"15903289","id":"15903716"}
{"by":"callesgg","time":"1469910551","timestamp":"2016-07-30 20:29:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;UDP connections\u0026quot;?\nUPD is connection less.","parent":"12194047","id":"12194567"}
{"by":"bilbobeer","time":"1474867672","timestamp":"2016-09-26 05:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is most strange is that on linux, mint to be specific, on a recent install they advised to install \u0026#x27;chrome\u0026#x27;, even if you didn\u0026#x27;t plan to use it, the logic went \u0026quot;It\u0026#x27;s better to have a back-up browser\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI say never have a GOOGLE PRODUCT of any kind near you, or on any electronic device in your control.\u003cp\u003eWhat gives to tell people to put Chrome on their OS, note also that mint comes pre-installed video tools that are clearly paid promotional pre-bundle, not unlike what you find when you purchase an Acer, a ton of un-wanted malware almost impossible to remove completely from your system.\u003cp\u003eNever use a google product ( software ) including a known google website ( google.com ) don\u0026#x27;t support the NSA\u0026#x2F;CIA and their plan of global domination and world slavery.","parent":"12579163","dead":true,"id":"12579432"}
{"by":"onion2k","time":"1392222644","timestamp":"2014-02-12 16:30:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The rules in the app are Hemingway\u0026#x27;s rules from his book \u0026quot;On Writing\u0026quot;. Lots of other authors have written similar books and generally they all agree on what works.\u003cp\u003eHenry Miller and Stephen King have both written books on the subject, and both called their books \u0026quot;On Writing\u0026quot;. E.M. Forster wrote one called \u0026quot;Aspects of the Novel\u0026quot;. King actually goes further, to the point of saying things like \u0026quot;Don\u0026#x27;t use adjectives.\u0026quot; Extreme for most written work but if you want to get your audience to use their imagination less direction is often better.","parent":"7225038","id":"7225222"}
{"by":"tischler","time":"1520287347","timestamp":"2018-03-05 22:02:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":".","parent":"16522452","id":"16524886"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1289966264","timestamp":"2010-11-17 03:57:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003e\"Where is the red circle drawn? How large is it? What shade of red? How are those arbitrary values chosen, and how do I choose others?\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen those things matter, more information will be required in both natural language and a high level programming language. On the other hand, when none of that really matters a high level programming language still requires all those items to be specified.\u003cp\u003eLike any level of abstraction, there are tradeoffs. On the other hand to explain how to submit a reply, I don't say:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   \u0026#60;form method=\"post\" action=\"/r\"\u0026#62;\n     \u0026#60;input type=\"hidden\" name=\"fnid\" value=\"7YwrNY6bwe\"/\u0026#62;\n     \u0026#60;textarea name=\"text\" rows=\"6\" cols=\"60\"/\u0026#62;\n     \u0026#60;br/\u0026#62;\n     \u0026#60;br/\u0026#62;\n     \u0026#60;input type=\"submit\" value=\"reply\"/\u0026#62;\n   \u0026#60;/form\u0026#62;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI say \"press the button.\"\u003cp\u003eedit: html example to fit natural language model.","parent":"1912717","id":"1912836"}
{"by":"kibwen","time":"1361991441","timestamp":"2013-02-27 18:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago.\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's something I don't get: didn't Rackspace have \u003ci\u003etheir own\u003c/i\u003e daily backups of the production server, e.g. in case their primary facility was annihilated by a meteor (or some more mundane reason, like hard drive corruption)?\u003cp\u003eRegardless, here's a thought experiment: suppose that Rackspace \u003ci\u003edid\u003c/i\u003e keep daily backups of \u003ci\u003eevery\u003c/i\u003e MySQL instance in their care, even if you're not paying for the backup service. Now suppose they get a frantic call from a client who's not paying for backups, asking if they have any. How much of a ridiculous markup would Rackspace need to charge to give the client access this unpaid-for backup, in order to make the back-up-every-database policy profitable? I'm guessing this depends on 1) the frequency of frantic phone calls, 2) the average size of a database that they aren't being paid to back up, and 3) the importance and irreplacebility of the data that they're handling (and 4) the irresponsibility of their major clients).","parent":"5292591","id":"5294091"}
{"by":"mcherm","time":"1544180576","timestamp":"2018-12-07 11:02:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Back in 2014 I was using g Firefox, for precisely this reason. I am still using it today, for the same reason.\u003cp\u003ePlease stop creating web applications that only work with Chrome (or Chrome and Safari).","parent":"18626316","id":"18626651"}
{"by":"firethief","time":"1543795807","timestamp":"2018-12-03 00:10:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes it\u0026#x27;s worth dealing with complex abstractions in a higher layer rather than making the sacrifices necessary to implement a neat abstraction natively.\u003cp\u003eThe problem of corruption at the physical layer when certain types of bit pattern occur is also encountered when transmitting data over a wire; constraining the physical parameters to remain suitable for the naive representation of binary works well for getting a signal across the PCB, but would be extremely limiting at intranet scales. The usual approach is to modulate the data in a way that avoids encoding the problematic bit patterns.\u003cp\u003eAre the tradeoffs necessary to maintain the simple abstraction worth it in this case? I don\u0026#x27;t know, but considering how much of a bottleneck RAM has become for modern hardware, I think it\u0026#x27;s worth considering the alternatives.","parent":"18585207","id":"18585418"}
{"by":"fragmede","time":"1288023456","timestamp":"2010-10-25 16:17:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is pretty old. The interesting part is how they generated the tables. I can't find the talk slides, but in short, a really expensive FPGA box. An fpga box that could brute force a WPA2 password in a short matter of time.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-06/bh-usa-06-speakers.html#Hulton\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-06/bh-usa-06-speakers.ht...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1829990","id":"1830390"}
{"by":"owebmaster","time":"1512416573","timestamp":"2017-12-04 19:42:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Not quite sure what you\u0026#x27;re referring to.\u003cp\u003eHow do you know that a country lost weight? They didn\u0026#x27;t show how they got these numbers, just said it as an IMF forecast. This is plain simple manipulation. It is a shame that my first comment got so many downvotes.","parent":"15844574","id":"15846781"}
{"by":"_puk","time":"1497538174","timestamp":"2017-06-15 14:49:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your time would be better spent implementing \u0026#x27;:set list\u0026#x27; on classic whiteboards.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s where your issue lies; subconscious prejudice is happening during the hiring process, you just can\u0026#x27;t see it.","parent":"14560526","id":"14560909"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1418413512","timestamp":"2014-12-12 19:45:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"China\u0026#x27;s economy is big, growing, and rapidly diversifying across industries and into consumption. Russia\u0026#x27;s is treading water, concentrated, and shrinking \u003ci\u003eaway\u003c/i\u003e from consumption.\u003cp\u003eChina also has more pro-business and -investment infrastructure than Russia, e.g. well-defended special economic zones, empowered pro-development governance, etc. Bejing has been more stable and predictable in respect of these priorities than Moscow.","parent":"8742174","id":"8742273"}
{"by":"archgoon","time":"1335203599","timestamp":"2012-04-23 17:53:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ah... good catch :)","parent":"3877596","id":"3880057"}
{"by":"ikonos_de","time":"1376999057","timestamp":"2013-08-20 11:44:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny that Yahoo is using Google Analytics :-)","parent":"6242121","id":"6243016"}
{"by":"Raynos","time":"1321976999","timestamp":"2011-11-22 15:49:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the method fails for the exact same reason.\u003cp\u003eIf a single method calls a super method and that method calls another super method then it fails.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Object.getPrototypeOf(this).method\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nAlways have one value and only one value, calling it more then once leads to infinite recursion.","parent":"3265564","id":"3265941"}
{"by":"mathattack","time":"1397509945","timestamp":"2014-04-14 21:12:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sent!","parent":"7588151","id":"7588992"}
{"by":"mseebach","time":"1529491214","timestamp":"2018-06-20 10:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, this is about legalisation - I can totally see medical rescheduling working (and nobody seems to have countered Sajid Javid\u0026#x27;s announcement yesterday). It\u0026#x27;s a step in the right direction, but it\u0026#x27;s still a while to go to undo most of the ills of the war on drugs.","parent":"17353822","id":"17354068"}
{"by":"gusgordon","time":"1478820916","timestamp":"2016-11-10 23:35:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You clearly don\u0026#x27;t have a basic understanding of the issues here. Cars that use gas incur the additional penalty of environmental damage that is unaccounted for in the value of those vehicles relative to their cost. For example, a gas car may cost $1000, and bring $1500 of value to the owner, but incur $200 of damage to the environment. This is not priced into the value of the car. If you want to learn more you can read the first few chapters of an introductory economics textbook where they cover market failure.","parent":"12925162","id":"12925733"}
{"by":"anthonyb","time":"1345001866","timestamp":"2012-08-15 03:37:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Email and face to face communication are completely different beasts though, particularly for tougher issues.","parent":"4384399","id":"4384448"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1413848217","timestamp":"2014-10-20 23:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Clojure is far from the only language that supports both the JVM and CLR. I had a long reply ready, but I lost it. Off the top of my head the languages that have support on both (aside from Clojure) are; Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java (though J# is being depreciated), Scheme, Common Lisp, PHP, Perl 6, Prolog, Pascal, Ada. I might be missing some.","parent":"8483869","id":"8485143"}
{"by":"jeangenie","time":"1349458852","timestamp":"2012-10-05 17:40:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FYI the Greeks didn't have negative numbers. Philosophers were still arguing whether zero could truly be a number (there wasn't really a need for zero as a placeholder regardless, Greek numerals don't have a positional aspect).\u003cp\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_numbers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_numbers...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4617273","id":"4617840"}
{"by":"peeters","time":"1488817713","timestamp":"2017-03-06 16:28:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem is that it uses largely the same treatment as it does for actual facts.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, I don\u0026#x27;t think there\u0026#x27;s anything wrong with trusting Google when you search for \u0026quot;25 divided by 5\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;33rd president of the US\u0026quot;, etc.  But when Google extends that response structure to things that, on further research, are not established fact, it shares some blame in spreading false knowledge.","parent":"13803646","id":"13803700"}
{"by":"DanWaterworth","time":"1315210710","timestamp":"2011-09-05 08:18:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few thoughts:\u003cp\u003e* It seems likely that there exists an ARM IC that would suit your purposes, you'd just need to commission a PCB and if you'd planning on having 10s of thousands of them, then that would be no great cost.\u003cp\u003e* Having more memory will increase the board area and cost significantly.\u003cp\u003e* You might be better off PXE booting and using a SAN rather than having local disks.\u003cp\u003e* If you wanted to test the waters, you could try stuffing dozens of raspberry pis into a 4U case with a switch and co-locating. If this took off, you could develop your own custom hardware.","parent":"2961106","id":"2961579"}
{"by":"eripmav","time":"1394442565","timestamp":"2014-03-10 09:09:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Beefsack, PC means....PC ;)","parent":"7369333","id":"7371926"}
{"by":"caf","time":"1352178163","timestamp":"2012-11-06 05:02:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From your linked page:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMost small online businesses do not store credit card data locally, but that doesn't stop you from using salted hashes of credit card numbers to compare.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eStoring a \"salted hash\" of a credit card number in the manner you describe is only fractionally better than storing the credit card number itself.  This is because credit card numbers have very little entropy - less than 36 bits per issuer code, so bruteforcing these hashes can be done very quickly.","parent":"4744670","id":"4747301"}
{"by":"thebradbain","time":"1542080645","timestamp":"2018-11-13 03:44:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems like I\u0026#x27;m the resident Dallas apologist on these Amazon pieces, but Bezos is no stranger to Dallas. He has spoken fondly of Dallas many a time, just had the honor of speaking at SMU\u0026#x27;s Business Conference and offered personal anecdotes of why he likes Dallas, and, as Dallas Morning News has reported by tracking his flight records, been to Dallas many a time this year alone.\u003cp\u003eSure, maybe he doesn\u0026#x27;t own property in Dallas, but it also seems like it\u0026#x27;s more of a place he\u0026#x27;d like to spend time in over Austin, or Atlanta, or Pittsburgh, or a whole bunch of other cities.\u003cp\u003eThe fact that Amazon was in late stage talks with Dallas also makes me think Dallas will be one of the cities to get \u0026quot;other major Amazon facilities as well\u0026quot; as this WSJ article mentions.","parent":"18438308","id":"18438378"}
{"by":"brianpgordon","time":"1509656949","timestamp":"2017-11-02 21:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tim Cook mentioned specifically that the Mac growth was driven by China. So keep that in mind.","parent":"15614216","id":"15614313"}
{"by":"rusk","time":"1538062150","timestamp":"2018-09-27 15:29:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A single twin-study cited in this article [0] surveyed 8,280 twins.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pmc\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;PMC4653279\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u0026#x2F;pmc\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;PMC4653279\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18084495","id":"18085402"}
{"by":"wepple","time":"1527976522","timestamp":"2018-06-02 21:55:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a few glaring flaws in this:\u003cp\u003eThe section on 2FA goes on about SMS, which has a very increasing history of being easily bypassed and is utterly terrible advice. You’re designating a helpdesk operator on minimum wage at T-mobile as your root of trust, to defend against number porting.\u003cp\u003eAlso, if you’re this ultra paranoid you may want to reconsider using Firefox -the last of all the major browsers to get a sandbox by a margin of years- to defend you.\u003cp\u003eI like the idea of this article and think privacy \u0026amp; security are worthy endeavors, but if you’re putting this much effort in, maybe it’s worth taking a serious look at what precise threats you believe you have, then coming up with the best solutions to those, rather than enabling a ton of stuff and praying it all works.","parent":"17213719","id":"17216601"}
{"by":"caycep","time":"1383781546","timestamp":"2013-11-06 23:45:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK, did anyone else think that crash test dummy was cool?   There are now bicycle crash test dummies!\u003cp\u003eAnd they fitted it out with Portlandesque hip bicycle clothing too....","parent":"6685798","id":"6686448"}
{"by":"mafuba","time":"1383976999","timestamp":"2013-11-09 06:03:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you value most?","parent":"6700793","id":"6700825"}
{"by":"skimbrel","time":"1313862859","timestamp":"2011-08-20 17:54:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is awesome. Especially the bit where they point out exactly why a modern semi-automatic is more efficient than an open-design revolver. (Hint: where does the gas go?)","parent":"2906941","id":"2907210"}
{"by":"taneq","time":"1527494338","timestamp":"2018-05-28 07:58:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If this is because you want to feel cooler, place the fan so it blows cool air inwards \u003ci\u003eonto you\u003c/i\u003e. You\u0026#x27;ll get far more benefit from having air blown on you than you will from just dropping the ambient temperature around you.","parent":"17170970","id":"17171180"}
{"by":"mafribe","time":"1456760656","timestamp":"2016-02-29 15:44:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree, Berlin being so green is a great plus. Something I\u0026#x27;d change about Berlin is to make the place more dense. For example by doubling the height of each house.","parent":"11195968","id":"11196072"}
{"by":"projectileboy","time":"1272220932","timestamp":"2010-04-25 18:42:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Last summer, I went through the whole series with my kids as bedtime stories (minus Tintin in the Congo and Tintin in America, which are a little beyond my PC threshold). We \u003ci\u003eloved\u003c/i\u003e them! I have no idea why every kid in America doesn't slurp them up like candy.","parent":"1292024","id":"1293224"}
{"by":"aagnihot","time":"1252597408","timestamp":"2009-09-10 15:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SUN has variety of technologies especially in Storage(via StorageTek acquisition). Oracle can integrate backup and recovery strategy with StorageTek tapes, ZFS, for example. Also, db failover, High Availability can be achieved leveraging Solaris platform..","parent":"815192","id":"815454"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1545305002","timestamp":"2018-12-20 11:23:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s kind of ironic (and sad) that dereferencing from google is as good as removing the offending content from the internet.","parent":"18723887","id":"18723999"}
{"by":"IndianAstronaut","time":"1433454529","timestamp":"2015-06-04 21:48:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Understanding stochastic processes has helped me quite a bit in my data mining career.","parent":"9659608","id":"9662362"}
{"by":"Crake","time":"1392067992","timestamp":"2014-02-10 21:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Criticizing how fictional women are dressed is not the same as criticizing how real-life women are dressed.\u003cp\u003eWho do you think portrays them on tv and in movies? Fake women? Give me a break.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;When a man draws or designs a female character with \u0026quot;sexy\u0026quot; clothing, it\u0026#x27;s likely sexualizing that character for male viewers to ogle. When a woman decides to dress that way, it\u0026#x27;s personal expression.\u003cp\u003eI like how if a man does it, it\u0026#x27;s sexist, but if a woman does it, it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;empowerment.\u0026quot; I guess men aren\u0026#x27;t allowed to write empowered female characters. And yet, if they don\u0026#x27;t write them--that makes them misogynists, too.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;They\u0026#x27;re criticizing usually stock characters that perpetuate stereotypes about women and objectify.\u003cp\u003eIn my experience, this is just very elaborate justification for plain old jealousy of another woman\u0026#x27;s looks.","parent":"7211935","id":"7214030"}
{"by":"gigatexal","time":"1496686135","timestamp":"2017-06-05 18:08:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even with such a low volume product like the iMac pro - they could buy out all the EPYC or Threadripper chips from AMD for the next mac. But I bet Intel is likely selling their CPUs to Apple for a loss just to maintain that relationship.","parent":"14489783","id":"14489815"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1319076995","timestamp":"2011-10-20 02:16:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Church-Turing thesis simply tells us that different models of computation are equivalent — and as applied to programming languages, anything that one Turing-equivalent language can compute, another can. But it emphatically does not mean that idiomatic code in one language can be mechanically translated into idiomatic (or even particularly readable) code in another language by a simple process.\u003cp\u003eIf you did have a C-to-Lisp converter, it would almost certainly produce very imperative-style Lisp code that mimics the form of the C input, not nice functional code like you probably want.","parent":"3084206","id":"3133110"}
{"by":"PavlovsCat","time":"1545523952","timestamp":"2018-12-23 00:12:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why should you... not get between a lioness and her cubs? Well, just because she doesn\u0026#x27;t yet realize that you\u0026#x27;re doing that, doesn\u0026#x27;t mean she never will. The question is really just how thick you think this ice is, and if you feel particularly lucky. The question isn\u0026#x27;t so much why should you care, but if you don\u0026#x27;t care, what leg do you have to stand on in regards to others?\u003cp\u003eWhy \u003ci\u003ewould\u003c/i\u003e you care, that\u0026#x27;s the better question IMO. Maybe because you have been treated well, because you can afford it, because if you have greater capacity for care than neediness. That is, maybe after you spent all the care you possibly can on yourself, you still have plenty left and might as well use it. Because your daily income of ability to care is more than your expenses on just yourself.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve known stinking rich egotists as well as rich people with a huge heart, and the latter seemed happier and more intelligent \u003ci\u003eby far\u003c/i\u003e. No contest, I\u0026#x27;d even say they\u0026#x27;re actually living in the first place, while those who care only about themselves are boring at best, constantly whining at worst. And just like there\u0026#x27;s networks of sociopaths, just like \u0026quot;the devil recognizes his brethren\u0026quot;, so do people with functioning hearts and brains recognize others, and I dare say they\u0026#x27;re much better company. Better looking, too, even just insofar that being able to look any- and everyone in the eye makes a person instantly more attractive, all else being equal. And that\u0026#x27;s before age kicks in.. reaping the rewards of a selfish life is truly brutal, and the most cruel part is that after a life of selfishness you have no ability to recognize the consequences of that \u003ci\u003eas\u003c/i\u003e consequences of that.","parent":"18742612","id":"18743372"}
{"by":"kriro","time":"1469656021","timestamp":"2016-07-27 21:47:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mostly read nonfiction and usually do it \u0026quot;marker and pencil in hand\u0026quot; so I try to read carefully and soak up new ideas. I commute by train and read about a midsized book\u0026#x2F;week that way (sometimes I sleep instead of reading, sometimes I do other stuff etc.). For the commute reading I usually pick things that aren\u0026#x27;t very meaty like popscience (the Ariely books on behavioral economics or Fooled by Randomness are good examples) or intro\u0026#x2F;overview type of books like Secrets and Lies.\nMost fiction I read is SciFi, the occasional fantasy and some horror and thrillers\u0026#x2F;crime.\u003cp\u003eMy reading is a bit odd since I tend to read 3-5 commute books at a time picking the one that I feel like each day.\u003cp\u003eAt home I enjoy the occasional comic book (some superhero stuff but mostly things like Transmetropolitan, From Hell or Criminal) and grind out more meaty books, mostly mathematics or physics and work related stuff (programming, algorithms etc.). Basically anything that involves exercises or long\u0026#x2F;hard thinking. The pace is rather slow, I aim at one good non-programming related book per month and sprinkle in the work related stuff.\u003cp\u003etl;dr I read a lot and enjoy it :D","parent":"12175355","id":"12176759"}
{"by":"paxy","time":"1532542989","timestamp":"2018-07-25 18:23:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Plus the negative effects need to be mitigated by legislation (and to a great extent already are) rather than secrecy.","parent":"17611332","id":"17611532"}
{"by":"nandemo","time":"1327624573","timestamp":"2012-01-27 00:36:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think you have to prove that. In big cities like Tokyo and Osaka, most people use public transport to commute anyway. Although it's not mandatory, in practice every company will reimburse your commuting costs if you take public transportation.","parent":"3513997","id":"3516689"}
{"by":"tokipin","time":"1435101436","timestamp":"2015-06-23 23:17:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think there\u0026#x27;s any relation. Some people may be nervous just because they are interacting with strangers, whereas they would have no problem with people they already know.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I don\u0026#x27;t have nervousness\u0026#x2F;stress issues in interviews, but I\u0026#x27;ve found that conversation screws up the analytical mode that I use when I\u0026#x27;m programming. It\u0026#x27;s like how people say they don\u0026#x27;t like having their managers interrupt them in the middle of the day because they get taken \u0026quot;out of the zone.\u0026quot; I can program or I can converse, I can\u0026#x27;t do both without screwing up both of them.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s just my particular conundrum. People probably have all sorts of reasons (besides the possibility of them being bad at programming) for why they may have trouble in interviews.","parent":"9767557","id":"9768457"}
{"by":"tsuyoshi","time":"1309930947","timestamp":"2011-07-06 05:42:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone who has written an extension to a garbage-collected language in C will have run into this issue. Personally I've written extensions for Guile, OCaml, Ruby, MLton, and Java, and all of them have tricky rules for making your C code safe for garbage collection. Using volatile is the wrong way to do this though... this tells me that the people figuring this stuff out for Ruby don't really know C that well.","parent":"2731716","id":"2732713"}
{"by":"bsima","time":"1393557424","timestamp":"2014-02-28 03:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shouldn\u0026#x27;t this package be called \u0026quot;covalent\u0026quot;?","parent":"7316860","id":"7317042"}
{"by":"walshemj","time":"1440185739","timestamp":"2015-08-21 19:35:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You mean had to go because it didn\u0026#x27;t agree with the Medias Agenda","parent":"10097338","id":"10099746"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1403126330","timestamp":"2014-06-18 21:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s been done before. Instapaper on iOS has had tilt scrolling for years. It works fine, it\u0026#x27;s just not a very useful feature.","parent":"7912319","id":"7912908"}
{"by":"jackpirate","time":"1490994208","timestamp":"2017-03-31 21:03:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What?!\u003cp\u003eIconic photos are crucial for telling news in a way people remember.  For example:\u003cp\u003e* We remember Tienemen square because of [tank man](\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tank_Man\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tank_Man\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e* We remember napalm in Vietnam because of [Phan Thi Kim Phuc](\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tank_Man\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Tank_Man\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e* There are too many pictures from the civil rights movement, so I\u0026#x27;ll [just link to the Getty\u0026#x27;s gallery](\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gettyimages.com\u0026#x2F;event\u0026#x2F;the-american-souths-troubling-history-of-racism-560585453#freedom-riders-on-a-greyhound-bus-sponsored-by-the-congress-of-racial-picture-id154784547\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gettyimages.com\u0026#x2F;event\u0026#x2F;the-american-souths-troubli...\u003c/a\u003e).  These pictures tell the story of violence against black far better than any article ever could.","parent":"14005852","id":"14008176"}
{"by":"vecter","time":"1279323413","timestamp":"2010-07-16 23:36:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried this on my 3GS at different places. Some places, the bars dropped from 5 --\u0026#62; 0. Others it went from 5 --\u0026#62; 3. In some other places, it didn't drop at all. It's pretty random, but the effect is certainly repeatable at the same location.","parent":"1522798","id":"1522936"}
{"by":"cpach","time":"1531652432","timestamp":"2018-07-15 11:00:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool! If anybody else would like to chip in I would love to hear more examples of how people use Filemaker these days.","parent":"17534558","id":"17534697"}
{"by":"PeCaN","time":"1498435702","timestamp":"2017-06-26 00:08:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compiler problems are not the sole reason Itanium failed, perhaps not even the primary one. They were not good initially, that\u0026#x27;s true. But Itanium was more killed by a combination of factors, and especially by AMD64 existing.\u003cp\u003eThe first Itanium \u003ci\u003esucked\u003c/i\u003e, and had a very bad memory subsystem. Itanium 2 was pretty competitive in performance, with one major exception: the x86 emulation. Why buy Itanium—even if it\u0026#x27;s very fast—if you could buy cheaper AMD64 which supports your existing software? Add in that Itanium compilers were few in number, all proprietary (and expensive), and didn\u0026#x27;t generate very good code for the first few years. Also, Itanium violated some programmer assumptions (very weak memory model and accessing an undefined value could cause an exception).\u003cp\u003eNow, Mill has a better way of extracting ILP than Itanium does, compiler technology is much better, and JIT compilers are very common. VLIW processors can be very good JIT targets. Mill, if it ever materializes, has enormous potential.","parent":"14632775","id":"14632975"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1289409284","timestamp":"2010-11-10 17:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the general case, I agree with you. However, everyone knows what 'RESTful urls' and 'RESTful apis' mean, it's just that it's not the original recipe REST. For better or worse, the definition has changed.\u003cp\u003eIt's still effective communication, because you know I'm contrasting '/bets/1' with 'index.aspx?action=displayBet\u0026#38;bet_id=1\u0026#38;' (which still could be quite RESTful, actually...), and a form that POSTs to '/bets' vs. a form with method=GET request to 'index.aspx?action=addAnotherBet\u0026#38;=SomeValue=1\u0026#38;something_else=2'. And yes, there's more to it than that, but you get the idea.\u003cp\u003eJust because it makes puritains die inside doesn't make it wrong.","parent":"1891020","id":"1891062"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1307333309","timestamp":"2011-06-06 04:08:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Solitaire is a game.","parent":"2623588","id":"2623666"}
{"by":"hyperpape","time":"1458694735","timestamp":"2016-03-23 00:58:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given what I know about your politics and philosophy, I find it pretty funny that I have to say this:\u003cp\u003e1) As \u0026quot;just a fact\u0026quot; it\u0026#x27;s irrelevant. With some interpretation added, it contributed something. However...\u003cp\u003e2) As participants in a market economy, the lawyers\u0026#x27; primary interest may not be the letter of the law or what is theoretically winnable in court, but what will give npm the least hassle. I\u0026#x27;m not sure if that\u0026#x27;s the case in this particular trademark case, but we all know lawyers sometimes do counsel the path of least resistance. And maybe that\u0026#x27;s even wise. But it\u0026#x27;s worth being clear about that ambiguity, rather than just saying \u0026quot;lawyers said it, I believe it.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eP.S. I think your comment isn\u0026#x27;t super helpful but I didn\u0026#x27;t downvote you.","parent":"11341128","id":"11341294"}
{"by":"darius","time":"1196127529","timestamp":"2007-11-27 01:38:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You really need to let the visitors know what you are trying to accomplish with the website. After trying all kind of stuff I had to come back here to get a feeling of what you were trying to do. \u003cp\u003eYou need to make it dead clear what the website does if you want to retain any users.","parent":"83660","id":"83780"}
{"by":"_vertigo","time":"1526767027","timestamp":"2018-05-19 21:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;ll find \u0026quot;an hero\u0026quot; means something different entirely from \u0026quot;a hero\u0026quot;","parent":"17109817","dead":true,"id":"17109931"}
{"by":"dangrossman","time":"1326387531","timestamp":"2012-01-12 16:58:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tried adding dropdowns to change the algorithm and threshold, but changing to knn crashes out (\"ReferenceError: trainingPrompt is not defined\"), so scrapped that and just left the demo running the defaults.","parent":"3456918","id":"3457003"}
{"by":"timjahn","time":"1318865253","timestamp":"2011-10-17 15:27:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"...Highlander!","parent":"3119206","id":"3120842"}
{"by":"throwaway10711","time":"1546287561","timestamp":"2018-12-31 20:19:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; “My husband is a Park Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and he had to sign his furlough papers,” one woman tweeted. ”We have a 4 yr. old and a 4-month-old, and we don’t know when his next check will come. Mortgage is due, Christmas 2 days away.”\u003cp\u003eUnpopular opinion. It\u0026#x27;s _really_ hard for me to feel bad for families that have or are expecting kids without consulting their financials first. I believe that one shouldn\u0026#x27;t have kids if they can\u0026#x27;t afford them or have more kids than they can afford, but saying this out loud is an easy way to make enemies.","parent":"18794757","id":"18796713"}
{"by":"mwcampbell","time":"1412089805","timestamp":"2014-09-30 15:10:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting that the only problem the reviewer could find with sticking to 1 GB of RAM is that you can\u0026#x27;t keep several tabs live in Safari. To me, that just highlights the inefficiency of the modern web stack, rather than any problem with iOS or with the iPhone sticking to 1 GB of RAM.","parent":"8388034","id":"8388589"}
{"by":"smadge","time":"1452542715","timestamp":"2016-01-11 20:05:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To add on:\u003cp\u003eFor example, monads don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;compose\u0026quot; as nicely as applicatives. You can automatically compose two applicatives and have a guarantee the the result obeys the applicative laws. Like you say, for monads you would have to write your own monad transformer, and hopefully verify it is still a law abiding monad. You don\u0026#x27;t have to write a transformer for applicatives.","parent":"10882421","id":"10882990"}
{"by":"Deinumite","time":"1344798675","timestamp":"2012-08-12 19:11:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Probably doing socket programming in C is easier than in Java\u003cp\u003eActually... networked programming is really easy in Java.\u003cp\u003eYou are right though the state of a lot of java libs is hilarious! Smalltalk seems really cool but I've never had a reason to devote time to it.","parent":"4372767","id":"4373278"}
{"by":"valuegram","time":"1354370200","timestamp":"2012-12-01 13:56:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hyde: \u003ca href=\"http://ringce.com/hyde\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ringce.com/hyde\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4857473","id":"4857608"}
{"by":"bostonvaulter2","time":"1488404731","timestamp":"2017-03-01 21:45:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I, on the other hand, loathe editing YAML configuration files because the nesting is so obtuse and difficult to figure out based on limited examples in open source projects. JSON is much easier.","parent":"13766167","id":"13768751"}
{"by":"austintaylor","time":"1332351250","timestamp":"2012-03-21 17:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read a review once where someone said it was \"stupid and unrealistic\" citing the van \"falling through the air for half the movie\".","parent":"3735373","id":"3735447"}
{"by":"mpartel","time":"1538003791","timestamp":"2018-09-26 23:16:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, say I have: `characters = [A, B, ...]`\nand I want to maintain for each character `x` the invariant:\n`x.target = (first y in \u0026#x27;characters\u0026#x27; where y.score \u0026gt; x.score)`\u003cp\u003eCan Skip maintain such a self-referential invariant automatically? Does the answer depend on A and B\u0026#x27;s mutability?\u003cp\u003e(This \u0026quot;graph as array\u0026quot; escape hatch seems to come up in many language designs with compile-time pointer analysis. It\u0026#x27;s useful, maybe even essential, but you tend to lose some nice language features\u0026#x2F;guarantees with it, in my limited experience.)\u003cp\u003eThe GC thing sounds excellent!","parent":"18080720","id":"18081065"}
{"by":"mindslight","time":"1457379241","timestamp":"2016-03-07 19:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can\u0026#x27;t really call the US system \u0026quot;time and materials\u0026quot; either, as that would still imply \u003ci\u003esome\u003c/i\u003e ahead-of-time insight into the pricing structure.","parent":"11240115","id":"11240984"}
{"by":"elliott34","time":"1418133449","timestamp":"2014-12-09 13:57:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now if we can only get sublime text 2 within an ipython notebook on the cloud.....\u003cp\u003eFor me, R was my first language, and then I learned Python, and beautiful things like list comprehensions, and it just clicks with my brain a bit more.\u003cp\u003eIn pandas, a group by operation is beautiful\u003cp\u003edataset2=dataset1.groupby([stuff], as_index=False).mean()\u003cp\u003eSame with pivot table...\u003cp\u003eWhen I did this with dplyr2 my work flow would be a few more steps, creating the \u0026quot;summarise\u0026quot; object and so forth and so on, which seems like more steps.","parent":"8700467","id":"8722680"}
{"by":"jerven","time":"1404246607","timestamp":"2014-07-01 20:30:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would say openrdf sesame in the java world can use hand. It is one of the most widely used RDF and SPARQL apis on the java side. Very useful, when dealing with data from many sources without building a single datawarehouse.","parent":"7973039","id":"7973329"}
{"by":"etep","time":"1424811937","timestamp":"2015-02-24 21:05:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would like to see stats beyond those provided by top. For example, memory bandwidth (broken into read and write bandwidth). IO bandwidth. CPU cache hit rates. Instructions per cycle. Energy consumption. AFAIK there is no really nice way to see all the true under the hood perf stats. Yes I know about perf, LIKWID, and other similar tools -- point being, I think there is an opportunity to put this kind of monitoring into a tool at the level of scout and truly have something informative.","parent":"9101494","id":"9103514"}
{"by":"tinus_hn","time":"1541245153","timestamp":"2018-11-03 11:39:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well you know the company is going under because they don’t sell the most phones anymore. But of course these phones somehow contribute the most to e-waste.","parent":"18369704","id":"18369743"}
{"by":"willyyr","time":"1484148109","timestamp":"2017-01-11 15:21:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Glen, i think you are fine. The title is the important part. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;showhn.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;showhn.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13372979","id":"13374513"}
{"by":"PaulHoule","time":"1504269301","timestamp":"2017-09-01 12:35:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fixed Wireless has been a marginal player almost everywhere it has been tried.\u003cp\u003eIf you are in a place with favorable geography it can sorta kinda work.\u003cp\u003eIf you are in the Appalachian mountains,  on the other hand,  you are in a dissected plateau and most people live in valleys that are overlooked by a single ridge.  You have to build a road over the ridge,  run electricity,  maybe run fiber,  and with a really tall tower (remember we have trees on the East Coast!) you might look into the valleys on each side,  and if you are really lucky,  another valley over.\u003cp\u003eThe kicker is that most of the places which are favorable for wireless already have cable.  So the addressable market is this tiny sliver which can be served with fixed wireless and can\u0026#x27;t get cable.","parent":"15146934","id":"15147817"}
{"by":"hswolff","time":"1284087299","timestamp":"2010-09-10 02:54:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One page:  \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_38/b4195058423479.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_38/b41...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1677446","id":"1677725"}
{"by":"kwame42","time":"1479065096","timestamp":"2016-11-13 19:24:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hello, no we don\u0026#x27;t have any mentors at 42... I m totally agree with you. Coding in \u0026quot;normal world\u0026quot; condition is very important.","parent":"12945028","id":"12945095"}
{"by":"fapjacks","time":"1505896022","timestamp":"2017-09-20 08:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are really overestimating the substance of the native Hawaiian independence movement. The vast vast majority of people living in Hawaii are not even native Hawaiian to begin with. And even most local Hawaiians don\u0026#x27;t want independence from the United States. It is really a tiny minority offshoot with some specific political grievances. Independence isn\u0026#x27;t even seriously floated by the majority of these independence folks. The whole idea is just a political and marketing tool except to a very small group of people.","parent":"15291587","id":"15291705"}
{"by":"ryusage","time":"1408996919","timestamp":"2014-08-25 20:01:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve played this off and on at the office for the last couple years: \u003ca href=\"http://www.quakelive.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quakelive.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8223740","id":"8223869"}
{"by":"johansch","time":"1390761878","timestamp":"2014-01-26 18:44:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps they actually did lose some manufacturing process secrets, how are we in a position to tell?","parent":"7126144","id":"7126223"}
{"by":"rhino369","time":"1424206301","timestamp":"2015-02-17 20:51:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;The British were able to control vast swaths of the world with minimal military power. They fought smart.\u003cp\u003eThe world changed. The British and French couldn\u0026#x27;t control those colonies anymore. Guerrilla insurgencies are very hard to beat.\u003cp\u003eIn order to win you either have to convince the people to support you, which is almost impossible as an outsider. Or you make them fear you worse than the insurgency. That is impossible under international law.\u003cp\u003eBut if the US really wanted Afghanistan to bend to it\u0026#x27;s will and didn\u0026#x27;t care about international law? Just carpet bomb villages that don\u0026#x27;t support you against the Taliban. Relocate tribes to reservations and resettle your supporters.\u003cp\u003eWhy didn\u0026#x27;t Japan and Germany have insurgencies? They were afraid of what we\u0026#x27;d do.","parent":"9064564","id":"9064873"}
{"by":"rtpg","time":"1508129985","timestamp":"2017-10-16 04:59:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t the BMWs of the world have this tech integrated into their cars too?\u003cp\u003eI get Tesla\u0026#x27;s cars are really good, but my understanding was that it wasn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;miles ahead\u0026quot;.","parent":"15480883","id":"15480938"}
{"by":"bliti","time":"1391459386","timestamp":"2014-02-03 20:29:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m working on a similar system. The impact this will have on the tech industry is potentially huge. Imagine your mobile device pairing with cars. All of your preferences are automatically uploaded to the vehicle. Including predetermined destinations that you might have already defined before leaving. As you move down the road, the applications you have installed on your mobile device will give you data regarding the surroundings. Yes, it will probably contain advertisements, but it will also contain valuable information about the area.\u003cp\u003eI know that privacy is a concern (which is shared among all). It is the biggest challenge faced at the moment. Implementation is heavily dependent on third party systems over which we don\u0026#x27;t have  any controls.","parent":"7172227","id":"7173249"}
{"by":"fidz","time":"1359507157","timestamp":"2013-01-30 00:52:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand.. Windows XP was only use 2 GB of disk space. Windows 7 only 4 GB. I'm not yet migrating to Windows 8, but 20 GB disk space for OS is remarkable.","parent":"5135406","id":"5137425"}
{"by":"onetwothreefour","time":"1348007323","timestamp":"2012-09-18 22:28:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LOL. No shit.\u003cp\u003eNo one actually thinks this. It's called pandering to the base.","parent":"4536552","id":"4540858"}
{"by":"sdizdar","time":"1298798827","timestamp":"2011-02-27 09:27:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure but there is difference between: 1) an application server accepts client request but fails to execute it, so client gets an error via JSON and 2) something on server side (HTTP server or application server or firewall) fails to receiver/accept client's request thus client gets back some HTTP error code.\nMaybe people like this way becasue in complex systems there is always difference between failure to deliver and understand the request and error during execution of the request.","parent":"2266755","id":"2267569"}
{"by":"rtpg","time":"1439442256","timestamp":"2015-08-13 05:04:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Maybe some structure has a \u0026quot;char * \u0026quot; name field, and null indicates \u0026quot;anonymous\u0026#x2F;has no name\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s an ISO C conformance bug to try to print that with %s, but that\u0026#x27;s a portability issue. If that\u0026#x27;s the only problem in the program (everywhere else it checks for null), there is no real issue.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll take \u0026#x27;uses of Option\u0026#x2F;Maybe\u0026#x27; for 200 Alex\u003cp\u003eSome might say it\u0026#x27;s overkill, but if you can have a char* be null, then for most intents and purposes you have two states to deal with on any usage of that value.\u003cp\u003eJust because such a design can exist doesn\u0026#x27;t mean we should hobble our tools to support it.","parent":"10052256","id":"10052342"}
{"by":"AndrewO","time":"1263577949","timestamp":"2010-01-15 17:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hadn't heard of either before.  I'm somewhat interested (nice design—especially the signup form), but not quite sure if I understand it completely.  I think a demo video and/or some examples of good user newspapers would help clear this up immensely.\u003cp\u003e(I looked at the \"Discover more newspapers...\" link and most seem to be ones people just started to play around with and gave up on.)","parent":"1055168","id":"1055376"}
{"by":"joeyh","time":"1274128909","timestamp":"2010-05-17 20:41:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I explicitly said \"committed data\" would not be lost, because data only staged in the index certianly can be lost, and I think stashed data is also semi-suceptable to loss as well.\u003cp\u003egit stash drop does print the sha1 of the stash, and as long as you know that sha1, and it's not been gc'd, you can get a dropped stash back. (git fsck will also show the sha1s of dangling commits left from dropped stashes.) But while a separate reflog records existing stashes, that information is not retained when they're dropped. It's perhaps best to think of git stash as a more convenient form of git diff \u0026#62; patch, and you wouldn't expect that to keep a log of the patch file either.","parent":"1355320","id":"1355462"}
{"by":"ianbertolacci","time":"1439091993","timestamp":"2015-08-09 03:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was disappointed at the lack of really good, in depth Chapel tutorials that weren\u0026#x27;t also the spec, so I wrote my own.\nLooking for feedback on what could make this a better read.\u003cp\u003eFull disclosure: I am currently an intern with the Chapel team at Cray, and I am no shame trying to sell this open source language to the masses. However this is not a product of the internship; one can get surprisingly bored in Seattle, and I wrote this on unoccupied weekends.","parent":"10029449","id":"10029450"}
{"by":"tootie","time":"1422036920","timestamp":"2015-01-23 18:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s possible the incoming arrow was blunt.","parent":"8936280","id":"8936302"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1461748300","timestamp":"2016-04-27 09:11:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Qt specifically has very good accessibility support, no?","parent":"11577518","id":"11578822"}
{"by":"r00fus","time":"1351141947","timestamp":"2012-10-25 05:12:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How will these translate to actual sales?  If Microsoft ships a lot of OEM devices and the manufacturer's channels are stuffed but don't sell - it won't help them at all in the long run.\u003cp\u003eI wish that instead of shoving MetroUI in the user's face by not allowing you to launch directly into desktop shell, they would have done something like Apple's Camera lockscreen slider - it teases you and is there at the bottom, but if you want you can ignore it completely.","parent":"4696407","id":"4696464"}
{"by":"bduerst","time":"1413305231","timestamp":"2014-10-14 16:47:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anecdotal fallacy.\u003cp\u003eIf a racist were to come on here and make hyperbolic generalizations about a group of people without data, they would also get called out on their bias.  The fact that you are trying to worm your way into supporting it with hypotheticals shows that you are also ignorantly discriminatory.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026quot;This kind of seething diatribe is what\u0026#x27;s wrong with HN.\u0026quot;","parent":"8453132","id":"8454308"}
{"by":"monadgonad","time":"1544958565","timestamp":"2018-12-16 11:09:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Meditation can be tough to learn\u003cp\u003eAnd these apps are a way of learning far cheaper than hiring a coach irl.","parent":"18692437","id":"18692608"}
{"by":"kuschku","time":"1485874849","timestamp":"2017-01-31 15:00:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The divs are sprinkled just to say \u0026quot;this is a block, it can be moved or arranged however wished\u0026quot;, and styling within the block is done separately.\u003cp\u003eIt’s not intended to do anything more or less.","parent":"13529811","id":"13531036"}
{"by":"scottrblock","time":"1465062544","timestamp":"2016-06-04 17:49:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very much so. Especially if it pulled in other tangental data such as weather at the time and location of the game.","parent":"11836517","id":"11837173"}
{"by":"mooreds","time":"1497411695","timestamp":"2017-06-14 03:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right.  The first thing he says is \u0026quot;we are definitely causing drastic changes in the environment, just not a mass extinction\u0026quot;. Then there\u0026#x27;s the quote about buying a case of scotch if we \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e in a mass extinction.","parent":"14544899","id":"14550522"}
{"by":"iamcurious","time":"1434852642","timestamp":"2015-06-21 02:10:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. I would read it.","parent":"9751816","id":"9751841"}
{"by":"_archon_","time":"1497275847","timestamp":"2017-06-12 13:57:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Once electrics reach double-digit market share, they are probably unsustainable. They will probably need to find a replacement for petrol tax too.\u003cp\u003eI agree. What form would such a tax take? You could tax tires, which is stupid because it encourages people to buy less safe long-life tires, or you could roll it into property tax, or a VAT, or grocery tax, etc. Even a part of a sales tax could make sense, since logistics for the supplier is included in the cost of the product anyway. Logistical infrastructure tax makes sense.\u003cp\u003eWhat is best practice here?","parent":"14536376","id":"14537393"}
{"by":"fedd","time":"1298790521","timestamp":"2011-02-27 07:08:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2. that's the difference. i know a company that was screened off from both angel list (almost a year ago when it was not that hot) and open angel forum, but it is definitely good and fundable.\u003cp\u003eso looks like only people who take decisions by themselves, not relying on an opinion of a crowd, would win that deal ;)","parent":"2266707","id":"2267448"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1455609377","timestamp":"2016-02-16 07:56:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I will wait for IIS integration before using let\u0026#x27;s encrypt. Everything I have seen so far doesn\u0026#x27;t suggest simplicity.","parent":"11107919","id":"11108463"}
{"by":"GrumpyNl","time":"1505740277","timestamp":"2017-09-18 13:11:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No problem here.","parent":"15275492","id":"15275511"}
{"by":"aytekin","time":"1322049154","timestamp":"2011-11-23 11:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you Hacker News for the feedback and the audience. This is such a great community. I hope you will like these. :)","parent":"3269721","id":"3269731"}
{"by":"mgraczyk","time":"1511467526","timestamp":"2017-11-23 20:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author seems to equivocate between two different options for evaluating claims. First he says that flasification doesn\u0026#x27;t matter and that \u0026quot;usefulness\u0026quot; is what is really important. Then a few sentences later he switches to claiming that \u0026quot;simplicity of initial conditions\u0026quot; is what actually makes the 10k year theory less useful. That seems confused.\u003cp\u003eUsefulness is not a sound way to ground your epistemology. The creationist can rightly claim that their 10k year theory is useful in explaining fossils because the complexity of initial conditions is \u0026quot;evidence of the greatness of God\u0026quot;. Since the creationist wants to believe, the theory is useful.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think the author really believes anything different than Popper. I think Popper would say that the 10k theory is worse because it is much harder to falsify in principle. That is, there are fewer hypothetical experiments that could falsify it. The author seems like he would agree with that explanation.","parent":"15766799","id":"15767479"}
{"by":"chickenfries","time":"1512672773","timestamp":"2017-12-07 18:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nah, you\u0026#x27;re thinking about it the wrong way. Government regulation is pointless overhead! \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;s\u0026gt;","parent":"15872601","id":"15872856"}
{"by":"sjg007","time":"1504874809","timestamp":"2017-09-08 12:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I mean EBT cards (aka food stamps) already pioneered this.","parent":"15199465","id":"15199738"}
{"by":"latch","time":"1323332157","timestamp":"2011-12-08 08:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   If it was worth building, he would hire someone to do it for him\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nManaging people isn't only expensive, it's something a lot of people don't want to do.","parent":"3328212","id":"3328245"}
{"by":"mattgmg","time":"1511934044","timestamp":"2017-11-29 05:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s totally true about the cost, good call. However, I can at least address the \u0026quot;rarely get anything you want\u0026quot; problem if I figure out some very specific ideas to request by asking here ;)","parent":"15804828","id":"15804849"}
{"by":"iamdave","time":"1292256812","timestamp":"2010-12-13 16:13:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's nothing wrong with OpenID in my opinion, I use it 9:10 times logging into this very website through ClickPass.   The thing that doomed the project, from what I've been reading (and I've done a lot of reading because I thought it was a great idea) was the lack of documentation.\u003cp\u003eBoth technical documentation and soft documentation ranging from how end users should interact with it, and what the best practices are.  This seems to be an Achilles heel of a lot of projects like this in various patterns regarding informing users how to use it, versus how developers can develop for it.","parent":"2000780","id":"2000877"}
{"by":"betterunix","time":"1394407930","timestamp":"2014-03-09 23:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Repeated addition is just one multiplication algorithm.  I think a much better way to think of multiplication is as an operation on numbers that is related to addition by the distributive law.  That law gives the \u0026quot;multiplication is repeated addition\u0026quot; algorithm, as well as the \u0026quot;shift and add\u0026quot; algorithm that most people learn in grade school.  Of course, there are more efficient multiplication algorithms than either of those, which is why it is better to think of multiplication independently from addition.\u003cp\u003eI would also point out that the repeated addition algorithm makes a lot of sense in base 1, but that shift and add makes far more sense in base 2 or higher.\u003cp\u003eAs for integration, I would say it is better to think of it as a limit involving both addition and multiplication.","parent":"7370392","id":"7370480"}
{"by":"kiliantics","time":"1522942257","timestamp":"2018-04-05 15:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Humans self organize into hierarchical system\u003cp\u003eI never asked for this system, let alone actively tried to organise it","parent":"16764459","id":"16765796"}
{"by":"asciilifeform","time":"1345074556","timestamp":"2012-08-15 23:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; I am not inclined to gloat about the death of the content industry until there's a viable replacement business model.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome things simply have to die, and the earth where they stood salted thoroughly, before any kind of viable replacement is even thinkable.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; the creators cannot recoup their costs, and this content simply won't be made.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuess what, \"content\" was made for thousands of years before anyone had any notion of copyright. Creative people will continue to create.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026#62; you cannot block a river, sunlight, a view, a storm drain, etc. even though they're on your property.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"content industry\" as we know it is quite like the air merchant described in PG's essay (\u003ca href=\"http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.paulgraham.com/property.html\u003c/a\u003e). DRM is quite like someone blocking off the sun and then forcing you to buy back the light. Bits are copyable at zero cost; the \"air merchants\" should be forced to simply suck it up, instead of being allowed to tie everyone's hands in a vain attempt to make water stop being wet.","parent":"4388869","id":"4389064"}
{"by":"bmj","time":"1333580140","timestamp":"2012-04-04 22:55:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also allows you to look up the definition of a highlighted word.","parent":"3798197","id":"3800309"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1535556814","timestamp":"2018-08-29 15:33:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah! Try going against the \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c/i\u003e sacred cows and watch what happens. :) I guarantee you I could easily shed 100 karma here in an hour, with civil language and politely advocating one of those forbidden opinions.","parent":"17868135","id":"17869011"}
{"by":"rorrr2","time":"1379973468","timestamp":"2013-09-23 21:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least computational physics and chemistry has practical applications.\u003cp\u003eHistory - not so much.\u003cp\u003eOur society doesn\u0026#x27;t need so many history graduates. History should be a hobby, not something a million kids each year dedicate their life to.","parent":"6434296","id":"6434443"}
{"by":"sscalia","time":"1399304826","timestamp":"2014-05-05 15:47:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Negative. We\u0026#x27;ll never see a Google self driving car commercially.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a science experiment.","parent":"7698281","id":"7699211"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1340996390","timestamp":"2012-06-29 18:59:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Desktop Linux is the reason people don't use Linux on the desktop. I'm sorry but it's truly awful and probably won't ever get better. In the absence of product direction you have us geeks making everything configurable\u003cp\u003eHave you tried Unity or G-S lately? I'm not as willing to argue G-S has as clear a direction as Unity, but they both ship with a very limited amount of configurability and they're both insanely easy to start using even without background knowledge.","parent":"4178029","id":"4178414"}
{"by":"PythonicAlpha","time":"1393534891","timestamp":"2014-02-27 21:01:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand your arguments fully, but I think you just follow a black and white path. And that does not help in the real world.","parent":"7314980","id":"7315028"}
{"by":"colllectorof","time":"1459292169","timestamp":"2016-03-29 22:56:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a big deal because it makes better decisions than human in decision space that cannot be brute forced to get all solutions.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCannot be brute-forced? Uh, you mean like with Monte Carlo Tree Search? Which AlphaGo actually uses?","parent":"11384212","id":"11385648"}
{"by":"hueving","time":"1455019159","timestamp":"2016-02-09 11:59:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;They are asking, please stop using our content without giving something back.\u003cp\u003eThey are asking to violate your privacy by feeding your personal information to an ad network. If they were clear about the exchange they expected (personal info for articles), then people wouldn\u0026#x27;t be so harsh on them. It\u0026#x27;s pretending that their proposition is just seeing a little ad that\u0026#x27;s misleading to the point of being immoral.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;It\u0026#x27;s the self righteous behaviour about it that\u0026#x27;s immoral\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t call people being upset that wired has made this anti-privacy decision to force people into an all or nothing subscription  self-righteous because it\u0026#x27;s not unfounded. This is a big middle finger to anyone who cares about privacy.","parent":"11063595","id":"11064702"}
{"by":"mindslight","time":"1471732844","timestamp":"2016-08-20 22:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, the patents on blinded signatures have come \u003ci\u003eand gone\u003c/i\u003e. E-cash based on blinded signatures has the critical property of \u003ci\u003euntraceability\u003c/i\u003e that Bitcoin lacks. However, the system must be run by a real-world institution (\u0026quot;bank\u0026quot;).\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s quite clear that the existing power structure \u0026quot;wants\u0026quot; to hinder anonymity, whether deliberately for more control via Orwellian crimes like \u0026quot;money laundering\u0026quot;, or just emergently where no party wants to get stuck holding the bag in our defective soft-money banking system.\u003cp\u003eCash is basically what we\u0026#x27;ve got in the medium term. I\u0026#x27;ve personally gone back to using cash for groceries and other various sundry purchases, because pushing back against the government+corporate surveillance panopticon is the \u003ci\u003eright\u003c/i\u003e thing to do. This idea of anonymous e-payments is completely hypothetical until eg a proper replacement for Bitcoin arises that has untracability and can \u003ci\u003ewithstand\u003c/i\u003e nation-state attacks.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m under no illusions about its anonymity though - every note has a serial number right on it. It would be prudent to assume that banks record the serials of bills that are withdrawn and deposited. I don\u0026#x27;t actually think this is happening at the consumer level just yet, but I\u0026#x27;m sure the diktat has been drawn up and is just waiting for the right 24 hour tragedy.","parent":"12327019","id":"12328574"}
{"by":"mathattack","time":"1466948279","timestamp":"2016-06-26 13:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is what economists do. The problem is non-linear relationships and large error margins in variables make it hard to predict.  Think the Butterfly Effect on steroids.","parent":"11980519","id":"11980710"}
{"by":"knarf","time":"1211435903","timestamp":"2008-05-22 05:58:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I once read \"PHP takes 'Worse is better' to a new level.\" That about sums it up for me.","parent":"195914","id":"196944"}
{"by":"squirrel","time":"1370633943","timestamp":"2013-06-07 19:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"418 (I\u0026#x27;m a teapot) is another.","parent":"5841071","id":"5841148"}
{"by":"plg","time":"1393081428","timestamp":"2014-02-22 15:03:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;If you\u0026#x27;re on OS X Mavericks or on iOS 7 and haven\u0026#x27;t patched\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ehow do I patch on OS X Mavericks? Software update shows nothing to update","parent":"7282143","id":"7282217"}
{"by":"rubiquity","time":"1391799527","timestamp":"2014-02-07 18:58:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow just yesterday I was visualizing and dreaming about what a containerized CI system might look like after realizing:\u003cp\u003e1) I don\u0026#x27;t want to pay for hosted CI\u003cp\u003e2) Setting up your own CI is a pain in the butt currently\u003cp\u003eWell done. I\u0026#x27;m gonna have a look through this!","parent":"7197669","id":"7198018"}
{"by":"mdorazio","time":"1460670567","timestamp":"2016-04-14 21:49:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is pretty impressive overall.  I tested it for a few side project names and would say that with a bit of tweaking and about 5 minutes work of scrolling and liking, it\u0026#x27;s maybe 75% as good as the stuff you get on fiverr (aka not great), but for free.  Definitely nowhere near what a professional designer would put out, but this is 100% automated.\u003cp\u003eI think a big improvement would be the ability to tell it which aspect of a logo you like, rather than liking the entire thing (or not).  For example, if you like the font of one and the emblem of another, it takes a long time to get a combined variant that includes both.","parent":"11500494","id":"11500598"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1390144484","timestamp":"2014-01-19 15:14:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other developers put customer requirements and getting software delivered above tooling religion.","parent":"7084065","id":"7084609"}
{"by":"omegant","time":"1356646774","timestamp":"2012-12-27 22:19:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes you have to ask for professional ID.","parent":"4974491","id":"4975348"}
{"by":"jellicle","time":"1396880936","timestamp":"2014-04-07 14:28:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TL;DR: Stucchio thinks that front-running people is fine in circumstances where it\u0026#x27;s not prohibited by law.  It\u0026#x27;s legal, therefore morally right, is his argument.\u003cp\u003eOther people (including very many securities regulators) think that the problem here is that the law is missing a prohibition.","parent":"7546351","id":"7546649"}
{"by":"hmm_really","time":"1512684511","timestamp":"2017-12-07 22:08:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is also a significant cases of:\u003cp\u003e1. The false disintermediation; when really they want to put themselves as the intermediary\u003cp\u003e2. This is so much better than what exists, we just need everyone to adopt it at once, in order to get the network effect that makes adopting it in the first place worthwhile.\u003cp\u003e3. We just need to solve this one problem to unlock the potential (insert HARD economic problem, that world has been failing to solve for last 30 years).\u003cp\u003e4. Just being bunch of nonsense, but who cares, with so much blind speculation we might come our rich as long as we scarper before the bubble bursts.\u003cp\u003e5. We just need these 3 miracles for success\u003cp\u003e6. Our solution is basically just the same as what exists, however we are really excited because we will implement it with blockchain!\u003cp\u003eSounds like I hate the tech, I don\u0026#x27;t, just hate the bullshiters.","parent":"15872081","id":"15874824"}
{"by":"baq","time":"1505591607","timestamp":"2017-09-16 19:53:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"side note: check out mypy for a powerful type system in Python; i\u0026#x27;m a happy user in a largeish project for a year or so and it really works.","parent":"15266257","id":"15266401"}
{"by":"deveac","time":"1397148546","timestamp":"2014-04-10 16:49:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed. As a cloud service provider, they seem to have forgotten or not cared about the fact that they aren\u0026#x27;t just selling space, they are selling trust.","parent":"7567498","id":"7567755"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1445209203","timestamp":"2015-10-18 23:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The struggle to recoup the investment in comparatively minor innovations in the 787 is a pretty good indication of why 2 hour commercial flights to Sydney are likely to remain a pipe dream.","parent":"10410064","id":"10410222"}
{"by":"antoncohen","time":"1461677328","timestamp":"2016-04-26 13:28:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This feature is implemented at a low level, and works on the command line.\u003cp\u003eFor example if you have a directory that is all stored in the cloud you can `cd` to it without any network delay, you can do `ls -lh` and see a list with real sizes without a delay (e.g., see that an ISO is 650 MB), and you can do `du -sh` and see that all the files are taking up zero space.\u003cp\u003eIf you open a file in that directory, it will open, even from command line, then do `du -sh` and see that that file is now taking up space, while all the others in the directory are not.\u003cp\u003eYou can right-click to pin files and directories to be stored locally, and right-click to send them back to the cloud so they don\u0026#x27;t take up space.\u003cp\u003eThis is actually very different than traditional network file systems like SMB, NFS, WebDAV, and SSHFS. With a normal network file system over the WAN you would have major latency problems trying to `cd` and `ls` the remote file system. Most of them also don\u0026#x27;t have any ability to cache files locally when offline, or the ability to manually select which files are stored locally and which are remote. AFS does have some similar capabilities.","parent":"11570888","id":"11571640"}
{"by":"AndrewDMcG","time":"1434443880","timestamp":"2015-06-16 08:38:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the comments on the debian bug, this appears to have been fixed in Chromium. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;code.google.com\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;chromium\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;detail?id=491435\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;code.google.com\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;chromium\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;detail?id=491435\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9724409","id":"9724451"}
{"by":"sillysaurus","time":"1364566149","timestamp":"2013-03-29 14:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This editor is incredible.  How did you make it?  Can I see the un-minified source code somewhere?  I want to learn how to make this.","parent":"5460623","id":"5460780"}
{"by":"microcolonel","time":"1509120136","timestamp":"2017-10-27 16:02:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s interesting to see how quickly people will downplay and deny the actions of the Guardia Incivil.\u003cp\u003eIf the referendum is illegitimate, why suppress it? ;- )","parent":"15568838","id":"15569668"}
{"by":"ForrestN","time":"1330102480","timestamp":"2012-02-24 16:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I read the part where they say \"Check out our sweet desks. Jealous??\"\u003cp\u003eI re-read the post and can't find anything qualifying as arrogant or exaggerating. I'm not a 37Signals expert, and I'm sure there are examples elsewhere, but certainly with regards to this post you're off base.","parent":"3629643","id":"3629826"}
{"by":"seangrogg","time":"1517809275","timestamp":"2018-02-05 05:41:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s something sublimely humorous about the fact that ex-employees from the world\u0026#x27;s largest ad distributors are working to start an ad campaign.","parent":"16304179","id":"16306854"}
{"by":"alextp","time":"1279655432","timestamp":"2010-07-20 19:50:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you describe is the h-index ( \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index\u003c/a\u003e ). It is one of the fairest ways of measuring merit, but for most social sites it has the problem of being too fair.\u003cp\u003eIf you're maintaining a site like stackoverflow or reddit, you want lots of comments, and it is better to reward lots of marginally interesting comments than a few really insightful ones (since a lot of marginally interesting comments will make people come all the time to check for more and find new things to entertain themselves, keeping them at the site looking at ads, etc).\u003cp\u003eMaybe HN could display the h index of a user instead of his/her karma.","parent":"1533190","id":"1533246"}
{"by":"nns","time":"1376247132","timestamp":"2013-08-11 18:52:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone living and working in London, I pass more than a couple of these \u0026#x27;bins\u0026#x27; every single day.\u003cp\u003eThese bins are quite strategically placed (1) in the heart of the square mile - the prime financial district and tourist hub of London city (2) especially around bus stops and city squares in this area - which have some form or other of free city wide wifi networks  - where one would be waiting for enough time (consuming lunch, waiting for bus, meeting a friend, shopping...) to be an ideal consumer for targeted advertisement.\u003cp\u003eThey also have an extremely amusing design which makes them look slick  - but extremely unlike waste bins - infact you have to look at them closely to find where you need to dispose off your waste. This was one thing that amused me extremely when I first saw them - the strange inconspicuous design - but things make much more sense in the light of this article.\u003cp\u003eAs someone who\u0026#x27;s targeted more than once a day by these things, I see this as a breach of privacy and expect to be informed that data about me is being collected and stored and maybe used for commercial purposes in the future (irrespective of the ICO technicalities and loop holes).\u003cp\u003eAs a human, its a fundamental breach of trust and I would personally not see these things with the same inconspicuousness they have been designed with to deceptively integrate and blend into our daily environment.","parent":"6194832","id":"6195781"}
{"by":"kirse","time":"1484803592","timestamp":"2017-01-19 05:26:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I started to read TFaS awhile back and quickly got bored of it, because the conclusion was very obvious and needed no more explanation beyond the $1.10 example provided early on.\u003cp\u003eIt became quite obvious that it\u0026#x27;s hopelessly impossible to eliminate the myriad of nearly infinite biases we all have - something that has been separately established by my own beliefs anyway (Jeremiah 17:9).  Not to mention there\u0026#x27;s a far easier way to limit bias in decision making: Ask a few others for feedback (Proverbs 15:22).\u003cp\u003eWhat I find funny is that there is supposedly a \u0026quot;comprehensive\u0026quot; list of \u0026quot;20 Cognitive Biases\u0026quot;, as if that somehow covers 90% of one\u0026#x27;s regular biases in decision making.  Everyone is biased in tens of thousands of particular ways simply based on the seemingly infinite different combinations of limited life experiences we have -- and many of those biases are unconscious, unintended, and so subtle that they simply evade detection unless there was another to point them out.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s why I think it\u0026#x27;s better to live with bias, which is to say that I ask myself if I\u0026#x27;m making a decision that is biased toward love, grace, and kindness.  Use your precious \u0026quot;system 2\u0026quot; energy to bias yourself toward those things.  It\u0026#x27;s the same as recognizing counterfeit currency - a man doesn\u0026#x27;t study the infinite possible counterfeits, he studies every detail of the authentic bill.  And through that training to bias himself toward what is genuine, he gains the ability to immediately recognize the counterfeits.","parent":"13428622","id":"13433263"}
{"by":"acqq","time":"1359479990","timestamp":"2013-01-29 17:19:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's no \"some state in the FPU\" every partial result is repesented in 64 bits if you use doubles or in 32 bits if you use floats. Nothing is hidden \"somewhere.\" It's especially nothing to \"never know,\" every step can be followed exactly as long as you step through the assembly code or simply imagine that every partial result must also be represented as the FP number as specified not as you'd wish it to be. And don't think in decimal while you do the steps.","parent":"5134956","id":"5135091"}
{"by":"gesman","time":"1371579333","timestamp":"2013-06-18 18:15:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All platforms are like hookers - they are generally offering some in-demand service, you might get a nasty bug, you get what you paid for (or not paid for) and they are not obligated to please you.\u003cp\u003eSo use platform for what it\u0026#x27;s good for, but do not rely your business on it.\u003cp\u003eGleb","parent":"5900120","id":"5900987"}
{"by":"weberc2","time":"1518284282","timestamp":"2018-02-10 17:38:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also the minor ethical quandary of incarcerating 3.5 billion innocent people. :)","parent":"16348209","id":"16348390"}
{"by":"ckinnan","time":"1215965005","timestamp":"2008-07-13 16:03:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We already have the Constitutional amendment.\u003cp\u003e\"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\"\u003cp\u003eThe challenge is protecting it.","parent":"245104","id":"245172"}
{"by":"have_faith","time":"1491036006","timestamp":"2017-04-01 08:40:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s currently Saturday, if someone says \u0026quot;last Sunday\u0026quot;, I assume they mean the previous Sunday that recently passed. If someone says \u0026quot;last Friday\u0026quot;, I assume they mean the one a week and a day ago. This seems like a common interpretation in the UK.","parent":"14011039","id":"14011211"}
{"by":"MCRed","time":"1432100036","timestamp":"2015-05-20 05:33:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I criticized TED years ago on Twitter, and someone responded to me (who had gone) about how life changing it was and how she was motivated and now was going to really make a difference the world. I challenged her on this and said \u0026quot;honestly, what are the odds that you\u0026#x27;re going to do anything?\u0026quot;  She was certain that TED was significant and she was empowered and she was going to make a difference.\u003cp\u003eNow, I use Twitter so rarely (in part because of that kind of exchange-- I wasn\u0026#x27;t rude to her at all, I was just trying to make my case) -- that going back it was easy to see years later if she\u0026#x27;d actually done anything.  I checked, googled her name, nothing.\u003cp\u003eTED made her feel a certain way.  Important for sure. She was very full of herself and she felt that TED was a place of rate \u0026quot;doers\u0026quot; who \u0026quot;will make a dent on the universe\u0026quot; (this was before TEDx, before TED videos when you had to pay boucoup bucks and be part of the special group of invitees in order to go, IIRC)....\u003cp\u003eShe paid 5 figures to TED for a weekend seminar, at the end of which her self esteem was boosted (don\u0026#x27;t think it needed it) into the range of smugness and she felt it was important.\u003cp\u003eI disagree. I think it was an ego stroker and she accomplished nothing (and based on what she said I can conclude this from google searches because she didn\u0026#x27;t do any of the things she said she would do.)\u003cp\u003eI didn\u0026#x27;t write back to her to point this out... but this was my little ad hoc experiment.\u003cp\u003eI remember when I first heard of an acquaintance who got invited to TED and how supremely smug he was when he got back, and how he\u0026#x27;d share little stories of rubbing elbows with celebrities and references to events.... I\u0026#x27;ve never been a fan of exclusivity and so that sorta made me jealous and not really like it.   But over the years it became more and more irritating.\u003cp\u003eTED is propaganda. Propaganda of high form.\u003cp\u003eI think americans are so saturated in propaganda that like a fish who can\u0026#x27;t recognize water as a thing, Americans don\u0026#x27;t realize how much of their beliefs and perspectives are shaped by propaganda.  When they see propaganda that disagrees with the propaganda they\u0026#x27;ve internalized they react really negatively, and not in a critical thinking here\u0026#x27;s how it\u0026#x27;s wrong from a logical basis-- but from a tribal get-rid-of-the-alien perspective.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s important to stay out of dogma.  Something that makes you feel good about yourself and important should be considered critically.  IT might be healthy, and it might not be.\u003cp\u003eI think TED is unhealthy and actually corrosive and anti-intellectual.","parent":"9574211","id":"9574820"}
{"by":"ejp","time":"1426476948","timestamp":"2015-03-16 03:35:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My thoughts exactly. The larger target market here is authors in general, with tech-savvy git users who also happen to write books as a much smaller subset.\u003cp\u003eIt might behoove you to hide git in the background, as I suspect they do here: \u003ca href=\"https://draftin.com/about\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;draftin.com\u0026#x2F;about\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9209646","id":"9209674"}
{"by":"Veedrac","time":"1465766552","timestamp":"2016-06-12 21:22:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Maybe the original asker and I should have done ctrl + f for r% — but that didn’t occur to me, so I assume it didn’t occur to them either.\u003cp\u003eGreat, so you\u0026#x27;ve learnt something for next time.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Beginners need guidance. They’re dumb and they flail around and they get stuck on “easy” problems. That’s why resources like Learn Python the Hard Way and Stack Overflow exist in the first place.\u003cp\u003eSorry, but no. \u0026quot;Stack Overflow is for professional and enthusiast programmers, people who write code because they love it.\u0026quot; Stack Overflow\u0026#x27;s biggest problem is that frequent contributors are getting fed up with the torrent of newbie questions from people who haven\u0026#x27;t programmed for a month.\u003cp\u003eImagine joining Math Overflow because you\u0026#x27;re an enthusiast mathematician... only 19 of every 20 questions are about how to multiply two digit numbers. Imagine joining a DIY group after years of practice only to find that you spend most of your time building cubes out of playdough and sticks. Have you tried reading the new queue on Stack Overflow? What does this[1] even mean? (I\u0026#x27;m actually kind\u0026#x27;a shocked about how good it\u0026#x27;s looking right now; only about half of the questions are utterly irredeemable.)\u003cp\u003ePeople from the outside don\u0026#x27;t see this. There are filters in place and people who care to make them work. So all you see is the hostility and none of the reason. But please believe me when I say that it\u0026#x27;s not just us being cronies. We really do care about the site, and we just don\u0026#x27;t want to lose it.\u003cp\u003e[1]: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;37779153\u0026#x2F;how-to-enable-disable-tridion-cme-ribbon-based-on-any-metadata-field-value-chang\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;stackoverflow.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;37779153\u0026#x2F;how-to-enable-di...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11890140","id":"11890311"}
{"by":"jamornh","time":"1385677499","timestamp":"2013-11-28 22:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amazing, can\u0026#x27;t stop laughing!\u003cp\u003e- Ubuntu ported to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick\u003cp\u003e- Why the cheapest maple syrup is the new compose in Gmail\u003cp\u003e- Oxford announces new degree in Computer Security, Dies at 78\u003cp\u003e- Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each cashier\u003cp\u003e- Hacking the iPod: How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of bed for less than an hour","parent":"6815282","id":"6816789"}
{"by":"phreeza","time":"1398592598","timestamp":"2014-04-27 09:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe that is what inflation means.","parent":"7653941","id":"7654534"}
{"by":"pcunite","time":"1449118677","timestamp":"2015-12-03 04:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to use I\u0026#x2F;O completion ports and related API calls, talk to Len Holgate.","parent":"10659729","id":"10667840"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1405356337","timestamp":"2014-07-14 16:45:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The math and reading requirements are hardly unreachable. If history teachers are trying to teach history to students who can hardly read, they\u0026#x27;re not going to get very far. They should push back against the language arts teachers to do their jobs.","parent":"8030841","id":"8031781"}
{"by":"brg","time":"1374380015","timestamp":"2013-07-21 04:13:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks to me that likely candidates are population size and age of the country.\u003cp\u003eHaving only 35 million people spread across one of the largest countries in the world makes it difficult to spawn consumer and retail conglomerates.  Nintendo and Sony excelled in part because Japan was a perfect playground for testing personal technologies.  Walmart had 300 million customers, 90% of which live in extremely developed locations, which allowed for retail stores to spread quickly and profitably across the states.\u003cp\u003eFurther, having a history of less than 50 years means that less sustained activity has likely been driven from within Canada as opposed to from overseas.  Given the choice of where to locate, a tycoon from Toronto had the choice of working out of London.","parent":"6077255","id":"6077748"}
{"by":"throwaway2016a","time":"1475759883","timestamp":"2016-10-06 13:18:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good question. Quite a few... those are very niche products. In fact if I think long on it I am not including the front-end in that 100%. If you want a front-end you\u0026#x27;d need a tiny bit of S3 or a server.\u003cp\u003eLambda is good for stateless APIs and event processing but is not good for anything that requires persistence.\u003cp\u003eSES is an email product so it\u0026#x27;s usage is niche but it is surprisingly powerful. Example: firing a lambda function when an email bounces or is received.\u003cp\u003eI didn\u0026#x27;t list a database in there. I\u0026#x27;m assuming Trello can be used like a database (and looking at their API it seems it can in this case).\u003cp\u003eSo to answer your question:\u003cp\u003e- Any app that requires state\u003cp\u003e- Any app that requires persistent connections\u003cp\u003e- Any app where a unit of work can take more than 6 seconds\u003cp\u003e- Any front-ends [1]\u003cp\u003e- Apps where local cache is needed to provide any sort of reasonable performance\u003cp\u003e- Apps that need a database\u003cp\u003eCannot be made with just those three tools.\u003cp\u003e[1] It is possible to make a front-end with API gateway and Lambda. API gateway can return different mime types, including HTML. But it would be a huge hack and also not likely cost effective. A static site generated and hosted on S3 with Cloud Front in-front of it is very cost effective but requires the client use javascript. If noscript is a requirement you\u0026#x27;re stuck with a server.","parent":"12648313","id":"12652166"}
{"by":"theprotocol","time":"1469858504","timestamp":"2016-07-30 06:01:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;2.1 has async\u0026#x2F;await compiled down to ES3\u0026#x2F;ES5, which I will be very happy to see\u003cp\u003eThe complete lack of visibility for such things is what prevented me from adopting TypeScript. I couldn\u0026#x27;t get a clear answer which platforms supported async\u0026#x2F;await (there was a huge conversation on github which heavily implied, but never outright stated, that there was an ES5 target; yet the docs said it was ES6 only). A lot of the features have unspecified targets.\u003cp\u003eI wish their documentation were better.","parent":"12191799","id":"12191835"}
{"by":"cstejerean","time":"1388437958","timestamp":"2013-12-30 21:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think both of those are a great example of the fact that X-Ray + metal detectors provide sufficient protection in conjunction with alert passengers. Is the guy next to you trying to light his shoe or trying to set his pants on fire? Take him down.\u003cp\u003eMore importantly, security is provided by catching would be terrorists before they even get anywhere near the airport. Because otherwise they can do a lot more damage at a crowded security checkpoint than they could with whatever explosives they managed to mix in their underwear. This is a job for intelligence agencies, not for the TSA.","parent":"6986695","id":"6986987"}
{"by":"seldo","time":"1365552134","timestamp":"2013-04-10 00:02:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of those perennial problems: if you're spending engineering time making your \"we're down\" screen look good, you're really optimizing for the wrong thing, but on the other hand, some downtime is unavoidable and you don't want to look unprofessional.\u003cp\u003eAn HTTP 500 would definitely be more appropriate in this case, but it seems a 400 is accurate -- it's down because it has somehow forgotten where the apps are (their Twitter stream says a problem with load balancers).","parent":"5522296","id":"5522317"}
{"by":"danieltillett","time":"1460266388","timestamp":"2016-04-10 05:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am sure that some employers would still go through the whiteboard process, but once they were confident that the certification could be trusted they would stop.\u003cp\u003eI explain below who the customers, etc are - I could not fit it all in because of the HN posting limit.\u003cp\u003eHow often to be tested would be up to the employee. My guess is few people would retest, but would spend their time being tested on new skills.","parent":"11464834","id":"11465052"}
{"by":"glasz","time":"1497409717","timestamp":"2017-06-14 03:08:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"that comment is quite sexist.","parent":"14550306","id":"14550437"}
{"by":"ktm5j","time":"1529934760","timestamp":"2018-06-25 13:52:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  Since source is available, of course you should audit it, or at least glance over it before compiling.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nYou should realize that this is not feasible for everyone as most people are not developers..  and even in the subset of people who both how to write software and (in this case) know rust, how many are really qualified to audit a software project for malicious code or vulnerabilities?  I\u0026#x27;m a professional developer and I\u0026#x27;m certain someone could slip some obfuscated code in a project with several thousand lines of code and I\u0026#x27;d never know it.","parent":"17391811","id":"17392399"}
{"by":"Domenic_S","time":"1471363928","timestamp":"2016-08-16 16:12:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eMarketplace requirements are another problem. Authors have to keep original Bootstrap CSS and JS files and overwrite them in separate files. It generates unnecessary CSS and JS code.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reason for this is so when the new dot release of $BASE_FRAMEWORK comes out, you can drop it in. CoreUI looks cool, but:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eI wanted to keep CoreUI as lightweight as is possible, so I decided to remove all the unnecessary Bootstrap components.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wonder how updating Bootstrap releases is going to work? Clearly the author is going to update manually -- for a while. When he gets bored will the whole thing become unusable because of all the custom surgery?","parent":"12298202","id":"12298398"}
{"by":"expralitemonk","time":"1357495276","timestamp":"2013-01-06 18:01:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I watched the Al Jazeera \"Counting the Cost\" episode discussing alternative currencies. Very interesting. People with ideas discussing said ideas instead of taking potshots at each other.\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. media can take a lesson from Al Jazeera: really high quality productions with interesting graphics. It makes American news shows look like video games.","parent":"5000710","id":"5017011"}
{"by":"iman","time":"1261262066","timestamp":"2009-12-19 22:34:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is the previous discussion of this at hacker news:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328833\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328833\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1004617","id":"1005318"}
{"by":"jules","time":"1253630190","timestamp":"2009-09-22 14:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's probably more systems hacked together by solo programmers than there are written by communicative teams.","parent":"836958","id":"837034"}
{"by":"stuartjmoore","time":"1257280264","timestamp":"2009-11-03 20:31:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Twitter is an example that owes its success to its API; it depends what your business plan is.\u003cp\u003eAs more companies become Google-esque data hogs, APIs will probably be encouraged.","parent":"920164","id":"920208"}
{"by":"pessimizer","time":"1453154470","timestamp":"2016-01-18 22:01:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; And, yet, look who are in leadership roles even in those female dominated industries. Somehow, the majority of the wealthy fashion designers are white men. Somehow, the majority of principals in elementary education are white men. The executives that nurses answer to? Once again, predominantly white men.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Glass_escalator#Glass_escalator\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Glass_escalator#Glass_escalato...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10927110","id":"10927323"}
{"by":"DavidSJ","time":"1286498294","timestamp":"2010-10-08 00:38:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Compulsory schooling is the top of my list, as any society which values freedom must value the freedom of one's own mind above all.","parent":"1755748","id":"1770114"}
{"by":"gergles","time":"1297887592","timestamp":"2011-02-16 20:19:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://arabnews.com/world/article266832.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://arabnews.com/world/article266832.ece\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2226489","id":"2228082"}
{"by":"RachelF","time":"1416885717","timestamp":"2014-11-25 03:21:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those more interested in a full documentary on beating the magnetic sea mines:\n\u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/wKrweOqNxz0?t=1m49s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;wKrweOqNxz0?t=1m49s\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8652982","id":"8656126"}
{"by":"cookiecaper","time":"1267490463","timestamp":"2010-03-02 00:41:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a little project I made some time ago. Just revised some of it today, thought that some here may think it's cool.","parent":"1160289","id":"1160290"}
{"by":"FullyFunctional","time":"1406680588","timestamp":"2014-07-30 00:36:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess today _is_ another day.\u003cp\u003eThe fundamental issue is that, IMhO, security classification needs to be attached to the data at the lowest level -- OS level is simply to coarse.  Take for example an encrypted channel.  At the OS level the channel is treated opaquely whereas at the programming language level, after decryption the authenticated data can be assigned both a different level of secrecy and trust, and it can be data dependent.  Strong type systems can ensure that secret data is never accidentally leaked, nor untrusted data used in a trusted context.  (For a real-life simple subset of this, see tperl).\u003cp\u003eIt may be possible to build such a system on top of seL4, but seL4 isn\u0026#x27;t sufficient.\u003cp\u003eI do intend on working on this eventually.  Incidentally, D. J. Bernstein recently shared a similar complaint about the state of security - the models we use have practically not advanced since the 1950es.","parent":"8101616","id":"8105817"}
{"by":"chris_wot","time":"1397276874","timestamp":"2014-04-12 04:27:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t worry, I was saying the same thing when he was alive.","parent":"7572486","id":"7576969"}
{"by":"benackles","time":"1329487301","timestamp":"2012-02-17 14:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This story, along with much of the content produced by Forbes are in violation of Hacker News Guidelines [1].\u003cp\u003eWhile these are simply guiding principles, they are an important measure of what is permitted within the community.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e\n\"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.\"","parent":"3601354","id":"3603276"}
{"by":"RickS","time":"1479357743","timestamp":"2016-11-17 04:42:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My understanding is that there are also algos at work, for example posts that are very young but have many comments fall faster, as a way to negate flame wars.","parent":"12974172","id":"12974353"}
{"by":"Yizahi","time":"1544015661","timestamp":"2018-12-05 13:14:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars trilogy - half of the crew are russians, japanese etc. After colonisation even more diverse etnicities arrive.\u003cp\u003eJames Corey - The Expanse - main characters include Indian, Polynesian, whole premise of the book is \u0026quot;nationality\u0026quot; conflict. Belters especially.\u003cp\u003eJemisin - The Broken Earth trilogy - again, different looking people as main characters, racial conflicts and so on.\u003cp\u003eAnn Leckie - Ancillary series - ambiguous gender characters as main characters, racial conflicts etc.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d say that western sci-fi is rather progressive in character diversity.","parent":"18607351","id":"18607890"}
{"by":"lagbaja","time":"1432935122","timestamp":"2015-05-29 21:32:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I must say first and foremast a BIG thank you to you, for taking the time to respond to my post, most appreciated. To answer your question, i will like to think i do have a good resume :) and sending out about a dozen a week maybe. No I presently do not have projects.","parent":"9626564","id":"9627605"}
{"by":"jamoes","time":"1397599383","timestamp":"2014-04-15 22:03:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting product. It doesn\u0026#x27;t really look like this is meant to make any money for the developer yet (maybe the plan is to add fees to their mining pool at some point in the future?). I suspect the point is to drive policy so that companies and individuals don\u0026#x27;t trust transactions with zero confirmations, or at least start checking for double-spend attempts. The standard right now for many companies is to accept zero-confirmation transactions (e.g. bitpay does this). Because this is such a widespread practice, it\u0026#x27;s effectively a security vulnerability of the bitcoin network as a whole. If this site can change this standard, then maybe they\u0026#x27;ll make the bitcoin ecosystem more secure.\u003cp\u003eThis is an interesting phenomenon of the bitcoin ecosystem. If someone owns a lot of bitcoins, they\u0026#x27;re incentivized to make something like this even if it doesn\u0026#x27;t directly make them any money.\u003cp\u003eBy the way, the extended FAQ for the mining pool is still showing Lorem Ipsum text: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bitundo.com/pool/faq.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bitundo.com\u0026#x2F;pool\u0026#x2F;faq.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7594393","id":"7594603"}
{"by":"ethbro","time":"1520870819","timestamp":"2018-03-12 16:06:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, re-architecting the Google \u0026#x2F; OEM split benefits both (disclosure: I haven\u0026#x27;t followed exactly what they\u0026#x27;re aiming for with Fuchsia).\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf\u003c/i\u003e it becomes possible to update to new Android features and security patches without breaking OEM overware, then OEMs no longer have to dedicate teams to rewriting their crap codebases.\u003cp\u003eWhich means they can put all those developers on features instead.\u003cp\u003eWhich is what they\u0026#x27;ve always been interested in and (arguably) better at in the first place.","parent":"16568832","id":"16569056"}
{"by":"alexqgb","time":"1422913433","timestamp":"2015-02-02 21:43:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not that he\u0026#x27;s incorrect. It\u0026#x27;s that his observation is generalized to the point of being a useless distraction from this particular conversation. Had he indicated how the \u003ci\u003epotentially\u003c/i\u003e destructive power of taxation is actually being used destructively and deliberately in \u003ci\u003ethis particular case\u003c/i\u003e, he\u0026#x27;d have said something knowledgeable and interesting. But of course, that\u0026#x27;s not what happened.","parent":"8986462","id":"8987219"}
{"by":"o_____________o","time":"1438377875","timestamp":"2015-07-31 21:24:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it was a profit issue, there would be money to be made from treating a patient for the consultation and duration of the fast. Not everything is a Big Industry conspiracy.","parent":"9984583","id":"9984608"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1412133645","timestamp":"2014-10-01 03:20:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, in all countries with popular train networks, the profitability\u0026#x2F;cost index is totally opaque. It\u0026#x27;s fairly obvious that it can\u0026#x27;t be as profitable as having a fleet of planes. The sheer maintenance of high speed trains + their kilometers of tracks render them very costly per mile.","parent":"8392649","id":"8392654"}
{"by":"dsnuh","time":"1530811527","timestamp":"2018-07-05 17:25:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was my line of thinking.","parent":"17465005","id":"17465075"}
{"by":"badloginagain","time":"1500308846","timestamp":"2017-07-17 16:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why not both? It doesn\u0026#x27;t appear that the two strategies are mutually exclusive. Is it just that SegWitX2 is considered too rushed? Is it just that miners have a vested interest in maintaining influence?\u003cp\u003ePersonally it seems like smart contracts and other similar services beget an ecosystem that could swell the market cap by a significant amount, I assume miners would have a long term goal of doing just that.\u003cp\u003eAs a disclaimer, I own Bitcoin, but I\u0026#x27;m definitely a layman and I don\u0026#x27;t really have a horse in the race. What I\u0026#x27;m most concerned is what these changes are going to accomplish when looking back 10 years from now. I\u0026#x27;m in BTC for the long-term, and this whole thing stinks of petty bias and tribal power plays.","parent":"14788663","id":"14789989"}
{"by":"rockinghigh","time":"1520409991","timestamp":"2018-03-07 08:06:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Around $3000\u0026#x2F;month for a 1-bedroom.","parent":"16534589","id":"16534988"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1226323718","timestamp":"2008-11-10 13:28:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm, the video looks interesting, but it's quite boringly executed :-(\u003cp\u003eIs there a summary of the points in this talk somewhere?","parent":"359103","id":"359180"}
{"by":"derge808","time":"1301704296","timestamp":"2011-04-02 00:31:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for asking.  Rackspace.  Rackspace needs developers:  \u003ca href=\"http://rackertalent.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://rackertalent.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2396027","id":"2398711"}
{"by":"danmaz74","time":"1521802487","timestamp":"2018-03-23 10:54:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PLA bags aren\u0026#x27;t bad for the environment; they will decompose quickly. Having 1 euro for durable plastic ones looks more than enough to di discourage their use (even if it\u0026#x27;s not an actual ban).","parent":"16656404","id":"16656720"}
{"by":"res0nat0r","time":"1394989127","timestamp":"2014-03-16 16:58:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Betteridge\u0026#x27;s law of headlines applies to this article. I live in Indy where the (billionaire) Simon\u0026#x27;s live, who own Simon Property Group. Their stock is currently @ 161, up 100 points over 5 years ago. Their stock has just been upgraded: \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140312006497/en/Fitch-Upgrades-Simon-Property-Groups-IDR-Outlook#.UyXX1q1dWJU\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.businesswire.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;home\u0026#x2F;20140312006497\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;Fitc...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI used to live between two of their major malls for years. I could barely leave my apartment for 2 months before xmas due to traffic. They just spent millions remodeling their high end mall adding capacity and additional room for high end stores like Sacks and Restoration Hardware.\u003cp\u003eNon generic crap malls are fine. Junk stores that have generic brand cheapish clothes and the like (JCPenny) are being replaced by Amazon, but overall malls are doing fine.","parent":"7410056","id":"7410158"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1484857133","timestamp":"2017-01-19 20:18:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Autosteer can also change lanes, and would avoid crashes caused by missing a vehicle in a blind spot.  Seems particularly useful on a busy highway, with vehicles in adjacent lanes leaving far too little following distance between each other.","parent":"13439082","id":"13439139"}
{"by":"HeyLaughingBoy","time":"1290459525","timestamp":"2010-11-22 20:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice idea; how will it make money?","parent":"1930499","id":"1931260"}
{"by":"fifnir","time":"1542809374","timestamp":"2018-11-21 14:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s also safe to point out that the vast majority of people for the vast majority of topics don\u0026#x27;t know and don\u0026#x27;t care.     \nDon\u0026#x27;t tell me the people who go around cycling on tiny bikes with their heels on the pedal and their knees reaching their throat have found some kind of alternative definition of practicality...","parent":"18502726","id":"18502762"}
{"by":"floetic","time":"1363185250","timestamp":"2013-03-13 14:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you think they are biased towards Android/Chrome user agent strings for the lottery?","parent":"5368332","id":"5368629"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1235571896","timestamp":"2009-02-25 14:24:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Adobe is working on a promising product called Catalyst that aims to allow designers working on Illustrator/Photoshop templates to convert them into Adobe Flex UI screens (mxml). It is promising because from what I've seen so far the mxml isn't very developer friendly.\u003cp\u003eThe aim, of course, is for the \u003ci\u003edesigner\u003c/i\u003e to generate the exact look and feel for the wireframes and render them (using Catalyst) to MXML for the Adobe Flash/Flex developer to code in the behavior/functionality. Catalyst will require Flex Builder 4 (which will not be out until 2nd half of 2009).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFXG (the interchange format spec):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/FXG+1.0+Specification\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/FXG+1.0+Spe...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an aside, I work on a large project (at least 10 UI developers) that uses Flex. We don't even use the GUI builder.","parent":"494214","id":"494375"}
{"by":"derrida","time":"1301498185","timestamp":"2011-03-30 15:16:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, has ANYONE verified this independently yet?","parent":"2386990","id":"2387592"}
{"by":"nicolapcweek94","time":"1484226485","timestamp":"2017-01-12 13:08:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! Will definitely read this.\u003cp\u003eI got fooled by Signal\u0026#x27;s requirement of a phone for the activation and thought it was also required for normal usage, I guess that\u0026#x27;s better than Whatsapp, though being able to register and use it without a phone at all would be even better (even Telegram doesn\u0026#x27;t do this though, IIRC it requires a phone number)","parent":"13381786","id":"13381883"}
{"by":"hga","time":"1290100557","timestamp":"2010-11-18 17:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author uses \"\u003ci\u003ethe role of very low interest rates in stimulating economic growth in the software industry\u003c/i\u003e\" as an example, with a number of details that are relevant to us.","parent":"1918462","id":"1918471"}
{"by":"gvnonor","time":"1302870786","timestamp":"2011-04-15 12:33:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Being in the zone is more acute and recognizable when one plays an outdoor sport for a moderate period of time. I used to play tennis competitively and I could clearly tell when I was in the zone. It would be amazing, I would feel like I could take on anything my opponent would throw at me and without even breaking a sweat. I would expend very little effort but still end up playing the best tennis of my life.\u003cp\u003eIn programming, I doubt if it's as easily discernible. I've been programming for a few years and had a few productive stretches coding 8-10 hours at a time(with small breaks in between of course), but never felt like I was in the zone even once.","parent":"2450260","id":"2450303"}
{"by":"beaconstudios","time":"1516022013","timestamp":"2018-01-15 13:13:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I forgot to mention, the UK services pick up from your house.","parent":"16147937","id":"16150245"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1376144794","timestamp":"2013-08-10 14:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Downing street memorandum. We went to war, and invaded nations, based on knowing lies.","parent":"6190910","id":"6191173"}
{"by":"jgrahamc","time":"1278342648","timestamp":"2010-07-05 15:10:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great insight. Sounds like HAPO (help a producer out) might work. Clearly not just LA because there's also NYC.","parent":"1488297","id":"1488341"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1504995529","timestamp":"2017-09-09 22:18:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me I have a PSR-420 to \u0026quot;service\u0026quot;","parent":"15208083","id":"15209453"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1457476453","timestamp":"2016-03-08 22:34:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eNo ones forgetting about the Great Depression...\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who ever recommended or used consumer credit forgot everything important about it.","parent":"11247733","id":"11249350"}
{"by":"drumdance","time":"1353109525","timestamp":"2012-11-16 23:45:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not necessarily negative, but certainly suspect. He has financial a stake in the outcome of his criticism.\u003cp\u003eCompare this to someone knocking Apple for something about iOS with the explicit hope that they fix it to his liking.","parent":"4796398","id":"4796469"}
{"by":"kybernetyk","time":"1356261536","timestamp":"2012-12-23 11:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; but I just can't let anyone access my personal photos, my school work, my statements, etc.\u003cp\u003eThey shouldn't be on Dropbox in the first place. What you put on Dropbox is essentially public - be it for their admins or for law enforcement agencies who don't need a warrant to access your dropbox.","parent":"4959040","id":"4959216"}
{"by":"nathan_long","time":"1367249613","timestamp":"2013-04-29 15:33:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This. Oh my gosh, this.\u003cp\u003eThe idea that people in India are regularly dosing themselves with antibiotics just to get by is a terrifying prospect for disease outbreaks.","parent":"5626137","id":"5626811"}
{"by":"tagabek","time":"1358404911","timestamp":"2013-01-17 06:41:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you keep your desktops separate? It seems that any change made in one is automatically made in the others. I have found that you can limit an application to one desktop, but if that is true, then how do you use two separate Chrome tabs in two different desktops?","parent":"5069243","id":"5071419"}
{"by":"viandante","time":"1334598370","timestamp":"2012-04-16 17:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eGraphs is for business\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgree on this. Especially the shiny and good looking ones. For a technical crowd you can stick with a black line. For business the format is as important as the substance. Therefore, I can't see lots of applications for graphs libraries that don't support that piece of work that is IE.","parent":"3847325","id":"3848449"}
{"by":"sxcurry","time":"1435263680","timestamp":"2015-06-25 20:21:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out the movie Europa Report if you want an advance look at what lurks below the ice.","parent":"9778212","id":"9780670"}
{"by":"Intermernet","time":"1336569373","timestamp":"2012-05-09 13:16:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Joe was the good one.","parent":"3945963","dead":true,"id":"3948364"}
{"by":"zokier","time":"1412459015","timestamp":"2014-10-04 21:43:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting read even though based on the title I was hoping to find something about some non-posixy Linux distro.","parent":"8409940","id":"8410748"}
{"by":"Naushad","time":"1510242236","timestamp":"2017-11-09 15:43:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Familia 1996\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it\u0026#x27;s his birthday. They all sing \u0026quot;Happy Birthday to You\u0026quot; and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn\u0026#x27;t like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn\u0026#x27;t believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn\u0026#x27;t need glasses and who resembles him more.\u0026#x27;","parent":"15651510","id":"15663309"}
{"by":"rowilliams","time":"1378997407","timestamp":"2013-09-12 14:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are these unique to entrepreneurial success?","parent":"6374248","id":"6374401"}
{"by":"cicero","time":"1356032644","timestamp":"2012-12-20 19:44:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's called \"the rule of law\". It's a concept that came as a reaction against a ruler make decisions based on his own opinion of what is right and wrong.\u003cp\u003eYes, there is a place for a discussion of ethics outside of the current legal framework, and if the Constitution is found to be lacking in that area, then it should be amended. Until that happens, our government is legally bound to abide by the Constitution \u003ci\u003eas it is written\u003c/i\u003e, and to judge whether or not that is happening, the document must be interpreted. One important aspect to interpretation of a document is to understand the circumstances under which it was written. To do that with a 200+ year old document requires a little knowledge of history.\u003cp\u003eThe framers of the Constitution did not achieve perfection, but at least the idea of the \"rule of law\" does give us a relatively consistent and stable society in which to live. The disadvantage is that written law is static and cannot quickly adjust to changing circumstances. Ideally, we would have an enlightened leader who knew the right thing to do in every circumstance, and would govern with perfect justice. If we could be assured of that kind of government, we wouldn't need to worry about interpreting documents.","parent":"4949132","id":"4949529"}
{"by":"ryanx435","time":"1428101185","timestamp":"2015-04-03 22:46:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting that you perceive this as \u0026quot;gratuitous negativity\u0026quot; as that was not my intention. answers to your questions:\u003cp\u003e1) pointing out that you shouldn\u0026#x27;t always believe those in positions of power, especially when they are attempting to control the narrative. you may not know this, but dang works for HN and his job is literally to censor comments and articles to ensure they follow the guidelines.\u003cp\u003e2) by reminding everyone who reads it that they should think critically, not only about the words being said, but also the context in which they are said and who is saying the words.\u003cp\u003e3) there probably aren\u0026#x27;t many as it isnt meant to be responded to, so much as to be a reminder to consider who is speaking, and to take all things with a grain of salt. although your response certainly engendered me to reply. but just because it is difficult to respond doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it isn\u0026#x27;t a useful contribution.","parent":"9318820","id":"9319036"}
{"by":"onion2k","time":"1495095342","timestamp":"2017-05-18 08:15:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And as everyone benefits from a better educated society that\u0026#x27;s how it should be.","parent":"14365500","id":"14365620"}
{"by":"slygent","time":"1545643263","timestamp":"2018-12-24 09:21:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which phenomenon? Being the author of an article? ;)\u003cp\u003eIf you mean \u0026quot;why are names of companies being changed every couple of months?\u0026quot;, I really have no idea, especially given that some of these companies seem to be linked, so it\u0026#x27;s not like different groups of people are doing it. Perhaps.\u003cp\u003eIf you mean \u0026quot;why is the Hong Kong government making its Companies Registry less transparent over time?\u0026quot;, there are some landmines involving China and tycoons that I\u0026#x27;m not going to risk stepping on here, at least right now.","parent":"18751238","id":"18751248"}
{"by":"saddino","time":"1370369608","timestamp":"2013-06-04 18:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Love this. Would consider myself super lucky to have someone as founder-friendly as Sam as an investor.","parent":"5820785","id":"5821136"}
{"by":"mihai_ionic","time":"1375746683","timestamp":"2013-08-05 23:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That said, avoiding libraries (especially avoiding templates and just using void*-like stuff) does keep binaries\u0026#x2F;libs smaller, but I\u0026#x27;ll gladly make the computer work slightly harder considering that the result is the same speed (C++ is often faster than C, in practice).\u003cp\u003eThis should not be an issue with modern C++ compilers. If two template instantiations generate the same or similar code, they will be merged and useless code is removed by dead code elimination.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The downside I care about is compilation speed. Simple C projects compile\u0026#x2F;link faster than modern C++ ones, even though the code for the same functionality is far more brittle, unsafe, and opaque\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, a lot of potential for optimization is lost by barricading everything between translation units and\u0026#x2F;or behind opaque pointers.\nWhile yes, LTO is supposed to help there, all those memory accesses make it infinitely harder for the compiler to prove trivial properties about the data flow. See also this recent presentation by someone who has a lot more experience than me with writing compiler backends: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR34r7HOU14\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=eR34r7HOU14\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6163792","id":"6163972"}
{"by":"Chaebixi","time":"1491514781","timestamp":"2017-04-06 21:39:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn\u0026#x27;t the other contributors leave to join a fork?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.phoronix.com\u0026#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item\u0026amp;px=Librecore-Formation\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.phoronix.com\u0026#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item\u0026amp;px=Librecor...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;librecore.info\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;librecore.info\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14053754","id":"14054885"}
{"by":"FiatLuxDave","time":"1487176971","timestamp":"2017-02-15 16:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The largest barrier to entry to starting a new University is prestige.  Accreditation is a challenge, but is doable.  Gathering enough capital is a challenge, but is also doable.  New institutions of higher education are started all the time.  But when was the last time you saw a Harvard started?\u003cp\u003eImagine the following thought experiment: the entire faulty of Harvard goes off and starts a new University (call it Garvard).  Now, obviously, the quality of education at this new school is going to be just as good as Harvard.  But which school are parents going to want their children to go to: old Harvard, with a newly hired crop of top professors, or Garvard, with the original professors?  I suspect that Garvard would get less applicants, and would likely have to charge less.\u003cp\u003eThis market force is why the cost of education is going up quickly while educator salaries are not rising as fast.  In higher education right now, branding is more important than product.","parent":"13647235","id":"13653294"}
{"by":"jameshart","time":"1469891568","timestamp":"2016-07-30 15:12:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"7: Schematizing things into, for example, lists.","parent":"12192754","id":"12193267"}
{"by":"m3kw9","time":"1516143463","timestamp":"2018-01-16 22:57:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn’t help that every news organization in the world is talking about bitcoin and even worse, some of these people are predicting $100,000 price tags. Who wouldn’t want a 6x return from the peak?","parent":"16163085","id":"16163595"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1484092066","timestamp":"2017-01-10 23:47:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possibly, but commpanies need to export\u0026#x2F;produce there, at an affordable price. I thought they\u0026#x27;d plan to go for western markets first.\u003cp\u003eIf an asian company catches up fast then yeah it will move faster there.","parent":"13368464","id":"13370421"}
{"by":"baloneyman","time":"1490889574","timestamp":"2017-03-30 15:59:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What \u0026quot;job\u0026quot; is that? There is no reason for these companies to exist. Incentivizing drug companies to raise prices in lockstep... to keep the middlemen happy? That is a very perverse incentive","parent":"13996338","id":"13996521"}
{"by":"_ZeD_","time":"1529216049","timestamp":"2018-06-17 06:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yet... Every time I work with them, all I found are unfit engineers...","parent":"17330599","id":"17331110"}
{"by":"fdim","time":"1480953891","timestamp":"2016-12-05 16:04:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about allowing special characters and not just a-zA-Z0-9.","parent":"13105868","id":"13106301"}
{"by":"embeddedradical","time":"1247157685","timestamp":"2009-07-09 16:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i'll paste my comments from the other post on the very same topic:\u003cp\u003ei believe this is a good idea on a phone, but not on a computer screen. the problem is really that if you do this, then when someone is logging in with someone else with them - then they are out of options. it's easier to watch characters appear one at a time than it is to watch someone's hands on a keyboard.\u003cp\u003efor example, i have a media center setup in my living room. sometimes people are over, or my housemate is down with me, and i need to sign into netflix so we can watch movies online -- or I'm shopping with someone and now I need to sign into newegg or amazon...\u003cp\u003eI like the idea of the compromise with Jakob Nielsen's idea -- which is to have a button on the page that says like \"hold down to reveal password\", or \"press to reveal password\". i'm going to experiment between 'hold down to reveal' and 'press to reveal' next time i make a login page -- i like hold down, but maybe there's a problem with that i'm not realizing yet.","parent":"695884","id":"696201"}
{"by":"nautilus12","time":"1513355778","timestamp":"2017-12-15 16:36:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So can someone explain what this could mean on the consumer side?  I\u0026#x27;ve been mostly thinking about it from the producer side and how tech companies will have to pay a premium for fast service to be delivered to users, but I\u0026#x27;m seeing the packages and wondering if as a consumer I would have to call up my ISP to add a random site that I want to access to my service. How would like aggregation sites like Reddit or Ycombinator even work then?  I dont know enough about what ISP\u0026#x27;s can and cannot do to answer this question for myself.","parent":"15924794","id":"15932994"}
{"by":"speeder","time":"1480173314","timestamp":"2016-11-26 15:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only problem I see with abolition of corporate taxes, is that it allow certain people to store their wealth \u0026quot;by proxy\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eadvantages of zero corporate taxes:\u003cp\u003e* lots of advantages for small business, too much to list.\u003cp\u003e* big business don\u0026#x27;t need to shuttle cash offshore.\u003cp\u003e* big business have more cash to worth with, if that is their intention...\u003cp\u003e* less government money wasted on trying to collect those taxes.\u003cp\u003eAnd probably several other advantages... but at least US have a major problem:\u003cp\u003estock ownership is counted as part of someone assets, but the value of those are only taxes if the person sells it or get dividends, with zero corporate taxes, it would be an incentive for CEOs, founders, etc... to just accumulate stock, never pay dividends, don\u0026#x27;t pay high salaries to themselves, but still throw their weigth around using their total assets as a hammer, for example by having their corporation buy stuff they want, or by taking loans to use the cash with the stock as collateral.\u003cp\u003eThis would effectively allow the richest to accumulate untold wealth while paying no taxes at all.\u003cp\u003eThe only way I can see zero corporate taxes working, is if you patch up some other areas first.\u003cp\u003eNow, something I think is quite brilliant in US that already exists, is that US tends to tax only profits, for example lots of people upset with Trump not paying taxes when he had losses (at least when he said he had losses...)\u003cp\u003eIn Brazil you pay tax over your income, doesn\u0026#x27;t matter if you had profits with it, this leads to extreme price inflation, specially when production chains get longer, as people will charge for their stuff more and more to get over the taxes.\u003cp\u003eFor example, once I talked with a guy that made YoYos (the round toys on a string). The toys are simple, and cheap to make, but on the store where I met the guy, they wanted about 5 USD for a simple YoYo, and a better YoYo suitable for amateur competition was about 30 USD.\u003cp\u003eThe factory owner, told me that the 5 USD YoYo manufacturing cost was about 80 cents, but all the taxes summed when the factory sold to the distributor were in total about 40% of the INCOME, not the PROFIT, thus the factory sold to the distributor the YoYo for 3 USD, with 1.2 USD being paid in taxes, 80 cents covering the manufacturing costs, and 40 cents being their raw profits (ie: before paying employees, transport, dividends, marketing, whatnot).\u003cp\u003eThe storeowner, also aimed to have about 50 cents in profit, but his taxes were about 30% of the income (not profit). If it was in US, he could charge 3.5 USD, get 50 cents in profit, and tell the buyer he had to pay an extra 1 USD in taxes, but instead he had to charge 5 USD, he would pay 3 USD to the factory, earn 50 cents in profit, and pay 1.5 USD in taxes.","parent":"13043423","id":"13043902"}
{"by":"valine","time":"1488431382","timestamp":"2017-03-02 05:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can see the most popular HN bar colors here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;topcolors\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;topcolors\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI personally like #f6f6ef.","parent":"13770841","id":"13771575"}
{"by":"chias","time":"1473824319","timestamp":"2016-09-14 03:38:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And then, of course, there are the people who take it a little too literally and actually use \u0026quot;correcthorsebatterystaple\u0026quot; as their password ;)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;qz.com\u0026#x2F;501073\u0026#x2F;the-top-100-passwords-on-ashley-madison\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;qz.com\u0026#x2F;501073\u0026#x2F;the-top-100-passwords-on-ashley-madison...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12493547","id":"12494100"}
{"by":"mixmax","time":"1245954389","timestamp":"2009-06-25 18:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have a hunch that the income distribution of Iphone apps follows a powerlaw. Things like this tends to do so (karmapoints and users of HN, for example, follows a powerlaw)\u003cp\u003eSo if you can get data for a few apps, which should be possible, you can estimate the K-coefficient, and voila you can make a calculated estimate as to exactly how big a percentage of apps make less tham $10,000. And lots more too :-)","parent":"673995","id":"674151"}
{"by":"pxlpshr","time":"1271122643","timestamp":"2010-04-13 01:37:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not sure I fully agree with his argument against using materials and textures to humanize a software interface. I do know that it requires a designer who's execution is better than average, but I don't think it's as much of a distraction as they proclaim. I also think it largely applies to the type of software one is designing. For example, the stock Notes app is fine but for Cultured Code's Things, it would not fit since task management is a much deeper interaction.\u003cp\u003eAnyhow, this article wasn't really informative, seems to be mostly opinion driven and the message is scattered. I showed the iPad to my parents this weekend, they were enamored by it because it was easy to relate with compared to their clunky Windows-based \"laptops\" -- a UX that's cold and impersonal.","parent":"1260125","id":"1260936"}
{"by":"cnvogel","time":"1267357840","timestamp":"2010-02-28 11:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But, most important, Q10 has sound.\u003cp\u003eclick, click, click, click, \u003ci\u003ekatching\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"1156627","id":"1156771"}
{"by":"Bud","time":"1411366639","timestamp":"2014-09-22 06:17:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I found especially telling is that the author\u0026#x27;s defense (or lack thereof) of the idea that the 5th Amendment is not applicable here did not even involve any attempt to explain why it should not apply. Like you said, he just feebly pointed at carefully-selected case law.\u003cp\u003eI think that\u0026#x27;s because any reasonable person can see that in today\u0026#x27;s society, it\u0026#x27;s completely obvious that if you force someone to turn over everything in their smartphone, that\u0026#x27;s likely to be about as incriminating as everything else you could possibly force them to say or turn over, put together.\u003cp\u003eThe idea that this is not the case doesn\u0026#x27;t pass the laugh test.","parent":"8349258","id":"8349488"}
{"by":"glhaynes","time":"1270951101","timestamp":"2010-04-11 01:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes an interesting thought experiment: what if Adobe decides to take on Apple directly by throwing their weight behind Apple's main competitor, Android. CS5.1 is shipped as a free upgrade to CS5 and replaces the iPhone-compiler with an Android-compiler. Organizations with existing Flash content decide that they had might as well do a quick/dirty port of their apps using CS5.1.\u003cp\u003eWhat will the results of this be?\u003cp\u003e* Lots of Flash content gets released on Android. This expands Android's software market considerably, though with a cost in performance/platform-integration (both in terms of UI and in terms of taking advantage of low-level capabilities).\u003cp\u003e* Many of the best/most popular and money-making Flash apps will get an iPhone OS-native port. The cost to write an iPhone app is relatively low; if you're talking about a game, the vast majority of the cost is usually in the assets. The iPhone developer tools are very good, there are lots of developers: finding an iPhone developer willing to make a native port of your game engine isn't difficult or expensive relative to the number of users you open up your investment to. Thus iPhone potentially gets the best version of many originally-Flash apps.\u003cp\u003eThus, Android continues to have more possibilities (theoretical and, in some cases, actual), but a lower overall level of quality, integration, and performance... an issue its apps are already widely accused of. And iPhone, which has a tremendous lead in number of apps, loses out on a few — again, a fairly unpopular set which would have generally not fit in on the platform as well and would have slowed Apple's ability to require adoption of new platform capabilities.\u003cp\u003eIt's hard to see the downside to Apple here. And it's hard to see how this does anything but make Android less attractive and iPhone more attractive for most mainstream (the overwhelming majority) users.","parent":"1255858","id":"1256165"}
{"by":"petertodd","time":"1462185423","timestamp":"2016-05-02 10:37:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We don\u0026#x27;t actually have Gavin\u0026#x27;s phone number; he\u0026#x27;s not an active Bitcoin Core team member.","parent":"11610357","id":"11610387"}
{"by":"mmsimanga","time":"1542741927","timestamp":"2018-11-20 19:25:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To add, can you imagine if IT had to develop every single application the business thought up? They would never cope. I think Access, InfoPath and CMS systems like Drupal allow business to create prototypes. Once the application has been validated and becomes business critical then IT can take over and develop a \u0026quot;proper\u0026quot; application.\u003cp\u003eIt makes sense to use a visual programming language to create basic CRUD applications. A central task list with fields that are specific to the business process can go a long way in improving operational efficiency in a business unit. Beats an excel spreadsheet.","parent":"18495897","id":"18496837"}
{"by":"CorpusCalcium","time":"1538846469","timestamp":"2018-10-06 17:21:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not really, Firefox and Chrome supported the picture element well before Safari did. It was part of the nascent HTML5 standard.\u003cp\u003eI believe what WebKit introduced was the analogous CSS image-set property, which likely influenced the picture\u0026#x27;s element\u0026#x27;s development (but image-set still hasn\u0026#x27;t managed to escape draft-spec territory).","parent":"18154066","id":"18156166"}
{"by":"anticensor","time":"1533022791","timestamp":"2018-07-31 07:39:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CD stores 650MB in standard format. 800MB is overburn.","parent":"17651027","id":"17651272"}
{"by":"sandworm101","time":"1530035482","timestamp":"2018-06-26 17:51:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Someone had sent emails to the bank’s employees with Microsoft Word attachments, purporting to be from suppliers such as ATM manufacturers. It was a classic spear-phishing gambit.\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft Windows + Outlook Email + Attached word document = the Drake equation for internet security.  No matter how secure each of these things are individually, when added together infection becomes inevitable.\u003cp\u003eWhy does outlook have to pass such documents to Word?  Why does Word have to open and run macros so willingly?  Why does Windows allow word to talk to the internet so easily?  I just don\u0026#x27;t understand the use case these links are meant to address.  Are there really so people out there installing software via links inside word documents?  That this has to be a seamless user experience?  There are so many opportunities to limit such such infections.  Why do we still tolerate this?","parent":"17399150","id":"17402665"}
{"by":"mahyarm","time":"1347164589","timestamp":"2012-09-09 04:23:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That logic doesn't make any sense, since you can have other hard projectiles, such as a saxophone or a textbook during those times.  They'll have to tell everyone to put away ALL objects, which they don't.","parent":"4494913","id":"4494928"}
{"by":"alecst","time":"1260595129","timestamp":"2009-12-12 05:18:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could this be him? \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/n_a_b\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://twitter.com/n_a_b\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"991147","id":"991207"}
{"by":"Kristine1975","time":"1459007837","timestamp":"2016-03-26 15:57:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;The recommendations at the end of the pdf seem to be written by captain Obvious.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoesn\u0026#x27;t that simply mean that this research confirms other people\u0026#x27;s experience\u0026#x2F;gut feeling?","parent":"11366030","id":"11366091"}
{"by":"mahyarm","time":"1451161304","timestamp":"2015-12-26 20:21:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In credit cards, certain low risk retailers get very discounted rates, such as grocers.  In Australia, I think it\u0026#x27;s a flat rate for grocers to accept a card.  I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if it\u0026#x27;s similarly lower in Sweden.\u003cp\u003eAlso the cost of things are higher in Sweden for everything, so I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if that is rolled into the cost of things and everyone pays the credit card tax.\u003cp\u003eAlso for large businesses, handling cash has a cost too \u0026amp; card fees are negotiated for lower rates, so accepting cards isn\u0026#x27;t as big of a deal for them.","parent":"10794947","id":"10795134"}
{"by":"christiangenco","time":"1383167119","timestamp":"2013-10-30 21:05:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure what your point is here, but I\u0026#x27;d reinforce that in your Amazon example that would be perfectly good justification to create a food product directed towards Amazonians (or perhaps just a Cheerios distribution network in the Amazon?).","parent":"6642992","id":"6643385"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1229547176","timestamp":"2008-12-17 20:52:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He seems to have built a set of tools to handle this problem.\u003cp\u003eFrom the very brief sneak peek we got at that it looks like a killer toolset for something lie what you describe. Knowing where to head to BEFORE even opening a controller file is a big bonus :)","parent":"401384","id":"401430"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1476301867","timestamp":"2016-10-12 19:51:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think so, since they\u0026#x27;ll cover all (or nearly all) of the earth the information that a satellite at an unknown time could see this spot doesn\u0026#x27;t tell you much.","parent":"12695674","id":"12695945"}
{"by":"ahazred8ta","time":"1448072963","timestamp":"2015-11-21 02:29:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also the dubious effectiveness of submitting culture \u0026#x2F; anthropology \u0026#x2F; environment articles to a place where people come looking for tech-startup and computer technology news.","parent":"10601577","id":"10605253"}
{"by":"namarie","time":"1504617763","timestamp":"2017-09-05 13:22:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is if you think not every moment in the last millenium was pleasant for everyone.","parent":"15174686","id":"15174808"}
{"by":"function_seven","time":"1482277986","timestamp":"2016-12-20 23:53:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please tell me what ticker symbol I should buy today, that will rise in value over 10,000% over the next two decades.\u003cp\u003eNobody can. Over a 20 year timeline, it’s essentially the same as a roulette wheel.","parent":"13225140","id":"13225505"}
{"by":"kazinator","time":"1442871029","timestamp":"2015-09-21 21:30:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m only not one million times better off because I have other costs to deal with which are completely unrelated to the gas.\u003cp\u003eIf the gas were the only resource I have to worry about (whatsoever), then I would in fact be a million times better off.","parent":"10255207","id":"10255269"}
{"by":"makmanalp","time":"1393544864","timestamp":"2014-02-27 23:47:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve read \u0026quot;beating the averages\u0026quot; about a billion times, along with all the other PG essays. I was (and still am) a fan. I took several classes using PLT scheme and I\u0026#x27;ve used PLT scheme for a reasonable amount for other tasks (wasn\u0026#x27;t called racket then). I\u0026#x27;ve also dabbled with some lisps. I\u0026#x27;ve read the little schemer, I\u0026#x27;ve went through the wizard book. I\u0026#x27;ve written the obligatory metacircular evaluator. All this got me excited.\u003cp\u003eOver the years though, I\u0026#x27;ve done my best to learn the lessons and move on.\u003cp\u003eIs it really a surprise that lisp, an aged tool of refined elegance, was a competitive advantage over the other popular languages in 1997, which were still in their neanderthal phase? I\u0026#x27;m not sure if the difference is that huge these days though. While in the olden days languages seemingly refused to learn from the teachings of lisp, it seems today they steal from lisp like pop artists steal from each other. Say, a ruby DSL with blocks and other tricks is not as flexible as a defmacro based lisp one, but could there maybe be a tradeoff here?\u003cp\u003eWriting in lisps give me what I call the intellectual warm-fuzzies. I get to use many elegant tools to form abstractions upon abstractions to create \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c/i\u003e DSL for my problem domain. I like that. Some call it doing the Right Thing. The polar opposite of duct-tape programming if you will. A quote from the article: \u0026quot;to translate this program into C++ they literally had to write a Lisp interpreter [so basically a lisp-to-c++ compiler]\u0026quot;. This is exactly the sort of thing I\u0026#x27;m talking about. It\u0026#x27;s cute. It\u0026#x27;s the Right Thing. Rewriting the code by hand in C++ is for plebians.\u003cp\u003eAnd, given enough code, maybe writing the lisp-to-c++ compiler is less effort than a rewrite initially. Maybe. I\u0026#x27;ll allow the benefit of the doubt. But what about the machine-outputted C++? Is the code idiomatic? Is it performant? Who wants to maintain machine generated code? Who wants to maintain a custom compiler? Maybe none of these are problems, but my vote is that it\u0026#x27;s unlikely.\u003cp\u003eThe blub paradox applies much more strongly (or maybe I could say \u0026quot;only applies\u0026quot;) when you haven\u0026#x27;t been exposed. When you, in your arrogance, refuse to try something different. I\u0026#x27;ve traveled up and down the proverbial ladder, and I know where I\u0026#x27;m comfortable. For now. I suspect it\u0026#x27;ll change sooner or later.\u003cp\u003eWhat astounds me is the arrogance to claim that lisp(s) is the One True Language, and anyone who doesn\u0026#x27;t agree Just Doesn\u0026#x27;t Get It. It\u0026#x27;s like the audacity a religious person has in claiming that their god is the one and only, in effect taking for idiots all the millions of remaining people who ever existed and sincerely believed in their own creation stories. What are the chances that everyone is stupid and you\u0026#x27;re the only enlightened one?\u003cp\u003eIn response, I give you the Bipolar Lisp Programmer: \u003ca href=\"http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.lambdassociates.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;bipolar.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7314610","id":"7316197"}
{"by":"shocks","time":"1366111767","timestamp":"2013-04-16 11:29:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find the quality of these packages to be quite low, in general. :/","parent":"5555834","id":"5557464"}
{"by":"joeshevland","time":"1383905330","timestamp":"2013-11-08 10:08:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having read Alastair Reynold\u0026#x27;s stuff, I thought the idea of replicators was awesome. My current thinking is that 3d printers, if they master multiple materials, will kill off mundane manufacturing. I can\u0026#x27;t see it being a bad thing, albeit an industrial revolution style shift.","parent":"6695166","id":"6695410"}
{"by":"danbruc","time":"1524352288","timestamp":"2018-04-21 23:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The photon - or electron or whatever - hits the screen in exactly one spot, not in several and not in any smeared out way.","parent":"16893318","id":"16893870"}
{"by":"nerdponx","time":"1487428345","timestamp":"2017-02-18 14:32:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that this is apparently consensus and not a crackpot theory is the most amazing thing about it. The little kid in me is kind of wishing I had gone into geology...","parent":"13673847","id":"13674894"}
{"by":"hindsightbias","time":"1408072346","timestamp":"2014-08-15 03:12:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not big enough for a carrier, and that last generation is already designed.\u003cp\u003eBut about right for a submarine.","parent":"8179766","id":"8180892"}
{"by":"peterburkimsher","time":"1495956974","timestamp":"2017-05-28 07:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can I configure OpenStreetMap to use the old Google Maps colours with an emphasis on roads?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m currently using some offline cached maps tiles downloaded with MOBAC, and waiting for Google to change their colours back again. Now I realise that it\u0026#x27;s a place map, and places generate advertising revenue, I think that Google is unlikely to fix that.\u003cp\u003eAnother problem that happened recently in Taiwan was when Google removed pinyin (latin letters) from the street names, leaving only Chinese characters. Foreigners living here couldn\u0026#x27;t find their way around. I threw together a quick alternative to GMaps, and told people about it - until Google put the pinyin back about a week later.","parent":"14429917","id":"14433463"}
{"by":"alkonaut","time":"1534485719","timestamp":"2018-08-17 06:01:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Esthetic issues mostly.","parent":"17778766","id":"17780597"}
{"by":"kazen44","time":"1521570990","timestamp":"2018-03-20 18:36:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder how the UK goverment will react to this, aswell as the EU, considering they tend to value privacy in a different light then the american court system.","parent":"16630346","id":"16631275"}
{"by":"yarg","time":"1503024490","timestamp":"2017-08-18 02:48:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a multifaceted debate; cloudflare is under no obligation what-so-ever to keep retain any customer - unless it has placed itself under a contractual obligation to do so.\u003cp\u003eThe neo-nazi sites themselves should in general not be interfered with from a governmental level - but there should be limitations of even this restriction, when it comes to the advocacy, planning and execution of violence.\u003cp\u003eIn a more general sense I see the silencing of free-speech on the internet as a call to move to a more decentralised structure - as per what seemed to be the original intent - we generally seem to be moving yet further away from such a structure; although there are a significant number of emerging distributed technologies - as yet they seem to be niche in their utilisation.\u003cp\u003e(Somewhat tangentally, I see the free speech and public emergence of the now emboldened neo-nazis as somewhat a good thing, they were always there - but now they\u0026#x27;re in the public eye.)","parent":"15042367","id":"15043121"}
{"by":"meko","time":"1537902087","timestamp":"2018-09-25 19:01:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People get set in their ways. We\u0026#x27;re not all web developers.","parent":"18064483","id":"18069375"}
{"by":"michaeldhopkins","time":"1297822395","timestamp":"2011-02-16 02:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you do when that happens?  Can you get a court order to let you back in the building?","parent":"2224380","id":"2224592"}
{"by":"JacobAldridge","time":"1413508605","timestamp":"2014-10-17 01:16:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m reminded of the time Facebook prompted me to \u0026quot;reconnect\u0026quot; with my beautiful wife, because we hadn\u0026#x27;t communicated in some time. Ah, no, we just don\u0026#x27;t communicate with each other via Facebook.\u003cp\u003eSadly, most of my historic data (we\u0026#x27;ve been together 11 years; married 6) is lost in ancient phones. One difference I believe we would observe compared with the OP is how prominent \u003ci\u003exxx\u003c/i\u003e would appear (representing kisses, I might add). We made a tacit agreement early in our relationship to always add those and\u0026#x2F;or an expression of love at the end of messages and conversations. One of those little things that can get lost in transactional stuff, so I\u0026#x27;m glad we made the effort (even if it\u0026#x27;s now mostly habit, it\u0026#x27;s still valuable).","parent":"8468526","id":"8468898"}
{"by":"robrenaud","time":"1486305172","timestamp":"2017-02-05 14:32:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Congestion is not a kind of linear cost, and pollution is not its only externality.  It also makes everyone else around you slower.  Congestion is actually complicated. Once a place is congested, the marginal addition of a car makes traffic flow relatively much worse, and vice versa for the removal of a car.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic_flow\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13571531","id":"13572524"}
{"by":"tcbawo","time":"1504786892","timestamp":"2017-09-07 12:21:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scanning through the list of features, one I dislike is selection statement initializers:\u003cp\u003eif (init; condition) {}\u003cp\u003e(Ref: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.open-std.org\u0026#x2F;jtc1\u0026#x2F;sc22\u0026#x2F;wg21\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;papers\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;p0305r1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.open-std.org\u0026#x2F;jtc1\u0026#x2F;sc22\u0026#x2F;wg21\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;papers\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;p030...\u003c/a\u003e).  It just seems like clutter.  I generally prefer when languages discourage side effects in a branch condition.","parent":"15188401","id":"15191137"}
{"by":"sg0","time":"1524262855","timestamp":"2018-04-20 22:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very true, I recently bought the book (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;gp\u0026#x2F;product\u0026#x2F;0596007191\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;gp\u0026#x2F;product\u0026#x2F;0596007191\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e), and my at-home productivity is all time low. I crack up every time remembering -- \u0026quot;I Invented Burrell\u0026quot; (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.folklore.org\u0026#x2F;StoryView.py?project=Macintosh\u0026amp;story=I_Invented_Burrell.txt\u0026amp;sortOrder=Sort+by+Date\u0026amp;topic=Personality\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.folklore.org\u0026#x2F;StoryView.py?project=Macintosh\u0026amp;stor...\u003c/a\u003e).","parent":"16888722","id":"16888841"}
{"by":"federicobond","time":"1453080821","timestamp":"2016-01-18 01:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A recent graduate from an Ivy League university in the US with thousands of dollars in debt and an job offer in Wall Street is accounted as poorer than a farmer in Congo by Oxfam.\u003cp\u003eThis shows how stupid it is to measure wealth without taking human capital into account.","parent":"10921879","id":"10922028"}
{"by":"jkmcf","time":"1479661075","timestamp":"2016-11-20 16:57:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My first instinct was to agree with you.  Sadly, I know quite a few Americans who could care less about their homogeneous neighbors, let alone those of different colors\u0026#x2F;creeds\u0026#x2F;cultures.","parent":"12999502","id":"12999757"}
{"by":"loup-vaillant","time":"1270547323","timestamp":"2010-04-06 09:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. Knowledge about social graphs are probably the core business of Facebook. No wonder they want monopoly over the knowledge about the social graphs they host.\u003cp\u003eBut, really, they can't stop it. An when (not if) \u003ci\u003enominative\u003c/i\u003e aggregated data is out, maybe the general population will begin to actually understand how expensive Facebook actually is.","parent":"1243413","id":"1244260"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1539725257","timestamp":"2018-10-16 21:27:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eCEO pay is bound by the same thing that everyone else pay is - the market rate.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkay, there\u0026#x27;s a market rate. Why is that rate so high? I\u0026#x27;m sure we all thought \u0026quot;hell, I could have run HP into the ground for \u003ci\u003ehalf\u003c/i\u003e what they paid Fiorina.\u0026quot; Yeah, except you and I aren\u0026#x27;t in the \u0026quot;potential CEO\u0026quot; club. That club is determined by wealth, birth, and connections, not what the market will bear.","parent":"18228840","id":"18233440"}
{"by":"mattj","time":"1273680064","timestamp":"2010-05-12 16:01:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Objective-C is C plus brackets and a recv message function. Everything else is built up on that. You can very easily use c libraries in iPhone / iPad development.\u003cp\u003eMaybe this is true on android, but iPhone is a great platform for c programmers.","parent":"1341182","id":"1341277"}
{"by":"sangnoir","time":"1484576645","timestamp":"2017-01-16 14:24:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not familiar enough with the US taxi bylaws to answer that.\u003cp\u003eIs there a particular reason you are restricting scope to only the US? Taxis and \u0026quot;ride sharing\u0026quot; organizations are an international phenomenon: I\u0026#x27;d say the majority of jurisdictions do not have medallions. And the upstream point remains - most taxis can now be hailed via mobile apps.","parent":"13406008","id":"13410094"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1422378569","timestamp":"2015-01-27 17:09:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From what I can gather, it wasn\u0026#x27;t originally thought to be a security vulnerability so it was thought to be acceptable to leave it be on older systems. Now somebody has figured out how to exploit it.","parent":"8954180","id":"8954241"}
{"by":"jogjayr","time":"1509051909","timestamp":"2017-10-26 21:05:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Induced demand is also a thing. It\u0026#x27;s not exactly econ 101.","parent":"15562318","id":"15562999"}
{"by":"zzalpha","time":"1478803570","timestamp":"2016-11-10 18:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t agree more.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m as liberal as they get, but Trump appealed to a broad demographic.  Reducing it to \u0026quot;uneducated whites\u0026quot; does a disservice to the very foundations of American democracy, as it dismisses out of hand the very real concerns of nearly 50% of the American electorate.\u003cp\u003eIt would behoove everyone, including those in the media and the political system, to step back and get in touch with the values and concerns of those folks.  Without that, the US is only going to become more polarized... and I\u0026#x27;m not sure how much longer that can go on.","parent":"12922705","id":"12923017"}
{"by":"bigwally","time":"1304901691","timestamp":"2011-05-09 00:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You may notice that Israel has stolen more intellectual property worldwide than China.\u003cp\u003eBut bashing China is fashionable.","parent":"2526454","id":"2527112"}
{"by":"BrandiATMuhkuh","time":"1491435335","timestamp":"2017-04-05 23:35:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you said is pretty much what I thought too. So i tried to validate if that is possible.\nFrom a customers side: yes. \nFrom a publishers side: No.\u003cp\u003eI went and talked to quite a lot CEOs in the news business. What i found is: the publishers don\u0026#x27;t care about their users. All they care about is not to cooperating with other publishers. That means, if you have a service that automatically gives each publisher a bit of money when you read their article. No publisher will join.","parent":"14045514","id":"14046677"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1277902123","timestamp":"2010-06-30 12:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing with RWH I found was, chapters 1-4 great, a nice introduction to the language, and I did all the exercises without too much head-scratching. Then chapter 5 is utterly incomprehensible. I didn't get any further.\u003cp\u003eOCaml, that's a nice language, with much better introductary materials.","parent":"1474415","id":"1474652"}
{"by":"SSLy","time":"1491929841","timestamp":"2017-04-11 16:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nanog","parent":"14086259","id":"14089962"}
{"by":"Dysiode","time":"1337067219","timestamp":"2012-05-15 07:33:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm wholly relieved that someone else thinks this way too ( still aware of the fact that most thoughts aren't unique). I never came to the conclusion of metamorphosis, however.\u003cp\u003eJust felt a need to express my experience of camaraderie on the subject.","parent":"3970575","id":"3975438"}
{"by":"true_religion","time":"1343477900","timestamp":"2012-07-28 12:18:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; They’ll never charge you a percentage of business or threaten to get into your business. That’s a true platform because they’re getting paid to provide a service.\u003cp\u003eJust because they're charging you a percentage doesn't make them not a true platform.\u003cp\u003eOracle and Gemstone used to (and probably still do) as for a percentage of your budget/estimated sales rather than a strict rate.","parent":"4302252","id":"4305367"}
{"by":"epo","time":"1290848724","timestamp":"2010-11-27 09:05:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My CS degree was a sandwich course (UK), I did 2 years at college, a full year working for an employer (of my choice, the college had the power of veto) and a final year back at college, I did a postgrad after.\u003cp\u003eThe industrial training year was the only thing of real value. It taught me professional discipline and the importance of delivering what the customer wanted, and of finding out what they wanted if that wasn't clear at the outset. Everything computer specific I learned on my course (compiler theory?) was either irrelevant, outdated at the time, or became so shortly after.","parent":"1944476","id":"1944653"}
{"by":"aaavl2821","time":"1519278754","timestamp":"2018-02-22 05:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haven\u0026#x27;t seen data for 2017 AI funding, but biopharma startups raised $12B in 2017 (AI startups raised $5B in 2016).\u003cp\u003eThe large rounds are due to 1) amazing exit environment attracting tons of capital and 2) no growth in number of funded startups in the last decade. More money chasing fewer deals = larger $ per deal\u003cp\u003eFrom what I see professors don\u0026#x27;t typically don\u0026#x27;t join companies, but rather stay in academia and advise re the science. The management team is generally comprised of a team of serial entrepreneurs or 20-30 year big pharma veterans. Most startups are seeded in house by a cadre of biotech VCs\u003cp\u003eWill write a post about the blueprint for these startups, but in broad strokes it\u0026#x27;s 1) $1-5M seed round to make sure the academic work is reproducible, generate IP and derisk core hypotheses with a few \u0026quot;killer experiments\u0026quot;. If that looks good, there will be a $20-50M (or even $100M+) series a that is typically designed to get through human proof of concept in phase 1. This is when the exit window opens, and the exit window these days is big. Should be noted that most of these rounds are tranched\u003cp\u003eThere are several Bruce booth blog posts that walk through this in more detail. Bruce is a partner at atlas venture, a leading early stage biotech fund, and he\u0026#x27;s one of the few biotech VCs who blogs. Don\u0026#x27;t have specific links offhand but can find a few if interested\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s tough to bootstrap in biopharma because you don\u0026#x27;t generate revenue basically ever. You could theoretically sell assays or reagents or something to get revenue to support the real r\u0026amp;d but it\u0026#x27;s often preferable to get VC money. The best exits require $10-20M minimum","parent":"16434852","id":"16435423"}
{"by":"alttab","time":"1398796558","timestamp":"2014-04-29 18:35:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this a strategy to increase the market potential of Heroku? It was mainly meant for \u0026quot;super fast rails\u0026quot; development and deployment, so I\u0026#x27;m wondering why Heroku is targeting PHP.\u003cp\u003eSome would say its part of their \u0026quot;all platforms\u0026quot; deal, but then I\u0026#x27;d argue its not much different than AWS. I\u0026#x27;m wondering if they can bring some of the large portion of PHP websites that still run today onto their platform as a way to increase active and paying users.","parent":"7668525","id":"7669063"}
{"by":"erickhill","time":"1456117192","timestamp":"2016-02-22 04:59:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Incredible how one of their key marketing images (Your Window to Wonder) is a full-screen shot of the \u0026quot;rainbow haired Abode girl\u0026quot; seen in many Adobe ads these days. But with no mention of Adobe or their products. I guess Apple isn\u0026#x27;t the only thing being copied here. It\u0026#x27;s multi-dimensional.","parent":"11147957","dead":true,"id":"11148558"}
{"by":"privong","time":"1415540088","timestamp":"2014-11-09 13:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seems like that should also open one up to an identifying attack of sorts. Find out when deposits were made (assuming there is more than one), grab all the security video from those times, and try to identify the person who is in all of those clips. Facial recognition software should get one the rest of the way. I imagine you would only need 3 or 4 deposit events to reliably identify someone?","parent":"8579790","id":"8579860"}
{"by":"mike22223333","time":"1537872545","timestamp":"2018-09-25 10:49:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If only would Edge add support for installing PWA\u0026#x27;s directly from chrome, like me prompting users to install, it would be great.","parent":"18065013","id":"18065161"}
{"by":"patrickg_zill","time":"1466045729","timestamp":"2016-06-16 02:55:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It should be possible in terms of energy expended.\u003cp\u003eThis guy :  \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;diesel-bike.com\u0026#x2F;Centurion\u0026#x2F;urba_centurion.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;diesel-bike.com\u0026#x2F;Centurion\u0026#x2F;urba_centurion.html\u003c/a\u003e built a kit car from these plans :  \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.rqriley.com\u0026#x2F;cent.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.rqriley.com\u0026#x2F;cent.html\u003c/a\u003e and got a tested and verified 200mpg after tuning (scroll down the circa-GeoCities page to see the results from his participation in the Toyota Green Prix).\u003cp\u003eNot sure the car above would be good as a daily driver, however.","parent":"11913378","id":"11913617"}
{"by":"Jasper_","time":"1520291445","timestamp":"2018-03-05 23:10:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I fail to see who MoviePass hurt except its own investors.\u003cp\u003eGames on the iOS App Store are generally free (or 99 cents). It is not profitable to recoup your costs by selling the product, because consumers will not pay for an app that costs more money than $1. In order to sustain this environment, the industry has moved to selling data, ads, and other sort of nonsense.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s suggest that MoviePass successfully \u0026quot;disrupts\u0026quot; the industry and then gets bought out or dies. What happens if this disruption permanently causes admissions revenue to go down, because consumers expect $10, and as such, movies to be substantially more unprofitable to make?\u003cp\u003eThis sort of long-term \u0026quot;environmental impact\u0026quot; never seems to come up as long as we can pile more ads and tracking on top to make up the difference in unreasonable business models.","parent":"16525311","id":"16525430"}
{"by":"perakojotgenije","time":"1395839511","timestamp":"2014-03-26 13:11:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not a new thing, Yugoslavia had something similar some 30-40 years ago, it was called self-governing socialism. The difference is it was forced by government and it was the only form of ownership, there were no private companies, all of them were self-governed. It works if you have a small company but it didn\u0026#x27;t show so well in companies with few hundred workers.","parent":"7465124","id":"7473059"}
{"by":"joshontheweb","time":"1421799985","timestamp":"2015-01-21 00:26:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What makes you think they stopped?","parent":"8917479","id":"8920687"}
{"by":"oldandtired","time":"1514093000","timestamp":"2017-12-24 05:23:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now I get it why there was a comment on another thread about a cross thread commenting war with you. This is funny.\u003cp\u003eBut let\u0026#x27;s say, that 20 minutes if you look up the information yourself and you are slow about it, 5 minutes if given the starting point. Of course if you cannot use a calculation device other than pencil\u0026#x2F;pen and paper (or blackboard and chalk) then it might take you longer.\u003cp\u003eI have the calculations sitting in spreadsheet on my machine  and I have emails to various people with those calculations, but as you are unable to spend 5 minutes doing, I can\u0026#x27;t expect you to spend 5 minutes reading.","parent":"15997840","id":"15998109"}
{"by":"jlgreco","time":"1374829227","timestamp":"2013-07-26 09:00:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There isn\u0026#x27;t,  but if they are going that route then why do they want the passwords?","parent":"6107149","id":"6107241"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1539980927","timestamp":"2018-10-19 20:28:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I grew up in Canada, and so was exposed to Asterix.  As were people that I\u0026#x27;ve met from France (of course), Australia, India, Spain, Germany, etc, etc, etc.\u003cp\u003eAnd yet in the United States the comics are almost non-existent.  My best guess is that American publishers don\u0026#x27;t think that Americans will understand such sophisticated humor.\u003cp\u003eWhatever they think, kids that I expose to the comics consistently love them.  At a younger age for the physical humor (such as Obelix accidentally walking through doors).  At an older age, for all of the layers (many of which I know escape me).\u003cp\u003eThe originals were excellent.  The translations are excellent.  I highly recommend them.  Though I\u0026#x27;d recommend starting with the ones written while Goscinny was still alive.  The look of the latter ones is still the same, but there is more reference to repeated in jokes and the overall humor is not to the same quality.","parent":"18255513","id":"18259781"}
{"by":"qwertyuiop924","time":"1472071388","timestamp":"2016-08-24 20:43:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, yes. That\u0026#x27;s why the official recommendation from Schneier has been at least Threefish forever.","parent":"12353535","id":"12355109"}
{"by":"karmacondon","time":"1459224626","timestamp":"2016-03-29 04:10:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So what happens to the other 200+ iphones that law enforcement needed opened?\u003cp\u003eIt seems like there are at least certain iphones that can be opened using this method and similar hardware based approaches. Are the feds going to move forward with that? It seems like accessing this particular phone wasn\u0026#x27;t trivial or cheap. So I\u0026#x27;d imagine that it will come down to whether or not it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;worth\u0026quot; the cost of flashing individual chips for each of the other devices.\u003cp\u003eAnd what happens if there is potentially exonerating evidence on one of those phones? Does the defense team have to come up with the money to pay for a lab or outside company to open the phone? And also, is an encrypted phone going to be the new \u0026#x27;dna evidence\u0026#x27;? Like, will a brand new iphone that\u0026#x27;s linked to a major crime be held away for years until the security community can hack it, potentially setting people free or sending them to jail?\u003cp\u003eSorry for all the interrogatives. Even though this particular case has been settled, there are still a lot of questions surrounding default device level encryption.","parent":"11377716","id":"11379436"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1263214772","timestamp":"2010-01-11 12:59:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps you should consider channeling that energy into creating your own gadgets. Maybe you could create a gadget that doesn't disappoint.","parent":"1044273","id":"1044997"}
{"by":"esdaniel","time":"1288595031","timestamp":"2010-11-01 07:03:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.petalslink.com/fr/societe/recrutement\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.petalslink.com/fr/societe/recrutement\u003c/a\u003e\nNo idea re: remote working, contact them and find out!","parent":"1855569","id":"1855637"}
{"by":"digikata","time":"1454012090","timestamp":"2016-01-28 20:14:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re assuming people have perfect foresight into their risks moving to such an area - they don\u0026#x27;t. Your also ignoring that sometimes the pollution moves to where people already live. The reasonable choice is to work towards advancing standards for everyone worldwide. Sometimes the advances will come organically delivered by free markets, and sometimes they\u0026#x27;ll have to be regulatory (closing down externalities ignored\u0026#x2F;un-priced by markets). The choice certainly isn\u0026#x27;t free trade or dire poverty in the long run.","parent":"10988432","id":"10990917"}
{"by":"was8309","time":"1446076067","timestamp":"2015-10-28 23:47:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the difference in quality would be only the music itself, and nothing to do with lyrics\u0026#x2F;literature, about which I\u0026#x27;d bet you are correct (I wouldn\u0026#x27;t know).  Cole was a great jazz pianist that was raised and trained and in the African American Jazz tradition before he \u0026#x27;crossed over\u0026#x27;, much like George Benson did decades later. It would be a mistake to think either were limited to \u0026#x27;light\u0026#x27; entertainment.\u003cp\u003eSo while Cole may or not have played with Mingus or Billy Holiday, he certainly \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e have. Not so with Dylan.\u003cp\u003eEven the most seemingly inane songs from that era were more sophisticated - musically - than anything from Dylan, et al. I think this applies : \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9394176\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9394176\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ep.s. sorry, don\u0026#x27;t mean to rip on Dylan. If you like it, enjoy!","parent":"10465947","id":"10468260"}
{"by":"regecks","time":"1472899076","timestamp":"2016-09-03 10:37:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was forced to use OS X (for about 2 years), my homebrew stopped working (just partially wiped out and required \u0026#x27;doctor\u0026#x27; or whatever) twice due to major OS updates. Not exactly breaking the system, but breaking all the tools I cared about. It also randomly broke on other occasions. Not being a first-class citizen on the OS does matter.\u003cp\u003eBeen using Xubuntu 14.04 + i3 (and recently, Qubes OS) full time for 3 years now. Never faced a problem with apt, and I have a sane wm instead of the \u0026quot;drag this window out of the way to see the other window\u0026quot; hell (and not having to use my mouse is an added bonus). I loathe booting into a different OS.\u003cp\u003eThere are certainly ways to emulate the Linux experience on OS X. But increasingly I found that OS X wasn\u0026#x27;t delivering any value in itself (I mostly stuck to iTerm + browser), and the less-than-perfect emulation of the Linux environment became infuriating.\u003cp\u003eUsing Arch as a comparison for ease-of-use probably isn\u0026#x27;t terribly indicative of Linux distros generally. It\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;bleeding edge\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eMy experience is as a person who mostly writes software for Linux and admins Linux systems. OS X is just an unambiguous productivity drop for me, but I can appreciate that it is probably not the case for casual use.","parent":"12418324","id":"12418661"}
{"by":"fallous","time":"1337643089","timestamp":"2012-05-21 23:31:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd try a chordic keyboard used by toes or foot positions.","parent":"4005402","id":"4005452"}
{"by":"ScottWhigham","time":"1234609084","timestamp":"2009-02-14 10:58:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You aren't. I don't get it either.","parent":"480505","id":"481036"}
{"by":"Dilpil","time":"1224891117","timestamp":"2008-10-24 23:31:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By coding applications people want, you create wealth.  There is not some fixed amount of software to be written, the rewards of which need to be distributed equitably.  There is an infinite amount of wealth ready to be created.","parent":"342727","id":"343099"}
{"by":"randoramax","time":"1534595672","timestamp":"2018-08-18 12:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The effect of Com.java.some.class.name ?","parent":"17786912","id":"17788181"}
{"by":"6stringmerc","time":"1504199122","timestamp":"2017-08-31 17:05:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I applaud his candor and backing it up by leaving association with the sport as we know it. I have shared the change of mentality from \u0026quot;Oh wow!\u0026quot; big-hit, Bill Romanowski\u0026#x2F;Ronnie Lott type viciousness to, well, cringing. Not to shy away from MMA or Boxing or Hockey - trauma is trauma - but the change feels like something I\u0026#x27;ve witnessed in my lifetime.\u003cp\u003eWith a personal twist, I\u0026#x27;ve never been able to play due to handicap, and now, decades later, some who did play are suffering effects similar to my injuries. It\u0026#x27;s uncanny how brutal that sport actually can be to the body - especially young, growing bodies and minds. I don\u0026#x27;t like watching rock heroes of mine dying, nor sports heroes like Junior Seau - but they can help change culture. When people won\u0026#x27;t let their kids play a sport, its days are numbered, save for some communities that will probably see it as a ticket out for a long time.\u003cp\u003eOh, I almost forgot my idea\u0026#x2F;essay I put forward a while ago about re-engineering the equipment for the modern physics of the athleticism (speed + force):\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thelacesout.com\u0026#x2F;how-us-football-can-improve-player-safety-entertainment-via-technology-40fb97757e01\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;thelacesout.com\u0026#x2F;how-us-football-can-improve-player-s...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15141495","id":"15141814"}
{"by":"barrkel","time":"1357031471","timestamp":"2013-01-01 09:11:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work from home too, but a scooter still makes way more sense than public transport for almost everything except where alcohol is involved.","parent":"4989467","id":"4992244"}
{"by":"bradolegovich","time":"1470095420","timestamp":"2016-08-01 23:50:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: US, San Francisco(Looking for visa sponsorship)\u003cp\u003eRemote: No\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: Yes\u003cp\u003eTechnologies:Android, Java, Kotlin, iOS, Object Oriented Development, Android SDK, Android Studio, Xcode\u003cp\u003eRésumé\u0026#x2F;CV: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;openid=0B9Or9EP0sdZeTEVQbHlHRFZDVlk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;openid=0B9Or9EP0sdZeTEVQbHlHRFZDVlk\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail:i.thealeksandr@gmail.com\u003cp\u003eLinkedin: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jp.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;aleksandrnikiforov\u0026#x2F;en\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jp.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;aleksandrnikiforov\u0026#x2F;en\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurrently working as Android Developer in Tokyo and looking for an opportunity in the US, preferably in SF. \nI have almost 5 years experience in mobile development.","parent":"12202867","id":"12206968"}
{"by":"Geee","time":"1432226053","timestamp":"2015-05-21 16:34:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Damn, you\u0026#x27;re right. So, I should leave my computer on Earth and make a long trip at relativistic speed. When I come back, my computation would be much further than if I had waited on Earth.","parent":"9583685","id":"9583773"}
{"by":"etrevino","time":"1470671126","timestamp":"2016-08-08 15:45:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading the prose is like reading James Joyce, without the twee construction.\u003cp\u003eThe poems I actually enjoyed, if only because they were funny to read out loud.","parent":"12246226","id":"12248644"}
{"by":"xspence","time":"1332265973","timestamp":"2012-03-20 17:52:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is mars established as a credible planet/nation zone, or does it count as space (international)? Its an interesting perspective that the \"zone\" of mars could be a place of legal jurisdiction. But it seems that space is a free for all \"zone\", so maybe your lawsuit would be void?","parent":"3729760","id":"3730550"}
{"by":"sneak","time":"1444773158","timestamp":"2015-10-13 21:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One can opt out of \u0026quot;us\u0026quot; relatively easily by moving their personal support (i.e. tax revenue, GDP contribution, et c) elsewhere to a place that supports the universal application of human rights regardless of skin color, religious affiliation, or national origin.\u003cp\u003eIn 2008 I left my job, girlfriend, friends, and family behind to do so.  It\u0026#x27;s tough but it\u0026#x27;s possible.","parent":"10383698","id":"10383742"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1516011093","timestamp":"2018-01-15 10:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even more reasons to want an external party to be able to step in in such cases. I.e. censorship as a feature.","parent":"16148411","id":"16149653"}
{"by":"MikeCapone","time":"1326502661","timestamp":"2012-01-14 00:57:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It also matters how effectively the money is being used. The Gates Foundation tries to measure its effeciveness and reduce waste. I'm not so sure that other charities - many of them religious - are spending as effectively and making as much of a difference per dolllar.\u003cp\u003eAnother thing that matters is long-term vision. Many charities try to spend on what is visible to help fundraising, while big private foundations can often invest in R\u0026#38;D and other high-risk high-reward projects.","parent":"3462919","id":"3463121"}
{"by":"lkbm","time":"1425354854","timestamp":"2015-03-03 03:54:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Because maybe you want your money to pay for the food and not the global transportation networks that brought you the food?\u003cp\u003eSure, okay, but...why? Better for the environment? Doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be the case. Tighter-nit community? Idealogical opposition to roads? Protectionism?\u003cp\u003eSerious question. Why?","parent":"9135873","id":"9136011"}
{"by":"nitrogen","time":"1475006775","timestamp":"2016-09-27 20:06:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My reply is to your whole comment.  I am still not convinced that it is inappropriate to celebrate SpaceX, if for no other reason than to encourage others to join in the vision of a multiplanetary society.","parent":"12592587","id":"12592658"}
{"by":"jaboutboul","time":"1486434821","timestamp":"2017-02-07 02:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why they hire a billion aids and clerks","parent":"13586410","id":"13586484"}
{"by":"lbotos","time":"1329143996","timestamp":"2012-02-13 14:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One can make some surprisingly beautiful houses out of shipping containers. I can't find the link at the moment but one such company advertises in dwell magazine. Hopefully I can find it.","parent":"3585637","id":"3585703"}
{"by":"jedisct1","time":"1528141696","timestamp":"2018-06-04 19:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is great.\u003cp\u003eI was already using dnscrypt-proxy to limit access to some websites during certain days\u0026#x2F;times, but restrictions at application level is even better, at least for iOS devices.","parent":"17230469","id":"17231563"}
{"by":"xyzzy123","time":"1539548833","timestamp":"2018-10-14 20:27:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh wow. There is an old phrase “rush the growler” in English and I wonder if this word “crowler” is related.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Ok yeah, I see it’s “can growler”.","parent":"18214745","id":"18215128"}
{"by":"avian","time":"1415960814","timestamp":"2014-11-14 10:26:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If you just put a static \u0026quot;Hello World\u0026quot; webpage on a server and try to benchmark it with something generic like `ab`, yes, HTTPS appears to be several times slower than HTTP.\u003cp\u003eCan you suggest a benchmark tool that can be used to give a more realistic figure than `ab`? I know jmeter can do session caching, but I find its interface baffling and I can\u0026#x27;t find a pre-made configuration.\u003cp\u003eI recently compared performance of my home ARM server when serving my blog through HTTP and HTTPS:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2014/11/cubietruck_ssl_performance/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.tablix.org\u0026#x2F;~avian\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;cubietru...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8606087","id":"8606519"}
{"by":"jimmytidey","time":"1474879460","timestamp":"2016-09-26 08:44:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rather than seeking a technical solution, I wonder if there is a social one.\u003cp\u003eIf Google promised to upweight DDOSed articles in their (news) rankings in perpetuity, that\u0026#x27;s a strong incentive not to DDOS.  It also makes sense that material one person is spending resource trying to suppress is extremely likely to be interesting to others, so it\u0026#x27;s not necessarily a bad experience for someone using the Google news.\u003cp\u003eObviously, in the short term it\u0026#x27;s also useful if they can link to a cached copy that is still working. A systemic Streisand effect.","parent":"12579382","id":"12580251"}
{"by":"forgottenpass","time":"1392333432","timestamp":"2014-02-13 23:17:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I didn\u0026#x27;t say don\u0026#x27;t call the cops. I was speaking to a single line of your post, the one I quoted.","parent":"7235225","id":"7235384"}
{"by":"Keyframe","time":"1385934974","timestamp":"2013-12-01 21:56:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Once Bitcoin starts moving with fundamentals. I don\u0026#x27;t think it will happen soon, or at all though.","parent":"6829280","id":"6829557"}
{"by":"mLuby","time":"1534533777","timestamp":"2018-08-17 19:22:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate to say it, but the writing is strange; Hacker Noon should have someone proofread it.","parent":"17773828","id":"17785105"}
{"by":"drzaiusapelord","time":"1404316926","timestamp":"2014-07-02 16:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Holle knew they were going to use his car in a robbery. I imagine most juries would still punish even if they knew of nullification. The parent poster mislead you into thinking Holle was ignorant of what the car was used for.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d convict him considering the circumstances. He is an accomplice.","parent":"7977198","id":"7977745"}
{"by":"ni-recruit","time":"1525459603","timestamp":"2018-05-04 18:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Native Instruments GmbH | Software Developer C++, Linux System Administrator, Embedded Linux Engineer | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time\u003cp\u003eNative Instruments is a leading manufacturer of software and hardware for computer-based audio production and DJing. Our mission is to develop innovative, fully-integrated solutions for all musical styles and professions. We push technological boundaries and open up new creative horizons for professionals and amateurs alike.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re looking for people with both the left and right brain fully engaged – exceptional individuals with strong analytical minds and a passion for music and technology.\u003cp\u003eC++ Developers to help us evolve our MASCHINE, KOMPLETE, and TRAKTOR software.\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\u0026#x2F;product-creation-development\u0026#x2F;software-developer-c\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\u0026#x2F;p...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinux loving System Administrators to evolve our IT infrastructure to keep pace with our organisation’s growing global needs.\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\u0026#x2F;operations\u0026#x2F;linux-system-administrator\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\u0026#x2F;o...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbedded Linux Engineers to create new hardware products for music producers and DJs.\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\u0026#x2F;product-creation-development\u0026#x2F;embedded-linux-engineer\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\u0026#x2F;p...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFind out more and apply here:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.native-instruments.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;career-center\u0026#x2F;berlin\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003erecruiting@native-instruments.de","parent":"16967543","id":"16997165"}
{"by":"shmerl","time":"1425673726","timestamp":"2015-03-06 20:28:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; They are entities created to obtain profits\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo. It\u0026#x27;s a fake logic often used to excuse of kind of crooked behavior. This doesn\u0026#x27;t fly. Crooks are crooks, whether they are a company or not. Companies have those who drive them. If those people at the head can\u0026#x27;t control their own companies not to be crooks - too bad for them, they bear the responsibility.","parent":"9157963","id":"9159375"}
{"by":"godot","time":"1517438138","timestamp":"2018-01-31 22:35:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My guess is the convenience of having Linux pre-installed instead of having to go through a new installation yourself?\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t own either, so I wouldn\u0026#x27;t know for sure, but I think it\u0026#x27;s somewhat valid that not every high level developer nowadays want to deal with installing Linux OSes. Having Ubuntu preinstalled is welcoming for a lot of the dev userbase who comes from a Macbook world expecting things to be plug and play.","parent":"16276945","id":"16278168"}
{"by":"jcranmer","time":"1523551423","timestamp":"2018-04-12 16:43:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is indisputable at this point that Autopilot happily steers cars into the concrete barrier.\u003cp\u003eIf Tesla does not share some responsibility (in a legal sense) for this crash, then under what circumstances would they share responsibility?","parent":"16822334","id":"16822647"}
{"by":"iamshs","time":"1525216756","timestamp":"2018-05-01 23:19:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Professor mentioned in this article still has what seems like foreign educated students working in his lab, so maybe he has put in additional measures already? \n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;people.ee.duke.edu\u0026#x2F;~drsmith\u0026#x2F;people.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;people.ee.duke.edu\u0026#x2F;~drsmith\u0026#x2F;people.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16968560","id":"16972655"}
{"by":"jashkenas","time":"1378409270","timestamp":"2013-09-05 19:27:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With a byline from our very own \u0026quot;thejefflarson\u0026quot; (on HN). That\u0026#x27;s a lovely thing to see.","parent":"6336178","id":"6336349"}
{"by":"burgerbrain","time":"1313171746","timestamp":"2011-08-12 17:55:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The social experiment revealed that there are in fact people miserable enough in this world to senselessly steal from such a good will fund.  In fact, so miserable that they see fit to even brag about it and pretend to themselves their actions were noble.  The experiment revealed that the name of one such miserable person is Sam Odio.","parent":"2878147","id":"2878369"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1438981364","timestamp":"2015-08-07 21:02:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is it a bad thing for Kim Dotcom to make money by using copyrighted works without the permission of the copyright holders, but a good thing for Microsoft to do it?\u003cp\u003eEdit: my works are protected by copyright just as much as anything Megaupload hosted. You appear to believe that the license on them is not legally binding. In which case, fair enough, but then standard copyright applies, which doesn\u0026#x27;t give anyone permission to redistribute them. As for malice, you repeatedly said you wanted to see Microsoft violate these licenses intentionally in order to invalidate them, so you seem to think it would be a good thing even if it\u0026#x27;s not what they actually did in this case.\u003cp\u003eEdit edit: you\u0026#x27;re right, if I release X and the license for X is invalid, then I have released X with no terms of use. With no terms of use, then the standard copyright protections written into the laws of the relevant jurisdictions apply without modification. In the case of US copyright law (which applies to both me and Microsoft) that says they can\u0026#x27;t redistribute my stuff without my permission. \u0026quot;No terms of use\u0026quot; does not equate to \u0026quot;therefore you can do anything you want.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eEdit the third: what do you mean, \u0026quot;default \u003ci\u003eback\u003c/i\u003e to you\u0026quot;? If you\u0026#x27;re right and the license holds no weight, then I never gave up those rights in the first place.\u003cp\u003eEdit the last: so your theory is that the part of my license which says \u0026quot;you can redistribute this\u0026quot; is legally valid, but the part which says \u0026quot;under the following conditions\u0026quot; is not? That\u0026#x27;s certainly an interesting legal theory. I am not convinced, to put it mildly.\u003cp\u003eOK, one more: how should those conditions be written in order to be valid?","parent":"10024989","id":"10025003"}
{"by":"Siecje","time":"1452826712","timestamp":"2016-01-15 02:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Allowed buyers to take back payments they’d made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button (if you aren’t aware of this “feature” that’s because Bitcoin was only just changed to allow it\u003cp\u003eWhat \u0026quot;feature\u0026quot; was recently added? This has always been a problem with BTC.","parent":"10905118","id":"10906827"}
{"by":"Igglyboo","time":"1417015626","timestamp":"2014-11-26 15:27:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"node.js is the new PHP for hip web developers who read HN. It\u0026#x27;s still a relatively unheard of platform to most people and mocked by a lot as well.\u003cp\u003eI love it though.","parent":"8662562","id":"8662705"}
{"by":"perezd","time":"1232226604","timestamp":"2009-01-17 21:10:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to know the answer to this too, I feel like there are a ton of viable options out there now, but I am waiting to see who stands out as defacto.\u003cp\u003eThe ZumoDrive/iTunes integration is truly innovative, though. Majorly cool!","parent":"438410","id":"438571"}
{"by":"discordance","time":"1497498323","timestamp":"2017-06-15 03:45:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not in volumes that count","parent":"14557441","id":"14557801"}
{"by":"vinhboy","time":"1277529286","timestamp":"2010-06-26 05:14:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Move to New York City and make $500,000\" -- Ok where do I sign up?","parent":"1463044","id":"1463153"}
{"by":"sp332","time":"1387630914","timestamp":"2013-12-21 13:01:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used to have a box of crummy line-feed paper that I used in a dot matrix printer hooked up to my Apple IIe. I liked the endlessness of the accordion-fold paper. Also I felt like it was very cool (and a bit surreal) to take data that is inside the computer and print it out and leave it in piles on the desk. I wasn\u0026#x27;t tied to a tiny screen anymore...\u003cp\u003eI just re-watched Colossus: The Forbin Project and I thought it was funny how you could tell that the paper was much higher-quality than the stuff I had in my box. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage\u0026amp;v=vn0cz7vYOcc#t=36\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?feature=player_detailpage\u0026amp;v=vn0...\u003c/a\u003e \u0026lt;- should skip to 36 seconds in","parent":"6946533","id":"6946557"}
{"by":"ryanSrich","time":"1463615705","timestamp":"2016-05-18 23:55:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. Facebook is one of those incredibly evil companies that has duped the public into giving them all of their data. There\u0026#x27;s no going back either.","parent":"11726907","id":"11726984"}
{"by":"mistermann","time":"1484255507","timestamp":"2017-01-12 21:11:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let\u0026#x27;s approach it this way, in an attempt to clarify \u003ci\u003ewhere\u003c/i\u003e it is we disagree:  do you believe there is a single instance in recent scientific history of peer pressure being used to encourage\u0026#x2F;discourage certain ideas within the scientific community?\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t forget, sometimes you don\u0026#x27;t see certain things because they have been eliminated, and a natural reaction might be to assume that they never existed.  The idea that disagreements occur in professional environments I don\u0026#x27;t think is very controversial on HN, but what I seem to be hearing today is that HN believes that these disagreements do not occur in the field of science.  There is certainly a very long history of disagreement in science, it is one of the primary strengths of the scientific method.  And yet now, it has disappeared?  That would certainly appear to be the case, all I\u0026#x27;m saying is, I doubt that is the actual reality.","parent":"13385939","id":"13386155"}
{"by":"brooklyn_ashey","time":"1498492388","timestamp":"2017-06-26 15:53:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We are talking about real jobs now, the ones with real coding interviews because they pay real money and come with stability and opportunity within an exciting company-- just to clarify.  DHH said something about this recently and how he could not do a bubble sort if his life depended on it or something to that effect. So, yeah. You\u0026#x27;re right. And these respected people need to start doing something about this gated community of tech. The thing-- well, one of the many things-- people need to start getting honest about is how we interview and what we consider \u0026quot;skill\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;merit\u0026quot; and if that thing should be the thing we select for. If the interview system is all about how well you can memorize \u0026quot;Cracking the Coding Interview\u0026quot; and the like and then how well you can act like you are then \u0026quot;thinking it through at sight, never before having seen it\u0026quot; (which is exactly what it\u0026#x27;s about now in this age of bootcamp prep for bootcamp prep for bootcamp), then isn\u0026#x27;t the interview system selecting for a very particular type of person? I\u0026#x27;d say that person has a lot of time on their hands and a desperate need to get a job in programming. That person somehow bought that time with loans they are scared to death they will never be able to pay back (they probably won\u0026#x27;t) because they are career changers, or they are young or youngish- still parentally funded--- or just still parentally funded. Or their spouse or partner has $$ work and they can afford to take the time to practice these things to be competitive. I\u0026#x27;m sure there is an exception of one woman, against all odds here, but I have not yet met her. Please, give her a shout out! So, basically this tech interview process filters for young people with money and leisure time to practice the \u0026quot;skill\u0026quot; of programming until they can whiteboard like Marlon Brando. Not to ding algorithms- they are cool and all, but you see what I\u0026#x27;m saying. We are trying to convince ourselves that we are still pre post-labor. And the cracks are showing when labor is now a gated community  that likes to hire Ivy League Grads and likes to keep out people of color, women, people over 35,etc...and then likes to also get itself into the new - well, I won\u0026#x27;t give it a name... let\u0026#x27;s call it the H1B program for short.","parent":"14633590","id":"14637719"}
{"by":"nnethercote","time":"1400099770","timestamp":"2014-05-14 20:36:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This discussion sums up one of the great challenges for browser vendors -- satisfying users with wildly different hardware.","parent":"7744233","id":"7746243"}
{"by":"geebee","time":"1478188194","timestamp":"2016-11-03 15:49:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;since men entering the teaching profession also show the exact same data\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis is really interesting, could you provide a citation?","parent":"12863328","id":"12865002"}
{"by":"smanek","time":"1220471407","timestamp":"2008-09-03 19:50:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course active desktop is still around.\u003cp\u003eIt lives on in mac widgets, the vista sidebar, and so on.","parent":"294126","id":"294150"}
{"by":"justinph","time":"1508691213","timestamp":"2017-10-22 16:53:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn\u0026#x27;t seem very innovative to me. Insurance companies are already taking this into account. I recently purchased a new vehicle (Subaru) with active safety features (EyeSight). The insurance is the least I\u0026#x27;ve ever paid, by a pretty decent amount. The insurance company (Geico) specifically asked if I had the EyeSight package when I signed up.","parent":"15526276","id":"15527683"}
{"by":"JBlue42","time":"1508610715","timestamp":"2017-10-21 18:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like LA b\u0026#x2F;c no one gives a crap since everyone is from somewhere else and the city just absorbs you.\u003cp\u003eMy home state of N Carolina has a lot of people move down for more affordable housing and decent jobs from up north. The city of Cary (near Raleigh) is casually joked about as the Central Area for Relocated Yankees.\u003cp\u003eNo one really cares outside of joking about their poor tastes in sports teams.","parent":"15521045","id":"15522887"}
{"by":"davi","time":"1261011135","timestamp":"2009-12-17 00:52:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK, while we're on the topic of useless numerology:\u003cp\u003eHow old are you in HN years? (ID of your most recent post / ID of your first post)\u003cp\u003eme: 1000140 / 174632 = 5.7 HN years\u003cp\u003eedw519 (current leader after pg): 999538 / 9357 = 107 HNyears\u003cp\u003eRIP, nickb: 685017 / 2649 = 259 HNyears\u003cp\u003emechanical_fish: 999416 / 22714 = 44 HNyears","parent":"1000011","id":"1000140"}
{"by":"Thnboi666","time":"1481745688","timestamp":"2016-12-14 20:01:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"so you mean lobbying groups for big oil aren\u0026#x27;t involved in the legislative process? hm. coulda fooled me.\u003cp\u003eI literally formed my opinion this in grade 12 earth science class, where I was first shown inconvenient truth followed by a direct rebuttal. I found gore to be unconvincing, but I found the rebuttal even worse.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll see if I can find the book for cheap. From reading reviews it\u0026#x27;s fairly clear that the author isn\u0026#x27;t exactly unbiased or entirely fact-based.\u003cp\u003eyou\u0026#x27;ve got to be fucking kidding me if you think \u0026quot;intuition\u0026quot; is unrelated the self-interest. instead of side-stepping, might you answer my questions?\u003cp\u003eare you truly saying that politicians and public figures who are involved with oil companies and against climate change are doing so out of anything but self-interest?\u003cp\u003eultimately your argument is fallacious. you\u0026#x27;re dismissing my more salient points by attacking my reasoning process rather than my argument itself. I\u0026#x27;m just as self-interested as they are, right? I only believe what I want to believe, I\u0026#x27;m just intuiting and agreeing with my peers.\u003cp\u003eAre you truly telling me that someone looks at industry, like actually looking at factories and the way they operate, and their intuition is that this is good for the environment.","parent":"13179042","id":"13179159"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1368941342","timestamp":"2013-05-19 05:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, that's correct.  I have lexical on the brain.\u003cp\u003eI just think saying not to use $_ in real programs is a bit extreme.  Truthfully, I don't use it in for loops at all, but my code invariably uses a lot of maps and greps.  To throw away the expressiveness of map and grep because there \u003ci\u003emay\u003c/i\u003e be a problem in some third party library I use at some point is too high a price for me.  Especially because by the nature of how I use map and grep I think I'm less likely to run into problem code in those cases, and if I do I think it will be fairly obvious.","parent":"5731903","id":"5731950"}
{"by":"aklemm","time":"1541447712","timestamp":"2018-11-05 19:55:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The part about \u0026quot;parents seem to benefit more\u0026quot; is questionable. There ARE benefits, but I\u0026#x27;d say good parents are doing a service as much as they are exercising a privilege.","parent":"18384927","id":"18385379"}
{"by":"newlunarfire","time":"1529526317","timestamp":"2018-06-20 20:25:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might sound dumb to you but your solution is used by Japanese train engineers before leaving at a station and trains in Japan are really efficient and on-schedule.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.allaboutlean.com\u0026#x2F;pointing-and-calling\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.allaboutlean.com\u0026#x2F;pointing-and-calling\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17359284","id":"17359418"}
{"by":"bdamos","time":"1435986160","timestamp":"2015-07-04 05:02:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have two minor comments:\u003cp\u003e1) Linking to the original HN hiring post is helpful, and\u003cp\u003e2) I\u0026#x27;m on a poor internet connection now, and this page took about a minute to load. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hnhiring.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hnhiring.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e and the original July 2015 thread (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9812245\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9812245\u003c/a\u003e) load in ~5 seconds.","parent":"9829023","id":"9829290"}
{"by":"cprecioso","time":"1487712827","timestamp":"2017-02-21 21:33:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;d be necessary. Google\u0026#x27;s stated that SafetyNet\u0026#x27;s purpose is not excluding power-users, but ensuring the security model of the OS has not been compromised, in order to activate certain sensitive functions (e.g. Android Pay).\u003cp\u003eGiven that developments in the root community are few but well-known, it\u0026#x27;d only take a weekly visit to the XDA Developers forum by an intern to learn about any new rooting method, and not many resources to successfully block them.\u003cp\u003eNo need for a complicated (and expensive) information gathering and mining rig _for SafetyNet_. Could they be gathering that information with other purposes? Given that Play Services de-facto has root powers within Android, maybe.","parent":"13699569","id":"13700244"}
{"by":"jmount","time":"1264810336","timestamp":"2010-01-30 00:12:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The deal has always been the iTunes store APP runs on all devices synced to the iTunes account.  So a single user can already be running it on a flotilla of iPhones and iPod Touches.","parent":"1087788","id":"1087933"}
{"by":"benevol","time":"1487874908","timestamp":"2017-02-23 18:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It hasn\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eYou need to remember the fact that already Snowden\u0026#x27;s revelations have proven that the NSA and other government agencies all have specific budgets for astro turfing activities (manipulating the public opinion by massively participating in online discussions).\u003cp\u003eAnd a couple of days ago, there was a nice post on Reddit\u0026#x27;s front page summing up the situation on Reddit. Reddit is basically completely compromised by whoever has lots of money (government, big industries, etc). Any company can buy astro turfing services nowadays.\u003cp\u003eSo no, you can\u0026#x27;t trust public online discussion anymore. Not on Reddit and not here. Unless for topics you are \u003ci\u003eabsolutely\u003c/i\u003e certain that no economic interest is part of the equation.","parent":"13716147","id":"13716415"}
{"by":"mhluongo","time":"1347556680","timestamp":"2012-09-13 17:18:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've been outted -_-\u003cp\u003eSeriously, though- I agree with the last few paragraphs, but I think there's a \"to me\" that's missing throughout this article. Anyone working somewhere solely for the ping pong (outside of professional table tennis players I guess...) is probably making a mistake. But a break doesn't have to be a distraction.\u003cp\u003eWhen I'm deep in a dev problem, sometimes I need to take a break to digest a problem. At my last job, I didn't have a place to do that. Sitting quietly in the break room was considered strange, and I shouldn't have to make-believe I'm  programming to take some time to understand an issue.\u003cp\u003eThe office we're in now has a common area where I can talk to someone, sit quietly, play a casual game of ping pong- and then get back to work. I recognize many people don't want to mix work and play, but shouldn't they recognize it's okay if I do?","parent":"4511572","id":"4517368"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1496219080","timestamp":"2017-05-31 08:24:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;d be a lot happier with being out for that time rather than having to replace a bunch of hardware.","parent":"14450950","id":"14451068"}
{"by":"outworlder","time":"1533682606","timestamp":"2018-08-07 22:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a problem of the first generation Prius then. Even a Nissan Leaf has absolutely no problem climbing mountains (they will murder the battery charge though – ask me how do I know – although you\u0026#x27;ll get some of it back as you go back down). A Chevy Volt would do it even better, and that\u0026#x27;s an actual hybrid.\nElectric engines have outstanding power relative to their size. The Leaf actual engine is the size of a football.","parent":"17710779","id":"17711671"}
{"by":"RcouF1uZ4gsC","time":"1543892897","timestamp":"2018-12-04 03:08:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If Microsoft really does this and makes the Chromium based browser the default in Windows, what is the value proposition of installing Chrome? Presumably all the websites will work exactly as they do in Chrome and it will be no faster or slower?","parent":"18595069","id":"18595760"}
{"by":"orf","time":"1410622352","timestamp":"2014-09-13 15:32:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks awesome, one thing though: \u0026quot;All code is stored in XML files\u0026quot;. I\u0026#x27;m not sure I see the advantage of this, what else is stored in the XML other than the code and why can\u0026#x27;t it be stored on its own?","parent":"8311844","id":"8312636"}
{"by":"geuis","time":"1298075863","timestamp":"2011-02-19 00:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its a website, but does have potential as a mobile app at some point.","parent":"2237796","id":"2237921"}
{"by":"cvaidya1986","time":"1542909631","timestamp":"2018-11-22 18:00:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would be a great acquisition for Apple for Apple Notes!","parent":"18509262","id":"18511416"}
{"by":"Dewie","time":"1427468645","timestamp":"2015-03-27 15:04:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How precious. I thought that the novelty of \u0026quot;my website is a terminal\u0026quot; had worn off by now, but oh well.\u003cp\u003eOne thing which is subpar about such an interface is that you basically have to type \u0026quot;help\u0026quot; unless you just want to blindly guess what the commands are. This is like a landing page that has a button that says \u0026quot;show what sites I can go to from here\u0026quot;: why not just show my options straight away? Unnecessary indirection.","parent":"9276188","dead":true,"id":"9276681"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1257346047","timestamp":"2009-11-04 14:47:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; People don't work for free. They don't pour out their passion in the cause of making you wealthy.\u003cp\u003eWhich is true.  They are doing it for 'free' because they obtain some other, non-monetary benefit.  Think about this site, for instance, where we sit around churning out content for free.","parent":"921733","id":"921750"}
{"by":"mcherm","time":"1394109623","timestamp":"2014-03-06 12:40:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right at the very top of the page, they explain that. in case of \u0026quot;Thread Breakage\u0026quot; you should \u0026quot;try re-threading the machine\u0026quot;, and also \u0026quot;make sure the thread goes through all guides\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eIt appears that their web designer has taken this advice to heart.","parent":"7351838","id":"7353304"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1503475897","timestamp":"2017-08-23 08:11:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; What\u0026#x27;s the result if the other driver is driving without insurance, despite it being mandatory?\u003cp\u003eIn some countries there are pools that you can tap into if the other party is not insured.","parent":"15076693","id":"15079542"}
{"by":"tkahn6","time":"1330879631","timestamp":"2012-03-04 16:47:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I started at 9 but I don't think you have much to be jealous about. I did it because it was fun and I probably had a bit of a head start in terms of debugging skills, but really I don't think the intellectual maturity of someone \u0026#60;= 13 is great enough to severely impact the trajectory of your programming skills and where you find yourself in terms of programming skills at the age of 20 or something.\u003cp\u003eWhat I know about software architecture and programming concepts now at the age of 20 entirely dwarfs the accumulated knowledge and skills I gained from 9 til 13. I just did not have the intellectual maturity to \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e understand in a conscious way concepts like closures, types (sums vs products, unions vs records), data structures, algorithm performance (other than a visceral understanding of what is faster), static vs instance functions/variables, manual memory management. And so much more.\u003cp\u003eI think my knowledge and skillset grows exponentially year over year, but in the beginning I did not have much to compound and not enough maturity to gather and own much knowledge and experience. Would I be roughly where I'm at now if I had started at 14 or 15? I've thought about this a lot and I don't know.\u003cp\u003eOther thoughts on this are appreciated.\u003cp\u003eTo be clear, I don't for a second regret the time I spent early on learning how to program; it was so much fun and intellectually stimulating. I'm actually quite proud of how early I started.","parent":"3663023","id":"3663092"}
{"by":"datashovel","time":"1444209696","timestamp":"2015-10-07 09:21:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually think the entire industry is changing.  Historically speaking people in the industry were rightfully \u0026quot;scared\u0026quot; of companies like IBM and Microsoft.\u003cp\u003eToday I think the industry is evolving to where companies like Microsoft and IBM need to be scared of the industry and its perception of how they behave, and whether and how much they contribute back to the community at large (whether by open source projects, or simply an undying and palpable desire to push the industry forward with innovation that will improve everyone\u0026#x27;s lives).","parent":"10343696","id":"10344975"}
{"by":"hienyimba","time":"1487953769","timestamp":"2017-02-24 16:29:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do respect your method but consider the fact that \u0026quot;composing Romantic messages\u0026quot; is not the strong suit of lots of people.","parent":"13724830","id":"13725057"}
{"by":"TimBowen","time":"1234233533","timestamp":"2009-02-10 02:38:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a really interesting story even if it is embellished or flat out false, good read.","parent":"474036","id":"474582"}
{"by":"avar","time":"1269264787","timestamp":"2010-03-22 13:33:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's an incomplete analogy. Specific Open Source projects  aren't democracies Open Source at large is, or something resembling it.\u003cp\u003eI installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 and didn't like the button arrangement. It was trivial to fix it by just doing: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stownsend42/light-themes\u003cp\u003eIf enough people don't like the default setup of Ubuntu someone will just fork it. In fact there are already three forks that I know of: Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu.","parent":"1210114","id":"1210234"}
{"by":"arca_vorago","time":"1516266003","timestamp":"2018-01-18 09:00:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People who immediately accuse others of antisemitism at any mention of Israel or the Jewish religion are not interested in any kind of intellectually honest discussion.","parent":"16175652","id":"16175684"}
{"by":"crispyambulance","time":"1505829469","timestamp":"2017-09-19 13:57:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course they don\u0026#x27;t care about people. The social network that the members enjoy is merely a side-effect of the true business. Sort of like the fact that a cow pasture is not really about the cows\u0026#x27; enjoyment but, when you get down to it, hamburgers. Amazingly most people are still as oblivious to this concept as cows are before becoming hamburgers.\u003cp\u003eWhat I am wondering about is the possibility of a social network that is deliberately and intentionally about being JUST a social network and NOT some kind of complex mechanism for market research and exploitation.","parent":"15284510","id":"15284617"}
{"by":"f292","time":"1394719878","timestamp":"2014-03-13 14:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the cloud version, we are mainly using C#, Python + JavaScript; and generate the tree by firstly accessing the internal XML of the spreadsheet file.","parent":"7391651","id":"7391861"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1537330835","timestamp":"2018-09-19 04:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t even understand what you mean. I have read quite a few government papers (mainly federal) and they usually were well researched. I don\u0026#x27;t know how things are on a local level but the politicians in Congress have a lot of well researched data available if they want to listen (which they often don\u0026#x27;t).","parent":"18021452","id":"18021637"}
{"by":"diminoten","time":"1379101949","timestamp":"2013-09-13 19:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Arrests are allowed to happen to innocent people.  Arrests aren\u0026#x27;t convictions, convictions are.\u003cp\u003ePeople still get trials.  They still get due process.  If the DEA\u0026#x2F;FBI can\u0026#x27;t provide evidence to the state\u0026#x2F;federal prosecutor such that a person is found guilty of a crime by a jury of his peers, then a person does not get convicted.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re saying the government is committing thought-crime.  Just because a person owns a gun doesn\u0026#x27;t mean they\u0026#x27;re going to kill their neighbor, and just because the FBI\u0026#x2F;CIA\u0026#x2F;NSA\u0026#x2F;Local PD \u0026quot;could\u0026quot; abuse its power, does not mean they \u0026quot;do\u0026quot;.","parent":"6382410","id":"6382703"}
{"by":"fred_durst","time":"1407168721","timestamp":"2014-08-04 16:12:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How did this make it this high up the front page so quickly with 10 votes?\u003cp\u003eAlso, redundant content.","parent":"8132148","id":"8132457"}
{"by":"ashark","time":"1514499348","timestamp":"2017-12-28 22:15:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Olive Gardens around here are worse than the middle tier of frozen Italian dinners you can grab at the grocery store, these days (they\u0026#x27;ve definitely gotten worse over the last 10-15 years—I think they\u0026#x27;ve preferred lowering quality over raising prices, though they\u0026#x27;ve done that a bit, too). Some dishes are worse than \u003ci\u003echeap\u003c/i\u003e frozen dinners, even. Last time I went it seriously had the taste and consistency (and general watery-ness) of microwaved food, too. Actually that last part\u0026#x27;s true for most of the non-fine-dining Italian I\u0026#x27;ve had around here lately, including a few mom \u0026amp; pop places, not just chains. If the cheap to middling sections of the frozen aisle are better than what you\u0026#x27;re making... please stop. Then again, it sells for some reason, so who am I to say.\u003cp\u003e[EDIT] and to back up Marpster below, it is nonetheless \u0026quot;fancy\u0026quot; around here to many (Missouri), including those who could certainly afford better for their special nights out.","parent":"16024262","id":"16025444"}
{"by":"babble","time":"1291780967","timestamp":"2010-12-08 04:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gotcha, thanks. Was just curious. Good luck and congrats.","parent":"1981825","id":"1981829"}
{"by":"wyldfire","time":"1470411519","timestamp":"2016-08-05 15:38:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; take, for instance, the inevitable \u0026quot;stop the world\u0026quot; issue during garbage collection. ... Rust is safe indeed but, unfortunately, far from fast. By the moment of writing this article, it is comparable to Java, Go, and Haskell regarding performance\u003cp\u003e...and then he goes on to show a boxplot graph of (likely) CPU-bound benchmarks.  C++ pays a penalty (~1.7x?) and so does Rust (~2.5x).\u003cp\u003eWell, who cares about CPU?! Yes, okay, lots of you.  But if you really care, you rewrite that inner loop of your C++ system in C.  And if you really, really, care, you rewrite that inner loop in assembly (or corresponding intrinsics).  So, hey, here\u0026#x27;s what I care about: latency!  Many systems designed in C\u0026#x2F;C++ are thus because until recently it was just about the only game in town for predictable low latencies (refer to the \u0026quot;stop the world GC\u0026quot; paragraph above).\u003cp\u003eAlso, there\u0026#x27;s no other language out there offering both memory safety and the ability to do things like I\u0026#x2F;O and system control with memory-mapped registers.\u003cp\u003eLinking your rust code against C libraries and executables is not-super-painful.  So phase-in of rust code is easier than other languages described.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; On the one hand, it\u0026#x27;s not bad to make programmers ponder if their variables are stored in the stack or heap and if they can or cannot be handled by several threads at a time.\u003cp\u003eIndeed!  All the C\u0026#x2F;C++ static checkers in the world can only hint \u0026quot;Hey this might not be safe, but WTF I have no idea...\u0026quot; only to be declared [FALSE_POSITIVE, IGNORE].\u003cp\u003eBTW authors of static checkers (like the translators at PVS-Studio) have a vested interest in unsafe languages like C\u0026#x2F;C++.","parent":"12232385","id":"12233123"}
{"by":"packetslave","time":"1381354837","timestamp":"2013-10-09 21:40:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And it\u0026#x27;s going to get even better:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;We intend to soon extend the program to:\u003cp\u003e* Widely used web servers: Apache httpd, lighttpd, nginx\u003cp\u003e* Popular SMTP services: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim\u003cp\u003e* Toolchain security improvements for GCC, binutils, and llvm\u003cp\u003e* Virtual private networking: OpenVPN\u0026quot;","parent":"6523434","id":"6524065"}
{"by":"heartbreak","time":"1478676037","timestamp":"2016-11-09 07:20:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"America decided it wants to move forward with the candidate it just elected for President. I may not agree with the candidate, but that\u0026#x27;s the decision that was made. That\u0026#x27;s how America decided to move forward.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps you meant that the left needs to decide how it will move forward given this result.","parent":"12906978","id":"12907052"}
{"by":"emsy","time":"1445725852","timestamp":"2015-10-24 22:30:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s good for browser passwords, but finding out that your 64 character password can\u0026#x27;t be pasted in the system dialog after erverything is set up is extremely frustrating (there is a hard to find command line workaround though). I think Blizzard enforces the no-paste rule in its Battle.net launcher (that you can\u0026#x27;t trick) but I\u0026#x27;m not 100% sure.","parent":"10443055","id":"10445119"}
{"by":"Lazare","time":"1423707355","timestamp":"2015-02-12 02:15:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that\u0026#x27;s fascinating.  Thanks for providing some important context.","parent":"9036890","id":"9036984"}
{"by":"gamache","time":"1451225131","timestamp":"2015-12-27 14:05:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There must be some OCR errors in there -- the system call \u0026quot;create\u0026quot; was spelled with an \u0026quot;e\u0026quot;!","parent":"10794189","id":"10797464"}
{"by":"teslaberry","time":"1471657049","timestamp":"2016-08-20 01:37:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The iss has only two possible resources to be exploited for profit in space. Both of them by conventional unmanned satellite companies.\u003cp\u003e1) the possibility or repurposing it\u0026#x27;s solar cells.\n2) generic mass in orbit to be used for orbital inertia or counterjettisoned in orbit and used as propellant.\u003cp\u003eMost likely, the iss is just a liability or at best, worthless.","parent":"12319116","dead":true,"id":"12324636"}
{"by":"JshWright","time":"1375458201","timestamp":"2013-08-02 15:43:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For being a slightly less useful subset of CRIME, BREACH sure does have a solid marketing plan...","parent":"6146062","id":"6147629"}
{"by":"semi-extrinsic","time":"1516082241","timestamp":"2018-01-16 05:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think he meant that when Japan gave that loan, they took a significant risk (loan could very well default) in order to help fight polio. Other countries did nothing. Yet now Japan looks like the bad guy.","parent":"16156121","id":"16156149"}
{"by":"ethbro","time":"1488337950","timestamp":"2017-03-01 03:12:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s because normally the CEO is fired after presiding over a fuckup of this magnitude. (The rampant racism and sexism, not just this latest)","parent":"13760542","id":"13760677"}
{"by":"KillerRabbitt","time":"1525615525","timestamp":"2018-05-06 14:05:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This depends on several factors such as:\u003cp\u003e1. What are the goals of the project?\u003cp\u003e2. Are there multiple people involved and do you want a formal corporate structure?\u003cp\u003e3. Does the project generate significant revenue and will there be tax implications?\u003cp\u003e4. Are you willing to deal with additional paperwork and overhead?\u003cp\u003e5. Do you want limited liability if you decide want to borrow money?","parent":"17002913","id":"17006447"}
{"by":"danielha","time":"1205869862","timestamp":"2008-03-18 19:51:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When it comes from a VC. :)","parent":"140072","id":"140116"}
{"by":"ajdlinux","time":"1501212724","timestamp":"2017-07-28 03:32:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IDK, the vast majority of my international purchases have been delivered by AusPost - it\u0026#x27;s actually \u003ci\u003edomestic\u003c/i\u003e PC parts shops and eBay sellers that I have the most problems with as a lot of them choose to use companies like Fastway and don\u0026#x27;t make it clear on their websites who they ship with.","parent":"14871653","id":"14871754"}
{"by":"regal","time":"1375721019","timestamp":"2013-08-05 16:43:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very often, the marriages where partners never considered nor discussed potential exit strategies should things not work out are the very same ones that, just like with the business partnerships where this is neglected, end up taking messy detours through the legal system on the way out.","parent":"6160771","id":"6161176"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1396475295","timestamp":"2014-04-02 21:48:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;What exactly is stopping us from doing this?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;...geometry.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve had too many conversations like this, where I pause to think \u0026quot;where do I begin to fill the vast gaps of ignorance such that they will even begin to be properly equipped to understand the absurdity of their question?\u0026quot;","parent":"7518877","id":"7519311"}
{"by":"Kialo","time":"1531087969","timestamp":"2018-07-08 22:12:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can \u0026quot;mark for review\u0026quot; claims that aren\u0026#x27;t clear, duplicates, etc...\u003cp\u003eMind you, we aren\u0026#x27;t a site for commenting or opining, but for capturing and visualizing the reasoning for your opinions.\u003cp\u003eThus to \u0026quot;show\u0026#x2F;capture\u0026quot; your opinion, you vote the individual claims and theses (in the case of multi thesis debates, like this one: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kialo.com\u0026#x2F;2027\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kialo.com\u0026#x2F;2027\u003c/a\u003e). Then later you can select the different perspectives (opinions) and see the reasoning of different individuals, all in the same document. Works best in team environments, as public users often only vote 5 claims.\u003cp\u003eWe tried agree\u0026#x2F;disagree, but this became problematic on mobile browsers.","parent":"17486341","id":"17486548"}
{"by":"grondilu","time":"1518283862","timestamp":"2018-02-10 17:31:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On reddit there is some kind of consensus that the series is great up until around episode 7, when it gets from bad to worse.\u003cp\u003eI personally did read about half the book until I lost interest.  So I guess the series and the book have \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c/i\u003e in common.  Anyway, from what I\u0026#x27;ve read the series is more or less true to the book, except from episode 7 when even I could notice some major differences (mainly the nature and motivations of the envoys).","parent":"16348315","id":"16348347"}
{"by":"aldanor","time":"1547318879","timestamp":"2019-01-12 18:47:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t find anything better than Monaco for myself. That\u0026#x27;s something about it aesthetically pleasing which I can\u0026#x27;t quite explain. Fira Code probably comes second.","parent":"18891540","id":"18892627"}
{"by":"nottorp","time":"1518703202","timestamp":"2018-02-15 14:00:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But this is stretchy, which would be mostly an annoyance in training.","parent":"16381955","id":"16383984"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1445866469","timestamp":"2015-10-26 13:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is wrong for so many reasons...\u003cp\u003e1. They\u0026#x27;re providing different valid signature, not changing the content of the communication itself.\u003cp\u003e2. Injecting anything into a valid response is a terrible idea. Broken cache, potentially breaking scripts relying on dom layout, messing up file fingerprints, etc. etc.\u003cp\u003e3. \u0026quot;It\u0026#x27;s not like the users \u0026quot;cannot\u0026quot; upgrade. They don\u0026#x27;t know how.\u0026quot; No, lots of people cannot upgrade. Corporate policies, hardware requirements, weird device backwards compatibility, and many other reasons may prevent you from upgrading a system.\u003cp\u003e4. \u0026quot;less savvy deployers of TLS would get an opportunity to mix SHA-1 with modern browsers\u0026quot; They\u0026#x27;ll be marked as insecure very soon - this is a pretty good reason not to serve sha1 cert to a modern browser.","parent":"10450535","id":"10451262"}
{"by":"chronic8k","time":"1501880592","timestamp":"2017-08-04 21:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which of the two outcomes do you prefer to happen:\u003cp\u003e1. True malware creator and seller is sent to prison.\u003cp\u003e2. True malware creator and seller is not sent to prison.\u003cp\u003eWhether he pleads guilty or not has nothing to do with him being a security researcher. I\u0026#x27;d much rather have more false positives than false negatives. You, and the rest of Europe, would too.","parent":"14932030","id":"14932239"}
{"by":"telesilla","time":"1528625105","timestamp":"2018-06-10 10:05:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m so glad I read this. I\u0026#x27;ve been driving a VW Golf with adaptive cruise control and enjoying its responsiveness in heavy traffic. Knowing that it doesn\u0026#x27;t work with stationary objects will really change how alert I keep my foot near the brake pedal. The first time I realise what adaptive cruise control was I was delighted but I\u0026#x27;ve become increasingly worried that I rely on it too much so I\u0026#x27;m interested to try driving a Tesla or similar vehicle to see how I react cognitively to a car that takes over more control. Anyone have any similar experience?","parent":"17274179","id":"17277418"}
{"by":"artursapek","time":"1363797887","timestamp":"2013-03-20 16:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Making changes to the code to bring support to new \"OS's\" in this case is easy as long we're talking about the webkit gang + Firefox, which makes up most users who will have interest in webapps.","parent":"5408389","id":"5408413"}
{"by":"jnicholasp","time":"1532021947","timestamp":"2018-07-19 17:39:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not affiliated with Optina and I don\u0026#x27;t know specifically what they\u0026#x27;re doing, but the classic symptom of Alzheimer\u0026#x27;s is the formation in the brain of amyloid plaques - and it appears to be the case that they also form on the retina, and can thus be detected by appropriate optical scans.","parent":"17561028","id":"17568667"}
{"by":"gregfjohnson","time":"1354503039","timestamp":"2012-12-03 02:50:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here is an attempt at an easy-going, matrix-oriented discussion of the FFT, together with quite a bit of motivation:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://home.gregfjohnson.com/fft\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://home.gregfjohnson.com/fft\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a really terse \"just the essence\" ruby implementation of the FFT:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://home.gregfjohnson.com/fftruby\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://home.gregfjohnson.com/fftruby\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4861960","id":"4863638"}
{"by":"tschellenbach","time":"1412757937","timestamp":"2014-10-08 08:45:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I really doubt the future of replacing cards is a smarter card  :)","parent":"8422928","id":"8425912"}
{"by":"madenine","time":"1476813714","timestamp":"2016-10-18 18:01:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Its frustrating when people assume any reference to AI means AGI or strong AI.","parent":"12736695","id":"12737057"}
{"by":"soup10","time":"1420702182","timestamp":"2015-01-08 07:29:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Might not be as long as you think, Android smartphones are making steady in-grounds on market share and the open-ness of the ecosystem makes it much more business and school friendly.   The apple stamp of approval process that requires everything to be pg-13 and closely monitors and restricts app\u0026#x27;s control of the device is crippling it for a variety of applications.\u003cp\u003eFor example, it\u0026#x27;s kind of sad that the only way to capture  high quality screen recordings is to jailbreak your device and install DisplayRecorder, and it\u0026#x27;s been that way for 5+ years.  Hardware supports been there, apple policy has not.","parent":"8854629","id":"8855381"}
{"by":"jdowdell","time":"1250627774","timestamp":"2009-08-18 20:36:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Flash has been on Linux longer than you think:\n\u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20000815054538/www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://web.archive.org/web/20000815054538/www.macromedia.com...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayer 8 skipped Linux because it was an interim release with a better graphics engine, and was replaced shortly by Player 9 with a faster logic engine. Unfortunately this was during the same time that YouTube first became popular. Historical notes here:\n\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.adobe.com/jd_archive/archives/2006/08/linux_observati.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.adobe.com/jd_archive/archives/2006/08/linux_obs...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Linux is a second-class citizen for Adobe\" Nah. There's not much chance of revenue for Creative Suite porting, but tools like Flex Builder, and runtimes like AIR, all bring Linux to parity... for instance:\n\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.adobe.com/jd_archive/archives/2008/03/what_airlinux_m.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.adobe.com/jd_archive/archives/2008/03/what_airl...\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2009/05/linux_journal_readers_choice_a.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2009/05/linux_journal_readers_choi...\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.adobe.com/jd_archive/archives/2007/10/flex_builder_li_1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.adobe.com/jd_archive/archives/2007/10/flex_buil...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe explosive thing is next year's devices -- both mobile and home wallscreens -- which use Linux operating systems in higher proportion than do laptops. Check out openscreenproject.org for context on how important Linux has become at Adobe.","parent":"770303","id":"771417"}
{"by":"Silhouette","time":"1469627516","timestamp":"2016-07-27 13:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eSeems far-fetched but I can see Microsoft slowly deprecating Win32. It would be similar to when Apple deprecated Carbon, only slower: they\u0026#x27;ll stop adding new features, they\u0026#x27;ll tell developers to avoid it for any new development, etc.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey\u0026#x27;d have to be really, really careful going down that path, though. Microsoft\u0026#x27;s biggest advantage in the OS landscape, aside from preinstallation deals, has long been the broad range of established software that is exclusive to Windows. It\u0026#x27;s tough to migrate your business to Apple laptops or Linux servers or tablets in the mobile workforce if several key applications that 1,000 of your staff have been using every working day for a decade don\u0026#x27;t run on those other platforms. It\u0026#x27;s a closed loop for software developers as well, because as long as your customers are almost all on Windows, there\u0026#x27;s little benefit to developing for other platforms concurrently.\u003cp\u003eWith so many business applications now offering web-based access, that exclusivity has already been eroded, and that process shows no sign of slowing down. If Microsoft were to nerf the long-established Windows APIs that \u0026quot;heavyweight\u0026quot; software like graphics and CAD packages rely on, that would force the redevelopment issue for those software developers, and I\u0026#x27;m not sure Microsoft would like the long term results. They might wind up with exclusive control of the main delivery channel on Windows, but that only matters if the developers and users are still on Windows at all. With gaming in particular, we\u0026#x27;ve seen in the past that one or two smash hits can be all it takes to establish a new platform, whether it\u0026#x27;s one of the consoles or mobile or just puzzle games via Facebook. With the resources available to Steam, that has to be a scary prospect for Microsoft.","parent":"12172397","id":"12172717"}
{"by":"ska","time":"1458591056","timestamp":"2016-03-21 20:10:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   Literally the entire content of my post [beyond quotes] was discussing past history concerning a single president.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nWhich is what I was responding to.  No windmills here.\u003cp\u003eI believe it\u0026#x27;s fine as a historical exercise, but useless with respect to the state of drug policy etc. today.  And think the effort much better targeted elsewhere as focusing on this piece of the history is, in my view, actively distracting from anything useful.  Vilifying Nixon is easy and boring.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, I think to the degree that it has traction, it does support a fallacious narrative about the current state of things - or at least is trotted out in support of it, which I\u0026#x27;ll grant is not quite the same thing.\u003cp\u003eJust my two cents.","parent":"11331415","id":"11331471"}
{"by":"knz","time":"1488643925","timestamp":"2017-03-04 16:12:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IIRC GIS exists in its current form because of the benefit in using it for land management. It\u0026#x27;s definitely a powerful tool to show climate change etc but unfortunately I think we are past that phase. Most people have made up their mind on the issue - typically along partisan lines. All the maps on the world can\u0026#x27;t change political belief if people are saturated with media about how it\u0026#x27;s all a hoax etc.\u003cp\u003eGreat point re data. The tools for dissemination of data are getting better and there is a growing open data movement within government. My own experience has been that greater education is needed for policy makers - they often fear releasing data in case it will be used against them or don\u0026#x27;t understand the potential benefits of releasing data. In the GIS world there has also been resistance due to policy makers wanting to recover the cost of data acquisition.","parent":"13791382","id":"13791460"}
{"by":"Mz","time":"1499202041","timestamp":"2017-07-04 21:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is probably more than that. I have health issues that tend to negatively impact nail growth. In my youth, my nails grew slowly and tended to be paper thin. Keeping them trimmed and short was not very challenging.\u003cp\u003eAfter getting a proper diagnosis in my mid thirties, I have gotten steadily healthier since then. Living without a car and doing a LOT of walking has played a significant role in my improved health.\u003cp\u003eOne unexpected result: My feet have better circulation, so my toenails grow faster and are thicker than they used to be. Keeping them adequately trimmed has become more challenging. This fact helps foster toenail injuries because overly long nails get caught on stuff and break more than they used to.\u003cp\u003eI can readily see that getting them removed would just make more sense than having them constantly injured if you are an ultra marathoner. I think walking or running a lot actively creates conflict for toenails, in part by causing them to grow faster and then exposing them to lots of opportunities to get banged up and what not.","parent":"14698197","id":"14698250"}
{"by":"prometheus_","time":"1257962113","timestamp":"2009-11-11 17:55:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why would you buy a marked-up mac to put ubuntu on it?","parent":"935506","id":"935650"}
{"by":"wdewind","time":"1274193105","timestamp":"2010-05-18 14:31:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think this guy really understands the issues at hand.  I'm pretty sure we know EXACTLY what happened, just not WHY.  Which is exactly why his \"10,000 foot view\" is completely useless.","parent":"1357358","id":"1357544"}
{"by":"kevstev","time":"1541600637","timestamp":"2018-11-07 14:23:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I knew these guys, IIRC, clojure originally came from an acquihired startup. This grew into a relatively small team working on an e-receipts project that was remote but largely based in Portland.\u003cp\u003eThe most interesting thing about that team was that it appeared that not just a beard, but an epic beard was required to on it. I keep in touch with one of them, but he has left the firm. The others... I should probably send a note to- those were good guys.\u003cp\u003eI guess more generally though, they are \u0026quot;off strategy\u0026quot; and clojure was not making inroads at Labs, at least at the time I had left. There was a lot of gravity towards only using Java on the backend, part of my friction with upper management was pushing node.js as a backend technology. My feeling on the Clojure guy was that they were a good team so they were left alone since they weren\u0026#x27;t a core feature and they never generated any noise. That\u0026#x27;s just my take on it though, why after the big upper management change they really bristled against certain teams and technologies but were content with others was not clear to me.\u003cp\u003eBefore I sent this off, I figured I should look at your links- the featured guy in the podcast was the one person whom I had mentioned that I keep in touch with but had left the firm- as have the other two that were on it. I recognize three of the contributors to lacinia.","parent":"18398162","id":"18399264"}
{"by":"kelnos","time":"1284289102","timestamp":"2010-09-12 10:58:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm a US citizen, and while I don't share the pain you describe, I do feel like it's easier and more pleasant (for me) to get into other countries than to get back into my own.","parent":"1682318","id":"1683436"}
{"by":"minimaxir","time":"1421006412","timestamp":"2015-01-11 20:00:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eMy 20-year-old self didn’t consider joining a startup—or founding one—as a career option, but I hope you will.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would think that the startup environment, and the job environment in general, is much different in 2015 than in \u003ci\u003e1993\u003c/i\u003e, which puts the framing analysis as a post-rationalization that\u0026#x27;s essentially comparing apple-and-oranges.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  \u003ci\u003eAnd lastly, you will probably have to work long hours. But that wouldn’t have mattered to me in my 20s.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsn\u0026#x27;t one of the primary criticisms of modern startups that they abuse naive fresh-out-of-college graduates?","parent":"8870934","id":"8871054"}
{"by":"foobarqux","time":"1345648774","timestamp":"2012-08-22 15:19:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Luka Magnotta","parent":"4400241","id":"4417771"}
{"by":"slurry","time":"1389633015","timestamp":"2014-01-13 17:10:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure we actually disagree. I wasn\u0026#x27;t taking issue with your main point or your list so much just costing it out (roughly) for my own amusement. Both a sense of perspective and a modicum of cash are necessary but not, imho, by themselves sufficient to be happy. Together maybe they are enough? Maybe not? Idk.\u003cp\u003eAppreciate your continuation of the discussion.","parent":"7050383","id":"7051845"}
{"by":"jiggy2011","time":"1331295096","timestamp":"2012-03-09 12:11:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can anybody explain what this is approximately about?","parent":"3683588","id":"3683772"}
{"by":"InitialLastName","time":"1504276885","timestamp":"2017-09-01 14:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not at all religious, and I\u0026#x27;m deeply sorry for bringing up religion, but the only scriptural quote that has resonated with me is 1 Kings 20:11:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The king of Israel answered, \u0026quot;Tell him: \u0026#x27;One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off.\u0026#x27;\u0026quot;","parent":"15147839","id":"15148683"}
{"by":"yummyfajitas","time":"1279824986","timestamp":"2010-07-22 18:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article is seriously flawed, because it completely discounts the possibility that the fast lifestyle is the cause of the pathologies of the poor.\u003cp\u003eIt mentions the oft-cited statistic that 2000 calories of junk food is cheaper than 2000 calories of vegetables. The fact is true, but irrelevant; if you are overweight or obese (as most of the poor are), you can reduce your caloric intake and increase food quality for the same cost. A few of the poor may be working dangerous jobs, but the vast majority of the poor are simply not working.\u003cp\u003eWhen you subject individuals from affluent (or poor, but foreign) backgrounds to US poverty-like conditions, they rarely exhibit the same pathologies. Graduate students earn very little money, but don't become obese. Indian immigrants in Jersey City, which includes guys working at fast food places, don't turn to crime, teen pregnancy [1] or exhibit the poor health that Americans do. That isn't what you'd expect if environment, rather than personal choices, were the driving factor.\u003cp\u003e[1] They do reproduce fairly early, but this is caused by different pathologies (forcing girls into arranged marriages at an early age) and it occurs even among affluent Indians.","parent":"1538741","id":"1539168"}
{"by":"zakimanhamid","time":"1467194127","timestamp":"2016-06-29 09:55:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026lt;a href=\u0026quot;\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.niagain.com\u0026quot;\u0026gt;Niagain.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.niagain.com\u0026quot;\u0026gt;Niagain.com\u003c/a\u003e \u0026lt;\u0026#x2F;a\u0026gt;","parent":"11997617","dead":true,"id":"12000547"}
{"by":"khitchdee","time":"1364719934","timestamp":"2013-03-31 08:52:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the flip side, the lean approach typically results in a new product that is only incrementally different than the one it replaces whereas in a more top-down approach, there is the possibility of creating something game changing.","parent":"5467968","id":"5468131"}
{"by":"vatotemking","time":"1488768934","timestamp":"2017-03-06 02:55:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I could probably do that too on a smartphone in my teens. But its so much easier with the classic Nokias. The plain old keypads is way better than haptic feedback. The jutted part of the keys serves as your anchor. SImilar to the F and J on a touch system.","parent":"13792055","id":"13800378"}
{"by":"phkahler","time":"1534448419","timestamp":"2018-08-16 19:40:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does that work securely? What determines if a process can take a screenshot or not? I mean clearly (I hope) only the compositor has access to all the pixels and needs to capture the image, but what determines who can request it to do so?","parent":"17777546","id":"17777850"}
{"by":"natdempk","time":"1416865704","timestamp":"2014-11-24 21:48:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ASUS Zenbook line is probably the closest thing to Apple hardware you can get on the windows side of things. They have fairly powerful ultrabooks with similar style\u0026#x2F;form factor to Macs that you can get with SSDs and dedicated graphics.\u003cp\u003eI personally have a UX32VD that came with Windows 8 that I run linux on. The machine is primarily aluminum, and is slightly thicker and heavier than a Macbook air. It has backlit chiclet style keys with an almost identical to Macbook layour, and a single button, multi-touch trackpad. It has a 1080p IPS screen in a 13\u0026quot; form factor, which means pixel density and colors are pretty good. The build quality is not as high as Apple, but its better than most PC manufacturers and I have been happy with the machine. I bought it a couple years ago, and I was able to get an i7 processor, a 256GB SSD, 12GB RAM, and dedicated nVidia graphics for ~$1300. The one con is battery life. I get about 4 hours, but this could probably be improved with a less intensive newer generation processor.","parent":"8652903","id":"8654929"}
{"by":"XorNot","time":"1410298512","timestamp":"2014-09-09 21:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or its a very optimistic push to try and make a new market area which is fraught with difficulties work well?\u003cp\u003eWhen you get down to it the fundamental issues of smart watches haven\u0026#x27;t been fixed. We do not have batteries big enough to give the sort of runtime which would make it acceptable, and people are already burdened from device charging fatigue.\u003cp\u003eSmartwatches have runtimes measured in under-a-day, depending how they\u0026#x27;re used. That is nowhere \u003ci\u003enear\u003c/i\u003e good enough.","parent":"8293293","id":"8293345"}
{"by":"degenerate","time":"1446225924","timestamp":"2015-10-30 17:25:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t fall into the trap of thinking that \u003ci\u003einsane productivity == success\u003c/i\u003e though. Remember this article that was posted last week on HN: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10423455\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10423455\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10477449","id":"10479145"}
{"by":"smacktoward","time":"1338296802","timestamp":"2012-05-29 13:06:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because they want people to use their software?\u003cp\u003eOf course, if you don't care whether or not anyone uses your software, telling people with questions and requests to jump off a cliff is entirely reasonable.","parent":"4034894","id":"4037225"}
{"by":"stusmith1977","time":"1331046052","timestamp":"2012-03-06 15:00:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's also the EU, which (particularly with the EU Bill of Human Rights) acts more and more as a reasonably sane constitution for the UK.","parent":"3671082","id":"3671260"}
{"by":"chrischen","time":"1527755266","timestamp":"2018-05-31 08:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The link goes to a demo of face detection. For face swap, this is the actual demo: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jeeliz.com\u0026#x2F;demos\u0026#x2F;faceFilter\u0026#x2F;demos\u0026#x2F;faceReplacement\u0026#x2F;gif\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jeeliz.com\u0026#x2F;demos\u0026#x2F;faceFilter\u0026#x2F;demos\u0026#x2F;faceReplacement\u0026#x2F;gi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17193453","id":"17194847"}
{"by":"drblast","time":"1354158994","timestamp":"2012-11-29 03:16:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is just what I need to complete the in-browser app I'm building to navigate and read these new hypertext pages I'm creating.  I've developed a markup language that will let you reference any of these documents from any other.  The app that lets you view them is going to work in any browser that supports WebTCP, too, for the ultimate in cross-platform compatibility!","parent":"4845138","id":"4846065"}
{"by":"fosk","time":"1512076200","timestamp":"2017-11-30 21:10:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In my experience Uber is cheaper than Lyft for any 5\u0026#x2F;10 minute ride within SF city borders.","parent":"15818864","id":"15819560"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1362494710","timestamp":"2013-03-05 14:45:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"A lot of people have a hard time estimating the value of electric cars\"\u003cp\u003eIt is also possible to look an electric cars and decide they aren't relevant to how you personally use cars - I don't drive very much but when I do its generally over 300 miles or so to locations where re-charging will never be practical. I also live in a flat with on street parking.\u003cp\u003eI hope electic vehicles will be relevant to me at some point in the near future because I would love the choice - but they aren't at the moment and I don't think they will be in the next 5 years.","parent":"5324618","id":"5324706"}
{"by":"monochromatic","time":"1361668391","timestamp":"2013-02-24 01:13:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, I am serious. And \"exposing their children to more random shootings\" is not an acceptable rationale for disarming a populace.\u003cp\u003eLook at the odds of dying in a random shooting. Compare them to \u003ci\u003ejust about anything\u003c/i\u003e. Car accidents and swimming pools kill FAR more children.","parent":"5270179","id":"5272254"}
{"by":"AdeptusAquinas","time":"1422563517","timestamp":"2015-01-29 20:31:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re nice phones :) Though the lower cost ones are missing a few sensors that make app dev a little unpredictable. Correct if I\u0026#x27;m wrong, but you cant use apps on the 520 that require a compass right?","parent":"8968587","id":"8968649"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1385071654","timestamp":"2013-11-21 22:07:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will be interesting to see how this rolls around. I have listened to people complain about the insecurity of BGP for years. Got to experience a bit of it when a bad router update our ASIN in it and sent our traffic out and about briefly (fortunately just pushing up latency not killing the web site.)\u003cp\u003eIt is currently the most effective and useless DDOS strategy to push a black hole route out for the \u0026#x27;target.\u0026#x27; Effective since all their packets will stop getting to them, useless because it points exactly at the point where it is coming from, and NOCs have gotten reasonably good at working around bogus advertisements. So it is short lived.","parent":"6773889","id":"6777884"}
{"by":"tanguygo","time":"1363281831","timestamp":"2013-03-14 17:23:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice!","parent":"5376180","id":"5376349"}
{"by":"cup-of-tea","time":"1511553251","timestamp":"2017-11-24 19:54:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for your explanation. But I think the point of my comment was that the article itself was neither civil nor substantive. Am I not allowed to make such a criticism?","parent":"15771621","id":"15772679"}
{"by":"js8","time":"1465878156","timestamp":"2016-06-14 04:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let me answer you and it will hopefully address other replies as well.\u003cp\u003eFirst, your response is a straw man; there is an enormous amount of effort put into systems that are more complex than needs to be be. Mostly this is for historical and compatibility reasons (including social inertia). In case of Java, it succeeded because it was based on C++.\u003cp\u003eAlso, simpler programming doesn\u0026#x27;t always translate to more runtime efficiency. Haskell programs on their own are not very efficient; potentially, yes, but IMHO at this moment efficiency shouldn\u0026#x27;t be a reason why to choose Haskell over C++ or Java.\u003cp\u003eParadoxically, to understand how to do things in a simple way requires a lot of effort, and history seems to progress from more complicated to simpler (although there is also increase in abstraction, because that\u0026#x27;s what improves productivity).\u003cp\u003eI work in mainframes, and it\u0026#x27;s a sort of archeology that gives you a good perspective on that. A good canonical example is datasets; on z\u0026#x2F;OS, datasets have different organization (different record sizes and whatnot), unlike in Unix, where file is simply a sequence of bytes. There are many other examples from mainframes (like CKD DASD). Some of them were given by historical limitations of hardware (or also done for efficiency reasons), but mostly they are evolutionary dead ends of too much complexity.\u003cp\u003eSo I really think Haskell has simpler building blocks. More abstract, more orthogonal, and so on, than Java (or most imperative languages). The point is, it\u0026#x27;s not simpler to build something with more complicated building blocks, on the contrary. There are intrinsic complications of the problem (which other reply to me alludes to), but there are also unnecessary complications arising from complicated building blocks (such as, having to deal with different ways to access files on z\u0026#x2F;OS, compared to Unix).\u003cp\u003eTo conclude, I feel that the concept of Java-like \u0026quot;class\u0026quot; is a too complicated building block that tries to do too many things in one abstraction. And I see design patterns as a sort of evidence, because most of these explain how to build things from classes that are perfectly obvious when you have data types and functions.","parent":"11896931","id":"11899769"}
{"by":"machrider","time":"1268192897","timestamp":"2010-03-10 03:48:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't understand why it's called \"Karate\" Kid, when he's in China and learning kung fu...","parent":"1180007","id":"1180168"}
{"by":"T-zex","time":"1371805638","timestamp":"2013-06-21 09:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the problem with software industry is inertia. Someone well respected says everything is an object (or use dynamic typing everywhere, or functional programming, or node.js) and majority will blindly follow without ever thinking about more suitable alternatives.","parent":"5917103","id":"5917215"}
{"by":"einhverfr","time":"1330687688","timestamp":"2012-03-02 11:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't think one can say he obviously has a mood disorder.  I have been running my own business for 8 years, and I can tell you while it isn't the same thing, it is tough.  There are times when you get tired and you just want to lie down and rest but you can't.\u003cp\u003eIt can be brutal sometimes.  And we all have episodes.  Sometimes I will lose a few days to one.  But you stand back up and soldier through as soon as you can.\u003cp\u003eI have worked for other people and I have worked for myself, and this is something I only have experienced while self-employed.  It is the flip side of being master of one's own destiny--- that is a heavy burden to bear sometimes.\u003cp\u003eI have never become suicidal or anything due to being self-employed.  I HAVE had episodes that have cost me projects, money, time, and all sorts of other things.\u003cp\u003eThis isn't something that can be medicated away.  Even vacations don't help that much.  It just requires constantly assessing balance in addition to everything else.....","parent":"3655837","id":"3656230"}
{"by":"atom-morgan","time":"1390673936","timestamp":"2014-01-25 18:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with this completely. Ever since I\u0026#x27;ve started writing down my ideas I\u0026#x27;ve found that I\u0026#x27;ve come up with \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c/i\u003e ideas. When you have a list of ideas they begin to have \u0026quot;sex\u0026quot; as many people have said in the past. You think on them, let them fade, and then rise again when you have another idea that complements it.\u003cp\u003eIt also helps to share your list with someone else as well. I share mine with a good friend in an email that we have titled as our \u0026quot;Idea Bank\u0026quot; and it\u0026#x27;s been very beneficial.","parent":"7121355","id":"7121636"}
{"by":"TheRealDunkirk","time":"1491310514","timestamp":"2017-04-04 12:55:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FTFA:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Apple’s research shows that 15 percent of all Mac users use at least one “pro” app frequently. These are apps for things like music creation, video editing, graphic design, and software development.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Schiller, on Apple’s own pro apps: “I just want to reiterate our strong commitment there, as well. Both with Final Cut Pro 10 and Logic 10, there are teams on those software products that are completely dedicated to delivering great pro software to our customers.","parent":"14031989","id":"14032027"}
{"by":"maurycy","time":"1213649452","timestamp":"2008-06-16 20:50:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This text, especially arguments against, bases on the strong distinction between programming languages' syntax and semantics. Let me come up quickly with two examples of fuziness between syntax and semantics of programming languages, how the syntax affected the semantics.\u003cp\u003eWhile the semantics frequently does not vary within a given paradigm, sometimes a different syntax gives you completely different point of view. For instance, Polish notation, also known as prefix notation, makes it easy to come up with s-expressions, what turns out to change the way we think about programming.\u003cp\u003eAlso, programming languages' syntax can work as reward\u0026#38;punishment tools. A hash is slighty the same hash in all programming languages. Neverthless, dynamic languages made it so easy to manipulate on them that in many ways they've dominated the programs written in those languages.\u003cp\u003eIt is also important to remember that a language is not an abstract contruct. It has its uses, existing design patterns, good practices, as well as existing libraries. \"Meaning just is use\". Even if you can say nearly everything in all languages, sometimes it is harder to say one thing in another.\u003cp\u003e(as a boring guy I must say that I feel sorry that such indirectly thought provoking post got only 7 points, lossing popularity with the Vista problem)","parent":"219030","id":"219098"}
{"by":"SomeCallMeTim","time":"1426709638","timestamp":"2015-03-18 20:13:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"She was already on board with the \u0026quot;no blood diamonds\u0026quot; angle. We ended up with a \u0026quot;Hearts on Fire\u0026quot;[1] diamond, which \u003ci\u003eclaimed\u003c/i\u003e at least to have a paper trail proving that it did not come from a war zone.\u003cp\u003eIt also had the advantage of a shallower cut that made it look larger than a normal cut on a stone of that carat weight, which also reduced the total cost.\u003cp\u003eI do like your idea, though. It\u0026#x27;s a bit late to be useful for me, though. ;)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.heartsonfire.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.heartsonfire.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9224636","id":"9228354"}
{"by":"akkartik","time":"1249748999","timestamp":"2009-08-08 16:29:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThat\u003c/i\u003e I can never understand. I'm a control freak. I'm a spider, and I'm not going to let a small thing like death limit the reach of my web. (muhahahahahaha..)\u003cp\u003eI am accomplishment-oriented rather than experience-oriented [1], and perhaps a lot of folks on HN are the same. I derive daily motivation much more from having a sense of accomplishment and impact on the world, than from experiential pleasures, or even from having learned something. If you feel the same, it behooves you to think about the impact you will have on the world after you're gone, and how to best channel it. It's only experience that ends when you die.\u003cp\u003e[1] Citations please? I remember reading something like that dichotomy, but I can't find it.","parent":"749053","id":"749450"}
{"by":"donavanm","time":"1360888697","timestamp":"2013-02-15 00:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, lbs don't inspect established streams. The lb will periodically send requests to a known uri as a health heck instead. The problem is when the health check uri isn't indicative of availabilty. (Hint: it never is)\u003cp\u003eNope, don't do this either. Unless you like getting pages because things are working?","parent":"5219590","id":"5223675"}
{"by":"tmarman","time":"1504309217","timestamp":"2017-09-01 23:40:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not making light of the situation AT ALL - but it\u0026#x27;s sort of weirdly ironic that the link goes to a 404 page in their \u0026quot;Social Responsibility\u0026quot; section.","parent":"15137591","id":"15153164"}
{"by":"DanI-S","time":"1290392693","timestamp":"2010-11-22 02:24:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Man, I love living in the future.","parent":"1928414","id":"1928512"}
{"by":"ultramancool","time":"1412180722","timestamp":"2014-10-01 16:25:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, they updated them after I mentioned it. However, it leaves me questioning other things which I didn\u0026#x27;t look at and overall, I\u0026#x27;m just not happy trusting a closed cryptosystem.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d be willing to accept closed source if they at least published a cryptographic protocol, but closed source and closed protocol, where I myself have seen that the little bit of vague documentation that they do have has been incorrect in the past, is quite untrustworthy in my opinion.\u003cp\u003eConsidering the number of alternatives available - may as well just use something else. I\u0026#x27;ll give it another look if they open the protocol in one way or another as they do surely have the ease of use nailed down.","parent":"8395138","id":"8395663"}
{"by":"blangblang","time":"1331930797","timestamp":"2012-03-16 20:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You really need to provide a means of at least browsing a pre-filled wishlist without supplying an email address first. You've got to earn my email address.","parent":"3713146","id":"3715196"}
{"by":"Jugurtha","time":"1485439661","timestamp":"2017-01-26 14:07:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. The way the authors chose to introduce the equations of motion took me by surprise.","parent":"13490757","id":"13491402"}
{"by":"Shivetya","time":"1423882060","timestamp":"2015-02-14 02:47:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Luxury consumer product? Is that way of saying, you must be smart if you bought our product? It does seem to have some pretentiousness built into the marketing.\u003cp\u003eI prefer KISS when it comes to my life and smoke alarms are not something I am going to fool with. With regards to their thermostats, I rarely am in the rooms my house has thermostats but programmables were cheap and easy to setup.","parent":"9048419","id":"9048529"}
{"by":"rglullis","time":"1201580622","timestamp":"2008-01-29 04:23:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nor it would happen in the C version. This code doesn't compile. The compiler will throw you a \u003ci\u003eWTF\u003c/i\u003e at x = {1, 2, 3} ...","parent":"105793","id":"105981"}
{"by":"Shooter","time":"1228446512","timestamp":"2008-12-05 03:08:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Several companies have come out with what you describe (and variations thereof), but I don't know of any companies that have been able to achieve enough success that they were able to maintain a business doing it for very long.\u003cp\u003eAs with almost everything else, there are a few companies that own US patents that cover some of the basic processes involved.  As long as business method patents still cover this type of stuff, it's a legal risk.  The payment aspect, while obviously beneficial, just adds another layer of headaches.\u003cp\u003eEdgeIO probably got the most coverage of companies that were working in this area because they had an interesting model.  They no longer exist, but another company bought their assets/IP.  There were also several companies that concentrated on specific verticals (jobs, autos, etc.) and some of those are still around...none are exactly setting the world on fire.","parent":"386210","id":"386544"}
{"by":"willaku","time":"1319595231","timestamp":"2011-10-26 02:13:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"bird game rocks team Vizify.  Do u have a score board to compare best of tweet?","parent":"3156311","id":"3156831"}
{"by":"ainiriand","time":"1513864052","timestamp":"2017-12-21 13:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"12 smart contract projects, one for each month. So far I have a list of 9 projects to do, easy stuff. The usual, lottery, auction... But I want to do it from the point of view of a python backend server, so I plan to use Viper.","parent":"15977685","id":"15978679"}
{"by":"BrandoElFollito","time":"1530218224","timestamp":"2018-06-28 20:37:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was asked once to provide references. I asked the recruiter how this could make sense as I will give her three friends who will swear that I am extraordinary.\u003cp\u003eShe said she need three references and that\u0026#x27;s all.\u003cp\u003eIt was at the beginning of my career, I am so glad that such nonsense is over now.","parent":"17412060","id":"17420264"}
{"by":"DannyBee","time":"1539289277","timestamp":"2018-10-11 20:21:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"EU has \u0026quot;sweat of the brow\u0026quot; doctrine, US does not.","parent":"18196603","id":"18196745"}
{"by":"Nemcue","time":"1439838376","timestamp":"2015-08-17 19:06:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For a very good reason, mind you. IRC isn\u0026#x27;t for normal people.  Nor does it support threaded conversations.","parent":"10069398","id":"10075360"}
{"by":"ifoundthetao","time":"1527876803","timestamp":"2018-06-01 18:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, they\u0026#x27;re my smile.amazon.com charity!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m interested to see if they\u0026#x27;re ever looking for offensive security people.","parent":"17206168","id":"17208309"}
{"by":"rhino369","time":"1432051072","timestamp":"2015-05-19 15:57:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with H1B is that it is half-sourcing. Sure, they are full time local workers, but they also lack the ability to quit and stay in the USA. So they aren\u0026#x27;t truly part of the local job scene either.\u003cp\u003eThe system needs to be changed so that a tech worker who gets pulled over can quickly get residency and a path to citizenship.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d also make sure that anyone graduating from an decent American university gets permanent residency. If we are going to let Stanford or UIUC charge these people 40k a year to go to school and become some of the finest engineers, they should be able to be American Engineers.","parent":"9570421","id":"9571055"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1448980696","timestamp":"2015-12-01 14:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Talk to \u0026#x2F;u\u0026#x2F;aninhumer about better alternatives and the difficulty of getting them adopted.","parent":"10655579","id":"10655603"}
{"by":"girvo","time":"1402305068","timestamp":"2014-06-09 09:11:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love dynamic languages with strong typing. You get most of the dev time developments, but without the inherent subtle bugs that creep in via automatic type coercion.","parent":"7867354","id":"7867580"}
{"by":"jcampbell1","time":"1367624926","timestamp":"2013-05-03 23:48:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"see:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-google-chrome\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-g...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5653296","id":"5653323"}
{"by":"MrEnigma","time":"1321466241","timestamp":"2011-11-16 17:57:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think we're right on the edge of this.  Unfortunately so far all the solutions (the Atrix, etc) ended up costing a lot of money just to have the ancillary devices (i.e. dock, etc).  If the wireless displays are cheap, and the control interfaces work cheaply as well, it has a chance.  Otherwise you are probably better served by having two devices with good syncing.","parent":"3244151","id":"3244184"}
{"by":"hmottestad","time":"1522909617","timestamp":"2018-04-05 06:26:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Number one thing I use it for is on the keyboard. While typing, you see a mistake you did or need to change something. Press hard on the keyboard (on the iphone) and you get a cursor you can drag around, as if the keyboard becomes a trackpad.","parent":"16762299","id":"16762334"}
{"by":"samgro","time":"1331586679","timestamp":"2012-03-12 21:11:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any \"CSS Best Practices\" guide should start with \"1. Use a preprocessor.\"\u003cp\u003eAlso, don't use IDs? Really? The article referenced as a source for this claim ends with \"Don’t stop using IDs, just be aware of where they can cause you headaches and know where to sensibly circumvent them. Anyone telling you not to use them at all is not wrong, but they’re definitely not right…\"\u003cp\u003eThat's good advice. Understanding how specificity works will make you realize, when designing your Twitter widget, relying on a selector \".tweet a\" is unreliable, and use \"a.tweet-link\" instead.","parent":"3693610","id":"3695566"}
{"by":"mattkirman","time":"1422541264","timestamp":"2015-01-29 14:21:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My interpretation of this was that it was more of a reminder to hotels and convention centres that they\u0026#x27;re not exempt from the existing regulation. If they\u0026#x27;re found to be in breach of existing regulations then they will be fined.","parent":"8966195","id":"8966225"}
{"by":"newt0311","time":"1225812153","timestamp":"2008-11-04 15:22:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So... I spent the first 10 years of my life in India going through its education system and am currently a mathematics major at Caltech. From my experience, the Indian education system is heavily geared towards attaining high \u003ci\u003eaverage\u003c/i\u003e output. The education system in the US is much more laissez-fair in this regard. It allows students to adjust to their needs and capabilities. Neither system is perfect. In the Indian system, the exceptionally smart students get shafted because they are bogged down by the rigid and usually rote curriculum. For the average person, arithmetic is sufficient but for an advanced major, giving them problems is crushing (I speak from personal experience). The complete lack of intellectual stimulus is very counterproductive. On the other hand, in the US system, a large portion of the students slack off and fail to use their opportunities. Going through the US education system has put me years ahead of where I would have been if I was still in India but along the way, I have seen many students miss out and just sit on the sidelines. [1]\u003cp\u003eThis startup can be immensely helpful but please, don't see this as a begin and end all for mathematics education. If a student is capably of grasping the axiomatic principles of mathematics, such a learning path is infinitely preferable to the do-lots-of-problems method. [2]\u003cp\u003e[1] This is pretty much the exact same gripe that I have with programs like Kumon which give students lots and lots of problems without giving a solid mathematical foundation for \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e these problems behave as they do. For more information, Lockhart's Lament (\u003ca href=\"http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html\u003c/a\u003e) is an excellent essay written by a mathematician on this topic.\u003cp\u003e[2] This is not to say that an axiomatic mathematics education is for everybody. For one thing, a student may not be interested or capable of such an education (just like how I am completely incapable of remembering anything). However, for students interested in mathematics, it is the way to go.","parent":"353309","id":"353502"}
{"by":"hyperdunc","time":"1488608248","timestamp":"2017-03-04 06:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This administration and the current GOP?\u003cp\u003eThis isn\u0026#x27;t a partisan problem, it\u0026#x27;s a systemic one. Every recent administration and both major parties are beholden to powerful special interests.","parent":"13789099","id":"13789602"}
{"by":"TylerE","time":"1343068941","timestamp":"2012-07-23 18:42:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not event that cheap.\u003cp\u003eMakerbot charges $45 per KG for their raw material, whereas steel (in bulk) is more like $1/kg, and even in small orders (like say small bar stock) is $10-$15/kg.","parent":"4282371","id":"4282409"}
{"by":"hvs","time":"1266704648","timestamp":"2010-02-20 22:24:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some people believe -- myself included -- that the idea of \"Semantic Web\" is basically an impossible idea to implement on the scale of the Internet:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1139427","id":"1139606"}
{"by":"Someone1234","time":"1436379359","timestamp":"2015-07-08 18:15:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a typo in the article:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; user-after-free (UAF)\u003cp\u003eShould be \u0026quot;use-after-free\u0026quot; (no r on use).\u003cp\u003eEdit: Actually looks like the typo was in the origin Trend Micro blog post and the author just copied the typo into their article 1:1.","parent":"9850811","id":"9853612"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1465672959","timestamp":"2016-06-11 19:22:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why when Big Bang Theory debuted, I thought Sheldon Cooper was specifically supposed to be a parody of Stephen Wolfram.\u003cp\u003eIn math, how you came by the results you came by is \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c/i\u003e relevant. Don\u0026#x27;t tell mathematicians they don\u0026#x27;t need to know that. It\u0026#x27;s their \u003ci\u003ejob\u003c/i\u003e to know that.","parent":"11884834","id":"11884894"}
{"by":"zem","time":"1472151068","timestamp":"2016-08-25 18:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I grew up with a machine which booted into a BASIC interpreter.\u003cp\u003esame here (bbc b). i still miss that experience sometimes; a bash prompt is not quite the same thing.","parent":"12358396","id":"12361433"}
{"by":"aw3c2","time":"1336399899","timestamp":"2012-05-07 14:11:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you would like to avoid extremetech, go directly to the source: \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/soundwave/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/so...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3938827","id":"3939035"}
{"by":"mannicken","time":"1240280522","timestamp":"2009-04-21 02:22:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, this is what it sounds like to me.\u003cp\u003e1. We have some projects that bring us money.\n2. We have some ideas.\n3. You develop those ideas without any pay.\n4. If they succeed, we'll give you measly 10%.\n5. Our platform is worth 90% of your revenue-generating product.\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft also has products and platforms for extending them. Adsense is a battle-tested business process.\u003cp\u003eAnd as much evil as MS is, they don't practically own your company just because you happened to built on their platform, whatever that means.","parent":"571767","id":"571805"}
{"by":"anovikov","time":"1503815741","timestamp":"2017-08-27 06:35:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This one has done whole lot more for their money than vast majority of other ICO \u0026#x27;startups\u0026#x27; that have nothing but nice site and a water-filled, meaningless whitepaper.","parent":"15105538","id":"15109450"}
{"by":"nathanhammond","time":"1308752845","timestamp":"2011-06-22 14:27:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At Typewire we too started on Node and moved to Java (using Netty for NIO). I really truly love JS and wanted it to work, but the throughput on Node for open connections just wasn't where we needed it to be.\u003cp\u003eThe best use case I can come up with is using node, socket.io, and knockout to quickly build a shared-state application (so long as there is a way to reconcile communication latency, which is why a declarative library like knockout is a good thing). I'm trying to come up with a good problem to solve with that tech stack for this year's Node Knockout.\u003cp\u003eIn short, I agree, Node lends itself nicely to a particular subset of problems, but a lot of the places where it is presumed to shine (speed/real-time/code reuse) others are moving in to follow its lead.","parent":"2682846","id":"2683250"}
{"by":"Aaargh20318","time":"1516359986","timestamp":"2018-01-19 11:06:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has been a really hot topic in my country, lots of debates, protests, accusations flying back and forth over wether noise impact studies were done correctly or not. It\u0026#x27;s been on the news for months.\u003cp\u003eBasically, Schiphol is getting too crowded so they are opening a second location (actually, it already exist but it\u0026#x27;s a small airport now which mainly services small private planes) in Lelystad. As the new location is relatively close to Schiphol (about 32 miles) the new inbound routes and holding patterns have to be below the existing routes for Schiphol because there simply is no other place for them to go.\u003cp\u003ePlenty of information about it available online but most of it\u0026#x27;s in Dutch. This report has a couple of maps and charts which may be useful for you: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hoogoverijssel.nl\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;20170711-Stadshagen-geluidshinder-Leon-Adegeest.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;hoogoverijssel.nl\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;20170711...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdit: and some more info: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pbbo.info\u0026#x2F;documenten\u0026#x2F;Luchtruim%20Lelystad%20ACS.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pbbo.info\u0026#x2F;documenten\u0026#x2F;Luchtruim%20Lelystad%20ACS.p...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16185238","id":"16185381"}
{"by":"nupark2","time":"1338690446","timestamp":"2012-06-03 02:27:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... and there you go doing it again.\u003cp\u003eThere's not much room to joke about assassination and lynchings in a country that has a very recent history of assassinations and lynchings.\u003cp\u003eIt's in bad taste, it can incite violence, and given your statements here, as well as those you've made elsewhere, I'm unsurprised that the law came down on you.","parent":"4058272","id":"4059852"}
{"by":"Jtsummers","time":"1462889806","timestamp":"2016-05-10 14:16:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The woman (in this Ask HN) did \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e do anything wrong. Firing her would not be appropriate.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If two employes can\u0026#x27;t resolve their own issues without involving you then you don\u0026#x27;t need them.\u003cp\u003eNo employee should be subject to harassment. And as a consequence of being harassed they should \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e be cast aside. Part of being a boss is dealing with these situations. Even if dealing with it means handing it off to a lawyer and HR to resolve for you because you don\u0026#x27;t have the time or expertise.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If the innocent party was truly free of blame you can always hire them back.\u003cp\u003eI can\u0026#x27;t get my ex back. Firing someone burns bridges.","parent":"11667255","id":"11667310"}
{"by":"marmight","time":"1469727373","timestamp":"2016-07-28 17:36:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some previous discussion here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11001796\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11001796\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12180914","id":"12181740"}
{"by":"ziles88","time":"1421721614","timestamp":"2015-01-20 02:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Makes me feel guilty. I\u0026#x27;ve been putting off a free MRI (Canada) for over a month because I\u0026#x27;m essentially too lazy to go up the street to have it done. Knowing there is likely people who would work a long time to have it done, and probably need it more than me is a good kick in the butt.","parent":"8914944","id":"8915193"}
{"by":"cpr","time":"1366845270","timestamp":"2013-04-24 23:14:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As much as I loathe Larry Summers' economics (he's a Goldman grad, after all), I have to defend him against the casual slur implied above.\u003cp\u003eHe didn't \"make controversial statements about women,\" he simply asked a question about a fact, which is why men are far and away the (high end) outliers in math and science, and whether there might be something based on nature (vs nurture). For asking this un-PC question, he was basically driven out of the presidency at Harvard.\u003cp\u003eWhen you can't even ask questions about reality without getting pilloried, you know things are rotten in academia.\u003cp\u003e(Summers was a year ahead of me at school, though I didn't know him then.)","parent":"5604560","id":"5604607"}
{"by":"ras_hatak","time":"1382645566","timestamp":"2013-10-24 20:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We created an extension called \u0026quot;json-stream-encode\u0026quot; which doesn\u0026#x27;t encode JSON in a single large block, as the standard PHP code. For large JSONs this is a large memory improvement.","parent":"6607637","id":"6607649"}
{"by":"EGreg","time":"1387419239","timestamp":"2013-12-19 02:13:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This kind of paper (from 2004, before the current recession and stimulus by the Fed) may be well received by those sympathetic to the Austrian economic school. Milton Friedman, a libertarian of a different kind, argued in his book that the Fed didn\u0026#x27;t do enough. However, what\u0026#x27;s interesting is that this paper puts the blame on FDR\u0026#x27;s policies, and not the fed. I haven\u0026#x27;t read it, so I can\u0026#x27;t comment on the validity, but this argument certainly could have some merit. Note that it\u0026#x27;s very different from saying the central bank shouldn\u0026#x27;t act as a lender of last resort and improve the availability of credit to the banks.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I am partial to an explanation for the great depression that is along the lines of Stiglitz, and has a lot to do with technology than these \u0026quot;Austrian\u0026quot; explanations. Stiglitz noted that, before the great depression, 20% of American workers were employed in FARM related jobs. After the great depression it was 2%. I think this is a HUGE smoking gun. Basically, I believe a lot of the great depression was caused because farm jobs were simply automated away faster than the economy could absorb the supply shock. In fact, we can see this as farmers kept overproducing and were paid to stop, even as their workers left the farms. The dust bowl didn\u0026#x27;t help, as most of them moved into the cities (read the Grapes of Wrath for instance).\u003cp\u003e10 years is what it took for the FUNDAMENTALS of the economy to shift from disrupting the primary sector to creating factories and jobs in the secondary sector (manufacturing). \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-sector_hypothesis\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Three-sector_hypothesis\u003c/a\u003e . People moved to cities. Factories were built. Marketing was done. Demand went up. People were re-educated and hired. The manufacturing eventually became the dominant industry in america.\u003cp\u003eAnd it also happened that the war effort produced additional demand for manufacturing. After the war, when Europe and Japan were bombed out, our automakers were on top of the world (Detroit was booming back then). Manufacturing was king and unions became powerful, until the 70s.\u003cp\u003eIn the 70s, technology started getting better, and other countries caught up, to the point where outsourcing became a growing possibility. It\u0026#x27;s been growing from the 70s until now. Apple products, once proudly produced in the USA, are now manufactured all around the world.\u003cp\u003eBut the biggest disruptor of workers\u0026#x27; wages isn\u0026#x27;t even outsourcing. It\u0026#x27;s automation. The jobs are returning -- but to robots. Large companies like Amazon are finally able to pour enough money into R\u0026amp;D to create robots to replace all those warehouse slaves (\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.motherjones.com\u0026#x2F;politics\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;mac-mcclelland-f...\u003c/a\u003e) who themselves replaced local bookstore employees.\u003cp\u003eCapitalism works well when the employers need enough employees that people can earn a decent wage. When demand for local human labor drops, so do the average wages across that industry. These people then cut back on their spending, which ripples through the economy. Consumer product companies cut back and even more people lose jobs. Income inequality grows. The money supply shrinks as banks stop lending and there is a credit crunch. A lot of this can be seen in the great depression. A third of the banks failed. The fed didn\u0026#x27;t help with the credit crunch.\u003cp\u003eSo now that we\u0026#x27;ve had 40 years of growing outsourcing and improving supply chains, the American worker is in a race to the bottom with the average workers of the world, who make $70\u0026#x2F;day. It\u0026#x27;s a simple trade deficit problem caused by free trade. The USA is propping up the bubble because of all the ways we create demand for dollars (including possibly \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Petrodollar_warfare\u003c/a\u003e) but at the end of the day, there is strong downward pressure on average wages.\u003cp\u003eIncome inequality, therefore, is to be expected. The culprits are outsourcing and automation. The way to mitigate some of this is to change the progressive taxation curve to be responsive to income inequality, and LOWER taxes on people earning less. Republicans have it exactly backwards. Let\u0026#x27;s assume for a second that the GOP lawmakers actually want to help the USA. Then they shouldn\u0026#x27;t oppose the payroll tax like they did (\u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/12/why-republicans-hate-cutting-the-payroll-tax.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nymag.com\u0026#x2F;daily\u0026#x2F;intelligencer\u0026#x2F;2011\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;why-republicans...\u003c/a\u003e) They claim they want to cut taxes for \u0026quot;job creators\u0026quot; only, but the multiplier for regular employees is far greater than for rich businesspeople.\u003cp\u003eThese employees ARE the people who go out and buy stuff they NEED, sending price signals to the economy to divert more resources to the companies that produce stuff people need. Also, it provides much better incentives for investors and banks to put cash into startups. What pitch works better:\u003cp\u003e1) \u0026quot;Hey Mr Investor sir, your taxes are lower this year, can you please put some of your money into my startup since you have more to play with? No one could afford to buy my product because their taxes were high though.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e2) \u0026quot;Hey Mr Investor, I had a few extra bucks to take a risk so I built a prototype and my customers had a few extra bucks so they are now all using my product, so I have an actual product and traction?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eInvestors want to see DEMAND. The multiplier is bigger for people who earn less. These are the people whose taxes should be cut. I am in favor of implementing milton friedman\u0026#x27;s negative tax, but I doubt that\u0026#x27;s going to happen. But if you\u0026#x27;re going to cut taxes for people, it should be the working class.\u003cp\u003eLong term though, I am not sure what to do if there is a growing unemployed class. We will need a universal basic income either through a negative tax or some other scheme.","parent":"6932217","id":"6932490"}
{"by":"LordWinstanley","time":"1487720864","timestamp":"2017-02-21 23:47:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah. I\u0026#x27;d like this too, but I\u0026#x27;m not holding my breath as the developer comes across as a bit of an arrogant arsehole.\u003cp\u003eWhen I first set up isso, I had a hell of a time getting it configured and running, following the pretty poor official documentation. So I visited the Github repo to ask for help but, after seeing the dev\u0026#x27;s condescending attitude to other people in difficulties, I thought better of it and [fortunately] managed to muddle through by myself.","parent":"13700406","id":"13701400"}
{"by":"majormajor","time":"1443914113","timestamp":"2015-10-03 23:15:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The second levels are pretty similar - push harder than you would normally, pushing \u0026quot;through\u0026quot; your usual action, get haptic feedback, something else happens. One difference that helps discoverability, though, is that 3D touch for stuff like app shortcuts and \u0026quot;live photo\u0026quot; replays has UI-based feedback to tell you there\u0026#x27;s more if you push harder, whereas the second level push on the MacBook trackpad feels less rewarding to experiment with (or maybe that\u0026#x27;s just a function of it being used far less in OS X than in iOS).","parent":"10325097","id":"10325785"}
{"by":"robryan","time":"1289692150","timestamp":"2010-11-13 23:49:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can't say badging has ever motivated me outside of gaming and even then some are just highly repetitive to keep you playing. In something like WoW some of the badges actually require you to complete new sections of content and can be fun to acquire.","parent":"1901141","id":"1902013"}
{"by":"biswaroop","time":"1462787513","timestamp":"2016-05-09 09:51:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do divers communicate over long distances? If they don\u0026#x27;t, that\u0026#x27;s something worth solving in its own right. If they do, couldn\u0026#x27;t the ROV use the same thing?","parent":"11658457","id":"11658589"}
{"by":"coldcode","time":"1449269975","timestamp":"2015-12-04 22:59:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When I was getting two degrees in Chemistry Lavoisier was one of my heroes. Hard to believe how someone in the 1700\u0026#x27;s had so many modern insights given how he was taught and how primitive all the knowledge was then.","parent":"10675423","id":"10679791"}
{"by":"torrent-of-ions","time":"1484317299","timestamp":"2017-01-13 14:21:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, it\u0026#x27;s true that CDs are technically superior. But vinyl is certainly high enough quality that it\u0026#x27;s good enough. Tape is noticeably low quality. But vinyl records, regardless of their technically deficiencies, sound \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e good. And, at the end of the day, if music sounds good, it \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e good.","parent":"13389484","id":"13390937"}
{"by":"nowarninglabel","time":"1313775402","timestamp":"2011-08-19 17:36:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kiva, in San Francisco, has unpaid internships available for both tech and non-tech positions. They typically last 3-6 months, and it's a whole lot of fun if you are in a situation in life where you can get by without pay while building some skills and hanging out with some really neat people. Perks include regular servings of real Coke, donut holes, movie \u0026#38; game nights, free coffe and booze, and getting to help entrepreneurs from around the world. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiva.org/volunteer\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.kiva.org/volunteer\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2904074","id":"2904148"}
{"by":"tommyudo","time":"1308963654","timestamp":"2011-06-25 01:00:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm seeing the page still there. Has an update now though.","parent":"2694523","id":"2694575"}
{"by":"happyscrappy","time":"1441116432","timestamp":"2015-09-01 14:07:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Standardized licensing across Europe seems to be a very thorny problem. Between the different languages and regulatory bodies I do not see much hope.","parent":"10152303","id":"10152378"}
{"by":"ch4s3","time":"1504620673","timestamp":"2017-09-05 14:11:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Then why not hold stock, realize no gains by not selling it, and take out a loan with stock as collateral. Or, you could leave it all in a company that you own, draw no income and have the company pay for your housing, meals, travel, etc.","parent":"15175130","id":"15175329"}
{"by":"iam","time":"1305565367","timestamp":"2011-05-16 17:02:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But will they have enough money to buy a mobile network after all this is said and done? Would be pretty interesting to see them buy someone like Sprint.","parent":"2552985","id":"2553239"}
{"by":"Lagged2Death","time":"1387636362","timestamp":"2013-12-21 14:32:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was \u0026quot;that easy\u0026quot; for one person with screwed up priorities who happened to have a fairly visually-oriented memory at the time, i.e., me.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not like I recognized the date from the cover or anything. I didn\u0026#x27;t track anything down; you did all the work.\u003cp\u003eI hope I haven\u0026#x27;t hurt your feelings.","parent":"6944786","id":"6946735"}
{"by":"happyscrappy","time":"1443019339","timestamp":"2015-09-23 14:42:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently they used to have higher sulfur but as of 12\u0026#x2F;2010 are all supposed to be Ultra Low Sulfur, although diesels will run on heating oil.","parent":"10265190","id":"10265268"}
{"by":"jokermatt999","time":"1297803029","timestamp":"2011-02-15 20:50:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Non-iPad owner, so forgive me if I missed the joke, but can you seriously not do that on the iPad/iPhone? Weird. I use my Droid as a USB drive all the time.","parent":"2223153","id":"2223215"}
{"by":"Ellipsis753","time":"1396666174","timestamp":"2014-04-05 02:49:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I like the idea but wanted to point out something that confused me.\nCar value:\n$100000\nAverage Dealership Trade-In Offer:\n$80,000 — $85,000\nWith Instamotor:\n$95,000\nYou Earn:\n$10,000\u003cp\u003eThe way it says \u0026quot;you earn\u0026quot; I can\u0026#x27;t help but think that that is the total amount you will get. I would prefer it to say \u0026quot;you earn $95,000. $10,000 more than you would have with a dealership\u0026quot;. Or something similar.","parent":"7533368","id":"7535775"}
{"by":"mcv","time":"1383209375","timestamp":"2013-10-31 08:49:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d expect some degree of confidentiality to be standard when government agencies inspect private stuff. The NDA shouldn\u0026#x27;t be necessary.","parent":"6645485","id":"6645789"}
{"by":"kahirsch","time":"1454688543","timestamp":"2016-02-05 16:09:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Picture here: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sandiegouniontribune.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;stem-cell-meeting-mesa-2014\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sandiegouniontribune.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;oct\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;stem-ce...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11041446","id":"11042296"}
{"by":"Agathos","time":"1279766130","timestamp":"2010-07-22 02:35:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their methodology is a great mystery, but I think they poll people who hit the websites in question. In which case Fox News' score is no surprise. It's the most polarizing news source out there, and the other pole isn't part of the poll.","parent":"1533797","id":"1537187"}
{"by":"jcoffland","time":"1542136087","timestamp":"2018-11-13 19:08:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks, I did not know about Native Messaging API.  Unfortunately it appears to be only supported by Chrome.","parent":"18435294","id":"18443819"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1523034532","timestamp":"2018-04-06 17:08:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The size of the shards depends on the data. ActorDB wants you to design your application around explicit containment boundaries (the actors). For example, a social networking site might collect all of a single user profile\u0026#x27;s data in one actor. Or there might be one actor for each grouping of a user\u0026#x27;s stuff (one actor for all of user X\u0026#x27;s photos, one actor for all of their tweets, etc.). So the size of those actors might not be \u0026quot;micro\u0026quot;. You could decide to shard it further, of course, e.g. shard a user\u0026#x27;s photos by date. Since ActorDB supports cross-actor queries (though not joins), you can still query multiple shards at the same time.\u003cp\u003eBut ActorDB does seem to promote inter-actor transactions, and a pattern I\u0026#x27;ve seen encouraged is where you use shared actors (especially with the key-value store functionality) to keep some kind of central lookup table that your app then can use to find actors. For example, if you\u0026#x27;re modeling HN with ActorDB, you\u0026#x27;d have a global list of stories, but each story\u0026#x2F;comment tree could be a separate actor, and each user would be a separate actor. Posting a story only needs to access the story actor, but to post a comment transactionally, you have to do a transaction that inserts the comment and updates the user\u0026#x27;s comment history together.","parent":"16774404","id":"16774962"}
{"by":"punchclockhero","time":"1547294827","timestamp":"2019-01-12 12:07:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only worked through a part of it, but left a pretty good impression. Writing style was pleasant to read, sometimes imagined it read in Bob Ross\u0026#x27; voice. Only Scratch has a shorter \u0026quot;zero to moving pictures\u0026quot; time. The language manual is so tightly integrated with the book it doesn\u0026#x27;t leave a single character of code unexplained (I\u0026#x27;ve read beginner\u0026#x27;s books that never explained \u0026quot;+=\u0026quot; while using it in code samples). My only nitpick is that the design recipe wasn\u0026#x27;t sufficiently explained and it finally clicked when I tried the edx course based on the first part of HtDP, which has its own problems like a plodding pace and unchallenging excercises. All in all a great beginner\u0026#x27;s book.","parent":"18890758","id":"18890864"}
{"by":"spiralganglion","time":"1315205563","timestamp":"2011-09-05 06:52:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was tempted to post some Halo examples (not to mention Morrowind!), as I was really big into the Halo:CE jumping community back in, oh, 2001/2002. I have many, many fond memories of halo.bungie.org and the like — in fact, I remember seeing sneaky Halo-related hints on Bungie's website before they even did the famous reveal during a Macworld keynote (with you-know-who): \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2obYHzJ3n8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2obYHzJ3n8\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eThen, Halo 2 came out with off-the-shelf Havok physics replacing the (wonderfully) \"buggy\" penalty springs-based physics from H:CE. Because Havok was \"more-realistic\", it was extremely difficult to do the sort of insane physics-stunting the first game allowed. It was this single change that turned me off of the rest of the Halo series.\u003cp\u003eLike Super Metroid, H:CE was a magnificent case of the weaknesses in code allowing for brilliant system-breaking ingenuity on the part of users. And as long as video game devs are forcing themselves to the very bleeding edge of technology under a merciless deadline, we're bound to see more \"glitchy\" games offering plenty of opportunity to enterprising and creative sequence-breakers, speedrunners, stunters, and the like.","parent":"2961101","id":"2961433"}
{"by":"simcop2387","time":"1362251928","timestamp":"2013-03-02 19:18:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While it would work in the sense that compromising the other systems wouldn't compromise anything else.  It does leave that central service as a very very very big and attractive target.  It introduces a single point of failure (security wise) that lets someone compromise everyone at everything all at once.  It would also make it a good target for warrants and subpoena to be sent to gather information about people without their knowledge (less of an issue, but still a concern for privacy).","parent":"5310419","id":"5310628"}
{"by":"silentbicycle","time":"1258689395","timestamp":"2009-11-20 03:56:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, but that lacks the extensibility that makes Emacs really noteworthy. I use mg for editing /etc when setting up a new OpenBSD system, or very quick edits, but it's not a replacement. It's just as \"always there\" as vi (on OpenBSD, at least), but with the default Emacs keyboard shortcuts.","parent":"951704","id":"951843"}
{"by":"tyingq","time":"1491583749","timestamp":"2017-04-07 16:49:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not unusual, though, for a lower end CEO to foist off all parenting on their spouse.","parent":"14061235","id":"14061307"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1392830116","timestamp":"2014-02-19 17:15:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The last caustics implementation I looked at (not this one) did the refraction stuff per-pixel in shaders based on a CPU-computed mesh deformation.\u003cp\u003eThe more general answer to your question is that in fragment shaders, you can get \u0026quot;non-locality\u0026quot; via texture lookups inside the shader code.","parent":"7264614","id":"7264650"}
{"by":"notatoad","time":"1310574602","timestamp":"2011-07-13 16:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"What are you going to spend it on?  \nSome of the money will go to long-term investors and shareholders. \"\u003cp\u003edoes this sound kind of pyramid-schemey to anybody else?  they are taking new investments in order to pay off investors?","parent":"2759338","id":"2759480"}
{"by":"gnarbarian","time":"1454667214","timestamp":"2016-02-05 10:13:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Alaska was built in the 70s so our towns and cities have very low density \u0026quot;non clustered\u0026quot; making public transit difficult. Consider your example contrasting suburban US and Europe. Alaska is to lower 48 burbs what US burbs are to Europe. We have big lots and we have spread out.  So public transit is expensive and it poorly serves us. To compound this difficulty, the majority of villages aren\u0026#x27;t even connected to the road system. The locals get around with snowmobiles and 4wheelers. Those tend to be more clustered but public transit in a town that has no jobs and 100 people living in 2 sq miles is pointless.  I lived in the 4th biggest city in Alaska and it was 8 miles to the nearest gas station and 20 miles to my highschool.\u003cp\u003eYou can\u0026#x27;t export wind power. The current hope is to build a liquid natural gas line and export that. Unfortunately Gas prices trend with oil prices so getting that built in this market is going to be difficult and potentially unprofitable in the long run.\u003cp\u003eFiguring out how to have an self contained perpetually sustainable economy is an interesting problem I don\u0026#x27;t think any nation has figured out. If you have a trade deficit your country\u0026#x2F;state will become poorer over time a surplus will enrich it. So it\u0026#x27;s best to try and export and stay ahead of the game or you will bleed out. Alaska needs to export goods because we import most of our food and necessities. Not everyone is willing to live on moose and salmon. (although I sure could)","parent":"11040488","id":"11040560"}
{"by":"johnojohn","time":"1472472360","timestamp":"2016-08-29 12:06:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"UK definitely has the concept of work for hire.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Japan and three common law states\n (the United States, Australia, \nand the United Kingdom) recognize \nworks made for hire in the \nemployment context by providing for \nthe vesting of ownership in an \nemployer for the creative works of empl\noyees made in the course or scope \nof employment. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sutherland.com\u0026#x2F;portalresource\u0026#x2F;lookup\u0026#x2F;poid\u0026#x2F;Z1tOl9NPluKPtDNIqLMRV56Pab6TfzcRXncKbDtRr9tObDdEuS3Dr0!\u0026#x2F;fileUpload.name=\u0026#x2F;WorkforHireLaws.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sutherland.com\u0026#x2F;portalresource\u0026#x2F;lookup\u0026#x2F;poid\u0026#x2F;Z1tOl9N...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12379080","dead":true,"id":"12381310"}
{"by":"MichaelSalib","time":"1297975136","timestamp":"2011-02-17 20:38:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks good. There are two things I'd suggest:\u003cp\u003e(1) gmail oauth integration: instead of having people forward tracking numbers to you, you can read their mail for them.\u003cp\u003e(2) If you can collect just a bit more data (destination address), you should be able to construct some useful statistical models predicting when packages show up at my address as a function of delivery service, day of week, season.","parent":"2230822","id":"2232728"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1526769643","timestamp":"2018-05-19 22:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, you\u0026#x27;ve misunderstood my argument. The problem is that it\u0026#x27;s difficult for editors to remove \u0026quot;cruft\u0026quot; on articles about marginal topics, because there are so few (usually: zero) reliable sources to draw from. You can\u0026#x27;t start from a premise that \u0026quot;cruft\u0026quot; can be removed without removing classes of articles; that begs the question that deletionists answer.","parent":"17109977","id":"17110117"}
{"by":"drzaiusapelord","time":"1504809908","timestamp":"2017-09-07 18:45:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can certainly do two things at the same time but his policy talk and actions are very much focused primarily on recreational pot usage and state\u0026#x27;s right to medicinal pot.\u003cp\u003eSessions:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Good people don\u0026#x27;t smoke marijuana.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;We need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it\u0026#x27;s in fact a very real danger.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e“I thought those guys [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK until I learned they smoked pot.”\u003cp\u003e“Colorado was one of the leading states that started the movement to suggest that marijuana is not dangerous. And we’re going to find it, in my opinion, ripple throughout the entire American citizenry; and we’re going to see more marijuana use, and it’s not going to be good. We’re going to see more other drug use, illegal drug use, also, which is damaging.”","parent":"15194625","id":"15194647"}
{"by":"bitmapbrother","time":"1453956339","timestamp":"2016-01-28 04:45:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In that case, Apple is just a smartphone company and Microsoft is just an enterprise software company.\u003cp\u003eI understand your motive to label Google as just an advertising company, but just because their monetization strategy is the result of being the best search engine company on the planet doesn\u0026#x27;t mean you need to belittle their accomplishments.\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, since Apple makes the majority of their money from selling phones it doesn\u0026#x27;t negate the fact that they were also a \u0026quot;advertising\u0026quot; company up until the day the realized it was a failed venture and wasn\u0026#x27;t worth sinking more time and resources into. Regardless of Apple\u0026#x27;s pro-user rhetoric they did exactly what Google did, but were just very unsuccessful at it.","parent":"10985328","id":"10986344"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1479510125","timestamp":"2016-11-18 23:02:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly what medical monopolies are you referring to?  Hospitals, insurance companies and drug companies are pretty fragmented markets which is one of the reasons for the complexity of US healthcare and high costs.","parent":"12990684","id":"12990790"}
{"by":"afarrell","time":"1527973114","timestamp":"2018-06-02 20:58:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally agree. And this amplifies the effect I mention above. If your picture of “steadfastly advocating for something important” is using an abrasive tone and not assuming good faith or intelligence, you’re going to be more likely to be either aggressive or passive not assertive","parent":"17196184","id":"17216347"}
{"by":"nine_k","time":"1536954841","timestamp":"2018-09-14 19:54:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is one of the few I see with a trackpoint \u0026#x2F; trackpad as an option.\u003cp\u003eHaving a separate mouse next to a programmers keyboard sort of defeats the purpose, because it makes you move your hand constantly. But a pointer device is often the most ergonomic option if one of your tools is a browser.","parent":"17990272","id":"17990384"}
{"by":"infinite8s","time":"1525270379","timestamp":"2018-05-02 14:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t pay when it is ahead of its time :)","parent":"16969223","id":"16977043"}
{"by":"rverghes","time":"1472073923","timestamp":"2016-08-24 21:25:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pre-regulation gambling was often for much higher stakes. Gambling in modern times is for fairly low stakes in comparison. Legalized casinos are supposed to control the amount that people lose and keep it to reasonable values.\u003cp\u003eSecond, that was a time where households relied on a single male breadwinner. If that man became a gambling addict, it destroyed not only his future, but the future of his wife and children as well. So much the same as the Temperance movement, anti-gambling laws were aimed at protecting the entire family.","parent":"12354685","id":"12355373"}
{"by":"CarolineW","time":"1493397723","timestamp":"2017-04-28 16:42:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the Guidelines[0]:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    On-Topic:\n    Anything that good hackers would find\n    interesting. ... anything that gratifies\n    one\u0026#x27;s intellectual curiosity.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI really don\u0026#x27;t see how this qualifies, but if someone would like to point out why hackers would be interested in this, or how this satisfies one\u0026#x27;s intellectual curiosity, I\u0026#x27;d be interested to hear your views.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14220783","id":"14220908"}
{"by":"mertd","time":"1371844836","timestamp":"2013-06-21 20:00:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You may be thinking of Pidgin:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.pidgin.im\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;PlainTextPasswords\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.pidgin.im\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;PlainTextPasswords\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5920504","id":"5920626"}
{"by":"bchociej","time":"1497629238","timestamp":"2017-06-16 16:07:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll be honest: I didn\u0026#x27;t notice anything had changed until I read tweets complaining about it. The changes are minuscule.","parent":"14568050","id":"14570135"}
{"by":"pessimizer","time":"1389124788","timestamp":"2014-01-07 19:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Real torture has been policy for over a decade; no one has been prosecuted for it, and the evidence was intentionally and unashamedly destroyed.\u003cp\u003eWhy shouldn\u0026#x27;t television reflect reality? Torture isn\u0026#x27;t wrong or illegal anymore in the US.","parent":"7017222","id":"7019507"}
{"by":"betterunix","time":"1380831591","timestamp":"2013-10-03 20:19:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Some content cannot go anywhere without DRM\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhy should we care?  The web is not supposed to restrict users.  If Universal does not like it, they can go somewhere else -- they have the cable TV system with all its restrictions and anti-freedom design.","parent":"6491639","id":"6491715"}
{"by":"tspiteri","time":"1277804635","timestamp":"2010-06-29 09:43:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rational numbers have more to do with ratios than reason.","parent":"1469027","id":"1470914"}
{"by":"bhauer","time":"1376244549","timestamp":"2013-08-11 18:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed!  Glad you like it.\u003cp\u003eJokes aside, if you hate it, you can turn it off at the bottom right.  Maybe some day I\u0026#x27;ll disable it by default.  But for now, I kind of enjoy these responses.  Edit: very well, it\u0026#x27;s disabled by default.  :)","parent":"6195605","id":"6195608"}
{"by":"philsnow","time":"1465171246","timestamp":"2016-06-06 00:00:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(not the person you\u0026#x27;re replying to, but) my criticism of python pickle is that it allows the deserialized thing to refer to objects outside of a restricted environment (in this case, subprocess.Popen).  JSON deserialization can\u0026#x27;t refer to console.log or any other object.\u003cp\u003eUnless you\u0026#x27;re storing an HMAC alongside your pickled blob, and verifying that HMAC on the deserialization side, you should not trust pickle for anything.  (Even then, it\u0026#x27;s still potentially dangerous, because in a large project some other dev who doesn\u0026#x27;t understand the issue could come along and write a new thing to deserialize the same pickles and not check the HMAC).","parent":"11843785","id":"11843814"}
{"by":"btn","time":"1369363916","timestamp":"2013-05-24 02:51:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"US states do have programs for transfering inactive/abandoned bank accounts to a treasury (and for claiming those monies back): \u003ca href=\"http://www.helpwithmybank.gov/get-answers/bank-accounts/inactive-accounts/bank-accounts-inactive-accounts-quesindx.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.helpwithmybank.gov/get-answers/bank-accounts/inac...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5760979","id":"5761010"}
{"by":"reledi","time":"1455374474","timestamp":"2016-02-13 14:41:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not a useless analogy, it gets the point across that good estimation requires breaking a task down into little steps, questioning the requirements, discovering constraints, and iterating.\u003cp\u003eThe estimation process doesn\u0026#x27;t change much whether you\u0026#x27;re painting a room on earth or on Mars. If there\u0026#x27;s more uncertainty when estimating steps, you add more buffer time for instance. The goal of the exercise is to improve your estimation. Where the room is located should simply be factored into your estimation process.","parent":"11086909","id":"11094075"}
{"by":"dthakur","time":"1244779502","timestamp":"2009-06-12 04:05:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a good skills refresher for someone like me who hasn't done any web programming for a few years.","parent":"654071","id":"654158"}
{"by":"Nick_C","time":"1358310610","timestamp":"2013-01-16 04:30:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As well as the other reasons given here, the cost of conversion is \u003ci\u003emuch\u003c/i\u003e higher than you might otherwise think.  Especially for banks, you have to prove that the new software meets with compliance regulations, not only for the financial regulators but also for the auditors (banking auditing is especially tough).\u003cp\u003eCompliance does not mean just \"meets all the unit tests\", but also meets specifications like guaranteed uptime, stringent physical security (that alone could rule out many cloud services), tight audit trails, recoverable failures, incorruptible data, and so on.\u003cp\u003eIt opens up a whole can of worms that will dwarf the development cost of the software conversion alone.  It's easy to see why many banks stick with their current working system.","parent":"5061019","id":"5065278"}
{"by":"kxyvr","time":"1464313661","timestamp":"2016-05-27 01:47:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From what I can tell skimming their papers, no.  Their technique really is based on solving a PDE to fill in the gaps in the image.  Neat idea and I\u0026#x27;m a little surprised that it works so well.  Compressed sensing relies on an equivalence between a discrete and a continuous optimization problem under very specific assumptions, which allows the sparsest possible solution to an underdetermined linear system to be found.  In this work, there\u0026#x27;s no optimization, so no compressed sensing.","parent":"11782111","id":"11783327"}
{"by":"davedx","time":"1312982720","timestamp":"2011-08-10 13:25:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wageningen, that's down the road from where I live! I wonder if I could get a free sample...","parent":"2867785","id":"2868052"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1399174782","timestamp":"2014-05-04 03:39:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; translation is a solved problem\u003cp\u003eIf that\u0026#x27;s the case, can you link me to the source code?  I have a couple of extra computers I can run it on.","parent":"7692352","id":"7693213"}
{"by":"extension","time":"1323285121","timestamp":"2011-12-07 19:12:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Human errors will proliferate until they run up against consequences. That is why there must always be consequences.","parent":"3324689","id":"3325348"}
{"by":"chii","time":"1440860286","timestamp":"2015-08-29 14:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  \u0026quot;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!\u0026quot; --  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikiquote.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Upton_Sinclair\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikiquote.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Upton_Sinclair\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10139856","id":"10140177"}
{"by":"doktrin","time":"1366118515","timestamp":"2013-04-16 13:21:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"slight tangent : as a developer with little background in security, can someone help me understand the role of security specific distros in real world pen testing?\u003cp\u003eIn other words, what are some specific draws to using pre-rolled distros like Backtrack or Kali instead of configuring a standard Linux distro with the necessary tools? I would be much more inclined to tweak my Arch (or whatever) image rather than futz around inside a new environment.","parent":"5557396","id":"5557862"}
{"by":"presidentender","time":"1524690568","timestamp":"2018-04-25 21:09:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The nature of iPhone access is very different: you want to make sure you feel the phone go off, and it\u0026#x27;s culturally acceptable, so concealment isn\u0026#x27;t a concern, which means that \u0026#x27;summer clothing\u0026#x27; can include fitted shirts and needn\u0026#x27;t include a belt.\u003cp\u003eMaking concessions in your attire for the sake of your hobby is a necessary evil. That isn\u0026#x27;t the case for phones.","parent":"16925877","id":"16926196"}
{"by":"WestCoastJustin","time":"1274292142","timestamp":"2010-05-19 18:02:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I honestly think this is a better link:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/nasa-satellite-photos-bp-oil-spill-gulf-mexico-arm-loop.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/nasa-satellite-photo...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis show that the massive arm is going with the Gulf Loop Current:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.discovery.com/earth/oil-spill-gulf-loop-current.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.discovery.com/earth/oil-spill-gulf-loop-current....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is interesting and not in the full photo, is where does the \"Gulf Loop Current\" go? A little googleing shows this image: \u003ca href=\"http://www.texaspelagics.com/GOMocean.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.texaspelagics.com/GOMocean.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut where do you think it is going to end up after is leaves to the right of the image.. Further up the coast of Florida I assume?!?","parent":"1361332","id":"1361769"}
{"by":"matt4077","time":"1477272204","timestamp":"2016-10-24 01:23:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t find any numbers, but I get the distinct impression that so far, the authors job at google probably pays better than the book. Sure, most of the work is done now and if continues for another two years or so things change. But it\u0026#x27;s hard to predict how non-fiction books age.","parent":"12775969","id":"12776273"}
{"by":"simcop2387","time":"1431625543","timestamp":"2015-05-14 17:45:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There had been some breaking changes going on towards the 1.0 release.  The first alpha to clean that up was in January of this year which really started the move to stabilize a lot of things, but there were still some breaking changes (I know there were a few around IO).  It went beta back in April and there haven\u0026#x27;t been any serious breaking changes since (that I know of, I\u0026#x27;m only following things not a rust developer).  Tomorrow it\u0026#x27;ll be released as the 1.0 stable version that from then on you won\u0026#x27;t have any breaking changes (until 2.0, or whatever the next version is).  That\u0026#x27;s not too unusual for a language that has been evolving the way rust has, you just can\u0026#x27;t avoid breaking changes for a while until you actually figure out what works the way you\u0026#x27;re after.  But kudos to the rust team for getting it this far; I can\u0026#x27;t wait to see all the celebration tomorrow.","parent":"9546406","id":"9546442"}
{"by":"SiempreViernes","time":"1518712612","timestamp":"2018-02-15 16:36:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They just report on  confirming a bunch more Kepler candidates, you\u0026#x27;ll have to look elsewhere if you want to know if there is anything interesting with this bunch.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; To date, we’ve uncovered 3,600 of these planets, and scientists believe billions more lurk in the Milky Way.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; An international team of researchers from institutions including NASA, Caltech, Denmark, and the University of California, Berkeley, today added 95 new exoplanets to the list.","parent":"16384957","id":"16385345"}
{"by":"liuliu","time":"1419442936","timestamp":"2014-12-24 17:42:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s when learning rate changed to a smaller number. The graph mainly shows that with different initialization scheme, the network starts descending initially faster.","parent":"8792513","id":"8793686"}
{"by":"adamrights","time":"1453965029","timestamp":"2016-01-28 07:10:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I added a picture of the removed comment: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;3z5tc6jnkir84sc\u0026#x2F;Screenshot%202016-01-28%2001.58.59.png?dl=0\u0026amp;preview=Screenshot+2016-01-28+01.58.59.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dropbox.com\u0026#x2F;s\u0026#x2F;3z5tc6jnkir84sc\u0026#x2F;Screenshot%202016-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10986813","id":"10986825"}
{"by":"Qz","time":"1274314226","timestamp":"2010-05-20 00:10:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The phrase 'is dying' should die.  It's not even used in the article itself -- why is it in the title here?","parent":"1362755","id":"1362821"}
{"by":"jasonmp85","time":"1431982517","timestamp":"2015-05-18 20:55:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That was precisely my first question, so thanks for the answer, but I don\u0026#x27;t really see how that\u0026#x27;s enough to switch… I\u0026#x27;ve been using this \u0026quot;cleaned up\u0026#x2F;opinionated\u0026quot; fork \u0026#x27;Prezto\u0026#x27; for a while now: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;sorin-ionescu\u0026#x2F;prezto\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;sorin-ionescu\u0026#x2F;prezto\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf I\u0026#x27;m motivated enough to download and install a shell, why wouldn\u0026#x27;t I just clone Prezto and change one config file to turn on syntax highlighting and git support? Especially when it doesn\u0026#x27;t bring any \u0026quot;weirdness in command substitution\u0026quot; and I get the great zsh expansions and completions?\u003cp\u003eAnyways, I\u0026#x27;ll try it out (why not?) but the benefit to me wasn\u0026#x27;t clear from the page, and even with your direct clarification here I\u0026#x27;m seeing more downsides than zsh + Prezto and not a significant upside.","parent":"9566656","id":"9566816"}
{"by":"lohengramm","time":"1460726071","timestamp":"2016-04-15 13:14:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"However by doing that, Microsoft protects Xamarin from competition.","parent":"11503897","id":"11503979"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1503308466","timestamp":"2017-08-21 09:41:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, but why install it if you don\u0026#x27;t need it? From the perspective of the developer who might have to dig into the sources of his libraries, it is just clutter.","parent":"15063160","id":"15063209"}
{"by":"flog","time":"1383671855","timestamp":"2013-11-05 17:17:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So according to the terms you\u0026#x27;re unable to resell the service... so does that mean you can\u0026#x27;t build a paid SaaS service which uses this as a distribution mechanism for files?","parent":"6675661","id":"6676323"}
{"by":"skrebbel","time":"1475736697","timestamp":"2016-10-06 06:51:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like the GP said, a major engineering mistake.","parent":"12650352","id":"12650683"}
{"by":"mixedCase","time":"1493137337","timestamp":"2017-04-25 16:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t happen to me, and I\u0026#x27;m using a Galaxy S3.","parent":"14188019","id":"14195019"}
{"by":"pgtan","time":"1542316604","timestamp":"2018-11-15 21:16:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; It can work out well and it can fail.\u003cp\u003eNo, it will fail, as every German project of this kind failed. Someone will get rich, the project will close after some years. The overrated Germany is socialism 2.0.","parent":"18461928","id":"18463427"}
{"by":"graue","time":"1358789384","timestamp":"2013-01-21 17:29:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love how easily us nerds get sucked into debating analogies and whether they're right or not and which analogy is the best one, even when it has no bearing on anything. It's a really funny phenomenon to watch.","parent":"5091516","id":"5092490"}
{"by":"rhino369","time":"1468374721","timestamp":"2016-07-13 01:52:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;A lot of top schools give very, very generous need-based aid.\u003cp\u003eThe best of the best do this, but very few graduates can get in. If my understanding is correct, it\u0026#x27;s pretty much only the ivy league and their peers that do this. Probably less than 1% of college students go to a school like that.","parent":"12082871","id":"12083473"}
{"by":"m52go","time":"1524270203","timestamp":"2018-04-21 00:23:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure if you\u0026#x27;re being sarcastic, but in this case PR means Public Relations not Puerto Rico.","parent":"16889276","id":"16889310"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1289445047","timestamp":"2010-11-11 03:10:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His example assumes that widening your lead in a rugby game when victory is already certain is in fact \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"1892637","id":"1892735"}
{"by":"pm90","time":"1444576107","timestamp":"2015-10-11 15:08:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t really agree with the author\u0026#x27;s method of measuring progress. \u0026quot;Progress\u0026quot; is not measured by how surprising today\u0026#x27;s world is compared with a world, say 100 years ago.\u003cp\u003eDespite the frenzy around technology and startups today, I do sincerely believe that we are making a lot of \u0026quot;scientific progress\u0026quot;. We have more people than ever before doing scientific research and publishing papers. We have more physicists, doctors, more engineers etc. and I would argue that having so many skilled people in itself is \u0026quot;progress\u0026quot;. Also, we have come a long way with society: normalizing gay marriage, stripping down racist laws etc.\u003cp\u003eAnyways, point being: scientific and social progress does not always manifest itself as glitzy gizmos.","parent":"10369111","id":"10369537"}
{"by":"thetinguy","time":"1425943660","timestamp":"2015-03-09 23:27:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t say forget CUPS","parent":"9172865","id":"9174830"}
{"by":"neilk","time":"1196410571","timestamp":"2007-11-30 08:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's another requirement there; there have to be no false positives either. Charlie, who lives halfway around the world, can't be falsely reported to be nearby.\u003cp\u003eI don't get what pixcavator is driving at with the x sin(10x) notion but it seems to fail the Charlie test to me.\u003cp\u003eIf this function has to preserve both proportionate nearness and farness, without false positives, it to seems me that it's just an ordinary geometric transform and therefore easy to reverse.\u003cp\u003eIANAM (I am not a mathematician).","parent":"84811","id":"84931"}
{"by":"davidu","time":"1310164881","timestamp":"2011-07-08 22:41:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The company says \"NO\" on Twitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/punchd/status/89450652601819136\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://twitter.com/#!/punchd/status/89450652601819136\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2744191","id":"2744387"}
{"by":"dajohnson89","time":"1531191745","timestamp":"2018-07-10 03:02:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the more depressing things to read, is how back in the early days of America, one could just reach into the river\u0026#x2F;sea and  grab a fish.\u003cp\u003eE.g. lobsters were once so plentiful that native americans used them as fertilizer[0]. And there\u0026#x27;s photographic evidence of overfishing too. [1] is a nice NPR piece about how the largest catch of the year at a particular spot in Florida has been dwindling.\u003cp\u003e[0] - \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gma.org\u0026#x2F;lobsters\u0026#x2F;allaboutlobsters\u0026#x2F;lobsterhistory.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.gma.org\u0026#x2F;lobsters\u0026#x2F;allaboutlobsters\u0026#x2F;lobsterhistory....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] -\n \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;sections\u0026#x2F;krulwich\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;257046530\u0026#x2F;big-fish-stories-getting-littler\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;sections\u0026#x2F;krulwich\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;05\u0026#x2F;257046530\u0026#x2F;b...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17494047","id":"17495112"}
{"by":"glaugh","time":"1355502218","timestamp":"2012-12-14 16:23:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fwiw, the joy I get from watching sports is sort of similar to the joy I get from music (I love both). They're both fine to do alone, but in significant part they're excuses to get together with people and feel together.\u003cp\u003eSort of similarly, if you buy the thesis of The Mating Mind, a book about the role of sexual selection in human evolution, then to some extent we're just sort of programmed (to differing degrees?) to find music and sports engaging because they're good indicators of the fitness of their participants.","parent":"4921516","id":"4921654"}
{"by":"hkmurakami","time":"1491426983","timestamp":"2017-04-05 21:16:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The changes to Adblock Plus remind me of the changes to uTorrent over the years. Both did one thing well in the beginning, and slowly feature creeped (and added \u0026quot;features\u0026quot; undesirable to users) in a pursuit of grander ambitions.","parent":"14043804","id":"14045700"}
{"by":"GuiA","time":"1514313380","timestamp":"2017-12-26 18:36:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or maybe you learned tons and it makes your 10th attempt more likely to succeed?\u003cp\u003eUltimately these ponderations are kind of meaningless in the absence of great data to frame them with.","parent":"16009999","id":"16010071"}
{"by":"pamelafox","time":"1321046488","timestamp":"2011-11-11 21:21:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, unfortunately, I made the decision to use Sass/Compass for my CSS before I started using Bootstrap, and when I saw that they used Less I considered switching over, but it doesn't have as many features as Compass - like icon spriting. I could complement Less with other tools but I decided to stick with Compass for now. It's actually still pretty straightforward to customize the color schemes without the Less variables.\u003cp\u003e(Pro tip: I often look at Bootstrap's uncompressed Less CSS to figure out how to customize in the simplest way.)","parent":"3224120","id":"3226185"}
{"by":"jdietrich","time":"1493048936","timestamp":"2017-04-24 15:48:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eThe Lucifer Effect\u003c/i\u003e by Philip Zimbardo is a satisfactory primer.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-People\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;0812974441\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-Peo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14185194","id":"14185247"}
{"by":"forgottenpass","time":"1450534766","timestamp":"2015-12-19 14:19:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIn frontend land this is often the distinction between UI vs. UX. UX means usability, UI is the more aesthetic side of the exercise, though of course there is considerable overlap\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve never understood how the concept of \u0026quot;UI\u0026quot; ever evolved to not encompass usability at it\u0026#x27;s core.\u003cp\u003eI was happy to cede UI territory to the designers who said they\u0026#x27;d do it better.  Even when I was insulted to my face that because I\u0026#x27;m a programmer and liked my arcane typing based interfaces for myself, so therefore I couldn\u0026#x27;t possibly understand making usable software for others.  I bit my tongue, put my head down and went back to the things I wanted to focus on anyway.\u003cp\u003eIn the time since, user interfaces have experienced gradual incremental improvement just like everything in computing.  But rather than going for \u0026quot;nothing else left to take away\u0026quot; design (or perhaps due to a shortsighted version of it) visual clutter was just turned into mental clutter. The number of WIMP nouns and verbs the average user has to understand are higher than ever, with less consistent behavior, and overflowing with one-off slightly different implementations to remember.\u003cp\u003eRather than any grand improvements, I\u0026#x27;ve only seen degenerate phenomenons for making user experience worse. My favorites being: A well-managed brand name, good aesthetics and software reputation means that when someone (eg. Apple) ships a bad interaction, users that would (rightly) blame the software first before working around it, start blaming themselves first for \u0026quot;not getting it\u0026quot;.  Or that products evolving quickly (such as the early years of Facebook) are bewilderingly unusable to people that don\u0026#x27;t log in often enough to keep up with the UI changes as they happen in small increments.\u003cp\u003eThen after waking up from their bender the UI folks start talking loudly about UX.  I thought that was the goddamn point all along!  Oh, but what do I possibly know?  I only have formal training in what we used to call Human-Computer Interaction, and I quite like my console shells.  And shells have bad aesthetics, so they must have bad ux too.  And at least the UI guys managed to get 1 of the 2, I guess I\u0026#x27;ll just go back to holding my tongue now.","parent":"10762331","id":"10763612"}
{"by":"jakethedog","time":"1417119179","timestamp":"2014-11-27 20:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is not deeper cooling in the global average temperature but periods of intense cold during the winter.\nThere is debate in the scientific community with some arguing that melting sea ice causes an increase in frequency of polar vortex events while others think these events are controlled by pacific ssts.","parent":"8668117","id":"8668610"}
{"by":"ravivooda","time":"1515899354","timestamp":"2018-01-14 03:09:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think my example would still apply?\u003cp\u003eYou are better off opting the expensive coffee with the alternative options for lactose intolerant people (soy milk etc.) when compared to buying milk from the road-side stalls (right?)\u003cp\u003eI have been having coffee almost daily for the past three years and I see a significant improvement in my bones and joints. I can feel it and pointed out by the doctor. Note, I take the coffee with whole milk and not the half-and-half or other kind.\u003cp\u003eSo I would guess it does affect in the long run? Personally it did for me. Not sure at a Macro level.","parent":"16142182","id":"16142631"}
{"by":"rw","time":"1232687629","timestamp":"2009-01-23 05:13:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"* Spacing between items. Vertical screen real estate is important.\u003cp\u003e* Show up and down votes. Provides information on contentious comments.\u003cp\u003e* Ability to mix brand-new and front-page items on the same page. For better scanning of new content.\u003cp\u003e* With the ability to show up and down votes comes the ability to quantify the contentiousness of entire threads. Show us the aggregate \"variability\" of voting in the title of a thread.\u003cp\u003e* Get people to vote more.\u003cp\u003e* Let us develop our own ranking metrics.\u003cp\u003e* More stories per page.","parent":"445959","id":"445979"}
{"by":"dgeb","time":"1307642129","timestamp":"2011-06-09 17:55:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Apple has paid 2.5 billion to developers\"\u003cp\u003eLet's change our perspective here: customers have paid $2.5 billion to developers and $1.1 billion to Apple for apps.","parent":"2637288","id":"2638046"}
{"by":"Dardania","time":"1480942280","timestamp":"2016-12-05 12:51:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possibly by reverting to the newspaper of record?: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Newspaper_of_record\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Newspaper_of_record\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13104454","id":"13105022"}
{"by":"filvdg","time":"1470763475","timestamp":"2016-08-09 17:24:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know that Node.js is the hype but the site was developed by consultants and has plenty of bugs in there that needs solving  .. I thought with my JS knowledge that it would be easy to evolve but the reality is different,\nit is one big mess of dependencies that is difficult to debug if you did not make it yourself ...\u003cp\u003eYou will see that PHP (LAMP)projects are easier to sell than projects in more exotic stacks\u003cp\u003eI prefer to have all my projects in the same language -\u0026gt; PHP and i all move them to Google APP engine to keep maintenance to the lowest levels\u003cp\u003eIt has nothing to do with performance \ni prefer to build on technology that I master","parent":"12255700","id":"12256193"}
{"by":"nl","time":"1533455852","timestamp":"2018-08-05 07:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eFahrenheit is much much more accurate to estimate outdoor temperature with.\nAnd as it turns out, that\u0026#x27;s what most people are doing\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich most people are you talking about?\u003cp\u003eI don’t know anyone outside the US and occasionally the UK who uses Fahrenheit. That’s not “most people”.","parent":"17690211","id":"17690263"}
{"by":"johndevor","time":"1258660533","timestamp":"2009-11-19 19:55:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're right, they probably will continue to recommend it.\u003cp\u003eThe issue is the lawyers. They don't want us to have the domain at all, which is clearly where most of the value lies.\u003cp\u003eAnd as Jobs doesn't care either way... there just seems to be a large disconnect between the decision makers at Apple (who don't care at all) and the law firm that represents them (the law firm is the 2nd largest in the world, with 2 billion in annual revenue).","parent":"950939","id":"950949"}
{"by":"sohex","time":"1545082457","timestamp":"2018-12-17 21:34:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think you can draw meaningful conclusions from a self-enforced system like Weight Watchers either though. Self reporting particularly when it comes to anything diet related is going to be heavily skewed. There will always be social pressures within a group like that to over report exercise and under report intake.","parent":"18702269","id":"18702417"}
{"by":"agwa","time":"1386196048","timestamp":"2013-12-04 22:27:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yet there is no shortage of doctors willing to assist in torture of prisoners at Guantanamo, assist in executions of prisoners, or conduct non-consensual and medically unnecessary procedures (inserting catheters, rectal examinations, etc.) upon demand of the police.  The problem isn\u0026#x27;t lack of ethics courses but a fundamental flaw in human nature, which is that people easily forget all their personal ethics when someone in authority (whether their boss or the police) tells them to do something.","parent":"6850607","id":"6850851"}
{"by":"darkstar999","time":"1533569867","timestamp":"2018-08-06 15:37:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; 200% return on my money\u003cp\u003eYou aren\u0026#x27;t getting a \u0026quot;return\u0026quot; on anything.","parent":"17698324","id":"17698547"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1422498084","timestamp":"2015-01-29 02:21:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And immediately preceding that equation is this sentence:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If it sounds simple, it is not, but if you’re interested it’s a great reason to learn spherical harmonics.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe entire point of showing off that equation is to say \u0026quot;This stuff is actually really deep and complicated and it\u0026#x27;s a rich subject to dive into on its own if you want to go for that, but I\u0026#x27;m not going that route.\u0026quot;","parent":"8962719","id":"8963958"}
{"by":"prodmerc","time":"1441669141","timestamp":"2015-09-07 23:39:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know, the HoloLens looks like the future...","parent":"10181921","id":"10183496"}
{"by":"shadowfiend","time":"1317519198","timestamp":"2011-10-02 01:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Traditionally, in these cases, you use a test database with sample data (fixtures) to test that the output depends on the db data in the right way.","parent":"3061678","id":"3061737"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1300271872","timestamp":"2011-03-16 10:37:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tend to waffle a bit (well, usually informative, but lots of info), so now at longish emails I go back to the top and put 'summary: foo'. Folks can get the summary and then drill down to detail if they want to. That's not going to help the GPs keyboard problem though.","parent":"2328573","id":"2331526"}
{"by":"shin_lao","time":"1262956395","timestamp":"2010-01-08 13:13:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. What matters is to write great software, how you finance it is irrelevant to the end user.\u003cp\u003eOpen source makes reverse engineering easier. Users don't care about reverse engineering your software. They care about great software.\u003cp\u003eMy point of view is that great software comes from great engineers, not from a license.","parent":"1039370","id":"1039430"}
{"by":"eternalban","time":"1469884679","timestamp":"2016-07-30 13:17:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please answer the question. Leaks may also be from disgruntled staffers whose idealism shattered on encountering the hard realities of American political system.","parent":"12192821","id":"12192846"}
{"by":"nijiko","time":"1434740897","timestamp":"2015-06-19 19:08:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do what is easiest for you.\u003cp\u003e1. Merging vs Rebasing\u003cp\u003eOpen source projects should stick with Merging over cherry-picking and rebasing especially if you want others to contribute. Unless you feel fine doing all of the rebasing and cherry-picking for them. Otherwise, good luck gathering a large enough pool of people to contribute. Simplicity always wins here.\u003cp\u003e2. GitFlow vs X\u003cp\u003eOnce again do what is good for your company and the people around you. If you have a lot of developers having multiple branches is actually \u0026#x2F;beneficial\u0026#x2F; as Master is considered ALWAYS working. Develop branch contains things that are ready to ship, and only things that are READY TO SHIP. So if your feature isn\u0026#x27;t ready yet, it can\u0026#x27;t go to develop, and it won\u0026#x27;t hit master. Your features are done in other branches.\u003cp\u003e3. Rewriting history\u003cp\u003eNever do this. Seriously, it will come to bite you in the ass.\u003cp\u003e4. Have fun.\u003cp\u003eArguing is for people who don\u0026#x27;t get shit done.","parent":"9744059","id":"9746957"}
{"by":"phil248","time":"1514588787","timestamp":"2017-12-29 23:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Two things this article leaves out, both relating to China.\u003cp\u003eFirst, China has mandated that its domestic automakers sell 12% of their vehicles as all-electric or hybrid by 2020. There\u0026#x27;s your jumpstart for demand, as artificial as it may be. Policies in parts of Europe will help as well.\u003cp\u003eSecond, China has \u003ci\u003eseveral dozen\u003c/i\u003e domestic automakers, which must account for a fairly large share of these 127 battery-electric models mentioned in the article.  Though the article also says 75 models have been announced that will sell in the US, and as far as I know none of the purely domestic Chinese automakers are in the US market today.","parent":"16032402","id":"16032647"}
{"by":"teknopaul","time":"1436975839","timestamp":"2015-07-15 15:57:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that article for real, or trolling?","parent":"9889785","id":"9892014"}
{"by":"kbutler","time":"1323273987","timestamp":"2011-12-07 16:06:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; In conclusion, TV news should be ended in all forms.\u003cp\u003eWow.  I agree there's a lot of misinformation and poor reporting on TV news, but that's like saying the Internet should be ended because of the poor quality of slashdot comments.","parent":"3324218","id":"3324335"}
{"by":"brownbat","time":"1479772055","timestamp":"2016-11-21 23:47:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These remind me of Dr. Nim, the unbeatable single-player board game from the 60s, which also used marbles to do binary math:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=9KABcmczPdg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=9KABcmczPdg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13008408","id":"13010380"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1442240187","timestamp":"2015-09-14 14:16:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You dislike all of humanity because people sometimes make simple typos like angiopathy to angiography?","parent":"10214963","id":"10215146"}
{"by":"googleboy","time":"1228967518","timestamp":"2008-12-11 03:51:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Question: What can a sincere smile, a kind word, and a friendly ear get you?\u003cp\u003eAnswer: Plenty.\u003cp\u003eI like the sentiment of this post, but as someone who has traveled a great deal on business, it is easier said than done.\u003cp\u003eEven so, I too have gotten my share of car upgrades and free airline drinks by taking the time to talk and listen to some hardworking, often overlooked people. The toughest part for me was finding the energy to 'care enough' to enter into such conversations.","parent":"393805","id":"393918"}
{"by":"closeparen","time":"1491685744","timestamp":"2017-04-08 21:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A basic car is practically free compared to basic housing. It\u0026#x27;s not necessary to divorce employees from needing cars, any more than it\u0026#x27;s necessary to divorce them from needing housing.\u003cp\u003eIt \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e necessary to divorce employees from trying to drive (mostly) the same routes at the same times, because there is no solution to car transportation at scale without traffic jams. The \u0026quot;solutions\u0026quot; (congestion pricing, less parking, etc) are to reduce the scale. It \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e necessary to divorce employees from competing with each other for such tiny slices of the city where the commute is reasonable, because paying an extra $2000\u0026#x2F;mo just for land value is such a soul-crushing waste of effort and resources. It \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e necessary to aggressively migrate the fleet of cars to electrics.\u003cp\u003eRush hour traffic in small town or city is still going 60mph, and living \u0026quot;downtown\u0026quot; isn\u0026#x27;t nearly so expensive because there\u0026#x27;s less competition, and little drastically wealthier competition. (Good look competing with tech workers for nicely located apartments in SF, or bankers for nicely located apartments in Manhattan, if you aren\u0026#x27;t one).\u003cp\u003eSee: SF opposition to tech shuttles, Muni expansion, Caltrain extension. I guess those aren\u0026#x27;t really about cost, but there\u0026#x27;s a common thread of \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t like the noise\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t like the kind of people that transportation brings in to my quiet neighborhood\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;we shouldn\u0026#x27;t be making it more attractive for gentrifiers to live here.\u0026quot;","parent":"14068913","id":"14069051"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1534339919","timestamp":"2018-08-15 13:31:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author is talking about a societal shift whose consequences are difficult to foresee; one person electing to [strip DRM from media they purchase in violation of US law] makes little difference to the broader trend.","parent":"17765754","id":"17765870"}
{"by":"bluecalm","time":"1477493754","timestamp":"2016-10-26 14:55:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your arguments could be used against worker protection laws as well: 14hours\u0026#x2F;day workdays, lack of safety regulations. You could even import some slaves from poor countries, many people will sign up as working on a plantation for food and shelter is better than starving.\u003cp\u003eI think history shows that this kind of thinking leads to bad outcomes. The main reason is that there is power unbalance between employers and would be workers. In natural state of the world the workers would just take resources by force and share. As we are guaranteeing that this won\u0026#x27;t happen (by enforcing property laws) we need to give something back as well to people in worse negotiating position (worker rights, minimum wage, some contracts being illegal are all example of it).\u003cp\u003e-","parent":"12795252","id":"12796914"}
{"by":"masklinn","time":"1535037629","timestamp":"2018-08-23 15:20:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OCaml\u0026#x27;s syntax is way more verbose and noisy than Haskell\u0026#x27;s or Elm\u0026#x27;s. It tends to have longer keywords, more sigils, … and some of the defaults are inconvenient (non-recursive lets)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.haskell.org\u0026#x2F;OCaml\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.haskell.org\u0026#x2F;OCaml\u003c/a\u003e has some trivial examples","parent":"17827426","id":"17827978"}
{"by":"cbs","time":"1360862652","timestamp":"2013-02-14 17:24:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the Windows 8 certification _requires_ that the user not be able to disable secure boot on ARM.","parent":"5220096","id":"5220509"}
{"by":"alphadogg","time":"1311184532","timestamp":"2011-07-20 17:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Next steps:\n1. Ban the adults who drink too much.\n2. Ban people who talk loudly in cell phones.\n3. Ban teenagers who are partying with friends.\n4. Ban the that woman over there. She's laughing a little loudly for my sensitive ears.\n5. Oh, and could you please ban that other guy over there too. His facial hair is ruining my dining experience.\u003cp\u003eM'Kay. Thanks.","parent":"2786013","id":"2786701"}
{"by":"castlecrasher2","time":"1510678669","timestamp":"2017-11-14 16:57:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we didn\u0026#x27;t prevent it then prospective students would be directed to make better decisions with their future than to get tens of thousands in debt and a useless degree because it\u0026#x27;s so easy.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;At the end of the day, maybe giving an 18 year old 120k to study underwater basket weaving for 4 years is not the best investment of money?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI think this burden should be on the lender first then the student. Banks don\u0026#x27;t just hand out money to an 18 year old for a business venture but they do for school because the government guarantees they can get it back.","parent":"15695438","id":"15696801"}
{"by":"Prrometheus","time":"1225880140","timestamp":"2008-11-05 10:15:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have no problem with unions as such. However, I do have a problem when they use their concentrated political power to get themselves government favors at the expense of the rest of the country. Bailouts for failing industries and protectionist measures benefit unions while harming the nation as a whole. They expect the Democratic Party to sacrifice the interests of the nation for their benefit, and it looks like they will get their pound of flesh.\u003cp\u003eIn addition, unions have many legal rights outside of a normal, voluntary gathering of people. In many states, they can force new employees of a company to join. Democrats are currently pushing for legislation to eliminate secret ballots for the formation of unions. When employee preferences are no longer secret, they can be coerced and threatened into supporting the union, which should enable Democrats to increase their union base. In addition, unions can force their employers to bargain with them by law, instead of by voluntary agreement by both parties. Federal law prohibits its agencies from paying contractors less than the union price, which is often high above the market price of similar services.\u003cp\u003eIt is no coincidence that heavily unionized sectors of our economy tend to be failing, bloated, and stagnant. The big ones are undoubtedly a negative influence on American society. And they undoubtedly run the economic program of the Democratic Party; it surely isn't run by any coherent economic school of thought that I can recognize.","parent":"354346","id":"354379"}
{"by":"cocacola1","time":"1507362721","timestamp":"2017-10-07 07:52:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;d have to do your research. When everything\u0026#x27;s gone to hell and people are cursing the markets is probably a good time, though. But when others are selling, as Buffett and probably a good number of other investors say.","parent":"15422739","id":"15422802"}
{"by":"vorpalhex","time":"1525720896","timestamp":"2018-05-07 19:21:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Kubernetes does suffer from complexity right now, but that also gives it it\u0026#x27;s flexibility.\u003cp\u003eI think turnkey kubernetes solutions like Rancher will dominate for a lot of use cases, especially for individual devs and small teams that can\u0026#x27;t have a dedicated DevOps resource to manage kubernetes.","parent":"17015529","id":"17015635"}
{"by":"level","time":"1442350432","timestamp":"2015-09-15 20:53:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the reply! I\u0026#x27;ll take a look at it soon, I\u0026#x27;ll definitely grab these again. I think the version I used was from July, so it\u0026#x27;s definitely outdated.","parent":"10209891","id":"10223128"}
{"by":"DrScump","time":"1515998160","timestamp":"2018-01-15 06:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16139404\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=16139404\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e108+ points","parent":"16148751","id":"16148934"}
{"by":"kevindeasis","time":"1469835441","timestamp":"2016-07-29 23:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of these haven\u0026#x27;t become second nature yet, but I\u0026#x27;m getting there. The hard part is having momentum and flow. But, generally, my day works out great if I can do all of this in a day.\u003cp\u003e1) Meditation\u003cp\u003e2) IFTTT that syncs trello and google calendar\u003cp\u003e3) Eating Healthier\u003cp\u003e4) Running\u003cp\u003e5) ABC: Always be coding\u003cp\u003e6) Talking to people who are really good at their domain\u003cp\u003e7) Sleeping: Flux helps\u003cp\u003e8) App that tracks how much time I spend on websites and apps\u003cp\u003e9) Pomodoro\u003cp\u003e10) Reading fiction from a good writer\u003cp\u003e11) Reading good blog posts\u003cp\u003e12) Having a lunch with different people\u003cp\u003e13) Finding people who just started programming who I can help out\u003cp\u003e14) Not having decision fatigue\u003cp\u003eI have more, but these are the main one","parent":"12186587","id":"12190844"}
{"by":"wutbrodo","time":"1347490156","timestamp":"2012-09-12 22:49:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well there's a key difference; Google doesn't exactly _need_ continued super-rapid user growth on Android.  The reason slowing growth is a problem for Facebook is that it's the only way they could justify their valuation (or more importantly, grow their company), other than better monetization of users, which is their other Big Challenge.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the hypergrowth of Android is essentially driven just by the hypergrowth of mobile devices (since it's the most accessible OS for manufacturers and thus consumers across the world).  The point of Android for Google was to foster this rapid growth of smartphone adoption without being under the thumb of a single vendor (especially one as capricious and overbearing as Apple).  If it ever gets to the point that the world is saturated with smartphones, Google probably won't care that Android isn't the majority of that growth anymore.","parent":"4512035","id":"4513690"}
{"by":"justin","time":"1440753664","timestamp":"2015-08-28 09:21:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s ok if you don\u0026#x27;t have Facebook or Twitter.","parent":"10133955","id":"10134435"}
{"by":"jbrun","time":"1227277454","timestamp":"2008-11-21 14:24:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"indeed","parent":"371701","id":"371902"}
{"by":"techiferous","time":"1271809472","timestamp":"2010-04-21 00:24:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if this applies to Dual N-Back? \u003ca href=\"http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis claims to have the support of a scientific study.","parent":"1280015","id":"1281014"}
{"by":"racl101","time":"1371514608","timestamp":"2013-06-18 00:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I couldn\u0026#x27;t imagine preparing yourself with counselling just to prepare to find out if you have ALS or any other life changing disease. That thought just blows me away.\u003cp\u003eI remember a couple of years ago coming out a clinic where I was told I have a kidney disease and if not treated within the next half decade I could die of kidney failure in the next 15 to 20 years and remember feeling pist off and indignant about it like: \u0026quot;Dammit! Why me? I\u0026#x27;m a good person. I didn\u0026#x27;t do anything majorly wrong in life!\u0026quot; and now that I\u0026#x27;m 4 1\u0026#x2F;2 months into my treatment I am being humbled by amazing people who have been dealt a much, much, much worse hand in life who have a better outlook on life.\u003cp\u003eI sure hope you don\u0026#x27;t get it. And whether or not you believe in God, I say to you, God be with you, and may he watch over you and your family.","parent":"5894050","id":"5896811"}
{"by":"pkaye","time":"1431445628","timestamp":"2015-05-12 15:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate how every 2 months I get some random app automatically installed by Samsung on my Galaxy S4.","parent":"9530049","id":"9532596"}
{"by":"dekhn","time":"1441029332","timestamp":"2015-08-31 13:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought the CORBA IDL and the IIOP were both great.  It made the transition to protocol buffers and Google\u0026#x27;s RPC system pretty painless.","parent":"10144734","id":"10146793"}
{"by":"zerebubuth","time":"1503507533","timestamp":"2017-08-23 16:58:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the data on the Wikipedia page for the Boeing 747, it looks like the empty weight is around half the maximum take-off weight. Passenger and cargo aircraft seem to usually turn around quite quickly and spend only a small amount of time on the ground. In which case around half of the energy required on take off is just to lift the airframe back to the same altitude it landed from.\u003cp\u003ePerhaps if aircraft could use some sort of funicular system so that one aircraft taking off could get a \u0026quot;boost\u0026quot; from one slowing down to land?\u003cp\u003eOr planes could land on giant inflatable runways at 30,000ft, with the passengers and cargo taking a lift down to ground level?","parent":"15082642","id":"15083126"}
{"by":"eyeareque","time":"1522093945","timestamp":"2018-03-26 19:52:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This makes me wonder: If SV only has 20 something superfund sites from back when tech was very small, how many superfund sites does china have with their massive factories?","parent":"16681073","id":"16681918"}
{"by":"ZachPruckowski","time":"1295655122","timestamp":"2011-01-22 00:12:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;Yeah, pat yourself on the back, you're smart.\u003cp\u003eNot just me, everyone who regularly posts on a niche board about programming and entrepreneurship.  Maybe my original statement was hyperbole, but it's not crazy to say that people who voluntarily seek out conversations on the value of OOP are more tech literate than the average.  Similarly, if we were on a website catering towards people trying out for minor-league baseball teams, the audience would mostly be in the top 5% in terms of athleticism.\u003cp\u003eAnd for the record, I'm probably the dumbest guy here, and I freely admit it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;Never used EBay, never bought anything from Amazon and I also Google for URLs from time to time ... pretty sweat if you can't remember the exact string.\u003cp\u003eYou're trying to misread me here.  There are people for whom \"order tickets online\" is a major accomplishment, akin to cleaning out the garage.  Once, a ReadWriteWeb article[1] overtook Facebook in the Google search for \"facebook login\" (w/o quotes).  It resulted in thousands of people commenting on the article trying to log into facebook.  I'm not saying \"can't tell RWW and Facebook apart\" is average, but I am saying that that's a rare occurrence.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;Apple's products are not idiot proof.\u003cp\u003eOf course not.  But the flipside of the file structure and CLI on an iPhone being locked away is that users can't accidentally do something to their System directory.  And locked-down, reviewed applications means fewer compatibility issues and fewer misbehaving apps slowing things down.\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2129099","id":"2129466"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1267778508","timestamp":"2010-03-05 08:41:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry I didn't catch it, but jac_no_k posted a much better link to the same story a few minutes before I did. Go read his.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://freerangeinternational.com/blog/?p=2652\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://freerangeinternational.com/blog/?p=2652\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1168938","id":"1169069"}
{"by":"BatFastard","time":"1475070547","timestamp":"2016-09-28 13:49:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Macuyiko has a good point.","parent":"12596843","id":"12597566"}
{"by":"caf","time":"1438514273","timestamp":"2015-08-02 11:17:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s more likely that China would finance a canal across the Kra Isthmus first.","parent":"9988936","id":"9990411"}
{"by":"boulos","time":"1441739927","timestamp":"2015-09-08 19:18:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for the confusion; I\u0026#x27;ll file a docs bug to make it clear that direct web serving of GCS buckets triggers class B get requests.\u003cp\u003eThe pricing difference has been a long battle...","parent":"10187600","id":"10187641"}
{"by":"FleursDuMal","time":"1253407533","timestamp":"2009-09-20 00:45:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I used to have a very weak immune system, it turned out I was gluten intolerant which was making me exhausted and susceptible to colds/flus. Taking vitamin D and avoiding all grains worked for me.","parent":"832395","id":"832530"}
{"by":"Double_a_92","time":"1522752757","timestamp":"2018-04-03 10:52:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t even properly find my own comments in the new user profile...\u003cp\u003eEdit: Actually the new new profile is better now. That intermediate version was terrible.","parent":"16742706","id":"16743420"}
{"by":"abalone","time":"1527234720","timestamp":"2018-05-25 07:52:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; The real strain in driving is the mental strain, and that is why people turn it on.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eExactly. If people were actually complying with autopilot’s TOS it wouldn’t actually be more relaxing. But then it wouldn’t be a compelling feature. You’d just be volunteering to help with fleet learning, which is a noble goal, but probably not something people would do en masse or pay thousands more for.\u003cp\u003eTesla is \u003ci\u003eimplying\u003c/i\u003e it’s a lower mental load to get more people to use it.. while having TOS that holds you responsible if you pay less attention.","parent":"17151357","id":"17151490"}
{"by":"amitassaraf","time":"1476042693","timestamp":"2016-10-09 19:51:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Conditioned object seems like it should be a part of Guava\u0026#x2F;Java 8 :)","parent":"12673056","id":"12673063"}
{"by":"atsaloli","time":"1487520930","timestamp":"2017-02-19 16:15:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Postgres. Mature, continuously improved and growing product from a friendly and professional world wide community. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.postgresql.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.postgresql.org\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13680321","id":"13680346"}
{"by":"daggerhashimoto","time":"1453143864","timestamp":"2016-01-18 19:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA\u003cp\u003epeople are waking up to your trickery. You are conman. Take your shit coin and shove it up your bosses ass!","parent":"10920133","dead":true,"id":"10926158"}
{"by":"x0rg","time":"1448392051","timestamp":"2015-11-24 19:07:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m living this nightmare. If people thinks that renting here is easy they\u0026#x27;re just wrong. Laws are just trying to fix a situation that is about to get much worse.","parent":"10622572","id":"10622795"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1260889912","timestamp":"2009-12-15 15:11:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought Justin.tv did away with popup ads... and yet there they are again?? :)\u003cp\u003eAnyway.. a lot of the channels they must know about! they broadcast film/tv regularly...","parent":"996487","id":"996583"}
{"by":"apetresc","time":"1488473838","timestamp":"2017-03-02 16:57:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is there to \u0026quot;actually look into\u0026quot;? The driver added exactly 0 new information to Travis\u0026#x27; view on the business. His entire job is basically a constant process of \u0026quot;looking into\u0026quot; this question. Acting as if the driver\u0026#x27;s complaint was some revelation that exposes some previously-unconsidered drawback of Uber\u0026#x27;s strategy would have been pure political ass-kissing of the type that HN usually detests.","parent":"13761917","id":"13775696"}
{"by":"kerng","time":"1528213151","timestamp":"2018-06-05 15:39:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For European customers that\u0026#x27;s a non-issue thanks to GDPR.","parent":"17237792","id":"17238695"}
{"by":"zokier","time":"1323357823","timestamp":"2011-12-08 15:23:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"New tools, new philosophies. I would imagine that the new grep would fit well in the json-riddled world that is web these days.","parent":"3329321","id":"3329393"}
{"by":"kbutler","time":"1342715030","timestamp":"2012-07-19 16:23:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's what they do.\u003cp\u003eUSPTO: \"The mission of the patent business area is to help our customers get patents; its performance goal is to grant patents to inventors for their discoveries. \"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/1998/a98r-2.jsp\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/1998/a98r-2.jsp\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think it is significant that the mission is not \"to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by [whatever]\" It is simply to \"help our customers get patents.\"\u003cp\u003eTo be fair, the 2011 annual report says the mission is:\n\"Fostering innovation, competitiveness and economic growth, domestically and abroad to deliver high quality and timely examination of patent and trademark applications, guiding domestic and international intellectual property policy, and delivering intellectual property information and education worldwide, with a highly skilled, diverse workforce.\"\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/2011/mda_01.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/2011/mda_01.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4266287","id":"4266727"}
{"by":"kniwor","time":"1255342232","timestamp":"2009-10-12 10:10:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I know and use a lot of their open source software but what has that got to do with fb connect?\u003cp\u003e\"FB connect\" is a session management and authentication product from facebook.  I find it obnoxious.  It is pretty much literally the antithesis of openid.  FB open source: good, FB connect: horrible.","parent":"876241","id":"876396"}
{"by":"oldmanjay","time":"1450363812","timestamp":"2015-12-17 14:50:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, you demonstrated that you would have a very visceral set of goals. You proved nothing about minds which you do not occupy.","parent":"10749835","id":"10751732"}
{"by":"BlackDeath3","time":"1391546973","timestamp":"2014-02-04 20:49:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It depends on what you expect to find on and get out of this site, I suppose.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re looking for \u0026quot;Hacker News\u0026quot;, you\u0026#x27;re here. It\u0026#x27;s still here. It\u0026#x27;s still stuff that interests hackers and techies in general. Maybe I\u0026#x27;m not a \u0026quot;real hacker\u0026quot;, but both articles you\u0026#x27;ve highlighted (MS CEO and EVE) are interesting to me.\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re looking for \u0026quot;Startup News\u0026quot;, I don\u0026#x27;t really know what to tell you. Perhaps that\u0026#x27;s what this place once was (and a lot of it still does cater in that direction), but there\u0026#x27;s a lot more interesting stuff out there than just that.","parent":"7180114","id":"7180154"}
{"by":"simonsaidit","time":"1535632915","timestamp":"2018-08-30 12:41:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can be an awesome experience om many drugs to share it as a couple. then again e.g mdma can be used for many things. Shulgin\u0026#x27;s (creator) wife used it a lot and said it was great for reading on.","parent":"17870057","id":"17876194"}
{"by":"grimtrigger","time":"1408462819","timestamp":"2014-08-19 15:40:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure if this problem is fixed, but Reddit requires each day of the campaign to have the same numbner of impressions.\u003cp\u003eSo if monday has 100 impressions available, tuesday has 100 impressions available, but wednesday has only 1 impression available... then a Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday campaign can only be for 3 impressions. A shorter campaign (Monday-Tuesday) will give you access to 200 impressions.\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026quot;0 impression\u0026quot; number in your post might be because one day out of that huge timeframe is completely bought out.","parent":"8197082","id":"8197904"}
{"by":"il","time":"1303927292","timestamp":"2011-04-27 18:01:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since it's easy to calculate Pinboard's user numbers, apparenty most of them. Browser bookmark sync is probably a much bigger alternative.","parent":"2490288","id":"2490413"}
{"by":"erikj54","time":"1348663015","timestamp":"2012-09-26 12:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RIM still has quite a bit in cash reserves. Traditionally the haven't listened to their users since they've been on top. They had the rug pulled out beneath them and hopefully are starting to listen. I'm interested to see if BB10 can really make a splash. I think aiming for #3 is a achievable goal. If they become a true #3, I wouldn't be surprised if some loyal customers coming back if BB10 works.","parent":"4574943","id":"4575250"}
{"by":"bitsweet","time":"1453412586","timestamp":"2016-01-21 21:43:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"likely the company that provides the data source would be more liable","parent":"10948330","id":"10948629"}
{"by":"yolesaber","time":"1344812663","timestamp":"2012-08-12 23:04:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This might be a bit unorthodox, but Max Yasgur's address to the crowd at Woodstock has always inspired me:\u003cp\u003e\"I'm a farmer, I don't know how to speak to twenty people at one time, let alone a crowd like this. But I think you people have proven something to the world — not only to the Town of Bethel, or Sullivan County, or New York State; you've proven something to the world. This is the largest group of people ever assembled in one place. We have had no idea that there would be this size group, and because of that you've had quite a few inconveniences as far as water, food, and so forth. Your producers have done a mammoth job to see that you're taken care of... they'd enjoy a vote of thanks. But above that, the important thing that you've proven to the world is that a half a million kids — and I call you kids because I have children that are older than you are — a half million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music, and I God Bless You for it!\"\u003cp\u003eAlthough I do not explicitly subscribe to \"hippie\" ideals, there is something very moving about the way he addresses a group of people often looked back upon in mockery or disdain - it reinforces that they not only truly believed in something, but that they most importantly then put said beliefs into action.","parent":"4373335","id":"4373907"}
{"by":"ig0rskee","time":"1241402849","timestamp":"2009-05-04 02:07:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I actually added that later to make it clear to our customers that I am not talking about the product they're paying for.\u003cp\u003eBut I like your train of thought =))","parent":"591757","id":"591765"}
{"by":"anthk","time":"1457554602","timestamp":"2016-03-09 20:16:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would like that but for GTK3, instead of the  2↑↑2th glossy\u0026#x2F;plain\u0026#x2F;OSX theme clone .","parent":"11255372","id":"11255462"}
{"by":"andirk","time":"1533239505","timestamp":"2018-08-02 19:51:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the energy spent for the security of the network, instead of armed guards and bombs? Compared to that, is it more or less wasteful then how we secure USD?","parent":"17670753","id":"17674889"}
{"by":"nobleach","time":"1436201876","timestamp":"2015-07-06 16:57:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t find SO so bad. What I do hate is everyone complaining about SO. Yes, it violates the \u0026quot;teach a man to fish principle\u0026quot;... but seriously? Are we all so stuck in \u0026quot;well, I had to learn it, so I\u0026#x27;m not sharing it with you\u0026quot; syndrome land?\u003cp\u003eThe fear that someone is going to copy and paste an SO snippet into production code on a meaningful app should not even be a real thing. If some hack finds their way into an important job just by lying their way through the interview process, and gets by for years simply by asking questions on SO, I say, \u0026quot;that\u0026#x27;s incredible, I gotta see this\u0026quot;. For the average hacker, just throwing together some web stuff and needs to know, \u0026quot;how do I open an accordion in jQuery\u0026quot;, I think SO is perfect. I often use it when I feel like I\u0026#x27;m totally not getting the \u0026quot;right way\u0026quot; to do something. (I\u0026#x27;ve asked questions about jRuby gems, Sencha Touch, Dojo, CouchDB - things I really don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;d have gotten just by reading the docs) But I really don\u0026#x27;t care if someone else uses it as their private consultation service... I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s ruining this industry.","parent":"9837442","id":"9840479"}
{"by":"eridius","time":"1501263896","timestamp":"2017-07-28 17:44:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe 6 is definitely superior hardware to a Touch\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuperior how? The iPod Touch has the same SoC\u0026#x2F;CPU\u0026#x2F;GPU\u0026#x2F;RAM. The only real hardware difference is the iPhone 6 has a 4.7\u0026quot; screen, and while I personally enjoy my 5.5\u0026quot; screens, the popularity of the iPhone SE suggests that many people disagree that a larger screen is \u0026quot;superior hardware\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThat said, I have no idea how the camera compares. Maybe it is worse, maybe it isn\u0026#x27;t. Wikipedia isn\u0026#x27;t very forthcoming here.\u003cp\u003eWell, Wikipedia does point out that the iPod Touch doesn\u0026#x27;t have the ambient light sensor that\u0026#x27;s used for automatic screen brightness. If true, this is actually kind of surprising (I would assume that component isn\u0026#x27;t very expensive), but I guess it does technically qualify as \u0026quot;inferior hardware\u0026quot;, though this is a pretty small difference.","parent":"14875923","id":"14876080"}
{"by":"alvis","time":"1509536991","timestamp":"2017-11-01 11:49:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Babel can\u0026#x27;t do type checking, right?","parent":"15599445","id":"15600349"}
{"by":"cabalamat","time":"1229908033","timestamp":"2008-12-22 01:07:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003e... some kind of sexual predator was using social media tools to research victims or something. Or am I the only one who read it like that?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI read it that way too. Maybe the company should change their name to something less threatening, like, uh, Serial Killer.","parent":"405869","id":"405930"}
{"by":"bordercases","time":"1469478258","timestamp":"2016-07-25 20:24:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But can something that everybody uses become a competitive advantage? Intuitively that doesn\u0026#x27;t seem true to me, although it would be an interesting dynamic if it was.\u003cp\u003eSo it seems like you need a small collection of successful early adopters to prove its value instead as a middle ground for there to be any concentration of advantage at all.\u003cp\u003eI assume you\u0026#x27;re putting \u0026quot;competitive advantage\u0026quot; in reference to \u0026quot;gets me hired\u0026quot; instead of strictly \u0026quot;gets the job done well\u0026quot;, in which case, yeah, someone hiring someone else for the way they get a job done rather than their ability to do so would probably get you stuck. You could fake your way in.\u003cp\u003eOtherwise you might be referring to \u0026quot;no one will get my code\u0026quot;, which is also a legitimate concern.","parent":"12160869","id":"12161352"}
{"by":"autokad","time":"1534142907","timestamp":"2018-08-13 06:48:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess its subjective by what they mean by \u0026quot;the Internet has less than half as much data\u0026quot;.  I imagine what existed on file sharing sites was more (if that counts).  As of 2007, I had 1 TB of specific types of content, which would have been a tiny tiny fraction of what was on sites like morpheus\u0026#x2F;kazaa at the time in 2004.","parent":"17747000","id":"17748424"}
{"by":"wyager","time":"1407419369","timestamp":"2014-08-07 13:49:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right up until we invent strong AI (and probably even then), there\u0026#x27;s no particular reason the same thing that always happened won\u0026#x27;t keep happening; unskilled laborers will get replaced, most will retool, and no one in the next generation will train for the now-automated job. This happened to cordwainers, calculators, etc.\u003cp\u003eThe reasoning for this is very simple. It\u0026#x27;s why the Luddites were wrong then and the Luddites are wrong now. When a job is automated away, the benefit is distributed among three areas: 1. Automation company profit 2. Automation user profit 3. End customer costs. The net benefit is always positive, or else the automation would not be used in the first place. These 3 groups do not take their earnings and hide it under the mattress. This newly produced value has to be spent somewhere. So we end up with fields that were historically not viable, but because automation lowers the overhead of doing other things, now are viable. These fields recreate the labor requirements \u0026quot;lost\u0026quot; to automation.\u003cp\u003eThe question, of course, is how long it will take for unskilled laborers to retool, and what will they do in the time between jobs? Perhaps there will be technical solutions to speed the retooling process.","parent":"8147290","id":"8147662"}
{"by":"thanatropism","time":"1511280558","timestamp":"2017-11-21 16:09:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Did you begin disliking Scott Adams when he became a Trump booster, or...?","parent":"15748784","id":"15748808"}
{"by":"maknz","time":"1405999366","timestamp":"2014-07-22 03:22:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please, please come to NZ. We are stuck in an awful monopoly of Payment Express and overpriced merchant accounts.","parent":"8066572","id":"8067255"}
{"by":"ianlandsman1","time":"1357836469","timestamp":"2013-01-10 16:47:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's in a limited beta now, over the next few weeks we'll be rolling out a much wider beta so you should get a notice pretty soon.","parent":"5037731","id":"5037976"}
{"by":"deckardt","time":"1310995157","timestamp":"2011-07-18 13:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google Trends data is for search patterns, not unique visitors. It means that fewer people now search for \"techcrunch.com,\" which is a good thing.","parent":"2776018","id":"2776150"}
{"by":"ams6110","time":"1310239802","timestamp":"2011-07-09 19:30:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Word processors already support annotation and change tracking quite well.  In the legal community are there still frequent dealings with scanned images (i.e. not the actual doc files)?  If so would something like this be more practical than using the word processor functions?\u003cp\u003eOn a moment's thought I'm guessing that perhaps yes, there might be a need for this, as responses to discovery might be in the form of boxes of paper rather than digital files, for the very purpose of making shared review and analysis more difficult.","parent":"2745746","id":"2746181"}
{"by":"jkempe11","time":"1430529953","timestamp":"2015-05-02 01:25:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Twenty20 - Los Angeles, CA\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re looking for a senior\u0026#x2F;lead mobile developer to come help us change the world of stock photos.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m our internal recruiter; feel free to reach out to me at john@twenty20.com.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s the job description: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twenty20.theresumator.com\u0026#x2F;apply\u0026#x2F;Y6eZhv\u0026#x2F;Sr-Mobile-Software-Engineer.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twenty20.theresumator.com\u0026#x2F;apply\u0026#x2F;Y6eZhv\u0026#x2F;Sr-Mobile-Soft...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9471287","id":"9475485"}
{"by":"markysmarky","time":"1392813528","timestamp":"2014-02-19 12:38:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone knows how does Google detect that an app is trying to download and run code remotely? Is it an automatic process done by Google?\nFor example, if I use this library but don\u0026#x27;t ever download new code - so that it\u0026#x27;s not really used - will it come up on their radar somehow?\u003cp\u003eThanks","parent":"7261839","id":"7263296"}
{"by":"sparkman55","time":"1409796660","timestamp":"2014-09-04 02:11:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s a really cool snowblower train that plies Donner Pass between Sacramento and Reno:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItdRfvYHPAY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=ItdRfvYHPAY\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8266301","id":"8266448"}
{"by":"porphyrogene","time":"1541547319","timestamp":"2018-11-06 23:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not Reddit. Hacker News is a place for respectful discourse.","parent":"18395801","id":"18395842"}
{"by":"ddariod","time":"1333144179","timestamp":"2012-03-30 21:49:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"10PM - 4AM For me there is a huge variation depending on where I am with project, slow start and very productive at the end - not necessary a deadline, but that helps to.","parent":"3777573","id":"3778269"}
{"by":"tzahola","time":"1522517581","timestamp":"2018-03-31 17:33:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Joke? No, you can actually do this in C++!","parent":"16723597","id":"16724210"}
{"by":"matwood","time":"1338993425","timestamp":"2012-06-06 14:37:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"DVR has been out how long now?  I can't remember the last time I adjusted my schedule to something on TV.  The few shows I do watch I'm not even sure when they air.  No auto-commercial skipping is annoying, but DVR helps with that even if it's a manual process.","parent":"4072466","id":"4074054"}
{"by":"Silhouette","time":"1487086437","timestamp":"2017-02-14 15:33:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eDo you realise that every item on your list wasn\u0026#x27;t just possible but flourished without JavaScript\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, I don\u0026#x27;t realise that at all.\u003cp\u003eImagine how tedious it would be even to use a relatively simple discussion forum like HN if you had to wait for a full page reload every time you hit a voting button or expanded\u0026#x2F;contracted a thread.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s about as simple an interaction as you can get, but there are countless other simple examples where JS-based interaction is much more responsive and easier to use than a round-trip to the server. Think real-time form validation, for example.\u003cp\u003eAt the more complicated end of the spectrum, how exactly would you implement a web app like, say, a spreadsheet, without any client-side interaction?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJavaScript is ... swallowing up what was a thriving hypertext infrastructure.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSure it was, 20 years ago, but the technology has evolved to serve new purposes, as technologies do. The Web of 2017 is unquestionably far more useful for far more people than the Web of 1997, and the interactivity offered by JS is a significant contributory factor.","parent":"13644019","id":"13644170"}
{"by":"gems","time":"1369513100","timestamp":"2013-05-25 20:18:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should work on redefining your goals if all you're concerned about is working at Google, or at another large company.","parent":"5768482","id":"5768679"}
{"by":"gbachik","time":"1396604908","timestamp":"2014-04-04 09:48:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I made this app back when the first 2048 game came out! Honestly it was an experiment to test out Ludei\u0026#x27;s CocoonJS over phonegap. After using it I have to say if you have never used CocoonJS please o support those debs and try it because it absolutely amazing!","parent":"7530262","dead":true,"id":"7530264"}
{"by":"k-mcgrady","time":"1409937704","timestamp":"2014-09-05 17:21:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read something about a phishing attack - would that count as social engineering?","parent":"8274820","id":"8275057"}
{"by":"aws_ls","time":"1450948194","timestamp":"2015-12-24 09:09:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree - Rating 3\u0026#x2F;5 - Got an idea about the times in receding Muslim powers, at the end of the 15th Century, in Spain -  The author is an historian so positive point is that fiction rooted in history. But some of the fictional narratives could have been better, as he was not a fiction writer when he started out.\u003cp\u003e2) Zero to One - Rating 4\u0026#x2F;5 - Thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. Insights into and anecdotal examples of \u003ci\u003ePaypal mafia\u003c/i\u003e, among the numerous over there.\u003cp\u003e3) Liar\u0026#x27;s Poker - Rating 4\u0026#x2F;5 - The first of several best seller\u0026#x27;s by Michael Lewis, gives insights into the working of Investment Finance business, and in a very interesting way (lots of humor)\u003cp\u003e4) Devotion of Suspect X - Rating 4\u0026#x2F;5 - Work of fiction by the Japanese best seller author Keigo Higashino. Enjoyable read - contrasts a Physicist and a Mathematician trying to out think each other in a crime context (reference to Maths\u0026#x2F;Physics are just pop-level so don\u0026#x27;t expect too much)\u003cp\u003e5) \u0026#x27;Digital Gold...\u0026#x27; by Nathaniel Popper - Currently reading (very enjoyable at around 41%) - Captures the history of evolution of Bitcoin. Also made me sad for various people for different reasons, e.g. Hal Finney, who was the first adopter of Satoshi Nakamoto\u0026#x27;s idea. Reading this book made me appreciate why not knowing who is SN is important. I am no longer curious.\u003cp\u003e6) Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond - Rating 5\u0026#x2F;5 - A perspective changing book, if there can be one. Had picked it up from Gates notes\u0026#x27; reading list couple years back. After reading this, my entire perspective on religions, politics, culture changed and I view everything from the reference point of when we started to do agriculture some 20,000 years ago, and of course geographical perspective.\u003cp\u003eSome others in my to-read list (hope to pick one before the turn of the year):\u003cp\u003e1) Emperor of all maladies - book on cancer research\u003cp\u003e2) Ashley Vance\u0026#x27;s book on Elon Musk\u003cp\u003e3) 100 years of solitude\u003cp\u003e4) The selfish gene\u003cp\u003e5) The hard thing about hard things\u003cp\u003e6) Or, if I see any other book: either on this page, or on Gates Notes or on HN reading share the other day. Am a big fan of exchanging\u0026#x2F;sharing reading lists.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Formatting. HN post editor needs two new lines (\u0026#x27;\\n\u0026#x27;) to display one\u003cp\u003eEdit 2: Had wrongly named book #4 as Salvation of a saint (which is another book, I read earlier by the same author)","parent":"10783219","id":"10787625"}
{"by":"masterzora","time":"1305741302","timestamp":"2011-05-18 17:55:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection haven't brought down capitalism, why do you think having pre-written T\u0026#38;C that a company can opt to use would?\u003cp\u003eIf anything, having easily understandable pre-written T\u0026#38;C in the style of similar license could only support capitalism: companies would opt to use them if they deemed it profitable, and consumers would be more able to make the informed decisions on which capitalism should thrive.","parent":"2560367","id":"2560993"}
{"by":"mnutt","time":"1360016726","timestamp":"2013-02-04 22:25:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're correct that you'll depend on another service for all the niceties, but I for one am super excited about decoupling all of those services from the connection itself.  Hopefully it'll lead to a lot more competition and innovation in the space.","parent":"5167549","id":"5167595"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1445447390","timestamp":"2015-10-21 17:09:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the most visible signs of Yahoo\u0026#x27;s weakness was its strategy to hire big media stars...I\u0026#x27;m aware that Yahoo News brings in a godly amount of pageviews to articles on its site...but that hasn\u0026#x27;t translated to giving a more noticeable platform for its media stars. Since Yahoo hired Katie Couric, who was once a huge star on network news, the most I\u0026#x27;ve seen her name in the wild is in Reddit ads promoting her interviews. I can\u0026#x27;t think of any other popular news organization that has had to resort to Reddit ads to promote its stars.\u003cp\u003eAnd remember David Pogue of the New York Times? His opinion was always spread widely when he was at the NYT...I\u0026#x27;ve literally never seen any thing that he\u0026#x27;s written tweeted in the wild since he\u0026#x27;s been at Yahoo (though once in awhile I\u0026#x27;ll check in to read his stuff, which is actually still quite good and better than the NYT\u0026#x27;s current tech columnist).\u003cp\u003eI know cultivating a media brand is different than building and maintaining your core engineering team...but the media push was one of the big initiatives from Mayer and it went pretty badly.","parent":"10425185","id":"10426813"}
{"by":"johnny99","time":"1479588553","timestamp":"2016-11-19 20:49:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"New realities engender binary responses. We haven\u0026#x27;t had time to develop checks and balances on the seismic shifts in what\u0026#x27;s possible with privacy, and intrusions into it. I think we\u0026#x27;ll land somewhere in the middle--carving out privacy in some places, adapting to less of it in others. I don\u0026#x27;t think we can just declare \u0026quot;privacy is disappearing,\u0026quot; full stop. It has always waxed and waned.\u003cp\u003eWe don\u0026#x27;t have to look 1,000 years ahead to see the cost of lack of transparency though. False news and obfuscation of his ties to Russia are big parts of what got Trump elected; if there had been transparency about those, it might not have happened. It\u0026#x27;s connected to privacy--obfuscation is a form of privacy (maybe not in code, but in politics). Clinton\u0026#x27;s loss of privacy through hacked emails set up a false equivalence. Almost everything in Wikileak\u0026#x27;s release of the Podesta emails was either nonsense or small potatoes, but it got \u003ci\u003eway\u003c/i\u003e more press than Trump\u0026#x27;s ties to a hostile foreign government--successful Russian maskirovka. That\u0026#x27;s totally nuts. And Comey\u0026#x27;s flip-flopping, in the name of transparency, was the coup de grace--there was absolutely nothing there, as he himself admitted after the damage was done. \u0026quot;Transparency\u0026quot; about the wrong things is a distraction and a weapon.\u003cp\u003eI couldn\u0026#x27;t agree more about the need for respect and tolerance.","parent":"12995342","id":"12995566"}
{"by":"leoedin","time":"1333235299","timestamp":"2012-03-31 23:08:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Generally I find with programming and problem solving problems I work well with a mix of time alone to implement and try ideas followed by some time discussing the problem with others. Often just talking through a problem leads to a solution you hadn't considered, or someone else's input forces you to think about other aspects of the problem. However, trying to actually implement the solution with someone looking over your shoulder definitely doesn't help.","parent":"3780764","id":"3781865"}
{"by":"JosephMourot","time":"1447235930","timestamp":"2015-11-11 09:58:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Foxdigest tracks Social Medias, Blogs, SEO Backlinks and Mentions. You get the best performing stories from your competitors in your inbox every day. No login, no dashboard, only emails.","parent":"10545774","id":"10545776"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1361301559","timestamp":"2013-02-19 19:19:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're still making it way too complicated.\u003cp\u003eIf I put 10 gallons into my tank every day, but use 11 gallons daily.. I'm \"using up\" gas. That's all that matters.\u003cp\u003eOf course, there are many, many, many tweaks to be made, but for the majority of people, who need to lose a massive amount of weight, if they eat less calories than they use, they will lose weight. End.","parent":"5246324","id":"5246405"}
{"by":"jedberg","time":"1401809507","timestamp":"2014-06-03 15:31:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have metered vacation days but unlimited sick days, of course that is going to happen.  You have to unmeter both or it doesn\u0026#x27;t work.","parent":"7840720","id":"7840788"}
{"by":"selimthegrim","time":"1440692161","timestamp":"2015-08-27 16:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I know that, but there were in 1989 (hence the \u0026quot;were allowed\u0026quot; as opposed to \u0026quot;are allowed\u0026quot;)","parent":"10130070","id":"10130300"}
{"by":"absherwin","time":"1404962237","timestamp":"2014-07-10 03:17:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    -Bad: Do nothing\n    -Better: Object to everything and you might win the lottery\n    -Best: Object reasonably that they may be taken seriously\n    -Beyond amazing: Admit everything in such a sympathetic way to minimize guilt*\n\n    *Gerry Spence\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"8013223","id":"8013408"}
{"by":"copsarebastards","time":"1425460027","timestamp":"2015-03-04 09:07:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    int i = 10;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nQ. Is this code correct?\u003cp\u003eA. Yes.\u003cp\u003e2.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    extern void bar(void);\n    void foo(int *x)\n    {\n      if(x == NULL)\n      {\n        return;\n      }\n\n      int y = *x;\n      bar();\n      return;\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nQ. It turns out if you check the validity of your variables before you use them it prevents you from having to understand undefined behavior.\u003cp\u003eA. Is there a question here?\u003cp\u003e3. There was a function:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    #define ZP_COUNT 10\n    void func_original(int *xp, int *yp, int *zp)\n    {\n      int i;\n      for(i = 0; i \u0026lt; ZP_COUNT; i++)\n      {\n        *zp++ = *xp + *yp;\n      }\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI optimized it this way:\u003cp\u003e...because nobody had any idea what it was doing and so it wasn\u0026#x27;t used anywhere.\u003cp\u003e4.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    double f(double x)\n    {\n      assert(x != 0.);\n      return 1. \u0026#x2F; x;\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nQ. Is it possible for this function to return inf?\u003cp\u003eA. If you\u0026#x27;re at the point where you\u0026#x27;re asking that question you should have been using a decimal library a long time ago.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    int my_strlen(const char *x)\n    {\n      int res = 0;\n      while(*x)\n      {\n        res++;\n        x++;\n      }\n      return res;\n    }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nQ: The provided above function should return the length of the null-terminated line. Find a bug.\u003cp\u003eA. They didn\u0026#x27;t use `strlen()`.","parent":"9142771","id":"9143341"}
{"by":"noir_lord","time":"1489333983","timestamp":"2017-03-12 15:53:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because it slams straight into body autonomy, what is more personal than the building blocks that make you who you are (to a large extent).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a socialist in the old school \u0026#x27;greater good\u0026#x27; sense but you have to draw the line somewhere and I think for things like DNA that line should be drawn extremely carefully.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m a big advocate of the \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Precautionary_principle\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Precautionary_principle\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13851145","id":"13851173"}
{"by":"rcollamore","time":"1344374579","timestamp":"2012-08-07 21:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing new. That tag has always been in place. It's to prevent using an ad for SEO purposes","parent":"4352232","id":"4352372"}
{"by":"gyro_robo","time":"1178291266","timestamp":"2007-05-04 15:07:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, The WSJ is reporting on it too:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117827827757492168.html?mod=home_whats_news_us\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB117827827757492168.html?mod=home_whats_news_us\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eReuters mentions both stories: \n\u003ca href=\"http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070504/yahoo_microsoft.html?.v=9\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070504/yahoo_microsoft.html?.v=9\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"19387","id":"19393"}
{"by":"new_hackers","time":"1465598538","timestamp":"2016-06-10 22:42:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a completely futile waste of money that goes against any real progress of the human race.\u003cp\u003eIt takes VASTLY more energy to keep a mass of any significant quantity (i.e. human sized or greater) suspended in air with the ability to accelerate the body significantly enough to \u0026quot;drive\u0026quot; it.  (granted gliders do not use that much energy, but they are very limited in their maneuvers).\u003cp\u003eThis also seems like a very solved problem: if you want to take off vertically, use a helicopter.\u003cp\u003eI very much wish the economic and thought leaders of this country would invest to allowing humans to exist and thrive where large amounts of energy are not needed.  I know this goes against the power-hungry megalomaniac personality of most CEO\u0026#x27;s that want MORE POWER!!!!  But if we can teach humans to live in \u0026quot;low-energy\u0026quot; states, we will prolong our precarious existence on this planet.  We have passed peak-oil, have neared peak-computing.  If there was ever a time we as a species could solve the \u0026quot;important problems\u0026quot;, it is now.","parent":"11880630","id":"11880718"}
{"by":"mirimir","time":"1545243481","timestamp":"2018-12-19 18:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. Gotta start using Monero, I guess. It\u0026#x27;s still no where near as widely accepted as Bitcoin. But you can just convert, as the final step.","parent":"18714377","id":"18717875"}
{"by":"ajross","time":"1361940011","timestamp":"2013-02-27 04:40:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Completely off topic, but was anyone as disoriented as I was to realize they were browsing an Apache-licensed git archive on a Microsoft site?  It wasn't even awful (not github, or really even gitorious, but not bad).","parent":"5290310","id":"5290664"}
{"by":"c8g","time":"1498746354","timestamp":"2017-06-29 14:25:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;poteto\u0026#x2F;hiring-without-whiteboards\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;README.md\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;poteto\u0026#x2F;hiring-without-whiteboards\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;ma...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiring Without Whiteboards","parent":"14663411","id":"14663537"}
{"by":"l0b0","time":"1498911635","timestamp":"2017-07-01 12:20:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Basically: The president clearly doesn\u0026#x27;t respect the people, so why not create a powerless figurehead they \u0026quot;have to\u0026quot; respect? Because obviously the UK is the model democracy everybody looks up to.","parent":"14676440","id":"14676793"}
{"by":"Jtsummers","time":"1464565295","timestamp":"2016-05-29 23:41:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Emotional harm is still violence. it is not a strictly physical phenomenon.","parent":"11798587","id":"11798771"}
{"by":"dawie","time":"1175471099","timestamp":"2007-04-01 23:44:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats all good, but I can't move paying customers from RightCart to another platform. I will have to get them to re-enter their billing information when I swop to the new billing system. I guess I could run two concurrent billing systems and just stop using the one the first one for new customers and keep billing old customers using rightcart.","parent":"8077","id":"8078"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1243549513","timestamp":"2009-05-28 22:25:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry Pythonistas, but whenever you say that having \"only one way\" to do something is a \u003ci\u003egood\u003c/i\u003e point (and many have said this), you sound like religious nutjobs.\u003cp\u003eThere's more than one good and obvious way to do anything worth doing, be it giving birth, building a bridge, adding two numbers together, or developing algorithms in a programming language.\u003cp\u003eI like Python on many levels - particularly the indentation - but the religious-ness of the philosophy and language design is off-putting in so many other ways.","parent":"631012","id":"631128"}
{"by":"mlthoughts2018","time":"1539017923","timestamp":"2018-10-08 16:58:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don’t see why it’s an amazing statement since it’s been a very common perspective since at least The Mythical Man-Month decades ago.\u003cp\u003eIf other people makes plans based off of junk (read: any) estimates, it just amplifies the problems.\u003cp\u003eIf you’re at least honest that the estimates are meaningless, everyone can acknowledge it and come up with different solutions, especially regarding speeding up the process to get started and make checking in about blockers more meaningful and consistent.","parent":"18162495","id":"18169102"}
{"by":"kolbe","time":"1531950479","timestamp":"2018-07-18 21:47:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate to be cynical, but quid pro quo?","parent":"17561322","id":"17562350"}
{"by":"arenaninja","time":"1410392695","timestamp":"2014-09-10 23:44:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reading the article makes it really clear of why taxis are so regulated; because they need to be!\u003cp\u003eI once had an idea that was basically Uber, back in 2005 when I had a Motorola Razr and had also been left stranded, kept waiting for 45+minutes and forgotten about (or denied service!). My idea at the time involved selling it to the yellow cab industry so that they could send the closest cab and let the customer know the estimate time. But at no point did I think it a good idea to throw away the entire body of regulation for taxi services","parent":"8299609","id":"8299964"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1365179846","timestamp":"2013-04-05 16:37:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"x64 is so much nicer than x86 --- ip-relative addressing, more (mercifully, numbered) registers, and (best of all) a register-based calling convention.","parent":"5498272","id":"5499450"}
{"by":"TranceMan","time":"1435049624","timestamp":"2015-06-23 08:53:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This app has some nice features like shortcuts in stations and best place to get off the train:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.stationmasterapp.com\u0026#x2F;features.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.stationmasterapp.com\u0026#x2F;features.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot used it as no Android version :(","parent":"9763342","id":"9763392"}
{"by":"tdoggette","time":"1220744696","timestamp":"2008-09-06 23:44:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Me too!\u003cp\u003eOh wait no, this is HN, not a general discussion forum. My bad.","parent":"297054","id":"297104"}
{"by":"LostInTheWoods2","time":"1314728004","timestamp":"2011-08-30 18:13:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had the same reaction to CFML. I too run my site on IIS, but I use ASP-JScript, which is similar in syntax to javascript. I haven't used CFML in a decade, I remember it being clunky and limited compared to ASP 3. If you really want to go modern, there is of course dot-Net.","parent":"2942428","id":"2942551"}
{"by":"samspenc","time":"1379021025","timestamp":"2013-09-12 21:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But why \u0026quot;just under\u0026quot; $1 billion? They could at, like, $500 million in revenue?","parent":"6377032","id":"6377048"}
{"by":"_yosefk","time":"1494681171","timestamp":"2017-05-13 13:12:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Got it, an interesting point and it follows that a use case can be engineered where a GC adds essentially zero overhead over an arena allocator.\u003cp\u003eBut in the general case where some objects are short-lived and others aren\u0026#x27;t, surely manually splitting your allocations to malloc for long-lived ones and some sort of arena_alloc for short-lived ones ought to be faster than allocating them all in one place, then copying the ones which are still reachable out of the area reserved for short-lived objects?\u003cp\u003e(This is not to say a GC-based system will be slower \u0026quot;on average\u0026quot; because nobody knows what the \u0026quot;average\u0026quot; is. A realistic arena-based system can have objects most of which are short-lived but some do need to live longer and you only find out long after they\u0026#x27;re allocated; in that case, one has to manually reallocate those objects just like a GC would, and doing it, say, the C++ way is definitely more bug-prone than GC\u0026#x27;s bug-free handling of this, and one way to make it less bug-prone in C++ is to have deeper copies and avoid trying to minimize copying, and now you might easily be slower than a GC. I\u0026#x27;m just saying that it\u0026#x27;s very easy to find a case when a system not getting any hints from the programmer wrt object lifecycles and instead discovering them fully automatically would be slower than a system which does get these hints. And of course a GC \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e provide ways to supply these hints, I\u0026#x27;m just not aware of one which does - perhaps it\u0026#x27;s avoided on the theory that the GC algorithm might change and you don\u0026#x27;t want to make hints which operate in terms not portable between algorithms a part of your interface.)","parent":"14330672","id":"14330786"}
{"by":"thefool","time":"1277682091","timestamp":"2010-06-27 23:41:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The reason he gives for 2D monitors being bad for your eyes is spot on.\u003cp\u003eHowever, it seems to me that these would actually be better because they would make your eyes change thier depth of focus more.\u003cp\u003eLooking at sterograms can actually improve your vision by strengthening eye muscles that aren't frequently used in our computer - don't go outside and change focus much - age.","parent":"1466166","id":"1466530"}
{"by":"samsoniuk","time":"1535596854","timestamp":"2018-08-30 02:40:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point, but unfortunately the focus of the project is only the RISC-V core running in a FPGA. Everything else is already widely available in the internet and can be easily integrated.","parent":"17872185","id":"17873758"}
{"by":"teej","time":"1485223495","timestamp":"2017-01-24 02:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you flip the Tessa numbers around so they match up respectively to the pumped storage plant numbers?","parent":"13468133","id":"13468249"}
{"by":"wruza","time":"1519833001","timestamp":"2018-02-28 15:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So, in our reference frame, black holes never grow from original collapse and remain in that same state, tiny mass and size, no matter what falls into it. Wait, no. It loses mass through particle emission, which is assumed to actually happen. This puzzle was worth investigating when I learned this topic (not sure I understood all math and concepts correctly though).","parent":"16483414","id":"16483720"}
{"by":"dnautics","time":"1491388440","timestamp":"2017-04-05 10:34:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Blind people regularly teach themselves to listen at 4-5x speed.","parent":"14035649","id":"14041072"}
{"by":"Davidbrcz","time":"1510246033","timestamp":"2017-11-09 16:47:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Definitively Python for a learning programming. C++ is a huge language, full of traps and pitfalls. It is an expert friendly language.","parent":"15663740","id":"15663853"}
{"by":"paulhauggis","time":"1324995618","timestamp":"2011-12-27 14:20:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The irony of the community down voting this is fantastic!","parent":"3393618","id":"3395785"}
{"by":"benibela","time":"1487871144","timestamp":"2017-02-23 17:32:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something seems to be seriously wrong with the swap implementation on modern systems.\u003cp\u003e20 years ago on Windows 98 it just started swapping, but it was no big deal. If something became too slow to be usable, you could just press ctrl+alt+del and kill that swapped program and everything worked fine afterwards.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, my modern linux laptop, it starts swapping, and it swaps and swaps and you can do nothing, not even move the mouse, till 30 minutes later something crashes.","parent":"13715249","id":"13715765"}
{"by":"adregan","time":"1427670407","timestamp":"2015-03-29 23:06:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I knew I was forgetting something.","parent":"9286532","id":"9286841"}
{"by":"goatforce5","time":"1284478789","timestamp":"2010-09-14 15:39:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The first two categories require a job offer. The third is for people who are so freakin' awesome that their mere presence will make the US a better place.\u003cp\u003e\"National Interest Waiver - Aliens seeking a national interest waiver are requesting that the Labor Certification be waived because it is in the interest of the United States. [...]  Those seeking a national interest waiver may self-petition (they do not need an employer to sponsor them)\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=816a83453d4a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD\u0026#38;vgnextchannel=816a83453d4a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, it is employment based, but without any sponsorship required from a particular employer. You're self-certifying that you're really really really good at what you do, and what you can offer to the US will benefit the US as a whole.\u003cp\u003eThey will, of course, want lots of evidence to support the above.\u003cp\u003eThe upside to this route is that you're not tied to a particular employer.","parent":"1690861","id":"1690929"}
{"by":"Tharkun","time":"1486715160","timestamp":"2017-02-10 08:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Start by learning SI units. Then social skills. Then realism. There is no realistic way for a \u0026quot;25%\u0026quot; software engineer to net 1M. Many don\u0026#x27;t even net a tenth of that.","parent":"13613911","id":"13613997"}
{"by":"wccrawford","time":"1305831136","timestamp":"2011-05-19 18:52:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's not the point.  Crutchfield wrote that article.  I want to know if Crutchfield is following his own advice.","parent":"2564310","id":"2565033"}
{"by":"billdybas","time":"1501164533","timestamp":"2017-07-27 14:08:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would consider JavaScript my primary language, and you\u0026#x27;re right - Node is usually my go-to choice for a web backend. Express is pretty easy to grasp and be productive with.\u003cp\u003eBut when I need more (auth, orm, logging, etc.), I feel like I\u0026#x27;m spending more time searching for and curating packages and then trying to get them integrated than I am actually building an application.\u003cp\u003eRails (especially its API flag) has caught my attention recently because this becomes a non-issue - you pretty much just use what Rails has included.","parent":"14864705","id":"14865390"}
{"by":"ethomson","time":"1375386063","timestamp":"2013-08-01 19:41:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Her twitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/inthefade\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;inthefade\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eStates: \u0026quot;Pro tip: don\u0026#x27;t do a search for pressure cookers right after your spouse does a search for backpacks if you don\u0026#x27;t want the FBI at your door.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBefore later clarifying: \u0026quot;To clarify, they turned out to be a terrorist task force, not FBI. I wasn\u0026#x27;t home, my husband and son were.\u0026quot;","parent":"6142909","id":"6142932"}
{"by":"Kilimanjaro","time":"1263591797","timestamp":"2010-01-15 21:43:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is a $20 vps (360MB ram) enough for a small website?\u003cp\u003eI want to get one for me but I don't want to get rammed in the ass when I realize it is not enough and need to upgrade to at least 1GB.\u003cp\u003eI see I can get 1GB RAM at prgmr.com for the same $20","parent":"1055752","id":"1055954"}
{"by":"jpap","time":"1375353759","timestamp":"2013-08-01 10:42:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks! :-)\u003cp\u003eI first tried using the GPU, using old school GPGPU textures and OpenGL ES 2.0 shaders, but unfortunately the performance wasn\u0026#x27;t there for a variety of reasons given in [1].\u003cp\u003eSnappyCam has since been making extensive use of ARM NEON for the JPEG codec and a bunch of other image signal processing operations, like digital zoom.  It\u0026#x27;s a great instruction set!\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://www.snappylabs.com/blog/snappycam/2013/07/31/iphone-king-of-speed/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.snappylabs.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;snappycam\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;07\u0026#x2F;31\u0026#x2F;iphone-k...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6139397","id":"6139450"}
{"by":"brianleroux","time":"1266014803","timestamp":"2010-02-12 22:46:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, msg me on twitter (same username) if you have better wtfs or want to contribute. The idea isn't to prove how awesome knowledgeable you are but rather to have a good laugh and MAYBE point out some of the less intuitive aspects of the language we all love to hate on.","parent":"1121932","id":"1122029"}
{"by":"shirian","time":"1496316133","timestamp":"2017-06-01 11:22:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saves you 1 hr of waiting, had you wanted to do this yourself.","parent":"14458415","id":"14459380"}
{"by":"yan","time":"1227123944","timestamp":"2008-11-19 19:45:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great summary of features in Leopard. He went into more detail on sandboxing stuff than most other presentations I've seen.","parent":"369803","id":"369816"}
{"by":"gwenhwyfaer","time":"1190029940","timestamp":"2007-09-17 11:52:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the thing you're meant to do is the thing you find yourself unable to walk away from. For Lincoln that appears to have been politics.","parent":"55593","id":"55638"}
{"by":"petilon","time":"1468717841","timestamp":"2016-07-17 01:10:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with React is its patent rider. React.js comes with a BSD license, but has a patent rider that gives you a license to React\u0026#x27;s patents. This sounds like a good thing, right? But this rider has a \u0026quot;strong retaliation clause\u0026quot; which says that if you make any sort of patent claim against Facebook this patent license automatically terminates. Which means Facebook can now sue you for patent infringement for using React. You may think this is no worse than not having a patent rider at all. But that\u0026#x27;s not the case. If there is no patent rider then there is an implicit grant which cannot be revoked.\u003cp\u003eIf you work for a software company and your company has patents then keep in mind that by using React you are giving Facebook a free license to your entire patent portfolio.\u003cp\u003eMore info on weak vs strong retaliation clauses: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.rosenlaw.com\u0026#x2F;lj9.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.rosenlaw.com\u0026#x2F;lj9.htm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12108273","id":"12108556"}
{"by":"modoc","time":"1239112008","timestamp":"2009-04-07 13:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not saying you should be blind to what is happening in your market, but I'm a strong believer that you should focus on making your product the best for your users that you can, and try to ignore a lot of the noise out there.  Do what you do and do it really well.\u003cp\u003eFWIW: I think this applies more for smaller startups, and less for giant brands who are wielding and fighting against 100 million dollar marketing budgets.","parent":"550514","id":"550857"}
{"by":"jonknee","time":"1519753752","timestamp":"2018-02-27 17:49:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re reading that stat incorrectly:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; \u0026quot;The average age of a company listed on the S\u0026amp;P 500 has fallen from almost 60 years old in the 1950s to less than 20 years currently,\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe reason for that is there have both been a lot of mergers and a lot of new companies that have gotten huge in a small amount of time, especially in tech (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, NVIDIA, etc).","parent":"16475318","id":"16475919"}
{"by":"pm90","time":"1485792666","timestamp":"2017-01-30 16:11:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OK so we need to agree on the definition of a market here. I\u0026#x27;m gonna take the US tech market as the collection of all citizens and legal immigrants with the relevant skills.\u003cp\u003eNow, if you can\u0026#x27;t get a majority of workers in the market to work for you for a lower wage, that is not fair market value, by definition. If you need to bring in legal immigrants and pay them less than the above mentioned fair market value, they are being underpaid.","parent":"13520777","id":"13522329"}
{"by":"philwelch","time":"1282031472","timestamp":"2010-08-17 07:51:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Incompetence isn't great, but it's the best guard against competent evil.","parent":"1610490","id":"1610536"}
{"by":"eikenberry","time":"1512511867","timestamp":"2017-12-05 22:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Change + Time == Improvement","parent":"15854753","id":"15856523"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1473146258","timestamp":"2016-09-06 07:17:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That may be one factor, but it seems like there\u0026#x27;s new technology for 3d printing announced every few months; I\u0026#x27;m sure there is innovation happening and it\u0026#x27;s not just people sitting on their hands and waiting for the patents to expire.","parent":"12433908","id":"12434167"}
{"by":"alexkavon","time":"1481126736","timestamp":"2016-12-07 16:05:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well email is a complicated beast, so much so that most it\u0026#x27;s security related features are not included right out of the box. Some of these features are used to help determine spam (i.e. Spammer doesn\u0026#x27;t usually setup things like SPF or DKIM records). Mail-in-a-box provides a solution to a lot of these other components, thus not requiring the spammer to set much up at all. Making them more reliable to spam engines than before. I\u0026#x27;m not saying Mail-in-a-box is a one stop shop spammer solution, but it\u0026#x27;s pretty close.","parent":"13051877","id":"13123524"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1373611621","timestamp":"2013-07-12 06:47:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Holy wtf back at you.\u003cp\u003eFor calling the Politically Correct SWAT teams into innocent conversation. Can people say anything that does not annoy the PC crowds anymore?\u003cp\u003eYes, in the real world, women drive more food purchases such as this than men. And mostly \u0026quot;upper middle class\u0026quot; women, or, to be more precise, upper middle class wannabes, buy something like balsamic.","parent":"6030379","id":"6031265"}
{"by":"mtgx","time":"1448258922","timestamp":"2015-11-23 06:08:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think bug disclosure should be based on how dangerous it is, not how fast\u0026#x2F;slow the company is in fixing it. The attackers won\u0026#x27;t work on the company\u0026#x27;s own schedule after all.","parent":"10612012","id":"10613140"}
{"by":"poshenloh","time":"1455046644","timestamp":"2016-02-09 19:37:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that one main issue is that many people unfortunately equate math with routine calculations or rote memorization. I think it\u0026#x27;s valuable to communicate that actually math is the art of creative thinking. To do this, it helps to share some \u0026quot;gems\u0026quot;, or examples with powerful \u0026quot;Aha\u0026quot; factors.\u003cp\u003eAlong these lines, I have a very fresh one: last week, I just had a very shocking (mathematical) realization while thinking about football:\u003cp\u003eThere is a way to instantly see the optimal running angle when evading an equal-speed defender in football: eyeball the line which runs through the midpoint between you and the defender, and see where it hits the edge of the field - run straight there.\u003cp\u003eI was immediately floored by this observation, because it is so easy in retrospect that it should be common knowledge. Yet literally everybody I\u0026#x27;ve told this to has said that it was new to them - mathematicians \u0026amp; people from the general public. I quickly threw together a video to share it across the community:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;9sxVgJ_wPaM?list=PLqv4sKOD1bsUoSs-SbzlA2BE1tML4A33u\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;youtu.be\u0026#x2F;9sxVgJ_wPaM?list=PLqv4sKOD1bsUoSs-SbzlA2BE1...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think that by thinking of and packaging cool nuggets of \u0026quot;math\u0026quot; like this to share, we can help rebrand the image of math. :)","parent":"11066121","id":"11068086"}
{"by":"tolien","time":"1501964378","timestamp":"2017-08-05 20:19:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ICO was the direct result of the EU Data Protection Durectives of the 80s and are replicated throughout the Union, so I’m not sure they’re the best example of the “oppressive regime” in the UK.\u003cp\u003eThey’ve also been quite notably toothless, for example TalkTalk was fined a “record” £400k for their 2015 disaster: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ico.org.uk\u0026#x2F;about-the-ico\u0026#x2F;news-and-events\u0026#x2F;news-and-blogs\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;talktalk-gets-record-400-000-fine-for-failing-to-prevent-october-2015-attack\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ico.org.uk\u0026#x2F;about-the-ico\u0026#x2F;news-and-events\u0026#x2F;news-and-bl...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14937589","id":"14937682"}
{"by":"CompelTechnic","time":"1520856434","timestamp":"2018-03-12 12:07:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(just a guess) even if you are only using it for a small fraction of its lifetime, you are amortizing the cost of a large piece of capital equipment, so the upfront cost must take this into account. Blasting has a smaller investment in capital equipment (even if amortized similarly)\u003cp\u003eThere is also the setup- carting in the pieces of the TBM and getting them into place, etc.","parent":"16567408","id":"16567601"}
{"by":"joshuak","time":"1402553503","timestamp":"2014-06-12 06:11:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Non-technical users have always understood the concepts of: publish (or broadcast), share (or collaborate), and give (or send).\u003cp\u003eThe computer world is the one that limited these concepts.\u003cp\u003eBefore web: you can only copy and give.\u003cp\u003eAfter web: you can give, or publish.\u003cp\u003eAfter cloud: you can give, publish, and share.\u003cp\u003eI think these concepts should be as well differentiated in the digital world as they are in the physical.","parent":"7880887","id":"7882028"}
{"by":"randallsquared","time":"1302781644","timestamp":"2011-04-14 11:47:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there have been good commercial reasons for decades.  The problem isn't inherent to the task, the problem has been legislative and regulatory uncertainty.  The only way around that would be operating from a more open jurisdiction (difficult due to so many of your potential workers being banned from working with you due to ITAR) or having so much personal wealth that you can afford to take the risk, which is the path it seems to be happening on.","parent":"2446348","id":"2446443"}
{"by":"JumpCrisscross","time":"1522272300","timestamp":"2018-03-28 21:25:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003e$1.5 billion in capex equipment\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiquidation of specialized, heavy hardware is pennies if not fractions thereof on the dollar. I have my standard-issue Swiss bias against debt, but it seems--with the benefit of hindsight--that issuing debt was a bad call by Tesla.","parent":"16702036","id":"16702093"}
{"by":"beatgammit","time":"1540648162","timestamp":"2018-10-27 13:49:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s the KRACK vulnerability issue [1] where OpenBSD pushed a minor patch and published information on the originally agreed embargo date, which was extended. OpenBSD made sure to not mention the attack and instead say that it was fixing an OpenBSD-specific issue, and others agreed that it didn\u0026#x27;t constitute a violation of the embargo agreement.\u003cp\u003eHowever, given Theo de Raadt\u0026#x27;s colorful past, OpenBSD\u0026#x27;s relatively small userbase, and this relatively minor incident, I can see how other companies may think that it\u0026#x27;s not worth the risk of including OpenBSD in an embargo. It\u0026#x27;s not fair, but it is what it is.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;marc.info\u0026#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech\u0026amp;m=152910536208954\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;marc.info\u0026#x2F;?l=openbsd-tech\u0026amp;m=152910536208954\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18305702","id":"18315673"}
{"by":"tomvbussel","time":"1440180298","timestamp":"2015-08-21 18:04:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a bit unfair to compare the speed of Mitsuba with the speed of Renderman. Mitsuba only has a simple KD-Tree (although highly optimized), while RenderMan most likely has a state of the art BVH, which utilizes SIMD instructions. RenderMan also has a lot of sampling controls, while Mitsuba\u0026#x27;s path tracer has always traces one light and one BSDF sample on each intersection. There are multiple software engineers at Pixar that solely focus on optimizing RenderMan, while most of Mitsuba is implemented by a single person, who is a full-time researcher.","parent":"10098887","id":"10099204"}
{"by":"Geekette","time":"1345202724","timestamp":"2012-08-17 11:25:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course, judge Koh was just refusing to recognize their design supremacy by not mentioning their inhouse brand, iCrack.","parent":"4393825","id":"4395835"}
{"by":"hussong","time":"1270591071","timestamp":"2010-04-06 21:57:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"False dilemma, take the ThinkPad instead.","parent":"1245687","id":"1245776"}
{"by":"ziszis","time":"1479050518","timestamp":"2016-11-13 15:21:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why they do it? Easy. You are not the customer, the advertiser is. So as long as it is tolerable for a sufficient % of the audience, it is worth it.\u003cp\u003eCase in point, circumventing ad blockers. Audience explicitly doesn\u0026#x27;t want the ad experience, but Facebook wants to make more $. Facebook just announced a record quarter on desktop advertising fueled by successfully circumventing ad blockers.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techcrunch.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;add-cash-plus\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;techcrunch.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;add-cash-plus\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12942948","id":"12943719"}
{"by":"facepalm","time":"1483996875","timestamp":"2017-01-09 21:21:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Might be fun to send to the competition, to undermine morale.","parent":"13357473","id":"13359910"}
{"by":"sah","time":"1207522727","timestamp":"2008-04-06 22:58:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to hear about valid uses of Singleton.  I'm not completely sure there aren't any, but I don't think I've ever seen one.","parent":"156283","id":"156473"}
{"by":"Tomte","time":"1441621398","timestamp":"2015-09-07 10:23:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Famous last words.\u003cp\u003eAs if Blizzard had no way to hire lawyers elsewhere. And maybe he wants to travel to the United States someday?","parent":"10180829","id":"10180852"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1300835017","timestamp":"2011-03-22 23:03:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish there was a flag like flagging, but instead of \"flag\" it would say \"Does Not Understand The Word Irony\". Actually, I'd settle for just a \"Wrong\" badge.\u003cp\u003eI'd probably Wrong your post, then UnWrong it so I could Wrong it again.","parent":"2355725","id":"2356965"}
{"by":"2xtreme","time":"1381856419","timestamp":"2013-10-15 17:00:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh my God...","parent":"6554157","id":"6554554"}
{"by":"antonvs","time":"1502526299","timestamp":"2017-08-12 08:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Inventing the wheel is no longer considered significant in the way you seem to imply - see e.g. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;uncoveredhistory.com\u0026#x2F;mesoamerica\u0026#x2F;wheeled-toys\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;uncoveredhistory.com\u0026#x2F;mesoamerica\u0026#x2F;wheeled-toys\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e :\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Archaeology has now revealed that the wheel wasn’t invented until the 4th millennium BC – which puts it thousands of years after the first cities were built and after the invention of metallurgy, and its importance in determining the intelligence of a race is no longer rational.\u003cp\u003eBoats solve a more basic problem. No-one \u003ci\u003eneeds\u003c/i\u003e wheels - there are other means of transportation available.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the above article points out that Mesoamericans seem to have independently invented the wheel, and even made wheeled toys.\u003cp\u003eYou could say something similar about the Polynesians, although they came later","parent":"14996755","id":"14997028"}
{"by":"lsc","time":"1343943692","timestamp":"2012-08-02 21:41:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"as a boss, the 'respect' and 'above' thing kinda bother me.  I mean, it /is/ my company, but on the other hand, if I didn't think you were good at something, I wouldn't be spending my money on you.  (I mean, sometimes an employee who is very good at one thing starts telling me how to run something that I don't think they know very much about, and that can be irritating, but eh.)  If you are a boss and you are hiring non-interns that aren't better than you in their areas of expertiece, you are incompitent.\u003cp\u003eI mean, I'm not a very good boss;  I think of most of my relationships the way you think of contractors.  which is wrong for most people, but personally?  I get really uncomfortable with this idea that I'm \"above\" an employee.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I think this actively contributes to me being a bad boss.  A whole lot of people really like the idea that the company is a family or something, rather than it just being a mutually benficial relationship.   I mean, if you are part of the company, and I own the company.... that has some (i think) disturbing implications.   If it's just a mutually benifical relationship, on the other hand? that seems much less disturbing to me.   But many people are more comfortable with the former.    (and yes, many of those people like to see the company as more of a co-op where everyone has ownership, and that's another area where I'm a bad boss.  I'm not any better at pretending that other people own what is mine than I am at pretending to own other people.  I have enough experience with real co-ops and communes to want to avoid that sort of thing.)","parent":"4330794","id":"4331171"}
{"by":"nailer","time":"1522819122","timestamp":"2018-04-04 05:18:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The presence of the \u0026#x27;Advertiser-friendly content guidelines\u0026#x27; document isn\u0026#x27;t an answer to the question, which is why the guidelines aren\u0026#x27;t consistently applied.","parent":"16752024","id":"16752166"}
{"by":"vim_wannabe","time":"1521704716","timestamp":"2018-03-22 07:45:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah, thank you.","parent":"16646573","id":"16646626"}
{"by":"fossuser","time":"1367644597","timestamp":"2013-05-04 05:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It isn't even supposed to be about protecting that 'right'.  It was supposed to be an incentive to create for the public's benefit with the limited time monopoly being simply the means to do so.\u003cp\u003eI have an older post about it here:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.zacharyalberico.net/blog/16427595132/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.zacharyalberico.net/blog/16427595132/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5653852","id":"5654100"}
{"by":"r0h4n","time":"1286547323","timestamp":"2010-10-08 14:15:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i will try what you say. i have never thought of such details about resume and business. thnx again :)","parent":"1771665","id":"1771707"}
{"by":"th0br0","time":"1433066069","timestamp":"2015-05-31 09:54:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t get me wrong, but how does your problem-adapted version of DBSCAN constitue a form of machine learning?","parent":"9632731","id":"9633685"}
{"by":"psergeant","time":"1510900005","timestamp":"2017-11-17 06:26:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A more complicated industry than SpaceX sells into?","parent":"15719228","id":"15719526"}
{"by":"danielhunt","time":"1544040657","timestamp":"2018-12-05 20:10:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This looks really useful for commutes.\u003cp\u003eWill be trying this one out tomorrow I think.\u003cp\u003eThe comments look a bit weird though. Don\u0026#x27;t fit the look\u0026#x2F;feel of the rest. Love how the articles are embedded though.","parent":"18611915","id":"18611970"}
{"by":"lobo_tuerto","time":"1444916948","timestamp":"2015-10-15 13:49:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Article is behind a paywall.","parent":"10391313","id":"10393084"}
{"by":"gaoshan","time":"1383533823","timestamp":"2013-11-04 02:57:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who travels to China fairly frequently I can say I\u0026#x27;ve found this site to be inconsistent.\u003cp\u003eThat said, different locations within China have inconsistently differing levels of blockage (for instance, you can access many more places from within the greater Shanghai area than from within nearby Hangzhou and can find differences in what is available between Hangzhou and Beijing) so I think it is difficult to definitely state that this or that site is completely unavailable from anywhere within China.","parent":"6666214","id":"6666489"}
{"by":"jon-wood","time":"1467716946","timestamp":"2016-07-05 11:09:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;ll be using ever more malware infested Windows 7 installs.","parent":"12035290","id":"12035586"}
{"by":"koolba","time":"1535388280","timestamp":"2018-08-27 16:44:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn’t be the first time: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Cobra_effect\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Cobra_effect\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17852507","id":"17852532"}
{"by":"Mikeb85","time":"1546420003","timestamp":"2019-01-02 09:06:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;ll happen eventually, and likely without force.  Taiwan (like HK) enjoyed relative economic success versus China because of their ties with the west, beneficial strategic location and relatively small population.  Now that China\u0026#x27;s an economic superpower, still growing and liberalizing (albeit slowly), theres less reasons for Taiwan to oppose reunification.  I doubt it\u0026#x27;ll happen in the next decade, but it likely will within 50 years.","parent":"18804348","id":"18805056"}
{"by":"merpnderp","time":"1448381816","timestamp":"2015-11-24 16:16:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you find these good telecommute jobs? I\u0026#x27;m a web developer and would love to telecommute.","parent":"10621396","id":"10621586"}
{"by":"RX14","time":"1502384625","timestamp":"2017-08-10 17:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was viewing \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;Security\u0026#x2F;Sandbox\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;Security\u0026#x2F;Sandbox\u003c/a\u003e and it appears that Firefox on Linux now has some kind of sandboxing. I presume it\u0026#x27;s not as good as Chrome but I\u0026#x27;m sure it\u0026#x27;s raised the security level significantly. Realistically, how much danger am I in by using Firefox?","parent":"14978610","id":"14981746"}
{"by":"Pica_soO","time":"1483450441","timestamp":"2017-01-03 13:34:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there is no ladder to power to climb, what to do with all the unemployed climbers, who paid those economists so well?","parent":"13308864","id":"13308963"}
{"by":"fictioncircle","time":"1495036502","timestamp":"2017-05-17 15:55:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team\u0026#x2F;strategy. I worked on it for about 16 months.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it. - They think it\u0026#x27;s way too much.\u003cp\u003e33% over a 48 month vesting schedule is:\u003cp\u003e16\u0026#x2F;48*.33 is 11%.\u003cp\u003eOption A) Ask for 11% of the money raised, 11% of the company, or some combination thereof. (i.e. Keep 5% and sell them 6% for ~$30k)\u003cp\u003eOption B) Dilute you over time as the company grows.\u003cp\u003eA is about as low as its reasonable for them to offer you. If they aren\u0026#x27;t willing to meet that bar, just hold on to the full amount you are entitled until they agree.","parent":"14357379","id":"14359688"}
{"by":"khedoros1","time":"1485904123","timestamp":"2017-01-31 23:08:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t tried the Gnash player in a while (years), but when I \u003ci\u003edid\u003c/i\u003e try, it was pretty promising for playing swf files that were just animations. A lot of them have also ended up as rendered video on places like Youtube.","parent":"13535018","id":"13536329"}
{"by":"simonh","time":"1479737691","timestamp":"2016-11-21 14:14:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps my final statement was a bit glib, but personally I feel we are born into this world with a whole ton of obligations. We are nurtured, educated, protected. In many parts of the world, we are assigned inalienable rights just through the fact of being human beings. Whatever we do is founded on the hard work and achievements of others, but in most countries in the modern era very few claims are made on us in return.\u003cp\u003eIn past ages we were expected, or even required to die or at least kill and risk death in defense of our society. Nowadays you can be brought up, educated to a decent standard, benefit from all of society\u0026#x27;s resources and benefits to the age of adulthood and then swan off to some other part of the world for the rest of our lives, obligation free. That\u0026#x27;s a pretty amazing deal, by historical or really any standards.","parent":"13004752","id":"13005478"}
{"by":"mschuster91","time":"1515546803","timestamp":"2018-01-10 01:13:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Exceedingly small numbers of civilians hold M-16s legally in the US.\u003cp\u003eM16s are only a \u003ci\u003epart of\u003c/i\u003e the problem. AR15s and ordinary 9mm handguns can be had in Walmarts or \u0026quot;conveniently\u0026quot; bought without any background checks\u0026#x2F;documentation on private sales.\u003cp\u003eI mean, I understand the appeal on having a 9mm at home for self defense, and a hunting rifle for, well, hunting - but having AR15 or worse for \u003ci\u003eeveryone\u003c/i\u003e at a supermarket? And then the ability to sell \u0026#x27;em on without any record of the transferral? I don\u0026#x27;t get the US on gun rights sometimes.","parent":"16110584","id":"16111770"}
{"by":"kgwgk","time":"1505412284","timestamp":"2017-09-14 18:04:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Medicare is funded primarily from three sources: general revenues (45 percent), payroll taxes (36 percent), and beneficiary premiums (13 percent)\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kff.org\u0026#x2F;medicare\u0026#x2F;issue-brief\u0026#x2F;the-facts-on-medicare-spending-and-financing\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kff.org\u0026#x2F;medicare\u0026#x2F;issue-brief\u0026#x2F;the-facts-on-medicar...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15250258","id":"15250727"}
{"by":"soc","time":"1244212887","timestamp":"2009-06-05 14:41:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is really needed is to have all vehicles, roads, lights, and stop signs linked together.\u003cp\u003eFor example, a car should refuse to let the driver proceed thru a light/stop sign unless it's clear.  Imagine all the money that would be saved from property/medical damages.","parent":"643236","id":"643257"}
{"by":"nuxi7","time":"1454189107","timestamp":"2016-01-30 21:25:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the curious, the need to change the malloc behavior is not hypothetical:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sourceware.org\u0026#x2F;bugzilla\u0026#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=6527\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;sourceware.org\u0026#x2F;bugzilla\u0026#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=6527\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasically for many years now glibc has been knowingly doing the wrong thing just to keep malloc_set_state\u0026#x2F;malloc_get_state working. Which as far as anyone knows, is used only by emacs. Keeping this interface alive for the sole benefit of an emacs optimization when it is blocking the fixes for fairly serious bugs is a pretty big bar to meet for justification.\u003cp\u003eIn the end this is largely a non-issue as an Emacs developer noted that their configure script probes for the special glibc malloc API and if it doesn\u0026#x27;t exist then emacs will use its own malloc implementation. The conclusion is that once the glibc devs get their changes up, everyone can meet up again to make sure existing emacs binaries still run and that the API detection in the emacs configure script works right.\u003cp\u003eSo props to Paul Eggert for being the only sane man in the room and pointing out that the drama was all for nothing.","parent":"11001796","id":"11003825"}
{"by":"theonemind","time":"1468411910","timestamp":"2016-07-13 12:11:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For six months, the police provided strong incentive to actively commit new child abuse, because they were running a site that required active uploading.\u003cp\u003eReally, possession and distribution of these images should be legal. Then pedophiles wouldn\u0026#x27;t feel the need to hoard it. They could easily get it online. However, obviously, the \u003ci\u003eacts\u003c/i\u003e in them should be completely illegal. With the current system, pedophiles hoard images, and on sites like this, they\u0026#x27;ll want \u003ci\u003enew\u003c/i\u003e material.\u003cp\u003eMuch like the war on drugs, I don\u0026#x27;t think second-order effects have been considered in policy. Sure, law makers and most sexually normal people are going to have a gut reaction of disgust to child pornography. This leads to a knee-jerk \u0026quot;ban it\u0026quot; reaction. I think the \u0026quot;reasoning\u0026quot; stops right there. For every additional concept it takes to solve a test problem, you lose 75-80% of students. Likewise, I feel like lawmakers and the public have at least a 75-80% loss rate considering the second and third order effects of their policies.","parent":"12084471","id":"12085489"}
{"by":"nickff","time":"1461168357","timestamp":"2016-04-20 16:05:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are romanticizing the hunter-gatherer past.  Constantly being on the verge of starvation, eating under-ripe fruit, and scavenging rotten meat off week-old corpses was not a good or \u0026#x27;healthy\u0026#x27; life.","parent":"11535117","id":"11535402"}
{"by":"caio1982","time":"1399248210","timestamp":"2014-05-05 00:03:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well deserved, it would be really hard for anyone to debate his merit.","parent":"7695964","id":"7696369"}
{"by":"ryuker16","time":"1476939192","timestamp":"2016-10-20 04:53:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Too be fair, labor for those tasks is so cheap to make robots uncompetitive price wise.\u003cp\u003eThe money is in putting that lawyer out of work nor hector, the immigrant strawberry picker","parent":"12749372","id":"12749805"}
{"by":"hendler","time":"1286169906","timestamp":"2010-10-04 05:25:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I liked this post for the comprehensive list of internals - before reading I only knew v8 and libev were part of node.js.","parent":"1754587","id":"1754694"}
{"by":"sigmar","time":"1429390992","timestamp":"2015-04-18 21:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can appreciate this position since the digital screen people view photos on can\u0026#x27;t be controlled by the content creator and screens vary a ton  (in resolution, contrast, color).","parent":"9400311","id":"9401024"}
{"by":"Harelin","time":"1513392552","timestamp":"2017-12-16 02:49:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m reminded of the Tesloop episode of \u0026#x27;The Pitch\u0026#x27; podcast. \u0026quot;Haydn Sonnad pitches his plan to revolutionize regional transit on the back of Tesla’s electric charging network.\u0026quot; \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gimletmedia.com\u0026#x2F;episode\u0026#x2F;11-tesloop\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;gimletmedia.com\u0026#x2F;episode\u0026#x2F;11-tesloop\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15936866","id":"15937130"}
{"by":"wlievens","time":"1470600544","timestamp":"2016-08-07 20:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A very vague comment but here goes: IIRC Italy is a pretty significant partner in ESA projects, maybe there are some interesting challenges in that space?","parent":"12243021","id":"12243423"}
{"by":"damon_c","time":"1447275091","timestamp":"2015-11-11 20:51:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I take it you have not developed plugins for both.  In my experience, Volusion is not in the same league as Shopify with respect to ease\u0026#x2F;flexibility\u0026#x2F;features of integration.","parent":"10548916","id":"10549184"}
{"by":"BHSPitMonkey","time":"1452644690","timestamp":"2016-01-13 00:24:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The interactive polling stuff is neat, though it seems like it would occupy a lot more time in a presentation than the old-fashioned \u0026quot;show of hands\u0026quot; it\u0026#x27;s replacing (given the time an audience would need to pull out their phones and try to scan the QR \u0026#x2F; type the URL \u0026#x2F; send the SMS).\u003cp\u003eThe on-device view of the current and upcoming slides (as well as speaker notes, and maybe even drawing) are also built into the Google Slides app\u0026#x27;s UI when you are casting to a Chromecast.","parent":"10890531","id":"10891455"}
{"by":"dperfect","time":"1455571226","timestamp":"2016-02-15 21:20:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like there\u0026#x27;s a setting (at least in the web interface) to turn off auto-schedule. Apparently I had turned it off for one of my Nest thermostats, but not the other one - turning it off now.","parent":"11106062","id":"11106089"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1383496686","timestamp":"2013-11-03 16:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree the call for \u0026#x27;bubble\u0026#x27; does get annoying, but I also note that you can be \u0026#x27;over valued.\u0026#x27; The appetite for stock (or investments) in non-profitable companies (so called \u0026#x27;ground floor\u0026#x27; opportunities) is (and perhaps always will be) insatiable.\u003cp\u003eBut I think the bigger thing going on here is capital chasing something other than a 1% return. Consider you have $100M sitting around. You can take 2% of that ($2M) and \u0026#x27;angle invest\u0026#x27; $75K into  24 different \u0026#x27;startups\u0026#x27; and with one \u0026quot;winner\u0026quot; exit with a payback of $7.5M (100x return on 75K) and have your overall portfolio growth for that period be 5%.","parent":"6663679","id":"6663777"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1499470824","timestamp":"2017-07-07 23:40:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The entire reason behind this story\u0026#x27;s existence is that MSNBC failed to verify the authenticity of a document (one that they declined to publish as fact), something that they wouldn\u0026#x27;t do if they didn\u0026#x27;t care about reporting truthfully.","parent":"14723077","id":"14723119"}
{"by":"mcrider","time":"1360462244","timestamp":"2013-02-10 02:10:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would be great to have something like this also serve up the JS files via a CDN, and provide a JS-based loader (like require.js for remote scripts).  Plus maybe dependency management?","parent":"5194201","id":"5195113"}
{"by":"msahil","time":"1339932119","timestamp":"2012-06-17 11:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You should have a look at this PDF \u003ca href=\"http://neildavidson.com/download/dont-just-roll-the-dice/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://neildavidson.com/download/dont-just-roll-the-dice/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4122672","id":"4122698"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1433344118","timestamp":"2015-06-03 15:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree about the name - it sounds more suitable for MIDI visualisation software.\u003cp\u003eCygwin and MingW don\u0026#x27;t evoke any existing meaning, so I think they\u0026#x27;re somewhat more memorable.","parent":"9651188","id":"9653101"}
{"by":"ealhad","time":"1529273884","timestamp":"2018-06-17 22:18:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know, I was thinking about sites like this one. I don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;m missing a lot, the internet is huge.","parent":"17334546","id":"17334645"}
{"by":"solveew","time":"1349211221","timestamp":"2012-10-02 20:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The vast majority of slaves that we got of African origin were traded to us by other Africans. I'd say of the two possibilities of enslavement in Africa, being to a ship bound for the new world held the most promise. If you disagree, I will buy you a one way ticket to Liberia on the condition that you renounce your citizenship.\u003cp\u003eAs a Slav, my people were in bondage much longer than blacks in the United States. Try an order of a millenia or two. I do not care. It is far more advantageous for me to be industrious and build personal wealth than blame distant oppressors for a few centuries of enslavement. I benefitted from the bad conditions of my ancestors, and guess what? So did blacks in the United States. They should stop being professional victims and make things if they want to have equal cultural influence.\u003cp\u003eBeyond that, this whole discussion is a distraction from the people that have real undue power, those in control of the banks and the media.... If we fight amongst ourselves about race we miss the man behind the Zion curtain.","parent":"4604149","id":"4604219"}
{"by":"WalterBright","time":"1498011402","timestamp":"2017-06-21 02:16:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gas prices vary daily. This works very well at matching supply with demand. I don\u0026#x27;t see any particular reason to believe that there\u0026#x27;s something different about electricity.","parent":"14598914","id":"14600174"}
{"by":"acg","time":"1253694679","timestamp":"2009-09-23 08:31:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed, it's extending the usefulness of the platform.  Saying nothing of IE7 or IE8: which are IE too.","parent":"838337","id":"838878"}
{"by":"scott_s","time":"1252613029","timestamp":"2009-09-10 20:03:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At that point in the essay, he had quoted the license, but that sentence is the only time he states what's wrong with it. It's not repetition.","parent":"816052","id":"816062"}
{"by":"thoughtcriminal","time":"1370041842","timestamp":"2013-05-31 23:10:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you live in the future, garbage is gold. Garbage will be used to build business empires. Garbage will be sold, sorted, repurposed and resold in ways unimaginable, so determine what future assets you are throwing out.\u003cp\u003ePuts the saying \u003ci\u003e\"find something no one else wants to do and make a career out of it\"\u003c/i\u003e in a whole new light.\u003cp\u003eBonus Prediction: William Gibson will write a novel about garbage.","parent":"5801697","id":"5801799"}
{"by":"criddell","time":"1504359442","timestamp":"2017-09-02 13:37:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Florida is super porous. Will pumps and barrier islands even help?","parent":"15154620","id":"15155906"}
{"by":"iamjk","time":"1494598533","timestamp":"2017-05-12 14:15:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That isn\u0026#x27;t a word, per se bruh.","parent":"14323583","id":"14324087"}
{"by":"ippisl","time":"1329750041","timestamp":"2012-02-20 15:00:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are two kinds of bets we're talking about.\u003cp\u003eYou're talking about the bet: will our products would be successful? That's the kind of bet you have to take when you develop products, no way around it. And apple is pretty good at those gambles.\u003cp\u003eI'm talking about the bet: if this product would be successful, will we make more money , or less money(due to cannibalization) ?\u003cp\u003eAlso , regarding MP3 phones. it was clear(due to moore's law), that mobile phones would have good enough MP3 players in the future.","parent":"3612471","id":"3612553"}
{"by":"danieltillett","time":"1430952596","timestamp":"2015-05-06 22:49:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am 45 and I almost only listen to new music. I have almost a 1000 CDs from the 90s and early 00s (all ripped to FLAC), but I find myself listening to new music because there is so much fantastic new music out there and it is so easy to access. For a music fan it really is the golden age (not so much for the musicians).\u003cp\u003eAs for learning new programming skills I still enjoy it, but I think this is because for me languages\u0026#x2F;frameworks\u0026#x2F;algorithms are just tools. The real fun is in using the right tool to solve a complex problem.","parent":"9501598","id":"9502277"}
{"by":"antoineMoPa","time":"1469117045","timestamp":"2016-07-21 16:04:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The GNU\u0026#x2F;linux kernel. It was started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds and it is now so important because of its use in mobile phones \u0026amp; servers (and my computer\u0026#x2F;laptop\u0026#x2F;chromebook). We all rely on it indirectly in our daily lives.","parent":"12137707","id":"12137739"}
{"by":"Jun8","time":"1274424460","timestamp":"2010-05-21 06:47:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Privacy and Facebook are serious issues. It's irresponsible and unhelpful to report on them like this.\u003cp\u003eAs the post points out, this is done for pageviews or for karma mongering. What I find interesting is that my (and from others, too) posts that are critical of the media brouhaha over FB privacy issues quickly get downvoted on HN. Do you know how FB privacy controls stack up with GMail, LinkedIn, Plaxo or others, e.g. what URL does GMail forward to an advertiser when you click on a link in the sidebar? Can anyone enlighten us on these matters with hard facts, rather than creating another anecdotal post about how their even non-tech savvy friends are now so worried.\u003cp\u003eI'm not an expert on these privacy matters, so my approach is simple. I approach \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e companies that have my personal information with caution, including not only FB but Google. Unfortunately, in some cases there's nothing you can do, there's a service you need despite the potential security risks.\u003cp\u003eI wonder what your family members, who are now so worried about FB, would think if they knew that gas and electric utility companies routinely sell their personal information to junk mail spammers because they are \"public records\" (if you're in the US, go ahead and search your name on \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplelookup.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.peoplelookup.com\u003c/a\u003e, it's a chilling experience)","parent":"1366499","id":"1366610"}
{"by":"s73v3r_","time":"1532622868","timestamp":"2018-07-26 16:34:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;I am also asking something you cannot answer, namely \u0026quot;why do they need facebook?\u0026quot;\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBecause they want to be on there. Maybe they have family on there. Whatever their reason, IT DOES NOT MATTER.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;That being said, you are coming off a bit aggressively. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBecause I am sooooooo tired of seeing people like you rush to blame the victim, in this case, put the blame on these people for still being on Facebook, rather than on the people that are actually doing the harassing, or Facebook for enabling it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Perhaps I\u0026#x27;m reading you wrong, but I\u0026#x27;m asking a honest question and you are (it seems) just calling me selfish and thoughtless.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAnd I really don\u0026#x27;t think you are. Why on earth should it matter at all if they do or do not have a concrete \u0026quot;need\u0026quot; to be on Facebook? Why is blaming the victim an acceptable tactic?\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Can you tell me please how you use facebook in your daily life personally and professionally? It may not have bearing on the greater discussion but I do want to know, as someone who hasn\u0026#x27;t used it in years.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI personally don\u0026#x27;t, but I\u0026#x27;m not going to sit on my high horse and go, \u0026quot;You don\u0026#x27;t really \u003ci\u003eneed\u003c/i\u003e Facebook.\u0026quot; when someone has a serious problem like these people do.","parent":"17614206","id":"17618742"}
{"by":"jdietrich","time":"1477058298","timestamp":"2016-10-21 13:58:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;as a phone, it will suck\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure why you assume that. The form-factor isn\u0026#x27;t particularly weird and the specifications are excellent. If they\u0026#x27;re sensible enough to use bone-stock Android, I expect that it\u0026#x27;ll be a very good phone.","parent":"12756591","id":"12760435"}
{"by":"saaaaaam","time":"1507330777","timestamp":"2017-10-06 22:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Famous artists can yes. If you are a semi-known band with four people playing a twenty date tour playing 400 capacity venues with two local support acts you\u0026#x27;re probably not making so much.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s 8,000 people who care enough to come out and see you. So let\u0026#x27;s say at least 100,000 people need to like you enough that they would at least consider buying the ticket.\u003cp\u003e$4000 dollars gross in ticket sales per night, 30% to the promoter. $2800 left. If you get 50% of that with 25% to each support act then after commissions to booking agent and manager you\u0026#x27;re left with maybe $950. You need to pay travel and accommodation costs out of that, and possibly a tour manager. For a four piece band plus tour manager you probably need $30 a head per diem for incidentals of living in the road. Add in food - another $30 per head and you\u0026#x27;ve got $650 left. Hotel rooms aren\u0026#x27;t cheap. travel isn\u0026#x27;t cheap.\u003cp\u003eSure you can sell 25 t-shirts a night at $20 each and make $15 a shirt. And throw in some CDs - maybe 30 at $10 a pop... you maybe net another $600 a night.\u003cp\u003e$1250 a day for your hotels and travel for 5 people - maybe you have $600 left after these costs. Oh and you have to pay your tour manager...\u003cp\u003eEach of the people in the band makes... what - $100 per show?\u003cp\u003eCan artists really make that respectable a living from touring and merch?\u003cp\u003eSure, scale this up, play bigger venues - 2,000 capacity. But then your costs increase - people want a more impressive show, not just spit and sawdust. You need a set, lighting design, all the rest of it.","parent":"15418808","id":"15421066"}
{"by":"Lagged2Death","time":"1458656935","timestamp":"2016-03-22 14:28:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eA 5 pixel black bar at the top of a site is not used anywhere but here.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsularity, exclusion and gradually-learned shared secrets and customs are one of the ways communities define, distinguish, and stabilize themselves.","parent":"11336493","id":"11336835"}
{"by":"mikecane","time":"1305108490","timestamp":"2011-05-11 10:08:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\u0026#62;\u0026#62;Why should I be that bothered about this?\u003cp\u003eBecause the Agency price-fixing model has led to eBooks not being priced by market forces but by a cartel that supplies over 90% of the existing market.","parent":"2535711","id":"2535826"}
{"by":"kwamenum86","time":"1285259588","timestamp":"2010-09-23 16:33:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Value is determined by what someone- anyone- will pay for something.  And it makes sense if you think about it.  The goal is to find out how much you can sell that something for and it is the exact same problem as figuring out how much someone will pay for that something.\u003cp\u003eCompany valuations are messier than tulip bulb valuations though.  With tulip bulb valuations you are saying that since someone will pay x the bulb is valued at x.  With company valuations you are saying that since someone will buy 1/n of the company for x then the company is worth n*x.  This makes sense because people really want a piece of facebook and valuations do a great job of setting that price. But the price is also used to determine how much the entire company will go for, which is how the number is often thought of.\u003cp\u003eAs long as the valuation goes up and you have the opportunity to sell for a net gain then it is a good investment.  DHH's thoughts here are important beacause they call attention to a valuation bubble.  I think the main controversy lies in his creative use of words.","parent":"1720109","id":"1720216"}
{"by":"Crito","time":"1424113222","timestamp":"2015-02-16 19:00:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Marketing spam that is using a name that the recipient invented for use on facebook will immediately be discarded, since using the pseudonym outs it as not legitimate.\u003cp\u003eIt is in the interest of spammers to use the most official name for a person that is possible, since mail that is addressed in such a way is read (unless it has another \u0026quot;tell\u0026quot;).","parent":"9058068","id":"9058527"}
{"by":"ianbuczkowski","time":"1436382866","timestamp":"2015-07-08 19:14:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi Free Kill,\u003cp\u003eIan here, co-founder, thanks for that feedback. We’ll be refining those sections :) Effects can range from person to person, especially depending on how much cannabis you consume. We also stay away from making promises on that end as well, as it does not effect everyone the same. As a general rule of thumb (we should make this more-clear) sativa has more of a “mind” high and indica has more of a “body high”. Depending on what the plants are crossed, variations fall somewhere in-between those two experiences depending on the person.","parent":"9853468","id":"9853976"}
{"by":"lazyasciiart","time":"1522365353","timestamp":"2018-03-29 23:15:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t say \u0026#x27;only\u0026#x27; - it implies by omission that your content was not part of the breached data, but does not assert it. It says the data breach \u0026#x27;includes\u0026#x27; usernames, emails and passwords.","parent":"16711954","id":"16712103"}
{"by":"addydev","time":"1422283864","timestamp":"2015-01-26 14:51:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apologies for that... really really silly mistake. Corrected. Thanks for pointing out.","parent":"8946638","id":"8947232"}
{"by":"joncrane","time":"1518023381","timestamp":"2018-02-07 17:09:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I diagree.  Phones only go up to about $900.  But watches go up to the tens of thousands.\u003cp\u003eLaptops only go up to about what, $5k or so?  But jackets go up way more.\u003cp\u003eTech is more of a \u0026quot;as a bare minimum, I need to have the top of the line.\u0026quot;  Additionally, increased expenditure on tech does actually give increased utility in the form of performance.  (even though it\u0026#x27;s reduced bang for buck).\u003cp\u003eHowever, a $50,000 watch doesn\u0026#x27;t tell time any better than a simple Casio.  An $8,000 jacket doesn\u0026#x27;t keep you any warmer than a $200 one.\u003cp\u003eThe whole point of demonstrating wealth is to spend money on impractical things.  You\u0026#x27;re demonstrating that you have money to literally waste.","parent":"16324342","id":"16326000"}
{"by":"egeozcan","time":"1354635972","timestamp":"2012-12-04 15:46:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can do the same with Google Drive and there's even an official documentation:\n\u003ca href=\"https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4871233","id":"4871408"}
{"by":"objectivetruth","time":"1534182662","timestamp":"2018-08-13 17:51:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m surprised more people aren\u0026#x27;t saying this, but: I\u0026#x27;ve had this happen over the years at multiple large, \u0026quot;upscale\u0026quot; hotels belonging to national chains across the US.\u003cp\u003eI usually leave the \u0026quot;Do Not Disturb\u0026quot; sign up the entire time I\u0026#x27;m in a hotel.  (I\u0026#x27;m paranoid about having my electronics stolen when I leave for meals, and I usually work during the day in my hotel room when housekeeping is coming in, and I don\u0026#x27;t want to be interrupted. Besides, I bring my own towels and toiletries so I don\u0026#x27;t need anything from them.)\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve always been told it\u0026#x27;s a safety thing and that makes sense to me -- usually, it\u0026#x27;s a manager who calls and requests just to stick their head in every five days, while I\u0026#x27;m there, and they\u0026#x27;re completely understanding of my fear of theft.","parent":"17749879","dead":true,"id":"17752052"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1461588308","timestamp":"2016-04-25 12:45:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple was a profitable multi billion dollar company in 2000.  \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.apple.com\u0026#x2F;pr\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;2000\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;18Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Profit-of-170-Million.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.apple.com\u0026#x2F;pr\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;2000\u0026#x2F;10\u0026#x2F;18Apple-Reports-Fou...\u003c/a\u003e  170 million in profits a quarter in Sept 2000 and a recent history of rapid growth is easily a 10+ billion dollar company.\u003cp\u003ePS: There stock hit the lowest point in 1998 under jobs, but 1998-2000 was a solid run up before the market tanked. Don\u0026#x27;t forget they did a 2:1 split in Jun 21, 2000.  But, in terms of fundamentals they were a huge profitable 10x unicorn and growing in 2000.  And even at the bottom of there second dip in Jan 2, 2001 @14.88 they where at twice Jan 2, 1998\u0026#x27;s split adjusted 6.815.","parent":"11562779","id":"11563818"}
{"by":"pbz","time":"1332913879","timestamp":"2012-03-28 05:51:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The problem with Romanians (imo) is low self esteem and negative self image. Like you said, after many years of psychological abuse it's hardly any surprise. If they could only see their potential ... unfortunately, most times you have to be unplugged from negativity to see the positives.","parent":"3764855","id":"3764933"}
{"by":"critium","time":"1396022695","timestamp":"2014-03-28 16:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there something like this for kids?  Been teaching my kids to program and I cant find one easy enough to use (ages 5-9) outside of PPT (yes, I consider slide transitions programming).  Scratch is ok but its not fun enough for them or maybe too advanced.","parent":"7487763","id":"7488057"}
{"by":"emodendroket","time":"1524193939","timestamp":"2018-04-20 03:12:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So are you saying the information in the article I linked is false?  That\u0026#x27;s great but it doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to have the problem licked, based on the information there.","parent":"16881788","id":"16881911"}
{"by":"asnyder","time":"1260255264","timestamp":"2009-12-08 06:54:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe it's another case of the word \"framework\" being bastardized. It seems that everybody likes to call their project a \"framework\". No more are the days of library, template, or package. Everything is a framework.\u003cp\u003eThis makes it significantly harder for projects that are truly are frameworks to distinguish themselves. It's a big mess. I think it might be too late though, I fear the word is already too damaged.","parent":"982997","id":"983215"}
{"by":"doikor","time":"1510417403","timestamp":"2017-11-11 16:23:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Implicit parameters are one of my favorite features of the language. I think most of the ambiguity comes from the days when IDEs couldn’t tell you what implicit was being used. I see the implicit functions as a great addition to the language making certain kind of code much easier to reason about.\u003cp\u003ePersonally most of the “wtf is going on here” comes from implicit conversions and usage of symbols (both of which have thankfully gone out of style for the most part)","parent":"15676789","id":"15676906"}
{"by":"kuahyeow","time":"1443604841","timestamp":"2015-09-30 09:20:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We have been trialling \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;squash.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;squash.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e at work as a aggregation for our errors and it\u0026#x27;s working out well so far. Next step is to integrate into our ticket tracker.","parent":"10301243","id":"10302703"}
{"by":"euske","time":"1537804717","timestamp":"2018-09-24 15:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t like how this question is phrased. It should be\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Good alternativeS to Gmail?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYeah. Please be it to \u003ci\u003emultiple\u003c/i\u003e choices, for availability reasons and monopoly concerns. Sadly there aren\u0026#x27;t many good competitors in this arena (anymore), which always makes me nervous.","parent":"18054574","id":"18058767"}
{"by":"tsaoutourpants","time":"1384966651","timestamp":"2013-11-20 16:57:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not $2K.\u003cp\u003eIf you have a friend living in another state, they can be your registered agent.","parent":"6769090","id":"6769174"}
{"by":"kbutler","time":"1471547384","timestamp":"2016-08-18 19:09:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Skimmed it.\u003cp\u003eTLDR: will be able to configure smaller subsets of Qt modules so you don\u0026#x27;t have to deliver the whole package on small systems.","parent":"12314708","id":"12315455"}
{"by":"sirrele","time":"1495315691","timestamp":"2017-05-20 21:28:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use OneNote! It\u0026#x27;s probably the only Microsoft software that I use, but its amazing. You are able to create Notebooks, that contain section-groups, sections, and pages. You can draw, record, paste, etc.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.onenote.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.onenote.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14384193","id":"14384437"}
{"by":"nanijoe","time":"1246210275","timestamp":"2009-06-28 17:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The designs they are talking about are nice - as magazine covers","parent":"677715","id":"677856"}
{"by":"otabdeveloper2","time":"1523512206","timestamp":"2018-04-12 05:50:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or perhaps the brain works nothing like a CPU.\u003cp\u003e(The very idea that it does is actually laughable, akin to medieval fantasists imagining that flying machines must have huge white wings with fleshy feathers.)","parent":"16818031","id":"16818354"}
{"by":"lend000","time":"1488301922","timestamp":"2017-02-28 17:12:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All kinds of debt, but government sponsored\u0026#x2F;owned debt in particular. It\u0026#x27;s a significant problem in our country when the economists in power do not consider (or pretend to not consider) the debt or the deficit trajectory, let alone unfunded liabilities, to be the serious problem that they are. Something has to give, whether it\u0026#x27;s a debilitating depression brought on by balancing the spreadsheet or significant devaluation of the US dollar to fraudulently meet obligations.","parent":"13752283","id":"13755307"}
{"by":"kuschku","time":"1449162182","timestamp":"2015-12-03 17:03:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eh, yes, it is. On the Windows 7 Home Basic and Home Premium edition, it’s not pre-installed, and you have to go to System Settings -\u0026gt; Programs and Features -\u0026gt; Install or Remove Features to install it.","parent":"10669634","id":"10670691"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1323457257","timestamp":"2011-12-09 19:00:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seconding the excitement about Enyo. This could/should be absolutely huge. Speaks to the level of disorganisation in HP that the blog they link to has no mention of the open sourcing, though. Woops.","parent":"3335001","id":"3335031"}
{"by":"squeed","time":"1336094983","timestamp":"2012-05-04 01:29:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed. Inktomi also tried to position themselves as an arms supplier to the CDN business. It didn't help that the CDN business basically disappeared from 2001-2004, and that CDNs, to this day, rarely buy software.","parent":"3925342","id":"3926606"}
{"by":"catshirt","time":"1362029211","timestamp":"2013-02-28 05:26:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"In my opinion, HTML5 games (and apps) have a few key advantages that people on here would like to conveniently leave out (I COULD PLAY THIS ON PENTIUM 100MHZ etc...).\u003c/i\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eyou sure about that?\u003cp\u003ealso, none (with the exception of maybe the \"walled garden\" argument) of those benefits are exclusive to html 5 or the web in general.","parent":"5296170","id":"5297181"}
{"by":"nepstein","time":"1412375982","timestamp":"2014-10-03 22:39:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Turns out Dropbox was a bad choice. The links were disabled for generating too much traffic. The files are now hosted on archive.org and the Github repo has been updated.","parent":"8407297","id":"8408033"}
{"by":"bitmapbrother","time":"1477543624","timestamp":"2016-10-27 04:47:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re not getting out of the ISP business. Sure, it\u0026#x27;s been slowed down, but what did you expect to happen when national ISP\u0026#x27;s are slowing the deployments to a crawl by suing their local governments to try and block Google?","parent":"12802956","id":"12802981"}
{"by":"scarface74","time":"1537336112","timestamp":"2018-09-19 05:48:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would think that’s the worse kind of manager. One of a manager’s job is to manage resources. There are always trade offs between doing things “right” and delivering. If you look at the old Joel quadrant of smart \u0026#x2F; gets things done (delivers value to the business), someone who “doesn’t care how long it takes” runs the risk of gold plating features instead of delivering. A deadline is a great focusing mechanism.\u003cp\u003eAnd no I’m not a manager.","parent":"18021932","id":"18021998"}
{"by":"thomasswift","time":"1211221111","timestamp":"2008-05-19 18:18:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Muxtape is business time.\u003cp\u003epoints for the concords.","parent":"194209","id":"194291"}
{"by":"vhodges","time":"1531576996","timestamp":"2018-07-14 14:03:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not to be confused with \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;rykov\u0026#x2F;paperboy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;rykov\u0026#x2F;paperboy\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17530311","id":"17530386"}
{"by":"moe","time":"1365135703","timestamp":"2013-04-05 04:21:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eMy latest irritation is manager types getting too obsessed with Unit testing, it reminds of XML and the way it was abused.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a bit of a tangent but I've also observed this. So much that I've started calling it the \"cucumber-complex\".\u003cp\u003eOnce infected the team not only writes excessive unit-tests to validate things like that\na method-call to 'foo' does \u003ci\u003eindeed\u003c/i\u003e call the method 'foo'. But they also wrap these unit-tests in quite elaborate parsers in order to \"express\" them in pseudo-english.\u003cp\u003eThe hilarious (cucumber-specific) aspect is how they usually \u003ci\u003estart\u003c/i\u003e by writing their tests in plain RSpec or Test::Unit and \u003ci\u003ethen\u003c/i\u003e go at implementing the parser to make it \"tell a story\".","parent":"5496610","id":"5496758"}
{"by":"l9k","time":"1543965799","timestamp":"2018-12-04 23:23:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I lived in France (not Paris) almost all my life with a Polish name and that has been a problem exactly 0 times. (I just need to spell my name when someone wants to write it)","parent":"18602250","id":"18604426"}
{"by":"thaumasiotes","time":"1541703326","timestamp":"2018-11-08 18:55:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hayward.","parent":"18405817","id":"18408836"}
{"by":"yalogin","time":"1474257538","timestamp":"2016-09-19 03:58:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nevada is probably putting their homeless on a bus and sending them to Utah. Not being funny here, they got caught doing that in the past.","parent":"12525527","id":"12528774"}
{"by":"itburnslikeice","time":"1497292479","timestamp":"2017-06-12 18:34:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"UK plus every other EU country, no matter the education\u0026#x2F;experience you have there are limits that never reach even the lowest of those listed in linked spreadsheets.\u003cp\u003ePeople say it\u0026#x27;s the balance between the cost of living and work,work hours, job security etc etc I say it\u0026#x27;s bs I couldn\u0026#x27;t care less if it were to work 65h\u0026#x2F;week and my savings grew. I don\u0026#x27;t even want to mention the impression that working for X company makes in someone\u0026#x27;s resume that will guarantee an nice paying position somewhere.\u003cp\u003eMy personal opinion is that every company in Europe\u0026#x2F;UK is total shit when it comes to money, they won\u0026#x27;t care about the passion that new developers bring with them.\u003cp\u003eI want to say the investors are not here but in America but I don\u0026#x27;t want to lie to myself anymore.","parent":"14539600","dead":true,"id":"14539736"}
{"by":"beefman","time":"1497029577","timestamp":"2017-06-09 17:32:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s the year Google killed Reader, and all the mailing lists I\u0026#x27;d been on since the \u0026#x27;90s spontaneously moved to Facebook. I think it was also the year mobile really took off\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tumblr.jackdawresearch.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;136750883723\u0026#x2F;digesting-apples-new-app-store-numbers\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tumblr.jackdawresearch.com\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;136750883723\u0026#x2F;digestin...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(The last two charts are trailing-year, which better show the derivative than the more typical cumulative charts)","parent":"14521208","id":"14522905"}
{"by":"adwn","time":"1385366588","timestamp":"2013-11-25 08:03:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The code does not demonstrate encapsulation because the data type has not been decoupled from the implementation.\u003cp\u003eNot all code has to be applicable to more than one use case. What you\u0026#x27;re suggesting is premature generalization, which is just as bad as premature optimization. One might argue that p.g. is a kind of p.o. with the metric to be optimized being abstraction.","parent":"6791931","id":"6792991"}
{"by":"Shenglong","time":"1310590895","timestamp":"2011-07-13 21:01:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can read \u003ci\u003eand\u003c/i\u003e apply what it's read? This program is already more advanced than half my graduating high school class.","parent":"2759814","id":"2760664"}
{"by":"ghurlman","time":"1288886320","timestamp":"2010-11-04 15:58:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's the point... he didn't \"hack\" anything.  He posted an ad, it got a desired result.  Good for him, but nothing remotely special.","parent":"1869277","id":"1869413"}
{"by":"kibibu","time":"1531977088","timestamp":"2018-07-19 05:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They generally only get published in any detail once they\u0026#x27;ve been fixed.\u003cp\u003eChrome seem to have a bunch of 2018 vulnerabilities that aren\u0026#x27;t listed here though...","parent":"17557540","id":"17564041"}
{"by":"octref","time":"1414039349","timestamp":"2014-10-23 04:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just becaue there is one charactor difference. I hate it.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;because\u0026quot; misspelt.","parent":"8496581","id":"8496720"}
{"by":"jik","time":"1412338208","timestamp":"2014-10-03 12:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still broken this morning.","parent":"8396405","id":"8405134"}
{"by":"jcranmer","time":"1506564309","timestamp":"2017-09-28 02:05:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jared Diamond is considered in the anthropological field as about as knowledgeable on anthropology as Donald Trump is on economic and foreign policy.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also worth pointing out that modern hunter-gatherer societies are not Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies. Those that remain today generally do so in part because the land they travel is too marginal for intensive agriculture, for example.","parent":"15353927","id":"15354005"}
{"by":"carlio","time":"1402424432","timestamp":"2014-06-10 18:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GitHub is currently having problems - \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/githubstatus\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;githubstatus\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7874285","id":"7874370"}
{"by":"demallien","time":"1216629516","timestamp":"2008-07-21 08:38:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI think trying to bolt an OO model onto C while retaining 100% source compatability was an interesting idea, but it turned out to be a bad one in the long run.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, I don't know, Objective-C seems to do a reasonable job of it.  C++ just took the wrong object model...","parent":"251983","id":"252092"}
{"by":"BruceIV","time":"1521900563","timestamp":"2018-03-24 14:09:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"[on the team] It helps if you use the official ASCII spelling, Cforall -- a DuckDuckGo search for \u0026quot;Cforall\u0026quot; in private browsing mode pulled up our homepage first result. (I have no idea who the OP for this thread is, they\u0026#x27;re no one associated with the team.)","parent":"16664409","id":"16666648"}
{"by":"Veratyr","time":"1504978994","timestamp":"2017-09-09 17:43:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The self-reported Google salary spreadsheet [...]\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s all I needed to see. Nothing worthwhile here. The people who\u0026#x27;ll tend to report will be the people who are worried about how much they earn. I\u0026#x27;d say all this shows is that men are less worried about how much they earn than women.","parent":"15206287","id":"15208154"}
{"by":"crucialfelix","time":"1459187764","timestamp":"2016-03-28 17:56:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s good to hear. Why is using conda install preferable ? Is it new infrastructure or something that you think might overtake PyPI ?","parent":"11375181","id":"11375971"}
{"by":"listic","time":"1435778994","timestamp":"2015-07-01 19:29:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is a \u0026#x27;better system\u0026#x27; you speak of? Why would the community be better on the private servers?","parent":"9813941","id":"9814525"}
{"by":"aetherson","time":"1468268794","timestamp":"2016-07-11 20:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And the lesson of Norway is:  \u0026quot;Find a gigantic amount of oil.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e:P\u003cp\u003eThe point that the US does not have the highest GDP per capita in the world is well-taken (what it has the highest is overall GDP).  But Norway\u0026#x27;s path to prosperity is not generalizable.","parent":"12074066","id":"12074194"}
{"by":"drglitch","time":"1404332438","timestamp":"2014-07-02 20:20:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These keyboards are awesome but pretty loud. Be sure you don\u0026#x27;t mind people on the phone not hearing you if you\u0026#x27;re talking and typing.\u003cp\u003eOnce you\u0026#x27;ve typed on this thing for some time, there is no going back though (except, maybe MacBook keyboards, which are also superb)","parent":"7979450","id":"7979466"}
{"by":"sigi45","time":"1514102431","timestamp":"2017-12-24 08:00:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good if it works for you but i found over the years, countless theories about all kind of stuff.\u003cp\u003eIf you do this, it gets better because your body needs that. Your On\u0026#x2F;Off theory sounds nice and is easy to implement and works for you. But i think that will only work for you.","parent":"15997901","id":"15998546"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1308265110","timestamp":"2011-06-16 22:58:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So we're at this point in the conversation already. I guess we've really been in it sometime, as you continue to drag Gapps and Skyhook around like they support your point and now apparently we're involving trademarks too. Oh well, here it goes:\u003cp\u003eMozilla owns the Firefox trademark and controls who can use it. Google does  that with Android. Surely you're not suggesting that anyone should be able to use trademarked names of other products just because their source is GPL/MIT licensed...\u003cp\u003eAs for everything else, it's just you talking past me or over me: I'll repeat it, Android and Google Apps are two completely different products. Your attempts to use Google Apps to discredit Android's openness is dishonest, disingenuous and just weak. Android is free and open and Google muscled them out of Skyhook by threatening to withold Google Apps. Android is free and open; still, completely regardless of that statement. Gmail is not part of Android. Calendar is not part of Android. They're irrelevant at this point in this discussion. Dude, I even granted that the Market missing would be detrimental to the sale of any Android device, but that's STILL \u003ci\u003ecompletely ancillary to Android's openness\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eAndroid is all MIT and GPL. RedHat does development behind closed doors. So does Canonical. Hey, guess what Novell does? Does that make their core Linux product any less \"open\"? Certainly not by any technical standard. Does Canonical operating a paid channel in the Ubuntu Software Center mean Ubuntu is no longer open?\u003cp\u003eHeh, as for my comments, the first two pages don't even touch Android, there's a complaint about WebGL in iOS, but Android doesn't even have WebGL at this point, so it's not like it was fan-based by any means. I like Android but think Google is screwing themselves in about 5 different ways and I think we'll look back at WebOS as damn near visionary. I won't lie and say that I like iOS, because I don't, I can't stand the user experience, but the quality of the app store and the graphics are smoother than I've seen in any pre-mid-2010 Android phone. I'm a big fan of competition, but I'm also a huge fan of OSS and I just don't understand the need for people to try to cut down Android and make it seem like Google's little prized possession (not to say that it isn't, by any means), but if that's bad... what does it mean for Apple/iOS?","parent":"2663585","id":"2663632"}
{"by":"amluto","time":"1540101811","timestamp":"2018-10-21 06:03:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In an average house, there are no opportunities for an obviously winning 97% efficient gas burning appliance. A gas stove is nowhere near that efficient. A gas heater may be, but the competition is a heat pump that is far above 100% efficient (in the sense of heat delivered \u0026#x2F; energy consumed). Same goes for a water heater.\u003cp\u003e(Water heaters are odd. Where I live, there are no highly efficient gas-fired tank water heaters because no one makes one that meets the NOx rules.  You can get highly efficient tankless heaters as well as indirect fired heaters. And you can get heat pump water heaters.)","parent":"18266403","id":"18266927"}
{"by":"bliker","time":"1418916940","timestamp":"2014-12-18 15:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am from Slovakia and I do not hate Russia. I am afraid.","parent":"8767212","id":"8767697"}
{"by":"mburney","time":"1278036006","timestamp":"2010-07-02 02:00:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was a point in time when 37 signals was inspiring with their anti-enterprise/ror/bootstrap ideas, but do we really need to hear the same thing repeated over and over?\u003cp\u003eEdit: didn't notice at first that this blog entry was from 2007. Anyway credit to them for making this point so many times that it is now a widely accepted belief in the startup community. But now there is just as much uninspired non-enterprise software out there too.","parent":"1479740","id":"1479893"}
{"by":"fictorial","time":"1308843041","timestamp":"2011-06-23 15:30:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"... in Basic","parent":"2688102","id":"2688200"}
{"by":"elq","time":"1304279448","timestamp":"2011-05-01 19:50:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I work on the cinematch team at netflix... I've reviewed all of the winning code... your characterization is incorrect.\u003cp\u003eThe netflix prize would not have been won when it was without rbm.","parent":"2503771","id":"2503868"}
{"by":"vonnik","time":"1482134377","timestamp":"2016-12-19 07:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s popular to pick fights with YC and its ideas these days. Easy press. Other examples: Gab, CB Insights, various reporters. The recipe goes: Find someone or something famous. Find a bone to pick. Leverage famous something\u0026#x27;s name to generate headlines. People are going to click.","parent":"13207356","id":"13210149"}
{"by":"flomo","time":"1324013050","timestamp":"2011-12-16 05:24:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This might be a little cynical, but Debian was originally intended to be the Master Distribution that would function as a sort of open source gatekeeper for the Linux world.\u003cp\u003eHowever, it ended up shipping late and RedHat derivatives got a foothold. If it wasn't for Ubuntu, it would have never fulfilled it's original intention at all.\u003cp\u003eAlso, since I'm commenting here, that chart shows a whole lot of completely dead distributions continuing onto the right. It would be a lot more interesting to see how long these forks actually lasted.","parent":"3356365","id":"3359552"}
{"by":"digi_owl","time":"1478797640","timestamp":"2016-11-10 17:07:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Frankly i think that oversimplifies what happened in Ukraine.\u003cp\u003eThe civil war may or may not have been part of the plan, but the primary Russian goal was to secure their supply route to the Black Sea naval port.\u003cp\u003eA port that Ukraine had been happily leasing to the Russians since the dismantling of the USSR.\u003cp\u003eThere are no such reason for Russia to enter Norway. They already have Murmansk as a naval port, and they export way more oil and natural gas than Norway.","parent":"12920997","id":"12922123"}
{"by":"Uchikoma","time":"1325414608","timestamp":"2012-01-01 10:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you write books for the money, you're doing something wrong. Writing code for the same amount of time will make you much more money.\u003cp\u003eWriting tech books is for advancing your career, get consulting gigs, get invited to conferences etc.\u003cp\u003eThat said, sending contracts with deadlines that are in the past or before work started looks not very professional.","parent":"3412643","id":"3412837"}
{"by":"nickbarnwell","time":"1345055295","timestamp":"2012-08-15 18:28:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The \"large 50lb box\" he's referring to is your baggage, and the rates of $25/$50 (int'l) the fares most carriers charge.","parent":"4387229","id":"4387385"}
{"by":"cle","time":"1412200096","timestamp":"2014-10-01 21:48:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you\u0026#x27;re misusing the term \u0026quot;addiction\u0026quot;.  Addiction is \u003ci\u003edestructive\u003c/i\u003e compulsive behavior.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s very helpful in this conversation to talk about addictions as being Buddhist-like \u0026quot;attachments\u0026quot;--that is a completely separate topic.  Addiction treatment isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily about controlling compulsion, it\u0026#x27;s about controlling destructive compulsion.","parent":"8397741","id":"8397995"}
{"by":"DannyBee","time":"1494690099","timestamp":"2017-05-13 15:41:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;The Itanium is a noteworthy example of what happens when one designs an architecture exclusively for parallelism to the exclusion of all else, and leaves all instruction scheduling to the compiler. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWell no, it would be more accurate to say \u0026quot;a noteworthy example of when you release a chip that isn\u0026#x27;t in line with what common programming languages can do\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThat is, there is nothing wrong with doing the above. There\u0026#x27;s something wrong with doing the above when you most people are writing sequential C++ :)\u003cp\u003eThere simply wasn\u0026#x27;t enough ILP to extract :)\u003cp\u003eIE no amount of compiler advance would have saved it.","parent":"14331342","id":"14331499"}
{"by":"mey","time":"1396303191","timestamp":"2014-03-31 21:59:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as you don\u0026#x27;t follow the delete account track, this seems correct.  People who track you can choose to be notified by Keybase.io of the change in your key (which is the default option).  Additionally, if you can re-prove your identity against the same external identities this makes sense as a way to recover from a compromised key.","parent":"7503304","id":"7504499"}
{"by":"minimax","time":"1388118828","timestamp":"2013-12-27 04:33:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the people who read the HN comments before reading the article: This is like 3000 words from one shitty technology website talking shit about another shitty technology website. Don\u0026#x27;t waste your time.","parent":"6968912","id":"6969410"}
{"by":"mgkimsal","time":"1515451048","timestamp":"2018-01-08 22:37:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sleeping with them - I broke 5 pairs sleeping with them (well, QC20).  I now use $5 earbuds from the local dollar store which are much less of a headache to replace.","parent":"16098261","id":"16101457"}
{"by":"sushant2mainali","time":"1460400012","timestamp":"2016-04-11 18:40:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nice! wanted to install mysql-python and was stuck here!! Thanks.","parent":"11473578","id":"11474031"}
{"by":"xya3453","time":"1517267149","timestamp":"2018-01-29 23:05:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The cities are where all the autonomous weapons of mass destruction are.","parent":"16261330","id":"16261412"}
{"by":"oakwhiz","time":"1367713483","timestamp":"2013-05-05 00:24:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I always found it strange that VST knobs were actually sliders in disguise. After a while you get used to it, but I can see how confusing it might be to users.","parent":"5655818","id":"5656887"}
{"by":"e40","time":"1394128331","timestamp":"2014-03-06 17:52:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One technique: put on headphones when you need alone time.  I find people rarely interrupt me when I have them on, and I have 20+ people reporting to me.  Of course, if you do it too often, people will start to interrupt more, but it\u0026#x27;s a good signal.","parent":"7351662","id":"7355334"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1265336481","timestamp":"2010-02-05 02:21:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are some good points, but:\u003cp\u003e1. HTTP / HTTPS - please don't... There are stupid/broken transparent proxies in many places that will effectively block this protocol. Also custom TLS connection gives some hope for domain-specific certificates instead of ip-specific - there is enough problem with them in HTTPS as it is.\u003cp\u003e3. People still don't know how to set the encoding (or what the encoding is) and will happily send you Greek in latin1 or something equally silly.\u003cp\u003e4. Would it really work for mailing lists where conversations naturally fork into many branches?\u003cp\u003e5. IMAP supports labels... even if it's crazy number-based labelling where every client needs to set its own names for the labels. We'd just need to make it not suck this time ;)\u003cp\u003eSo it's not all that bad in IMAP - there are many areas where we can do worse by accident. But yes - it would be nice to have server-side text searching...","parent":"1101693","id":"1102450"}
{"by":"ktpsns","time":"1520676574","timestamp":"2018-03-10 10:09:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never heard of the underlying \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;budgie-desktop.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;budgie-desktop.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e before. And could not learn anything about it on its website: No screenshots, no description about the framework (Qt? GTK?).\u003cp\u003eIn former days of the lightweight but \u0026quot;full featured\u0026quot; desktops, there was Xfce desktop. Then there was LXDE. Which was surprisingly faster and similiar powerful then Xfce. But then I somehow lost track ;-)","parent":"16556605","id":"16557937"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1324997666","timestamp":"2011-12-27 14:54:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm interested in how hard it is to recycle these things from scrap electronics.\u003cp\u003eThere are many developing nations where a clean safe recycling factory would be very much better than scavenging scrap from a dump.\u003cp\u003eIt seems to solve a few problems - giving people work and money; diverting dangerous materials form landfill recycling; etc.\u003cp\u003eIt's weird seeing tantalum on the list, and knowing how many tantalum capacitors are thrown away each year.  Or lithium, and knowing how many mobile phones I have stored away.  (At least mobile phones now have some value and get sold onto recyclers.)","parent":"3395869","id":"3395903"}
{"by":"smackfu","time":"1316034420","timestamp":"2011-09-14 21:07:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only caveat with this is that it makes the \"# of password retries allowed\" number kind of fuzzy.  An attackers gets two or three tries behind the scenes for every one they try.  Like if they figure you used your cat's name, they get to try \"FLUFFY\" and \"fluffy\" and possibly \"Fluffy\" all at once.","parent":"2996706","id":"2997869"}
{"by":"tannerc","time":"1501954339","timestamp":"2017-08-05 17:32:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perhaps that is your topic then: how to discover and explore diverse interests.\u003cp\u003eI know I\u0026#x27;d subscribe to someone dedicating time to research and write about identifying interesting subjects, diving into them, and the results.","parent":"14935048","id":"14936801"}
{"by":"wmil","time":"1544715771","timestamp":"2018-12-13 15:42:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The big issue was that ocean liners were the method of crossing the Atlantic for the rich and poor.\u003cp\u003eThere was a strong sense of \u0026quot;That could have happened to me!\u0026quot;, especially among the elite.\u003cp\u003eImagine how terrified the tech community would be if a major accident at SFO killed 1000 people trying to get on or off flights.","parent":"18672163","id":"18673075"}
{"by":"idleloops","time":"1335977956","timestamp":"2012-05-02 16:59:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's nice to get the appropriate response when it's needed.\u003cp\u003eI once had a flat on my bike, and tried for about 20 minutes to flag down cyclists (on a busy route) that I could see had a pump (I didn't have one, but I had a new tube).  Eventually someone that passed turned back rather reluctantly - then stated they'd go home and fetch me a pump as they'd experienced a good deed the night before.   They left and then returned to assist when others just tried their best to ignore me.   Kindness has a habit of spreading.","parent":"3919173","id":"3920047"}
{"by":"Evbn","time":"1364483323","timestamp":"2013-03-28 15:08:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most people regret their lives regardless of their choices, because dissatisfaction and bitterness is a human genetic tendency. Most people rage against their mortality and blame everything for it.","parent":"5455039","id":"5455226"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1358988497","timestamp":"2013-01-24 00:48:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How are you supposed to turn on nudity without a browser?","parent":"5102423","id":"5106387"}
{"by":"DarkShikari","time":"1226458026","timestamp":"2008-11-12 02:47:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure you can ignore it.  You don't want to know the number of times I've seen people using the \"try, catch, toss away the exception\" structure in Java code.","parent":"361299","id":"361307"}
{"by":"MacsHeadroom","time":"1358398319","timestamp":"2013-01-17 04:51:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"It’s not possible to delete a Skype account\"\u003cp\u003eOne more reason to use VSee end-to-end encrypted video chat.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://vsee.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://vsee.com/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5070857","id":"5070981"}
{"by":"mseebach","time":"1517229591","timestamp":"2018-01-29 12:39:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Has AMD processors been confirmed as not vulnerable? As I recall the original investigation only covered Intel processors, but hypothesized that AMD would be affected as well, as they more or less have the same fundamentals around branch prediction.","parent":"16257035","id":"16257113"}
{"by":"joe_the_user","time":"1297723351","timestamp":"2011-02-14 22:42:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed,\u003cp\u003eI think what those pushing real names for their site don't get is that the closer the site gets to appearing to only use real names, the \u003ci\u003emore\u003c/i\u003e dangerous and potentially damaging it becomes for the real name users.\u003cp\u003eA random site where anyone can post as anyone else has some plausible deniability. A site where everyone is really themselves has less deniability. A fake facebook account claiming to be X thus is more damaging to X than a totally random website talking about X. And that's not even getting to the dumb stuff you say on your own...","parent":"2218050","id":"2219041"}
{"by":"craigyk","time":"1387663705","timestamp":"2013-12-21 22:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the title alone reeks of future foot in mouth","parent":"6947643","id":"6948294"}
{"by":"hexscrews","time":"1385867726","timestamp":"2013-12-01 03:15:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You may be interested in this then. \u003ca href=\"http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~%20adamodar/New_Home_Page/invfables/investorirrationality.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pages.stern.nyu.edu\u0026#x2F;~%20adamodar\u0026#x2F;New_Home_Page\u0026#x2F;invfab...\u003c/a\u003e It\u0026#x27;s a fascinating read and may relate to why people are willing to invest in seemly irrelevant markets.","parent":"6824228","id":"6825913"}
{"by":"eckyptang","time":"1348261218","timestamp":"2012-09-21 21:00:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I genuinely don't get it. Can someone please explain why the hell anyone would queue up like this?\u003cp\u003eFood, water, medicine, supplies - yes.\u003cp\u003eShiny telephone - no.","parent":"4555377","id":"4555753"}
{"by":"gusmd","time":"1496337980","timestamp":"2017-06-01 17:26:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ESI Group | Software Development Engineer | San Diego, CA | Full-Time, Onsite\u003cp\u003eESI Group is a leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services. ESI allows our clients to bring their products to life; ensuring reliable performance, serviceability and maintainability.\u003cp\u003eESI US R\u0026amp;D, Inc., is currently seeking a Software Development Engineer at our San Diego, CA offices. Just a mile from the Pacific Ocean, we are a small team focused on developing and maintaining desktop software applications in the field of vibro-acoustics. Our clients include NASA, Boeing, Airbus, GM and Ford.\u003cp\u003eWe are looking for people with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics. We use C++ and Qt for our desktop applications, so experience with those is required.  Also desirable is experience with numerical methods, OpenGL or other 3D APIs, Python, HPC tools and APIs such as MPI and Linux development.\u003cp\u003eFeel free to reach Tracy at ext-tracy.sidall@esi-group.com with any questions related to the job and company. Don\u0026#x27;t forget to mention HN in the e-mail!","parent":"14460777","id":"14462405"}
{"by":"eigenspace","time":"1527868005","timestamp":"2018-06-01 15:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The biggest issue with the standard Julia benchmarks is that they\u0026#x27;re not using what would be optimal C code to compare against.\u003cp\u003eYes, the C code benchmarks are not optimal. Neither are the julia benchmarks or any of the other languages for the matter. The julia devs made a hard decision with those benchmarks and decided that if they allowed arbitrary optimization, the benchmarks would become more a measure of who spent the most time and knowhow writing the benchmarks for ______ language. Instead, they tried to keep the code for all the languages at a reasonable level and avoided super specialized magic. That may make some uncomfortable, but keep in mind that the julia code used in the benchmarks also has a lot of room for improvement. Some julia devs are absolute wizards and getting performance out of julia code if you let them go crazy.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; In addition, if you look at the Julia issues on GitHub, you\u0026#x27;ll find hundreds of performance regressions where code performs more than 10 times as slow as what they expected\u0026#x2F;claimed at one point. It\u0026#x27;s not reliably fast, even when written by Julia experts\u0026#x2F;developers.\u003cp\u003eJulia 0.7 (which is still in its alpha build by the way) included a ground-up replacement of julias iteration protocol and a reworking of a ton of code optimization routines. If you think you or anyone else in the world could take a codebase as large as julia\u0026#x27;s and replace fundamental parts of it without seeing performance regressions \u003ci\u003eanywhere\u003c/i\u003e you\u0026#x27;re delusional.\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of performance regressions, some mysterious and some not mysterious and they will all be worked on because the julia devs take regressions very seriously. It won\u0026#x27;t be instantaneous, but I do not doubt that the bulk of them will be eliminated promptly.\u003cp\u003eThere are also orders of magnitude more performance improvements in 0.7-alpha than there are regressions, they just aren\u0026#x27;t filed as issues. Some of these performance improvements, especially with broadcasting, are state of the art and not seen in other languages.\u003cp\u003eCalling julia a \u0026quot;language of failed promises\u0026quot; because the alpha build of a pre 1.0 version has some performance regressions is sensationalist and disingenuous.","parent":"17205820","id":"17206442"}
{"by":"zxcvvcxz","time":"1437702968","timestamp":"2015-07-24 01:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Then, he met his co-founder Maria De La Croix, through a feminist organization. As part of that movement, they protested the average pay gap between women and men by burning the extra wages he hypothetically earned because he was a man.\u003cp\u003eWait what? Hasn\u0026#x27;t this common misconception been debunked, or at least to be shown to be very insignificant when controlling for obvious variables?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;fact-checker\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;28\u0026#x2F;fact-checking-the-2014-state-of-the-union-address\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;blogs\u0026#x2F;fact-checker\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.consad.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.consad.com\u0026#x2F;content\u0026#x2F;reports\u0026#x2F;Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aauw.org\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;graduating-to-a-pay-gap-the-earnings-of-women-and-men-one-year-after-college-graduation.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aauw.org\u0026#x2F;files\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;graduating-to-a-pay-gap-th...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ne.su.se\u0026#x2F;polopoly_fs\u0026#x2F;1.99257.1346412310!\u0026#x2F;menu\u0026#x2F;standard\u0026#x2F;file\u0026#x2F;anna_sandberg.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.ne.su.se\u0026#x2F;polopoly_fs\u0026#x2F;1.99257.1346412310!\u0026#x2F;menu\u0026#x2F;sta...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.med.upenn.edu\u0026#x2F;gastro\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;WhogoestothebargainingtableTheinfluenceofgenderandframingontheinitiationofnegotiation..pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.med.upenn.edu\u0026#x2F;gastro\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;Whogoestothebarga...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;realspin\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;24\u0026#x2F;childless-women-in-their-twenties-out-earn-men-so\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.forbes.com\u0026#x2F;sites\u0026#x2F;realspin\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;02\u0026#x2F;24\u0026#x2F;childless-wo...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9938917","id":"9939714"}
{"by":"InitialLastName","time":"1538916308","timestamp":"2018-10-07 12:45:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given that you apparently didn\u0026#x27;t learn the difference between a primary source and a secondary source, I\u0026#x27;d say the education system failed you.\u003cp\u003eA primary source is one that \u0026quot;creates\u0026quot; the information of history, e.g. a letter, journal entry, official announcement, or original research.  A secondary source (nominally) synthesizes and summarizes primary sources into a coherent narrative.","parent":"18160118","id":"18160301"}
{"by":"brandnewlow","time":"1461567341","timestamp":"2016-04-25 06:55:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Look ye, to \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;Truebill.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;Truebill.com\u003c/a\u003e for relief!\u003cp\u003e(disclaimer, I am an investor)","parent":"11562812","id":"11562829"}
{"by":"slurgfest","time":"1344722574","timestamp":"2012-08-11 22:02:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Price discrimination is an aspect of free markets.\u003cp\u003eWhen the government outlaws price discrimination, it is interfering with the freedom of the market.","parent":"4368089","id":"4371113"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1437342169","timestamp":"2015-07-19 21:42:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Comments moved to \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9912034\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9912034\u003c/a\u003e, except for the one that needs this URL for context.\u003cp\u003eThat story has been on the front page for hours and is the place to discuss this.","parent":"9912747","id":"9912936"}
{"by":"SoftwareMaven","time":"1405308120","timestamp":"2014-07-14 03:22:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I spent far more time in the computer lab playing muds than actually working on homework. Funny that so much of my sophomore year was spent in a particular mud, but I can\u0026#x27;t even remember its name now (to be fair, this was 20 years ago). I still remember the general location of my guild, and the stupid forest you had to go through to get to it.\u003cp\u003eAt that time (shortly before the internet became known and the eternal September started), muds were this magical place where the NPCs I\u0026#x27;d imagined in all the text adventures I played suddenly became real people, connected from some other computer lab somewhere. That was the point that I had no doubt the internet was going to be huge.\u003cp\u003eMy experience with Second Life was very different. I worked for a company providing software for libraries. When libraries were build SL versions, something felt wrong about it. Why would somebody want to escape the real world to find...the real world?","parent":"8029003","id":"8029407"}
{"by":"psychometry","time":"1426800737","timestamp":"2015-03-19 21:32:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re ignoring all the well-known health hazards of consuming sugar\u0026#x2F;corn syrup that aren\u0026#x27;t present in zero-calorie substitutes. Do you even understand why the substitutes exist? Your comment suggests you don\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"9234658","id":"9234730"}
{"by":"kccqzy","time":"1479035919","timestamp":"2016-11-13 11:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It can be great for security research. Not all released source code are designed to be run.","parent":"12941464","id":"12942835"}
{"by":"nivertech","time":"1279439748","timestamp":"2010-07-18 07:55:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can overclock your CPU, but it will last far less, than non-overclocked one (a one third?)\nIf you want your brain to last only 3o years instead of 90 - then take the drugs ;)","parent":"1524757","id":"1525409"}
{"by":"hobarrera","time":"1416850953","timestamp":"2014-11-24 17:42:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, if GitLab supported cross-site pull requests, we\u0026#x27;d have just that.","parent":"8651249","id":"8653507"}
{"by":"kirrent","time":"1516585876","timestamp":"2018-01-22 01:51:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The electron is a really cool rocket. It\u0026#x27;s constructed using carbon composite tanks and uses Rocketlab\u0026#x27;s Rutherford engine. The engine is constructed using a large amount of 3d printing and uses battery powered electrically driven fuel pumps.","parent":"16201047","id":"16201336"}
{"by":"markbao","time":"1420602361","timestamp":"2015-01-07 03:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very true. We probably have to have blind faith that the companies that are important (like Google) are the same ones that take the validity of DMCA takedown requests seriously.","parent":"8848772","id":"8848776"}
{"by":"pcl","time":"1364789702","timestamp":"2013-04-01 04:15:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003emost would probably by filtered out based on the lack of extra curricular activities\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's possible, but that certainly doesn't seem like a good reason to disenfranchise 25% of our brightest students.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, I'd expect that if those students had help during their applications to the top-tier schools, they'd probably also apply to some other great schools along the way. More exposure to the system can only help.\u003cp\u003eThe interesting thing about this is that a huge chunk of the operating expenses for top universities are paid for by us taxpayers. It'd be interesting to replace military recruiters with \"government recruiters\", charged with representing all the post-high-school government-funded programs available.","parent":"5468914","id":"5471395"}
{"by":"canadev","time":"1362948533","timestamp":"2013-03-10 20:48:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I started in DOS watching over my brother's shoulder. (There was no GUI back then.) I used to make batch files and such.\u003cp\u003eEventually I grew to love bash. I am sure there are plenty of keyboard shortcuts I don't know, but I find using the command line to be quicker than any other form of communicating with the computer.\u003cp\u003eI use keyboard shortcuts in Firefox, and occasionally dream of an Awesome Bar that works like bash.\u003cp\u003eI also really like using the 'move-cursor-a-word-left/right' and 'move-cursor-to-end/beginning-of-line' and 'move-cursor-to-top/bottom-of-textarea' functions you can find in almost every GUI.\u003cp\u003eFinally, I use Spotlight to load all my applications: I hit cmd-space and then it's usually 1 key to load my most commonly used applications, and generally 3-4 in worst case.\u003cp\u003eMy suggestion: use the Terminal for everything: Learn to edit text files in emacs or vi, use a command line SQL browser, do source control from the command line, and learn sed, awk, and cut (plenty of tutorials out there). Use the keyboard in the browser and in GUI textareas as much as possible.\u003cp\u003eHere is a neat site which has turned up in a few of my Google searches: \u003ca href=\"http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, shameless self-plug, I have been using this simple piece of code every day for a couple of years, a command-line (tab-completed) notebook for bash: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/nchelluri/notes\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/nchelluri/notes\u003c/a\u003e .\u003cp\u003eHTH.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I keep looking at this page every few months, but it never seems to be compatible with my version of Firefox: \u003ca href=\"http://paulrouget.com/e/jsterm/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://paulrouget.com/e/jsterm/\u003c/a\u003e :(","parent":"5353311","id":"5353393"}
{"by":"gergles","time":"1295231322","timestamp":"2011-01-17 02:28:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Letting your friends export your information \u003ci\u003ethrough a facebook feature\u003c/i\u003e is substantially different than letting any shady \"Platform\" app get it.","parent":"2110321","id":"2110983"}
{"by":"nickik","time":"1490917815","timestamp":"2017-03-30 23:50:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What? Prices are only dictated if you dictate to somebody else. They are just setting there own price. Also, there is no monopoly situation.","parent":"13999904","id":"13999990"}
{"by":"arielm","time":"1429806872","timestamp":"2015-04-23 16:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting question!\u003cp\u003e* I upvote articles that discuss something(s) I believe _everyone_ should know.\u003cp\u003e* I upvote comments that either help clarify a topic, add context, or present an interesting thought that isn\u0026#x27;t mentioned.\u003cp\u003e* I downvote comments that are blatantly disrespectful, silly, or grossly incorrect\u0026#x2F;ignorant.","parent":"9427842","id":"9427899"}
{"by":"long","time":"1300319981","timestamp":"2011-03-16 23:59:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"getElementsByTagName always returns a NodeList, which is an Array-like object. You want the first thing in the array.","parent":"2334218","id":"2334512"}
{"by":"Shenglong","time":"1307625446","timestamp":"2011-06-09 13:17:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in Shanghai, and Tianjin. They were 12+ people or so, and a lot of the cost was attributed to alcohol and tea. An original Da Hong Pao, for example, will put you well over the 20k RMB mark, but restaurants won't serve it so you need to make special arrangements.","parent":"2635621","id":"2637013"}
{"by":"Cpoll","time":"1536275344","timestamp":"2018-09-06 23:09:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t even answer\u003cp\u003eNow if only I could get it to not leave a message.","parent":"17929482","id":"17930430"}
{"by":"ekianjo","time":"1544280586","timestamp":"2018-12-08 14:49:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; After controlling for confounding factors such as demographics and poor health, the researchers made a startling find: People who worked at least a year past retirement age had an 11 percent lower risk of dying during the study period.\u003cp\u003eNo source? That\u0026#x27;s a shame because such an extraordinary claim requires scrutiny (to see if the study was properly designed to be able to reach such conclusions).","parent":"18634999","id":"18635464"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1366910824","timestamp":"2013-04-25 17:27:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, I think the question is \"when are people going to realise they don't really need to go?\". Videos of the talks are being put online, and while access to engineers is great, the majority of people probably wouldn't need/want it anyway.\u003cp\u003eSame as Google IO, these events have become like popular concerts- people leap on tickets because they know they're going to sell out, not because they've thought through why they'd want them.","parent":"5608451","id":"5608568"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1350829779","timestamp":"2012-10-21 14:29:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What makes you think they care?","parent":"4679740","id":"4679757"}
{"by":"likelynew","time":"1510431018","timestamp":"2017-11-11 20:10:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Internal bandwidth is usually the limiting factor for neural networks, not the ALU.","parent":"15660563","id":"15677894"}
{"by":"Andrex","time":"1542835852","timestamp":"2018-11-21 21:30:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Lego Movie got to it first.","parent":"18506249","id":"18506266"}
{"by":"dagw","time":"1458508280","timestamp":"2016-03-20 21:11:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"9^9^9 is just the ASCII representation.  When writing it \u0026#x27;on paper\u0026#x27; you\u0026#x27;d use superscripts which means you don\u0026#x27;t need anything other than digits.","parent":"11324674","id":"11324690"}
{"by":"djtriptych","time":"1512502355","timestamp":"2017-12-05 19:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really thought that 5th \u0026#x27;u\u0026#x27; in juuuuust would have implied the sarcasm tag","parent":"15854381","id":"15854969"}
{"by":"sremani","time":"1449779928","timestamp":"2015-12-10 20:38:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I like about US or West is, reflect, retrain and retool. That is absolutely missing in other parts of the world.\nI know it is early and a bit congratulatory, being an Immigrant and having seen the other world, I am happy to call US my home.","parent":"10712783","id":"10713273"}
{"by":"twoodfin","time":"1489278714","timestamp":"2017-03-12 00:31:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is no \u0026quot;canon\u0026quot; explanation for the film, since Kubrick did not provide one, and \u003ci\u003e2001\u003c/i\u003e was, at heart, his movie, independent in significant respects from Clarke\u0026#x27;s novelization and later sequels.\u003cp\u003eThat being said, I think the onscreen evidence for Clarke\u0026#x27;s version is compelling. Most notably, it solves the mystery highlighted by the article as to why HAL didn\u0026#x27;t kill Bowman on the first EVA: If the computer could have engineered a plausibly innocent loss of contact with Mission Control, he could have acted freely to preserve both the astronauts\u0026#x27; ignorance and the success of the mission without worry of being contradicted by the ground-based twin computer (which he surely knew would eventually diverge from his decision-making, having not been informed about the Monolith).\u003cp\u003eOnce the astronauts were told of the divergence and took it seriously enough for their discussion in the pod, HAL had no remaining options.","parent":"13847509","id":"13848145"}
{"by":"sonnyblarney","time":"1529119903","timestamp":"2018-06-16 03:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Wire fraud\u0026quot; - it\u0026#x27;s amazing the litany of things one can do, and ultimately get caught up in this specific basket. Al Capone went down for tax evasion ...","parent":"17323485","id":"17325659"}
{"by":"uladzislau","time":"1313583399","timestamp":"2011-08-17 12:16:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want ideas to pour in, just change mind work or information consumption via internet to something that doesn't require it - such as house chores, hiking, any kind of sport. Sightseeing and doing nothing for several hours also make wonders.","parent":"2894658","id":"2894994"}
{"by":"leni536","time":"1425990667","timestamp":"2015-03-10 12:31:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ouch. Not a traditional attack one would expect on a USB port. Would be there any practical protection against this (surge protector, fuse)?","parent":"9176195","id":"9177325"}
{"by":"bluedino","time":"1382561625","timestamp":"2013-10-23 20:53:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Forbes has been hit and miss lately. For every good article they do about tech, they do some short, sensationalist \u0026#x27;China is taking over\u0026#x27; piece like this.","parent":"6601444","id":"6601633"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1338583222","timestamp":"2012-06-01 20:40:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I liked the part where you insult and slander those of us that appreciate typing and also call out (just one of many) reasons why can be a \"good thing\".","parent":"4054705","id":"4055634"}
{"by":"kej","time":"1433515733","timestamp":"2015-06-05 14:48:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The EFF summary addresses this issue pretty well:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eff.org\u0026#x2F;deeplinks\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;new-usa-freedom-act-step-right-direction-more-must-be-done\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eff.org\u0026#x2F;deeplinks\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;new-usa-freedom-act-st...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9653053","id":"9665839"}
{"by":"eeZah7Ux","time":"1511616911","timestamp":"2017-11-25 13:35:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Punish one engineer and leave manager and \u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003eother companies\u003ci\u003e\u003c/i\u003e alone?","parent":"15775281","id":"15775915"}
{"by":"gamad","time":"1506632735","timestamp":"2017-09-28 21:05:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All due respect, but there\u0026#x27;s a reason you can\u0026#x27;t cut taxes on the non-wealthy: They don\u0026#x27;t pay taxes.","parent":"15360387","dead":true,"id":"15360702"}
{"by":"dsq","time":"1418918864","timestamp":"2014-12-18 16:07:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This will probably break down as more freeloaders enter the Scandinavian economy from outside, causing a free rider syndrome","parent":"8765642","id":"8767901"}
{"by":"cookiemonster11","time":"1407419730","timestamp":"2014-08-07 13:55:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s probably powered by N-rays.","parent":"8146995","id":"8147695"}
{"by":"Alex3917","time":"1222525144","timestamp":"2008-09-27 14:19:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most people who go to Davos are pretty mellow. It seems like if your looking for high energy people who are intelligent and plucky, your local YPO chapter is indeed probably the peak of the curve.","parent":"316662","id":"316904"}
{"by":"ycmbntrthrwaway","time":"1485012576","timestamp":"2017-01-21 15:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Any source for this? Reading everyone\u0026#x27;s emails requires them backdooring their server so that it saves plaintext password or symmetric key on login. Were they doing this?","parent":"13447974","id":"13450440"}
{"by":"phaus","time":"1322697525","timestamp":"2011-11-30 23:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you weren't allowed to mention the fact that you have one, then nobody would ever be able to apply for a government contracted job.\u003cp\u003eWhat the government doesn't want is people going out to a club and getting hammered and then telling a bunch of strangers that you have a clearance because it makes you a target in a situation where you are already vulnerable.\u003cp\u003eThe funny thing is, a clearance doesn't give you a need to know. From my experience the overwhelming majority of people with a Top Secret clearance don't have access to anything that is even remotely interesting.","parent":"3297436","id":"3297495"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1468504366","timestamp":"2016-07-14 13:52:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good point. It\u0026#x27;s obvious to me, but given the comments about audio cables and such, clearly other people don\u0026#x27;t automatically get it.","parent":"12093713","id":"12093750"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1509233030","timestamp":"2017-10-28 23:23:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s an interesting take on the matter -- and I also agree that while this is a real problem, Lisp-everywhere or X-everywhere is also not necessarily the solution.\u003cp\u003eThe problem with the \u0026quot;best tool for the job\u0026quot; is that it leaves us with 2000 tools we need to integrate -- which is an even bigger problem often than what the tools collectively help us solve.","parent":"15572722","id":"15577205"}
{"by":"cperciva","time":"1338234000","timestamp":"2012-05-28 19:40:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, it really isn't.  The first step in any insurgency is to compromise intelligence and surveillance systems, and these sensors are very fragile sitting ducks.","parent":"4034651","id":"4034672"}
{"by":"moron4hire","time":"1276693588","timestamp":"2010-06-16 13:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, from this Wikipedia article: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe techniques I'm using are:\u003cp\u003e== Stereopsis: in this case, simple linear transformation in X-axis proportional to Z-axis as an approximation to a real 3D transformation\u003cp\u003e== Occlusion of one object by another: basic Z sorting, i.e. \"painters algorithm\"\u003cp\u003e== Subtended visual angle of an object of known size: I scale the object size proportional to its distance in the Z-axis\u003cp\u003e== Haze, desaturation, and a shift to bluishness: I interpolate the object color proportional to its distance in the Z-axis\u003cp\u003eIf you can get the effect to work well, it goes from being a fairly incomprehensible jumble of grey circles (too information-dense for 2D display) to a box of bouncing balls where you can easily track individual objects as they move around.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: looking at the code, it seems I forgot about a technique that I used! I also threw in the \"Vertical position\" bullet point from the Wikipedia article, but without a frame of reference in the rendered scene you wouldn't be able to tell.","parent":"1435380","id":"1435417"}
{"by":"ryanf","time":"1282591734","timestamp":"2010-08-23 19:28:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Running OS X, actually, since he was talking about working on Hex Fiend.  I imagine that would offend you even more?","parent":"1627525","id":"1627739"}
{"by":"vladimirralev","time":"1389459391","timestamp":"2014-01-11 16:56:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a numbers game. Most candidates have 20-80% chance to ace an interview depending on a number of factors and preparation. So to ace N in a row your chance is pretty slim. Companies only see the big picture numbers and say \u0026quot;We only hire 1 in 1000, we are that good\u0026quot;. In reality they just hire the statistically inevitable person who beat the odds.","parent":"7041740","id":"7042997"}
{"by":"geomark","time":"1471675091","timestamp":"2016-08-20 06:38:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. It\u0026#x27;s sort of the opposite when Thais ask if you have eaten already because if you answer \u0026quot;not yet\u0026quot; it is common for them to offer you something.","parent":"12325462","id":"12325493"}
{"by":"ufo","time":"1500023025","timestamp":"2017-07-14 09:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GHC\u0026#x27;s Dynamic type can only contain monomorphic values, it can\u0026#x27;t handle polymorphic stuff.\u003cp\u003eGHC also considers Dynamic-\u0026gt;Dynamic and Int-\u0026gt;Int to be incompatible types, which is not quite what one would want in a gradualy typed setting.\u003cp\u003eHaskell also sidesteps the difficulties that come with mutability in a gradualyly typed setting.","parent":"14768006","id":"14768520"}
{"by":"loup-vaillant","time":"1259600805","timestamp":"2009-11-30 17:06:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(Warning: I use possibly incorrect stereotypes for the sake of the argument. Please correct me on them).\u003cp\u003eI feel we don't understand each other. I'll try to restate what I said in more details.\u003cp\u003eWhat if the kid speaks French? Most likely, he will speak French at home, and American English at school. Sometimes, he will employ the wrong word or make a grammatical mistake while trying to exploit similarities between the two languages. Any professor hearing this will call this an error.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut but but, at home we say…\u003c/i\u003e say the poor boy. If the professor know French, he may answer \u003ci\u003eWhat you say is more like French. In English, we say this…\u003c/i\u003e.  Note this is not an encouragement to abandon French. Merely an encouragement to learn proper English.\u003cp\u003eNow, replace French by AAVE (or Ebonics). What has changed? I agree that the two languages are highly similar. This may be confusing to the kid. There is two ways to handle this:\u003cp\u003e(1) Saying to the kid that his last sentence wasn't proper English. This is very close to saying that he doesn't speak correctly, period. Knowing the way we speak at home, the kid can easily extend that statement to his parents or neighbours, and try to correct them, proud of the knowledge he just learned at school.  I think this is dangerous, because this may be perceived a direct attack on their identity. This can lead the kid's family or friends to pressure him into \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e learning proper English, for instance by dismissing it as \"speaking white\" or something.\u003cp\u003e(2) Saying to the kid that his last sentence was AAVE, not English. Making a sharp distinction between the two. Insisting that at school, you are to speak English, not Ebonics. So, when the kid get home, he won't try and correct his parents.  He may point out the \u003ci\u003edifferences\u003c/i\u003e between English and AAVE, but won't speak of them as \u003ci\u003eerrors\u003c/i\u003e. This is hardly an attack on the identity of Ebonics speakers. Plus, it makes sense: \"black speak\" in the \"black world\" (home), \"white speak\" in the \"white world\" (school and work).  As a consequence, there is less reason for his family or friends to insist that he doesn't speak proper English.","parent":"964225","id":"968175"}
{"by":"mschuster91","time":"1504218389","timestamp":"2017-08-31 22:26:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can replicate it to a certain extent by not discharging below 10-20% (don\u0026#x27;t know the exact range though). Limiting upper bound is likely either impossible or requires reprogramming the battery control unit.\u003cp\u003eWhat is also an advantage: Teslas can cool (and I believe also heat) the batteries so they don\u0026#x27;t enter temperature ranges where degradation is accelerated. In a laptop and certainly a phone there is neither space nor weight available for a thermal management.","parent":"15144453","id":"15144502"}
{"by":"tome","time":"1233915934","timestamp":"2009-02-06 10:25:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just because it's never worked as a movie recommendation system doesn't discourage me from trying it for a commenting system!  (Especially since the idea is so trivial, and ought to be easy to implement).","parent":"468138","id":"469600"}
{"by":"j_s","time":"1363710204","timestamp":"2013-03-19 16:23:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Back in the day, I created a font on a Tablet PC using 'My Font Tool for Tablet PC' (\u003ca href=\"http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/powertoys-for-microsoft-office-onenote-2003-HA001140896.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/powertoys-for...\u003c/a\u003e -- though download seems broken, you can fish it off of CNET, etc.).\u003cp\u003eDepending on your i18n requirements, it shouldn't be too hard to whip up a simple English font to match your requirements.","parent":"5401003","id":"5401815"}
{"by":"chrisseaton","time":"1406508189","timestamp":"2014-07-28 00:43:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Of course I meant that.\u003cp\u003eWhat I really meant though was that as a group of people there was enough respect, tolerance, humour and self discipline in the group that we could put up with any circumstances that we were asked to.\u003cp\u003eIf you took an office full of the average hackers on here and put them in a mildly uncomfortable situation, they\u0026#x27;d be bitching and stabbing each other in the back in days.","parent":"8094020","id":"8094529"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1380815451","timestamp":"2013-10-03 15:50:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Make For the Sake of Making\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t get this strange virtue of new-age geeks. If you said \u0026quot;Make For the Fun of It\u0026quot;, i\u0026#x27;d get that; making can sure be fun. But making things for no point whatsoever, other than to keep yourself busy? At least with knitting you eventually get practical use out of what you spent time on.\u003cp\u003eI have a shelf of unfinished projects and directories full of thousands of lines of unfinished code. In retrospect I wish I had spent my time flying a kite.","parent":"6489532","id":"6489770"}
{"by":"unhammer","time":"1485180166","timestamp":"2017-01-23 14:02:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12830206\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12830206\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13416039","id":"13462187"}
{"by":"jsight","time":"1500907365","timestamp":"2017-07-24 14:42:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, in this case we have a clean slate, though, so we can decide what is optimal. It may be that LIDAR is more effective than a purely binocular approach to detecting distance.","parent":"14838120","id":"14838805"}
{"by":"steveeq1","time":"1265579144","timestamp":"2010-02-07 21:45:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good quote from Warren Buffett:\n\u0026#62; You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long \n\u0026#62; as you don't do too many things wrong.\u003cp\u003eI agree. You don't have to be too bright to be a good investor. In the long haul, you'll be ok if you don't do something stupid. So aim for loss MINIMIZATION rather than profit maximation.\u003cp\u003eAlso, the markets are very, very tumultuous now and I believe it will get worse. The federal reserve just pumped a massive amount of US dollars in the system and the long term effects of this will be a staggering amount of inflation. So in my opinion, you should invest in assets that are not denominated in US dollars, such as gold bullion and other commodities.\u003cp\u003eBeware of commodities that are traded fractionally. Meaning they sell you more of the commodity than they actually have.\u003cp\u003eFinally, diversify, diversify, diversify. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Beware of mutual funds that are diversified but charge exorbitant rates. Index funds have the same amount of diversification but at rock bottom prices.\u003cp\u003e- Stever\u003cp\u003ePS If you are worried about a major market crash (as am I), you might want to check out the Black Swan fund: \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124380234786770027.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB124380234786770027.html\u003c/a\u003e .","parent":"1108163","id":"1108332"}
{"by":"onassar","time":"1272131043","timestamp":"2010-04-24 17:44:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A tip: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash#Mr._Brainwash_speculation_and_theories\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash#Mr._Brainwash_spe...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMakes you rethink it a bit, huh.","parent":"1291116","id":"1291238"}
{"by":"adamnemecek","time":"1404245922","timestamp":"2014-07-01 20:18:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems like the best option to me.","parent":"7973090","id":"7973254"}
{"by":"zmoazeni","time":"1334331396","timestamp":"2012-04-13 15:36:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e(GPLv2; AGPL etc changes this)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould you clarify? GPLv2 doesn't require source in this case and AGPL does? Or both GPLv2 and AGPL (along with versions) do?","parent":"3836567","id":"3837204"}
{"by":"yzzxy","time":"1425194673","timestamp":"2015-03-01 07:24:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes. It would be a good way to fix misclicks. However, I would recommend a quick time-delayed lockout similar to that present for comment editing (or is that lockout related to child comments? It\u0026#x27;s never been clear to me). That would reduce dog-piling effects and would keep votes permanent from a semantic perspective.","parent":"9126097","id":"9126356"}
{"by":"lordnacho","time":"1500752245","timestamp":"2017-07-22 19:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re self-employed, you still have a tax return. If you make a company to hold things in, it has a tax return.","parent":"14828890","id":"14828944"}
{"by":"Terr_","time":"1441229707","timestamp":"2015-09-02 21:35:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; probably avoiding preying-mantises\u003cp\u003eWhat about just using their DNA?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=0k1_aKPIdnU\u0026amp;t=0m20s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=0k1_aKPIdnU\u0026amp;t=0m20s\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10156287","id":"10162035"}
{"by":"aliston","time":"1380049462","timestamp":"2013-09-24 19:04:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;... a significant uptick in the number of parties, hot girls roaming bars trying to chat with any guy that looks like he might be an engineer and looking for a job...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIs anyone else noticing this phenomenon?  Apparently I\u0026#x27;m not invited to the right parties...","parent":"6439680","id":"6440001"}
{"by":"meowface","time":"1381521750","timestamp":"2013-10-11 20:02:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Original comment poster here.\u003cp\u003eHe is definitely an arrogant kind of guy, but the movie literally portrays him as having been in some kind of cult wherein everyone bleaches their hair white. That kicks him down from \u0026quot;arrogant asshole\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;crazy, God complex cult leader\u0026quot; to people watching the movie.\u003cp\u003eAnd really, from what I can tell, he\u0026#x27;s not done anything particularly immoral. No evidence has come out that anything he leaked harmed any Americans. He sifts through all leaked material before just publishing it willy nilly.","parent":"6534021","id":"6535597"}
{"by":"marshray","time":"1304184695","timestamp":"2011-04-30 17:31:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You generalized my generation and \"many of the posters here on HN\" as being \"co-opted\" and basically not thinking for ourselves.\u003cp\u003eThis is the wrong board to go making that kind of assertion dude.","parent":"2500847","id":"2501049"}
{"by":"ConstantineXVI","time":"1343579885","timestamp":"2012-07-29 16:38:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"iOS 6 brings those over (at least on the iPad 3, presumably because it made more sense than #ifdef'ing those bits out of Siri). I keep meaning to just write a non-crap Android stopwatch, because using my iPad as a 10\" stopwatch is just silly.","parent":"4308865","id":"4308903"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1512416067","timestamp":"2017-12-04 19:34:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They funded a review for Apache HTTPD before, and basically all other candidates are international projects: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;joinup.ec.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;ec-audit-apache-http-serve-0\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;joinup.ec.europa.eu\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;ec-audit-apache-http-serve-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised though if EU-centric communities were more likely to know\u0026#x2F;care about this initiative (and thus voted), putting 2 european projects in the top 3.","parent":"15846624","id":"15846721"}
{"by":"diogenescynic","time":"1492234763","timestamp":"2017-04-15 05:39:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;And I don\u0026#x27;t remember anyone offering a free ATV to me... :)\u003cp\u003eI love my AppleTV and got it free from pre-paying my DIRECTV Now app for 3 months. It was a no brainer for me.","parent":"14118648","id":"14119559"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1398961735","timestamp":"2014-05-01 16:28:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the late 1980\u0026#x27;s the Commodore 64 in the home was probably not being replaced by a Mac, but because of price by some version of the Apple II. This was the GOTO product for home and education into the early 1990\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1980\u0026#x27;s Apple was selling Mac SE\u0026#x27;s at close to $3000 list price and Mac II\u0026#x27;s at $5500 list. These were targeted at business customers with prices comparable to the bottom end 8088 IBM PS\u0026#x2F;2 and top 80286 PS\u0026#x2F;2 respectively.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Apple_II_Family\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Timeline_of_Apple_II_Family\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1987-06/1987_06_BYTE_12-06_CAD_Mice_12-MHz_ATs_IBM_PS2_Family#page/n133/mode/2up\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;archive.org\u0026#x2F;stream\u0026#x2F;byte-magazine-1987-06\u0026#x2F;1987_06_BYT...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7680580","id":"7680802"}
{"by":"spooneybarger","time":"1533992413","timestamp":"2018-08-11 13:00:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s interesting. In my career, I\u0026#x27;ve rarely encounted division by zero. I\u0026#x27;ve encountered over and underflow considerably more. Different experiences, different points of view.","parent":"17737032","id":"17739508"}
{"by":"dec0dedab0de","time":"1398373346","timestamp":"2014-04-24 21:02:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIt also has the added benefit of incentivizing Comcast to provide faster service.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eActually it gives them an incentive to provide slower \u003ci\u003eInternet\u003c/i\u003e service. This encourages content providers to pay to use the Comcast private network instead of the Internet.","parent":"7642898","id":"7642958"}
{"by":"paulgb","time":"1246585126","timestamp":"2009-07-03 01:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I thought the top comment was saying that the way the author did it \u003ci\u003ewasn't\u003c/i\u003e idiomatic, in which case I was wondering what is.","parent":"685331","id":"685496"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1457106933","timestamp":"2016-03-04 15:55:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Date: 1998\u003cp\u003eTitle: The Amateur Computerist, Winter\u0026#x2F;Spring 1998","parent":"11222604","id":"11224533"}
{"by":"sterlind","time":"1539665674","timestamp":"2018-10-16 04:54:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"d\u0026#x2F;dt e^t = e^t. So while vapid and pop-sci, technically true. Of course, the exponent is constant or we\u0026#x27;d be talking about the Ackermanity instead.","parent":"18226282","id":"18226633"}
{"by":"sukilot","time":"1432216494","timestamp":"2015-05-21 13:54:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that this already happens today. Mathematicians get a prestigious appointment based on a breakthrough work, which is then proven to be a mistake.","parent":"9574339","id":"9582737"}
{"by":"dlevine","time":"1273087996","timestamp":"2010-05-05 19:33:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could be that some veteran Facebook employees want to move to Washington state to avoid paying taxes on their stock.\u003cp\u003eShortly after Google went public, a lot of old-time Googlers moved to Washington so that they could avoid paying CA taxes","parent":"1322125","id":"1322262"}
{"by":"SwellJoe","time":"1387150222","timestamp":"2013-12-15 23:30:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why I don\u0026#x27;t believe the president\u0026#x27;s assertion about the employees of the NSA being innocent of wrongdoing or anyone\u0026#x27;s assertion of them being \u0026quot;good guys\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eThis is apologia for crimes against the world and the American people. This is saying, \u0026quot;If you don\u0026#x27;t have anything to hide, you have nothing to worry about.\u0026quot; This is demonstrably filled with lies and misrepresentations, whether intentional or through ignorance of what the rest of the NSA beast has been up to (but, if he has followed the Snowden leaks with more than passing interest, he would know he\u0026#x27;s lying in blatant and obvious ways).\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure this article is meant to quell fears about NSA spying practices, but it only makes me more angry and more fearful. It confirms something I suspected but didn\u0026#x27;t want to believe: The entire organization from low-level analysts on up to the leadership (who will repeatedly lie to Congress to serve their ends) is corrupt and will exhibit little or no remorse even when caught red-handed, and will spread astroturf and refuse to acknowledge that their behavior crosses lines that should have never been crossed by a US agency.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m getting close to believing that starting any online service in the United States is unethical, because of what it will do to its users.","parent":"6910687","id":"6911604"}
{"by":"6stringmerc","time":"1462394777","timestamp":"2016-05-04 20:46:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As much as somebody might read the above and say, \u0026quot;Oh wow, it can\u0026#x27;t possibly be that bad! This sounds like an axe to grind!\u0026quot; - hold that thought.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a lot of truth to what\u0026#x27;s been listed above, and the message that your #1 priority should be to micro-manage your care is actually good advice for above-average intelligent people. I can\u0026#x27;t stress this enough.\u003cp\u003eAs with the parent comment, I shy away from sharing too much personal information about my own health battles. They are from birth, ongoing, and likely to stick around until I die. Want to hear something that would shock you?\u003cp\u003eMy parents were advocates for my care and our insurance would pay for an innovative, proven type of new corrective surgery. The \u0026quot;Team\u0026quot; of a Head Doc and a couple others on his staff said over and over that my parents were being too pushy and that they would be the ones to decide when I would be a candidate for that surgery. My parents questioned their integrity, because it was obvious that I was a candidate.\u003cp\u003eThe Head Doc got very arrogant. My parents got legal. What did they find? In the Head Doc\u0026#x27;s own notes, and agreed upon by his team in private, that I was an excellent candidate for the type of surgery being mentioned. They were lying to us, and for what?\u003cp\u003eWe got a different Specialist after that. I\u0026#x27;ll never forget that lesson though, and later, having seen that Head Doc at an industry event later in life - he noticed I was doing well - to which I replied that indeed I was and no thanks to him either. Glad that asshole has retired.","parent":"11631557","id":"11631622"}
{"by":"simpsn","time":"1405005966","timestamp":"2014-07-10 15:26:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sad it is down. Well done on the 404 page though.","parent":"8013410","id":"8015269"}
{"by":"kilroy123","time":"1477261118","timestamp":"2016-10-23 22:18:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great work. When I loaded the page I even thought to myself, oh shit this is fast.\u003cp\u003eOne huge problem, with most large platforms for e-commerce stores, they are terrible at speed optimization!\u003cp\u003eFor example, I have a store on Shopify and it\u0026#x27;s basically impossible to do most of what you explained. With Shopify, you can customize HTML \u0026#x2F; SCSS files with dynamic content. All of which gets compiled on their back-end. You have no access to the final compiled HTML and markup. You\u0026#x27;re sadly limited in what you can do.\u003cp\u003eIt seems you need to have a custom store to really be able to optimize this hard-core.","parent":"12774277","id":"12775696"}
{"by":"x1798DE","time":"1465434292","timestamp":"2016-06-09 01:04:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bit OT but does this count as a garden path sentence? I originally parsed it like:\u003cp\u003e- \u0026quot;The leaky bucket of Indian food\u0026quot; - a leaking bucket of Indian food\u003cp\u003e- \u0026quot;The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery\u0026quot; - a metaphorical leaky bucket of delivering Indian food\u003cp\u003e- \u0026quot;The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery startups\u0026quot; - metaphorical leaky bucket that is Indian startups delivering food.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know that the second change in meaning counts as a garden path, though, since while it did change the noun modified by \u0026quot;Indian\u0026quot; from \u0026quot;food\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;startup\u0026quot;, that was from context, not gramatical necessity.","parent":"11860048","id":"11866896"}
{"by":"rman666","time":"1511828699","timestamp":"2017-11-28 00:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’d let it expire and use the money you were going to spend to renew it on a lottery ticket.","parent":"15792783","id":"15793124"}
{"by":"EliRivers","time":"1535793975","timestamp":"2018-09-01 09:26:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the evidence indicates that with long-term excessive long hours, performance is worse. You could be the outlier, able to work efficiently after ten to twelve hours, but I understand the probabilities are against this and that actually it \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e about perception; that the person in charge of saying how good you are at your job is effectively incompetent and can only measure time in office.","parent":"17886413","id":"17891069"}
{"by":"Iv","time":"1327152539","timestamp":"2012-01-21 13:28:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Billions lost in advertisement and aimed at corrupting politics... What a waste for the economy.","parent":"3491108","id":"3493516"}
{"by":"ggreer","time":"1432592304","timestamp":"2015-05-25 22:18:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you tried to troubleshoot the cause of this slowness? What you describe is not normal behavior for any OS. Some aspect of your system is broken. If it\u0026#x27;s a hardware problem, installing a linux distro won\u0026#x27;t help. If it\u0026#x27;s not, installing any OS from scratch (including Yosemite) will fix it.","parent":"9601616","id":"9601963"}
{"by":"yzb","time":"1547417244","timestamp":"2019-01-13 22:07:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Personally, I shut down my Tor relay, which was running for two years (and earned me two tshirts), when you decided to transition from being a software project which works for anonymity on the Internet to a \u0026quot;human rights project\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI know I\u0026#x27;m practically alone in having done that, but it feels good. I felt stabbed in the back when you decided that only people in one side of the political spectrum have a right to privacy and anonymity.","parent":"18897999","dead":true,"id":"18899019"}
{"by":"gitaarik","time":"1404742149","timestamp":"2014-07-07 14:09:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When you\u0026#x27;re using tmux or screen this isn\u0026#x27;t uncommon. I have a screen for each project, in a project I usually have around 5 to 10 tabs, and I have about 5 projects I\u0026#x27;m currently working on.","parent":"7998082","id":"7998865"}
{"by":"molorota","time":"1478208917","timestamp":"2016-11-03 21:35:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you think the using of React as another big benefit ( since it is the cool kids framework right now ). Or this brings another challenge instead? \nIn addition to it, what are your\u0026#x27;s web stack of choice currently? ( I\u0026#x27;m looking for new ideas for back end also )","parent":"12849863","id":"12868195"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1490850040","timestamp":"2017-03-30 05:00:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You ship a robot factory and it builds robots in the Belt for you.","parent":"13992871","id":"13993044"}
{"by":"bdw429s","time":"1506978575","timestamp":"2017-10-02 21:09:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"According to a recent survey by Adobe, 75% of fortune 100\u0026#x27;s are using CFML and 70% of their CF base are building new applications in it.  They have a steady stream of new licenses being purchased, and according to the latest W3Techs data, CF usage in the wild is actually climbing. (Whereas Java, .NET, and Ruby usage is dropping)\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;w3techs.com\u0026#x2F;technologies\u0026#x2F;details\u0026#x2F;pl-coldfusion\u0026#x2F;all\u0026#x2F;all\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;w3techs.com\u0026#x2F;technologies\u0026#x2F;details\u0026#x2F;pl-coldfusion\u0026#x2F;all\u0026#x2F;a...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI use CF daily as my primary programming language, and I can assure you it\u0026#x27;s still a great option in terms of productivity and scalability in 2017.","parent":"15384733","id":"15387979"}
{"by":"JBiserkov","time":"1456699620","timestamp":"2016-02-28 22:47:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least in The Martian book\u0026#x2F;movie there is something about the topic.","parent":"11192541","id":"11192762"}
{"by":"rlnddschn","time":"1536835710","timestamp":"2018-09-13 10:48:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Firefox 62.0, macOS 10.12.6.\u003cp\u003eLaunching the demo server in a tab at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chr15m.github.io\u0026#x2F;bugout\u0026#x2F;server.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chr15m.github.io\u0026#x2F;bugout\u0026#x2F;server.html\u003c/a\u003e displays an unchanging log of:\u003cp\u003e...\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chr15m.github.io\u0026#x2F;bugout\u0026#x2F;#bLG...\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chr15m.github.io\u0026#x2F;bugout\u0026#x2F;#bLG...\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eConnect back to this server-in-a-tab using the link above.\nconnections: 0\u003cp\u003eLaunching the client test page in another tab at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chr15m.github.io\u0026#x2F;bugout\u0026#x2F;#bLG...\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chr15m.github.io\u0026#x2F;bugout\u0026#x2F;#bLG...\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt;\u003c/a\u003e displays an unchanging log of:\u003cp\u003e...\nMy address is bXW...\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt;\nConnecting to the server...\n(this can take a minute)","parent":"17925398","id":"17977582"}
{"by":"votepaunchy","time":"1495028378","timestamp":"2017-05-17 13:39:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;the head of the NSA perjuring himself in front of Congress\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eCitation needed.","parent":"14357971","id":"14358270"}
{"by":"collision","time":"1345666568","timestamp":"2012-08-22 20:16:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don't worry -- even if you don't get to play this week, we'll be releasing the levels afterwards so you can run them yourself at home.","parent":"4419313","id":"4419337"}
{"by":"j_baker","time":"1377105842","timestamp":"2013-08-21 17:24:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True.  Sr developers need to be able to handle stress.  However, I don\u0026#x27;t think an interview accurately measures a person\u0026#x27;s ability to handle under stress.","parent":"6251851","id":"6251887"}
{"by":"foobarfizzbuzz","time":"1414589432","timestamp":"2014-10-29 13:30:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure why it\u0026#x27;s relevant that you\u0026#x27;re 2 front end developers?  Literally anyone can learn how to program.","parent":"8526875","id":"8527026"}
{"by":"swolchok","time":"1247031299","timestamp":"2009-07-08 05:34:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"RAD = rapid application development, the business term for \"drag-n-drop GUI builders\" that we all know and hate. Not having one for the Web is a valid criticism, but if GWT can handle Swing API input then we DO have one.","parent":"693333","id":"693363"}
{"by":"grk","time":"1283183318","timestamp":"2010-08-30 15:48:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/\u003c/a\u003e - MongoDB is web scale","parent":"1646500","id":"1646526"}
{"by":"spyder","time":"1405275429","timestamp":"2014-07-13 18:17:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True. They even wrote the text but it\u0026#x27;s hidden in the footer as FAQ:\n\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sobrr.me/post/90218046282/fabulously-answered-questions\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blog.sobrr.me\u0026#x2F;post\u0026#x2F;90218046282\u0026#x2F;fabulously-answered-qu...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8027630","id":"8028169"}
{"by":"ck2","time":"1348233408","timestamp":"2012-09-21 13:16:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel like I've seen this recently on HN\u003cp\u003eEh, cannot find it - I guess we just talk a lot about commit messages.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all\u0026#38;q=commit+messages\u0026#38;sortby=points+desc\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all\u0026#38;q=commit+mess...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+commit+messages\u0026#38;tbo=1\u0026#38;prmdo=1\u0026#38;gbv=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+commi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe it was this one, but I swear it was more recent:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-github-commit-messages/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-gi...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4553192","id":"4553586"}
{"by":"mturmon","time":"1412695516","timestamp":"2014-10-07 15:25:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the OP, the Nobel Price -- SEK 8 million, to be shared equally between the Laureates. ;-)","parent":"8420468","id":"8421665"}
{"by":"nine_k","time":"1533231997","timestamp":"2018-08-02 17:46:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But better knowledge will \u003ci\u003ealways\u003c/i\u003e be important for social mobility, at the very least via earning more money.\u003cp\u003eOTOH the traditional college may be not the best way to acquire certain kinds of knowledge. In many cases learning outside campus using recorded lectures, books, and computers may be as efficient, and visiting labs for necessary work could be vastly less expensive than doing full-time college.\u003cp\u003eI suspect the value of certain independent examinations \u0026#x2F; certifications, that is, the comparative advantage they give, will grow with time. The effort of passing them will be (or already is) university-level high, and the prices will also grow, but definitely not to the level of college prices.\u003cp\u003eThis will democratize learning because of the lower prices, easier choice of time \u0026#x2F; pace, and easier choice of what you really want to learn. It\u0026#x27;s already happening, of course, but it\u0026#x27;s low-key by now. I posit that it will be a major force.\u003cp\u003eCertain things, like medicine, are not amenable to this approach, or course. But a lot of STEM, financial, media, even liberal arts curricula can benefit from such an approach.","parent":"17673444","id":"17673619"}
{"by":"foolrush","time":"1420088670","timestamp":"2015-01-01 05:04:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The belief that somehow private companies make decisions “just fine” highlights the socio-cultural side.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t take much introspection to cite bleak moments from our collective North American histories that were socially acceptable, while being rather dubious ethically.\u003cp\u003eSmoking was once a “free choice” and desired, and came with it willful years of of ignorance of the influence of second hand smoke. If we dig deeper, we could spend much time discussing slavery and sufferage other such messes that, while abhorrent by today\u0026#x27;s standards, were perfect cultural fits during their respective reigns. And implicitly bound to private enterprise.\u003cp\u003ePrivate enterprise doesn\u0026#x27;t make any of his opinions dissolve, nor less relevant. On the contrary, as those cultural and ideological vantages are precisely why his points are relevant.","parent":"8822142","id":"8822217"}
{"by":"weisser","time":"1389461221","timestamp":"2014-01-11 17:27:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wanted to like Path but then I heard about HeyDay and I didn\u0026#x27;t care anymore.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heyday-journaling.-reimagined./id738164919?mt=8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;heyday-journaling.-reimagine...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7041128","id":"7043078"}
{"by":"cellurl","time":"1272328591","timestamp":"2010-04-27 00:36:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is amazing software! Tremendous potential.","parent":"1295052","id":"1296747"}
{"by":"justinclift","time":"1532530790","timestamp":"2018-07-25 14:59:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Transaction history here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.blockchain.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;btc\u0026#x2F;address\u0026#x2F;1H4aJjxzKe4DdmiUXFxKh7hZU6m4Qnb8DH\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.blockchain.com\u0026#x2F;en\u0026#x2F;btc\u0026#x2F;address\u0026#x2F;1H4aJjxzKe4DdmiUXF...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeems like yours is the only one (~$US500) so far.  People will probably need confirmation of the address directly from the person in question first though, so to safe. :)","parent":"17608466","id":"17609766"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1478193626","timestamp":"2016-11-03 17:20:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this has already been submitted many times, please check for dupes before submitting!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12855291\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12855291\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12865285","id":"12865941"}
{"by":"burrows","time":"1300985515","timestamp":"2011-03-24 16:51:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could this be any less technical? This seems to barely even qualify as something to be show on hacker news.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't talk about the exploited service, the vulnerability, if it was known, etc.\u003cp\u003eInstead they tell us 'signs of spam'.","parent":"2364594","id":"2364876"}
{"by":"waps","time":"1410574565","timestamp":"2014-09-13 02:16:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s kind of the point of a democratic system. The government can change any law it wants.","parent":"8311403","id":"8311437"}
{"by":"dbreunig","time":"1210612303","timestamp":"2008-05-12 17:11:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, focus on the product first. If you fulfill a strong need for a defined group of people they will do a lot of the talking for you–in a much more authentic way then you ever could.\u003cp\u003eOnce you get their support you can put your small budget behind the stories they are telling around your product.","parent":"187729","id":"187740"}
{"by":"patmacc30","time":"1322074298","timestamp":"2011-11-23 18:51:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IPO one week. Dead the next. So much for Angieslist.","parent":"3270983","id":"3271174"}
{"by":"rdiddly","time":"1463378452","timestamp":"2016-05-16 06:00:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I declare false advertising.\u003cp\u003eQ: \u0026quot;How can we sabotage stuff?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eA: \u0026quot;Here\u0026#x27;s a bunch of stuff I think is messed up. Leave your own complaints in the comments.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eI am disappoint.  No creative sabotage ideas here, only observations of stuff already going on that we think is \u0026quot;wrong.\u0026quot;  Now granted, when looking for tips on how to fuck shit up, you can look at actual fucked-up shit and get ideas.  But I guess I was hoping for something more creative.  And yeah not the supposedly hilarious hahajoke that \u0026quot;Golly things are so messed up we can\u0026#x27;t even tell if they\u0026#x27;re inept or saboteurs,\u0026quot; and not more complaints about \u0026quot;If only the world listened to my brilliant ideas about how to do things the \u0026#x27;right\u0026#x27; way (my way).\u0026quot;  If I had a dollar for every asshole with an opinion...","parent":"11702267","id":"11704506"}
{"by":"hartator","time":"1546020149","timestamp":"2018-12-28 18:02:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does anyone know how it compare to zsh with oh-my-zsh?","parent":"18776765","id":"18778312"}
{"by":"isostatic","time":"1525425031","timestamp":"2018-05-04 09:10:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"48khz please! Not because of the extra frequency, but because of compatibility with video :)\u003cp\u003eAnd RCA? What\u0026#x27;s wrong with balanced audio on an XLR?\u003cp\u003eI saw a lovely post on Facebook about how a freelancer had brought in something odd, that could only get the audio out of via analog.\u003cp\u003eHe proudly came out with his crappy £50 RCA cables. We had to tell him that we only dealt with balanced audio. My friend went to the stores and found the most beat up converter she could find, and some ropey looking cables :)","parent":"16992711","id":"16993210"}
{"by":"arh68","time":"1414711942","timestamp":"2014-10-30 23:32:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Go ahead, take a swim in this ocean of mediocrity.  See the button below the box?  It says \u003ci\u003eadd comment\u003c/i\u003e.  Not \u0026#x27;Submit Dissertation\u0026#x27;.  Not \u0026#x27;Final Opinion\u0026#x27;.  Just remarks made in passing.  Like tears, in rain.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t try to imitate \u0026#x27;diction\u0026#x27; or \u0026#x27;mastery\u0026#x27;.  Express yourself as simply as you can.\u003cp\u003eAnd don\u0026#x27;t feel bad if you can\u0026#x27;t express something naturally in English.  There are limits to the language.  You are most likely able to imagine things you cannot precisely say in English.","parent":"8533633","id":"8536472"}
{"by":"gnicholas","time":"1493659466","timestamp":"2017-05-01 17:24:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING FREELANCER – Redwood City, Remote\u003cp\u003eRead Across The Aisle (www.readacrosstheaisle.com) is seeking an experienced Android engineer. We launched a successful Kickstarter (press coverage by NYT, BBC, Quartz) for our iOS app earlier this year. We are now looking to build an Android analog. Check out our website to see how our iOS app works, and you\u0026#x27;ll have a pretty good idea of what we\u0026#x27;re looking build for Android. Send resume and specific cover letter to contact at [domain].","parent":"14238006","id":"14239503"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1354806435","timestamp":"2012-12-06 15:07:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In terms of investment in manufacturing, $100 million is chump change. Fabs are an order of magnitude or more greater. The amount is approximately that required for a middling \"power center\" shopping development. Or constructing a handful of Apple stores.\u003cp\u003eNot to be cynical, but I suspect that local, state and federal tax subsidies will yield a positive ROI on the $100 million. This looks like pure PR.","parent":"4881567","id":"4881980"}
{"by":"tomkinson","time":"1525996809","timestamp":"2018-05-11 00:00:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At what level would you say SQLite doesn\u0026#x27;t scale?","parent":"17043829","id":"17043908"}
{"by":"leizongmin","time":"1473948890","timestamp":"2016-09-15 14:14:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"吃瓜群众表示，吓得不敢投简历给大阿里了","parent":"12504850","id":"12506292"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1392087647","timestamp":"2014-02-11 03:00:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Software on feeble CPUs does OK up to 100Mbps or so, and I doubt he\u0026#x27;s complaining about problems at that speed.\u003cp\u003e(I have a 5+-year-old Geode-based router at home, and it can do full pf rule evaluation and forwarding at about 300Mbps.)","parent":"7213931","id":"7215493"}
{"by":"auggierose","time":"1507490225","timestamp":"2017-10-08 19:17:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about he didn\u0026#x27;t misunderstand it, but took it as an inspiration, and created a vision of his own. You don\u0026#x27;t seem to be a creator.","parent":"15429323","id":"15429492"}
{"by":"bonzini","time":"1479936703","timestamp":"2016-11-23 21:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"About 99% of Linux (or even more) is drivers. But indeed there should be useful references in the scheduler, locking primitives, memory management and core networking code.","parent":"13025537","id":"13025964"}
{"by":"pclark","time":"1285168803","timestamp":"2010-09-22 15:20:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yay timetric! still fuzzy as to what you guys actually do :) (i suck at maths)","parent":"1716358","id":"1716400"}
{"by":"guard-of-terra","time":"1417390978","timestamp":"2014-11-30 23:42:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has a lot to do with language.\nIf your language\u0026#x27;s runtime has solid threading and reasonably pauseless GC (at several gigabytes heap) you run into much much less problems with scalability.\u003cp\u003eJava people take many things for granted.","parent":"8678191","id":"8678708"}
{"by":"Hexstream","time":"1202924617","timestamp":"2008-02-13 17:43:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, outlier or not, you're not alone! I'm exactly like you on this aspect.","parent":"114980","id":"115001"}
{"by":"ahmedaly","time":"1322353017","timestamp":"2011-11-27 00:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see a potential for it.. I am talking about 100k visitors as a start.. is it a good sign to make it in full?\u003cp\u003eI will rely on Amazon AWS to reduce costs... and I can fund it for the next 1 year.. so I can cover it as well.. and I have a hope that it will reach 2Millions by the first year..\u003cp\u003eI am just afraid and worried.. but I want to do it quickly, because I had ideas very similar to friendfeed, and other online startups, but I was surprised that these ideas grown quickly and I was still thinking about it.. although I thought about it before it appeared.","parent":"3281117","id":"3281145"}
{"by":"eximius","time":"1508420213","timestamp":"2017-10-19 13:36:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, are you currently employed there? I found a minor-ish XSS vector allowed by CKEditor 4 if there is a place I should submit an issue...","parent":"15506900","id":"15507721"}
{"by":"jonathan-kosgei","time":"1522777723","timestamp":"2018-04-03 17:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No prob, Eve looks pretty cool. I\u0026#x27;d love to benchmark it alongside japronto and apistar. Thanks!","parent":"16746936","id":"16747189"}
{"by":"amadvance","time":"1453740054","timestamp":"2016-01-25 16:40:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That number is rational, and all rational numbers are not normal.","parent":"10967587","id":"10968142"}
{"by":"heelhook","time":"1323037576","timestamp":"2011-12-04 22:26:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having no experience is definitely detrimental to the candidate, but I would say, if the undergrad is extremely excited about what you are building and the challenges they will be working on then the experience can be overlooked. You can gauge motivation of the undergrad through side projects, its hard to be a student (at least from my experience) without being exposed to subjects that are so interesting that you simply can't resist building stuff.","parent":"3312057","id":"3312075"}
{"by":"cloudkj","time":"1543363413","timestamp":"2018-11-28 00:03:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It recently popped up in a place I didn\u0026#x27;t expect. In checking out some of the deep learning work around neural style transfer, I found that many of the examples make reference the L-BFGS optimizer. Peeling a layer back, it appears that a commonly used implementation of L-BFGS is in scipy, which is a wrapper around a Fortran implementation.","parent":"18543371","id":"18548073"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1317233856","timestamp":"2011-09-28 18:17:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Webmasters and developers of server-side software are extremely lazy, so that just isn't going to happen.\u003cp\u003eAlso, that would require standardization which has a pretty high cost.","parent":"3048749","id":"3049189"}
{"by":"stuartleigh","time":"1463734433","timestamp":"2016-05-20 08:53:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you miss the period it reads as \u0026quot;... which Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2012,\u0026quot; which I guess would be confusing.","parent":"11736363","id":"11736390"}
{"by":"babuskov","time":"1448952769","timestamp":"2015-12-01 06:52:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just press Ctrl+M or Command+M and you get into full-screen editor. I use this all the time when working on laptop.","parent":"10653789","id":"10653987"}
{"by":"sctb","time":"1490899484","timestamp":"2017-03-30 18:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it\u0026#x27;s unacceptable to reply in turn. When the purpose of the site is to support intellectual curiosity and discussion, it\u0026#x27;s never productive to make already-bad threads worse.","parent":"13997787","id":"13997861"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1273428413","timestamp":"2010-05-09 18:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/quality_form\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.google.com/quality_form\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut yes, we know.  There are Googlers that read HN, you know. :-)","parent":"1332191","id":"1332511"}
{"by":"patio11","time":"1232817001","timestamp":"2009-01-24 17:10:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Company directories, basic email administration 101 (role@domain rather than bob@domain for when you expect the role to need an existence outside of Bob's), search engines, and social networks solve all the use cases for this technology much better than the technology does.  Well, OK, maybe when you want to spam 50,000 professors who have graduated from Harvard since 1960 you have to do a little more work.  I don't think that is a bad thing.\u003cp\u003eTo: \"All Researchers Doing Semantic Analysis\"\u003cp\u003eFrom: \"Rest of World\"\u003cp\u003eSubject: \"Solve a problem.  [You're not using semantic analysis] is not a problem.\"\u003cp\u003eBody: Disregard message if you weren't applying your work to email.  That was not one of the options the system supported.  Sorry for the spam!","parent":"447974","id":"448219"}
{"by":"darklajid","time":"1371017505","timestamp":"2013-06-12 06:11:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m no friend of FB or the US.\u003cp\u003eBut the idea that somehow all FB messages are thoroughly searched seems .. unlikely.\u003cp\u003eThe German article says the girl \u0026#x27;found a nice family\u0026#x27; and had \u0026#x27;a regular contact with her guest dad\u0026#x27;.\nHow unlikely is it, that the guest dad - or someone with access to his account .. - notified the border control?\u003cp\u003eI refuse to believe in the Orwellian surveillance theory here and put my money on a jealous spouse.","parent":"5864779","id":"5866773"}
{"by":"r7000","time":"1173883372","timestamp":"2007-03-14 14:42:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The feature set you have put together might be very useful to some potential users who aren't bands. You might be in one of those \"we built it thinking of market X but ended up filling a need for Y\" sort of situations.","parent":"3935","id":"4122"}
{"by":"thejteam","time":"1450281993","timestamp":"2015-12-16 16:06:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We used Singapore Math and really liked it. I think of it as having all the good parts of Common Core (an emphasis on abstract thought) but without all of the crazy parts.","parent":"10743837","id":"10745119"}
{"by":"krylon","time":"1530546061","timestamp":"2018-07-02 15:41:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is amazing news!","parent":"17440862","id":"17442599"}
{"by":"mchaver","time":"1408588774","timestamp":"2014-08-21 02:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe you are correct about the 30 (not 100% sure on the number) Mayan languages being ancestor of Proto-Maya. Classical Maya belongs to the Ch\u0026#x27;ol branch and is mostly likely a written form of the parent language of Ch\u0026#x27;olti\u0026#x27; (extinct) and Ch\u0026#x27;orti\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eHere are some random facts about the Mayan languages and Maya people:\u003cp\u003eYucatec is the most spoken of the Mayan languages, located in the Yucatan peninsula. Interesting story about Korean immigration to Mexico (Spanish only, some early immigrants ended up in Yucatan and one lady mentions that many learned Yucateco before Spanish because the worked with they Mayas): \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmDTrvddD_8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=AmDTrvddD_8\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopul Wuj is written in K\u0026#x27;iche\u0026#x27;. Trippy videos about the Popul Wuj:\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTeOYNsBHvM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=aTeOYNsBHvM\u003c/a\u003e \n\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDt9rQrGp1I\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=TDt9rQrGp1I\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacondon people managed to escape Spanish control:\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSb36zgGzo\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=6nSb36zgGzo\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8205448","id":"8205708"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1370355395","timestamp":"2013-06-04 14:16:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Others in this topic's comment page made observations to the contrary. Thus a discussion can go no further without more information. That's why you were asked for \"citation referencing these problems.\"\u003cp\u003eYou responded with an extreme, which was disingenuous, I agree.\u003cp\u003eIn any case, any Hofstader fan knows what you mean now. Thank you for confirming that you agree that there is no meaningful basis for your opinion that the UK government should change its aid policies, and that your personal observations of the matter are not relevant.","parent":"5818490","id":"5819502"}
{"by":"Jd","time":"1188030337","timestamp":"2007-08-25 08:25:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a simple case of specialization of labor.  While a hacker may be able to hear the voice of the customer, it probably makes sense to have some folks that do more hacking and some more customer hearing.  If you have two co-founders, it makes sense to have one on each side.","parent":"46389","id":"46532"}
{"by":"crpatino","time":"1429657027","timestamp":"2015-04-21 22:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes agreed, someone has to pay at the end of day. The original model we have for what we currently call \u0026quot;benefits\u0026quot; are workers associations pooling resources to hedge against catastrophic worst cases. And to be fair no one wants to pay any more taxes than strictly needed, not just businesses.\u003cp\u003eOne big problem I see with this is that of corporate personhood. If you cut corporate taxes and raise taxes on dividends and capital gains, you are basically promoting investors to not leave their money inside the corporation. Once this happen, you have to ask the question of what corporations are for? If they do not provide benefits for their employees, and not provide dividends for their legitimate owners, and yet not provide tax revenue for the government (and indirectly, to overall society) under which they operate, then exactly why do they do what they do?","parent":"9417443","id":"9417724"}
{"by":"DCKing","time":"1490884750","timestamp":"2017-03-30 14:39:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There are literally millions of C\u0026#x2F;C++ programmers and projects writing secure reliable code.\u003cp\u003eI believe that there are millions of C\u0026#x2F;C++ programmers that \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c/i\u003e they are writing secure reliable code. But these there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that they don\u0026#x27;t and (for C at least) can\u0026#x27;t. There is plenty of evidence that at least C does not give you the proper tools to actually write safe code outside of trivial programs in the first place. (I cannot speak for C++)\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re still arguing a strawman. Nobody wants to take away your pointers, manual memory management, unconditional jumps or assembly, and nobody is suggesting that you don\u0026#x27;t need them. People just want to make it easier to use them responsibly without making the mistakes everybody keeps on making all the time.","parent":"13995298","id":"13995703"}
{"by":"Navarr","time":"1435002769","timestamp":"2015-06-22 19:52:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These aren\u0026#x27;t new problems.  Companies have been solving and dealing with this sort of problem for _years_.  It\u0026#x27;s how a lot of Amazon retailers, and ebay retailers, and NewEgg retailers, and Rakuten.com (Buy.com) retailers, and Google Shopping work.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a billion different extensions just for Magento for \u0026quot;Product Feeds.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eIf you try to make it even more realtime, may god have mercy on your bandwidth.","parent":"9760123","id":"9760768"}
{"by":"skybrian","time":"1455056124","timestamp":"2016-02-09 22:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re arguing that we shouldn\u0026#x27;t do anything, instead of taking a step in the right direction. Email is an old ecosystem, so it\u0026#x27;s not possible to make big improvements all at once.","parent":"11069167","id":"11069235"}
{"by":"iak8god","time":"1514603057","timestamp":"2017-12-30 03:04:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, I\u0026#x27;m imagining, and I\u0026#x27;m sure we\u0026#x27;ll get there eventually, but BTC has a lot of inertia at present.","parent":"16033560","id":"16033603"}
{"by":"ec109685","time":"1522543241","timestamp":"2018-04-01 00:40:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, the point was that there was a “damn the consequences” attitude on the growth team because of some higher calling that more connections equals more revenue equals the ability to build great products.\u003cp\u003eFor goodness sake, at one point they partnered with media companies to automatically share every article you read with your friends. Absurd.","parent":"16725628","id":"16726014"}
{"by":"coroxout","time":"1487426691","timestamp":"2017-02-18 14:04:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"An interesting read. I was just wondering what Moriarty had done since Loom, something the article doesn\u0026#x27;t mention (presumably saved for the future article it hints will feature his exit from the industry), so thanks for a peek into his more recent career.","parent":"13674381","id":"13674817"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1311718223","timestamp":"2011-07-26 22:10:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s important to remember that these are not the way that physicists think about the Higgs boson. This is the way they try to explain it without any equation, and not using the words like \"Lie Group\" or \"Gauge invariant\".  The problem is that explain the Higgs bosons in an easy way is very difficult to. (It is like explaining one of the more obscure posts of Raymond Chen to someone that never had seen a computer.)\u003cp\u003eLast year I took a course about particle physics and we saw the equations of the standard model.\u003cp\u003eI like more the explanation that involves \"pencils\". I think that it is possible to expand the non-technical words and get something like the correct theory for Higgs bosons (for example: pencil-\u0026#62;vector). In this explanation there are a lot of details missing of course, for example: Why the Z and W particles have different mass? How do the electrons get their mass? What is the difference between the waves that rotate the pencils and the waves that stretch the pencils? I think that these simplifications are sensible to get a short explanation.\u003cp\u003eI don’t like the explanation that uses viscous forces. The main problem is that with viscous forces the particles \"lost\" energy and the particles should become still. The real effect of the Higgs field is similar to the apparent effective mass of an object in a fluid. To accelerate the object it is necessary to accelerate some of the fluid that is around it, so it is more difficult and the object have a bigger apparent mass. This is unrelated to the viscosity and happens even when the fluid has no viscosity.\u003cp\u003eAnother problem with this explanation is that the when the particles move they don’t drag any Higgs bosons (real or virtual). So the mental image is wrong. A possible way to see this is that as the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field is not zero, the particles can \"bounce\" against the vacuum and the result is something in the movement equation that looks like a mass. It sounds strange or even ridiculous, but in the problem is not in the equations, but in the \"translations\" to non-technical words.","parent":"2808544","id":"2809690"}
{"by":"gecko","time":"1381418266","timestamp":"2013-10-10 15:17:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;ve historically ignored Smalltalk due to its ecosystem or non-native UIs, I\u0026#x27;d like to suggest you take a look at Amber (\u003ca href=\"http://amber-lang.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;amber-lang.net\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e), a Smalltalk that runs on Node and works great for web dev.","parent":"6525912","id":"6528178"}
{"by":"gcbw2","time":"1521858227","timestamp":"2018-03-24 02:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Should have fixed the easier problem first. The \u0026#x27;searchability\u0026#x27; of the language name.","parent":"16657385","id":"16664409"}
{"by":"jcastro","time":"1394982684","timestamp":"2014-03-16 15:11:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This would be worse on laptops. It\u0026#x27;s braindead easy to just snag an Intel-based laptop and know everything will work out of the box. (Other than the Poulsbo netbooks generally speaking they\u0026#x27;ve done a great job supporting Linux on their hardware).\u003cp\u003eWith AMD laptops you might end up with a Broadcom wireless card and an AMD GPU.","parent":"7409568","id":"7409667"}
{"by":"figital","time":"1344446118","timestamp":"2012-08-08 17:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"very nice i've been hoping for this for a long time ... and will be giving this consideration when my current crunchbang desktop needs a reinstall: \u003ca href=\"http://figital.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/xubuntu_with_a_.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://figital.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/xubuntu_with_a_.html\u003c/a\u003e (hoping to see more javascript hooks now in the XFCE widgets)","parent":"4356197","id":"4356718"}
{"by":"conradfr","time":"1384801331","timestamp":"2013-11-18 19:02:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hate this tab design so much. I hate it with a passion since the first release of Chrome. And I don\u0026#x27;t even know why :)\u003cp\u003eSo I\u0026#x27;m quite sad to see it landing in Firefox.","parent":"6755650","id":"6756148"}
{"by":"anthonyb","time":"1320318779","timestamp":"2011-11-03 11:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The iPhone keyboard is somewhat painful to use, but for rm -rf /tmp/build-2011-* it suffices.\u003cp\u003eIs it just me, or does the thought of typing rm -rf on an iPhone keyboard sound a little... dangerous?","parent":"3186476","id":"3191189"}
{"by":"thesethings","time":"1267657337","timestamp":"2010-03-03 23:02:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am lukewarm on this specific design, but am totally happy and excited by how ambitious this all is (not just the theme, but the logos, collateral, etc.)\u003cp\u003eI \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e Canonical and Ubuntu to kick butt. Mark seems like he's really making an effort to be a \"product\" person, which open source could use more of. Bravo!  (And this has always been reflected in Ubuntu, which I really appreciate.)\u003cp\u003eSome nits: The new font is a step backward. The softness of the old font was both distinct, unique, AND comfortable.  The new one is not as unique. And I don't think will age so well. (Plus, fonts and logos are not something that need an overhaul as often as themes and campaigns. I just think it was maybe too soon to overhaul the font. It was a strong brand.)\u003cp\u003eI LOVE the new colors. Yeah, there's an Apple overlap, but I don't think \"APPLE!\" as soon as I see it.\u003cp\u003eWindow controls on the left: I don't like it. I have desktops on all three major OS's, so it's not because I'm trained for one way or the other.  There's just something that feels better about them being on the right.\u003cp\u003eOverall: I'm giving it all a chance, and will jump in with both feet when it's released, without undoing the major changes.\nThe main point here is: They really care and have a vision.  Whenever somebody makes a tool/OS/webapp/meal with a really specific vision, i always give it the benefit of the doubt, and try it THEIR way, not bending to my preferences or instinct to add salt/take off the tomato/go to my favorite theme/etc.  When I don't try stuff with that trust, i often miss out.  I hope Linux users give it a fair shot, even if stuff feels funny at first.","parent":"1165122","id":"1165494"}
{"by":"r_smart","time":"1473775858","timestamp":"2016-09-13 14:10:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for that, it\u0026#x27;s an interesting difference from my own opinion, and totally understandable. I don\u0026#x27;t like it because it clearly (to me) is a censorship of art, and famous art at that. It violates principles of free speech as I understand it (from the US).\u003cp\u003eBut the angle of it being an American company meddling in European politics is also an important idea. For what it\u0026#x27;s worth, I doubt they care about the picture\u0026#x27;s portrayal of America so much as the simple fact that it\u0026#x27;s a naked child.\u003cp\u003eThere seems to be a fine line between diplomacy and meddling that hasn\u0026#x27;t been going too well lately.","parent":"12487552","id":"12488365"}
{"by":"wallflower","time":"1307287851","timestamp":"2011-06-05 15:30:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having graduated from grade school many decades before NCLB, I fear that adults are irrevocably changing education for the worse. Test taking isn't learning, yet it the main priority for many schools (especially poor ones).","parent":"2622154","id":"2622171"}
{"by":"TheRealDunkirk","time":"1500659377","timestamp":"2017-07-21 17:49:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Must be a 4K\u0026#x2F;5K thing?","parent":"14822387","id":"14822441"}
{"by":"Kiro","time":"1374313899","timestamp":"2013-07-20 09:51:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use NetBeans for everything and this looks really good.","parent":"6074626","id":"6074784"}
{"by":"Fjolsvith","time":"1520173354","timestamp":"2018-03-04 14:22:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Typical complaint of how the election of a conservative president is the demise of all that is held dear.","parent":"16514765","id":"16514798"}
{"by":"btilly","time":"1265652613","timestamp":"2010-02-08 18:10:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eBut every happy marriage is founded on that each finds the other beautiful.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eReally?  That doesn't accord with my experience, or any actual research that I've read.  The conclusion of the research that I've read is that appearance generally matters more to men, and less to women.  And anecdotal experience suggests that the initial infatuation fades in perhaps 7 years or so, and after that looks don't help that much.\u003cp\u003eNot that you're likely to believe me.  After all I've only been married 20 years, so what could I know?","parent":"1109617","id":"1110253"}
{"by":"wmil","time":"1415223075","timestamp":"2014-11-05 21:31:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can see why they did that.  Null\u0026#x2F;undefined checks in templates are messy and ugly, and there are a lot of cases where objects on the scope won\u0026#x27;t be ready when the scoped element is first rendered.\u003cp\u003eTemplates shouldn\u0026#x27;t be throwing exceptions for something like customer.name when customer is null.  Angular\u0026#x27;s rendering tries to do something sane by default in a very common case.\u003cp\u003eIf it really bothers you, you can easily write your own click-log-error directive that writes to the console if the function isn\u0026#x27;t defined.\u003cp\u003eActually thanks to Angular\u0026#x27;s DI system you can replace the base ng-click with one that does throw an error.","parent":"8564084","id":"8564384"}
{"by":"marcusjt","time":"1501602349","timestamp":"2017-08-01 15:45:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also Facebook Lite\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=com.facebook.lite\u0026amp;hl=en_GB\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;play.google.com\u0026#x2F;store\u0026#x2F;apps\u0026#x2F;details?id=com.facebook.l...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if Play Store won\u0026#x27;t let you install it then download \u0026amp; install manually from here\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.apkmirror.com\u0026#x2F;apk\u0026#x2F;facebook-2\u0026#x2F;lite\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.apkmirror.com\u0026#x2F;apk\u0026#x2F;facebook-2\u0026#x2F;lite\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14901699","id":"14901952"}
{"by":"dahart","time":"1481728490","timestamp":"2016-12-14 15:14:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wasn\u0026#x27;t given the attribution when I heard about this, it\u0026#x27;s nice to see the face behind it. Not sure I can even tie my shoes the old way anymore, I\u0026#x27;ve never done it once since learning Ian\u0026#x27;s knot. Every once in a while someone observant will see me doing it and say, \u0026quot;whoa, WHAT?\u0026quot; I do get a kick out of telling people I re-learned how to tie my shoes on the internet.","parent":"13176150","id":"13176498"}
{"by":"ashelmire","time":"1542245480","timestamp":"2018-11-15 01:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m an east coaster that moved to the west coast for 8 years as an adult - and I have a large number of friends who have moved to the bay area from the east coast. As in, I could literally name fifty of them.\u003cp\u003eIs it expensive? Sure. But it\u0026#x27;s still pretty easy to move if you don\u0026#x27;t have a family tying you down. Moving anywhere is a pain, but people do it.","parent":"18453777","id":"18456126"}
{"by":"itchynosedev","time":"1473775729","timestamp":"2016-09-13 14:08:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s ironic since I can\u0026#x27;t escape ads promoting Banksy exposition in one of the hgih porifle expo houses.","parent":"12487845","id":"12488346"}
{"by":"snprbob86","time":"1291702430","timestamp":"2010-12-07 06:13:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like someone implemented this for Chromium as well:\n\u003ca href=\"http://codereview.chromium.org/1591027/show\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://codereview.chromium.org/1591027/show\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm not sure if it is main Chrome builds yet or not. Anyone know the status of this?","parent":"1978140","id":"1978193"}
{"by":"elemeno","time":"1359131067","timestamp":"2013-01-25 16:24:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get this as well. While it's been a long time since I've dined out somewhere nice alone (somehow the awkwardness doesn't quite apply when you're somewhere mid-range at lunch time, or at stopping off at a bar for a burger and a beer and some along time), it's always felt a touch awkward.\u003cp\u003eI guess it's because food is powerfully social. Whether its the idea of breading bread with a stranger when you're travelling, or eating dinner with your family, or taking your other half to a nice restaurant, there's very strong social imperative when it comes to eating - and it's one which exists in pretty much every culture that I can think of.","parent":"5116085","id":"5116145"}
{"by":"johngalt","time":"1484925187","timestamp":"2017-01-20 15:13:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Considering your goals and price range. I\u0026#x27;d recommend shopping the refurb market. Specifically business laptops that are off lease. Bigcorp IT departments tend to cycle their hardware every 3-4 years and flood the market with used cheap\u0026#x2F;good used laptops. They won\u0026#x27;t be \u0026#x27;ultrabooks\u0026#x27; but they will be cheap, reliable and easy to maintain.\u003cp\u003eSomething like a Dell E6430 would be a good bet.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dellrefurbished.com\u0026#x2F;laptops\u0026#x2F;dell-latitude-e6430-30101.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dellrefurbished.com\u0026#x2F;laptops\u0026#x2F;dell-latitude-e6430-...\u003c/a\u003e?\u003cp\u003eKeep in mind that raw stats\u0026#x2F;specs aren\u0026#x27;t everything. I\u0026#x27;ve seen countless people held up by hardware issues that have nothing to do with the speed of the processor.","parent":"13443253","id":"13444332"}
{"by":"yeukhon","time":"1491023741","timestamp":"2017-04-01 05:15:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just FYI. Those Chinese characters are really really really rarely used in any writings. In fact, anyone with Chinese reading compression will tell you those are gibberish words and none of the words make any sense.","parent":"14010185","id":"14010580"}
{"by":"js2","time":"1351862416","timestamp":"2012-11-02 13:20:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previous discussion[1] from when the paper was press released[2]:\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4260778\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4260778\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http://www.uni-kiel.de/aktuell/pm/2012/2012-212-aerographit-e.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.uni-kiel.de/aktuell/pm/2012/2012-212-aerographit-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4731999","id":"4732473"}
{"by":"davidbhead","time":"1500489724","timestamp":"2017-07-19 18:42:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Appreciate your feedback here. Can definitely see ways we can improve the messaging. I know you\u0026#x27;re asking some questions to probe our thinking but I\u0026#x27;ll answer them here anyway for clarity.\u003cp\u003eMarketplaces are good because a lot of times, users want someone to just do it for them rather than teaching themselves with docs, tutorials, and forums. There\u0026#x27;s always a time tradeoff and sometimes it\u0026#x27;s worth it to just pay someone. This is why there are \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;experts.mailchimp.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;experts.mailchimp.com\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;partners\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;partners\u003c/a\u003e, etc. We make adding this layer service more accessible to SaaS companies–and it\u0026#x27;s a 10x better service for the end user because of our technology.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#x27;Expert\u0026#x27; is our term for the freelancer. They\u0026#x27;re an expert of the software itself. So a Google AdWords expert, or a Mailchimp Expert.","parent":"14806642","id":"14806751"}
{"by":"Vivtek","time":"1330319824","timestamp":"2012-02-27 05:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd say the wording of Rumblefish's reply implies that there are \u003ci\u003eRumblefish\u003c/i\u003e humans involved in the review process.","parent":"3637683","id":"3637872"}
{"by":"ScotterC","time":"1291616425","timestamp":"2010-12-06 06:20:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting times when people are targeted because of their intelligence in a given matter","parent":"1973982","id":"1974185"}
{"by":"rm999","time":"1353610677","timestamp":"2012-11-22 18:57:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't like that definition because Excel as software hasn't scaled with computer hardware. Excel isn't a database, and isn't designed to be one.\u003cp\u003eTo put it into perspective, people were working with 1M+ record datasets in the 1990s. I tried loading a 300k record file in Excel 2010 the other day and it crashed.","parent":"4819346","id":"4819686"}
{"by":"p0nce","time":"1509034408","timestamp":"2017-10-26 16:13:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GlassDoor can serve that goal","parent":"15559953","id":"15560218"}
{"by":"marknutter","time":"1365601954","timestamp":"2013-04-10 13:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the OP is asking where the \"shitstorm\" is.","parent":"5525082","id":"5525114"}
{"by":"hatsunearu","time":"1467748034","timestamp":"2016-07-05 19:47:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More like transparent Legos. Discrete transistor circuits have terrible switching characteristics.","parent":"12038296","id":"12039015"}
{"by":"ihsw","time":"1440435315","timestamp":"2015-08-24 16:55:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because the pressure should go in the opposite direction -- they should have to find users that want to be spied on, we shouldn\u0026#x27;t have to find operating systems that don\u0026#x27;t spy on us.\u003cp\u003eI wouldn\u0026#x27;t otherwise have used Windows had I known they\u0026#x27;d be shoving their telemetry reporting down my throat.","parent":"10111167","id":"10111207"}
{"by":"lfxyz","time":"1535006535","timestamp":"2018-08-23 06:42:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I discovered Tinariwen on a CD in my university library about 10 years ago, I had all but forgotten about them until I got a notification they were playing in Amsterdam earlier this year.\u003cp\u003eThey were absolutely incredible live, and I was really surprised at how young the audience were (especially for a band that have been going since the 70s).\u003cp\u003eThanks for the recommendation for Bombino, it\u0026#x27;s heading straight into my Spotify queue.","parent":"17821217","id":"17825095"}
{"by":"bigsassy","time":"1302132537","timestamp":"2011-04-06 23:28:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd like to contact you, but there isn't anything in your profile.  How can I get in touch?","parent":"2417402","id":"2417457"}
{"by":"paulhauggis","time":"1332606897","timestamp":"2012-03-24 16:34:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The title was changed, and it's wrong.  The conditions are bad (what warehouse job isn't?).  But, I didn't see anything illegal in this article.\u003cp\u003eIf you don't want a job like the one described, educate yourself (the Internet now gives anyone the ability to learn some sort of skill for free).\u003cp\u003eThe women in the article is certainly mentally and physically capable of learning a new skill and getting a better job.  My question is: Why isn't she?","parent":"3749416","id":"3749793"}
{"by":"leoplct","time":"1388317793","timestamp":"2013-12-29 11:49:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A TV Guide\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://zapping.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zapping.io\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6972499","id":"6979307"}
{"by":"icey","time":"1279589409","timestamp":"2010-07-20 01:30:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was just thinking about how much faster HN has been lately. It's pretty rare to get a timeout, or even have to wait for a page to load. It's one of those things that I guess you don't really notice until the other sites you visit start getting slow again (ahem, reddit).\u003cp\u003eAnyways, thanks for keeping it fast!","parent":"1525323","id":"1530852"}
{"by":"altay","time":"1221814754","timestamp":"2008-09-19 08:59:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How will you find them?","parent":"308755","id":"309098"}
{"by":"visarga","time":"1467955141","timestamp":"2016-07-08 05:19:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a painting. The value is in its esthetic, which has not degraded over the 40 years.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I think all damages should be capped at the original price point, 100$, even in the absurd case the judge sides with the buyer.","parent":"12052770","id":"12053666"}
{"by":"akh","time":"1409777781","timestamp":"2014-09-03 20:56:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Santa Barbara, California; Edinburgh, Scotland. Full Time.\u003cp\u003eCheck out \u003ca href=\"http://eng.rightscale.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eng.rightscale.com\u003c/a\u003e to get a flavour of what we do\u003cp\u003eRemote: we\u0026#x27;ll consider but depends on position and candidate\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: depends on the candidate\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: Ruby, Go, Cassandra, MySQL, AWS services... we\u0026#x27;re a tech company and use a lot of different technologies\u003cp\u003ePositions: \u003ca href=\"http://www.rightscale.com/jobs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.rightscale.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail: recruiting@rightscale.com","parent":"8252715","id":"8265421"}
{"by":"hyh1048576","time":"1475032877","timestamp":"2016-09-28 03:21:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great news.\u003cp\u003eBTW is there anyway to make LuaTeX compile faster?","parent":"12594705","id":"12595221"}
{"by":"tdmackey","time":"1274052558","timestamp":"2010-05-16 23:29:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To speculate that they would be interested just because you don't like their OS and think their development team is too slow is also incorrect.\u003cp\u003eI will agree that their OS is lacking in many areas compared to many of the newcomers in this space, but that doesn't mean they run out and buy another failed phone OS for a whole lot of money in exchange a few features their rapidly growing team could implement or a smaller acquisition like their purchase of Torch Mobile could deliver. RIM's main focus is also more enterprise customers than consumer and the feature set demands of their customers are a little different.","parent":"1353016","id":"1353049"}
{"by":"amalag","time":"1303483011","timestamp":"2011-04-22 14:36:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey this is a great app, congrats, a great idea and great execution!","parent":"2473868","id":"2474176"}
{"by":"ilamont","time":"1222725852","timestamp":"2008-09-29 22:04:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just a quick thing to add: I spoke with the CEO of Ancestry.com after I wrote this article, and he brought up an important fact relating to the digitization of public records: OCR technology doesn't work well with handwritten records from disparate sources, such as the forms used by census takers. The company actually uses human transcription services outside the U.S. to transcribe many records.\u003cp\u003eI'll be posting a follow-up article later this week about this issue.","parent":"318660","id":"318913"}
{"by":"yanda","time":"1380740061","timestamp":"2013-10-02 18:54:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep!","parent":"6484058","id":"6484442"}
{"by":"NeedMoreTea","time":"1536151015","timestamp":"2018-09-05 12:36:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The looming cliff of possible extinction becoming visible. Of course at that point it\u0026#x27;s way past too late.","parent":"17917251","id":"17917328"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1527278734","timestamp":"2018-05-25 20:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not affiliated with them.","parent":"17147338","id":"17157403"}
{"by":"dangero","time":"1443510778","timestamp":"2015-09-29 07:12:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the amazing things to me about Thumbtack is the new user on-boarding experience. If you\u0026#x27;re building a product that needs user signups you should check it out. Basically if you come there looking for someone to help you mount something, they take you straight there and only ask for your email address so they can send you an update when they\u0026#x27;ve found someone to do the job. What they\u0026#x27;ve done in the background is create an account for you, but they just never asked you to create a password. It\u0026#x27;s a small detail in the overall service offering, but I think it probably increases their user retention rate quite a bit.","parent":"10294717","id":"10294974"}
{"by":"pspeter3","time":"1502239188","timestamp":"2017-08-09 00:39:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve thought about Cloud Functions but Lambda may be better.","parent":"14964476","id":"14964494"}
{"by":"crdb","time":"1465522604","timestamp":"2016-06-10 01:36:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This definition of selfishness (which I agree is the most consistent) was strongly associated with Ayn Rand\u0026#x27;s [1]. Having grown up in Europe, reading her works was quite a shock.\u003cp\u003eThe only thing I\u0026#x27;d add is that in my experience \u0026quot;short-sighted self-interested decisions\u0026quot; are made by people who do not understand externalities, and\u0026#x2F;or who favour a locally optimal but globally sub-optimal scenario (defectors in the Prisonner\u0026#x27;s Dilemma). \u0026quot;Socialist\u0026quot; policies like a congestion charge or pollution regulation are thus consistent with individual rights and an individualist philosophy.\u003cp\u003e[1] see: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com\u0026#x2F;lexicon\u0026#x2F;selfishness.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com\u0026#x2F;lexicon\u0026#x2F;selfishness.html\u003c/a\u003e for quotes from her various books.","parent":"11871350","id":"11873719"}
{"by":"6stringmerc","time":"1454618863","timestamp":"2016-02-04 20:47:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably akin to The Enlightenment following the Dark Ages, provided my generation can revise the programming of selfishness, greed, and war-mongering international meddling that was presented by our elders. It\u0026#x27;s honestly not a high bar to clear. It just takes a revision of principles that is deployed through action (and voting).","parent":"11029221","id":"11037090"}
{"by":"3chelon","time":"1545328027","timestamp":"2018-12-20 17:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, thinking about this, I\u0026#x27;d assumed the drones must be autonomous or controlled via cellular networks, to make them harder to trace or jam.\u003cp\u003eBut now I\u0026#x27;m thinking they\u0026#x27;re being controlled via more standard remote frequencies, and they\u0026#x27;re being left there while the authorities home in on them. That\u0026#x27;s the only explanation I can come up with for not having taken them out by now.","parent":"18726995","id":"18727135"}
{"by":"divegeek","time":"1421329419","timestamp":"2015-01-15 13:43:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No need to take his word for it.  If you look at the Austrian school theories you\u0026#x27;ll see that those things aren\u0026#x27;t accounted for.  Another crucial element that isn\u0026#x27;t considered is velocity of money, and the concomitant effects on money supply.  The Austrian school has a lot of important insights, but it omits several important factors.  It has a good and useful set of ideas, but it\u0026#x27;s not the grand unified theory of economics that many libertarians (like me) wish it were.","parent":"8891821","id":"8892411"}
{"by":"samBergeron","time":"1493213999","timestamp":"2017-04-26 13:39:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not only banks, I took an internship at an insurance company a couple of years ago that had their entire mainframe written in COBOL.\u003cp\u003eNot only do they have a hard time finding people to replace their retiring veteran developers, but for smaller companies (like this one) that can\u0026#x27;t afford to pay ridiculous salaries for a top notch COBOL dev, they have to settle for mediocre aging developers that can write COBOL and are on the job market.\u003cp\u003eThese devs are getting paid good money to work on critical systems and aren\u0026#x27;t skilled enough to properly maintain them. It would be so much cheaper for these companies to pay better devs to do more recent tech. But it\u0026#x27;s hard for them to get out of that loop. Makes me rethink where I have my money.","parent":"14202585","id":"14202807"}
{"by":"jstimpfle","time":"1508517830","timestamp":"2017-10-20 16:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I check for all the things that the code allows to happen, because sooner or later they will happen.\u003cp\u003eSo if you know it will happen, why don\u0026#x27;t you fix the bug instead of \u0026quot;recovering\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; So if something shouldn\u0026#x27;t happen the best course is to make it impossible in the code.\u003cp\u003eExactly what I was suggesting. But adding a check is not \u0026quot;making it impossible\u0026quot;. You need to go to the call site and fix the invalid call.","parent":"15517132","id":"15517158"}
{"by":"sillysaurus","time":"1373415067","timestamp":"2013-07-10 00:11:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For what it\u0026#x27;s worth, I agree.  But in this instance, Valve is the last bastion of hope for game programmers in the industry to work somewhere whose owners don\u0026#x27;t try to exploit us as money fountains.  If there\u0026#x27;s a place whose culture is worth preserving, it\u0026#x27;s Valve\u0026#x27;s, even at the cost of this particular project.","parent":"6016511","id":"6016563"}
{"by":"jcelerier","time":"1503581665","timestamp":"2017-08-24 13:34:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; In Node, you are not supposed to block the event-loop that runs in that single thread and queues the tasks.\u003cp\u003ewell, sure, but ten years ago it was already a given that one would just spawn one event loop per thread and have them communicate with messages, so why is it so hard for node ?","parent":"15089908","id":"15089938"}
{"by":"dpark","time":"1481315392","timestamp":"2016-12-09 20:29:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s probably the result of using a VPN. Google undoubtedly knows that lots of accounts registered through VPNs are spammy.\u003cp\u003eI just registered billyjiminy123@gmail in a private browsing session and didn\u0026#x27;t get prompted. I even sent an email without being prompted for verification.","parent":"13141390","id":"13141568"}
{"by":"yeukhon","time":"1382555223","timestamp":"2013-10-23 19:07:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dry ice bombs are not harmless. It is harmless in an open field and you stay several feet away from it. If the dry ice container is big, the explosion will be bigger. A small water bottle might be harmless (maybe a few minor cuts). But this guy did not just set one dry ice off. He planned several dry ice bombs.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lax-dry-ice-explosions-airport-employee-arrested-in-case-20131015,0,4216277.story#axzz2iZaIqOt1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.latimes.com\u0026#x2F;local\u0026#x2F;lanow\u0026#x2F;la-me-ln-lax-dry-ice-expl...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine this thing exploded right when someone passed by, the pieces could cut the person. Put your hand in a dry ice bomb and see what happen. If it doesn\u0026#x27;t hurt you, I will change my mind about \u0026quot;dry ice bombs are harmless.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAnd even my five years old cousin would know airport is not a backyard for prank. Do the same in front of WhiteHouse and you will get shot. If you play a prank in the WhiteHouse, do you call that a prank?\u003cp\u003eIf I do this in a kindergarten backyard, or next to your car, what do you think? Still harmless? Carry this dry ice with you to the airplane, do we call that a bomb?","parent":"6598262","id":"6600905"}
{"by":"aetherson","time":"1400631169","timestamp":"2014-05-21 00:12:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is not \u0026quot;the problem with buying in SF.\u0026quot;  Earthquakes big enough to damage houses are very rare, and much of the value of the property is in the land, not the structure.","parent":"7775940","id":"7775980"}
{"by":"nfd","time":"1449094543","timestamp":"2015-12-02 22:15:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Raise awareness, spread the word about Tor. If they start running attacks against Tor, start an uproar. And pitch Tor as an elementary security measure; say \u0026quot;do this to make your communications more secure.\u0026quot; It isn\u0026#x27;t perfect, but maybe it\u0026#x27;s better than nothing?","parent":"10666171","id":"10666261"}
{"by":"hnnnnng","time":"1395280933","timestamp":"2014-03-20 02:02:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Uh I don\u0026#x27;t think you understand the way middle eastern labor works.\u003cp\u003eQatar is not a poor third world country. Flooding money into a country swimming in oil is not going to help laborers from actual third world countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, India etc. They are taking advantage of ignorant people from third world countries. I grew up in the middle east and I know the way they treat people from the countries I listed. They TAKE YOUR PASSPORT and hold it hostage until you finish work. Everyone that is a citizen is involved in this from the top to the bottom. They don\u0026#x27;t even pay you enough for you to BUY a ticket to go home. IT IS ALMOST SLAVERY.\u003cp\u003eAnd theres stupid fucks made of ignorance like you that actually say that you don\u0026#x27;t fucking care. I suggest you do research before you spew more disgusting, poisonous shit from both ends.","parent":"7433313","dead":true,"id":"7433356"}
{"by":"ugh","time":"1294995405","timestamp":"2011-01-14 08:56:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Programmers use monospaced fonts. (Undoubtedly for good reasons.) Nobody else does.\u003cp\u003e(I’m actually no programmer and I like to use Letter Gothic – a monospaced font – for my personal written correspondence on paper. I don’t want my letters to look like they were sent from some corporation and the monospaced font makes the letters more personal without being childish. I would guess that I’m in a small minority, though.)","parent":"2102973","id":"2102995"}
{"by":"baq","time":"1485986765","timestamp":"2017-02-01 22:06:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i googled \u0026quot;normit transformations\u0026quot;. the only non-publication link on the first page was (i can only assume) an automatic japanese translation...","parent":"13542870","id":"13545820"}
{"by":"Zigurd","time":"1377214163","timestamp":"2013-08-22 23:29:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Excluding the most rarified fine art, every creative endeavor is a balancing act of money, materials, time, and effort. Good taste and a sense of art is going to guide you to the best result that balances all those factors. What\u0026#x27;s different about software is that \u003ci\u003eeveryone\u003c/i\u003e who makes software for public consumption needs taste and artistry.\u003cp\u003eOnce you have your creation, you just flip a switch and as many editions as anyone would want can be created. This makes the boundary between art and commerce in software almost friction-free, unlike, say, designing a car where a factory costing hundreds of millions of dollars  is interposed between design and replication.\u003cp\u003eThere are only a handful of big car producers and they only collectively need something on the order of hundreds to low thousands of trained designers. To these designers, art is part of their education. That\u0026#x27;s just not going to be the case for software developers.","parent":"6256736","id":"6260760"}
{"by":"jamesteow","time":"1311268362","timestamp":"2011-07-21 17:12:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would be so down for number one. How annoying is it to go to your seat and have the overhead compartment seriously packed.","parent":"2790172","id":"2790308"}
{"by":"zhaodaxiong","time":"1393210049","timestamp":"2014-02-24 02:47:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BS...","parent":"7288429","id":"7288845"}
{"by":"zamalek","time":"1516911937","timestamp":"2018-01-25 20:25:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn\u0026#x27;t agree with moving it ahead as much as 30 seconds for North Korea. NK resulting in a \u003ci\u003edoomsday scenario\u003c/i\u003e (which is different to mass casualties) requires a substantial chain of unfortunate events after the two idiots push their buttons.\u003cp\u003eA nuclear arsenal isn\u0026#x27;t the only deterrent between US and Russia. Both countries have decades of experience with nuclear defense. NK is relatively (or possibly absolutely) defenseless. While there would be enormous casualties  (which is horrific and sad but is not \u003ci\u003edoomsday\u003c/i\u003e), the fight would be extremely one-sided. Nobody else, including Putin, wants to get involved in a global nuclear catastrophe. At worst, US would be slapped with consequences six-ways-from-Sunday: think Germany after WW2. With a sane president, US wouldn\u0026#x27;t even have to use nukes to quash NK and, you never know, someone might actually calm the president if that time comes.\u003cp\u003eHowever, there is always a possibility - a nuke is sabotaged and lands in Russia, or something.","parent":"16232787","id":"16234299"}
{"by":"erdevs","time":"1470169223","timestamp":"2016-08-02 20:20:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is good news in that I generally feel any setback for an apparent patent troll is a good thing.\u003cp\u003eBut this isn\u0026#x27;t too broad.  Looks like a \u003ci\u003every\u003c/i\u003e specific issue to this \u003ci\u003etrial\u003c/i\u003e... not even this patent claim or case, let alone a broader implication for patent claims in general.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like VirnetX\u0026#x27;s lawyers simply referenced a previous case too often in the judge\u0026#x27;s estimation, and so he\u0026#x27;s throwing the verdict out, meaning a retrial would be necessary.  Case doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to set any precedent (or, what precedent it does set on referencing previous trials might cut both ways for patent plaintiffs and defendants).  Noting regarding merits of claims or anything as far as I can tell from the reporting.\u003cp\u003eIf anyone more expert can weigh in or correct, that\u0026#x27;d be appreciated too!","parent":"12212136","id":"12213042"}
{"by":"mathieuh","time":"1396734224","timestamp":"2014-04-05 21:43:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The level of support for this Eich character is truly mind-boggling. Here is a man who is against LGBT rights, going as far as to pay money to support a law denying them rights, and he is being sympathised with because but but muh free speech.","parent":"7538438","id":"7538572"}
{"by":"KitDuncan","time":"1511185627","timestamp":"2017-11-20 13:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not suggesting you ingest the soil bacteria, for it to produce the B12 inside your body. If you were to ingest small amounts of soil (on fruit or in water) it should already contain B12. I don\u0026#x27;t know why anybody would do that, if they could just take dirt (hehe) cheap supplements instead though.","parent":"15739679","id":"15739805"}
{"by":"robinsloan","time":"1340154717","timestamp":"2012-06-20 01:11:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, many! On the submission form, I even referred folks to Wikipedia's list of prime numbers but, alas.","parent":"4134648","id":"4135143"}
{"by":"imron","time":"1428825427","timestamp":"2015-04-12 07:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Required in the \u0026#x27;it\u0026#x27;s a good idea because it will make the web more secure and make your customers trust you\u0026#x27; sense, not required in the sense that it\u0026#x27;s something the API enforces.","parent":"9362407","id":"9362567"}
{"by":"wheels","time":"1238496636","timestamp":"2009-03-31 10:50:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A couple folks mentioned I should post it here, full details here:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9092\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://arclanguage.org/item?id=9092\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd this feature request:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92734\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92734\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"539902","id":"539904"}
{"by":"maoistinquisitr","time":"1517255161","timestamp":"2018-01-29 19:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"All analysis I\u0026#x27;ve seen indicates pretty much the opposite. Electricity is way less useful than diesel fuel. Our civilization critically runs on diesel and no one has figured out an even theoretically viable way to substitute in batteries where diesel is used in logistics, resource extraction, and pumping.","parent":"16259994","id":"16260099"}
{"by":"simonh","time":"1484817113","timestamp":"2017-01-19 09:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you think these micro-programs work? They haven\u0026#x27;t got a publicly published API, but they don\u0026#x27;t need one.","parent":"13433682","id":"13434279"}
{"by":"PaulHoule","time":"1463613098","timestamp":"2016-05-18 23:11:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fundamentally why Zuckerburg, Gates, Walton, etc. got rich so fast was not tthey got control of a revenue stream but instead he was able to give themselves stock in a company in an early phase which then went public.\u003cp\u003eThis particular institution goes back a lot longer than the Reagan administration but it is something that can\u0026#x27;t be taken for granted.","parent":"11726600","id":"11726764"}
{"by":"damian2000","time":"1546328930","timestamp":"2019-01-01 07:48:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I went to a Google Flutter meetup a few weeks ago and was impressed by it ... key advantage in my view is that its skinnable and builds its UI from scratch - a lot of apps will be ok with that and in fact its a bonus if they look exactly the same on both major platforms.","parent":"18798989","id":"18799385"}
{"by":"flaie","time":"1424439959","timestamp":"2015-02-20 13:45:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It looks great, I will surely give it a try on of my parent-in-law\u0026#x27;s restaurant website.","parent":"9080069","id":"9080345"}
{"by":"jscampbell05","time":"1473433966","timestamp":"2016-09-09 15:12:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve fixed it up so it has at least the minimal styling from the main website.","parent":"12462880","id":"12462942"}
{"by":"fenwick67","time":"1525192914","timestamp":"2018-05-01 16:41:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find this hard to swallow.  I doubt Joe Sixpack cares that much about books and silent films from the twenties.","parent":"16968325","id":"16968689"}
{"by":"pquerna","time":"1266815493","timestamp":"2010-02-22 05:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Several wordpress developers, both code and themes, were tired of the WP several years ago, and started the Harbari Project, which is an Apache Licensed blogging platform:\n\u003ca href=\"http://habariproject.org/en/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://habariproject.org/en/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey left the wordpress project, and picked the ASL license because of their experiences in wordpress.","parent":"1141489","id":"1141998"}
{"by":"yyyyip","time":"1506972116","timestamp":"2017-10-02 19:21:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Bitcoin protocol contains an incrementally diminishing mining reward that prevents endless expansion of mining long term","parent":"15386927","id":"15387037"}
{"by":"nhaehnle","time":"1334827558","timestamp":"2012-04-19 09:25:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Question of understanding: If what you say is true, and it actually does take up to three days to transfer the securities, how can you immediately sell an asset that you just bought a few minutes ago? My understanding of HFT (including from your description) was that this type of thing, i.e. holding an asset for only a few minutes, happens all the time. How can that be possible if the transfer takes as long as you claim it does?","parent":"3858371","id":"3862098"}
{"by":"RoyTyrell","time":"1458414098","timestamp":"2016-03-19 19:01:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess your candidate was ok with volunteering, but it seems like that would very likely violate tax and\u0026#x2F;or labor laws or IRS regulations.","parent":"11291912","id":"11319919"}
{"by":"tectonic","time":"1307077269","timestamp":"2011-06-03 05:01:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their conclusions:\u003cp\u003e\"We find that in regards to performance, C++ wins out by\na large margin. However, it also required the most extensive\ntuning efforts, many of which were done at a level of sophistication that would not be available to the average programmer.\u003cp\u003eScala concise notation and powerful language features allowed for the best optimization of code complexity.\nThe Java version was probably the simplest to implement,\nbut the hardest to analyze for performance. Specifically the\neffects around garbage collection were complicated and very\nhard to tune. Since Scala runs on the JVM, it has the same\nissues.\u003cp\u003eGo offers interesting language features, which also allow\nfor a concise and standardized notation. The compilers for this language are still immature, which reflects in both performance and binary sizes.\"","parent":"2615096","id":"2615211"}
{"by":"ramblerman","time":"1488445511","timestamp":"2017-03-02 09:05:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have boiled the argument down to one of pure economic utility.\u003cp\u003eLearning a language:\u003cp\u003e- still opens up parts of the world for travel or living.\u003cp\u003e- can give you a different mindset\u0026#x2F;toolset, think a functional programming language vs an OO one albeit not quite that drastic.\u003cp\u003e- is good for the brain going into old age\u003cp\u003eI haven\u0026#x27;t heard any intelligence arguments before, that just seems like an insecurity, and not a reason to learn\u0026#x2F;or not learn a language.","parent":"13769565","id":"13772705"}
{"by":"dozzie","time":"1487373740","timestamp":"2017-02-17 23:22:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I was to decide, it wouldn\u0026#x27;t matter which one. I would rather have the\ncandidate tell me about the projects he\u0026#x27;s proud of (and why he\u0026#x27;s proud) or\nprojects that gave him a big, important lesson (and why).\u003cp\u003eEven if the candidate didn\u0026#x27;t have the degree, it could be of little importance\nif he provided some evidence of skills (completed projects or work experience\nwould be enough).\u003cp\u003eGranted, I haven\u0026#x27;t been in the hiring position for quite long time, so I may\nnot be the best person to ask that.","parent":"13672502","id":"13672579"}
{"by":"Lawtonfogle","time":"1449085570","timestamp":"2015-12-02 19:46:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This isn\u0026#x27;t surprising at all if you see how REM sleep works.  In short, you get more REM sleep in every subsequent cycle (each ~90 minutes), but a significant break between sleep cycles starts over the process.  So getting 9 straight hours of sleep means you get significantly more sleep than getting 6 1.5 blocks.","parent":"10652733","id":"10665318"}
{"by":"unalone","time":"1233767630","timestamp":"2009-02-04 17:13:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Didn't it start off as a dating site? I thought that was why the name was what it was.","parent":"465794","id":"466040"}
{"by":"kelnos","time":"1391132026","timestamp":"2014-01-31 01:33:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How is that at all the case?  The oral contract seemed to be simply, \u0026quot;I own 2\u0026#x2F;3 of the company, and you own 1\u0026#x2F;3\u0026quot;.  There was nothing about forcing the other party to buy out their portion.  There was nothing about any kind of valuation.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure why he didn\u0026#x27;t simply say, \u0026quot;sorry, I don\u0026#x27;t have the means or desire to buy out your portion\u0026quot;.  When you own a part of a private company, you don\u0026#x27;t have any liquidity until you have a buyer.  You can\u0026#x27;t force the existence of a buyer.  In the absence of a contract stating otherwise, the majority owner is under zero obligation to be that buyer.\u003cp\u003eIn the end, he got the other guy to agree to take a certain amount of money and go away.  That may not be what the other guy \u003ci\u003eexpected\u003c/i\u003e when he thought he owned 1\u0026#x2F;3 of the company, but I personally don\u0026#x27;t believe he had any right to expect anything without further terms laid out in writing.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m just glad that it seems like the majority owner managed to get out of the situation without having to destroy the business.","parent":"7154077","id":"7154692"}
{"by":"cft","time":"1522009955","timestamp":"2018-03-25 20:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mine said \u0026quot;use before and after figures for us to prepare the return, but download and save detailed transaction history for the cost basis in case you get audited- they will want it\u0026quot;. I assume I can compute the exact cost basis later and it should match the difference of before and after figures.","parent":"16673931","id":"16674431"}
{"by":"pandasun","time":"1533793350","timestamp":"2018-08-09 05:42:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a non-Facebook link? Facebook is blocked at my work.","parent":"17716098","id":"17721852"}
{"by":"swdunlop","time":"1358647074","timestamp":"2013-01-20 01:57:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The page reminds me of when my wife and I watched Solaris (2002) without realizing our DVD player was on shuffle.  We both enjoyed the nonlinear narrative for a good 45m before we realized what was wrong.\u003cp\u003eFixing the problem seemed to make the movie worse for us.","parent":"5084645","id":"5085642"}
{"by":"downunderman","time":"1520314512","timestamp":"2018-03-06 05:35:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure how serious you are. It reminds me of this \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;m.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;m.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4\u003c/a\u003e .","parent":"16526669","id":"16527090"}
{"by":"zhemao","time":"1481430101","timestamp":"2016-12-11 04:21:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Freedom of speech can also not be legislated upon, you can ban people but they will just move on to exercise it some other place or way. And freedom to insult or berate or \u0026quot;troll\u0026quot; is still speech, it conveys meaning, it cannot be stopped from human spirit no matter how much the majority deem it bad taste.\u003cp\u003eSure, and Imzy believes that you may exercise that right on some other site and not theirs.","parent":"13148728","id":"13149578"}
{"by":"aeturnum","time":"1391552914","timestamp":"2014-02-04 22:28:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am not currently playing EVE and never played it much, so I may be wrong, but:\u003cp\u003e- The bill that went unpaid wasn\u0026#x27;t for a spaceship, it was for the right to control the area (B-R5RB). There\u0026#x27;s no particular explanation in the game, but the fee is relatively small and serves to make \u0026quot;open\u0026quot; the default system state. It\u0026#x27;s even sillier as this took place in \u0026#x27;null sec,\u0026#x27; where the central government is supposed to be powerless. However, a game with the opportunity for mistakes is more interesting than the alternative, so you have sov payments.\u003cp\u003e- There have been several large alliances that nominally controlled most of the game\u0026#x27;s territory (the first was BoB, or band of brothers). The day-to-day mechanics are much more complex than a map shows (as in real life). The fact that your alliance \u0026quot;owns\u0026quot; a system does not mean _that_ much, and managing a large empire quickly becomes a command \u0026amp; control nightmare. Alliances have to repeatedly choose how to respond to various threats, thieves and internal power struggles, all while keeping the players with the keys to the kingdom happy. Large alliances have been brought down by high ranking members stealing large sums of money and abandoning systems for more money or our of boredom. Eventually, the large alliance makes a big mistake (like this case) and the balance of power shifts.","parent":"7180544","id":"7180697"}
{"by":"markstansbury","time":"1282701335","timestamp":"2010-08-25 01:55:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool to see this all in one place. I've been Twitter spammed all day with the news. Looks like it was a great event. The American economy should be proud!","parent":"1631540","id":"1631764"}
{"by":"Samuel_Michon","time":"1320819200","timestamp":"2011-11-09 06:13:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If true, I believe it would be healthy for the mobile web.\u003cp\u003eThere are still developers out there who believe that Adobe will come up with a decent mobile Flash experience, even though it has failed to deliver on those promises for the better part of a decade. If Adobe just comes out says \"Not gonna happen\", we can all move on and invest our time and energy in technologies that actually have a future.","parent":"3214454","id":"3214501"}
{"by":"oskarth","time":"1395434372","timestamp":"2014-03-21 20:39:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While you may be right that future generations will condemn us for them, none of those things are remotely controversial enough. You can say any of them in almost any setting and people will mostly yawn. Many people think prisons should be banished, or at least severely limited (especially US prisons); there are plenty of popular vegetarians out there; assisted suicided is just your average polarizing subject.\u003cp\u003eThis is what pg wrote five years ago, referencing this essay:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust as well I\u0026#x27;ve avoided saying most of the \u0026quot;things you can\u0026#x27;t say,\u0026quot; or 90% of the people who read that essay and think \u0026quot;hear, hear\u0026quot; would hate me instead....\u003c/i\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=255492\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=255492\u003c/a\u003e)","parent":"7444326","id":"7444772"}
{"by":"dmix","time":"1353533985","timestamp":"2012-11-21 21:39:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I wonder if at some point in the future there's demand for a C level exec with populist charisma in the megacorps.\u003cp\u003eInteresting point. It's true corporations tend to hire celebs strictly from promotional pieces. But it's easy to see past the phoniness of the message because you know they were hired to say it.\u003cp\u003eBut if that person was an executive who worked directly in the business it would definitely add credibility.","parent":"4816424","id":"4816441"}
{"by":"grzm","time":"1481524697","timestamp":"2016-12-12 06:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Speculation: China\u0026#x27;s power needs are growing more rapidly, so there\u0026#x27;s more additional power coming online in China. While, in the US, power consumption growth is slower. A larger percentage of overall power sources need to be replaced, where there\u0026#x27;s less pressure to do so.","parent":"13156093","id":"13156107"}
{"by":"devrandomguy","time":"1501101459","timestamp":"2017-07-26 20:37:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the site guidelines (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsguidelines.html\u003c/a\u003e):\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.\u003cp\u003eFor the record, I\u0026#x27;m not the one who downvoted the parent for an honest question.","parent":"14859612","id":"14860085"}
{"by":"alan","time":"1352674962","timestamp":"2012-11-11 23:02:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks. I must be missing the movie ads recently.","parent":"4770726","id":"4770881"}
{"by":"berbec","time":"1513395352","timestamp":"2017-12-16 03:35:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”\n― George Orwell, 1984","parent":"15937017","id":"15937335"}
{"by":"eviluncle","time":"1448829659","timestamp":"2015-11-29 20:40:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know of these two projects that offer some guidance to combining RoR with React:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;shakacode\u0026#x2F;react_on_rails\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;shakacode\u0026#x2F;react_on_rails\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;netguru\u0026#x2F;react_webpack_rails\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;netguru\u0026#x2F;react_webpack_rails\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasically, you introduce webpack as part of your dev\u0026#x2F;build pipeline, it interacts nicely with the asset pipeline.","parent":"10645882","id":"10645985"}
{"by":"lurch_mojoff","time":"1274259385","timestamp":"2010-05-19 08:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But isn't this pretty much what Jobs said in his rant. To quote: \"We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it.\" The way I see it, \"we have ... asked\" implies Apple were at least somewhat open to the idea to include Flash support.","parent":"1359496","id":"1360480"}
{"by":"everybodyknows","time":"1500307703","timestamp":"2017-07-17 16:08:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Further irony: The article tells us \u0026quot;Detoxing is not a thing.\u0026quot;","parent":"14788309","id":"14789819"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1506056094","timestamp":"2017-09-22 04:54:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you never wanted to do something that was a \u0026quot;crime against the planet\u0026quot;, we\u0026#x27;d all be living in caves.  You can\u0026#x27;t avoid it in a modern society.","parent":"15309443","id":"15309476"}
{"by":"SimeVidas","time":"1471896721","timestamp":"2016-08-22 20:12:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"4 years old?","parent":"12338365","id":"12339062"}
{"by":"PerilousD","time":"1539608469","timestamp":"2018-10-15 13:01:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Site comes up as blocked by Malwarebytes - so I didnt override and continue on. Just saying....","parent":"18216783","id":"18219280"}
{"by":"nolok","time":"1431693080","timestamp":"2015-05-15 12:31:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The part minding about \u0026quot;privacy\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;not knowing what will be shared\u0026quot; is unsubstantiated though, there is no argument against or for that being part of their reason.\u003cp\u003eAll we know, is that they rate very little. And if they\u0026#x27;re like me or many it\u0026#x27;s simply that they don\u0026#x27;t care about rating stuff, I couldn\u0026#x27;t care less about people reading the amount of stars I give.","parent":"9549466","id":"9550126"}
{"by":"hsnewman","time":"1528118607","timestamp":"2018-06-04 13:23:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems that lately Microsoft has been making decisions that are in line with computer science.  Hope that continues, since their monopoly sets the direction of the desktop and servers, perhaps we will move toward a more secure environment.","parent":"17227286","id":"17227477"}
{"by":"smt88","time":"1540297375","timestamp":"2018-10-23 12:22:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you\u0026#x27;re referring to generator-style async\u0026#x2F;await, you can change that now.\u003cp\u003eOtherwise you can just prettify it and be on your way.\u003cp\u003eSure you don\u0026#x27;t \u003ci\u003ewant\u003c/i\u003e to go back, but that\u0026#x27;s the whole reason TS exists: writing JS with good organization and discipline is impossible at worst, full of boilerplate at best.","parent":"18281638","id":"18282713"}
{"by":"maxklein","time":"1274217025","timestamp":"2010-05-18 21:10:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That guy Kreci that just posted his info recently. He made 1500 last month.","parent":"1359048","id":"1359106"}
{"by":"naasking","time":"1499519971","timestamp":"2017-07-08 13:19:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is \u0026quot;free\u0026quot;? What is \u0026quot;agent\u0026quot;?","parent":"14724926","id":"14725320"}
{"by":"KeytarHero","time":"1429217337","timestamp":"2015-04-16 20:48:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I certainly wouldn\u0026#x27;t say it\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;a lot\u0026quot; of Android users. The only people I\u0026#x27;ve ever known who have used oversized batteries have also had rooted phones running some alternative Android distro - hardly your \u0026quot;typical\u0026quot; user. Most average Android users don\u0026#x27;t know oversized batteries exist.\u003cp\u003eAnd like it or not, most new Android phones don\u0026#x27;t even have replaceable batteries, so the number of users with oversized batteries is getting smaller and smaller.","parent":"9390156","id":"9390667"}
{"by":"UweSchmidt","time":"1495520430","timestamp":"2017-05-23 06:20:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just upvoted the article for unearthing more hominim, no need for an ad hominem.","parent":"14399123","id":"14399197"}
{"by":"cshenton","time":"1537610598","timestamp":"2018-09-22 10:03:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does nim have a concurrency story yet? That’s what gave me pause last time I checked it out.","parent":"18045259","id":"18045335"}
{"by":"dingobingo","time":"1236953662","timestamp":"2009-03-13 14:14:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wow. thanks for the info :)","parent":"514850","id":"514873"}
{"by":"spacemanmatt","time":"1429362582","timestamp":"2015-04-18 13:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not seeing the velvet in this.","parent":"9397812","id":"9399315"}
{"by":"im3w1l","time":"1421711570","timestamp":"2015-01-19 23:52:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you look at how the scores for the walkers increase as they walk, you will see that it jumps in increments of 100. I guess it is some kind of \u0026quot;milestone bonus\u0026quot;.","parent":"8914342","id":"8914778"}
{"by":"eric_h","time":"1448033687","timestamp":"2015-11-20 15:34:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but is only available to US residents\u003cp\u003eWho live in one of 24 states. New Yorkers need not apply.","parent":"10601548","id":"10601664"}
{"by":"polyfractal","time":"1340037162","timestamp":"2012-06-18 16:32:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wanted to emphasize this point - I did the exact same thing.  I read through the \"Learn More\" bullets and thought \"hmm, this sounds interesting and useful...but I still really have no idea what it does\".\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't until I read the About and Features that I actually understood the product.\u003cp\u003eThe benefits listed in the \"Learn More\" are really good...you just need to add a little more concrete information about the product itself.\u003cp\u003eAnyhow, looks interesting and I'm going to recommend it to my company.  We work in three different locations (and two timezones), so it could be useful for us.","parent":"4127179","id":"4127211"}
{"by":"cm2187","time":"1475566032","timestamp":"2016-10-04 07:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bureaucratic processes, low work standard, \u0026quot;good enough for the business\u0026quot;. IT in a large financial company is a pretty appalling thing to observe. Everything that would take minutes to fix in a small organisation is taking years.\u003cp\u003eFor instance the network drives hang regularly, sometimes for several minutes. That affects everyone on the floor. Because of a bug in Windows that was never fixed that also causes windows to hang for minutes, basically when it happens it is coffee time. Everyone I know in the organisation is affected, and has been for years. One would have thought that IT would do something about it, not the least because they must experience that themselves. That\u0026#x27;s counting without the \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t give a shit attitude\u0026quot; that I pretty much always see in that part of the organisation.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s not about money. If we need to make even the most minor changes, it becomes multi-year projects costing millions. As far as I can tell these millions are spent in project managers who understand neither the tech nor the business and ensure that the maximum amount of confusion is maintained. They are spent on paying salaries matching industry standard to bottom of their class developers who were not smart enough to work for google or facebook, and have no idea of what they are doing. Some of the things I see are pretty shocking. I faced developpers who are litteraly mild amateurs. And I would say developers are the \u0026quot;elite\u0026quot; of the IT crowd in these organisations.\u003cp\u003eOutsourcing didn\u0026#x27;t help with the I don\u0026#x27;t give a shit attitude. I doubt that the fact that a guy in London has to make 10 unecessary clicks everytime he needs to do something frequently, or has his computer completely unusable for minutes affects much a contractor in Bangalore. One would assume that a guy who would actually meet his \u0026quot;victims\u0026quot; would have a little more compassion, but as thing stands these problems are very much virtual to these guys.","parent":"12632924","id":"12633872"}
{"by":"besasam","time":"1522220175","timestamp":"2018-03-28 06:56:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Those names are really something. Love it.","parent":"16695667","id":"16695953"}
{"by":"keiyakins","time":"1510708964","timestamp":"2017-11-15 01:22:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So is using it to incite violence. The Twitter tos isn\u0026#x27;t worth the paper it\u0026#x27;s written on.","parent":"15698685","id":"15700814"}
{"by":"baybal2","time":"1498563555","timestamp":"2017-06-27 11:39:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most importantly, it walls off a lion share of few remaining competing ad publishing platforms","parent":"14644181","id":"14644402"}
{"by":"Nicholas_C","time":"1391375482","timestamp":"2014-02-02 21:11:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here. Incredibly frustrating.\u003cp\u003eDid you unregister your device(s)? After doing this I think people\u0026#x27;s iPhones know your number isn\u0026#x27;t an iPhone anymore and after it fails to send the iMessage it sends it as a regular message. The below link helped me:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://support.vodafone.com.au/articles/FAQ/How-to-deactivate-iMessage-if-you-re-switching-from-iPhone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;support.vodafone.com.au\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;FAQ\u0026#x2F;How-to-deactivat...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m still having occasional problems with not getting texts but for the most part it\u0026#x27;s fixed.","parent":"7167174","id":"7167602"}
{"by":"kylemaxwell","time":"1384197720","timestamp":"2013-11-11 19:22:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, I just talked to the author (Robert Graham) about it, and he responded:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;bah, I need to fix that\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/399979105854058497\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;ErrataRob\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;399979105854058497\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDIT: And he pushed a LICENSE file just now.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;I provide this code with no warrantee whatsoever. But hey, if you want to take the risk and run it, go for it.\u0026quot;","parent":"6712756","id":"6713367"}
{"by":"sbjs","time":"1530900405","timestamp":"2018-07-06 18:06:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Every language looks ugly to someone who doesn\u0026#x27;t need it ;)\u003cp\u003eI have learned to ignore the inconsistencies in the languages that I have to use, especially if it\u0026#x27;s for a paying gig. Otherwise I would go crazy! Every single language has them, I\u0026#x27;m not kidding.","parent":"17473616","id":"17473704"}
{"by":"gus_massa","time":"1329750952","timestamp":"2012-02-20 15:15:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article is interesting, but with the ALL-CAPS title it looks like spam. Next time, try changing the title to something like: \"Arduino Wifi Rgb Lamp [Ikea Duderö Modding]\"","parent":"3612449","id":"3612605"}
{"by":"jacobwcarlson","time":"1412884965","timestamp":"2014-10-09 20:02:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That managed to completely lock up Firefox for me. Nicely done! Think it was a combination of the scrolling page title and right-click handler that did it. Or it was fighting Pentadactyl.","parent":"8433458","id":"8434722"}
{"by":"grey-area","time":"1505856414","timestamp":"2017-09-19 21:26:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eTerrorists seek to maximize damage\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not usually true. Terrorists often don\u0026#x27;t go for max deaths but for a specific symbolic target (e.g. Pentagon, wtc etc). What they want is to provoke a response, ideally heavy-handed repression - the aim is to polarise the society targeted, to instill fear and panic, and reveal the implicit violence of government as explicit action.\u003cp\u003eDrone strikes and the policy of global assassination does not keep you safe, it just kills a lot of people. Re support for democracy, I\u0026#x27;m not sure why you believe that given support for Pinochet, sisi, Mubarak, hussein, Saud etc","parent":"15287420","id":"15288971"}
{"by":"klum","time":"1448558984","timestamp":"2015-11-26 17:29:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting stuff, thanks for the link!","parent":"10633479","id":"10633878"}
{"by":"jimmaswell","time":"1532312485","timestamp":"2018-07-23 02:21:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I drive my car less than half a mile to a Wendy\u0026#x27;s on a regular basis. On a bike I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be able to bring my dog, it would be weird using the drive-thru, it would be uncomfortable on all but the few days of the year that are a perfect temperature, and I\u0026#x27;d be much less safe in the case of an accident (people don\u0026#x27;t look at all coming out of this one place they\u0026#x27;re supposed to yield sometimes).\u003cp\u003eAnd taking home the amount of groceries that I do on a bike would be impractical, and if put in a backpack, probably hurt my back.\u003cp\u003eI cherish having the choice to take a car to these kinds of places. No way a bike would be faster because whenever there\u0026#x27;s someone on a bike in front of me on these routes, I have to slow down, and these routes are never badly congested. Admittedly riding a bicycle in a bike lane can be a lot faster in some of the most congested parts of the country like Manhattan, but there often aren\u0026#x27;t bike lanes and using sidewalks is a point of contention.","parent":"17589888","id":"17590121"}
{"by":"mitchty","time":"1497835206","timestamp":"2017-06-19 01:20:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ditto here, and I\u0026#x27;m American so guess I don\u0026#x27;t count as western.","parent":"14581734","id":"14584002"}
{"by":"smm2000","time":"1412223786","timestamp":"2014-10-02 04:23:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google, Oracle and Amazon among others have Distinguished Engineer title so quite a few people know about it.","parent":"8399197","id":"8399417"}
{"by":"api","time":"1532526669","timestamp":"2018-07-25 13:51:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think some of them know that.\u003cp\u003eWould it really be any better if they\u0026#x27;d \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e rioted in the voting booth? If anything the trends that are destroying the American working and middle class are accelerating. They have nothing to lose that wouldn\u0026#x27;t be lost anyway.\u003cp\u003eYou\u0026#x27;re totally right that the result will just make them angrier and the cycle will repeat. This is how civilizations fall.\u003cp\u003eIf liberals want to do anything about it they need to start actually giving a damn about America\u0026#x27;s poor and rapidly shrinking middle class in spite of the fact that they hold \u0026quot;backward and primitive\u0026quot; religious beliefs and are behind the times on social issues.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s a suggestion: if you want to go after backward illiberal social and cultural beliefs and policies, punch \u003ci\u003eup\u003c/i\u003e. Criticize the rich and powerful advocates of those policies. Don\u0026#x27;t punch down at poor working class people who regardless of what they believe have no power to actually implement anything anyway.","parent":"17609171","id":"17609193"}
{"by":"jpace121","time":"1459103813","timestamp":"2016-03-27 18:36:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While this article somewhat makes fun of the overally idealistic, sugary, positive culture HubSpot built, I\u0026#x27;d much rather work there then somewhere where everything is done out of fear.","parent":"11369632","id":"11370948"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1242676061","timestamp":"2009-05-18 19:47:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The timing on this post is funny. I just submitted Nate's blog post from yesterday:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615446\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615446\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn how a trivial implementation error (one we're familiar with already) in Debian's OpenSSL means that any message signed with Debian OpenSSL DSA reveals private keys. That's a micro-error; Debian and OpenSSL may have got almost everything else right, but fucked up one tiny detail, and now exposing the \u003ci\u003eciphertext\u003c/i\u003e of certain messages leaks your private key.\u003cp\u003eThis isn't crypto-geek chauvinism. If crypto isn't a big part of what you do in your day-to-day, you're just not going to get this stuff right. That may be the point Jeff is actually trying to make (and the reason he isn't offering a neat solution in his article), but look at the comments on how to \"do it right\", and you can see that isn't the message that's getting transmitted.\u003cp\u003eThere's a much bigger flaw in Atwood's cryptosystem than has been discussed here --- forget CBC --- but I'm not going to post it, because it will just result in 20 comments about how easy that is to fix, and here's 15 crazy heuristics to do it, so nyah!","parent":"615044","id":"615552"}
{"by":"Rainymood","time":"1489047809","timestamp":"2017-03-09 08:23:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I\u0026#x27;ve always said that I owe my career, what there is of it, to #DRUGOFCHOICE. I guess I wasn\u0026#x27;t kidding.\u003cp\u003eKinda weird how caffeine, still technically a drug like speed\u0026#x2F;ritalin\u0026#x2F;adderal etc, is so accepted in today\u0026#x27;s society. Sorry if I\u0026#x27;m mixing up drugs with active ingredients I know very little about drugs.","parent":"13827292","id":"13827918"}
{"by":"bni","time":"1352462983","timestamp":"2012-11-09 12:09:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So what will people running GNOME in VMware see? GNOME failed to launch?","parent":"4761996","id":"4762410"}
{"by":"Lambdanaut","time":"1345414622","timestamp":"2012-08-19 22:17:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author ACTUALLY said \"There are two basic kinds of people in this world.\", which would imply that there are variations to these basic forms.\u003cp\u003eIf he had really said what you mis-quoted, you might have some point.","parent":"4405406","id":"4405450"}
{"by":"thisiswrong","time":"1396201484","timestamp":"2014-03-30 17:44:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"More info please ...","parent":"7496964","id":"7497034"}
{"by":"debt","time":"1538178655","timestamp":"2018-09-28 23:50:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A whitelist? Huh? What is this the 90\u0026#x27;s?\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m pretty sure the algorithms use something more intelligent than a whitelist. A whitelist would be a major loophole in a spam algorithm.","parent":"18096968","id":"18097904"}
{"by":"lifeisstillgood","time":"1351455440","timestamp":"2012-10-28 20:17:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you read Ben goldacre and then Tim Harford you take the view the doctors are acting rationally.\u003cp\u003ePharm companies withold negative trials, bribe doctors to use their latest expensive treatments, lie, cheat and steal.\u003cp\u003eSo a new treatment you have never heard of and are asked to evaluate, in-between appointments, will get shoved into the mental bin of \"all new treatments look good till the real world results start coming in\" let's keep doing the things I know do \"only\" kill 2/1000.\u003cp\u003eIn fact things are so bad that one MP in England asking, yes just asking, the government what they intend to do to stop pharma companies lying, is front page news.\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.drsarah.org.uk/sarahs-blog/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.drsarah.org.uk/sarahs-blog/\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4709564","id":"4709853"}
{"by":"mikegreenberg","time":"1362003109","timestamp":"2013-02-27 22:11:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This doesn't begin in the classroom. This starts at the home. And the same tools can be used on your own kids. Thanks for sharing.","parent":"5286461","id":"5295321"}
{"by":"flogic","time":"1385328408","timestamp":"2013-11-24 21:26:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a long winded reply but it got lost and I don\u0026#x27;t feel like rewriting it. Too long won\u0026#x27;t rewrite version: Perl6 was conceived in 2000, it still doesn\u0026#x27;t exist in 2013. For a number of reasons involving competing languages, cloud computing, and the end of the Mhz race, it\u0026#x27;s very tough to imagine Perl6 as anything other than a dead end.","parent":"6790579","id":"6791210"}
{"by":"cyberferret","time":"1471917592","timestamp":"2016-08-23 01:59:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the biggest takeaway from this is diving into their research about the human consumption of a lot of information (UX, if you will).\u003cp\u003eI know NASA and the Air Force spent a lot of time seeing how humans pilots digested information under stressful conditions etc., which basically gave us the modern aircraft cockpit layout (and the fairly standard arrangement of the 6 critical instruments that are used in all small aircraft today).\u003cp\u003eI wonder (and hope) that this research also extended to the arrangement of critical data on a dashboard so that maximum information could be gleaned with as little eye (or mouse) movement as possible.","parent":"12339966","id":"12340841"}
{"by":"ahartmetz","time":"1532130898","timestamp":"2018-07-20 23:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dunno, not much happened. Uber came in, broke the law, and went. The law already existed, and the taxi organizations aren\u0026#x27;t particularly powerful. Note that anybody can start driving taxis here after some mandatory course and exam, there\u0026#x27;s no bullion system.","parent":"17579835","id":"17579914"}
{"by":"binnymathews","time":"1189360354","timestamp":"2007-09-09 17:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like a very elegant product. \u003cp\u003eAs with anything solar-powered,MCube's success will be based on how its pricing compares to the current average home, not other MCube like homes. Government subsidies are helping solar electricity generators to narrow that gap with conventional utility companies on a cost / watt basis. \u003cp\u003eI believe a policy decision like that will be necessary for MCube's mass adoption.","parent":"52154","id":"52509"}
{"by":"ZeroGravitas","time":"1482231057","timestamp":"2016-12-20 10:50:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The EROI for moving a car via PV solar is greater than moving a car via oil. Oil loses that comparison even worse, since 80%+ of the energy is thrown away as waste heat.","parent":"13218722","id":"13218833"}
{"by":"nodata","time":"1356558534","timestamp":"2012-12-26 21:48:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that a good example? It doesn't warn if the env isn't set.","parent":"4970582","id":"4971092"}
{"by":"nether","time":"1511601901","timestamp":"2017-11-25 09:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Strava strikes me as one of the good social apps, because it gets us \u003ci\u003eaway\u003c/i\u003e from looking at screens. Also, these data are being used to improve cities, by justifying the locations of new bike lanes for one. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.citylab.com\u0026#x2F;transportation\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;strava-metro-global-heatmap-urban-planning\u0026#x2F;545174\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.citylab.com\u0026#x2F;transportation\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;strava-metro-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15771562","dead":true,"id":"15775188"}
{"by":"AurelioB","time":"1380680148","timestamp":"2013-10-02 02:15:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"SEEKING WORK - Mexico \u0026#x2F; Remote 3+ years of experience in web development.\u003cp\u003eWhat I can create\u0026#x2F;work with:\u003cp\u003e- Wordpress themes and plugins\u003cp\u003e- Drupal 7\u003cp\u003e- Responsive websites\u003cp\u003e- CSS3 \u0026#x2F; HTML5 compliance\u003cp\u003e- Offline web applications\u003cp\u003e- Javascript frameworks (jQuery, Underscore)\u003cp\u003eWhat I\u0026#x27;m working with right now:\u003cp\u003e- Angular.js\u003cp\u003eSuccess stories:\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve worked with brands such as Bimbo, Marinela (\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinelausa.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.marinelausa.com\u003c/a\u003e), Procter \u0026amp; Gamble, Johnsons Baby and Campbell\u0026#x27;s.\u003cp\u003eEmail: aurelio at bernalr.com","parent":"6475885","id":"6480228"}
{"by":"wglb","time":"1415912309","timestamp":"2014-11-13 20:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And there is this: \u003ca href=\"https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/04/msg00197.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lists.debian.org\u0026#x2F;debian-devel\u0026#x2F;1999\u0026#x2F;04\u0026#x2F;msg00197.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8602061","id":"8604058"}
{"by":"brtknr","time":"1528186617","timestamp":"2018-06-05 08:16:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like it had to waste a lot of water to get that far!","parent":"17233811","id":"17235818"}
{"by":"exDM69","time":"1426671958","timestamp":"2015-03-18 09:45:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I fly stunt kites and power kites, and what is not immediately apparent to someone who doesn\u0026#x27;t is that the movement of the kite itself will generate apparent wind (and lift) on the sail\u0026#x2F;airfoil. Flying in a circle or a figure eight pattern will add a lot of \u0026quot;pull\u0026quot; on the tether. Ie. the load factor of a moving kite is far greater than a stationary kite or propeller.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s another kite related technology that uses this to their advantage, they have built a giant computer controlled power kite that is used to power cargo ships (they claim 50% fuel savings in favorable conditions). They\u0026#x27;re also prototyping for electrical power generation.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.skysails.info/english/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.skysails.info\u0026#x2F;english\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9221598","id":"9224420"}
{"by":"MaxBarraclough","time":"1533219388","timestamp":"2018-08-02 14:16:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Smartphones and tablets are GREAT learning devices.\u003cp\u003e{{Citation needed}}\u003cp\u003eI believe studies have shown that gadgets do more harm than good in school environments.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; If we keep blaming the ineptitude of teachers on devices the quality of education will never progress.\u003cp\u003eEven if smartphones really are a hindrance?","parent":"17671413","id":"17671527"}
{"by":"gumby","time":"1493671096","timestamp":"2017-05-01 20:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We had rhubarb pie in Australia which is even farther south!  I liked it as a kid in part because otherwise our pies had meat in them.","parent":"14237933","id":"14241326"}
{"by":"haje","time":"1445024325","timestamp":"2015-10-16 19:38:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an extremely good idea to lawyer up sooner rather than later, because visas are a huge pain in the backside, and getting it wrong can end up causing a lot of cost and stress.\u003cp\u003eI was lucky; my wife is from the US, and we\u0026#x27;ve been married for longer than 2 years, which is the magical combination that makes it a lot easier - although obviously, that isn\u0026#x27;t particularly helpful if you aren\u0026#x27;t \u0026#x2F; aren\u0026#x27;t planning to get married to an US citizen.","parent":"10400912","id":"10401548"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1539035998","timestamp":"2018-10-08 21:59:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I lost my original youtube account due to the merger. The idea of social mirror of society using a single point of identity is (in hindsight) totally ridiculous. We liked so much having pseudos and different personas depending on the context.","parent":"18169738","id":"18171700"}
{"by":"NameNickHN","time":"1418907592","timestamp":"2014-12-18 12:59:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What kind of position is it? Even for a junior developer position two months of experience is very little.","parent":"8762511","id":"8767034"}
{"by":"digikata","time":"1381864406","timestamp":"2013-10-15 19:13:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use KeyPassX on OSX \u0026amp; Linux with no problems. There\u0026#x27;s several iPhone compatible apps that will push\u0026#x2F;pull the Keepassx datafile from dropbox too.","parent":"6554935","id":"6555642"}
{"by":"chme","time":"1464185641","timestamp":"2016-05-25 14:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You know that there are many different types of poems, some of them don\u0026#x27;t even rhyme.\u003cp\u003eYes they are more painful to type. But long alpha numeric passwords with symbols are painful to type too.","parent":"11769840","id":"11769885"}
{"by":"strlen","time":"1307991562","timestamp":"2011-06-13 18:59:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't disagree with the conclusion: people who aren't as dedicated to or good at programming transition to people or product/program/project management[1]; the remaining folk receive additional experience which allows them to capitalize further on their passion and talent.\u003cp\u003eHowever, this isn't exactly proven by the data: what Stackoverflow shows is that older developers are better at talking intelligently about programming. That's extremely useful (and helps career wise), but it isn't the same thing as being a better developer. Sometimes it correlates (the best programmers I've known have also participated in organizations like IETF, written RFCs and have also thoroughly documented their work), but it isn't a total ordering (I know plenty of programmers who are better than I, but who don't participate in any public forums).\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, I've yet to find a successful programming language made by someone before their thirties. Contrast it, on the other hand, with some of the most ground changing academic work in Computer Science and Mathematics being done by people in their twenties.\u003cp\u003e[1] There's nothing wrong with that: Google's APM program particularly is a great example of \"engineers who don't want to code\" being extremely useful. See also \"The Russian Lit Major\" by rands: \u003ca href=\"http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2006/09/06/russian_history.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2006/09/06/russian_his...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2649749","id":"2650243"}
{"by":"TheSOB88","time":"1327087259","timestamp":"2012-01-20 19:20:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's not that the media \"tells\" you that; though they do. But that's just a reflection of the current state of mind of the populace. People \"know\" this \"fact\", that a 3rd partier basically has no chance. I mean, look at Ron Paul. He's completely different from the normal Republican; by all rights he should have been in a separate party. But he wouldn't have gone very far with that. He had to stick with the big party to see it through. The problem is that Republicans and Democrats just have too much power. They have critical mass, and nobody else does.","parent":"3490749","id":"3490800"}
{"by":"jklein11","time":"1534254211","timestamp":"2018-08-14 13:43:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are there any resources explaining the FOIA process? I\u0026#x27;m not sure what types of information is available, what it can be used for, etc and am always amazed with the type of information people are able to get the government to hand over.","parent":"17754105","id":"17757785"}
{"by":"pozorvlak","time":"1489503564","timestamp":"2017-03-14 14:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FWIW, this is also the standard way of implementing if\u0026#x2F;then in the lambda calculus:\u003cp\u003etrue = \\x.\\y.x\u003cp\u003efalse = \\x.\\y.y","parent":"13865440","id":"13867968"}
{"by":"q3sniper","time":"1418545194","timestamp":"2014-12-14 08:19:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because of the thrill of it.\u003cp\u003eMy day-to-day is devops with a little frontend. It\u0026#x27;s drugery. I got into programming because I wanted to do games programming. That\u0026#x27;s where I started. It was thrilling, doing demos, entering competitions, pushing pixels. Fucking thrilling. But then I needed to get a job. Nobody needs a games\u0026#x2F;graphics programmer. So, I read a couple of database books, and now life sucks.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;d love to go back to where the rubber hit the road.","parent":"8747550","id":"8747750"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1266833833","timestamp":"2010-02-22 10:17:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This feels a little too gold-buggish for me in parts. Fiat money and fractional-reserve banking are quite separate things: fractional-reserve banking was common even with gold currency. Unless an intrusive government regulation outlaws people from accepting deposits and lending them back out, and even further, from issuing promissory notes, it will continue to happen even in a gold-standard economy, because full-reserve banks are less attractive, both to owners and depositors, \u003ci\u003eexcept\u003c/i\u003e in crises, of which our memories are short.\u003cp\u003eGold supply also has over the past 100 years or so inflated at a low exponential curve that looks much like a compounding curve, because the annual production has been increasing roughly in line with the total amount in existence (from 400 tons/yr in 1900 to 2500 tons/yr today). It's compounding with a low rate, around 1%-2% over most of that period, but nonethless the money supply inflates, and continues to inflate faster in absolute terms year to year (with some dips now and then).","parent":"1142305","id":"1142369"}
{"by":"merb","time":"1446934263","timestamp":"2015-11-07 22:11:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use slick, however I never used the elegant syntax.\nI always drop to the sql\u0026#x2F;sqlu and there you have a really really cool sql syntax and rowparsers","parent":"10525040","id":"10526431"}
{"by":"Kenji","time":"1470697274","timestamp":"2016-08-08 23:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah. And rainbows and unicorns. Unfortunately, 99.999% of the population have other things to do and cannot all tend to their farms. Let alone, it would be far from the first time that biofuel has left people starving on the same or other parts of the world, simply because fertile ground is now used for that instead of food.","parent":"12249437","id":"12251400"}
{"by":"artursapek","time":"1327803142","timestamp":"2012-01-29 02:12:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess the only problem is people can't recognize familiar URLS if you use a redirect page. If you link to a Facebook event for a concert, for example, people could see the trusted domain before visiting.","parent":"3522482","id":"3524168"}
{"by":"khana","time":"1522787801","timestamp":"2018-04-03 20:36:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Concur.  I found Gradle to be to far removed from the truth so to speak.  I like Maven\u0026#x27;s declarative xml and its promulgation of the build life-cycle.  This makes a complex build easier to maintain in the long run imo.","parent":"16742858","id":"16748857"}
{"by":"shadowmint","time":"1405252184","timestamp":"2014-07-13 11:49:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Be useful to document the distinction between:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   match x { (y) =\u0026gt; { ... }\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nand:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   match x { (ref mut y) =\u0026gt; { ... } \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nIn there too. I think ref x matches (particularly from Result) are pretty common.","parent":"8026726","id":"8027156"}
{"by":"ufmace","time":"1485802245","timestamp":"2017-01-30 18:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In case anyone\u0026#x27;s still here, I made a bookmarklet for it:\u003cp\u003ejavascript:location.href=\u0026#x27;\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;facebook.com\u0026#x2F;l.php?u=\u0026#x27;+encodeURIComponent(location.href)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;facebook.com\u0026#x2F;l.php?u=\u0026#x27;+encodeURIComponent(location.hr...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMake a bookmark with that, call it I\u0026#x27;m from Facebook or something, and go to it when you hit a paywall.","parent":"13502730","id":"13523921"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1387391722","timestamp":"2013-12-18 18:35:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The Bay Area has chosen to be unlivable and unpleasant by its choice of public officials.\u003cp\u003eYou seem to confuse \u0026quot;high density\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;livable\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;pleasant\u0026quot;. I don\u0026#x27;t think that makes a lot of sense.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Those city officials have prohibited the practices that make city living affordable.\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco -- whose development policies you suggest would make San Jose more affordable -- is more expensive to live in than San Jose. Tokyo and New York City -- your other comparators for the Bay Area -- aren\u0026#x27;t exactly bastions of affordability.\u003cp\u003eThe profits for developers if your proposals were adopted are, of course, clear. The mechanism by which \u0026quot;affordable\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;livable\u0026quot;, or \u0026quot;pleasant\u0026quot; come out of them is far less clear.","parent":"6929418","id":"6929522"}
{"by":"SomeCallMeTim","time":"1417589061","timestamp":"2014-12-03 06:44:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Proper average market salary and inflated market salary are two different things\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think you can have \u0026quot;inflated market salary.\u0026quot; Instead what you have is the \u003ci\u003etrue\u003c/i\u003e market salary (for an experienced engineer that\u0026#x27;s good, that\u0026#x27;s a minimum of $200k at this point), and then you have the amount that most companies are willing to pay (which typically caps at $125-150k).\u003cp\u003eIn the US, until the 1970s, average income (in constant dollars) rose at a pretty compelling rate. After the 1970s, a number of factors have combined such that we\u0026#x27;ve not seen the same rise in real income -- despite the fact that \u003ci\u003eproductivity\u003c/i\u003e, as in, the amount of \u003ci\u003evalue\u003c/i\u003e we\u0026#x27;re adding to companies\u0026#x27; bottom lines, has been rising.\u003cp\u003eThis is why the gap between the rich and the rest has been growing so quickly. The added productivity is enriching the few at the expense of the many, except for a \u003ci\u003every few\u003c/i\u003e exceptions; one of those is exceptional software developers, who can take advantage (at the moment) of their rarity to actually negotiate salaries commensurate with their productivity.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m one of those who was able to secure a $250k+ offer from a big company, which is awesome, and I\u0026#x27;m really lucky to be in this position. But the reality is that I know a lot of developers who are really good and who should be making over $200k\u0026#x2F;year, at a minimum, but who make $125k or less.\u003cp\u003eImporting H1-B workers in large quantities keeps those salaries lower than they should be. Instead companies need to raise compensation to keep up with demand. Maybe it means they can only afford half as many developers, but they\u0026#x27;re likely better off with fewer good developers anyway. :)","parent":"8690053","id":"8692213"}
{"by":"ben_w","time":"1542557320","timestamp":"2018-11-18 16:08:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are generally more ways to lose than to win. Entropy is like that.","parent":"18480350","id":"18480965"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1536042847","timestamp":"2018-09-04 06:34:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Same here, but then again I was a big Prolog fan during university.\u003cp\u003eSo Erlang syntax feels natural, I just don\u0026#x27;t have any use for it on my line of work.","parent":"17904868","id":"17907043"}
{"by":"hackuser","time":"1461089524","timestamp":"2016-04-19 18:12:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Coverage in The Guardian as well:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;environment\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;apr\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;march-temperature-smashes-100-year-global-record\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theguardian.com\u0026#x2F;environment\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;apr\u0026#x2F;15\u0026#x2F;march-tem...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very disappointing this isn\u0026#x27;t a major story (outside the remaining climate denial outlets, such as Fox\u0026#x2F;Murdoch\u0026#x2F;WSJ). I don\u0026#x27;t recall seeing it covered in the NY Times, for example. Perhaps I overlooked it, but it should have been a big enough story that overlooking it was very unlikely.","parent":"11528767","id":"11528916"}
{"by":"mschaef","time":"1542035253","timestamp":"2018-11-12 15:07:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was in college at the University of Texas at the time, and my first exposure to Mosaic was in their new Student Microcomputer Facility. (Aka the SMF or \u0026#x27;Smurf lab.)\u003cp\u003eThe SMF was a large and brand new ncomputer lab in the undergraduate library, equipped with something like 200 computers... 50 of them were Mac Quadras with 17 (!) inch monitors and the rest were Dell Dimension machines... 486DX2\u0026#x2F;66, local bus video, and 15 inch screens.  These all had Mosaic installed with a UT page of some sort as the home. So, clicking on the icon brought up this hypertext display with this colorful 3-D rendered banner image at the top. It looked a lot like the hypertext help facility that Microsoft introduced with Windows 3.0, but better and network connected, and open, and accessible. Truly next generation stuff at the time, in particular in comparison to the purely character based internet that came immediately before. (Think telnet, archie, ftp, etc.)","parent":"18428682","id":"18432993"}
{"by":"gillianseed","time":"1357411569","timestamp":"2013-01-05 18:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rust is the sole _potential_ C competitor I've come across but the language isn't even finalized last I checked so it hardly constitute a challenge to C as of yet. A new language showing up doesn't mean it will gain any traction.\u003cp\u003eAs for the higher level languages closing the gap, that is certainly not my experience and I've seen no benchmarks to this effect. And I'm not talking about Python or Ruby and the likes which are in an entirely different category, I'm talking about C#, Java, etc. They are still alot slower on cpu intensive code, also they certainly doesn't fulfill other important properties of C like small memory footprint.\u003cp\u003eThe notion that there was some 'magic piece of the puzzle' missing which has been solved in making high level languages perform like low level languages like C comes across as nonsense to me. Higher level languages sacrifice speed for convenience and safety, depending on your demands that can often be a very wise sacrifice, in the areas where C excels it's likely often not.\u003cp\u003eAlso cell-phones (which are really the upper-end of 'embedded') run a kernel and system-level code written in C doing the heavy lifting system-wise, also performance demanding applications (higher-end games) are often still written in native code on these phones.\u003cp\u003eThere's certainly room for a more 'modern' C, maybe something else has replaced C in 10 years, but I don't see it being any of the languages we are discussing today, not even Rust. As it stands, I think C will remain dominant in the aforementioned domains.\u003cp\u003eGuess we are going to have to disagree, history will prove one of us right I suppose :)","parent":"5013110","id":"5013533"}
{"by":"ag_user123","time":"1523102910","timestamp":"2018-04-07 12:08:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Location: Prague\u003cp\u003eRemote: Yes\u003cp\u003eWilling to relocate: No\u003cp\u003eTechnologies: JavaScript, ES6, Node.js, Koa(Express), Passport, React, Redux, React Native, D3, Webpack, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, Bootstrap, Heroku, Firebase, Java, Spring MVC\u003cp\u003eRésumé\u0026#x2F;CV: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;file\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;1U-Gl1JqQ3R5U9265XjoSZCIMCgKDMTEh\u0026#x2F;view\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;drive.google.com\u0026#x2F;file\u0026#x2F;d\u0026#x2F;1U-Gl1JqQ3R5U9265XjoSZCIMCgK...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmail: mail@andrejgajdos.com\u003cp\u003eI am a freelance software engineer with over six years of experience delivering software. I have worked with an array of different technologies and am currently focusing on full-stack development in Node.js and React.js. I also have experience with React Native.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been working remotely for clients worldwide and I\u0026#x27;m looking for freelance\u0026#x2F;contract work.\u003cp\u003eLinkedIn: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;andrejgajdos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;andrejgajdos\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlog: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;andrejgajdos.com\u0026#x2F;blog\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;andrejgajdos.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eGithub: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;AndrejGajdos\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;AndrejGajdos\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16735013","id":"16780384"}
{"by":"makapuf","time":"1520681320","timestamp":"2018-03-10 11:28:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Geany also has its place in my launch bar with a nice balance e between low key IDE (class browser) and minimalism while feeling Linux native.\nI also use vim and sublime but for small quick projects I like the comfort of this. One thing I miss (maybe I didn\u0026#x27;t search enough) is multiple cursors though. I can\u0026#x27;t live very long without it.","parent":"16557128","id":"16558083"}
{"by":"greggman","time":"1360571822","timestamp":"2013-02-11 08:37:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe if you replaced \"you're\" with \"I'm\" and \"you\" with \"I\".\u003cp\u003eSeeing people with more money than me doesn't depress me. It might give me something aspire to. Or maybe I've just watched too much sponge bob and don't need money to be happy.","parent":"5199173","id":"5199937"}
{"by":"muninn_","time":"1492189117","timestamp":"2017-04-14 16:58:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not being intentionally misleading, it\u0026#x27;s a half pound of cheese. Saying \u0026quot;it only contains 2oz\u0026#x2F;cheese per serving\u0026quot; is being misleading. That\u0026#x27;s too much cheese. If I wanted to be intentionally misleading I wouldn\u0026#x27;t even add the link for all to see, nor state facts, such as the meal contains a half pound of cheese.","parent":"14093834","id":"14115558"}
{"by":"mikeash","time":"1466782714","timestamp":"2016-06-24 15:38:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, perfect illustration of my point.\u003cp\u003eThe government benefits the people enormously. Yes, it has a lot of problems, but we\u0026#x27;re way better off with it than without it. I can totally understand a desire for reform, but simply tearing it down is insane.","parent":"11970461","id":"11970608"}
{"by":"vizzah","time":"1449256672","timestamp":"2015-12-04 19:17:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shouldn\u0026#x27;t he \u0026quot;short\u0026quot; the stock instead? ;)","parent":"10678302","id":"10678409"}
{"by":"fatbird","time":"1357449247","timestamp":"2013-01-06 05:14:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The basic problem with your idea is that significant new proofs usually involve the invention of new branches of mathematics.  It's not simply the derivation of new axioms from existing foundations (which fails for reasons outlined below because of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem), it's the laying of new foundations.  For a proof checker to check it, it would need to encode those foundations, which is equivalent to discovering the proof itself.\u003cp\u003eOtherwise, given what you say, we could just let proof checkers run on clusters and stop by on Mondays to see what new discoveries have been made :)","parent":"5014621","id":"5015390"}
{"by":"henning","time":"1241457397","timestamp":"2009-05-04 17:16:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want to keep everything pure and also reasonably efficient, I think you need a sophisticated type system and a good compiler to back you up, e.g. Haskell and GHC.","parent":"592660","id":"592666"}
{"by":"Tichy","time":"1281801839","timestamp":"2010-08-14 16:03:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's so strange to me that all the technophobic people seem to deal fine with Facebook, whereas I have a really hard time with it. Oh well...","parent":"1603438","id":"1603466"}
{"by":"j_col","time":"1315580581","timestamp":"2011-09-09 15:03:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Jules Verne.  I'm currently reading \u003ci\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\u003c/i\u003e and it is fantastic.  Originally written in French.","parent":"2978305","id":"2978358"}
{"by":"searine","time":"1508788247","timestamp":"2017-10-23 19:50:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting, I haven\u0026#x27;t tried it on the newest chemistry but last time I did a flowcell (earlier this year) that was the INDEL error rate we achieve.\u003cp\u003eSubstitution error rate was very low, but you should evaluate INDELs specifically, rather than just identity like you did on your git, because it is the major drawback of this technology.","parent":"15536171","id":"15536379"}
{"by":"deramisan","time":"1184470744","timestamp":"2007-07-15 03:39:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Let's just keep this simple:'\u003cp\u003e1) We know Kevin Rose isn't a man of principle - he sides with corporations to save his skin, then the mob if he risks losing his followers (see: Digg HD-DVD scandal)\u003cp\u003e2) There is money to be made by targetting ads that used scraped content as a basis for choosing what to display to who (see: Google)\u003cp\u003e3) There is nothing in the Pownce privacy policy that says they won't scrape your content.\u003cp\u003eSo a guy who will do what it takes for his company, right or wrong, has a ton of content he could scrape to increase ad revenue and he isn't saying that he won't do that. Is it reasonable or not to then 'be concerned' about ones privacy? You tell me what part of this you disagree with.\u003cp\u003e\"Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While Megatechtronium will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.\" (Pownce.com/privacy)\u003cp\u003eWhat do you suppose they mean by a 'personalized experience'?","parent":"34291","id":"34293"}
{"by":"001sky","time":"1389961696","timestamp":"2014-01-17 12:28:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eworse is the poaching of mainstream, old-school talent\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo read these resumes, you get the sense that Yahoo cannot hire someone who has a creative background outside of a BigCo. That may very well make sense, but it signals that the tools for success are not great product skills, talent, and vision...but rather the toolset\u0026#x27;s to deal with politics, beuracracy, and the myriad \u0026quot;grease the wheel\u0026quot; problems that are inherent to an ossified corporation.","parent":"7074454","id":"7075399"}
{"by":"pdwetz","time":"1456428184","timestamp":"2016-02-25 19:23:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A local wine shop near me had hand written notes on their wines. The owner noticed that when the note said \u0026quot;delicious!\u0026quot; it was more likely to be purchased. So now all of the wines are labeled as such. No word on overall sales since then.","parent":"11176800","id":"11177024"}
{"by":"redorb","time":"1208893856","timestamp":"2008-04-22 19:50:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would personally take a minimum to not worry ($1mm) and give out up to 10-15% ... guess I'm a sell out.","parent":"170772","id":"170884"}
{"by":"CalChris","time":"1502988677","timestamp":"2017-08-17 16:51:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most of the fish you eat is farmed fish.","parent":"15031676","id":"15038443"}
{"by":"jhardcastle","time":"1440454464","timestamp":"2015-08-24 22:14:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which is why we specifically target cursive handwriting skills.  We\u0026#x27;re actually doubling-down with a newly revamped cursive curriculum, with the goal to graduate elementary students who can \u0026quot;write beautiful cursive\u0026quot; per the official goals.  It\u0026#x27;s not an either\u0026#x2F;or proposition.","parent":"10111529","id":"10113206"}
{"by":"jly","time":"1485110069","timestamp":"2017-01-22 18:34:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They did this by suppressing four genes to minimize polyphenol oxidase production.  What negative effect does this have on the apple?  They do address this on the website, but I wonder what pesticide requirement these have.  They state themselves PPO production plays a defensive role in many plants.  I dislike this kind of manipulation for what amounts to practically zero benefit, especially if it further necessitates a stock regimen of chemicals to successfully grow.","parent":"13455791","id":"13456421"}
{"by":"johns","time":"1284506927","timestamp":"2010-09-14 23:28:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We just launched a new gallery full of applications built with Twilio: \u003ca href=\"http://www.twilio.com/gallery\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.twilio.com/gallery\u003c/a\u003e We also write about how people are using it one or more times a week on the blog: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.twilio.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.twilio.com\u003c/a\u003e. We go to great lengths to promote our customers. We spend as much, if not more, effort on promoting our customer's projects and businesses as we do promoting ourselves.","parent":"1692539","id":"1692694"}
{"by":"throwawayaway","time":"1416495605","timestamp":"2014-11-20 15:00:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Think they are too tightly coupled to use HN parlance. Would like to see stylesheets or backwards compatible skins becoming de riguer. Particularly when the program does nothing new.","parent":"8635990","id":"8635997"}
{"by":"sounddust","time":"1260759270","timestamp":"2009-12-14 02:54:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The process was misleading.  The default selection was based on users' previous settings \u003ci\u003eonly if they had changed them in the past\u003c/i\u003e, and as Facebook has pointed out, only 20% of people have done so.  That forces the rest of users to make a choice that most neither understand nor want to make.\u003cp\u003ePeople see Facebook as a way to privately share their life with friends.  That's the foundation on which Facebook was built - that's the core aspect that convinced people to abandon other social networks for FB - and now they are idiotically abandoning that core principal and needlessly exposing their users.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, as a web app developer, I'm confused about the process myself.  The privacy dialog seemed to suggest that no matter what my settings are, my name, profile picture, and friends list will be public to all.  If I'm being given more choice about my privacy, why is this choice being taken away from me?  Until this point, I had the choice of being pretty much invisible from anyone but my friends.\u003cp\u003eBack when people used Myspace, it was quite open by default as well.  The difference is that on Myspace your name could be Donald Duck, your location could be set to Antarctica and nobody cared.  You could invent your own privacy controls where they didn't exist. Try doing something that on Facebook and your account will be instantly suspended.\u003cp\u003eThis is not about users being dumb or not.  Many intelligent people don't know (or care to know) the intricate details of web apps.","parent":"993467","id":"993496"}
{"by":"mixedCase","time":"1503272289","timestamp":"2017-08-20 23:38:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s an employee benefit because it makes work more enjoyable. Being stuck in a problem that you can normally tackle with relative ease when \u0026quot;in the zone\u0026quot; is extremely frustrating.","parent":"15060804","id":"15060833"}
{"by":"__float","time":"1350412309","timestamp":"2012-10-16 18:31:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3x the screen resolution...a little less than 1x the usable screen real estate. Comparing to a high pixel density display isn't really fair. The Surface Pro is 1920x1080, but that is all usable space, no pixel doubling for non-\"retina\"-ready apps.","parent":"4660822","id":"4661184"}
{"by":"pille","time":"1373575121","timestamp":"2013-07-11 20:38:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the biggest problems with disability pay is the barrier it creates to joining the workforce. Losing payments when you get employed is a huge disincentive to looking for employment. That\u0026#x27;s the opposite of what UBI is trying to do.","parent":"6028175","id":"6029063"}
{"by":"sgornick","time":"1373579671","timestamp":"2013-07-11 21:54:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can I see what level my account is at?\u003cp\u003eWhat are the limits for Level 1?","parent":"6029469","id":"6029510"}
{"by":"iuguy","time":"1302521625","timestamp":"2011-04-11 11:33:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an aside, the article author used ADSL from \u003ca href=\"http://www.goscomb.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.goscomb.net/\u003c/a\u003e. We don't use Goscomb for our ADSL, but we do have a VPS with them and they have always been absolutely incredible. I can't remember the last time anything was down and we have a fast Internet connection from the box with no noticeable latency.","parent":"2431974","id":"2432203"}
{"by":"paul","time":"1331683988","timestamp":"2012-03-14 00:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm surprised by how many negative reactions there are here. Some people seem almost offended, presumably because we're turning down people with ideas and funding some without.\u003cp\u003eThis really just reinforces the fact that fund people, not ideas. The way it works in practice is that we work with the founders to find a good idea that will work for them (the idea needs to match the founder). The truth is that most people have good ideas in them, but just don't realize it. We aren't necessarily providing the idea so much as helping them to discover the idea that they already have :)","parent":"3700712","id":"3701028"}
{"by":"amsilprotag","time":"1544293230","timestamp":"2018-12-08 18:20:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just yesterday I watched an hour-long interview [0] from 2002 with Doug Engelbart.\u003cp\u003eOn finding a wife.  Engelbart moves to a university town, ditches a male-focused hobby, and finds a more gender neutral hobby in folk dancing.  Echoes of Noyce and choir.\u003cp\u003eHe turns down an offer from HP after asking whether he would be able to work on computers and being told \u0026quot;no\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eHe claims during his 12 or so years working at SRI before the \u0026#x27;68 demo that most of the support for his ideas came from outside of the institution.  He says that later he learned about paradigms (but claims not from Kuhn), which allowed him to understand the resistance he kept facing.\u003cp\u003eHe gives credit to people with tangential skills that made the presentation possible: The machinist mouse-maker who was also a wood carver, the colleague\u0026#x27;s wife who was also a theater director.\u003cp\u003eHe laments the fact that the easiest-to-learn tools out-competed tools that gave the greatest return on learning.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=VeSgaJt27PM\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=VeSgaJt27PM\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18626215","id":"18636605"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1330545427","timestamp":"2012-02-29 19:57:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Estimate demand, send X% of your initial production run (probably more than half) to Amazon, send the rest to international suppliers.","parent":"3647080","id":"3649390"}
{"by":"amix","time":"1324392520","timestamp":"2011-12-20 14:48:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice to see a Danish startup getting traction. Go Europe! ;)","parent":"3373043","id":"3373608"}
{"by":"chuckywhat","time":"1304720025","timestamp":"2011-05-06 22:13:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have been doing this for years, but can't talk family into it... Yes, there have been multiple discussions.","parent":"2522660","id":"2522674"}
{"by":"mahyarm","time":"1471641181","timestamp":"2016-08-19 21:13:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The high end graphics cards were $500 in 2011 too.  Maybe your definition of high end has changed...","parent":"12322308","id":"12323496"}
{"by":"jccooper","time":"1430758145","timestamp":"2015-05-04 16:49:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was intended to on this test, but it failed. Hydraulic issues (just like SpaceX!). No video, presumably because they thought a nice video of part of they system exploding would be bad press.","parent":"9474107","id":"9487322"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1432530964","timestamp":"2015-05-25 05:16:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And almost certainly, NP \\not \\subset BQP.  In fact, there are only a few problems found so far where quantum computing gives a speedup compared to classical computers.","parent":"9597700","id":"9598741"}
{"by":"brendano","time":"1224114968","timestamp":"2008-10-15 23:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thanks mojombo!","parent":"333626","id":"333942"}
{"by":"josh2600","time":"1427925314","timestamp":"2015-04-01 21:55:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a very effective substrate for hosting containers, we at Terminal think a lot about which of the container mechanisms will win over the long term.\u003cp\u003eMy personal opinion is that the winner will be the group that successfully gets Enterprises to change their workload design. I also don\u0026#x27;t think that Rocket is necessarily a superior format to Docker, but I think they\u0026#x27;re both dealing with the recognition that any big change in Enterprise behavior represents an opportunity for value capture.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a real question as to where any of these abstraction layers fit in if Docker wins (and there\u0026#x27;s some possibility docker is going to win). If that\u0026#x27;s the case, coreos doesn\u0026#x27;t want to look back a few years down the road and wish they\u0026#x27;d been working on a container format.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s 2015. One of the battlegrounds for enterprise dollars is containers. It\u0026#x27;s going to be a delightful thing to watch.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s also worth noting that many companies have their own cgroups implementations which are neither docker or rocket based. I rather like the position of dispassionate observer in this war (at Terminal we run all of the containers and also apps without containers).","parent":"9306134","id":"9307208"}
{"by":"ninetax","time":"1441724221","timestamp":"2015-09-08 14:57:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the feedback. It went down during the night. It\u0026#x27;s back up now though!","parent":"10185014","id":"10186048"}
{"by":"UK-AL","time":"1497202164","timestamp":"2017-06-11 17:29:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Combed Guids are normally only partly sequential​.\u003cp\u003eIt means they go be generated on any machine, returned to the user, and the request placed on a queue.\u003cp\u003eWithout completely messing up a clustered index.","parent":"14530565","id":"14532817"}
{"by":"RBr","time":"1302720906","timestamp":"2011-04-13 18:55:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's an \"Elevator Pitch Builder\" from the Harvard Business School:  \u003ca href=\"http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Mark's presentation grader, these things can really help.","parent":"2442614","id":"2443619"}
{"by":"touristtam","time":"1475014523","timestamp":"2016-09-27 22:15:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;d make sense if twitter has an under the radar project to make sense this data \u0026quot;cheaply\u0026quot;.","parent":"12590668","id":"12593679"}
{"by":"matb33","time":"1365509328","timestamp":"2013-04-09 12:08:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd love to see a videoconferencing solution for cheap that dedicates a full wall of your home office (projector and hd camera combo) mirrored to a similar wall at the office, always on. I know there are expensive 100K type solutions out there, but I think a simple kit could be pulled off.\u003cp\u003eIf someone wanted to do a quick face to face, they'd just walk up to your wall and start talking :) Additionally you could link walls with other remote workers or other wall set-ups elsewhere in the main office.\u003cp\u003eEdit: a mini short-throw projector would work well here\u003cp\u003eEdit2: for privacy, since this setup would be always on, you could switch to \"closed door mode\" which would project a wall and door picture instead. Perhaps the camera on the office end could detect using kinect style magic when someone knocks on your \"door\" :)","parent":"5516756","id":"5517538"}
{"by":"johnx123","time":"1307011114","timestamp":"2011-06-02 10:38:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yep, he once spammed it lot. Another one about Groupon \u003ca href=\"http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/2011/03/groupons-pr-possible-reason-for-success.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/2011/03/groupons-pr-possibl...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2610465","id":"2611388"}
{"by":"avivmoreno868","time":"1542367666","timestamp":"2018-11-16 11:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nice.","parent":"18467683","id":"18468023"}
{"by":"Guvante","time":"1529938092","timestamp":"2018-06-25 14:48:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because nothing you said disproves what the parent said, it simply gave an annecdote about what bad things a publisher did, unless you would categorize those as \u0026quot;ill-will of a single writer\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eClaiming systematic bias can also lead to that would have been fine in contrast, maybe even mentioning it has happened vaugely and bringing up your CNN example when challenged.\u003cp\u003eThe down votes are likely because your post could seemingly be summarized as \u0026quot;but Fake News\u0026quot; which has people on edge. Sure that isn\u0026#x27;t what you said but your phrasing makes that an easy mistake to make as a reader.","parent":"17391928","id":"17392810"}
{"by":"KaiserPro","time":"1407775143","timestamp":"2014-08-11 16:39:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The head states that the network is reliable, but then goes on to list lots of cases where the network fails.","parent":"8162720","id":"8163952"}
{"by":"hack_edu","time":"1405616625","timestamp":"2014-07-17 17:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People are downvoting you because this quickly became blatantly off-topic and distracting from the subject at hand, not because of your political views.","parent":"8047913","id":"8048727"}
{"by":"acejam","time":"1487267806","timestamp":"2017-02-16 17:56:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If your password manager doesn\u0026#x27;t encrypt it\u0026#x27;s own files on disk, then you\u0026#x27;re using the wrong password manager.","parent":"13661135","id":"13662016"}
{"by":"gangstead","time":"1505303558","timestamp":"2017-09-13 11:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is your threshold for too long of a build time?  I recently converted a typescript (angular 1.x) project from jspm to webpack.  The front end build time went from 3 minutes to 30 seconds, but I don\u0026#x27;t know if that\u0026#x27;s still \u0026quot;too long\u0026quot; as I have no basis for comparison.","parent":"15235947","id":"15237356"}
{"by":"jamesbritt","time":"1355278546","timestamp":"2012-12-12 02:15:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I find puzzling is seeing what appear to be blog posts published as gists.\u003cp\u003eWhat's the reasoning for this?  I imagine if you don't  have a blog of any kind it fills in, but it seems a odd place to publish lengthy essays.","parent":"4908216","id":"4908250"}
{"by":"ks","time":"1264373134","timestamp":"2010-01-24 22:45:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very interesting. It seems that each visitor is in a self contained environment. I made a simple HTML called \"test.html\" that I could access from \u003ca href=\"http://cb.vu/test.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cb.vu/test.html\u003c/a\u003e. This file was only visible in my own browser,","parent":"1073825","id":"1073938"}
{"by":"pythonlion","time":"1466706936","timestamp":"2016-06-23 18:35:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FYI \u0026quot;+\u0026#x2F;-\u0026quot;:\nA metric that looks at how teams perform with a certain player on the court, how they perform with a certain player off the court, and calculates the overall impact that player has on team success.","parent":"11963324","id":"11963353"}
{"by":"ibizaman","time":"1500736691","timestamp":"2017-07-22 15:18:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s about seeing people you don\u0026#x27;t like that much having fun. Of course the next question is why do you go see their profile?","parent":"14827572","id":"14827598"}
{"by":"blub","time":"1523528041","timestamp":"2018-04-12 10:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No it\u0026#x27;s not, they confuse \u0026quot;undefined behavior\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;hard to analyse behavior\u0026quot; for starters. Exceptions are not UB, but the control flow is totally not obvious.\u003cp\u003eIf I were to start a project today, I\u0026#x27;d rely heavily on optional and result types and use exceptions only for serious errors, when it makes sense to unwind ans start from a clean slate.","parent":"16818068","id":"16819395"}
{"by":"D-Coder","time":"1469416288","timestamp":"2016-07-25 03:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The last link (12100781) is to an unrelated article.","parent":"12100891","id":"12156236"}
{"by":"go1dfish","time":"1435891123","timestamp":"2015-07-03 02:38:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=EPBk4jMLZ5o\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=EPBk4jMLZ5o\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ekn0thing is a play on Alexis\u0026#x27; favorite Metallica song....\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;King Nothing\u0026quot;","parent":"9822991","id":"9823094"}
{"by":"azinman2","time":"1498627039","timestamp":"2017-06-28 05:17:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":":)","parent":"14649616","id":"14651854"}
{"by":"sundar22in","time":"1328798974","timestamp":"2012-02-09 14:49:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the info. I love python.","parent":"3571280","id":"3571299"}
{"by":"Johnny555","time":"1506057299","timestamp":"2017-09-22 05:14:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know, how hard?","parent":"15309534","id":"15309551"}
{"by":"hutzlibu","time":"1533250398","timestamp":"2018-08-02 22:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought it was obvious (to kids it is) that I was talking about the sum.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Do that process twice\u0026quot; \n\u0026quot;Perhaps after you\u0026#x27;re done putting apples \u0026quot;\n\u0026quot;...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ethe point is, that the process is never finished ... just like you can never have a biggest number...just like the table has no end.\u003cp\u003eDefined as infinity.\nKids do get that.\u003cp\u003eWhat they usually don\u0026#x27;t get are abstract mathematic concepts.","parent":"17676020","id":"17676120"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1257363218","timestamp":"2009-11-04 19:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Mostly security and forensics tools which aren't mainstream. There aren't many practical, mainstream uses for \"evil\" hacker tools. Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus, Netstumbler, l0phtcrack, Aircrack, SATAN, Snort, Honeypot/Honeynet, John The Ripper, p0f, Ethereal/Wireshark, Hping2, Netcat, Dsniff. Like others have mentioned, any copyright-breaking tools like MPlayer, DeCSS, rtmpdump but there's no way to say these were written by \"evil hackers\" (more like hackers who just wanted to watch their own DVDs or download free public videos)","parent":"922039","id":"922415"}
{"by":"someguydave","time":"1486127625","timestamp":"2017-02-03 13:13:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would agree that US experts in obscure foreign culture might be hard or impossible to find.  Otherwise I do think that there are experts in the US on nearly every topic - and if the labor market is demanding a particular topic with high wages people in the US will pick it up.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t have a problem with hiring foreigners as long as they pay a fair sum to the taxpayers for thier diminishment of citizen\u0026#x27;s welfare.   This is because immigrant is a potential drain on the welfare state and also uses resources that otherwise would be enjoyed by citizens.\u003cp\u003eAlso I do believe most h1bs are paid below market rate because they are hired by large IT contractors like Infosys.  They have the people and presence in India to make hiring in H1b cheap- they contract to US firms and pocket the difference.\u003cp\u003eFor small business in the US I would agree that h1b is expensive.","parent":"13558054","id":"13559548"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1296137892","timestamp":"2011-01-27 14:18:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you only underscore his point further.","parent":"2147838","id":"2147852"}
{"by":"pitt1980","time":"1343734335","timestamp":"2012-07-31 11:32:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"My company is a small start-up, and we're looking actually to hire someone who is skilled, so the reason I came is to talk to Andrew and the people and see if they could recommend someone in the class,\" said an executive who asked not to be named. \"People could be very good already and they just need that certificate or they can put on their résumé that they finished the class,\" she added. \"I don't want someone who doesn't have any experience, but I believe there are people who just do it on the side maybe it took them 15 minutes a week, and now they can claim that certificate.\"\u003cp\u003efacepalm, pretty sure no one completes any of these classes in 15 minutes a week","parent":"4315779","id":"4316682"}
{"by":"gersh","time":"1301451496","timestamp":"2011-03-30 02:18:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good writing is important, which includes finding typos.","parent":"2385377","id":"2385491"}
{"by":"mike-cardwell","time":"1382283324","timestamp":"2013-10-20 15:35:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you use the HTTPS-Everywhere Firefox addon it will protect you from this.","parent":"6577013","id":"6580195"}
{"by":"hosh","time":"1492543932","timestamp":"2017-04-18 19:32:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I run Kubernetes on a 1-node cluster for development on my laptop (as do the rest of my team), and we scale up just fine to our 6-node staging and 9-node production cluster.","parent":"14141262","id":"14142104"}
{"by":"sukuriant","time":"1308887483","timestamp":"2011-06-24 03:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You said family's names. I argue that their names, addresses and phone numbers shouldn't have been released. The fact that some of them have wives with name X is just another piece of personal info that shouldn't have been released, but it certainly isn't all of it.","parent":"2690887","id":"2690928"}
{"by":"bogomipz","time":"1543263146","timestamp":"2018-11-26 20:12:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What is PSS here? I\u0026#x27;m not familiar with this acronym.","parent":"18532171","id":"18536391"}
{"by":"netcan","time":"1400773106","timestamp":"2014-05-22 15:38:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting point and this loops back around (in my mind) to the beginning.  6 triangles into a half dead thread, the only thing to do is quote Douglas Adams:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;\u003ci\u003e..we don\u0026#x27;t have to go very far back in our history until we find that all the information that reached us was relevant to us and therefore anything that happened, any news, whether it was about something that\u0026#x27;s actually happened to us, in the next house, or in the next village, within the boundary or within our horizon, it happened in our world and if we reacted to it the world reacted back. It was all relevant to us, so for example, if somebody had a terrible accident we could crowd round and really help. Nowadays, because of the plethora of one-to-many communication we have, if a plane crashes in India we may get terribly anxious about it but our anxiety doesn\u0026#x27;t have any impact. We\u0026#x27;re not very well able to distinguish between a terrible emergency that\u0026#x27;s happened to somebody a world away and something that\u0026#x27;s happened to someone round the corner. We can\u0026#x27;t really distinguish between them any more, which is why we get terribly upset by something that has happened to somebody in a soap opera that comes out of Hollywood and maybe less concerned when it\u0026#x27;s happened to our sister. We\u0026#x27;ve all become twisted and disconnected and it\u0026#x27;s not surprising that we feel very stressed and alienated in the world because the world impacts on us but we don\u0026#x27;t impact the world.\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWhy do we even have an expectation that someone in the street will help us any more than we have an expectation that someone in a different country would help us.\u003cp\u003eThe majority of us have, right now, the ability to help someone with similarly urgent problems. Medical or nutritional. There are still people campaign out after their house got blown away in the Philipines earthquake.\u003cp\u003eThinking about this as \u0026quot;not my area\u0026quot; is an anonymous mentality. Like saying \u003ci\u003e\u0026quot;I support education projects. I don\u0026#x27;t know anything about refugee projects.\u0026quot;\u003c/i\u003e She is asking \u0026quot;\u003ci\u003eWhy didn\u0026#x27;t you behave like my friends and neighbors\u003c/i\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eWe could help them without endangering ourselves. If I was one the the bystanders who didn\u0026#x27;t help this person, I would feel ashamed. Is this sentiment a vestige?","parent":"7783114","id":"7784358"}
{"by":"elsjaako","time":"1415358589","timestamp":"2014-11-07 11:09:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had a friend that used the wikipedia page on the silk road to get the silk road address, and he fell for a fake version of the website (someone had changed the wikipedia entry). A cert could protect against that.","parent":"8571434","id":"8571984"}
{"by":"27182818284","time":"1355333568","timestamp":"2012-12-12 17:32:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"unaffiliated third parties, except as necessary to administer the communications we offer and as permitted by law\"\u003cp\u003eDoesn't that wrap things up? They'd just argue they've shared it with an affiliated third party.","parent":"4909244","id":"4911324"}
{"by":"chisleu","time":"1516636000","timestamp":"2018-01-22 15:46:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMHO, states should be prepared for federal governments being \u0026quot;shutdown\u0026quot; or dissolved. What we call shutdowns are not real shut downs. Military doesn\u0026#x27;t go on leave. They still do their same job. Many key workers do their same jobs as well. Some workers end up staying home and then later are usually paid for the time they missed at work anyway. #FreeVacation\u003cp\u003eIt is a contrived emergency so the political parties can try to increase pressure to get pork through that they would not have otherwise in order to get the votes high enough to end the BS.\u003cp\u003eIMHO, the federal government should be entirely dissolved and the states should have a more loose confederation like the EU has. Federal law and over spending have gone too far. By overspending, I mean how the DoD decided to spend billions that it was not given by Congress. I don\u0026#x27;t mean any liberal vs conservative notion of how government should spend.\u003cp\u003eI know this is a pipe dream, but one way it could happen is through a \u0026quot;shutdown\u0026quot; that never stops.","parent":"16202548","id":"16205211"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1478036766","timestamp":"2016-11-01 21:46:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People play all kinds of games with TripAdvisor reviews here in SE Asia, most notably stuffing the box with good but bogus reviews from friends or family or trashing competitors with fake bad reviews.\u003cp\u003eBut I\u0026#x27;ve never heard any complaints of TripAdvisor itself shaking businesses down the way Yelp is often accused of.","parent":"12850032","id":"12850304"}
{"by":"gnaritas","time":"1337025458","timestamp":"2012-05-14 19:57:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You're making the mistake of assuming evolution is progress; that's not how it works.  Evolution is adaption to the current environment, that could be progress or devolving, whatever works better. Older genes are not inferior.\u003cp\u003eSecondly, evolution works across great timescales, doubling or tripling lifetimes won't stop evolution.  There is no evolution problem.\u003cp\u003eThirdly, if people could live indefinitely, there would still not be an evolution problem, there'd be a population and resource problem, which would change the environment thus accelerating evolution by selecting those who could survive on fewer resources or those capable of obtaining resources.","parent":"3967816","id":"3972889"}
{"by":"fapjacks","time":"1437957765","timestamp":"2015-07-27 00:42:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your response reads like you\u0026#x27;re saying that the frat boys in tech management are somehow a subset of or descended from hippie culture. I know better than to think you\u0026#x27;re actually saying that, though, because that is insane.","parent":"9939891","id":"9952796"}
{"by":"saraid216","time":"1426367951","timestamp":"2015-03-14 21:19:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel obligated to mention that this strategy, while it often works to some degree, sometimes doesn\u0026#x27;t work. For people like me, phrasings like that sound passive-aggressive.\u003cp\u003eI prefer the strategy of wrapping my sentences in things like, \u0026quot;I think\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;I prefer\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eSo, I\u0026#x27;d write, \u0026quot;This loop doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to terminate.\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;I think that this condition needs a test.\u0026quot; It\u0026#x27;s an implicit admission that I could be wrong and an invitation to push back. Just as often, I\u0026#x27;ll walk over and say, \u0026quot;Could you explain why you did that to me?\u0026quot; This is especially acceptable when it\u0026#x27;s agreed that a good review requires the reviewer understand what\u0026#x27;s going on.","parent":"9204107","id":"9204197"}
{"by":"rednaught","time":"1317152001","timestamp":"2011-09-27 19:33:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A consortium or whatnot of startup(or existing) companies might be an interesting way to both announce/broadcast their services/products and also create a standard privacy/user-data policy.  Any ideas?  Work towards common goals:\u003cp\u003e-Privacy by default, sharing only by opt-in.\u003cp\u003e-Advertising (if necessary)is done in a manner that demographics are shared with advertisers in some standard structure/tiering of individual data that is entirely up to the user to decide comfort level(e.g. complete privacy - higher SAAS prices or give up a high amount of privacy - lower priced or almost free SAAS).\u003cp\u003e-No externally hosted services(js-based offerings such as analytics, customer support, surveys, etc.) or if using a third party offering disclose who it is and only work those who also are members of the consortium.\u003cp\u003e-Disclose infrastructure and back-end(non-visible)/external processing companies that are used to operate the service.\u003cp\u003e-Agree that you won't pull a \"Spotify\" where user's data  might be handed over to another company \"after the fact.\"  Announce changes like acquisitions or partnerships such that a change in access to user-data requires 30/60 days notice.\u003cp\u003e-Allow permanent deletion of accounts and information, not toggling columns in a database to hide visibility.\u003cp\u003e-Announce what details are captured regarding the user and make the entirety of that available for download in a common format.\u003cp\u003eRe-reading this I must sound paranoid but I've always considered myself moderate compared to Stallman. Am I the only one concerned with \"acceptable\" privacy these days?","parent":"3044662","id":"3044851"}
{"by":"oh_sigh","time":"1543205327","timestamp":"2018-11-26 04:08:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It may have been better to just end your post with \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ve never worked in the industry\u0026quot;.","parent":"18530453","dead":true,"id":"18530996"}
{"by":"rrecuero","time":"1518643955","timestamp":"2018-02-14 21:32:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the Genesis Block he explicitly references the post financial crisis bailouts.","parent":"16379509","id":"16379617"}
{"by":"tezzer","time":"1508784605","timestamp":"2017-10-23 18:50:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I still won\u0026#x27;t be able to see my kids awake because of a 1.5 hour commute each way, but I\u0026#x27;ll be able to read the newspaper on the way to work?  No thanks.","parent":"15535687","id":"15535861"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1338769869","timestamp":"2012-06-04 00:31:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; That is not the grounds on which the patent attorney was excused\n\u0026#62; The key worry is that the patent attorney may bring up his knowledge in deliberations with other jurors.\u003cp\u003eThat's exactly why the patent attorney was excused. A juror is not supposed to bring his view of the law into deliberations. The jury is supposed to get its view of the law from the judge.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; As for the Android users...Android users are not as enamored with Google as iPhone users are with Apple, so that consideration would be laughed out of court.\u003cp\u003eWho knows what the relative brand-loyalty of Android versus Apple users is. The point is that it is entirely legitimate to remove a juror that might have reason to root for one side over the other.","parent":"4061544","id":"4062166"}
{"by":"ynniv","time":"1374533554","timestamp":"2013-07-22 22:52:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No it\u0026#x27;s not. If you live in a detached house your phone line, power, water, cable, etc, is readily accessible from outdoors. I\u0026#x27;ve never robbed a house, but it seems pretty prudent to cut those things with an axe before you enter. Maybe thieves aren\u0026#x27;t doing that \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c/i\u003e security systems are commonly battery backed? They would have to be cellular as well. I\u0026#x27;m not sure, but your original concern does not seem far fetched.","parent":"6086857","id":"6086992"}
{"by":"ubernostrum","time":"1242416158","timestamp":"2009-05-15 19:35:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So now you bait and switch?\u003cp\u003eYou started out with a condescending post which implied that anyone who'd stayed awake in CS 101 would find Twitter trivially easy to scale.\u003cp\u003eThen you switched course to claiming that you know how to do this because of experience working a gigantic installation.\u003cp\u003eOr are you asserting that the average CS 101 project consists of running the production messaging systems for major stock exchanges?","parent":"611081","id":"611192"}
{"by":"elbear","time":"1476868557","timestamp":"2016-10-19 09:15:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for replying so late.\u003cp\u003eYour findings have to be accepted by the others. If they\u0026#x27;re not accepted it\u0026#x27;s like they don\u0026#x27;t exist. Think of all the great theories that didn\u0026#x27;t take off at first, because nobody accepted them (for various reasons).\u003cp\u003eWhen you attack someone, they are less likely to listen to you, even if you are offering valuable feedback. They care about saving face, so they will focus on defending themselves.\u003cp\u003eI realize this can be frustrating, because it means truth doesn\u0026#x27;t always prevail. However, it\u0026#x27;s what we have to work with, our emotional brains.","parent":"12648158","id":"12742300"}
{"by":"mtoddh","time":"1334925850","timestamp":"2012-04-20 12:44:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"People often point out that the frothy tech startups of 2012 are fundamentally unlike the frothy tech startups of 1999...\"\u003cp\u003eI've always thought it interesting how 1999 is always the benchmark people use, and never any of the years prior when the bubble was forming. People's logic seems to be \"Until we meet or exceed the apex of the last bubble (ie, 1999), we don't need to worry.\"","parent":"3867318","id":"3867600"}
{"by":"peterjaap","time":"1414006369","timestamp":"2014-10-22 19:32:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point you make about not having to scroll endlessly through your inbox to find \u0026#x27;that link\u0026#x27; is moot when using Point a lot, because you\u0026#x27;ll be endlessly scrolling through the Point app.\u003cp\u003eAlso; what happens when the content changes and the quoted part is gone?\u003cp\u003eWould be interesting for for example QA teams when you include Dropbox integration with a screenshot option.","parent":"8493896","id":"8494620"}
{"by":"tombrossman","time":"1378548922","timestamp":"2013-09-07 10:15:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m using 12.04 still and was stuck with Gwibber, hoping to see something like this. I just installed TweetDeck (and an open-sourced Google Authenticator app) and what a pleasant surprise!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll have to test these more thoroughly but both installed no problem and appear to be working perfectly.\u003cp\u003eThis is especially good timing because I\u0026#x27;d like to move off Android to a Firefox OS mobile handset soon. Once I see something performance\u0026#x2F;spec comparable to a Nexus 4 I\u0026#x27;m on board.","parent":"6344536","id":"6344602"}
{"by":"codygman","time":"1384894253","timestamp":"2013-11-19 20:50:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;class of bugs prevented by tooling\u0026quot; not be quite as good as \u0026quot;class of bugs disallowed by programming language\u0026quot;?","parent":"6763309","id":"6764362"}
{"by":"TeMPOraL","time":"1435834462","timestamp":"2015-07-02 10:54:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Often benefits put you in a situation where it makes no economical sense to pursue a job. I have a friend who lost her mother and had a pension that would be taken away if she got employed, but the pension itself was much bigger than she could ever dream of earning at that time (hell, it was bigger than I was earning in my first two programming jobs). So there\u0026#x27;s your incentive to go and get employed.\u003cp\u003eOr another example; until not so long ago, my mother (single parent) got social benefits that would disappear if my own personal income would exceed a particular (not very big) amount, and this would turn into a problem with paying rent and feeding her and my siblings. She also spent some time unemployed after a company she worked in went bust (the original owner died, and his son mismanaged it into the ground), because all jobs available for her wouldn\u0026#x27;t even pay enough to cover the lost benefits.\u003cp\u003eBasically, living at the lower end of income spectrum is incredibly hard, and you end up doing a lot of weird calculations. When working hard for 8+ hours a day pays you less than not working at all (and caring about your kids instead), suddenly this \u0026quot;laziness\u0026quot; becomes a perfectly rational choice.","parent":"9817906","id":"9818057"}
{"by":"gbuk2013","time":"1464167760","timestamp":"2016-05-25 09:16:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least in the UK, \u0026quot;murder\u0026quot; requires a proven intention to kill. Your example of a punch killing a person would fall under \u0026quot;manslaughter by unlawful and dangerous act\u0026quot; but not murder.","parent":"11768374","id":"11768575"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1496142268","timestamp":"2017-05-30 11:04:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; a picture of a phone you haven\u0026#x27;t seen before\u003cp\u003eTo be fair, all phones look \u003ci\u003ebasically\u003c/i\u003e the same. Not saying that there aren\u0026#x27;t differences, but most phones are difficult to tell apart at first glance.","parent":"14444340","id":"14444387"}
{"by":"marze","time":"1265256392","timestamp":"2010-02-04 04:06:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Better hurry....","parent":"1098949","id":"1099732"}
{"by":"mintplant","time":"1521650906","timestamp":"2018-03-21 16:48:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While we\u0026#x27;re on the topic, I was surprised to find just how poorly maintained TWRP—the standard custom recovery distribution for Android—is. Decryption of encrypted partitions is just broken many devices, for example. Issues pile up across the respective repositories as designated \u0026quot;maintainers\u0026quot; ignore all inquiries. Doing the work to fix something yourself requires piecing together the arcane knowledge of TWRP\u0026#x27;s build process from multiple tutorial posts on forums in various states of obsolescence. Then you need to understand from where whoever did the original work for your device pulled the library binaries that are inevitably sprinkled across its repository under vague commit messages and no other documentation. It seems no effort was put into securing the project\u0026#x27;s continuity in the long term.","parent":"16638732","id":"16639911"}
{"by":"kevingadd","time":"1361205376","timestamp":"2013-02-18 16:36:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Structs and erasure-free generics definitely make C# faster in principle, but I don't think that's necessarily enough to overcome the huge amount of work that has gone into making the JVM JIT fast code and giving it a world-class garbage collector. I don't think it makes sense to assume that it would be faster for 'big data' use cases unless you've tested it.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, I doubt straight-line execution performance is really the biggest concern when choosing a language to use for a task like this. You probably want to prioritize being able to find people who know the language - or, if you're using existing staff, you pick something they either know or can learn easily. C#'s not hard to learn but the odds are better that your typical CS graduate knows Java. In particular, if you want high performance, high performance C# isn't particularly easy to write - you'll have to know the language well, just like in any other environment.","parent":"5238788","id":"5239042"}
{"by":"applecore","time":"1406079055","timestamp":"2014-07-23 01:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you \u0026quot;listen to clicks\u0026quot;?","parent":"8072452","id":"8072473"}
{"by":"nitrogen","time":"1463639649","timestamp":"2016-05-19 06:34:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These days I\u0026#x27;d say the ISO standard is the only \u0026quot;book\u0026quot; you need to know everything about C.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.open-std.org\u0026#x2F;jtc1\u0026#x2F;sc22\u0026#x2F;wg14\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;n1570.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.open-std.org\u0026#x2F;jtc1\u0026#x2F;sc22\u0026#x2F;wg14\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;n1570.pdf\u003c/a\u003e is the most recent draft before the official, purchase-only C11 was published according to \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.open-std.org\u0026#x2F;jtc1\u0026#x2F;sc22\u0026#x2F;wg14\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;standards\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.open-std.org\u0026#x2F;jtc1\u0026#x2F;sc22\u0026#x2F;wg14\u0026#x2F;www\u0026#x2F;standards\u003c/a\u003e.  I don\u0026#x27;t know if it\u0026#x27;s identical, but it should be close, and it\u0026#x27;s free.","parent":"11728153","id":"11728441"}
{"by":"darkpicnic","time":"1380645498","timestamp":"2013-10-01 16:38:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PoachIt - www.poachit.com - New York, NY\u003cp\u003ePoachIt is an intelligent web application that provides consumers validated coupon codes while shopping online and price drop alerts for the products they want. PoachIt’s tracking feature also offers users visibility into pricing trends and merchant sale cycles, helping fuel the right purchasing decision.  PoachIt received $1M in seed funding in April, 2013.\u003cp\u003e-----------\nWe\u0026#x27;re looking for someone who does:\n* Python\n* MySQL\u0026#x2F;AWS\n* Redis\n* DevOps\u003cp\u003eWho loves:\n* Obsessing over data and relationships\n* Automating everything\n* Coding things to fail gracefully\u003cp\u003eEmail us at: jobs at poachit.com","parent":"6475879","id":"6477254"}
{"by":"petervandijck","time":"1303761895","timestamp":"2011-04-25 20:04:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's a white phone. Get over it already.","parent":"2482656","id":"2482676"}
{"by":"mpf62","time":"1254375288","timestamp":"2009-10-01 05:34:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our share of foreign nationals accounts for about 22%. That is almost 10 times the share of foreigners in the Czech Republic and about double the amount of the USA.\u003cp\u003eIf a multicultural experience (four official languages) is boring, then you are right.\u003cp\u003eSorry, but Switzerland is a little bit more than just bankers, watches, chocolate and cheese.","parent":"852568","id":"854381"}
{"by":"smartestone","time":"1393789698","timestamp":"2014-03-02 19:48:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"lol at your baseless wishful thinking\u003cp\u003eCry me a river. The demand if from millionaires an billionaires both foreign and domestic. Whatsapp made each employee a millionaire many times over. Twitter IPO. Rich Chinese \u0026amp; Russians. What goes up will keep going up, lib.","parent":"7330401","id":"7330462"}
{"by":"ablx_","time":"1523952991","timestamp":"2018-04-17 08:16:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"FYI, a good talk about this from 33C3:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;media.ccc.de\u0026#x2F;v\u0026#x2F;33c3-8026-a_story_of_discrimination_and_unfairness\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;media.ccc.de\u0026#x2F;v\u0026#x2F;33c3-8026-a_story_of_discrimination_a...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16854757","id":"16856468"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1449708099","timestamp":"2015-12-10 00:41:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; If there is an equal increase in upper class population for every loss of middle class population, that just means that our incomes as a population are increasing\u003cp\u003eIf they were defining boundaries by inflation-adjusted income, that would be correct.\u003cp\u003eThey are defining them by ratio to the median income, so more upper \u0026quot;class\u0026quot; at the expense of the middle \u0026quot;class\u0026quot; by the standards used just means increased income inequality, not increased real wealth. (It could accompany increased or decreased real wealth, but its a completely separate thing.)","parent":"10707929","id":"10708058"}
{"by":"Seventhson74","time":"1454523461","timestamp":"2016-02-03 18:17:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Funny, my wife and I had a 2014 Macbook Pro with retina display and the backlight on the screen went out.  We also have a SurfacePro 3 and have had no issues whatsoever.  We brought the Macbook to the apple-store (with extended warranty) and they initially tried to tell me that screens were not covered (as they are almost always broken due to accidental damage).  I had to come back with a flashlight and show them that you can still see the image, it\u0026#x27;s just the back light went out and you cant really break just the back light.\nI was really starting to move away from Apple anyway but this really sealed the deal for me.  However, I know that my experience is anecdotal, and it\u0026#x27;s plural is not data so take my experience for what it\u0026#x27;s worth.....","parent":"10996988","id":"11028326"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1323353326","timestamp":"2011-12-08 14:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e(And of course, in planes that are not certified for stalls, you can't really practice full stalls and have to train on approach to stalls instead.)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course, very little airliner training happens outside a simulator, which can you can stall without damaging anything.","parent":"3328518","id":"3329091"}
{"by":"_pmf_","time":"1458729671","timestamp":"2016-03-23 10:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As done by Maven for a decade.\u003cp\u003eBut hey, Java sucks, move fast and break things, right?","parent":"11341292","id":"11343295"}
{"by":"autocorr","time":"1484702160","timestamp":"2017-01-18 01:16:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With a lot of notes and lists in Google Keep, I always wonder when Google will kill it like Reader. So, I\u0026#x27;m really behind projects like this focusing on openness and durability. I hope it\u0026#x27;s a success!\u003cp\u003eI do academic research as a grad student and it\u0026#x27;s very reassuring to know that if my office doesn\u0026#x27;t burn down or get ransacked, that my pen-and-paper research notebooks will be there for reference to see what I did on a past project. It was an exceptionally cool experience when visiting the NRAO[1] Archives[2] to pick up and read 70+ year old research notebooks from pioneering astronomers. It seems like it would take a great deal of vigilance to make digital notes endure for that long.\u003cp\u003eHowever, digital notes are useful, especially for brain dumping something quickly, so I\u0026#x27;ve settled on vimwiki[3] in a git repository. They\u0026#x27;re just markdown utf-8 textfiles in a folder hierarchy, and I figure vim and vimscript extensions are pretty darn future proof. It\u0026#x27;s also useful when traveling and being given a guest Linux work station to use that it doesn\u0026#x27;t require admin privileges to get working: just git clone the vimwiki repo into ~\u0026#x2F;.vim and clone the notes repo.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nrao.edu\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nrao.edu\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nrao.edu\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nrao.edu\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[3] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vimwiki\u0026#x2F;vimwiki\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;vimwiki\u0026#x2F;vimwiki\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13421927","id":"13423182"}
{"by":"coffeecheque","time":"1392073182","timestamp":"2014-02-10 22:59:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah it was. I left it for a bit and it got to 250MB, so I assumed it was uploading Library\u0026#x2F;Mail again.\u003cp\u003eI should clarify and say support did get me to send various log files, etc. so it wasn\u0026#x27;t a bad experience at all - it just ended with no solution.\u003cp\u003eMaybe I\u0026#x27;ll just take a loss, kill my Arq 3 backups and just re-do everything with the new version!\u003cp\u003eAm I right in assuming that upgrading\u0026#x2F;re-imaging an Mac OS X install normally shouldn\u0026#x27;t result in sync","parent":"7214314","id":"7214423"}
{"by":"lostlogin","time":"1469732523","timestamp":"2016-07-28 19:02:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Google maps giving turn by turn and trying to say Maori words is downright hilarious. Personal favourite was Oratia (pronounced Oratee a)which got an Orwellian sounding Orasia.","parent":"12180145","id":"12182362"}
{"by":"alkonaut","time":"1516778741","timestamp":"2018-01-24 07:25:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a point to running verified code on insecure hardware?","parent":"16220561","id":"16221000"}
{"by":"samstr","time":"1343605574","timestamp":"2012-07-29 23:46:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is only because TaskRabbit have been around longer. I think this space will get seriously interesting - but Postmates will take the crown.","parent":"4306908","id":"4310208"}
{"by":"bdb","time":"1291858986","timestamp":"2010-12-09 01:43:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Graphite definitely does not get enough love.  It's an amazing piece of software, though can be a little rough around the edges sometimes -- I imagine it's improved a lot over the last year.\u003cp\u003eThe idea to add markers for code deploys is great.  Totally stealing that one.","parent":"1985008","id":"1985617"}
{"by":"justicezyx","time":"1534518678","timestamp":"2018-08-17 15:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can we stop this subtle unconscious linkage embedded in the article.\u003cp\u003eSeems anything related to China is hidden with a connection with the government or some kind of populist concerted movement.\u003cp\u003eThe authors know too well such articles serves the stereotype and did nothing to state the fact clearly.","parent":"17780477","id":"17783395"}
{"by":"agentultra","time":"1396632229","timestamp":"2014-04-04 17:23:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; the idea of least cognitive load I think only runs skin deep (syntax)\u003cp\u003ePerhaps... I\u0026#x27;m not aware of any empirical study into the matter so my claim is mere speculation.\u003cp\u003eThere are, for example, plenty of highly productive Perl and Haskell programmers. Those languages are notorious for the gobs of arcane syntax. And yet their proponents claim it\u0026#x27;s an advantage.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Cognitive load,\u0026quot; in my case refers to the amount of information about the language and its compiler\u0026#x2F;runtime I have to recall in order to estimate how a given piece of code will execute.","parent":"7532357","id":"7532894"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1468076692","timestamp":"2016-07-09 15:04:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Full article: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;group\u0026#x2F;htgg\u0026#x2F;cgi-bin\u0026#x2F;drupal\u0026#x2F;?q=node\u0026#x2F;1211\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;group\u0026#x2F;htgg\u0026#x2F;cgi-bin\u0026#x2F;drupal\u0026#x2F;?q=node\u0026#x2F;1...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12061119","id":"12061535"}
{"by":"JoshTriplett","time":"1328092665","timestamp":"2012-02-01 10:37:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agreed entirely.  Personally, I agree strongly with USENIX, which makes all their work publically available, and which requires only a simple grant of permission from authors, not a copyright assignment.","parent":"3536877","id":"3537419"}
{"by":"renaudg","time":"1491315536","timestamp":"2017-04-04 14:18:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"tl;dr : they designed themselves into a corner with the current Mac Pro, next ones will have modularity as a primary goal.","parent":"14031696","id":"14032828"}
{"by":"protomyth","time":"1268520758","timestamp":"2010-03-13 22:52:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would like a bill that expressly prohibits the blocking of ports or protocols without the account holder's permission.  I also wish I could prioritize my own traffic (skype \u0026#62; download).  Yeah, I know, I want the pony.","parent":"1189789","id":"1189811"}
{"by":"Pxtl","time":"1494273684","timestamp":"2017-05-08 20:01:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assume this would quickly be stamped out by sending convoys of trucks with a single driver\u0026#x2F;guard supervising it.  So instead of 1 driver per-truck, you have a 5-truck convoy with a single on-site monitor\u0026#x2F;driver\u0026#x2F;supervisor\u0026#x2F;guard.","parent":"14294319","id":"14295049"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1334589196","timestamp":"2012-04-16 15:13:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The idea of competing with Amazon which seems to underlay Fruugo, justifies the scale of investment. To me the execution failed because it did not draw the correct lessons for Amazon's success.\u003cp\u003eBezos's grounding in finance played a key role in Amazon's success over the long term. But more critical was that he was taking responsibility for hauling packages to UPS himself - is there any better example of a founder so focused on shipping?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bez0int-4\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bez0int-4\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's hard to see a former chairman of Nokia doing that.","parent":"3846823","id":"3847696"}
{"by":"Ajedi32","time":"1503411647","timestamp":"2017-08-22 14:20:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not really sure what your concern is here. Let\u0026#x27;s assume for a moment that Firefox\u0026#x27;s implementation of differential privacy in this scenario is completely correct, and that as a result it\u0026#x27;s completely impossible (even in an information-theoretic sense) to learn anything about any individual user using this data; only about many users in aggregate.\u003cp\u003eIn this scenario, how exactly would Firefox\u0026#x27;s actions here compromise anyone\u0026#x27;s privacy?","parent":"15071966","id":"15072647"}
{"by":"swampthinker","time":"1541310477","timestamp":"2018-11-04 05:47:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On mobile so I\u0026#x27;ll having trouble finding a source, but studies have unfortunately found that countries with legalized prostitution generally have higher trafficking rates.","parent":"18372802","id":"18374472"}
{"by":"oldnan","time":"1451322685","timestamp":"2015-12-28 17:11:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Without adoption it\u0026#x27;s hard to stay relevant which was what my post was about...","parent":"10802041","id":"10802102"}
{"by":"izzydata","time":"1394049586","timestamp":"2014-03-05 19:59:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just like how every movie is the funniest movie this year according to critics.","parent":"7345846","id":"7349447"}
{"by":"VMG","time":"1304709804","timestamp":"2011-05-06 19:23:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"there is markdown2pdf written Haskell, which seems to have XeTeX as an intermediary step.\u003cp\u003ePersonally I'd be happy to see \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e markup language becoming the default, regardless which one it is. Having a proper grammar would be a bonus.","parent":"2522018","id":"2522142"}
{"by":"mikestew","time":"1424456373","timestamp":"2015-02-20 18:19:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just a general observation of a long and oft repeating pattern. I\u0026#x27;m dead serious about the macro, though.","parent":"9081826","id":"9081856"}
{"by":"mnglkhn2","time":"1414174809","timestamp":"2014-10-24 18:20:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unity has negotiated a license with Novell. Now they would have to do it again with Xamarin for the newer version of Mono. But we don\u0026#x27;t know if Unity was really nice to the Mono guys when Novell pushed out what would quickly become Xamarin. \nAs always, if it were only money things would be simpler. But if there is some beef things will drag.\u003cp\u003ePlus, Unity has forked Mono and they contribute to their own internal version. At the same time they are working hard on their own proprietary il2cpp (to export to C++).\nThe writing is clear: they will drag things as long as possible with using their old version of Mono until they are able to switch to il2cpp.\u003cp\u003eMy personal opinion is that Xamarin guys are better at Mono and that UE4 coupled w. Mono\u0026#x2F;C# might put quite a bit of pressure on Unity.","parent":"8504282","id":"8505072"}
{"by":"shmageggy","time":"1349292272","timestamp":"2012-10-03 19:24:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apparently there are two active rovers on Mars right now [1], both of which have an average speed of about 0.02mph [2,3]. I haven't checked out the geography of the situation but it's not looking promising.\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_%28space_exploration%29#Active_rover_missions\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_%28space_exploration%29#A...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_rover#Design_and_construction\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_rover#Design_and_co...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Specifications\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Specifications\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4609126","id":"4609198"}
{"by":"inopinatus","time":"1532900368","timestamp":"2018-07-29 21:39:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s not owned by a reprehensible consumer surveillance utility. That is 50% of why I chose Vue.\u003cp\u003eThe other half is also programmer happiness, due to impedance matching with Rails.","parent":"17639874","id":"17640415"}
{"by":"VLM","time":"1404077628","timestamp":"2014-06-29 21:33:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I thought for certain this was going to be a prison, but it turns out to be something kind of the same for retired people.\u003cp\u003eThe article mentions some demographic peculiarities, but the main point they seem to miss, is if every generation is poorer than the last as a national economic policy, and they\u0026#x27;re not leaving money on the table with this one, then who is going to live there in the future?  I surely will not be able to afford it by the time I retire, at present trends.\u003cp\u003eIf you build something thats not sustainable on the assumption it\u0026#x27;ll be sustainable, thats not going to work well.","parent":"7962276","id":"7962511"}
{"by":"drewg123","time":"1538435064","timestamp":"2018-10-01 23:04:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, I\u0026#x27;ve had \u003ci\u003efewer\u003c/i\u003e problems with the proprietary Nvidia drivers than with nouveau, even on fairly old hardware.\u003cp\u003eBoth of my wife\u0026#x27;s desktops (home and office)  started locking up randomly with a kernel oops due to the nouveau driver after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04.  I realized that she had this bug, but in Ubuntu 18.04: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bugzilla.redhat.com\u0026#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1559178\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bugzilla.redhat.com\u0026#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1559178\u003c/a\u003e.  No problems since switching to the proprietary drivers.\u003cp\u003eI use FreeBSD, and also run the proprietary Nvidia drivers.","parent":"18117195","id":"18117541"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1292275796","timestamp":"2010-12-13 21:29:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If most of these private sector bailouts took the form of purchasing commercial paper, doesn't that imply that the Fed got paid back? None of those companies have defaulted.","parent":"2001921","id":"2002049"}
{"by":"david_shaw","time":"1379447445","timestamp":"2013-09-17 19:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; One of my favorite Wired articles ever was back in \u0026#x27;08, \u0026quot;High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas\u0026quot;[1]\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI actually came to post about this, and was pleased to see your comment in the top spot. The writers of this article (and many other great reads) have since started their own magazine--called Epic Magazine--and feature this story as one of their primary attractors. Perhaps more relevant to the Hacker News crowd, they use a really neat display format for their amazing (but true) stories: \u003ca href=\"http://epicmagazine.com/2013/08/deep-sea-cowboys/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;epicmagazine.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;deep-sea-cowboys\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.","parent":"6399740","id":"6401489"}
{"by":"maz-","time":"1533647121","timestamp":"2018-08-07 13:05:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Used it last year. It\u0026#x27;s fun! You have to stand in the right spot though otherwise the plates extend under your feet which while I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s dangerous, does feel a bit sketchy.","parent":"17705508","id":"17706159"}
{"by":"M_Arrington","time":"1233179242","timestamp":"2009-01-28 21:47:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hm. It seems not, but it has the ability to hide or delete all posts from an IP. All my previous comments were wiped out at once. I can create a new account, and I continued the sequence, but I'm sure they'll suffer the same fate.","parent":"454996","dead":true,"id":"455214"}
{"by":"boucher","time":"1248630184","timestamp":"2009-07-26 17:43:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's hard to make the claim that apps are more popular than websites on the iPhone. Unfortunately, it's hard to find data on overall mobile web traffic (or total web traffic in general), but over 60% of all web traffic from a mobile device comes from the iPhone. My guess, though, is that the number of websites visited since the iPhone's release hugely eclipses the number of apps downloaded.\u003cp\u003eAnd I'm not sure you can call the app store a monetization solution either, considering that \u0026#62;90% of all downloads are free apps.","parent":"724531","id":"724625"}
{"by":"taeric","time":"1510849137","timestamp":"2017-11-16 16:18:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fully agreed, though optimization is something that should come later.  Otherwise, folks will spend too much time making a really tight loop that isn\u0026#x27;t actually run in a loop. :)\u003cp\u003eI also agree that folks should try to avoid poor habits.  However, I\u0026#x27;ll note that even Knuth uses brute force for some parts of his programs.  Quoting, \u0026quot;Brute force is the rule in this part of the program.\u0026quot;[1]  Sometimes, it really isn\u0026#x27;t the bottleneck.  :)\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;~knuth\u0026#x2F;programs\u0026#x2F;dance.w\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu\u0026#x2F;~knuth\u0026#x2F;programs\u0026#x2F;dance.w\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15711024","id":"15713841"}
{"by":"51lver","time":"1540327648","timestamp":"2018-10-23 20:47:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What advertisers? I haven\u0026#x27;t seen any on mastodon. In fact, I think the network would be actively hostile to their presence.","parent":"18286778","id":"18287333"}
{"by":"kahirsch","time":"1410094327","timestamp":"2014-09-07 12:52:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the example that you linked[1] is quite strange. If you are going to write a form letter — \n\u0026quot;Dear Sir or Madam\u0026quot; — \nthen, yes, you don\u0026#x27;t want a font that makes things look personal, like Comic Sans. Also \u0026quot;this note looks like it was written by a 12 year old\u0026quot;? Have you seen the handwriting of a 12 year old?\u003cp\u003eThat is, perhaps, a good indication of the disconnect between how professionals trained in graphic design perceive something and how the vast majority of the public perceive it. Most people wish their handwriting looked as neat and legible as Comic Sans. It doesn\u0026#x27;t look like it was written by a twelve year old, it looks like \u003ci\u003eunprofessional\u003c/i\u003e. Which is why people like it.\u003cp\u003eMany people, when they see something they wrote in a standard computer font, think that it looks wrong. It doesn\u0026#x27;t look like their words any more, it looks too cold, formal, impersonal, professional, machine-like. They don\u0026#x27;t want their words to look like something that has been reviewed by a series of editors, run by the legal department and then sent to the team of graphics artists for final layout.\u003cp\u003eComic Sans looks warm, friendly, human, and informal.\u003cp\u003eEverything you list as aesthetic defects are exactly the characteristics that make Comic Sans successful.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://kinkeaddesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Comic-Sans-Probs.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;kinkeaddesigns.com\u0026#x2F;wp-content\u0026#x2F;uploads\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;Comic-S...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8280694","id":"8280981"}
{"by":"pekinb","time":"1299390035","timestamp":"2011-03-06 05:40:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"what work do your \"fuck\"s and \"shit\"s do?","parent":"2293507","id":"2293566"}
{"by":"amrrs","time":"1505367794","timestamp":"2017-09-14 05:43:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if Apple R\u0026amp;D is also working on AR Glasses considering their ambitious attempt in making AR the big in the newly launched iPhones. In fact they need a new product for masses just like their iPhone.\u003cp\u003eThat must be a day when Magic Leap could face the fate of Blackberry or Pebble!","parent":"15244809","id":"15245255"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1506796416","timestamp":"2017-09-30 18:33:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;localhost:8000\u0026#x2F;ipns\u0026#x2F;QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvuR4iYZrTML8XCR\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;localhost:8000\u0026#x2F;ipns\u0026#x2F;QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvu...\u003c/a\u003e, or whatever your gateway port is.","parent":"15373510","id":"15374300"}
{"by":"kevin_thibedeau","time":"1534621154","timestamp":"2018-08-18 19:39:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Most mil grade tech is not that advanced. Electronics are 20+ years behind the technology forefront but are built for durability and reliability. Some of that you want in a car but it\u0026#x27;s nice to have modern high speed gear for infotainment and advanced engine controls.","parent":"17790142","id":"17790191"}
{"by":"Splines","time":"1512161753","timestamp":"2017-12-01 20:55:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIs it okay to make end users addicted to your services?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow much of a moat does uber really have?  It seems to be only made of money - there is nothing inherent in their product that makes it sticky, only \u0026quot;is this the cheapest ride right now?\u0026quot;.","parent":"15826560","id":"15827375"}
{"by":"odbol_","time":"1457573704","timestamp":"2016-03-10 01:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haven\u0026#x27;t tried HockeyApp. I use Crashlytics Beta now and it\u0026#x27;s amazing. Literally \u0026quot;press of a button\u0026quot; deployment: no dealing with provisioning profiles, device UUIDs, or any of that garbage. Just build and deploy, and all your testers get the update instantly!","parent":"11252637","id":"11256913"}
{"by":"nextmoveone","time":"1194920049","timestamp":"2007-11-13 02:14:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I for one paid 40 bucks for the digital release.","parent":"78942","id":"78963"}
{"by":"merraksh","time":"1270315885","timestamp":"2010-04-03 17:31:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eClassify the players' smiles, from none to light-up-the-locker-room. Then see how long the players lived.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI haven't read the research article, and I agree that smiling doesn't hurt, but this post surely doesn't make it sound very scientific. I wouldn't drop the \"Correlation is not causation\" bomb, but they seem to have missed it.","parent":"1238812","id":"1238862"}
{"by":"vram22","time":"1451419511","timestamp":"2015-12-29 20:05:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Indians does not care about anything other than price (durability\u0026#x2F;quality)\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;do not care\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a solid point :-) and largely true, though a generalization. Changing some at least among the younger generation in cities, though.","parent":"10807009","id":"10808741"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1504111843","timestamp":"2017-08-30 16:50:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, Buffet\u0026#x27;s idea for quite a while has been that he and the other billionaires should be taxed more.\u003cp\u003eIt may be just PR, but that\u0026#x27;s a different goalpost.","parent":"15133036","id":"15133714"}
{"by":"alextingle","time":"1389525095","timestamp":"2014-01-12 11:11:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; gdb is pretty rubbish and hasn\u0026#x27;t been improved for many years\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s such a dirty lie. Example: GDB has reverse step. That\u0026#x27;s such a amazing debugging feature that VisualStudio users often refuse to believe that it\u0026#x27;s real, when you try to describe it to them.","parent":"7043118","id":"7045740"}
{"by":"lunchTime42","time":"1466762641","timestamp":"2016-06-24 10:04:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Neural Network seem to go where the data is. The data (scripts) to TV-Shows are ready available.\nReal conversations are not (Youtube-Subtitle, anyone?).\nShirking hard problems today might help , to train a generation that can understand dialects and muffled voices from context tomorrow.","parent":"11948590","id":"11968373"}
{"by":"jlv2","time":"1541102684","timestamp":"2018-11-01 20:04:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very interesting article, even if from 2012.","parent":"18355996","id":"18357882"}
{"by":"LeoNatan25","time":"1503700726","timestamp":"2017-08-25 22:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree about “engineer” vs “developer”.\u003cp\u003e“Engineer” and “architect” are much more nuanced and hard to distinguish.","parent":"15102751","id":"15102824"}
{"by":"Lachy01","time":"1509067515","timestamp":"2017-10-27 01:25:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I normally similarly dislike the myopic nationalist tendencies but disagree with you here. When countries\u0026#x2F;people say \u0026quot;bring back jobs from China\u0026quot; I hate it. Chinese are humans and they aren\u0026#x27;t taking the jobs to screw you.. They are doing it to put food on the table.. How can you begrudge someone that? Particularly when the standard of living it so much lower on average there than the countries the complainers come from e.g. US, Australia. However, this is a rule preventing NON-RESIDENTS from purchasing. So long as you actually live in NZ a Chinese national could still buy property. I can understand why you\u0026#x27;d prioritize residents being allowed to purchase over non-residents but of course this doesn\u0026#x27;t address wealthy residents buying their 20th investment property so it is at least a little distasteful in my opinion.","parent":"15564723","id":"15564851"}
{"by":"KirinDave","time":"1269962718","timestamp":"2010-03-30 15:25:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; I think a combination of smallish fonts, fairly small font-size range, and the user of a non-serif (if I've got that right) font enables that.\u003cp\u003eArguably, serifs are actually more readable. There is some dispute with this when you throw windows ClearType into the mix, because many serif fonts do not fare well under that treatment.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; The redesign you have done makes each article pop more, but for me, that isn't a concern. I want the 'pop' from the content, not the design.\u003cp\u003eThese are two entirely separate kinds of “pop”.","parent":"1229202","id":"1229345"}
{"by":"BigCanOfTuna","time":"1228339532","timestamp":"2008-12-03 21:25:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool idea, but...\u003cp\u003e1. It's very slow (HN effect?), speed it up\n2. Domain Name isn't great\n3. I can't jump to a letter via hyperlink\n4. I see something called Regex search...what is that?\n5. I'd like to see 100 or 500 names per page since there are 256,000+ pages\u003cp\u003eHonestly, you'll likely never make too much money off ads since the demographic of your audience is technical enough that they probably have an ad blocker installed or they have trained themselves not to click on ads.\u003cp\u003eInstead of clicking to the whois information, link to some registrar that has an affiliate program.","parent":"384775","id":"384833"}
{"by":"crazygringo","time":"1381682143","timestamp":"2013-10-13 16:35:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If it\u0026#x27;s anything like Africa has been over the past 100 years, agricultural tribes and hunter-gatherer tribes simply don\u0026#x27;t mix.\u003cp\u003eAgricultural tribes find the hunter-gatherer tribes to be dirty, lazy, uncivilized -- not a lot of sexual attraction going on. And the hunter-gatherer tribes think the agricultural people work way too hard for nothing, with their priorities all wrong, and don\u0026#x27;t want anything to do with the lifestyle.\u003cp\u003eAt least that\u0026#x27;s how it was all explained to me during time I spent in Kenya and Tanzania, where I spent a couple weeks with a hunter-gatherer tribe.","parent":"6542700","id":"6543131"}
{"by":"eksith","time":"1367635174","timestamp":"2013-05-04 02:39:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm rather disturbed by the end of the first video when one of the fellows say \u003ci\u003e\"That's gotta be some pigs. Oh, we're gonna have to go kill 'em kids\"\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eI understand these creatures are hurting the livelihoods of farmers and such, but this casual disregard for life and gung-ho attitude toward the hunt is a bit unsettling. Especially since the young ones are being introduced to it.\u003cp\u003eI'm a bit of a hypocrite; I've done some fishing, but I don't consider this to be terribly sporting.","parent":"5653717","id":"5653723"}
{"by":"jakegarelick","time":"1461704650","timestamp":"2016-04-26 21:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a direct link: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sturgeon%27s_law\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Sturgeon%27s_law\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11575182","id":"11575615"}
{"by":"DiThi","time":"1493614293","timestamp":"2017-05-01 04:51:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Veritasium video about the topic \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14235429","id":"14235639"}
{"by":"chegra","time":"1281679904","timestamp":"2010-08-13 06:11:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, I was checking for these so calling meaningless words. I realise when I write \"You\" in my blog post it gets more views.  Some persuasion book I read a while back say copywriters use that all the time. But yea, I edit words that are interesting to me based on my past experience.","parent":"1599938","id":"1600208"}
{"by":"fwdpropaganda","time":"1509103963","timestamp":"2017-10-27 11:32:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;m not sure I see what RT is attempting to say about Twitter here.\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s my reading.\u003cp\u003eTwitter: \u0026quot;RT has bought advertising to influence elections.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eRT: \u0026quot;Twitter pitched to us that we could buy advertising to reach politically active users.\u0026quot;","parent":"15567034","id":"15567393"}
{"by":"AndyNemmity","time":"1463416450","timestamp":"2016-05-16 16:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish it was odd, if anything it sounds pretty normal when companies change top line strategy in a broad scale, and then have to spend the next year figuring out what the hell that even means, and how to do it.","parent":"11707382","id":"11707468"}
{"by":"JimmyL","time":"1287956217","timestamp":"2010-10-24 21:36:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Knowing\" Ajax isn't a skill, like riding a bike or knowing what the $() operator does - it's understanding a concept.\u003cp\u003eIn short, it's a term that describes a design pattern where some Javascript makes an asynchronous HTTP request in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page, receives the response, and then does something with that information.\u003cp\u003eNow that you've got what it means, the question becomes \"How do I implement that?\", which is much easier to deal with. For this, just keep digging through the jQuery examples and tutorials (if that's the Javascript route you're taking). Find a trivial example, get it running on your host, and then start experimenting with it. Once that's down, repeat with a more complex example. Read some more articles from different authors. Make your own examples. Repeat.\u003cp\u003eAs for the broader question of when you should learn it (or anything else), the answer for things like this is always the same: when you feel in the mood for learning something new.","parent":"1827135","id":"1827379"}
{"by":"mbenjaminsmith","time":"1337410201","timestamp":"2012-05-19 06:50:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow, I love racism.\u003cp\u003eMy friends are: in art (on the business side), in beer (import), in tech (a couple of them) and one is a chef in NYC.\u003cp\u003eNone of them are millionaires but they've done better in their careers than if they didn't go to fight it out in a different market.","parent":"3995038","id":"3995283"}
{"by":"donbronson","time":"1353448843","timestamp":"2012-11-20 22:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; [Kappos] argued would allow the patent office to weed out low-quality software\u003cp\u003eI wonder how he would define \"low-quality software\"","parent":"4809986","id":"4811595"}
{"by":"viraptor","time":"1295271250","timestamp":"2011-01-17 13:34:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I try not to get too involved, but sometimes I think people don't realise what they're paying for... If you buy an iPhone, then jailbreak it, you just paid Apple some money. Part of it will be used to sponsor lawyers and lobby who will actively fight against jailbreaking and try to introduce laws which makes jailbreaking illegal. You're additionally sponsoring research on further closing down systems.\u003cp\u003eSo basically you funded some people to prevent you from doing what you've just done. If they succeed with any similar laws, they'll be also extended to other systems, so even if google won't sue someone for jailbreaking Android, another producer might.","parent":"2111915","id":"2112068"}
{"by":"int_19h","time":"1544355944","timestamp":"2018-12-09 11:45:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They are about an order of magnitude cheaper per page than laser printers.","parent":"18639985","id":"18640422"}
{"by":"StevePerkins","time":"1498825224","timestamp":"2017-06-30 12:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Governments won\u0026#x27;t save us, so why riot?\u003cp\u003eBecause everything you\u0026#x27;re talking about, and all of the ideas in the posted article, basically deal with the top-most peak of Maslow\u0026#x27;s hierarchy:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s still 90% of that iceberg beneath this surface, however.\u003cp\u003eIn other words, human systems and institutions may be powerless to help you reach self-actualization, \u0026quot;save us\u0026quot;, solve everything, make humanity endure forever, etc.  However, you must be living a VERY comfortable life, free from hunger, health, and personal safety concerns, to wonder why humans bother to riot in some cases.","parent":"14669640","id":"14670240"}
{"by":"bobak","time":"1353643348","timestamp":"2012-11-23 04:02:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe our communication should have no centralized control.  It should tend toward being survivable of anything, incl. people who think they are well meaning.","parent":"4820014","id":"4820933"}
{"by":"martharotter","time":"1332849547","timestamp":"2012-03-27 11:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me the electronic versus paper thing comes down to what I bought the book for.\u003cp\u003eFor a book that I just need to reference occasionally, epub is usually fine. For a book where I'm starting from scratch, learning new things and coming back to the same bits over and over again, I prefer a paper version that I can write in.\u003cp\u003eSounds like a cool project though - good luck!","parent":"3758674","id":"3761029"}
{"by":"forgotAgain","time":"1335550521","timestamp":"2012-04-27 18:15:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Generally speaking there are two things that can happen if Redis win32 support is put in the main code line: it succeeds on win32 or it fails on win32.\u003cp\u003eIf it succeeds on win32 then, based on previous history, we can assume that similar functionality will be added in some oblique fashion to Microsoft SQL Server. At that point Microsoft would, based on previous history, withdraw support from Redis so it could provide its customers a better experience by concentrating all of its resources on the MS SQL product. Lacking support, Redis on win32, would whither and die on that platform.\u003cp\u003eIf Redis on win32 doesn't succeed then one would expect Microsoft to withdraw support and Redis on win32, lacking support, would whither and die on that platform.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdit to add\u003c/i\u003e\nNot saying Redis can't succeed on win32, just that it can't be completely dependent on Microsoft to do so.","parent":"3899571","id":"3900348"}
{"by":"vbezhenar","time":"1445854789","timestamp":"2015-10-26 10:19:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why it\u0026#x27;s bad? If I\u0026#x27;m sure that this optional contains value, I don\u0026#x27;t see why it\u0026#x27;s bad. May be I checked this value presence few lines above.","parent":"10450430","id":"10450439"}
{"by":"iamcreasy","time":"1455254727","timestamp":"2016-02-12 05:25:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A Video. We need a video!","parent":"11085482","id":"11085489"}
{"by":"bytelayer","time":"1373892208","timestamp":"2013-07-15 12:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What I don\u0026#x27;t get is the sites that load ALL their content using JavaScript. Sure, I see the point in loading more content if the user scrolls down to the bottom of the page, but why would you do that straight away?","parent":"6044356","id":"6045132"}
{"by":"kragen","time":"1445530870","timestamp":"2015-10-22 16:21:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The library is the heart of a university, of course, and generally the best libraries are university libraries.  But public libraries are also important — not only for reasons like Stanford\u0026#x27;s sad policy (and when I visited UPenn one night, they wouldn\u0026#x27;t even let me into the library because I wasn\u0026#x27;t a student there, even though I was accompanied by a student) but also because they exist in places where universities don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eMy disappointment in the library systems of other countries that I\u0026#x27;ve visited is composed of two parts: first, there are many fewer and poorer public libraries than in the US; second, there are many fewer and poorer universities than in the US, which limits the available university libraries sharply.\u003cp\u003eIt wouldn\u0026#x27;t surprise me if Sweden were better than the US in this regard.  Sweden has an excellent welfare state, a world-class university system, and if I\u0026#x27;m not mistaken, a centuries-long tradition of universal literacy.\u003cp\u003eBut much of the developed world does not have this advantage; Germany, Norway, Benelux, Finland, Switzerland, Canada, Iceland, Israel, and possibly Austria share these attributes, but the US and UK do not have a reasonable welfare state, and Ireland, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, France, and Japan do not have the long tradition of universal literacy, although of course their educated elites have been literate for over a millennium, producing a rich literature¹.  Countries outside this group (except possibly Singapore and Taiwan) do not even have a world-class university system.\u003cp\u003eThat means that in Brazil, mainland China, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Brunei, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Oman, Czech, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malaysia, Poland, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, and even Hungary, Russia, and Greece, you won\u0026#x27;t even find the kind of university where you\u0026#x27;re thinking to \u003ci\u003elook\u003c/i\u003e for a good library, let alone the kind of university library you\u0026#x27;re thinking of.  Maybe they have good public libraries (I hear Estonia\u0026#x27;s public library system is particularly good) but generally I expect not.  But these are surely developed countries.\u003cp\u003e¹ Yes, before a century or two ago the educated elite of Australia and New Zealand lived in England, so perhaps that\u0026#x27;s a bit of a stretch.","parent":"10426672","id":"10433076"}
{"by":"gazay","time":"1340539101","timestamp":"2012-06-24 11:58:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Like it)","parent":"4153161","id":"4153170"}
{"by":"xte","time":"1540544776","timestamp":"2018-10-26 09:06:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for my poor English, not my motherlanguage. You are right being a monarchy says nothing of the legality of private companies searching citizens homes. However being a monarchy means NOT being citizens, peer between peers and thet\u0026#x27;s a very very very important thing that may justify anything else.\u003cp\u003eSymbols are symbols but still have their importance.","parent":"18307514","id":"18307742"}
{"by":"ltamake","time":"1313171038","timestamp":"2011-08-12 17:43:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PayPal is a horrible company. They freeze accounts, hold money hostage (pretty sure illegally), refuse to delete user data (illegal in the UK), and screw smaller users over by forcing them to add bank accounts or sign up for their shitty credit card just to verify that their account is real.","parent":"2877404","id":"2878300"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1291949482","timestamp":"2010-12-10 02:51:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My impression is that the Stanford project is the first (or perhaps zeroth) phase of the Google Fiber for Communities project. They can probably learn a lot rolling out \"minimum viable fiber\" to ~100 homes before they try to do thousands. It wouldn't seem to make sense for Google to have multiple competing fiber projects.","parent":"1989891","id":"1990379"}
{"by":"derefr","time":"1503397582","timestamp":"2017-08-22 10:26:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From what I see around me, the preferred stopping place of the average modern RV owner is not the campground, but rather the Walmart parking lot.","parent":"15070896","id":"15071056"}
{"by":"DanBC","time":"1379798587","timestamp":"2013-09-21 21:23:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ignoring the word \u0026quot;SWAT\u0026quot; for the moment this was a raid on corporate offices for people smuggling honey.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m not sure why officers were armed.  I guess I can understand why they wear protective clothing (but are shootings in that situation common?)\u003cp\u003eAre honey smugglers really going to shoot law enforcement?\u003cp\u003eYou need lots of people in the raid to prevent employees shredding and deleting everything.","parent":"6424598","id":"6424617"}
{"by":"yostrovs","time":"1544791210","timestamp":"2018-12-14 12:40:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re clueless and think you can judge this matter, while you ignore the fact that millions ran from Poland, East Germany, USSR,etc, risking torture and death, and ran only in one direction. And to you \u0026quot;the spirit of the time\u0026quot; was the same on both sides of the Iron Curtain.","parent":"18679738","id":"18680387"}
{"by":"legodt","time":"1483652876","timestamp":"2017-01-05 21:47:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"100% worth it","parent":"13331401","id":"13331731"}
{"by":"batista","time":"1333219464","timestamp":"2012-03-31 18:44:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Harmony project (named differently in the past) existed long long before Coffeescript.","parent":"3781022","id":"3781135"}
{"by":"caminante","time":"1482949579","timestamp":"2016-12-28 18:26:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Original article [0].\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s the BBC\u0026#x27;s analysis of the complaint [1].\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;technology-35559439\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;technology-35559439\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;complaints\u0026#x2F;comp-reports\u0026#x2F;ecu\u0026#x2F;womenwritebettercode\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;complaints\u0026#x2F;comp-reports\u0026#x2F;ecu\u0026#x2F;womenwriteb...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13272140","id":"13272455"}
{"by":"megous","time":"1518130989","timestamp":"2018-02-08 23:03:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That matches my personal numbers for page views too, but TLS is site specific and not page specific, and it is deployed on small minority of websites on the internet (20-25% of top 1mil.), so my point still holds.\u003cp\u003eI may spend 80% of my time (whatever that means) on a few HTTPS websites, but I also spend 20% of my time browsing much larger proportion of non-https websites.\u003cp\u003eSo the warning will be popping out a lot and will soon become a thing to ignore.","parent":"16336042","id":"16336365"}
{"by":"confiscate","time":"1545413993","timestamp":"2018-12-21 17:39:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He should probably continue to post the video of the\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;people helping him put packages on their porches\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eas well as their friends who pretended to \u0026quot;steal\u0026quot; the package.\u003cp\u003eBecause the original goal was to uncover dishonest people, and so now you\u0026#x27;ve actually found even more dishonest people, who were taped on video","parent":"18734712","id":"18734907"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1537866155","timestamp":"2018-09-25 09:02:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Of course building is cheaper than AWS...\u003cp\u003eWhy \u0026quot;of course\u0026quot;? Last time I checked baking my own cookies is more expensive than just buying a bag at Walmart.","parent":"18064494","id":"18064641"}
{"by":"M_Grey","time":"1487114500","timestamp":"2017-02-14 23:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have it backwards... the poor vendors can\u0026#x27;t afford a stock of disposable plates. They\u0026#x27;re the ones who give you something into the hand, or on a tin plate. You have to remember what \u0026quot;poor\u0026quot; means there.","parent":"13648117","id":"13648262"}
{"by":"it_learnses","time":"1445963194","timestamp":"2015-10-27 16:26:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"nope, but i will. Thanks :)","parent":"10455072","id":"10459098"}
{"by":"veemjeem","time":"1351887416","timestamp":"2012-11-02 20:16:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you think iOS is hairy supporting 4.3 and up, you probably have no experience supporting Android apps.  The fragmentation extends beyond the Android version.  The differences between handsets are so big that one pretty much has to ignore the users who own phones that are impossible to test with.  You'll get some random complaint from a user running your app on a device from a manufacturer you've never even heard of.\u003cp\u003eLook at Google's own wallet app -- it only runs on only 6 android devices.  If you want to run google wallet on your Nexus S, you'll have to run a 3rd party \"hacked\" version of Google Wallet.","parent":"4734496","id":"4734539"}
{"by":"anonbanker","time":"1470336014","timestamp":"2016-08-04 18:40:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Moxie\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;SSL is a joke\u0026quot;[0] talk in 2011 keeps staying relevant after all these years.\u003cp\u003e0. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12224420","id":"12227574"}
{"by":"ivanhoe","time":"1436658043","timestamp":"2015-07-11 23:40:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How exactly is this different than putting a \u0026quot;Juden Verboten\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;Whites Only\u0026quot; sign on a shop?","parent":"9869925","id":"9871987"}
{"by":"kwame42","time":"1370897989","timestamp":"2013-06-10 20:59:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We really got the game !","parent":"5856555","id":"5856840"}
{"by":"unoti","time":"1329103803","timestamp":"2012-02-13 03:30:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm using it to build a world server for a multiplayer game.  A lot of people suggest Scala/Java, Erlang, or Node.js for this, but I'm using Go.  Go has a good, efficient memory model that lets me simulate a heck of a lot more of my world per megabyte of RAM.  In today's world of hosting, that translates into a huge impact on how many dollars per user/hour we need to pay to run our game.  That can have a direct translation into what kinds of business models can, and cannot, work for a game design.  I've actually written rudimentary versions of my world server in all of the languages I mentioned above, and Go is by far the best in terms of what I can do with memory.\u003cp\u003eGo makes it very easy to communicate between nodes, almost as easy as what you can do in Erlang.  Doozer is a library in Go for coordination of the activities of many machines, a lot like Zookeeper.  Between Doozer and Netchan, Go is a really solid choice for making a system like a world simulator that needs to be distributed among many computers.\u003cp\u003eGo is also better than Node.js for things that require manipulating binary data.  For example, I have some communications back and forth where the server is in Go, the client is in Python, and they talk using Protocol Buffers.  Javascript doesn't do binary (at all? not very well?) like Go or Java can.  There is an experimental protocol buffer library in Javascript, but in general Javascript needs to kind of bend over backwards to work with binary data.  It's possible to do it, but it's not natural or efficient.\u003cp\u003eIn general, if you care about memory usage, working with binary data, tons of simultaneous threads/actors, building distributed systems, then Go is a great choice, especially if you want to do more than one of the above.","parent":"3583382","id":"3584070"}
{"by":"confluence","time":"1356304514","timestamp":"2012-12-23 23:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we didn't punish people for saving no one would buy the things that come out of those long term productive businesses. See Japan and the paradox of thrift. Why invest if there is no growing demand in risky businesses?\u003cp\u003eYour last argument is emotional crap. Tell me again how the poor suffer so much as compared to 100 years ago.\u003cp\u003eFurthermore the government sets a lot of things we think are necessary. Taking your argument to the extreme: Who is the government to say child labor is illegal? We are denying the world productive labor and consumption!","parent":"4960918","id":"4961070"}
{"by":"beachstartup","time":"1434299038","timestamp":"2015-06-14 16:23:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; it\u0026#x27;s called eat right, exercise and act like a man\u0026#x2F;woman\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eabsolutely.  many men have been taught to act like women all their lives, and tacitly encouraged to neglect their physical health and appearance.\u003cp\u003emuch of the male \u0026#x27;self improvement\u0026#x27; industry focuses around de-brainwashing men of this ridiculous notion that they should suppress all their masculine traits\u0026#x2F;desires, and the notion that women are somehow not turned on by masculine physical health\u0026#x2F;development (muscles, grooming, well-fitting attire).  things like facial attractiveness and height are actually secondary to these things in the real world.\u003cp\u003emoney\u0026#x2F;success can help, but if you\u0026#x27;re a schlubby fat rich guy, the type of woman you will attract is probably not ideal.","parent":"9715064","id":"9715421"}
{"by":"pseudalopex","time":"1496642038","timestamp":"2017-06-05 05:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sometimes code sucks because the programmer doesn\u0026#x27;t realize names work differently in other cultures.[1] Sometimes it sucks because it outs LGBT kids.[2] Sometimes it sucks because nobody noticed what the team called something was also a racial slur.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;falsehoods-programmers-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.independent.co.uk\u0026#x2F;life-style\u0026#x2F;gadgets-and-tech\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;windows-10-automatically-sends-parents-detailed-dossier-of-their-childrens-internet-history-and-10472226.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.independent.co.uk\u0026#x2F;life-style\u0026#x2F;gadgets-and-tech\u0026#x2F;ne...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14482781","id":"14485501"}
{"by":"davidhansen","time":"1323752238","timestamp":"2011-12-13 04:57:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIn some ways we think the 1% are a bunch of undeserving assholes who are screwing things up for the rest of us. We see Valleywood as a huge bubble and, just like Hollywood, it often looks shallow, vain, and like nothing more than novelty from the outside.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are, and it is.  The bubble will pop, and those of us who managed to build sustainable businesses without the benefit of setting huge piles of other people's money on fire will be very well positioned to take advantage of the carnage.\u003cp\u003ePatience is rarely a virtue in the startup world.  But in this case, it is.  Keep building.","parent":"3346338","id":"3346362"}
{"by":"ateesdalejr","time":"1535515086","timestamp":"2018-08-29 03:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shameless-plug \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;neocities.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;neocities.org\u003c/a\u003e lets you do that for free. :) + letting you kind of be a part of a community built around helping other people with their websites.","parent":"17864700","id":"17865481"}
{"by":"MrStonedOne","time":"1529597217","timestamp":"2018-06-21 16:06:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;it\u0026#x27;s not actually necessary to be a dickhead to be good at your job.\u003cp\u003eThe reverse is also true.","parent":"17366294","id":"17366386"}
{"by":"tdoggette","time":"1261099356","timestamp":"2009-12-18 01:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It could probably be implemented in an easier way to install with a browser extension.","parent":"1001956","id":"1002349"}
{"by":"fit2rule","time":"1507374653","timestamp":"2017-10-07 11:10:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you can\u0026#x27;t refactor with just search and replace, you don\u0026#x27;t really know the depths of your project, and yes - I would be uncomfortable working with you.","parent":"15423076","id":"15423314"}
{"by":"swifting","time":"1538493140","timestamp":"2018-10-02 15:12:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;m.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=PNJxdvquvK4\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;m.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=PNJxdvquvK4\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nice piece on the minimum wage by Economist Walter E. Williams","parent":"18120221","id":"18122399"}
{"by":"edgyswingset","time":"1444755486","timestamp":"2015-10-13 16:58:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The author who write that blog post is actually one of the co-founders of Akka.NET, which was created before Orleans was out.","parent":"10381688","id":"10381758"}
{"by":"csense","time":"1356755488","timestamp":"2012-12-29 04:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you use Facebook as your blogging platform, the dollars generated by showing ads to your audience go to Zuckerberg.\u003cp\u003eIf you host your own Wordpress install, the ad dollars go to you.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf you're Mark Zuckerberg\u003c/i\u003e, bloggers blogging on Facebook is better than bloggers blogging elsewhere.  That's the circumstance under which blogging on Facebook is better.","parent":"4981084","id":"4981124"}
{"by":"davidfowl","time":"1365709590","timestamp":"2013-04-11 19:46:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We have some ideas on how to attempt to solve the multiple unrelated overlapping conversion issues but getting the ui right is non trivial.","parent":"5531536","id":"5534320"}
{"by":"pfranz","time":"1499892114","timestamp":"2017-07-12 20:41:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Vulkan is not a good first-step path to learning graphics. It\u0026#x27;s maintainers will tell you to start out by learning OpenGL or DX11.\u003cp\u003eThis article is literally advocating the opposite.  \u0026#x27;So how did I finally break through that wall of understanding? ... \u0026quot;But Vulkan is the hardz\u0026quot; I hear you saying. \u0026quot;Shouldn\u0026#x27;t I start with something easy like OpenGL?\u0026quot;  Emphatically I say NO.\u0026#x27;","parent":"14753703","id":"14756470"}
{"by":"lazaroclapp","time":"1466068746","timestamp":"2016-06-16 09:19:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting. I was unaware of this, I thought this was an entirely non-profit code school type program. Is training contingent on them working for Andela afterwards? Because if so, I actually fail to see how this can be considered a nonprofit investment (in which case, I agree, it is a good business deal for everyone involved and maybe even a net-positive-do-good business deal, but one that should probably be taxed... )\u003cp\u003eEdit: I just realized this indeed an investment from a for-profit company to another, which will actually pay taxes (which is good), but seems to be surprisingly describing itself as a philanthropic initiative. So I actually see your point about this being a strange PR spin on it...","parent":"11914833","id":"11914962"}
{"by":"api","time":"1373904708","timestamp":"2013-07-15 16:11:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve encountered this kind of sentiment elsewhere too. It\u0026#x27;s incredible... not even New York could make a solid six-figure offer almost look like a Wal-Mart wage.\u003cp\u003eThe school situation is puzzling to me. The tax base should be fine, and the majority of the schools I see get high ratings on a nationwide basis. Is this genuinely a problem, or is a Valley resident\u0026#x27;s idea of a bad school one where the majority of the graduates do not get into top-ten universities? Cause my idea of a bad school is one where you have to go through a metal detector to get in and the majority of their graduates go nowhere. :)\u003cp\u003eGreat tip about the traffic too. I went off Google directions, and I\u0026#x27;m guessing those times are for light non-rush-hour traffic.","parent":"6046299","id":"6046455"}
{"by":"vetinari","time":"1517312552","timestamp":"2018-01-30 11:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, Gen8 microserver requires proprietary driver for it\u0026#x27;s RAID controller (for SATA-2!) and fan control; and Gen10 doesn\u0026#x27;t support hotplug for drives.","parent":"16264457","id":"16264506"}
{"by":"bendykstra","time":"1445810923","timestamp":"2015-10-25 22:08:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One feature that I really wanted when I used Pandora was the ability to create groups of stations that stay out of each other\u0026#x27;s musical territory. Add a bias against songs that are a better fit on other stations in the group and a bias towards songs that fit best on the current station.","parent":"10448395","id":"10448652"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1220459719","timestamp":"2008-09-03 16:35:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI'm sure a stable hyperbrain programmer would have all characteristics on your list.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's quite possible, actually. Someone with a hyperbrain who also happens to be a programmer will probably fit most of these criteria - but then, I would say that this is more an indication of hyperbrains being well adapted to programming than of good programmers being hyperbrains.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnyway, I don't like the hyperbrain word (sounds too powerful, as if being better than the other brains and I don't like it), though I really like your articles on the subject btw.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks. I came up with \"hyperbrain\" because I felt I had to call it something for it to stick out. Hyperbrain seems like a reasonable term because: a) it's not in use, b) it transmits the idea that this kind of person is \"hyper\", in the sense of being more extreme in their behaviour. Certainly it's not perfect, but oh well. If it sticks around, it'll stick around, if not, it won't ;-)","parent":"293946","id":"293958"}
{"by":"peterwwillis","time":"1499991008","timestamp":"2017-07-14 00:10:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003ePlease do not use the browser back button, only use the Back button at the bottom of the page.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis amazes me a lot more than a ridiculous password scheme. You can always come up with a justification for a stupid password scheme. But there\u0026#x27;s no justification for \u0026quot;I don\u0026#x27;t know how sessions work\u0026quot; after 20 years of web development history. It was the #1 most frequent developer mistake \u003ci\u003eIN 1999.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nngroup.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;the-top-ten-web-design-mistakes-of-1999\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nngroup.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;the-top-ten-web-design-mist...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14765737","id":"14766425"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1505489926","timestamp":"2017-09-15 15:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These rich parents are going to spend their money on \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c/i\u003e. Better it go to these guys rather than something even worse. I agree with you, though: Ideally it would be better to make money by being part of the solution rather than part of the problem.","parent":"15257852","id":"15258012"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1415519205","timestamp":"2014-11-09 07:46:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The argument would be that the Policy Decision was simply the reaction to larger forces at play - in much the same way high oil prices resulting in fracking in the US and the Oil Sands in Canada being developed, and taking away market share from Saudi Arabia (weakening their geopolitical position), one could say that it was a foregone conclusion that Oil prices were going to drop in the 80s after the 1973 oil crisis.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s the thing - every time you see a huge increase in the cost of anything, economic forces kick in, and there is a response.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a long winded way of saying there were much, much bigger forces at play than Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani in 1985, and, his announcement can be seen as little more than the result of those forces.","parent":"8577120","id":"8579366"}
{"by":"tonteldoos","time":"1407066587","timestamp":"2014-08-03 11:49:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ll try using my phone to buy coffee tomorrow, and let you know how it goes ;)  (Aus, big four bank, not Commbank...)","parent":"8127045","id":"8127693"}
{"by":"soVeryTired","time":"1488476142","timestamp":"2017-03-02 17:35:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Deep linear regression?","parent":"13774368","id":"13776137"}
{"by":"MollyR","time":"1426184546","timestamp":"2015-03-12 18:22:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool.\nSoylent actually sounds like what some people on Hackernews told me about called the \u0026quot;velocity diet\u0026quot;, a nearly liquid diet that\u0026#x27;s mainly protein powder.","parent":"9190798","id":"9192694"}
{"by":"kbenson","time":"1471022691","timestamp":"2016-08-12 17:24:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; This seems a bit misleading, given the two counterexamples that the article describes after this.\u003cp\u003eIf you are referring to the \u0026quot;Assuming the target application has some space in its buffers, packet loss over loopback is not possible.\u0026quot; caveat, then yes, it is somewhat ambiguous what\u0026#x27;s really being implied.  Maybe it\u0026#x27;s just \u003ci\u003enetwork\u003c/i\u003e packet loss they are referring to in the initial statement?  I\u0026#x27;m not sure that really makes sense either.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; On illumos, the FIN_WAIT_2 -\u0026gt; TIME_WAIT transition happens only after 60 seconds if the application has closed the socket file descriptor. ... If the other system disappeared forever, and there were no timeout, that socket would be held open forever.\u003cp\u003eIsn\u0026#x27;t that exactly what the automatic closing is supposed to prevent?  Couldn\u0026#x27;t deliberate or accidental connection interruptions eventually cause a DOS?","parent":"12277045","id":"12277286"}
{"by":"notahacker","time":"1301344889","timestamp":"2011-03-28 20:41:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I remember your original post. It was the day before I actually registered here (your blog title may have influenced my own self-deprecating choice of username :-) ).\u003cp\u003eAlthough what you have at the moment is more a teaser than an MVP, I love the concept.\u003cp\u003eTo make it useful to travellers you're going to need to add in cities and maps. I'd love to try a real pad see ew with a Thai family, but preferable one in the part of Thailand I'm actually staying in.\u003cp\u003eA veggie filter might be a good idea too as I'm not sure your food porn is so appealing to them","parent":"2379800","id":"2379996"}
{"by":"demallien","time":"1257925765","timestamp":"2009-11-11 07:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it allows module names with spaces/other special characters, for two.","parent":"934624","id":"934849"}
{"by":"statictype","time":"1326193348","timestamp":"2012-01-10 11:02:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"XP is about a decade old now. I think its completely reasonable for a web app showcasing modern technologies to not even acknowledge it's existence, let alone support it.","parent":"3446288","id":"3446505"}
{"by":"aik","time":"1250805258","timestamp":"2009-08-20 21:54:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"College isn't just about academics, strictly speaking. \"\u003cp\u003eGood point.  Regardless of in what form you attend college, interaction with others with similar interests/studies is a necessity no doubt.\u003cp\u003eThe main thing that bothers me about college is the lack of focus and care of a majority of the students at most colleges.  Most students just try to pass and don't go far beyond that.  They clearly have no inspiration, but are there mainly for the purpose of finding a job (which they often aren't excited about either)","parent":"776089","id":"776417"}
{"by":"aaronpk","time":"1330282901","timestamp":"2012-02-26 19:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Would you kindly share your ifttt recipe?","parent":"3636342","id":"3636401"}
{"by":"tankenmate","time":"1473154637","timestamp":"2016-09-06 09:37:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, truth is not always an absolute defence in the UK. Also the law varies depending in which jurisdiction you are in in the UK; e.g. England \u0026amp; Wales vs Scotland vs Northern Ireland.","parent":"12434452","id":"12434653"}
{"by":"boolean","time":"1308069103","timestamp":"2011-06-14 16:31:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A few years is the plan, but I'll probably move between the countries every 3-4 months. I never thought about Bali, and looking into that now. Thanks!","parent":"2651620","id":"2653657"}
{"by":"wtvanhest","time":"1476077353","timestamp":"2016-10-10 05:29:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t have rent control, but in my opinion it is fine to stay in the older buildings as long as we keep constructing new units.  Once the percentage of units with rent control is high enough, it won\u0026#x27;t be as much of a factor.","parent":"12675197","id":"12675233"}
{"by":"Accacin","time":"1490816326","timestamp":"2017-03-29 19:38:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Using Chrome would cost me a lot. Both because it is sub-par for my usage patterns and because it feels bad to support it.\u003cp\u003eDoesn\u0026#x27;t change the fact that your analogy is flawed.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Last I checked whey will still be miles ahead of every other browser.\u003cp\u003eVimperator maybe, but that stopped working a while back.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;information-technology\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;mozilla-sets-plan-to-dump-firefox-add-ons-move-to-chrome-like-extensions\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;information-technology\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;mozil...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill, they\u0026#x27;re moving. And why do you think they\u0026#x27;re moving?\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Pwn2own is the equivalent of lining up cars and inviting people to bring their preferred weapon to test the armour.\u003cp\u003eI agree with you, but I was responding to your comment about a sniper rifle. I\u0026#x27;d argue that pwn2own is the equivalent of using a sniper rifle - and Chrome seems to have dealt with it well.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; In any case: Yes, the safer the better, but we need to stop this \u0026quot;nothing but the most secure\u0026quot; mindset because in the end it only results in a Chrome monoculture which I think is worse in every way, even securitywise.\u003cp\u003eLike I said, I\u0026#x27;d been using Firefox for years because I honestly think it\u0026#x27;s a better browser. That doesn\u0026#x27;t excuse how far behind they are security wise though. They seem to have the resources with the companies they\u0026#x27;ve been acquiring but IMO they (the resources) are misplaced.\u003cp\u003eI much prefer open source, and on my home Arch Machine I use Chromium but at work I\u0026#x27;m required to use Windows so I use Chrome because otherwise it\u0026#x27;s awkward.\u003cp\u003eOnce Mozilla gets sandboxing implemented I will be moving back to Firefox.","parent":"13987724","id":"13989837"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1516868248","timestamp":"2018-01-25 08:17:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As believer in GC enabled system programming languages, I do feel it was indeed a missed opportunity, specially to change the mind of those that think C and C++ are the only way to write OSes.","parent":"16229508","id":"16229537"}
{"by":"bangonkeyboard","time":"1506286970","timestamp":"2017-09-24 21:02:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Summary here: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eclecticlight.co\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;24\u0026#x2F;high-sierra-automatically-checks-efi-firmware-each-week\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eclecticlight.co\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;24\u0026#x2F;high-sierra-automaticall...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15326463","id":"15326485"}
{"by":"jfaucett","time":"1486594362","timestamp":"2017-02-08 22:52:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is huge. This is the reason why my wife and I ditched Netflix and other streaming services we\u0026#x27;ve tried. I\u0026#x27;m guessing a lot of Europeans are like us, spend significant time living and working in other countries or at least have family members in various other countries which you visit a couple times a year. And not being able to access content you\u0026#x27;re paying when you\u0026#x27;re on a vacation in France, or visiting Family in Poland over Christmas, and especially not in the all the languages you know are available on the platform is the most annoying pain point.\u003cp\u003eOf course we live on the German \u0026#x2F; French border now and previously on the German \u0026#x2F; Poland one, so maybe I\u0026#x27;m just an outlier here and this isn\u0026#x27;t such a big deal...","parent":"13597884","id":"13602977"}
{"by":"jakub_g","time":"1371652278","timestamp":"2013-06-19 14:31:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Huh, it\u0026#x27;s always as many opinions as people regarding Firefox vs Chrome. I only experience Firefox crawling when opening looots of heavy tabs. Probably it\u0026#x27;s heavily a matter of 1) an operating system and 2) config. I use Windows XP \u0026#x2F; 7, lots of add-ons with customized settings and super strict AdBlock rules.","parent":"5905563","id":"5905748"}
{"by":"niravshah","time":"1420649213","timestamp":"2015-01-07 16:46:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a number of reasons for the decrease in crime in the 1990s, including a decrease in the use of crack cocaine and, famously, lead removal (\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.motherjones.com\u0026#x2F;environment\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;lead-crime-li...\u003c/a\u003e). Causation\u0026#x2F;correlation, etc.","parent":"8851498","id":"8851529"}
{"by":"lnanek2","time":"1377697500","timestamp":"2013-08-28 13:45:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Even if it would get investment, most investors would typically push me to make money as soon as possible.\u003cp\u003eHell no they don\u0026#x27;t. They push you to get users\u0026#x2F;hyper growth. The whole point of investment is to let you grow faster than you can bootstrapping, which this article then goes on to say is the way to go with sustainability being paramount.\u003cp\u003eIf you go for bootstrapping and sustainability and a competitor is being VC funded and burning down their runway of cash every year, they are going to blow you away in growth and your company will be irrelevant.","parent":"6289618","id":"6289866"}
{"by":"russdpale","time":"1490903598","timestamp":"2017-03-30 19:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Free as in no time or labor spent by themselves. At least that is what I think he meant","parent":"13998211","id":"13998365"}
{"by":"donatzsky","time":"1335198469","timestamp":"2012-04-23 16:27:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure why, but if you go to \u003ca href=\"http://diznix.com/2010/07/27/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://diznix.com/2010/07/27/\u003c/a\u003e instead, it works just fine.","parent":"3879357","id":"3879600"}
{"by":"vacanti","time":"1315848479","timestamp":"2011-09-12 17:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah. I built the first version using Django but my code has been re-written by our engineers. I'll have our CTO chime-in on the stack.","parent":"2987850","id":"2988094"}
{"by":"danso","time":"1345484703","timestamp":"2012-08-20 17:45:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess I hadn't wondered about this yet...why IS Ecuador granting him asylum? Is there any quid pro quo?","parent":"4408374","id":"4408781"}
{"by":"MatthewPhillips","time":"1305136339","timestamp":"2011-05-11 17:52:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So does that $28/month/user for businesses include Apps?  That's a pretty killer price, if so.","parent":"2537307","id":"2537441"}
{"by":"NateDad","time":"1399719805","timestamp":"2014-05-10 11:03:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is awesome. fmt all the things!","parent":"7724159","id":"7725052"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1480079324","timestamp":"2016-11-25 13:08:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it is silly that the triangle actually touches the circle at three places instead of just one (i.e., the place indicative of the selected hue).","parent":"13036344","id":"13036452"}
{"by":"manish_gill","time":"1388679891","timestamp":"2014-01-02 16:24:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had to interact with bzr last year for my GSoC project (Mailman, hosted on Launchpad). It wasn\u0026#x27;t a pleasant experience, and got a whole lot more complicated when I had to move a Git repo to LP.\u003cp\u003eBazaar is bad. :(","parent":"6999096","id":"7000340"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1279202620","timestamp":"2010-07-15 14:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hackers have been online tastemakers to some extent, but not so much in the hardware realm.  This is why the companies don't care.  I wonder why this is the case?","parent":"1517350","id":"1517809"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1392973125","timestamp":"2014-02-21 08:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Docker and screen do completely different things, unless you mean some other Docker than what google found for me.","parent":"7276037","id":"7276043"}
{"by":"agitator","time":"1495567246","timestamp":"2017-05-23 19:20:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a good point. But same goes for other sensors in cars. I always wondered how annoying AF ultra-sonic sensors are for dogs. It looks like most ultrasonic sensors are out of range for dogs, but the ultrasonics for sure mess with bats. I wonder how bat populations will be affected when all of these ultrasonic sensors mess with their ability to hunt.","parent":"14403220","id":"14404319"}
{"by":"good-citizen","time":"1403658562","timestamp":"2014-06-25 01:09:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"if the author is reading this, please follow up here and let us know what happens to you from a legal perspective for having violated the NDA.","parent":"7940066","id":"7941691"}
{"by":"LogicX","time":"1538577229","timestamp":"2018-10-03 14:33:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also was confused about the title - expected to see an article about spinning up a cluster in Packet.net","parent":"18129874","id":"18130560"}
{"by":"stephengillie","time":"1333543722","timestamp":"2012-04-04 12:48:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's good to see Notch working on the Little Coder problem, even if that's not his direct intention. :)","parent":"3797205","id":"3797275"}
{"by":"salmon30salmon","time":"1509658446","timestamp":"2017-11-02 21:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assume you were downvoted because the comment is not really in line with what is expected on HN. It only tangentially relates to the parent, and does not add anything substantive to the conversation.","parent":"15614418","id":"15614477"}
{"by":"will_brown","time":"1546447379","timestamp":"2019-01-02 16:42:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That’s the law...but in practice the farmers (like athletes trying to pass drugs tests) cheat.  So here is an article about the FDA catching antibiotics in both meat and dairy products, and the farmers were successful before they were caught because they began using antibiotics and \u003ci\u003eother drugs\u003c/i\u003e the FDA tests don’t scan for because they aren’t supposed to be used in animals at all.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;sections\u0026#x2F;thesalt\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;391248045\u0026#x2F;fda-tests-turn-up-dairy-farmers-breaking-the-law-on-antibiotics\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.npr.org\u0026#x2F;sections\u0026#x2F;thesalt\u0026#x2F;2015\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;391248045\u0026#x2F;fd...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"18807188","id":"18807486"}
{"by":"russell","time":"1254090781","timestamp":"2009-09-27 22:33:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By \"immediately\", I meant as you write the code.  Type the code, hit return, and you have an error.  \"Immediately\" you have to decide add a try or change the method signature.  I think this causes premature exception handling, just because the programmer wants to get moving along with the code.  Checked/unchecked seems to mirror static/dynamic typing, but it doesnt.  It's orthogonal.  Exception handling is an application specific implementation strategy, but checked exceptions force a \"religion\" on you.","parent":"847274","id":"847342"}
{"by":"amatix","time":"1368589191","timestamp":"2013-05-15 03:39:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In New Zealand it's certainly been worse - chip transactions consistently take 30+ seconds longer than swipe ones (ie. at \u003ci\u003eleast\u003c/i\u003e twice as long as the old way, just waiting around for the damn card reader)\u003cp\u003eThough the new Visa PayWave/MC PayPass tap-and-go stuff is \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c/i\u003e quick and super-easy, but not many merchants have it installed yet.","parent":"5709277","id":"5710032"}
{"by":"jlgaddis","time":"1502840167","timestamp":"2017-08-15 23:36:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tend to make use of lots of datasets on my machines, including in and under \u0026#x2F;var (e.g., \u0026#x2F;var, \u0026#x2F;var\u0026#x2F;backups, \u0026#x2F;var\u0026#x2F;cache, \u0026#x2F;var\u0026#x2F;log, \u0026#x2F;var\u0026#x2F;mail, \u0026#x2F;var\u0026#x2F;spool, \u0026#x2F;var\u0026#x2F;tmp, and probably a few others I\u0026#x27;m forgetting) and some hosts have multiple pools as well.\u003cp\u003eI never had any issues with this on FreeBSD. Linux, however, was another story. Installation would go smoothly and without incident but I\u0026#x27;d run into issues immediately upon first boot. I spent many hours trying to figure out what\u0026#x2F;where the problem was and it turned out to be race conditions with systemd and filesystems\u0026#x2F;partitions being mounted. (At the time, I had a few years experience with ZFS and had installed who-knows-how-many servers using ZFS exclusively, yet I had never had any issues with this. Of course, none of those servers were infected by systemd either.)\u003cp\u003eNow that I\u0026#x27;m aware of the issues I can work around them. If you just want a single pool on a single disk and a minimal number of datasets, you\u0026#x27;ll probably be fine -- you\u0026#x27;re right, that\u0026#x27;s a cinch to set up. Like I said, however, don\u0026#x27;t be surprised if you have problems when trying to do anything more complicated than that.","parent":"15016681","id":"15023737"}
{"by":"rch","time":"1410552448","timestamp":"2014-09-12 20:07:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At one point there was a command+database called pq floating somewhere in the plan 9 ecosystem. You\u0026#x27;d pass in a path to a resource and it would return a path to the relevant metadata.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/using_pq/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.plan9.bell-labs.com\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;plan9\u0026#x2F;using_pq\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8310073","id":"8310151"}
{"by":"mdaniel","time":"1385097050","timestamp":"2013-11-22 05:10:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And now that they have released a community edition -- open source (Apache Licensed) -- copy of PyCharm, I cannot imagine any sane person continuing to use a \u0026quot;dumb\u0026quot; editor.\u003cp\u003eAll of the JetBrains products are super smart and efficient, and the community editions are no exception.","parent":"6776560","id":"6779385"}
{"by":"brianshaler","time":"1468961649","timestamp":"2016-07-19 20:54:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"While the conclusions in the article may not stand on their own, I think he may be implying the common usage of web browsers in the DPRK. Rather than using DNS, users connect directly to 10.* IP addresses.\u003cp\u003eHere are a couple of pics I took of IP addresses printed on the walls in a school\u0026#x27;s computer lab:\u003cp\u003ePortal: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;MTYlNVo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;MTYlNVo.jpg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBookmarks: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;QWEooy5.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;i.imgur.com\u0026#x2F;QWEooy5.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12124393","id":"12124812"}
{"by":"partiallypro","time":"1540571101","timestamp":"2018-10-26 16:25:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve hardly ever known a single person that has ever used Skype. I actually used to really like Lync when I worked for a company that used Office 365...but hated when they Skypified it. Microsoft Teams seems pretty awesome, but I haven\u0026#x27;t had the chance to use it. Skype does have a lot of business uses that it doesn\u0026#x27;t face any competition with...but they are features most people don\u0026#x27;t use.","parent":"18310162","id":"18310708"}
{"by":"humanarity","time":"1428066097","timestamp":"2015-04-03 13:01:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope you get a better go next time! I just got \u0026#x27;amaztion.com\u0026#x27;, and \u0026#x27;prosable.io\u0026#x27; I was stoked.\u003cp\u003eI thought about filtering the words to make them more \u0026#x27;readable\u0026#x27; but I decided that, for me at least, seeing all that unfamiliar randomness, helped me riff on what names might work. Like, \u0026quot;Oh, that sounds alright, if I just move that letter around.\u0026quot; So I think the random words can work as starting points, as well as the words that just work: like \u0026#x27;bookism\u0026#x27; (the .io is there).","parent":"9311708","id":"9315592"}
{"by":"petra","time":"1504694981","timestamp":"2017-09-06 10:49:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is retail adapting to e-commerce ? Or is it mostly a really slow decline ? This question is still unanswered If you look at the Amazon\u0026#x27;s recent fashion growth and walmart\u0026#x27;s grocery pick up.\u003cp\u003eAs for what big industries are under immediate threat ? I\u0026#x27;m not sure about how rapid, but in almost every industry you look you see a lot of real term deep innovation(from startups) that, if successful would greatly reduce jobs. Think not only automation but electric cars and mechanics and plant based meat and farmers.\u003cp\u003eThat, combined with the fact that we are maybe starting to be able to mechanize the key skills of humans:dexterity and thinking, seem quite a huge change.\u003cp\u003eAnd maybe we can adapt - but we don\u0026#x27;t hear almost any ideas at all for many more new jobs, even with creativity of the net so maybe massive unemployment is a possibility?","parent":"15179827","id":"15182620"}
{"by":"Tepix","time":"1490781456","timestamp":"2017-03-29 09:57:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That will be a good reason why people who choose not to buy a Model 3 for themselves will not cancel their preorder and sell it instead.","parent":"13980561","id":"13984674"}
{"by":"cmoscoso","time":"1486527194","timestamp":"2017-02-08 04:13:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Build a JS app today is extremely complex.","parent":"13595393","id":"13595690"}
{"by":"yawniek","time":"1299012205","timestamp":"2011-03-01 20:43:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"we see the \"information revolution/productivity gain\" which was anticipated before y2k materializing today (at least to some extend). but seing an arms race in the finance industry is seldom a good thing. so my guess is that sooner or later it will be a bubble. but it will take a little longer to develop. the fundamentals are actually there, thus the numbers are not made up. \non the other side these high prices could just be the inflation created trough the financial crisis.\u003cp\u003eits still a good thing that the US drives investments into technology. in the end, most of these will survive and act as an enabler for even more high tech industries.","parent":"2276436","id":"2277112"}
{"by":"hermanhermitage","time":"1362266975","timestamp":"2013-03-02 23:29:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry... Fat finger trade - I accidentally downvoted you instead of up (not sure how to revert it)\u003cp\u003ePity the down vote isn't on the far right of the heading.","parent":"5311556","id":"5311604"}
{"by":"userium","time":"1399038319","timestamp":"2014-05-02 13:45:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Helsinki, Finland; Local | Remote; Contract | Part Time | Full Time (starting from September 2014)\u003cp\u003eStack: Junior Rails developer (sample project: \u003ca href=\"http://growth.userium.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;growth.userium.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e), HTML \u0026#x2F; CSS (sample project: \u003ca href=\"http://userium.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;userium.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e), jQuery, Git, Usability, UX, Service design methods\u003cp\u003eResume: \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninapatkai\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.linkedin.com\u0026#x2F;in\u0026#x2F;ninapatkai\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eContact: nina@userium.com\u003cp\u003eMSc in Engineering, used to do e.g. Computer Aided Design and Product Data Management, now learning more web dev, particularly Rails. Interested also in web usability, product management and customer experience design.","parent":"7685170","id":"7685595"}
{"by":"partagas","time":"1336661559","timestamp":"2012-05-10 14:52:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's QuviQ's quickcheck. There's also proper: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/manopapad/proper\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/manopapad/proper\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3953610","id":"3953796"}
{"by":"supernovae","time":"1534283738","timestamp":"2018-08-14 21:55:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This assumes anti-competitive authorities as monopolies but that is as far from reality as can be expressed.\u003cp\u003eAmazon Kindle doesn\u0026#x27;t own the content of the books to be able to censure them, they can\u0026#x27;t legally censor or edit books that weren\u0026#x27;t censored or edited by the writer\u0026#x2F;publisher.\u003cp\u003eAlso, there are dozens of ebook stores - a vast competitive market to choose from - not to mention many libraries have ebooks and print books available and interlibrary loans are awesome to get things you want even if not available locally.","parent":"17761653","id":"17762273"}
{"by":"kunley","time":"1305030709","timestamp":"2011-05-10 12:31:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a childish argument based upon an attitude \"don't use robots.txt because it interferes with what we do and what we do is aw3s0m3 l337\". This attitude is also prevailing in the archiveteam's comments here. I doubt their actions can be taken seriously.\u003cp\u003eI wonder how this made into 88 votes here on HN..","parent":"2531219","id":"2532200"}
{"by":"matti3","time":"1418854288","timestamp":"2014-12-17 22:11:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"heres a better link to the article. \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/media/the-interview-sony-theater-owners/index.html?hpt=hp_t2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;money.cnn.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;the-interview-sony-the...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8764642","id":"8764661"}
{"by":"peripheral","time":"1444735227","timestamp":"2015-10-13 11:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have experience dealing with this. I\u0026#x27;m not a U.S. person, but I have a company in a EU country that I co-own with a U.S. citizen (through personal holding companies). Our (EU) bank first demanded we fill in 9 ridiculously extensive forms detailing our entire business, then raised our bank fees from 5 to 105 euro per month, and then closed our account, giving us 2 weeks to send our balance elsewhere. All within a year time.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s extremely hard for us to find a new bank outside the U.S., and inside the U.S. isn\u0026#x27;t easy either, since we\u0026#x27;re not a U.S. company, and do no business there. Thank god we\u0026#x27;re liquidating this company anyway.\u003cp\u003eDoing consulting work, I actually did some work for the bank that closed our account. And honestly, while I didn\u0026#x27;t get close to the departments that deal with FATCA, I can\u0026#x27;t say I blame them for closing our account. You should see how much of a headache all of the new regulations in the financial industry are for the institutions.","parent":"10379308","id":"10379644"}
{"by":"camillomiller","time":"1522939823","timestamp":"2018-04-05 14:50:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People are generally good, they just tend not to be very vocal about that. \nTwitter and Facebook, on the other hand, tend to give a megaphone to bad people, allowing them to spread their message wider and louder. That is inherently bad, because thanks to network effect more people would behave in a way they would never allow in real life.\u003cp\u003eMy take away is that, after ten years, we can say that Facebook and Twitter have a negative impact on contemporary society.","parent":"16765305","id":"16765395"}
{"by":"pcthrowaway","time":"1491932043","timestamp":"2017-04-11 17:34:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just a thought, but even if clicking his blog links means you\u0026#x27;re engaging more, perhaps twitter is guiding their users to engagement in the form of scrolling through their feeds, since that\u0026#x27;s what twitter makes their money from. Thinking about it that way, maybe it makes sense to filter out tweets that are more likely to take you away from the site","parent":"14087924","dead":true,"id":"14090400"}
{"by":"Taylorious","time":"1386104436","timestamp":"2013-12-03 21:00:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why only 50k? That\u0026#x27;s peanuts for researchers. U of M is one of the top universities in the US, they couldn\u0026#x27;t get a major grant for this? Could it be that the technology is not as promising\u0026#x2F;proven as they would like it to appear?","parent":"6842006","id":"6843159"}
{"by":"untog","time":"1427811781","timestamp":"2015-03-31 14:23:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For an iPhone? Of course not. For a Macbook? Sure it is. Sure, so \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c/i\u003e don\u0026#x27;t like Windows, but for most people it\u0026#x27;s fine.","parent":"9296308","id":"9296360"}
{"by":"refurb","time":"1524146058","timestamp":"2018-04-19 13:54:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Medicare fraud goes well beyond price reporting by manufacturers.  Physicians can bill for more expensive procedures, bill phantom patients, etc.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s a huge part of the multi billion dollar fraud that Medicare has.\u003cp\u003eI assume being able to identify physicians will outlier billing patterns would be helpful in figuring out where to look closer.","parent":"16875659","id":"16875881"}
{"by":"jacobian","time":"1250708494","timestamp":"2009-08-19 19:01:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eI worry that’s going to be the Android community — forever talking about the next year’s batch of phones, because the ones available now just are second-rate.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's my worry, too. I remember hearing for what feels like a decade that Linux On The Desktop will be awesome \"next year,\" and it's only over the last year or that it's (barely) reaching adequate.\u003cp\u003eRight now the theory of Android is far better than the implementation. Let's hope that actually changes quickly.","parent":"773372","id":"773484"}
{"by":"SiempreViernes","time":"1536144252","timestamp":"2018-09-05 10:44:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find the description of state transition and Einstein\u0026#x27;s relationship to quantum mechanics distorted to the point of being offensive!\u003cp\u003eWhy would anyone take the gross simplification that is the orbital picture and then have a problem with particles physically moving between the levels? Why invent this silly notion of \u0026quot;teleportation\u0026quot;, if you want quantum mechanics to get spooky just draw the proper probability clouds for Dirac\u0026#x27;s sake!","parent":"17916034","id":"17916686"}
{"by":"moe","time":"1423253275","timestamp":"2015-02-06 20:07:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003ethere\u0026#x27;s a syntax called \u0026#x27;alias\u0026#x27; that works similarly to my example\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s an unfortunate wart on the language (an inconsistency) and not related to your example at all.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI\u0026#x27;m essentially asking for macros commonly found in the Lisp family of languages.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan you come up with a real-world use case for that?","parent":"9011040","id":"9011218"}
{"by":"revjx","time":"1286377267","timestamp":"2010-10-06 15:01:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this the same Mozilla JS reference that's been kicking around for ages? I know there seems to be a big campaign to promote JS resources at the moment, but surely everyone on HN would know about this if they have more than a passing interest in Javascript or learning it...","parent":"1763917","id":"1764174"}
{"by":"davewasthere","time":"1288254049","timestamp":"2010-10-28 08:20:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A couple of years ago I made the mistake of committing to too many projects. (I'd just started free-lancing and put a few feelers out and they all came in at the same time! Typical!)\u003cp\u003eThink I was pulling 16 hours a day consistently for two or three months. Managed to meet all deadlines, but in hindsight I think I made a couple of poor design decisions - and I didn't question some of the things clients asked for (just cracked on and did them without offering much input).\u003cp\u003eNow I make a conscious effort to say no (which I don't like to do, but must) when I don't think I have the spare capacity.\u003cp\u003eOnly problem with freelancing is how difficult it is to find time for your side-projects. Am also trying to sort out enough head room to be able to focus on my own stuff. Good luck with it!","parent":"1841862","id":"1842174"}
{"by":"jbyers","time":"1263328855","timestamp":"2010-01-12 20:40:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think Dyn will make a good parent.  We started using their \"enterprise\" DNS service Dynect recently and it's very good.  Highly reliable, great UI, polished product.  I've been using EveryDNS for personal stuff for years and am happy to see it get more attention.","parent":"1047798","id":"1048471"}
{"by":"lutusp","time":"1349169261","timestamp":"2012-10-02 09:14:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Showbiz hype. Even Steve Jobs wasn't Steve Jobs -- his story is at least as much the outcome of the times and places in which he lived as his personal traits.\u003cp\u003eIt's just a way to attract an audience to a modern myth -- in this case, that there are people who succeed regardless of the random circumstances in which they find themselves. There's precisely no evidence for this idea, and plenty of counterevidence.","parent":"4601149","id":"4601175"}
{"by":"jo_","time":"1398365395","timestamp":"2014-04-24 18:49:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sent.  :)","parent":"7642106","id":"7642131"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1503996431","timestamp":"2017-08-29 08:47:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I live in Germany, where the zip code is a strong factor into the credit score. Source e.g. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.welt.de\u0026#x2F;finanzen\u0026#x2F;verbraucher\u0026#x2F;article13255357\u0026#x2F;Wer-am-falschen-Ort-wohnt-bekommt-keinen-Kredit.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.welt.de\u0026#x2F;finanzen\u0026#x2F;verbraucher\u0026#x2F;article13255357\u0026#x2F;Wer...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15120719","id":"15122957"}
{"by":"peterbotond","time":"1294890720","timestamp":"2011-01-13 03:52:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the classic race condition: 3 nanoseconds is a long time.:-)","parent":"2098680","id":"2098780"}
{"by":"holman","time":"1424378945","timestamp":"2015-02-19 20:49:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans.\u003cp\u003eWhoa, didn\u0026#x27;t expect that at all. Super interesting. Do you have a source for that?","parent":"9076839","id":"9076930"}
{"by":"acidreflux","time":"1509640853","timestamp":"2017-11-02 16:40:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you understand how jokes work or...?","parent":"15610704","dead":true,"id":"15611982"}
{"by":"sanskritabelt","time":"1385439311","timestamp":"2013-11-26 04:15:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure what sort of context can explain away this real-life Randian superman. (and it\u0026#x27;s interesting that you mention Rand and crime and the Fountainhead, given that Howard Roark blew up Courtlandt Homes with dynamite)\u003cp\u003eThis is some interesting reading that goes deeper into Rand\u0026#x27;s writing: \u003ca href=\"http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/romancing-the-stone-cold.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;michaelprescott.freeservers.com\u0026#x2F;romancing-the-stone-c...\u003c/a\u003e\nAll these are Rand\u0026#x27;s own words: \n\u0026quot;The first thing that impresses me about the case is the ferocious rage of a whole society against one man. No matter what the man did, there is always something loathsome in the \u0026#x27;virtuous\u0026#x27; indignation and mass-hatred of the \u0026#x27;majority.\u0026#x27;... It is repulsive to see all these beings with worse sins and crimes in their own lives, virtuously condemning a criminal...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eAnd in regards to Hickman\u0026#x27;s jury:  \u0026quot;Average, everyday, rather stupid looking citizens. Shabbily dressed, dried, worn looking little men. Fat, overdressed, very average, \u0026#x27;dignified\u0026#x27; housewives. How can they decide the fate of that boy? Or anyone\u0026#x27;s fate?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Other people have no right, no hold, no interest or influence on him. And this is not affected or chosen -- it\u0026#x27;s inborn, absolute, it can\u0026#x27;t be changed, he has \u0026#x27;no organ\u0026#x27; to be otherwise. In this respect, he has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel\u0026#x27;other people.\u0026#x27; \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;He shows how impossible it is for a genuinely beautiful soul to succeed at present, for in all [aspects of] modern life, one has to be a hypocrite, to bend and tolerate. This boy wanted to command and smash away things and people he didn\u0026#x27;t approve of.\u0026quot;","parent":"6798015","id":"6799061"}
{"by":"jparmer","time":"1385008298","timestamp":"2013-11-21 04:31:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Check out the Plotly APIs for hover - Here\u0026#x27;s an example: \u003ca href=\"https://plot.ly/~alex/75/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;plot.ly\u0026#x2F;~alex\u0026#x2F;75\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://plot.ly/api/python\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;plot.ly\u0026#x2F;api\u0026#x2F;python\u003c/a\u003e (Disclosure: I\u0026#x27;m a dev at @Plotly)","parent":"6768902","id":"6773059"}
{"by":"cataflam","time":"1428508430","timestamp":"2015-04-08 15:53:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As jellicle already mentioned, those distances are quite small for pollution to travel.\u003cp\u003eHave a look at this recent map of particulate matter concentration during a recent pollution peak for example : \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;CAr9obuWkAAQgjq.jpg:large\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;pbs.twimg.com\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;CAr9obuWkAAQgjq.jpg:large\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9340298","id":"9341617"}
{"by":"FRex","time":"1502299697","timestamp":"2017-08-09 17:28:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Still there for me..","parent":"14971168","id":"14971515"}
{"by":"anentropic","time":"1425929592","timestamp":"2015-03-09 19:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"they all sucked though, the Air was a decent laptop","parent":"9173108","id":"9173359"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1452607512","timestamp":"2016-01-12 14:05:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Related: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10880780\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=10880780\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10887113","id":"10887428"}
{"by":"pash","time":"1420058991","timestamp":"2014-12-31 20:49:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The link [1] cited in my post above includes a chart showing fatalities per mile driven plotted against fatalities per capita for a dozen countries. The relationship looks pretty linear.","parent":"8820866","id":"8821012"}
{"by":"pwaivers","time":"1520365586","timestamp":"2018-03-06 19:46:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you for this answer. It makes a lot of sense. I suppose I was conflating blockchain technology with actual problems that it could solve. The same probably also applies to cryptocurrency.","parent":"16531043","id":"16531458"}
{"by":"lucasmullens","time":"1493835342","timestamp":"2017-05-03 18:15:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People who move out to California to work at Facebook are very far away from a representative sample of the country.","parent":"14257929","id":"14258526"}
{"by":"alternize","time":"1386023679","timestamp":"2013-12-02 22:34:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"been there - getting support for free accounts is almost impossible.\u003cp\u003eyou might be able mitigate the problem by upgrading to a google apps business account and receive support through it. i\u0026#x27;ve used their email support through a paid apps account several time, the problems were always resolved promptly.","parent":"6836961","id":"6837086"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1497918371","timestamp":"2017-06-20 00:26:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It has this as a summary:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Ethereum is an unsecure, trust-requiring, centralized, mutable platform that runs stoppable apps and censors people Ethereum Foundation (EF) dislikes - the opposite of what it advertises itself as. Ethereum Foundation misrepresents what Ethereum is to prospective investors for increasing the value of the traded asset ETH while profiting financially. This means, by definition, Ethereum Foundation is participating in fraud by continuously misleading investors. Furthermore, the act of suddenly changing the properties of the unregistered security after the sale of the security in the initial coin offering (ICO) and\u0026#x2F;or on exchanges while profiting personally constitutes securities fraud. Additionally, Ethereum Foundation is connected to damaging the value of sold assets, damaging the value of competing assets, theft from competition, and market manipulation of competing assets for profit.\u0026quot;","parent":"14591391","id":"14591396"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1330211933","timestamp":"2012-02-25 23:18:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He could have written exactly the same \"my NASA dreams are dashed\" hyperbole had he run a red light, or even jaywalked. In every case, if he doesn't pay the ticket, a judge could issue an arrest warrant --- \u003ci\u003ebut almost certainly wouldn't\u003c/i\u003e. If this had happened in Chicago, the likely outcome would be that he'd be turned over for collections.","parent":"3634149","id":"3634164"}
{"by":"le","time":"1318487209","timestamp":"2011-10-13 06:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Akamai's footprint exceeds 100k servers worldwide now, and that's just what they publicly disclose. It is likely more if you count in their DoD contracts. They're probably on par with Google now.","parent":"3105083","id":"3106363"}
{"by":"biohacker42","time":"1221502866","timestamp":"2008-09-15 18:21:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's a great essay.\u003cp\u003eI've since long forgotten where I first red the sharecropping metaphor for software development. \nBut I recall successfully convincing my manager that it was worth it to build on top of open source instead of proprietary platforms.\u003cp\u003eWhen you describe things in terms of business risk, managers understand.","parent":"304718","id":"304902"}
{"by":"hawk1701","time":"1327418225","timestamp":"2012-01-24 15:17:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I live in Connecticut, and people should be aware that we have a great campaign finance system here (best in the country, IMHO) that's made an enormous difference reducing the power of lobbyists at our State Capitol.\u003cp\u003eTo show how the system works, I'll give an example. A typical State Senate campaign runs a budget of about $100k. Under our Clean Elections system, participating candidates must raise $15k in small contributions of $100 or less per person. They then qualify for a grant from the state of $85k to round out their budget.\u003cp\u003eThe grants are funded by state auction of unclaimed property and the like, not by taxpayer dollars (though even if we didn't do it this way, clean elections would still be a worthy thing for taxpayers to support).\u003cp\u003eThis system is purely voluntary, but 75% of all candidates participated in the last state election. Our current governor was the first ever elected under this system.\u003cp\u003eOf course, this kind of reform doesn't happen out of the blue. A previous governor of our found himself thrown in jail for bribes and corruption. Afterward, both parties found themselves competing to \"out-reform\" the other, and this campaign finance system was the result.\u003cp\u003ePolitically active folks I know tell me that lobbyists at the State Capitol in Hartford are less than half of their former selves. They still exist, but don't hold nearly as much power as they once did, when we called our state \"Corrupticut.\"\u003cp\u003eOur system isn't perfect, but I think it's far better than anything that's done in any other state.\u003cp\u003eMore states should move in our direction, but that will require overcoming their own lobbyists first. Not easy, but we are proof that it's possible.\u003cp\u003eSadly, many outsiders don't like our system. The US Supreme Court  also might destroy it (and a similar system in Arizona). It would be like Citizens United all over again.\u003cp\u003eBut don't just take my word on all of this. Here's more info for the interested:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://prospect.org/article/clean-election-state\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://prospect.org/article/clean-election-state\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3504304","id":"3505078"}
{"by":"mturmon","time":"1389121025","timestamp":"2014-01-07 18:57:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s a troubling insight on the relationship of physical and mental torture from Ian Buruma\u0026#x27;s recent review (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jan/09/china-reeducation-through-horror/?pagination=false\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nybooks.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;jan\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;china-r...\u003c/a\u003e) of a book on Maoist China:\u003cp\u003eIn most accounts, the distress caused by endless indoctrination, public denunciation, and self-criticism was worse than physical torture. Physical pain still allows the victim to retreat into himself. After days, months, years of mental torture there is no longer a self to retreat into. Besides self-abasement, victims were made to show their sincerity by persecuting others, sometimes friends or relatives. In many cases, suicide was the only way out. But ideally, if a person had finally reached the stage when his confessions were totally convincing, there was no longer any gap between acting and natural behavior, between faked and true thoughts. The process ended, in the phrase of a Chinese former victim, with “the physical and mental liquidation of oneself by oneself.”","parent":"7018096","id":"7019070"}
{"by":"nercht12","time":"1491328164","timestamp":"2017-04-04 17:49:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even STEM can be a bad investment, depending on what you do. I graduated with a degree in Chem, wanting to do nanoscale computers and -later- optical computing. Found out 3rd year that unless I got a doctorate, I\u0026#x27;d be a glorified lab rat. What\u0026#x27;s worse is that even if I got a doctorate, I\u0026#x27;d still be a lab rat while trying to get one and would have a sliver of a chance to get a job anyways. My choice? I graduated, but didn\u0026#x27;t do grad school. Think of that next to you wonder why STEM jobs aren\u0026#x27;t being filled.\nThere were some redeeming measures of school. I got a minor in CS, some text on my resume that says I went to school and got good grades - the first step for many companies to even consider you - and learned about a number of really good books I might not have encountered by just randomly exploring the net. Still, I probably would\u0026#x27;ve done better without school.\nI will now take this opportunity to mention that I\u0026#x27;m still looking for work, albeit sunny Cal is too expensive for me to consider jobs out there.","parent":"14032228","id":"14035387"}
{"by":"krenoten","time":"1357238000","timestamp":"2013-01-03 18:33:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As with filter bypassing, what prevents splitting one big indictment into several smaller ones?","parent":"5003657","id":"5003763"}
{"by":"danielvf","time":"1470920705","timestamp":"2016-08-11 13:05:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What areas of the job are you having a hard time evaluating?","parent":"12267536","id":"12267860"}
{"by":"munin","time":"1422976530","timestamp":"2015-02-03 15:15:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"even when they raised $90k of money from donations after their story was in Wired, two of them went but both dropped out. I think they work at a catering company now? it is a very american story.\u003cp\u003eand of course, most likely the team from MIT they beat are all now working at high tech companies or in graduate schools.","parent":"8990563","id":"8990755"}
{"by":"rmc","time":"1523001432","timestamp":"2018-04-06 07:57:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is why a contract should not be legally binding if it\u0026#x27;s unclear. I don\u0026#x27;t mean \u0026quot;clear to a lawyer\u0026quot;, but what the common person, spending the standard, common amount of time, with the advice you expect them to have[1], would think of as \u0026quot;clear\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eEU Data Protection law (like the GDPR) helps here, requiring \u003ci\u003einformed\u003c/i\u003e consent. If you don\u0026#x27;t understand something, then you\u0026#x27;re not informed, and it shouldn\u0026#x27;t be binding.\u003cp\u003e[1] When (say) signing a form for surgery, the surgon can presume that the person has been advised by a doctor. When buying a house, you can presume a lawyer was involved, etc. When signing a ToS for Facebook, we all know there was no legal advice recieved.","parent":"16770663","id":"16771696"}
{"by":"UK-AL","time":"1502645025","timestamp":"2017-08-13 17:23:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, most agile people don\u0026#x27;t think safe is agile.\u003cp\u003eIt was literally created to try to fit agile methods into company that still thinks in waterfall.","parent":"15003776","id":"15003829"}
{"by":"easytiger","time":"1415116591","timestamp":"2014-11-04 15:56:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is the calculator from Apple Lisa in 1983: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa#mediaviewer/File:Apple_Lisa_Office_System_3.1.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Apple_Lisa#mediaviewer\u0026#x2F;File:App...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut borders basically are what we are talking about.","parent":"8557107","id":"8557153"}
{"by":"Philipp__","time":"1484666433","timestamp":"2017-01-17 15:20:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My bad, I thought of editor.","parent":"13418192","id":"13418214"}
{"by":"zorked","time":"1354264696","timestamp":"2012-11-30 08:38:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree. Anyway, if you sign up you can play with sample data.\u003cp\u003eIt looks completely amazing.","parent":"4852421","id":"4852426"}
{"by":"knd775","time":"1421425468","timestamp":"2015-01-16 16:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And with good reason. That was never said by Apple. They simply explained why it happened (people\u0026#x27;s hands touching various parts and messing with the antennae). The media created that whole \u0026quot;You\u0026#x27;re holding it wrong\u0026quot; thing.","parent":"8899675","id":"8899821"}
{"by":"dgfgfdagasdfgfa","time":"1498692603","timestamp":"2017-06-28 23:30:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s exactly why only a fool would build their software product around patent protection.","parent":"14659487","id":"14659503"}
{"by":"rmdashrfroot","time":"1534713708","timestamp":"2018-08-19 21:21:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote a collection of Dockerfiles for images running Python 2.7 or Python 3.6 + Selenium with either Chrome or Firefox and using Xvfb for the X display (necessary for running Selenium headlessly).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;seanpianka\u0026#x2F;docker-python-xvfb-selenium-chrome-firefox\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;seanpianka\u0026#x2F;docker-python-xvfb-selenium-ch...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing this, in conjunction with AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and ECS, it became merely cents a month to run a headless scraper task in the cloud.","parent":"17795626","id":"17796241"}
{"by":"tomkarlo","time":"1373476681","timestamp":"2013-07-10 17:18:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know if it\u0026#x27;s more conspicuous than glass - it\u0026#x27;s very similar to a lot of bluetooth headsets. And it\u0026#x27;s been out on the market for a long time with hardly any controversy.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s lots of devices like this - I also remember some systems that cops wear that just clips onto the front of your shirt and looks kind of like a pager. Glass isn\u0026#x27;t particularly novel in this regard (except for maybe its connectivity via wifi).","parent":"6011655","id":"6021284"}
{"by":"bobcostas55","time":"1411755442","timestamp":"2014-09-26 18:17:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s time for an Uber for Uber for ______ service. There\u0026#x27;s so many of them now it\u0026#x27;s confusing and time-consuming to pick one. So why not add a crowd-sourced middleman to do it for you?","parent":"8372392","id":"8373994"}
{"by":"jschwartzi","time":"1473023581","timestamp":"2016-09-04 21:13:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What bothers me about this is that we\u0026#x27;re now telling 15-year olds to make decisions that they won\u0026#x27;t understand the outcome of until they\u0026#x27;re 30. If they\u0026#x27;re lucky like me then they might manage to end up in a decent career despite having a mediocre degree from a mediocre school. But life has been tremendously unfair to most of the kids I went to high school with, and it\u0026#x27;s because our high school was mediocre and our parents didn\u0026#x27;t have the money to make up for it.\u003cp\u003eI shudder to think what the future will be like for my friends\u0026#x27; kids.","parent":"12426259","id":"12426738"}
{"by":"ianai","time":"1546724438","timestamp":"2019-01-05 21:40:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On jobs, I’m unconvinced that stadiums create many jobs. At least at the stadiums I’ve lived near, they seemed to be fully staffed with far fewer people than other social venues - say casinos  (though I don’t see a US government making a casino) or even a mall.\u003cp\u003eI’d rather localities invest in community centers, libraries, museums, etc than stadiums.","parent":"18834073","id":"18834447"}
{"by":"SilasX","time":"1469478764","timestamp":"2016-07-25 20:32:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is there a good general solution to making government leaders accurately account for the ephemerality (or danger) of a specific revenue source?  Constitutional provisions? Equity stakes for decision makers?  Better voters?","parent":"12160984","id":"12161414"}
{"by":"heynk","time":"1411449868","timestamp":"2014-09-23 05:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve been using Talko for a little over 6 months, and I\u0026#x27;m related to a founder. Discretion advised\u003cp\u003eIt lives up to the hype. It\u0026#x27;s innovative in terms of an app that perfectly integrates synchronous and asynchronous communication at that same time. What\u0026#x27;s much more impressive is that it\u0026#x27;s one of the few pieces of software where I can confidently say It Just Works. The level of quality in every interaction and experience is carefully thought out and executed. It is modern enough that my girlfriend and I communicate with it exclusively. It\u0026#x27;s simple enough to facilitate discussion with \u0026gt;6 members of my extended family at the same time on a daily basis. That includes people ages 10 through \u0026gt;70.\u003cp\u003eI do communicate more with my family now than ever before. The key is the group aspect and being asynchronous. It\u0026#x27;s not pushy like a phone call where you\u0026#x27;re forced to make conversation with a single person. With Talko, we\u0026#x27;re always talking about a particular subject, usually with lots of pictures. I can be super engaged if I want to, or I can sit back and just watch it happen. What\u0026#x27;s awesome is that we all are experiencing it, even the people who miss it.\u003cp\u003eTalko\u0026#x27;s UX is helpful for guiding people to make the right decision about whether to talk about something in a \u0026#x27;new call\u0026#x27;, or to continue talking in an existing thread. This solves the issue of split conversations in the same thread, and if you want to talk about something for a long time (like your sports team every week), it\u0026#x27;s easy to bring up old conversations and continue them. Logged conversations aren\u0026#x27;t novel but are still great for nostalgia.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been happy to see them improve a lot in just the time I\u0026#x27;ve been beta testing. They completely revamped some critical user flows which made a huge difference in usability. I know there are more awesome things ahead.\u003cp\u003eGive it a shot, and if you don\u0026#x27;t like it feel free to refute me! I am giving my honest opinion and haven\u0026#x27;t been asked to speak my mind from the Talko team in any way.\u003cp\u003eEdit: Forgot to mention that the voice quality is ridiculously crisp both in playback and realtime. It\u0026#x27;s much more clear than a call.","parent":"8353988","id":"8354152"}
{"by":"robto","time":"1521470619","timestamp":"2018-03-19 14:43:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IPFS isn\u0026#x27;t a blockchain, and you only receive data you request - it\u0026#x27;s pull instead of push oriented. So I don\u0026#x27;t believe it has any problem with this.","parent":"16618496","id":"16618683"}
{"by":"ommunist","time":"1430156806","timestamp":"2015-04-27 17:46:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, in the same source there is a new one - МЛА-1А «Илана». Can plant forests at 3,75km\u0026#x2F;h with same cassette feeder 4000 saplings per load on clearings _with_ tree stumps (if stumps density is below 600 stumps\u0026#x2F;ha.","parent":"9446809","id":"9447911"}
{"by":"kup0","time":"1453127149","timestamp":"2016-01-18 14:25:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this somewhat addresses the issue, at least from Federighi\u0026#x27;s perspective:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@Klehmann79\u0026#x2F;see-https-daringfireball-net-thetalkshow-139-federighi-gruber-transcript-ed1e36761b1#.ilkx675vl\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@Klehmann79\u0026#x2F;see-https-daringfireball-net-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10923027","id":"10924523"}
{"by":"WorldMaker","time":"1533053126","timestamp":"2018-07-31 16:05:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not just pipelining, but fewer more high-throughput connections, smaller HTTP header overhead, HTTP2 Push with the server being able to stream a \u0026quot;bundle equivalent\u0026quot; to the client in the background, and perhaps most importantly, Brotli compression which does pretty well with unminified JS.","parent":"17652650","id":"17654369"}
{"by":"rbg246","time":"1483353491","timestamp":"2017-01-02 10:38:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They most certainly do chase property investors who do claim incorrect primary residence. Remember primary place of residence is only while you live there so if you change it one month before selling it only offsets one month of profits and what if you have multiple properties you can\u0026#x27;t hide it all with that.\u003cp\u003eHowever the bigger problem remains that capital is taxed at half the rate of labour and this matched with tax free pensions has meant people with built up capital have gotten extraordinarily rich in the past decade and a half at the expense generally of the younger generation.","parent":"13300029","id":"13300369"}
{"by":"nkkollaw","time":"1503396398","timestamp":"2017-08-22 10:06:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How can the author think that it\u0026#x27;s normal for regular people to have 16GB of RAM?\u003cp\u003eThe case of not being important to use GBs of RAM can be made if the app is Atom and it\u0026#x27;s a tool for developers, but regular people still have 2GB of RAM, not 16 or even 8.","parent":"15038751","id":"15070971"}
{"by":"chadwittman","time":"1504202196","timestamp":"2017-08-31 17:56:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;ve solved this hurdle at Dolly, but our entire business is built around having solved this exact problem — so it\u0026#x27;s part of our core strategy.","parent":"15141474","id":"15142297"}
{"by":"LeBlanc","time":"1288215416","timestamp":"2010-10-27 21:36:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ruby is a good choice and is similar to Python. However, if you do choose Ruby, I would recommend starting out with Sinatra instead of Rails. Sinatra is simple and easily understood so it makes a good starting point. Rails does a lot of things by 'magic' so it is a lot more difficult to start out with.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.sinatrarb.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.sinatrarb.com/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, if you do go straight into rails, this is the best rails tutorial I have found:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://railstutorial.org/book\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://railstutorial.org/book\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"1840421","id":"1840552"}
{"by":"pj","time":"1236058529","timestamp":"2009-03-03 05:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The web is a public good and as such, we should have /one/ standards compliant browser that works on any device that can access it. Fund it with taxes, just like roads, bridges, and the new electric grid Obama is going to buy us...\u003cp\u003eMicrosoft should just stop working on IE and concentrate on the OS.  We don't need Opera, Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox, etc... They're /all/ free.  Take the best of them all and build /one/.","parent":"500781","id":"501093"}
{"by":"heinstrom","time":"1547595787","timestamp":"2019-01-15 23:43:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":";)","parent":"18907345","id":"18916869"}
{"by":"drcode","time":"1389446118","timestamp":"2014-01-11 13:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, every business cycle except the current one, when bitcoin takes over :-)","parent":"7042434","id":"7042513"}
{"by":"instakill","time":"1330438160","timestamp":"2012-02-28 14:09:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something happened - Joseph Heller.","parent":"3643009","id":"3643174"}
{"by":"prasidp","time":"1404850624","timestamp":"2014-07-08 20:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you could check out Bloc as well. here are some reviews: \u003ca href=\"http://www.quora.com/Bloc-io/What-have-been-students-experiences-with-Bloc-io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.quora.com\u0026#x2F;Bloc-io\u0026#x2F;What-have-been-students-experie...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8005660","id":"8006540"}
{"by":"svat","time":"1527585475","timestamp":"2018-05-29 09:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not a coincidence: in fact, eqn (the ACM paper by Kernighan and Cherry was published in 1975) predates the initial design of TeX (1977), and Knuth explicitly based the math notation in TeX on that of eqn. Initially, like eqn he had no backslashes, but quickly (before any code was written) changed it to one with backslashes.\u003cp\u003eHe discuses these matters of syntax in his Gibbs lecture of of January 1978 (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;projecteuclid.org\u0026#x2F;euclid.bams\u0026#x2F;1183544082\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;projecteuclid.org\u0026#x2F;euclid.bams\u0026#x2F;1183544082\u003c/a\u003e): see Figure 3 on the top of page 344, where the notation of eqn is marked \u0026quot;Type B\u0026quot; (“developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories”) and the third column is \u0026quot;Type T\u0026quot;.","parent":"17177205","id":"17177610"}
{"by":"iopq","time":"1477545501","timestamp":"2016-10-27 05:18:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That seems like bad design. Rust iterators return an Option\u0026lt;T\u0026gt;, for example.","parent":"12797676","id":"12803081"}
{"by":"Hotjar_Rec","time":"1525250605","timestamp":"2018-05-02 08:43:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hotjar is a young startup that embraces remote working and personal development.\u003cp\u003eHotjar\u0026#x27;s culture is driven by transparency, respect, open discussion, collaboration and blunt and direct feedback. We have several positions open.\u003cp\u003eHotjar | DevOps Engineer (Americas) | Remote\u003cp\u003eHotjar | DevOps Engineer (Europe) | Remote\u003cp\u003eInformation about all roles can be found on our careers page: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;careers.hotjar.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;careers.hotjar.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16967543","id":"16975079"}
{"by":"evilduck","time":"1476462455","timestamp":"2016-10-14 16:27:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Runaway successes like FB are outliers.  Failed businesses OTOH are quite common and usually have a number of causes where bad technology choices can be at least a \u003ci\u003efactor\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eYou call it poor management in retrospect, but it\u0026#x27;s succeeding in spite of the tools when you\u0026#x27;re still doing ok. There\u0026#x27;s a lot of companies that exist in between failure and \u0026quot;Facebook\u0026quot; who don\u0026#x27;t have hockey stick growth curves who also can\u0026#x27;t afford needlessly higher technology costs, whether that\u0026#x27;s in infrastructure or staffing or opportunity costs in getting features to market. If PHP does\u0026#x27;t incur a higher cost personally, go for it, but it might be a strategic disadvantage later if you don\u0026#x27;t hit it big.","parent":"12708482","id":"12709158"}
{"by":"lflux","time":"1330124086","timestamp":"2012-02-24 22:54:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Sweden, they're all TFTs these days. Even the non-touch ones.","parent":"3630171","id":"3631487"}
{"by":"tks2103","time":"1397130191","timestamp":"2014-04-10 11:43:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Shame is a pretty poor incentive or disincentive for anything. It actively prevents connections between people.","parent":"7565274","id":"7565309"}
{"by":"wslh","time":"1370125023","timestamp":"2013-06-01 22:17:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also being a public company complicates the strict \"Don't be evil\" logic. Shareholders, in general, doesn't care about being too ethical in a metaphysics sense.\u003cp\u003eIt's time to think that private companies has a most promising ethical future than public ones.","parent":"5806197","id":"5806262"}
{"by":"simplify","time":"1440089021","timestamp":"2015-08-20 16:43:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Re implicit calling: what would you write if you wanted to access `foo.bar` as a function instead of calling it?","parent":"10091694","id":"10092996"}
{"by":"mballantyne","time":"1489644151","timestamp":"2017-03-16 06:02:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"First, a small defense of Racket. Racket has a small core relative to its apparent size; most of the bloat is in optional library code. All the fancy special forms for pattern matching, classes, contracts, etc are just optional macros from the libraries, and everything eventually expands down into this rather small core language:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org\u0026#x2F;reference\u0026#x2F;syntax-model.html#%28part._fully-expanded%29\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.racket-lang.org\u0026#x2F;reference\u0026#x2F;syntax-model.html#%28...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe default `#lang racket` is a big batteries-included language including all that stuff, but the core `#lang racket\u0026#x2F;base` isn\u0026#x27;t very big. I always program in `#lang racket\u0026#x2F;base` and pull in just the libraries I need. For me the most beautiful part of Racket is this juxtaposition of a small core language and a big extended language implemented through a standard library of macros.\u003cp\u003eYou can also install a distribution of Racket that leaves out bloat like DrRacket, Slideshow and the teaching language packages from the release variants page: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;download.racket-lang.org\u0026#x2F;releases\u0026#x2F;6.8\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;download.racket-lang.org\u0026#x2F;releases\u0026#x2F;6.8\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs to your question, Beautiful Racket appears largely a guide to the language extensibility features that are specific to Racket and not shared by other Scheme systems like Chibi. Things like the `#lang` system, lexer library, and syntax highlighting integration in DrRacket. I imagine you\u0026#x27;d get the most benefit out of it by working through it in Racket, and subsequently thinking about how to apply the ideas in other systems like Chibi.","parent":"13882193","id":"13882875"}
{"by":"emcq","time":"1453570494","timestamp":"2016-01-23 17:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is not strictly true, and happens when complexity is needed for some of the simple lower level parts or due to the libraries and tools available changing over time.\u003cp\u003eFor example, lets say the 10x engineer wrote fast inverse square root [0]. Most people would look at the code and not understand what\u0026#x27;s going on.  It requires a lot of domain knowledge but provided nice speeedups at the time. Is it more complicated than necessary for some problems? Absolutely. However when used frequently as originally intended that speedup allows for more compute to be spent on higher level components useful to the rest of the team. It would also be a pain to maintain for those unfamiliar with some of the details but can be well encapsulated into a simple function call in a math library.\u003cp\u003eThw other case this illustrates is that code evolves and a solution available now to make a system simpler may not have been available in the past. Today the same code for fast inverse square root is outdated in favor of hardware calls, so if observing the code now it is certainly over complicated for the solutions available at hand.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fast_inverse_square_root\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Fast_inverse_square_root\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10958987","id":"10959104"}
{"by":"madmaze","time":"1308180716","timestamp":"2011-06-15 23:31:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The other thing to keep in mind is that cia.gov is probably not made to handle lots of traffic, since I cant imagine them having a massive day-to-day userbase.. hence I assume it would be rather easy to get them choked up with traffic","parent":"2659488","id":"2659517"}
{"by":"pallavkaushish","time":"1384288011","timestamp":"2013-11-12 20:26:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the info.","parent":"6673736","id":"6720723"}
{"by":"tobyzerner","time":"1440692129","timestamp":"2015-08-27 16:15:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We output a copy of the page\u0026#x27;s data within \u0026lt;noscript\u0026gt; tags. (e.g. \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;discuss.flarum.org\u0026#x2F;?nojs=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;discuss.flarum.org\u0026#x2F;?nojs=1\u003c/a\u003e) Admittedly it\u0026#x27;s currently pretty bare-bones and not actually very optimized, haha","parent":"10130170","id":"10130294"}
{"by":"mckoss","time":"1360273563","timestamp":"2013-02-07 21:46:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is Apple not just buying back it's shares?  Would that not be the most tax efficient way of increasing shareholder value?","parent":"5184449","id":"5184702"}
{"by":"gcb0","time":"1425792071","timestamp":"2015-03-08 05:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you need a camera there. my old crabs where boring...","parent":"9164614","id":"9164661"}
{"by":"jarmitage","time":"1367969819","timestamp":"2013-05-07 23:36:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Could someone with the knowledge explain significant differences between this and Paper.js?","parent":"5668374","id":"5671602"}
{"by":"quadform","time":"1320717454","timestamp":"2011-11-08 01:57:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Would you say that requiring an actual physical address for each job on the site is feasible?\u003cp\u003eIf I'm searching for a job, I've usually got a max commuting time in mind. Some towns are closer, but take longer to drive to because there's no highway leading there, or no train. Some are very far, but the train goes there, and so I'd consider the commute.\u003cp\u003eSo, when a job ad has an address, that's what I'm thinking about when I see it: commute time.","parent":"3207437","id":"3209142"}
{"by":"covercash","time":"1307514772","timestamp":"2011-06-08 06:32:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why is this on HN's front page?  It was entertaining when I saw it on reddit yesterday but I don't think it belongs here.","parent":"2632129","id":"2632232"}
{"by":"BuckRogers","time":"1539384868","timestamp":"2018-10-12 22:54:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a strawman argument, because an alternative was already offered in my post. Yes, you can upgrade your software to prevent it. I don\u0026#x27;t care what you personally prefer or choose to do, I\u0026#x27;m just telling the facts and options with Windows.","parent":"18160183","id":"18205292"}
{"by":"jessaustin","time":"1546565809","timestamp":"2019-01-04 01:36:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t the entire argument about the current (or maybe \u0026quot;immediately foreseeable\u0026quot;) state of tooling? We don\u0026#x27;t really care one way or the other, in a philosophical sense. What works?","parent":"18820464","id":"18821248"}
{"by":"mhandley","time":"1517611732","timestamp":"2018-02-02 22:48:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, we were surprised by just how prevalent middleboxes were that didn\u0026#x27;t like gaps in sequence spaces.  This significantly influenced the design options for MPTCP.\u003cp\u003eAnother problem is that TCP is a bytestream protocol.  Apps that stream over TCP don\u0026#x27;t usually add packet-orientated framing and resync points, so if you lose a packet, the receiver will often need to discard quite a bit of data after the missing packet before they can start decoding again.  Effectively this multiplies the effective loss rate.  In the extreme, there\u0026#x27;s the potential for congestion collapse, where lots of packets are being delivered but none of the are useful, so they\u0026#x27;re all discarded at the receiver.\u003cp\u003eEdit: I should add - middleboxes often resegment the datastream, merging multiple packets, or splitting large ones.  So even if the sender added a header in each segment sent, those headers may not be at the beginning of the segment when it arrives.  After a loss, you may not be able to reliable find the next header again.\u003cp\u003eBy the way, that web server at UCL may well be the oldest on the Internet.  It\u0026#x27;s probably the only server left proudly running CERN\u0026#x2F;3.0 on Sparc hardware since 1994.","parent":"16293256","id":"16294870"}
{"by":"IvyMike","time":"1538157113","timestamp":"2018-09-28 17:51:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an interesting point.  Right now, I can\u0026#x27;t reconcile the \u0026quot;we canceled active sessions thus logging people out\u0026quot; as a fix with the fact that \u0026quot;View As\u0026quot; was the attack vector.","parent":"18095151","id":"18095416"}
{"by":"ianlunn","time":"1329426093","timestamp":"2012-02-16 21:01:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi krmmmalik,\u003cp\u003eI would like to turn this into a WordPress plugin in the future although as I've only just released the beta, I'd like to spend my spare time improving that first.","parent":"3600530","id":"3600609"}
{"by":"millstone","time":"1538970409","timestamp":"2018-10-08 03:46:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ALU ops are cheap, interconnects are expensive. Curse JS for  scatter-gather, not for its FCVTZS details.\u003cp\u003e(Though now I can\u0026#x27;t explain the magnitude of the win...fine, curse JS for both.)","parent":"18163930","id":"18163996"}
{"by":"superchink","time":"1215022735","timestamp":"2008-07-02 18:18:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I apologize if anyone sees this as \"polluting\" HN, but I thought they were interesting quotes, and might warrant some discussion from at least someone on here. If people aren't interested, they probably won't upvote it, so I doubt you have much to worry about. Isn't that the point of the system in place here?","parent":"234339","id":"234374"}
{"by":"Dn_Ab","time":"1303347551","timestamp":"2011-04-21 00:59:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with you, most of those methods are local and optimization is a form of search typically used for continuous and usually differentiable spaces. One can also say search is a form of optimization.\u003cp\u003eBut Based on my readings genetic algorithms are more known to be susceptible to local minima, while simulated annealing in theory is a global method.\u003cp\u003e---\u003cp\u003eAs for genetic algorithms - for optimization I prefer Differential Evolution. For Exploration maybe genetic algorithms are more fruitfull although I think Genetic programming and Learning Classifier Systems be slept on. Speaking of slept on - another under appreciated but much more used method is stochastic gradient descent. Global optimums might be overrated.","parent":"2468672","id":"2469046"}
{"by":"Allocator2008","time":"1217895113","timestamp":"2008-08-05 00:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am a test automation engineer in Austin. I have worked with JUnit (Java) and CPPUnit (C++) for unit testing, and also with Borland SilkTest for GUI automation. So whereas I certainly cannot really comment too much one way or another in terms of what schools should be teaching, I will say that I have found java plug-ins to silktest essentially work when and where the JVM feels like working. They might work on one box, but not on another box, even though the code is the same. Java will not work the same from version to version, nor even from box to box on the same version, at least not reliably enough for proper automation testing to get done on a repeatable fashion. So now I write the silk-plugins in c instead of java, and that hasn't let me down yet. I don't know what we should teach in schools, I will leave that up to professors to figure out. I do know that if I am in an airplane at 35,000 feet, I do not want to have to rely upon the whims of the JVM to get my safely to my destination. When I am that far above sea-level, believe me, I am praying that the airplane's software was written in C! :-)","parent":"266947","id":"266964"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1432693095","timestamp":"2015-05-27 02:18:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My opinion: If you\u0026#x27;re interested in learning a JVM language such as Scala or Clojure or Groovy, it makes sense to to know at least a little bit of Java because you can\u0026#x27;t really take the \u0026quot;Java\u0026quot; out of \u0026quot;JVM\u0026quot; with a library and error messages will often be provided relative to the underlying Java implementation - i.e. Clojure and Scala often throw Java errors.\u003cp\u003eAs for Java being \u0026quot;too slow\u0026quot;, for what?","parent":"9608286","id":"9608951"}
{"by":"mafuyu","time":"1433465719","timestamp":"2015-06-05 00:55:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Luckily, I know of a scheme to compress the address 100%! ;)","parent":"9663102","id":"9663216"}
{"by":"ozh","time":"1367489098","timestamp":"2013-05-02 10:04:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Talk about hateful...","parent":"5643351","id":"5643502"}
{"by":"justincpollard","time":"1409769262","timestamp":"2014-09-03 18:34:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Building the \u0026quot;vanilla post and search rental platform\u0026quot; first reminds me of a strategy I\u0026#x27;ve read elsewhere: spend time working in the industry you hope to disrupt. There is no substitute for real world experience when researching\u0026#x2F;understanding an industry!","parent":"8264483","id":"8264530"}
{"by":"reitzensteinm","time":"1268574022","timestamp":"2010-03-14 13:40:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I meant the whole 'tick tock' branding, so to speak - it seems to be marketing giving a name to something which engineering has been doing for sensible reasons for quite some time.","parent":"1190655","id":"1190657"}
{"by":"paulbaumgart","time":"1255855063","timestamp":"2009-10-18 08:37:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How's it treating you? Sounds like a good distro for learning a little about Linux.\u003cp\u003eAnd welcome to HN. :)","parent":"888120","id":"888172"}
{"by":"nneonneo","time":"1499267356","timestamp":"2017-07-05 15:09:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Site visit, cum lunch\u0026quot;.","parent":"14701894","id":"14702978"}
{"by":"suapapa","time":"1340771431","timestamp":"2012-06-27 04:30:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I made my own vim-cluth which use which use an Arduino as USB-HID. It use only one usb slot for three fedals.\u003cp\u003ePicture :\n\u003ca href=\"https://plus.google.com/118040095502884745897/posts/FwN5FEfN66T\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://plus.google.com/118040095502884745897/posts/FwN5FEfN...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSource :\n\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/suapapa/arduino_sketch_balcon123\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://github.com/suapapa/arduino_sketch_balcon123\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4141410","id":"4165523"}
{"by":"pg_is_a_butt","time":"1446769300","timestamp":"2015-11-06 00:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you can\u0026#x27;t give .5 star reviews, clever asshole","parent":"10512755","dead":true,"id":"10517089"}
{"by":"aseipp","time":"1468001653","timestamp":"2016-07-08 18:14:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assume you\u0026#x27;re referring to the bit about Darcs.\u003cp\u003eTo be fair, Pijul is an in-progress version control system, and Darcs (or the now-defunct Camp[1] project, from one of my \u0026#x27;predecessors\u0026#x27; in my current job) is probably the closest thing there is to Pijul in spirit, so it\u0026#x27;s sort of understandable why they would choose it. The package is available from crates.io, at least. And they plan to move to self hosting in the next release of Pijul.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, if the developers are reading this, something like a `fast-export` mirror of the repositories would be very useful for people just browsing the code. Or just any way to conveniently browse it with some syntax highlighting.\u003cp\u003eHonestly, the bigger problem is there\u0026#x27;s no easy docs to glance at on how to use the library, or samples, without cloning repositories. That raises the activation effort a bit, IMO. The repository being in darcs with an `index.html` just makes this particular point a bit worse. But just documentation on the page would make it better, too.\u003cp\u003eAnd really, `darcs` is packaged in most systems, is it not? Is it that problematic to simply install it with apt or whatever?\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;projects.haskell.org\u0026#x2F;camp\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;projects.haskell.org\u0026#x2F;camp\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12057508","id":"12057580"}
{"by":"hristov","time":"1474061970","timestamp":"2016-09-16 21:39:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with most of this, except for the stuff on robo-advisors. You should be very careful about those.\u003cp\u003eFirst of all their fees are too high. Wealthfront\u0026#x27;s 0.25% fee seems rather small and it is smaller than what a lot of human advisers charge, but if you compute it over a lifetime of savings with the negative compounding effect it will cost you a lot.\u003cp\u003eImagine you receive some money when you are 20 from a rich uncle and invest it for 40 years using the wealthfront fee structure. After 40 years you will have paid about 10% of your savings in fees. Or, in other words, you will have about 10% more savings if you had taken a couple of hours to sit down and decide which funds to invest in. Keep in mind that the wealthfront fees are in addition of any etf or mutual fund fees you have to pay to get into investment vehicles.\u003cp\u003eSo yeah, compounding interest is a dangerous thing.\u003cp\u003eThere is another problem with roboadvisers -- people put too much trust in them. In our society there is this implicit trust of the computer, probably bred from multiple sci-fi shows with all-wise computers. Well it is a very dangerous thing when it comes to your savings.\u003cp\u003eYou may not be the best investor, but you should take responsibility in your investment choices. You should know what you are investing in and why. Even if the thing you are investing in is a boring simple S\u0026amp;P 500 fund (as it should be for most of you) you should know what it is and why you are investing in it. You shouldn\u0026#x27;t just blindly follow some algorithm programmed by god-knows who.","parent":"12514971","id":"12517554"}
{"by":"vvanders","time":"1489854957","timestamp":"2017-03-18 16:35:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; ... user bases and ecosystem, and in my very humble opinion Lua spectacularly fails at both.\u003cp\u003eI think that call depends on your use case. If you\u0026#x27;ve ever tried embedding v8 or spidermonkey you might have a different opinion.\u003cp\u003eFor instance we use to run the entire game state for multiple game titles I worked on in Lua. This was on the PSP where we only had a 400kb block of execution space and a 333MHz MIPS processor(system memory was 8mb w\u0026#x2F; 24mb for video + audio).\u003cp\u003eThose types of environments are where Lua shines which lets you use a scripting language that scales from nothing up to full-blown systems.","parent":"13902023","id":"13902050"}
{"by":"lima","time":"1531235494","timestamp":"2018-07-10 15:11:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am currently moving all of my infrastructure to OpenShift and I love it - and I chose it after carefully evaluating the alternatives.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s Kubernetes plus a PaaS platform that takes care of the annoying parts - deploying a cluster (using Ansible), container builds, triggers, deployments, a nice UI... Couldn\u0026#x27;t be happier.\u003cp\u003eRed Hat is a major Kubernetes contributor and OpenShift is barely lagging behind upstream k8s. It feels very polished and the documentation - while a bit overwhelming at times - is extremely helpful and extensive. Instead of forking Kubernetes, they only ever \u003ci\u003eadd\u003c/i\u003e new functionality while simultaneously upstreaming it. For example, the Kubernetes RBAC mechanism was contributed by Red Hat.","parent":"17497487","id":"17498760"}
{"by":"inetsee","time":"1545239548","timestamp":"2018-12-19 17:12:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am very interested in the \u0026quot;freestyle\u0026quot; model of chess, where one or more human players are paired with one or more chess engines to form a team, playing against other teams. This model has demonstrated that these teams can play stronger chess than either the human players or the chess engines.\u003cp\u003eI believe that this same model can be applied to many more creative applications, including music. A lot of the pure AI creative applications I\u0026#x27;ve seen still have a long way to go before they get close to what talented human creatives can do.","parent":"18717091","id":"18717216"}
{"by":"cscharenberg","time":"1441302428","timestamp":"2015-09-03 17:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a good question. I usually have multiple PyCharm instances running and have never had a problem. I never thought about it until my wife started up PyCharm on my other computer and I got a notice saying another computer on the network was using a license and one of us needed to quit.\u003cp\u003eJetBrains needs to reassure us multiple instances are ok on same machine and across VMs. Will running the IDE in OS X and also a guest Linux VM look like multi-machine use? If so, that\u0026#x27;s really a bad flaw in licensing.","parent":"10166130","id":"10166427"}
{"by":"mbillie1","time":"1389121032","timestamp":"2014-01-07 18:57:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Meh.  Just filter what you put on Facebook, or don\u0026#x27;t use it.  I\u0026#x27;m not in favor of this, and I do find it creepy, but nobody holds a gun to your head and makes you log in and post status updates recapping your day.  It\u0026#x27;s a trade off - the pleasure\u0026#x2F;whatever you get from FB vs the creepiness\u0026#x2F;unpleasantness from them having your information.  If the balance tips, re-evaluate using the service.","parent":"7019029","id":"7019071"}
{"by":"chiefalchemist","time":"1523328748","timestamp":"2018-04-10 02:52:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;Even after the Snowden revelations, not much really happened to the government or the NSA.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eTrue. But that says far more about the Mainstream Media than anything else. Most people dismissed the issue because it was never really made an issue.\u003cp\u003eWe can debate \u0026#x2F; discuss why that was some other time. But, as we now see, the MSM drives public option.","parent":"16797917","id":"16798665"}
{"by":"jmull","time":"1547485971","timestamp":"2019-01-14 17:12:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’m curious: why doesn’t background refresh solve the problem?","parent":"18903078","id":"18904517"}
{"by":"tomrod","time":"1352340107","timestamp":"2012-11-08 02:01:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey Benny, I couldn't comment on your comment directly because you're in ban hell. But I get what you're saying.","parent":"4755700","id":"4756194"}
{"by":"rfrank","time":"1501278221","timestamp":"2017-07-28 21:43:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To me, saying \u0026quot;Bezos doesn\u0026#x27;t influence Wapo\u0026#x27;s output\u0026quot; is like saying, \u0026quot;Oculus will remain an independent entity inside Facebook.\u0026quot; Not something I\u0026#x27;m inclined to believe. Why should one believe that the billionaire (and new richest man in the world) at the helm of a major monopoly isn\u0026#x27;t influencing WaPo\u0026#x27;s content?","parent":"14877529","id":"14877831"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1540490605","timestamp":"2018-10-25 18:03:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Define \u0026quot;craft\u0026quot;","parent":"18302571","id":"18303024"}
{"by":"wjossey","time":"1482812527","timestamp":"2016-12-27 04:22:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Overall, I\u0026#x27;d like to see more transparency from companies as to the \u0026quot;why\u0026quot; for these recommendations. I doubt we will see that happen without legislation, as I\u0026#x27;m sure FB and Google would never want to present to end users that they know you are pregnant because of in store purchases you made. The creepiness factor takes a huge leap once people understand how something ends up in their feed.","parent":"13260047","id":"13261257"}
{"by":"AndrewO","time":"1290277274","timestamp":"2010-11-20 18:21:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In addition to what the others said, these two pages make the arguments that convinced me:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottdensmore/archive/2004/05/25/140827.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottdensmore/archive/2004/05/25/140...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingletonsAreEvil\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingletonsAreEvil\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't know the particulars of how PHP's ArrayObject works, but take Ruby for example: instead of inheriting from Array, to make a class that operates like an array, one mixes in the Enumerable module (similar to a trait) and implements an \"each\" method to handle the low level access. All of the other methods come along with the module. In this way, the lineage of a class isn't important; rather, it's what it actually does that matters. (How meritocratic! :-)\u003cp\u003eBut particulars of any language aside, I think this is an important step for PHP. Once a language gives the ability to compose the behavior of a class through traits, modules, mixins, etc rather than standard inheritance, it becomes easier to separate the data that a class encapsulates from the behaviors that it provides—and that, I believe, leads to more modular code.","parent":"1924591","id":"1924954"}
{"by":"pjmlp","time":"1423092908","timestamp":"2015-02-04 23:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Oracle seems to have no real upside to maintaining Java\u003cp\u003eSince the early 2000 the majority of Oracle GUI tools across their products are written in Java.\u003cp\u003eLong before acquiring Sun, Oracle did acquire Bea.\u003cp\u003eOracle still sells Bea Weblogic JEE container and the J\u0026#x2F;Rockit JVM, which also has a real time version.\u003cp\u003eThey have their own JSF framework and IDE.\u003cp\u003eSo becoming Java steward is not so strange.","parent":"9000169","id":"9000818"}
{"by":"nixme","time":"1235375988","timestamp":"2009-02-23 07:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Aaron Hillegass's \"Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X\" is pretty much the standard.\u003cp\u003eAlso see:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388538\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388538\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=431967\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=431967\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=346967\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=346967\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401744\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401744\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"491373","id":"491411"}
{"by":"CuriouslyC","time":"1414157123","timestamp":"2014-10-24 13:25:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would rephrase his statement as:\u003cp\u003eYou lose weight by having a good plan and taking consistent action to follow it.  You achieve success the same way.\u003cp\u003eI honestly believe that the problem with people who work really hard and never achieve success is that they didn\u0026#x27;t formulate a good plan.  You can be the fastest runner in the world but you\u0026#x27;re never going to win a race if you run in the wrong direction.","parent":"8503273","id":"8503500"}
{"by":"akkartik","time":"1491842026","timestamp":"2017-04-10 16:33:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh I see. Perhaps I misunderstood what undershirt meant by \u0026quot;significant whitespace\u0026quot;. Yes, in Mu [ abcd ] is different from [abcd]. I believe that to be true about Dern as well. This is all exactly as for text inside double-quotes in C.","parent":"14078624","id":"14079963"}
{"by":"davidw","time":"1416774539","timestamp":"2014-11-23 20:28:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oregon looks pretty good on their map.  I wish they had a more detailed version of it - I\u0026#x27;d be curious to see their predictions for Europe.","parent":"8649781","id":"8649816"}
{"by":"zwily","time":"1431821654","timestamp":"2015-05-17 00:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You pay for request time too, measured in 100ms increments. And you pay more for more CPU\u0026#x2F;RAM.","parent":"9558105","id":"9558129"}
{"by":"distances","time":"1471864507","timestamp":"2016-08-22 11:15:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; There was an interesting pilot program to give $50 tickets to people exceeding the speed limit by 30mph in school zones. Tons of opposition.\u003cp\u003eThis sounds way, way too little. I\u0026#x27;m not sure of the exact numbers, but I\u0026#x27;d expect you to lose your driving license for a violation like this in Finland, temporarily at least.\u003cp\u003eJust for comparison, exceeding the speed limit by 15-20 km\u0026#x2F;h in a low-speed zone results in a fine of 200€ (~$225), and in excess of 20 km\u0026#x2F;h (~13 mph) gets you day-fines.\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, if you make millions, the day-fine ticket can get expensive; the current record is €112,000 for exceeding the speed limit by 14 mph. Which I think is fine -- $50 slap for a millionaire doesn\u0026#x27;t provide much of a deterrent, does it?","parent":"12334937","id":"12335449"}
{"by":"shin_lao","time":"1276695115","timestamp":"2010-06-16 13:31:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does it look like a device convenient to use for an elder or someone disabled?","parent":"1435422","id":"1435471"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1437325450","timestamp":"2015-07-19 17:04:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I wonder when we\u0026#x27;ll see a further GC update that trades latency for throughput...\u003cp\u003eThis GC update in Go already trades latency for throughput, because of the added write barrier.\u003cp\u003eThere is no free lunch in GC. Most features that reduce latency reduce throughput. For example, Azul C4 has lower throughput than HotSpot\u0026#x27;s GC does.","parent":"9911374","id":"9911832"}
{"by":"stcredzero","time":"1354130124","timestamp":"2012-11-28 19:15:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think many of us will.","parent":"4843605","id":"4844133"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1520227522","timestamp":"2018-03-05 05:25:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Per capita world GDP is about $16K\u0026#x2F;year.  That\u0026#x27;s significantly more than $10\u0026#x2F;day, but it\u0026#x27;s also significantly less than anyone in the Western world is accustomed to living on.","parent":"16518868","id":"16518958"}
{"by":"the_stc","time":"1508629198","timestamp":"2017-10-21 23:39:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We may write up more when we have things stably working after a while. But we are very cautious mentioning any specific tools, as that gives attackers a head-start. We won\u0026#x27;t mention OS, stack, DB, etc.\u003cp\u003eBut think something like secure boot, serve up a basic image, download full image from provisioning servers, turn on DB, restore from backups.","parent":"15522443","id":"15524229"}
{"by":"fiatjaf","time":"1422239124","timestamp":"2015-01-26 02:25:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you.","parent":"8945156","id":"8945263"}
{"by":"rizzom5000","time":"1516391024","timestamp":"2018-01-19 19:43:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; at the end of the day we\u0026#x27;re both in the same place, no?\u003cp\u003eI think it depends on how you fail though. If you learn something from the experience, your odds of succeeding on the next try increase. Many goals are achieved through a succession of failures.","parent":"16189017","id":"16189104"}
{"by":"BornInTheUSSR","time":"1415205305","timestamp":"2014-11-05 16:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I am currently in the process of hiring myself and I don\u0026#x27;t think there is any way senior engineers will go for such a prolonged process.\u003cp\u003eWhat we do instead: filter through resumes, pick ones that we like for a 15-30 minute phone screen followed by a 1 hour conversation with the entire team if we decide to move forward.","parent":"8562044","id":"8562616"}
{"by":"ivrrimum","time":"1488180555","timestamp":"2017-02-27 07:29:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cmon.. Its still very very hard to make a sha1 collision. Sure in theory its possible, but not in the real deal","parent":"13742409","dead":true,"id":"13742519"}
{"by":"lenocinor","time":"1525193547","timestamp":"2018-05-01 16:52:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As someone who used to have a lot of CDs and MP3s and basically got rid of all of them for Spotify, I can cite a number of reasons why I switched:\u003cp\u003e1. Convenience (I never download or upload anything, and my playlists work and are automatically updated on the devices I care about)\u003cp\u003e2. Breadth of music (it doesn\u0026#x27;t have everything I want but it has a surprising amount of breadth in things I\u0026#x27;d never care enough to amass deep collections in)\u003cp\u003e3. Easily accessible playlists from other people (I really appreciate the \u0026quot;This Is \u0026lt;band name\u0026gt;\u0026quot; playlists especially from Spotify)\u003cp\u003e4. Seeing what my friends are listening to all the time (I get a lot of new music this way)\u003cp\u003eYeah, stuff goes away on the service. Yeah, certain less-popular genres are patchy and incompletely represented (and are we ever going to get Tool?). Yeah, the personal library limits are a bummer (although as someone who never uses this feature, I don\u0026#x27;t care myself). Yeah, the UI is terrible for certain things (classical music is especially bad, and I really hate that single-song repeat gets turned off in so many ways). Yeah, some of their clients are worse than others (why is the PS4 client\u0026#x27;s sound quality so bad and not changeable?) Yeah, there\u0026#x27;s no lossless versions of anything (I think).\u003cp\u003eAnd yet, for all that, Spotify has transformed my music listening, and I\u0026#x27;ve been listening to a huge array of music for almost 25 years now. I listen to so many more new and interesting artists and songs on Spotify than I ever would have otherwise. I\u0026#x27;ll never go back, personally.","parent":"16967694","id":"16968801"}
{"by":"drivebyacct2","time":"1351921244","timestamp":"2012-11-03 05:40:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I guess I just have two comments:\u003cp\u003e1. The brand page more or less straight up endorses using the mark, in so much as it describes how to do it properly with attribution of ownership of the mark to Google. Unless you think I'm misinterpreting the implication of this page? \u003ca href=\"http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/brand.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/promote/b...\u003c/a\u003e Full disclosure, I'm no trademark law expert or enthusiast.\u003cp\u003e2. That article above, while I missed the first time around is from a truly desperately atrocious source that missed the important facts surrounding the Alibaba case, but to be fair, so did reddit and HN. Everyone saw the shit show the first day as the \"Android is Closed!!!11111\" allegations flew, only to find out that Alibaba was ripping apps off the Android Market and putting them in a co-branded rip off app store...","parent":"4735979","id":"4735999"}
{"by":"dTal","time":"1499912995","timestamp":"2017-07-13 02:29:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the closest thing to a migration path is the Racket programming language.\u003cp\u003eWhen you get right down to it, \u0026quot;working on ASTs\u0026quot; basically means working in lisp. The idea is you have a canonical, external format for the AST; it might as well be s-expressions. The trouble is that lisp culture is highly resistant to any other syntax than raw s-expressions. They say things like \u0026quot;making alternate syntaxes is a rite of passage, but everyone gets used to the parentheses in the end.\u0026quot;[1]\u003cp\u003eRacket alone \u003ci\u003eencourages\u003c/i\u003e the creation of alternate syntaxes, and provides the tools to make it easy. You can have any syntax you want, and yet never be hamstrung by syntax decisions because you can always make a new version of your #lang, and it\u0026#x27;ll all be nicely compatible because it gets turned into s-expressions anyway. This isn\u0026#x27;t just theoretical - you can for example already write Python in Racket [2], except with full access to all of Racket\u0026#x27;s libraries as well as Python\u0026#x27;s. This turns the social aspect to its advantage. Imagine if Python had been written in Racket to begin with - the 2-\u0026gt;3 nightmare would have been a non-issue.\u003cp\u003eI hope that eventually, all languages will have swappable syntaxes with a canonical s-expression form, and be distinguished purely by their fundamentally incompatible semantics. We may find we need far fewer incompatible silos that way.\u003cp\u003eIncidentally, and I don\u0026#x27;t think it\u0026#x27;s a coincidence, Racket\u0026#x27;s IDE is the furthest along the non-textual route of any \u0026quot;real\u0026quot; language I\u0026#x27;ve seen. It\u0026#x27;s very next-gen - you can paste an image file directly into source code, for instance (try it, (define my-image \u0026lt;pasted image\u0026gt;) actually works!).\u003cp\u003e[1] I view all \u0026quot;rites of passage\u0026quot; with suspicion. Like the \u0026quot;rite of passage\u0026quot; of wielding \u0026#x27;rm\u0026#x27; incautiously, they usually indicate a human factors failure.\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;pedropramos\u0026#x2F;PyonR\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;pedropramos\u0026#x2F;PyonR\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14757306","id":"14758319"}
{"by":"vixen99","time":"1304589727","timestamp":"2011-05-05 10:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's great for the graduates who get these jobs but can I add that it seems to me that there's precious little evidence (actually none at all) that their skills result in any kind of improvement in the service offered to the millions of ordinary customers of the monopolized banking industry in Britain.As far as I can see there's been a marked decline.","parent":"2516693","id":"2516748"}
{"by":"theptip","time":"1506157188","timestamp":"2017-09-23 08:59:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The point is that if you\u0026#x27;re in direct competition, the chances of Facebook violating one of your patents is much higher, and then your cost of suing them is significantly increased (since you also have to rewrite your app).\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re ok with trusting a direct competitor not to misbehave, then sure, use React under those terms while competing with FB. But large companies consider their patent portfolio to be a significant strategic asset, so it shouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprising that their legal counsel advises against accepting such a clause.","parent":"15318400","id":"15318891"}
{"by":"whatnotests","time":"1496639872","timestamp":"2017-06-05 05:17:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Will they require some kind of license to purchase and\u0026#x2F;or sell crypto currency?\u003cp\u003eThis de facto criminalization ad then licensing the privilege (nay right) to utilize these tools is a step in the wrong direction.","parent":"14485143","id":"14485406"}
{"by":"coffeandcode","time":"1461221397","timestamp":"2016-04-21 06:49:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think the article was really putting socially awkward white males to blame. I believe it tried to say that the diversity (or lack of it) of the field is a result of the shift in targeting a certain type of person for the programmer\u0026#x27;s job. And this accumulated over time reinforcing the notion until recently that it\u0026#x27;s sort of a no girls land. I can\u0026#x27;t help but feel that you\u0026#x27;re kinda shifting the blame when you say that there are just not enough female candidates otherwise you\u0026#x27;d be perfectly happy to hire them and of course you would be. Maybe the problem really is in the way career possibilities are presented to children from early on. My brother is a programmer with years of experience - he got a pc when very young that I really didn\u0026#x27;t have access to and he was making fun of me when I got into a coding job because I it didn\u0026#x27;t really suit me, even though I have a CS degree. That doesn\u0026#x27;t mean he is to blame, it\u0026#x27;s just how we are brought up. Arts and humanities go girls, STEM go boys.","parent":"11539911","id":"11540119"}
{"by":"jimwise","time":"1291915276","timestamp":"2010-12-09 17:21:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You mean other than that it's a tool used to launch DDoS attacks?\u003cp\u003eJoke aside, Host: is optional in HTTP/1.0 (it's mandatory in HTTP/1.1).  I would not be surprised if blocking on this cut out some set of proxies and spiders out there as well (whether these are customers you can't afford to block is another question).","parent":"1988045","id":"1988190"}
{"by":"umeshkacha","time":"1310154165","timestamp":"2011-07-08 19:42:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please invite me at umesh.kacha@gmail.com","parent":"2743580","dead":true,"id":"2743819"}
{"by":"HipstaJules","time":"1485349433","timestamp":"2017-01-25 13:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand what is this from your homepage","parent":"13480254","id":"13481048"}
{"by":"evilduck","time":"1375123907","timestamp":"2013-07-29 18:51:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t that what the code review process would be for? Let a junior developer create a solution on their own, review their work and provide constructive feedback in a way that would eventually teach them that resources like W3Schools are not to be wholly trusted?\u003cp\u003eOn the flip side of the coin, there are also terrible mentors and senior developers who will gladly pass on bad habits just like W3Schools will. Independant research is a good thing.","parent":"6122665","id":"6123061"}
{"by":"lordnacho","time":"1478216823","timestamp":"2016-11-03 23:47:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me it doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like there\u0026#x27;s really any difference between different laptops. I\u0026#x27;m on a 15\u0026quot; MacBook Pro at the moment because I needed a Mac to work on an iOS project, but now I use it to code financial stuff.\u003cp\u003eEverything I do is on remote connections of one sort or another, and OSX has a simple way to swap out one virtual desktop with another. Everything that requires real computing power I do on a cloud, and everything else I think would work fine on any reasonable machine.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure a windows\u0026#x2F;linux system could do the same as my MBP, and in terms of work it wouldn\u0026#x27;t really matter as we use windows and linux together. I think more or less any laptop in the price range would be able to drive multiple screens, and it\u0026#x27;s really just a question of minor things like whether keyboard\u0026#x2F;trackpad feels nice.\u003cp\u003eSo it is a bit of a hair thin decision. If this whole no-ESC no-Fkey thing seems to go badly for other devs, I won\u0026#x27;t get another Mac. I need F keys to step through a debug, and it\u0026#x27;s annoying to change key bindings.","parent":"12868849","id":"12869177"}
{"by":"nxsynonym","time":"1504880961","timestamp":"2017-09-08 14:29:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you. Every article or comment I\u0026#x27;ve seen regarding this has been \u0026quot;omg Google is eating all my files!!!\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI know Google bashing has been super popular lately, but the amount of toxicity is getting exhausting.","parent":"15200327","id":"15200393"}
{"by":"scottporad","time":"1279145134","timestamp":"2010-07-14 22:05:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I consider myself an evening person...I get a second wind from 10pm to 1am...however, I do find that I am more productive when I get up at 6am and am in the office by 7:30am.","parent":"1516014","id":"1516112"}
{"by":"andrewcooke","time":"1394120485","timestamp":"2014-03-06 15:41:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i use their api to construct my own playlists and am worried too...","parent":"7354208","id":"7354313"}
{"by":"guard-of-terra","time":"1365204763","timestamp":"2013-04-05 23:32:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If this person is a minister of interior affairs then yes, we should just turn them all off.\u003cp\u003eAnd HSBC is something like that. It's exactly the bank that \"we all the citizens\" should trust in order to not be \"anti-democratic\" as another article put it.\u003cp\u003eAnd you know what, we're not going to trust HSBC or any other bank, no more.","parent":"5501678","id":"5501701"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1508967646","timestamp":"2017-10-25 21:40:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eIn contrast, people typically do not \u0026quot;lawyering\u0026quot; for recreational fun.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndeed, it\u0026#x27;s the opposite - industry bodies have to mandate pro bono work, which wouldn\u0026#x27;t get done otherwise.","parent":"15554049","id":"15554530"}
{"by":"threeseed","time":"1511242186","timestamp":"2017-11-21 05:29:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What ? It literally discussed how RT firstly was unique in criticising Ukraine then changed their position multiple times.","parent":"15745792","id":"15745836"}
{"by":"aceperry","time":"1485756920","timestamp":"2017-01-30 06:15:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cool hack.  Although there are already some nice terminals and IDEs on the Play store for Android.  I wouldn\u0026#x27;t want to run Eclipse on my phone even though I like it a lot.","parent":"13514384","id":"13519064"}
{"by":"dchest","time":"1330619621","timestamp":"2012-03-01 16:33:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhy are they using a type (String) for a constant (''final'' variable)?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's not a constant. Is a variable that contains a value of string type that cannot be assigned to anymore. \"String\" is an annotation for variable, not for the value.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is a separate string builder class ''StringBuffer'' (which does not share the interface with ''String'', I don't know why not,\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause string values are immutable, they can't be concatenated without lots of allocations. StringBuffer solves this.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis document, to me, screams of technical incompetency, or at least of language design from 10 years ago.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is probably because you didn't think out the various trade-offs and design decisions, of which Dart creators thought.","parent":"3652607","id":"3652778"}
{"by":"jqm","time":"1417026055","timestamp":"2014-11-26 18:20:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Incidentally Swizec, you are speaking to people primarily in the US. They have spent the last 200 years convincing themselves that what you say just isn\u0026#x27;t so regardless of whether or not it actually is.","parent":"8662952","id":"8663763"}
{"by":"TallGuyShort","time":"1522012588","timestamp":"2018-03-25 21:16:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The government needs to fix the problem that it\u0026#x27;s so difficult to know what you\u0026#x27;re required to pay without just paying the maximum guess (and then pay more ahead of time to avoid penalties). I\u0026#x27;ve reported an instance of 2 conflicting statements in 2 separate IRS forms to the IRS, and rather than clarifying what was required they referred me to a tax advisor, who also didn\u0026#x27;t know the answer to the question. So we took the more liberal guess, and filed. And then had to rework it anyway because the law for how much tax I was required to pay in 2017 changed in 2018 anyway. The principles that we consider \u0026quot;rule of law\u0026quot; don\u0026#x27;t seem to apply to tax law.","parent":"16674209","id":"16674648"}
{"by":"jstalin","time":"1343426297","timestamp":"2012-07-27 21:58:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I drink one cup of coffee each morning just because I like it. It doesn't do anything to me. It just tastes good.","parent":"4303433","id":"4303783"}
{"by":"evanpw","time":"1466257065","timestamp":"2016-06-18 13:37:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If someone is publically offering to buy a stock for $10.00 on Exchange A (i.e. they\u0026#x27;ve placed displayed limit order), then it\u0026#x27;s illegal for you to sell that stock to someone else for $9.99 on Exchange B. If that trade did happen, the order on Exchange A is said to have been \u0026quot;traded through\u0026quot;. The rule protects limit orders which have the best price available from missing out on a trade just because they were sent to the wrong exchange.","parent":"11927666","id":"11928532"}
{"by":"TillE","time":"1464441522","timestamp":"2016-05-28 13:18:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; we don\u0026#x27;t know who Thiel might choose to punish next\u003cp\u003eThiel didn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;punish\u0026quot; anyone. Gawker broke the law, and he helped hold them to account via the legal system.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t like Thiel one tiny bit. He\u0026#x27;s a weirdo. But this is, like, the least bad thing a billionaire has ever done to infringe on \u0026quot;free speech\u0026quot;. Hypothetically abusing the legal system (eg, many frivolous lawsuits) would be bad, but he hasn\u0026#x27;t actually done that.","parent":"11791518","id":"11791538"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1374491484","timestamp":"2013-07-22 11:11:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"100% agree with your last sentence.\u003cp\u003eNow, I\u0026#x27;m not really replying to you as such, but I don\u0026#x27;t quite understand the alarmism over, say, a debt of 100% of GDP.\u003cp\u003eUK tax revenues are 39% of GDP (so, very naïvely, the government\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;income\u0026quot;) and with a debt of 90% of GDP, that\u0026#x27;s  2.3x income. Or a typical £25k earner having a long term debt, like a mortgage, of £57.5k.\u003cp\u003eI confess this is an extremely naïve analysis since personal and government budgets are chalk and cheese, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t strike me, as a taxpayer, as being a number to get alarmed over. Or am I totally missing something?","parent":"6082833","id":"6082993"}
{"by":"Pica_soO","time":"1477157916","timestamp":"2016-10-22 17:38:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Better heat conduction cools the magma below, causing it to \u0026quot;fall\u0026quot;-flow downwards, while somewhere else nearby, hotter magma must go up. Just a assumption, neither geologist nor fluid-dynamics-expert.\u003cp\u003eIts a turbulent system though, so any prediction is futile :D","parent":"12769607","id":"12769638"}
{"by":"ryen","time":"1383451898","timestamp":"2013-11-03 04:11:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is the \u0026quot;Code A2 $100\u0026quot; prize a cash award or just a voucher to spend on whatever Code A2 is?  If not, considering the sponsors, its disappointing that the prizes do not include something monetary for college.\u003cp\u003eEven $100 barely buys one textbook these days.","parent":"6661920","id":"6662189"}
{"by":"mixmastamyk","time":"1545175649","timestamp":"2018-12-18 23:27:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The important issue is which solution is the best given the trade offs.  Acceptance of nothing less than a flawless one is not a path forward.","parent":"18711514","id":"18711564"}
{"by":"jibiki","time":"1247364518","timestamp":"2009-07-12 02:08:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Reals form a group under multiplication.\u003cp\u003eI think his point was that 0 has no inverse.  So in the literal sense, the reals are not a group under multiplication (although obviously, when somebody says \"the reals are a group under multiplication\", one usually interprets it as \"R\\{0} is a group under multiplication\".)\u003cp\u003eThis is vaguely relevant to the issue at hand because we are doing 0 to the 0.","parent":"699644","id":"699708"}
{"by":"swalsh","time":"1375724231","timestamp":"2013-08-05 17:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I rent to someone will you sell me insurance on the item in case they damage\u0026#x2F;thieve the camera?\u003cp\u003eEdit: Can you add Boston too :D","parent":"6161116","id":"6161512"}
{"by":"acdha","time":"1537364281","timestamp":"2018-09-19 13:38:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ask for status updates if you need them. They’re usually prompt and I figure if more people do they’ll start feeling the cost of not automating it.","parent":"18023439","id":"18024070"}
{"by":"chvid","time":"1545298612","timestamp":"2018-12-20 09:36:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What Happens When Google Goes the Way of Myspace?\u003cp\u003eGoogle earned more than $XXX billion in profit last quarter, and yet it has spent much of 2018 trapped in a defensive crouch. This year was defined by brutal press coverage, internal strife, executive departures and unwanted attention from authorities. The company stands accused of various offenses: degrading politics; empowering despots; leaving users vulnerable to abuse; abusing its users’ data for profit. It is in a constant state of crisis such that its executives’ responses to scandals end up becoming scandals themselves.\u003cp\u003eBut the single event most pertinent to Google’s future, and with the most explanatory power regarding its recent past, came in Xxx, when the company admitted its flagship site had found a worrying limit. In late 2017, XXX million people a day were using Google in the United States and Canada. Despite strenuous efforts — you may have noticed more notifications lately — that number hasn’t been exceeded since.\u003cp\u003e...\u003cp\u003eThe advertising data exposed in a user’s personal Google archive is, of course, just a sliver of what is available to the company. Google’s real profile of who you are — the one that it uses to fill your feeds and show you ads — is far more comprehensive. The company’s relentless accumulation of user data isn’t just a grab for power or a default behavior. It’s a long-term investment. You may forget Google; it could happen sooner than you expect. But it’s not likely to forget you.","parent":"18723550","id":"18723558"}
{"by":"unalone","time":"1224534214","timestamp":"2008-10-20 20:23:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The record companies are ceding ground very slowly. But Apple's been pushing for a long time. I mean, honestly, what do they have to GAIN from DRM? It's all a matter of the people they deal with.","parent":"338258","id":"338275"}
{"by":"teemo_cute","time":"1396780260","timestamp":"2014-04-06 10:31:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dear Google,\u003cp\u003ePlease don\u0026#x27;t tell (or at least influence me) on how to live my life. When I want information I\u0026#x27;ll ask you, not the other way around.\u003cp\u003eRegards,\nHuman Being","parent":"7539849","id":"7540514"}
{"by":"stephth","time":"1307085543","timestamp":"2011-06-03 07:19:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Dotcloud looks very interesting, but to me it's hard to consider next to strong competitors that have established their pricing... That said I'm very looking forward to see the dotcloud pricing announced.","parent":"2615051","id":"2615470"}
{"by":"CyberDildonics","time":"1453643740","timestamp":"2016-01-24 13:55:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an advertisement - Any time there is a model number or a price in an article it has been placed by someone who paid to have the article written.\u003cp\u003eEDIT - I guess people don\u0026#x27;t understand why they see articles like this when they do.","parent":"10961061","id":"10962488"}
{"by":"gjolund","time":"1473702836","timestamp":"2016-09-12 17:53:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Use unreal or unity and save yourself the trouble.","parent":"12481958","id":"12481977"}
{"by":"crdoconnor","time":"1533290899","timestamp":"2018-08-03 10:08:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"flake8, like black, shouldn\u0026#x27;t really require any config on most projects yet annoyingly it always requires at least a little. I really would switch to another tool in a heartbeat if they could just fix that.\u003cp\u003eIdeally instead of needing to be told whether to only show \u0026quot;serious\u0026quot; errors, for instance, it should just give you a project \u0026quot;score\u0026quot; (sum of the errors x their severity) and show the top 20 or so errors in order of importance and by default it should \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e exit with error code 1 with just stylistic errors unless explicitly configured to do so.","parent":"17678478","id":"17678587"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1227658757","timestamp":"2008-11-26 00:19:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know what \"Kaizen\" is, but I smell a strained metaphor. Going from \"no inventory\" to \"don't buy excessive hardware\", no matter how the latter may or may not be a good idea, seems like a stretch. Are you sure \"no inventory\" doesn't actually translate to \"don't keep excess code around\"? (Multiple plausible translations implies none of them are particularly solid.)","parent":"376694","id":"377044"}
{"by":"beachstartup","time":"1380315509","timestamp":"2013-09-27 20:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"you generally don\u0026#x27;t say \u0026quot;i don\u0026#x27;t understand why...\u0026quot; for things that are obviously understandable.  you usually use it for things that are inexplicably broken in some way.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;i don\u0026#x27;t understand why they can\u0026#x27;t move these things 2 inches to the left\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;i don\u0026#x27;t understand why the entrance to this parking garage is blocked by trash cans every tuesday\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;i don\u0026#x27;t understand why they can\u0026#x27;t make this app remember your login\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;i don\u0026#x27;t understand why you can\u0026#x27;t change the temperature on this thermostat\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;i don\u0026#x27;t understand why anyone likes bacon\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003ehmm.. which of these is not like the others?","parent":"6459393","id":"6459536"}
{"by":"anko","time":"1388190488","timestamp":"2013-12-28 00:28:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i thought this was going to be about star wars.","parent":"6970927","id":"6973298"}
{"by":"danieltillett","time":"1519509492","timestamp":"2018-02-24 21:58:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Humans don\u0026#x27;t have relatively fewer genes compared to other life forms. Humans have less DNA than some species (salamandas are an example), but all animals have around the same number of genes. The extra DNA in some organisms seems to be (mostly) non-functional.\u003cp\u003eYes the microbiome influences which genes are expressed.","parent":"16452911","id":"16455667"}
{"by":"Kalium","time":"1429120577","timestamp":"2015-04-15 17:56:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Our POV is right to us because we accept the concept of objectivity. To those who believe identity is the primary determinant of truth, it doesn\u0026#x27;t matter what we believe. And so we\u0026#x27;re going to keep arguing with them right up to the point where we collectively decide to ignore them.\u003cp\u003eWhich isn\u0026#x27;t likely to happen any time soon, given how many of them work in the tech press.","parent":"9382725","id":"9382787"}
{"by":"kbenzle","time":"1453751227","timestamp":"2016-01-25 19:47:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think that means you hate breakthroughs.","parent":"10968243","id":"10969441"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1447442479","timestamp":"2015-11-13 19:21:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not necessarily a bad argument, but the theoretical basis of the criminal burden of proof is that the kind of \u003ci\u003econsequences\u003c/i\u003e resulting from criminal conviction are different than mere property (which is routinely at issue in civil cases).\u003cp\u003eSo, the principle on which the \u003ci\u003eexisting\u003c/i\u003e distinction is based really doesn\u0026#x27;t support it being applied to forfeiture actions.\u003cp\u003eAnd, while there might be a good argument for \u003ci\u003echanging\u003c/i\u003e the principle underlying the distinction, I don\u0026#x27;t see a clear reason for applying specifically the beyond a reasonable doubt standard to forfeiture (or even a higher standard that would apply in any other civil claim.)","parent":"10561778","id":"10561837"}
{"by":"Beltiras","time":"1395599845","timestamp":"2014-03-23 18:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some professors in the Uni I attended are enlightened and use open textbooks.  One thou amazed me.  He taught Discreet Math.  He had every edition of the book for the last 10 years and told us to bring any one of them.  He had a map for the homework shuffle between editions and alerted us to the little changes made in the text itself.  Gem of a teacher.","parent":"7452231","id":"7454423"}
{"by":"Jd","time":"1370625453","timestamp":"2013-06-07 17:17:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Completely agree. Every so often I promote hacker news through twitter, such that my own \u0026quot;brand image\u0026quot; is associated with Hacker News. Today I am completely ashamed to be associated with this twaddle. A couple of days ago a long discourse defending child pornography, today this stuff.  Time to start with a new slate!","parent":"5839843","id":"5840192"}
{"by":"Xcelerate","time":"1441206551","timestamp":"2015-09-02 15:09:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s always the number everyone thinks no one else will choose.","parent":"10159688","id":"10159724"}
{"by":"triplesec","time":"1381724610","timestamp":"2013-10-14 04:23:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a Know Your Rights pdf from the ACLU, for those who would like to know before clicking.","parent":"6540697","id":"6545405"}
{"by":"dmlorenzetti","time":"1510032951","timestamp":"2017-11-07 05:35:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAdventure, bravery, friendship, loyalty, love, life, and death.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these, plus another component I personally enjoy in adventure books -- flawed characters who complement each other, and so become collectively stronger than they stand as individuals.  For example, Bigwig has an amazing character arc, where he learns to subordinate his strength to Fiver\u0026#x27;s vision and Hazel\u0026#x27;s leadership.\u003cp\u003eOther examples include the foursome in \u0026quot;The Three Musketeers\u0026quot; (who explicitly arrange their affairs to contribute equitably from among their talents, money, and time), and \u0026quot;Kidnapped\u0026quot; (where David Balfour and Alan Breck have to learn to trust each other in order to negotiate the dangers they face on each other\u0026#x27;s behalf).","parent":"15640477","id":"15641263"}
{"by":"extrapickles","time":"1510265513","timestamp":"2017-11-09 22:11:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The main issue with a wiki is that its hard to give one to a customer for long term use. A PDF works much better for this, so when the customer wants to review the hundreds of thousands they spent on consulting a decade ago they can.","parent":"15665963","id":"15666249"}
{"by":"collyw","time":"1456225404","timestamp":"2016-02-23 11:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thats like saying a Landlord is producing more economic value than the low wage worker who\u0026#x27;s wages go to pay the rent. One is working, one is rent seeking.","parent":"11156026","id":"11158015"}
{"by":"csomar","time":"1529093101","timestamp":"2018-06-15 20:05:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted. With your writing skills, you can sell articles. I did that when I started and didn’t have enough connection to get real programming gigs.\u003cp\u003eArticles pay range from $150 to $500. It’s not difficult to get an article per day done if you have enough commitment.\u003cp\u003eThe second way is least profitable short-term but more rewarding long-term. Start a blog. You’d be surprised how many random people contact you through your blog looking for devs. And some of them are very good clients.","parent":"17318546","id":"17323078"}
{"by":"andrewfromx","time":"1467255310","timestamp":"2016-06-30 02:55:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"moving my brilliant comment from dup thread: Really gets to the nature of what we mean by the term \u0026quot;intellgence\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s _gender_ specific. A lot of times in AI you\u0026#x27;ll hear people talk about a no gender robot thinking for itself. But we have no examples of genderless intellegent humans. intellgence implies gender.","parent":"11980557","id":"12006286"}
{"by":"idealboy","time":"1472927331","timestamp":"2016-09-03 18:28:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You got it! The categorization algorithm can detect pornographic submissions. Users can also report images they receive. However, instead of simply blocking dick pics, I\u0026#x27;ll re-route them to other dick pic senders.","parent":"12420351","id":"12420393"}
{"by":"jondubois","time":"1490784844","timestamp":"2017-03-29 10:54:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it\u0026#x27;s the holy grail for stateless services.\nFor stateful systems though, (that need to persist data) things can be tricky.\nMaybe the improved node affinity features in this release will improve things but I still feel limited because I can\u0026#x27;t seem to find a way to permanently bind a Pod to a specific host\u0026#x27;s file system.\nThey keep pushing for NFS or other complex network file systems that add huge network I\u0026#x2F;O overheads instead of letting you deal with distributed storage across multiple hosts yourself (which would work better with most new database engines that have built-in cluster support).\nLast time I checked, you COULD bind a Pod to the underlying host\u0026#x27;s file system but the documentation says that this is only for debugging purposes and not suitable for production.","parent":"13980843","id":"13984912"}
{"by":"lnalx","time":"1537526433","timestamp":"2018-09-21 10:40:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; To stop being obsessed with pointless BS and actually finish something. Even if it\u0026#x27;s terrible.\u003cp\u003eCan you go deeper ?","parent":"18031687","id":"18038660"}
{"by":"stronglikedan","time":"1435156420","timestamp":"2015-06-24 14:33:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With that ingredient list, they should call it \u0026quot;Not Mayo\u0026quot;. Just like a grilled turkey, swiss, and coleslaw on rye is not a Reuben, no matter how many times they call it that.","parent":"9770835","id":"9771815"}
{"by":"arithmetic","time":"1365468919","timestamp":"2013-04-09 00:55:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Johnson leaving is also a lesson that cut-and-paste strategy (applying what worked at Apple as-is to JC Penny without considering the differences between the two target customer bases - like the 'no sale' strategy) almost never works.","parent":"5515710","id":"5515782"}
{"by":"ballard","time":"1380789790","timestamp":"2013-10-03 08:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"4 barrels at absolute minimum.  5 at a practical minimum, depending on how tightly packed.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Volume: ~ 74 L (19.6 gal) -\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.5e7 [$] * (0.06943 [in^3\u0026#x2F;bill] \u0026#x2F; 100 [$\u0026#x2F;bill]) = 45129.5 in^3 ~ 195.366 gallons or 739.54 L\u003cp\u003e195.366 [gal] \u0026#x2F; 55 [gal\u0026#x2F;barrel] = 3.5 [barrels]\u003cp\u003eRule-of-thumb: 1.1 L (0.3 gal) \u0026#x2F; Mega$\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Weight: ~ 650 kg (1433 lbs) -\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eA $100 bill weighs exactly 1.00 gram, so $65M (MM) weighs 650 kg (1433 lbs).\u003cp\u003eThe money in each barrel would weigh at most 183 kg (360 lbs), so a water barrel will work since water would weigh about 45 kg (100 lbs) more.  Therefore, sealed money barrels float.\u003cp\u003eRule-of-thumb: 10 kg (22 lbs) \u0026#x2F; Mega$\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Other Hazards -\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMold, insects (silverfish, etc), mudslides, ground-penetrating radar and federal agents","parent":"6487023","id":"6487803"}
{"by":"dspillett","time":"1368634206","timestamp":"2013-05-15 16:10:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not if they then continue to apply that code to other people after not adhering to it themselves. Experience suggests that this is most likely what they will do.\u003cp\u003eIf this is taken as a voyage of personal discovery and they change their ways, then we can applaud their critical thinking ans self inspection. Otherwise we can justifiably cry hypercrit (for all the difference it will make...).","parent":"5712832","id":"5712920"}
{"by":"PeterisP","time":"1470947595","timestamp":"2016-08-11 20:33:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t make insurance useless, in fact it only makes insurance fair - yes, the whole idea of insurance is that you have a pool of people that covers the damage when a small percentage of them have an accident, but people who have twice as large likelihood to have an accident should justly pay twice as much in that pool.\u003cp\u003eThe point of insurance is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e to have some people cross-subsidize others on average, the point of insurance is that you might prefer to have 100% chance of paying ten bucks instead of 0.1% chance of having to pay ten thousand at a point when that would ruin you - and if you can afford the loss if it happens, then yes, there\u0026#x27;s no point in insurance for you, it\u0026#x27;s not a charity where you expect to get a net benefit from the insurance company.","parent":"12270928","id":"12271362"}
{"by":"nafizh","time":"1539039928","timestamp":"2018-10-08 23:05:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is really bad for Indian and Chinese citizens. I guess you are not one of them. Also H1B visa is a different thing. A tourism\u0026#x2F;business visa is not a difficult thing to get.","parent":"18171015","id":"18172089"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1298143813","timestamp":"2011-02-19 19:30:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ahhh. No. Google said \"Summer of Code will not have any Ruby projects,\" so the Ruby community put a bunch of money together and did Ruby Summer of Code. Same thing, no Google.","parent":"2239681","id":"2239693"}
{"by":"Mithaldu","time":"1375966464","timestamp":"2013-08-08 12:54:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why you write a test suite and check that your test suite covers all code, using Devel::Cover.","parent":"6169278","id":"6178556"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1373845749","timestamp":"2013-07-14 23:49:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t think anybody is talking about automatic A grades. This is indeed about learning — they\u0026#x27;re talking about whether teachers need to do more to help people learn.","parent":"6041977","id":"6042778"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1462414596","timestamp":"2016-05-05 02:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;While getting to a more secure state would be wonderful, I\u0026#x27;m still working to reduce the number of outright blatant bugs I push into production every day due to the speed at which we need to iterate. :\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eInteresting. What do you think about the tool below designed to handle apps like yours with low defect?\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;opalang.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;opalang.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt originally delivered server parts on Java I think. Switched to Node due to low uptake, client\u0026#x2F;server consistency, \u0026amp; all RAD stuff being built for Node. Main tool written in ML language by people that take correctness seriously. I doubt you can reboot your current codebase but it seems it should be applicable for a similar set of requirements or a spare-time app. Also, not a write-only language. ;)\u003cp\u003eJokes on Perl aside, you might find it fascinating and even ironic given current usage (eg UNIX hackery) to know that Perl only exists due to him working... on the first, high-assurance VPN for Orange Book A1 class (highest). Took me 10-20 minutes of Google-fu to dig it out for you:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cahighways.org\u0026#x2F;wordpress\u0026#x2F;?p=8019\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;cahighways.org\u0026#x2F;wordpress\u0026#x2F;?p=8019\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;m sure you\u0026#x27;ll find his approach to \u0026quot;secure,\u0026quot; configuration management entertaining.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot; We live with the trade-offs of the past, which while they may have made sense in the short term, are slowly strangling us now.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYep. Pretty much. Outliers keep appearing that do it better but rejected for cost or lack of feature X. Some make it but most don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot; I now feel both more and less secure...\u0026quot;\n\u0026quot;I think there is a place for levels of adherence to how strict you need to be\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eVery fair position. :) Early standard did that to a degree by giving you levels with increasing features and assurance: C1, C2, B1, B2, B3, A1. Really easy to understand but security features often didn\u0026#x27;t match product use case. ITSEC let you describe the features, security features, and assurance rating separately to fit your product. It was less prescriptive on methods, too. Common Criteria did that but knew people would screw up security requirements. So, they added (and preferred) Protection Profiles for various types of product (eg OS, printer, VPN) with threats specified, baseline of countermeasures, and minimal level of assurance applicable. You could do \u0026quot;augmented\u0026quot; (EAL4 vs EAL4+) profiles that added features and\u0026#x2F;or assurance. CIA\u0026#x27;s method more like Orange Book where it\u0026#x27;s simple descriptions on the cover but like this: Confidentiality 5 out of 5, Integrity 5 out of 5, Availability 1 out of 3. Specified level of risk or protection corresponding to each number with methods to achieving it up to manufacturer \u0026amp; evaluators.\u003cp\u003eSo, your expectation existed in the older schemes in various ways. It can definitely be done in next one.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;different levels of expertise and assurance for building a small shed, a house, an office building, and a skyscraper\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eNah, bro, I want my shed and house build with the assurance of an office building or skyscraper. I mean, I spend a lot of time there with some heavy shit above my head. I just need the acquisition cost to get to low six digits. If not, then sure... different levels of assurance... grudgingly accepted. :)","parent":"11630110","id":"11633510"}
{"by":"jinushaun","time":"1308499403","timestamp":"2011-06-19 16:03:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree.\u003cp\u003eI recently started getting hot and heavy with Linux after moving my stuff to EC2. I thought package managers were the bee's knees until I realised that my production server and my development box (at home) we're running drastically different versions of the same program/library. This of course caused a whole bunch of incompatibility problems and headaches when it came to building other stuff.\u003cp\u003eIf you care about versions and stability, it's just safer and more reliable to compile from source that you know that works. Package managers can sometimes be a crap shoot.","parent":"2670826","id":"2671069"}
{"by":"nodata","time":"1360784623","timestamp":"2013-02-13 19:43:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish they'd offer an avatar service.","parent":"5214783","id":"5215210"}
{"by":"dragonwriter","time":"1544808588","timestamp":"2018-12-14 17:29:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The problem with American opposition to government, especially Federal government, is that it\u0026#x27;s inextricable from the outcomes of the civil war.\u003cp\u003eEven that is sanitizing it, it predates the Civil War and is inextricable from the \u003ci\u003ecause\u003c/i\u003e of the Confederacy in the Civil War, perhaps best articulated in Confederate Vice President Stephens famous Cornerstone speech:\u003cp\u003e---[quote]---\u003cp\u003eThe new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the \u0026quot;rock upon which the old Union would split.\u0026quot; He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away... Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the “storm came and the wind blew, it fell.”\u003cp\u003e---[end quote]---","parent":"18681515","id":"18682619"}
{"by":"idobai","time":"1465822413","timestamp":"2016-06-13 12:53:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Loading... The website doesn\u0026#x27;t respond. Do you want to restart?\u0026quot;","parent":"11893226","id":"11893314"}
{"by":"extension","time":"1248094525","timestamp":"2009-07-20 12:55:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's dizzying thinking about all the existing things that Wave could replace, let alone the novel things that could be built on it.\u003cp\u003eOut of the box, it's email, instant messaging, a blog engine, a wiki and Twitter. With an extension or two, it becomes any kind of social tool you can imagine.\u003cp\u003eIt sounds too good to be true, but that's because we've been obsessed with the web for so long that we've become blind to just how backwards it is for the things we want to do. If we want to build social tools, \u003ci\u003eof course\u003c/i\u003e we should start with a social platform and build little tools on top of it.","parent":"713796","id":"714337"}
{"by":"djur","time":"1400895534","timestamp":"2014-05-24 01:38:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Y via X\u0026quot; would be preferable.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s worth keeping in mind that what GitHub does now is what _every_ other git client does, and it\u0026#x27;s in GitHub\u0026#x27;s best interest not to confuse users (or to make it look like they\u0026#x27;re privileging a GitHub-based workflow over a standard git workflow).","parent":"7792234","id":"7792308"}
{"by":"anoncowherd","time":"1387228517","timestamp":"2013-12-16 21:15:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Well, the simple fact is, empirical studies of minimum wages just don\u0026#x27;t show their having a macroeconomic effect on employment that overwhelms other effects\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t get it. There\u0026#x27;s no need for \u0026quot;empirical studies\u0026quot;, because it\u0026#x27;s a simple matter of reasoning.\u003cp\u003eSuppose Person A is fresh out of high school or something, and Company B might be interested in hiring him as some kind of entry level worker. Person A has basically no experience in anything, so he\u0026#x27;s worth very little to the employer. He really wants a job though, because he needs to start some kind of career to get by in life.\u003cp\u003eSuppose Company B consider\u0026#x27;s Person A\u0026#x27;s meager productivity worth $6 per hour, but the minimum wage is set to $10 per hour. Will Person A get the job?\u003cp\u003eWell, no. The minimum wage prevents Person A from getting a job, and thus, getting experience and advancing his skills and future salary potential. Everyone loses. Person A has no job and no further experience, and Company B has no employee and a task left undone.\u003cp\u003eIf you still don\u0026#x27;t get it, imagine the minimum wage being set at $1000 per hour. If it\u0026#x27;s all good, then the higher you set it, the MOAR good will come out of it, right?","parent":"6915813","id":"6917848"}
{"by":"mikeyouse","time":"1452893990","timestamp":"2016-01-15 21:39:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Small quibble but that number is comparable to Visa\u0026#x27;s peak transactions per second figure, which is somewhere North of 56,000tps. Making the hypothetical 32x-better Bitcoin network 0.2% as capable as the current Visa network.","parent":"10910621","id":"10912319"}
{"by":"zokier","time":"1422986477","timestamp":"2015-02-03 18:01:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt that you could easily dedicate one core for RT GPIO while running regular Linux on the rest. That would require quite significant engineering both from the kernel and HW. Probably a better architecture would be something like the PRUs in OMAP SoCs used in BBB, i.e. semi-independent RT co-processors.\u003cp\u003eBesides there is lots of devices in the market positioned between Arduino and RPi. STM32 F4 Discovery board is a good example; an order of magnitude more processing power than an Arduino Uno but still a MCU designed for bare-metal (real-time) operation.","parent":"8990427","id":"8991923"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1493675147","timestamp":"2017-05-01 21:45:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"BIOS settings, check if AMT is enabled. That may not be the whole story though, Intel is really not very helpful with the text of this announcement.","parent":"14241983","id":"14241998"}
{"by":"_paulc","time":"1436854739","timestamp":"2015-07-14 06:18:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PIC32 is a MIPS core","parent":"9883047","id":"9883164"}
{"by":"bluGill","time":"1530117305","timestamp":"2018-06-27 16:35:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tesla on fire might or might not be newsworthy by your criteria. Is this fire in some way worse than a normal car fire?  Is this fire significantly more likely than a normal car fire? Either could be true (I don\u0026#x27;t know if either is), I want my news to tell me.\u003cp\u003eBut news needs to sell something everyday, and real investigative work takes months.","parent":"17409396","id":"17409547"}
{"by":"vkou","time":"1380742473","timestamp":"2013-10-02 19:34:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;My job is not to be a martyr for my cause - it\u0026#x27;s to find some other sap to be a martyr for it.\u0026quot;","parent":"6484603","id":"6484704"}
{"by":"flachsechs","time":"1506626245","timestamp":"2017-09-28 19:17:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i doubt it.  i think america is just huge, and that they can\u0026#x27;t responsibly expand too fast.\u003cp\u003eremember, ikea is expanding globally.  on my last vacation, i saw an ikea identical to the one by my house in california, in southern germany.  that\u0026#x27;s really sort of unprecedented at the scale of an ikea store.","parent":"15359325","id":"15359950"}
{"by":"nickff","time":"1369860717","timestamp":"2013-05-29 20:51:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Twins are much more common among people using fertility drugs than the majority of the population; so if you are on those drugs, you might expect them.\u003cp\u003eP.S.  not trying to be snarky, just thought it was an interesting fact","parent":"5788951","id":"5788993"}
{"by":"madao","time":"1418064360","timestamp":"2014-12-08 18:46:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand","parent":"8716111","id":"8718199"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1465232854","timestamp":"2016-06-06 17:07:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s my write-up on securing Tor that shows issues and mitigations from high-assurance security in action with my own style:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.schneier.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;identifying_dre.html#c6678915\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.schneier.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;identifying_d...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s one write-up of similar methods applied to mobile:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.schneier.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;blackphone.html#c6673423\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.schneier.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;archives\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;06\u0026#x2F;blackphone.ht...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere\u0026#x27;s some links to HW and SW techniques that might be used in SOC to knock out the 0-days:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11848132\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11848132\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote: You can see difference between few in real security on HW side. Mainstream, faux security immediately says IOMMU, stateless, whatever. High-assurance, real security is concerned with segmentation, pointer protection, making memory untrusted, TCB effects, optionally timing of ISA operations, and so on. Apps + their CPUs get hit all over. Securing one takes more than a mere IOMMU or something. ;)","parent":"11843686","id":"11848315"}
{"by":"askafriend","time":"1518460877","timestamp":"2018-02-12 18:41:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A viable alternative requires your friends and family to be on it.\u003cp\u003eSo there is no viable alternative for most people - decentralized or otherwise.","parent":"16360512","id":"16360809"}
{"by":"swombat","time":"1307615342","timestamp":"2011-06-09 10:29:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I never mentioned anything about expertise. What I said was:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI also gained a lot of confidence in my abilities to pick up and absorb new things and become productive quickly - something that I knew I could do with technologies, but which I saw I could now do with almost all subject areas.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think you're letting a prejudiced opinion of consultants get in the way of the article.","parent":"2636573","id":"2636590"}
{"by":"semanticist","time":"1404221512","timestamp":"2014-07-01 13:31:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s the first option \u003ci\u003eeveryone you know\u003c/i\u003e turns off, but don\u0026#x27;t mistake anyone who even knows that Hacker News exists with a typical computer user.","parent":"7969081","id":"7970490"}
{"by":"Ericson2314","time":"1431247111","timestamp":"2015-05-10 08:38:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, It\u0026#x27;s really amazing that so much of it is not hard coded features but just idioms in nixpkgs. But that might make it harder to learn.\u003cp\u003e|nix keywords| \u0026lt;\u0026lt; |docker keywords| \u0026lt;\u0026lt; |nix idioms|","parent":"9450899","id":"9519325"}
{"by":"michaelfeathers","time":"1489152662","timestamp":"2017-03-10 13:31:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For higher level tests that\u0026#x27;s fine. At the unit level it\u0026#x27;s problematic. It delays feedback.","parent":"13838323","id":"13838404"}
{"by":"keithwinstein","time":"1523474572","timestamp":"2018-04-11 19:22:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These are encapsulation and signaling protocols, but don\u0026#x27;t really cover the questions of when to send each compressed video frame, how big it should be on the wire, and how to write an encoder that can compress it to hit that target size accurately. Some of the schemes we compared against (WebRTC reference implementation in Chrome, Hangouts, FaceTime, Skype) certainly use various parts of the standard protocol suite (with different engines to decide when and how much to send). But the call setup and encapsulation are not the focus here -- I\u0026#x27;m sure we could do Salsify within SIP or WebRTC if necessary.","parent":"16814494","id":"16814577"}
{"by":"zippoxer","time":"1454848682","timestamp":"2016-02-07 12:38:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hey Omer?\u003cp\u003eI used to watch your channel (previously MMOHut) a few years back. This was my favorite ;-)","parent":"11052407","id":"11052657"}
{"by":"jjeaff","time":"1523977189","timestamp":"2018-04-17 14:59:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Simplifying the tax code won\u0026#x27;t negate the need for auditors. People will still try to cheat.\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, if the alternative to auditors is a tax code that seruptitiously and automatically collects taxes, then I would much prefer auditors.\u003cp\u003eCitizens should feel the true pain of paying taxes, so that they can think long and hard before allowing a politician to raise them.\u003cp\u003eWhich is actually why I prefer the American system of adding sales tax after the fact. As opposed to many other countries that just hide the tax in the price of the product.","parent":"16858857","id":"16858928"}
{"by":"delroth","time":"1473378093","timestamp":"2016-09-08 23:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you don\u0026#x27;t see as many men \u0026quot;hounded out of our industry\u0026quot; because that\u0026#x27;s a property of how sensitive the person is and how much they\u0026#x27;re looking for drama, not really how many death threats they receive.\u003cp\u003eI have personally received death threats multiple times after making \u0026quot;controversial\u0026quot; changes to an open source project I work on (as in: good in the long term for the project, bad in the short term for users). And I stopped counting the number of times I\u0026#x27;ve read I should \u0026quot;kill myself\u0026quot;. But guess what, instead of writing long blog posts explaining I\u0026#x27;ll quit open source development because of death threats, I just ignore them and continue doing what\u0026#x27;s best for the project. So far I don\u0026#x27;t think I\u0026#x27;ve died yet, so that seems to be working pretty well.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s also the long tail of death threats you won\u0026#x27;t even find out unless you look for them specifically (like, going on 4chan to read users talking about your project there). I\u0026#x27;ve seen some other contributors to similar projects getting personally insulted, called \u0026quot;greedy jews\u0026quot; because they asked for donations to buy research hardware, and also being heavily encouraged to kill themselves. They also don\u0026#x27;t make drama about it, and in fact they\u0026#x27;d probably be quite unhappy that I\u0026#x27;m even mentioning it publicly.\u003cp\u003eSo yeah, if I were looking to create drama I\u0026#x27;d have more than enough material to do so, and I also could probably get \u0026quot;hounded out of my industry\u0026quot; if I was willing to.","parent":"12456419","id":"12458461"}
{"by":"cortesoft","time":"1534183433","timestamp":"2018-08-13 18:03:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is certainly true. In particular, Americans for Tax Reform (the group founded by Grover Norquist) lobbies against any attempt at making paying taxes easier for this reason. Their argument is that people should be constantly aware of how much they are paying in taxes, and making it too easy would hinder this.\u003cp\u003eThese groups, combined with tax preparation companies, prevent any meaningful attempt to make paying taxes easier.","parent":"17751859","id":"17752172"}
{"by":"zallarak","time":"1347653120","timestamp":"2012-09-14 20:05:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very cool post. The code samples really make me want to try out Go when I get some time to do so. Thanks.","parent":"4523611","id":"4523687"}
{"by":"larrys","time":"1434684595","timestamp":"2015-06-19 03:29:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Likewise with this statement:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;CloudFlare makes websites faster and more secure, but can’t suspend a site’s domain name or render it unreachable.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eObviously it can render a site unreachable (at least as long as the site is using cloudflare DNS servers) which is the point.","parent":"9742430","id":"9742877"}
{"by":"Eibx","time":"1392207444","timestamp":"2014-02-12 12:17:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly. I understand why they might want to be less depended on Google. Last year, having Google as their primary search engine, gave Mozilla $311M.\nIf Google backs out, they want to earn money some how else, this is a great non-intrusive way to do so.","parent":"7223570","id":"7223875"}
{"by":"steveklabnik","time":"1493559886","timestamp":"2017-04-30 13:44:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;d think that, but it\u0026#x27;s not actually what happens a lot of the time, in my understanding. John Oliver did a whole show about it.","parent":"14231271","id":"14231454"}
{"by":"klbarry","time":"1309823739","timestamp":"2011-07-04 23:55:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is HUGE for SEO. One of the biggest talked about and tested things in 2011 was Twitter's effect on rankings.","parent":"2727463","id":"2728215"}
{"by":"stared","time":"1442480622","timestamp":"2015-09-17 09:03:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it only me, who would prefer to have the phrase \u0026quot;efficient altruists\u0026quot; rather than \u0026quot;effective altruists\u0026quot;?\u003cp\u003eIn the context of sciences, \u0026quot;effective X\u0026quot; usually means \u0026quot;something that is not X, but in the effect acts as X\u0026quot; (e.g. \u0026quot;effective potential\u0026quot;). So, I when I first met the phrase \u0026quot;effective altruism\u0026quot; I was thinking it is something in the line of Ayn Rand or so - that we should be egoistic, but (some) egoistic behaviours are effectively altruistic. While \u0026quot;how to do as much X given fixed amount of resources?\u0026quot; is talking about being \u0026quot;efficient\u0026quot;.","parent":"10231905","id":"10232304"}
{"by":"startupstella","time":"1355323602","timestamp":"2012-12-12 14:46:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a Russian American, Ive noticed a definite curiosity remnant from the cold war regarding how the two countries live. The difference is that Western culture is all over russia (from copying tv shows like American Idol to Fabrika Zvezd), movies in theatres, etc whereas in the US, it's the older generation that harbors a curiosity about Russian people.\u003cp\u003eMy father, a doctor who emigrated at 35, started practicing in a small town in the midwest about 20 years ago. He had patients who wouldnt see him as soon as they learned he was Russian...and he had patients that displayed a real curiosity over our food, language etc. I'd say that Russians possess a certain disdain for Americans...they would love to enjoy a similar quality of life, but they find the culture too simple/vapid/devoid of meaning. Russians will say they would NEVER move to america, but many of them would in a heartbeat","parent":"4909479","id":"4910252"}
{"by":"typicalbender","time":"1360541798","timestamp":"2013-02-11 00:16:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Similar story as \u003ca href=\"https://www.padmapper.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.padmapper.com/\u003c/a\u003e. It's sad that craigslist isn't willing to either update their application or allow someone to make it more useful for their customers.","parent":"5198247","id":"5198603"}
{"by":"martinpw","time":"1489360654","timestamp":"2017-03-12 23:17:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The more recent results referenced in this thread were with viable embryos:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The latest study is the first to describe the results of using CRISPR in viable human embryos, New Scientist can reveal.\u0026quot;","parent":"13853434","id":"13853870"}
{"by":"bentleycook","time":"1462211942","timestamp":"2016-05-02 17:59:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bellhops |  Chattanooga, TN | \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.getbellhops.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.getbellhops.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e | Full-Time | ONSITE | Frontend Engineer\u003cp\u003eWhat: Bellhops is the largest and fastest growing tech-enabled platform for moving services in the world, serving 80 U.S. cities.\u003cp\u003ePerks: 401k, health, vision, dental, company pontoon, etc.\u003cp\u003eStack: React.js, Node.js, Redux, *.js MVC Framework\u003cp\u003eFocus: Blowing Customers\u0026#x27; Mind!\u003cp\u003eApplication: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;bellhops\u0026#x2F;123f0b19-5807-406a-b640-7aa87a253f00\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;jobs.lever.co\u0026#x2F;bellhops\u0026#x2F;123f0b19-5807-406a-b640-7aa87...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11611867","id":"11613806"}
{"by":"swolchok","time":"1256104587","timestamp":"2009-10-21 05:56:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You caught me while I was monkeying with caching.","parent":"894112","id":"894127"}
{"by":"arethuza","time":"1334566299","timestamp":"2012-04-16 08:51:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah - Project Habakkuk, wartime Britain at our lunatic best - 2 million ton unsinkable aircraft carriers immune to 1000kg bombs:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've always assumed this gave Iain Banks the idea for the aerial battles fought over gigantic icebergs in Use of Weapons.","parent":"3845575","id":"3846562"}
{"by":"ctdonath","time":"1429624490","timestamp":"2015-04-21 13:54:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ally needs some motivation to take on someone else\u0026#x27;s existential threats as their own. Lots of treaties and posturing may dampen would-be aggressors\u0026#x27; motivation, but as the USA has demonstrated of late re: Ukraine vs Russia, all too often promises of military protection don\u0026#x27;t mean $#!^.","parent":"9413827","id":"9413990"}
{"by":"Gatsky","time":"1513640685","timestamp":"2017-12-18 23:44:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The outrage to significance ratio is off the charts on this one.","parent":"15956325","id":"15956528"}
{"by":"thanksgiving","time":"1417562287","timestamp":"2014-12-02 23:18:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Open sourcing\u0026#x2F;Making available for inspection the source code of an application is not enough if the herd just uses the pre built binaries instead of compiling it themselves. Perhaps we can someday have free and open source software with reproducible builds[0]?\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;wiki.debian.org\u0026#x2F;ReproducibleBuilds\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8690311","id":"8690767"}
{"by":"res0nat0r","time":"1491931495","timestamp":"2017-04-11 17:24:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It seems her philosophy these days has been converted to: screw everyone else and how can I get as rich as possible? Which is no wonder why most of the CEOs and politicians in the article adore her so.","parent":"14090238","id":"14090279"}
{"by":"jdbernard","time":"1403670608","timestamp":"2014-06-25 04:30:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Discussing things is still a good way to gain understanding. But your unwillingness to acquaint yourself with actual research done on the topic tells me you aren\u0026#x27;t really interested in gaining understanding, just yelling your opinion louder than everyone else.","parent":"7936837","id":"7942246"}
{"by":"rglover","time":"1328018926","timestamp":"2012-01-31 14:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, but this is the farthest thing from real design. Slapping a (poorly typeset) font onto a poster with some commonly commiserated points is not design. They might as well have ditched the \"posters\" and just shared the quotes/anecdotes.","parent":"3532811","id":"3533243"}
{"by":"rhacker","time":"1546553577","timestamp":"2019-01-03 22:12:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The only thing I install globally is yarn. It just helps make things more reproducible to install everything locally (except yarn because we don\u0026#x27;t use npm directly).","parent":"18819711","id":"18819860"}
{"by":"twsted","time":"1495953667","timestamp":"2017-05-28 06:41:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I didn\u0026#x27;t read the comment you\u0026#x27;re responding to\u003cp\u003eGo and read it, it\u0026#x27;s just about 30 cm above","parent":"14433306","id":"14433366"}
{"by":"forgottenpass","time":"1518445327","timestamp":"2018-02-12 14:22:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get that it\u0026#x27;s all setting the stage for the comparison to Walden, but in attempting to place Primitive Technology in the context of modern day the author fails in a way that practically screams \u0026quot;I have never built anything with my own two hands.\u0026quot;","parent":"16351012","id":"16358694"}
{"by":"nightski","time":"1486574863","timestamp":"2017-02-08 17:27:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Modern pipelines have sensors that are monitored continuously and leaks can be detected incredibly quick.\u003cp\u003eThe recent leak in ND was a little worse than normal because it was during a rough blizzard which made it rather difficult to respond quickly.","parent":"13600059","id":"13600121"}
{"by":"willholloway","time":"1444581745","timestamp":"2015-10-11 16:42:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not encouraging teenage drug use. I\u0026#x27;m pointing out how intellectually, emotionally and economically harmful modern high school is for young people.\u003cp\u003eBefore and during alcohol prohibition, demonizing alcohol was the only way that society had to talk about the problem of domestic violence, because society could not address the problem directly. So alcohol was made the scapegoat.\u003cp\u003eI believe that we currently use drug use in teens as a similar scapegoat, because we can\u0026#x27;t talk about the reasons teenagers are in distress.\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion the way we do modern education in its current form is harmful to young people. If it wasn\u0026#x27;t we wouldn\u0026#x27;t see such high rates of anxiety, depression and ADHD.","parent":"10369882","id":"10369945"}
{"by":"lemevi","time":"1444973143","timestamp":"2015-10-16 05:25:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think engineering and or technically minded movie goers find Snowpiercer a lot harder to enjoy than maybe a critic who can discount such issues and focus on plot themes and movie making. There is so much that doesn\u0026#x27;t add up when you try to imagine how the people on the train solved all the problems they would have faced. It can make films harder to enjoy when you can\u0026#x27;t pretend that technology is just magic.\u003cp\u003eThere are a lot of very interesting themes in the story though, the action is well done, the production quality is high, and the movie pays homage in tone and style to other great movies. When a movie\u0026#x27;s technobabble is terrible, it helps to pretend it\u0026#x27;s fantasy. If you don\u0026#x27;t and you let bad science get you down you could miss out on the other parts.","parent":"10397570","id":"10397603"}
{"by":"rdl","time":"1395426052","timestamp":"2014-03-21 18:20:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be great for YC\u0026#x27;s outreach efforts to make a difference in getting more great female founders to apply. There are other groups where outreach could help get some quality underrepresented founders too, which might help with the big ambitious science RFS: going after mid-career people in the sciences and engineering a few years in advance of founding a startup and seeding them with the idea of doing so.  I know NSF has some outreach efforts like that, but it would be great for YC if YC\u0026#x27;s name were known by PIs thinking of going commercial.","parent":"7443567","id":"7443837"}
{"by":"snthpy","time":"1531392765","timestamp":"2018-07-12 10:52:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very interesting. The provenance tracking is a nice feature that I haven\u0026#x27;t seen a lot of in other systems.\u003cp\u003eAny examples of this being used in the wild?","parent":"17508431","id":"17513435"}
{"by":"morgante","time":"1468861700","timestamp":"2016-07-18 17:08:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s true for things like Parse, but much less true for Lambda.\u003cp\u003eFor the most part, Lambda code is just normal JavaScript\u0026#x2F;Python. It would take fairly minimal effort to take that code and package it up to deploy on a normal (non-Lambda) server.","parent":"12115423","id":"12116415"}
{"by":"yellowapple","time":"1484630347","timestamp":"2017-01-17 05:19:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;No, I\u0026#x27;m not saying that if we explored space, world wars wouldn\u0026#x27;t happen.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eOne actually \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c/i\u003e argue such.  Being able to permanently and self-sustainably inhabit space means being able to reduce the strain on Earth\u0026#x27;s own resources, thus reducing the need to compete for said resources (said need being a major contributor to plenty of wars, both current and historical).\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a stretch, sure, but it\u0026#x27;s still an argument one could make.","parent":"13415305","id":"13415362"}
{"by":"davidfischer","time":"1544236472","timestamp":"2018-12-08 02:34:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"- Medium (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e- EFF (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eff.org\u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eff.org\u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003e- Read the Docs (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;readthedocs.org\u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;readthedocs.org\u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eSites that implement DNT should respond to either \u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt or \u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt\u0026#x2F; or both.\u003cp\u003eResponding to \u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt\u0026#x2F; means a site has implemented the W3\u0026#x27;s Tracking Preference Expression (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.w3.org\u0026#x2F;TR\u0026#x2F;tracking-dnt\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.w3.org\u0026#x2F;TR\u0026#x2F;tracking-dnt\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e). This doesn\u0026#x27;t necessarily mean much as there\u0026#x27;s no agreed standard of what complying with DNT means. However, it typically implies that the site does \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c/i\u003e different for users with DNT enabled vs. disabled.\u003cp\u003eResponding to \u0026#x2F;.well-known\u0026#x2F;dnt-policy.txt is typically stricter and means a site adhere\u0026#x27;s to the EFF\u0026#x27;s guidelines (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;EFForg\u0026#x2F;dnt-guide\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;EFForg\u0026#x2F;dnt-guide\u003c/a\u003e) for DNT. This has rules for how long data is retained, which data can be retained, specifications around anonymizing data, and security precautions.\u003cp\u003eDisclaimer: I worked on Read the Docs\u0026#x27; DNT implementation.","parent":"18632965","id":"18633529"}
{"by":"sGrabber","time":"1366356560","timestamp":"2013-04-19 07:29:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another unfortunate incident in Boston. MIT Police is bringing things under control. MIT has reported one MIT officer killed and have again requested everyone to be indoors.\u003cp\u003eHope Boston becomes normal soon","parent":"5574495","id":"5575367"}
{"by":"chadp","time":"1299588945","timestamp":"2011-03-08 12:55:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is not a bribe, they are taking an equity stake.\u003cp\u003e\"The maximum support available is €50,000 for a 10% ordinary equity stake in the start-up company. \"","parent":"2300658","id":"2300695"}
{"by":"lotsofmangos","time":"1400605836","timestamp":"2014-05-20 17:10:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, it is well documented that the US did the same back when it was still a developing economy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/Piracy----what-goes-around-comes-around-182881421.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.winnipegfreepress.com\u0026#x2F;opinion\u0026#x2F;analysis\u0026#x2F;Piracy----...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7773138","id":"7773733"}
{"by":"kokey","time":"1428654304","timestamp":"2015-04-10 08:25:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, it was huge, and made up of a lot of units independently.  They used to joke that the company was a technology vendor\u0026#x27;s delight, since they weren\u0026#x27;t very strict with what technology a department can choose to use, leading to finding a bit of almost every vendor somewhere.  When I was there they had a push towards centralising IT between the divisions, providing common services and support to get economies of scale.  I suspect this is a cyclical trend over decades.","parent":"9351009","id":"9353073"}
{"by":"stevekemp","time":"1395954630","timestamp":"2014-03-27 21:10:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In terms of volume, yeah.  But the per-cup brewing being so fast and easy actually works really well for us.  (Large pots tend to get burnt..)","parent":"7482535","id":"7483499"}
{"by":"wcdolphin","time":"1457146408","timestamp":"2016-03-05 02:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this really an intentional product launch? Being late on a Friday evening seems quite strange.","parent":"11227824","id":"11228209"}
{"by":"extrafox","time":"1370042610","timestamp":"2013-05-31 23:23:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you live in the future everyone will be able to create movies and other shows, so content will be free but we will pay (or watch ads) for services to find the content we want to watch.","parent":"5801697","id":"5801847"}
{"by":"gnaritas","time":"1227899841","timestamp":"2008-11-28 19:17:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It didn't, DRY is much older than Rails.","parent":"379386","id":"379470"}
{"by":"xjfjdjcnc","time":"1456778965","timestamp":"2016-02-29 20:49:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The same thing could be said about US news sources.","parent":"11198144","id":"11198366"}
{"by":"cjdell","time":"1515029352","timestamp":"2018-01-04 01:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of a comedy show where they were making colour images in Excel.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16066429","id":"16067217"}
{"by":"ww520","time":"1504718675","timestamp":"2017-09-06 17:24:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You biggest advantage is your ability to learn.  Don\u0026#x27;t be afraid to start learning the basics of the new domain.","parent":"15182501","id":"15185420"}
{"by":"toomuchtodo","time":"1446141577","timestamp":"2015-10-29 17:59:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but people won\u0026#x27;t disconnect from a competitively priced grid before that.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;  At this environment, I\u0026#x27;d expect houses to organize into largish units that share batteries, if the government allows, or just get enough batteries for themselves.\u003cp\u003eThis is exactly what\u0026#x27;s happening in Hawaii right now. Because power is so expensive due to petroleum used to generate power, it is cheaper to go off the grid entirely with your own batteries than to wait for the utility to approve your grid tied solar system.","parent":"10472112","id":"10472977"}
{"by":"digi_owl","time":"1502669916","timestamp":"2017-08-14 00:18:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Watch systemd get passed off soon enough.\u003cp\u003eNever mind that calling it a init is a mislabeling at best...","parent":"15004261","id":"15005807"}
{"by":"qohen","time":"1288562072","timestamp":"2010-10-31 21:54:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I'm relocating from London to NYC...I've heard that despite being quite cosmopolitan NYC is generally a little more inward looking.\"\u003cp\u003eSounds like you could use a map:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/newyorker2.JPG\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/newyorker2.JP...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Discussion:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://bigthink.com/ideas/21121\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bigthink.com/ideas/21121\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, from 40 years prior:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://maps.bpl.org/details_10595/?mpubl_id=159\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://maps.bpl.org/details_10595/?mpubl_id=159\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/maps/archive-nyc/nyersideasm.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/maps/archive-nyc/nyersi...\u003c/a\u003e ).","parent":"1853430","id":"1854450"}
{"by":"wvenable","time":"1308505885","timestamp":"2011-06-19 17:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This assumes a certain type of user: someone who will signup first and ask questions later.  I'm not that type of user.  You might think, well it's so \u003ci\u003eeasy\u003c/i\u003e to signup and play around, who wouldn't do that?  But I'm actually a lot more cautious about giving out my email and signup with yet another password.\u003cp\u003eI like to research the services and products that I'm going to use.  If I like your text, price, and screenshots then I'll signup and try your demo.  If you have no content, I better have gotten a really good referral otherwise I'm just got going to bother.","parent":"2671068","id":"2671319"}
{"by":"rdtsc","time":"1488552018","timestamp":"2017-03-03 14:40:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just curious, anyone here not working on government systems ever enabled MLS mode and used it successfully?","parent":"13782553","id":"13783108"}
{"by":"pinko","time":"1375449887","timestamp":"2013-08-02 13:24:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the last time this came up, I found a few: \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814193\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=5814193\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6146432","id":"6146722"}
{"by":"lorenzhs","time":"1438186505","timestamp":"2015-07-29 16:15:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Previous instalments of the series on HN:\u003cp\u003ePart 1: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9955652\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9955652\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9961506\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=9961506\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9968657","id":"9969626"}
{"by":"w00pla","time":"1261002688","timestamp":"2009-12-16 22:31:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; As did Nelson Mandela.\u003cp\u003eYes, and he was imprisoned for it. But what made Mandela great is that he changed and became a reconciliation figure.\u003cp\u003eThe young MK starter and ANCYL member did not deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. But the Mandela in 1991 did.","parent":"999348","id":"999903"}
{"by":"themagician","time":"1444279376","timestamp":"2015-10-08 04:42:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is interesting, but silly. It\u0026#x27;s hard to imagine a practical use for this other than perhaps wanting to flip between two versions of a photo with one wide open and one sharp across the frame. But you\u0026#x27;ll have different shutters anyway to keep the same exposure.\u003cp\u003eSeems like this was spawned from a moment of inquiry where someone was so preoccupied with whether they could that no one stopped to think about whether they should.","parent":"10350809","id":"10350937"}
{"by":"fian","time":"1528462362","timestamp":"2018-06-08 12:52:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"2kW is right about the wattage of a small electric fan heater for comparison. So regardless of how they made it look, anyone standing near it should have felt warmer.","parent":"17263892","id":"17264779"}
{"by":"castis","time":"1462891569","timestamp":"2016-05-10 14:46:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We could absolutely be spending this money on better things. If Hillary and Co. would stop doing suspicious things we could move on to spending this money in other places.","parent":"11667463","id":"11667560"}
{"by":"Spivak","time":"1520538902","timestamp":"2018-03-08 19:55:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The hard truth is that net benefit is a useless metric. \u0026quot;On average everyone is better off\u0026quot; doesn\u0026#x27;t mean anything to the person who drew the short straw. And even if you think someone \u0026#x27;benefited\u0026#x27; from regulation it\u0026#x27;s meaningless if it\u0026#x27;s intangible.\u003cp\u003eIf you say that your environmental regulation actually made people healthier then you\u0026#x27;d better be able to point to the dropping health insurance rates.\u003cp\u003eIf you say that your new traffic laws make driving safer then you better be able to point to the dropping car insurance rates.\u003cp\u003eIf you say that your \u0026#x27;right to repair\u0026#x27; bill made goods cheaper then you better have data that says that the lifetime cost of ownership of electronics is significantly lower and that the preowned\u0026#x2F;refurbished market is thriving.","parent":"16546669","id":"16547124"}
{"by":"phillijw","time":"1304621359","timestamp":"2011-05-05 18:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He has the capability to leak whatever is in his best interest now.","parent":"2518213","dead":true,"id":"2518489"}
{"by":"dsl","time":"1405136818","timestamp":"2014-07-12 03:46:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Telehash developers are now working on Layer.com","parent":"8023577","id":"8023648"}
{"by":"ErrantX","time":"1301062787","timestamp":"2011-03-25 14:19:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's no real secret to any of it (that's the first pointer).\u003cp\u003eThe few things that spring to mind:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe polite but persistent\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eProcurement people at corporates are used to really pushy sales people; so if you barely make any effort you won't get through at all :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudge who you are talking too\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost people you talk to won't be able to give you a \"yes\", get past them as fast as you can (I usually just ask straight out to speak to their superior/boss etc.), they are there mostly as a filter. Also consider what sort of firm you're calling - in a 50+ person company it is likely to be a specific department who buy things (even if it is just an individual), below that the person probably has a different day-to-day job. I've had a lot of success, when talking to smaller firms, with the line \"lets just drop all the corporate nonsense, we're both small firms and there is no need for me to make this the normal pain in the neck\".\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForget all the marketing nonsense\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll see a lot of \"marketing best practices\"; I mostly ignore them, they are designed for a company with a number of sales people to normalise the sales routines. You're hacking the sales routine, so take it naturally.\u003cp\u003eI particularly advise avoiding the template emails that you stick a name in front of... keep the templated stuff to short paragraphs in your emails \u0026#38; material you attach (i.e. PDF's) and try to write an honest \"personal\" note.\u003cp\u003eHonesty does get noticed BTW, it can set you apart from the usual inundation of marketing they get.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe open to adaption, but have a firm limit\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI once committed us to a normal sale but \"with a few tweaks\", it took me the best part of a month to get the tweaks in place. :) Accomodating companies requirements gets you a good name, but really consider if it is worthwhile, and be happy to say no.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe prepared to walk away\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can't sell every time. And if you are desperate to sell then they can take advantage of it! Either by getting impractical modifications (see above point) or drumming down your price. Either that or they are just not interested, and you end up sounding desperate and silly.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInvest in CRM\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiggest piece of advice IMO; it is so so so so so easy to forget who you contacted \u0026#38; about what. It might take you weeks to find the right person to talk to at a firm, but in 6 months when you try to upsell them the new product you don't want to have to do all that work again :) Plus I had a silly incident a while back where I kept emailing the same introductory email to a poor CEO; I think he got it about 86 times before calling to ask me to stop :)\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCall the CEO\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoesn't work all the time, but sometimes (particularly in smaller firms) you can get things moving (and seal a sale) by calling the CEO. It takes a bit of balls and a fast pitch (or social engineering) to stop them hanging up :)\u003cp\u003eMy favourite line was \"X suggested I call you about this product, Y, we're selling you so you can have an idea of how it will improve your business\"\u003cp\u003eWhere X is someone in the middle of the food chain who has, at some point, said \"you need to talk to my boss\". :)","parent":"2364614","id":"2368518"}
{"by":"Daishiman","time":"1259818139","timestamp":"2009-12-03 05:28:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Moonlight will never reach feature parity and is unable to run most of the common Silverlight apps. The chance of Silverlight working on OS X in a few years is about the same as IE working on OS X, or Office for Mac having full support for macros (if it's not clear, MS dropped support for both).\u003cp\u003eWhat about mobile devices? Stuff running on ARM?\u003cp\u003eMore of our computing time is being moved away from PCs. If this doesn't work with a browser of with an open set of technologies, it is bound to stagnate and lead to lock-in.","parent":"973526","id":"973789"}
{"by":"yjftsjthsd-h","time":"1501945487","timestamp":"2017-08-05 15:04:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Given the extremes required for sterilization in terms of either temperature or time, I\u0026#x27;d really prefer an actual study to your intuition; pouring boiling water over something only exposes it very briefly, which may not actually be sufficient.","parent":"14935956","id":"14936046"}
{"by":"vog","time":"1471858927","timestamp":"2016-08-22 09:42:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the article:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt; But the horrible truth is that this really was how these websites were. They all looked like this, every little one of the fuckers.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, no. Many websites did not bother to include all that stuff. But these didn\u0026#x27;t bother to do a lot of styling at all. Original browser style. Very ugly, but at least informative and not nearly as distracting as the sites described in the article.","parent":"12334868","id":"12335121"}
{"by":"city41","time":"1318877359","timestamp":"2011-10-17 18:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"inner words were the turning point for me with vim. The first time I did ci\" I knew I had found a lifelong partner :)","parent":"3121656","id":"3121844"}
{"by":"bhouston","time":"1527158260","timestamp":"2018-05-24 10:37:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And they are likely going to get more centralized over time.  The smaller currencies, outside of the top 10, are now all likely vulnerable to 51% attacks.  I wouldn\u0026#x27;t be surprised if that grows to include any outside of the top 5 soon.\u003cp\u003eIt looks like this is how smaller currencies die, they are vulnerable at any time to 51% attacks thus no one wants to use them.  At least in the traditional banking system if you had a lot of money you could manipulate exchange rates, but you couldn\u0026#x27;t just outright steal when you had extreme market power.","parent":"17142589","id":"17142702"}
{"by":"riffraff","time":"1386574746","timestamp":"2013-12-09 07:39:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got to the bottom of the list thinking \u0026quot;damn it, rome is the most dishonest?\u0026quot;, but it wasn\u0026#x27;t even in the list :)","parent":"6873089","id":"6873238"}
{"by":"asveikau","time":"1388328627","timestamp":"2013-12-29 14:50:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure what the \u0026quot;technical drawbacks\u0026quot; are, unless doThisOneLinerWithoutCurlyBraces is a macro and the author didn\u0026#x27;t think to do the do { } while (0) trick. The Linux kernel coding style actually advocates this style: \u003ca href=\"http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.12.6/Documentation/CodingStyle\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;lxr.linux.no\u0026#x2F;linux+v3.12.6\u0026#x2F;Documentation\u0026#x2F;CodingStyle\u003c/a\u003e (line 157, \u0026quot;Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.\u0026quot;)\u003cp\u003eI agree with what you\u0026#x27;re saying though. Making whitespace differences into a build break seems to miss the point a bit. Is that what the author thinks \u0026quot;clean code\u0026quot; means? Consistent whitespace and nothing more? Consistent whitespace is certainly a good idea but there\u0026#x27;s so much more to a sane code base than how many newlines follow a declaration or whatever.","parent":"6979377","id":"6979665"}
{"by":"k3d3","time":"1439570885","timestamp":"2015-08-14 16:48:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Essentially, the site uses JavaScript for showing images without providing any advantage to either the user or the site.\u003cp\u003eThat is a very baseless and false conclusion.","parent":"10060211","id":"10061175"}
{"by":"bonzini","time":"1512042098","timestamp":"2017-11-30 11:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;d need the HDCP master key, but you need not be a full-featured endpoint.  See \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bunniestudios.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;?p=2117\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bunniestudios.com\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;?p=2117\u003c/a\u003e for an example of a device that mixes an incoming HDMI video with a (non-HDMI) overlay video.  The device is sold in the US, so it must be considered legal.","parent":"15814651","id":"15815000"}
{"by":"coldtea","time":"1531727893","timestamp":"2018-07-16 07:58:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure what you even mean.","parent":"17538328","id":"17539516"}
{"by":"thaumaturgy","time":"1344177887","timestamp":"2012-08-05 14:44:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'll confess, I honestly didn't even consider the possibility that the hacker just social-engineered Apple support. I mean, Mitnick wrote an entire book about that kind of stuff, and the whole HBGary thing went down in sort of the same way, but ... still, to be able to call up the support department of a major technology (!) company, in 2012, pretending to be someone else and get access to their account that way? Apple didn't send a text message to his number-on-file? They didn't try a callback? Were there any challenge-response questions at all?\u003cp\u003eThat's absurd.\u003cp\u003eThis should make every iCloud user reeeeeaally nervous.","parent":"4341467","id":"4341545"}
{"by":"InclinedPlane","time":"1294571021","timestamp":"2011-01-09 11:03:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think it's pretty certain there's a higher education bubble.\u003cp\u003eConsider, most higher wage jobs require a college degree, sometimes any degree. Many people attending college are doing so merely to better their career prospects. Non-trade school colleges actually do not teach much, on average, more so for non-technical degrees. It's getting easier and easier to obtain financing for higher education.\u003cp\u003eOverall we have the classic elements of a bubble. People \"investing\" (attending college) because of market rather than personal valuations. People investing more casually than they otherwise would because of easy financing. When people stop making investing decisions based on personal judgment and begin making investing decisions blindly based on what they think the market is doing the result is a bubble. It seems pretty clear the same thing is happening in higher education.","parent":"2084416","id":"2085308"}
{"by":"falsedichotomy","time":"1538311514","timestamp":"2018-09-30 12:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"western\u0026#x2F;white men who marry asian women oftentimes look down on the wife\u0026#x27;s culture or race.  \u0026#x27;white savior complex\u0026#x27;.","parent":"18105065","dead":true,"id":"18105938"}
{"by":"randallsquared","time":"1259514680","timestamp":"2009-11-29 17:11:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eAnd the groups further away would be able to see the problem happening to others and have a good chance to do things differently.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, the initial premise that all civilizations have this happen suggests that later groups wouldn't see it as a problem, but as a goal or path to the goal.\u003cp\u003eThere are groups here on Earth that seem to be resistant to the pull of the virtual, but all by resisting technologies of other kinds as well, so it could still be that any group capable of building advanced computing succumbs.  There's a depressing thought: Dune as an accurate picture of the attitude towards computing in long-lived technological civilizations.","parent":"966218","id":"966496"}
{"by":"Detrus","time":"1442083553","timestamp":"2015-09-12 18:45:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After looking at the Steam video Seeders doesn\u0026#x27;t look very marketable. The main character is stiff, doesn\u0026#x27;t change. It\u0026#x27;s almost off putting. The art style in general is sloppy and generic.\u003cp\u003eQuagmire from 1993 \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;macintoshgarden.org\u0026#x2F;games\u0026#x2F;quagmire\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;macintoshgarden.org\u0026#x2F;games\u0026#x2F;quagmire\u003c/a\u003e looks better in a video \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=pIy-Ssv3l6s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=pIy-Ssv3l6s\u003c/a\u003e because there\u0026#x27;s some bounce in the robot and enemies seem more alive.\u003cp\u003eThat said I\u0026#x27;m sure there are plenty of games with exceptional art styles that aren\u0026#x27;t selling well either. It\u0026#x27;s not just over-saturated by less than professional art, gameplay or whatever, but by good art.","parent":"10208316","id":"10208895"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1478722358","timestamp":"2016-11-09 20:12:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s what the \u0026quot;web\u0026quot; link is for","parent":"12913636","id":"12914168"}
{"by":"rarrrrrr","time":"1483388424","timestamp":"2017-01-02 20:20:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for jumping in with suggestions.  It\u0026#x27;s actually a harder problem than it seems!  I have a feeling \u0026quot;provider-obscured\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;homomorphic\u0026quot; (while accurate!) are significantly less accessible to end users.  I\u0026#x27;ll try to break it down:\u003cp\u003eDo end users talk about the services they purchase using the word \u0026quot;provider\u0026quot;?  Is for example, Facebook or Twitter commonly referred to as a social media \u0026quot;provider?\u0026quot;  The most common example I can think of is ISP, but I rarely hear non technical people say \u0026quot;ISP\u0026quot;.  They say something like \u0026quot;I get Internet from Time Warner\u0026quot; instead.\u003cp\u003eIs \u0026quot;obscured\u0026quot; a commonly used, highly accessible word?  Can you think of a few popular movies or books with that word in the title?  Is it commonly used in news headlines?\u003cp\u003eSo the proposal is a hyphenated phrase of these two uncommon words.  I think it\u0026#x27;s likely \u0026quot;Zero Knowledge\u0026quot; would crush \u0026quot;Provider-Obscured\u0026quot; in an A\u0026#x2F;B test.  Ditto for \u0026quot;Homomorphic.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eSeeing highly technical terms in headings makes non technical people believe that the software is complex and hard to use, and is therefore not for them.  IMO, this is one of the classic failings of security products in general.  It needs more study.","parent":"13303815","id":"13304118"}
{"by":"garethsprice","time":"1316986968","timestamp":"2011-09-25 21:42:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would love to see a comparison to manufacturing experiences in locations known for quality (Italy, Japan, US, etc). Is their experience common to all product manufacturing, or is this a China/low price issue?\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately product manufacturers don't seem as open as software people in discussing their processes and failures.","parent":"3036351","id":"3036811"}
{"by":"rfnslyr","time":"1388889914","timestamp":"2014-01-05 02:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"When the wage is higher than mine :P","parent":"7014197","id":"7014238"}
{"by":"lmm","time":"1543400582","timestamp":"2018-11-28 10:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Golden Goal is freaking exciting as a spectator.\u003cp\u003eIt wasn\u0026#x27;t. Teams played super safe for extra time, just passing the ball in their own half and so on, because they felt like they\u0026#x27;d have a more consistent chance in the penalty shootout.","parent":"18549765","id":"18550482"}
{"by":"Topgamer7","time":"1544202637","timestamp":"2018-12-07 17:10:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think people follow process a little to much in interviews. You should be testing the knowledge that you expect them to have, and testing that they can problems solve\u0026#x2F;adapt and work out a problem. \nI\u0026#x27;d prefer to ask a person a question how to conceptually solve a problem, instead of trying to have them verbatim write out a linked list implementation from memory.","parent":"18629189","id":"18629375"}
{"by":"clifanatic","time":"1477592976","timestamp":"2016-10-27 18:29:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, the reality in America is that in most places you can take time off if your kid gets sick... you\u0026#x27;ll just be \u0026quot;downsized\u0026quot; during the next \u0026quot;reorganization\u0026quot; if you ever do.","parent":"12807590","id":"12807895"}
{"by":"totalZero","time":"1478747791","timestamp":"2016-11-10 03:16:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about when you\u0026#x27;re alone, it\u0026#x27;s 3am, you haven\u0026#x27;t slept much in the past three days, and you have a 10am deadline to meet?","parent":"12916968","id":"12917416"}
{"by":"xorcist","time":"1411648644","timestamp":"2014-09-25 12:37:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s not how to think about it. Your web application is vulnerable if it spawns shell scripts, with any user supplied data in the environemnt.\u003cp\u003eOne way for that to happen is if your CGI-application runs things via os.system() \u0026#x2F; system(). It is not the web server itself that has the problem, nor any common CGI-setup (unless you write your CGI-scripts in bash, in which case you are guaranteed to have other problems).","parent":"8366695","id":"8366794"}
{"by":"mahyarm","time":"1378747130","timestamp":"2013-09-09 17:18:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In trying to actually use PGP, I think the first step is well integrated mobile clients!  Everything is pretty much crap on iOS and Android with regards to PGP when I tried a week ago. If I can\u0026#x27;t use it on my mobile, I might as well not use it at all.","parent":"6353517","id":"6354719"}
{"by":"teddyh","time":"1451344963","timestamp":"2015-12-28 23:22:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026#x27;Twas brillig, and the slithy toves\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll mimsy were the borogoves,\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd the mome raths outgrabe.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"10801712","id":"10804081"}
{"by":"DrJokepu","time":"1418148576","timestamp":"2014-12-09 18:09:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And, obviously, Ireland.","parent":"8723697","id":"8724465"}
{"by":"decasteve","time":"1535111069","timestamp":"2018-08-24 11:44:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’d be inclined to flag this because the source is paywalled [0]. Is the analysis accurate? Hard to tell from the excerpt.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ajph.aphapublications.org\u0026#x2F;doi\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;10.2105\u0026#x2F;AJPH.2018.304567\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ajph.aphapublications.org\u0026#x2F;doi\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;10.2105\u0026#x2F;AJPH.2018....\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17833728","id":"17834288"}
{"by":"bitwize","time":"1337039996","timestamp":"2012-05-14 23:59:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not gonna happen.\u003cp\u003eApple devices are abstractions with well-defined interfaces (sets of operations you can perform on them). Not only should the implementation not matter, it is anathema that anyone should know the implementation because that would break the abstraction at a fundamental level.\u003cp\u003eIt's absurd for a bunch of hackers to think about, but this is what has made Apple billions of dollars, and it's what made them the best technology company on the planet: the construction of devices completely defined by their simple interfaces, with all else hidden from the end user.","parent":"3973125","id":"3974047"}
{"by":"mvalles","time":"1377631367","timestamp":"2013-08-27 19:22:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great Job!!!","parent":"6285205","id":"6285582"}
{"by":"Noseshine","time":"1469887963","timestamp":"2016-07-30 14:12:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That argument is like \u0026quot;economy\u0026quot; vs. \u0026quot;individual\u0026quot;. When I wrote \u0026quot;there is no such thing as IQ\u0026quot; I mean (as stated?) that this is not a concrete thing, but a summary measure of many things. Of course it exists, it just doesn\u0026#x27;t represent a (single) concrete thing. The growth rate of the economy, maybe, comes to mind.\u003cp\u003eOf course averages work fine when you look at the grander things, but they are useless when looking at individuals. So sure, IQ \u0026quot;works\u0026quot; in that sense, for \u0026quot;big picture stats\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s not good for individuals. \u003ci\u003e(Necessary additional comment: Looking at more than one individual is not \u0026quot;looking at an individual\u0026quot;, but it again is \u0026quot;statistics\u0026quot;.)\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you only want to place \u0026quot;the best\u0026quot; on average, going for \u0026quot;IQ\u0026quot; is enough. If you want to match each one (individually, not by global average - in which case after hiring by IQ you just place them anywhere) to the appropriate job it isn\u0026#x27;t. The \u003ci\u003edistribution\u003c/i\u003e of skills under a given IQ score can be very different.\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    \u0026gt; IQ is an imperfect predictor of many outcomes. A person who scores very low\n    \u0026gt; on a competently administered IQ test is likely to struggle in many domains.\n    \u0026gt; However, an IQ score will miss the mark in many individuals, in both directions.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.scientificamerican.com\u0026#x2F;beautiful-minds\u0026#x2F;what-do-iq-tests-test-interview-with-psychologist-w-joel-schneider\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.scientificamerican.com\u0026#x2F;beautiful-minds\u0026#x2F;what-do-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12192733","id":"12193044"}
{"by":"grondilu","time":"1510663792","timestamp":"2017-11-14 12:49:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t understand this.  What are you afraid of?  Are you like Richard Stallman, only downloading webpages from email clients or something?  Do you have filters that strip all javascript from the web pages you browse?\u003cp\u003eIf you\u0026#x27;re not one of these guys that refuse to execute any binary code that you have not compiled yourself, you should welcome the possibility of running binary code from a sandboxed web environment.\u003cp\u003eI, for one, wish I could run all my proprietary software on the web, and restrict all my native applications to FOSS.  That\u0026#x27;s a prospect WASM enables.","parent":"15694237","id":"15694541"}
{"by":"busterarm","time":"1502216219","timestamp":"2017-08-08 18:16:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The fix was to have it towed to the dealer where they\u0026#x27;d clean out the engine for a few hundred dollars. Later I learned you could tow-start it if you could get it up past 20mph. It\u0026#x27;d put all kinds of foul smoke out the back when you did that but in terms of hassle, it was much better.\u003cp\u003eYou don\u0026#x27;t need to do all that.  You can just pull the EGI INJ \u0026amp; EGI COMP fuse, crank it for a few seconds, replace and start it up.  Many folks put a bypass switch inside the car so they don\u0026#x27;t have to get out and do it.  Works great.","parent":"14960414","id":"14960825"}
{"by":"buro9","time":"1322211690","timestamp":"2011-11-25 09:01:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I also agree.\u003cp\u003eI started a proposal for Wiley publishing a long time ago on caching and networking for high performance web sites. Then I became employed by a company that forbade me from sharing (grrr) so I stopped.\u003cp\u003eI felt when writing the proposal though, that the solution isn't just client, just network, just server, or just anything... it's the combination of all parts and knowing how a change in one place impacts another part and how to balance them all to achieve the goal.\u003cp\u003eEven then, it's a stepped thing. A solution for a small but fast and resilient web site looks very different to a solution for a very large, distributed and fast web site.\u003cp\u003eA book should really include the basics building blocks in all major areas, and then offer suggestions on how to apply those building blocks at different levels of scale.","parent":"3276507","id":"3276629"}
{"by":"jseeff","time":"1440100298","timestamp":"2015-08-20 19:51:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) NDA may stop someone from disclosing information.... it may not, but it may. That has a degree of value and the document is generally pretty short and simple to understand so not too problematic.\u003cp\u003e2) for the same reason many people will not sign an NDA (trust, hassle) you may want them to- trust, commitment.\u003cp\u003e3) even if an NDA only serves to regulate \u0026quot;the aftermath\u0026quot;, that too can have value, especially in the rare but possible cases of mis-use of information e.g. by a competitor...","parent":"10090922","id":"10094209"}
{"by":"_delirium","time":"1295945114","timestamp":"2011-01-25 08:45:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't like the cases he was involved in either, but I don't think Verrilli was part of those settlement-demand letters, or in litigation against individuals. He's an appellate and Supreme-Court practice attorney, and the cases he's been involved with have been appeals of the RIAA's suits against content-hosting companies and P2P companies. For example, he argued their side in the Viacom v. Google case and in MGM v. Grokster.\u003cp\u003eI don't like the positions he argued in those cases, either, but I don't think representing MGM versus Grokster, for example, was a breach of professional ethics or scammy. In fact it seems the position he argued was correct as a matter of law, according to a unanimous Supreme Court (the main problem is that Congress shouldn't have passed the law in question).","parent":"2138356","id":"2138486"}
{"by":"lotharbot","time":"1453090441","timestamp":"2016-01-18 04:14:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"pick any controversial topic in which people are emotionally invested, and any well-written argument made about that topic, and you\u0026#x27;ll find \u0026quot;a lot of people\u0026quot; who \u0026quot;burned\u0026quot; whoever wrote the argument -- some of which might even be good responses, but many of which are some variation of \u0026quot;heard what I wanted to hear\u0026quot;.","parent":"10922490","id":"10922498"}
{"by":"aortega","time":"1391400192","timestamp":"2014-02-03 04:03:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tested on ubuntu 13.10 with latest updates.\u003cp\u003eDoesn\u0026#x27;t work, but DID crash the kernel, so it\u0026#x27;s vulnerable.","parent":"7168180","id":"7168753"}
{"by":"ponzi","time":"1297249024","timestamp":"2011-02-09 10:57:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At least in the US they'd be free to fire the dead weight. The laws in Finland are made to protect the workers, and a previously fired employee must be considered before hiring somebody new. This might be a reason why Nokia have so many external contract workers.","parent":"2195736","id":"2197063"}
{"by":"c12","time":"1515577338","timestamp":"2018-01-10 09:42:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fuzzy, yes. But they do declare that a lot of people will notice slow downs day to day.","parent":"16113365","id":"16113669"}
{"by":"shotti","time":"1330680626","timestamp":"2012-03-02 09:30:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some of them think hhhungry sounds too muscular for them...they suggest us to name the product as cute as \"Instagram\".","parent":"3655826","id":"3655991"}
{"by":"jasode","time":"1454601208","timestamp":"2016-02-04 15:53:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\u0026gt;Why not forgive the loans?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea of a \u0026quot;debt jubilee\u0026quot; is definitely something that\u0026#x27;s been discussed before by economists and philosophers.\u003cp\u003eOne big issue is that there are \u003ci\u003eother people on the other side\u003c/i\u003e of those debt cancellations that would get hurt.\u003cp\u003eFor example, it\u0026#x27;s terrible that young adults have massive college loans to pay back.  Some are kicking around the idea to forgive those loans.  But there are also creditors as well.  Think of grandparents who have a 401k for retirement.  Through the interconnectedness of the financial system, a component of their retirement income will depend on payback of those \u0026quot;bad\u0026quot;  college loans.\u003cp\u003eWill those senior citizens happily vote for a debt reset if they know their retirement savings get reduced?  Seems doubtful.\u003cp\u003eThe way to sell the idea of debt forgiveness is to convince the creditors that it\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003eimpossible\u003c/i\u003e for the debtors to pay them back.  Therefore, take a financial hit \u003ci\u003enow\u003c/i\u003e instead of later so the economy can get moving.","parent":"11034134","id":"11034735"}
{"by":"skolos","time":"1544625360","timestamp":"2018-12-12 14:36:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From time to time I\u0026#x27;m trying to switch to DDG. However I found its utility very limited by the fact that they don\u0026#x27;t show time-stamp for search results and there is no \u0026quot;Past Year\u0026quot; time filter.","parent":"18664165","id":"18664203"}
{"by":"agjacobson","time":"1499963971","timestamp":"2017-07-13 16:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grade school.\n6th grade.\nPS241 Brooklyn\u003cp\u003enyah!","parent":"14761454","id":"14762760"}
{"by":"slantyyz","time":"1454738136","timestamp":"2016-02-06 05:55:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I haven\u0026#x27;t eaten there in over 20 years as I live out of the way, so to be honest, I have no idea.","parent":"11045975","id":"11046741"}
{"by":"pbreit","time":"1438491315","timestamp":"2015-08-02 04:55:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And still, 99% of retail investors should have a core in Vanguard Retirement or Lifestrategy funds.","parent":"9989661","id":"9989801"}
{"by":"icey","time":"1212715168","timestamp":"2008-06-06 01:19:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you have a Costco membership, they'll occasionally carry Mexican Coca-Cola in the 12 ounce glass bottles. That's the stuff with the cane sugar (and why it will usually be displayed away from the soda).","parent":"210384","id":"210530"}
{"by":"astrodust","time":"1491603460","timestamp":"2017-04-07 22:17:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also an element here that should be studied in more detail: These are \u003ci\u003earrests\u003c/i\u003e, not participants. What if the older hackers are just better at not getting caught and it\u0026#x27;s the kids that make mistakes that get them busted?","parent":"14063836","id":"14063916"}
{"by":"mindcrime","time":"1364422514","timestamp":"2013-03-27 22:15:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, yeah, no doubt.  It's fun to make fun of mainframes, and IBM, etc., but the reality is that they invented a ton of ideas that are only just now migrating into the commodity hardware/software world, and/or consumer devices.\u003cp\u003eDevelopers in general would probably be well served to do a better job of acknowledging our own history and maintaining more awareness/context regarding what has come before.","parent":"5450608","id":"5452334"}
{"by":"MelissaSchacter","time":"1344201053","timestamp":"2012-08-05 21:10:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i would like a green one too ;)","parent":"4342183","id":"4342661"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1485364741","timestamp":"2017-01-25 17:19:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lol. People that coast through life on acid would use these as additional justifications their way of living is more pleasant. I find it dangerously misleading, though. ;)","parent":"13483065","id":"13483416"}
{"by":"mrep","time":"1534141611","timestamp":"2018-08-13 06:26:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"God I wish seattle actually enforced that because I see stupid signs blocking the sidewalks everywhere.","parent":"17747537","id":"17748363"}
{"by":"sidsavara","time":"1243196515","timestamp":"2009-05-24 20:21:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Tried it out, biggest complaint is that I can't do \"in place\" editing -\u003cp\u003eExample:  As Mark Bao mentioned, have to edit to the side, rather than in place. Pressing enter to head to the box, and then hitting enter (or escape) to go back isn't bad, but it is not as ideal as if I could double click and edit in place.\u003cp\u003eSecond (more irritating for me) I can't grab something and drag and drop it.\u003cp\u003eI know these are challenging technical problems (with solutions) but they do make the experience a little difficult for me.\u003cp\u003eAlso, in Chrome Alt+up and alt+down shortcuts are not working for me. No idea if this is something I've changed as a setting or not.  Other shortcuts appear to work fine - but why is it one button (?) to open the help and another (space) to close?  I don't see space used elsewhere, perhaps just use space for both?\u003cp\u003eFor exporting, I was not too pleased with how it exported to HTML. I was actually expecting a bunch of nested lists, but it gave me lots of divs and styled it as an outline via CSS.   I don't know how other people feel about it, I was looking to use it to outline blog posts: so for me being able to export and then import a list of lists would have been dynamite.","parent":"624486","id":"624637"}
{"by":"spoonie","time":"1475029750","timestamp":"2016-09-28 02:29:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Average about 2.5 hours total:  45 minutes x2 for the Caltrain to and from the South Bay, and another 60 minutes of biking to and from the train station. This is at a cost of $190.80\u0026#x2F;month for the Caltrain monthly pass.","parent":"12590582","id":"12595003"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1244339982","timestamp":"2009-06-07 01:59:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There goes the realest mofo on this forum.\u003cp\u003ePeople don't see this is what we're trading real journalism for. Diva bloggers that have to be kissed up to.","parent":"645375","id":"645413"}
{"by":"rusk","time":"1490258690","timestamp":"2017-03-23 08:44:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; for a bunch of practical reasons\u003cp\u003eBasically makes it cheaper to build. You have a natural frequency there to use, and you don\u0026#x27;t have to come up with all this additional hardware to smooth out the existing frequency and come up with a new one.\u003cp\u003eI think there was a flip-side to this ... though NTSC had faster refresh, PAL had a higher resolution (more lines). I\u0026#x27;m not sure, but I think this may have been a tradeoff.","parent":"13937343","id":"13938194"}
{"by":"elwell","time":"1389397304","timestamp":"2014-01-10 23:41:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pair-programming at its finest: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7036160","id":"7040460"}
{"by":"kragen","time":"1309103243","timestamp":"2011-06-26 15:47:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ships \u003ci\u003estill\u003c/i\u003e aren't mass-produced.  Coins, though, that's a very good point.  And I didn't know about pottery!","parent":"2698123","id":"2698230"}
{"by":"alt_rox_haxer","time":"1458765596","timestamp":"2016-03-23 20:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just need assistance in doing it myself. Im a self-taught sysadmin, and dont really work with powershell all that often. I just need to write a script that enables certain security audits in a multiple workstation AD environment.","parent":"11347980","id":"11348027"}
{"by":"shiven","time":"1385036327","timestamp":"2013-11-21 12:18:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Love that game! Seriously, if you haven\u0026#x27;t played it yet, do yourself a favor and play it ASAP!","parent":"6772481","id":"6774276"}
{"by":"nikolay","time":"1502974400","timestamp":"2017-08-17 12:53:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We eat yogurt (\u0026quot;кисело мляко\u0026quot;) only with a spoon - it\u0026#x27;s not liquid. We drink ayran (\u0026quot;айрян\u0026quot;), which is yogurt diluted with water yogurt with added salt. There\u0026#x27;s also kefir (\u0026quot;кефир\u0026quot;), which is liquid, but it is not Bulgarian at all.","parent":"15036164","id":"15036269"}
{"by":"MrBuddyCasino","time":"1405070244","timestamp":"2014-07-11 09:17:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can\u0026#x27;t tell if sarcasm or serious","parent":"8017909","id":"8019356"}
{"by":"WalterSear","time":"1463068709","timestamp":"2016-05-12 15:58:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"City subways systems take decades to build. Public transport is a shambles outside high density cities, and in many of those. Here in SF, it takes me an hour to get downtown by bus or subway, and 10-15 minutes by bus.","parent":"11684289","id":"11684339"}
{"by":"Mithaldu","time":"1444243955","timestamp":"2015-10-07 18:52:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Broken install = it didn\u0026#x27;t install.\u003cp\u003eAh, that wasn\u0026#x27;t clear.\u003cp\u003eI have to say though:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I had no idea why. ... Sorry I sounded cranky, truthfully I\u0026#x27;m probbly just unfamiliar.\u003cp\u003eYes. CPAN does a lot to help the user and gives a lot of information, but all that information truly does contain 99% of what you need.\u003cp\u003eIt progresses in phases (prep, make, test, install) just like most other make-based software (99% of the stuff installed on your linux boxes) and after each phase it will say \u0026quot;\u0026lt;phase\u0026gt; OK\u0026quot;\u0026#x2F;\u0026quot;\u0026lt;phase\u0026gt; NOT OK\u0026quot;, so you only have to read for that, then scan upwards to see what errors you got from gcc or whatever. In other words, and i\u0026#x27;m not trying to be mean, but: You only have to read what is on your screen.\u003cp\u003eAs for \u0026quot;Gems, composer, npm, rpm\u0026quot;, i know that the three non-npm ones don\u0026#x27;t run tests on install (npm probably doesn\u0026#x27;t either), so you might be conflating \u0026quot;flawless and easily\u0026quot; with \u0026quot;system incompatibilities are found at runtime, instead of install time\u0026quot;. I.e. it\u0026#x27;s highly likely that what you like of them isn\u0026#x27;t that they\u0026#x27;ve progressed beyond CPAN.pm, but that they\u0026#x27;ve yet to catch up to it.","parent":"10346198","id":"10348121"}
{"by":"CuriouslyC","time":"1487613976","timestamp":"2017-02-20 18:06:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That is awesome, I am totally going to steal it :)","parent":"13688561","id":"13689436"}
{"by":"kamaal","time":"1534835449","timestamp":"2018-08-21 07:10:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Onsite Allowance\u0026#x2F;Bonus is very Common in Indian outsourcing firms. But its not exactly \u0026#x27;yacht and helicopter\u0026#x27; money you think it is. Typically something like $1000 per year in Bonus. And they also need to keep the pay roll etc alive, because their dependents need health insurance in India.\u003cp\u003eOften the biggest Perk for Indians to work in the US is not even money, its to get exposure to the first world infrastructure and overall industry scene. Even if you don\u0026#x27;t make much money, you return to India with heavily scaled up ambitions.","parent":"17806039","id":"17807671"}
{"by":"norswap","time":"1376823708","timestamp":"2013-08-18 11:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It does. Coffeescript is not involved at any point in the current compilation process.\u003cp\u003eIt did not originally however.","parent":"6232279","id":"6232334"}
{"by":"mattmanser","time":"1332945538","timestamp":"2012-03-28 14:38:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"30 to 60 day payment cycles are in every country, nothing special about India. One main contractor I worked for in the UK (manages the building of buildings) used to have a dashboard showing how late payments to them were in 30, 60, 90, 90+ slots.\u003cp\u003eThere are plenty of guides and advice on what you should be doing to avoid this as an SME or sole contractor.","parent":"3766193","id":"3766427"}
{"by":"ben0x539","time":"1413388928","timestamp":"2014-10-15 16:02:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, that\u0026#x27;s not what happened.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s well documented that the whole thing started as focused harassment of Zoe Quinn. Now other women are being harassed. The effects of the campaign is that women are withdrawing from publishing indie games or writing about games. Nothing is being done that addresses \u0026quot;ethics in journalism\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eRegarding your edits: Somehow the willingness of gamergate perpetrators to condemn harassment of women only manifests when people are bringing up that that\u0026#x27;s what gamergate does, and is conspicuously missing when actual harassment happens and goes unchallenged.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a very thin veneer of civility. Somehow all the \u0026quot;battles\u0026quot; you \u0026quot;pick\u0026quot; just happen to be against women in no position of authority, mostly not even journalists.","parent":"8459011","id":"8459137"}
{"by":"rdmirza","time":"1370213440","timestamp":"2013-06-02 22:50:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Great idea, I was trying to figure out the story! I've read there's been an internal blackout -- the turkish media isn't covering the event.","parent":"5810056","id":"5810410"}
{"by":"lordnacho","time":"1429778935","timestamp":"2015-04-23 08:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What did the investors think about the possibility of a juggernaut entering the space? If FB decided to let people know when their friends (or FoFs, or group members) were near, that could easily eat the whole space.","parent":"9420991","id":"9425532"}
{"by":"eksemplar","time":"1506664585","timestamp":"2017-09-29 05:56:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The tech isn\u0026#x27;t going to die, it\u0026#x27;s just not going to change the world in any sexy way.\u003cp\u003eMaersk is using it for something as boring as secure claims for containers to fight corruption in shipping.\u003cp\u003eIn government we\u0026#x27;re looking into running things like the land ownership registry and other public records on the tech. Not because it\u0026#x27;s hip, but because it\u0026#x27;ll save employee resources when we have to perform less audits, and because it\u0026#x27;ll speed response times.","parent":"15362380","id":"15363055"}
{"by":"douche","time":"1494881485","timestamp":"2017-05-15 20:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This sounds like unrelenting Taylorism, trying to scrape too little butter on too much toast.\u003cp\u003eIf all this administrative work needs to be done, do surgeons necessarily need to do it?  Can we hire more clerical specialists to offload that work onto, or more PAs or RNs to handle less specialized work?\u003cp\u003eA few measly hundred million in the federal budget could probably be dredged up to subsidize medical school tuition and take some of the sting out of the long, expensive marathon of medical schooling, maybe?","parent":"14344347","id":"14344993"}
{"by":"marklittlewood","time":"1413214744","timestamp":"2014-10-13 15:39:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is this a serious thing or are people always blinded by \u0026#x27;FREE\u0026#x27;?\u003cp\u003eThere is no way of getting information about the company on the company website, you have to go to the company web app.\u003cp\u003eSo you get free unlimited storage, ad funded and to target you better with advertising they look at your content. This is hidden in the Terms of Service. \u003ca href=\"https://beta.hive.im/terms/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;beta.hive.im\u0026#x2F;terms\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the company web app, there is no information about the company, the backers, the people etc. The \u0026#x27;about section\u0026#x27; of the company is a bunch of marketing speak \u003ca href=\"https://beta.hive.im/about/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;beta.hive.im\u0026#x2F;about\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an address if you look hard enough - in the Privacy section. \u003ca href=\"https://beta.hive.im/privacy/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;beta.hive.im\u0026#x2F;privacy\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e It is in Hong Kong. There is no information about team, backers etc.\u003cp\u003eBest of luck to anyone that tries this.","parent":"8448639","id":"8449120"}
{"by":"meetingcpp","time":"1456435889","timestamp":"2016-02-25 21:31:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you can, go for C++14 directly, it offers improvements over C++11.\u003cp\u003eLanguage features that ease your daily working with C++11\u0026#x2F;14:\u003cp\u003e- Lambdas, especially when working with \u0026lt;algorithm\u0026gt;\u003cp\u003e- ranged for loop\u003cp\u003e- auto instead of typing long types\u003cp\u003e- variadic templates increase compilation speed over the previous macro based simulation of this feature.\u003cp\u003e- the basic support for multithreading which std::thread \u0026amp; co offer.\u003cp\u003eAnd also, as always in C++: you only pay for what you use. You still can write code in old styles pretty well with C++14, same will be true for coming standards.","parent":"11177884","id":"11177974"}
{"by":"mahendrabaid","time":"1350649013","timestamp":"2012-10-19 12:16:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Possible to make it pay per use?","parent":"4671827","id":"4673147"}
{"by":"bcg1","time":"1453605632","timestamp":"2016-01-24 03:20:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The main problem with \u0026quot;SOA\u0026quot; is that the big software corporations (the type that often have 3 letters in their names) realized they could make millions by layering on new 1000 page \u0026quot;standards\u0026quot; on top of the old 1000 page standards and selling crap solutions to CIOs via golf course handshakes.\u003cp\u003eNow they\u0026#x27;ve got their eye on \u0026quot;APIs\u0026quot;, so watch out.  And by the way if the author is right about the trends in \u0026quot;enterprise\u0026quot; (and I believe he has a good handle on it) the whole \u0026quot;schemaless\u0026quot; fad is going to get real ugly, real quick.","parent":"10951631","id":"10961315"}
{"by":"jjoe","time":"1515006132","timestamp":"2018-01-03 19:02:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Vitamin D is a steroid hormone. Its potential impact on the body is substantial.","parent":"16063172","id":"16063949"}
{"by":"skompfy","time":"1494511593","timestamp":"2017-05-11 14:06:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So first of all, this looked\u0026#x2F;looks awesome. Open hardware FTW.\u003cp\u003eMy gripes include it being difficult to get ahold of one in the US. The idea of unattended auto updates on a router seems a bit dangerous, but it\u0026#x27;s all OSS anyway. It\u0026#x27;s initial rollout was meant for data collection (which can be turned off on the paid product). I wish I knew if you could run vanilla OpenWRT\u0026#x2F;LEDE on it and not their fork (support, maintenance, future look). Overall though, cool.","parent":"14314879","id":"14316067"}
{"by":"retSava","time":"1535982713","timestamp":"2018-09-03 13:51:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"sycophant - a person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.\u003cp\u003eobsequious - obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.\u003cp\u003ethanks!","parent":"17899712","id":"17902559"}
{"by":"ahoyhere","time":"1274378092","timestamp":"2010-05-20 17:54:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Their customers \u0026#38; readers aren't going to forget the chortling, self-satisfied tone of their earlier communications.","parent":"1364584","id":"1364683"}
{"by":"GFK_of_xmaspast","time":"1455387107","timestamp":"2016-02-13 18:11:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No-one has an obligation to continue working in a bad situation.","parent":"11094840","id":"11094963"}
{"by":"buyx","time":"1501398659","timestamp":"2017-07-30 07:10:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"English is not immune to these sorts of variations.\u003cp\u003eIn South African English\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;now\u0026quot;: sometime maybe\u0026#x2F;immediately. This is hard to decipher.\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;now-now\u0026quot;: very soon\u0026#x2F;immediately (this usage seems less common nowadays)\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;just now\u0026quot;: at some point in the near future","parent":"14884451","id":"14884811"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1492642926","timestamp":"2017-04-19 23:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Presentation hasn\u0026#x27;t changed in 15 years.\u003cp\u003eI think you mean 7. They changed their default theme to Vector in 2010, replacing Monobook, which had itself replaced Standard\u0026#x2F;Classic in 2004.\u003cp\u003eMoreover, Wikipedia has also acquired a mobile theme, which is very “modern”.","parent":"14151406","id":"14152556"}
{"by":"infinite8s","time":"1284777057","timestamp":"2010-09-18 02:30:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, if the mother was exposed to either the disease or the vaccine, and she is breastfeeding the baby, then the baby will have protection (another strong argument in favor of breastfeeding babies) until they are old enough for the vaccine.","parent":"1703013","id":"1703537"}
{"by":"sspiff","time":"1341407824","timestamp":"2012-07-04 13:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you can see here: \u003ca href=\"https://www.votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=1189\u0026#38;euro_vot_valoare=\u0026#38;euro_vot_rol_euro_grup=\u0026#38;euro_vot_rol_euro_tara=\u0026#38;vers=2\u0026#38;order_by=euro_parlamentar_nume\u0026#38;order=ASC\u0026#38;last_order_by=euro_parlamentar_nume\u0026#38;limit=0\u0026#38;offset=0\u0026#38;nextorder=ASC\u0026#38;euro_tara_id=\u0026#38;euro_grup_id=\u0026#38;euro_vot_valoare=%2B\u0026#38;euro_vot_rol_euro_grup=\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=1189\u0026#38...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"4198874","id":"4199283"}
{"by":"tvladeck","time":"1512660759","timestamp":"2017-12-07 15:32:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hello! I am the author. This was a super fun project and something I\u0026#x27;ve been randomly obsessed with for a while. Any Qs and I\u0026#x27;d be happy to answer!","parent":"15870721","id":"15870889"}
{"by":"amichail","time":"1227413484","timestamp":"2008-11-23 04:11:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually it does!  Take a look at what you get when viewing everyone's notes for a search query.","parent":"373451","id":"373492"}
{"by":"patcheudor","time":"1450289718","timestamp":"2015-12-16 18:15:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the surface it\u0026#x27;s a horrible proposal with massive free speech and technical implementation implications. In fact, the first thing I thought of was: \u0026quot;ISISrolling\u0026quot; where people are tricked into visiting ISIS websites in iFrames and what-not in order to set them up for a visit by the police. However, as I thought about it more something struck me. We already have such laws on the books for child pornography.","parent":"10746013","id":"10746071"}
{"by":"azhenley","time":"1439997404","timestamp":"2015-08-19 15:16:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Isn\u0026#x27;t that true for many (if not most) free services? Would you pay to use Google?","parent":"10085972","id":"10086042"}
{"by":"mwilkison","time":"1435338110","timestamp":"2015-06-26 17:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zerodb.io\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.zerodb.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eZeroDB is an end-to-end encrypted database that lets you operate on data while it\u0026#x27;s encrypted.\u003cp\u003eDemo video: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;128047786\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;vimeo.com\u0026#x2F;128047786\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestion: We want to sell to large enterprises (financial services, healthcare, saas providers, etc.). The common advice is to start with SMBs\u0026#x2F;startups and get traction that way before going upmarket to enterprises. How can we balance that with the fact that what SMBs are asking us for is very different from what enterprises have told us they\u0026#x27;d like in a fully-baked product?","parent":"9785533","id":"9786082"}
{"by":"effie","time":"1455054901","timestamp":"2016-02-09 21:55:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think this paper has a very misleading title, as the result it presents is not as remarkable as to be actually proof of what is known as Maxwell\u0026#x27;s equations (they were formulated by Heaviside btw.) Basically what the paper does is that it defines operators for ρ, j, E based on the hindsight knowledge of Maxwell\u0026#x27;s equations and non-relativistic equation of motion for a particle; then it shows that it is possible to have both sets as Heisenberg equations. That\u0026#x27;s definitely \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e something a physicist would call deriving Maxwell\u0026#x27;s equations. Most of the thing claimed to be derived in the title is actually defined\u0026#x2F;assumed, the result is merely that the Heisenberg formalism, the commutation relations and non-relativistic equation of motion do not seem incompatible. The speed of light in the result is there purely because Dyson knows the result he needs to get.","parent":"11067435","id":"11069095"}
{"by":"krakensden","time":"1373248039","timestamp":"2013-07-08 01:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is an oil and natural gas boom in most of those states- the jobs pay quite well and don\u0026#x27;t really require any education. So theoretically either- but I suspect he actually means \u0026#x27;high school age persons in the aforementioned states\u0026#x27;.","parent":"6004082","id":"6004616"}
{"by":"noblethrasher","time":"1292493135","timestamp":"2010-12-16 09:52:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I doubt it would take you long to learn PHP/HTML/JavaScript since you already have programming experience. I say allocate a certain amount of time to learn/code. Try to get a decent version 0.x in that amount of time. If you then find that you still need to outsource at least you'll be in a better position to manage things.\u003cp\u003eMarkus Frind learned ASP.NET while using it to build the successful dating site PlentyOfFish.com (he too was already an accomplished programmer).","parent":"2011557","id":"2011596"}
{"by":"coatmatter","time":"1527399308","timestamp":"2018-05-27 05:35:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What do you actually use Alexa for?","parent":"17146847","id":"17165584"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1429387310","timestamp":"2015-04-18 20:01:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Microsoft also has the money to perhaps pay developers to make their apps work on their store. I mean, they used to give you money just to make Windows 8 apps.","parent":"9400755","id":"9400804"}
{"by":"StavrosK","time":"1393198502","timestamp":"2014-02-23 23:35:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s actually a very good idea... Browsers could load the jquery file in your cache by its hash, rather than its URL. No more having 100 copies of jquery.min.js in your cache just because they\u0026#x27;re from different URLs.","parent":"7288165","id":"7288235"}
{"by":"paulddraper","time":"1490584361","timestamp":"2017-03-27 03:12:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve used mathquill. Thanks so so much for open-sourcing it.\u003cp\u003eI think I remember MS being better in some edge cases. OTOH, I haven\u0026#x27;t used it in so long maybe that speaks for itself.","parent":"13964088","id":"13964864"}
{"by":"wisew","time":"1435262945","timestamp":"2015-06-25 20:09:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just add Inconsolata to your Font Family in Settings. If you want the old font size and line height too, set those to 16px and 1.3, respectively.","parent":"9779559","id":"9780591"}
{"by":"mrbman7","time":"1420071719","timestamp":"2015-01-01 00:21:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Amusing no one wears helmets.","parent":"8819614","id":"8821709"}
{"by":"biggitybones","time":"1273786554","timestamp":"2010-05-13 21:35:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Implementing these suggestions would limit the use of the information and thus limit the spread.  Zuckerberg doesn't want people to make the choice on whether to share their data because he knows that most will decline, which limits the amount of data that can be shared with the world (and advertisers/3rd party apps).\u003cp\u003eIt's much easier to make it the default and let a few people complain.  The problem is, there's a limit that will eventually be reached where a \u003ci\u003elot\u003c/i\u003e of people complain and here we are.","parent":"1345458","id":"1345777"}
{"by":"jrockway","time":"1500723730","timestamp":"2017-07-22 11:42:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, 60Hz looks like a slideshow after using 144Hz for a while.\u003cp\u003eIt does get rapidly better after 60, though.  I think I can stop telling a difference at around 80.  So there is some hope that we can have 4k@better-than-60 in the near future.","parent":"14826617","id":"14826682"}
{"by":"orthecreedence","time":"1520295073","timestamp":"2018-03-06 00:11:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That question could be easily turned around: why would you want to use Chrome?\u003cp\u003ePersonally, if I were to set up automated testing, I\u0026#x27;d like to do it with both Chrome and FF, especially given that FF seems to be making a comeback lately. Another reason might be that I\u0026#x27;ve never had anything but problems building Chromium from source, but have successfully built Firefox. So in situations where you want to know with certainty that your binary is derived from the published source code, Firefox wins IMO.","parent":"16525678","id":"16525807"}
{"by":"anigbrowl","time":"1384653848","timestamp":"2013-11-17 02:04:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Because they don\u0026#x27;t need to, in general; and because reproductive biology predisposes women to be choosy (as the physical burden of pregnancy and childbirth on women is enormously high).","parent":"6746965","id":"6747208"}
{"by":"azim","time":"1300650540","timestamp":"2011-03-20 19:49:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My Fall 2009 model overheats and locks up and crashes when playing games like Starcraft 2 or Left 4 Dead 2. That's not to say every notebook from 2009 had cooling problems, but some certainly do.","parent":"2346108","id":"2347177"}
{"by":"jaimebuelta","time":"1469019759","timestamp":"2016-07-20 13:02:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something I do on my CV. I have a prominent section talking about my \u0026quot;specialties\u0026quot;. These are the core skills (not only tech ones) that I want to focus on, and the ones that I am interested in a new job.\u003cp\u003eIt doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense to put in the same level \u0026quot;bash\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;JavaScript\u0026quot; if you really want to look for JavaScript jobs.\u003cp\u003eThen, in each of the previous jobs, I put the main tech that I have been exposed to. That gives an idea of the different skills and tools, but making a clear distinction in terms of which ones I am interested or consider that are my core skills.","parent":"12127946","id":"12128677"}
{"by":"ebbv","time":"1465825735","timestamp":"2016-06-13 13:48:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately he\u0026#x27;s now a high profile Facebook employee so I\u0026#x27;m sure he has strict orders about where his content is to be posted.","parent":"11893424","id":"11893812"}
{"by":"muninn_","time":"1518982492","timestamp":"2018-02-18 19:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, because they want to have their cake and eat it too. \u0026quot;Everybody has a voice, we\u0026#x27;re accepting of all cultures, everybody is welcome\u0026quot; etc.. until they aren\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eAnd believe it or not, people in the south have to (from their point of view) put up with \u0026quot;the liberals\u0026quot; too - similar to people in SF or wherever.\u003cp\u003eFrankly, what is interesting here is that instead of the United States becoming more culturally similar with the advent of planes, mobile phones, and what have you it would appear, at least on the surface, that we\u0026#x27;re becoming more different. I live in the Midwest and when I hear somebody from Vancouver saying that explaining something to someone automatically is \u0026quot;mansplaining\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;placing an emotional burden\u0026quot; on that person I find that just as idiotic and incompatible with my way of life as some bible-thumping anti-climate change person from Mississippi. Now, both of these are of course generalizations, but the most pervasive noise, if you will, is this instead of the most likely interaction I would have with most people which is just a hey how are you, thanks, yes I like XYZ as well.\u003cp\u003eWhat we need to do is police the most radical people if we want the United States to be a united country. If we\u0026#x27;d rather break it up or something then that\u0026#x27;s a different story.","parent":"16407745","id":"16407797"}
{"by":"Applejinx","time":"1536080474","timestamp":"2018-09-04 17:01:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The valuation doesn\u0026#x27;t have to do with handling as much cash as WalMart.\u003cp\u003eThe valuation has to do with this idea that Amazon will inevitably kill everything else including WalMart and end up the only way anybody can buy things or do business. It sure as hell hasn\u0026#x27;t built this valuation on the back of dividends to shareholders. You are taking a ride on a collective fantasy that there can exist a company that kills all other companies and somehow inherits their business without obliterating society as we know it.\u003cp\u003eOr, possibly, that there can be a cancer so big that it becomes the person and takes over doing everything that they do?\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s definitely a fantasy. Not Amazon\u0026#x27;s intentions: they\u0026#x27;re absolutely out to do this wherever possible, and it colors the attitude of Amazonians and dovetails with the political reality of the USA as it currently stands. The fantasy part is that it doesn\u0026#x27;t end in tears. Eventually Amazon must stop growing, if for no other reason than society will collapse and there will be no more customers for them to service, as there won\u0026#x27;t be jobs at Amazon to support \u0026#x27;em and government welfare will not be able to give the jobless people enough money to continue to buy things from Amazon.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s already beginning to happen, but until then—there\u0026#x27;s a trillion dollar valuation, and the world of capital cries \u0026#x27;play on!\u0026#x27;.\u003cp\u003eOr you could try and convince Amazonians NOT to kill everything else? But I don\u0026#x27;t think that\u0026#x27;ll get far: it\u0026#x27;s their culture and, as I said, that\u0026#x27;s the only reason for the valuation. People assume Amazon will continue to win.","parent":"17910452","id":"17910617"}
{"by":"peakok","time":"1214872162","timestamp":"2008-07-01 00:29:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To (over-)simplify : some boldness.","parent":"232295","id":"232585"}
{"by":"jwalton","time":"1520266095","timestamp":"2018-03-05 16:08:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re correct, but you\u0026#x27;ve missed the point.  Google is the only search provider (or at least, the only one anyone uses), and so they have the power to decide what you are allowed and not allowed to discover.  You\u0026#x27;re right that Google should not be forced to allow content they don\u0026#x27;t want to promote into their search results - and I don\u0026#x27;t think the article or anyone in this comment thread has argued that they should.\u003cp\u003eBut that\u0026#x27;s not the problem.  The problem is that Google has this monopoly in the first place.  Big monopolies and oligarchies are anathema to both democracy and to a free market.","parent":"16521741","id":"16521922"}
{"by":"Retric","time":"1225319996","timestamp":"2008-10-29 22:39:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think restaurants with 15 or more outlets stopped being the little guy a while ago.  There is a lot of poorly done regulation that hinders the little guy but that's more an execution detail than a basic fault of regulation.","parent":"347614","id":"348125"}
{"by":"walexander","time":"1310920498","timestamp":"2011-07-17 16:34:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sure someone could, but why would they want to?\u003cp\u003eA rectangular form factor for display has been the standard for decades. All applications, save for some desktop widgets, are shaped accordingly.\u003cp\u003ePutting rectangular designs on this would waste lots of space at the corners, and I don't see a ton of developers jumping to go support a triangular display for their UIs.","parent":"2773473","id":"2773574"}
{"by":"inthewind","time":"1371920590","timestamp":"2013-06-22 17:03:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think your definition of meta-data is too narrow.  It\u0026#x27;s not just keywords.\u003cp\u003eExcuse me if I state the obvious, but with something like a web page access, the meta data will be in part: your internet address, what time you accessed it, the referring url etc.  A phone call\u0026#x27;s meta data could include the length of the call, which phone the call was made on,  which mast was used etc.\u003cp\u003eMeta data is additional data about the data isn\u0026#x27;t it?\u003cp\u003eOne assumes that you could then make telling deductions from that meta data.  Like a persons movements (acquired from phone, financial and internet records).   You can also draw a lot about their character: their interests, their political views, their cicles etc.\u003cp\u003eThe meta data is very revealing in itself.","parent":"5922872","id":"5924310"}
{"by":"sho_hn","time":"1471629700","timestamp":"2016-08-19 18:01:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"wine also ships a regedit.exe, a notepad.exe, ... you can construe this as implementing API (it\u0026#x27;s usually the motivation) but it gets mushy. PowerShell has a curl also to \u0026quot;implement an interface\u0026quot;, however loosely.","parent":"12321389","id":"12321989"}
{"by":"WhitneyLand","time":"1422414401","timestamp":"2015-01-28 03:06:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the name of science and our wellbeing, please direct anyone you know who has good faith concerns to the NOVA episode Calling The Shots:  \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xm9mZ9j-oQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=5xm9mZ9j-oQ\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s very accessible, and doesn\u0026#x27;t simply dismiss those who are anti-vaccine.  Of course as with many NOVA episodes this one is fascinating regardless of your viewpoint.","parent":"8957598","id":"8957793"}
{"by":"akvadrako","time":"1513675991","timestamp":"2017-12-19 09:33:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"GDP doesn\u0026#x27;t measure value created; it measures money spent. If I hire you to dig a big hole and then fill it in, GDP rises but no value was created.\u003cp\u003eAlso if I pay you $50 to pay me $50, GDP rises by $100.","parent":"15953749","id":"15958949"}
{"by":"sctb","time":"1492113988","timestamp":"2017-04-13 20:06:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you think a submission doesn\u0026#x27;t belong on HN, please flag it instead of posting like this.","parent":"14104332","id":"14110482"}
{"by":"icelancer","time":"1516522153","timestamp":"2018-01-21 08:09:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So now we\u0026#x27;re talking about bleeding-edge technology in the 1440p \u0026#x2F; 100hz realm. I don\u0026#x27;t feel really bad that gamers can\u0026#x27;t readily get access to the technologies that drive the 0.0001% of gamers to these settings, no more than I feel bad for cryptocurrency miners who spend $1200 on a 1080ti and configure it like an idiot and get half the earning potential they should.","parent":"16197266","id":"16197281"}
{"by":"sullyj3","time":"1466336331","timestamp":"2016-06-19 11:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PEP8 is a good start, in case you\u0026#x27;re unaware of it. It contains a bunch of style guidelines for python, including some naming conventions.","parent":"11930590","id":"11932631"}
{"by":"Herring","time":"1222026175","timestamp":"2008-09-21 19:42:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Boring? Coming from FOSS, I'm rather enjoying this feeling of vindication. Best part is this protectionism helps nobody, apple least of all.","parent":"310305","id":"310549"}
{"by":"joenot443","time":"1525274239","timestamp":"2018-05-02 15:17:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d really like to get into hobby electronics, specifically DIY guitar pedal design.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a great subreddit, \u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;diypedals, which I\u0026#x27;ve been lurking for a while, I just haven\u0026#x27;t made the dive into buying my first kit and soldering equipment. Does anyone here on HN have any tips or words of wisdom?","parent":"16977126","id":"16977697"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1340326398","timestamp":"2012-06-22 00:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I got my 8 year old an arduino, so I'm secretly taking him through Kernighan and Ritchie. Each night I teach him a new little snippet and the next day he'll run with it. Its fascinating to watch as he takes the concept and pushes it as far as it will possibly go, ending in a massive barely working kludge... and then the next night we learn a few new lines that make it all simple and easy and its sheer joy. Its like watching Peter Parker get spider powers.\u003cp\u003eJust learning that programs could be broken into callable functions was a moment of stand up, open mouthed wonder.\u003cp\u003eDon't wait. Do this with your kids now.","parent":"4141993","id":"4144919"}
{"by":"okmokmz","time":"1539012618","timestamp":"2018-10-08 15:30:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I have more difficulties to imagine these people selling their soul just for money.\u003cp\u003eDespite what you seem to think, police are not more righteous or just than any other person, as we\u0026#x27;ve seen through the constant abuse, corruption, and violence perpetrated by LEO and intelligence agencies. In fact, due to the kind of people drawn to the positions and the screening to filter out people who are too intelligent to blindly follow the state, I would argue that \u0026quot;these people\nare in fact MORE likely to fall for corruption or \u0026quot;sell their soul just for money\u0026quot; as you say","parent":"18166594","id":"18168321"}
{"by":"pixelguard","time":"1418251550","timestamp":"2014-12-10 22:45:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Haha I was confused at first. Yes, the testimonials are not from actual clients and the images are just pulled off of Google images.\u003cp\u003eI do have some real testimonials to add but I haven\u0026#x27;t done that yet. There are still a couple of things I need to add\u0026#x2F;change e.g. fixing the headers links on mobile phones\u0026#x2F;tablets.","parent":"8732164","id":"8732202"}
{"by":"drcube","time":"1413308654","timestamp":"2014-10-14 17:44:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was news to me when I discovered ancient Greece wasn\u0026#x27;t just white stone and marble everywhere. Almost all of it was painted bright, gaudy colors. In my opinion, it makes them more beautiful.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;io9.com\u0026#x2F;5616498\u0026#x2F;ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8454279","id":"8454663"}
{"by":"cdcarter","time":"1329842183","timestamp":"2012-02-21 16:36:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Absolutely no one has done anything to make it easy to install or pleasant to use.\"\u003cp\u003eYou certainly didn't use nginx before it had any english documentation then.","parent":"3617019","id":"3617047"}
{"by":"colkassad","time":"1360687534","timestamp":"2013-02-12 16:45:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have civil and mechanical engineers at your bank?","parent":"5207337","id":"5207878"}
{"by":"sixtypoundhound","time":"1515076035","timestamp":"2018-01-04 14:27:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having run a few areas \u0026#x2F; programs that delivered a decent amount of innovation in the underlying process, I\u0026#x27;ve been surprised with just how much isn\u0026#x27;t obvious...\u003cp\u003eMy general expectations:\u003cp\u003e- First six months of full time focus on a work process is basically just learning your way around; goal is to get a real process map (actual activity) and proper data source\n- By the end of that period, I usually have a hypothesis about the way things ought to be\n- Months 6 - 18: get knuckleheads to test hypothesis\n- Years 2 - 3: Use results of tests to identify the metrics we actually should have been tracking and build appropriate data sources. Test new sets of hypothesis which work out brilliantly, usually from stuff we thought didn\u0026#x27;t matter.\u003cp\u003eIncidently... this is likely why most MBA strategy firms are full of shit... they usually exit the project within six months, which as you see... isn\u0026#x27;t anywhere near enough.","parent":"16067901","id":"16070491"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1370085078","timestamp":"2013-06-01 11:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Embedded with an img tag, scripts are disabled.","parent":"5802107","id":"5803535"}
{"by":"bitwalker","time":"1383339442","timestamp":"2013-11-01 20:57:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I came home from work a few minutes ago, hopped on HN, and I was logged in as some other random user. I have no idea how, I\u0026#x27;ve never logged in to HN on any computer as anyone other than this account.\u003cp\u003eEven stranger, when I logged out, it automatically switched to another user! Clicking it a third time, and I was logged in as a third random user. Finally, after 3 attempts to logout, it finally allowed me to login as me.\u003cp\u003eAnyways, I\u0026#x27;m sure someone probably wants to know about this.","parent":"6656348","id":"6656367"}
{"by":"PieSquared","time":"1229897284","timestamp":"2008-12-21 22:08:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tend to do all the homework I have a as far in advance as I can, then have a week or two of near-no-homework in which I can code, both for personal projects and a part-time job. (10th grade).","parent":"405756","id":"405764"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1272243643","timestamp":"2010-04-26 01:00:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not exactly; \"The End of Cheap Oil\", referenced by the article, was written in 1998 and presents the following graph.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://dieoff.org/page143.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://dieoff.org/page143.jpg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue, the peak is predicted to have been a few years before now, but I believe production \u003ci\u003eIS\u003c/i\u003e falling today?","parent":"1293820","id":"1293856"}
{"by":"m1el","time":"1505331317","timestamp":"2017-09-13 19:35:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; couldn\u0026#x27;t the err passed to the catch() expose the necessary parts of the scope like it could for exceptions not created by Promises?\u003cp\u003eThat would require Promises to create and use a new unique and intrusive API into the interpreter. Requiring an exception to \u003ci\u003epreserve\u003c/i\u003e the scope in some specific case is... problematic, to say the least.\u003cp\u003eInstead exceptions in Promise callback could be handled as uncaught exceptions, which would solve the problem caused by Promises catching all exceptions and passing them as error values.","parent":"15239463","id":"15241796"}
{"by":"melling","time":"1519866901","timestamp":"2018-03-01 01:15:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For those interested in languages, I’ve got an iOS Word Search game that allows you to play in  English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;h4labs-word-search\u0026#x2F;id1311744075?mt=8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;itunes.apple.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;app\u0026#x2F;h4labs-word-search\u0026#x2F;id1311744...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI noticed that there is some interest in Russian here. I can add that in the future. There wasn’t enough room on the controller so I left it out.","parent":"16488241","id":"16488872"}
{"by":"brazzy","time":"1262971360","timestamp":"2010-01-08 17:22:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Even if you could have a very smart network where only users within the same ISP exchange data (this not incurring peering fees), all that data still needs to be routed and transported between the ISP's access points, a cost that scales up with usage. If all users started using all of their bandwidth (or a larger portion of it than they do now), costs for the ISP would go up, and they would have to pass that on to the users. Earning $5 per month from reselling bandwidth is not so attractive when it means your ISP bill goes up $20.\u003cp\u003eThe business plan does not account for this. It assumes bandwidth to cost the users nothing, which only is true now because of flat fees, which are only viable when users use a very limited portion of the total available bandwidth.","parent":"1039921","id":"1039945"}
{"by":"AnthonyMouse","time":"1423447629","timestamp":"2015-02-09 02:07:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; My question is, is there a real use-case for Turing-completeness inside a C++ compiler?\u003cp\u003eIf it isn\u0026#x27;t Turing-complete then there are some things you can\u0026#x27;t compute with it. If you want to do one of those things which could be computed at compile time then without it you would have to compute it at runtime. Which means it has to be computed on every execution rather than once by the compiler and if there is some logic error in the code you may not discover the error until that code is actually executed rather than having the compiler find it for you.\u003cp\u003eIt also has the potential to save you a lot of duplication. You\u0026#x27;re basically asking the compiler to run a program to convert your C++ program into arbitrarily many similar-but-not-quite-the-same C++ programs, algorithmically. Because it\u0026#x27;s Turing-complete you can do \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e transformation with it. There is no edge case it can\u0026#x27;t handle which could cause you to need to write and maintain 500+ nearly identical copies of the same code instead, which is what can happen in e.g. Java.","parent":"9019279","id":"9019435"}
{"by":"jpm_sd","time":"1478629661","timestamp":"2016-11-08 18:27:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m currently reading The Confusion [0] and just got through Leibniz\u0026#x27;s explanation of monadology [1][2]. Summarized very very briefly, the idea is that every particle in the universe is a sort of computational device, and their actions\u0026#x2F;reactions are determined by their \u0026quot;perception\u0026quot; of all the other particles in the universe.\u003cp\u003eDoes this research suggest that he may have been semi-correct??\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Confusion\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;The_Confusion\u003c/a\u003e\n[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Monadology\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Monadology\u003c/a\u003e\n[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;quantummoxie.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;neal-stephenson-on-leibniz-monads-and-more\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;quantummoxie.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;09\u0026#x2F;neal-stephenso...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12901660","id":"12902660"}
{"by":"weixiyen","time":"1284057201","timestamp":"2010-09-09 18:33:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A lot sites these days don't do joins with relational databases anyways.  They just use mysql or postgresql as a key value store.","parent":"1675865","id":"1676346"}
{"by":"yardie","time":"1367578283","timestamp":"2013-05-03 10:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ignore the shitty political situation in Washington and realize the US has the largest freshwater supply, the largest amount of arable land, and the US is sitting on billions of gallons of oil and rare earth metals. The US is not going anywhere for a very, very long time.","parent":"5649188","id":"5649630"}
{"by":"bro-stick","time":"1439766513","timestamp":"2015-08-16 23:08:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A not as big system decomposed into well-defined parts with clear and concise documentation is best of all.  Great documentation hits many purposes including lessening learning curve for training and behavior qualtitative verification without burdening readability by mindlessly duplicating boilerplate that detracts.","parent":"10070266","id":"10070613"}
{"by":"ceejayoz","time":"1385847127","timestamp":"2013-11-30 21:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; CDC officials are baffled why the vaccine is so ineffective in the elderly.\u003cp\u003eThe elderly having a weaker immune system is hardly new knowledge. It\u0026#x27;s one of the reasons the people they come into contact need vaccinations, so the elderly and young children benefit from herd immunity.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Influenza vaccines can provide moderate protection against virologically confirmed influenza, but such protection is greatly reduced or absent in some seasons.\u003cp\u003eHardly surprising or new info. They put a couple strains in the vaccine based on what they think will crop up that flu season. Sometimes it\u0026#x27;s wrong and the vaccine doesn\u0026#x27;t do much good. Sometimes a new threat like H1N1 come up mid-season and they make an additional one.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Heck, if the flu vaccine is so good for you why is it that health-care workers and doctors can\u0026#x27;t be bothered to get it?\u003cp\u003eBecause there are just as many idiot doctors and nurses as in the general population? You\u0026#x27;ll find people who don\u0026#x27;t believe in evolution as doctors and nurses, too. Hell, my wife\u0026#x27;s nursing textbook had analyzing auras as a possible care component.","parent":"6824596","id":"6824710"}
{"by":"pbhjpbhj","time":"1494556296","timestamp":"2017-05-12 02:31:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;we wouldn\u0026#x27;t be saying much ever would we? \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;\u003cp\u003eWe could say plenty within the standard scientific framework of presenting hypotheses, testing, promoting to theory. Indeed if you\u0026#x27;re a scientist that follows a falsificationist methodology for the progress of scientific understanding then all science - all knowledge, for realists - is within that framework.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;Advances can also take \u0026quot;proven\u0026quot; things and prove them wrong. \u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;\u003cp\u003eNo, because proven means something is true, if it\u0026#x27;s proven that the claim was wrong then it was not proven in the first place.\u003cp\u003eIn _science_ things are held as theories. If they\u0026#x27;re not yet falsified, they get stronger the more they\u0026#x27;re tested and not found lacking. The only \u0026quot;truths\u0026quot; are our assumptions\u0026#x2F;axioms, claims for scientific truth beyond that are scientism.","parent":"14320061","id":"14321007"}
{"by":"whyenot","time":"1438042088","timestamp":"2015-07-28 00:08:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As the article mentions, the USFS is underfunded and understaffed. As a result, (and as is also the case with USFWS and NMFS), permit related matters are often \u0026quot;triaged\u0026quot; with items having a low percieved environmental impact (or politically risky, or risk an expensive lawsuit) put off so that limited resources can be spent on more pressing matters.\u003cp\u003eThat doesn\u0026#x27;t mean corruption and regulatory capture aren\u0026#x27;t issues, but they aren\u0026#x27;t a complete (or even major) part of the problem.\u003cp\u003eI guess also it doesn\u0026#x27;t bother me too much if drinking water is being extracted from a national forest as these forests are required by statute to be managed for multiple uses including resource extraction. Relatively speaking, siphoning off water for drinking seems like it is likely to be a relatively low impact activity, even when it\u0026#x27;s a bigevilcorporation like Nestle who is doing the extraction.","parent":"9958402","id":"9958812"}
{"by":"shamaku","time":"1496922446","timestamp":"2017-06-08 11:47:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m guessing you\u0026#x27;re one of those lucky ones with a sane manager that values your productivity, nurtures growth by rewarding good work, and keeps a good tab on past accomplishments whilst protecting you when others make unrealistic or untimely demands of you, and intervenes only with actual wisdom rather than nonsensical judgement or belittling comments.\u003cp\u003eConsider yourself one of the few lucky ones. The rest of us have to deal with some degree of micromanagement, office politics, and other such nonsense on an almost daily basis.","parent":"14513328","id":"14513423"}
{"by":"hugh","time":"1222987649","timestamp":"2008-10-02 22:47:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Relax. Even if we had the hardware today we'd still have no idea how to write passable AI software. By the time somebody figures that out, maybe the hardware will have caught up.","parent":"322143","id":"322233"}
{"by":"aortega","time":"1395960860","timestamp":"2014-03-27 22:54:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, I always wonder why such a (relatively) exotic and low-volume technology is also very low-cost.\u003cp\u003e3 minutes is very fast...one of my projects takes about 30 minutes for ~30K Luts on a modern Core I7, I used too many registers.\u003cp\u003eDeveloping and debugging it is basically torture.","parent":"7484038","id":"7484081"}
{"by":"Jedd","time":"1482764672","timestamp":"2016-12-26 15:04:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have twice (four years apart) got into arguments with colleagues who have attempted to use the phrase \u0026#x27;pre-prepared\u0026#x27; -- it\u0026#x27;s disappointing to see the beeb legitimise this aliteracy.","parent":"13256159","id":"13258443"}
{"by":"bronco21016","time":"1491952972","timestamp":"2017-04-11 23:22:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not absolving them of anything. What happened was wrong, no doubt about it. I\u0026#x27;m making a best effort to explain why it\u0026#x27;s unreasonable to think that flights will never end up in this \u0026quot;oversold\u0026quot; situation.\u003cp\u003eBy your logic they better go ahead and just block of 20 seats. You know, just in case they need to re-position a B747 crew. Wonder what tickets will cost when they can only sell 30 seats on those 50 seaters.","parent":"14090751","id":"14093401"}
{"by":"bbarrows","time":"1403660063","timestamp":"2014-06-25 01:34:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently finished my site QABounty.\u003cp\u003eI would get annoyed when I could not get anyone to answer my questions on sites like Stack Overflow so I created this site, \u003ca href=\"https://qabounty.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;qabounty.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e. It is basically your standard QA site but you attach a USD $$ bounty to questions. For example I have a question up at:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://qabounty.com/questions/what-kind-of-database-should-i-use-when-trying-to-store-10-to-15-million-rows-a-day/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;qabounty.com\u0026#x2F;questions\u0026#x2F;what-kind-of-database-should-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best answer for that question will award that user 3 coins (which can be withdrawn for about $3). I plan on adding my own questions of the day for a while, basically giving money away for a while hoping people use it for their own questions eventually. If you want to make a quick $3 though and check out my idea please go to the site and try to answer the question!\u003cp\u003eLet me know what you think! I am also looking for a designer as well after I see if people like the idea.. I used Stripe\u0026#x27;s new withdraw to debit card feature so you don\u0026#x27;t have to use bank account info to withdraw your \u0026quot;bounty\u0026quot; (money you get for answering questions)... Please give me some feedback on the site\u0026#x2F;idea!","parent":"7941768","id":"7941775"}
{"by":"nstart","time":"1441182460","timestamp":"2015-09-02 08:27:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a problem though isn\u0026#x27;t it? (Serial procrastinator here). When you\u0026#x27;ve got non deadline based tasks (clean up your table), and personal goals (release that side project), the mantra of two deadlines really kicks you in the butt. Since there\u0026#x27;s only an imagined deadline, it\u0026#x27;s too easy for us to push it aside and say \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ll do it soon... Not now though\u0026quot;","parent":"10156805","id":"10158040"}
{"by":"naravara","time":"1546454115","timestamp":"2019-01-02 18:35:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Infrastructure can\u0026#x27;t be sustainably paid for by usage fees. There are too many externalities for any individual person to have to shoulder.\u003cp\u003eThe benefits of a transit system accrue to people who aren\u0026#x27;t using it as much as to people who are. A bus that transports 60 people means you just took at least 30 vehicles off the road (and that\u0026#x27;s a super conservative estimate). That extra capacity is a benefit to people riding bikes, walking, and driving. So why would you expect only the bus rider expected to pay into the system while everyone else benefits?","parent":"18808096","id":"18808685"}
{"by":"usablecontent","time":"1178128996","timestamp":"2007-05-02 18:03:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It would be nice if we could search for previously posted stories on news.yc\u003cp\u003eI came across the metrolive article when pg submitted it here, but to find it again had to search Google and then fetch the link from Google's cache. Too much work.","parent":"18778","id":"18783"}
{"by":"groby_b","time":"1501188541","timestamp":"2017-07-27 20:49:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love Bret\u0026#x27;s work, but I consider this rewrite pretty much entirely unreadable. I\u0026#x27;m sure it\u0026#x27;s great for skimming - what with the bolding, and the flood of pictures - but that\u0026#x27;s not the point of scientific papers.","parent":"14868978","id":"14869345"}
{"by":"tsotha","time":"1412933561","timestamp":"2014-10-10 09:32:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Amazon has left a trail of destruction—competitors undercut, suppliers squeezed...\u003cp\u003eWe normally call that progress.  That \u0026quot;trail of destruction\u0026quot; is leaving money in the hands of millions of people who used to be captive to the local brick and mortar retailers.","parent":"8436194","id":"8436904"}
{"by":"gnaritas","time":"1340773219","timestamp":"2012-06-27 05:00:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; Spanking a kid has never killed anyone\u003cp\u003eYea, that make it right, it doesn't kill them.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; I don't really understand the popular mindset now that education should be done entirely without touching your kid.\u003cp\u003eAnd I don't understand the old mindset that think teaching a lesson requires physical violence.  Discipline doesn't require physical assault, it really doesn't.  The question isn't why not spank; the question is why spank when it's entirely unnecessary.  Why do you want to hit children?  Why do you think you need to? Is it fun to bully and intimidate a child into doing what you want?  Do you need that?","parent":"4160073","id":"4165599"}
{"by":"timdiggerm","time":"1397140216","timestamp":"2014-04-10 14:30:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe you\u0026#x27;re replying to a reasonable person who continued to use Firefox.","parent":"7566242","id":"7566362"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1297940751","timestamp":"2011-02-17 11:05:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes.  And there's no reason you couldn't integrate Hoogle in your editor.","parent":"2223788","id":"2230534"}
{"by":"davidiach","time":"1499419864","timestamp":"2017-07-07 09:31:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is that a one person company?","parent":"14715656","id":"14717137"}
{"by":"7952","time":"1378417542","timestamp":"2013-09-05 21:45:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A political counter-argument is that this program may represent terrible value for money in the long run.  If we are in a security arms race this money neither buys weapons or a defence that can\u0026#x27;t be overcome by opponents simply buying better weapons and defences.\u003cp\u003eThe NSA could have made more of an effort to harden American business and infrastructure to attack.  They could have spent the money on developing intelligence sources who actually work for opponents instead of US telcos.  They could have fixed zero day exploits.\u003cp\u003eWe are rapidly approach a time where oponents will be able to attack completely annonymously.  American infrastructure or buisness could be damanaged and know one ever know who or why.  If that happens cold war tactics will seem hopelessly naive.","parent":"6336944","id":"6337294"}
{"by":"realrocker","time":"1434874728","timestamp":"2015-06-21 08:18:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True there are many who take a job to survive. But I think you are confusing \u0026quot;passion\u0026quot; with motivation. A motivated team member would not sit back while her teammates are passionate about the work.","parent":"9752500","id":"9752666"}
{"by":"Diamons","time":"1447349017","timestamp":"2015-11-12 17:23:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Side question, does anyone actually enjoy running a VPS? Between managing the sites on it, you have to maintain the VPS, keep it up to date, its prone to security bugs and flaws, etc. Am I missing something here? I remember setting up multiple VPSes on Linode \u0026#x2F; DO and it was always a painful process of installing the OS, installing the whole stack, configuring everything, setting up users \u0026#x2F; roles, firewalls, etc.\u003cp\u003eOn top of that, whereas on a shared host i click a button and host a second domain, with a VPS I have to SSH in and manually edit server files.\u003cp\u003eBut everyone always recommends running a VPS so I can\u0026#x27;t help but imagine I\u0026#x27;ve either missed some magical tool that makes running a VPS a snap or it\u0026#x27;s just not a realistic solution for most people.","parent":"10554502","id":"10554526"}
{"by":"endymi0n","time":"1506975661","timestamp":"2017-10-02 20:21:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"JustWatch | Backend, Frontend \u0026amp; System Engineers | Berlin, Germany | INTERNS, VISA, ONSITE, \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.justwatch.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;talent\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.justwatch.com\u0026#x2F;us\u0026#x2F;talent\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re always looking for hungry \u0026amp; curious engineers (from INTERN to senior level) in:\u003cp\u003e- Backend Engineering (Golang, gRPC, Postgres, Aerospike)\u003cp\u003e- Frontend \u0026amp; Hybrid Engineering (Typescript, Angular, Ionic, Cordova)\u003cp\u003e- Team Lead Campaign Technology \u0026#x2F; CRM (Fullstack Go\u0026#x2F;Angular)\u003cp\u003eAbout us:\u003cp\u003e- B2C and B2B products with massive traction in 31 countries\u003cp\u003e- Hard problems, no politics, clear focus, great context - driven by values \u0026amp; excellence\u003cp\u003e- We\u0026#x27;re self-funded, profitable and rather share the company with our employees than with VCs\u003cp\u003eCulture:\u003cp\u003e- an intense learning culture with high degrees of autonomy and room for personal growth\u003cp\u003e- a development philosophy that balances fast hacking with a solid architectural foundation\u003cp\u003e- great mentoring and regular feedback\u003cp\u003e- every two weeks is Dev Day, reserved for automation, simplification and tech talks","parent":"15384262","id":"15387565"}
{"by":"loeschg","time":"1348593037","timestamp":"2012-09-25 17:10:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with this. I can't speak for SF specifically, but a lot of places with high homeless populations have organizations, systems, and resources to help those in need. From my understanding, one of the problems is people outside of the organizations unintentionally undermining the organizations by giving food, handouts, etc. When people receive this sort of help, they don't see a need to go to these organizations that help identify and ideally fix the root issue.\u003cp\u003eFixing the homeless problem is complicated. I don't think that gives you an excuse to do nothing though. I think the app is interesting, and I think could could come from it. I think the effort is better spent focusing on more permanent solutions. Maybe try joining up with a homeless organization and pitching them the idea.","parent":"4571355","id":"4571428"}
{"by":"sixbrx","time":"1378820694","timestamp":"2013-09-10 13:44:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; can I run Erlang code on it efficiently? (This question also disqualifies LLVM\u003cp\u003eAre you saying LLVM can\u0026#x27;t be used to efficiently implement Erlang-style processes\u0026#x2F;tasks?  I thought Rust was aiming to be able to handle a large number of lightweight tasks, and its based on LLVM?","parent":"6359188","id":"6359948"}
{"by":"sogen","time":"1489221520","timestamp":"2017-03-11 08:38:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Indeed, \u0026quot;great\u0026quot; story, it sticks with you. Read it a long time ago and that ending...","parent":"13844395","id":"13844800"}
{"by":"noddy1","time":"1506140814","timestamp":"2017-09-23 04:26:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you spend most of your time in USA if you are not a citizen?  Who wants to live in lebanon?","parent":"15318028","id":"15318108"}
{"by":"blowski","time":"1483185929","timestamp":"2016-12-31 12:05:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This article is always relevant. There is always an expert telling people to do something a certain way because reasons, despite zero evidence for those reasons.","parent":"13290524","id":"13290698"}
{"by":"gaius","time":"1255792392","timestamp":"2009-10-17 15:13:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"C# is a descendant of Delphi and WFC. I don't know if Gosling and Hejlsberg have even met!","parent":"886861","id":"887011"}
{"by":"einhverfr","time":"1343865701","timestamp":"2012-08-02 00:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Generating small amounts of hydrogen is easy.  Generating it fast enough to support a flame is a bit harder.  Hence acid and magnesium.","parent":"4322650","id":"4326457"}
{"by":"ars_technician","time":"1386714403","timestamp":"2013-12-10 22:26:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Cars are analogous.\u003cp\u003eNo they aren\u0026#x27;t. Many people need a car every day. Almost nobody needs a plane every day.","parent":"6884239","id":"6884263"}
{"by":"makmanalp","time":"1474997091","timestamp":"2016-09-27 17:24:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get especially mad when people suggest that there are some ideas that are just special, that only special people can get. Pointers and recursion are at the top of this list.\u003cp\u003eTake Joel Spolsky, a person whose ideas I read and respect: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;GuerrillaInterviewing3.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;articles\u0026#x2F;GuerrillaInterviewing...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; For some reason most people seem to be born without the part of the brain that understands pointers. Pointers require a complex form of doubly-indirected thinking that some people just can’t do\u003cp\u003eReally? Here\u0026#x27;s my 20 dollar challenge: give me a person and I can teach them pointers. Pointers, referencing and dereferencing, null pointers, pointers to pointers, the whole deal.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is the pedagogy. Learning a new abstraction and a new way of thinking takes \u003ci\u003etime\u003c/i\u003e. It\u0026#x27;s easy to get it but really not \u0026#x2F;get\u0026#x2F; it. You have to do a lot of examples. One on one with a person, with real time feedback. Until they internalize it. Many many many simple examples at first, and then examples of using it in a real world context. Then more. If you already know this abstraction, consciously or unconsciously, it\u0026#x27;s impossible to un-know it, and the reaction when someone is struggling is \u0026quot;I explained it as simply as I can and I don\u0026#x27;t know why they still don\u0026#x27;t get it\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s not like that. It\u0026#x27;s like basketball: you can explain how to shoot, but really the student needs to do it, and you comment while they\u0026#x27;re doing it.","parent":"12589473","id":"12591294"}
{"by":"chvid","time":"1483914271","timestamp":"2017-01-08 22:24:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Maybe. But identity politics mixed with big welfare surely is a recipe for disaster.","parent":"13351894","id":"13352425"}
{"by":"jjohns","time":"1332166661","timestamp":"2012-03-19 14:17:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry that wasn't clear. The way it works is pricing is the same for database and app servers, i.e. per cloudlet. HDD is free for the first 1GB. After that, there will be a monthly fee for storage that we have yet to announce. (it will be in line with what storage is currently running in the market)","parent":"3723560","id":"3724001"}
{"by":"MacsHeadroom","time":"1360010275","timestamp":"2013-02-04 20:37:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;In case of major economic turmoil, the value of Bitcoins can drop to zero and stay there permanently.\u003cp\u003eIt really can't. Bitcoin is used in over 100 countries. Economic turmoil in one, or even a few, country will not be sufficient to drop the price to 0.\u003cp\u003eThe system becomes more robust every day. It's essentially a basket currency made of currencies proportional to all the proportion of people which use it in various countries.\u003cp\u003eAfter some more maturity there could not be a more robust currency scheme imaginable.","parent":"5164590","id":"5166945"}
{"by":"dpritchett","time":"1335987223","timestamp":"2012-05-02 19:33:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably node/Backbone JS KLOC vs. iOS Obj-C KLOC.","parent":"3920599","id":"3920733"}
{"by":"kiriakasis","time":"1543917344","timestamp":"2018-12-04 09:55:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also usability, most people just don\u0026#x27;t care enough. (which is reasonable often)","parent":"18596389","id":"18597975"}
{"by":"XJOKOLAT","time":"1536953218","timestamp":"2018-09-14 19:26:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LOL!","parent":"17989814","dead":true,"id":"17990133"}
{"by":"bpatrianakos","time":"1359932879","timestamp":"2013-02-03 23:07:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's funny you mention that because I'm working on it now. Maybe it's not exactly what you're looking for but it might be close. It's \u003ca href=\"https://writeapp.me\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://writeapp.me\u003c/a\u003e Before (or if) you check it out please know that this started out as another distraction-free writing tool but through my own use and how I see my users using it, it's evolving more into a writing platform with a web client, mobile client, a Sublime Text 2 plugin that posts to the site, posts by SMS and email, and I'm working on a Rubygem right now that'll do exactly what you're describing from the command line. I'm not trying to self promote or steal the OP's thunder here, I just got excited when you mentioned this because it made me feel like what I'm working towards is validated.","parent":"5161574","id":"5161607"}
{"by":"jamieknght","time":"1274647031","timestamp":"2010-05-23 20:37:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hiya,\u003cp\u003eThanks for the comment, i see your point completely and i agree it depends what hats you a wearing. I think the overal point i am making is that on some projects, for some clients one man band types can tend to loose focus on the end goal and end up building great technical builds, which are not suitible for the end client.\u003cp\u003eI expect how i see my role and what i do (as both a developer, and designer and with many other hats :D) will evolve as time goes on.\u003cp\u003eThanks for your comment and i hope that explains a bit about where i am coming from.\u003cp\u003echeers,\u003cp\u003eJamie \u0026#38; Lion","parent":"1372920","id":"1372951"}
{"by":"zip1234","time":"1494277297","timestamp":"2017-05-08 21:01:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Randomly put a guy in 1\u0026#x2F;5 trucks but make the guy not visible. Loudly state on the outside of the trucks that many trucks are manned. Criminals have no way of knowing which trucks have people and which don\u0026#x27;t.","parent":"14294833","id":"14295562"}
{"by":"icebraining","time":"1405443143","timestamp":"2014-07-15 16:52:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It might or might not require an OS; you can implement the hardware access code directly into the program.","parent":"8037461","id":"8037529"}
{"by":"mhlakhani","time":"1314379811","timestamp":"2011-08-26 17:30:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't know about the others, but I think the bug bounty is a good idea. I mostly went over the code so I could learn something about good C coding conventions. Plus I wanted to try out tarsnap without having to go through the hassle of getting access to a credit card; the bug bounty is pretty helpful for that use case.","parent":"2927914","id":"2929169"}
{"by":"Gormo","time":"1276890837","timestamp":"2010-06-18 19:53:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think there is a difference between \"complex\" and \"complicated\".  It might require more effort to delve into the details of complexity, but to the extent that you can recognize where the effort needs to be applied to develop a reliable understanding, it's not \"complicated\" in the sense of being incomprehensible.\u003cp\u003eThe author mentioned that \"normal\" people will often presume that someone who \u003ci\u003esounds\u003c/i\u003e complicated is smart, but I've seen the converse bias among smart people: they expect things to make sense, so when an explanation seems too convoluted, they tend to dismiss it as bullshit.","parent":"1441642","id":"1443406"}
{"by":"zher","time":"1338782107","timestamp":"2012-06-04 03:55:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"thanks for catching that!","parent":"4062562","id":"4062611"}
{"by":"caf","time":"1365202591","timestamp":"2013-04-05 22:56:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eLimits are often good things, especially when it stretches creator and player alike to imagine things outside the boundaries.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerry Pratchett said something similar about writing - that the best stories turn on limitations.","parent":"5501493","id":"5501554"}
{"by":"jgoewert","time":"1421350674","timestamp":"2015-01-15 19:37:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hardly delusional and seriously un-fun when you are on the receiving end.\u003cp\u003eWhen my son was 6-ish and my daughter around 1 years old, we got a visit from DFS(like CPS). This was 8 years ago and the amount of rage it brings up in me is immense. Being immediately threatened with your child being taken away for refusing to do ANYTHING that they ask is ridiculous. I\u0026#x27;m sure it is there to be able to have some power over the deadbeats, but when you think you are a normal family doing nothing wrong, it is pure rage inducing.\u003cp\u003eThey tour your entire house. They check your fridge and food preparation areas. They check your yard. They interview your kids wherever they are. So if it is at school, guess what, they school now thinks you are a craptastic parent because only some shithole would have DFS called out on them. Of course, that rumor-mill then goes full force. We were never treated the same by anyone at the school ever again. Our kids never got invited to any more parties. No one there ever wanted to set up play dates anymore.\u003cp\u003eWhen the DFS agent finally gets around to telling you the reason for the visit, it is an anonymous complaint. That\u0026#x27;s right. Anonymous, even if you are proven to be completely not in violation and it is some crackpot calling them up to report you, you will never find out who that person is.\u003cp\u003eOurs was anecdotes and funny stories we had told some neighbors. Like the time that our son took off his dirty diaper and painted a wall with it, including behind a shelf that he put back and we didn\u0026#x27;t notice for a month and as such hadn\u0026#x27;t cleaned until then.\u003cp\u003eYeah. Our life got seriously messed up on something we had no way to deter or counteract. Crazy neighbor could call them again anytime and send our lives on a spiral.\u003cp\u003eHit by a meteor. I would have much more preferred that as I would have a chunk of meteorite to sell.","parent":"8894635","id":"8894833"}
{"by":"Androsynth","time":"1360697239","timestamp":"2013-02-12 19:27:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think I we are saying the same thing.\u003cp\u003eI am saying that a transaction is public, not the details.\u003cp\u003eI am also saying that dominos will have that transaction tied to the delivery address. This is not intrinsic to bitcoin, its all done on dominos side as part of delivering a pizza.\u003cp\u003eSo let me try again:\nIf abc transfers bitcoins to xyz, and the FBI knows that xyz is a drug dealer, then it sees that abc transfers bitcoins to DOM, then it can subpeona dominos records and find the address of someone who purchased drugs from xyz.\u003cp\u003eThe assumptions I am making: the FBI knows that xyz is a drug dealer. the FBI knows that DOM is dominos.\u003cp\u003eAre the assumptions wrong? Would the FBI be able to know that?","parent":"5208104","id":"5208862"}
{"by":"crafter","time":"1343901525","timestamp":"2012-08-02 09:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh heck, don't laugh. That's happened to me a couple of times already!","parent":"4327986","id":"4328031"}
{"by":"rahimnathwani","time":"1517194366","timestamp":"2018-01-29 02:52:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The policy seems to me a form of price discrimination (i.e. separating a single market into two or more separate markets, based on the price elasticity of demand of the customers).\u003cp\u003ePeople for whom $10 or $20 isn\u0026#x27;t a big deal, will not bother to check if their flight has gone down in price, so South West gets to charge them the higher price. Others who bother to check a few times get to pay a lower price.\u003cp\u003eIt seems similar to coupons\u0026#x2F;offers in the Safeway app. If you can be bothered to look and add the coupon to your account, you get a discount, but if you\u0026#x27;re rich you don\u0026#x27;t bother, and pay the higher price.","parent":"16254769","id":"16255018"}
{"by":"yachtintransit","time":"1396923548","timestamp":"2014-04-08 02:19:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"its interesting to look at keystone components in mobile.  AFAIK it looks as though identity is the predominant keystone API . if you own identity then you are leveraged across both mobile apps and web.","parent":"7550274","id":"7551066"}
{"by":"sebastianhoitz","time":"1335954223","timestamp":"2012-05-02 10:23:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, that's not necessarilty true.\u003cp\u003eMaybe for editing a textarea with rich formatting.\u003cp\u003eBut ShareJS supports much more than that. You can sync custom objects etc. Look at their examples!","parent":"3918270","id":"3918333"}
{"by":"MicahWedemeyer","time":"1296664397","timestamp":"2011-02-02 16:33:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Agree 100%. It's really none of your customers' business how much it costs you to run or do things. If people are complaining to you that you're charging for things that are cheap (ie. \"that's only a record in a database\" or \"google does it for free\") then those aren't the customers you want.\u003cp\u003eSometimes it's right to charge for something that took you 1 minute to write, and sometimes it's right to give away a feature that took weeks of development. It all comes down to what makes the most sense for your business.","parent":"2170531","id":"2170820"}
{"by":"shawn","time":"1533691448","timestamp":"2018-08-08 01:24:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s because args to syscalls are passed in registers rather than the stack. This is a security mechanism I believe, but I’m mostly guessing based on xv6.\u003cp\u003eBasically, if you want a kernel space and a user space, you have to ensure users can’t breach kernel space. But this is the part where my logic runs dry: could a malicious caller control the return address that’s pushed to the stack? If so, could you redirect the kernel’s execution to an arbitrary physical address? Or does the kernel switch back into user mode just before calling RET?\u003cp\u003eSigh... time to re-read xv6. I think interrupts are involved.","parent":"17712350","id":"17712465"}
{"by":"drakeballew","time":"1414109528","timestamp":"2014-10-24 00:12:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a working translation of Zuck\u0026#x27;s Q\u0026amp;A at Tsinghua. Hope it helps those of you who are curious about what was said!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/unbabel-news/b4cb8f223df2\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;unbabel-news\u0026#x2F;b4cb8f223df2\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8495067","id":"8501454"}
{"by":"sixothree","time":"1520294198","timestamp":"2018-03-05 23:56:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I received a MoviePass as a Christmas give. I\u0026#x27;ve learned a few things.\u003cp\u003e1. I hadn\u0026#x27;t been to my local theaters in a long time.\u003cp\u003e2. I was surprised just how convenient it had become now that nobody else is visiting.\u003cp\u003e3. I am thoroughly enjoying this movie subscription service model combined with the lack of crowds at theaters.","parent":"16525644","id":"16525715"}
{"by":"jeffreyrogers","time":"1441647760","timestamp":"2015-09-07 17:42:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t look like anyone has really answered your question yet.\u003cp\u003eThere are three main reasons the kernel is slow for networking: per-packet dynamic memory allocation, lots of memory copying, and system call overheads.\u003cp\u003eThe first two can be improved by modifying the kernel, and I think people are attempting to do this. The system call overheads arise naturally from having the networking code in the kernel. Basically every time you perform a system call the kernel has to save the userspace context, do the system call, and restore the context. This takes time and is bad for cache locality.\u003cp\u003eBut as others noted, for most people who aren\u0026#x27;t cloudflare this doesn\u0026#x27;t really matter.","parent":"10181318","id":"10182280"}
{"by":"aristidb","time":"1367268443","timestamp":"2013-04-29 20:47:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your suspicion is likely wrong.","parent":"5628595","id":"5628627"}
{"by":"mminer","time":"1320115811","timestamp":"2011-11-01 02:50:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The game is decently fun, but it was the art that sold me. The voxel style looks like one of those themes that developers rocking a low budget can pull off beautifully.","parent":"3178802","id":"3180368"}
{"by":"bdcravens","time":"1435176689","timestamp":"2015-06-24 20:11:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These articles don\u0026#x27;t tell you about the 30-somethings that burned their life savings chasing an idea and not getting the same result. Ultimately, the narrative that success is directly the result of hustle isn\u0026#x27;t necessarily true.","parent":"9773780","id":"9774176"}
{"by":"msie","time":"1464226295","timestamp":"2016-05-26 01:31:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The professor should be held responsible for letting the cheaters get away with it. Not that hard to find cheaters in a programming class if he\u0026#x2F;she cared.","parent":"11774465","id":"11774595"}
{"by":"oculusthrift","time":"1485110427","timestamp":"2017-01-22 18:40:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"they\u0026#x27;ve never cared about the \u0026quot;free market\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;big government\u0026quot;. it\u0026#x27;s always been about whatever argument works best in the moment to help wealthy donors and destroy the planet the fastest with global warming.","parent":"13456219","id":"13456451"}
{"by":"ryandrake","time":"1485794127","timestamp":"2017-01-30 16:35:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. Unemployment nubmers do not adequately count the number of people unemployed.\u003cp\u003e2. The people who show up are not necessarily unemployed.","parent":"13521903","id":"13522586"}
{"by":"themanual","time":"1239979824","timestamp":"2009-04-17 14:50:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So many exciting things happening in the world. Try and keep up :)\u003cp\u003eThe churn rate is fine!!","parent":"566752","id":"567021"}
{"by":"dsatrg","time":"1344947806","timestamp":"2012-08-14 12:36:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I get the impression that section was very much from the authors view.\u003cp\u003eWhilst I know nothing of bringing up a child with such a condition I do know other close to me that have had to care for someone full time. And to be frank most of the time they would have looked \"astonished\" by such a question but take the opportunity to discus the matter, see what can be done to help the situation (in case close to me, such a conversation lead to them having a outside help every once in while so the carer could have a break).","parent":"4379052","id":"4380553"}
{"by":"jlgaddis","time":"1507542683","timestamp":"2017-10-09 09:51:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, I\u0026#x27;m well aware that FIPS -- or any other certification program, actually -- isn\u0026#x27;t a panacea.  There were issues found with the RNG in some country\u0026#x27;s national ID cards (smart cards) as well; the RNG had also achieved FIPS 140-2 validation.\u003cp\u003eAll things being equal, though, I would still be inclined to have a little more trust in something that has been through the process than I would in, say, the homebrew RNG [0?] used by Honest Achmed\u0026#x27;s Used Cars and Certificates.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;221\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xkcd.com\u0026#x2F;221\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"15431874","id":"15432559"}
{"by":"fsloth","time":"1523628866","timestamp":"2018-04-13 14:14:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, are we disagreeing on some point? Maybe I missed something.\u003cp\u003eWe both agree that the western society consumes too much, and in the part of my comment which you extracted I included myself explicitly in the group of people who consume too much. I am having sympathy for people who consume too much and don\u0026#x27;t change their ways. I\u0026#x27;m the first person I have sympathy for in this as I\u0026#x27;m preoccupied by other stuff than my lifestyle choices at the moment.\u003cp\u003eI did not denigrate the people who consume too much, merely the habit of consumption.\u003cp\u003eThe actor and the behavior are two different things. Merely behaving in a bad way does not make the person bad. It merely means they have something to improve in their personal conduct.\u003cp\u003eCalling stuff people consume \u0026quot;crap\u0026quot; is not the same thing as insulting people. Although, western commercialism has done a great effort in trying to tie persons self worth to their consumer habits.\u003cp\u003eThis psychological link is also crap.","parent":"16829975","id":"16830165"}
{"by":"devilshaircut","time":"1397165580","timestamp":"2014-04-10 21:33:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is my limited understanding that the idea of \u0026quot;a different photon\u0026quot; would be sort of irrelevant here as quantum state is the only thing that differentiates objects such as photons from one another. Outside of that, photons are essentially fungible. I don\u0026#x27;t really understand the finer points of the experiment however and I could be totally wrong in my understanding.","parent":"7569264","id":"7569873"}
{"by":"yannisp","time":"1383703735","timestamp":"2013-11-06 02:08:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IIRC it\u0026#x27;s actually financing with a balloon payment (with no risk since they\u0026#x27;re not the lenders), with an option for buyback. That liability of buying back should be somewhere in the books, either accrued or entered in full.","parent":"6679863","id":"6680060"}
{"by":"shmerl","time":"1417558886","timestamp":"2014-12-02 22:21:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Some related comments: \u003ca href=\"https://xiphmont.livejournal.com/63490.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;xiphmont.livejournal.com\u0026#x2F;63490.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8689231","id":"8690390"}
{"by":"Gustomaximus","time":"1362630572","timestamp":"2013-03-07 04:29:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an extreme example which lacks any depth of insight. It would be like me arguing; why don't governments print loads more money and we will all be rich as my reason they should not print anymore than we have today.\u003cp\u003eTo stay on the money analogy; we want governments to print THE RIGHT amount of money. If they print too little the economy will suffer just as much as if they print too much. This is the same as a minimum wage. If it is too low it damages things like consumption and quality of life. Too much and it is damaging competitiveness etc.\u003cp\u003eI would suggest the best answer to this whole debate is in empirical data. Look at countries that have similar economies low AND high minimum wages and see what works best on the majority of case.\u003cp\u003eAlso personal views weight this argument. My lean on this is argument is that a country should be run to give the largest amount of people the best quality of life possible. If you have no problem with a large poor/rich gap you could easily argue to keep minimum wage down.\u003cp\u003eAlso Germany doesn't have a minimum wage but has legally enforced collective bargaining. Companies don't just pay what they think people are worth. Your example is not really givings the full story by pointing out there is no statutory minimum wage. Their government has employed a different system to ensure wage levels meet workers needs and is nothing like giving companies carte blanche to pay poverty wages.","parent":"5334136","id":"5336086"}
{"by":"kreneskyp","time":"1290478836","timestamp":"2010-11-23 02:20:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You would still be in the secure area.  The problem is that coming from an international flight you wouldn't necessarily be groped for explosives.\u003cp\u003eIt's a good assumption that if they have explosives on a plane flying over the US, they are going to use it before they land.","parent":"1932016","id":"1932238"}
{"by":"darkarmani","time":"1396474335","timestamp":"2014-04-02 21:32:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anaconda is a meta-package with exact versions of packages that work well together.  Any packages that are listed in Anaconda will be set to those exact versions (upgraded or downgraded).","parent":"7518588","id":"7519201"}
{"by":"nburger","time":"1395329201","timestamp":"2014-03-20 15:26:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good stuff.  Take a look at Fabric for another (and very commonly-used) example of Python wrapping SSH: \u003ca href=\"http://docs.fabfile.org\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;docs.fabfile.org\u003c/a\u003e.  Also you might look to Paramiko for a native SSH implementation: \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;paramiko\u0026#x2F;paramiko\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"7435707","id":"7436096"}
{"by":"le_clochard","time":"1438229569","timestamp":"2015-07-30 04:12:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was Resolver One, which apparently got acquired by PythonAnywhere, which allowed Python scripted spreadsheets. It was AWESOME when I tried it, but tad too slow and no takers in the office because spreadsheets get passed around and need to be verified\u0026#x2F;rerun by people who do not know any programming. Even VBA at times.\u003cp\u003eTheir OSS version is apparently still available at \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;pythonanywhere\u0026#x2F;dirigible-spreadsheet\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;pythonanywhere\u0026#x2F;dirigible-spreadsheet\u003c/a\u003e (haven\u0026#x27;t tried it.)","parent":"9969890","id":"9973139"}
{"by":"lobster_johnson","time":"1492129672","timestamp":"2017-04-14 00:27:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Note that NATS is currently pub\u0026#x2F;sub, which is a \u0026quot;if a tree falls in the forest\u0026quot; situation. Messages don\u0026#x27;t go anywhere if nobody is subscribing.\u003cp\u003eSo it\u0026#x27;s awesome for realtime firehose-type use cases where a websocket client connects, receives messages (every client gets all the messages, although NATS also supports load-balanced fanout) for a while, then eventually disconnects.\u003cp\u003eNATS is ridiculously fast [1], too.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s an add-on currently in beta, NATS Streaming [1], which  [2] has durability, acking\u0026#x2F;redelivery and replay, so covers most of what you get from both RabbitMQ and Kafka. It looks very promising.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bravenewgeek.com\u0026#x2F;tag\u0026#x2F;nats\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;bravenewgeek.com\u0026#x2F;tag\u0026#x2F;nats\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nats.io\u0026#x2F;documentation\u0026#x2F;streaming\u0026#x2F;nats-streaming-intro\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;nats.io\u0026#x2F;documentation\u0026#x2F;streaming\u0026#x2F;nats-streaming-intro...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14111806","id":"14111856"}
{"by":"thrwawayask","time":"1469623697","timestamp":"2016-07-27 12:48:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hi, newbie sec researcher here. Just wanna ask, how do we actually \u003ci\u003eask\u003c/i\u003e for a bounty considering that sometimes the severity of the breach is BIG (this, Shell Access, etc).\u003cp\u003eI really don\u0026#x27;t wanna ask the companies for money but it just seem so... underwhelming for me. (3 out of 3 rather big companies just gave some thanks)","parent":"12171659","id":"12172276"}
{"by":"stevenmiller888","time":"1443218431","timestamp":"2015-09-25 22:00:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whoops, I\u0026#x27;m sorry about that :(\u003cp\u003eI only recently became active on here. Thanks for the link! Will definitely get up to speed on how things work here :)","parent":"10280918","id":"10280976"}
{"by":"gte910h","time":"1352709347","timestamp":"2012-11-12 08:35:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do not understand why people upgrade OSes very quickly.\u003cp\u003eThere are always bumps for the first few months.","parent":"4771887","id":"4772044"}
{"by":"codezero","time":"1434657512","timestamp":"2015-06-18 19:58:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hah, nice :)\u003cp\u003eAlso, this parameter used to (maybe still does) set a cookie so that you can browse around the rest of your session without worrying about a sign up modal.","parent":"9740708","id":"9741244"}
{"by":"bonoetmalo","time":"1518555452","timestamp":"2018-02-13 20:57:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are many elements of ethics unique to software developers, that should be taught outside of a basic ethics course","parent":"16370305","id":"16370696"}
{"by":"mrb","time":"1331859068","timestamp":"2012-03-16 00:51:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If there is 1 fluorescent light strip (~20W) over every 2 rack cabinets (~10kW), that's only 0.2% of the power consumption dedicated to lighting. Saving this, is far from being \"hugely more energy-saving\".","parent":"3711245","id":"3711403"}
{"by":"exelius","time":"1425324369","timestamp":"2015-03-02 19:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right; I meant only that cost has no bearing on the price set by the company. The two things you mentioned (competitive landscape and demand forecasts) are both ways of measuring the market.\u003cp\u003eMarginal cost only plays into the equation when the marginal cost of the product is higher than the maximum price\u0026#x2F;pricing structure the market is willing to bear over the time horizon you\u0026#x27;re considering. Amazon just has a longer time horizon than most companies.","parent":"9133320","id":"9133745"}
{"by":"mikeknoop","time":"1289980477","timestamp":"2010-11-17 07:54:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you misread my tone... I was not answering the OP, I was asking a general question to the rest of HN.\u003cp\u003eAll I asked for was validation or non-validation on the method I mentioned. Is it true or not?","parent":"1913326","id":"1913374"}
{"by":"rohern","time":"1363569860","timestamp":"2013-03-18 01:24:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are probably a wonderful person to work with and any team is really lucky to have you. Having someone who is deeply passionate about these problems is very important and these are important problems!","parent":"5391351","id":"5391867"}
{"by":"asdsa5325","time":"1521846889","timestamp":"2018-03-23 23:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you know what passive aggressive means?","parent":"16662195","id":"16663486"}
{"by":"nomad543","time":"1525351639","timestamp":"2018-05-03 12:47:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So I signed up to Mapbox, I wonder how the free tier works. I didn\u0026#x27;t enter any billing details, so what will happen if I reach the 50,000 calls within a month, will it stop working or will I be invoiced later for the calls over 50,000?","parent":"16980166","id":"16985457"}
{"by":"im3w1l","time":"1391725744","timestamp":"2014-02-06 22:29:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So let\u0026#x27;s skip the discussion about how much data is \u003ci\u003ea lot\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eAround which dataset sizes are which methods appropriate?","parent":"7193268","id":"7193351"}
{"by":"Vanit","time":"1493364456","timestamp":"2017-04-28 07:27:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Anniversary remake is worth checking out if you haven\u0026#x27;t already :)","parent":"14186528","id":"14217532"}
{"by":"kirchhoff","time":"1320983773","timestamp":"2011-11-11 03:56:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Working on that right now!","parent":"3216531","id":"3223315"}
{"by":"taneq","time":"1472622361","timestamp":"2016-08-31 05:46:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was pissed enough about it to write my own Android app for it (I\u0026#x27;d been meaning to play with Android dev for a while). It covers the basics (notifications, music player control, install\u0026#x2F;uninstall apps and watchfaces) but I never got around to more advanced stuff (Phone app integration, phone-side JS, interpreting the streaming data etc.) and they stopped documenting new features sometime around the release of 3.0 so no health integration.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been meaning to tidy it up and post it somewhere, maybe this will give me some motivation.","parent":"12396129","id":"12396266"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1313685459","timestamp":"2011-08-18 16:37:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Big-O tells you the behavior of your running time as the dataset increases. It does not tell you what parts of your program are actually fast or slow. For example, an O(n^n) algorithm is actually fine if it will never be applied to more than six elements and each operation takes two microseconds, and is vastly better for that case than an O(1) algorithm that takes half a second.","parent":"2899772","id":"2899884"}
{"by":"siromega","time":"1314651820","timestamp":"2011-08-29 21:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The simple answer is that MS had to add all those buttons in the ribbon to make the UI more touch friendly. You cant right click on a tablet with your finger.","parent":"2938271","id":"2938981"}
{"by":"kirankn","time":"1505193411","timestamp":"2017-09-12 05:16:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Real Heroes!","parent":"15220136","id":"15224974"}
{"by":"riffraff","time":"1466767848","timestamp":"2016-06-24 11:30:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"well, you can be done with the EU, but you can\u0026#x27;t really move a country outside of the european area.\u003cp\u003eYou can avoid TV though, it\u0026#x27;s really quite simple to do.","parent":"11968525","id":"11968877"}
{"by":"knackers","time":"1394662463","timestamp":"2014-03-12 22:14:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Loved the \u0026#x27;artwork\u0026#x27;. Simple but immediately familiar. Like some other commenters, I felt that sometimes my jumps weren\u0026#x27;t being registered.","parent":"7386672","id":"7388750"}
{"by":"DannyBee","time":"1547343227","timestamp":"2019-01-13 01:33:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"(This paper gets rediscovered by HN every so often, there are interesting discussions on past threads)\u003cp\u003eWhile Appel is definitely a smart guy (he\u0026#x27;s been working in the field for a very long time), this is kind of the limit of taking something that was done to be eminently practical reasons and trying to turn it into a theoretical masterpiece.\nIn the time period in which he did it, he did it because SSA was super-popular and he was trying to repopularize functional programming, AFAICT. \nNote also: The functional guys never proved anything about any of the time bounds\u0026#x2F;etc below - because that was never their goal.\u003cp\u003eSSA was created and thought about for a simple reason: To make dataflow problems faster in compilers.\u003cp\u003eSo saying they are doing exactly the same thing is also a bit silly in the sense that one of them is trying to make compilers faster, and don\u0026#x27;t actually care how they do it - if they could wave a wand, they would have.  The other group had very very different goals.  They wouldn\u0026#x27;t have particularly cared if you could make the compilers faster, they were trying to make programming better.\n(This is a rough generalization, of course).\u003cp\u003eZadeck[1] certainly understood SSA was functional, they just didn\u0026#x27;t really care, it wasn\u0026#x27;t particularly relevant to interests :)\u003cp\u003eThe analogy also breaks down really heavily once you start to extend SSA.\u003cp\u003eThis is why SSA and other things went in the direction they did afterwards - extensions towards faster\u0026#x2F;better dataflow.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s worth understanding a little history (which i am going to do off the top of my head and probably get a few details wrong - sorry. I\u0026#x27;m also going to generalize a little bit, because it\u0026#x27;s hard to summarize an entire field\u0026#x27;s development in a few paragraphs)\u003cp\u003eIn the 70\u0026#x27;s, we had a problem. We had discovered and built generalized frameworks for analysis of programs[2]: General bitvector dataflow (which was what was done in the 70\u0026#x27;s and early eighties) has proven timebounds, and they are not good.  It was being worked on by some of the smartest people i\u0026#x27;ve ever had the honor of meeting (Aho, Ullman, Allen, Tarjan, Kennedy, etc).\u003cp\u003eFor general dataflow problems, those timebounds are N^3[3].\nYou can prove that, the way it was done, if you could solve it faster, you get yourself a faster algorithm for transitive closure\u0026#x2F;boolean matrix multiplication.  That\u0026#x27;s the point at which practical people tend to go \u0026quot;well shit we\u0026#x27;re screwed\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThen some of these folks proved that a class of dataflow problems (which included a lot people wanted to do) known as RAPID problems could be solved in linear number of steps.  This brought overall time to N^2 for those problems.  These are the analysis\u0026#x2F;optimization you generally saw in compilers for many years until SSA took over.  N^2 was somewhat fine because of the state of the kinds of programs being compiled and the limitations people were willing to accept in things like \u0026quot;number of variables allowed per function\u0026quot; at the time.\u003cp\u003eAt this point, the world split, with various people going down the path of trying to find more general frameworks that expand that class of problems, others sticking with rapid problems, and a small number going off and trying ways that looked different from the way current dataflow problems were done.\u003cp\u003eZadeck (who created that part of SSA) is arguably in the latter category. His thesis was on partitioned variable approaches, which are basically \u0026quot;instead of one large dataflow graph, make one per variable that can be computed faster\u0026quot;[4].\u003cp\u003eThis is the essence of SSA, and interestingly is not constrained by the bitvector time bound i gave you above (he told me he basically had to argue about this to everyone he ever met because they wouldn\u0026#x27;t believe it).\u003cp\u003eWhich brings us back around to why SSA exists:\nTo take classes of problems that were constrained by the proven time bounds of bitvector dataflow, making them N^2 overall (or worse), unconstrain them by enabling sparse formulations that could be done in linear time.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s it.\u003cp\u003eThere were other attempts outside of SSA, that did not involve actual renaming forms, SSA just caught on because it was simple and handled the stuff people wanted to do at the time (IMHO).\u003cp\u003eSSA can be generalized in a way that does this for other classes of problems too:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;homepages.dcc.ufmg.br\u0026#x2F;~fernando\u0026#x2F;classes\u0026#x2F;dcc888\u0026#x2F;readingMat\u0026#x2F;SparseAbstractInterpretation.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;homepages.dcc.ufmg.br\u0026#x2F;~fernando\u0026#x2F;classes\u0026#x2F;dcc888\u0026#x2F;readi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e(There are also sparse evaluation graphs, but they are slower and don\u0026#x27;t generalize as well, as the paper goes into).\u003cp\u003eIn essence: SSA can be shown to be part of a general class of linear time transforms to program representations that make other dataflow analysis\u0026#x2F;optimization linear time.\u003cp\u003eIn the end, it\u0026#x27;s relationship to functional programming is coincidental at best, and in practice, somewhat more tenuous than described here.\u003cp\u003e[1] Full disclosure: He was my officemate at IBM research for a few years.\u003cp\u003e[2] If you\u0026#x27;ve never read up on Frances Allen, she\u0026#x27;s amazing and basically created the field of automatic program optimization. As she would tell you, it builds on a lot of pieces of work of others, but ...\nThe papers she wrote are completely approachable and still relevant today.\u003cp\u003e[3] It is usually referred to by the number of bitvevtor operations in earlier literature, and those are assumed to be constant time because they are for small bitmaps. So it\u0026#x27;s usually listed as N^2.\u003cp\u003e[4] He also hated bitvectors because he is dyslexic, and trying to debug strings of 1s and 0s where the position is important was kind of a nightmare.","parent":"18893494","id":"18894448"}
{"by":"fencepost","time":"1367372794","timestamp":"2013-05-01 01:46:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My take on this is that if I work for, say, the Chicago Tribune as the person responsible for handling a Twitter account (perhaps @ChicagoTribune?), my employer can require me to give them the password for that account.\u003cp\u003eThis does not distress me.\u003cp\u003eThe other significant part, that employers can request account information for accounts \"that the employee uses for business purposes\" but can't \"discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize or threaten to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize an employee for an employee's refusal to disclose\" I see as mostly placing requirements on employers: \u003ci\u003eMake sure your staff is not becoming the \"face\" of your brand with their personal accounts.\u003c/i\u003e","parent":"5634632","id":"5636002"}
{"by":"cableshaft","time":"1485884590","timestamp":"2017-01-31 17:43:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By having an immediate boss that\u0026#x27;s very nice, knowledgeable about tech, and flexible, and gotten lucky about hiring a pretty solid group of employees.\u003cp\u003eBut that only goes so far. The money isn\u0026#x27;t really where I want to be, the work isn\u0026#x27;t too interesting anymore, and I don\u0026#x27;t see much room for advancement, so I\u0026#x27;m not sure how much longer I\u0026#x27;ll stay here.\u003cp\u003eCompany vision and mission statements mean very little to me, since they\u0026#x27;re almost always meaningless crap to put on a letterhead and not much more.\u003cp\u003eOh, also my commute is just over 15 minutes. That\u0026#x27;s nice too. I can stop by the house for lunch sometimes and see my puppy. So that helps.","parent":"13532838","id":"13533033"}
{"by":"bonzini","time":"1473766748","timestamp":"2016-09-13 11:39:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I use ~50 bytes of pre-compiled code so that it\u0026#x27;ll compile anywhere. To do that, I have to mark the block R|X.\u003cp\u003eMemory is cheap; mmap 4K of R|W RAM, copy the code, and mprotect it to R|X.","parent":"12485635","id":"12487131"}
{"by":"yawl","time":"1204062889","timestamp":"2008-02-26 21:54:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I use Weka in my project. Btw, there is a book about Weka: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"124085","id":"124190"}
{"by":"joshu","time":"1298678903","timestamp":"2011-02-26 00:08:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a good idea.","parent":"2264284","id":"2264344"}
{"by":"T_S_","time":"1290450430","timestamp":"2010-11-22 18:27:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One often thinks of the word \"I\" when one stumbles upon Martha Stewart on television. The rate at which she uses the word is remarkable. One can't help but believe its uses is intentional or at least consistent with her marketing strategy. Has anyone else noticed this? Or, are we being overly sensitive as we quickly change the channel, resolving to use the word less often than Martha?","parent":"1929585","id":"1930773"}
{"by":"bsvalley","time":"1484805045","timestamp":"2017-01-19 05:50:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry for this very generic message but here\u0026#x27;s the rule of thumb in tech for 2017. Especially in Silicon Valley:\u003cp\u003e- Be as young as possible (young people work with young\u0026#x2F;younger people)\u003cp\u003e- Don\u0026#x27;t work remotely (too many local people now your employer will replace you)\u003cp\u003e- Don\u0026#x27;t be outdated (a new fresh out of college will be up to date, you won\u0026#x27;t because of your daily job)\u003cp\u003e- Associate yourself with the hottest stuff out there (It\u0026#x27;s never too late, build something on your own and show it)","parent":"13432638","id":"13433382"}
{"by":"slipwalker","time":"1528466460","timestamp":"2018-06-08 14:01:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"[0A] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;allura.apache.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;allura.apache.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e \nfor those of us willing to run a self-hosted alternative...","parent":"17252873","id":"17265429"}
{"by":"davepm","time":"1300537285","timestamp":"2011-03-19 12:21:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"simple, ring vodafone, ask for unlock code, input code, win!\u003cp\u003eyou could also read the FAQ posted to you on the forum you linked.","parent":"2343295","id":"2343408"}
{"by":"wongarsu","time":"1515953277","timestamp":"2018-01-14 18:07:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Copyright doesn\u0026#x27;t apply to names, and the only US trademark for \u0026quot;clippy\u0026quot; is for medical equipment (and thus doesn\u0026#x27;t apply here) [1]. There doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to be any EU trademark for \u0026quot;clippy\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e1: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tmsearch.uspto.gov\u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;showfield?f=toc\u0026amp;state=4805%3Atvdrto.1.1\u0026amp;p_search=searchss\u0026amp;p_L=50\u0026amp;BackReference=\u0026amp;p_plural=yes\u0026amp;p_s_PARA1=\u0026amp;p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA1%24LD\u0026amp;expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2\u0026amp;p_s_PARA2=clippy\u0026amp;p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA2%24COMB\u0026amp;p_op_ALL=AND\u0026amp;a_default=search\u0026amp;a_search=Submit+Query\u0026amp;a_search=Submit+Query\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;tmsearch.uspto.gov\u0026#x2F;bin\u0026#x2F;showfield?f=toc\u0026amp;state=4805%3At...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16144123","id":"16145374"}
{"by":"bruceboughton","time":"1267018011","timestamp":"2010-02-24 13:26:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The original article is down for me but:\u003cp\u003emap/reduce is a functional concept. Google use map/reduce. Google is one of the most used, if not biggest applications, on the planet.","parent":"1147837","id":"1147915"}
{"by":"CyberDildonics","time":"1476805981","timestamp":"2016-10-18 15:53:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u0026quot;why run exactly one unit of the work? why not run a hundredth of that unit to validate the proof?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eBecause it is a solution in search of a problem in many cases?","parent":"12734956","id":"12735651"}
{"by":"jey","time":"1290906526","timestamp":"2010-11-28 01:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, but the problem is that us \u003ci\u003enon-experts\u003c/i\u003e can't tell whether something posted on the arXiv holds water or not. Being posted on the arXiv carries very little signal.\u003cp\u003eDon't get me wrong: I love the arXiv and use it regularly. Long papers can be posted there, get disseminated quickly, and can be downloaded freely. The problem I have is that many people think anything on the arXiv is automatically true -- but there's lots of cranks posting proofs of P ?= NP and etc.\u003cp\u003eYes, the acid test is obviously whether or not it works, but that's why we need to wait for the experts to figure it out and vet it.","parent":"1945931","id":"1946329"}
{"by":"swampthing","time":"1380678614","timestamp":"2013-10-02 01:50:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the cofounders here - feel free to shoot us an email and we\u0026#x27;ll see if we can help you out!  The company formation stuff (which should be done before you issue any notes) will be a little under $700 including third-party fees.","parent":"6479931","id":"6480150"}
{"by":"orbitur","time":"1465042053","timestamp":"2016-06-04 12:07:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It doesn\u0026#x27;t seem like you can even log out anymore inside the iOS Messenger app.  My wife was without her phone a few weeks ago and needed to message someone via FB.\u003cp\u003eI could not find the log out button in iOS Messenger, and the only way to do that seems to be logging in to fb.com and hitting a button there which will deactivate your phone session.","parent":"11834993","id":"11836042"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1220297558","timestamp":"2008-09-01 19:32:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow --- it really did mail me my password.\u003cp\u003eWhy are you storing my raw password? Stop that! Most of your users are using the same password for their Yahoo Mail account, which is effectively their bank account. What you have now is a brand new application which hasn't been reviewed for security that is building a database of bank-account-equivalent passwords, which you will lose entirely to the first person who finds an SQL error on your site.\u003cp\u003eThe convention is for your email address to \u003ci\u003ereset\u003c/i\u003e your password, mailing the new random password or a code that can be used on your site to enter a new password. Unfortunately, the convention you adopted betrays the fact that you're not storing passwords safely to begin with.\u003cp\u003eIf you're using Rails, start with bcrypt-ruby for your passwords. If you're using PHP, try PHPass, which is also bcrypt. Django or Python, try py-bcrypt.\u003cp\u003eNot even your administrators should know what your users passwords are.","parent":"291873","id":"292075"}
{"by":"buro9","time":"1323079993","timestamp":"2011-12-05 10:13:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone who implements this might want to bear in mind that you will have created a very chatty backend based on JSON calls.\u003cp\u003eIt should be fairly obvious that you're quite likely to now have pain points in serialising and deserialising that much JSON.\u003cp\u003eIt seems to me that you now have 2 choices:\u003cp\u003e1) You forget this approach and instead perform REST composition and aggregation by adding a datastore in the composition/aggregation service to reduce the number of calls to the back end.\u003cp\u003e2) You ditch the internal REST services and change to using protocol buffers or something else to remove the JSON bottle neck internally.\u003cp\u003eEither of which will make ql.io redundent.\u003cp\u003eql.io appears to be trying to solve REST as the language of enterprise services, without using a service bus or BPEL to aid with composition or aggregation.\u003cp\u003eI agree there is a problem space here, and whilst I have an immense amount of respect for Subbu (worked on ql.io, authored REST book) I'm unconvinced that this approach is the solution to the problem.","parent":"3311771","id":"3313992"}
{"by":"jlrubin","time":"1489987041","timestamp":"2017-03-20 05:17:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not invoking authority, I\u0026#x27;m invoking independence. Core isn\u0026#x27;t owned or run by Blockstream.","parent":"13911886","id":"13911910"}
{"by":"jedbrown","time":"1348496607","timestamp":"2012-09-24 14:23:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. I don't use Python for this task, but libraries like numpy give you ready access to unboxed arrays. It's becoming common in scientific codes to glue together \"dumb\" numeric components (written in C or Fortran) using Python. Threading granularity is limited in this case due to the GIL, to the point where either \"smarter\" code must be pushed into the compiled language. To keep the \"smart\" code in Python, many projects end up using only MPI for parallelism. This was fine until recently, but with modern memory hierarchies and proliferation of cores within a node, it gives up enough performance to be an issue.\u003cp\u003e2. As I said above, you need to use multiple cores per memory bus to utilize the hardware bandwidth because there is a limited number of outstanding memory requests per core (or hardware thread). Remember that the max bandwidth realized by your application is bounded above by\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  num_pending_requests * payload_per_request / latency\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nindependent of the theoretical bandwidth of the link. Additionally, when you use more hardware threads, you get access to more level 1 caches. On machines with non-inclusive L2/L3, this also means you can fit more in cache.","parent":"4564664","id":"4564804"}
{"by":"guard-of-terra","time":"1360314127","timestamp":"2013-02-08 09:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you ever played computer games you will know:\nHaving one healer you can heal everyone but that healer; Having two healers you can heal just everyone.","parent":"5186292","id":"5186975"}
{"by":"xdwww","time":"1528111083","timestamp":"2018-06-04 11:18:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It was definitely covered in school a decade ago.  These days, it may be supplanted by gender studies.","parent":"17226612","dead":true,"id":"17226682"}
{"by":"semi-extrinsic","time":"1473235404","timestamp":"2016-09-07 08:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t forget the third analog standard: the French SECAM, short for \u0026quot;System Essentially Counter to the American Model\u0026quot;.","parent":"12441261","id":"12441554"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1288676745","timestamp":"2010-11-02 05:45:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My other car is a car.\u003cp\u003eDamn you CDR-coding! selling out our jokes for petty cache.","parent":"1859403","id":"1859409"}
{"by":"gojomo","time":"1334136367","timestamp":"2012-04-11 09:26:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"See similar concerns expressed at: \u003ca href=\"http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/02/26/kathy-sierra-on-gamification-in-education/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/02/26/kathy-sierra-on...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3825977","id":"3826660"}
{"by":"donna","time":"1188497004","timestamp":"2007-08-30 18:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"good debugging... and good hack.. however it's a moot point if one's intention is to only gain points from the Hacker News experience","parent":"48313","id":"48320"}
{"by":"jchook","time":"1369207338","timestamp":"2013-05-22 07:22:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If we relinquish control of our automobiles to a central system, even busy intersections would not require vehicles to slow down or speed up more than ~5 mph to all safely pass through. Just one example of how auto-autos could achieve an unprecedented balance of safety and efficiency.\u003cp\u003eMy question is, how far beneath the current human-driver accident rate will the AI-driver accident rate need to be before you accept that it is a better driver than you?","parent":"5748924","id":"5749348"}
{"by":"itsprofitbaron","time":"1331594792","timestamp":"2012-03-12 23:26:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"IMO, I'd highlight that its actually not their phone number rather its a Twilio number etc which is used to call them up.\u003cp\u003eSo I would change:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  we would give you a number for the other group, and YOU WOULD CALL THEM (not us) TO APOLOGIZE. \n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nTo something like:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  we would give you a number for the other group which does not reveal their actual phone number, and YOU WOULD CALL THEM (not us) TO APOLOGIZE.\n\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThe reason for this, is if users read your company blog it may put them off when/if they read it as, I immediately assumed that their number is be given out which could lead to confusion.","parent":"3695991","id":"3696196"}
{"by":"jokr004","time":"1483021484","timestamp":"2016-12-29 14:24:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You mean..  it\u0026#x27;s not just me?  There\u0026#x27;s someone else who likes Netbeans??  I thought this day would never come!","parent":"13276239","id":"13277394"}
{"by":"jpdoctor","time":"1359476556","timestamp":"2013-01-29 16:22:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; \u003ci\u003eand we aren't worried.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo are you working on designing them out?  Or are you counting on them never giving your AWS account short shrift?","parent":"5134664","id":"5134780"}
{"by":"shostack","time":"1480799892","timestamp":"2016-12-03 21:18:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I might be doing it wrong but it might also be that I\u0026#x27;m on a Nexus 4. When I do that it brings me to Google search but the voice prompt still needs to be activated via tapping the mic button or using the voice command. Is there a way to change that to just immediately activate it?\u003cp\u003eAnd what about from when the screen is off? I have a software home button so can\u0026#x27;t use it until the screen is turned on unfortunately.","parent":"13097472","id":"13097541"}
{"by":"GeneralMayhem","time":"1412267217","timestamp":"2014-10-02 16:26:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NFC is tough because you have to be within about an inch of it  to get a reliable connection. For the use cases of a parking meter or vending machine it works, but for a bus stop or store it becomes yet another thing to stand in line for.","parent":"8401100","id":"8401456"}
{"by":"T-hawk","time":"1374270277","timestamp":"2013-07-19 21:44:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh my gosh, thanks for posting that!  I went to a Montessori school and must have used those, but never knew it was a thing with a name.\u003cp\u003eI \u003ci\u003esee\u003c/i\u003e arithmetic in visual terms like those rods.  Like to add 18 + 12:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  ++++++++++\n  ++\n    ++++++++\n  ++++++++++\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nI actually \u0026quot;see\u0026quot; the numbers fitting together like that spatially to make the sum.  Must have learned this when I was too young to consciously remember, and the most likely way that happened was with these Cuisenaire rods or some such physical objects.  Amazing to suddenly learn now that that\u0026#x27;s a known and defined device.","parent":"6072155","id":"6073159"}
{"by":"projectramo","time":"1465697908","timestamp":"2016-06-12 02:18:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. I wish they had published their list\u003cp\u003e2. The simple metric that might help us understand the value of the list: access to high paying jobs\u003cp\u003e3. From #2, you can derive other properties as corollaries (freedom to travel, settle Etc)","parent":"11886088","id":"11886328"}
{"by":"timcederman","time":"1271709090","timestamp":"2010-04-19 20:31:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Position of result clicked (including ads)\nNumber of result clicks per session (including ads)\n% of sessions with 0 results\n% of sessions with no click-through\netc.","parent":"1276520","id":"1277766"}
{"by":"k__","time":"1444838828","timestamp":"2015-10-14 16:07:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But not on the streets :\\","parent":"10387408","id":"10387416"}
{"by":"giardini","time":"1547583521","timestamp":"2019-01-15 20:18:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No.\u003cp\u003eThere is a gene sequence that women have (men may have it too FWIW) that causes them to be unhappy if their SO isn\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;bringing home the bacon.\u0026quot; Its an old sequence and is not to be tampered with unless you wish to end the relationship. It is somewhat akin to the \u0026quot;you must bring\u0026#x2F;buy\u0026#x2F;provide food on any date\u0026quot; gene, which will also, unless fulfilled, bring any date to an unscheduled premature end.\u003cp\u003eJust an aside: you\u0026#x27;d have to be nuts to quit working to get better at hobbies, unless you\u0026#x27;re very, very good at the hobbies, plan to work (i.e., make money) in those hobbies and can earn as much income.\u003cp\u003eDo your best to spend time in the most highly-valued way you can - then you will not go wrong.","parent":"18905793","id":"18914639"}
{"by":"kelukelugames","time":"1461722098","timestamp":"2016-04-27 01:54:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Are you familiar with the history of feminism?\u003cp\u003eFirst wave and second wave of feminism were both coopted by upper middle class white women. Third wave, the current one, pays some attention to intersectionality, but mainstream feminism doesn\u0026#x27;t challenge the status quo enough. That\u0026#x27;s why there is backlash against Sheryl Sandberg\u0026#x27;s Lean In.\u003cp\u003eA quote from the wiki page: \u0026quot;Black feminism is a school of thought which argues that sexism, class oppression, gender identity and racism are inextricably bound together\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Black_feminism\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Black_feminism\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, people on HN bring up class to derail conversation about race and gender, but that\u0026#x27;s a different can of worms.","parent":"11573291","id":"11577290"}
{"by":"bennofs","time":"1538087093","timestamp":"2018-09-27 22:24:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The big difference between this and \u0026quot;background: #333\u0026quot; is that in the later case it could also be \u0026quot;background: #334\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;background: #435\u0026quot;. The functional framework approach forces a minimal amount of consistency.","parent":"18084254","id":"18089361"}
{"by":"iamwil","time":"1429633228","timestamp":"2015-04-21 16:20:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lightsail.","parent":"9413204","id":"9415109"}
{"by":"nnx","time":"1455958421","timestamp":"2016-02-20 08:53:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"User data stored on an iPhone is encrypted using a key derived from the passcode, so somehow taking apart the NAND chips would not help a bit.","parent":"11139157","id":"11139441"}
{"by":"KGIII","time":"1502826783","timestamp":"2017-08-15 19:53:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, there\u0026#x27;s lots of places where it makes sense, even in your personal finances\u003cp\u003eWhen I sold my company, the financial agency with whom I worked gave me free services with a financial advisor - not the same as a financial manager. It took me a few minutes to get it, but you probably still want to finance a house - even if you can pay cash.\u003cp\u003eYour cash, when invested, can earn more than you\u0026#x27;re spending to service the loan, in some situations,","parent":"15021589","id":"15021722"}
{"by":"laken","time":"1534430848","timestamp":"2018-08-16 14:47:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s quite the accusation for one of the oldest domain registrars.\u003cp\u003eThey are a horrible registrar, don\u0026#x27;t get me wrong, but I wouldn\u0026#x27;t claim it was either fraud or hacking. Most likely a technical error.","parent":"17774850","id":"17775048"}
{"by":"gruseom","time":"1286039909","timestamp":"2010-10-02 17:18:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Is it really? Wow, I hate that line so much I must have selectively misheard it. Sorry!\u003cp\u003eOh actually, now I remember: we got there a few minutes late. I didn't even realize there was an opening dinner scene. The first thing I saw was an upset-looking Z running across campus. Since the credits were still rolling I assumed the movie was beginning in medias res, and it worked fine that way. Who knows, maybe even better that way.","parent":"1750253","id":"1750856"}
{"by":"rootusrootus","time":"1541691036","timestamp":"2018-11-08 15:30:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only because Chevy doesn\u0026#x27;t offer an LR upgrade for the Bolt.  Otherwise it seems like it has more range than a 220-mile Model 3?","parent":"18406677","id":"18406914"}
{"by":"AsyncAwait","time":"1504431841","timestamp":"2017-09-03 09:44:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  Red Hat creating huge mess throughout linux with systemd for years\u003cp\u003eCare to elaborate on the \u0026#x27;mess\u0026#x27; created? I highly doubt you even used it yourself, sounds like something you\u0026#x27;ve heard and are repeating for some cheap karma. The init scripts used before were the real mess, if you ask me. It\u0026#x27;s getting really tiring to hear these systemd rants with no good reasons to back them up. I guess ranting against systemd is the cool thing to do, just like calling Apple users sheep once was, there\u0026#x27;s no need for facts, just hyperbole.","parent":"15160443","id":"15160539"}
{"by":"chc","time":"1497629294","timestamp":"2017-06-16 16:08:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Case law has established that commercial speech is not the same as other speech and is much more prone to restrictions.","parent":"14569837","id":"14570140"}
{"by":"drdaeman","time":"1456234805","timestamp":"2016-02-23 13:40:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; XMPP is dead.\u003cp\u003eWhat makes you think so?","parent":"11158051","id":"11158718"}
{"by":"coleca","time":"1434505702","timestamp":"2015-06-17 01:48:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I believe the EFF and the other consumer groups are grandstanding to get some publicity in this case.  I have listened to almost all of these sessions that the NTIA facilitated, and the company I work for even presented at one of them last year.  I think it\u0026#x27;s important to get some points out which I haven\u0026#x27;t seen in any of the other comments:\u003cp\u003e1. The process led by the NTIA, unlike the bulk of the EFF\u0026#x27;s post, has nothing to do with the government\u0026#x27;s collection and use of facial recognition data.  This process was designed to come up with a voluntary guideline that commercial facial recognition companies could choose to adhere to or not.  I agree that limits need to be set for government uses, but this process from the beginning was never about that.  The NTIA did not have jurisdiction for anything involving the federal government, law enforcement, military, etc.  This is more akin to the voluntary privacy standards that companies on the web will agree to on their own.  Once they do, if they violate their own policy they are subject to sanction by the FTC.  The guidelines coming out of this process were intended to be voluntary, so companies would not have to comply if they didn\u0026#x27;t want to.  However, the idea was that the working group would come up with something that the industry would volunteer for and by doing so give some level of protection to consumers.\u003cp\u003e2. The industry representation was not opposed to opt-in on some scenarios, but they were opposed to mandatory positive opt-in across the board without exception.  There are a number of scenarios where opt-in doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense.  For example, imagine a system that used facial recognition in a retail setting to detect shoplifters and alert management to their presence.  If you had been caught stealing in the store in the past, you would be enrolled into the system by the retailer.  Each person entering the store (as seen on their already existing surveillance systems) would be checked against that database of shoplifters.  How realistic would it be for the retailer to get written opt-in consent from the criminal?\u003cp\u003e3. Previous sessions the consumer advocates had agreed that facial detection was out of scope, but facial recognition and facial analysis were in scope for the guideline.  At the last session, they changed their position and wanted to bring face detection in scope.  The difference being, face detection is just finding a face in an image, like your smartphone does in the camera app vs face recognition which would be finding the identity of a face in a picture (Who is this? or is this Bob?).  Can you imagine getting opt-in consent to draw this little yellow box around the faces in the camera app?\u003cp\u003e4. The NTIA did an outstanding job in an attempt to bring this process together.  They organized the sessions and brought in numerous speakers from both sides (consumer and industry) as well as from the education and research sectors.  We even had representation from Canada that spoke to a similar process they went through there.  The NTIA wasn\u0026#x27;t forcing any standards on anyone, they simply offered their services to organize and facilitate it as they have done in other similar multi-stakeholder initiatives.  The process went on far longer than the NTIA (and any of the participants) had expected, but it was making slow progress.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t know if this process is now dead or not.  I suspect it will go on, just now the consumer groups won\u0026#x27;t have a voice in shaping this (by their own choice), which is a shame.  It\u0026#x27;s also possible that the show of force by the consumer advocates will push the industry to bend more in their favor, either way it would be good for consumers to get some kind of guideline out there.  It could always evolve and be revisited in the future as the technology changes.","parent":"9729179","id":"9729696"}
{"by":"bingaman_","time":"1233381903","timestamp":"2009-01-31 06:05:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Matt from Metafilter did this years ago.","parent":"459226","id":"459268"}
{"by":"gammateam","time":"1544678769","timestamp":"2018-12-13 05:26:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;  a concert is technically a private event\u003cp\u003eI think its technically funny they decided to make that distinction, because like obviously? Although I do see people misinterpreting their rights often times, I guess saying it this way helps steer the discussion","parent":"18668536","id":"18670048"}
{"by":"musha68k","time":"1454128214","timestamp":"2016-01-30 04:30:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Nothing \u0026quot;scales\u0026quot; better than education - the trick is to think \u0026quot;outside of the box\u0026quot; which is also easier said than done..\u003cp\u003eAsking questions that are orthogonal to how we see education today might be a good way to get started:\u003cp\u003eCould school become all-play?\nDo we need \u003ci\u003eteachers\u003c/i\u003e?\nDo we need grades?\u003cp\u003eand so on and so forth...","parent":"10998486","id":"11000499"}
{"by":"fsckin","time":"1383690196","timestamp":"2013-11-05 22:23:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots \u0026lt;10 miles from downtown Detroit are in the $1k range.","parent":"6677517","id":"6678870"}
{"by":"pg_is_a_butt","time":"1480978241","timestamp":"2016-12-05 22:50:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i member.","parent":"13110274","dead":true,"id":"13110570"}
{"by":"rayiner","time":"1433272588","timestamp":"2015-06-02 19:16:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don\u0026#x27;t know how I feel about Stingrays. On one hand, I think if your phone is spewing out all sorts of information about you into the aether, that\u0026#x27;s your problem, not the government\u0026#x27;s. On the other hand, pretending to be a cell tower is an active process, unlike a purely passive device like an aerial camera, and that seems \u0026quot;more search-y\u0026quot; to me.\u003cp\u003eThe solution, of course, is to not have utterly retarded cell phones that blindly trust whatever claims to be a base station.","parent":"9647602","id":"9648260"}
{"by":"emp_","time":"1320967622","timestamp":"2011-11-10 23:27:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Feedback I didn't find in the comments: when you blur the field without actually picking something from the list, it resets even if there is only one option. Examples:\u003cp\u003eType: united states\u003cp\u003eLeave the field, it works\u003cp\u003eType: united states of america\u003cp\u003eLeave the field, it resets","parent":"3220637","id":"3222444"}
{"by":"gtaylor","time":"1370868731","timestamp":"2013-06-10 12:52:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think leaking some of this stuff is one of the most patriotic things you can do, given the subject matter and the government overreach it was meant to expose.\u003cp\u003eIn fact, I wish this happened more often. The population as a whole shows a lot of apathy until something like this happens to stir the coals. Unfortunately, it\u0026#x27;s going to take a lot more than just this to bring about major change.","parent":"5853662","id":"5853970"}
{"by":"goldfeld","time":"1542164915","timestamp":"2018-11-14 03:08:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, far-right thinking is on the rise as of late, so perhaps you\u0026#x27;re right. People outside the US are being deluded into thinking libertarianism will solve economic woes, among other harebrained solutions. Economic woes themselves have a way of messing with people\u0026#x27;s rationality.\u003cp\u003eI was just about to edit that comment to make it more explicit, that the american way of life is the foregone notion, not bending over to the US. People keep bending over to the US, the right-wing of South America has mostly always done that, and what it means is that they think the American Way of doing politics brings prosperity and a good economy. And what I mean by foregone notion is that the current good economy of the US is an illusion. The society is sick and degrading. The economy keeps going strong, apparently. But it can\u0026#x27;t last, because a weak society can\u0026#x27;t make an economy strong, disillusioned young people can\u0026#x27;t keep creating extraordinary value for much longer (5, 10 years?) The economy is still good because of inertia, but something is broken in good old America, what used to work in the golden age of the past century isn\u0026#x27;t holding up well behind the stages, even if the show appears to go on for now.","parent":"18447094","id":"18447150"}
{"by":"jarrett","time":"1361770006","timestamp":"2013-02-25 05:26:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really cool, but using Chrome 25.0.1364.99 on the Mac, the spoilers only de-blur partially, then stop.","parent":"5277442","id":"5277456"}
{"by":"Gibbon1","time":"1545199678","timestamp":"2018-12-19 06:07:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown and came within hours of losing containment. Three Mile Island is on the Susquehanna River which flows into Chesapeake Bay.\u003cp\u003eYour call.","parent":"18713196","id":"18713467"}
{"by":"asd","time":"1402194259","timestamp":"2014-06-08 02:24:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you want lucid dreaming without having to wait for a Gamma Wave Zapper, there is one alternative. Sertraline (Zoloft). I\u0026#x27;ve been on and off of it a few times in the past 10 years for anxiety. After a few weeks of being on it, the lucid dreaming kicks in. Sometimes I wish I could record these dreams and make them into movies. It\u0026#x27;s quite the experience.","parent":"7863499","id":"7863789"}
{"by":"LeonidasXIV","time":"1379176486","timestamp":"2013-09-14 16:34:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a little bit of both. While there exists a fair bit of local pride and each state has its own parliament (Germany is a republic of states, much like the US), the government of the federal republic in Berlin holds most of the power and it\u0026#x27;s not like people from different states are much different (speaking in differences like being German or French). Regional dialects are mostly dead in the cities.","parent":"6386004","id":"6386126"}
{"by":"janjongboom","time":"1422826427","timestamp":"2015-02-01 21:33:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Telenor Digital - \u003ca href=\"http://telenordigital.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;telenordigital.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e - Amsterdam, Netherlands \u0026#x2F; Oslo, Norway - Relocation offered\u003cp\u003eTelenor Digital is the R\u0026amp;D company for Telenor, a telco with $12 billion in revenue and ventures around Europe and Asia. Our team in the CTO office gets to have all the fun: we get to play with amazing emerging technologies, not in the “not going anywhere” pure research way, but instead applying it to projects that make their way into the hands of real customers. We ramp up fast, we fail fast (hopefully learning a thing or two along the way), and we have a lot of fun doing it.\u003cp\u003eProjects we worked on in the past year are launching Firefox OS devices in Bangladesh, working on the WebRTC implementation in Firefox, write patches to improve the graphics stack in Mozilla. We have a great relationship with Mozilla and we submitted hundred of patches in the past year. Most of your code will end up open source.\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026#x27;re doing most of our stuff in JavaScript and C++, but one of our new projects will be in Go, we also do some embedded software, we try to use all the newest tech, and if you get enthusiastic about new technology and open source, then you totally want to submit your resume.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.telenordigital.com/jobs/engineer-office-of-the-cto/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.telenordigital.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;engineer-office-of-the-ct...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eALSO! We\u0026#x27;re hiring an engineer specifically to work full-time on WebRTC implementation in Mozilla. Same team, same fun, just fully WebRTC focused!\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.telenordigital.com/jobs/webrtc-engineer/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.telenordigital.com\u0026#x2F;jobs\u0026#x2F;webrtc-engineer\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8980047","id":"8981754"}
{"by":"mortehu","time":"1368847429","timestamp":"2013-05-18 03:23:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was unable to find a Watson based search engine using Google.  Are you talking about the highly specialized application of asking Jeopardy questions?  Recall that those searches are already constrained to being trivia, having exactly one solution and belonging to a certain Jeopardy category, context and difficulty.","parent":"5726185","id":"5727794"}
{"by":"Eridrus","time":"1524318578","timestamp":"2018-04-21 13:49:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This seems pretty silly. Facebook will probably die at some point, but you need an opportunity, some need that they are not meeting. If you look at the things that were serious threats to Facebook: Instagram, WhaptsApp, Snapchat, they weren\u0026#x27;t just Facebook clones, they did something fundamentally different that was still social, where that different something was not a good part of the core Facebook experience.\u003cp\u003eIf the thesis is that Facebook\u0026#x27;s privacy issues are an opportunity, I think all the previous attempts to replace Facebook over privacy concerns should make it clear that it is not.\u003cp\u003eI think this competition\u0026#x27;s focus on teams with \u0026quot;ability to execute\u0026quot; is falling right into this trap of thinking if you just make something a little bit better it will siphon users away, but what you need it something that is social, but still fundamentally different, something you can\u0026#x27;t really achieve on Facebook at all.\u003cp\u003eAnd even if you are building the next Instagram, I think the recent travails with Snapchat should be illuminating, if Facebook can\u0026#x27;t buy you, they will try to copy you, and that will make your life very hard because then you no longer have a differentiator.\u003cp\u003eFacebook is not asleep at the wheel the way MySpace was.","parent":"16891327","id":"16891407"}
{"by":"bgutierrez","time":"1215613365","timestamp":"2008-07-09 14:22:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Contempt and scorn are appropriate feelings to have for murderers.\u003cp\u003eI thought this article was interesting because the author had spent a lot of time watching Reiser in court and might be speaking some truth about Reiser's personality.\u003cp\u003eIs there anyone here that knew Reiser more intimately than this journalist, and could give us some feedback?","parent":"241000","id":"241144"}
{"by":"doubleunplussed","time":"1487952023","timestamp":"2017-02-24 16:00:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"OP isn\u0026#x27;t saying they used the same password for transferwise as for their bank. Transferwise allows you to log into your internet banking and authorize a transaction through their site. You actually give them your internet banking password, regardless of how you log into their site.\u003cp\u003eWhich is pretty strange in itself, to trust a 3rd party with your internet banking password, but that\u0026#x27;s how it works.","parent":"13724598","id":"13724784"}
{"by":"mey","time":"1340066886","timestamp":"2012-06-19 00:48:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I am going to replace my on the go coding environment (which a Win 8 Intel tablet could be) I care about ram/cpu.  Especially in a multi-tasking environment.\u003cp\u003eIt may not matter for applications designed for a constrained environment (Apple/Android), but if I'm going to load up a big honking IDE on a Windows/Intel box, it starts mattering.","parent":"4129498","id":"4129583"}
{"by":"phishphood","time":"1362700326","timestamp":"2013-03-07 23:52:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"its more than that. I remember being bullied and called little jew by kids, by teachers, by school principal, by janitors, by strangers on the subway when I was 7 or 8 because I have soft Rs and curly hair, and I am not Jewish.","parent":"5341117","id":"5341213"}
{"by":"ncr100","time":"1482476552","timestamp":"2016-12-23 07:02:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Perchance, to linkify:\n* \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;II6IJEY\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;II6IJEY\u003c/a\u003e\n* \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;windows\u0026#x2F;desktop\u0026#x2F;ff728831(v=vs.85).aspx#provide_resizable_forms_when_possible\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;en-us\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;windows\u0026#x2F;desktop\u0026#x2F;ff7...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13243354","id":"13243356"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1477076602","timestamp":"2016-10-21 19:03:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Thunderbolt Display acts as a dock; it currently requires two cables but there may be a new USB-C version next week that uses one cable. Third-party docks also exist: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eshop.macsales.com\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;OWC\u0026#x2F;TCDOCK11PSG\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;eshop.macsales.com\u0026#x2F;item\u0026#x2F;OWC\u0026#x2F;TCDOCK11PSG\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e Just don\u0026#x27;t expect IBM to buy one for you.","parent":"12763382","id":"12763530"}
{"by":"leoreeves","time":"1495199588","timestamp":"2017-05-19 13:13:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d recommend \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dotimpact.im\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dotimpact.im\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e, it\u0026#x27;s part of the Effective Altruist movement—people who want to do the most good with the time\u0026#x2F;money\u0026#x2F;resources they have.","parent":"14375014","id":"14375252"}
{"by":"narrator","time":"1432239849","timestamp":"2015-05-21 20:24:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The thing about neural nets is that they are pretty opaque from an analyst point of view.  It\u0026#x27;s hard to figure out why they do what they do, except that they have been trained to optimize a particular cost function.  I think Strong AI will never happen because the people in charge will not give control over to a system that makes important decisions without explaining why.  They will certainly not give control over the cost function to a strong AI because control of determination of the cost function is the axis upon which all power will rest.","parent":"9584325","id":"9585172"}
{"by":"bsullivan01","time":"1379516750","timestamp":"2013-09-18 15:05:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eWhy aren\u0026#x27;t you asking them for their qualifications, then?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t need to, checked them as they posted their names and all their research is online. \u003ca href=\"http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arxiv.org\u0026#x2F;abs\u0026#x2F;1212.5605\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey also posted the math behind it (which went over my head) unlike you. Next time, if you want to be taken seriously explain yourself better and try to be specific. If you know what you are talking about, of course.","parent":"6405245","id":"6405701"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1371448747","timestamp":"2013-06-17 05:59:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but only if you remember that some 50,000 or so people have \u0026quot;dated\u0026quot; the party being complained about and you\u0026#x27;re reading the complaints of 2 of them, who also tend to complain about most of the other parties they\u0026#x27;ve \u0026quot;dated\u0026quot;.","parent":"5889737","id":"5891674"}
{"by":"andreyf","time":"1250488676","timestamp":"2009-08-17 05:57:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Building pikluk.com on top of IE was a bit mistake, IMO. I assume it doesn't run on OSX, and is stuck on whatever version of IE you built it on...","parent":"766769","id":"767457"}
{"by":"froo","time":"1243558705","timestamp":"2009-05-29 00:58:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well the thing that got me was there was an assertion in the email that the last.fm employee was concerned about how not handing over the data would affect their rates - which sounded like the data could possibly be have handed directly to one of the record companies in question, which then found its way into the hands of the RIAA.\u003cp\u003eSo, in that respect, CBS's simple denial stating that they never handed data over to the RIAA is accurate - because they worded it that way, that doesn't mean that they didn't know that that the data ended up in the hands of the RIAA.\u003cp\u003eSo to visualise it, it would look like.\u003cp\u003elast.fm \u0026#62; cbs \u0026#62; record label \u0026#62; riaa\u003cp\u003eThat way, all of the denials by last.fm and CBS would be \"true\" and yet, the TC story would still be fundamentally \"accurate\".\u003cp\u003e(EDIT - This is just speculation on my part from all of the information I've read. I'd have to side with TC because I doubt TC would publish several stories on the matter, months apart, if there wasn't even a hint of truth to the matter. I'd definitely trust the credibility of Arrington anyday over that of your average PR representative.)","parent":"631259","id":"631318"}
{"by":"craftyguy","time":"1521172194","timestamp":"2018-03-16 03:49:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How do you provide anonymized ballots while at the same time guaranteeing that fraudulant voting is not taking place? It seems that being able to verify that a ballot came from an actual person authorized to vote (and not some bot) is key, but I\u0026#x27;m not sure how to satisfy both.","parent":"16598467","id":"16598480"}
{"by":"hedonistbot","time":"1516398506","timestamp":"2018-01-19 21:48:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How about this theory: I can print USDT (by fiat) and buy BTC with it. Now I have a large amount of BTC and propped up price. Then CME starts trading BTC futures against real USD, coincidentally the trading starts at the very top of BTC price. Then I start selling both BTC for dollars AND BTC futures again for dollars (cash settled on expiry). I am making real USD and only started with USDT (supposedly backed by nothing, best case by my BTC wallet). Now that prices are 50% lower and I have tons of USD (or just print more USDT) I can start buying again keeping the price acceptable and ready for another pump before I start selling the next BTC futures contract.\u003cp\u003eIs this possible. Am I missing something?","parent":"16188043","id":"16190144"}
{"by":"undersuit","time":"1460401960","timestamp":"2016-04-11 19:12:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you buy the business version of my webcam you get a plastic cover for $2 over the cost of the consumer variant. One day I might spend $15 for a cover: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B00I005TPS\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.amazon.com\u0026#x2F;dp\u0026#x2F;B00I005TPS\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11460436","id":"11474308"}
{"by":"tokenizer","time":"1379111111","timestamp":"2013-09-13 22:25:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would also argue that in terms of maintenance, it would be more time consuming for me to debug native html, css, and javascript, and then fix those bug in a completely different environment.","parent":"6383531","id":"6383576"}
{"by":"ModernMech","time":"1533911562","timestamp":"2018-08-10 14:32:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; attracted the real followers\u003cp\u003eAnd plenty of Russian trolls.","parent":"17733509","id":"17733557"}
{"by":"nickthemagicman","time":"1475280503","timestamp":"2016-10-01 00:08:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait for someone to make an observation...then qualify that observation.\u003cp\u003eColleague: \u0026quot;Were going to need more routes\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYou:\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;But how many more routes will we need?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;But what kind of routes will we need\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Should they be bigger or smaller routes?\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)","parent":"12615633","id":"12615953"}
{"by":"wutbrodo","time":"1475790727","timestamp":"2016-10-06 21:52:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt;  a public-PageRank Google doesn\u0026#x27;t even come close.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; How? It let them dominate search, control much ad revenue, put players with most money on top results, create a major contender in browsing, and later dominate mobile market.\u003cp\u003eThe context of my original comment was that a public Pagerank algorithm isn\u0026#x27;t an artificially scarce environment. I don\u0026#x27;t understand your \u0026quot;how\u0026quot; question, and I don\u0026#x27;t see what the rest of this paragraph has to do with artificial scarcity.\u003cp\u003eDuckduckgo doesn\u0026#x27;t have a public spec for their algorithm either, because again, it would render their results useless in a short amount of time. That example should hopefully illustrate how keeping one\u0026#x27;s ranking algorithm private has pretty much nothing to do with artificial scarcity or abuse of monopoly.","parent":"12649408","id":"12656439"}
{"by":"skywhopper","time":"1392400082","timestamp":"2014-02-14 17:48:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It will when and if a lawmaker ever understands what a user agent string is.","parent":"7239710","id":"7239826"}
{"by":"dmotz","time":"1363123557","timestamp":"2013-03-12 21:25:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Developers should take heed of the \"uncanny valley\" point Andrew makes. While I come across the rare example of an app that pulls off stock UI via CSS well [1], most fail somewhere along their approach and end up subtly repelling the user.\u003cp\u003eI wrote a PhoneGap app [2] and this fact was among my considerations when designing it.\u003cp\u003eThe performance points are spot on with my experiences, especially avoiding any height and width manipulations. Most of the height transitions in my app are actually translations on the Y axis, preventing reflows. Rather than completely rely on the browser's native layout capabilities, it can pay off tremendously to do some of those calculations and translations manually.\u003cp\u003e[1] - \u003ca href=\"http://cheeaun.github.com/hackerweb\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://cheeaun.github.com/hackerweb\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[2] - \u003ca href=\"http://chaincalapp.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://chaincalapp.com\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5361945","id":"5365012"}
{"by":"ivankirigin","time":"1207521505","timestamp":"2008-04-06 22:38:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's syndication, not link-jacking. All those newspapers that use the AP aren't really linkjackers.","parent":"156339","id":"156461"}
{"by":"latch","time":"1317698578","timestamp":"2011-10-04 03:22:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Seriously. I always find it funny when people make generalizations like \"Any serious developer would...\" only to be 100% wrong (and thus proving that they aren't serious developers).\u003cp\u003eI used to think like your parent. Then I got over myself and just push everything to a a public github repo. So what if most of my project have no watchers and no forks. It can't hurt anything (except maybe my ego?). Once I did the transition with one of my bigger projects, I've nerver looked back.\u003cp\u003ePrivate repositories are for \"serious\" companies. Public repository are for \"serious\" developers.","parent":"3067344","id":"3069215"}
{"by":"ars","time":"1402477327","timestamp":"2014-06-11 09:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t get caught up by the word \u0026quot;structure\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s just a simple term I used for the purpose.\u003cp\u003eThe actual subject here is the tension load, the word \u0026quot;structure\u0026quot; is just the most convenient term for it.\u003cp\u003e(But in any case a hollow pyramid would certainly be under tension. You would need an arch if you wanted pure compression.)","parent":"7876994","id":"7877040"}
{"by":"tomahony","time":"1412680293","timestamp":"2014-10-07 11:11:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ah. I was looking for something to print that style of mosaic recently. Bookmarked!","parent":"8420375","id":"8420515"}
{"by":"micks56","time":"1303853361","timestamp":"2011-04-26 21:29:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In Benson and Flook, the claimed inventions were on algorithms and NOT tied to a machine.\u003cp\u003eIn Diehr, the inventor claimed \"algorithm + machine\" where machine was a computer. The Court looks at a computer as an infinitely configurable machine, with each new software algorithm creating a new invention.\u003cp\u003eThat is the distinction that the courts make between Benson/Flook and Diehr, which has allowed \"software\" patents to exist.","parent":"2487278","id":"2487301"}
{"by":"FeepingCreature","time":"1413644856","timestamp":"2014-10-18 15:07:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"ß is equivalent to ss for the purpose of determining alphabetic order, same as ä is equivalent to ae, etc.","parent":"8475402","id":"8475460"}
{"by":"TazeTSchnitzel","time":"1346354206","timestamp":"2012-08-30 19:16:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A format with lossy alpha transparency! This is good news!\u003cp\u003eBeing able to have graphics with transparent portions, without having to use bandwidth-hogging PNG will be quite useful.","parent":"4456192","id":"4456262"}
{"by":"dangrossman","time":"1482346532","timestamp":"2016-12-21 18:55:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As an owner of multiple cats, and fiance to a licensed veterinary technician, this sounds like good and sensible advice for  maintaining a cat\u0026#x27;s health and well-being. We\u0026#x27;ve caught many health issues by noticing changes in feeding, drinking, poo and litter box use. I don\u0026#x27;t know why you\u0026#x27;ve gotten so many downvotes.","parent":"13231399","id":"13231612"}
{"by":"M_Grey","time":"1489288485","timestamp":"2017-03-12 03:14:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has to be the most intellectually sound, and technically sophisticated analysis that still has, \u0026quot;Well then of course there wouldn\u0026#x27;t be a movie to watch,\u0026quot; as it\u0026#x27;s answer.","parent":"13848253","id":"13848727"}
{"by":"joseph_cooney","time":"1378698206","timestamp":"2013-09-09 03:43:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I dunno...I think Exchange and Office (outlook) work OK together, but that is probably the exception that proves the rule.","parent":"6351621","id":"6351717"}
{"by":"harveywi","time":"1502740292","timestamp":"2017-08-14 19:51:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; As someone finishing a PhD in this field, my perspective is that there\u0026#x27;s a big lack of software engineering talent here.\u003cp\u003eAs someone with a PhD in computer science who did a postdoc in a bioinformatics lab, I can vouch for that.","parent":"15012068","id":"15012184"}
{"by":"Freestyler_3","time":"1418676363","timestamp":"2014-12-15 20:46:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How does this all work in space?","parent":"8750365","id":"8754336"}
{"by":"iovrthoughtthis","time":"1523209282","timestamp":"2018-04-08 17:41:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is a GREAT project!! Thanks!\u003cp\u003eCould you make it a git repo so we can field alterations, additions and discussion?","parent":"16787147","id":"16787211"}
{"by":"knodi123","time":"1435852281","timestamp":"2015-07-02 15:51:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"respect implies people knowing who you are.  which kind of implies getting caught :-)","parent":"9819530","id":"9819680"}
{"by":"brudgers","time":"1429542428","timestamp":"2015-04-20 15:07:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Other than Atlanta, none of these are comps for Miami or San Francisco.\u003cp\u003eTuscaloosa, like most college towns has a stable demographic of gentry. No sound statistically based analysis would include it given the level of devastation caused by the EF-4 in 2011. \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2011_Tuscaloosa%E2%80%93Birmingham_tornado\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;2011_Tuscaloosa%E2%80%93Birmin...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9408306","id":"9408566"}
{"by":"jlgaddis","time":"1502728826","timestamp":"2017-08-14 16:40:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sorry, starting with version 60","parent":"15009512","id":"15010056"}
{"by":"dang","time":"1496685215","timestamp":"2017-06-05 17:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please see \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsfaq.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;newsfaq.html\u003c/a\u003e.","parent":"14489215","id":"14489651"}
{"by":"Kurtz79","time":"1467633708","timestamp":"2016-07-04 12:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;One of the problems underlying all this is not immigration per-se, but the rapid and unbounded expansion of the EU to include countries with a huge range of incomes and costs-of-life.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThe theory is that by including these countries in the Union their conditions eventually will improve (through EU funding and access to the single market) to a point that people won\u0026#x27;t have any reason to emigrate, basically removing the root cause of immigration.\u003cp\u003eIt makes a lot of sense, but it is in the best of case a long and difficult process, and people facing loss of jobs and diminishing wealth will see solutions like \u0026quot;let\u0026#x27;s build a wall\u0026quot;, or \u0026quot;let\u0026#x27;s get out of the EU\u0026quot; as appealing, it\u0026#x27;s human nature.\u003cp\u003eMaybe instead of going \u0026quot;all in, all the way\u0026quot; with the single market and free movement (that personally I have thoroughly enjoyed and consider it a huge net positive), the EU should have made the process more gradual.","parent":"12030018","id":"12030198"}
{"by":"kapeli","time":"1434481985","timestamp":"2015-06-16 19:13:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you! \u0026lt;3","parent":"9728004","id":"9728128"}
{"by":"nickpsecurity","time":"1447774422","timestamp":"2015-11-17 15:33:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You have to understand the ASIC or FPGA design flow to understand why that doesn\u0026#x27;t make sense. For some reason, I struggled to find a Google result explaining it without being a tutorial on specific EDA tools. This one from IBM mentions many details, though:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu\u0026#x2F;viewdoc\u0026#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.92.8110\u0026amp;rep=rep1\u0026amp;type=pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu\u0026#x2F;viewdoc\u0026#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.92....\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe analog components were largely hand-made by pro\u0026#x27;s, simulated, and then prototyped. Today, there\u0026#x27;s lots of so-called mixed-signal blocks that combine analog and digital with extra complications:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cadence.com\u0026#x2F;rl\u0026#x2F;Resources\u0026#x2F;conference_papers\u0026#x2F;1.5%20BeckerJ%20Imtek.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cadence.com\u0026#x2F;rl\u0026#x2F;Resources\u0026#x2F;conference_papers\u0026#x2F;1.5%2...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, I\u0026#x27;m focusing on digital design with pre-made analog blocks at interfaces and minimal integration work. Getting to the rest with OSS will be... an uphill battle on top of an uphill battle. For now, we actually can use something like Qflow at least for larger nodes:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;opencircuitdesign.com\u0026#x2F;qflow\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;opencircuitdesign.com\u0026#x2F;qflow\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill need standard, cell libraries for the target process. There\u0026#x27;s an open set or two...\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vlsitechnology.org\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.vlsitechnology.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e...but best is to have pro\u0026#x27;s (or top academics) to straight up design a set for you for specific nodes then open-source it once silicon-proven. Need common analog components which pro\u0026#x27;s will have to do, as well. Need to integrate the digital and analog logic plus make sure whole chip is working. Gotta do the design rule checks to make sure physical properties of each layer or between them is right.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a lot to it. I have one or more academic papers for almost every step in synthesis, re-synthesis, formal verification, gate-level testing... you name it. Plenty for FOSS-loving academics to build on and integrate. That will take time.\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, my main recommendation is to finalize an open-source FPGA w\u0026#x2F; plenty of I\u0026#x2F;O interfaces on advanced process node like 45nm. Then, target ABC synthesis and\u0026#x2F;or VPR to it. Let\u0026#x27;s us get open hardware while ignoring a large part of the design process. Archipelago FPGA\u0026#x27;s are already quite a ways there:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eecs.berkeley.edu\u0026#x2F;Pubs\u0026#x2F;TechRpts\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;EECS-2014-43.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.eecs.berkeley.edu\u0026#x2F;Pubs\u0026#x2F;TechRpts\u0026#x2F;2014\u0026#x2F;EECS-2014-43...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan create a metal-programmed S-ASIC that matches it for easier porting. If it takes off, do one for 28nm. Those should cover most use-cases with standard cell model for others.\u003cp\u003ePersonally, though, I think there will be a mix of proprietary and FOSS tools. Best model is getting vendors to make theirs verifiable by FOSS tools so we can ignore the complexity of \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c/i\u003e they do it to focus on \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c/i\u003e they did and its equivalence\u0026#x2F;correctness. Especially good to get a smaller vendor like Mentor Graphics on it as a differentiator in post-Snowden market. They keep secret sauce while we get verification. Win, win.","parent":"10579034","id":"10581664"}
{"by":"ctrager","time":"1257345289","timestamp":"2009-11-04 14:34:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As a developer, I say not trivial.  This isn't just about bug trackers, because bug trackers integrate with version control, maybe our IDE, and soon code review tools.\u003cp\u003eA bug tracker can be like email, on the screen all the time, with a lot of our communication with co-workers going thru it ( and in fact the good ones incorporate email into them very well. )\u003cp\u003eSo, it's the software we are living in.  Next to our text editor, it's maybe the MOST important software.\u003cp\u003eNot counting Pandora, of course.","parent":"921457","id":"921720"}
{"by":"w1ntermute","time":"1368230708","timestamp":"2013-05-11 00:05:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Do you think these layouts are still used because they're better for the target audience, or because the Japanese are more averse to change?","parent":"5689226","id":"5689243"}
{"by":"collinmanderson","time":"1542216966","timestamp":"2018-11-14 17:36:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"for font-display, do you prefer swap or fallback?","parent":"18447064","id":"18451773"}
{"by":"defen","time":"1427318138","timestamp":"2015-03-25 21:15:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"washingtonpost.com.com? This is probably not real.","parent":"9265886","id":"9265970"}
{"by":"FranOntanaya","time":"1526392631","timestamp":"2018-05-15 13:57:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good old unsanitized HTML. Brings memories of the first bulletin boards.","parent":"17073506","id":"17073922"}
{"by":"jkaljundi","time":"1403905006","timestamp":"2014-06-27 21:36:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s also now an European cross-border service for digital signatures originating from Estonia: \u003ca href=\"https://www.signwise.me/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.signwise.me\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7956270","id":"7956404"}
{"by":"wheels","time":"1251684169","timestamp":"2009-08-31 02:02:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Once I had a job in high school I can say that a fair bit of my friends' collective budget was directed into the prank fund.  $125 to spread unscrupulous rumors regarding our school principal to 750 homes would not have deterred us.","parent":"795233","id":"795249"}
{"by":"codingdave","time":"1511444141","timestamp":"2017-11-23 13:35:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHe isn\u0026#x27;t trying to prove the earth is flat. He just wants to ride a rocket. Everything else is oddball marketing to get some funds.","parent":"15764744","id":"15764932"}
{"by":"smalltalk","time":"1374263454","timestamp":"2013-07-19 19:50:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Saying \u0026quot;clearly\u0026quot; is usually a sign that you\u0026#x27;re trying to avoid explaining why something is true. Could you explain why PRISM violates the original spirit of the 4th amendment? The 4th amendment is a very narrowly worded provision (when the founders knew how to write broadly worded provisions, e.g., the 1st amendment) and doesn\u0026#x27;t apply to third party records (when there were third party records during the 18th century, so the founders could have included them in the 4th amendment either explicitly or by broader drafting had they wanted to).","parent":"6070652","dead":true,"id":"6072506"}
{"by":"Gupie","time":"1392365208","timestamp":"2014-02-14 08:06:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;peoples\u0026#x27; brains aren\u0026#x27;t wired to do lots of work for little or no or unequal reward\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eThis is the actuality for most people in the West or the Third World. Thinks sweat shops, paddy fields, StarBucks...","parent":"7237416","id":"7237488"}
{"by":"tinyvm","time":"1547501232","timestamp":"2019-01-14 21:27:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I recently did the exact same job as the author of this post.\u003cp\u003eMigrating 15K LoC from JS to TS.\u003cp\u003eThe author of Vue.JS also migrated Vue completely to Typescript.\u003cp\u003eAt first I had major apprehension because of how much Microsoft generally enforces things on developers.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s well know that if you start using C# , your entire stack will generally be MS based...(SQL Server, Azure etc... )\u003cp\u003eBut after I did the migration , I was blown away by how confident and how much flexibility I had when i was writing my code.\u003cp\u003eEven if I have been writing code with Java \u0026#x2F; C# for nearly a decade , nothing has come close to Typescript in terms of productivity,flexibility and confidence.\u003cp\u003eHaving used Javascript since before Node.JS , I think the whole idea of having to \u0026quot;transpile\u0026quot; my code to something or to respect some \u0026quot;rules\u0026quot; define by a company with a reputation that wasn\u0026#x27;t really \u0026quot;all in open source\u0026quot;  .\u003cp\u003eBut after using Typescript on multiples projects , you just can\u0026#x27;t go back , it\u0026#x27;s incredible how well it\u0026#x27;s scale without enforcing anything on the developers.\u003cp\u003eHopefully , one day bootcamps will include Typescript in their trainings to demonstrate how typings can solve maintainability issues...","parent":"18906405","id":"18906678"}
{"by":"pagefruit","time":"1309236205","timestamp":"2011-06-28 04:43:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wasn't AdGrok just acquired by Twitter? (Did he move to FB before the acquisition?)","parent":"2699932","id":"2704116"}
{"by":"tgb","time":"1470877096","timestamp":"2016-08-11 00:58:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My experience is just as an amateur, so it\u0026#x27;s only worth so much. I\u0026#x27;m pretty sure though that the difference was much less than a factor of two.","parent":"12265609","id":"12265709"}
{"by":"dhefiosdo","time":"1473866837","timestamp":"2016-09-14 15:27:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fact that your opinion differs from his doesn\u0026#x27;t give you the moral high ground to smugly down vote him.","parent":"12496936","dead":true,"id":"12497898"}
{"by":"tartuffe78","time":"1502482944","timestamp":"2017-08-11 20:22:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"prepend it with facebook.com\u0026#x2F;l.php?u= followed by the url and you should be able to see it","parent":"14993773","id":"14993813"}
{"by":"mootothemax","time":"1311868666","timestamp":"2011-07-28 15:57:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIn the interest of fairness it should probably be pointed out that Dworkin rejected that interpretation of her work.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is fair enough. At the same time, she did write things like:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr:\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA human being has a body that is inviolate; and when it is violated, it is abused. A woman has a body that is penetrated in intercourse: permeable, its corporeal solidness a lie. The discourse of male truth--literature, science, philosophy, pornography--calls that penetration violation. This it does with some consistency and some confidence. Violation is a synonym for intercourse. At the same time, the penetration is taken to be a use, not an abuse; a normal use; it is appropriate to enter her, to push into (\"violate\") the boundaries of her body.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonally I think she was backpeddling, but please have a read of what she wrote:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dworkin.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dworkin.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2817302","id":"2817410"}
{"by":"sksa","time":"1411310275","timestamp":"2014-09-21 14:37:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"By working within the commission charges by Amazon. I know this is hard.","parent":"8347245","id":"8347251"}
{"by":"zanny","time":"1393301511","timestamp":"2014-02-25 04:11:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Bitcoin isn\u0026#x27;t an investment, it is an entirely different way of doing money. If you want to play it safe play by old money rules, if you want to be on the forefront of something many of us think is revolutionary \u0026quot;long term return projections\u0026quot; be damned.\u003cp\u003eThen again, I just spent most of my btc on tigerdirect 3 weeks ago, so I don\u0026#x27;t even have much left to call myself an investor with.","parent":"7295201","id":"7295459"}
{"by":"jcromartie","time":"1292858562","timestamp":"2010-12-20 15:22:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm thankful that we can still have this kind of reporting, at least.","parent":"2024373","id":"2024529"}
{"by":"tokenadult","time":"1250101479","timestamp":"2009-08-12 18:24:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One response to Dvorak's post, disagreeing with his conclusion:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/08/on_kundras_college_records.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/08/on_kundras_college_re...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"758482","id":"758808"}
{"by":"snorkel","time":"1388671225","timestamp":"2014-01-02 14:00:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheAverageShark\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;TheAverageShark\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6998353","id":"6999587"}
{"by":"philtar","time":"1395678588","timestamp":"2014-03-24 16:29:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Investigation, not intelligence.\nCIA does intelligence.\u003cp\u003eOr you could\u0026#x27;ve just typed FBI, like a normal person.","parent":"7458792","id":"7459154"}
{"by":"bgramer","time":"1320425030","timestamp":"2011-11-04 16:43:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apple's rotten? Oh please. The headline is a linkbait troll. Take the speculations within with a lot of salt.","parent":"3196509","id":"3196714"}
{"by":"nostromo","time":"1334545068","timestamp":"2012-04-16 02:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wonder if KickStarter and similar projects could disrupt YC and TechStars.\u003cp\u003eFor example, I could see DropBox raising a sizable seed round on KickStarter if it was an option when they launched.  (Free 250gb plan for a year with a donation of $50.)","parent":"3845101","id":"3845697"}
{"by":"JacobAldridge","time":"1447108468","timestamp":"2015-11-09 22:34:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d like to see \u0026#x27;Erlang\u0026#x27; on the WordTrends graph, though the plateau of story volumes may mean we can void that eternal September failsafe.","parent":"10535210","id":"10536332"}
{"by":"logfromblammo","time":"1499800596","timestamp":"2017-07-11 19:16:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One cannot assume that an alien can think in a fashion similar to Earth animals.\u003cp\u003eHumans have the ability to imagine a possibility for which no supporting evidence currently exists--that species alien to our solar system might exist.  That ability might not be shared by the species we can imagine.  That is, humans can imagine a species that cannot imagine humans.  Such aliens would not even realize that building a planet-sized object that cannot be explained by natural processes might present an existential risk.\u003cp\u003eWe, of course, are afraid of hypervelocity impact weaponry, even while having no evidence whatsoever that any such weapon exists anywhere in the universe.\u003cp\u003eOf course, that just means that any species that did fear annihilation by near-c rocks smashing into their planet would simply disguise their star shade so well that we could not detect it.  Meaning that any solar shade we can detect was not likely built by any species able to think like us.\u003cp\u003eWe could clean up by selling them insurance.","parent":"14745775","id":"14747111"}
{"by":"wila","time":"1523445700","timestamp":"2018-04-11 11:21:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NoScript doesn\u0026#x27;t stop the tracking. See the noscript tags in the html example of the post you replied to.","parent":"16809728","id":"16809978"}
{"by":"dalke","time":"1391629933","timestamp":"2014-02-05 19:52:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t figure out how such a system is supposed to work. Anyone have any ideas?\u003cp\u003eFor example, a couple of years ago I worked on an algorithm to find the maximum common subgraph of a set of 2 or more molecular graphs. More specifically, I wanted the largest subgraph in M of N graphs (M\u0026lt;=N), I wanted to define the atom match criteria, and I wanted to require that rings not be broken in the subgraph. (Chemists love rings.)\u003cp\u003eI did it the old-fashioned way. I read papers, I investigated similar systems, I implemented various implementation details, and I did a lot of testing.\u003cp\u003eHow would I find such an algorithm using this system?\u003cp\u003eThere are only a few people who develop this sort of algorithm. Why might I expect that this system is a better resource than traditional means?","parent":"7185887","id":"7186345"}
{"by":"pacala","time":"1377576531","timestamp":"2013-08-27 04:08:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Rails is Cobol. There is a lot of excitement in, for instance, AI, geoscale graphics or biocomputation.","parent":"6281360","id":"6281389"}
{"by":"bocklund","time":"1533740971","timestamp":"2018-08-08 15:09:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; as long as it is a task that involves a lot of \u0026quot;brute facts\u0026quot; of some sort.\u003cp\u003eI want to use Anki so badly. I have bought the app on iOS ($25), but I haven\u0026#x27;t been able to get it to stick. I think the hardest part is to distill things into brute facts.\u003cp\u003eIt seems like most the facts are trivial and obvious if you know the concepts and I haven\u0026#x27;t been able to map my concepts to something on an Anki card that would be useful for spaced repetition. IMO concepts are not something that you \u0026quot;forget\u0026quot; once you have done all the work of putting the pieces together in your head.\u003cp\u003eI would love to hear success stories of people using spaced repetition successfully for things that aren\u0026#x27;t facts.","parent":"17716089","id":"17716553"}
{"by":"ap22213","time":"1314967707","timestamp":"2011-09-02 12:48:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love the form factor of my ipad, but realistically, it's nothing more than a media reader to me.  With my bluetooth keyboard, it gets about 5-10% better.\u003cp\u003eBut, for it to become my laptop replacement, it would need an entirely new operating system.  Its current OS is just a toy, as far as I'm concerned.\u003cp\u003eOf course - I realize that 80% of the population aren't doing 'computing' - they're mainly viewing media with a few edits here and there.","parent":"2953321","id":"2953883"}
{"by":"cooper12","time":"1484792758","timestamp":"2017-01-19 02:25:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There was actually a HN comment thread on it for the Mozilla announcement: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13425609\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=13425609\u003c/a\u003e. The commenters mainly noted how similar the logos are. This could lead to possible confusion and I think pre-empting it is best to defuse any drama before it starts.","parent":"13432409","id":"13432446"}
{"by":"verdatel","time":"1332520645","timestamp":"2012-03-23 16:37:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Index funds are great when you want to do direct deposits every month.. the don't have front-load costs so you can just set up an automatic transfer.\u003cp\u003eIf you invest in ETF's which are traded like stocks then you have to contend with trading fees. The rule of thumb (I've garnered from reading blogs/ literature) is that if your portfolio is \u0026#60; $50,000, then set up automatic payments for all index funds.. however if you have a larger portfolio then it would be worth getting a discount brokerage account and using that to invest in ETFs. This is because having a larger portfolio means that your brokerage house will offer you a discounted trading fee. The advantage of ETFs is generally a lower management-expense ratio than index funds and more importantly you get access to things like REITs and other non-standard financial vehicles.","parent":"3745705","id":"3745948"}
{"by":"zipdog","time":"1305651130","timestamp":"2011-05-17 16:52:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, its a poorly worded error message for anyone running the latest version of Opera","parent":"2555582","id":"2556932"}
{"by":"NeutronBoy","time":"1426629817","timestamp":"2015-03-17 22:03:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I run various distros on my first-gen X1 Carbon and it\u0026#x27;s awesome. Everything just works. You don\u0026#x27;t even have to go driver hunting as you do with Windows. The most I had to do was add a kernel parameter to the bootloader to get the brightness keys to work with more granularity. I would highly recommend going native if your workflow allows it.","parent":"9221819","id":"9221891"}
{"by":"tel","time":"1289966935","timestamp":"2010-11-17 04:08:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's really a big deal for Haskell to sit in that position now instead of \"that weird language with Spacesuitmonads\". I hear the sentiment a lot and every time I'm somewhat surprised and happy to realize it.","parent":"1912770","id":"1912871"}
{"by":"grinich","time":"1414995064","timestamp":"2014-11-03 06:11:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Potentially-- feel free to email us with more info: jobs@inboxapp.com","parent":"8545324","id":"8549544"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1457984888","timestamp":"2016-03-14 19:48:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There\u0026#x27;s an OpenStack driver for LXD.","parent":"11284571","id":"11285051"}
{"by":"GlenTheMachine","time":"1505520627","timestamp":"2017-09-16 00:10:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, apparently, the rocket exhaust actually recirculated up the sides of the Saturn V inside the boundary layer, well past the point where the fins attached. See the picture in the following paper, where it appears that the exhaust is originating from a point about halfway up the first stage.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nas.nasa.gov\u0026#x2F;assets\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;Kiris_Gusman_PlumeCFD.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.nas.nasa.gov\u0026#x2F;assets\u0026#x2F;pdf\u0026#x2F;Kiris_Gusman_PlumeCFD.pd...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich tells you something about the size of the Saturn V boundary layer.","parent":"15261553","id":"15261899"}
{"by":"brazzy","time":"1333211279","timestamp":"2012-03-31 16:27:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Eventually they will buy software and services that provide value to them, which can be things for which first-world countries have an existing infrastructure, but which have so far been completely unavailable to these people.\u003cp\u003eFor example, in parts of Africa, transferrable pre-paid phone credit has become a de facto bank acount for many people who've never had access to non-cash transactions.\u003cp\u003eOther examples: third-world countries have many subsistence farmers. Accurate local weather forecasts and information about current market prices in neighboring towns could be very valuable to them.\u003cp\u003eAs for payment - credit cards may not play a huge role, but centralized app stores can easily support a diverse range of nation-specific payment options (like the phone credit mentioned above).","parent":"3780598","id":"3780669"}
{"by":"sliverstorm","time":"1368321933","timestamp":"2013-05-12 01:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Actually, I just tried the foreground/background stuff (similar to yours, but my own code, slightly different) and it works fine in bash 4.","parent":"5692075","id":"5692767"}
{"by":"fumar","time":"1337035349","timestamp":"2012-05-14 22:42:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You are correct. Certain individuals have proven that with tenacity anything is possible. Still, it appears most people need structure. Structure, to give them a yardstick to measure themselves by. Stanford, or any college, give students goals. They are prepared sheep with plenty for 'growth experience.'","parent":"3973518","id":"3973755"}
{"by":"jarnix","time":"1400612508","timestamp":"2014-05-20 19:01:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anyone tried the keyboard on this model ? It\u0026#x27;s unusable, it\u0026#x27;s too soft. Did someone try another keyboard for the Surface ?","parent":"7773024","id":"7774494"}
{"by":"jeswin","time":"1397495671","timestamp":"2014-04-14 17:14:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anything that I do with my time, my equipment and my brain outside paid work hours belongs to me. If there was a contract that insisted on it not being so, there is no need to offer the said clause the protection of law.\u003cp\u003eI find it troubling that so many people are alright with signing away their personal rights. The employee individually isn\u0026#x27;t obligated to the company any more than the company is obligated to the society collectively. Without the public obeying rules such as copyright, the said company wouldn\u0026#x27;t even be in business.\u003cp\u003eThe west\u0026#x27;s definition of freedom is confounding. Capitalism has eroded the rights of the individual and left him utterly powerless and subservient. To the extent that many people don\u0026#x27;t even realize how much of their rights have been ceded.","parent":"7587211","id":"7587434"}
{"by":"dtech","time":"1537720261","timestamp":"2018-09-23 16:31:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sleep rythm. For a lot of people it\u0026#x27;s not easy to \u0026quot;just go to sleep earlier\u0026quot;","parent":"18051796","id":"18051817"}
{"by":"Sambdala","time":"1393031516","timestamp":"2014-02-22 01:11:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The basic implementation is now complete.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ll flesh it out a bit better tomorrow.","parent":"7279280","id":"7280530"}
{"by":"bostonpete","time":"1318253205","timestamp":"2011-10-10 13:26:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I may be the only one who is disappointed by this. My impression (based on the analysis of someone smarter than me) was that Netflix was having trouble beefing up their on-demand selection b/c the studios were trying to put the screws to them based on their \u003ci\u003etotal\u003c/i\u003e revenues (not just streaming revenues). I was hopeful that with this switch, they'd finally be able to make progress on growing their on-demand catalog again...","parent":"3093450","id":"3093648"}
{"by":"praxulus","time":"1341349406","timestamp":"2012-07-03 21:03:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Four years later, in 1994, BookLink Technologies featured tabbed windows in its InternetWorks browser... These were followed by a number of others like IBrowse in 1999, and Opera in 2000\"","parent":"4195803","id":"4196179"}
{"by":"x220","time":"1542327220","timestamp":"2018-11-16 00:13:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; hacked voting systems\ndo you have evidence that fake votes were cast?","parent":"18464727","id":"18464858"}
{"by":"dTal","time":"1397850282","timestamp":"2014-04-18 19:44:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can\u0026#x27;t be arsed posting a 9 page rebuttal with endnotes (most of my comments of that nature have 1 point) so I\u0026#x27;ll just pick on a few things:\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;[big description of how the internet works]\u003cp\u003eAs has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the internet was designed from day 1 to be decentralized. None of your examples count as \u0026quot;centralization\u0026quot; at the society level. There are millions of DHCP servers etc.  The exception is DNS, which was a centralized replacement for the original decentralized mechanism of hosts files - an understandable decision as software techniques for decentralized consensus were unknown at the time. Fortunately we can now correct this, with Namecoin or similar.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;All the devices on the internet would be constantly communicating, trying to find consensus, trying to update routes, trying to search distributed rings (my personal favorite topology) to find peers, connect services, authenticate trust relationships, query data, update indexes\u003cp\u003eYou seem to have a very detailed idea of how a \u0026quot;decentralized\u0026quot; internet would work at the technical level. Sounds like you\u0026#x27;re describing a global meshnet, as imagined today. Obviously we do not currently have the tools to develop an efficient global meshnet. However, just because you cannot personally imagine one doesn\u0026#x27;t mean it isn\u0026#x27;t possible.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;FDIC-insured bank\u003cp\u003eMust have missed something - what\u0026#x27;s Facebook\u0026#x27;s FDIC equivalent? I wasn\u0026#x27;t aware that \u003ci\u003ecough\u003c/i\u003ecloud\u003ci\u003ecough\u003c/i\u003e services had a regulatory body that would compensate me if they failed to do their job.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;It\u0026#x27;s just a really dangerous idea to put data you care about in a place that\u0026#x27;s easily available to thieves\u003cp\u003eI agree. How exactly is a hard drive in my basement more accessible to thieves than a data center (a much juicier target) run by people of unknown competence and ethics? Of course, if you\u0026#x27;re paranoid about your house burning down, there\u0026#x27;s nothing stopping you from putting an encrypted, uuencoded zip of your files on pastebin.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;the very idea of decentralized services is contrary to high-availability data\u003cp\u003eBittorrent: Faster, cheaper, and more robust than a central server.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;we put a man on the moon with centralized services\u003cp\u003eReally? I thought we did it by funding a whole bunch of aerospace companies to design and build different pieces. Sounds pretty decentralized. \u0026quot;But the funding came from the government!\u0026quot; The funding came from taxes, which came from millions of people, who would not have had that money were it not for the economy! Now there\u0026#x27;s a whopping great decentralized system for you. Shall we switch to a planned economy? Would that be more efficient?\u003cp\u003eThe best way to make a system do what you want is design its ground rules from the get-go such that it self-organizes that way.","parent":"7603716","id":"7610913"}
{"by":"brown9-2","time":"1275616149","timestamp":"2010-06-04 01:49:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for posting this. The course is on iTunesU also, if anyone wants to download the files to sync to your iPod or iPhone.","parent":"1403188","id":"1403258"}
{"by":"evanhamilton","time":"1340994792","timestamp":"2012-06-29 18:33:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"+300 :)","parent":"4178154","id":"4178253"}
{"by":"kozkozkoz","time":"1447344928","timestamp":"2015-11-12 16:15:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hooks is doing the same for 1 year now and already has 300K+ happy users, more topics and sending almost 2M notifications a day to happy users.\u003cp\u003eActually we are very happy here at Hooks to welcome Facebook in the real-time notification era. Now it\u0026#x27;s going to get much more attention so it\u0026#x27;s good for us.\u003cp\u003eWhat do you think?","parent":"10553992","id":"10554020"}
{"by":"sophacles","time":"1300138952","timestamp":"2011-03-14 21:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"True, but you are now setting up a false dilemma. The point is not that arbitrary units are hard, nor that any 2 are relatively harder. It is that a consistent unit that is not arbitrary is easier than the arbitrary ones, and usually involves quite a few useful \"symetries\" (by which I don't mean real symetries, but conceptual linkages).\u003cp\u003eAs for why people think degrees is easier: it is simply because common usage of degrees makes the concept familiar to learners. I totally agree that teaching trig in terms of radians first would be much better.","parent":"2324407","id":"2324638"}
{"by":"bandrami","time":"1476372859","timestamp":"2016-10-13 15:34:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the biggest problem with attempts to \u0026quot;revolutionize\u0026quot; US education is that nobody has identified an actual problem it has. US public schools actually get pretty damn good results by worldwide standards.","parent":"12700641","id":"12701404"}
{"by":"jabiko","time":"1388174780","timestamp":"2013-12-27 20:06:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g\u0026amp;t=6h30m30s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.youtube.com\u0026#x2F;watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g\u0026amp;t=6h30m30s\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6972328","id":"6972356"}
{"by":"xorbyte","time":"1382561863","timestamp":"2013-10-23 20:57:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The previous hackathon was near Zurich \u003ca href=\"https://whispersystems.org/blog/hackathon-zurich/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;whispersystems.org\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;hackathon-zurich\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e, so it\u0026#x27;s certainly not out of the question it will be outside of the US again, some time in the future.","parent":"6601602","id":"6601665"}
{"by":"ok_craig","time":"1340826794","timestamp":"2012-06-27 19:53:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Really?  It seems like it made sense and maybe sounded funny for like... two days.  Now I kinda like it.  I'm surprised that the hate for this name is sticking for so long for that many people.","parent":"4168272","id":"4168907"}
{"by":"2close4comfort","time":"1498830428","timestamp":"2017-06-30 13:47:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"!! Phishing Achievement Unlocked !!","parent":"14670522","id":"14670653"}
{"by":"lb1lf","time":"1499167457","timestamp":"2017-07-04 11:24:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"-Then again, nothing to prevent you from digitally signing the message encoded in OTP.\u003cp\u003eSo, you verify the integrity by a mechanism separate from the encoding. (This may or may not be sufficient, depending on the needs of the OP.)\u003cp\u003eAlso, of course - the odds of someone tampering with a message encoded using OTP and having the tamper still appear a valid message once decoded could probably best be described as astronomical.","parent":"14694975","id":"14695158"}
{"by":"dingo_bat","time":"1527166108","timestamp":"2018-05-24 12:48:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; So the only explanation for this behaviour is that there\u0026#x27;s some shady shit going down that they want to stop before they have to admit to it.\u003cp\u003eNo, it can something as simple as \u0026quot;we cannot guarantee that all your data is deleted with our current storage system\u0026quot;. It would be a lot better if people stop being so alarmist.","parent":"17143348","id":"17143402"}
{"by":"amm","time":"1358859825","timestamp":"2013-01-22 13:03:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For personal projects or for learning the principles of FP, there is nothing wrong with using Haskell.\u003cp\u003eFrom personal experience however, I will not be using Haskell again for a larger professional project, because our team ran into too many time consuming issues and problems that have been solved successfully in other languages/environments (especially the JVM) like dependency management or reasoning over runtime characteristics before deploying the application on production systems. Especially memory consumption is very hard to predict.\u003cp\u003eOf course, the language also has its benefits and even after some years it tickles your brain just the right way.\u003cp\u003eI like programming in Haskell very much, but in real world projects (you know - when you work in a team not only consisting of PhDs) I prefer Scala or Java, because getting a war file deployed or profiling an application is just so much easier.\u003cp\u003eYMMV, of course.","parent":"5096523","id":"5096874"}
{"by":"to3m","time":"1426381173","timestamp":"2015-03-15 00:59:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No. It will be like typing on a laptop keyboard, I imagine. I imagine the main requirement is just that it be a lot better than typing on your phone, which fortunately is a pretty low bar, allowing them to focus on saving space even if it\u0026#x27;s at the expense of a bit of key feel.","parent":"9204842","id":"9204883"}
{"by":"faisalkhalid80","time":"1537970193","timestamp":"2018-09-26 13:56:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"yes, and no (cash back).","parent":"18075506","id":"18075951"}
{"by":"alyandon","time":"1450319599","timestamp":"2015-12-17 02:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Unfortunately, all this story does is confirm what I already knew about Lexmark.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve refused to purchase Lexmark gear after they started using the DMCA to try and prevent third parties from manufacturing compatible toner and ink cartridges for their printers.","parent":"10749080","id":"10749101"}
{"by":"e12e","time":"1385628030","timestamp":"2013-11-28 08:40:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But what is that sequence (I know the unicode sequence is listed below\n-- but is it some wierd edge-case)? — because if I manually compose\u0026#x2F;type\nthose (and a few other characters) everything seems to work fine:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    [edit: Python 3.2.3]\n    [edit: [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2]\n\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;öo̧\u0026#x27;[1:] #copy-paste\n    \u0026#x27;o̧\u0026#x27;\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;öo̧\u0026#x27;[::-1] # \u0026quot;reverse\u0026quot; also breaks\n    \u0026#x27;̧oö\u0026#x27;\n    #But for Japanese:\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;日本語\u0026#x27;[1:]\n    \u0026#x27;本語\u0026#x27;\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;日本語\u0026#x27;[:-1]\n    \u0026#x27;日本\u0026#x27;\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;日本語\u0026#x27;[-1:]\n    \u0026#x27;語\u0026#x27;\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;日本語\u0026#x27;[::-1]\n    \u0026#x27;語本日\u0026#x27;\n    # And Norwegian\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;æåø\u0026#x27;[::-1]\n    \u0026#x27;øåæ\u0026#x27;\n    # And a few \u0026quot;French\u0026quot; characters (in this case\n    # manually typed as alt+~+e, etc\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;ẽêèe\u0026#x27;[::-1]\n    \u0026#x27;eèêẽ\u0026#x27;\n    # And crucially for your example, typed as\n    # alt+\u0026quot;+o\n    \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#x27;öo\u0026#x27;[::-1]\n    \u0026#x27;oö\u0026#x27;\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nSo is your initial example some kind of unicode-without-bom(b) or\nsomething?\u003cp\u003e[edit2: I gather, that working with \u0026quot;pre-composed\u0026quot; characters work, and working with \u0026quot;de-composed\u0026quot; ones break. Which, while expected, is a little sad, I agree.]","parent":"6808922","id":"6813643"}
{"by":"sbarre","time":"1350849731","timestamp":"2012-10-21 20:02:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fair enough!  That makes sense...","parent":"4678497","id":"4680605"}
{"by":"OoTheNigerian","time":"1331882790","timestamp":"2012-03-16 07:26:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Competition is good. Readability is certainly making him stepup. I still think ignoring android is a mistake (assuming he continues to do so in the future.). I foresee sharing happening within these read later apps and the size of the network matters.","parent":"3711984","id":"3712362"}
{"by":"immy","time":"1343323729","timestamp":"2012-07-26 17:28:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Both have the same value proposition. Flock has far clearer messaging.","parent":"4297119","id":"4297344"}
{"by":"zheng","time":"1326602278","timestamp":"2012-01-15 04:37:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can't remember the last time I used an i[Pod,Pad,Phone], but that doesn't make stories about them unimportant.","parent":"3466358","id":"3466367"}
{"by":"maxtilford","time":"1286470324","timestamp":"2010-10-07 16:52:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very nice. That's a tool I was just about to need.\nMy circles and rectangles are a bit sloppy... Scratch that, I found the toolbox. Awesome.","parent":"1768345","id":"1768436"}
{"by":"sjs","time":"1290180409","timestamp":"2010-11-19 15:26:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Sphinx website mentions scaling but just throws numbers out there without mentioning scaling out. Assuming it is distributed you'd have to run benchmarks with your data and queries to really know how it'll perform against Riak Search for any given number of nodes.\u003cp\u003eIf it's not distributed then Riak search \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e outperform it with enough nodes, without question. The question then becomes how many nodes.\u003cp\u003eI'd love to see some benchmarks on this sort of thing if anyone is up to it.","parent":"1921547","id":"1921620"}
{"by":"michaelchisari","time":"1320106434","timestamp":"2011-11-01 00:13:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah, I have the opposite reaction.  I think python is very elegant, and I really appreciate it's \"one and only one way\" philosophy, as opposed to ruby's \"you are a special snowflake\" approach.\u003cp\u003eIt really can be just a matter of preference, though.  Python and Ruby are so, so, so similar, that ultimately I find flamewars between them to be tiring at best.","parent":"3179698","id":"3179833"}
{"by":"joeguilmette","time":"1481677705","timestamp":"2016-12-14 01:08:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The connection to ownership works for things you operate. If I do my own laundry I want a nice washing machine, and I\u0026#x27;ll shop for one, upgrade on features, etc. Same for kitchen knives.\u003cp\u003eI have a maid who does my laundry so I don\u0026#x27;t care about my washing machine anymore. I still cook so I want good knives, but if my maid were to start cooking I\u0026#x27;d stop caring.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t own a car, but sometimes I rent one. And when I do I almost always pay 2-3x for a sports car because it\u0026#x27;s fun.\u003cp\u003eWhen I use Uber, I never pay for the upgrade to a nicer car. I\u0026#x27;m just going to read or fiddle with my phone, so I don\u0026#x27;t care about the car at all.\u003cp\u003eI predict the exact same behavior for autonomous cars. And why would I pay $25k for a car when I can get the same thing for $1 a ride (and not have to worry about parking or maintenance or upgrades to new models).","parent":"13172030","id":"13172931"}
{"by":"andreapaiola","time":"1506803911","timestamp":"2017-09-30 20:38:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s a DE","parent":"15374234","id":"15374878"}
{"by":"jon-wood","time":"1463897776","timestamp":"2016-05-22 06:16:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not quite that simple - I work weekdays, my wife works Thursday, Friday, Saturday, with her Mum looking after our son on Thursday and Friday. On Saturdays I look after him.\u003cp\u003eHonestly I have no idea how anyone could expect to be able to work at the same time as looking after a two year old, I\u0026#x27;ve done it once while my brother came over to entertain him, and even then it was just barely viable. Young children just don\u0026#x27;t understand the concept of someone being present in the room but not able to pay attention to them.","parent":"11744595","id":"11747547"}
{"by":"pyre","time":"1400801879","timestamp":"2014-05-22 23:37:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; While more research is needed, the proposed timeline suggests that asteroids — including NEOs that pose a potential threat to Earth — may have much greater longevity than previously estimated.\u003cp\u003eThe phrasing here is a little confusing. Is it just new that NEOs can be this old? What was the thinking before? That no asteroids could be that old? Or that no asteroids that old would ever come near Earth (if so, why)?\u003cp\u003eAm I missing some information (e.g. said meteorite was in some sort of unstable orb around Earth \u0026#x2F; the Sun for a long time)?","parent":"7786848","id":"7787246"}
{"by":"ausjke","time":"1474123985","timestamp":"2016-09-17 14:53:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"it\u0026#x27;s not what she\u0026#x2F;he speaks, it\u0026#x27;s that they become the honeypot for the event, so the event can get larger attention\u0026#x2F;influence(fame, money, publicity,etc).","parent":"12519150","id":"12520718"}
{"by":"polarix","time":"1437412687","timestamp":"2015-07-20 17:18:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And nothing done entirely in consensual privacy should be a crime.","parent":"9917413","id":"9917481"}
{"by":"M_Bakhtiari","time":"1518706610","timestamp":"2018-02-15 14:56:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As long as you have a night sky observation permit.\u003cp\u003eThe United States has serious problems with bean counter overreach:\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;morning-mix\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;criticizing-red-light-cameras-is-not-a-punishable-offense-oregon-concedes\u0026#x2F;?utm_term=.28a5dee72b95\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;morning-mix\u0026#x2F;wp\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;12\u0026#x2F;0...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile the conservative politicians keep talking incessantly about deregulation, but it seems like it only applies to specific regulations that are inconvenient to friends of their, instead of actually attacking the deep cultural problem American society has with bureaucratic overreach. For goodness sake, a lot of actual dictatorships will meddle less in your personal business than the United States.","parent":"16384150","id":"16384455"}
{"by":"nikanj","time":"1546031854","timestamp":"2018-12-28 21:17:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Or more likely, CenturyLink is now tacking a mandatory $10 \u0026quot;911 robustness and replication\u0026quot; fee to your bill.\u003cp\u003eSomeone\u0026#x27;s gotta pay for those duplicated systems.","parent":"18779249","id":"18779491"}
{"by":"Arnt","time":"1510398780","timestamp":"2017-11-11 11:13:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What you try to say is (I think): RSS is better because it\u0026#x27;s totally foreign to clickbait. The goals sites try to reach using clickbait are goals not helped by RSS.\u003cp\u003eRight?\u003cp\u003eRSS is badly suited as a vector for virally driven waves of outrage. \u0026quot;Let\u0026#x27;s call it an accidental feature\u0026quot; as lwall once wrote.","parent":"15675823","id":"15675876"}
{"by":"jszymborski","time":"1511196772","timestamp":"2017-11-20 16:52:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Totally agree. I was just trying to make the point that if you want to chose a living organism to stick DNA in, it\u0026#x27;s likey bacteria, not Human via virus.\u003cp\u003eLyophilization \u0026gt; Bacteria Host \u0026gt;\u0026gt; Human Host","parent":"15741006","id":"15741265"}
{"by":"devicenull","time":"1355166829","timestamp":"2012-12-10 19:13:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And you'd make the game \u003ci\u003ecompletely\u003c/i\u003e unplayable for everyone that doesn't live in a big city.  A lot of people don't seem to realize that unless you're in a densely populated area with a lot of history, there is really no choice but to drive.","parent":"4897888","id":"4900945"}
{"by":"paulddraper","time":"1444601166","timestamp":"2015-10-11 22:06:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is dangerous. Just as dangerous as, say, the government taking over a bunch of uncollectable housing loans. Or the United States federal government renouncing all its public debt.\u003cp\u003eIf there has been illegal acts, they should be rectified. But saying \u0026quot;I really don\u0026#x27;t want to follow through on what I agreed to\u0026quot; just because minds changed is not justifiable, and sets a an ill-advised precedent.","parent":"10371193","id":"10371277"}
{"by":"marcosdumay","time":"1443106362","timestamp":"2015-09-24 14:52:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What? Animals do not require much land area if you don\u0026#x27;t count the space needed to grow their food. They\u0026#x27;ll scale just as well as your indoor lettuce (that is not at all). You seem to be trying to solve the wrong problem.","parent":"10271635","id":"10271928"}
{"by":"aantix","time":"1454972545","timestamp":"2016-02-08 23:02:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The second I see iTunes is syncing I think to myself \u0026quot;oh fuck, oh fuck\u0026quot; and look to force quit the app as soon as possible.\u003cp\u003eThen I spend the next half hour looking at the connected device to ensure my collection is still there.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s part of the reason why I switched over to the (defunct) Rdio.  Managing the individual iTunes music files was just too stressful.","parent":"11061528","id":"11061604"}
{"by":"scottmwinters","time":"1406134649","timestamp":"2014-07-23 16:57:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Integrating this with Nest would make it one of the coolest and most useful embedded electronics on the market. What if it adjusted the temperature immediately and automatically when it determined that you were cold or hot? A sensor is great. Its really cool. But a control system that reacts based on the sensor data...thats a great device with a large market","parent":"8074724","id":"8075424"}
{"by":"lhl","time":"1368933705","timestamp":"2013-05-19 03:21:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A \u003ci\u003eslightly\u003c/i\u003e more recent invention that I recall would be Jack Andraka's pancreatic cancer testing.  Via Wikipedia[1]:\u003cp\u003e\"Andraka's sensor costs $0.03 (to compare to a $800 cost of a standard test[10]) and 10 tests can be performed per strip, taking 5 minutes each. The method is 168 times faster, 26,667 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than ELISA, and 25% to 50% more accurate than the CA19-9 test\"\u003cp\u003eDiscussion on Hacker News from last year: \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265830\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265830\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5731494","id":"5731636"}
{"by":"justysebitcoin","time":"1432930486","timestamp":"2015-05-29 20:14:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"this is a great start: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mailinabox.email\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;mailinabox.email\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9620896","id":"9627006"}
{"by":"sho","time":"1533290559","timestamp":"2018-08-03 10:02:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hit the nail on the head. Decades of underinvestment in critical infrastructure has left the whole system vulnerable to even small influxes.\u003cp\u003eDriving down the eastern seaboard of Australia one is struck by the hundreds of kilometres of perfectly habitable empty space. You could put two or three Hong Kongs on the coast between Sydney and Melbourne and no-one would even notice. We just need the damn infrastructure!\u003cp\u003eGiven its land mass, Australia at 25m is a joke. We can support ten times that. That \u0026quot;uninhabitable desert\u0026quot; is no worse than Arizona really. All that\u0026#x27;s needed is a little bit of long-term thinking and investment.\u003cp\u003eAnyone familiar with my comments knows I\u0026#x27;m no fan of \u0026quot;high-functioning autocracies\u0026quot; like China or Singapore but bloody hell - it would be good to get them in charge for just a few years and \u003ci\u003ebuild stuff\u003c/i\u003e.","parent":"17678411","id":"17678557"}
{"by":"Alain-lf","time":"1523551848","timestamp":"2018-04-12 16:50:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was it a malfunction?\u003cp\u003eAre you serious? The car decided to turn and hit a divider at 60mph without ever attempting to brake.\u003cp\u003eThe reason the driver is required to pay full attention is because the software malfunctions in some cases.","parent":"16822366","id":"16822716"}
{"by":"silentbicycle","time":"1216774124","timestamp":"2008-07-23 00:48:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right. I remember reading something where the author's teacher, when asked what some chanting in a sutra meant, basically said, \"Oh, that? That's just Hindu stuff.\"\u003cp\u003eHistorically, buddhism has partially melded with the local worldview as it has been carried from culture to culture: Theravada in India seems to have a lot of elements from Hinduism in it, Mahayana in China and Japan incorporated Taoism and Shinto respectively, Tibetan Vajrayana melded with Bon, etc. It seems to me that buddhism in America has been absorbing psychology, though it may be too early to say.\u003cp\u003eAlso, I think another reason for the relative popularity of Zen / Mahayana here is that some of the Beats, particularly Alan Watts, attracted people to Shunryu Suzuki and the San Francisco Zen Center. Other buddhisms are common in immigrant communities, for example, but the Zen Center had a head start.","parent":"253845","id":"253855"}
{"by":"Illniyar","time":"1502446716","timestamp":"2017-08-11 10:18:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"These kind of complexities is why, as much as I would love it to, the web as it is cannot compete with the performance of native apps.\u003cp\u003eWhat is in native a simple number (maybe two) is dozens of pages of specifications - which result in insane amount of work to deduce the value of a simple variable.\u003cp\u003eLayout and rendering is probably even worse in this regard.","parent":"14985075","id":"14988136"}
{"by":"ChuckMcM","time":"1356139119","timestamp":"2012-12-22 01:18:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Too bad the WoW random number generator was flawed, somewhere in there it had the clause\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e   if (item == tier2.druid.pants)\n       return (item = plate-wearer-loot());\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nOf this I am certain.","parent":"4955258","id":"4955381"}
{"by":"jibiki","time":"1243190402","timestamp":"2009-05-24 18:40:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I suspect that he is referring to the dreaded AGW (I have no idea whether burning oil contributes more to carbon levels than deforestation or burning coal.  In the long run, I think coal reserves contain similar carbon mass to oil reserves, but it always seems like the data is changing.)","parent":"624556","id":"624563"}
{"by":"pm90","time":"1441326738","timestamp":"2015-09-04 00:32:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, religion isn\u0026#x27;t always bad w.r.t literacy at least. Many Catholic institutions were the first to introduce and run very good english-medium schools in India, which have benefited millions. It actually had its own term: \u0026quot;convent schools\u0026quot;.","parent":"10167959","id":"10168253"}
{"by":"sasnyde","time":"1370392742","timestamp":"2013-06-05 00:39:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you don't trust your co-founder enough to show him the source code then you have a bigger problem here. How are you going to start a company and go thru the ups and downs of startup life with somebody you don't trust?","parent":"5818436","id":"5823018"}
{"by":"0x0","time":"1461341003","timestamp":"2016-04-22 16:03:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, if I\u0026#x27;m not mistaken, this means that if YOU can brute force a vanity domain, anyone else willing to throw down the same amount of computing power can perform the same brute force and discover your private key, taking over your onion site?\u003cp\u003eEdit: probably wrong, see below","parent":"11550111","id":"11550153"}
{"by":"perlgeek","time":"1388147011","timestamp":"2013-12-27 12:23:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Don\u0026#x27;t forget the recruiters, how seem to cold-email everybody who has a github account :-)","parent":"6970305","id":"6970376"}
{"by":"aninhumer","time":"1482271273","timestamp":"2016-12-20 22:01:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;So at the end of the day there is still no viable alternative to advertising supported content.\u003cp\u003eYes there is. Many creators successfully support themselves entirely based on Patreon.","parent":"13224435","id":"13224531"}
{"by":"cheshire137","time":"1419872038","timestamp":"2014-12-29 16:53:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Doesn\u0026#x27;t beat \u003ca href=\"http://www.hckrnews.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.hckrnews.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e for me since that lets me show just the top 50% of stories, top 20%, the front page, etc.","parent":"8809477","id":"8810543"}
{"by":"trotsky","time":"1350577218","timestamp":"2012-10-18 16:20:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"be aware that this isn't a great user experience - a number of ubuntu specific features will work poorly or not at all while you're logged in under gnome shell, and several gnome 3 desktop integration features also won't be working. It's mostly fixable, but very much a trial and error experience.","parent":"4669423","id":"4669466"}
{"by":"lucasjans","time":"1530836885","timestamp":"2018-07-06 00:28:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you focus on the risk management side of personal lines I think you\u0026#x27;re going to have a hard time to scale. The problem is most consumers don\u0026#x27;t care enough about coverage to shop for it. What attracts new clients is price, price, price. Clients unfortunately won\u0026#x27;t worry coverage until they really need it. The problem with focusing on price is you\u0026#x27;ll attract clients who won\u0026#x27;t renew after 3-5 years, messing up the retention numbers. Navigating the balance between those two will be critical.\u003cp\u003eNow there is some space in the high-end personal lines for focus on protection. But there you\u0026#x27;re competing against entrenched insurance agents.\u003cp\u003eSmall commercial is also a very interesting space to explore. Protection is much more important for these people and the sales process is easier to automate (than med\u0026#x2F;large commercial.)\u003cp\u003e---\u003cp\u003eI sold my startup in this space last year. We provided marketing automation for agents. Feel free to reach out.","parent":"17465114","id":"17468023"}
{"by":"santaclaus","time":"1459037984","timestamp":"2016-03-27 00:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hundreds and thousands.","parent":"11368063","id":"11368178"}
{"by":"kamaal","time":"1404835897","timestamp":"2014-07-08 16:11:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why don\u0026#x27;t they want their ex employees to disclose that they worked there? I can understand a government intelligence unit demanding that, but why would a hedge fund put such a restriction?\u003cp\u003ePlus they way you describe, any body who can get in there- Putnam winners, top Math PhD\u0026#x27;s probably already have better offers.","parent":"8004687","id":"8005233"}
{"by":"funkaster","time":"1546629795","timestamp":"2019-01-04 19:23:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not sure if it\u0026#x27;s the best, but I tried openfire, worked great for my use case, it was easy to deploy on k8s.","parent":"18825881","id":"18826891"}
{"by":"badmash69","time":"1317733479","timestamp":"2011-10-04 13:04:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't use Scala but I appreciate the  fresh ideas  it has brought to the Java /JVM ecosystem.  Think Jetlang Actors modeled after Scala actors or  Functional Java library  etc. or even Google Guava ,which although has nothing to do with Scala but promotes a succinct programming style.\u003cp\u003eKeep up the good work !","parent":"3070334","id":"3070695"}
{"by":"bouvin","time":"1526231875","timestamp":"2018-05-13 17:17:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As Ambrose Bierce wrote in The Devil\u0026#x27;s Dictionary: \u0026quot;In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.\u0026quot; \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dd.pangyre.org\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;patriotism.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;dd.pangyre.org\u0026#x2F;p\u0026#x2F;patriotism.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17059808","id":"17059909"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1260976783","timestamp":"2009-12-16 15:19:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Which one is the bigger population that can statically accommodate this growth? the set of people who consciously shop for browsers with faster Javascript VMs and faster startup times, or the set of people who click on Google ads? Specially authoritative looking ones?\u003cp\u003eLet's be real.","parent":"998889","id":"998914"}
{"by":"Banthum","time":"1499136422","timestamp":"2017-07-04 02:47:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In America, men are far more likely to be murdered than women. Men are far more likely to be victims of public-sphere violence than women. Private violence is hard to quantify, but what evidence there is suggests that women enact is roughly in equal proportion to men (though of course women are weaker, but they can use weapons and men who are domestically abused are typically ignored or laughed at).\u003cp\u003eGiven these data, portraying interpersonal violence as a special thing that women have to deal with is pretty absurd.\u003cp\u003eThe reality is that women are the far more protected gender. Nobody cares when men are victims of violence. People have always cared greatly when women are victims of violence.\u003cp\u003eIt reminds me of the great amount of political noise in Canada around \u0026quot;missing and murdered Aboriginal women\u0026quot;. Meanwhile nobody ever mentions missing and murdered Aboriginal men, even though Aboriginal men are \u003ci\u003emore than twice as likely\u003c/i\u003e to be missing or murdered than Aboriginal women! So politically a man\u0026#x27;s death is far less than half as important as a woman\u0026#x27;s death. It took years for the MMIW inquiry to even start considering men as a side-detail. [1]\u003cp\u003eI mean heck, your first anecdote. Picture a man running from his house today screaming his wife is trying to kill him. He could be laughed at. He could be arrested for abuse if she simply accuses him. These things happen all the time. The horror stories are everywhere.\u003cp\u003eSo, stepping outside the sexist \u0026quot;society must protect women, men must protect themselves\u0026quot; double standard, the case just doesn\u0026#x27;t add up. There must be another answer to parent\u0026#x27;s question.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cbc.ca\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;indigenous\u0026#x2F;mmiw-inquiry-could-include-indigenous-men-and-boys-1.3961554\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cbc.ca\u0026#x2F;news\u0026#x2F;indigenous\u0026#x2F;mmiw-inquiry-could-include...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14692607","dead":true,"id":"14693156"}
{"by":"kamakazizuru","time":"1391137768","timestamp":"2014-01-31 03:09:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m highly skeptical about how much of this will be relevant for  us (20 somethings) - when we retire. So much has changed significantly since this guy was 35. Most public pension systems such as the ones here in Europe likely wont even have enough money in them to pay our pensions..\u003cp\u003eAlso - the extreme risk averse attitude is quite a turn off. I\u0026#x27;m not saying everyone should invest in Dogecoin and Tesla - but taking some high reward risks can\u0026#x27;t be the worst idea..","parent":"7154497","id":"7155012"}
{"by":"component","time":"1489437127","timestamp":"2017-03-13 20:32:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The creator of Inferno joined the React team a while back. Performace wise, I\u0026#x27;m sure some of that Inferno magic will be there","parent":"13861154","id":"13862056"}
{"by":"ahnunahki","time":"1335212471","timestamp":"2012-04-23 20:21:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yay, programming via DSLs - who fucking cares.","parent":"3880095","dead":true,"id":"3880749"}
{"by":"grecy","time":"1418358368","timestamp":"2014-12-12 04:26:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; \u003ci\u003eThe damage that is done to your credit\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow will damage have been done to your credit? If they buy tons of stuff before you manage to cancel all your cards, or apply for tons of loans in your name before you manage to shut everything down?\u003cp\u003eIsn\u0026#x27;t that the same as if my credit card is stolen? These things are insured and all the charges get reversed and I move on with my life.... obviously a pain in the butt, though I don\u0026#x27;t think life altering.","parent":"8738536","id":"8738560"}
{"by":"herrherr","time":"1311420217","timestamp":"2011-07-23 11:23:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can receive pdf attachments directly, so you don't have to click on the link. Nevertheless that's not what you're looking for, I guess ;)\u003cp\u003eWe thought about putting the data directly into an email, but the crappy HTML/CSS support in the gazillion email clients, make this a pretty tough job.","parent":"2796652","id":"2796727"}
{"by":"Fellshard","time":"1537801803","timestamp":"2018-09-24 15:10:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fun story: there\u0026#x27;s actually an overbooking margin most hotels have for their inventory, especially for third-party providers, probably because there\u0026#x27;s usually at least some no-shows, and maximizing occupancy for each night is the highest priority.","parent":"18057484","id":"18058310"}
{"by":"elpool2","time":"1504204627","timestamp":"2017-08-31 18:37:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Slate.com does this.","parent":"15142174","id":"15142676"}
{"by":"anamax","time":"1320089584","timestamp":"2011-10-31 19:33:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; You just can't make enough money from startups to impress people in NYC.\u003cp\u003eHow many people do startups to impress random other people?  Is NYC different in this respect?","parent":"3178420","id":"3178651"}
{"by":"diziet","time":"1280046880","timestamp":"2010-07-25 08:34:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm really curious if this fellow approached Zuckerburg and tried to settle this via less public avenues.","parent":"1544822","id":"1545210"}
{"by":"pcwalton","time":"1478023915","timestamp":"2016-11-01 18:11:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"LLVM doesn\u0026#x27;t actually prefer the lower registers when doing register allocation. IIRC, sunfish told me that GCC doesn\u0026#x27;t either. It would be interesting to add features that try to minimize code size to the register allocator, but no compiler I know of actually does this.\u003cp\u003ePartially as a consequence of this, the REX prefixes take up a lot of space in most x86-64 instruction streams. In fact, the average size of each instruction is almost exactly 4 bytes, exactly the same as in classic 32-bit RISC architectures. (This is why I dislike it when people link to that old Linus post about how x86 is better than RISC architectures because of code size; it may have been true then, but not now.)","parent":"12848362","id":"12848627"}
{"by":"umbs","time":"1466058771","timestamp":"2016-06-16 06:32:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Lastly, don\u0026#x27;t waste time ...\u003cp\u003eFrom my 12 yrs work experience, I cannot emphasize how innocuous, trivial and prevalent above advise is, thus risking getting ignored. Please don\u0026#x27;t. This advise is most critical for ones growth (in all aspects).","parent":"11898773","id":"11914409"}
{"by":"interpol_p","time":"1546695046","timestamp":"2019-01-05 13:30:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thank you!\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve been working on a new app called Shade that\u0026#x27;s a visual shader editor. It\u0026#x27;s really made me fall in love with the node graph representation of logic.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;johntwolives\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;1081513719694159873\u0026#x2F;video\u0026#x2F;1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;twitter.com\u0026#x2F;johntwolives\u0026#x2F;status\u0026#x2F;1081513719694159873\u0026#x2F;...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eI enjoy using Workflow (now Shortcuts). And I\u0026#x27;m continuously impressed with Blueprints.\u003cp\u003eI think there\u0026#x27;s still something emotionally different about writing code. Like it hooks in to the part of your brain that deals with language in a way that visual tools don\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t think that makes it better, but it makes it feels different.\u003cp\u003eWhatever visual systems we experiment with, I hope to keep thinking about writing and the feeling of writing when we build tools to solve logical problems.","parent":"18831184","id":"18831526"}
{"by":"sytelus","time":"1538204274","timestamp":"2018-09-29 06:57:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Before YC, startup funding was truly wild west with too many term sheets with bad deals for founders. So kudos to YC for setting standards for founder-friendly term sheet and continuously pushing funding amount up. Some of the things I wish were different:\u003cp\u003e* Eliminating the whole \u0026quot;batch\u0026quot; concept. Ideas don\u0026#x27;t tend to born at YC deadlines. There should be a way to continuously accept applications as they arrive.\u003cp\u003e* Moving away from CA as center: Being in CA costs way too much for startups. I think startups should come to CA for hiring (may be) and then go away to places were things are dirt cheap, distractions are minimal and internet is fast. This alone can extend runway for many startups by an order of magnitude.\u003cp\u003e* Less discrimination against old veterans: PG had once mentioned that he typically doesn\u0026#x27;t prefer people who have worked for 10 years at BigCo because a true founder would have left long ago out of frustration. I think this is misguided line of thinking in many dimension. Even if it was somewhat true, it would be hard to rigidly generalize on entire population.","parent":"18095333","id":"18099073"}
{"by":"wavegeek","time":"1491518826","timestamp":"2017-04-06 22:47:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes - the big killer is the \u0026quot;bell curve\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eOnce people realize that making other people look bad is in their interests the organization is doomed.\u003cp\u003eYou need to get rid of poor performers but that should be based, as far as you can possibly manage it, on an objective standard.","parent":"14055236","id":"14055418"}
{"by":"tchap","time":"1353058751","timestamp":"2012-11-16 09:39:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anybody managed to get an API key for this service ? Seems that \u003ca href=\"http://developer.here.net/myapps\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://developer.here.net/myapps\u003c/a\u003e (which is linked elsewhere in the site and looks like the url for a developer dashboard) is broken (even when you're signed in or at least trying to sign in with a legit nokia developer account).","parent":"4787941","id":"4793146"}
{"by":"gipp","time":"1450037106","timestamp":"2015-12-13 20:05:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re not talking about an early-20th-century timber frame. This is a different material entirely.\u003cp\u003eA two-second Google search puts actual numbers on this: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fpinnovations.ca\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;factsheets\u0026#x2F;Documents\u0026#x2F;cross-laminated-timber-the-boook.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fpinnovations.ca\u0026#x2F;media\u0026#x2F;factsheets\u0026#x2F;Documents\u0026#x2F;cross-la...\u003c/a\u003e (page 8). Seems a standard suspended-ceiling type arrangement provides damping as good as a well-built concrete structure (by comparison to \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aia.org\u0026#x2F;practicing\u0026#x2F;awards\u0026#x2F;AIAB025071\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.aia.org\u0026#x2F;practicing\u0026#x2F;awards\u0026#x2F;AIAB025071\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cp\u003eHN comments seem to have a bad tendency to dismiss interesting and potentially cool ideas out of hand (especially about anything that isn\u0026#x27;t software) by citing the first difficulty that comes to mind, without doing even a little bit of research. As though the many highly qualified engineers putting this stuff together wouldn\u0026#x27;t have thought of something as basic as sound insulation.","parent":"10727471","id":"10727680"}
{"by":"godelski","time":"1531150177","timestamp":"2018-07-09 15:29:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"As software engineers\u0026#x2F;computer people, we have to have ethical standards. If you participate in writing code like the one in the VW case then you are not only complacent but active in fraud.\u003cp\u003eEngineers have a code of ethics. If you were to knowingly build an unsafe bridge then you would be liable for the damage and injuries it caused if\u0026#x2F;when it failed. This is true even if your boss told you to do it. You not only have a moral\u0026#x2F;ethical obligation to not build that bridge, but also a legal one.\u003cp\u003eAs we write software we need to keep these things also in mind. We are writing things that affect peoples lives. That could kill people. That affect the environment. We need to hold ourselves to the same moral obligations as other engineers. We have a duty to prevent harming people when we write our software.\u003cp\u003eIf you have no stand to refuse to do the work then it is your duty to report such actions. First up the chain, and if that is rejected, then to the media. It is also your duty to report it if you have refused and you see it still happening. There are whistleblower rights in place to protect you.","parent":"17490319","id":"17490942"}
{"by":"iLoch","time":"1385362203","timestamp":"2013-11-25 06:50:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wow you sure exploited that fast, and in such a dark manner. Congrats!","parent":"6792420","id":"6792855"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1489275227","timestamp":"2017-03-11 23:33:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I already have a Makefile to automate most of the steps, but you still need to write changelogs, push a signed tag to Github, update the package specs and create and push all the repos.","parent":"13839765","id":"13847903"}
{"by":"zaidf","time":"1523265355","timestamp":"2018-04-09 09:15:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A large part of a solid PR team’s job is to cultivate relationships with journalists so when situations like these arise, they feel compelled to cover the issue in a more nuanced and educated manner. I don’t mean to say the PR team has to strive to spread lies or dishonesty, but rather be able to get your company somewhat fair coverage. I don’t think that is happening.\u003cp\u003eI’ll go a step further and argue that for a company like Facebook, you should have a dozen folks whose job is to simply come in everyday and think about the possible attack vectors from the PR side. And then you work backwards from the worst case scenarios of each to begin addressing the issue from various sides (engineering, BD, Corp dev etc), ideally long before it plays out.\u003cp\u003eTo give you an example, google PR for a long time has been super aware of getting caught in a media tsunami charging it for being a monopoly. My hunch is that every public speaker representing google has been made aware of this and is provided guidance. For example, you won’t find google engineers talking at big data conferences even joking about world domination. Instead, in public, google underplays its larger ambition to err on the side of caution.","parent":"16791076","id":"16791503"}
{"by":"Dylan16807","time":"1406215533","timestamp":"2014-07-24 15:25:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Trademarks are heavily contextual, so still nope.","parent":"8080015","id":"8080044"}
{"by":"Pxtl","time":"1503544913","timestamp":"2017-08-24 03:21:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Honestly, fakemeat products have become so good that I\u0026#x27;m not longer interested.  Their biggest failing is cost, and lab products aren\u0026#x27;t cheaper.","parent":"15085509","id":"15087369"}
{"by":"ameister14","time":"1394275991","timestamp":"2014-03-08 10:53:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hahaha, awesome. This is what makes me come back to the hn community time and time again. Thanks for the update.","parent":"7363936","id":"7364864"}
{"by":"drb91","time":"1536197699","timestamp":"2018-09-06 01:34:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, really good social media would only discuss fact.","parent":"17923142","id":"17923306"}
{"by":"Dayshine","time":"1500479314","timestamp":"2017-07-19 15:48:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not sure a business is a better \u0026quot;pension\u0026quot; than a pension. No pension + business is a risky retirement.","parent":"14804968","id":"14805162"}
{"by":"bg4","time":"1275596699","timestamp":"2010-06-03 20:24:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Now he needs to splice them all into a single video showing the gradual degradation over time.","parent":"1401994","id":"1402427"}
{"by":"khedoros1","time":"1494889068","timestamp":"2017-05-15 22:57:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well...except in the case of the disk encryption key being stored in a \u0026quot;secure enclave\u0026quot;-style chip. You don\u0026#x27;t need to erase the data on the device, just clear the unreadable keystore.","parent":"14345182","id":"14345943"}
{"by":"ptck_s","time":"1357431354","timestamp":"2013-01-06 00:15:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just have started a blog about my first internet startup. It’ll provide an inside look, starting from day 0. I would be pleased if you follow me on twitter: @ptck_s","parent":"5014377","id":"5014640"}
{"by":"cschmidt","time":"1467057546","timestamp":"2016-06-27 19:59:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve worked in Waltham myself, so I\u0026#x27;m not dissing on it.  I just don\u0026#x27;t really buy that his statistic was 4 times better.  In fact, doing it my way says that neither Waltham or Cambridge is statistically better than the other, although the point estimate for Waltham is a bit higher.","parent":"11988367","id":"11988997"}
{"by":"LeonidBugaev","time":"1481861088","timestamp":"2016-12-16 04:04:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Analytics, Reporting, Ad management and Biding platform, Fraud detection, and way more.\u003cp\u003eThis basic CRUD app is just user-facing thing, and now remember that they are making money not because of you, but because of publishers. This is where main functionality is.","parent":"13190826","id":"13190981"}
{"by":"venantius","time":"1539791937","timestamp":"2018-10-17 15:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Afaik, YC is the only seed funder-startup accelerator in the world, among thousands of other ones, that has given birth to companies worth $1 billion ore more.\u003cp\u003eSeedcamp (London) has backed 3 unicorns: Revolut [$1.7B], UiPath [$3B], and TransferWise [$1.6B], and that\u0026#x27;s just a venture firm I know off the top of my head. While these days they\u0026#x27;re closer to a first-round fund (with a similar economic deal to YC) than an accelerator, most of those were from back when they were operating in a proper accelerator model.\u003cp\u003eI suspect there are probably a few other accelerators around the world that have unicorns in their portfolio - you just don\u0026#x27;t hear about them because they\u0026#x27;re not local.","parent":"18240188","id":"18240315"}
{"by":"equivalence","time":"1288129640","timestamp":"2010-10-26 21:47:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm sure many people do benefit from taking notes but I'm convinced that pg most likely wasn't dismissing note taking in general. I think he was more likely to be meaning you don't need to write down every word he says, akin to almost transcribing the talk - well this was my take on it anyway. Basically he was implying that the substance of the talk will appear in a later essay, which it did. To me, with this point in particular, the author of the article appears to be trying to find something (anything?) to take issue with, which in my opinion makes me value his other points a little less favourably.","parent":"1835791","id":"1836253"}
{"by":"mseebach","time":"1334918241","timestamp":"2012-04-20 10:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whatsapp uses XMPP, so trivial to intercept and block. I think it has to do with challenging BlackBerry and BBMs dominance in that market.","parent":"3867254","id":"3867278"}
{"by":"sandstrom","time":"1391241005","timestamp":"2014-02-01 07:50:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A similar product is \u003ca href=\"https://skylight.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;skylight.io\u003c/a\u003e, built by some very formidable people (only a Ruby apps yet though).\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://serverdensity.io\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;serverdensity.io\u003c/a\u003e is another great product!\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026#x27;t want to take the spotlight away from Amon here, it looks like a good product and the idea of focusing on meaningful analysis is nice (instead of only storing droves of raw stats).","parent":"7156291","id":"7161162"}
{"by":"karmacondon","time":"1414499916","timestamp":"2014-10-28 12:38:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Evolution doesn\u0026#x27;t have anything to do with strength or weakness, it\u0026#x27;s about fitting the current environment. Sometimes smaller organisms are more likely to survive because it\u0026#x27;s easier for them to hide from predators. Sometimes the most important thing is coloration that allows an organism to blend in to the background. Some of the most successful organisms in history (ie, pigeons) aren\u0026#x27;t particularly strong or \u0026quot;not weak\u0026quot;, they were just the best suited to survive in the world that they lived in.\u003cp\u003ePhilosophers like to attach social messages to evolution, but one of the real lessons is \u0026quot;Adapt to your environment\u0026quot;. It\u0026#x27;s not about working hard, or not being the weakest, it\u0026#x27;s about being the right organism for the moment. In the evolutionary environment of human society it\u0026#x27;s not being the smartest or working the hardest, it\u0026#x27;s being in the right place at the right time.","parent":"8520469","id":"8520605"}
{"by":"gozur88","time":"1461406634","timestamp":"2016-04-23 10:17:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, that\u0026#x27;s not true at all.  The economy was no more important to early Americans than it is anywhere else.","parent":"11553575","id":"11554937"}
{"by":"plaes","time":"1325090155","timestamp":"2011-12-28 16:35:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"Manifold Destiny\" - \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Destiny\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Destiny\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3398455","id":"3400299"}
{"by":"hcarvalhoalves","time":"1355952179","timestamp":"2012-12-19 21:22:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The fiber helps your bowels work correctly. We were not created to evacuate bricks. You don't need a PhD in organic chemistry and biology to understand that, just experience with babies.","parent":"4944658","id":"4944925"}
{"by":"w0utert","time":"1343293193","timestamp":"2012-07-26 08:59:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; The ways something can be abused are not arguments against proper use of it.\u003cp\u003eWhile true, the rate at which things are abused appears to be highly correlated to how convenient or user-friendly they are, or how well they solve the problem they are supposed to be solving.\u003cp\u003eJust looking at how many people have desktops crowded with every document they ever opened, or how many computer-illiterate friends and relatives have asked me how they should backup or transfer their files to and from other computers, because they don't even know you can actually get to them by other means than the 'open file' dialog in their Word Processor, signals to me that many people don't really think organizing files using folders is something they need or want.","parent":"4295037","id":"4295085"}
{"by":"Slansitartop","time":"1521657077","timestamp":"2018-03-21 18:31:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I know I would have been happy if this whole thread never existed, but alas, the root comment came to be.","parent":"16639834","id":"16641034"}
{"by":"TaylorAlexander","time":"1547570599","timestamp":"2019-01-15 16:43:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"“The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, a nonprofit group that conducts a yearly census of the western monarch, said the population reached historic lows in 2018, an estimated 86 percent decline from the previous year.\u003cp\u003eThat in itself would be troubling news. But, combined with a 97 percent decline in the total population since the 1980s, this year’s count is ‘potentially catastrophic,’ according to the biologist Emma Pelton.”\u003cp\u003eThat’s the hard bit for me.\u003cp\u003eWhat are we doing to this planet? What will it become? The monarchs are a blessing of a creature. Will we just watch them wither away? Can we escape our petty dramatized politics and think of what we are passing on to future generations? Not just high tech benefits, but mountains of plastics for packaging, toys, and many “novelties” that are useless except for cheap thrills.\u003cp\u003eSo while many will say our system has brought great wealth for humans, it’s important to think about which humans have seen wealth and which have seen further destruction. And what species and vistas all of humanity lost to gain our treasures. Those too have a cost, but not much that any of us will have to bear. The cost is paid by someone else we’ve never met or who may never be born yet. But sometimes, stories like this remind us of the great damage we are doing to this Earth.","parent":"18912164","id":"18912444"}
{"by":"chubot","time":"1504312152","timestamp":"2017-09-02 00:29:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Where in typeobject.c?  I looked, and there\u0026#x27;s a lot of stuff related to slots, but I don\u0026#x27;t see any caching.\u003cp\u003eAlso I did a speed test on my machine.  My results are the same as the ones I\u0026#x27;ve found through Google: __slots__ is not much faster.  It\u0026#x27;s maybe 20% faster, whereas if it was really a dict lookup vs. index lookup I would expect it to be an order magnitude faster, or at least 5 times faster.\u003cp\u003eTo be clear, I\u0026#x27;m claiming that every time you do \u0026quot;p.x\u0026quot; with a class with __slots__, at least one dictionary lookup occurs.  It\u0026#x27;s not like p.x in C or Java.\u003cp\u003eI could be wrong, but I\u0026#x27;ve never heard the claim you\u0026#x27;re making, and I don\u0026#x27;t see any evidence it\u0026#x27;s true.","parent":"15152544","id":"15153409"}
{"by":"xirium","time":"1203873019","timestamp":"2008-02-24 17:10:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Peter principle ( \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle\u003c/a\u003e ) can lead to a bozo explosion ( \u003ca href=\"http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html\u003c/a\u003e ).\u003cp\u003eI believe that there are two factors which influence likelihood of a bozo explosion. The first is the organisation's rate of expansion. The second is the quality of human resources.\u003cp\u003eRegarding the rate of expansion, it is widely known that a company which repeatly grows at 100% per year is consumed by bozos. However, an organisation which does not expand may also be consumed by bozos. This is because the superstars don't wish to remain in a company which is mere \"treading water\" and therefore the quality of staff declines. It is very likely that the optimal rate of expansion is small and steady on the basis that it is better to not hire at all rather than hire badly.\u003cp\u003eRegarding human resources, if you've got a company with 100 staff then it is logical to delegate hiring. At this point, hiring takes a life of its own. After human resources personnel are added or replaced, you'll have people who've been hired by people who've been hired by people that you hired personally. If you're not careful then new hires could be of \u003ci\u003eany\u003c/i\u003e quality.\u003cp\u003eGoogle has been relatively close to 100% expansion in some years. So, I'd argue that Google's human resources is closely monitored. Indeed, you could take an educated guess and say that the success of hiring could be monitored with an algorithm. Maybe this is a ranking algorithm? It is also extremely probable that job applications are filtered automatically.","parent":"122256","id":"122538"}
{"by":"Lockyy","time":"1337084760","timestamp":"2012-05-15 12:26:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's he same problem as teleportation (star trek teleportation specifically)\u003cp\u003eThey scan you, break you down, then transmit and create a new you. \nNow if you re-order this a little.\nScan, transmit, create and then break down the original.\nThere are two of you, then the original is killed.\nThis shows that during the original process the first is scanned and killed, then a new person created. This is exactly how mind uploading would work in terms of continuity for the person being uploaded. (It's also why I would never ever use a teleporter.)\u003cp\u003eThis is exactly what mind uploading is, they scan you and upload you. Creating a new you. Then you die and the other you lives on.\nThis is very clearly shown if you scanned and activated the copy before the first person died. Are you trying to imply that you would suddenly, as a single entity, be experiencing two perspectives at once? Because that just wouldn't be possible.\u003cp\u003eIt is technically immortality for your memories, but not the specific physical instance of you.","parent":"3971496","id":"3976225"}
{"by":"bootload","time":"1298939932","timestamp":"2011-03-01 00:38:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003e\"... Corporation are MADE of individuals. ^A corporation is not a person^ and does not think.  ...\"\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes they are.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"... In the United States, corporations were recognized as having rights to contract, and to have those contracts honored the same as contracts entered into by natural persons, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, decided in 1819. In the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394, the Supreme Court recognized that corporations were recognized as persons for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. ...\"\u003c/i\u003e ~ \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#United_States\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#United_States\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dubious outcome in what was meant in spirit to uphold a person's (black or white) civil and political rights being interfered by any state. cf: 14th amendment ~ \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Citizenship_and_civil_rights\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"2273273","id":"2273666"}
{"by":"kriro","time":"1442583329","timestamp":"2015-09-18 13:35:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the part that can be accessed (2nd link) they mention it\u0026#x27;s a within-subject setup so yeah \u0026quot;with all 5 subjects simultaneously\u0026quot; is correct.\nwithin-subject basically means each subject gets all the treatments as opposed to between-subject which is the typical A\u0026#x2F;B-test setup.","parent":"10238988","id":"10239079"}
{"by":"__--__","time":"1392414156","timestamp":"2014-02-14 21:42:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"and he should give a damn about whether you agree or not because... ??","parent":"7237839","id":"7241167"}
{"by":"snvzz","time":"1508091533","timestamp":"2017-10-15 18:18:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"x86 isn\u0026#x27;t that good. RISC-V has similar code density as amd64 while being fairly simpler.\nThere\u0026#x27;s not much appeal to x86 as an ISA, other than for running legacy software.","parent":"15477872","id":"15478344"}
{"by":"computer","time":"1375990399","timestamp":"2013-08-08 19:33:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a nightmare. However, I do feel strongly that lavabit made the only right choice. The US government is entirely to blame.","parent":"6181185","id":"6181247"}
{"by":"Declanomous","time":"1522905926","timestamp":"2018-04-05 05:25:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Chicago doesn\u0026#x27;t stripe most of the roads. Most of the roads that have stripes in Chicago are administered by IDOT.\u003cp\u003eChicago even has this codified in the traffic code; while the rest of the state has \u0026quot;improper lane usage\u0026quot; as a violation, Chicago has \u0026quot;failure to maintain a lane\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eEven on roads with painted markings they get scraped off by snowplows almost every winter. I\u0026#x27;m reasonably sure that\u0026#x27;s what happened to that gore.","parent":"16761857","id":"16762036"}
{"by":"kryten","time":"1370863421","timestamp":"2013-06-10 11:23:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s unified authentication and automatic synchronization between all devices.\u003cp\u003eIf you have no Internet access (as per no domain access on Windows), it uses cached credentials.","parent":"5853552","id":"5853564"}
{"by":"siteshwar","time":"1341171497","timestamp":"2012-07-01 19:38:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of Alan Kay's forbidden quote \"A computer should disappear in the environment\".","parent":"4185481","id":"4185872"}
{"by":"lewis500","time":"1531868653","timestamp":"2018-07-17 23:04:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can define culture many ways obviously, but my point is that you can distinguish behaviors that move with the individual to other places and those that are part of stable equilibria, where one\u0026#x27;s choice only makes sense in light of others\u0026#x27; choices. The latter are like n-player \u0026quot;Stag Hunt\u0026quot; games.\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Stag_hunt\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Stag_hunt\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an example, Singapore accepts a lot of Malays and Chinese  every year (and most people are Chinese), but the country has \u0026quot;an obsession with queueing\u0026quot; (\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.todayonline.com\u0026#x2F;singapore\u0026#x2F;no-time-wait-line-start-offers-queueing-services-s20-hour\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.todayonline.com\u0026#x2F;singapore\u0026#x2F;no-time-wait-line-star...\u003c/a\u003e) and is very orderly w\u0026#x2F;r\u0026#x2F;t traffic laws and such.","parent":"17554193","id":"17554288"}
{"by":"binbag","time":"1537697761","timestamp":"2018-09-23 10:16:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is interesting. I\u0026#x27;m UK native and my feeling was that the UK is struggling to develop more engys\u0026#x2F;scienstists. But other countries are evidently struggling even more. I also thought that Germany\u0026#x27;s contribution would be way more than the UK\u0026#x27;s, but that\u0026#x27;s not the case.","parent":"18045294","id":"18050365"}
{"by":"badman_ting","time":"1401201407","timestamp":"2014-05-27 14:36:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh, yeah. The word itself is pretty close to a dealbreaker for me.","parent":"7804663","id":"7804680"}
{"by":"Ygg2","time":"1382600162","timestamp":"2013-10-24 07:36:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That depends on the state that makes the social net. Scandinavian countries make way better social nets.","parent":"6603572","id":"6603847"}
{"by":"dbpatterson","time":"1519069825","timestamp":"2018-02-19 19:50:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Pattern matching on GADTs will get you there, I believe.","parent":"16414883","id":"16415205"}
{"by":"wmf","time":"1235018998","timestamp":"2009-02-19 04:49:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Grrrr. It's a \u003ci\u003ephone\u003c/i\u003e! It's always connected to the cellular network and thus the Internet.","parent":"486735","id":"486758"}
{"by":"viggity","time":"1398778871","timestamp":"2014-04-29 13:41:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"click on the search result link, it\u0026#x27;ll kill the register wall.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=divide+your+rent+fairly\u0026amp;oq=divide+your+rent+fairly\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.google.com\u0026#x2F;search?q=divide+your+rent+fairly\u0026amp;oq=d...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7666697","id":"7666878"}
{"by":"JSno","time":"1424501396","timestamp":"2015-02-21 06:49:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One day, I can pay less than 50 dollar per month, be able to watch NFL, MLB, NBA and EPL. Then I will switch to netflix.","parent":"9082666","dead":true,"id":"9084941"}
{"by":"vorpalhex","time":"1533145064","timestamp":"2018-08-01 17:37:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, I\u0026#x27;m not entirely convinced that a truly universal system is the best. After all, a single parent has significant additional expenses - and should taxpayers be paying to give violent criminals a work-free existence? (Would you pay a living wage to someone who sexually assaulted your daughter?)\u003cp\u003eIn the US, this is especially a problem. The cost of living in Texas is low enough that my salary as an engineer gives me a very high quality of life - but the same salary in NYC would be very different in life results. A federally set UBI then seems... well, to have the same issues that minimum wage do.","parent":"17664706","id":"17664832"}
{"by":"countessa","time":"1345472093","timestamp":"2012-08-20 14:14:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"musicforprogramming.net\u003cp\u003eand anything by chroma key/kevin moore","parent":"4406986","id":"4407647"}
{"by":"revorad","time":"1309848016","timestamp":"2011-07-05 06:40:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it quite hard to quickly visually scan the results. And I'm not getting very good results for the queries I tried. Are there any specific type of queries this is good for?\u003cp\u003eConsidering it's a search engine, you should probably not hide the search box behind an extra click.","parent":"2728511","id":"2728894"}
{"by":"cbhl","time":"1486488781","timestamp":"2017-02-07 17:33:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"HelloFax and eFax are already a thing -- the problem is that faxes require going through POTS, and are much more expensive to send than emails.","parent":"13590697","id":"13590971"}
{"by":"vecter","time":"1456728089","timestamp":"2016-02-29 06:41:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1. You made a throwaway account just to say this?\u003cp\u003e2. You obviously missed the lesson of this story, which I won\u0026#x27;t repeat b\u0026#x2F;c other commentors here have done a great job explaining it. There is actually a valuable lesson to be learned that you can apply to your life to achieve better results. As an entrepreneur, when I came across this story a year ago in the book version, it was a huge insight and relief. I used to wallow in self pity about all the crap I had to suffer through, but after I read it, I stopped worrying about those silly things and just focused instead on executing. It\u0026#x27;s a night and day mental shift and it has not only massively reduced my stress level, but also resulted in better performance.","parent":"11193840","id":"11193945"}
{"by":"michaelcampbell","time":"1259581972","timestamp":"2009-11-30 11:52:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Wait, what?   Development IS fun.  Bull$#@! corporate politics is not.  (And yes, I understand the nature of humanity and all that.)","parent":"967641","id":"967677"}
{"by":"gsich","time":"1521315746","timestamp":"2018-03-17 19:42:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Why do you think otherwise?","parent":"16608433","id":"16608688"}
{"by":"jasonkester","time":"1249895059","timestamp":"2009-08-10 09:04:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It still comes down to self control.  I didn't move to Europe until I was 36, and I'm not fat.  I've cut my share of Applebees Chicken Fried Steaks in half to box up for dinner, while my co-workers finished theirs off.  It has just always seemed readily apparent that if you eat every meal until you are full, you will get fat.  I don't, so I haven't.\u003cp\u003eSo yeah, it's entirely possible that we're conditioning our kids to overeat.  But then we're also going out of our way to make them feel better about themselves because you're special just the way you are.","parent":"752091","id":"752258"}
{"by":"ErikRogneby","time":"1412886892","timestamp":"2014-10-09 20:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was hoping to look at some plan files remotely and tried finger. It connected but hung.","parent":"8432703","id":"8434897"}
{"by":"saurik","time":"1338533700","timestamp":"2012-06-01 06:55:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Interesting... I was looking at the word \"Macbook\".","parent":"4042913","id":"4052298"}
{"by":"DAddYE","time":"1398704149","timestamp":"2014-04-28 16:55:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s subjective, for me is DRY (don\u0026#x27;t repeat yourself) and achieve a \u0026quot;big\u0026quot; result with a small (but readable) effort.","parent":"7661115","id":"7661186"}
{"by":"pm90","time":"1538408698","timestamp":"2018-10-01 15:44:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No they don\u0026#x27;t. Their arguments are based around different interpretations of the constitution and protection of various ill-defined \u0026quot;freedoms\u0026quot; (freedom from religious persecution, freedom of choice etc.)\u003cp\u003eThey happily do not include science in their political calculus.","parent":"18110327","id":"18113727"}
{"by":"amerika_blog","time":"1380384890","timestamp":"2013-09-28 16:14:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Quick link for that:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://geert-hofstede.com/national-culture.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;geert-hofstede.com\u0026#x2F;national-culture.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6461912","id":"6462165"}
{"by":"_m4","time":"1322976417","timestamp":"2011-12-04 05:26:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I disagree to reduce programmers to geeks that only have fun when there is a ton of new technology and a fancy feature that only they like.\nMost people I've worked with have fun when the project goes well, customers are happy and the like.\u003cp\u003eA really post-mature programmer understands the values behind so that he does not need rules any more.","parent":"3309736","id":"3309947"}
{"by":"michaeldwan","time":"1467324651","timestamp":"2016-06-30 22:10:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oddly, the guy who was killed got a dash cam video of Autopilot avoiding another collision earlier this year \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;6\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;12072634\u0026#x2F;tesla-autopilot-crash-autonomous-mode-viral-video\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.theverge.com\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;6\u0026#x2F;30\u0026#x2F;12072634\u0026#x2F;tesla-autopilot-c...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12011635","id":"12012227"}
{"by":"cygx","time":"1360343950","timestamp":"2013-02-08 17:19:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One should note that they claim trademark by 'common law', ie they argue that the association of the term 'Space Marine' with Warhammer 40k is so well-established even in the realm of ebooks that they own a de-facto trademark without having a registration (yet).\u003cp\u003eBasically, GW is the largest fish in their pond. They are trying to expand into a bigger one and are testing the waters by eating their first small fish.","parent":"5188539","id":"5188909"}
{"by":"gruez","time":"1484750102","timestamp":"2017-01-18 14:35:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can iterate through all the documents by going to \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cia.gov\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;readingroom\u0026#x2F;search\u0026#x2F;site\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.cia.gov\u0026#x2F;library\u0026#x2F;readingroom\u0026#x2F;search\u0026#x2F;site\u003c/a\u003e, going through each year, and within each year, going through all the result pages.","parent":"13425815","id":"13426525"}
{"by":"nkozyra","time":"1418048089","timestamp":"2014-12-08 14:14:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Extremely unlikely for these types of services.  \u0026quot;Credit\u0026quot; is often different than a subscription service - typically in the TOS of the latter, there\u0026#x27;s a cancellation of services for nonpayment.  You don\u0026#x27;t \u0026quot;owe\u0026quot; anything unless you got something and didn\u0026#x27;t pay for it.\u003cp\u003eVery few of these things will send the product without a completed transaction, and even if they did (one time), the odds of a company selling a $40 debt are insanely low.\u003cp\u003eWhen consumers need an extra layer of protection against bad actors, this is a great way to go about it, and the risk to your credit is actually very low.","parent":"8714763","id":"8716459"}
{"by":"WalterSear","time":"1383327814","timestamp":"2013-11-01 17:43:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Gullible.","parent":"6654803","id":"6655124"}
{"by":"sabbatical13","time":"1308705376","timestamp":"2011-06-22 01:16:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm still considering China too; definitely not out of the question. Curious to know more about why you think it will be more attractive than Thailand or Indonesia?","parent":"2677155","id":"2681192"}
{"by":"beloch","time":"1380154764","timestamp":"2013-09-26 00:19:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"People from the Emirates, Etihad, or Qatar, and those who have vacationed\u0026#x2F;worked there also visit this board, and are no doubt not happy about this being pointed out.  Even just visiting a place makes you feel connected to it, and angry when something like this is pointed out. Like I said, I don\u0026#x27;t expect saying things like this to make me popular. Still, the more people are willing to be unpopular, the more chance there is for change.","parent":"6448139","id":"6448177"}
{"by":"tlrobinson","time":"1348622587","timestamp":"2012-09-26 01:23:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"And your parent was providing an example where public service announcements about such kidnappings could have been productive.","parent":"4573052","id":"4573746"}
{"by":"x0","time":"1452859420","timestamp":"2016-01-15 12:03:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I just switched my vpn\u0026#x27;s endpoint to the UK, IPlayer works fine for me (I\u0026#x27;m in Australia). Now, time to figure out what the differences between BBC 1, 2, 3 and 4 are.","parent":"10905204","id":"10908726"}
{"by":"thedaemon","time":"1465395078","timestamp":"2016-06-08 14:11:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I understand the large file size is a problem, but please don\u0026#x27;t suggest anyone use JPEG for images. It\u0026#x27;s a terrible format and I wish it would go away. It ruins artwork. I see the developer changed it to a JPEG and named it *.GIF. Weird, at any rate the problem is the large size of the image 2560x1600 @24. Even on my Surface Pro the image is far too large. Does anyone have a link the the original PNG? It would make a nice wallpaper. Also, anyone have credit for the artist?","parent":"11859503","id":"11862360"}
{"by":"nhebb","time":"1300253455","timestamp":"2011-03-16 05:30:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Cops actually find stolen bikes in Japan? Whoa, that \u003ci\u003eis\u003c/i\u003e different.","parent":"2330443","id":"2330948"}
{"by":"Antonio123123","time":"1545145670","timestamp":"2018-12-18 15:07:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Reminds me of those public \u0026quot;do not call\u0026quot; lists. Guess what - they get called more often.","parent":"18705878","id":"18706877"}
{"by":"BukhariH","time":"1493310984","timestamp":"2017-04-27 16:36:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Couldn\u0026#x27;t I just do an Over-The-Update of which root certificates the system accepts since they\u0026#x27;re already connected to the internet.\u003cp\u003eThen I can add my own non-cloudflare certificate to the list and then move off cloudflare and remove their cert.\u003cp\u003eThat should work pretty well right there.","parent":"14212562","id":"14212821"}
{"by":"peckrob","time":"1452528413","timestamp":"2016-01-11 16:06:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I don\u0026#x27;t recall the airline, but it was a major.\u003cp\u003eIt was most likely Delta.\u003cp\u003eAssuming you\u0026#x27;re in the US, it was either TWA or Delta because they were the only ones still operating the L-1011 by the late 1990s. United also operated a small fleet of L-1011s that they acquired from Pan Am, but (I believe) they had mostly gotten rid of them by 1997.\u003cp\u003eDelta operated the largest fleet of L-1011s by far. At one point they operated nearly half of the (admittedly small number of) L-1011s built. They were also the only airline that I can think of that operated both the L-1011 and MD-11 in the 1990s.","parent":"10875930","id":"10881213"}
{"by":"davidy123","time":"1505960274","timestamp":"2017-09-21 02:17:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not convinced Google is really trying to make their hardware competitive. They are just using it to up the Android game and focus on specific features they may feel other manufacturers aren\u0026#x27;t doing a great job with or not highlighting, which is currently their assistant, as well as having a more intimate connection to some enthusiasts. Google\u0026#x27;s goal is to get many devices dependant on their ecosystem. Directly competing with other companies that use Android would not work in their interest. I hope I\u0026#x27;m wrong though, Google directly backing a competitive and available consumer device could really put smartphones into a better territory of cost and support. Currently Samsung is quite halfhearted; while I think their hardware is great their support is more like the support one gets from a fridge than such an important and personal information device, it just doesn\u0026#x27;t compare to Apple\u0026#x27;s support.","parent":"15297154","id":"15300099"}
{"by":"criley2","time":"1495374749","timestamp":"2017-05-21 13:52:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is disinformation.\u003cp\u003ePut simply:\u003cp\u003eThe US has a process for sharing intelligence whereby the intelligence community runs through a long list of concerns, redacts things that are too secret, protects sources and methods, protects allies and relationships, protects national interests, etc, and makes intelligently informed release decisions based on a mature review process.\u003cp\u003eDonald Trump blurted out Israeli-sourced active-asset-in-the-field top secret code word intelligence WITHOUT following the declassification\u0026#x2F;sharing protocol precedent, performing analysis, redaction, or doing even the merest hint of due process at all. -- And he did that in a fit of braggadocio, \u0026quot;I have the best sources, the best intel, such as...\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eHe\u0026#x27;s entitled to do that. To be careless and crass and a braggart with our most trusted and important secrets.\u003cp\u003eBut we\u0026#x27;re entitled to criticize such craven carelessness.","parent":"14386866","id":"14387302"}
{"by":"cousin_it","time":"1464700269","timestamp":"2016-05-31 13:11:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just like pixel art, voxel art looks great in a parallel projection where all voxels have the same visual size. But in a perspective projection, when some voxels are much closer to the camera than others, the limitations become insurmountable. It\u0026#x27;s similar to early FPS games like Doom, where enemy sprites would become very pixelated up close. The wakeup call for me was unlocking first person mode in Fez and slowly realizing that it doesn\u0026#x27;t look too good, even though the same scene would look amazing in side view.\u003cp\u003eI think the closest 3D analog to pixel art is not voxel art, but low poly art with low resolution textures. Something like this: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;orig03.deviantart.net\u0026#x2F;c602\u0026#x2F;f\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;065\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;f\u0026#x2F;lowpoly_naked_power_bike___biker_by_multivitamin-d4ry5ky.png\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;orig03.deviantart.net\u0026#x2F;c602\u0026#x2F;f\u0026#x2F;2012\u0026#x2F;065\u0026#x2F;8\u0026#x2F;f\u0026#x2F;lowpoly_nak...\u003c/a\u003e is a restricted aesthetic in its own right, and looks great in a variety of views, but would be very hard or impossible to do with voxels. It\u0026#x27;s a shame that few people are pursuing that direction nowadays, everyone is jumping on the voxel bandwagon.","parent":"11806247","id":"11806300"}
{"by":"SticksAndBreaks","time":"1480954246","timestamp":"2016-12-05 16:10:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We have other sad excuses to shake you down. Petty drugs (Ganja), Copyrightviolations and beeing a Idiot (literally Privat-Man in ancient greek). \nThus far, your list of things not found in the west can bef ound in the west.","parent":"13105783","id":"13106360"}
{"by":"vacri","time":"1465568171","timestamp":"2016-06-10 14:16:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Awesome, you\u0026#x27;ve done both a No True Scotsman and a Strawman fallacy in just the one relatively short sentence.","parent":"11874964","id":"11876487"}
{"by":"mistercow","time":"1379237618","timestamp":"2013-09-15 09:33:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here\u0026#x27;s another reason it\u0026#x27;s bad: it increases the problem of rivers in the text, degrading readability.","parent":"6385642","id":"6388561"}
{"by":"jamesjguthrie","time":"1370804020","timestamp":"2013-06-09 18:53:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Scotland might be a good choice. Everybody seems to think our borders are pretty open.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a bit of a revolution starting with lots of startups popping up in all areas from motorsport and travel to energy and biotech.","parent":"5849206","id":"5850021"}
{"by":"jacquesm","time":"1454993485","timestamp":"2016-02-09 04:51:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They may very well be in for a rude surprise. You can bet they will roll this out with a big name writer\u0026#x27;s article (Neal Stephenson has written for wired before, that would be a good candidate) to maximize the conversion. If they start it out with a bunch of junk they\u0026#x27;ll effectively tell people \u0026#x27;save your money\u0026#x27;.","parent":"11063123","id":"11063159"}
{"by":"ringaroundthetx","time":"1513101828","timestamp":"2017-12-12 18:03:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"woah there, you committed the cardinal sin of describing something the GOP is doing as positive for people on the West Coast","parent":"15907663","id":"15907842"}
{"by":"artichokeheart","time":"1339561740","timestamp":"2012-06-13 04:29:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes Apple is in the wrong but (and possibly I'm giving them too much credit in terms of their corporate unity) maybe their actions are an effort to not weaken the veracity of their own patent claims.  Whereby any leniency shown by Apple in the case of other entities patent claims could be used in court against Apple when they are defending their own.","parent":"4104182","id":"4104325"}
{"by":"CuriouslyC","time":"1467292780","timestamp":"2016-06-30 13:19:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One of the most consistent ways research has demonstrated to increase connectivity in the brain is to learn new physical skills.  Controlling the body in space appears to be particularly good at stimulating the growth of new synapses (and possibly new neurons as well, though the research is not conclusive here outside the hippocampus).  Yoga is a good start.  Modern dance, breakdancing, capoeira and gymnastics are all excellent if you\u0026#x27;re slightly more athletic.\u003cp\u003eBeyond that, practicing thinking in different ways really helps your brain develop.  One thing that most people neglect is geometric\u0026#x2F;mechanical intelligence. Get some 3D puzzles, and once you get really good at them, start building simple machines.  If you never got good at math, trying to pick up some advanced mathematics can be a good exercise as well.","parent":"12008024","id":"12008280"}
{"by":"keithpeter","time":"1382195017","timestamp":"2013-10-19 15:03:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was able to post to tumblr blog from Blackberry but not able to see page (on Orange UK broadband) until just now. Supports routing hypothesis I suppose.","parent":"6576429","id":"6576620"}
{"by":"bryanlarsen","time":"1537185237","timestamp":"2018-09-17 11:53:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Opposition against immigration is highest in areas with very little immigration, and support for it is highest in areas with a lot of it.","parent":"18004907","id":"18004985"}
{"by":"scrrr","time":"1435839672","timestamp":"2015-07-02 12:21:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Looks like when the Soviets stop building something they just walk away.\u003cp\u003eAccording to Wikipedia [1] the Buran-program was cancelled when the Soviet Union stopped existing. It was a time of chaos and many parts of the country were not working. Resuming construction on a space shuttle was probably at the very bottom of their priorities in 1990.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Buran_(spacecraft)\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;en.wikipedia.org\u0026#x2F;wiki\u0026#x2F;Buran_(spacecraft)\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"9818281","id":"9818342"}
{"by":"vinceguidry","time":"1464039282","timestamp":"2016-05-23 21:34:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I\u0026#x27;d suggest Play Framework and abandoning the idea of O\u0026#x2F;R Mapping entirely.\u003cp\u003eThen I\u0026#x27;d have to learn Scala. I do not want to have to learn an entirely new stack. It took years for me to learn Ruby\u0026#x27;s eccentricities. Sure it would take me less time to learn Scala, but I \u003ci\u003ealready know Ruby\u003c/i\u003e. You seem like quite the masochist, spending years in one ecosystem trying to build something, then burning it all to the ground and starting all over. Just looks like so. much. effort.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; you\u0026#x27;ll never want to see another Ruby case statement again\u003cp\u003eI never write case statements in Ruby. What I do when I find myself needing a case statement is to go looking for the missing class. I\u0026#x27;m missing a domain element and OO programming to me is all about clarifying a domain.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; Once you compose a pipeline of functions you\u0026#x27;ll find Ruby Procs a pale shadow of true functions.\u003cp\u003eI pipeline all the time in Ruby. A lot of times I\u0026#x27;ll wrap a data pipeline in a class so I can encapsulate the logic and manage it better. When you wrap a pipeline in a class, you can do things like add immutability to the instance variables. Sure, it\u0026#x27;s not true functional, but I don\u0026#x27;t want true functional.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; You\u0026#x27;ll end up with more maintainable code, a lower LoC count, easier testing, more mature libraries, and that\u0026#x27;s just the tip of the iceberg.\u003cp\u003eLet\u0026#x27;s take these in turn.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; more maintainable code\u003cp\u003eI love maintaining my code. I fail to see how learning a new stack could actually improve on this for me.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; lower LoC count\u003cp\u003eMostly aids in maintainability. Again not at the top of the list of things to improve.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; easier testing\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve changed my approach to testing over the years. Again, this is not anywhere close to the top of the priority list.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; More mature libraries\u003cp\u003eAgain, this is something I\u0026#x27;ve fixed by changing my approach to the problem. Whenever I introduce a gem, I put an interfacing class between the rest of the app and the gem. That way it\u0026#x27;s easy to swap out if it becomes a problem.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; And then you have deployment.\u003cp\u003eDeployment sucks in Ruby, not gonna lie. But again, problems are indicators of overcomplication and I\u0026#x27;ve tuned my workflow to drive more simplicity over time. I know Capistrano very well, seeing it evolve over time has given me a keen eye for how to keep it manageable.\u003cp\u003eOn the whole, I like the idea of functional programming and am not opposed to coding in a functional style once in awhile. HtDP changed the way I thought about programming, though I eventually switched back over to OOP. I strongly disagree that there\u0026#x27;s any kind of magic to functional. Everything in programming involves tradeoffs, and OOP better fits my mind than functional does. I look at pure functional as math-heavy and harder to grok. I want stateful objects, because humans think in terms of objects and not data pipelines.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; The learning curve isn\u0026#x27;t the smoothest\u003cp\u003eThat one issue outweighs all the purported benefits of all the others. I would much rather spend my time thinking about domains than learning new tricks.","parent":"11754267","id":"11757229"}
{"by":"ibotty","time":"1460614141","timestamp":"2016-04-14 06:09:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are other tools that can get data from a docker v2 registry.","parent":"11493515","id":"11494619"}
{"by":"fsloth","time":"1419835759","timestamp":"2014-12-29 06:49:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;When working in rural schools in the UK I have encountered many students whose parents, and therefore their children, place little value on education. \u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYeah, this would be very weird attitude in finland (where I\u0026#x27;m at). Not unheard of but very rare.\u003cp\u003eOf authorities (and just anecdotal commentary):\u003cp\u003ePlease correct me if I\u0026#x27;m wrong but in the practical side one of the biggest differences in the finnish school system when compared to UK is that the formal education seems to kick in later (as I understand it) and with less work load. I.e. the kids are not expected to start doing any homework until they are 7 and the workloads are quite light.\u003cp\u003eThis has been the case for over 30 years. Perhaps this also affects attitudes - the workload is not overbearing and no-one gets left behind.","parent":"8807150","id":"8808786"}
{"by":"_Codemonkeyism","time":"1498559773","timestamp":"2017-06-27 10:36:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"3 Mhz in 1981, very nice.\u003cp\u003eThe games (Alpine, ...) I\u0026#x27;ve looked up on YT look like C64 basic games though. Why was that?","parent":"14636930","id":"14643975"}
{"by":"cynicalkane","time":"1339447450","timestamp":"2012-06-11 20:44:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is an interesting topic but I'm not sure it has much to do with the fluctuations of nominal wealth. The trouble isn't people realizing that they're less wealthy in a philosophical sense, it's that they're realizing they're less wealthy in the ordinary dollar sense.","parent":"4096739","id":"4096848"}
{"by":"Stratoscope","time":"1431323773","timestamp":"2015-05-11 05:56:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Try launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a tiled window manager!","parent":"9522854","id":"9522965"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1443348248","timestamp":"2015-09-27 10:04:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There have also been studies that show people often put in more effort when \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e being paid than when being paid what they consider an under-market amount.","parent":"10285997","id":"10286038"}
{"by":"matwood","time":"1406778815","timestamp":"2014-07-31 03:53:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve never been to my community pool, but it is packed every weekend. I live near the ocean and own a boat, so that is how I spend my summer Saturdays.\u003cp\u003eI enjoy the cutting the grass. My yard takes about an hour to do the whole cut\u0026#x2F;edge\u0026#x2F;trim. I view it as exercise and time to think.","parent":"8112131","id":"8112382"}
{"by":"vkou","time":"1507763628","timestamp":"2017-10-11 23:13:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; China under Xi Jinping has effectively turned into a dicatatorship\u003cp\u003eHow was it not one before Xi Jinping?","parent":"15454240","id":"15454375"}
{"by":"andrewf","time":"1245001408","timestamp":"2009-06-14 17:43:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You don't have a set of packages that is as broad, well integrated and easy to use as Ubuntu's or Debian's packages. MacPorts is a lot better than nothing though.","parent":"657109","id":"657327"}
{"by":"tomsthumb","time":"1366842516","timestamp":"2013-04-24 22:28:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Conque shell can 'run a terminal' inside of vim, but it's a bit buggy.  It's not really fair to compare vim and emacs, because vim is _just_ a text editor.  Vim + screen or vim + tmux (my preference) is much closer to the same ... category of thing that emacs is.\u003cp\u003eYou can split tmux tabs so that you can have vim up in one pane on a 'tab' and python running in another pane in the same 'tab'. Both tmux and screen have decent copy/paste functionality that mimics vim's movement behaviour to some degree. (Tmux also has scriptable sessions, if you like different workflows for different types of projects)\u003cp\u003eIf you want a nice vim setup SPF-13 is a decent place to start. There are tmux configs everywhere.  Also Ipython does a lot for you as far as completion, looking at documentation, and the like.\u003cp\u003eI think that's kind of what you're after, sorry if it's not.","parent":"5604334","id":"5604406"}
{"by":"joezydeco","time":"1439321886","timestamp":"2015-08-11 19:38:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d recommend Yocto to build a system and toolchain for your target, but it\u0026#x27;s \u003ci\u003einsanely\u003c/i\u003e painful to do anything beyond building a precooked recipe for a known embedded target.\u003cp\u003eInstalling an ARM toolchain is simple now.  Don\u0026#x27;t build one unless you really need to (or you install Yocto).\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e","parent":"10043307","id":"10043764"}
{"by":"PaulHoule","time":"1473693813","timestamp":"2016-09-12 15:23:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This type of approach can be great.  It is parallel to the idea to the \u0026quot;business is an exchange of documents\u0026quot;,  and the documents represent \u0026quot;transactions\u0026quot; in the sense of \u0026quot;an invoice\u0026quot;,  \u0026quot;a packing slip\u0026quot;,  \u0026quot;a deposit slip\u0026quot;,  \u0026quot;an order\u0026quot;,  etc.","parent":"12480328","id":"12480480"}
{"by":"iamelgringo","time":"1210076383","timestamp":"2008-05-06 12:19:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I realize that a lot of this is going to be personal network specific--who do I know that's willing to get me a contract gig.  I also realize that it's going to be talent specific.\u003cp\u003eBut, I'm mostly looking for ballpark figures, I'm not really interested in rate setting.  I'm career changing, and I should be graduating from school after this summer.  I'm mostly trying to get a feel for rates.","parent":"182378","id":"182380"}
{"by":"neilmiddleton","time":"1369331252","timestamp":"2013-05-23 17:47:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Sure - but that doesn't make him a Sir.","parent":"5757893","id":"5758228"}
{"by":"pchristensen","time":"1197912485","timestamp":"2007-12-17 17:28:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"One alternative approach (prob too late for you) would be to put a \"Wedding Photographer Wanted\" in your local Craigslist with the stipulation that you must be able to buy the digital negatives.  Let photographers know that current practice is unsatisfying and there is an opportunity they're missing. \u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, people easily buy into the FUD about not \"capturing the magic moment\" and will pay almost any price to \"ensure\" perfect pictures.  If these guys weren't so flush with bookings, they would have a reason to be more flexible.","parent":"90342","id":"90363"}
{"by":"nostrademons","time":"1351550817","timestamp":"2012-10-29 22:46:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The negative comments here haven't really been my experience either.  I once heard a VP say that perf is an \"eventually consistent system\", meaning that mistakes are often made over the short term (1 review cycle), but over the long term high performers get promoted.  That's basically what I observed: it can be maddeningly slow for people to notice you've been working your ass off, but if you keep at it, they do notice and the rewards do come.  If you stick around long enough for them.\u003cp\u003eThe real world isn't all that different - if you found a startup, you're likely to go through 3-4 years of nobody giving a shit before everybody suddenly discovers your a genius.","parent":"4713951","id":"4714950"}
{"by":"secure","time":"1409556894","timestamp":"2014-09-01 07:34:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"After reading its README.rst, it seems to me like wal-e only cares about backing up (and restoring) WAL files, not about synchronuous replication like the original article.","parent":"8251062","id":"8251858"}
{"by":"chriswarbo","time":"1516239008","timestamp":"2018-01-18 01:30:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Unfortunately sometimes there are things that will make management care a lot about a browser that they really shouldn\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eI never said management should or shouldn\u0026#x27;t care about this or that browser. I never said anything about browsers being new or old.\u003cp\u003eI said that developers should be testing with whatever browsers management cares about. If management care about it, and there\u0026#x27;s some justification, then add it to the spec.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; unfortunately, especially in enterprise, the browser version is often locked to something quite old. One of our clients has locked to Chrome 48.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s an excellent justification for having Chrome 48 compatibility as part of the spec, so you should already be testing your sites with it. What has that got to do with user agent strings?\u003cp\u003eIs Chrome 48 even old? I tend to ensure IE6 compatibility, unless I have a good reason otherwise (e.g. voice calls over WebRTC, or something). When I\u0026#x27;m using w3m, e.g. to read documentation inside Emacs, I occasionally play around with my sites to ensure they still degrade gracefully.","parent":"16172416","id":"16173858"}
{"by":"dirtyaura","time":"1396375979","timestamp":"2014-04-01 18:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Joel, I\u0026#x27;m impressed that you documented your idea of company culture in such an early phase. I\u0026#x27;ve learned that agreed ideas about company culture play more important role in a startup than usually given credit to. If the founding team has strong shared understanding of culture, they don\u0026#x27;t necessarily need to be explicit, but I think it would be beneficial for many startups to write a few key ideas down, to make sure that everybody is on the same page.\u003cp\u003eQuestion: Did you learn this hard way from your previous companies, or was it suggested by a mentor, or was it obvious to you from the beginning that it is good idea to write them down?","parent":"7507968","id":"7510436"}
{"by":"labster","time":"1481143293","timestamp":"2016-12-07 20:41:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    perl6 -e \u0026#x27;say 42 ∈ (42, 55, 1)\u0026#x27;\n    True\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nThat works fine -- and probably better than the quote-words operator \u0026lt;\u0026gt;.  ∈ works on anything list-like, not just set types.","parent":"13125943","id":"13126019"}
{"by":"emini_guy","time":"1346559264","timestamp":"2012-09-02 04:14:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Useful notes, thanks.","parent":"4465806","id":"4466124"}
{"by":"bluGill","time":"1539698604","timestamp":"2018-10-16 14:03:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I miss pretty computers. Everything is black and has been for years.  Well once in a while you see white or grey, but that is about it.\u003cp\u003eThe imac did some neat colors, but they SGI\u0026#x2F;Irix colors were pretty without screaming toy.","parent":"18226242","id":"18229433"}
{"by":"arantius","time":"1448130971","timestamp":"2015-11-21 18:36:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Couldn\u0026#x27;t help but notice this.  The next page down, in the image, they get it right.  And are similarly loose with their terminology throughout the article.","parent":"10597542","id":"10607577"}
{"by":"phoboslab","time":"1324842986","timestamp":"2011-12-25 19:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I read a few paragraphs of this blog post, but gave up eventually. I didn't understand what he was trying to say at all. I thought this was because English is not my first language, but after looking at a few other posts in his blog, I'm now convinced it's just bad writing.\u003cp\u003eEverything is horribly out of context. I don't know any of names mentioned. This post - his whole blog really - sounds more like a (badly written) email to the people who have more insight in this exact situation.\u003cp\u003eWord of advice: if you write a blog, don't assume your readers read all your previous posts. Took me a few years to realize this myself.","parent":"3391385","id":"3391498"}
{"by":"jjoe","time":"1454530201","timestamp":"2016-02-03 20:10:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Varnish needs its \u0026quot;own\u0026quot; native TLS termination badly. I\u0026#x27;m not sure if an external proxy like Hitch will successfully fill the gap. I understand phk\u0026#x27;s stance on Varnish doing ssl but with this announcement, it\u0026#x27;s clear pressure\u0026#x27;s mounting.","parent":"11028997","id":"11029355"}
{"by":"cormullion","time":"1403164121","timestamp":"2014-06-19 07:48:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But accurate enough:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://studiojason.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/nikko2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;studiojason.files.wordpress.com\u0026#x2F;2013\u0026#x2F;01\u0026#x2F;nikko2.jpg\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7914626","id":"7914890"}
{"by":"bsdpython","time":"1424456009","timestamp":"2015-02-20 18:13:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I was told early in my career that I could use to ask for help more often. I think that was actually good advice for me since the other team members all had 10+ years experience so I obviously didn\u0026#x27;t know everything at 23. To each his own I guess. And I can\u0026#x27;t believe that developers self reference themselves or others in the field as \u0026quot;rockstars\u0026quot; - I honestly thought that was a layman\u0026#x27;s term.","parent":"9081610","id":"9081811"}
{"by":"hannesm","time":"1433506592","timestamp":"2015-06-05 12:16:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A name, once taken, cannot be unclaimed. If the package should be removed, an empty delegation will be put there.","parent":"9664858","id":"9665015"}
{"by":"recibe","time":"1423156324","timestamp":"2015-02-05 17:12:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For the record, I want nothing to do with Mozilla after what happened to Brendan Eich.\u003cp\u003eAnd to you little nazis that downvote this:\u003cp\u003eANYONE who thinks its just to remove a CEO because of their personal beliefs on same-sex marriage is no better than anyone else who \u0026quot;discriminates\u0026quot; for any other reason.","parent":"9004133","dead":true,"id":"9004392"}
{"by":"jsjohnst","time":"1458598344","timestamp":"2016-03-21 22:12:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Also, Apple may not sell them, but it\u0026#x27;s definitely possible to connect a 4K external display that\u0026#x27;s HDPI (aka Retina, minus marking speak).","parent":"11332358","id":"11332566"}
{"by":"SaulOfTheJungle","time":"1342110182","timestamp":"2012-07-12 16:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Something something nail in the coffin.","parent":"4233961","id":"4235315"}
{"by":"danShumway","time":"1530053629","timestamp":"2018-06-26 22:53:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Just to somewhat gently push back on this a little bit, math is probably not enough if you want someone to really get how quantum mechanics work at a fundamental level.\u003cp\u003eSo quantum superposition isn\u0026#x27;t just two things at the same time, it\u0026#x27;s a complex equation that combines the two states. Great. Except that non-math majors don\u0026#x27;t think of linear equations as a singular \u0026#x27;thing\u0026#x27; that describes a state. That in itself is a huge paradigm shift for people like me. I\u0026#x27;m not used to having an axis in an equation not refer to a continuous range that I can move through.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s a comic[0] on this springs to mind, that being able to plug equations into something is not the same as understanding it. Most tutorials or technical articles I read about quantum mechanics skip concepts and assume that showing the math is enough. In doing so, they skip all of the hard, useful parts of education and focus only on the language and terminology we can use to talk about something.\u003cp\u003eI spent a lot of time in physics, statistics, and calculus where I understood the math and not the concepts. I graphed things in 4 dimensions before I encountered Flatland, but I didn\u0026#x27;t understand the 4th dimension before Flatland. I worked with complex numbers all the time in calculus, but I didn\u0026#x27;t start to understand complex numbers until years later when I started watching Numberphile.\u003cp\u003eSo I\u0026#x27;m at least a little bit skeptical of claims that that quantum mechanics are different. We\u0026#x27;ve had to build new paradigms to understand a lot of stuff in the past; concepts like infinity don\u0026#x27;t map to tangible analogies, but we can still build tutorials and scenarios that demonstrate interesting behaviors and properties.\u003cp\u003eRight now the only people I can find trying to do that for quantum are the pop-science writers, and like you said they\u0026#x27;re mostly all crap. It\u0026#x27;s kind of frustrating.\u003cp\u003e[0]: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20120206011811im_\u0026#x2F;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zs1.smbc-comics.com\u0026#x2F;comics\u0026#x2F;20100620.gif\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;web.archive.org\u0026#x2F;web\u0026#x2F;20120206011811im_\u0026#x2F;http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;zs1.smb...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17404160","id":"17404611"}
{"by":"EwanToo","time":"1365604325","timestamp":"2013-04-10 14:32:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The parent is StavrosK, in their profile it says \"I'm Stavros Korokithakis.\", Stavros being a mans name.\u003cp\u003eOf course, it could not be true, but I can't see why anyone would bother.","parent":"5525294","id":"5525341"}
{"by":"haser_au","time":"1484798150","timestamp":"2017-01-19 03:55:50 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For kicks, I looked for one. I got as far as Anchorage, Alaska. In 2012, ~35% of \u0026quot;youth\u0026quot; have consumed alcohol in the past 30 days\u003cp\u003eResearch: \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;justice.uaa.alaska.edu\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;1010.voa\u0026#x2F;1010.04.youth_alcohol_access.update.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;justice.uaa.alaska.edu\u0026#x2F;research\u0026#x2F;2010\u0026#x2F;1010.voa\u0026#x2F;1010.04...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Cities: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ballotpedia.org\u0026#x2F;Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;ballotpedia.org\u0026#x2F;Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13431627","id":"13432870"}
{"by":"justified","time":"1175961525","timestamp":"2007-04-07 15:58:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Please let's continue not to care about Mikrosopht (sorry, I don't recall the correct spelling, and I'm no slave of internet search either, but to me it sounds much antique, so I hope my guess is right...).\u003cp\u003eInstead, people of worth, let's help pushing stuff like this:\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~dlong/software/kamen/index.php\"\u003ehttp://www.cs.stevens.edu/~dlong/software/kamen/index.php\u003c/a\u003e\n(Note that I'm not the author, just heard of it recently.)","parent":"9770","id":"10066"}
{"by":"donthackmee","time":"1316114066","timestamp":"2011-09-15 19:14:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool project guys - keep it up","parent":"2998296","id":"3001704"}
{"by":"kaonashi","time":"1459038477","timestamp":"2016-03-27 00:27:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You can also adjust the odds to mostly pay people their money back, keeping only enough to pay for the administration of the games themselves.","parent":"11366897","id":"11368200"}
{"by":"mnicole","time":"1364323344","timestamp":"2013-03-26 18:42:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ha! Had a similar one; said what I didn't like about it and the two guys interviewing me looked at each other, sighed, nodded their heads and asked me the next question.","parent":"5444475","id":"5445227"}
{"by":"tanderson92","time":"1500419824","timestamp":"2017-07-18 23:17:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Right, well, people who need FP64 aren\u0026#x27;t going to be satisfied with the 1080ti so that is the answer.\u003cp\u003eSee this comment of mine: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14597486\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=14597486\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"14799957","id":"14800803"}
{"by":"rad_gruchalski","time":"1466978867","timestamp":"2016-06-26 22:07:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So it approximated me being in Frankfurt. Not bad, just about 100 miles away.","parent":"11982342","id":"11983011"}
{"by":"jazzychad","time":"1313361296","timestamp":"2011-08-14 22:34:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like this article is behind a timewall?\u003cp\u003e\"This story is exclusive to the Chronicle's Sunday print edition and will not appear on SFGate.com until 3:00 AM on Monday, August 15. To read this and other exclusive print stories today, subscribe to The Chronicle's iPad app...\"\u003cp\u003eAnyone with article text?","parent":"2884604","id":"2884687"}
{"by":"yesenadam","time":"1513373011","timestamp":"2017-12-15 21:23:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026quot;Don\u0026#x27;t be snarky.\u0026quot;","parent":"15935166","id":"15935282"}
{"by":"quicksilver03","time":"1392803476","timestamp":"2014-02-19 09:51:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I see it also as a good way to repel people hating Scala. For example, after reading this article I\u0026#x27;m sure that I won\u0026#x27;t even try to apply for a job at Coursera: zero time wasted for both me and them.","parent":"7259136","id":"7262804"}
{"by":"ganessh","time":"1435914126","timestamp":"2015-07-03 09:02:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is awesome :)","parent":"9824221","id":"9824395"}
{"by":"eru","time":"1253028730","timestamp":"2009-09-15 15:32:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Good standards are discovered not imposed.","parent":"823526","id":"824014"}
{"by":"Kalium","time":"1465927817","timestamp":"2016-06-14 18:10:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; but it\u0026#x27;s really not hard to imagine something superior to both McDonald\u0026#x27;s and shelters, just real community space.\u003cp\u003eDepends a great deal on how you define \u0026quot;superior\u0026quot;. McD\u0026#x27;s has the singular advantage of being generally self-funding.","parent":"11903118","id":"11904020"}
{"by":"antiterra","time":"1385055962","timestamp":"2013-11-21 17:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The suggestion that a Google translation of a legal document is reliable is preposterous. Aside from the expected stilted mangling. pronouns are regularly confused and it\u0026#x27;s not uncommon for something to come across with the exact opposite of it\u0026#x27;s intended meaning because a negative modifier or idiom is missed.\u003cp\u003eMaybe let go of some of that righteous internet rage and go for a walk.","parent":"6775681","id":"6776107"}
{"by":"andreiursan","time":"1329044364","timestamp":"2012-02-12 10:59:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A youtube video of the protest in Cluj Napoca, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage\u0026#38;v=8OWGzMLDfMY#t=39s\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage\u0026#38;v...\u003c/a\u003e . \nCluj Napoca is a city in Romania, not a big one but 2000+ protested against ACTA.","parent":"3580308","id":"3581562"}
{"by":"phlyingpenguin","time":"1478737016","timestamp":"2016-11-10 00:16:56 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Can you find the source that they\u0026#x27;re using or are they getting it from other students? If you can find the source, just ask why they didn\u0026#x27;t give attribution, then how he\u0026#x27;s going to approach understanding the code that they copy in the future. This has been my approach for students (college professor).\u003cp\u003eThe alternative is much harder. I\u0026#x27;ve been mentoring a nephew who blames his teacher for how little he understands, but sends me code very clearly copied off of another student. My general approach has been to explicitly not help him with any actual source, and instead work on pseudocode. He might spend 8 hours trying to figure out how to compile the broken C++ that he\u0026#x27;s working with, but he can\u0026#x27;t honestly claim that I wasn\u0026#x27;t being helpful. As suggested by flukus, asking for code explanations isn\u0026#x27;t a bad way to go. Such explanations always find themselves companion to homework assignments that I craft, and it\u0026#x27;s what I\u0026#x27;ve been trying to do in the pseudocode conversations with my nephew. However, another great way to go is to just find examples of any given problem (and attribute them!!) in another language entirely. Then the student has the opportunity to become a polyglot in a very natural way. Ultimately, I refuse to speak in the target language because I\u0026#x27;m very aware that he wants me to hand him the answer.","parent":"12915896","id":"12916336"}
{"by":"thedavinci2000","time":"1448124327","timestamp":"2015-11-21 16:45:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The past is the past. No use complaining about it. The Americas were also raped by European colonialism but it makes no sese to dwell in it. Work towards the future.","parent":"10606685","id":"10607200"}
{"by":"sabat","time":"1225727702","timestamp":"2008-11-03 15:55:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You inspire us all.","parent":"352069","id":"352163"}
{"by":"baby","time":"1407426195","timestamp":"2014-08-07 15:43:15 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I tackled the problem by not calling it a downvote but a \u0026quot;reprimand\u0026quot;. Upvotes are called \u0026quot;rewards\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve never seen anyone used a \u0026quot;reprimand\u0026quot; yet, but rewards are used generously. Also, I periodically gives out a number of reward tickets that people can use to reward people, they\u0026#x27;re far superior than reprimand tickets, so I guess people think twice before reprimanding someone and losing the chance to reprimand someone else who really deserves it.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s a smaller community so I don\u0026#x27;t know how it would do on Hackernews, but the power of words, etc...\u003cp\u003eps: to give more info about how I do it, I also don\u0026#x27;t use upward\u0026#x2F;downward arrows. They would suggest a sorting of some sort. You can also reprimand multiple times someone, but he will only lose 1 point of karma. So you won\u0026#x27;t lose 20 points because of a comment.","parent":"8148181","id":"8148282"}
{"by":"agumonkey","time":"1411403848","timestamp":"2014-09-22 16:37:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks for the info. So I guess high end devices may lag but it\u0026#x27;s a fixed overhead.","parent":"8351163","id":"8351283"}
{"by":"jwn","time":"1455722215","timestamp":"2016-02-17 15:16:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You may have just made my morning!","parent":"11118260","id":"11118342"}
{"by":"samstave","time":"1497128971","timestamp":"2017-06-10 21:09:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Contact info please","parent":"14527215","id":"14529205"}
{"by":"MrBra","time":"1403191519","timestamp":"2014-06-19 15:25:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c/i\u003e use WYSIWYG editors but make sure that they comply with latest HTML and CSS specifications, so that when you want to manually modify the code, you will find yourself in a well structured framework and not in a jungle of incoherent code.\u003cp\u003eIf you want to go WYSIWYG, I think Dreamweaver is keeping up fine with times and it\u0026#x27;s still one of the most complete tools \u003ca href=\"https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.adobe.com\u0026#x2F;products\u0026#x2F;dreamweaver.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut these days thanks to the evolution of the web itself, a lot of modern online tools are coming out. For example check the power of \u003ca href=\"https://webflow.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;webflow.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e I believe that being these new tools \u0026quot;indier\u0026quot; and lighter, they have the chance to keep up faster with the new technologies and best practices of web design!\u003cp\u003eOf course the best is - before using these tools - knowing about what the best practices (in terms of code) those tools are implementing (if they are) in their rendered code. For example you should learn about how much Twitter Bootstrap [\u003ca href=\"http://getbootstrap.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;getbootstrap.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e] simplified layout design for web for since a couple of years now, and then maybe you will recognize those tools using it in the code they generate, and then you\u0026#x27;ll feel you can take over by yourself and further change things at your need. Another example is jQuery.\u003cp\u003eAlso, in my opinion, some kind of new fundamental learning\u0026#x2F;building facilities these days are \u0026quot;developer tools\u0026quot; that come with browsers (Firefox and Chrome). For example check \u003ca href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;developer.mozilla.org\u0026#x2F;en-US\u0026#x2F;docs\u0026#x2F;Tools\u0026#x2F;Page_Inspecto...\u003c/a\u003e You don\u0026#x27;t know how much you can learn from using them!\u003cp\u003eBut, If you want to get to know even more, and start a journey in a path of learning nothing worked more for me as than this little big interconnected learning path: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bentobox.io/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.bentobox.io\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope I updated you a bit with times, good luck! :)","parent":"7914201","id":"7916583"}
{"by":"geedy","time":"1379106892","timestamp":"2013-09-13 21:14:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Crowd fund energy initiatives.  Depending on your views on various energy sources, i.e. solar, take a look at\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.sunfunder.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.sunfunder.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://joinmosaic.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;joinmosaic.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso, don\u0026#x27;t become too pessimistic.  Even here, its pretty obvious that people tend to fall into two camps: doomers or deniers.  Very few in between.  I have spent the better part of a year struggling with depression related to the realization of the scale of environmental and sustainability issues facing civilization.  I was a doomer, and some days, I still am.  That said, I also see that the uptake of renewable energy is accelerating. Electric car sales were considered negligible two years ago, and now they are growing fast.  Thats not to say that there aren\u0026#x27;t HUGE challenges facing us.  But I also feel more hopeful that things will eventually change in time.","parent":"6382989","id":"6383213"}
{"by":"nirv","time":"1536255888","timestamp":"2018-09-06 17:44:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Never thought that code editor from the MSFT would become my daily driver IDE.\u003cp\u003eThe only feature I need most from the VSCode (which is not implemented yet) is Python Remote interpreter[1]. While `ptvsd` is more or less convenient for remote debugging, it doesn\u0026#x27;t help when you need IntelliSense\u0026#x2F;linting while developing code being interpreted in container\u0026#x2F;virtual machine\u0026#x2F;remote host. IntelliJ PyCharm is clearly ahead here for now.\u003cp\u003e[1] Issue #79: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Microsoft\u0026#x2F;vscode-python\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;79\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Microsoft\u0026#x2F;vscode-python\u0026#x2F;issues\u0026#x2F;79\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"17925842","id":"17927932"}
{"by":"piguy314","time":"1272083135","timestamp":"2010-04-24 04:25:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I would definitely be more interested in allowing companies to track my browsing and shopping habits if I was being paid.","parent":"1289733","dead":true,"id":"1290323"}
{"by":"earlcp","time":"1496606683","timestamp":"2017-06-04 20:04:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I can answer that. I am not rich, and when the company that insured my car raised it rates a lot I went looking elsewhere.\u003cp\u003eThe new company got my car insurance, and when my truck insurance was due they got that too. Later that year I added my house insurance and since I was getting discounts I also added my cabin up at Parry Sound.\u003cp\u003eSo the result of having a cheaper car insurance is they sold me four policy not just one.","parent":"14482875","id":"14483226"}
{"by":"anandkulkarni","time":"1488402300","timestamp":"2017-03-01 21:05:00 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the final calculation, employees are the ones who are toiling day-in and day-out for the company\u0026#x27;s well being – in a real way, the company\u0026#x27;s future depends on them more than the investors.  It can be more valuable to have them invested long-term in the company\u0026#x27;s success, point for point, than an investor.\u003cp\u003eAnother way to think about it is like this: if an investor told you tomorrow they\u0026#x27;d no longer contribute to the company, versus your first engineer, which would be more damaging? The investor\u0026#x27;s money is already in the bank, whereas the engineer will cost time and money to replace, as well as disrupting the ongoing development.","parent":"13768275","id":"13768326"}
{"by":"berbec","time":"1527106784","timestamp":"2018-05-23 20:19:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"JuiceSSH - android, highly recommened\nGSuite\na t2.micro EC2 - tiny websites, personal url shortener, screen with ssh sessions to every machine I have access to\nmore Win10 licenses then I care to admit to - my VMs gave keys!\nHulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, VRV, DirecTV Now - HBO is included in dtvnow, and we\u0026#x27;re grandfathered in to the intro $35\u0026#x2F;month plan\nOffice 365 from work - If I love jobs, I\u0026#x27;ll pick up an Office subscription myself.","parent":"17136052","id":"17137830"}
{"by":"Cushman","time":"1317957570","timestamp":"2011-10-07 03:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The Macintosh wasn't the first personal computer the same way the iMac wasn't the first all-in-one, or the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player: it wasn't, except for most people, it was. It wasn't anything fundamentally new or special, but it changed everything.\u003cp\u003eAs for influence... True, lots of people have been strongly influential. Take Tim Berners-Lee, who invented HTTP, HTML, and the first web browser... On a NeXT, a computer built by one Steve Jobs.","parent":"3082305","id":"3082522"}
{"by":"reikonomusha","time":"1469207531","timestamp":"2016-07-22 17:12:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"At a few companies I\u0026#x27;ve worked at, remote wasn\u0026#x27;t viable due to hardware development. It was difficult and expensive to replicate test setups for remote employees when unit costs for some of these devices range from 10 to 100k USD (e.g., VNAs).","parent":"12144790","id":"12144935"}
{"by":"judofyr","time":"1262959766","timestamp":"2010-01-08 14:09:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Here's a web framework: 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ۤ۟۟۟۟ۘۘۛ۬ۛ۟ۘۡۜ۠ۢۤۤۙۧ۫ۗۤۜ۠۬۬ۙ۬ۙ۫۠ۧۢۢۜۛۤۖۜۖۙ۠۠۟ۤۖۘۗۖۖۛۡ۠۟ۖۘۚ۫ۡۤۛۖۡۤۖۘۢۧۨۨۢۡۛۖۘۙۛۚۨۢۤۙۖ۟ۙ۬ۧۖۜۛۡۤۖۨۢۘۢۛۗۧۜۡۜ۠۟ۤۜ۟ۢۢۖ۠۫ۧ۫ۗۚۖۢۜۢۢ۟ۖۘ۫ۧۖۗۘۡ۟ۘۧ۬ۤ۫ۗۤ۠ۜۛ۫ۚۚۛۢۜۢۚۚۤۢۜ۫ۙۨ۟ۜ۬ۢۖۡۢۘۨۗۚۨۧ۟۫ۚۗ۠ۜ۠ۢۚۗ۟ۧۡ۬۟ۢ۠۟ۘۧۚۚۜۧۗۨ۫ۢۖۧ۟ۨۧۛ۫ۧۡۡۚ۟۫ۚۘۛ۟۟ۚۗ۬ۚۤ۟۫ۘۡۚۢۖ۫ۨۧ۠۫۠ۢۘۨۨۧۘۘۤ۟۠ۤۚۛۛ۟ۜۡۛۡۚ۟ۛۖ۫ۙ۫ۨۤۧۙۛۤۧۤۢۡۘۧ۫ۜۡۨۢۛۖۧۖۜ۟ۚۗۡۜۡۢۤۢ۫۫ۘ۫ۜۘۤۖۛۙۚۨۗ۠۬ۚۤ۫ۚۖۤۡۘۜۗۗ۠ۛ۠ۚۘۙ۬ۢۤۢ۫ۜۢۗۚۜۨۚۧ۬۫۟۠ۘ۟ۚۙ۟ۧ۠ۛ۟ۖۜۤ۠ۖ۠ۛۛۤۛۧ۠ۘۡ۬ۖۙ۟۠ۨۢ۟ۢ۬ۙۙۖۤۜۡۢۘ۟ۤۧۛۢ۟۟ۧ۬۠۫۫ۨۛۡۚ۠ۘۡ۟۠ۡۛۧ۫ۨۙ۟ۢۙ۟ۜ۠ۢۛ۟ۤ۫ۙۧۧۧۘۖۘ۬ۧۡ۟ۜۢۡ۟ۖۘۚ۬۟۟ۚۧۧۖۧۨ۠۫۟ۛۨ۬ۛۛ۟ۧ۫ۙۡ۠ۚۤۡۗ۫۠ۗۛۗۚ۬ۛۨۜۛۚۡۧ۫ۨ۟ۙ۠ۛۡۢۤ۫ۖۗۨۤۚۤۢۧ۟ۤۜ۟ۤ۬۠ۚۢۖۢۡ۬۟ۧۗۚۖۚۘۢۖۤۙ۠۫ۛ۟ۧۢۙ۟۟ۧۤۛۘۗۙ۬۟ۧ۫ۙۡۨۢ۫۬ۧ۟ۙۧۚۚۛۤۛۛۗۧۢۛۤ۫ۛ۬ۤۛ۫ۨۡ۫ۨۧۧۚۜۡۤۢۛۛۛۤۢۛۛ۟ۜ۫۬۟ۚۢ۬ۛۗۤۢۜ۬ۛۗ۬ۡۧۨۡ۬ۙۜۨۢۛۚۢۛۛۛ۠ۧۤۖۘۘۗۚۗ۬ۗۛ۫ۖۗۖۙ۫ۡۤ۟۬ۘۘ۠ۙۗۘۧۜ۬۠ۛ۫ۤۛۡ۬ۙۜۨۢۛۚۢۛۛۛۜۧ۬ۛۛ۫۟ۘۧۡۙۖ۟ۧۘۧۗۡ۠ۘۘ۟ۙ۬ۖۛ۟۠ۚۨۤۜۤۙۧۨۤۨۚۜ۬ۚۗۛۛۙۨۤۜ۫ۖۨۢۧۖ۠ۖۛۤۨۜۤۜۗۜۘۤ۬ۖۘ۫ۤۛۛ۟ۜ۠ۖ۠ۛ۫ۙۤ۟ۧۡۨ۟ۧۘۙۛۨۗۘۖۘۡۡۗ۟ۛۡۢۜۖۤۜۧ۫ۤۨۚۖۛۘۢۖۢۛۗۨۧ۟ۗۜۨۧۗۧ۫ۖۜۛۗ۫ۚۙۡۜۡۚۤۡۘۜۗۚ۬ۛ۟ۙۙۙۧۗۛۢۗۙۖ۬ۛۙ۠ۘۙۗ۠ۗ۬۠ۖۢ۬۟ۗۢ۬ۜۗۛۜ۠ۢۢۧ۠ۧ۫ۗۤۙۢۛ۟ۚۘۖ۫ۢۧۙۘ۟۟ۧۡۖۗۧۘۛ۬ۡۖ۠ۢ۠۬ۨۙۖۜۤ۠ۛۖۤۛ۠ۚۨۙۡ۠۟ۤۡۢۙۜۨۛۢۨ۬ۧۛ۫۠ۤۘۙۛۙۖ۬ۤ۟۫ۘۗۖۙ۫ۢۤۗۗ۬ۢ۠ۚ۠ۛۛۤۧ۬ۡۚ۫ۨۢۘۨ۠۫ۗ۫ۗۡ۠۠ۜ۟ۤۤۚۘۜۚۙۨ۬ۧۧۡۛ۫۠ۨۗۜۡۜۜۚۧۗۙۖۢ۬ۖ۟ۚۘ۠۫ۛ۫ۜ۠ۙۨ۬ۨ۠ۡۙ۠ۢۗ۟۠۟ۧ۫ۧۘۚۛۖۢۜۙۨۡۤ۫۟ۛۧۚ۫ۧۜ۫ۧۛۤ۠ۖۗۙۡۡۜۗۧۚۙۨۢۘۖۚۚۛۨۢۖۗۧ۬ۜۗۗۖۢۜۙ۫۫ۖۖۖۛۨۤۨۧۧۙ۠۫ۡ۬۫ۨۜۢۖۡۤۘۚۧۙۨۘۙ۠۟","parent":"1039414","id":"1039517"}
{"by":"klbarry","time":"1283126042","timestamp":"2010-08-29 23:54:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This has fantastic potential. Good work!","parent":"1644691","id":"1644916"}
{"by":"weland","time":"1378457003","timestamp":"2013-09-06 08:43:23 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That\u0026#x27;s absolutely ridiculous. Plenty of CEOs carve out a little time to jump into the trenches and work on things they really care about, or work on fun things to relax and get away from the big stuff for a little bit.\u003cp\u003eCome on, read through the lines :-).\u003cp\u003eMy post isn\u0026#x27;t to be read in terms of \u0026quot;Marissa Mayer is an arrogant, career-oriented boss\u0026quot;; it\u0026#x27;s my own experience there, and should be read in terms of \u0026quot;I\u0026#x27;ve seen people do what she did, and they were arrogant, career-oriented bosses\u0026quot;. Correlation doesn\u0026#x27;t imply causation; for all we know, it could be that she\u0026#x27;s a talented graphic designer with exceptional leadership skills, but I have my doubts on it.\u003cp\u003eThat being said, Yahoo\u0026#x27;s logo change was a big move. It\u0026#x27;s the visual spearhead of their rebranding. That\u0026#x27;s hardly a fun thing you do to relax and get away from the big stuff, so that leaves important.\u003cp\u003eLeaving management principles aside, the \u003ci\u003epolite\u003c/i\u003e thing to do when something is really important is generally to leave it to people who are good at it and not put unneeded pressure on them. The whole stream of action reeked of manipulation -- which, as it always happens, may not have been intentional, but that doesn\u0026#x27;t make it stink any less.\u003cp\u003eI am not being intentionally thick or judgmental based on nothing but a blog post. I am relating it to my previous experience, and definitely hope I am wrong (for the sake of Yahoo\u0026#x27;s employees, if anything).","parent":"6334437","id":"6339339"}
{"by":"hmm_really","time":"1519327596","timestamp":"2018-02-22 19:26:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Okay thats the bit that I was missing, seems a reasonable compromise!","parent":"16438568","id":"16440592"}
{"by":"mpolsz","time":"1539923772","timestamp":"2018-10-19 04:36:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I would be curious to know more about how you are doing this. Maybe Microsoft fixed this since I last used WSL, but if they didn\u0026#x27;t then you may be sitting on a ticking time bomb, see: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;commandline\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;do-n..\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\u0026#x2F;commandline\u0026#x2F;2016\u0026#x2F;11\u0026#x2F;17\u0026#x2F;do-n...\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cp\u003eFrom linked post:\nNote: Your \u0026quot;Linux files\u0026quot; are any of the files and folders under %localappdata%\\lxss - which is where the Linux filesystem - distro and your own files - are stored on your drive\u003cp\u003eIt does say later on that storing files on windows filesystem and accessing it via \u0026#x2F;mnt\u0026#x2F;c is ok","parent":"18253335","id":"18254262"}
{"by":"ZirconiumX","time":"1514857615","timestamp":"2018-01-02 01:46:55 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m going to disagree with you here. In chess the problem is not about reducing the tree size: you can get a \u0026quot;tree\u0026quot; by picking random moves. The problem is about reducing the tree size \u003ci\u003eintelligently\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eMy chess program - Dorpsgek - has an 800 byte board structure (though I recently reduced that to about 400). It uses techniques that the computer chess community considered to be impractical. But still it works, and it works because the space that I use per board contains very useful information, such as attacks to a given square.\u003cp\u003eThe advantage that bitboards give are not space by any meaningful quantity - for an alpha-beta search of depth d with a branching factor of b you will allocate at most d boards - or even 1 board - at any given node, not b^d boards. The advantages that bitboards give are speed and information density.\u003cp\u003eAnd to anybody who thinks that a bitboard approach is not sufficiently generic for different board sizes, wrap the bitboard using an arbitrary size bit set and the problem is essentially solved.","parent":"16047897","id":"16049235"}
{"by":"EEGuy","time":"1391235254","timestamp":"2014-02-01 06:14:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Subcarriers are how they added [...] stereo to FM radio...\u003cp\u003eSet your time machine for 1958, or follow this link [0] to see how RCA did both FM stereo (throughout the article they call it \u0026quot;multiplex\u0026quot;) and 67 KHz \u0026quot;SCA\u0026quot; subcarriers.  Admire the awesome 5KW FM transmitter cabinetry and transformer shielding.\u003cp\u003e[0] \u003ca href=\"http://fmamradios.com/BTE-10B.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;fmamradios.com\u0026#x2F;BTE-10B.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7160409","id":"7161026"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1489988791","timestamp":"2017-03-20 05:46:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With a 10,000-person company, there will be departures, but there still shouldn\u0026#x27;t be many executive departures if things are going well. Especially now, the CEO and the board should be doing absolutely everything they can to get good senior execs to stay. That they can\u0026#x27;t is an important sign.","parent":"13911750","id":"13912020"}
{"by":"quasque","time":"1397003617","timestamp":"2014-04-09 00:33:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does this work? \u003ca href=\"http://www.justproxy.co.uk/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZpZGVuY2UubmhzLnVrL2Zvcm11bGFyeS9ibmYvY3VycmVudC9hMi1ib3JkZXJsaW5lLXN1YnN0YW5jZXMvYTIxLWVudGVyYWwtZmVlZHMtbm9uLWRpc2Vhc2Utc3BlY2lmaWM%3D\u0026amp;hl=2ed\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.justproxy.co.uk\u0026#x2F;index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXZpZ...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7556977","id":"7556991"}
{"by":"mrnobody_67","time":"1536975658","timestamp":"2018-09-15 01:40:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You forgot the prison camps -- \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;foreignpolicy.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;chinas-mass-internment-camps-have-no-clear-end-in-sight\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;foreignpolicy.com\u0026#x2F;2018\u0026#x2F;08\u0026#x2F;22\u0026#x2F;chinas-mass-internment-...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround 1 million Uighurs have disappeared without trial.\u003cp\u003eSo much for \u0026quot;never again\u0026quot; after WWII... as long as our iPhone\u0026#x27;s are cheap, people seem happy to look the other way.","parent":"17980959","id":"17992474"}
{"by":"jusben1369","time":"1402065698","timestamp":"2014-06-06 14:41:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re assuming it\u0026#x27;s an extraordinary claim. However, it seems as though it\u0026#x27;s a claim that is grounded in science and repeatable.","parent":"7857782","id":"7858122"}
{"by":"ojeysang","time":"1250364289","timestamp":"2009-08-15 19:24:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"i like this...","parent":"757479","id":"765094"}
{"by":"zanny","time":"1501789065","timestamp":"2017-08-03 19:37:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a tradeoff artists can make. If they make more or better material with their time rather than socializing online, they can attract more patronage that way. If they interact with their supporters, they can also see more participation that way.\u003cp\u003eEither can work.","parent":"14920910","id":"14923036"}
{"by":"flyinRyan","time":"1354295131","timestamp":"2012-11-30 17:05:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It's probably not syrians but Russian/Chinese who are worried about having yet another ally switch over to camp USA.","parent":"4853016","id":"4854112"}
{"by":"loup-vaillant","time":"1352213786","timestamp":"2012-11-06 14:56:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If I had to guess, I would say that many programmers first learn one language at the university.  It's hard, because it's their first one.  Then they learn C++.  It's hard because it's C++.  From that, they infer that languages are complex, difficult to learn, and maybe impossible to implement.\u003cp\u003eThis is true of languages that desperately try to be the proverbial hammer. That's why we call them \"general purpose\".  On the other hand, more specialized languages are often much easier to handle: Of the top of my head, I can think of Make, Lua, and OMeta.\u003cp\u003eI learned the basics of make in a few days.  I'm currently using Lua for the first time, to re-implement OMeta, which I learned in a couple days.  It looks like basic Lua proficiency will take about a week of practice (during my spare time).","parent":"4748316","id":"4748620"}
{"by":"kreci","time":"1271169158","timestamp":"2010-04-13 14:32:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do something kinda like that. Just looking what kind of photos really sales and make more in this niche :)","parent":"1262071","id":"1262079"}
{"by":"pirateking","time":"1393367397","timestamp":"2014-02-25 22:29:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Ahh the good old days. Lot of great times building and deploying new anime and game fan sites every other day, with text file FAQs, MIDI music, and plenty of Metool under construction GIFs. The Web truly sucks for kids today.","parent":"7300429","id":"7301138"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1265339338","timestamp":"2010-02-05 03:08:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There's a couple of things I'm willing to assign 100% probability to, in particular something along the lines of \"for some reasonably recognizable definition of 'exist', something I can reasonably call 'myself' exists\", on the grounds that if I do not in fact exist there's no \"my Bayesian probability\" to be arguing about in the first place. (It's not \u003ci\u003equite\u003c/i\u003e tautological in the strictest sense, for reasons too long to get into here, but it certainly is close.) So I can't quite go to \"impossible\". You can't very far on 100%, though; \"impossible\" is a reasonable approximation.\u003cp\u003eOh, and part of my point is that common usage is wrong, on the grounds that the \"common usage\" is incoherent, meaningless, and information-free. (I basically take it as axiomatic that the worth of the definition of a word can be measured along those axes; I'm \u003ci\u003egenerally\u003c/i\u003e a descriptive grammarian but that doesn't mean I have to throw \u003ci\u003eall\u003c/i\u003e standards out.) Use something more like my definition and you get meaning again.","parent":"1102440","id":"1102554"}
{"by":"mindbreaker","time":"1368730446","timestamp":"2013-05-16 18:54:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I notice that the change between miles and kilometers will not work.","parent":"5719289","id":"5720381"}
{"by":"rokhayakebe","time":"1254367600","timestamp":"2009-10-01 03:26:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If someone can figure how to implement this concept into some real/virtual gift-game-concept for a startup they would do marvelous.","parent":"854185","id":"854266"}
{"by":"yetanotherphd","time":"1395035297","timestamp":"2014-03-17 05:48:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;I only need to point out the many companies that don\u0026#x27;t pay dividends and yet are widely accepted as investments.\u003cp\u003eYour logical error is in assuming that if a company that pays no dividends now is considered a good investment, then that must mean that investors don\u0026#x27;t care if that company never pays dividends.  On the contrary, investors don\u0026#x27;t care if Google pays dividends \u003ci\u003enow\u003c/i\u003e, because every dollar Google doesn\u0026#x27;t pay as a dividend gets reinvested in the company, or at least kept as cash, which enables them to pay more dividends in the \u003ci\u003efuture\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIf Google simply kept that money forever, that would make it into some weird ponzi scheme that the world has never seen before (and we would have to wait until the end of time to find out).  Back in the real world, companies typically do, as your yourself imply, eventually stop growing and start paying dividends.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;you have no idea to whom you are speaking, how I made my fortune, and you are certainly not in a position to lecture anyone about equities.\u003cp\u003eNo one gives a shit about your fortune.  I\u0026#x27;m done with this, but next time try reading what you are replying to carefully, instead of just blasting out facts.","parent":"7413192","id":"7413351"}
{"by":"Diaznash","time":"1533330870","timestamp":"2018-08-03 21:14:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That title can make a good pitch for AR\u0026#x2F;VR.","parent":"17671237","id":"17683671"}
{"by":"jlarocco","time":"1361920650","timestamp":"2013-02-26 23:17:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For me, I just don't see enough benefits of Go over C++.  I already know how to use C++ in a way that avoids or mitigates the problems Go solves.  With C++11 support starting to take off Go's advantages are even smaller.\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, if I didn't know C++ and I was looking for a native compiled language to learn, I'd probably choose Go over C++.","parent":"5288425","id":"5289353"}
{"by":"e12e","time":"1392526024","timestamp":"2014-02-16 04:47:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, I think the whole self-selection on who can participate has a lot to do with that. I wonder if might\u0026#x27;ve been enough to simply sell accounts\u0026#x2F;memberships at this point?","parent":"7246641","id":"7246694"}
{"by":"drakaal","time":"1385178220","timestamp":"2013-11-23 03:43:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;d like this one. I sell Facebook likes. If you were offering a $1M prize I\u0026#x27;d \u0026quot;sell\u0026quot; you a lot of Facebook likes. It would be like if all of England liked me. Which they probably do even if they don\u0026#x27;t want to admit to it.\u003cp\u003eI also sell Youtube views, so I could make sure it would be less funny than what you describe.\u003cp\u003ePopularity contests should be done in person. Harder to cheat if you have to get people to the venue.","parent":"6779399","id":"6785098"}
{"by":"superpie","time":"1374179742","timestamp":"2013-07-18 20:35:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I feel that with low enough risk rates, prevalence in new battery products will still increase to the point that Lithium Ion and similar high end batteries are currently at. When cell phones and laptops were making frequent news stories by exploding, it scared a lot of people, but advances in battery technology were made to make them safer and now they are ubiquitous.","parent":"6065674","id":"6066281"}
{"by":"spindritf","time":"1415620348","timestamp":"2014-11-10 11:52:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To be fair, he declined to comment. Although, the piece does feel a little like advertising.","parent":"8583018","id":"8583054"}
{"by":"dboreham","time":"1475111578","timestamp":"2016-09-29 01:12:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"His column is pretty cool too.","parent":"12600454","id":"12602646"}
{"by":"NullPrefix","time":"1544635666","timestamp":"2018-12-12 17:27:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Easiest way to solve would be moving the process to BIG core on first use of unsupported feature.","parent":"18665702","id":"18665772"}
{"by":"yid","time":"1388865071","timestamp":"2014-01-04 19:51:11 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Oh get off that pedestal. OP was talking about the Tenderloin. Have you ever walked through the Tenderloin? A large fraction of the homeless people there clearly have severe psychological or drug issues. They\u0026#x27;re not there because of the economy.","parent":"7012535","id":"7012583"}
{"by":"andyidsinga","time":"1460254226","timestamp":"2016-04-10 02:10:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;ve had several managers and mentors at Intel that we\u0026#x27;re sincerely interested in helping me develop my career. I\u0026#x27;m not saying its universal, but I\u0026#x27;ve seen some.","parent":"11464337","id":"11464516"}
{"by":"lomnakkus","time":"1491594079","timestamp":"2017-04-07 19:41:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"To paraphrase: On a long-enough timescale all languages are fads.\u003cp\u003eThe ultimate power that can actually be manifested in physical reality (as far as we know) is still Turing Machines[1]... the rest is mostly ergonomics.\u003cp\u003e[1] Well, QM may add a \u0026quot;little bit\u0026quot; of efficiency, but it doesn\u0026#x27;t add any oracular power, per se. AFAIUI, at least.","parent":"14062710","id":"14062920"}
{"by":"teamonkey","time":"1426181068","timestamp":"2015-03-12 17:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Numbers just doesn\u0026#x27;t do a good job of representing data grid information that isn\u0026#x27;t rows and columns of numerical\u0026#x2F;textual data. Its paradigm is that takes that subset of use cases and cleanly separates the presentation layer.\u003cp\u003eExcel has Tables, which sort serve a similar purpose, but the sheet itself is a flexible grid with no pre-conceived purpose, which makes it much more flexible than Numbers.\u003cp\u003eFor example, it\u0026#x27;s relatively easy to knock up a simple Gantt chart by directly coloring cells, something that I\u0026#x27;ve seen often. And you could argue that it\u0026#x27;s not the best tool for the job, and you\u0026#x27;d be right, but it\u0026#x27;s easy and does the job well enough in many cases.\u003cp\u003eAnd that\u0026#x27;s why it\u0026#x27;s popular and iWork isn\u0026#x27;t. Numbers concentrated on making charts and tables beautiful; Excel is a general-purpose programmable platform.","parent":"9185334","id":"9192297"}
{"by":"cwyers","time":"1400688270","timestamp":"2014-05-21 16:04:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The gold standard for freely-available sports data is baseball, with the Retrosheet project:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://retrosheet.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;retrosheet.org\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe license on the data is a pretty permissive one, simply requiring attribution of the data to the Retrosheet project. Software to process Retrosheet files is available, under the GPL:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;chadwick.sourceforge.net\u0026#x2F;doc\u0026#x2F;index.html\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"7778763","id":"7778953"}
{"by":"0x0","time":"1327055380","timestamp":"2012-01-20 10:29:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Does the App Store explicitly disallow bundling the source code inside the app? What if you added a .zip with the source into the app, and on app startup you copy the .zip out of the Application directory into the app's Document folder, which is accessible via iTunes (as long as you set the appropriate flag in the app descriptor plist to enable document sharing)","parent":"3488996","id":"3489022"}
{"by":"hrktb","time":"1519371197","timestamp":"2018-02-23 07:33:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Lately, academics seem to be shifting their value proposition to the instillation of this undetectable unmeasurable X-factor. We can\u0026#x27;t see it, we can\u0026#x27;t prove that it exists, but it\u0026#x27;s there, and its value is absolutely incalculable. How convenient for the sales pitch is this.\u003cp\u003eThe cost of college forces some people to also argument for better revenue opportunities and better fit for future jobs, because otherwise burning through ungodly amounts of money just to be a better rounded person would be a hard sell.\u003cp\u003eIn countries where university are cheaper nobody bats an eye at someone going through the cycles just for the sake of it, purely to learn interesting things.","parent":"16443944","id":"16444826"}
{"by":"ClashTheBunny","time":"1412245113","timestamp":"2014-10-02 10:18:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m on Beta 4, which I think is equal to RC, and I have 2.0.0 when I run:\u003cp\u003ecupsctl WebInterface=yes\u003cp\u003eand go to\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://localhost:631\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;localhost:631\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8399730","id":"8400102"}
{"by":"corvallis","time":"1510255221","timestamp":"2017-11-09 19:20:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I’d encourage you to read a book called Drug Dealer, MD. It details how pain was made “the fifth vital sign” and doctors could lose their board certification and license if patients filed complaints alleging that their pain was not adequately treated by their provider. Even today, surveys that are sent out following hospital encounters ask people if their pain was addressed to their satisfaction. It’s difficult to withhold opioids when your livelihood is on the line.","parent":"15662280","id":"15665062"}
{"by":"jcampbell1","time":"1364830266","timestamp":"2013-04-01 15:31:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The notion of \"money\" is quite well defined.  You need 3 properties:\u003cp\u003e1) Store of value.  Much easier to store gold/USD/Bitcoins than the food you will need in the future.\u003cp\u003e2) Medium of Exchange.  Can be used to exchange for real goods, thus avoiding the headache of barter.\u003cp\u003e3) Unit of Account.  e.g. is easily divisible.\u003cp\u003eBitcoins aren't great at #2, but gold is terrible at #3.  If bitcoins prove to be a lasting store of value, then it will almost certainly be more \"money\" like than gold.","parent":"5473378","id":"5473647"}
{"by":"eonil","time":"1389111742","timestamp":"2014-01-07 16:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s really hard to think the term \u003ci\u003enil\u003c/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003evalue\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003eIMO, this is a bug in language design. If it\u0026#x27;s truly a value, I think they should choose a different term rather then `nil` as like they choose `panic\u0026#x2F;recover` instead of `throw\u0026#x2F;catch` because they\u0026#x27;re semantically different.\u003cp\u003eAnd also, I really don\u0026#x27;t know how should I detect nil reliably for an interface type.","parent":"7016958","id":"7018069"}
{"by":"gailees","time":"1384454425","timestamp":"2013-11-14 18:40:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I love how we are seeing the snapchat-ization and tinder-ization of everything. LA startup scene came out of nowhere!","parent":"6734182","id":"6734405"}
{"by":"albertcardona","time":"1211037827","timestamp":"2008-05-17 15:23:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On skipping the first few paragraphs, the article is very interesting.\u003cp\u003eIt's asking: the more people know who you really are, the less you have to tell them straight (such as labeling yourself Dr. X or adding \", Ph.D.\" to your email signature.)\u003cp\u003eThe article goes on to argue that if you are indeed great but you keep telling people that you are, the less likely they are to believe you -because so many mediocre people are shouting that they are great.\u003cp\u003eThey shout, you don't shout, then you're distinguished. Orson Scott Card knew this and told us all about it.\u003cp\u003eMakes sense.","parent":"192188","id":"192646"}
{"by":"Splines","time":"1443722466","timestamp":"2015-10-01 18:01:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The should use the competitor\u0026#x27;s pages as an opportunity to upsell prime-compatible devices.  Show a \u0026quot;Prime Video\u0026quot; logo crossed out that you can click on that takes you to a page telling you why Prime is so much better than whatever you\u0026#x27;re trying to buy.\u003cp\u003e(I don\u0026#x27;t know if that gets into legal hot waters or not, but couldn\u0026#x27;t be worse than actually not selling competing devices.)\u003cp\u003eIf someone wants to buy an Apple TV, chances are they\u0026#x27;re just going to go to apple.com to do it, and Amazon has lost the chance to turn that customer over.","parent":"10313109","id":"10313151"}
{"by":"nonamechicken","time":"1526594926","timestamp":"2018-05-17 22:08:46 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I had these dreams 4 or 5 times during a depressive period of my life. I never knew how common this dream was until I saw in Reddit from others. In my dreams, I would spit them out one by one and soon all my teeth would be in my hands. And I would wake up scared. I don\u0026#x27;t remember having them before that period. I haven\u0026#x27;t had them for the last 3-4 years once I came out of that phase.","parent":"17095062","id":"17096481"}
{"by":"foobarqux","time":"1321320089","timestamp":"2011-11-15 01:21:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your theory about the genesis of suicidal ideation is not based in fact. Read \"Suicide as Escape From Self\".","parent":"3234616","id":"3236486"}
{"by":"ryangilbert","time":"1365782062","timestamp":"2013-04-12 15:54:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I started something similar with www.founders.cc (launches May 1)!\u003cp\u003eI'll definitely be buying this one as well. Looks like a solid list of entrepreneurs.","parent":"5538579","id":"5539189"}
{"by":"jerven","time":"1361787331","timestamp":"2013-02-25 10:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"CMS or G1 for my application are similar in performance. The killer is still a full stop the world pause when the heap is totally filled. Other wise G1 for beta.sparql.uniprot.org performs slightly better. On average lower memory utilisation and faster collection times. This is with a 30-100 GB heap on a 64 core machine.","parent":"5276020","id":"5278173"}
{"by":"eplanit","time":"1485207789","timestamp":"2017-01-23 21:43:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; Children expect the world to revolve around them. Adults do not.\u003cp\u003eIt seems like the sentiment is \u0026quot;you have to come to where _I_ am to do work, just like _I_ do\u0026quot;, which smacks of wanting the world to revolve around you.  Who has childish expectations in this scenario?","parent":"13464186","id":"13466337"}
{"by":"wpietri","time":"1363470434","timestamp":"2013-03-16 21:47:14 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"On the other hand, waiting maximizes the amount of time I can continue to be productive while you more eager people test out the alternatives for me.\u003cp\u003eIf I had more time, I'd definitely try a bunch of things. But for now I'm glad that there are a bunch of eager types out there testing the alternatives and posting here.","parent":"5386616","id":"5386945"}
{"by":"_grrr","time":"1315435810","timestamp":"2011-09-07 22:50:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That's never going to happen. Anything that anyone ever wants to use to trade on in a cost/time sensitive manner will already have event-action (notification/trade) functionality built in.","parent":"2971180","dead":true,"id":"2971871"}
{"by":"Leon","time":"1201524603","timestamp":"2008-01-28 12:50:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yeah that's a good starting point, but that won't guarantee users.  You've got to keep working on it.  What causes people to go in the wrong direction?","parent":"105496","id":"105505"}
{"by":"aminok","time":"1470228393","timestamp":"2016-08-03 12:46:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They explain their methodology:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;council.vancouver.ca\u0026#x2F;20160308\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;rr1presentation.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;council.vancouver.ca\u0026#x2F;20160308\u0026#x2F;documents\u0026#x2F;rr1presentati...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes not look easily gameable, and the authors don\u0026#x27;t strike me as being disingenuous.","parent":"12217225","id":"12217506"}
{"by":"jquery","time":"1273723156","timestamp":"2010-05-13 03:59:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, I will agree with you there--government generally leaves people feeling unhappy, which I why I prefer decentralizing it, letting people move out of the jurisdiction of a government that makes them miserable. That's the beauty of federalism and our Constitution. :)","parent":"1343220","id":"1343239"}
{"by":"scrapcode","time":"1423697860","timestamp":"2015-02-11 23:37:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A $80k\u0026#x2F;yr secure government job with a guaranteed retirement. For someone without a formal education (yet), that\u0026#x27;s not the easiest thing to come across outside of development.","parent":"9034078","id":"9036425"}
{"by":"jerf","time":"1297718555","timestamp":"2011-02-14 21:22:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I drive through this twice a day:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;ll=42.505215,-83.758199\u0026#38;spn=0.005007,0.007789\u0026#38;t=h\u0026#38;z=17\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8\u0026#38;ll=42.505215,-83.758199\u0026...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a triple roundabout with a highway bridge separating two of them. The internals are arguably simpler but there are more entrances/exits than the magic roundabout.\u003cp\u003eFor bonus points, check out what state this is in.\u003cp\u003e(I use Bing because last I checked Google still doesn't have a good satellite view of this, despite it being several years old now.)","parent":"2218289","id":"2218732"}
{"by":"goatlover","time":"1503065731","timestamp":"2017-08-18 14:15:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; That is what on my ideal world ChromeOS should have been, but with Dart instead,\u003cp\u003eThat would have been very interesting. I liked Dart from the brief time I looked at it. The web still feels like a somewhat crippled platform to develop for.","parent":"15046201","id":"15046356"}
{"by":"jeremysmyth","time":"1444641602","timestamp":"2015-10-12 09:20:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Probably because your comment didn\u0026#x27;t add anything to the discussion. There\u0026#x27;s somewhat of a culture here of downvoting \u0026quot;Me too\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;+1\u0026quot; type content-free comments, and even jokey one-liners that don\u0026#x27;t progress the discussion.\u003cp\u003eMy respectful suggestion is that when you want to comment, try to say something that uses your own experience or opinion to \u003ci\u003eadd\u003c/i\u003e something to the discussion,  rather than to mirror or agree with some point in the article or in a comment. I\u0026#x27;m far more likely to upvote something that makes me realize something I hadn\u0026#x27;t already thought of.","parent":"10364503","id":"10373389"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1455909874","timestamp":"2016-02-19 19:24:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11130785\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11130785\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11125838\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=11125838\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"11132686","id":"11135875"}
{"by":"techsupporter","time":"1342943066","timestamp":"2012-07-22 07:44:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I bought Postbox and really like it.  They've based it on Thunderbird 2 which is the version I like--3 made some UI changes I don't prefer.  By continuing to update 2's code, I get an up-to-date e-mail client that acts how I want.  Plus, with a couple of settings tweaks, it can look just like Sparrow, it's available for Mac AND Windows, it supports Gmail's tags (I don't use Gmail so I can't check that), and even does the social network integration.  It's also the same price as Sparrow (actually, 4 cents cheaper) at USD$9.95.","parent":"4276106","id":"4276722"}
{"by":"jacques_chester","time":"1302819446","timestamp":"2011-04-14 22:17:26 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The humanist tradition of education is rich kids hanging out with scholars. That's how universities got started: rich kids, hanging out in fashionable cities, paying scholars a small fee to attend private seminars. \"Lecturers\" were people paid to read a book aloud to a large group. And so on.\u003cp\u003eThe \"capitalist\" idea of education is actually a demotic idea of education: that the non rich kid can also attend the same scholars and \u003ci\u003eget their money back\u003c/i\u003e some day. That model is well-entrenched because most kids attending are middle class.\u003cp\u003eRich kids can still get an education for its own sake, if they want it.","parent":"2448629","id":"2448682"}
{"by":"karcass","time":"1377389498","timestamp":"2013-08-25 00:11:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The vast majority of airports are non-towered.  The playa is about as perfect a surface to land on as you can imagine.  The main difficulty is figuring out how far you are above the ground, but if you set up a proper approach, it doesn\u0026#x27;t really matter.","parent":"6270212","id":"6270316"}
{"by":"mahmud","time":"1415261802","timestamp":"2014-11-06 08:16:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This the premise of a good chunk of Reid Hoffman\u0026#x27;s Startup Class lecture.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec13/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;startupclass.samaltman.com\u0026#x2F;courses\u0026#x2F;lec13\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"8566182","id":"8566205"}
{"by":"panic","time":"1486643629","timestamp":"2017-02-09 12:33:49 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Exactly.  It\u0026#x27;s a difference of will, not of resources.  America could easily do all of this if our government and people cared.","parent":"13605803","id":"13606452"}
{"by":"DavidSJ","time":"1306983753","timestamp":"2011-06-02 03:02:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eIf people are swtching because the UI alienates them then I understand them sticking to Windows 7 but why would anybody switch to Lion given that its even more alienating than Windows 7.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you're being forced to basically adopt a new product, then you start to consider all the possibilities.","parent":"2610181","id":"2610464"}
{"by":"pdknsk","time":"1370805340","timestamp":"2013-06-09 19:15:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"How likely is it he really is in HK, and not in some remote village in Thailand? I\u0026#x27;d prefer the latter, but tell the former. If he actually is in HK, China might even offer him asylum and twist this in a huge propaganda victory.","parent":"5849932","id":"5850098"}
{"by":"roel_v","time":"1312276937","timestamp":"2011-08-02 09:22:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, especially for software there are many ways to pay much less, but you'll need to find specialized people to do that and maybe be willing to make some trade offs. I'm not comfortable talking details, but search for companies who specialize in offshore companies and go talk to them - first talk is usually free. Also look across the borders (West, in your case - there are some hidden gems there).","parent":"2836414","id":"2836505"}
{"by":"pps43","time":"1489158121","timestamp":"2017-03-10 15:02:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; if I use \u0026quot;aaaaaaaaa\u0026quot; as a password on a website I know full well what I\u0026#x27;m doing.\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s no substitute for length. \u0026quot;dog\u0026quot; is a bad password. \u0026quot;doooooooooooooooog\u0026quot; is much better. The entropy is still the same, but the latter takes much longer to brute force and is just as easy to remember.\u003cp\u003eOf course one should not use passwords one can remember for anything critical, but many passwords are for services where compromise is not a big deal.","parent":"13838299","id":"13839056"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1270753442","timestamp":"2010-04-08 19:04:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm not a jailbreaker (I want my iPhone to work. All the time.) But I don't begrudge you your jailbreak or your opinion.\u003cp\u003eI'm just reacting to the implication that there is something shady about them not giving the 3G a feature.","parent":"1250547","id":"1250570"}
{"by":"airstrike","time":"1526318437","timestamp":"2018-05-14 17:20:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Technically, it grows \u003ci\u003eas\u003c/i\u003e trees","parent":"17067176","id":"17067338"}
{"by":"stellar678","time":"1269516868","timestamp":"2010-03-25 11:34:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This essay seem reasonably well-informed, but completely unwilling to tread even close to, let alone outside, the possibilities of our current technology/framework of thought. It seems to me a complete presumption that it will forever be impossible to recreate a consciousness given a recorded set of behavior. (Philosopher David Chalmers talks about this a bit: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/duFPOG\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/duFPOG\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cp\u003eA relatively-recent example of how unexpected use can be made of pre-existing data - look at how search engines worked in 1997. The state of the art didn't know what signals were most important to look at, so they paid attention to things like keyword density. Then Google came along and illuminated a way more important signal, blowing away the state of the art for search engine ranking. Who's to say there is no analog for any kind of 'consciousness recording' that we have right now? Is it entirely implausible that a recording of my thoughts today won't provide significantly more information 50 years from now than it does today?\u003cp\u003eThe problem seems akin to compressed sensing (\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing\u003c/a\u003e), posted in a few articles on HN about a month ago.","parent":"1218075","id":"1218175"}
{"by":"ZenoArrow","time":"1473015984","timestamp":"2016-09-04 19:06:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"MDMA doesn\u0026#x27;t give you the level of thirst for water that you\u0026#x27;re describing. It does generally make you feel warmer than usual, but there are plenty of ways to cool down other than drinking water (drinking water helps, but going outside works too). Also, it doesn\u0026#x27;t have the same effect as alcohol on your sense of judgement, you can do stupid stuff on it but generally you\u0026#x27;re more aware of what\u0026#x27;s going on.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not to say it\u0026#x27;s for everybody (people with heart defects probably shouldn\u0026#x27;t mess with it, and IIRC it can deplete serotonin in the long run if overused), but the main risks appear to come from those who take large doses and\u0026#x2F;or mix it with other drugs (through their own fault or by a dealer cutting it with something else).","parent":"12424931","id":"12426125"}
{"by":"arjunnarayan","time":"1301348721","timestamp":"2011-03-28 21:45:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Only works if you cannibalized that iMac from two other Macs.","parent":"2380166","id":"2380239"}
{"by":"jdnier","time":"1310163862","timestamp":"2011-07-08 22:24:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In the spirit of Tom Christiansen's lexer solution, here's a link to Robert Cameron's seemingly forgotten 1998 article, \"REX: XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions\".\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e  http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\"\"\"\u003cp\u003eAbstract\u003cp\u003eThe syntax of XML is simple enough that it is possible to parse an XML document into a list of its markup and text items using a single regular expression. Such a shallow parse of an XML document can be very useful for the construction of a variety of lightweight XML processing tools. However, complex regular expressions can be difficult to construct and even more difficult to read. Using a form of literate programming for regular expressions, this paper documents a set of XML shallow parsing expressions that can be used a basis for simple, correct, efficient, robust and language-independent XML shallow parsing. Complete shallow parser implementations of less than 50 lines each in Perl, JavaScript and Lex/Flex are also given.\u003cp\u003eThe syntax of XML is simple enough that it is possible to parse an XML document into a list of its markup and text items using a single regular expression. Such a shallow parse of an XML document can be very useful for the construction of a variety of lightweight XML processing tools. However, complex regular expressions can be difficult to construct and even more difficult to read. Using a form of literate programming for regular expressions, this paper documents a set of XML shallow parsing expressions that can be used a basis for simple, correct, efficient, robust and language-independent XML shallow parsing. Complete shallow parser implementations of less than 50 lines each in Perl, JavaScript and Lex/Flex are also given.\u003cp\u003e\"\"\"","parent":"2741780","id":"2744337"}
{"by":"milhous","time":"1426390528","timestamp":"2015-03-15 03:35:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m with you. I\u0026#x27;m using a Logitech TrackMan Wheel, and though it operates at a low resolution, is still a very efficient means of moving the mouse across high resolution\u0026#x2F;multi-screen setups. Microsoft must have something against trackballs, and they shouldn\u0026#x27;t. I\u0026#x27;m sure they could do well releasing a slick trackball that could compete against Logitech and Kensington.\u003cp\u003eAs for the latter, the iPhone in 2007 pretty much set the bar for how mobile interfaces should be done and then everyone just fell in line. And on a sidenote, the trackballs on older Blackberries were very unreliable, so there\u0026#x27;s that aspect to it as well.","parent":"9204894","id":"9205267"}
{"by":"deepinthewoods","time":"1511972652","timestamp":"2017-11-29 16:24:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pixelprospector.com\u0026#x2F;the-big-list-of-postmortems\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pixelprospector.com\u0026#x2F;the-big-list-of-postmortems\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\nOr\n\u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pixelprospector.com\u0026#x2F;the-big-list-of-game-design\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.pixelprospector.com\u0026#x2F;the-big-list-of-game-design\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eMight interest you","parent":"15800118","id":"15808000"}
{"by":"pedrocr","time":"1475832483","timestamp":"2016-10-07 09:28:03 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt;Good DRM should be seamless and no-different (to the end user) to non-DRM content\u003cp\u003eThere is no such thing. DRM tries to do something that\u0026#x27;s fundamentally impossible. It wants to allow you to view content while at the same time not allow you to copy it but that\u0026#x27;s a distinction that only exists in intent not technically. It\u0026#x27;s also impossible in practice since at best it could aim to be as good as not existing at all but since it\u0026#x27;s not made of magic pixie dust but is actual hardware and software it will both fail open and fail closed. The fail open cases will be used to get the content out of it. The fail closed ones will frustrate users who just want to be able to view their content who will then grab the illegal copies and will soon figure out that they are paying for an inferior experience.","parent":"12659210","id":"12659258"}
{"by":"why-el","time":"1330969844","timestamp":"2012-03-05 17:50:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, we are not. My bad, I misunderstood the statement; I thought he was referencing yesterday only, which I thought might not be possible, given the sort amount of time. Obviously if other people knew that's a whole different story.","parent":"3667163","id":"3667438"}
{"by":"posterboy","time":"1469952319","timestamp":"2016-07-31 08:05:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, only those breaking that law are animals.","parent":"12194613","id":"12196129"}
{"by":"fakeer","time":"1370224880","timestamp":"2013-06-03 02:01:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"NewsBlur is ugly. I mean it just looks oily.\u003cp\u003eThe Old Reader doesn't provide an API yet it seems. (I had mailed awesome Android app FeedMe's[1] dev and that's what he said)\u003cp\u003eFeedHQ started taking payments(actually became paid only) without any features or implementation which is worthwhile.\u003cp\u003eFeedly is plague. Ask them why they need a Firefox extension to read their website.\u003cp\u003eFeedBin is one that sounds sane and I am going to stick to them till others improve.\u003cp\u003eWe don't have an option, yet!\u003cp\u003eBesides, in most of the blog posts and comments people were worried about a reading client than a service which(latter) IMHO was the real loss.\u003cp\u003e[1]\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.feedme\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.fee...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5809827","id":"5810913"}
{"by":"jahabrewer","time":"1484593538","timestamp":"2017-01-16 19:05:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Genuine question--doesn\u0026#x27;t domain fronting make it difficult for states to censor Signal? Or is the idea that it\u0026#x27;s a cat-and-mouse game and the state will find a way to censor even with domain fronting?","parent":"13411794","id":"13412068"}
{"by":"userbinator","time":"1419741877","timestamp":"2014-12-28 04:44:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eApple doesn\u0026#x27;t even allow IOS apps to have programmability.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould you elaborate on this \u0026quot;programmability\u0026quot;?","parent":"8805231","id":"8805266"}
{"by":"rdancer","time":"1451451565","timestamp":"2015-12-30 04:59:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The U.S. market is smothered by local monopolies[1] and a global duopoly. Your argument would hold water if the free market has been given chance at all.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;8ckIn\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;imgur.com\u0026#x2F;a\u0026#x2F;8ckIn\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"10810651","id":"10810792"}
{"by":"angus77","time":"1316638123","timestamp":"2011-09-21 20:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you mean Japan was dirt poor a couple if generations ago. A generation ago they were in the middle of their economic bubble. A couple of generations ago, they were rebuilding from the devastation of World War II. Before that, they were already an advanced industrialized nation, far ahead of their neighbours.","parent":"3023454","id":"3023618"}
{"by":"pixelfeeder","time":"1492095727","timestamp":"2017-04-13 15:02:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Updated for now. Working on rebranding it.","parent":"14107320","id":"14107527"}
{"by":"codefined","time":"1502993229","timestamp":"2017-08-17 18:07:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Since the actual size is tiny, tried using webpack to combine some of the resources.  Saved ~40% of that size with minification and dead code removal, and saving that many requests meant that it takes a tenth of the time to load.\u003cp\u003eMight recommend you try it too for releases, as a lot of people might not know how \u0026amp; will use this as is.","parent":"15038242","id":"15039232"}
{"by":"ISL","time":"1528126731","timestamp":"2018-06-04 15:38:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Looks like the Gameboy cameras are ~$50, used Gameboys can be had for ~$50, and used EF 50mm f\u0026#x2F;1.8s are ~$50.\u003cp\u003eThe 70-200 f\u0026#x2F;4 that the author used? Much more.","parent":"17218962","id":"17228874"}
{"by":"falcolas","time":"1362173925","timestamp":"2013-03-01 21:38:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62; And it is two keystrokes instead of one.\u003cp\u003eTechnically, it's three keystrokes instead of two. And you have to commit ctrl-s (or cmd-s if you're on a mac) to memory just as much as you do :w. Nothing really saved there.\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62; The \"cheat sheets\" I refer to are those that map multiple-keystroke sequences to the actions that, in a modern editor, require one keystroke.\u003cp\u003eLike delete the next four words? How do I do that in a modern editor with a single keystroke? How about \"replace everything inside these quotes\"? Or repeat the last action I just took again?\u003cp\u003eI'm glad you like your modern editors (there's lots there to love), but they are not inherently better than vim just because they're non-modal. There is typically a more shallow learning curve than VIM, but the simple virtue of being non-modal doesn't guarantee that (sorry, Emacs).\u003cp\u003eIn the end, two things sealed the deal for VIM for me. 1) it's on every remote server I have to access, and 2) I've put the time into it, so I'm quite efficient in it.\u003cp\u003eIn my last job, since I was only doing local development, I tried out Sublime Text 2 for a good 3 months before giving up on it. I was constantly thinking \"I know how to do this in vim - how do I do it here?\", and ultimately, I got tired of constantly reaching for the mouse for trivial things like selecting and moving text. I felt that 3 months was sufficient to really give ST2 a fair shake, so I didn't (and still don't) feel bad when I went back to the terminal.","parent":"5305881","id":"5307101"}
{"by":"Symmetry","time":"1381348724","timestamp":"2013-10-09 19:58:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, sort of.\u003cp\u003eFor the actual 32 KB instruction cache they just tag the instructions in the cache at the instruction boundaries.  The Pentium IV tried holding decoded instructions (or traces, rather) in the instruction cache, but it didn\u0026#x27;t work out very well.  The complications induced by lining up the different instruction sizes with the previously specified jump targets and the fact that decoded instructions are much bigger made that approach less successful.\u003cp\u003eIntel Sandy Bridge and later processors do keep a sort of L0 instruction cache full of decoded instructions with all the annotations needed to sort out branching.  It can hold 1.5 K uOps, which is certainly something but not so big that you won\u0026#x27;t be missing it regularly.","parent":"6523314","id":"6523471"}
{"by":"tkyjonathan","time":"1509800476","timestamp":"2017-11-04 13:01:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree with the race to the bottom part.","parent":"15624799","id":"15624813"}
{"by":"zdw","time":"1300473839","timestamp":"2011-03-18 18:43:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Marketing fundamentally is about matching up a solution with a need, and convincing that the solution being provided is better than others.\u003cp\u003eThe problem is that often there are solutions with no need, thus the need is manufactured (becomes a want).\u003cp\u003eMy wager is that celebrity coverage, and the products that advertise on that time are nearly all in the category of wants, and often frivolous/stupid ones at that.","parent":"2341347","id":"2341444"}
{"by":"azdle","time":"1431716230","timestamp":"2015-05-15 18:57:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"For anyone that hasn\u0026#x27;t played around with rust yet, this is why I\u0026#x27;m excited about rust: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Azdle\u0026#x2F;hello-gtk.rs\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;src\u0026#x2F;main.rs\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;Azdle\u0026#x2F;hello-gtk.rs\u0026#x2F;blob\u0026#x2F;master\u0026#x2F;src\u0026#x2F;main.r...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is a GTK GUI application that makes HTTP requests in under 40 lines of code.\u003cp\u003eDon\u0026#x27;t get me wrong I love all the safety gaurentes and what not, but just being able to write quick simple apps that would usually be a pain to write in C is a game changer for me. A lot of this is down to Cargo (the Rust package manager, very npm-like imo) and all the great rust libraries that already exist. I\u0026#x27;m super excited to see where this goes now that it\u0026#x27;s 1.0, people can stop worrying about breaking changes in the language and just get down to writing libraries to do everything.","parent":"9551937","id":"9552847"}
{"by":"MojoJolo","time":"1349083788","timestamp":"2012-10-01 09:29:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"the transition between the images is soooo nice!","parent":"4595759","id":"4595999"}
{"by":"ColinWright","time":"1361659169","timestamp":"2013-02-23 22:39:29 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"He said:\u003cp\u003e\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003e    Your problem is not with programmers but with a term\n    called abstraction. And fighting that is futile. The\n    benefits vastly over weight any intellectual argument\n    you can present against it.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\nUtterly bizarre, to be claiming that a pure mathematician has a problem with abstraction.","parent":"5271407","id":"5271795"}
{"by":"rl3","time":"1424602174","timestamp":"2015-02-22 10:49:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wrote a somewhat long-winded comment on this topic a while back, you may find it useful:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6832589\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=6832589\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003etl;dr\u003c/i\u003e version of it is:\u003cp\u003eRisk management, specifically position sizing, is commonly neglected and yet extremely important.\u003cp\u003ePsychology is everything, regardless of whatever your approach may be.","parent":"9088844","id":"9089007"}
{"by":"mathw","time":"1493728359","timestamp":"2017-05-02 12:32:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There are a lot of comparisons here which don\u0026#x27;t make any sense. It\u0026#x27;s not the same people making HoloLens work (which may be overblown, since not many people have had heads-on time with one to report back) and making Skype so awful, because Microsoft is huge and have different teams doing different things and some of those teams are clearly better than others or get their priorities set by people more in line with what the author would want than others.\u003cp\u003eLikewise at Google, Hangouts and self-driving cars won\u0026#x27;t share any people. Especially as their self-driving cars are now handled by a different company, Waymo, who have the same parent company as Google.\u003cp\u003eI get the point that it\u0026#x27;s astonishing that videoconferencing tech is still so awful. I remember interviewing at Google\u0026#x27;s London office years ago and two of the interviews were done by video links, and they worked flawlessly - but this very impressive conference system was one Google had bought in from somewhere and presumably paid ridiculous sums of money for. That experience gave me hope for consumer video tech - but it\u0026#x27;s now ten years later and where are we?\u003cp\u003eFaceTime seems to work, but it only works between Apple devices. Google Duo seems to work in my limited experimentation, but only works between phones running the Duo app, because Google have more hands that don\u0026#x27;t know what any of the other hands are doing than just about anybody else - especially in the consumer communications arena.\u003cp\u003eI wish someone would get their pants on and seriously invest in sorting out video calling.\u003cp\u003eHeck, getting audio to work reliably would be good. Best one for that currently in my experience? Slack.","parent":"14245410","id":"14245799"}
{"by":"JackC","time":"1347287612","timestamp":"2012-09-10 14:33:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wouldn't downvote you, but (purely because you asked) you did trigger my noise filter. Not a big deal, but it sounds like you're interested in how to avoid doing that, so here goes.\u003cp\u003eThe reason you set off my noise filter is that \"there is growing body of clues indicating that our current understanding of [something] is flawed\" makes it sound like you're way overstating your competence in the field. I mean, if you were an expert in the field, and you said (1) I'm familiar with what big bang theory is and why we believe it, and (2) there are enough observations that seem inconsistent with the theory that I'm starting to think it has basic flaws, then that would be really interesting, especially if you went into detail.\u003cp\u003eBut if you're not an expert, reading a couple of popular science articles about particular observations that haven't been explained yet tells you absolutely nothing about whether there's a \"growing\" body of clues, or whether there are any clues at all, that the big bang theory is flawed. It just tells you that there are some observations that we can't explain yet. It's like (no offense) a creationist saying \"there is a growing body of clues that our current understanding of evolution is flawed,\" when all they really mean is that they've read a few articles about particular fossil evidence that isn't explained yet.\u003cp\u003eSo basically I would encourage you to write something off the bat more like your follow-up. Say, \"I've seen a number of articles about strange observations like this one that don't fit in with our idea of how the universe was formed. Does that indicate actual problems with the theory, or does it just take time to figure out how new observations fit in?\" And then I think people would upvote you instead of downvote you. Hope this helps.","parent":"4498937","id":"4499972"}
{"by":"MacsHeadroom","time":"1377685213","timestamp":"2013-08-28 10:20:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, SquareTrade.","parent":"6288285","id":"6288932"}
{"by":"sspencer","time":"1194304027","timestamp":"2007-11-05 23:07:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"$55 seems quite cheap for a million addresses.  \u003cp\u003eI wonder if you can get a volume discount.  Buy 3 databases, get the 4th free!","parent":"76390","id":"76416"}
{"by":"ghshephard","time":"1353192850","timestamp":"2012-11-17 22:54:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"In 15 years of working in IT organizations at various companies I've seen hundreds of people run Solaris as their Desktop OS (mostly 1996-1998 at Netscape), various Macintosh System OS's and Irix as their desktop, at times everyone was running Linux as their Desktop OS, and nowadays OS X seems to be popular (obviously there has always been a lot of Windows Desktop Usage)\u003cp\u003eI have never, once, seen OpenBSD run as a Desktop OS.  This despite working at several companies where OpenBSD was actually core to our entire infrastructure.\u003cp\u003eI'm not saying that nobody does (I expect the OpenBSD developers probably do), but I am strongly suggesting that OpenBSD needs \u003ci\u003eno\u003c/i\u003e desktop presence whatsoever to be extraordinarily successful.  I've never installed it on the desktop.  I've never seen anybody install it on the desktop.  Not once in 15 years.  There is no rationale reason to run OpenBSD as a desktop, and I'll go further and say I will likely never see X-Windows run on OpenBSD.\u003cp\u003eAnd, as for a niche - I consider OpenBSD to be the pre-eminent platform for Firewalling, IPsec, IPv6.  Their continual focus on consistency makes the system a joy to use - all of the lessons I learned in 2001/2002 are almost 100% (hell, they might be 100%) applicable to managing an OpenBSD system today.\u003cp\u003eThey may be a \u003ci\u003eniche\u003c/i\u003e but it's a pretty darn big one.\u003cp\u003eWith regards to your argument regarding \"upstream\" support - most of the upstream support required is around elements that are not associated with the desktop, and, in many areas, openBSD has just decided to rewrite the upstream contribuions in their own \"OpenBSDsh\" way anyways.\u003cp\u003eI'm confident they will do fine even if upstream support for desktop, and associated applications, no longer considers BSD as a first-rate platform.","parent":"4799141","id":"4799218"}
{"by":"majewsky","time":"1498036431","timestamp":"2017-06-21 09:13:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s why these local taxi companies usually have billboards at train stations and airports that inform travellers of their app.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: Alternatively, convince the taxi companies to open up their API. Then you can have one app that selects the correct API based on your current location.","parent":"14601994","id":"14602193"}
{"by":"maxxxxx","time":"1530743646","timestamp":"2018-07-04 22:34:06 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It sounds like the current billionaires still think they are entitled to be super rich and should control the world but they also want to feel good about themselves.","parent":"17459738","id":"17459782"}
{"by":"ww520","time":"1328253771","timestamp":"2012-02-03 07:22:51 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Asian demographic is 4.7% of U.S. population.\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3546187","id":"3546204"}
{"by":"johnloeber","time":"1458409998","timestamp":"2016-03-19 17:53:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Remember that Uber subverts the traditional employee model. Drivers are contractors, responsible for their own hourly wage. Sometimes they will earn below the minimum wage, and at other times, well above it.\u003cp\u003eIn the areas where Uber is prominent, it\u0026#x27;s hard for low-skilled workers to find any employment at all. Consequently, some of them turn to Uber. This means that no matter how bad the wage, Uber has a ready supply of drivers.\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026#x27;s extremely important for Uber to make Uber a cost-effective alternative to driving or public transit. The drivers are less important to Uber -- both in the short and in the long run (automated cars), the drivers are the expendable part of the equation.\u003cp\u003e(However, do note that under certain circumstances, Uber subsidizes the drivers: sometimes they are paid more than the passenger is charged.)","parent":"11319288","id":"11319563"}
{"by":"ma2rten","time":"1395463898","timestamp":"2014-03-22 04:51:38 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is a bug on this comment. It says [pending], but there is no endorsements button, it says endorsed instead.","parent":"7447641","id":"7447674"}
{"by":"isaacb","time":"1391202582","timestamp":"2014-01-31 21:09:42 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"4 out of 10 rated this helpful","parent":"7159072","id":"7159197"}
{"by":"tptacek","time":"1470873701","timestamp":"2016-08-11 00:01:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It is in retrospect a pretty banal observation. If cipher design is about achieving a certain security level at the lowest cost per byte, it sort of stands to reason that you\u0026#x27;d want to design them around those features of a CPU on which the market is going to put the most pressure to improve.\u003cp\u003eIn fairness, some of this design philosophy --- which Bernstein has held for a very long time! --- gets a lot clearer with the advent of modern ARX ciphers, which dispense with a lot of black magic in earlier block cipher designs.\u003cp\u003eA really good paper to read here is the original Salsa20 paper, which explains operation-by-operation why Bernstein chose each component of the cipher.","parent":"12265507","id":"12265530"}
{"by":"ssp","time":"1263726779","timestamp":"2010-01-17 11:12:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The main point of ext4 (and ext3) is that they are backwards compatible; you can use your existing on-disk layout. Google probably has a zillion disks that they can't just reformat.","parent":"1058294","id":"1058334"}
{"by":"kyberias","time":"1453553162","timestamp":"2016-01-23 12:46:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"But... isn\u0026#x27;t _Generic part of C11, not C99? You actually require C11. Big difference.","parent":"10958108","id":"10958201"}
{"by":"BaconJuice","time":"1368457419","timestamp":"2013-05-13 15:03:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Was looking for something just like this. Very cool, Thanks for sharing!","parent":"5698500","id":"5699038"}
{"by":"petercooper","time":"1363885110","timestamp":"2013-03-21 16:58:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eDeleted\u003c/i\u003e? Or just merely pushed way off the front page due to flagging? \"Deleted\" would be an interesting development here.","parent":"5416655","id":"5416725"}
{"by":"albertcardona","time":"1204597528","timestamp":"2008-03-04 02:25:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I have met men who where schooled in boys-only schools. Without exception (so far), their social skills are very low. Particularly with women, unsurprisingly.","parent":"128153","id":"128519"}
{"by":"ryanSrich","time":"1364398344","timestamp":"2013-03-27 15:32:24 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026#62;\"earn every penny\"?\u003cp\u003e\u0026#62;\"he was in the right place at the right time with the right investors\"\u003cp\u003eWhat's the difference between these two?","parent":"5449955","id":"5449974"}
{"by":"general_failure","time":"1410200554","timestamp":"2014-09-08 18:22:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Fantastic! I am now running it locally and works very well for me out of the box. (Using the shout-irc.com doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to work)\u003cp\u003eFeature request: Make it work with quassel core. Currently there is \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;magne4000\u0026#x2F;quassel-webserver\u003c/a\u003e but I don\u0026#x27;t like the UI as much as yours. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/magne4000/node-libquassel\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;github.com\u0026#x2F;magne4000\u0026#x2F;node-libquassel\u003c/a\u003e might help you with quassel connectivity.","parent":"8285832","id":"8286329"}
{"by":"9248","time":"1408930540","timestamp":"2014-08-25 01:35:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From the perspective of a user who isn\u0026#x27;t really experienced in running servers:\u003cp\u003e* I think they\u0026#x27;re called snapshots. Let me setup my VPS the way I want it, upload my stuff, etc, then let me backup\u0026#x2F;save my entire VPS on your servers. Two weeks later, when I\u0026#x27;ll try to setup a mail server for the first time in my life, I will probably break a lot of stuff. With a few clicks, I should be able to restore everything in a matter of minutes.\u003cp\u003e* Slashdot \u0026#x27;protection\u0026#x27;. If I bought some starter package, and at some point I start getting 100%-1000% my usual traffic, then instead of killing my VPS for abuse or letting it suffocate on its own, make minimum effort, like boosting my resources, etc. Reach out, help me decide if I want to upgrade, or give me enough time to move out.\u003cp\u003e* Wiki\u0026#x2F;guides\u0026#x2F;tutorials. Maybe try creating a community where users can request guides, and (heavy) contributors could get some free server time :)","parent":"8220015","id":"8220215"}
{"by":"kragen","time":"1518809205","timestamp":"2018-02-16 19:26:45 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"No, what dang said was, \u0026quot;Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that\u0026#x27;s easier to criticize.\u0026quot;  No reasonable person could possibly interpret this as meaning, \u0026quot;it is not possible to disagree, because a) she identified as being female, and b) said it was gross, c) it was mentioned in the context of abuse.\u0026quot;\u003cp\u003eYou are just trolling, and I am only responding because dang\u0026#x27;s comment may not be visible to other people reading this thread.","parent":"16394896","id":"16395165"}
{"by":"amelius","time":"1509718758","timestamp":"2017-11-03 14:19:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s GPL\u0026#x27;ed. That means it is a no-go for a lot of people. E.g., my boss would be against it.","parent":"15619000","id":"15619360"}
{"by":"haxton","time":"1521743440","timestamp":"2018-03-22 18:30:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"They\u0026#x27;re actually opening up the CLR and making changes to it now, so it\u0026#x27;s not all compiler tricks!","parent":"16651141","id":"16651260"}
{"by":"jarben","time":"1418700147","timestamp":"2014-12-16 03:22:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This is easy when you start a project, a multi-year project would be almost a complete rewrite which would cost much more than a few $K. Sencha nows this and is abusing its position.","parent":"8753377","id":"8755733"}
{"by":"niico","time":"1304562054","timestamp":"2011-05-05 02:20:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Drop me a line ;)","parent":"2515575","id":"2515953"}
{"by":"desertedisland","time":"1522223768","timestamp":"2018-03-28 07:56:08 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This was not a trial, this was an enquiry. It was a massive opportunity - a worldwide stage - for Zuckerberg to get ahead of the questions about Facebook, reassure shareholders and users, and publicly defend his company.\u003cp\u003eNow he and the company just look weaselly, defensive and contemptuous. Public opinion of Facebook is in freefall. That is a huge problem that is very difficult to turn around with big real world consequences: loss of advertising already and there will now be pressure on politicians in Europe and the US to regulate and fine.\u003cp\u003eSeriously he really messed up on this.","parent":"16687515","dead":true,"id":"16696165"}
{"by":"omgsean","time":"1348176556","timestamp":"2012-09-20 21:29:16 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I don't believe Apple has any responsibility to provide freedom of speech within their closed ecosystem.","parent":"4550806","id":"4550824"}
{"by":"dotcoma","time":"1279006993","timestamp":"2010-07-13 07:43:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'd say: (almost) none of these.\u003cp\u003eGMail is a utility. Same with Earth, Maps (we're talking about social components for users, not for developers), Blogger (Tumblr, that is based on a social component!), Groups, Reader and Talk.\u003cp\u003eSocial sharing in YouTube is \u003ci\u003eextremely\u003c/i\u003e limited. I save my YouTube favourite videos on delicious, just to give you an idea, and never receive more than one suggestion a month about a video from the community.\u003cp\u003eKnol is a failure.\u003cp\u003eOrkut is strong only in Brazil (and India, perhaps) and is largely the (free) Brazilian AdultFriendFinder (you dive deep into it, and then you tell me).","parent":"1510452","id":"1510686"}
{"by":"dagenix","time":"1529967537","timestamp":"2018-06-25 22:58:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; I like static linking. But code these days is getting extremely complex and bloated, so people needed an alternative. Instead of focusing on making their code more cleaner and lean, they started thinking about they can share this huge piece of complex and bloated code across several applications. If you think about it, if your code is small and clean, you wouldn’t feel the need for shared libraries.\u003cp\u003eOne person\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;bloat\u0026quot; is another person\u0026#x27;s \u0026quot;critical feature\u0026quot;. When I see this word thrown around, I\u0026#x27;m always left worried about what is going to come next. And then the author proposes avoiding shared libraries in favor of what sounds like a single-system microservices model. Such a model doesn\u0026#x27;t resolve any of the versioning issues of shared libraries but does add in all of the issues faced by a distributed systems combined with dramatically higher invocation overhead.\u003cp\u003eThe stuff about plan 9 is interesting - but I\u0026#x27;m left wondering why exactly this is being reposted now.","parent":"17395094","id":"17396555"}
{"by":"ccvannorman","time":"1462858504","timestamp":"2016-05-10 05:35:04 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Anybody else notice that 82 feet ~= 25 meters, an approximate figure guessed by the original reporters who use the metric system? We simply translated the exact conversion of an approximate number into standard.","parent":"11650967","id":"11665339"}
{"by":"Devilboy","time":"1279675014","timestamp":"2010-07-21 01:16:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"16 years is about what he'd get if he killed the officer instead!","parent":"1532145","id":"1534025"}
{"by":"JamesBaxter","time":"1386761830","timestamp":"2013-12-11 11:37:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The article doesn\u0026#x27;t seem to take voice control into account.\nMy first week with the Xbox I struggled to find apps but after I got used to navigating with the Kinnect the UI made a lot more sense.","parent":"6886769","id":"6887099"}
{"by":"outside1234","time":"1390331361","timestamp":"2014-01-21 19:09:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Super-fast is not what we need.  We need super-low-power for the next tier of internet of things battery devices - when are we getting that?  :)","parent":"7095905","id":"7097481"}
{"by":"vidarh","time":"1387569827","timestamp":"2013-12-20 20:03:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"So crazy that the EU parliament was probing US intelligence abuse via ECHELON already 13-14 years ago:\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/820352.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk\u0026#x2F;1\u0026#x2F;hi\u0026#x2F;world\u0026#x2F;europe\u0026#x2F;820352.stm\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"6942211","id":"6943617"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1470009121","timestamp":"2016-07-31 23:52:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That\u0026#x27;s a benefit to some business types. You\u0026#x27;re getting grey and expensive.","parent":"12164477","id":"12199480"}
{"by":"detaro","time":"1470161077","timestamp":"2016-08-02 18:04:37 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12211662\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;news.ycombinator.com\u0026#x2F;item?id=12211662\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12211804","id":"12211818"}
{"by":"cbovis","time":"1416241870","timestamp":"2014-11-17 16:31:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m skeptical as to how popular this will be currently but it\u0026#x27;s a great infrastructure to have in place should Uber decided to move towards driverless cars in the future.","parent":"8618856","id":"8618891"}
{"by":"mikeharmon","time":"1312183998","timestamp":"2011-08-01 07:33:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"love the quote \"Degrees, in the end, are just like floaties: they guarantee you won't drown, but they don't win Olympics\"","parent":"2820239","id":"2831155"}
{"by":"btown","time":"1523745058","timestamp":"2018-04-14 22:30:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Turning The Database Inside Out: Martin Kleppmann - \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.confluent.io\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.confluent.io\u0026#x2F;blog\u0026#x2F;turning-the-database-inside-ou...\u003c/a\u003e in both video and blog form. Describes how to think about any software stack as layers of derived caches on top of immutable event logs, effectively proposing a solution to the first of \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;martinfowler.com\u0026#x2F;bliki\u0026#x2F;TwoHardThings.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;martinfowler.com\u0026#x2F;bliki\u0026#x2F;TwoHardThings.html\u003c/a\u003e . It\u0026#x27;s certainly changed the way I approach software architecture.\u003cp\u003eHonorable mention: \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;talks\u0026#x2F;wat\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com\u0026#x2F;talks\u0026#x2F;wat\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16838460","id":"16839937"}
{"by":"Udo","time":"1361027324","timestamp":"2013-02-16 15:08:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Yes, really. Encryption in the browser today works exactly the other way around. It's sole purpose is to ensure data integrity on my behalf as things are transmitted between me and my chosen endpoint. The endpoint is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c/i\u003e protected from me, and I can do whatever I want with this data once it arrives in my browser. DRM would be the antithesis of that. The problem is not they keys, it's what they keys can control or not.","parent":"5231643","id":"5231656"}
{"by":"alexknowshtml","time":"1267993233","timestamp":"2010-03-07 20:20:33 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"indeed, we're wrapping the webkit UI of gmail mobile, which has standard gmail search baked right in. Our app lets you easily switch between multiple gmail and google for your domain accounts, gives you access to your iPhone's native address book, offline support, and a few other goodies...and there's a lot more in our development pipeline.\u003cp\u003ethe entire feature process is similar to mailplane though: we look at mobile gmail and say \"how could we take whats already there and make it beter\" or \"what's missing and how can we add it\"?\u003cp\u003eBig upcoming features include things like HTML email reading and the ability to add attachments, both major features missing from Gmail Mobile.","parent":"1173793","id":"1173924"}
{"by":"hardwaresofton","time":"1381041912","timestamp":"2013-10-06 06:45:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Thanks a bunch, I kept dragging and dropping, thinking I was doing something collosally wrong","parent":"6503175","id":"6503373"}
{"by":"smaili","time":"1433779165","timestamp":"2015-06-08 15:59:25 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Works fine on Chrome.","parent":"9679888","id":"9679912"}
{"by":"baddox","time":"1387076131","timestamp":"2013-12-15 02:55:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Lots of deaths of pedestrian and even automobile drivers\u0026#x2F;passengers could probably also be prevented with bicycle helmets.","parent":"6908155","id":"6908168"}
{"by":"Karunamon","time":"1455896177","timestamp":"2016-02-19 15:36:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"From my perspective, most of the crowing I see about how Apple is terrible for not immediately capitulating is coming from the American right wing, a political bloc traditionally associated with gun rights.","parent":"11133889","id":"11134026"}
{"by":"dsr_","time":"1481732207","timestamp":"2016-12-14 16:16:47 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Having lived through many such blizzards, there are two things that humans do:\u003cp\u003eThe smart ones pull over and turn on the emergency flasher. Then they check to make sure they have lots of gas, blankets and water, just as they prepared.\u003cp\u003eThe dumb ones slow down to 45 mph and stare into the white blankness looking for clues about curves.","parent":"13176774","id":"13177106"}
{"by":"dataops","time":"1490218414","timestamp":"2017-03-22 21:33:34 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another great way to learn about Data Engineering is participating at DataOps 2017\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dataopssummit.com\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.dataopssummit.com\u0026#x2F;\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"13932529","id":"13935207"}
{"by":"melvinng","time":"1314132714","timestamp":"2011-08-23 20:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I'm there are much better solutions out there, the gaming industry has always been quite good at this.\u003cp\u003eRemember how we fixed pirating of games? By making levels non archievable if you are using a pirated version.","parent":"2918072","id":"2918319"}
{"by":"beezischillin","time":"1536820810","timestamp":"2018-09-13 06:40:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I appreciate the Dr. Ferris quote. It\u0026#x27;s pretty scary to see so much of Atlas became reality.","parent":"17974493","id":"17976531"}
{"by":"pavel_lishin","time":"1496933323","timestamp":"2017-06-08 14:48:43 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I find it interesting that the only video they investigated were pre-rolls. I automatically close any tab that auto-plays video (and by extension, sound) at me when I load the page.\u003cp\u003eBut I suppose video content about the article on CNN (as the biggest annoyance) isn\u0026#x27;t considered an advertisement.","parent":"14510214","id":"14514544"}
{"by":"erikpukinskis","time":"1522371280","timestamp":"2018-03-30 00:54:40 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"What’s the positive analogue to barking?","parent":"16696015","id":"16712717"}
{"by":"ToastOpt","time":"1294336872","timestamp":"2011-01-06 18:01:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Apologies for going off topic, but I just read the articles on debunking the MMR \u0026#60;-\u0026#62; autism link. I misread your open paragraph to be:\u003cp\u003e\"It's important to note that (as far as I can tell) the author doesn't actually debunk the existence of precognition, only the claim that studies show precognition to exist.\"\u003cp\u003eYes, but quite vacuous. The author can't prove the non-existence of evidence supporting the 10x claim. He was critiquing our folklor-ish belief in this 10x claim, without evidence, and our gross indifference to this fact.\u003cp\u003eLet my try another tack, proposing: excluding some bottom \u0026#60;10% that are incompetent, and those with less than 5 years of experience, all programmers have exactly the same 1x productivity capability; all apparent levels of difference are really either ramp-up on new technologies or flaws in development processes and tools. \u0026#60;citation of irrelevant study on something else\u0026#62; \u0026#60;citation of myself, citing the aformentioned study\u0026#62;.\u003cp\u003e... do you now believe in this 1x claim? No? Hmm, perhaps I need to get it quoted more and then you'll believe it?\u003cp\u003eThe author's point is that \"quoting it more\" and \"it seems reasonable\" are the only basis for our belief in the 10x claim. But neither are scientifically, empirically relevant. We should follow up with further studies to confirm the effect, and then investigate the cause. But we don't. And because we have not, we don't have any scientific basis for believing this 10x claim.\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a matter of \"dismissing all of our research based on it\" -- there is nothing \u003ci\u003eto\u003c/i\u003e dismiss. There has been no sufficient research.\u003cp\u003eOddly, my initial misread is inaccurate. There are far more studies supporting the existance of precognition than supporting this 10x claim. ;-)","parent":"2072283","id":"2076357"}
{"by":"Raro","time":"1483305234","timestamp":"2017-01-01 21:13:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I too have a great fondness for Noether\u0026#x27;s First Theorem! However, just a slight technical correction: the theorem only goes one way. A conservation law alone doesn\u0026#x27;t necessarily imply a (continuous) symmetry of the system. For example, there\u0026#x27;s no symmetry prescription for baryon or lepton number conservation. Of course, that doesn\u0026#x27;t bar them from arising from symmetries of some awesome future theory...","parent":"13297056","id":"13297384"}
{"by":"cageface","time":"1526965161","timestamp":"2018-05-22 04:59:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I agree that mobile apps are old news now but most of the emerging hot areas (AI, AR etc) are tough areas for small teams to compete in.\u003cp\u003eThe smartest thing to do IMO is acquire some domain expertise in a big but unglamorous business sector and look for pain points.","parent":"17123710","id":"17123827"}
{"by":"edw519","time":"1241489555","timestamp":"2009-05-05 02:12:35 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\"I've been coding for fun for over 12 years (e.g., BASIC, C++, perl, PHP), one of my projects even successfully scaled and got acquired, but it's hard to find employment.\"\u003cp\u003eYou're looking in the wrong places.\u003cp\u003eYou're already ahead of 90% of the programmers I've ever met.  You obviously have aptitude, competence, and most importantly, passion.  All you need is to take your Positive Mental Attitude and get more real work experience, either with your employer's customers or your own.\u003cp\u003eMany here would disagree with me, but credentials are highly overrated.  They're everywhere.  What's most scarce is demonstrated performance developing and deploying successful applications for real world customers.  Why waste your time padding paperwork with \"titles\" when you can pad yourself (and the rest of the world) with good software.\u003cp\u003eGet creative and find some customers (your own or through employment).  Talk to anyone you know.  Try something different and get your software written and out there.\u003cp\u003eGood luck and keep us posted!","parent":"593365","id":"593479"}
{"by":"M2Ys4U","time":"1441822770","timestamp":"2015-09-09 18:19:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Whoops! That\u0026#x27;s a bit of a glaring error, sorry about that.","parent":"10188714","id":"10193114"}
{"by":"sjs382","time":"1455117613","timestamp":"2016-02-10 15:20:13 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"gender = {biological sex, social structures, gender identity, ...}\u003cp\u003eThere\u0026#x27;s no reason to assume that the author has any ill will toward the LGBT community. It\u0026#x27;s a misunderstanding that people are (with good reason) very passionate about, but something that the author probably hasn\u0026#x27;t given much thought to.","parent":"11073238","id":"11073281"}
{"by":"vog","time":"1381389257","timestamp":"2013-10-10 07:14:17 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Not only that. In the above mentioned MXE project, the $(...) functions also play a vital role on the \u0026quot;second stage\u0026quot;: They create a huge, automatic set of rules and actions, based on a higher-level description that is given for each package via a bunch Make variables (some of which are multiline and contain actual commands for that package).","parent":"6524693","id":"6526144"}
{"by":"JacobAldridge","time":"1271722982","timestamp":"2010-04-20 00:23:02 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Another article backward engineering 'observations' to fit sex drive and evolutionary musings. But I found it enjoyable in a smug kind of way.","parent":"1278234","id":"1278240"}
{"by":"lqdc13","time":"1447890164","timestamp":"2015-11-18 23:42:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"async lib is really really nice. You can easily issue async requests now. Also, a bunch of useful utilities were improved like shutil.","parent":"10590821","id":"10591581"}
{"by":"sdurkin","time":"1281552714","timestamp":"2010-08-11 18:51:54 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Hmm... That's odd. The general principle in law enforcement is \"life over property.\" Can anyone corroborate or confirm this info?","parent":"1594709","id":"1595630"}
{"by":"mercer","time":"1527690260","timestamp":"2018-05-30 14:24:20 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Have you looked into how Patchwork approaches this issue? It\u0026#x27;s not quite equivalent to Mastodon, I think, but I am fascinated by their approach to \u0026#x27;mapping\u0026#x27; social relationships. Would be very curious to hear what you or others with more experience on the matter think about it.\u003cp\u003eEDIT: to elaborate a bit. While I\u0026#x27;m only just diving into these topics, I can\u0026#x27;t help but feel that a fundamental problem in many cases is that many problems of \u0026#x27;online social\u0026#x27; have to do with a very unintuitive\u0026#x2F;inorganic implementation that just fundamentally doesn\u0026#x27;t work well for humans. What I found interesting about Patchwork is that it tries, to some extent, to resemble the way humans \u0026#x27;naturally\u0026#x27; interact.\u003cp\u003eNow I\u0026#x27;m not at all opposed to experiments in augmenting the way humans interact with others, but I can\u0026#x27;t help but feel that many of the things we\u0026#x27;ve come up with that are popular went too far in not considering human nature (or intentionally messed with it). And perhaps a more constructive way forward is to come up with \u0026#x27;online social\u0026#x27; tools that start with a more conservative resemblance to how humans have interacted for much of their history, and iterate from there.","parent":"17180251","id":"17187870"}
{"by":"monochromatic","time":"1501242679","timestamp":"2017-07-28 11:51:19 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"This game looks fun, but I couldn\u0026#x27;t figure out what I was doing when I tried it a couple years ago. I gave up too quickly probably.\u003cp\u003eIs there a good tutorial that y\u0026#x27;all used to learn how the game works?","parent":"14870236","id":"14873540"}
{"by":"hosh","time":"1499299299","timestamp":"2017-07-06 00:01:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Movements and communities are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but there are often movements which polarizes or radicalizes. Because we lost our sense of community (due to modernism), movements today generally do not try to build communities.\u003cp\u003eThe split between Lutherans and Catholicism is not a good example of community building. That is an example of exchanges of ideologies and dogma, not really about the exchanges of people and community. A slightly better example might be when my friend brought a group of Thai Theraveda Buddhist monks to visit a colony of Trappist monks outside of Atlanta. They got into the sanctuary and were amazed by the acoustics. The Buddhist monks tried out some chants and then Trappist monks performed some of their own chants. They could do that despite differences in philosophy because there was a sense of ultimately belonging to the greatest whole. It is also not a good example because monks are not ordinary people.\u003cp\u003eHave you read any of the philosophies about modernism? I think you\u0026#x27;re conflating religions with the traditional modes. Philosopher Ken Wilbur has some great stuff to say about this. One of the characteristics of traditional, pre-modern communities has to do with this idea of the Great Chain of Being. The name is specific to Western ideas, but the generalization of the \u0026quot;Great Chain of Being\u0026quot; covers a lot of ground, even into Eastern philosophies as well as indigenous, tribal cultures.\u003cp\u003eIt is this knowing that you are part of a greater whole (and that greater whole is part of an even larger greater whole, and that greater whole is a part of a larger greater whole). Religions used to provide that sense of knowing where you belong -- but so did tribal cultures without organized religions. This sense of belonging used to be normative and now it is not. Stable, long-term jobs and unions were imperfect substitutes for what modernism broke. Our hyper-connectedness has exacerbated that separation.\u003cp\u003eOn Facebook, for example, people seek out other like-minded people, not to \u003ci\u003econnect\u003c/i\u003e (like you were saying in your homeless example), but more to reinforce psychological ego (the beliefs, narratives, and identities a person develops for a false sense of self). Connection requires opening up, of allowing the social masks to be vulnerable, of mutual impact and sharing. That generally does not happen on Facebook (instagram\u0026#x2F;snapchat\u0026#x2F;etc).\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; So, you ask whether you can maintain loving kindness in the face of threat\u0026#x2F;danger\u0026#x2F;aggression? I\u0026#x27;m saying there is no such thing that exists on a daily basis. I don\u0026#x27;t fear any homeless person unless they approach me in a way that says they mean harm to me personally.\u003cp\u003eLike you, I generally don\u0026#x27;t fear the homeless. When I lived in Seattle, there were many that lived out in the neighborhood I lived at, more easily found there than in Phoenix. (You have to hide from the sun in Phoenix).\u003cp\u003eHowever, I think you live in a very narrow, and sheltered view. There are places in the world where people do live in fear, on a daily basis. My point is exactly that: threats and aggression to someone\u0026#x27;s life often brings them much closer to ugly parts of themselves. There are not many people in the world who can actually maintain loving-kindness in face of existential threats. While it is possible, generally, ideals tend to get thrown out the window when the pressure is on and shit hits the fan.\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt; I think it\u0026#x27;s important for Americans to see the homeless in our neighborhoods, ESPECIALLY us yuppies, so that we can be reminded of what a shameful failure it is that the richest country in the world still has a homeless problem this bad.\u003cp\u003eAmericans living in rural areas also have it bad, but are not exactly \u0026quot;homeless\u0026quot;. One of the cherished ideals is this idea of self-reliance. From their perspectives, all those city folks are crazy. And rural folks would not see themselves as being a part of the richest country in the world. Much of that wealth-building had passed them by too. Seeing laws and government policies that favor disadvantaged groups -- who are largely city-dwellers, must rub \u0026#x27;em the wrong way in a bad way.","parent":"14706685","id":"14707193"}
{"by":"duopixel","time":"1478644710","timestamp":"2016-11-08 22:38:30 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"cool to see a fellow ambiguous believer of dreams, here is my take on them \u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@duopixel\u0026#x2F;an-exploration-into-dreams-5b8e9547f54#.4phzbjknm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;medium.com\u0026#x2F;@duopixel\u0026#x2F;an-exploration-into-dreams-5b8e...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"12903057","id":"12904590"}
{"by":"seszett","time":"1391073138","timestamp":"2014-01-30 09:12:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"There is very little electricity in aluminium too.\u003cp\u003eThat\u0026#x27;s not the point, really.","parent":"7149520","id":"7149710"}
{"by":"Avalaxy","time":"1447075342","timestamp":"2015-11-09 13:22:22 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"1) Yea it uses power, but so do all the millions of machines that are used for banking. In fact, if you compare them, Bitcoin is extremely efficient.\u003cp\u003e2) Well, first of all you\u0026#x27;re just talking about the current state of the blockchain. Perhaps in the future we can \u0026#x27;archive\u0026#x27; transactions so they don\u0026#x27;t have to be downloaded any more. Furthermore, you\u0026#x27;re talking about 10~20 years time from now. By then 10TB will be irrelevantly small. Nowadays you can already buy a 4TB hard drive for like $100.\u003cp\u003e3) Eh what? First of all this point doesn\u0026#x27;t even make sense, but Satoshi isn\u0026#x27;t even needed any more. The work is fully open source and it\u0026#x27;s now being led by the community.\u003cp\u003eAnyway, I really don\u0026#x27;t see what you post has to do with OP\u0026#x27;s question. You\u0026#x27;re not answering him, but just repeating some old refuted fallacies.","parent":"10532798","id":"10532845"}
{"by":"tqgupta","time":"1313261418","timestamp":"2011-08-13 18:50:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I hope it's a flying donut.","parent":"2881382","id":"2881665"}
{"by":"obsessive1","time":"1284205867","timestamp":"2010-09-11 11:51:07 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've had a project under the AGPL for a while now, and it always annoyed me that Google Code wouldn't support the license.\u003cp\u003eIt's good to see them stepping forward to allow the use of these newer licenses on the site.","parent":"1681358","id":"1681403"}
{"by":"ekovarski","time":"1533274438","timestamp":"2018-08-03 05:33:58 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Very true, best not leave Kirkland batteries in a device as pretty much all of them leaked.","parent":"17673057","id":"17677505"}
{"by":"marpstar","time":"1435164408","timestamp":"2015-06-24 16:46:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"We\u0026#x27;re using Redis Geo to track customers who are \u0026quot;online\u0026quot; so that we can easily retrieve a list of users who are online and in the area.  The user\u0026#x27;s permanent location is stored in a SQL database for permanent storage.","parent":"9772698","id":"9772829"}
{"by":"__alexs","time":"1369217556","timestamp":"2013-05-22 10:12:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I assume he meant squeeze, which is from 2011. That's the latest release I can find.","parent":"5749009","id":"5749822"}
{"by":"dons","time":"1328280759","timestamp":"2012-02-03 14:52:39 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"My favorites:\u003cp\u003e* support for registerised compilation on the ARM platform, using LLVM.\u003cp\u003eFirst class REPL!\u003cp\u003e* It is now possible to give any top-level declaration at the GHCi prompt\u003cp\u003e* Safe Haskell","parent":"3546895","id":"3547255"}
{"by":"Spoom","time":"1368196952","timestamp":"2013-05-10 14:42:32 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"PNC lets you setup alerts via text or email for a wide variety of options: balance over / under a limit, overdraft, check bounce, overdraft autotransfer, ATM withdrawal, check payment, or preauth payment over / under a limit, and a bunch of security-related things like login / profile changes.\u003cp\u003eRight now I only use the direct deposit alert so I know when I've been paid and the security alerts.","parent":"5684408","id":"5686430"}
{"by":"zoul","time":"1381859933","timestamp":"2013-10-15 17:58:53 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Core Data + iCloud seems to be a huge pain, google “Core Data iCloud” for details.","parent":"6553933","id":"6555070"}
{"by":"Spooky23","time":"1432871088","timestamp":"2015-05-29 03:44:48 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think the CPI is great for what it is, but it\u0026#x27;s easy to mistake it for something it isn\u0026#x27;t.\u003cp\u003eEverything in it is based on averages, and there are lots of differences between individuals that affect your realization of price changes.\u003cp\u003eExamples: I drive 5 minutes to work, my officemate drives 90 minutes -- gas prices mean nothing to me. If you have 4 kids, meat and dairy escalations hit you harder than average. If you\u0026#x27;re a vegan, seasonal price swings of produce are more meaningful, and factored out of CPI.\u003cp\u003eCPI also only looks at consumption. We\u0026#x27;ve had 2-3% price growth with low wage growth. Less buying power magnifies price changes.","parent":"9620938","id":"9622562"}
{"by":"WildUtah","time":"1487750744","timestamp":"2017-02-22 08:05:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u003ci\u003eYou are joking right? Have you ever set foot in an IMSS Hospital?\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes. And I\u0026#x27;ve experienced the USA health care system also.\u003cp\u003eHealth care that doesn\u0026#x27;t require waiting in a dingy room and health care that is effective at treating nearly every condition that modern science can treat well is not the same thing. IMSS will cure you or keep you from getting worse or dying at the same level of effectiveness as the USA\u0026#x27;s system at 1\u0026#x2F;30th the cost and you probably can get it for free.\u003cp\u003eI pay for private care because it\u0026#x27;s nicer and I don\u0026#x27;t like waiting, but that private care is very, very affordable also compared to the USA or Canada.\u003cp\u003eI won\u0026#x27;t say Mexican health care is perfect, but it is good and it is accessible.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDescribing it as a third world health care service is being generous.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#x27;ve seen third world health care when I was in Guatemala. It\u0026#x27;s not just a matter of slow and dingy but of frauds, total lack of available services, dangerously unsterile practices, public ignorance of safe public health practices in both medicine and food handling, and a whole panoply of faults and dangers. And Guatemala is above the world\u0026#x27;s average income and about average in education\u0026#x2F;literacy levels. Mexico is not a third world country just because public services aren\u0026#x27;t as nice as we\u0026#x27;d like.","parent":"13703536","id":"13703985"}
{"by":"flyhighplato","time":"1195441737","timestamp":"2007-11-19 03:08:57 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Well, if we can't make fun of Wolfram, let's at least make fun of NKS:\u003cp\u003eIn my opinion, NKS is the kind of glittering complicated mental masturbation that dazzles the layman and angers the knowledgeable.\u003cp\u003eAnd praise Mathematica:\u003cp\u003eHurray for Mathematica!","parent":"81015","id":"81397"}
{"by":"drakeandrews","time":"1361745421","timestamp":"2013-02-24 22:37:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I think you're right in that by the point you've made a tornado proof suit, it is actually a vehicle.","parent":"5274490","id":"5276237"}
{"by":"merb","time":"1500077821","timestamp":"2017-07-15 00:17:01 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"\u0026gt; The only situation\u003cp\u003eThere are many more:\u003cp\u003e- Caches\u0026#x2F;Databases that should keep as much stuff in memory as possible (i.e. if you have a 32gb es instance you actually gain a lot from \u0026quot;fast memory\u0026quot;)\u003cp\u003e- In-Memory Databases\u003cp\u003e- In-Memory RPC\u0026#x2F;message broker which of course has as a limitation factor the memory bandwidth.\u003cp\u003eIn all cases the memory bandwidth might be a important factor.","parent":"14774205","id":"14774295"}
{"by":"noonespecial","time":"1324424241","timestamp":"2011-12-20 23:37:21 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"That would be someone who needs to say \"fucking\" a great deal less than you.","parent":"3375333","id":"3375696"}
{"by":"iClaudiusX","time":"1523039068","timestamp":"2018-04-06 18:24:28 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The text of Joint Resolution 34 when it passed in the Senate last year \n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.congress.gov\u0026#x2F;bill\u0026#x2F;115th-congress\u0026#x2F;senate-joint-resolution\u0026#x2F;34\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.congress.gov\u0026#x2F;bill\u0026#x2F;115th-congress\u0026#x2F;senate-joint-re...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe role call vote breakdown \n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.senate.gov\u0026#x2F;legislative\u0026#x2F;LIS\u0026#x2F;roll_call_lists\u0026#x2F;roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115\u0026amp;session=1\u0026amp;vote=00094\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;www.senate.gov\u0026#x2F;legislative\u0026#x2F;LIS\u0026#x2F;roll_call_lists\u0026#x2F;roll_...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003eArs Technica\u0026#x27;s coverage of the bill (now law) with context\n\u003ca href=\"https:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;tech-policy\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;senate-votes-to-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-history-to-advertisers\u0026#x2F;\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps:\u0026#x2F;\u0026#x2F;arstechnica.com\u0026#x2F;tech-policy\u0026#x2F;2017\u0026#x2F;03\u0026#x2F;senate-votes-to-...\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"16775093","id":"16775886"}
{"by":"smoyer","time":"1347734710","timestamp":"2012-09-15 18:45:10 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"A long time ago (the late '80s or early '90s) I needed a square root routine for a floating point number and found an article by a Jack Crenshaw (a real rocket scientist), that always converged in less than 5 iterations.  First you normalized your FP number (converted the mantissa to 1.xxxxx) while adjusting the exponent and then multiplied by 1.38 which gave a surprisingly close answer.\u003cp\u003eI'm guessing that (if I could find the article) the constant used in this floating point technique and the one used in this article are somehow inversely related too!\u003cp\u003eIn any case, it's a very nice article ... thanks!","parent":"4526609","id":"4526912"}
{"by":"tajen","time":"1512611339","timestamp":"2017-12-07 01:48:59 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It’s amazing that murder gets someone 2 years only, don’t you think? I bet the worldwide average must be around 15 years discounted to 7. (Note that if he’s innoculated with AIDS in prison, 2 years is already gruesome).","parent":"15866672","id":"15866937"}
{"by":"Groxx","time":"1292134476","timestamp":"2010-12-12 06:14:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"Your own should be left alone (are they hidden?).  Author I think I'll leave for a future version, where I'll have loads of options (what to hide, when, etc), and I'll add that to the list.","parent":"1996603","id":"1996617"}
{"by":"mmackh","time":"1324661971","timestamp":"2011-12-23 17:39:31 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I've gone a different Route, converting the story to a readable format first: \u003ca href=\"http://thequeue.org/hn\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://thequeue.org/hn\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"3385491","id":"3386413"}
{"by":"michael_miller","time":"1360366776","timestamp":"2013-02-08 23:39:36 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The HN title is misleading. What the article is stating is that Google is essentially building its own FBO [1] at the airport. There won't be any additional runways, nor control towers. Just a small (relative to commercial terminals) terminal and space for Google to store their planes at.\u003cp\u003eA little bit of background for people who aren't pilots / have never flown private before: if you're not flying commercial, you fly out of a Fixed Base Operator at the airport. These are usually on the other side of the airport from the commercial terminal, and are responsible for filling up planes with gas and providing hangar or tiedown space. They usually have a nice lounge area with flatscreen TVs, comfortable seating, and a pilot's lounge with computers that can be used to file flight plans and check weather. Some of the nicer ones go so far as to have beds for pilots who are doing a layover, and offer amenities like free snacks, and movie rooms. These FBOs have (in almost all cases) no TSA security - you just walk out to your plane and hop in. This is infinitely nicer than commercial air travel. The people at the FBO actually want to earn your business and treat you nicely, going out of their way to help you!\u003cp\u003eIn this case, Google is just contracting with an existing FBO to build a new building with a lounge area, and building out more hangars to store planes, both of which will be exclusively for Google's use.\u003cp\u003e[1] \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-base_operator\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-base_operator\u003c/a\u003e","parent":"5190546","id":"5190810"}
{"by":"sitkack","time":"1318457949","timestamp":"2011-10-12 22:19:09 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The solution to pollution is dilution.\u003cp\u003eIf everyone is doing it, we should each take 1/1e6 of the blame.","parent":"3104109","id":"3104882"}
{"by":"sgc","time":"1543296027","timestamp":"2018-11-27 05:20:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"It\u0026#x27;s not as crazy as it seems. Usually the best thing to do is compromise to close, since the Buyer wants the house and the Seller wants to sell it. Buyers and sellers often overestimate the other side\u0026#x27;s patience and wear it to the bone, then lose a home\u0026#x2F;sale pointlessly. Presumably everybody is in contract because they want to do the deal, and agents work to make that happen. Agents do have a fiduciary relationship with their clients, but if you enter into a real estate transaction don\u0026#x27;t be surprised if the people involved act as if you are serious about it and it\u0026#x27;s in your best interest to actually close.\u003cp\u003eThat said, of course there is a group of agents who sweep problems under the rug to close. In my experience, there is a higher than average amount of agents like this among the top producers. But the group is not that big.","parent":"18539381","id":"18539636"}
{"by":"zamalek","time":"1471380824","timestamp":"2016-08-16 20:53:44 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I do still miss that keyboard. I still don\u0026#x27;t type nearly as fast on a phone, and considering that these devices had no autocorrect, not nearly with a quarter of the accuracy.\u003cp\u003eApart from the resistive touch-hostile technology and stylus-centric interface, HID has taken a substantial step backwards in the years following the decline of CE devices.","parent":"12298769","id":"12300561"}
{"by":"brainfire","time":"1476731352","timestamp":"2016-10-17 19:09:12 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"You\u0026#x27;re literally proving the grandparent comment\u0026#x27;s point- the best you can come up with is a baseless accusation.","parent":"12728129","id":"12728246"}
{"by":"josefresco","time":"1379333825","timestamp":"2013-09-16 12:17:05 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"If you think the USA is alone in their desire to surveille you\u0026#x27;re going to have a rough time around the world.  The USA had the means, but the will is there worldwide.","parent":"6392601","id":"6392855"}
{"by":"rbanffy","time":"1336756647","timestamp":"2012-05-11 17:17:27 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"With a gaming console you have a commitment in the form of the titles you own and people upgrade them to get access to improved content. A game console has to offset its cost with the increased attractiveness of its improved content.\u003cp\u003eA TV set-top-box is much cheaper to build than a gaming console (or, at least, should be) and the commitment will probably be with the subscribed content - and people won't upgrade them unless the new version offsets its price with enticing features. TV makers already noticed that and the push to digital is a form of making standards flexible enough to accommodate things like 2160p and 3D, shortening product life to levels analog TV sets and long-lived standards wouldn't be able to achieve.","parent":"3960198","id":"3960241"}
{"by":"teddyh","time":"1470839692","timestamp":"2016-08-10 14:34:52 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"The ports = doors analogy fails:  For doors you \u003ci\u003eare\u003c/i\u003e supposed to enter, like shops, there are \u003ci\u003esigns\u003c/i\u003e to let you know that it’s OK to enter them.  There are no such things for ports.  There \u003ci\u003ewere\u003c/i\u003e, once upon a time, such a thing; an enumerated list, in a DNS “WKS” record, of ports you were expected to use.  As part of the deprecation of the WKS record, RFC 1123 states “\u003ci\u003eTo confirm that a service is present, simply attempt to use it.\u003c/i\u003e”.","parent":"12261923","id":"12262052"}
{"by":"palakchokshi","time":"1515458658","timestamp":"2018-01-09 00:44:18 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I\u0026#x27;m not a fan of cryptocurrencies myself but I am trying to argue the spirit of the transaction which considered ETH as a currency.\u003cp\u003eLegally I am with you 100% that the investors are out of luck. That\u0026#x27;s the price of \u0026quot;investing\u0026quot; in a highly speculative vaporware \u0026quot;currency\u0026quot;.","parent":"16102384","id":"16102446"}
{"by":"hesdomet","time":"1528584161","timestamp":"2018-06-09 22:42:41 UTC","title":"","type":"comment","url":"","text":"I wish they would do this in San Francisco. Or just teach people to step to the curb when they aren\u0026#x27;t walking on the side\u0026quot;walk\u0026quot;.\u003cp\u003eWhen I moved here from South Florida 10 years ago I noticed something very different about public customs in SF. People are inconsiderate when it comes to public spaces. In my hometown pedestrians will shoulder check you or pass aggressively close if you take up the sidewalk. It\u0026#x27;s just fucking rude to hog a public thoroughfare.\u003cp\u003eIn SF people don\u0026#x27;t give a shit about others around them. They walk down a sidewalk, slowly, 3-4 wide. They stop right in the middle of the sidewalk and peck at their phone. They congregate across the sidewalk outside restaurants and stores. It\u0026#x27;s almost like a contagious passive-aggressive behavior you pick up after being here long enough.\u003cp\u003eI still pass people and invade their personal space if they\u0026#x27;re blocking the sidewalk. It\u0026#x27;s an innate aggressive behavior that I have to indulge. Hopefully some scooter-pedestrian collisions will fix this shitty behavior.","parent":"17275289","id":"17275419"}